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BY NANCY MONTGOMERY

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VICENZA, Italy — The director: an Oscar-nominated Italian known for sumptuous, sensual movies featuring beautiful people desiring each other in beautiful, sun-drenched places.

The story: the coming of age of an American boy and a group of friends one glorious summer after the boy moves in with his mother, the commander of a U.S. Army base very much like Caserma Ederle.

The Army: wants nothing to do with it.An upcoming HBO series co-written and directed by

Luca Guadagnino, called “We Are Who We Are” and focusing on American military teenagers in Italy, won’t have the Defense Department’s support, said Lt. Col. Rob-ert Bockholt, film and television liaison at the Los Angeles office of the chief of public affairs.

“There were concerns about the content of the script,” Bockholt said. “There are themes in the script that do not fit in what the Defense Department would support.”

Bockholt declined to specify what those themes were but said the decision to pull support for the series was made after the second script revision.

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Retired U.S. Col. Gail Halvorsen attends a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift at Clay Kaserne airfield in Wiesbaden, Germany, on Monday.

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Japan: F-35A pilot was likely disoriented BY HANA KUSUMOTO

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TOKYO — The pilot whose Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-35A Lightning II plunged into the Pacific Ocean in April probably experienced spatial disorienta-tion, which led to the fatal crash, the JASDF said in a statement Monday.

“It is assumed that the pilot most likely was in a state of ‘spa-tial disorientation’ (in a state of losing a sense of equilibrium) and did not realize it,” the statement said.

The remains of Maj. Akinori Hosomi were recovered Wednes-day, two months after his fighter went down about 85 miles east of Misawa Air Base, its home field in northeastern Japan, just before 7:30 p.m. April 9, Defense Minis-ter Takeshi Iwaya said Friday.

Defense officials believe the advanced stealth fighter was per-forming normally and Hosomi was conscious up until the crash. The JASDF said the accident in-

vestigation is still underway and that its statement Monday repre-sents the most likely cause.

The probable cause statement was based on information from radar, flight controllers, hearings conducted with other pilots and the F-35 multifunction advanced datalink, a system in the aircraft that allows pilots in a four-ship flight group to exchange data, ac-cording to the JASDF statement.

The JASDF found no signs the F-35A lost power during the fatal flight or that Hosomi tried to re-cover the aircraft when it reached the minimum altitude to do so, ac-cording to their statement.

“There was no indication of emergency escape,” the state-ment said. The aircraft was de-stroyed “and parts and fragments scattered at sea bottom.”

The Defense Ministry re-ported finding the aircraft’s left and right rudders two hours after it disappeared. Sometime after May 3, during a deep-water search, more parts of the fighter

were found, including its canopy and flight data recorder, Iwaya said May 7.

However, Iwaya at the time said the flight recorder memory and storage medium were not recovered.

According to the JASDF state-ment Monday:

� Ground controllers at 7:26 p.m. instructed Hosomi — who was taking part in an exercise with three other JASDF F-35As — to descend from 31,500 feet altitude to avoid U.S. military air-craft approaching at 37,500 feet

� Hosomi acknowledged — “Yes, understood” — then turned left and descended 16,000 feet in about 20 seconds, indicating a speed of 486 knots, or 900 kph

� Fifteen seconds after the first command, controllers in-structed Hosomi to turn left. The aircraft continued to descend left. In a “calm voice,” Hosomi said, “Yes, knock it off,” a response JASDF interpreted to mean Ho-somi was quitting the exercise.

� He descended another 14,500 feet in 15 seconds, indicat-ing a speed of about 1,100 kph, or nearly 600 knots

� The aircraft went missing from radar at less than 1,000 feet above the ocean surface.

The JASDF said it’s not likely that Hosomi lost consciousness due to low oxygen in the 15 sec-onds between communications with controllers. It’s also unlikely he blacked out due to excessive g-forces, or gravity-induced loss of consciousness, according to the statement.

The JASDF tentatively ruled out failure of the engine, electri-cal system or control surfaces since the airplane appeared to maneuver normally and Hosomi was able to communicate and he did not indicate any abnormali-ties during the flight, according to the statement.

All JASDF F-35As remained grounded as of Monday after-noon, according to a JASDF spokesman. Iwaya said last week

the fighters will resume flight op-erations after investigators deter-mine the accident cause and steps are taken to ensure flight safety.

Those steps include re edu-cating F-35A pilots on spatial disorientation and putting themthrough training in simulators,according to the statement.

All F-35As will be scrutinized and pilots re trained on gravity-induced loss of consciousness, orG-LOC, since neither can be de-finitively ruled out as factors inthe crash, although the probabil-ity either occurred is low, accord-ing to the statement.

“It is truly regrettable that we lost such an excellent pilot,” Iwaya said during a press confer-ence Friday. “We truly respect Maj. Hosomi, who was lost whiledevotedly performing his duty, and we extend our heartfelt con-dolences and offer our deepestsympathies to the family.”

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BY MATTHEW M. BURKE AND AYA ICHIHASHI

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CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — An Okina-wa-based Marine was arrested Thursday following a chase that Japanese police said involved reckless driving and a hit and run on a police cruiser.

Cpl. Darreon Jamarcus Brewington, 23, of Camp Kinser, was arrested sometime after 10:30 p.m. when Japanese police were called regarding two cars driving

recklessly on Route 58 in Chatan, Okina-wa Police deputy chief Hirotoshi Iha said Friday.

Police arrived at the scene and spotted a vehicle matching the description of one of the cars parked on the sidewalk in the Kamisedo area of Chatan.

When police pulled up behind the sus-pect vehicle, the driver backed up and struck the Japanese cruiser twice before fleeing the scene, Iha said.

Police received a subsequent call of a

man “acting suspiciously” and “wander-ing” in a nearby Chatan neighborhood, Iha said. Police then found Brewington on a local resident’s property, and the vehicle involved in the hit and run was found close by.

Brewington was arrested without inci-dent, Iha said.

The officers were not injured in the hit-and-run crash.

Brewington was in custody Friday evening while police investigate. He is

charged with breaking and entering, whichin Japan is a charge similar to trespassing,Iha said.

“We are investigating if Brewington was the suspect who hit the officers’ car, thentook off,” Iha said. “If we find out it wasBrewington, we will add violation of Road Traffic Law charges.”

Alcohol was not a factor in the incident,Iha said.

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BY KIM GAMEL

Stars and Stripes

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — The Eighth Army sealed a time capsule filled with letters, challenge coins and even a CD on Monday as it wrapped up a three-day celebration of its 75th anniversary.

Commander Lt. Gen. Michael Bills put a final letter in the cap-sule, then he and Command Sgt. Maj. Jason Schmidt placed the capsule inside a memorial stone, which was decorated with the an-niversary logo and insignias from the units that have comprised the field army. It is to remain sealed until the Eighth Army’s centennial.

“This capsule represents gen-erations of soldiers and leaders,” Bills said before it was sealed. “It represents the collective achieve-ment of the men and women with the Eighth Army.”

The time capsule was sealed next to a statue of former Eighth Army commander and Korean War hero Gen. Walton Walker in the yard outside the headquarters

building on Camp Humphreys, the new center for the U.S. mili-tary in South Korea.

Each subordinate unit placed a memento inside the capsule, which was filled with items such as letters, division patches, chal-lenge coins, a baseball cap and a sports jersey.

Standing next to the capsule before the ceremony, Brig. Gen. Michel Russell Sr., who leads the Daegu-based 19th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, slipped in a coin commemorating his unit’s 55th anniversary, in addi-tion to a plaque that was already inside.

“We’ve only ever been in Korea,” Russell said. “I thought it would be appropriate to add that one-time coin inside the time capsule.”

Retired South Korean Gen. Paik Sun-yup, 98, who served in the Korean War and became his country’s first four-star officer, also donated one of his personal challenge coins.

Bills later presided over a reen-listment ceremony for 75 soldiers inside the headquarters.

The Eighth Army was acti-vated on June 10, 1944, in Mem-phis, Tenn., and soon deployed to the Southwest Pacific to help end World War II, participating in the liberation of the Philippines and the subsequent occupation of Japan.

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BY KIM GAMEL AND YOO KYONG CHANG

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean search crews working in the heavily fortified border area found a skeleton believed to be from an American or French soldier killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, the Defense Minis-try said Monday.

The remains were unearthed Wednesday during an excavation project at the former battleground known as Arrowhead Hill, which is in the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the country since the war ended in an armistice instead of a peace treaty.

The area was cleared of land mines in the fall as part of an inter-Korean agreement reached in efforts to improve relations between the two countries in con-nection with separate nuclear negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington.

Talks on all fronts have stalled, but South Korea unilaterally re-sumed the search for remains in the DMZ on April 1, finding some 425 bone fragments and nearly 30,000 artifacts.

Those include the largely intact skeleton, which was believed to be the first from a Western sol-

dier found in the area, based on an initial analysis, according to

the Defense Ministry.

“The re-mains are believed to be from an American or French soldier who served in the Korean War as a member of the U.N. force,” the ministry said in a state-ment. It cited the shape of the skull and items found with the bones, in-cluding com-bat boots and buttons from an American uniform.

As is usual practice, the remains will be taken to the laboratory of the De-fense Ministry’s agency for killed in action recovery and identifica-tion, known as MAKRI, in Seoul for further identification.

The ministry said it would work

closely with the U.S. DefensePOW/MIA Accounting Agency, or DPAA, to use DNA and othermethods to identify the soldier assoon as possible.

South Korean Defense MinisterJeong Kyeong-doo also planned tovisit the site with U.S. and Frenchofficials to hold a memorial ser-vice for the soldier.

Four battles took place at Ar-rowhead Hill, also known as Arrowhead Ridge or Hill 281,involving U.S., French and SouthKorean forces fighting mainlyChinese communist troops tryingto invade from the North.

The Defense Ministry saidmore than 100 U.N. troops werekilled in action and about 20 are believed to remain entombed in the area, which was a no-go zone for decades. The numbers aredifficult to confirm.

More than 7,600 American troops remain missing from the war, with 5,300 believed lostin the North, according to theDPAA. More than 133,000 South Koreans are still unaccounted for, officials have said.

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PHOTOS BY KIM GAMEL/Stars and Stripes

Above: Eighth Army commander Lt. Gen. Michael Bills, left, and Command Sgt. Maj. Jason Schmidt place a time capsule inside a memorial stone on Camp Humphreys, South Korea, on Monday . Below: To commemorate its 75th anniversary, the Eighth Army sealed items inside the time capsule .

Courtesy of the South Korean Ministry of National Defense

Top: Remains that may be from an American soldier are excavated from Arrowhead Hill, South Korea, on Wednesday. Bottom: Buttons from a U.S. soldier’s uniform and combat boots were also found.

Eighth Army fills time capsule with units’ mementos

‘ The remains are believed to be from an American or French soldier who served in the Korean War as a member of the U.N. force. ’South Korean

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South Korean search crews in DMZ find skeleton, possibly of US soldier


BY JENNIFER MCDERMOTT AND MICHELLE R. SMITH

Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The head of the U.S. Naval War College was removed from his post Monday, days after The Associated Press reported he was under investigation amid allegations of mismanagement.

The Navy announced the reassignment of Rear Adm. Jeffrey Harley, who has been criticized for allegedly spending excessively, abusing his hiring authority and otherwise behaving inappropriately — including keeping a margarita machine in his office.

Lt. Cmdr. Jacqueline Pau said Monday that Navy leaders felt the change is best for the college because it main-tains the integrity of the inves-tigation. Pau, the spokeswoman for Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, said it would ensure that Harley is af-forded due process.

Inspector general investi-gations, across the Defense Department, routinely take months or more than a year. Provost Lewis M. Duncan has

temporarily assumed the president’s duties.Harley later announced his departure to the cam-

pus by saying he was “stepping down.”“Team — this will be my last email to you,” Har-

ley wrote. “Due to the distractions caused by the un-founded AP article last week, I am stepping down as President of YOUR college effective immediately.”

Asked to clarify, college spokesman Cmdr. Gary Ross told the AP on Monday that Harley was reas-signed to Washington and had not resigned.

Harley had earlier told the AP the college, located on Narragansett Bay in Newport, was under fiscal strain because the Navy hasn’t fully funded new missions.

The college on Monday also postponed a strategy

forum that was due to start Tuesday and was expect-ed to draw high-ranking officials including Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer, along with hundreds of guests. Spencer was still scheduled to speak Fri-day at the graduation ceremony for the elite school, which grooms future admirals and generals.

Emails obtained by the AP show the college has struggled to make payroll under Harley’s leadership and spent about $725,000 annually on raises while facing an annual shortfall of $5 million or more.

Harley said in an email this year that the school had to make across-the-board cuts to ensure it met payroll. He recently asked for more cutbacks in travel budgets.

Multiple current and former college employees blamed the budget problems in part on substantial raises granted by Harley to some faculty, as well spending on certain contractors and others, who they said brought little benefit to the college. They spoke about their concerns on condition of anonym-ity because they feared professional retaliation.

Harley has told staff and faculty in emails this spring that the college was remedying pay gaps between men and women, balancing pay between departments and creating a system to avoid future disparities.

He declined last week to answer a series of ques-tions about additional allegations, including his use of a margarita machine. He downplayed the com-plaints in a campus wide email, saying they were from “a few individuals” and all his decisions were subject to legal review and within his authority.

A small group of longtime college employees filed an anonymous complaint in April 2018 with the Na-vy’s office of the inspector general. Two of them told the AP that they and others were interviewed by in-vestigators in September but nothing happened.

The group contacted the inspector general again in January with additional allegations but said they heard nothing again from investigators until last month, after the AP asked the Navy about Harley’s conduct.

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Series producer Ricardo Neri said that he could not discuss the eight-episode series until after HBO officially announced it in the next week or so.

Online publications have de-tailed some characters. There’s “Fraser Wilson, teenager from New York City,” according to Ob-server.com, who moves in with his mother. She’s recently been promoted to colonel, she’s mar-ried and she’s a lesbian.

Fraser slowly gets to know a group of other Army teens on the base as well as some local Italian teens. They hang out at the beach, “indulging themselves a little too much.”

Fraser becomes close to the kickboxing, rifle-shooting, poetic Caitlin Harper, and the two “em-bark on a period of self-discovery over the golden summer.”

Fraser also misses his friend, Mark, from the U.S. And he de-velops a crush on an older soldier named Jason.

That scenario is reminiscent of Guadagnino’s Oscar-winning film, “Call Me By Your Name,”

which features a summer court-ship in northern Italy between a boy, 17, played by Timothee Chalamet, and a visiting gradu-ate student, 24, played by Armie Hammer.

Bockholt said he wasn’t famil-iar with Guadagnino’s work.

Neri said that he was “a little bit” surprised when the military pulled its support after more than a year of discussions.

“We were talking positively,” he said.

The filmmakers had hoped to film on Caserma Ederle after scouting the location, headquar-ters of U.S. Army Garrison Italy and U.S. Army Africa, and find-ing it perfectly suited to telling the story, Neri said. “It was real,” he said.

They now plan to shoot on a set in nearby Padua.

The services have long pro-vided support — equipment, troops, locations — to movies and television if they approve of the projects.

Parts of “The Long Road Home” were filmed at Fort Hood, Texas, made to look like Sadr City, Iraq.

Robins Air Force Base in Georgia was dressed up to look like Joint Base San Antonio-Sam Houston, Texas, in “15:17 to Paris.”

Filmmakers seeking military support are required to send in copies of the script, which ac-cording to the DOD are vetted to ensure accuracy and promote re-cruitment and retention efforts.

Last year, Army Lt. Col. Tim Hyde, the deputy director of the Los Angeles Office of the Chief of Public Affairs, told a DOD publi-cation that “There’s a point where we just have to say no — It’s ei-ther going to happen like this, or it’s not going to happen at all.” But Hyde said it rarely comes to that.

Production agreements also require the DOD to be able to re-view a rough cut of a film “so offi-cials can decide if there are areas that need to be addressed before a film is released,” according to the dodlive.mil website.

Neri said “We Are Who We Are” isn’t yet fully cast. Its re-lease date has not been disclosed. [email protected]:@montgomerynance

MILITARY

Naval War College leader reassigned amid probe

BY ERIN ARVEDLUND

Philly.com

After he considered suicide, Curtis Thompson finally admitted that he might need help.

“I stereotyped myself. I wasn’t an old man, like in Vietnam and World War II,” said Army vet Thompson, 41, who lives in Burl-ington Township, N.J.

Deployed to Kosovo in 1999 and three times to Iraq, Thompson was discharged honorably in 2006. He got divorced from his first wife, couch surfed, and endured panic attacks, nightmares and brief homelessness.

By 2013, he reconnected with a high school sweetheart (they have since married). She insisted he seek treatment at VA medical centers in Philadelphia and Marl-ton, N.J., where he was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and severe PTSD from his time in combat and exposure to a roadside bomb.

“My doctor said a service dog would really help,” he said, “but I couldn’t afford to pay $20,000” — the going price for a fully-trained service animal that is attuned to veterans and their health issues.

Then, in 2017, he learned about Team Foster, a local nonprofit that pays for service dogs to be trained to assist wounded or traumatized veterans in the Greater Philadel-phia area. He put himself on Team Foster’s waiting list, never expect-ing to hear back.

Team Foster has partnered with two training programs — Cells 2 Service (C2S) and Susquehanna Service Dogs — and is currently seeking partnerships with more dog trainers.

Young pups from local shelters usually train with professionals for at least six months. The ani-mals are then paired with a veter-an; together, human and dog train for at least another year before the dog is designated as a fully certi-fied service animal.

In April 2018, Thompson got the call from Team Foster, and Spen-ce, a Lab mix with whitish-yellow fur, pawed his way into Thomp-son’s life.

While Thompson had dogs be-fore, Spence “is totally different,”he said. “He reads me, picks upon my anxiety attacks, or whenI’m feeling down or can’t get out of bed. He sleeps next to me andwill put his paw on me (if a panicattack creeps up).”

Thompson’s wife confirms hisnightmares have ceased sinceSpence came to live with them.

Team Foster is an all-volunteer501(c)(3) founded by local attor-ney and former JAG officer NickLiermann in honor of his friendU.S. Army Capt. Erick Foster, who was killed in action in 2007. Lier-mann is Team Foster’s sole funderand creates innovative events toraise money for the nonprofit. Last year, Team Foster raisedover $180,000.

Thompson continues to trainwith Spence. They spend everyhour in each other’s company,and together they’re learning how Spence can retrieve things likemedicines and cellphones.

Arthur “Sonny” Wimberly wasone of the first graduates of the Cells-2-Service program in 2018.His service dog is Juno, a huskymix. For two years they’ve beentraining together to learn increas-ingly complex tasks.

Wimberly, a Vietnam-era Army veteran who has multiple sclerosisand uses a wheelchair, said Juno islike “a second spouse. He’s reallygood at finding stuff. I hide thingsand he finds them, and that rein-forces (to him) that he can smell it, identify it, and get it from the guest room, even from under ablanket.

“I’m working on exit signs withhim right now, so Juno can de-termine where to take me out thebuilding,” said Wimberly.

Team Foster’s Liermann is most proud of the fact that “we bridge the civilian-military divide. Withless than 1% of our communityserving, a chasm has developed.Much of our country believes ourveterans are either door-kicking,Rambo-like heroes or broken and scary remnants of their former selves. The reality is that 90%of veterans fall squarely in themiddle.”

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Service dogs offer comfort to veterans

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Juno, a Husky who was given to veteran Arthur Wimberly at the first Friends 4 Vets Graduation, is seen in 2018 at Camden (N.J.) County Correctional Facility.


BY J.P. LAWRENCE

Stars and Stripes

KABUL, Afghanistan — A for-mer Marine who worked with the Afghan women’s soccer team says the government in Kabul needs to do more to protect players from sexual abuse by male officials.

On Sunday, Afghan police is-sued an arrest warrant for former national soccer chief Keramuu-din Karim after FIFA, the world soccer governing body, ruled that he had used his position to sexu-ally abuse players.

FIFA leveled an approximately $1 million fine and a lifetime ban on Karim, a former high-ranking government official.

The FIFA ban and arrest war-rant are “a major step in the right direction, but the work is not done,” said Haley Carter, 34, who worked as an assistant coach on the Afghan women’s soccer team beginning in 2016.

“He did not act on his own but rather allowed a culture of abuse within the entire federation,” Carter told Stars and Stripes. “Those staff members who were aware of and allowed the abuse are complicit and they should also be held accountable.”

Carter became a goalkeeping coach for the Afghan women’s team after service in the Marine Corps had brought her to Iraq and Southeast Asia. Carter had played goalkeeper as a cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy and as a professional for the Houston Dash in the National Women’s Soccer League.

The country’s women’s soccer team had been celebrated as a symbol of hope for an Afghani-stan more tolerant of women’s freedoms.

U.S. military and diplomatic efforts have made education, op-portunity and justice for women priorities during the nearly 18-year war. But entrenched beliefs, particularly within areas where the Taliban holds influence, make it uncertain whether those efforts will result in long-term gains.

The sexual abuse allegations were made public in November by Britain’s The Guardian newspa-per after the soccer players spoke

out about widespread sexual and physical abuse.

Women on the team said Karim had a locked room in his office in Kabul where he would sexually assault players.

Karim, a former provincial governor and high-ranking mili-tary official in Afghanistan, would label women who did not comply with his wishes as lesbi-ans, a label which could lead their parents to disown them, women said to The Guardian.

“It’s disappointing … for the girls from Kabul who are fight-

ing against officials who were play-ing political games with them,” said Carter, who did not go to Afghanistan but coached the team on trips out of the country .

At a training camp in Jordan in 2018, two men from Karim’s sports federation sexually ha-rassed women on the team and tried to force players into sex, said Khalida Popal, a former team captain who spoke to The Guardian.

When players on the team com-plained, Karim beat one of them with a snooker cue, Popal said.

Another former team captain, Shabnam Mobarez, told Stars and Stripes that she had heard about abuse from her teammates and said she went to head coach Kelly Lindsey and others like Carter with her concerns.

“My coach told everyone, ‘It’s up to you guys what you want to do, but we will support you no matter what,’ ” Mobarez said.

Karim’s sports federation also forced players to sign contracts that players felt were meant to silence them, but Mobarez quit rather than sign a coercive contract.

“I don’t want to be part of a team where I don’t know if my teammates are safe,” Mobarez, 24, said in a phone interview.

Afghanistan is not alone in al-legations of sexual abuse by FIFA

officials such as Karim. Female athletes have come forward with claims of abuse in Canada, Co-lombia, Ecuador and Gabon, ac-cording to The New York Times.

“We still need systemic change in FIFA so that this does not happen again to other players,” Carter said in an email. “There have been multiple examples this year, around the world, of abuse of women and women footballers at the highest levels, and this can-not continue.

“Until FIFA addresses this sys-temically, instances of abuse will remain.”

Fallout from the scandal has devastated team morale. Coaches and players still try to stay in con-tact over Skype, Carter said. Still, many players on the team have stopped training, and parents have told their children to quit the team.

For Mobarez, representing her home country on the pitch had been an emotional highlight after being raised in Denmark. She still remembers hearing the Afghani-stan national anthem during her first match with the team.

“I started crying because I was looking toward the flag and I was seeing all the young girls who had had their dreams crushed” Mobarez said. “There was no door given to them. It killed me inside. And this was something me and my teammates wanted to change.”

What’s unfair, Mobarez told Stars and Stripes, is that acts by men like Karim may further hurt his victims by destroying the image of women’s soccer in Afghanistan.

“This should not be something that stops us ,” Mobarez said. “That’s what they tried to do, to ruin Afghan women’s soccer. We can’t let them do that.”

Carter said that while the scan-dal is a setback for the program, she is encouraged by how the players persevered.

“The best part for me , they’re coming together and they’re de-manding better for themselves,” Carter said of the women.”Zubair Babakarkhail contributed to this [email protected]: @jplawrence3

Associated Press

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Re-newed efforts are underway to jump-start stalled peace talks with the Taliban as a U.S. envoy is in Kabul and Pakistani and Afghan officials are meeting in Islamabad.

U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said he was holding meetings with

Kabul officials on Monday, seek-ing to bring about a new round of Afghan-to-Afghan talks, which he describes as essential to resolving the country’s nearly 18-year war.

The Taliban carry out near-daily attacks, inflicting stag-gering casualties on Afghan forces, and now control about half of Afghanistan.

Washington, meanwhile, has accelerated efforts to find a peace-ful resolution to the conflict and has been pressing for direct talks between the Taliban and Kabul. Afghan and Pakistani officials from a group tasked with finding ways to cooperate on diplomatic, military and intelligence-sharing are meeting in Islamabad.

BY KATHY GANNON

Associated Press

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Islamic State has lost its ca-liphate in Syria and Iraq, but in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan the group is expanding its presence, recruiting new fighters and plot-ting attacks on the United States and other Western countries, ac-cording to U.S. and Afghan secu-rity officials.

Nearly two decades after the U.S.-led invasion, the extremist group is seen as an even greater threat than the Taliban because of its increasingly sophisticated military capabilities and its strat-egy of targeting civilians, both in Afghanistan and abroad. Con-cerns run so deep that many have come to see the Taliban, which have also clashed with ISIS, as a potential partner in containing it.

A U.S. intelligence official based in Afghanistan told The As-sociated Press that a recent wave of attacks in the capital, Kabul, is “practice runs” for even bigger attacks in Europe and the U.S.

“This group is the most near-term threat to our homelands from Afghanistan,” the official said on condition of anonymity to preserve his operational security. “The ISIS core mandate is: You will conduct external attacks” in the U.S. and Europe, he said. “That is their goal. It’s just a mat-ter of time . It is very scary.”

Bruce Hoffman, director of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University, sees

Afghanistan as a possible newbase for ISIS now that it has beendriven from Iraq and Syria. “ISIS has invested a disproportionate amount of attention and resourc-es in Afghanistan,” he said, point-ing to “huge arms stockpiling” in the east.

The ISIS affiliate appearedin Afghanistan shortly after thegroup’s core fighters swept acrossSyria and Iraq in the summer of2014, carving out a self-styledcaliphate, or Islamic empire, inabout a third of both countries.The Afghanistan affiliate refersto itself as the Khorasan Prov-ince, a name applied to parts ofAfghanistan, Iran and centralAsia in the Middle Ages.

The ISIS affiliate initially num-bered just a few dozen fighters, mainly Pakistani Taliban driv-en from their bases across theborder and disgruntled AfghanTaliban attracted to ISIS’ moreextreme ideology. While the Tal-iban have confined their struggle to Afghanistan, the ISIS militantspledged allegiance to Abu Bakral-Baghdadi, the reclusive leader of the group in the Middle East,and embraced his call for a world-wide jihad against non-Muslims.

Farmanullah Shirzad fled hisvillage in Nangarhar in late Aprilas ISIS fighters swept throughthe area.

“I was terrified to stay,” he said. “When Daesh (ISIS) takes over avillage, they kill the people, theydon’t care about the children and they come into the homes andthey take the women.”

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Veteran urges reform after Afghan sex abuse scandal

Meetings underway to jump-start Afghan peace talks with Taliban

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Members of Farmanullah Shirzad’s family who fled Islamic State in Nangarhar province in late April now live in a temporary home in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. ISIS is expanding its presence in Afghanistan.

ISIS expands in Afghan mountains, plots against West


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Troops escape injury in Niger roadside blast

Iran’s top diplomat warns US it cannot ‘expect to stay safe’

New Zealand to withdraw its troops from Iraq by June 2020

BY AMIR VAHDAT AND JON GAMBRELL

Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s for-eign minister warned the U.S. on Monday that it “cannot expect to stay safe” after launching what he described as an economic war against Tehran, taking a hard-line stance amid a visit by Ger-many’s top diplomat seeking to defuse tensions.

A stern-faced Mohammad Javad Zarif offered a series of threats over the ongoing ten-sions gripping the Persian Gulf. The crisis takes root in President Donald Trump’s decision over a year ago to withdraw America from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Trump also reinstated tough sanctions on Iran, targeting its oil sector.

“Mr. Trump himself has an-nounced that the U.S. has launched an economic war against Iran,” Zarif said. “The only solution for reducing tensions in this region is stopping that economic war.”

Zarif also warned, “Whoever starts a war with us will not be the one who finishes it.”

For his part, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas insisted his country and other European na-tions want to find a way to salvage

the nuclear deal, which saw Iran limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of eco-nomic sanctions. But he acknowl-edged there were limits.

“We won’t be able to do mir-acles, but we are trying as best as we can to prevent its failure,” Maas said.

However, Europe has yet to be able to offer Iran a way to get around the newly imposed U.S. sanctions. Meanwhile, a July 7 deadline — imposed by Iran — looms for Europe to find a way to save the unraveling deal.

Otherwise, Iran has warned it will resume enriching uranium closer to weapons-grade levels.

Though Zarif made a point to shake Maas’ hands before the cameras, his comments marked a sharp departure for the U.S.-educated diplomat who helped se-cure the nuclear deal, alongside the relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani. They came after Maas spoke about Israel, an archenemy of Iran’s government.

“Israel’s right to exist is part of Germany’s founding principle and is completely non-negotia-ble,” Maas said. “It is a result of our history and it’s irrevocable and doesn’t just change because I am currently in Tehran.”

Zarif then grew visibly angry,

offering a list of Mideast prob-lems ranging from al-Qaida tothe bombing of Yemeni civilianshe blamed on the U.S. and its al-lies, namely Saudi Arabia.

“If one seeks to talk about in-stability in this region, those arethe other parties who should beheld responsible,” Zarif said.

Zarif’s sharp tone likely comesfrom Iran’s growing frustration with Europe, as well as the ever-tightening American sanctionstargeting the country. Iran’s na-tional currency, the rial, is cur-rently trading at nearly 130,000 to $1.

Trump, in withdrawing fromthe nuclear deal, pointed out thatthe accord had not limited Iran’s ballistic missile program or ad-dressed what American officials describe as Tehran’s malign influ-ence across the wider Mideast.

The head of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency, YukiyaAmano, is urging world powersto continue dialogue with Iran to keep it in the landmark 2015deal .

Amano told the board of gov-ernors Monday that he’s “wor-ried about increasing tensions over the Iran nuclear issue,” add-ing it’s “essential that Iran fullyimplements its nuclear-related commitments.”

BY NICK PERRY

Associated Press

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand announced Monday that it will withdraw all of its troops from Iraq by next June.

New Zealand has a small contingent of 95 so-called noncombat personnel de-ployed at the Taji Military Complex north-west of Baghdad, where they are tasked with training Iraqi security forces.

The training mission is a joint operation with Australia, which has about 300 troops stationed at Taji.

New Zealand Defense Minister Ron

Mark said Australia also planned to down-size its presence in Iraq, although he didn’t offer any details. Australia had not made any formal announcements about its plans by Monday afternoon.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it would reduce the number of troops to 75 by July and then to 45 by Janu-ary before they were all withdrawn.

“When it comes to Iraq, it’s time to go,” Ardern said.

She said the troops had made a big con-tribution at Taji, where more than 40,000 Iraqi security forces had been trained since New Zealand’s deployment began in 2015.

“I think they have done an incredible job, but their job is coming to an end,” she said. “And now it’s time to bring them home and look at the contribution our defense force can make elsewhere.”

Mark said that New Zealand would downsize alongside Australia and that both countries were working on “exiting and having an exit plan.” When pressed, he declined to offer more details.

Ardern said it was not up to New Zealand to announce Australia’s long-term plans in Iraq, but she added that Australia had been kept informed of New Zealand’s decision and was supportive.

The 2015 decision on New Zealand’s Iraq

deployment was made by the conservativegovernment at the time and was opposedby Ardern’s then-opposition Labour Party. The Labour Party formed a coalition gov-ernment after the 2017 general election.

Ardern said her government did notwithdraw the troops sooner because it was honoring commitments made to both Iraqand Australia.

Ardern also announced New Zealand would reduce the number of defense forcepersonnel posted in Afghanistan from 13 to 11 by March, and that three of those po-sitions would be focused on enhancing theinvolvement of women in peace and secu-rity initiatives.

BY JOHN VANDIVER

Stars and Stripes

STUTTGART, Germany — A U.S. military vehicle hit a road-side bomb Saturday en route to a training exercise in Niger, a coun-try that has proved dangerous for U.S. special operations forces who have helped local troops battle militant groups in the region.

U.S. Africa Command said Monday that a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle struck the pressure-plate bomb while four servicemembers were entering a firing range in the vicinity of Ouallam, Niger.

“At this time, there are no re-ported U.S. fatalities, however, as a precaution, U.S. service mem-bers are being evaluated for in-juries,” AFRICOM spokesman Col. Chris Karns said in a state-ment Sunday. “The medical treat-ment is a precautionary measure. There are no reported injuries.”

Nigerien partner forces se-cured the scene and were assess-ing the incident, Karns said.

AFRICOM declined to say whether the incident will have any effect on how troops operate in the country.

“Due to operational consid-erations, we won’t go into detail about future operations. Our com-mitment to our partners remains the same,” Karns said.

Initial reports by AFRICOM stated the incident occurred on the firing range, but as more de-tails emerged it became clear it happened outside the training site, the command said.

The blast occurred nearly two years after four U.S. soldiers were killed in an ambush in Niger while on a mission with local forc-es. While the U.S. military had been involved in Niger for years,

the attack brought attention and scrutiny to the risks troops face in obscure parts of Africa.

One U.S. general and other lower-ranking officers and enlist-ed personnel were reprimanded in connection with the ambush amid questions about poor prepa-ration and planning.

Niger and the broader Lake Chad basin area in western Afri-ca have long been home to a dan-gerous mix of militant groups, most notably Boko Haram, which is based in neighboring northern Nigeria.

However, during the past cou-ple of years, ISIS-West Africa has emerged as the top security concern.

The group broke away from Boko Haram three years ago and also is based out of Nigeria.

The group, which has been growing in power, regularly makes cross-border attacks in Niger.

In Niger, the U.S. soon is ex-pected to begin operating out of a new drone site that is intended to add more intelligence capability in the country.

In the wake of the attack that killed the four U.S. soldiers, ques-tions were raised about whether American forces should be taking risks in places like Niger, where extremist groups don’t necessar-ily pose a clear and direct threat to the U.S.

However, Karns said the U.S. has long-term strategic interests on the continent.

“A safe, stable, secure and prosperous Africa is an enduring United States interest,” Karns [email protected]: @john_vandiver

EBRAHIM NOROOZI/AP

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and his German counterpart, Heiko Maas, shake hands prior to their meeting in Tehran, Iran, on Monday.


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BY JENNIFER H. SVAN

Stars and Stripes

WIESBADEN, Germany — Retired U.S. Col. Gail Halvorsen — better known in these parts as the “candy bomber” — will al-ways be a hero in the eyes of the German children who grew up in postwar Berlin, no matter how old they g et.

Seventy years after the lifting of the Soviet blockade that cut off the German capital from food, fuel and other essential supplies, those children still remember the delight of a chocolate bar tied to a makeshift parachute dropping from the sky.

On Monday, amid a grand cele-bration at Clay Kaserne airfield to commemorate the end of the Ber-lin Airlift, some of those children, now well into their 70s, thanked Halvorsen for an act that not only took the edge off their hunger but gave them hope during the bleak years after World War II.

“I’m very, very thankful,” Vera Mitschrich, who was 5 when the largest postwar relief operation began, told Halvorsen on Monday. “I’m so proud of you. You gave us hope. You gave us food. I never, never will forget you.”

Halvorsen was the most an-ticipated guest at the two-day commemoration, hosted by U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden and the city of Wiesbaden. The event features static displays and air demonstrations involving vin-tage aircraft — including C-47s, the same airframe used during

the Berlin Airlift — and a staged candy drop. On Monday, the air-field was open to the public with advance ticket purchases. Base officials said at least 33,000 tick-ets were distributed.

On Tuesday starting at 9:30 a.m., the event will be open to Defense Department ID cardholders.

Halvorsen, now 98, walked with a cane but seemed otherwise spry, retelling the story of dropping chocolate and sticks of chewing gum to those inside the blockade area like it was yesterday.

“A fresh Hershey’s candy bar — to smell that and to know [Ger-man kids] just didn’t have that, it’s really motivating,” he said.

The airlift over West Berlin began in June 1948 and continued through September 1949. Allied aircraft flew more than 270,000 flights, keeping more than 2 mil-lion people alive by delivering food and other critical supplies around the clock in every kind of weather.

Halvorsen got the idea to drop sweets to German youths after talking to and sharing two sticks of gum with a group of kids through the fence at an airfield where he was working.

Most had lost at least one parent and spoke, above all, of not want-ing to lose their freedom, he said. They told Halvorsen they didn’t need much food, yet he could see the hunger in their eyes when they looked at the bags of dried eggs, powdered milk and flour “like it was a chocolate milkshake.”

“When you go eyeball-to-eye-ball with someone in need andyou’re able to do something about it, there’s no better feeling,” hesaid.

Halvorsen said he didn’t seekpermission first from his boss to drop his rationed chocolate.“There wasn’t time,” he said. Hegot caught after his third candydrop.

“Keep doing it. Keep me ad-vised,” Halvorsen was told.

When word spread about the“candy bomber,” there was notrouble getting supplies. Groups in the States wanted to contribute,and Hershey’s was one of the big-gest supporters, Halvorsen said,figuring it was good advertising.

“I had lots of help,” Halvorsensaid. “I couldn’t have had a bettercrew.”

Mercedes Wild was 7 when shewrote a letter to Halvorsen witha map instructing him where to drop candy in her West Berlinneighborhood.

“I don’t care if it scares mychickens. Drop it there,” Halvors-en recalled of Wild’s instructionswhile sitting beside her at a pressconference Monday.

Years later, the two met whenWild invited Halvorsen to herhome for dinner.

“Is it OK that we have chicken?”she asked him.

“He asked me, ‘Is the chickenfrom ’48?’ It was the beginning of a real family friendship,” [email protected]: @stripesktown

PHOTOS BY BRIAN FERGUSON/Stars and Stripes

Army spouses pose as pinup girls at Clay Kaserne airfield in Germany on Monday during the 70th anniversary commemoration of the end of the Berlin Airlift.

Thousands commemorate end of Berlin Airlift

Above: Spectators

tour displays and watch

demonstrations at the

commemoration . Right: Vera

Mitschrich, a Berlin Airlift

witness, waves as retired

U.S. Col. Gail Halvorsen, the

“candy bomber,” arrives at the celebration.


MILITARY

Remains from crash off Japan recovered

Army’s first female infantry commander to make history

US Marine arrested after incident at ramen stand; police officer assaulted

French agency drops claim against Ex-POWs entity

BY SETH ROBSON

Stars and Stripes

TOKYO — Salvagers have re-covered human remains from an area of the Philippine Sea where two U.S. military aircraft crashed on Dec. 6, the III Marine Expedi-tionary Force said in a statement Monday.

Five crewmembers of a KC-

130J tanker and the pilot of an F/A-18 Hornet were killed in a midair collision during nighttime training off Japan’s southern coast.

The Hornet’s weapons officer was the sole survivor.

A search by U.S. and Japanese forces for the lost aviators that spanned 35,000 square nautical miles was called off Dec. 11.

“At this time, the number and identity of those recovered is not known,” the statement said. “The remains will be transferred to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, where formal identification will be made by competent medical authorities.”

A salvage operation related to the crash, which began May 27, concluded Friday after recover-

ing the remains as well as the KC-130J’s cockpit voice recorder and digital flight recorder, III MEF said in its statement.

The devices recovered from the tanker are being delivered to Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., for analysis to assist in an on going investiga-tion, the statement said.

“We reaffirm our deepest sym-

pathy for all affected by this trag-edy and those grieving the loss ofthe six Marines who perished inthis accident,” the statement said. “We also would like to express our sincere gratitude for the co-operation and expertise of the un-derwater salvage team.”

[email protected]: @SethRobson1

Stars and Stripes

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — An Oki-nawa-based Marine was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of destroying prop-erty and striking a police officer while in custody.

Lance Cpl. Matthew Emett Duggan, 23, of Camp Courtney, was arrested at 1:10 a.m. Sunday at a ramen stand in Chatan after allegedly ripping away vinyl sheets designed to protect customers from the rain and wind, Okinawa Police deputy chief Hirotoshi Iha said Monday. Police al-

lege Duggan was highly intoxicated at thetime of his arrest.

Iha also said Duggan used an open handto strike an officer in the head while beingprocessed at the Okinawa Police station about 3:20 a.m.

In addition to destruction of property, Duggan is also being held on suspicion ofobstruction of police in the performance oftheir duties.

Police expected charges to be referred toprosecutors Monday afternoon, Iha [email protected]

BY SETH ROBSON

Stars and Stripes

A French news agency has dropped its financial claim against a group that advo-cates for former American prisoners of war over unauthorized use of a photograph of an American veteran.

Agence France Presse, or AFP, had sought a financial settlement from Ameri-can Ex-Prisoners of War, a congressionally chartered veterans’ service organization, for unauthorized use of an image on the group’s website, according to Ex-POWs di-rector Cheryl Cerbone.

On June 6, after Stars and Stripes con-tacted AFP about the issue, the Santa Ana, Calif., law firm of Higbee & Associates wrote to Cerbone to inform her that the claim had been dropped.

“In light of Ex-Prisoner of War prompt-ly removing the image and other factors, such as the nature of the use, and the very limited resources of the entity, AFP has authorized me to close this claim,” the law firm wrote. “While this is not a release of liability, AFP plans to take no further ac-tion on this matter so long as the image, or any other image belonging to AFP, is not used without a license in the future.”

Cerbone had complained to attorneys general in Texas and Massachusetts and a district attorney in California about letters and emails from lawyers and the copyright enforcement company PicRights seeking compensation for use of a photograph of Frank Buckles that was posted on the Ex-POW’s website with his obituary.

Buckles, who drove an ambulance in France in 1918 and was taken prisoner by the Japanese in World War II, was the last surviving World War I “doughboy” when he died in 2011.

“Our members are former prisoners of war and nearly all are in their mid-nine-ties,” Cerbone wrote to the attorneys gen-eral before the claim was dropped. “They

are heroes every one. And I am disgustedby attempts to extort money from them.”

The Arlington, Texas-based organiza-tion’s volunteer board and officers are ex-POWs, their families and advocates, she said.

PicRights president Steve Pigeon con-firmed in a June 6 email that his organiza-tion had sought removal of the image andpayment of a retroactive license fee.

“PicRights is a legitimate enterpriseperforming a necessary, ifdifficult, func-tion for legiti-mate copyrightholders such as AFP,” hewrote.

“Copyright infringement on the inter-net is massive:people think everything they find there is free to useand PicRightsidentifies thou-

sands of new infringements every month. It is in our mandate to try to resolve suchunlicensed uses on behalf of our clientswhether the infringement was done by ahuge corporation, a small business or” anonprofit organization.

PicRights does not specifically approachveterans’ organizations about unauthor-ized use of images but it doesn’t excludethem either, Pigeon wrote.

“To be clear, non-profit organizationshave to follow the same copyright laws aseveryone else but we try to take the indi-vidual circumstances into consideration when attempting to resolve each case,” [email protected]: @SethRobson1

BY BLAKE ALSUP

New York Daily News

Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager will make his-tory when she becomes the first woman to command a U.S. Army Infantry Division later this month.

Yeager, who was once a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter pilot and served in Iraq, will command the California National Guard’s 40th Infantry Division.

Her active military service began in May 1986 after she received her commis-sion through the ROTC program at Cali-fornia State University Long Beach.

She transitioned to the National Guard in 1995 and served in various roles in the California and Texas National Guard over the years. In 2011, she was deployed to Iraq as deputy commander of the California Guard’s 40th Combat Aviation Brigade.

Yeager followed in the footsteps of her father, retired California National Guard Maj. Gen. Robert Brandt, who served two

tours in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot.“My father has been a tremendous role

model to me, both as a parent and as an of-ficer, and I have benefited immensely from his mentorship,” Yeager told the Defense Department’s news service when she was promoted to brigadier general in 2016.

At the time, she was only the fourth fe-male general in California National Guard history.

“As a female, I have found the military to provide opportunities and benefits un-matched by any profession,” Yeager said in the 2016 interview. “Clearly, females are in the minority within the military, yet in every assignment, I have held, my mostly male peers, subordinates and superiors, have supported me, treated me with re-spect, coached, mentored and advised me.”

Yeager will assume her new position during a ceremony in Los Alamitos, Calif., on June 29.

SARAH LIFSHIN/Courtesy of the Department of Defense

Brig. Gen. Laura Yeager, right, commanding general of Joint Task Force North, visits 1-37 soldiers in New Mexico on March 7. Later this month she will become the first woman to command a U.S. Army infantry division.

‘ ... non-profit organizations have to follow the same copyright laws as everyone else. ’

Steve Pigeonpresident, PicRights


NATION

Crane topples onto Dallas apartments, killing woman

California amusement park is evacuated as nearby brush fire spreads smoke, ash

Acting budget chief seeks delay on US’ Huawei ban

BY JAKE BLEIBERG AND JUAN LOZANO

Associated Press

DALLAS — A construction crane buffeted by high winds during a storm toppled on a Dal-las apartment building Sunday, killing one woman in the building and injuring five other people, two of them critically, a fire of-ficial said.

Crews searching the Elan City Lights building found the body of a woman inside after the crane collapsed and ripped a large gash into the side of the five-story structure, Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said dur-ing a press briefing.

“The building itself has suf-fered multiple collapses in dif-ferent areas of the building to include residential spaces and the parking garage,” Evans said.

Of those injured, two were

listed in critical condition, two suffered serious injuries and one suffered minor injuries and was discharged from a hospital, Evans said. Earlier, he had said that six people were injured but said the figure would likely change.

First responders searched every apartment they could reach and found no other victims, Evans said. He also said that every resi-dent of an apartment damaged by the crane was either out at the time or was among those taken to hospitals.

Crews were called to the site of the collapse just before 2 p.m., after the National Weather Ser-vice issued a severe thunder-storm watch for the Dallas/Fort Worth area and warned of winds up to 70 mph . Evans said the rea-son the crane fell is unknown but there is a “strong possibility” that the winds “played some role in the collapse.”

Across Dallas the storm felled mature trees and knocked out power Sunday, leaving many areas without working traffic lights.

Isaiah Allen told The Dal-las Morning News he was in his apartment when he heard what he thought was a deafening thun-derclap. “I saw that the crane had actually fell straight through the building and had destroyed a good eight to 10 apartments and so there’s like floors and stuff falling through,” he said.

Allen told the paper he saw a bloodied woman trapped in her apartment on the second floor.

Yesenia Bosquez’s family had moved into their top-floor apart-ment just two weeks ago. She returned from a shopping trip to find her apartment, where she’d left her husband, Jay, to recover from a shoulder injury, crushed by the twisted metal.

It took about 30 minutes for au-thorities to tell her that her hus-band had been rescued alive and had been holding their dog while medics worked on his injuries.

Video shows that the downed crane ripped a large hole in the east side of the building and landed on an adjacent parking garage.

The company that owned the crane, Bigge Crane and Rigging

Co., said in a statement it was mo-bilizing personnel to the site to find out more about the crane col-lapse and would cooperate with any investigation.

Evans said “every single level of the parking garage in parthas collapsed” and that multiple vehicles were damaged. He said he was not sure if anybody was in the garage at the time of thecollapse.

Associated Press

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — A fast-moving brush fire erupted near a huge amusement and water park in Southern Califor-nia on Sunday, sending hundreds of visitors to the exit to escape clouds of smoke and ash before fire officials asked them to stay put while they worked to contain the blaze.

Six Flags Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor announced the evacuation shortly after noon, cit-ing concern for the safety of park

visitors and employees. About a half-hour later, the park said on its Twitter account that fire officials asked guests to shelter in place due to nearby road closures.

Park visitors were asked to move to the back of the 260-acre property, away from firefighting activity near the entrance, said Rachel Gallat, who was visiting a friend who works at the park.

“I was getting iced coffee and when I walked outside, ash was raining down on me,” Gallat said. “There was a big cloud of smoke. I saw people around me panick-

ing; they didn’t know where they were supposed to go.”

Los Angeles County fire offi-cials said nine people were taken to the hospital due to smoke expo-sure. The blaze is 20% contained.

The park later announced it was closed for the day after police reopened the roads, allowing ev-eryone to leave in their cars.

Firefighters battled the 40-acre blaze in hot, dry and windy condi-tions during the first day of a heat wave baking the region in nearly 100-degree heat.

BY FELICIA SONMEZ AND DAMIAN PALETTA

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The acting director of the White House Of-fice of Management and Budget is seeking a two-year delay of a ban prohibiting companies that do business with Chinese telecom giant Huawei from providing ser-vices to the U.S. government.

In a letter to Vice President Mike Pence and nine members of Congress, acting OMB Direc-tor Russell Vought said the delay would give companies more time to comply with the ban, which is set to take effect in one year and one month.

If the delay is approved, the ban would take effect in three years and one month.

“The Administration believes, based on feedback from impacted stakeholders, that this additional preparatory work will better en-sure the effective implementation of the prohibition without com-promising desired security objec-tives,” Vought said in the letter.

News of the letter was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Huawei is the world’s largest telecommunications equipment-maker and has significant back-ing from the Chinese government. The Justice Department has ac-cused it of violating Iran sanc-tions, among other things.

The ban is one of three by the U.S. government against Hua-wei. Last year, President Donald Trump signed a defense spending bill that barred the federal gov-ernment and its contractors from doing business with Huawei and

several other Chinese companies,citing national security grounds. The Commerce Department lastmonth imposed a penalty on thefirm that makes it difficult for it to do business with any U.S.company.

Some U.S. tech companies haveapplied for licenses that wouldallow them to continue to sell to Huawei, arguing that the Com-merce Department ban couldharm their bottom lines and their ability to innovate.

On Sunday night, Jacob Wood,an OMB spokesman, said: “There is not a change to administrationpolicy with regard to Huawei andwould not delay the ban taking effect this year on the federalgovernment doing business with them.

“It also would not stop or delaythe restrictions Commerce an-nounced on the sale of U.S. tech-nology to Huawei. This is aboutensuring that companies who dobusiness with the U.S. govern-ment or receive federal grants and loans have time to extricatethemselves from doing business with Huawei and other Chinesetech companies listed in theNDAA (National Defense Autho-rization Act).”

RICK MCCLURE/AP

A Los Angeles County Fire helicopter drops water on a brush fire burning close to Six Flags Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor amusement park in Santa Clarita, Calif., on Sunday. The fire prompted the evacuation of the park.

SHABAN ATHUMAN, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS/AP

A crane collapsed into Elan City Lights apartments amid severe thunderstorms on Sunday in Dallas.

‘ There is not a change to administration policy with regard to Huawei. ’

Jacob WoodOffice of Management and Budget

spokesman


NATION

Bishops to meet amid pressure over sex scandal

Sex abuse crisis tops agenda as Southern Baptists convene

BY DAVID CRARY

Associated Press

As the Roman Catholic church’s sex abuse scandal grows ever wider in scope in the U.S., bishops convene for a national meeting in Baltimore on Tuesday under heavy pressure to acknowledge their oversight failures and give a larger role to lay Catholics and secular authorities in confronting the crisis.

The pressure comes not only from longtime critics of the church’s response to clergy sex abuse but also from insiders who now voice doubts that the bishops are capable of handling the cri-sis on their own. Among them is Francesco Cesareo, chairman of a national sex abuse review board set up by the bishops.

“My biggest concern is that it’s going to end up being bishops overseeing bishops,” Cesareo told Catholic News Service, the news agency of the U.S. bishops’ confer-ence. “If that’s the case, it’s going to be very difficult for the laity to feel any sense of confidence that anything has truly changed.”

Sex abuse scandals have beset the Catholic church worldwide for decades, but events of the past year have created unprecedented challenges for the U.S. bishops. Many dioceses have become tar-gets of state investigations since a Pennsylvania grand jury report in August detailed hundreds of cases of alleged abuse.

In February, former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was ex-pelled from the priesthood for sexually abusing minors and seminarians, and investigators are seeking to determine if some

Catholic VIPs covered up his transgressions. Another investi-gative team recently concluded that Michael Bransfield, a for-mer bishop in West Virginia, en-gaged in sexual harassment and financial misconduct over many years.

Even the president of the bish-op’s conference, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Galveston-Hous-ton archdiocese, has been en-tangled in controversies. On June

4, The Associated Press reported on a Houston woman’s allegations that DiNardo mishandled her case alleging sexual and finan-cial misconduct by his deputy.

The archdiocese said it “cat-egorically rejects” the story as bi-ased and one-sided. However, the archdiocese later said it would review the married woman’s alle-gations that the monsignor, Frank Rossi, continued to hear her con-fessions after luring her into a

sexual relationship, a potentially serious crime under church law.

SNAP, a national advocacy group for clergy abuse victims, has called on DiNardo to resign his post or at least recuse himself from presiding over the Balti-more meeting.

The bishops had drafted some new accountability policies for their previous national meeting in November, but deferred action due to a last-minute request from

the Vatican. One of those propos-als would have established a newcode of conduct for individual bishops; another would have cre-ated a special commission, in-cluding lay experts and clergy,to review complaints against thebishops.

In Baltimore, the bishops will be guided by a groundbreakingnew law issued by Pope Francison May 9.

It requires priests and nunsworldwide to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their su-periors to church authorities. It also calls for any claim of sexualmisconduct or cover-up against abishop to be reported to the Vati-can and a supervisory bishop inthe U.S.

SNAP said the pope’s edict was a step forward but urged the U.S. bishops to go f arther by requir-ing that church staff report theirsuspicions to police and pros-ecutors in addition to reporting internally.

SNAP also said the bishopsshould turn over any files and re-cords related to sex abuse to theirstate attorneys general for inves-tigation, and it urged the bishopsto ensure that all U.S. diocesesrelease lists of priests, nuns andother church staff alleged to havecommitted sexual abuse.

Beyond the pope’s edict, thebishops will consider creating an independent, third-party report-ing system to which allegations ofabuse could be filed.

The California Catholic Confer-ence decried the confession bill as “a clear violation of religiousliberty” and noted that priests vi-olating the confidentiality of con-fession faced excommunication.

BY DAVID CRARY

Associated Press

The Southern Baptist Conven-tion gathers for its annual na-tional meeting Tuesday with one sobering topic — sex abuse by clergy and staff — overshadow-ing all others.

Inside the meeting hall in Bir-mingham, Ala ., delegates rep-resenting the nation’s largest Protestant denomination will likely vote on establishing crite-ria for expelling churches that mishandle or cover up abuse allegations.

They also may vote to establish a new committee which would review how member churches handle claims of abuse.

Outside the convention center, abuse survivors and other activ-ists plan a protest rally Tuesday evening, demanding that the SBC move faster to require sex abuse training for all pastors, staff and volunteers and to create a data-base of credibly accused abusers that could be shared among its more than 47,000 churches. They will also be urging the church, which espouses all-male leader-ship, to be more respectful of

women’s roles — a volatile topic that’s sparked online debate over whether women should preach to men.

Sex abuse already was a high-profile issue at the 2018 national meeting in Dallas, following revelations about several sexual misconduct cases. Soon after his election as SBC president at that meeting, the Rev. J.D. Greear formed an advisory group to draft recommendations on how to confront the problem.

However, pressure on the church has intensified in recent months, due in part to articles by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News asserting that hundreds of Southern Bap-tist clergy and staff have been accused of sexual misconduct over the past 20 years, including dozens who returned to church duties, while leaving more than 700 victims with little in the way of justice or apologies.

“For years, there were people who assumed abuse was sim-ply a Roman Catholic problem,” said the Rev. Russell Moore, who heads the SBC’s public policy arm. “I see that mentality dis-sipating. There seems to be a

growing sense of vulnerability and a willingness to address this crisis.”

As evidence of that willingness, Greear’s advisory group issued a detailed report Saturday about sexual abuse within the SBC.

It contained several first-per-son stories by sexual abuse survi-vors and acknowledged a variety of failures in how the SBC has re-sponded to abuse — including in-adequate training of staff, failure to believe and support victims, failure to report abuse to law en-forcement, and recommending suspected perpetrators to new employment.

With the abuse scandal spread-ing, Greear’s study committee issued 10 recommendations, and some action has been taken.

For example, a nine-mem-ber team has been developing a training curriculum to be used by churches and seminaries to improve responses to abuse. The team includes a psychologist, a former prosecutor, a detective, and attorney and abuse survivor Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to go public with charges against sports doctor Larry Nas-sar ahead of the prosecution that

led to a lengthy prison sentence.The study group also is consid-

ering new requirements for back-ground checks of church leaders. And it is assessing options for a database listing abusers, though Baptist leaders say that process has been difficult because of legal issues.

Greear, in an email to The

Associated Press, said he was“thankful for the light” that the articles by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News“shined on a dark area of our Convention.”

“Only when sin is exposed to the light of truth, true repen-tance, healing, and change can begin,” he wrote.

MARK HUMPHREY/AP

Southern Baptist Convention President Rev. J.D. Greear will address many topics mainly focusing on sex abuse by clergy and staff when the SBC gathers for its annual convention Tuesday.

DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, who was accused by a Houston woman of mishandling her case against his deputy , will preside over a national meeting of U.S. bishops Tuesday amid a growing church sex abuse scandal.


NATION

BY ADAM BEAM

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Cali-fornia will become the first state to pay for some adults living in the country illegally to have full health benefits as the solidly lib-eral bastion continues to resist the policies of Republican President Donald Trump’s administration.

Democrats in the state Legisla-ture reached an agreement Sun-day afternoon as part of a broader plan to spend $213 billion of state and federal tax money over the next year. The legislature is ex-pected to approve the deal this week.

The agreement means low-in-come adults between the ages of 19 and 25 living in California illegally would be eligible for California’s Medicaid program, the joint state and federal health insurance program for the poor and disabled.

Only those in that age group whose incomes are low enough to qualify for the program would get the health benefits. State officials estimate that group will be about 90,000 people at a cost of $98 mil-lion per year.

The state Senate had wanted to expand the proposal to include adults 65 and older, but the New-som administration argued it would cost too much.

“California believes that health is a fundamental right,” said state Sen. Holly Mitchell, a Los Ange-les Democrat who led the budget negotiations.

The move is part of a larger

effort to make sure everyone in California has health insurance.

The proposal also makes California the first state in the country to help middle-income families pay their monthly health insurance premiums. It means a family of four earning as much as six times the federal poverty level — or more than $150,000 a year

— would be eligible to get about $100 a month from the govern-ment to help pay their monthly health in-surance premiums.

But to pay for part of it, the state

will begin taxing people who don’t have health insurance. It’s a revival of the individual mandate penalty that had been law na-tionwide under former President Barack Obama’s health care law until Republicans in Congress eliminated it as part of the 2017 overhaul to the tax code.

Republicans on the legislative committee negotiating the budget voted against the proposal, argu-ing it was not fair to give health benefits to people who are in the country illegally while taxing people who are here legally for not purchasing health insurance.

The budget agreement still must be approved by the full state Legislature. State law requires

lawmakers to enact a budget by midnight on June 15. If they don’t, lawmakers would lose their pay.

The health care proposals are a win for first-term Demo-cratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who proposed both of them. Several lawmakers in the Democratic-dominated state Legislature wanted to go f arther by offering health coverage to all adults liv-ing in California illegally. New-som opposed that, noting it would cost $3.4 billion.

Newsom did not get everything he wanted in the deal. Advocates say more than 1 million people in California don’t have access to safe drinking water. Newsom had proposed a 95-cent tax on most residential water bills as well as fees on dairies, animal farms and fertilizer sellers to help water dis-tricts pay for improvements and boost supplies.

Lawmakers rejected the tax, arguing it was too burdensome in a year when the state is projected to have a $21.5 billion surplus — the largest in at least 20 years.

Instead, lawmakers decided to use $130 million in existing tax revenue to pay for the drink-ing water improvements. Most of that money — about $100 million — would come from the state’s sale of carbon credits as part of its “cap and trade” program.

The move means the state’s agricultural industry, whose pol-lution is often blamed for the drinking water problems, would have about $100 million less than it normally gets from the program for various projects.

BY PATRICK MCGREEVY

Los Angeles Times

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California ammo buyers are making a run on gun shops ahead of a new state law that on July 1 will require buyers of bullets to show identifica-tion and undergo a background check to screen out felons and people with illegal firearms.

In a state with the toughest gun laws in the nation, Gov. Gavin Newsom and some other leaders see restricting ammunition sales as a neces-sary next step in reducing gun tragedies.

Newsom included restric-tions on bullets in Proposition 63, his statewide initiative that was approved by voters in 2016 and that helped raise his pro-file for his run for governor.

“From San Bernardino to Ventura to Poway, too many Californians have already died from gun violence,” Newsom said last week. “I championed Prop. 63 because it is beyond time that we take common sense actions such as these to keep deadly ammo out of the wrong hands and protect our communities.”

Loophole closedThe new law closes a loop-

hole in existing rules aimed at reducing illegal weapons, sup-porters say, while some gun owners say it goes too far in infringing on the rights of law-abiding citizens.

Kim Rhode, an Olympic gold medalist shooter from El Monte, said she uses thou-sands of rounds each week to keep up her skill with daily practice. The law approved in 2016 not only creates more red tape for purchasers but also requires them to buy ammo face-to-face from a licensed dealer, hampering orders on the internet.

“These regulations essen-tially prevent me from being able to stay qualified and not only hurt my skill but jeop-

ardize the United States’ rep-resentation at the Olympic Games,” she said.

Rhode is a plaintiff in a law-suit backed by the National Rifle Association that is press-ing the courts to block the requirement on grounds it is unconstitutional, although the next court hearing is months away.

Meanwhile, the state De-partment of Justice is scram-bling to develop its procedures for the screening process, with the possibility that the new system will not be finalized before the start of the month.

Even with a possible delay, gun owners have been stock-piling ammunition.

‘Gearing up’OC Guns store owner Scott

Bodkin said sales of ammuni-tion have doubled at his Lake Forest store in recent weeks.

“People are gearing up for it,” he said of the new law. “They are buying a lot. They don’t like it. It’s just another typical California deterrent to make things tougher for gun owners.”

The Sacramento-area firm Ammo Depot has leased a freeway billboard warning of the new law and urging, “Get your ammo now!”

Mike Hein, of Ade’s Gun Shop in Orange, said ammu-nition sales in recent months have jumped by more than 10%, including an increase in customers making bulk buys of as many as 1,000 rounds.

“People are starting to stock up. We stocked up on ammu-nition,” he said. “Most people know about the deadline. They are running scared. They are pissed off.”

He said there is also confu-sion about what the new law will require and added that the Justice Department has not provided clarity.

An agency representative would not comment on the new law or say when it will be enforced.

RICH PEDRONCELLI/AP

Oralia Sandoval holds her son, Benjamin, 6, as she participates in an Immigrants Day of Action rally last month in Sacramento, Calif. California Democrats have reached agreement on a proposal to allow some adults living in the country illegally to receive health benefits.

California lawmakers agree to immigrant health benefits

Sales of ammo surge as Calif. ID law nears

GINA FERAZZI, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS

A customer is shown ammo for personal defense at the Get Loaded gun store in Grand Terrace, Calif. Gun owners are stocking up ahead of a new state law regulating ammo sales.

‘ California believes that health is a fundamental right. ’

Sen. Holly Mitchell

D-Los Angeles


NATION

BY ALAN FRAM

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Activists hoping to defeat House Democrats in next year’s primary elections with more progressive and diverse challengers are assessing how to cope with unintended consequences of their 2018 success, even as they hunt for their next Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29.

Ocasio-Cortez, of course, is the bar-tender who last year upset the No. 4 House Democrat in a New York City primary and became one of this Congress’ most buzzy and even influential figures. Her startling victory sent shivers through incumbents and has helped galvanize liberals eager for more fresh Democratic faces in 2020.

Yet progressive organizations worry that, emboldened by Ocasio-Cortez and others, a glut of Democratic challengers might divide the anti-incumbent vote in some districts, helping House members they are targeting to survive party pri-maries. In 40 states, the primary winner needs only the largest share of votes, and there is no runoff.

So even as Democrats celebrate a diverse freshman class that includes Reps. Ayanna Pressley, of Massachusetts — who ousted a 10-term Boston Democrat — Rashida Tlaib, of Michigan, and Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar, progressives are considering how to harness the energy for 2020 primaries.

“One challenger per district, that’s my motto,” said Sean McElwee, co-founder of Data for Progress, which provides political analysis to activist groups.

Adam Green, co-founder of the Progres-sive Change Campaign Committee, said he’s exploring whether competing liberal

candidates would pledge to coalesce be-fore their primaries if one challenger leads decisively.

Yvette Simpson, CEO of Democracy for America, and Adam Gold, a political director for the Cen-ter for Popular De-mocracy Action, said

several groups have discussed whether to make early, joint endorsements of candi-

dates to avoid divisions.Justice Democrats, the tiny grassroots

group that recruited Ocasio-Cortez to run and is already seeking new candidates around the country, says it plans to recruit fewer than the dozen House challengers it enlisted and mentored in 2018. Ocasio-Cortez was their only winner. They also endorsed 66 other House, Senate and state candidates, six of whom won.

“We used to think it was quantity,” said Alexandra Rojas, executive director of Justice Democrats, which has about 10 staffers and reported spending just $2.5

million in 2018. But because of Ocasio-Cortez’s impact, pressuring even Demo-cratic presidential candidates to address issues like climate change and universalhealth care, Rojas said she now believes“it’s more about one big race can reallytransform everything and shift the politi-cal landscape.”

It’s premature to gauge whether the zealprogressives say they’re observing is realor will translate to serious primary candi-dacies. The overwhelming majority of chal-lengers fail due to funding, organizationaland name recognition shortcomings.

But in an early tabulation by The Associ-ated Press, there were 260 declared HouseDemocratic challengers through May this year. Of those, 103, or 40%, were in dis-tricts with sitting Democrats, not GOP-held or open seats.

In contrast, there were just 212 declaredGOP House challengers. Only 37, or 17%, would oppose Republican incumbents,many of whom hope to avoid GOP primarychallenges by hewing close to President Donald Trump.

“It’s not just older white men but ev-erybody, including younger incumbent women, is looking over their left shoulder,”said Rep. Don Beyer, D-Calif., finance co-chair for the Democratic CongressionalCampaign Committee, House Democrats’ political organization.

Still, party leaders note that just four ofthe House’s 435 members were defeated inprimaries last year, two from each party,with most lawmakers facing no primaries because they seemed unbeatable. Only three times since 1974 have the number of incumbents losing primaries reacheddouble digits.

BY THOMAS BEAUMONTAND ALEXANDRA JAFFE

Associated Press

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Joe Biden was not in the banquet hall for the Iowa Democratic Party’s blockbuster fundraiser on Sunday where 19 of his party’s presiden-tial candidates spoke. But he was present in the veiled criticism from several of his rivals.

In five-minute chunks of speak-ing time, the candidates got the chance to make their case before 1,400 of the most influential Dem-ocrats in the leadoff caucus state. Some chose to nudge the national front-runner and leader in a new Iowa poll without naming him.

The sharpest jabs came from Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Ver-mont, who painted Biden as too cautious at a time that demands stark change. Sanders, who trails only Biden in the polls, described a “well-intentioned” candidate pursuing “a middle-ground strat-egy that antagonizes no one, that stands up to nobody and that changes nothing.”

“In my view, that approach is not just bad public policy but it is a failed political strategy that I feel could end up with the reelec-tion of Donald Trump,” Sanders said.

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete

Buttigieg, 37, whose quiet, Mid-western approach and profile as an Afghanistan veteran and married gay man has captured some Iowans’ attention, also not so subtly challenged the idea that Biden’s experience made him the best party standard-bearer.

“We’re not going to win by play-ing it safe or promising a return to normal,” Buttigieg said. “We are where we are because nor-mal broke. … Democrats can no more promise a return to the ’90s than Republicans can deliver on a promise to return us to the ’50s.”

Biden skipped the Cedar Rap-ids event, the largest gathering of 2020 Democratic presiden-tial candidates to date and what amounted to an afternoon long po-litical talent show. Many of those attending used it as an early test of their ability to turn out sup-porters, a key factor in the cau-cuses now less than eight months away.

Biden was scheduled to return to Iowa on Tuesday, the same day Trump is scheduled to cam-paign in western Iowa, setting up the direct comparison between the two that Biden has sought to emphasize.

Biden had also declined to at-tend the California Democratic Party convention the previous weekend, choosing instead to

speak to an important gay rights group in battleground Ohio.

While Biden had awkwardly reversed positions last week on abortion policy, a Democratic pri-ority, few of his chief critics took aim on Sunday.

Biden’s campaign first affirmed his support for the decades-old Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortions, only to reverse course. It prompt-ed a rebuke from several fellow candidates, especially Massachu-setts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who

is rising in the polls in Iowa.A Des Moines Register-CNN-

Mediacom poll published Sat-urday showed Biden favored in Iowa, followed by Sanders, War-ren and Buttigieg.

California Sen. Kamala Har-ris, who trails in fifth, last week called herself “absolutely op-posed” to maintaining the Hyde Amendment, but she avoided criticizing Biden on abortion in Sunday’s speech.

Warren also stayed away from the abortion funding debate and

instead framed her veiled criti-cism of Biden through her focuson rooting moneyed interests outof politics.

“I’m not spending my time with high-dollar donors and with cor-porate lobbyists,” Warren said.“That’s how we build a grassroots movement in America.”

Biden has been holding oftentwice-weekly, big-dollar fundrais-ers with groups hosted by wealthy business executives and success-ful trial lawyers, as he plans to do in Chicago on Wednesday.

Progressives weigh options for primaries

Rivals take veiled swipes at candidate Biden in Iowa

Ocasio-Cortez

PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., right, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., left, shown at a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing in Washington in February, are among a diverse freshman class of Democrats elected in 2018.

CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks during the Iowa Democratic Party’s major fundraising event Sunday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.


WORLDSudan’s military blames protesters for escalation

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Su-dan’s ruling military blamed thecountry’s protest movement foran escalation as the second dayof the opposition’s general strikekicked in on Monday in the pro-testers’ latest bid to pressure thearmy to hand over power to civil-ian rule.

For the second day, shops andbusinesses were closed in the capital, Khartoum .

It has been two months since the military ousted Sudan’s long-time autocrat, Omar al-Bashir, on April 11, following months of protests against his rule. The generals promised free electionsfollowing a transitional period.

The protesters, however, de-manded the generals relinquishpower right away.

Saudi youth, arrested at 13, could be executed

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates— Amnesty International says a young Saudi man, arrested whenhe was 13, could get the death sentence for taking part in pro-tests by minority Shiites demand-ing greater rights.

The rights group says MurtajaQureiris, now 18, is on trial for of-fenses that involve taking part inprotests when he was just 10, in-cluding a rally that erupted at his older brother’s funeral who waskilled while protesting.

Saudi Arabia has intensified acrackdown on critics.

In April, it carried out a mass execution of 37 men, which Am-nesty says included a young Shi-ite male arrested at 16.

Swedish police shoot man threatening people

STOCKHOLM — Swedish po-lice officers shot and wounded a man who was banging a bag onthe ground and claiming to have a bomb at a train station Monday,authorities and a witness said.

Police were alerted just after 10 a.m. that a man was behaving in a menacing way at the centralstation in the southern city ofMalmo.

Police were quoted by the TT news agency as saying that of-ficers had no choice but to shoothim because of his behavior.

He was taken to a hospital with injuries, and nobody else was re-portedly hurt.

Pakistani court rejects ex-president’s request

ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court rejected a request by former President Asif Ali Zardari and his sister for an extension of their bail that would allow them to remain free despite facing a multimillion-dollar money laundering case.

The decision paves the way for the country’s anti-graft body toarrest the two .

Zardari, currently a lawmak-er in Parliament, and his sisterFaryal Talpur, also a politician,are accused of having dozens ofbogus bank accounts.

The two attended the court hearing but were not arrested atthe scene. From The Associated Press

Associated Press

MOSCOW — An ally of Ka-zakhstan’s former president was named winner of the presidential election Monday in a vote marred by a police crackdown on protest-ers who criticized the result as an orchestrated handover of power.

The Central Election Commis-sion in this Central Asian country said Monday that Kassym-Jomart Tokayev won nearly 71 percent of the vote with all the ballots count-ed. The results have not yet been formally confirmed.

Tokayev became acting presi-dent when Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had led the country since its independence from the So-viet Union in 1991, stepped down. Shortly after Nazarbayev re-signed, Kazakhstan’s ruling party nominated Tokayev for president.

Some 500 people were taken into custody after police broke up rallies in Kazakhstan’s two larg-est cities Sunday.

Protests erupted again Monday with people rallying in the capital, Nur-Sultan, named after the for-mer president, and the commer-cial capital Almaty.

An Associated Press photog-rapher saw at least 100 people detained by police on a central square in Almaty on Monday morning.

The observers’ mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe on Monday criticized Kazakh authorities for dispersing the rallies.

The OSCE said in a statement that the police response “ham-pered the conduct of democratic elections.”

BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN AND YANAN WANG

Associated Press

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s leader sig-naled Monday that her government will push ahead with controversial amendments to extradition laws despite a massive protest against them that underscored fears about mainland China’s broadening presence in the semi-autonomous territory.

In what was likely Hong Kong’s largest pro-test in more than a decade, hundreds of thou-sands of people shut down the heart of the skyscraper-studded city Sunday, three days before the Legislative Council is slated to take up the bill.

The demonstrations refocused attention on the former British colony, whose residents have long bristled at what many see as efforts

by Beijing to tighten control, and dominated newspaper front pages in a city that allows far more freedom of expression than other parts of China.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam told report-ers the legislation is important and will help Hong Kong uphold justice and fulfill its inter-national obligations.

Safeguards added in May will ensure that the legislation protects human rights, she said.

Hong Kong was guaranteed the right to re-tain its own social, legal and political systems for 50 years under an agreement reached before its 1997 return to China from British rule. China’s ruling Communist Party has been seen as increasingly reneging on that agreement by pushing through unpopular legal changes.

The extradition law amendments would

allow Hong Kong to send people to mainland China to face charges, spurring criticism that defendants in the Chinese judicial system won’t have the same rights as they would in Hong Kong.

Opponents contend the proposed legislation could make Hong Kong residents vulnerable to vague national security charges and unfair trials.

The protest that stretched past midnight into Monday was largely peaceful, though there were a few scuffles with police as dem-onstrators broke through barriers at govern-ment headquarters and briefly pushed their way into the lobby. Police in riot gear used batons and tear gas to push the protesters outside.

Three officers and one journalist were injured, according to Hong Kong media reports.

Ally of ex-Kazakhstan leader wins presidency

A protester yells anti-government slogans in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sunday . Protesters denouncing corruption blocked roads and burned tires, paralyzing much of the capital, as they demanded the removal of President Jovenel Moise. Police reported two people were killed and five injured.

Protests in HaitiDIEU NALIO CHERY/AP

Hong Kong pushes ahead with extradition bill

Officials: 95 dead in Mali massacre BY BABA AHMED

Associated Press

BAMAKO, Mali — Unknown assailants killed at least 95 peo-ple in an ethnic Dogon village overnight in the latest massacre to destabilize central Mali, a gov-ernment official said Monday.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, though tensions have been high since an ethnic Dogon militia was accused of carrying out a larger massacre in an ethnic Peuhl vil-lage in March.

Youssouf Toloba, who leads the Dogon militia known as Dan Na Ambassagou, has denied that his fighters carried out the March bloodshed that left at least 157 people dead. Some Peuhl leaders, however, have vowed to carry out reprisal attacks.

Amadou Sangho, spokesman for the Interior Security minis-try, said another 19 people were missing after the Dogon village of Sobane was attacked around 3 a.m. Monday. The village is in the

commune of Sangha, the heart of the Dogon militia blamed for the March attack that has been the deadliest so far.

The latest attackers are sus-pected “terrorists,” Mali’s gov-

ernment said in a statement later Monday.

“This carnage” also left homes burned and animals killed, the statement said.

Security reinforcements were

deployed to track the perpetra-tors, it said.

Intercommunal violence has risen steadily in central Mali over the last several years, exacerbat-ed by the presence of Islamic ex-tremists who have moved south from their strongholds in the arid north.

The Peuhl are accused of working alongside jihadists from Islamic State of Greater Sahara to attack Dogon villages and pre-vent residents from cultivating their land.

The Peuhl in turn have alleged that the Dogons are collaborat-ing with Mali’s military though there is no conclusive sign of state support.

Human Rights Watch has said the Dan Na Ambassagou militia has been implicated in scores of deadly attacks over the past year and Mali’s president has vowed to eliminate it.

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Associated Press

WALTHAM, Mass. — Raythe-on Co. and United Technologies Corp. are merging in a deal that creates one of the world’s largest defense companies.

The merger, announced Sun-day, will close in the first half of 2020 after United Technologies completes the previously planned separation of its Otis and Carrier businesses.

Raytheon shareholders will re-ceive 2.33 shares in the new com-pany for each Raytheon share. Once the merger is complete, United Technologies sharehold-ers will own approximately 57% of the company; Raytheon share-holders will own the rest.

The combined company, named Raytheon Technologies Corp., will be a powerhouse of defense research and technology, with total sales of approximately $74 billion this year. That would top giants like Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp.

Waltham, Mass.-based Ray-theon was founded in 1922 and makes missiles — including the Patriot system — and cyberse-curity tools. Connecticut-based United Technologies was founded in 1934 and makes products for the aerospace and building sec-tors, including airplane engines and spacesuits.

The companies said they will be able to develop new technolo-

gies more quickly with combined R&D spending of $8 billion an-nually and more than 60,000 en-gineers. Raytheon Technologies will focus on hypersonics — ve-hicles or weapons which can fly faster than the speed of sound — as well as intelligence and sur-veillance systems, artificial intel-ligence for commercial aviation and cybersecurity for connected planes.

Eventually, the companies ex-pect the merger will cut $1 billion in costs annually, half of which will be returned to customers.

“Our two companies have icon-ic brands that share a long histo-ry of innovation, customer focus and proven execution,” United Technologies Chairman and CEO

Greg Hayes said in a statement.Hayes will become the CEO

of Raytheon Technologies. Two years after the merger closes, he will add the title of chairman.

Raytheon Chairman and CEO Tom Kennedy will be appointed executive chairman.

The company’s board will have eight directors from United Technologies and seven from Raytheon.

Raytheon Technologies will be based near Boston. That brought a complaint from U.S. Sen. Rich-ard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who said he is troubled by the poten-tial impact of the headquarters moving to Massachusetts. Blu-menthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, also

urged the Defense Department,the Justice Department and otheragencies to examine the potential impact on costs and competitionin the defense industry.

Defense mergers have beenincreasing as companies look toensure future growth.

In 2018, there were eight merg-ers exceeding $1 billion in value, including an all-stock deal be-tween L3 Technologies and Har-ris Corp. and General Dynamics’acquisition of CSRA Inc., accord-ing to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Military ratesEuro costs (June 11) .........................$1.1605Dollar buys (June 11)........................€0.8617British pound (June 11) ....................... $1.31Japanese yen (June 11) .....................105.00South Korean won (June 11) .........1,153.00

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Rota70/62

Morón84/56 Sigonella

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BY PATRICK WHITTLE

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine — Genetically engi-neered salmon is heading to store shelves in the U.S., but it won’t be coming from the big-gest salmon farming state in the country.

Massachusetts-based AquaBounty Tech-nologies has said American supermarkets could begin selling the much-debated fish by the end of next year. Its fish are modified with added genes from other fish to grow about twice as fast as conventional salmon.

The company modifies Atlantic salmon, a species that forms the backbone of the world-wide salmon aquaculture industry. Maine is the biggest producer of conventional Atlan-tic salmon in the U.S., sometimes producing more than 35 million pounds of salmon per year, and its industry is poised to grow. Two new major salmon farms are in the approval process in the state.

But fish farmers in Maine are not consid-ering using the genetically engineered fish, said Sebastian Belle, executive director of the

Maine Aquaculture Association. Numerous conditions would have to be met before that would change, including customers request-

ing the fish in stores, he said. The group also feels the envi-ronmental as-sessment of the fish conducted by regulators was not rigorous enough, Belle said.

“Our competi-tors would have to be using them, and that would have to be giving our competitors an advantage in

the marketplace,” Belle said. “We have no interest in growing GMO salmon, but we re-serve the right to reassess that position.”

AquaBounty’s salmon is the first genetical-

ly modified, or GMO, animal to be approved for human consumption. It has become a touchstone for the international debate about genetic engineering and food.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has signed off on the fish as safe to eat. The genet-ically modified salmon are also approved for sale in Canada.

The company’s Indiana facility recently received the first batch of genetically en-gineered salmon eggs in the U.S., and they should be ready for harvesting in the final quarter of 2020, said AquaBounty spokesman Dave Conley.

Other growers hoping to use the technology will face hurdles, he said. Fish farmers who want to use the eggs need FDA-approved, land-based facilities with containment fea-tures, and they will face regulatory oversight, he said.

Genetically engineered salmon have faced numerous regulatory delays since a Canadian research team first developed them in the 1980s.

Raytheon, United Technologies to merge

Bioengineered salmon won’t come from US’ biggest farm state

‘ We have no interest in growing GMO salmon, but we reserve the right to reassess that position. ’

Sebastian Belleexecutive director of

the Maine Aquaculture Association

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Pittsburgh report having cap-tured another alligator, the third found in the Steel City in the past month.

Officers responded about 6:15 p.m. Saturday after a 2½-foot-long alligator was found on the porch of a home in the Carrick neighborhood. They were able to get the reptile into a box, and animal control officers then took it to Humane Animal Rescue in Homewood.

A 5- to 6-foot-long alligator was found Thursday evening in the Beechview neighborhood, and a 3-foot-long alligator was captured May 18 at the South Side River-front Park.

Authorities believe the previ-ous two alligators found in the city were discarded pets.

Sugar gliders rescued from burning home

MI BATTLE CREEK — Firefighters called

to a house fire in Battle Creek rescued two small residents who got left behind in the smoke-filled home.

Police said the firefighters

saved two pet sugar gliders from the burning home Thursday. The small marsupials are native to Australia, New Guinea and some Indonesian islands and can glide like flying squirrels.

WWMT-TV reported that fire-fighters moved the animals from the home to safety and success-fully treated them with oxygen.

Police: Deputy filmed mother, baby in sex act

LA ST. GABRIEL — Au-thorities said a Loui-

siana sheriff’s deputy filmed a mother performing a sex act on her 1-year-old boy.

News outlets reported that St. Gabriel police arrested Shader-ick Jones on Friday on multiple charges including principal to first-degree rape.

The boy’s mother was ar-rested Saturday on a charge of first-degree rape and incest. Ac-cording to WAFB-TV, she told in-vestigators she was coerced into performing the sex act because Jones had a traffic arrest warrant against her.

Jones had worked for the Iber-ville Parish Sheriff’s Office since 2015. He was fired after his arrest.

Sheriff Brett Stassi said some-one showed police footage of the incident, which is believed to have occurred early Thursday. He de-scribed what he’d seen as “sick.”

$530M lottery ticket sold in liquor store

CA SAN DIEGO — A lot-tery ticket worth $530

million in the Mega Millions

drawing was sold at a liquor storein San Diego, the City News Ser-vice reported.

The winner of Friday’s draw-ing will have to decide whether toreceive the estimated $530 mil-lion jackpot in 30 installments orits $345.2 million cash value.

Hiker rescued after week in wilderness

AR MENA — A Texas manwho was found after he

went missing for about a weekwhile hiking alone in a remotearea of Arkansas said his rescuewas the result of “hundreds of miracles.”

Joshua McClatchy told WFAA-TV in Dallas on Saturday he wouldn’t be alive without the ef-forts of search and rescue teamsthat looked for him after he was reported missing June 1. He alsothanked his faith.

“It’s not just one miracle; it’shundreds of miracles,” McClatchysaid of his rescue on Friday.

McClatchy, from Fort Worth, said he’s not ready to talk about what he went through .

Fire destroys 6 parkedsemitrucks at plant

NE LINCOLN — Authori-ties are trying to de-

termine what started a fire that destroyed several semitrucks over the weekend.

The Lincoln Journal Star re-ported that the fire happened Saturday night about 10:45 in a parking lot outside the Sysco plant in northwest Lincoln.

Fire investigator Don Gross said six semitrucks without trail-ers were destroyed by the fire but there wasn’t any damage to near-by buildings.

BK sorry tops of tables cleaned with floor mop

FL JACKSONVILLE — Burger King is apologiz-

ing after a Florida employee was caught on video using a floor mop to clean the tops of tables.

The video shows an employee scrubbing a table with a mop and then back down to the floor.

The fast-food chain released a statement Friday condemning the employee’s actions and call-ing the incident unacceptable.

News4Jax reported the same Burger King location in Fruit Cove was cited for eight violations in February, including moldy kitchen vents and dirty freezer interiors.

Police: Woman stolepatrol car after crash

CO DENVER — The Colo-rado State Patrol said

a woman stole a patrol car while she was in police custody follow-ing a previous car theft.

Patrol officials said troopers responded to a crash Friday on Interstate 70 in western Colora-do. They said Venessa Jaramillo, 29, and Nickolas Mascarenas, 36, fled after the stolen car crashed near Palisade.

The patrol said Jaramillo was caught after she crossed the high-way and jumped into the Colo-rado River. Patrol officials said that while she was in custody, Jaramillo stole the patrol car and led troopers on a chase down the highway.

She allegedly crashed the pa-trol car and was caught again.

2 suspects attack officer, steal his gun

GA ATLANTA — Atlanta police are looking for

two suspects who attacked an of-ficer and stole his gun and radio.

WSB-TV reported that the of-ficer was responding Saturday night to a call from a gas station where a man was fighting with a store clerk. Police said the officer was trying to take the man into custody when he was attacked by another person from behind.

The officer suffered minor in-juries, and the suspects fled with his gun and radio.

Another alligator found in city; 3rd in a month

PA PITTSBURGH — Pub-lic safety officials in

The age of a northeast Mississippi hardware store that closed on Saturday. Biggers Hardware, of Corinth, shut its doors after an auction of remaining stock and store fixtures. Co-owner Lon Taylor, 68, said, “It’s time to go home.”


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Fitness fun festJeremiah Bedeau, 3, participates in the George Wilson S.A.F.E.T.Y. Foundation 12th annual Sports Fest Football and Fitness Camp on Saturday in Paducah, Ky. The foundation is a nonprofit organization founded by the National Football League’s Tennessee Titans safety George Wilson. The mission of the camp is to raise the awareness of the effects of childhood obesity and to demonstrate fun ways to incorporate physical activities into everyday life. More than 150 kids of all ages attended Saturday’s camp.

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The Queen of All Media will sit down with the Central Park Five for the first time ever for a spe-cial in-depth conversation sched-uled to air on Netflix and OWN on Wednesday.

The streaming giant and the basic cable channel announced Friday that Oprah Winfrey will interview Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Ray-mond Santana and Korey Wise — the subjects of the acclaimed four-part Netflix miniseries “When They See Us,” which chronicles the controversial case of five teenagers, labeled the “Central Park Five,” who were convicted of a 1989 rape they did not commit in the city.

Winfrey serves as an execu-tive producer of the miniseries,which has an ensemble cast thatincludes Asante Blackk, FelicityHuffman, Michael K. Williams and John Leguizamo.

The series, written by Attica Locke, Robin Swicord, MichaelStarrbury and Julian Breece, hasbecome a lightning rod on socialmedia, and has led to New York City prosecutor Linda Fairsteinto be removed from her posi-tions on boards of colleges andcharitable organizations. Dutton, the publisher of Fairstein’s best-selling crime novels, has also dropped her.New York Daily News

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Associated Press

After nearly 20 years and a dozen films, the cur-rent manifestation of X-Men movies is going out with a whimper.

Scorched by poor reviews, the $200 million “Dark Phoenix” earned a franchise low of $33 million over the weekend for a second place finish, according to studio estimates Sunday. First place went instead to “The Secret Life of Pets 2.”

The animated sequel, featuring the voices of Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish and Harrison Ford in his first animated role, grossed an estimated $47.1 million in ticket sales. Although less than half of what the first film opened to in 2016, it’s still a major win for the studio, considering that the production budget was around $80 million. Including international grosses, its global total is already at $97 million.

“Dark Phoenix,” directed by longtime X-Men scribe Simon Kinberg, focuses on Jean Grey (So-phie Turner). It’s the de facto conclusion to the modern X-Men movies that started in 2000. But it scored even worse reviews than the widely-dis-paraged “X-Men: Apocalypse.” Internationally, though, “Dark Phoenix” was No. 1 with $107 mil-lion from 53 territories, including China.

Disney’s “Aladdin” coasted to third place in its third weekend, adding $24.5 million. It has earned $604.9 million globally.

“Godzilla: King of The Monsters” fell 67% in its second weekend, taking in $15.5 million.

The Elton John biopic “Rocketman” rounded out the top five with $14 million in its second week.

Study: Women underrepresented in top animation jobs

Women make up about half of all executives in animation, but a study released Monday says the numbers fall significantly when it comes to female directors and other leadership roles in the industry. The study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initia-tive and the nonprofit advocacy group Women in

Animation said that in the past 12 years, only 3% of animated film directors were women and only one, “Kung Fu Panda 2” director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, was a woman of color.

In some areas, like producing, animation has better female representation than live-action films. The study found that women made up 37% of producers on the 120 animated films surveyed going back to 2007. On live-action features, women make up about 15% of producers.

Women also made up 13% of directors of popu-lar animated television shows from 2018, the only year covered by the study. But women of color were underrepresented in all areas.

Other news� Academy Award-winning actress Olivia Col-

man has been honored by Queen Elizabeth II — the monarch she is about to play on the Netflix royal family TV drama “The Crown.” Colman was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE, in the annual Queen’s Birthday Honors list. The performer won a best-actress Oscar this year for playing 18th-century monarch Queen Anne in “The Favourite.” The queen also made singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, 64, an Of-ficer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE — an honor far from his roots in Britain’s punk and new wave scene during the 1970s.

� Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger were married Saturday in a ceremony that the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor called “intimate, moving and emotional.” Pratt announced the nup-tials Sunday in an Instagram post accompanied by a photo of the couple walking hand-in-hand. The pair began dating last summer.

� Bushwick Bill, the diminutive, one-eyed rap-per who with the Geto Boys helped put the South’s stamp on rap with hits like “Mind Playing Tricks On Me” and “Six Feet Deep,” died Sunday at the age of 52, according to his publicist. His business manager, Pete Marrero, said the rapper was diag-nosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in February.

BY MARK KENNEDY

Associated Press

“Hadestown,” the brooding musical about the underworld, had a heavenly night at the Tony Awards, winning eight trophies Sunday, including best new musi-cal and handing a rare win for a female director of a musical.

Playwright Jez Butterworth’s “The Ferryman” was crowned best play. In the four lead actor and actress categories, Bryan Cranston won his second acting Tony, but theater veterans Elaine May, Santino Fontana and Steph-anie J. Block each won for the first time.

The crowd at Radio City Music Hall erupted when Ali Stroker made history as the first actor in a wheelchair to win a Tony. Stroker, paralyzed from the chest down due to a car crash when she was 2, won for featured actress in a musical for her work in a dark

revival of “Oklahoma!”“This award is for every kid

who is watching tonight who has a disability, who has a limitation or a challenge, who has been waiting to see themselves represented in this arena,” she said. “You are.”

Rachel Chavkin, the only woman to helm a new Broadway musical this season, won the Tony for best director of a musical for “Hadestown.” She became only the 10th woman to win as direc-tor of either a play or a musical on Broadway and told the crowd she was sorry to be such a rarity.

Cranston seemed to tap into the vibe when he won the Tony for best leading man in a play award for his work as newscaster How-ard Beale in “Network.”

“Finally, a straight old white man gets a break!” he joked.

Fontana won his first Tony as the cross-dressing lead in “Tootsie.” Fontana, perhaps best known for his singing role as

Hans in “Frozen,” won in an ad-aptation of the 1982 Dustin Hoff-man film about a struggling actor who impersonated a woman in order to improve his chances of getting a job. It was the only win for “Tootsie.”

Another first-time winner was Block, who earned her Tony for playing a legend — Cher. Block, who has had roles on “Homeland” and “Orange Is the New Black,” is one of three actresses to play the title character in the musical “The Cher Show.” She thanked “the goddess Cher for her life and legacy.”

Other winners included the leg-endary May, who took home her first ever Tony for best leading actress, playing the Alzheimer’s-afflicted grandmother in Ken-neth Lonergan’s comic drama “The Waverly Gallery.”

Andre DeShields captured fea-tured actor in a musical for “Ha-destown,” his first Tony at the age of 73. In his speech, he gave “three cardinal rules of my sus-tainability and longevity.

“One, surround yourself with people whose eyes light up when they see you coming. Two, slowly is the fastest way to get to where

you want to be, and three, the topof one mountain is the bottom ofthe next, so keep climbing.”

James Corden, in his second stint as Tony host, was at his fanboy best, whether anxiouslyhiding in a bathroom with previ-ous hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles or trying to provoke aNicki Minaj-Cardi B-style beefbetween usually overly polite and supportive Broadway figures(Laura Linney and Audra McDon-ald finally obliged). He also askedcelebrities to sing karaoke duringthe commercials. He kicked offthe show with a massive, nine-minute opening number.

Oprah Winfrey interview with Central Park Five to air on TV

‘Pets 2’ outshines ‘Dark Phoenix’

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“When They See Us” director Ava DuVernay, center, poses May 20 with the Central Park Five: from left, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, Antron McCray and Yusef Salaam. An Oprah Winfrey interview with the men will air on OWN and Netflix.

Heck of a nightfor ‘Hadestown’Play about underworld earns 8 Tonys; Stroker’s win 1st for actor in wheelchair

PHOTOS BY CHARLES SYKES, INVISION/AP

The company of “Hadestown” accepts the Tony Award for best musical at the Radio City Music Hall on Sunday night in New York.

Ali Stroker accepts the award for featured actress in a musical for “Oklahoma!”


SHIFTING GEARS

BY HENRY PAYNE

The Detroit News

In the middle of the New York auto show floor each year sits the exotic car stand featuring the latest from storied makes like Lamborghini,

Bentley, Bugatti and Koenigsegg. It’s hard to notice anything else nearby.

Yet Mazda, with its stunning Kai Con-cept, managed to compete

This luscious, candy-red hatchback was a show-stopper. I didn’t know whether to stare at it or lick it. Like the Cadillac Escala or Buick Avista concepts, the Kai Concept design study signaled the Mazda’s future. But it was hard to believe this work of art could become a $25,000 production car.

Believe it.The 2019 Mazda 3 is now on dealer lots

and is the Kai Concept incarnate save for larger mirrors and smaller wheels. Wrapped in Soul Red, it’s the most stun-ning hatch the segment has seen. From its long hood to curvaceous rump, it looks like a Mazda compact and a Mercedes GT Coupe had a love child.

With a driver-focused interior, all-wheel drive and manual-box option, the Mazda 3 hatch is just an engine away from enthusi-ast nirvana.

Not that the 186-horsepower four-banger is a deal-breaker. Smooth and quiet, it lacks the 200-plus horsepower turbo option of some segment competitors. But passing up the Mazda 3 over a turbo is like com-plaining that Carrie Underwood can’t play a Wurlitzer organ.

It arrives at a time when the sedan seg-ment has fallen out of favor in SUV nation. Ford, Chevy and Chrysler have all pulled out of the compact segment.

Mazda is all-in with the new 3. It’s about the joy of driving. It’s a bright-yellow de-tour sign off the road to autonomy.

With this fourth-generation compact, Mazda continues like fellow performance brand Volkswagen to split its compact offer-ings between sedan and hatch. VW badges

its sedan (Jetta) and hatchback (Golf) sep-arately. Not Mazda. But the four-door and five-door invite different customers.

So different are their exteriors that they only share a hood. The sedan’s nice, but — as readers know — I’m a hatchaholic.

Jumping into the 3 hatch (3 stands for the number of laps you’ll make around this lovely creature before getting in) in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, I enjoyed the car as much inside as out-side. The steering wheel is planted, the body controlled, the six-speed tranny like butter.

It begs to be pushed. Pushed to the point

that you ask if there’s more under the hood. It’s a question Mazda won’t answer for now.

My favorite car in the segment, the tur-bocharged 220-horse VW Golf GTI, is not threatened here. Yet.

Though its minimalist good looks, allur-ing interior and athletic handling appeal to the same customer as the GTI, Mazda stops short of offering a GTI challenger even though it has the tool in the toolbox to do it: Mazda’s 2.5-liter turbo-four that produces 310 pound-feet of torque and 250-horsepower.

But the 3 still has plenty to tempt buyers.

For example, the 2.5-liter inline-4 cylin-der that does come standard produces 186 horses and 185 pound-feet of torque. And it blows away every other standard engine in the segment, including Golf — all the while getting good fuel economy (34.7 mpg under my lead foot). Its stylish looks are for all Ford Fiesta and Focus refugees who are aching for an aesthetically pleasing hatch.

There’s not just hatchback utility, but an all-wheel drive system that expands Maz-da’s demographic into all-season Middle America. The system is good. Very good. I flogged it around a mountain snow course like a Finnish rally driver, the 3 never put-ting a foot wrong.

The AWD play is a bold challenge to Subaru’s exclusivity in segment. But the Mazda is a more premium animal than the Impreza while offering similar standard features.

The 3 hatch is easy to build. Starting at $24,495 (the sedan begins at $21,895) the car comes standard with 8.8-inch screen, push-button start, 18-inch wheels, leather-ette seats, adaptive cruise-control and blind-spot assist.

You’ll appreciate that last feature be-cause the hatch’s racy C-pillar could hide New Hampshire. It’s huge.

Like its Mazda 6 and CX-5 siblings about which I’ve raved, 3 comes with i-Activ-sense, an instrument-display-based graph-

ic that constantly informs you of other vehicles around your car. Innovated by Tesla, Mazda has made this tech its own.

Still, this is where 3 customers mightdepart from the hatch. Stunning outside, it might not be comfortable for drivers whohave to spend a lot of time in traffic — andrear-seat passengers might pine for moresunlight.

Add AWD to your hatch for more grip andSoul Red paint for curb appeal and you’ll be the envy of the block for just $26,490— competitive with an Impreza but withmore everything. Heck, you’ll wonder whypeople bother to buy a similarly equipped$40,000 AWD Audi A3.

Forget adding a navigation system— phone apps are better. Mazda’s gener-ous center console allows plenty of room tostow your phone and hook in to Apple Car-Play or Android Auto — and the standard 8.8-inch display offers good graphics.

That knee in your back is your rear pas-sengers again — 6-footers cramped relativeto, say, a roomy Golf or Civic. But they’ll be reassured by the 3’s well-engineered ridedynamics and quieted cabin.

Credit more attention to detail as the3’s engineering team caulked all the gaps from the previous gen car. The four isn’tbuzzy at high revs, but makes a nice warmgrowl under acceleration.

Dude, you ask, every Mazda is spawnof the Miata sports car — so where’s themanual shifter?

Smartly, Mazda has packaged it withthe 3’s premium trim, recognizing manu-als are no longer a value play but a feature craved by enthusiasts. Thus equipped, a premium manual (available with FWDonly) will set you back $28,395 — competi-tive with a manual GTI.

And if Mazda sells enough of them— and picks up sales from those suffering Cruze and Focus hatchback customers —the business case for an AWD manual with250-horsepower would be irresistible.

That would be a sight next to the exotics at the New York show.

Mazda 3 hatch has the looks, moves

2019 Mazda 3

Highs: The cure for the common compact; premium interiorLows: Blind spot the size of New Hampshire; 250-horse turbo-4, please?Vehicle type: Crossover utility vehicleBase price: $ 21,895 sedan, $24,495 hatchback (including $895 destination fee)Price as tested: $30,390 (Premium, AWD hatchback)Powertrain: 2.5-liter inline four-cylinderTransmission: Six-speed automatic; six-speed manualPower/torque: 186 horsepower/185 foot-poundsEPA fuel economy rating: 26 city/35 highway/30 combined (FWD auto); 25 city/35 highway/29 combined (FWD manual); 24 city/32 highway/27 combined (AWD auto, as tested)

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Trump could win again. Here’s how

Biden’s abortion funding flip hurts him, party BY RAMESH PONNURU

Bloomberg Opinion

Maybe Joe Biden had to flip on the question of taxpayer fund-ing for abortion in order to win the Democratic presiden-

tial nomination.All of his rivals supported that fund-

ing, and the party has become more and more aggressive on abortion. Where the 1990s Democratic platforms said abortion should be “safe, legal and rare,” the 2016 platform dropped that defensive note and in-cluded an explicit call to end the long-stand-ing ban on using fed-eral Medicaid funds for elective abortions.

But there will be a cost to Biden’s choice.

First, it puts Biden on the unpopular side of the issue. Advocates of taxpayer fund-ing can point to polls saying that most people support abortion — but that’s true only when the polls have been worded not to mention taxpayer funding. A 2016 poll that clarified it was asking about Medicaid paying for abortions found that 58 percent

of the public opposed it.Second, it means that the Democratic

nominee will find it more difficult to por-tray Republicans as far right on abortion.

Republican opponents are on the wrong side of public opinion on several questions about the issue. If Biden had stuck with his opposition to taxpayer funding and won the nomination, he might have been able to draw a contrast between his own moderation and the Republicans’ extrem-ism. But the Democrats have now drawn more attention than ever before to a ques-tion where they’re the ones who want a big change in abortion policy that most people oppose.

Third, it undermines Biden’s chief asset in the primaries: the claim that he’s elect-able. Liberal Democrats may not like Biden’s record on crime or Iraq, but his relative moderation is supposed to make him a better bet to win in November 2020. If the left can browbeat him into discard-ing his moderate stands, though, where’s the upside?

Fourth, it also undermines the message that Biden is a steady hand. If a stance he held for decades can be swept aside after a day of criticism from his opponents and in-terest groups — if he could so badly misun-derstand the currents in his party — then

does all his vaunted experience really add up to good judgment?

Fifth, the way the flip-flop happenedhighlights Biden’s age. Last month, the for-mer vice president was asked about gov-ernment funding of abortion at a campaignevent and appeared to say that he now fa-vored it. Then the campaign explained that Biden had “misheard” the question andstill opposed funding. After intense criti-cism, Biden then said that he supported funding.

Biden has faced two big challenges in thisrace. One is ideological: Is he too moderate for today’s Democratic Party? The other is personal: Is he too old to be the nominee and the president? The way his campaign has handled the taxpayer-funding questionhas brought both critiques together.

Biden is surely aware of some of thesecosts. There’s a reason he hesitated to renounce his old stance. He probably de-cided that the Democratic Party’s current level of devotion to abortion rights meant that he had to do it.

NARAL, the abortion rights group, was triumphant after Biden made his an-nouncement. I’ll bet it brought a smile to President Donald Trump’s face too.Ramesh Ponnuru is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist.

BY BRAD SCHILLER

Los Angeles Times

President Donald Trump isn’t that worried about potential impeach-ment hearings. He even tries to goad Democrats into starting the

process, knowing that will enliven his base and distract Democrats from their legisla-tive agenda. And he has emerged from spe-cial counsel Robert Mueller ’s investigation seemingly unscathed, despite serious evi-dence of obstruction and unsavory behav-ior. The storm over Ms. Daniels has long faded way, with only her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, facing criminal charges.

Like him or not, Trump has proven to be a “Teflon president.”

As the 2020 election campaign gets un-derway, Trump is exuding confidence. He boasts that he can beat any of the poten-tial challengers, including “Pocahontas,” “sleepy Joe,” “crazy Bernie,” “lightweight Kirsten” and, of course, “crooked Hillary.” He predicts that his 2020 margin of victory will exceed that of 2016.

While Trump may taunt his potential challengers and boast of easy victory, he surely harbors grave concerns about his reelection. He won in 2016 on economic is-sues. His promise to “Make America great again” reverberated with voters who had suffered through the worst post-recession recovery in U.S. history.

Now he faces a similar dilemma. Yes, the economy is doing quite well and unemploy-ment is at historic lows — as Trump con-stantly reminds us. But voters have short memories. In November 2020, voters will be focused on contemporary economic conditions.

An electoral prediction model con-structed by Yale University professor Ray Fair highlights Trump’s problem. The Fair model says that people do vote their pocketbooks (“It’s the economy, stupid”). Further, their votes can be predicted on the basis of only two pocketbook variables: gross domestic product growth and infla-tion. History has shown that this simple

model is one of the best crystal balls for foreseeing the next election. It correctly predicted Trump’s 2016 win.

Based on current economic trends, the Fair model predicts a resounding victory for Trump in 2020. But trends can reverse. The problem for Trump is that voters won’t be thinking about four years of economic performance when they assess the econo-my in November 2020. They will be think-ing about conditions earlier that year.

If the economy grows well in the first three quarters of an election year, the in-cumbent gets credit — and many more votes. Fair calculates that an incumbent president picks up about two-thirds of a percentage point in the popular vote for every one point of per capita GDP growth in the first three quar-

ters of an election year.But if growth declines or turns negative,

the same equation applies, except the pres-ident loses about two-thirds of a point in the popular vote. A president who lost the popular vote in 2016 with only a little more than 46% of the vote has to worry about such things.

Of course, Electoral College math over-came Trump’s second-place popular vote. But that has happened only five times in U.S. history. Typically, the winning can-didate needs at least 50% of the popular vote to win. Obama had 50.1% in 2012 and 52.9% in 2008. Bush had 50.7% in 2004. The Fair model puts Trump comfortably above that threshold, with as much as 54% of the popular vote in 2020.

Trump’s apparent margin of victory can be strengthened by a few more really good quarters of economic growth. Specifically, for any calendar quarter in which econom-ic growth exceeds the long-term average of 3.2%, the incumbent picks up an additional four-fifths of a point in the popular vote. So

far, Trump has enjoyed three such “goodnews” quarters. They have added almost 2.4 points to his predicted vote share. Fairpredicts those good quarters all but assure a Trump victory in 2020.

But Trump does have something to worryabout. Economic forecasters are nearlyunanimous in predicting an economicslowdown as the effects of the Trump taxcuts and Fed interest rate cuts dissipate. Many economists are predicting a reces-sion in 2020. The trade wars that Trump has initiated may also spark unwelcomeprice increases. If economic growth turnsnegative and inflation rises, Trump’s pre-dicted margin of victory shrinks quickly.

This economic possibility is what mustworry Trump. He wants a sure thing — notan economic contingency. To get that, heneeds a guarantee of continuing economicgrowth. How can he get that guarantee?More tax cuts would do the trick, but theDemocratic-controlled House would rath-er raise taxes than cut them. So fiscal pol-icy won’t do it.

What other policy lever is there? TheFed, of course. If the Fed cut interest rates again, that would give the economy an-other boost. But Fed policy has a long leadtime. To boost economic growth in early 2020, the Fed would have to cut interest rates now. That’s why Trump and his eco-nomic team are relentlessly pressing FedChairman Jerome H. Powell to cut inter-est rates. Trump knows that Chairman Powell is more important than ChairmanXi Jingping of China to his reelection. Andhe knows he can always cut a deal with Xiwhen he needs to. But the Fed is an inde-pendent agency that has demonstrated theability to fend off Trump’s attacks.

Trump’s 2020 nightmare is a slowing economy, benignly overseen by an inde-pendent Fed.

Brad Schiller is an emeritus economics profes-sor at American University and author of “The Economy Today.”

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Boxing

NCAA Super RegionalsBest-of-3; x-if necessary

At Jim Patterson StadiumLouisville, Ky.

Louisville 2, East Carolina 0Louisville 14, East Carolina 1Saturday: Louisville 12, East Carolina

0, Louisville advancesAt Hawkins FieldNashville, Tenn.

Vanderbilt 2, Duke 1Duke 18, Vanderbilt 5Vanderbilt 3, Duke 0Sunday: Vanderbilt 13, Duke 2, Vander-

bilt advancesAt Rip Griffin Park

Lubbock, TexasTexas Tech 2, Oklahoma State 1

Texas Tech 8, Oklahoma State 6Oklahoma State 6, Texas Tech 5Sunday: Texas Tech 8, Oklahoma State

6, Texas Tech advancesAt Jackie Robinson Stadium

Los AngelesMichigan 2, UCLA 1

Michigan 3, UCLA 2UCLA 5, Michigan 4, 12 inningsSunday: Michigan 4, UCLA 2, Michigan

advancesAt Boshamer Stadium

Chapel Hill, N.C.Auburn 1, North Carolina 1

Auburn 11, North Carolina 7Sunday: North Carolina 2, Auburn 0Monday: North Carolina (46-18) vs.

Auburn (37-26)At Dudy Noble Field

Starkville, Miss.Mississippi State 2, Stanford 0

Mississippi State 6, Stanford 2Sunday: Mississippi State 8, Stanford

1, Mississippi State advancesAt Baum StadiumFayetteville, Ark.

Arkansas 1, Mississippi 1Arkansas 11, Mississippi 2Sunday: Mississippi 13, Arkansas 5Monday: Arkansas (45-18), Missis-

sippi (41-26)At Alex Box Stadium

Baton Rouge, La.Florida State 2, LSU 0

Florida State 6, LSU 4Sunday: Florida State 5, LSU 4, 12 in-

nings, Florida State advances

MLSEastern Conference

W L T Pts GF GAPhiladelphia 9 4 4 31 31 20Montreal 8 7 3 27 21 28D.C. United 7 4 6 27 23 18Atlanta 8 5 2 26 19 11New York 7 6 3 24 27 19New York City FC 5 1 8 23 23 17Toronto FC 5 6 4 19 26 25Orlando City 5 7 3 18 22 21Chicago 4 6 6 18 24 23Columbus 5 9 2 17 16 24New England 4 8 4 16 17 33Cincinnati 3 11 2 11 14 33

Western Conference W L T Pts GF GALos Angeles FC 11 1 4 37 39 13LA Galaxy 9 6 1 28 22 19Seattle 7 4 5 26 26 21Houston 7 3 3 24 21 14FC Dallas 6 6 4 22 22 22Minnesota United 6 7 3 21 23 25Real Salt Lake 6 8 1 19 21 27San Jose 5 6 4 19 23 27Vancouver 4 6 6 18 17 20Sporting KC 3 5 7 16 26 27Colorado 4 9 3 15 25 34Portland 4 7 2 14 19 26

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

Wednesday, June 5Montreal 2, Seattle 1

Thursday, June 6New York City FC 5, Cincinnati 2

Friday, June 7Sporting Kansas City 2, Toronto FC 2,

tieSaturday, June 8

FC Dallas 2, San Jose 2, tiePhiladelphia 3, New York 2Colorado 1, Minnesota United 0

Saturday, June 22LA Galaxy at Cincinnati

US Men’s soccer schedule(Won 3, Lost 2, Tied 1)

Sunday, Jan. 27 — United States 3, Panama 0

Saturday, Feb. 2 — United States 2, Costa Rica 0

Thursday, March 21 — United States 1, Ecuador 0

Tuesday, March 26 — United States 1, Chile 1

Wednesday, June 5 — Jamaica 1, Unit-ed States 0

Sunday, June 9 — Venezuela 3, United States 0

a-Tuesday, June 18 — vs. Guyana at St. Paul, Minn

a-Saturday, June 22 — vs. Trinidad and Tobago at Cleveland

a-Wednesday, June 26 — vs. Panama at Kansas City, Kan.

Friday, Sept. 6 — vs. TBATuesday. Sept. 10 — vs. TBAb-Friday, Oct. 11 — vs. Cubab-Tuesday, Oct. 15 — at Canadab-Friday, Nov. 15 — vs. Canadab-Tuesday, Nov. 19 — at Cubaa-CONCACAF Gold Cupb-CONCACAF Nations Leage

SundayVenezuela 3, US 0

At CincinnatiVenezuela 3 0—3United States 0 0—0

First half—1, Venezuela, Rondon, 16th minute. 2, Venezuela, Savarino, 30th min-ute. 3, Venezuela, Rondon 36th minute.

Yellow cards—Trapp, US, 47th; Zim-merman, US, 48th; Holmes, US, 62nd.

Red cards—None.A—23,955.

NWSL W L T Pts GF GAWashington 5 1 1 16 12 4Portland 4 1 2 14 16 10Utah 4 2 1 13 7 5North Carolina 3 2 3 12 16 8Chicago 3 3 2 11 13 13Houston 3 2 2 11 8 9Reign FC 2 1 4 10 7 8Sky Blue FC 0 5 2 2 5 11Orlando 0 7 1 1 2 18

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

Saturday’s gamesWashington 2, Utah 0North Carolina 3, Orlando 0

Sunday’s gamesSeattle 1, Houston 1Portland 3, Chicago 0

Saturday, June 15Portland at North CarolinaOrlando at HoustonSky Blue FC at UtahWashington at Reign FC

Friday, June 21Utah at Portland

Saturday, June 22Houston at WashingtonOrlando at Sky Blue FC

Sunday, June 23Reign FC at Chicago

Canadian OpenSunday

At Hamilton Golf & Country ClubHamilton, OntarioPurse: $7.6 million

Yardage: 6,967; Par 70Final

Rory McIlroy, $1,368,000 67-66-64-61—258 -22Shane Lowry $668,800 64-68-66-67—265 -15W. Simpson $668,800 66-64-67-68—265 -15Matt Kuchar, $334,400 65-63-69-70—267 -13B.Snedeker, $334,400 69-60-69-69—267 -13Adam Hadwin, $273,600 65-66-67-70—268 -12Sungjae Im, $254,600 64-68-73-64—269 -11G.McDowell, $220,400 65-67-70-68—270 -10H.Stenson, $220,400 66-66-68-70—270 -10Danny Willett $220,400 66-68-69-67—270 -10S. Munoz, $174,800 65-72-70-64—271 -9Wes Roach, $174,800 68-68-69-66—271 -9C. Tringale, $174,800 68-68-69-66—271 -9Jonathan Byrd, $125,400 67-71-64-70—272 -8M. Hughes, $125,400 66-66-69-71—272 -8S. Jaeger, $125,400 71-64-71-66—272 -8Hank Lebioda, $125,400 67-67-71-67—272 -8C. Morikawa, $125,400 70-66-69-67—272 -8J. Rodriguez, $125,400 67-66-71-68—272 -8Paul Barjon, $79,257 68-70-67-68—273 -7Ben Silverman, $79,257 71-61-72-69—273 -7Harris English, $79,257 66-69-69-69—273 -7Dustin Johnson, $79,257 71-65-68-69—273 -7Danny Lee, $79,257 65-72-67-69—273 -7Justin Thomas, $79,257 70-65-69-69—273 -7E. van Rooyen, $79,257 64-70-68-71—273 -7Sangmoon Bae, $55,100 69-68-70-67—274 -6Jim Furyk, $55,100 69-67-67-71—274 -6Joey Garber, $55,100 68-70-70-66—274 -6Nick Taylor, $55,100 64-65-73-72—274 -6Scott Brown, $46,075 65-63-75-72—275 -5Peter Malnati, $46,075 66-68-69-72—275 -5J. Niemann, $46,075 67-70-68-70—275 -5C. Thompson, $46,075 69-66-71-69—275 -5Talor Gooch, $34,327 66-70-71-69—276 -4Zach Johnson, $34,327 71-67-70-68—276 -4Ryan Palmer, $34,327 68-69-72-67—276 -4Rod Pampling, $34,327 69-69-69-69—276 -4H. Varner III, $34,327 68-70-71-67—276 -4Jimmy Walker, $34,327 65-72-71-68—276 4Daniel Berger, $34,327 67-71-69-69—276 -4Roberto Castro, $34,327 64-71-69-72—276 -4Robert Streb, $34,327 67-69-69-71—276 -4Keegan Bradley, $22,977 63-71-72-71—277 -3Kevin Tway, $22,977 67-70-74-66—277 -3Jonas Blixt, $22,977 67-67-70-73—277 -3Ben Crane, $22,977 69-65-71-72—277 -3J.J. Spaun, $22,977 67-70-69-71—277 -3Peter Uihlein, $22,977 67-71-67-72—277 -3Cody Gribble, $18,189 69-68-72-69—278 -2Martin Laird, $18,189 69-69-72-68—278 -2Brian Harman, $18,189 69-65-71-73—278 -2Colt Knost, $18,189 67-71-69-71—278 -2Brooks Koepka, $18,189 70-66-72-70—278 -2Scott Langley, $18,189 67-68-70-73—278 -2Jim Knous, $17,176 68-69-71-71—279 -1Adam Schenk, $17,176 66-68-73-72—279 -1Roger Sloan, $17,176 68-70-68-73—279 -1Dylan Frittelli, $16,872 67-68-75-70—280 ETyler Duncan, $16,568 69-68-74-70—281 +1George McNeill, $16,568 69-68-72-72—281 +1Sepp Straka, $16,568 68-65-72-76—281 +1Brian Gay, $15,960 72-66-73-71—282 +2Alex Noren, $15,960 67-71-73-71—282 +2Josh Teater, $15,960 68-68-72-74—282 +2D.J. Trahan, $15,960 67-68-75-72—282 +2Bubba Watson, $15,960 71-67-73-71—282 +2D. Bozzelli, $15,504 69-69-77-69—284 +4Richard Jung, $15,352 67-69-75-74—285 +5Jake Knapp, $15,200 69-69-75-74—287 +7Kelly Kraft, $15,048 68-70-76-76—290 +10

Shoprite LPGA Classic Sunday

At Seaview Hotel and Golf Club(Bay Course)Galloway, N.J.

Purse: $1.75 millionYardage: 6,190; Par 71 (37-34)

FinalLexi Thompson, $262,500 64-70-67—201 -12Jeongeun Lee6, $161,223 63-69-70—202 -11Ally McDonald, $116,956 67-67-70—204 -9Anna Nordqvist, $90,474 68-69-69—206 -7Ariya Jutanugarn, $60,758 72-67-68—207 -6Yu Liu, $60,758 66-69-72—207 -6M. Stackhouse, $60,758 66-67-74—207 -6J. Ewart Shadoff, $39,574 68-72-68—208 -5Paula Creamer, $39,574 67-70-71—208 -5Marina Alex, $39,574 70-66-72—208 -5A.-C. Tanguay, $25,606 69-73-67—209 -4Dana Finkelstein, $25,606 69-73-67—209 -4B. M. Henderson, $25,606 68-73-68—209 -4Tiffany Joh, $25,606 67-72-70—209 -4Amy Yang, $25,606 69-69-71—209 -4Morgan Pressel, $25,606 68-70-71—209 -4Mina Harigae, $25,606 68-69-72—209 -4Stacy Lewis, $25,606 67-70-72—209 -4Sandra Gal, $25,606 67-68-74—209 -4N. K.Madsen, $25,606 66-68-75—209 -4P. Phatlum, $18,201 63-77-70—210 -3Bronte Law, $18,201 69-70-71—210 -3Jacqui Concolino, $18,201 67-71-72—210 -3Alena Sharp, $18,201 67-71-72—210 -3Kristen Gillman, $18,201 64-73-73—210 -3Caroline Masson, $14,189 69-73-69—211 -2Katherine Perry, $14,189 72-69-70—211 -2N. Broch Larsen, $14,189 71-68-72—211 -2Lee-Anne Pace, $14,189 70-69-72—211 -2Sakura Yokomine, $14,189 69-69-73—211 -2Gerina Piller, $14,189 68-70-73—211 -2P. Anannarukarn, $14,189 67-71-73—211 -2

Anne van Dam, $14,189 66-70-75—211 -2Pernilla Lindberg, $10,033 70-72-70—212 -1Jenny Shin, $10,033 70-71-71—212 -1Maria Fassi, $10,033 69-71-72—212 -1Christina Kim, $10,033 68-72-72—212 -1Austin Ernst, $10,033 70-69-73—212 -1Carlota Ciganda, $10,033 69-70-73—212 -1Su Oh, $10,033 68-71-73—212 -1Lee Lopez, $10,033 67-69-76—212 -1Sei Young Kim, $10,033 67-68-77—212 -1Luna Sobron, $7,116 75-67-71—213 EKarrie Webb, $7,116 75-67-71—213 EJaye Marie Green, $7,116 70-72-71—213 EEmma Talley, $7,116 70-71-72—213 ELindy Duncan, $7,116 70-71-72—213 EMaria Torres, $7,116 73-67-73—213 EJennifer Kupcho, $7,116 70-70-73—213 EAyako Uehara, $7,116 65-73-75—213 EGemma Dryburgh, $5,561 73-68-73—214 +1Kim Kaufman, $5,561 73-68-73—214 +1Lauren Stephenson, $5,561 72-69-73—214 +1Sophia Popov, $5,561 67-72-75—214 +1Karen Chung, $5,561 68-69-77—214 +1M. Sagstrom, $5,561 67-69-78—214 +1Xiyu Lin, $4,943 66-75-74—215 +2Julieta Granada, $4,414 71-71-74—216 +3Beatriz Recari, $4,414 70-72-74—216 +3Cindy LaCrosse, $4,414 70-71-75—216 +3Ryann O’Toole, $4,414 70-71-75—216 +3Daniela Darquea, $4,414 69-71-76—216 +3P.Thnaplboonyras, $4,414 66-70-80—216 +3Jane Park, $3,928 70-72-75—217 +4Caroline Hedwall, $3,928 69-71-77—217 +4Muni He, $3,928 64-75-78—217 +4Cydney Clanton, $3,928 66-70-81—217 +4Jenny Haglund, $3,663 70-72-76—218 +5Isi Gabsa, $3,663 67-75-76—218 +5Joanna Klatten, $3,531 67-71-81—219 +6Min Lee, $3,465 70-72-78—220 +7Kendall Dye, $3,465 69-72-79—220 +7Celine Herbin, $3,398 67-74-80—221 +8Elizabeth Szokol, $3,354 69-73-80—222 +9

Japan ChampionshipSunday

At Narita Golf Club-Accordia GolfNaria-shi, Japan

Purse: $2.5 millionYardage: 7,140; Par: 72

FinalScott McCarron, $400,000 69-67-67—203 -13Billy Andrade, $196,500 69-69-68—206 -10Kirk Triplett, $196,500 69-68-69—206 -10Darren Clarke, $135,000 68-70-69—207 -9Scott Parel, $135,000 70-68-69—207 -9David Frost, $100,000 72-69-67—208 -8Doug Garwood, $80,000 67-73-69—209 -7Jerry Kelly, $80,000 73-67-69—209 -7T. Yoneyama, $80,000 71-70-68—209 -7Paul Goydos, $60,000 68-74-68—210 -6Cliff Kresge, $60,000 72-66-72—210 -6C. Montgomerie, $60,000 68-72-70—210 -6Tom Byrum, $46,313 73-72-66—211 -5Joe Durant, $46,313 69-71-71—211 -5Corey Pavin, $46,313 71-71-69—211 -5Jeff Sluman, $46,313 70-71-70—211 -5Bart Bryant, $36,313 70-72-70—212 -4Dudley Hart, $36,313 67-74-71—212 -4Jeff Maggert, $36,313 70-71-71—212 -4Gene Sauers, $36,313 74-69-69—212 -4Steve Flesch, $27,042 68-76-69—213 -3P. Marksaeng, $27,042 75-69-69—213 -3David McKenzie, $27,042 72-71-70—213 -3Tom Pernice Jr., $27,042 72-71-70—213 -3Toshi Izawa, $27,042 69-70-74—213 -3Ken Tanigawa, $27,042 65-77-71—213 -3M.Calcavecchia, $20,292 76-69-69—214 -2Keiichiro Fukabori, $20,292 74-68-72—214 -2Fred Funk, $20,292 74-70-70—214 -2Jerry Smith, $20,292 73-70-71—214 -2Woody Austin, $20,292 73-69-72—214 -2Wes Short, Jr., $20,292 71-69-74—214 -2Carlos Franco, $14,813 74-69-72—215 -1Mike Goodes, $14,813 73-71-71—215 -1Kent Jones, $14,813 75-70-70—215 -1Sandy Lyle, $14,813 74-71-70—215 -1Fran Quinn, $14,813 68-75-72—215 -1Toru Suzuki, $14,813 74-69-72—215 -1Esteban Toledo, $14,813 72-71-72—215 -1Duffy Waldorf, $14,813 74-70-71—215 -1Jay Haas, $11,750 72-74-70—216 EJerry Pate, $11,750 74-73-69—216 EKevin Sutherland, $11,750 76-68-72—216 EGlen Day, $10,250 73-71-73—217 +1Ken Duke, $10,250 71-76-70—217 +1Tom Gillis, $10,250 73-70-74—217 +1Stephen Ames, $9,000 73-76-69—218 +2Lee Janzen, $9,000 76-68-74—218 +2Michael Allen, $8,000 74-71-74—219 +3Gibby Gilbert III, $8,000 74-75-70—219 +3Olin Browne, $6,250 74-72-74—220 +4Massy Kuramoto, $6,250 72-71-77—220 +4Stephen Leaney, $6,250 77-72-71—220 +4Steve Pate, $6,250 75-74-71—220 +4Tom Watson, $6,250 78-71-71—220 +4Willie Wood, $6,250 73-74-73—220 +4Tommy Armour III, $4,875 73-72-77—222 +6Chris DiMarco, $4,875 78-74-70—222 +6Billy Mayfair, $4,875 75-74-73—222 +6Mark O’Meara, $4,875 76-73-73—222 +6Dan Forsman, $4,250 79-74-70—223 +7Mark Brooks, $3,875 74-76-75—225 +9M.Yamazoe, $3,875 76-76-73—225 +9Russ Cochran, $3,375 74-79-73—226 +10Larry Mize, $3,375 75-76-75—226 +10S. Hasegawa, $3,000 81-73-73—227 +11Scott Simpson, $2,750 83-74-75—232 +16Larry Nelson, $2,500 77-81-79—237 +21

Canada Grand PrixSunday

Circuit Gilles VilleneuveMontreal

1. Lewis Hamilton, Britain, Mercedes,70 laps, 1:29:07.084, 25 points.

2. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari,70, +3.658, 18.

3. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 70, +4.696, 15.

4. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mercedes,70, +51.043, 13.

5. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, RedBull Honda, 70, +57:655, 10.

6. Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Renault, 69, +1 lap, 8.

7. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Renault, 69, +1 lap, 6.

8. Pierre Gasly, France, Red Bull Hon-da, 69, +1 lap, 4.

9. Lance Stroll, Canada, BWT Mer-cedes, 69, +1 lap, 2.

10. Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda, 69, +1 lap, 1.

11. Carlos Sainz, Spain, McLaren Re-nault, 69, +1 lap.

12. Sergio Perez, Mexico, BWT Mer-cedes, 69, +1 lap.

13. Antonio Giovinazzi, Alfa Romeo Ferrari, 69, +1 lap.

14. Romain Grosjean, France, HaasFerrari, 69, +1 lap.

15. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Alfa Ro-meo Ferrari, 69, +1 lap.

16. George Russell, Britain, WilliamsMercedes, 68, +2 laps.

17. Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, HaasFerrari, 68, +2 laps.

18. Robert Kubica, Poland, WilliamsMercedes, 67, +3 laps.

NR. Alexander Albon, Thailand, Scude-ria Toro Rosso Honda, 59, DNF.

NR. Lando Norris, Britain, McLaren Re-nault, 8, DNF.

Driver Standings1. Lewis Hamilton, 1622. Valtteri Bottas, 1333. Sebastian Vettel, 100

Manufacturers Standings1. Mercedes GP, 2952. Ferrari, 1723. Red Bull Racing Tag Heuer, 124

Sunday’s transactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueCHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed RHP

Dylan Covey on the 10-day IL, retroactive to June 6. Recalled RHP Thyago Vieira from Charlotte (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Selected the contract OF Yordan Alvarez from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned LHP Reymin Gud-uan to Round Rock. Transferred RHP Lance McCullers Jr. to the 60-day IL

NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP Domingo German on the 10-day IL, ret-roactive to June 8. Recalled LHP Stephen Tarpley from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

National LeagueNEW YORK METS — Placed 2B Robin-

son Cano the 10-day IL, retroactive to June 6. Selected the contract of RHP Tim Peterson from Syracuse (IL). Signed RHP Nathan Jones, OF Zach Ashford, INF Luke Ritter, LHP Connor Wollersheim, INF Joe Genord, OF Scott Ota, RHP Mitch Ragan, INF Nic Gaddis, RHP Dan Goggin, C Matt O’Neill, INF Branden Fryman, LHP Mitch-ell Senger, C Jake Ortega, OF L.T. Struble, RHP Justin Lasko, LHP Andrew Edwards, OF Ryan Shinn and INF Nick Conti to mi-nor-league contracts.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Recalled RHP Daniel Ponce de Leon from Memphis (PCL). Optioned RHP Ryan Helsley to Memphis.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Released C Chris Stewart from his minor league contract.

American AssociationFARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS —

Signed RHP Bret Helton.GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS —

Signed INF Alex Crosby.TEXAS AIRHOGS — Signed LHP Tyler

Matzek. Removed OF Lu Yuheng from the active roster. Activated C Li Ning.

Frontier LeagueEVANSVILLE OTTERS — Sold the con-

tract of RHP Patrick McGuff to Arizona (NL).

SCHAUMBURG BOOMERS — Released RHP Taylor Goshen.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Re-leased C Niko Pacheco.

COLLEGEFLAGLER — Named Maurice Smith

women’s basketball coach.

June 111898 — Willie Simms becomes the

only African American jockey to win the Preakness Stakes when he rides Sly Foxto victory. With this win, Simms becomesthe only African American jockey to havewon all three Triple Crown races. Simms’other Triple Crown wins took place in the Kentucky Derby (1896, 1898) and Belmont Stakes (1893, 1894).

1919 — Walter Hagen wins the U.S. Open with a one-stroke playoff victoryover Michael Brady.

1938 — Ralph Guldahl wins the U.S. Open golf tournament for the secondstraight year by beating Dick Metz.

1977 — Seattle Slew, ridden by JeanCruguet, runs wire to wire in the Belmont for a four-length victory over Run DustyRun and the Triple Crown.

1984 — The Boston Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers 111-102 in Game 7 towin their 15th NBA title.

1990 — Nolan Ryan, 43, pitches the sixth no-hitter of his career as the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 5-0. Ryan becomes the first to pitch no-hit-ters for three different teams and the oldest to throw one.

2012 — The Los Angeles Kings win their first NHL championship, beatingthe New Jersey Devils 6-1 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals.

Fight scheduleJune 15

At Arena Riga, Riga, Latvia, Mairis Briedis vs. Krzysztof Glowacki, 12, for Briedis’ WBC Diamond and Glowacki’s WBO cruiserweight title (World Boxing Super Series semifinals); Yunier Dorti-cos vs. Andrew Tabiti, 12, cruiserweights (World Boxing Super Series semifinals).

At First Direct Arena, Leeds, England, Josh Warrington vs. Kid Galahad, 12, for Warrington’s IBF featherweight title; Ja-son Welborn vs. JJ Metcalf, 12, for the va-

cant Commonwealth super welterweight title; Zelfa Barrett vs. Lyon Woodstock, 12, for the vacant Commonwealth super featherweight title.

At MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Tyson Fury vs. Tom Schwarz, 12, heavyweights.

June 21At WinnaVegas Casino & Resort, Sloan,

Iowa, Sebastian Fundora vs. Hector Man-uel Zepeda, 10, super welterweights.

At WinnaVegas Casino & Resort, Sloan, Iowa, Sebastian Fundora vs. Hec-tor Zepeda, 10, super welterweights.

NBA Finals(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)

Toronto 3, Golden State 1Toronto 118, Golden State 109Golden State 109, Toronto 104Toronto 118, Golden State 109Toronto 105, Golden State 92Monday: at Toronto. AFN-Sports, 3

a.m. Tuesday CET; 10 a.m. Tuesday JKTx-Thursday: at Golden State. AFN-

Sports, 3 a.m. Friday CET; 10 a.m. FridayJKT

x-Sunday: at Toronto. AFN-Sports, 2a.m. Monday CET; 9 a.m. Monday JKT

WNBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GBConnecticut 5 1 .833 —Washington 4 1 .800 ½Indiana 3 2 .600 1½Chicago 2 2 .500 2Atlanta 1 4 .200 3½New York 1 4 .200 3½

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBMinnesota 4 2 .667 —Los Angeles 3 2 .600 ½Phoenix 2 2 .500 1Seattle 3 3 .500 1Las Vegas 2 3 .400 1½Dallas 0 4 .000 3

Saturday’s gameLos Angeles 89, Minnesota 85

Sunday’s gamesWashington 86, Dallas 62Connecticut 65, Atlanta 59New York 88, Las Vegas 78Phoenix 94, Indiana 87Chicago 78, Seattle 71

Monday’s gamesNo games scheduled

Pro basketball


BY ERIC OLSON

Associated Press

Florida State coach Mike Martin, the all-time wins leader in all NCAA sports, will get one more shot at winning his first national championship be-fore he retires.

The Seminoles continued their improbable post-season surge with a 5-4 win over LSU in 12 innings Sunday night to complete a two-game super regional sweep.

Now, Martin and his team are off to Omaha, Neb., for the College World Series. It’s the 23rd trip for the program and 17th for Martin.

“So excited I can’t stand it,” he told his wife, Carol, on the field after the game in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Michigan, like Florida State one of the last teams picked for the 64-team national tournament, knocked off No. 1 overall seed UCLA 4-2 in a Game 3 in Los Angeles to secure its first CWS appearance since the Barry Larkin-led Wolverines in 1984. It was the second straight time UCLA failed to make it to Omaha as the top seed. The 2015 Bruins were eliminated in regionals.

Vanderbilt, Texas Tech and Mississippi State also won super regionals to advance. Louisville earned a CWS spot Saturday.

Florida State (41-21) has reached the NCAA Tour-nament in each of Martin’s 40 seasons, but barely got in this year. An up-and-down regular season and a so-so resume left the Seminoles vulnerable on se-lection day, and they were awarded one of the last four at-large bids.

They beat No. 4 national seed Georgia twice while going 3-0 in their regional and then they went into Alex Box Stadium, one of the toughest road environ-ments in the nation, and won two close games over the Tigers.

Drew Mendoza delivered the key hit with two outs in the 12th, sending Devin Fontenot’s 2-2 pitch into right field to score Mike Salvatore from second for the walk-off win.

His wife blowing kisses to him from the stands, Martin pumped his right fist and shouted, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” before descending the dugout steps after an on-field celebration. Martin, 75, announced after last season that 2019 would be his final year as coach.

Michigan got a big pitching performance from Tommy Henry, who was battling the flu, and a tie-breaking two-run single in the sixth inning from Ako Thomas, who was 1 for his previous 13.

The Wolverines (45-20) had lost six of eight games spanning the regular season and Big Ten Tourna-ment and were anxious about their fate on NCAA selection day. They won their regional in Corval-lis, Ore., and stayed on the West Coast and elimi-nated the team that topped the polls for most of the

season.Henry pitched seven strong innings in the decid-

ing game before fellow left-hander Benjamin Keizer took over. With the Bruins threatening with run-ners on second and third in the ninth, Keizer got the game-ending groundout.

Austin Martin hit two of Vanderbilt’s five home runs in a 13-2 win over Duke the day after the Com-modores’ Kumar Rocker threw the first no-hitter in the 20-year super regional era.

Texas Tech’s Kurt Wilson hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning for the fifth and final lead change in an 8-6 win over Oklahoma State.

Mississippi and North Carolina also won and evened their series to force Game 3s on Monday for the final two CWS spots.

No. 2 Vanderbilt (54-11) rebounded from an em-barrassing 18-5 loss on its home field in Game 1 on Friday to dominate the Blue Devils. Rocker struck out 19 in his no-hitter Saturday, and the Commo-dores were up 9-1 in the third inning Sunday on their way to punching their ticket to Omaha for the first time since 2015 and fourth since 2011.

No. 8 Texas Tech (44-18) is in the CWS for the sec-ond straight year and fourth time since 2014 after prevailing at home in a back-and-forth three-game series with its Big 12 rival. Down 6-4 in the eighth, Tech pulled within a run when first-round draft pick Josh Jung hit his second homer of the game to bring on Ben Leeper. He walked two batters before Wil-son launched a high breaking pitch over the right-field wall.

No. 6 Mississippi State (51-13) is in its 11th CWS and second in a row, this time with first-year coach Chris Lemonis, after beating Stanford 8-1. Dustin Skelton’s three-run triple made it 4-1 in the third in-ning and Elijah MacNamee hit a three-run homer in the ninth.

In other super regionals, Tyler Keenan tripled, hit one of Ole Miss’ four home runs and had four RBIs to lead the Rebels past Arkansas 13-5, and North Carolina’s Austin Bergner and Austin Love com-bined for a shutout in a 2-0 win over Auburn.

Big bats� Martin was 4-for-10 with six RBIs in the super

regional and heads to the CWS with a .410 batting average.

Mound marvels� LSU’s Fontenot struck out a career-high 11 in

6 1/3 innings of relief, and the only two hits against him came in the 12th.� Florida State’s CJ Van Eyk went 7 1/3 innings

and allowed four runs on eight hits.

BY MARTIN JOSE ADAMES ALCANTARA

Associated Press

SANTO DOMINGO, Domini-can Republic — Doctors removed David Ortiz’s gallbladder and part of his intestine after the beloved former Boston Red Sox slugger known as Big Papi was ambushed by a gunman at a bar in his native Dominican Republic, a spokes-man said Monday.

Leo Lopez said that the retired athlete’s liver was also damaged and that he was in stable condi-tion in intensive care. He said Ortiz will be flown to Boston once his condition improves.

Ortiz, 43, is one of the most pop-ular figures in sports history in the Dominican Republic and Bos-ton, a fearsome power hitter with a ready smile. He led the Red Sox to three World Series champion-ships, was a 10-time All-Star and hit 541 home runs.

Dozens of fans crowded the hospital in Santo Domingo where Ortiz was being treated, causing a traffic jam. In the U.S., fans prayed for his recovery.

“He’s a great friend to the city of Boston,” Sheila Kieran said. New England Patriots star Julian Edelman joined the throngs of pro sports figures who took to social media to wish Ortiz well, assur-ing him on Instagram: “Papi, all of New England has your back.”

Ortiz was at the Dial Bar and Lounge in Santo Domingo on Sunday night when a gunman ap-proached from behind and shot him at close range, said National Police Director Ney Aldrin Bau-tista Almonte.

The gunman was captured and beaten by a crowd of people at the bar, and police were waiting for him to undergo treatment for his injuries before questioning him, authorities said. Investiga-

tors said they were trying to de-termine whether Ortiz was theintended target.

Ortiz’s father, Leo, told report-ers he had no idea why someone would have shot at his son.

“He is resting,” the elder Ortizsaid. “Big Papi will be around fora long time.”

The Red Sox said in a statementthat Ortiz was wounded in the“lower back/abdominal region”and that the team offered hisfamily “all available resources toaid in his recovery.”

Two other people were wound-ed, including Jhoel Lopez, a Do-minican TV host who was withOrtiz. Police believe Lopez waswounded by the same bullet, Bau-tista said.

Lopez was shot in the leg, and his injuries were not life-threat-ening, said his wife, Liza Blanco,who is also a TV host.

Police did not identify the third person or detail that person’s injuries.

The bar is on Venezuela Av-enue, a bustling nightlife districtpacked with dance clubs and ex-pensive bars that Ortiz is knownto frequent.

Ortiz, who retired after the2016 season and lives at least partof the year in the Dominican Re-public, is often seen getting hiscars washed and hanging out withfriends, including other baseball players, artists and entertainers.

The Red Sox retired his number,34, in 2017, and Boston renamed a bridge and a stretch of road out-side Fenway Park in his honor.He maintains a home in Weston,on the outskirts of Boston.

Ortiz galvanized the city afterthe 2013 Boston Marathon bomb-ing that left three people dead,bellowing through a megaphoneat Fenway Park: “This is our [ex-pletive] city!”

BASEBALL

Big Papi stable after shooting

GERALD HERBERT/AP

Florida State’s Mike Salvatore reacts after crossing home plate to score the winning run Sunday against LSU in the 12th inning of Game 2 of the NCAA super regionals in Baton Rouge, La.

FSU, Michigan reach CWS

ELISE AMENDOLA/AP

Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was hospitalized Monday following surgery for a gunshot wound after being ambushed by a man in a bar in his native Dominican Republic, authorities said.

Ortiz ambushed by gunman in homeland


Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — Mike Moustakas launched a homer that won a new car for a fan, NL MVP Christian Yelich hit his major-league leading 24th home run on his bobblehead day and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 Sunday for a three-game sweep.

Moustakas connected for his 20th homer off Francisco Liria-no (1-1), a tiebreaking, two-run drive in the eighth inning that hit a promotional car perched above the right-center field fence.

Jeremy Jeffress (1-0) pitched the eighth. Josh Hader struck out the side in the ninth for his 16th save and moved the Brewers a season-high 10 games over .500.

Nationals 5, Padres 2: At San Diego, Howie Kendrick, Trea Turner, Adam Eaton and Antho-ny Rendon hit consecutive home runs in a span of seven pitches off Craig Stammen (4-3) with one out in the eighth.

Reds 4, Phillies 3: Joey Votto tied the game for Cincinnati with a two-out single in the seventh inning and Eugenio Suarez fol-lowed with the go-ahead hit as Cincinnati avoided a three-game sweep.

Rays 6, Red Sox 1: Brandon Lowe hit a pair of solo homers that totaled 890 feet, and Blake Snell (4-5) allowed one run and five hits over six innings for visit-

ing Tampa Bay, which took three of four from the World Series champions.

Braves 7, Marlins 6: At Miami, Ronald Acuna Jr. hit a three-run homer as Atlanta over-came a 5-1, ninth-inning deficit against Sergio Romo, and Matt

Joyce delivered a tiebreaking RBI single in the 12th off Adam Conley (1-6).

Mets 6, Rockies 1: Noah Syn-dergaard (4-4) allowed one hit in seven shutout innings, and Todd Frazier homered and drove in four runs off Jeff Hoffman (1-3)

as New York took two of three from Colorado to complete a 4-2 homestand.

Twins 12, Tigers 2: At Detroit, Nelson Cruz homered for the fourth straight game and Miguel Sano, Byron Buxton and Eddie Rosario also connected.

Astros 4, Orioles 0: 21-year-old Yordan Alvarez hit a two-run homer in his major league debut for host Houston, connecting off Dylan Bundy (3-7) in the fourthinning.

White Sox 5, Royals 2: YoanMoncada had four hits and an RBIfor visiting Chicago, which lostthe series opener but had back-to-back solid pitching performancesto take the last two games.

Diamondbacks 8, Blue Jays 2: Carson Kelly and Ketel Martehomered during an eight-runburst in the third inning andArizona completed a three-game road sweep.

Dodgers 1, Giants 0: Walker Buehler and two relievers com-bined on a five-hitter as Los Ange-les beat ace Madison Bumgarner and host San Francisco.

Mariners 9, Angels 3: EdwinEncarnacion hit two homers, in-cluding the 400th of his career,and Tom Murphy added two more as Los Angeles beat visiting Seattle.

Athletics 9, Rangers 8: KhrisDavis homered for the first timein nearly a month as visiting Oak-land built an 8-0 lead and hung on for a four-game split.

Cubs 5, Cardinals 1: KyleHendricks tossed one-run ball over seven innings to win his sixth straight decision as Chicagocompleted the three-game homesweep.

BY TOM WITHERS

Associated Press

CLEVELAND — The bullpen broke down, Didi Gregorius misplayed an easy grounder and another player went on the injured list.

The New York Yankees keep taking hits — and keep hitting back.

Aaron Hicks delivered an RBI double with two outs in the 10th inning as the Yankees overcame stunning errors in the ninth by stars Aroldis Chapman and Gre-gorius and avoided a sweep with a 7-6 win over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday.

Hicks’ shot to the wall in left-center off Oliver Perez (1-1) scored Cameron May-bin, who had doubled with one out.

The Yankees, who could field a strong team just with their players sidelined by injuries, headed home to a Subway Series matchup against the Mets after salvaging one of three games against Cleveland. New York blew a 5-0 lead in the sixth and a 6-5 advantage in the ninth, when Chapman and Gregorius made miscues.

“I feel like games are always like that here, but these are the kind of games you need,” Hicks said. “It was a hard-fought game, lot of back and forth, and we needed

to win to end this road trip.”Chapman (1-1) got the win despite his

shaky performance, and Stephen Tarpley, recalled earlier when the Yankees placed Domingo German on the injured list, struck out the side in the 10th for his first major league save.

Tarpley was the seventh reliever used by manager Aaron Boone, who had to rely on his bullpen after scheduled starter Ma-sahiro Tanaka was placed on paternity leave.

“For Tarp to come in and close out the game was big,” Boone said. “It was huge. That was about as tough a situation as you could come into. What a gutsy effort.”

Brett Gardner hit a two-run homer for New York, which had won nine straight se-ries before going 2-4 on a trip to Toronto and Cleveland.

Mike Freeman connected for a two-run homer and Jake Bauers and Leonys Mar-tin had solo shots for the Indians, who went 4-2 this week against AL Central-leading Minnesota and the powerful Yankees but didn’t gain ground on the Twins.

“We’ll win that game sometimes,” Indi-ans manager Terry Francona said. “We had a runner on third base. That was a heck of a game. There was a lot going on.”

DAVID DERMER/AP

The Yankees’ DJ LeMahieu throws to first base after forcing out the Indians’ Carlos Santana at second in the eighth inning on Sunday in Cleveland. Mike Freeman would be safe at first base. The Yankees won 7-6.

MLB

Hicks’ 2-out RBI double in 10th lifts New York

Yankees top Tribe, avoid series sweep

JEFFREY PHELPS/AP

The Brewers’ Ryan Braun makes a sliding catch on a ball hit by the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Colin Moran during the sixth inning of Sunday’s game in Milwaukee. The Brewers won 5-2.

Roundup

Moustakas HR earns fan new car as Brewers top Pirates


American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 40 24 .625 —Tampa Bay 40 24 .625 —Boston 34 32 .515 7Toronto 23 42 .354 17ABaltimore 20 45 .308 20A

Central DivisionMinnesota 43 21 .672 —Cleveland 33 32 .508 10AChicago 31 33 .484 12Detroit 24 38 .387 18Kansas City 20 45 .308 23A

West DivisionHouston 45 22 .672 —Texas 34 30 .531 9AOakland 33 33 .500 11ALos Angeles 31 35 .470 13ASeattle 28 41 .406 18

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBPhiladelphia 37 28 .569 —Atlanta 36 29 .554 1New York 32 33 .492 5Washington 30 35 .462 7Miami 23 40 .365 13

Central DivisionChicago 37 27 .578 —Milwaukee 38 28 .576 —St. Louis 31 32 .492 5APittsburgh 30 34 .469 7Cincinnati 29 35 .453 8

West DivisionLos Angeles 45 21 .682 —Colorado 33 31 .516 11Arizona 34 32 .515 11San Diego 33 33 .500 12San Francisco 26 38 .406 18

Sunday’s gamesTampa Bay 6, Boston 1Arizona 8, Toronto 2Minnesota 12, Detroit 2N.Y. Yankees 7, Cleveland 6, 10 inningsHouston 4, Baltimore 0Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City 2Oakland 9, Texas 8Seattle 9, L.A. Angels 3Cincinnati 4, Philadelphia 3Atlanta 7, Miami 6, 12 inningsN.Y. Mets 6, Colorado 1Milwaukee 5, Pittsburgh 2L.A. Dodgers 1, San Francisco 0Washington 5, San Diego 2Chicago Cubs 5, St. Louis 1

Monday’s gamesN.Y. Mets at N.Y. YankeesOakland at Tampa BayTexas at BostonWashington at Chicago White SoxL.A. Dodgers at L.A. AngelsArizona at PhiladelphiaSt. Louis at MiamiPittsburgh at AtlantaChicago Cubs at Colorado

Tuesday’s gamesN.Y. Mets (Wheeler 5-3) at N.Y. Yan-

kees (Paxton 3-2)Toronto (Thornton 1-4) at Baltimore

(Means 5-4)Cincinnati (Castillo 6-1) at Cleveland

(Bauer 4-6)Oakland (Fiers 5-3) at Tampa Bay

(TBD)Texas (Jurado 3-2) at Boston (TBD)Milwaukee (Nelson 0-1) at Houston

(Peacock 5-3)Seattle (Leake 5-6) at Minnesota (Per-

ez 7-2)Washington (Corbin 5-4) at Chicago

White Sox (Banuelos 3-4)Detroit (Turnbull 3-5) at Kansas City

(Junis 4-6)L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 7-2) at L.A. An-

gels (Skaggs 4-6)Arizona (Duplantier 1-0) at Philadel-

phia (Arrieta 5-5)St. Louis (Hudson 4-3) at Miami (Smith

3-4)Pittsburgh (Archer 3-5) at Atlanta

(Foltynewicz 1-5)Milwaukee (Nelson 0-1) at Houston

(Peacock 5-3)Chicago Cubs (Quintana 4-5) at Colo-

rado (TBD)San Diego (Paddack 4-4) at San Fran-

cisco (Beede 0-2)

SundayCubs 5, Cardinals 1

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E—Bryant (8), M.Carpenter (5), C.Martinez (1). DP—St. Louis 2. LOB—St. Louis 9, Chicago 4. 2B—Goldschmidt (5), Wong (9), Wainwright (1), Schwarber (8). HR—C.Gonzalez (3). CS—Ozuna (1), C.Gonzalez (3). S—De.Fowler (1), Hen-dricks 2 (3). IP H R ER BB SOSt. LouisWainwright L,5-6 4B 7 3 3 1 2Gallegos 1C 0 0 0 0 2Webb B 0 0 0 0 0Martinez 1C 2 2 1 0 3ChicagoHendricks W,7-4 7 8 1 1 0 3Cishek H,4 1 1 0 0 0 2Edwards Jr. C 0 0 0 2 1Strop S,7-9 B 0 0 0 0 0

T—2:48. A—39,545 (41,649).

Yankees 7, Indians 6 (10)New York Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h biMahieu 2b-1b 6 1 2 1 Lindor ss 5 0 0 0A.Hicks cf 5 0 1 1 Mrcdo lf-cf 5 1 1 0Voit 1b 4 1 2 2 C.Sntna dh 4 1 1 1Grgrius ss 1 0 0 0 Kipnis 2b 2 0 0 0G.Sanch c 4 0 1 0 M.Frman 2b 3 1 1 2G.Trres ss-2b 4 0 0 0 Luplow rf-lf 5 0 0 0C.Frzer dh 3 1 2 1 Ramirez 3b 4 1 2 0Gardner lf 5 1 1 2 R.Perez c 2 0 0 0Urshela 3b 1 1 0 0 Nquin pr-rf 0 0 0 0Maybin rf 5 2 2 0 Bauers 1b 4 1 1 1 L.Mrtin cf 3 1 1 1 Plwecki ph-c 1 0 0 0Totals 38 7 11 7 Totals 38 6 7 5New York 050 000 001 1—7Cleveland 000 004 101 0—6

E—A.Chapman (2), Gregorius (1). DP—Cleveland 1. LOB—New York 11, Cleveland 5. 2B—A.Hicks (2), Voit (8), G.Sanchez (4), C.Frazier (9), Maybin (6). HR—Gardner (9), M.Freeman (1), Bauers (7), L.Martin (8). SB—Ramirez (16). CS—C.Frazier (1). SF—C.Frazier (3). IP H R ER BB SONew YorkGreen 2 1 0 0 1 3Cortes Jr. 3 0 0 0 0 2Kahnle 1 4 4 4 0 1Ottavino BS,3 1 1 1 1 0 0Britton 1 0 0 0 1 0Chapman W,1-1 BS,2 1 1 1 0 1 1Tarpley S,1-1 1 0 0 0 0 3ClevelandBieber 1C 5 5 5 2 4Cole 1B 0 0 0 3 0Goody 1C 1 0 0 2 3Clippard 1B 1 0 0 0 2Olson 1B 0 0 0 1 2Cimber 1B 2 1 1 1 1Perez L,1-1 1B 2 1 1 0 1

WP—Bieber, Kahnle. T—3:56. A—29,028 (35,225).

Nationals 5, Padres 2Washington San Diego ab r h bi ab r h biT.Trner ss 4 2 2 1 G.Grcia 3b 4 0 1 0Eaton rf 3 1 1 1 Tts Jr. ss 4 0 1 0Rendon 3b 4 1 1 2 Hosmer 1b 4 1 1 0J.Soto lf 4 0 0 0 Renfroe lf 4 0 0 0M.Adams 1b 4 0 2 0 F.Reyes rf 4 1 2 1Brrclgh p 0 0 0 0 Kinsler 2b 4 0 1 1Grace p 0 0 0 0 A.Allen c 3 0 0 0Javy.Gr p 0 0 0 0 Perdomo p 1 0 1 0B.Dzier 2b 4 0 0 0 Erlin p 0 0 0 0Parra cf 3 0 0 0 Myers ph 1 0 0 0Gomes c 4 0 1 0 Wngnter p 0 0 0 0Strsbrg p 2 0 0 0 Naylor ph 1 0 0 0Kndrick ph-1b 2 1 1 1 Stammen p 0 0 0 0 M.Diaz p 0 0 0 0 Margot cf 3 0 0 0Totals 34 5 8 5 Totals 33 2 7 2Washington 100 000 040—5San Diego 000 100 001—2

E—Kinsler (3), Rendon (4). DP—Wash-ington 2, San Diego 2. LOB—Washington 4, San Diego 4. 2B—T.Turner (10), Tatis Jr. (6). HR—T.Turner (4), Eaton (6), Rendon (12), Kendrick (11). SB—Myers (8), Margot (7). IP H R ER BB SOWashingtonStrasburg W,7-3 7 6 1 1 0 6Barraclough 1 0 0 0 0 1Grace 0 1 1 1 0 0Guerra 1 0 0 0 0 0San DiegoPerdomo 3B 2 1 0 0 0Erlin 1C 1 0 0 0 0Wingenter 2 0 0 0 1 4Stammen L,4-3 C 5 4 4 0 1Diaz 1B 0 0 0 0 0

Grace pitched to 1 batter in the 9th HBP—by Diaz (Parra). WP—Strasburg, Guerra. T—2:56. A—30,518 (42,445).

Braves 7, Marlins 6 (12)Atlanta Miami ab r h bi ab r h biAcn Jr. cf 6 1 1 3 Dean lf 4 2 3 3D.Swnsn ss 6 0 0 0 N.Andrs p 0 0 0 0F.Frman 1b 6 0 2 0 Romo p 0 0 0 0Dnldson 3b 5 0 0 0 Riddle ph 1 0 0 0Riley lf 5 0 0 0 Kinley p 0 0 0 0L.Jcksn p 0 0 0 0 J.Grcia p 0 0 0 0Blevins p 0 0 0 0 Alfaro ph 1 0 0 0Winkler p 0 0 0 0 Conley p 0 0 0 0B.McCn ph-c 1 0 0 0 Cooper rf 4 0 1 0Albies 2b 5 2 1 0 R.Hrra pr-cf 2 0 0 0Flowers c 4 1 1 0 Bri.And 3b 5 0 1 0Tomlin p 0 0 0 0 S.Cstro 2b 6 0 2 1Joyce rf 4 2 3 1 H.Rmrz cf-rf 6 1 1 0Fried p 2 0 1 1 Prado 1b 6 1 2 1Mrkakis ph 0 0 0 0 Rojas ss 4 2 2 0Tssaint p 0 0 0 0 Holaday c 3 0 2 1J.Webb p 0 0 0 0 P.Lopez p 2 0 0 0Camargo ph 1 1 1 0 Gerrero p 0 0 0 0Swarzak p 0 0 0 0 Brice p 0 0 0 0Clbrson ph-lf 1 0 0 1 Grndrsn ph-lf 3 0 0 0Totals 46 7 10 6 Totals 47 6 14 6Atlanta 001 000 004 101—7Miami 100 020 200 100—6

DP—Atlanta 1. LOB—Atlanta 12, Miami 9. 2B—F.Freeman (17), Flowers (3), Joyce 2 (7), Fried (2), Prado (7), Rojas (11), Hol-aday (1). 3B—Albies (3). HR—Acuna Jr. (14), Dean (2). S—Holaday (1). IP H R ER BB SOAtlantaFried 6 6 3 3 1 7Toussaint 1 4 2 2 0 0Webb 1 1 0 0 1 0Swarzak 1 0 0 0 0 1Jackson BS,5 1 2 1 1 0 3Blevins B 0 0 0 0 1Winkler W,3-1 C 0 0 0 0 0Tomlin S,1-2 1 1 0 0 0 2MiamiLopez 6 4 1 1 1 7Guerrero H,5 C 1 0 0 1 1Brice H,3 B 0 0 0 1 0Anderson 1 0 0 0 0 1Romo 1 3 4 4 1 0Kinley C 0 1 1 4 1Garcia 1B 0 0 0 0 3Conley L,1-6 1 2 1 1 1 0

HBP—by Toussaint (Anderson). WP—Romo. T—4:26. A—10,959 (36,742).

Twins 12, Tigers 2Minnesota Detroit ab r h bi ab r h biJ.Plnco ss 5 1 1 1 Goodrum ss 3 1 0 0Garver c 4 2 1 1 C.Stwrt lf 4 0 2 0Cruz dh 6 1 3 3 Cstllns rf 3 0 1 0E.Rsrio lf 6 2 3 2 G.Bckhm 2b 0 0 0 0C.Cron 1b 5 0 2 2 Mi.Cbrr dh 2 0 0 0Kepler rf 4 0 1 0 R.Rdri pr-dh 1 0 0 0Sano 3b 5 1 2 1 Dixon 1b 4 0 0 0Adranza 2b 3 3 2 0 H.Cstro 2b-rf 4 0 2 0Buxton cf 5 2 2 2 D.Lugo 3b 4 0 1 0 Joh.Hck c 4 1 2 0 J.Jones cf 4 0 1 1Totals 43 12 17 12 Totals 33 2 9 1Minnesota 300 512 100—12Detroit 100 000 100— 2

DP—Minnesota 3. LOB—Minnesota 10, Detroit 7. 2B—Garver (6), C.Cron (14), Kepler (15), Adrianza (2), Joh.Hicks (9), J.Jones (8). HR—Cruz (11), E.Rosario (19), Sano (6), Buxton (8). SF—J.Polanco (3). IP H R ER BB SOMinnesotaOdorizzi W,9-2 6 5 1 1 1 8Morin 2 3 1 1 1 1Duffey 1 1 0 0 0 2DetroitCarpenter L,1-3 3C 10 8 8 1 1Adams 1B 4 1 1 2 1Torres 2 2 3 3 0 3Stumpf 1 1 0 0 1 1Jimenez 1 0 0 0 0 1

HBP—by Torres (Adrianza), by Odorizzi (Cabrera). T—3:20. A—20,127 (41,297).

Mets 6, Rockies 1Colorado New York ab r h bi ab r h biBlckmon rf 3 1 0 0 A.Rsrio ss 3 2 1 0Story ss 3 0 0 0 Cnforto rf 4 1 2 0Dahl cf 4 0 1 1 P.Alnso 1b 3 0 0 0Arenado 3b 4 0 1 0 D.Smith 1b 1 0 0 0D.Mrphy 1b 3 0 0 0 T.Frzer 3b 4 2 2 4Tapia lf 3 0 0 0 J..Dvis lf 4 0 1 1McMahon 2b 1 0 0 0 Lagares cf 0 0 0 0Bettis p 0 0 0 0 Hchvrri 2b 4 1 1 0M.Rynld ph 1 0 0 0 Gomez cf-lf 3 0 1 1Estevez p 0 0 0 0 Nido c 2 0 0 0Innetta c 3 0 0 0 Syndrgr p 3 0 0 0Hoffman p 1 0 0 0 Familia p 0 0 0 0Bre.Rdg 2b 2 0 0 0 Sntiago p 0 0 0 0Totals 28 1 2 1 Totals 31 6 8 6Colorado 000 000 001—1New York 300 120 00x—6

DP—Colorado 1. LOB—Colorado 3, New York 3. 2B—Dahl (18), Conforto (13), T.Frazier (5). 3B—J..Davis (1). HR—T.Frazier (6). SB—A.Rosario (6), Hecha-varria (2), Gomez (3). IP H R ER BB SOColoradoHoffman L,1-3 4C 7 6 6 2 7Bettis 2B 1 0 0 0 2Estevez 1 0 0 0 0 2New YorkSyndergaard W,4-4 7 1 0 0 2 7Familia 1 0 0 0 0 1Santiago 1 1 1 1 1 1

T—2:32. A—29,531 (41,922).

Dodgers 1, Giants 0Los Angeles San Francisco ab r h bi ab r h biK.Hrnan 2b 4 0 1 0 Panik 2b 4 0 1 0Muncy 1b 3 1 2 1 Ystrzms lf 4 0 1 0J.Trner 3b 3 0 1 0 Lngoria 3b 3 0 1 0Bllnger rf 4 0 0 0 Sndoval 1b 4 0 0 0C.Tylor cf 4 0 0 0 Vogt c 4 0 0 0C.Sager ss 3 0 1 0 Pillar rf 4 0 1 0Garlick lf 3 0 0 0 B.Crwfr ss 4 0 1 0A.Brnes c 3 0 0 0 Duggar cf 2 0 0 0Buehler p 2 0 0 0 Bmgrner p 2 0 0 0Freese ph 1 0 0 0 Austin ph 1 0 0 0P.Baez p 0 0 0 0 Watson p 0 0 0 0K.Jnsen p 0 0 0 0 Will.Sm p 0 0 0 0Totals 30 1 5 1 Totals 32 0 5 0Los Angeles 100 000 000—1San Francisco 000 000 000—0

E—Longoria (9). DP—San Francisco 2. LOB—Los Angeles 4, San Francisco 7. 2B—Panik (12). HR—Muncy (13). SB—B.Crawford (2). CS—Muncy (1). IP H R ER BB SOLos AngelesBuehler W,7-1 7 5 0 0 1 9Baez H,13 1 0 0 0 1 1Jansen S,19-21 1 0 0 0 0 2San FranciscoBumgarner L,3-6 7 4 1 1 1 5Watson 1 0 0 0 0 1Smith 1 1 0 0 1 1

T—2:31. A—34,098 (41,915).

Diamondbacks 8, Blue Jays 2Arizona Toronto ab r h bi ab r h biK.Marte cf-ss 5 1 1 1 Sogard dh 4 0 0 0I.Vrgas 2b 5 0 1 0 Grrl Jr lf 4 1 2 1E.Escbr 3b 3 1 3 0 Grichuk rf 4 0 0 0D.Prlta lf 4 1 0 0 Smoak 1b 4 0 1 0C.Wlker 1b 3 1 0 0 T.Hrnan cf 4 0 1 0K.Cron dh 5 1 1 2 Biggio 2b 4 0 0 0Ahmed ss 1 0 1 0 Galvis ss 4 1 1 0J.Dysn ph-cf 4 1 1 0 D.Jnsen c 3 0 2 1Lcastro rf 4 1 1 3 Drury 3b 3 0 0 0C.Kelly c 3 1 1 2 Totals 37 8 10 8 Totals 34 2 7 2Arizona 008 000 000—8Toronto 110 000 000—2

LOB—Arizona 9, Toronto 6. 2B—E.Escobar (15), Gurriel Jr. (9), T.Hernandez (6), D.Jansen (6). 3B—Locastro (2). HR—K.Marte (15), C.Kelly (7), Gurriel Jr. (5). IP H R ER BB SOArizonaRay W,5-3 6C 5 2 2 1 10Bradley 1B 1 0 0 0 2Lopez 1 1 0 0 0 1TorontoRichard L,0-2 2C 7 7 7 2 2Pannone 1B 2 1 1 2 1Law 2 1 0 0 1 1Luciano 2 0 0 0 2 1Biagini 1 0 0 0 0 2

WP—Ray, Richard. T—3:04. A—19,661 (53,506).

White Sox 5, Royals 2Chicago Kansas City ab r h bi ab r h biL.Grcia cf 5 0 0 0 Mrrfeld rf 4 0 0 0Moncada 3b 5 0 4 1 A.Grdon lf 4 0 0 0J.Abreu 1b 5 0 1 0 Mondesi ss 4 0 0 0J.McCnn dh 4 0 0 0 Soler dh 3 2 2 1El.Jmen lf 5 2 2 1 Cthbert 1b 4 0 1 1W.Cstll c 5 0 1 0 Gterrez 3b 4 0 1 0Ti.Andr ss 4 0 2 1 N.Lopez 2b 4 0 1 0Y.Sanch 2b 4 1 0 0 Mldnado c 4 0 1 0Tilson rf 3 2 2 1 B.Hmltn cf 1 0 0 0Totals 40 5 12 4 Totals 32 2 6 2Chicago 020 000 111—5Kansas City 000 100 001—2

E—Gutierrez (2), N.Lopez (2). DP—Chi-cago 1, Kansas City 1. LOB—Chicago 10, Kansas City 6. 2B—El.Jimenez (5), Ti.Anderson (10), Tilson (5), Cuthbert (1), Gutierrez (2). HR—El.Jimenez (8), Soler (17). SB—B.Hamilton (12). IP H R ER BB SOChicagoLopez W,4-6 6 4 1 1 1 8Marshall H,4 1 1 0 0 0 0Bummer H,5 1 0 0 0 1 2Herrera 1 1 1 1 1 1Kansas CitySparkman L,1-2 6C 8 3 2 1 2Barlow 1B 2 1 1 0 1McCarthy 1 2 1 0 1 1

T—3:02. A—22,501 (37,903).

Rays 6, Red Sox 1Tampa Bay Boston ab r h bi ab r h biY.Diaz dh 5 2 4 1 Betts rf 5 0 1 0Pham lf 5 0 1 0 C.Vazqz dh 3 0 0 0B.Lowe 1b-2b 5 3 3 3 Bgaerts ss 3 0 0 0Av.Grci rf 4 0 2 0 Chavis 1b 4 0 0 0d’Arnud c 4 0 2 1 E.Nunez 3b 4 0 0 0Adames ss 5 0 0 0 Travis lf 4 1 1 0Arroyo 3b 4 0 0 0 Brdly J cf 4 0 2 0Heredia cf 3 1 1 1 Leon c 4 0 2 0Rbrtson 2b 2 0 0 0 M.Hrnan 2b 4 0 2 1Choi ph-1b 2 0 1 0 Totals 39 6 14 6 Totals 35 1 8 1Tampa Bay 210 001 200—6Boston 010 000 000—1

E—Av.Garcia (2). LOB—Tampa Bay 10, Boston 9. 2B—d’Arnaud (3), Bradley Jr. (11). HR—Y.Diaz (10), B.Lowe 2 (13), Heredia (2). CS—Bradley Jr. (1). SF—d’Arnaud (2). IP H R ER BB SOTampa BaySnell W,4-5 6 5 1 1 1 7Drake 2 2 0 0 1 4Kolarek 1 1 0 0 0 1BostonRodriguez L,6-4 5C 7 4 4 2 7Hembree B 0 0 0 0 1Walden B 3 2 2 0 0Brewer 1C 3 0 0 0 2Brasier 1 1 0 0 0 1

HBP—by Hembree (Heredia). WP—Snell. T—3:32. A—34,643 (37,731).

Astros 4, Orioles 0Baltimore Houston ab r h bi ab r h biAlberto 3b-2b 4 0 3 0 Fisher lf 4 1 0 0Mancini 1b-lf 3 0 0 0 Bregman 3b 3 1 0 0R.Nunez dh 4 0 1 0 Reddick rf 4 0 2 1Sverino c 3 0 0 0 Gurriel 1b 3 1 1 1Villar 2b-ss 3 0 1 0 Alvarez dh 3 1 1 2Sntnder rf 3 0 0 0 R.Chrns c 4 0 0 0Broxton cf 2 0 0 0 Kemp 2b 2 0 1 0Ruiz ph-1b-3b 2 0 0 0 Myfield ss 3 0 0 0S.Wlkrs lf-cf 3 0 0 0 Straw cf 2 0 0 0Ri.Mrtn ss 2 0 1 0 Sisco ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Totals 30 0 6 0 Totals 28 4 5 4Baltimore 000 000 000—0Houston 000 201 01x—4

E—Severino (5), Ri.Martin (5). DP—Houston 2. LOB—Baltimore 7, Houston 5. HR—Alvarez (1). SB—Fisher (4). CS—Al-berto (2), Kemp (3). SF—Gurriel (5). IP H R ER BB SOBaltimoreBundy L,3-7 6 4 3 2 1 6Phillips 1C 1 1 1 2 2Lucas B 0 0 0 0 0HoustonMiley W,6-3 6 6 0 0 2 5Pressly H,17 1 0 0 0 0 0Rondon H,9 1 0 0 0 0 2James C 0 0 0 2 1Osuna S,17-19 B 0 0 0 0 0

Miley pitched to 3 batters in the 7th HBP—by Phillips (Bregman). T—2:46. A—35,621 (41,168).

Mariners 9, Angels 3Seattle Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h biM.Smith cf 4 0 1 0 L Stlla 3b 4 1 1 1Do.Sntn rf 4 1 2 0 Trout cf 2 1 0 0Encrnco dh 5 2 2 3 Ohtani dh 4 0 0 0Vglbach 1b 4 1 1 1 Pujols 1b 4 0 0 0T.Bckhm 2b 5 1 1 0 Puello lf 4 0 2 1K.Sager 3b 4 2 2 2 Goodwin rf 4 1 2 0T.Mrphy c 5 2 2 3 Lucroy c 3 0 0 0Wllmson lf 4 0 1 0 Tovar ss 4 0 1 0D.Moore ss 4 0 1 0 Rengifo 2b 3 0 1 1Totals 39 9 13 9 Totals 32 3 7 3Seattle 020 003 211—9Los Angeles 001 000 110—3

E—J.Suarez (1). DP—Seattle 1. LOB—Seattle 7, Los Angeles 6. 2B—T.Beckham (14), Puello (2), Tovar (1). HR—Encarna-cion 2 (20), Vogelbach (16), K.Seager (4), T.Murphy 2 (7), La Stella (15). SB—K.Seager (1). CS—D.Moore (3). SF—Rengifo (3). IP H R ER BB SOSeattleAdams 1 0 0 0 0 2LeBlanc W,3-2 6 6 2 2 1 8Bautista 1 1 1 1 1 0Bass 1 0 0 0 1 1Los AngelesSuarez L,1-1 4C 4 2 2 2 6Allen B 2 2 2 0 1Tropeano 3C 7 5 5 1 3Garcia B 0 0 0 0 0

C.Allen pitched to 2 batters in the 6th HBP—by Tropeano (Smith). T—3:17. A—41,614 (45,050).

Athletics 9, Rangers 8Oakland Texas ab r h bi ab r h biSemien ss 4 2 1 2 Choo dh 5 0 2 0Canha lf 4 0 0 1 Da.Sntn cf 5 0 1 0M.Chpmn 3b 4 0 1 0 Andrus ss 5 1 1 0K.Davis dh 5 1 2 3 Mazara rf 5 2 1 0Pscotty rf 5 1 2 0 Pence lf 5 2 2 0M.Olson 1b 3 1 1 2 A.Cbrra 3b 5 2 3 3Pinder 2b 4 1 1 0 DShelds pr 0 0 0 0Lureano cf 4 1 2 0 Odor 2b 4 1 3 3Phegley c 2 2 1 1 Guzman 1b 4 0 2 0 Fdrwicz c 3 0 0 0 Frsythe ph 1 0 0 0 Mathis c 0 0 0 0Totals 35 9 11 9 Totals 42 8 15 6Oakland 032 300 001—9Texas 000 201 032—8

E—A.Cabrera 2 (5), Semien (4), Laure-ano (3). DP—Oakland 1, Texas 1. LOB—Oakland 5, Texas 9. 2B—Semien (14), A.Cabrera (10), Odor 2 (8), Guzman (11). 3B—Da.Santana (3). HR—K.Davis (13),M.Olson (9), A.Cabrera (10). SB—Odor(5). CS—Laureano (2). SF—Canha (2), Phegley (3). IP H R ER BB SOOaklandMontas W,8-2 6 7 3 2 1 10Petit 1 1 0 0 0 0Trivino C 4 3 3 0 1Buchter H,6 B 0 0 0 0 0Treinen S,14-16 1 3 2 1 1 1TexasSmyly L,1-5 3 6 5 5 2 3Miller 1 3 3 3 1 1Fairbanks 2 0 0 0 0 3Martin 2 0 0 0 0 1Leclerc 1 2 1 1 0 1

HBP—by Leclerc (Chapman). WP—Leclerc. T—3:25. A—20,358 (49,115).

Brewers 5, Pirates 2Pittsburgh Milwaukee ab r h bi ab r h biA.Frzer 2b 4 0 0 0 Cain cf 4 0 0 0B.Rynld lf 4 0 2 0 Yelich rf 4 1 2 1S.Marte cf 4 0 2 0 Braun lf 4 0 1 0Bell 1b 4 0 0 0 Jffress p 0 0 0 0Moran 3b 3 0 0 0 Hader p 0 0 0 0Newman ph 0 0 0 0 Grandal c 3 1 0 0G.Plnco rf 2 1 0 0 Mstakas 3b 4 1 1 2J.Osuna ph 1 0 0 0 H.Perez 2b 3 2 3 0Kang ss 4 1 1 2 Aguilar 1b 3 0 1 0El.Diaz c 3 0 0 0 Arcia ss 2 0 0 1Brault p 3 0 0 0 Ch.Andr p 2 0 0 0Ri.Rdri p 0 0 0 0 Houser p 0 0 0 0Liriano p 0 0 0 0 Pina ph 0 0 0 0Hrtlieb p 0 0 0 0 Gamel ph-lf 2 0 1 1Totals 32 2 5 2 Totals 31 5 9 5Pittsburgh 020 000 000—2Milwaukee 000 001 13x—5

E—Moran (6). DP—Pittsburgh 1. LOB—Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 8. HR—Kang (5), Yelich (24), Moustakas (20). SB—S.Marte (11), H.Perez (4). SF—Arcia (1). IP H R ER BB SOPittsburghBrault 6B 5 2 2 3 5Rodriguez BS,3 C 1 0 0 1 0Liriano L,1-1 0 3 3 3 1 0Hartlieb 1 0 0 0 0 0MilwaukeeAnderson 6 4 2 2 1 6Houser 1 0 0 0 1 2Jeffress W,1-0 1 1 0 0 0 1Hader S,16-17 1 0 0 0 1 3

Liriano pitched to 4 batters in the 8thT—2:52. A—45,375 (41,900).

Reds 4, Phillies 3Cincinnati Philadelphia ab r h bi ab r h biWinker lf 3 0 1 0 C.Hrnan 2b 2 1 0 0Senzel ph-cf 2 1 2 0 B.Hrper rf 4 1 1 0Votto 1b 4 0 1 2 Segura ss 2 0 1 1E.Sarez 3b 5 0 1 1 Hoskins 1b 4 0 1 2Detrich 2b 4 1 1 0 Ralmuto c 4 0 1 0Lrenzen p 0 0 0 0 Bruce lf 3 0 0 0Garrett p 0 0 0 0 Vlsquez p 0 0 0 0K.Frmer 2b 0 0 0 0 Hammer p 0 0 0 0Puig rf 4 0 0 0 Gsselin ph 1 0 0 0J.Iglss ss 4 0 1 0 Kingery cf 4 0 0 0Perza cf-2b-lf 4 0 1 1 Franco 3b 3 1 1 0Casali c 2 1 1 0 Nola p 2 0 0 0S.Gray p 2 0 0 0 J.Alvrz p 0 0 0 0Duke p 0 0 0 0 N.Wllms lf 1 0 0 0VnMetr ph-lf 1 1 0 0 R.Iglss p 0 0 0 0 Totals 35 4 9 4 Totals 30 3 5 3Cincinnati 010 000 300—4Philadelphia 002 010 000—3

DP—Philadelphia 1. LOB—Cincin-nati 8, Philadelphia 4. 2B—Segura (15). SB—C.Hernandez (4), B.Harper (3). CS—B.Harper (1). SF—Segura (1). IP H R ER BB SOCincinnatiGray 5C 4 3 3 3 3Duke W,3-1 B 0 0 0 0 0Lorenzen H,4 C 0 0 0 0 1Garrett H,9 1 0 0 0 0 2Iglesias S,13-15 1B 1 0 0 0 1PhiladelphiaNola 6C 4 3 3 3 7Alvarez L,0-2 BS,1 0 2 1 1 0 0Velasquez 1B 2 0 0 1 2Hammer 1 1 0 0 0 0

J.Alvarez pitched to 2 batters in the 7th T—3:14. A—42,324 (43,647).

LeadersAMERICAN LEAGUE

BATTING—Meadows, Tampa Bay, .346;Polanco, Minnesota, .333; Anderson, Chi-cago, .324; LeMahieu, New York, .321;Brantley, Houston, .317; La Stella, Los An-geles, .315; Dozier, Kansas City, .314; Red-dick, Houston, .312; Springer, Houston,.308; Fletcher, Los Angeles, .308.

NATIONAL LEAGUEBATTING—Bellinger, Los Angeles, .355;

Yelich, Milwaukee, .340; McNeil, NewYork, .335; Arenado, Colorado, .331; Dahl,Colorado, .330; Bell, Pittsburgh, .325;Rendon, Washington, .319; JTurner, LosAngeles, .312; Freeman, Atlanta, .312; Baez, Chicago, .304.

MLB SCOREBOARD


BY GREGORY BROOME

Stars and Stripes

The competitive balance is shifting again in DODEA Europe athletics.

A realignment announced last week by DODEA Europe athletic director Kathlene Clemmons will send Italian schools Naples and Vicenza from Division I to Divi-sion II, shift Black Forest Acad-emy from Division II to Division I and move AFNORTH from Division II to Division III. The changes apply to all sports except football and starts in the 2019-20 school year.

The move represents a shift in approach for DODEA Europe, which formerly sorted its teams into divisions strictly by school population. This realignment, Clemmons explained, was intend-ed to scale back on the consider-able amount of time teams spend on the road.

“The decision to reorganize the divisions... was made to reduce travel time and minimize the loss of classroom instruction,” Clem-mons said. “Enrollment numbers and location of the schools also were factored into the decision.”

In essence, the move consoli-dates Division I in the north of Europe and Division II in the south, with small Division III schools still widely scattered.

The new eight-team Divi-sion I field features six German schools along with Belgium-based SHAPE and England-based Lakenheath. Black Forest, a non-DODEA private school in Kandern, Germany, has typically played regular-season sched-ules primarily against Division I neighbors such as Kaiserslaut-ern, Ramstein, Stuttgart and Wi-esbaden, priming itself for highly successful tournament runs at the Division II level.

Naples and Vicenza return to Division II nearly five years after their shift to Division I as part of a major DODEA Europe realign-ment in 2014. The eight-team di-visional lineup features four other Italian programs along with Bah-rain and Spain-based Rota.

DODEA Europe had made an effort in recent seasons to incor-porate Naples and Vicenza into the Division I regular-season mainstream, bringing the two Italian teams north and send-ing Lakenheath and the Ger-man schools south for midseason matchups. The travel required for those trips made for time commit-ments well in excess of the tradi-tional Friday-Saturday format for DODEA Europe sports.

The move comes just weeks after Naples won the Division I boys soccer title, a breakthrough the two Italian schools had been chasing since joining the division a half-decade prior.

AFNORTH, meanwhile, fol-lows the path of Spangdahlem as a Division II stalwart with an enrollment dwindling to Division

III levels. Spangdahlem made the switch last fall.

The Division III landscape is otherwise unchanged, as the wide expanse between DODEA Europe’s smallest schools makes it all but impossible to achieve the kind of geographic order now evident in the other divisions. The division’s nine far-flung mem-bers include Sigonella on the Ital-ian island of Sicily, Alconbury in the English countryside north of London and Ankara in the Turk-ish capital along with a smatter-ing of programs in Germany and the Benelux.

Changes are also afoot in DODEA Europe football, which has long operated under a divi-sional structure distinct from the organization’s other sports.

The Division III football ranks add two more members in the form of a restarted Alconbury program, returning to the grid-iron for the first time since 2015, and Spangdahlem, the former Division II dynasty making its expected shift to the small-school ranks. The division’s six-man brand of football has proven far more workable for DODEA Eu-rope’s lower-populated schools, offering respite for former Divi-sion II powers such as Ansbach, which restarted its latent football program and claimed the inau-gural six-man championship last fall.

Division II will play with five teams (SHAPE stays at D-II for football) this fall as International School of Brussels has completed its withdrawal from DODEA Eu-rope competition, at least for the time being. ISB pulled out of all other DODEA Europe sports in 2017. [email protected]: @broomestripes

DODEA Europe non-football divisional alignment

*changes for 2019-20Division I

*Black Forest AcademyKaiserslauternLakenheathRamsteinSHAPEStuttgartVilseckWiesbaden

Division IIAmerican Overseas School of RomeAvianoBahrainFlorenceMarymount*NaplesRota*Vicenza

Division III*AFNORTHAlconburyAnkaraAnsbachBaumholderBrusselsHohenfelsSigonella

BY JOE KAY

Associated Press

CINCINNATI — Sloppy de-fense, a poor goalkeeping deci-sion, wasted chances. The United States set another historical mark-er in its latest shutout loss, and it was not the good kind.

Down by three goals after only 36 minutes, the U.S. fell to Vene-zuela 3-0 Sunday in its final exhi-bition tuneup for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. A young team showed its inexperience with little more than a week left before the tour-nament opener.

“Obviously I know what the narrative’s going to be, that we have no chance, that we’re going to lose and maybe not even make it out of the first round,” coach Gregg Berhalter said.

The Americans wrote the nar-rative with their two unsettling exhibition losses.

On Wednesday, the U.S. lost to Jamaica 1-0 , only its second

home defeat to a Caribbean na-tion in a half-century. Forward Josh Sargent and six others were cut from the roster a day later.

The revamped roster had another historical throwback when Venezuela surged ahead 3-0, marking the first time the U.S. trailed by three goals in an opening half since June 4, 2011, against world champion Spain.

Salomon Rondon had two of the goals , moving ahead of Juan Arango for the Venezuelan career scoring record with 24, and La Vinotinto beat the Americans for the first time after three defeats and two draws.

“I think we’re humbled right now and we’re ready to learn from our mistakes,” defender Aaron Long said. “We had good chances today, and the score could have been a lot different. We’re not going to hang our heads and say a 3-0 loss and we’re play-ing terrible.”

Up next is 175th-ranked Guy-

ana in the Gold Cup opener June18 in St. Paul, Minn., the firstcompetitive match for the Ameri-cans in 20 months.

The defense was the most glar-ing issue this time, with Berhalterdescribing it as “really careless.”

The U.S. enters the Gold Cupwith an unproven goalkeeper forthe first time in three decades.

A bad decision by Zack Steffen,who was in goal for the second straight game, set up Venezuela’s first score. His careless pass wasintercepted, and Steffen was outof position as Rondon got the ballfrom Jhon Murillo and scored his23rd international goal.

Rather than clearing the ball to his left, Steffen sent it into troublejust ahead of the penalty area.

“I didn’t really pick up my head to look to the left,” Steffensaid. “My head was just straightforward. I wanted somebody tocome to the middle. I unfortu-nately gave it away.”

HIGH SCHOOL/SOCCER/SPORTS BRIEFS

DODEA alignment shifts to regions

JOHN MINCHILLO/AP

Venezuela forward Jose Salomon Rondon, center, scores against United States goalkeeper Zack Steffen, left, and defender Aaron Long during the first half of an international friendly match Sunday in Cincinnati.

More horses die at Santa Anita

Venezuela shuts out US men

Briefl y

Associated Press

ARCADIA, Calif. — A second horse in two days and 29th over-all has died at Santa Anita, where management has chosen to con-tinue racing for the rest of the current meet.

Truffalino collapsed in the final stages of the third race on turf Sunday. A track spokesman says the 3-year-old filly died of a heart attack.

She was trained by Hall of Famer Richard Mandella and was ridden by Joe Talamo. Truf-falino had one win in six career starts and earnings of $53,602, according to Equibase.

A day earlier, Formal Dude pulled up in the 10th race and was vanned off the track after break-ing down nearing the finish line.

Tiago Pereira was aboard the fa-vorite trained by Phil D’Amato. The 4-year-old gelding was win-less in six career starts and had earnings of $15,127, according to Equibase. Formal Dude was euthanized.

The California Horse Racing Board has recommended that the track suspend the remain-ing days of its meet, which is set to end June 23. However, Santa Anita management has chosen to continue racing.

Parker announcesretirement from NBA

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four-time NBA champion Tony Parker announced Monday he’s retiring after 18 seasons.

The 37-year-old guard said onTwitter it was an emotional deci-sion. Parker played 17 seasons forthe San Antonio Spurs and made the postseason every year of hiscareer before joining the Hornetslast season and missing the play-offs. He was selected to the All-Star team six times.

“It’s with a lot of emotion that I retire from basketball, it wasan incredible journey!” Parker tweeted. “Even in my wildestdreams, I never thought I wouldlive all those unbelievable mo-ments with the NBA and theFrench National Team. Thank you for everything!”

Parker started 1,151 gamesregular season games and aver-aged 15.5 points and 5.6 assistsper game.


BY ANNE M. PETERSON

Associated Press

REIMS, France — The Wom-en’s World Cup is well underway but the United States, the defend-ing champions, have been on hold.

The U.S. doesn’t play until late Tuesday night against Thailand in the last group-stage opener, so the American have been relegat-ed to spectators during the open-ing days.

“It’s fun for us to watch the games, feel that excitement, feel that energy, and at the same time stay one step away from it, and stay really centered and focused with what we’re doing,” said for-ward Christen Press.

The Americans are certainly focused.

The team spent 10 days en-sconced at Tottenham’s training facility in North London before arriving in Reims, a city 90 miles northeast of Paris that is the first World Cup stop for the United States.

Press called Tottenham an oasis that allowed the team to get grounded before the monthlong tournament across France in pur-suit of soccer’s biggest prize.

“You wait years to get here, and that’s a journey, and then you get here and it’s a whole other jour-ney,” she said.

The Americans watched from Reims as hosts France trounced South Korea 4-0 in Paris before a sellout crowd to open the tourna-ment on Friday night.

Lindsey Horan, who is making her first World Cup appearance , played professionally in France for Paris Saint-Germain after skipping college to turn profes-sional. She now plays for the Na-tional Women’s Soccer League’s Portland Thorns.

“The amount of fans that they had and the amount of people watching around the world was just amazing for France, and for women’s soccer in general,” she said about the gala opener at PSG’s stadium, Parc des Princes. “I think that’s something we all should really be proud of.”

The U.S. women have won the World Cup three times, including in 2015 when they defeated Japan

5-2 in Canada. They also memo-rably claimed the trophy 20 years ago on home soil, downing China on penalties at the Rose Bowl.

The team is focused on winning again in France even while at home they are looking for a differ-ent victory. Known for champion-ing women’s rights and equality, the players collectively filed a lawsuit alleging discrimination by the U.S. Soccer Federation and are seeking pay equitable with that of the men’s national team.

Megan Rapinoe says the team

is “hands off” when it comes to the lawsuit for the duration of the World Cup.

Following Tuesday’s game against Thailand, the United States will head to Paris for a Sunday match against Chile, which is making its first World Cup appearance. The Americans will face nemesis Sweden in the final game of the group stage in Rennes.

It is the sixth time that the Unit-ed States has landed in the same World Cup group with Sweden. The Americans were eliminated from the Olympics in Brazil by the Swedes in the quarterfinals. Afterward, U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo called them “cowards” for bunkering on defense, and she was dismissed from the team soon thereafter.

Because of the late start inFrance, there’s the potential thatthe United States may play the most compact schedule of thefield if they go far into the knock-out round, which seems likely.

Coach Jill Ellis said she felt the team has been in a good trainingrhythm and the schedule comple-ments that. Plus, the World Cupalways presents different chal-lenges for different teams, like all the flights to traverse Canada in 2015.

“I think our travel in the groupstage is very manageable, it’sgood,” she said. “Listen, it’s about having these players healthy, andin a good mindset. I think that’scritical. It’s not getting caught upin who has how many days of rest, to be honest with you, because it is what it is.”

First roundGROUP A

W L T GF GA PtsFrance 1 0 0 4 0 3Norway 1 0 0 3 0 3Nigeria 0 1 0 0 3 0South Korea 0 1 0 0 4 0

FridayFrance 4, South Korea 0

SaturdayNorway 3, Nigeria 0

WednesdayAt Grenoble, France

Nigeria vs. South KoreaAt Nice, France

France vs. NorwayMonday, June 17

At Rennes, FranceFrance vs. Nigeria

At Reims, FranceSouth Korea vs. Norway

GROUP B W L T GF GA PtsGermany 1 0 0 1 0 3Spain 1 0 0 3 1 3South Africa 0 1 0 1 3 0China 0 1 0 0 1 0

SaturdayGermany 1, China 0Spain 3, South Africa 1

WednesdayAt Valenciennes, France

Germany vs. SpainThursday, June 13

At ParisSouth Africa vs. China

Monday, June 17At Montpellier, France

Germany vs. South AfricaAt Le Havre, France

China vs. SpainGROUP C

W L T GF GA PtsBrazil 1 0 0 3 0 3Italy 1 0 0 2 1 3Australia 0 1 0 1 2 0Jamaica 0 1 0 0 3 0

SundayItaly 2, Australia 1Brazil 3, Jamaica 0

ThursdayAt Montpellier, France

Australia vs. BrazilFriday, June 14

At Reims, FranceJamaica vs. Italy

Tuesday, June 18At Grenoble, France

Australia vs. JamaicaAt Valenciennes, France

Italy vs. BrazilGROUP D

W L T GF GA PtsEngland 1 0 0 2 1 3Argentina 0 0 1 0 0 1Japan 0 0 1 0 0 1Scotland 0 1 0 1 2 0

SundayEngland 2, Scotland 1

MondayAt Paris

Argentina 0, Japan 0Friday, June 14

At Rennes, FranceJapan vs. Scotland

At Le Havre, FranceEngland vs. Argentina

Wednesday, June 19At Nice, France

Japan vs. EnglandAt Paris

Scotland vs. ArgentinaGROUP E

W L T GF GA PtsCameroon 0 0 0 0 0 0Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 0New Zealand 0 0 0 0 0 0

MondayAt Montpellier, France

Canada vs. CameroonTuesday

At Le Havre, FranceNew Zealand vs. Netherlands

Saturday, June 15At Valenciennes, France

Netherlands vs. CameroonAt Grenoble, France

Canada vs. New ZealandThursday, June 20At Reims, France

Netherlands vs. CanadaAt Montpellier, France

Cameroon vs. New ZealandGROUP F

W L T GF GA PtsChile 0 0 0 0 0 0Sweden 0 0 0 0 0 0Thailand 0 0 0 0 0 0United States 0 0 0 0 0 0

TuesdayAt Rennes, France

Chile vs. SwedenAt Reims, France

United States vs. ThailandSunday, June 16At Nice, France

Sweden vs. ThailandAt Paris

United States vs. ChileThursday, June 20

At Le Havre, FranceSweden vs. United States

At Rennes, FranceThailand vs. Chile

WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

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US players, including Megan Rapinoe, front right, and Becky Sauerbrunn, front left, go through drills during a training session Tottenham’s training facility in North London, on Thursday. The Women’s World Cup started in France on Friday, but the Americans don’t play until late Tuesday.

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Lyon connection could take France farBY JEROME PUGMIRE

Associated Press

PARIS — Lyon’s rampant form in the Champions League immediately carried over into France’s first game of the Women’s World Cup.

Friday’s 4-0 win against South Korea saw the blue shirts of France run riot, just like many of them had done last month when Lyon crushed Barcelona 4-1 to win the Champions League for the fourth straight year .

France’s lineup featured seven Lyon play-ers, and how coach Reynald Pedros thorough-ly enjoyed it at Parc des Princes.

Delighted by what he saw, but probably not surprised.

It was not just the two brilliant headed goals from imposing center half Wendie Renard, but also the classy finishing of prolific for-ward Eugenie Le Sommer; added to the infec-tious verve, and relentless drive, of powerful midfielder Amandine Henry.

The leaders with Lyon are paving the way with Les Bleues.

“That’s what we’re trying to do, pass on the confidence we’ve gained from the Champions League,” Le Sommer said. “The Lyon players were decisive, but it’s a team effort.”

No wonder France is confident of a first World Cup triumph, 21 years after the men’s side won it for the first time as hosts.

Le Sommer’s early strike and Henry’s late

fourth goal showed the deep understanding built by years of Lyon success, in Europeand also domestically with an astonishing 13straight French titles since 2007.

Le Sommer ghosted in at the back post tomeet the overlapping Henry’s excellent cross from right in the ninth minute.

Then, in the 85th there she was again, usingher strength to fend off two defenders, thus al-lowing Henry to push up and curl in a superbgoal in off the right post from just outside thepenalty area.

Le Sommer has 75 international goals — 10more than superstar Lionel Messi.

“Yes, it’s not bad,” she said, laughing. “But Idon’t want to stop there.”


GOLF/AUTO RACING

PAUL CHIASSON, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP

Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel switches the standing markers to place Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton second and himself first at the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday in Montreal. Vettel finished first, but was given a five-second penalty.

Associated Press

MONTREAL — Defending champion Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday to extend his overall lead after Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel committed yet another error under pressure.

It was Hamilton’s fifth win in seven races and 78th overall for the five-time F1 champion. His seventh win in Canada moved him level all-time with Michael Schumacher.

Vettel’s car crossed the line first but Hamilton won after a time penalty was imposed on Vet-tel. The German driver reacted angrily after the race, including replacing a No. 1 sign in front of Hamilton’s car with a No. 2 sign.

“Obviously I’m angry, as you can imagine,” Vettel said. “I gave everything I had today and more.”

Vettel finished in second place with teammate Charles Leclerc third ahead of Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas, who secured a bonus point for the fastest lap.

In the standings, Hamilton is 29 points clear of Bottas and al-ready 62 ahead of Vettel heading into the French GP in two weeks’ time.

Vettel was leading the race from pole position with a little more than 20 laps remaining. But with Hamilton closing in, Vet-tel veered onto the grass before swerving back onto the track and forcing Hamilton to slam on his brakes.

Race stewards handed Vettel a five-second time penalty for un-safe re-entry.

An exasperated Vettel said on team radio “they’re stealing this race from us” — and it clearly festered for the remaining laps — but it was another blunder from the four-time F1 champion fol-lowing multiple mistakes in los-

ing the past two championships to Hamilton.

Vettel could not contain hisanger at the decision taken by governing body FIA’s stewards. He felt he had no choice but tomomentarily go off track.

“Where am I supposed to go?”Vettel said. “This is a wrongworld, this is not fair.”

With his helmet still on, Vet-tel walked out of his car and did not stop for post-race interviews,instead marching to the Ferrarigarage, perhaps to cool down, and then marching back.

But he was anything but calmupon his return.

Vettel grabbed the giant No. 1 sign parked in front of Hamilton’s winning Mercedes on the grid,and placed the No. 2 sign in front of Hamilton’s car instead. He lift-ed the No. 1 sign over to where his car should have been parked, as ifhe were the real winner.

The crowd cheered him, per-haps thinking he had claimed a symbolic victory.

Hamilton conceded “that’snot the way I wanted to win” butadded “I would’ve got past” if notfor the incident.

Vettel’s barren streak is now 15races, dating back to the Belgian GP last August, while Hamilton iswell poised in his bid for a sixthF1 title to move within one ofSchumacher’s all-time record.

Vettel’s season is again provingincredibly frustrating.

As they climbed on the podium, Hamilton showed a touch of classby grabbing Vettel’s arm and pulling him alongside him on thetop step. Hamilton was asked forhis view and some of the crowd jeered him after he said “all I cansay is I didn’t make the decision.”

Vettel intervened quickly andtold the crowd not to boo Hamil-ton, but to jeer the stewards’ deci-sion itself.

Penalty costs Vettel Canadian GP win

Golf roundup

McIlroy rolls in Open prepAssociated Press

ANCASTER, Ontario — Call it the zone, call it the flow. Rory McIlroy is familiar with the feel-ing that golf is easy, that he can swing freely and nothing bad will happen.

He first felt it at age 16 when he shot 61 at Royal Portrush in his native Northern Ireland, which will host this year’s British Open. He experienced it during run-away victories at the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship. And he savored it again on Sunday en route to another 61, this one giv-ing him a seven-shot victory in the Canadian Open.

“I think when you play, you get into stretches like this, you do get into some sort of flow, that flow state or in the zone or whatever anyone wants to call it. I definite-ly got into that a little bit today at the start of the back nine. It was the same that day at Portrush all those years ago,” McIlroy said. “It’s almost like you’re out of your own body and looking at yourself play. For some times today that’s how it felt. So if I could bottle that feeling and take it with me week to week, I would. Sort of comes and goes.”

McIlroy added the Canadian Open to his schedule for the first time largely because it was moved to the week before the U.S. Open. He turned the major-champion-ship tuneup into a career high-light, becoming the sixth player to win national championships in the U.S., Britain and Canada. Lee Trevino (1971) and Tiger Woods (2000) are the only players to win all three in the same season, something McIlroy could do this year with victories next week at Pebble Beach and at Royal Por-trush in July.

It was McIlroy’s fifth win in a national open, following the U.S. Open (2011), Australian Open (2013), British Open (2014) and Irish Open (2016). McIlroy also counts the Hong Kong Open (2011) as part of his national-championship tally.

“Some of the greats of the game have won this trophy. For me to put my name on it is something I’m very proud of,” McIlroy said. “Part of the reason for playing here was I wanted my game to be in good shape for Pebble Beach, but [it] doesn’t mean this tourna-ment doesn’t mean anything.”

Starting the day in a three-way tie for the lead, McIlroy ended any suspense about who would emerge as the champion with five birdies in his first seven holes, none from longer than 8 feet.

The only question on the back nine was whether McIlroy would shoot the 11th sub-60 round in PGA Tour history. He made four straight birdies from Nos. 11-14, and a bogey on the par-3 16th stalled him only momentarily. He followed with a 7-iron from 196 yards to 2 ½ feet for eagle on the par-5 17th to get to 10 under at par-70 Hamilton Golf and Coun-try Club.

But he missed the green on the par-4 18th and his bunker shot went long. He ended up tapping in for bogey to finish at a tourna-ment-record 22-under 258. The 61 equaled the low round of Mc-Ilroy’s PGA Tour career.

McIlroy was five shots off the lead entering the weekend and shot 64 on Saturday before find-ing another gear on Sunday.

“I think what I’m proudest of is still playing with that freedom today going out being tied for the lead. Just putting my foot down and really making this tourna-ment mine,” McIlroy said. “I think by the time I got to the 14th tee I wasn’t really thinking of winning the tournament. I was thinking of trying to shoot 59. I had to re-assess my goals a little bit in the middle of that back nine.”

He settled for his 16th PGA Tour victory and 25th win world-wide, and the fourth by at least seven shots.

Shane Lowry and Webb Simp-son tied for second at 15 under.

Adam Hadwin, seeking to be-come the first Canadian winner of the event since 1954, closed with a 70 and finished sixth, 10 shots back. His consolation prize was a spot in the British Open.

Graeme McDowell also earned his place in the British Open. The Portrush native guaranteed a tee time in his hometown by holing a hard-breaking 29-footer for par on the par-4 18th to shoot 68 and finish in a tie for eighth.

“It had 12 feet of break on it. It was ridiculously tough putt to make,” McDowell said. “Just fan-cied it, I saw it, liked the way it looked, and when I saw it go in it was a huge relief.”

This year’s Open will be the first in Northern Ireland since its only previous visit to Royal Por-trush in 1951.

LPGA Tour: Lexi Thompson made a 20-foot putt for eagle on the 18th hole to complete a late comeback and win the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Galloway, N.J.

Trailing Jeongeun Lee6 by two strokes after the 15th, Thomp-son finished birdie-par-eagle to shoot a 4-under 67 and finish the 54-hole event at 12-under 201. It was her 11th career LPGA Tour victory, extending her streak to seven straight years with at least one win on the tour.

Lee6, the champion of last week’s U.S. Women’s Open who was playing two groups behind Thompson, lost her lead with three consecutive bogeys from Nos. 13 through 15 over the Bay Course at Seaview before bounc-ing back with a birdie at No. 16 to tie Thompson.

PGA Tour Champions: Scott McCarron had three birdies on the back nine to pull away for a 5-under 67 and a three-shot vic-tory in the MasterCard Japan Championship.

McCarron, who finished at 13-under 203 at Narita Golf Club, won for the third time this year to extend his lead in the Charles Schwab Cup. It was his fourth consecutive year of multiple victories.

“I’m doing everything I can to win the Charles Schwab Cup,” McCarron said. “To be able to do that, I’ve got to win as many tour-naments as possible and so that’s what I’m trying to do. That’s my goal.”

Billy Andrade (68) and Kirk Triplett (69) tied for second.

Andrade’s birdie at No. 10 gave him a share of the lead with Mc-Carron, but he dropped a shot on the 11th and never caught up. In-stead, Andrade had to settle for his fifth top 10 on the season.

ADRIAN WYLD, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP

Rory McIlroy laughs after donning a Toronto jersey during the trophy presentation Sunday at the Canadian Open in Ancaster, Ontario.


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“The whole hockey world loves a Game 7, so it should be a great night in Boston and may the best team win,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said.

Ryan O’Reilly scored in the third period for St. Louis, which is looking for the franchise’s first Stanley Cup title in its 51st sea-son. Rookie Jordan Binnington finished with 27 stops.

“We have to move on, get ready for the next one,” O’Reilly said. “We’re confident. We’re a great road team. Maybe that’s our story. Maybe we have to get it done on the road.”

Backed by an electric Enter-prise Center crowd that included actors Jon Hamm and Jenna Fischer and Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, wearing a No. 49 Blues jersey in honor of suspend-ed forward Ivan Barbashev, St. Louis looked a step off for most of the game. Prime scoring op-portunities were derailed by mis-placed passes or ever-so-slight timing issues.

Of course, the unflappable Rask can have that effect on a team. And whenever the Blues threatened, the 6-foot-3 Finnish star was there.

“He’s our best player,” Bru-ins defenseman Charlie McAvoy said. “He just steps up when it matters and we have all the faith in the world in him. ... He’s our rock.”

Rask was at his best while Bos-ton killed off four power plays, dropping St. Louis to 1-for-18 with the man advantage for the series. He smothered a big Colton Parayko slap shot with Chara in the box near the end of the first period, and made a fancy glove stop on an even-strength try for Brayden Schenn 7:42 in the second.

He got some help after March-and was whistled for tripping Alex Pietrangelo midway through the second. With the Blues apply-ing heavy pressure in search of the tying goal, Pietrangelo had a backhand go off the left post and Rask’s back before McAvoy knocked the puck out of the way out of midair.

“We weathered the storm pret-ty good,” Rask said.

While St. Louis came up empty on the power play, Boston used a 5-on-3 advantage to jump in front in the first. With Schenn and O’Reilly in the box, Marchand beat Binnington with a sharp-angled shot from the right circle at 8:40.

It was Marchand’s first goal since he got an empty-netter in Boston’s 4-2 victory in Game 1. The Bruins improved to 25-1 when the pesky veteran scores in the postseason.

Notes: Boston is hosting Game 7 in the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in franchise history.

Bruins: GK Rask dominates

STANLEY CUP FINAL

BY JOE HARRIS

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — Playing with fire finally caught up to the Blues.

Missed chances and an early rash of penalties cost St. Louis with a chance to win the first Stanley Cup championship in franchise history on home ice.

The Blues got off to a quick start with five of the first six shots in Game 6 against Boston on Sunday night, but then Brayden Schenn took a minor boarding penalty after smashing Joakim Nord-strom into the boards at 7:17 of the opening period. About a min-ute later, Ryan O’Reilly flipped the puck over the glass prompt-ing a delay of game call, leaving St. Louis two men down.

The lack of discipline that St. Louis has used to its advantage throughout the postseason — play-ing hard, roughing up opponents while dodging bullets on the pen-alty kill — caught up to the Blues quickly this time. Boston needed just 21 seconds to convert on the 5-on-3 on a Brad Marchand one-timer to make it 1-0.

Seconds before taking the penalty, O’Reilly actually had a short-handed breakaway but the puck rolled off of his stick before

he could get a shot off.The missed opportunity fol-

lowed by the Bruins cashing in on theirs set the tone in St. Louis’ 5-1 loss.

“We did have some good chances, but we need the result,” O’Reilly said. “We have to be better.”

Goaltender Tuukka Rask did the rest, shutting down the Blues. When Rask couldn’t make the save, his defense was there as Charlie McAvoy swiped a puck away that was rolling off of Rask’s

back.Rask frustrated the Blues all

night, finishing with 28 saves.“We’ve got to get more pucks

to the net, a little bit more traffic and get one of those really dirty ones,” Blues forward Alexander Steen said. “It was a tight game. I think when it’s like that we need to get to the inside a bit more, create some traffic, make it tougher.”

The Blues had four power plays to the Bruins’ two, but couldn’t convert any of them even though they put 12 shots on net. St. Louis

is just 1-for-18 with the man ad-vantage through the first sixgames of the Stanley Cup Final, a far cry from Boston’s 7-for-21.

“I thought we had good looks,”Blues forward David Perron said.“Of course we want to score on the power play, but I don’t thinkthat’s why we lost the game. Wemade some mistakes that endedup in the back of our net.”

St. Louis now faces a Game 7 inBoston on Wednesday.

“It’s tough but we have to find a way,” Perron said.”

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Stanley Cup Final(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)

St. Louis 3, Boston 3Boston 4, St. Louis 2 St. Louis 3, Boston 2, OTBoston 7, St. Louis 2St. Louis 4, Boston 2St. Louis 2, Boston 1Sunday: Boston 5, St. Louis 1 x-Wednesday: at Boston. AFN-Sports2,

2 a.m. Thursday CET; 9 a.m. Thursday JKT

SundayBruins 5, Blues 1

Boston 1 0 4—5St. Louis 0 0 1—1

First Period—1, Boston, Marchand 9 (Pastrnak, Krug), 8:40 (pp).

Third Period—2, Boston, Carlo 2 (DeBrusk), 2:31. 3, Boston, Kuhlman 1 (Krejci), 10:15. 4, St. Louis, O’Reilly 7 (Pietrangelo, Perron), 12:01. 5, Boston, Pastrnak 9 (Marchand, Kuraly), 14:06. 6, Boston, Chara 2, 17:41.

Shots on Goal—Boston 12-8-12—32. St. Louis 9-10-10—29.

Power-play opportunities—Boston 1 of 2; St. Louis 0 of 4.

Goalies—Boston, Rask 15-8 (29 shots-28 saves). St. Louis, Binnington 15-10 (31-27).

A—18,890 (19,150). T—2:36.

BRUCE BENNETT/AP

Bruins right wing David Pastrnak, left, scores a goal over Blues goalie Jordan Binnington during the third period of Sunday’s Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final in St. Louis. Boston won 5-1 to even the series 3-3.

Lack of discipline catches up withBlues in Game 6

Missed opportunities hurt St. Louis

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Bruins left wing Jake DeBrusk, left, joins the celebration after Brandon Carlo, right, scored a goal against the Blues during the third period of Game 6 on Sunday in St. Louis.

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Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask blocks a shot in front of St. Louis Blues center Ryan O’Reilly during the first period of Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final on Sunday in St. Louis.JEFF ROBERSON/AP

Bruins GK shuts down Blues toforce Game 7

Rask up to the task

BY JAY COHEN

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS

Facing elimination in an oh-so-hostile environment, Tuukka Rask and Brad Marchand stepped up for the Boston Bruins once again.

The Stanley Cup Final is heading to Game 7 because two of Boston’s biggest stars love the biggest moments.

Rask made 28 saves, Marchand had a goal and an assist, and the Bruins beat the St. Louis Blues 5-1 on Sunday night to even the bruising, physical final at three games apiece.

David Pastrnak had one of Boston’s four goals in the third period and an assist, helping the Bruins force the 17th Game 7 in Stanley Cup history. Bran-don Carlo, Karson Kuhl-man and Zdeno Chara also scored.

“We’re fighting for our lives, obviously,” March-and said. “When you play desperate, I think you see

everyone’s best game.”Boston also was involved in the final’s last

Game 7, winning the championship at Van-couver in 2011. Rask was a reserve goaltender on that team eight years ago, while Marchand was a key performer. They will go for another

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