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WORLDState media say Chinese president to visit North Korea Page 14

WAR ON TERRORISMIran to break uranium stockpile limit set by nuke deal in 10 daysPage 5

BY CLAUDIA GRISALES

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — Just before noon, sunlight es-caped the Nevada desert and a midnight darkness overtook the bleak and lonely landscape.

Eighteen-year-old Marine Cpl. Fred Walden was climbing out of his trench in the Yucca Flat north-west of Las Vegas.

His hair was singed. “We were literally standing in the shadows of the

mushroom cloud,” Walden, now 80, said from his

home in Roseville, Calif. “It billowed out. You could see the leading edge drop back to earth.”

The year was 1957. U.S. troops secretly were participating in U.S.

atomic bomb tests and subsequent cleanup opera-tions during World War II and later in the Pacific Ocean, the Nevada desert, New Mexico and the At-lantic Ocean. The servicemembers took the human brunt of ionizing radiation that contaminated near-by lands, water and communities.

SEE BLASTS ON PAGE 10

For some veterans, toxic exposures didn’t end with atomic blastsMonday: Veterans exposed to atomic tests wage final fight for benefits, recognition.

Today: For some, toxic exposures didn’t end with atomic blasts.

Wednesday: After the tests, a dangerous cleanup job remained.

For earlier stories, video and more photos, go to stripes.com/conspiracyA three-part series

Motorists pass a checkpoint built around the wreckage of a Soviet tank near Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, on April 14 . J.P. LAWRENCE/Stars and Stripes

Mixed emotionsProspect of US withdrawal brings fear, hope in Taliban-contested southern Afghanistan Page 5

WAR ON TERRORISM

Gary Woodland birdies 18, wins US Open by 3 strokes » Back page

FACES Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, mother of Anderson Cooper, dies at 95 Page 17

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MILITARY

BY JOHN VANDIVER

Stars and Stripes

STUTTGART, Germany — The German D efense M inistry is investigating a nearly 3-year-old incident in which a U.S. officer is alleged to have taken his son, 13, to a southern Germany military range to fire a sniper rifle.

The U.S. lieutenant colonel, in a Facebook posting at the time, justified the activity, suggesting it was in the spirit of self-defense.

“If the Islamic State can recruit 13-year-olds, we’ll do it, too,” the officer wrote in a post that fea-tured pictures of his son.

The social media post was ob-tained by the prominent German magazine Der Spiegel, which did not identify the officer but did say the incident is now the subject of a high-level investigation. The spokesman for German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told the magazine that the matter is being examined and “further steps considered.”

U.S. Army Europe said Monday it is cooperating in the probe.

“The U.S. Army is aware of the German Ministry of Defense’s investigation into how its firing ranges were operated in this in-

cident,” Lacey Justinger, spokes-woman for the 7th Army Training Command, said in a statement. “We value the relationship with our host nation and our multina-tional training opportunities to-

gether, and will cooperate in this investigation.”

The Army declined to release the name of the officer who was involved, saying the service-member has left the European theater.

The incident occurred at a Ger-man training area in Heuberg, near a special operations school in Pfullendorf where NATO troops routinely train. The U.S. officer involved in the incident was employed at the time at the special operations training cen-ter in Pfullendorf, the magazine said.

The teenager practiced preci-sion shooting over long distances with an M2010 sniper rifle, Spie-gel said.

While the incident happened in October 2016, it came to light last week when a formal complaint was made, Der Spiegel reported.

The incident highlights gun culture and legal differences between Germany and the U.S., where it isn’t unusual for gun en-thusiasts to take children to rang-

es for target practice. In Germany , the use of fire-

arms is strictly regulated, andminors generally are not permit-ted to use such weaponry under the country’s “Weapons Act,” ac-cording to Der Spiegel.

Under the Status of ForcesAgreement, U.S. personnel sta-tioned in Germany are required to abide by German law. However,there is no indication that Germanlegal authorities are considering a case that could be referred tomilitary law enforcement.

The results of an initial in-vestigation determined that no German soldiers were directlyinvolved in the incident and that the American officer or anotherU.S. servicemember brought the weapon used by the teenager to the training site, Der Spiegel said. Still, it remains unclear howno one on a German military fir-ing range noticed a minor with asniper rifle.vandiver.john@stripes.comTwitter: @john_vandiver

BY PARTH UPADHYAYA

The Denver Post

GREELEY, Colo. — After serv-ing a little more than 22 years in the U.S. Army, Paul Moser is swapping one uniform for anoth-er. Thursday evening, he stood behind home plate in his latest at-tire: a light blue polo shirt, black pants, tennis shoes and a ball cap.

In the middle of the first two innings of a youth baseball game,

Moser joked with his fellow um-pire. It was only Moser’s eighth game on the job, but he already knew to be aware of rogue balls flying in from the outfield while the pitcher takes his warmup tosses — a lesson he learned a few days prior when he was pegged on the side of head before the start of a game.

Moser, 42, an Army veteran, was glad being a ball magnet was the height of his concern. Un-like many youth sports officials

around the country, Moser hasn’t yet dealt with combative behavior from parents and coaches while umpiring. Jokes come easy about that parent — the one who causes a scene by berating or threaten-ing an umpire — but the problem is legitimate. And it’s causing the number of youth sports officials across the country to decrease.

Triple Crown Sports, a Fort Collins, Colo.-based company which manages roughly 300 youth sporting events around the

U.S., has felt the impact of a dwin-dling number of sports officials. In an attempt to combat the issue and give back to communities, it launched the “Protect The Game” initiative in April; the program provides free training, uniforms and equipment to military veter-ans to help them become youth sports officials.

Moser is one of three veterans who participated in Protect The Game’s first training session, which took place across three

nights in April and consisted ofclassroom time and practice call-ing balls and strikes with livepitching.

Jordan Cohen, the executive di-rector of Protect The Game, saidveterans are the ideal group tohelp fill the officiating void for avariety of reasons.

“Being able to deal with peo-ple, dealing with tough situations,thicker skin — really being ableto handle that part of it,” Cohen explained.

CHARLES ROSEMOND/Courtesy of the U.S. Army

A U.S. soldier fires an M2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle near the Bemowo Piskie training area in Poland in June 2017. The same weapon was used by the 13-year-old son of a U.S. Army officer on a German military range nearly three years ago.

Germans probe case of US child firing sniper rifle

Colo. company turns to vets to combat dwindling number of youth baseball umps

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PACIFIC

BY KIM GAMEL AND MATTHEW KEELER

Stars and Stripes

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — The decision to tempo-rarily lift a long-reviled curfew for American troops in South Korea on Monday came just in time for Lt. Col. Junel Jeffrey to cross midnight market shopping in Seoul off her bucket list.

The 2nd Infantry Division pub-lic affairs officer, who is sched-uled to transfer back to the United States next month, couldn’t go be-fore because the curfew required all servicemembers to be back on base or inside their residences or hotel rooms by 1 a.m.

The division pushed that back to midnight for its soldiers last year.

“For these young folks, they’re ready to go to clubs and all of that,” Jeffrey said after the sus-pension was announced on Mon-day. “I’m not into clubs, but I will do some shopping. I’m really ex-cited about that.”

U.S. Forces Korea, which oversees some 28,500 U.S. ser-vicemembers on the divided peninsula, lifted the curfew for 90 days following a policy review ordered by the commander, Gen. Robert Abrams.

“The suspension will serve as an evaluation period … and is an opportunity to demonstrate USFK’s ability to maintain good order and discipline at all times and under all conditions,” provost marshal Col. Jonathan Doyle said in a statement. “Our professional servicemembers will act in ac-cordance with our standards and Korean laws at all times.”

The reprieve will last until Sept. 17, at which time the com-mander will decide whether to continue the evaluation period, maintain it or rescind the off-in-stallation curfew, depending on troop behavior, morale and readi-ness factors, USFK said.

Soldiers and airmen reacted with glee but also skepticism that it would last. Some placed bets on social media about which branch of service or unit would do some-thing to trigger its reinstatement.

“I actually didn’t believe it. When I first heard, I thought, ‘There is no way. People out here are too crazy,’ ” said Sgt. Akeyla Richardson, who is assigned to the 563rd Medical Logistics Com-pany. “Now that it has finally hap-pened, I just hope no one messes it up for the rest of us.”

USFK said the decision to sus-pend the curfew, which has been

in effect in various iterations since 9/11, was aimed at improv-ing morale and making South Korea a more attractive assign-ment, as well as giving service-members a chance to see more of the country.

Spc. Jacob Couillard, who is assigned to the 3rd Armored Bri-gade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division at Camp Humphreys, said the decision would allow sol-diers to go out and explore.

“I can now travel and not have to worry about leaving early to come back,” he said, stressing the need to “just take care of yourself and be mature about it.”

Some expressed concern about the effect on readiness and the ability to muster as required on the peninsula, where command-ers tout the need to be “ready to fight tonight” with North Ko-rean forces and artillery poised just across the heavily fortified border.

“Responsibility is now on every person,” said Spc. Brandon Vega, who also is with the Bulldog bri-gade. “We are soldiers and like to party sometimes, but we are sol-diers and we have a mission; we have a contract and a responsibil-ity — that always comes first.”

Soldiers will still have to be

ready for emergency deployment readiness exercises, known as EDREs, he added.

“We get called back and have to be in full battle rattle within the next two hours and report for ac-countability,” he said.

Doyle said the mandate for military readiness remained a top priority for the command. “We are a professional military charged with the defense of the Korean Peninsula,” he said.

The curfew, also called a readi-ness recall, has long been an un-popular feature of military life in South Korea.

Former USFK commander Gen. Walter Sharp briefly re-scinded the curfew in July 2010, saying, “I believe that we can

trust our servicemembers to do the right thing.”

But it was reimposed after sev-eral months amid outrage overtwo high-profile rape cases in-volving American soldiers, and it was extended indefinitely in itsrecent form in January 2012.

It applied to all servicemembers in South Korea except for thoseattached to the U.S. Embassy orJoint U.S. Military Affairs Group-Korea. Violations were subject to punishment under the UniformCode of Military Justice.

Civilians and contractors work-ing for the Defense Department were highly encouraged to abideby the policy.gamel.kim@stripes.comTwitter: @kimgamelkeeler.matthew@stripes.com

BY CARLOS M. VAZQUEZ IIStars and Stripes

ITOMAN, Okinawa — More than 1,000 servicemembers from the U.S. and Japan gathered on Saturday to tidy up Okinawa Peace Memorial Park, a week ahead of the annual Irei no Hi ceremony.

The ceremony, which takes place at the park every year on June 23, is expected to draw thousands of residents, visitors and dignitaries to mark the day the Battle of Okinawa ended. The site is dedicated to the 250,000 civilian and military lives lost dur-ing the 82-day World War II battle .

The U.S. Navy and Army joined Japan’s

three Self-Defense Forces — air, ground and maritime — active duty and retired, along with their families, to sweep walk-ways, rake grass and leaves and share garbage bags for rubbish picked up on the grounds.

“The cleanup has been going on for 22 years,” Chief Petty Officer Takayuki Ota, command master chief of the Japan Mari-time Self-Defense Force’s Fleet Air Wing 5, told Stars and Stripes through a transla-tor Saturday. “Every year, I come here to clean to show respect to the lives lost; it’s something I feel I should do to commemo-rate them.”

The park includes Mabuni Hill, also known as Hill 89, where the battle came to an end. Among the monuments on the site is a series of black granite walls that hold the names of all the Japanese, American, British, Korean and Taiwanese soldiers who died during the battle, as well as the names of all Okinawans, civilian and mili-tary, who died throughout the Pacific dur-ing the war.

“It’s a great experience to see everyone working together no matter what’s hap-pened before,” said Navy Seaman Jesse Lopez, a cleanup volunteer. “It’s a special type of feeling because I grew up learn-

ing about [the Battle of Okinawa] in highschool. It’s a big part of history … and now I’m here cleaning up this park that’s in me-morial for all those people that died.”

Ota said U.S. servicemembers have par-ticipated in the annual cleanups for the pastdecade and he would like for that trend to continue.

“We did have history between the U.S.and Japan,” Ota said. “We would like to communicate better and build a better re-lationship, leaving the past behind and cre-ating a new future together.”

vazquez.carlos@stripes.comTwitter: @StripesCarlos

BY SETH ROBSON

Stars and Stripes

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Soccer-mad military kids are getting tips from former members of the U.S. national wom-en’s team who are touring bases in the Far East this month.

Overseas military soccer fans have been watching American Forces Network cover-age of the Women’s World Cup in France. The U.S. clinched a place in the tourna-ment’s knockout round with a 3-0 victory Sunday over Chile.

During the tournament, former national team players Staci Wilson, Saskia Weber, Nikki Serlenga and Shannon MacMillan have been hosting clinics for youngsters on Pacific military bases.

From June 10 to last Wednesday, they visited Guam; on Friday they went to Camp Zama before holding clinics at Yokota on Saturday and at Yokosuka Naval Base on Sunday. They were due to stop by bases on Okinawa this week.

At the Yokota Clinic, held indoors be-cause of rain, kids practiced basic skills such as dribbling.

“We try to get as many touches on the ball as possible,” forward/midfielder Mac-Millan said after putting the kids through their paces. “There are some really good players here.”

After the skills session, dozens of kids, some clutching soccer balls and hoping for autographs, lined up for photographs with their heroes.

One of them, Evan Lawrence, 9, who is going into fourth grade at Joan K. Mendel Elementary School, said he’s been playing soccer for six years. However, this is his first year playing goalie.

“They taught me how to catch the ball the right way,” he said.

Weber, who counts an award as Soc-cer America’s Goalkeeper of the Decade among her many honors, told Lawrence he’d need to have a strong character to play goalie and not to get downhearted if he’s scored on because defense is a team effort.

The former players are letting kids know about ways to develop their soccer skills when they return to the U.S. and about op-portunities to play college soccer, MacMil-lan said.

The tour is supposed to be a thank you tothe troops but MacMillan, a World Cup andOlympic champion, said the people they’vemet on Pacific bases have been extremelyappreciative.

The former players have soaked up military culture, meeting the troops and checking out hardware such as an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a Navy subma-rine, she said.

Military blood runs thick in MacMillan’sfamily. Her father was in the Army, her brother joined the Navy at age 17 and herniece recently retired from the Air Force, she said.

“It’s something that is really near anddear to me,” she said.robson.seth@stripes.comTwitter: @SethRobson1

MATTHEW KEELER/Stars and Stripes

Air Force Staff Sgt. Cody Meyer, of the 33rd Rescue Squadron, plays pool at a bar near Osan Air Base, South Korea, on Monday . U.S. troops in South Korea welcomed an announcement lifting a curfew for servicemembers.

Lifting of curfew in S. Korea sparks glee and skepticism

Soccer stars teach techniques to military kids during tour of Pacific bases

Servicemembers tidy up peace park ahead of WWII remembrance

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MILITARY/MIDEAST

Trial set for Navy SEAL charged in death of prisoner

Syrian insurgents shell wedding party south of Aleppo, killing 12

BY JULIE WATSON

Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — The trial of a decorated Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State pris-oner in his care was set to begin Monday following months of tur-moil in one of the Navy’s most prominent war crimes cases.

The court-martial of Special Operations Chief Edward Galla-gher, which begins with jury se-lection, has included the removal of the lead prosecutor for track-

ing the de-fense team’s emails and suggestions by Presi-dent Don-ald Trump that he may pardon the defendant.

Gallagher has pleaded not guilty to

premeditated murder in the kill-ing of the prisoner in his care and attempted murder in the shoot-ings of two civilians in Iraq in 2017 in separate incidents. Gal-lagher says disgruntled platoon mates fabricated the allegations because they didn’t like his tough leadership.

His lawyers asked the Navy judge to dismiss the case because they say investigators and pros-ecutors withheld evidence that could help the defense and vio-lated his rights to a fair trial by embedding tracking software in emails sent to them.

The judge, Capt. Aaron Rugh, earlier this month ruled that the prosecution’s effort to track de-fense emails to find a news leak cast doubt on Gallagher’s ability

to get a fair trial and violated his constitutional rights against il-legal searches and the right to counsel by interfering with attor-ney-client privilege.

Rugh, however, refused to dis-miss the case. Instead, he said he was taking steps to remedy the interference. He released Gal-lagher from custody, removed the lead prosecutor and lessened the maximum penalty he faces if convicted of premeditated mur-der to life imprisonment with pa-role — instead of no parole.

The judge also is allowing the defense to reject two more po-tential jurors without cause than usual during jury selection.

Evidence at hearings last month showed an intelligence specialist from Naval Criminal Investigative Service conducted criminal background checks on three of Gallagher’s civilian law-yers and a Navy Times journalist who has broken several stories based on documents that are only to be shared among lawyers in the case.

Prosecutors downplayed the ef-fort, saying it only gathered data, such as internet protocol address-es, and did not snoop on the con-tent of emails. The government said the investigation did not find the source of leaks.

Gallagher’s family maintains he cannot get a fair trial.

“The court’s ruling, recogniz-ing a direct violation of Chief Gallagher’s constitutional rights but not dismissing the case, sends a chilling message to every man and woman in uniform,” his fam-ily said in a statement.

Republicans in Congress have lobbied for Gallagher, claiming he’s an innocent war hero being unfairly prosecuted.

Associated Press

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syr-ian insurgents fired rockets into residential parts of the govern-ment-held northern province of Aleppo, striking a wedding party and killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 15, state media said Monday.

The attack late Sunday took place in the village of Wadehi, south of Aleppo city, which abuts the last rebel-held enclave.

Syria’s state TV, Al-Ikhbariya, said children were among those killed and some of the wounded were in critical condition. The TV said more rockets landed as people tried to escape from the scene of the attack.

One woman told the TV that a missile landed in a room where four girls were, killing them. Another girl said her two sisters and one brother were killed in the strike.

A doctor speaking to the TV station said three of the wounded were in critical condition. Images from inside an Aleppo hospital

broadcast on Al-Ikhbariya TV show men and children lying on stretchers, some with their heads bandaged, while others have what appears to be abdomen wounds.

The Britain-based Syrian Ob-servatory for Human Rights also reported fatalities, saying four children were killed in the attack.

Al-Ikhbariya TV said the mili-tary responded to the source of fire, areas controlled by in-surgents in the nearby rebel stronghold.

Fighting has raged over the last seven weeks in northwestern Syria as government forces press an offensive toward the last rebel stronghold in the country’s eight-year civil war.

The violence has displaced hun-dreds of thousands inside the rebel enclave, which is home to 3 mil-lion people, most of them already displaced from earlier violence in Syria. At least 300 civilians were killed in government bombings, and more than two dozen health facilities were put out of service following airstrikes.

Separately, in eastern Syria’s town of Qamishli, a car bombwent off near the headquartersof the Kurdish security forces,leaving several people injured.Qamishli is run by Kurdish-led administrators and forces, but Syrian government troops holdpockets of territory there, includ-ing the airport.

The area has largely beenspared much of the violence thathas wrecked Syria. But attacks,mostly blamed on Islamic State militants, have occurred recentlyin areas in eastern Syria afterthe extremists were kicked out of their last territorial enclave in Syria earlier this year.

In a video by the Kurdishnews agency Hawar, the explo-sion appeared to have damaged a number of cars nearby. Thenauthorities lifted the mangled carbomb from the area.

The Observatory said sevenwere injured when a suicide bomber detonated the car bombafter failing to drive into the Kurd-ish security forces headquarters.

Gallagher

COURTESY OF ANHA/AP

People inspect debris at the scene of a car bombing in Qamishli, eastern Syria, on Monday. The attack came a day after insurgents shelled a residential area of Aleppo, in northern Syria, killing at least 12 civilians.

Egypt’s former president Morsi dies during court session BY SAMY MAGDY

Associated Press

CAIRO — Egypt’s former president, Mo-hammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country’s first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the military, collapsed in court during a trial and died Monday, state TV and his family said.

The 67-year-old Morsi had just addressed the court, speaking from the glass cage he is kept in during sessions and warning that he had “many secrets” he could reveal, a judicial official said. A few minutes after-ward, he collapsed, the official said, speak-ing on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.

State TV said Morsi died before he could be taken to the hospital.

Morsi has been in prison undergoing multiple trials ever since the military ousted him in July 2013 and launched a massive crackdown on his Muslim Broth-erhood and other Is-lamists. Monday’s session was part of a retrial, being held inside Cairo’s Tura

Prison, on charges of espionage with the Palestinian Hamas militant group.

Morsi’s son, Ahmed, confirmed the death of his father in a Facebook post.

Mohammed Sudan, leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood in London, de-scribed Morsi’s death as “premeditated murder,” saying that the former president

was banned from receiving medicine or visits and there was little information about his health condition.

“He has been placed behind a glass cage (during trials).,” Sudan said. “No one can hear him or know what is happening to him. He hasn’t received any visits for months or nearly a year. He complained before that he doesn’t get his medicine. This is preme-diated murder. This is slow death.”

The judicial official said Morsi had asked to speak to the court during the session. The judge permitted it, and Morsi gave a speech saying he had “many secrets” that, if he told them, he would be released, but he added that he wasn’t telling them because it would harm Egypt’s national security.

A spokesman for the Interior Ministry did not answer calls seeking comment.

Morsi was a longtime senior figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s most

powerful Islamist group. He was elected in 2012 in the country’s first free presi-dential election, held a year after an ArabSpring uprising ousted Egypt’s longtime authoritarian leader, Hosni Mubarak. HisMuslim Brotherhood also held a majorityin parliament.

The military, led by then-Defense Min-ister Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, ousted Morsi after massive protests against the Broth-erhood’s domination of power. El-Sissi wassubsequently elected president and haswaged a massive crackdown on Islamistsand other opponents since.

Morsi had been sentenced to 20 yearsafter being convicted of ordering Brother-hood members to break up a protest againsthim, resulting in deaths. An earlier death sentence was overturned. Multiple cases are still pending.

Morsi

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WAR ON TERRORISM

BY J.P. LAWRENCE

Stars and Stripes

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — Lo-cals in the provincial capital of Helmand often show visitors reminders of the days when the Taliban attacked: a bathroom where a rocket hit and killed a co-worker; a house where citizens hid from withering crossfire; a checkpoint built from an old Soviet tank that was almost overrun by the militants.

The Taliban attacked Lashkar Gah in 2015, a year after most international troops withdrew from Afghanistan. Their offensive threatened much of the province and led to the return of some U.S. troops to Helmand.

Today, prospects of another U.S. with-drawal, a key part of ongoing talks with the Taliban, have raised hopes for peace but also heightened fears of a Taliban re-surgence in battleground provinces like Helmand, in the country’s south.

Talks this week in Doha, Qatar, between the Taliban and U.S. diplomats, led by Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, will be the seventh round of negotiations aimed at ending America’s longest war.

Hopes are high for a breakthrough in the latest talks, which are focused on the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

“The Americans have decided to give the Taliban some privileges to take the

negotiations out of the current situation,” Wahid Muzhda, a Kabul-based political analyst, told Afghanistan’s Tolo News.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is asking for assur-ances from the Taliban that Afghanistan will not be used as a base for international terrorism.

The talks have so far not included the government in Kabul, which the Taliban views as a U.S. puppet.

Some locals in Lashkar Gah have said the U.S. should stay in Helmand because the province would likely see a repeat of the 2015 Taliban offensive if international troops leave again.

“The security is going to get worse; we have experience,” Haji Abdul Ali Sarwari, a civil activist living in the provincial capi-tal, told Stars and Stripes.

With coalition assistance, Afghan forces have recaptured some of the territory that fell to the Taliban four years ago. But in Oc-tober, a U.S. government watchdog agency said insurgents still held more than half of Helmand, where more American, interna-tional and Afghan troops have died than in any other province.

In the countryside outside Lashkar Gah, where Taliban flags fly within walking distance of Afghan military bases, locals say the militants will eventually return to power anyway, said Ashley Jackson, a re-searcher with the Overseas Development Institute.

“I would never say that people living

under Taliban control are happy or agree with Taliban rule — far from it — but I think there’s some sort of resignation,” Jackson said in a phone interview.

To get a better understanding of what rural Afghans think about the peace pro-cess, Jackson interviewed 90 civilians and Taliban fighters in Helmand, Logar and Wardak provinces. In Nad Ali district, about 25 miles west of Lashkar Gah, people joked with Jackson that the Taliban were going to come back no matter what deal was struck. It may be telling that no one has scrubbed off Taliban graffiti daubed several years ago on the walls of the main government compound.

It wasn’t that people particularly like the Taliban, Jackson said. Her research found women in rural areas, like their counter-parts in cities, wanted more rights than the Taliban have given them in the past.

But civilians in Taliban-contested areas told Jackson that they are used to deal-ing with militants, whom they see as their neighbors and brothers, and have little confidence in the Afghan military. Locals also blamed the U.S. for the war, she said.

“Nearly all civilians saw U.S. forces as responsible for creating and perpetuating the conflict,” said Jackson, adding that it was possible that some respondents living under Taliban rule cannot speak freely.

Jackson found that many people in rural areas also believe that once American and other foreign soldiers leave, Afghans

would be able to negotiate peace amongthemselves.

But both civilians and Taliban fight-ers told Jackson that they assumed, underany peace deal, militants would remain incharge in the parts of Helmand they con-trol and would seek power in the areasthey contest.

Back in Lashkar Gah, residents saidthey were most concerned about whetherthe Taliban would take power by force orseek reconciliation with the government in Kabul.

“We have a message for the Taliban:Come and be a part of this government;lead this government,” Mohammad Sediq, a council member in Lashkar Gah, toldStars and Stripes through a translator.“Voting can bring you to leadership …Come through the process, then you canlead this country.”

Haji Abdul Aziz, a tribal elder in Kajaki district, said he’s lost seven family mem-bers — four sons and three nephews —fighting for the government in Kabul. Hesaid he’s willing to forgive the militants ifit leads to the end of war.

“I’m ready to forgive the Taliban. … Ifit’s for the future of this country, I’m readyto sacrifice my feelings for peace,” Azizsaid.Zubair Babakarkhail contributed to this report.lawrence.jp@stripes.comTwitter: @jplawrence3

BY NASSER KARIMI AND JON GAMBRELL

Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days, the spokesman for the country’s atomic agency said Monday, while also warning that Iran could enrich uranium up to 20% — just a step away from weap-ons-grade levels.

The announcement by Behrouz Kamal-vandi, timed for a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Brussels, puts more pressure on Europe to come up with new terms for Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal.

The deal has steadily unraveled since the Trump administration pulled America out of the accord last year and reimposed tough economic sanctions on Iran, deeply cutting into its sale of crude oil abroad and sending its economy into free fall. Europe has so far been unable to offer Iran a way around the U.S. sanctions.

The development comes in the wake of apparent attacks on oil tankers last week in the Mideast that Washington has blamed on Iran. While Iran has denied being involved, it has used mines in the past against commercial traffic around the crucial Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s crude oil passes.

Kamalvandi accused Europeans of “kill-ing time” as the clock runs down.

“If this condition continues, there will be no deal” anymore, Kamalvandi said.

President Hassan Rouhani, greeting France’s new ambassador to Tehran on Monday, similarly warned that time was running out for the deal.

“The current situation is very critical, and France and the other parties to the [deal] still have a very limited opportu-nity to play their historic role for saving

the deal,” Rouhani said, according to hiswebsite.

Under terms of the nuclear deal, Irancan keep a stockpile of no more than 660pounds of low-enriched uranium. Kamal-vandi said that given Iran’s recent decisionto quadruple its production of low-enricheduranium, it would pass that limit on June27.

The United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency,

said last month thatIran still remainedwithin its stockpilelimits. The Vienna-based agency de-clined to comment Monday on Iran’sannouncement.

Kamalvandi said Iran needs 5% enrich-ment for its nuclearpower plant in the southern Iranian port

of Bushehr, and it also needs 20% enrich-ment for a Tehran research reactor.

The nuclear deal had limited Iran to en-riching uranium only to 3.67%, which is enough for power plants and peaceful pur-poses. After America’s pullout and escalat-ed sanctions, Tehran set a July 7 deadlinefor Europe to come up with better terms for the deal or it would take additionalsteps away from the accord, likely mean-ing it would boost enrichment further.

Kamalvandi enforced that stance, say-ing that Tehran will increase uraniumenrichment levels “based on the country’sneeds.”

Iran reached its nuclear deal with worldpowers in 2015, agreeing to limit its en-richment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. President Donald Trump pulled America out of the deal in May 2018.

Associated Press

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s protest leaders on Monday called for nighttime demonstrations and marches in the capi-tal, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the coun-try amid a tense standoff with the ruling military over who should lead the transi-tion after the ouster of the autocrat Omar al-Bashir.

The protest leaders said they’ve begun a “revolutionary escalation” to pressure the country’s generals to hand over power to civilians and to condemn the military’s violent dispersal of their sit-in camp in Khartoum earlier this month.

At least 128 people have died since the security force’s crackdown on June 3, ac-cording to the protest organizers. The military-backed authorities, however, say 61 people died, including three members

of the security forces.The group representing the protesters

— known as the Forces for the Declara-tion of Freedom and Change — said the night rallies will begin on Tuesday and the marches on Thursday.

The calls came a day after the deputy head of Sudan’s ruling military council, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, pushed back against demands from protest leaders concerning the composition of a transition-al legislative body, seen by protest leaders as their “most important victory” in talks with the military.

Dura Gambo, an activist with the Suda-nese Professionals Association, which has spearheaded the protest movement since December, said the protest leaders chose to return to the streets after they realized that the military “started to pull out of the previous deals.”

In Helmand, reaction to a US withdrawal mixed

HUSSEIN MALLA/AP

Burned cars remain Monday at the square where the Sudanese military cleared an opposition sit-in camp on June 3 in Khartoum, Sudan . Leaders of protesters in a standoff with the ruling military have called for nighttime demonstrations and marches .

Iran: Uranium stockpile limit to be broken in next 10 days

Kamalvandi

Sudan protesters urge night rallies amid standoff with ruling military

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NATION

Pompeo seeks to convince leadersof Iranian threat

High court OKs state and federal prosecution

High court lets Va. voting go ahead under redrawn map

BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is work-ing the phones to convince wary leaders in Asia and Europe that Iran was behind alleged attacks on shipping in a key Middle East oil route — and that it’s a problem for the whole international com-munity to deal with, not just the United States.

While calling U.S. evidence “unmistakable” that Iran was to blame for alleged attacks on two oil tankers last week near the Strait of Hormuz, Pompeo was emphasizing international diplo-macy over any possible new U.S. military response in appearances on Sunday news shows.

“We are going to work to build out a set of countries that have deep vested interest in keeping that strait open to help us do that,” Pompeo said.

“I made a bunch of phone calls yesterday. I’ll make a whole bunch more calls today. The world needs to unite,” Pompeo said. He did not say what kind of action the Trump administration was envisioning.

Iran has denied being involved in the attacks and accused Ameri-ca of promoting an “Iranophobic”

campaign against it.Pressed on whether new U.S.

military deployment to the region was possible, Pompeo said that “of course” remained among the options that President Donald Trump may consider to keep oil tankers moving through the nar-row strait, a strategic choke point for oil shipments from the Middle East.

Trump last year withdrew the U.S. from an international agree-ment, signed in 2015 by President Barack Obama, to limit Iran’s nuclear program. Trump has re-instated economic sanctions and recently ended waivers that al-lowed some countries to continue buying Iranian oil. That has de-prived Iran of oil income and has coincided with what U.S. officials said was a surge in intelligence pointing to Iranian preparations for attacks against U.S. forces and interests in the Gulf region.

The U.S. has accelerated the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier battle group to the region, sent four nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Qatar and bolstered its defenses in the region by deploying more Patriot air defense systems.

Some European allies have

called for a careful investigation of responsibility, worried that Trump was escalating tensions with a country he has long called a top U.S. enemy.

Pompeo stressed that the U.S. gets relatively little of its energy supplies through the strait, which lies between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The U.S. En-ergy Information Administration says 16 percent of U.S. petroleum imports came from the Persian Gulf countries in 2018.

By contrast, about 80% of oil through the shipping passage supplies energy-hungry coun-tries in Asia, including China, Japan, India and South Korea. Those countries have an inter-

est in keeping the oil flowing, he said.

“I’m confident that when they see the risk — the risk of their own economies and their own people and outrageous behavior of the Islamic Republic of Iran, they will join us in this,” Pompeo said.

Pompeo said intelligence offi-cials had “lots of data, lots of evi-dence” that Iran was responsible. Pressed for specifics, Pompeo pointed to grainy black-and-white footage already released by the U.S.

American officials say the foot-age shows Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops removing an un-exploded mine from a Japanese

tanker. The tanker’s crew gave an apparently different account,saying “flying objects” targetedthe vessel.

Pompeo said the administra-tion had shared the video andother unspecified evidence withGermany and other nations.

Asked if the U.S. had a cred-ibility problem with allies wor-ried Trump could be seeking a pretext to move against Iran, the secretary of state said: “We’re notselling anything. These ... these are simple facts.”

Pompeo spoke on “Fox NewsSunday” and CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

BY JESSICA GRESKO

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Virginians will elect members of the House of Delegates using a map seen as favorable to Democrats, accord-ing to a ruling Monday by the Su-preme Court.

The 5-4 decision was perhaps telegraphed by the fact that the justices previously allowed elec-tion planning to go forward with the new map. Virginia held its pri-mary last week, and the Novem-ber general election will be the last time the state uses this map because legislative districts will need to be redrawn to account for results from the 2020 census.

The political boundaries are important because Republicans currently control the House by a 51-49 margin.

The justices let stand a lower court decision putting in place the new map, saying Republicans in the state House did not have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court. The state could have de-cided to bring the case but did not, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote.

“One House of its bicameral

legislature cannot alone continue the litigation against the will ofits partners in the legislative pro-cess,” she wrote.

The four justices who joinedher were Clarence Thomas, SoniaSotomayor, Elena Kagan and NeilGorsuch, a lineup that includedconservatives and liberals. Dis-senting were Chief Justice JohnRoberts and three other justices — Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer and Brett Kavanaugh.

The case stemmed from a mapdrawn by Republican lawmakersin 2011, after the last census, andused in the four elections since. Democratic voters sued in 2014,accusing Republicans of packingblack voters into certain districtsto make surrounding ones whiterand more Republican.

A lower court ruled 2-1 lastyear that the previous, legisla-ture-crafted map improperly fac-tored race into the drawing of 11 of the 100 House districts. After lawmakers were unable to reach an agreement on a redistricting plan, the lower court chose a newmap from a series of proposals submitted by a special master.

The case is VA House of Del-egates v. Bethune-Hill, 18-281.

ALEX BRANDON/AP

Secretary of State Mike Pomepo is working to convince Asian and European leaders of Iran’s involvement in the alleged attacks on two oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.

BY MARK SHERMAN

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Su-preme Court is upholding a consti-tutional rule that allows state and federal governments to prosecute someone for the same crime. The case was closely watched because a ruling the other way might have emboldened President Donald Trump to pardon defendants in the Russia investigation.

The court’s 7-2 decision Mon-day preserves a long-standing rule that provides an exception to the Constitution’s ban on try-ing someone twice for the same offense. Ruling for the defendant, in this case, might have made it harder for states to pursue crimi-nal charges against defendants in the Russia investigation in the event they are pardoned by Trump.

The court ruled against federal prison inmate Terance Gamble. He was prosecuted by Alabama

and the federal government for having a gun after an earlier con-viction for robbery.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his majority opinion that 170 years of precedent supports the idea that “a state may prosecute a defendant under state law even if the federal government has pros-ecuted him for the same conduct under a federal statute.”

New York authorities already have indicted Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman.

Manafort has been sentenced to more than seven years on fed-eral conspiracy and fraud convic-tions. He also has been charged with mortgage fraud and other crimes in New York.

Trump could pardon him for his federal convictions, but Manafort still would have to answer to the state charges by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The president’s pardon power doesn’t extend to state charges.

The case decided Monday drew the court’s attention after Jus-tices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas wrote in 2016 that the exception to protection from double jeopardy should be reconsidered.

Ginsburg dissented from Mon-day’s ruling, which she called “adherence to that misguided doctrine.”

In the end, Thomas parted ways with Ginsburg.

J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP

The Supreme Court has upheld a constitutional rule that lets state and federal governments prosecute someone for the same crime.

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The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS — A man in a mask and combat gear who opened fire Monday morning at the Earle Ca-bell federal courthouse in down-town Dallas was shot by officers before he could injure anyone.

The shooter, Brian Isaack Clyde, 22, died at the scene and was taken to Baylor University Medical Center after police re-sponded to an active-shooter call, officials said.

Dallas Morning News pho-tographer Tom Fox witnessed the shooter open fire outside the building and took photos of the gunman. The gunman fired from the parking lot across the street toward Fox and others.

The window panes in the re-volving door and two side doors at the Commerce Street entrance were broken afterward. It is un-clear if the door was shot by the shooter or law enforcement.

A photo taken by Fox shows law enforcement standing around the shooter, who is lying on the ground without a shirt on. The shooter had a red heart tattoo with a black drawing inside, possibly of an ani-mal, on his left arm.

Fox, who was questioned by the FBI, said he was outside the building when a man in a mask parked on the corner of Jackson and Griffin streets. The masked

man ran and then stopped in the street to pick something off the ground.

The man then began shooting at the courthouse and cracked the glass door, Fox said. Inside the building, security pushed every-one down to the ground.

The federal building was likely to remain on lockdown for the rest of the day.

The shooting was a block from the site of a July 7, 2016, am-bush in which five police officers — four Dallas police officers and a Dallas Area Rapid Transit offi-cer — were killed by a gunman. In that case, nearby El Centro College was placed on lockdown. During the ambush, that shooter entered the school and fired at the

fifth officer, who was killed from a window.

Dallas police detonated a suspi-cious device about 10:40 a.m. in the vehicle of the man who shot at the courthouse. The blast was

strong enough to shake several sapling trees blocks away. Po-lice were searching downtown for other possible devices. Many downtown buildings were placed on lockdown or evacuated, and

many streets were closed as policesearched for suspicious devices.

Ed Modla was working from home at SoCo Urban Lofts whenhe heard at least 10 loud shotsoutside. He looked outside and saw the gunman running across Griffin Street.

“As soon as I saw the shooter,I got the hell away from the win-dow,” he said. He took another peek from his third-floor windowa few moments later and said hesaw officers “zeroing in” on thesuspect across the street.

Dallas police evacuated the apartment building about 10 a.m.,going door to door to make sureeveryone got out.

Video tweeted by a KDFW-TV assignment editor shows a man ina black mask and a gun run fromthe sidewalk next to the court-house and across the street to a parking lot.

Judicial intern Thompson Du was waiting outside Mondaymorning after officials kept him from going inside. Du said hisfriends who were already near-by when the shooting occurredtold him they heard shots for 45seconds.

Don Miles heard 10 to 15 shots as he walked up to the CommerceStreet entrance for his 9 a.m. appointment.

“I just ran,” Miles said.Herman Turner, 50, took the

day off work to run errands at thecourthouse. He said he was on his way to get a cashier’s check whenhe saw the gunman run from the courthouse door near Main and Griffin streets, plant himself inthe middle of the road and begin firing an assault rifle back at thebuilding.

NATION

BY STEFANIE DAZIO

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — The Los An-geles Police Department is gath-ering evidence and video footage in an administrative investiga-tion into an off-duty officer who shot and killed a man authorities say attacked him inside a South-ern California Costco Wholesale warehouse store.

Authorities remained tight-lipped Sunday, not responding to requests for comment about what provoked the Friday night con-frontation and whether anyone but the officer was armed. Two others were critically injured in the shooting in Corona, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles.

The officer opened fire after Kenneth French, 32, of Riv-erside, assaulted him without provocation as the officer held his young child, Corona police said Saturday.

Bullets struck French and two of his family members, accord-ing to police. The officer was the only person who fired shots in the store, police said.

Rick Shureih, French’s cousin, told The Press-Enterprise that he was a “gentle giant” who was mentally disabled.

Shureih also identified the other two victims as French’s parents, Russell and Paola French, and said they remained in an inten-sive care unit Sunday. Authorities have not released their names.

French’s family is seeking an at-torney, Shureih said, and declined to give specifics about his mental condition. French was “nonvio-lent, nonaggressive, nonverbal,” his cousin said, and “he has to be pretty much monitored.”

“He’s not the kind to trade words, so I don’t believe that a verbal confrontation happened,” Shureih said.

Shureih posted a photo of French and his parents on his Facebook page Sunday.

“I’m posting this picture be-cause the stories on social media have made them out to be the suspects, and the off-duty cop the victim,” Shureih wrote. “This is a family that was unarmed and was just grocery shopping. Truth will

come out! I’m sure this was a mis-understanding that got escalated for no reason!”

The LAPD will continue its internal probe as Corona police and the Riverside County district attorney’s office conduct a sepa-rate investigation into the shoot-ing. The LAPD said Sunday it had no further information. Corona police and the district attorney’s office did not respond to requests for comment Sunday.

Los Angeles Police Commis-sion President Steve Soboroff said Sunday it is Chief Michel Moore’s decision whether to put the officer on leave, but it remained unclear if that happened. The officer’s identity has not been released. He was treated at a nearby hospital

and released, and his child wasnot injured.

The department’s policies allowoff-duty officers to carry con-cealed weapons as long as they are authorized for on-duty use,according to the LAPD manual.

Joseph Giacalone, a professor atthe John Jay College of CriminalJustice and a retired New York City Police Department sergeant,said it’s justifiable to use deadlyforce even in a crowded store if the attacker has a weapon.

“If the guy pulled out a pocket-knife and approaches him, game over,” Giacalone said Sunday.

Police have not said if French had any weapons or if the officeridentified himself as police be-fore firing.

Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state may soon allow immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally to get driver’s licenses.

The measure passed the state

Assembly last week and could get a vote in the Democrat-led state Senate as early as Monday after-noon. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo supports the bill, though he expressed concerns Monday

about U.S. immigration officials seizing license information to tar-get immigrants for deportation.

Supporters include the Busi-ness Council of New York State, the state’s largest business orga-

nization, as well as immigrant ad-vocates who say immigrants need licenses to work and provide for their families.

Republican lawmakers say ap-proving the measure could lead

to voter fraud and that people shouldn’t be rewarded for violat-ing immigration rules.

Twelve states already autho-rize licenses for immigrants whoentered the country illegally.

Gunman opens fire on Dallas courthouse

New York may soon OK driver’s licenses for immigrants in US illegally

PHOTOS BY TOM FOX, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS/AP

An armed shooter stands near the Earle Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas on Monday.

The federal courthouse is secured moments after shots were fired .

LAPD investigates officer’s actions in Costco shooting

Shooter killed by officers before anyone injured

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NATION

Parties prepare for fierce Fla. fight in 2020

Buttigieg alters campaign schedule, returns to South Bend after man is shot by police

Former NC state senator enters US Senate race

BY ZEKE MILLER

Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — President Donald Trump’s early strength in Florida on the night of the 2016 election was the first sign that he was about to score an upset vic-tory. In an otherwise bleak 2018 for the GOP, the state was again a bright spot for Republicans who won the governor’s mansion and flipped a Senate seat.

But as another campaign heats up, Democrats aren’t ceding the Sunshine State.

Though the state has trended, by the narrowest of margins, to-ward Republicans in recent elec-tions, both parties are mobilizing for a fierce and expensive battle in Florida.

Democratic candidates, includ-ing early front-runner Joe Biden, have visited the state to tap donors and connect with voters and will come to Miami later this month for their first round of debates.

Trump returns on Tuesday for his latest reelection an-nouncement. In anticipation, a Democratic super political ac-tion committee, Priorities USA, is beginning a six-figure digital

advertising effort to “help cut through his noise and give voters a look at the truth about Trump’s policies.”

The attention is a recognition that, despite its expensive media markets and polarized politics, neither party can ignore Florida.

For Trump, there are few ways

for him to remain in the White House without keeping Florida’s 29 electoral votes. For Demo-crats, a win here would validate the party’s emphasis on building diverse coalitions, not to mention all but obliterate Trump’s reelec-tion prospects.

Florida Democrats say it’s

wrong to interpret recent election results as the state slipping away.

“I don’t think we’re red. I don’t think we’re purple. I think we’re simply unorganized,” said for-mer Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor who lost by fewer than 33,000 votes.

Gillum’s race was one of several in recent years decided by a tiny sliver of the electorate, leaving the state a veritable graveyard of broken Democratic dreams.

Earlier this year, he launched Forward Florida, a political group meant to help Democrats retake the state in 2020, to keep Florida from being left by the wayside as Democrats try to sort out how the Trump-era political realignment has remade the presidential map.

While both parties seem con-vinced of the importance of the upper Midwest, fresh questions are being raised over whether the path to the White House must still run through other long-stand-ing battlegrounds and whether others might be emerging. The Democratic super PAC Priorities USA revealed last month that its polling shows Ohio, an erstwhile swing state, now appears safer

for Trump than deep-red Texas.Still, Florida remains a key tar-

get for both parties, and Demo-crats have a lot of ground to makeup.

Republicans have maintained an uninterrupted presence in thestate since 2014, and have trained3,000 local organizers it calls fel-lows, who can amplify, or in some cases replace, the voter registra-tion and turnout work of its paid field staff.

“This is something that can’tbe made up with a few checks by a failed gubernatorial candi-date,” said RNC spokesman Rick Gorka.

Taking a page from the GOP’s playbook, progressive group ForOur Future has been organizing in the state continuously since 2016,trying to keep Democratic votersengaged between elections.

“When you lose within the mar-gins continuously the way that we did, I think that’s an indicator that this state can still be won, butwe need to do more work,” said Justin Myers, the organization’sCEO. “And that work comes from real on-the-ground organizing inthe communities that matter.”

Associated Press

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Au-thorities say a man has died after a shooting involving a police of-ficer in South Bend, the Indiana city where Democratic presiden-tial candidate Pete Buttigieg is mayor.

Buttigieg said he changed his campaign schedule to return to South Bend on Sunday and hold a late night news conference. He said that the circumstances of the death would be thoroughly inves-

tigated, and called on any witness-es to the shooting to come forward and speak to investigators.

“We will be striving to reach out to community members,” Buttigieg said.

Buttigieg also canceled a trip Monday to New York for an LGBTQ event, according to the campaign.

The St. Joseph prosecutor’s of-fice, which is investigating the shooting, said police responded early Sunday to a call about a suspicious person going through

cars.A police officer confronted a

man in a vehicle in an apartment building parking lot. The prose-cutor’s office says the man exited the vehicle and approached the officer with a knife raised and the officer opened fire.

The man, identified as Eric Jack Logan, 53, of South Bend, died later at a hospital. An autop-sy was scheduled for Monday.

The officer, who was not iden-tified, was treated for minor injuries.

Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. — A former North Carolina state senator is switching races, announcing Monday that he’s joined the Dem-ocratic effort to unseat Republi-can U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, whose seat would be a major pickup for Democrats trying to win back a Senate majority.

Cal Cunningham, a familiar name in state Democratic cir-cles, revealed to The Associated Press that he’s no longer running for lieutenant governor and has switched instead to the 2020 U.S. Senate race.

Cunningham has run for the U.S. Senate before, finishing sec-ond in the Democratic primary nearly 10 years ago. A one-term state Senate stint is his only elected position to date, but the 45-year-old attorney and Iraq War veteran has remained well connected in state Democratic politics.

At least two other Democrats already are running in the March 2020 primary, but national Dem-ocrats have been looking hard for other candidates for the seat in the closely divided state.

Other current and former elect-ed officials have either ruled out running or haven’t decided yet.

In an interview, Cunningham told the AP he changed races because Washington politicians have failed to solve the prob-lems voters have talked to him about as he’s run for lieutenant governor, including health care, college affordability and gun vio-

lence. He also said people on the campaign trail asked him repeat-edly if he was considering a Sen-ate bid. The lieutenant governor’sfield is crowded, with at leastfour other Democrats and fourRepublicans.

“There’s really a fundamentalpolitical corruption problem thatput Washington completely outof touch with the people,” Cun-ningham said, citing corporate influence and big-money donors. “That fun-damental problem is a Washing-ton that is broken.”

Cunning-ham said Til-lis is part of that failure but that he would work in tandem with North Carolina to find solu-tions if elected.

Any successful challenge of Til-lis is likely to require raising tensof millions of dollars, whether through a candidate’s campaignor through super PACs.

The other Democrats in therace are State Sen. Erica Smith,of Northampton County, andMecklenburg County Commis-sioner Trevor Fuller. Neither has run statewide in the past.

Former state treasurer andgubernatorial candidate RichardMoore said Friday that he’s spo-ken with Senate Minority LeaderChuck Schumer about a candida-cy but hasn’t decided.

Cunningham

MANUEL BALCE CENETA/AP

Florida was a bright spot for Republicans in the elections of 2016 and 2018, but ahead of the 2020 election Democrats aren’t giving up hope on the Sunshine State.

SANTIAGO FLORES, SOUTH BEND (IND.) TRIBUNE/AP

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, center, speaks during a news conference Sunday in South Bend, Ind., as South Bend Common Council President Tim Scott, left, and police Chief Scott Ruszkowski listen following a fatal shooting by police.

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NATION

Progressive climate policy poised to pass in Oregon

Overflowing Great Lakes pose new threat for endangered bird

BY SARAH ZIMMERMAN

Associated Press

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lower-ing the greenhouse gas emissions behind global warming.

Supporters call it the United States’ most progressive climate policy, saying it not only cuts emissions but invests in transi-tioning the state economy and infrastructure to better prepare for more intense weather events as climate change worsens.

“We have an opportunity to invest a substantial amount into low-income communities off the backs of the 100 or so major pol-luters that caused this problem,” said Shilpa Joshi, with the lobby-ing group Renew Oregon. Joshi has spent years working with dozens of organizations around the state to help shape the final legislation.

Cap and trade has been a top priority this year for Oregon’s majority Democrats, and Gov.

Kate Brown has said she would sign the measure, noting in a statement that “Oregon can be the log that breaks the jam na-tionally” on climate policy.

Though the program’s approv-al is shaping up to be a sure bet, a decade’s worth of baggage from California’s cap-and-trade pro-gram has fractured support for the policy among environmental groups. Some question whether Oregon can truly meet its lofty emission goals and keep its prom-ise to prioritize investments in low-income communities and Na-tive American tribes’ ability to prepare for a changing climate.

The division underscores a larger fight on the left over how to best tackle climate change, which scientists warn poses a global ex-istential threat.

“Strong climate policy requires steep regulations on business and a total transformation of our cur-rent infrastructure,” said Shawn Fleek, with OPAL Environmental Justice, one of the main organiza-tions on the left against the bill. “Cap and trade does none of that. Just like in California, Oregon’s

bill has instead turned into a Frankenstein’s monster in hand-outs to industry.”

Under a cap-and-trade pro-gram, the state puts an overall limit on emissions and auctions off pollution permits or “allow-ances” for each ton of carbon industries plan to emit. Only the largest polluters are targeted, and the idea is that as the emissions limit becomes stricter over time, it will be in industries’ financial interest to switch to green tech-nology. Oregon’s program would begin in 2021, and the state wants to reduce emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.

Most of the money raised — es-timated to total $550 million in the first year — would be used to fund a sweeping progressive platform .

The proposal also contains a $10 million investment to protect workers adversely affected by climate change policy, as some in transportation or manufacturing sector could face layoffs. The leg-islation provides unemployment benefits and pathways to clean energy jobs that, under the law,

must provide competitive wages and benefits.

It’s provisions like these that make the changes some of the country’s most progressive, Joshi said. “We are showing other states that it’s not an impossible dream to hold big polluters ac-countable and use the funds to invest in clean energy and in our most vulnerable communities.”

The plan gets mixed reviews from industries. While some, including Nike and Uber, have come out in favor of cap and trade, others from the logging and agri-cultural sector say it will lead to increased fuel prices, mass lay-

offs and shuttered businesses. Opponents from both parties

note cap and trade likely won’tradically reduce emissions. WhileCalifornia’s emissions have no-ticeably dropped since the state implemented its program lessthan a decade ago, only 20% ofthose reductions can be tied tocap and trade.

Dallas Burtraw, an economist with the think tank Resourcesfor the Future who advises Cali-fornia’s cap-and-trade program,said cap and trade is still the most efficient way to reduce emissions, and could possibly provide Or-egon with an economic boost.

BY JOHN FLESHER

Associated Press

GLEN HAVEN, Mich. — Peering through a spotting scope mounted on a tri-pod, researcher Alice Van Zoeren noticed a piping plover skittering across a sandy, pebble-strewn Lake Michigan beach and hopping into a nest, swapping places with its mate.

“Nest exchange! Did you see it?” Van Zo-eren called to colleagues. Male and female plovers take turns incubating their eggs, and this pair’s flawless changing of the guard is a healthy sign.

Yet trouble is brewing for them — and for other piping plovers, already one of the Great Lakes region’s most endangered species — as water levels surge during a rain-soaked spring that has flooded large areas of the Midwest.

Pools are forming behind several nests along this beach at Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. And the big lake — gray and slightly rippling on an overcast, breezy morning — has crept within a few yards of the plovers’ nesting zone.

Their home could be one storm away from destruction. And this is one of the most hospitable spots for the plump, spar-row-sized shorebirds. Conditions are worse in some places.

The Great Lakes are reaching some of their highest levels since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began keeping records 101 years ago. Streets, businesses and houses have flooded.

Many beaches are shrinking or sub-merged. For tourist-oriented businesses and waterfront homeowners accustomed to wide expanses of sand, that’s a worri-some development.

For piping plovers, it’s a mortal threat.

Squeezed out of familiar turf, they move closer to places with trees and underbrush, where predators lurk, or even flee to urban areas. A pair recently took up residence on one of Chicago’s busiest Lake Michigan beaches.

“The high water levels really put them in danger more than most other species be-cause their habitat has been greatly dimin-ished,” said Vince Cavalieri, piping plover coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Some nests on the Canadian side of the lakes have been swept away, he said.

The Great Lakes generally rise with the snowmelt and rainstorms of spring and dip during later dry spells. Those minor fluc-tuations happen within larger high and low periods that can last years.

But some scientists believe climate

change is causing more frequent and in-tense shifts. Lakes Huron and Michigan hit record low levels in 2013 amid a lengthy slump. An abrupt turnaround followed. Bitter winters froze lake surfaces and lim-ited evaporation, while snowfall and spring downpours got heavier. As parts of the nation’s midsection flooded this year, the lakes filled to the brim.

University of Michigan hydrologist Drew Gronewold and climate scientist Richard Rood concluded in a recent article that “rapid transitions between extreme high and low water levels in the Great Lakes represent the ‘new normal.’ ”

If so, the piping plovers’ situation could become more precarious. Their numbers already have plummeted with shoreline development. The federal government lists

them as threatened in the northern GreatPlains and along the Atlantic coast, where rising sea levels imperil their winteringgrounds. But the Great Lakes population is endangered, hitting a low of just 12 breed-ing pairs in 1990.

Recovery projects are helping; 76 pairs were counted in 2017 and 67 last year. Thisyear’s census is still underway but expect-ed to yield similar results, said Cavalieri,of the Fish and Wildlife Service.

The next few weeks are crucial. Most of this year’s eggs will hatch by the endof June. If additional storms don’t washaway nests, a new batch of youngsters maysurvive.

But long-term prospects will be diceyuntil the waters recede.

Piping plovers are a migratory species,breeding during summers in the northernU.S. and Canada and heading south to win-ter in coastal areas from the Carolinas toTexas.

Once settled in, they spend lots of timeon the ground — building nests, guard-ing eggs, darting about in search of foodsuch as insects, spiders and crustaceans.Their plumage, a mixture of light brownsand grays with a black collar, provides camouflage.

At Sleeping Bear Dunes, home to near-ly half of the Great Lakes plovers duringspring and summer, breeding grounds areroped off and posted with keep-out signs. Nests are topped with cage like enclosuresthat bar entry to predatory merlins, gulls,raccoons, foxes and coyotes but leaveenough space between the wires for theplovers to enter and exit.

In addition to serving as securityguards, professionals and volunteers canperform emergency rescues if flooding isimminent.

SARAH ZIMMERMAN/AP

A truck moves around the Oregon state Capitol in Salem last week during a protest against climate bills that truckers say will put them out of business . Oregon is on the verge of adopting a cap-and-trade program to lower greenhouse gas emissions .

JOHN FLESHER/AP

A child-drawn sign warns visitors of a piping plover nesting area in Glen Haven, Mich. Surging water levels along Lake Michigan are posing a threat to the shorebirds.

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more about Agent Orange. “It probably does the same thing for them as it does for me, it gets a load

off their mind,” he said. “They canthink of things I can’t remember,and I can remember things theycan’t.”

The Missouri native began fighting for disability benefitsin 1997, a year after the atomic

vets were released from secrecy oaths. He learned it was easier toobtain benefits for Agent Orange, since Congress approved the move in 1991, years before atomic vets

could even talk publicly about their experiences. Crosby fought for VA benefits for more

than 20 years. In May 2018, he finally wasapproved for 100 percent coverage.

“Bureaucracy,” Crosby, 86, sa id simply of the enemy he battled all those years.

‘I wanted to go’Crosby grew up in McDonald County,

a rural, poor community in the southwestcorner of Missouri that tried to secede inthe 1960s. Crosby was surrounded by mili-tary lore: Two uncles served in World WarI, and two more in World War II.

“I was almost 13 years old when myuncle came back from Germany, and I wasalways an inquisitive kid,” he said. “I al-ways had a soft spot in my mind and heartfor the military. I wanted to go and stayforever.”

He signed up for the National Guard asa 17-year-old in 1949. Crosby spent fouryears in the Navy, followed by additionalservice in the Guard.

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threat of prison if they revealed the secret

too soon. “They threatened us

with our lives,” Crosby said. “They said they would

come looking for us if we said anything.”

After working with the vet-erans’ association, Crosby

said he’s reliving memo-ries that were buried in a world where the Navy man-tra “loose lips sink ships”

reigned supreme. The atom-ic vets have helped string to-gether portraits of history, as if they are building a grand, tragic puzzle.

He’s also worked with friends and family to learn

— a common ailment for the atomic vets — but no severe illnesses.

He was married and had children before 1962.

“A lot of people had trou-ble with their children. It’s no fun to see your kids suf-fer with sickness,” said Cros-by, who has three sons and 10 grandchildren and has lost count on his great-grandchildren. “But that don’t mean down the road I won’t have it.”

Until 1996, the atomic vets were sworn to silence, forced to keep their burdens from their families, their friends and doctors. They had limited records and medical help for their illnesses, and faced a

FROM FRONT PAGE

Walden’s brush with deadly toxins didn’t stop there. Later, when Walden was based in Thailand, he encountered Agent Or-ange, a harmful chemical used by the U.S. military as a tactical weapon. A s it hap-pens, it was this second hazardous run-in that helped expedite Walden’s search for disability benefits.

The U.S. military has a long history of exposing its servicemembers and their families to dangerous materials and chem-icals. More than 1 million servicemembers have claimed various forms of hazardous exposure, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

During and after World War II, the mili-tary conducted secret mustard gas and other biological experiments with about 60,000 servicemembers. Starting in the 1940s, 200,000 servicemembers or more partici-pated in atomic bomb test experiments and subsequent cleanup operations. During the Vietnam War, more than 722,000 troops have said they were subjected to Agent Or-ange, according to the VA.

More recently, servicemembers have come across burn pits during deployments for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A VA registry for those linked to the toxic smoke from burning trash, human waste, petro-leum, rubber and other debris has reached more than 177,000.

Some advocates, servicemembers and families claim the military is to blame for other recent environmental hazards, such as contaminated water at certain military bases and illnesses related to a housing crisis tied to dangerous mold and other concerns.

The pattern is troubling, said Keith Kief-er, an Air Force veteran who runs the Na-tional Association of Atomic Veterans.

“One has to wonder whether our gov-ernment looks at our soldiers as an expendable resource,” said Kiefer, 62, who became an atomic vet after participating in nuclear test cleanup operations in the Pacific Ocean. “It may be a pessimistic viewpoint, but it’s so common for our veterans to have been ex-posed to various toxins. You have to wonder if you are like a piece of furniture to be discarded at will.”

A grand, tragic puzzleFor Clayton Crosby, 1962 remains

pierced in his sometimes foggy memory.

That year, the Navy electrician second class encountered ionizing radiation and Agent Orange.

Still, the Missouri native considers him-self fortunate. He has ringing in his ears

VETERANS: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

About this seriesDuring the past 10 months, Stars and Stripes reporter Claudia Grisales conducted dozens of interviews with atomic veterans and experts to tell the story of servicemember exposure to nuclear bombs since the 1940s. She reviewed hundreds of pages of government documents related to the tests, as well as publicly accessible photos and videos. We relied on veterans’ personal recollections, photos and records as well as Congressional testimony and documents. Many vets and their families were interviewed about their experiences at the annual National Association of Atomic Veterans conference in Portland, Ore., in September 2018.

Top: The USS Princeton, which operated as troop transport in Vietnam, is on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ list of ships associated with Agent Orange exposure.Courtesy of the U.S. Navy

Left: For Clayton Crosby, who was stationed on the Princeton, the year 1962 remains pierced in his sometimes foggy memory. That year, the Navy electrician second class encountered ionizing radiation and Agent Orange. CLAUDIA GRISALES/Stars and Stripes

Far left: Crosby as a young sailor.Courtesy of Clayton Crosby

Blasts: Military has long history of exposing servicemembers, families to hazardous materials

‘ One has to wonder whether our government looks at our

soldiers as an expendable resource. ’Keith Kiefer

Air Force veteran who runs the National Association of

Atomic Veterans

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Members of the 11th Airborne Division kneel as they watch the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb test at Frenchman’s Flat, Nev ., in November 1951.Library of Congress

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Crosby attended Navy electrician school in San Diego for 13 weeks, fol-lowed by two more weeks as a motion picture operator to show Hollywood films on ships.

He was based on the USS Princeton LPH-5 out of Long Beach, Calif., which traveled to Hawaii, Okinawa Island, Hong Kong, Vietnam and the Philippines dur-ing his time aboard. From Long Beach, Crosby saw billionaire businessman Howard Hughes’ famed Spruce Goose attempt to take flight.

“It’s amazing the things the good Lord has allowed me to see because where I grew up I thought I would just live and die in the same spot,” Crosby said in a raspy drawl. “I’ve lived a very interest-ing life.”

It was early in 1962 when the Princ-eton transported barrels of Agent Orange to Vietnam on its hang ar deck, where Crosby often worked. Decades later, he learned it was a virulent chemical from a relative who was sprayed with Agent Or-ange during the war.

“We’d walk by these barrels; I didn’t know what it was,” he said. “I didn’t ask any questions, because nothing had per-tained to me at the time — I thought.”

As the Princeton returned from the Philippines, Crosby remarked to an of-ficer that it was his last overseas cruise. The officer grinned curiously.

Soon, he learned why: The Princeton was heading to Operation Dominic at Johnston Island in the Pacific.

“I said, ‘Sir, you knew we were coming back,’ ” Crosby remembers asking the of-ficer, “and he said, ‘Yeah, but I couldn’t

say anything.’” The ship would stay at the Pacific Pro-

viding Grounds test site, about 850 miles southwest of Hawaii, for the next three months.

Crosby saw about a dozen tests, includ-ing aerial shots, rockets launched off sub-marines, land launches and plane drops, mostly at night. The sailors, posted about 5 miles from the detonations, got on the flight decks, turn their backs and put their heads between their legs.

Some had goggles, some did not. Some placed their hands over their eyes.

“You could still see the bones and blood vessels in your hand, even with that,” he said.

By the final weeks of their stay, Cros-by’s ship and others were readying plans to head for Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were teetering on a nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

By late October 1962, the confrontation was averted. The Princeton left Johnston Island.

At the time of the atomic bomb tests, Crosby said he was curious and chose to watch.

Today, he hopes to never see anoth-er. But if he does, he hopes to be at its center.

“The best place to be is what they call ground zero,” he said. “You don’t have to worry about anything because there’s nothing left of you. There’s nothing to pick up and put in a cigar box. Not a thing to worry about; don’t have to worry about radiation, sickness or anything.”

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‘ As far as I know, there’s not many of us left from that test. ’Fred Waldenwitness to the Hood shot, the largest detonation in the continental U.S., which he saw from 2 miles away as a Marine

VETERANS: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

Marine Corps veteran Fred Walden holds pictures of his time in the service. Walden has faced a series of health struggles since he saw an atomic bomb blast and was later exposed to Agent Orange. Courtesy of Ann Walden

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‘Why are we doing this?’

Fred Walden lied about his age to join the military.

The native of Fort Smith, Ark., couldn’t land a job and was desperate to leave his hometown. At 16, he told the Marines he was 17.

“I just had to get out of there,” Walden said. “I had been trying to get a job but they wouldn’t hire you without experience. And I couldn’t get experience without a job.”

It sparked a 41-year career with three military branches. After the Marines, Walden served with the Air Force, the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard. Along the way, he was exposed to le-thal ionizing radiation and Agent Orange.

Walden saw the Hood shot, as it was called, for Operation Plumbbob in the Ne-vada desert. It was the largest atmospheric detonation in the continental United States. He was only 2 miles away.

“As far as I know, there’s not many of us left from that test,” he said.

Studies of atomic veterans and subse-quent health issues are hard to come by. In 1999, the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine found atomic vets posted higher than normal death rates for certain cancers, such as leukemia, prostate and nasal cancers. For example, service-members who participated in the Nevada tests posted a 50 percent higher death rate from leukemia.

In hopes of learning more, Brunel Uni-versity in London is in the midst of a three-year DNA study of British atomic veterans, looking to explore the connection between the blasts and illnesses.

The vast majority of all U.S. nuclear veterans are gone. Walden is one of about 10,000, or less than 5 percent, alive today.

Before the July 1957 test, Walden re-members the Marines asking senior mili-tary officers why they were involved. The answer then, like now, doesn’t make sense.

“They said, ‘We want to see what effect the bomb has on personnel and equip-ment,’” he said.

In the late 1960s, Walden was based in Thailand for about 13 months when he en-countered Agent Orange.

During that assignment, he was working in communications and digging six-foot holes to bury cable at a base in Thailand.

Even so, Walden fought the VA for ser-vice-connected disability benefits for years. He also said it was easier to obtain benefits for Agent Orange than his atomic bomb test participation.

“That’s the VA for you,” he said.

‘Two giant fireballs’

About two years into his Marine service, Walden was on his way from Camp Pend-leton to the Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas.

Their destination was Camp Desert Rock, named for the exercises in the Yucca Flat where members of the storied 5th Marines Regiment, 1st Marine Division, would be stationed for the next two weeks.

Walden had a security clearance. The Marines were told the mission was top se-cret, and not to discuss it.

They were also told to hold off having any children for a while.

“They told us we were going on a spe-cial operation,” said the former Marine telephone lineman in the late 1950s. “They didn’t say what it was or what it involved.”

The Marines started test day at 5 a.m., with only a gas mask and a helmet for protection.

Two miles from ground zero, Walden and other troops were told to get in 6-foot-deep trenches.

“Well, that’s what they told us. But when you knelt down, your head was right level with the terrain, so it was probably less,”

Walden said. The countdown started. Walden strug-

gled to put on his gas mask. By the time it reached his face, the blast went off.

Walden was fascinated. “It was brighter than any white light you

could ever see and it was so bright that I could see the smallest pebble in that sand bank with the naked eye,” Walden said. “That light faded and it was like streaks of light ning settling on the ground ... all around.”

Then, the explosion. “It was like two giant fireballs in front of

your eyes,” he said. “Then the first shock-wave rolled out and then the second one was rolling out and the first one was com-ing back in and they met over the trenches and there was another explosion.”

He climbed out and felt the singed hair on the back of his head.

“We stood there watching the mushroom cloud form, and you could see the raw ma-terials being sucked up,” he said.

When the cloud moved off, the Ma-rines and other servicemembers got into their cattle cars and rode to ground zero and back out again. There were smolder-ing mannequins, scorched equipment and masses of melted metal.

Marines ran Geiger counters across Walden and the others. The needles on the

counters, which detect particles of ionizing radiation, nearly bent off the maximum reading, he said.

The Marines were brushed down with small swish brooms.

The needles on the Geiger counters went off scale again.

For a third time, the Marines were brushed down.

Finally, Walden’s needle fell below the max reading.

“They said it was safe. ‘You’re fine,’ ” he remembered. “We went on maneuvers after that.”

Other Marines who weren’t so lucky were told to go take showers, he said.

Then, they put on the same clothes.

‘Nothing to do with war’

At first, lumps formed all over Walden’s body. Cancerous cells surfaced on his shoulder.

In 2001, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and nodules were discovered in his thyroid. Doctors couldn’t tell if the nodules were cancerous, so thyroid removal was the only option because of his radiation history.

After surgery, doctors found the nod-ules weren’t cancerous. For the next year, Walden gained 50 pounds and his sleep

suffered as they sought new medication toaddress the missing thyroid.

“Now, to this day, he has no metabolism,he has to be really careful,” said his wife,Ann, 77.

About five years ago, Fred Walden re-ceived 100 percent, service-connecteddisability coverage through a VA represen-tative in Oakland, Calif. He also received aone-time compensation of $20,000.

“We found a really good VA rep,” hiswife said. “He was the nicest guy and heeven looked me in the eyes and said, ‘Ann,if your husband dies, you come to us andwe will see that you are OK.’ Next time wewent to make an appointment, they saidthat guy was no longer there.”

Walden’s coverage was reversed to 20 percent because he was still walking, thecouple said. They fought the decision,and his disability was later raised to 60percent.

Walden met his wife, a native of GreatBritain, while he was stationed in England for the Air Force in 1961.

“He brings all this stuff up; we’ve beenmarried 57 years and something new will come up,” Ann Walden said. “It seems incredible, like, ‘Really, they used you asguinea pigs?’ And now I am beginning to realize it.”

Ann Walden once told her husband the tests were part of war. But he disagreed,noting that was the case during the twin1945 U.S. nuclear weapon attacks in Japanduring World War II.

“That was Hiroshima and Nagasaki,”he said. “In the ’50s and early ’60s, that’sstrictly tests for the convenience of the gov-ernment. It had nothing to do with war.”

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WORLD

BY YANAN WANG

Associated Press

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to North Korea this week, state media announced Monday, as U.S. talks with North Korea on its nuclear program are at an appar-ent standstill.

Xi will meet with North Ko-rean leader Kim Jong Un during the visit on Thursday and Friday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said. It said the trip will be the first to North Korea by a Chinese leader in 14 years.

North Korea’s official Korean

Central News Agency also an-nounced the visit but provided no further details.

The visit coincides with the 70th anniversary of the estab-lishment of diplomatic relations between China and North Korea, CCTV said. The broadcaster added the leaders will exchange views on the situation on the Ko-rean Peninsula.

The visit comes as negotia-tions between the U.S. and North Korea appear to have reached an impasse.

A summit in Vietnam in Feb-ruary between Kim and Presi-dent Donald Trump failed after

the U.S. rejected North Korea’s request for extensive relief from U.N. sanctions in exchange for dismantling its main nuclear complex, a partial disarmament step. Since the summit’s break-down, no major contacts between the U.S. and North Korea have been announced.

Kim traveled to the Russian Far East in April for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The move was viewed as aimed at strengthening his leverage over Washington and persuading Moscow to loosen its implementa-tion of the international sanctions

against North Korea.Last month, North Korea fired

short-range missiles and other weapons into the sea in an appar-ent effort to apply pressure on the U.S.

KCNA reported in April that Kim said he will give the U.S. “till the end of the year” to reach out with further proposals.

Since taking office in 2012, Xi has met with Kim four times in China. The meetings were timed in proximity to Kim’s meetings with Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, highlight-ing Beijing’s role as a player in the nuclear standoff.

Associated Press

LE BOURGET, France — France, Germany and Spain agreed Monday to develop a Eu-ropean fighter jet and air combat system as they bolster efforts to reduce their dependency on the United States.

Defense ministers from the three countries signed an agree-ment at the Paris Air Show that lays out how the countries will cooperate on the project, which would include a new-generation combat aircraft.

French President Emmanuel Macron presided over the sign-ing. The project fits in with his ambition to increase European cooperation at a time when the United States under President Donald Trump is showing an in-creasing reluctance to support

the continent militarily.It’s going to take time, though.

The Future Combat Air System, or FCAS, is not expected to be operational until 2040. Require-ments for the air combat system, which will also include drones, will be decided by 2027, and the development phase should start by 2030.

French Defense Minister Flor-ence Parly said the deal is “con-crete proof that Europe is capable of anticipating tomorrow’s great strategic challenges.”

“The FCAS is a major asset to tackle the power struggles of the second half of the 21st century. What is happening today is his-toric,” she said.

Dassault Aviation and Airbus are set to build the jets, which will eventually replace Rafale and Eurofighters.

The program was launched by Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2017.

Airbus says it will be connected and operable with a wide variety of aircraft, satellites and NATO

systems as well as land and naval combat systems.

Authorities have not said how much it would cost, but the dpa news agency estimates it could be $112 billion.

BY RAF WOBER AND BORG WONG

Associated Press

HONG KONG — Protesters in Hong Kong left the streets, avert-ing possible clashes Monday after haggling for hours with police by moving to areas near the city’s government headquarters.

The demonstrators who stayed after a massive protest march the day before, demanding that Chief Executive Carrie Lam abandon a proposed extradition bill, were seen streaming Monday morning into a space outside Hong Kong’s Legislative Council after police who had cleared it reopened the area. Their decision to move al-lowed police to reopen streets to traffic.

The activists have rejected an apology from Lam for her han-dling of the legislation, which has stoked fears of expanding control from Beijing in this former Brit-ish colony.

“We are very angry that Car-rie Lam has not responded to the demands of all the protesters,

but now is the time to talk about strategy, and talk about strategy as to about how to make the whole struggle into a long-term struggle and not a day struggle,” said Lee Cheuk-yan, a former legislator and activist. “So if Carrie Lam

does not respond to the five de-mands by the protesters, people will come back and the struggle will continue.”

Shortly after daybreak, the police had asked for coopera-tion in clearing the road but said

the protesters could stay on the sidewalks.

For a time, the protesters, many in masks and other gear to guard against possible use of tear gas, responded with chants, some kneeling in front of the officers.

Hundreds were lying or sitting on the roads until they agreed to move to the plaza outside the gov-ernment building and a spacious nearby park.

Activists had called on Hong Kong residents to boycott classes and work, though it was unclear how many might heed that call.

Nearly 2 million of the city’s 7 million people turned out on Sunday, according to estimates by protest organizers. Police said 338,000 were counted on the des-ignated protest route in the “peak period” of the march.

A week earlier, as many as 1 million people demonstrated to voice their concern over Hong Kong’s relations with mainland China in one of the toughest tests of the territory’s special status since Beijing took control in a 1997 handover.

Japan protests Chinese activity near islands

TOKYO — Japan is protesting what it says was an unauthorizedChinese maritime survey within its economic waters near disput-ed East China Sea islands.

Japan’s Foreign Ministry saidit lodged a protest with Beijingafter a Chinese maritime re-search ship was seen dropping awirelike object into the water offthe northwestern coast of Japa-nese-controlled Senkaku islandson Sunday. China also claims theislands, which it calls Diaoyu.

The ministry said Monday it urged China to immediately stopthe survey.

Also Monday, Japan’s coastguard said four Chinese patrol ships violated Japanese territo-rial waters off the Senkaku.

Japan’s Defense Ministry says aChinese frigate was spotted Sun-day near the Miyako Strait, and a Chinese reconnaissance aircraftwas flying above the East ChinaSea. The latter prompted Japan to scramble a fighter jet.

Vatican opens debate on married priests

VATICAN CITY — The Vati-can has formally opened debate on letting married men be or-dained as priests in remote parts of the Amazon where priests are so few that Catholics can goweeks or months without attend-ing a Mass.

The proposal was in a working document released Monday for anOctober meeting of South Ameri-can bishops on the Amazon.

The document, prepared by theVatican based on input from theregion, affirmed that celibacy is a gift for the church.

But it suggested officials study “the possibility of priestly ordi-nation for older men, preferablyindigenous and respected andaccepted by their communities, even if they have stable fami-lies, for the region’s most remoteareas.”

Pope Francis, history’s firstLatin American pope, has focusedattention on the sacramental andenvironmental plight of Amazo-nian communities.

Former first lady leads Guatemalan election

GUATEMALA CITY — A for-mer first lady is leading earlyresults from Guatemala’s presi-dential election with votes tal-lied from a third of the pollingcenters.

A second round of voting is expected to determine who will oversee this Central Americannation, where tens of thousandshave fled poverty and gang vio-lence this year to seek a new lifein the United States.

Sandra Torres had 24% of thevote in early counting, followedby four-time presidential candi-date Alejandro Giammattei, with15%.

At this rate, no candidate willwin the more than 50% of votes needed to assume the post, re-quiring a runoff that’s likely totake place in August. Presidentsare limited to a single four-year term. From The Associated Press

Chinese president to visit N. Korea

France, Germany, Spain in European fighter jet deal

BENOIT TESSIER, POOL PHOTO/AP

French President Emmanuel Macron, along with aviation and defense officials from France, Germany and Spain, attend the unveiling of the New Generation Fighter model at Le Bourget Airport near Paris on Monday.

VINCENT YU/AP

Protesters who camped out overnight take a rest along a main road near the Legislative Council after continuing to protest an unpopular extradition bill in Hong Kong on Monday .

Police in Hong Kong clear streets as protesters relocate

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BY DAKE KANG AND YANAN WANG

Associated Press

SHENZHEN, China — Hua-wei’s founder said Monday that the Chinese telecom giant’s rev-enue will be $30 billion less than forecast over the next two years, as he compared the company to a “badly damaged plane” as a result of U.S. government actions against it.

“We never thought that the U.S.’ determination to attack Huawei would be so strong, so firm,” Ren Zhengfei, who is also the CEO, said during a panel dis-cussion at company headquarters in Shenzhen.

Ren said Huawei will reduce capacity and expects revenues of about $100 billion annually for the next two years, compared with $105 billion in 2018. In Feb-ruary, he said the company was targeting $125 billion in 2019.

Huawei’s overseas cellphone sales will drop by 40%, Ren said, confirming a Bloomberg report published Sunday.

But the Chinese market is growing rapidly, and Huawei will not allow restrictive measures to curb its research and develop-ment, he added.

Huawei is embroiled in an ongoing trade dispute between China and the U.S., which has ac-

cused Chinese companies such as Huawei of committing forced technology transfers and steal-ing trade secrets. Last month, the U.S. placed Huawei on its “En-tity List,” which effectively bars American companies from sell-ing components to Huawei with-out government approval.

In December, Huawei chief fi-nancial officer Meng Wanzhou —

Ren’s daughter — was arrested in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities. The U.S. alleges that Meng misled American banks about the company’s business dealings with Iran and that Hua-wei used a Hong Kong shell com-pany to sell equipment in Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.

The U.S. also claims Huawei, a leader in next-generation 5G

cellphone networks, is a threat to global cybersecurity because it must obey China’s ruling Commu-nist Party. While Ren denies that Huawei would share user data with the Chinese government if ordered to do so, Washington has been trying to persuade its allies to exclude Huawei from their up-coming 5G rollout.

In response, Huawei brought a lawsuit in the U.S. this March challenging the constitutional-ity of a national security law which prevents the U.S. govern-ment and its contractors from using Huawei equipment. The complaint, filed in Plano, Texas, where Huawei’s American opera-tions are headquartered, alleges that the law singles out Huawei for punishment while denying the company due process.

Ren said Monday there are no backdoors in its equipment that anyone could access, and that Huawei is willing to enter into a no backdoor agreement with any nation that wants one.

The Wall Street Journal re-ported last week that Huawei is asking Verizon to pay licensing fees for more than 200 of its pat-ents. While Huawei declined to comment on the matter, company spokesman Joe Kelly said it will hold a briefing later this month on being more aggressive about collecting intellectual property

licensing fees.Ren said during the panel dis-

cussion that Huawei will not useits many patents as a “weapon,”but did not rule out seeking royal-ties for usage.

He emphasized that Huaweiwill not stop collaborating withother countries and businesses.

The company’s current situa-tion “is not caused by Americanbusinesses, but rather by certainpoliticians’ different perspec-tives,” Ren said. “I think bothsides will suffer. No one will win.”

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Military ratesEuro costs (June 18) .........................$1.1530Dollar buys (June 18) .......................€0.8673British pound (June 18) ....................... $1.29Japanese yen (June 18) .....................105.00South Korean won (June 18) .........1,156.00

Commercial ratesBahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770British pound .....................................$1.2588Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3408China (Yuan) ........................................6.9247Denmark (Krone) ................................6.6444Egypt (Pound) ....................................16.7705Euro ........................................$1.1239/0.8898Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.8305Hungary (Forint) .................................286.82Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.6086Japan (Yen) ...........................................108.59Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3041Norway (Krone) ................................... 8.7212Philippines (Peso).................................52.26Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.79Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7501Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3702South Korea (Won) ..........................1,186.35Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9983Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.34Turkey (Lira) .........................................5.8679(Military exchange rates are those available to customers at military banking facilities in the country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., purchasing British pounds in Germany), check with your local military banking facility. Commercial rates are interbank rates provided for reference when buying currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, which is represented in dollars-to-pound, and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)

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INTEREST RATESPrime rate ................................................ 5.50Discount rate .......................................... 3.00Federal funds market rate ................... 2.373-month bill ............................................. 2.1230-year bond ........................................... 2.59

WEATHER OUTLOOK

Mildenhall/Lakenheath

62/50

Ramstein77/44

Stuttgart78/56

Lajes,Azores65/62

Rota70/57

Morón83/56 Sigonella

90/66

Naples83/67

Aviano/Vicenza79/62

Pápa79/64

Souda Bay78/72

TUESDAY IN EUROPE

Brussels78/56

Bahrain96/93

Baghdad107/78

Doha113/84

KuwaitCity

109/81

Riyadh108/83

Djibouti104/89

Kandahar101/68

Kabul86/81

TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC

Misawa64/55

Guam84/81

Tokyo77/60

Okinawa80/77

Sasebo75/65

Iwakuni71/66

Seoul68/64

Osan69/64 Busan

74/65

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2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.

BUSINESS/WEATHER

Huawei CEO: Revenue billions below forecast

Pfizer to buy Array BioPharma in deal worth $11.4BAssociated Press

NEW YORK — Pfizer is buying the cancer treatment company Array BioPharma in a deal worth $11.4 billion.

Array has a combination ther-apy for BRAF-mutant metastatic

melanoma, along with a pipeline of targeted cancer medicines in development and a portfolio of other medicines that are expect-ed to generate significant royal-ties over time.

It announced significant ad-

vancement in the treatment of colorectal cancer last month.

Array’s employees will remain in their current locations, which include Cambridge, Mass . ; Mor-risville, N .C . ; Boulder, Col o.; La Jolla, Calif .; and Pearl River, N .Y .

Pfizer Inc. will pay $48 per share and expects the deal to close in the second half of the year.

Shares of Array BioPharma Inc. surged 60 percent before the opening bell Monday.

DAKE KANG/AP

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, at a roundtable at the telecom giant’s headquarters in Shenzhen in southern China on Monday, said U.S. actions will reduce the company’s revenue by billions of dollars.

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The ban is on lead sinkers and jigs weighing an ounce or less. It applies to all fresh water in the state. Last year, eight loons were confirmed dead after ingesting lead sinkers and jigs up to 1.03 ounces.

Anglers can exchange an ounce or more of the banned tackle for a $10 gift certificate redeemable at eight tackle shops. One exchange is permitted per customer from now through Labor Day, or until the initial 1,200 certificates are claimed.

Twins with identical GPAs co-valedictorians

IN JEFFERSONVILLE — Two southern Indi-

ana brothers who are identical twins with identical GPAs shar ed their high school’s valedictorian honors.

Cole and Brady Paradowski, who have grown up doing every-thing together, were named co-valedictorians of Jeffersonville High School’s class of 2019.

Cole Paradowski told WAVE-TV he was nervous before his sibling spoke during the commencement at the school in the Ohio River city just north of Louisville . But he said that once his brother de-livered his valedictorian address, he was more confident.

The brothers will both be at-tending Purdue University and studying computer science.

Driver hauling chickens falls asleep at wheel

OH TUSCARAWAS — The driver of a semitrailer

hauling Case Farm chickens fell asleep Friday morning, causing his truck to overturn along east-bound U.S. Route 30 on the Pi-geon Run bridge.

According to the Ohio Highway Patrol, the man said he fell asleep and that when he awoke, the truck was veering off the road-way and into the guardrail and embankment.

Crews were called to the scene about 5:30 a.m. and found the truck cab perched on top of the embankment of the bridge .

The majority of the chickens remained in the truck and others that were thrown from the truck huddled together.

Protesters strip, get painted in Times Square

NY NEW YORK — Several dozen people stripped

naked and got their bodies paint-ed in New York’s Times Square as part of what was billed as a pro-test against “divisiveness.”

The event Saturday was orga-nized by body artist Andy Golub. He has staged similar nude Times Square protests in years past.

Golub said the world we’re liv-ing in “is very divisive.” He said people have “much more in com-mon” than they are different.

Samantha Walsh traveled from Toronto to take part. Walsh, who uses a wheelchair, said body painting disrupts the way people think about “whose bodies are valuable.”

Landing plane blows tires, skids on runway

NJ NEWARK — Authorities sa id a plane blew tires

while landing at Newark Liberty International Airport, sending it skidding on the runway before coming to a halt.

United Airlines said Flight 627 from Denver was landing at 1 p.m. Saturday with 166 passen-gers when the tires blew.

United spokesman Robert Ein-horn said the plane remained on the runway. The FAA initially said it skidded off the pavement but later said it “veered to the left side of the pavement.”

The airline said some passen-gers with minor injuries refused medical attention and no one was seriously injured.

Man buys tiny strip of $50 land for $9,100

FL FORT LAUDERDALE — A South Florida man

thought he snagged a deal whenhe paid $9,100 in an online auc-tion for what he thought was a villa. What he got was a 1-foot-by-100-foot strip of land.

The land, valued at only $50,starts on a curb and goes under a wall separating two villas in the Spring Lake community and then out to the back of the lot.

An official told the South Flor-ida Sun Sentinel there’s not a lotKerville Holness can do about his purchase.

Holness said he was deceived.He said property appraiser pho-tos linked to the auction site showa villa on the parcel on which hebid. But the newspaper says theappraiser’s site and informationon the county’s tax site show nobuilding value.

Vet turns 101, receives over 5K birthday cards

UT OREM — A WorldWar II veteran in Utah

whose family hoped to get him 101 cards for his 101st birthday said they have been overwhelmed and grateful because over 5,000 cards have been sent to John Frey.

The Daily Herald reported that Frey ended up with cards fromall 50 states and at least 12 coun-tries on his June 7 birthday.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, UtahSen. Mitt Romney and state con-gressmen Ben McAdams andJohn Curtis also sent Frey notes.

He said the excitement hasbeen a bit tiring for him, and hisfamily plans to load up his roomwith as many cards as they can.

The approximate amount paid at auction for a Babe Ruth road jersey dating to 1928-30. Hunt Auctions, which handled Saturday’s sale, said the price breaks a record for the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia

ever sold. A Ruth jersey from 1920 previously sold for $4,415,658. The auction was conducted at Yankee Stadium.

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From wire reports

AMERICAN ROUNDUP

$5.6M

1897 map error creates modern-day headaches

SC SUMMERVILLE — A mapping error from

1897 is causing 21st-century headaches for people living near Charleston.

Surveyors 122 years ago messed up drawing the county line be-tween Berkeley and Dorchester counties.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that the mis-take was officially corrected last year, leaving an apartment com-plex and a senior living home split between the two counties.

State officials have been work-ing for a decade to precisely map county boundaries.

Tenants at the Farmington Vil-lage Apartments are told that the unit they select will decide wheth-er their children go to schools in Berkeley County or Dorchester County. The Village at Sum-merville senior living complex is split, too, but has arranged to have Dorchester County Emer-gency Medical Service answer all of its calls.

Oxygen masks donatedfor animals in fires

MS TUPELO — Some emergency respond-

ers in Mississippi are receiving oxygen masks to help animals that are rescued from fires.

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported that do-nors gave $800. That was enough to buy 18 masks — one for each of the fire stations in Tupelo and in Lee County.

The masks work on animals the same way they do on humans. The conical mask is attached to an oxygen tank, then the mask is slipped over the muzzle to provide oxygen to an animal that might have been overcome with smoke.

4th LGBTQ celebration to be held at Navy Pier

IL CHICAGO — A daylong celebration of LGBTQ

culture in Chicago will return for a fourth year to Navy Pier.

Navy Pier Pride by American Airlines will be June 29. The free event will run from noon to 11 p.m. Organizers say it “will include a variety of festivities to embrace diversity and celebrate the vibrant LGBTQ culture in Chicago.”

Activities will range from build-your-own pride bracelets to musical performance by the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus and a fireworks display. Pride flags are decorating Navy Pier all month, and the symbolic rainbow colors are displayed in the center digital screen of the Centennial Wheel.

Lead poisons 2 loons; tackle buyback offered

NH MOULTONBOR-OUGH — New

Hampshire’s Loon Preservation Committee said it’s recorded two cases of loons poisoned by lead sinkers and jigs this year, and it’s reminding fishermen about the ban on the tackle, as well as an offer to buy it back.

THE CENSUS

Stilt dancing at Puerto Rican FestA man on stilts dances as he takes part in the Puerto Rican Fest parade in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood Saturday .

AMR ALFIKY/AP

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FACES

Associated Press

A decade after seemingly wrapping up “The Hunger Games,” Suzanne Collins is bringing readers back to Panem. A prequel, set 64 years before the beginning of her mul-timillion-selling trilogy, is coming next year.

The novel, currently untitled, is sched-uled for release on May 19, 2020. Collins said in a statement Monday that she would go back to the years following the so-called “Dark Days,” the failed rebellion in Panem. Collins set the “Hunger Games” books in a post-apocalyptic dystopia where young people must fight and kill each other, on live television.

“With this book, I wanted to explore the state of nature, who we are, and what we per-ceive is required for our survival,” she said. “The reconstruction period 10 years after the war, commonly referred to as the Dark Days — as the country of Panem struggles back to its feet — provides fertile ground for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby define their views of humanity.”

The book is set well before the lifetime of “Hunger Games” heroine Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence in the billion-dollar movie franchise.

The first three “Hunger Games” books — “The Hunger Games,” “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay” — have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into more than 50 languages.

Collins has cited her father as a reason for her lifelong studies of war, and cited both contemporary and classical culture as inspi-rations for “The Hunger Games.”

Franchise fatigue continues with ‘Men in Black,’ ‘Shaft’

Brand familiarity isn’t everything when it comes to attracting audiences to the multi-plex, and Hollywood is learning that lesson the hard way this summer with a slew of un-derperforming sequels and reboots. That so-called franchise fatigue came to a head this

weekend with the releases of “Men in Black: International” and “Shaft.”

The writing may have been on the wall after neither an X-Men movie (“Dark Phoe-nix”) nor a Godzilla movie (“Godzilla: King of the Monsters”) could get moviegoers en-thusiastic enough to turn out. But this week-end, down more than 50% from last year, is the worst yet.

There’s a common denominator be-tween all the recent disappointments: Poor reviews.

“Men in Black: International” took the No. 1 spot in North America, but it’s a dubi-ous distinction for the Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth-led reboot, which isn’t ex-actly the franchise-revitalizer it hoped to be. The film earned an estimated $28.5 million over the weekend against a reported $110 million production budget. International markets added $73.7 million, bringing the film’s global total to $102.2 million.

The weekend’s other big new release, “Shaft,” which introduces another genera-tion to the franchise, couldn’t even crack the top five, coming in sixth with $8.3 million.

“The Secret Life of Pets 2” was No. 2 in its second weekend with $23.8 million. Disney’s “Aladdin,” now in weekend four, took third with $16.7 million. “Dark Phoenix” placed fourth with $9 million and “Rocketman” fin-ished fifth with $8.8 million.

Taylor Swift’s new video features Ellen, RuPaul

Taylor Swift’s new music video features a number of famous faces, including Ellen De-Generes, Laverne Cox, RuPaul and the cast of “Queer Eye.”

The clip for her song “You Need to Calm Down,” in which Swift calls out homophobes and her own haters, was released Monday.

Ryan Reynolds, Billy Porter, Todrick Hall, Hayley Kiyoko, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Adam Rippon also make appearances in the colorful video.

The clip closes with Swift and Katy Perry

— dressed as french fries and a hamburger — hugging. The two mended their friendship last year after publicly feuding.

Other news

� Naomi Wolf’s U.S. publisher is postpon-ing the release of her new book, “Outrages,” after a BBC interviewer challenged some of her findings. Wolf is openly objecting to the delay. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt an-nounced that “new questions” had come up about “Outrages,” originally scheduled to come out next week. It has already been pub-lished in the United Kingdom.

� Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, who delighted audiences around the world with his romantic vision and extravagant pro-ductions, most famously captured in his cinematic “Romeo and Juliet” and the mini-series “Jesus of Nazareth,” died June 15 at 96. Zeffirelli also produced classic operas and plays.

� Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage has given $25,000 to the Southern Poverty Law Center after the watchdog organization helped him while he was in federal immigra-tion custody earlier this year. The rapper, whose real name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested Feb. 3 in what U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has said was a targeted operation over his ex-pired visa. Abraham-Joseph is a British citi-zen and moved to the U.S. when he was 7.

� O.J. Simpson has launched a Twitter ac-count with a video post in which the former football star says he’s got a “little gettin’ even to do.” Simpson confirmed the new account to The Associated Press on June 14. In the video, Simpson said his Twitter followers would get to read all his thoughts and opin-ions on just about everything.

� Rapper, comedian and actor Nick Can-non is joining Los Angeles hip-hop radio sta-tion Power 106 as host of its morning show. “Nick Cannon Mornings” launches Monday from 5 to 10 a.m. Cannon hosts Fox’s “The Masked Singer” and MTV’s “Wild ‘N Out.”

Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepidheiress, artist and romantic whobegan her extraordinary life asthe “poor little rich girl” of theGreat Depression, survived fami-ly tragedy and multiple marriagesand reigned during the 1970s and’80s as a designer jeans pioneer,died Monday at the age of 95.

Vanderbilt was the great-great-granddaughter of financier Cor-nelius Vanderbilt and the motherof CNN newsman Anderson Coo-per, who announced her death viaa first-person obituary that airedon the network Monday morning.

Cooper said Vanderbilt died at home with friends and family at her side. She had been sufferingfrom advanced stomach cancer,he noted.

“Gloria Vanderbilt was an ex-traordinary woman, who lovedlife, and lived it on her own terms,”Cooper said in a statement. “Shewas a painter, a writer, and de-signer but also a remarkable mother, wife, and friend. She was 95 years old, but ask anyone closeto her, and they’d tell you, she wasthe youngest person they knew, the coolest, and most modern.”

Her life was chronicled in sen-sational headlines from her child-hood through four marriages andthree divorces. She married forthe first time at 17, causing her aunt to disinherit her. Her hus-bands included Leopold Stokows-ki, the celebrated conductor, and Sidney Lumet, the award-winningmovie and television director. In 1988, she witnessed the suicide ofone of her four sons.

Tributes online came from cel-e Vanderbilt was a talented paint-er and collagist who also acted onthe stage and television . She was a fabric designer who becamean early enthusiast for designerdenim. The dark-haired, tall andultra-thin Vanderbilt partnered with Mohan Murjani, who intro-duced a $1 million advertisingcampaign in 1978 that turned theGloria Vanderbilt brand with itssignature white swan label into a sensation.

At its peak in 1980, it was gen-erating more than $200 million insales. And decades later, famous-name designer jeans — dressed up or down — remain a woman’s wardrobe staple.

Vanderbilt wrote several books,including the 2004 chronicle of her love life: “It Seemed Important atthe Time: A Romance Memoir,” which drops such names as ErrolFlynn, whom she dated as a teen-ager; Frank Sinatra, for whomshe left Stokowski; Marlon Bran-do and Howard Hughes.

She claimed her only happymarriage was to author WyattCooper, which ended with hisdeath in 1978 at age 50. From The Associated Press

Hairy scenario

‘Hunger Games’ prequel novel coming in 2020

BY AMANDA LEE MYERS

Associated Press

When it came to their kiss-ing scenes in Netflix’s “Murder Mystery,” Jennifer Aniston had one requirement of costar Adam Sandler.

“I did have him learn to oil the beard up a little bit,” the actress said . “Conditioned.”

Sandler said kissing his long-time friend on camera isn’t that awkward, except when his wife Jackie and children are on set en-couraging him a little too much.

“The only awkward part is hearing my wife on the side going, ‘Harder! Harder! Kiss her harder! Deeper!’ ” he joked. “They (Jackie and the kids) watched the kissing. They love it. They love Aniston, and they want her to have good things and they say, ‘Give her something nice.’ ”

“That was awkward,” Aniston said.

“Murder Mystery” follows a longtime married couple who get framed for murder while they’re

unlikely guests on a billionaire’s yacht in Europe. The movie pre-miered on Netflix on June 14.

Asked what the movie gets right about marriage, Aniston said teamwork.

“Right; that when it’s working good, it’s teamwork,” Sandler said. “I like that there was no question you and I, our characters, are to-gether, even when we were not getting along. When it was going back and forth with being upset with each other it was never an option of saying, ‘I don’t know if I can handle this anymore.’ It was more like, ‘We’ve got to figure this out.’ That’s nice.”

“Murder Mystery” is the sec-ond film collaboration for Anis-ton and Sandler, who have been friends for 30 years . The first was “Just Go With It” from 2011.

The actors said knowing each other for so long makes their jobs on the set much easier.

“We like to laugh, like to enjoy, like to collaborate, and that makes it really fun,” Aniston said.

WILLY SANJUAN, INVISION/AP

“Murder Mystery” stars Adam Sandler, left, and Jennifer Aniston pose Tuesday at the Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey in Los Angeles.

Sandler’s beard complicates kissing scenes with costar Aniston on ‘Murder Mystery’ set

AP

Gloria Vanderbilt, in 1964

Heiress, jeans queen Vanderbilt dies at 95

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BY CHARLES FLEMING

Los Angeles Times

While much of the automotive world is abandoning cars in favor of SUVs, Honda is in-creasing its stake in coupes

and sedans by introducing a refreshed line of Civics and adding a Sport model to the family.

That’s a direct appeal to younger buyers, Honda executives said as they introduced the new model. Almost 60% of first-time car buyers purchase a sedan, they said, and a lot of them buy Civics. Honda says its bestselling model is the top retail car in the country — for the last three years running.

“Cars remain very important to us,” said Steve Center, the company’s vice president for auto sales. “The Civic represents an entry to the brand, and our way of dominat-ing the front door. Buyers tend to graduate up the Honda product line.”

The Sport represents the brand’s attempt to make the Civic sexy. Critics will prob-ably dismiss this as the automotive equiva-lent of putting playing cards in your bicycle spokes to make it sound like a motorcycle. But in fact the car is sharper-looking and much more fun to drive than the standard Civic, at a price point that young buyers will have a hard time resisting.

All of the 2019 Civics receive a new look — lower and wider bumpers, new grille — that someone who’s not looking closely

might not appreciate. Though it’s sleeker and sportier, it still looks very much like a Civic. In other words, it’s quite sensible and a bit dull.

Despite that, Honda folks said that for

the first time in the car’s history custom-ers have added “styling” to their list of top five reasons they’d buy a Civic.

There are interior improvements as well, including a larger cup holder, bet-ter sound-deadening materials and back-by-popular-demand physical buttons for volume and climate control. All the Civics also come standard with Honda Sensing, the suite of safety features that includes adaptive cruise control, emergency brak-ing, lane-keeping assist and more.

The new Sport receives superior suspen-sion and quicker steering. Scooting around the city and through a canyon or two, I found it responsive and light on its feet.

Even though Honda representatives said only 6% of Civic buyers opt for a manual transmission, I picked the one with the stick, the better to appreciate the car’s en-gine. (The Sport trim is also available with a CVT automatic transmission fitted with paddle shifters as an $800 upgrade.)

The Sport is powered by Honda’s effi-cient 2-liter, four-cylinder engine, which puts out 158 horsepower and 138 pound-feet of torque. (A 1.5-liter turbocharged engine that makes 174 horsepower is avail-able on higher trims, and also comes in the Civic Hatchback Sport.)

That’s not massive, but on the light, spry Civic, especially with a stick shift, it was enough to entertain while staying miserly with the fuel. Honda says the Civic Sport gets up to 36 mpg on the highway.

More comfort and more sophisticat-

ed technology can be found on the EX,EX-L and Touring Civic models. I foundthe Sport pleasantly analog. More bellsand whistles means more things that can go wrong, and I liked the simple dash and the absence of complexity to the HVACand navigation systems.

Visibility is good, and made better by arear-view picture that appears in the info-tainment screen when the right turn signalis engaged.

The sport-style, manually adjusted seatsare not the last word in comfort, but they seemed adequate. The interior materials soaked up much of the tire and wind noise.The entry-level sound system did its jobpretty well.

The rear seating is adequate for average-size humans, and the trunk is big enough toload up for the links.

Honda is counting on the Sport to sell well. Senior product planner Dan Calhounsaid 35% of Civic coupe sales will be Sportmodels, as will 30% of Civic sedan sales,based on numbers already in on the 2019 model-year cars.

Some of those buyers might not havebeen Civic buyers at all. But some couldturn into Honda owners for life.

Many who buy entry-level coupes andhatchbacks today will buy a Honda Odys-sey minivan in 10 years, Honda spokesmanJimmy Jenkins said.

“This is a customer we cherish,” hesaid.

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

SHIFTING GEARS

2019 Honda Civic Sport

L.A. Times’ take: A sexy Civic?Highs: Fun to drive, easy to affordLows: Still stuck in design doldrumsVehicle type: Four-door, five-passenger coupeBase price: $22,070Price as tested: $22,070Powertrain: 2-liter, four-cylinder gasoline engineTransmission: Six-speed stick shiftPower/torque: 158 horsepower/138 foot-poundsEPA fuel economy rating: 25 mpg city/36 highway/29 combined

TNS

Civic Sport shows sedans are not deadPHOTOS COURTESY OF WES ALLISON, HONDA/ TNS

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BY RAMESH PONNURU

Bloomberg Opinion

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said that America should protect “four freedoms”: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom

from want and freedom from fear. As he runs for president, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is presenting his “democratic so-cialism” as a way to finish FDR’s work. Judging from Sanders’ speech defining the concept, he has added a fifth freedom: freedom from facts.

Wednesday’s address was a long denial of reality. Through evasion and distortion, Sanders pretends that socialism has never proved oppressive to freedom and that capitalism has never led to widespread progress.

If Sanders wins the Democratic nomina-tion, he had better hope that the economy falls into recession — because his speech suggests that his only idea of how to cam-paign against an incumbent during an eco-nomic boom is to claim it isn’t happening. It’s “a so-called booming economy,” Sand-ers said, one reflected in “macroeconomic numbers” but not people’s lives. The people themselves don’t seem to agree. Accord-ing to Gallup, 51% of Americans rate the economy “excellent” or “good,” the highest number since the start of 2001.

Over the last few years, Gallup has also found that most Americans think the economy is getting better. Those numbers

are as good as they have been since 2000. We’re hitting records for the percentage of Americans who think it’s “a good time to find a quality job.” If Sanders is right, that’s a lot of false consciousness out there.

To sell socialism, Sanders doesn’t just wish away today’s good economy. He claims that we have had a very long stretch of stagnation: “The average wage of the American worker in real dollars is no high-er than it was 46 years ago, and millions of people are forced to work two or three jobs just to survive.” Sanders can reach his conclusion about wages only by ignoring non wage benefits such as health care and using a different adjustment for inflation than the one that the Federal Reserve and the Congressional Budget Office prefer. Use a measure of inflation that corrects for the technical deficiencies of older mea-sures, and the average wage has grown by more than 20% over the last 46 years. Since benefits have grown as a percentage of compensation, average compensation has almost certainly grown even more. As for people holding more than one job, they’re 5% of all workers, and the percentage has fallen over the last quarter-century.

The senator stacks the deck when it comes to our political choices too. As he tells it, the world has two options: right-wing authoritarianism or democratic so-cialism. He posits a world in which the phenomenon of left-wing authoritarian-ism has never existed. As Yascha Mounk writes in the Atlantic:

“Sanders name-checked Adolf Hitlerand Benito Mussolini but remained silent about [Jose f] Stalin and Mao Zedong. Andwhile he rightly decried the autocratic ten-dencies of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte,Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, and Hungary’sViktor Orban, he neglected to mention left-ist autocrats such as Venezuela’s NicolasMaduro, Cuba’s Raul Castro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, Zimbabwe’s EmmersonMnangagwa, or North Korea’s Kim Jung Un.”

The idea that socialism could ever gobadly wrong emerges in Sanders’ speechas the invention of “red-baiters,” who op-posed FDR and Harry Truman by callingthem socialists. This is a less useful pointfor Sanders than he thinks, since unlikehim, FDR and Truman denied being so-cialists — and Truman’s foreign policy was certainly alive to the dangers of socialism.

On the spectrum from pure socialismto pure capitalism, those past Democraticpresidents were closer to the left end than the Republicans were. But they knewthere was such a thing as going too far tothe left, and they knew that most Ameri-cans agreed. Sanders shows no evidenceof agreeing. His view of the electorate mayprove to be as disconnected from reality ashis view of capitalism and socialism.Ramesh Ponnuru is a Bloomberg Opinioncolumnist. He is a senior editor at National Review, visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and contributor to CBS News.

BY RON FOURNIER

Special to The Washington Post

Late at night on Aug. 15, 1998, a source called me from the White House residence. He wanted me to know that President Bill Clinton

had decided to tell a federal grand jury that he had an “inappropriate relationship” with Monica Lewinsky. After months of denials, Clinton would come clean. “He has crossed the Rubicon,” the source said.

I filed the story for The Associated Press — and watched as the chattering class rushed to misjudgment.

Many expected a cadre of Democratic lawmakers to traipse down Pennsylva-nia Avenue to the White House and urge Clinton to resign. After all, that’s how Re-publicans put Richard Nixon’s presidency out of its misery in 1974, two years after The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein first exposed White House ties to the Watergate burglary.

But history did not repeat itself in 1998. Clinton turned his looming impeachment into an indictment of the hyperpartisan Re-publican Congress, Democrats picked up five House seats in the midterm elections, the president was acquitted by the Sen-ate five weeks after the House impeached him, and his approval rating spiked at 73%. It was a Republican who took the biggest fall: A few days after the midterm debacle, House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced his resignation from Congress.

Politicians and pundits are always fight-ing the last war. The Nixon scandal condi-tioned people to assume Democrats would torpedo Clinton’s presidency. The Clinton scandal causes Democrats to fear backlash if they impeach President Donald Trump.

Until recently, you could have put me in that camp. When special counsel Robert Mueller’s report documented Trump’s ef-forts to obstruct the investigation into Rus-sian subversion of the 2016 election, my

revulsion was matched only by a sick sense of hopelessness.

Trump should be held accountable, but impeachment would backfire on Demo-crats, right?

Then, in an interview Wednesday with ABC News, Trump said there would be nothing wrong with accepting damaging information about an election opponent from a foreign government. “They have in-formation — I think I’d take it,” the presi-dent said, essentially encouraging foreign adversaries to help him win re election.

This is a dangerous and unacceptable precedent. Unless Democrats and Repub-licans in Congress impeach Trump, every future president has grounds to ask foreign adversaries to launch covert operations against his or her political rivals in the United States.

But impeachment would backfire on Democrats, right?

Not if they do it right. The more I reflect on the Clinton impeachment, the more I realize he didn’t survive because Repub-licans overreached. He survived because he made sure his public-facing focus was always on the lives and concerns of voters. He compartmentalized the impeachment drama inside a team of lawyers, pollsters and communications specialists — and had them weaponize the case against him.

Nicknamed the “Masters of Disaster,” this blunt-force team leaked unfavorable information about the GOP investigators. They spun every negative story about Clinton into an argument that Republi-cans were power-hungry prudes. They even leaked the most damaging evidence against Clinton, funneling it to sympathetic reporters who published their stories late Friday evenings and at other times that minimized impact.

Their mission was to control the im-peachment narrative behind the scenes while Clinton and the rest of his White House team persuaded voters that he was

working his butt off for them.Compartmentalize and weaponize.

That’s the lesson congressional Democratsshould take from 1998.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,should form a House select committee thatassumes ownership of all Trump investi-gations. She should hire the best pollsters, lawyers and communicators to help thesavviest Democrats investigate and pros-ecute the case against the president. They could start, and maybe end, with the ob-struction case outlined by Mueller.

Like the Senate select committee thatinvestigated Watergate, Pelosi’s possecould go about their business profession-ally and ruthlessly. Her “Masters of Disas-ter” could paint a simple and compellingportrait of corruption while the rest of theparty, including its presidential candidates, relentlessly focuses on voters’ concerns — passing and promoting legislation aimed at health care, income inequality and re-forming the political process. They could shine a harsh light on Trump loyalists inCongress, casting them as power-hungry partisans.

Pelosi can poach Clinton’s strategy be-cause Trump can’t. The president’s narcis-sism makes him constitutionally unable tofocus on anything but himself. He can’t putthe people first because he’s always jump-ing the line. Trump is better suited for theGingrich role — a blustery ball of pique and petulance — and is vulnerable to Pe-losi’s psych game. Her go-to retort, “I prayfor the president of the United States,” isClinton-level concern trolling.

Heeding the right lessons of 1998, aTrump impeachment would ensure thatno future president considers him a properprecedent. While the Senate would almostcertainly acquit, history would not.Ron Fournier, a former White House reporter and Washington bureau chief for The Associated Press, is president of the Detroit-based strategic communications firm Truscott Rossman.

Sanders is selling a socialist fantasy

Impeachment won’t backfire if it’s done right

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CircuitCity.com 250NASCAR Xfinity Series

SundayIowa SpeedwayNewton, Iowa

(Start position in parentheses)1. (2) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 250.2. (1) Cole Custer, Ford, 250.3. (14) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 250.4. (10) Harrison Burton(i), Toyota, 250.5. (3) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 250.6. (4) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 250.7. (9) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 250.8. (6) John Hunter Nemechek, Chevro-

let, 250.9. (12) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 250.10. (7) Austin Cindric, Ford, 250.11. (11) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 250.12. (13) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet,

250.13. (8) Justin Haley, Chevrolet, 250.14. (18) Gray Gaulding, Chevrolet, 250.15. (5) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet, 249.16. (19) Ray Black II, Chevrolet, 249.17. (23) Josh Williams, Chevrolet, 249.18. (17) Shane Lee, Toyota, 248.19. (21) Joe Graf Jr., Chevrolet, 247.20. (33) Tyler Matthews, Chevrolet,

247.21. (20) Chad Finchum, Toyota, 246.22. (32) Ryan Repko, Chevrolet, 245.23. (28) Ryan Ellis, Toyota, 244.24. (27) Ronnie Bassett Jr., Chevrolet,

244.25. (22) Stephen Leicht, Chevrolet,

Brakes, 204.26. (26) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, Electri-

cal, 123.27. (34) Mike Harmon, Chevrolet,

Brakes, 120.28. (37) Stan Mullis, Toyota, Power

Steering, 109.29. (25) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet,

Hub, 106.30. (16) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, Fuel

Pressure, 78.31. (15) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, En-

gine, 76.32. (31) Vinnie Miller, Chevrolet, Acci-

dent, 48.33. (30) Joey Gase, Toyota, Accident,

46.34. (24) David Starr, Chevrolet, Engine,

30.35. (29) Morgan Shepherd, Chevrolet,

Brakes, 23.36. (38) Timmy Hill, Toyota, Electrical,

21.37. (35) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, Electri-

cal, 16.38. (36) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, Electri-

cal, 10.Race Statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 94.402 mph.

Time of Race: 2 hours, 19 minutes, 2 seconds.

Margin of Victory: 1.756 seconds.Caution Flags: 7 for 48 laps.Lead Changes: 5 among 3 drivers.Lap Leaders: C. Custer 1-51;J. Haley 52-

56;C. Custer 57-58;C. Bell 59-218;C. Custer 219-224;C. Bell 225-250.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead,Laps Led): Christopher Bell 2 times for 186 laps; Cole Custer 3 times for 59 laps;Justin Haleye 1 time for 5 laps.

Iowa 200 NASCAR Trucks Series

SundayAt Iowa Speedway

Newton, IowaLap length: 0.875 miles

Starting position in parentheses1. (6) Brett Moffitt, Chevrolet, 200

laps.2. (7) Ben Rhodes, Ford, 200.3. (10) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 200.4. (2) Grant Enfinger, Ford, 200.5. (3) Stewart Friesen, Chevrolet, 200.6. (12) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 200.7. (4) Matt Crafton, Ford, 200.8. (1) Chandler Smith, Toyota, 200.9. (13) Raphael Lessard, Toyota, 200.10. (11) Todd Gilliland, Toyota, 200.11. (15) Brennan Poole, Toyota, 200.12. (9) Austin Hill, Toyota, 200.13. (5) Kyle Benjamin, Chevrolet, 199.14. (16) Austin Wayne Self, Chevrolet,

199.15. (26) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 199.16. (18) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 198.17. (23) Natalie Decker, Toyota, 198.18. (17) Jordan Anderson, Chevrolet,

198.19. (14) Tyler Dippel, Chevrolet, 197.20. (22) Gus Dean, Chevrolet, 197.21. (24) Mason Massey, Chevrolet,

196.22. (25) Jesse Little, Ford, 194.23. (21) CJ McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 189.24. (29) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, 186.25. (32) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Chevrolet,

183.26. (30) Tyler Hill, Chevrolet, 179.27. (8) Johnny Sauter, Ford, parked,

137.28. (27) Chad Finley, Chevrolet, rear

end, 68.29. (20) Trey Hutchens III, Chevrolet,

brakes, 61.30. (28) Juan Ma Gonzalez, Chevrolet,

accident, 40.31. (31) Tyler Ankrum, Chevrolet,

brakes, 17.32. (19) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 200.Chastain finished first but failed a

post-race inspection.Average Speed of Race Winner:

104.686 mph.Time of Race: 1 hour, 40 minutes, 18

seconds.Margin of Victory: 5.596 seconds.Caution Flags: 4 for 25 laps.Lead Changes: 3 among 4 drivers.Lap Leaders: C. Smith 1-55; M. Crafton

56-58; J. Sauter 59; R. Chastain 60-200.Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead,

Laps Led): Ross Chastain 1 time for 141 laps; Chandler Smith 1 time for 55 laps;Matt Crafton 1 time for 3 laps; JohnnySauter 1 time for 1 lap.

CONCACAF Gold CupGROUP A

GP W D L GF GA PtsMexico 1 1 0 0 7 0 3Canada 1 1 0 0 4 0 3 Martinique 1 0 0 1 0 4 0Cuba 1 0 0 1 0 7 0

Saturday, June 15At Pasadena, Calif.

Canada 4, Martinique 0Mexico 7, Cuba 0

Wednesday, June 19At Denver

Cuba vs. MartiniqueMexico vs. Canada

Sunday, June 23At Charlotte, N.C.

Canada vs. CubaMartinique vs. Mexico

GROUP B GP W D L GF GA PtsCosta Rica 1 1 0 0 4 0 3Haiti 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 Nicaragua 1 0 0 1 0 4 0Bermuda 1 0 0 1 1 2 0

Sunday, June 16At San Jose, Costa Rica

Haiti 2, Bermuda 1Costa Rica 4, Nicaragua 0

Thursday, June 20At Frisco, Texas

Nicaragua vs. HaitiCosta Rica vs. Bermuda

Monday, June 24At Harrison, N.J.

Bermuda vs. NicaraguaHaiti vs. Costa Rica

GROUP C GP W D L GF GA PtsCuracao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0El Salvador 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Honduras 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Jamaica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Monday, June 17At Kingston, Jamaica

Curacao vs. El SalvadorJamaica vs. Honduras

Friday, June 21At Houston

El Salvador vs. JamaicaHonduras vs. Curacao

Tuesday, June 25At Los Angeles

Jamaica vs. CuracaoHonduras vs. El Salvador

GROUP D GP W D L GF GA PtsUnited States 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Guyana 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Panama 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Trinidad 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Tuesday, June 18At St. Paul, Minn.

Panama vs. Trinidad and TobagoUnited States vs. Guyana

Saturday, June 22At Cleveland

Guyana vs. PanamaUnited States vs. Trinidad and Tobago

Wednesday, June 26At Kansas City, Kan.

Trinidad and Tobago vs. GuyanaPanama vs. United States

QUARTERFINALSSaturday, June 29

At HoustonGroup B second place vs. Group A first

placeGroup A first place vs. Group B second

place

Sunday, June 30At Philadelphia

Group C first place vs. Group D second place

Group D first place vs. Group C second place

SEMIFINALSTuesday, July 2

At Glendale, Ariz.Houston quarterfinal winners

Wednesday, July 3At Nashville, Tenn.

Philadelphia quarterfinal winnersCHAMPIONSHIPSunday, July 7

At ChicagoSemifinal winners

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.

Saturday, June 22LA Galaxy at CincinnatiReal Salt Lake at ChicagoToronto FC at FC DallasColorado at VancouverHouston at Portland

NWSL W L T Pts GF GAWashington 5 1 2 17 13 5Utah 5 2 1 16 8 5Portland 4 1 3 15 17 11North Carolina 3 2 4 13 17 9Houston 3 2 3 12 10 11Chicago 3 3 2 11 13 13Reign FC 2 1 5 11 8 9Sky Blue FC 0 6 2 2 5 12Orlando 0 7 2 2 4 20

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

Saturday’s gamesPortland 1, North Carolina 1, tieOrlando 2, Houston 2, tieUtah 1, Sky Blue FC 0Washington 1, Reign FC 1, tie

Friday, June 21Utah at Portland, 11 p.m.

Saturday, June 22Houston at WashingtonOrlando at Sky Blue FC

Meijer LPGA ClassicSunday

At Blythefield Country ClubGrand Rapids, Mich.

Purse: $2 millionYardage: 6,638; Par: 72

Final RoundB. Henderson, $300,000 64-64-69-70—267 -21Nasa Hataoka, $123,864 68-68-67-65—268 -20Su Oh, $123,864 69-69-64-66—268 -20L. Thompson, $123,864 70-68-62-68—268 -20B. Altomare, $123,864 66-65-69-68—268 -20M. Pressel, $66,866 67-70-65-70—272 -16Nelly Korda, $52,503 68-69-69-67—273 -15Annie Park, $52,503 69-65-65-74—273 -15Shanshan Feng, $35,393 68-70-70-67—275 -13K. Gillman, $35,393 71-70-66-68—275 -13So Yeon Ryu, $35,393 69-68-70-68—275 -13Danielle Kang, $35,393 69-68-68-70—275 -13M. Jutanugarn, $35,393 69-67-69-70—275 -13Alena Sharp, $35,393 67-72-64-72—275 -13M. Sagstrom, $35,393 67-70-65-73—275 -13Jessica Korda, $23,860 76-67-67-66—276 -12Inbee Park, $23,860 70-70-67-69—276 -12Lydia Ko, $23,860 72-67-68-69—276 -12S. Yokomine, $23,860 69-70-68-69—276 -12Minjee Lee, $23,860 71-69-66-70—276 -12M. Stackhouse, $23,860 70-69-67-70—276 -12L. Stephenson, $23,860 69-70-66-71—276 -12L. G. Escallon, $18,242 68-73-70-66—277 -11Azahara Munoz, $18,242 72-70-68-67—277 -11Jin Young Ko, $18,242 68-69-70-70—277 -11A. Stanford, $18,242 68-68-71-70—277 -11In Gee Chun, $18,242 70-70-66-71—277 -11Megan Khang, $18,242 70-66-70-71—277 -11J. Kupcho, $18,242 67-67-67-76—277 -11K. Kirk, $14,958 72-68-70-68—278 -10G. Dryburgh, $14,958 73-64-70-71—278 -10Chella Choi, $14,958 70-68-67-73—278 -10Brianna Do, $13,208 70-72-71-66—279 -9Jeongeun Lee6, $13,208 70-70-72-67—279 -9Sarah Burnham, $13,208 68-72-69-70—279 -9D. Holmqvist, $11,689 75-68-70-67—280 -8Jenny Shin, $11,689 66-73-72-69—280 -8Aditi Ashok, $11,689 71-65-74-70—280 -8C. Masson, $9,014 70-70-72-69—281 -7Mi Jung Hur, $9,014 73-70-68-70—281 -7Mel Reid, $9,014 70-73-68-70—281 -7C. Hedwall, $9,014 72-70-69-70—281 -7P. Anannarukarn, $9,014 68-69-74-70—281 -7Muni He, $9,014 71-72-66-72—281 -7Sung Hyun Park, $9,014 68-70-71-72—281 -7Mina Harigae, $9,014 68-72-68-73—281 -7Celine Boutier, $9,014 69-70-69-73—281 -7Maria Torres, $9,014 69-69-70-73—281 -7Mi Hyang Lee, $6,451 72-69-72-69—282 -6Kendall Dye, $6,451 67-72-74-69—282 -6Lizette Salas, $6,451 68-74-70-70—282 -6Laetitia Beck, $6,451 73-70-68-71—282 -6Clariss Guce, $6,451 70-69-71-72—282 -6Haeji Kang, $6,451 69-74-66-73—282 -6S. Schmelzel, $6,451 72-69-68-73—282 -6Xiyu Lin, $6,451 68-70-71-73—282 -6Jeong Eun Lee, $5,250 67-74-72-70—283 -5E. Szokol, $5,250 71-71-70-71—283 -5Ashleigh Buhai, $5,250 65-76-71-71—283 -5Lee Lopez, $5,250 68-74-68-73—283 -5Jennifer Song, $4,706 68-75-70-71—284 -4K. Perry, $4,706 66-71-76-71—284 -4Gerina Piller, $4,706 71-70-71-72—284 -4N. K.Madsen, $4,706 71-69-72-72—284 -4Jing Yan, $4,259 73-68-74-70—285 -3Karine Icher, $4,259 70-69-75-71—285 -3Youngin Chun, $4,259 68-75-70-72—285 -3Jenny Haglund, $4,259 71-71-70-73—285 -3Karen Chung, $4,259 69-70-72-74—285 -3Jaclyn Lee, $3,888 71-71-73-71—286 -2Isi Gabsa, $3,888 72-71-71-72—286 -2Kris Tamulis, $3,888 71-70-73-72—286 -2Brittany Lang, $3,888 71-72-70-73—286 -2

College World SeriesAt TD Ameritrade Park Omaha

Omaha, Neb.(Double Elimination; x-if necessary)

Saturday, June 15Michigan 5, Texas Tech 3Florida State 1, Arkansas 0

Sunday, June 16Vanderbilt 3, Louisville 1Mississippi State 5, Auburn 4

Monday, June 17Game 5 — Texas Tech (44-19) vs. Ar-

kansas (46-19)Game 6 — Michigan (46-20) vs. Florida

State (42-21)Tuesday, June 18

Game 7 — Louisville (49-17) vs. Auburn (38-27)

Game 8 — Vanderbilt (55-11) vs. Mis-sissippi State (52-13)

Wednesday, June 19Game 9 — Game 5 winner vs. Game 6

loserThursday, June 20

Game 10 — Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 loser

Friday, June 21Game 11 — Game 6 winner vs. Game

9 winnerGame 12 — Game 8 winner vs. Game

10 winnerSaturday, June 22

x-Game 13 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 9 winner

x-Game 14 — Game 8 winner vs. Game 10 winner

Championship Series(Best-of-3)

Monday, June 24: Pairings TBDTuesday, June 25: Pairings TBDx-Wednesday, June 26: Pairings TBD

Mercedes CupSunday

TC WeissenhofStuttgart, Germany

Surface: Grass-OutdoorSingles

FinalMatteo Berrettini, Italy, def. Felix Au-

ger-Aliassime (7), Canada, 6-4, 7-6 (11).Doubles

FinalJohn Peers, Australia, and Bruno

Soares (1), Brazil, def. Rohan Bopanna, India, and Denis Shapovalov, Canada, 7-5, 6-3.

Libema OpenSunday

Autotron RosmalenDen Bosch, NetherlandsSurface: Grass-Outdoor

SinglesMen

SemifinalsAdrian Mannarino, France, def. Borna

Coric (2), Croatia, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4).Jordan Thompson, Australia, def. Rich-

ard Gasquet (8), France, 7-5, 6-3.Final

Adrian Mannarino, France, def. Jordan Thompson, Australia, 7-6 (7), 6-3.

WomenFinal

Alison Riske, United States, def. Kiki Bertens (1), Netherlands, 0-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5.

DoublesWomen

FinalShuko Aoyama, Japan, and Aleksan-

dra Krunic (4), Serbia, def. Lesley Kerk-hove and Bibiane Schoofs, Netherlands, 7-5, 6-3.

Nature Valley OpenSunday

Nottingham Tennis CentreNottingham, England

Surface: Grass-OutdoorSingles

SemifinalsCaroline Garcia (1), France, def. Jenni-

fer Brady, United States, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.Final

Caroline Garcia (1), France, def. DonnaVekic (2), Croatia, 2-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4).

DoublesFinal

Desirae Krawczyk, United States, and Giuliana Olmos, Mexico, def. Ellen Perezand Arina Rodionova, Australia, 7-6 (5), 7-5.

Sunday’s transactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP

David Hess to Norfolk (IL)CHICAGO WHITESOX — Optioned RHP

Thyago Vieira to Charlotte (IL).CLEVELAND INDIANS — Claimed RHP

Jordan Stephens off waivers from the Chicago White Sox and optioned him to Akron (EL). Transferred OF Bradley Zim-mer to the 60-day IL.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Transferred RHP Jake Barrett to the 60-day IL.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Traded 1B Ed-win Encarnacion and cash to the N.Y. Yankees for RHP Juan Then. Selected the contract of C/INF Austin Nola from Ta-coma (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent RHP Ja-cob Waguespack to Buffalo (IL) for a rehab assignment. Signed RHPs Gabriel Ponce and Nick Fraze to minor league contracts.

National LeagueATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP

Dan Winkler to Gwinnett (IL). Recalled RHP Huascar Ynoa from Gwinnett.

CHICAGO CUBS — Recalled RHP Rowan Wick from Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Placed SS Jose Iglesias on paternity leave. Reinstated RHP Robert Stephenson from the 10-day

IL. Sent 2B Scooter Gennett to Daytona (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned 2B Brendan Rodgers to Albuquerque (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Sent RHP Riley Fer-rell to New Orleans (PCL) for a rehab as-signment.

NEW YORK METS — Placed RHP Noah Syndergaard on the 10-day IL. Designat-ed LHP Hector Santiago for assignment. Reinstated 2B Robinson Can? from the 10-day IL. Recalled RHP Chris Flexen from Syracuse (IL). Signed OFs Kennie Taylor, Tanner Murphy and Cole Kleszcz to mi-nor league contracts.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned RHP Edgar Garcia and LHP Ranger Su-arez to Lehigh Valley (IL). Recalled LHP Cole Irvin from Lehigh Valley. Reinstated RHP Pat Neshek from the 10-day IL.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHP Dario Agrazal to Indianapolis (IL). Recalled RHP Yefry Ramirez from India-napolis. Sent RHP Rookie Davis to India-napolis for a rehab assignment. Signed 2B Darnell Sweeney to a minor league contract.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned LHP Robbie Erlin to El Paso (PCL). Recalled LHP Brad Wieck from El Paso.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed RHP Kyle Barraclough on the 10-day IL. Recalled INF Adrian Sanchez from Har-risburg (EL).

Fight scheduleJune 21

At Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ire-land, Tyrone McKenna vs. Darragh Foley, 12, for the vacant WBC International su-per lightweight title.

At Indio, Calif., Andrew Cancio vs. Alberto Machado, 12, for Cancio’s WBA junior lightweight title; Angel Acosta vs. Elwin Soto, 12, for Acosta’s WBO junior flyweight title; Genaro Gamez vs. Eze-quiel Aviles, 10, junior welterweights.

June 22At Wolstein Center, Cleveland, De-

wayne Beamon vs. Froilan Saludar, 12, for the vacant WBC United States (USNBC) super flyweight title; Cody Crowley vs. Navid Mansouri, 12, for the vacant WBC United States super welterweight title.

June 23At Mandalay Bay Resorts & Casino,

Las Vegas, Jermell Charlo, vs. Jorge Cota, 12, for junior middleweights; Guillermo Rigondeaux vs. Julio Ceja, 12, super ban-tamweights.

At Temecula, Calif., Richard Commey vs. Ray Beltran, 12, for Commey’s IBF lightweight title.

WNBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GBConnecticut 8 1 .889 —Chicago 4 2 .667 2½Washington 4 3 .571 3Indiana 4 4 .500 3½New York 3 5 .375 4½Atlanta 1 5 .167 5½

WESTERN CONFERENCEW L Pct GB

Los Angeles 4 3 .571 —Seattle 5 4 .556 —Las Vegas 3 3 .500 ½Minnesota 4 4 .500 ½Phoenix 2 4 .333 1½Dallas 1 5 .167 2½

Saturday’s gamesChicago 70, Indiana 64Dallas 71, Atlanta 61New York 98, Los Angeles 92

Sunday’s gamesConnecticut 81, Seattle 67Las Vegas 80, Minnesota 75

Monday’s gamesNo games scheduled

Tuesday’s gameWashington at Los Angeles

NBA calendar June 20 — NBA Draft.July 5-15 — NBA Summer League, Las

Vegas.

Pro basketball

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COLLEGE WORLD SERIES/SPORTS BRIEFS

Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — Marshall Gil-bert turned a mostly forgettable night at the plate into a memo-rable one.

The No. 9 batter hit a bases-loaded single up the middle that capped a four-run ninth inning and gave Mississippi State a 5-4 walk-off victory over Auburn in the College World Series on Sunday.

Gilbert had been 0-for-4 be-fore he came to bat, following six teammates who had kept the line moving.

“First of all, I was in awe by ev-erybody that was able to get the job done before me,” Gilbert said. “It was incredible, the fact we could get to that point to where I was coming up to the plate, and all the at-bats prior to that I had kind of been a little off, missed some pitches. I kept getting encourage-ment from my teammates saying, ‘Keep going, keep going, don’t quit.’

Gilbert ripped a shot past pitch-er Tanner Burns and just out of reach of second baseman Ryan Bliss. Dustin Skelton came home from third and the Mississippi State dugout emptied, with play-ers running into right field to mob Gilbert after the Bulldogs’ third walk-off win of the season.

“The bond we have is some-thing that is hard to break,” Gil-bert said. “So believing in one another, going out there leaving it out there on your team, it pays off in the end. And we work every pitch to the last. You’re never out of a ballgame and we all know that, so when we all believe in

each other, good things happen.”The No. 6 national seed Bull-

dogs (52-13) threatened time and again before finally breaking through for their sixth straight win in the NCAA Tournament. Auburn (38-27), making its first CWS appearance since 1997, was within an out of wrapping up the win. But third baseman Edouard Julien’s wild throw to first on Dustin Skelton’s grounder al-lowed Elijah MacNamee to score the tying run.

“For eight and two-thirds I just thought everybody associated did a nice job,” Auburn coach Butch Thompson said. “Then we had a chance to win the baseball game — I don’t think there’s any doubt about that — and just one play away tonight.”

Burns (4-4) intentionally walked Rowdey Jordan and Josh Hatcher beat Julien’s throw to first on a soft grounder to load the bases for Gilbert.

“We fought to the last out and just kept competing,” first-year MSU coach Chris Lemonis said. “ At the very end the grit of our ballclub played out and we were able to put some balls in play.”

Cole Gordon (5-0) pitched one inning for the win.

Before the ninth, it had oth-erwise been a mostly frustrat-ing night for the Bulldogs, who stranded 11 runners and had bases loaded in the fifth and sixth innings but came away with only one run.

Julien, who put his hands to his face and looked skyward after his off-target throw let in the tying run, had stood to be the Tigers’ hero.

Vanderbilt 3, Louisville 1: Austin Martin homered on Reid Detmers’ first pitch of the game and he went deep again in the seventh to break a tie in Vander-bilt’s victory.

Drake Fellows came off a poor outing in the super regionals to pitch seven strong innings and help No. 2 national seed Vander-bilt (55-11) improve to 4-0 in its CWS openers.

Martin homered twice for the second straight game, having hit two against Duke on June 9. He became the first player since Florida’s Harrison Bader in 2015 to lead off a CWS game with a homer when he drove Detmers’ initial offering out to left.

Martin’s two-run homer off Bryan Hoeing (3-4) in the sev-enth barely cleared the wall in left center, but it was long enough to break a 1-all tie after Julian In-fante doubled.

Fellows (13-1), a sixth-round draft pick of the San Diego Padres this month and the national wins leader, had worked the first four innings of an 18-5 loss to Duke in the super regional opener June 7.

No. 7 Louisville (49-17) had base runners in six of Fellows’ seven innings but found a sem-blance of rhythm only in the fifth. No. 8 batter Justin Lavey started things with a double and scored on Henry Davis’ base hit to tie it. Lucas Dunn and Logan Wyatt followed with singles to load the bases with one out, but Fellows got a flyout and groundout to snuff the threat.

Fellows allowed six singles and a double, walked one and struck out six .

BRENDAN SULLIVAN, OMAHA WORLD-HERALD/AP

Mississippi State’s Marshall Gilbert, center, celebrates with teammates Rowdey Jordan, Josh Hatcher and Dustin Skelton after his walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning against Auburn during Game 4 of the College World Series on Sunday in Omaha, Neb. Mississippi State won 5-4.

Gilbert lifts Mississippi State

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Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The San Jose Sharks re-signed pending free agent Erik Karlsson to a $92 million, eight-year deal on Mon-day, turning a one-year rental into a long-term commitment to one of the league’s most dynamic defensemen.

Karlsson was eligible to be-come an unrestricted free agent on July 1 but decided to stay in San Jose, where he will try to win his first championship and the first for a franchise that has reached the conference final five times in the past 15 years without ever winning it all.

“I’m excited to continue the chase for the ultimate prize: the Stanley Cup,” Karlsson said in a statement. “Last year was an unbelievable run but we didn’t achieve what we set out to do. But the dedication I witnessed from my teammates, coaches, staff and organization showed me that we all have a great future ahead of us, and that we are capable of fighting for that championship year in and year out.”

A person with knowledge of the deal confirms that it carries an annual cap hit of $11.5 million and includes a full no-movement clause. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team did not announce terms of the contract.

The Sharks acquired the two-time Norris Trophy winner just before the start of last season from Ottawa as a one-year rental. Karlsson was hampered by groin injuries but also showed flashes as he helped the Sharks reach the Western Conference final, where they lost to eventual champion St. Louis in six games.

Karlsson wore down at the end of the series against the Blues. He missed most of the second half of the third period in a Game 4 loss to St. Louis, and didn’t travel for the Game 6 loss that ended San Jose’s season. The 29-year-old Karlsson had surgery on the groin on May 31 and is expected to recover fully before the start of next season.

The Sharks were confident enough in his health to give him the richest contract of any de-fenseman, topping the $88 mil-lion, eight-year extension Drew Doughty signed in Los Angeles last summer. The only current deals worth more annually are Connor McDavid’s $12.5 million cap hit on an eight-year deal in Edmonton and Auston Matthews’ $11.6 million cap hit on a five-year contract in Toronto.

In other NHL news:� Dallas Eakins was named

the Anaheim Ducks’ coach on Monday, moving up from their AHL affiliate in San Diego for his second chance behind an

NHL bench.The Ducks filled the NHL’s last

head coaching vacancy with the veteran coach who spent the pastfour seasons with the Gulls, lead-ing them to the AHL’s WesternConference Finals this season. The 52-year-old former NHL de-fenseman has worked extensivelywith the homegrown talent thatcurrently fills much of the Ducks’roster.

Eakins replaces Ducks gen-eral manager Bob Murray, whostepped behind the bench for the final 26 games of the season afterfiring Randy Carlyle. Anaheimwent 14-11-1 under Murray, butthe Ducks couldn’t overcome amidseason slump and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2012.

Frazier suprised byYankees’ demotion

CHICAGO — Hot-hitting ClintFrazier was squeezed out of the New York Yankees’ powerfullineup and sent down to the mi-nors Sunday, another frustratingepisode in what’s been a break-out season for the 24-year-old outfielder.

The Yankees got AL home run leader Edwin Encarnacion in alate-night trade with Seattle, thenmade the roster move following a10-3 win over the Chicago WhiteSox. Frazier batted cleanup andwent 1 for 5.

Frazier is hitting .283 with 11home runs and 34 RBIs in 53games, a key factor in helpingthe Yankees stay within a half-game of Tampa Bay atop the ALEast. He was optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

“Yeah, pretty surprised,” Fra-zier said, adding, “It’s a tough pill to swallow. It’s never fun espe-cially with how much I’ve felt like I’ve contributed to this team thisyear.”

NASCAR overturnsvictory in trucks race

NEWTON, Iowa — NASCARoverturned a victory for the firsttime under its toughened newpolicy on cheating when Brett Moffitt was declared the winnerof the Truck Series race at IowaSpeedway after Ross Chastainfailed a post-race inspection.

Chastain led the final 141 laps ofSunday’s 200-lap race, but series managing director Brad Moran said the winning No. 44 was too low when it was measured withNASCAR’s height sticks.

“The height sticks have warn-ing yellows in them and reds, andit was right off of all of them, so unfortunately it was extremely low,” Moran said.

The disqualification was thefirst under strict new rules put intoplace at the start of this season to deter the culture of cheating .

Karlsson, Sharks reach $92M deal

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First roundx-advanced to second round

GROUP A W L T GF GA Ptsx-France 2 0 0 6 1 6Norway 1 1 0 4 2 3Nigeria 1 1 0 2 3 3South Korea 0 2 0 0 6 0

Friday, June 7France 4, South Korea 0

Saturday, June 8Norway 3, Nigeria 0

Wednesday, June 12Nigeria 2, South Korea 0France 2, Norway 1

Monday, June 17At Rennes, France

France vs. NigeriaAt Reims, France

South Korea vs. NorwayGROUP B

W L T GF GA Ptsx-Germany 3 0 0 6 0 9x-Spain 1 1 1 3 2 4China 1 1 1 1 1 4South Africa 0 2 0 1 4 0

Saturday, June 8Germany 1, China 0Spain 3, South Africa 1

Wednesday, June 12Germany 1, Spain 0

Thursday, June 13China 1, South Africa 0

Monday, June 17At Montpellier, France

Germany 4, South Africa 0At Le Havre, France

Spain 0, China 0GROUP C

W L T GF GA Ptsx-Italy 2 0 0 7 1 6Brazil 1 1 0 5 3 3Australia 1 1 0 4 4 3Jamaica 0 2 0 0 8 0

Sunday, June 9Italy 2, Australia 1Brazil 3, Jamaica 0

Thursday, June 13Australia 3, Brazil 2

Friday, June 14Italy 5, Jamaica 0

Tuesday, June 18At Grenoble, France

Australia vs. JamaicaAt Valenciennes, France

Italy vs. BrazilGROUP D

W L T GF GA Ptsx-England 2 0 0 3 1 6x-Japan 1 0 1 2 1 4Argentina 0 0 2 0 1 1Scotland 0 2 0 2 4 0

Sunday, June 9England 2, Scotland 1

Monday, June 10Argentina 0, Japan 0

Friday, June 14Japan 2, Scotland 1England 1, Argentina 0

Wednesday, June 19At Nice, France

Japan vs. EnglandAt Paris

Scotland vs. ArgentinaGROUP E

W L T GF GA Ptsx-Netherlands 2 0 0 4 1 6x-Canada 2 0 0 3 0 6New Zealand 0 1 0 0 1 0Cameroon 0 2 0 1 4 0

Monday, June 10Canada 1, Cameroon 0

Tuesday, June 11Netherlands 1, New Zealand 0

Saturday, June 15Netherlands 3, Cameroon 1Canada 2, New Zealand 0

Thursday, June 20At Reims, France

Netherlands vs. CanadaAt Montpellier, France

Cameroon vs. New ZealandGROUP F

W L T GF GA Ptsx-United States 2 0 0 16 0 6x-Sweden 2 0 0 7 1 6Chile 0 2 0 0 5 0Thailand 0 2 0 1 18 0

Tuesday, June 11Sweden 2, Chile 0United States 13, Thailand 0

Sunday, June 16At Nice, France

Sweden 5, Thailand 1At Paris

United States 3, Chile 0Thursday, June 20

At Le Havre, FranceSweden vs. United States

At Rennes, FranceThailand vs. Chile

Second roundSaturday, June 22

At Grenoble, FranceGroup B winner vs. Group A, C or D

third placeAt Nice, France

Group A second place vs. Group C sec-ond place

Sunday, June 23At Valenciennes, France

Group D winner vs. Group B, E or Fthird place

At Le Havre, FranceGroup A winner vs. Group C, D or E

third placeMonday, June 24At Reims, France

Group B second place vs. Group F win-ner

At ParisGroup F second place vs. Group E sec-

ond placeTuesday, June 25

At Montpellier, FranceGroup C winner vs. Group A, B or F

third placeAt Rennes, France

Group E winner vs. Group D secondplace

WOMEN’S WORLD CUPScoreboard

BY RONALD BLUM

Associated Press

PARIS — Carli Lloyd had just scored on an 18-yard volley to put the United States ahead 11 min-utes in against Chile. After leap-ing, pumping a fist and hugging teammate Lindsey Horan, she raised both hands chin high and made four tiny pitter-patter claps, the type seen more frequently at Pebble Beach than Parc des Princes.

A message? You bet.Easy wins and lots of goals are

par for the course when it comes to the U.S. women’s soccer team.

“I can’t take credit for it. I’m not sure if Lindsey is taking cred-it for it,” Lloyd said after a 3-0 victory Sunday night advanced the U.S. to the round of 16. “She had told me if we score, that’s what we’re going to do so I just went along with it after I did my little celebration. But it was fun. I think it made a statement on the sideline there. It was cool.”

A record-setting 13-0 rout of Thailand that opened the tourna-ment for the Americans sparked a debate back home. Some cried poor sportsmanship. Others ar-gued players shouldn’t be asked to let up on soccer’s biggest stage.

All the harrumphing was heard across the Atlantic.

“I guess we could have just passed it around the back for a million times, but that’s boring. That’s disrespectful to everyone: fans, ourselves” said 33-year-old Megan Rapinoe, the pink-haired veteran famous for running to a corner flag and screaming “Born in the USA” into a television mi-crophone after goal against Co-lombia in the 2011 World Cup.

“The only thing you ask of an athlete really is to put it all out there and do the best you can. It’s not in our DNA ever.”

Coach Jill Ellis speculated Lloyd’s inspiration was her spouse, professional golfer Brian Hollins.

“I’m guessing it was a shout-out to her husband,” Ellis said.

Horan said Emily Sonnett, a 25-year-old defender at her first World Cup, suggested responses. Trolling critics was the goal.

“We decided to do something different today,” Horan said with an impish smile. “Handshakes

were part of it. Golf clap was part of it.”

Only the standout play of goal-keeper Christiane Endler lowered the Americans’ offensive output from Wonder Woman levels to the mere mundane. The U.S. pep-pered Chile with 26 shots to one for the South Americans, raising the U.S. margin to 65-3 over two matches that seemed more train-ing than tests.

Alyssa Naeher, the Americans’ new World Cup goalkeeper, was noticeable only when an un-marked Carla Guerrero redirect-ed Claudia Soto’s free kick past her midway through the first half. Guerrero was ruled offside.

More Americans were in the tournament-high crowd of 45,594 that filled Parc des Princes than walked around Sunday in Paris, Kentucky, or Texas. Quite differ-ent from the stands 21 years and

one day earlier, when Germany beat the U.S. men 2-0 on the very same field in the Americans’ 1998 World Cup opener on goals by Andreas Moller and Jurgen Klinsmann.

Fans clad in red, white and blue jammed the Metro hours before kickoff, streaming on the No. 9 line at Trocadero, Republique and Richelieu-Drouot and emerg-ing on at Porte de Saint-Cloud on the sunny afternoon.

“We’re in France, and yet we felt like we had a home game,” said Lloyd, at 36-year-old the oldest woman with a multi-goal World Cup match.

Despite their second easy win, the Americans maintained there was no reason to chill: Thailand is ranked 34th in the world and Chile is 39th. The Americans need a win or draw against No. 9 Sweden on Thursday in order to

win the group. A victory likely means a second-round matchup against No. 13 Spain or No. 16 China, which would put the U.S. on track for a quarterfinal match-up against fourth-ranked France in Paris.

Ellis would not speculate whether her team would be bet-ter off finishing second and wind-ing up in the other half of the bracket.

“There’s a lot of grass to navi-gate between now and potential matchups,” she said. “This game is a crazy game, and you have to bring it every single match.”

Only Germany in 2003 and 2007 has won consecutive Women’s World Cups since the event began in 1991, a reason for sangfroid.

“We’re climbing up a mountain now,” Lloyd said, “and it’s only going to get harder.”

Lloyd scores twice in win; celebration more typical of golf tournament

Tiny clap delivers big message

THIBAULT CAMUS/AP

Carli Lloyd, top center, celebrates with Tierna Davidson, right, and Lindsey Horan in front of the United States sideline after scoring the first goal during the Group F match against Chile at in Paris on Sunday.

BY JOSEPH WILSON

Associated Press

MONTPELLIER, France — Germany won its Women’s World Cup group for the fifth consecutive time and avoided an immediate matchup with the United States by routing South Africa 4-0 on Monday.

Germany topped Group B with a 3-0 record and will play a third place team in its round of 16 match Saturday at Grenoble.

Germany had to grind out 1-0 wins over both China and Spain, but its offense finally broke

out with three goals in the first half against South Africa. That matched its total goals in its previous five World Cup games.

Germany had already clinched a spot in the round of 16 before the game began against South Africa.

South Africa was winless in group play and outscored 8-1. At 49th, South Africa had the lowest ranking of the 24 teams in the tournament.

Spain finished Group B as runner-up after a 0-0 draw with China, and advanced to the knockout stage for the first time. Spain will

face the winner of Group F on Monday at Reims and the United States would be the op-ponent with a victory or draw in its final group match against Sweden.

Melanie Leupolz opened the scoring in the 14th minute with her first goal for Germany since the 2016 Olympics. Sara Dabritz dou-bled the lead in the 29th minute and Alexan-dra Popp made it 3-0 in the 40th. Lina Magull added the final goal in the 58thth.

Two-time tournament champion Germany has not lost a match in group play since falling to Sweden in 1995.

Germany beats South Africa 4-0 to win group

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Toronto Raptors NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard, pictured, is expected to opt out of the final year of his contract and become a free agent after leading the franchise to its first

championship. He was acquired via trade from the San Antonio Spurs after last season. Leonard’s future is one

of the biggest questions facing a team that could look very different by the time next season tips off.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SEAN VENABLES/Stars and Stripes; AP photo

BY IAN HARRISON

Associated Press

TORONTOhe Toronto Raptors were still partying it up in Las Vegas, part of an extended

celebration following their first championship, when the NBA started reshaping itself for a new season with the blockbuster trade agreement

Saturday that will send Anthony Davis to the Lakers.

Talk about snapping back to reality.

Turns out Raptors coach Nick Nurse already had.

Back home in Toronto on Sun-day, on the eve of a parade to honor his team, Nurse said he and general manager Bobby Webster have al-ready started talking about a future that’s full of tough questions.

“Bobby and I have already had two meetings about it since the champi-onship,” Nurse said. “The reality is that it’s right upon us, and we get to work. I’ve got several meetings today

with some players. We don’t have any choice but to get to work on

it. My thought, always, is stay hungry. We’ve got to get our guys that we want back.”

No player is more impor-tant to Toronto’s fortunes than Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard, who is expected to opt out of the final year of his contract and be-come a free agent.

“We definitely want him back,” Raptors for-ward Pascal Siakam

said.

Center Marc Gasol said Leonard’s elite two-way game makes him “one of a kind.”

“I don’t think there’s any other player of his caliber right now in the NBA,” Gasol said. “He’s on a pedestal by himself.”

With status like that, longtime team-mate Danny Green said Leonard’s deci-sion is sure to have a ripple effect across the NBA.

“Let’s not be foolish,” Green said. “His decision affects a lot of guys’ decisions. He can change a whole organization.”

Raptors President Masai Ujiri also is the subject of speculation, linked to an offer from the Washington Wizards. Ujiri, who was not available Sunday, was expected to speak at Monday’s parade, which will finish in the square outside Toronto’s city hall.

Guard Fred VanVleet said he’s joked with Leonard about the star forward’s un-certain future, but e ven so, respect and ad-miration only go so far.

“If he’s on another team,” VanVleet said, “we’ll just have to kick his [butt] next year.”

Gasol can also opt out of the final year of his contract, while Green, a free agent, said he hopes to return.

Nurse said Gasol, acquired from Mem-phis at the trade deadline, changed Toron-to’s view of itself as a title contender.

“After we had him for a few games we were like, ‘Woah, this guy’s good. He’s smart, he can pass,’ ” Nurse said. “Every-body was like ‘Man, we’re better and we can become really good.’ That’s a big thing to contribute to a team.”

Gasol said he’s been too busy celebrat-ing to consider his future, and understands he might not be Toronto’s first order of business.

“I’m sure that the franchise has other priorities to go first,” he said.

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NBA

Toronto already pondering what’s ahead

Tough questions loom for champion Raptors

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American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 43 27 .614 —Tampa Bay 43 28 .606 ABoston 39 34 .534 5AToronto 26 45 .366 17ABaltimore 21 50 .296 22A

Central DivisionMinnesota 47 23 .671 —Cleveland 37 33 .529 10Chicago 34 36 .486 13Detroit 25 43 .368 21Kansas City 23 48 .324 24A

West DivisionHouston 48 24 .667 —Texas 38 33 .535 9AOakland 36 36 .500 12Los Angeles 35 37 .486 13Seattle 31 44 .413 18A

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBAtlanta 42 30 .583 —Philadelphia 39 32 .549 2ANew York 34 37 .479 7AWashington 33 38 .465 8AMiami 25 44 .362 15A

Central DivisionMilwaukee 40 31 .563 —Chicago 39 32 .549 1St. Louis 36 34 .514 3APittsburgh 32 39 .451 8Cincinnati 31 38 .449 8

West DivisionLos Angeles 48 24 .667 —Arizona 38 35 .521 10AColorado 37 34 .521 10ASan Diego 35 37 .486 13San Francisco 30 39 .435 16A

Sunday’s gamesBoston 8, Baltimore 6, 10 inningsCleveland 8, Detroit 0Tampa Bay 6, L.A. Angels 5Cincinnati 11, Texas 3N.Y. Yankees 10, Chicago White Sox 3Kansas City 8, Minnesota 6Toronto 12, Houston 0Seattle 6, Oakland 3Pittsburgh 5, Miami 4St. Louis 4, N.Y. Mets 3Atlanta 15, Philadelphia 1Washington 15, Arizona 5San Diego 14, Colorado 13Milwaukee 5, San Francisco 3L.A. Dodgers 3, Chicago Cubs 2

Monday’s gamesTampa Bay at N.Y. YankeesL.A. Angels at TorontoHouston at CincinnatiCleveland at TexasBoston at MinnesotaBaltimore at OaklandKansas City at SeattlePhiladelphia at WashingtonN.Y. Mets at AtlantaMiami at St. LouisMilwaukee at San DiegoSan Francisco at L.A. Dodgers

Tuesday’s gamesDetroit (Norris 2-5) at Pittsburgh

(Musgrove 4-7)Tampa Bay (Yarbrough 5-3) at N.Y.

Yankees (Happ 6-3)L.A. Angels (Skaggs 5-6) at Toronto

(Stroman 4-8)Houston (Verlander 9-2) at Cincinnati

(DeSclafani 3-3)Chicago White Sox (Nova 3-5) at Chi-

cago Cubs (Hamels 6-2)Cleveland (Plesac 1-2) at Texas (Samp-

son 5-3)Boston (Price 4-2) at Minnesota (Pine-

da 4-3)Baltimore (Ynoa 0-3) at Oakland (An-

derson 6-4)Kansas City (Bailey 5-6) at Seattle (Ki-

kuchi 3-4)Philadelphia (Eflin 6-6) at Washington

(Fedde 1-1)N.Y. Mets (deGrom 3-6) at Atlanta (Te-

heran 5-4)Miami (Yamamoto 1-0) at St. Louis

(Flaherty 4-3)Colorado (Senzatela 5-5) at Arizona

(Greinke 8-2)Milwaukee (Woodruff 8-1) at San Di-

ego (Strahm 2-6)San Francisco (Anderson 2-1) at L.A.

Dodgers (Kershaw 6-1)

SundayMariners 6, Athletics 3

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E—Canha (1), Profar (10), J.Crawford (5), K.Seager (5). DP—Seattle 1. LOB—Seattle 5, Oakland 6. 2B—K.Seager (4), M.Chapman (16), Grossman (12), Profar (11). 3B—D.Gordon (2). HR—M.Smith (5), K.Davis (15), Laureano (10). CS—M.Smith (2). SF—T.Murphy (1). IP H R ER BB SOSeattleLeake W,6-6 7 7 3 2 0 7Austin.Adams H,3 1 1 0 0 1 3Elias S,7-8 1 0 0 0 0 0OaklandTa.Anderson 5B 3 2 2 1 3Buchter H,7 C 0 0 0 0 1Hendriks H,5 1 2 0 0 0 2Trivino L,2-5 BS,4 B 2 4 1 2 0Petit C 1 0 0 0 1Soria 1 0 0 0 0 3

WP—Hendriks. T—2:56. A—30,242 (46,765).

Reds 11, Rangers 3Texas Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h biDShelds cf 4 0 1 0 Winker cf-lf 5 1 4 5Choo lf 4 2 2 1 Votto 1b 2 1 1 1Pence rf 2 1 1 2 Hughes p 0 0 0 0A.Cbrra 3b 2 0 0 0 K.Frmer ph 1 0 0 0Odor 2b 4 0 0 0 Stphnsn p 0 0 0 0Frsythe 3b-ss 3 0 0 0 Duke p 0 0 0 0Da.Sntn ss-rf 4 0 2 0 E.Sarez 3b 5 0 0 0Guzman 1b 3 0 0 0 Casali 1b 0 0 0 0Fdrwicz c 4 0 0 0 Dtrch 2b-1b-2b 2 1 0 0Jurado p 1 0 0 0 Puig rf 4 2 3 2Frbanks p 0 0 0 0 VnMtr lf-2b-3b 5 1 2 0Minor ph 1 0 0 0 Peraza ss 3 1 1 2Springs p 0 0 0 0 Brnhart c 4 2 1 0S.Mller p 0 0 0 0 S.Gray p 1 1 1 0Ch.Mrtn p 0 0 0 0 Ervin ph-cf 2 1 1 0Totals 32 3 6 3 Totals 34 11 14 10Texas 102 000 000—3Cincinnati 031 430 00x—11

E—Federowicz (2). DP—Texas 1, Cin-cinnati 1. LOB—Texas 5, Cincinnati 10. 2B—Winker (10), Votto (12), Peraza (7). 3B—S.Gray (1). HR—Choo (12), Pence (15), Winker (11), Puig (13). SF—Peraza 2 (2). S—S.Gray (3). IP H R ER BB SOTexasJurado L,4-3 3 9 7 7 1 0Fairbanks 1 1 1 1 0 2Springs 0 2 3 3 3 0S.Miller 3 2 0 0 1 1Ch.Martin 1 0 0 0 0 1CincinnatiS.Gray W,3-5 5 5 3 3 1 8Hughes 1 0 0 0 0 1Stephenson 2 1 0 0 1 2Duke 1 0 0 0 1 1

Jurado pitched to 3 batters in the 4th Springs pitched to 5 batters in the 5th HBP—by Jurado (Dietrich), by S.Miller (Puig). T—3:21. A—24,079 (42,319).

Padres 14, Rockies 13San Diego Colorado ab r h bi ab r h biTts Jr. ss 6 3 3 1 Blckmon rf 6 1 3 3Hosmer 1b 3 1 0 2 Story ss 6 1 2 1Machado 3b 4 2 1 1 Arenado 3b 5 1 0 0Renfroe rf 5 3 3 3 D.Mrphy 1b 5 2 2 0Myers lf-cf 5 2 2 1 Desmond cf 5 2 3 1G.Grcia 2b 5 2 4 4 McMhon 2b 5 3 3 3Hedges c 3 0 0 0 Tapia lf 5 2 3 2Kinsler ph 1 0 0 0 Innetta c 4 1 1 1A.Allen c 0 0 0 0 Lambert p 2 0 2 2Mrgvcus p 1 0 0 0 Tinoco p 1 0 0 0Perdomo p 1 0 0 1 Dahl ph 1 0 0 0Wngnter p 0 0 0 0 B.Shaw p 0 0 0 0Naylor ph-lf 1 0 1 0 McGee p 0 0 0 0Margot cf 3 1 1 0 M.Rynld ph 1 0 0 0Maton p 0 0 0 0 W.Davis p 0 0 0 0Wieck p 0 0 0 0 J.Gray p 0 0 0 0F.Reyes ph 1 0 0 0 G.Reyes p 0 0 0 0 Strahm ph 0 0 0 1 Yates p 0 0 0 0 Totals 39 14 15 14 Totals 46 13 19 13San Diego 323 000 204—14Colorado 630 013 000—13

E—Iannetta (2), Renfroe (2). DP—Colo-rado 2. LOB—San Diego 5, Colorado 8. 2B—Tatis Jr. (8), Margot (6), Story (19), Desmond 2 (19), McMahon (8), Tapia (15). 3B—Tatis Jr. (4), G.Garcia 2 (2). HR—Renfroe 2 (23), Blackmon (16), Story (17). SB—Tatis Jr. (8). SF—Hosmer (2). IP H R ER BB SOSan DiegoMargevicius 1B 11 9 9 1 1Perdomo 2C 2 0 0 1 2Wingenter 1 1 1 1 0 2Maton 1 5 3 3 0 2Wieck 1 0 0 0 0 2G.Reyes W,3-0 1 0 0 0 0 3Yates S,24-24 1 0 0 0 0 2ColoradoLambert 3 9 8 8 0 3Tinoco 3 0 0 0 1 1B.Shaw 1 2 2 2 0 2McGee H,1 1 2 0 0 0 1W.Davis L,1-2 BS,2 C 2 4 4 2 0J.Gray B 0 0 0 3 0

WP—Lambert 2, Margevicius. T—3:31. A—47,526 (50,398).

Brewers 5, Giants 3Milwaukee San Francisco ab r h bi ab r h biGamel cf 4 1 1 1 Panik 2b 2 0 0 0Hader p 0 0 0 0 Ystrzms lf 3 0 1 0Yelich rf 5 0 2 1 D.Hllnd p 0 0 0 0Braun lf 5 1 1 0 Vogt ph 1 0 0 0Mstks 2b-3b 4 0 1 0 D.Rdrig p 0 0 0 0Grandal c 4 0 2 1 Solano ph 1 0 0 0Thames 1b 4 1 2 1 Posey c 3 0 1 0T.Shaw 3b 3 1 2 0 Belt 1b-lf 3 0 0 1H.Perz ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Lngoria 3b 3 1 1 0Arcia ss 4 0 0 0 B.Crwfr ss 4 0 0 0Ch.Andr p 2 0 0 0 Pillar rf-cf 4 1 1 1Albers p 0 0 0 0 Duggar cf 3 0 1 0Aguilar ph 1 1 1 1 Austin ph-rf 1 0 0 0Ju.Grra p 0 0 0 0 Smrdzja p 1 0 1 1Jffress p 0 0 0 0 Sndvl ph-1b 3 1 1 0Cain ph-cf 1 0 0 0 Totals 38 5 12 5 Totals 32 3 7 3Milwaukee 110 111 000—5San Francisco 020 010 000—3

DP—Milwaukee 1, San Francisco 1. LOB—Milwaukee 9, San Francisco 8. 2B—Yelich 2 (13), Pillar (13). 3B—Longo-ria (2). HR—Thames (10), Aguilar (5). SB—Thames (2). SF—Belt (2). IP H R ER BB SOMilwaukeeCh.Anderson 4 5 3 3 4 3Albers W,3-2 1 0 0 0 1 1Ju.Guerra H,10 1 1 0 0 0 0Jeffress H,8 1 1 0 0 0 2Hader S,17-18 2 0 0 0 0 3San FranciscoSamardzija L,3-6 5 9 4 4 2 5D.Holland 2 3 1 1 0 3D.Rodriguez 2 0 0 0 0 1

Ch.Anderson pitched to 3 batters in the 5th HBP—by Samardzija (Grandal). T—3:18. A—34,603 (41,915).

Dodgers 3, Cubs 2Chicago Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h biJ.Baez ss 5 1 1 0 K.Hrnan cf 3 0 1 0Bryant lf 4 1 1 0 Pdersn ph-lf 1 0 0 0Rizzo 1b 4 0 2 0 J.Trner 3b 4 0 0 0Cntrras c 4 0 2 1 Freese 1b 3 1 1 0Bote 3b 3 0 0 1 Beaty ph-1b 1 0 0 0Almr Jr cf 4 0 3 0 Bllnger rf 3 1 1 1Heyward rf 3 0 0 0 C.Tylor ss 2 1 1 0Qintana p 1 0 0 0 Muncy 2b 3 0 1 1Kntzler p 0 0 0 0 Ru.Mrtn c 4 0 1 1Collins p 0 0 0 0 Garlick lf 2 0 1 0C.Gnzal ph 1 0 0 0 Vrdgo ph-cf 1 0 0 0Cishek p 0 0 0 0 Ryu p 3 0 0 0Ryan p 0 0 0 0 Strplng p 0 0 0 0Schwrbr ph 1 0 0 0 A.Brnes ph 1 0 0 0Russell 2b 3 0 0 0 K.Jnsen p 0 0 0 0Cratini ph 1 0 0 0 Dscalso pr 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 2 9 2 Totals 31 3 7 3Chicago 000 002 000—2Los Angeles 100 001 01x—3

E—J.Turner (3). DP—Los Angeles 1. LOB—Chicago 8, Los Angeles 9. 2B—C.Taylor (12), Garlick (2). HR—Bellinger (23). SB—Descalso (2). SF—Bote (2). S—Quintana (3). IP H R ER BB SOChicagoQuintana 5 6 2 2 3 3Kintzler C 0 0 0 1 2Collins B 0 0 0 0 0Cishek L,1-4 1B 1 1 1 1 1Ryan C 0 0 0 0 0Los AngelesRyu 7 7 2 0 0 8Stripling W,3-2 1 1 0 0 0 2K.Jansen S,2A4 1 1 0 0 1 0

Quintana pitched to 3 batters in the 6th T—3:05. A—53,817 (56,000).

Nationals 15, Diamondbacks 5Arizona Washington ab r h bi ab r h biJ.Dyson rf 5 0 1 0 T.Trner ss 4 1 0 0K.Marte cf 4 3 3 1 Eaton rf 3 3 3 1E.Escbr 3b 4 0 1 1 Rendon 3b 5 3 3 2Crchton p 0 0 0 0 Ad.Snch 3b 0 0 0 0C.Kelly c 1 1 1 1 J.Soto lf 3 3 1 0C.Wlker 1b 5 0 1 0 Kndrick 2b 4 2 3 2I.Vrgas 2b 5 1 3 1 M.Adams 1b 5 2 2 7Lcastro lf 4 0 1 0 Suzuki c 3 1 2 3Ahmed ss 3 0 0 1 Gomes c 2 0 0 0Joseph c-p 3 0 0 0 V.Rbles cf 4 0 1 0A.Brdly p 0 0 0 0 Javy.Gr p 0 0 0 0Godley p 2 0 0 0 Sipp p 0 0 0 0K.Cron ph-3b 2 0 0 0 A.Sanch p 1 0 0 0 Parra ph 1 0 0 0 Rainey p 0 0 0 0 M.Tylor cf 1 0 0 0Totals 38 5 11 5 Totals 36 15 15 15Arizona 100 100 102—5Washington 313 012 05x—15

E—Ad.Sanchez (1). DP—Arizona 2. LOB—Arizona 10, Washington 4. 2B—K.Marte (15), Locastro (4). HR—K.Marte (20), Rendon (16), M.Adams 2 (9), Suzuki (7). SB—T.Turner (11). CS—Eaton (3). SF—Ahmed (7). S—A.Sanchez (1). IP H R ER BB SOArizonaA.Bradley L,2-4 1B 5 4 4 2 2Godley 4C 7 6 6 1 3Crichton 1C 3 5 5 2 3WashingtonA.Sanchez W,3-6 6 6 2 2 0 3Rainey 1 2 1 1 0 1Javy.Guerra 1 1 0 0 0 1Sipp 1 2 2 1 1 1

HBP—by A.Sanchez (Joseph), by A.Sanchez (Locastro), by Crichton (J.Soto). T—3:14. A—29,032 (41,313).

Red Sox 8, Orioles 6 (10)Boston Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h biBetts rf 5 1 3 2 Albrto 3b-2b 6 0 3 2C.Vazqz c 6 0 2 2 Mancini rf 4 1 2 1Mrtinez lf 5 0 0 0 Sverino c 5 0 2 0Devers 3b 5 2 2 1 R.Nunez dh 5 0 0 0Bgaerts ss 3 1 2 1 Sntnder lf 4 0 1 0Chavis 1b 5 2 2 0 Villar 2b-ss 4 1 1 0Brdly J cf 5 0 1 1 C.Davis 1b 5 0 0 0E.Nunez dh 3 0 1 0 Broxton cf 3 1 1 0Holt ph-dh 1 1 0 0 R.Ruiz ph-3b 2 1 0 0M.Hrnan 2b 5 1 1 1 Ri.Mrtn ss 3 0 0 0 S.Wlkrs ph-cf 2 2 2 2Totals 43 8 14 8 Totals 43 6 12 5Boston 000 200 001 5—8Baltimore 001 000 020 3—6

E—Villar (9), R.Ruiz (4), Devers (12), Chavis (5). DP—Boston 1, Baltimore 1. LOB—Boston 10, Baltimore 12. 2B—Bo-gaerts (21), Bradley Jr. (14), Broxton (3). 3B—Betts (1), S.Wilkerson (1). HR—De-vers (11), M.Hernandez (1), Mancini (16), S.Wilkerson (6). SB—Betts (7), Villar 2 (14). IP H R ER BB SOBostonB.Johnson 3 5 1 1 2 2Brewer 1 0 0 0 0 1Shawaryn C 1 0 0 2 1J.Taylor 1B 0 0 0 0 2Walden BS,2 1C 1 1 1 1 2Lakins B 2 1 1 0 0Workman W,5-1 1 1 0 0 0 1Josh A.Smith 1 2 3 1 0 0BaltimoreMeans 5 7 2 2 2 2Yacabonis B 0 0 0 1 0Bleier 1 0 0 0 0 0Armstrong 1B 1 0 0 1 1P.Fry B 0 0 0 0 1Givens L,0-4 BS,5 1 4 4 2 0 2Hess 1 2 2 2 1 0

B.Johnson pitched to 2 batters in the 4th Givens pitched to 3 batters in the 10th WP—B.Johnson 2, Means 2, Walden 2. T—4:45. A—27,964 (45,971).

Rays 6, Angels 5Los Angeles Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h biL Stlla 2b 5 2 1 0 Meadows dh 4 0 1 0Trout cf 4 2 2 2 Pham lf 3 2 1 1Ohtani dh 4 1 2 0 B.Lowe 2b 3 2 2 1Pujols 1b 3 0 1 1 Choi 1b 4 0 0 0Puello lf 1 0 0 0 Y.Diaz 3b 4 1 2 1K.Clhun ph-rf 3 0 1 0 Adames ss 0 0 0 0Fltcher 3b 3 0 1 2 Krmaier cf 4 1 1 1Goodwin rf-lf 4 0 2 0 Av.Grci rf 3 0 1 1Lucroy c 4 0 0 0 Wendle ss-3b 3 0 0 0Tovar ss 4 0 1 0 Zunino c 3 0 1 0Totals 35 5 11 5 Totals 31 6 9 5Los Angeles 101 010 002—5Tampa Bay 120 010 02x—6

E—Choi (5). DP—Los Angeles 1, Tampa Bay 2. LOB—Los Angeles 9, Tampa Bay 4. 2B—Tovar (4), Av.Garcia (12), Zunino (8). 3B—Meadows (3), Kiermaier (5). HR—Trout (19), Pham (10), B.Lowe (15). SF—Pujols (5), Fletcher (1), Av.Garcia (1). IP H R ER BB SOLos AngelesCanning L,2-3 6 6 4 4 0 7T.Cole 1C 3 2 2 1 3L.Garcia B 0 0 0 0 0Tampa BayStanek 1B 1 1 0 1 0Beeks 3 4 2 2 2 2Pagan C 1 0 0 1 0Poche W,1-1 2 0 0 0 0 3Kolarek H,11 1 2 0 0 0 0D.Castillo S,7-7 1 3 2 2 0 1

HBP—by Canning (B.Lowe). WP—Pa-gan, T.Cole. T—3:07. A—20,508 (25,025).

Indians 8, Tigers 0Cleveland Detroit ab r h bi ab r h biLindor ss 4 1 1 0 J.Jones cf 4 0 0 0Mercado lf 4 1 3 4 C.Stwrt lf 4 0 0 0C.Sntna dh 5 1 1 0 Cstllns dh 4 0 1 0Kipnis 2b 5 1 3 3 Dixon rf 4 0 0 0Ramirez 3b 4 1 1 0 H.Cstro 2b 3 0 1 0M.Frman 3b 0 0 0 0 G.Bckhm ss 3 0 1 0Bauers 1b 4 0 2 0 Joh.Hck 1b 3 0 0 0R.Perez c 4 1 2 0 Bo.Wlsn c 3 0 1 0Naquin rf 4 1 1 1 D.Lugo 3b 3 0 0 0L.Mrtin cf 4 1 0 0 Totals 38 8 14 8 Totals 31 0 4 0Cleveland 103 201 100—8Detroit 000 000 000—0

DP—Detroit 1. LOB—Cleveland 10, Detroit 4. 2B—Lindor (11), Mercado (6), C.Santana (14), Kipnis (11), Naquin (9), G.Beckham (8), Bo.Wilson (1). 3B—H.Castro (1). HR—Kipnis (3). SB—Mer-cado (4). SF—Naquin (1). IP H R ER BB SOClevelandBauer W,5-6 9 4 0 0 0 8DetroitTurnbull L,3-6 5 10 6 6 2 4Austin.Adams 1B 3 2 2 2 2Stumpf C 0 0 0 0 0C.Torres 1 1 0 0 1 2S.Greene 1 0 0 0 1 0

WP—Turnbull. T—2:45. A—26,705 (41,297).

Blue Jays 12, Astros 0Toronto Houston ab r h bi ab r h biSogard 3b 3 3 2 0 Bregman 3b 3 0 0 0Grrr Jr dh 5 1 1 0 Brntley lf 2 0 1 0Grrl Jr lf 4 2 2 4 Stubbs lf-rf 1 0 0 0Tellez 1b 5 1 1 1 Alvrez dh-lf 4 0 0 0T.Hrnan cf 4 2 2 4 Rddick rf-1b 3 0 2 0Biggio 2b 5 1 2 0 R.Chrns c 3 0 1 0Grichuk rf 4 1 1 0 White 1b-p 3 0 1 0Galvis ss 5 1 3 3 Kemp 2b 4 0 0 0D.Jnsen c 5 0 0 0 Myfield ss 4 0 1 0 Straw cf 4 0 1 0Totals 40 12 14 12 Totals 31 0 7 0Toronto 200 027 001—12Houston 000 000 000—0

DP—Toronto 3. LOB—Toronto 6, Hous-ton 10. 2B—Sogard (9), Biggio (2), Grichuk (11). 3B—Sogard (2). HR—Gurriel Jr. (7), Tellez (11), T.Hernandez 2 (6), Galvis (10). SF—Gurriel Jr. (1). IP H R ER BB SOTorontoThornton W,2-5 6C 6 0 0 3 7Shafer 1B 0 0 0 3 1Biagini 1 1 0 0 0 1HoustonPeacock L,6-4 5 5 4 4 3 5C.Perez 3 7 7 7 1 1

WP—Thornton. T—3:02. A—42,174 (41,168).

Yankees 10, White Sox 3New York Chicago ab r h bi ab r h biLMahieu 2b 5 1 2 0 L.Grcia cf 4 1 1 0Voit 1b 3 1 1 0 Ti.Andr ss 5 0 1 0G.Trres ss 2 3 0 0 J.Abreu 1b 4 1 3 1C.Frzer dh 5 0 1 0 J.McCnn c 4 1 2 2Gardner cf 4 2 2 4 El.Jmen lf 4 0 0 0Urshela 3b 5 2 2 1 Moncada 3b 1 0 0 0Tuchman rf 4 0 0 0 J.Rndon 3b 1 0 0 0Romine c 5 0 2 4 W.Cstll dh 1 0 1 0Maybin lf 5 1 2 1 Alnso ph-dh 3 0 1 0 Y.Sanch 2b 4 0 0 0 Cordell rf 4 0 0 0Totals 38 10 12 10 Totals 35 3 9 3New York 005 021 110—10Chicago 100 010 010—3

DP—New York 1. LOB—New York 8, Chicago 8. 2B—Urshela (13), Romine (3). HR—Maybin (3), J.Abreu (17), J.McCann (6). CS—Maybin (3). IP H R ER BB SONew YorkPaxton W,4-3 6 8 2 2 1 7Ottavino 1 0 0 0 0 2Hale 1 1 1 1 1 1Britton 1 0 0 0 0 0ChicagoDespaigne L,0-2 4B 9 7 7 4 5J.Ruiz 1C 1 1 1 1 1Bummer 1 1 1 1 0 1Vieira 1 1 1 1 1 0Colome 1 0 0 0 0 1

HBP—by Despaigne (Gardner), by Brit-ton (L.Garcia). T—3:06. A—37,277 (40,615).

Cardinals 4, Mets 3St. Louis New York ab r h bi ab r h biM.Crpnt 3b 4 0 0 0 D.Smith lf 3 1 2 0DeJong ss 3 2 1 1 J..Dvis 3b 4 0 1 1Gldschm 1b 2 2 1 2 Cnforto rf 4 0 1 0J.Mrtin lf 3 0 0 0 P.Alnso 1b 4 0 1 0C.Mrtin p 0 0 0 0 Cano 2b 3 1 1 0De.Fwlr rf 4 0 0 0 Hchvrri ss 4 1 1 1Molina c 4 0 1 0 Lagares cf 3 0 2 1Bader cf 4 0 0 0 McNeil ph 1 0 0 0Wong 2b 4 0 0 0 Nido c 3 0 0 0Dak.Hds p 2 0 0 0 T.Frzer ph 1 0 1 0Ozuna ph 1 0 0 0 J.Vrgas p 1 0 0 0A.Mller p 0 0 0 0 deGrom ph 0 0 0 0Munoz lf 0 0 0 0 Font p 0 0 0 0 A.Rsrio ph 1 0 0 0 Flexen p 0 0 0 0 Punders p 0 0 0 0 W.Ramos ph 1 0 0 0Totals 31 4 3 3 Totals 33 3 10 3St. Louis 200 100 010—4New York 102 000 000—3

E—Hechavarria 2 (4). DP—St. Louis 3, New York 1. LOB—St. Louis 4, New York 6. 2B—D.Smith (7), Cano (14). HR—DeJong(13), Goldschmidt (13). SB—Lagares (3). IP H R ER BB SOSt. LouisDak.Hudson 6 8 3 3 3 3A.Miller W,3-2 1 1 0 0 0 1C.Martinez S,2-3 2 1 0 0 0 2New YorkJ.Vargas 4 1 3 2 3 4Font 3 0 0 0 1 3Flexen L,0-3 1 1 1 1 0 2Pounders 1 1 0 0 0 0

WP—Dak.Hudson. T—3:09. A—37,054(41,922).

Pirates 5, Marlins 4Pittsburgh Miami ab r h bi ab r h biNewman ss 5 0 2 0 R.Hrrra rf 2 0 0 0B.Rynld cf-lf 4 1 1 0 Dean ph 1 0 1 0Me.Cbrr lf 4 1 2 1 Cooper 1b 5 1 1 0S.Marte cf 1 0 0 0 Bri.And 3b 3 1 0 0Bell 1b 5 1 1 1 S.Cstro 2b 4 0 2 0Moran 2b-3b 4 1 1 0 H.Rmrez lf 4 1 2 3G.Plnco rf 4 1 1 0 Riddle cf 4 1 1 0Kang 3b 4 0 1 2 Rojas ss 4 0 0 0Crick p 0 0 0 0 Holaday c 2 0 1 0El.Diaz c 0 0 0 0 Alfaro ph 1 0 0 0Stllngs c 3 0 1 0 Alcntra p 2 0 1 1F.Vazqz p 0 0 0 0 Grndrsn ph 1 0 0 0Archer p 2 0 0 0 N.Andrs p 0 0 0 0C.Dckrs ph 1 0 1 1 Gerrero p 0 0 0 0Ri.Rdri p 0 0 0 0 Chen p 0 0 0 0A.Frzer 2b 1 0 0 0 Rivera ph 1 0 0 0Totals 38 5 11 5 Totals 34 4 9 4Pittsburgh 000 201 200—5Miami 000 400 000—4

DP—Pittsburgh 1. LOB—Pittsburgh 8, Miami 7. 2B—Newman (9), Bell (27), G.Polanco (8), Kang (4), Stallings (1), C.Dickerson (4), Cooper (2), H.Ramirez(8). 3B—Me.Cabrera (1). HR—H.Ramirez(2). SB—Newman (4). CS—S.Castro (1). IP H R ER BB SOPittsburghArcher 5 7 4 4 3 8Ri.Rodriguez W,1-3 1 0 0 0 0 0Crick H,10 1C 1 0 0 1 2F.Vazquez S,16-17 1B 1 0 0 0 1MiamiAlcantara 6 8 3 3 2 6N.Anderson L,2-3 BS,1 1 3 2 2 0 1Guerrero 1 0 0 0 0 0Chen 1 0 0 0 0 0

T—3:09. A—12,472 (36,742).

Braves 15, Phillies 1Philadelphia Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h biSegura ss 3 0 0 0 Acn Jr. cf 5 4 4 2Eckhoff p 0 0 0 0 D.Swnsn ss 5 1 1 0S.Rdrig p 0 0 0 0 F.Frman 1b 4 2 2 2B.Hrper rf 3 0 1 1 H.Ynoa p 0 0 0 0Kingery cf 4 0 1 0 Dnldson 3b 4 1 3 2Hoskins 1b 3 0 0 0 Cmrgo pr-3b 0 1 0 0C.Hrnan 2b 4 0 0 0 Mrkakis rf 4 1 2 2N.Wllms lf 3 0 0 0 Riley lf 5 1 2 1Franco 3b 4 0 1 0 Albies 2b 5 2 3 2Knapp c 4 1 1 0 Flowers c 4 2 2 2Vlsquez p 1 0 1 0 Fltynwc p 2 0 0 1Irvin p 0 0 0 0 Tomlin p 1 0 0 0B.Mller ph-ss 2 0 1 0 Clbrson 1b 1 0 0 0Totals 31 1 6 1 Totals 40 15 19 14Philadelphia 000 010 000—1Atlanta 302 221 50x—15

E—Riley (4), Velasquez (2). DP—Phila-delphia 1, Atlanta 2. LOB—Philadelphia 8, Atlanta 7. 2B—Kingery (13), F.Freeman (18), Donaldson (17), Riley (5), Albies 2 (15). HR—Acuna Jr. (16), Donaldson (12), Flowers (6). SF—Markakis (5). S—Foltyne-wicz (2). IP H R ER BB SOPhiladelphiaVelasquez L,2-4 2B 4 4 4 0 4Irvin 3C 9 6 6 1 4Eickhoff 1 6 5 5 1 1S.Rodriguez 1 0 0 0 0 1AtlantaFoltynewicz W,2-5 6 4 1 1 5 6Tomlin 1 1 0 0 0 1H.Ynoa 2 1 0 0 0 2

HBP—by Velasquez (Acuna Jr.), by Ir-vin (Donaldson). WP—Foltynewicz. T—3:09. A—40,855 (41,149).

LeadersAMERICAN LEAGUE

BATTING—Polanco, Minnesota, .332;Anderson, Chicago, .315; Meadows, Tam-pa Bay, .314; LeMahieu, New York, .312;Brantley, Houston, .311; Mancini, Balti-more, .310; Fletcher, Los Angeles, .308 .

NATIONAL LEAGUEBATTING—Bellinger, Los Angeles, .355;

Yelich, Milwaukee, .343; Dahl, Colorado, .336; Blackmon, Colorado, .336; McNeil, New York, .333; Arenado, Colorado, .321; Bell, Pittsburgh, .321; Rendon, Washing-ton, .321; Freeman, Atlanta, .311 .

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Royals 8, Twins 6Kansas City Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h biMrrfeld 1b 4 0 1 1 Kepler cf 6 1 4 2Mondesi ss 5 0 0 0 J.Plnco ss 4 0 1 0A.Grdon lf 4 0 0 0 Cruz dh 5 1 2 3Soler dh 4 1 0 0 E.Rsrio lf 5 0 2 0Cthbert 3b 5 2 1 0 Sano 3b 4 1 2 1Bnfacio rf 5 1 2 2 Gnzalez rf 4 1 1 0N.Lopez 2b 4 2 1 0 Schoop 2b 5 1 3 0Mldnado c 4 2 3 2 J.Cstro c 3 0 0 0B.Hmltn cf 3 0 1 2 Garver ph-c 2 0 0 0 Adranza 1b 4 1 0 0Totals 38 8 9 7 Totals 42 6 15 6Kansas City 030 000 230—8Minnesota 000 200 121—6

E—Morin (1), Sano (5). LOB—Kansas City 7, Minnesota 15. 2B—Bonifacio (1), Maldonado (7), Kepler 2 (18), Cruz (10). HR—Cruz (13), Sano (7). SB—Merrifield (11). S—B.Hamilton (3).Kansas City IP H R ER BB SOJunis 3C 5 2 2 3 5Barlow B 0 0 0 0 1Jor.Lopez W,1-6 2B 4 1 1 0 2Diekman H,9 C 1 0 0 0 1Boxberger 0 3 2 2 1 0Wi.Peralta H,4 1 0 0 0 0 1Kennedy S,7-9 1 2 1 1 1 2MinnesotaM.Perez L,7-3 6C 6 5 4 1 7Morin 1B 3 3 0 1 0Magill 1 0 0 0 1 1

Boxberger pitched to 4 in 8th HBP—by Junis (Gonzalez). T—4:00. A—38,886.

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LOS ANGELES — Kenley Jan-sen sent a late-night text to Dodg-ers manager Dave Roberts after his blown save against the Cubs.

“I wanted the ball after what happened last night,” the closer said. “I really wanted to face them again.”

Jansen got his wish, and quick-ly found himself in trouble again.

But he escaped again, earning his 21st save the hard way, and Los Angeles rallied to beat Chi-cago 3-2 Sunday night.

Russell Martin singled in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and Alex Verdugo made a game-saving catch for the final out to help the NL West-leading Dodg-ers take three of four.

“Got to give them credit, I mean, they worked their way out of a jam there,” Chicago’s Kris Bryant said. “Great play at the end of the game. I thought it was going to get down but it’s a good team over there.”

Martin struck out in his first three at-bats before poking a two-strike single to left off Steve Cis-hek (1-4).

“It was getting tough to see with the shadows and early in the at-bat I was having a tough time seeing his slider, the rotation and spin on it,” Martin said.

Third-base coach Dino Ebel sent Chris Taylor home from sec-ond after he walked to open the inning. Taylor slid headfirst and did a face-plant, his helmet going airborne, as the throw from Bry-ant sailed past catcher Willson Contreras.

“It was really smooth,” joked Taylor, who had a large red

scratch near his right eye after-ward. “I’m just glad I was able to touch the plate. It was embarrass-ing. My right arm sort of got stuck and I rolled onto my face.”

Ebel noticed Bryant was play-ing shallow in left.

“Kris had to make a perfect throw and he didn’t,” Ebel said. “He threw the ball on the first base side.”

The series featured 13 home runs and 18 of 24 runs scored on homers.

“That’s a great game but I think it re-emphasizes how equal both teams are,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.

Royals 8, Twins 6: Martin Maldonado celebrated Father’s Day by wearing a blue necktie on his chest protector and had three hits to lift the visiting Royals.

Maldonado had several names scribbled on the tie, along with “Happy Father’s Day.”

Pittsburgh Pirates backstop Elias Diaz wore the same tie in a game against Atlanta, which ap-peared to be provided by equip-ment manufacturer All-Star.

Red Sox 8, Orioles 6 (10): Rafael Devers led off the 10th in-ning with a home run after Marco Hernandez tied it with a solo shot in ninth, and the visiting Red Sox beat the Orioles.

Indians 8, Tigers 0: Trevor Bauer pitched his first shutout as a pro, ending the longest winless streak of his career as the Indi-ans beat the host Tigers.

Rays 6, Angels 5: Yandy Diaz hit an RBI single during Tampa Bay’s two-run eighth inning, and the host Rays held off Los Ange-les’ late rally to beat the Angels.

Cardinals 4, Mets 3: Paul De-

Jong tagged the Mets again, hit-ting a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning that sent the Cardinals over host New York.

Braves 15, Phillies 1: Josh Donaldson homered for the third straight game, Mike Foltynewicz allowed only one run in six in-nings and the host Braves beat the Phillies.

The Braves, who had their eight-game winning streak snapped with a 6-5 loss to the Phillies on Saturday night, won two of three in the series. Atlanta leads Philadelphia by 2 ½ games in the NL East.

Nationals 15, Diamondbacks 5: Matt Adams homered twice and drove in a career-high seven runs, Anibal Sanchez got his 100th career victory, and the host Na-tionals beat the Diamondbacks.

Brewers 5, Giants 3: Eric Thames and Jesus Aguilar hom-ered to help the visiting Brewers avoid a sweep with a victory over the Giants.

Christian Yelich had two dou-bles, extending his season-high hitting streak to 13 games. The reigning NL MVP is batting .472 (25-for-53) with five homers over that stretch.

Reds 11, Rangers 3: Jesse Winker homered and set career highs with four hits and five RBIs, Yasiel Puig added a two-run shot, and the host Reds beat the Rang-ers to avoid a three-game sweep.

Yankees 10, White Sox 3: James Paxton pitched six effec-tive innings, Brett Gardner and Austin Romine each had four RBIs and the Yankees cruised past the host White Sox.

Pirates 5, Marlins 4: Josh Bell’s go-ahead double in the sev-

enth helped lead the Pirates over the host Marlins.

The Pirates rallied from a 4-2 deficit on Corey Dickerson’s pinch-hit RBI double off Miami starter Sandy Alcantara in the sixth and took the lead in the seventh against reliever Nick An-derson (2-3) on Melky Cabrera’s game-tying triple and Bell’s dou-ble that scored Cabrera.

Blue Jays 12, Astros 0: Trent Thornton shut down his former team into the seventh inning, Teoscar Hernandez hit two of Toronto’s five home runs and the Blue Jays hammered the host Astros.

Mariners 6, Athletics 3: Kyle Seager hit a two-run double soon after right fielder Mark Canha ap-peared to lose a flyball in the sun, and the visiting Mariners rallied in the eighth inning to beat the Athletics.

BY PAT GRAHAM

Associated Press

DENVER — In a historically high-scor-ing series, the outcome was decided by a pinch-hitting pitcher.

On a bases-loaded walk, no less, off a starter who was making his first major league relief appearance.

That seems appropriate for such a wacky series.

The Padres and Rockies set a modern-era record by combining for 92 runs in a four-game series, with San Diego pitcher Matt Strahm drawing a pinch-hit, bases-loaded walk in the ninth inning to rally past Colorado 14-13 Sunday.

“A four-game series here, it feels like a month,” first baseman Eric Hosmer said. “This was a grind.”

It was just another wild day at Coors Field in this split series where the Rock-ies outscored the Padres 48-44 while the teams combined for 131 hits. Colorado’s Charlie Blackmon became the first player since at least 1900 with 15 hits in a four-game series, according to STATS. Adding to the zaniness: the finale was delayed once to clean up a big puddle in foul ter-ritory despite sunny skies, and again later

because of weather.“That’s the great thing about baseball —

you see things you’ve never seen before,”

Rockies infielder Ryan McMahon said. “It didn’t bounce our way.”

Trailing 13-10 in the ninth, Wil Myers had an RBI single and Greg Garcia prompt-ly tied it with a two-out, two-run triple off closer Wade Davis (1-2). The Rockies brought in starter Jon Gray, who inten-tionally walked two batters to face Strahm after the Padres used up all their position players. Gray fell behind 3-1 before throw-ing a strike. Strahm watched a 98-mph fastball narrowly miss for ball four.

“The 3-2 was down and I know I can’t handle that with his velocity,” Strahm said.

Rockies manager Bud Black said he went with Gray — the starter Thursday — be-cause of his usual ability to throw strikes. Plus, the Rockies had some relievers who weren’t available given their work load.

Gerardo Reyes (3-0) earned the win by striking out three in the eighth. Kirby Yates threw a perfect ninth for his 24th save.

Hunter Renfroe homered twice for San Diego, and Fernando Tatis Jr. had three hits, including a double and a triple.

All told, the four games took more than 16 hours to complete.

“I can’t really explain some of the things that went on and honestly I’m just happy to

get out of here for a split, for sure,” Garciasaid.

The Padres raced out to a 3-0 lead beforea giant puddle suddenly formed along theright field line due to an issue with the ir-rigation line. The grounds crew rolled the water away as the teams waited in the dug-out during the 15-minute holdup.

In the bottom of the inning, Colorado re-sponded with six runs. Blackmon led the way with two hits in the inning, including asolo homer to lead off.

The game was again halted in the sixthas weather moved into the area. The delaylasted 48 minutes.

Once the tarp was lifted, the Rockiesquickly went to work by scoring three runs to make it 13-8. Ian Desmond, Ryan McMa-hon and Raimel Tapia had three straight doubles to start the frame. The trio went acombined 9 for 15 with six RBIs.

Blackmon remained red hot with three more hits. He’s reached base safely in all 26 of his home games this season.

“Our whole lineup swung the bat good.Their lineup swung the bat good,” Black-mon said. “It was the most offensive seriesI’ve ever seen.”

Padres-Rockies set record with 92 runs

DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/AP

Rockies center fielder Charlie Blackmon follows the flight of his RBI-single off o Padres relief pitcher Phil Maton in the sixth inning Sunday in Denver. Blackmon became the first player since at least 1900 with 15 hits in a four-game series.

Roundup

Martin helps West-leading Dodgers edge Cubs

ALEX GALLARDO/AP

Dodgers catcher Russell Martin, left, tags out the Cubs’ Albert Almora Jr. on a throw from pitcher Kenley Jansen to the plate during the ninth inning Sunday in Los Angeles.

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BY JOSH DUBOW

Associated Press

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Justin Rose’s final round at the U.S. Open got off a per-fect start with a birdie on the first hole that moved him into a tie for the lead.

Little else went right for Rose on Sun-day as he posted four bogeys in an eight-hole stretch at Pebble Beach that left him far out of contention to cap a weekend that started with a record-tying round and ended with him struggling to find his game.

“I was right in the tournament,” Rose said. “And then just kept missing in the wrong spot. And the putter wasn’t quite as warm today as it was yesterday. Took a bit of a day off. But I felt like I had to have a day where I pieced everything together to win. It was close. But coming in, once momentum leaves you a little bit, it just be-comes hard to grind it out.”

Rose started the tournament by shooting a 6-under 65 on Thursday that tied Tiger Woods’ record for lowest score ever at a U.S. Open at Pebble Beach. But Rose was just 1 under for the final 54 holes and failed to add a second major title to the one he won in the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion.

He shot a 3-over 74 on Sunday to finish in a four-way tie for third, six strokes be-hind winner Gary Woodland.

Rose’s putter kept him in contention in

the first three rounds with 34 one-putt greens, including a 10-footer on No. 18 on Saturday to move him within one shot of Woodland’s lead heading into Sunday.

The Englishman made another from 7 feet on the first hole Sunday to tie Wood-land at 11 under but struggled to make more big putts along the way and quickly fell out of contention.

He dropped two shots at No. 2 when his approach from the fairway landed in the bunker and he two-putted for bogey while Woodland made birdie. His birdie putt on 3 came up one revolution short and another on 4 rimmed out as he fell three shots off the lead.

He missed an eagle putt at 6 and then made a bogey at 8 that started his run of four in eight holes and ended any hope of catching Woodland.

In all, he needed 32 putts to make it through the round Sunday after averaging

just 24 through the first three rounds.“There’s no point in letting it hurt too

much,” he said. “It hurts if you lose at the death and you make a mistake. Like the way it happened for me today, it’s like,

yeah, I’m more proud of the fact I even gave myself a chance. I didn’t have my ‘A’game this week. And to contend in a majorwith no game, really, I take the positivefrom that.”

BY JOSH DUBOW

Associated Press

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The crowd was roaring, the birdies were dropping and Tiger Woods looked like his vintage self for the final 12 holes of the U.S. Open.

The problem for Woods was what happened on the first 60 holes.

Woods salvaged an otherwise disappointing weekend at Pebble Beach by birdieing six of his final 12 holes Sunday to finish the tour-nament at 2-under par, far behind the top contenders on a weekend made for low scores.

Woods finally got in on the ac-tion after bogeys on four of the first six holes with an impressive turnaround that even he couldn’t explain.

“I wish I would have known because I would have turned it around a little earlier than that, he said. “Again, got off to another crappy start and was able to fight it off. Turned back around and got it to under par for the week which is — normally it’s a good thing, but this week the guys are definitely taking to it.”

The problem for Woods all weekend was his inability to take advantage of the scoring oppor-tunities on the first seven holes at Pebble Beach. He played that stretch at 2-over par for the tour-nament and 4 over in the final two rounds.

Woods left his approach shots short on three of the early bogeys on Sunday and hit a tee shot into the rough at the par-3 fifth hole

on the other. As he walked off the sixth green after his fourth bogey, Woods trudged toward the seventh tee, head down, seem-ingly defeated.

But then he made a 15-footer for birdie at 7, hit an approach to 5 feet on 8 for another birdie and drained a 40-foot putt on 13, prompting a fan to yell, “The

comeback has started!”While that might have been a

bit of hyperbole, Woods hit an-other great approach shot on 16 to get back under par for the tournament and closed it out with another on 18 to the delight of the fans.

“Just because I got off to a bad start doesn’t mean it’s over,” he

said. “Keep grinding, keep play-ing. And I was able to turn my round around today as well as yesterday. So rounds that could have easily slipped away and kind of gone the other way pretty eas-ily I was able it to turnaround.”

The final round of 69 tied for Woods’ second-best closing round ever at a U.S. Open, behind only

the 67 at Pebble Beach in 2000 when he had a record-setting 15-stroke win.

Now after starting the year by winning his first major since 2008at the Masters, Woods has missedthe cut at the PGA Championshiplast month and finished far out ofthe lead at the U.S. Open.

He plans to take a few weeksoff from competition before gear-ing up for a run at his 16th careermajor next month at the BritishOpen, played on an unfamiliarcourse to him at Royal Portrushin Northern Ireland.

“I’m looking forward to getting up there and taking a look at thegolf course and trying to figureout,” Woods said. “I hope that my practice rounds are such that weget different winds, especiallyon a golf course that I’ve neverplayed, and to get a different feelhow it could play for the week.And definitely have to do myhomework once I get there.”

CAROLYN KASTER/AP

Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the second hole during the final round of the U.S. Open Championship on Sunday in Pebble Beach, Calif. Woods birdied six of the final 12 holes in the round.

MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP

Justin Rose reacts to his bunker shot on the second hole during the final round of the U.S. Open Championship on Sunday in Pebble Beach, Calif.

Rose wilts after 65After record start, Englishman falters in final

‘ Once momentum leaves you a little bit, it justbecomes hard to grindit out. ’

Justin Rose2013 US Open winner

Strong finish not enough to help Woods contend‘ Again, got off toanother crappy start and was able to fight it off. Turned back around and got itto under par forthe week. ’

Tiger Woods2019 Masters champion

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BY EDDIE PELLS

Associated Press

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Brooks Koepka brought his ‘A’ game to Pebble Beach on Sun-day, hoping it would be good enough to make history.

It was in a way.Just not good enough to slow down the

magic show Gary Woodland was putting on behind him.

Koepka’s round of 3-under 68 left him three strokes short of Woodland, who stopped Ko-epka’s quest to become the first player since 1905 to win three straight U.S. Opens.

Koepka did make histo-ry by becoming only the fourth player to break 70 in all four rounds of the U.S. Open, but even that didn’t turn out so great. Ten minutes later, Woodland became the fifth, thanks to a par save courtesy of a chip off the 17th green that nearly went in, then a 30-foot birdie on 18 for the final dagger.

And so, Koepka’s special place in history after this week at Peb-ble Beach is that he’s

the only man to break 70 all four rounds and not walk away with the title. He finished 10-under par 274.

“I played great. Nothing I could do. I gave it my all. And sometimes, no matter how good your ‘good’ is, it isn’t there,” Koepka said.

Koepka came into the day trailing by four but made an all-world par save — first from the gallery, then from the thick grass in a barranca fronting the second green — and followed that with three straight birdies that pushed him to 11 under, only one shot behind Woodland.

“I thought, ‘Yeah, we’ve got a ballgame now,’ ” Koepka said.

It was quite a ballgame, but it didn’t go back and forth.

Even after a front side of 3-under 32, and

even after stuffing a wedge on No. 11 to 10 feet for a birdie to get to 11 under, Koepka could not grab the lead — not even for a minute.

He missed the fairway on 13, 14 and 15 and saved par each time, but there was no pierc-ing-perfect gap wedge, a la the 10th hole at the PGA at Bethpage two months ago, and there were no holding off Tiger Woods and all those cheers, a la the PGA at Bellerive last year.

“You knew he was going to come out those first couple holes, you can attack, and he did that,” Woodland said. “All day he was knock-ing on the door. I was proud to stay in my mo-ment and control myself.”

Woodland’s 3-wood from 263 yards on the par-5 14th set him up for a birdie that gave him a two-shot cushion. It would’ve been the

shot of the tournament had it not been for theshots he made from the greens — one withwedge, the other with putter — on 17 and 18.

It put Koepka in a must-make situation at the end.

He was 227 yards from the pin on the par-5 18th and needed eagle to have any chance.

His 3-iron flew past the hole and landedover the green in a tricky lie near the back. He stubbed the chip, then barely missed the 9-foot birdie putt that would’ve put him at 11 under. Koepka doubled over when the balltrickled away, knowing his small chance at a late miraculous turnaround was gone.

“At the time, it felt significant,” Koepka said.

In the end, it might not have mattered.

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

FROM BACK PAGEBut to say Woodland took the

easy way to his first major title would be missing the point.

He spent the entire day holding off Brooks Koepka, who himself was shooting for history — trying to become the first player since 1905 to complete a U.S. Open three-peat.

Koepka made clear early that he was up for the challenge. He opened with four birdies over the first five holes to pull within a shot of Woodland, who was play-ing one hole behind.

“I thought, ‘Yeah, we’ve got a ballgame now,’ ” Koepka said.

They did, except it wasn’t a back-and-forth ballgame. Wood-land never surrendered the lead.

It was at one shot when Wood-land drove to the middle of the fairway on the par-5 14th, faced with the choice between laying up, the way most players have all week, or going for it and hoping the shot would hold on the severe-

ly sloping putting surface.“We sat there and thought

about it for a while and said ‘Let’s go, we’re out here to win,’ ” Wood-land said.

The ball just cleared the bun-ker fronting the green, took two hops and rolled toward the collar left of the pin. A chip and a putt later, Woodland had a birdie and

a two-shot lead.“The 3-wood on 14 was what

gave me the confidence to even execute the shot on 17,” he said.

That shot, made while still clinging to the two-shot lead, added to Tom Watson’s chip-in from the sand in 1982 and Jack Nicklaus’ 1-iron off the flag 10 years before that on the growing list of history-making moments on that storied 17th green.

With his ball on the front right edge of the putting surface, but with a small hill blocking his path to the hole, Woodland took out his wedge and made pure contact, sending the ball over the hump then back onto the green, where it checked up and ran out to tap-in range for par.

“When I started to transition into golf, the short game was what was really bad, to be hon-est,” Woodland said. “And so my whole deal was, I had to hit chips off putting greens all the time, and there were some times where

superintendents weren’t a huge fan of me.”

After Koepka’s birdie putt on No. 18 slid just past to close his tournament at 10 under, Wood-land carried a two-shot lead ontothe 18th green and only needed to get down in three from 30 feet tosecure the trophy.

He got down in one instead, raised his hands to the heavens then finished with a huge fistpump.

When it was over, Woodland shared a long hug with his father, Dan, who coached him in everysport he played except for golfwhen he was growing up — made him work for his wins, made himearn everything he got.

Father’s Day. A U.S. Open title.What’s not to love?

“I wouldn’t be where I amtoday without my dad and theway he treated me and the way hewas hard on me,” Woodland said.“And that’s something that I lookforward to doing with my son.”

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Scoreboard

SundayAt Pebble Beach Golf Links

Pebble Beach Calif.Purse: $12.5 million

Yardage: 7,075; Par 71Second Round

a-denotes amateurFinal Round

a-denotes amateurG. Woodland,$2,250,000 68-65-69-69—271 -13B. Koepka,$1,350,000 69-69-68-68—274 -10X. Schauffele,$581,872 66-73-71-67—277 -7Jon Rahm,$581,872 69-70-70-68—277 -7Chez Reavie,$581,872 68-70-68-71—277 -7Justin Rose,$581,872 65-70-68-74—277 -7Adam Scott,$367,387 70-69-71-68—278 -6L. Oosthuizen,$367,387 66-70-70-72—278 -6H. Stenson,$288,715 68-71-70-70—279 -5C. Hadley,$288,715 68-70-70-71—279 -5Rory McIlroy,$288,715 68-69-70-72—279 -5a-Viktor Hovland 69-73-71-67—280 -4M. Fitzpatrick,$226,609 69-71-72-68—280 -4Matt Wallace,$226,609 70-68-71-71—280 -4Danny Willett,$226,609 71-71-67-71—280 -4W. Simpson,$172,455 74-68-73-66—281 -3F. Molinari,$172,455 68-72-71-70—281 -3B. Hun An,$172,455 70-72-68-71—281 -3G. McDowell,$172,455 69-70-70-72—281 -3Matt Kuchar,$172,455 69-69-70-73—281 -3Paul Casey,$117,598 70-72-73-67—282 -2Alex Prugh,$117,598 75-69-70-68—282 -2Tiger Woods,$117,598 70-72-71-69—282 -2Jason Day,$117,598 70-73-70-69—282 -2T. Hatton,$117,598 70-74-69-69—282 -2H. Matsuyama,$117,598 69-73-70-70—282 -2P. Cantlay,$117,598 73-71-68-70—282 -2Sepp Straka,$86,071 68-72-76-67—283 -1Shane Lowry,$86,071 75-69-70-69—283 -1Jim Furyk,$86,071 73-67-72-71—283 -1Nate Lashley,$86,071 67-74-70-72—283 -1Marcus Kinhult,$72,928 74-70-74-66—284 EPatrick Reed,$72,928 71-73-72-68—284 EBilly Horschel,$72,928 73-70-71-70—284 EAaron Wise,$57,853 66-71-79-69—285 +1B. DeChambeau,$57,853 69-74-73-69—285 +1C. Morikawa,$57,853 71-73-72-69—285 +1Martin Kaymer,$57,853 69-75-71-70—285 +1Jason Dufner,$57,853 70-71-73-71—285 +1Marc Leishman,$57,853 69-74-70-72—285 +1Dustin Johnson,$57,853 71-69-71-74—285 +1a-Brandon Wu 71-69-71-74—285 +1Andrew Putnam,$41,500 73-71-73-69—286 +2Rory Sabbatini,$41,500 72-71-73-70—286 +2E. Van Rooyen,$41,500 71-73-72-70—286 +2Tom Hoge,$41,500 71-73-71-71—286 +2Rickie Fowler,$41,500 66-77-71-72—286 +2Nick Taylor,$41,500 74-70-70-72—286 +2Kevin Kisner,$31,385 73-70-75-69—287 +3Daniel Berger,$31,385 73-70-74-70—287 +3Abraham Ancer,$31,385 74-68-69-76—287 +3Phil Mickelson,$27,181 72-69-75-72—288 +4C. Howell III,$27,181 72-70-74-72—288 +4Carlos Ortiz,$27,181 70-70-75-73—288 +4Sergio Garcia,$27,181 69-70-75-74—288 +4Haotong Li,$27,181 71-70-72-75—288 +4Scott Piercy,$27,181 67-72-72-77—288 +4C. Danielson,$25,350 72-70-77-70—289 +5Zach Johnson,$25,350 70-69-79-71—289 +5Andy Pope,$25,350 72-71-75-71—289 +5Adri Arnaus,$25,350 69-75-73-72—289 +5Harris English,$25,350 71-69-76-73—289 +5E. Grillo,$25,350 68-74-74-73—289 +5a-Chandler Eaton 72-70-73-74—289 +5Justin Walters,$23,851 72-72-77-69—290 +6Kyle Stanley,$23,851 71-73-75-71—290 +6Brian Stuard,$23,851 71-73-74-72—290 +6R. Cabrera Bello,$23,851 70-74-74-72—290 +6T. Fleetwood,$23,851 71-73-73-73—290 +6Jordan Spieth,$23,851 72-69-73-76—290 +6Rhys Enoch,$22,977 78-66-71-76—291 +7Cameron Smith,$22,353 71-72-77-72—292 +8Luke Donald,$22,353 72-70-77-73—292 +8Clement Sordet,$22,353 76-68-74-74—292 +8B. Hurley III,$22,353 73-70-73-76—292 +8B. Wiesberger,$21,728 71-73-78-72—294 +10B. Snedeker,$21,478 75-69-74-77—295 +11Chip McDaniel,$21,224 71-73-76-77—297 +13a-Michael Thorbjornsen 71-73-84-76—304 +20

Two-time defending U.S. Open champ just short of three-peat

Koepka’s ‘A’ game not enough for win

MATT YORK/AP

Brooks Koepka waves after his putt on the 15th hole during the final round of the U.S. Open on Sunday in Pebble Beach, Calif. Koepka’s round of 3-under 68 left him three strokes short of Woodland, who stopped Koepka’s quest to become the first player since 1905 to win three straight U.S. Opens.

‘ I played great. Nothing I could do. I gave it my all. ’Brooks Koepka

U.S. Open runner-up

MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP

Gary Woodland celebrates after winning the U.S. Open on Sunday.

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Top: Gary Woodland watches his tee shot on the first hole during the final round of the U.S. Open. Woodland birdied the 18th hole to get to 13-under-par 271, beating by one shot Tiger Woods’ record for a U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, set during his dominant 15-shot victory in 2000. Above:Brooks Koepka walks past the leaderboard off the 18th green on Sunday in Pebble Beach, Calif.

BY EDDIE PELLS

Associated Press

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.

Very soon, Gary Woodland will be a father of three, and odds are he’ll answer the same way about the kids as he will about the three shots that cemented him in as a U.S. Open champion.

Which is his favorite? They’re all perfect in their own way.Woodland’s Father’s Day at Pebble Beach included a flushed 3-

wood that set up birdie to give him a two-shot cushion, a wedge clipped off the 17th green that helped him preserve it, then a 30-foot birdie putt on No. 18 that ended the tournament with a flourish — and put him in the record book, to boot.

“My whole life, I’ve been able to compete and win at everything I’ve done,” he said. “It’s taken a while, but it’s trending in the right direction.”

Straight past Tiger Woods in the record book, in fact.Woodland, whose wife, Gabby, is expecting twins in a couple of

months to join their soon-to-be-2-year-old son, Jaxson, got to 13-under-par 271 with that closing birdie, beating by one the record Woods set for a U.S. Open at Pebble Beach during his romp to a 15-shot victory in 2000.

Pebble Beach played tougher that year.

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