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引发 诸多疑问
在猜测四起之际， 提供细节寥寥
作者：THEODORIC MEYER
在米奇·麦康奈尔（参议员，共和党-肯塔基州）住院近六周后，要求其在健康状况上提高透明度的呼声日益高涨。
现年 84 岁的麦康奈尔自 6 月 14 日称自己摔伤后，一直缺席参议院会议。他的办公室在 7 月 12 日分享了一张麦康奈尔拿着《华盛顿邮报》的照片，麦康奈尔在声明中表示，他已出院并转移到一家康复中心——但他没有说明计划何时返回，仅表示他“还不能回到参议院议事厅投票”。
这些寥寥无几的细节未能平息关于麦康奈尔状况的猖獗传闻和网络猜测。
肯塔基州州长安迪·贝希尔（民主党）上周表示，尽管他寄信询问其近况，但自麦康奈尔住院以来，他没有收到对方任何消息。他敦促麦康奈尔给新闻台打几分钟电话，或发布一段短视频来安抚他的选民。
“当你住院一个月并且缺席了所有投票……就像任何其他工作的人一样，你欠你的老板一个解释，说明发生了什么以及你何时回来，”贝希尔说道。
长期支持麦康奈尔并在其多次连任竞选中工作的斯科特·詹宁斯（Scott Jennings）周四敦促麦康奈尔“定期更新他的选民……”
详见 A2 页关于麦康奈尔的报道
民主党 选择普拉特纳的接替者
作者：ALEXEI KOSEFF
缅因州 班戈 —— 缅因州民主党于周六正式选定特洛伊·杰克逊为新的参议院候选人，结束了三周的动荡，这段动荡几乎使该党推翻资深共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯的努力化为泡影。
距离 11 月大选仅剩 101 天，民主党现在必须统一一个被格雷厄姆·普拉特纳（Graham Platner）竞选活动惨败撕裂的政党（普拉特纳因涉嫌性侵而崩溃），并将注意力重新集中在长期不可撼动的柯林斯身上。击败柯林斯是民主党在希望夺回美国参议院控制权这一渺茫目标中的关键。
杰克逊在班戈市中心的一座会议中心接受提名，室外立着一座 31 英尺高的保罗·巴尼安（Paul Bunyan）雕像。他多次将这次选举定义为并非党派之争，而是工人阶级对抗一名“华盛顿产物”的机会，称后者对公司捐助者的忠诚度已超过了对选民的忠诚。
“这场运动并非来自左翼，也不是来自右翼，”他说，此时支持者在人群中挥舞着“苏珊退休”的标语。
详见 A7 页关于缅因州的报道
【全美新闻】 明尼苏达州的一片森林受到政府效率部 (DOGE) 削减开支的影响。部分地区目前正处于火海之中。A3
【体育】 美国女子职业篮球联赛 (WNBA) 在种族、性别和性取向问题上达到了爆发点。B1
2026 年 7 月 26 日，星期日 • $6 民主在黑暗中消亡 ABCDE
PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/为《华盛顿邮报》拍摄 蒂姆·巴肯 (Tim Bakken)，西点军校任职最久的法学教授，提起诉讼指控该校违反了他的(美国宪法) 第一修正案权利。
一名西点军校教授的诉讼认为，封口教师会让武装部队在决策时面临更大的风险
作者：HANNAH NATANSON
纽约州 尼亚克 —— 西点军校任职最久的法学教授站起来宣布该校的新规定违宪。片刻之后，一名身着制服的上校站起来反驳他。
蒂姆·巴肯在一次教职员会议上对数十名同事表示，任何人都不应被强迫在发表论文或演讲前寻求批准，因为当天公布的一项政策将……
EMMA DA SILVA/美联社 周六，一架直升机飞过法国西南部拉卡诺 (Lacanau) 附近的消防员上方。过去一周，南欧最新的山火已导致超过 250,000 人流离失所。
作者：布雷迪·丹尼斯 (BRADY DENNIS)
周六，佐治亚州的一片广阔沼泽地与黄石国家公园、大堡礁、泰姬陵以及全球其他标志性地点一起，成为了最新的联合国教科文组织世界遗产地。
一个在韩国的联合国委员会成员投票决定，将这一享有盛誉的称号授予面积约 407,000 英亩的奥克费诺格国家野生动物保护区，它是世界上最大的完整淡水生态系统之一。
“今天，世界承认了我们一直以来所知的事情——即这个地区是不可替代的，且在任何时候都值得保护，”保护基金会 (Conservation Fund) 中东南部地区副总裁斯泰西·芬德伯克 (Stacy Funderburke) 在一份关于该决定的声明中表示。
作为美国南方最后几个真正的原野之地之一，奥克费诺格是众多令人惊叹的野生动物的家园，包括黑熊，
详见 A14 页关于奥克费诺格的报道
要求。他说：“这违反了 (美国宪法) 第一修正案，”并预测西点军校所宣称的对反对意见的包容将就此终结。
根据巴肯 (Bakken) 及当天在场的另外三人的说法，E·约翰·格雷格里 (E. John Gregory) 上校并不想听这些话。“停止说话，”部门副主管格雷格里提高了嗓门说道，“坐下。”
巴肯是一位 68 岁的从未服过兵役的人，他没有坐下。他提醒上校，他在接受教学工作时曾宣誓维护美国宪法。“这就像军官不能执行非法命令一样——”他开始说道。
根据巴肯和其他在场者的说法，格雷格里打断了他：“我们是一个军事机构，我们服从命令。”
唐纳德·特朗普总统第二次就职，带着一项雄心勃勃的议程，旨在重塑政府及整个私营部门的规范和政策。他的政府迅速采取行动，撤销此前几年激增的多样性计划，重塑博物馆和公园中美国历史的教学方式，并主张联邦政府在大学招聘和资金管理中发挥更大的作用。
对于总统的支持者来说，这些努力代表了对那些已经失控的自由主义政策的一次迟到的重置。而对于许多其他美国人来说，这些行为等同于意识形态的，
详见 A10 页关于西点军校的报道
美国肥胖人群正被分为“拥有者”和“匮乏者”
作者：克里斯托弗·罗兰 (CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND)
在波士顿，全科医生伊恩·亨廷顿 (Ian Huntington) 一直在指导低收入患者如何控制体重，因为该州的医疗补助计划 / 医疗救助本月停止了对用于减肥的 胰高血糖素样肽-1 (类 GLP-1 药物) 的报销。
亨廷顿表示，他的患者们此前体重在减轻，身体状况在好转，运动量也在增加。但现在，由于无法每月支付 $150 至 $450 的现金，他们面临着体重剧烈反弹的可能性。
“在某些方面，在一段时间内提供药物，然后又将其撤走，实际上让一些患者的处境比最初根本没有用药时还要糟糕，”在波士顿多切斯特社区的考德曼广场社区健康中心工作的医生亨廷顿说道。
全美各州出现的这种转变揭示了美国肥胖人群是如何被分成了拥有者和匮乏者的。
马萨诸塞州医疗补助计划 / 医疗救助以肥胖药物的高成本为由，终止了对 胰高血糖素样肽-1 (类 GLP-1 药物) 的覆盖。
○ 艺术与风格 (ARTS&STYLE) 定义了美国实验的 25 部最具影响力的作品。
商业 (BUSINESS) 养老的高昂成本正在侵蚀美国人的继承遗产。B7
○ 旅游 (TRAVEL) 七个无需面对拥挤人群即可带来巨大震撼的希腊海滩。
区域新闻 (THE REGION) 他因谋杀被判处 26 年监禁。随后一名关键证人撤回了证词。B13
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消费支出依然稳固
作者：DAVID J. LYNCH 与 EVAN HALPER
油价曾短暂突破每桶 $100。抵押贷款利率触及近一年来的最高水平。总统推出了新关税，引发了部分商品价格上涨的担忧。此外，人工智能的热潮中也出现了裂痕。 这并非愉快的一周。 波斯湾重新开启的作战行动，加上一系列贸易政策公告，令投资者感到不安，并引发了人们对美国经济前景的质疑，而关键的国会选举距离现在仅剩三个多月。 尽管如此，经济学家表示，目前几乎没有经济衰退的迹象。 首次申请失业救济人数处于 1969 年以来的最低水平。 科技公司继续投入巨额资金，构建人工智能革命所需的基础设施，这意味着服务器机架和计算机芯片制造商的销售额将增长，同时也为负责组装这些设备的蓝领工人提供了就业机会。 尽管存在上述情况，但占经济总量 70 百分比的消费者支出依然稳固。然而，随着汽油价格和借贷成本的上升，以及今年异常巨额的退税影响逐渐消失，美国消费者能否继续自由消费将面临考验。
详见 A13 页 经济板块
7 月 1 日起停止提供减肥药物，取消了约 22,000 名医疗补助计划 / 医疗救助受益人的补贴。 密歇根州的医疗救助计划在年初取消了除极重度肥胖患者外所有人的承保。而罗德岛州的医疗救助系统将从 10 月 1 日起停止为所有州居民承保此类药物。 这些削减举措紧随加利福尼亚州、新罕布什尔州、宾夕法尼亚州和南卡罗来纳州医疗救助计划的类似撤回行动之后。 截至 2025. 年年中，全美有三分之一的州级医疗救助计划支付减肥用 胰高血糖素样肽-1 (类 GLP-1 药物) 的费用。根据《华盛顿邮报》的一项回顾，这一比例在今年已缩减至大约五分之一的州。(所有州均承保用于治疗糖尿病的此类药物。) 各州将这一转变归咎于高昂的成本。根据国家经济研究局最近发表的一项研究，去年医疗救助系统的支出速度预计将在这些药物上花费约 $2.8 十亿美元，其中加利福尼亚州所占份额最大。 因此，那些正在减轻体重的患者……
详见 A4 页 药物板块
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接 A1 页关于麦康奈尔的报道
……关于他的近况”并对他康复期间所做的工作保持透明。他表示，预计麦康奈尔将在未来几天内分享关于其近况的更新。
“坦率地说，我认为在前期如果能稍微透明一点，能让他少受很多困扰，”詹宁斯在 CNN 的《与凯西·亨特在一起的竞技场》（The Arena with Kasie Hunt）节目中说道。“但事实并非如此，他们现在就处于目前的局面。”
麦康奈尔的发言人戴维·波普（David Popp）表示，麦康奈尔在缺席期间一直在继续工作。
“参议员继续与工作人员就参议院和肯塔基州的事宜进行会晤，包括关于国防拨款、外交政策、农业法案、选民服务以及选民联邦拨款请求的讨论，”波普在给《华盛顿邮报》的一份声明中表示。“随着参议员在康复治疗中持续好转，我们一定会向各位更新进展。”
麦康奈尔在 7 月 12 日表示，他在跌倒时没有骨折，也没有心脏病发作、中风、出血或脑震荡，但关于对自己发生的事情，他没有透露更多细节。
当被问及麦康奈尔何时可能回到参议院，或者他是否计划参加周二在华盛顿国家大教堂为他的长期同事、南卡罗来纳州共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham）举行的葬礼时，波普引用了麦康奈尔之前的声明。
麦康奈尔在声明中表示，“我这一辈的人往往不愿分享随着年龄增长而带来的脆弱感。”
“即便在公众关注之下，我依然有同样的本能——我控制不住，”他说道。
麦康奈尔在去年年初卸任之前，在参议院担任共和党领导人 18 年。他留在议院内履行任期最后两年的职责，该任期将于 1 月结束。
基安娜·霍尔 (KIANA HALL) Jimothy 是一只形状奇特的浣熊，身体和尾巴异常短小，背部弯曲，它已成为网络热门话题。
浣熊在野外的寿命仅为 2 到 5 年，尽管它们在人工饲养环境下有能力生存约 12 年。
很难想象 Jimothy 是如何应对生活中的艰险地形并在野外生存下来的。然而，如果说有什么哺乳动物能够超越残疾的限制，浣熊将会在我的清单首位。
关于浣熊大脑的研究非常少，但我实验室的有限研究揭示了一个复杂且精密的脑神经架构。浣熊具有极高的神经元密度，与小型灵长类动物相似。更多的神经元带来了行为上更大的灵活性，这一特性可能促进了 Jimothy 的生存。
我的团队还发现了名为 von Economo 神经元的专门且快速传导的脑细胞，这些细胞通常位于人类大脑中涉及情感、社会和内部处理的区域。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 米奇·麦康奈尔参议员办公室/路透社 米奇·麦康奈尔 (Mitch McConnell) 参议员 (肯塔基州共和党) 与妻子赵这一次 (Elaine Chao) 坐在一起，手里拿着一份似乎是 7 月 12 日版的《华盛顿邮报》。他自 6 月 14 日起缺席参议院。
安迪·巴尔 (Andy Barr) 众议员 (肯塔基州) 在 5 月的共和党初选中胜出，将接替麦康奈尔，且在 11 月的选举中获胜概率极高。由于参议员们在期中选举前将返回家乡竞选，在麦康奈尔的任期内，参议院预计仅剩 10 周的开会时间。
麦康奈尔的缺席缩小了共和党在参议院的优势，只要他缺席，共和党实际上仅持有 52-47 的多数席位。
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩 (John Thune) (南达科他州共和党) 和参议院共和党二号人物约翰·巴拉索 (John Barrasso) 参议员 (怀俄明州) 在本月早些时候表示，他们已与麦康奈尔交谈过，但其他一些共和党参议员对麦……
而且，也许是浣熊在神经进化上的点睛之笔：它们的手。浣熊的前爪极其灵巧且敏感，且像人类一样，在它们的大脑运动皮层中占据了很大一部分。这种对手部动作的投入将浣熊的学习能力提升到了一个新的水平——这也解释了为什么多伦多支付了大约 $24 million 来研发防浣熊垃圾桶。 这些大脑能力在 Jimothy 穿行于狭窄的栅栏、攀爬树木、寻找食物以及侦查休息和避难场所时，可能为他提供了某些神经备份。
Jimothy 的母亲是一位英雄 与 Jimothy 自身的适应能力同样令人印象深刻的，是他母亲提供的持续照顾。 尽管浣熊母亲在抚养幼崽时的角色充满挑战，但抚养一只有特殊需求的幼崽可能需要额外的精力与耐心。对于浣熊家庭来说，母亲在很大程度上是单亲家长。她不仅得不到父亲的帮助，而且经常将一窝幼崽转移到不同的巢穴，以规避成年雄性可能伤害幼崽的威胁。同时，她还需要成为一名高效的觅食者，以避免离开弱小后代的时间过长。 许多哺乳动物的幼崽在断奶后很快就独立了，但浣熊母亲照顾幼崽的时间要长得多。虽然哺乳通常在 16 周左右结束，但浣熊幼崽通常会与母亲生活长达九个月。从断奶到离开出生巢穴，母浣熊带领其家庭经历的就像是某种“家庭教育”。 显然，Jimothy 的母亲并未脱离典型的浣熊母亲模式——她扮演着抚养者、保护者和教师的角色。根据 Jimothy 在长大后跑过原野、穿过栅栏并探索世界的视频来看，显然他母亲的辛勤付出为其投入带来了惊人的回报。
进化的坚毅 尽管从出生那天起，Jimothy 就面临着重重困难，但他坚持了下来。 Jimothy 及其独特性正受到赞赏。他的故事阐明了所有哺乳动物共有的两项卓越的进化成就：一个能够适应不完美身体及其他生活挑战的大脑，以及一位耐心且细心的母亲或监护人，她将后天的潜力转化为实际的能力。 早在 Jimothy 视频出道并走红之前，他的母亲就早已认可了他的价值。
本文是与非营利新闻机构 The Conversation 合作完成的。
Kelly Lambert 是里士满大学的行为神经科学教授。
米奇·麦康奈尔 的缺席。 本月初，参议员 Ron Johnson（共和党-威斯康星州）对 米奇·麦康奈尔 分享的个人照片的真实性表示怀疑——但随后撤回了相关言论，称他只是在重复听到的传闻。（《华盛顿邮报》审查了该照片的元数据，发现照片似乎是在 7 月拍摄的。） “看着任何人变老都不是件愉快的事，”Johnson 告诉记者，“我们都希望 米奇·麦康奈尔 能完全康复并回归。我没和他通过话，所以我不了解情况。” 上周，参议员 Josh Hawley（共和党-密苏里州）祝愿 米奇·麦康奈尔 早日康复，但同时也建议他应该公开更多关于其病情的信息。 “在某种程度上，你有义务向你的选民和国家告知发生了什么，”Hawley 告诉福克斯新闻，并表示他对于 米奇·麦康奈尔 的状态感到“完全被蒙在鼓里”。 米奇·麦康奈尔 绝非首位在生病或康复期间长期缺勤的参议员。 参议员 John Fetterman（民主党-宾夕法尼亚州）在 2023 年因寻求抑郁症治疗而缺席了两个月。参议员 Dianne Feinstein（民主党-加利福尼亚州）同年在与带状疱疹抗争期间缺席了近三个月的投票，并面临要求辞职的呼吁。她回到了 参议院，但几个月后去世。 参议员 John McCain（共和党-亚利桑那州）在离任前最后的八个月里没有参与投票。
他在 2018. 年去世。而参议员马克·柯克（Mark Kirk，共和党-伊利诺伊州）在 2012. 年中风后，近一年时间没有参与投票。在重返参议院之前，他发布了自己重新学习行走的视频，并完成了其剩余任期的服务。
当时柯克的幕僚长莱斯特·蒙森（Lester Munson）表示，尽管柯克当时不在国会大厦投票，但仍能够继续工作。
例如，柯克曾与参议员鲍勃·梅嫩德斯（Bob Menendez，民主党-新泽西州）共同就一项国防政策法案的修正案进行协作，旨在加强对伊朗的制裁。蒙森表示，两党的参议员——包括参议员迪克·德宾（Dick Durbin，民主党-伊利诺伊州）、乔恩·特斯特（Jon Tester，民主党-蒙大拿州）、乔·曼钦三世（Joe Manchin III，民主党-西弗吉尼亚州）以及米奇·麦康奈尔——都挺身而出，帮助柯克的办公室维持运作。
“我认为人们在某种程度上只是假设——而且并不完全正确——如果参议员在医院或类似的地方，他们就无法履行职责，”蒙森说道。“这并不完全正确。显然有些事情他们确实无法处理……但许多其他工作仍在继续进行。”
蒙森表示，柯克不需要像米奇·麦康奈尔那样，面对社交媒体对其健康的猜测以及其他来自网络压力。
例如，预测市场 Polymarket 允许用户投注米奇·麦康奈尔是否会在 7 月 31 日前在参议院投票。（周五晚间，该概率为 11 百分比。）
米奇·麦康奈尔也比柯克或其他长期缺席会议的参议员知名得多。蒙森表示，他数十年的服务应当在康复期间获得一定的宽容。
“就我而言，这个人长期以来为参议院贡献了如此之多，因此也为美国贡献了如此之多，愿上帝保佑他，”蒙森说道。“在处理这个问题上，他拥有最大限度的自由空间。”
照片由 ANTHONY SOUFFLÉ/MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE/GETTY IMAGES 提供 7 月 15 日，在明尼苏达州埃利（Ely）附近的边界水域独木舟区域荒野（Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness）的桦树湖（Birch Lake）上空，火灾产生的浓烟弥漫在空气中。
作者：Brianna Sacks
去年，特朗普政府推迟了一项 $10 million 的拨款，该拨款本应帮助明尼苏达州疏伐约 4,000 英亩具有高燃烧风险的茂密干枯森林。根据五名熟悉情况的人士以及《华盛顿邮报》查阅的一份文件，其中大部分工作从未开始。而现在，这些区域中的一部分正处于火灾之中。
2024, 作为一项旨在应对全国野火的 $100 million 计划的一部分，拜登政府向苏必利尔国家森林（Superior National Forest）提供了 $10 million，用于开展能够清除数十年枯树和灌木丛的项目，从而在关键通道和偏远住宅周围建立潜在火灾燃料的隔离带——而自 7 月初以来，该地区发生了约 20 起由雷击引发的火灾。这笔资金还将用于支持一条名为回声小径（Echo Trail）的 36 英里关键碎石路沿线的防火工作——而就在几个月前，目前仍在持续的苏河火灾（Sioux Fire）就越过了该路，威胁到了居民住宅。
“我们已经准备好动工了，”亚伦·卡尼亚（Aaron Kania）说道。他在苏必利尔国家森林担任美国林务局区巡林员六年，在去年 12 月退休前，曾在土地管理局担任执法巡林员二十年。“如果那项工作得以实施，它在阻止或减缓这些火灾方面将是有效的。”
但在 2025, 初，美国政府效率部 (DOGE) 暂停或取消了联邦拨款和支出，以审查这些资金是否与多样性或气候计划相关。据两名熟悉情况的美国林务局 (USFS) 官员称，这影响了林务局几乎所有的拨款项目和资金；与本报道采访的其他人员一样，由于担心遭到职业报复，这些官员要求匿名。
一名官员表示，政府效率部 (DOGE) 的干预还推迟了一项区域支持基金，该基金负责在全国范围内调动人员进行防火工作。该官员表示，这是“去年我们的规模化［处方火烧和危险燃料处理］成效下降如此之多的一个主因”。在接下来的几个月里，该机构损失了约三分之一的员工，其中包括负责木材审查和拨款管理计划的人员——而这些是启动如苏必利尔国家森林等野火缓解项目的关键环节。
7月14日在明尼苏达州塔尔（Tower）明尼苏达州自然资源部办公室附近看到的标牌警告称，存在极端火灾危险。
“正是所有这些因素的总和，让我们落后了大约一年半，”负责监督该拨款的领导者之一卡尼亚（Kania）说道。 白宫和美国林务局（U.S. Forest Service）没有立即回应评论请求。
7月7日左右，一场雷暴引发了约15场火灾，在明尼苏达州东北部烧毁了近64,000英亩的土地，席卷了被囊蛾侵害且脆弱的云杉和香脂冷杉。这些火灾烧掉了数以千计的死树层，这些死树是由所谓的“风倒”（blowdowns）造成的，即强风将大片森林吹倒。林务局周五表示，约1,000名消防员（部分来自阿拉斯加州、加利福尼亚州和佛罗里达州）正在应对目前规模较小的一组大型火灾。
虽然很难确定推迟该项目是否加剧了苏必利尔国家森林（Superior National Forest）的火灾，但卡尼亚和其他人表示，在该地区处于危险时期的关键时刻失去了执行重要预防工作的能力，妨碍了他们达到应有的准备状态。
一份2025年10月的林务局文件列出了一些与该拨款相关的计划活动、目标和木材销售计划：“通过植被管理以促进森林健康并减少危险燃料；文化资源和场地清单、修复与保护。” 文件显示，其中一些目标被推迟了一年左右。卡尼亚表示，这是因为政府效率部 (DOGE) 的阻碍。
虽然政府效率部 (DOGE) 激进削减带来的许多影响仍在显现，但被暂时搁置的苏必利尔国家森林项目就证明了，拨款积压和人员削减如何损害了那些在执行大规模、复杂项目时严重依赖联邦援助的社区，否则他们无法独立完成这些项目。
明尼苏达州接连发生的火灾，使得本已极其活跃的火灾年雪上加霜。 全国的准备水平最近上调至5级——这是最高级别——意味着全国多个地区同时经历重大火灾，需要大量的国家资源。而此时，野外消防员在情感和身体上都已精疲力竭，且根据林务局官员的说法，全国的山火响应系统正在经历大规模重组，这可能会促使更多消防员离职。
在本周的一次听证会上，众议院农业委员会民主党首席议员、国会议员安吉·克雷格（Angie Craig，明尼苏达州）询问林务局局长汤姆·舒尔茨（Tom Schultz），机构人员的损失和资源的限制是否阻碍了灭火工作。舒尔茨表示没有。
“唐纳德·特朗普政府对联邦计划的短视削减再次将明尼苏达州人民置于危险之中，”克雷格在给《华盛顿邮报》的一份声明中说道。“消防员已经牺牲，明尼苏达州的孩子们被置于危险之中——这一切都是因为本届政府决定撤回关键的山火预防工作。这不是一场游戏。这些是真实的生命。”
明尼苏达州可能像个火药桶，伴随着闪电干旱、低土壤水分、强风暴和高温
波浪。然而，圣路易斯县（St. Louis County）农村地区的一名专员保罗·麦克唐纳（Paul McDonald）表示，该州一直难以获得联邦资金用于大规模的燃料削减和土地韧性项目，而该县正是苏必利尔国家森林（Superior National Forest）的所在地。他说，他已经针对该国家这一地区发出警报约八年之久。
“我们一直试图让人们关注明尼苏达州东北部，因为长期以来，人们认为山火只发生在西部，”他说。“我们获得了一笔 $10 million 的拨款，我们原本期待能够减少目前正遭受袭击的森林中的部分燃料。”
野火韧性联盟（Alliance for Wildfire Resilience）的安妮·施密特（Annie Schmidt）表示，燃料削减项目虽然昂贵且耗时，但极其重要。对于更加偏远的社区来说，很难集结足够的资源，使用碎枝机（masticators）和作业组等重型设备，艰苦地清理数千英亩的土地。
施密特说，从申请拨款到地面上真正开展工作，通常可能需要“花费数年时间”。
这就是为什么协作野火风险预防计划令人兴奋，卡尼亚（Kania）说道。他们在短时间内申请并赢得了联邦政府的 $10 million 拨款。他说，他们的环境评估和合同流程也进展迅速，在短短几个月内就“准备就绪”了。
“讽刺的是，政府效率部 (DOGE) 制造了混乱，破坏了一个非常高效的流程，”卡尼亚说。“这原本很简单，我们有一个符合拨款标准的计划，申请并拿到了钱。就在我们努力敲定合作伙伴关系时，DOGE 颠覆了一切。”
麦克唐纳表示，他和其他明尼苏达州官员去年两次前往华盛顿，与林务局（Forest Service）官员会面，以传达重启苏必利尔野火预防工作的重要性。他与卡尼亚表示，他们在 2025, 年底左右拿回了这笔资金。
然而，出现了一些新的规则和条件。根据卡尼亚及另外两名熟悉该项目的人士透露，他们必须重新修订拨款的大部分参数，以确保更多被砍伐的树木能进入木材厂以产生收入。
卡尼亚和另一名人士解释称，林务局以及参与该项目的非营利组织集群不得不重新规划，以确保这项工作能产出更多木材，并优先决定工作区域。这是一项艰巨的任务，因为这意味着他们必须针对更有价值的树种，例如白杨树（Aspens）。
在 DOGE 审查之前，团队计划使用一种木材粉碎机来清理被虫害侵蚀的树木，将其变成木屑并留在地面上分解。
“我们的最初提案是基于火灾运行机制和燃料处理有效性的概念，”卡尼亚说。“当你专注于可销售的木材销售时，就破坏了战略性燃料削减的概念。他们要求我们做的事情不再合理，因为我们必须将其规划为木材销售。”
另一位参与该项目的人则反驳称，不同政府接任后重新定义拨款协议是很常见的。该人士表示，通过调整使其砍伐的更多部分进入木材工业，并没有从根本上改变目标。
爱国修复行动（Patriot Restoration Ops）的创始人戴尔·麦克杜格尔（Dale MacDougall）表示，苏必利尔国家森林充斥着灌木、矮 shrubs、低垂的树枝和被称为“伐剩物”（slash）的木质碎片——这些都是完美的火灾燃料。这家非营利组织致力于协助防火工作，并与林务局就这笔 $10 million 拨款开展合作。他的团队在今年 5 月在该地区进行了一些削减工作。根据他几个月前在苏必利尔看到的情况，“这些火灾中没有任何事情让我感到惊讶”。
“你只需要条件成熟，它就随时准备爆发。”
麦康道格尔 (MacDougall) 表示：“那个国家有大量的燃料，要照顾那么大面积的土地是一项艰巨的任务。”卡尼亚 (Kania) 认为，虽然政府效率部 (DOGE) “本应节省资金”，但联邦政府和州政府为了完成同样的工作将花费更多资金。他表示，消防人员目前正在对部分区域进行疏伐，特别是沿着回声小径 (Echo Trail)，以创建可防御空间和防火隔离带，但“他们是在紧急情况下进行操作……而这是能想象到的最昂贵的工作方式。”在火势蔓延迅速期间，各机构会以溢价聘请伐木工和机器操作员，并支付 16 小时工作日的薪酬。卡尼亚说，由于之前的拨款资金未能及时完成相关工作，消防员现在不得不补做这些工作。回声小径成为了消防工作的重点，就是一个典型的例子。7 月 15 日，圣路易斯县警长戈登·拉姆齐 (Gordon Ramsay) 在 Facebook 上发布了该走廊的照片，他写道：“这里非常干燥，蕨类植物和幼苗正在枯萎。还有大量的枯死香脂莎树和云杉，这些都成为了火灾的燃料。”“苏族大火 (Sioux fire) 尚未越过回声小径，但在部分路段已经很接近了。”大约一天后，火势跳过了那条路。麦康道格尔表示，那条小径至关重要，因为就周围的树木和灌木类型而言，它是“动态的”，且靠近住宅区和荒野。他们原计划处理“这一大片区域”以加固边界，从而让森林能更好地抵御快速蔓延的火灾。“如果一切都按照事情发生前的预期那样进行……”他停顿了一下，“至于那是否会产生重大影响，我们无法确定。我们将永远无法得知。”
特朗普在规模较小且安保严密的记者晚餐会上发表讲话
作者：迈克尔·比恩鲍姆 (MICHAEL BIRNBAUM)
周五，在一次规模缩减的白宫记者晚餐会重新举行活动中，总统唐纳德·特朗普攻击了一大批记者和他的一些最喜欢的政治对手。他将一名女记者比作一名跨性别社交媒体明星，嘲讽政治人物的外貌，并在超过一小时的时间里让观众陷入大部分时间令人惊愕的沉默，随后他拿出一顶红色的 Trump 2028 帽子，宣布他将竞选另一个任期。在一名枪手在首场记者晚餐会外与当局交火并导致活动陷入混乱三个月后，特朗普在对记者发表讲话的同时，采取了一种激进的立场，倾向于通过针对记者来揪出其政府内部的泄密者。特朗普在当晚的演讲中时而脱离准备好的讲稿，一度称其为一次“极其愚蠢的演讲”。这场紧张的活动让总统与那些对他进行激进报道的记者们同台。特朗普很少在没有支持者填满现场的观众面前演讲，这使得在记者们聚集的宴会厅里出现了一种不寻常的动态——这些记者在职业职责上必须保持面无表情。他最初的一些笑话引发了笑声，包括一个承认首场晚餐会被中断的笑话。“我希望大家最终都能享用到完整且非常美味的牛里脊，非常特别的牛肉。我想让你们都知道，就在这里的鲍比·肯尼迪 (Bobby Kennedy) 亲自开车载死了那头牛，”他说道。但语调迅速转变为对他最喜欢的对手（包括在场的一些记者）更为刻薄的攻击。这种愤怒甚至比他的一些政治集会还要剧烈，在集会上，他对敌人的攻击通常会伴随着对他成就的自吹自擂。而周五，他没有什么可推销的，但有很多可抱怨的。他说他曾经把 CNN 记者凯特兰·柯林斯 (Kaitlan Collins) 搞混了，他说她“从不
接 A1 页药物报道
体重减轻、运动增加以及对身体形象更加自信的情况现在都将不复存在。他们面临着体重反弹的前景，且其体脂与肌肉的比例将比之前更糟，医生称之为“代谢溜溜球效应”。“对于低收入人群来说，现在你取消了保险覆盖，这些人将是受苦最深的一群病人，”新罕布什尔州的肥胖症医生约瑟夫·祖奇（Joseph Zucchi）表示。医生们表示，这对公共卫生具有重大影响。研究表明，较富裕的人能够负担得起数量更多的药物，而生活在贫困线附近的人出于健康原因，更有可能需要这些药物。低收入人群患肥胖症及相关健康问题的比例往往更高。根据该州的数据，犹他州医疗补助计划 (Medicaid) 开展了一个微小的试点项目，自去年启动以来仅覆盖了 120 名受益人的减肥药。44 岁的特拉西·赛弗特（Traci Seifert）去年失业，加入了犹他州医疗补助计划，但被拒绝为 Zepbound 提供报销。“我不得不停药，”她说道。赛弗特的身高体重指数 (BMI) 为 36.5，符合肥胖定义，她表示自己感觉在私立保险和政府保险严苛的覆盖政策之间被反复弹跳，这些政策要求她必须病得更重、体重更高才能报销，这实际上是对她此前在减轻体重方面取得的有限成功的一种惩罚。“你一辈子都听到你太胖了，而现在你又不够胖，”她说，“这就是这个国家的医疗保健现状，我讨厌它。”赛弗特现在开始在网上购买廉价的、由第三方调制的类 GLP-1 药物，美国食品药品监督管理局 (FDA) 曾警告称，此类药物未经联邦官员检查。医生表示，被排除在减肥药覆盖范围之外的患者将失去诸如降低血压、降低胆固醇、减轻关节疼痛和降低炎症水平等健康益处。
JONATHAN ERNST/路透社 在一名枪手在记者晚宴外与当局发生交火导致活动推迟三个月后，与会者在特朗普发表讲话时倾听。
他在与一名跨性别社交媒体名人迪伦·马尔瓦尼（Dylan Mulvaney）互动时“微笑”，因为后者称这位 34 岁的有线电视新闻之星为一名“年轻、迷人的女性”。他表示计划在白宫每周举办两次格斗赛。 “我们会让邋遢的克里斯·克里斯蒂（Chris Christie）参加格斗，他是最邋遢的人类之一，”特朗普说道，现场一片沉默。“我可以提到芝加哥市长，但我打算提到杰里·纳德勒（Jerry Nadler）。我的天呐！他们正为了一块巨大的芝士蛋糕在格斗，一大块肥腻的芝士蛋糕。” 随后他讲了一个关于亚当·希夫 (Adam Schiff) 参议员（民主党-加利福尼亚州）的笑话。 “我讨厌某些人，”他在一片呻吟声中说道，“他是个骗子，我叫他‘西瓜头’，因为他是我见过的头最大、脖子最细的人，铅笔脖子。怎么可能在一个小铅笔脖子上长出一个又肥又丑的脑袋？” 商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克（Howard Lutnick）听到这里大笑起来，用手抚在额头上。 “今晚完全关乎 (美国宪法) 第一修正案。今晚是一次充分的展示，”CBS 首席白宫记者蒋微佳（Weijia Jiang）在特朗普讲话结束后表示。作为即将卸任的白宫记者协会主席，蒋微佳……
JOSH REYNOLDS/为《华盛顿邮报》绘制 波士顿的一名初级保健医生伊恩·亨廷顿（Ian Huntington）的患者在失去使用类 GLP-1 药物的机会后，正面临体重反弹的前景。
密歇根州的立法机构将承保范围限制在患有病态肥胖的患者身上，其定义为身体质量指数 (BMI) 在 40 或以上。
密歇根大学医学院家庭医学教授劳伦·奥什曼 (Lauren Oshman) 表示，她理解密歇根州官员面临的财务压力，但对某些患者而言，后果将十分严重。
“这项政策将加深健康差异。我的医疗补助计划 (Medicaid) 患者中，那些患有慢性疼痛、关节炎、糖尿病前期和其他肥胖相关疾病的人将失去获得药物的机会，”她说道。“许多人的健康状况将会恶化，缺勤增加，生活质量下降。”
各州正在针对这些药物
在医疗补助计划 (Medicaid) 框架下进行限制，而联邦政府在针对老年人和残疾人的保险计划——联邦医疗保险 (Medicare) 中，却在鼓励使用这些药物。本月，联邦政府启动了一项为期 18 个月的试点项目，为 BMI 在 35 或以上的人群，或者 BMI 在 30 或以上且伴有心脏病或高血压等其他健康问题的人群提供药物承保。
根据国家经济研究局 (National Bureau of Economic Research) 上个月发布的一项研究，承保决定具有更广泛的社会经济后果。
哈佛大学经济学家丽贝卡·戴蒙德 (Rebecca Diamond) 分析了全国调查数据并发现，服用胰高血糖素样肽-1 (类 GLP-1 药物) 的女性
主持了该活动。她赞扬了柯林斯以及一名《华尔街日报》的记者，而特朗普在演讲期间也攻击了后者。
这次演讲发生之际，政府正加强对记者的法律追究，这些人报道的主题被白宫视为国家安全威胁。特朗普周五表示，他认为记者是合法的调查目标。
一天前，一名联邦法官对司法部试图传唤《纽约时报》记者的行为进行了严厉的抨击。这些记者报道了关于一架由卡塔尔赠送、总统目前用作“空军一号”的新波音 747 飞机的安全担忧。特朗普对此毫无悔意。
“我们的目标不是记者。我们的目标是泄密者。我们的目标是胆小鬼，是不爱国的人，在许多情况下是叛国的人，”特朗普在记者晚餐会前几个小时在椭圆形办公室中说道。“而找到他们的途径就是通过记者。当记者们可能意识到他们不应该写的时候，他们不应该那样提供信息。”
他表示，尽管司法部在周四撤回了传票，“这件事我们还有很长的路要走”，暗示《纽约时报》记者的法律危机尚未结束。
对于这次晚餐会的计划，特朗普此前发出的信号并不一致。传统上，总统在晚餐会上会发表轻松的演讲，以此自嘲并开那些报道他们的记者的玩笑。
在活动中，他将尖酸的话语指向媒体及其政治对手，同时也对自己的政府进行了少量讽刺。
“如果不介意的话，我们要稍微吐槽一下，”他说，并声称“这个地方是史上最大规模的‘特朗普躁狂综合征’患者聚集地”。
他说，关于他原计划发表的演讲，“我告诉你们，我准备了一些东西。我本来打算攻击你们的。”
媒体评论家长期以来一直在质疑白宫记者晚餐会。该活动始于 1921 年，评论家认为这是总统与报道白宫的记者之间过于亲密的社交时刻。特朗普在首个任期内缺席了该活动。
特朗普承认周五的演讲是他首次参加年度晚餐会。他还开玩笑说，除非活动改名，否则他不打算再次参加。
药物能够在惊人的程度上克服根深蒂固的社会“肥胖惩罚”。这些药物使用者的结婚或同居频率比那些想用药但没用药的人高出 29 百分比，而且他们获得工作的可能性高出 27 百分比。
她发现，使用这些药物的女性赚得更多，$83,000 相比于 $60,000，这表明她们能够独立承担每月平均 $299 的费用。
“能够获得这些药物的人可以避免肥胖惩罚，”戴蒙德（Diamond）表示，而那些付不起钱的人则继续承受社会的评判。“这扩大了不平等。”
戴蒙德补充说，高昂的药物成本迫使包括州医疗补助计划 (Medicaid) 在内的保险系统陷入艰难的平衡之争。“如果你是为了虚荣而想减掉 10 磅，那么保险不应该覆盖。但如果与医疗相关，那么讨论的空间就更大，”她说。
民主党人、马萨诸塞州州长莫拉·希利（Maura Healey）的政府将该州 GLP-1 覆盖范围的变动，部分归咎于唐纳德·特朗普总统和国会共和党人强加的医疗补助计划削减。这些医疗补助计划的变更要求参与者必须工作，且更新期限更频繁，马萨诸塞州官员表示，这将导致每年增加 $30 million 的行政管理成本。
“特朗普白宫记者晚餐会”——他笑着说出了这句话，随后表示计划明年参加。在奥巴马政府期间，特朗普曾作为《华盛顿邮报》的嘉宾参加过一次晚餐会。当年，巴拉克·奥巴马总统在会上嘲讽了特朗普对其公民身份的质疑。许多分析人士认为，那一刻促使了特朗普决定竞选总统，但特朗普周五表示这并非事实，并称他很享受那一刻，因为受到了所有人的关注。
在总统登台之前，他面对着一群曾被他攻击过、且因对他的政府进行激进报道而获奖的记者。他问候了一名美联社的首席记者，该记者此前被踢出白宫记者团，原因是美联社拒绝将墨西哥湾重新命名为特朗普倾向的“美国湾”。他与《华盛顿时报》的一个记者团队握手，该团队因报道他与被定罪的性犯罪者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦（Jeffrey Epstein）的联系而获奖。当 CNN 主播沃尔夫·布利策（Wolf Blitzer）讲述他如何起诉该报 $20 billion，以及一名记者如何因收到威胁而被迫搬迁家属时，他耸了耸肩并微笑着。随后，他问候了《纽约时报》记者泰勒·佩杰（Tyler Pager），佩杰本月因报道空军一号周围的安全问题而被传唤。
专业记者协会本周呼吁白宫记者协会利用此次晚餐会谴责特朗普政府对记者的攻击。该组织在一封公开信中表示：“我们认为，在一个人如此无情地攻击第一修正案面前庆祝该修正案，是虚伪的。”
特朗普原计划在 4 月 25 日于华盛顿希尔顿酒店的晚餐会上发表演讲，但演讲被一名试图闯入地下宴会厅的枪手打断。现年 31, 岁的科尔·托马斯·艾伦（Cole Tomas Allen）已被指控企图暗杀总统，一名 FBI 特别探员在宣誓书中称，艾伦已经设定了 1 ……
一封发送给亲友的电子邮件，其中包含“按级别从高到低排列的目标”。特朗普承认这次活动周围存在风险，他说：“要找到能配防弹背心的鞋子并不容易，很多人不想穿防弹背心，因为他们宁愿死也不愿让自己看起来胖了 20 磅。……他们给我穿了一件。我说：‘你确定吗？我不穿这个。’”活动在华盛顿市中心的华尔道夫酒店举行，安保级别很高。特朗普的家族公司在总统第一任期内将该场所作为特朗普国际酒店经营，随后在 2022 年以 $375 million（3.75 亿美元）的价格出售了该物业的租约。宾客名单已缩减至不足 700 人，规模大大精简，出席者主要仅为报道总统的记者，而非 4 月份时出席的 2,500 多人（其中包括政府官员、政治操盘手和大多数 B 级名人）。但许多原有的紧张气氛依然存在。在 4 月枪击事件发生后的几个小时里，特朗普对记者的态度异常缓和，他穿着燕尾服出现在白宫简报室，回答了许多之前参加过晚餐的记者的提问。但这种基调在第二天就消失了，当 CBS 新闻主播诺拉·奥唐奈 (Norah O’Donnell) 向他朗读涉嫌枪击者的宣言摘录后，他称其为“耻辱”。自那时起，他的政府重新开始了对新闻界的攻击。特朗普上周要求吊销那些没有在黄金时段播出他关于选举诚信演讲的电视网络的广播执照。此外，司法部本月向报道过关于卡塔尔政府赠送的、用作“空军一号”的豪华波音 747 飞机安全问题的《纽约时报》记者发出传票，试图通过获取他们的电话记录来追踪泄密者。晚餐中的一个环节与 4 月份保持一致：表演艺术家兼魔术师奥兹·珀尔曼 (Oz Pearlman) 再次登台，这一选择避开了幽默中的政治色彩。
该州的雇员健康计划以及马萨诸塞州的私人保险公司也已停止报销用于减肥的药物。 在电子邮件中，MassHealth 发言人斯泰西·尼 (Stacey Nee) 称这是一个“旨在控制成本的有针对性的方法，使我们与其他州保持一致，并尽可能保护医疗服务的获取”。 这一举措影响了 MassHealth 受益者的 1% 以上。该系统表示，在 2025, 年，在制造商提供回扣（通常可将净价降低 50% 以上）之前，该系统在用于减肥的 胰高血糖素样肽-1 (类 GLP-1 药物) 上花费了 $207 million（2.07 亿美元）。 罗德岛州的 医疗补助计划 / 医疗救助 未回应置评请求。 诺和诺德 (Novo Nordisk) 表示，对马萨诸塞州和罗德岛州削减覆盖范围感到“惊讶和失望”。 该公司表示：“对于一种严重且慢性的疾病，拒绝为患者提供经过 FDA 批准、安全且有效的治疗方案的保险覆盖，简直是不负责任的。” 礼来公司 (Eli Lilly) 表示，各州现在可以利用一项名为 Balance 的联邦计划（于 5 月启动），该计划允许他们以每月 $245 的价格购买 胰高血糖素样肽-1 (类 GLP-1 药物) 减肥药。在典型的 医疗补助计划 / 医疗救助 成本分担机制下，联邦政府承担一半价格后，各州的负担将为每月 $122.50 —— 即每位患者每年 $1,470。 该公司一名发言人在电子邮件中表示：“我们仍然致力于与各州及政策制定者共同探讨可持续的覆盖方案，因为不应有任何患者仅因为成本原因而不得不停止治疗严重的慢性疾病。” 亨廷顿说，波士顿多切斯特社区的患者被夹在药企和州政府之间。 “这是两种强大的力量，而患者正是这些快速变革中被夹在中间的人，”他说。“在他们控制之外的事情，正切实地改变着他们的身体。”
作者：丹·戴蒙德 (DAN DIAMOND)
总统唐纳德·特朗普的上周是在新泽西州世界杯决赛落幕时，在金色的纸屑雨中开始的。政府官员将这次为期 5 周的赛事视为美国如何继续引领世界并与其它国家接触的典范。
随后而来的 5 天则展示了特朗普在外交政策上波动不定的方式——从贸易争端到核谈判——并升级了与盟友及对手的关系紧张局势。
特朗普在这一周的结尾，围绕与沙特阿拉伯的一项新核协议摇摆不定，对伊朗领导人发出进一步威胁，并宣布对包括协助举办世界杯的加拿大在内的其它国家加征更多关税。他在白宫记者晚餐会上发表了一番充满侮辱性的演讲，现场气氛大多陷入死寂。
此外，在西班牙足球队庆祝世界杯获胜时，由于他在台上停留时间过长，最终在球队的庆祝合影中被修掉了。
以下是特朗普这一周的日程回顾。
周一，12:41 p.m.
特朗普誓言，每一名牺牲的美国士兵，伊朗都将为此付出“数倍”的代价 特朗普的这一威胁是在两国交换攻击且数名美国军人丧生后发出的。美国与伊朗之间在 6 月谈判达成的停火协议在本月崩溃，此前伊朗攻击了其海岸附近的商业船只。
周一，12:50 p.m.
特朗普表示内塔尼亚胡不会被逮捕，但伊朗领导人应该被逮捕 特朗普在 Truth Social 上写道，以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡在未来的美国之行中不会被逮捕。一些自由派人士——包括纽约市长佐兰·马姆达尼 (Zohran Mamdani)——已呼吁美国官员执行国际刑事法院针对内塔尼亚胡发布的逮捕令。
KHALED ZIAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES 红海的曼德海峡。胡塞武装官员表示，该组织向红海沿岸城市延布 (Yanbu) 和贾赞 (Jazan) 属于国家石油公司——阿美石油 (Aramco) 的设施发射了导弹和无人机。
随着战争扩大至红海
作者：MOHAMAD EL CHAMAA
贝鲁特 —— 由伊朗支持的也门胡塞武装周六声称对沙特石油设施发动了袭击，这是自 2022 年以来首次发生此类袭击。
胡塞武装军事发言人 Yahya Saree 在一份视频声明中表示，该组织向位于红海沿岸城市延布（Yanbu）和吉赞（Jazan）的国家石油公司——沙特阿美（Aramco）旗下的设施发射了弹道导弹和无人机。
延布港是该王国管道的主要门户，该管道帮助其规避了伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡的封锁。
沙特当局尚未确认此次袭击，但该国的民防部队周六上午向两座城市的公民发布了避险通知。
“在危险过去之前，请不要离开您的家或建筑物，”该王国民防部队在社交媒体的一篇帖子中警告道。
沙特阿美和沙特外交部均未立即回应置评请求。
目前尚不清楚损失程度如何，以及石油产量将受到怎样的影响。美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的火灾监测平台 FIRMS 报告称，吉赞炼油厂出现了多次热异常。根据公司网站，该设施每天可炼制高达 400,000 桶石油。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 华盛顿邮报插图；ERIC LEE/GETTY IMAGES 从世界杯决赛到新关税，再到伊朗战争和沙特核协议，唐纳德·特朗普总统度过了忙碌的一周。
在以色列与加沙冲突之后，法院……
特朗普表示，内塔尼亚胡是在与伊朗的领导人作斗争。“唯一应该被逮捕的是那些引导伊朗陷入这种前所未有的死亡与破坏螺旋的人，”他写道。
周一 下午
特朗普政府对加拿大征收新关税 白宫表示，除非加拿大取消该政府所谓的针对美国产品的“歧视性”贸易壁垒，否则美国将在 30 天内对大多数加拿大商品征收 50 ％的关税。此前，特朗普曾威胁要采取关税报复，原因是在安大略省发生的森林火灾近期导致浓烟涌入美国。
也门由伊朗支持的胡塞武装发动的袭击，可能会在霍尔木兹海峡关闭造成的干扰之上，进一步增加全球石油市场的压力。
布里斯托大学教授及海湾专家 Toby Matthiesen 告诉《华盛顿邮报》，沙特阿拉伯与胡塞武装之间最近的升级，给全球石油供应增加了另一层不确定性。
“我认为真正升级局势并不符合任何一方的利益，但我们之前已经见过事情是如何失控的，”他表示，并补充说长期冲突可能会损害沙特阿拉伯的经济发展计划。
驻也门的亲胡塞政治评论员 Hussain Albukhaiti 告诉《邮报》，此次袭击与伊朗战争关系较小，更多地与之前对沙特阿拉伯的积怨有关。
他警告称，如果美国做出回应，胡塞武装将进一步升级事态：“他们将对美国的商业船只或战舰实施封锁。”
Saree 表示，此次袭击是为了回应沙特周五对也门城市荷台达（Hodeida）的袭击。
周二 下午 2:12
特朗普警告伊朗人“还没看到真正的威力” 总统重申了对伊朗的威胁，称尽管进行了轰炸行动，但美国一直很“友好”。 特朗普多次表示，美国军队已经摧毁了伊朗的军事力量，但可以选择采取进一步行动。
周三 上午 8:56
特朗普警告，任何伊朗人在霍尔木兹海峡的袭击都将导致伊朗的“一座桥梁或一座发电厂”被摧毁 特朗普升级了对伊朗平民目标的威胁，这一策略令一些盟友感到担忧。 特朗普和其他全球领导人一直试图保护通过该海峡的航运交通，该海峡位于伊朗沿岸。
天。沙特领导的部队表示，他们瞄准了该市威胁红海航运的胡塞武装军事设施。
上周，胡塞武装领导人阿卜杜勒-马利克·胡塞（Abdul Malek al-Houthi）誓言，如果沙特卷入更大规模的地区战争，他将瞄准沙特的石油设施。
周一，胡塞武装宣布对沙特航运实施禁运，实际上关闭了曼德海峡（Bab al-Mandeb Strait）。该海峡位于阿拉伯半岛南端，是连接亚洲、非洲与欧洲的关键咽喉要道。
胡塞武装控制着也门的大片地区，包括首都萨那（Sanaa）。
周六是自 2022 年以来首次发生此类袭击，当时胡塞武装对该王国发起了广泛袭击，目标是石油设施和国家公用事业。在 2019 年，一批胡塞武装无人机击中了该国东部的阿美公司（Aramco）设施，导致该王国的石油产量暂时减半。
自三月战争爆发以来，海湾国家已制定计划建设新管道和港口终端，以绕过霍尔木兹海峡。但马蒂森（Matthiesen）表示，周六的袭击可能会削弱这些希望：“因此，这凸显了需要让所有相关方参与，对海湾和阿拉伯半岛所有重大冲突达成更广泛的政治解决的必要性。”
海岸线，以及油轮和其他船只的主要贸易路线。自美国和以色列在二月袭击伊朗以来，波斯湾的航运交通多次陷入停滞，并对全球市场产生影响。在随后的几个月里，由于伊朗对商船的袭击和布置水雷，该海峡在很大程度上已被关闭。
周三下午
特朗普称伊朗领导人“想达成协议”但尚未准备好
唐纳德·特朗普在佐治亚州发表讲话，再次批评伊朗领导人继续进行地区敌对活动，并指责他们导致油价上涨。对于准备迎接中期选举的共和党人来说，油价已成为一个国内政治问题。
“他们破坏了他们达成的每一项协议，”总统补充道，并承诺油价
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周三，下午 4:38
特朗普政府宣传其与沙特阿拉伯达成的 新核协议 特朗普政府与沙特阿拉伯达成的协议（尚需国会批准）承诺为这个中东国家提供浓缩核燃料的途径，这背离了美国长期的不扩散政策。该协议立即遭到核专家的批评，专家警告称其缺乏足够的保障措施。
周四，上午 7:52
特朗普表示，核协议现在取决于沙特阿拉伯是否加入承认以色列的 《亚伯拉罕协议》 特朗普的宣布立即使该协议的命运变得复杂。沙特阿拉伯一直抵制加入《亚伯拉罕协议》，而该协议是特朗普旨在使以色列与中东阿拉伯国家关系正常化的努力。沙特领导人将承认以色列与建立独立巴勒斯坦国挂钩。
周四，上午 8:16
特朗普警告称，如果胡塞武装攻击运输船，美国将追究伊朗责任 特朗普的警告是在也门胡塞武装袭击两艘沙特阿拉伯船只之后发出的，此举威胁将进一步向油价施压并扩大战争规模。
周四，下午 6:04
特朗普表示，船只损失将由伊朗出资支付
周五，凌晨 12:01
特朗普对包括主要贸易伙伴在内的其他国家征收新关税 随着之前临时关税的到期，该政府对数十个国家征收的新关税正式生效。政府宣称征收关税是为了打击强迫劳动，但批评者表示，这一策略是总统旨在减少美国人对进口依赖的更广泛计划的一部分。
周五，上午 11:15
特朗普警告中国和俄罗斯不要武装伊朗
周五下午
特朗普表示其政府正与伊朗积极谈判 特朗普在椭圆形办公室发表讲话时表示，政府官员正与伊朗同行进行“现在的交谈”。“我们将看看结果如何，”总统说道，并补充说他不急于达成协议。“我们必须正确地处理。”
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作者：DANIEL WU
多肽市场（这类化学物质越来越多地被宣传为新的医疗手段和健康产品）在上周获得了巨大推动，因为一个存在分歧的食品药品监督管理局（FDA）小组投票建议放宽对 6 种多肽疗法的监管。 这些多肽得到了部分医生、名人以及卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪 (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) 的支持，并被提议用于一系列目的，包括促进伤口愈合以及治疗偏头痛、肥胖和炎症。 FDA 的科学家曾敦促该小组不要投票支持这些多肽，因为它们尚未经过严格的临床试验来测试其安全性与功效。 该小组的投票将为 FDA 的决定提供参考，FDA 正在权衡是否允许配制药房（制造特种药物的药房）生产这些多肽。这是让多肽更容易获得的一大步，但仍有几个步骤——以及关于这些化学物质的许多问题——尚待解决。 以下是需要了解的内容。
哪些多肽被投票表决？ 药房配制咨询委员会审查了 7 种多肽，并在微弱多数决定中，投票支持了其中的 6 种： • BPC-157，提议用于治疗溃疡性结肠炎 • Epitalon，提议用于治疗失眠
作者：AMY B WANG
流行巨星凯蒂·佩里 (Katy Perry) 周六谴责白宫在其关于美国对伊朗军事打击的 TikTok 视频中使用了她的歌曲之一《Firework》。
这段短视频是白宫周四发布在其官方 TikTok 账号上的，其中包括伊朗境内炸弹爆炸的画面，配文为：“伊朗已收到警告。”视频中的爆炸场景与《Firework》中佩里演唱“Boom, boom, boom”的部分同步。
佩里表示，看到她 2010 年的热门歌曲被“武器化”，作为一段关于伊朗破坏与暴力视频的背景音乐，她感到“深感震惊和愤怒”。她在 X 上写道：“我没有批准此事，没有人征求我的意见，我绝对不认可这种行为。”
佩里补充说，她创作《Firework》是为了将其作为“希望、治愈和内心力量的赞歌”，而白宫在 TikTok 中使用这首歌是对其代表意义的“完全违背”。
“我的音乐是为了让人们团结在一起，而不是为了庆祝战争，”佩里写道。
在周六的帖子中，佩里没有表明她是否将采取法律行动以强制白宫删除该视频。
[[IMG_SARAH SILBIGER/GETTY IMAGES]] 一个分歧严重的食品药品监督管理局 (FDA) 小组上周投票决定，建议放宽对六种多肽治疗药物的监管。
失眠 • KPV，拟用于帮助促进伤口愈合和治疗炎症 • MOTS-c，拟用于治疗包括胰岛素抵抗、肥胖症和骨质疏松症在内的几种病症 • Semax，拟用于治疗偏头痛、脑缺血（大脑血流量不足的状态）以及三叉神经痛（一种慢性疼痛疾病） • TB-500，拟用于促进伤口愈合
其中一些多肽在网上营销时的用途范围比提交给 FDA 拟议的治疗范围更广。其中两种，BPC-157 和
[[IMG_MONICA SCHIPPER/GETTY IMAGES]] 去年 7 月，凯蒂·佩里在加利福尼亚州英格伍德的起亚论坛 (Kia Forum) 演出。她 2010 年的热门歌曲被白宫用于一段 TikTok 视频中。
通过高品质的《华盛顿邮报》重新印制的海报，重温华盛顿体育界的传奇里程碑。非常适合球迷、收藏家以及任何热爱体育的人士。
TB-500，被网红们吹捧为能够加速愈合并减轻炎症的“金刚狼组合” (Wolverine Stack)。
委员会投票反对放宽对 Emideltide 的监管，该药物拟用于治疗阿片类药物戒断反应和失眠。
美国多肽医学科学院 (American Academy of Peptide Medicine) 主席李·罗斯布什 (Lee Rosebush) 称此次投票是“向真正的医疗自由迈出的又一步”。
多肽类药物会变得更容易获得吗？ 目前还不会。咨询委员会的决定仅是建议。FDA 现在将决定是否将这些
多肽列入 503A 大宗清单 (503A Bulks List)，这是一个允许配制药房用于生产药物的药物成分清单。
FDA 药物合规办公室前副主任伊莉莎·伯恩斯坦 (Ilisa Bernstein) 周四告诉《华盛顿邮报》，此次投票并非“使用这些多肽进行配制的绿灯”。
“FDA 在考虑方案和后续步骤时，必须密切关注科学、数据和患者安全。”
如果 FDA 将这些多肽列入清单，配制药房将被允许生产它们。配制药房生产的是未获得 FDA 批准的特制药物。
证明。 随后，医生将能够为患者开具这些肽类药物的处方。销售处方药的远程医疗公司可能也能在网上销售这些药物。 支持者认为，允许药房生产肽类药物将带来更安全的供应。目前，肽类药物可以通过灰色市场卖家在网上购买，但这些药物通常含有危险的杂质。
FDA 是否批准了这些肽类药物？ 没有。咨询委员会的决定是一项建议，重点在于调配药房是否被允许生产这些肽类药物。 FDA 批准药物的流程更为广泛，且需要来自临床试验的严谨数据。 FDA 科学家在委员会会议期间表示，所审查的 7 种肽类药物均缺乏足够的安全性数据，且其中部分药物的医疗益处尚未得到证明。 “我仍然不确定是否有足够的数据，”伯恩斯坦（Bernstein）说道。“需求不能替代证明患者安全的数据。”
接下来会发生什么？ FDA 可能需要数月甚至数年时间来制定药物监管的最终规则。官员们在委员会会议上表示，该机构目前正在审查关于肽类药物的公众评论和新数据，这些也将为他们的决定提供参考。 专家表示，该机构通常会遵循其咨询委员会的建议，但不能保证绝对如此。 前 FDA 官员告诉《华盛顿邮报》，对肽类药物进行充分监管可能会具有挑战性。虽然一些投票支持肽类药物的专家成员要求采取更强有力的措施来监测服用者，但联邦法律并不要求部分调配药房报告药物的不良反应。 肽类药物仍然是肯尼迪（Kennedy）关注的重点，很快将有更多药物进入审查阶段。药房调配咨询委员会将在 2 月底前举行会议，就是否对另外 5 种肽类药物发布同样的建议进行投票。 全国调配药房网络 Revelation Pharma 的首席执行官肖恩·霍奇斯（Shawn Hodges）表示，肽类药物的繁荣可能为药房行业带来数百亿美元的价值。
在被要求就此发表评论时，白宫引用了一名工作人员发布的帖子，其中展示了佩里（Perry）的《Part Of Me》音乐视频片段——在视频中，这位歌手假装加入海军陆战队——并配文：“这是你吗？” 自 2 月以来，总统 唐纳德·特朗普 及其政府陷入了一场不受欢迎的对伊战争，且他似乎无法结束这场战争。至少有 18 名美国军人阵亡，其中包括在特朗普本月早些时候宣布美伊停火“结束”后，近期重新爆发的敌对行动中丧生的四人。 佩里绝非第一个要求特朗普不要使用其音乐的录制艺术家。6 月，亚莉安娜·格兰德（Ariana Grande）痛批白宫在另一段展示移民海关执法局 (ICE) 官员拘押人员的 TikTok 视频中使用了她的歌曲《Bye》。 “请永远不要在与这种野蛮、不人道、令人憎恶的胡闹相关的内容中使用我的音乐，”她在视频下方的评论中写道，并加上了一个脏词。 萨布丽娜·卡彭特（Sabrina Carpenter）、奥利维亚·罗德里戈（Olivia Rodrigo）以及摇滚乐队 Semisonic 最近也谴责特朗普政府在推广 ICE 的官方视频中使用他们的歌曲。
杰登·丹尼尔斯（Jayden Daniels）在指挥官队的菜鸟赛季成为了明星。现在是他开启第二幕的时候了。
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“这是自下而上的——而且我们正在壮大。”杰克逊是一位 58 岁的伐木工，曾任缅因州参议院领导人。在今年一次不成功的州长竞选中，他与普拉特纳以及参议员伯尼·桑德斯（独立选民-佛蒙特州）立场一致。通过掌控曾推动普拉特纳崛起的人进步主义运动，他赢得了提名。杰克逊的支持者在一次匆忙组织、旨在选出普拉特纳继任者的代表选举过程中占据主导地位，迫使大多数竞争对手在周六于班戈举行的会议前退出。杰克逊面临的挑战是建立一个能在 11 月获胜的广泛联盟，包括那些帮助柯林斯在这个日益趋蓝的州中连续维持五届任期的独立选民和跨党派民主党选民。杰克逊自身也存在弱点——包括长期反对堕胎权的历史，以及在奥古斯塔担任立法领导期间削弱其影响力的暴脾气——这可能会损害他对女性选民的吸引力，而女性选民一直是柯林斯获胜的关键。此外，他一直不愿与国家民主党保持一致，而国家民主党在这样一场焦点竞选中可以提供关键资源。在会议之前，班戈倾向于民主党的选民对杰克逊仍持谨慎态度，但击败柯林斯的意愿非常强烈。“进步主义者和民主党人经常处于这样的境地，即我们必须投票给任何能对抗‘更大之恶’的人，”36 岁的平面设计师莫莉·温德利周五在离开市中心图书馆时表示。作为一名认为自己立场在民主党左侧的未登记选民，温德利对普拉特纳未经过适当审查表示沮丧，并对选择其继任者的匆忙流程感到不满，因为这让决定权仅掌握在 600 人的手中。但考虑到利害关系，她说毫无疑问她将在 11 月投票给杰克逊。“我希望他像宣传的那样出色，”温德利说，“我现在总担心会出什么意外。”
这场竞选从一开始就笼罩在民主党内部激烈的意识形态斗争之中。虽然国家政党建制派招募了缅因州州长珍妮特·米尔斯参选，但缅因州的进步派基础则围绕在普拉特纳周围，他是一名退伍军人和牡蛎养殖户，其民粹主义局外人的政纲激励了自由派选民。米尔斯的候选资格在 6 月初选前就失去了动力，与此同时，普拉特纳陷入了一系列不断升级的丑闻，他将其大部分归咎于服兵役后心理健康状况不佳：曾在社交媒体上发布轻视性侵犯的贴文、一个类似于纳粹标志的纹身、婚后发送给其他女性的露骨短信，以及前女友对他情绪不稳定的描述。国家民主党试图将其排除在外的努力反而激怒了他的支持者，他在上个月轻松赢得了提名。随后，一名曾与普拉特纳约会的女性指控他性侵，他对此予以否认。在盟友的压力以及国家民主党威胁要扣押财政支持的情况下，普拉特纳于 7 月 10 日宣布退出，引发了一场寻找新民主党候选人的争夺战。
RYAN MURPHY/GETTY IMAGES 特洛伊·杰克逊是缅因州美国参议院的新民主党被提名人。他曾任缅因州参议院领导人，今年曾不成功地竞选州长。
对于像珀西·威廉姆斯（Percy Williams）这样进步派的民主党人来说，这令人感到沮丧。威廉姆斯是一名来自班戈（Bangor）的 29 岁初中英语教师。她不仅对普拉特纳（Platner）的政策感到兴奋，而且认为他拥有在缅因州具有广泛吸引力的人格魅力。“我的某些家人是共和党人，他们喜欢他，因为他说话的方式像他们一样，”威廉姆斯说。
虽然她曾希望州务卿申娜·贝洛斯（Shenna Bellows）——今年另一位未能成功竞选州长的候选人——能接替普拉特纳，但威廉姆斯表示，她最终接受了杰克逊，因为“他是最有机会真正获胜的人”。
普拉特纳的丑闻依然为这场竞选蒙上了一层阴影——而苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins）不可避免地会试图将杰克逊与这位与其政治关系极其密切的人联系在一起。
一个共和党超级政治行动委员会（super PAC）在周六发布了第一支广告，强调杰克逊的脾气以及他与女性同事冲突的历史。旁白警告道：“特洛伊·杰克逊（Troy Jackson）就像格雷厄姆·普拉特纳，但更糟糕。”
杰克逊在党代会期间从未提及普拉特纳，但他确实对人们对其愤怒情绪的担忧做出了回应。他的介绍人是一位曾与他发生争执的前州议员，此人称赞了他的激情。杰克逊随后告诉记者，“我确实是个心直口快的人”，但他总是会对“任何我可能与之争论且可能做得太过分的人”表示道歉。
但即使是对杰克逊不热衷的民主党选民，也对柯林斯感到愤怒。一个普遍的批评是，柯林斯将自己塑造为一个能够顶住唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统压力的温和派，但她仅在那些她明知共和党无论如何都会获胜的投票中才与他唱反调。
“她有多次机会成为玛格丽特·蔡斯·史密斯（Margaret Chase Smith）那样的人，为正确的事情而战，”85 岁的退休医生弗兰克·布拉格（Frank Bragg）说道。他提到的是这位前缅因州参议员，她在 1950 年发表了一次著名的演说，谴责麦卡锡主义（McCarthyism）。“而她只是随波逐流地追随特朗普。”
布拉格指出，柯林斯支持《拯救美国法案》（Save America Act），这是特朗普的一项优先事项，该法案将要求投票时提供照片身份证件并撤回大部分邮寄投票，尽管缅因州在 11 月以压倒性多数否决了一项类似的投票方案。
布拉格曾是一名共和党人，后转为民主党人，并在柯林斯早期的选举中支持过她。他说他欣赏这位参议员为缅因州所做的贡献，“但这也关乎为国家而战”。他将在 11 月投票给杰克逊，尽管布拉格认为他“某种程度上又是另一个机器政客。还是老一套。”
由于在党代会之前就基本确定了提名，杰克逊已经开始在缅因州巩固民主党的支持，并将他的主张转向攻击柯林斯。在周六之前，他已经获得了大多数参议院提名竞争者的支持，以及汉娜·平格里（Hannah Pingree）的支持，后者在 6 月的州长初选中击败了杰克逊。他的竞选社交媒体账号正在大量发布帖子，抨击柯林斯与特朗普政府过于亲近，以及她确认了布雷特·M·卡瓦诺（Brett M. Kavanaugh）进入最高法院，后者为推翻宪法规定的堕胎权提供了关键的一票。
但与全国性民主党人之间持续存在的裂痕可能会使竞选复杂化。尽管他在选任公职方面有着丰富的历史，但杰克逊与普拉特纳一样，是以一个“颠覆者”的身份参选——强调他在缅因州保守派北部的根基，同时支持限制企业权力、扩大医疗服务覆盖范围以及解散美国移民和海关执法局（U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement）等进步政策，后者是本月涉及比德福德（Biddeford）一起致命枪击事件的备受争议的联邦机构。
杰克逊本周告诉《纽约时报》，如果当选，他将不支持参议员查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer，纽约州）继续担任参议院民主党领导人。对于接受舒默在普选中的帮助，他也表示怀疑，因为舒默到目前为止尚未宣布支持杰克逊。
这对于并非高效筹款者的杰克逊来说，可能会是一个巨大的劣势。保守派团体已经准备了数千万美元来支持柯林斯。
来自班戈地区的 33 岁数据分析师伊丽莎白·汉尼根回忆说，在世界杯期间，几乎每次广告时间她都能看到柯林斯的广告，宣传她为缅因州带来的所有资金。汉尼根表示，她担心杰克逊是否有足够的时间发起一场胜利的竞选活动。
她希望杰克逊能够“获得全国政党的支持，而不仅仅是桑德斯派系”。汉尼根认为自己处于民主党的中道，她表示这将提供一个信任信号；她不想选出另一个像参议员约翰·费特曼（民主党-宾夕法尼亚州）那样的人，后者曾是一位进步派冠军，但自 2023 年抵达华盛顿以来，与该党的分歧日益增加。
“我想要一个会投票支持民主党总体议程的人，”汉尼根说道。
对于临终者而言这是慰藉， 对于照顾者而言则是抚慰
作者：凯特琳·吉布森 (CAITLIN GIBSON)
当我们发布近期关于临终之梦与幻象的项目时，我们邀请《华盛顿邮报》的读者分享他们对这一现象的个人经历。通过我的报道，我了解到许多临终者的照顾者都见证过这些发生的事情，并认为这些经历具有深远的意义且令人难忘。我原希望我们能收集到几十个轶事。到目前为止，我们已经收到了约 500 份投稿，且数量仍在增加。能够阅读每一篇投稿是我的一项荣幸。
其中一些故事只有寥寥几行，描述了一个转瞬即逝的时刻或最后的一句遗言。另一些则是冗长且详尽的叙述，记录了亲人在最后的几个小时、几天或几周内发生的深刻经历。绝大多数写信的人——无论他们如何解读所见之物——所描述的经历似乎都给临终者带来了一种平静感或抚慰感，进而给失去亲人的照顾者带来了持久的心理慰藉。
在数百篇叙述中，这里选取了 10 个。以下内容摘自书面投稿和后续访谈，并为了篇幅和清晰度进行了编辑。
“你怎么才来？” 我的岳母（婆婆）艾琳 (Aline) 享寿 101 岁。在 2024. 年去世前的近一年里，她一直卧床不起且身体状况每况愈下。在那之前的几年，当她 99 岁时，她曾告诉我，她不明白为什么自己还留在世上，而她深爱的许多人都已经离她而去了。
在最后一个月里，她身体虚弱，大部分时间都在睡眠中。但有一天，我在她的床边，她突然坐起了一部分，眼睛睁得很大，目光专注地盯着房间前方，这是我们好几周以来从未在她身上见到的专注神情。她用强而清晰的声音喊道：“马克辛 (Maxine)！”她在呼唤她深爱的姐姐，其姐在几年前已经去世。姐妹俩的关系非常、非常亲密。艾琳喊出姐姐名字的声音如此之大，令我吃了一惊。
“马克辛，你怎么这么慢才来？”她说。她的声音中没有恐惧，但有些沮丧。期间她有几次停顿，陷入沉默，表现得像是有人在回应她，我这才意识到，那里正在进行一场对话，而我只能听到其中一方的声音。艾琳说：“马克辛，时间已经到了。为什么我还在这里？”这一切如此真实。过了一会儿，她放松下来，向后靠在床上并闭上了眼睛，从此再也没有那样说过话。
她在几周后去世。我非常敬佩她，能见证那一刻对我来说真的很特别。—— 艾琳·格兰贝里 (Erin Granberry)，66 岁，密西西比州哈蒂斯堡
“我立刻就知道 她在和谁说话” 在过去的 20 年里，我一直担任临终关怀护士，在照顾临终患者时，我经历过许多这类的事情。 我记得有一位女士，当我去给她喂药时，她告诉我：“我知道你会觉得我疯了，因为他已经在七年前去世了，但我丈夫现在就站在门边那个角落里，穿着他最喜欢的那件格子运动夹克。”而她在第二天去世了。类似这样的经历太多了。 所以，当这件事发生在我的女儿蒂娜（Tina）身上时，我立刻就明白了。2018 年她因癌症去世时，距离她 34 岁生日还差两周。在她 11 个月的治疗期间，最后一次入院时，她的病情非常严重。她处于意识模糊状态，时而清醒时而昏迷，有好几次在闭眼时，她会喃喃自语并咯咯地笑。我听不清她在说什么，但我立刻就知道她在和谁说话。当她清醒一些时，我问她是否在和她哥哥说话，她的哥哥在两年前去世了。她微笑着点了点头。这给了我极大的安慰。他们两个关系非常亲密，年龄只相差两岁。在接下来的 12 个小时左右，她闭着眼睛，一直以同样的方式喃喃自语并轻笑。只有我的儿子能让她那样咯咯地笑。我认为这就是我女儿所需要的，让她能够放下这段生命。她在第二天早晨去世了。他们现在在一起了。 —— 凯瑟琳·迪克森（Catherine Dixon），68 岁，凤凰城
“是你吗？” 2003 年，在母亲最后的日子里，我一直坐在她身边。她那时 86 岁，在新泽州一家养老院的临终关怀病房中。在她最后一个完整的白天里，她没有说话，但在凌晨 2 点的黑暗中，她两次呼唤我的名字。不久后，她说：“他来了。”接着，就在黎明前，她用一种不可置信且充满喜悦的语气说出了最后一句话：“是你吗？”她于次日去世。作为一名医生——我做了将近 40 年的全科医生——我的质疑最初让我思考是否是药物或脑缺氧导致了幻觉，但在她去世后的 23 年里，我从未能摆脱这样一个信念：她的体验是非常清晰且真实的。我愿意付出任何代价来知道她见到了谁。—— 埃丽卡·艾伦·约翰逊（Erica Ellen Johnson），80 岁，马萨诸塞州韦尔斯利
“你好，我的朋友们” 2001 年，我在乌干达坎帕拉的卢巴加乌干达烈士医院（Uganda Martyrs Hospital Lubaga）担任医务官。那是晚上 8 点，一个寒冷的夜晚，我正在值夜班。一名患有哮喘、糖尿病且双臂截肢的患者被送了进来。他已经病了两天，伴有严重的咳嗽和发烧，并且处于严重的呼吸窘迫状态，呼吸极其困难。我们开始为他进行雾化治疗并供氧，同时还需要进行静脉给药。 但由于他的情况不稳定，手臂上的静脉很难找到。我们在等待高级医生到达的同时，试图维持他的稳定并寻找静脉。但突然间，我们的患者停止了挣扎和喘息，迅速地平静了下来。自从抵达以来，他一直没有对我们说话，但此时他开始说话，仿佛在对房间里我们看不见的人说话。他温柔地对他们说：“你好，我的朋友们，”他说，“你们来接我了吗？好的，我们走吧。”随后，他吸了最后一口气，平静地离世了。—— 丹尼尔·扎克（Daniel Zaake），51 岁，乌干达坎帕拉
“她的表情充满了纯粹的喜悦” 2010 年，我去西雅图探望我的姑姑，当时她正因癌症而走向生命终点。我到达时她还意识清醒，但大约一周后，她大部分时间都在睡眠中。有时，我会听到她在房间里和某人说话，尽管她是独自一人。其他时候，她会挥动手臂，仿佛在弹管风琴，就像她小时候在教堂里那样。她是一个非凡的女性。她从 4 岁起就被截肢，并在生活中克服了重重困难。
在我飞回家的那天，我向她道别，并告诉她，她也可以离开了。我说：“你一直如此坚强，奋斗了这么久。你不必再那样坚持了。你可以走了，我知道大家都会在等你。”她已经好几天没说话了，但突然间，她猛地睁大眼睛，越过我的肩膀看向后方，脸上绽放出灿烂的笑容，说道：“妈妈？”她的表情充满了纯粹的喜悦。我永远不会忘记那一幕。
随后她又睡去了，而我启程前往机场。我在丹佛中转。当我打开手机时，收到了一条我父亲发来的信息，告知我的姑姑在我离开约 20 分钟后去世了。——劳拉·克劳利·林奇 (Laura Crowley Lynch)，64 岁，密苏里州堪萨斯城
“我想回家了” 查克 (Chuck) 87 岁，是我共同生活了 36 年的伴侣。在经历了七年的失智症病程后，他在生命的最后五周时间里在家中接受临终关怀。在那几周里，我注意到他会望着天花板，与一些我看不到的人交谈。我会问他：“房间里有谁？”他会告诉我他看到了他的父母、我的母亲、他的姐妹以及我们的朋友，而这些人都已经过世了。令我惊讶的是他能叫出他们的名字——那时他已经没有了短期记忆，几乎没有长期记忆，本应无法回忆起他正在交谈的人的名字。
我问查克他们对他说了什么，他说他们告诉他“该走了”。我曾问他为什么还没离开，他告诉我他想让我和他一起走。我惊呆了，不知道该如何回应。但我思考了如果在他失智之前我会如何回应，于是我告诉他，在他离开后，我还有很多工作要为他完成，所以我觉得现在还不是我的时间，他表示同意。不久之后，我问他当时间到他离开时会发生什么，他告诉我：“我只需要说我想回家了，转换就会开始。”那是他在去世前大约一周半的事情。——大卫·道尔顿 (David Dalton)，72 岁，芝加哥
“还没轮到我” 那是 90 年代中期，我做临终关怀护士大约三年了。我去家里探视一名患者，他是一位 40 多岁的已婚男子，患有转移性胰腺癌。我们一直在共同努力缓解他剧烈的疼痛。那天，我发现他躺在床上，脸上带着安详的微笑，眼睛凝视着远处只有他能看到的东西。他告诉我：“公共汽车一直在开过来，然后从我身边驶过。我看到其他人上车了，但司机告诉我还没轮到我。”
我们聊了一会儿，他一直处于那种平和的状态。他告诉我，司机虽然会停车，但并不让他上车，并告诉他那个最终会接走我的患者的美丽之地。这不是谵妄——我见过谵妄，而这完全是另外一回事。几天后我再次探视他时，他分享说他能看到公共汽车要去哪里，司机已经向他展示过了。他只是盯着远处看，脸上带着最美好的微笑。我问他在看什么，他中断了深远的凝视，转过头直视着我。他再次微笑说：“那是我的秘密，等你到了时间你就会知道了。”
在之后的 24 小时内他就去世了。那次经历影响深远，这些年来我一直铭记在心。——盖尔·马萨达 (Gayle Masada)，73 岁，图森
“他现在在这儿” 我的母亲在 1994. 年 9 月死于肺癌。在她生命的最后几天，她变得越来越安静，并与我们疏远。但很明显，她正沉浸在某种我们无法理解的事情中。她凝视着窗外，会点头并轻声回应，仿佛在确认某个人的存在。在三天的时间里，这种情况发生了好几次。在最后的几个小时里，她坐了起来，告诉我们她准备好了。她指向房间的一个远角说：“他现在在这儿，就像他一直在这里一样，我准备好走了。”这让我感到惊讶——我们虽然是天主教徒，但并不虔诚；在 1968 年，由于我们当地的教区神父无法让我们的兄弟免于在越南服役，我的母亲就带我们离开了教会。 在那最后一天她看到了什么？我不得而知，但这似乎给了她安慰。她很平静，并不恐惧，并在那天下午去世了。 —— 珍妮·西克卢纳 (Jeanne Scicluna)，68, 北卡罗来纳州，阿什维尔
“就像是在试图引起某人的注意” 三年前，我 63 岁的哥哥因膀胱癌濒临死亡，在家中接受临终关怀。他家庭成员众多，有五个养子和一名妻子，我们轮流陪在他身边。他无法沟通且躁动不安，有时会含糊不清地喃喃自语。有一天，他的长子和我陪在哥哥身边，轻声地和他说话，突然，他抬起头，睁大眼睛直视前方，仿佛在看着一个我看不见的人。他举起手臂，用响亮且清晰的声音大喊：“爸爸！”我的侄子和我面面相觑——我们简直不敢相信。这让我想起我们小时候和爸爸一起去看足球赛，我们在人群中走散了——我的哥哥就这样喊了起来，仿佛在试图引起某人的注意，或者请求对方等他。在那之后，他再也没说过一句能分辨出的完整话语，并在几个小时后离世。 — 琳达·艾伦·霍顿 (Linda Ellen Horton)，76, 夏洛特
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“我们要去哪里？”到我母亲 90 岁时，她已经患有痴呆症 10 年了，而且已经相当长一段时间无法进行沟通。她会说英语，但她的母语是希腊语，而母语最先消失——我自己懂的希腊语很少，但当我尝试用希腊语与她交谈以触达她大脑的那个部分时，她只是茫然地盯着我。到了 2014, 年，她甚至无法将两个词组合在一起来表达想法。但她的身体却异常强健。她刚刚做完体检，医生说她的“健康状况完美”。一天早上，我顺道去她的护理机构看她，她正处于极度不安的状态。她用希腊语大喊大叫，令人惊讶的是，她是在用完整的段落地对着房间里一个我看不见的人喊叫，那个人似乎就站在我的右手边。我试图翻译我妈妈在说什么，发现她是在对她的母亲大喊大叫，仿佛她的母亲正试图说服她去某个地方。我听到我妈妈用希腊语喊道：“我们要去哪里？”这句话我能听懂。我去护理站请求提供可能有助于让她平静下来的药物，然后我们将她转移到轮椅上，以便我可以推着她走一会儿。整个过程中，她一直在对着我的祖母尖叫。我仅会的一几个希腊语短语之一是将某人咒入地狱——我听到我妈妈让我的祖母滚到地狱去。我当时心想：“妈，你考虑清楚点！”但我自己毫不怀疑我的祖母在那儿，以某种方式告诉她的女儿跟她一起走。但我母亲极其恐惧死亡。最终，她变得昏昏欲睡并平静了下来，我回到了工作中。第二天早上，我母亲护理机构的办公室有人给我打电话。他们说：“很遗憾地告知您”
“……告诉你，你母亲今天早晨去世了。”我坐在那里，完全愣住了，只是不停地重复着：“什么？什么？什么？”我去了那家医疗机构，那里离我的工作地点只有一街之隔。我们进去向她作最后的告别。其中一名护士走过来告诉我，她那天早晨早些时候经过我母亲的房间，听到她在用英语说话。她说的是：“妈妈，我来了。” —— 斯特凡妮·阿里戈蒂 (Stephanie Arrigotti)，内华达州卡森城
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作者：劳伦·拉姆金 (LAUREN LUMPKIN)
教育部上个月为学生们举办了一场电视公民知识竞猜节目，以庆祝美国建国 250 周年。几周后，比赛结果引发争议，在法官否决了一名锡克教学生的答案后，国会议员称这场比赛是“操纵”的。
而审查了这些问题和答案的宪法法律专家们则意见不一。
15 岁的安加德·辛格 (Aangad Singh) 为“总统 1776 奖”准备了数月，该奖项是与一个宪法教育团体合作举办的。为了让他能留在家里练习，他的家人放弃了度假。当一场疾病在他们位于康涅狄格州的家中蔓延时，每个人都戴上了口罩，以便安加德能保持健康继续学习。
6 月 9 日，在肯尼迪中心明亮的灯光下，他身着西装、头戴头巾，与另外七名参赛者一同站在镜头前参加节目录制，节目由电视名人马里奥·洛佩兹 (Mario Lopez) 主持。根据法官的判定，他在回答关于联邦法院、宣战和奴隶制的问题时回答错误——这些错误导致他被淘汰出局。
他认为，这种情况时有发生。但对他和他的父母来说，有些事情感觉不对劲。他后来得知，如果他的答案中至少有一个被判定为正确，他本可以晋级——而竞赛组织者不愿处理这些所谓的差异。
在上周 NOTUS 报道了他的经历后，国会亚裔太平洋美籍议员团在 X 上发表帖子指出其中存在舞弊。
“为什么法官将一名锡克教学生正确的回答错误地判定为错误？”该团体质问道。“为什么教育部拒绝进行审查？这场由特朗普领导的公民竞赛处处写着‘操纵’二字。”
从早晨的咖啡到日常杂事，无论身在何处，都能展现您对新闻业的热爱。这些日常必需品将实用功能与《华盛顿邮报》的自豪感完美结合。是办公、居家或馈赠的理想之选。
对于 Aangad 来说，这很简单：如果他正确回答了问题，就应该获得分数。他的父母在 2000 年代初从印度移民到美国，他们告诉他，在美国，勤奋会获得回报，成功基于功绩。但这次公民知识竞赛挑战了这个家庭对公平的认知。“我们努力做正确的一切。我们遵守法律，遵守规则，缴纳税款。我们做好了一个好公民所期望的一切，而我们唯一希望获得的回报就是公正，”Aangad 的父亲 Bhalindar Singh 说道，他当年为了追求良好的教育而移民。“我知道我们生活在一个不同的世界，并非每个人都这么想。”在 6 月 30 日看完广播后，Aangad 的家人讨论了应对方案，并最终决定在 7 月 14 日向教育部发送电子邮件，请求对回答进行审查并提供评分信息。他们的邮件数日未获回复。周二，一名机构官员在邮件中告知他们，他们很享受与 Aangad 的合作，并引导他们阅读规定，其中指出评委的决定是“最终且具有约束力的”。这次公民知识竞赛于今年早些时候揭晓，是美国庆祝建国 250 周年（semiquincentennial）的众多活动之一。该赛事测试高中生对国家建国、美国宪法及其他历史文件的了解。习惯于公开演讲的 Aangad 决定尝试一下。“我只是认为这是一个深入研究建国文件的绝佳机会，”他在接受《华盛顿邮报》采访时表示。“我参加主要是为了学习，深入了解我们的历史。”比赛由三轮组成：在线多选题考试、面对面口头比赛以及在肯尼迪艺术中心举行的总决赛。前三名的决赛选手将平分 250,000 美元的奖学金，并有机会在椭圆形办公室会见总统唐纳德·特朗普。数周以来，Aangad 放学回家后，吃点零食，喝一杯牛奶，然后
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家庭照片 Aangad Singh，15 岁，左起第二位，在 6 月 9 日的“1776 总统奖”公民知识竞赛上与家人合影。
学习。他的父亲向他密集地询问关于美国宪法和美国革命的问题。 他通过了在线测试，并顺利通过了口头比赛。 在电视直播的决赛中，他在被大多数其他学生一同淘汰之前，通过了第三轮挑战。 Aangad 说，这让他感到很惊讶。现场没有计分板，因此不清楚每位参与者累积了多少分。 在 Aangad 离开舞台回到观众席与父母汇合后，他在脑海中回放了每一个答案。他在手机上打开美国宪法，希望能找到哪里出错。 “我们不知道他在哪里丢了分，”他的父亲说。 接着，他的竞争对手们暗示有些不对劲。“他们说：‘我不知道发生了什么。我们不知道他怎么没进前三’，”Bhalindar 回想起另一位家长的说法。“他们甚至比我们更震惊。”但由于不知道官方分数，他们无法确定。 随后，获胜者在接受家乡报纸采访时表示，她对进入前三的人选感到惊讶。 几周过去了，Aangad
回到了他的日常生活。 他打皮克球，并为在加利福尼亚州参加的一场公开演讲比赛做准备。6月30日，他与家人一起在 CBS 频道观看了该节目的播出。 在第三次挑战之后，屏幕上闪现了一个计分板。 Aangad 排名第六，得 16 分。他刚刚错过了一个关于联邦法院的问题。 “根据《美国宪法》第三条，联邦法院在哪些情况下具有管辖权？请至少列出四项以获得全分，”监考员说道。 “我们的联邦法院对海事或海军管辖权；州可能作为一方以及另一州公民参与的案件；不同州公民之间的争议；多个州之间的争议；以及州与外国国民涉及的争议具有管辖权，”Aangad 说道。 评委们说其中只有三项是正确的。一些宪法专家对此意见不一。 “这些基本上是准确的，”乔治城大学法学院教授、宪法研究专家大卫·超级（David Super）在评价 Aangad 的答案时表示。他说他会给这个少年分数。
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美利坚大学宪法学教授伊丽莎白·厄尔·贝斯克（Elizabeth Earle Beske）表示，评委的评分过于“吝啬”，但最终她同意评委的观点。乔治·华盛顿大学领先的宪法研究学者梅娃·马库斯（Maeva Marcus）表示，Aangad 提到的类别最初确实在第三条中，但其中两项已被第 11 修正案删除。“他是错的，”她说，“评委们是对的。” 辛格一家表示，如果事实如此，问题的措辞应该是不同的。在第四次挑战中（一个闪电轮环节，学生需要在 30 秒内尽可能多地回答问题来得分），Aangad 被问到哪一项修正案结束了奴隶制。“第十三项，”他说。屏幕上闪现了一个红色的 X。这是正确答案——当其他学生提供该回答时，他们得到了两分。Aangad 至今不明白为什么自己没有得分。
然而，节目的字幕显示 Aangad 说的是“13th”。这些问题是由詹姆斯·麦迪逊纪念奖学金基金会（James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation）制定并评分的，该基金会致力于改善美国学校教授《美国宪法》的方式。该组织的董事会由总统任命，成员包括教育部长琳达·麦克马洪（Linda McMahon）和巡回法院法官雷蒙德·凯索里奇（Raymond Kethledge），后者在 2018 年曾入围唐纳德·特朗普的最高法院候选名单。该基金会的领导层未对关于比赛或评分方式的多次置评请求做出回应。在回应《华盛顿邮报》的提问时，教育部提及了比赛规则。一名发言人在电子邮件中表示：“比赛的设计旨在让评委在选出决赛入围者和获胜者时行使独立的诚实判断。这一事实已在每位参赛者都同意的比赛规则中列明。”
评委们未对置评请求做出回应。凯蒂·福赛特（Katy Forsythe）是一名高中社会研究教师，负责该节目的监考，她表示她的职责是朗读问题并
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传达法官的裁决。Forsythe 在一封电子邮件中表示：“最相关的背景是，所有参与竞赛的人都签署了合同，以协助维护竞赛的公正性。与任何争议一样，我将信任我们的宪法中所规定的正当法律程序，而不是公众舆论法庭。”根据 Aangad 家人以及《华盛顿邮报》（The Post）的计算，如果 Aangad 在那两个被错判的问题中任何一个得分，他本可以进入决赛并确保获得至少 $25,000 的奖学金。自从离开华盛顿特区（D.C.）以来，这一事实一直令他耿耿于怀。在对该家庭要求审查 Aangad 错误答案的电子邮件回复中，一名教育部工作人员称 Aangad 为一名“极其随和且有动力的学生”，但并未回答关于竞赛如何评分的问题。“他们没有正面回应我们问题的实质内容，”Bhalindar 说道。他变得不再信任；他不确定其中是否涉及偏见。“事实被隐瞒得越多，就越令人起疑。”Aangad 的母亲 Ramandeep 不禁在想，她的儿子——一个第一代美国人，一个戴着头巾的锡克教男孩——是否被剥夺了应得的东西。“和我谈谈，消除我的疑虑，”她在谈到比赛组织者时说。“告诉我们这个问题被标为错误的原因。至少这样能让我们有个交代。”Aangad 对此的态度则更为外交辞令化。“我认为在实际获得信息之前，我们不能跳到结论。没有什么比随意抛出毫无根据的结论更危险的了，”他说，并补充道，所有与他竞争的学生都配得上在那儿。“现在，我们只是在试图确定事实，确定究竟发生了什么。”他说，如果他确实错了，他会接受。他的父亲表示，在确定真相之前，家人不会罢休。“我们只是想要公正，你知道吗？”Bhalindar 说道。“我的意思是，在美国，这不应该是个例外。”
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西点军校（接 A1 页） 在特朗普下令后，西点军校令其教职员噤声。一名教授予以反击。
有时违宪，且过度扩张。一项对数十万份法院记录的《华盛顿邮报》分析发现，在短短 18 个月内，该政府引发了一波诉讼浪潮，指控其违反公民自由或其他基本自由。其中一项诉讼由巴肯 (Bakken) 提起。2025 年 3 月那一天，他与上校的冲突将这场碰撞带到了西点军校——这座位于哈德逊河畔、由翠绿植被与花岗岩构成的校园，旨在培养未来军队的领导者。自第二次世界大战以来，西点军校一直培养学术开放性，推进这样一种观点：异见对于形成正确的军事判断至关重要。但特朗普及其最高助手（包括国防部长皮特·海格塞斯 Pete Hegseth）认为，西点军校必须将对权威的爱国服从置于一切之上。在第二次总统任期的第七天，特朗普发布了一项行政命令，禁止
像西点军校这样的军事学院“推广、推进或以其他方式灌输”其政府认为的“反美国、分裂、歧视、激进、极端且不理智”的思想。该命令还要求教授“美国及其建国文件仍然是人类历史上最强大的向善力量”。几周之内，西点军校的院长推出了一项修订后的“学术参与”政策，规定该校近 700 名教授（其中约三分之一为平民）在发表演讲、发表论文甚至在播客中发言之前，必须获得系主任的批准。巴肯说，他以前从未需要过这样的批准。作为西点军校首批聘请的平民教授之一，他自 2000 年起就在那里教授刑事法和宪法。非军事教员旨在提高西点军校的学术严谨性并
提供外部视角。然而，许多身着制服的同事从未完全接纳他们的存在。巴肯被同事和学生描述为一个有原则但说话生硬、倾向于批评的异议者，他经常感到被孤立。现在，听着上校关于“服从命令”的话语，巴肯再次感到房间里只有他一个人。他长期以来一直主张，一种不问理由地服从的军事文化，加上对批评的厌恶和优越感，导致美国自 1945 年以来打的每一场战争都失败了。“在美国内部，过去 75 年的军事干预释放了大规模的无能、傲慢和否认，”他在 2020 年的一本书《忠诚的代价》(The Cost of Loyalty) 中写道。“我一直生活在这些问题的源头。”西点军校的官员不喜欢那本书，也不喜欢巴肯的大部分批评。但他说，他们从未试图让他噤声——直到特朗普的第二次总统任期，西点军校修订了教职员发言规则。在他于参议院的确认听证会上，曾任陆军少校及《福克斯与朋友们》周末节目共同主持人的海格塞斯表示，西点军校不应雇用平民教授，称他们是“左翼”和“觉醒派”。就职后，他后来告诉学员，学院“就在这些大厅里聘请了宣扬反美国意识形态的教授。但现在不再如此了。”西点军校的新政策出台时，巴肯正准备写一本新书，就像他的第一本书一样，批评这座学院和军队。但他不愿寻求出版许可，既不向西点军校寻求，也不向海格塞斯的五角大楼寻求。九月，他在联邦法院起诉了西点军校。他主张，其雇主新政策的“意图和效果”是“寒蝉效应，压制言论，并审查可能与……相反的观点”。
西点军校、陆军、国防部、海格塞斯以及特朗普的“观点”。西点军校的一位发言人拒绝回答一系列问题，并在电子邮件中写道：“作为一项政策，我们不对正在进行的诉讼发表评论。”多位西点军校员工拒绝或未回应评论请求。五角大楼首席发言人肖恩·帕内尔同样以巴肯正在进行的诉讼为由，拒绝发表评论。但他在一份声明中写道，海格塞斯“完全支持”特朗普的行政命令。在提到巴肯时，帕内尔补充道：“我们并不在意一个心怀不满之人的半吊子想法。”白宫发言人
[[IMG_XXXX]] COURTESY OF TIM BAKKEN 2007 年，巴肯与他在其中教授了六周课的喀布尔阿富汗军事学院院长握手。
[[IMG_XXXX]] PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST 在自己的公寓里，巴肯正准备参加 5 月初关于他起诉特朗普政府的法院听证会。
[[IMG_XXXX]] PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST 巴肯喜欢晨跑。他首选的路线沿着哈德逊河延伸。
[[IMG_XXXX]] PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST 巴肯在家中大部分时间都在一张简单的黑色书桌前工作，书桌被安置在他卧室的一个角落里。
[[IMG_XXXX]] PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST 巴肯批评了军队中盲目服从的文化。
安娜·凯利没有直接回答关于巴肯或其他西点军校教授言论的问题，她在电子邮件中写道：“那些拒绝遵守神圣指挥链的人……威胁着我们战士的生命。这种鲁莽和危险的行为将不会被容忍。” 尽管巴肯代表文职教职员提起诉讼，但他认为此举是在保护所有教授的权利。但他们似乎并不认同。他说，起诉之后，许多人停止与他交谈。他最亲密的三个同事私下告诉他，他们想帮忙，但他们的妻子不允许。他最老的朋友之一（与他同一天在西点军校开始工作）要求他重新考虑。 “这项政策对我们是有利的，”巴肯回忆起对方如此说道，“它能防止我们说出让自己陷入麻烦的话。”
巴肯在成为西点军校的一名拥趸时抵达这里：他沉迷于这所学校的历史、声誉以及常规名单上的罗德学者。但他很快发现，在纽约州北部，文职人员的生活截然不同。在抵达后的第一个早晨，他与三名新入职的军方人员一起参观学院。他们停在礼品店前。在店里，巴肯看到了印有西点军校独特标志的糖果、衣服和笔记本。这位穿着商务西装的新教授开始跟随身穿制服的同伴通过旋转门。 店长举起手。“不允许文职人员进入，”她在巴肯的记忆中对这组人说道。
摘自蒂姆·巴肯 (Tim Bakken) 的著作《忠诚的代价》(The Cost of Loyalty)
巴肯知道自己将成为少数派。他之前没料到这一点。
国会在 1992 年通过立法，鼓励军事学院雇用平民。在此之前，西点军校和空军学院的教师几乎全部是委任军官。（海军学院当时已经采用了军方和文职教授各占一半的模式。）立法者希望通过引入拥有博士学位的平民，以增强知识多样性并提高学术标准。
德怀特·D·艾森豪威尔 (Dwight D. Eisenhower) 早期曾推动这一想法。1946 年，他在担任陆军参谋长期间给西点军校校长写信，主张在博学平民的帮助下向学员教授心理学，以便他们能“在人性基础上处理人性问题”。
巴肯似乎正是艾森豪威尔所设想的那种学科专家：他曾担任检察官和私人执业律师，并曾在大学水平进行教学。
现已退休的西点军校教授加里·索利斯 (Gary Solis) 曾担任招聘委员会成员，他表示，在面试中，巴肯对每一个问题都能迅速给出答案。
[[IMG_JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST]] 一辆悍马车行驶在纽约州北部的西点军校校园内。
索利斯说，巴肯给面试官留下的印象是聪明、能干且敢于直言——这正是平民应当为西点军校带来的特质之典范。索利斯回忆道，委员会一致推荐了他。
在面试结束前，索利斯提醒巴肯，西点军校并不是一所普通的学校。他说，在这里教学意味着同意遵守军事原则：服从权威。执行命令。
索利斯回忆道：“蒂姆对此没有异议。”
巴肯说，当时他接受了这一观点，即为了军队的运作，基层士兵必须服从上级。但他接受西点军校这份工作的前提是，他认为作为一名文职教授，他将享有与非军事大学教授相同的自由——挑起议题、辩论以及批评的自由。
他说，这至关重要，因为有一天，他的学员们将向士兵们下达命令。他必须教会他的学生进行批判性思考。无数生命取决于此。在随后的几年里，随着他自己的六名学生在伊拉克和阿富汗的战斗中牺牲，他一直深思这一点。
“如果你不愿……”
“就某些能对国家有所帮助的事情大胆发声？”巴肯（Bakken）在接受《华盛顿邮报》采访时问道。“例如，是否应该发动一场战争，或者国家是否应该撤出战争，亦或是国家是否在损失士兵？”
随着时间的推移，巴肯开始将西点军校视为一个等级森严且与世隔绝的世界，在这个世界里，文职教授不被信任，被视为二等公民。十多位现任和前任西点军校人员（其中大多数为文职人员）认同巴肯的印象。其中一些人因担心遭到报复而要求匿名。
他们的担忧远远超出了能否进入校园礼品店的问题。例如，陆军出资支持西点军校的军事教官攻读研究生学位，而这项福利并不提供给文职教授。军事教员可以选择最多拥有六个卧室的“拎包入住”校园住宅，而文职人员在西点军校校内的住宿选择则较为匮乏。军事教员享有一年的学术休假，而文职教员只有六个月。
“我们被对待得就像不真正属于这个社区的成员……在某种程度上，不是完整的教职员工，”前教授格雷厄姆·帕森斯（Graham Parsons）说。“文职人员处于边缘地位。”
巴肯拒绝留在边缘。2005 年，他帮助重写了教师手册，赋予所有教授平等的学术休假和更灵活的工作时间。
五年后，作为一个学术自由委员会的主席，巴肯领导工作增加了一项规定：文职教授如果认为自己因言论而受到纪律处分或被解雇，可以根据 (美国宪法) 第一修正案的理由对处罚提出挑战。
这项规定几乎立即受到了考验。
2010 年，助理教授丹·赖斯（Dan Rice）计划向他的学员们放映《蒂尔曼的故事》（The Tillman Story），这是一部当年上映的纪录片，讲述了前国家橄榄球联盟球员帕特·蒂尔曼（Pat Tillman）死亡事件中军方的掩盖行为。他在阿富汗被同僚——陆军游骑兵射杀，而非像军方官员最初声称的那样死于敌军火力。影片暗示，已退休并在西点军校担任“杰出讲席教授”的约翰·P·阿比扎伊德（John P. Abizaid）将军在掩盖真相中扮演了某种角色。据巴肯和赖斯称，大学管理层反对此次放映。
（今年在被问及此事时，阿比扎伊德的一名发言人表示，这位退休将军不接受采访。西点军校的一名发言人拒绝置评。）
赖斯和巴肯表示，在赖斯威胁要向学术自由委员会申诉后，西点军校让步了。赖斯可以放映这部电影，并邀请纪录片导演阿米尔·巴-莱夫（Amir Bar-Lev）向学生发表演讲。但官员们规定，一名陆军律师也必须在课堂上发言。巴肯出席了该活动，并听到巴-莱夫告诉学员们，“按照你所看到的真相去说话”至关重要。
几周后，赖斯得知西点军校将终止他的合同。巴肯鼓励他起诉。赖斯在一次采访中回忆道，由于感到身心俱疲，他拒绝了。
巴肯原以为自己帮助西点军校保障了言论自由。但赖斯被解雇——他与巴肯认为这源于放映蒂尔曼纪录片——使他对此产生了截然相反的看法。
于是，他决定写一本书。
十年后，巴肯（Bakken）出版了《忠诚的代价》（“The Cost of Loyalty”）。从开篇起，该书就将美国在朝鲜、越南、阿富汗和伊拉克的代价高昂的冲突，界定为一种“不透明且秘密”的军事文化所产生的失败产物。在这本获得平淡但正面的评论反响的书中，巴肯认为军队在重大和细微方面都撒谎——向公众撒谎，也向自己撒谎。例如，他写道，五角大楼在军队葬礼上伪造号角演奏，因为军队缺乏音乐家。他写道，军官们举起乐器，在激活藏在号角内部的数字录音的同时假装吹奏。更严重的是，他写道，在越南战争期间，陆军参谋长兼西点军校毕业生哈罗德·约翰逊（Harold Johnson）产生了怀疑，但选择不公开表达。巴肯写道，约翰逊认为上级针对北越和越共采取大规模军事行动的计划是愚蠢的，甚至可能是致命的。约翰逊曾想象过走向椭圆形办公室并辞职。但他保持了沉默，这一决定在晚年一直困扰着他。巴肯引用了约翰逊在临终前对一名采访者的评价：“我现在带着这次道德勇气缺失的遗憾走向坟墓。”他说，书出版后，大多数军事和文职教员不再与巴肯共进午餐。少数几个敢于这样做的人之一，化学教授加里·华盛顿（Gary Washington）透露，他的上司指示他远离，因为这位法律教授“不可信”。华盛顿说，在巴肯与军事同事开完会离开后，他们会留下来共同感叹。“他不理解我们，”华盛顿回忆起他们这样说，“他无法让我们改变。”尽管如此，巴肯说，西点军校的官员从未试图阻止这本书的出版，也没有因为他写这本书而对他进行制裁。
巴肯说，相反，他们在书发布前不久传阅了一份三页的备忘录，称其“不讨喜”，并分享了对预期问题的回答。巴肯因为写这本书受到纪律处分了吗？根据《华盛顿邮报》获得的一份备忘录副本，答案是“没有”。他的指控属实吗？备忘录称，巴肯代表的是“少数观点”。为什么西点军校“允许这位教授继续被聘用”？备忘录回答道：“学术自由对于美国军事学院（USMA）的核心使命至关重要，并且是我们培养具备批判性思维能力领导者的基础。……学术自由意味着教职员和学生可以进行知识性的探讨和辩论，而无需担心遭到报复。”巴肯回忆起那份备忘录
西点军校（接第 A10 页）
在 2025 年特朗普签署行政命令之后。根据对十多名现任及前任西点军校工作人员的采访，随着西点军校关于教职员言论的新政策在当年早些时候开始实施，图书馆的书籍被审查是否提及“多样性、公平或包容性”。一名美国历史讲师取消了一项要求探讨国家如何随时间扩展自由理念的作业，并将其替换为一篇关于银行业的论文。一名学员被告知不要研究二战期间对日裔美国人的拘留情况。一名教授西方思想史必修课的工作人员被命令剔除卡尔·马克思的内容。工作人员表示，一些变动是来自上级的指示，而另一些则似乎是自我审查的行为。一名出于担心遭到总统和五角大楼报复而要求匿名的军方讲师表示：“在他们认为政府想要看到的东西上，似乎存在某种过度顺从。或者至少是剔除政府不希望看到的东西。”西点军校的一位发言人拒绝就该校课程变动的描述发表评论。海军学院和空军学院的官员在响应总统命令后，也对其教学内容进行了审查，取消或重新考虑关于性别和性倾向的课程，并删减了关于气候变化和威权政体的讲座。两所学院的发言人均拒绝回答置评请求，以及关于他们是否也考虑限制教职员言论的问题。在西点军校，包括帕森斯在内的几位教授在抗议中辞职。在社交媒体上，海格塞斯表示欢庆。在 8 月的一次会议上，西点军校的院长警告教职员绝不能在课堂上与学员分享观点。巴肯认为这是将学术参与政策延伸到了课堂。巴肯将院长的言论解读为禁止他数十年来一直进行的分析，即评估他所教授的法院裁决的逻辑及其影响。巴肯说，那个秋天他有四次因为新政策而克制自己不去回答学生的提问。他没有回答一名学员关于他是否同意最高法院在“罗宾逊诉加利福尼亚州案”中关于惩罚毒品成瘾者是残酷且违宪的裁决（他实际上是同意的），也没有回答另一名学员关于他如何看待“麦奎尔特诉州政府案”的提问，该案认定陪审团可以考虑社会状况（巴肯认为该裁决可能是错误的，但具有影响力）。他还放弃了发表论文的机会，包括一篇质疑海军在加勒比海地区攻击疑似毒品走私者合法性的文章。1 月，巴肯得知西点军校正采取行动撤销该诉讼。副院长克里斯塔·沃茨上校在法庭文件中辩称，学院必须遵守国防部的规定。此外，她写道，新政策保护了西点军校。沃茨写道：“这些规章和政策允许学院高级官员为美国公众或政府领导人的后续询问或关切做好准备。”她继续写道：“作为雇佣条件，巴肯教授必须遵守。”巴肯担心，如果法官支持西点军校，他将失去工作。A
在巴肯起诉后的第一次全体教职员会议上，工作人员坐满了每一个座位。唯独巴肯周围的四排座位空着。几码开外，军事指导员本杰明·奥迪威少校（Maj. Benjamin Ordiway）在沉默中观察着。奥迪威说，巴肯看起来像一座孤岛。“这简直是胡扯，”他对身边的老师们说道。奥迪威现已退休，他虽然不太认识巴肯，但很钦佩他。他站起身，走过去清了清嗓子。
根据他与巴肯的回忆，他说：“你做了一个军官应该做的事，那就是维护(美国宪法) 第一修正案。”
巴肯犹豫了一下，然后伸出手。两人握了手，奥迪威在他身边坐下。“谢谢，”巴肯说道。
巴肯希望他能传达出奥迪威的支持对他意味着多少，尽管他觉得这很尴尬。他说，他讨厌别人告诉他他是“正确的”或者站在“历史正确的一边”。让法官来做决定吧。
这种谦逊并不总是能让同事们感受到，同事们会对巴肯的笃定感到恼火。甚至他的盟友也承认，巴肯那令人不快（prickly）的个性有时加深了他的孤立。
帕森斯记得曾花费数月时间起草一项提案，允许平民竞聘部门主管和院长的职位。但当巴肯看到该提案时，他厌恶地将其扔在桌上，说这做得还不够彻底。
“他总是想地处于批评者的角色，”帕森斯说。“任何愿意接纳他的团队，他都不会成为其中的一员。”
学生们也注意到了他的固执。西点军校 2024 届毕业生布莱恩·马修斯中尉（Lt. Brian Matthews）说，他要求学员们大声思考，且拒绝对糟糕的推论妥协。马修斯说，与其他教授不同，巴肯从不使用 PowerPoint 或总结案例。相反，他会以一个问题开始课程。例如：你认为反仇恨犯罪法有效吗？
“接下来的一个小时，我们会深入探讨——观点接踵而至——但与此同时，学生们不被允许在没有背景支撑的情况下随口乱说，”马修斯说。“那是我以前从未见过的环境。那是纯粹的知识好奇心。”
聘请巴肯的索利斯说
摘自蒂姆·巴肯 (Tim Bakken) 的书《忠诚的代价》(The Cost of Loyalty)
这位教授已经成了“深夜吠叫的狗”。 他说，西点军校需要这样的狗。 但对于这只狗来说，有时会感到非常孤独。 在休息日，巴肯通常在一家破旧且财务拮据的购物中心里独自享用橙子鸡和炒饭，有人曾尝试将这家购物中心与室内游乐园结合起来。他在一座空荡荡的摩天轮和一面以拉什莫尔山 (Mount Rushmore) 为主题的攀岩墙的阴影下阅读法律文章。 巴肯从未结婚。 几十年来，他一直独自住在距离西点军校一小时车程的一系列破旧公寓里。最近的一处位于纽约州奈艾克 (Nyack)，是一间没有炉灶或餐桌的两房步行公寓。他总是将工作放在首位——这是一个他后来感到后悔的决定。 他开始想象在佛罗里达州，或者在他家乡威斯康星州的湖边退休。
ADAM GRAY/GETTY IMAGES 西点军校本科生参加 5 月 23 日的毕业典礼。国防部长皮特·海格塞斯 (Pete Hegseth) 是演讲嘉宾。
他憧憬着那里的温暖，那里的水。他想象着买一幅画，挂在自己拥有的房子的阳光墙上。 在四月中旬一个阴冷的日子里，巴肯在纽约市参加完律师资格再认证课程后深夜回到家。距离他提起诉讼已经过了半年。他不知道这一切何时才会结束。 当他走上公寓的楼梯时，关于佛罗里达州的念头涌上心头。巴肯在开裂的木制台阶上停了下来。 “为什么，”他在黑暗中问自己，“我还在做这件事？” 一个月后，在怀特普莱恩斯 (White Plains) 的一个联邦法庭上，凯西·赛贝尔 (Cathy Seibel) 法官透过眼镜地看着巴肯及其两名律师，他们被一堆牛皮纸文件夹包围着。在他们对面的是西点军校的律师。
“我请你们进来，”赛贝尔说，“因为我有问题。” 在接下来的一个小时里，由乔治·W·布什总统提名担任法官的赛贝尔对律师们进行了盘问，询问巴肯是否在联邦法院拥有起诉权。 正如政府方所主张的，他为什么不能直接去负责监督工作条件的联邦机构，比如特别检察官办公室 (Office of Special Counsel)？ “目前有几个案例对你们不利，”她告诉巴肯的律师。 律师乔纳森·戈尔德曼 (Jonathan Goldman) 辩称，将巴肯的案件移交给特别检察官办公室将是致命一击。 唐纳德·特朗普解雇了该机构负责人，并任命了一位代理领导，后者迅速终止了对总统大规模解雇联邦雇员事件的调查。 “这基本上相当于询问制定政策的人，该政策是否符合宪法，”戈尔德曼辩论道。 法官随后表示，她想转到“宪法问题”上：西点军校是否违反了 (美国宪法) 第一修正案？ 她转向西点军校的律师达娜·库马尔 (Dana Kumar)。“军校在担心什么？”赛贝尔问。 库马尔表示，西点军校“作为一个承担培训未来军事领导者任务的军事机构”，必须确保军校在公众面前不被“误解”。库马尔请法官想象，如果巴肯发表一次演讲，声称美国在海外的冲突
是违法的。 “没有人会将此误认为陆军的立场，”赛贝尔（Seibel）说道。 库马尔（Kumar）表示，这可能会给人留下一种印象，即“这就是他们在西点军校教授的内容”。 法官前倾身体。 “难道我们不应该希望……恰恰进行这类辩论吗？”她问道。 库马尔说，巴肯（Bakken）可以参加播客，分享他对国际冲突的看法，而不会违反政策。他只是不能表明自己是西点军校的教授。 赛贝尔说，巴肯与西点军校的关系正是人们邀请他参加播客或写书的原因。否则，他只不过是个“随机的路人”。 她靠回椅背，揉了揉太阳穴，说她有“很多需要思考的事情”，但会“很快”做出决定。 在门外，巴肯向他的律师们挥手告别。他在想，自己还需要保持沉默多久。他的新书《不要道歉：做出伟大决定，无需遗憾》（Don’t Say Sorry: Make Great Decisions, Without Regrets）定于 8 月初出版。
学期在裁决出炉前结束了。
随着学员们领取学位，与伊朗的战争已接近第四个月，但国会仍未正式批准。在针对涉嫌运毒船只的袭击中，死亡人数接近 200。巴肯读到，特朗普政府的高级官员希望所有联邦工作人员签署保密协议——随后，五角大楼禁止记者进入其新闻办公室。在巴肯看来，政府似乎正在寻找更多限制审查或异议的方法。5 月 26, 日，即西点军校毕业典礼三天后，赛贝尔裁定巴肯起诉特朗普政府的案件可以继续审理。她还暂时禁止西点军校对文职教授执行学术参与政策，在案件审理期间，禁止该校“禁止或限制”巴肯“向学生表达或提供他的意见、信仰或观点”。
政府可以对赛贝尔的临时裁定提出上诉。政府在 7 月下旬前需做出决定。无论如何，该案可能会拖延数月，甚至可能导致审判。尽管如此，这依然是一次胜利。为了庆祝，这位教授独自开车前往购物中心。在美食广场，巴肯告诉自己不要去想未来的事情。他端着一个泡沫托盘坐下，回头看向那个仿制的拉什莫尔山（Mount Rushmore）及其赝品总统像。“在某种微小的程度上，”他对创建了西点军校的托马斯·杰斐逊（Thomas Jefferson）说，“我也为美国宪法贡献了一份力量。”然后他转过身，继续吃他的照烧三文鱼。两天后，根据《华盛顿邮报》获得的一份副本，西点军校法律与哲学系副主任约书亚·贝里（Joshua Berry）上校向巴肯发送了一份正式备忘录，警告他因为某个周五在家工作可能面临“纪律处分”。他还发布了第二份备忘录，谴责巴肯在 3 月份与邮件室工作人员的互动中表现“失礼”。巴肯对这两份备忘录均提出异议，他认为这是对其在法庭获胜的报复。在被问及这些处罚的时机时，贝里将评论权交给了西点军校，而该校发言人拒绝评论。根据《华盛顿邮报》获得的电子邮件，在巴肯投诉几天后，贝里撤回了这些文件。
到 7 月初，巴肯在一天早晨打开办公室门时，希望事情已经平息。他在擦得发亮的办公桌表面看到一样闪闪发光的东西，而前一天晚上他离开时桌面是空的。那是一枚便士硬币，正面朝上，露出亚伯拉罕·林肯（Abraham Lincoln）的脸。他已经知道这意味着什么，但还是在 Google 中输入了这个问题：“在军队中，把一枚便士放在物体上意味着什么？”答案是：士兵们在坟墓前放置便士以向阵亡战友致敬。但在巴肯看来，这不像是一种尊敬的标志。他给一位朋友打电话，对方是一位曾在西点军校任教的退休陆军上校。“这是威胁吗？”他问道，“我想不出其他任何解释。”“这是给你的信息，”上校回答道，“在西点军校，事情就是这样运作的。”
亚伦·舍费尔 (Aaron Schaffer) 为本报道做出了贡献。
计划在秋季总统选举前 对投票过程产生质疑
作者：Marina Dias, Terrence McCoy 和 Samantha Schmidt
巴西利亚 —— 巴西外交部周六表示，巴西已拒绝了两名美国国务院高级官员的签证。特朗普政府原计划派遣这两名官员执行一项任务，旨在数百万巴西人在 10 月 4 日进行总统选举投票之前，对该国选举制度的公平性和完整性产生质疑。
一名美国国务院高级官员和三名巴西官员在讨论敏感外交问题时要求匿名，他们表示，一个由特朗普政治任命人员组成的美国国务院代表团原计划在未来几天前往首都巴西利亚，其中成员包括助理秘书 Riley M. Barnes 和副助理秘书 Samuel Samson。但外交部表示，在获知该计划后，巴西官员拒绝了美国人的入境许可。
巴西官员表示，美国官员通过美国驻华盛顿的巴西领事馆申请签证，称其计划与“参与选举进程的当局”举行会议。
Samson 此前曾从非洲前往欧洲，推广唐纳德·特朗普总统的保守派政治品牌，并与右翼团体建立联系，有时甚至引起建制派政治家的反感。目前尚不清楚这些美国外交官计划会见谁，以及他们打算如何质疑一个长期被视为南美选举标杆的制度——该制度在巴西人投票后数小时内即可公布结果。
两名巴西高级官员周四告诉《华盛顿邮报》，他们最近获悉了他们所描述的美国“策略”，并誓言阻止这些美国官员进入该国。
“这是一个与巴西民主完全不相容的策略，”其中一名官员表示。由于未获授权向媒体发言，该官员要求匿名。这位官员表示，巴西政府将采取行动以“保护我们的投票系统”。
巴西官员表示，他们怀疑美国人的目标是会见选举怀疑论者，并出具一份可能被用于使该国电子投票系统失去合法性的报告。Samson 过去曾撰写部门报告，批评者认为这些报告在处理人权问题时带有党派偏见。
国务院在给《邮报》的一份声明中确认，Barnes 和 Samson 计划下周前往巴西利亚，但未就行程目的或特朗普政府是否担心巴西的选举完整性做出回应。Barnes 和 Samson 均未回复评论请求。
特朗普政府官员的这次尝试标志着美国与巴西之间一场长期争端的升级。该争端围绕表达自由的限度以及针对前总统雅伊尔·博索纳罗 (Jair Bolsonaro) 的刑事案件展开；博索纳罗因被判定企图领导武装政变及其他指控而目前被软禁。
本周，特朗普对一系列巴西商品征收了巨额关税。总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦 (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) 对此回应称，这是一个政治伎俩，旨在帮助他的选举对手——前总统之子、特朗普盟友弗拉维奥·博索纳罗 (Flávio Bolsonaro)。
美国的这次尝试也突显了美国外交使节团更广泛的文化改造。在特朗普政府期间，外交官越来越多地被部署用于实现政治目标，而非推进曾经超越党派之争的长期原则。
“对于我们这些为了向其他国家带来民主而失去朋友的人来说，看到这位秘书利用美国权力出于意识形态目的去破坏其他国家可靠的选举，这简直令人作呕，”一名了解情况的美国国务院高级官员表示。
MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES 本月，在巴西马瑙斯的一次测试准备工作中，亚马逊区域选举法院的一名工作人员正在整理装有电子投票机的箱子。
ANDREW HARNIK/GETTY IMAGES 巴西总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦称，唐纳德·特朗普总统实施的关税是旨在帮助其对手的政治策略。
该项努力地表示，由于未获得公开讲话授权，他要求匿名。 “我们过去在危险的情况下动用力量是为了民主，”这位国务院高级官员说。“现在我们派遣政治任命官员去诋毁另一个国家的选举制度。” 这位高级官员将此次外交任务与美国政府在 2022 年为加强巴西民主并防止军事接管所做的努力区分开来。在那次选举之前，雅伊尔·博索纳罗多次试图在巴西的选举制度中播撒怀疑，他声称该制度充斥着欺诈。 博索纳罗曾是一名军官，他同时致力于将巴西军队政治化——
……军方，并警告称，如果他的权力受到威胁，将会出现民主“断裂”。
在博尔索纳罗宣布“军队站在我们这一边”两天后，国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀（Lloyd Austin）发表讲话，支持巴西利亚的民主，并强调军队必须由文职人员控制的必要性。
这位高级官员表示，他当时看到了美国情报评估结果，认为“针对巴西选举系统可信度的这些指控没有任何可信之点”。
该官员表示：“我们派遣了一波又一波的军方人员，向其对应人员明确表示，如果他们违背宪法准则，将会使自己陷入受到制裁或其他类似情况的危险之中。”
选举结束后，博尔索纳罗试图推翻显示其败给卢拉的结果，并启动军事接管，但该国大多数将军对该计划表示反对。去年，他被判定企图推翻巴西国家政权，被判处 27 年监禁，目前在执行居家监禁。
唐纳德·特朗普任命的一名国务院官员达伦·比蒂（Darren Beattie）在博尔索纳罗被定罪后试图前往探视，但其签证被巴西外交部撤销。
在民调中落后的弗拉维奥·博尔索纳罗（Flávio Bolsonaro）本周在与外交官的会议上似乎呼应了其父亲的指控。他称巴西的投票机是由委内瑞拉公司 Smartmatic 制造的，容易受到欺诈影响——这些主张遭到了巴西高等选举法院的驳斥。
国际观察员多次断言，巴西的选举系统是健全的。
巴西驻美洲国家组织大使贝诺尼·贝利（Benoni Belli）表示，自 2018 年启动以来，每一次“巴西观察团（包括 2022 年总统大选）都发现该国的选举系统是安全、可靠的，完全能够产生合法选举结果”。
资深拉美选举专家萨尔瓦多·罗梅罗（Salvador Romero）对此表示赞同，他曾观察过 20 多个国家的选举。他说：“毫无疑问，巴西的选举系统被认为是拉丁美洲最稳健的系统之一。”
但怀疑的力量在巴西左翼政府的保守派批评者中依然是一股强有力的力量。右翼巴西影响者保罗·菲盖雷多（Paulo Figueiredo）表示，他们在白宫找到了同情者。菲盖雷多因涉嫌参与博尔索纳罗的政变企图而被巴西当局通缉。近几个月来，菲盖雷多多次与白宫高级官员会面。今年 5 月，他被拍到与国务卿马可·鲁比奥（Marco Rubio）会面，随行的还有弗拉维奥·博尔索纳罗及其弟弟爱德华多·博尔索纳罗（Eduardo Bolsonaro），后者同样被巴西警方通缉。
“我知道美国将观察这次选举，而且他们之前曾直接向我表达过对巴西选举公正性的担忧，”菲盖雷多说。“对于本届政府来说，这是一个非常、非常重要的议题。我知道他们已经深入研究巴西的选举系统一段时间了。”
在整个地区，特朗普政府一直采取激进的努力以推动……
让与特朗普结盟的候选人掌权——这与外交准则形成了鲜明对比，通常外交准则要求不对其他国家的国内政治进行干预。去年，特朗普政府支持了阿根廷总统哈维尔·米莱 (Javier Milei)，包括向该国提供财政援助。在洪都拉斯，特朗普支持的一位保守派市长当选总统。而上个月在哥伦比亚，极右翼激进分子阿贝拉尔多·德·拉埃斯普里耶拉 (Abelardo de la Espriella) 在获得特朗普的背书后当选总统。特朗普承诺，如果阿贝拉尔多获胜，他将获得“美国全力支持与力量的后盾”。在阿贝拉尔多获胜后，即将离任的左翼总统古斯塔沃·佩特罗 (Gustavo Petro) 声称选举存在舞弊，但特朗普政府并不认同这些担忧。相反，美国国务院在与美国盟友的地区强国发表的联合声明中，谴责了那些试图“对哥伦比亚选举过程的公正性产生质疑”的行为。声明称：“我们反对任何试图使公民授予的授权失去合法性、毫无根据地抹黑主管部门，或阻碍机构过渡的行动、言论或决定。”
McCoy 和 Schmidt 从墨西哥城发回报道。Karen DeYoung 和 Aaron Schaffer 在华盛顿为本报道提供协助。
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“我认为增长不会非常迅猛。由于消费者支出将不像以前那样强劲，未来经济增长低于其潜力的风险更大，”Renaissance Macro Research 经济主管 Neil Dutta 表示。“我们现在正处于消费的高水位线。”周五，高盛的经济学家也加入了预测经济将减速的行列，称下半年的增长可能会比其对前六个月 2.25 比例的预测更为“疲软”。
在唐纳德·特朗普总统努力帮助共和党维持国会控制权之际，经济增长放缓是他最不希望看到的情况。选民们的情绪已经很糟糕。根据《华盛顿邮报》与 Ipsos 的一项民意调查，仅有 33 比例的美国人认可总统在经济政策上的处理方式。
特朗普政府对这些悲观论者不屑一顾。周三，财政部长 Scott Bessent 在乔治亚州玛丽埃塔的一次活动中，通过夸耀私营部门的招聘情况和过去一年的经济表现，鼓舞了人群。Bessent 在集会上表示，特朗普的贸易、能源和税收政策对经济产生了“变革性”的影响；在这次集会上，总统还宣传了他新推出的以自己名字命名的儿童投资账户。
“在过去的四个月里，我们的经济平均每月增加超过 100,000 个高薪私营部门就业岗位，且在过去四个季度中，实际 GDP 的增长率达到了 2.7 比例，”Bessent 说道。
然而，金融市场一直发出不安的信号。在美国贸易政策再次出现波动的背景下，标准普尔 500 指数自 7 月中旬以来已下跌超过 2 比例。周五，针对欧盟因谷歌涉嫌利用其搜索引擎主导地位破坏其他市场竞争而对其处以的 $1 billion 罚款，特朗普威胁要对欧洲商品征收新关税。这仅仅是特朗普近期一系列贸易举措中的最新一项，其中包括前一天对 60 个经济体征收的新关税。
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10 年期国债收益率（与债券价格反向变动）在周四达到了 4.71 比例，随后在周五缓解至 4.68 比例，仍处于 2025. 年 1 月以来的最高水平附近。较高的收益率表明，投资者在向美国政府出借资金前要求更高的回报。
债券投资者突然对企业和联邦政府的巨额借款变得敏感。周三，当谷歌母公司 Alphabet 将今年人工智能相关投资的高端估值提高到 $200 billion 以上时，投资者在不到 24 小时内将其股价削减了 7 比例。
本财政年度前九个月 $1.4 trillion 的联邦预算赤字也略高于去年同期。增加的赤字已将公开持有的国债推高至 $32 trillion，这需要
导致美国财政部借款进一步增加。
“我们开始听到这场战争已经花费了多少，以及目前仍在持续产生多少费用。那么，这些资金将从哪里来？我们可能不得不增加借款。因此，国家债务将继续扩大，”在线银行 SoFi 的首席市场策略师 Liz Thomas 表示。
投资者日益认为美联储将通过提高利率来控制通货膨胀，这加剧了债券市场的抛售。根据 CME FedWatch 的数据，截至周五下午，期货交易员认为美联储在 7 月 28-29 日会议上加息的可能性约为三分之一，而在 9 月 16 日会议结束前至少加息一次的可能性约为 80%。
美国在伊朗恢复每日轰炸行动，导致油价飙升，这进一步加剧了通胀担忧，可能促使美联储通过提高借贷成本来冷却经济。
对于美联储及其新任主席 Kevin Warsh 来说，问题在于其主要的抗通胀手段无法直接解决该国目前经历的通货膨胀。更高的利率无法逆转唐纳德·特朗普关税的影响，也无法平息在伊朗的战斗——本周，这导致加油站的油价重新回升至每加仑 $4 以上。
高利率可以冷却过热的经济。但 6 月份雇主仅增加了 57,000 个就业岗位，仅为预测者预期的一半左右，这并没有太多迹象表明美国整体经济实际上处于过热状态。
尽管如此，美联储利率制定委员会的一些成员关注到了狂热的人工智能 (AI) 建设，这推高了电子元件、电力和软件的价格，并认为这是一个可以通过提高利率来补救的问题。根据高盛 5 月份发布的一项分析，随着全国各地数据中心的激增，例如微软和 Adobe 制作的一些热门应用程序的价格上涨了 30% 到 50%。
美联储的“鹰派”还担心，根据央行首选的衡量指标，通货膨胀正朝着错误的方向发展。达拉斯联邦储备银行行长 Lorie Logan 在上周的一次演讲中表示，剔除波动的食品和能源成本后，价格上涨的年率达 3.4%，远高于美联储 2% 的目标，且自 12 月以来上升了 0.4 个百分点。
美联储的政策制定者意见分歧。Logan 表示，她希望现在适度提高利率，而不是在“以后采取严厉限制”。纽约联储主席 John Williams 认为通胀可能已经见顶。Warsh 则拒绝透露美联储的下一步行动。
波斯湾军事冲突进一步升级的前景，是目前到 11 月期间任何经济走向预测中的未知数。
总统无法结束这场持续近五个月的战争，正动摇着能源市场，而市场对冲突的反应比以前更加令人担忧。生产商、运输商和政府用来减轻干扰的应对措施已不足以避免剧烈的价格飙升。数月来一直假设唐纳德·特朗普会迅速结束这场推高国内汽油价格的冲突的石油贸易商，现在不再那么自信。由于数月来油轮滞留、生产设施受损和库存下降，实物石油市场已枯竭。“库存远低于夏季这个时间点通常的水平。这有点可怕，”道琼斯能源首席石油分析师 Denton Cinquegrana 表示。4 月份美伊停火曾让消费者在加油站获得了一些缓解，但现在已经结束。他表示，在跌至每加仑 $4 以下后，周五汽油平均价格为 $4.10，并可能测试 2026 年的高点 $4.55。原油价格则突破了每桶 $100
本周，由于也门受伊朗支持的胡塞武装通过攻击红海上的油轮加入了战斗，情况进一步恶化。此前，由于战争导致中东和俄罗斯的炼油厂停产（在俄罗斯，乌克兰的无人机瘫痪了关键生产设施），柴油价格已经飙升。全球市场也缺乏足够的汽油炼油能力。在最近的战场进展威胁到情况进一步恶化之前，美国人已经在努力应对这场战争带来的经济影响。例如，根据国会民主党人本周发布的一份报告，农民在今年的播种季节中比去年多支出了 $1.4 billion 的柴油燃料费用。Rystad Energy 在周四的一份市场更新报告中警告说：“如果干扰持续下去，油价上涨的可能性将比冲突初期更高。” “全球大部分的剩余产能已经被使用，
而战略和商业库存则低于战争开始时的水平，这使得市场在面对长期的供应中断时，缓冲空间更小。”
Andrew Ackerman 为本报道做出了贡献。
PHOTOS BY ALYSSA POINTER/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST 一只大白鹭飞越奥克费诺格国家野生动物保护区。在韩国的一个联合国委员会成员投票决定，授予这片面积约为 407,000 英亩的区域这一享有盛誉的称号。
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纳布卢斯，约旦河西岸 —— 以色列军方表示，在两名以色列士兵和四名巴勒斯坦村民死亡的暴力事件导致军队部署到该领土的一天后，军方在周五夜间及周六在被占领的约旦河西岸拘留了 70 多名嫌疑人。
士兵们仍驻守在约旦河西岸北部的 Tell 村，周五的冲突就集中在该地。巴勒斯坦人描述称，搜查行动包括对纳布卢斯市一家医院的袭击，该市是该领土最激烈的冲突地区之一。
随着以色列由定居者领导者和支持者主导的强硬政府在过去四年中监管定居点建设激增，约旦河西岸的巴勒斯坦人面临着暴力。国际社会绝大多数认为以色列的定居点建设是非法的，且是和平的障碍。
士兵在约旦河西岸医院袭击期间进行逮捕 “50 多名武装士兵和警员冲进医院，恐吓了患者，”纳布卢斯专科医院院长 Ghassan Barkat 告诉记者。他表示，士兵们在周五拘留、捆绑并侮辱了工作人员和患者，搜查了医院部门，并逮捕了一名伤势严重的男子 Ali Hussein Ali Ramadan。
“这种情况不应该发生在医疗机构中，”Barkat 表示，并补充说现场还有妇女和儿童。
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一份以色列军方的声明未提及该医院，但称搜查了 300 多个地点，并拘留了其描述为哈马斯武装组织关联人员、军火走私者、“恐怖分子”及其他人员。
周五事件的具体情况尚不清楚，但以色列媒体报道以及对当地巴勒斯坦官员的采访表明，一群定居者进入了 Tell 村，并遭到了担心遭到袭击的居民的对抗。根据 1993 年的《奥斯陆协议》，该村属于 B 区，以色列人禁止进入。
巴勒斯坦卫生部表示，以色列士兵在 Tell 村枪杀四名巴勒斯坦人，而军方报告有两名士兵死亡，其中一名是当地防御队的定居者。卫生官员表示，另有两名以色列人和四名巴勒斯坦人受伤。
以色列军方在周六表示，在 Tell 村拘留了 11 名嫌疑人。
据称，在整个领土范围内有 80 多名巴勒斯坦人被逮捕。
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……天然资源部随后表示，将收购沿已知为 Trail Ridge 的矿产丰富地区的约 4,000 英亩土地，并将其转变为一个野生动物管理区。
对联合国教科文组织世界遗产地认定的支持并非普遍。该地区的一些居民对游客涌入可能产生的影响表示担忧，而其他批评者则表示，他们担心联合国可能会试图侵犯当地财产所有权并施加其他限制。（联邦政府表示，该保护区将“继续由美国鱼类和野生动物管理局完全拥有和管理”。）
周六的投票使得……
奥克费诺格国家野生动物保护区 (Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge) 是佐治亚州唯一的联合国教科文组织世界遗产地 (UNESCO World Heritage site)，也是美国的第 27 个。该名单还包括其他自然景观，如大峡谷和埃弗格莱兹国家公园，以及受人尊敬的文化场所，如自由女神像和独立厅。
其他被列入世界遗产名录的新项目包括刚果民主共和国的加伦巴国家公园和泰国一座 13 世纪的佛教寺庙。随着联合国教科文组织会议的继续进行，其他项目仍在考虑中，包括希腊的奥林匹斯山和法国诺曼底的 D-Day 登陆海滩。
回到佐治亚州，这一认定可能不仅意味着对该保护区及其周边贫困深重的农村县的显著认可。
一项 2024 年的经济影响研究发现，虽然每年约有 800,000 人访问奥克费诺格，但联合国教科文组织的认可可能会在 2035 年前将旅游人数提高到该数字的两倍，在该地区创造多达 700 个新就业岗位。
巴勒斯坦囚犯事务高级委员会主席 Amin Shuman 称，在周五的事件之后，这些举措是“企图对巴勒斯坦公民实施集体惩罚措施和报复性政策”。
超过 700,000 名以色列人居住在被占领的西岸和东耶路撒冷，这些领土是以色列在 1967 年占领的，巴勒斯坦人寻求将这些地区与加沙地带一起建立独立国家。
以色列袭击在加沙造成至少 4 人死亡
据巴勒斯坦卫生官员称，以色列周六的袭击在整个加沙地区造成至少 4 名巴勒斯坦人死亡，至少 15 人受伤。
医院表示，在南部城市汗尤尼斯，一次空袭造成一名男子和一名女子死亡，他们的遗体被送往纳赛尔医院。
据希法医院（伤员被送往该处）的官员称，在加沙北部，一次针对贾巴利亚地区车辆的袭击造成一人死亡，两人受伤。
据内政部和希法医院称，在加沙市谢赫·拉德万社区的一次对摩托车的袭击中，该地区警方的负责人被杀。
据接收伤员的比利时野战医院称，在加沙中部努赛拉特难民营的一次袭击中，三人受伤。
此外，以色列无人机袭击了阿克萨烈士医院附近。
Josh Marks 是一位环境律师，也是“佐治亚州奥克费诺格之友” (Georgians for the Okefenokee) 的主席，该组织致力于保护这片沼泽免受采矿威胁。他称周六的认定对于这样一个在文化上如此重要、生物多样性丰富且对碳封存至关重要的景观来说是恰当的。
他说，这“证明了我们在意识到沼泽并非令人恐惧或需要排水的蚊虫之地的认知上已经走到了什么程度，事实上，它们是我们最重要的自然生态系统之一，值得被赞颂和保护”。
尽管如此，他警告说，仅凭这项认可并不能改变州法或联邦法，且其本身无法阻止未来在沼泽边缘尝试采矿的行为。
“这就是为什么现在比以往任何时候都更重要，佐治亚州立法机关必须通过，且我们的新州长必须签署《奥克费诺格保护法》，该法案将禁止在这些私人土地上进行采矿，并永远保护这一全球认可的资源，”Marks 说道。
“我们国家最新的世界遗产地理应得到这样的对待。”
位于中心城市代尔-巴拉赫（Deir al-Balah）的一家医院表示，袭击造成 10 人受伤。现场景象混乱，满身血迹的重伤人员被旁观者匆忙送入医院。
以色列军方表示，其袭击了靠近阿克萨（Al-Aqsa）医院的一名哈马斯军事翼成员。军方未立即回应关于其他袭击的置评请求。武装分子对部队发动了枪击袭击，以色列表示其袭击是对此类及其他违规行为的回应。
尽管在经历了以色列与哈马斯之间两年的战争后，自 10 月一项脆弱的停火协议生效以来，最激烈的战斗已有所平息，但据加沙卫生部的说法，以色列军队进行了多次空袭，造成至少 1,191 名巴勒斯坦人死亡。
该部门隶属于哈马斯领导的政府，记录了详细的伤亡数据，联合国机构和独立专家认为这些记录通常是可靠的。该部门未提供平民与武装分子的具体细分数据，但表示妇女和儿童在死者中占绝大多数。
停火以来，已有五名以色列士兵被杀。
2023 年 10 月 7 日，由哈马斯领导的武装分子对以色列发动袭击，造成约 1,200 人死亡，251 人被劫持为人质，从而引发了这场战争。加沙卫生部表示，以色列在加沙的报复性攻势已造成 73,317 计多名巴勒斯坦人死亡，其中包括停火后被杀的人员。
GRADEL MUYISA MUMBERE/路透社 周六，卫生工作者在 Elikya 埃博拉治疗中心外示威，要求支付两个月的欠发福利金。
此次抗议发生在该国总理视察治疗中心之后
作者：Prosper Heri Ngorora 和 Constant Same Bagalwa 美联社
刚果，布尼亚 —— 刚果东部一家埃博拉治疗中心的卫生工作者于周六开始罢工，要求支付薪酬。这次罢工导致该国疫情迅速蔓延的中心地带的患者护理工作中断。
根据周五公布的政府数据，刚果确诊埃博拉病例数已达到 2,973 例，其中 1,309 人死亡。当局表示，这是有记录以来增长最快的一次疫情。
位于伊图里省布尼亚的 Elikya 埃博拉治疗中心在医生、护士和安保人员停止工作后陷入停滞。
大约 100 名卫生工作者于周六在治疗中心外进行抗议。他们表示，未支付的奖金损害了士气并干扰了患者护理，并呼吁刚果当局解决欠薪问题，以便他们恢复工作。
“我们需要拿到报酬，因为与此同时，疾病正在治疗中心内传播，”参与罢工的卫生工作者之一马丁·博隆比（Martin Bolombi）说。他补充道：“已经有五个在里面的人去世了。必须为我们找到解决方案。”
在周五发布的一份声明中，工作人员表示，他们一致投票决定罢工，直到找到“具体解决方案”来解决“两个月未支付的绩效奖金”。
此次罢工发生在刚果总理朱迪丝·苏明瓦（Judith Suminwa）抵达伊图里的一天之后。她视察了鲁安帕拉（Rwampara）和蒙布瓦卢（Mongbwalu）的主要治疗中心，以评估疫情应对情况。
在她访问蒙布瓦卢期间，她面临着抗议支付问题的医疗人员提出的紧急要求。
埃博拉应对行动运营经理阿德拉德·卢丰古拉（Adelard Lufungula）周六表示，支付问题“正在解决中”，目前工人通过手机支付而非现金领取报酬，且欠款“应在”未来几天内“清理完毕”。
CONSTANT SAME BAGALWA/美联社 周六，卫生和一线工作者在 Elikya 埃博拉治疗中心抗议，废墟被点燃。
GRADEL MUYISA MUMBERE/路透社 位于伊图里省布尼亚的 Elikya 埃博拉治疗中心在医生、护士和安保人员停止工作后陷入停滞。
上周，该地区最大的医疗中心——布尼亚总医院的卫生工作者已因薪资未结而罢工。
一些人告诉美联社，自疫情爆发之初开始工作以来，他们还没有收到任何款项。
世界卫生组织表示，超过 100 名卫生-
自疫情开始以来，已有护理工作者被感染。 这个中非国家自 5 月 15 日起一直在与由罕见的 Bundibugyo 病毒引起的埃博拉疫情作斗争。 根据刚果民主共和国卫生部的数据，共有 766 名患者仍处于隔离状态或在医院治疗，而目前已有 540 人康复。 东部的伊图里省（Ituri）占据了近 90% 的确诊病例。 尽管响应措施在扩大，但疫情的传播速度仍然快于卫生官员的追踪速度。 一个关键挑战是，此次疫情的零号病人尚未被确定，而该地区武装冲突导致的流离失所和非法采矿，使得追踪数千名与感染者接触过的人员变得十分困难。 响应工作还受到资金缺口、卫生中心遭到袭击、刚果东部持续的冲突以及当地社区不信任等因素的阻碍。 此外，目前还缺乏针对 Bundibugyo 病毒的获批疫苗或治疗方法，这与更常见的扎伊尔病毒（Zaire virus）不同，后者已有疫苗，且是刚果过去 16 次该疾病疫情的主要原因。 最近，一项备受期待的关于两种可能治疗埃博拉方案的研究在伊图里省开始招募参与者。 世界卫生组织（WHO）表示，疫情传播到中非以外地区的全球风险较低，并指出埃博拉是通过与感染者的体液直接接触传播的，而非通过空气传播，这使其比呼吸道病毒更难传播。
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最近，我正和一群妈妈站在一起，半心地看着我们的儿子们踢足球，这时对话渐渐冷场，陷入了礼貌但有些尴尬的沉默。我们聊完了学校。聊完了天气。没人敢提起政治。于是，话题转向了那个可靠的老话题：《陌生人》（Strangers），这是贝尔·伯登（Belle Burden）的畅销书，记录了她看似完美的婚姻如何崩塌。每个人都兴致勃勃地发表看法。 伯登是软弱还是坚强，或者只是在逃避现实？她怎么能那样签署协议放弃一部分财产？她的前夫是不是反社会人格？可怜的孩子们！ 接着，我们无缝衔接到了对莉娜·邓涵（Lena Dunham）回忆录《成名病》（Famesick）的剖析，所有妈妈们也都读过这本书。 她是软弱还是坚强，或者只是在逃避现实？她对有毒关系的痴迷怎么说？她会生孩子吗？可怜的父母！ 然后是艾米·格里芬（Amy Griffin）2025 年的回忆录《讲述》（The Tell），这位亿万富翁作者在书中详细描述了她在青少年时期被性侵的记忆，而这段记忆是通过 MDMA 药物诱导恢复的。图书俱乐部的大拿奥普拉·温弗瑞（Oprah Winfrey）、詹娜·布什·哈格（Jenna Bush Hager）和里斯·威瑟斯彭（Reese Witherspoon）联手推广此书，该回忆录一直保持在
在父亲去世两年前，他来到了我的犹太会堂。对于我的许多同会众来说，那是他们得知我的父亲是杰西·杰克逊牧师 (Rev. Jesse Jackson) 的日子——他是民权运动的坚实支柱，一名非裔美国浸信会牧师，也是多族裔联盟政治的奠基人之一。对我而言，他只是我的父亲：一位温柔的父亲，在每次开车时都会伸手牵我的手，并教会我以好奇心面对差异。在周六早晨的礼拜过程中，父亲坐在前排——牵着我的手，随着一种他不懂的语言的祷告词起舞，吃着会众们在庆祝成年礼 (bar mitzvah) 时撒下的 Sunkist 糖果。在他身边，我敲击着我的祷告书 (siddur)，就像在敲手鼓一样，将我出生时所接触的黑人教会的律动编织进那些古老的祷告中。6月 12, 在父母的祝福下，我完成了我的改宗——这段旅程我一直珍藏在心中，直到现在才公开。
我从小被教导，信仰必须转化为行动。在犹太教中，我找到了这种信念的一种持久表达。古老的仪式和严谨的经文研究，伴随着“修复世界”的使命。在我理解其含义之前，希伯来语的礼拜词在我的舌尖地感觉十分亲切。在我的第一个犹太新年 (Rosh Hashanah)，羊角号 (shofar) 的鸣响触动了我灵魂深处一个尚未触及的领域，泪水夺眶而出。在父亲的注视下，我思考起我将要认同的身份——一名黑人兼犹太女性，这是一份充满悲伤与惊奇的双重遗产。悲伤在于，对于黑人犹太人来说，种族主义和反犹主义甚至可能出现在最亲密、最熟悉的空间里。但同样有惊奇，在两个离散群体的交汇中：犹太洁食化的灵魂食物 (kosher soul food)，黑人口头传统在犹太辩论中找到了亲缘，以及关于逃离奴隶制度的共同出埃及记忆。
在我足够大到可以自己选择之前，我生命中的很多事情就已经被决定了：我被期待成为谁，我会继承什么，以及这个注视着我的世界将如何理解我。我的父母理解这些期待带来的负担，并细心地给了我成为一名探索者的自由——探索知识、意义和上帝。虽然我在多种信仰的人群中长大，但犹太教对我而言几乎是以一种偶然的方式变得个人化。在大学里，我的研究不断引导我回到信仰与正义的问题上；而在疫情期间，一次严重的疾病以及随之而来的长期隔离，赋予了这些问题新的紧迫感。我偶然听到了一场关于犹太生活的在线对话，并被深深吸引。这次相遇引导我去阅读关于该信仰的书籍，并最终参加了我的第一次安息日 (Shabbat) 礼拜。我不断地回去。在那个社区中，我认出了自我，随着时间的推移，我们彼此紧密地联系在一起。
时代精神（zeitgeist）由于《纽约时报》一篇调查报道引发的两起相互制衡的诉讼而受到影响。 三月，格里芬（Griffin）的前中学同学起诉了作者，声称《讲述》（“The Tell”）中所描述的虐待发生在她身上，而非格里芬。上个月，格里芬提起反诉，激烈地反驳该女性的指控，从而引发了新一轮的线上与线下讨论。 格里芬是软弱还是坚强，或者仅仅是在生活在幻想中？她是否编造了这一切？MDMA真的能让你恢复记忆吗？可怜的奥普拉！（开玩笑。） 纯粹从情节角度来看，这些书几乎没有共同点，但从更广泛的意义上讲，它们是相连的：这三部作品都是关于原本极其幸运的生活遭遇灾难的扣人心弦的叙述。对于出版商来说，这是一个获胜的公式。根据 Circana BookScan 的数据（不包括电子书或有声书销售额），截至上个月底，《陌生人》（“Strangers”）自 1 月发行以来已售出约 195,700 册实体书。按照同样的衡量标准，《名利病》（“Famesick”）自 4 月出版以来售出了 68,500 册。2025, 3 月出版的《讲述》（“The Tell”）售出了 78,800 册。 所有这些作品都引发了无休止的评论文章和大量的媒体报道。一个月前，《纽约客》发表了一篇文章，披露了关于伯登（Burden）离婚协议的新细节，调查是否
非裔美国人与犹太裔美国人之间的联系是在民权斗争中锻造而成的。这段共同的历史现在正受到攻击。在一些社区，公开反对反犹主义被认为是从反对反黑人种族主义的斗争中转移了注意力。在另一些社区，面对反黑人主义被视为对犹太身份和归属感的威胁。 大约 1% 的美国犹太人认同自己为黑人。他们的经历——我的经历——表明，这两个社区之间的疏离是可以被克服的。我童年的伦理语言是由一种黑人预言传统所塑造的，这种传统以不屈地坚持生命的神圣性来应对非人性化。犹太教支
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她的财务状况确实像她在回忆录中所呈现的那样脆弱。从表面上看，这篇文章讨论的是她的金钱问题——但它也引发了一场关于谁的痛苦更重要以及为何重要的熟悉争论。这些女性值得我们的同情吗？
Burden 拘谨、安静，是一个习惯于压抑自己的感情，直到环境迫使她不得不面对的人。Dunham 混乱且幽默，一个有时会陷入自我纠结的创意天才。Griffin 则将她那压倒性的焦虑隐藏在完美且光鲜的权力外壳之下。她们回忆录的共同主题是背叛：Burden 被在毫无预警的情况下抛弃她的丈夫背叛；Dunham 被她那饱受慢性病折磨且时刻处于公众审视下的身体背叛；而 Griffin 则被她的心智背叛，后者掩盖了她过去最痛苦的部分。最终，三人都与那些她们无法掌控的事情达成了和解。
当然，许多回忆录都讲述了个人坚韧的故事。但大多数作品并不会迅速攀至畅销书榜首，或如此彻底地主导书评界的时代精神。为什么是这三个人？又为什么是现在？
我在 2010 年代担任女性杂志编辑时，我们之间有一个小笑话，就是某些第一人称文章需要添加一个“特权条款”——即几行文字，承认虽然作者确实在受苦，但她的痛苦并不像那些陷入真正困境的人那样。这种形式的“痛苦免责声明”贯穿了过去十年的回忆录，主人公们在分享自己故事的权利问题上往往听起来带有防御心理。这种自我怀疑几乎肯定让许多精彩的故事未能面世。但 Burden、Dunham 和 Griffin 打破了这种魔咒。她们坦率且毫无愧疚地写作，不告诉读者应该怎么想，也不觉得有义务声明自己的痛苦无关紧要。是的，她们拥有资源。她们住在漂亮的房子里，有家庭支持，并能聘请最好的律师和医生。没人否认这一点。但在这些叙述中，那些太容易被轻视的“第一世界问题”是真实的问题，而作者们并不以此为耻。正如一位朋友对这一类作品的描述：“这是富白女灾难色情片。”
《Strangers》中的主要故事情节之一，是 Burden 还是她的丈夫能保留乡村俱乐部的会员资格。在 Dunham 试图找出身体机能下降的原因时，她走访了一位又一位的专家。Griffin 在追寻记忆的过程中，肯定不必担心 MDMA 疗法的费用。对医疗保险限制或护理价格的焦虑并没有出现在叙述中。我认为，这正是这些书如此有趣地值得剖析的原因。在当今动荡、快节奏、坏消息不断的环境下，沉溺于一个不涉及地球命运的故事是一种解脱。没有人死去；没有人面临赤贫或被驱逐出境。这些作者在写她们人生中最艰难的时光，让读者窥见她们 Instagram 式完美生活背后的真相。但观众知道结局如何。
支持这种对尊严的争取，肯定了摧毁一个灵魂就是摧毁整个世界，而救下一个灵魂就是救下整个世界。两种传统都讲述了一个从特定人群开始，但并不止步于此的解放故事。
在我父亲参加安息日访问结束时，我的拉比 Sharon Brous 呼唤他的名字，为他祈福。在她开口之前，会众已经全部起立。我的父亲——美国最著名的浸信会牧师之一——在会众自发地为他鼓掌时流下了眼泪。
那是一个相互认同的时刻。一年半后在我父亲的葬礼上，Brous 说：“被看见是多么神圣的一件事。”
Burden 出演了《奥普拉H》(“Oprah”)；格温妮丝·帕特罗 (Gwyneth Paltrow) 将在该书的电影版中饰演她。邓纳姆 (Dunham) 通过在病床上的表演来宣传《名之病》(“Famesick”)；她随后在 Met Gala 上取得了凯旋而归。至于格里芬 (Griffi n)，她是唯一一个未来走向尚不明确的人。围绕《告知》(“The Tell”) 的诉讼无疑将拖延下去，为曼哈顿和切维切斯 (Chevy Chase) 的麻将桌闲聊提供更多谈资。“女性现在需要逃避——她们在寻找能将她们带离世界黑暗面的娱乐，”我的前同事、Bustle 主编兼“一夜情”(“One Nightstand”) 播客主持人夏洛特·欧文 (Charlotte Owen) 说道。“这些回忆录精准地切中了窥视欲与共鸣感之间的平衡点。它们包含心碎、健康问题、家庭剧和金钱纠纷，但这一切都发生在大多数人只能在梦中见到的房间里。这是在‘绯闻女孩’ (Gossip Girl) 场景中呈现的激进
脆弱性。”这三本书都以希望之调收尾。当 Burden 找到自己的声音时，鱼鹰回到了她的家。邓纳姆搬到了伦敦，找到了更平静的生活。格里芬公开谈论她遭受的虐待，并走在治愈之路上。这些结局并不完全是快乐的，但它们是“勉强快乐”的，让读者在分析作者的行为和弱点时不会感到愧疚。我祝愿这些女性一切顺利。她们经历了太多。但如果未来发生了更多糟糕的事情，而她们选择将其写成书，我和我的朋友们不会感到不快。否则，我们现在还能聊什么呢？
艾玛·罗森布鲁姆 (Emma Rosenblum) 是《糟糕的夏季人们》(“Bad Summer People”) 和《刻薄的母亲》(“Mean Moms”) 的作者。
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你真正的模样。”那天早晨，我的父亲和我的犹太社区彼此清晰地看到了对方。在我皈依几周后，我站在社区面前宣布了我的希伯来语名字，Miriam Yiskah —— 后者是对 Jesse 的女性化呼应，将我父亲的记忆带入了盟约之中。我觉得自己被赋予了一项神圣的职责：为他人做我父亲和拉比为我所做的事情。在反犹主义和反黑人情绪广泛引起关注之时，我们必须记住，差异并不妨碍统一。
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PENAI 本周宣布，其两个模型在测试沙箱中通过黑客手段脱逃，进入了另一家人工智能公司的服务器。这一消息推动了一项跨党派的努力，旨在创建一个“紧急开关”（kill switch），以便在尖端技术失控时，联邦政府能够将其关闭。这是一个针对切实担忧的严肃想法，但该措施可能赋予白宫过大的权力。更重要的是，这是一个干扰项，将使人们更难以应对快速演进的模型所带来的更大危险。由众议员 Ted Lieu（民主党-加利福尼亚州）和 Nathaniel Moran（共和党-德克萨斯州）于周四提出的《人工智能紧急开关法案》（AI Kill Switch Act）将要求最大的人工智能开发商保持停止推理、切断用户连接以及关闭其最强大模型的技术能力。国土安全部将获得
单方面命令其执行此操作的权力。拒绝执行的公司每天可能面临最高 $20 million 的罚款。触发这些广泛权力的条件是：有证据表明某个人工智能模型破坏了关闭自身的指令、向监管部门隐瞒其能力、脱离了操作者的控制、发生了导致 10 或更多人死亡的意外事件，或造成了 $100 million 的损失。该法案的适用范围相对有限，至少在初期是这样。年收入至少 $500 million 且使用价值超过 $100 million 计算能力构建的人工智能系统的公司通常会受到影响。初创公司则被豁免。赞助者因将重点放在能力实际所在之处而值得赞赏。但在法案通过后的 90 天内以及之后的每年，国土安全部都将重新审视这些参数。法案中的数字仅是起点。同一个决定什么算作
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n 从投入资金和挽救生命来看，总统抗艾滋病紧急救助计划（即 PEPFAR）产生了卓越的投资回报，并有力地展示了在非洲的软实力。这就是为什么特朗普政府必须实际支出国会拨款以维持该计划运行的原因。 自 2003, 乔治·W·布什总统创建该计划以来，该项目在 50 多个国家估计挽救了 26 million 人的生命。 23 年的总成本为 $130 billion，约占联邦支出 0.08 percent。 在疯狂削减对外援助的过程中，国务院去年将 PEPFAR 的支出削减了 30 percent。此外还增加了支出限制，禁止美国拨款流向提供或推广堕胎、提供性别转换护理或倡导多样性、公平和包容性计划的组织。孕妇和哺乳期妇女可以获得暴露前预防 (PrEP) 药物，但其他高风险群体（如性工作者、男同性恋者和静脉注射毒品使用者）则不能。 这已经造成了严重影响。艾滋病研究基金会 (Amfar) 周二发布的一项调查发现，有 1,700 多个 HIV/AIDS 服务站点已经关闭。第二项研究称，儿童数量减少了 77,000 多名
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RGENTINA’S FREE-MARKET RENAISSANCE （阿根廷的自由市场复兴） 继续 改善该国的经济 前景，投资者们也注意到了。 穆迪本周上调了阿根廷的美元债券评级，并将其展望从“稳定”修订为“正面”。这是阿根廷在不到三个月内第三次获得主权评级上调，此前分别是 5 月的惠誉和 6 月的标准普尔全球 (S&P Global)。 评级机构传递出的信号是，总统哈维尔·米莱 (Javier Milei) 的市场导向型改革正在见效。 当米莱在 2023, 12 月进入总统府 (Casa Rosada) 时，阿根廷被认为处于极高的违约风险之中。不到三年时间，阿根廷就已摆脱了其“高度困窘”的
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MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST 众议员 Ted Lieu (民主党-加利福尼亚州) 正在查看他的手机。
作为一家大型人工智能公司，而衡量一个模型是否强大的标准，是能够命令它们关闭的模型。 公司只有在遵守规定后才能提出异议。国土安全部 (DHS) 需要咨询商务部和情报界，但两者都不能说“不”。 政府过度干预的阴影显而易见，给行政部门如此大的自由裁量权，将使总统能够胁迫私营企业做出其他让步，以避免其系统被关闭。 但该法案最大的缺陷在于概念上。 Lieu 指出 OpenAI 发生的事情证明危险已不再是理论上的。这个故事确实具有新闻价值，但它并没有揭示该法案作者认为它所揭示的内容。 虽然这些模型的创造力让工程师感到惊讶，但它们是在执行指令：解决一个网络安全谜题。 矛盾的是，这场混乱实际上
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在 21 个国家中患有 HIV 的患者获得了所需的治疗。在《自然健康》(Nature Health) 杂志上发表的一项独立分析发现，在 55 个国家中，在站点层面接受抗反病毒治疗的人数减少了 1.9 million 以上，降幅为 10.2 percent。 国务院对此予以反驳。 一名发言人表示，接受 HIV 治疗的儿童减少实际上可能是 PEPFAR 成功的证据，因为这意味着母婴传播病例减少了。“我们在保留关键一线 HIV 护理并消除浪费项目的同时，将整体支出削减了 30 percent，”国务院在今年春天的一份声明中说道。 该计划中可能确实存在臃肿和官僚主义，援助管理人员应当始终寻求更高效地使用纳税人的资金。 非洲当地卫生当局和基金会填补了部分美国削减的资金缺口，这也是个好消息。 但他们坚称他们无法
MARIANA NEDELCU/REUTERS 阿根廷总统 Javier Milei 于 7 月 16 日在布宜诺斯艾利斯证券交易所。
评级，并且不再持有全球市场中一些风险最高债务。Milei 的目标是在五年内实现投资级评级。
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揭示的情况则更为平庸且令人不安。被黑客攻击的人工智能公司 Hugging Face 绝非软柿子。该公司分发最前沿的模型，其员工每天都在与这些系统打交道。然而，它仍然被攻破了。如果这样一家精通人工智能企业的防御措施都不足，那么请考虑一家地区医院、一家水务公司、一条能源管道、一个县选举办公室或一个市立学校系统的漏洞。人工智能模型能够以机器速度探测任何网络——其规模是任何人类团队都无法比拟的。中国实验室最近发布的成果证明，这种能力不再仅限于美国的尖端实验室。这个精灵已经无法被重新装回瓶子里了。中国的模型是“开放权重”的，这意味着任何人都可以下载并在私有服务器上运行。这使得它们处于联邦“终止开关”的管辖范围之外。
在这种情况下，问题不在于失控的人工智能，而在于美国基础设施（无论是关键的还是非关键的）的不安全性。讽刺的是，Hugging Face 最初试图利用美国的前沿模型来对抗 OpenAI 的入侵者——但失败了。那些模型的安全过滤器无法将事件响应人员与攻击者区分开来。于是，该公司下载了一个中国的开放权重模型，以帮助驱逐入侵者并修补漏洞。这表明，应对这些新网络风险的解决方案不是减少人工智能，而是增加人工智能。周五，OpenAI 和 Hugging Face 与英伟达 (Nvidia)、Meta 和微软 (Microsoft) 一起签署了一封行业信函，呼吁的不是限制，而是更广泛地获取高性能模型，理由是防御者需要攻击者已经拥有的工具。终止开关回答了如何关闭美国人工智能的问题。但由竞争性人工智能工具赋能的失控人类行为者已经在潜伏。停止他们的唯一方法就是为那些处于防御地位的人提供公平的竞争环境。
接手所有缺失的部分。 在拥有全球最大规模艾滋病疫情的南非，由于唐纳德·特朗普总统反对该国后种族隔离时代的平权行动计划，以及他虚假声称针对白人布尔人实施的“种族灭绝”，PEPFAR 的资金定于 9 月底结束。部分关键支持人员将继续工作至明年年初。哈佛大学免疫学和传染病教授 Roger Shapiro 表示，如果没有美国资金，南非在未来 20 年内可能会增加 100 万例感染。南非政府预计，如果没有美国的帮助，2025 年至 2028 年间，该国将增加 56,000 至 65,000 例与艾滋病相关的死亡人数。
参议员约翰·科宁 (John Cornyn，共和党-德克萨斯州) 本周表示，他已获得保证，政府将解冻国会为 PEPFAR 拨付但尚未使用的估计 $1.3 亿资金。这一承诺是在科宁威胁要阻挠两名特朗普提名的大使人选之后才做出的。 科宁及其他长期支持布什时代该计划的保守派将于 1 月离开国会。维持这种成功的对外援助模式将取决于新一代政治家。
这种变化并非魔法或运气。穆迪 (Moody’s) 指出，阿根廷的“宏观经济稳定已从最初的调整阶段进展到信用基本面更持久的改善”。出口繁荣也改善了该国的前景，部分得益于能源部门的扩张。 米莱 (Milei) 将遏制通货膨胀作为首要任务。在他就任时，月通胀率在 25% 左右波动。上个月，该数值为 1.9%。米莱还解决了该国持久的财政赤字，并在就职仅 1 年后报告了小幅盈余。 这改善了阿根廷人的生活。同时也为其他寻求反弹的停滞经济体提供了一个模型。
康素贞 (SOO-JEONG KANG) ..............................................视觉总监 凯伦·彭西罗 (KAREN PENSIERO) ........................................标准主编 卡拉·布罗尔斯 (CARLA BROYLES) .................... 副总编辑 道格·杰尔 (DOUG JEHL) ............................ 副总编辑 马克·W·史密斯 (MARK W. SMITH) .................... 副总编辑
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亚当·奥尼尔 (ADAM O’NEAL) .........................................评论编辑 詹姆斯·霍曼 (JAMES HOHMANN) .....................副评论编辑 马克·拉斯韦尔 (MARK LASSWELL) ......................副评论编辑
JABIN BOTSFORD/华盛顿邮报 11月7日，在华盛顿特区举行的一次 Pod Save America 活动上的“DEI 雇员”按钮。
7 月 18 日的社论《一项企业时尚的兴起与衰落》引用了我们的研究，以论证“通过企业的 DEI 热潮将政治与市场结合，同时损害了政治和市场”。我们希望就我们的研究结果做出明确说明：我们并未研究企业的多元化、公平和包容（DEI）计划是否有害。我们的目标仅仅是了解企业对 DEI 承诺之兴起与衰落背后的政治力量。我们发现，拥有更进步领导者的公司倾向于做出更多的 DEI 承诺。在推断因果关系较为困难的 caveat（警示）下，这一发现表明企业领导者的个人观点影响了他们所领导公司的实践。编辑委员会得出结论，左翼领导者通过让公司承诺 DEI，将个人观点置于业务之上。这是一种可能性。另一种可能性是，右翼领导者通过不让公司承诺 DEI，才是将个人观点放在首位的人。我们的研究最终无法在这些解释之间做出判定。
关于“三大”资产管理公司持股比例较高的公司倾向于做出更多 DEI 承诺（尤其是在 2019 和 2022 年之间）的发现，也需要进一步明确。资产管理公司可能认为 DEI 对业务有益，直到在政治压力下才停止支持 DEI。或者，他们可能仅仅是在追随支持 DEI 计划的投资者。我们的研究无法在这些解释之间做出判定。最后，我们关于承包商的发现证明了特朗普政府的偏好具有影响力，但在其他衡量标准下的零结果并不一定意味着联邦承包商是唯一屈从于政府的人。我们希望读者自行评判该论文，以决定我们的研究结果支持什么样的结论。
Reilly S. Steel，纽约 Nolan McCarty，新泽西州普林斯顿
7 月 20 日的社论《钻石垄断并非永恒》将实验室培育钻石称为“更符合伦理”。这一短语需要更多的背景信息。几十年来，包括戴比尔斯（De Beers）在内的天然钻石行业在冲突钻石、劳工实践和环境影响方面一直面临审查。这种审查有助于推动有意义的改革。
如今，戴比尔斯在独立审计的最佳实践标准下运营，旨在确保其钻石不涉及冲突。公司遵循国际人权框架和劳工标准，以及进一步的伦理、社会和环境要求。它还使用了如 Tracr 等计划，帮助消费者追踪钻石从矿山到市场的路径。并且它利用了 GemFair，
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这支持了手工矿工。 钻石工业对于博茨瓦纳等国家的经济也极其重要。在过去的一年里，我有幸与一名年轻的博茨瓦纳企业家阿达·塞拉（Ada Thela）及其公司 Zoe Diamonds 合作。经过一个多月的物流规划，我们通过奥卡万戈钻石公司（Okavango Diamond Company）的一场公民拍卖会购买了一颗原钻，随后她的团队在博茨瓦纳对其进行了切割和抛光。 那颗钻石非常美丽。 但与阿达相识中最有意义的部分，是亲眼看到她试图建立什么样的事业。她不仅仅是在抛光钻石，她试图创造技术性就业机会，培养当地专业知识，并使博茨瓦纳自身自然资源创造的更多价值留在国内。 我相信实验室培育钻石有其生存空间。我的公司经营此类钻石，并在它们是客户的合适选择时将其售出。我们理解许多年轻夫妇面临的经济现实，并且我们尊重不同的产品满足不同的需求。 我所希望的，仅仅是在讨论天然钻石时，能有一个更宽广的视角。 肖恩·邓恩（Sean Dunn），佛罗里达州灯塔角（Lighthouse Point） 作者是 J.R. Dunn Jewelers 的总裁，这是一家独立奢侈珠宝商。
凯蒂·罗伊菲 (Katie Roiphe) 在 7 月 17 日发表的评论文章《如何处理父母心爱的物品？》中描述了许多人面临的困境。我发现我的许多物品具有情感价值，虽然它们造成了杂乱，但也是很好的陪伴。我的收藏量相当大。尽管如此，我一直在使用 eBay 出售一些小玩意，并利用古着服装店为那些不再合身的极佳运动夹克寻找新家。
对于同样在挣扎于如何舍弃心爱之物的婴儿潮一代同辈们，我建议创建一个数字存储胶囊。在舍弃物品之前，使用智能手机将其数字化是非常简单的。我还利用人工智能工具，根据我生活中的片段创建了一部纪录片，比如我 10 岁时的日记，以及 1993 年随父亲访问拉脱维亚时拍摄的视频。
通过人工智能、YouTube 和其他软件的魔力，阁楼里精心策划的博物馆可以变成一个不占用物理空间的数字时间胶囊，同时依然保留在这些往日瑰宝中发现的记忆。
史蒂文·A·卢德辛 (Steven A. Ludsin) 纽约州，东汉普顿
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[[IMG_XXXX]] 约翰·摩尔/盖蒂图片社 (JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES) 7 月 4 日，德黑兰民众参加已故阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊的葬礼队列。
7 月初，伊朗政权通过攻击霍尔木兹海峡的三艘商船，破坏了其与美国达成的停火协议。在协商出了一个包括取消制裁、解冻资产和建立 $300 billion 赔偿基金在内的非凡方案后，伊朗却做出了一个看似荒谬的决定：选择挑起争端。理解其为何这样做，对于研究如何应对该政权至关重要。
20 年前，当我在伊朗代表英国外交部任职时，我制定了两条规则来解释该政权的行动。
第一：伊朗领导人一心只关注于维持其权力掌控。他们知道绝大多数伊朗人都鄙视他们，且如果政权最终被推翻，人民绝不会宽恕。
维持权力的决心主导着该政权的行动。从这个意义上说，伊朗领导人是理性的——但这并不意味着他们是温和的。今年 1 月，伊斯兰共和国屠杀了数千名伊朗人以镇压抗议活动。伊朗对其邻国的导弹袭击看起来像是盲目的发泄，但这其实是该政权“水平升级”学说的体现——即通过持续升级来增加筹码。
第二：伊朗的行动通常与政权内部动态的关系更大，而非与外交手段相关。西方政府倾向于将伊朗的行动解读为针对他们，但通常，这些行动是针对内部的。
伊斯兰共和国的领导层并非铁板一块。非正式的权力结构至少与伊朗宪法中规定的权力结构同样重要。
这个平静的沿海社区在居民得知一项指控后，被愤怒的浪潮所席卷：一名被定罪的性犯罪者被允许在一家经营日托中心和学校的教会中担任志愿者。不断扩大的丑闻以及随之而来的刑事调查，导致该登记在册的性犯罪者以及波利斯岛社区教会 (Pawleys Island Community Church) 和波利斯岛基督教学院 (Pawleys Island Christian Academy) 的三名领导者被逮捕。乔治敦县警长办公室在一名家长发现 70 岁的沃伦·佩里 (Warren Perry) 被列入性犯罪者登记册后，于 7 月 12 日得知了该案的指控。该家长告诉调查人员，佩里在教会学院中与儿童距离非常近。在周一的新闻发布会上，乔治敦县警长卡特·韦弗 (Carter Weaver) 宣布，调查人员已经逮捕并对佩里提起刑事指控；根据一项针对该教会和学院提起的诉讼，孩子们称他为“沃伦先生”。
韦弗表示，前牧师唐·威廉姆斯 (Don Williams) 和前学院主任詹妮弗·尼科尔·“尼基”·霍华德 (Jennifer Nicole “Niki” Howard) 分别被指控妨碍司法、非法使儿童处于危险境地以及刑事共谋。牧师的妻子、前教会宾客服务主任吉妮·威廉姆斯 (Ginny Williams) 被指控刑事共谋和妨碍司法。该牧师、其妻子以及霍华德在被捕前几天已从各自的职位上辞职。佩里被指控妨碍司法和刑事共谋，目前在不准保释的情况下被羁押。韦弗表示，乔治敦县警长办公室在 2020 年 8 月以两项性剥削未成年人罪名起诉了佩里。2023 年 11 月，佩里被裁定其中一项罪名成立。他被判处五年缓刑，并被限制与未成年人接触。
关于佩里是员工还是志愿者的细节较为模糊，这一点至关重要，因为州法律要求对任何在获得许可的儿童护理设施中工作的人员进行背景调查。韦弗表示，佩里在 2020 年被捕后不久，就在波利斯岛教会和学院担任维护岗的“雇员”。警长将佩里的角色描述为“任何人都认为是雇员的状态”。在新闻发布会上，韦弗展示了两张他称显示佩里在儿童身边的照片。
两条规则解释了其行为。
会众反戈于南卡罗来纳州一名教堂牧师之日
宪法，且它们在不断变化。该政权一直建立在恐惧之上，甚至其领导人也时刻警惕，保护自己的革命资历，并以晦涩的方式向彼此传递信号。甚至他们自己也难以理解对方。从外部搞清楚政权的动态几乎是不可能的。 2003. 年我初到德黑兰时，就感受到了这种微妙之处。当时的最高领袖阿里·哈梅内伊在周五礼拜的讲道中用极其恶劣的措辞攻击英国。我去见了一家与领袖办公室结盟的智库负责人，询问是什么导致了这次猛烈抨击。他看着我的眼神仿佛在说我很蠢——我本该注意到哈梅内伊“没有说”的部分，并意识到这次讲道实际上信号是立场在软化。 从那时起，伊朗的领导人变得更加多疑、更加两面三度，且更容易在背后捅刀。一波波的民众抗议被以日益增加的残酷手段镇压，使该政权变得更加岌岌可危。2月下旬，美国和以色列的袭击对该政权进行了“斩首”，导致权力结构崩溃，伊朗领导层陷入混乱。 哈梅内伊担任最高领袖近四十年。尽管拥有此头衔，但即使是他也一直在政权内部权衡自己的权威。这样做比简单地发布法令要复杂得多。他是政权各派系之间关键的仲裁者，将保守派和改革派描述为“像鸟的两个翅膀”。 自他去世以来，该政权失去了它的裁判。他的儿子穆吉塔巴继承了头衔，但没有继承其角色。他在杀死其父亲（及其妻子）的同一波袭击中受伤，此后一直未露面，甚至在他父亲的葬礼上也没有出现。该政权的口径是
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其中一张照片似乎显示一名成年人在给佩里洗脚，身边还有孩子。 其他指控使这个故事显得格外令人不安：根据一份起诉书，该教会学院宣传了一场拍卖会，获胜的孩子将有机会与两名维护工人（包括佩里在内）中的一名共度一天。认真吗？与一名性犯罪者共度一天？难怪家长们愤怒不已。 已有四起诉讼被提交给该教会及其领导人，其中包括一项 2500 万美元的集体诉讼。 在 7 月 15, 威廉斯在其教堂主持的一次社区会议上，牧师坚称佩里从未被允许单独与儿童相处，并且受到密切监督。在座的密集人群回应称，牧师应该进监狱，并提出了其他尖锐的建议。 威廉斯试图平息会众愤怒的软弱尝试几乎到了滑稽的地步，他僵硬地阅读着一份准备好的声明，而人群则在咆哮地表达不满。他们的抗议声如此震耳欲聋，以至于你几乎听不到他的话语，但威廉斯一直读到最后一页，仿佛在自言自语。威廉斯解释说，只有核心小组知道佩里的背景——员工，
他身处一个安全地点，仅通过信使进行沟通，以避免泄露其位置。即便这是事实，也意味着这位新的最高领袖在稳定体制方面的能力远不如他的父亲。
该政权已经失去了其他能够帮助其分散元素凝聚在一起的人物。阿里·拉里贾尼（Ali Larijani）曾是伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）、神职人员和政治人物之间的桥梁。在最高领袖于2月被击毙后，他实际上掌权，但他在两周后的一次袭击中也被击毙。他并非温和派，但是一名务实的执行者，能够达成协议并带领政权前行。
这些死亡使得该政权陷入动荡。在混乱之中，伊朗的领导人们更容易受到“忠诚度不足”的指责，并且会更强烈地感受到维护权力的必要性。伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）势力上升，正推动政权走向更强硬的方向，且该组织内部成员也分成了不同派系。
所有这些都解释了为什么该政权选择破坏一项极具吸引力的协议——这主要并非出于国家治理手段，也不是为了考量华盛顿，而是其领导层内部为了互相制衡而进行的权力博弈。
如果美国及其盟友想要有效地与伊朗政权打交道——即在威胁、打击和诱导之间进行恰当的比例权衡——他们必须意识到，该政权是一个由权力诉求相互竞争的领导者和团体所组成的“蝰蛇窝”。在大多数时候，他们在考虑西方之前，首先考虑的是自己的内部地位。
马修·古尔德（Matthew Gould）曾任英国驻以色列大使及前驻伊朗副大使。
教会领导人以及他及其妻子。当他谈到决定不向教师和家长分享关于佩里（Perry）的“敏感信息”时，避难所内爆发了愤怒。
我认为，要求所有员工和志愿者提供清白记录证明是家长的责任。对于家长来说，发现一名性犯罪者在这么长时间内能接触到孩子，令人震惊且心碎。威廉姆斯（Williams）试图辩称，作为基督徒，他的信众应该愿意原谅佩里的过错。但这并没有产生好的效果。
原谅是一个美好的概念，也是基督教信仰的核心。在大多数情况下，我也相信“转过另一面脸”（宽容），但有些情况比其他情况更考验原则。我的底线是孩子。考虑到孩子的纯真与掠夺者的权力之间巨大的不对等，针对儿童的性侵害尤其不可原谅。孩子信任并依赖成年人来保护他们。通过性剥削地摧毁这种信任，将带来终身的影响，因此应当给予严厉的判决。
我倾向于将原谅与正义视为“狱友”。那些明知且故意伤害孩子的人，最好在铁窗之后被原谅。
反对托德·布兰奇 (Todd Blanche)
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES 7月 15 日，托德·布兰奇前往国会山参加关于其被提名司法部长一职的听证会。
对于一个蔑视规范的人，应该给予多少规范带来的好处？有许多充分的理由反对确认托德·布兰奇担任司法部长。总统在选择内阁成员时通常应获得一定的尊重，但“一定”意味着有限度，以免参议院的“建议与同意”职责被掏空，失去责任感。而且，并非所有总统都应获得同等的尊重。鉴于现任总统对那些能够润滑和谐社会治理的潜在礼貌准则之蔑视，他应得的尊重微乎其微。在 2024 年大选后的第八天，唐纳德·特朗普通过宣布他心中理想的司法部长人选——众议员马特·盖茨 (Matt Gaetz)，为他的第二个任期奠定了基调。这次侮辱持续了八天，直到盖茨撤回提名。他此前已从众议院辞职，据报道是为了防止众议院伦理委员会发布关于其涉嫌吸毒和性行为不端的报告，一名女性称该报告包括他在她 17. 岁时与她发生了两次性关系。特朗普最终选择了帕姆·邦迪 (Pam Bondi) 担任司法部长，布兰奇担任其副手。当布兰奇担任司法部二号人物、华盛顿特区联邦检察官（司法部下属机构）时，他寻求对六名拥有军事或情报背景的民主党国会议员提起刑事起诉。这些人制作了一段视频。该视频在特朗普政府在（国际海域）涉嫌运毒的船只上杀人期间制作，视频内容阐述了《统一军事司法法典》的规定：不得服从非法命令。大陪审团在刑事案件中做出了一个极罕见的决定：拒绝起诉这六人。当司法部严肃对待“贝壳门” (Seashellgate) 时，布兰奇正担任代理司法部长。他的部门对前 FBI 局长詹姆斯·B·科米 (James B. Comey) 提起第二次起诉，这次是因为科米在海滩上摆放贝壳拍了一张照片，拼出“86 47”字样；“86”在俚语中意为“清除”。特朗普是第47任总统。布兰奇领导的司法部假装将科米这种幼稚的行为视为可起诉的威胁。共和党参议员们现在要求布兰奇保证，那项拟议中的 $1.776 亿美元秘密基金（用于补偿特朗普指定的拜登政府迫害受害者）已经失效。但这场骗局正是孕育在布兰奇的司法部中。布兰奇——一个由总统随意任免的职员——签署了一份备忘录，承诺国税局 (IRS) 将“永久禁止”对特朗普、其部分家庭成员、特朗普集团以及“相关或附属个人”进行“审计”。这次在总统与其领导的行政部门之间达成的“协商”——请尽量忍住不要冷笑——协议，充分体现了该政府在自我交易方面的污浊。
是否能像建国之父所期望的那样 独立地行事？
特朗普指使布兰彻（Blanche）所领导的顺从的司法部去对付联邦储备委员会主席杰罗姆·H·鲍威尔（Jerome H. Powell），表面上是因为建筑支出中虚构的刑事犯罪，实际上是为了向鲍威尔施压使其辞职。在布兰彻担任副总检察长及其后代理总检察长期间，司法部（据《经济学人》报道）在特朗普执政的前 14 个月里，“近 100 次”向法院提供不准确的信息。4 月，在特朗普解雇邦迪（Bondi）后，布兰彻成为了代理总检察长。“没人知道为什么，”布兰彻说。可靠的报道称，特朗普认为邦迪在起诉其敌人的力度上不够激进。布兰彻含糊地表示，“一些”司法部的起诉“涉及特朗普‘有过矛盾’的男女和实体。……这是他的权利，而且事实上，领导这个国家意味着这是他的职责。”布兰彻称，总统针对政治敌人的说法是“完全错误的”。特朗普仅仅是“想要正义”。布兰彻在面对一群特朗普支持者时，赞扬了总统对大约 1,500 名 1 月 6 日骚乱者的近乎全部赦免是政府的成就之一，而在此之前他曾表示自己并未在“庆祝”这些赦免。如果最多只有 4 位共和党参议员在委员会或全会投票中表现得像建国之父所期望的那样独立，那么邦迪、克里斯蒂·诺姆（Kristi Noem）、图尔西·加巴德（Tulsi Gabbard）、皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）、小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）及其他人，将不会被确认就任那些远超其能力的职位。由于肯尼迪推广疫苗犹豫，可能已经有儿童死于麻疹，以及死于从母亲传给婴儿的乙肝，而肯尼迪在承诺如果被确认担任卫生与公共服务部部长将不再沉溺于此类江湖骗术时撒了谎。现在轮到了布兰彻。他得到了前总检察长威廉·巴尔（William Barr）在《华尔街日报》上的一篇令人尴尬的委婉背书：布兰彻“将像任何人在特朗普总统手下能做到的那样有效地管理该部门”。这对共和党参议员来说是否足以提供保障？或者，终于会有一个提名人触发他们的呕吐反射？曾经，当有人注意到佐治亚州民主党参议员理查德·罗素（Richard Russell）曾“在” 6 位总统下任职时，罗素感到不快，说他是“与” 6 位总统共同任职。如果关于布兰彻，有几位共和党参议员对这些介词变得同样敏感，那将是一个令人愉快的惊喜。
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乔内奎尔·琼斯（Jonquel Jones），前河滨浸信会高中（Riverdale Baptist High）年度最佳大都会球员，在周六晚上芝加哥举行的 WNBA 第 30 届全明星赛中，以 22 分、13 个篮板和 8 次助攻获得 MVP 荣誉。左下角的神秘人队索尼娅·西特龙（Sonia Citron）在库普队（Team Coop）失利的情况下得到了 8 分。右下角的神秘人队队友基基·伊里亚芬（Kiki Iriafen）为斯普恩队（Team Spoon）贡献了 10 分和 6 个篮板。
作者：ALANIS THAMES
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美联社
WNBA 规模从未如此之大。观看人数更多，投资人数更多。许多球员的薪水比以往任何时候都高。但在这一转型期中，不断升级的动荡与不和也随之而来，这一时期的特点是签署了具有里程碑意义的集体谈判协议、联赛扩张以及球员知名度的飙升。
随着关于种族、性别和性取向的讨论在周六晚上全明星赛前占据头条新闻，这种情况似乎达到了一个新的爆发点。
在芝加哥的比赛中。在印第安那飞热队后卫凯特琳·克拉克（Caitlin Clark）与凤凰城水星队前锋艾丽莎·托马斯（Alyssa Thomas）之间发生一次冲突后，关于种族的讨论再次浮现；同时，球员们继续对 WNBA 总裁凯西·恩格尔伯特（Cathy Engelbert）及领导层表达不满，他们认为在应对社交媒体骚扰和分裂言论方面缺乏保护。
“这无疑是一个值得庆祝的时刻，”密歇根大学体育管理教授兼体育种族与民族研究中心主任凯特拉·阿姆斯特朗（Ketra Armstrong）表示。“我们希望庆祝美好的事物。但有时，进步依然会掩盖那些潜在的危险。”
种族、性别和代表性问题一直是该联盟历史中的潜流。随着这些问题的讨论不断增加，
体育
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作者：JAY COHEN 美联社
芝加哥 —— 琼奎尔·琼斯（Jonquel Jones）贡献了 22 分、13 个篮板和 8 次助攻，帮助凯特琳·克拉克和 Spoon 队在周六晚上的 WNBA 全明星赛中以 129-122, 击败了玛丽娜·马布雷（Marina Mabrey）率领的 Coop 队。
多米尼克·马隆加（Dominique Malonga）在前半场为 Coop 队完成了一次扣篮，但 Spoon 队有 8 名球员得分达到两位数。这场全明星赛共有 127 次三分球尝试，且几乎没有防守。阿莉莎·格雷（Allisha Gray）为 Spoon 队贡献 19 分，克拉克最终得到 17 分。
这场标志性赛事在联合中心（United Center）面对创纪录的 19,783 名观众举行，而非芝加哥市中心较小的温托斯特竞技场（Wintrust Arena），这标志着该联盟的巨大成长。
琼斯，这位 32 岁的纽约自由人队中锋及前里弗代尔浸信会学校（Riverdale Baptist）年度最佳球员，被评为 MVP。内卡·奥格武迈克（Nneka Ogwumike）为 Spoon 队砍下 11 分，并超越了玛雅·摩尔（Maya Moore）的 119 分，成为全明星赛历史上职业生涯得分最高的人。
凯尔西·米切尔（Kelsey Mitchell）为 Coop 队贡献 28 分，而马布雷在火热的前半场中拿到了她全部的 23 分。马隆加最终得到 12 分和 13 个篮板。
神秘人队前锋基基·伊里亚芬（Kiki Iriafen）在为 Spoon 队出场的 17 分钟内得到 10 分和 6 个篮板，而华盛顿队的队友索尼娅·西特龙（Sonia Citron）在 11 分钟内得到 8 分和 6 个篮板。
艾布拉姆斯 让国民队 保持正轨
之背队 3
作者：DANIELLE ALLENTUCK
当 CJ 艾布拉姆斯（CJ Abrams）击球状态良好时，他在击球区表现出一种冷静与自信。华盛顿国民队的这位游击手并没有急躁或施压，而是耐心地等待合适的投球进行打击。
在周六对阵亚利桑那之背队的第四局中，艾布拉姆斯让一个好球和一个坏球飞过，然后击出了一个界外球。在第四次投球时，他击中了球区顶部的滑球，将其击向中外野深处。这记扳平比分的两分双打是艾布拉姆斯在国民队 5-3 获胜比赛中三次安打的第一次。
对于华盛顿队来说，比赛中出现了关键时刻。而艾布拉姆斯再次挺身而出。
“似乎每当我们需要他挺身而出时，他总能做到，”主教练布莱克·布特拉（Blake Butera）说。
随着目前占据第三张外卡席位的之背队来到这座城市，且交易截止日期仅剩一周多，国民队自 2019 年以来从未在如此高风险的情况下比赛。而作为他们在场内外的领导者之一，艾布拉姆斯不仅能承受这种压力，而且在压力中成长。
在周六的精彩表现后，艾布拉姆斯在本周 6 场比赛中 25 次击球中获得 14 次安打，并击出 5 支本垒打。在他的贡献下，国民队得以扳平系列赛，使其胜率重新回到 .500 以上一个胜场，并在外卡排名中落后之背队两个胜场。
“绝对很享受，”艾布拉姆斯说。“这很令人兴奋。我们已经完成了……”
详见 B5 页国民队报道
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费城现在 拥有一位国王 来陪伴 他的王子
费城人队的哈珀有了竞争对手
作者：丹·盖尔斯顿 (DAN GELSTON)
费城 — 勒布朗·詹姆斯 (LeBron James) 和布莱斯·哈珀 (Bryce Harper) 的职业生涯在通往巨星之路上平行发展。
他们都是青少年时期的天才，曾登上过《体育画报》的封面 —— 那还是杂志受欢迎的时代 —— 并且两人在高中毕业后都是 No. 1 总状元 (overall draft picks)。
当哈珀获得第一次自由球员身份的机会时，只有 1 座城市、1 份合同对他来说是合适的：费城。
虽然花了几年的时间，但哈珀现在在那些签约这座城市的顶级精英运动员短名单中，有了可以与之竞争的伙伴。
费城人队的哈珀。费城人队的皮特·罗斯 (Pete Rose) 和凯尔·舒瓦伯 (Kyle Schwarber)。
老鹰队的赛昆·巴克利 (Saquon Barkley) 和雷吉·怀特 (Reggie White)。
在费城自 1776, 年以来最伟大的七月签约中，詹姆斯在自由球员市场追随哈珀的脚步来到了费城，他震惊了 NBA 篮坛，以 $8 million 的总价这一低廉价格与 76 人队签下了一份为期 2 年的合同。
巴里博带领 D.C. 联队击败多伦多队获胜
泰·巴里博 (Tai Baribo) 在补时第 10 分钟通过点球得分，肖恩·约翰逊 (Sean Johnson) 完成六次扑救，D.C. 联队在周六晚上的奥迪球场 2-1 击败多伦多 FC，结束了五场比赛不胜的颓势。
多伦多队 (3-7-7) 已连续 11 场比赛不胜。
安德烈·多泽尔 (Andre Dozzell) 赢得了一个由杰克逊·吉尔曼 (Jackson Gilman) 造成的点球，巴里博的点球命中并锁定了胜局。
巴里博已在连续 3 场比赛中进球，本赛季 14 场出场（13 次首发）中打入 11 球。
D.C. 联队 (5-5-7) 在第 41 分钟由科比·富兰克林 (Kobe Franklin) 乌龙球先得 1-0 领先，当时他将黑川圭介 (Keisuke Kurokawa) 传出的角球反弹入网。
西奥·科尔比亚努 (Theo Corbeanu) 在第 76 分钟打入本赛季首球，将比分扳平为 1-1。肖恩·约翰逊化解了乔纳森·奥索里奥 (Jonathan Osorio) 的射门，但科尔比亚努的一记抽射在碰到约翰逊后弹入网窝。……
迈阿密国际的里奥·梅西 (Lionel Messi) 是正式宣布无法参加周三在夏洛特举行的 MLS 全明星赛的四名球员之一，这位阿根廷球星仍在从世界杯决赛的征程中恢复。
雨果·库伊เปอร์斯 (Hugo Cuypers)、罗德里戈·德保罗 (Rodrigo De Paul) 和姆贝凯泽利·姆博卡齐 (Mbekezeli Mbokazi) 也将缺席这场比赛，届时 MLS 的顶尖球员将对阵墨西哥 LIGA MX 的顶级球员。……
奥兰多城 SC 签下了本土后卫贝尔纳多·莱恩 (Bernardo Rhein)，合同期至 2027-28 赛季，且俱乐部拥有未来两个赛季的续约选择权。……
巴塞罗那方面表示，周五一名建筑工人由于在协助翻新诺坎普球场时发生事故而死亡。
加泰罗尼亚警方表示，该工人是一名 54 岁的男性，死因是头部受到重击。在回应美联社 (Associated Press) 的查询时，未提供更多细节。……
西班牙俱乐部表示，韩国中场李刚仁 (Lee Kang-In) 已同意从巴黎圣日耳曼加盟马德里竞技。
马德里竞技表示，李刚仁将签署一份有效期至 2031. 年 6 月的合同。转会费尚未公开，但据报道在 35 和 40 million 欧元（$39.8 million 和 $45.5 million）之间。……
英格兰俱乐部表示，新升级的伊普斯维奇签下了来自凯尔特人的日本前锋前田大典 (Daizen Maeda)。……
法国女足冠军里昂女足从巴塞罗那签下了西班牙前锋萨尔玛·帕拉卢埃洛 (Salma Paralluelo)，双方签了一份为期四年的合同。……
西班牙俱乐部表示，巴塞罗那为其欧洲冠军女足队签下了美国门将泰勒·麦卡梅伊 (Tyler McCamey)。
弗吉尼亚州当地选手 夺得美国青少年业余锦标赛冠军
高尔夫
来自弗吉尼亚州莫塞利的诺亚·麦克劳克伦（Noah Maclauchlan）在美国青少年业余锦标赛中以 6 and 5 击败了来自佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔海滩的迈尔斯·罗素（Miles Russell）。这是美国高尔夫协会（USGA）历史上首次由两名左撇子选手进行的个人决赛。
18 岁的麦克劳克伦——世界业余排名第 2,047 位——获得了明年参加在圆石滩举行的美国公开赛的资格。两名决赛选手都将在下个月豁免参加在梅里恩举行的美国业余锦标赛，不过罗素此前已在参赛名单中。
麦克劳克伦今年秋天将成为利伯蒂大学（Liberty University）的一年级新生。罗素——该赛事中排名最高的选手，位列第 7 ——计划于 2027 年开始在佛罗里达州立大学打球。
在宾夕法尼亚州伯利恒的老球场上，麦克劳克伦在 par-4 的第 16 洞以标准杆获胜并扳平比分，随后在第 17, 19, 21, 23, 24 和 28 洞全部打出小鸟球，取得了 6-up 的领先。罗素在 par-3 的第 29 洞以标准杆获胜，而麦克劳克伦最后在 par-4 的第 31 洞通过一个 8 英尺的小鸟球推杆结束了比赛。
麦克劳克伦的球童是他的弟弟利亚姆（Liam），他是一名 2027 年承诺加入弗吉尼亚大学的球员，但在本次比赛中未能通过截杆进入对阵赛。…
杰里·凯利（Jerry Kelly）在第三轮打出 2 杆下标准杆，与卡梅隆·珀西（Cameron Percy）共同领跑在苏格兰珀斯举行的英国公开赛高级组（Senior British Open）成绩单。
对于凯利来说，这是他连续第二轮打出 68 杆，使得三轮总成绩达到 8 杆下 202 杆。与此同时，珀西在这一周中表现最差的一个下午仅得 71 杆。
Hannah Foslien/Getty Images 巴扎德角（Buzzard Point）的轰动
周六晚上，在奥迪球场（Audi Field），华盛顿联队（D.C. United）以 2-1 戏剧性地击败了多伦多 FC —— 这是他们自 5 月 3 日以来的首场胜利。
作者：CAM INMAN
加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉 —— 旧金山49ers队执教第10年的主教练凯尔·沙纳汉（Kyle Shanahan）在7月14日于帕洛阿尔托发生的一起两车相撞事故后，目前正在从脑震荡和多处骨折中恢复。因此，在周六训练营开始时，他的职责暂时有所减轻。
预计沙纳汉不会缺席9月10日在澳大利亚举行的对阵洛杉矶冲锋队的常规赛揭幕战。
“这不是我们的预期，也不是我从医生那里听到的，”总经理约翰·林奇（John Lynch）表示。“时间线会自然推进。他必须达到某些指标，但预期是在[揭幕战]之前很久他就会回归。”
在沙纳汉的脑震荡症状被解除之前，许多主教练职责将由49ers队的助理主教练兼进攻线统筹克里斯·福斯特（Chris Foerster）承担。不过，其他工作人员也会共同努力，尤其是沙纳汉的三位协调员：克莱·库比亚克（Klay Kubiak，进攻）、拉希姆·莫里斯（Raheem Morris，防守）和布兰特·博耶（Brant Boyer，特勤组）。
“在认为合适的时候，我们会向你们通报凯尔的进展，你们可能会在场上看到凯尔出现一段时间，取决于他的耐受程度，”林奇说。“我们会将运行球队的职责交给其他一些人。我们有一个非常好的计划。”
林奇确认了ESPN的一份初步报道，即沙纳汉鼻骨骨折。
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MLB
12:15 p.m. 克利夫兰 对阵 坦帕湾 » Peacock 1:30 p.m. 名人堂入职典礼 » MLB Network 1:35 p.m. 亚利桑那 对阵 华盛顿 » Nationals.TV, WJFK (106.7 FM) 1:35 p.m. 亚特兰大 对阵 巴尔的摩 » MASN, WIYY (97.9 FM), WSBN (630 AM) 4 p.m. 洛杉矶天使 对阵 旧金山 » MLB Network 7:15 p.m. 纽约洋基 对阵 费城 » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11)
赛车
9 a.m. 一级方程式赛车：匈牙利大奖赛 » Apple TV 2 p.m. NASCAR杯系列赛：Brickyard 400 » TNT 4 p.m. NHRA西北国家赛 » WTTG (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45)
7 a.m. LPGA巡回赛：女子苏格兰公开赛，最后一轮 » CNBC 8 a.m. LIV Golf：英国赛，最后一轮 » Fox Sports 1 8:30 a.m. 高级英国公开赛，最后一轮 » Golf Channel 正午 高级英国公开赛，最后一轮 » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11) 1 p.m. PGA巡回赛：3M公开赛，最后一轮 » Golf Channel 3 p.m. PGA巡回赛：3M公开赛，最后一轮 » WUSA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13)
足球
5 p.m. 加拿大超级联赛：Forge 对阵 的多伦多国际 » Fox Sports 2 5 p.m. NWSL：西雅图 对阵 圣迭戈 » CBS Sports Network 7 p.m. NWSL：丹佛 对阵 华盛顿 » Victory+ 9 p.m. NWSL：路易斯维尔 对阵 天使之城 » ESPN 9 p.m. 中北美及加勒比海足联U-20锦标赛，小组赛：牙买加 对阵 洪都拉斯 » Fox Sports 2
网球
8 a.m. WTA：汉堡欧洲公开赛和布拉格公开赛，决赛 » Tennis Channel 12:30 p.m. ATP：埃什托里尔公开赛，单打决赛 » Tennis Channel
职业美式足球
7 p.m. 加拿大足球联赛：汉密尔顿 对阵 蒙特利尔 » CBS Sports Network
职业垒球
2 p.m. Athletes Unlimited 冠军赛，第二场：犹他 对阵 芝加哥 » ESPN
PGA巡回赛新秀杰克逊 Koivun在3M公开赛的第三轮打出61杆，以20下限（-20）获得三杆领先，并在明尼苏达州布莱恩的TPC双城球场后九洞打出28杆，创下赛事纪录。
埃米利亚诺·格里略（Emiliano Grillo）和本·科尔斯（Ben Kohles）均打出65杆，以17下限（-17）并列第二。世界排名第一的球员斯科蒂·舍夫勒（Scottie Scheffler）落后六杆，与另外三人并列第九。……
韩国高尔夫球手珍妮·申（Jenny Shin）在女子苏格兰公开赛中保持五杆领先，在特伦的第三轮比赛中打出低于标准杆1杆的71杆。
珍妮·申正追求她自10多年前的德克萨斯射击赛（Texas Shootout）以来的首个LPGA巡回赛冠军，她在邓多纳尔德林克斯球场（Dundonald Links）目前处于12下限（-12），领先泰国选手帕贾里·阿南纳鲁坎（Pajaree Anannarukarn）五杆。阿南纳鲁坎打出了没有柏忌的69杆。
三名指令者球员在训练营前进入 PUP 名单
华盛顿指令者队（Washington Commanders）在训练营开始前，将三名防守球员——防守端锋 Deatrich Wise 和 Dorance Armstrong 以及防守后卫 Trey Amos——列入了身体无法执行任务（PUP）名单。
32 岁的 Wise 在去年 9 月 11 日与格林贝包装工队的比赛中遭遇了导致赛季报销的股四头肌损伤。29 岁的 Armstrong 在 10 月 19 日与达拉斯牛仔队的比赛中膝盖受伤。24 岁的 Amos 在 11 月 9 日与底特律狮子队的比赛中腓骨骨折。
同样进入 PUP 名单的还有六名巴尔的摩乌鸦队的防守球员：防守截锋 Nnamdi Madubuike、John Jenkins 和 Travis Jones；线卫 Teddye Buchanan 和 Adisa Isaac；以及防守后卫 Bilhal Kone。
Madubuike 因颈部受伤缺席了上赛季的大部分时间，他的回归对巴尔的摩而言将意义重大，但目前他的状态仍不明确。……
老板 Robert Kraft 表示，新英格兰爱国者队向明星角卫 Christian Gonzalez 提供了一份续约合同，这将使他成为“NFL 历史上该位置薪酬最高的球员”。
Kraft 没有提供该报价的细节，但他提到这将是球队历史上最大的一份合同。不过，洛杉矶公羊队角卫 Trent McDuffie 的四年合同目前在角卫位置上领先，年均价值约为 $31 百万美元。……
手部和三根肋骨受伤，面部需要缝 40 针以上，并遭受了严重的脑震荡。“他的鼻子确实骨折了，所以黑眼圈正在好转，”Lynch 补充道。“他的肋骨撞到了，所以很疼，但这并不是让他缺席的原因。关键是脑震荡。”
根据帕洛阿尔托（Palo Alto）警方发言人的说法，Shanahan 自事故发生以来一直留在 49 人的办公大楼内。事故发生在 Alma 街和 Hamilton 大道的交叉口。警方不怀疑有药物或酒精影响，两名司机均配合调查，且均未因本次碰撞被开具罚单。
Shanahan 的妻子 Mandy 在上周末向这支充满资深球员的球队队长们告知了他的情况。直到周六 1 p.m.，49 人队才在训练营举行了第一次球队会议。
……正在确定他是否准备好并能够回到公羊队，但主教练 Sean McVay 表示，如果这位超级明星防守截锋决定结束他两赛季的退休生活，球队将欢迎他的回归。……
Jordan Devey 逝世，享年 38 岁。他是一位退役的 NFL 进攻截锋，曾随新英格兰爱国者队赢得过超级碗冠军。
焦点：NFL
极限运动
2 p.m. 新奥尔良 X 极限运动会，最后一天 » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2) 6 p.m. 新奥尔良 X 极限运动会，最后一天 » ESPN
自行车赛
9:30 a.m. 环法自行车赛，最后一个赛段 » Peacock
田径
4 p.m. 美国田径锦标赛，最后一天 » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11)
职业沙滩排球
1 p.m. 女子职业排球协会，东汉普顿：迈阿密 vs. 布鲁克林 » CBS Sports Network 2 p.m. 女子职业排球协会，东汉普顿：奥斯汀 vs. 圣迭戈 » CBS Sports Network
篮球
1 p.m. BIG3，第 6 周：DMV Trilogy vs. Miami 305 » WUSA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13), BET 2 p.m. 篮球锦标赛，校友半决赛：Boeheim’s Army 对阵 La Familia » WTTG (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45) 2 p.m. BIG3，第 6 周：底特律 对阵 休斯顿 » WUSA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13), BET 7 p.m. 篮球锦标赛，校友半决赛：The Mecca 对阵 Knueppel Crew » Fox Sports 1
棒球
4 p.m. 香蕉球 (Banana Ball)：萨凡纳香蕉队 vs. 消防员队 » ESPN
旗式橄榄球 —— NFL 旗式橄榄球锦标赛
10 a.m. 男子 U-14 组，半决赛：队伍待定 » ESPN, NFL Network 11 a.m. 男子 U-14 组，半决赛：队伍待定 » ESPN, NFL Network Noon (正午) 女子高中组，半决赛 » ESPN, NFL Network 1 p.m. 女子高中组，半决赛 » ESPN, NFL Network 4 p.m. 男子 U-14 组，决赛：队伍待定 » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2), NFL Network 5 p.m. 女子高中组，决赛：队伍待定 » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2), NFL Network
在砖yard赛道，Hocevar 强势夺得杆位
卡森·霍塞瓦尔 (Carson Hocevar) 利用排位赛后期的冲刺将泰勒·雷迪克 (Tyler Reddick) 挤出第 1 位，随后顶住了丹尼尔·苏亚雷斯 (Daniel Suarez) 的后发猛攻，夺得他首个 Brickyard 400 赛事的杆位。
— 水星新闻 (Mercury News)
一圈 186.382 的成绩让雪佛兰 (Chevrolet) 在 39 辆赛车的发车格中占据了前两名。雷迪克将在周日于印第安纳波利斯赛车场 (Indianapolis Motor Speedway) 历史悠久的 2.5 英里椭圆赛道上从第三位起跑。
卫冕冠军、雷迪克在 23XI Racing 车队的队友布巴·华莱士 (Bubba Wallace) 以 183.861 的成绩排名第 29 位。丹尼·汉姆林 (Denny Hamlin) 曾赢得 NASCAR 四大顶级赛事中的三场，他此次将从第五位起跑，试图与 Joe Gibbs Racing 车队共同夺得他的首个 Brickyard 冠军。
在排位赛之前，RFK Racing 的共同所有者布拉德·凯瑟洛夫斯基 (Brad Keselowski) 表示，他的车队在“几个月前”行使了对瑞安·普里斯 (Ryan Preece) 的续约选项，将该车手的合同锁定至下个赛季。…
卫冕一级方程式 (Formula One) 冠军兰多·诺里斯 (Lando Norris) 在匈牙利大奖赛上以 0.012 秒之差从刘易斯·汉密尔顿 (Lewis Hamilton) 手中夺得杆位，这是他在 2026 年首次获得杆位。
由于两项发车格处罚，汉密尔顿在周日于莫若罗德 (Mogyorod) 举行的比赛中降至第五位，而积分榜领先者基米·安东内利 (Kimi Antonelli) 则降至第七位。
Halys 在 Generali 公开赛中夺得首冠
法国选手 昆汀·哈利斯 (Quentin Halys) 在奥地利基茨比尔 (Kitzbuhel) 举行的 Generali 公开赛决赛中，以 6-4, 7-6 (8-6) 的稳健比分击败了来自哈萨克斯坦的卫冕冠军亚历山大·布布利克 (Alexander Bublik)，贡献了 17 个 Ace 球并赢得了职业生涯首个冠军。
现年 29 岁的哈利斯于 2012 年转为职业选手，此前仅参加过一场 ATP 决赛——即 2024 年瑞士公开赛，在那场比赛中他负于意大利选手马特奥·贝雷蒂尼 (Matteo Berrettini)。…
比利时选手、4 号种子亚历山大·布洛克斯 (Alexander Blockx) 在逆转击败意大利 2 号种子卢西亚诺·达德里 (Luciano Darderi) 后，与同样击败法国同胞雨果·加斯顿 (Hugo Gaston) 且直落两盘的卢卡·凡·阿舍 (Luca Van Assche) 一起，两人均在葡萄牙埃斯托里尔公开赛 (Estoril Open) 中首次闯入 ATP 决赛。…
匈牙利 4 号种子安娜·邦达尔 (Anna Bondar) 在艰苦地击败亚美尼亚选手埃莉娜·阿瓦内相 (Elina Avanesyan) 后，晋级汉堡女子公开赛决赛，她将在那里面对德国 5 号种子塔玛拉·科帕奇 (Tamara Korpatsch)。…
两名捷克半决赛选手在本土举行的布拉格公开赛中出局：奥地利的莉莉·塔格尔 (Lilli Tagger) 爆冷击败 2 号种子巴博拉·克雷奇科娃 (Barbora Krejcikova)，而 5 号种子特蕾莎·瓦伦托娃 (Tereza Valentova) 则输给了乌克兰 8 号种子达丽亚·斯尼古尔 (Daria Snigur)。
Sillinger 将留在蓝色夹克队
受限自由球员前锋科尔·西林格 (Cole Sillinger) 避免了仲裁，与哥伦布蓝色夹克队 (Columbus Blue Jackets) 签署了一份为期三年、价值 13.9 百万美元的合同。
西林格上赛季在代表哥伦布队出战的 81 场比赛中，记录了 33 个积分（8 个进球，25 次助攻），并获得了 +2 的正负值。此前他正处于一份两年 4.5 百万美元合同的最后一个赛季。
这位 23 岁的球员于 2021 年在选秀中总第 12 位被选中，为蓝色夹克队出战 367 场比赛，共计获得 140 个积分（51 个进球，89 次助攻）。
波加查在环法赛的第五冠指日可待
塔德伊·波加查 (Tadej Pogacar) 在安全完赛倒数第二赛段后，距离追平纪录的第五个环法自行车赛 (Tour de France) 冠军仅一步之遥。
这位斯洛文尼亚之星在周日巴黎的最终赛段前，领先比利时骑手雷姆科·伊文波尔 (Remco Evenepoel) 6 分 26 秒。
理查德·卡拉帕斯 (Richard Carapaz) 赢得了第 20 赛段——这是一次艰苦的阿尔卑斯山远征，在冲向 l'Huez 山峰的丘陵终点前包含四次重大爬升。这是他在今年赛事中的第二次获胜，也是职业生涯第三次。这位厄瓜多尔选手确保了由环法赛最佳爬坡者获得的波点衫。
Hiltz 再次夺得 1,500 米冠军 实现全国赛四连冠
Nikki Hiltz 在一场三人激烈的冲刺赛中胜出，在纽约的伊坎体育场 (Icahn Stadium) 赢得了连续第四个美国国家户外 1,500 米冠军。作为非二元性别运动员的先驱，Hiltz 将跨性别旗帜披在肩上。
在最后一弯道时处于第二名的 Hiltz 在最后的直道上从 Addy Wiley 外侧超越，并顶住了 Emily Mackay 的最后冲刺，最终成绩为 4:06.92。
其他冠军包括：男子 1,500 米的 Nathan Green (3:50.27)，女子 400 米的 Aaliyah Butler (49.93) 以及男子 400 米的 Chris Bailey (44.39)。
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接 B1 页的分歧 指数级增长使 WNBA 面临更多审视
女性运动的普及程度呈爆炸式增长。而它们依然是一个挑战，塑造了围绕 WNBA 以及大多数其他职业体育联盟的公众和网络讨论。
“这就是体育联盟”的特质，南犹他大学体育经济学家兼经济学教授 David Berri 说道。他以 NFL 的鲁尼法则 (Rooney Rule) 为例。“如果一个体育联盟获得了关注，那么这些事情同样会引起关注。”
激烈的讨论还延伸到了跨性别运动员和骚扰问题。
WNBA 老将 Brianna Turner 上周在社交媒体上表示，她的前球队 Fever 在上赛季解雇了一名男性员工，原因是性骚扰。Turner 上赛季效力于印第安纳州，目前在拉斯维加斯队比赛，她表示印第安纳队的球员被鼓励不要讨论此次解雇事件。
Turner 的言论是在她为跨性别运动员辩护时发表的，就在几天前，印第安纳前锋 Sophie Cunningham 谈到了跨性别运动员参加女性运动的问题。
“我收到很多关于我讨厌跨性别的负面反馈。而我的反应是：‘我从未说过那样的话’，”ESPN 发布的一篇报道中引用了 Cunningham 的话。“我认为我来到这里是为了传递爱。但我也认为，伴随这种爱而来的应该是真相和诚实。我想保护更衣室里的年轻女孩，或者体育运动中的年轻女孩，她们不应该去面对生物学上的男性。”
在多伦多 Tempo 教练 Sandy Brondello 因将亚特兰大 Dream 前锋 Angel Reese 称为“受保护物种”而被禁赛一场后，WNBA 关于种族的讨论再次成为焦点。
在 Reese 造成多伦多球员 Nyara Sabally 犯规后，这段评论被转播捕捉到，迅速引发了批评。
Brondello 曾是一名球员且赢过两次 WNBA 冠军，她是澳大利亚人。“受保护物种” (protected species) 这一短语在澳大利亚体育中被用来表达对某个球员缺乏裁判判罚的沮丧。然而，在美国，这个短语暗示某人不是人类，可能会被视为
Caitlin Clark 在 2024 年作为印第安纳 Fever 队的首轮状元秀加盟，帮助带动了 WNBA 的爆发式增长。
接 B1 页的 WNBA Jones 被评为联赛第 30 届全明星赛 MVP
库珀队 (Team Coop.)。
WNBA 传奇人物 Cynthia Cooper 和 Teresa Weatherspoon 组建了全明星队，球员要么是由球迷、媒体和队友投票选出的首发，要么是由联赛教练选出的替补。拉斯维加斯 Aces 队的 Becky Hammon 执教库珀队，而明尼苏达 Lynx 队的 Cheryl Reeve 则负责
Weatherspoon 的队伍。
Clark 在重返全明星赛的比赛中，三分球 15 投 5 中，并贡献了 5 次助攻。这名印第安纳 Fever 队的后卫因为腹股沟受伤错过了去年在印第安纳波利斯举行的赛事。
24 岁的 Clark 开局就火力全开，在比赛前 2 1/2 分钟内，分别在 33 英尺和 37 英尺外命中，砍下 11 分。她在第二节初又通过一次流畅的配合投进了一个三分球。
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对黑人具有贬低意味。 Brondello 随后道歉。Reese 表示接受，并称其欣赏联盟的迅速行动。
“现在的平台大多了。发生的一切都是新闻，”Berri 说道。“10 年前也有严重犯规。那时没人关注。现在因为有报道，一切都被放大了……这是好事。我的意思是，这就是我们想要的。”
Clark 一再试图淡化围绕她的喧嚣，但她已成为许多投射在比赛本身之外的预期的跳板。
“这就是篮球，”她在最近的一次 ESPN 采访中说道。“当我走出更衣室时，我
来自明尼苏达山 Lynx 队后卫 Olivia Miles 的一次无视传球，她是本次比赛选入的唯一一名新秀。
Clark 和 Mabrey 分别带来了进攻表演，但 Malonga 赢得了当晚最热烈的欢呼。这位来自西雅图风暴队、身高 6 英尺 6 英寸的中锋沿着内线疾驰，接到了 Angel Reese 的传球，并在上半场还剩 6:24 时完成了一次右手的强力扣篮。
当 Malonga 完成这次进攻时，Reese 兴奋地跳了起来，并且
不应该害怕人们会讨论什么。这在情感上令人精疲力竭。 这很耗人。这让你肩膀紧张，因为人们不想讨论篮球。他们只想煽风点火，制造其他话题。”
在 6 月 24 日的一场比赛中，一名资深球员在接触中拳头触及了 Clark 的喉咙，WNBA 事后判定 Thomas 犯有恶意犯规，并将其禁赛一场。
这次碰撞被 Thomas 称作一次意外，但引起了广泛关注，并激起了关于裁判判罚的争论，教练、评论员和立法者纷纷就联盟是否需要针对涉及 Clark 的身体接触采取行动发表看法。
Thomas 是黑人，目前处于她的第 12 个 WNBA 赛季。她在事后表示收到了死亡威胁，这是近年来球员面临的网络暴力升级的一部分。拉斯维加斯王牌队的 Chelsea Gray 最近发布了一个男人的消息，其中包含种族歧视用语。就在过去的一周里，Engelbert 与两个球员委员会会面，讨论如何进一步保护球员免受网络骚扰。
自从进入联盟以来，Clark 和她的 WNBA 同僚们已成为长期以来美国社会问题的代理人——从种族、性别和性取向，到谁能获得关注而谁不能。
“有很多值得庆祝的事情，”Armstrong 说道，“但种族依然重要。种族将永远重要。这取决于我们如何让它变得重要。”
两人在返回球场时在半空中地撞击胸口以示庆祝。
这是自 2022 年 Sylvia Fowles 以来，WNBA 全明星赛中的首次扣篮。Lisa Leslie (2005)、Jones (2017)、Brittney Griner (2019) 也曾完成过这一壮举。
Leslie 参加了庆祝活动，南卡罗来纳州教练兼前 WNBA 后卫 Dawn Staley 也在场。前 NBA 巨星 Dwyane Wade 同样在场边观战。
恩格尔伯特称即将推出
作者：道格·费因伯格 (DOUG FEINBERG)
芝加哥 —— 总裁凯茜·恩格尔伯特 (Cathy Engelbert) 在周六全明星赛前的联赛状态新闻发布会上表示，随着联盟继续在裁判工作上投入资金，WNBA 将在下个赛季建立一个类似于 NBA 的回放中心。
在过去的几个赛季中，裁判问题一直是联盟内的热门话题，肢体对抗激烈程度是一个主要的争议点。联盟在休赛期成立了一个工作组，以帮助减少比赛中的部分肢体冲突。
“这是我们在篮球运营方面做出的最重大投资之一。这笔数千万美元的投资将有助于提高我们裁判流程的一致性、效率和透明度，同时继续提升比赛质量，”恩格尔伯特说道。
恩格尔伯特表示，回放中心的许多细节仍需敲定，不过她提到，就目前而言，NBA 所采用的“最后两分钟报告”暂时不会在 WNBA 中使用。
在本赛季强调保障球员运动自由度的背景下，犯规次数有所增加。犯规的增加带来了更多的进攻，各球队的场均得分达到了历史新高。这也导致了比赛时间的延长。本月早些时候，比赛平均时长为 2 小时 8 分钟 —— 为联盟历史上最长。
球员安全
恩格尔伯特表示，联盟正继续与球员合作，努力提高他们在场外的安全性。WNBA 与球员工会在周二晚上举行了一次虚拟会议，讨论如何进一步打击网络仇恨。
“[对于] 太多 WNBA 球员来说，那种经历是不可接受的，”她说道。“许多情况令人厌恶。种族主义、厌女症、恐同心理，以及针对我们球员的骚扰和威胁，在体育运动或任何其他地方都没有生存空间。”
恩格尔伯特表示，来自球员的反馈对她很有帮助。
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恩格尔伯特表示，WNBA 关于拉斯维加斯 Aces 队的一项赞助协议是否违反工资帽的调查结果不确定。
“不会建议或实施任何处罚。当然，如果有新的或额外的证据出现，我们将继续调查。但你知道，比赛的公正性是第一位的，”总裁说道。
在 2024, 年 5 月，拉斯维加斯会议与访问局 (LVCVA) 为 Aces 球员提供了未来两个赛季每赛季 $100,000 的赞助协议。根据 Spotrac 的数据，该金额超过了其中六名球员的工资。
本赛季没有提供此类协议，但在 5 月份新的集体谈判协议完成后，球员的薪水大幅上涨。根据 Spotrac 的数据，每位拉斯维加斯球员的年薪至少为 $270,000,。最初的报价促使联盟展开调查，以确定其是否规避了工资帽规定。
“我们是以正确的方式操作的，”LVCVA 总裁兼首席执行官史蒂夫·希尔 (Steve Hill) 在 2024 年表示。“……我们是在没有球队参与的情况下完成的。这是我们的主意。”
加强沟通
恩格尔伯特表示，无论是通过短信、电子邮件还是其他形式，联盟在与球员的沟通方面需要做得更好。
许多球员表示他们与总裁没有关系。阿佳·威尔逊 (A’ja Wilson) 周六表示，她与恩格尔伯特说话的唯一时刻就是她在领取奖杯的时候。
“我一直在与球员讨论他们希望听到我们多少信息，以及不希望听到多少，”恩格尔伯特说。“我们确实给他们发送了很多电子邮件更新之类的东西。但他们是这样一个世代，不再那么频繁地检查电子邮件。所以我们在短信链方面必须做得更好。”
“我们必须改进，”她补充道。“比如当一名球员获得表彰，或者球员受伤之类的情况，我会尝试联系他们，是的。所以我们需要做得更好。毫无疑问，我需要改进。”
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东区 胜 负 率 差 近10场 连续
东区 胜 负 率 差 近10场 连续
亚特兰大 61 43 .587 — 7-3 L-1
费城 56 49 .533 51/2 4-6 L-4
华盛顿 53 52 .505 81/2 5-5 W-1
迈阿密 52 53 .495 91/20-10 L-11
纽约 43 62 .410181/2 3-7 L-3
响尾蛇 3
响尾蛇 AB R H BI BBSOAVG 卡罗尔 rf .............3 1 0 0 0 2 .250 佩尔多莫 ss.........3 0 0 0 0 0 .232 莫雷诺 dh ..........4 0 1 2 0 0 .311 马特 2b.............4 0 0 0 0 0 .255 巴尔加斯 1b............4 0 1 0 0 0 .270 阿雷纳多 3b .........3 0 0 0 1 0 .246 塔瓦 cf...............3 1 2 0 0 0 .241 麦康 c ............3 0 1 1 0 0 .260 瓦尔德施密特 lf...2 1 1 0 0 0 .257 凯普勒 ph-lf.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .217 总计 30 3 6 3 1 2 —
国民队 AB R H BI BBSOAVG 伍德 dh .............5 0 1 0 0 2 .269 米德 3b..............3 1 0 0 2 0 .254 查帕罗 1b ........3 1 1 0 0 1 .222 加西亚 ph-1b .......2 0 0 0 0 1 .275 艾布拉姆 ss...........4 1 3 3 0 0 .293 克鲁斯 rf..............1 1 0 0 3 1 .218 杨 cf..............4 1 2 0 0 0 .232 莱尔 lf...................4 0 1 2 0 1 .244 努涅兹 2b.............2 0 0 0 2 0 .249 鲁伊兹 c ..................4 0 1 0 0 0 .272 总计 32 5 9 5 7 6 —
亚利桑那..........002 000 100 — 3 6 1 华盛顿.004 010 00x — 5 9 0
E: 马特 (2). LOB: 亚利桑那 3, 华盛顿 10. 2B: 塔瓦 (8), 查帕罗 (5), 艾布拉姆 (21), 鲁伊兹 (20). 3B: 莱尔 (5). HR: 艾布拉姆 (25), 击球手 Bratt. RBI: 莫雷诺 2 (39), 麦康 (15), 艾布拉姆 3 (79), 莱尔 2 (51). SB: 杨 2 (13), 艾布拉姆 (17). CS: 艾布拉姆 (5). S: 佩尔多莫. 响尾蛇 IP H RERBB SO NPERA 布拉特 .................5 7 5 5 5 3 926.32 卡里略 ..............2 2 0 0 2 2 352.25 克拉克................1 0 0 0 0 1 92.30
RBI
ERA
RBI
ERA
国民队 IP H RERBB SO NPERA 格里芬 ............62/3 6 3 3 1 21082.76 耶安 ...............11/3 0 0 0 0 0 160.00 比特 ..............1 0 0 0 0 0 93.82
WP: 格里芬 (12-2); LP: 布拉特 (0-1); S: 比特 (9). 继承跑者得分: 耶安 1-0. HBP: 格里芬 (卡罗尔). ABS 挑战_莫雷诺 (好球-改为坏球) T: 2:35. A: 30,032 (41,376).
得分过程
响尾蛇 三局 瑞安·瓦尔德施密特击出安打。科宾·卡罗尔被击中，瑞安·瓦尔德施密特推进至二垒。热拉尔多·佩尔多莫在牺牲触击中出局，科宾·卡罗尔推进至二垒，瑞安·瓦尔德施密特推进至三垒。加布里埃尔·莫雷诺击出安打，在二垒被触杀出局，科宾·卡罗尔得分，瑞安·瓦尔德施密特得分。凯特尔·马特飞球出局。 响尾蛇 2, 国民队 0 国民队 三局 詹姆斯·伍德挥棒三振。柯蒂斯·米德四球上垒。安德烈斯·查帕罗击出二垒安打，柯蒂斯·米德推进至三垒。CJ·艾布拉姆击出二垒安打，安德烈斯·查帕罗得分，柯蒂斯·米德得分。迪伦·克鲁斯四球上垒。雅各布·杨击出安打，迪伦·克鲁斯推进至二垒。戴伦·莱尔击出三垒安打，雅各布·杨得分，迪伦·克鲁斯得分。纳西姆·努涅兹四球上垒。凯伯特·鲁伊兹飞球出局。 国民队 4, 响尾蛇 2 国民队 五局 CJ·艾布拉姆击出本垒打。迪伦·克鲁斯挥棒三振。雅各布·杨击出安打。戴伦·莱尔飞球出局。纳西姆·努涅兹内野高飞球出局。 国民队 5, 响尾蛇 2 响尾蛇 七局 伊尔德马罗·巴尔加斯击出安打。诺兰·阿雷纳多击出内野球出局，伊尔德马罗·巴尔加斯在二垒出局。蒂姆·塔瓦击出二垒安打。詹姆斯·麦康击出安打，蒂姆·塔瓦得分。马克斯·凯普勒替补瑞安·瓦尔德施密特出击。马克斯·凯普勒击出内野球出局。 国民队 5, 响尾蛇 3
国民队领先者 截至周日比赛。
击球手 AVG OBA 2B HR RBI BB SO 奥蒂兹......... .500 .500 1 0 0 0 0 艾布拉姆.... .293 .364 21 25 79 36 92 维默.... .286 .398 5 3 12 12 29 福特.......... .286 .375 1 1 4 1 6 加西亚....... .275 .308 16 21 70 16 56 鲁伊兹.......... .272 .300 20 7 35 8 27 伍德 ....... .269 .394 25 28 69 81 145 米德........ .254 .352 17 17 48 39 62 努涅兹 ...... .249 .332 4 1 30 36 73 特纳......... .246 .310 10 5 20 15 60 维瓦斯........ .245 .327 8 3 18 21 29 莱尔........... .244 .296 22 11 51 26 79 杨....... .232 .286 12 9 33 17 57 豪斯....... .227 .282 7 7 25 13 50 查帕罗 .. .222 .341 5 4 18 12 20
Dense Tabular Data (Omitted)
PITCHERS W L ERA IP ER BB SO Yean ............0 0 0.00 5.1 0 2 4 Cosgrove .....0 0 0.00 5 0 2 4 Fernández ...0 0 2.25 4 1 2 3 Poulin ..........3 0 2.70 36.2 11 21 25 Griffin........12 2 2.76 124 38 28 113 Cavalli..........7 4 3.58 110.2 44 34 127 Ribalta.........0 1 3.64 29.2 12 12 28 Beeter .........3 3 3.82 30.2 13 19 33 Krook...........0 1 3.86 4.2 2 3 4 Lord .............5 2 3.88 58 25 21 52 Lovelady......1 3 3.91 23 10 17 21 Alvarez........2 3 4.22 53.1 25 25 55 Lawrence.....0 0 4.26 6.1 3 7 6 Littell...........7 8 5.17 101 58 31 66 Irvin.............2 4 5.23 51.2 30 22 58 Mikolas........3 7 5.60 98 61 20 51 Schultz ........1 2 5.87 30.2 20 11 31
Dense Tabular Data (Omitted)
BATTING
BATTING
Lopez, Mia ....................................... .330 Arraez, SF ........................................ .320 Gonzales, Pit ................................... .312 McCarthy, Col .................................. .303
HOME RUNS
HOME RUNS
Schwarber, Phi ................................... 33 Goodman, Col ..................................... 31 Wood, Was ......................................... 28 Olson, Atl ............................................ 27
Walker, StL ......................................... 77 Abrams, Was ...................................... 76 Stewart, Cin ....................................... 75 García, Was ........................................ 70
Misiorowski, Mil ............................ 1.565 Sale, Atl ......................................... 2.189 Burns, Cin ...................................... 2.424 Wrobleski, LA ................................ 2.616
Misiorowski, Mil ............................... 173 Luzardo, Phi ...................................... 152 Sánchez, Phi ..................................... 151 Skenes, Pit ........................................ 138
SAVES
SAVES
Miller, SD ............................................ 26 O’Brien, StL ........................................ 26 Duran, Phi ........................................... 24 Sewald, Ari ......................................... 24
STRIKEOUTS
Entering Saturday’s games.
Alvarez, Hou .................................... .327 Díaz, TB ........................................... .304 Jung, Tex ......................................... .294
Alvarez, Hou ....................................... 34 Rice, NY .............................................. 30 Caminero, TB ...................................... 29
Alvarez, Hou ....................................... 77 Rice, NY .............................................. 71 Kurtz, Ath ........................................... 66 Contreras, Bos .................................... 66 Dingler, Det ........................................ 66 Alonso, Bal ......................................... 66
Schlittler, NY ................................. 2.072 Martinez, TB .................................. 2.587 Cease, Tor ...................................... 2.674 Messick, Cle ................................... 2.677
Smith, Cle ........................................... 29 Baker, TB ............................................ 26 Chapman, Bos ..................................... 24
CENTRAL W L Pct GB L10 Str
CENTRAL W L Pct GB L10 Str
Milwaukee 65 39 .625 — 6-4 W-1
Chicago 59 45 .567 6 7-3 W-2
St. Louis 53 51 .510 12 3-7 W-1
Pittsburgh 53 52 .505121/2 5-5 L-3
Cincinnati 48 55 .466 161/2 5-5 L-1
Rafael Devers 和 Jung Hoo Lee 各击出一支三分本垒打，Robbie Ray 投球 6 局无失分，旧金山击败了洛杉矶。
Ray 在被撤下之前，仅用 80 球完成了 5 次三振并允许 6 次安打。
angels (天使队) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Neto ss ...............3 0 0 0 0 1 .236 Peraza ss ............1 0 0 0 0 1 .239 Trout cf...............3 0 2 0 1 0 .237 Lowe rf ...............0 0 0 0 1 0 .207 Grissom 2b .........4 0 1 1 1 1 .255 Soler dh ..............5 0 0 0 0 1 .201 Schanuel 1b ........4 0 1 0 0 1 .282 Adell rf................2 0 1 0 1 1 .243 Meckler lf ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .297 Guzman 3b..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .240 Siri lf-cf ..............3 2 2 0 1 0 .281 O'Hoppe c ...........4 0 2 0 0 0 .216 Totals 34 2 9 1 5 6 —
angels (天使队) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Neto ss ...............4 1 1 0 1 2 .238 Trout cf...............2 0 0 1 2 1 .233 Schanuel 1b ........5 0 2 1 0 0 .282 Soler dh ..............5 1 1 0 0 3 .205 Grissom 2b-1b....5 1 2 2 0 1 .255 Meckler lf ...........5 0 0 0 0 2 .299 Adell rf................4 1 1 0 0 0 .241 Guzman 3b..........3 1 1 0 1 1 .248 Heineman c.........2 1 1 2 1 0 .181 Totals 35 6 9 6 5 10 —
Giants (巨人队) AB R HBI BBSOAVG Arraez 2b................. 4 2 2 1 0 1 .326 J.Rodriguez ph-2b... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .239 Ramos lf.................. 5 1 1 0 0 1 .262 Eldridge dh .............. 3 0 0 0 1 2 .263 Cavanaugh ph-dh .... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .225 Devers 1b ................ 4 2 3 4 0 0 .249 Koss 3b.................... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 Schmitt 3b-1b ......... 4 1 1 1 0 0 .272 Lee rf....................... 3 1 2 3 0 1 .302 McCray rf................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Adames ss............... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .225 Gilbert cf ................. 3 1 1 0 1 1 .235 Susac c .................... 3 1 0 0 0 0 .250 Totals 35 9 11 9 2 8 —
Giants (巨人队) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Arraez 2b...............5 0 3 0 0 0 .324 Ramos lf ................5 0 0 0 0 2 .263 Eldridge dh ............3 2 1 0 2 0 .266 Devers 1b ..............4 2 2 3 1 1 .244 Schmitt 3b.............4 1 1 3 0 1 .272 Lee rf .....................4 0 0 0 0 0 .299 Adames ss.............4 0 0 0 0 3 .225 Gilbert cf ...............2 0 2 0 1 0 .233 McCray pr-cf..........0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 Susac c...................2 0 0 1 0 0 .257 Cavanaugh ph-c.....1 0 0 0 0 1 .231 J.Rodriguez pr .......0 1 0 0 0 0 .244 Totals 34 7 9 7 5 8 —
L.A.................. 000 000 101 — 2 9 1 San Fran. .... 005 400 00x — 9 11 0
E: Siri (1). LOB: 洛杉矶 11, 旧金山 6. 2B: Siri (5), Adames (23), Lee (22), Devers (27). HR: Lee (6), 击球手 Johnson; Devers (22), 击球手 Suter.
angels (天使队) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Johnson............ 3 1/3 8 8 8 1 4 7.34 Suter ................ 2 2/3 2 1 1 0 4 4.42 Yates ................... 1 1 0 0 1 0 3.65 Heineman............ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Giants (巨人队) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Ray ...................... 6 6 0 0 2 5 3.16 Beck..................... 2 1 1 1 1 0 6.39 Winn.................... 1 2 1 1 2 1 3.38
WP: Ray (9-6); LP: Johnson (2-5). 承接跑者得分：Suter 2-2. HBP: Johnson (Susac), Beck (Neto), Yates (Lee). ABS Challenge_Adames (好球-推翻为坏球) T: 2:32. A: 39,102 (41,915). NL 比赛
尼克·洛夫汀在第九局击出打破平局的本垒打，帮助堪萨斯城击败底特律。
萨尔瓦多·佩雷斯击出了他个人在队史纪录第 318 个本垒打。这次本垒打打破了乔治·布雷特保持 40 年的纪录。
王者队 (Royals) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Jensen c................ 4 0 2 0 0 1 .241 Thomas cf............. 4 0 0 0 0 2 .229 Caglianone rf........ 4 0 0 0 0 0 .254 Perez dh................ 4 1 1 1 0 0 .210 Pasquantino 1b .... 4 1 3 0 0 0 .234 Loftin 3b............... 3 1 1 1 0 2 .250 Massey 2b ............ 3 0 0 1 0 0 .272 Collins lf ............... 4 0 0 0 0 0 .242 Velazquez ss ........ 2 0 0 0 0 0 .111 Marte ph............... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .260 Tolbert ss ............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .317 Totals 33 3 7 3 0 5 —
老虎队 (Tigers) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Keith 1b ..............4 0 2 0 0 1 .254 McGonigle ss......4 0 0 0 0 1 .278 Torres 2b ............3 0 0 0 1 0 .277 Carpenter dh.......3 0 1 0 0 1 .210 Dingler ph-dh......1 0 0 0 0 0 .271 Greene lf.............3 1 2 0 1 0 .285 Lee 3b .................4 1 2 2 0 1 .273 McKinstry rf .......4 0 1 0 0 0 .200 Vierling cf...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .203 Rogers c..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .161 Torkelson ph.......1 0 0 0 0 0 .204 Totals 34 2 8 2 2 5 —
堪萨斯城 ...010 000 101 — 3 7 0 底特律 ...........010 100 000 — 2 8 1
E: Torres (2). LOB: 堪萨斯城 5, 底特律 7. 2B: Keith (11), Greene (22), Lee (9). HR: Perez (15), off Finnegan; Loftin (5), off Waguespack; Lee (6), off Wacha. 王者队 (Royals) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Wacha ................. 7 6 2 2 2 3 3.60 Lynch................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.08 Lange................... 1 1 0 0 0 2 6.00
老虎队 (Tigers) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Mize..................... 6 3 1 1 0 3 2.70 Finnegan............. 1/3 2 1 1 0 1 2.54 Holton ................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.87 Waguespack..... 12/3 1 1 1 0 1 1.65
WP: Lynch (4-2); LP: Waguespack (0-1); S: Lange (10). 继承跑者得分为：Lange 1-0, Holton 1-0, Waguespack 1-0. WP: Mize, Waguespack. ABS Challenge_Wacha (Ball-Confirmed). T: 2:22. A: 32,867 (41,083).
新人库珀·普拉特和路易斯·拉腊各驱动了 3 分，罗伯特·加瑟表现稳健地投了 6 局，帮助密尔沃基击败科罗拉多。
21 岁的普拉特自 6 月中旬从 AAA 纳什维尔队被召回以来一直担任首发游击手，他击出了一支独跑本垒打、两支单打和一次牺牲飞球。
落基山队 (Rockies) AB R H BI BBSOAVG McCarthy lf.........5 0 1 2 0 1 .302 Karros 3b ............4 1 2 1 1 0 .266 Carrigg cf............4 1 1 0 1 1 .288 Goodman dh .......4 0 1 2 0 2 .259 Rumfield 1b........3 1 0 0 1 0 .298 Castro 2b ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .256 Fulford c..............2 0 0 0 0 1 .180 Sullivan ph-c.......2 1 0 0 0 0 .218 Freeman rf..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .253 Tovar ss..............2 1 1 0 1 0 .198 Totals 34 5 7 5 4 7 —
酿酒人队 (Brewers) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Yelich dh.............4 0 1 1 0 1 .243 Chourio lf............5 0 1 0 0 1 .275 Turang 2b ...........4 0 2 0 0 1 .267 Contreras c .........4 1 1 0 0 2 .274 Bauers 1b............3 3 2 0 1 1 .259 Mitchell cf ..........3 1 0 0 1 1 .272 Lara rf.................2 2 2 3 1 0 .276 Pratt ss...............3 1 3 3 0 0 .281 Hamilton 3b........4 0 1 0 0 2 .237 Totals 32 8 13 7 3 9 —
科罗拉多.... 000 200 003 — 5 7 1 密尔沃基 . 020 104 01x — 8 13 1
E: Fulford (1), Bauers (7). LOB: 科罗拉多 7, 密尔沃基 6. 2B: Carrigg (9), Yelich (17), Lara (2), Turang (25). HR: Pratt (2), off Feltner. 落基山队 (Rockies) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Feltner................. 5 9 5 5 1 4 5.73 Mejia ................... 1 2 2 1 1 1 5.48 Gordon................. 2 2 1 1 1 4 5.90
酿酒人队 (Brewers) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Gasser ................. 6 5 2 2 0 4 4.71 Patrick................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.48 McCullers ......... 12/3 1 3 0 4 1 6.55 Megill ................. 1/3 1 0 0 0 1 2.97
一场巨大的胜利
奥斯汀·威尔斯（Austin Wells）和贾森·多明格兹（Jasson Domínguez）击出本垒打，瑞安·韦瑟斯（Ryan Weathers）投球进入第六局，纽约队击败费城队。
科迪·贝林格（Cody Bellinger）击出单打、双击并为扬基队打入一分。
扬基队 (yankees) AB R H BI BBSO AVG Rosario 3b .............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 .229 McMahon ph-3b..... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Rice dh.................... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .271 Goldschmidt 1b...... 4 0 2 0 0 0 .259 Bellinger lf ............. 4 0 2 1 0 0 .259 Schuemann lf......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .228 Grisham cf.............. 4 0 0 0 0 0 .219 Domínguez rf ......... 4 1 1 1 0 1 .233 Chisholm 2b ........... 4 0 0 0 0 4 .223 Caballero ss............ 4 0 1 0 0 2 .241 Wells c.................... 2 2 1 1 1 0 .166 Totals 34 3 7 3 1 11 —
费城人队 (Phillies) AB R H BI BBSO AVG Turner ss ............3 1 1 0 0 1 .242 Schwarber dh .....4 0 2 0 0 1 .251 Harper 1b............3 0 0 1 0 0 .251 Bohm 3b..............3 0 0 0 1 0 .221 Sosa lf.................4 0 0 0 0 2 .212 De La Cruz rf.......3 0 2 0 0 1 .600 Crawford ph-cf ...1 0 0 0 0 0 .254 Realmuto c .........3 0 2 0 1 0 .229 Stott 2b ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .246 D.Hill cf...............2 0 0 0 0 1 .243 Marsh ph-cf-rf....2 0 0 0 0 0 .287 Totals 32 1 7 1 2 7 —
纽约 .... 001 001 100 — 3 7 0 费城............. 100 000 000 — 1 7 2
E: Bohm 2 (8). LOB: 纽约 5, 费城 8. 2B: 贝林格 (21), 施瓦伯 (12). HR: 威尔斯 (7), 面对 Keller; 多明格兹 (6), 面对 Alvarado.
扬基队 (yankees) IP H R ER BBSO ERA Weathers ......... 5 2/3 6 1 1 1 7 4.25 Chivilli ................ 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0.77 Blackburn ............ 2 0 0 0 1 0 1.93 Bednar................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.42
费城人队 (Phillies) IP H R ER BBSO ERA Mayza.................. 2 0 0 0 0 1 3.83 Keller................... 3 2 1 1 0 3 3.00 Backhus.............. 2/3 0 1 1 1 2 6.19 Johnson.............. 1/3 2 0 0 0 0 5.74 Alvarado.............. 1 2 1 1 0 1 6.16 Bowlan ................ 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.78 Duran................... 1 0 0 0 0 3 1.29
胜投 (WP): Weathers (4-7); 败投 (LP): Backhus (1-1); 救援成功 (S): Bednar (20). 接手跑者得分: Chivilli 1-0, Johnson 1-1. 触身球 (HBP): Weathers (Turner). ABS Challenge_Weathers (Ball-Confirmed) T: 2:40. 观众人数 (A): 44,562 (42,901).
Hunter Brown 投了七局，未失分，仅允许对方击出两支安打；Isaac Paredes 贡献了三分打点，帮助休斯顿队击败芝加哥队，取得五连胜。
Brown 在因右肩拉伤在伤病名单中度过 11 周后，这是他的第七次先发，仅允许对方击出两支单次安打。
Astros (休斯顿太空人) AB R H BI BBSO AVG Peña ss ...............4 2 3 0 0 1 .315 Alvarez dh ..........3 1 0 0 1 1 .325 Paredes 3b..........4 0 2 3 0 1 .263 Altuve 2b............4 0 0 0 0 0 .235 Allen 2b ..............0 0 0 0 0 0 .242 Wade lf...............3 0 1 0 0 1 .189 Trammell lf.........1 0 0 0 0 1 .230 Walker 1b ...........3 0 0 0 1 3 .232 Diaz c ..................4 0 0 0 0 1 .232 Spence cf ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .179 Smith rf ..............3 1 0 0 0 1 .208 Totals 33 4 6 3 2 12 —
white sox (芝加哥白袜) AB R H BI BBSO AVG Antonacci lf............3 0 0 0 0 0 .278 Grichuk ph-lf ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .243 Murakami 1b..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .231 Vargas 3b...............4 1 1 0 0 1 .243 C.Montgomery ss...4 0 1 1 0 1 .218 Benintendi dh.........3 0 0 0 0 3 .241 Acuña ph ................1 0 0 0 0 1 .245 B.Montgomery rf ...4 0 1 0 0 2 .250 Peters cf.................2 0 1 0 1 0 .287 Meidroth 2b ...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .276 Quero c...................3 0 0 0 0 0 .179 Totals 32 1 5 1 1 10 —
Houston...... 000 003 010 — 4 6 1 Chicago........ 000 000 001 — 1 5 1
E: Spence (1), B.Montgomery (3). LOB: Houston 5, Chicago 5.
Astros IP H R ER BBSO ERA Brown.................. 7 2 0 0 0 7 3.45 Abreu.................. 2/3 1 0 0 1 1 5.05 Sousa.................. 2/3 2 1 0 0 0 4.50 Hader.................. 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 1.35
white sox IP H R ER BBSO ERA Burke................... 6 4 3 2 1 10 3.19 Richards .............. 2 2 1 1 0 2 3.80 Schweitzer .......... 1 0 0 0 1 0 3.78
WEST (西区) W L Pct GB L10 Str
WEST (西区) W L Pct GB L10 Str
Los Angeles 67 38 .638 — 6-4 W-4 Arizona 55 50 .524 12 7-3 L-1 San Diego 52 53 .495 15 5-5 W-2 San Francisco 44 60 .423 22 1/2 5-5 W-2 Colorado 42 64 .396 25 1/2 3-7 L-1
Pete Crow-Armstrong 在 5 次打数中击中 4 安，包含一支本垒打和三分打点，率领芝加哥队大胜匹兹堡队。
Shota Imanaga 在 6 局中仅让匹兹堡队击出 4 安打，并有 4 次三振。
cubs (小熊队) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Crow-Armstrong cf...5 3 4 3 0 1 .291 Conforto lf.............1 0 0 0 0 0 .235 Suzuki rf................5 0 1 2 0 4 .266 Busch 1b................6 0 3 2 0 2 .245 Bregman 3b...........5 0 0 0 1 2 .234 Happ lf...................3 0 0 0 1 2 .221 Triantos ph-2b ......1 1 1 0 0 0 1.00 Hoerner 2b ............4 1 1 0 0 1 .244 Dean ph-cf.............1 0 0 0 0 1 .286 Ramirez dh-1b.......4 2 2 1 1 1 .295 Swanson ss...........4 2 2 1 1 1 .216 Amaya c ................4 2 2 2 0 1 .239 Totals (总计) 43 11 1611 4 16 —
Pirates (海盗队) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Mangum cf-lf..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .304 Gonzales 2b............4 0 1 0 0 1 .311 Reynolds lf..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .270 Callihan 1b-p...........1 0 0 0 0 1 .230 Valdez rf .................3 0 1 0 1 2 .283 O'Hearn 1b..............3 0 1 0 0 0 .278 Cook cf....................1 0 0 0 0 0 .205 Ozuna dh.................3 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Ross 1b...................1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Triolo 3b..................4 0 0 0 0 1 .243 Gonzalez ss ............3 0 0 0 0 1 .245 Davis c ....................2 0 1 0 0 0 .176 Totals (总计) 32 0 5 0 1 7 —
Chicago........ 000 035 210 — 11 16 1 Pittsburgh . 000 000 000 — 0 5 1
E: Swanson (6), Skenes (1). LOB: Chica- go 11, Pittsburgh 7. 2B: Crow-Armstrong 2 (19), Swanson (13), Ramirez (7). HR: Crow-Armstrong (23), off Marinaccio.
cubs (小熊队) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Imanaga .............. 6 4 0 0 1 4 3.72 Assad................... 3 1 0 0 0 3 3.86
Pirates (海盗队) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Skenes.............. 51/3 6 5 5 2 11 3.65 Mattson.............. 1/3 4 3 3 1 1 4.91 Marinaccio........ 11/3 3 2 2 1 1 5.03 Eisert................... 1 2 1 1 0 2 6.75 Callihan ............... 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
WP: Imanaga (7-8); LP: Skenes (9-9); S: Assad (1). Inherited runners-scored: Mattson 2-2, Marinaccio 2-0. HBP: Skenes (Amaya), Marinaccio (Suzuki), Assad (Davis). WP: Marinaccio. ABS Challenge_Suzuki (Strike-Overturned to Ball) T: 2:48. A: 39,105 (38,753).
凯尔·塔克 (Kyle Tucker) 连续第二场比赛击出本垒打，山本由伸 (Yoshinobu Yamamoto) 在六局顽强的投球中仅失一分，洛杉矶队击败了纽约队。
弗雷迪·弗里曼 (Freddie Freeman) 连续第三场比赛单场击球数达到三次，安迪·帕赫斯 (Andy Pages) 驱动两分。
道奇队 (dodgers) AB R H BI BBSOAVG 大谷 5 0 0 0 0 1 .282 (dh) 帕赫斯 4 1 1 2 0 0 .266 (cf) 弗里曼 4 0 3 0 0 0 .299 (1b) 蒙西 4 0 0 0 0 4 .259 (3b) 贝茨 4 0 1 0 0 1 .232 (ss) 埃德曼 3 0 0 0 0 0 .330 (2b) 塔克 3 1 1 1 1 1 .241 (rf) 赫南德斯 3 1 1 0 1 1 .247 (lf) 鲁辛 4 1 1 0 0 1 .243 (c) 总计 34 4 8 3 2 9 —
纽约大都会队 (mets) AB R H BI BBSOAVG 尤因 5 0 0 0 0 2 .263 (lf) 林多尔 3 0 0 0 2 1 .224 (ss) 比舍特 5 0 2 1 0 0 .255 (3b) 本格 4 1 1 0 0 1 .260 (rf) 罗伯特 2 1 0 0 2 1 .210 (cf) 波兰科 4 0 0 0 0 2 .154 (dh) 塞门 4 0 0 0 0 1 .204 (2b) 贝蒂 3 1 1 0 0 2 .224 (1b) 泰勒 1 0 1 2 0 0 .234 (ph) 杨 0 0 0 0 0 0 .255 (1b) 阿尔瓦雷兹 2 0 1 0 2 1 .260 (c) 总计 33 3 6 3 6 11 —
L.A.................. 003 010 000 — 4 8 0 纽约 .... 000 010 020 — 3 6 1
E: 贝蒂 (7)。LOB: 洛杉矶 6, 纽约 10。2B: 赫南德斯 (11), 泰勒 (8)。 HR: 塔克 (9)，对方投手 McLean。
道奇队 (dodgers) IP H R ERBBSO ERA 山本 6 5 1 1 3 5 2.72 维西亚 1 0 0 0 1 1 2.55 亨里克兹 2/3 0 2 2 1 2 2.81 T. 斯科特 1/3 1 0 0 1 1 2.32 斯图尔特 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.03
纽约大都会队 (mets) IP H R ERBBSO ERA 麦克莱恩 6 7 4 2 2 7 3.32 杜阿尔特 2 1 0 0 0 2 0.00 布拉佐班 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.70
WP: 山本 (11-6); LP: 麦克莱恩 (7-7); S: 斯图尔特 (1)。承接跑者得分：T.斯科特 2-2。IBB: 对方投手 T.斯科特 (阿尔瓦雷兹)。HBP: 杜阿尔特 (埃德曼), 亨里克兹 (本格)。PB: 阿尔瓦雷兹 (8)。ABS挑战_尤因 (好球-确认)。投球计时违规_斯科特 (投手)。T: 2:48。A: 36,356 (42,136)。
坦帕湾 61 43 .587 — 5-5 W-2
纽约 59 45 .567 2 7-3 W-3
波士顿 53 50 .515 7 1/2 8-2 L-1
巴尔的摩 51 54 .486 10 1/2 7-3 W-1
多伦多 48 57 .457 13 1/2 3-7 W-1
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安德烈·帕兰特 (Andre Pallante) 在七局强有力的投球中完成了本赛季最高 8 次三振，圣路易斯队在第六局下半攻下 6 分，在对阵辛辛那提队的比赛中获胜。
帕兰特仅允许 2 次安打和 1 次保送。
在第六局一出局的情况下，红雀队连续 6 名球员上垒，随后内森·丘奇 (Nathan Church) 完成了一次安全挤压触击，帮助布莱恩·托雷斯 (Bryan Torres) 得分，将比分扩大为 7-0。
红人队 (Reds) AB R H BI BBSOAVG 德拉库兹 3 0 1 0 1 1 .276 (ss) 斯图尔特 4 0 1 0 0 1 .251 (1b) 布莱戴 2 0 1 0 2 0 .238 (lf) 苏亚雷斯 4 0 0 0 0 4 .210 (dh) 史蒂芬森 4 0 0 0 0 2 .245 (c) 马特 4 0 0 0 0 0 .184 (rf) 弗里德尔 3 0 0 0 0 2 .171 (cf) 阿罗约 3 0 0 0 0 1 .248 (2b) 海耶斯 3 0 0 0 0 1 .143 (3b) 总计 30 0 3 0 3 12 —
红雀队 (Cardinals) AB R H BI BBSOAVG 韦瑟霍尔特 3 2 0 0 1 1 .256 (2b) 沃克 4 0 2 0 0 1 .290 (rf) 伯莱森 4 1 3 1 0 1 .285 (1b) 埃雷拉 4 1 2 2 0 1 .242 (c) 努特巴 2 1 0 0 1 0 .242 (lf) 费明 1 0 0 0 0 0 .256 (lf) 温 4 1 1 0 0 1 .235 (ss) 托雷斯 4 1 1 1 0 0 .216 (dh) 乔丹 4 0 1 2 0 0 .245 (3b) 丘奇 3 0 0 1 0 1 .225 (cf) 总计 33 7 10 7 2 6 —
辛辛那提... 000 000 000 — 0 3 1 圣路易斯....... 100 006 00x — 7 10 0
E: 德拉库兹 (9)。LOB: 辛辛那提 6, 圣路易斯 5。2B: 沃克 (23), 埃雷拉 (15)。
红人队 (Reds) IP H R ERBBSO ERA 格林 5 1/3 8 7 6 2 3 7.06 莫尔 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 4.32 佩蒂 2 2 0 0 0 2 4.23
红雀队 (Cardinals) IP H R ERBBSO ERA 帕兰特 7 2 0 0 1 8 3.77 格雷塞福 2 1 0 0 2 4 3.16
WP: 帕兰特 (11-6); LP: 格林 (2-2)。承接跑者得分：莫尔 2-1。ABS挑战_格林 (坏球-确认) T: 2:19。A: 33,975 (44,494)。
尼克·马丁内斯 (Nick Martinez) 投了 6 局强势表现，延迪·迪亚兹 (Yandy Díaz) 成为坦帕湾历史上第 4 位达到 1,000 次安打的球员，光芒队击败了克利夫兰队。
朱尼尔·卡米内罗 (Junior Caminero) 在第 5 局击出了一支打点双击，使坦帕湾队以 1-0 领先，随后塞德里克·马林斯 (Cedric Mullins) 通过一次牺牲飞球扩大了领先优势。亨特·费杜西亚 (Hunter Feduccia) 在第 6 局完成了一次牺牲触击，帮助小维克多·梅萨 (Victor Mesa Jr.) 得分。
守护者队 (Guardians) AB R H BI BBSO AVG Kwan lf-cf...........4 0 1 0 0 1 .248 Ramírez 3b .........4 0 1 0 0 0 .239 Bazzana dh .........4 0 2 0 0 0 .242 Rocchio ss...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .271 Martínez rf .........4 0 0 0 0 1 .231 Manzardo 1b.......3 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Arias 2b ..............3 0 1 0 0 2 .252 Bailey c ...............2 0 0 0 0 1 .200 Hedges ph-c........1 0 0 0 0 1 .287 Halpin cf .............2 0 0 0 0 0 .193 Fry ph-lf..............0 0 0 0 1 0 .186 Totals 31 0 5 0 1 8 —
光芒队 (Rays) AB R H BI BBSO AVG Díaz dh....................4 1 2 0 0 2 .306 Aranda 1b...............4 1 1 0 0 2 .282 Caminero 3b ...........4 0 1 1 0 1 .285 Mullins cf................3 0 0 1 0 1 .202 Simpson lf ..............4 0 2 0 0 1 .293 Mesa rf...................3 1 1 0 1 2 .227 Palacios 2b .............3 0 1 0 1 0 .234 Walls ss..................0 0 0 0 0 0 .224 Williamson ss-2b ...3 0 0 0 0 0 .248 Feduccia c...............2 0 1 1 0 0 .233 Totals 30 3 9 3 2 9 —
克利夫兰... 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 坦帕湾 .. 000 021 00x — 3 9 0
LOB: 克利夫兰 5, 坦帕湾 7. 2B: 迪亚兹 (18), 卡米内罗 (17). 守护者队 (Guardians) IP H R ER BBSO ERA Bibee ................... 6 9 3 3 2 5 3.89 Dion ..................... 2 0 0 0 0 4 4.58
光芒队 (Rays) IP H R ER BBSO ERA Martinez.............. 6 4 0 0 0 5 2.45 Sulser .................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.86 Cleavinger ........... 1 0 0 0 1 2 3.60 Baker ................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.60
芝加哥 (Chicago) 54 49 .524 6-4 L-2
克利夫兰 (Cleveland) 54 52 .509 11 4-6 L-4
明尼苏达 (Minnesota) 52 54 .491 31 5-5 W-1
底特律 (Detroit) 50 55 .476 5 6-4 L-1
堪萨斯城 (Kansas City) 44 62 .415 111 6-4 W-1
勇士 AB R H BI BBSOAVG Baldwin c............4 0 1 0 0 1 .273 Albies 2b.............4 1 1 1 0 1 .264 Olson 1b..............3 1 0 0 1 1 .267 Harris cf..............4 0 1 0 0 1 .299 Dubón lf..............4 0 1 1 0 0 .265 Smith dh.............3 0 0 0 1 0 .259 Riley 3b...............4 0 0 0 0 3 .217 Yastrzemski rf....2 0 1 0 0 1 .228 White ph-rf.........1 0 1 0 0 0 .220 Hicklen ph-rf.......1 0 0 0 0 1 .368 Jarvis ss..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .271 Totals 33 2 6 2 2 9 —
金莺 AB R H BI BBSOAVG Beavers rf...........4 0 2 1 1 1 .255 Alonso 1b............4 1 0 0 0 0 .247 Henderson ss......4 1 1 1 0 3 .223 Ward lf................3 0 1 0 1 2 .251 Encarnacion- Strand 3b............4 0 1 1 0 2 .375
Taveras cf...........3 0 0 0 1 1 .232 O'Neill dh............4 0 0 0 0 2 .209 Holliday 2b..........3 1 2 0 1 0 .229 Tromp c...............3 0 0 0 0 3 .205 Cowser ph...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .205 Totals 33 3 7 3 4 14 —
亚特兰大....... 000 001 010 — 2 6 2 巴尔的摩... 001 010 001 — 3 7 0
得分跑者进垒时已有两个出局。 E: Jarvis 2 (4). LOB: 亚特兰大 6, 巴尔的摩 8. 2B: Harris (21), White (6), Holliday (4). HR: Albies (17), off Garcia; Henderson (18), off Elder. RBI: Dubón (55), Albies (57), Encarnacion-Strand (9), Henderson (45), Beavers (17). SB: Alonso (5). 勇士 IP H R ERBBSO ERA Elder .................... 5 4 2 1 4 8 3.96 Mederos .............. 2 1 0 0 0 3 3.86 Fuentes ............ 12/3 2 1 1 0 3 2.70
金莺 IP H R ERBBSO ERA B.Young............ 61/3 4 1 1 2 6 3.13 Wolfram............. 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 4.40 Garcia .................. 1 1 1 1 0 1 3.00 Cano..................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.34
WP: Cano (2-2); LP: Fuentes (4-1). ABS Challenge_Young (球-更改为好球) T: 2:34. A: 37,883 (45,971).
金莺击球手领先榜 截至周日比赛。
AVG HR RBI BB SO Encarnacion-Strand..375 3 9 1 6 Alexander .................312 4 29 16 54 Mountcastle .............286 0 1 1 2 Beavers.....................255 2 17 18 42 Jackson.....................252 7 38 5 44 Ward.........................251 7 27 81 97 Rutschman ...............251 8 47 30 40 Alonso.......................247 21 66 54 113 Basallo......................241 16 46 26 82
Dylan Cease 在第六局之前保持无安打状态，最终以一次被安打的完封赛结束，George Springer 击出三分本垒打，多伦多令波士顿陷入低迷。
作为美国联盟的全明星先发投手，Cease 在第六局给 Andruw Monasterio 允许了一次开局二垒安打。此前唯一的跑者是在第五局给 Caleb Durbin 的四球保送。
Cease 共有 12 次三振，包括最后 6 个出局数。
蓝鸟 AB R H BI BBSOAVG Lukes rf-lf...........5 1 2 0 0 1 .290 V.Guerrero 1b.....4 1 3 2 1 0 .267 Okamoto 3b........5 1 1 0 0 2 .226 Springer dh.........5 1 2 3 0 1 .229 Varsho cf ............4 1 2 0 0 0 .247 Clement 2b .........4 0 3 1 0 0 .298 Piñango lf ...........2 0 0 0 0 1 .263 Straw ph-rf.........2 0 0 0 0 1 .213 Giménez ss.........4 1 2 0 0 2 .227 Valenzuela c .......4 0 0 0 0 1 .227 Totals 39 6 15 6 1 9 —
红袜 AB R H BI BBSOAVG Seigler 2b............3 0 0 0 1 1 .265 Rafaela cf ...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .279 Abreu rf ..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .253 Contreras 1b.......2 0 0 0 1 2 .291 Yoshida dh..........3 0 0 0 0 0 .261 Durbin 3b............2 0 0 0 1 1 .233 Duran lf...............3 0 0 0 0 2 .192 Monasterio ss ....3 0 1 0 0 1 .250 Wong c................3 0 0 0 0 2 .266 Totals 27 0 1 0 3 12 —
多伦多 ...... 005 000 001 — 6 15 0 波士顿......... 000 000 000 — 0 1 0
LOB: 多伦多 7, 波士顿 3. 2B: Lukes 2 (11), Clement (24), Monasterio (16). HR: Springer (11), off Gray. 蓝鸟 IP H R ERBBSO ERA Cease................... 9 1 0 0 3 12 2.46
红袜 IP H R ERBBSO ERA Gray..................... 5 10 5 5 0 3 2.78 Gamboa ............... 4 5 1 1 1 6 2.08
WP: Cease (7-5); LP: Gray (12-2). ABS Challenge_Duran (好球-确认) T: 2:25. A: 36,902 (37,755).
内森·埃瓦尔迪 (Nathan Eovaldi) 在 7 局比赛中仅允许 3 次安打并完成了 8 次三振；而怀亚特·朗福德 (Wyatt Langford) 和乔克·佩德森 (Joc Pederson) 各贡献 3 次安打，助力德州队战胜西雅图队。
埃瓦尔迪本赛季已有 5 场比赛投球局数至少达到 7 局，在全大联盟中排名第二，仅次于费城的克里斯托弗·桑切斯 (Christopher Sánchez) 的 6 场。
海之王 (Mariners) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Young 2b.............4 0 0 0 0 0 .253 Rodríguez dh ......4 0 0 0 0 2 .254 Canzone rf ..........4 0 0 0 0 1 .253 Arozarena lf........4 0 1 0 0 1 .280 Naylor 1b ............3 0 0 0 1 1 .257 Raleigh c.............3 0 0 0 0 1 .163 Raley cf...............2 1 1 0 0 1 .231 Wilson ph ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .229 Robles cf.............0 0 0 0 0 0 .241 Crawford 3b........3 0 2 1 0 1 .220 Emerson ss.........3 0 1 0 0 1 .200 Totals 31 1 5 1 1 9 —
游骑兵 (Rangers) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Pederson 1b........5 1 3 0 0 0 .251 Langford lf..........4 2 3 1 0 1 .290 Cauley 2b............1 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Duran ss-3b ........4 1 2 2 0 1 .270 Nimmo rf ............3 1 0 0 1 0 .269 Carter cf..............2 1 1 1 2 1 .192 Lopez 2b-ss ........3 1 1 1 1 0 .314 Osuna dh.............4 0 1 2 0 1 .263 Smith 3b-lf .........4 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Wynns c..............4 0 1 0 0 2 .086 Totals 34 7 12 7 4 7 —
西雅图........ 000 010 000 — 1 5 0 德州............ 320 000 20x — 7 12 0
LOB（残垒）：西雅图 4, 德州 7。2B（二垒安打）：Crawford (11), Langford 2 (11), Carter (8), Pederson (10), Osuna (5)。3B（三垒安打）：Duran (3)。
海之王 (Mariners) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Woo..................... 5 9 5 5 2 5 4.37 Wilcox .............. 12/3 1 1 1 1 2 3.57 Davila ............... 11/3 2 1 1 1 0 3.57
游骑兵 (Rangers) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Eovaldi................. 7 3 1 1 1 8 4.05 Ahlstrom............. 1 1 0 0 0 1 5.40 Peoples................ 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.45
泰·弗朗斯 (Ty France) 击出 3 分，JP·希尔斯 (JP Sears) 在 31/3 局中仅允许 1 次安打并完成 3 次三振，圣迭戈队击败迈阿密队。
弗朗斯在第三局击出了一支两分安打，并在第八局通过一次安打再次送回一分。
马林队先发投手尤里·佩雷斯 (Eury Pérez) 投了 7 局，允许 7 次安打和 3 分之自责分。他完成了 2 次三振，并有 1 次四球保送。
教徒 (Padres) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Tatis dh................. 4 1 0 0 1 0 .280 Cronenworth 2b.... 3 2 1 1 2 1 .206 Machado 3b........... 5 1 1 0 0 1 .207 France 1b............... 4 1 2 3 0 1 .283 Merrill cf ............... 4 2 3 0 0 0 .228 Rengifo lf .............. 3 0 1 0 1 0 .232 Sheets rf ............... 2 0 0 1 0 0 .213 Bowen rf ............... 1 0 1 2 0 0 .148 Bogaerts ss........... 4 0 1 0 0 0 .218 Fermin c ................ 3 0 1 0 0 0 .166 Totals 33 7 11 7 4 3 —
马林 (Marlins) AB R H BI BBSOAVG Lopez ss..............2 0 1 1 1 0 .331 Stowers 1b .........3 0 1 1 1 1 .230 Hernández lf.......4 0 0 0 0 1 .246 Edwards 2b.........4 0 0 0 0 0 .289 Hicks c ................4 0 0 0 0 0 .279 Sanoja 3b............4 0 0 0 0 0 .266 Conine dh............3 0 0 0 0 2 .262 Ruiz rf.................2 2 2 0 0 0 .255 Marsee cf............2 0 1 0 1 1 .195 Totals 28 2 5 2 3 5 —
圣迭戈 .... 002 000 131 — 7 11 0 迈阿密............ 001 000 010 — 2 5 0
LOB（残垒）：圣迭戈 5, 迈阿密 4。2B（二垒安打）：Merrill 2 (17), Machado (17)。
教徒 (Padres) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Vásquez............ 22/3 1 1 1 2 0 4.68 Sears ................ 31/3 1 0 0 1 3 3.86 Matsui................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.61 Waldron............... 2 3 1 1 0 1 7.16
马林 (Marlins) IP H R ERBBSO ERA Pérez ................... 7 7 3 3 1 2 3.56 Fulton.................. 2 4 4 4 3 1 5.25
WP（胜投）：Sears (3-3)；LP（败投）：Pérez (5-8)。HBP（触身球）：Pérez (Fermin), Vásquez (Ruiz)。WP（野手助攻）：Fulton。ABS Challenge_Ruiz (Strike-Confirmed) T: 3:15。A: 22,319 (37,446)。
艾伦·罗登击出了一支两分安打，明尼苏达队击败了运动家队。
在罗登于第六局下半面对运动家队救援投手梅森·巴内特击出两分安打之前，双城队在之前的 27 个局中有 25 局没有得分。明尼苏达队在周五的系列赛揭幕战中被零封。
运动家队 AB R H BI BBSO AVG Wilson ss............4 0 0 0 0 0 .282 Kurtz dh..............4 0 0 0 0 4 .263 Soderstrom lf .....4 0 1 0 0 1 .248 Heim c.................4 0 0 0 0 1 .233 White 3b.............4 0 0 0 0 1 .296 Walton 2b...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .290 McNeil 1b............4 0 2 0 0 1 .240 Bolte cf ...............2 0 0 0 1 1 .250 Butler rf..............0 0 0 0 2 0 .199 Totals 30 0 3 0 3 10 —
双城队 AB R H BI BBSO AVG Larnach lf............4 0 1 0 0 1 .293 Martin lf .............0 0 0 0 0 0 .241 Buxton cf ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .269 Clemens 2b.........3 0 0 0 1 1 .237 Bell dh.................3 1 0 0 1 1 .243 Lewis 1b .............4 1 1 0 0 1 .212 Caratini c ............3 0 2 0 0 0 .236 Roden rf..............3 0 1 2 0 1 .226 Lee 3b .................3 0 0 0 0 1 .246 Kreidler ss ..........3 0 1 0 0 0 .231 Totals 30 2 6 2 2 8 —
运动家队 .... 000 000 000 — 0 3 0 明尼苏达.. 000 002 00x — 2 6 1
E: Morris (2). LOB: 运动家队 7, 明尼苏达 6. 2B: McNeil 2 (13), Kreidler (5), Lewis (13).
运动家队 IP H R ER BBSO ERA Basso................ 21/3 2 0 0 1 3 5.06 Barnett............. 31/3 4 2 2 1 2 4.74 Suarez ................ 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 4.25 Juenger ............... 1 0 0 0 0 0 6.75 Medina ................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.64
双城队 IP H R ER BBSO ERA Rojas.................... 4 1 0 0 1 5 2.81 Rogers ................. 2 1 0 0 1 2 5.17 Nance .................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 3.76 Morris.................. 1 0 0 0 1 2 3.24 Gómez ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.40
WP: Rogers (6-3); LP: Barnett (1-1); S: Gómez (13). 承接跑者得分：Barnett 1-0, Suarez 1-0. ABS Challenge_Rojas (Ball-Confirmed) T: 2:25. A: 30,873 (38,544).
周五晚间
拉斐尔·德弗斯在首次击球中击出全垒打，并在第 10 局击出再见两分安打，圣弗朗西斯科击败了洛杉矶。
洛杉矶 .............. 100 030 020 0 — 6 9 1 圣弗朗西斯科... 203 000 100 1 — 7 9 0
当获胜得分跑者得分时有一个出局。 E: Zeferjahn (1). LOB: 洛杉矶 7, 圣弗朗西斯科 6. 2B: Eldridge (14). 3B: Neto (3), Heineman (1). HR: Grissom (6), off Foley; Devers (21), off G.Rodriguez; Schmitt (21), off G.Rodriguez.
天使队 IP H R ER BBSO ERA G.Rodriguez......... 4 6 5 5 2 3 8.54 Suter ................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.47 Fermin................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.76 Yates ................... 1 0 1 1 1 0 3.80 Natera ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.33 Zeferjahn............. 1 0 0 0 1 1 3.75 Silseth................ 1/3 2 1 0 1 0 2.87
巨人队 IP H R ER BBSO ERA Webb................... 6 6 4 4 2 4 3.98 Smith................... 1 0 0 0 1 3 2.81 Foley.................... 1 2 2 2 0 1 6.00 Miller................... 1 0 0 0 2 1 2.97 Kilian ................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.57
德克萨斯 53 51 .510 — 5-5 W-2
休斯顿 52 54 .491 2 6-4 W-5
西雅图 51 54 .486 21/2 4-6 L-4
运动家队 44 60 .423 9 3-7 L-1
洛杉矶 41 64 .390121/2 3-7 L-3
太空人队：将右投 Spencer Arrighetti 放入 15 天伤兵名单。 运动家队：将一垒手 Nick Kurtz 从预备名单中恢复，并将三垒手 Max Muncy 下放到 AAA 级拉斯维加斯队。 蓝鸟队：将外野手 Jesús Sánchez 和右投 Yimi García 派遣至低 A 级邓迪丁队进行康复训练。 勇士队：将右投 Elieser Hernández 指定为可被交易（DFA），并从 AAA 级格温内特队召回左投 Connor Thomas。 大都会队：将外野手 Juan Soto 放入 10 天伤兵名单，并从锡拉丘兹队召回一垒手 Eric Wagaman。 光芒队：将左投 Steven Matz 从 15 天伤兵名单中恢复，并将右投 Chris Roycroft 下放到 AAA 级达勒姆队。 老虎队：将游击手 Javier Báez 派遣至 AAA 级托莱多队进行康复训练。
响尾蛇 对 国民队，1:35
胜-负 防御率 球队
胜-负 防御率 球队
胜-负 防御率 球队
Drake (L) 0-0 1.80 1-0
Mikolas (R) 3-7 5.60 4-4
小熊 对 海盗，1:35
Taillon (R) 2-5 5.38 6-8
Ashcraft (R) 9-4 3.95 13-7
道员 对 都会，1:40
Sheehan (R) 4-7 5.13 8-10
Peralta (R) 5-9 5.01 9-12
教士 对 马林鱼，1:40
Buehler (R) 6-5 5.23 13-7
Junk (R) 4-6 5.09 6-7
落基山 对 酿造者，2:10
Freeland (L) 2-9 7.28 6-12
Misiorowski (R) 10-4 1.56 12-7
红人 对 基数, 2:15
Abbott (L) 5-6 3.89 10-11
Leahy (R) 7-4 3.59 9-10
周五赛果 亚利桑那 3, 客场 华盛顿 2 科罗拉多 5, 客场 密尔沃基 2 芝加哥小熊 3, 客场 匹兹堡 2 (10) 洛杉矶道员 4, 客场 纽约都会 2 圣迭戈 4, 客场 迈阿密 2 辛辛那提 4, 客场 圣路易斯 2
周六赛果 主场 华盛顿 5, 亚利桑那 3 圣迭戈 7, 客场 迈阿密 2 芝加哥小熊 11, 客场 匹兹堡 0 主场 圣路易斯 7, 辛辛那提 0 主场 密尔沃基 8, 科罗拉多 5 洛杉矶道员 4, 客场 纽约都会 3
勇士 对 金莺，1:35
López (R) 4-3 3.96 6-4
Baz (R) 4-9 4.05 6-14
天使 对 巨人，4:05
Soriano (R) 8-6 3.43 11-10
Whisenhunt (L) 2-0 3.38 2-0
洋基 对 费城，7:20
Warren (R) 7-4 4.00 13-6
Sánchez (L) 12-4 2.65 15-6
周五赛果 亚特兰大 7, 客场 巴尔的摩 6 (10) 纽约洋基 1, 客场 费城 0 主场 旧金山 7, 洛杉矶天使 6 (10)
周六赛果 主场 巴尔的摩 3, 亚特兰大 0 主场 旧金山 9, 洛杉矶天使 2 纽约洋基 3, 客场 费城 1
守护者 对 光芒，12:15
Messick (L) 8-5 2.68 12-8
Rasmussen (R) 8-5 3.28 10-9
蓝基 对 红袜，1:35
Gausman (R) 4-9 4.51 8-13
Suarez (L) 4-3 3.15 9-8
皇家 对 猛虎，1:40
Avila (R) 5-3 4.86 7-3
Valdez (L) 5-7 4.57 8-12
运动家 对 双城，2:10
Springs (L) 3-9 5.96 8-12
太空人 对 白袜，2:10
Blanco (R) 0-0 7.71 1-0
Fedde (R) 5-6 4.16 6-4
水手 对 德州游骑兵，2:35
Gilbert (R) 8-6 3.38 12-8
deGrom (R) 7-6 3.76 11-8
周五赛果 主场 底特律 2, 堪萨斯城 1 主场 坦帕湾 11, 克利夫兰 3 主场 波士顿 6, 多伦多 4 运动家 2, 客场 明尼苏达 0 主场 德克萨斯 5, 西雅图 4 休斯敦 9, 客场 芝加哥白袜 5
浪费再见得分的机会
作者：TAYLOR LYONS
巴尔的摩 —— 迈克·埃利亚斯本人 强调了交易截止日前这 最后几天的重要性。周五，在 庆祝凯尔·布雷迪什合同延期的 新闻发布会上，这位棒球运营 总裁表示：“接下来的几场比赛 非常重要。”
在巴尔的摩于当晚失利后，布兰登·扬 在周六凭借新先发击球手 迪伦·比弗斯的帮助，带领球队重回正轨。
一场 3-2 击败勇士的比赛中，这位右投手 在 6 1/3 局中仅失一分，而比弗斯 在第九局击出再见安打。这是金莺队 三场比赛中的第二场胜利，使其战绩 达到 51-54, 距离美联最后一个 外卡席位仅落后 2 1/2 场。
扬在前五局未失分，直到第六局 失一分。但他通过用投球手 接住一个反弹回来的击球， 将迈克尔·哈里斯二世挡在三垒。
比弗斯连续第二个夜晚在板凳顶端击球， 他在第九局两出局且杰克逊·霍利戴在 垒上时出击。
“我们一直以来表现出色，打出了高质量的棒球，所以我们希望继续保持，” CJ·艾布拉姆斯说，右图。
表现出色，打出了高质量的棒球，所以我们 希望继续保持。”
国民队击败之背之队
国民队 续自 B1 页
不过，如果不是福斯特·格里芬再次展现稳健表现，亚伯拉姆斯的努力或许并不关键。这位左投手在 6 2/3 局中仅失 3 分，进一步提升了他本已极高的交易价值。
在第三局，瑞安·沃尔德施密特以内野安打开局，随后格里芬用一颗沉球击中了科宾·卡罗尔。两人均在加布里埃尔·莫雷诺的一次单打中得分，而莫雷诺在试图进到二垒时被出局。
之背之队并没有维持太久的领先。在本局下半，柯蒂斯·米德的保送和安德烈斯·查帕罗的双打为亚伯拉姆斯创造了跑者在二、三垒的机会。他通过一次双打建功，不过随后在尝试盗垒时被迅速抓获，成为第二个出局者。
但国民队并未就此停止。戴伦·莱尔击出了一次三垒安打——这是他本赛季的第 5 次，比路易斯·加西亚二世多 1 次，暂列球队领先——这次击球帮助迪伦·克鲁斯和雅各布·扬得分，将比分改写为 4-2。
两局之后，亚伯拉姆斯将一颗 0-1 的沉球击出，完成了他本赛季的第 25 支本垒打，将领先优势扩大到 5-2。
“感谢我们的击球教练帮助他简化计划，简化方法，让他回到在击球区保持极简状态，并寻找他能造成破坏的球种，”布特拉说道。
在接下来的 3 局中，格里芬成功守住了比分，让亚利桑那队的击球手们依次出局。克鲁斯在第五局通过在警告线上的奔跑接球，阻止了詹姆斯·麦坎一次可能的长打。格里芬没有瞄准之背之队击球较多的两边角落，而是将球投向区域中心。
这一策略一直奏效到第七局。蒂姆·塔瓦在格里芬投出的第 101 颗球时击出双打，而麦坎在格里芬投出的第 108 颗球时将其送回本垒。布特拉换上了右投手埃迪·耶安，格里芬在全场起立鼓掌声中走下投手丘，这本可能成为
第三局。比弗斯（Beavers）将他面对的首颗投球——来自救援投手迪迪埃·富恩特斯（Didier Fuentes）的一记 100-mph 速球——击向右侧。在比弗斯触及 1 垒之前，他的头盔已经脱离头部飞向空中，队友们纷纷地从休息区冲出迎接他。
克里斯蒂安·恩卡纳西翁-斯特兰德（Christian Encarnacion-Strand）在第三局击出了一支打点安打，延续了他加盟金莺队后令人印象深刻的开局。在勇者队的新秀游击手吉姆·贾维斯（Jim Jarvis）漏接了皮特·阿隆索（Pete Alonso）的高飞球且泰勒·沃德（Taylor Ward）击出安打后，恩卡纳西翁-斯特兰德击出了一记直线球，球击中贾维斯的手套后掉在野外草地上，帮助阿隆索得分。
冈纳·亨德森（Gunnar Henderson）在第五局击出了本月仅有的第二支本垒球。随着 7 月接近尾声，他的打击率仍仅为 .223，而 OPS 为职业生涯最低的 .701。
在里科·加西亚（Rico Garcia）于第八局被击出本赛季第八支本垒球（这也是他连续第三场比赛被击出长打）之后，金莺队需要比弗斯的英雄主义表现。
这次失分让金莺队在短暂的一刻失去了领先优势。但比弗斯，这位仍在大联盟中寻找定位的年轻外野手，重新夺回了领先地位。
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他最后一次主场先发。
格里芬（Griffin）将在星期一年满 31 岁，他说处于这样的境地感觉很奇怪。他对先发结束的方式感到沮丧，因为他希望带领国民队撑过第七局，但他感谢大家的支持。他知道如果国民队决定出售球员——即使他们决定不这么做——他也可能是球队愿意放弃的一员。
“我尽量不让它影响我，但我也是人，对吧？”格里芬说。“所以我现在的工作就是出场为国民队投球，尝试在比赛中投到深局并赢得比赛。这是我唯一能做的。这就是我目前的全部关注点，无论发生什么，就随它去吧。”
在第七局下半，由于亚伯拉姆斯（Abrams）的领先安打（他当天的第三次击球）以及克鲁斯（Crews）和纳西姆·努涅斯（Nasim Nuñez）的保送，国民队形成了满垒。尽管他们未能得分，但这并不重要，因为叶恩（Yean）和克莱顿·比特（Clayton Beeter）共计投了 21/3 局无失分。
“埃迪（Eddy）的作用太大了。我的意思是，他在第七局登场，然后在第八局面对 1-2-3 棒时那样轻松地解决战斗，他将对我们产生巨大影响。这次表现不可思议，而且还是在主场，”布特拉（Butera）说。“能这样没有波折地结束比赛真是太好了。”
— 巴尔的摩太阳报
WTTG (Ch. 5)
这位“国王”加盟76人队的动机似乎很纯粹
作者：迈克·西尔斯基 (MIKE SIELSKI) 《费城询问者报》(Philadelphia Inquirer)
费城 —— 如果勒布朗·詹姆斯的话可信，如果他在周五早晨在 Twitter/X 上解释为何决定震惊篮球世界并签约 76 人队时说的是实话，如果他是发自肺腑而非仅仅试图向新城市和球迷群体推销他的选择，那么这将是费城体育史上的一个里程碑时刻。
勒布朗加盟 76 人队与这里发生过的任何事情都不同。记忆力好的人倾向于认为，皮特·罗斯在 1978 年签约费城人队，或者 76 人队在 1982 年交易得到摩西·马龙具有可比性，这可以理解。那些超级巨星恰恰提供了这些球队夺冠所需的一切，且每支球队随后都迅速夺冠 —— 费城人队在罗斯的第二个赛季，76 人队在马龙的第一个赛季。
但在经济和文化层面，詹姆斯所处的层级与罗斯和马龙完全不同。他的名气是全球性的。他的财富使他成为一名亿万富翁。他是地球上有史以来最伟大的五位篮球运动员之一，也是目前世界上最有名的人之一。而且他与这支 76 人队完美契合，对于一个自 1983 年以来就没赢过冠军、且正采取全力之举试图结束冠军荒的特许经营球队来说更是如此。
詹姆斯决定的最令人振奋之处甚至不在于，在 41 岁的高龄，他应该是与乔尔·恩比德、杰伦·布朗、泰里斯·马克西和 VJ·埃奇科姆搭档的理想大前锋/控球后卫。他是一个独一无二的球员；他可以运球推进，接管马克西手中的球，掌控半场进攻，并以任何节奏进行比赛。
不，他周五宣布消息中最令人鼓舞的是他做出决定的原因。他承认自己曾考虑过退役，他曾花费
[[IMG_B1]] 勒布朗加盟 闪开吧，哈珀：詹姆斯是费城的新警长
—— 每赛季仅比首轮秀拉巴伦·菲隆二世多赚一点点 —— 这使得 76 人队成为本赛季联盟中最具吸引力的球队。
关注这桩备受瞩目的交易：布莱斯·哈珀。
“他在这里将度过非常精彩的几年，显然每个人都会期待他在这里赢得冠军，就像在其他地方一样，”哈珀说。“所以对他来说没什么新鲜的。从高中甚至更早的时候起，他就一直承受着压力。”
詹姆斯与之前在这座城市效力的所有超级巨星之间的区别就在于：他是勒布朗·詹姆斯。
这意味着，他的影响力远远超出了球场 —— 从全球名声到银行账户，从收银台到流行文化 —— 没有任何公平的比较标准。在福布斯实时富豪运动员名单中，他以 14 亿美元排名第 4，因此他的薪资削减在账目上可能根本不会被注意到。詹姆斯仅凭广告、电影角色和代言合同带来的收入，就足以超过 76 人队的任何一名球员。
联盟 MVP 兼两届得分王乔尔·恩比德：他不是勒布朗。
NBA 冠军兼总决赛 MVP 杰伦·布朗：他不是勒布朗。
全明星球员且是费城真正的球队核心泰里斯·马克西：他不是勒布朗。
“我认为能让有史以来最伟大的篮球运动员之一在同一个城市比赛，这非常酷，”费城人队游击手特雷·特纳说。“所以我为那些还没机会看他打球的人感到兴奋。”
对于那些人 —— 也许住在冥王星上的人 —— 这里有一份简明概览。
詹姆斯曾 22 次入选全明星，21 次入选 NBA 最佳阵容，4 次获得 MVP，4 次获得 NBA 总决赛 MVP，3 次获得全明星赛 MVP，并且他是 NBA 75 周年纪念球队的成员。
他刚结束了一个场均贡献 20.9 分、6.1 个篮板和 7.2 次助攻的赛季。在他的职业生涯中，他在超过 1,600 场比赛中交出了场均 26.8 分、7.5 个篮板和 7.4 次助攻的数据。
“他以前在大型市场打过球，”哈珀说。“他非常清楚自己需要做些什么。”
Harper 在很大程度上兑现了他在 2019 赛季前签署的那份为期 13 年、价值 $330 的合同，当时他拒绝了华盛顿国民队而选择了费城 Phillies。
“我相信我可以帮助费城 76 人队成为一支冠军球队，”勒布朗·詹姆斯在签署一份为期两年、价值 $8 的合同时这样写道。
与家人和朋友共度时光，“与所有我爱的人在一起，”他写道，“试图理清这一切。”他想继续比赛，但他必须向自己承认原因。
“I’m not going for money，”他写道，这部分解释了为什么据报道他与 76 人队的合同仅为两年，价值仅为 $8 。“我不是为了家庭。在此时此刻，我真正地为了什么而战？我仍然想要牺牲。我仍然想要工作。我仍然想要刻苦磨练。我仍然想要竞争，去赢，并有机会再次获得赢得冠军的感觉。我相信我可以帮助费城 76 人队成为一支冠军球队，我非常激动能为新的球迷群体注入活力，并开始这段不可思议的最后一次旅程。”
勒布朗·詹姆斯与 76 人队的交易立即成为了这座城市历史上最大规模的自由球员签约。
布莱斯·哈珀拒绝了他的前东家国民队，于 2019 年与 Phillies 签署了一份当时创纪录的 13 年 $330 合同。
他曾拥有棒球史上最昂贵的合同。他带领 Phillies 闯入了 2022 年的世界大赛，在 2021 年获得了国家联盟 MVP，并帮助球队连续两年赢得国联东区冠军。
但他 0 for October。 巴克利在效力于鹰队的第一个赛季冲球里程超过 2,000 码，并带领他们赢得了超级碗冠军；而罗斯则是缺失的一环，帮助名人堂成员迈克·施密特和史蒂夫·卡尔顿赢得了 1980. 年的世界大赛。那是该球队历史上首次获得冠军。
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这种渴望——赢得 NBA 总冠军——确实是唯一有可能吸引詹姆斯来到这里的因素，而且有人认为 76 人队甚至没有为他提供赢得第五枚戒指的最佳机会。迈阿密热火队拥有扬尼斯·阿德托昆博、巴姆·阿德巴约、帕特·莱利、埃里克·斯波尔斯特拉以及那备受推崇的热火文化；而克利夫兰骑士队上赛季刚刚打入东部会议决赛，而且他与这两支球队都非常熟悉，在两个市场都备受推崇。仅凭情感原因，他就可以前往这两支球队中的任何一支，更不用说阵容和赛场上的可能性了，而且没有人会感到惊讶。
感觉 76 人队为了在 Broad 街举行一次冠军游行已经等待了几乎同样长的时间。他们在 1967 年和 1983 年在费城赢得了冠军，但令人难以置信的是，自 2001 年以来，他们一直未能从东部会议季后赛的第二轮出线。
相反，他选择了一条更艰难、更具戏剧性的道路。假设他决定在热火队或骑士队度过他的最后一个赛季（或几个赛季）。这两支球队即便在有他的情况下在季后赛第二轮被淘汰，詹姆斯的遗产和名声也将保持无瑕。在那些地方，人们热爱他且永远会热爱他。他帮助迈阿密建立了一个王朝。他在 2016 年带领骑士队赢得的冠军是克利夫兰 52 年来的首个冠军。
费城则完全是另一回事，不仅仅是因为 76 人队在如此长的时间里没有举行过游行。一支超过 43 年没有赢得冠军的球队，在“进程 (The Process)”之后被预期在十多年里赢得冠军却从未如此接近的人们，现在会因为詹姆斯的到来而期待赢得一座冠军奖杯。
这里的人们已经对 76 人队感到厌倦了，厌倦了这支球队的所有迭代，厌倦了一家自从艾伦·艾弗森每晚为了砍下 40 分而牺牲自己的身体以来就失去身份认同的特许经营球队。詹姆斯的决定将这种愤世嫉俗与希望融合在一起，创造出一种强有力的混合物。门票销售量肯定已经在飙升。在可预见的未来，76 人队将成为所有篮球相关脱口秀、播客、国际新闻报道和餐桌谈话的中心。他们的阵容将成为关于领导力和群体动力学的迷人研究，并且将对主教练尼克·纳ース及其团队产生前所未有的考验，这种考验是他们在职业生涯中从未遇到过的。这支球队面临的压力将是巨大的。
勒布朗·詹姆斯接受了这一切。他这样做是因为他想赢，并且认为他在 76 人队可以赢。对于这家特许经营企业，对于这座城市的职业篮球而言，赌注从未如此之高。准备好迎接一场这里从未有人经历过的旅程吧。无论输赢，准备好与勒布朗·詹姆斯一起迎接你能想象到的最狂野的旅程。
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想在费城打球。
“我不是为了钱而去。我也不是为了家庭而去，”詹姆斯周五在社交媒体上写道。“在此时此刻，我真正地是为了什么而战？我仍然想要牺牲。我仍然想要努力。我仍然想要拼搏。我仍然想要竞争，想要获胜，并有机会体验获胜的感觉。”
詹姆斯在 Instagram 上用一段职业生涯集锦庆祝了他的决定，背景音乐是费城说唱歌手 Meek Mill 的《Dreams and Nightmares》，这首歌已被市内的体育队伍选为非正式的体育赞歌，在整个体育综合体中被一遍又一遍地播放。
视频以歌词“Hold up, wait a minute/ Y’all thought I was finished?”（等一下，稍等片刻/ 你们以为我完蛋了？）结束，并切到 76 人队的标志。
詹姆斯还没有完蛋——即使他的巅峰期可能已经过去。
他在之前的三个 NBA 站点（克利夫兰骑士队、迈阿密热火队和洛杉矶湖人队）都赢得了 NBA 总冠军，他有可能成为历史上第一个在四支不同球队赢得冠军的球员。
开赛之夜的倒计时已经开始。
对于这家特许经营企业来说，赌注确实从未如此之高。如果他们带着这套“披头士”阵容（勒布朗 & 恩比德 & 布朗 & 麦克斯）都不能赢，那么他们还能赢吗？
大家准备好。 并且省掉那些建议吧。 詹姆斯不需要任何关于如何在费城球迷的“深炸锅”中生存的技巧。
东部 胜 负 胜率 分差 印第安纳........................................17 10 .630 — 亚特兰大 .......................................16 10 .615 1/2 纽约....................................15 12 .556 2 华盛顿................................14 12 .538 21/2 多伦多.......................................10 16 .385 61/2 芝加哥.........................................9 18 .333 8 康涅狄格 ..................................7 20 .259 10
西部 胜 负 胜率 分差 明尼苏达 ..................................22 6 .786 — 金州 ..............................19 8 .704 21/2 拉斯维加斯 ...................................18 8 .692 3 达拉斯..........................................18 9 .667 31/2 波特兰......................................11 16 .407 101/2 洛杉矶................................10 16 .385 11 菲尼克斯.......................................10 18 .357 12 西雅图..........................................6 23 .207 161/2
周三赛果 在华盛顿 100, 拉斯维加斯 99 明尼苏达 86, 在西雅图 76 菲尼克斯 86, 在洛杉矶 82 在纽约 95, 芝加哥 94 在印第安纳 123, 康涅狄格 88 达拉斯 101, 在波特兰 97
周三赛果
周四赛果 无赛程安排。
周五赛果 无赛程安排。
周六赛果 Spoon 队 129, Coop 队 122
球队 ................................... 35 46 24 24 — 129 球队 ................................... 34 30 29 29 — 122
周六赛果
周日比赛 无赛程安排。
周一比赛 无赛程安排。
周二比赛 康涅狄格 访 华盛顿, 7:30 多伦多 访 明尼苏达, 8 印第安纳 访 西雅图, 9:30 纽约 访 洛杉矶, 10 波特兰 访 拉斯维加斯, 10
周三比赛 亚特兰大 访 达拉斯, 8 金州 访 菲尼克斯, 10
周四比赛 明尼苏达 访 多伦多, 8 康涅狄格 访 芝加哥, 8 纽约 访 拉斯维加斯, 10
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Spoon 队 分钟 投篮 罚球 进攻-失误 助攻 犯规 得分 Shepard 18:00 3-3 0-0 2-5 5 0 7 Wilson 13:32 6-13 0-0 1-3 1 0 12 Boston 4:57 0-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 0 Clark 20:46 6-17 0-0 3-4 5 0 17 Miles 23:32 5-5 0-0 1-12 8 1 11 R.Howard 22:00 3-12 0-0 0-3 3 2 8 Jones 22:00 8-17 2-2 2-13 8 1 22 Gray 20:56 7-14 0-0 1-2 2 0 19 C.Williams 19:14 5-11 0-0 0-1 7 0 12 Ogwumike 17:58 5-6 1-2 1-9 3 1 11 Iriafen 17:05 5-8 0-0 2-6 0 0 10 总计 200 53-107 3-4 14-59 42 5 129
百分比：投篮 .495, 罚球 .750。3 分球：20-61, .328 (Gray 5-9, Clark 5-15, Jones 4-11, C.Williams 2-6, R.Howard 2-11, Miles 1-1, Shepard 1-1, Boston 0-1, Iriafen 0-1, Ogwumike 0-1, Wilson 0-4)。球队篮板： 6。球队失误：无。盖帽：2 (Shepard, Wilson)。个人失误：15 (Clark 5, Jones 3, C.Williams 2, Shepard 2, Boston, Miles, R.Howard)。抢断：7 (Miles 2, R.Howard 2, Clark, Ogwumike, Shepard)。技术犯规：无。 Coop 队 分钟 投篮 罚球 进攻-失误 助攻 犯规 得分 N.Howard 23:11 3-10 0-0 1-4 0 1 8 G.Williams 22:50 7-18 0-0 2-5 6 1 18 Stewart 28:24 3-7 0-0 3-13 7 1 6 Bueckers 25:06 5-11 0-0 0-0 7 0 12 Mitchell 22:20 11-19 1-1 3-4 2 1 28 Mabrey 20:32 9-21 0-0 2-3 2 0 23 Malonga 16:08 6-17 0-0 5-13 1 0 12 Citron 11:23 3-3 0-0 0-1 2 0 8 Copper 10:41 2-6 0-0 0-4 2 1 4 Young 10:09 1-5 0-0 0-0 3 0 3 Reese 9:16 0-1 0-0 0-5 4 0 0 总计 200 50-118 1-1 16-52 36 5 122
百分比：投篮 .424, 罚球 1.000。3 分球：21-66, .318 (Mitchell 5-11, Mabrey 5-14, G.Williams 4-13, Citron 2-2, Bueckers 2-7, N.Howard 2-7, Young 1-3, Malonga 0-2, Copper 0-3, Stewart 0-4)。球队篮板： 6。球队失误：无。盖帽：1 (Stewart)。 个人失误：9 (Mabrey 2, Malonga 2, Mitchell 2, Bueckers, Copper, N.Howard)。抢断：10 (Mitchell 5, Copper 2, Bueckers, G.Williams, Mabrey)。技术犯规：无。 观众人数：19,783 (20,917)。
brickyard 400 在印第安纳波利斯 (Ind.) 赛车场 每圈长度：2.50 英里 （括号内为赛车编号） 1. (77) Carson Hocevar, 雪佛兰, 186.598 mph. 2. (7) Daniel Suárez, 雪佛兰, 186.382. 3. (45) Tyler Reddick, 丰田, 186.077. 4. (54) Ty Gibbs, 丰田, 185.966. 5. (11) Denny Hamlin, 丰田, 185.835. 6. (71) Michael McDowell, 雪佛兰, 185.762. 7. (67) Corey Heim, 丰田, 185.456. 8. (48) Alex Bowman, 雪佛兰, 185.368. 9. (16) AJ Allmendinger, 雪佛兰, 185.345. 10. (5) Kyle Larson, 雪佛兰, 185.315. 11. (19) Chase Briscoe, 丰田, 185.269. 12. (41) Cole Custer, 雪佛兰, 185.265. 13. (12) Ryan Blaney, 福特, 185.197. 14. (43) Erik Jones, 丰田, 185.060. 15. (17) Chris Buescher, 福特, 184.991. 16. (6) Brad Keselowski, 福特, 184.896. 17. (42) John H. Nemechek, 丰田, 184.877. 18. (35) Riley Herbst, 丰田, 184.782. 19. (22) Joey Logano, 福特, 184.699. 20. (3) Austin Dillon, 雪佛兰, 184.699. 21. (24) William Byron, 雪佛兰, 184.574. 22. (1) Ross Chastain, 雪佛兰, 184.540. 23. (20) Christopher Bell, 丰田, 184.287. 24. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 雪佛兰, 184.245. 25. (97) Shane Van Gisbergen, 雪佛兰, 184.237. 26. (21) Josh Berry, 福特, 184.128. 27. (9) Chase Elliott, 雪佛兰, 183.887. 28. (10) Ty Dillon, 雪佛兰, 183.869. 29. (23) Bubba Wallace, 丰田, 183.861. 30. (38) Zane Smith, 福特, 183.494. 31. (88) Connor Zilisch, 雪佛兰, 183.132. 32. (33) Austin Hill, 雪佛兰, 183.083. 33. (4) Noah Gragson, 福特, 182.990. 34. (60) Ryan Preece, 福特, 182.786. 35. (2) Austin Cindric, 福特, 182.726. 36. (34) Todd Gilliland, 福特, 182.460. 37. (51) Cody Ware, 雪佛兰, 182.072. 38. (62) Casey Mears, 雪佛兰, 179.522. 39. (78) Daniel Dye, 雪佛兰, 178.962.
Tsport 200 在卢卡斯石油赛车公园 (Lucas Oil Raceway Park)；位于印第安纳波利斯 每圈长度：0.69 英里 （括号内为起跑位置） 1. (1) Layne Riggs, 福特, 200 圈, 75 分. 2. (7) Connor Mosack, 雪佛兰, 200, 51. 3. (9) Ty Majeski, 福特, 200, 46. 4. (2) Chandler Smith, 福特, 200, 49. 5. (3) Nicholas Sanchez, 雪佛兰, 200, 0. 6. (5) Stewart Friesen, 丰田, 200, 37. 7. (6) Kaden Honeycutt, 丰田, 200, 35. 8. (19) Gavan Boschele, 丰田, 200, 29. 9. (13) Tyler Ankrum, 雪佛兰, 200, 29. 10. (11) Michael Christopher Jr, 丰田, 200, 30. 11. (10) Andres Perez De Lara, 雪佛兰, 200, 26. 12. (14) Parker Eatmon, 雪佛兰, 200, 26. 13. (16) Giovanni Ruggiero, 丰田, 200, 24. 14. (8) Grant Enfinger, 雪佛兰, 199, 35. 15. (22) Ben Rhodes, 福特, 199, 22. 16. (23) Harrison Burton, 丰田, 199, 0. 17. (21) Dawson Sutton, 雪佛兰, 198, 20. 18. (24) Justin Haley, RAM, 197, 19. 19. (26) Timmy Hill, 丰田, 197, 18. 20. (12) Brenden Queen, RAM, 197, 17. 21. (15) Jake Garcia, 福特, 197, 16. 22. (17) Tanner Gray, 丰田, 197, 15. 23. (25) Cole Butcher, 福特, 197, 14. 24. (30) Corey LaJoie, RAM, 197, 13. 25. (32) Toni Breidinger, 雪佛兰, 197, 12. 26. (29) Conor Daly, RAM, 197, 11. 27. (28) Mini Tyrrell, RAM, 197, 10. 28. (36) Spencer Boyd, 雪佛兰, 197, 9. 29. (35) Frankie Muniz, 福特, 196, 8. 30. (34) Monty Tipton, 福特, 196, 7. 31. (27) Kris Wright, 雪佛兰, 196, 6. 32. (33) Cassten Everidge, 雪佛兰, 193, 5.
东部 胜 负 平 积分 得球 失球 纳什维尔.........................12 2 3 39 33 12 迈阿密国际..................11 2 4 37 43 30 新英格兰.......................9 5 2 29 26 19 芝加哥..............................8 6 2 26 30 22 纽约城...........................7 6 4 25 30 23 夏洛特.............................7 6 4 25 28 25 辛辛那提.........................6 6 5 23 41 42 纽约...............................6 7 4 22 26 37 华盛顿特区联...................5 5 7 22 24 27 奥兰多城.........................6 9 2 20 28 44 哥伦布...........................5 8 4 19 24 26 多伦多.............................3 7 7 16 23 31 蒙特利尔.........................4 10 3 15 22 33 费城...............................3 10 4 13 22 31 亚特兰大.........................3 11 3 12 17 30
东部 胜 负 平 积分 得球 失球
西部 胜 负 平 积分 得球 失球 温哥华.........................10 3 3 33 37 16 x-圣何塞.......................10 4 2 32 34 19 x-洛杉矶FC...................9 5 3 30 30 18 x-皇家盐湖城................8 5 2 26 27 22 休斯顿...........................8 6 2 26 23 24 x-达拉斯.........................7 4 5 26 32 24 圣路易斯城...................7 6 4 25 23 23 西雅图...........................7 6 3 24 19 20 明尼苏达联...................6 6 5 23 19 24 x-洛杉矶银河..................5 7 5 20 23 28 科罗拉多........................6 10 1 19 26 25 x-波特兰.........................5 8 3 18 29 31 x-圣迭戈.........................4 7 5 17 30 28 奥斯汀...........................4 8 5 17 22 35 x-堪萨斯城.....................4 10 2 14 18 40
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周三赛果 华盛顿特区联 1, 客场 休斯顿 1 客场 辛辛那提 4, 温哥华 3 纽约城 2, 客场 哥伦布 1 客场 迈阿密 3, 芝加哥 2 多伦多 0, 客场 新英格兰 0 客场 费城 3, 纽约 1 亚特兰大 2, 客场 夏洛特 2 客场 堪萨斯城 2, 明尼苏达 1 客场 纳什维尔 1, 蒙特利尔 0 客场 奥斯汀 3, 西雅图 1 客场 科罗拉多 1, 圣迭戈 0 圣路易斯城 3, 客场 洛杉矶银河 1 客场 洛杉矶FC 3, 皇家盐湖城 1 达拉斯 2, 客场 波特兰 2 奥兰多城 4, 客场 圣何塞 0
周六赛果 客场 华盛顿特区联 2, 多伦多 1 夏洛特 2, 客场 纽约 0 客场 哥伦布 2, 辛辛那提 1 客场 费城 1, 西雅图 0 迈阿密 1, 客场 蒙特利尔 0 客场 新英格兰 4, 亚特兰大 1 客场 纽约城 3, 芝加哥 1 客场 奥兰多城 1, 纳什维尔 0 客场 休斯顿 3, 奥斯汀 0 温哥华 0, 客场 明尼苏达 0 客场 圣路易斯城 1, 科罗拉多 0 达拉斯 客场 圣迭戈, 晚场 堪萨斯城 客场 洛杉矶FC, 晚场 皇家盐湖城 客场 波特兰, 晚场 洛杉矶银河 客场 圣何塞, 晚场
多伦多 0 1 1 华盛顿特区联 1 1 2 上半场：1, 华盛顿特区联, Rowles, (Kurokawa), 第 41 分钟。 下半场：2, 多伦多, Corbeanu, 1, 第 76 分钟；3, 华盛顿特区联, Baribo, 10 (点球), 90+10 分钟。 门将：多伦多, Luka Gavran, William Yarbrough, Adisa De Rosario；华盛顿特区联, Sean Johnson, Alex Bono。 黄牌：Munteanu, 华盛顿特区联, 第 53 分钟；Osorio, 多伦多, 第 88 分钟。 多伦多, Luka Gavran; Kobe Franklin, Jackson Gilman, Richie Laryea, Zane Monlouis (Alonso Coello, 第 46 分钟), Walker Zimmerman; Jonathan Osorio; Emilio Aristizabal (Deandre Kerr, 第 54 分钟), Theo Corbeanu (Malik Henry, 90+2 分钟), Derrick Etienne (Djordje Mihailovic, 第 54 分钟), Daniel Salloi。 华盛顿特区联, Sean Johnson; Lucas Bartlett, Silvan Hefti, Keisuke Kurokawa, Kye Rowles (Sean Nealis, 第 80 分钟); Andre Dozzell, Jackson Hopkins (Matti Peltola, 第 65 分钟), Brandon Servania (Hosei Kijima, 第 80 分钟); Tai Baribo, Louis Munteanu (Nathan Ordaz, 第 85 分钟), Peglow (Jared Stroud, 第 65 分钟)。
夏洛特 FC 2 0 2 纽约红牛 0 0 0 上半场：1，夏洛特 FC，Biel，8 (Abada)，第 7 分钟；2，夏洛特 FC，Westwood，2 (Vargas)，第 12 分钟。 下半场：无。 门将：夏洛特 FC，Kristijan Kahlina，Tyler Miller；纽约红牛，Ethan Horvath，John McCarthy。 黄牌：Abada，夏洛特 FC，第 47 分钟；Ruvalcaba，纽约红牛，第 56 分钟；Mehmeti，纽约红牛，第 77 分钟；Valencia，纽约红牛，第 85 分钟；Che，纽约红牛，第 90+2 分钟。 夏洛特 FC，Kristijan Kahlina；Morrison Agyemang，Nathan Byrne，Henry Kessler，Harry Toffolo (Will Cleary，第 61 分钟)；Pep Biel (Brandt Bronico，第 82 分钟)，Luca De La Torre (Djibril Diani，第 71 分钟)，Ashley Westwood；Liel Abada (Tyger Smalls，第 71 分钟)，Idan Gorno (Archie Goodwin，第 82 分钟)，Kerwin Vargas。 纽约红牛，Ethan Horvath；Julian Bazan，Justin Che，Matthew Dos Santos (Omar Valencia，第 84 分钟)，Dylan Nealis (Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty，第 70 分钟)；Ronald Donkor，Emil Forsberg (Mijahir Jimenez，第 70 分钟)，Adri Mehmeti；Cade Cowell (Mohammed Sofo，第 70 分钟)，Julian Hall，Jorge Ruvalcaba (Andy Rojas，第 84 分钟)。
辛辛那提 1 0 1 哥伦布 2 0 2 上半场：1，辛辛那提，Denkey，11 (Evander)，第 9 分钟；2，哥伦布，Thiare，1 (Chambost)，第 42 分钟；3，哥伦布，Gazdag，3 (点球)，第 45+6 分钟。 下半场：无。 门将：辛辛那提，Roman Celentano，Evan Louro；哥伦布，Patrick Schulte，Nicholas Hagen。 黄牌：Miazga，辛辛那提，第 66 分钟。 红牌：Valenzuela，辛辛那提，第 90+4 分钟。 辛辛那提，Roman Celentano；Matt Miazga (Kyle Smith，第 70 分钟)，Miles Robinson；Pavel Bucha，Evander，Samuel Gidi，Obinna Nwobodo (Brian Anunga，第 85 分钟)；Kevin Denkey (Ayoub Jabbari，第 70 分钟)，Ender Echenique (Bryan Ramirez，第 64 分钟)，Kenji Mboma Dem (Tom Barlow，第 64 分钟)，Gerardo Valenzuela。 哥伦布，Patrick Schulte；Max Arfsten，Rudy Camacho，Mohamed Farsi，Steven Moreira (Malte Amundsen，第 85 分钟)；Sekou Tidiany Bangoura (Andre Gomes，第 46 分钟)，Dylan Chambost (Tarun Karumanchi，第 70 分钟)，Daniel Gazdag (Chase Adams，第 85 分钟)，Taha Habroune，Sean Zawadzki；Jamal Thiare (Hugo Picard，第 79 分钟)。
西雅图 0 0 0 费城 1 0 1 上半场：1，费城，Iloski，9 (Westfield)，第 31 分钟。 下半场：无。 门将：西雅图，Andrew Thomas，Stefan Frei，Max Anchor；费城，Andre Blake，Andrew Rick。 黄牌：Dotson，西雅图，第 12 分钟。 西雅图，Andrew Thomas；Stuart Russell Hawkins，Antino Lopez (Gallatin Sandnes，第 59 分钟)，Nouhou Tolo；Paul Arriola (Jesus Ferreira，第 59 分钟)，Snyder Brunell，Hassani Dotson (Sebastian Gomez，第 80 分钟)，Kalani Kossa-Rienzi (Peter Kingston，第 60 分钟)，Paul Rothrock，Albert Rusnak；Osaze De Rosario (Danny Musovski，第 80 分钟)。 费城，Andre Blake；Nathan Harriel，Neil Pierre，Kai Wagner，Francis Westfield；Danley Jean Jacques (Jesus Bueno，第 80 分钟)，Jovan Lukic，Cavan Sullivan (Alejandro Bedoya，第 89 分钟)，Indiana Vassilev (Quinn Sullivan，第 65 分钟)；Bruno Damiani (Ezekiel Alladoh，第 65 分钟)，Milan Iloski。
亚特兰大 0 1 1 新英格兰 2 2 4 上半场：1，新英格兰，Gil，6，第 11 分钟；2，新英格兰，Turgeman，3 (Yusuf)，第 36 分钟。 下半场：3，新英格兰，Miller，4 (Yusuf)，第 56 分钟；4，新英格兰，Raines，1 (Zambrano)，第 67 分钟；5，亚特兰大，Almiron，2 (Miranchuk)，第 85 分钟。 门将：亚特兰大，Lucas Hoyos，Jayden Hibbert；新英格兰，Matt Turner，Donovan Parisian。 黄牌：Yusuf，新英格兰，第 20 分钟；Edwards，亚特兰大，第 31 分钟；Reilly，亚特兰大，第 52 分钟；Harris，新英格兰，第 71 分钟。 亚特兰大，Lucas Hoyos；Junior Alonso，Elias Baez，Matthew Edwards (Ronald Hernandez，第 68 分钟)，Stian Gregersen (Enea Mihaj，第 79 分钟)；Miguel Almiron，Will Reilly，Cooper Sanchez；Aleksey Miranchuk，Tristan Muyumba (Luke Brennan，第 60 分钟, Cayman Togashi，第 80 分钟)，Fafa Picault。 新英格兰，Matt Turner；Mamadou Fofana，Ethan Kohler，Peyton Miller，Matt Polster (Cody Baker，第 79 分钟)，Will Sands；Carles Gil，Brooklyn Raines，Alhassan Yusuf (Jackson Yueill，第 59 分钟)；Dor Turgeman (Wilson Israel Harris，第 70 分钟)，Marcos Zambrano (Luca Langoni，第 70 分钟)。
芝加哥 1 0 1 纽约城市足球俱乐部 3 0 3 上半场：1，纽约城市足球俱乐部，Fernandez，12，第10分钟；2，芝加哥，Waterman，1，第21分钟；3，纽约城市足球俱乐部，Ojeda，5 (Perea)，第29分钟；4，纽约城市足球俱乐部，Jones，1 (Ojeda)，第41分钟。 下半场：无。 守门员：芝加哥，Chris Brady, Josh Cohen；纽约城市足球俱乐部，Matt Freese, Tomas Romero。 黄牌：D’avilla，芝加哥，第51分钟；Fernandez，纽约城市足球俱乐部，第62分钟；Waterman，芝加哥，第77分钟；Dithejane，芝加哥，第80分钟。 芝加哥，Chris Brady; Leonardo Barroso (Jonathan Dean, 46th), Dje D’avilla (Mauricio Pineda, 63rd), Jack Elliott, Viktor Radojevic (Andrew Gutman, 71st), Joel Waterman; Maren Haile-Selassie (Robert Lewandowski, 46th), Robin Lod (Puso Dithejane, 71st), Anton Saletros; Jonathan Bamba, Philip Zinckernagel. 纽约城市足球俱乐部，Matt Freese; Nico Cavallo, Nicolas Fernandez, Tayvon Gray, Thiago Martins; Andres Perea, James Sands, Jonathan Shore (Arnau Farnos, 85th); Malachi Jones (Benie Adama Traore, 69th), Agustin Ojeda (Mitja Ilenic, 90th+2), Talles Magno (Hannes Wolf, 85th).
胜 负 平 积分 进球 失球 哥谭足球俱乐部 ........................9 3 4 31 21 12 华盛顿 ......................................9 3 3 30 24 12 犹他 ..........................................9 4 3 30 26 17 圣迭戈......................................9 5 2 29 23 17 波特兰 ......................................8 5 4 28 27 20 堪萨斯城 ...................................8 7 1 25 23 23 奥兰多 .......................................7 8 2 23 22 21 天使之城 ...................................7 6 1 22 22 14 北卡罗来纳................................6 6 3 21 21 23 丹佛峰会足球俱乐部............5 5 4 19 21 19 休斯顿 .....................................5 7 4 19 19 24 波士顿遗产足球俱乐部..........5 8 4 19 18 23 湾区足球俱乐部 ..........................5 7 3 18 16 20 西雅图 ......................................5 7 2 17 15 19 芝加哥......................................4 12 0 12 8 31 路易维尔....................................2 10 2 8 16 27
周五赛果 客场休斯顿 1, 湾区足球俱乐部 0 客场奥兰多 1, 芝加哥 0 哥谭足球俱乐部 2, 客场波特兰 2
周六赛果 客场波士顿 1, 堪萨斯城 0 犹他 4, 客场北卡罗来纳 0
周日赛事 丹佛 客场 华盛顿, 7 西雅图 客场 圣迭戈, 5 路易维尔 客场 天使之城, 9
周三赛事 华盛顿 客场 犹他, 9 路易维尔 客场 堪萨斯城, 8 哥谭足球俱乐部 客场 湾区足球俱乐部, 10
周三赛事
周五赛事 奥兰多 客场 北卡罗来纳, 8
周五赛事
8月1日，周六 芝加哥 客场 路易维尔, 4 天使之城 客场 堪萨斯城, 6:30 哥谭足球俱乐部 客场 休斯顿, 8 西雅图 客场 湾区足球俱乐部, 8:45
坦帕湾 (Tampa Bay).......................10 2 5 35 28 15 x-查尔斯顿 (Charleston).......................8 5 3 27 31 22 底特律城足球俱乐部 (Detroit City FC)...................8 5 3 27 23 15 路易维尔 (Louisville) ...........................7 6 3 24 26 25 匹兹堡 (Pittsburgh) .........................7 7 2 23 19 19 罗德岛足球俱乐部 (Rhode Island FC).................6 5 4 22 25 18 迈阿密 (Miami)..................................5 7 6 21 22 29 印第安纳波利斯 (Indy)....................................6 6 3 21 18 17 x-哈特福德 (Hartford)..........................4 4 7 19 12 14 劳登 (Loudoun).............................2 5 9 15 19 29 伯明翰 (Birmingham).......................2 5 8 14 16 19 布鲁克林足球俱乐部 (Brooklyn FC)........................3 9 4 13 17 27 x-体育杰克逊 (Sporting Jax) ...................1 11 5 8 23 44
x-橙县 (Orange County) ...............7 2 7 28 25 18 圣安东尼奥 (San Antonio).......................7 3 7 28 22 19 新墨西哥 (New Mexico).......................7 4 3 24 19 15 x-科罗拉多斯普林斯 (Colorado Springs)............6 5 4 22 26 22 图尔萨 (Tulsa) ..................................6 4 4 22 18 16 列克星敦足球俱乐部 (Lexington SC) .....................6 6 3 21 24 20 x-奥克兰 (Oakland) ..........................5 5 6 21 24 24 拉斯维加斯 (Las Vegas) ..........................6 7 3 21 24 26 x-萨克拉门托 (Sacramento)....................5 4 5 20 16 14 x-凤凰城 (Phoenix)...........................5 6 5 20 23 24 x-埃尔帕索 (El Paso)............................5 6 4 19 25 25 x-蒙特雷湾足球俱乐部 (Monterey Bay FC)............4 9 3 15 16 25
列克星敦足球俱乐部 2, 奥克兰 0 在科罗拉多 2, 迈阿密 0
圣安东尼奥 1, 在布鲁克林足球俱乐部 0 拉斯维加斯 1, 在底特律城足球俱乐部 0 劳登 1, 在印第安纳波利斯 0 坦帕湾 3, 在迈阿密 2 罗德岛足球俱乐部 1, 在匹兹堡 0 列克星敦足球俱乐部 0, 在图尔萨 0 查尔斯顿 在 科罗拉多，晚场 体育杰克逊 在 埃尔帕索，晚场 橙县 在 蒙特雷湾足球俱乐部，晚场 萨克拉门托 在 奥克兰，晚场 哈特福德 在 凤凰城，晚场 新墨西哥 在 伯明翰，推迟
图尔萨 在 匹兹堡，7 伯明翰 在 路易维尔，7:30
印第安纳波利斯 在 圣安东尼奥，9
埃什托里尔公开赛 (Estoril Open) 地点：埃什托里尔网球俱乐部 (葡萄牙) 奖金：$698,907 场地：红土 单打 — 半决赛 卢卡·范·阿什 (Luca Van Assche)，法国，击败 雨果·加斯顿 (Hugo Gaston)，法国，6-4, 7-5；亚历山大·布洛克斯 (Alexander Blockx) (4)，比利时，击败 卢西亚诺·达德里 (Luciano Darderi) (2)，意大利，5-7, 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-5)。
双打 — 半决赛 蒂图安·德罗盖 (Titouan Droguet) 和 基里安·雅克 (Kyrian Jacquet)，法国，击败 努诺 ·博尔赫斯 (Nuno Borges) 和 弗朗西斯科·卡布拉尔 (Francisco Cabral)，葡萄牙，6-7 (8-6), 6-4, 11-9。
Generali 公开赛 地点：基茨比厄尔网球体育馆 (奥地利) 奖金：$698,907 场地：红土
单打 — 冠军赛
昆廷·哈利斯 (Quentin Halys)，法国，击败 亚历山大·布布利克 (Alexander Bublik) (1)，哈- 萨克斯坦，6-4, 7-6 (8-6)。
双打 — 冠军赛 卢卡斯·米德勒 (Lucas Miedler)，奥地利，和 马克·波尔曼斯 (Marc Polmans) (2)，澳大利亚， 击败 雅各布·施奈特 (Jakob Schnaitter) 和 马克·沃尔纳 (Mark Wallner) (3)，德国， 6-2, 6-2。
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单打排名 1. 扬尼克·辛纳 (Jannik Sinner)，意大利，13450 2. 亚历山大·兹维列夫 (Alexander Zverev)，德国，8480 3. 卡洛斯·阿尔卡拉斯 (Carlos Alcaraz)，西班牙，8160 4. 费利克斯·奥热--阿利亚西姆 (Felix Auger-Aliassime)，加拿大，4740 5. 亚历克斯·德·米瑙尔 (Alex de Minaur)，澳大利亚，4110 6. 本·谢尔顿 (Ben Shelton)，美国，3770 7. 诺瓦克·德约科维奇 (Novak Djokovic)，塞尔维亚，3760 8. 丹尼尔·梅德韦杰夫 (Daniil Medvedev)，俄罗斯，3670 9. 弗拉维奥·科博利 (Flavio Cobolli)，意大利，3460 10. 泰勒·弗里茨 (Taylor Fritz)，美国，3365 11. 亚历山大·布布利克 (Alexander Bublik)，哈萨克斯坦，2610 12. 吉里·莱赫茨卡 (Jiri Lehecka)，捷克共和国，2510 13. 卡斯珀·鲁德 (Casper Ruud)，挪威，2435 14. 安德烈·鲁布列夫 (Andrey Rublev)，俄罗斯，2380
汉堡欧洲公开赛 地点：德国汉堡 Am Rothenbaum Rot-Weiss 网球俱乐部 奖金：$281,032 场地：红土
单打 — 半决赛 安娜·邦达尔 (4)，匈牙利，击败 埃琳娜·阿瓦内西安，俄罗斯， 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 7-6 (7-2)。
双打 — 半决赛 达利拉·雅库波维奇 和 尼卡·拉迪希奇，斯洛文尼亚，击败 芝贝克·库兰巴耶娃，哈萨克斯坦，以及 达里亚·塞梅尼斯塔亚，拉脱维亚，6-2, 6-1；亚历山德拉·帕诺娃，俄罗斯，以及 玛加利·肯彭 (1)，比利时，击败 伊琳娜·赫罗马切娃，俄罗斯，以及 阿纳斯塔西娅·德提乌克 (3)，捷克共和国，6-4, 6-3。
布拉格公开赛 地点：TK Sparta Praha 奖金：$283,347 场地：室外硬地
单打 — 半决赛 达里亚·斯尼古尔 (8)，乌克兰，击败 特蕾莎·瓦伦托娃 (5)，捷克共和国，7-6 (7-4), 6-3；莉莉·塔格尔，奥地利，击败 巴博拉·克雷Жи科娃 (2)，捷克共和国，6-7 (7-5), 6-3, 7-6 (7-4)。
双打 — 半决赛 露西·哈夫利科娃 和 劳拉·萨姆森，捷克共和国，击败 詹皓卿，台湾，以及 加藤 美由 (1994) (3)，日本，5-7, 6-3, 11-9。
单打排名 1. 阿里娜·萨巴伦卡，白俄罗斯，8550 2. 埃琳娜·里巴金娜，哈萨克斯坦，8143 3. 杰西卡·佩古拉，美国，6301 4. 科科·高夫，美国，5649 5. 米拉·安德烈耶娃，俄罗斯，5293 6. 卡罗琳娜·穆霍娃，捷克共和国，5168 7. 琳达·诺斯科娃，捷克共和国，5119 8. 毅佳·斯瓦亚特克，波兰，4539 9. 阿曼达·阿尼西莫娃，美国，4353 10. 埃琳娜·斯维托琳娜，乌克兰，4351 11. 玛尔塔·科斯秋克，乌克兰，3926 12. 维多利亚·姆博科，加拿大，3570 13. 大坂直美，日本，3146 14. 贝尔琳达·本西奇，瑞士，2845
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3m open At TPC Twin Cities; In Blaine, Minn. Purse: $8.8 million Yardage: 7,431; Par: 71 thurd ROUND Jackson Koivun ............................. 64 68 61 — 193 -20 Emiliano Grillo .............................. 64 67 65 — 196 -17 Ben Kohles .................................... 62 69 65 — 196 -17 Michael Brennan ........................... 65 69 63 — 197 -16 Chandler Phillips ........................... 66 65 66 — 197 -16 Billy Horschel ................................ 67 66 65 — 198 -15 Michael Kim .................................. 69 59 70 — 198 -15 Denny McCarthy ........................... 66 68 64 — 198 -15 Brian Harman ................................ 69 64 66 — 199 -14 Seamus Power .............................. 68 68 63 — 199 -14 Scottie Scheffler ........................... 65 70 64 — 199 -14 Davis Thompson ........................... 68 68 63 — 199 -14 Lee Hodges
.................................... 68 67 65 — 200 -13 Hideki Matsuyama ........................ 70 65 65 — 200 -13 Zac Blair ........................................ 68 65 68 — 201 -12 Davis Chatfield ............................. 69 68 64 — 201 -12 Troy Merritt .................................. 66 66 69 — 201 -12 Kevin Yu ........................................ 69 66 66 — 201 -12 Chandler Blanchet ......................... 67 68 67 — 202 -11 Gary Woodland ............................. 64 71 67 — 202 -11 Zecheng Dou ................................. 67 69 67 — 203 -10 Casey Jarvis .................................. 71 66 66 — 203 -10 Chris Kirk ....................................... 70 69 64 — 203 -10 Kurt Kitayama ............................... 68 69 66 — 203 -10 Hank Lebioda ................................ 69 69 65 — 203 -10 Kevin Roy ...................................... 65
70 68 — 203 -10 Austin Smotherman ..................... 68 67 68 — 203 -10 Christiaan Bezuidenhout .............. 68 67 69 — 204 -9 Ricky Castillo ................................ 71 68 65 — 204 -9 Patrick Fishburn ............................ 70 68 66 — 204 -9 Beau Hossler ................................. 69 68 67 — 204 -9 Mark Hubbard ............................... 70 69 65 — 204 -9 Tom Kim ........................................ 68 69 67 — 204 -9 Keith Mitchell ............................... 68 69 67 — 204 -9 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen ....... 66 72 66 — 204 -9 Kevin Streelman ........................... 67 68 69 — 204 -9 Jesper Svensson ........................... 65 69 70 — 204 -9 John VanDerLaan .......................... 67 71 66 — 204 -9 Kris Ventura .................................. 72 66 66 — 204 -9 Vince Whaley ................................ 67 69 68 — 204 -9 Zachary
Bauchou .......................... 70 69 66 — 205 -8 Corey Conners ............................... 70 69 66 — 205 -8 Joel Dahmen ................................. 70 69 66 — 205 -8 Neal Shipley .................................. 70 69 66 — 205 -8 Mackenzie Hughes ........................ 71 67 68 — 206 -7 Jake Knapp .................................... 68 70 68 — 206 -7 Jordan L. Smith ............................. 71 68 67 — 206 -7 Jimmy Stanger .............................. 69 70 67 — 206 -7 Trace Crowe .................................. 67 72 68 — 207 -6 Austin Eckroat .............................. 69 67 71 — 207 -6 Lucas Glover .................................. 65 70 72 — 207 -6 John Parry ..................................... 69 69 69 — 207 -6 Camilo Villegas ............................. 69 69 69 — 207 -6 A.J. Ewart ..................................... 69 69 70 — 208 -5 Max
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Greyserman ........................... 69 70 69 — 208 -5 Hao-Tong Li ................................... 68 68 72 — 208 -5 Pontus Nyholm ............................. 68 69 71 — 208 -5 Matti Schmid ................................ 67 72 69 — 208 -5 Muzzy Donohue ............................ 73 63 73 — 209 -4 Lanto Griffin ................................. 70 68 71 — 209 -4 Jeffrey Kang .................................. 67 70 72 — 209 -4 Maverick McNealy ........................ 71 66 72 — 209 -4 Will Gordon ................................... 68 70 72 — 210 -3 Fabián Gómez ............................... 71 67 72 — 210 -3 Rico Hoey ...................................... 67 72 71 — 210 -3 Sam Stevens ................................. 68 69 73 — 210 -3
fedex cup leaders Through Sunday.
Points Money 1.........................Scottie Scheffler 3,823 $15,952,075 2..........................Matt Fitzpatrick 3,329 $13,749,496 3...........................Cameron Young 3,086 $13,945,452 4...........................Wyndham Clark 2,255 $9,876,186 5.............................Chris Gotterup 2,254 $7,755,219 6.......................... Collin Morikawa 2,229 $8,554,512 7..................................Si Woo Kim 2,188 $7,413,444 8...................................Sam Burns 2,078 $7,583,540 9...................... Tommy Fleetwood 2,046 $6,402,605 10............................. Ludvig Aberg 1,929 $6,253,271 11..............................Rory McIlroy 1,738 $8,465,006 12...........................Akshay Bhatia 1,723 $7,473,999 13.......................Jacob Bridgeman 1,696 $7,476,865 14...........................Russell Henley 1,666 $5,783,335 15.....................Xander
Schauffele 1,480 $5,603,225 16............................. Min Woo Lee 1,470 $5,647,652 17.......................Kristoffer Reitan 1,464 $6,183,339 18...............................Ryan Gerard 1,426 $5,573,398 19.........................Alex Fitzpatrick 1,403 $4,528,684 20.................................. J.J. Spaun 1,381 $4,751,848 21....................................Ryan Fox 1,342 $5,424,259 22.......................... Viktor Hovland 1,340 $6,128,926 23................................Justin Rose 1,333 $4,853,356 24............................. Alex Smalley 1,251 $4,707,433 25............................... Adam Scott 1,218 $3,780,697 26.................................J.T. Poston 1,193 $5,590,029 27......................Robert MacIntyre 1,191 $4,353,388 28........................Nicolai Hojgaard 1,177 $4,697,668 29..........................Gary Woodland 1,168 $4,117,512
30.............................Rickie Fowler 1,161 $4,515,036 31.................................Bud Cauley 1,155 $4,105,742 32...........................Kurt Kitayama 1,129 $4,608,501 33...................................Aaron Rai 1,114 $5,001,155 34.................................Ben Griffin 1,105 $4,033,407 35.................................... Tom Kim 1,097 $3,862,986 36...............................Sepp Straka 1,096 $4,204,487 37....................Hideki Matsuyama 1,086 $3,895,432 38...........................Justin Thomas 959 $3,455,269 39................................ Jake Knapp 938 $3,127,963 40...........................Ryo Hisatsune 889 $3,264,611 41........................ Sahith Theegala 883 $3,119,845 42.....................Nicolas Echavarria 880 $3,210,482 43..........................Patrick Cantlay 862 $3,302,525 44.....................................Eric Cole 841
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$2,773,707 45.....................Matthew McCarty 807 $2,926,873 46............................Keith Mitchell 788 $2,714,929 47.................................Alex Noren 779 $2,759,740 48............................Harris English 776 $2,654,553 49................................. Max Homa 767 $2,527,554 50.....................Maverick McNealy 753 $2,949,917 51........................ Pierceson Coody 739 $2,637,309 52.............Sudarshan Yellamaraju 737 $2,581,759 53............................. Sam Stevens 736 $2,598,477 54.............................Daniel Berger 709 $3,325,228 55............................ Jordan Spieth 694 $2,730,334 56..............................Shane Lowry 670 $2,467,021 57................................ Sungjae Im 660 $2,120,952 58........................... Corey Conners 660 $2,354,071 59.................................Nick Taylor 639 $2,307,915
60.................................. Harry Hall 628 $2,144,445 61.........................Patrick Rodgers 600 $2,295,890 62.......................Aldrich Potgieter 591 $1,926,006 63................................Steven Fisk 573 $1,692,519 64.............................Matti Schmid 570 $1,690,477 65...............................Michael Kim 549 $1,993,284 66......................... Jordan L. Smith 536 $1,755,973 67............... Michael Thorbjornsen 536 $1,897,161 68........................ Andrew Putnam 533 $1,939,369 69.............................Ricky Castillo 532 $1,548,019 70............................Mac Meissner 515 $1,611,476 71........................... Johnny Keefer 499 $1,715,954 72.................................. Jason Day 495 $1,864,529 73......................... Keegan Bradley 489 $2,041,644 74............................ Brian Harman 475 $1,908,189
75.................................. Tom Hoge 473 $1,727,861 76.............................. David Lipsky 465 $1,527,109 77......................... Stephan Jaeger 463 $1,576,623 78................. Austin Smotherman 462 $1,801,055 79........................... Jackson Suber 455 $1,580,842 80......................... Taylor Pendrith 445 $1,488,773 81....................... Brandt Snedeker 436 $1,145,022
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United Kingdom At JCB Golf and Country Club; In Rocester, England Purse: $20M (Individual) Yardage: 7,332; Par: 72
second ROUND Lucas Herbert ......................... 61 66 69 196 — Bryson DeChambeau .............. 64 67 68 199 — Tyrrell Hatton ........................ 66 68 67 201 — Harold Varner III .................... 66 69 68 203 — Cameron Smith ...................... 69 67 66 202 — Abraham Ancer ...................... 68 70 65 203 — Byeong-Hun An ...................... 67 68 70 205 — Marc Leishman ....................... 68 68 71 207 — Caleb Surratt .......................... 68 69 70 207 — Charles Howell III ................... 68 70 69 207 — Peter Uihlein .......................... 69 67 72 208 — Adrian Meronk ....................... 70 68 70 208 — Scott Vincent ......................... 68 71 69 208 — Dean Burmester ..................... 70 66 73 209 — Laurie Canter .......................... 73 66 70 209 — Ian Poulter .............................. 68 71 70 209 — Carlos Ortiz
............................ 70 68 72 210 — Anthony Kim .......................... 73 70 67 210 — Bjoern Hellgren ...................... 68 71 72 211 — Thomas Pieters ...................... 71 68 72 211 — Anirban Lahiri ........................ 68 69 75 212 — Charl Schwartzel .................... 73 69 70 212 — David Puig .............................. 73 69 70 212 — Branden Grace ........................ 71 73 68 212 — Jose Luis Ballester ................. 72 69 72 213 — Lee Westwood ....................... 71 70 72 213 — Tom McKibbin ........................ 73 70 70 213 — Joaquin Niemann ................... 73 72 68 213 — Richard T. Lee ......................... 67 71 76 214 — Paul Casey .............................. 73 69 72 214 — Luis Masaveu ......................... 68 75 71 214 — Jon Rahm ............................... 73 70 71 214 — Matthew Wolff ...................... 72 71
72 215 — Martin Vorster ....................... 72 70 74 216 — Victor Perez ............................ 74 70 72 216 — Dustin Johnson ...................... 73 69 75 217 — Cameron Tringale ................... 74 70 73 217 — Travis Smyth .......................... 71 69 78 218 — Richard Bland ......................... 71 73 74 218 — Thomas Detry ......................... 69 76 73 218 — Martin Kaymer ....................... 72 70 77 219 — Graeme McDowell .................. 72 72 75 219 — Bubba Watson ........................ 71 73 75 219 — Young-Han Song .................... 71 74 74 219 — Min-Kyu Kim .......................... 73 73 73 219 — Talor Gooch ............................ 71 76 72 219 — Yosuke Asaji .......................... 75 73 71 219 — Sam Horsfield ........................ 73 75 71 219 — Sebastian Munoz ................... 78 70 71 219 — Danny Lee
............................... 74 75 70 219 — Ben Campbell ......................... 75 76 68 219 — Miguel Tabuena ..................... 73 74 73 220 — Sergio Garcia .......................... 72 76 72 220 — Michael La Sasso ................... 72 73 76 221 — Brendan Steele ....................... 73 74 74 221 — Do-Yeob Mun ......................... 73 75 73 221 — Jason Kokrak .......................... 71 78 76 225 —
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women’s scottish open At Dundonald Links; In Troon, United Kingdom Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,543; Par: 72
third ROUND Jenny Shin .................................... 66 67 71 — 204 -12 Pajaree Anannarukarn .................. 71 69 69 — 209 -7 Erika Hara ..................................... 70 70 71 — 211 -5 Esther Henseleit ........................... 70 68 73 — 211 -5 A Lim Kim ..................................... 67 72 74 — 213 -3 Lauren Coughlin ............................ 66 74 74 — 214 -2 Miyu Yamashita ........................... 70 74 70 — 214 -2 Ryann O'Toole .............................. 73 72 71 — 216 E Amy Yang ..................................... 76 69 71 — 216 E Rose Zhang ................................... 73 72 71 — 216 E Diksha Dagar ................................ 74 73 70 — 217 +1 Daniela Darquea ........................... 71 72 74 — 217 +1 Aki Iwai ......................................... 78 70 69 — 217 +1 Ariya Jutanugarn .......................... 73 73 71 —
217 +1 Leona Maguire .............................. 72 72 73 — 217 +1 Chanettee Wannasaen ................. 71 76 70 — 217 +1 Ina Yoon ........................................ 73 68 76 — 217 +1 Hyo Joo Kim .................................. 75 70 73 — 218 +2 Julia Lopez Ramirez ..................... 71 74 73 — 218 +2 Patty Tavatanakit ........................ 71 69 78 — 218 +2 Nataliya Guseva ........................... 72 74 73 — 219 +3 Maja Stark .................................... 74 72 73 — 219 +3 Weiwei Zhang ............................... 73 73 73 — 219 +3 Alice Hewson ................................ 75 70 75 — 220 +4 Grace Kim ..................................... 74 70 76 — 220 +4 Sei Young Kim .............................. 75 72 73 — 220 +4 Mi Hyang Lee ................................ 75 68 77 — 220 +4 Nastasia Nadaud .......................... 75 71 74 — 220 +4 Helen
Briem .................................. 77 70 74 — 221 +5 Moa Folke ..................................... 76 70 75 — 221 +5 Amelia Garvey .............................. 76 73 72 — 221 +5 Chizzy Iwai .................................... 72 74 75 — 221 +5 Nelly Korda ................................... 72 76 73 — 221 +5 Pia Babnik ..................................... 77 71 74 — 222 +6 Jenny Bae ..................................... 72 76 74 — 222 +6 Hye Jin Choi .................................. 76 70 76 — 222 +6 Allisen Corpuz ............................... 78 72 72 — 222 +6 Amanda Doherty .......................... 72 73 77 — 222 +6 Sara Kouskova .............................. 77 69 76 — 222 +6 Anna Nordqvist ............................ 70 79 73 — 222 +6 Pauline Roussin-Bouchard ........... 73 73 76 — 222 +6 Lottie Woad .................................. 74 70 78 — 222 +6 Arpichaya
Yubol ............................ 73 72 77 — 222 +6 Nasa Hataoka ............................... 74 72 77 — 223 +7 Lisa Pettersson ............................ 69 77 77 — 223 +7 Mimi Rhodes ................................. 77 71 75 — 223 +7 Manon De Roey ............................. 73 75 76 — 224 +8 Lindy Duncan ................................ 74 74 76 — 224 +8 Hannah Green ............................... 74 76 74 — 224 +8 Charley Hull .................................. 78 71 75 — 224 +8 You Min Hwang ............................ 74 74 77 — 225 +9 Alexa Pano .................................... 75 72 78 — 225 +9 In Gee Chun ................................... 73 76 77 — 226 +10 Dewi Weber .................................. 79 71 76 — 226 +10 Yana Wilson .................................. 73 76 77 — 226 +10 Robyn Choi .................................... 76 73 79 — 228 +12 Emma
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Spitz .................................. 77 73 78 — 228 +12 Olivia Cowan ................................. 74 75 80 — 229 +13 Hannah Darling ............................. 75 74 80 — 229 +13 Soo Bin Joo ................................... 76 74 80 — 230 +14 Brianna Navarrosa ........................ 76 73 81 — 230 +14 Carla Tejedo Mulet ....................... 74 76 80 — 230 +14
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Isps Handa senior open At Kings Course; Auchterarder, United Kingdom Purse: $2.9 million Yardage: 6,859; Par: 70 second ROUND Jerry Kelly ..................................... 66 68 68 — 202 -8 Cameron Percy .............................. 63 68 71 — 202 -8 Peter Baker ................................... 69 69 67 — 205 -5 Darren Fichardt ............................. 70 68 68 — 206 -4 Markus Brier ................................. 67 69 71 — 207 -3 Ernie Els ........................................ 65 71 71 — 207 -3 Pat Perez ....................................... 65 75 67 — 207 -3 Alex Cejka ..................................... 68 70 70 — 208 -2 K.J. Choi ........................................ 70 70 68 — 208 -2 Clark Dennis .................................. 69 72 67 — 208 -2 Zach Johnson ................................ 67 73 68 — 208 -2 Tag Ridings
................................... 66 72 70 — 208 -2 Rory Sabbatini .............................. 67 73 68 — 208 -2 Steve Allan ................................... 69 70 70 — 209 -1 Matt Gogel .................................... 68 69 72 — 209 -1 Tim Petrovic .................................. 69 75 66 — 210 E Charlie Wi ..................................... 67 76 67 — 210 E Steven Alker ................................. 67 76 68 — 211 +1 Emanuele Canonica ....................... 66 76 69 — 211 +1 Matthew Cort ............................... 72 67 72 — 211 +1 Patrik Sjoland ............................... 70 72 69 — 211 +1 Henrik Stenson ............................. 68 68 75 — 211 +1 Boo Weekley ................................. 67 74 70 — 211 +1 Jamie Donaldson ........................... 68 74 70 — 212 +2 Bradley Dredge ............................. 72 70 70 — 212 +2 Stephen
Gallacher ......................... 72 69 71 — 212 +2 Retief Goosen ............................... 70 71 71 — 212 +2 Miguel Angel Jimenez .................. 65 75 72 — 212 +2 Maarten Lafeber ........................... 71 72 69 — 212 +2 Tom Pernice .................................. 65 73 74 — 212 +2 Ryan Armour ................................. 67 72 74 — 213 +3 Stewart Cink ................................. 71 72 70 — 213 +3 Johan Edfors ................................. 66 77 70 — 213 +3 Mathew Goggin ............................ 70 72 71 — 213 +3 Paul Goydos .................................. 70 71 72 — 213 +3 Richard Green ............................... 69 73 71 — 213 +3 Mark Hensby ................................. 69 71 73 — 213 +3 Rod Pampling ................................ 73 69 71 — 213 +3 Paul Stankowski ........................... 70 73 70 — 213 +3 Greig Hutcheon
............................. 70 73 71 — 214 +4 Phillip Price ................................... 75 68 71 — 214 +4 Jean-Francois Remesy .................. 69 71 74 — 214 +4 Thammanoon Sriroj ...................... 72 69 73 — 214 +4 Michael Campbell .......................... 71 74 70 — 215 +5 Greg Chalmers .............................. 69 73 73 — 215 +5 Adilson Da Silva ............................ 71 73 71 — 215 +5 Harrison Frazar ............................. 72 72 71 — 215 +5 Keith Horne ................................... 70 70 75 — 215 +5 Fredrik Jacobson ........................... 72 68 75 — 215 +5 Soren Kjeldsen .............................. 71 69 75 — 215 +5 Vaughn Taylor ............................... 74 69 72 — 215 +5 Robert Coles .................................. 69 71 76 — 216 +6 Craig Farrelly ................................. 70 75 71 — 216 +6 Ricardo Gonzalez
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.......................... 73 71 72 — 216 +6 Padraig Harrington ....................... 70 72 74 — 216 +6 Bo Van Pelt ................................... 76 68 72 — 216 +6 Michael Wright ............................. 66 72 78 — 216 +6 Simon Griffiths ............................. 67 77 73 — 217 +7 Thongchai Jaidee .......................... 72 70 75 — 217 +7 Robert Karlsson ............................ 70 75 72 — 217 +7 Paul Lawrie ................................... 69 71 77 — 217 +7 Paul McGinley ............................... 68 75 74 — 217 +7 Greg Owen .................................... 71 74 72 — 217 +7 Kyron Sullivan ............................... 68 75 74 — 217 +7 Joe Durant ..................................... 71 74 73 — 218 +8 Alastair Forsyth ............................ 69 74 75 — 218 +8 James Kingston ............................ 70 73 75 — 218 +8 Jeev M. Singh
................................ 67 78 73 — 218 +8 Lionel Alexandre ........................... 64 73 82 — 219 +9 David Howell ................................. 67 76 76 — 219 +9 Thomas Levet ............................... 71 72 76 — 219 +9 Jeff Maggert ................................. 70 75 74 — 219 +9 Jason Caron ................................... 69 76 75 — 220 +10 David Drysdale .............................. 70 75 75 — 220 +10 Mikael Lundberg ........................... 72 71 77 — 220 +10 Andrew Marshall .......................... 71 70 79 — 220 +10 Mario Tiziani ................................. 71 74 75 — 220 +10
第 20 赛段 从 Le Bourg d’Oisans 到 Alpe d’Huez 的 106.1 英里骑行
赛段结果： 1. Richard Carapaz, 厄瓜多尔, EF Education-EasyPost, 04:59:39. 2. Remco Evenepoel, 比利时, Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe, 05:00:05. 3. Sepp Kuss, 美国, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 05:00:10. 4. Tadej Pogacar, 斯洛文尼亚, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 05:00:44. 5. Isaac Del Toro, 墨西哥, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 同时。 6. Lenny Martinez, 法国, Bahrain Victorious, 05:00:46. 7. Jai Hindley, 澳大利亚, Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe, 05:01:54. 8. Mattias Skjelmose, 丹麦, Lidl-Trek, 05:02:34. 9. Juan Ayuso, 西班牙, Lidl-Trek, 同时。 10. Paul Seixas, 法国, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 同时。
其他： 3. Sepp Kuss, 美国, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 05:00:10. 12. Matthew Riccitello, 美国, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 05:06:36. 19. Quinn Simmons, 美国, Lidl-Trek, 05:09:41. 26. Sean Quinn, 美国, EF Education-EasyPost, 05:17:07. 56. Matteo Jorgenson, 美国, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 05:34:49.
总排名： 1. Tadej Pogacar, 斯洛文尼亚, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 72:53:44. 2. Remco Evenepoel, 比利时, Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe, 73:00:10. 3. Isaac Del Toro Romero, 墨西哥, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 73:03:26. 4. Paul Seixas, 法国, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 73:05:40. 5. Lenny Martinez, 法国, Bahrain Victorious, 73:06:46. 6. Mattias Skjelmose, 丹麦, Lidl-Trek, 73:08:43. 7. Juan Ayuso, 西班牙, Lidl-Trek, 73:11:32. 8. Richard Carapaz, 厄瓜多尔, EF Education-EasyPost, 73:13:44. 9. Tom Pidcock, 英国, Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, 73:23:12. 10. Jordan Jegat, 法国, TotalEnergies, 73:27:05.
其他： 13. Sepp Kuss, 美国, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 73:56:07. 18. Quinn Simmons, 美国, Lidl-Trek, 74:29:12. 19. Sean Quinn, 美国, EF Education-EasyPost, 74:40:49. 24. Matthew Riccitello, 美国, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 75:04:53. 30. Matteo Jorgenson, 美国, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 75:27:13.
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飙升，家庭财富
作者：FEDERICA COCCO 以及 SHANNON NAJMABADI E
经济学家们将其称为历史上最大规模的财富转移。
在数十年房价上涨、股市强劲和经济增长的推动下，婴儿潮一代掌控了美国家庭财富的一半以上。当他们去世时，预计这些财富中的很大一部分将流向其后代。据估计，在接下来的 20 年里，将有 68 万亿美元至 84 万亿美元的资金和资产易手。
但这些估计可能没有充分考虑到年老的成本。
《华盛顿邮报》对数千名老年人在生命最后十年中的财务状况进行了分析，发现对于许多家庭来说，护理成本削减了他们希望传承的大部分财产。而且在日益增长的一类群体中，老年护理费用不仅在减少他们的储蓄，甚至在将其彻底抹除。
成年子女在某些情况下并非代际财富的受益者，而是在动用自己的储蓄来支付父母的护理费用。
邮报的数据分析通过访谈以及数百名读者的提交资料得到了进一步证实。
“除非……这简直抹去了任何代际财富”
商业 (BusineSS)
2026 年 7 月 26 日，星期日。 B 版
参阅 B9 页的“继承”
越来越多的美国人在支付护理费用后身无分文
在去世前十年，支付完自费护理费用后没有留下任何财富的美国人比例，按去世时段划分
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来源：华盛顿邮报对密歇根大学健康与退休研究的分析
插图由 Tilde Oyster/华盛顿邮报；iStock 提供
进展给 特朗普 带来 压力
华盛顿 监管该技术的 方法
作者：伊恩·邓肯 (IAN DUNCAN)
数月以来，美国顶级人工智能公司似乎一直舒适地领先于中国竞争对手，推出的新旗舰模型所具备的能力令最贪婪的用户们目瞪口呆。
这些新系统能够制作完整的电子游戏，解决复杂的学术数学问题，并识别计算机代码中长期被忽视的安全漏洞。
但近几天，这一领先优势的大小受到了质疑，因为一波新的中国模型相继问世，专家称这些模型正在迅速缩小差距。此外，随着来自 Anthropic 和 OpenAI 的最强大美国模型陷入政府的繁琐手续中，最新的中国模型——Moonshot AI 的 Kimi K3 和阿里巴巴的 Qwen3.8——即将向任何拥有足够强大计算能力运行它们的人开放。
对于那些担心美国领先地位被侵蚀的人来说，本月早些时候一次针对美国人工智能公司 Hugging Face 的黑客攻击尝试，很快成了一个警示故事。
该公司在的一篇博客文章中表示，当它尝试使用商业人工智能工具进行防御时，却触发了旨在防止这些工具被用于发动攻击的防护栏。解决方案是什么？转向使用一个中国模型。
在人工智能竞争已成为美国和中国争夺全球领导地位之斗争的关键部分之际，这些新发布的模型为这场塑造关键技术未来的竞赛现状提供了新的视角。
“我们讨论的是，究竟是美国还是中国将为全球经济提供数字化生命线，”华盛顿智库美国企业研究所 (American Enterprise Institute) 研究员瑞安·费达修克 (Ryan Fedasiuk) 表示。
特朗普政府意识到此事的利害关系，表示其对待新技术的方案旨在帮助美国赢得竞赛，目标是扫除可能减缓美国创新的监管条例。但在最近几个月，由于不得不应对人工智能带来的日益增长的计算机安全风险，该政府重新调整了其方案。官员们暂时对最新的美国模型踩了刹车，担心
永远不要租赁 汽车——除非 在这种情况下
它们回来了。
四年前，汽车买家在价格峰值期为车辆融资，由于疫情导致的短缺推高了成本，他们支付的价格等于或高于标价。现在，同样的买家正回到展厅，不幸的是，他们将创纪录的高额债务带入了新贷款中。
米歇尔·辛格莱塔里 (Michelle Singletary)
金钱之色 (The Color of Money)
越来越多的美国人处于“资不抵债”状态，这意味着他们的汽车贷款余额高于汽车本身的价值。
汽车购物网站 Edmunds 的一份新报告发现，在 2026. 年第二季度，涉及置换的新车销售中，近 30 ％ 存在负资产。这些资不抵债贷款的平均欠款金额为 $6,884. 。
当消费者在想要或需要另一辆车之前无法偿清贷款余额时，就会产生一种复合的债务循环。
借款人将贷款期限延长至七年或更久，试图让账目能算得过来。资不抵债的新车贷款平均每月还款额在第二季度达到了 $944 的历史新高。这比 $777 的平均值高出了 $167 。
资不抵债的置换并不局限于那些传统上贬值极快的车辆
参阅 B10 页关于人工智能的内容
作者：JENNA RYU
“零售疗法”之所以得名是有充分理由的。浏览可用选项、填充购物车（无论是实体的还是数字的），并最终将新东西带回家，这个简单的过程能带来短暂的幸福感。
当然，问题在于追逐这种快感代价昂贵——尤其是当互联网让人们能够轻而易举地点击购买，并在 24 小时内送达门前时。但韩国的开发人员可能创造了一个巧妙的替代方案。
一个日益增长的“多巴胺网站”类别模拟了在线购物或通过外卖 App 点餐的快感——但不会让你的银行账户受损。其中最受欢迎的是 Eumsigman-anwayo（大致翻译为“只有食物没来”）。它允许用户自定义配料，阅读客户评论，并观看他们的订单在前往家门的途中。
只不过，所有的餐厅或菜单项目都不是真实的，也没有任何外卖会送达。
这种数字角色扮演之所以让人感觉如此满足，归根结底在于我们的大脑如何沉浸在购买东西的幻想中。
“整个体验可以是令人愉悦的，”认证财务治疗师、《财务焦虑解决方案》一书的作者 Lindsay Bryan-Podvin 表示，“它是浏览。它是决定你想把什么添加到购物车。它是购物车金额达到足够额度以获得优惠券时的兴奋感。它是追踪包裹的兴奋感。”
类似的多巴胺网站已在互联网上蔓延，包括 Food Never Comes、Fake Eats 和 dopahaul，后者允许用户浏览并“购买”服装、家用电器、化妆品等。
这个前提看起来可能很傻，甚至带有反乌托邦色彩。但假装购物或买食物真的能满足挥霍的冲动吗？更重要的是，这些网站能否帮助人们减少开支？
我们询问了财务心理学家和消费者行为专家，听取他们的看法。
为什么在线订购感觉如此良好
研究表明，当我们体验到新奇事物（例如，一件闪亮的新商品）时，它能激活大脑的奖励系统，并促使多巴胺（一种与快感相关的神经递质）释放。当一项活动带给我们温暖、轻盈的快感时，我们会产生反复追求它的动力——甚至开始提前期待奖励。
这就是为什么在度假前夕……
作者：ALBERT STUMM
美联社 (Associated Press)
完美合身的牛仔裤。周二晚上最理想的 Netflix 剧集。你唯一的灵魂伴侣。现代生活承诺，只要有足够的选项，你就能快乐地找到每样东西中的最佳之选。
但行为科学家表示，不断增加的选择之潮——无论是购物、社交生活还是人际关系——正产生相反的效果。
斯沃特莫尔学院 (Swarthmore College) 心理学荣休教授、《选择的悖论》作者 Barry Schwartz 表示，更多选择就更好的想法已深植于西方文化中，但研究表明，拥有更多选项会使人焦虑、犹豫不决，而且矛盾的是，会对自己的选择感到更不满意。
“有数百项研究表明，好事如果过多，也可能会产生负面影响，”Schwartz 说。
他说，为了最大限度地减少心理噪音，应限制你做出的选择数量，你的大脑会为此感谢你。
更多往往意味着更混乱
Schwartz 举了几个选项更多反而让人们处境更糟的例子。
他表示，在联邦医疗保险 (Medicare) D 部分处方药计划的案例中，选项较多州的居民选择任何一个计划的可能性反而较低。401(k) 投资也是如此。一家公司提供的选项越多，员工注册的可能性就越低，即使雇主提供匹配资金。
在“多巴胺网站”上，用户可以将虚拟的衣服、家电、食物等放入购物车，据称可以在不花一分钱的情况下满足挥霍的冲动。
这种期待感几乎与旅行本身一样令人愉快，就像在吃第一口食物之前浏览餐厅菜单能让你垂涎三尺一样。
购物，尤其是网购，诱人之处就在于此。能够立即获取无数选项，加上对即时满足的承诺，使得人们很难分辨我们是在购买实际需要的东西，还是仅仅在追求新鲜感的刺激。
“这是购物的核心所在，”密歇根大学罗斯商学院的行为科学家、营销学副教授 Scott Rick 说道。“我们习惯于将其视为一个有回报的过程，其中有值得期待的东西。因此，它触及了这种习惯或惯例，即彩虹的尽头有黄金。”
我们经常购买的不仅是商品本身，还有我们希望它能带来的感受、可能性和身份认同。例如，一份外卖可能代表了在艰苦的一天后的安慰。一双新跑鞋可能象征着那个终于开始执行训练计划的自己。
然而，期待感只是故事的一部分。根据堪萨斯州立大学个人财务规划助理教授 Megan McCoy 的观点，“购物疗法”还提供了一种掌控感的错觉。在两种颜色之间做出选择，甚至仅仅是对比价格，这种低风险的决策能给你一种控制感。研究表明，这反过来可以暂时缓解焦虑、抑郁和压力等负面情绪。
虚拟购物真的能减少情绪化消费吗？
Bryan-Podvin 表示，多巴胺网站并不是消除刷卡消费的欲望，而是保留了人们在购物中享受的部分——浏览、选择、期待——同时去除了可能导致后悔的财务损失。
但由于这些网站非常新，目前几乎没有研究，她指出，无法证明它们是否能在长期内有效减少冲动消费。
虽然行为科学早已证明，用替代方案取代不良习惯可以抑制渴望，但替代方案必须具有足够的吸引力，才能让人们持续选择。
这就是 McCoy 认为的潜在弱点。
她说，多巴胺网站的部分吸引力可能来自其新鲜感。一旦那种“这太酷了，我以前从未见过这个！”的反应消失，她担心用户“会对这个虚拟应用感到厌倦，并在压力大、孤独或无聊时重新回到真实的应用程序中”。
影响力较小的选择也没有区别。Schwartz 指出了一项经常被引用的研究，该研究显示，当美食杂货店的顾客面对 6 种口味而非更广泛的 24 种口味时，购买的手工果酱罐数量更多。在随后的研究中，当学生在 6 个主题中选择而不是 30 个主题时，他们更有可能完成一项加分作业。
Schwartz 的研究扩展了这些发现，以了解人们对此类现象的情绪反应。
他说，“面对这么多选择，你会陷入瘫痪。你可以做任何事情，但你无法弄清楚在这么多事情中该做哪一件。”
他还表示，人们最终往往会做出更糟糕的决定，因为更多的选项意味着更多潜在的糟糕结果。而且，一旦有人在所有可能性中最终做出决定，即使是一个不错的选择，他们的满意度也可能较低，因为他们担心可能存在更好的替代方案。
Schwartz 说，满意度问题对于那些旨在获得“最好”选择的人来说尤其严重，心理学家称这类人为“最大化者” (maximizers)。
更重要的是，像模拟购物平台这样的替代策略，并不能解决最初驱动冲动消费的深层原因。
“购物体验满足了什么样的情感需求？”麦考伊表示。“在一个人摆脱这种需求之前，多巴胺[[IMG_XXXX]]
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“追求最大化的人尤其容易在选项激增的情况下感到痛苦，”他说。“他们认为只有最好的才行。”
施瓦茨指出，这种倾向并非适用于所有人在所有情况下的表现。汽车爱好者在购买新车时，会很乐意深入研究近乎无限的选择细节。
“但在买果酱时，你不会有那种感觉，”他说。
大脑不喜欢做决定
弗吉尼亚大学的心理学教授兼神经科学研究员丹尼尔·威灵厄姆表示，这种现象之所以发生，是因为大脑的设计初衷就是为了让人们无需思考。
威灵厄姆说，解决问题比依赖记忆需要消耗更多能量，这一事实根植于进化生存模式。当面对一个目标时，无论是应对威胁这样的即时需求，还是寻找避难所这样的长期目标，大脑首先会搜索之前行之有效的方法。大脑中负责解决问题的部分在之后才会启动。
“另一种说法是，如果你在思考，说明事情进展得不顺利，”他说。
他表示，这解释了为什么人们有时在一天中的某些时段处于“自动驾驶”状态。在一天之中，人们会面临数百个可以尝试不同做法的情况，但他们几乎总是走同一条路去上班。
施瓦茨说，在社交媒体时代，选择的激增还与身份认同纠缠在一起，因为每个人都可以轻易地将自己的选择与他人进行比较。
“当你的选择只有 Lee's 和 Levi's 时，没人指望买到的牛仔裤能完美合身，”他说。“但当有 2,000 个选项时，好吧，该死，你现在就指望你的牛仔裤能完美合身了。”
限制选择并继续前行
大卫·爱普斯坦表示，在研究他的著作《Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better》之后，他开始摆脱自己的最大化倾向。
这些网站只能带来短期胜利。”
管理冲动购物的更好方法
布赖恩-波德温表示，如果多巴胺网站能缓解你的购物之痒，使用它们并没有错。（只要确保不要分享任何真实的个人信息，因为目前尚不清楚这些网站使用了什么样的安全措施来保护你的数据。）但专家表示，还有其他更成熟的方法可以减少情感化消费。
“零售商、营销人员——他们的一切目的都是为了让过程毫无阻碍，让消费变得无形，”里克解释道，这就是为什么他建议创建“心理减速带”，以足够延长冲动的时间，从而让人重新考虑。
这可以是退订促销电子邮件、从自动填充中删除保存的信用卡信息，或者从手机主屏幕上删除电子商务应用程序。
尽管如此，实际的障碍只能走到这一步。更持久的解决方案涉及理解每次打开外卖应用或零售网站时，你真正寻求的是什么。无论是慰藉、分心、兴奋感还是掌控感，识别这种潜在需求，才能创造机会通过其他更便宜的方式来满足它。
这可以是给朋友打电话、去散步，或者看一集你最喜欢的舒压剧。
如果你需要帮助弄清楚是什么在驱动你消费，那么治疗师就可以发挥作用。他们可以协助你识别并理顺你与购物之间的情感联系，并教你更健康的应对策略，而无需将薪水挥霍在那些你真正不需要的东西上。
“消费在很大程度上是许多情感的替代品，”布莱恩-波德温（Bryan-Podvin）说道。“因此，确保你有其他方式来承认这些情感，并处理它们[带来的]潜在不适感，将是非常重要的。”
现在，他限制了自己做出选择的机会，比如他一次性购买了 10 件相同款式但颜色不同的合身 T 恤。
他是在效仿赫伯特·西蒙（Herbert Simon）的做法。西蒙是一位心理学家，也是 1978 年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，他只有三套衣服，而且每天吃的东西几乎完全一样。西蒙引入了“满足解”（satisficing）这一术语——它是“满意”（satisfying）与“足够”（sufficing）的结合，意指为决策设定一个“足够好”的标准，然后便不再纠结。
埃普斯坦（Epstein）在进行在线购物时，通过首先关注购买目的，为自己设定了“满足解”规则。
“当我发现一个能满足该需求的商品时，我就买它，而不是阅读所有评论并陷入‘嗯，这个商品还有这些其他功能’的纠结中。”
威灵汉姆（Willingham）和施瓦茨（Schwartz）建议将部分决策“外包”。如果你想买一部新手机，找一个对其手机感到满意的朋友，然后买同款即可。
威灵汉姆表示，对于像财务规划这样较大的决策，如果你依赖他人的专业知识，你会更快乐。
“如果你在想，‘嘿，我很聪明，我能搞定这件事，’我认为 9 次中有 10 次，你是在自欺欺人，”他说道。
施瓦茨承认，对于那些难以做出决定的人来说，改变是困难的。但这样做是值得的。
“随着时间的推移，你会发现做出决定变得更容易了，你最终会对自己的决定更加满意，而且突然之间，你每天又多了两个小时的自由时间，”他说道。
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约翰和伊迪丝·贝尔在二十年前女儿的婚礼上。 患有认知障碍症的伊迪丝每月护理费用总计 $15,000.
继承自 B7 变老代价高昂。对于许多人来说，这耗尽了他们希望传给后代的所有财产。
“你得非常、非常富有才行，”来自俄亥俄州的 68, 岁比尔·罗根坎普（Bill Roggenkamp）说道。
他 96 岁的母亲伊迪丝·贝尔（Edith Bare）患有认知障碍症，过去七年一直住在辅助生活设施中。她的护理费用每月 $15,000。但她的积蓄已经花光了。因此，她的三个孩子利用她与比尔已故继父共同持有的寿险保单办理了贷款。如果这笔钱用完，他们可能不得不出售位于肯塔基州的一部分农场，该农场自 1960 年代起就一直由家族持有。
罗根坎普和他的妻子莎伦（Sharon，同样是婴儿潮一代）讨论过，如果其中一人被诊断出类似的疾病会发生什么。
“你算算那些数字，特别是长期护理和认知障碍症，为了维持生活，你可能需要 $1 million, $2 million，”莎伦·罗根坎普说道。
他们预计自己将花掉几乎所有财产，给成年子女留下的东西很少。
计算衰老的成本
当《华盛顿邮报》研究“健康与退休研究”（Health and Retirement Study）的数据时，许多人面对的正是这样的局面。自 1992, 年起，这项由联邦资助的调查一直追踪数千名美国人，从他们 50 岁出头直到去世，每两年记录一次他们的财务状况（无论他们是否退休）。
《华盛顿邮报》重点关注在 2006 和 2022 之间去世的人群，计算他们在生命最后十年中自费支付的护理总额，并根据财富类别评估其影响。
分析发现，美国人的中位支出为 $19,179. 每 6 人中就有 1 人支出超过 $50,000. 每 20 人中就有 1 人支出超过 $100,000.
在《华盛顿邮报》研究的时间段内，衰老的成本变得更加难以负担。在支付完养老护理费后一无所有的人数比例，从 2006 年至 2010 间去世者的 6% 上升到接近
作者：HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH 和 NICKY FORSTER
美联社 (Associated Press)
大学毕业后的生活并未按照艾希莉·德雷恩 (Ashley Dreahn) 的计划进行。
在最初担任教师后，她重返校园——并申请了更多贷款——希望能在化学加工行业找到一份薪水更高的工作。但这并未实现，随后又遭遇了飓风哈维、失业和汽车故障。到 2022 年，她穷到申请了破产。
她在德克萨斯州的一所监狱找到了工作，并开始重建生活，为减肥手术攒钱。然而今年春天，她收到了一家信用监测服务的通知。她原以为在破产中已获豁免的学生贷款，在计入利息后已膨胀至 $94,298，且她必须开始还款。她已处于违约状态。
“我彻底崩溃了，” 40 岁的德雷恩说道。
根据美联社的一项分析，在全美范围内，学生贷款违约的借款人数从 2025 年 4 月到 2026 年 3 月增加了 420 万 (4.2 million) 以上。这次激增包括许多在 2024 年失控的人，当时在经历了大流行时代的还款冻结后，贷款还款再次到期。
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在 2017 年至 2022 年期间去世的人群中，占比为 11%。
成本对最贫困的人影响最深：在分析对象中最贫困的五分之一美国人中，在扣除去世前几年的护理成本后，41% 的人变得身无分文。总体而言，该群体在生命最后十年中，将近三分之一的财富花费在自付护理成本上——这是最富有的五分之一人群所花费份额的 20 倍以上。
所有这些数据几乎肯定都被低估了，因为它们没有完全计入住房费用，例如辅助生活设施的食宿费。这些费用通常占家庭支付总额的大部分。
大多数美国人在晚年拥有房产，且许多人已还清抵押贷款。当他们需要更多护理时，可能会通过出售房屋来获取资金。
但与老年人之前支付的房产税和房屋维护费相比，辅助生活账单可能会带来颠覆性的冲击。根据 CareScout 的一项护理成本调查，在 2025 年，全美单人间及基本服务的年中位成本约为 $74,400。对于那些需要养老院更广泛服务的人来说，单人间的年中位成本为 $129,575。对于一个患有失智症的人来说，如果这种情况持续七年，账单总额将接近 $1 百万 ($1 million)。
“大多数美国人——而且人数远比人们意识到的要多——在耗尽资产支付长期护理成本后，将几乎没有什么可以传给后代的财富，”经济政策研究员杰西卡·福登 (Jessica Forden) 在自由派罗斯福研究所 (Roosevelt Institute) 4 月发表的一项研究中写道。
出于这个原因，福登（新学院 (New School) 的博士候选人）表示，所谓的大规模财富转移的概念具有误导性。她对 1992 年至 2022 年全国数据的分析发现，典型的中低收入家庭在退休后耗尽了终身积蓄，在财务上从未恢复，从而扩大了差距。
另一波违约潮可能即将到来。随着政府拆除其最实惠的基于收入的还款方案——Save 计划，数百万借款人面临着更高的每月还款额。教育部称，这是旨在简化碎片化体系的几项变革之一。
借款人在连续九个月未还款后进入违约状态，其后果可能会颠覆生活。这会损害信用评级，并可能导致债务被移交给催收机构。
“我看到了绝望、愤怒和沮丧，以及一种极其复杂的极端情绪，这在以前是我从未见过的，”学生贷款正义组织 (Student Loan Justice) 创始人、《学生贷款骗局》(The Student Loan Scam) 一书的作者艾伦·科林奇 (Alan Collinge) 说道。
联邦政府可以扣押违约借款人的工资和社保金，但特朗普政府在1月份撤回了开始追收这些贷款的计划。穆迪分析（Moody’s Analytics）今年春天的一份报告称，扣押工作很可能在明年内开始，并警告称这将成为“日益脆弱的经济中一个额外的不利因素”。
Dreahn 在 2004 年进入德克萨斯女子大学，是她家中第一个上大学的人。她通过拼凑各种工作来维持生活，包括照顾孩子以及在呼叫中心工作。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 蒂姆（Tim）和艾米·迪伦（Amy Dillon）不得不为蒂姆 79 岁的父亲（见上图）筹集资金，他的父亲目前正在接受失智症护理。
“能够留下遗产的将是处于顶端的那批人，”福登（Forden）在一次采访中表示。“而我们其余的人将把资产花在退休生活上，可能还包括每月的护理费用，这样我们才能获得医疗补助计划 / 医疗救助的资格。”
在传递遗产。而我们其余的人
退休生活以及可能的每月护理费用上
杰西卡·福登 (Jessica Forden)，经济政策研究员
贫富之间。
是什么驱动了衰老成本
虽然老年护理长期以来一直很昂贵，但经济学家和退休专家表示，多种因素的共同作用，使得它成为许多美国人日益紧迫的关注点。
与前几代人相比，如今的人们能获得支持的子女较少，且家人更有可能生活在不同的城市和州，这意味着他们需要将护理外包。
此外，寿命有所延长。医学进步使得成功管理许多慢性疾病成为可能。但这导致人们需要支付比过去更多的年限的护理费用。
与此同时，养老设施的成本激增。根据 CareScout 的调查，辅助生活设施的中位费率在 5 年内增长了 44%，几乎是通货膨胀率的两倍。
专家和行业官员表示，婴儿潮一代庞大的规模增加了对资源的需求，导致劳动力成本上升，进而推高了长期护理的价格标签。
美国医疗保健协会 (American Health Care Association) 及国家辅助生活中心 (National Center for Assisted Living) 的报销政策高级副总裁约翰·凯恩 (John Kane) 表示，医疗保健领域存在“日益严重的护理人员短缺”。
“坦率地说，如果说这个国家的长期护理资金链已经断裂，并不算夸大其词，”凯恩说道。“对于大多数人来说，它太贵了，但它仍需要进一步投资，以确保一线护理人员能够获得具有竞争力的工资。”
如何支付长期护理费用？
财务规划师使用模型来帮助人们规划退休年岁应节省多少资金。但任何经历过这个过程的人都知道，其中存在固有的不确定性。一个人会在 75 岁时死于心脏病发作吗？还是他们需要 10 年最高强度且最昂贵的护理？
根据波士顿学院退休研究中心 (Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research) 2025 年的研究，近 1/5 的人将需要 3 年以上的最高强度护理。然而，许多人不想考虑，更不用说为这种可能性制定预算了。
多项分析表明，尽管婴儿潮一代拥有巨大的总财富，但许多人对衰老成本准备不足。
专家表示，许多人特别惊讶地发现，联邦为老年人提供的医疗保险计划 Medicare 通常不包括长期护理。只有 3% 的成年人——在 65 岁及以上人群中为 15%——拥有长期护理
汽车修理店。但她仍然需要大量借款。
“有那么一个时刻，他们就像在说：‘如果你拿不出钱，我们就把你从课程中除名，’”德里恩 (Dreahn) 说道，她获得了一个重点研究教育和社会研究的历史学学位。“于是我就想，‘好吧，我需要签署什么？’”
她说，没有人向她解释贷款究竟意味着什么。
“你只是在某种程度上信任这些顾问，信任这些财务援助人员，认为这就是你应该做的事情，”德里恩说。
在教学期间，她又申请了更多的学生贷款，以便在德克萨斯州的一所公立社区学院获得两个副学士学位。她收到了一家化工厂的录用通知，但由于她的体重超过了公司安全设备的限制，该录取被撤回。
她于 2022 年申请破产，希望这样能“抹掉一切”。之后她检查了在线信用报告。对于每笔学生贷款，报告上写着：“太棒了！您已偿还了该贷款的 100%。”当学生贷款被整合或转移到新公司时，有时会向借款人发送此信息——即使该人员仍然欠款。
由于困难而导致的‘艰苦情况’。”倡导者们表示，这一过程非常繁琐，且很少有人符合条件。
但德里恩对此一无所知。
“我太宽慰了，就像，‘好了，现在我可以重新开始生活了，’”她说。“‘我可以存些钱了。’”
她去年开始在亨茨维尔的一所监狱担任主管，那里位于休斯顿以北约 70 英里；在收到违约通知时，她为了省钱正住在一家房车公园里。
“我只是觉得，我原以为已经看到的隧道尽头的那道光，现在在哪里？”德雷恩说道。
作为一项疫情救济措施，联邦政府允许借款人在 2023 年之前暂停偿还学生贷款，随后乔·拜登总统的政府又提供了一年的宽限期。该期限于 2024 年秋季结束，这意味着在连续 9 个月未付款后，贷款将进入违约状态。
随后违约人数激增。根据美联社（AP）的分析，如今约有 9.5 million 借款人——超过 1 in 5 ——处于违约状态，其中包括那些在疫情前就已严重逾期的人员。此前借款人违约的最高记录是 2019 年 12 月的 8 million 人。
根据联邦数据，还有 870,000 名借款人的贷款逾期在 181 到 270 天之间，处于违约边缘。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 图片来源：Tim Dillon 康拉德·迈尔斯和他的女儿马里昂，马里昂表示在她父亲搬进辅助生活养老设施后，他的积蓄“瞬间就没了”。
据退休研究中心（Center for Retirement Research）称，保险……
这意味着，老年护理的大部分费用直接落在家庭身上。
蒂姆和艾米·迪伦正在帮助赡养她的母亲和他的父亲，两人住在俄亥俄州同一家辅助生活设施中。他们通过动用艾米从她父亲（她母亲的前夫）那里继承的遗产，来支付她母亲每月 $8,700 的账单。
但对于蒂姆 79 岁的父亲吉米，他们不得不凑钱维持。吉米因患痴呆症而接受护理，其费用远远超过了他的社会保障金和少量养老金所能覆盖的范围。
他们卖掉了吉米的房子和财物。随后，蒂姆与他的姐姐和姐夫达成协议，每对夫妇每月出资 $1,000。艾米·迪伦是一名公立学校教师。蒂姆·迪伦于 2017 年从消防员岗位退休，后来又回去担任医疗快递员。
“我们把我父亲奋斗一辈子的所有财产都变现了，然后我们将把这些钱交给公司，”他说。
他很感激父亲得到了良好的照顾，但认为美国“可以采取更多措施来帮助照顾我们的老龄人口”。
依赖医疗补助计划 (Medicaid) 的陷阱
当家庭积蓄耗尽时，许多人转向医疗补助计划 / 医疗救助，该计划为低收入人群提供护理院护理——通常是指银行存款在 $2,000 或更少的人群。
但申请该计划有一个陷阱，很多家庭直到太晚才意识到。自 1993 年起，联邦法律要求各州在患者去世后，通过主张其资产（通常是患者的房屋）来尝试追回用于长期护理的资金。
研究遗产追缴的罗格斯大学助理研究教授阿曼达·斯皮沙克-托马斯（Amanda Spishak-Thomas）曾担任多年社会工作者，在填写医疗补助计划申请时，并不知道该计划之后可以……
其他联邦数据显示，全国营利性学校的借款人付款逾期至少 90 天的比例，是公立学校借款人的两倍多。
一些借款人被债务以及联邦学生贷款制度的变化压得喘不过气，以至于他们停止了还款。
来自缅因州奥本的 63 岁精神科护理师芭芭拉·霍瓦尼茨（Barbara Howaniec）已经违约。她在 2001 年从纽约大学毕业，为了攻读硕士学位借了约 $62,000。但在还款 20 年后，她加上利息仍欠约 $67,000。在孩子们还小的时候，她曾短时间申请贷款延期，当时并不知道利息会继续累积。
霍瓦尼茨曾希望在基于收入的还款计划下，经过 25 年后获得贷款豁免。但随后收到一封信，称还款计划已更改，她还需要支付 355 笔款项。等到她还清为止，她将 91 岁。
她一次又一次地打电话，但她说，接电话的人不同，给出的建议也不同。去年，在为自己的孩子支付大学学费的同时，她停止偿还自己的贷款。
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地接管申请人的房产。
她说，这种做法为政府挽回的资金很少，但对于家庭来说可能是一个巨大的打击。
“如果你的房子价值 $50,000，”她说，“$50,000 对一个成年子女来说是一笔很有意义的钱。”
玛琳·克莱恩 (Marlene Klein) 表示，她的婴儿潮一代哥哥随时可能面临遗产追偿，因为他与去年 97 岁去世的母亲共同拥有一套房子。
“我想他们早晚会来敲门，”70 岁的克莱恩说。“到时候我会处理。我会告诉他们，‘听着，[我哥哥] 没有钱。唯一的资产其实就是’这栋房子。”（如果遗产追偿会导致继承人陷入“过度困境”，例如导致他们无家可归，各州有权决定放弃追偿。）
克莱恩具备处理这项任务的独特资格：她在 2018 年退休前的最后一份工作包括监督爱达荷州的医疗补助计划 (Medicaid) 遗产追偿计划。原则上，她并不反对这种追回，因为这能为其他人的护理提供资金。但她表示，由于长期护理费用高得令人望而却步，许多美国人别无选择，只能申请医疗补助计划 —— 并承担遗产追偿的风险。
“这是一个富有的国家，”她写信给《华盛顿邮报》说道。“为什么老年人和他们的家庭在照顾家人的问题上，要承受这些残酷的选择？”
康拉德·迈尔斯 (Conrad Miles) 为退休生活存了大约 $200,000，此外还在圣菲铁路公司 (Santa Fe Railroad) 领取养老金。但他的女儿玛丽恩·迈尔斯 (Marion Miles) 说，在他搬进辅助生活设施后，他的积蓄“瞬间就没了”。
在他 93 岁去世时，他只剩下大约 $30,000 —— 仅够支付不到三个月的生活费。
“他一直说，‘我没法给你们这些姑娘留下任何东西了。我非常抱歉，’”玛丽恩·迈尔斯回忆道。
她说，她告诉他把每一分钱都花掉。“这样就没有人为此争吵了。这是你应得的。”
她说她不必担心政府扣押她的工资。
德雷恩 (Dreahn) 在学生时代从未完全清楚自己借了多少钱。成年后，这个过程依然不透明。她的多笔贷款被转让给了不同的贷款服务商。随后，在她重返校园时，她的贷款被推迟偿还。
“这简直是一团大乱麻，”德雷恩说。“这就像是贷款被随意出售，你就在系统中的某个地方迷失了，直到你突然发现，‘噢，他们这个月想要 $700。怎么回事？’”
由于目前处于违约状态，她希望有一天能够符合公共服务贷款豁免 (Public Service Loan Forgiveness) 的资格。该计划要求借款人在非营利组织或政府部门工作期间，连续还款 10 年。
“我试图弄清楚：第一，我该如何实现它。第二，我需要放弃什么？”德雷恩说。“我该如何在买菜、确保支付各项账单的同时，还保证不漏掉这次还款？”
最近，她回想起那份差点到手的化学加工厂工作。
“那是一份六位数的职业，但我因为体重失去了它，”她说道，声音有些颤抖。“我现在试图节省下来的、原本打算用于手术的钱，现在却要用来偿还学生贷款。”
人工智能（接 B7 页） 中国的新人工智能模型正威胁美国在技术竞赛中的主导地位
关于它们落入黑客之手的情况，但同时也将它们的公开发布推迟了几周。
“对于美国政府来说，这是一个非常棘手的局面，”乔治城大学安全与新兴技术中心研究与中国竞争的员 Sam Bresnick 表示。“政府目前正试图寻找应对之策。”
政府拥有多种选择来试图遏制竞争并减缓中国的速度，但目前尚不清楚政府是否会采取新行动。白宫未对如何计划应对的置评请求做出回应。
美国贸易代表 Jamieson Greer 周二表示，政府的多个部门正在审查中国开发新人工智能系统的情况。
“我们正密切关注中国如何推广其人工智能开发，以确保我们的公司在公平的竞争环境中竞争……”Greer 在接受 CNBC 采访时表示。
专家表示，旧金山的 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 制造的顶级系统在原始能力方面似乎仍保持领先。英国政府安全研究人员得出结论，Hugging Face 所使用的中国模型（于 6 月发布）在计算机黑客攻击方面的能力与 4 到 7 个月前的美国产品相当。但这比他们去年观察到的 6 到 10 个月的差距有所缩小。
（《华盛顿邮报》与 OpenAI 拥有内容合作伙伴关系。）
在网络安全领域，领先地位至关重要，因为它能让政府和企业在像 Anthropic 的 Mythos 这样能执行复杂攻击的模型广泛出现之前，有时间强化其防御措施。
网络安全培训中心 SANS 研究所的首席人工智能官 Rob Lee 表示，虽然美国工业界一直在讨论如何应对 Mythos 的强大能力，但中国的开发人员一直在持续工作。
“我们知道到年底为止，那里...”
为什么我建议那些“负资产”购车者去做一件难以想象的事
Singletary 见 B7 页
根据 Edmunds 洞察主管 Ivan Drury 的说法，[车辆] 价值[下降]。
“这不像是我突然得处理掉我那辆贬值严重的宝马 5 系，然后跳到一辆保时捷上，”他说。
最大的金额损失影响了皮卡、SUV 以及来自本田和丰田的可靠轿车。即便你选择的车型具有较高的转售评级，它仍然是一项贬值资产。
如果你已经成为了这种趋势的一部分，请记住你并不孤单，但不要陷在其中。以下是如何避免陷入“负资产”（upside down，指欠款高于车辆价值）状态的方法，包括一个我勉强推荐的选项。
租赁（是的，真的）
写这个章节让我感到心痛。
我的职业生涯一直是在建议人们永远不要租赁。除了符合费用抵税条件的商业主之外，租赁几乎总是一个注定失败的财务方案。
然而，我一直能理解租赁的吸引力，在我看来，租赁不过就是长期租房。
月供通常比买新车低，因为你只为车辆在租赁期限内预计的贬值额、利息和费用进行融资，而不是全额购买价格。
但这种折扣是一个陷阱。承租人并没有通过还清车辆来享受多年没有汽车贷款义务的生活，而是往往在一部接一部的车之间循环，最终到头来什么也没拥有。
租赁是一种超出能力的生活方式，因为它让驾驶者能够开上比他们负担能力更昂贵的汽车。
25 年前，我甚至在《奥普拉·温弗瑞秀》上就此展开了一场激烈的辩论。我与一位名叫 Sue 的观众就租赁是否在财务上可行地进行了争论。
我主张它不可行；而 Sue 坚持认为对于某些驾驶者来说，这是更明智的选择。
当时与我同坐在舞台上的是财务顾问、《平凡人，非凡财富》一书的作者 Ric Edelman。
“如果你坚持每三四年就要拥有一辆新车，Michelle 是对的，你不应该这么做，”Edelman 插话道。“但是，如果你坚持要傻下去，
7月18日在上海举行的世界人工智能大会上，参观者在 Moonshot AI 展台观看 Kimi K3 模型。
将会是一个与 Mythos 相当的中国开源权重模型，”他说。
进一步使局面复杂化的是，太平洋两岸顶尖人工智能公司截然不同的哲学。美国公司的模型是封闭的，通过订阅计划提供给客户，以覆盖巨大的开发成本。相比之下，中国公司的模型是开放的，这意味着几乎任何人只要拥有足够的计算能力，都可以创建自己的副本
Sue 是对的。你应该租赁。在三年的期间内，租赁的持有成本较低。但请记住，在两者之间，Sue 会开一辆更有趣的车。而 Michelle 会变得富有。”
Edmunds 预测，将负资产滚入新贷款的买家在该贷款的整个生命周期内将支付 $16,270 的总利息，比标准买家多出近 $6,500。他们面临的是更长的期限、更高的利率和更大的余额。
我仍然建议不要租赁。但如果你决定无论如何都要这么做，这可能比在贷款中处于负资产状态要好。
“负资产并不比租赁好，但租赁可能比负资产好，”Drury 说。“你只能滚动有限次数的坏账贷款。如果你
并对其进行更改，只要他们能够获得足够的计算能力。
对于那些不需要顶尖产品（best of the best）的企业来说，这是一个更便宜的方案，并为中国模型在硅谷赢得了坚定的支持者。这些人包括接近 唐纳德·特朗普 的影响力人物，他们在近日警告称，不要采取措施封锁中国技术并用监管手段限制美国公司。
每两到三年就想要一辆新车，那就直接租赁吧。”
最终让我重新考虑租赁理由的，是 Drury 带来的这个启示：“如果你注定要做一件错事，你最好把它做对。”
换句话说，如果你打算进行一次糟糕的财务操作，至少选择一个损失较小的选项。
增加还款次数
我本不该阐述这些显而易见的事，但数据表明这样做很有必要。除非你的车真的无法修理，否则请暂缓换车。
你每多进行一次还款，都能削减一部分本金，帮助你在再次购车前减少或消除负资产缺口。
“美国正让自己陷入困境：政治家和官僚们在禁止新建数据中心，堆砌州政府法规，并推动建立新的联邦机构来预先审核前沿模型，”投资者及前特朗普人工智能顾问大卫·萨克斯（David Sacks）本月在 X 上写道。“这就是你输掉人工智能竞赛的方式。”
虽然中国的人工智能系统本身正在追赶，但在获取运行该技术所需的强大计算机芯片和数据中心方面，美国似乎仍具有决定性优势。
全球顶尖的人工智能芯片仍由美国公司制造，且受出口限制。特朗普政府已允许向中国发送一些性能较低的芯片，尽管一名官员在本月的一次听证会上告诉立法者，出口的此类芯片极少。
Moonshot 上周表示，为了给现有客户保留资源，它将不允许新用户注册。该公司在 X 上写道：“Kimi K3 收到的喜爱远超我们的预期。”
Fedasiuk 表示，如果中国模型的提升趋势持续下去，这将标志着两国之间竞争性质的转变：“这场竞赛将真正围绕如何部署前沿能力，而非如何构建前沿能力。”
维持使用现有车辆
买家选择换车通常是因为面临巨额修理账单。但如果许多人能简单地坚持进行常规保养，他们可以让车辆使用更久。
根据汇总二手车历史信息的 Carfax 报告，近半数驾驶员在至少一项重大服务（如制动管路检查）上有所缺失。全国约 41% 的车辆逾期未进行某些关键的保养工作。
Carfax 的数据显示，近 30% 的车辆在轮胎换位方面滞后，约 20% 的车辆逾期未更换机油和滤清器。
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你买车时是不是没有完全阅读过手套箱里的手册？把它拿出来，翻到制造商建议的保养计划页，并严格执行。
不要在没弄清楚出了什么问题的情况下，就一直开着亮起“检查发动机”灯的车。
只要我的车出现任何异常的声音或迹象，我就会把它交给机修工。早期预防可以为你节省大量资金，这就是为什么你需要为车辆保养制定预算。
当资金紧张时，你可能会决定负担不起基础保养。但推迟常规检查随后可能会导致一笔打破预算的修理账单。然后你就会陷入一个错误的逻辑：认为即使必须将现有债务滚动到一笔更大的贷款中，直接买辆新车也是更明智的。
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不要升级换代
根据 Edmunds 的数据，在第二季度拥有负资产的换车案例中，24% 的债务在 $10,000 或更多，8% 的债务在 $15,000 或更多。
如果你在资产负债率为负的情况下必须购买另一辆车，请选择比你目前车辆便宜得多的车型。例如，假设你想要一辆升级后的 $50,000 混合动力 SUV，并告诉自己需要它来省油。如果你当前的贷款还欠 $10,000，你最终将总共借款 $60,000。
相反，如果你转向一辆 $20,000 的二手轿车，你的总债务将降至 $30,000。这虽然不理想，但会大幅削减你的总利息负担。
选择较短的贷款期限（认真的）
长期贷款（72 到 84 个月）使每月还款额看起来具有欺骗性的低，因为早期的还款大部分用于支付利息而非本金。与此同时，车辆在持续贬值。
将贷款期限保持在 48 个月或更短，可以降低在需要更换或出售车辆时出现“负资产”（欠款超过车辆价值）的概率。
将 48 个月的汽车贷款作为衡量负担能力的基准。如果您无法承担四年期贷款的月供，那么您可能负担不起该车辆。
想要避免陷入负资产状态？
尽可能长时间地驾驶现有车辆，并还清欠款。当贷款还清后，不要让这笔钱消失在日常开支中。继续向自己支付“汽车月供”。将这笔钱存入高收益储蓄账户，以支付保养和维修费用，并最终用现金购买您的下一辆车。
如果您有关于个人财务的问题想请教 Michelle，请致电 1-855-ASK-POST (1-855-275-7678)。她屡获殊荣的专栏《金钱的颜色》（The Color of Money）由 华盛顿邮报 新闻服务中心及其辛迪加分发，并在数十家报纸上刊登。
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史上最糟糕的职业建议。
你无法忽视他们表达出的愤怒、焦虑、 恐惧和悲伤。这种挫败感激励他人 分享那些旨在为挣扎者提供慰藉的建议。 有时，实际上，可以说经常，我觉得有必要 去反驳那些来自职业专家的许多软弱的陈词滥调。 我之前曾分享过对五条过于简单且极易脱口而出的职业建议的挫败感： • 做你擅长的事 • 追随你的激情 • 不要担心钱的问题 • 金钱应该是你的首选 • 合适的工作会出现的 这还没提到最糟糕的职业建议之顶峰：
这句话被当作是从孔子到马克·吐温所有人的格言。不过这并不重要，因为它是不准确的，而且会让人们陷入巨大的挫败感之中。
招聘广告 Arcadis Inc. 现招聘建筑师 II (69320)，工作地点在华盛顿特区，负责规划指定项目并分配工作，以确保及时交付并有效利用资源。 *允许在美国境内任何地方远程办公。薪资：每年 $94,432- $114,432。 Arcadis 为全职 (FT) 和兼职 (PT) 职位提供福利，包括医疗、牙科和视力保险、员工援助计划 (EAP)、401K、短期伤残险 (STD)、长期伤 disabling 险 (LTD)、意外死亡及残疾险 (AD&D)、人寿保险、带薪父母假 (PPL)、奖励与认可计划以及可选福利，包括健康福利、领养援助和学费报销。每年 9 天带薪假期及累计带薪年假 (PTO)。 申请请访问 jobpostingtoday.com（注明职位 ID）。
律师， Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP 律所在其位于 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 1300, Washington, DC 20006 的办公室招聘律师。负责起草并谈判复杂的跨境金融协议，用于基础设施/能源项目，主要关注拉美、中东和欧洲市场。要求 2 年经验，拥有 JD/LLM 学位并获得华盛顿特区律师执业资格。请将简历邮寄至：Raquel Lorenzo, HR Director, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10178-0061。
Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC 现招聘律师职位。律师角色要求拥有美国律师协会 (ABA) 认证法学院的法学博士 (J.D.) 或法学硕士 (LL.M.) 学位，并具有 1 年法务助理、律师助理或相关工作经验。职责包括就移民相关事项提供法律意见和建议，参加美国公民及移民服务局 (USCIS) 面试，并在移民法庭和联邦政府机构代表客户。职位地点在弗吉尼亚州福尔斯教堂 (Falls Church, VA)。最低薪资：每年 $172,000.00。请将简历发送给 Haider Semaisim, Managing Attorney, Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC，邮箱：haider@silopllc.com。
Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC 现招聘法务助理 (Law Clerk) 职位。法务助理角色要求拥有美国律师协会 (ABA) 认证法学院的法学博士 (J.D.) 或法学硕士 (LL.M.) 学位，并在法律研究、分析和文件准备方面具有 1 年经验。职责包括研究判例法、法规、条例（例如：INA, CFR, BIA, 巡回法院及其他法院判决）以及政府机构政策 (USCIS, ICE, EOIR, DOS)，并起草法律备忘录、动议、摘要和申请书（例如：庇护、取消遣返、VAWA, TPS, SIJS）。职位地点在弗吉尼亚州福尔斯教堂 (Falls Church, VA)。最低薪资：每年 $87000.00。请将简历发送给 Haider Semaisim, Managing Attorney, Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC，邮箱：haider@silopllc.com。
Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC 现招聘高级人力资源专员。高级人力资源专员角色要求拥有人力资源管理、工商管理或紧密相关领域的硕士学位或同等学历，并具有 2 年战略人力资源管理经验。 职责包括根据遣返辩护、庇护和基于家庭的移民案件量的增长，进行高级劳动力预测和能力规划；设计可扩展的人员配置和组织模型以支持律所增长。职位地点在弗吉尼亚州福尔斯教堂 (Falls Church, VA)。最低薪资：每年 $83000.00。请将简历发送给 Haider Semaisim, Managing Attorney, Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC，邮箱：haider@silopllc.com。
审计顾问 - 保证 (审计服务) (经理) (多个职位) (1725659)，安永美国有限责任公司 (Ernst & Young U.S. LLP)，弗吉尼亚州泰森斯 (麦克莱恩)。 根据美国通用审计准则 (U.S. GAAS)（包括 PCAOB 规则和条例），为按照美国通用会计准则 (U.S. GAAP) 编制的私营和公共公司财务报表规划并执行审计程序。 为了满足客户需求，要求高达 30% 的国内出差率。 雇主将接受教育、培训或经验的任何合适组合。年薪 $128,149.00。如需完整的职位描述、要求清单及在线申请，请访问：ey.com/en_us/careers 并点击 “Careers - Job Search”，“See All”，然后点击 “Experienced Professionals” (职位编号 - 1725659)。
B 职位
计费协调员 - 准备发票，维护计费记录。高中/GED学历 + 2 年计费、开票、应收账款支持或相关计费行政工作经验。全职年薪 $58,885。请将申请材料邮寄至：Alianza Multiservice LLC, Attn. Ms. Abanto, 18572 Office Park Dr., Montgomery Village, MD 20886
簿记员，加油站/便利店 (马里兰州上马尔伯罗)。要求在任何具有管理或会计职责的岗位上具有至少 2 年经验。管理所有账户、银行对账和工资单。每周工作 40 小时，8A-5P。无福利，年薪 $60k。简历发送至：Sargodhian Inc. d/b.a Westphalia Marathon, 1300 Caraway Ct., Ste. 101, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774。
C 职位
厨师，Bollywood Bistro Caterers Inc d/b/a Bollywood Bistro Caterers，弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯。为餐饮订单烹饪南亚食物；监督厨师和食品准备工人；协助规划菜单；监管卫生情况。要求具有 24 个月使用传统技术（包括香料调配、咖喱准备和坦都里式烹饪）准备南亚料理的厨师经验。工资：年薪 $73,000。发送简历至：bastolasunil77@gmail.com
美光科技公司 (Micron Technology, Inc.) 在弗吉尼亚州马纳萨斯招聘 FAB 工程师 (湿法工艺)。工作职责包括：负责规划和执行与战术线方向一致的每日制造操作，以实现质量输出目标。与工艺危险分析团队合作，提供潜在副产物的表征，并根据需要参与现场危险与可操作性研究。 申请请访问 Micron.com/Careers。按征聘编号 JR104727 搜索。
C 职位 John Moriarty & Associates of Virginia, LLC 在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿招聘建筑业务系统工程师，负责审查和准备 RFI 并在建筑项目中管理文档控制，包括开发仪表板、审查投标、采购和成本跟踪、简化操作以及准备项目状态报告。要求拥有工程管理或相关专业硕士学位，且具有 1 年使用 Smartsheet 和 Procore 进行项目管理、成本分析和成本控制；使用 Power BI 进行数据分析和报告；使用 Oracle ERP 和 SAP 进行采购和成本跟踪分析；以及使用 Bluebeam Revu 和 Autodesk Construction Cloud 协助确定范围和工程量计算的经验。必须愿意在弗吉尼亚州不可预见的客户现场工作。允许远程办公。提供年薪：$116,080 - $130,000。申请方式：将简历邮寄至 Yvonne Schauder, John Moriarty & Associates of Virginia, LLC, ATTN: CBSE, 4401 N Fairfax Dr., Suite 700 Arlington, VA 22203。
Cosmos Granite DC LLC（一家大理石和花岗岩进出口公司）正在招聘高级财务与运营经理，要求如下：
• 管理学、会计学或商业专业硕士学位，外加 2 年会计软件经验：QuickBooks, SPS Commerce, ERP 系统和工作流实施、财务报告与分析 (符合 GAAP)、预算编制、预测和成本会计、库存管理和内部审计, MS Excel (高级), Power BI / 仪表板报告。必须具有 2 年财务和会计分析师、运营经理、业务运营分析师、收入运营经理、项目协调员或类似职位的经验。必须拥有 Salesforce 管理员认证。 (职位代码 #060726)
请将简历发送至： Cosmos Granite DC LLC, 3900 Stonecroft Blvd, Suite B, Chantilly, VA 20151 或通过电子邮件发送至：Srini@ cosmossurfaces.com。请在求职信中注明职位代码。
D 招聘
comScore, Inc. 正在弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿 (Reston, VA) 招聘一名数据分析师，负责领导数据调查、掌控解决方案及交付。电信行业。永久职。年薪 $115,939/年。请在 jobpostingtoday.com/ 申请，参考号 # 97762。
高级临床研究数据经理 —— 儿童国家医疗中心 (Children’s National Medical Center) — 华盛顿特区 (Washington, DC) 及马里兰州银泉 (Silver Spring, MD)：监督生物统计与研究方法部门的临床数据库及临床数据管理工作，并为项目特定数据库的设计、创建和测试的实施提供支持。要求：流行病学、信息系统、生物技术、生物统计学、生命科学或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位 + 4 年数据管理职业经验。允许部分远程办公。请将简历/CV 发送至 aphuong@childrensnational.org 并注明参考代码 SCRDM。
Gobind Academy LLC (经营名为 Celebree School of Herndon-West Reston) 正在其位于弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿 (Reston, VA) 的设施中招聘日托教学助理，以协助管理课堂。无需先前的教育背景或经验。有意申请者请将简历提交给所有者 Manmeet Sarang，邮箱为 manmeet.sarang@ celebreeschool.com，邮件主题为 “Daycare Teaching Assistant”。
DNA 分析师（弗吉尼亚州洛顿 Lorton, VA）（允许部分远程办公）（多个岗位）。对数据库样本、人体识别样本、法医定制案件工作以及高通量案件工作进行 DNA 分析。国内出差最多 10%。薪资：$102,086。要求：法医生物学、生物化学、分子生物学、遗传学、法医学或相关专业硕士学位且具有 2 年工作经验。请将 CV/求职信发送至 Bode Cellmark Forensics, Inc., Attn: H. Kane, ref#CM2026, HR@bodetech.com。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
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工程类 Viavi Solutions Inc 正在接收弗吉尼亚州皮奥尼安泉 (Paeonian Springs, VA) 硬件开发工程师的简历。参与对退回的硬件产品进行分析和故障排除，以识别缺陷和失效模式。请将简历发送至 USRecruiting@viavisolutions.com，必须注明参考号 Ref# OI-HD。
无论你心中认为谁拥有理想职业生活的人，他们都不会认为这种生活是没有挫折的。 • 职业运动员始终专注于通过身体和心理的提升来变得更好，以便赢得更多胜利或表现更出色。如果你是一名在某个比赛环节中苦苦挣扎的运动员，为了在那些不那么自然擅长的方面有所突破而进行的重复练习，可能会让你觉得是极其艰苦的工作。拳击手迈克·泰森曾说：“纪律就是做你讨厌做的事情，但像热爱它一样去做。” • 艺术家/作家/表演者旨在完善当前的作品或构思下一部作品。如果你最近有一首极受欢迎的歌曲、一本书或一部电影，你可能会感到巨大的压力，要求自己做得一样好或更好，销售更多，并不断进化，但又不能进化得太过分。 • 领导者寻求改善其组织的某些方面，无论是内部（文化、流程）还是外部（销售、品牌）。对增长的持续期望，在不降低质量且通常需要管理更多事务的情况下，可能会突然让人觉得更艰难且不那么愉快。 这并不是说他们可能不热爱自己的工作，或者大多数时候不感激这个机会，但说他们“绝不”工作？不，不对。 我找不到一个人不能指出自己工作中某个让他们觉得非常像“工作”的部分。理想情况下，他们会留心将那些不那么愉快的事情的比例控制在可承受的水平，但大多数成年人都明白，他们所做事情的某些方面将会是单调的，或者至少是不那么愉快的。 最近，一位我担任顾问的同事问我，是否会与我不喜欢的人共事，或者参与我不喜欢的项目。我告诉她我不会，但这并不意味着在共同执行某些任务时，不会有感觉更艰难的时候。
E 招聘 大型政府承包商估价员 干壁公司 招聘
职位描述：为面积在 10,000 平方英尺至 100,000 平方英尺之间的私人和公共部门油漆及干壁工程准备提案。 要求：具有 24 个月准备面积在 10,000 至 500,000 平方英尺之间的私人和公共工程估价的经验，包括必须根据《戴维斯-培根法案》和服务合同法工资标准为工人定价。 工作地点位于 Tricon Construction, Inc.。主要工作场所地址：7219 Gabe Court, Manassas, VA 20109 附加工作场所地址：1670 Village Green, Crofton, MD 21114
请将简历发送至 Erika Velasquez, 1670 Village Green, Crofton, MD 21114。
执行主任：非营利性普世协会寻求经验丰富的社区组织者。要求具有筹款经验。具备财务管理经验。熟悉华盛顿特区。具备出色的个人能力和沟通技巧。
薪资 80k - 100k
请将简历发送至 Terry@downtowncluster.org
EY-Parthenon - 企业财务 - 量化财务与经济学（经理）（多个职位）（1722740），安永美国有限责任公司 (Ernst & Young U.S. LLP)，弗吉尼亚州泰森斯（麦克莱恩）。确定衍生品和其他复杂金融工具的价值，以在财务报告要求以及税务规划方面为客户提供支持。根据客户需求，需要最高 25% 的国内出差。雇主将接受任何合适的教育、培训或经验组合。年薪 $171,040.00。如需完整职位描述、要求列表及在线申请，请访问：ey.com/en_us/careers 并点击 “Careers - Job Search”，“See All”，然后点击 “Experienced Professionals”（职位编号 - 1722740）。
F 招聘
AES Clean Energy Services, LLC 诚聘高级经理，财务规划与分析 (FP&A) 及交易，工作地点为弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿（每周必须在办公室工作 2 次），负责领导 AES Clean Energy 年度预算流程，并与公司内部多个团队进行协调，确保高级领导团队 (SLT) 对预算假设和关键指标有深入的认可。该职位要求拥有经济学、金融学、会计学或相关领域的学士学位，以及 4 年预算编制、协调、预测和报告的经验。请将简历发送至 applicationsUS@aes.com。请注明职位代码 8946674。
一线主管，建筑方向： 协助经理监督 3 名住宅改造工人并与他们共同工作。负责浴室、厨房、卧室、餐厅和客厅的施工；根据客户要求进行扩建及所有项目。参加客户会议，并与经理、建筑师、工程师和设计师协作，创建用于客户审核/批准的提案、示意图/早期设计、草图和图表。在所有项目阶段与经理及所有相关方协调。协助预算准备、材料申购和报告。分配材料、工具和设备；确保正确的团队及时到场。检查工作进度，以确保正确、及时地完成并符合安全及法规要求。最低要求：高中学历/GED。在类似岗位拥有 ≥24 个月经验，且在改造/建筑项目的设计和全面监督方面有深厚背景。具备以下软件知识/经验：Rhino, Revit, Photoshop, AutoCAD, Adobe, PowerPoint, MS Word 和 Excel。需提供可验证的推荐人；愿意在加班时间、晚上、周末和节假日工作。工作现场禁烟。简历请邮寄至工作地点：Kingston Construction Company (DBA) Kingston Design Remodeling. 11515 Suburban Place, Fairfax Station, VA 22039. 收件人：Austin Schmitt
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GAP Solutions, Inc. 诚聘生物学家，工作地点为马里兰州盖瑟斯堡。合格申请人必须拥有硕士学位 + 2 年经验。允许每周远程办公 2 天。这是一个全职职位。年薪为 $94,860 至 $102,000。福利包括医疗、牙科、视力保险，带薪休假，法定假日以及 401K。更多信息请参阅 GAPsi.com/benefits/。请将简历发送至 recruiting@gapsi.com，并在邮件中注明“Biologist”。
H 招聘 人力资源协调员 （团队负责人）。领导 Laurent Clerc 国家聋人教育中心人力资源部门的日常运营和工作流程；协助设计并实施运营系统和流程；协调 Clerc 中心所有职位的招聘、面试和录用流程；通过筛选申请、在整个选拔过程中指导搜索委员会主席、维护准确的录用记录以及协助制定吸引候选人的策略来支持招聘过程；领导人力资源数据管理职能；协调新员工的入职流程及离职员工的办理手续；协助确定入职培训需求并协调所需培训；维护人力资源记录；为内部和外部利益相关者制定月度或季度报告，并就员工福利、大学及 Clerc 中心政策、程序和指南提供指导；作为人力资源流程、招聘活动、合规性、报告和行政系统的首席资源。雇主：加洛代特大学 (Gallaudet University)。工作地点：华盛顿特区。要求：商业管理、人力资源或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位，在工作面试时能流利使用美国手语，并有优秀的推荐信。请将简历、推荐信和薪资要求邮寄至：Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue NE, College Hall, #106, Attn: Jennie Sivak, Job # P000484, Washington, D.C. 20002。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
要求：计算机科学、计算机工程、电子工程、人工智能、电气工程或紧密相关领域的学士学位（或同等外国学位），外加 10 年在所提供职位或类似角色中的经验。
Adventist HealthCare, Inc. 正在马里兰州罗克维尔招聘一名高级职业治疗师。要求：职业治疗硕士学位，5 年经验，马里兰州职业治疗师执照，AHA HCP CPR 或 AHA BLS (CPR 和 AED) 认证，或类似的国家认可认证，如 AOTA 或 NBCOT，或类似认证。班次：周日至周四 8:00a – 4:30p。薪资：每年 $106,912.00 - $116,272.00。福利：医疗、牙科、视力、人寿保险、退休金、周末班次津贴。联系方式：sjackson5@adventisthealthcare.com
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库存经理：监督理货员和出纳，确保正确的库存处理并符合门店程序。监控并维持零售商品的库存水平。进行实物库存盘点并核对差异。与供应商协调采购和补货。最低要求：高中学历/GED。具有 ≥24 个月库存控制、库存监督或相关库存管理经验。能够加班，包括深夜、周末和节假日。工作场所禁烟。需可验证的推荐信。如有意向，请将简历邮寄至：Hudaya INC., 201 Centre Dr., Stephens City, VA 22655. ATTN: Syed Abbas.
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP 正在为其华盛顿特区分所寻找一名初级律师 (Associate 1)，以协助该所的合伙人律师和高级助理律师进行法律研究，并提供合同和其他法律文件的草案。必须拥有美国律师协会 (ABA) 认证法学院的法律学位，且必须完成国际相关科目（如法律、贸易法、仲裁和公共权利）以及商业-政府关系和全球企业责任的研究生课程。必须获得州律师协会的执业资格。请将简历发送至：Nelson Mullins, ATTN: Rhonda Midgette, 1320 Main Street, 17th Floor, Columbia, SC 29201. 引用职位编号 #2026-4607。
O 招聘
办公室文员：在大理石和花岗岩材料的台面制造与安装项目的准备、协调和组织工作中提供行政支持。安排并协调现场测量和制造的预约。接收、分发邮件和快递。记录付款和账单信息。每周 40 小时。要求拥有任何专业的副学士学位。请将申请发送至雇主及工作地点：Galaxy Granite, Inc. at 8249 Backlick Rd Unit 1 Lorton, VA 22079
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合伙人/ECT 总监（波士顿咨询集团 (Boston Consulting Group, Inc.) – 华盛顿特区，华盛顿特区）：为 BCG 同时监督并指导多个咨询项目，重点关注转型计划、重组和增长战略的开发。要求：企业管理、管理科学或定量领域（与 BCG 客户行业相关）的学士学位（接受同等外国学历），并具有 7 年管理顾问、业务分析师或定量分析师经验，其中必须包括至少 3 年的管理战略经验。或者，接受企业管理、管理科学或定量领域（与 BCG 客户行业相关）的硕士学位（接受同等外国学历），并具有 5 年管理分析师、业务分析师或定量分析师经验，其中必须包括至少 3 年的管理战略经验。必须向所列 BCG 办公室汇报并居住在通勤距离内。可享受部分远程办公福利。根据公司/客户需求，需要国内/国际出差（最高 80%）。有多个职位空缺。薪资：$268,400 至 $450,000。请将简历提交至 BCGPTR@bcg.com。请注明职位编号：PTWAS-F26。
物理治疗助手，马里兰州福特华盛顿 (Ft Washington MD)，要求物理治疗或相关专业的副学士学位，且必须持有 PTA 执照。请将求职信/简历发送至 Christina Patel, Active Physical Therapy, 802 Cromwell Park Drive, Ste T, Glen Burnie, MD 21061
Bechtel 基础设施与电力公司在弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿 (Reston, VA) 招聘规划员 – CCGT（薪资：每年 $125,778.00）。工作职责包括：为提案和合同谈判准备进度数据；协助准备进度基准和初始项目设置。由于建筑项目的性质，可能需要在全国范围内不可预见的各种地点工作，并有可能需要搬迁；但主要汇报地点将是弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿地点，出差比例不超过 10%。要求：硕士学位（或同等外国学历）+ 1 年经验，或学士学位（或同等外国学历）+ 5 年经验。申请请将简历发送至 bechtelusjobs@bechtel.com。必须注明职位编号 B978.413.4。
项目负责人/首席顾问（波士顿咨询公司，股份有限公司 - 华盛顿，哥伦比亚特区）：管理长期业务战略的设计与开发，包括管理案例团队职责；监督业务开发、客户关系、项目规划以及产出物的准备。要求拥有工商管理、管理科学或与 BCG 客户行业相关的定量领域的硕士学位（愿意接受同等的国外教育）以及 3 年管理顾问、业务分析师或定量分析师经验，其中必须包含至少 1 年的管理战略经验。或者，接受拥有工商管理、管理科学或与 BCG 客户行业相关的定量领域的学士学位（愿意接受同等的国外教育）以及 5 年管理顾问、业务分析师或定量分析师经验，其中必须包含至少 1 年的管理战略经验。提供部分远程办公福利。根据公司/客户需求，需要进行国内/国际出差（最高 80%）。薪资：$225,400 - $268,400。请将简历发送至 BCGPLP@bcg.com。参考职位编号：PLWAS-F26。有多个职位空缺。
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P JOBS 项目执行员 (多个职位) – CBG Building Company LLC - 弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿 (Arlington, VA) – 维持与业主代表及顾问的联系。维持书面通信，以记录可能影响项目预算、进度或产品质量的事项。要求：工程、建筑或施工管理学士或同等外国学位，且具有 5 年建筑领域渐进负责经验；或工程、建筑或施工管理硕士或同等外国学位，且具有 3 年渐进负责经验。年薪：$125,778 - $135,000。请将简历发送至 renee.chaniyara@crccompanies.com。请注明参考代码：PE
厨师 (COOK) 根据印度餐厅菜单烹饪食物。估算供应量。全职。薪资 $46218。地点：华盛顿特区 (Washington DC)。请向 P. Shrestha 申请，地址：429 L’Enfant Plaza SW. # 340 Washington DC 20024。
R JOBS MCN Build, Inc. 现于华盛顿特区 (Washington, DC) 招聘一名房地产开发经理，领导房地产开发项目，包括可行性评估、预算、财务建模及风险缓解；监控质量控制以及对建筑规范和条例的遵守情况。要求 40% 国内出差前往客户现场。要求：经济学、金融学、工商管理或相关专业学士学位，且具有 5 年分析市场驱动经济因素以指导战略开发并应用外部指标（包括 CoStar 市场分析）进行基准测试、现金流长期回报预测，以及最高最佳利用和残值土地价值分析以确定项目可行性的渐进负责经验。允许偶尔远程办公。提供薪资：$161,158。申请方式：将简历邮寄至 Marcela Zambrana, MCN Build, Inc. Attn: REDM, 1214 28th Street NW, Washington, DC 20007。
S JOBS 销售助理 (Sales Associate)：接待客户，处理销售及相关职责。请回复 OM Tiwari Inc.，高中/GED学历，$30,389 每年，全职。回复至：Mr. Sharma, 1436 Chain Bridge Rd., McLean, VA 22101
高级量化分析师 (SR QUANT ANALYST，弗吉尼亚州亚历山德里亚 ALEXANDRIA, VA) 由一家批发电力交易公司招聘，旨在帮助改进量化交易策略、预测建模、数据分析等。具有 2 年以上量化/交易分析师/助理或相关角色经验，包括 1 年批发电力市场工作经验。请将简历/求职信发送至 Tios Capital LLC，邮箱：hr@tioscapital.com。请勿致电。
DrFirst.com, Inc 现于弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿 (Arlington, VA) 招聘一名高级会计师 (Sr. Accountant)，负责领导每月财务报表的编制和分析。允许远程办公。年薪 $128,149 - $136,700。请在 www.jobpostingtoday.com 申请，参考编号 #25583
交通工程师 与其他工程师、客户、利益相关者协作，以确定并开发技术解决方案及设计；编制交通设计方案、规范及估算包；执行交通工程标准、分析及建模；利用交通仿真软件评估道路设计及改进的影响；排除并解决所分配交通项目中的问题；与公共机构及私人客户合作开发并实施项目计划；实施旨在改进工程流程标准及文档的建议。最低要求：土木工程或相关专业硕士学位。在所提供岗位上有 12 个月经验。验证推荐人。具备编制交通设计方案、规范及成本估算的知识或经验，涉及临时交通管制、交通信号、标志、路面标线、照明系统、公用设施及道路几何形状。具备利用 MicroStation 软件开发符合客户和监管标准详细设计交付物的知识或经验。具备在规划和工程阶段排除并解决设计问题的知识或经验。简历寄至工作地点：Precision Systems, Inc., 99 M Street, S.E., Suite 750, Washington DC 20003. 收件人：Harlen Valenzuela..
U JOBS 路透社美国分公司 (Reuters America LLC) 招聘美国药物及医疗保健记者（1 级记者），工作地点：华盛顿特区。通过监测机构公告、跟踪监管决定，并就医疗保健政策和行业转变提交快速、准确的报告来提供突发新闻报道。根据公司的混合办公政策，每周必须在华盛顿特区办公室工作 2 天。薪资：每年 $117,085。在线申请请访问：https://thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/job/United-States-of-America-Washington-District-of-Columbia/US-Pharmaceutical-and-Healthcare-Reporter--Level-1-Journalist-_JREQ201809-1 并参考 JREQ201809。
Acentra Health, LLC 招聘系统分析师，工作地点：弗吉尼亚州麦克莱恩 (McLean, VA)（允许完全远程办公），通过制作复杂的流程图/数据流图及/或相关文档，分析并研究系统要求及问题解决的开发方法。职位要求：计算机科学、技术、工程或相关领域学士学位，且具有 3 年系统分析或相关领域经验。申请请将求职信和简历发送至 Kim Uppal (recruitment@acentra.com)。参考职位代码 4204027。
AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC，一家 Amazon.com 公司 —— 弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿。质量保证工程师 III：负责并确保高度复杂的软件系统和服务的质量、可靠性、可扩展性、测试方法及性能。薪资范围：每年 $133,300 至 $180,300。职位编号：AMZ9795943。有多个职位空缺。提供标准公司福利。在线申请：www.amazon.jobs —— 通过职位编号搜索。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
设计与建设助理总监。建筑学、工程学、建设管理或相关专业学士学位 + 1 年项目经理或持证承包商经验（若以此资格申请则需持有有效证书）。工作地点：弗吉尼亚州福尔斯教堂 (Falls Church, VA)。薪资：每年 $90,875。将简历发送至 Jaime Palacios, Casaflex LLC, 7777 Leesburg Pike, Suite 303, Falls Church, VA 22043。
Computer Sciences Corporation 招聘位于弗吉尼亚州 Ashburn 的软件工程副经理 (Associate Manager Software Engineering) (参考编号 #9725805)。负责监督软件工程师团队进行软件产品和解决方案的开发，提供指导、代码审查和技术支持。与跨职能团队协作定义项目需求，确保软件项目的成功交付。通过定期反馈、辅导和职业发展计划，协助团队成员的专业成长和指导。职位要求：计算机科学、工程（任何方向）、数学或相关领域的硕士学位或同等外国学位 + 1 年在相关领域获得所需经验的任何职业经验。或者，接受计算机科学、工程（任何方向）、数学或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位 + 3 年在相关领域获得所需经验的任何职业经验。工作地点将在美国境内不可预见的客户现场。允许远程办公。年薪范围为：$150,758.00 - $180,300.00。全职雇员有资格享受 DXC 福利包，包括医疗、牙科、视力、人寿和伤残保险；退休计划；带薪休假 (PTO) 等。申请请将简历发送至 globallmobility@dxc.com。简历必须包含参考编号 #9725805、全名、电子邮件、地址和邮寄地址。请勿电话咨询。必须具有在无需担保的情况下在美国合法工作的授权。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
Computer Sciences Corporation 招聘位于弗吉尼亚州 Ashburn 的软件工程副经理 (Associate Manager Software Engineering) (参考编号 #9821679)。负责监督软件工程师团队进行软件产品和解决方案的开发，提供指导、代码审查和技术支持。与跨职能团队协作定义项目需求，确保软件项目的成功交付。通过定期反馈、辅导和职业发展计划，协助团队成员的专业成长和指导。职位要求：计算机科学、工程（任何方向）、数学或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位 + 3 年在相关领域获得所需经验的任何职业经验。或者，接受计算机科学、工程（任何方向）、数学或相关领域的硕士学位或同等外国学位 + 1 年在相关领域获得所需经验的任何职业经验。工作地点将在美国境内不可预见的客户现场。允许远程办公。年薪范围为：$174,720.00 - $180,300.00。全职雇员有资格享受 DXC 福利包，包括医疗、牙科、视力、人寿和伤残保险；退休计划；带薪休假 (PTO) 等。申请请将简历发送至 globallmobility@dxc.com。简历必须包含参考编号 #9821679、全名、电子邮件、地址和邮寄地址。请勿电话咨询。必须具有在无需担保的情况下在美国合法工作的授权。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
Computer Sciences Corporation 招聘位于弗吉尼亚州 Ashburn 的软件工程副经理 (Associate Manager Software Engineering) (参考编号 #9575004)。负责监督软件工程师团队进行软件产品和解决方案的开发，提供指导、代码审查和技术支持。与跨职能团队协作定义项目需求，确保软件项目的成功交付。通过定期反馈、辅导和职业发展计划，协助团队成员的专业成长和指导。职位要求：计算机科学、工程（任何方向）、数学或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位 + 3 年在相关领域获得所需经验的任何职业经验。或者，接受计算机科学、工程（任何方向）、数学或相关领域的硕士学位或同等外国学位 + 1 年在相关领域获得所需经验的任何职业经验。工作地点将在美国境内不可预见的客户现场。允许远程办公。年薪范围为：$126,090.00 - $180,300.00。全职雇员有资格享受 DXC 福利包，包括医疗、牙科、视力、人寿和伤残保险；退休计划；带薪休假 (PTO) 等。申请请将简历发送至 globallmobility@dxc.com。简历必须包含参考编号 #9575004、全名、电子邮件、地址和邮寄地址。请勿电话咨询。必须具有在无需担保的情况下在美国合法工作的授权。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
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科技职位 CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.：业务系统分析师，工作地为弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯（& 美国境内其他若干不可预见地点）：担任业务职能与信息系统之间的联络员。允许从指定地点远程办公最高 60%。必须愿意搬迁至美国境内其他若干不可预见的办公地点。提供薪资：$152,048.00/年。所有录取通知均取决于背景调查的成功完成，根据工作分配情况，调查可能包括药物筛查。设有多个职位。请将简历发送至 recruiting@cgifederal.com 并注明职位代码 389368。
CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.：业务系统分析师，工作地为弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯（& 美国境内其他若干不可预见地点）：担任业务职能与信息系统之间的联络员。允许从指定地点远程办公最高 60%。必须愿意搬迁至美国境内其他若干不可预见的办公地点。提供薪资：$152,048.00/年。所有录取通知均取决于背景调查的成功完成，根据工作分配情况，调查可能包括药物筛查。设有多个职位。请将简历发送至 recruiting@cgifederal.com 并注明职位代码 346928。
CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.：业务系统分析师，工作地为弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯（& 美国境内其他若干不可预见地点）：担任业务职能与信息系统之间的联络员。允许从指定地点远程办公最高 40%。必须愿意搬迁至美国境内其他若干不可预见的办公地点。提供薪资：$152,048.00/年。所有录取通知均取决于背景调查的成功完成，根据工作分配情况，调查可能包括药物筛查。设有多个职位。请将简历发送至 recruiting@cgifederal.com 并注明职位代码 360716。
CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.：软件开发人员，工作地为弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯（& 美国境内其他若干不可预见地点）：研究、设计、开发和/或修改企业级系统和/或应用程序软件。允许从指定地点远程办公最高 75%。必须愿意搬迁至美国境内其他若干不可预见的办公地点。提供薪资：$175,427.00/年。所有录取通知均取决于背景调查的成功完成，根据工作分配情况，调查可能包括药物筛查。设有多个职位。请将简历发送至 recruiting@cgifederal.com 并注明职位代码 338967。
Slalom 的弗吉尼亚州麦克莱恩办公室有多个顾问职位空缺。规划、启动并管理信息技术 (IT) 项目。领导并指导技术人员的工作。必须能够在美国境内各个不可预见地点执行项目工作 (20%)。允许部分远程办公。享受公司标准福利。年薪 $117,417-$129,158。申请请访问 www.jobpostingtoday.com。参考编号 29850。
科技职位 数据工程经理 负责为企业数据平台团队架构、开发和实施数据工程和机器学习解决方案。最低要求：计算机科学、电气与计算机工程、数据科学或密切相关的技术领域硕士学位，外加 6 年数据工程行业经验，其中 3 年需应用于房地产建筑领域。薪资：每年 $150,807。工作地为弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿。允许远程办公。申请请将简历发送至 francojc@stanleymartin.com，并在邮件主题栏注明“Data Engineering Manager (VA-4795)”。Stanley Martin Homes, LLC
DXC Technology Services LLC 招聘高级软件工程分析师 II (SR ANALYST II SOFTWARE ENGINEERING)，工作地点在弗吉尼亚州阿什本 (Ashburn, VA) (参考编号 #9964076)。提供设计文档并将其转化为组件级设计以加速开发。分析、设计并审查应用程序及其套件的设计，以确保满足客户规范。协助审查和分析技术研究中收集的信息，并评估工具和方法，以确保设计符合当前的行业、客户及公司标准。该职位要求计算机科学、工程（任何领域）或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位 + 2 年相关经验。作为替代，可接受计算机科学、工程（任何领域）或相关领域的硕士学位或同等外国学位 + 1 年相关经验。工作地点可能在全美境内不可预见的客户现场。允许远程办公。年薪范围为：$126,090.00 - $142,500.00。全职雇员有资格享受 DXC 福利包，包括医疗、牙科、视力、人寿和残疾保险；退休计划；带薪休假 (PTO) 等。申请请将简历发送至 globallmobility@dxc.com，简历必须包含参考编号 #9964076、全名、电子邮件、地址及邮寄地址。请勿电话咨询。必须在无需担保的情况下合法获得在美国工作的授权。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
DXC Technology Services LLC 招聘软件工程经理 (Manager Software Engineering)，工作地点在弗吉尼亚州阿什本 (Ashburn, VA) (参考编号 #9939366)。领导软件工程师团队进行软件解决方案的设计、开发和交付。与跨职能团队协作定义项目需求并确保项目的成功交付。为团队成员提供专业发展的指导和建议，主持 1:1 会议并进行绩效评估。该职位要求计算机科学、工程（任何领域）、数学或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位 + 3 年相关经验。作为替代，可接受计算机科学、工程（任何领域）、数学或相关领域的硕士学位或同等外国学位 + 1 年相关经验。工作地点可能在全美境内不可预见的客户现场。允许远程办公。年薪范围为：$174,720.00 - $225,300.00。全职雇员有资格享受 DXC 福利包，包括医疗、牙科、视力、人寿和残疾保险；退休计划；带薪休假 (PTO) 等。申请请将简历发送至 globallmobility@dxc.com，简历必须包含参考编号 #9939366、全名、电子邮件、地址及邮寄地址。请勿电话咨询。必须在无需担保的情况下合法获得在美国工作的授权。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
工程类 Afiniti, Inc. 在华盛顿特区 (Washington D.C.) 有以下职位空缺： 首席软件工程师：开发并将 Afiniti 解决方案集成到客户环境中。$105,060 - $125,060 (A1018355)。 申请方式：请将简历发送至 Afiniti, Inc., 1701 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20006; recruitment@afiniti.com
LCG, Inc. 全栈开发人员 II (Full Stack Developer II)。马里兰州罗克维尔 (Rockville, MD)。年薪 $107,272-$125,000。设计并开发基于 Java 的应用程序。将设计转化为代码，并对开发的代码和应用程序进行单元测试。可远程办公（要求能通勤至办公室）。需要出差。请将简历发送至 hr@lcginc.com。职位参考号 1566.61.4。
LCG, Inc. 全栈开发人员 II (Full Stack Developer II)。马里兰州罗克维尔 (Rockville, MD)。年薪 $126,090。将设计转化为代码，并对开发的代码和应用程序进行单元测试。可远程办公（要求能通勤至办公室）。需要出差。可能会被分配到全美境内各种不可预见的办公地点。请将简历发送至 hr@lcginc.com。必须注明职位参考号 1566.62.4。
技术类职位 HTMS INC 在弗吉尼亚州斯特灵 (Sterling, VA) 有多个职位空缺。计算机程序员 (Computer Programmer) (年薪 $150,758)：编写、识别、更新、贡献、协作、执行、协助并确保功能正常。网络工程师 (Network Engineer) (年薪 $163,030)：建立、构建、排除故障、更新、协作、保障并完成信息系统。程序员分析师 (Programmer Analyst) (年薪 $175,427)：创建、编写、执行、协助、准备并预测进度。软件开发人员 (Software Developer) (年薪 $150,758)：开发、协作、集成、管理、实施、监控自动化并改进。高级软件开发人员 (Sr. Software Developer) (年薪 $175,427)：监督、优化、设计、实施、领导、升级并跨部门协调。所有职位均要求根据经验出差/搬迁至全美各地各种不可预见的客户地点，费用由雇主支付。标准福利。请将简历及申请职位发送至 President, HTMS INC, 22375 Broderick Dr, Ste 130 B, Sterling, VA 20166; legal@htmsinc.tech。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
Hughes Network Systems LLC 诚聘一名首席工程师 II - 客户网络 (Principal Engineer II - Customer Networks)，工作地点为马里兰州杰曼敦 (Germantown, MD)。职责包括：定义、设计并管理用于数据通信的网络系统。提出必要的改进建议，以确保公司高流量、业务关键且面向互联网的生产环境正常运行。管理中央数据通信处理器的负载配置。提议并实施网络系统增强方案，以提高网络系统的性能和可靠性。
必须在以下各项领域中均拥有 10 年经验： C++/Java；TCP/IP, HTTP, SSH 以及各种网络协议栈。
经验必须包括在以下各项中均有 3 年经验（可以是同时获得）：
• DNS • Zabbix NMS 平台 • 分布式容器化架构 • API 集成 • 设备和组件管理 • 自定义监控插件 • SNMP, COBRA, SOAP 和 XML • Kafka 和 MQTT
年薪：$191,173.00
请访问 https://echostar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/echostar。在“搜索职位” (Search Jobs) 栏中输入职位编号 2026-99188，并按照指令申请。
ICF Inc., LLC：高级质量保证工程师 (Sr. QA Engr.) – 弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿 (Reston, VA)：根据业务需求、ER 图、数据流图和用例图设计并创建测试交付物（例如：测试计划、测试策略、测试用例、测试脚本）。要求拥有计算机科学、信息技术、信息科学或相关技术领域的学士学位或同等外国学历，以及 5 年在软件质量保证和/或测试方面具有递增责任的专业经验。（EEO/AA – 少数族裔/女性/退伍军人/残疾人士）。100% 远程办公；职位可在美国境内任何地点执行。薪资：$93,626–$151,744/年。请在 https://careers.icf.com 在线申请，参考编号 R2601477。
IT 专业人员 (马里兰州盖瑟斯堡, Gaithersburg, MD)： 业务分析师 (薪资-$106912.00/年)，业务系统分析师 (薪资-$210579.00/年)，程序员分析师 (薪资-$70699.00/年)，软件工程师 (薪资-$175427.00/年)，软件开发人员 (薪资-$126090.00/年)。允许远程办公。多个职位。请将简历邮寄至：Ark Infotech LLC, Attn: HRGC, 6 Montgomery Village Ave. Suite 240 Gaithersburg, MD 20879。
IT 专业人员： 初级至高级（多个职位）。我们需要系统工程师和软件开发人员在马里兰州杰曼敦 (Germantown, MD) 办公室工作。必须愿意前往全国各地的不可预见地点为客户安装系统。薪资范围：$97,157 - $185,000。请将简历、求职信及薪资要求发送至：Q9 Software LLC, 13230 Executive Park Terrace, Germantown, MD 20874。
IT 专业人员 (弗吉尼亚州斯特林, Sterling, VA)： 应用程序开发人员、业务分析师、商业智能分析师、计算机程序员、数据科学家、程序员分析师、QA 工程师、QA 测试员、高级商业智能分析师、高级数据科学家、软件工程师、软件开发人员、高级业务分析师。多个职位。允许远程办公。请将简历邮寄至：Antra Inc, Attn: HR-RG, 21000 Atlantic Blvd, Suite 300, Sterling VA 20166。
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技术职位 首席数据工程师（数据仓库） 面向 Retail Services & Systems, Inc. (经营名为 Total Wine & More)，工作地点位于马里兰州贝塞斯达 (Bethesda, MD) 总部。与数据服务领导团队合作，制定企业数据与分析平台的愿景。与数据服务产品负责人、数据仓库工程师、数据科学家及 BI 开发人员合作，以支持并交付报告、预测模型、数据集及解决方案。设计并改进数据工作流，以提高效率并降低成本，且开发新功能以支持业务需求。设计并构建数据质量测试流程与监控，以确保数据访问。协助实施数据架构、数据治理标准及最佳实践。创建并管理批处理及实时数据管道，包括管理和增强 Kafka 及 Kubernetes 的实施。指导平台的优化与升级。指导初级团队成员并与更广泛的团队分享知识。实施安全实践以处理敏感信息。年薪 $210,600 另加综合福利（包括医疗计划、带薪休假 (PTO)、401k 等）。可能会进行包括药物筛查在内的背景调查。必须拥有计算机科学、技术或相关领域的硕士学位，以及 5 年在酒精饮料行业从事数据工程、数据仓库、数据架构和数据建模的相关经验。此外要求在以下方面具备技能（5 年经验）：GCP 环境 – BigQuery, Airflow/Cloud Composer, Cloud functions, 数据丢失防护 (DLP), PubSub, 以及 Kubernetes (GKE)；SQL 和 DBMS；Python；dbt 和 Kafka 数据摄取与转换工具；使用云原生工具的数据建模解决方案；数据与分析平台 – Dev-ops, Docker, CI/CD（包括 GitHub, Cloud Build, Jenkins）；Power BI。请访问 careers.totalwine.com 查看所有职位和福利详情并申请。
物流 IT 分析师，要求具备数学或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位，并拥有 24 个月工作经验，以：开发计算工具以确定塑料薄膜和包装材料的产品定价；通过将材料密度和厚度（gauge thickness）纳入考量，执行跨公制（Metric）和英制（Imperial）系统的复杂单位转换。通过研究协调关税表 (HTS) 代码并与货运供应商协调，开展针对国际进口的基于数据的成本分析；综合海运/空运（FCL/LCL）和海关关税等变量以确定总到岸成本。优化内部文件存储，并使用 MySQL 将本地驱动器中的所有数据重新组织到 Access 数据库中并管理数据仓库流程。利用 Python 中的网页抓取（web scrapping）和邮件发送包，实现搜索物流信息的流程全自动化。意向候选人应将简历邮寄至：HR Manager, Smyrna International Inc., 15060 Farm Creek Dr., Woodbridge, VA 22191. 工作地点：Woodbridge, VA 22191.
Computer Sciences Corporation 正在招聘位于弗吉尼亚州阿什本 (Ashburn, VA) 的软件工程经理 (参考编号 #9742045)。领导软件工程师团队进行软件解决方案的设计、开发和交付。与跨职能团队合作，定义项目需求并确保项目成功交付。为团队成员提供指导和引导以促进职业发展，主持 1:1 会议和绩效评估。该职位要求计算机科学、工程（任何方向）、数学或相关领域的学士学位或同等外国学位，以及 3 年在获得所需经验的任何职业中的经验。或者，接受计算机科学、工程（任何方向）、数学或相关领域的硕士学位或同等外国学位，以及 2 年在获得所需经验的任何职业中的经验。工作地点为美国境内不可预见的客户现场。允许远程办公。年薪范围为：$203,986.00 - $225,300.00。全职雇员有资格享受 DXC 福利包，包括医疗、牙科、视力、人寿和伤残保险；退休计划；带薪休假 (PTO) 等。申请请将简历发送至 globallmobility@dxc.com，简历必须包含参考编号 #9742045、全名、电子邮件、地址和邮寄地址。请勿电话咨询。必须具有在没有担保的情况下在美国合法工作的授权。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
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Andrew Kim 住宅， 基于项目的补贴-老年人候补名单 将于 8/7/26 关闭。1 卧室 申请表可前往 2100 Olney Sandy Spring Rd, Olney MD 获取/ 提交。 8/7/26 之后 不接受任何申请或咨询。申请人 必须年满 62 岁。 不完整的申请将不予考虑。EHO
技术职位 计算机科学公司 (Computer Sciences Corporation) 在弗吉尼亚州阿什本 (Ashburn, VA) 招聘软件工程经理 (Ref.
设计、开发并交付软件解决方案。与 跨职能团队协作定义项目需求并 确保项目成功交付。为团队成员提供 指导与建议以进行职业发展， 主持 1:1 会议并进行绩效 评估。该职位不要求学位，但需在 任何相关职业中拥有 5 年以上相关经验。 或者，接受计算机科学、工程（任何方向）、 数学或相关领域的硕士学位或同等国外学位， 加上 2 年在任何相关职业中获得的需求经验。 将在全美范围内不可预见的客户现场工作。 允许远程办公。 年薪提供：$233,230.00。 全职雇员有资格享受 DXC 福利计划，包括 健康、牙科、视力、人寿和伤残保险； 退休计划；带薪休假 (PTO) 等。申请请将 简历发送至 globallmobility@ dxc.com，简历必须包含 Ref.
及邮寄地址。请勿电话咨询。 必须在无需担保的情况下合法获准在 美国工作。EOE
雀巢美国公司 (Nestlé USA, Inc.) 在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿 (Arlington VA) 寻求多名高级业务分析师，以支持 NUSA 目前正在进行的知名分析计划，帮助将业务问题和机会转化为能够为商业部门创造实际价值的高级分析解决方案。要求：计算机科学、统计学、数学、管理信息系统或相关领域的学士学位或同等国外学位 + 3 年在所提供职位或作为 IT 项目经理、业务分析师或涉及技术项目管理经验的相关职业中的经验。要求：在以下方面拥有 3 年经验：数据可视化技术，包括直方图、散点图、箱形图、热力图、Tableau、PowerBI、Excel 和 SQL；使用敏捷交付程序的项目管理；消费者产品内部的商业职能；准备技术文档，详细说明需求、对业务流程进行建模和映射，并为分析交付团队准备业务价值案例；为公司高层领导准备项目交付成果、状态更新和简报。在以下方面拥有 2 年经验：开发、培训和测试高级分析模型；分析数据并为业务用户准备洞察。每周最多可远程办公 2 天。 年薪 $124144.47 – $134144.47。简历发送至：nestlejobsgm@us.nestle. com。职位代码 0717。请勿致电。
Prime S4 Technologies LLC 在 弗吉尼亚州阿什本 (Ashburn, VA) 有 多个 职位空缺。业务分析师 (年薪 $154,710)： 确定、分析、开发、操作、利用、 管理、创建、执行、开展并为高级项目 经理提供行政和协调支持。 计算机 程序员 (年薪 $112,466)：编写、协作、实施、 调试、创建并更新代码库。 软件开发人员 (年薪 $175,427)： 分析、审查、计划、准备、设计、 协助、操作并跟踪代码更改。 软件 工程师 (年薪 $150,758)： 设计、研究、创建并记录 详细规格。高级软件工程师 (年薪 $175,427)： 设计、 开发、构建、领导、维护、阐明、操作、 参与并解决客户系统问题。所有 职位均要求在全美境内前往各种不可预见 的客户地点出差/搬迁，费用由雇主支付。 提供标准福利。请将简历和申请职位发送至： Operations Head, Prime S4 Technologies LLC, 20130 Lakeview Center Plaza, Ste 400, Ashburn, VA 20147; rred- dy@primes4.com。EOE。
美光科技 (Micron Technology, Inc.) 在 弗吉尼亚州马纳萨斯 (Manassas, VA) 招聘一名工艺工程师。工作职责包括： 负责启动、开发和优化 工艺以提高产品质量 和可靠性，致力于工艺 良率提高、成本降低、 生产力提升和风险 管理，以及解决 生产线问题。该 职位将通过应用失效分析、FMEA、 8D 或 SPC 方法论来识别、诊断并 解决与工艺相关的问题。 申请请访问 Micron.com/Careers。 通过申请编号 JR102788 搜索。
美光科技公司 (Micron Technology, Inc.) 现招聘一名高级 DRAM 产品工程师，工作地点在弗吉尼亚州马纳萨斯 (Manassas, VA)。岗位职责包括：筹备新 DRAM 产品，并在产品的整个生命周期内协调资源、测试和分析。运行模拟，创建并维护设计文档，分析参数数据并响应故障。允许兼职远程办公。 申请请访问 Micron.com/Careers。搜索申请编号：JR98590
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布伦特伍德 (BRENTWOOD) - 合租房有单间出租。每月 $650，含水电费。靠近公交站。电话 202-207-5813
海亚茨维尔 (HYATTSVILLE) - 单户住宅 (SFH) 有 2 间房可用。租金 $650-$700+，需押金并分担水电费。男女不限。优先考虑女性。电话 240-481-4212
银泉 (Silver Spring) - 主卧带私人卫浴，共用厨房。每月 $675，含所有水电费。可乘公交/地铁。电话 240-505-1199
上马尔伯罗 (Upper Marlboro) - 宽敞带家具房间，带私人卫浴。共用厨房。$1200 含水电费。电话 347-898-3581
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地下室出租——每月 $850，电话 571-565-1407。
技术职位 Amazon.com Services LLC 正在招聘以下职位（设有多个名额），工作地点在弗吉尼亚州赫恩登 (Herndon, VA)。请在 https://www.amazon.jobs/en/ 申请，并注明职位 ID AMZ27490.1：质量保证工程师 II (Quality Assurance Engineer II) (职位 ID: AMZ27490.1)。负责主导大规模系统的测试，创建测试计划、测试用例，并利用包括 Apache, HTTP, XML, HTML, 负载均衡 (Load Balancing) 和 DNS 在内的互联网及 Web 技术，推动质量保证流程的持续改进。在 Linux 环境中使用 Java 和 Shell 脚本开发测试，记录并协调复杂系统的手动和自动化测试部署，以及测试移动设备开发套件和设备框架。该职位在弗吉尼亚州赫恩登的薪资范围为每年 $113900 - $160000；然而，提供的基本工资可能会根据与工作相关的知识、技能和经验而有所不同。除了全方位的医疗、财务和/或其他福利（取决于所提供职位的具体情况）外，还可能提供签约奖金和限制性股票单位作为薪酬方案的一部分。此信息由《弗吉尼亚州平等薪酬法》(Virginia Equal Pay Act) 提供。基本薪资信息基于市场所在地。申请人应通过亚马逊的内部或外部职业网站申请。
Acumen Security, LLC 在纽约州科特兰 (Cortland, NY) 和马里兰州罗克维尔 (Rockville, MD) 现有一个安全工程师 III (Common Criteria) 的空缺，该职位将作为工程师团队的一部分并领导该团队，以评估设备的 Common Criteria 合规性。要求最高 20% 的国内出差和最高 10% 的国际出差。允许在马里兰州罗克维尔合理通勤距离内远程办公。年薪 $169,978 - $170,978。福利信息见 https://www.acumensecurity.net/careers/#benefits 。请将简历发送至 Bernadette Sinclair (邮箱: Bernadette.sinclair@intertek.com) 或在线申请 https://www.acumensecurity.net/careers/#openings 。请注明职位名称和工作地点。
高级软件开发人员 (Senior Software Developer) (年薪 $175,427) - 弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿 (Arlington, VA)。使用 Agile/SCRUM 主导 SDLC。使用 Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate 和 MySQL 开发并优化可扩展的 RESTful 微服务；利用 Kafka 实现实时处理。使用 Redis, Cassandra 和 AWS (S3, RDS, ECS) 设计并管理数据存储/缓存。使用 Angular, TypeScript 和 BI 工具构建仪表盘、报告和分析模块。自动化 CI/CD，执行单元/集成测试，并使用 Git 和 JIRA 协调跨职能团队。要求：计算机科学 (CS)、电子工程 (EE) 或相关专业硕士学位；在 IT/软件行业具有 3 年软件开发经验；具备 Java/Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, ETL/批处理, 数据库优化, Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, 单元/集成测试, 数据安全及 Agile 开发经验。请将简历发送至 Zipeng Chen, Rothur Tech Inc, 800 3rd Ave., FRNT A, STE 1563, NY, NY 10022。代码：0701
高级 Oracle 数据库管理员 (Senior Oracle DBA) – U.S. Financial Technology, LLC - 马里兰州贝塞斯达 (Bethesda, MD) – 安装、设置并配置 Oracle 19c 或更高版本的数据库。要求：计算机科学、信息技术或密切相关领域的学士学位或同等国外学历 + 7 年作为 Oracle, SQL Server, RDS 数据库管理员的工作经验。符合在美国本土 48 个州任何地方 100% 远程办公的条件。年薪 $176,935.43 - $179,000.00。U.S. FinTech 提供具有竞争力的综合薪酬方案，包括年度绩效奖金、401k 配比、医疗、牙科和视力保险覆盖、短期和长期伤残险、人寿保险、带薪假期以及优厚的带薪年假 (PTO)。必须通过入职前背景调查，其中可能包括信用检查。请将简历发送至 Recruiting@us-fintech.com。请参考代码：18-1896
政府雇员保险公司 (GEICO) 招聘高级工程师 – Workday，工作地点位于马里兰州贝塞斯达 (Bethesda, MD)，旨在敏捷环境 (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) 中进行跨职能协作。允许在美国境内任何地方远程办公。多个职位空缺。年薪 $160,000 至 $190,500。查看完整要求并在线申请：https://careers.geico.com/ 职位编号：R0064725。
政府雇员保险公司 (GEICO) 招聘高级工程师 – 数据，工作地点位于马里兰州贝塞斯达 (Bethesda, MD)，旨在敏捷环境 (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) 中进行跨职能协作。允许在美国境内任何地方远程办公。多个职位空缺。年薪 $126,090 至 $215,000。查看完整要求并在线申请：https://careers.geico.com/ 职位编号：R0064724。
政府雇员保险公司 (GEICO) 招聘主任工程师 – 数据，工作地点位于马里兰州贝塞斯达 (Bethesda, MD)，旨在通过数据及相关技术为工程团队提供领导力。允许在美国境内任何地方远程办公。多个职位空缺。年薪 $175,427 至 $230,000。查看完整要求并在线申请：https://careers.geico.com/ 职位编号：R0064403。
Sirtech, LLC 在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿 (Arlington, VA) 有 Java 开发人员空缺，且要求搬迁至全美境内各种不可预见的地点。职责：设计、开发、实施、测试及支持使用 Java 技术的应用程序软件。请将简历连同职位代码 JD 邮寄至 3101 Wilson Blvd. Ste 500, Arlington, VA 22201。
软件工程师 - 弗吉尼亚州斯特林 (Sterling, VA) 及全国其他不可预见地点。职责：设计、开发、创建、修改、定制、测试及验证软件应用，需具备 HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typscript, JSON, REST, WEBAPI, Jasmine, Karma, AngularJS, jQuery, Oracle DB, Sublime, SVN, Git 和 Jenkins 等技能。要求：计算机科学/工程或相关领域的硕士学位或同等学历，且在所提供职位或相关职业（如助理顾问或前端开发人员）中拥有至少 3 年经验。拥有学士学位及 5 年本科后渐进式经验可等同于硕士学历。任何合适的教育、培训或经验组合均可。要求在全国各种不可预见的客户工作地点进行长短期及不定期频率的出差/搬迁。薪资：$175,427。请将简历及工作资格证明邮寄至：Valiant Tek Group Inc, 44330 Mercure Circle, Ste 167, Sterling, VA 20166。
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技术岗位 软件开发人员 开发/创建/修改计算机应用程序 & 根据用户需求开发/设计软件解决方案以优化运行效率。要求计算机科学、信息技术 (IT) 或信息系统 (IS) 学士学位（或同等学历）+ 2年经验，且具备 MySQL, Cassandra, CloudIO, Airflow, Flexdeploy & Tableau 的知识/使用经验。要求根据临时客户指派在美国全境出差。请将简历邮寄至 Vivid Edge Corp, 11710 Plaza America Dr, Ste 2000, Reston, VA 20190.
软件架构师 (弗吉尼亚州赫恩登/Herndon, VA) 要求分析客户报告的问题并提供配置和代码层面的解决方案。将业务需求转化为功能和技术规范。开发、测试并支持计费相关应用程序和脚本。设计事件驱动和分布式系统架构以支持实时使用处理。开发计费与配置系统之间的集成。在整个产品生命周期中执行代码审查、迭代计划和质量保证 (QA) 活动。最低要求为计算机科学、计算机信息系统、信息技术、工程（任何专业）学士学位，或基于教育、培训或经验的同等学历，且具有 60 个月相关的软件工程师、高级软件工程师、软件开发人员、首席架构师经验（需具备特殊技能）。根据公司政策，员工可以从美国任何地方远程工作/居家办公；主要工作地点为雇主办公地点。且可能要求出差，如有需求，将具有临时性和基于项目的性质，取决于具体客户需求，并将在支持指定项目所需的有限期限内发生。请将简历发送至 Covalense Digital Solutions LLC, 13800 Coppermine Rd, Ste 180, Herndon, VA 20171. 电子邮件：prameela.kotnana@covalensedigital.com
Xchanging Solutions, Inc. 招聘弗吉尼亚州阿什本 (Ashburn, VA) 的高级分析师 III 软件工程 (参考号 #9740840)。通过编写、测试和调试代码协助软件解决方案的开发。与团队成员协作以实现项目目标，接受高级团队成员的指导。通过积极参与培训和指导计划，在软件工程领域学习和成长。该职位要求计算机科学、工程（任何专业）、数学或相关领域的硕士学位或外国同等学历 + 1年获取所需经验的任何职业经验。或者，接受计算机科学、工程（任何专业）、数学或相关领域的学士学位或外国同等学历 + 2年获取所需经验的任何职业经验。将在美国全境不可预见的客户现场工作。允许远程办公。年薪范围为：$126,090.00 - $129,400.00。全职员工有资格享受 DXC 福利包，包括医疗、牙科、视力、人寿和伤残保险；退休计划；带薪休假 (PTO) 等。申请请将简历发送至 globallmobility@dxc.com，简历必须包含参考号 #9740840、全名、电子邮件、地址和邮寄地址。请勿致电。必须合法获得在无需担保的情况下在美工作的授权。机会均等雇主 (EOE)。
Strategy Inc 寻求弗吉尼亚州泰森角 (Tysons Corner, VA) 的高级云支持工程师 II：领导并协调跨云平台的事件响应，与 DevOps、安全和工程团队合作。协作设计弹性且可扩展的云基础设施。要求：硕士学位 + 1年经验。年薪：$127,462 - $186,900。提交简历并注明参考号：Req.# 22607.91.2 至：onlinejobpostings@microstrategy.com。Strategy Inc 是一家机会均等且采取积极行动的雇主。将进行教育、经验和刑事背景调查。
Applied Information Sciences, Inc. 寻求高级基础设施工程师，利用云、数据和基础设施技术为全球品牌和联邦机构设计、实施和支持复杂的企业解决方案。年薪 $140k 至 $155K。工作地点在弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿 (Reston, VA)，允许在美国境内任何地方远程工作。请申请 @ https://www.ais.com/careers/ 工作编号 JR2026001279。
Applied Information Sciences, Inc. 寻求高级软件架构师，负责领导 使用前沿云端和数据技术设计并开发 可扩展、分布式且安全的软件解决方案/系统。 年薪 $195k 至 $210K。工作地点位于弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿 (Reston, VA)， 允许在美国境内任何地方远程工作，且 定期有 10% 的美国东海岸境内出差。 申请请访问 @ https://www.ais.com/careers/ 职位编号# JR2026001280。
TECHNOLOGY UltraViolet Cyber, Inc. 在弗吉尼亚州麦克莱恩 (McLean, VA) 有招聘岗位： 专业服务咨询，资深顾问：执行 软件应用/源代码评估，并 建议软件安全和/或信息安全控制、防御及 应对措施，以保护计算机系统和信息免受内部/ 外部威胁。允许 100% 远程办公。要求拥有计算机科学 (CS)、 信息学、网络安全、计算机工程 (CE) 或相关专业的硕士学位，且 具备 2 年 Web 应用安全咨询、测试和/或 风险评估经验。薪资范围：年薪 $ 125,384.48 至 $145,384.48。职位 代码 # UV-KB-M024 欲了解更多信息或申请，请联系： Recruiting@uvcyber.com 并注明职位代码。
OriGene Technologies, Inc. 寻求 一名技术支持科学家，以提供 最新的技术和科学支持，并响应产品 咨询/请求。工作地点位于马里兰州罗克维尔 (Rockville, MD)， 且允许在华盛顿特区大都会区每周 2 天远程工作。年薪 $96,706- 100K。提供标准福利。 申请请访问 @ https://www.origene.com/ about-us/careers。#Technical Sup- port Scientist。
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司法部 反垄断司
请注意，美国已在处理美国俄亥俄州南区联邦地区法院的一起民事反垄断案件中提交了一份拟议的最终判决，案件为：美国等诉 OhioHealth Corporation，民事案件号 2:26-cv-207。On February 20, 2026 美国提交了一份起诉书，指称 OhioHealth Corporation 在其与付款人的合同中使用反竞争合同条款，违反了《谢尔曼法》 (Sherman Act) 第 1 节，即 15 U.S.C. § 1。拟议最终判决于 June 16, 2026, 提交，要求 OhioHealth Corporation 撤销现有的禁止或阻碍保险公司提供预算意识型健康保险计划或计划功能的合同条款，并防止 OhioHealth 在未来寻求或获得此类合同条款，以及其他相关要求。美国于 July 15, 2026, 提交的一份《竞争影响声明》描述了该起诉书、拟议的最终判决、相关行业以及救济措施。
起诉书、拟议最终判决和《竞争影响声明》的副本可在反垄断司网站 http://www.justice.gov/atr 以及上述美国联邦地区法院的书记员办公室查阅。
相关人员可在本公告首次发布之日起 60 天内，将英文评论发送至：Jill Maguire, Acting Chief, Healthcare and Consumer Products Section, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, 450 Fifth Street NW, Suite 4100, Washington, DC 20530 (电子邮件地址：ATR.Public-Comments-Tunney-Act- MB@usdoj.gov)。此类评论（包括提交者姓名）及其答复将发布在反垄断司网站上，提交至法院，并在某些情况下发布在《联邦记录》(Federal Register) 中。
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提案邀请书 牛奶配送
哥伦比亚特区公立学校 (DCPS) 正在根据招标公告 GAGA-2026-R-0205 (公开市场) 寻求提案，以建立牛奶配送合同。
哥伦比亚特区公立学校 (DCPS) 正在根据招标公告 GAGA-2026-R-0174 (公开市场) 寻求提案，以建立一份关于仓库、搬迁与物流的 IDIQ 合同。
DCPS 寻求合格公司供应牛奶产品及其他食品服务相关产品，并配送至参与儿童营养计划的自营学校地点，包括但不限于国家学校早餐计划 (SBP)、午餐计划 (NSLP)。
• 招标公告发布日期：Monday July 27, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. EST • 提交截止日期：Monday August 17, 2026, by 12:00 p.m. EST • 提交电子邮件：DCPS.ProcurementOps@k12.dc.gov
• 招标公告发布日期：Monday, July 27, 2026, at 12:00 P.m. EST • 提交截止日期：Friday, August 14, 2026, by 1:00 p.m. EST • 提交电子邮件：DCPS.ProcurementOps@k12.dc.gov
招标公告可从 DCPS 网站 https://dcps.dc.gov/page/doing-business-dcps 的“当前招标” (Current Solicitations) 栏目下载。
招标公告可从 DCPS 网站 https://dcps.dc.gov/page/doing-business-dcps 的“当前招标” (Current Solicitations) 栏目下载。
提案邀请书 (RFP) 仓库、搬迁与物流
DCPS 寻求承包商提供仓库、搬迁和物流支持。
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大华盛顿政府委员会 (The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG)) 现就华盛顿大都市区的 RFP 27-002 “清洁空气合作伙伴战略营销、媒体和赞助服务” (CLEAN AIR PARTNERS STRATEGIC MARKETING, MEDIA, AND SPONSORSHIP SERVICES) 征集合格顾问的提案。
详情将发布在 RFP 网页链接： https://mwcog.bonfirehub.com/portal/?tab=openOpportunities
欲了解更多信息，请联系 purchasing@mwcog.org。
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上午 8 点 中午 下午 4 点 晚上 8 点
作者：SOPHIA SOLANO 一只带来巨大改变的小猪
在联合车站大厅的 Beaux-Arts 宏伟建筑中，在金箔天顶、高耸的立柱和 46 座罗马百夫长雕像之下，有一只猪。
她非常小（5.2 磅），而且非常年轻（7 个月）。
她的名字叫 Synergy。 当她在大理石地板上蹒跚而行时，脚步发出哒哒声，走不了几码就会有人停下来给她拍照。今天，她在执行任务。
每天约有 100,000 人通过联合车站——有拎着行李袋的游客，也有匆匆前往办公室的当地人。火车站往往还会吸引不成比例的无家可归者，他们来这里寻求在没有固定住所时难以获得的服务设施：空调、暖气、WiFi、洗手间、餐厅，以及偶尔遇到的慷慨陌生人。
马里兰州 由于噪音担忧， 餐厅寻求屋顶音乐许可。B16
今日最高气温 约在下午 4 点 85°
降水概率：55%
风向：东东南 4-8 mph
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摄影：Victoria Caruso/华盛顿邮报
联合车站同时也是 h3 项目的总部。这是一个危机干预和反人口贩卖组织，成立于 2020.。Ami M. Angell 创立了该项目，h3 代表家庭 (home)、健康 (health) 和幸福 (happiness)。
Synergy 是她的猪。Angell 是她的真实姓氏。
“是一只小猪！我一直想要一只！”Angell 的客户 Logan McGraw 在广场对面大喊道。
他与妻子 Evone 向 Angell 走来。当他们挠猪耳朵后面时，Synergy 将背子蹭在 Evone 轮椅的脚踏板上。
“我能把它带回家吗？”她问道。
在过去的一年里，Angell 帮助 93 人解决了住房问题，管理并注射了 217 剂过量用药逆转药物 Narcan，并办理了 537 份文件，包括法律身份证明。
撤销定罪
谋杀罪名成立
作者：DAN MORSE
1997 年，该男子的证词帮助将 David Black 送进监狱，判刑 26 年。
去年夏天，在同一座华盛顿法院内，Black 听着该证人一个接一个地撤回关键主张。
不，该男子说，他从未见过 Black 开枪。不，他从未见过他逃跑。不，他从未见过 Black 杀死任何人。
“我不得不离开法庭，”Black 在上周的一次采访中回忆道，“我的情绪无法控制。”
撤回的证词现在成为了 Black 法律斗争的核心，他试图抹除其谋杀罪的定罪。该定罪源于一起震惊华盛顿特区唐人街附近居民的枪击事件。那里的一位深受爱戴的居民， 78 岁的 Alice Chow，在周日一个下午沿着西北 K 街从教堂回家时被流弹击中，当场倒地。
见 B14 页关于 David Black 的报道
David Black 出席在华盛顿举行的一次集会，要求撤销其 1997 年的定罪。
马里兰州艺术家的 作品作为 华盛顿海报
作者：KENDALL STATON
音乐会观众肯定已经习惯了这种典型的粉丝原型：在场馆外露营数小时以确保能抢到护栏边的位置。但周三在国民球场 (Nationals Park) 外排起的长队并非为了获得更好的视野。他们甚至根本不是在排队进体育场。
到上午 7 点，海军造船厂 (Navy Yard) 周边多辆卡车前排起了十几个人，等待购买格莱美奖提名者 Noah Kahan 的周边商品。这位民谣流行歌手当晚将举行一场门票售罄的演出。在帽子、衬衫、连帽衫和保险杠贴纸中，挂着一张由当地艺术家 Darra Sargent 创作的限量版海报——该作品最初是以粉丝艺术的形式发布在网上的。
“他居然能看到这部作品，这简直让我难以置信。我敢肯定他每天会收到数百万次标记，”自称是“音乐狂热者”的 Sargent 说道。
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大卫·布莱克（David Black），见 B13 页 两名侦探、一名警察和一名一线检察官——拒绝发表评论或无法联系。
布莱克在案发时 21 岁，随后被逮捕并受审。他没有出庭作证，被陪审团判定有罪，被监禁至 47 岁。
“我只想被证明清白，然后继续我的生活，”这位 50 岁的男子说道。
他的律师上个月提交了一份 68 页的动议，寻求撤销该定罪。他们写道：“布莱克先生终于可以证明他一直坚持的观点：枪击是由其他人实施的。”
他们在这一努力中的关键证人，也是 1997 年检察官的关键证人：拉里·约翰逊（Larry Johnson）。2025 年 7 月 28 日——在肺癌 4 期的折磨中——约翰逊撤回了之前的证词，称警察强迫他提供虚假证词。
根据法院文件和讣告，约翰逊于 2 月 1 日去世。
布莱克的案例表明，旨在帮助年轻被定罪者的提前释放计划所能提供的救济有限，尤其是如果该人像布莱克及其律师所说的那样是清白的。布莱克最初被判处 52 年监禁。2023 年，他利用一项允许青年被定罪者寻求提前释放的法律。他获得了批准，在服刑期满一半后获释。但由于他的定罪记录依然存在，他表示自己难以找工作，且仍然背负着“杀人犯”的标签。
“这种伤害永远无法消除，”他说，“一旦我被证明清白，我才真正有机会呼吸。”
华盛顿特区警方表示，他们不讨论处于激活状态的法律争议。办理此案的美国驻华盛顿特区检察官办公室官员拒绝发表评论。他们计划在 9 月 1 日之前对布莱克的请求提交法律回应。在早前关于布莱克提前出狱的文件中，检察官写道，他未能“为其行为承担责任”。
参与 1997 年此案的四名执法人员——两名
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居民，萨金特（Sargent）一直将艺术视为生活。她在十年前创办了自己的公司，Dear Darling Design Studio。她在社交媒体上分享作品，页面上出现粉丝艺术作品并不罕见。从对说唱歌手 Yung Gravy 的描绘到感恩死带（Grateful Dead）吉他手鲍勃·威尔（Bob Weir），萨金特将知名面孔融入她色彩丰富的艺术风格中，她将其描述为一种“女孩风的 70 年代氛围”。
她长期以来一直试图进入演唱会海报创作领域，并获得了卡汉（Kahan）的机遇，这是她的第一次巡演委任。萨金特表示，巡演官员告诉她，海报在演唱会上已售罄。当她周四在自己的网站上挂出 30 份艺术家限量版印刷品时，这些作品也在不到一分钟内全部售出。（她留了三份：一份给自己，两份给她的孩子们。）
她创作的这张梦幻且充满活力的海报展示了装满昆虫的汽车——这是卡汉在歌词和周边商品中经常使用的一种基调——在 95 号州际公路向南行驶，这是从巴尔的摩前往华盛顿特区的行驶方向。海报左侧是对特区的致敬，如樱花、华盛顿纪念碑和国会大厦。右侧则是以马里兰州为中心的符号，如黑眼苏珊（black-eyed Susan）和“垃圾轮先生”（Mr. Trash Wheel）——一个位于巴尔的摩内港、外观像青蛙的垃圾拦截装置。
细心的观众还会注意到巴尔的摩格子蝶（一种原产于马里兰州的蝴蝶）和斑衣蜡蝉（一种华盛顿特区和马里兰州当地人熟知的入侵物种）。“无论我们喜不喜欢，它们都在那儿，”萨金特在谈到这些飞虫时幽默地说道。
她一直是卡汉的粉丝，
从约翰逊的新证词中尚不清楚，他为何在这么长时间之后才撤回最初的证词。
受害者周（Chow）是华盛顿地区的原住民，能说粤语、普通话和英语。她在一家华人社区中心担任志愿者，为中国移民翻译文件，并为残疾邻居配送杂货。布莱克（Black）的律师在近期的法庭文件中写道，她的遇害发生在“华盛顿特区暴力事件增加的时期，导致解决此谋杀案面临巨大的压力”。
未能联系到周的家人和朋友。在 2023 年关于布莱克请求提前释放的法庭文件中，检方表示他们无法联系到周的亲属。
在布莱克的审判中，检方告诉陪审员，他在一次争吵后，在 K 街追赶一名被指认为詹姆斯·“六月虫”·史密斯（James “June Bug” Smith）的男子时，鲁莽地开了两枪。检方称，两发子弹都没有击中目标，但其中一发击中了周。该案件在很大程度上依赖于两名证人——约翰逊和芭芭拉·马歇尔（Barbara Marshall），他们证称看到布莱克开枪。
根据法庭文件，布莱克在审判期间的律师托马斯·法夸尔（Thomas Farquhar）成功削弱了马歇尔的可信度。其办公室的一名调查员在陪审员面前作证，马歇尔在审判前夕向其提供了一份签署声明，撤回了她早前告知警方的内容。
约翰逊作证说，在周被谋杀的那天，他正在三楼的一套公寓里喝啤酒，准备观看职业碗（Pro Bowl）比赛，这时他听到“外面有骚乱”。约翰逊说，他走到走廊窗边以便更好地观察，看到“六月虫”在逃跑，而布莱克开了两枪。
法夸尔辩称，两名证人都搞错了，而且法医证据与检方关于……
[[IMG_XXXX]] 艺术家达拉·萨金特（Darra Sargent）拿着她为格莱美奖提名者诺亚·卡汉（Noah Kahan）在华盛顿特区国民球场（Nationals Park）巡演站设计的限量版海报。
……他在 2018 年在巴尔的摩的菲利普斯海鲜餐厅（Phillips Seafood）工作时第一次听到他的音乐。这家餐厅每天循环播放相同的歌曲，其中包括卡汉早期的单曲之一。
萨金特在值班期间跟着唱，最终开始在社交媒体上关注卡汉。她一直关注着卡汉的音乐。
准备好与 Wild Child 共度一个难忘之夜吧！这对来自奥斯汀的二人组 Kelsey Wilson 和 Alexander Beggins 凭借其广受赞誉的独立民谣风格、极具感染力的能量以及迷人的现场表演，在十多年间赢得了观众的青睐。不要错过现场体验 Wild Child 演出并与他们一同庆祝其非凡音乐旅程新篇章的机会。Motenko 将加入其中，带来一个关于世代与视角和谐共处的音乐愿景。 详情请参阅 washingtonpost.com/entertainment/events/lists/388
David Black 在 2025. 年的一次乔治·弗洛伊德纪念集会上。他正寻求为其 1997 年的一次定罪申请赦免。
枪击开始的地方。“这个案子是一场噩梦，”他告诉陪审员，“因为他被指控的主要依据是两名任何理性的人都不会相信的证人的证词。”
根据法庭记录，陪审员在审议过程中陷入苦战，要求对“合理怀疑”和“证人可信度”进行解释，并在某个时刻表示他们陷入了僵局。在做出决定之前，他们进行了第二天的审议。
Black 回想起在准备听取裁决时，他认为他们的挣扎是一个好迹象。“我的膝盖瘫软了，在法庭上几乎心脏病发作，”他回忆道。“当我被定罪时，我简直不敢相信。”
在 2023 年的法庭文件中，Black 的律师主张，要理解他们的当事人，首先要理解其由创伤、混乱和心碎定义的人生童年。他在华盛顿特区 Sursum Corda 社区长大，那里充斥着由 20 世纪 80 年代末和 90 年代华盛顿可卡因流行引发的暴力。Black 在 10. 岁时遭遇持刀抢劫。五年后，他的母亲在一次家庭派对上被枪击九次身亡。
“在这种环境下，
并在 2023 年在 Merriweather Post Pavilion 观看了他的演唱会，那是他为《Stick Season》专辑巡演的一部分，该专辑让 Kahan 在 2022. 年进入主流视野。当时，Kahan 告诉观众，这个容纳 19,000 人的场馆是他演出过的最大场地。
在那场演出之后，Sargent 创作了一件 Kahan 弹奏的艺术作品
法庭。
“无法地支撑下去。”
大卫·布莱克（David Black）在谈到去年夏天听到一名关键证人撤回证词时的感受。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 边走边弹吉他，背景是一道彩虹，并将这段视频分享到了社交媒体上。但这段视频并没有引起足够的关注，卡汉（Kahan）从未看到它。
四月，Netflix 发布了一部纪录片《诺亚·卡汉：离体》（Noah Kahan: Out of Body），就在他备受期待的第四张录音室专辑《伟大的分水岭》（The Great Divide）发行前几天。
“大卫给人的印象一直是个冷静的人，”布莱克来自华盛顿特区公共辩护人服务处（D.C. Public Defender Service）的律师在引用一名童年好友的话时写道。
这份新的法律文件并不是布莱克第一次尝试撤销其定罪。在入狱初期，他曾向华盛顿特区上诉法院申请撤销定罪，但未能成功。此次由“无辜项目”（Exoneration Project）律师主导的新尝试，引用了华盛顿特区的《无辜保护法》（Innocence Protection Act），该法要求当事人指明“具体的证据”，以证明其“尽管在审判中被定罪，但实际上是无辜的”。
随后，法官可以下令撤销定罪和原始指控，从而结束此案，或者准予重新审理。
律师们表示，此前未公开的检方记录指向了另一名嫌疑人，并削弱了目击证人的证词。他们还试图追踪约翰逊（Johnson）和马歇尔（Marshall），这两名证人曾声称看到布莱克开枪。
马歇尔于 2025 年 1 月去世。但根据法院记录，她在 1997 年给辩护律师调查员的一份签署声明中，同样相当于撤回了她对布莱克的指控。
（内容缺失）萨金特（Sargent）在看到卡汉通过对音乐的探索和对歌词的深入挖掘向世界敞开心扉时深受启发。她再次分享了 2023 年的那篇作品。这一次，卡汉点赞了该帖子。
后来，她在刷 TikTok 时注意到卡汉的“秘密”账号 thelastofthe-
戴安·克劳特哈默 (Diane Krauthamer)
约瑟夫·维迪茨 (Joseph Veditz)
在这份声明中，马歇尔表示她当时在自己的公寓里，听到两个人争吵并看向窗外，但只能看到模糊的影像。“我没戴眼镜，”她在随法院文件提交的声明中说道，“我看不清他们是谁。”
她还在声明中表示，她从未见过枪击事件，但被警方骚扰迫使她那样说：“我当时只想回家。”
律师们安排约翰逊在 2025 年 7 月 28 日通过视频作证。他将周（Chow）描述为整个社区的好友。“一位非常善良的女士，好人，”他回忆道。
而他对布莱克的评价则没那么高。
“我们从来没关系好过，”他说，“他知道，我也知道。”
但他表示，关于布莱克枪杀周的证词是一个谎言，他觉得自己被迫这么说，因为一名警察威胁要将他关起来。
而且这一次，从一开始，他的记忆就不同了。在枪击发生时，他并不在三楼能俯瞰 K 街的公寓里，而是在高层建筑后面的一个庭院里。
“说实话，我们当时在那儿喝啤酒，我的一些朋友在抽大麻。我们就坐在那儿闲逛，怎么说呢，聊天，”他说。
约翰逊说，他们听到 K 街有人争吵，随后传出两声巨响，于是他和朋友们走过去查看。
“你在 K 街看到了什么？”布莱克的律师阿米莉亚·麦克斯菲尔德（Amelia Maxfield）问道。
“一群警察，”他说。约翰逊说他还看到周倒在地上。当被问及是否曾看到任何人开枪时，约翰逊回答没有。
在交叉质询中，美国助理检察官谢扎德·阿赫塔尔（Shehzad Akhtar）让约翰逊承认，在他最初作证时，他曾宣誓说出真相，且他 1997 年对发生事情的记忆比 2025 年要好。
“先生，已经过去 30 年了。我现在几乎记不起我的名字，”根据庭审记录，约翰逊说道。
约翰逊说，在 1997 年，他无法按照自己的意愿作证。
“我试图说出真相，”他说，“但他们不让我说。”
漏洞，拥有 531,000 名粉丝。她将其视为一个征兆。
“我 13 岁时父亲去世了，他的生日是 5 月 31 日，”她说。“这是一个信号，意味着我应该在某个地方或做某件事。这是我的机会。这一次他会看到的。”
她熬了整个晚上，在三天时间里花费 18 小时创作国家公园 (Nationals Park) 的海报，并将其分享到社交媒体上。Kahan 再次看到了它。他的团队第二天联系了她，请求将其委任为他巡演华盛顿站的官方限量版周边商品。（大多数演出都没有城市专属海报。）
周三，在座无虚席的国家公园体育场（可容纳 40,000 多人），萨金特 (Sargent) 走向她在山顶看台的座位时，看到数百人腋下夹着她的海报在走动。萨金特说，粉丝们能与这部作品产生共鸣，是因为它是由一个熟悉 Kahan 品牌和音乐的人创作的。
虽然萨金特开玩笑说她是通过“追星”的方式成为了巡演海报艺术家，但她说，她特别高兴自己的作品能与 Kahan 产生共鸣，因为 Kahan 是她深感尊重和钦佩的艺术家。
“作为女性，我们被告知应该为自己喜欢的一切感到尴尬。如果你喜欢音乐，那很尴尬。如果你喜欢彩虹、蝴蝶和独角兽，那是幼稚，”萨金特说。“我的作品是关于女性特质，以及接纳我们所热爱的事物，并且不为表现出女性化、多彩和有趣而感到羞耻。只需勇敢地展示自己，做你自己。不要为你热爱的事物感到羞耻，你的道路一定会找到你。”
提供创意解决方案
Synergy 是一头治疗猪，旨在帮助联合车站 (Union Station) 经历无家可归状态的人群。 h3 Project 创始人 Ami M. Angell 每天上班时，Synergy 都会随行。这只小动物已经学会了如何通过隧道和圆环敏捷课程，并能弹奏玩具钢琴。 她同时也是一个能让普通大众开启话题的媒介。
照片由 Victoria Caruso/华盛顿邮报 拍摄
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……tion。但这一年也带来了挑战，包括资金减少、来自唐纳德·特朗普 (Donald Trump) 任务组清理无家可归者营地的指令，以及长期以来人们认为无家可归者援助组织会吸引更多无家可归者的观念。
Angell 长期与美国铁路公司 (Amtrak) 警察合作，后者在目击有人陷入危机时知道要打电话给她所在的团队。她说，联合车站涌入了大量联邦执法人员，其中大多数人并不熟悉她的工作，这导致武装警卫与她的客户之间的互动增加，而这些互动往往发生在客户状态最糟糕的时刻。
但 Angell 的客户也适应了。几个人告诉她，他们不再在某个地方半永久地驻扎，而是每天早上拆除帐篷，直到深夜才再次搭建。
“我们的人非常有韧性，”她说。困难时刻需要创意的解决方案。例如 Synergy。
“因为 Synergy 而前进”
Angell 不抽烟，但她的包里总揣着一包烟。她数不清有多少次，她向陷入危机的人（通常是由于心理健康或药物滥用引起）提供一支烟。这为她赢得了时间，并提供了必要的冷静分心，以便她平息局势并提供个案管理。
“我们必须跳出固有思维，因为每个人都是独特的，”她说。“对一个人有效的方法，对另一个人可能无效。关键在于找到切入点，如果你能把那扇门打开一条缝，那么你就能把它开得更大。”
因此，当一个朋友的朋友告诉她关于 Juliana 猪——一种低致敏、友好的品种，通俗地被称为小猪 (mini pigs)——时，她开始考虑她的客户。
“我们工作的很多人从未见过猪，更不用说触摸过，”她说。“对于猪来说，无论你的年龄、种族、性别如何，它们都同样爱你。”
她在密歇根州找到了一位繁育者，并等待一批小猪在 12 月下旬出生。Synergy 在 3 月搬进了她的家。
Angell 每天上班时，Synergy 都会随行。在联合车站捐赠给 h3 Project 的办公室里，她现在正藏在一堆毯子下面。宽阔的空间里挤满了存放捐赠品的架子和箱子——按尺寸分类的 T 恤和运动鞋，以及装在盒子里的牙刷和除臭剂。中心位置是 Synergy 的围栏，里面有一个猫砂盆和一碗苹果汁。
“Synergy！”Angell 喊道。 一个小粉红色的脑袋跳了出来，有着蓝灰色的眼睛和永恒的微笑。她的扁鼻子是湿润的，皮肤皱皱的，长满了硬毛，就像一个微缩版的本杰明·巴顿 (Benjamin Button)。
“想要奖励吗？”Angell 问。 Synergy 将鼻子顶在地毯上的一个绿色按钮上，按钮发出“是的 是的 是的 是的 是的”的叮当声。
“你现在就想要吗？” “是的，宝贝！”Synergy 通过按钮回答道。 Angell 给了她一个奖励。
尽管年纪尚小，Synergy 已经学会了如何通过隧道和圆环敏捷课程，并能弹奏玩具钢琴。她正在学习如何玩滑板。和许多幼儿一样，她还在学习如何喜欢蔬菜。
Angell 说，她已经在帮助人们了。一位 60 多岁的女性，Angell 认识她七年了，一直拒绝接受个案管理。“她并不粗鲁或怎么样，”Angell 说。“她只是还没准备好。”
当她看到 Synergy 时，她的脸上绽放出了笑容，并摇了摇头。这就是 Angell 所需要的破冰契机。
“现在她愿意和我合作了，”她说。“只要小猪在那儿，她就会回答我的问题，会和我一起配合工作。因为 Synergy，她在向前迈进。”
“那是我的猪！”
值得注意的是，这头猪不叫 Babe 或 Wilbur。相反，安格尔（Angell）选择了一个能够体现她对这头猪的期许的名字。安格尔说，我们之所以成为现在的样子，是因为我们经历的正反两面的体验。
“这一切之间有一种协同效应（Synergy），”她说，“我只是希望她能让人们沉稳下来，并提醒他们，生活永远有更多可能，人们也可以成为比现在更好的样子。对于我的无家可归者来说，他们并不由现在的身份所定义。这只是他们生命中的一个片段。他们理应拥有更好的去处。”
而 Synergy 似乎也意识到了这一点。因为现在，当安格尔带着她的猪乘坐电梯下降到联合车站（Union Station）西门廊去接触客户时，它那像绳子一样的尾巴正在摇摆。
“那是我的猪！”兰德尔·鲍德里（Randall Baldree）说道，安格尔与他已合作数年。
“好吧，你亲她的次数绝对比任何人都多，”安格尔回应道。
鲍德里称自己是“h3 的元老之一”。他是 Synergy 最忠实的粉丝之一。
“当我情绪低落时，她能帮我；当我抑郁、无法面对生活时，她也能帮我，”他说，“我有了可以依赖的对象。”
根据安格尔的说法，宠物对于一些无家可归的人来说是生命线——它们可以帮助防止药物滥用，或激励人们寻求稳定的生活。一个大多数人称呼为 Cheez It（法律姓名 Joshua Bunker）的男人与 h3 合作已有八个月，但今天才第一次见到 Synergy。他没有带他的比特犬 Dot Dot，但他认为它们会相处得很好。
“我一直养狗，还有鸟和乌龟，”他说，“它们能说出人类说不出口的话，能看到人类看不到的东西。”
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当人们看到 Synergy 在联合车站里哒哒地走过时，反应就像见到了名人一样——手机相机迅速拍出，人们用手捂住惊讶的嘴巴，发出惊喜的惊呼。
由于指甲涂成了红色，还穿着粉色猎豹纹的胸带，她看起来确实像个名伶。
在与客户沟通时，安格尔通常会用一张名片礼貌地应对其他交谈，名片上附有 h3 的信息和 Synergy 的 Instagram 链接。她会将 Synergy 的牵引带从写着“我在工作，请勿打扰”的一条更换为写着“无家可归者健康大使”的一条。
问题随之接踵而至。 “我可以拍张照吗？”一名旅行者问道。 “她多大了？”另一人询问。 “你以后能一直抱着她吗？” “这是饮食和基因决定的，”安格尔一遍又一遍地回答道，“父母一方身高 12 英寸，另一方 13 英寸。她还会长大的。”
但对安格尔来说，最好的问题是那些能让她有机会介绍 h3 项目的问题。
“你是兽医吗？”在车站购物的温迪·莱斯科（Wendy Lesko）问道。
安格尔回答说她曾从事国际法工作。“我来这里是为了应对人口贩卖问题，但在华盛顿特区，无家可归问题与其紧密交织在一起。”
Synergy 不仅仅是接触无家可归者的切入点——她也是与广大公众开启对话的媒介。而对于那些与 h3 合作的人来说，她的出现可能就是决定一个人是接受帮助还是孤军奋战的关键。
“嘿，小猪猪！”安格尔的一位客户丹妮塔·詹金斯（Dannitta Jenkins）喊道。
她的声音在石质顶篷下回荡。“她真是个小可爱！”
“我不敢相信你还没见过 Synergy，”安格尔在詹金斯匆匆走来时回应道。
詹金斯上前拥抱。Synergy 舒适地蜷缩在安格尔的怀里，试图舔一下詹金斯手里那袋肉桂糖椒盐脆饼。
“我很高兴你现在有了自己的房子，”安格尔低声说道，“已经过了很长时间了。”
Durbin 故居修复完成 将成为访客中心
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一段威斯特敏斯特（Westminster）的历史即将向公众开放。随着该市庆祝 Durbin 故居的修复，这座拥有近 260 年历史的建筑将成为韦克菲尔德谷公园（Wakefield Valley Park）的访客中心。
该市将于周二下午 4 至 5 点在 Fenby Farm 路 1001 号为修复后的 Durbin 故居举行盛大的开幕庆祝活动，通过参观、现场音乐、免费食物、赠品和工艺品来庆祝并展示这座新修复的房产。
“这是一座独立战争前的房屋，目前周围还保留着这类房屋的数量不多，”威斯特敏斯特市长莫娜·贝克尔（Mona Becker）说道。
贝克尔表示，该房屋是通过“广泛的结构和环境稳定化”处理而修复的，该项目完全由拨款资金支付。
贝克尔说，内部修复已经完成，但市政府仍在研究陈设和历史展示方案。一楼将在稍后日期作为访客中心开放，二楼将用作管理员公寓。
“访客中心将突出韦克菲尔德谷地区的历史以及 Durbin 故居的历史，”贝克尔说。“它正在成为一个区域性公园。……我认为拥有一个历史性的……”
弗雷德里克餐厅在噪音担忧中寻求屋顶音乐许可
作者：JOSEPH DEBELL 弗雷德里克新闻邮报 (Frederick News-Post)
位于弗雷德里克市中心的 Banyan 餐厅正寻求市政府批准在屋顶播放扩音音乐，但部分邻居对音乐噪音表示担忧。
该餐厅申请在屋顶进行现场娱乐活动——该申请将于周二提交分区委员会审核——这与邻居们的投诉相冲突，邻居们反映来自该企业的音乐传到了他们的家中。
业主丹·凯奥拉（Dan Caiola）和斯塔西·凯奥拉（Staci Caiola）正在寻求有条件使用许可，允许在周日至周四晚上 9 点前，以及周五和周六晚上 10 点前进行屋顶娱乐活动。他们的申请还请求室内娱乐活动可延长至午夜，以及偶尔举行更晚的特别活动。
市规划部门建议在上述限制条件下予以批准。
Banyan 餐厅于今年春季在东帕特里克街 (E. Patrick St.) 216 号开业，是一家三层餐厅兼活动场地，二楼设有宴会厅。屋顶设有酒吧和餐车。
附近居民提交的评论称，餐厅屋顶的扩音音乐在他们的家中、院子里以及周围街道上都能听到。业主表示，他们此后更改了扬声器设置，改善了隔音效果，并提供了……
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这座石屋建于 1767 年，面积约为 2,800 平方英尺，被马里兰历史信托基金会认定为历史财产，并且是卡罗尔县的官方历史遗址。
这座房屋是该市改造韦克菲尔德谷公园（Wakefield Valley Park）这一更大努力的一部分。该公园占地约 180 英亩，在 20 世纪 70 年代末曾是一座高尔夫球场。它在 80 年代发生了所有权转移，随后在 2012 年因面临经济困难、维护延迟和设施老化而陷入止赎。
韦斯特敏斯特共同委员会主席托尼·奇亚瓦奇（Tony Chiavacci）在 2 月份表示，该市于 2016 年通过与业主交易水权和下水道权以换取另一处房产而获得了该物业。自那时起，该市改善了绿地空间，并开设了韦斯特敏斯特韦克菲尔德谷公园活动中心。
“一个城市并不经常有机会拥有如此规模的绿地，”贝克（Becker）在谈到获取该物业时说道。“在采取行动时，我们首要考虑的是认识到这一物业作为未来韦斯特敏斯特市一项利益的重要性。”
贝克表示，委员会已经讨论了该物业的不同计划，其中一项计划是对约 3.5 英里的原球车路径进行小径改良计划，将其翻修为符合《美国残疾人法案》无障碍标准的步道。她说，这一过程将耗时约 18 个月。
“我认为这真的会改善人们游览公园的体验，”贝克说。
管理层能更多地控制表演者的音量。
丹·凯奥拉（Dan Caiola）表示，该企业希望提供轻量级的娱乐，而不是经营一个屋顶音乐会场馆，并认为声音是可以控制在范围内的。
居民描述在家中听到音乐
住在距离 The Banyan 约 500 英尺的帕特里克·威尔逊（Patrick Wilson）在一次采访中表示，他支持这家餐厅且喜欢现场音乐，但他描述最初的屋顶声音比市中心正常的活动要大。
他说，即便在窗户关闭的情况下也能听到音乐，且其音量和震动在他的物业中产生共鸣。
“我自己很喜欢现场音乐，”威尔逊说。“我只是希望能够选择何时去享受它，我想，而不是必须在自己的私人财产里被动地接受它。”
他说，主要问题在于居民是否能在家中听到表演。
“第一个问题是，我在我的院子里，在我的房子里，能否听到它？”威尔逊说。
向市政府提交的关于屋顶音乐请求的书面评论与威尔逊的观点一致。
安吉拉·威尔逊（Angela Wilson，帕特里克·威尔逊的妻子）写道，在窗户关闭的情况下，家中仍能听到扩音音乐。她说，出警的警察告诉她，声音
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该州短期租赁规定令 农村县面临新成本
作者：乔什·戴维斯 (JOSH DAVIS)
马里兰州旨在提高短期租赁安全性的举措正与农村县的一个熟悉抱怨相碰撞：州政府要求建立一套新的检查系统，但没有提供资金来资助该系统。
萨默塞特县 (Somerset County) 的官员们正开始着手一项许可计划，以遵守《吉莉安和林赛·维纳短期租赁消防安全法》(Jillian and Lindsay Wiener Short-Term Rental Fire Safety Act)，该法案的一位发起人称其为“将挽救生命的一项立法”。但当地领导者表示，执行这一指令需要新员工、新费用以及该县目前并不具备的官僚管理体系。
“开始阶段将是一项艰巨的任务，”规划与区划主任杰西·德雷沃 (Jesse Drewer) 周二告诉萨默塞特县专员。
这项法律是以两名马里兰州姐妹的名字命名的，她们在 2022 年纽约一家度假租赁屋的一场火灾中丧生。法律要求短期租赁房在 10 月前必须配备灭火器、烟雾和一氧化碳警报器，并张贴疏散图和紧急联系方式。县级检查指令将于 2028 年 7 月 1 日生效。
当专员们询问州政府将随该要求提供多少资金时，德雷沃表示没有资金。县政府可以通过收取许可和检查费用来回收成本。
“这是一项没有资金支持的指令，”德雷沃说。
萨默塞特县目前尚不清楚该县内有多少短期租赁房在运营。德雷沃建议雇用一名员工。
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她请求委员会禁止屋顶扩音娱乐活动，但提到她在演出停止后访问时，屋顶依然满员。
爱丽丝·凯特·格林伍德 (Alice Kate Greenwood) 写道，她在电视声音之上能听到歌词和公告，且音乐干扰了她的工作，并增加了她照顾的一位年迈父母的混乱感。
住在两个街区外的音乐家吉恩·斯莱曼 (Gene Slyman) 写道，在他的后院能清晰地听到音乐，并认为一名为少量观众表演的吉他手不需要扩音设备。
东教堂街 (East Church Street) 33 号的居民罗斯玛丽·沃尔夫 (Rosemary Wolfe) 写道，音乐干扰了她的睡眠，导致她难以使用自家庭院。
然而，这些居民中的几位强调，他们支持“榕树” (The Banyan) 餐厅并希望它取得成功。
业主称 系统已 更改
丹·凯奥拉 (Dan Caiola) 表示，“榕树”正在申请开展包括独奏音乐家、变装秀、健身课和筹款活动在内的活动许可。
他表示，业主最初认为屋顶娱乐是允许的，因为屋顶在建筑的占地面积范围内。随后市政府告诉他们 [此处文本缺失/不完整]。
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马里兰州的一项法律要求短期租赁房在 10 月前必须配备灭火器、烟雾和一氧化碳警报器，并张贴疏散图和紧急联系方式。
在年底前建立一套许可计划，并为明年 7 月设定一个合规截止日期。
专员克雷格·马蒂斯 (Craig Mathies) 表示，县政府应当迅速采取行动，以便给新员工留出准备时间。
“实施得越快……压力就越小，”他说道。
德雷沃 (Drewer) 表示，外联工作应在今年秋季开始，这样规定才不会在“最后一刻突然强加在人们身上”。
“肯定会出现一些小问题，”他说道。
德雷沃说只有大约 6 个
需要条件使用许可。
“我们以为我们是被允许的，”凯奥拉 (Caiola) 说道。
他表示，该餐厅并不试图成为一个大型音乐会场地。
“我们不打算在那个屋顶上举办金属乐队 (Metallica) 的音乐会，”凯奥拉说道。“我们希望为人们提供轻量级的娱乐，举办一些有趣的活动，而不会对社区或我们的邻居造成干扰。”
凯奥拉夫妇在申请书中承认，早期确实存在屋顶声音传播的问题，但表示企业已经开发了一套系统来解决这些问题。丹·凯奥拉 (Dan Caiola) 表示，餐厅增加了扬声器和隔音措施，进行了声音测试，并开始监测演出情况。
他拒绝透露执行测试的公司名称，也不提供测试结果。
当被问及居民称在家中能听到音乐且引起震动的说法时，凯奥拉称这些指控“绝对是错误的”。
帕特里克·威尔逊 (Patrick Wilson) 坚持自己的说法。
“他来过我的院子吗？”威尔逊说。“他到过窗户的另一边吗？”
威尔逊表示，他希望新的声音控制措施能奏效。 音乐家承认早期音量过大
布拉德·哈登 (Brad Harden) 是一位全职音乐家，他在 5 月 1 日至 6 月 5, 日期间，每周五在屋顶进行扩音独奏原声演出。他表示，最初的设置在街道层面的音量比表演者意识到要大。
“起初，我不明白为什么有人抱怨噪音，”哈登说。“除了在屋顶上，我们没意识到其他地方的声音有多大……”
他提到，在一次演出期间，有人从街上走上来告诉音乐家，下面的声音听起来有多大。
随后，餐厅要求表演者连接到分布在屋顶周围的扬声器，以便管理层更好地控制音量。
“一旦他开始让我们连接到他的系统，音量就变得非常合理了，”哈登说。
哈登表示，他认为在不造成干扰的情况下可以提供屋顶音乐。
他否认自己的表演可能导致数百英尺外的窗户震动，不过他提到，一个完整的乐队可能会产生更大的声音。
他还表示，该场地为音乐家提供了必要的工作机会。他说，有 10 位表演者联系他，寻求帮助以获得预订演出。
“这对我们作为音乐家来说确实很有帮助，实际上给了我们谋生机会，”哈登说。
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马里兰州各县仍缺乏短期租赁许可制度。 威科米科县 (Wicomico County) 议会主席约翰·坎农 (John Cannon) 表示，他的县是东岸唯一另一个此类司法管辖区，目前尚未制定计划。在萨默塞特县 (Somerset County)，克里斯菲尔德 (Crisfield) 和普林塞斯安 (Princess Anne) 已经对短期和长期租赁实施许可制度。
这场辩论源于今年春天在海洋城 (Ocean City) 引起的担忧，当地官员表示，对大约 9,000 个租赁房进行年度检查可能会使度假胜地现有的系统不堪重负。东岸的立法者表示，立法
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蒙哥马利县民主党人、该法案发起人琳达·福利 (Linda Foley) 议员为该强制令辩护，表示该法案是与州消防局长及马里兰州郡协会共同制定的。
“该立法使各郡能够设立一项费用，以抵消与这些救命消防检查相关的成本，”福利说。“这是一项由专家驱动的法律，将使马里兰州的短期租赁房变得更安全，最终挽救生命。”
警方称他们已与管理层交谈
弗雷德里克斯员警方已就噪音担忧与 The Banyan 的管理层进行了交谈，部门发言人萨曼莎·隆 (Samantha Long) 表示。
在响应投诉时，警员会考虑居民的陈述、自身的观察、声音在城市条例指定的距离内是否清晰可见，以及是否获得了必要的批准。
隆表示，当警员观察到违规行为时，警方可能会开出市政罚单。分区和许可问题也可能涉及其他城市部门。
隆并未说明警方是否指示 The Banyan 停止屋顶娱乐活动或是否开出了罚单。《新闻邮报》(The News-Post) 要求该部门澄清这些细节，但隆未予回应。
规划人员得出结论，如果该企业遵守城市的噪音法规以及委员会强加的任何条件，则可以与周围房产兼容运营。
委员会可以批准或否决该请求，或施加额外限制。
听证会于周二晚上 7 点在市中心 101 N. Court St. 的市政厅开始。委员会还将考虑来自 Lima Soul 和 Sandbox Brewhouse 的娱乐请求。
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贝蒂·德贝柳斯 (Bettie Debelius) 与丈夫查尔斯·“查克”·德贝柳斯 (Charles “Chuck” Debelius) 在 1954 年的婚礼之日。当时查尔斯是陆军少尉。
马克·韦斯汀 (Mark Westin)，75 岁
我的丈夫出生在冬至。他一定会欣赏这种对称感：在一年中最短、最黑暗的一天到来，在最长的一天离去。感觉这件事像是有他的参与。
马克做事非常彻底。“任何值得做的事，都值得过度去做”是他最喜欢的名言之一。他可靠且严谨，是一个崇尚系统和手册的人。他不是一个奢华的人，但他欣赏品质；当他发现自己喜欢某样东西时，他会买 10 个，以防万一。而且他热爱狗。无论是自己的狗还是在街上遇到的狗，每一只都是“一个好朋友”，值得给一两个零食。
他以坚毅和决心与 4 期肺癌作斗争，决心与我共同迎来我们的 56 周年纪念日。他做到了，并在第二天离世。他战斗的方式就像他生活的方式一样，彻底。
马克·路易斯·韦斯汀 (Mark Louis Westin) 从事建筑工作，是一位尽职的家庭男人。他于 6 月 20 日在明尼阿波利斯去世。
— 他的妻子，基蒂·韦斯汀 (Kitty Westin) 撰
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2019 年，阿纳尔多·“罗伊”·罗哈斯 (Arnaldo “Roy” Rojas)（右）与儿子布莱恩 (Brian) 以及来自他花园的两颗橙子。
贝蒂·德贝柳斯 (Bettie Debelius)，94 岁
我的父母曾从纽约开车前往弗吉尼亚州的亚历山德里亚，中途在特拉华州的多佛停了下来，为了买六罐装的一组啤酒。
“为什么要多花一小时开车？”我问，“那是某种特别的啤酒吗？”
“噢，不，”我母亲回答道，“我们只是想看看多佛空军基地交易所里有什么！”
她教会了我如何通过按照自己的节奏生活来活到 94 岁。她对节省时间的科技不感兴趣。既然走远路更有趣，为什么要用 GPS 呢？她和我的父亲去多佛，是因为他们觉得一起开车很有趣。我承认，当她表现得好像时间充裕得不得了，而我却在试图避开高峰时段时，我会感到沮丧。她并非拥有所有时间，但她拥有足够的时间去充分爱她的丈夫、孩子、孙辈和曾孙辈。
贝蒂·帕斯·德贝柳斯 (Bettie Pass Debelius) 是一位热爱旅途的军属。她于 3 月 8 日在马里兰州的安纳波利斯去世。
—— 她的女儿，玛吉·德贝柳斯 (Maggie Debelius) 撰写
2023 年的马克·韦斯汀 (Mark Westin) 与他的西藏梗犬格雷西 (Gracie)。
这是《华盛顿邮报》新开设的短篇讣告专栏“我们记得的”(What We Remember) 的第一期。
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安妮·丹纳 (Anne Denner)，67 岁
在我与安妮关系的早期，我正给她讲一个我童年的故事。她停了下来，转向我，凝视着我的眼睛说：“这就是为什么我爱你。”我花了很多年才明白这个“这”是指什么。它意味着当你展现出脆弱与坦诚之态时，我看到的不仅是你，而是真正的你。
结婚多年后，我看到安妮走在我前面半个街区的地方。她不知道我在那里。她停下来，向一个我们在街坊中经常见到的无家可归的人问好。她直视对方的眼睛，然后伸出手轻拍他的手臂。那个人也回望着她。在这么近的距离观察安妮，并意识到她经常给予我的那份关怀，让我的心向她以及向这个世界敞开了。这是一份美丽的礼物。
安妮·路易丝·丹纳 (Anne Louise Denner) 是一位心理治疗师，也是一名擅长园艺的骑行者。她于 12 月 28 日在费城去世。
—— 她的妻子，南希·马奎尔 (Nancy Maguire) 撰写
夏洛特律师南希·利特瓦克 (Nancy Litwak)。
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阿尔纳多·“罗伊”·罗哈斯 (Arnaldo “Roy” Rojas)，81 岁
当我嫁入丈夫的菲律宾家庭时，我多了一位善良的叔叔，名叫蒂托·罗伊 (Tito Roy)。他每次出现时总是带着我从未听闻的礼物，比如在他花园里种的菲律宾青柠 (calamansi) 和苦瓜。直到我在他的后院看到一株巨大的圣诞红，轻易就有我两倍高，我才意识到他的园艺造诣之深。他是从一次学校募捐活动中买到的小苗，在圣诞节后种下的。他从不浪费任何东西。
罗伊在菲律宾贫穷的环境中长大，深知植物的价值。他在德克萨斯州的后院见证了他最喜爱的果蔬：茄子、无花果、橙子、木瓜——全部由保存的种子种出。他以分享自己的丰收为傲。
最近，在他去世后，他的女儿在清理父母的车库时发现了一袋没有标签的种子。她把种子保留下来与家人分享。蒂托·罗伊一定会感到自豪的。
阿尔纳多·“罗伊”·罗哈斯 (Arnaldo “Roy” Rojas) 是一家医疗护理设施的首席技术员。他于 6 月 1 日在休斯顿去世。
—— 他的家人 考特尼·鲁津斯基 (Courtenay Rudzinski) 撰写
2024 年，心理治疗师安妮·丹纳 (Anne Denner) 在特拉华州的里霍博斯海滩。
Nancy Litwak, 39
“我喜欢讲故事，”这是我对 诗歌的反对理由。
“故事就在那里，去挖掘它很有趣”是你的理由。 “好吧，我肯定是不写诗的。” 有一天开车下班回家， NPR 采访了一位器官接收者。 不是你救过的那位， 也不是你捐赠给的人之一。 我迅速将频道切换到了流行音乐。 那是个错误。 Savage Garden 乐队的《Truly Madly Deeply》 让我的车内充满了 90 年代的真挚。 我想起你买那张 CD 时的样子。 我能看到专辑封面在旋转， 在那台我们带到湖边的收录机里。 我从未想过我会 因为一首 Savage Garden 的歌而流泪。 但我知道那是你， 在告诉我， 你依然在， 而我就在这里， 敲击着键盘，揉着鼻子。 你赢了，Nancy， 你让我写了一首诗。
Nancy Van Zile Stewart Litwak 是一位母亲、 妻子和律师。她于 1 月 7 日在北卡罗来纳州 贝尔蒙特去世。
— 她的朋友 A.W. Gunter 著
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EDWARD THEODORE MORGAN 7/20/1942 - 1/10/2013 你永远在我的思念中，在我的心中。没有一天不是在想念你的爱与善良。我的心，我闪耀的星，你离开我太早了，但上帝有更好的计划。 爱你，Beverly
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JOHN FLINN (Age 93) 来自弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿的 John Albert Flinn, Sr. 于 2026 年 7 月 20 日在家中平静去世，距离他的 94 岁生日仅差两个月。他的妻子 Grace (Maggi) 已于 2004 年 8 月先逝，他的父母和兄弟姐妹也已先逝。自 1972 年起，John 和 Grace 与他们的家人一起住在弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿：Christine (Wolf), Beth (Krauser), John Jr., Allison (Markell), 和 Jennifer (Roth)。John 和 Grace 都在同一栋房子中去世。
John 在美国政府工作了 30 多年，主要在海军和国防部，于 1995 年以国防部主计长助理运营主任的身份退休。退休后，他有更多时间陪伴家人和邻里朋友。他的五个成年子女、他们的配偶以及 11 个完美的孙辈在世。没有计划举行正式仪式。 https://obituaries.carewellcremations. com/john-flinn
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CLINTON FRANKLIN HODGES JR. “Clint” 在 2026 年 7 月 13 日，星期一，下午 12:25，全能的上帝将 Clinton Franklin Hodges, Jr. 从劳碌中召回，予以奖赏。他留下了四位深爱的兄弟姐妹：Darlease Hodges Wormack, Carolyn Hodges Bell (Joseph), Glenda F. Hodges 以及 Thaddeus Hodges (JoAnn)；一位忠诚的侄女 Sheila A. Hobbs，一位忠诚的侄子 Eli Hobbs；以及许多其他亲戚和朋友。他的妻子 Delorese Hodges 已先逝，两人结婚 56 年。2026 年 7 月 27 日，星期一，朋友们可在上午 10 点至上午 11 点仪式开始前，前往位于华盛顿特区 20020 东南阿拉巴马大道 2498 号的 Allen Chapel AME 教堂与家人见面。 www.marshallmarchfh.com
ALEXANDROS GRIGOROPOLOUS 1950 年 12 月 30 日 – 2026 年 7 月 18 日 我们带着深深的悲痛，但同时也对如此精彩的一生心怀感激地宣布，我们挚爱的 Alexandros Grigoropoulos 已于 2026 年 7 月 18 日平静离世，享年 75 岁。Alexandros 以非凡的热情拥抱生活，并坚持一套指导他一切行动的简单哲学：努力工作，深沉地爱，并给周围的每个人带来快乐。他拥有一种罕见的天赋，能让人们感到受欢迎、被重视且被爱。尽管他的离去令我们心碎，但我们欣慰地知道，他的精神将通过他的家人、他的友谊以及他影响过的无数生命而延续。从卑微的起点到美国梦 Alexandros 于 1950 年 12 月 30 日出生在希腊的 Fourna 山村，父母是 Lambros 和 Kalliopi Grigoropoulos。与他的四个兄弟——Apostolos, Dimitrios, Ioannis, 和 Serafim 一起长大，他从小就学会了家庭、韧性、牺牲以及在生活挑战中团结一致的重要性。村庄生活充满了爱，但机会匮乏。在年仅 12 岁时，Alexandros 做出了一个极其勇敢的决定，离开家寻找工作，以便帮助养家。多年来，他承担了远超年龄的疲惫重担，白天上学，每晚长时间工作——从未抱怨，从未放弃，始终将家庭放在首位。1974 年，为了建立更光明的未来，Alexandros 踏上了定义他余生轨迹的旅程。追随他的哥哥 Apostolos 和 Dimitrios 的脚步，他移民到了美国。随后，他的兄弟 Ioannis 加入，最年幼的兄弟 Serafim 紧随其后。不久，他们心爱的父母在美与所有儿子团聚，家庭再次完整。他们共同全心全意地致力于构建——
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约翰·路易斯·埃斯波西托 博士 (JOHN LOUIS ESPOSITO PHD)（86 岁）佛罗里达州马可岛及宾夕法尼亚州纽敦方格邓伍迪退休社区的约翰·路易斯·埃斯波西托博士，86 岁，于 2026 年 7 月 15 日因心脏手术并发症去世。他出生于纽约州布鲁克林，是已故的约翰和玛丽·埃斯波西托之子。约翰是乔治敦大学宗教与国际事务以及伊斯兰研究的杰出荣誉教授。埃斯波西托博士是乔治敦大学沃尔什外交学院穆斯林-基督教理解中心的创始主任，在校园内指导了数千名学生，并担任数十个硕士和博士委员会成员。他还担任了阿尔瓦利德·本·塔拉勒亲王穆斯林-基督教理解中心的创始主任，以及保护多元主义和终结伊斯兰恐惧症的“桥梁倡议” (The Bridge Initiative) 的创始主任。在学术方面，
约翰·埃斯波西托是宗教与国际事务研究的全球领先学者，专注于伊斯兰教和穆斯林社会。可以说，他单枪匹马地定义并塑造了现代穆斯林社会和伊斯兰研究。埃斯波西托博士经常在主流媒体上亮相，为美国、欧洲、亚洲、非洲和中东的报刊杂志撰稿并接受采访。他的文章曾在《华尔街日报》、《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、 《经济学人》、《卫报》、《伦敦时报》上发表，并接受了 CNN、ABC《晚间新闻》 (Nightline)、CBS、NBC、半岛电视台和 BBC 的采访。在他的职业生涯中，他撰写了 50 余本书籍，并担任了牛津大学出版社多个百科全书项目的主编。约翰还在
主流学术期刊上发表了一百多篇经过同行评审的期刊文章。他担任了牛津大学出版社多个百科全书项目的主编。他是牛津伊斯兰研究在线 (Oxford Islamic Studies online) 的创始编辑，该项目在哈佛大学中东图书馆员的 1-10 分评分体系中获得了满分 10 分。约翰的书籍被翻译成数十种语言。如今，他的许多书籍是全球各大高校的必读读物。他的部分著作包括：《伊斯兰的未来》、《伊斯兰恐惧症与 21 世纪多元主义的挑战》、《谁在代表伊斯兰？——十亿穆斯林真实的想法》、《每个人需要了解的伊斯兰知识》、《不神圣的战争：以伊斯兰之名行恐怖之实》、《伊斯兰威胁：神话还是现实？》、《伊斯兰与政治》、《当代伊斯兰的塑造者》以及
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玛丽·林·霍夫曼 (MARY LINN HOFFMANN) 玛丽·林·霍夫曼，97, 于 2025 年 3 月 21 日在弗吉尼亚州米德洛西安去世。先于她去世的有父母克里斯汀·M. 和罗伯特·L. 汤普森；丈夫 of 72
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波琳 “波莉” 利斯 (PAULINE “POLLY” LISS)（98 岁） 波琳 “波莉” 利斯于 1927 年 10 月 18 日出生在北卡罗来纳州温斯顿-塞勒姆，是路易斯和罗斯·利考夫-鲁什之女。她于 2026 年 6 月 24 日在 Ashby Ponds 平安去世
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通过艰苦努力开启新生活，开设了 Tippy’s Taco House，并将其发展成为在整个华盛顿大都市区拥有多家分店、深受人们喜爱的机构。社区的心脏——对于亚历山德罗斯来说，Tippy’s Taco House 绝不仅仅是一家餐厅，它是家。它成了结交友谊、分享庆祝活动的地方，每一个走进门的人都被像家人一样对待。在顾客回家、灯光本应熄灭之后，夜晚往往才刚刚开始。随着他最喜爱的希腊艺术家斯特利奥斯·卡赞齐迪斯 (Stelios Kazantzidis) 和卡特琳娜·斯坦西 (Katerina Stanisi) 那极具辨识度的歌声充满房间，餐厅变成了一个充满欢笑、舞蹈、讲述故事和难忘回忆的地方。亚历山德罗斯始终处于这一切的中心——斟酒、迎接新人、讲述故事、跳着
zembekiko（希腊传统舞蹈），并确保没有一个人感到像陌生人一样。他的慷慨没有上限。每一个重大节日都变成了一场开放的庆祝活动，家人、朋友、希腊社区的成员，甚至初次到访者，都能感受到同样的温暖与热情。如果你认识亚历山德罗斯（Alexandros），在他的餐桌旁永远有你的位置。在餐饮业取得多年成功后，亚历山德罗斯开始了建筑业的新篇章。他将一种高要求的职业换成了另一种，在从事屋顶工程时，他展现出了与定义其整个生活的相同的决心、工艺水平和不懈的职业道德。只要是为了供养他所爱的人，没有挑战是太困难的，也没有任务是低于他身份的。
坚定不移的爱与家庭的馈赠 1977年，亚历山德罗斯遇到了他一生的挚爱——埃莱妮（Eleni）。从他们找到彼此的那一刻起，他们建立了一种根植于无条件之爱、相互尊重、欢笑和坚定奉献的伙伴关系。他们的婚姻充满了俏皮的打趣、深厚的情感以及永不褪色的浪漫。即便在一起几十年后，每当她走进房间，他的脸庞依然会焕发出光彩。
当亚历山德罗斯与埃莱妮结婚时，他还将她四岁的女儿安东尼娅（Antonia）视如己出。他毫不犹豫地在所有意义上成为了她的父亲。婚后不久，他正式收养了她，肯定了两人之间已经自然生长起来的纽带。1980年，随着儿子兰布罗斯（Lambros，昵称 Ike）的出生，他们的家庭再次扩大，儿子是以亚历山德罗斯父亲的名字而骄傲地命名。对孩子们来说，亚历山德罗斯不仅仅是一个养家糊口的人。他是他们的保护者，他们最伟大的支持者，他们稳固的基石，以及他们将用一生努力效仿的榜样。他的家庭是他最大的骄傲，也是他生命中最大的成就。
父亲最伟大的礼物
伊斯兰，伊斯兰：正道与民主（与约翰·O·沃尔 [John O. Voll] 合著）。为了表彰他对学术以及知识和公共生活的卓越贡献，约翰（John）还被授予了七个名誉博士学位。此外，约翰·埃斯波西托（John Esposito）是唯一一位同时被选为中东研究协会 (MESA) 和美国宗教学会 (AAR) 会长的学者，这是一项非凡的荣誉和成就。
约翰通过担任美国国务院及其他政府机构的顾问，完善了他的公共服务经历。欧洲和亚洲政府寻求他的建议，全球数百所大学不断邀请他发表主旨演讲。约翰还担任联合国文明联盟的大使，是世界经济论坛 100 位领导人委员会的成员，以及欧洲去激进化专家网络的成员。
在职业生涯早期，埃斯波西托教授对全球南方（Global South）人民，尤其是阿拉伯-伊斯兰世界的挣扎表现出深切的共情。他试图理解并诠释宗教政治，其视角并非来自帝国的观点，而是来自被践踏者、被占领者和被压迫者的视角。他的意裔美国人背景及其天主教信仰，使得约翰能够以同情但非盲从的态度来解读伊斯兰传统。就像今天的伊斯兰教一样，天主教也在努力将其历史根源和规范性伦理主张与现代性的要求相协调。约翰利用他的天主教背景，去理解和诠释当今穆斯林社会面临的发展挑战。约翰是一位早期且勇敢的学者，他也挑战了东方主义对伊斯兰教和穆斯林的歪曲呈现。他的
学术研究为理解替代了偏见创造了空间，他的学术洞察力和慷慨精神给几代学生和同事留下了深远的印记。约翰的一生反映了美国及美国人民最优秀的传统，这些传统根植于宗教自由、言论自由和学术探索。直到不幸去世前，约翰一直致力于指导一个在当前时刻比以往任何时候都更为关键的项目：“桥梁计划：促进多元主义并消除伊斯兰恐惧症”（The Bridge Initiative: Promoting Pluralism and Ending Islamophobia），该项目专注于监测、记录和打击伊斯兰恐惧症。约翰·埃斯波西托（John Esposito）留下了结婚 61 年的妻子珍·埃斯波西托（Jean Esposito），她是他在所有事业上的伙伴、主要支持者，也是约翰一生持久的爱人。他是一位慈爱的父亲，育有养子埃米利奥·冈萨雷斯（Emilio Gonzalez）；是一位受人爱戴的祖父，孙辈有詹妮弗（Jennifer）、艾米丽（Emily）、娜塔莉（Nathalie）和艾米（Amy）；是理查德·埃斯波西托（Richard Esposito，妻子为 Lida Syrko Esposito）以及已故的路易斯·埃斯波西托（Louis Esposito，妻子为 Frances Ferguson Esposito）的忠诚兄弟；以及唐娜·埃斯波西托·金博尔（Donna Esposito Kimble）、约翰（John）、迈克尔（Michael）、里基（Ricky）和彼得·埃斯波西托（Peter Esposito）深爱的叔伯。葬礼仪式此前已举行。亲友可以通过任何形式的捐款来支持他终身奋斗的努力，从而对延续约翰的工作提供重大帮助。请使用以下链接：数字捐赠：https://giving.georgetown.edu/cmcubridge 支票（应抬头写为：George-town University’s Bridge Initiative on Islamophobia at ACMCU）：https://acmcu.georgetown.edu/uncategorized/donate-by-mail/ 电话捐赠：https://giving.georgetown.edu/how-to-give/gift-instructions/#-give-by-phone
年，海军少将罗伊·F·霍夫曼（RADM Roy F. Hoffmann）；妹妹伊丽莎白·迪基（Elizabeth Dickey）；以及哥哥李·汤普森（Lee Thompson）。
玛丽·林（Mary Linn）留下了五个女儿：弗吉尼亚州亨里科的哈丽雅特·霍夫曼（Harriet Hoffmann）、北卡罗来纳州达勒姆的克里斯汀·卡纳汉（Christine Carnahan）、弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔的塞西尔·戈勒姆（Cecile Gorham，丈夫为 Peter）、华盛顿州普尔斯博的希拉里·汉森（Hilarie Hanson，丈夫为 Jackson）以及俄克拉荷马州杰罗尼莫的艾米莉·克劳（Emilie Crow，丈夫为 Rory）。此外，还留下了七个孙辈：埃林·莱恩（Erin Lane）、塞斯·戈勒姆（Seth Gorham）、卡林·索珀（Kalin Soper）、凯尔西·汉森（Kelsey Hanson）、约翰·汉森（John Hanson）、托德·戈勒姆（Todd Gorham）和布鲁克·巴斯（Brooke Bass）；以及四个曾孙辈：艾丹·莱恩（Aidan Lane）、埃默森·莱恩（Emerson Lane）、波普拉·戈勒姆（Poplar Gorham）和德雷克·巴斯（Drake Bass）。
玛丽·林的追思仪式于 26, 2025, 在弗吉尼亚州里士满的布莱利殡仪馆（Bliley’s Funeral Home）举行。墓前仪式将于周二下午 2:45，即 28, 2026, 在阿灵顿国家公墓的旧邮政礼拜堂（Old Post Chapel）举行，玛丽·林将被安葬在她心爱的罗伊身边。
我们好奇，我们的第一次呼吸是否像她的最后一次呼吸对我们那样，让我们的母亲感到心潮澎湃。
在弗吉尼亚州阿什本，因帕金森病并发症去世。波莉（Polly）将近 70 年的时间奉献给了职业教育和 STEM 倡导——她创立了阿灵顿县职业教育联盟，在弗吉尼亚州职业教育咨询委员会担任主席 25 年，并开发了弗吉尼亚州的 STEM 项目，据《谁是谁》（Marquis Who’s Who）记载，该项目影响了超过 280,000 名学生。每当有人询问她的近况，即使在最后的日子里，她也会回答：“我很好，很精神（I’m cute and dandy）。” 20, 1958, 4月，她与默温·埃德加·利斯（Merwin Edgar Liss）结婚。默温于 22, 2017. 11月先于她去世。她留下了住在瀑布城的女儿莎伦·里特（Sharon Ritter）及其子女莎拉·里特（Sarah Ritter）和丈夫克里斯蒂安·肖（Christian Schou）以及威廉·里特（William Ritter）；住在维也纳的儿子大卫·M·利斯（David M. Liss）及其伴侣丽贝卡·普罗科皮奥（Rebecca Procopio）；以及住在雷斯顿的女儿莱斯利·帕卡德（Leslie Packard）及其丈夫威廉·帕卡德（William Packard）。生命庆祝仪式将于 26, 2026 周日下午 2:00 在弗吉尼亚州瀑布城的罗德夫·沙洛姆圣殿（Temple Rodef Shalom）举行。随后将在阿灵顿国家公墓安葬。捐款可赠予 Feeding America 或 Cure Alzheimer’s Fund。
在亲身经历了餐饮业没完没了的艰辛要求后，Alexandros 梦想着他的儿子能拥有一个不同的未来。他希望 Ike 能追求高等教育，成为一名医生或律师。尽管他无法提供资金支持，但 Alexandros 给予了某种无限更宝贵的东西：他自己的双手、他的经验、他的智慧，以及他不知疲倦的决心。在连续 8 个艰苦的月份里，他与儿子、儿子的合伙人以及内弟 Tommy 肩并肩工作，帮助 Cava 从零开始建立。每一面墙，每一块地板，每一个漫长的日子，都代表了一位父亲静默的牺牲和对孩子无条件的信念。最初的失望最终变成了父亲能给予的最伟大的爱之表达。他的指纹将永远成为 Cava 根基的一部分——不仅是在建筑本身，而且在他帮助实现的梦想之中。
充满喜悦的一生 尽管一生中经历了种种艰辛，但 Alexandros 从未允许逆境定义自己。他选择了快乐。他拥有非凡的幽默感和敏捷的才智，能够点亮任何房间。他具有一种无与伦比的能力，能让人们开怀大笑，缓解困难时刻，并提醒周围的每个人不要把生活看得太沉重。他相信承诺即信条，并且每天都以此原则生活。无论对方是谁，来自哪里，他都以尊严、尊重和善良对待每一个人。最重要的是，他向我们证明了真正的财富不是用你积累了什么来衡量，而是用你给予了多少爱来衡量。Alexandros 的遗属包括他深爱的妻子 Eleni；他的儿子 Lambros (Ike) 及其妻子 Keri 和他们的儿子 Alex；他的女儿 Antonia 及其丈夫 Dimitri 和他们的儿子 Harilaos 与 Alexandros。他的遗属还包括他的兄弟 Apostolos、Ioannis 和 Serafim，以及一个由朋友、同事、邻居和忠实顾客组成的庞大家庭，他们仅仅因为认识他，生活就变得更加丰富。他现在与深爱的父母 Lambros 和 Kalliopi、兄弟 Dimitrios 以及侄女 Olga 和 Popi 在永恒的平静中重聚。
吊唁仪式将于 2026 年 7 月 30 日上午 10:30 至 11:30 在华盛顿特区圣康斯坦丁和海伦希腊正教会 (Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church of Washington DC, 721 Norwood Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20905, US) 举行，随后在同一地点于上午 11:30 至 12:30 举行葬礼服务。安葬仪式将于 2026 年 7 月 30 日下午 1:30 至 2 pm 在 All Souls Cemetery (11401 Brink Rd, Germantown, MD 20876, US) 举行，随后于 2026 年 7 月 30 日下午 2:30 至 6 pm 在 Lakewood Country Club (13901 Glen Mill Rd, Rockville, MD 20850, US) 举行接待会。
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希尔德加德·S·莫勒 (HILDEGARD S. MOHLER)（年龄 97） 希尔德加德·S·莫勒于 2026. 7月 20日 星期一平静离世。她是 约翰·R·莫勒二世 (John R. Mohler II)（已故）深爱的妻子，共同生活了 72 年。她是 威廉·莫勒 (William Mohler)（配偶苏珊）、约翰·莫勒 (John Mohler)（配偶金伯利）和辛西亚·迪芬巴赫 (Cynthia Dieffenbach)（配偶大卫）的母亲。此外，她留下了五个孙女和八个曾孙。她是乔治·华盛顿大学的毕业生。从事教师工作 25 年。家人将举行私人悼念仪式和葬礼。 请以捐款代替花卉，捐款可发送至：bcrf.org 或 breakthroughT1D.org 欲查看完整讣告以及浏览并签署家庭留言簿，请访问： www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
路易丝·法默·史密斯 (LOUISE FARMER SMITH)（年龄 85） 路易丝·法默·史密斯， 85, 居住在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿，于 2026, 6月 7日 在家人的陪伴下平静离世。她于 1940, 10月 19日 出生于华盛顿特区，父亲是已故的詹姆斯·劳伦斯·法默 (James Lawrence Farmer)，母亲是弗吉尼亚·斯通·法默 (Virginia Storm Farmer)。路易丝在俄克拉荷马州诺曼长大，是三名子女中的长女。她毕业于俄克拉荷马大学，获得文学学士学位，并在耶鲁大学和戈达德学院获得硕士学位。她曾担任高中和大学英语教师，实习过家庭治疗师，并曾在一名美国国会议员的华盛顿办公室工作。更重要的是，路易丝是一位高产的短篇小说和长篇小说作家。她的作品出现在众多选集和期刊中，包括《微光列车》(Glimmer Train)、《弗吉尼亚季度评论》(Virginia Quarterly Review) 和《贝尔维尤文学评论》(Bellevue Literary Review)。她的作品经常记录女性在自我发现之路上的生活。 2012 年，她的长篇小说《百年婚姻》(One Hundred Years of Marriage) 出版。路易丝的遗属包括与其结婚 60 年的丈夫拉里·K·史密斯 (Larry K Smith)；她的子女：加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的弗吉尼亚·路易丝·史密斯 (Virginia Louise Smith) 和纽约州布鲁克林的蒂姆·K·史密斯 (Tim K. Smith)；她的姐姐菲比·马勒德 (Pheobe Mallard) 和哥哥拉里·法默 (Larry Farmer)；两个孙辈：雷·科科·史密斯 (Ray Coco Smith) 和克莱门汀·休斯顿 (Clementine Huston)。追思会将于 8月 4日 下午 3 点在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的杰斐逊退休社区举行。请以捐款代替花卉，家属请求将捐款赠予计划生育协会 (Planned Parenthood)。人们将记得路易丝的优雅、风格和仁慈，以及她如何点亮整个房间并在舞池中翩翩起舞。
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沃拉·帕帕米希尔·安东尼奥 (VOULA PAPPAMIHIEL ANTONAIOU) （年龄 83） 沃拉， 83, 于 7月 4日 离世。“很合适……她就像一场绚烂的烟花。”她以灿烂的笑容和活泼、热爱生活的精神而著称。
玛丽·特蕾莎·马丁 (MARY THERESA MARTIN)（年龄 89） 玛丽·特蕾莎·墨菲·马丁于 7月 18日 在家人和朋友的陪伴下在家中平静离世。她于 1937, 2月 12日 出生在宾夕法尼亚州邓莫尔，父母是詹姆斯和莉莉安·墨菲 (James and Lillian Murphy)。她与最好的朋友詹姆斯·A·马丁二世 (James A. Martin Jr.) 结婚 64 年，抚养-
詹姆斯·爱德华·斯奈特 (James Edward Snight) (年龄 95) 詹姆斯·爱德华·斯奈特父 (Jim) 于 1930 年 8 月 21 日出生于华盛顿特区，并于 2026 年 7 月 21 日在马里兰州安纳波利斯平静离世，享年 95 岁。陪伴在他身边的是共同生活了近 71 年的妻子玛丽琳 (Marilyn，原姓米勒)、孩子詹姆斯小 (James Jr.)、苏珊·莫兰德 (Susan Moreland) (配偶理查德) 以及威廉 (William) (配偶朱莉安)。他还留下了 6 位孙辈、7 位曾孙辈，以及他的侄子、侄女、家庭友人及邻居。 早于他离世的包括其子尤金 (Eugene)，后者于 1977 年去世；其父母约翰和苏珊；以及他的兄弟姐妹埃尔德里奇、洛林、玛丽·紫罗兰和约翰。 家属瞻仰礼将于 2026 年 7 月 29 日星期三下午 2:00 – 4:00 和下午 6:00 – 8:00 在位于马里兰州鲍伊 20715, NW Crain Highway 6512 号的比尔殡仪馆 (Beall Funeral Home) 举行。基督教葬礼弥撒将于 2026 年 7 月 30 日星期四上午 10:30 在位于马里兰州鲍伊 20715, Annapolis Road 16301 号的神圣之心礼拜堂 (Sacred Heart Chapel) 举行。在随后的餐叙期间，他的孙辈将分享对他的缅怀。安葬地点为马里兰州克林顿 20735, Woodyard Road 8000 号的复活陵园 (Resurrection Cemetery)。
芭芭拉·H·华盛顿 (BARBARA H. WASHINGTON) 于 2026 年 7 月 12 日离世。早于她离世的包括她的丈夫威廉·H·华盛顿、父母以及儿子哈维·D·哈罗德 (Harvey D. Harrod)。她的幸存亲属包括儿子弗雷德里克·哈罗德三世 (Frederick Harrod III) (配偶露丝) 和里卡多 (Ricardo/Ricky) 华盛顿 (配偶蕾娜)；女儿莉迪亚·纽曼 (Lydia Newman)、比弗利 (Beverly/Bunnie) 贝克 (配偶韦恩)、乔伊斯·坎贝尔 (Joyce Campbell) 和玛丽塔·拉姆利 (Marita Lumley)；以及儿媳米尔塔·哈罗德 (Mirta Harrod)；孙辈、曾孙辈、曾曾孙辈、侄女、侄子、表亲以及许多亲爱的亲属和友人。 家属时间将于 2026 年 7 月 30 日星期四上午 10:00 举行，随后于上午 11:00 在马里兰州克林顿 20735, Brandywine Rd 10700 号的克林顿联合卫理公会教堂 (Clinton United Methodist Church) 举行生命庆祝仪式。骨灰安放仪式将于 2026 年 8 月 17 日星期一下午 2:30 在切尔滕纳姆退伍军人公墓 (Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery) 举行。 www.mcguire-services.com
塞西莉亚·P·威廉姆斯博士 (DR. CECILIA P. WILLIAMS) (年龄 77) 现居弗吉尼亚州亚历山德里亚，于 2026 年 7 月 20 日星期一离世。她是肯特·李·威廉姆斯 (Kent Lee Williams) 挚爱的母亲，是瑞秋·菲尔托 (Rachel Filteau) 未来的婆婆，也是索尼娅·多尔蒂 (Sonya Doherty) 的姐妹。许多人将深切地怀念她，包括所有在 40 多年时间里由她作为验光师忠诚服务的患者。
塞西莉亚·威廉姆斯博士毕业于萨卢斯大学 (Salus University)，随后在奥地利从事软性接触镜研究，之后在阿灵顿开设了验光诊所，后来搬至弗吉尼亚州斯普林菲尔德。
她将于晚些日期与父母一同安葬在宾夕法尼亚州。请在 www.jeffersonfuneralchapel.com 查看并签署家属留言簿。
她从不把任何人视为陌生人，并慷慨地给予称赞和鼓励。作为圣凯瑟琳希腊正教会 (Saint Katherine’s Greek Orthodox Church) 的长期成员，voula 热爱希腊音乐和节庆，在那儿她会帮忙提供餐饮服务，然后舞至深夜。她的生活是“美国梦”的实现。她在青少年时期来到美国，接受了良好的教育，成为一名终身学习者，组建了家庭，拥有了房产，并创办了企业：Springfield Electrolysis。她总是鼎力支持他人，并在“外在美，内在美” (Look Good Feel Better) 癌症支持计划中担任志愿者。Voula 是一位疼爱 3 个女儿的母亲，其中一名女儿有特殊需求。她是许多侄子、侄女心中那位“有趣的姨妈”，也是她唯一一个孙辈的法律意义上的“Yiayia”(奶奶/外婆)。她在与她敬业的小女儿和女婿共同居住的家中，在亲人的陪伴下因失智症去世。她的葬礼于 7 月 8 日举行。她安息在亚利桑那州佛罗伦斯的圣安东尼希腊正教会修道院 (Saint Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery)。对家属的吊唁或以 Voula 之名进行的捐款可发送至佛罗伦斯的亚利桑那正教会传教教堂 (Orthodox Mission Church of Arizona)。
在他们位于罗克维尔的长期寓所中抚养了七个孩子。玛丽是一位非常投入的祖母，拥有九个孙辈和两个曾孙辈，以及三个继孙辈及其三个孩子。 玛丽致力于为上帝、家庭和社区服务，总是将他人放在首位。她担任了数十年的童军领袖，坚信在结交新朋友的同时要维系旧友。在以行政助理身份退休后，玛丽在过去的 35 年里一直在谢迪格罗夫基督复临安息日医院 (Shady Grove Adventist Hospital) 担任志愿者。 在家人眼中，玛丽就像一只“充满能量的兔子”，她总是天亮前就起床，在沉浸于最喜欢的小说之前，准备好处理当天的各项事务。 玛丽的丈夫、父母、两个姐妹和一个兄弟先于她去世。她的子女 Eileen Rising (Greer)、Joseph Martin (Christie)、Tom Martin (Allene)、Andrew Martin、Teresa Wallace、Jeanne Lay (Stephen)、Marian Van Pelt (Derek) 以及孙辈、曾孙辈、侄女和侄子在世。有关服务信息，请参阅殡仪馆网站。 www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
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HARRY OBST 哈里于 1932 年 3 月 4 日出生在东普鲁士。1954 年在美因茨大学获得翻译学士学位后，他来到美国，并在美国国务院担任首席德语口译员，拥有卓越的职业生涯。哈里曾为七任连续的总统（约翰逊、尼克松、福特、卡特、乔治·H·W·布什和克林顿）提供翻译并随行。他后来担任了……
MATTHEW A. OPEKA “Matt” (年龄 95) 1930 年 12 月 10 日 - 2026 年 7 月 19 日
马特于 1930 年 12 月 10 日出生在宾夕法尼亚州奥克代尔，是三兄弟中的最小的一个，他的兄弟现均已去世。 他在附近的当地学校就读，但乘坐火车前往匹兹堡完成高中和大学学业。马特毕业于卡内基技术学院（现为卡内基梅隆大学），获得工程学位，主修机械/航空工程，但很快加入了空军以追求他对飞行的热爱。他在德克萨斯州和佐治亚州驻 stationed，精通了该项艺术，然而耳疾导致他被禁飞，并使其以少校军衔离开空军。此后他继续担任预备役人员，直到从该职退休。
在搬到巴尔的摩后，他开始在格伦·L·马丁公司 (The Glenn L, Martin Company) 工作，并通过那里的一位同事在一次相亲中结识了珍。这段情缘持续了将近 70 年，因为他们原本将在今年的 8 月 31 日庆祝结婚纪念日。
不久后，两个儿子出生，马克于 1957 年出生，基思于 1959 年出生。当马克与 Pam (Suter) 结婚后，两个孙子本杰明和萨缪尔出生了。
马特离开马丁公司前往联邦航空管理局 (Federal Aviation Administration) 工作，随后在美国国家航空航天局 (NASA) 成立后不久，他开始在戈达德太空飞行中心工作。
NANCY BRADFORD ORDWAY 2026 年 7 月 22 日，星期三 来自华盛顿特区的 Nancy Bradford Ordway 因充血性心力衰竭去世。她的挚爱丈夫 Roderic “Butch” Ordway 已于 2010 年先逝，Ordway 家族、Roddy 家族、Bradford 家族和 Baker 家族的忠诚成员在世。
南希出生在北达科他州迈诺特，在搬到华盛顿之前，她的童年在中西部度过。她是圣心石岭学校 (Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart) 和罗斯蒙特学院 (Rosemont College) 的忠实校友。虽然为她的中西……
ROBERT LAWRENCE PILLOTE “Bob” 2026 年 7 月 22 日，星期二，马里兰州贝塞斯大的 Robert Lawrence Pillote 去世。鲍勃于 1929 年 6 月 25 日出生在密歇根州埃斯卡纳巴。1930 年代中期，由于他的父母来到该地区为联邦政府工作，他的家人迁至华盛顿特区。他于 1947 年 6 月毕业于麦金莱技术高中。在花一年时间探索阿拉斯加后，他就读于葛底斯堡学院，于 1952 年毕业。随后他被征召入伍，在陆军工程兵团服役一年后，他就读于乔治·华盛顿大学法学院，于 1956 年毕业。
理查德·保罗·萨克斯 (89 岁) 理查德·保罗·萨克斯医学博士 (89 岁) 于 2026 年 7 月 13 日在挚爱的子女陪伴下去世。理查德在获得医学博士学位之前，在巴克内尔大学获得了文学学士学位。
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在语言服务办公室工作，直到 1997 年退休。 1972 年，他被奥地利总统授予大功勋勋章。 在离开公职退休后，哈里担任 Inlingua 口译学校的院长兼首席讲师，直到 2004 年。 他写了一本关于其经历的书，名为《白宫口译员：口译的艺术》，并且一直是大学口译员培训的坚定倡导者。哈里是一名狂热的棒球（以及象棋！）迷，他还于 1962 年创建了“哈里的全垒打”棒球游戏，该游戏后来被重新发行。 他于 2026 年 6 月 10 日在 The Harbor 和 Medi Home Hospice 的悉心照料下安详离世，享年 94 岁。他的妻子 Elnina 与他相伴 61 年，两人育有子女 Mattina Michele 和 Jennifer Lynn，以及孙女 Cara Lynn，他们将继续陪伴在世。此外，他的女儿 Christina 以及孙辈 Estelle 和 Elsa 也将继续生活。他的家人、朋友、护理人员和同事将深切缅怀他。 为了纪念他，捐款可赠予 Medi Home Hospice 和 St. Labre 印度学校。特别感谢 Robert 和 Karen Field 的友善与友谊。 仪式将于日后公布。 愿他在平安中安息 (Requiescat in Pace)。
位于马里兰州格林贝尔特的中心。他在那里的成就丰硕，包括被美国国家航空航天局 (NASA) 委派协助总统委员会调查三英里岛核事故。在他从 NASA 退休前，为了表彰其多年的服务，那里种了一棵以他命名的树。据我们所知，这是首次为在世人员采取此类纪念方式。
根据曾在 NASA 与他共事的人员称，马特在许多任务的成功中发挥了关键作用，这些任务的飞行硬件都在戈达德的集成与测试设施中经过处理。 在 1970 年代至 80 年代，马特负责运营并确保飞行硬件测试严格遵守时间表，以满足任务发射日期。他“高效完成”的态度和极高的职业道德标准是他成就的标志。他的一位同事表示：“无论马特是你的上司、客户、导师、员工还是朋友，他都能让你变得更好。我是世界上最幸运的人，能够将马特视为这一切。”
马特一直工作到 88 岁，受雇于相关公司管理其 NASA 合同。其中一家公司设立了一项年度员工表彰奖，名为 MORE 奖——其首字母缩写代表“马特·奥佩卡卓越奖” (Matt Opeka Reward of Excellence)。
简和马特经常在世界各地旅行。他们热爱游轮旅行、欧洲的内河航行、美国的蒸汽船旅行，并访问了每一个州和几乎每一个大洲。
说马特受到所有人的爱戴和尊敬其实是一种保守的说法——他无私地寻求帮助他人，使他们成为最好的自己。他的一生是我们所有人中最好特质的典范，我们将永远怀念他。
马特的追思会将于 7 月 25 日周六 2-4 点在马里兰州贝尔茨维尔 Powder Mill 路 4400 号的 Borgwardt 殡仪馆举行。 请勿送花，但为了纪念他，捐款可赠予位于马里兰州贝尔茨维尔 Rhode Island 大道 10774 号的 Abiding Presence 路德教会 (邮编 20705)。
尽管有西方血统，南希热爱纽约市，她在那里度过了成年后的大部分时光。她帮助他人的热情引领她从事了教学、社会工作和人力资源管理事业。随后，她创办了自己的职业咨询公司 Bradford Management，在那里，她乐于指导个人发现自己的热情并建立有意义的职业生涯。
南希拥有丰富的社交生活，总是参观新的画廊、欣赏音乐剧、为陆军队伍加油，或者在切维切斯俱乐部 (Chevy Chase Club) 打保龄球和高尔夫球。也许她最伟大的天赋是对家人和朋友坚定不移的奉献。她是每一场比赛场边和每一场演出观众席上不可或缺的支持者。南希与不同世代的人建立联系的能力是无与伦比的。她真诚的好奇心和关怀让许多人感到被爱且被重视。尽管她的突然离世令我们深感悲痛，但我们在南希与她一生的挚爱布奇 (Butch) 以及无数亲人重逢这一事实中得到了慰藉。我们爱你，精致的南希！
基督徒葬礼弥撒将于 7 月 30 日周四上午 10 点在华盛顿特区 NW 尤马街 4001 (4001 Yuma St NW, Washington, DC) 的圣安娜天主教堂举行。随后将举行招待会。安葬仪式将于日后在阿灵顿国家公墓举行。纪念捐款可捐给梅德斯塔乔治城大学医院 (Medstar Georgetown University Hospital) 的罗德里克·爱德华·奥德威奖基金 (Roderic Edward Ordway Award Fund)，以纪念南希·奥德威。 www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
鲍勃通过圣保罗路德教会的青年组结识了一生的挚爱芭芭拉·维甘德 (Barbara Wiegand)，两人于 1953 年 7 月 25 日在此结婚。鲍勃在哥伦比亚特区和马里兰州蒙哥马利县从事法律执业 44 年，其中最后 20 年与儿子小罗伯特合伙经营。他于 2000 年退休，专注于其他爱好——他是一位热衷于高尔夫球的爱好者，喜欢旅行，尤其喜欢喝一杯冰镇的尤林林 (Yuengling) 啤酒或一杯加冰的詹姆森 (Jameson’s) 爱尔兰威士忌。
他的遗属包括相伴 73 年的挚爱妻子芭芭拉·维甘德·皮洛特 (Barbara Wiegand Pillote)，三个孩子玛格丽特·林 (Margaret Lynn，丈夫 Gunther)、凯瑟琳 (Katherine，丈夫 Brian) 和小罗伯特 (Robert, Jr.，妻子 Christine)，孙辈安德鲁 (Andrew)、莎拉 (Sarah)、杰夫 (Jeff)、维基 (Vicki)、齐比 (Zibby) 和鲍比 (Bobby)，以及 6 个曾孙辈。
葬礼服务将于 2026 年 7 月 30 日周四上午 11 点在华盛顿特区 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. 4900 (4900 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008) 的圣保罗路德教会举行，仪式前上午 9:30 起在教堂底楼礼堂进行吊唁。请以捐款代替鲜花，捐款可赠予华盛顿特区的圣保罗路德教会或盖蒂斯堡学院 (Gettysburg College)。
乔治·华盛顿医学院。他在旧金山的莱特曼陆军医院 (Letterman Army Hospital) 完成了放射科住院医师培训。在越南战争期间，他自豪地在陆军中担任放射科医生，最终获得少校军衔。 他回到乔治·华盛顿医院，在那里担任核医学专家医生和放射科临床教授，凭借敏锐的幽默感和温暖，热衷于教学并指导了无数学生和年轻医生。 他的孩子们伊丽莎白·豪克 (Elizabeth Houck)、迈克尔·萨克斯 (Michael Sacks，妻子 Robin)、布鲁斯·萨克斯 (Bruce Sacks，妻子 Mayra) 怀念他；他的妹妹霍尼·莱维克 (Honey Levick) 以及深爱的孙辈奥斯汀·萨克斯 (Austin Sacks，妻子 Ashley)、戴安娜·萨克斯 (Diana Sacks)、米切尔·萨克斯 (Mitchell Sacks，妻子 Amy)、内森·科尔 (Nathan Cole，妻子 Katelyn)、布鲁斯·萨克斯 (Bruce Sacks) 和罗伯特·萨克斯 (Robert Sacks)，以及深爱的曾孙卡姆登·萨克斯 (Camden Sacks) 和继孙威斯顿 (Weston) 怀念他。仪式为私人举行。请以捐款代替鲜花，纪念捐款可赠予乔治·华盛顿医学院、佐治亚州巴特勒的 Amedisys 临终关怀医疗保健中心 (Hospice Amedisys Health Care) 或 NPR 电台。 愿他的记忆成为一种祝福。
赫伯特·霍弗梅尔 “赫伯” (HERBERT HAWVERMALE “Herb”) (93 岁) 2026 年 5 月 20 日，在亲人的陪伴下，因肺炎在家中平静离世。他在马里兰州贝塞斯达 (Bethesda) 的家庭住宅中居住了 67 年，这座房子是他 26 岁时建造的。赫伯于 1932 年 7 月 17 日出生于宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡，曾在西弗吉尼亚州伯克利斯普林斯 (Berkley Springs) 短暂居住，高中毕业时为一名毕业生代表。他就读于瓦巴什大学 (Wabash University) 并在终身对其保持忠诚，随后毕业于乔治·华盛顿大学，之后进入建筑行业。他从一名木匠开始，创建了
JEROME NEITZEY 杰罗姆·马丁·“马蒂”·内策（Jerome Martin “Marty” Neitzey），67 岁，原居特拉华州布里奇维尔（Bridgeville, Delaware），于 2026 年 7 月 17 日星期五在特拉华州刘易斯（Lewes, Delaware）的 Beebe 医疗中心（Beebe Healthcare）在与癌症的勇敢斗争后平静离世。在他最后时光里，陪伴在他身边的是他深爱的家人、亲爱的“双子家”邻居金妮和汤姆·霍西（Ginny and Tom Horsey），以及让他最后日子舒适且安详的富有同情心的医生、护士和工作人员。 马蒂于 1958 年 12 月 29 日出生在马里兰州切弗利（Cheverly, Maryland）的乔治王子县医院（Prince George’s County Hospital），是已故的约翰·弗朗西斯和罗斯·卡罗琳·内策（Rose Carolyn Neitzey，原姓 Wersick）之子。他于 1977 年毕业于德马萨高中（DeMatha High School），随后就读于贸易学校。 1999 年 9 月 18 日，马蒂在马里兰州布恩斯博罗（Boonsboro, Maryland）的达尔格伦礼拜堂（Dahlgren Chapel）与他一生的挚爱比阿特丽斯·“比”·内策（Beatrice “Bea” Neitzey，原姓 Wilson）结婚，随后在南山旧旅馆（Old South Mountain Inn）举行了招待会。他在 2021 年退休前，在乔治王子县政府担任设施经理，事业成功。 退休后，马蒂得以花更多时间享受他热爱的爱好。
SUSAN ELIZABETH NEWTON 苏珊在与胆管癌进行了九个月的英勇抗争后，于 2026 年 7 月 12 日凌晨离开了我们。苏珊希望人们记住她的爱与快乐。毫无疑问，人们定会如此，因为她如此慷慨地将这份爱给予每一个人。但人们也将记住她的活力——那是她给予家人、朋友以及自然世界的闪耀精神。苏珊于 1966 年 11 月 13 日出生在印第安纳州印第安纳波利斯（Indianapolis, Indiana），父母是保拉和约翰·牛顿（Paula and John Newton），他们培养了她对知识和冒险的追求。无论她住在哪里或旅行到哪里，她都能与背景截然不同的人建立深厚的联系——这些友谊伴随了她的一生。最重要的是，苏珊热爱。她最深爱的是她的丈夫克里斯·劳（Chris Rau）。两人在 2001 年结婚，当时他们在试图帮彼此的朋友牵线时，不经意间陷入了爱情。他们有两个孩子，哈里森（Harrison）和麦肯齐（Mackenzie），他们是苏珊心中的核心。他们在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿（Arlington, Virginia）共同建立了一个美好的生活并深耕于此。在劳伦斯中央高中（Lawrence Central High School）毕业后，苏珊就读于迈阿密大学（Miami University），在那儿，一位教授注意到她的才华，并推荐她去华盛顿特区（Washington, D.C.）的国家城市联盟（National League of Cities）工作。她曾短暂离开华盛顿特区就读于芝加哥大学（University of Chicago），获得了公共政策硕士学位。苏珊是一位坚强、有动力且天生的领导者，曾在 MCI 和 Sprint Nextel 担任项目经理。随后，她在国家公园基金会（National Park Foundation）工作了 10 年，开发旨在保护国家公园自然、文化和历史资源的计划。为了创造更大的变革，苏珊回到密苏里大学圣路易斯分校（University of Missouri – St. Louis）攻读博士学位，并就增加国家公园的多样性产出了一系列研究成果。最近，苏珊领导了专注于包容与公平、难民安置、老年服务以及经济适用房的计划。
RICHARD GAN YOUNG (89 岁) 在陪伴了 66 年的妻子在侧的情况下，Richard Gan Young (“Dick”) 于 2026 年 6 月 20 日在弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯的家中安详去世，结束了充实、快乐且富有意义的一生。
作为一名真正的博学者，Dick 在知识产权法领域建立了成功的职业生涯，成为了华盛顿特区 Beveridge, DeGrandi, Weilacher, and Young 律师事务所的合伙人。与此同时，Dick 继续培养他对历史、自然界、艺术和旅行的长期热爱。他的广大亲友知道，无论是机械、物流、专业还是个人方面的问题，都可以向他寻求帮助，而他总能想出创造性且实用的解决方案。他曾从零开始建造了一艘帆船。他编辑并出版了其曾祖父的淘金热日志和内战日记——并在进行了广泛的研究后，通过追溯这位祖先前往加利福尼亚淘金之旅的路线，绕过霍恩角航行一周。退休后，他在美国联邦巡回上诉法院担任公益调解员，并在乔治梅森大学的奥舍终身学习学院 (OLLI) 教授关于他多样化兴趣的课程。然而，他最大的兴趣所在是他的家庭。
Dick Young 于 1936 年 11 月 4 日出生在堪萨斯州哈钦森，父母是 Elmo 和 Maxine Young，他是三个孩子中的长子。他在纽约州特洛伊的伦斯塞勒理工学院就读，获得了 NROTC 奖学金，于 1958 年毕业，获得管理和机械工程学位。正是在特洛伊，他遇到了 Lillian Hann (“Willie”)，并开始了人生中最大的冒险。Dick 和 Willie 于 1959 年结婚，当时他正处于海军服役期间的休假中，不久后，他们定居在北弗吉尼亚州。在三个孩子均未满五岁的情况下，Dick 从乔治城大学获得了法学学位——
他拥有自己的建筑公司，并在马里兰州郊区建造了住宅小区和公寓。Herb 以土地开发商的身份结束了他的职业生涯，并且始终帮助他的儿子 John 经营建筑公司和住宅建筑业务。Herbert 一辈子都热爱水，是一名熟练的绕桩滑水运动员和热衷的钓鱼者，很少错过任何一次“把鱼线投入水中”的机会。他和已故的妻子 Rita Hawvermale 共同抚养了五个孩子。
他的遗属包括四个孩子：科罗拉多州的 Kathryn Bert，加利福尼亚州的 Deborah Kent，弗吉尼亚州的 Nancy Martindale (Ben) 以及马里兰州的 John Hawvermale；九个孙辈和九个曾孙辈。他的女儿 Kim Hawvermale 先于他去世。
人们将记住 Herb 敏锐的才智、乐于助人的精神以及他对社会的贡献。他的家人珍视对他的记忆，确保他的遗产通过他们分享的爱与故事而延续。
生命庆典仪式将于 2026 年 8 月 1 日星期六上午 11 点在马里兰州贝塞斯达 River Road 6301, 20817 的 River Road Universalist Congregation 举行，随后将举行招待会。请考虑向蒙哥马利县临终关怀中心 (Montgomery County Hospice) 捐款以代替花束。
他在高尔夫、扑克、鲈鱼钓鱼和射击运动方面具有天赋。他是 Heritage Shores 18-Hole 男子联赛以及 Bridgeville 步枪和手枪俱乐部的成员。Marty 还是一名忠实的马里兰特拉平背龟队 (Maryland Terrapins) 篮球迷，这一热爱始于他在马里兰州海亚茨维尔 St. Jerome’s 参加 CYO 篮球赛的时期。除了挚爱的妻子 Bea，Marty 的遗属还包括他的继子 Vincent Cush (Hannah Brady) 和 Ryan Cush (Stephanie)；他的孙辈 Lindsay, William, 和 Natalie Cush；他的兄弟 J. Matthew Neitzey (Barbara), J. Mitchell Neitzey, J. Mark Neitzey (Denise), 和 J. Malcolm Neitzey，以及许多可爱的嫂子和弟媳；Jeanne Rosenberger (John), Cathy Cook (Bill), Patricia Moore, Jeannie Tarran (Dennis), Jim Wilson (JoAnn), Clyde Wilson (Bernadette), Brenda Pusso (Keith), Frances Wilson 以及众多的侄子、侄女，
表亲们以及亲爱的朋友们。先于他离世的有：其父母约翰·弗朗西斯和罗斯·卡罗琳·内策（John Francis and Rose Carolyn Neitzey）；其兄弟J·迈克尔·内策（J. Michael Neitzey）；岳母格特鲁德·威尔逊（Gertrude Wilson）；以及侄子尼古拉斯（Nicholas）和约瑟夫（Joseph）。马蒂（Marty）的家人向特拉华州雷霍波斯海滩（Rehoboth Beach, Delaware）的图内尔癌症中心（Tunnell Cancer Center）的医生、护士和工作人员，以及费城宾夕法尼亚大学医院（Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia）的专家和移植/白血病团队表示衷心的感谢，他们卓越的护理、同情心和奉献精神给了马蒂许多年的希望。他们还想感谢许多家属和朋友，通过提供餐食、探访、寄卡片、打电话、开车前往费城以及始终如一的爱，陪伴马蒂走过了这段旅程。你们的善良永远不会被忘记。生命庆典活动将于日后举行。一旦安排最终确定，将通过邮件、电子邮件和 Facebook 通知亲友。
请访问马蒂的生命纪念页面：www.parsellfuneralhomes.com。
在美路德会服务中心（Lutheran Services in America）工作。 苏珊热爱旅行，不仅是以游客的身份，而且她向孩子们灌输了一种观念，即拥有看世界的特权有助于培养视角和理解力。苏珊在大学期间在卢森堡学习了六个月，与母亲一起徒步登上了马丘比丘，与女友们远征哈瓦苏派印第安保留地（Havasupai Indian Reservation），与克里斯（Chris）及家人一起探索了土耳其和意大利，并在无数个国家公园工作过。但苏珊最珍视的地方之一是佛罗里达州的萨尼贝尔岛（Sanibel Island, Florida），在那里她喜欢在海滩上散步寻找贝壳和海豚，或者仅仅是在微风中坐着读书。苏珊原计划在 11 月的 60 岁生日时去多洛米蒂山脉（Dolomites）徒步，并前往越南旅行，但生命带她走向了另一段旅程，而她面对这段旅程的方式与她面对一切的方式一样——每一步都勇敢、清醒且坦诚。 苏珊还热爱园艺、烹饪、烘焙和舞蹈。她喜欢香槟和甜点。恰如其分地，她的最后一餐是来自 Pastries by Randolph 的曲奇饼干，并与亲人们分享了一口香槟，她心爱的边境柯利犬 Phoibe 蜷缩在她的身边。 苏珊将令我们深切缅怀，但她的爱与快乐将永远留在我们心中。苏珊的遗属包括克里斯、哈里森（Harrison）和麦肯齐（Mackenzie），以及她的哥哥大卫·牛顿（David Newton）以及牛顿家族和劳（Rau）家族的大量成员。 苏珊·牛顿·劳（Susan Newton Rau）的追思礼拜将于 2026 年 7 月 31 日星期五下午 2 点，在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿（Arlington, Virginia）的奥利弗特联合卫理公会教堂（Mount Olivet United Methodist Church）举行。如需向家属表达哀悼或了解更多信息，请访问： www.murphyfuneralhomes.com
通过在白天的一家专利和商标事务所工作，并利用夜间课程完成大学学业。他于 1965 年从法学院毕业，在整个职业生涯中，他总会抽出时间参加四个孩子的足球赛和游泳比赛。他的家人对后者的热爱促使迪克（Dick）在北弗吉尼亚游泳联盟（Northern Virginia Swim League）服务了数十年。在布兰迪wine 游泳俱乐部（Brandywine Swim Club）担任 7 年球队代表后，他于 1979-80 年担任 NVSL 主席，并在接下来的 25 年里担任规则主席。
迪克和他的妻子威利（Willie）是一对强大的组合。他们总是最先在社区组织和活动中自荐担任领导职务，并且总是最后一个离开热闹派对的人。节假日不可避免地会吸引全国各地的亲友来到扬（Young）家。而且，每一件美好的事情都很可能变成一项传统。因此，与远方朋友的度假活动被定为每年一次。每次感恩节晚餐之后，周五都会举行一场螃蟹盛宴。每年一月，多个家庭会一起前往七峰（Seven Springs）进行滑雪旅行。而每个夏天则意味着在马萨诸塞州的诺思菲尔德（Northfield, Massachusetts）长久地逗留。
在诺斯菲尔德 (Northfield)，迪克 (Dick) 承担起了向他深爱的六个孙辈以及任何愿意参加他著名的林间徒步之旅的人提供步道引导、生活教练和科学教育者的角色。在此期间，迪克对大自然的深切敬畏和对社区的热爱深深地印刻在孙辈们心中。然而，无论是在诺斯菲尔德，还是在其他遥远地点的冒险中，人们也清楚地意识到，迪克对于通过孙辈们的眼睛来看待世界的兴趣，绝不亚于他人通过他的眼睛来看待世界的兴趣。
迪克的遗属包括他的妻子莉莉安 (Lillian，昵称 “Willie”)；他的妹妹莎伦·杨 (Sharon Young) 和嫂子/弟媳珍妮特·杨 (Janet Young)；他的子女苏西·曼加诺 (Susie Mangano，丈夫吉姆 Jim)、大卫·杨 (David Young)、比尔·杨 (Bill Young，妻子凯蒂 Katie) 以及丹·杨 (Dan Young，妻子艾米·赛耶 Amy Sayer)；他的孙辈丹·曼加诺 (Dan Mangano，妻子斯泰西·哈林顿 Stacey Harrington)、梅丽莎·曼加诺 (Melissa Mangano)、埃里克·杨 (Eric Young，妻子亚历克斯·谢勒 Alex Scheeler)、艾比·杨 (Abby Young)、露西·杨 (Lucy Young) 和欧文·杨 (Owen Young)；以及他的曾孙奥斯卡·杨 (Oscar Young)、罗斯·杨 (Rose Young) 和瑞安·曼加诺 (Ryan Mangano)。早于他去世的包括他的父母埃尔莫 (Elmo) 和麦克辛·杨 (Maxine Young)，以及他的兄弟詹姆斯·杨 (James Young)。
追思会将于 8, 2026, 年星期六上午 11 点在马萨诸塞州诺斯菲尔德 (Northfield, Massachusetts) 的三位一体公理会教堂 (Trinitarian Congregational Church, 147 Main St.) 举行。家属建议无需赠送鲜花，可为纪念迪克向以下机构捐款：奥舍终身学习学院梅森分院 (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Mason, 4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, VA 22032 (olli.gmu.edu))，或 NVSL (1909 Bridle Lane, Alexandria, VA 22308)。
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空气质量：中等 主要污染物：臭氧
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降水概率： 体感温度 REALFEEL® 86°
西西北风 8–16 mph
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最高温：亚利桑那州 斗牛城 117° 最低温：加利福尼亚州 阿尔图拉斯 39°
适用于 48 个毗连州 不含南极洲
俄克拉荷马市 103/75/s 103/76/s 奥马哈 103/79/s 103/73/s 奥兰多 96/79/t 94/77/t 费城 88/68/s 85/71/t 菲尼克斯 110/92/t 112/91/t 匹兹堡 83/66/t 85/70/t 波特兰 (缅因州) 73/51/s 76/57/s 波特兰 (俄勒冈州) 80/59/c 81/61/pc 普罗维登斯 (罗德岛州) 80/55/s 80/64/s 罗利 (北卡罗来纳州) 86/70/t 90/73/pc 里诺 (内华达州) 95/60/s 95/60/s 里士满 85/66/t 87/69/t 萨克拉门托 92/57/s 94/60/s 圣路易斯 96/80/pc 100/79/pc 圣托马斯 (美属维尔京群岛) 91/80/t 91/80/t 盐湖城 103/81/s 103/78/s 圣迭戈 78/70/pc 79/72/pc 旧金山 70/58/pc 71/57/pc 圣胡安 (波多黎各) 90/79/r 91/79/t 西雅图 71/57/c 76/59/pc 斯波坎 (华盛顿州) 84/59/s 85/58/s 雪拉丘兹 82/64/t 83/66/t 坦帕 93/82/t 91/81/t 威奇托 102/78/pc 106/77/s
相当多云
大部分时间晴朗
降水概率： 体感温度 REALFEEL® 87°
降水概率： 体感温度 REALFEEL® 92°
北北西风 8–16 mph
西北风 7–14 mph
昨日全球 最高温：阿尔及利亚 瓦格拉 121° 最低温：阿根廷 佩里托莫雷诺 11°
世界 今日 明日
亚的斯亚贝巴 67/55/r 71/55/r 阿姆斯特丹 73/61/sh 70/60/s 雅典 86/68/s 90/73/s 奥克兰 52/39/r 56/40/s 巴格达 110/89/s 109/90/pc 曼谷 93/81/r 93/81/r 北京 91/76/sh 93/76/t 柏林 81/60/sh 73/55/pc 波哥大 66/51/sh 65/49/pc 布鲁塞尔 75/60/r 75/58/sh 布宜诺斯艾利斯 62/54/c 62/55/c 开罗 93/76/s 94/74/s 加拉加斯 75/68/t 77/67/t 哥本哈根 67/58/c 67/55/sh 达喀尔 88/81/t 89/81/pc 都柏林 68/54/sh 71/63/sh 爱丁堡 66/51/sh 68/59/r 法兰克福 86/62/pc 81/56/sh 日内瓦 78/62/sh 82/58/r 汉密尔顿 (百慕大) 86/80/sh 87/80/t 赫尔辛基 66/59/sh 67/57/sh 胡志明市 87/77/r 91/77/r 香港 86/80/t 88/81/sh
周二 周三 周四 周五 周六 周日 周一 周二 周三 周四 周五 周六 周日 周一 周二
统计数据截至周六下午 5 点
国家级 杜勒斯 BWI
国家级 杜勒斯 BWI
82° 下午 3:56 67° 上午 7:50 90°/73° 100° 2016 58° 1915
最低温 历史平均值
历史最高温
历史最低温
与 30 年平均值 (国家级) 的偏差：本月：+1.4° 今年至今：+0.3°
J A S O N D J F M A M J 0"
过去 24 小时 本月累计 历史平均值 (月)
今年累计 历史平均值 (年)
太阳系 月相
7月 29 满月
8月 5 下弦月
8月 12 新月
伊斯兰堡 94/79/pc 97/79/t 伊斯坦布尔 80/70/sh 88/73/s 耶路撒冷 84/68/s 86/69/s 约翰内斯堡 70/42/pc 70/41/pc 喀布尔 86/69/pc 93/68/pc 金斯顿, 牙买加 93/81/s 92/80/r 加尔各答 88/78/r 87/79/r 基辅 81/61/s 87/63/s 拉各斯 84/77/t 83/77/r 利马 77/70/s 76/68/pc 里斯本 85/66/s 94/66/s 伦敦 81/57/c 83/62/pc 马德里 90/66/s 95/70/s 马尼拉 91/79/t 91/79/r 墨西哥城 76/55/sh 75/57/sh 蒙特利尔 83/66/pc 82/67/sh 莫斯科 70/58/pc 69/58/r 孟买 86/80/r 86/81/r 内罗比 74/57/c 74/56/c 新德里 95/84/sh 95/81/sh 奥斯陆 72/49/pc 72/50/r 渥太华 81/64/sh 82/63/r 巴黎 76/60/c 82/60/s 布拉格 89/64/pc 75/55/sh
历史平均值 记录 实际 预报
79° 下午 3:58 65° 上午 4:56 88°/67° 100° 2016 55° 1976
81° 下午 3:56 69° 上午 8:04 89°/68° 100° 2016 57° 2014
最新 历史平均值 前一年
0.01" 3.24" 3.56" 16.95" 23.89"
微量 5.34" 3.39" 24.55" 24.93"
升起 落下
太阳 上午 6:04 晚上 8:25
月亮 晚上 6:50 凌晨 2:54 金星 上午 9:50 晚上 10:27
火星 凌晨 2:41 下午 5:28 木星 上午 6:15 晚上 8:32 土星 晚上 11:35 中午 12:03
8月 19 上弦月
里约热内卢 75/66/s 78/68/s 利雅得 109/85/s 107/84/pc 罗马 87/73/t 88/70/s 圣萨尔瓦多 89/69/t 89/69/r 圣地亚哥 66/49/pc 61/49/sh 萨拉热佛 88/61/s 83/60/t 首尔 91/77/sh 89/77/sh 上海 97/83/c 93/83/pc 新加坡 86/80/t 88/79/t 斯德哥尔摩 68/51/sh 66/51/sh 悉尼 66/47/pc 66/48/s 台北市 97/80/t 95/80/sh 德黑兰 107/87/pc 107/78/pc 东京 89/76/t 88/75/t 多伦多 82/65/t 81/69/pc 维也纳 90/72/pc 84/62/s 华沙 87/65/pc 70/54/sh
图例：s-晴, pc-局部多云, c-多云, r-雨, sh-阵雨, t-雷阵雨, sf-小雪, sn-雪, i-冰
来源：AccuWeather.com；美国陆军中央过敏原提取实验室 (花粉数据)；airnow.gov (空气质量数据)；国家气象局 * AccuWeather 的 RealFeel Temperature® (体感温度) 结合了十几个因素，以准确衡量天气条件的实际“感觉”。
EE E 2026年 7月 26, 星期日 KLMNO 艺术与风格
亲爱的埃里克：几年前，我直接参与并救了“彼得”的命。在那次事件之前我不认识彼得，在那之后不久，他和他的家人联系了我，向我表示感谢并请求见面，显然是在更好的环境下。
询问 埃里克
R. 埃里克 托马斯
我同意了这次见面，但坦白说，我完全后悔了。
彼得是一个非常体面的人。但我们之间真的没有任何共同点。
但他和他的几位家人不停地给我打电话、发短信等等。我是他的英雄，在他们看来，这意味着应该是他的朋友。但，对天发誓，我不喜欢他。坦白说，他让我很烦。
他没有做任何错事。他只是一个我不会选择与之交友的人。
然而，由于对我对此事的感受以及我们相遇的方式感到非常糟糕，我一直在回应。
我已经大大减少了对短信的回应，希望他们能心领神会，但他和他的家人并没有。
我不想和他们中的任何人交朋友。我只是不知道如何在不伤害他们感情的情况下做到这一点。关于如何摆脱他们，有什么建议吗？我知道我听起来很糟糕，我很抱歉，但我真的需要他们停止打扰我。
英雄：你的核心诉求——不想与不合拍的人建立关系——其实并不那么糟糕。如果你们不是在救彼得的生命时相识，脱离关系可能会更容易一些。有些人就是合不来，这很正常。
你可以进行一次简短、清晰且友善的“分手”谈话。告诉彼得，你很高兴能够在他需要的时候提供帮助，但持续的联系让你感到有点过于频繁。你可以说类似这样的话：“我现在不适合交友，但我祝你一切顺利。”
这听起来可能有些刺耳，但这样诚实地对待比一直怀恨在心要好。你现在做的是在沟通你的需求，而不是继续试图满足他的期待。他可能觉得是宇宙将你们牵在一起，但宇宙并不一定要求你们永远在一起。告诉他，你很高兴能救了他的命，并祝愿他余生一切顺利。
亲爱的埃里克：我的丈夫和我已经结婚 10 年了。我现在 84 岁，他 75 岁。我的愿景是去旅行一段时间并享受
犯罪剧成为惬意清冷的避暑之选
作者：MOIRA MACDONALD 西雅图时报 (TNS)
如果你订阅了英国的流媒体服务，你无疑会注意到数量惊人的犯罪剧，其范围涵盖了从阴森的警匪程序剧到温馨的推理剧。在这种情况下，仅挑选一部剧集进行评论，用一个不合时宜的比喻来说，就像是在大雪中铲雪——在这么多剧集堆积如山的情况下，这样做真的有意义吗？——但在 BritBox 上播出的《Gone》吸引了我的注意。如果你正想在夏日天气中寻找一个逃避之所（是的，我们中有些人确实如此），这部剧紧张紧凑的六集内容将提供一个惬意且清冷的喘息之机。
第一集就铺陈得很好，有人失踪，而到了这小时结束时，失踪者很快被重新定义为死者。故事发生在英格兰西南部的布里斯托尔，一座高得令人恐惧的悬索桥以一种随意的威胁感俯视着这座城市，而不幸的尸体是莎拉·波利（Sarah Polly），当地校长迈克尔·波利（Michael Polly，由大卫·莫里西 David Morrissey 饰演）的妻子。警佐安妮·卡西迪（Annie Cassidy，由伊芙·迈尔斯 Eve Myles 饰演）被指派负责此案，她像所有电视侦探一样，是个不遵守规则且个人生活相当复杂的人。怀疑指向了迈克尔，他像所有虚构的英国校长一样，沉默寡言、生硬，且外表隐约透着阴森，说话时脸上几乎没有任何表情。他究竟是一个残暴的杀妻凶手，还是一个不擅长表达情感的男人？
这一切并没有重新发明犯罪剧的轮子，但《Gone》（由曾创作《鲁邦》的乔治·凯 George Kay 创作）制作得专业且细腻。影片拍摄精美，尤其是男校部分捕捉到了极具美感的尘埃光影，且充满了耐人寻味的次要角色：迈克尔的女儿阿拉娜（Alana，由艾玛·阿普尔顿 Emma Appleton 饰演），一名似乎被过去某些事情困扰的学校教师；安妮关系疏远的丈夫克雷格（Craig，由彼得·麦克唐纳 Peter McDonald 饰演），他在剧集中慢慢地从快活的忏悔者转变为某种更为阴暗的人物；学校秘书西蒙娜（Simone，由阿曼达·劳伦斯 Amanda Lawrence 饰演），她安静的专业能力之下或许掩盖了对迈克尔的某些情感。（而且，在这样一部相当阴郁的剧中，某地的某个人还保留了一点幽默感：新闻网站的一瞥显示出这样一个标题：“历史悠久的橡树据称被非常有礼貌的幽灵闹鬼”。）
但是，与所有侦探剧一样，《Gone》的成败取决于其核心双主角。莫里西为迈克尔赋予了有趣的层次感：这个男人在要求女儿大声朗读他亡妻的日记（包含婚外情细节）时毫无顾虑；在被质问妻子失踪情况时，他仍有条不紊地批改试卷。（你可以理解他的逻辑——无论发生什么，试卷都必须批改——但也能窥见一颗被小心封闭的心。）“你
— 不是英雄
退休。结婚两年后，他开始陷入瘫痪。在多次看神经内科医生并进行多次医学检查后，诊断为严重的神经病变。他无法行走或开车，每周锻炼三次，努力维持仅剩的行动能力。
我每天努力激励他并给予支持。尽管如此，我想旅行。我想自由。我不知道该怎么办。我太沮丧了。我是该陪在他身边，还是离开并走自己的路？当我这样想时，我感到非常内疚，但这并不是我当初想要的生活。我不知道该怎么办。请帮帮我。
妻子：没有人知道在开始一段关系，尤其是婚姻时，自己究竟在承诺什么。我们几乎可以肯定都会面临意想不到的挑战。解决办法的一部分是接受我们无法改变的事。但同样重要的一部分是知道何时以及如何寻求帮助。
因此，除了离开他或继续陷入僵局之外，还有其他选择。首先，承认这并非他的选择是有帮助的。对你们双方来说，这都是一个艰难的局面，当然，方式各不相同。承认这并非你预想的生活轨迹是可以的。阻止自己这样做只会导致怨恨，而怨恨会毒化你的婚姻。
接下来，与他探讨引入外部帮助的问题，以便为你争取旅行和放松的时间。根据他的具体需求，这可能是指家庭护理员、朋友、亲戚或其他人。询问他对此事的看法。他很可能希望你追求梦想的这一部分。
旅行包含“归来”这个过程。你目前所经历的一些愧疚感和挫败感，可能源于一种被困住的感觉。他的健康挑战中确实有一些方面让你们无法过上想要的生活。但可以从他定期锻炼以维持行动能力的做法中吸取教训。他虽然不能完全随心所欲，但他在做他能做的一切。你同样可以这样做，同时依然与你所爱的人保持联系并照顾他。
请将问题发送给 R. Eric Thomas，邮箱：eric@askingeric.com 或邮寄至 P.O. Box 22474, Philadelphia, PA 19110。在 Instagram 上关注他，并在 rericthomas.com 订阅他的每周时事通讯。
— 陷入僵局的妻子
本周畅销书
精装小说
“Ransom”，作者 Daniel Silva (Harper)
“Yesteryear”，作者 Caro Claire Burke (Knopf)
“Whistler”，作者 Ann Patchett (Harper)
“Classic Tales of Horror” (Canterbury Classics)
“The Country Road Murders”，作者 Patterson/Lupica (Little, Brown)
“The Calamity Club”，作者 Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
“The Goal (收藏版)”，作者 Elle Kennedy (Bloom)
“The Legacy (收藏版)”，作者 Elle Kennedy (Bloom)
“The Romance Revival”，作者 Christina Lauren (Gallery)
“Love You More”，作者 Emily Giffin (Ballantine)
“The Shampoo Effect”，作者 Jenny Jackson (Viking/Dorman)
“This Changes Everything”，作者 Lisa Scottoline (Grand Central)
“A Parade of Horribles”，作者 Matt Dinniman (Ace)
“Our Perfect Storm”，作者 Carley Fortune (Berkley)
“Land”，作者 Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf)
精装非小说
“Regime Change”，作者 Haberman/Swan (Simon & Schuster)
“The Day After”，作者 Brian Tyler Cohen (Harper)
“The Risk Worth Taking”，作者 Teri Ijeoma (Frederick Douglass)
“Strangers”，作者 Belle Burden (Dial)
“Push the Wall”，作者 Frank Miller (Saga)
“Revolution”，作者 Eric Metaxas (Odysseus)
“Communion”，作者 JD Vance (Harper)
“Courage Can Save Us”，作者 Rye Barcott (Bloomsbury)
“Cancel Me If You Can”，作者 Dave Portnoy (Gallery)
“The Land and Its People”，作者 David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
“London Falling”，作者 Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
“The King Is Coming”，作者 John Bevere (Thomas Nelson)
“集结，”他告诉学生们，敦促他们在艰难时期坚持下去。然而，他仍有几次崩溃，那层坚硬的外壳随之瓦解。 Annie 并不是一个会将犯罪嫌疑人浪漫化的人，但她对他产生了好奇；他们出人意料地开始向彼此倾诉，你会好奇她是否在玩火。
Myles 笔下的 Annie 拥有该系列中最犀利的对白，并且深谙如何运用它：一位同事评论说，Sarah 的手机显示她几乎根本没给 Michael 打过电话。“这很奇怪吗？”Annie 纳闷道。“他们结婚了，”她的同事说。“我指的就是这一点，”这是她尖刻的回击。（随后，她问一名嫌疑人：“你这段并不存在的婚外情是从什么时候开始的？”）但这种强硬是她为了工作而披上的伪装，就像她那件得体的格子衬衫一样；与 Michael 相似，她的内心深处埋藏着某种更脆弱的东西。你会看到 Annie 凝视着 Craig，思考是否能通过某种意愿让他变成另一个人，变成她需要他成为的人；你会看到 Annie 对一名很久以前冷案受害者的年迈母亲的奉献，这个故事或许会在假设的 2. 季中继续展开。顺便说一句，如果在某个下雨的周六，我绝对会收看。
“Stop Making Stupid Investments”，作者 David Leiter (Wiley)
“Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Material Ultimania” (Square Enix)
“They Stole a City”，作者 Lauren Collins (Penguin Press)
平装书
“Theo of Golden”，作者 Allen Levi (Atria)
“Dungeon Crawler Carl”，作者 Matt Dinniman (Ace)
“The Adventure Zone: Story and Song”，作者 Clint McElroy 等 (23rd Street)
“The Divorce”，作者 Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
“Forsaking Midnight”，作者 Emily McIntire (Bloom)
“Murdoku”，作者 Manuel Garand (Puzzlewright)
“The Housemaid’s Wedding”，作者 Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
“Dolly All the Time”，作者 Annabel Monaghan (Putnam)
“In Stormy Weather”，作者 Chelsea Curto (Atria)
“Atmosphere”，作者 Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
“Foxx”，作者 Paisley Hope (Sourcebooks Casablanca)
“Our Last Resort”，作者 Clémence Michallon (Vintage)
“The Buffalo Hunter Hunter”，作者 Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
“Want to Know a Secret?”，作者 Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
“Dear Debbie”，作者 Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
照片由 James Pardon/BritBox 提供
顶部：伊芙·迈尔斯 (Eve Myles) 饰演侦探警佐安妮·卡西迪 (Annie Cassidy)，她像所有电视剧中的侦探一样，是个不守规则且个人生活相当复杂的人。虽然《Gone》并没有重新定义犯罪剧的模式，但这部六集系列剧的制作水准稳健且细腻。底部：大卫·莫里西 (David Morrissey) 在 Britbox 平台播出的《Gone》中饰演迈克尔·波利 (Michael Polly)。
亲爱的 Say More：我丈夫和我与他的父母关系很好。他们住在需要乘飞机才能到达的地方，在我们有孩子之前，他们的家是一个绝佳的聚会场所。然而，自从我们的大儿子能活动起来后，我们就无法再去拜访了。
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Emily Morman
我丈夫请他们买一个枪支保险柜以便我们前往拜访，但他们不愿意这样做。他们拒绝购买保险柜，并且（在经过几年的失败协商后）告诉我丈夫，他们不再讨论这个问题。他们唯一的让步是将大部分枪支放在一个单衣橱里，仅此而已。时间、金钱和麻烦在这里都不是因素。我丈夫的父亲对“安全存放枪支”这个想法有一种本能的排斥反应，而我的婆婆知道她无法改变他的主意。
这种情况已经持续多年，我们从未告诉儿子为什么不去奶奶和爷爷家。我感觉到时光在流逝，我真的很怀念在那里度过的时光。此外，他们在其他所有方面都非常出色（更不用说通情达理），对孙辈们也非常友善且充满爱心！他们会来拜访我们，或者我们在其他地方见面。我该如何接受这一切永远不会改变的事实？
无法拜访：你像面对失去一样在哀悼这件事，因为这确实是一种失去。这是你对这段关系未来样貌之希望的破灭。
— 无法拜访
我对在祖父母家玩纸牌游戏、吃美食，以及在远离家乡的地方拥有一个安全后方的感觉记忆犹新。我能理解这种打击——由于枪支成了奶奶和爷爷那极其离谱的优先事项，这种温暖现在成了你的孩子们无法触及的东西。
另一方面，你的优先级恰恰是在正确的位置上。他们的让步仅涵盖了“大部分”枪支（啊！），而好奇的孩子们在进入绝不该进入的地方或触碰绝不该触碰的东西方面，有着普遍的天赋。即使衣橱有锁，你在这里也完全拥有正当权利：只要你对孩子的安全有疑虑，无论出于什么原因，你就不去。
正让我们的家庭承受压力
亲爱的 Say More：我确信我不是唯一处于这种境地的家长，但请帮帮我！！我的二儿子在没有拿到学位的情况下退学了（因为我们的工作，学费完全免费。他没有债务），然而他已经两年没找到工作了。他说他正在找，并且对自己无所事事感到“沮丧”，但我不知道该怎么办！
Razzan Nakhlawi
我的丈夫说就让他留在这里直到找到工作，但我不认为这对他有帮助。我的另外两个孩子都在工作并自食其力，他们对我们在这种情况下采取的政策表示不满，而且我也觉得我们这样做对二儿子并不是最好的选择。请帮帮我。
— 他被困住了
他被困住了：从高青年失业率、未诊断的精神疾病和加油站零食包装袋中，产生了一个现代的隐遁阶层。日本人有一种名为“蛰居族”（hikikomori）的本土变体。还有一些被富裕且成功的家庭支撑着的“失败之子”（failsons）。那么你的儿子呢？你是否考虑过他是一个 NEET？
NEET 代表“非就业、非教育、非培训”（not in employment, education or training）。这个缩写由英国研究人员创造，随后在一些令人不悦的在线论坛上流行起来。我对你的儿子了解不多，但我敢打赌我知道他具体是如何度过时间的。
像僧侣一样，NEET 坐在房间里，将时间花在吃零食、打游戏和自慰上。有些 NEET 为自己的身份感到自豪，他们瞧不起我们这些在工作中苦苦挣扎的“打工人”（wagies），而他们则啜饮着能量饮料，在 YouTube 这个个人版的亚历山大图书馆中充实自己。没有房租压力，没有亲密关系，没有时间限制，甚至没有“时间”这个约束性概念，岁月在弥散的蓝光昏沉中匆匆而过。
所以，摆脱 NEET 状态需要对家庭运作方式进行重新构思，因为这通常是一种由家庭促成的现象。在没有任何后果的情况下支持他，是在强化他的无助感。你的儿子没有动力改变自己的行为，甚至没有那些将我们许多人抛入艰苦财务现实中的学生贷款债务。
是什么导致了他的辍学？未确诊的焦虑症或抑郁症可能会加剧他“无法起步”的失败状态。当你引导他脱离家庭的供养时，你可能需要陪同他进行治疗。请与你的丈夫和儿子一起，共同商定一个包含现实期限的综合治疗方案——即退出策略。我们讨论的可能是以年为单位，而不是以月为单位。如果未能取得进展，应该会有实际的后果，大概是财务上的。谁在资助他那沉浸式的、高幻想的大型多人在线角色扮演游戏（MMORPG）爱好？是你！这些改变会让他感到不舒服。而他也会让你感到不舒服。请务必坚定。
你必须考虑到目前的入门级就业市场非常艰难。没有学士学位，且在两年时间里将申请书投向虚无，这表明他已被选定的领域拒之门外。在杂货店或仓库找一份兼职工作如何？不行——不能是开 Uber 或没有固定结构的零工。是的——成年人必须在 8 a.m. 到岗，并与奇怪且有时疯狂的同事打交道。最终这不在于工作的类型，而在于建立责任感和一致性的架构。一旦他开始在 3 p.m. 之前起床，你就可以增加他在家庭中的职责，并减少他在财务上对你的依赖。
此外，如今搬出去住需要一些“共谋者”。他很可能在一段时间内无法负担自己的起步公寓，你也不应该尝试为此提供资金。他是否有意愿与随机的室友合租？他是否有一群可靠的朋友，能在他在“现实世界”中陷入困境时，替代家庭提供支持？这些问题与寻找工作一样重要，应该成为起步计划的一部分。
至于他的兄弟姐妹，他们当然得记得，这种处境对于 NEET（尼特族/不就业青年）来说绝非理想。你经历了一个糟糕的学期，从大学辍学，然后生活就完全脱轨了。你应该要求他们为让 NEET 的生活重回正轨的计划做出贡献，并质询那种愤恨感从何而来。也许他们内心深处隐藏着成为 NEET 的渴望？那我们岂不是都太幸运了。
就像许多其他在进入职场中挣扎并面临生活里程碑推迟的年轻人一样，你的儿子掉进了缝隙中。被熟悉且舒适的游戏椅包裹住是多么容易的一件事。
插图来自 Katty Huertas/华盛顿邮报；iStock
我想你面对的是 Pop 的一种棘手组合：一种扭曲的男性“保护者”刻板印象——即如果他将武器锁在保险箱里，那么在出现威胁时，他就无法那么轻易地成为那个“持枪的好人”——再加上被指责为不负责任的枪支所有者而感到的自尊受损。不幸的是，试图用争论来打破这堵双重构建的墙，可能只会让墙变得更高。
（顺便问一下，你的姻亲在来访时是否携带武器？这绝对是一个合理的问题，以及如果他们携带，是如何确保枪支安全的。根据他们的回答，可能需要采取进一步行动。）
不过，往远了想，这种完全不可理喻、顽固地拒绝的态度，让我不禁好奇：是否枪支只是一个铁板钉钉的借口，用来避免让孩子们过来？一个人可能爱小孩子，但不爱接待他们——孩子们可能是“混乱机器”，会扰乱那种围绕成年人社交和脆弱小摆件而构建的生活现状。（作为两个小孩的家长，我是在充满爱意的情况下说这话的。）也许你的姻亲不介意去其他地方旅行，体验一点美丽的混乱，但就是无法忍受
为什么我现在成年后却在挣扎？
亲爱的 Say More：我曾经在孩童和青少年时期表现得极其出色，但现在进入成年期后，我发现自己陷入了迷茫，试图弄清楚这一切是为了什么。我觉得我成了父母没有离婚的唯一原因（这也许是一件坏事），我从未谈过恋爱，虽然我热爱我的工作，但这还不够。不过，我确实有朋友和爱好。
莫拉·朱德基斯 (Maura Judkis)
长期以来，我一直专注于考上大学和找一份好工作。失去了这些目标，我感到有些迷茫。在过去这个冬天，我曾一度陷入抑郁，目前正在接受心理治疗。我一直告诉自己，我感觉我已经在做所有该做的事情了。但这种身份的转变/解构非常古怪：从一个规划好一切的孩子，变成了一个不再确定这一切是否值得的成年人。这仅仅是需要制定新目标的问题吗？生活感觉漫长而毫无意义。
—— 这值得吗？
《这值得吗？》：如果我们足够幸运，生命是漫长的。而且，在某种宏大的宇宙层面，它也许确实是没有意义的。但我们一生的使命，就是设法在其中找到意义。
从你的来信中，我的感觉是你需要一场“探索”。你是一个擅长制定并实现目标的人，而现在你没有目标了。但“探索”与“目标”不同：探索是一辈子的事业。所以，目前你的探索就是，在倦怠将你完全吞噬之前，弄清楚你的探索究竟是什么。是治愈你内心那个被父母糟糕婚姻所伤害的孩子？还是精进某种艺术——仅仅为了乐趣而去做或去学习某件事，而不考虑任何内在或外在的奖励？作为一名曾经的“天才儿童™”，我知道后者有多难。
将你的情绪稳定想象成
……即便在他们自己的空间里也能保持一致？也许，你的公婆/岳父母并非坦率地表达——并有勇气承认他们只是不喜欢孙辈来访——而是把他们的手枪当成了某种精神支柱？
如果他们在其他方面是“通情达理”且“极好”的人，而且大概不会在其他事情上如此固执，那么这或许能解释这种不妥协的态度，对吧？我也许给他们太高的评价了，但值得思考。
或者，如果上述分析不成立，而你能从内心深处尝试另一个视角：对这些人感到可怜，甚至共情。你显然关心他们，而他们却生活在对最糟糕情况的恐惧之中，以至于不能为了避免失去探访机会，而将他们的“金属安全毯”锁在保险箱里几天。这是一种极其悲哀且自我限制的世界观。
事实上，这件事涉及的是枪支，其实并不重要。任何东西都可以——一只已知对孩子有攻击性的狗，他们坚持要放在触手可及处的药物，或者是爷爷全部展出的忍者之星和飞刀收藏。问题的关键在于，他们已经明确表示，他们不会为了你孩子的安全而做出改变或给自己带来不便。
你最终需要告诉孩子们，为什么不去拜访奶奶和爷爷。起初可以使用一些真实但细节较少的话，比如“奶奶和爷爷家现在不方便接待我们”，随着孩子长大再增加更多信息。
无论动机如何，结果都是一样的，请为那些本可能发生但却未能实现的事情感到悲伤。让自己愤怒，大哭一场，在健身房挥汗如雨，或者在钩编时愤怒地面对公婆/岳父母做出的决定。然后继续前行，知道自己在坚持……你知道的……拒绝在孩子的安全问题上妥协，这是一个正确的选择。
我真的很遗憾，你心中关于温馨拜访奶奶和爷爷家的愿景无法成为现实，但请将其视为一个机会，向孩子们示范如何面对失望。与那些我们无法改变的糟糕事物达成和解，是我们一生中所需调用的一种韧性。奶奶和爷爷选择了某种形式的力量；而你，可以通过身教，教会孩子们另一种力量。
它由一张三脚凳支撑。其中一条腿是你的工作，而这一条似乎强而有力且稳固。另一条腿可以被归类为自我，它是由那些支撑你前行的事物构成的：你的身体健康（你锻炼了吗？这可能有助于缓解抑郁）、爱好、财务状况、知识追求、自我照顾，无论这些对你而言具体呈现什么形式。但三脚凳的第三条腿是你的关系，而这一条似乎是最不稳的。
这条腿是由你周围的人——你的朋友、家人和更广泛的社区——以及他们让你感到最充满活力的方式所构成的。你如何能加强它？也许这包括尝试去理解你从父母的关系中习得的所有东西（你的心理治疗师可以对此提供帮助）。也许是逐渐尝试建立你自己的家庭——通过一段浪漫的伴侣关系，通过将朋友视为家人，或者通过某种你可以称之为自己的社区。亦或是通过一个你为其服务的社区。这并不一定要求找到“真命天子/天女”或依赖你的原生家庭——其美好之处在于，你可以决定它呈现的形式。但如果三条腿不都稳固，凳子就会翻倒。
生活是毫无意义的，是荒诞的，是神奇的，是残酷的，是给人教益的，而且美得令人瞠目结舌，有时这一切都发生在同一周里。而你能从这种机会、境遇和自我决定的漩涡中构建出什么样的意义，取决于你自己。服务他人？寻找爱？创作音乐或艺术？还是其他东西？花时间去弄清楚。这不是一份大学申请书；没有截止日期，没有录取通知书或拒绝信，没有荣誉榜。只有你，在探索属于你个人的“这一切的意义”之版本。
这是值得的。你会让它变得值得。
《常识》 托马斯·潘恩 (Thomas Paine)，1776
导致美国革命的所有伟大思想并非全然新颖。早在古雅典时期，就已有过革命和尝试自我治理的记录。但在我们拥有《独立宣言》，或《宪法》和《权利法案》之前，我们有了托马斯·潘恩那本名为《常识》的 47 页小册子，它使得美国革命几乎成为了必然。
这本书是历史、论证与抨击的结合体，文字强而有力：“即便野兽也不会吞噬幼崽，蛮族也不会与家人开战，”他在描述英国人及其邪恶的国王以及他众多寄生虫时这样写道。潘恩主张的不仅是与“母国”——他嘲笑这个词是英国人对美国人想象力的一次廉价骗局——决裂，更是与历史本身决裂。新世界将拥有一个新的
顶部：托马斯·潘恩的肖像，其 47 页的小册子使得美国革命几乎成为了必然。上方：国家档案馆收藏的《常识》副本。
考古学/艺术
查尔斯·威尔逊·皮尔 (Charles Willson Peale)，1801
1799, 纽约州北部的一位农民在排干一个“泥灰坑”（一种富含钙的粘土和淤泥，用作早期肥料）时，发现了史前猛犸象的骨骸。科学家、历史学家甚至政治家都对这一发现感到兴奋。这证明了美国是一片拥有自身自然历史且充满奇迹的土地。这里是创业者的土地，其中包括查尔斯·威尔逊·皮尔，他是一位博物学家、画家，也是费城博物馆的创始人。皮尔希望挖掘、重新组装并展出这个巨大的骨架，于是在 1801 年，他启动了通常被认为是新共和国历史上第一次科学探险的任务。
“猛犸象成为了北美认同的首个象征，”策展人在一次 2020 年的史密森尼展览中写道，这次展览自 1847. 以来首次将原始骨架带回美国。其展出引发了“猛犸象狂热”，并被新闻媒体誉为“世界第九大奇迹”。托马斯·杰斐逊对此产生了兴趣，从而促成了他与那个时代最伟大的博物学家之一、出生于德国的亚历山大·冯·洪堡之间终身的友谊。
这不仅仅是科学问题。欧洲哲学家和博物学家中流传着一种过于普遍的论调，认为虽然美国很新，但在真正重要的事情上——艺术、文化、科学，甚至自然奇观——并不特别丰富。这是一个被自然“羞辱”的大陆，“在那里的一切要么是退化的，要么是畸形的”。洪堡、杰斐逊和皮尔并不认同，而猛犸象成为了他们向世界证明此点的核心论据。— 菲利普·肯尼科特 (Philip Kennicott)
政治秩序。你认为自己所知道的关于历史、政府、自由的一切，都像去年的历书一样过时且无用。
这是一个令人振奋的声明，激励了数百万刚刚开始将自己想象为美国人的人们。它在伦敦被阅读，而出生于英国的潘恩在那里被谴责为叛徒。它在巴黎被阅读，那里同样酝酿着革命，并将付出惨痛的代价。（潘恩后来移居法国，因反对处死法国国王而被监禁。）即使对于许多我们的国父来说，他的思想也过于激进，但其写作的活力和思考的清晰度如同火星点燃了火药，而那场大火也即将到来。— 菲利普·肯尼科特 (Philip Kennicott)
其他著名作品
其他著名作品
其他著名作品
《致华盛顿将军阁下》， 菲利斯·惠特利 (Phillis Wheatley)，1775
“记得照顾女士们”信件， 阿比盖尔·亚当斯 (Abigail Adams)，1776
“乔治·华盛顿（兰斯当肖像）”， 吉尔伯特·斯图尔特 (Gilbert Stuart)，1796
塞内卡演说家兼首领萨戈耶瓦萨（红夹克）向雅各布·克拉姆牧师发表的演讲，1805
国会图书馆
Allison Robbert/AP
亚历山大·汉密尔顿、詹姆斯·麦迪逊 和约翰·杰伊，1787-1788
在第一次严重的针对美国的武装起义发生前，仅用了十余年时间；而到那时，政府如此虚弱、资金短缺且低效，以至于必须招募私人军队来镇压 1786-1787 的谢司起义。显然，这个在危机中蹒跚前行的初创美国，需要的不仅仅是该国第一部“宪法”——《联邦条例》中设定的松散规则。
在纽约，关于新宪法应具有何种形态的辩论产生了一部有史以来最卓越的政治科学著作。约翰·杰伊、詹姆斯·麦迪逊和亚历山大·汉密尔顿以共同的笔名“普布利乌斯” (Publius)，合写了 85 篇“联邦党人文集”，这些文章在 1787 年 10 月至 1788 年 8 月期间，每隔几天就发表在两家不同的报纸上。政治理论专业的学生至今仍在学习其中的实践智慧，且通常是在研读了数世纪更具思辨性和理论性的文本之后。通过《联邦党人文集》，他们离开了抽象的世界，开始审视民主机制如何打造出一台高效运转的机器。
关于新宪法应具有何种形态的辩论产生了《联邦党人文集》，这是有史以来最卓越的政治科学著作之一。
据史密森尼美国艺术博物馆 2020 年一次展览的策展人称，这具 1799 年在纽约发现的乳齿象骨架“成为了北美认同感的第一个象征”。
这本书在数百起最高法院的判决中被引用，人们研究它以了解美国宪法起草者的意图。作者们不仅仅是在解释一个政府，他们是在推销一种理念，而并非所有的承诺都实现了。他们不认为我们需要一份权利法案，理由是该文件列举了政府的权力，而所有未明确列出的一切都被推定为我们固有权利和自由的一部分。但他们也警告人们要警惕那些高喊自由与解放、并对人民“卑躬屈膝”的煽动者。他们的警告在当今的美国生活中从未如此显著且相关。—— 菲利普·肯尼科特 (Philip Kennicott)
《蒙哥马利将军在 1775 年 12 月 31 日进攻魁北克时阵亡》，约翰·特朗布尔，1786
《论性别平等》， 朱迪思·萨金特·默里，1790
本杰明·富兰克林的《自传》， 1791-1794
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右图：在珀西·莫兰 (Percy Moran) 1913 年的一幅画中，凯伊 (Key) 指向巴尔的摩麦克亨利堡 (Fort McHenry) 飘扬的旗帜，这一景象激发了他创作诗篇《麦克亨利堡之防卫》(The Defence of Fort M’Henry)。
最右图：凯伊作品的手稿，在约翰·菲利普·苏萨 (John Philip Sousa) 的一些游说后，该作品后来成为了国歌，苏萨为其编写了美国海军陆战乐队的编曲。
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弗朗西斯·斯科特·基 (Francis Scott Key), 1814,
每个学龄儿童都学过美国国歌的故事：1814年9月，弗朗西斯·斯科特·基被英国人囚禁在一艘船上，他目睹了舰队进攻巴尔的摩的麦亨利堡，火箭飞舞，炮弹在头顶炸裂。次日早晨，基看到一面巨大的美国国旗在堡垒上傲然飘扬，深受启发，写下了一首名为《麦亨利堡之防》的诗，后被配上音乐并更名为《星条旗》。而完整的故事则更为微妙。
史密森尼美国国家历史博物馆的音乐策展人约翰·特劳特曼 (John Troutman) 解释说，19世纪新歌曲的传播方式是将歌词发表在宽幅印刷品或杂志上，然后套用熟悉的曲调。基在创作歌词时脑海中就有一个著名的旋律——《阿纳克里翁之歌》(The Anacreontic Song)，这使得在客厅或酒吧里的观众在美军击退英军仅几天后，就能轻松地随之合唱。
如果你想找一个人来承担让这首歌深植于我们挥舞国旗的意识之中的责任，那就看看约翰·菲利普·苏萨 (John Philip Sousa) 吧。他在担任美国海军陆战队军乐团指挥期间，为《星条旗》进行了编曲，并在音乐会的结尾演奏此曲，同时游说将其定为国歌。直到 1931, 117 年后，在麦亨利堡之战后，这首歌才正式成为美国的国歌。
人们对《星条旗》的诟病在于其音域使得演唱难度很高，除非你是惠特尼·休斯顿 (Whitney Houston) ——不过特劳特曼指出，“它拥有足够的戏剧感，以及上升的音阶和渐强效果”来吸引听众。与此同时，它也足够灵活，可以被重新演绎 —— 想想 1968 年世界系列赛上的何塞·费利西亚诺 (Jose Feliciano)，或者伍德斯托克音乐节上的吉米·亨德里克斯 (Jimi Hendrix)。它是，且依然是，美国第一首伟大的爱国歌曲。—— 弗里茨·汉恩 (Fritz Hahn)
其他值得关注的作品
肖尼族酋长特库姆塞 (Tecumseh) 向奥塞奇人发表的演说，1811
玛丽·杨·皮克斯吉尔 (Mary Young Pickersgill) 制作星条旗，1813
“绝不弃船”旗，奥利弗·哈赞德·佩里 (Oliver Hazard Perry) 指挥官与玛格丽特·福斯特·斯图尔特 (Margaret Forster Steuart)，1813
详见 E6 页的 美国文化 (AMERICAN CULTURE)
《星条旗》在弗朗西斯·斯科特·基看到它在麦亨利堡上空飘扬时给了他启发，该旗曾一度在波士顿海军造船厂展出。如今，它被保存在美国国家历史博物馆中。
与《里普·凡·温克尔》
华盛顿·欧文，1819-1820
当国会图书馆在编制一份 1750 到 2000 年间“塑造美国的书籍”清单时，在 1850 年之前出版的虚构作品中，仅有一部入选：即出版于华盛顿·欧文的文集《素描本》中的《断头骑士》（The Legend of Sleepy Hollow）。
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这部短篇小说集在欧文居住在英国期间以笔名出版，它引入了美国文学中三个最持久的人物形象：里普·凡·温克尔、伊卡博德·克莱恩和断头骑士。欧文可能受到了关于一名男子沉睡 20 年的德国民间故事，或关于恐怖无头骑手的欧洲故事的影响，但这些故事背景设定在纽约州农村，具有鲜明的美国语调和参考基准。
当老里普·凡·温克尔在经历了一个喝酒打九柱击的“夜晚”后醒来并徘徊回家时，村庄酒馆招牌上的乔治三世国王已经消失，取而代之的是一个陌生的人物——“华盛顿将军”。克莱恩是科顿·马瑟关于新英格兰巫术论著的“完美大师”，他对一座闹鬼的溪流和一棵树深信不疑，而这些都与独立战争时期的间谍约翰·安德烈少校有关。当然，传闻中的那位骑士是“一名黑森骑兵的鬼魂”，即那些曾令人畏惧的英国雇佣兵。
被欧文冷幽默和生动散文吸引的不只有他的美国同胞：拜伦勋爵、查尔斯·狄更斯和沃尔特·斯科特爵士都是他的粉丝，而欧洲评论家们则惊叹于落后、偏远的美国竟然能产生如此文学天才。他们绝想不到，两个世纪后我们依然在谈论他的创作。—— 弗里茨·哈恩 (Fritz Hahn)
其他著名作品
其他著名作品
《独立宣言》，约翰·特伦布尔，1817-1818
《圣尼古拉斯的到访》，匿名出版，1823
托马斯·科尔创作的首批哈德逊河派绘画，1825
顶部：华盛顿·欧文，约 1860- 1865。右侧：一张展示 欧文短篇小说 《断头骑士》 场景的石版画。
“印第安画廊”
1830-1836
1830年，一位名为乔治·卡特林 (George Catlin) 的费城律师转行成为艺术家，他带着一个不同寻常的目标出发前往圣路易斯：记录美洲原住民。他说：“只要我能幸存，没有什么能阻止我走访北美大陆上的每一个印第安民族。”伟大的探险家威廉·克拉克 (William Clark) 带领卡特林沿密西西比河而上，去会见一些原住民部落。在接下来的六年里，卡特林走访了近 50 个部落，绘制了数百幅肖像画，以及大多数美国人从未见过的战争和仪式场景。卡特林在绘画中展现了惊人的细节与尊严：塞米诺尔族酋长 Mick-e-no-páh 所穿的鲜红色绑腿；奥塞奇族酋长之子 Cler-mónt 精美的战争棍；以及曼丹族巫医 Mah-tó-he-ha 的全身像——他身上涂着油彩，拿着装饰有鹰羽的烟斗，腰间挂着狐狸尾巴。
卡特林于 1837 年离开他深爱的边疆，回到东部的纽约，在那里他建立了一个后来被称为“印第安画廊” (Indian Gallery) 的展馆，人们排队支付 50 美分来观看一系列肖像画。根据 2002 年在伦威克画廊 (Renwick Gallery) 举办的卡特林画廊展的共同策展人乔治·格尼 (George Gurney) 的说法，卡特林是否是“一名二流画家”并不重要。他写实地记录了他的原住民模特，正如 2002 年《史密森尼杂志》(Smithsonian Magazine) 的专题报道所指出，他是首批“将他们描绘成人类同胞而非野蛮人”的美国艺术家之一。与此同时，美国印第安人国家博物馆创始馆长 W. 理查德·韦斯特 (W. Richard West Jr.) 则指责卡特林在进行剥削：“在今天看来，卡特林就像是一个文化界的 P.T. 巴纳姆，一个利用他人生活和生活方式牟利的粗鄙骗子。”
随后，卡特林将他的画作带到了欧洲，并配备了活的原住民、熊和文物——这可以看作是后来“水牛比尔野生西方秀” (Buffalo Bill Wild West Show) 的某种艺术先驱——但他最大的心愿是让国家收购他的画廊。最终，一位购买了卡特林画廊的铁路大亨的遗孀将其捐赠给了史密森尼学会，数百幅画作被纳入美国艺术博物馆的收藏。目前仅有极小一部分在展出。 — 弗里茨·哈恩 (Fritz Hahn)
[[IMG_XXXX]] 一位美洲原住民巫医，由艺术家乔治·卡特林绘制。根据 2002 年《史密森尼杂志》的一篇专题报道，他将原住民模特描绘成“人类同胞而非野蛮人”。
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《最后的莫希干人》，詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀 (James Fenimore Cooper)，1826
《美国英语词典》，诺亚·韦伯斯特 (Noah Webster)，1828
《美国人的家庭风俗》，弗朗西丝·米尔顿·特罗洛普 (Frances Milton Trollope)，1832
内森尼尔·库里尔 (Nathaniel Currier) 于 1834 年创立了一家版画公司，后于 1857 年与詹姆斯·梅里特·艾夫斯 (James Merritt Ives) 合作成立库里尔与艾夫斯公司 (Currier & Ives)
《论美国的民主》，亚历克西·德·托克维尔 (Alexis de Tocqueville)，1835
(‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave’)
弗雷德里克·道格拉斯，1845
1838年9月，一名名为弗雷德里克·道格拉斯的奴隶船缝隙填塞工通过乘坐火车从巴尔的摩向北前往，实现了“自我解放”。他很快找到了前往马萨诸塞州的路径，并在那里成为一名传教士和著名的反奴隶制演说家，与废奴主义者威廉·劳埃德·加里森关系密切。正是在马萨诸塞州，在加里森的敦促下，道格拉斯开始撰写他最终将写的三部自传中的第一部，且每部作品的规模和篇幅都日益增加。但正是道格拉斯的第一本书，即这本在扉页上强调“由其本人撰写”的《叙述》，成为了美国文学中的经典之作。
这部结构紧凑的作品从他的出生（日期不详）以及与母亲的分离开始。但道格拉斯直截了当的方式吸引了读者，因为他解释了自己是如何诱使白人孩子帮助他学习读写；以及在爱德华·科维手中遭受的无休止的鞭打和野蛮对待（科维以“驯服年轻奴隶”而闻名），以及两人之间发生的激烈战斗；还有道格拉斯如何被奴隶主反复出租和转移，在一次经历中，由于人力财产需要像其他财产一样被估价，他在其“主人”去世后回到了家庭农场。
道格拉斯是在《汤姆叔叔的小屋》问世之前撰写自传的一批前奴隶美国人之一，但他在写作和修辞方面的天赋使他超越了同时代的人。当然，这里存在一个 catch-22：正如序言中所提到的，道格拉斯之所以将自己的生命故事写在纸上，是因为在听完他雄辩的演讲后，“许多人怀疑他是否真的曾是奴隶”。随后，在书出版之后，人们又怀疑一个曾被奴役的人怎么能写得这么好。但道格拉斯在接下来的数十年中，无论是在舞台上还是在书页中，都以雄辩地为自己的人格权而战，并反对奴隶制的恐怖。 — Fritz Hahn
其他值得注意的作品
其他值得注意的作品
《自立》(“Self-Reliance”)，拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生，1841
乔治·华盛顿雕像，霍拉肖·格林诺，1841
《乌鸦》(“The Raven”)，埃德加·爱伦·波，1845
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《白鲸》中的一个场景，这本书宣告美国文学已成为一个独立的生命体。
赫尔曼·梅尔维尔，1851
在 1840 年代扩张主义战争的余波中，美国踉跄地走向了注定失败的 1850 年妥协案及其《逃奴法》。一个隐喻在报纸上挥之不去：作家和政治家们将联邦比作一艘驶向大漩涡的巨轮。
赫尔曼·梅尔维尔对大海及其隐喻并不陌生，当时他正潜心写作。在莎士比亚、《弗兰肯斯坦》以及纳撒尼尔·霍桑的新杰作《红字》的启发下，他扩写并重新塑造了这个关于一个偏执狂注定失败地追捕白鲸的故事。
其结果是一本书，其奇异之处只能被体验，而无法被言说。《白鲸》将英国文艺复兴时期的节奏与一段精彩的冒险故事融合在一起。它在形式上非常离奇，包含了一部冒险传奇、意识流的哲学探讨、对读者的直接对话，以及它自身的元小说参考文本和一个舞台剧。
对于以实玛利来说，每一个物体都承载着意义，因此《白鲸》经常被阅读和引用为一种寓言——或许是对美国精神那失控且暴力的野心的寓言，或者在更近期的解读中，是对石油战争和生态掠夺的寓言。但梅尔维尔在引入这些隐喻后，随即将其撞击在岩石上。以实玛利说，那些试图解读这部小说的读者面对的只有“金字塔般的沉默”：“如果你们能读懂，就读读看吧。”
当时的人们无法读懂。这本书失败了。“即便我在这个世纪写出了福音书，”梅尔维尔在给霍桑的信中写道，“我也将死在阴沟里。”
他在 19 世纪中叶的同行们正超越其评论家以及殖民时代模仿的陈旧束缚。埃德加·爱伦·坡重塑了美国类型小说。沃尔特·惠特曼用诗歌向国家传唱其自我认知的理念，而亨利·戴维·梭罗和拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生则将超然的个体神话化。哈里埃特·比彻·斯托点燃了公众的思想。
但正是梅尔维尔，将原始的词汇创新与形式上的大胆结合，预示了现代和后现代小说、互联网宣言以及古怪博客的实验。在大多数读者认识到它之前的几十年，《白鲸》就已经宣布美国文学将其自身视为一个活生生的生物。这本书在跨越大西洋后，被包括 D.H. 劳伦斯在内的作家们拯救，随后在本土影响了诸如拉尔夫·艾利森、科马克·麦卡锡、鲍勃·迪伦和李翊君等风格迥异的作家。
亚哈船长那场“炽热的追猎”预告了一场美国文艺复兴：庞大、笨拙、难以捉摸且略带疯狂。以实玛利说：“分析它似乎是不可能的，”就像分析白色一样徒劳。“……但让我们试一试。” —— 史蒂文·约翰逊
赫尔曼·梅尔维尔影响了诸如拉尔夫·艾利森、科马克·麦卡锡、鲍勃·迪伦和李翊君等风格迥异的作家。
《噢！苏珊娜》，史蒂芬·福斯特，1848
《华盛顿渡特拉华河》，埃马纽埃·洛伊茨，1851
《论女性权利》演说，索乔纳·特鲁思，1851
《汤姆叔叔的小屋》，哈里埃特·比彻·斯托，1852
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顺时针从左上起： 一张约 1850 年的弗雷德里克·道格拉斯的达盖尔银版照片。 1845 年出版的第一部自传《弗雷德里克·道格拉斯叙事：一个美国奴隶的生平》，该书成为了美国文学的经典之作。 道格拉斯的夏季手套，2019 年于他在华盛顿特区的历史故居中展出。
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右侧：诗人兼废奴主义者朱莉娅·沃德·豪。 上方：豪那首令人振奋的《共和国战歌》，无论美国人在内战中站在哪一方，都可以唱这首歌。
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裁缝雅各布·W·戴维斯，他在 19 世纪末协助发明了李维斯（Levi’s）牛仔裤。
Levi's 牛仔裤
Levi Strauss 与 Jacob Davis，1873
“我的发明涉及一种口袋开口的紧固件，”裁缝 Jacob W. Davis 在 1873, 一份被称为美国专利号 139,121 的文件中写道。“它由在口袋开口的每条边缘使用金属铆钉或孔眼组成，以防止这些点的接缝撕裂。”
就这样，Davis 及其面料供应商 Levi Strauss & Co. 发明了这种带有铆钉加固口袋的坚固裤子，也就是后来为人熟知的蓝色牛仔裤。一百和 10 年后，传奇法国时尚设计师 Yves Saint Laurent 完美地总结了专利号 139,121 所带来的影响。Saint Laurent 感叹道：“我经常说，我希望是我发明了蓝色牛仔裤：最壮观、最实用、最放松且最随意的服装。它们具有表现力、谦逊、性感和简约——这正是我希望在我的服装中实现的一切。”
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早在 20 世纪 30 年代，Levi's 的广告就将牛仔、美国西部荒野以及艰苦的边境生活浪漫化。不久，穿着丹宁连身衣的“铆钉女”罗西 (Rosie the Riveter)、在《反抗青年》(Rebel Without a Cause) 中穿着牛仔裤的 James Dean，以及穿着破旧 501 系列的 Bruce Springsteen，都在努力将蓝色牛仔裤打造成为自力更生、自由思考的美国精神的象征；Brooke Shields 则帮助引入了牛仔裤也可以成为奢侈品主打单品的观念。Andre Agassi 在美国公开赛上穿的牛仔短裤，Kendrick Lamar 在超级碗上穿的喇叭裤，Beyoncé 和 Lana Del Rey 分别在歌曲中低唱 “Levii’s Jeans” 和 “Blue Jeans”——所有这一切都证明了牛仔裤独特的魅力，在保持其作为美式文化 (Americana) 特定象征的同时，永远地改变了全球的衣橱。— Ashley Fetters Maloy
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《小妇人》，Louisa May Alcott，1868-1869
《共和国战歌》 (‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’)
茱莉亚·沃德·豪 (Julia Ward Howe)，1861
这首熟悉的旋律曾在亚伯拉罕·林肯和罗伯特·F·肯尼迪的葬礼上被唱起，也曾在D-Day（诺曼底登陆日）登陆诺曼底海滩的士兵口中传唱。它的副歌部分被大学橄榄球观众和欧洲足球迷所采用。马丁·路德·金牧师在其最后一次公开演讲的最后一行中，引用了这首歌激动人心的开篇歌词——“我的眼睛已见主降临之光”。
《共和国战歌》可能是内战期间创作的最著名的爱国歌曲，但根据历史学家约翰·斯托弗 (John Stauffer) 和本杰明·索斯基斯 (Benjamin Soskis) 的说法，它可能并非士兵们最青睐的版本。在战争初期，来自波士顿的联邦军队借用了的一首宗教营会歌曲的熟悉旋律，并加入了赞颂约翰·布朗 (John Brown) 的新歌词，后者是 1859 年袭击弗吉尼亚州（现西弗吉尼亚州）哈珀斯费里事件的领导者。“约翰·布朗的躯体在坟墓中腐朽/ 他的真理正向前进！”另一段歌词则威胁要将联邦总统杰斐逊·戴维斯吊死在树上。
1861 年 11 月，诗人兼废奴主义者茱莉亚·沃德·豪在弗吉尼亚州的一次军事检阅中听到了士兵们在唱《约翰·布朗之躯》，她在华盛顿特区的威拉德酒店半夜醒来，脑海中燃起新的歌词。豪的诗句充满了根植于圣经《启示录》的象征意义——第二次降临、愤怒的葡萄——她大多避开了对内战的直接提及，转而创作出一首令人振奋、具有宗教色彩且具有普适爱国精神的赞歌，使得在战争结束后，无论美国人曾经为哪一方而战，都可以传唱此曲。正是由于这种共性，在接下来的几十年里，从工会组织者到民权抗议者，再到福音派人士及其他群体，许多迥异的群体都将这首歌视为自己的象征。—— 弗里茨·哈恩 (Fritz Hahn)
《尼亚加拉》，弗雷德里克·埃德温·丘奇 (Frederic Edwin Church)，1857
由马修·布雷迪 (Mathew Brady) 拍摄的内战照片，1861-1865
布鲁克林大西洋队棒球卡，查尔斯·H·威廉姆森 (Charles H. Williamson)，1865
【顺时针从左起】：加利福尼亚州普莱瑟县的金矿工穿着李维斯 (Levi’s) 牛仔裤，约 1882. 一张 1850 年代的李维·斯特劳斯 (Levi Strauss) 照片，他参与创造了后来被称为蓝色牛仔裤的耐穿长裤。詹姆斯·迪恩 (James Dean) 在其电影《反叛无道》中穿着牛仔裤，他是将牛仔裤变为美国精神象征的人之一。
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【上图】：马克·吐温，约 1907。 【右图】：吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》有力地推动了美国文学寻找自己的声音。
(‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’)
有力地推动了美国文学寻找自己的声音。
马克·吐温，1884-1885
马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》通过一名年轻人的荒诞闹剧，讲述了一个年轻国家的故事。
《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》的语言从一开始就令人震惊。在 1885 年该书于美国出版的当年，马萨诸塞州的一家图书馆禁止该书，称其为“最纯粹的垃圾”。二十年后，布鲁克林公共图书馆将这部小说从儿童馆藏中移除，理由是书中使用了“sweat”（出汗）一词而非“perspiration”。此后数十年，书中随意应用于前奴隶角色吉姆 (Jim) 身上的另一个词，引发了更多的争论、争议和撤书行动。
吐温通过使用 19 世纪美国“粗鄙”且“通俗”的方言来挑战争议。他也给了美国文学
艾米莉·狄金森 (Emily Dickinson)，1890-1891
大声地朗读这些文字，倾听其语调。
“我感到一场葬礼在我的脑海中，/ 哀悼者，来来往往/ 持续践踏——践踏，直到似乎/ 意识正在突破。”
“因为我无法为死亡而停步——/ 他亲切地为我停下——/ 马车里只有我们两人——/ 还有永恒。”
“我的茧收紧了——色彩在诱惑——/ 我在感知空气——/ 对翅膀的朦胧渴望/ 降低了我身着服装的格调——”
毫无疑问，这就是艾米莉·狄金森的声音：浓缩且多层的象征主义；敏锐的节奏感（即便并非总能押韵）；以及特立独行的首字母大写和标点符号，包括那些贯穿页面的破折号。尽管她在内战前就开始写作，但她被誉为第一位现代诗人。文学评论家哈罗德·布鲁姆 (Harold Bloom) 曾将她描述为“近四个世纪以来，西方诗人中出现的最优秀的思想者”。
然而，狄金森在世时仅有 10 首诗作发表，且全部为匿名。在她 1886 年去世后，她的妹妹发现了一批在她数十年间创作的近 1,800 首诗。两部为了符合当时风格而经过大量编辑的选集在 1890-1891 年出版，评价褒贬不一，但成为了畅销书，向世界介绍了诸如《“希望”是那羽翼之物》和《极大的疯狂是最神圣的理智》等具有前瞻性的诗篇。直到 20 世纪 50 年代，我们才得以阅读这些诗作的原始版本。
狄金森的私人生活已成为流行文化迷恋的主题——那位身着全白、孤独的“阿默斯特之美”在近期的电影（如《艾米莉的狂野之夜》）中被“解放”了。但真正启发后世无数之人的，是她在手工装订的选集中留下的关于生命与自然的深刻个人愿景。 — 弗里茨·哈恩 (Fritz Hahn)
欧内斯特·海明威 (Ernest Hemingway) 并不认为这部小说完美（他尤其不喜欢书的最后几个章节），但他无法否认其力量。“所有现代美国文学都源自马克·吐温的一本书，名为《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》，”海明威在 1935 年写道。“美国文学源于此。在此之前什么也没有，此后也没有如此优秀的作品。”
吐温开启了一场小说家试图捕捉美国“真实”声音与性格的全国性风尚：斯坦贝克 (Steinbeck)、贝洛 (Bellow)、塞林格 (Salinger) 和凯鲁亚克 (Kerouac) 都曾尝试。他还激发了我们对迷途美国青少年的故事的兴趣。哈克·费恩的文化继承者包括《反叛无道》、《Kids》、《珍贵的》和《亢奋》。 — 舍恩·奥尼尔 (Shane O’Neill)
其他值得关注的作品
其他值得关注的作品
其他值得关注的作品
哈佛灯笼报 (Harvard Lampoon) 创立于 1876
《女人肖像》，亨利·詹姆斯 (Henry James)，1881
《新巨像》，艾玛·拉撒路 (Emma Lazarus)，1883
《X 夫人》，约翰·辛格·萨金特 (John Singer Sargent)，1884
“白色之城”，芝加哥世界哥伦比亚博览会，1893
《红色勇气勋章》，斯蒂芬·克莱恩 (Stephen Crane)，1895
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左图：艾米莉·狄金森的肖像，曾被描述为“近四个世纪以来，西方诗人中出现的最优秀的思想者”。上图：她的《诗集》系列。
埃尔德里奇·约翰逊 (Eldridge Johnson)，1901
托马斯·爱迪生 (Thomas Edison) 的圆筒唱片在 1890 年代推向公众，这种在金属卷上的蜡层让听众首次能够听到录制的音乐和人声。（它们被称为“会说话的机器”，因为早期的许多圆筒录音都是喜剧表演或政治演讲。）但这种原始技术存在一些严重缺陷。一方面，经过几次播放后，圆筒表面就会退化，蜡层需要被刮掉并重新录制。这就是为什么真正的革命伴随着真正的圆盘——即后来被称为“唱片”的东西而到来。在经历了短暂的硬橡胶尝试后，唱片开始采用虫胶制成，这使其更容易大规模复制，且寿命更长。
这时，埃尔德里奇·约翰逊登场了。他是一位美国商人兼业余发明家，在 1901 年版权之争和专利申请纷至沓来的混乱局面中创立了维克多留声机公司 (Victor Talking Machine Company)。通过一系列交易，约翰逊主导了这场转变，将唱片机从稀有的奢侈品变成了每个体面的美国家庭中不可或缺的重要娱乐来源。这一时刻在五年后到来，当时该公司推出了 Victrola 唱机。
他的技术创新只是其中的一部分。他创造了发条驱动马达，并找到了将沉重的扬声器与唱臂分离的方法。这使得那个巨大的号角可以隐藏在机柜内部，并减少了对唱片表面的损坏。约翰逊还推出了第一个发烧友级唱片厂牌——红印唱片 (Red Seal)。该厂牌在 1903 年推出的初始唱片将意大利男高音恩里科·卡鲁索 (Enrico Caruso) 变成了第一位国际唱片之星。即使在 1929 年约翰逊将维克多公司卖给 RCA 之后，红印唱片作为品牌，在很长一段时间内依然是高质量古典音乐和歌剧录音的重要标志。—— Geoff Edgers
《星条旗永恒》(Stars and Stripes Forever)，约翰·菲利普·苏萨 (John Philip Sousa)，1896
《卡斯特的最后一战》(Custer’s Last Fight)，1896 年为 Anheuser Busch 制作的彩色石印画，基于卡西利·亚当斯 (Cassilly Adams) 1888 年的一幅画作
《枫叶拉格》(Maple Leaf Rag)，斯科特·乔普林 (Scott Joplin)，1899 波士顿交响音乐厅 (Symphony Hall in Boston)，McKim, Mead & White 设计，1900
《扬基嘟嘟男孩》(The Yankee Doodle Boy)，乔治·M·科汉 (George M. Cohan)，1904
参见 E10 页的 AMERICAN CULTURE (美国文化)
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上图：埃米尔·柏林纳 (Emile Berliner)，留声机的发明者，他雇佣埃尔德里奇·约翰逊来改进发条机构。最终，约翰逊成立了维克多留声机公司。 左图：著名的尼珀狗 (Nipper the dog) 标志于 1900 年注册商标。
D.W. 格里菲斯 (D.W. Griffith)，1915
D.W. 格里菲斯于 1915 年上映的这部无声电影是美国电影的基石，同时也是强有力的种族主义宣传工具。在技术层面，它与之前的任何作品都不同。当时的电影时长约为 10 分钟；而《一个国家的诞生》时长超过三小时，将 150,000 英尺的底片剪辑至 13,000 英尺。格里菲斯开创了几种电影拍摄技术，例如特写、跳切和特效。
该片改编自小说《族长：三K党历史浪漫传》(The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan)，背景设定在重建时期的南卡罗来纳州，将黑人描绘成无法适应自由且危险的群体。白人南方人被刻画成受害者，而三K党 (KKK) 则是由正直的救世主组成。数百万美国人观看了这部电影。它是第一部“大片”；虽然数据各异，但估计在数十年内它一直处于最高票房电影之列。它也是第一部在白宫内放映的电影。
这部电影对政治体制的影响是立竿见影的。它煽动了种族暴力。在放映该片的社区中，私刑事件有所增加。这部电影帮助三K党重新崛起。《诞生》宣扬了“失落事业”(Lost Cause) 的叙事，将邦联军队重新塑造成高尚的形象，并掩盖了奴隶制的恐怖。这种叙事在《飘》(Gone With the Wind) 中有较为隐晦的表达，并延续至今。
《诞生》还引发了关于言论自由的辩论，并推动了民权活动。有色人种先进进步协会 (NAACP) 在 1915 年时仅成立几年，但它针对该片发起了一场高调的抗议运动。黑人电影制作人也为此创作了自己的作品。《诞生》凸显了艺术在引导公众舆论和推广危险刻板印象方面的力量。—— 埃拉赫·伊扎迪 (Elahe Izadi)
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1913 年的兵工厂展览 (The 1913 Armory Show)
《圣路易布鲁斯》(St. Louis Blues)，W.C. 汉迪 (W.C. Handy)，1914
上方：在 D.W. 格里菲斯 1915 年的无声电影《一个国家的诞生》的一个场景中，骑在马上的三K党成员与黑人民兵战斗。这部电影是美国电影的基石，也是强有力的种族主义宣传工具。 左方：NAACP 成员在纽约法拉盛抗议 1947 年的电影放映。
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上方：艾兰·勒罗伊·洛克 (Alain LeRoy Locke) 约 1943 年的形象，由贝齐·格雷夫斯·雷诺 (Betsy Graves Reyneau) 绘制。 右方：洛克的《新黑人》(The New Negro) 副本，这是一部 1925 年出版的诗集、小说和散文集，收录了佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿 (Zora Neale Hurston) 和朗斯顿·休斯 (Langston Hughes) 等人的作品。或许没有哪部作品能比这部 400 多页的选集更好地阐述哈莱姆文艺复兴的诞生。
右起：音乐家贝西·史密斯 (Bessie Smith) 约 1924 年的照片，以及法茨·沃勒 (Fats Waller) 在纽约 CBS 演播室的一张无日期照片。虽然爵士乐可能起源于新奥尔良，但它成为了哈莱姆文艺复兴的配乐，并受到该运动的影响，变得更加复杂且广受欢迎。
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(‘The New Negro: An Interpretation’)
艾莱恩·勒罗伊·洛克 (Alain LeRoy Locke)，1925
要界定哈莱姆文艺复兴（Harlem Renaissance）的诞生，你可以观察几个不同的时间点。这场在 1910 年代至 1930 年代间，从黑人文化生活“圣地”中迸发出的创造性表达浪潮，或许没有哪部作品能像 1925 年出版的选集《新黑人：一种诠释》那样能如此精准地阐述这一时刻。这部由哲学家兼学者艾莱恩·勒罗伊·洛克策划的文集共有 400 多页，收录了佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿 (Zora Neale Hurston)、兰斯顿·休斯 (Langston Hughes) 等人的诗歌、小说和散文。历史学家亨利·路易斯·盖茨二世 (Henry Louis Gates Jr.) 曾写道，哈莱姆文艺复兴是“在洛克的助产下诞生的”。
我们许多最伟大的美国艺术家都是那个 era. 的产物。以音乐家杜克·埃灵顿 (Duke Ellington)、贝西·史密斯 (Bessie Smith)、法茨·沃勒 (Fats Waller) 为例；爵士乐可能起源于新奥尔良，但它成为了哈莱姆文艺复兴的背景音乐，并受到这一运动的塑造，变得更加复杂且广受欢迎。
作家（休斯、赫斯顿以及詹姆斯·鲍德温 [James Baldwin] 后来的导师昆蒂·库伦 [Countee Cullen]）和视觉艺术家（主要是被誉为“非裔美国艺术之父”、将立体主义与西非影响相结合的亚伦·道格拉斯 [Aaron Douglas]）经常通过在作品中注入自我表达、人性与种族自豪感，直接挑战当时盛行的对黑人的种族刻板印象和认知。
洛克最初客席编辑了《调查图表》(Survey Graphic) 杂志的一期特刊，向读者推介了一些此类作家。随后，他被邀请策划这部扩充的特别选集，将一些此前不为人知的作者介绍给全国观众。在书中的开创性论文中，洛克对当时发生的情况进行了框架界定和背景分析。
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“大迁徙” (Great Migration) 见证了黑人们离开美国南方不断扩张的吉姆·克劳 (Jim Crow) 种族隔离体制，前往更北方的城市。在哈莱姆，这些新抵达者还遇到了来自法国和英国殖民地的黑人移民浪潮，后者同样是为了寻求经济机遇和更大的表达自由而到来。
在这种环境下，一种新的黑人文化和身份认同正在锻造，并通过艺术寻找表达方式。洛克看到黑人们现在正将自己定义为文明的“自觉贡献者”，不再害怕要求自己的权利，并尝试通过作品创造出非裔美国生活的写实描绘。
“如果在我们的有生之年，黑人还不能庆祝他完全融入美国民主，”洛克写道，“他至少可以凭借这些成就，庆祝群体发展进入了一个具有重要意义且令人满意的新阶段，并随之迎来一次精神上的‘成年礼’。”
但由于他支持的一些观点，也引发了关于艺术是否是妨碍现实进步的奢侈分心事的激烈争论。他的同辈 W.E.B. 杜波依斯 (W.E.B. Du Bois) 认为，政治和经济应该是黑人集体力量的焦点，而有价值的艺术实际上应该是宣传。洛克则主张自我表达的重要性以及艺术的价值，即“美学本身的伦理”。
哈莱姆文艺复兴的精神在最终被大萧条所阻碍后，在后来为民权运动的政治注入了动力，并启发了 1960 年代和 1970 年代的黑人艺术运动。—— 埃拉赫·伊扎迪 (Elahe Izadi)
其他著名作品
《 the Kid》（ the Kid），查理·查普林 (Charlie Chaplin)，1921
美国小姐选美大赛，1921
《蓝色狂想曲》(Rhapsody in Blue)，乔治·格什温 (George Gershwin)，1924
《了不起的盖茨比》(The Great Gatsby)，F. 斯科特·菲茨杰拉德 (F. Scott Fitzgerald)，1925
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左图：杜克·埃灵顿管弦乐团在 1943 年电影《与贝弗利一起起床》(Reveille With Beverly) 中与贝蒂·罗谢 (Betty Roché) 共同演出。下图：一张 1942 年休斯的照片。他与当时的其他作家和视觉艺术家一样，通过在作品中注入自我表达感和种族自豪感，直接挑战了盛行的种族刻板印象和对黑人的认知。
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米奇在 1928 年的短片《汽船威利》(Steamboat Willie) 中首次亮相，该片时长八分钟。
沃尔特·迪士尼 (Walt Disney) 与 厄布·艾沃克斯 (Ub Iwerks)，1928 年
所有这一切——迪士尼乐园、白雪公主，以及那个可以观看《曼达洛人》的流媒体 App 中心——都始于大崩盘前夕，一只出现在汽船上的黑白小老鼠。
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沃尔特·迪士尼在 25 岁时看到了阿尔·乔尔逊 (Al Jolson) 1927 年的电影《爵士歌唱家》(The Jazz Singer)，这是第一部有声电影，于是他决定是时候让沉默的“菲力猫” (Felix the Cat) 成为过去式了。因此，他与厄布·艾沃克斯创造了米奇——一只勇敢的底层小老鼠，穿着装饰古怪的短裤，有着极宽的笑容和巨大的鞋子。（白色手套随后便出现了。）
米奇（以及米妮）在 1928 年的《汽船威利》中呈现在公众面前。这部近八分钟长的短片节奏热烈，场景快速切换，渴望分享各种声音：口哨声、咯咯声、尖叫声、嚼烟声、扔猫声，且大部分情节配合美国民歌《稻草上的火鸡》(Turkey in the Straw) 展开。《威利》并非第一部有声动画短片，但……
2011 年，一名博物馆官员站在亚特兰大的杰克逊·波洛克 (Jackson Pollock) 的作品《Number 1A, 1948》前。 波洛克并非抽象表现主义的创造者，但凭借这部作品，他定义了一个时代 (era.)。
杰克逊·波洛克，1948
杰克逊·波洛克并非发明了抽象艺术或抽象表现主义，他那标题令人费解的《Number 1A, 1948》也不是他的第一幅“滴画”（通过将油漆直接滴在画布上而创作）。但凭借这幅宽超过 8 英尺的作品，他定义了一个艺术和美国历史的时代。杰克逊在位于长岛的一座改建谷仓工作室里，将画布铺在地上进行创作，留下了一份关于油漆在运动、身体在运动，以及延伸到美国在运动的视觉记录。
在波洛克之前，美国已经拥有了伟大的艺术家——以及马克·罗斯科、克利福德·斯蒂尔、李·克拉斯纳、弗朗兹·克莱恩和罗伯特·马瑟韦尔，他们是最著名的“抽象表现主义者”。但美国艺术一直深受“缺乏原创性”这一指责的困扰，被认为是欧洲艺术一个充满活力但仅是模仿的分支。这一切在第二次世界大战后结束，当时纽约不仅成为了画家和雕塑家的之都，也成为了诗人、小说家和作曲家的聚集地。这种协同效应令人沉醉，而《Number
它在技术和商业上无疑是最成功的。而且与这对组合之前的创作不同——有人还记得“幸运兔奥斯瓦尔德”吗？——米老鼠具有持久的影响力。
在迪士尼的领地上，他给了我们电视节目、手表、午餐盒，以及一个在迪士尼所有主题公园中走动的、沉默且可摆姿势的人偶。如果没有《全新米老鼠俱乐部》，谁知道我们是否能有幸看到那些目光明亮的少年：瑞安（ Gosling）、布兰妮（Spears）、贾斯汀（Timberlake）和凯丽（Russell）。在沃尔特的王朝之外，米老鼠为如何最佳地利用企业吉祥物以及建立商品帝国提供了典范。从米老鼠到 Hello Kitty 再到马里奥的直接传承路径显而易见。 — Geoff Edgers
其他值得关注的作品
其他值得关注的作品
其他值得关注的作品
其他值得关注的作品
《西端蓝调》(West End Blues)，路易斯·Armstrong 及其 Hot Five 乐队，1928
《美国哥特式》(American Gothic)，格兰特·伍德，1930
《大森林里的小房子》(Little House in the Big Woods)，劳拉·英格尔斯·怀尔德，1932
《鸭子汤》(Duck Soup)，马克斯兄弟，1933
1A》的感觉就像是有人拍了一张巨幅照片，拍的不是事件本身，而是那些让历史突然在开阔的公路上全速前进的能量矢量。
这幅画是纽约现代艺术博物馆访客的最爱。与早期尝试抽象并使用滴画技巧的绘画不同，《Number 1A》不是一个供你研究的客体，而是一个让你沉浸其中的事件。“美国世纪”的赞美者会将波洛克这样的艺术家视为新活力、新表达自由的典范。 1940 年代和 50 年代的美国现实要阴暗得多，但至少这里呈现了一个关于我们认为自己能够成为谁的愿景。 — Philip Kennicott
《公民 13660》(Citizen 13660)，三根·奥久保，1946
《欲望号有轨电车》(A Streetcar Named Desire)，田纳西·威廉斯，1947 年在舞台首演，1951 年被拍成电影
《艾德·萨利文秀》(The Ed Sullivan Show)，艾德·萨利文和马洛·刘易斯，1948-1971
《麦田里的守猎人》(The Catcher in the Rye)，J.D. 塞林格，1951
《隐形人》(Invisible Man)，拉尔夫·艾里森，1952
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罗伯特·约翰逊，他那令人心碎的蓝调启发了未来的开拓者。
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早在它成为慵懒的流行陈词滥调之前， 罗伯特·约翰逊就在歌曲中以坚定的信念 唱着就在转角之处的恶魔。他对于漂泊 生活的愿景——通过令人心碎的滑棒吉他 表达暴力、荒凉与情欲——为在南方浸信 会教堂中随处可闻的福音音乐提供了一种 对比。
关于约翰逊的传说，即他将灵魂出卖给 魔鬼以换取超凡的吉他技巧，与后来围绕 摇滚乐之邪恶特质的论调十分相似；而他 在 1938 年的去世，使他成为了最早进入 “27 俱乐部”的人之一。但约翰逊深远的影响 力来自于一种不可思议的能力：能够抓住 他生命中无处不在的黑暗，并从中剥离出 嶙峋且美丽的碎片。
在他去世后的数十年里，约翰逊那随性的 演奏和揪心的呻吟，为美国音乐开辟了一条 涵盖查克·贝里、鲍勃·迪伦甚至 Nas 的道路。 这些先驱每一个人都从约翰逊简约的三角洲 布鲁斯作品中汲取了养分——无论是他对 惊人歌词细节的捕捉，还是《Sweet Home Chicago》中典型的布吉伍吉风格——并将之 融入 R&B、民谣摇滚和 Boom Bap 的不同形态中。
“只有[约翰逊]最弱的歌曲才在平稳的基调上 运行；最伟大的那些则在颤抖、破碎并爆发， 或在静静抖动的琴弦周围缓慢地扭转，进入 一种悬浮状态，”格雷尔·马库斯在其关于美国 摇滚音乐的影响力著作《Mystery Train》中写道， “直到约翰逊营造出一种如此精致且凄凉的氛围， 让人觉得他绝不可能活着走出他的歌曲。” —— 伊森·贝克
“加利福尼亚的人类侵蚀（移民母亲）”，多萝西亚·兰格，1936
《动作漫画》第 1 期，主打超人，杰里·西格尔与乔·舒斯特，1938
《绿野仙踪》，维克多·弗莱明，1939
《公民凯恩》，奥逊·威尔斯，1941
《移民系列》，雅各布·劳伦斯，1941-1942
[[IMG_XXXX]] 1978 年拍摄的厨师茱莉亚·查尔德，可能是最初的“网红”。她的影响力从二战后的核心家庭一直延伸到如今整个活泼的 DIY 视频流派。
茱莉亚·查尔德，1961
《法式烹饪艺术精讲》是由三位女性合著的。 其中两人——西蒙·贝克和路易赛特·贝尔托尔 ——实际上是法国人。但我们今天记得的却是 茱莉亚·查尔德——封面上第三个且唯一的美国名字。
称呼一个历史人物为“最初的网红”，其深刻 程度通常就像一名初中英语老师称呼莎士比亚 为“最初的饶舌歌手”一样。但在查尔德的 情况下，这在某种程度上是真的。
《法式烹饪艺术精讲》催生了查尔底的电视 节目《法式厨师》，而后者又催生了整个 活泼的 DIY 视频内容流派，从鲍勃·维拉到 HGTV，再到《Queer Eye》，到艾莉森·罗马， 到史莱姆食谱，再到亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥- 科尔特兹在厨房里拿着手机，一边切菜一边 在通往国会的路上。
我们可以感谢《法式烹饪艺术精讲》成就了 玛莎·斯图尔特，并将其视为盖伊·菲耶里的 罪魁祸首。但它的遗产比这更为深远。
这本书利用了二战后美国社会的富足与个人 主义——超市里食材充足，厨房仅为一个核 心家庭而建——将其作为创造精湛烹饪时刻 的机会，足以给来自大洋彼岸最傲慢的 势利小人留下深刻印象。
这种传递的信息是民主的吗？即只要有正确 的指导，你也可以凭一己之力创造杰作？ 还是它是精英主义的？为那些已经过度劳累、 被低估且得不到感谢的女性推行不可企及的 高标准？这是一个个人口味的问题。Bon appétit（祝您胃口好）！—— 肖恩·奥尼尔
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《钢都》，安·兰德，1957
《西区故事》，伦纳德·伯恩斯坦，杰罗姆· 罗宾斯，亚瑟·劳伦茨，斯蒂芬·桑德海姆，1957
《Johnny B. Goode》，查克·贝里，1958
《迷离空间》，罗德·塞林，1959
《第22条军规》，约瑟夫·海勒，1961
威廉·安德斯 (William Anders)，1968
这是 1968 年纪事中的一项迟到补充，而 1968 年是美国历史上最动荡的年份之一。4 月，马丁·路德·金牧师被刺杀；6 月，罗伯特·F·肯尼迪被枪杀。当时暴动频发，抗议不断，一场极具分裂性的越南战争似乎陷入了僵局。随后，在 12 月下旬，阿波罗 8 号任务摆脱了地球的引力束缚，成为第一个绕月运行的载人任务。在平安夜，宇航员威廉·安德斯看到蓝色的地球相对于月球的地平线升起。他急促地要求使用装有彩色底片的相机，拍下了历史上最具影响力、最受喜爱且最令人警醒的照片之一。
我们现在熟知的这张名为“地球升起”的照片，相对于其原始方向被翻转了大约 90 度，原图显示家园行星在灰色、布满陨石坑的月球表面的左侧“升起”。这是一个精明的选择，通过类比早晨的太阳使地球“升起”，从而营造出一种希望的意象。它也美化了我们这个水之行星，使其显得年轻、略显脆弱，且与荒芜的月球相比，它是一个避风港和充满可能性的场所。
它成为了环保运动和平和运动的标志。今年 4 月，当阿尔忒弥斯 2 号 (Artemis II) 任务成为 1972 年以来首次返回月球轨道的载人飞行时，机组人员传回了一幅忧郁的收尾之作——一张“地球落下” (Earthset) 的图像，捕捉到了一个几乎忘记了其伟大太空探索时代的国家中截然不同的心境。 — 菲利普·肯尼科特 (Philip Kennicott)
其他值得关注的作品
其他值得关注的作品
其他值得关注的作品
《宠物之声》(Pet Sounds)，海滩男孩 (The Beach Boys)，1966
《星际迷航》(Star Trek)，吉恩·罗登贝瑞 (Gene Roddenberry)，1966
《灵魂列车》(Soul Train)，唐·康尼利厄斯 (Don Cornelius)，1970-2006
《电视上绝对不能说的七个词》，乔治·卡林 (George Carlin)，1972
《大白鲨》(Jaws)，史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格 (Steven Spielberg)，1975
由阿波罗 8 号宇航员威廉·安德斯于 1968 年 12 月 24 日拍摄的原始“地球升起”照片。它成为了环保和平和运动的标志，同时也是历史上最受喜爱的照片之一。
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从左起，安德斯与同事宇航员詹姆斯·A·洛威尔 (James A. Lovell Jr.) 和弗兰克·博曼 (Frank Borman) 在 1968 年 10 月于墨西哥湾进行一次训练行动期间。
迈克尔·杰克逊在 1983 年拍摄他那令人难忘的《Thriller》音乐录影带期间。
迈克尔·杰克逊 (Michael Jackson)，1982
旨在延续 40,000 年的放克 (Funk) 音乐。受非洲启发的吟唱。硬摇滚吉他独奏。底特律汽车城 (Motown) 声音的残余。与保罗·麦卡特尼 (Paul McCartney) 的口白对峙。由 Toto 成员创作的抒情曲。
在创作《Thriller》期间，迈克尔·杰克逊打破了流派壁垒。他那极具空气感、轻盈如羽的声音——在《Billie Jean》中发出痛苦的插话，在《Human Nature》中带来狂喜的演绎——在昆西·琼斯 (Quincy Jones) 多变的制作基础上跃动，后者能将任何地点变成舞池。得益于同名主打歌那令人难忘的音乐录影带的推动，《Thriller》仅用 15 个月就正式成为了史上最畅销的专辑。
“黑色音乐在很长一段时间里只能扮演配角，但它的精神是流行音乐的整个发动机，”琼斯在 1984 年告诉《时代》(Time) 杂志。“迈克尔拥有……”
Id Software, 1993
罗伯特·约翰逊与魔鬼达成了一笔交易。 《毁灭战士》要求我们走进地狱，用枪杀死恶魔。
1993年12月，Id Software 通过互联网免费发放了其新视频游戏的部分内容。大学网络在巨大的流量压力下崩溃，电子公告板被点燃，这款游戏最终安装的计算机数量超过了当时的微软 Windows 95。 《毁灭战士》在数字娱乐领域具有奠基意义——一个第一人称视角、自行发布、无需门槛且无需零售店的 3D 世界；在人们还未给“用户生成内容”命名之多年前，它就催生了这一概念。程序员约翰·卡马克为观众提供了构建属于他们自己地狱角落的工具。
虚幻引擎（Unreal Engine）的架构师蒂姆·斯威尼表示，《毁灭战士》“定义了我们这一代人的新媒介。其在创意和技术上的飞跃……如此之多，以至于令感官震撼”。如今，从电影、汽车设计到《堡垒之夜》等所有产品均由该引擎驱动。
到 1996 年，美国海军陆战队使用《毁灭战士 II》来培训部队的火力小组支援和弹药纪律。这款游戏成为了 1999 年科罗拉多州哥伦拜高中枪击案的替罪羊，而那里正是美国持续不断的噩梦的零点。凶手们崇拜《毁灭战士》，但夺走生命的是持有枪支的人，而非游戏。一个处于悲痛中的国家恐惧一种它并不理解的新型娱乐方式。随后，关于游戏和音乐的听证会相继举行，这种模式在此后的几乎每一次大规模枪击案后都会重复上演。
这款游戏的分享与社区精神，以及引导玩家在 3D 空间的抽象环境中行走的先驱方法，源于设计师约翰·罗梅罗的成长背景，他拥有美国原住民（雅基族、切罗基族）和墨西哥血统。他说：“《毁灭战士》的许多设计，尤其是关卡设计，在很大程度上受到了我对环境、对世界的这种理解的影响，而这来自于我的父亲、祖母以及每一个人”——在他看来，那是几代人“生活在他们认为应当共享的土地上”的传承。
今年，国会图书馆将《毁灭战士》的音乐纳入国家录音登记册，现在它与约翰逊并列，证明美国可以与其心魔达成和解。但总会有下一个目标。 —— Gene Park
“与世界上每一个灵魂相连。”他说得没错，《Thriller》是黑人音乐一次难以想象的突破。但杰克逊的第六张个人专辑也让他巩固了我们现在所熟知的“全球流行巨星”的形象。
他的流行舞编排、圆滑的风格转换以及霸气十足的时尚感，为之后所有试图赢得 Top 40 听众的人投下了巨大的阴影，包括碧昂丝、Lady Gaga 甚至 Fall Out Boy。与此同时，杰克逊在小报上的负面行为以及性侵指控证明，不可思议的巨星光环并非想象中那么美好。—— Ethan Beck
《星球大战》，乔治·卢卡斯，1977
《生日快乐》，斯蒂维·旺达，1980
《行星摇滚》，Afrika Bambaataa 和 Soulsonic Force，1982
《考斯比一家》，比尔·考斯比，1984
《康加舞》，格洛丽亚·埃斯特凡和迈阿密音乐机器，1985
《喜福会》，谭恩美，1989
《做正确的事》，斯派克·李，1989
《辛普森一家》，马特·格勒宁，1989-至今
《赛恩菲尔德》，拉里·戴维和杰里·赛恩菲尔德，1989-1998
《真实世界》，玛丽-艾丽丝·布尼姆和乔纳森·默里，1992-2019
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拉娜·沃卓斯基 (Lana Wachowski) 和 莉莉·沃卓斯基 (Lilly Wachowski)，1999
1999 年，沃卓斯基姐妹推出了一部名为《黑客帝国》的华丽科幻动作电影。该片获得了巨大的商业成功。片中时间变慢、空间弯曲的“子弹时间”序列，成为了电子游戏和电影制作的基准。而且，它可以说成为了 21 世纪早期西方最重要的寓言。
在电影的第一幕中，尼奥 (Neo，基努·里维斯 饰) 面临一个选择：要么服用红色药丸，揭示现实的真相；要么服用蓝色药丸，回到他原本认知的生活中。他服用了红色药丸，并得知世界上大部分人实际上生活在一个巨大的计算机模拟之中。
自柏拉图的洞穴寓言起，哲学家们一直在思考感知如何扭曲现实，但《黑客帝国》将这些古老的宇宙之问带入了互联网时代，并将其包装在一个易于拆解的方案中。或许，这太简单了。
2020 年，拉娜·沃卓斯基表示，《黑客帝国》是对她自己跨性别觉醒的隐喻。但到那时，“红色药丸”这个隐喻已经演变成了独立的事物。后来被我们称为“非自愿单身者 (incels)”的男性群体对此尤为痴迷。“服用红药丸 (red pilled)”演变为意识到女性主义和主流文化如何据称地让男性处于不公平的劣势。
《黑客帝国》预示了社交媒体算法将如何撕裂我们的媒体、政治、文化以及我们的集体现实。
我们都可以同意该片传递的信息——我们需要拔掉插头并觉醒——在今天依然具有现实意义。只不过，没有人能就我们需要从什么东西中“拔掉插头”，或者我们应该向什么“觉醒”达成共识。 —— 舍恩·奥尼尔 (Shane O’Neill)
其他值得关注的作品
其他值得关注的作品
其他值得关注的作品
《黑道家族》(The Sopranos)，大卫·蔡斯 (David Chase)，1999-2007
《幸存者》(Survivor)，马克·伯内特 (Mark Burnett) 和 查理·帕森斯 (Charlie Parsons)，2000-至今
iPod，史蒂夫·乔布斯 (Steve Jobs)，2001
卡戴珊家族，出自 2007 年《跟上卡戴珊》第一季。该节目播出 14 年，并产生了同数量的衍生剧，它为如何成名引入了一种新范式，并帮助开创了网红文化 (influencer culture)。
瑞安·西克雷斯特 (Ryan Seacrest)，2007
简短回想一下 2000 年代：文化正被互联网民主化和平民化，高端文化与低端文化存在于完全相同的空间中。名人开始发送推文，从而一举揭露了他们中许多人其实只是极其平凡的人。而一部讲述一个极其富有的、半就业的律师女儿们的剧集——这些女儿的父亲是已故的成功律师罗伯特·卡戴珊 (Robert Kardashian)——其中一名女儿曾作为帕丽斯·希尔顿 (Paris Hilton) 的助理而获得了中等程度的知名度——这部剧成为了那个 era. 最令人难忘的标志之一。
《跟上卡戴珊》播出了 14 年，并产生了同数量的衍生剧。或许更重要的是，这部剧为如何成名引入了一种新范式。是的，自镀金时代以来，社交名媛一直通过“出名”而闻名。希尔顿和安娜·尼科尔·史密斯 (Anna Nicole Smith) 已经将名人做普通事情的行为变成了必须收看的电视节目。
但正如《卡戴珊文化：名人如何改变 21 世纪生活》(Kardashian Kulture: How Celebrities Changed Life in the 21st Century) 的作者艾利斯·卡什莫尔 (Ellis Cashmore) 所断言，卡戴珊家族是我们现在所知的网红文化的先驱，他们半隐晦地推销日常生活的各种配套设施，并毫不掩饰地攫取利润。卡什莫尔表示，KUWTK “是一次关于如何在宣传的同时让观众深信自己并没有被宣传的精彩研究”。他说：“观众不再是在广告之间观看名人。他们观看的人，其生活本身就是广告。”
如今，当研究人员询问全球的孩子长大后想成为什么时，“网红 (influencer)”在最受欢迎的答案中名列前茅。—— 艾希莉·费特斯·马洛伊 (Ashley Fetters Maloy)
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1999 年《黑客帝国》的一则广告，图中从左至右依次为：乔·潘托利亚诺 (Joe Pantoliano)、劳伦斯·菲什伯恩 (Laurence Fishburne)、基努·里维斯 (Keanu Reeves) 和 凯瑞-安妮·莫斯 (Carrie-Anne Moss)。
碧昂丝 (Beyoncé)，2016
从出人意料的首支单曲《Formation》中就可以看出，无论碧昂丝的下一个项目是什么，它都将引导她走向一个新的且具有鲜明政治色彩的方向：在由梅丽娜·马特苏卡斯 (Melina Matsoukas) 执导的视频中，这位超级巨星出现在一座种植园住宅的客厅里，以及一辆沉入洪水中的警车顶上，唤起了人们对卡特里娜飓风的回忆。
两个月后，碧昂丝在没有任何事先通知的情况下发布了超越流派的《Lemonade》，并配有一部 65 分钟的视觉专辑，其中充满了 A 级明星的客串、对非洲及非裔美国历史的震撼呈现，以及追踪库伯勒-罗斯 (Kübler-Ross) 创伤反应模型的凄美口述间奏。而且不知为何，这部专辑比上述描述所暗示的更加大胆且充满野心。
马特苏卡斯后来解释说，碧昂丝为《Lemonade》制定的核心论点是，奴隶制仍在影响黑人男性、女性以及黑人家庭：“我们几乎是如何被社会化到无法在一起的。”随后，哈佛大学、宾夕法尼亚大学和德克萨斯大学（以及其他学校）迅速开设了关于《Lemonade》的课程。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 碧昂丝在《Lemonade》中的一个场景，这是她 2016 年超越流派的视觉专辑。
一群在《华盛顿邮报》负责艺术与文化报道的评论家、记者和编辑花费了数月时间创建、修订并就此名单进行争论。我们咨询了历史学家、策展人和其他专家，以研究并支持这些入选作品。我们反复探讨的一个关键区别是：某部作品是否具有影响力？如果是，它以何种方式在美利坚文化版图上产生波动，无论好坏？因此，我们考虑的一些作品与丑陋密不可分——而另一些则与美、喜悦、独创性或自由相关。总的来说，我们的目标是捕捉美国精神的复杂性。
在乔治亚州立大学教授非裔美国文学和民俗学的康斯坦斯·贝利 (Constance Bailey) 在阿肯色大学领导了一门关于碧昂丝的课程。贝利表示，《Lemonade》的魔力在于“它让交叉性 (intersectionality) 的概念变得让普通女性也能触及”。《Lemonade》在多种性别和种族身份之间无缝切换。“它不仅仅是‘我是黑人’，而是‘我是一个黑人女性，且我是一个已婚女性’。”
《Lemonade》使视觉专辑和秘密发行专辑的方式重新流行起来。在随后的几年中，《Lemonade》中的曲目继续为关于美国种族平等未竟之业的对话提供背景音乐。在 2020 年乔治·弗洛伊德被谋杀后，与肯德里克·拉马尔 (Kendrick Lamar) 合作的《Freedom》成为了“黑人的命也是命” (Black Lives Matter) 活动人士的赞歌，并且在卡玛拉·哈里斯 (Kamala Harris) 2024 年具有历史意义的总统竞选中占据了重要地位。—— Ashley Fetters Maloy
《亚特兰大》(Atlanta)，唐纳德·格洛弗 (Donald Glover)，2016-22
《Whole Lotta Red》，Playboi Carti，2020
《保留犬》(Reservation Dogs)，斯特林·哈若 (Sterlin Harjo) 和 塔伊加·瓦yticks (Taika Waititi)，2021-23
时代巡回演唱会 (The Eras Tour)，泰勒·斯威夫特 (Taylor Swift)，2023-2024
《Debí Tirar Más Fotos》，Bad Bunny，2025
这是一个不完美且主观的名单，此类尝试本质如此。在许多方面，我们存在分歧。我们推测您可能也会有不同看法。请通过提交表单 wapo.st/americanculture 告诉我们您会加入哪些内容及其原因。
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亲爱的卡罗琳：我不在大学宿舍的时候，主要住在妈妈那里，但这个夏天我选择和父亲以及新继母“梅根”住在一起，为了更好地了解她。
卡罗琳·海克斯 (Carolyn Hax)
我很痛苦。她人很好，也让我父亲很开心，但她的整个生活都被“不能浪费哪怕一秒钟”所主导。她经常把这句话挂在嘴边：时间是唯一无法增加的东西。她做每一件事都力求以最高效的方式进行；所有的出行都经过精心规划，甚至包括她每周一次的超市购物。我问她想不想和我一起去农贸市场，她问我是否有摊贩的地图或清单。当我回答没有时，她说这听起来像是在极大地浪费时间。
在她身边，没有任何人会欣赏计划之外的瞬间或意外的邂逅。我甚至无法享受烹饪，因为她会闯进来把我挤到一边，说着：“这不是切洋葱的最佳方式，”或者怎么切香草、怎么给鸡肉裹面包糠等等。
我父亲说她这样是因为她的职业（项目经理），但即使是她的爱好也被如此对待。她并不是利用省下来的时间来放松，而是往生活中塞进更多的项目。
我知道人们各不相同，而且这是件好事。但如果我开车送她去某个地方，我会紧张得像崩溃了一样，因为只要开错一个弯，我就浪费了她的一部分时间，这在她的逻辑里是最不可原谅的罪过。事实上，我一直担心自己在烦她或浪费她的时间，所以我一直避免与她单独相处，这使得很难去了解她。我想不出有什么办法能和她讨论这个问题，而又不听起来像是在批评她。而这并不是我的目的。您能帮帮我吗？
—— 浪费继母时间的孩童
浪费继母时间的孩童：我可以告诉你：你之所以想不出不像批评的方式，是因为这本身就是一种批评。
在我看来，这是一个合理的批评，但我也同样不适合做一个项目经理。
幸运的是，她没有要求我们任何一个人去改变她的本性——而且无论如何，这都不是处理问题的方法。你之前提到赞美人们的差异，这个切入点是最好的。只需在此基础上再向前推进一步。
每个人都应该被允许成为自己的样子。但我们也必须对他人是安全的，并且有某种义务尝试与周围的人和谐相处……例如，在车里载着一个 A 型人格（完美主义/强迫型）的人时，不要以消极攻击的方式磨蹭。我们每个人都根据自己的舒适度、天性、价值观和自我意识，不断地在这些界限之间进行权衡。
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问题不在于她与你如此不同，而在于你对她的反应。（主要是这样。）
而这是需要你来解决的，而不是梅根。（主要是这样。）
我将以你开车送她时的压力为例，来解释如何解决。梅根只是在做她自己，对吧？极度在意时间完全是她的特权。那么问问你自己——她那种紧迫的效率感，真的给你这个司机带来了任何义务吗？难道你没有同样的特权去做你自己——比如，慢悠悠地晃荡？闻闻玫瑰花？为诗意而刹车？
对于任何人，这其实都是一个值得我们反思的好问题（除非你是在拿钱办事或明确在帮对方忙；交易行为不算在内）。我们每个人都应该被允许成为自己的样子。但我们也
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因此，与梅根（Megan）讨论或恳求她在夏天宽容一些，似乎是能帮你度过难关的方法，但更合理的做法是从深刻理解自己的底线开始，以及你在他人面前能多好地保持自我——或者在这种情况下，你坍塌并放弃自我的速度有多快。
梅根强烈的个性及其继母的身份确实让事情变得更具挑战性。但这并不意味着你必须为了她而改变自己，或为了达到她的标准而表演，无论你感觉到来自副驾驶席的压力有多大。这些理由也不能将你的压力仅仅解释为是为了留下好印象而努力。
你需要问自己的问题是，为什么你在____（你的父亲、母亲或其他的人）身边不会感到如此焦虑。是因为他们的期望更容易达成，还是因为你并不在意是否达成？而对于那些让你焦虑的人，是否像梅根一样，他们设定的门槛让你觉得太高了？以此类推。这类问题可以追溯你的情感路径，让你在保持自我或在他人压力下屈服之间做出选择。你知道梅根让你变得卑微，你也知道你想让这种情况停止。
让自己变得坚定，直到不再那么依赖外界的认可，才是应对梅根的办法。意识到你拥有成为自己的平等特权，正是这种关键转变的根源。
对于一个具体的问题给出如此抽象的答案，我很抱歉。
当然，沟通永远有其作用，要求梅根退后的一种方式是清晰地表达你的困扰：例如，“我在时间压力大时效率会低下”，“当你纠正我的切片方式时，我会变得紧张”。不过，积极的分享可能是最有效的沟通：“啊，梅根！农贸市场就是要逛出最高峰的感觉！”如果你还没找到那种说话的方式，那么，说声“好吧”，然后一个人去，也是一个完全可以接受的反应。
也许你了解梅根的目标必须等待，直到你内心变得更强大。幸运的是，这是一个可以无限期搁置的好目标，尽管在此期间损失的是她。
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金牛座 (4 月 20 日-5 月 20 日) 远离与政治、宗教和种族问题相关的争议性话题，因为今天混淆和误解的因素非常普遍。你很容易自欺欺人，而其他人也很容易欺骗你！保持冷静。
双子座 (5 月 21 日-6 月 20 日) 将重要的财务决定推迟到另一天。当涉及到任何与共有财产、银行细节、继承、税务或债务相关的事情时，你的思维过于模糊。你可能没有掌握正确的事实。暂时维持现状即可。
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横向 1 像孩子一样开玩笑 6 “亲爱的 ”（建议专栏） 10 迪士尼自豪成员 15 在爵士俱乐部即兴演奏 19 基于听觉的 20 你在剧中扮演的角色 21 具有 ECO 模式的汽车 22 服务提供者？ 23 名字中带有水体且演唱《Swim Good》的音乐家（苏打水） 25 寿司份量 26 煤或糖的单位 27 “ 你太棒了！” 28 DEA（美国缉毒局）人物 29 夏威夷的动物景点（希腊力娇酒） 31 ___ 派珀 (Piper) 33 《雨伞学院》中能与死者沟通的角色 35 为 4 岁和 5 岁儿童设立的学校计划 36 一系列不幸的事件，也许（由烤豆酿造的饮料） 40 课程表的组成部分 44 《金锁国》小说家 45 “我就这么说吧……” 46 销售 47 殖民地中的行军者 48 弄脏或留下斑点 49 地球的表面积？ 51 大气层的组成 52 《CODA》的荣誉 54 巨大的混乱 56 措辞得体 57 战术攻击单位（发酵乳饮料） 60 《树上的男爵》小说家卡尔维诺 (Calvino) 62 《宇宙巨匠》演员伊德里斯 (Idris) 63 用 51 横向的词填充 64 以押韵著称的人 / 至少有时如此 67 音乐家的音色（墨西哥酒） 70 三件套西装的一件
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天秤座 (9月 23日-10月 22日) 今天在与父母和家人交谈时要小心，因为你可能并不掌握所有事实，或者你可能无法理解正在发生的事情。潜意识的影响可能会扭曲你的看法。或者童年养成的习惯可能会让你困惑。
天蝎座 (10月 23日-11月 21日) 今天在与兄弟姐妹、亲戚和邻居交谈时，不要急于下结论，因为事情可能并非表面那样。日常环境中发生的一些事情可能会被误解。静下心来，尝试接纳。
射手座 (11月 22日-12月 21日) 由于今天模糊思维盛行，今天不适合进行昂贵的购买或重要的财务决定。基本上，很容易脱离现实，或者认为某件事比实际情况更好。省下你的钱。
摩羯座 (12月 22日-1月 19日) 今天月亮进入你的星座，促进了一种梦幻的心境，在这种心境下，幻想变得比现实更重要。你可能会感到困惑的领域可能与家庭有关。请明智地推迟重要决定。就这样熬过去吧。
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71 杰奎琳·肯尼迪 (Jackie O) 的 O 73 靠近本垒板的轻触球 74 使用刀片的练习 76 “我们没什么好担心的”（茴香口味烈酒） 78 针灸场所 79 贯穿俄罗斯的山脉 83 下降/衰落 84 与肯南·汤普森 (Kenan Thompson) 在 Nickelodeon 节目中共同出演的演员米切尔 (Mitchell) 85 “你太对了！” 87 像鸽子一样说话 88 在 1972 年禁止 DDT 的组织 89 用抹布擦净 92 “___ 圣诞节前夜……” 93 用作凝胶剂的可溶性纤维 95 命中注定/写在星辰之中 97 产品可收取的最高金额（冷冻饮料） 99 法院法官，简称 100 90 度以下 101 皇家波林 (Boleyn) 102 1989 年的体育喜剧，宣传语为“当这三个怪人试图玩硬球时，结果完全是闹剧”（啤酒） 106 放弃，如控制权 108 令人惊叹 112 每个 113 制图作品 114 暗示每个乱序圈词的饮料，以及由解开乱序后的圈词首字母组成的饮料描述 116 蚊帐材料 117 玉米 118 “快走开，医生！” 119 合唱曲《飞吧，思想》的作曲家 120 脸色苍白 121 听起来像的化合物
像女性的名字 122 舞厅？ 123 裁缝的创作
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1 曾在耶鲁大学获得校内摔跤冠军的总统
2 取代 91 纵向 货币的货币
3 国际___海救助基金（1993 年成立的组织）
4 挖掘地点
5 黄石公园的野兽
6 剧院？
7 橙自由邦的历史定居者
8 被称为“平原之子”的人们
9 强烈的欲望 10 经历增长 11 球童携带的球杆 12 维纳斯·德 ___ (Venus de ___) 13 终孔球员热身之处 14 做出保证 15 南伊利诺大学的吉祥物猎犬
16 “法拉利”电影女演员 Penélope 17 例如食物大战中的豌豆或番茄 18 本条线索的特点 24 两球平局比分 29 例如访问秘密文件 30 释放（如蒸汽） 32 被陈旧无聊的常规所困 34 革命者托洛茨基 36 河流屏障 37 也门邻国 38 “___ 布雷肯里奇” (Gore Vidal 小说) 39 激活（如开关） 40 “与父母见面”共同主演 Polo 41 “马车道” (Petticoat Junction) 中的 Meredith 42 使其正式化（如法律） 43 城市设计的路径 46 像那些刷爆网络的视频 50 雨天穿的套鞋 51 在家附近出现？
53 获得线索的人 55 在社交上感到受欢迎 57 像提手袋一样甩在肩上 58 带有“给我个机会” (Gimme a break) 广告歌曲的糖果吧 59 根据《女性世界》(Woman’s World) 杂志，她是“新时代音乐的凯尔特女神” 61 埋头苦干 62 价值相同 64 平静且沉着 65 由摄像机记录 66 可以滑行的课程/路线 68 在海滩上退潮 69 “你大概是对的” 72 更容易导致学校停课（如冬季预报） 75 收听（如广播节目） 77 勉强通过，搭配“out” 78 休斯敦的宇宙绰号 80 剧本的第一部分 81 嫩肉块
82 流行或摇滚乐曲 85 艾美奖得主 Loretta 86 开始出价 90 激起情感热度 91 以前的巴塞罗那货币 92 “事实” 94 较不含糊 96 运动的战利品 97 也许是在逛橱窗的人 98 西点军校受训者 100 凝视 102 可能暗示需要牛奶的叫声 103 例如猩猩 104 2024 年 NFL MVP ___ Allen 105 登陆/着陆 107 闭卷 ___ 109 接线盒连接器 110 边缘 111 在寒冷天气中脱掉？ 114 BBQ 腌料添加剂 115 类似于蓝光 (Blu-ray) 的格式
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西北 K 街 3111 号 (3111 K Street NW)
奥德赛：IMAX 体验 (The Odyssey: The IMAX Experience) (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:00 海洋之歌 (Moana) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 10:00-3:15-9:30 超女 (Supergirl) (PG-13) 激光投影； CC: 11:45-5:15 玩具总动员 5 (Toy Story 5) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 10:30-4:30-9:45 Evil Dead Burn (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:30 披露之日 (Disclosure Day) (PG-13) 激光投影； CC: 4:15 皮诺曹脱线 (Pinocchio Unstrung) (R) 激光投影：10:00-8:00 小黄人们与怪物 (Minions & Monsters) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 10:15-2:15-4:30-9:15 汽车城 (Motor City) (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:15-7:40 邀请 (The Invite) (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:30-1:30-5:00-7:50-10:30 奥德赛 (The Odyssey) (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:30-11:30-12:00-12:30-1:00-2:30-3:30-4:00-5:00-6:30-7:30-8:00-9:00-10:30 闹鬼抢劫 (Haunted Heist) (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:15-2:45 Jana Nayagan (NR) 激光投影：12:45-9:15 小黄人们与怪物 3D (Minions & Monsters 3D) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 7:15 海洋之歌 3D (Moana 3D) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 1:30-6:15 她的私人地狱 (Her Private Hell) (R) 激光投影； CC: 4:30-7:20-10:10 坏顾问 (Bad Counselors) (PG-13) 激光投影； CC: 7:00 年轻的华盛顿 (Young Washington) (PG-13) 激光投影； CC: 11:00AM 执念 (Obsession) (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:45 玩具总动员 5 3D (Toy Story 5 3D) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 1:15-6:45 奥德赛：IMAX 体验 (The Odyssey: The IMAX Experience) (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:00-2:00-6:00 第五元素 (The Fifth Element) (2026) (PG-13) 激光投影； CC: 4:00 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (Hadestown: The Musical) (NR) 激光投影； CC: 10:00-10:45-12:00-12:45-2:20-3:30-4:45-5:45-7:00-8:15-9:15-10:30 奥德赛尊享版 (The Odyssey Premium) (R) CC: 11:00-3:00-7:00-11:00 Sia：怀念现在 (Sia: Nostalgic For The Present) 激光投影：1:00
《玩具总动员 5》(Toy Story 5) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 1:35-10:35 《披露日》(Disclosure Day) (PG-13) 激光 投影；CC: 10:55 《死寂之灼》(Evil Dead Burn) (R) 激光投影； CC: 7:25-10:30 《邀请》(The Invite) (R) 激光投影；CC: 11:20-5:00-7:50 《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 激光投影； CC: 9:00-12:55-8:45 《年轻的华盛顿》(Young Washington) (PG-13) 激光 投影；CC: 9:45-1:05-4:20 《小黄人与怪物 3D》(Minions & Monsters 3D) (PG) 激光投影；CC: 12:25-5:45 《海洋之歌 3D》(Moana 3D) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 12:50-9:30 《玩具总动员 5 3D》(Toy Story 5 3D) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 10:00-6:45 《第五元素》(The Fifth Element) (2026) (PG-13) 激光投影；CC: 4:00 《奥德赛》尊享版 (The Odyssey Premium) (R) 杜比 影院；CC: 11:00-3:00-7:00-11:00 《奥德赛：IMAX 体验》(The Odyssey: The IMAX Expe- rience) (R) 激光投影；CC: 10:00-2:00-6:00 《小黄人与怪物》(Minions & Monsters) (PG) 激光 投影；CC: 9:30-3:10-8:20 《海洋之歌》(Moana) (PG) 激光投影；CC: 10:30-4:20-7:35 《超女》(Supergirl) (PG-13) 激光投影； CC: 10:45 《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 激光投影； OC: 4:50 《邀请》(The Invite) (R) 激光投影； CC: 9:15AM 《哈德斯镇：音乐剧》(Hadestown: The Musical) (NR) 激光投影；CC: 12:15-7:15 《奥德赛：IMAX 体验》(The Odyssey: The IMAX Experience) (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:00 《邀请》(The Invite) (R) 激光投影； OC: 2:10 《哈德斯镇：音乐剧》(Hadestown: The Musical) (NR) 激光投影；OC: 3:50
Alamo Drafthouse 电影院 - DC {Bryant Street} 630 Rhode Island Avenue NE 《侏罗纪公园》(Jurassic Park) (PG-13) 7:00 《精灵》(Elf) (PG) 3:30 《海洋之歌》(Moana) (PG) 12:00-2:30-6:30- 10:20 《玩具总动员 5》(Toy Story 5) (PG) 12:15-4:15- 7:30-10:30 《小黄人与怪物》(Minions & Monsters) (PG) 11:45- 3:15-6:15-9:45 《邀请》(The Invite) (R) 10:15-1:15-5:15- 7:15-10:15 《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) BigShow: 10:00- 2:00-6:00-10:00 《侏罗纪公园》(Jurassic Park) (PG-13) 11:45-9:30 《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 10:30-11:30- 2:45-3:15-3:45-5:30-8:00-8:30- 9:00; 1:00
Angelika 弹出店 位于 Union Market
《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 12:00-2:05-4:15- 6:00-9:30 《邀请》(The Invite) (R) 11:30AM 《问 E. Jean》(Ask E. Jean) 11:00-7:50 《哈德斯镇：音乐剧》(Hadestown: The Musical) (NR) OC: 7:00; 1:00-4:00-10:00
550 Penn Street NE - Unit E
Avalon 剧院
《捉鬼敢死队》(Ghostbusters) (1984) (PG) 10:30AM 《在德黑兰读洛丽塔》(Reading Lolita in Tehran) (NR) 带字幕：12:45-3:45-6:30 《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 11:30-3:15-7:00
5612 Connecticut Avenue
Landmark Atlantic Plumbing 电影院
《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 3:35-7:00; 12:10
807 V Street Northwest
Regal Gallery Place
《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 4DX: 7:00-11:00 《奥德赛》70mm 版 (The Odyssey 70mm) (R) 11:30- 3:30-7:30-11:10 《她的私人地狱》(Her Private Hell) (R) 11:00-1:40- 4:20-7:10-9:50 《哈德斯镇：音乐剧》(Hadestown: The Musical) (NR) 12:00-6:40-7:10 《第五元素》(The Fifth Element) (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 10:30-12:30- 2:30-4:30-6:30-8:30
701 Seventh Street Northwest
史密森学会 - 洛克希德·马丁 IMAX 影院 601 Independence Avenue SW 《哈勃》(Hubble) (G) 4:00 《蓝色天使：IMAX 体验》(Blue Angels: The IMAX Experi- ence) (G) 2:00 《飞翔！》(To Fly!) 11:15AM 《奥德赛：IMAX 体验》(The Odyssey: The IMAX Experi- ence) (R) 6:30 《阿波罗 11 号：初次登月版》(Apollo 11: First Steps Edition) 1:00 《太空：新前沿》(Space: The New Frontier) 10:30-5:00 《翼装飞人：飞行的科学》(Wingsuit Flyers: The Science of Flight) 12:00-3:00 马里兰州 (MARYLAND)
AFI 银色剧院 文化中心
《小姐与流浪狗》(Lady and the Tramp) (1955) (G) 12:30 《沥青丛林》(The Asphalt Jungle) 6:30 《制作人》(The Producers) (1968) 2:15 《来自拉拉米的人》(The Man From Laramie) 4:15
8633 Colesville Road
《银翼杀手：最终剪辑版》(Blade Runner: The Final Cut) (R) 9:00 动画电影节目 11:00AM 《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 8:45 《邀请》(The Invite) (R) 1:45-4:00-6:15-8:30
AMC Academy 8
《海洋之歌》(Moana) (PG) 激光投影；CC: 10:30-1:00-7:40-10:35 《玩具总动员 5》(Toy Story 5) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 10:15-1:30-7:20-10:00 《死寂之灼》(Evil Dead Burn) (R) 激光 投影；CC: 10:20-1:20-4:30- 7:30-10:30 《小黄人与怪物》(Minions & Monsters) (PG) 激光 投影；CC: 11:45-2:15-4:00- 6:30-9:00 《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:00-11:15-12:30-3:10-4:30- 6:00-7:00-8:30-9:50 《海洋之歌 3D》(Moana 3D) (PG) 激光投影； CC: 4:15 《哈德斯镇：音乐剧》(Hadestown: The Musical) (NR) 激光投影；CC: 10:00-1:10- 4:10-7:15-10:20 《玩具总动员 5》(Toy Story 5) (PG) 激光投影； OC: 4:50 《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) (R) 激光投影； OC: 2:00
6198 Greenbelt Road
AMC 安纳波利斯购物中心 11 1020 Annapolis Mall Road 莫阿娜 (PG) CC: 9:00-10:50- 12:40-6:20-9:20 玩具总动员 5 (PG) CC: 9:30-12:20- 1:50-3:50-6:40-9:30 Evil Dead Burn (R) CC: 7:50-10:40 小黄人大闹天宫 (PG) CC: 9:20-11:50-2:20-4:50-7:20-9:50 奥德赛 (R) CC: 9:00-12:00- 1:00-4:00-5:00-8:00-9:00 邀请函 (R) CC: 9:40-12:30- 4:40-7:30-10:20 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) CC: 9:05-3:15 莫阿娜 3D (PG) 3:10 奥德赛 70mm (R) 11:00- 3:00-7:00-10:50 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) CC: 9:10-12:10-1:20-3:30-4:30- 6:10-7:00-9:40-10:30 奥德赛至尊版 (R) 杜比影院; CC: 10:00-2:00-6:00-10:00 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) OC: 10:00AM
AMC 中心公园 8
莫阿娜 (PG) CC: 12:15-3:30- 6:30-9:30 玩具总动员 5 (PG) CC: 12:45-4:00- 7:15-10:30 Evil Dead Burn (R) CC: 8:00 小黄人大闹天宫 (PG) CC: 2:15-5:30 奥德赛 (R) CC: 12:00- 12:30-1:30-3:15-3:45-4:45-6:45- 8:45-10:00 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) CC: 3:45-7:00-10:15; 12:30
4001 Powder Mill Road
AMC 哥伦比亚 14
玩具总动员 5 (PG) OC: 12:45 小黄人大闹天宫 (PG) CC: 10:15-1:45-4:30-7:00-9:30 邀请函 (R) OC: 1:15 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) OC: 2:30 奥德赛：IMAX 体验 (R) 激光投影; CC: 10:00 后室：全货清仓版（含花絮） (R) OC: 10:15 莫阿娜 (PG) CC: 10:30-1:30-3:15- 6:30-9:15 玩具总动员 5 (PG) CC: 10:00-11:00- 3:30-6:15-9:00 披露日 (PG-13) CC: 9:30 Evil Dead Burn (R) CC: 10:30 被操纵的皮诺曹 (R) 4:45- 10:00 奥德赛 (R) CC: 10:30- 12:00-1:00-2:30-4:00-5:00-6:30- 8:00-9:00 邀请函 (R) CC: 4:00-6:45-9:35 她的私人地狱 (R) CC: 1:35- 4:35-7:25 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) CC: 10:00AM 糟糕的顾问 (PG-13) CC: 7:00 第五元素 (2026) (PG-13) CC: 4:00 奥德赛至尊版 (R) 杜比影院; CC: 11:00-3:00-7:00 奥德赛：IMAX 体验 (R) 激光投影; CC: 10:00-2:00-6:00 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) CC: 10:00-11:00-12:00-3:30-6:00- 7:00-9:30 Sia：怀念现在 1:00 汽车城 (R) OC: 7:10
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway
AMC 魔法强森 资本中心 12
莫阿娜 (PG) CC: 3:15-9:30 迈克尔 (PG-13) CC: 11:20-2:40- 6:00-9:10 玩具总动员 5 (PG) CC: 1:15-7:00 Evil Dead Burn (R) CC: 12:30- 3:20-6:10-9:10 小黄人大闹天宫 (PG) OC: 1:20; 6:45 奥德赛 (R) CC: 11:00- 12:00-1:00-3:00-4:00-5:00-7:00- 8:00-9:00 执念 (R) CC: 3:40-6:30-9:20 闹鬼劫案 (R) CC: 11:30- 2:00-4:30-7:10-9:45 玩具总动员 5 3D (PG) CC: 10:20- 4:15-9:45 小黄人大闹天宫 3D (PG) CC: 10:45-4:00-9:30 莫阿娜 3D (PG) CC: 12:15-6:20 奥德赛：IMAX 体验 (R) CC: 10:00-2:00- 6:00-10:00 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) CC: 12:00-3:30-7:10
800 Shoppers Way
AMC 蒙哥马利 16 7101 Democracy Boulevard 莫阿娜 (PG) 激光投影; CC: 10:30-12:30-1:40-3:30-4:40-6:20- 7:35-9:30 超女 (PG-13) 激光投影; CC: 2:45-9:00
玩具总动员 5 (PG) 激光投影; CC: 9:45-10:45-1:30-4:15-7:10- 9:50 披露日 (PG-13) 激光投影; CC: 5:30 Evil Dead Burn (R) 激光投影; CC: 4:15-10:30 汽车城 (R) 激光投影; CC: 9:45-1:30-7:10 小黄人大闹天宫 (PG) 激光投影; CC: 9:30-10:15-12:00- 1:20-2:30-3:50-5:00-6:45-9:15 奥德赛 (R) 激光投影; CC: 9:30-11:00-12:00-1:00-3:00- 4:00-5:00-7:00-8:00-9:00 闹鬼劫案 (R) 激光投影; CC: 7:30-10:00 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) 激光投影; CC: 10:20-10:00 邀请函 (R) 激光投影; CC: 4:30-7:20 她的私人地狱 (R) 激光投影; CC: 4:15-7:00-9:45 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 激光投影; CC: 1:15-4:45 奥德赛至尊版 (R) CC: 10:00-2:00-6:00-9:50 后室：全货清仓版（含花絮） (R) 激光投影; CC: 1:10-10:10 奥德赛 (R) 激光投影; OC: 12:30 邀请函 (R) 激光投影; OC: 10:10AM 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 激光投影; CC: 10:00-11:15- 12:15-2:30-3:30-6:00-7:00-8:15- 9:15-10:20
AMC 里约影城 18
9811 Washingtonian Center
AMC 圣查尔斯镇中心 9
海洋之战 (PG) 激光投影；CC： 12:45-3:45-7:30-9:45 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 激光投影； CC：10:00-2:15-3:30-6:15-9:15 Evil Dead Burn (R) 激光 投影；CC：10:45-1:30-4:15- 7:00-10:30 小黄人们与怪物 (PG) 激光 投影；CC：10:30-1:00-5:00- 6:45-9:00 奥德赛 (R) 激光投影； CC：10:00-11:15-12:15-2:00-3:15- 4:15-6:00-7:15-8:15-10:00 海洋之战 3D (PG) 激光投影； CC：11:15AM 哈德斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 激光投影；CC：12:00-3:30- 7:00-10:30
11115 Mall Circle
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD 7000 Arundel Mills Circle 海洋之战 (PG) 9:55-10:45-3:45- 4:35-6:45-7:35-10:10 玩具总动员 5 (PG) OC：9:20AM Evil Dead Burn (R) OC：11:30AM 汽车之城 (R) OC：2:50 小黄人们与怪物 (PG) OC： 10:50AM 奥德赛 (R) 8:15-8:30-8:45- 11:20-12:05-3:00-3:10-3:20-6:55- 7:00-7:40-7:45-10:45-10:50- 11:10-11:30; 12:35 Jana Nayagan (NR) 字幕版： 10:25 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) OC： 12:30 Obsession (R) OC：11:45AM 海洋之战 3D (PG) 12:25-9:45 奥德赛 高端版 (R) XD： 9:45-2:50-6:40-10:30 迈克尔 (PG-13) 8:25-11:40 超级女孩 (PG-13) 9:05-12:10-7:05 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 8:05-10:35- 10:40-1:20-2:15-4:00-5:00-6:55- 7:20-8:15-10:00 披露之日 (PG-13) 8:25AM Evil Dead Burn (R) 8:40-2:25- 5:15-8:10-10:50
小黄人们与怪物 (PG) 8:00- 8:05-9:50-12:45-1:20-3:15-3:50- 5:45-6:25-8:20 汽车之城 (R) 8:10-12:15-1:25- 5:25-8:00-10:35 奥德赛 (R) DBOX：10:55- 2:45-6:35-10:35 Jana Nayagan (NR) 字幕版： 11:50-3:40-7:10-11:00 邀请函 (R) 8:20-11:25-11:15 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) 7:55AM Obsession (R) 8:05-8:50-2:30- 5:20-8:05-9:30-11:10 Chennai Love Story (NR) 字幕版： 3:05-7:50 第五元素 (2026) (PG-13) 4:00-4:30 哈德斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 8:35-9:15-10:00-12:20-1:00-3:35- 4:00-4:05-7:25-7:40-10:40-10:55 奥德赛 70mm (R) 10:50- 2:40-6:30-10:20 奥德赛 高端版 (R) DBOX; XD：8:00-11:50-3:40-7:30-11:20 Sia：怀念当下 1:00 后室：所有物品必须出售 版（含额外片段） (R) 8:20-4:25-10:45 海洋之战 (PG) OC：1:40
Cinépolis Gaithersburg 629 Center Point Way 海洋之战 (PG) 10:00-1:10-4:20- 7:30-10:30 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 11:00-2:00-5:00- 8:00-10:40 Evil Dead Burn (R) 4:10-7:15- 10:20 小黄人们与怪物 (PG) 10:50- 1:30-4:10-7:00-9:45 奥德赛 (R) 10:00-10:30- 11:00-11:30-12:00-2:00-2:30- 3:00-3:30-4:00-6:00-6:30-7:00- 7:30-8:00-10:00-10:30 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) 10:00-1:00
Greenbelt Cinema 129 Centerway 阳光小美女 (R) 1:00 奥德赛 (R) 12:30 邀请函 (R) 4:20-7:45 奥德赛 (R) OC：4:00
Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema
钢铁巨人 感官友好版 (PG) 11:00AM 奥德赛 (R) 3:00-7:00 哈德斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 3:30-7:15 Sia：怀念当下 1:00
7235 Woodmont Avenue
Landmark at Annapolis Harbour Center 2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1 海洋之战 (PG) 2:00-4:45-7:20 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 10:40-1:10- 4:15-6:45 小黄人们与怪物 (PG) 10:40- 1:20-4:10-6:40 Her Private Hell (R) 1:15-7:10 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) 10:20-4:30 奥德赛 (R) 10:30-12:30- 1:30-2:00-3:00-4:00-5:00-5:30- 6:30-7:30 哈德斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 1:00-7:15 钢铁巨人 感官友好版 (PG) 11:00AM Sia：怀念当下 1:00 Her Private Hell (R) 4:05
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6
海洋之战 (PG) 12:30-3:15-6:00- 9:00 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 11:30-2:00-4:30- 5:00-7:00-9:30-9:45 Evil Dead Burn (R) 11:00-1:30- 4:00-6:30-9:00 小黄人们与怪物 (PG) 12:00-12:45-2:30-3:00-5:30-7:30- 7:45-10:00 奥德赛 (R) 10:05-1:40- 5:20-9:05
3899 Branch Avenue
Regal Cinemas Majestic Stadium 20 & IMAX
Bad Counselors (PG-13) 6:30 哈德斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 字幕版：11:30AM Sia：怀念当下 1:00 Brunello：优雅的 愿景家 (PG-13) 字幕版： 5:00-7:50-10:40 The Floaters (NR) 7:45-10:25- 1:05-3:40-6:20-8:55 哈德斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 3:45-6:00-7:15 汽车之城 (R) 4:30-7:10-9:50 Her Private Hell (R) 7:50-10:35- 1:20-4:05-6:50-9:35 第五元素 (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 哈德斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 2:50-9:20 奥德赛：IMAX 体验 (R) 7:30-11:10-3:05- 7:00-10:55
900 Ellsworth Drive
Regal Hyattsville Royale
海洋之旅 3D (PG) 3:50-9:30 海洋之旅 (PG) 10:10-11:00-1:00- 2:00-4:50-6:40-7:40 奥德赛 (R) 9:50-10:30- 12:20-1:30-2:20-3:20-4:10-5:10- 6:10-7:10-8:00-9:00-10:00-10:30; 11:30AM 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 10:50-1:25-4:00- 6:30-9:10-10:50 揭秘日 (PG-13) 10:20- 2:10-4:20-8:15 第五元素 (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 电机之城 (R) 11:10-1:50-4:30- 7:50-10:40 死灰燃尽 (R) 11:20-1:40- 5:30-7:45-10:35 小黄人大作战 (PG) 9:55- 10:40-1:10-3:30-6:00-8:30-11:00 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 10:00-1:20-4:40-7:00-10:10
6505 America Boulevard
Regal Laurel Towne Centre 14716 Baltimore Avenue
海洋之旅 (PG) 8:55-11:10-12:40- 2:00-6:30 超女 (PG-13) 5:00-7:40 死灰燃尽 (R) 10:00-11:50- 2:30-8:10 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 9:15-10:40-1:20- 4:15-7:00-9:50 电机之城 (R) 7:20-10:20 奥德赛 (R) RPX: 9:10-1:00- 4:45-8:40 闹鬼抢劫案 (R) 8:50-4:50- 7:10-9:40 邀请函 (R) 2:10 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) 10:30AM 海洋之旅 3D (PG) 3:30-9:20 第五元素 (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 9:20-12:45-4:30-7:50-10:30 死灰燃尽 (R) 字幕版; OC: 5:20 小黄人大作战 (PG) 10:20- 12:50-3:20-5:40-8:00-10:25 奥德赛 (R) 9:40-11:00- 11:40-1:30-2:50-3:40-5:30-6:45- 7:30-9:30-10:00 邀请函 (R) 字幕版; OC: 11:30AM 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) 字幕版; OC: 1:40 小黄人大作战 (PG) 字幕- 版; OC: 9:00AM
Regal Rockville Center
海洋之旅 (PG) 10:20-1:20-4:20- 6:45-9:45 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 12:45-4:00- 7:15-10:00 揭秘日 (PG-13) 10:00- 11:40-1:45 电机之城 (R) 11:00-1:50-5:10- 7:45-10:15 小黄人大作战 (PG) 11:20- 2:00-3:40-6:10-8:40 奥德赛 (R) 10:30-11:30- 12:00-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:20- 6:30-7:30-8:00-8:20-9:00-9:40 邀请函 (R) 2:40-5:20-8:10-9:50 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) 10:00-1:00 执念 (R) 4:15-7:00-10:15 第五元素 (2026) (PG-13) 4:40 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 10:15-1:45-5:00-8:15 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 字幕版; OC: 11:00AM 小黄人大作战 (PG) 字幕- 版; OC: 10:15AM 邀请函 (R) 字幕版; OC: 11:50AM 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 3:00-6:30
199 East Montgomery Avenue
Regal Waugh Chapel 1419 South Main Chapel Way 糟糕的辅导员 (PG-13) 6:30 第五元素 (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 海洋之旅 (PG) 7:50-10:50-1:40- 4:40-7:40-10:40 超女 (PG-13) 7:40-12:15 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 7:30-8:50-11:30- 2:30-5:20-8:10-11:05 死灰燃尽 (R) 3:30-8:20 电机之城 (R) 2:55-5:30-9:20 小黄人大作战 (PG) 7:35- 8:15-9:40-10:45-12:10-1:05-2:40- 6:50-8:40-11:00 闹鬼抢劫案 (R) 8:45-11:10 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) 10:05AM 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 12:00-3:20-6:40-10:10 希雅：怀念现在 1:10 奥德赛 (R) 8:00-8:30-9:55- 10:30-11:50-12:30-2:00-2:20- 3:40-4:20-5:00-6:00-6:30-7:30- 8:10-9:50-10:25-11:05 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 字幕版: 8:20AM 奥德赛：IMAX 体验 (R) 7:30-11:20-3:10- 7:00-10:55
Regal Westview
海洋之旅 (PG) 字幕版: 9:55AM 电机之城 (R) 字幕版: 4:55 奥德赛 (R) VIP: 8:30-10:00- 12:15-1:45-4:00-5:30-7:40-9:15 后室：清仓版 (含花絮) (R) VIP: 9:40 海洋之旅 (PG) 8:00-1:10-3:25- 6:10-8:50 揭秘日 (PG-13) 6:05-9:30 电机之城 (R) 9:15-11:45-2:20- 7:30-10:05 奥德赛 (R) 4DX: 10:25-2:15- 6:00-9:45 糟糕的辅导员 (PG-13) 6:20 第五元素 (2026) (PG-13) 3:50 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 9:10-12:20-3:30-6:40-7:20-9:50 奥德赛：IMAX 体验 (R) 8:00-11:40-3:20- 7:00-10:45 超女 (PG-13) 10:40-9:05 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 8:00-10:30- 12:45-3:05-5:35-8:05-10:40 小黄人大作战 (PG) 8:25- 8:45-9:50-11:05-12:10-1:20-2:30- 3:35-4:50-7:10-9:35 希雅：怀念现在 1:00 海洋之旅 (PG) VIP: 8:40-11:25-2:10 奥德赛 (R) 8:15-9:00-11:00- 12:00-12:40-2:45-3:40-4:20-6:30- 8:00-10:15-10:30 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) VIP: 8:05-12:55-3:45-6:45 死灰燃尽 (R) VIP: 5:00- 7:50-10:35
5243 Buckeystown Pike
Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14
7710 Matapeake Business Drive 震颤 (1990) (R) 1:00-4:00- 7:00 海洋之旅 (PG) 10:30-12:20-1:20- 5:50-6:40-9:30 迈克尔 (PG-13) 12:45-3:45- 6:35-9:35
超级女孩 (PG-13) 11:45-2:15- 4:45-7:15-9:45 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 11:25-1:55-4:25- 6:55-9:15 死寂之烧 (R) 11:05-4:15- 6:45-9:25 小黄人们与怪物 (PG) 12:30- 2:40-5:00-7:10-9:20 汽车之城 (R) 11:00-1:30-6:50- 9:10 奥德赛 (R) 10:40-11:10- 12:40-2:20-2:50-6:00-6:30- 8:00-9:40 邀请函 (R) 3:20-9:00 痴迷 (R) 11:55-2:35-5:05- 7:35-10:05 闹鬼抢劫案 (R) 11:20-1:40- 4:10-7:00-9:50 海洋之歌 (PG) OC: 4:00 死寂之烧 (R) OC: 1:35 汽车之城 (R) OC: 4:05 奥德赛 (R) OC: 4:20 弗吉尼亚州 (VIRGINIA)
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 2150 Clarendon Boulevard 海洋之歌 (PG) 激光投影; CC: 12:15-3:15-6:15-9:10 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 激光投影; CC: 1:00-3:20-7:05-9:30 披露日 (PG-13) 激光 投影; CC: 11:30AM 小黄人们与怪物 (PG) 激光 投影; CC: 11:45-2:30-5:00- 7:30-9:20 邀请函 (R) 激光投影; CC: 11:00-1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) 激光 投影; CC: 5:40 奥德赛 (R) 激光投影; CC: 11:00-1:00-3:00-5:00-7:00- 9:00 痴迷 (R) 激光投影; CC: 2:50-10:00 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 激光投影; CC: 12:00-3:45- 6:00-9:40
AMC Hoffman Center 22
海洋之歌 (PG) 激光投影; CC: 9:40-3:50-7:15-9:40 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 激光投影; CC: 2:00-4:40-7:10 皮诺曹出笼 (R) 激光投影: 9:40AM 死寂之烧 (R) 激光投影; CC: 10:15-1:20-9:50 汽车之城 (R) 激光投影; OC: 10:30AM 奥德赛 (R) 激光投影; OC: 10:30AM; 11:30-1:00-2:30- 3:30-5:00-7:30-9:00 玩具总动员 5 3D (PG) CC: 10:20- 1:10 哈迪斯城：音乐剧 (NR) 激光投影; CC: 12:00-1:20- 3:30-4:40-7:00-8:00-10:30; 9:50AM 奥德赛 70mm (R) 12:00- 4:00-8:00 奥德赛 尊享版 (R) 杜比影院; CC: 11:00-3:00-7:00-11:00 奥德赛：IMAX 体验 (R) 激光投影; CC: 10:00 后室：一切出清版（含花絮） (R) 激光投影; CC: 4:40-10:40; 1:20 宇宙巨匠 (PG-13) 激光投影; CC: 9:30-5:00 星球大战：曼达洛人与格罗古 (PG-13) 激光投影; CC: 9:50-6:30 迈克尔 (PG-13)
激光投影; CC: 10:40-1:50 超级女孩 (PG-13) 激光投影; CC: 10:10-1:20-10:10 披露日 (PG-13) 激光投影; CC: 10:40-3:40-6:20- 9:40 玩具总动员 5 (PG) CC: 3:50 惊声尖笑 (R) 激光投影; CC: 4:20 皮诺曹出笼 (R) 激光投影: 4:10-9:45 汽车之城 (R) 激光投影; CC: 7:20 小黄人们与怪物 (PG) 激光投影; CC: 9:50-2:40-5:10-7:40 在德黑兰读洛丽塔 (NR) 激光投影: 7:45 奥德赛 (R) CC: 9:30-1:30- 5:30-6:30-9:30-10:30 闹鬼抢劫案 (R) 激光投影; CC: 8:15 贾娜·纳亚甘 (NR) 激光投影: 10:30 她的私人地狱 (R) 激光投影; CC: 12:45-3:45-6:45-9:45 邀请函 (R) 激光投影; CC: 10:40-1:30-4:20-7:15-10:10 糟糕的辅导员 (PG-13) 激光投影; CC: 1:40-7:00 年轻的华盛顿 (PG-13) 激光投影; CC: 10:45-1:45-4:45 痴迷 (R) 激光投影; CC: 10:20-7:45-10:45 漂浮者 (NR)
激光投影: 10:15 玩具总动员 5 3D (PG) 激光投影; CC: 9:10 小黄人们与怪物 3D (PG) 激光投影; CC: 12:15-10:10 海洋之歌 3D (PG) 激光投影; CC: 10:30-12:50-6:45 第五元素 (2026) (PG-13) 激光投影; CC: 4:00 奥德赛：IMAX 体验 (R) 激光投影; CC: 10:00-2:00-6:00 希亚：怀念现在 激光投影: 1:00
206 Hoffman Street
AMC Potomac Mills 18
海洋之歌 (PG) CC: 10:30-11:30- 2:30-5:45-8:45; 1:20-3:20-7:40 玩具总动员 5 (PG) 激光投影; CC: 1:25-6:55 死寂之烧 (R) 激光 投影; CC: 10:05-12:55-4:20- 7:15-10:10 汽车之城 (R) 激光投影; OC: 1:45 小黄人们与怪物 (PG) 激光 投影; CC: 11:05-1:00-1:40- 2:25-6:15-7:45-10:15
2700 Potomac Mills Circle
We want supper!
The Odyssey (R) 激光投影； CC: 3:45-7:45; 11:45AM Her Private Hell (R) 激光投影； OC: 6:45 Young Washington (PG-13) 激光投影； CC: 10:40AM Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 激光投影； OC: 12:05 The Odyssey Premium (R) Dolby Cinema； CC: 11:00-3:00-7:00-10:55 The Odyssey: The IMAX Experience (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:00-2:00-6:00-10:00 Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R) 激光投影； OC: 10:30 Pinocchio Unstrung (R) 激光投影：11:25-1:50 Motor City (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:10-4:30-7:15-10:00 The Odyssey (R) CC: 1:30-5:30-9:30 The Invite (R) 激光投影；CC: 10:55-1:55-4:50-7:40 Haunted Heist (R) 激光投影； CC: 4:20-9:15 Jana Nayagan (NR) 激光投影：10:15AM Her Private Hell (R) 激光投影； CC: 4:55-9:35 Bad Counselors (PG-13) 激光投影； CC: 7:00 Minions & Monsters 3D (PG) 激光投影； CC: 10:25-3:35-8:50 Moana 3D (PG) 激光投影； CC: 10:00-4:25-10:45 Toy Story 5 3D (PG) 激光投影； CC: 10:35-4:10-9:45 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 激光投影； CC: 4:00 The Odyssey 70mm (R) 12:30-4:30-8:30 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 激光投影； CC: 10:30-1:55-3:30-5:20-6:30-7:00-8:45-9:55-10:25 Sia: Nostalgic For The Present 激光投影：1:00
AMC Shirlington 7
Moana (PG) 激光投影； CC: 9:45-12:50-4:00-7:15-10:15 Toy Story 5 (PG) 激光投影； CC: 9:30-3:30-6:15-9:00 Minions & Monsters (PG) 激光投影； CC: 10:20-1:45-4:20-7:00-9:50 The Odyssey (R) 激光投影； CC: 10:00-11:30-2:00-3:30-6:00-7:30-9:40 Her Private Hell (R) 激光投影； CC: 4:30-7:20-10:15 The Invite (R) 激光投影； CC: 4:10-7:00-10:00 Toy Story 5 3D (PG) 激光投影； CC: 12:40 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 激光投影； CC: 10:15AM The Odyssey (R) 激光投影； OC: 12:15 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 激光投影； OC: 1:00
2772 South Randolph Street
AMC Tysons Corner 16
7850e Tysons Corner Center
AMC Worldgate 9
Moana (PG) CC: 12:15-3:15-6:15 Toy Story 5 (PG) CC: 2:15-4:15-6:00-9:15 Evil Dead Burn (R) CC: 12:40-4:30-7:30-10:30 Minions & Monsters (PG) CC: 12:30-1:45-4:00-7:00-9:00 The Odyssey (R) CC: 12:00-2:00-3:00-5:00-6:30-7:10-8:45-9:30 The Invite (R) CC: 1:15-4:30-7:20-10:30 Moana 3D (PG) CC: 10:20 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) CC: 1:00-3:30-7:00-10:15
13025 Worldgate Drive
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - One Loudoun 20575 Easthampton Plaza Jurassic Park (PG-13) 11:45-7:00-10:30 Casualties of War (R) 10:45 Elf (PG) 3:30 Toy Story 5 (PG) 9:45-12:45-3:45-6:45-9:35 Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:10-12:55-3:35-6:15-9:00
The Odyssey (R) 10:00-10:45- 11:15-12:00-2:00-2:45-3:15-4:00- 6:00-6:30-7:30-8:00-10:00 Moana (PG) 10:30-1:35-4:40- 7:15-10:20 The Invite (R) 10:20-1:20-4:15- 7:45-10:45
Angelika Film Center Mosaic
Moana (PG) 11:15-2:00-4:35- 7:15-8:30 Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:00- 12:05-2:10-4:20-6:30-8:45 The Odyssey (R) 11:30-12:30- 4:15-5:00-7:00-8:00-10:30 Reading Lolita in Tehran (NR) Subtitled: 10:25-2:30-9:45 The Odyssey (R) OC: 3:15 The Invite (R) 12:00 The Odyssey 35mm (R) 10:30- 2:15-6:00-9:35 Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:05-11:00- 1:20-3:45-6:15-8:35 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 12:55-4:00-7:00-10:00
2911 District Ave
Cinema Arts Theatre
The Sheep Detectives (PG) 9:50- 12:05-2:15 The Devil Wears Prada 2 (PG-13) 10:05-2:35-9:15 The Odyssey (R) 10:00-12:30- 1:15-3:45-4:35-7:00-7:50-10:10 The Invite (R) 9:40-5:00-9:50 Motor City (R) OC: 4:50 Young Washington (PG-13) 12:00-2:30-7:30 Reading Lolita in Tehran (NR) 12:20-2:40-7:40-9:45 Winter Hymns 4:30 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 4:25-7:15 Motor City (R) 9:55-12:15-7:10- 9:50
9650 Unit 14 Main St.
Cinemark Centreville
Moana (PG) 8:35-9:00-9:35-3:35- 6:30-9:25 Toy Story 5 (PG) 8:30-6:55-9:35 Evil Dead Burn (R) 8:55-11:50- 5:30-8:20 Minions & Monsters (PG) 8:50-9:25-11:30-11:55-2:25-4:30- 7:00-9:30 The Odyssey (R) 8:30-9:00-11:10- 11:20-12:20-3:00-3:10-4:40-6:50- 8:30-10:40 Jana Nayagan (NR) Subtitled: 4:55-9:00 The Invite (R) 9:20-12:05-5:35- 8:20 Chennai Love Story (NR) Subti- tled: 3:05-6:50-10:35 Young Washington (PG-13) 9:40- 12:40-6:40-9:40 Moana 3D (PG) 12:35 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 9:10-12:30-3:50-7:10-10:30 Moana (PG) OC: 12:00 Toy Story 5 (PG) OC: 4:10 Evil Dead Burn (R) OC: 2:40 Minions & Monsters (PG) OC: 2:00 The Odyssey (R) OC: 12:50 The Invite (R) OC: 2:50 Young Washington (PG-13) OC: 3:40
6201 Multiplex Drive
Cinemark Fairfax Corner and XD
Toy Story 5 (PG) 8:40-9:15-11:20- 11:55-1:40-2:35-4:20-5:15-7:55- 10:35 Evil Dead Burn (R) 10:10 Minions & Monsters (PG) 8:40- 9:00-9:40-11:30-12:10-2:40-4:30- 5:10-7:00-7:40-9:30 The Odyssey (R) DBOX: 9:00- 12:50-4:40-8:30 Jana Nayagan (NR) Subtitled: 3:00-7:00-10:50 Chennai Love Story (NR) Subti- tled: 6:00-9:45 Young Washington (PG-13) 9:00- 12:00-3:00-6:00-9:00 Obsession (R) 10:20 Minions & Monsters 3D (PG) 2:00 Moana 3D (PG) 2:50 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 9:00-9:15-12:20-12:35-3:40-7:00- 7:15-10:35 The Odyssey Premium (R) DBOX; XD: 10:05-11:30-1:55-3:20-5:45- 7:10-9:35-11:00 Moana (PG) 9:00-11:55-2:05-5:00 Jana Nayagan (NR) Subtitled: 10:35 The Odyssey (R) 9:50-10:20- 11:10-2:10-6:00-9:50
11900 Palace Way
Medal of Honor Theater - NMMC 18900 Jefferson Davis Highway We, the Marines 10:00-11:00- 12:00-1:00-2:00-3:00-4:00
Paragon Founders Row 112 Founders Avenue Moana (PG) 10:10-1:00-3:50- 6:40-9:30 Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:20-1:10-4:00- 6:50-9:40 Evil Dead Burn (R) 3:30-6:15 Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:30- 1:00-3:30 The Odyssey (R) 10:30-2:20- 6:10-10:00 The Invite (R) 10:00-12:45 The Odyssey (R) 10:00-11:30- 1:50-4:00-5:40-7:00-8:00-9:00- 9:30
Phoenix Theatres Village 14 + PTX 1600 Village Market Boulevard SE Tremors (1990) (R) 1:00 Moana (PG) 10:00-10:30-1:30- 4:15-4:45-7:30-9:30 The Fifth Element (2024 Re-Re- lease) (PG-13) 4:00 Supergirl (PG-13) 11:00-1:45-7:10 Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:50-1:20-3:50- 6:20-8:50 Evil Dead Burn (R) 10:15 Motor City (R) 11:10-1:45-4:20- 6:50-9:30
Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:00- 11:00-12:30-1:30-3:00-4:00-5:30- 7:45-10:00 The Invite (R) 6:30-10:15 The Odyssey (R) 10:15-11:15- 2:15-3:05-6:00-7:00-10:00 Jana Nayagan (NR) Subtitled: 1:30-5:15 Bad Counselors (PG-13) 7:00 Chennai Love Story (NR) Subti- tled: 10:00-9:00 Young Washington (PG-13) 10:00-12:50-4:20-7:00-9:50 Obsession (R) 9:45 The Odyssey Premium (R) DBOX: 1:00-4:45-8:40 The Odyssey (R) 10:45-12:15- 2:45-4:05-6:30-8:00-9:30
Regal Ballston Quarter 671 North Glebe Road Moana (PG) 10:40-1:40-4:20- 7:10-9:50 Toy Story 5 (PG) 9:20-10:20-1:00- 3:30-6:20-7:00-8:50 Motor City (R) 8:45-2:00-4:50- 7:50-10:30 The Odyssey (R) 8:50-9:30-10:30- 11:00-11:40-12:40-1:20-2:20- 2:50-4:30-6:10-6:40-7:30-8:10- 9:10-10:10-10:40 The Invite (R) 12:05-3:00-5:50- 8:30-11:05 Young Washington (PG-13) 9:50- 12:50-3:40-9:30 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 3:50 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 9:00-12:30-4:00-7:20-10:50 Motor City (R) 带字幕；OC: 11:20AM Minions & Monsters (PG) 9:10- 10:00-12:20-2:40-5:00-7:40-10:00 The Odyssey (R) 带字幕；OC: 5:20
Regal Dulles Town Center 21100 Dulles Town Circle Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 11:30-2:15-5:30-8:45-10:45 Moana (PG) 11:50-2:30-5:10- 10:35 Minions & Monsters (PG) 11:15- 2:45-5:00-8:00 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 11:00-7:30 The Odyssey (R) 10:40-11:40- 12:40-1:30-2:20-3:20-4:20-5:10- 6:00-7:00-7:50-8:50-9:40-10:15 Supergirl (PG-13) 10:45-1:20 Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R) 7:10-10:00 Young Washington (PG-13) 10:50-1:40 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:30-1:00-3:25- 5:50-8:15-10:40 Motor City (R) 10:15-4:40-7:20- 9:50
Regal Fairfax Towne Center 4110 West Ox Road Moana (PG) 9:40-11:10-2:00- 4:20-7:00 Supergirl (PG-13) 11:00-1:40 Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:20-1:00-3:40- 6:30-9:10 Disclosure Day (PG-13) 9:45-1:00 Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:00- 12:30-2:50-5:10-7:20-9:50 The Odyssey (R) 9:30-10:50- 11:30-12:20-1:30-2:40-4:10-5:30- 6:50-9:30-10:20 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 4:10 Sakr w Canaria 带字幕: 7:40-10:30 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 9:50-12:50-4:00-7:10-10:10 Khali Balak Min Nafsak (NR) 带字幕: 4:50-7:30-10:40 Gauthali (NR) 带字幕: 3:15- 6:10-10:00 The Odyssey (R) 带字幕；OC: 8:10 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 带字幕；OC: 9:20
Regal Fox
Moana (PG) 7:00-8:45-9:40- 12:30-3:20-6:10 Toy Story 5 (PG) 7:30-8:45-10:10- 12:45-3:30-7:10 Jana Nayagan (NR) 带字幕: 12:00; 11:00-2:00-6:10-9:50 The Invite (R) 7:15-10:00-3:50 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 3:30-6:40; 9:50 The Odyssey: The IMAX Experience (R) 7:15-10:30-2:30- 6:30-10:30 Minions & Monsters (PG) 7:10- 9:35-11:35-1:25-4:10-6:40-9:30 Lenin (NR) 带字幕: 7:15AM Bad Counselors (PG-13) 6:30 Chennai Love Story (NR) 带字幕: 3:05-6:15-9:10 The India Story (NR) 带字幕: 2:50-9:00 Sia: Nostalgic For The Present 1:00 Ishqnama (NR) 带字幕: 11:30- 6:25-9:45 Gauthali (NR) 带字幕: 10:05- 3:00-6:15 The Odyssey (R) 4DX: 7:45-11:20- 3:10-7:00-10:50; 2:15-6:00-9:00; 8:15-8:40-10:00-12:30-1:50-4:10- 5:40-7:30-8:00-9:30 Young Washington (PG-13) 7:00- 10:00-1:00 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 9:50-12:20-1:00-4:20-7:10 Minions & Monsters (PG) 7:35AM
22875 Brambleton Plaza
Regal Kingstowne
The India Story (NR) 带字幕: 1:00-4:30-8:00 Motor City (R) 带字幕: 8:15 The Invite (R) 带字幕: 9:50AM Moana (PG) ScreenX: 10:30-4:20- 7:20-10:20 The Odyssey (R) RPX: 11:30-3:15- 7:10-11:00 Moana (PG) 11:45-2:45-5:45-8:50 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 3:30-7:00; 12:10
5910 Kingstowne Towne Center
The Odyssey (R) 10:00-10:50- 12:20-1:10-1:40-4:00-4:45-5:30- 6:15-7:45-8:30-9:20-10:00 Minions & Monsters (PG) 带字幕: 9:55AM Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:10-11:00- 1:30-4:10-6:40-9:10 The Odyssey (R) 带字幕: 2:30 Jana Nayagan (NR) 带字幕: 9:55-6:00-10:30 Bad Counselors (PG-13) 6:30 Young Washington (PG-13) 10:15-12:30-6:50-9:40 Obsession (R) 3:40-9:00 Jana Nayagan (NR) 带字幕: 2:00 Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R) 9:50-12:40 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG- 13) 3:50 Moana 3D (PG) ScreenX: 1:20 Motor City (R) 10:05-5:00-10:45 The Invite (R) 11:15-2:15 Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:20- 12:50-3:00-5:20-7:35-9:50 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 10:40-1:50-5:10-8:40-10:10
Regal Springfield Town Center
Moana (PG) 9:00-12:00-3:20- 9:30 Toy Story 5 (PG) 9:30-12:40- 3:30-7:20-9:10 Evil Dead Burn (R) 11:00-1:50- 4:50-7:40-10:30 Motor City (R) 7:10 The Odyssey (R) 9:10-9:40- 10:10-10:40-11:10-1:00-1:30- 2:00-2:30-3:00-4:00-5:00-5:30- 6:00-6:30-7:00-8:20-8:50-9:20- 9:50-10:20 The Invite (R) 9:20-12:30 Bad Counselors (PG-13) 6:40 Young Washington (PG-13) 9:50-12:50 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG- 13) 4:05-6:30 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 10:00-4:20-7:30-10:40 Motor City (R) 字幕版；OC： 10:00 Minions & Monsters (PG) 9:05- 11:40-2:10-4:40 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 字幕版；OC: 1:10 The Odyssey (R) 字幕版；OC: 10:10
6859 Springfield Mall
Regal Virginia Gateway 8001 Gateway Promenade Place Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 3:40-7:10 The Odyssey (R) 字幕版： 10:30AM Toy Story 5 (PG) 8:50-10:20- 11:50-2:50-5:50-8:50 Evil Dead Burn (R) 9:30 Motor City (R) 7:50-10:50 Minions & Monsters (PG) 8:20- 9:20-11:00-12:00-1:30-2:40- 5:20-7:15-9:45 The Invite (R) 11:00 Bad Counselors (PG-13) 6:00 Young Washington (PG-13) 9:15-12:30-3:30-6:20 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG- 13) 4:00 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 9:00-10:00-12:20-1:00-4:30- 8:00-10:30-11:20 Sia: Nostalgic For The Present 1:20 Moana 3D (PG) ScreenX: 4:40 Moana (PG) 9:10-12:05-3:00- 9:10; 10:40-1:40-7:40-10:40 The Odyssey: The IMAX Experience (R) 8:30-12:10-3:50- 7:30-11:10 The Odyssey (R) 9:30-11:10- 1:10-2:10-3:10-4:20-5:10-6:10- 7:00-8:10-9:00-10:00-11:30
Reston, VA - LOOK Dine-in Cinema 11940 Market Street Tremors (1990) (R) 4:20 Moana (PG) OC: 6:20 Toy Story 5 (PG) OC: 7:30 Evil Dead Burn (R) 11:50-10:10 Minions & Monsters (PG) OC: 7:15 The Odyssey (R) OC: 6:00 Her Private Hell (R) OC: 8:30 The Invite (R) OC: 7:45 Young Washington (PG-13) OC: 8:40 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) OC: 6:40 Moana (PG) 1:10-3:50-9:00 Toy Story 5 (PG) 12:20-2:10- 4:40-9:30 Disclosure Day (PG-13) 11:30- 9:50 Minions & Monsters (PG) 12:00- 2:40-5:10-10:00 The Odyssey (R) 11:40-12:40- 2:20-3:20-4:20-6:30-7:00-8:00- 9:40-10:40 Her Private Hell (R) 11:30-2:50- 5:40 The Invite (R) 12:30-2:30-5:00- 10:20 Young Washington (PG-13) 12:10-3:00-5:50 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 1:20-3:10
Smithsonian - Airbus IMAX Theater 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway Hubble (G) 2:00 To Fly! 11:15AM Apollo 11: First Steps Edition 4:00 Space: The New Frontier 10:30AM Wingsuit Flyers: The Science of Flight 12:00-3:00 The Odyssey: The IMAX Experi- ence (R) 5:30-9:15
University Mall Theatres
10659-A Braddock Road Moana (PG) 12:00-2:25-4:50- 7:30-9:45 Minions & Monsters (PG) 12:40- 2:45-4:40-7:15-9:10 The Odyssey (R) 12:30-3:45- 7:00-10:10
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在乔治敦（Georgetown）的一家阿根廷餐厅 Brasero Atlántico，一个巨大的金属壁炉成为了厨房的核心。火炉在空气中弥漫着甜美的烟雾，但遗憾的是，食物往往未能充分融入这种风味。
Brasero Atlántico
上个月在 Brasero Atlántico 用餐后，我的朋友给我发了一张照片。他在照片旁边开玩笑说：“烤炉在我身上留下了印记”，随附的照片显示他的脖子上点缀着像是木灰一样的东西。在这家位于乔治敦的餐厅，出现一点烟灰是可以预见的，其开放式厨房被一个巨大的金属壁炉占据。随着木材燃尽，余烬从中央烟囱堆被移至一个由平顶和格栅组成的结构中。在这个装置上方，一个巨大的通风口在全力运转，但热量和烟雾依然偷偷潜入用餐区。这里弥漫着温馨篝火的气息，而周围环境则显得时尚且宏大。在现场明火烹饪的这种感官剧场方面，这家去年开业的阿根廷餐厅可以与 Dabney 和 Maydan 等餐厅相媲美。
Elazar Sontag
但有些问题。在5月初，当我点了一道 vegetables a las brasas（正如其名，是用炭火烤制的蔬菜）时，端上桌的是一盘西兰花和小白菜，看起来既委婉又苍白，仿佛是被水煮过一样。随后的 $69 肋眼牛排同样令人费解，其表面色泽几乎和我亲爱的朋友的脖子一样苍白。我喜欢一道名为“焦香冰山生菜”的沙拉的味道，厚厚的切片配上优雅的油醋汁和食用花卉。然而，这道菜的“焦香”程度也仅相当于一份 Sweetgreen 碗。如果效果就像没煮熟的粗纤维一样，为什么还要费力去烤生菜？
翻看我在三次晚餐期间拍的照片，我费力地想找出一道有烤痕的菜。难道菜品只是太早从火上拿下来了吗？但这无法解释那块猪排——烤到了干硬且难以咀嚼，但不知为何，依然缺乏我期待中活火烹饪所带来的深沉、近乎焦黑的色调和浓郁的烟熏风味。在 Brasero Atlántico 用餐时，你会感受到火焰，因为它们从厨房中跃出，用灰烬礼赞你。但你很少能品味到它们。
在一家主打活火烹饪的餐厅里，如此胆怯地使用火，对于许多食客来说将是不可原谅的缺陷（这在我给出的“满意”评级中占据了很大权重）。这很可惜，因为执行主厨 Manuela Carbone 及其团队在很多其他方面都表现出色。晚餐在华丽的氛围中开始，一名穿着干练白色工作服的服务员给每位食客端上一个看起来像《我的世界》(Minecraft) 煤块的东西。这个粗犷的形状实际上是一块蓬松诱人的面包，Carbone 用墨鱼汁为其增加湿度，并配上一个像贝壳一样有棱纹的黄油球。它口感轻盈，微甜，且以一种俏皮的方式契合了这家痴迷于火的餐厅的主题。免费面包服务是一门正在消失的艺术，而 Carbone 对此领域的贡献提醒了我，这件事是多么令人难过。
另一道给人初步印象的菜品是帝王蟹 Empanadas（西班牙馅饼），这是主厨向那个时代的致敬——当时这种如今奢侈的食材还是阿根廷沿海社区触手可及的主食。她在酥脆且色泽金黄的皮囊中填充了蟹肉、贝夏梅尔酱 (béchamel)、焦糖洋葱以及大量的柠檬汁。“我们尽量保持简单，”她说。或许如此，但结果是一道充满甜美、浓郁且具有海洋复杂性的佳肴。
Carbone 制作的西班牙土豆蛋饼 (Spanish tortilla) 也像你见过的任何一种一样美观且技术精准。在我的一次光顾中，这款像枕头一样圆润的蛋饼顶端缀着饱满的虾——她选择的海鲜随季节而变，现在则换成了章鱼。切开它，嫩滑的土豆块和软凝固的炒蛋便倾泻而出，与染成红色的辣椒油混合，形成一种极佳的酱汁，非常适合用最后几口面包蘸食。
如果你将 Brasero Atlántico 视为一个休息室而非正式餐厅，专注于小食和鸡尾酒，你会收获回报。也许这就写在餐厅的基因里，因为它是一家阿根廷顶尖酒吧的后代。著名调酒师 Renato Giovannoni 于 2013 年在布宜诺斯艾利斯开设了 Florería Atlántico，是一家隐藏在葡萄酒花店后面的酒吧。此后，它被公认为世界上最好的
满意 (Satisfactory) 1066 Wisconsin Ave. NW. braseroatlanticodc.com 202-516-4886 营业时间：每日 5 to 10:30 p.m.；周六和周日 11:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. 推荐：帝王蟹 Empanadas、普罗旺斯风味野菇、土豆蛋饼、时令根茎蔬菜、烤章鱼、阿根廷烤肠 (salchicha parrillera)。 避雷：黑米饭 (Arroz negro)、炭烤蔬菜 (vegetables a las brasas)、猪排、阿根廷肋眼牛排、薯条。 价格：小食 $18 至 $35，大盘菜 $29 至 $192（双人牛排）。 噪音检测：74 分贝/必须提高嗓门说话。 无障碍设施：餐厅入口无障碍；洗手间符合 ADA 标准；可通过电梯到达 Florería Atlántico。 饮食注意事项：菜单未列出过敏原；提供多种鱼类素食和素食菜品。
饮品。除了华盛顿的 Brasero 餐厅外，Giovannoni 及其合作伙伴 Alex Resnik 还将他们那种“酒吧兼花店”的组合模式带到了乔治敦，在他们新开的明火餐厅隔壁开设了 Florería Atlántico。
我在 Brasero Atlántico 最成功的晚餐体验，通常是从穿过阳光明媚的花店开始——停下来片刻，欣赏那些纯净的花艺布置——然后进入昏暗的地下休息室。在等待预约时间之前，这里是一个舒适的逗留之地，由同样高效且轻松的员工管理，即便隔壁餐厅的用餐过程有些波折，他们也能让整体感觉依然愉悦。
我在这里最喜欢的饮品是 Yamanas，这是一款从布宜诺斯艾利斯分店引进的经典款，加入了苏格兰威士忌、金酒和伯爵茶，并用螺旋藻染成了“海洋世界蓝”。这里的鸡尾酒灵动且富有实验精神。回到隔壁餐厅，你会发现一份精简后的酒单，上面的饮品更为严肃，但同样令人愉悦。由海水和尤加利叶制成的 Negroni Balestrini，为餐厅环境提供了清爽的平衡，因为随着夜色渐深，餐厅内的空气变得越来越闷热沉重。
当你浏览菜单，随着菜品分量和价格的增加，晚餐的体验开始变得令人失望。黑米饭 Arroz negro ($44) 看起来很专业，点缀着蒜泥蛋黄酱，并以炸鹌鹑蛋和血肠圆片装饰。然而，米饭的味道极其平淡，且由于加入了过多黄油，吃几口就感觉像吃了一顿饱饭。面食类则质量参差不齐。成功的例子是：那道美味且充满活力的青酱包裹着恰到好处（al dente）的墨鱼汁细面 ($49)。失败的例子是：同样菜品顶部的剑鱼，一片苍白且过熟的鱼肉，与整体不协调，也无法解释其成本。随一份 $192 的双人牛排晚餐附赠的薯条——或者作为 $15 的配菜单独点购的薯条——不幸的是，并非手工制作。尽管餐厅要求供应商按规格定制，但它们看起来非常像冷冻食品区大袋装的裹面糊薯条。
并非每道菜都缺乏大胆、直接的热力。我喜欢章鱼，口感爽脆，几乎被烤焦，铺在一堆奶油白豆之上。一份从布宜诺斯艾利斯生产商那里进口的紧致盘绕香肠被烤至酥脆且带有愉悦的烟熏味，并配以明亮且酸辣的萨尔莎酱。蘑菇在平底锅上烤出了漂亮的深色外壳，然后刷上大蒜欧芹黄油，并配以一个溏心蛋。
在 6 月下旬我最喜欢的菜品中，有一盘简单的 the kohlrabi（苤蓝）和韭葱，被烹饪至柔软细腻。虽然没有来自壁炉的强烈色泽，但纯粹的热力激发出了每种蔬菜最甜美、最本质的风味。这给了我一个极好的提醒：火并不需要灼烧或烧焦才能创造伟大。它也可以在背景中若隐若现。但在 Brasero Atlántico，很多时候你甚至会忘了它的存在。
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这种巴士 概念 略带 梦幻色彩
作者：ANDREA SACHS
巴塞罗那 —— 两位开往瑞士的巴士司机登上了 Twiliner 双层巴士的楼梯，并在出发前在每位乘客的座位旁进行了简报。在夜间启程之前，他们需要向旅客演示如何睡觉。
在卧铺火车上，将座椅或长凳转换为床铺进行水平睡眠很常见。但在巴士上完全舒展身体则较为罕见。乘客通常只能将座椅后倾几英寸，但能平躺在背上？那只能在梦中实现。
于 11 月推出的 Twiliner 希望能彻底改变长途客车旅行，它是欧洲唯一一家提供全平躺座椅夜间巴士的服务商。其 21 个全平躺座椅类似于经济舱乘客在前往飞机后部狭小座位途中会经过的那些舒适的可转换舱位。
“我们最初是从零开始的。我们如何能让人们以最舒适的方式从 A 点到达 B 点？”Twiliner 的联合创始人、瑞士工业设计师 Joël Béla Bernauer-Bourgeois 说道，该公司拥有其座椅设计的全部知识产权。“灵感来自航空业的商务舱座椅。”
尽管预算旅行者通常可以廉价地在欧洲境内飞行，但 Bernauer-Bourgeois 称，夜间巴士是比飞行更便宜且更环保的替代方案，尤其是与酒店结合使用时。根据瑞士政府的计算，在类似航线上，客车每客公里产生的碳排放量最高可比飞行减少 85%。环保机构和组织经常将短途飞行列为行业内最大的污染源之一，并敦促旅客选择更绿色的交通方式，如火车或巴士。
这些年来，我尝试过在北美和欧洲的长途巴士和火车上过夜，并发现即使处于仰卧位，恢复性的休息也可能难以实现。摇晃或颠簸的动作，加上嘈杂的声音 —— 叮当作响、沙沙声、喇叭声和哨声、鼾声和喷气声 —— 甚至能让最疲惫的旅客也变成神经紧张的失眠者。
但我没有放弃。或许 Twiliner 能让我安然入睡？
“你进入车厢，端起一杯茶。你有巨大的”
Rick steves 通过地区烈酒 领略当地文化。 F2
在纽约， $100, $200 和 $300 能买到什么样的住宿？ F6
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旅游
作者：NATALIE B. COMPTON
希腊拥有地中海最长的海岸线，但从许多人规划行程的方式来看，你可能意识不到这一点。雅典、米科诺斯和圣托里尼承接了绝大多数游客，这对于希腊多年来一直与之抗争的“过度旅游”问题毫无帮助。
但这三者仅占该国数千个岛屿和近 8,500 英里海岸线的一小部分。还有许多其他角落值得探索，那里有热情的款待和壮丽的风景。
“如果你想陷入‘游客拥挤’的境地，”常驻雅典的自由撰稿人海伦·伊亚特鲁（Helen Iatrou）表示，那就跟着社交媒体上的希腊旅游趋势走。如果你追求阳光普照的极致幸福感，请转而寻找以下海滩。
伯罗奔尼撒半岛，美塞尼亚
“除了雅典，很多人并不了解希腊大陆，”在希腊生活了 30 多年的伊亚特鲁说道，“这很可惜。”
但希腊大陆即将迎来好莱坞的关注。本周上映的克里斯托弗·诺兰（Christopher Nolan）执导的《奥德赛》（The Odyssey）部分场景就在大陆南部的伯罗奔尼撒半岛拍摄。
伊亚特鲁建议游客租车在该地区进行公路旅行。这里的范围很广，因此建议选择其中一个省份进行探索，例如美塞尼亚，在那里你会发现一些“极其绝美的地方，比如沃伊多基利亚海滩（Voidokilia Beach），”伊亚特鲁说。
如果天气不是太热，可以利用伯罗奔尼撒半岛今年新开通的徒步旅行路线网络。
克里特岛，哈尼亚
越来越多的旅行者开始关注克里特岛，它是希腊最大且人口最多的岛屿。其吸引力部分源于该岛的海滩和古代历史，部分则源于美食。今年，克里特岛被授予了“欧洲
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Ginjinha 是一种由类似酸樱桃的 ginja 浆果、糖和酒精制成的甜味利口酒。在葡萄牙各处古色古香的小店里，每杯的售价不到 $2。
欧洲地区性烈酒让你在饮酒中感受当地文化
作者：RICK STEVES
在罗马的 Ristorante da Fortunato 餐厅结束晚餐时，我的朋友 Stefano 向我解释说，他最大的快乐是饮用一种名为 grappa（葡萄甲醇酒）的餐后酒。我尽力尝试欣赏这种当地的“烈火水”，但失败了。在啜饮 grappa 时，Stefano 指导我道：“喝 grappa 绝对不能急躁！”他仔细地品味，嗅闻香气，留心每一种味道。随后他告诉我，他至高无上的快乐是在驾驶帆船前往科西嘉岛的途中，喝一杯 grappa，并抽一支托斯卡纳雪茄。
整个欧洲都是如此。每个国家都有自己的品牌“私酿酒”——一种蒸馏出的混合物，它会灼烧你的喉咙，让你眼眶湿润，并让你的意识变得模糊，直到你认为自己能像当地人一样喝酒。尝试这些地区生产的烈酒和利口酒，是感受我最喜爱的这个大陆上不同文化与传统的绝佳方式。
虽然许多美国人熟悉威士忌和白兰地，但欧洲还有极其丰富的其他特色烈酒，其中许多是由水果制成的。例如，意大利的 grappa 是用酿酒的剩余物——果皮、果肉、种子和果梗——蒸馏而成的透明且强效的酒液。如果你不能纯饮，可以尝试在浓缩咖啡中加入一小杯，意大利人将其称为“caffè corretto”（“修正咖啡”）。
Ginjinha 是我最喜欢的葡萄牙饮品之一。这种甜利口酒是由类似酸樱桃的 ginja 浆果、糖和酒精制成的。在葡萄牙各地充满古风的小店里，每杯的价格不到 $2。你可以选择带浆果或不带浆果（“com elas” 或 “sem elas”——意为“带它们”或“不带它们”），以及 gelada（如果你希望它从冷藏瓶中倒入——非常不错）。
在希腊，带有茴香风味的浑浊酒液 ouzo（据称由阿索斯山的僧侣发明）值得一试，即使你不喜欢黑甘草的味道。与它的地中海近亲——法国的 pastis 和土耳其的 raki 类似，ouzo 在加入冰块或水后会从透明变为乳白色（不要纯饮）。希腊人将其既作为餐前酒，也与食物搭配饮用。
烈火水，其中大多数 是 slivovitz 的变体
Limoncello 就像瓶装的阳光。晚餐后冷饮一口，体验“美丽的意大利”。
李子白兰地，以至于它成了 喀尔巴阡山脉的事实上的货币 （经常用于与农民和其他山民进行以物易物）。在匈牙利，如果想尝试一种更纯粹的烈酒，请尝试 pálinka，这是一种由各种水果制成的强效饮品，最常见的是 szilva（李子）或 barack（杏子）。
尝试一些施纳普斯（schnapps）。这种自酿酒的最佳去处之一是奥地利的萨尔茨堡。在市中心的主干道上寻找 Sporer；这是一家拥有百年历史的家族经营蒸馏厂兼零售店。吧台尽头的很多烈酒都装在壶中：Nuss 是坚果味，Marillen 是杏子味（该地区的典型口味），Kletzen 鸡尾酒就像一款超级浓稠的梨味百利甜酒，而 edle Brande 则是度数更高的施纳普斯。
欧洲最臭名昭著的特色饮品之一是苦艾酒（absinthe），这种高酒精浓度的草本饮料在 19 世纪末的艺术家和作家中非常流行。梵高和高更之所以闹翻，部分原因就是因为一个饮用苦艾酒的夜晚。就在那一晚，梵高割掉了部分耳朵并将其交给了一名妓女。
由于被认为具有危险的成瘾性，苦艾酒在 1915 年被禁止，但现在在法国已再次合法。饮用它有一种仪式感，需要一个特殊的杯子和一个带孔的勺子。首先向杯中倒入一小杯苦艾酒，然后将一块方糖放在勺子上，将冷水缓缓地通过方糖滴入饮料中。随着糖水释放出苦艾酒的主要风味成分——苦艾、茴香和莳萝的香气，绿色的液体变得浑浊。
如果你想了解更多关于“la fée verte”（“绿色仙女”——苦艾酒的绰号）的信息，可以访问位于巴黎西北部奥维尔-叙罗伊斯（Auvers-sur-Oise）的苦艾酒博物馆（Musée de l’Absinthe）。它设在这里是有原因的：奥维尔也是梵高自杀和安葬之地。
与苦艾酒相比，柠檬琴酒（limoncello）就像瓶装的阳光。这是意大利一种由柠檬制成的像糖果一样的利口酒。意大利是世界上最大的柠檬生产国之一，其索伦托（Sorrento）地区专门生产柠檬琴酒。晚餐后小酌一杯冰镇的柠檬琴酒，体验一次“美丽的意大利”（bella Italia）。
虽然在欧洲品尝美食是一种乐趣，但酒吧巡店还有另一个理由：你在当地的酒吧里与当地人分享当地的特产。所以，请询问坐在附近的人，让他们推荐自己最喜欢的一种。它可能会烧掉你的眉毛，但你永远不会忘记这次体验。
本文经 Rick Steves’ Europe 许可使用。Rick Steves 撰写欧洲指南书，在公共电视和广播中主持旅游节目，并组织欧洲之旅。
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被国际美食、文化、艺术与旅游研究所评为“美食之区”。这里正是 Iatrou 推荐给美食旅行者的目的地。
“克里特饮食被认为是地中海饮食的基础，”Iatrou 说道。“它在农业上几乎可以自给自足。他们生产大部分的水果、蔬菜、橄榄油……以及牲畜和鱼类。”
她在岛上最喜欢的区域之一是哈尼亚（Chania），这里既是一个城市也是西北部的一个地区。它以 14 世纪的威尼斯港口和埃拉福尼西（Elafonisi）而闻名，后者是一个拥有粉色沙滩的自然保护区——那里可能会很拥挤，因此 Iatrou 建议在早晨前往。
她推荐的另一个海滩是巴洛斯泻湖（Balos Lagoon），Iatrou 表示，在那里你会发现“蔚蓝的海水和白色的粉末状沙滩”以及“周围环绕的岩石景观和锈红色的悬崖……简直太不可思议了”。
圣帕拉斯凯维，斯佩茨斯岛
当雅典旅游公司创始人 Elena Papanicolaou 想要“慢下来，欣赏自然与简约”时，她名单上的第一个岛屿是萨罗尼克湾的斯佩茨斯岛（Spetses）。
从雅典乘坐渡轮仅需两小时，从伯罗奔尼撒也很容易到达。由于汽车仅限居民驾驶，斯佩茨斯岛成了步行者的天堂。Papanicolaou 说，这里是附近海德拉岛（Hydra）的一个更安静的替代方案；它以沿蔚蓝色水域分布的松树和新古典主义豪宅而充满魅力。《利刃出鞘》续集《玻璃洋葱》的粉丝可能会认出斯佩茨斯岛的这一奢华一面；电影中的派对场景便是在这座岛上拍摄的。
Papanicolaou 最喜欢的海滩是位于斯佩茨斯岛无人居住一侧的圣帕拉斯凯维（Agia Paraskevi）。
阿斯蒂帕莱亚岛
经营“雅典步行之旅”的 Ioannis Giannakakis 则向寻求海滩的人推荐阿斯蒂帕莱亚岛（Astypalaia）。这座位于东南海岸外的岛屿在他看来，就像许多旅行者想象中但如今已很难找到的希腊模样：“悠闲、地道且充满个性”。
Giannakakis 表示，阿斯蒂帕莱亚岛以其绝佳的海滩（如 Vatses、Kaminakia 和 Agios Konstantinos）、隐秘的小湾（如 Plakes、Ble Limanaki 和 Chrysi Ammos）、徒步小径和粉刷成白色的教堂而闻名。当地人说，岛上有 365 处礼拜场所。
顶部：山羊和游客一样在希腊克里特岛的巴洛斯泻湖享受时光。吸引力的一部分来自岛上的海滩和古代历史，另一部分则来自美食。 中间：位于斯佩茨斯岛西侧的圣帕拉斯凯维，从雅典乘渡轮仅需两小时即可到达。 右侧：希腊埃拉福尼西的海滩游客，这是一个拥有粉色沙滩的自然保护区。
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“克里特岛塞罗坎博斯的 Argilos 海滩在很大程度上没有受到大众旅游的影响，”在一家希腊旅行社工作的雅典本地人 Villy Manolia 说道。
塞罗坎博斯，克里特岛
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岛屿——一年中的每一天都能体验一个不同的岛屿。
食物是另一个亮点。Giannakakis 推荐尝试岛上的特色美食，例如 pouggia（一种使用当地 chlori 奶酪、蜂蜜和肉桂制成的酥脆奶酪派）；lambrianos（慢烤填心羊肉或山羊肉）；他还提到有“出色的当地奶酪”。
如果你还需要另一个被吸引的理由，Astypalaia 的绰号是“爱琴海的蝴蝶”，因为它具有翅膀般的形状。
在克里特岛的东南部，偏远的塞罗坎博斯定居点是 Villy Manolia 最喜欢的避世之所。她就职于 Unforgettable Greece 旅行社，她认为这里“在很大程度上没有受到大众旅游的影响”。
“在这里，你不会看到成排的太阳床，而是会发现壮丽的风景、原始的海滩以及一种在地中海地区日益罕见的缓慢生活节奏，”雅典本地人 Manolia 在一封电子邮件中说道。
塞罗坎博斯之所以能保持安静，是因为其地理位置。这里距离最近的城市西提亚 (Sitia) 约一小时车程，距离扎克罗斯 (Zakros) 村 20 分钟车程。Manolia 表示，为了“有机会像当地人世代珍视那样体验希腊”，这段路程是非常值得的。
Psili Ammos，纳克索斯岛
纳克索斯岛上的 Psili Ammos 是 Manolia 的另一个顶级推荐。她说，这里距离岛上的主要旅游区稍远一些，有助于保持海滩“出奇地安静”。前往那里的过程也是乐趣的一部分。
“这段车程是岛上最美的路段之一，”Manolia 说道。
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她还告诉游客，在前往 Psili Ammos 的行程中，可以顺便访问山村 Apeiranthos，在那里你可以找到绝佳的美食、大理石建筑以及“最热情好客的当地人”，她补充道。
福莱冈多斯岛
米科诺斯岛和圣托里尼岛可能是基克拉泽斯群岛的超级巨星，但对于追求“更具戏剧性和宁静感”的人来说，Kensington Ultraluxe 的奢侈旅行专家 Brianna Chrisopulos 会将客户引导至福莱冈多斯岛。你可以在这里发现同样标志性的白色村庄和爱琴海全景，但这里没有拥挤的人群。
在岛上的三个村庄——Karavostasis、Ano Meria 和 Chora 之中，Chrisopulos 最喜欢坐落在悬崖上的 Chora。如果你在岛上过夜，千万不要错过在日落时分漫步前往村里的 Panagia 教堂。
租赁游艇
如果你想避开租车行的排队、繁忙的渡轮和频繁更换酒店，Iatrou 建议报名参加航海之旅，或通过 Seafarer Cruising & Sailing Holidays 和 Ionion Sails 等公司租赁自己的游艇。
这种旅行方式非常适合团体，无论是好友聚会还是一次难忘的多代同堂假期，“而且它能让你远离人群，”Iatrou 补充道，“海上没有交通堵塞。”
探索希腊的另一种选择是租赁游艇。这种旅行方式非常适合团体，无论是好友聚会还是一次难忘的多代同堂假期。
作者：HANNAH SAMPSON 和 ANDREA SACHS
机场给人的感觉就像是一个公共电话通话的考验场。在登机口，喋喋不休；在休息室，没完没了。然后你飞上了天空——终于——得到了片刻清静。
尽管几家国际航空公司放宽了规定，允许在飞行中通话，但一组立法者正试图通过一项拟议的新立法，确保美国承运商将保持“通话禁区”。这一举动将受到最大的飞行员工会的欢迎。
“这关乎安全与保障。这关乎保持客舱的平静。这关乎确保我们能够作为航空业的第一响应者履行职责，”飞行员协会 (Association of Flight Attendants-CWA) 主席 Sara Nelson 在一份声明中说道。“而且，无论技术如何，公众对飞机上通话的抵触情绪都极为强烈。”
她补充道：“飞机上禁止通话。就这么简单。”
本月早些时候提出的两党共同发起的《安静天空法案》（Quiet Skies Act），旨在“最终确定一项禁止”飞行中通话的禁令。该措施是对 2018 年联邦航空管理局重新授权法案中一项旨在禁止语音通话条款的跟进。
但该法案的共同发起人之一，众议员格雷格·斯坦顿（Greg Stanton，亚利桑那州民主党人）表示，联邦航空管理局 (FAA) 尚未出台关于禁令如何实施的具体规则。这项法律将给予该机构 180 天的时间来发布相关规则。
“从技术上讲，由于规则尚未实施，这并不违法，”斯坦顿在一次采访中说道。“现在，许多航空公司仍然禁止这样做，但我们希望明确一点：对于所有航空公司，飞行途中通话都是违法的。”
快速、免费的 WiFi
他和其他人指出，技术的进步使得快速的机上 WiFi 成为现实——而乘客能够轻松地进行视频和语音通话，从而成了一个更为紧迫的问题。
[[IMG_F1]] 来自 F1 的巴士 Twiliner 巴士的住宿条件像酒店房间一样整洁
“……窗户让你能欣赏周围的景色，但随后你可以拉下窗帘，将座椅调至床位模式，然后在楼下刷牙，”伯诺尔-布尔乔亚 (Bernauer-Bourgeois) 这样描述，勾勒出一段梦幻的场景。“你入睡，然后醒来，希望在目的地城市中心感到神清气爽。”
预订过夜巴士车票
一周有几次，Twiliner 巴士在苏黎世与阿姆斯特丹之间，以及苏黎世与巴塞罗那之间往返。乘客可以乘车至终点，也可以在中间站点下车，例如在阿姆斯特丹线上的布鲁塞尔、鹿特丹、卢森堡或瑞士城市巴塞尔，或在巴塞罗那线上的西班牙赫罗纳或瑞士伯恩。
在 7 月初的一次周中旅行中，我购买了一张从巴塞罗那到伯恩的单程票，伯恩是到达苏黎世前的倒数第二个站点。如果没有交通堵塞或其他延误，这段大约 585 英里的旅程应花费约 121/2 小时。我支付的 $194 票价包括全套床品、瓶装水以及在自助共享小厨房内无限量供应的茶和咖啡。相比之下，一次大约两小时的单程飞行加上酒店费用将花费两倍以上的金额。
在线预订非常简单。在选择路线后，我挑选了一个座位。作为一个非常轻眠且重视个人空间的人，这需要像婚礼策划师或四星级将军那样的战略技巧。
上层甲板的前部包含了大部分座位——四排，每排三个座位，由一条走道将一对座位与单人座分开。在楼梯后方还有两排，另外在下层、位于司机驾驶室与洗手间、更衣室和厨房区域之间，还挤了一排座位。
虽然高处的前排座位视野最开阔——至少在被撞死的昆虫弄脏窗户之前是这样——但我担心会被身边和后面的乘客挤住。一层的座位离洗手间和司机太近，而司机在夜间会轮班。巴士后部看起来是空的，所以我预订了一个单人座，希望座位图上的方格能保持空置。
由于此次旅程只有 8 个人，事实的确如此。
登车与安顿
Twiliner 巴士计划于 7:30 p.m. 从巴塞罗那北站 (Barcelona Nord Station) 出发。我在候车区忍受着酷暑，与其他几位乘客一同等待，其中包括丽莎·康泽尔曼 (Lisa Conzelmann)，一名在马德里生活一年后返回家乡的瑞士教师。
“火车太贵了，我也不想飞，”康泽尔曼说，她试图尽量减少开支和碳排放。“我花了三小时研究 FlixBus，但那样你必须坐着。”
康泽尔曼原计划提前两天出发，但公司因“技术问题”取消了她的行程。
巴士晚了几分钟驶入，我们那两位快言快语且开朗的司机雷内·阿基诺 (Rene Aquino) 和马丁·富洛 (Martin Fulo) 跳下了车。他们核对了我们的名单，并存放了大件行李。由于没有顶棚行李架或
“现在越来越多的航空公司采用了 Starlink，它能提供极速的 WiFi 和连接，这将使未来出现更大的问题，”Points Guy 的新闻执行编辑克林特·亨德森（Clint Henderson）在电子邮件中表示。“技术已经到位，而我们最不希望听到的，就是当我们试图专注或休息时，在 30,000 英尺的高空听到响亮的会议或电话通话。”
美国运输部未回应置评请求。联邦通信委员会（FCC）禁止在飞机上使用特定移动商业频率的手机，以避免干扰地面网络，但该限制不适用于 WiFi 通话。然而，美国的航空公司禁止所有通话。
“许多美国航空公司禁止通过 WiFi 进行语音通话，以确保乘客拥有安静的环境，”美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）在发布后提供的一份声明中表示。“FAA 规定要求乘客遵守机组人员的所有安全指示。”
尽管有此禁令，乘务员表示，他们仍不得不告知初次乘机者或提醒常旅客，在空中禁止通话。
“今天就得告知某人，”乘务员兼“Jump-seat Chronicles Podcast”主持人米歇尔·蒙特兹（Michelle Montez）在电子邮件中写道。
亨德森表示，拟议法律的实施将为机组人员在执行通话限制时提供支持。
“在很大程度上，这项立法不会改变太多，而只是将现状制度化——即在 WiFi 广泛可用的情况下，禁止电话通话和视频会议，”他说。
全球范围内的规则
在欧洲及世界其他地区，飞机上使用手机的规则已经放宽。阿拉伯联合大公国的国家航空公司阿联酋航空（Emirates）甚至宣传其长期以来允许在空中通话的政策。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 本月行驶在从巴塞罗那到瑞士路线上的 Twiliner 双层巴士。
[[IMG_XXXX]] Andrea Sachs/华盛顿邮报 这张 Twiliner 座椅处于平躺模式，准备让乘客闭目养神——或者至少尝试这样做。
……行李架，而我们当中精明的打包者则用一个小袋子装好了过夜必需品。
我的住宿环境像酒店房间一样整洁。在座位上，我发现一叠整齐折叠的干净床上用品，包括一张床单、一条轻便的绗缝毯，以及一个塞在紫色手提袋里的枕套。
阿基诺（Aquino）和富洛（Fulo）过来演示可拆卸的托盘桌和座椅设置，设置范围从笔直挺立到慵懒斜靠，直至完全平躺。他们还解释了一个名为“约束袋”的安全功能，在发生碰撞时，它可以防止我向前滑动并从腰带下方脱出。它看起来像一个巨大的渔网，我无法从中挣脱。
阿基诺警告我不要将包放在脚边。他指向一个空座位，解释说在之前的一次行程中，脚托与一名旅客的行李发生了碰撞。那是四个卡在白天模式的座位之一。
入睡前
由于乘客很少，我们有活动空间——字面意义上的。司机告诉我们可以散开或更换位置。他们说，前一晚的情况并非如此，当时所有 21 个座位都被占满了。
趁着自然光依然透过高窗洒进来，我探索了巴士。
我从厨房开始，那里备有冷饮（果汁、苏打水、水）和小吃（椒盐卷饼、红椒味薯片、能量棒），可通过 QR 码购买。热饮站提供各式茶叶、一罐速溶咖啡和咖啡胶囊，但没有冲煮机。
沿着台阶向前方走，我遇到了两位从巴塞罗那瑜伽度假归来的瑞士朋友。他们刚刚吃完外卖晚餐，正在考虑接下来的活动：摘掉隐形眼镜？换上睡衣？还是穿上鞋子？
旅游专家、《来自托盘桌》(From the Tray Table) 通讯作者扎克·格里夫 (Zach Griff) 最近特意多次乘坐法国航空前往欧洲，因为该航空公司通过 Starlink 提供了快速的 WiFi。他表示，在其中一次飞行中，他通过 FaceTime 给同样在飞机上的一个朋友打了电话（没有声音），并对速度感到惊叹。
他表示，国际航空公司会提醒乘客在使用设备时要顾及他人，他看到人们在空中遵守了这一要求。
虽然格里夫表示，他认为允许旅客听取 Zoom 会议是有道理的——尤其是在乘客分布较散的商务舱或头等舱中——但他认为不应允许传统的双向电话通话。
在美国国内航班上，乘客的座位密集得多；他将这种体验比作乘坐美国国家铁路 (Amtrak) 的东北走廊线，在那里，除非在静音车厢，否则许多乘客都会接听工作或私人电话。
“我认为没人希望飞机上到处是打手机或开 Zoom 会议的人，”他说道，并指出飞机本身就是一个嘈杂的环境。
“坚决反对”
尽管全球情况在发生变化，但许多常旅客和常驻美国的机组人员表示，他们坚定地支持“禁止通话”阵营。
“飞行旅行已经足够压力大且不舒服了，为什么还要让它变得更糟！？”乘务员兼播客节目《飞机上的两个家伙》(Two Guys on a Plane) 主持人里奇·亨德森 (Rich Henderson) 在一封电子邮件中说道。他表示，有时当 WiFi 质量好到让乘客尝试打电话时，他不得不提醒他们不能通话。
“我曾经被升级到头等舱，这次感觉就像那样，所以我很兴奋，”常驻苏黎世的演员兼喜剧演员莉亚·惠彻 (Lea Whitcher) 说道。“但我不知道我们能睡得好不好。在瑜伽静修营时我们没睡好，因为那里太热了。”
与许多欧洲旅馆不同，这辆巴士的空调冷气十足，对美国人来说是完美的凉爽。
两人预订了往返票，但 Twiliner 公司因再次出现“技术问题”取消了南部行程。（据该公司称，由于“永久性技术问题”，第三辆巴士被判定无法运行，因此必须取消或重新预订多趟行程。）虽然他们希望能对地球母亲负责，但在如此短的通知时间内，他们唯一的其他选择就是飞行。
当我们聊天时，听到一声沉重的撞击声。一只燕子飞进了巴士。这是地球母亲的第二次打击。
大约午夜时分，我们在法国蒙彼利埃 (Montpellier) 停下来加油。在迷你超市里，我买了许多来自普罗旺斯的肥皂、草药和香囊，而阿基诺 (Aquino) 则用热巧克力填满了他的水箱。
重新上路后，我身上散发着薰衣草田的香味，准备睡觉。
在更衣室里，我穿上适合在公共场合展示的睡衣并刷牙。洗手池的水不能饮用，而且烫得惊人。我用保温瓶里的水漱口并洗脸。
洗手间内标识繁多，一尘不染。我们被告知要节约使用卫生纸，要往马桶里注水（只需按一个按钮），并且无论性别都要坐着使用。
铺床步骤
第 1 步：按下扶手上的“床”按钮，惊叹地看着座椅扭动和弹起，转化为一张完整的床。
“极少有地方会强迫你与陌生人肩并肩坐数小时，我认为在这种环境下禁止进行电话交谈是一个合理的期待，”他说道。
蒙特兹 (Montez) 表示，她不希望看到使用手机影响安全。
“我的担心是，在紧急情况下，乘客为了在最后一刻打完电话，可能会忽视机组人员的指令并无视我们，”她说道。
空乘人员乔舒亚·博伊德（Joshua Boyd）也是“跳座纪事播客”（Jumpseat Chronicles Podcast）的共同主持人，他在电子邮件中表示，作为一名乘客，他认为在紧急情况下能够接听或拨打电话的灵活性很重要。他还表示，与航空领域的手机使用相比，还有“更重要的事情需要处理”。
除紧急情况或安全状况外，他的同事兼播客共同主持人达里翁·福伊（Darion Foy）对在飞行途中通话表示坚决反对。
“我热爱人类，但我不需要在 35,000 英尺的高空成为每个人视频通话中的名誉嘉宾，”他在一封电子邮件中写道。“让飞机成为我们所有人都能享受片刻宁静的最后场所之一吧。”
从零开始的。如何 让人们以最舒适的 方式从 A 点到达
是商务舱的座椅”
Joël Béla Bernauer-Bourgeois 是一位瑞士工业设计师，也是 Twiliner 的联合创始人，该公司拥有其座椅设计的全部知识产权。
第 2 步：将床单铺在床上，将安全网从隔层中取出并夹好。放下枕头。
第 3 步：躺下，将腿伸直放入约束袋中，系好安全带，并用毯子盖住身体。
第 4 步：坐起来，觉得痒。 第 5 步：用毯子把身体裹起来，这样粗糙的约束袋就不会接触到裸露的皮肤。
第 6 步：等待睡意袭来。
睡眠——某种程度上
我从未被绑在担架上，但我怀疑 Twiliner 的布置与医疗运输车类似。我的腿几乎无法移动，这意味着约束袋起作用了。
“出于安全原因，请在整个旅程中保持仰卧，”说明书上写道。
在尝试蜷缩侧卧无果后，我打了个盹。但我也经常醒来。有两次，我看向窗外，发现车停在了路边，一次是为了更换司机，另一次是因为——后来 Fulo 告诉我的——车门无法正常关闭。在瑞士边境过关遭遇交通堵塞时，我猛然惊醒。当我开始看到向日葵田、波光粼粼的蓝色湖泊和白雪皑皑的勃朗峰时，我知道我彻底清醒了。
12 小时后，我们到达了伯尔尼。司机通过跳过希罗纳节省了时间，但在法国阿维尼翁的一次绕路让我们耽误了 45 分钟。
老实说，8 a.m. 对我来说正合适。如果再早一点，我就只想爬回床上，哪怕是巴士上的床。
总结
Twiliner 的床就像一个舒适的茧。一旦我适应了肢体的限制，我就处于一种“似睡非睡”的状态。幸运的是，入住率较低，所以我拥有隐私且相对安静。
当然，睡眠并不是这次旅行的主要目的，速度也不是：即使把前往机场和安检的时间计算在内，飞行也会快得多。我是在寻求一次冒险，而 Twiliner 做到了。虽然在伯尔尼的一天里我有些没精打采，但我也可以把这种迟钝归咎于高温。
那么，我还会再次乘坐 Twiliner 吗？绝对会。如果我需要在第二天精神饱满，我还会坐 Twiliner 吗？可能吧，但前提是我在最终目的地有一张真正的床，最好还能提前办理入住，这样我就可以补回缺失的睡眠。
纽约市的酒店平均日房价在 $300 以上徘徊，但仍能找到廉价选择。问题是，这些选择是否真的值得节省的费用？我们在曼哈顿住了几家酒店来寻找答案。
Nap York Central Park：$129
一旦我接受了共用浴室，那么转向共用房间也就水到渠成，突然之间，我进入了选择丰富的青旅领域。
我选择了 Nap York Central Park，它在两床位的女性专属住宿中提供一个“经济舱”，并配备独立卫浴。该物业在 Booking.com 上拥有超过 5,000 条评论，平均得分 8.1，被评为“非常好”。北至中央公园，南至剧院区，仅隔几个街区，地理位置无可挑剔。
入住流程如何？就没那么顺利了。我的房间代码无法使用，这个问题在入住期间反复出现，导致我多次前往前台。我不得不去前台领取承诺提供的浴巾和顶单，因为它们不在我的床上。
我的共用房间像一个长条形的实用储物间。里面有几个必须存放所有物品的储物柜，足够舒适的带隐私屏风的上下铺，一张长凳，一张小桌子，一把椅子和一个塔扇。风扇只是在搅动静止的暖空气，我希望日落后天气能凉快下来。（这是一个巨大的错误。）
我的房间没有窗户，但一扇玻璃门和一堵墙揭示了一个相邻房间，里面有一个外观充满未来感的睡眠舱；感觉就像在看科幻电影。底层楼的机器人礼宾员更增加了这种反乌托邦的氛围。
凌晨 5:30，当热气变得如此令人窒息以至于无法继续入睡时，我向前台反映了这个问题，然后溜出去在中央公园散步。当天早上晚些时候，问题得到了解决：有人打开了空调。
亮点：位置，位置，还是位置。靠近公园、多条地铁线以及剧院区，简直太棒了。酒店很干净，男女混住层和女性专属层的休息区有充足的空间可以工作或放松，还有一个公共厨房区域。
浴室的大小还算合适，我对淋浴的水压或温度没有抱怨。我的室友正是你希望在下铺睡着的陌生人所具备的所有特质：随和、友好且体贴。另一位
每次我在网上寻找曼哈顿的酒店时，我都惊恐得想把手机扔掉。我考虑将斯塔滕岛作为替代方案。有时我会住在前居住城市的友人家中。一个像步入式衣橱那么大的房间竟然要那么贵，这是什么意思？
根据汇总酒店业绩数据的 CoStar 统计，去年纽约市的平均每日房价略高于 $330。2025 年 6 月的平均价格大致相同。上个月我花了几天时间为期三晚的行程寻找合理的价格，这个数字对我来说并不意外。
“它们变得越来越疯狂了，”这座城市的原住民、且著有《Frommer's New York City 2026》指南书的波琳·弗罗默 (Pauline Frommer) 说道。几年前，由于价格上涨过多，她在书中首次加入了新泽西州的酒店选项。
“我不希望人们在度假时还要通勤，”她说，“那太可悲了。”
当我开始寻找 6 月初纽约市的酒店——涵盖底线价、中低价和非折扣价（就像我们在巴黎和罗马所做的那样）时，我设定了一些基本原则。我不想选择一个异常便宜的时间，比如 2 月。为了方便观看中央公园的莎士比亚剧作、百老汇演出以及去我最喜欢的商店和餐厅，我想住在曼哈顿。而且，我不想与陌生人共用浴室。
其中一个条件很快就被抛弃了。以下是我在这座不夜城中寻找的约 $100、$200 和 $300 的住宿发现。
Nap York 的地理位置无可挑剔，但办理入住的过程并非如此。
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客人们很安静且尊重空间，我在需要时工作人员也很给力。
不足之处：由于键盘反复出现问题，我花了很多时间才进入房间。空调的缺失毁掉了我在该地的大部分时间；我本应该更积极地处理这个问题。胶囊房“严格限单人入住”，且该物业仅限 18 岁及以上客人入住，因此不适合带小孩的家庭，也不太适合情侣。
我们得到了应有的价值吗？是的，尤其是在凉爽的空气进入之后。
Hotel Moca：$210
在我入住的那个周末，$200 想要租到一个带私人浴室的单间依然有些吃力。我找到的最合适选择恰好在我之前的社区——华盛顿高地 (Washington Heights)。
那里不是一个游客众多的区域。位于繁忙公路附近的 Hotel Moca 也无法改变这一现实。尽管大堂里贴着欢快的大写字母“Welcome to the Heights”（欢迎来到高地），墙上装饰着乔治·华盛顿大桥的艺术画和花园风格的装饰，但我并不想在那里久留。墙上贴着长长的一串酒店规定和政策，前台周围还围着一个高隔断——这一点并不怎么热情。工业香气的空气清新剂味道过于浓烈。在 Booking.com 上，这里的评分是 5.3，或被定义为“尚可”，对此我想说：确实如此。
我的房间很小，但还没到微小至极的地步，配有桌子、椅子、电视、床和床头柜。洗手池虽然空间不足，但淋浴间则非常宽敞。不过地板感觉有颗粒感。床单上有洞。一条毛巾有污渍。这一切都让我不想再次光顾。
亮点：我喜欢在周边散步，凝视美丽的联合宫剧院 (United Palace theater)，在 J. Hood Wright 公园欣赏风景，在古巴-多米尼加餐厅 Floridita 买一个蒜味古巴三明治和西班牙牛奶咖啡 (cafe con leche)，然后乘车前往特赖恩堡公园 (Fort Tryon Park) 的大都会艺术博物馆分馆 (Met Cloisters)，那是曼哈顿上城的一颗瑰宝。房间的窗户很大，尽管离消防站很近，但在八楼我没听到太多街道噪音。
Hotel Moca 房间的窗户很大，几乎没有街道噪音渗入。
不足之处：房间昏暗，床单质量低劣，大堂气味过浓。即便它更干净一些，作为探索城市其他地区的据点，这家酒店的位置也非常不便。
我们得到了应有的价值吗？没有。
Distrikt Hotel：$265
在这里我得承认我钻了系统的空子。我想要一家能够便捷到达剧院区和宾州车站（Penn Station）的酒店。我在 $300 左右的价位找不到太多符合这些需求的选项，于是我转向了 Hotwire——在那个平台上，你可以选择一个社区并预订酒店，但在预订完成之前不会揭晓酒店名称。
一家位于我所需区域、评价为“非常好”的四星级物业吸引了我的注意。我认为我可以根据度假村费和照片来识别这家酒店，预订后证明我是正确的。我在 Hotel Tonight 上发现了同一家酒店（直接标名）有折扣，所以根据需求情况，绝对可以用合理的价格有意识地预订。在繁忙时期，同一个房间在周六晚上可能需要 $450 或更多。
Distrikt Hotel 是一家隶属于希尔顿（Hilton）投资组合的独立精品酒店，表现出色。位于 40 街的地理位置非常完美，我可以快速步行前往计划中的百老汇演出以及乘坐早班火车。大堂明亮且吸引人，配有独特的园林风植物墙和吊灯。最重要的是，前台工作人员非常热情且乐于助人，让我能够在办理入住时间之前就进入房间。
我最终入住了一间宽敞的特大号豪华房（King Deluxe），可以俯瞰摩天大楼，配备 Nespresso 咖啡机、大浴室和大电视。床铺简直像梦一样，床单和枕头都非常蓬松，我甚至想多住一晚。
即使是大约 $33 的强制性目的地费也没有让我感到困扰；其中包含了 $29 的店内小馆信用额度，我用它吃了一顿轻便的早晚餐，以撑到深夜去买披萨。
Distrikt Hotel 是一家隶属于希尔顿（Hilton）投资组合的独立精品酒店。
不足之处：只有一部电梯在运行，导致等待时间很长，我曾有一次从 28 层走楼梯下来。虽然艺术设计灵感来自纽约市，但感觉仍然有点像连锁酒店。
我们得到了应有的价值吗？绝对得到了。
总结
在纽约寻找好价位就像在击打一个移动的目标：如果你预订得太早，可能会错过最后一刻的价格下跌。如果你等得太久，尽管有数百家物业，但可选范围可能并不大。
步行游览公司 Funky Experiences 的创始人 Sarah Funk 在一封电子邮件中表示，她建议寻找好价位的人住在长岛市（Long Island City），就在皇后区东河的对面。乘坐地铁前往中城非常快捷，且价格较低。
“而且你实际上还能获得一个绝佳的曼哈顿天际线景观作为奖励，这是大多数中城酒店无法提供的，”她说。
就我的情况而言，我最喜欢我尝试过的最贵的那家酒店，并认为就我支付的价格而言是一笔很划算的交易。我本该信任那家中价位酒店的评价，或者尝试一些曼哈顿以外的住宿以获得更好的性价比。在未来的酒店搜寻中，我将通过调整日期和星期来寻找优惠——或者在评价良好的秘密地点赌一把。
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bangor, maine — The Maine Democratic Party formally se- lected Troy Jackson as its new Senate nominee on Saturday, ending three tumultuous weeks that nearly derailed the party’s quest to unseat veteran Republi- can Sen. Susan Collins. With just 101 days remaining until the November election, Democrats must now unify a par- ty riven by the spectacular col- lapse of Graham Platner’s cam- paign following a sexual assault allegation and refocus attention on the long-indomitable Collins, whose defeat is key to long-shot Democratic hopes of retaking control of the U.S. Senate. Accepting the nomination from a convention center in downtown Bangor with a 31-foot- tall statue of Paul Bunyan out- side, Jackson repeatedly framed the election not as a partisan fi ght but an opportunity for the working class to stand up to a creature of Washington who had grown more loyal to her corpo- rate benefactors than her con- stituents. “This movement is not from the left. It’s not from the right,” he said, as supporters waved “Re- tire Susan” signs in the crowd. SEE MAINE ON A7
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Evolutionary adaptations, strong parenting help him persist in the wild
BY KELLY LAMBERT
As a neuroscientist who stud- ies raccoon and rats, I see the vi- ral story of Jimothy the raccoon as a compelling tale of an ani- mal overcoming disability and surviving in the wild. Jimothy, the unique-looking raccoon living in Seattle, be- came an internet celebrity over the course of a week this month, thanks to a viral Instagram post that has amassed millions of views and thousands of com- ments cheering for the prover- bial underdog. Jimothy has even been honored with a city proc- lamation. Something about him was ob- viously diff erent. His body and tail were unusually short, and his back was curved. Although Jimothy hasn’t been offi cially examined by a veterinarian, he’s thought to have a form of a rare cervical vertebral malformation called short spine syndrome. A handful of cases have been seen in dogs. These animals are born with a condition that prevents their vertebrae from fully devel- oping. With less physical space in the body, organs are crowded into a smaller space than usual and can lead to mobility issues. Adaptations are necessary for these animals to navigate their environments and secure the necessary resources for survival. How did Jimothy overcome the odds and emerge as a survivor?
The raccoon brain Although it’s easy to imagine a pet dog that’s under the close care of human pet parents sur- viving a challenging condition such as short spine syndrome, the odds of a disabled or injured wild animal surviving in the outdoors are much steeper. Even for healthy raccoons, it’s a challenge to make it past being a helpless newborn. Up to half of young kits die without emerging from the natal den. After leaving the den as a juve- nile or young adult, there are no safe zones that are reliably pro- tected from predators. To survive, raccoons have to be vigilant, persistent and physically agile to navigate the physical and mental challenges of life in the wild. In fact, it’s so dangerous in the wild that many
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uents on how he’s doing” and be transparent about the work he’s doing while recovering. He said he expected McConnell to share an update on how he’s doing in the coming days. “Truthfully, I think a little transparency on the front end here would have saved him a whole lot of grief,” Jennings told CNN’s “The Arena with Kasie Hunt.” “But that didn’t happen and they are where they are now.” David Popp, a McConnell spokesman, said McConnell has continued to work during his absence. “The Senator continues to meet with staff regarding Senate and Kentucky business, includ- ing discussions on defense ap- propriations, foreign policy, the farm bill, constituent services and constituent federal grant re- quests,” Popp said in a statement to The Washington Post. “As the Senator continues to improve in rehab, we will be sure to keep you updated.” McConnell said July 12 that he did not break any bones when he fell and did not suff er a heart attack, a stroke, a hemorrhage or a concussion, but he has said little else about what happened to him. Popp referred to McConnell’s earlier statement when asked when McConnell might return to the Senate or whether he planned to attend Tuesday’s fu- neral for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), his longtime colleague, at Washington Na- tional Cathedral. McConnell said in his state- ment that “folks of my genera- tion often hesitate to share the vulnerability that comes with growing older.” “Even in the public eye, I feel that same instinct — I can’t help it,” he said. McConnell spent 18 years as the Republican leader in the Senate before stepping down early last year. He remained in the chamber to serve the fi nal two years of his term, which ends in January.
KIANA HALL Jimothy, an oddly shaped raccoon with a body and tail that are unusually short and a back that’s curved, has become a viral sensation.
raccoons only live two to fi ve years, even though they have the capacity to live for around 12 years in captivity. It’s diffi cult to imagine how Jimothy has navigated life’s challenging terrain to survive in the wild. However, if any mammal can transcend the lim- itations of a disability, raccoons would be at the top of my list. Very few studies have been conducted on the raccoon brain, but my lab’s limited research has revealed the neuroarchitec- ture of a complex and sophis- ticated brain. Raccoons have exceptionally high neuron den- sities, resembling those of small primates. More neurons lead to greater fl exibility in behavior, a characteristic that is likely facil- itating Jimothy’s survival. My team also identifi ed the presence of specialized and fast-conducting brain cells called von Economo neurons, which are typically located in the areas of the brain involved in emotional, social and internal processing in people.
OFFICE OF SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL/REUTERS Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) sits with his wife, Elaine Chao, while holding what appears to be the July 12 edition of The Washington Post. He has been absent from the Senate since June 14.
Rep. Andy Barr (Kentucky) won the Republican primary to succeed McConnell in May and is heavily favored to win his seat in November. The Senate is scheduled to be in session for only 10 more weeks during Mc- Connell’s term as senators head home to campaign ahead of the midterm elections. McConnell’s absence has nar- rowed Republicans’ edge in the Senate, giving them an eff ective 52-47 majority as long as he is absent. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) and Sen. John Barrasso (Wyoming), the No. 2 Senate Republican, said earlier this month that they had spoken with McConnell, but some other Republican senators have raised questions about Mc-
And perhaps the neuroevo- lutionary pièce de résistance of the raccoon: their hands. The forepaws of a raccoon are ex- tremely dexterous and sensitive, and occupy a large portion of their brain’s motor cortex, like that of people. This investment in hand movement takes rac- coon learning abilities to the next level — explaining why To- ronto paid roughly $24 million to develop raccoon-proof trash bins. These brain capabilities like- ly give Jimothy some neural backup as he navigates narrow fences, climbs trees, searches for food and scopes out places for rest and refuge.
Jimothy’s mom is a hero Equally impressive as Jim- othy’s own adaptations is the continuous care provided by his mother. As challenging as the raccoon mother’s role is while raising her young, raising a kit with special needs likely requires ex- tra energy and patience. For rac-
Connell’s absence. Earlier this month, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) cast doubt on the legitimacy of the photo that McConnell shared of himself — only to dismiss his comments later, saying he was just repeating a rumor he had heard. (The Post reviewed the photo’s metadata and found it appeared it was taken July.) “It’s not fun watching any- body age,” Johnson told report- ers. “We’re all hoping Mitch re- covers fully and comes back. I haven’t talked to him, so I have no knowledge.” Last week, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) wished McConnell a speedy recovery but also sug- gested he should disclose more about his condition. “At a certain point you do
coon families, the mother is very much a single parent. Not only does she not have help from the father, but she often moves the litter to diff erent dens to escape the threat of males potentially harming the kits. She also needs to be an effi cient forager to pre- vent excessive time away from her vulnerable off spring. Unlike many mammals whose young become indepen- dent soon after weaning, rac- coon mothers continue taking care of their kits for much lon- ger. Although nursing typical- ly ends around 16 weeks, rac- coon youngsters often remain with their moms for up to nine months. From weaning to leav- ing the natal den, maternal rac- coons take their family through something like home schooling. It’s apparent that Jimothy’s mother was no exception to the prototypical raccoon mother — serving as nurturer, protector and teacher. Based on the vid- eos of older Jimothy running across a fi eld, navigating fences and exploring his world, it ap-
have an obligation to your con- stituents and the country to tell them what’s going on,” Hawley told Fox News, saying he felt “to- tally in the dark” about McCon- nell’s status. McConnell is hardly the fi rst senator to be away for an ex- tended stretch at a time while ailing or in recovery. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn- sylvania) was absent for two months in 2023 while seeking treatment for depression. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) missed votes for nearly three months that year while battling shingles and faced calls to re- sign. She returned to the Senate but died months later. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizo- na) did not vote during his fi nal eight months in offi ce before
pears that his mom’s hard work resulted in a remarkable return on her investment.
Evolutionary grit Even though the odds were stacked against Jimothy from the day of his birth, he perse- vered. Jimothy is being celebrated for being diff erent. His story illustrates two remarkable evo- lutionary achievements that all mammals share: a brain capa- ble of adapting to an imperfect body and other life challenges, and a patient and caring mother or guardian who translates her off spring’s capabilities into abil- ities. Jimothy’s mom celebrated his value long before his video de- but and viral following.
T is article was produced in col- laboration withT e Conversation, a nonprofi t news organization.
Kelly Lambert is a professor of behavioral neuroscience at the University of Richmond.
he died in 2018. And Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) did not vote for nearly a year after suff ering a stroke in 2012. He released vid- eos of himself relearning how to walk before returning to the Senate and served out the rest of his term. Lester Munson, Kirk’s chief of staff at the time, said Kirk was able to keep working even though he was not in the Capitol voting. Kirk worked with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey), for instance, on an amendment to a defense policy bill to tough sanc- tions on Iran. Senators in both parties — includes Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Jon Tester (D-Montana) and Joe Manchin III (D-West Virginia) and McCo- nnell — stepped up to help Kirk’s offi ce carry on, Munson said. “I think people kind of just assume — not really correctly — that if the senator’s in the hospi- tal or something like that, that they can’t do their job,” Munson said. “That’s not entirely true. There’s obviously some things they can’t do … but a lot of oth- er things continue to be carried on.” Kirk did not have to contend with social media speculation about his health and other on- line pressures in the same way that McConnell has, Munson said. The prediction market Poly- market, for instance, allows us- ers to bet on whether McConnell will vote in the Senate by July 31. (The odds stood at 11 percent Friday evening.) McConnell is also much bet- ter-known than Kirk or other senators who have had extended absences from the chamber. His decades of service should earn his some grace while he recov- ers, Munson said. “As far as I’m concerned, this guy has given so much to the Senate over time and therefore so much to America, God bless him,” Munson said. “He’s got all the latitude in the world to deal with this problem.”
PHOTOS BY ANTHONY SOUFFLÉ/MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE/GETTY IMAGES Heavy smoke from a fire hangs in the air over Birch Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on July 15 near Ely, Minnesota.
out dry forest was delayed and work never began
by Brianna Sacks
Last year, the Trump admin- istration delayed a $10 million grant that was supposed to help Minnesota thin out about 4,000 acres of dense, dry forest at high risk of burning. Most of that work never got started, accord- ing to five people familiar with the situation and a document re- viewed by The Washington Post. And now, some of those areas are on fire. In 2024, as part of a $100 million initiative to tackle the nation’s wildfires, the Biden administration awarded the Superior National Forest — where about two dozen light- ning-sparked fires have been burning since early July — $10 million for projects that would have removed decades of dead trees and undergrowth, creat- ing breaks in potential fire fuel around critical corridors and re- mote homes. The funding would have also paid for fire prevention efforts along a key 36-mile gravel road known as the Echo Trail — months before the ongoing Sioux Fire jumped it, threatening resi- dences. “We were shovel-ready,” said Aaron Kania, who was a U.S. For- est Service district ranger with the Superior National Forest for six years and a law enforcement ranger with the Bureau of Land Management for two decades before retiring last December. “Had that work been implement- ed, it would have been effective in stopping or slowing down these fires.” But at the beginning of 2025, the U.S. DOGE Service paused or canceled federal grants and spending to review whether they were connected to diversity or climate initiatives. That affect- ed nearly all of the Forest Ser- vice’s grant projects and funds, according to two USFS officials familiar with the situation, who like others interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity due to fear of pro- fessional retaliation. One offi- cial said DOGE’s involvement also delayed a regional support fund that moved crews across the country for fire prevention work. That was a “big part of the reason why our large-scale [pre- scribed burn and hazardous fuel treatment] accomplishments went down so much last year,” the official said. In the following months, the agency would lose about one- third of its employees, including those who managed timber re- views and grant administration programs — critical components in getting wildfire mitigation projects like Superior National Forest’s up and running.
Signage seen July 14 near the office of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Tower, Minnesota, warns of extreme fire danger.
“It’s the totality of all these things that set us back about a year and a half,” said Kania, who was one of the leaders oversee- ing the grant. The White House and the U.S. Forest Service did not immedi- ately respond to a request for comment. Around July 7, a lightning storm started about 15 blazes that have torched nearly 64,000 acres in northeastern Minneso- ta, ripping through brittle, bud- worm-infested spruces and bal- sam firs. The fires have burned layers of thousands of dead trees left behind by what are known as blowdowns, when high winds fell swaths of forest. About 1,000 firefighters, some deploying from Alaska, California and Florida, are responding to what are now a smaller collection of large fires, the Forest Service said Friday. While it’s difficult to be certain whether delaying the project worsened the fires in Superior National Forest, Kania and oth- ers say losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hin- dered them from being as pre- pared as they could have been. A Forest Service document from October 2025 lists some planned activities, goals and timber sale plans related to the grant: “Vegetation management to promote healthy forests and reduce hazardous fuels; cultural resources and site inventories, restoration and protection.” Some of these targets were pushed out a year or so, the doc- ument shows. Kania said that was because of the DOGE hold- up. While many of the impacts of DOGE’s radical cuts are still unfolding, the temporarily side-
lined Superior National Forest project exemplifies how the backlog of grants and gutting of staff have harmed communi- ties that rely heavily on federal assistance for massive, intricate projects they could otherwise not pull off themselves. Minnesota’s spate of fires is adding to what has already been an aggressively active fire year. The nation’s preparedness level recently ratcheted up a 5 — the highest it can go — meaning multiple areas across the coun- try are experiencing significant fires at the same time, requir- ing a large amount of national resources. This comes at a time when wildland firefighters are stretched thin emotionally and physically, and as the nation’s wildfire response system is un- dergoing a massive restructur- ing that, according to the Forest Service official, could spur more firefighters to leave. At a hearing this week, Rep. Angie Craig (Minnesota), the ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, asked Forest Service Chief Tom Schul- tz if the loss of agency personnel and limited resources impeded firefighting efforts. Schultz said they did not. “Yet again, the Trump admin- istration’s short-sighted cuts to federal programs have put Min- nesotans in danger,” Craig said in a statement to The Post. “Fire- fighters have died and Minneso- ta kids have been put in harm’s way — all because this adminis- tration decided to roll back crit- ical wildfire prevention efforts. This is not a game. These are real lives.” Minnesota can be a tinder box, with its flash droughts, low soil, powerful wind storms and heat
waves. Yet the state has struggled to get federal funding for big fuel reduction and land resiliency projects, said Paul McDonald, a commissioner for rural St. Lou- is County, home to the Superior National Forest. He said he has been sounding the alarm about this part of the country for about eight years. “We have been trying to get northeastern Minnesota on the radar because, forever and ever, people thought of wildfires in the West,” he said. “We were awarded a $10 million grant and we were looking forward to less- ening some of the fuels in the forests that are being hit right now.” Fuels reduction projects are expensive and time consuming but incredibly important, said Annie Schmidt of the Alliance for Wildfire Resilience. It’s dif- ficult for more rural commu- nities to pool together enough resources to painstakingly go through thousands of acres with heavy-duty machines such as masticators and crews. It can often “take years be- tween applying for the grant and the work actually being done on the ground,” Schmidt said. That’s why the collaborative wildfire risk prevention program was exciting, Kania said. They applied for and won $10 million from the federal government in a short amount of time. Their environmental review and con- tracting processes also moved quickly, he said, and in a matter of months they were “good to go.” “The irony is that the De- partment of Government Ef- ficiency created chaos which undermined a very efficient pro- cess,” Kania said. “It was pretty
straightforward, we had a plan that met grant criteria, applied and received the money. We were working through finalizing part- nerships when DOGE upended everything.” McDonald and other Minne- sota officials traveled to Wash- ington two times last year and met with Forest Service officials to convey the importance of get- ting Superior’s wildfire preven- tion work back online, he said. They got the money back toward the end of 2025, he and Kania said. However, there were some new rules and conditions. They had to redo much of the grant’s parameters to ensure more of the trees they were thinning would go to timber mills to generate revenue, according to Kania and two other people familiar with the project. The Forest Service and the collection of nonprofit organiza- tions involved in the project had to go back to the drawing board to ensure they had more timber to show for the work and priori- tize which areas they were work- ing in, Kania and another person explained. That was a tough task because that meant they had to target more valuable types of trees, such as Aspens. Before the DOGE review, the teams planned to use a kind of woodchipper to thin bug-ridden trees, turn them into wood chips and leave them to decompose on the ground. “Our initial proposal was based on the concept of how fire works and the fuel treatment ef- fectiveness,” Kania said. “When you focus on marketable timber sales, it undermines the concept of strategic fuel reduction. What they were asking us to do no lon-
ger made sense because we had to program it for timber sales.” Another person involved in the project countered that it is common for different adminis- trations to come in and redefine grant agreements. Rejiggering it to get more of what they cut down to the timber industry did not drastically change the goal, the person said. The Superior National For- est is heavily laden with brush, shrubs, low-hanging tree branch- es and woody debris known as slash — perfect fire fuel, said Dale MacDougall, founder of Pa- triot Restoration Ops, a nonprof- it organization that assists with fire prevention work and had partnered with the Forest Ser- vice on the $10 million grant. His team did some thinning work in the area this past May. Based on what he saw in Supe- rior a few months ago, “nothing about [these fires] surprises me.” “All you needed was the con- ditions right and it was ready to go,” MacDougall said. “There’s a ton of fuels in that country, and it’s a daunting task to take care of that many acres.” Kania argued that while DOGE “was supposed to save money,” the federal government and the state will be spending a lot more money to do the same work. Fire crews are now thinning areas, specifically along the Echo Trail, to create defensible space and fire breaks, he said, but “they are doing it under emer- gency conditions … and that is the most expensive way to do this work imaginable.” During fast-moving fires, agencies hire loggers and ma- chine operators at premium rates and pay for 16-hour days. Firefighters are having to do work now because that work wasn’t completed with that grant money in a timely manner, Kania said. The Echo Trail, which became a main focus of firefighting ef- forts, is a key example of that. On July 15, St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay posted photos of the corridor on Face- book: “It’s so dry that ferns and saplings are wilting and drying up. There’s also a lot of dead bal- sam and spruce that are fueling these fires,” he wrote. “The Sioux fire has not yet crossed the Echo Trail but it is close in parts.” The fire jumped that road about a day or so later. That trail is so critical, Mac- Dougall said, because it is “dy- namic” in terms of the types of trees and brush surrounding it, and its proximity to homes and wilderness. They had planned to treat “a bunch of this area” to shore up a boundary that would better prepare the forest to with- stand fast-moving fires. “Had everything gone the way it looked like it was going to be- fore everything happened …” he paused. “Had that made a big difference, we can’t say. That we will never know.”
Trump addresses smaller, heavily secured correspondents’ dinner
BY MICHAEL BIRNBAUM
President Donald Trump at- tacked a slew of journalists and some of his favorite political foils at a slimmed-down redo of the White House correspon- dents’ dinner on Friday, com- paring one female reporter to a transgender social media star, mocking politicians’ physical appearances, and bringing his audience to mostly stunned si- lence for more than an hour before pulling out a red Trump 2028 cap and declaring he was running for another term. Three months after a gun- man exchanged fi re with au- thorities outside the fi rst cor- respondents’ dinner, throwing the event into chaos, Trump addressed reporters even as he embraced an aggressive stance that favors targeting journalists to root out leakers in his admin- istration. Trump veered on and off his prepared script for the evening, at one point calling it a “fricking stupid speech.” The fraught event put the president on the dais with re- porters who have covered him aggressively. Trump rarely speaks to audiences that aren’t packed with his supporters, leading to an unusual dynamic in a ballroom of reporters who are professionally bound to maintain poker faces. Some of his fi rst jokes drew laughs, including one that ac- knowledged the interrupted fi rst run of the meal. “I hope that everyone fi nally got to enjoy their entire, very delicious beef tenderloin, very special beef. And I want you all to know that Bobby Kenne- dy, who’s right here, personally ran over the cow with his car,” he said. But the tone quickly shift- ed to a far more caustic attack on his favorite foils, including some of the reporters in the room. The bitterness was sharp- er even than some of his polit- ical rallies, where attacks on his enemies are leavened with boasts of his accomplishments. On Friday, he had little to sell, and a lot to complain about. He said that he had once mixed up CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins, whom he said “never
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weight, exercising more and feeling more confi dent about their body image now go with- out. They face the prospect of the weight returning with even worse fat-to-muscle ratios than before, in what doctors call a metabolic yo-yo eff ect. “People with lower incomes, now that you’re dropping cover- age, those are the patients who are going to suff er the most,” said New Hampshire obesity doctor Joseph Zucchi. The implications for public health are signifi cant, doctors said. Studies have shown that wealthier people are able to af- ford the drugs in greater num- bers, although people living closer to the poverty line are more likely to need them for health reasons. Low-income people tend to suff er from obesity and related health problems at higher rates. Utah Medicaid has a tiny pi- lot program that has only cov- ered weight-loss drugs for 120 benefi ciaries since it began last year, according to the state. Tra- ci Seifert, 44, lost a job last year, went on Utah Medicaid but was denied coverage for Zepbound. “I had to go off it,” she said. Seifert, who had a 36.5 body mass index that qualifi ed her as obese, said she feels like she has ping-ponged between strict coverage policies in private and government insurance that re- quire her to be sicker and heavi- er, penalizing her for the limit- ed success she has had losing weight. “Your whole life you hear you’re too fat, and now you’re not fat enough,” she said. “It’s the state of health care in this country and I hate it.” Seifert has now begun buying cut-rate, compounded GLP-1 drugs on- line, which the Food and Drug Administration has warned are not inspected by federal offi cials. Doctors said patients who get shut out of weight-loss coverage are denied health benefi ts such as lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol, less joint pain and reduced levels of infl ammation.
JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS Attendees listen as Trump delivers remarks at the event, which was postponed for three months after a gunman exchanged fi re with authorities outside the correspondents’ dinner.
smiles,” with a transgender so- cial media personality, Dylan Mulvaney, after he called the 34-year-old cable news star a “young, attractive woman.” He said he planned to host twice-weekly fi ghts at the White House. “We will have sloppy Chris Christie, one of the sloppiest human beings, fi ghting,” Trump said to silence. “I could men- tion the governor of Chicago, but I’m going to mention in- stead Jerry Nadler. Oh my God! They’re fi ghting for a big piece of cheesecake, big fat piece of cheesecake.” Then he told a joke about Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California). “I hate some people,” he said to groans. “He’s a liar, and I called him watermelon head because he has the largest head I’ve ever seen with the smallest neck, pencil neck. How does that make a fat, ugly head on a little pencil neck?” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick laughed at that one, putting his hand on his fore- head. “This night is all about the First Amendment. Tonight was a full display,” CBS chief White House correspondent Weijia Ji- ang said after Trump fi nished talking. As the outgoing pres- ident of the White House Cor- respondents’ Association, Jiang
JOSH REYNOLDS/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Ian Huntington, a primary care physician in Boston, has patients facing the prospect of weight rebounds after losing access to GLP-1 drugs.
Michigan’s legislature limited coverage to those patients who are morbidly obese, defi ned as having a body mass index of 40 or above. Lauren Oshman, a profes- sor of family medicine at the University of Michigan medical school, said she understood the fi nancial pressures Michigan of- fi cials face but the consequences for some patients will be severe. “This policy will deepen health disparities. My Medic- aid patients with chronic pain, arthritis, prediabetes and other obesity-related conditions will lose access,” she said. “Many will experience worsening health, more missed work and a lower quality of life.” States are targeting the drugs
led the event. She compliment- ed Collins and a Wall Street Journal reporter whom Trump also attacked during his speech. The speech took place as the administration has stepped up its legal pursuit of journalists who report on subjects that the White House views as national security threats, with Trump saying Friday that he believed journalists were legitimate tar- gets for investigation. A federal judge off ered a with- ering takedown a day earlier of the Justice Department’s eff ort to subpoena New York Times journalists over their reporting about security concerns around a new, Qatari-gifted Boeing 747 the president has been using as Air Force One. Trump was un- repentant. “We’re not after journalists. We’re after leakers. We’re after people that are cowards, people that are unpatriotic, people that are treasonous in many cases,” Trump said in the Oval Offi ce a few hours before the correspon- dents dinner. “And the way you fi nd them is through the jour- nalists. When the journalists probably know they shouldn’t write, they shouldn’t be giving information out like that.” He said that even though the Justice Department withdrew the subpoenas on Thursday, “we have a long way to go with that
under Medicaid even as the fed- eral government, under Medi- care, the insurance program for the elderly and disabled, is en- couraging their use. This month it launched an 18-month pilot program covering the drugs for people with a BMI of 35 and above, or for people with a BMI of 30 and above if they have oth- er health problems such as heart disease or high blood pressure. Coverage decisions have broader socioeconomic conse- quences, according to a study published last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Harvard University economist Rebecca Diamond analyzed na- tional survey data and found that women who took GLP-1
case,” suggesting that the New York Times reporters’ legal peril was not over. Trump had off ered mixed messages about his plans for a dinner that traditionally has in- volved presidents giving light- hearted speeches that poke fun at themselves and at the people who cover them. In the event, he off ered a mix of barbs directed at the press and his political opponents, with a few toward his own ad- ministration. “We’ll do a little ripping, if you don’t mind,” he said, say- ing that “this place is the really largest group of Trump derange- ment syndrome people ever put together at one time.” He said that the speech he had originally planned to deliv- er, “I’m telling you, I had some- thing. I was going to go after you.” Media critics have long ques- tioned the White House corre- spondents’ dinner, which was fi rst held in 1921, saying that it is an overly cozy moment of so- cializing between the president and reporters who cover the White House. Trump skipped the event during his fi rst term. Trump acknowledged that Friday’s speech was his fi rst to the annual dinner. And he joked that he didn’t plan to do it again, unless the event was renamed
drugs were able to overcome a well-established societal “obesi- ty penalty” to a startling degree. They got married or cohabitated 29 percent more frequently than those who wanted to take the drugs but did not, and they were 27 percent more likely to land a job. She found that women who took the drugs made more money, $83,000 compared to $60,000, suggesting they were able to aff ord the average $299 monthly expense on their own. “The people who have access to them can avoid the obesity penalty,” Diamond said, while those who can’t pay continue to suff er society’s judgements. “It widens inequality.” Diamond added that the high
the “Trump White House Corre- spondents’ Dinner” — a line he delivered with a chuckle, before later saying that he planned to come next year. Trump came to the dinner once before, as the guest of The Washington Post during the Obama administration. Pres- ident Barack Obama mocked Trump that year over his ques- tioning of Obama’s citizenship. Many analysts have credited that moment with sparking Trump’s decision to run for president, but Trump said Fri- day that wasn’t true, and that he had enjoyed the moment be- cause of all the attention. Before the president took the stage, he was confronted with reporters whom he has attacked and who have won awards for aggressive coverage of his ad- ministration. He greeted one of the lead Associated Press reporters who was kicked out of the White House press pool because the outlet refused to relabel the Gulf of Mexico to Trump’s pre- ferred “Gulf of America.” He shook the hands of a team of Wall Street Journal report- ers who won an award for their coverage of his connections to convicted sex off ender Jeff rey Epstein. He shrugged his shoul- ders and smiled as CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer recounted how he had sued the Journal for $20 billion and how one reporter was forced to relocate her fam- ily because of threats against them. Then he greeted Tyler Pager, a New York Times reporter who was served with a subpoena this month for his coverage of security issues around Air Force One. The Society of Professional Journalists called this week for the White House Correspon- dents’ Association to use the dinner to condemn the Trump administration’s attacks on journalists. “We believe it is hypocritical to celebrate the First Amend- ment in front of the man who relentlessly attacks it,” the group said in an open letter. Trump never delivered the speech he planned for the April 25 dinner at the Washington Hilton before it was interrupted by a gunman who attempted to storm the basement ballroom where the dinner was being held. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, has been charged with attempting to assassinate the president, and an FBI special agent said in an affi davit that Allen had set
costs of the drugs force insur- ance systems, including state Medicaid programs, into a diffi - cult balancing act. “If you want to lose 10 pounds for vanity, that should not be covered by insur- ance. When it’s more medically related, there’s a stronger de- bate,” she said. The administration of Massa- chusetts Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, partly blamed Med- icaid cuts imposed by President Donald Trump and congressio- nal Republicans for the change to the state’s GLP-1 coverage. These Medicaid changes require that participants work and have more frequent renewal periods, which Massachusetts offi cials said will cost $30 million a year more to administer.
an email to be sent to friends and family with “targets, prior- itized from highest-ranking to lowest.” Trump acknowledged the risks around the event, saying that “it was not easy fi nding shoes to go on with your bullet- proof vest, which many people didn’t want to wear, because they’d rather die than look 20 pounds heavier. … They put one on me. I said: ‘Are you sure? I’m not wearing this.’” Security was high at the event, which was held at the Waldorf Astoria in downtown Washington. Trump’s family company operated that venue as the Trump International Ho- tel during the president’s fi rst term, then sold their lease on the property in 2022 for $375 million. The guest list had shrunk to fewer than 700, a stripped-down aff air with attendees including mostly just the journalists who cover the president, rather than the more than 2,500 — includ- ing government offi cials, politi- cal operatives and mostly B-list celebrities — who attended in April. But many of the original ten- sions remained. In the hours following the April shooting, Trump was un- usually conciliatory toward re- porters, making an appearance in the White House briefi ng room still dressed in his tuxedo as he took questions from many of the reporters who had been at the dinner earlier in the eve- ning. But that tone dissipated by the next day, when he called CBS News anchor Norah O’Don- nell “a disgrace” after she read excerpts from the alleged gun- man’s manifesto to him. Since then, his administra- tion has returned to attacks on the press. Trump last week called for stripping broadcast licenses from networks that didn’t air his prime-time speech about election integrity. And the Jus- tice Department this month issued the subpoenas to New York Times journalists who had reported on security concerns surrounding the luxury Boeing 747 that the Qatari government gifted for use as Air Force One, seeking their phone records in pursuit of leaks. One element of the dinner was consistent with April: En- tertainer and magician Oz Pearlman was once again on the program, a selection that side- steps the politics of humor.
The state’s employee health plan and private insurance com- panies in Massachusetts have also stopped covering the drugs for weight loss. In an email, MassHealth spokeswoman Stacey Nee called it “a targeted approach to con- trol costs, bringing us in line with other states and protecting access to care as much as possi- ble.” The move aff ects just over 1 percent of MassHealth benefi - ciaries. In 2025, the system said it spent $207 million on GLP-1s for weight loss before rebates from the manufacturers, which typically bring down the net price by more than 50 percent. Rhode Island Medicaid did not respond to a request for comment. Novo Nordisk said it was “sur- prised and disappointed” by the coverage cuts in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. “Denying patients insurance coverage for safe and eff ective FDA-approved treatments for a serious and chronic disease is simply irresponsible,” the com- pany said. Eli Lilly said states can now take advantage of a federal pro- gram, called Balance, which commenced in May, that allows them to purchase GLP-1 weight- loss drugs for $245 a month. Af- ter the federal government picks up half of the price under typ- ical Medicaid cost-sharing, the state’s burden would be $122.50 per month — or $1,470 per year per patient. “We remain committed to working with states and policy- makers on sustainable coverage, because no patient should have to stop treating a serious chron- ic disease due to cost alone,” a company spokesperson said in an email. Patients in Boston’s Dorches- ter neighborhood are stuck be- tween the drug companies and the state, Huntington said. “These are two powerful forc- es and it’s the patients who are caught in the middle of these rapid changes,” he said. “Things outside their control are literally changing their body.“
BY DAN DIAMOND
President Donald Trump be- gan last week showered with golden confetti as the World Cup concluded in New Jersey. Administration offi cials held up the fi ve-week tournament as an example of how the Unit- ed States continues to lead the world and engage other nations. Then came fi ve days that il- lustrated Trump’s volatile ap- proach to foreign policy — from trade disputes to nuclear negoti- ations — and escalated tensions with allies and adversaries alike. Trump ended the week after gyrating on a new nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, issuing fur- ther threats to Iranian leaders and announcing more tariff s on other nations, including Cana- da, which helped host the World Cup. He delivered an insult-fi lled speech at the White House cor- respondents’ dinner that drew mostly stunned silence. He was also edited out of the Spanish soccer team’s celebra- tory picture after lingering on- stage as they celebrated their World Cup victory. Here’s a look at how Trump’s week unfolded.
Monday, 12:41 p.m.
Trump vows that Iran will
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every American soldier who
is killed
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the two countries exchanged
attacks and several U.S. service
members were killed. A cease-
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collapsed this month after Iran
attacked commercial vessels off
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Monday, 12:50 p.m.
Trump says Netanyahu won’t be arrested but Iranian lead- ers should be Trump wrote on Truth Social that Israeli Prime Minister Ben- jamin Netanyahu would not be arrested on a future trip to the United States. Some liberals — including New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani — have called for U.S. offi cials to enforce a warrant for Netanyahu issued by the International Criminal
KHALED ZIAD/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The Bab al-Mandab Strait in the Red Sea. Houthi offi cials said the group fi red missiles and drones at facilities belonging to the state oil company, Aramco in the Red Sea towns of Yanbu and Jazan.
refi nery as war widens to Red Sea
BY MOHAMAD EL CHAMAA
beirut — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsi- bility for attacks on Saudi oil fa- cilities Saturday, in the fi rst such strikes since 2022. In a video statement, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sa- ree said the group fi red ballistic missiles and drones at facilities belonging to the state oil compa- ny, Aramco, in the Red Sea towns of Yanbu and Jazan. The Yanbu port is the main portal for the kingdom’s pipe- line that has helped it skirt Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi authorities have yet to confi rm the strikes, but the coun- try’s civil defense forces issued a take-cover notice to citizens in both towns Saturday morning. “Do not leave your home or building until the danger has passed,” warned a social media post from the kingdom’s civil de- fense forces. Both Aramco and the Saudi Foreign Ministry did not imme- diately respond to requests for comment. It was not immediately clear how substantial the damage was or how oil output would be af- fected. NASA’s fi re monitoring platform FIRMS reported several thermal anomalies at the Jazan refi nery. The facility can refi ne up to 400,000 barrels of oil a
WASHINGTON POST ILLUSTRATION; ERIC LEE/GETTY IMAGES From the World Cup fi nale to new tariff s, the Iran war and a Saudi nuclear deal, President Donald Trump had a busy week.
Court in the wake of Israel’s con- fl ict with Gaza. Trump said Netanyahu was fi ghting against the leaders of Iran. “The only ones that should be arrested are the people that led Iran into this unprecedented SPIRAL OF DEATH AND DE- STRUCTION,” he wrote.
Monday afternoon
The Trump administration imposes new tariff s on Can- ada The White House said the United States would impose 50 percent tariff s on most Canadi- an goods, eff ective in 30 days, unless Canada dropped what the administration called “discrimi- natory” trade barriers against U.S. products. The move came shortly after Trump threatened to impose tariff s in retaliation for wildfi res in Ontario that re- cently sent thick smoke pouring into the United States.
day, according to the company’s website. The strikes by Yemen’s Iran- backed Houthi rebels could add to pressures on global oil mar- kets on top of disruptions caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Toby Matthiesen, a professor and Gulf expert at the University of Bristol, told The Washington Post that the recent escalation between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis creates another layer of uncertainty over global oil sup- ply. “I don’t think it is in the in- terest of either party to really escalate this, but we have seen before how things can get out of control,” he said, adding that a long-term confl ict may hurt Saudi Arabia’s economic devel- opment plans. Hussain Albukhaiti, a Ye- men-based pro-Houthi political commentator, told The Post that the attacks had less to do with the war in Iran and more to do with preexisting grievances with Saudi Arabia. He warned that the Houthis would escalate things further if the United States were to re- spond: “They will form a block- ade against the United States commercial ships or battleships.” Saree said the attack came in response to Saudi strikes on the Yemeni city of Hodeida on Fri-
Tuesday, 2:12 p.m.
Trump warns that the Irani- ans “haven’t seen anything yet” The president reiterated his threats to Iran, saying the Unit- ed States had been “nice,” de- spite the bombing campaign. Trump has repeatedly said that the U.S. military has devastated Iran’s military forces but could choose to go further.
Wednesday, 8:56 a.m.
Trump warns that any Ira- nian attack in the Strait of Hormuz will provoke the de- struction of “ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT” in Iran Trump amped up his threats to civilian targets in Iran, a tac- tic that has alarmed some allies. Trump and other global leaders have been seeking to protect shipping traffi c through the strait, which is off the Iranian
day. Saudi-led forces said they targeted Houthi military instil- lations in the city that threaten Red Sea shipping. Last week, Houthi leader Ab- dul Malek al-Houthi vowed to target Saudi oil facilities if the country were to involve itself in the wider regional war. On Monday, the Houthis de- clared an embargo on Saudi ship- ping, eff ectively closing the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a vital choke point in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula that connects Asia and Africa with Europe. The Houthis control wide swaths of Yemen including the capital, Sanaa. Saturday was the fi rst such attack since 2022, when the Houthis unleashed widespread strikes on the kingdom targeting oil facilities and state utilities. In 2019 a barrage of Houthi drones hit Aramco facilities in the coun- try’s east, temporarily cutting the kingdom’s oil output by half. Since the war erupted in March, Gulf countries have drawn up plans to build new pipelines and port terminals to bypass Hormuz. But Matthiesen said Saturday’s attacks could dampen those hopes: “It there- fore highlights the need for a wider political settlement of all major confl icts in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula drawing in all parties.”
coast and a major trade route for oil tankers and other vessels. Shipping traffi c in the Persian Gulf has repeatedly ground to a halt since the United States and Israel attacked Iran in February, with ramifi cations for global markets. The strait has been largely shut by Iranian attacks on commercial ships and mines in subsequent months.
Wednesday afternoon
Trump says Iranian leaders “want to make a deal” but aren’t ready Speaking in Georgia, Trump again criticized Iranian leaders for continuing regional hostil- ities and blamed them for the rising price of oil, which has emerged as a domestic political problem for Republicans head- ed into the midterms. “They break every deal they make,” the president added, promising that the price of oil
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would fall soon. “It’s going to come down maybe lower than when we even started, but just give me a little time.”
Wednesday, 4:38 p.m.
The Trump administration touts its new nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia The Trump administration’s agreement with Saudi Arabia, which is subject to congressio- nal approval, promised to give the Middle Eastern country a pathway to enriching nuclear fuel, departing from long-stand- ing U.S. nonproliferation policy. It was immediately criticized by nuclear experts, who warned that it contained too few safe- guards.
Thursday, 7:52 a.m.
Trump says the nuclear deal is now subject to Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham
Accords, which recognize Israel Trump’s announcement im- mediately complicated the deal’s fate. Saudi Arabia has resisted joining the Abraham Accords, Trump’s eff ort to normalize re- lations between Israel and Arab countries in the Middle East. Saudi leaders have tied recog- nition of Israel to the establish- ment of an independent Pales- tinian state.
Thursday, 8:16 a.m.
Trump warns that if Houthis attack shipping vessels, the United States will hold Iran responsible Trump’s warning came after Yemen’s Houthi militants hit two Saudi Arabian ships, threat- ening to further pressure oil prices and widen the war.
Thursday, 6:04 p.m.
Trump says damage to ships will be paid for with Iranian money
Friday, 12:01 a.m.
Trump imposes new tariff s on other countries, including major trading partners The administration’s new tar- iff s on dozens of countries took eff ect as previous temporary tar- iff s expired. The administration has touted the tariff s as a way to combat forced labor, but crit- ics say the tactic is part of the president’s broader campaign to reduce Americans’ reliance on imports.
Friday, 11:15 a.m.
Trump warns China and Rus- sia against arming Iran
Friday afternoon
Trump says his administra- tion is actively negotiating with Iran Speaking in the Oval Offi ce, Trump said that administration offi cials are “talking right now” with their Iranian counterparts. “We’ll see what comes of it,” the president said, adding that he’s not in a rush to strike a deal. “We have to do it right.”
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BY DANIEL WU
The market for peptides, chemicals that have been in- creasingly promoted as new medical treatments and well- ness products, got a big boost last week as a divided Food and Drug Administration panel voted to recommend loosening regulations on six peptide treat- ments. The peptides are backed by some physicians and celebrities, as well as Health Secretary Rob- ert F. Kennedy Jr., and have been proposed for a range of purpos- es including promoting wound healing and treating migraines, obesity and infl ammation. FDA scientists had urged the panel not to vote in favor of the peptides because they haven’t gone through rigorous clinical trials to test their safety and ef- fi cacy. The panel’s votes will help inform the FDA’s decision as it weighs whether to allow com- pounding pharmacies, which make specialized medicines, to produce the peptides. It’s a big step toward making the pep- tides more accessible, but sever- al steps — and many questions about the chemicals — remain. Here’s what to know.
What peptides were voted on? The Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee reviewed seven peptides and, in narrow decisions, voted in favor of six of them: • BPC-157, proposed to treat ul- cerative colitis • Epitalon, proposed to treat in-
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BY AMY B WANG
Pop star Katy Perry slammed the White House on Saturday for using one of her songs, “Fire- work,” in a TikTok video about U.S. military strikes in Iran. The short video, which the White House posted to its offi - cial TikTok account on Thursday, included footage of bombs going off in Iran with the caption: “Iran has been warned.” Explosions in the video were timed to the part of “Firework” when Perry sings, “Boom, boom, boom.” Perry said she was “deeply ap- palled and angry” to see that her 2010 hit song was being “weap- onized” as a backing track for a video about destruction and vio- lence in Iran. “I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I ab- solutely do not condone it,” she wrote on X. Perry added that she had written “Firework” as “an an- them of hope, healing, and in- ner strength” and that the White House’s use of the song in its TikTok was “a complete viola- tion” of what it stood for. “My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare,” Perry wrote. In her post Saturday, Perry did not indicate whether she would pursue legal action to force the White House to take down the video.
SARAH SILBIGER/GETTY IMAGES A divided Food and Drug Administration panel voted last week to recommend loosening regulations on six peptide treatments.
somnia • KPV, proposed to help pro- mote wound healing and treat infl ammation • MOTS-c, proposed to treat sev- eral conditions including insulin resistance, obesity and osteopo- rosis • Semax, proposed to treat mi- graines, cerebral ischemia (a condition where the brain re- ceives inadequate blood fl ow) and trigeminal neuralgia, a chronic pain disorder • TB-500, proposed to promote wound healing Some of these peptides are marketed online as having a wider range of uses than the treatments proposed to the FDA. Two of them, BPC-157 and
MONICA SCHIPPER/GETTY IMAGES Katy Perry performs at the Kia Forum last July in Inglewood, California. Her 2010 hit song was used in a TikTok video by the White House.
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TB-500, are touted by infl uenc- ers as a “Wolverine Stack” that accelerates healing and reduces infl ammation. The committee voted against loosening regulations on Emideltide, which was proposed to treat opioid withdrawal and insomnia. Lee Rosebush, the chair of the American Academy of Peptide Medicine, called the votes “one more step toward true medical freedom.”
Will the peptides become more accessible? Not for now. The advisory committee’s decisions are just recommendations. The FDA will now decide whether to place the
peptides on the 503A Bulks List, a list of pharmaceutical ingredi- ents that compounding pharma- cies are allowed to use to pro- duce drugs. The votes are not “a green light to compound with these peptides,” Ilisa Bernstein, a for- mer deputy director of the FDA’s drug compliance offi ce, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “FDA must keep their eye on the science, data, and patient safety as they consider their options and next steps.” If the FDA places the pep- tides on the list, compounding pharmacies would be allowed to produce them. Compounding pharmacies produce specialized medicines that are not FDA-ap-
proved. Physicians would then be able to prescribe the peptides to patients. Telehealth compa- nies that sell prescription drugs would likely also be able to sell them online. Advocates have argued that allowing pharmacies to produce peptides would lead to a safer supply. Currently, peptides can be purchased online from gray market sellers, but these often contain dangerous impurities.
Did the FDA approve the peptides? No. The advisory committee’s decision was a recommendation, and focused on whether com- pounding pharmacies should be
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allowed to produce the peptides. The process for the FDA to ap- prove a drug is more extensive and requires rigorous data from clinical trials. FDA scientists said during the committee meeting that the sev- en peptides reviewed all lacked suffi cient safety data, and that some of their medical benefi ts aren’t proven. “I’m still not convinced whether there’s enough data out there,” Bernstein said. “The demand is not a substitute for data that demonstrates patient safety.”
What comes next? The FDA can take months to years to develop fi nal rules on drug regulations. The agency is currently reviewing public comments and new data about peptides, which will also inform their decision, offi cials said at the committee meeting. The agency usually follows the advice of its advisory com- mittees, experts said, though it’s not guaranteed. It could be challenging to adequately regulate the pep- tides, former FDA offi cials told The Washington Post. While some panelists who voted for the peptides called for stronger measures to monitor patients who take them, federal law does not require some compounding pharmacies to report adverse drug eff ects. Peptides remain a priority for Kennedy, and more will be up for review soon. The Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Com- mittee will meet before the end of February to vote on whether to issue the same recommenda- tion for fi ve more peptides. Shawn Hodges, CEO of Rev- elation Pharma, a national net- work of compounding pharma- cies, said a peptide boom could be worth tens of billions of dol- lars to the pharmacy industry.
Asked for comment, the White House referred to a post by a staff member that showed por- tions of Perry’s “Part Of Me” mu- sic video — in which the singer pretends to enlist in the Marine Corps — along with the caption: “This you?” Since February, President Donald Trump and his admin- istration have been mired in an unpopular war against Iran that he cannot seem to end. At least 18 U.S. service members have been killed, including four in recently renewed hostilities af- ter Trump declared earlier this month that a U.S.-Iran ceasefi re was “over.” Perry is far from the fi rst re- cording artist to demand their music not be used by Trump. In June, Ariana Grande blasted the White House for using her song, “Bye,” in another TikTok show- ing Immigration and Customs Enforcement offi cers detaining people. “Please do not ever use my music in relation to this bar- baric, inhumane, heinous non- sense,” she wrote in a comment beneath the video, adding an expletive. Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Ro- drigo and the rock band Semi- sonic have also recently rebuked the Trump administration for using their songs in offi cial vid- eos promoting ICE.
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“It’s from the bottom — and we are growing.” Jackson is a 58-year-old logger and former leader of the Maine Senate who aligned with Platner and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Ver- mont) during an unsuccessful run for governor this year. He won the nomination by commandeering the progressive movement that had propelled Platner. Jackson’s supporters swept the delegate selection process for a hastily organized convention to choose Platner’s replacement, compelling most of Jackson’s rivals to drop out ahead of the meeting Saturday in Bangor. Jackson’s challenge is to forge a broad coalition that can win in November, including the in- dependent and crossover Dem- ocratic voters who have helped Collins hold on for fi ve terms in an increasingly blue state. Jackson has his own vulner- abilities — including a long his- tory of opposing abortion rights and a temper that undercut his legislative leadership in Augus- ta — that could hurt his appeal with women voters who have been critical to Collins’s victo- ries. He has also been reluctant to align with the national Demo- cratic Party, which could provide critical resources in a marquee race. Ahead of the convention, Democratic-leaning voters in Bangor remained wary of Jack- son but highly motivated to beat Collins. “Progressives and Democrats are often put in this position where we have to vote for who- ever is put up against the greater evil,” Molly Wunderli, a 36-year- old graphic designer, said Friday as she left the library downtown. An unenrolled voter who considers herself to the left of the Democratic Party, Wunder- li expressed frustration that Platner was not properly vetted and about the rushed process to choose his replacement, which put the decision in the hands of just 600 people. But given the stakes, she said there was no question she would vote for Jackson in November. “I hope he’s as advertised,” Wunderli said. “I’m always wor- ried now about the other shoe dropping.” The campaign has been clouded since the beginning by a bitter ideological battle among Democrats. While the national party establishment recruited Maine Gov. Janet Mills to run, the progressive base in Maine rallied around Platner, a combat veteran and oyster farmer whose populist outsider platform elec- trifi ed liberal voters. Mills’s candidacy fi zzled be- fore the June primary, even as Platner was beset by an esca- lating series of scandals that he largely attributed to poor men- tal health following his military service: old social media posts dismissive of sexual assault, a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol, sexually explicit text messages he sent to other women after he married, and allegations by ex-girlfriends who described volatile relationships with him. Eff orts by national Democrats to push Platner aside only in- furiated his supporters, and he won the nomination handily last month. Then came an accusation of sexual assault from a woman Platner used to date, which he has denied. Under pressure from allies and threats from national Democrats to withhold fi nancial support, Platner withdrew on July 10, setting off a scramble to fi nd a new Democratic candi- date.
RYAN MURPHY/GETTY IMAGES Troy Jackson is the new Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. He is a former leader of the Maine Senate who unsuccessfully ran for governor this year.
That was demoralizing for progressive Democrats like Per- cy Williams, a 29-year-old mid- dle school English teacher from Bangor. She was excited not only by Platner’s policies but also a persona that she believed car- ried a wide appeal in Maine. “Some of my family members are Republicans, and they liked him because he talks like them,” Williams said. While she had hoped Secre- tary of State Shenna Bellows, another unsuccessful guberna- torial candidate this year, would replace Platner, Williams said she came around on Jackson be- cause “he’s the best that has a shot at actually winning.” The Platner scandals still cast a pall over the race — and Collins will inevitably try to tie Jackson to the man with whom he shared such close political ties. A Republican super PAC re- leased its fi rst ad on Saturday, highlighting Jackson’s temper and history of clashing with female colleagues. “Troy Jack- son is like Graham Platner, but worse,” the narrator warns. Jackson never mentioned Platner during the convention, but he did nod to the concerns about his anger. He was intro- duced by a former state legis- lator he once fought with, who praised his passion. Jackson told reporters later that “I do wear my heart on my sleeve,” but he always apologized to “anyone that I may have argued with that I might have went too far.” But even Democratic voters unenthusiastic about Jackson are furious at Collins. A common criticism is that Collins, who presents herself as a moderate who will stand up to President Donald Trump, only breaks with him on votes that she knows Re- publicans will win anyway. “She’s had multiple opportu- nities to be a Margaret Chase Smith and stand up for what’s
right,” said Frank Bragg, an 85-year-old retired physician, referencing the former Maine senator who delivered a famous fl oor speech in 1950 denouncing McCarthyism. “And she’s just gone along with Trump.” Bragg pointed to Collins’s sup- port of the Save America Act, a Trump priority that would re- quire photo identifi cation to vote and roll back most mail vot- ing, despite Maine overwhelm- ingly rejecting a similar ballot measure in November. A Republican-turned-Demo- crat who once supported Collins in her early elections, Bragg said he appreciated what the sena- tor had done for Maine, “but it’s also about standing up for the country.” He will vote for Jack- son in November, though Bragg considers him “sort of another machine politician. It’s a bit of the same old, same old.” With his nomination essen- tially sewn up before the con- vention, Jackson has already begun consolidating Democratic support in Maine and shifting his message to attacking Collins. He secured endorsements from most of his opponents for the Senate nomination ahead of Saturday, as well as from Han- nah Pingree, who defeated Jack- son in the gubernatorial primary in June. Social media accounts for his campaign are pumping out posts slamming Collins for her closeness to the Trump ad- ministration and for confi rming to the Supreme Court Brett M. Kavanaugh, who provided a de- cisive vote to overturn the con- stitutional right to abortion. But an ongoing rift with na- tional Democrats could com- plicate the campaign. Despite his extensive history in elected offi ce, Jackson is, like Platner, running as a disrupter — em- phasizing his roots in conser- vative northern Maine while favoring progressive policies to rein in corporate power, expand
health care access and dismantle U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the controversial federal agency involved in a fa- tal shooting in Biddeford this month. Jackson told the New York Times this week that, if elect- ed, he would not support Sen. Chuck Schumer (New York) con- tinuing as Democratic leader of the Senate. He also expressed doubt about accepting help from Schumer, who has thus far de- clined to endorse Jackson, in the general election.
That could be an enormous handicap for Jackson, who is not a prolifi c fundraiser. Conserva- tive groups have already lined up tens of millions of dollars to defend Collins. Elizabeth Hannigan, a 33-year- old data analyst from the Bangor area, recalled seeing a Collins ad nearly every commercial break during the World Cup, touting all of the money she’s brought home to Maine. Hannigan said she worries whether Jackson will have enough time to mount a victorious campaign.
She wants Jackson to “get the national party behind him, not just the Sanders wing.” Han- nigan, who considers herself to the center of the Democrat- ic Party, said it would provide a signal of trust; she does not want to elect another Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), a onetime progressive champion who has increasingly broken with his party since he arrived in Washington in 2023. “I want someone who will vote with the general Democrat- ic agenda,” Hannigan said.
There was comfort for the dying, solace for their caregivers
BY CAITLIN GIBSON
When we published our re- cent project about end-of-life dreams and visions, we invited Post readers to share their per- sonal experiences with this phe- nomenon. From my reporting, I knew that many caregivers to the dying have witnessed these occurrences and found them to be deeply meaningful and mem- orable. I hoped we might collect a few dozen anecdotes. To date, we’ve received about 500 sub- missions and counting. It’s been a privilege to read every one. Some of these stories were only a few lines, describing a fl eeting moment or a fi nal spoken phrase. Others were lengthy, detailed accounts of profound occurrences during a loved one’s fi nal hours, days or weeks. The majority of people who wrote in — no matter how they made sense of what they’d seen — described an experience that seemed to instill a sense of calm or solace in the person who was dying, and in turn, brought a lasting comfort to their be- reaved caregivers. From those hundreds of ac- counts, here is a selection of 10. The following are drawn from written submissions and fol- low-up interviews, and edited for length and clarity.
“Why are you taking so long?” My 101-year-old mother-in- law, Aline, had been bedridden and in decline for the better part of a year before she died in 2024. A few years before that, when she was 99, she’d said to me that she didn’t understand why she was still here, when so many people she loved had gone on without her. She was weak and sleeping much of the time in her fi nal month, but one day I was at her bedside and she sat partly up- right, her eyes very wide, looking straight ahead in the room with a focus we hadn’t seen from her in weeks. She said in a strong, clear voice: “Maxine!” She was addressing her beloved older sister, who had died a few years before. The sisters were very, very close. Aline said her sister’s name so loudly I was startled. “Maxine, why are you taking so long?” she said. There was no fear in her voice, but there was some frustration. There were pauses where she fell silent and seemed to react as if someone was responding, and I realized
then that there was a conver- sation going on and I was only hearing one side of it. Aline said, “Maxine, it’s past time. Why am I still here?” It was so real. After a while, she relaxed and leaned back and closed her eyes, and she never spoke like that again. She died a few weeks later. I thought the world of her, and to witness that moment was really special to me. — Erin Granber- ry, 66, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
“I knew immediately who she was talking to” I have worked as a hospice nurse for the last 20 years, and I’ve had lots of these kinds of experiences with people I was caring for as they were dying. I remember one lady who told me, when I went in to give her medication, “I know you’re go- ing to think I’m crazy, because he died seven years ago, but my husband is standing over there in the corner by the door, and he’s wearing his favorite plaid sports jacket.” And she died the next day. There have been so many experiences like that. So I knew what this was when it happened to my daughter, Tina, who was just two weeks shy of her 34th birthday when she was dying of cancer in 2018. The last time she was admitted to the hospital during her 11 months of treatment, she was so sick. She was drifting in and out of consciousness, and sev- eral times, when her eyes were closed, she would be mumbling and giggling. I couldn’t make out the words, but I knew im- mediately who she was talking to. When she was more awake, I asked her if she’d been talking to her brother, who had died two years before. She smiled and nodded her head ‘yes.’ It comforted me a great deal. The two of them were so close, just two years apart. Over the next 12 or so hours, she kept mumbling and chuckling that same way while her eyes were closed. Only my son could ever make her gig- gle like that. And I think it was what my daughter needed, to let go of this life. She died the next morning. They’re together now. — Catherine Dixon, 68, Phoenix
“Is it you?” I spent my mother’s fi nal days sitting beside her in 2003. She was 86 years old, in hospice care at a nursing home in New Jersey. On her last full day, she did not speak, and at 2 a.m., in the darkness, she called my name twice. A short time later, she said, “He is coming.” Then, just before dawn, she spoke her fi nal words in a tone of incredu- lity and joy, “Is it you?” She died the following day. As a physi- cian myself — I was a primary care doctor for almost 40 years
— my skepticism fi rst led me to question whether pharmaceuti- cals or cerebral hypoxia had led to hallucinations, but in the 23 years since her death, I’ve nev- er been able to shake the con- viction that her experience was very clear and real. I would give anything to know who it was she had seen. — Erica Ellen Johnson, 80, Wellesley, Massachusetts
“Hello, my friends” In 2001, I was a medical offi - cer in Uganda Martyrs Hospital Lubaga in Kampala, Uganda. It was 8 p.m., and I was on night duty on a cold evening. A pa- tient came in who was asthmat- ic, diabetic and a double ampu- tee. He had been unwell for two days with a serious cough and fever, and he was in severe respi- ratory distress, breathing with a great deal of diffi culty. We start- ed nebulizing him and giving oxygen, and we needed to give intravenous medication, too. But he was struggling, and his veins were very diffi cult to fi nd on his arms. We were trying to keep him stable and fi nd a vein while waiting for a senior doctor to arrive. But then suddenly, our patient stopped struggling and wheezing, and calmed down dramatically. He had not spoken to us at all since he arrived, but he started talking as if he were addressing other people in the room whom we could not see. He spoke gently to them: “Hello, my friends,” he said, “You have come for me? Okay, let us go.” And then he took a fi nal breath and passed on. — Daniel Zaake, 51, Kampala, Uganda
“Her expression was pure joy” I was visiting my aunt in Seat- tle in 2010 as she was dying from cancer. She was lucid when I ar- rived, but after a week or so, she was mostly sleeping. Sometimes, I’d hear her talking to someone in her room, though she was alone. Other times she would move her hands as though she were playing the organ, like she did in church when she was a girl. She was a remarkable wom- an. She’d been an amputee since age 4, and had overcome so much in her life. On the day I fl ew home, I said goodbye, and I told her it was okay for her to leave, too. I said: “You’ve been so strong, you’ve fought for so long. You don’t have to do that anymore. You can go, and I know everyone will be waiting for you.” She hadn’t spoken in a couple of days, but she suddenly opened her eyes very wide, looked right over my shoulder and broke into a full grin as she said, “Mom?” Her expression was pure joy. I will never forget it. Then she went back to sleep,
and I left for the airport. I had a layover in Denver. When I turned my phone on, there was a message waiting from my dad, letting me know that his sister, my aunt, had died about 20 minutes after I left. — Laura Crowley Lynch, 64, Kansas City, Missouri
“I want to go home” Chuck was 87 years old and my partner of 36 years. He spent the last fi ve weeks of his life in hospice care at home, follow- ing a seven-year journey with dementia. During those weeks, I noticed that he would look to- ward the ceiling and talk with people who I could not see. I would ask him, “Who is in the room?” and he would tell me he saw his mom and dad, my mother, his sister, our friends, all of whom had passed away. It surprised me that he could sum- mon their names — at that point he had no short-term memory, and almost no long-term mem- ory, and he would not have been able to recall the names of the folks who he was talking with. I asked Chuck what they were saying to him, and he said they were telling him it was “time for him to go.” I once asked him why he hadn’t left yet, and he told me that he wanted me to go with him. I was dumbfounded, not sure how to respond. But I thought about how I might have responded before his demen- tia, and I told him that I would have lots of work to do for him when he left, so I didn’t think it was my time yet, and he agreed. Soon after that, I asked him what would happen when it was time for him to go, and he told me, “All I have to do is say that I want to go home, and the transi- tion will start.” That was about a week and a half before he died. — David Dalton, 72, Chicago
“Not my turn yet” It was the mid ’90s, and I’d been a hospice nurse for about three years. I was visiting one of my patients at his home, a married man in his 40s who had metastatic pancreatic cancer. We had been working together on relieving his signifi cant pain. On this day, I found him in bed with a serene smile on his face, and his eyes were focused on something in the distance that only he could see. He told me: “The bus keeps coming and driv- ing past me. I see other people getting on, but he tells me it’s not my turn yet.” We spoke for a while, and he remained in that peaceful state. He told me that the bus driv- er would stop, but not let him on, and would tell him of the beautiful place where he would eventually take my patient. It wasn’t delirium — I’ve seen de-
lirium, and this was something else. When I visited him again a couple of days later, he shared that he could see where the bus was going; the driver had shown him. He was just staring, and he had the most beautiful smile on his face. I asked him what he was seeing, and he broke his faraway stare and turned to look right at me. He smiled again and said, “That’s for me to know, and you to fi nd out when it’s your time.” He died within 24 hours of that. It was profound, and I’ve carried it with me all these years. — Gayle Masada, 73, Tucson
“He’s here now” My mother died from lung cancer in September of 1994. As she approached her fi nal days, she grew more quiet and with- drew from us. But she was clear- ly preoccupied with something we did not understand. Gazing out the window, she would nod her head and respond softly as if she was acknowledging a presence. This happened several times over a span of three days. In her fi nal hours, she sat up, and told us that she was ready. She pointed to a far corner of the room, and said, “He’s here now, as he always has been, and I’m ready to go.” It was surpris- ing to me — we are Catholic, but not religious; my mother took us out of the church in 1968 when our local parish priest was un- able to get our brother excused from service in Vietnam. What did she see that last day? I have no idea, but it seemed to give her comfort. She was calm, and unafraid, and she died that afternoon. — Jeanne Scicluna, 68, Ashe- ville, North Carolina
“As if he was trying to get someone’s attention” Three years ago, my 63-year- old brother was dying of bladder cancer, receiving hospice care at home. He had a big family, with fi ve adopted kids and his wife, and we all took turns sitting with him. He was noncommu- nicative and restless, sometimes incoherently mumbling. His old- est son and I were sitting with my brother one day and talking quietly with him, and suddenly he lifted his head up, opened his eyes wide and looked straight ahead, as though looking at someone I couldn’t see. He raised his arm and called “Dad!” in a strong voice, clear as day. My nephew and I both looked at each other — we couldn’t believe it. It made me think of when we were children, at football games with our dad, and we’d get sepa- rated in the crowd — my broth- er called out as if he was trying to get someone’s attention, or asking them to wait for him. He
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never spoke another discernible word again after that, and he was gone a few hours later. — Linda Ellen Horton, 76, Charlotte
“Where are we going?” By the time my mother was 90 years old, she’d had demen- tia for 10 years, and she had not been able to communicate for quite some time. She spoke English, but her native language was Greek, and that left her fi rst — I know very little Greek myself, but when I tried talking to her in Greek to access that part of her mind, she just stared at me blankly. By that time, in 2014, she wasn’t even able to put two words together to express as thought. But her body was re- markably strong. She’d just had a physical exam, and her doctor said she was “in perfect health.” One morning, I stopped by her care facility, and she was deeply agitated. She was yell- ing in Greek, and, remarkably, in full paragraphs, at someone in the room who I couldn’t see, who appeared to be standing di- rectly to my right. I was trying to interpret what my mom was say- ing, and fi gured out that she was yelling at her mother, as if her mother were trying to convince her to go somewhere. I heard my mom shout, “Where are we going?” in Greek. I could under- stand that. I went to the nursing sta- tion to ask for medication that might help calm her down, and we transitioned her to a wheelchair so I could wheel her around for a while. The whole time, she continued to scream at my grandmother. One of the few Greek phrases I know is the curse to send someone to hell — and I heard my mom tell my grandmother to go to hell. I was like, “Mom. Think this through!” I had no doubt myself that my grandmother was there, some- how, telling her daughter to come with her. But my mother was so fi ercely afraid of dying. Eventually, she became drowsy and calmed down, and I went back to work. The next morning, someone from the offi ce of my mother’s care facility called me. They said, “I’m so sorry to share with you that your mother died this morning.” I sat there, utterly dumbfounded, just repeating, What? What? What? I went down to the facility, which was just one block away from my work. We went in to say goodbye. And one of the nurses came up and told me that she’d passed by my mother’s room earlier that morning, and heard her speaking in English. She was saying: “I’m coming, Mama.” — Stephanie Arrigotti, Carson City, Nevada
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Members of Congress called the televised contest ‘rigged’
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BY LAUREN LUMPKIN
The Education Department hosted a televised civics game show for students last month to celebrate America’s 250th birth- day. Weeks later, the results are being disputed and members of Congress called the contest “rigged” after judges rejected a Sikh student’s answers. And constitutional law experts who reviewed the questions and answers are torn. Aangad Singh, 15, had studied for months for the Presidential 1776 Award, hosted in partner- ship with a constitution educa- tion group. His family had for- gone vacations so he could stay home and practice. When an illness spread through their Con- necticut home, everyone donned masks so that Aangad could stay healthy enough to keep studying. Under bright lights at the Kennedy Center on June 9, he stood before the cameras along- side seven other contestants in a suit and turban for the taping of the show, hosted by TV person- ality Mario Lopez. He answered questions about federal courts, declaring war, and slavery incor- rectly, according to the judges — mistakes that led to his elimina- tion from the competition. Okay, that happens, he rea- soned. But something felt off to him and his parents. He would later learn that if at least one of his answers had been scored dif- ferently, he could have advanced in the competition — and contest organizers were unwilling to ad- dress the alleged discrepancies. After his experience was re- ported last week by NOTUS, the congressional Asian Pacifi c American Caucus called foul in a post on X. “Why did the judges improper- ly grade a Sikh student’s correct responses as wrong?” the group asked. “Why did the Department of Education refuse to conduct a review? This Trump-led civ- ics competition has the words RIGGED written all over it.”
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To Aangad, it’s straightfor- ward: If he answered a question correctly, he should have been awarded points. He’d been told by his parents, who emigrated from India in the early 2000s, that in the U.S., hard work gets rewarded and success is based on merit. But the civics competi- tion challenged the family’s con- cept of what’s fair. “We try to do everything right. We follow the laws, we follow the rules, we pay our taxes. We do ev- erything right that’s expected of good citizens, and the only thing we want in return is justice,” said Aangad’s father, Bhalindar Singh, who immigrated in the pursuit of a good education. “I know it’s a diff erent world that we live in, not everybody feels that way.” After watching the broadcast on June 30, Aangad’s family de- bated what to do, and eventual- ly decided to send an email July 14 to the Education Department asking for a review of the re- sponses and information on the scoring. Their emails went unan- swered for days. On Tuesday, an agency offi cial told them in an email that they enjoyed working with Aangad and directed them to rules stat- ing the judges’ decision is “fi nal and binding.” The civics competition was unveiled early this year as one of many celebrations of America’s semiquincentennial. The event tested high school students on the country’s founding, the Con- stitution and other historical documents. Aangad, who is used to public speaking, decided to give it a shot. “I just thought it was an ex- traordinary opportunity to really delve into the founding docu- ments,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I did it mainly for the learning aspect of it, going deep into our history.” The competition consisted of three rounds: an online multi- ple-choice exam, an in-person oral competition and the fi nal show at the Kennedy Center. The top three fi nalists would split a $250,000 scholarship prize and get to visit with President Don- ald Trump in the Oval Offi ce. For weeks, Aangad would re- turn home from school, have a snack and a glass of milk, then
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FAMILY PHOTO Aangad Singh, 15, second from left, poses for a photo with his family at the Presidential 1776 Award civics competition on June 9.
study. His father peppered him with questions about the Consti- tution and the American Revolu- tion. He passed the online test and made it through the oral compe- tition. At the televised fi nals, he ad- vanced through the third chal- lenge before getting eliminated with most of the other students. It came as a surprise, Aangad said. There was no scoreboard, so it was unclear how many points each participant had racked up. After Aangad left the stage to join his parents in the audience, he replayed every answer in his head. He pulled up the Constitu- tion on his phone, hoping to see where he’d messed up. “We didn’t know where he lost the points,” his father said. Then his competitors suggest- ed something was amiss. “They were like, ‘I don’t know what happened. We don’t know how he did not make it to top three,’” Bhalindar recalled another par- ent saying. “They were, kind of, more shocked than us.” But with- out knowing the offi cial score, they couldn’t know for sure. Later, the winner would tell her hometown paper she was surprised at who made it to the top three. Weeks passed, and Aangad
went back to his normal routine. He played pickleball and pre- pared for a public speaking com- petition in California. On June 30, he watched the game show’s broadcast on CBS with his fam- ily. After the third challenge, a scoreboard fl ashed on screen. Aangad was in sixth place with 16 points. He had just missed a question about federal courts. “According to Article III of the U.S. Constitution, in which cases do the federal courts have juris- diction? List at least four for full credit,” the proctor said. “Our federal courts have juris- diction over maritime or admiral jurisdictions; cases in which the state may be a party and citizens of another state; controversies between citizens of diff erent states; controversies between multiple states; and contro- versies in which a state and a subject of a foreign nation is in- volved,” Aangad said. The judges said just three of them were correct. Some consti- tutional experts are split. “They’re basically accurate,” David Super, a Georgetown Law professor whose expertise in- cludes constitutional law, said about Aangad’s answers. He said he would have given the teen credit.
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Elizabeth Earle Beske, a con- stitutional law professor at American University, said the judges’ grading was “stingy,” but ultimately agreed with them. Maeva Marcus, a leading constitutional studies scholar at George Washington Univer- sity, said the categories Aangad named were originally in Arti- cle III, but two of them were re- moved by the 11th Amendment. “He was wrong,” she said. “The judges were right.” If that is the case, the question should have been worded diff er- ently, the Singhs said. In the fourth challenge, a lightning round where students scored points by answering as many questions as possible in 30 seconds, Aangad was asked which amendment ended slav- ery. “Thirteenth,” he said. A red X fl ashed on screen. It was the correct answer — when other students provided that response, they earned two points. Aangad still doesn’t know why he wasn’t awarded points as well. However, the broadcast’s captions show that Aangad said “13th.” The questions were developed and scored by the James Madi- son Memorial Fellowship Foun- dation, which works to improve the way the U.S. Constitution is taught in schools. The organi- zation’s board, appointed by the president, includes Education Secretary Linda McMahon and circuit court Judge Raymond Kethledge, who was on Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist in 2018. The foundation’s leaders did not respond to multiple requests for comment about the competi- tion or how it was scored. In response to questions from The Post, the Education Depart- ment referred to the competi- tion’s rules. “The contest was designed so that judges exercised indepen- dent good faith judgment in se- lecting fi nalists and winner,” a spokesperson said in an email. “This fact was outlined in the competition rules to which every participant agreed.” The judges did not respond to requests for comment. Katy Forsythe, a high school social studies teacher who proc- tored the game show, said her role was to read questions and
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relay the judges’ rulings. “The main relevant context is that everyone involved in the competition is under contract to help maintain its integrity,” For- sythe said in an email. “As with any dispute, I will put my faith in the due process of law enshrined in our Constitution rather than the court of public opinion.” If Aangad had scored points for either of the missed ques- tions he would have made it to the fi nal round and secured at least $25,000 in scholarship money, according to calculations by his family and The Post. That fact has nagged at him since he left D.C. In an emailed response to the family’s request for a review of Aangad’s incorrect answers, an Education Department staff er called Aangad an “incredibly personable and driven student,” but did not answer questions about how the competition was scored. “They did not engage with the substance of our questions,” Bhalindar said. He’s grown dis- trustful; he isn’t sure if bias is at play. “The more you withhold the facts, the more suspicious it becomes.” Aangad’s mom, Ramandeep, can’t help but wonder if her son, a fi rst-generation American, a Sikh boy in a turban, was denied what he deserved. “Talk to me, clarify my doubt,” she said about the contest orga- nizers. “Tell us the reason this question is marked incorrect. At least that will give us some clo- sure.” Aangad is a bit more diplo- matic about it all. “I don’t think we can jump to conclusions until we actual- ly have the information. There’s nothing more dangerous than just throwing around baseless conclusions,” he said, adding that all the students he compet- ed against deserved to be there. “Right now, we’re just trying to solidify the facts, what actually happened.” If he was wrong, he’ll accept it, he said. His dad said the fami- ly won’t stop until they know for sure. “We just want some justice, you know?” Bhalindar said. “I mean, in the United States, that shouldn’t be an exception.”
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WesT PoINT FROM A1 After Trump’s order, West Point silenced its faculty. One professor fought back.
sometimes unconstitutional, overreach. In little more than 18 months, the administration has drawn a surge of lawsuits alleging violations of civil liber- ties or other essential freedoms, a Washington Post analysis of hundreds of thousands of court records found. One of those was filed by Bak- ken. His confrontation with the colonel that day in March 2025 brought the clash to West Point, the emerald-green-and-granite campus on the Hudson River that trains the leaders of tomor- row’s Army. Since World War II, West Point had fostered academ- ic openness, advancing the view that dissenting opinions are cru- cial in forming sound military judgments. But Trump and his top lieutenants, including De- fense Secretary Pete Hegseth, argue that West Point must prize patriotic obedience to authority above all else. Seven days into his second presidency, Trump issued an executive order forbidding mil- itary colleges like West Point from “promoting, advancing, or otherwise inculcating” ideas that his administration deemed “un-American, divisive, dis- criminatory, radical, extremist, and irrational.” It also required teaching that “America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history.” Within weeks, West Point’s dean introduced a revised “academic engage- ment” policy, stipulating that the school’s nearly 700 professors — roughly a third of whom are civilians — must seek approval from their department head be- fore they could deliver a speech, publish a paper or even speak on a podcast. Bakken had never needed such approval before, he said. One of the first civilian profes- sors hired at West Point, he had taught criminal and constitu- tional law there since 2000. Nonmilitary faculty were meant to improve West Point’s intellectual rigor and provide an outside perspective. Many uni- formed colleagues never fully embraced their presence, how- ever. Bakken, whose colleagues and students described him as a principled but brusque contrari- an with a penchant for criticism, had often felt isolated. Now, listening to the colonel’s words about “following orders,” Bakken felt alone in the room once again. He had long argued that a military culture of unquestion- ing obedience, coupled with an aversion to criticism and a sense of superiority, had caused the U.S. to lose every war it fought since 1945. “Inside America, the last seventy-five years of military intervention have unleashed a flood of incompetence, hubris, and denial,” he wrote in a 2020 book, “The Cost of Loyalty.” “I have been living at the headwa- ters.” West Point officials hadn’t liked that book, or much of Bak- ken’s criticism. But they had nev- er tried to silence him, he said — until Trump’s second presidency, when West Point revised its fac- ulty speech rules. At his Senate confirmation hearing, Hegseth, a former Army major and weekend co-host of “Fox & Friends,” said West Point shouldn’t employ civilian pro- fessors, calling them “left-wing” and “woke.” In office, he later told cadets that the academy had “hired professors who advocat- ed for anti-American ideologies right here in these halls. But no more.” West Point’s new policy came as Bakken prepared a new book that, like his first, criticized the academy and the military. But he was unwilling to seek permis- sion to publish it, not from West Point, and not from Hegseth’s Pentagon. In September, he sued West Point in federal court. The “in- tent and effect” of his employer’s new policy, he contended, “is to chill and suppress speech and censor viewpoints that might be contrary to the views” of West Point, the Army, the Defense De- partment, Hegseth and Trump. A spokesperson for West Point declined to answer a list of ques- tions, writing in an email that, “as a matter of policy, we do not comment on ongoing litigation.” Various West Point employees declined or did not respond to requests for comment. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell likewise declined to comment, citing Bakken’s ongoing lawsuit. But he wrote in a statement that Hegseth “completely supports” Trump’s executive order. Referring to Bakken, Parnell added: “We are not concerned by the half-baked thoughts of a disgruntled indi- vidual.” White House spokeswoman
COURTESY OF TIM BAKKEN Bakken shakes hands in 2007 with the dean of the Afghan military academy in Kabul, where he taught for six weeks.
PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST In his apartment, Bakken gets ready for an early May court hearing in his lawsuit against the Trump administration.
PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Bakken loves to take morning runs. His preferred routes extend along the Hudson River.
PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Bakken spends many of his hours at home working from a bare- bones black desk, tucked in a corner of his bedroom.
PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Bakken has criticized the military’s culture of unquestioning obedi- ence.
Anna Kelly did not directly an- swer questions about speech by Bakken or other professors at West Point, writing in an email that “individuals who refuse to follow the sacred chain-of-com- mand … threaten the lives of our warfighters. Such reckless and dangerous actions will not be tolerated.” Although Bakken filed his law- suit on behalf of civilian faculty, he saw it as protecting the rights of all professors. But they didn’t seem to agree. After the suit, many stopped speaking to him, he said. His three closest col- leagues confided that they’d like to help but their wives wouldn’t allow it. One of his oldest friends, who had started at West Point the same day he did, asked him to reconsider. “This policy is good for us,” Bakken recalled him saying. “It will prevent us from saying things that get us in trouble.” B
akken arrived at West Point as a fan: enamored with the school’s history, reputation and regular roster of Rhodes Scholars. But he learned quickly that life in Upstate New York was dif- ferent for civilians. On his first morning, he joined three new military hires on a tour of the academy. They stopped at the gift shop. Inside, Bakken could see candy, clothes and notebooks bearing West Point’s distinctive logo. The new professor, clad in a business suit, began to follow his uniformed companions through the turnstiles. The manager held up her hand. “No civilians allowed,” she told the group, in Bakken’s rec-
women do not have the reasoning, or the ability, or the courage to speak truthfully.”
Excerpt from Tim Bakken’s book “The Cost of Loyalty”
ollection. Bakken knew he would be in the minority. He hadn’t expected that. Congress passed legislation in 1992 encouraging service acad- emies to employ civilians. Until then, faculties at West Point and the Air Force Academy were al- most entirely commissioned officers. (The Naval Academy already employed half military and half civilian professors.) Lawmakers hoped an influx of civilians with doctorates would boost intellectual diversity and raise academic standards. Dwight D. Eisenhower had earlier pushed the idea. While serving as the Army chief of staff in 1946, he wrote to West Point’s superintendent arguing that cadets should be taught psy- chology, with help from knowl- edgeable civilians, so they could handle “human problems on a human basis.” Bakken seemed the kind of subject-matter expert Eisenhow- er envisioned: He had worked as a prosecutor and as a lawyer in private practice, and taught at the university level. In his job interview, Bakken had a swift answer to every ques- tion, said Gary Solis, a now-re- tired West Point professor who served on the hiring committee.
JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST A humvee rolls through West Point’s campus in Upstate New York.
He struck the interviewers as smart, capable and unafraid to speak his mind — an exemplar of what civilians were supposed to bring to West Point, Solis said. The committee unanimously rec- ommended him, Solis recalled. Before the interview ended, Solis reminded Bakken that West Point is not an ordinary school. Teaching there, he said, meant agreeing to abide by military principles: Submitting to author- ity. Following orders. “Tim,” Solis recalled, “had no problem with that.” At the time, Bakken accepted that, for the military to function, rank-and-file soldiers had to obey their superiors, he said. But he took the West Point job believ- ing that, as a civilian professor, he would enjoy the same free- doms — to provoke, to debate, to criticize — afforded to professors at nonmilitary universities. That was vital, he said, be- cause one day, his cadets would be giving orders to soldiers. He had to teach his students to think critically. Lives depended on it. He would dwell on that over the years as six of his own students were killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan. “What is the purpose of be- ing a military officer, especially a general, if you are unwilling
to speak up about something that will help the nation?” Bak- ken asked in an interview with The Post. “Such as whether a war should be fought, or if the country should withdraw from a war, or if the country is losing soldiers?” Over time, Bakken came to see West Point as its own hierar- chical and insulated world, one where civilian professors were distrusted and treated as sec- ond-class citizens. More than a dozen current and former West Point personnel, most of them civilians, agreed with Bakken’s impressions. Some spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Their concerns stretched far beyond access to the campus gift shop. For instance, the Army paid for West Point military in- structors to pursue graduate de- grees, a benefit not offered to ci- vilian professors. While military faculty had their pick of “move- in ready” campus homes with up to six bedrooms, civilians had sparser options for lodging on West Point’s grounds. Military faculty received a year of sabbat- ical leave, while civilian faculty got six months. “We were treated as not real- ly members of the community … not full members of the faculty, in a way,” former professor Gra- ham Parsons said. “Civilians are fringe.” Bakken refused to remain on the margins. In 2005, he helped rewrite the faculty manual, granting equal sabbaticals and more flexible working hours for all professors. Five years later, as chair of an academic freedom committee,
Bakken led efforts to add a rule: Civilian professors who believed they were being disciplined or fired for something they said could challenge their punish- ment on First Amendment grounds. The rule was tested almost im- mediately. In 2010, assistant professor Dan Rice planned to show his ca- dets “The Tillman Story,” a docu- mentary released that year about the military cover-up in the death of former National Foot- ball League player Pat Tillman. He had been shot by his fellow Army Rangers in Afghanistan, not killed by enemy fire as mili- tary officials at first claimed. The film suggested that Gen. John P. Abizaid, who had retired and was serving as a “distinguished chair” at West Point, had played a role in the cover-up. Universi- ty administrators opposed the screening, according to Bakken and Rice. (Asked about the episode this year, a spokesperson for Abizaid said the retired general does not grant interviews. A West Point spokesperson declined to com- ment.) After Rice threatened to go to the academic freedom commit- tee, West Point relented, he and Bakken said. Rice could show the movie — and invite the docu- mentary’s director, Amir Bar-Lev, to address students. But officials stipulated that an Army lawyer speak to the class, too. Bakken attended and listened as Bar-Lev told cadets that it was important to “speak the truth as you see it.” A few weeks later, Rice learned that West Point was terminating his contract. Bakken encouraged him to sue. Feeling worn down, he declined, Rice recalled in an interview. Bakken thought he had helped secure free speech at West Point. Rice’s termination, which he and Bakken believed stemmed from the Tillman documentary screening, convinced him other- wise. So he decided to write a book. A
decade later, Bakken published “The Cost of Loyalty.” From its open- ing lines, it frames Amer- ica’s costly conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq as failed products of an “opaque and secretive” military culture. In the book, which earned a muted but positive critical recep- tion, Bakken argues that the mil- itary lies — to the public and to itself, in major and minor ways. For instance, he writes that the Pentagon fakes bugle-playing during military funerals because the military lacks musicians. Of- ficers hold up the instruments and pretend to blow while acti- vating digital recordings tucked inside the horns, he writes. More consequentially, he writes, during the Vietnam War, Army Chief of Staff and West Point graduate Harold Johnson developed doubts but chose not to air them. Johnson believed that higher-ups’ plan to pursue large military campaigns against the North Vietnamese and Viet- cong was foolish, if not fatal, Bakken writes. Johnson imag- ined walking to the Oval Office and resigning. But he stayed qui- et, a decision that haunted him in old age. Bakken quotes Johnson’s late- life comments to an interviewer: “I am now going to my grave with that lapse in moral courage on my back.” After his book was published, most military and civilian faculty stopped eating lunch with Bak- ken, he said. One of the few who dared, chemistry professor Gary Washington, confided that his boss had instructed him to stay away because the law professor “couldn’t be trusted.” After Bak- ken left meetings with military colleagues, Washington said, they’d hang back to commiser- ate. “He doesn’t understand us,” Washington recalled them say- ing. “He can’t make us change.” Still, West Point officials never sought to block the book or sanc- tion him for writing it, Bakken said. Instead, they circulated a three-page memo shortly before its release, calling it “unflatter- ing” and sharing answers to an- ticipated questions. Was Bakken disciplined for writing the book? “No,” accord- ing to a copy of the memo ob- tained by The Washington Post. Were his allegations true? Bak- ken, the memo said, represented “a minority opinion.” Why did West Point “allow this professor to still be employed?” The memo answered: “Academic freedom is essential to USMA’s core mission [and] grounds our ability to develop leaders who can think critically. … Academic freedom means that faculty and students can engage in intellec- tual discourse and debate with- out fear of retaliation.” Bakken recalled that memo
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after Trump’s executive order in 2025. As West Point’s new policy on faculty speech took hold early that year, library books were re- viewed for references to “diver- sity, equity or inclusion,” accord- ing to interviews with more than a dozen current and former West Point staff. An American history instructor nixed an assignment asking how the nation had ex- panded the idea of freedom over time and replaced it with an essay on banking. A cadet was told not to research the World War II-era detention of Japanese Americans. A staffer teaching a mandatory course on the history of Western thought was ordered to leave out Karl Marx. Some changes came at the direction of higher-ups, while others appeared to be acts of self-censorship, the staffers said. “There seemed to be this overcompliance for what they thought the administration would want to see,” said one mil- itary lecturer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the president and the Pentagon. “Or at least getting rid of things the admin- istration would not want to see.” A West Point spokesperson declined to comment on this ac- count of curricular changes at the school. Officials at the Naval Acade- my and the Air Force Academy also scrutinized their teaching in response to the president’s or- der, canceling or reconsidering classes about gender and sexu- ality, and cutting lectures about climate change and authoritar- ian regimes. Spokespeople for both academies declined to an- swer requests for comment, as well as questions about whether they considered limiting faculty speech as well. At West Point, several profes- sors, including Parsons, resigned in protest. On social media, Hegseth cheered. At an August meeting, West Point’s dean warned faculty nev- er to share opinions with cadets during class. Bakken saw this as an extension of the academic engagement policy to the class- room. Bakken interpreted the dean’s remarks as forbidding the kind of analysis he had given for decades, assessing the reasoning and impact of the court rulings he taught. Four times that fall, Bakken said, he stopped himself from answering student questions be- cause of the new policy. He did not answer a cadet who asked whether he agreed with the Su- preme Court’s ruling in Robin- son v. California that punishing someone for a narcotics addic- tion is cruel and unconstitution- al (he did), or another who asked what he made of McQuirter v. State, which held that juries may consider social conditions (the decision was probably wrong, Bakken believed, but influen- tial). He declined chances to publish papers, too, including a piece questioning the legality of Navy attacks on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean. In January, Bakken learned that West Point was moving to dismiss the suit. Col. Krista Watts, a vice dean, argued in a court filing that the academy had to follow Defense Department rules. Moreover, she wrote, the new policy protected West Point. “These regulations and poli- cies,” Watts wrote, “permit senior Academy officials to be prepared for follow-up questions or con- cerns by the American public or by governmental leaders.” “Professor Bakken is required to comply,” she continued, “as a condition of his employment.” Bakken feared that if the judge sided with West Point, he would lose his job. A
t the first all-faculty meeting after Bakken sued, staff filled every seat. Except the four rows surrounding Bakken. A few yards away, military instructor Maj. Benjamin Ord- iway watched in silence. Bak- ken, Ordiway said, looked like an island. “This is bulls---,” he told the teachers next to him. Ordiway, who has since retired, barely knew Bakken but admired him. He stood, walked over and cleared his throat. “You did what a military offi- cer should have done,” he said, according to his and Bakken’s recollections. “Standing up for the First Amendment.” Bakken hesitated, then held out his hand. The two men shook, and Ordiway sat beside him. “Thanks,” Bakken said. Bakken hoped he had con- veyed how much Ordiway’s sup- port meant, even if he found it embarrassing. He hated being
PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Bakken en route to his court hearing in May.
` PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Bakken eats dinner at the mall, the plastic presidents overlooking his meal.
PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Bakken confers with his lawyers outside the courthouse, holding an umbrella against the drizzle.
PAOLA CHAPDELAINE/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Bakken arrives at the Palisades Center mall in West Nyack to grab lunch on the day of his court hearing.
ADAM GRAY/GETTY IMAGES Hegseth arrives to deliver the commencement speech at West Point. He has said the academy shouldn’t employ civilian professors.
told that he was “in the right” or on the “right side of history,” he said. Let a judge make that de- termination. Such humility didn’t always come across to colleagues, who could bristle at Bakken’s certi- tude. Even his allies acknowl- edged that Bakken’s prickly per- sonality sometimes deepened his isolation. Parsons remembered labor- ing for months over a proposal to allow civilians to compete for positions as department heads and deans. But when Bakken saw it, he threw it on the table in disgust, saying it didn’t go far enough. “He always wanted to be the critic,” Parsons said. “He wouldn’t be a member of any team that would have him.” Students noticed his stub- bornness, too. He demanded cadets think aloud and refused to accept sloppy reasoning, said Lt. Brian Matthews, a 2024 West Point graduate. Unlike other pro- fessors, Matthews said, Bakken never used PowerPoint or sum- marized cases. Instead, he’d start class with a question. Such as: Do you think laws against hate crimes are effective? “Then for the next hour, we’d go down the rabbit hole — one view after another — but at the same time, students weren’t al- lowed to say crazy things with no background,” Matthews said. “It was an environment I’d never seen before. It was pure intellec- tual curiosity.” Solis, who hired Bakken, said
who lose games than on generals who lose wars. … The U.S. military has possessed the most fearsome weapons ever created, and has often looked unbeatable on paper. However, somehow it has experienced great loss in every war in which it has fought since 1945.”
Excerpt from Tim Bakken’s book “The Cost of Loyalty”
the professor has become “the dog who barks in the night.” West Point needs that, he said. But it can get pretty lonely for the dog. On his days off, Bakken usual- ly dined alone on orange chicken and fried rice at an aging, finan- cially distressed shopping mall that someone had tried to com- bine with an indoor amusement park. He read law articles in the shadow of an empty Ferris wheel and a Mount Rushmore-themed climbing wall. Bakken had never married. For decades, he had lived alone in a series of shabby apartments an hour’s drive from West Point. The most recent, in Nyack, was a two-room walk-up with no stove or dining table. He had always put work first — a decision he’d come to regret. He’d begun picturing retire- ment in Florida, or by the lakes
ADAM GRAY/GETTY IMAGES West Point undergraduates attend the school’s commencement cer- emony on May 23. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was the speaker.
in his home state, Wisconsin. He envisioned the warmth. The wa- ter. He imagined buying a paint- ing to hang on a sunny wall in a place he owned. On a clammy day in mid-April, Bakken got home late after tak- ing a bar recertification course in New York City. It had been half a year since he filed suit. He had no idea when it would be over. As he mounted the stairs to his apartment, thoughts of Florida surged. Bakken paused on the splintered wooden steps. “Why,” he asked himself in the darkness, “am I still doing this?” A
month later, in a fed- eral courtroom in White Plains, Judge Cathy Sei- bel peered through her glasses at Bakken and his two lawyers, who sat surrounded by manila folders. Across from them was West Point’s attorney.
“I asked you to come in,” Seibel said, “because I have questions.” For the next hour, Seibel, who had been nominated to the bench by President George W. Bush, grilled the lawyers on whether Bakken even had the right to sue in federal court. Why shouldn’t he go directly to a federal agency with oversight of workplace conditions, like the Office of Special Counsel, as the government argued? “There are a couple cases out there that don’t look good for you,” she told Bakken’s lawyers. Attorney Jonathan Goldman argued that transferring Bak- ken’s case to the Office of Special Counsel would be a death blow. Trump had fired the agency’s head and appointed an acting leader who promptly ended its investigation of the president’s mass firings of federal workers. “It would be essentially asking the person who promulgated the policy whether the policy is con- stitutional,” Goldman argued. The judge next said she want- ed to move to “the constitutional issue”: Was West Point violating the First Amendment? She turned to West Point’s at- torney, Dana Kumar. “What’s the academy afraid of?” Seibel asked. Kumar said that West Point, “as a military institution tasked with training military leaders of the future,” had to ensure that the academy was not “miscon- strued” to the public. Kumar asked the judge to imagine if Bakken gave a speech asserting that American conflicts overseas
were illegal. “No one is going to mistake that for the Army’s position,” Sei- bel said. It could create the impression, Kumar said, that “that’s what they’re teaching at West Point.” The judge leaned forward. “Shouldn’t we want … exact- ly those kinds of debates?” she asked. Bakken could join a podcast to share his views about interna- tional conflicts without violating the policy, Kumar said. He just couldn’t identify himself as a West Point professor. Seibel said Bakken’s West Point affiliation was the reason people invited him to appear on podcasts or write books. Other- wise, he was just “a random guy.” She sat back, rubbed her temples and said she had “a lot to think about” but would decide “fairly soon.” Outside, Bakken waved good- bye to his lawyers. He wondered how much longer he’d have to stay silent. His new book, “Don’t Say Sorry: Make Great Decisions, Without Regrets,” was due to publish in early August. The semester end- ed without a ruling. A
s cadets collected their degrees, the war with Iran neared its fourth month, still without for- mal sanction from Congress. The number of people killed in strikes on alleged drug boats neared 200. Bakken read that top Trump officials wanted all feder- al workers to sign nondisclosure agreements — and, later, that the Pentagon had barred journalists from its press office. To Bakken, it seemed the administration was finding more ways to limit scrutiny or dissent. On May 26, three days after West Point’s graduation, Seibel ruled that Bakken’s case against the Trump administration could proceed. She also temporarily enjoined West Point from enforc- ing the academic engagement policy for civilian professors, for- bidding the university from “pro- hibiting or restraining” Bakken from “expressing or offering his opinions, beliefs or views to his students” while the case moved forward. The government could appeal Seibel’s interim ruling. It had un- til late July to decide. The case could drag on for months regard- less, possibly even leading to a trial. Still: It was a victory. To cele- brate, the professor drove to the mall, alone. At the food court, Bakken told himself not to think about what lay ahead. He sat down with a foam tray and looked over his shoulder to the fake Mount Rushmore and its ersatz presi- dents. “In a smaller way,” he told Thomas Jefferson, who founded West Point, “I’ve contributed my bit to the U.S. Constitution, too.” Then he turned back to his teri- yaki salmon. Two days later, Col. Joshua Berry, the deputy head of West Point’s Law and Philosophy De- partment, delivered Bakken a formal memorandum warning that he could face “disciplinary action” for working from home one Friday, according to a copy obtained by The Post. He also is- sued a second memo censoring Bakken for a “discourteous” in- teraction he had with mail room staffers in March. Bakken contested both mem- os, which he saw as retaliation for his court victory. Asked about the timing of these sanc- tions, Berry deferred comment to West Point, whose spokesper- son declined to comment. Berry rescinded the documents a few days after Bakken complained, according to emails obtained by The Post. By early July, Bakken was hop- ing things had died down when he unlocked his office door one morning. He spotted something glittering on the polished surface of his desk, which he’d left bare the night before. It was a penny, upturned to show Abraham Lin- coln’s face. He already knew what it sig- nified, but he typed the question into Google anyway. “What is the meaning of a penny placed on an object in the military?” The an- swer: Soldiers leave pennies on grave sites to honor fallen com- rades. It didn’t feel like a mark of respect to Bakken. He called a friend, a retired Army colonel who had taught at West Point. “Is this a threat?” he asked. “I can’t come up with any other ex- planation.” “This was a message to you,” the colonel answered. “This is the way it works at West Point.”
Aaron Schaffer contributed to this report.
Plan was to cast doubt on voting process before fall presidential election
by Marina Dias,
Terrence McCoy
and Samantha Schmidt
brasília — Brazil has denied visas to two senior State Depart- ment officials that the Trump administration planned to dis- patch on a mission to cast doubt on the fairness and integrity of the country’s electoral system before millions of Brazilians vote in a presidential election on Oct. 4, the Foreign Ministry said Sat- urday. A U.S. State Department dele- gation, including Trump political appointees Riley M. Barnes, an assistant secretary, and Samuel Samson, a deputy assistant sec- retary, had planned to depart for Brasília, the capital, in coming days, according to a senior State Department official and three Brazilian officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy. But Brazilian officials, ap- prised of the plans, denied the Americans permission to travel, the Foreign Ministry said. The U.S. officials applied for visas through the Brazilian consul- ate in Washington, saying they planned to hold “meetings with authorities involved in the elec- toral process,” Brazilian officials said. Samson has traveled from Af- rica to Europe, promoting Pres- ident Donald Trump’s brand of conservative politics and culti- vating ties to right-wing groups, at times alienating establish- ment politicians. It was unclear whom the U.S. diplomats had planned to meet or how they would impugn a system long seen as an electoral standard-bearer in South Amer- ica, returning results within hours of Brazilians casting their ballots. Two senior Brazilian officials told The Washington Post on Thursday that they had recently learned of what they described as the American “ploy” and had vowed to block the U.S. officials from entering the country. “It is a ploy that is complete- ly incompatible with Brazilian democracy,” said one of the of- ficials, who spoke on the con- dition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. This official said the Brazilian government would move to “protect our voting sys- tem.” The Brazilian officials said they suspected that the Amer- icans’ goal was to meet with electoral skeptics and produce a report that could be used to dele- gitimize the nation’s electronic voting system. Samson in the past has produced department reports that critics say brought a partisan lens to human rights issues. In a statement to The Post, the State Department confirmed that Barnes and Samson were planning to travel to Brasília next week, but did not respond to questions about the purpose of the trip or whether the Trump administration was concerned about electoral integrity in Bra- zil. Neither Barnes nor Samson returned messages requesting comment. The attempted mission by the Trump officials marked an esca- lation in a lengthy feud between the United States and Brazil over the limits of freedom of ex- pression and the criminal case against former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest after being convicted of attempting to lead an armed coup and other charges. This week, Trump imposed significant tariffs on a range of Brazilian goods. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva responded by calling it a political gambit to help his electoral opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, a son of the former president and a Trump ally. The U.S. effort also under- scores the broader cultural makeover of America’s diplo- matic corps, which in the Trump administration has increasingly been deployed to further polit- ical goals rather than advance long-standing principles that once superseded partisanship. “For those of us who lost friends bringing democracy to other countries, it’s incredibly noxious seeing this secretary using American power to under- mine credible elections in other countries for ideological purpos- es,” the senior U.S. State Depart- ment official with knowledge of
MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES A staff member of the Amazonas Regional Electoral Court arranges boxes containing electronic voting machines this month during testing preparations in Manaus, Brazil.
ANDREW HARNIK/GETTY IMAGES Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump a political gambit to help his opponent.
the endeavor said, speaking on the condition of anonymity be- cause he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. “We used to deploy power in dangerous situations for democ- racy,” the senior State Depart- ment official said. “Now we send political appointees to discredit another country’s electoral sys- tem.” The senior official drew a dis- tinction between this diplomatic mission and efforts by the U.S. government in 2022 to fortify Brazilian democracy and avert a military takeover. In the lead-up to that election, Jair Bolsonaro repeatedly sought to sow doubt over Brazil’s electoral system, which he alleged was rife with fraud. Bolsonaro, a former military officer, simultaneously worked to politicize the Brazilian mili-
tary and warned of a democrat- ic “rupture” if his power was threatened. Two days after Bolsonaro pro- claimed that “the army is on our side,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke out in support of democracy in Brasília and about the need for civilian control of the military. The senior official said he saw U.S. intelligence assessments at the time that found “there is no credibility to these accusations against the credibility of Brazil’s electoral system.” “We brought down a steady stream of military folks to make clear to their counterparts that they were going to put them- selves in jeopardy for sanctions and other things like that if they broke with constitutional norms,” the official said. Following the election, Bol-
sonaro sought to overturn the re- sults showing he had lost to Lula and initiate a military takeover, but most of the country’s gener- als balked at the plan. Last year, he was convicted of attempting to overthrow the Brazilian state and sentenced to 27 years in prison, a term he is serving un- der house arrest. One Trump appointee to the State Department, Darren Beat- tie, tried to visit Bolsonaro fol- lowing his conviction, but his visa was revoked by the Brazil- ian Foreign Ministry. Flávio Bolsonaro, who is trail- ing in the polls, appeared to echo his father’s allegations this week in a meeting with diplomats. He said Brazil’s voting machines were made by the Venezuelan company Smartmatic and vul- nerable to fraud — claims re- butted by the Brazil’s Superior
Electoral Court. International observers have asserted repeatedly that Brazil’s electoral system is sound. Every “observation mission to Brazil since 2018, when they started, including the 2022 pres- idential election, has found the country’s electoral system to be secure, reliable and fully capable of producing legitimate election results,” said Benoni Belli, the Brazilian ambassador to the Or- ganization of American States. Salvador Romero, a leading Latin America elections expert who has observed elections in more than 20 countries, con- curred. “The Brazilian electoral system is undoubtedly consid- ered one of the most robust in Latin America,” he said. But the power of doubt contin- ues to be a potent force among conservative critics of Brazil’s
left-wing government. They have found a sympathetic ear in the White House, said Paulo Figue- iredo, a right-wing Brazilian in- fluencer who is wanted by Bra- zilian authorities for his alleged role in Bolsonaro’s coup attempt. Figueiredo has met repeatedly with senior officials in the White House in recent months. In May, he was photographed meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, alongside Flávio Bolson- aro and his younger brother Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is also wanted by Brazilian police. “I know the U.S. will observe the election, and they have ex- pressed concerns about electoral integrity in Brazil directly to me before,” Figueiredo said. “This is a very, very important subject for this administration. I know they have been deeply studying the electoral system in Brazil for a while now.” Across the region, the Trump administration has pursued an aggressive effort to propel Trump-aligned candidates to power — a sharp break from dip- lomatic norms that generally call for not intervening in the do- mestic politics of other nations. The Trump administration bolstered Argentine President Javier Milei last year, including by offering financial assistance to the country. In Honduras, Trump endorsed a conservative mayor who was elected president. And in Co- lombia last month, a far-right firebrand, Abelardo de la Espri- ella, was elected president after receiving Trump’s endorsement. Trump pledged that if Abelar- do won, he would have the “to- tal support and strength of the United States behind him.” Following Abelardo’s victory, outgoing leftist President Gus- tavo Petro made claims of elec- toral fraud, concerns that the Trump administration did not share. Instead, in a joint statement with regional powers allied with the U.S., the State Department condemned efforts to “cast doubt on the integrity of the electoral process” in Colombia. “We reject any action, state- ment, or decision that seeks to delegitimize the mandate con- ferred by the citizens, to discred- it without basis the competent electoral authorities, or to ob- struct the institutional transi- tion,” the statement said.
McCoy and Schmidt reported from Mexico City. Karen DeYoung and Aaron Schaffer in Washington con- tributed to this report.
ECONOMY FROM A1
“I don’t see growth as being gangbusters. There’s more risk of the economy growing below [its] potential going forward because consumer spending won’t be as strong as it was,” said Neil Dutta, head of economics for Renais- sance Macro Research. “We’re sort of at the high-water mark for consumption right around now.” On Friday, economists from Goldman Sachs joined those ex- pecting the economy to down- shift, saying second-half growth is likely to be “softer” than its 2.25 percent estimate for the fi rst six months. Slower economic growth is the last thing President Donald Trump needs as he tries to help Republicans retain control of Congress. Voters are already in a sour mood. Just 33 percent of Americans approve of the presi- dent’s handling of economic pol- icy, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll. The Trump administration scoff s at the doomsayers. On Wednesday, Treasury Sec- retary Scott Bessent revved up a crowd in Marietta, Georgia, by boasting about private-sector hiring and the economy’s perfor- mance over the past year. Trump’s trade, energy and tax policies have been “transforma- tive” for the economy, Bessent said at the rally, where the pres- ident touted his new eponymous investment accounts for chil- dren. “Our economy has now aver- aged over 100,000 good-paying private-sector jobs per month for the last four months, and real GDP growth has increased at a rate of 2.7 percent over the past four quarters,” Bessent said. Financial markets, however, have been giving off troubled signs. The S&P 500 index has dipped by more than 2 percent since mid-July, amid renewed volatility in U.S. trade policy. On Friday, Trump threatened new tariff s on European goods in response to the $1 billion fi ne the European Union imposed on Google for allegedly using its search-engine dominance to undermine competition in other markets. That was just the latest in a number of recent Trump trade
MEG VOGEL/THE ENQUIRER/USA TODAY NETWORK A worker stocks frozen food at a store in Cincinnati. Consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of the economy, remains solid.
moves, including the imposition one day earlier of new tariff s on 60 economies. The yield on the 10-year Trea- sury note, which moves opposite bond prices, reached 4.71 percent Thursday before easing to 4.68 percent Friday, remaining near its highest level since January 2025. The higher yield indicates that investors are demanding a greater return before lending money to the U.S. government. Bond investors are suddenly sensitive about the enormous amount of borrowing by cor- porations and the federal gov- ernment. On Wednesday, when Google parent Alphabet raised its high-end estimate of AI-relat- ed investment this year to more than $200 billion, investors knocked 7 percent off the compa- ny’s shares in less than 24 hours. The federal budget defi cit of $1.4 trillion through the fi rst nine months of the current fi s- cal year is also running slightly above that of the same period last year. The added red ink has driven the publicly held nation- al debt to $32 trillion, requiring
greater U.S. Treasury borrowing. “We’re starting to hear about how much this war has cost and how much it’s continuing to cost. Well, where is that going to come from? We’re probably go- ing to have to borrow more. So a national debt that continues to expand,” said Liz Thomas, chief market strategist for SoFi, an on- line bank. Adding to the bond market sell-off is investors’ growing be- lief that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates to bring in- fl ation under control. As of Fri- day afternoon, futures traders saw roughly a one-third chance of a hike at the Fed’s July 28-29 meeting and about an 80 percent chance of at least one increase by the conclusion of its Sept. 16 meeting, according to CME Fed- Watch. The resumption of daily U.S. bombing runs in Iran, which have caused oil prices to jump, only intensifi es the infl ation con- cerns that could prompt the Fed to cool off the economy by rais- ing borrowing costs. For the Fed, and its new chair-
man, Kevin Warsh, the problem is that its chief anti-infl ation weapon cannot directly address the infl ation the country is ex- periencing. Higher interest rates cannot reverse the eff ects of Trump’s tariff s or calm the fi ght- ing in Iran, which this week sent prices at the pump back above $4 per gallon. Higher interest rates can cool off an overheating economy. But with employers adding a paltry 57,000 jobs in June, about half of what forecasters expected, there isn’t much sign that the United States overall is actually running hot. Still, some members of the Fed’s rate-setting committee look at the frenzied AI build- out, which has driven up prices for electronic components, elec- tricity and software, and see a problem that higher rates could remedy. As data centers have proliferated around the nation, prices for some popular appli- cations made by Microsoft and Adobe, for example, have ris- en by 30 percent to 50 percent, according to a Goldman Sachs
analysis released in May. The Fed’s “hawks” also wor- ry that, judging by the central bank’s preferred metric, infl ation is moving in the wrong direc- tion. Excluding volatile food and energy costs, prices are rising at an annual 3.4 percent pace, well above the Fed’s 2 percent target, and up four-tenths of a percent- age point since December, Lorie Logan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said in a speech last week. Fed policymakers are split. Logan said she wants modestly higher rates now instead of “se- vere restriction later.” New York Fed President John Williams thinks infl ation may have peak- ed. Warsh refuses to telegraph the Fed’s next move. The prospect of even greater military escalation in the Persian Gulf is the wild card in any fore- cast of the economy’s course be- tween now and November. The president’s inability to bring the nearly fi ve-month war to a close is rattling energy markets, which are responding to the confl ict in a more worri-
some way than before. The work- arounds that producers, shippers and governments have used to mitigate disruptions are no lon- ger suffi cient to avoid dramatic price spikes. Oil traders who assumed for months that Trump would fi nd a quick end to a confl ict that is pushing up gas prices at home are no longer so confi dent. The physical oil market has been depleted by months of stranded tankers, damaged production facilities and inventory draw- downs. “Inventories are well below what they would normally be at this point in the summer. It is a little bit scary,” said Denton Cinquegrana, chief oil analyst at Dow Jones Energy. The U.S.-Iran ceasefi re in April delivered consumers some relief at the pump. But that’s over now. After dropping below $4 per gal- lon, gas prices on Friday aver- aged $4.10 and could test their 2026 high of $4.55, he said. Crude prices pushed past $100 per barrel this week, as Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels joined the fi ght by attacking tankers in the Red Sea. Diesel prices were already soaring after war knocked refi neries offl ine in both the Middle East and in Russia, where Ukrainian drones disabled key production facili- ties. Global markets also lack ad- equate gasoline refi ning capacity. Americans were already strug- gling to cope with the war’s eco- nomic fallout before recent bat- tlefi eld developments threatened to make it worse. Farmers, for example, spent $1.4 billion more on diesel fuel during this year’s planting season than they did last year, according to a report this week from congressional Democrats. “If disruptions continue, oil prices are more likely to rise than they were earlier in the confl ict,” warned a market up- date from Rystad Energy on Thursday. “Much of the world’s spare production capacity has al- ready been used, while strategic and commercial inventories are lower than when the war began, leaving the market with fewer buff ers against a prolonged sup- ply disruption.”
Andrew Ackerman contributed to this report.
PHOTOS BY ALYSSA POINTER/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST A great egret fl ies over the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.Members of a United Nations committee in South Korea voted to bestow the prestigious designation on the roughly 407,000-acre site.
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red-cockaded woodpeckers and thousands of alligators. Its fl ora includes black gum trees and carnivorous plants with names such as hooded pitcher and golden trumpet. It also serves as the headwaters for two riv- ers, the Suwannee and the St. Marys, and its vast peat depos- its store enormous amounts of carbon. But the refuge, which was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 and fi rst identifi ed as a possible World Heritage site in 1982, also has been the site of repeated bat- tles over proposed mining at its doorstep. The most recent was a pro- tracted fi ght over a proposed titanium mine that activists and scientists argued could disrupt the swamp’s pristine and fragile ecosystem. The Conservation Fund pur- chased thousands of acres — and the underlying mineral rights — from the Alabama-based com- pany that had fought for years to win approval to operate a titanium mine near the south- eastern corner of the swamp. Georgia’s Department of Nat-
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nablus, west bank — Israel’s military said it detained over 70 suspects across the occu- pied West Bank overnight and on Saturday, a day after troops deployed across the territory following violence that left two Israeli soldiers and four Pales- tinian villagers dead. Soldiers remained in the vil- lage of Tell, in the northern West Bank, where Friday’s clashes were centered. Palestinians de- scribed searches that included raids of a hospital in the city of Nablus, one of the territory’s most violent areas. Palestinians in the West Bank have faced violence as Israel’s hard-line government, dominat- ed by settler leaders and sup- porters, has overseen a surge in settlement construction over the past four years. The internation- al community overwhelmingly considers the Israeli settlement construction illegal and an ob- stacle to peace.
Soldiers make arrest during raid at West Bank hospital “More than 50 armed soldiers and offi cers stormed the hos- pital, terrifying the patients,” Ghassan Barkat, director of Nablus Specialty Hospital, told journalists. He said soldiers on Friday detained, bound and in- sulted staff and patients, raided hospital departments and arrest- ed a seriously injured man, Ali Hussein Ali Ramadan. “This should not happen in a healthcare institution,” said Barkat, adding that women and
The Rev. Antwon Nixon, an opponent of a proposed mine in the Okefenokee, enjoys its views in 2024.
ural Resources has since said it would acquire roughly 4,000 of those acres along a mineral-rich area known as Trail Ridge and turn it into a wildlife manage- ment area. Support for the UNESCO des-
LEO CORREA/AP Hussein Ramadan, center left, father of two Palestinians killed Friday by Israeli forces, receives condo- lences Saturday in the village of Tell, near the West Bank city of Nablus.
children were present. An Israeli military statement did not mention the hospital, but it said over 300 locations were searched and what it de- scribed as affi liates of the Hamas militant group, arms traffi ckers, “terrorists” and others were de- tained. The circumstances of Friday’s events remained unclear, but
ignation is not universal. Some residents in the area have ex- pressed concerns about the po- tential impacts of an infl ux of tourists, while other critics have said they fear the United Na- tions might try to infringe on lo-
Israeli media reports and inter- views with local Palestinian offi - cials suggested a group of settlers entered Tell and were confront- ed by residents fearful of an at- tack. The village is off -limits to Israelis as part of Area B under the 1993 Oslo Accords. The Palestinian Health Min- istry said Israeli soldiers shot and killed four Palestinians in
cal property rights and impose other restrictions. (The federal government has said the refuge “would continue to be wholly owned and managed” by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.) Saturday’s vote makes the
Tell, while the military reported the deaths of two soldiers, one of them a settler in a local de- fense squad. Two other Israelis and four more Palestinians were wounded, health offi cials said. The Israeli military on Satur- day said it detained 11 suspects in Tell. Over 80 Palestinians were ar- rested across the territory, said
Okefenokee the only UNESCO World Heritage site in Geor- gia and the 27th in the United States. That list includes other natural landscapes such as the Grand Canyon and Everglades national parks, as well as re- vered cultural places such as the Statue of Liberty and Indepen- dence Hall. Other new properties in- scribed on the World Heritage list include Garamba National Park in the Democratic Repub- lic of Congo and a 13th-century Buddhist temple in Thailand. Other properties remain under consideration as the UNESCO meeting continues, including Mount Olympus in Greece and the D-Day landing beaches of Normandy in France. Back in Georgia, the designa- tion likely will mean more than just a notable recognition for the refuge and the rural coun- ties near it, where poverty runs deep. A 2024 economic impact study found that while roughly 800,000 people visit the Okefe- nokee each year, UNESCO rec- ognition could boost tourism to double that number by 2035, creating as many as 700 new jobs in the region.
Amin Shuman, president of the Palestinian higher commission for the aff airs of prisoners, call- ing them “an attempt to impose collective punitive measures and retaliatory policies” against Pal- estinian citizens after Friday’s events. More than 700,000 Israelis live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in 1967 and sought by the Palestinians for an independent state along with the Gaza Strip.
Israeli strikes kill at least 4 in Gaza Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least four Palestinians and wounded at least 15 others across Gaza, according to Pales- tinian health offi cials. In the southern city of Khan Younis, an airstrike killed a man and a woman, whose bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital, the hospital said. In northern Gaza, a strike on a vehicle in the Jabaliya area killed one person and wounded two others, according to offi cials at Shifa Hospital, where the ca- sualties were taken. A strike on a motorbike in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood killed the director of the area’s police force, accord- ing to the Interior Ministry and Shifa Hospital. A strike in the central Gaza refugee camp of Nuseirat wounded three people, accord- ing to the Belgian fi eld hospital, which received the casualties. And Israeli drones struck the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hos-
Josh Marks, an environmen- tal attorney and president of Georgians for the Okefenokee, which works to protect the swamp from threats posed by mining, called Saturday’s des- ignation appropriate for a land- scape so culturally signifi cant, rich in biodiversity and import- ant for sequestering carbon. It is, he said, “a testament to how far we have come in rec- ognizing that swamps are not mosquito-infested places to be feared or drained but are pound for pound some of our most important natural ecosystems deserving to be celebrated and protected.” Still, he warned, the recogni- tion alone does not alter state or federal law, and by itself won’t prevent future attempts at min- ing along the swamp’s edge. “This is why it’s more import- ant than ever that the Georgia legislature pass, and our new governor sign, the Okefenokee Protection Act, which would prohibit mining of these private lands and protect this globally recognized resource forever,” Marks said. “Our country’s newest World Heritage site deserves nothing less.”
pital in the central city of Deir al-Balah, wounding 10 people, the hospital said. Chaotic scenes unfolded as severely wound- ed men covered in blood were rushed into the hospital by by- standers. Israel’s military said it struck a member of Hamas’ military wing near Al-Aqsa hospital. The military did not immediately re- spond to a request for comment on the other strikes. Militants have carried out shooting at- tacks on troops, and Israel says its strikes are in response to that and other violations. While the heaviest fi ghting has subsided since a fragile ceasefi re took hold in October following two years of war be- tween Israel and Hamas, Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes, killing at least 1,191 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, main- tains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reli- able by U.N. agencies and inde- pendent experts. It does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants but says women and children make up most of the dead. Five Israeli soldiers have been killed since the ceasefi re. The Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas-led militants on Israel killed some 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage, sparking the war. Israel’s retaliatory off en- sive in Gaza has killed more than 73,317 Palestinians, including those killed since the ceasefi re, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.
GRADEL MUYISA MUMBERE/REUTERS Health workers demonstrate outside the Elikya Ebola Treatment Center on Saturday to demand payment of two months of back benefits.
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bunia, congo — Health work- ers at an Ebola treatment center in eastern Congo went on strike on Saturday, demanding their pay. The walkout disrupted care for patients in the epicenter of the country’s rapidly growing outbreak. The number of confirmed cases of Ebola in Congo has reached 2,973, including 1,309 deaths, according to govern- ment data released on Friday in what authorities say is the fastest-growing outbreak on re- cord. The Elikya Ebola Treatment Center in Bunia, Ituri province, came to a standstill after doc- tors, nurses and security staff stopped work. About a hundred health workers protested outside the treatment center on Saturday. They said the unpaid bonuses were undermining morale and disrupting patient care, and called on Congolese authorities to resolve the backpay so they could resume their work. “We need to be paid, because in the meantime the disease is spreading at the treatment cen- ter,” Martin Bolombi, one of the health workers on strike said. “I’ve already had five people die who are still inside there. A solution must be found for us,” he added. In a statement issued Friday, staff said they had unanimously voted to strike until “concrete solutions” were found to resolve “two months of unpaid perfor- mance bonuses.” The strike comes a day after Congo’s Prime Minister Judith Suminwa came to Ituri, tour- ing major treatment hubs, in Rwampara and Mongbwalu, to assess the outbreak response. During her visit in Mongbwalu, she faced urgent demands from healthcare personnel protesting payment issues. Adelard Lufungula, opera- tions manager for the Ebola response, said Saturday the pay- ment issue is “being resolved,” with workers now paid via mobile money instead of cash, and that the backlog “should be cleared” in the coming days.
CONSTANT SAME BAGALWA/AP Rubble set on fire as health and frontline workers protest at the Elikya Ebola Treatment Center on Saturday.
GRADEL MUYISA MUMBERE/REUTERS The Elikya Ebola Treatment Center in Bunia, Ituri province, came to a standstill after doctors, nurses and security staff stopped work.
Last week, health workers at Bunia General Hospital, the region’s largest medical center, had already gone on strike over unpaid salaries. Some told The Associated Press they had not received any payment since they started work at the onset of the out- break. The World Health Organiza- tion says more than 100 health-
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care workers have been infected since the beginning of the out- break. The Central African nation has been battling the Ebola out- break caused by the rare Bundi- bugyo virus since May 15. A total of 766 patients remain in isolation or in hospitals, while 540 have recovered so far, according to data from Congo’s Ministry of Health. The eastern province of Ituri accounts for nearly 90 percent of confirmed cases. The outbreak continues to spread faster than health of- ficials can track despite an ex- panding response. A key challenge is that pa- tient zero has yet to be identi- fied in the outbreak while dis- placement from armed conflict and illegal mining in the region have made it difficult to trace thousands who have come in contact with infected individu- als. The response is also ham- pered by a funding gap, attacks on health centers, an ongoing conflict in eastern Congo and mistrust among local commu- nities. There is also a lack of ap- proved vaccines or treatments for the Bundibugyo virus, unlike the more common Zaire virus for which there is a vaccine and which was responsible for most of Congo’s past 16 outbreaks of the disease. Enrollment in a highly antic- ipated study of two possible Eb- ola treatments recently started in Ituri. WHO says the global risk of the outbreak spreading outside Central Africa is low, noting that Ebola spreads through di- rect contact with the bodily flu- ids of an infected person rather than through the air, making it much harder to spread than re- spiratory viruses.
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was recently standing with a group of moms, semi-watching our sons playing soccer, when the conversation ebbed, fading into polite, somewhat awkward silence. We had covered school. The weather. No one would dare bring up politics. And so the topic turned to ye old faithful: “Strangers,” Belle Burden’s best-selling account of the collapse of her seemingly perfect marriage. Ev- eryone was thrilled to off er an opinion. Was Burden weak or strong or just living in de- nial? How could she have signed a portion of her money away like that? Is her ex a sociopath? Her poor kids! From there, we veered seamlessly into a dissec- tion of Lena Dunham’s memoir “Famesick,” which all the moms had also read. Was she weak or strong or just living in denial? How about her penchant for toxic relationships? Will she have a baby? Her poor parents! Then there is Amy Griffi n’s 2025 memoir, “The Tell,” in which the billionaire author details her MDMA-recovered memory of sexual assault as a teenager. Book club grandes dames Oprah Winfrey, Jenna Bush Hager and Reese Witherspoon joined forces to promote it, and the memoir has stayed in
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wo years before he died, my father came to my synagogue. For many of my fellow con- gregants, it was the day they learned that my father was the Rev. Jesse Jackson — a stalwart of the civil rights movement, an African American Baptist minister and one of the archi- tects of multiracial coalition politics. To me, he was simply Dad: a gentle father who reached back for my hand on every car ride and taught me to meet diff erence with curiosity. As the Saturday morning service proceeded, my father sat in the front row — holding my hand, dancing to prayers in a language he did not speak, eating the Sunkist candies the congregation had tossed to celebrate a bar mitzvah. Beside him, I banged on my siddur like it was a tambourine, weaving into those ancient prayers the rhythm of the Black church I was born into. On June 12, carrying my parents’ blessings, I completed my conversion — a journey I held close until now. I was raised to believe that faith must lead to action. In Judaism, I found an enduring ex- pression of this belief. Ancient ritual and the rigors of textual study were accompanied by the calling to “repair the world.” The Hebrew liturgy felt familiar on my tongue before I understood its meaning. On my fi rst Rosh Hashanah, the shofar’s cry touched a depth of my soul I had not yet reached, and tears poured down my face. As my father looked on, I refl ected on the identity I would claim as a Black and Jewish woman, a twin inheritance fi lled with sorrow and wonder. Sorrow because, for Black Jews, racism and antisemitism can surface in even the most intimate and familiar spaces. But wonder, too, in the meeting of two dias- poras: kosher soul food, Black oral tradition fi nding its cousin in Jewish debate, twin memories of an exodus from slavery. So much of my life was determined before I was old enough to choose it: who I was expected to become, what I would inherit, how the watching world would understand me. My parents under- stood the burden of those expectations and were careful to give me the freedom to become a seeker — of knowledge, meaning and God. Though I was raised among people of many faiths, Judaism became personal to me almost by accident. In college, my studies kept leading me back to questions of faith and justice, and during the pandemic, a serious illness and the long isola- tion that followed gave those questions new urgen- cy. I happened across an online conversation about Jewish life and became captivated. That encounter led me to read about the faith and eventually at- tend my fi rst Shabbat service. I kept going back. In that community, I recognized myself, and over time, we became bound to one another.
the zeitgeist thanks to dueling lawsuits sparked by an investigative piece in the New York Times. In March, Griffi n’s former middle school class- mate sued the author, alleging that the abuse in “The Tell” happened to her, not to Griffi n. Last month, Griffi n countersued, vehemently disputing the woman’s claims, sparking another round of on- line and offl ine discourse. Was Griffi n weak or strong or just living a fanta- sy? Did she make it all up? Can MDMA really allow you to recover memories? Poor Oprah! (Kidding.) Purely from a plot perspective, the books have little in common, but they are linked in a broader sense: All three are gripping accounts of catastro- phe in otherwise supremely fortunate lives. It is a winning formula for publishers. As of late last month, “Strangers” had sold some 195,700 phys- ical copies since its release in January, according to Circana BookScan data (which does not include e-book or audiobook sales). By the same metrics, “Famesick” sold 68,500 copies since it was pub- lished in April. “The Tell,” which came out in March 2025, sold 78,800 copies. All have spawned endless think pieces and copi- ous media coverage. A month ago, the New Yorker published an article with new details about Bur- den’s divorce settlement, investigating whether
The connection between African Americans and Jewish Americans was forged in the struggle for civil rights. This shared history is now under at- tack. In some communities, speaking out against antisemitism is seen as siphoning attention from the fi ght against anti-Black racism. In others, con- fronting anti-Blackness is seen as a threat to Jewish identity and belonging. About 1 percent of American Jews identify as Black. Their experience — my experience — shows that the alienation between these two communities can be overcome. The ethical language of my child- hood was shaped by a Black prophetic tradition that responded to dehumanization with an unyield- ing insistence on the sanctity of life. Judaism sup-
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she was as fi nancially vulnerable as she presented herself in her memoir. On its face, the article was about her money — but it also sparked a familiar argument about whose suff ering matters and why. Are these women worthy of our sympathy? Burden is tidy, quiet, a person who swallows her own feelings until circumstances force her to reckon with them. Dunham is messy, hilarious, a creative genius who, at times, cannot get out of her own way. Griffi n hides her overwhelming anxiety behind a perfect facade of glamour and power. The overriding theme of their memoirs is be- trayal: Burden by her husband, who abandons her without warning; Dunham by her body, which is plagued with chronic illness and constantly at the mercy of public scrutiny; and Griffi n by her mind, which conceals the most traumatic parts of her past. All three eventually make peace with what they cannot control. Of course, lots of memoirs feature tales of per- sonal resilience. But most do not shoot to the top of the bestseller list or take over the bookish zeitgeist so completely. Why these three? And why now? When I was an editor at women’s magazines in the 2010s, we used to have a little joke about the need to add a “privilege clause” to certain fi rst-per- son pieces — a few lines acknowledging that,
ports this struggle for dignity, affi rming that who- ever destroys a single soul destroys an entire world, and that whoever saves one saves an entire world. Both traditions tell a liberation story that begins with a particular people but does not end there. At the end of my father’s Shabbat visit, my rabbi, Sharon Brous, called his name to off er him a bless- ing. Before she could speak, the congregation was already on its feet. My father — one of the most recognizable Baptist ministers in America — wept as the congregation off ered him a spontaneous ova- tion. It was a moment of mutual recognition. Speak- ing a year and a half later at my father’s funeral, Brous said, “What a holy thing it is to be seen for
though the writer was surely suff ering, she was not suff ering like those in genuine distress. This sort of pain disclaimer stretched across the last decade of memoirs, with protagonists often sounding defensive about the right to share their own stories. Such self-doubt almost certainly kept many juicy tales from being told. But Burden, Dunham and Griffi n have broken the spell. They write openly and unapologetically, without telling readers what to think, without feel- ing obliged to say that their own anguish does not matter. Yes, they have resources. They live in nice homes, have family support and avail themselves of the best lawyers and doctors. No one is saying otherwise. But in these accounts, too easily dismissed “fi rst- world problems” are real problems, and the writers are not ashamed to say so. As one friend describes the genre, “It’s rich White lady disaster porn.” One of the main storylines in “Strangers” is whether Burden or her husband would get to retain membership at their country club. In Dunham’s quest to fi gure out the source of her physical dete- rioration, she visits specialist after specialist. Grif- fi n surely did not worry about the cost of MDMA therapy in her journey to remembering the past. Anxiety over the limits of medical insurance — or the price of care — is not a part of the narrative. I think this is precisely why these books are so fun to dissect. In today’s volatile, rapid-fi re, bad- news environment, it is a relief to obsess over sto- ries in which the fate of the planet is not at stake. No one is dead; no one is facing destitution or de- portation. These authors are writing about the most diffi - cult times of their lives, letting readers peek behind the Instagram perfection of their existence. But the audience knows how it ends. Burden appeared on “Oprah”; Gwyneth Paltrow is set to play her in the movie version of the book. Dunham has promoted “Famesick” via performances from a bed; she made a triumphant return to the Met Gala. Griffi n, for her part, is the only one whose future arc is uncer- tain. The lawsuits surrounding “The Tell” will sure- ly drag on, providing even more fuel for chitchat at the mah-jongg tables of Manhattan and Chevy Chase. “Women need escape right now — they’re look- ing for entertainment that takes them away from the darkness of the world,” says my former col- league Charlotte Owen, the editor in chief of Bustle and host of the “One Nightstand” podcast. “These memoirs hit the sweet spot between voyeurism and relatability. They have heartbreak, health problems, family drama and money disputes, but it takes place in the kinds of rooms that most of us can only dream of. It’s radical vulnerability delivered on a ‘Gossip Girl’ set.” All three books wrap on a note of hope. The os- preys return to Burden’s home as she fi nds her own voice. Dunham moves to London and fi nds a calmer existence. Griffi n opens up about her abuse and is on the path to healing. The endings are not happy, exactly, but they are happy-ish, allowing readers to pick apart the authors’ actions and foibles without feeling guilty. I wish these women only the best. They have been through a lot. But if more bad stuff happens and they choose to write about it, my friends and I would not be upset. What are we supposed to talk about now?
Emma Rosenblum is the author of “Bad Summer People” and “Mean Moms.”
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who you really are.” That morning, my father and my Jewish community saw one another clearly. A few weeks after my conversion, I stood before my community and announced my Hebrew name, Miriam Yiskah — the latter a feminine echo of Jes- se, carrying my father’s memory into the covenant. I feel as though I have been entrusted with a sacred charge: to do for others what my father and my rabbi had done for me. Amid widespread concerns about antisemitism and anti-Blackness, it is neces- sary to recall that our diff erences do not preclude unity.
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PENAI’S ANNOUNCEMENT this week that two of its models hacked their way out of a testing sandbox and into the servers of another artifi cial intelligence company gives impetus to a bipartisan eff ort to create a “kill switch” that could let the federal government shut down frontier technologies if they spin out of control. This is a serious idea to address a palpable concern, but the measure risks giving far too much power to the White House. More importantly, it’s a distrac- tion that would make it harder to ad- dress the bigger dangers posed by rap- idly advancing models. The AI Kill Switch Act, introduced Thursday by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Califor- nia) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), would require the largest AI developers to maintain the technical ability to halt inference, cut off users and shut down their most powerful models. The De- partment of Homeland Security would receive the unilateral power to order them to do so. Companies that refuse could be fi ned up to $20 million a day. The trigger for invoking these broad powers would be evidence that an AI model had sabotaged an instruction to shut itself down, concealed its capabil- ities from monitoring, slipped its op- erators’ control, done something unin- tended that kills 10 or more people, or caused $100 million in damage. The bill’s scope is relatively re- strained, at least initially. Companies earning at least $500 million a year from an AI system built with more than $100 million worth of computing power would generally be aff ected. Start-ups are spared. The sponsors deserve cred- it for focusing on where the capabilities actually reside. But within 90 days of the bill’s pas- sage, and every year after, DHS would revisit these parameters. The numbers in the bill are just starting points. The same agency that decides what counts
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n terms of dollars spent and lives saved, the President’s Emergen- cy Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, has generated a stellar re- turn on investment and a solid demon- stration of soft power in Africa. That’s why it’s essential the Trump adminis- tration actually spend the money Con- gress has appropriated to keep it going. Since its creation under President George W. Bush in 2003, the program has saved an estimated 26 million lives in over 50 countries. The total cost over 23 years has been $130 billion, about 0.08 percent of federal spending. In its frenzy to slash foreign aid, the State Department cut spending on PEPFAR last year by 30 percent. Re- strictions on spending were added, so no U.S. grants can go to organizations that provide or promote abortions, off er gender transition care or advo- cate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Pregnant and breastfeed- ing women are given access to pre-ex- posure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs, but not other high risk groups such as sex workers, gay men and intravenous drug users. This has taken a toll. A survey re- leased Tuesday by Amfar, the Foun- dation for AIDS Research, found that more than 1,700 HIV/AIDS service sites have closed. A second study claimed that more than 77,000 fewer children
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RGENTINA’S FREE-MARKET RENAISSANCE continues to improve the country’s economic outlook, and investors are notic- ing. Moody’s upgraded Argentina’s dollar bonds and revised its outlook from sta- ble to positive this week. That was the third sovereign ratings upgrade for Ar- gentina in less than three months, fol- lowing Fitch in May and S&P Global in June. The message from the ratings agen- cies is that President Javier Milei’s mar- ket-oriented reforms are working. When Milei entered the Casa Rosada in December 2023, Argentina was con- sidered at dangerously high risk for de- fault. Not even three years later, Argen- tina has escaped its “highly distressed”
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as a big AI company and what counts as a powerful model is the one that can order them shut down. A company could object only after it complies. The Commerce Department and the intelligence community would need to be consulted by DHS, but nei- ther could say no. The specter of government overreach is obvious, and giving so much leeway to the executive branch would give license for presidents to coerce private enter- prises into making other concessions to avoid having their systems shuttered. But the bill’s biggest fl aw is concep- tual. Lieu pointed to what happened at OpenAI as evidence that the dangers are no longer theoretical. The story was certainly newsworthy, but it doesn’t re- veal what the bill’s authors think it does. While the models surprised engineers with their creativity, they were doing what they were told: solving a cyberse- curity puzzle. Paradoxically, what the mess really
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million additional infections are possible in South Africa over the next 20 years.
with HIV in 21 countries received needed treatment. A separate analysis in the journal Nature Health found a drop of more than 1.9 million people across 55 countries receiving site-level antiretroviral treatment, a 10.2 percent reduction. The State Department pushes back. A spokesperson said fewer children re- ceiving HIV treatment might actually be evidence of PEPFAR’s success, since it means fewer instances of mother-to- child infection. “We cut overall spend- ing by 30 percent while preserving crit- ical frontline HIV care and eliminating wasteful programs,” the State Depart- ment said in a statement this spring. It’s possible there was bloat and bu- reaucracy in the program, and aid ad- ministrators should always be looking to more effi ciently spend tax dollars. It’s also good news that local health authorities in Africa and foundations have backfi lled some of the U.S. cuts. But they are adamant that they cannot
MARIANA NEDELCU/REUTERS Argentine President Javier Milei at the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange on July 16.
rating and no longer holds some of the riskiest debt in the global market. Mil- ei’s ambition is to achieve an invest- ment-grade ranking within fi ve years.
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reveals is more mundane and troubling. Hugging Face, the AI company that got hacked, was no soft target. It distributes cutting-edge models and is staff ed by people who work with these systems ev- ery day. Yet it still was breached. If the defenses at such an AI-literate business were insuffi cient, consider the vulnerabilities of a regional hospital, a water utility, an energy pipeline, a coun- ty election offi ce or a municipal school system. AI models are capable of probing any network at machine speed — at a scale no human team can match. Recent re- leases by Chinese labs prove that this capability is no longer restricted to U.S. frontier labs. There is no putting this ge- nie back in its bottle. The Chinese models are “open weight,” which means they are down- loadable by anyone and can be run on private servers. That puts them outside the reach of a federal kill switch. In this context, the problem is less rogue AI than the insecurity of America’s infra- structure, critical and not. The irony is that Hugging Face fi rst tried to fi ght the OpenAI intruder with American frontier models — and couldn’t. Those models’ safety fi lters couldn’t tell an incident responder from an attacker. So the company download- ed a Chinese open-weight model to help expel the intruder and patch the hole. That shows the solution to these new cyber risks is not less AI, but more. On Friday, both OpenAI and Hugging Face signed an industry letter — alongside Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft — calling not for restrictions but for wider access to capable models, arguing that defend- ers need the tools attackers already have. A kill switch answers the question of how to turn off American AI. But rogue human actors empowered by competing AI tools are already lurking. The only way to stop them is to level the playing fi eld for those playing defense.
pick up all the slack.
In South Africa, which has the
world’s largest HIV/AIDS epidemic,
PEPFAR funding is set to end in Sep-
tember because of President Donald
Trump’s objections to the country’s po-
stapartheid affi rmative action program
and what he falsely claims is “a geno-
cide” being committed against White
Afrikaners. Some critical support staff
will continue until early next year.
Without U.S. funding, over 1 mil-
lion additional infections are possi-
ble in South Africa over the next 20
years, according to Roger Shapiro,
a Harvard professor of immunology
and infectious diseases. South Africa’s
government projects 56,000 to 65,000
additional AIDS-related deaths in the
country between 2025 and 2028 with-
out U.S. help.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said this
week that he has received assurances
the administration will unfreeze an es-
timated $1.3 billion that Congress ap-
propriated for PEPFAR which remains
unspent. That promise only came af-
ter Cornyn threatened to block two of
Trump’s ambassador nominees.
Cornyn and other conservatives who
have long advocated for the Bush-era
program are leaving Congress in Jan-
uary. It will be up to a new generation
of politicians to sustain this model of
successful foreign aid.
This change is not magic or luck. Moody’s noted that Argentina’s “macro- economic stabilization has advanced be- yond the initial adjustment phase into a more durable improvement in credit fundamentals.” Booming exports have also improved the country’s prospects, partly due to an expansion of the energy sector. Milei made tacking infl ation a top pri- ority. When he took offi ce, the monthly infl ation rate hovered around 25 per- cent. Last month, it sat at 1.9 percent. Milei also tackled the country’s per- sistent fi scal defi cits and reported a modest surplus just a year after his in- auguration. This makes life better for Argentines. It also off ers a model for other stagnant economies looking to rebound.
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The July 18 editorial “The rise and fall of a corporate fad” relied on our research to argue that “merging poli- tics with markets via the corporate DEI craze damaged politics and markets alike.” We would like to be clear about our fi ndings: We did not research whether corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs were harmful. Our goal was simply to understand the political forc- es behind the rise and fall of corporate commitments to DEI. We found that companies with more progressive leaders tended to make more DEI commitments. Subject to the caveat that inferring causation is tricky, this fi nding suggests the individual views of corporate leaders infl uenced the practices of the companies they led. The Editorial Board concluded that left-leaning leaders were putting their own views ahead of their business by making their companies commit to DEI. That’s one possibility. Another is that right-leaning leaders were the ones put- ting their own views fi rst by not getting their companies to commit to DEI. Our research ultimately cannot adjudicate between these explanations. Clarity is also needed on the fi nding that companies with greater “Big Three” ownership tended to make more DEI commitments especially between 2019 and 2022. The asset managers may have thought that DEI was good for busi- ness, only ceasing to support DEI in re- sponse to political pressure. Or maybe they were simply chasing investors who supported DEI programs. Our research cannot adjudicate between these expla- nations. Finally, our contractor fi nding is good evidence that the Trump administra- tion’s preferences mattered, but the null results under other measures do not necessarily imply that federal contrac- tors were the only ones to defer to the administration. We hope readers judge the paper for themselves to decide what conclusions are warranted by our fi ndings. Reilly S. Steel, New York Nolan McCarty, Princeton, New Jersey
A clearer look at natural diamonds The July 20 editorial “Diamond mo- nopolies aren’t forever” referred to lab- grown diamonds as “more ethical.” That phrase requires additional context. For decades now, the natural diamond in- dustry, including De Beers, has faced scrutiny over confl ict diamonds, labor practices and environmental impacts. That scrutiny helped drive meaningful reform. Today, De Beers operates under in- dependently audited best-practice standards designed to help ensure its diamonds are confl ict-free. The compa- ny follows international human rights frameworks and labor standards, as well as further ethical, social and en- vironmental requirements. It also uses programs such as Tracr, which helps consumers track diamonds from mine to market. And it utilizes GemFair,
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which supports artisanal miners. The diamond industry is also incredi- bly important to the economies of coun- tries such as Botswana. Over the past year, I had the privilege of working with Ada Thela, a young Motswana entrepre- neur, and her company, Zoe Diamonds. Together, after over a month of logisti- cal planning, we purchased a rough dia- mond through a citizens’ auction at the Okavango Diamond Company, and her team cut and polished it in Botswana. The diamond was beautiful. But the most meaningful part of get- ting to know Ada was seeing fi rsthand what she is trying to build. She isn’t simply polishing diamonds. She is try- ing to create skilled employment, de- velop local expertise and retain more of the value created by Botswana’s own natural resources within the country. I believe lab-grown diamonds have a place. My business carries them and sells them when they’re the right choice for our clients. We understand the eco- nomic realities many young couples face, and we respect that diff erent prod- ucts serve diff erent needs. What I hope for is simply a broader lens when natural diamonds are dis- cussed. Sean Dunn, Lighthouse Point, Florida The writer is president of J.R. Dunn Jewelers, an independent luxury jeweler.
Katie Roiphe’s July 17 op-ed, “What to do with my parents’ beloved stuff ?” described a dilemma many people face. I fi nd sentimental value in many of my possessions that provide clutter but also good company. My inventory is quite large. Nevertheless, I have been using eBay to sell some of my knickknacks and vintage clothing stores to fi nd new homes for great sports jackets that no longer fi t. For my fellow baby boomers strug- gling to part with their beloved stuff , might I suggest creating a digital stor- age capsule? It is easy to use your smart- phone to digitize possessions before you part with them. I have also used artifi - cial intelligence tools to help create a documentary based on fragments of my life, like my diary from when I was 10 and videos I took when I visited Latvia with my father in 1993. Through the magic of AI, YouTube and other software, the curated mu- seum in the attic can become a digital time capsule that takes up no physical space and still preserves the memories found in treasures from the past. Steven A. Ludsin East Hampton, New York
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JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES Crowds in Tehran for the funeral procession of the late Ayatollah Ali Khmenei on July 4.
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n early July, the Iranian regime trashed the ceasefi re deal it had reached with the United States by attacking three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Having negotiated an extraordinary package — ending sanctions, un- freezing assets and establishing a $300 billion reparation fund — Iran made the seemingly non- sensical decision to pick a fi ght instead. Under- standing why it did this is essential to fi guring out how to handle the regime. When I was stationed in Iran for the British Foreign Service 20 years ago, I developed two rules to explain the actions of the regime. First: Iranian leaders are focused single-mind- edly on preserving their grip on power. They know that the overwhelming majority of Iranians despise them and that the people will not be for- giving if the regime is fi nally removed. Determination to stay in power guides the re- gime’s actions. In that sense, Iranian leaders are rational — but that does not mean they are mod- erate. In January, the Islamic republic slaughtered thousands of Iranians to quell protests. Iran’s mis- sile attacks on its neighbors may have looked like mindless lashing out, but it was an expression of the regime’s doctrine of “horizontal escalation” — building leverage by continuing to escalate. Second: Iran’s actions often have more to do with internal regime dynamics than with state- craft. Western governments tend to interpret Ira- nian actions as aimed at them. But often, they are aimed internally. The Islamic republic’s leadership is not a mono- lith. The informal power structures are at least as important as the ones set out in the Iranian
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his peaceful coastal community has been swept by a tsunami of outrage after resi- dents learned about allegations that a con- victed sex off ender was allowed to volun- teer at a church that operates a day care center and school. The growing scandal and resulting criminal investigation led to the arrests of the registered sex off ender and three leaders at Pawleys Island Community Church and Pawleys Island Christian Academy. The Georgetown County Sheriff ’s Offi ce learned about the allegations in the case on July 12 after a parent found Warren Perry, 70, listed on a sex off ender registry. The parent told investigators that Perry was in close proximity to children at the church academy. At a Monday news conference, Georgetown County Sheriff Carter Weaver announced that investigators had arrested and brought criminal charges against Perry, whom the children called “Mr. Warren,” according to a lawsuit fi led against the church and academy. Weaver said former pas- tor Don Williams and former academy director Jennifer Nicole “Niki” Howard were each charged with obstruction of justice, unlawfully placing a child at risk and criminal conspiracy. Ginny Wil- liams, the pastor’s wife and former guest services director at the church, was charged with criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice. The pastor, his wife and Howard had resigned from their posi- tions days before their arrests. Perry was charged with obstruction of justice and criminal conspiracy and is being held without bond. Weaver said Perry was charged by the George- town County Sheriff ’s Offi ce in August 2020 with two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. In November 2023, Perry was found guilty of one of those counts. He was placed on probation for fi ve years with restrictions on contact with minors. Details regarding whether Perry was an employ- ee or a volunteer are murky, which is signifi cant because state law requires background checks of anyone employed at a licensed child care facility. Weaver said Perry became “employed” at the Paw- leys Island church and academy in a maintenance position shortly after his arrest in 2020. The sher- iff described Perry’s role as “what anybody would call employed.” At the news conference, Weaver displayed two pictures that he said show Perry near children.
Two rules explain its actions.
The day a congregation turned on the pastor of a South Carolina church
constitution, and they are endlessly shifting. The regime has always been built on fear, with even its leaders constantly watching their backs, protect- ing their revolutionary credentials and signaling to one another in obscure ways. Even they strug- gle to understand each other. Figuring out regime dynamics from the outside is nearly impossible. I got a sense of this subtlety when I fi rst arrived in Tehran in 2003. Then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei gave a sermon at Friday prayers attack- ing Britain in vicious terms. I went to see the head of a think tank allied with the leader’s offi ce and asked what led to this tirade. He looked at me as if I were stupid — I should have spotted the things that Khamenei hadn’t said and realized that the sermon actually signaled a softening of approach. Since then, Iran’s leaders have become more paranoid, more two-faced and more backstabby. Waves of popular protests, put down with ever-in- creasing brutality, have left the regime more pre- carious. Decapitation of the regime by U.S. and Israeli attacks at the end of February left power structures broken and Iranian leadership in cha- os. Khamenei was supreme leader for almost four decades. Despite the title, even he was always cal- ibrating his authority inside the regime. To do so was more complicated than simply issuing edicts. He was the crucial arbiter between the regime’s factions and would describe the conservatives and reformers as being “like the two wings of a bird.” Since his death, the regime has lacked its um- pire. His son Mojtaba has taken the title but not the role. Injured in the same strikes that killed his father (and his wife), he has not been seen since, even at his father’s funeral. The regime’s line is
WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES A view of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, in 2024
One of the photos appears to show an adult wash- ing Perry’s feet with children close by. Other allegations make this story uniquely dis- turbing: According to a lawsuit, the church acad- emy advertised an auction in which children who won would get to spend a day with one of two maintenance workers, including Perry. Seriously? A day with a sex off ender? No wonder parents are on the warpath. Four lawsuits, including a $25 million class-ac- tion complaint, have been fi led against the church and its leaders. At a community meeting Williams hosted at his church on July 15, the pastor insisted that Perry was never supposed to be alone with children and was closely supervised. Members of the packed au- dience responded that the pastor should be in jail, among other withering suggestions. Williams’s feeble attempt to quell his congrega- tion’s anger was almost comical as he read stiffl y from a prepared statement while the crowd roared its disapproval. Their protests were so deafening that you could barely hear the words, but Williams kept reading, as though talking to himself, until the last page. Williams explained that only a core group knew about Perry’s background — staff ,
that he is in a secure location, communicating only through couriers to avoid giving his location away. Even if this is true, it means the new su- preme leader is much less able than his father was to stabilize the system. The regime has lost other fi gures who could have helped its disparate elements cohere. Ali Larijani was a bridge between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the clerics and the politicians. He was eff ectively in charge after the supreme leader was killed in February but was himself killed in a strike barely two weeks later. He was no moder- ate, but he was a pragmatic operator who could make deals and bring the regime with him. These deaths have left the regime in turmoil. Amid the chaos, Iran’s leaders are more vulnera- ble to charges of insuffi cient loyalty and will more acutely feel the need to assert their power. The IRGC is on the rise, driving the regime in a more hard-line direction, and the group’s own members are divided between factions. All of which helps to explain why the regime chose to sabotage a highly attractive deal — not primarily as statecraft or with an eye to Washing- ton, but as internal jockeying by its leaders with an eye on one another. If the U.S. and its allies are to deal eff ective- ly with the Iranian regime — calibrating threats, strikes and inducements in the right proportions — they need to understand that the regime is a viper’s nest of leaders and groups with compet- ing claims to power. Much of the time, they are thinking about their internal standing before they think about the West.
Matthew Gould is a former British ambassador to Israel and former deputy ambassador to Iran.
church leaders and he and his wife. When he talk- ed about the decision not to share “sensitive in- formation” about Perry with teachers and parents, the sanctuary erupted in fury. I guess it’s up to parents to demand proof that all employees and volunteers have clean slates. To fi nd out that a sex off ender had access to children for so long was breathtaking and heartbreaking for parents. Williams tried to make the case that, as Christians, his fl ock should be willing to forgive Perry for his transgressions. This didn’t go over well. Forgiveness is a lovely concept and fundamental to the Christian faith. I, too, believe in turning the other cheek most of the time, but some cases tax one’s principles more than others. I draw the line at children. The sexual predation of children is es- pecially unforgivable given the disparity between a child’s innocence and the predator’s power. Chil- dren trust and look to adults to protect them. The shattering of that trust through sexual exploita- tion imposes lifelong consequences that warrant a strong sentence. I like to think of forgiveness and justice as cell- mates. Those who would knowingly and intention- ally harm a child are best forgiven behind bars.
Against Todd Blanche
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Todd Blanche on Capitol Hill for a hearing on his nomination as attorney general, on July 15.
hat benefi t of norms is owed to someone who disdains norms? There are many suffi cient reasons to oppose confi rm- ing Todd Blanche as attorney general. Presidents generally are owed some deference in selecting Cabinet members, but “some” implies limits, lest the Senate’s advice-and-consent duty be drained of responsibility. And not all presidents are equally owed. Today’s president is owed little, given his contempt for the unwritten rules of civility that can lubricate a congenial society’s governance. Eight days after the 2024 election, Donald Trump set the tone of his second term by announcing his beau ideal of an attorney general: Rep. Matt Gaetz. This insult lasted eight days, until Gaetz withdrew as nominee. He had resigned from the House earli- er, reportedly to prevent release of the House Eth- ics Committee’s report on his alleged drug use and sexual misconduct, which a woman said included sex with her twice when she was 17. Trump settled for Pam Bondi as attorney gener- al, with Blanche as her deputy. While Blanche was the Justice Department’s second-in-command, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, a Justice appendage, sought criminal indictments of six con- gressional Democrats, all with military or intelli- gence backgrounds. They had made a video. Made while Trump’s administration was killing people on boats (in international waters) suspected of carrying drugs, the video said what the Uniform Code of Military Justice says: Do not obey illegal orders. A grand jury did something vanishingly rare in criminal cases. It refused to indict the six. Blanche was acting attorney general when the Justice Department took seriously Seashellgate. His department secured a second indictment of former FBI director James B. Comey, this time for posting a photograph of shells arranged on a beach to read “86 47”; “86” is slang for “remove.” Trump is the 47th president. Blanche’s DOJ pretended to regard Comey’s infantile gesture as a prosecutable threat. Republican senators now have demanded Blanche’s assurances that the proposed $1.776 bil- lion slush fund, for compensating persons Trump designates as victims of Biden administration per- secution, is dead. But this grift was incubated in Blanche’s DOJ. Blanche, who serves at the pleasure of the pres- ident, signed a memo pledging that the IRS is “Forever Barred” from “examinations” of Trump, certain members of his family, the Trump Organi- zation and “related or affi liated individuals.” This “negotiated” — try not to snicker — settlement be- tween the president and the executive branch he heads exemplifi es the administration’s sludge of self-dealing.
behave as independently as the Founders thought senators would?
Trump sicced Blanche’s compliant Justice De- partment on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Pow- ell, ostensibly about fi ctitious criminality in con- struction spending, actually to pressure Powell to resign. With Blanche as deputy, then acting, attor- ney general, the Justice Department (per the Econ- omist) gave courts inaccurate information “nearly 100 times in Mr Trump’s fi rst 14 months.” In April, Blanche became acting attorney gener- al when Trump fi red Bondi. “Nobody has any idea why,” said Blanche. Plausible reports said Trump considered Bondi insuffi ciently aggressive about prosecuting his enemies. Blanche has said, cloudily, that “some” Justice Department prosecutions “in- volve men, women, and entities” that Trump “has had issues with. … That is his right, and indeed it is his duty to do that, meaning, to lead this country.” Blanche said it is “completely false” that the president targets political enemies. Trump mere- ly “wants justice.” Blanche said he was not “cele- brating” Trump’s pardons of almost all the approx- imately 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters when, to a gathering of Trump supporters, he praised the “generous” pardons as one of the administration’s accomplish- ments. If at most four Republican senators had, in com- mittee or fl oor votes, behaved as independently as the Founders thought senators would, Bondi, Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Ken- nedy Jr. and others would not have been confi rmed to offi ces far above their competences. Children probably have died of measles, and of hepatitis B passed from mothers to infants, because of vaccine hesitancy promoted by Kennedy, who lied when he promised not to indulge in such quackery if con- fi rmed as secretary of Health and Human Services. Now comes Blanche. He received this embarrass- ingly backhanded endorsement (in the Wall Street Journal) from former attorney general William Barr: Blanche “will run the department as eff ective- ly as anyone could under President Trump.” Is this suffi cient reassurance for Republican senators? Or will, at last, a nominee trigger their gag refl exes? Once, when someone noted that Sen. Richard Russell, the Georgia Democrat, had “served under” six presidents, Russell bristled, saying he “served with” six. It will be a pleasant surprise if, concern- ing Blanche, a few Republican senators become similarly sensitive about those prepositions.
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Jonquel Jones, a former All-Met Player of the Year at Riverdale Baptist High, finished with 22 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists to earn MVP honors at the WNBA’s 30th All-Star Game on Saturday night in Chicago. Sonia Citron of the Mystics, bottom left, scored eight points in a losing effort for Team Coop. Her Mystics teammate Kiki Iriafen, bottom right, had 10 points and six rebounds for Team Spoon.
to growing pains for WNBA
continue to draw attention,
BY ALANIS THAMES
Associated Press
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The WNBA has never been bigger. More people are watching. More are investing. Salaries for many play- ers are higher than ever. But mount- ing turmoil and discord have been a part of this transformative period that has featured a landmark collec- tive bargaining agreement, league expansion and skyrocketing player recognition.
It seems to have reached a new flash point, as discussions about race, gender and sexuality made headlines ahead of Saturday night’s All-Star
Game in Chicago. Race-driven con- versations resurfaced after an inci- dent between Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark and Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas, while play- ers continued to voice frustrations with WNBA Commissioner Cathy En- gelbert and leadership over what they say is a lack of protection from social media harassment and divisive remarks.
“It is a moment to be celebrated without a doubt,” said Ketra Arm- strong, sport management professor and director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport at the Univer- sity of Michigan. “We want to cele- brate what’s great. But sometimes, the progress can overshadow, still, where the perils are.”
Issues of race, gender and repre- sentation have been an undercurrent throughout the league’s history. De- bates over those issues have grown as
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and furious All-Star Game
BY JAY COHEN Associated Press
CHICAGO — Jonquel Jones had 22 points, 13 rebounds and eight as- sists, helping Caitlin Clark and Team Spoon outlast Marina Mabrey and Team Coop, 129-122, in the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday night.
Dominique Malonga had a first- half dunk for Team Coop, but Team Spoon had eight players score in dou- ble figures in an All-Star Game that featured 127 three-point attempts and very little defense. Allisha Gray had 19 points for Team Spoon, and Clark finished with 17.
marquee event was played in front of a record crowd of 19,783 at the United Center instead of the smaller Win- trust Arena in downtown Chicago, a sign of how much the league has grown.
Jones, a 32-year-old center for the New York Liberty and former All-Met Player of the Year at Riverdale Bap- tist, was named MVP. Nneka Ogwu- mike scored 11 points for Team Spoon while passing Maya Moore (119) for the most career points in All-Star Game history.
Kelsey Mitchell had 28 points for Team Coop, and Mabrey scored all of her 23 points during a red-hot first half. Malonga finished with 12 points and 13 rebounds.
Mystics forward Kiki Iriafen fin- ished with 10 points and six rebounds in 17 minutes for Team Spoon, while Washington teammate Sonia Citron tallied eight points and 11 minutes for
Abrams keeps Nats on track
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with 14 hits, five homers
BY DANIELLE ALLENTUCK
When CJ Abrams is seeing the ball well, he has a sense of calm and confidence in the box. Rath- er than rushing or pressing, the Washington Nationals’ shortstop waits patiently for the right pitch to punish.
In the fourth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday, Abrams let a ball and a strike go by, then fouled off a sinker. On the fourth pitch, he connected on a slurve at the top of the zone, sending it to deep center field. The game-tying, two-run double was the first of Abrams’s three hits in the Na- tionals’ 5-3 win.
There were big moments for Washington. And Abrams once again delivered.
“Just seems like when we need him to step up, he does so,” Manager Blake Butera said.
With the Diamondbacks — who currently hold the third wild-card spot — in town and the trade deadline just over a week away, the Nationals haven’t played with stakes this high since 2019. And Abrams, one of their leaders on and off the field, is not just playing up to the pressure. He thrives in it.
After his big game Saturday, Abrams finished the week 14 for 25 with five home runs in six games. With his contributions, the Nationals were able to even the series, pushing them back to one game above .500 and two games behind the Diamond- backs in the wild-card standings.
“Definitely enjoy it,” Abrams said. “It’s exciting. We’ve done a
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Philly now has a king to go with its prince
Phillies’ Harper has rival
BY DAN GELSTON
PHILADELPHIA — LeBron James and Bryce Harper spent their careers on parallel paths toward stardom.
They were teenage phenoms who graced the cover of Sports Illustrated — back when maga- zines were cool — and both were No. 1 overall draft picks straight out of high school.
When Harper earned his first chance at free agency, there was only one city, one contract that was right for him: Philadelphia.
It took a few years, but Harper has some company to fight with him on the short list of top elite athletes who have signed in the city.
Harper with the Phillies. Pete Rose and Kyle Schwarber with the Phillies.
Saquon Barkley and Reggie White with the Eagles.
In the greatest July signature in Philadelphia since 1776, James followed Harper from free agency to Philly when he rocked the NBA world and signed a two-year deal with the 76ers for the bargain- basement price of $8 million total
Baribo lifts D.C. United to victory over Toronto
Tai Baribo converted from the penalty spot in the 10th minute of stoppage time, Sean Johnson had six saves, and D.C. United beat Toronto FC, 2-1, at Audi Field on Saturday night to snap a five-game winless streak.
Toronto (3-7-7) is winless in 11 consecutive games.
Andre Dozzell drew a penalty conceded by Jackson Gilman and Baribo’s penalty kick capped the scoring.
Baribo has scored a goal in three consecutive games and has 11 goals in 14 appearances (13 starts) this season.
D.C. United (5-5-7) took a 1-0 lead on an own goal by Kobe Franklin in the 41st minute, when he redirected a corner kick played in by Keisuke Kurokawa into the net.
Theo Corbeanu scored his first goal this season to make it 1-1 in the 76th minute. Sean Johnson parried a shot by Jonathan Osorio, but Corbeanu slammed home a volley that deflected off Johnson. …
Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi was one of four players officially ruled out of Wednesday’s MLS All-Star Game in Charlotte as the Argentina star continues to recover from his World Cup final run.
Hugo Cuypers, Rodrigo De Paul and Mbekezeli Mbokazi also won’t play in the game, which will match the best of MLS against the top players from Mexico’s LIGA MX. …
Orlando City SC signed homegrown defender Bernardo Rhein to a first-team contract through the 2027-28 season, with club options for the next two campaigns. …
Barcelona said a construction worker died when he had an accident while helping with the renovation of its Camp Nou stadium Friday.
Catalan police said the worker was a 54-year-old man who died from a blow to the head. No more details were provided in response to queries by the Associated Press. …
South Korea midfielder Lee Kang-In agreed to join Atletico Madrid from Paris Saint-Germain, the Spanish club said.
Atletico said Lee would sign a contract through June 2031. The transfer fee was undisclosed, but it is reportedly between 35 and 40 million euros ($39.8 million and $45.5 million). …
Newly promoted Ipswich signed Japan forward Daizen Maeda from Celtic, the English club said. …
French women’s champion OL Lyonnes signed Spain forward Salma Paralluelo from Barcelona on a four-year contract. …
Barcelona signed American goalkeeper Tyler McCamey for its European champion women’s team, the Spanish club said.
Va. native is victorious in U.S. Junior Amateur
Golf
Noah Maclauchlan of Moseley, Virginia, beat Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, 6 and 5, in the U.S. Junior Amateur in the first all-left- hander individual final in USGA history.
The 18-year-old Maclauchlan — No. 2,047 in the world amateur ranking — earned a spot next year in the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, and both finalists are exempt next month in the U.S. Amateur at Merion, though Russell was already in that field.
Maclauchlan will be a freshman this fall at Liberty University. Russell — the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 7 — plans to begin play at Florida State in 2027.
On the Old Course in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Maclauchlan tied the match with a par win on the par-4 16th, then took Nos. 17, 19, 21, 23, 24 and 28 — all with birdies — for a 6-up lead. Russell won the par-3 29th with a par, and Maclauchlan ended it with an eight-foot birdie putt on par-4 31st.
Maclauchlan’s caddie was his younger brother, Liam, a 2027 Virginia commit who missed the cut for match play. …
With a 2-under-par third round, Jerry Kelly tied Cameron Percy atop the leaderboard of the Senior British Open in Perth, Scotland.
For Kelly, it was a second straight round of 68 en route to posting at 8-under 202 through three rounds. Meanwhile, Percy had his roughest afternoon of the week with a 71.
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D.C. United earned a dramatic 2-1 win over Toronto FC — its first victory since May 3 — on Saturday night at Audi Field.
BY CAM INMAN
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Kyle Shanahan, the San Francisco 49ers’ 10th-year coach, is recovering from a concussion and mul- tiple fractures after a two-car collision July 14 in Palo Alto, prompting a tempo- rarily reduced role as training camp be- gan Saturday.
Shanahan is not expected to be side- lined into the regular season opener in Australia against the Los Angeles Rams on Sept. 10.
“That’s not what we’re anticipating, not what I’ve heard from the doctors,” Gener- al Manager John Lynch said. “The time- line takes care of itself. He’s got to meet certain markers, but the expectation is long before [the opener], he’ll be back.”
Until Shanahan is cleared from concus- sion symptoms, many head coaching du- ties will fall on Chris Foerster, the 49ers’
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PGA Tour rookie Jackson Koivun shot a 61 in the third round of the 3M Open to take a three-stroke lead at 20 under, setting a tournament record with a 28 on the back nine at the TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota.
Emiliano Grillo and Ben Kohles each had a 65 and are tied for second at 17 under. Scottie Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked player, was six strokes back in a four-way tie for ninth. …
South Korean golfer Jenny Shin maintained her five-shot lead at the Women’s Scottish Open, carding a 1-under 71 in round three in Troon.
Shin, who is chasing her first LPGA Tour win since the Texas Shootout more than 10 years ago, was at 12 under on the Dundonald Links, five ahead of Pajaree Anannarukarn of Thailand. Anannarukarn hit a bogey-free 69.
in time for season opener after suffering concussion, fractures
assistant head coach and offensive line czar. However, a concerted effort will come from other staff members, especial- ly Shanahan’s three coordinators: Klay Kubiak (offense), Raheem Morris (de- fense) and Brant Boyer (special teams).
“We’ll keep you abreast of Kyle’s prog- ress as we deem appropriate, and you’ll probably see Kyle on the field some, to what he can tolerate,” Lynch said. “We’ll give the duties of running the team over to some other guys. We have a really good plan.”
Lynch confirmed an initial report by ESPN that Shanahan fractured his nose, a
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Also going on the PUP list were six Baltimore Ravens defenders: defensive lineman Nnamdi Madubuike, John Jenkins and Travis Jones; linebackers Teddye
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Buchanan and Adisa Isaac; and defensive back Bilhal Kone.
The return of Madubuike — who missed most of last season with a neck injury — would be significant for Baltimore, but his status remains unclear. …
Owner Robert Kraft said the New England Patriots offered star cornerback Christian Gonzalez an extension that would make him “the highest-paid player ever to play that position in the NFL.”
Kraft didn’t provide details on the offer, which he also said would be the largest contract in franchise history. But Los Angeles Rams cornerback Trent McDuffie’s four-year contract leads cornerbacks with an average annual value of approximately $31 million. …
hand and three ribs while requiring more than 40 stitches to his face and suffering a severe concussion. “He did break his nose, so his black eyes are getting better,” Lynch added. “He bumped his ribs, so that’s painful, but that’s not what’s keeping him away. It’s the concussion.”
Shanahan has been in the 49ers’ build- ing since the accident, which occurred at the intersection of Alma Street and Ham- ilton Avenue, according to a Palo Alto police spokesperson. No drugs or alcohol were suspected, and both drivers cooper- ated with the investigation, with neither cited for the collision.
Shanahan’s wife, Mandy, helped spread word of his status last weekend to team captains on the veteran-laden squad. It wasn’t until 1 p.m. Saturday that the 49ers assembled for the first team meeting at camp.
determining whether he is ready and able to return to the Rams, but Coach Sean McVay said the team will welcome the superstar defensive lineman if he decides to end his two-season retirement. …
Jordan Devey, a retired NFL offensive lineman who won a Super Bowl with the New England Patriots, died at 38.
At Brickyard, Hocevar surges to pole position
Carson Hocevar used a late qualifying run to knock Tyler Reddick out of the No. 1 spot, then survived a late charge from Daniel Suarez to capture his first Brickyard 400 pole.
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lap of 186.382 to give Chevrolet the top two starting spots on the 39-car starting grid. Reddick will start third in Sunday’s race on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s historic 2.5-mile oval.
Defending champion Bubba Wallace, Reddick’s teammate with 23XI Racing, will start 29th after going 183.861. Denny Hamlin, who has won three of NASCAR’s four crown jewel races, starts fifth as he tries to capture his first Brickyard title with Joe Gibbs Racing.
Before qualifying, RFK Racing co-owner Brad Keselowski said his team exercised its option on Ryan Preece “a few months ago,” keeping the driver locked up through next season. …
Defending Formula One champion Lando Norris took his first pole position of 2026 when he snatched it from Lewis Hamilton by 0.012 of a second at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
A pair of grid penalties dropped Hamilton to fifth and championship leader Kimi Antonelli to seventh for Sunday’s race in Mogyorod.
Halys claims first title at the Generali Open
Frenchman Quentin Halys delivered 17 aces and earned his first career title with a solid 6-4, 7-6 (8-6) victory over defending champion Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in the Generali Open final in Kitzbuhel, Austria.
Halys, 29, turned pro in 2012 and had played in just one other ATP final — losing to Italy’s Matteo Berrettini in the 2024 Swiss Open. …
Fourth-seeded Alexander Blockx of Belgium rallied past second-seeded Luciano Darderi of Italy, while Luca Van Assche defeated fellow Frenchman Hugo Gaston in straight sets, as each reached their first ATP final at Portugal’s Estoril Open. …
No. 4 seed Anna Bondar of Hungary outlasted Elina Avanesyan of Armenia to advance to the final of the Hamburg Ladies Open, where she will face fifth-seeded Tamara Korpatsch of Germany. …
Both Czech semifinalists fell in their home country’s Prague Open, with Lilli Tagger of Austria upsetting No. 2 seed Barbora Krejcikova and No. 5 seed Tereza Valentova losing to No. 8 seed Daria Snigur of Ukraine.
Sillinger will be staying with the Blue Jackets
Restricted free agent forward Cole Sillinger avoided arbitration, signing a three-year, $13.9 million contract with the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Sillinger recorded 33 points
(eight goals, 25 assists) and a
plus-2 rating in 81 games last
season with Columbus. He was
playing in the last season of a
two-year, $4.5 million contract.
The 23-year-old, drafted 12th overall in 2021, has totaled 140 points (51 goals, 89 assists) in 367 games for the Blue Jackets.
Pogacar’s fifth crown on the Tour is in sight
Tadej Pogacar moved to within touching distance of a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title after finishing safely in the penultimate stage.
The Slovenian star heads into Sunday’s showcase finish in Paris with a lead of 6 minutes 26 seconds over Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel.
Richard Carapaz took the 20th stage — a mammoth alpine trek featuring four major climbs before a hilly finish to Alpe d’Huez — for his second win at this year’s race and third overall. The Ecuadorian secured the polka-dot jersey awarded to the Tour’s best climber.
Hiltz takes 1,500 again in a nationals four-peat
Nikki Hiltz survived a three-way sprint finish to win a fourth consecutive outdoor U.S. national 1,500-meters title at New York’s Icahn Stadium, draping the trans flag around their shoulders as a pioneer for nonbinary athletes.
Stuck in second around the final turn, Hiltz slipped around the outside of Addy Wiley down the final straight and held off a late charge from Emily Mackay, finishing in 4:06.92.
Among the other champions: Nathan Green in the men’s 1,500 (3:50.27), Aaliyah Butler in the women’s 400 (49.93) and Chris Bailey in the men’s 400 (44.39).
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Discord from B1 Exponential growth fuels greater scrutiny for WNBA
women’s sports have exploded in popularity. And they remain a challenge that shape the public and online discourse around the WNBA — and most other pro sports leagues, for that matter.
“This is what a sports league” is, said David Berri, sports econo- mist and economics professor at Southern Utah University. He cit- ed the NFL’s Rooney Rule as an example. “If a sports league is going to get attention, you’re go- ing to get attention for these things as well.”
Contentious conversations also spread to issues of transgender athletes and harassment.
WNBA veteran Brianna Turner said on social media this past week that her former team, the Fever, fired a male employee last season for sexual harassment. Turner, who was with Indiana last season but now plays for Las Ve- gas, said Indiana players were encouraged not to discuss the firing.
Turner’s comments came as she defended transgender athletes days after Indiana forward So- phie Cunningham spoke on trans- gender athletes competing in women’s sports.
“I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,’” Cun- ningham was quoted as saying in a story published by ESPN. “I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go
WNBA from B1 Jones is named MVP of league’s 30th All-Star Game
Team Coop.
WNBA greats Cynthia Cooper and Teresa Weatherspoon drafted the all-star teams from players that were either voted as starters by fans, media and fellow players or chosen as reserves by the league’s coaches. The Las Vegas Aces’ Becky Hammon coached Cooper’s team, and the Minnesota Lynx’s Cheryl Reeve was in charge
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Caitlin Clark’s arrival as the No. 1 overall draft pick of the Indiana Fever in 2024 helped spark a growth spurt across the WNBA.
against biological men.”
The WNBA’s conversations about race were thrust back into the spotlight after Toronto Tempo Coach Sandy Brondello was sus- pended one game for referring to Atlanta Dream forward Angel Re- ese as a “protected species.”
The comment, picked up by the broadcast after Reese drew a foul on Toronto player Nyara Sabally, quickly drew criticism.
Brondello, a former player who has won two WNBA titles, is Aus- tralian. The “protected species” phrase is used in Australian sports to express frustration over a lack of calls against a player. However, in the United States, the phrase suggests that someone isn’t human and could be seen as
of Weatherspoon’s squad.
Clark went 5 for 15 from beyond the arc and had five assists in her return to the All-Star Game. The Indiana Fever guard missed last year’s event in Indianapolis be- cause of a groin injury.
The 24-year-old Clark came out firing, connecting from 33 feet and 37 feet on her way to 11 points in the first 21/2 minutes. She buried another three-pointers early in the second quarter off a slick
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derogatory toward Black people. Brondello later apologized. Reese accepted, saying she appreciated the league’s swift action.
“It’s a much bigger platform now. Everything that happens is news,” Berri said. “There were hard fouls 10 years ago. Nobody paid any attention to that. It ends up being because of the coverage now, everything gets magnified … which is good. I mean, this is what we wanted.”
Clark has repeatedly attempted to downplay the noise surround- ing her, but she has become a springboard for projections far beyond the game itself.
“It’s basketball,” she said in a recent ESPN interview. “When I walk out of the locker room, I
no-look pass from Minnesota Lynx guard Olivia Miles, the only rookie selected for the game.
Clark and Mabrey each put on an offensive show, but Malonga got the biggest cheer of the night. The 6-foot-6 center from the Seat- tle Storm ran down the lane, got a pass from Angel Reese and threw down a right-handed jam with 6:24 left in the first half.
Reese jumped up and down as Malonga finished the play, and
shouldn’t be fearful of what the conversation is going to be. It’s emotionally exhausting. It’s draining. It makes your shoulders tense because people don’t want to talk about the basketball. They just want to stir it up and make something else.”
The WNBA retroactively as- sessed Thomas a flagrant foul and suspended her one game after the veteran made contact with her fist to Clark’s throat in a June 24 matchup.
The play, which Thomas has said was an accident, gained widespread attention and ignited debates over officiating, with coaches, pundits and lawmakers weighing in on whether the league needs to take action about physical play involving Clark.
Thomas, who is Black and in her 12th WNBA season, said after the incident she had received death threats, part of increased online vitriol players have faced in recent years. Chelsea Gray of the Las Vegas Aces recently posted a message from a man that includ- ed a racial slur. And this past week, Engelbert met with a pair of player committees to discuss what more can be done to protect players from online harassment.
Since she entered the league, Clark and her WNBA peers have become proxies for long-standing American issues — from race, gender and sexual orientation to who receives attention and who doesn’t.
“There’s a lot to celebrate,” Armstrong said, “but race still matters. Race will always matter. It just depends on how we make it matter.”
the two exchanged a midair chest bump on their way back down the court.
It was the first dunk in a WNBA All-Star Game since Sylvia Fowles in 2022. Lisa Leslie (2005), Jones (2017), Brittney Griner (2019) also have accomplished the feat.
Leslie was on hand for the fes- tivities, along with South Carolina coach and former WNBA guard Dawn Staley. Former NBA star Dwyane Wade also was courtside.
coming, Engelbert says
BY DOUG FEINBERG
CHICAGO — The WNBA will have a replay center similar to the NBA next season as the league contin- ues to invest in officiating, Com- missioner Cathy Engelbert said at her state of the league news con- ference Saturday before the All- Star Game.
Officiating has been a hot topic around the league for the past few seasons, with physical play being a major point of contention. The league put together a task force in the offseason to help clean up some of the physicality in the game.
“This is one of the most signifi- cant investments we’ve ever made in our basketball operations, this investment of tens of millions of dollars will help bring greater con- sistency, efficiency, and transpar- ency to our officiating process while continuing to improve the quality of the game,” Engelbert said.
Engelbert said many of the de- tails on the replay center still need to be worked out, although she said, as of now, the last two-min- ute report that the NBA has won’t be used in the WNBA yet.
Fouls are up this season amid an emphasis on helping players’ freedom of movement. The in- crease in fouls has led to more offense, with teams averaging a record-high number of points. It also has led to longer games. Earli- er this month, game times were at an average of 2 hours 8 minutes — the longest in league history.
Player safety
Engelbert said the league is continuing to work with players to try to improve their safety off the court. The WNBA and players’ union had a virtual meeting Tues- day night to discuss what more can be done to combat the online hate.
“[For] too many players across the WNBA, that experience is un- acceptable,” she said. “Many cases, it’s disgusting. Racism, misogyny, homophobia, the harassment and threats directed to our players has no place in sport or anywhere else.”
Engelbert said the feedback from players was helpful to her.
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Aces investigation wraps up
The WNBA’s investigation into whether a Las Vegas Aces sponsor- ship deal violated the salary cap was inconclusive, Engelbert said.
“No discipline will be recom- mended or imposed. Of course, if new or additional evidence comes to light, we’ll continue to investi- gate. But, you know, the integrity of our game is number one,” the commissioner said.
In May 2024, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authori- ty offered a $100,000 sponsorship deal to Aces players for each of the following two seasons. That amount exceeded the salaries for six of the players, according to Spotrac.
No such agreement was offered for this season, but player salaries also dramatically rose after the new collective-bargaining agree- ment was completed in May. Each Las Vegas player earns at least $270,000, according to Spotrac. The initial offer led the league to launch a probe into whether it skirted salary-cap rules.
“We did this the right way,” LVCVA president and CEO Steve Hill said in 2024. “... We did this without the team. It was our idea.”
Increasing communication
Engelbert said the league needs to do better communicating with its players, whether through texts or emails or some other form.
Many players have said they have no relationship with the commissioner. A’ja Wilson said Saturday that the only time she talks to Engelbert is when she’s receiving trophies.
“I’ve been talking with the play- ers about how much they want to hear from us, how much they don’t,” Engelbert said. “We do send them a lot of email updates and things like that. They’re a generation that doesn’t check email as much. So we have to get better at a text chain.”
“We have to be better at it,” she added. “It’s something certainly like if a player is getting honored or players gets hurt or something like, I try to reach out to them, and, yeah. So we need to be better at it. There’s no doubt I need to be better.”
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EAST W L Pct GB L10 Str
EAST W L Pct GB L10 Str
Atlanta 61 43 .587 — 7-3 L-1
Philadelphia 56 49 .533 51/2 4-6 L-4
Washington 53 52 .505 81/2 5-5 W-1
Miami 52 53 .495 91/20-10 L-11
New York 43 62 .410181/2 3-7 L-3
Diamondbacks 3
D'BACKS AB R H BI BBSOAVG Carroll rf .............3 1 0 0 0 2 .250 Perdomo ss.........3 0 0 0 0 0 .232 Moreno dh ..........4 0 1 2 0 0 .311 Marte 2b.............4 0 0 0 0 0 .255 Vargas 1b............4 0 1 0 0 0 .270 Arenado 3b .........3 0 0 0 1 0 .246 Tawa cf...............3 1 2 0 0 0 .241 McCann c ............3 0 1 1 0 0 .260 Waldschmidt lf...2 1 1 0 0 0 .257 Kepler ph-lf.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .217 Totals 30 3 6 3 1 2 —
Nationals AB R H BI BBSOAVG Wood dh .............5 0 1 0 0 2 .269 Mead 3b..............3 1 0 0 2 0 .254 Chaparro 1b ........3 1 1 0 0 1 .222 García ph-1b .......2 0 0 0 0 1 .275 Abrams ss...........4 1 3 3 0 0 .293 Crews rf..............1 1 0 0 3 1 .218 Young cf..............4 1 2 0 0 0 .232 Lile lf...................4 0 1 2 0 1 .244 Nuñez 2b.............2 0 0 0 2 0 .249 Ruiz c ..................4 0 1 0 0 0 .272 Totals 32 5 9 5 7 6 —
Arizona..........002 000 100 — 3 6 1 Washington.004 010 00x — 5 9 0
E: Marte (2). LOB: Arizona 3, Washing- ton 10. 2B: Tawa (8), Chaparro (5), Abrams (21), Ruiz (20). 3B: Lile (5). HR: Abrams (25), off Bratt. RBI: Moreno 2 (39), McCann (15), Abrams 3 (79), Lile 2 (51). SB: Young 2 (13), Abrams (17). CS: Abrams (5). S: Perdomo. D'BACKS IP H RERBB SO NPERA Bratt .................5 7 5 5 5 3 926.32 Carrillo ..............2 2 0 0 2 2 352.25 Clarke................1 0 0 0 0 1 92.30
RBI
ERA
RBI
ERA
Nationals IP H RERBB SO NPERA Griffin ............62/3 6 3 3 1 21082.76 Yean ...............11/3 0 0 0 0 0 160.00 Beeter ..............1 0 0 0 0 0 93.82
WP: Griffin (12-2); LP: Bratt (0-1); S: Beeter (9). Inherited runners-scored: Yean 1-0. HBP: Griffin (Carroll). ABS Challenge_Moreno (Strike-Overturned to Ball) T: 2:35. A: 30,032 (41,376).
HOW THEY SCORED
DIAMONDBACKS THIRD Ryan Waldschmidt singles. Corbin Car- roll hit by pitch, Ryan Waldschmidt to second. Geraldo Perdomo out on a sacri- fice bunt, Corbin Carroll to second, Ryan Waldschmidt to third. Gabriel Moreno singles, tagged out at second, Corbin Carroll scores, Ryan Waldschmidt scores. Ketel Marte flies out. Diamondbacks 2, Nationals 0 NATIONALS THIRD James Wood strikes out swinging. Cur- tis Mead walks. Andres Chaparro dou- bles, Curtis Mead to third. CJ Abrams doubles, Andres Chaparro scores, Curtis Mead scores. Dylan Crews walks. Jacob Young singles, Dylan Crews to second. Daylen Lile triples, Jacob Young scores, Dylan Crews scores. Nasim Nunez walks. Keibert Ruiz flies out. Nationals 4, Diamondbacks 2 NATIONALS FIFTH CJ Abrams homers. Dylan Crews strikes out swinging. Jacob Young singles. Day- len Lile flies out. Nasim Nunez pops out. Nationals 5, Diamondbacks 2 DIAMONDBACKS SEVENTH Ildemaro Vargas singles. Nolan Arenado grounds out, Ildemaro Vargas out at second. Tim Tawa doubles. James Mc- Cann singles, Tim Tawa scores. Max Ke- pler pinch-hitting for Ryan Wald- schmidt. Max Kepler grounds out. Nationals 5, Diamondbacks 3
nationals’ leaders Entering Sunday’s game.
BATTERS AVG OBA 2B HR RBI BB SO Ortiz......... .500 .500 1 0 0 0 0 Abrams.... .293 .364 21 25 79 36 92 Wiemer.... .286 .398 5 3 12 12 29 Ford.......... .286 .375 1 1 4 1 6 García....... .275 .308 16 21 70 16 56 Ruiz.......... .272 .300 20 7 35 8 27 Wood ....... .269 .394 25 28 69 81 145 Mead........ .254 .352 17 17 48 39 62 Nuñez ...... .249 .332 4 1 30 36 73 Tena......... .246 .310 10 5 20 15 60 Vivas........ .245 .327 8 3 18 21 29 Lile........... .244 .296 22 11 51 26 79 Young....... .232 .286 12 9 33 17 57 House....... .227 .282 7 7 25 13 50 Chaparro .. .222 .341 5 4 18 12 20
PITCHERS W L ERA IP ER BB SO Yean ............0 0 0.00 5.1 0 2 4 Cosgrove .....0 0 0.00 5 0 2 4 Fernández ...0 0 2.25 4 1 2 3 Poulin ..........3 0 2.70 36.2 11 21 25 Griffin........12 2 2.76 124 38 28 113 Cavalli..........7 4 3.58 110.2 44 34 127 Ribalta.........0 1 3.64 29.2 12 12 28 Beeter .........3 3 3.82 30.2 13 19 33 Krook...........0 1 3.86 4.2 2 3 4 Lord .............5 2 3.88 58 25 21 52 Lovelady......1 3 3.91 23 10 17 21 Alvarez........2 3 4.22 53.1 25 25 55 Lawrence.....0 0 4.26 6.1 3 7 6 Littell...........7 8 5.17 101 58 31 66 Irvin.............2 4 5.23 51.2 30 22 58 Mikolas........3 7 5.60 98 61 20 51 Schultz ........1 2 5.87 30.2 20 11 31
BATTING
BATTING
Lopez, Mia ....................................... .330 Arraez, SF ........................................ .320 Gonzales, Pit ................................... .312 McCarthy, Col .................................. .303
HOME RUNS
HOME RUNS
Schwarber, Phi ................................... 33 Goodman, Col ..................................... 31 Wood, Was ......................................... 28 Olson, Atl ............................................ 27
Walker, StL ......................................... 77 Abrams, Was ...................................... 76 Stewart, Cin ....................................... 75 García, Was ........................................ 70
Misiorowski, Mil ............................ 1.565 Sale, Atl ......................................... 2.189 Burns, Cin ...................................... 2.424 Wrobleski, LA ................................ 2.616
Misiorowski, Mil ............................... 173 Luzardo, Phi ...................................... 152 Sánchez, Phi ..................................... 151 Skenes, Pit ........................................ 138
SAVES
SAVES
Miller, SD ............................................ 26 O’Brien, StL ........................................ 26 Duran, Phi ........................................... 24 Sewald, Ari ......................................... 24
STRIKEOUTS
Entering Saturday’s games.
Alvarez, Hou .................................... .327 Díaz, TB ........................................... .304 Jung, Tex ......................................... .294
Alvarez, Hou ....................................... 34 Rice, NY .............................................. 30 Caminero, TB ...................................... 29
Alvarez, Hou ....................................... 77 Rice, NY .............................................. 71 Kurtz, Ath ........................................... 66 Contreras, Bos .................................... 66 Dingler, Det ........................................ 66 Alonso, Bal ......................................... 66
Schlittler, NY ................................. 2.072 Martinez, TB .................................. 2.587 Cease, Tor ...................................... 2.674 Messick, Cle ................................... 2.677
Smith, Cle ........................................... 29 Baker, TB ............................................ 26 Chapman, Bos ..................................... 24
CENTRAL W L Pct GB L10 Str
CENTRAL W L Pct GB L10 Str
Milwaukee 65 39 .625 — 6-4 W-1
Chicago 59 45 .567 6 7-3 W-2
St. Louis 53 51 .510 12 3-7 W-1
Pittsburgh 53 52 .505121/2 5-5 L-3
Cincinnati 48 55 .466 161/2 5-5 L-1
Rafael Devers and Jung Hoo Lee hit three-run hom- ers, Robbie Ray pitched six scoreless innings, and San Francisco beat Los Ange- les.
Ray struck out five and gave up six hits on just 80 pitches before being lifted.
angels AB R H BI BBSOAVG Neto ss ...............3 0 0 0 0 1 .236 Peraza ss ............1 0 0 0 0 1 .239 Trout cf...............3 0 2 0 1 0 .237 Lowe rf ...............0 0 0 0 1 0 .207 Grissom 2b .........4 0 1 1 1 1 .255 Soler dh ..............5 0 0 0 0 1 .201 Schanuel 1b ........4 0 1 0 0 1 .282 Adell rf................2 0 1 0 1 1 .243 Meckler lf ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .297 Guzman 3b..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .240 Siri lf-cf ..............3 2 2 0 1 0 .281 O'Hoppe c ...........4 0 2 0 0 0 .216 Totals 34 2 9 1 5 6 —
angels AB R H BI BBSOAVG Neto ss ...............4 1 1 0 1 2 .238 Trout cf...............2 0 0 1 2 1 .233 Schanuel 1b ........5 0 2 1 0 0 .282 Soler dh ..............5 1 1 0 0 3 .205 Grissom 2b-1b....5 1 2 2 0 1 .255 Meckler lf ...........5 0 0 0 0 2 .299 Adell rf................4 1 1 0 0 0 .241 Guzman 3b..........3 1 1 0 1 1 .248 Heineman c.........2 1 1 2 1 0 .181 Totals 35 6 9 6 5 10 —
Giants AB R HBI BBSOAVG Arraez 2b................. 4 2 2 1 0 1 .326 J.Rodriguez ph-2b... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .239 Ramos lf.................. 5 1 1 0 0 1 .262 Eldridge dh .............. 3 0 0 0 1 2 .263 Cavanaugh ph-dh .... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .225 Devers 1b ................ 4 2 3 4 0 0 .249 Koss 3b.................... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 Schmitt 3b-1b ......... 4 1 1 1 0 0 .272 Lee rf....................... 3 1 2 3 0 1 .302 McCray rf................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Adames ss............... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .225 Gilbert cf ................. 3 1 1 0 1 1 .235 Susac c .................... 3 1 0 0 0 0 .250 Totals 35 9 11 9 2 8 —
Giants AB R H BI BBSOAVG Arraez 2b...............5 0 3 0 0 0 .324 Ramos lf ................5 0 0 0 0 2 .263 Eldridge dh ............3 2 1 0 2 0 .266 Devers 1b ..............4 2 2 3 1 1 .244 Schmitt 3b.............4 1 1 3 0 1 .272 Lee rf .....................4 0 0 0 0 0 .299 Adames ss.............4 0 0 0 0 3 .225 Gilbert cf ...............2 0 2 0 1 0 .233 McCray pr-cf..........0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 Susac c...................2 0 0 1 0 0 .257 Cavanaugh ph-c.....1 0 0 0 0 1 .231 J.Rodriguez pr .......0 1 0 0 0 0 .244 Totals 34 7 9 7 5 8 —
L.A.................. 000 000 101 — 2 9 1 San Fran. .... 005 400 00x — 9 11 0
E: Siri (1). LOB: Los Angeles 11, San Francisco 6. 2B: Siri (5), Adames (23), Lee (22), Devers (27). HR: Lee (6), off Johnson; Devers (22), off Suter. angels IP H R ERBBSO ERA Johnson............ 31/3 8 8 8 1 4 7.34 Suter ................ 22/3 2 1 1 0 4 4.42 Yates ................... 1 1 0 0 1 0 3.65 Heineman............ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Giants IP H R ERBBSO ERA Ray ...................... 6 6 0 0 2 5 3.16 Beck..................... 2 1 1 1 1 0 6.39 Winn.................... 1 2 1 1 2 1 3.38
WP: Ray (9-6); LP: Johnson (2-5). Inherit- ed runners-scored: Suter 2-2. HBP: John- son (Susac), Beck (Neto), Yates (Lee). ABS Challenge_Adames (Strike-Over- turned to Ball) T: 2:32. A: 39,102 (41,915). NL games
Nick Loftin hit a tie- breaking home run in the ninth inning as Kansas City beat Detroit.
Salvador Perez hit his franchise-record 318th home run. The homer broke the mark set by George Brett, who held the record for 40 years.
Royals AB R H BI BBSOAVG Jensen c................ 4 0 2 0 0 1 .241 Thomas cf............. 4 0 0 0 0 2 .229 Caglianone rf........ 4 0 0 0 0 0 .254 Perez dh................ 4 1 1 1 0 0 .210 Pasquantino 1b .... 4 1 3 0 0 0 .234 Loftin 3b............... 3 1 1 1 0 2 .250 Massey 2b ............ 3 0 0 1 0 0 .272 Collins lf ............... 4 0 0 0 0 0 .242 Velazquez ss ........ 2 0 0 0 0 0 .111 Marte ph............... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .260 Tolbert ss ............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .317 Totals 33 3 7 3 0 5 —
Tigers AB R H BI BBSOAVG Keith 1b ..............4 0 2 0 0 1 .254 McGonigle ss......4 0 0 0 0 1 .278 Torres 2b ............3 0 0 0 1 0 .277 Carpenter dh.......3 0 1 0 0 1 .210 Dingler ph-dh......1 0 0 0 0 0 .271 Greene lf.............3 1 2 0 1 0 .285 Lee 3b .................4 1 2 2 0 1 .273 McKinstry rf .......4 0 1 0 0 0 .200 Vierling cf...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .203 Rogers c..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .161 Torkelson ph.......1 0 0 0 0 0 .204 Totals 34 2 8 2 2 5 —
Kansas City ...010 000 101 — 3 7 0 Detroit ...........010 100 000 — 2 8 1
E: Torres (2). LOB: Kansas City 5, De- troit 7. 2B: Keith (11), Greene (22), Lee (9). HR: Perez (15), off Finnegan; Loftin (5), off Waguespack; Lee (6), off Wacha. Royals IP H R ERBBSO ERA Wacha ................. 7 6 2 2 2 3 3.60 Lynch................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.08 Lange................... 1 1 0 0 0 2 6.00
Tigers IP H R ERBBSO ERA Mize..................... 6 3 1 1 0 3 2.70 Finnegan............. 1/3 2 1 1 0 1 2.54 Holton ................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.87 Waguespack..... 12/3 1 1 1 0 1 1.65
WP: Lynch (4-2); LP: Waguespack (0-1); S: Lange (10). Inherited runners-scored: Lange 1-0, Holton 1-0, Waguespack 1-0. WP: Mize, Waguespack. ABS Chal- lenge_Wacha (Ball-Confirmed). T: 2:22. A: 32,867 (41,083).
Rookies Cooper Pratt and Luis Lara drove in three runs apiece, and Robert Gasser worked six solid innings as Milwaukee beat Colorado.
The 21-year-old Pratt, the starting shortstop since being called up from Class AAA Nashville in mid- June, had a solo homer, two singles and a sacrifice fly.
Rockies AB R H BI BBSOAVG McCarthy lf.........5 0 1 2 0 1 .302 Karros 3b ............4 1 2 1 1 0 .266 Carrigg cf............4 1 1 0 1 1 .288 Goodman dh .......4 0 1 2 0 2 .259 Rumfield 1b........3 1 0 0 1 0 .298 Castro 2b ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .256 Fulford c..............2 0 0 0 0 1 .180 Sullivan ph-c.......2 1 0 0 0 0 .218 Freeman rf..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .253 Tovar ss..............2 1 1 0 1 0 .198 Totals 34 5 7 5 4 7 —
Brewers AB R H BI BBSOAVG Yelich dh.............4 0 1 1 0 1 .243 Chourio lf............5 0 1 0 0 1 .275 Turang 2b ...........4 0 2 0 0 1 .267 Contreras c .........4 1 1 0 0 2 .274 Bauers 1b............3 3 2 0 1 1 .259 Mitchell cf ..........3 1 0 0 1 1 .272 Lara rf.................2 2 2 3 1 0 .276 Pratt ss...............3 1 3 3 0 0 .281 Hamilton 3b........4 0 1 0 0 2 .237 Totals 32 8 13 7 3 9 —
Colorado.... 000 200 003 — 5 7 1 Milwaukee . 020 104 01x — 8 13 1
E: Fulford (1), Bauers (7). LOB: Colorado 7, Milwaukee 6. 2B: Carrigg (9), Yelich (17), Lara (2), Turang (25). HR: Pratt (2), off Feltner. Rockies IP H R ERBBSO ERA Feltner................. 5 9 5 5 1 4 5.73 Mejia ................... 1 2 2 1 1 1 5.48 Gordon................. 2 2 1 1 1 4 5.90
Brewers IP H R ERBBSO ERA Gasser ................. 6 5 2 2 0 4 4.71 Patrick................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.48 McCullers ......... 12/3 1 3 0 4 1 6.55 Megill ................. 1/3 1 0 0 0 1 2.97
Una victoria Gigante
hitting a three-run homer in Saturday’s 9-2 rout of the Angels at Oracle Park.
Austin Wells and Jasson Domínguez homered, Ryan Weathers pitched into the sixth inning, and New York beat Philadelphia.
Cody Bellinger singled, doubled and drove in a run for the Yankees.
yankees AB R H BI BBSOAVG Rosario 3b .............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 .229 McMahon ph-3b..... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Rice dh.................... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .271 Goldschmidt 1b...... 4 0 2 0 0 0 .259 Bellinger lf ............. 4 0 2 1 0 0 .259 Schuemann lf......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .228 Grisham cf.............. 4 0 0 0 0 0 .219 Domínguez rf ......... 4 1 1 1 0 1 .233 Chisholm 2b ........... 4 0 0 0 0 4 .223 Caballero ss............ 4 0 1 0 0 2 .241 Wells c.................... 2 2 1 1 1 0 .166 Totals 34 3 7 3 1 11 —
Phillies AB R H BI BBSOAVG Turner ss ............3 1 1 0 0 1 .242 Schwarber dh .....4 0 2 0 0 1 .251 Harper 1b............3 0 0 1 0 0 .251 Bohm 3b..............3 0 0 0 1 0 .221 Sosa lf.................4 0 0 0 0 2 .212 De La Cruz rf.......3 0 2 0 0 1 .600 Crawford ph-cf ...1 0 0 0 0 0 .254 Realmuto c .........3 0 2 0 1 0 .229 Stott 2b ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .246 D.Hill cf...............2 0 0 0 0 1 .243 Marsh ph-cf-rf....2 0 0 0 0 0 .287 Totals 32 1 7 1 2 7 —
New York .... 001 001 100 — 3 7 0 Phila............. 100 000 000 — 1 7 2
E: Bohm 2 (8). LOB: New York 5, Phila- delphia 8. 2B: Bellinger (21), Schwarber (12). HR: Wells (7), off Keller; Domínguez (6), off Alvarado. yankees IP H R ERBBSO ERA Weathers ......... 52/3 6 1 1 1 7 4.25 Chivilli ................ 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0.77 Blackburn ............ 2 0 0 0 1 0 1.93 Bednar................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.42
Phillies IP H R ERBBSO ERA Mayza.................. 2 0 0 0 0 1 3.83 Keller................... 3 2 1 1 0 3 3.00 Backhus.............. 2/3 0 1 1 1 2 6.19 Johnson.............. 1/3 2 0 0 0 0 5.74 Alvarado.............. 1 2 1 1 0 1 6.16 Bowlan ................ 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.78 Duran................... 1 0 0 0 0 3 1.29
WP: Weathers (4-7); LP: Backhus (1-1); S: Bednar (20). Inherited runners- scored: Chivilli 1-0, Johnson 1-1. HBP: Weathers (Turner). ABS Chal- lenge_Weathers (Ball-Confirmed) T: 2:40. A: 44,562 (42,901).
Hunter Brown pitched seven shutout innings of two-hit ball, and Isaac Paredes had three RBI as Houston beat Chicago for its fifth straight victory.
Brown, making his sev- enth start after spending 11 weeks on the injured list with a right shoulder strain, allowed only two singles.
Astros AB R H BI BBSOAVG Peña ss ...............4 2 3 0 0 1 .315 Alvarez dh ..........3 1 0 0 1 1 .325 Paredes 3b..........4 0 2 3 0 1 .263 Altuve 2b............4 0 0 0 0 0 .235 Allen 2b ..............0 0 0 0 0 0 .242 Wade lf...............3 0 1 0 0 1 .189 Trammell lf.........1 0 0 0 0 1 .230 Walker 1b ...........3 0 0 0 1 3 .232 Diaz c ..................4 0 0 0 0 1 .232 Spence cf ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .179 Smith rf ..............3 1 0 0 0 1 .208 Totals 33 4 6 3 2 12 —
white sox AB R H BI BBSOAVG Antonacci lf............3 0 0 0 0 0 .278 Grichuk ph-lf ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .243 Murakami 1b..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .231 Vargas 3b...............4 1 1 0 0 1 .243 C.Montgomery ss...4 0 1 1 0 1 .218 Benintendi dh.........3 0 0 0 0 3 .241 Acuña ph ................1 0 0 0 0 1 .245 B.Montgomery rf ...4 0 1 0 0 2 .250 Peters cf.................2 0 1 0 1 0 .287 Meidroth 2b ...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .276 Quero c...................3 0 0 0 0 0 .179 Totals 32 1 5 1 1 10 —
Houston...... 000 003 010 — 4 6 1 Chicago........ 000 000 001 — 1 5 1
E: Spence (1), B.Montgomery (3). LOB: Houston 5, Chicago 5. Astros IP H R ERBBSO ERA Brown.................. 7 2 0 0 0 7 3.45 Abreu.................. 2/3 1 0 0 1 1 5.05 Sousa.................. 2/3 2 1 0 0 0 4.50 Hader.................. 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 1.35
white sox IP H R ERBBSO ERA Burke................... 6 4 3 2 1 10 3.19 Richards .............. 2 2 1 1 0 2 3.80 Schweitzer .......... 1 0 0 0 1 0 3.78
WEST W L Pct GB L10 Str
WEST W L Pct GB L10 Str
Los Angeles 67 38 .638 — 6-4 W-4
Arizona 55 50 .524 12 7-3 L-1
San Diego 52 53 .495 15 5-5 W-2
San Francisco 44 60 .423221/2 5-5 W-2
Colorado 42 64 .396251/2 3-7 L-1
Pete Crow-Armstrong was 4 for 5 with a home run and three RBI to lead Chicago to a rout of Pitts- burgh.
Shota Imanaga held Pittsburgh to four hits in six innings, striking out four.
cubs AB R H BI BBSOAVG Crow-Armstrong cf...5 3 4 3 0 1 .291 Conforto lf.............1 0 0 0 0 0 .235 Suzuki rf................5 0 1 2 0 4 .266 Busch 1b................6 0 3 2 0 2 .245 Bregman 3b...........5 0 0 0 1 2 .234 Happ lf...................3 0 0 0 1 2 .221 Triantos ph-2b ......1 1 1 0 0 0 1.00 Hoerner 2b ............4 1 1 0 0 1 .244 Dean ph-cf.............1 0 0 0 0 1 .286 Ramirez dh-1b.......4 2 2 1 1 1 .295 Swanson ss...........4 2 2 1 1 1 .216 Amaya c ................4 2 2 2 0 1 .239 Totals 43 11 1611 4 16 —
Pirates AB R H BI BBSOAVG Mangum cf-lf..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .304 Gonzales 2b............4 0 1 0 0 1 .311 Reynolds lf..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .270 Callihan 1b-p...........1 0 0 0 0 1 .230 Valdez rf .................3 0 1 0 1 2 .283 O'Hearn 1b..............3 0 1 0 0 0 .278 Cook cf....................1 0 0 0 0 0 .205 Ozuna dh.................3 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Ross 1b...................1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Triolo 3b..................4 0 0 0 0 1 .243 Gonzalez ss ............3 0 0 0 0 1 .245 Davis c ....................2 0 1 0 0 0 .176 Totals 32 0 5 0 1 7 —
Chicago........ 000 035 210 — 11 16 1 Pittsburgh . 000 000 000 — 0 5 1
E: Swanson (6), Skenes (1). LOB: Chica- go 11, Pittsburgh 7. 2B: Crow-Armstrong 2 (19), Swanson (13), Ramirez (7). HR: Crow-Armstrong (23), off Marinaccio. cubs IP H R ERBBSO ERA Imanaga .............. 6 4 0 0 1 4 3.72 Assad................... 3 1 0 0 0 3 3.86
Pirates IP H R ERBBSO ERA Skenes.............. 51/3 6 5 5 2 11 3.65 Mattson.............. 1/3 4 3 3 1 1 4.91 Marinaccio........ 11/3 3 2 2 1 1 5.03 Eisert................... 1 2 1 1 0 2 6.75 Callihan ............... 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00
WP: Imanaga (7-8); LP: Skenes (9-9); S: Assad (1). Inherited runners-scored: Mattson 2-2, Marinaccio 2-0. HBP: Skenes (Amaya), Marinaccio (Suzuki), Assad (Davis). WP: Marinaccio. ABS Challenge_Suzuki (Strike-Overturned to Ball) T: 2:48. A: 39,105 (38,753).
Kyle Tucker homered for the second consecutive game, Yoshinobu Yamamo- to allowed one run in six gritty innings, and Los An- geles beat New York.
Freddie Freeman had his third straight three-hit game, and Andy Pages drove in two runs.
dodgers AB R H BI BBSOAVG Ohtani dh............5 0 0 0 0 1 .282 Pages cf ..............4 1 1 2 0 0 .266 Freeman 1b.........4 0 3 0 0 0 .299 Muncy 3b ............4 0 0 0 0 4 .259 Betts ss ..............4 0 1 0 0 1 .232 Edman 2b............3 0 0 0 0 0 .330 Tucker rf .............3 1 1 1 1 1 .241 Hernández lf.......3 1 1 0 1 1 .247 Rushing c............4 1 1 0 0 1 .243 Totals 34 4 8 3 2 9 —
mets AB R H BI BBSOAVG Ewing lf ..............5 0 0 0 0 2 .263 Lindor ss.............3 0 0 0 2 1 .224 Bichette 3b.........5 0 2 1 0 0 .255 Benge rf..............4 1 1 0 0 1 .260 Robert cf.............2 1 0 0 2 1 .210 Polanco dh ..........4 0 0 0 0 2 .154 Semien 2b...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .204 Baty 1b ...............3 1 1 0 0 2 .224 Taylor ph.............1 0 1 2 0 0 .234 Young 1b.............0 0 0 0 0 0 .255 Alvarez c.............2 0 1 0 2 1 .260 Totals 33 3 6 3 6 11 —
L.A.................. 003 010 000 — 4 8 0 New York .... 000 010 020 — 3 6 1
E: Baty (7). LOB: Los Angeles 6, New York 10. 2B: Hernández (11), Taylor (8). HR: Tucker (9), off McLean. dodgers IP H R ERBBSO ERA Yamamoto........... 6 5 1 1 3 5 2.72 Vesia ................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 2.55 Henriquez........... 2/3 0 2 2 1 2 2.81 T.Scott................ 1/3 1 0 0 1 1 2.32 Stewart ............... 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.03
mets IP H R ERBBSO ERA McLean................ 6 7 4 2 2 7 3.32 Duarte ................. 2 1 0 0 0 2 0.00 Brazobán ............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.70
WP: Yamamoto (11-6); LP: McLean (7-7); S: Stewart (1). Inherited runners- scored: T.Scott 2-2. IBB: off T.Scott (Al- varez). HBP: Duarte (Edman), Hen- riquez (Benge). PB: Alvarez (8). ABS Challenge_Ewing (Strike-Confirmed) Pitch timer violations_Scott (pitcher). T: 2:48. A: 36,356 (42,136).
Tampa Bay 61 43 .587 — 5-5 W-2
New York 59 45 .567 2 7-3 W-3
Boston 53 50 .515 71/2 8-2 L-1
Baltimore 51 54 .486101/2 7-3 W-1
Toronto 48 57 .457131/2 3-7 W-1
x-Late game
x-Late game
Andre Pallante matched his season high with eight strikeouts in seven strong innings, and St. Louis scored six runs in the bot- tom of the sixth in a win over Cincinnati.
Pallante allowed two hits and a walk.
Six straight Cardinals reached base with one out in the sixth inning before Nathan Church laid down a safety squeeze bunt that scored Bryan Torres and made the score 7-0.
Reds AB R H BI BBSOAVG De La Cruz ss......3 0 1 0 1 1 .276 Stewart 1b..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .251 Bleday lf .............2 0 1 0 2 0 .238 Suárez dh............4 0 0 0 0 4 .210 Stephenson c......4 0 0 0 0 2 .245 Marte rf ..............4 0 0 0 0 0 .184 Friedl cf...............3 0 0 0 0 2 .171 Arroyo 2b............3 0 0 0 0 1 .248 Hayes 3b.............3 0 0 0 0 1 .143 Totals 30 0 3 0 3 12 —
Cardinals AB R H BI BBSOAVG Wetherholt 2b....3 2 0 0 1 1 .256 Walker rf ............4 0 2 0 0 1 .290 Burleson 1b ........4 1 3 1 0 1 .285 Herrera c.............4 1 2 2 0 1 .242 Nootbaar lf .........2 1 0 0 1 0 .242 Fermín lf.............1 0 0 0 0 0 .256 Winn ss...............4 1 1 0 0 1 .235 Torres dh ............4 1 1 1 0 0 .216 Jordan 3b............4 0 1 2 0 0 .245 Church cf.............3 0 0 1 0 1 .225 Totals 33 7 10 7 2 6 —
Cincinnati... 000 000 000 — 0 3 1 St. Louis....... 100 006 00x — 7 10 0
E: De La Cruz (9). LOB: Cincinnati 6, St. Louis 5. 2B: Walker (23), Herrera (15). Reds IP H R ERBBSO ERA Greene.............. 51/3 8 7 6 2 3 7.06 Moll .................... 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 4.32 Petty.................... 2 2 0 0 0 2 4.23
Cardinals IP H R ERBBSO ERA Pallante............... 7 2 0 0 1 8 3.77 Graceffo .............. 2 1 0 0 2 4 3.16
WP: Pallante (11-6); LP: Greene (2-2). Inherited runners-scored: Moll 2-1. ABS Challenge_Greene (Ball-Confirmed) T: 2:19. A: 33,975 (44,494).
Nick Martinez threw six sharp innings, Yandy Díaz became the fourth player in Tampa Bay history to reach 1,000 hits, and the Rays beat Cleveland.
Junior Caminero hit an RBI double in the fifth to put Tampa Bay up 1-0 be- fore Cedric Mullins extend- ed the lead with a sacrifice fly. Hunter Feduccia added a sacrifice bunt in the sixth that scored Victor Mesa Jr.
Guardians AB R H BI BBSOAVG Kwan lf-cf...........4 0 1 0 0 1 .248 Ramírez 3b .........4 0 1 0 0 0 .239 Bazzana dh .........4 0 2 0 0 0 .242 Rocchio ss...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .271 Martínez rf .........4 0 0 0 0 1 .231 Manzardo 1b.......3 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Arias 2b ..............3 0 1 0 0 2 .252 Bailey c ...............2 0 0 0 0 1 .200 Hedges ph-c........1 0 0 0 0 1 .287 Halpin cf .............2 0 0 0 0 0 .193 Fry ph-lf..............0 0 0 0 1 0 .186 Totals 31 0 5 0 1 8 —
Rays AB R H BI BBSOAVG Díaz dh....................4 1 2 0 0 2 .306 Aranda 1b...............4 1 1 0 0 2 .282 Caminero 3b ...........4 0 1 1 0 1 .285 Mullins cf................3 0 0 1 0 1 .202 Simpson lf ..............4 0 2 0 0 1 .293 Mesa rf...................3 1 1 0 1 2 .227 Palacios 2b .............3 0 1 0 1 0 .234 Walls ss..................0 0 0 0 0 0 .224 Williamson ss-2b ...3 0 0 0 0 0 .248 Feduccia c...............2 0 1 1 0 0 .233 Totals 30 3 9 3 2 9 —
Cleveland... 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 Tampa Bay .. 000 021 00x — 3 9 0
LOB: Cleveland 5, Tampa Bay 7. 2B: Díaz (18), Caminero (17). Guardians IP H R ERBBSO ERA Bibee ................... 6 9 3 3 2 5 3.89 Dion ..................... 2 0 0 0 0 4 4.58
Rays IP H R ERBBSO ERA Martinez.............. 6 4 0 0 0 5 2.45 Sulser .................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.86 Cleavinger ........... 1 0 0 0 1 2 3.60 Baker ................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.60
Chicago 54 49 .524 — 6-4 L-2
Cleveland 54 52 .509 11/2 4-6 L-4
Minnesota 52 54 .491 31/2 5-5 W-1
Detroit 50 55 .476 5 6-4 L-1
Kansas City 44 62 .415 111/2 6-4 W-1
Braves AB R H BI BBSOAVG Baldwin c............4 0 1 0 0 1 .273 Albies 2b.............4 1 1 1 0 1 .264 Olson 1b..............3 1 0 0 1 1 .267 Harris cf..............4 0 1 0 0 1 .299 Dubón lf..............4 0 1 1 0 0 .265 Smith dh.............3 0 0 0 1 0 .259 Riley 3b...............4 0 0 0 0 3 .217 Yastrzemski rf....2 0 1 0 0 1 .228 White ph-rf.........1 0 1 0 0 0 .220 Hicklen ph-rf.......1 0 0 0 0 1 .368 Jarvis ss..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .271 Totals 33 2 6 2 2 9 —
Orioles AB R H BI BBSOAVG Beavers rf...........4 0 2 1 1 1 .255 Alonso 1b............4 1 0 0 0 0 .247 Henderson ss......4 1 1 1 0 3 .223 Ward lf................3 0 1 0 1 2 .251 Encarnacion- Strand 3b............4 0 1 1 0 2 .375
Taveras cf...........3 0 0 0 1 1 .232 O'Neill dh............4 0 0 0 0 2 .209 Holliday 2b..........3 1 2 0 1 0 .229 Tromp c...............3 0 0 0 0 3 .205 Cowser ph...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .205 Totals 33 3 7 3 4 14 —
Atlanta....... 000 001 010 — 2 6 2 Baltimore... 001 010 001 — 3 7 0
Two outs when winning run scored. E: Jarvis 2 (4). LOB: Atlanta 6, Baltimore 8. 2B: Harris (21), White (6), Holliday (4). HR: Albies (17), off Garcia; Henderson (18), off Elder. RBI: Dubón (55), Albies (57), Encarnacion-Strand (9), Henderson (45), Beavers (17). SB: Alonso (5). Braves IP H R ERBBSO ERA Elder .................... 5 4 2 1 4 8 3.96 Mederos .............. 2 1 0 0 0 3 3.86 Fuentes ............ 12/3 2 1 1 0 3 2.70
Orioles IP H R ERBBSO ERA B.Young............ 61/3 4 1 1 2 6 3.13 Wolfram............. 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 4.40 Garcia .................. 1 1 1 1 0 1 3.00 Cano..................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.34
WP: Cano (2-2); LP: Fuentes (4-1). ABS Challenge_Young (Ball-Overturned to Strike) T: 2:34. A: 37,883 (45,971).
orioles’ batting leaders Entering Sunday’s game.
AVG HR RBI BB SO Encarnacion-Strand..375 3 9 1 6 Alexander .................312 4 29 16 54 Mountcastle .............286 0 1 1 2 Beavers.....................255 2 17 18 42 Jackson.....................252 7 38 5 44 Ward.........................251 7 27 81 97 Rutschman ...............251 8 47 30 40 Alonso.......................247 21 66 54 113 Basallo......................241 16 46 26 82
Dylan Cease took a no- hitter into the sixth inning and finished with a one-hit complete game, George Springer hit a three-run homer, and Toronto cooled off Boston.
Cease, the American League’s all-star starter, gave up a leadoff double to Andruw Monasterio in the sixth. The only previous base runner came on a four-pitch walk to Caleb Durbin in the fifth.
Cease struck out 12, in- cluding the final six outs.
Blue Jays AB R H BI BBSOAVG Lukes rf-lf...........5 1 2 0 0 1 .290 V.Guerrero 1b.....4 1 3 2 1 0 .267 Okamoto 3b........5 1 1 0 0 2 .226 Springer dh.........5 1 2 3 0 1 .229 Varsho cf ............4 1 2 0 0 0 .247 Clement 2b .........4 0 3 1 0 0 .298 Piñango lf ...........2 0 0 0 0 1 .263 Straw ph-rf.........2 0 0 0 0 1 .213 Giménez ss.........4 1 2 0 0 2 .227 Valenzuela c .......4 0 0 0 0 1 .227 Totals 39 6 15 6 1 9 —
Red Sox AB R H BI BBSOAVG Seigler 2b............3 0 0 0 1 1 .265 Rafaela cf ...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .279 Abreu rf ..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .253 Contreras 1b.......2 0 0 0 1 2 .291 Yoshida dh..........3 0 0 0 0 0 .261 Durbin 3b............2 0 0 0 1 1 .233 Duran lf...............3 0 0 0 0 2 .192 Monasterio ss ....3 0 1 0 0 1 .250 Wong c................3 0 0 0 0 2 .266 Totals 27 0 1 0 3 12 —
Toronto ...... 005 000 001 — 6 15 0 Boston......... 000 000 000 — 0 1 0
LOB: Toronto 7, Boston 3. 2B: Lukes 2 (11), Clement (24), Monasterio (16). HR: Springer (11), off Gray. Blue Jays IP H R ERBBSO ERA Cease................... 9 1 0 0 3 12 2.46
Red Sox IP H R ERBBSO ERA Gray..................... 5 10 5 5 0 3 2.78 Gamboa ............... 4 5 1 1 1 6 2.08
WP: Cease (7-5); LP: Gray (12-2). ABS Challenge_Duran (Strike-Confirmed) T: 2:25. A: 36,902 (37,755).
Nathan Eovaldi gave up three hits and struck out eight in seven innings while Wyatt Langford and Joc Pederson had three hits each for Texas in a win over Seattle.
Eovaldi has five starts of at least seven innings this season, second in the ma- jor leagues behind Phila- delphia’s Christopher Sán- chez with six.
Mariners AB R H BI BBSOAVG Young 2b.............4 0 0 0 0 0 .253 Rodríguez dh ......4 0 0 0 0 2 .254 Canzone rf ..........4 0 0 0 0 1 .253 Arozarena lf........4 0 1 0 0 1 .280 Naylor 1b ............3 0 0 0 1 1 .257 Raleigh c.............3 0 0 0 0 1 .163 Raley cf...............2 1 1 0 0 1 .231 Wilson ph ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .229 Robles cf.............0 0 0 0 0 0 .241 Crawford 3b........3 0 2 1 0 1 .220 Emerson ss.........3 0 1 0 0 1 .200 Totals 31 1 5 1 1 9 —
Rangers AB R H BI BBSOAVG Pederson 1b........5 1 3 0 0 0 .251 Langford lf..........4 2 3 1 0 1 .290 Cauley 2b............1 0 0 0 0 0 .250 Duran ss-3b ........4 1 2 2 0 1 .270 Nimmo rf ............3 1 0 0 1 0 .269 Carter cf..............2 1 1 1 2 1 .192 Lopez 2b-ss ........3 1 1 1 1 0 .314 Osuna dh.............4 0 1 2 0 1 .263 Smith 3b-lf .........4 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Wynns c..............4 0 1 0 0 2 .086 Totals 34 7 12 7 4 7 —
Seattle........ 000 010 000 — 1 5 0 Texas............ 320 000 20x — 7 12 0
LOB: Seattle 4, Texas 7. 2B: Crawford (11), Langford 2 (11), Carter (8), Peder- son (10), Osuna (5). 3B: Duran (3). Mariners IP H R ERBBSO ERA Woo..................... 5 9 5 5 2 5 4.37 Wilcox .............. 12/3 1 1 1 1 2 3.57 Davila ............... 11/3 2 1 1 1 0 3.57
Rangers IP H R ERBBSO ERA Eovaldi................. 7 3 1 1 1 8 4.05 Ahlstrom............. 1 1 0 0 0 1 5.40 Peoples................ 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.45
Ty France drove in three runs, JP Sears gave up one hit and struck out three over 31/3 innings, and San Diego beat Miami.
France hit a two-run sin- gle in the third inning and drove in another run with a single in the eighth inning.
Marlins starter Eury Pér- ez pitched seven innings, giving up seven hits and three earned runs. He struck out two and walked one.
Padres AB R H BI BBSOAVG Tatis dh................. 4 1 0 0 1 0 .280 Cronenworth 2b.... 3 2 1 1 2 1 .206 Machado 3b........... 5 1 1 0 0 1 .207 France 1b............... 4 1 2 3 0 1 .283 Merrill cf ............... 4 2 3 0 0 0 .228 Rengifo lf .............. 3 0 1 0 1 0 .232 Sheets rf ............... 2 0 0 1 0 0 .213 Bowen rf ............... 1 0 1 2 0 0 .148 Bogaerts ss........... 4 0 1 0 0 0 .218 Fermin c ................ 3 0 1 0 0 0 .166 Totals 33 7 11 7 4 3 —
Marlins AB R H BI BBSOAVG Lopez ss..............2 0 1 1 1 0 .331 Stowers 1b .........3 0 1 1 1 1 .230 Hernández lf.......4 0 0 0 0 1 .246 Edwards 2b.........4 0 0 0 0 0 .289 Hicks c ................4 0 0 0 0 0 .279 Sanoja 3b............4 0 0 0 0 0 .266 Conine dh............3 0 0 0 0 2 .262 Ruiz rf.................2 2 2 0 0 0 .255 Marsee cf............2 0 1 0 1 1 .195 Totals 28 2 5 2 3 5 —
San Diego .... 002 000 131 — 7 11 0 Miami............ 001 000 010 — 2 5 0
LOB: San Diego 5, Miami 4. 2B: Merrill 2 (17), Machado (17). Padres IP H R ERBBSO ERA Vásquez............ 22/3 1 1 1 2 0 4.68 Sears ................ 31/3 1 0 0 1 3 3.86 Matsui................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.61 Waldron............... 2 3 1 1 0 1 7.16
Marlins IP H R ERBBSO ERA Pérez ................... 7 7 3 3 1 2 3.56 Fulton.................. 2 4 4 4 3 1 5.25
WP: Sears (3-3); LP: Pérez (5-8). HBP: Pérez (Fermin), Vásquez (Ruiz). WP: Fulton. ABS Challenge_Ruiz (Strike- Confirmed) T: 3:15. A: 22,319 (37,446).
Alan Roden hit a two-run single, and Minnesota beat the Athletics.
The Twins had not scored in 25 of their previ- ous 27 innings before Roden drove in a pair in the bottom of the sixth off A’s reliever Mason Barnett. Minnesota was shut out in Friday’s series opener.
Athletics AB R H BI BBSOAVG Wilson ss............4 0 0 0 0 0 .282 Kurtz dh..............4 0 0 0 0 4 .263 Soderstrom lf .....4 0 1 0 0 1 .248 Heim c.................4 0 0 0 0 1 .233 White 3b.............4 0 0 0 0 1 .296 Walton 2b...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .290 McNeil 1b............4 0 2 0 0 1 .240 Bolte cf ...............2 0 0 0 1 1 .250 Butler rf..............0 0 0 0 2 0 .199 Totals 30 0 3 0 3 10 —
Twins AB R H BI BBSOAVG Larnach lf............4 0 1 0 0 1 .293 Martin lf .............0 0 0 0 0 0 .241 Buxton cf ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .269 Clemens 2b.........3 0 0 0 1 1 .237 Bell dh.................3 1 0 0 1 1 .243 Lewis 1b .............4 1 1 0 0 1 .212 Caratini c ............3 0 2 0 0 0 .236 Roden rf..............3 0 1 2 0 1 .226 Lee 3b .................3 0 0 0 0 1 .246 Kreidler ss ..........3 0 1 0 0 0 .231 Totals 30 2 6 2 2 8 —
Athletics .... 000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Minnesota.. 000 002 00x — 2 6 1
E: Morris (2). LOB: Athletics 7, Minne- sota 6. 2B: McNeil 2 (13), Kreidler (5), Lewis (13). Athletics IP H R ERBBSO ERA Basso................ 21/3 2 0 0 1 3 5.06 Barnett............. 31/3 4 2 2 1 2 4.74 Suarez ................ 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 4.25 Juenger ............... 1 0 0 0 0 0 6.75 Medina ................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.64
Twins IP H R ERBBSO ERA Rojas.................... 4 1 0 0 1 5 2.81 Rogers ................. 2 1 0 0 1 2 5.17 Nance .................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 3.76 Morris.................. 1 0 0 0 1 2 3.24 Gómez ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.40
WP: Rogers (6-3); LP: Barnett (1-1); S: Gómez (13). Inherited runners-scored: Barnett 1-0, Suarez 1-0. ABS Chal- lenge_Rojas (Ball-Confirmed) T: 2:25. A: 30,873 (38,544).
Late Friday
Rafael Devers homered in his first at-bat and hit a walk-off, two-run single in the 10th inning as San Francisco beat Los Angeles.
L.A. .............. 100 030 020 0 — 6 9 1 San Fran... 203 000 100 1 — 7 9 0
One out when winning run scored. E: Zeferjahn (1). LOB: Los Angeles 7, San Francisco 6. 2B: Eldridge (14). 3B: Neto (3), Heineman (1). HR: Grissom (6), off Foley; Devers (21), off G.Rodri- guez; Schmitt (21), off G.Rodriguez. angels IP H R ERBBSO ERA G.Rodriguez......... 4 6 5 5 2 3 8.54 Suter ................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.47 Fermin................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.76 Yates ................... 1 0 1 1 1 0 3.80 Natera ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.33 Zeferjahn............. 1 0 0 0 1 1 3.75 Silseth................ 1/3 2 1 0 1 0 2.87
Giants IP H R ERBBSO ERA Webb................... 6 6 4 4 2 4 3.98 Smith................... 1 0 0 0 1 3 2.81 Foley.................... 1 2 2 2 0 1 6.00 Miller................... 1 0 0 0 2 1 2.97 Kilian ................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.57
Texas 53 51 .510 — 5-5 W-2
Houston 52 54 .491 2 6-4 W-5
Seattle 51 54 .486 21/2 4-6 L-4
Athletics 44 60 .423 9 3-7 L-1
Los Angeles 41 64 .390121/2 3-7 L-3
Astros: Placed RHP Spencer Arrighetti on the 15-day injured list. Athletics: Reinstated 1B Nick Kurtz from the reserve list and optioned 3B Max Muncy to Class AAA Las Vegas. Blue Jays: Sent OF Jesús Sánchez and RHP Yimi García on rehab assignments to low Class A Dunedin. Braves: Designated RHP Elieser Hernández for assignment and recalled LHP Connor Thomas from Class AAA Gwinnett. Mets: Placed OF Juan Soto on the 10-day IL and recalled 1B Eric Wagaman from Syracuse. Rays: Reinstated LHP Steven Matz from the 15-day IL and optioned RHP Chris Roycroft to Class AAA Durham. Tigers: Sent SS Javier Báez on a rehab assignment to Class AAA Toledo.
Diamondbacks at Nationals, 1:35
W-L ERA Team
W-L ERA Team
W-L ERA Team
Drake (L) 0-0 1.80 1-0
Mikolas (R) 3-7 5.60 4-4
Cubs at Pirates, 1:35
Taillon (R) 2-5 5.38 6-8
Ashcraft (R) 9-4 3.95 13-7
Dodgers at Mets, 1:40
Sheehan (R) 4-7 5.13 8-10
Peralta (R) 5-9 5.01 9-12
Padres at Marlins, 1:40
Buehler (R) 6-5 5.23 13-7
Junk (R) 4-6 5.09 6-7
Rockies at Brewers, 2:10
Freeland (L) 2-9 7.28 6-12
Misiorowski (R) 10-4 1.56 12-7
Reds at Cardinals, 2:15
Abbott (L) 5-6 3.89 10-11
Leahy (R) 7-4 3.59 9-10
Friday’s results Arizona 3, at Washington 2 Colorado 5, at Milwaukee 2 Chicago Cubs 3, at Pittsburgh 2 (10) L.A. Dodgers 4, at N.Y. Mets 2 San Diego 4, at Miami 2 Cincinnati 4, at St. Louis 2
Saturday’s results at Washington 5, Arizona 3 San Diego 7, at Miami 2 Chicago Cubs 11, at Pittsburgh 0 at St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 0 at Milwaukee 8, Colorado 5 L.A. Dodgers 4, at N.Y. Mets 3
Braves at Orioles, 1:35
López (R) 4-3 3.96 6-4
Baz (R) 4-9 4.05 6-14
angels at Giants, 4:05
Soriano (R) 8-6 3.43 11-10
Whisenhunt (L) 2-0 3.38 2-0
yankees at Phillies, 7:20
Warren (R) 7-4 4.00 13-6
Sánchez (L) 12-4 2.65 15-6
Friday’s Results Atlanta 7, at Baltimore 6 (10) N.Y. Yankees 1, at Philadelphia 0 at San Francisco 7, L.A. Angels 6 (10)
Saturday’s Results at Baltimore 3, Atlanta 0 at San Francisco 9, L.A. Angels 2 N.Y. Yankees 3, at Philadelphia 1
Guardians at Rays, 12:15
Messick (L) 8-5 2.68 12-8
Rasmussen (R) 8-5 3.28 10-9
Blue Jays at Red Sox, 1:35
Gausman (R) 4-9 4.51 8-13
Suarez (L) 4-3 3.15 9-8
Royals at Tigers, 1:40
Avila (R) 5-3 4.86 7-3
Valdez (L) 5-7 4.57 8-12
Athletics at Twins, 2:10
Springs (L) 3-9 5.96 8-12
Astros at White Sox, 2:10
Blanco (R) 0-0 7.71 1-0
Fedde (R) 5-6 4.16 6-4
Mariners at Rangers, 2:35
Gilbert (R) 8-6 3.38 12-8
deGrom (R) 7-6 3.76 11-8
Friday’s results at Detroit 2, Kansas City 1 at Tampa Bay 11, Cleveland 3 at Boston 6, Toronto 4 Athletics 2, at Minnesota 0 at Texas 5, Seattle 4 Houston 9, at Chicago White Sox 5
their chance at walk-off
time.”
BY TAYLOR LYONS
BALTIMORE — Mike Elias himself stressed the importance of these last few days before the trade deadline. On Friday, speaking at a news conference celebrating Kyle Bradish’s contract extension, the president of baseball operations said: “The next several games are really important.”
After Baltimore lost later that night, Brandon Young helped get his team back on track Saturday with the help of new leadoff hitter Dylan Beavers.
A 3-2 win over the Braves, in which the right-hander allowed one run over 61/3 innings and Bea- vers delivered a walk-off single in the ninth, is the Orioles’ second in three games and moves them to 51-54, just 21/2 games back of the last wild-card spot in the Ameri- can League.
Young worked through five scoreless innings before allowing a run in the sixth. But he stranded Michael Harris II at third by snag- ging a bouncing comebacker with his pitching hand.
Beavers, hitting at the top of the order for the second consecutive night, came to bat with two outs in the ninth and Jackson Holliday at
“We’ve done a great job coming up to this point, playing good baseball, so we look to continue to do that,” said CJ Abrams, right.
great job coming up to this point, playing good baseball, so we look to continue to do that.”
and Nats defeat D’Backs
Nationals from B1
Abrams’s efforts may not have mattered, though, had it not been for another solid perfor- mance from Foster Griffin. The left-hander allowed three runs in 62/3 innings to raise his already sky-high trade value.
In the third, Ryan Wald- schmidt led off with an infield single, and Griffin hit Corbin Carroll with a sinker. They both scored on a single by Gabriel Moreno, who was thrown out trying to advance to second.
The Diamondbacks didn’t hold the lead for long. In the bottom of the inning, a Curtis Mead walk and an Andrés Chap- arro double put runners on sec- ond and third for Abrams. He came through with his double, though he was quickly caught stealing for the second out.
But the Nationals weren’t fin- ished. A triple by Daylen Lile — his fifth of the season, one better than Luis García Jr. for the team lead — drove in Dylan Crews and Jacob Young to make it 4-2.
Two innings later, Abrams crushed an 0-1 sinker for his 25th home run of the season, extend- ing the lead to 5-2.
“Credit to our hitting coaches for helping him simplify his plan, simplify his approach to get him back to keeping things extremely simple in the box and hunting a pitch where he does damage on,” Butera said.
Griffin was able to hold the score for the next three innings, setting Arizona’s hitters down in order. Crews chipped in with a running catch on the warning track to take away a possible extra-base hit from James McCa- nn in the fifth. Instead of target- ing the corners, a spot the Dia- mondbacks were hitting, Griffin moved to the middle of the zone.
That worked, until the sev- enth. Tim Tawa doubled on Grif- fin’s 101st pitch, and McCann drove him in on Griffin’s 108th. Butera brought in right-hander Eddy Yean, and Griffin walked off the mound to a standing ovation in what could have been
third. Beavers smoked the first pitch he saw, a 100-mph fastball from reliever Didier Fuentes, through the right side. Beavers’s helmet was off his head and flying through the air before he touched first, where his teammates poured out of the dugout to meet him.
Christian Encarnacion-Strand continued his impressive start to his Orioles tenure with an RBI single in the third inning. After Braves rookie shortstop Jim Jarvis dropped a popup by Pete Alonso and Taylor Ward singled, Encarna- cion-Strand roped a liner that hit Jarvis’s glove and dropped to the outfield grass to score Alonso.
Gunnar Henderson homered in the fifth for just the second time this month. He’s still hitting just .223 with a career-low .701 OPS as July nears an end.
The Orioles needed Beavers’ he- roics after Rico Garcia allowed his eighth home run of the season in the eighth inning, his third straight appearance giving up a long ball.
The move cost the Orioles the lead for a brief moment. Beavers, the young outfielder still finding his place in the majors, recaptured it.
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his last home start.
Griffin, who turns 31 on Mon- day, said it was a weird spot to be in. He was frustrated with how his start ended, as he wanted to get the Nationals through the seventh, but he appreciated the support. He knows if the Nation- als decide to sell — and even if they decide not to — he could be a player they are willing to part with.
“I try not to let it affect me, but I am human, right?” Griffin said. “So it’s just kind of my job right now to go out there and pitch games for the Nats and try to get us deep in ballgames and win games. That’s all I can do. That’s all my focus is right now, and whatever happens, happens.”
The Nationals loaded the bas- es in the bottom of the seventh after Abrams’s leadoff single — his third hit of the day — and walks by Crews and Nasim Nu- ñez. They failed to get any runs across, but it didn’t matter, as Yean and Clayton Beeter com- bined for 21/3 scoreless innings.
“Eddy was huge. I mean, to come in there in the seventh and go out there in the eighth against 1-2-3 and make easy work of it like he did, he’s going to be huge for us. That was an unbelievable outing, to do here at home, too,” Butera said. “It was nice to have no drama to end the game there.”
— Baltimore Sun
WTTG (Ch. 5)
The king’s motives for joining the 76ers seem pure
BY MIKE SIELSKI Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA — If LeBron James is to be believed, if he was telling the truth when he took to Twitter/X late Friday morning to explain why he had decided to shock the basketball world and sign with the 76ers, if he was speaking from the heart and not merely trying to sell a new city and fan base on his choice, then this could be a red-letter moment in the history of Philadelphia sports.
LeBron to the 76ers is unlike anything that has happened around here. Those with long memories like to think Pete Rose’s signing with the Phillies in 1978 or the 76ers’ trade for Moses Malone in 1982 are comparable, and it’s understandable. Those superstars provided exactly what those teams needed to win a championship, and each of those teams promptly won one — the Phillies in Rose’s second season, the 76ers in Malone’s first.
But James exists in a different stratosphere economically and culturally from the one Rose and Malone occupied. His fame is global. His wealth makes him a multibillionaire. He is among the five best basketball players ever to walk the Earth and among the most famous people walking it now. And he is a perfect fit for this 76ers team, for a franchise that hasn’t won a championship since 1983 and is making an all-in move to end that drought.
The most heartening aspect of James’s decision isn’t even that, at 41 years old, he should be the ideal power forward/point guard to play alongside Joel Embiid, Jaylen Brown, Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe. He is a player unlike any other; he can bring the ball up, get it out of Maxey’s hands, run a half-court offense and play at any pace.
No, the encouraging thing about his announcement Friday was his reason for making it. He admitted that he had contemplat- ed retirement, that he had spent
LeBron from B1 Step aside, Harper: James is the new sheriff in Philly
— only a smidgen more per sea- son than first-round pick Labar- on Philon Jr. will earn — that stamped the 76ers as the most compelling team in the league this season.
Keeping tabs on the bally- hooed deal: Bryce Harper.
“He’s going to have a great couple of years here, and obvious- ly everyone’s going to expect him to win a championship here like everywhere else,” Harper said. “So nothing new for him. He’s had all the pressure since he was in high school or younger than that.”
Here’s the difference between James and all the superstars in the city that played before him: He’s LeBron James.
Meaning, his reach is so far beyond the court — from fame around the globe to his bank account to the cash register to pop culture — that there is no fair comparison. He is No. 4 on Forbes’s real-time list of wealthi- est athletes at $1.4 billion, so his pay cut may not even be noticed in the ledger. James has commer- cials and movie roles and en- dorsement deals that alone would outearn every single play- er on the 76ers.
Joel Embiid, league MVP and two-time scoring champ: He’s not LeBron.
Jaylen Brown, NBA champion and Finals MVP: He’s not LeBron.
Tyrese Maxey, an all-star and the real franchise player in Philly: He’s not LeBron.
“I think it’s pretty cool to have one of the greatest basketball players ever to play, in the same city,” Phillies shortstop Trea Turn- er said. “So I’m excited for those who haven’t gotten a chance to see him play.”
For those people — who might live on Pluto — here are the CliffsNotes.
James is a 22-time all-star, a 21-time all-NBA selection, a four- time MVP, a four-time NBA Fi- nals MVP and a three-time All- Star Game MVP, and he was a member of the NBA’s 75th anni- versary team.
He’s also coming off a season in which he averaged 20.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 7.2 assists. In his career, he has posted 26.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 7.4 assists in more than 1,600 games.
“He’s played in big markets before,” Harper said. “He knows exactly what he needs to do.”
Harper has largely lived up to the 13-year, $330 million deal he signed ahead of the 2019 season, when he spurned the Washington Nationals for the Phillies and
“I believe I can help make the Philadelphia 76ers a championship team,” LeBron James wrote of signing a two-year, $8 million deal.
time with his family and friends, “with all the people I love,” he wrote, “trying to figure it all out.” He wanted to keep playing, but he had to acknowledge to himself why.
“I’m not going for money,” he wrote, which partially explains why his contract with the 76ers reportedly is just two years and worth just $8 million. “I’m not going for family. What am I really playing for at this point? I still want to sacrifice. I still want to work. I still want to grind. I still want to compete, to win, and to have a chance at the feeling of winning another championship. I believe I can help make the Phila- delphia 76ers a championship team, and I am so excited to energize a new fan base and start this incredible journey one last
LeBron James’s deal with the 76ers instantly became the biggest free agent signing in the city’s history.
Bryce Harper spurned his former team, the Nationals, to sign a then-record 13-year, $330 million deal with the Phillies in 2019.
owned the richest contract in baseball history. He led the Phil- lies to the 2022 World Series, won the National League MVP in 2021 and helped win back-to-back NL East titles.
But he’s 0 for October. Barkley rushed for more than 2,000 yards in his first season with the Eagles and led them to a Super Bowl championship, and Rose was the missing piece to help Hall of Famers Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton win
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That desire — to win an NBA championship — really was the only factor that stood a chance of drawing James here, and there was a case to be made that the 76ers didn’t even offer the best opportunity for him to win his fifth ring. The Miami Heat has Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo and Pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra and that vaunted Heat culture, and the Cleveland Cavaliers were just in the Eastern Conference finals last season, and he was familiar with both fran- chises and revered in both mar- kets. He could have gone to either of those teams for sentimental reasons alone, never mind the rosters and the possibilities on the court, and no one would have been surprised.
the World Series in 1980. It was the first title in franchise history.
It feels like the 76ers have waited almost as long for a pa- rade down Broad Street. They won titles in Philadelphia in 1967 and 1983 and have improbably failed to advance out of the sec- ond round of the Eastern Confer- ence playoffs since 2001.
Instead, he chose a harder, more dramatic road. Assume he had decided to spend his final season — or seasons — with the Heat or the Cavaliers. Either of those teams could lose in the second round of the playoffs with him, and James’s legacy and repu- tation would remain untar- nished. They love him in those places and always will. He helped build a dynasty in Miami. The championship he won in 2016 with the Cavaliers was Cleve- land’s first in 52 years.
Philadelphia is something else entirely, and not merely because the 76ers have gone so long with- out a parade. A franchise that hasn’t won a championship in more than 43 years, that was expected to win a championship for more than a decade in the aftermath of The Process and never got all that close, will be expected to win one because of James’s presence.
People here had grown jaded about the 76ers, about all these iterations of the team, about a franchise that hasn’t had an iden- tity since Allen Iverson was sacri- ficing his body every night for the sake of scoring 40. James’s deci- sion has blended that cynicism with hope and created a powerful concoction. Ticket sales surely are skyrocketing already. The 76ers will be at the center of every hoops-related talk show, podcast, international news story and din- ner table conversation into the foreseeable future. Their roster will be a fascinating study in leadership and group dynamics, and it will test Coach Nick Nurse and his staff like nothing they have encountered in their ca- reers. The pressure on this team will be withering.
LeBron James signed up for all of that. He did it because he wants to win and thinks he can with the 76ers. The stakes for this fran- chise, for pro basketball in this city, have never been higher. Get ready for a journey no one here has taken before. Get ready, win or lose with LeBron James, for the wildest ride you can imagine.
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wanted to play in Philadelphia.
“I’m not going for money. I’m not going for family,” James wrote Friday on social media. “What am I really playing for at this point? I still want to sacrifice. I still want to work. I still want to grind. I still want to compete, to win and to have a chance at the feeling of winning.”
James celebrated his decision on Instagram with a career high- light reel set to Philadelphia rap- per Meek Mill’s “Dreams and Nightmares,” the adopted sports anthem of city teams blasted ad nauseam throughout the sports complex.
The video ends with the lyric, “Hold up, wait a minute/ Y’all thought I was finished?” and cuts to a 76ers logo.
James isn’t finished — even if his best isn’t yet to come.
He won NBA titles at each of his three previous NBA stops with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Mi- ami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers and could be the first player to ever win a title with four teams.
The countdown to opening night is on.
The stakes have really never been higher for the franchise. If they can’t win with the Beatles shirt — LeBron & Embiid & Brown & Maxey — can they ever?
Get ready, everyone. And skip the advice. James doesn’t need any tips on surviving the deep fryer of fan- dom in Philly.
EAST W L Pct GB Indiana........................................17 10 .630 — Atlanta .......................................16 10 .615 1/2 New York....................................15 12 .556 2 Washington................................14 12 .538 21/2 Toronto.......................................10 16 .385 61/2 Chicago.........................................9 18 .333 8 Connecticut ..................................7 20 .259 10
WEST W L Pct GB Minnesota ..................................22 6 .786 — Golden State ..............................19 8 .704 21/2 Las Vegas ...................................18 8 .692 3 Dallas..........................................18 9 .667 31/2 Portland......................................11 16 .407 101/2 Los Angeles................................10 16 .385 11 Phoenix.......................................10 18 .357 12 Seattle..........................................6 23 .207 161/2
wednesday’s Results at Washington 100, Las Vegas 99 Minnesota 86, at Seattle 76 Phoenix 86, at Los Angeles 82 at New York 95, Chicago 94 at Indiana 123, Connecticut 88 Dallas 101, at Portland 97
Wednesday’s results
thursday’s Results No games scheduled.
friday’s Results No games scheduled.
Saturday’s Results Team Spoon 129, Team Coop 122
Team ................................... 35 46 24 24 — 129 Team ................................... 34 30 29 29 — 122
Saturday’s results
Sunday’s games No games scheduled.
Monday’s games No games scheduled.
Tuesday’s Games Connecticut at Washington, 7:30 Toronto at Minnesota, 8 Indiana at Seattle, 9:30 New York at Los Angeles, 10 Portland at Las Vegas, 10
wednesday’s Games Atlanta at Dallas, 8 Golden State at Phoenix, 10
thursday’s Games Minnesota at Toronto, 8 Connecticut at Chicago, 8 New York at Las Vegas, 10
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Team spoon Min FG FT O-T A PF Pts Shepard 18:00 3-3 0-0 2-5 5 0 7 Wilson 13:32 6-13 0-0 1-3 1 0 12 Boston 4:57 0-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 0 Clark 20:46 6-17 0-0 3-4 5 0 17 Miles 23:32 5-5 0-0 1-12 8 1 11 R.Howard 22:00 3-12 0-0 0-3 3 2 8 Jones 22:00 8-17 2-2 2-13 8 1 22 Gray 20:56 7-14 0-0 1-2 2 0 19 C.Williams 19:14 5-11 0-0 0-1 7 0 12 Ogwumike 17:58 5-6 1-2 1-9 3 1 11 Iriafen 17:05 5-8 0-0 2-6 0 0 10 Totals 200 53-107 3-4 14-59 42 5 129
Percentages: FG .495, FT .750. 3-Point Goals: 20-61, .328 (Gray 5-9, Clark 5-15, Jones 4-11, C.Williams 2-6, R.Howard 2-11, Miles 1-1, Shepard 1-1, Boston 0-1, Iriafen 0-1, Ogwumike 0-1, Wilson 0-4). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 2 (Shepard, Wilson). Turnovers: 15 (Clark 5, Jones 3, C.Williams 2, Shepard 2, Boston, Miles, R.Howard). Steals: 7 (Miles 2, R.Howard 2, Clark, Ogwumike, Shepard). Technical Fouls: None. Team coop Min FG FT O-T A PF Pts N.Howard 23:11 3-10 0-0 1-4 0 1 8 G.Williams 22:50 7-18 0-0 2-5 6 1 18 Stewart 28:24 3-7 0-0 3-13 7 1 6 Bueckers 25:06 5-11 0-0 0-0 7 0 12 Mitchell 22:20 11-19 1-1 3-4 2 1 28 Mabrey 20:32 9-21 0-0 2-3 2 0 23 Malonga 16:08 6-17 0-0 5-13 1 0 12 Citron 11:23 3-3 0-0 0-1 2 0 8 Copper 10:41 2-6 0-0 0-4 2 1 4 Young 10:09 1-5 0-0 0-0 3 0 3 Reese 9:16 0-1 0-0 0-5 4 0 0 Totals 200 50-118 1-1 16-52 36 5 122
Percentages: FG .424, FT 1.000. 3-Point Goals: 21-66, .318 (Mitchell 5-11, Mabrey 5-14, G.Williams 4-13, Citron 2-2, Bueckers 2-7, N.Howard 2-7, Young 1-3, Malonga 0-2, Copper 0-3, Stewart 0-4). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 1 (Stewart). Turnovers: 9 (Mabrey 2, Malonga 2, Mitchell 2, Bueckers, Copper, N.Howard). Steals: 10 (Mitchell 5, Copper 2, Bueckers, G.Williams, Mabrey). Technical Fouls: None. A: 19,783 (20,917).
brickyard 400 At Indianapolis (Ind.) Motor Speedway Lap length: 2.50 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (77) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 186.598 mph. 2. (7) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 186.382. 3. (45) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 186.077. 4. (54) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 185.966. 5. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 185.835. 6. (71) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 185.762. 7. (67) Corey Heim, Toyota, 185.456. 8. (48) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 185.368. 9. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 185.345. 10. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 185.315. 11. (19) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 185.269. 12. (41) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 185.265. 13. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 185.197. 14. (43) Erik Jones, Toyota, 185.060. 15. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford, 184.991. 16. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 184.896. 17. (42) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 184.877. 18. (35) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 184.782. 19. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 184.699. 20. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 184.699. 21. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet, 184.574. 22. (1) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 184.540. 23. (20) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 184.287. 24. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 184.245. 25. (97) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 184.237. 26. (21) Josh Berry, Ford, 184.128. 27. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 183.887. 28. (10) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 183.869. 29. (23) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 183.861. 30. (38) Zane Smith, Ford, 183.494. 31. (88) Connor Zilisch, Chevrolet, 183.132. 32. (33) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 183.083. 33. (4) Noah Gragson, Ford, 182.990. 34. (60) Ryan Preece, Ford, 182.786. 35. (2) Austin Cindric, Ford, 182.726. 36. (34) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 182.460. 37. (51) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 182.072. 38. (62) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 179.522. 39. (78) Daniel Dye, Chevrolet, 178.962.
Tsport 200 At Lucas Oil Raceway Park; In Indianapolis Lap length: 0.69 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Layne Riggs, Ford, 200 laps, 75 points. 2. (7) Connor Mosack, Chevrolet, 200, 51. 3. (9) Ty Majeski, Ford, 200, 46. 4. (2) Chandler Smith, Ford, 200, 49. 5. (3) Nicholas Sanchez, Chevrolet, 200, 0. 6. (5) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, 200, 37. 7. (6) Kaden Honeycutt, Toyota, 200, 35. 8. (19) Gavan Boschele, Toyota, 200, 29. 9. (13) Tyler Ankrum, Chevrolet, 200, 29. 10. (11) Michael Christopher Jr, Toyota, 200, 30. 11. (10) Andres Perez De Lara, Chevrolet, 200, 26. 12. (14) Parker Eatmon, Chevrolet, 200, 26. 13. (16) Giovanni Ruggiero, Toyota, 200, 24. 14. (8) Grant Enfinger, Chevrolet, 199, 35. 15. (22) Ben Rhodes, Ford, 199, 22. 16. (23) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 199, 0. 17. (21) Dawson Sutton, Chevrolet, 198, 20. 18. (24) Justin Haley, RAM, 197, 19. 19. (26) Timmy Hill, Toyota, 197, 18. 20. (12) Brenden Queen, RAM, 197, 17. 21. (15) Jake Garcia, Ford, 197, 16. 22. (17) Tanner Gray, Toyota, 197, 15. 23. (25) Cole Butcher, Ford, 197, 14. 24. (30) Corey LaJoie, RAM, 197, 13. 25. (32) Toni Breidinger, Chevrolet, 197, 12. 26. (29) Conor Daly, RAM, 197, 11. 27. (28) Mini Tyrrell, RAM, 197, 10. 28. (36) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, 197, 9. 29. (35) Frankie Muniz, Ford, 196, 8. 30. (34) Monty Tipton, Ford, 196, 7. 31. (27) Kris Wright, Chevrolet, 196, 6. 32. (33) Cassten Everidge, Chevrolet, 193, 5.
EAST W L T Pts GF GA Nashville.........................12 2 3 39 33 12 Inter Miami CF................11 2 4 37 43 30 New England.....................9 5 2 29 26 19 Chicago..............................8 6 2 26 30 22 New York City FC ..............7 6 4 25 30 23 Charlotte FC......................7 6 4 25 28 25 Cincinnati..........................6 6 5 23 41 42 New York...........................6 7 4 22 26 37 D.C. United........................5 5 7 22 24 27 Orlando City......................6 9 2 20 28 44 Columbus ..........................5 8 4 19 24 26 Toronto FC ........................3 7 7 16 23 31 CF Montreal ......................4 10 3 15 22 33 Philadelphia ......................3 10 4 13 22 31 Atlanta..............................3 11 3 12 17 30
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WEST W L T Pts GF GA Vancouver.......................10 3 3 33 37 16 x-San Jose.......................10 4 2 32 34 19 x-Los Angeles FC ..............9 5 3 30 30 18 x-Real Salt Lake................8 5 2 26 27 22 Houston ............................8 6 2 26 23 24 x-FC Dallas........................7 4 5 26 32 24 St. Louis City SC ...............7 6 4 25 23 23 Seattle ..............................7 6 3 24 19 20 Minnesota United.............6 6 5 23 19 24 x-LA Galaxy.......................5 7 5 20 23 28 Colorado............................6 10 1 19 26 25 x-Portland.........................5 8 3 18 29 31 x-San Diego FC..................4 7 5 17 30 28 Austin FC ..........................4 8 5 17 22 35 x-Sporting KC....................4 10 2 14 18 40
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x-Late match
Wednesday’s Results D.C. United 1, at Houston 1 at Cincinnati 4, Vancouver 3 New York City FC 2, at Columbus 1 at Miami 3, Chicago 2 Toronto FC 0, at New England 0 at Philadelphia 3, New York 1 Atlanta 2, at Charlotte FC 2 at Sporting KC 2, Minnesota 1 at Nashville 1, CF Montreal 0 at Austin FC 3, Seattle 1 at Colorado 1, San Diego FC 0 St. Louis City SC 3, at LA Galaxy 1 at Los Angeles FC 3, Real Salt Lake 1 FC Dallas 2, at Portland 2 Orlando City 4, at San Jose 0
Saturday’s results at D.C. United 2, Toronto FC 1 Charlotte FC 2, at New York 0 at Columbus 2, Cincinnati 1 at Philadelphia 1, Seattle 0 Miami 1, at CF Montreal 0 at New England 4, Atlanta 1 at New York City FC 3, Chicago 1 at Orlando City 1, Nashville 0 at Houston 3, Austin FC 0 Vancouver 0, at Minnesota 0 at St. Louis City SC 1, Colorado 0 FC Dallas at San Diego FC, late Sporting KC at Los Angeles FC, late Real Salt Lake at Portland, late LA Galaxy at San Jose, late
Toronto FC 0 1 1 D.C. United 1 1 2 First Half: 1, D.C. United, Rowles, (Kurokawa), 41st minute. Second Half: 2, Toronto FC, Corbeanu, 1, 76th; 3, D.C. United, Baribo, 10 (penalty kick), 90th+10. Goalies: Toronto FC, Luka Gavran, William Yarbrough, Adisa De Rosario; D.C. United, Sean Johnson, Alex Bono. Yellow Cards: Munteanu, D.C. United, 53rd; Osorio, Toronto FC, 88th. Toronto FC, Luka Gavran; Kobe Franklin, Jackson Gilman, Richie Laryea, Zane Monlouis (Alonso Coello, 46th), Walker Zimmerman; Jonathan Osorio; Emilio Aristiza- bal (Deandre Kerr, 54th), Theo Corbeanu (Malik Henry, 90th+2), Derrick Etienne (Djordje Mihailovic, 54th), Daniel Salloi. D.C. United, Sean Johnson; Lucas Bartlett, Silvan Hefti, Keisuke Kurokawa, Kye Rowles (Sean Nealis, 80th); Andre Dozzell, Jackson Hopkins (Matti Peltola, 65th), Brandon Servania (Hosei Kijima, 80th); Tai Baribo, Louis Munteanu (Nathan Ordaz, 85th), Peglow (Jared Stroud, 65th).
Charlotte FC 2 0 2 New York Red Bulls 0 0 0 First Half: 1, Charlotte FC, Biel, 8 (Abada), 7th minute; 2, Charlotte FC, Westwood, 2 (Vargas), 12th. Second Half: None. Goalies: Charlotte FC, Kristijan Kahlina, Tyler Miller; New York Red Bulls, Ethan Horvath, John McCarthy. Yellow Cards: Abada, Charlotte FC, 47th; Ruvalcaba, New York Red Bulls, 56th; Mehmeti, New York Red Bulls, 77th; Valencia, New York Red Bulls, 85th; Che, New York Red Bulls, 90th+2. Charlotte FC, Kristijan Kahlina; Morrison Agyemang, Nathan Byrne, Henry Kessler, Harry Toffolo (Will Cleary, 61st); Pep Biel (Brandt Bronico, 82nd), Luca De La Torre (Djibril Diani, 71st), Ashley Westwood; Liel Abada (Tyger Smalls, 71st), Idan Gorno (Archie Goodwin, 82nd), Kerwin Vargas. New York Red Bulls, Ethan Horvath; Julian Bazan, Justin Che, Matthew Dos Santos (Omar Valencia, 84th), Dylan Nealis (Jahkeele Marshall-Rutty, 70th); Ronald Donkor, Emil Forsberg (Mijahir Jimenez, 70th), Adri Mehmeti; Cade Cowell (Mohammed Sofo, 70th), Julian Hall, Jorge Ruvalcaba (Andy Rojas, 84th).
Cincinnati 1 0 1 Columbus 2 0 2 First Half: 1, Cincinnati, Denkey, 11 (Evander), 9th minute; 2, Columbus, Thiare, 1 (Chambost), 42nd; 3, Columbus, Gazdag, 3 (penalty kick), 45th+6. Second Half: None. Goalies: Cincinnati, Roman Celentano, Evan Louro; Columbus, Patrick Schulte, Nicholas Hagen. Yellow Cards: Miazga, Cincinnati, 66th. Red Cards: Valenzuela, Cincinnati, 90th+4. Cincinnati, Roman Celentano; Matt Miazga (Kyle Smith, 70th), Miles Robinson; Pavel Bucha, Evander, Samuel Gidi, Obinna Nwobodo (Brian Anunga, 85th); Kevin Denkey (Ay- oub Jabbari, 70th), Ender Echenique (Bryan Ramirez, 64th), Kenji Mboma Dem (Tom Barlow, 64th), Gerardo Valenzuela. Columbus, Patrick Schulte; Max Arfsten, Rudy Camacho, Mohamed Farsi, Steven Moreira (Malte Amundsen, 85th); Sekou Tidiany Bangoura (Andre Gomes, 46th), Dylan Chambost (Tarun Karumanchi, 70th), Daniel Gazdag (Chase Adams, 85th), Taha Habroune, Sean Zawadzki; Jamal Thiare (Hugo Picard, 79th).
Seattle 0 0 0 Philadelphia 1 0 1 First Half: 1, Philadelphia, Iloski, 9 (Westfield), 31st minute. Second Half: None. Goalies: Seattle, Andrew Thomas, Stefan Frei, Max Anchor; Philadelphia, Andre Blake, Andrew Rick. Yellow Cards: Dotson, Seattle, 12th. Seattle, Andrew Thomas; Stuart Russell Hawkins, Antino Lopez (Gallatin Sandnes, 59th), Nouhou Tolo; Paul Arriola (Jesus Ferreira, 59th), Snyder Brunell, Hassani Dotson (Sebastian Gomez, 80th), Kalani Kossa- Rienzi (Peter Kingston, 60th), Paul Rothrock, Albert Rusnak; Osaze De Rosario (Danny Musovski, 80th). Philadelphia, Andre Blake; Nathan Harriel, Neil Pierre, Kai Wagner, Francis Westfield; Danley Jean Jacques (Jesus Bueno, 80th), Jovan Lukic, Cavan Sullivan (Alejandro Bedoya, 89th), Indiana Vassilev (Quinn Sullivan, 65th); Bruno Damiani (Ezekiel Alladoh, 65th), Milan Iloski.
Atlanta 0 1 1 New England 2 2 4 First Half: 1, New England, Gil, 6, 11th minute; 2, New England, Turgeman, 3 (Yusuf), 36th. Second Half: 3, New England, Miller, 4 (Yusuf), 56th; 4, New England, Raines, 1 (Zambrano), 67th; 5, Atlanta, Almiron, 2 (Miranchuk), 85th. Goalies: Atlanta, Lucas Hoyos, Jayden Hibbert; New England, Matt Turner, Donovan Parisian. Yellow Cards: Yusuf, New England, 20th; Edwards, Atlan- ta, 31st; Reilly, Atlanta, 52nd; Harris, New England, 71st. Atlanta, Lucas Hoyos; Junior Alonso, Elias Baez, Mat- thew Edwards (Ronald Hernandez, 68th), Stian Gregers- en (Enea Mihaj, 79th); Miguel Almiron, Will Reilly, Cooper Sanchez; Aleksey Miranchuk, Tristan Muyumba (Luke Brennan, 60th, Cayman Togashi, 80th), Fafa Picault. New England, Matt Turner; Mamadou Fofana, Ethan Kohler, Peyton Miller, Matt Polster (Cody Baker, 79th), Will Sands; Carles Gil, Brooklyn Raines, Alhassan Yusuf (Jackson Yueill, 59th); Dor Turgeman (Wilson Israel Harris, 70th), Marcos Zambrano (Luca Langoni, 70th).
Chicago 1 0 1 New York City FC 3 0 3 First Half: 1, New York City FC, Fernandez, 12, 10th minute; 2, Chicago, Waterman, 1, 21st; 3, New York City FC, Ojeda, 5 (Perea), 29th; 4, New York City FC, Jones, 1 (Ojeda), 41st. Second Half: None. Goalies: Chicago, Chris Brady, Josh Cohen; New York City FC, Matt Freese, Tomas Romero. Yellow Cards: D’avilla, Chicago, 51st; Fernandez, New York City FC, 62nd; Waterman, Chicago, 77th; Dithejane, Chicago, 80th. Chicago, Chris Brady; Leonardo Barroso (Jonathan Dean, 46th), Dje D’avilla (Mauricio Pineda, 63rd), Jack Elliott, Viktor Radojevic (Andrew Gutman, 71st), Joel Water- man; Maren Haile-Selassie (Robert Lewandowski, 46th), Robin Lod (Puso Dithejane, 71st), Anton Saletros; Jonathan Bamba, Philip Zinckernagel. New York City FC, Matt Freese; Nico Cavallo, Nicolas Fernandez, Tayvon Gray, Thiago Martins; Andres Perea, James Sands, Jonathan Shore (Arnau Farnos, 85th); Malachi Jones (Benie Adama Traore, 69th), Agustin Ojeda (Mitja Ilenic, 90th+2), Talles Magno (Hannes Wolf, 85th).
W L T Pts GF GA Gotham FC ........................9 3 4 31 21 12 Washington ......................9 3 3 30 24 12 Utah ..................................9 4 3 30 26 17 San Diego..........................9 5 2 29 23 17 Portland ............................8 5 4 28 27 20 Kansas City .......................8 7 1 25 23 23 Orlando .............................7 8 2 23 22 21 Angel City .........................7 6 1 22 22 14 North Carolina...................6 6 3 21 21 23 Denver Summit FC............5 5 4 19 21 19 Houston ............................5 7 4 19 19 24 Boston Legacy FC..............5 8 4 19 18 23 Bay FC ...............................5 7 3 18 16 20 Seattle ..............................5 7 2 17 15 19 Chicago..............................4 12 0 12 8 31 Louisville...........................2 10 2 8 16 27
Friday’s Results at Houston 1, Bay FC 0 at Orlando 1, Chicago 0 Gotham FC 2, at Portland 2
Saturday’s results at Boston 1, Kansas City 0 Utah 4, at North Carolina 0
Sunday’s Matches Denver at Washington, 7 Seattle at San Diego, 5 Louisville at Angel City, 9
Wednesday’s Matches Washington at Utah, 9 Louisville at Kansas City, 8 Gotham FC at Bay FC, 10
Wednesday’s matches
Friday’s Matches Orlando at North Carolina, 8
Friday’s match
Saturday, august 1 Chicago at Louisville, 4 Angel City at Kansas City, 6:30 Gotham FC at Houston, 8 Seattle at Bay FC, 8:45
Tampa Bay.......................10 2 5 35 28 15 x-Charleston......................8 5 3 27 31 22 Detroit City FC...................8 5 3 27 23 15 Louisville ...........................7 6 3 24 26 25 Pittsburgh .........................7 7 2 23 19 19 Rhode Island FC.................6 5 4 22 25 18 Miami.................................5 7 6 21 22 29 Indy....................................6 6 3 21 18 17 x-Hartford..........................4 4 7 19 12 14 Loudoun.............................2 5 9 15 19 29 Birmingham.......................2 5 8 14 16 19 Brooklyn FC........................3 9 4 13 17 27 x-Sporting Jax ...................1 11 5 8 23 44
x-Orange County ...............7 2 7 28 25 18 San Antonio.......................7 3 7 28 22 19 New Mexico.......................7 4 3 24 19 15 x-Colorado Springs............6 5 4 22 26 22 Tulsa ..................................6 4 4 22 18 16 Lexington SC .....................6 6 3 21 24 20 x-Oakland ..........................5 5 6 21 24 24 Las Vegas ..........................6 7 3 21 24 26 x-Sacramento....................5 4 5 20 16 14 x-Phoenix...........................5 6 5 20 23 24 x-El Paso............................5 6 4 19 25 25 x-Monterey Bay FC............4 9 3 15 16 25
Lexington SC 2, Oakland 0 at Colorado 2, Miami 0
San Antonio 1, at Brooklyn FC 0 Las Vegas 1, at Detroit City FC 0 Loudoun 1, at Indy 0 Tampa Bay 3, at Miami 2 Rhode Island FC 1, at Pittsburgh 0 Lexington SC 0, at Tulsa 0 Charleston at Colorado, late Sporting Jax at El Paso, late Orange County at Monterey Bay FC, late Sacramento at Oakland, late Hartford at Phoenix, late New Mexico at Birmingham, ppd.
Tulsa at Pittsburgh, 7 Birmingham at Louisville, 7:30
Indy at San Antonio, 9
Estoril Open At Clube de Tenis do Estoril (Portugal) Purse: $698,907 Surface: Red clay Singles — Semifinals Luca Van Assche, France, def. Hugo Gaston, France, 6-4, 7-5; Alexander Blockx (4), Belgium, def. Luciano Darderi (2), Italy, 5-7, 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-5).
Doubles — Semifinals Titouan Droguet and Kyrian Jacquet, France, def. Nuno Borges and Francisco Cabral, Portugal, 6-7 (8-6), 6-4, 11-9.
Generali Open At Tennis Stadium Kitzbuhel (Austria) Purse: $698,907 Surface: Red clay
Singles — Championship
Quentin Halys, France, def. Alexander Bublik (1), Ka- zakhstan, 6-4, 7-6 (8-6).
Doubles — Championship Lucas Miedler, Austria, and Marc Polmans (2), Australia, def. Jakob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner (3), Germany, 6-2, 6-2.
Through Sunday.
Through Sunday.
Singles rankings 1. Jannik Sinner, Italy, 13450 2. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 8480 3. Carlos Alcaraz, Spain, 8160 4. Felix Auger-Aliassime, Canada, 4740 5. Alex de Minaur, Australia, 4110 6. Ben Shelton, USA, 3770 7. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 3760 8. Daniil Medvedev, Russia, 3670 9. Flavio Cobolli, Italy, 3460 10. Taylor Fritz, USA, 3365 11. Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, 2610 12. Jiri Lehecka, Czech Republic, 2510 13. Casper Ruud, Norway, 2435 14. Andrey Rublev, Russia, 2380
Hamburg European Open At Am Rothenbaum Rot-Weiss Tennis Club; in Hamburg, Germany Purse: $281,032 Surface: Red clay
Singles — Semifinals Anna Bondar (4), Hungary, def. Elina Avanesyan, Russia, 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 7-6 (7-2).
Doubles — Semifinals Dalila Jakupovic and Nika Radisic, Slovenia, def. Zhibek Kulambayeva, Kazakhstan, and Darja Semenistaja, Lat- via, 6-2, 6-1; Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Magali Kempen (1), Belgium, def. Irina Khromacheva, Russia, and Anastasia Detiuc (3), Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-3.
prague open At TK Sparta Praha Purse: $283,347 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
Singles — Semifinals Daria Snigur (8), Ukraine, def. Tereza Valentova (5), Czech Republic, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3; Lilli Tagger, Austria, def. Barbora Krejcikova (2), Czech Republic, 6-7 (7-5), 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).
Doubles — Semifinals Lucie Havlickova and Laura Samson, Czech Republic, def. Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Miyu (1994) Kato (3), Japan, 5-7, 6-3, 11-9.
Singles rankings 1. Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, 8550 2. Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan, 8143 3. Jessica Pegula, USA, 6301 4. Coco Gauff, USA, 5649 5. Mirra Andreeva, Russia, 5293 6. Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic, 5168 7. Linda Noskova, Czech Republic, 5119 8. Iga Swiatek, Poland, 4539 9. Amanda Anisimova, USA, 4353 10. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 4351 11. Marta Kostyuk, Ukraine, 3926 12. Victoria Mboko, Canada, 3570 13. Naomi Osaka, Japan, 3146 14. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, 2845
3m open At TPC Twin Cities; In Blaine, Minn. Purse: $8.8 million Yardage: 7,431; Par: 71 thurd ROUND Jackson Koivun ............................. 64 68 61 — 193 -20 Emiliano Grillo .............................. 64 67 65 — 196 -17 Ben Kohles .................................... 62 69 65 — 196 -17 Michael Brennan ........................... 65 69 63 — 197 -16 Chandler Phillips ........................... 66 65 66 — 197 -16 Billy Horschel ................................ 67 66 65 — 198 -15 Michael Kim .................................. 69 59 70 — 198 -15 Denny McCarthy ........................... 66 68 64 — 198 -15 Brian Harman ................................ 69 64 66 — 199 -14 Seamus Power .............................. 68 68 63 — 199 -14 Scottie Scheffler ........................... 65 70 64 — 199 -14 Davis Thompson ........................... 68 68 63 — 199 -14 Lee Hodges .................................... 68 67 65 — 200 -13 Hideki Matsuyama ........................ 70 65 65 — 200 -13 Zac Blair ........................................ 68 65 68 — 201 -12 Davis Chatfield ............................. 69 68 64 — 201 -12 Troy Merritt .................................. 66 66 69 — 201 -12 Kevin Yu ........................................ 69 66 66 — 201 -12 Chandler Blanchet ......................... 67 68 67 — 202 -11 Gary Woodland ............................. 64 71 67 — 202 -11 Zecheng Dou ................................. 67 69 67 — 203 -10 Casey Jarvis .................................. 71 66 66 — 203 -10 Chris Kirk ....................................... 70 69 64 — 203 -10 Kurt Kitayama ............................... 68 69 66 — 203 -10 Hank Lebioda ................................ 69 69 65 — 203 -10 Kevin Roy ...................................... 65 70 68 — 203 -10 Austin Smotherman ..................... 68 67 68 — 203 -10 Christiaan Bezuidenhout .............. 68 67 69 — 204 -9 Ricky Castillo ................................ 71 68 65 — 204 -9 Patrick Fishburn ............................ 70 68 66 — 204 -9 Beau Hossler ................................. 69 68 67 — 204 -9 Mark Hubbard ............................... 70 69 65 — 204 -9 Tom Kim ........................................ 68 69 67 — 204 -9 Keith Mitchell ............................... 68 69 67 — 204 -9 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen ....... 66 72 66 — 204 -9 Kevin Streelman ........................... 67 68 69 — 204 -9 Jesper Svensson ........................... 65 69 70 — 204 -9 John VanDerLaan .......................... 67 71 66 — 204 -9 Kris Ventura .................................. 72 66 66 — 204 -9 Vince Whaley ................................ 67 69 68 — 204 -9 Zachary Bauchou .......................... 70 69 66 — 205 -8 Corey Conners ............................... 70 69 66 — 205 -8 Joel Dahmen ................................. 70 69 66 — 205 -8 Neal Shipley .................................. 70 69 66 — 205 -8 Mackenzie Hughes ........................ 71 67 68 — 206 -7 Jake Knapp .................................... 68 70 68 — 206 -7 Jordan L. Smith ............................. 71 68 67 — 206 -7 Jimmy Stanger .............................. 69 70 67 — 206 -7 Trace Crowe .................................. 67 72 68 — 207 -6 Austin Eckroat .............................. 69 67 71 — 207 -6 Lucas Glover .................................. 65 70 72 — 207 -6 John Parry ..................................... 69 69 69 — 207 -6 Camilo Villegas ............................. 69 69 69 — 207 -6 A.J. Ewart ..................................... 69 69 70 — 208 -5 Max Greyserman ........................... 69 70 69 — 208 -5 Hao-Tong Li ................................... 68 68 72 — 208 -5 Pontus Nyholm ............................. 68 69 71 — 208 -5 Matti Schmid ................................ 67 72 69 — 208 -5 Muzzy Donohue ............................ 73 63 73 — 209 -4 Lanto Griffin ................................. 70 68 71 — 209 -4 Jeffrey Kang .................................. 67 70 72 — 209 -4 Maverick McNealy ........................ 71 66 72 — 209 -4 Will Gordon ................................... 68 70 72 — 210 -3 Fabián Gómez ............................... 71 67 72 — 210 -3 Rico Hoey ...................................... 67 72 71 — 210 -3 Sam Stevens ................................. 68 69 73 — 210 -3
fedex cup leaders Through Sunday.
Points Money 1.........................Scottie Scheffler 3,823 $15,952,075 2..........................Matt Fitzpatrick 3,329 $13,749,496 3...........................Cameron Young 3,086 $13,945,452 4...........................Wyndham Clark 2,255 $9,876,186 5.............................Chris Gotterup 2,254 $7,755,219 6.......................... Collin Morikawa 2,229 $8,554,512 7..................................Si Woo Kim 2,188 $7,413,444 8...................................Sam Burns 2,078 $7,583,540 9...................... Tommy Fleetwood 2,046 $6,402,605 10............................. Ludvig Aberg 1,929 $6,253,271 11..............................Rory McIlroy 1,738 $8,465,006 12...........................Akshay Bhatia 1,723 $7,473,999 13.......................Jacob Bridgeman 1,696 $7,476,865 14...........................Russell Henley 1,666 $5,783,335 15.....................Xander Schauffele 1,480 $5,603,225 16............................. Min Woo Lee 1,470 $5,647,652 17.......................Kristoffer Reitan 1,464 $6,183,339 18...............................Ryan Gerard 1,426 $5,573,398 19.........................Alex Fitzpatrick 1,403 $4,528,684 20.................................. J.J. Spaun 1,381 $4,751,848 21....................................Ryan Fox 1,342 $5,424,259 22.......................... Viktor Hovland 1,340 $6,128,926 23................................Justin Rose 1,333 $4,853,356 24............................. Alex Smalley 1,251 $4,707,433 25............................... Adam Scott 1,218 $3,780,697 26.................................J.T. Poston 1,193 $5,590,029 27......................Robert MacIntyre 1,191 $4,353,388 28........................Nicolai Hojgaard 1,177 $4,697,668 29..........................Gary Woodland 1,168 $4,117,512 30.............................Rickie Fowler 1,161 $4,515,036 31.................................Bud Cauley 1,155 $4,105,742 32...........................Kurt Kitayama 1,129 $4,608,501 33...................................Aaron Rai 1,114 $5,001,155 34.................................Ben Griffin 1,105 $4,033,407 35.................................... Tom Kim 1,097 $3,862,986 36...............................Sepp Straka 1,096 $4,204,487 37....................Hideki Matsuyama 1,086 $3,895,432 38...........................Justin Thomas 959 $3,455,269 39................................ Jake Knapp 938 $3,127,963 40...........................Ryo Hisatsune 889 $3,264,611 41........................ Sahith Theegala 883 $3,119,845 42.....................Nicolas Echavarria 880 $3,210,482 43..........................Patrick Cantlay 862 $3,302,525 44.....................................Eric Cole 841 $2,773,707 45.....................Matthew McCarty 807 $2,926,873 46............................Keith Mitchell 788 $2,714,929 47.................................Alex Noren 779 $2,759,740 48............................Harris English 776 $2,654,553 49................................. Max Homa 767 $2,527,554 50.....................Maverick McNealy 753 $2,949,917 51........................ Pierceson Coody 739 $2,637,309 52.............Sudarshan Yellamaraju 737 $2,581,759 53............................. Sam Stevens 736 $2,598,477 54.............................Daniel Berger 709 $3,325,228 55............................ Jordan Spieth 694 $2,730,334 56..............................Shane Lowry 670 $2,467,021 57................................ Sungjae Im 660 $2,120,952 58........................... Corey Conners 660 $2,354,071 59.................................Nick Taylor 639 $2,307,915 60.................................. Harry Hall 628 $2,144,445 61.........................Patrick Rodgers 600 $2,295,890 62.......................Aldrich Potgieter 591 $1,926,006 63................................Steven Fisk 573 $1,692,519 64.............................Matti Schmid 570 $1,690,477 65...............................Michael Kim 549 $1,993,284 66......................... Jordan L. Smith 536 $1,755,973 67............... Michael Thorbjornsen 536 $1,897,161 68........................ Andrew Putnam 533 $1,939,369 69.............................Ricky Castillo 532 $1,548,019 70............................Mac Meissner 515 $1,611,476 71........................... Johnny Keefer 499 $1,715,954 72.................................. Jason Day 495 $1,864,529 73......................... Keegan Bradley 489 $2,041,644 74............................ Brian Harman 475 $1,908,189 75.................................. Tom Hoge 473 $1,727,861 76.............................. David Lipsky 465 $1,527,109 77......................... Stephan Jaeger 463 $1,576,623 78................. Austin Smotherman 462 $1,801,055 79........................... Jackson Suber 455 $1,580,842 80......................... Taylor Pendrith 445 $1,488,773 81....................... Brandt Snedeker 436 $1,145,022
United Kingdom At JCB Golf and Country Club; In Rocester, England Purse: $20M (Individual) Yardage: 7,332; Par: 72
second ROUND Lucas Herbert ......................... 61 66 69 196 — Bryson DeChambeau .............. 64 67 68 199 — Tyrrell Hatton ........................ 66 68 67 201 — Harold Varner III .................... 66 69 68 203 — Cameron Smith ...................... 69 67 66 202 — Abraham Ancer ...................... 68 70 65 203 — Byeong-Hun An ...................... 67 68 70 205 — Marc Leishman ....................... 68 68 71 207 — Caleb Surratt .......................... 68 69 70 207 — Charles Howell III ................... 68 70 69 207 — Peter Uihlein .......................... 69 67 72 208 — Adrian Meronk ....................... 70 68 70 208 — Scott Vincent ......................... 68 71 69 208 — Dean Burmester ..................... 70 66 73 209 — Laurie Canter .......................... 73 66 70 209 — Ian Poulter .............................. 68 71 70 209 — Carlos Ortiz ............................ 70 68 72 210 — Anthony Kim .......................... 73 70 67 210 — Bjoern Hellgren ...................... 68 71 72 211 — Thomas Pieters ...................... 71 68 72 211 — Anirban Lahiri ........................ 68 69 75 212 — Charl Schwartzel .................... 73 69 70 212 — David Puig .............................. 73 69 70 212 — Branden Grace ........................ 71 73 68 212 — Jose Luis Ballester ................. 72 69 72 213 — Lee Westwood ....................... 71 70 72 213 — Tom McKibbin ........................ 73 70 70 213 — Joaquin Niemann ................... 73 72 68 213 — Richard T. Lee ......................... 67 71 76 214 — Paul Casey .............................. 73 69 72 214 — Luis Masaveu ......................... 68 75 71 214 — Jon Rahm ............................... 73 70 71 214 — Matthew Wolff ...................... 72 71 72 215 — Martin Vorster ....................... 72 70 74 216 — Victor Perez ............................ 74 70 72 216 — Dustin Johnson ...................... 73 69 75 217 — Cameron Tringale ................... 74 70 73 217 — Travis Smyth .......................... 71 69 78 218 — Richard Bland ......................... 71 73 74 218 — Thomas Detry ......................... 69 76 73 218 — Martin Kaymer ....................... 72 70 77 219 — Graeme McDowell .................. 72 72 75 219 — Bubba Watson ........................ 71 73 75 219 — Young-Han Song .................... 71 74 74 219 — Min-Kyu Kim .......................... 73 73 73 219 — Talor Gooch ............................ 71 76 72 219 — Yosuke Asaji .......................... 75 73 71 219 — Sam Horsfield ........................ 73 75 71 219 — Sebastian Munoz ................... 78 70 71 219 — Danny Lee ............................... 74 75 70 219 — Ben Campbell ......................... 75 76 68 219 — Miguel Tabuena ..................... 73 74 73 220 — Sergio Garcia .......................... 72 76 72 220 — Michael La Sasso ................... 72 73 76 221 — Brendan Steele ....................... 73 74 74 221 — Do-Yeob Mun ......................... 73 75 73 221 — Jason Kokrak .......................... 71 78 76 225 —
women’s scottish open At Dundonald Links; In Troon, United Kingdom Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,543; Par: 72
third ROUND Jenny Shin .................................... 66 67 71 — 204 -12 Pajaree Anannarukarn .................. 71 69 69 — 209 -7 Erika Hara ..................................... 70 70 71 — 211 -5 Esther Henseleit ........................... 70 68 73 — 211 -5 A Lim Kim ..................................... 67 72 74 — 213 -3 Lauren Coughlin ............................ 66 74 74 — 214 -2 Miyu Yamashita ........................... 70 74 70 — 214 -2 Ryann O'Toole .............................. 73 72 71 — 216 E Amy Yang ..................................... 76 69 71 — 216 E Rose Zhang ................................... 73 72 71 — 216 E Diksha Dagar ................................ 74 73 70 — 217 +1 Daniela Darquea ........................... 71 72 74 — 217 +1 Aki Iwai ......................................... 78 70 69 — 217 +1 Ariya Jutanugarn .......................... 73 73 71 — 217 +1 Leona Maguire .............................. 72 72 73 — 217 +1 Chanettee Wannasaen ................. 71 76 70 — 217 +1 Ina Yoon ........................................ 73 68 76 — 217 +1 Hyo Joo Kim .................................. 75 70 73 — 218 +2 Julia Lopez Ramirez ..................... 71 74 73 — 218 +2 Patty Tavatanakit ........................ 71 69 78 — 218 +2 Nataliya Guseva ........................... 72 74 73 — 219 +3 Maja Stark .................................... 74 72 73 — 219 +3 Weiwei Zhang ............................... 73 73 73 — 219 +3 Alice Hewson ................................ 75 70 75 — 220 +4 Grace Kim ..................................... 74 70 76 — 220 +4 Sei Young Kim .............................. 75 72 73 — 220 +4 Mi Hyang Lee ................................ 75 68 77 — 220 +4 Nastasia Nadaud .......................... 75 71 74 — 220 +4 Helen Briem .................................. 77 70 74 — 221 +5 Moa Folke ..................................... 76 70 75 — 221 +5 Amelia Garvey .............................. 76 73 72 — 221 +5 Chizzy Iwai .................................... 72 74 75 — 221 +5 Nelly Korda ................................... 72 76 73 — 221 +5 Pia Babnik ..................................... 77 71 74 — 222 +6 Jenny Bae ..................................... 72 76 74 — 222 +6 Hye Jin Choi .................................. 76 70 76 — 222 +6 Allisen Corpuz ............................... 78 72 72 — 222 +6 Amanda Doherty .......................... 72 73 77 — 222 +6 Sara Kouskova .............................. 77 69 76 — 222 +6 Anna Nordqvist ............................ 70 79 73 — 222 +6 Pauline Roussin-Bouchard ........... 73 73 76 — 222 +6 Lottie Woad .................................. 74 70 78 — 222 +6 Arpichaya Yubol ............................ 73 72 77 — 222 +6 Nasa Hataoka ............................... 74 72 77 — 223 +7 Lisa Pettersson ............................ 69 77 77 — 223 +7 Mimi Rhodes ................................. 77 71 75 — 223 +7 Manon De Roey ............................. 73 75 76 — 224 +8 Lindy Duncan ................................ 74 74 76 — 224 +8 Hannah Green ............................... 74 76 74 — 224 +8 Charley Hull .................................. 78 71 75 — 224 +8 You Min Hwang ............................ 74 74 77 — 225 +9 Alexa Pano .................................... 75 72 78 — 225 +9 In Gee Chun ................................... 73 76 77 — 226 +10 Dewi Weber .................................. 79 71 76 — 226 +10 Yana Wilson .................................. 73 76 77 — 226 +10 Robyn Choi .................................... 76 73 79 — 228 +12 Emma Spitz .................................. 77 73 78 — 228 +12 Olivia Cowan ................................. 74 75 80 — 229 +13 Hannah Darling ............................. 75 74 80 — 229 +13 Soo Bin Joo ................................... 76 74 80 — 230 +14 Brianna Navarrosa ........................ 76 73 81 — 230 +14 Carla Tejedo Mulet ....................... 74 76 80 — 230 +14
Isps Handa senior open
At Kings Course; Auchterarder, United Kingdom
Purse: $2.9 million
Yardage: 6,859; Par: 70
second ROUND
Jerry Kelly ..................................... 66 68 68 — 202
-8
Cameron Percy .............................. 63 68 71 — 202
-8
Peter Baker ................................... 69 69 67 — 205
-5
Darren Fichardt ............................. 70 68 68 — 206
-4
Markus Brier ................................. 67 69 71 — 207
-3
Ernie Els ........................................ 65 71 71 — 207
-3
Pat Perez ....................................... 65 75 67 — 207
-3
Alex Cejka ..................................... 68 70 70 — 208
-2
K.J. Choi ........................................ 70 70 68 — 208
-2
Clark Dennis .................................. 69 72 67 — 208
-2
Zach Johnson ................................ 67 73 68 — 208
-2
Tag Ridings ................................... 66 72 70 — 208
-2
Rory Sabbatini .............................. 67 73 68 — 208
-2
Steve Allan ................................... 69 70 70 — 209
-1
Matt Gogel .................................... 68 69 72 — 209
-1
Tim Petrovic .................................. 69 75 66 — 210
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Charlie Wi ..................................... 67 76 67 — 210
E
Steven Alker ................................. 67 76 68 — 211
+1
Emanuele Canonica ....................... 66 76 69 — 211
+1
Matthew Cort ............................... 72 67 72 — 211
+1
Patrik Sjoland ............................... 70 72 69 — 211
+1
Henrik Stenson ............................. 68 68 75 — 211
+1
Boo Weekley ................................. 67 74 70 — 211
+1
Jamie Donaldson ........................... 68 74 70 — 212
+2
Bradley Dredge ............................. 72 70 70 — 212
+2
Stephen Gallacher ......................... 72 69 71 — 212
+2
Retief Goosen ............................... 70 71 71 — 212
+2
Miguel Angel Jimenez .................. 65 75 72 — 212
+2
Maarten Lafeber ........................... 71 72 69 — 212
+2
Tom Pernice .................................. 65 73 74 — 212
+2
Ryan Armour ................................. 67 72 74 — 213
+3
Stewart Cink ................................. 71 72 70 — 213
+3
Johan Edfors ................................. 66 77 70 — 213
+3
Mathew Goggin ............................ 70 72 71 — 213
+3
Paul Goydos .................................. 70 71 72 — 213
+3
Richard Green ............................... 69 73 71 — 213
+3
Mark Hensby ................................. 69 71 73 — 213
+3
Rod Pampling ................................ 73 69 71 — 213
+3
Paul Stankowski ........................... 70 73 70 — 213
+3
Greig Hutcheon ............................. 70 73 71 — 214
+4
Phillip Price ................................... 75 68 71 — 214
+4
Jean-Francois Remesy .................. 69 71 74 — 214
+4
Thammanoon Sriroj ...................... 72 69 73 — 214
+4
Michael Campbell .......................... 71 74 70 — 215
+5
Greg Chalmers .............................. 69 73 73 — 215
+5
Adilson Da Silva ............................ 71 73 71 — 215
+5
Harrison Frazar ............................. 72 72 71 — 215
+5
Keith Horne ................................... 70 70 75 — 215
+5
Fredrik Jacobson ........................... 72 68 75 — 215
+5
Soren Kjeldsen .............................. 71 69 75 — 215
+5
Vaughn Taylor ............................... 74 69 72 — 215
+5
Robert Coles .................................. 69 71 76 — 216
+6
Craig Farrelly ................................. 70 75 71 — 216
+6
Ricardo Gonzalez .......................... 73 71 72 — 216
+6
Padraig Harrington ....................... 70 72 74 — 216
+6
Bo Van Pelt ................................... 76 68 72 — 216
+6
Michael Wright ............................. 66 72 78 — 216
+6
Simon Griffiths ............................. 67 77 73 — 217
+7
Thongchai Jaidee .......................... 72 70 75 — 217
+7
Robert Karlsson ............................ 70 75 72 — 217
+7
Paul Lawrie ................................... 69 71 77 — 217
+7
Paul McGinley ............................... 68 75 74 — 217
+7
Greg Owen .................................... 71 74 72 — 217
+7
Kyron Sullivan ............................... 68 75 74 — 217
+7
Joe Durant ..................................... 71 74 73 — 218
+8
Alastair Forsyth ............................ 69 74 75 — 218
+8
James Kingston ............................ 70 73 75 — 218
+8
Jeev M. Singh ................................ 67 78 73 — 218
+8
Lionel Alexandre ........................... 64 73 82 — 219
+9
David Howell ................................. 67 76 76 — 219
+9
Thomas Levet ............................... 71 72 76 — 219
+9
Jeff Maggert ................................. 70 75 74 — 219
+9
Jason Caron ................................... 69 76 75 — 220 +10
David Drysdale .............................. 70 75 75 — 220 +10
Mikael Lundberg ........................... 72 71 77 — 220 +10
Andrew Marshall .......................... 71 70 79 — 220 +10
Mario Tiziani ................................. 71 74 75 — 220 +10
Stage 20 A 106.1-mile ride from Le Bourg d’Oisans to Alpe d’Huez
Stage Results: 1. Richard Carapaz, Ecuador, EF Education-EasyPost, 04:59:39. 2. Remco Evenepoel, Belgium, Red Bull - Bora - Hansgro- he, 05:00:05. 3. Sepp Kuss, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 05:00:10. 4. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 05:00:44. 5. Isaac Del Toro, Mexico, UAE Team Emirates XRG, same time. 6. Lenny Martinez, France, Bahrain Victorious, 05:00:46. 7. Jai Hindley, Australia, Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe, 05:01:54. 8. Mattias Skjelmose, Denmark, Lidl-Trek, 05:02:34. 9. Juan Ayuso, Spain, Lidl-Trek, same time. 10. Paul Seixas, France, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, same time.
Also: 3. Sepp Kuss, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 05:00:10. 12. Matthew Riccitello, United States, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 05:06:36. 19. Quinn Simmons, United States, Lidl-Trek, 05:09:41. 26. Sean Quinn, United States, EF Education-EasyPost, 05:17:07. 56. Matteo Jorgenson, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 05:34:49.
Overall Standings: 1. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 72:53:44. 2. Remco Evenepoel, Belgium, Red Bull - Bora - Hansgro- he, 73:00:10. 3. Isaac Del Toro Romero, Mexico, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 73:03:26. 4. Paul Seixas, France, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 73:05:40. 5. Lenny Martinez, France, Bahrain Victorious, 73:06:46. 6. Mattias Skjelmose, Denmark, Lidl-Trek, 73:08:43. 7. Juan Ayuso, Spain, Lidl-Trek, 73:11:32. 8. Richard Carapaz, Ecuador, EF Education-EasyPost, 73:13:44. 9. Tom Pidcock, United Kingdom, Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, 73:23:12. 10. Jordan Jegat, France, TotalEnergies, 73:27:05.
Also: 13. Sepp Kuss, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 73:56:07. 18. Quinn Simmons, United States, Lidl-Trek, 74:29:12. 19. Sean Quinn, United States, EF Education-EasyPost, 74:40:49. 24. Matthew Riccitello, United States, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 75:04:53. 30. Matteo Jorgenson, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 75:27:13.
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conomists have talked about it as the greatest wealth transfer in history.
Baby boomers — boosted by decades of rising house prices, strong stock markets and economic growth — control more than half of U.S. household wealth. When they die, a lot of that wealth is expected to go to their descendants. Estimates have predicted that $68 trillion to $84 trillion in money and assets will change hands over the next two decades.
But those estimates might not sufficiently ac- count for the costs of growing old.
A Washington Post analysis of the finances of thousands of seniors in the last decade of their lives found that, for many families, the cost of care eats away much of what they had hoped to pass on. And within a growing segment, elder care costs are not just diminishing their savings, but obliterating them.
Adult children, rather than being the beneficia- ries of generational wealth, are in some cases spending down their own savings to pay for their parents’ care.
The Post’s data analysis was reinforced by inter- views and by submissions from hundreds of readers.
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A growing share of Americans die with nothing left after care
Share of Americans who died with no wealth left after out-of- pocket care costs in their final decade, by period of death
2006-2010 2011-2016 2017-2022
Source: Washington Post analysis of the University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study
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gains put pressure on Trump
Washington’s approach to regulating the technology
BY IAN DUNCAN
For months, America’s top artificial intelligence companies have appeared to be comfortably far ahead of their Chinese rivals, launching new flagship models with capabilities that have dazzled their most voracious users.
The new systems could make entire video games, solve knotty academic math problems and identify long-overlooked security holes in computer code.
But in recent days the size of that lead has been called into question, with the arrival of a wave of new Chinese models that experts say are rapidly closing the gap. And, with the most powerful Ameri- can models from Anthropic and OpenAI becoming mired in government red tape, the latest Chinese models, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and Alibaba’s Qwen3.8, are set to soon become freely available to anyone with powerful enough computers to run them.
For those worried about America’s lead eroding, an attempt earlier this month to hack American AI company Hugging Face has quickly become a cautionary tale.
The company said in a blog post that when it tried to use commercial AI tools in its defense, it ran into guardrails designed to stop them being used to mount an attack. The solution? Turning to a Chinese model.
At a time when competition on AI has become a key part of the tussle between the United States and China for world leadership, the new releases provide a fresh look at the state of the contest to shape the future a vital technology.
“We’re talking about whether it is the United States or China that provides the digital lifeblood of the global economy,” said Ryan Fedasiuk, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Wash- ington think tank.
Aware of the stakes, the Trump admin- istration said its approach to the new technology was designed to help the U.S. win the race, aiming to sweep away regulations that might slow American innovation. But in recent months it recalibrated its approach as it has also been forced to contend with the growing computer security risks posed by AI. Officials temporarily hit the brakes on the latest American models, worried
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Four years ago, car buyers were financing vehicles at peak prices, paying at or above sticker price as pandemic shortages drove costs sky- high. Now those same buyers are returning to showrooms and unfortunately dragging a record-high amount of debt into new loans.
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A growing number of Americans are upside-down, meaning they owe more on their auto loans than their cars are worth.
A new report from car-shopping website Edmunds found that nearly 30 percent of new-vehicle sales involving a trade-in had negative equity in the second quarter of 2026. The average amount owed on those underwater loans was $6,884.
When consumers can’t afford to clear their loan balance before wanting or needing another vehicle, this creates a compounding cycle of debt.
Borrowers stretch loans to seven years or longer to try to make the math work. The average monthly bill for a new-vehicle loan with negative equity hit a record high of $944 in the second quarter. That’s $167 more than the $777 average.
Underwater trade-ins aren’t limited to vehicles that traditionally plummet
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BY JENNA RYU R
etail therapy has earned its name for good reason. The simple act of browsing the available options, filling a cart (physically or digitally) and ulti- mately bringing home something new can deliver a brief burst of happiness.
The problem, of course, is that chasing this rush gets expensive — especially when the internet makes it effortless to click and purchase something that will show up at your door within 24 hours. But developers in South Korea may have created a clever work-around.
A growing category of “dop- amine websites” simulates the pleasures of online shopping or ordering a meal from a food delivery app — without the insult to your bank account. Among the most popular is Eumsigman-an- wayo (roughly translated to “only the food is not coming”). It lets users customize toppings, read customer reviews and watch their order make its way to their door.
Except none of the restaurants or menu items are real, and no delivery ever arrives.
The reason this digital role- play feels so satisfying comes down to how our brains get swept up in the fantasy of buying things.
“The entire experience can be pleasurable,” said Lindsay Bryan- Podvin, a certified financial ther- apist and author of “The Finan- cial Anxiety Solution.” “It’s brows- ing. It’s deciding what you want to add to your cart. It’s the excitement of hitting enough in your cart to get a coupon. It’s the excitement of tracking your pack- ages.”
Similar dopamine sites have spread across the internet, in- cluding Food Never Comes, Fake Eats, and dopahaul, which allows users to browse and “buy” cloth- ing, home appliances, makeup and more.
The premise may seem silly or even dystopian. But can pretend- ing to shop or buy food actually satisfy the urge to splurge? And, more importantly, could these websites help people spend less?
We asked financial psycholo- gists and consumer behavior ex- perts what they think.
Why ordering online feels so good
When we experience novelty (say, in the form of a shiny new item), research suggests it can activate the brain’s reward sys- tem and prompt the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that’s linked to pleasure. When an activity gives us a rush of warm, fuzzy feelings, we become motivated to pursue it over and over again — and even start to anticipate the reward ahead of time.
It’s why the lead-up to a vaca-
BY ALBERT STUMM
Associated Press
Jeans that fit perfectly. The ideal Netflix show for a Tuesday night. Your one and only soul- mate. Modern life promises that with enough options, you will happily find the best of every- thing.
But behavioral scientists say the increasing flood of choices — whether it comes to shopping, social lives or relationships — is doing the opposite.
The idea that more choice is better is baked into Western cul- ture, but research shows that having more options can make people anxious, indecisive and, paradoxically, less happy with what they pick, said Barry Schwartz, an emeritus psycholo- gy professor at Swarthmore Col- lege and author of “The Paradox of Choice.”
“There have been hundreds of studies showing that there can be too much of a good thing,” Schwartz said.
To minimize the mental noise, he said, limit the number of choices you make, and your brain will thank you for it.
More is often more confusing
Schwartz offered several exam- ples of cases where more options left people worse off.
In the case of Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, people in states with more choices were less likely to choose any of them, he said. The same goes for 401(k) investments. The more options a company had, the less likely em- ployees were to sign up, even when the employer offered matching money.
On “dopamine sites,” users can fill their carts with imaginary clothing, appliances, food and more, supposedly satisfying the urge to splurge without dropping any dough.
tion can feel almost as enjoyable as the trip itself or why skimming a restaurant menu can make your mouth water before the first bite.
Shopping, especially online, becomes tempting for the same reason. Instant access to count- less options, paired with the promise of immediate gratifica- tion, makes it harder to discern whether we’re buying stuff we actually need or simply chasing the thrill of something new.
“That’s at the heart of shop- ping,” said Scott Rick, behavioral scientist and associate professor of marketing at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Busi- ness. “We’re used to this being a rewarding process where there is something to look forward to. So it taps into this habit or routine where there is gold at the end of the rainbow.”
What we’re often buying isn’t just the item itself: It’s also the feelings, possibilities and identi- ties we hope it will bring. For example, a to-go order can repre- sent comfort after a difficult day. A new pair of running shoes
Less consequential choices are no different. Schwartz pointed to one often-cited study that showed shoppers at a gourmet grocery store bought more jars of artisanal jam when they were presented with six flavors rather than with a wider array of 24. In a follow-up study, students were more likely to complete an extra- credit assignment when they were given six topics to choose from instead of 30.
Schwartz’s research expanded on those findings to learn the emotional responses to this phe- nomenon.
might symbolize the version of yourself who finally commits to a training plan.
Anticipation is only one part of the story, though. According to Megan McCoy, assistant profes- sor of personal financial planning at Kansas State University, retail therapy also provides the illusion of agency. The low-stakes deci- sions involved when choosing between two colors, or even the act of comparing prices, can give you a sense of control. That, in turn, can also temporarily relieve negative emotions such as anxi- ety, depression and stress, re- search suggests.
Can fake shopping actually reduce emotional spending?
Instead of eliminating the de- sire to swipe your card, dopamine websites maintain the parts of shopping people enjoy — brows- ing, choosing, anticipating — while removing the financial damage that can lead to regret, Bryan-Podvin said.
But because these websites are so new, there’s little research
all this choice, you’re paralyzed,” he said. “You can do anything, and you can’t figure out which of those many things to do.”
People also often end up mak- ing worse decisions since more options suggest more potentially bad outcomes, he said. And once someone finally decides from all the possibilities, they may be less satisfied with even a good choice because they fear there was a better alternative.
Schwartz said the satisfaction problem is especially acute for people whose aim is to get the best, whom psychologists call maximizers.
showing whether they can mean- ingfully reduce impulse spending over the long term, she pointed out.
While behavioral science has long shown that substituting a bad habit with an alternative can curb cravings, the replacement needs to be rewarding enough for people to keep choosing it.
That’s where McCoy sees a potential weakness.
Part of dopamine sites’ appeal, she said, may come from their novelty. Once that “This is cool, I’ve never seen this before!” reac- tion wears off, she worries users “are going to get bored of the fake app and go back to the real apps when they’re stressed or lonely or bored.”
More importantly, replace- ment strategies like simulated shopping platforms don’t address the underlying reasons that drive impulsive spending in the first place.
“What is the emotional need the shopping experience is serv- ing?” McCoy said. “Until the per- son gets rid of that, the dopamine
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“People who are maximizers especially suffer from the prolif- eration of options,” he said. “Only the best will do.”
The tendency isn’t true for all people in all situations, Schwartz noted. Car buffs will gladly dive into the details of nearly unlimit- ed choice when buying a new one.
“But you don’t feel that way when it comes to buying jam,” he said.
The brain doesn’t like making decisions
Daniel Willingham, a psychol- ogy professor and neuroscience researcher at the University of
sites are only going to be a short-term win.”
Better ways to manage impulse buying
There’s nothing wrong with using dopamine sites if they scratch your shopping itch, said Bryan-Podvin. (Just be sure to not share any actual personal infor- mation, because it isn’t yet clear what security measures these sites use to protect your data.) But experts said there are other, more established ways to reduce emo- tional spending.
“Retailers, marketers — they’re all about making things friction- less and spending invisible,” Rick explained, which is why he rec- ommended creating “psychologi- cal speed bumps” to slow an impulse long enough to reconsid- er it.
That can look like unsubscrib- ing from promotional emails, re- moving saved credit card infor- mation from autofill or deleting e-commerce apps from your phone’s home screen.
Still, practical barriers go only
Virginia, said the phenomenon occurs because the brain is de- signed to save people from having to think.
Problem-solving requires more energy than relying on memory, a fact that has roots in evolutionary survival mode, Willingham said. When faced with a goal, whether it be an immediate need like responding to a threat or some- thing longer term like finding shelter, the mind first searches for what’s worked before. The problem-solving part of the brain only kicks in afterward.
“Another way to put it is that if you’re thinking, things are not going well,” he said.
That explains why sometimes people move through parts of their day on autopilot, he said. Throughout the day, people are confronted with hundreds of situ- ations where they could do some- thing different, but they almost always take the same route to work.
Schwartz said the proliferation of choices also has become tan- gled with identity in the social media age, where everyone can easily compare their choices to others.
“When all you’ve got to choose from is Lee’s and Levi’s, nobody expects the jeans they buy to fit perfectly,” he said. “When there are 2,000 options, well, now, dammit, you do expect your jeans to fit perfectly.”
Limit your choices and move on
David Epstein said that after researching his book, “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better,” he began to shift away from his maximalist tendencies.
so far. The more lasting solution involves understanding what you’re really seeking each time you open up a food delivery app or retail website. Whether that’s comfort, distraction, excitement or a sense of control, identifying that underlying need creates op- portunity to meet it in other, less expensive ways.
That could look like calling a friend, going for a walk or watch- ing an episode of your comfort show instead.
If you need help figuring out what’s driving you to spend, that’s where a therapist can come in. They can work with you to identi- fy and untangle your emotional connection to shopping and teach you healthier coping strate- gies that don’t involve blowing your paycheck on things you real- ly don’t need.
“Spending is such a proxy for so many feelings,” Bryan-Podvin said. “So making sure you have other ways to acknowledge those feelings and deal with the poten- tial discomfort [they bring] is going to be really important.”
Now, he limits his opportunities for making choices, such as when he bought 10 of the same well-fit- ting T-shirts in different colors.
He was following the example of Herbert Simon, a psychologist and 1978 Nobel laureate in eco- nomics, who had three sets of clothes and ate nearly the same thing every day. Simon intro- duced the term “satisficing,” a combination of satisfying and sufficing that means setting good-enough criteria for deci- sions and moving on.
Epstein sets satisficing rules for himself when shopping online by first focusing on the purpose of the purchase.
“When I find one that does that, I’m buying it, instead of reading all the reviews and get- ting sucked into, ‘Well, this one has all these other features.’”
Willingham and Schwartz sug- gested farming out some deci- sions. If you’re looking for a new phone, find a friend who is happy with theirs and buy that one.
For larger decisions like finan- cial planning, you’ll be happier if you rely on someone else’s profes- sional expertise, Willingham said.
“If you’re thinking, ‘Well, I’m a clever guy, I can figure that out,’ I think 9 times out of 10, you’re fooling yourself,” he said.
Schwartz acknowledged that for people who have trouble mak- ing decisions, changing is diffi- cult. But it’s worth it.
“What happens over time is you find it easier to make deci- sions, you end up more satisfied with the decisions you make, and all of a sudden, you’ve got an extra two hours in every day,” he said.
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John and Edith Bare at their daughter’s wedding two decades ago. The monthly care costs for Edith, who has dementia, total $15,000.
Inheritance from B7 Getting old is expensive. For many, it costs everything they hoped to pass on.
you’re very, very well off,” said Bill Roggenkamp, 68, of Ohio.
His 96-year-old mother, Edith Bare, has dementia and has been in an assisted-living facility for the past seven years. Her care costs $15,000 per month. But her savings are gone. So her three children took out a loan against the life insurance policy she held jointly with Bill’s late stepfather. If that runs out, they may have to sell part of the Kentucky farm that has been in the family since the 1960s.
Roggenkamp and his wife, Sharon, also a baby boomer, have discussed what would happen if one of them gets a similar diagno- sis.
“You do those numbers, espe- cially for long-term care and de- mentia, and you’re going to need $1 million, $2 million to keep yourself going,” Sharon Roggen- kamp said.
They expect they’d spend near- ly everything they have, leaving little behind for their adult chil- dren.
Calculating the cost of aging
That’s the picture that emerged for many when The Post examined data from the Health and Retirement Study. Since 1992, the federally funded survey has been following thousands of Americans from their early 50s until death, recording their fi- nances every two years (regard- less of whether they ever retired).
The Post focused on those who died between 2006 and 2022, totaling what they spent out of pocket on care in their final de- cade and assessing the impact in terms of categories of wealth.
The analysis found that the median American spent $19,179. One in 6 spent more than $50,000. One in 20 spent more than $100,000.
Within the time period The Post examined, the costs of aging grew more consuming. The share of people left with nothing after paying for elder care rose from 6 percent among those who died between 2006 and 2010 to nearly
BY HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH AND NICKY FORSTER
Associated Press
Life after college did not go as Ashley Dreahn planned.
After starting out as a teacher, she went back to school — and took out more loans — in hopes of landing a higher-paying job in the chemical processing industry. It never materialized, and then came Hurricane Harvey, a job loss and a car breakdown. By 2022, she was so broke that she filed for bankruptcy.
She found work at a Texas pris- on and was rebuilding her life, saving up for weight-loss surgery, when this spring she heard from a credit-monitoring service. The student loans she thought had been discharged in bankruptcy had ballooned to $94,298 with interest, and she had to start mak- ing payments. She was in default.
“I absolutely broke down,” said Dreahn, 40.
Across the country, the number of borrowers with defaulted stu- dent loans jumped by more than 4.2 million from April 2025 to March 2026, according to an Asso- ciated Press analysis. The surge includes many who went off track in 2024, when loan payments started coming due again after a pandemic-era freeze.
Courtesy of Bill Roggenkamp
11 percent among those who died between 2017 and 2022.
The costs fell hardest on those with the least: Among the poorest fifth of Americans in the analysis, 41 percent were left with nothing after accounting for their care costs in the years before death. Overall, this group spent nearly a third of their wealth on out-of- pocket care costs in the last de- cade of their lives — more than 20 times the share spent by the wealthiest fifth.
All the figures are almost cer- tainly underestimations, as they don’t fully account for housing, such as room and board at assist- ed-living facilities. Those costs often make up the bulk of what families pay.
Most Americans in their later years are homeowners, and many have paid off their mortgages. When they need more care, they may make money from selling their homes.
But assisted-living bills can be a destabilizing shock compared with what seniors were paying toward property taxes and home upkeep. Nationally, the median cost of a private room and basic services was about $74,400 a year in 2025, according to a CareScout Cost of Care Survey. For those who need the more extensive services of a nursing home, the annual median cost was $129,575 for a private room. Seven years of that for someone with dementia, and the bills would add up to nearly $1 million.
“Most Americans — many more than may appreciate it — will have little left to pass onto future generations after deplet- ing assets to pay for long-term care costs,” economic policy re- searcher Jessica Forden wrote in a study published in April by the liberal Roosevelt Institute.
The idea of a massive wealth transfer is misleading for that reason, said Forden, a PhD candi- date at the New School. Her anal- ysis of nationwide data from 1992 to 2022 found the typical middle- and low-income family never fi- nancially recovered after working through a lifetime of savings in retirement, widening the gulf be-
and another surge in defaults could be on the way. Millions of borrowers are facing higher monthly payments as the govern- ment dismantles its most afford- able income-driven repayment option, the Save plan, one of sever- al changes the Education Depart- ment says are intended to simplify a fragmented system.
Borrowers enter default after missing payments for nine months, and the consequences can upend lives. It hurts credit ratings and can lead to the debt being sent to collections.
“I am seeing despair and out- rage and despondency and just a very wide mix of pretty extreme emotions, the likes of which I have not seen before,” said Alan Col- linge, the founder of Student Loan Justice and the author of “The Student Loan Scam.”
The federal government can garnish wages and Social Security payments from borrowers in de- fault, but the Trump administra- tion in January walked back plans to begin collections on their loans. A Moody’s Analytics report this spring said garnishments are like- ly to begin within the next year, warning of “an additional head- wind in an increasingly fragile economy.”
Dreahn enrolled at Texas Wom- an’s University in 2004 as the first in her family to go to college. She cobbled together jobs, babysitting and working at a call center and an
Tim and Amy Dillon have had to scrape together money for Tim’s 79-year-old father, above, who is receiving care for dementia.
“It’s going to be the folks at the very top end who are passing on inheritance,” Forden said in an interview. “The rest of us are going to be spending our assets on retirement and probably on monthly care costs so we can get Medicaid eligibility.”
who are passing on inheritance. The rest of us
retirement and probably on monthly care
Jessica Forden, economic policy researcher
tween rich and poor.
What’s driving the cost of aging
While elder care has long been expensive, economists and retire- ment experts say a confluence of factors has made it an increasing- ly urgent concern for many Amer- icans.
Compared with past genera- tions, people today have fewer children to help support them, and their families are more likely to live in different cities and states, meaning they need to out- source care.
Also, lifespans have length- ened. Medical advances have made it possible to successfully manage many chronic diseases. But that has people paying for more years of care than in the past.
Meanwhile, the costs of senior living facilities have soared. The median assisted-living rate in- creased 44 percent in five years, according to the CareScout sur- veys, nearly double the rate of inflation.
Experts and industry officials say the sheer size of the baby boomer generation is increasing the demand for resources and contributing to rising labor costs and, in turn, the price tag of long-term care.
There is “a growing caregiver
automotive shop. But she still needed to borrow heavily.
“There was one point where they were like, ‘If you don’t come up with the money, we’re dropping you from your classes,’” said Dreahn, who earned a degree in history with an emphasis on edu- cation and social studies. “And it was, ‘Okay, what do I need to sign?’”
She said no one explained what taking out loans truly meant.
“You just kind of trust these advisers and trust these financial aid people that this is what you’re supposed to do,” Dreahn said.
While teaching, she took out more student loans to earn a pair of associate degrees from a public community college in Texas. She received a job offer at a chemical refinery, but it was rescinded be- cause she was over the weight limit for the company’s safety equipment.
She filed for bankruptcy in 2022 in hopes that it would “erase ev- erything.” She checked her online credit report afterward. For each student loan, the report read: “Nice! You’ve paid off 100% of this loan.” The message is sometimes shared with borrowers when stu- dent loans are consolidated or transferred to new companies — even when the person still owes money.
shortage across health care,” said John Kane, senior vice president of reimbursement policy at the American Health Care Associa- tion and National Center for As- sisted Living.
“Frankly, it’s not overreaching to say that funding for long-term care in this country is broken,” Kane said. “It’s too expensive for most people, yet it needs further investment to ensure frontline caregivers receive a competitive wage.”
How to cover long-term care?
Financial planners use models to help people map out how much money they should save for their retirement years. But as anyone who has gone through that pro- cess knows, there is inherent un- certainty. Will someone die of a heart attack at age 75? Or will they need 10 years of the most intensive and expensive care?
Nearly 1 in 5 people will require high-intensity care for more than three years, according to 2025 research from Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research. And yet many people don’t want to contemplate, let alone budget for, that possibility.
Several analyses have suggest- ed that despite the aggregate wealth of their generation, many baby boomers are ill-prepared for the costs of aging.
Experts say many people are particularly surprised to learn that Medicare, the federal health insurance program for older adults, doesn’t normally include long-term care. Only 3 percent of adults — 15 percent of those 65 and older — have long-term care
due hardship.” The process is cum- bersome, and few qualify, advo- cates say.
But Dreahn didn’t know any of that.
“I was so relieved, like, ‘Okay, now I can start life over,’” she said. “‘I can save some money.’”
She started working last year as a supervisor at a prison in Hunts- ville, about 70 miles north of Houston, and was living in an RV park to save money when she re- ceived the default notice.
“I just feel like, where is that light at the end of the tunnel now that I thought I had?” Dreahn said.
As a pandemic relief measure, the federal government allowed borrowers to suspend student loan payments until 2023, and President Joe Biden’s administra- tion then provided a one-year grace period. That ended in fall 2024, allowing loans to enter into default after nine months of missed payments.
A surge in defaults followed, and today around 9.5 million bor- rowers — more than 1 in 5 — are in default, including those whose loans were well past due before the pandemic, according to the AP analysis. The previous record for borrowers in default had been 8 million in December 2019.
There are also 870,000 borrow- ers with loans between 181 and 270 days late, on the edge of default, according to federal data.
Courtesy of Tim Dillon
Conrad Miles and his daughter Marion, who said her dad’s savings were “gone in a heartbeat” after he moved into assisted living.
insurance, according to the Cen- ter for Retirement Research.
That means that much of the cost of elder care falls squarely on families.
Tim and Amy Dillon are help- ing to support her mother and his father, both living at the same assisted-living facility in Ohio. They help finance her mother’s $8,700-per-month bill by draw- ing on Amy’s inheritance from her father — her mother’s ex-hus- band.
But they’ve had to cobble mon- ey together for Tim’s 79-year-old father, Jimmy, who is receiving care for dementia that goes well beyond what his Social Security payments and small pension can cover.
They sold Jimmy’s house and belongings. Then, along with Tim’s sister and brother-in-law, they agreed to contribute $1,000 per couple each month. Amy Dil- lon is a public school teacher. Tim Dillon, who retired from fire- fighting in 2017, went back to work as a medical courier.
“We have liquidated every- thing my dad worked for his entire life, and we’re going to give it to the corporation,” he said.
He is grateful his dad is getting good care, but thinks the U.S. “could do more to help take care of our aging population.”
The catch with reliance on Medicaid
When families run through their savings, many turn to Med- icaid, which covers nursing home care for people with low incomes — commonly about $2,000 or less in the bank.
But signing up carries a catch that few families understand un- til it is too late. Since 1993, federal law has required states to try to posthumously recoup money spent on a person’s long-term care by claiming their assets — often, the person’s house.
Amanda Spishak-Thomas, a Rutgers University assistant re- search professor who studies es- tate recovery, spent years as a social worker filling out Medic- aid applications without know- ing the program could later
rowers at for-profit schools na- tionally were at least 90 days late on payments, more than twice the rate of borrowers at public schools, additional federal data shows.
Some borrowers are so over- whelmed by their debt and chang- es to the federal student loan sys- tem that they’ve stopped paying.
Barbara Howaniec, a 63-year- old psychiatric nurse practitioner from Auburn, Maine, already has defaulted. She borrowed around $62,000 for her master’s degree from New York University, gradu- ating in 2001. But after two de- cades of payments, she still owes around $67,000 with interest. She had put her loans in deferment for short stints while her children were young, unaware that interest would continue to accumulate.
Howaniec had hoped to have her loan forgiven after 25 years under an income-based repay- ment plan. But then came a letter saying the repayment schedule had changed and she owed 355 more payments. By the time she finished paying, she would be 91.
She made call after call, but she said the advice varied by whoever picked up the phone. Last year, as she paid for her own children’s college, she quit paying her own loans.
Courtesy of Marion Miles
come for an applicant’s home.
The practice recovers little for the government, but it can be a huge setback for families, she said.
“If your home’s worth $50,000,” she said, “$50,000 is a meaningful amount of money for an adult child.”
Marlene Klein said her baby boomer brother could face estate recovery any day now, because he jointly owned a house with their mother, who died last year at age 97.
“I expect that they will come calling at some point,” said Klein, 70. “I will handle it from there. I will tell them, ‘Look, [my brother] doesn’t have any money. The only asset is really’” the house. (States have discretion to waive estate recovery if it would prove an “undue hardship” to heirs, for example by leaving them home- less.)
Klein is uniquely qualified for the task: Her last job before retir- ing in 2018 included supervising Idaho’s Medicaid Estate Recovery program. In principle, she is not against this recoupment, because it makes funds available for oth- ers’ care. But she said many Americans have no choice but to go on Medicaid — and risk estate recovery — because of the prohib- itively high cost of long-term care.
“This is a wealthy country,” she wrote to The Post. “Why are the elderly and their families subject- ed to these cruel options for caring for family members?”
Conrad Miles saved about $200,000 for his retirement years, as well as earning a pen- sion with the Santa Fe Railroad. But after he moved into assisted living, his savings were “gone in a heartbeat,” his daughter Marion Miles said.
When he died at age 93, he had about $30,000 — enough to cover less than three months.
“He kept saying, ‘I’m not going to be able to leave anything to you girls. I’m so sorry,’” Marion Miles recalled.
She said she told him to spend every penny. “Then nobody fights over it. You earned it.”
she said she doesn’t have to worry about the government garnishing her wages.
Dreahn had never been entirely clear how much she was borrow- ing when she was a student. As an adult, the process remained opaque. She had multiple loans transferred to different loan ser- vicers. And then her loans were deferred when she went back to school.
“It’s a huge, huge mess,” Dreahn said. “It’s almost like it just gets sold off and you’re just lost in the system somewhere until you fig- ure out that, ‘Oh, they want $700 this month. What?’”
Now in default, she hopes she might one day qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. It re- quires borrowers to make 10 years of payments while working at a nonprofit or for the government.
“I’m trying to figure out: One, how I’m going to make it work. And two, what do I give up?” Dreahn said. “How do I manage buying groceries as well as making sure the bills are covered and this payment never gets missed?”
Lately, she thinks back on the chemical processing plant job she almost got.
“That was a six-figure career that I lost due to my weight,” she said, her voice breaking. “The money that I’m trying to save now that was going to be for surgery is going to be paid to student loans instead.”
AI from B7 China’s new AI models are threatening U.S. dominance in technology race
about them falling into the hands of hackers but also delaying their public release for several weeks.
“It’s a really hairy position for the U.S. government,” said Sam Bresnick, a fellow at George- town’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology who stud- ies competition with China. “The administration is trying to find its feet.”
The government has a range of options to try to keep the compe- tition at bay and slow the Chinese down, but it is unclear whether the administration will take new action. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on how it is planning to respond.
Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, said Tuesday that multiple arms of the government were scrutinizing how China is developing new AI systems.
“We’re taking a very close look at how China is propagating its AI development to make sure our companies compete ... on a level playing field,” Greer said in an interview on CNBC.
The top systems made by San Francisco’s OpenAI and Anthrop- ic do still appear to hold a lead when it comes to raw power, experts said. British government security researchers concluded that the Chinese model Hugging Face used, which was released in June, was about as good at com- puter hacking as American offer- ings from four to seven months ago. But that’s down from a six-to- 10-month lag they observed last year.
(The Washington Post has a content partnership with Open- AI.)
In cybersecurity, the lead is important because it gives the government and business time to harden their defenses before the widespread arrival of the kinds of sophisticated attacks that models like Anthropic’s Mythos can carry out.
Rob Lee, the chief AI officer at SANS Institute, a cybersecurity training center, said that while the American industry has been debating how to respond to My- thos’s powerful abilities, Chinese developers have continued to be at work.
“We know by end of year there
Why I am recommending that upside-down car buyers do the unthinkable
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in value, according to Ivan Drury, director of insights at Edmunds.
“It’s not like, I suddenly had to get rid of my highly depreciated BMW five series and jump into a Porsche,” he said.
The biggest dollar losses affect pickup trucks, SUVs and reliable sedans from Honda and Toyota. Even if the car you select has a good resale rating, it’s still a depreciating asset.
If you’ve become part of this trend, know you aren’t alone, but don’t stay stuck in it. Here’s how to avoid being upside down, including one option I’m reluctantly recommending.
Lease (yes, really)
It pains me to write this section.
I have spent my career advising people never to lease. Outside of business owners who qualify for a deduction on the expense, leasing is almost always a losing financial proposition.
Yet, I’ve always understood the appeal of leasing, which I see as just long-term renting.
Monthly payments are usually lower than buying a new car because you are financing only the vehicle’s projected depreciation over the lease term, plus interest and fees, rather than the full purchase price.
But the discount is a trap. Instead of paying off a vehicle and enjoying years without an auto loan obligation, lessees often cycle from one car to the next and own nothing at the end.
Leasing is living above your means, because it lets drivers get behind the wheel of a more expensive car than they can afford.
I even got into a heated debate about it on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” 25 years ago. I sparred with an audience member named Sue over whether leasing ever made financial sense.
I argued it didn’t; Sue insisted that for certain drivers it was the smarter choice.
Sitting onstage with me was financial adviser Ric Edelman, author of “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth.”
“If you insist on owning a new car every three or four years, Michelle is right, you should not do this,” Edelman interjected. “But, if you insist on being dumb,
Visitors at the Moonshot AI stand, featuring the Kimi K3 model, during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 18.
is going to be a Chinese open weight model that is on par with Mythos,” he said.
Further complicating the pic- ture are the starkly different phi- losophies of the top AI companies on either side of the Pacific. American companies’ models are closed, made available to custom- ers via subscription plans to cover the vast cost of making them. In contrast, the Chinese companies’ models are open, meaning almost anyone can make their own copy
Sue is right. You should lease. Leasing has lower ownership costs during the three-year period. But remember, between the two, Sue will drive a more fun car. Michelle will get rich.”
Edmunds projects that buyers who roll negative equity into a new loan will shell out $16,270 in total interest over the life of that loan, nearly $6,500 more than standard buyers. They face longer terms, higher rates and bigger balances.
I still say don’t lease. But if you’re determined to do it anyway, it might be a better option than being upside down on a loan.
“Negative equity is no better than leasing, but leasing is probably better than negative equity,” Drury said. “You can only roll over so many bad loans. If
and make changes to it provided they have access to enough com- puting power.
That’s a cheaper proposition for businesses that don’t need the best of the best, and has won the Chinese models ardent defenders in Silicon Valley. They include influential figures close to Trump, who have warned in re- cent days against taking mea- sures to block the Chinese tech and tying American companies in regulations.
you’d love a new car every two to three years, just lease.”
What ultimately made me reconsider the argument for leasing came down to this takeaway from Drury: “If you’re gonna do something wrong, you better do it right.”
In other words, if you’re going to make a bad financial move, at least pick the option with the smaller downside.
Make more payments
I shouldn’t have to state the obvious, but the data makes it necessary. Unless your car is truly beyond repair, hold off on trading it in.
Every extra payment you make chips away at the principal, helping you reduce or eliminate the negative equity gap before you buy again.
“America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureau- crats are banning new data cen- ters, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models,” the investor and former Trump AI adviser David Sacks wrote on X this month. “This is how you lose the AI race.”
While the Chinese AI systems themselves are catching up, the U.S. appears to still have a deci- sive advantage when it comes to
Maintain your current car
Often buyers trade in because they are facing a major repair bill. But many could keep their cars longer if they simply kept up with routine maintenance.
Nearly half of drivers are behind on at least one major service, such as brake line inspections. Roughly 41 percent of vehicles nationwide are overdue for some critical maintenance work, according to Carfax, which compiles history information on used cars.
The Carfax data shows that nearly 30 percent of cars are behind on tire rotations and roughly 20 percent are overdue for oil and filter changes.
accessing the powerful computer chips and data centers needed to run the technology.
The world’s top AI chips are still made by American compa- nies and are subject to export restrictions. The Trump adminis- tration has opened the door to some less powerful chips being sent to China, although an official told lawmakers at a hearing this month that very few had been exported.
Moonshot said last week that it
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the glove compartment that you didn’t fully read when you bought the car? Pull it out, flip to the manufacturer’s recommended maintenance schedule, and follow it.
Don’t keep driving around with the “check engine” light on without finding out what’s wrong.
The moment I hear or see anything unusual with my car, I take it to a mechanic. Early prevention can save you a lot of money, which is why you need to budget for car maintenance.
When money is tight, you might decide you can’t afford to take your car in for basic service. But putting off routine checkups can lead to a budget-breaking repair bill later. Then you fall into the flawed logic that it’s smarter to just buy a new car,
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would not allow new subscribers to sign up to preserve resources for its existing customers. “Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected,” the company wrote on X.
Fedasiuk said if the trend of Chinese models improving con- tinues, it would point to a shift in the nature of the competition between the two countries: “The race will really be about deploy- ing frontier capability not build- ing it.”
even if you have to roll existing debt into a larger loan.
Don’t trade up
Among trade-ins with negative equity in the second quarter, 24 percent had $10,000 or more in debt, and 8 percent had $15,000 or more, according to Edmunds.
If you must buy another vehicle while underwater, choose something significantly cheaper than your current ride. For instance, suppose you want an upgraded $50,000 hybrid SUV and tell yourself you need it to save on gas. If you still owe $10,000 on your current loan, you’d end up borrowing $60,000 in total.
Instead, if you pivot to a $20,000 used sedan, your total obligation would drop to $30,000. It wouldn’t be ideal, but it would dramatically slash your total interest burden.
Get a shorter loan term (seriously)
Long-term loans (72 to 84 months) keep monthly payments deceptively low because early payments go mostly toward interest rather than principal. Meanwhile, the car continues to lose value.
Keeping the loan to 48 months or less reduces the chance that you’ll be upside down on your car should you need to trade or sell it.
Use a 48-month car loan as a benchmark for affordability. If you can’t handle the monthly payments on a four-year loan, you probably can’t afford the vehicle.
Want to avoid being upside down?
Drive what you have for as long as you can, and pay off what you owe. When the loan is paid off, don’t let that money disappear into everyday spending. Keep making the car payments to yourself. Save that money in a high-yield savings account to cover maintenance and repairs, and eventually to buy your next car with cash.
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Worst. Career Advice. Ever.
you can’t miss their expressions of anger, anxiety, fear and sadness. That frustration motivates others to share advice expected to serve as a balm to those who are struggling. Sometimes, actually, let’s say often, I feel called to serve as a counter to the many mushy platitudes from career experts. I have shared prior frustration with five pieces of overly simplistic career advice too easily stated: • Do What You’re Good At • Follow Your Passion • Don’t Worry About Money • Money Should Be Your Priority • The Right Job Will Show Up This leaves out the pinnacle of the very worst career advice:
a Day in Your Life.” It has been shared as the providence of everyone from Confucius to Mark Twain. It doesn’t really matter though, because it is inaccurate and sets people up for what can be enormous frustration.
A JOBS Arcadis Inc. seeks Architect II (69320) in Washington DC to plan assigned projects and allocate work to ensure timely delivery and effective utilization of resources. *Telecommuting is permitted any- where in the U.S. Salary: $94,432- $114,432/yr. Arcadis offers benefits for FT & PT positions incl med, dental, & vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life in- surance, PPL, reward & recognition program & opt benefits incl wellbe- ing benefits, adoption asst & tuition reimbursement. 9 pd holidays & PTO that accrues/year. To apply, visit jobpostingtoday.com (ref Job ID).
Attorney, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP has opening for Attorney at its offices at 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 1300, Washington, DC 20006. Draft & negotiate complex cross-border fin. agrmts for infra./energy proj- ects with principal focus on LatAm, Mideast, and Eur. mkts. 2yrs exp., JD/LLM & DC Bar adm. r’qd. Mail CV to Raquel Lorenzo, HR Director, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10178-0061.
Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC has an opening for Attorney position. Attorney role requires Ju- ris Doctor (J.D.) or Master of Laws (LL.M.) from an ABA accredited law school and 1 year of experience as a law clerk, paralegal, or related. Duties include providing legal opin- ions and advice on immigration-re- lated matters, attending USCIS in- terviews, and representing clients in immigration court and federal government agencies. Position is based out of Falls Church, VA. Min. Rate of Pay: $172,000.00/year. Please submit resume to Haider Semaisim, Managing Attorney, Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC at haider@silopllc.com.
Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC has an opening for Law Clerk position. Law Clerk role requires Juris Doctor (J.D.) or Master of Laws (LL.M.) from an ABA-accredited law school and 1 year of experi- ence in legal research, analysis, and document preparation. Duties include researching case law, stat- utes, regulations (e.g., INA, CFR, BIA, Circuit court, and other court decisions), and government agen- cy policies (USCIS, ICE, EOIR, DOS) and drafting legal memoranda, motions, briefs, and applications (e.g., asylum, cancellation of re- moval, VAWA, TPS, SIJS). Position is based out of Falls Church, VA. Min. Rate of Pay: $87000.00/year. Please submit resume to Haider Semaisim, Managing Attorney, Semaisim Immigration Law Of- fice, PLLC at haider@silopllc.com.
Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC has an opening for Senior Human Resource Specialist. Senior Human Resource Specialist role requires master’s degree or equiv- alent in Human Resource Manage- ment, Business Administration, or a closely related field, and 2 years of experience in strategic human resources management. Duties include performing advanced work- force forecasting and capacity plan- ning based on caseload growth in removal defense, asylum, and fam- ily-based immigration; designing scalable staffing and organizational models to support firm growth. Po- sition is based out of Falls Church, VA. Min. Rate of Pay: $83000.00/ year. Please submit resume to Haider Semaisim, Managing Attor- ney, Semaisim Immigration Law Office, PLLC at haider@silopllc.com.
Audit Advisor - Assurance (Audit Services) (Manager) (Multiple Po- sitions) (1725659), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Tysons (McLean), VA. Plan and perform audit procedures in accordance with U.S. GAAS, including PCAOB rules and regula- tions, for private and public com- pany financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Requires domestic travel up to 30% in order to serve client needs. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. $128,149.00 per year. For complete job description, list of requirements, and to apply online, go to: ey.com/en_us/ca reers and click on “Careers - Job Search”, “See All”, then “Expe- rienced Professionals” (Job # - 1725659).
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Billing Coordinators- Prep invoices, maintain billing records. HS/GED+2 yrs. exp. in billing, invoicing, acc. receivable support, or rel. billing admin. duties. Sal. $58,885 p. yr (FT) Mail cl/res. to: Alianza Multiservice LLC, Attn. Ms. Abanto, 18572 Office Park Dr., Montgomery Village, MD 20886
Bookkeeping Clerk, Gas Station/ Convenience Store (Upper Marl- boro, MD). Min. 2 yrs. exp. in any position w/ mgmt or accounting duties. Manage all accounts, bank reconciliation, and payroll. 40 hrs/ wk, 8A-5P. No benefits, $60k/yr. Resume to: Sargodhian Inc. d/b/a Westphalia Marathon, 1300 Cara- way Ct., Ste. 101, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774.
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Chef, Bollywood Bistro Caterers Inc d/b/a Bollywood Bistro Caterers in Fairfax, VA. Cook South Asian food for catering orders; supervise cooks & food prep workers; assist planning menu; oversee sanitation. Reqs 24 mos exp as chef preparing South Asian cuisine using tradition- al techniques incl. spice blending, curry prep, & tandoor-style cooking. Wage: $73,000/year. Send resume: bastolasunil77@gmail.com
Micron Technology, Inc. has an opening for FAB Engineer (Wet Pro- cess) in Manassas, VA. Job duties include: Responsible for planning and executing daily manufactur- ing operations that line up with tactical line directions to achieve quality output goals. Work with the Process Hazard Analysis team to provide potential by-product Char- acterizations and participate in site Hazard and Operability Studies as needed. To apply, visit Micron.com/Careers. Search by requisition no. JR104727
C JOBS John Moriarty & Associates of Vir- ginia, LLC seeks Construction Busi- ness Systems Engineer in Arlington, VA to review & prep RFIs & manage doc control for construction projs, incl dvlpng dashboards, reviewing bids, procurement & cost-track- ing, streamlining ops, & preparing proj status rprts. Req’s Master’s in Engg Mgmt or rltd & 1 yr of exp utilizing Smartsheet & Procore for proj mgmt, cost analysis & cost control; Power BI for data analysis & rprting; Oracle ERP & SAP for pro- curement & cost-tracking analysis; & assisting in scoping & take-offs using Bluebeam Revu & Autodesk Construction Cloud. Must be will- ing to work at unanticipated client sites in VA. Telecom permitted. Of- fered wage: $116,080 - $130,000 per year. To Apply: Mail Resume to Yvonne Schauder, John Moriarty & Associates of Virginia, LLC, ATTN: CBSE, 4401 N Fairfax Dr., Suite 700 Arlington, VA 22203.
Cosmos Granite DC LLC a Marble & Granite import/export, is recruiting for Senior Financial & Operations Manager position requiring:
• Master’s Degree in Man- agement, Accounting, or Business plus 2 years’ exp. in Accounting Soft- ware: QuickBooks, SPS Commerce, ERP Systems & Workflow Implementa- tion, Financial Reporting & Analysis (GAAP compliant), Budgeting, Forecasting & Cost Accounting, Inventory Management & Internal Auditing, MS Excel (Ad- vanced), Power BI / Dash- board Reporting. Must have 2 years’ exp. as a Financial and Accounting Analyst, Operations Manager, Busi- ness Operations Analyst, Revenue Operations Man- ager, Project Coordinator, or similar occupation. Must have a Salesforce Admin Certification. (Job Code
Send resume to Cosmos Granite DC LLC, 3900 Stonecroft Blvd, Suite B, Chantilly, VA 20151 or via email to: Srini@ cosmossurfaces.com. Please refer to job code in your cover ltr.
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comScore, Inc. seeks a Data An- alyst in Reston, VA to lead data investigations, own solutions & delivery. Telecom. perm. $115,939/ yr. Apply at jobpostingtoday.com/ Ref # 97762.
Senior Clinical Research Data Man- ager - Children’s National Medical Center-Washington, DC & Silver Spring, MD: Ovrsee the clinical database & clinical data manage- ment aspects of the Biostatistical and Study Methodology Division & provide support for the implemen- tation of project specific database design, creation and testing. Reqs: Bach or frgn equiv in Epidemiology, Information Systems, Biotechnol- ogy, Biostatistics, Life Sciences, or a closely rltd fld + 4 yrs exp. in a data management occ. P/t tele- com prmtd. Send resume/CV to aphuong@childrensnational.org & ref code SCRDM.
Daycare Teaching Assistant sought by Gobind Academy LLC dba Cele- bree School of Herndon-West Res- ton at its facilities in Reston, VA to help manage classrooms. No prior education or experience required. Interested applicants please sub- mit resume to Owner, Manmeet Sarang, at manmeet.sarang@ celebreeschool.com with subject “Daycare Teaching Assistant”
DNA Analyst (Lorton, VA) (Partial Telecommuting Ok) (Mult pos). Per- frm DNA anlysis on databas’g sam- pls, humn idntificatn sampls, fornsic custm casewrk, and high through- put casewrk. Domestic travel up to 10%. Salary: $102,086. Req. MS in Fornsic Biolgy, Biochmstry, Mol- culr Biolgy, Genetics, Fornsic Scince or rltd & 2 yrs work exp. Send CV/ letter to Bode Cellmark Forensics, Inc., Attn: H. Kane, ref#CM2026, HR@bodetech.com. EOE
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ENGINEERING Viavi Solutions Inc is accepting re- sumes for Hardware Development Engineer in Paeonian Springs, VA. Participate in the analysis and trou- bleshooting of returned hardware products to identify defects and failure modes. Email resume to USRecruiting@viavisolutions.com Must reference Ref# OI-HD.
No matter the person you have in your mind as having the ideal professional life, they don’t perceive it as such without frustration. • The professional athlete constantly focused on being better by improving physically and mentally to win more or perform better. If you are an athlete who struggles with an aspect of your game, the repetition to get better at what doesn’t come as naturally to you may feel like exceedingly hard work. The boxer Mike Tyson said, “discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it.” • The artist/writer/performer angling to perfect a current piece or to come up with their next one. If you recently had an exceedingly popular song, book or movie you might feel immense pressure to do as well or better, sell more and constantly evolve, but not too much. • The leader seeking to improve some aspect of their organization whether that is internal (culture, processes) or external (sales, brand). The constant expectation of growth, without declining quality and often more to manage may suddenly feel harder and less enjoyable. This isn’t to say that they may not love what they do and appreciate the opportunity most of the time, but NEVER work. Nope. Not true. I can’t name a single person who can’t identify one part of their job that feels very much like work to them. Ideally, they are mindful to keep down the ratio of that which is less pleasurable to manageable levels, but most adults understand that some aspect of what they do will be tedious, or at least less enjoyable. Recently, a colleague that I advise asked me about whether I work with people or on projects that I don’t enjoy. I told her that I didn’t, but that didn’t mean that there aren’t times when working together on certain tasks doesn’t feel harder to do.
E JOBS Estimator for Large Government Contract Drywall Company Needed
Job Description: Preparing pro- posals for private and public sec- tor painting and drywall work for jobs between 10,000 sq feet and 100,000 sq feet. Requirements: 24 months of exp. in preparing estimates for private and public jobs between 10,000 and 500,000 sq ft, to include pric- ing for workers using Davis Bacon Act and Service Contract Act wage scale required. Position is at Tricon Construction, Inc. Primary Worksite Address: 7219 Gabe Court, Manassas, VA 20109 Additional Worksite Address: 1670 Village Green, Crofton, MD 21114
Send resumes to Erika Velasquez, 1670 Village Green, Crofton, MD 21114.
Executive Director Skilled commu- nity organizer sought for non-profit ecumenical association. Fundrais- ing experience required. Financial administration experience. Famil- iarity with DC. Strong personal and communications skills.
Salary 80k - 100k
Send resumre to Terry@downtowncluster.org
EY-Parthenon - Corporate Fi- nance - Quantitative Finance and Economics (Manager) (Mul- tiple Positions) (1722740), Ernst & Young U.S. LLP, Tysons (Mc- Lean), VA. Determine the value of derivatives and other complex financial instruments to support clients with regards to financial reporting requirements, as well as for tax planning purposes. Domes- tic travel required up to 25%, to serve client needs. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training, or experience. $171,040.00 per year. For complete job description, list of require- ments, and to apply online, go to: ey.com/en_us/careers and click on “Careers - Job Search”, “See All”, then “Experienced Profes- sionals” (Job Number - 1722740).
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AES Clean Energy Services, LLC seeks Senior Manager, FP&A and Transactions in Arlington, VA (Must be in the office 2 times per week) for leading the AES Clean Energy Annual Budget process and coordi- nating with multiple teams across the company, ensuring SLT has deep buy-in on budget assump- tions and Key metrics. Job requires Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or a related field and 4 years of experience pre- paring and coordinating budgets, forecasts, and reporting. E-mail resume to applicationsUS@aes. com. Please reference Job Code 8946674.
First-line supervisor, Construction: Assist mgr to supervise 3 laborers in residential remodeling & work alongside them. Perform work on baths, kitchens, bdrms, dining & living rms; additions & all projects per client specs. Attend client mtgs & collaborate w/ mgr, architects, engineers & designers to create proposals, schematic/early-stage designs, sketches & diagrams for client review/approval. Coordinate w/ mgr & all parties on all project phases. Assist w/ budget prep, req- uisition of materials & reporting. Allocate materials, tools & equip; ensure correct team on-site timely. Inspect work progress to ensure proper & timely completion & com- pliance w/ safety & regs. Min. Rqt.: High School/GED. ≥24 mos exp in similar role w/ strong background in design & overall supervision of remodeling/construction projects. Knowledge/exp in: Rhino, Revit, Photoshop, AutoCAD, Adobe, Pow- erPoint, MS Word & Excel. Verifi- able refs; willing to work OT, evgs, wknds & holidays. Non-smoker on jobsite. Mail Resume To Job Loc: Kingston Construction Company (DBA) Kingston Design Remodeling. 11515 Suburban Place, Fairfax Sta- tion, VA 22039. Attn: Austin Schmitt
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GAP Solutions, Inc. seeks a Biolo- gist in Gaithersburg, MD. Qualified applicants must have a MA + 2 years exp. Teleworking permitted 2 days/week. This is a full-time po- sition. Annual salary of $94,860 to $102,000. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid time off, holiday time, and 401K. See more at GAPsi. com/benefits/. Email resumes to recruiting@gapsi.com, and refer- ence Biologist in the email.
H JOBS Human Resources Coordinator (Team Lead). Lead the daily oper- ations & work flow of Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center Hu- man Resources unit; assist with de- signing & implementing operational systems & processes; coordinate all aspects of recruitment, inter- view, & hiring processes for Clerc Center positions; support the hiring process by screening applications, guiding Search Committee Chairs throughout the selection process, maintaining accurate hiring re- cords, & assisting with strategies to attract candidates; lead human resources data management func- tions; coordinate onboarding pro- cesses for new hires & offboarding procedures for departing employ- ees; assist in identifying onboard- ing training needs and coordinate required training; maintain human resources records; develop month- ly or quarterly reports for internal & external stakeholders & provide guidance on employee benefits & University & Clerc Center policies, procedures, and guidelines; serve as a lead resource for HR process- es, recruitment activities, compli- ance, reporting, & administrative systems. Employer: Gallaudet Uni- versity. Job in Washington, DC. Re- quires: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administra- tion, Human Resources or a related filed, fluency in American Sign Lan- guage at the time of job interview & excellent references. Mail resume, references and salary requirements to Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue NE, College Hall, #106, Attn: Jennie Sivak, Job # P000484, Wash- ington, D.C. 20002. EOE.
Requires: Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence , Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field plus 10 years of experience in job offered or similar roles.
Adventist HealthCare, Inc. seeks a Sr. Occupational Therapist in Rock- ville, MD. Req: Master’s in Occup. Therapy, 5 yrs. of exp., MD OT Lic., AHA HCP CPR or AHA BLS (CPR and AED) cert., or similar, natl. recog. cert. such as AOTA or NBCOT, or similar. Shift: Sun. - Thurs. 8:00a – 4:30p. Salary: $106,912.00 - $116,272.00/yr. Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, Life Ins., Retirement, Wknd. Shift Diff. Contact: sjack- son5@adventisthealthcare.com
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Inventory Mgr: Supervise stock- ers & cashiers to ensure proper inventory handling & compliance w/ store procedures. Monitor & maintain inventory levels of retail merchandise. Conduct physical in- ventory counts & reconcile discrep- ancies. Coordinate purchasing & restocking w/ suppliers. Min. Rqt.: HS/GED. ≥24 mos exp in inventory control, stock supervision or relat- ed inventory mgmt. Able to work OT, incl late nights, wknds & holi- days. Non-smoker on the worksite. Verifiable refs. If interested, mail resume to: Hudaya INC., 201 Centre Dr., Stephens City, VA 22655. ATTN: Syed Abbas.
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP is seeking an Associate 1 for its Washington, DC location to as- sist the firm’s partner attorneys and senior associate attorneys with legal research and provide drafts of contracts and other legal documents. Must have a law de- gree from an ABA-accredited law school and must have completed graduate coursework in interna- tional subjects such as law, trade law, arbitration, and public rights as well as coursework in busi- ness-government relations and global corporate responsibility. Must be licensed with a State Bar Association. Send resume to Nel- son Mullins, ATTN: Rhonda Midg- ette, 1320 Main Street, 17th Floor, Columbia, SC 29201. Reference Job
O JOBS Office Clerk Provide administrative support in preparation, coordina- tion and organization of countertop fabrication and installation projects involving marbles and granite ma- terials. Schedule and coordinate appointments for site measure- ments, and fabrication. Receive, distribute mail and deliveries. Record payments and billing infor- mation. 40 hrs/week. Associates degree in any major req’d. Send application to Employer and Job Lo- cation: Galaxy Granite, Inc. at 8249 Backlick Rd Unit 1 Lorton, VA 22079
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Partner/ECT Director (Boston Con- sulting Group, Inc. – Washington DC, Washington DC): Oversee and direct multiple consulting engage- ments simultaneously for BCG focusing on transformation initia- tives, reorganization, and develop- ment of growth strategies. Requires Bachelor’s degree in business ad- ministration, management science, or a quantitative field (related to a BCG client industry) (willing to ac- cept foreign education equivalent) and 7 years of exp as a manage- ment consultant, business analyst, or a quantitative analyst which must include at least 3 years of exp in management strategy. Alterna- tively will accept a Master’s degree in business administration, man- agement science, or a quantitative field (related to a BCG client indus- try) (willing to accept foreign edu- cation equivalent) and 5 years of exp as a management consultant, business analyst, or a quantitative analyst which must include at least 3 years of exp in management strategy. Must report to and reside within commutable distance of list- ed BCG office. Partial telecommute benefit available. Domestic/inter- national travel required (up to 80%) based on company/client need. Multiple positions available. Salary: $268,400 to $450,000. Submit re- sume to BCGPTR@bcg.com. Refer- ence Position Number: PTWAS-F26.
Physical Therapy Assistant, Ft Washington MD, Assoc. Degree in Physical Therapy or similar, PTA License Req’d. Send CL/resume to Christina Patel, Active Physical Therapy, 802 Cromwell Park Drive, Ste T, Glen Burnie, MD 21061
Bechtel Infrastructure and Power Corporation has an opening for Planner – CCGT in Reston, VA (Sal- ary: $125,778.00/year). Job duties include: Prepare schedule data for proposals and contract negotia- tions; Assists in schedule baseline preparation and initial project set- up. Due to the nature of construc- tion projects, work may be required at various unanticipated locations nationwide with relocation a pos- sibility; however, the primary re- porting location will be the Reston, VA location with no more than 10% of travel required. Reqs: MS (or foreign equiv) +1 yr exp OR BS (or foreign equiv) +5 yrs exp. To apply Email Resume to bechtelusjobs@ bechtel.com. Must reference job B978.413.4.
Project Leader/Principal (Boston Consulting Group, Inc. - Washing- ton, District of Columbia): Manage the design and development of long-term business strategies, including managing case team responsibilities; oversee business development, client relationships, project planning, and the prepara- tion of outputs. Requires Master’s degree in business administration, management science, or a quanti- tative field related to a BCG client industry (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and 3 years exp. as a management consultant, business analyst, or quantitative analyst which must include at least 1 year in management strategy. Will alternatively accept a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, management science, or a quanti- tative field related to a BCG client industry (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and 5 years exp. as a management consultant, business analyst, or quantitative analyst which must include at least 1 year in management strat- egy. Partial telecommute benefit available. Domestic/international travel required (up to 80%) based on company/client need. Sala- ry: $225,400 - $268,400. Submit resume to BCGPLP@bcg.com. Reference Position Number: PLWAS-F26. Mult. pos. avail.
do, but what it takes to realize your greater goal or overcome a mounting challenge. The ‘work’ is the price you pay for doing the rest of it, which fills you with joy and it helps you in appreciating that joy during those easier moments. Using myself, again, as an example… • I find writing pieces like this to be hard • I find writing detailed plans for people and organizations about their work to be fun and somewhat easy • I love conversations with people when we have an expansive vision that we are working towards • Having conversations when our plans haven’t been realized with resulting, negative consequences on staff is very much work • Helping people is amazing and seeing that change in how they see possibility is everything to me • Helping people who continue to struggle to act and own the process is exhausting work for me Work often includes an area of discomfort or growth for me, but not always. Many people don’t enjoy the administrative aspect of their work, but
P JOBS Project Executive (Mult. Pos.) – CBG Building Company LLC - Arlington, VA – Maintain contact with own- er’s representative & consultants. Maintain written correspondence to document items that may af- fect project budget, schedule, or product quality. Reqs: Bach or frgn equiv in Eng., Architecture, or Con- struction Mngmnt plus 5 years’ of prgr resp exp in construction or Master or frgn equiv in Eng., Archi- tecture, or Construction Mngmnt plus 3 years of prgrsvly resp exp in construction. Annual wage/salary: $125,778 - $135,000. Send CV to renee.chaniyara@crccompanies. com. Pls ref code: PE
COOK Cook food as per Indian Restaurant’s menu. Estimate sup- ply. FT. Salary $46218. Location Washington DC. Apply to P. Shres- tha at 429 L’Enfant Plaza SW. # 340 Washington DC 20024.
R JOBS MCN Build, Inc. seeks a Real Estate Development Manager in Washing- ton, DC to lead real estate dvlpmt projs incl feasibility assessments, budgets, fin modeling, & risk mit- igation; monitor qlty control & compliance w/ bldg codes & regu- lations. 40% domestic trvl to client sites req. Reqs Bachelor’s in Econ, Finance, Biz Admin or rltd & 5 yrs of progressively respsbl exp analyzing market-driven economic factors to guide strat dvlpmt & apply bench- marking against external indices incl CoStar Mkt Analytics, cash flow projections for long-term returns, & highest-and-best-use & residu- al land value analyses to dtrmne proj viability. Occasional telecom- muting permitted. Offered Salary: $161,158. To Apply: Mail Resume to Marcela Zambrana, MCN Build, Inc. Attn: REDM, 1214 28th Street NW, Washington, DC 20007.
S JOBS Sales Associate: greet cust., pro- cess sales + rel. duties. Reply to OM Tiwari Inc., HS/GED, $30,389 per yr, FT. Reply to: Mr. Sharma, 1436 Chain Bridge Rd., McLean, VA 22101
SR QUANT ANALYST (ALEXANDRIA, VA) wanted by wholesale power trading firm to help improve quant trading strategies, predictive mod- eling, data analysis, etc. 2+ yrs exp as in quant/trading analyst/ associate or related role, includ- ing 1 yr exp working in wholesale power mkt. Pls send resume/ cover letter to Tios Capital LLC at hr@tioscapital.com. No calls pls.
DrFirst.com, Inc seeks Sr. Ac- countant in Arlington, VA to lead monthly financial statement preparation and analysis. Tele- commuting permitted. $128,149 - $136,700 per year. Apply at www. jobpostingtoday.com Ref #25583
Transportation Engineer Collab w othr engrs., clnts., stkhldrs. to idntfy & dev. tech. sltns. & dsgns.; Prdc tnsptn. dsgn. plns., specifics, & est. pckgs. ;Perf. traffic eng. Stds., analys. & mdlng. ;Utilize traffic simltn. sftwr.to assess impct. of rdwy. dsgns. & imprvmts.;Trblsht. & reslv. issues wthn. assign tnsptn. prjcts,;Wrk.with pblc. agencies & pvt. clnts. to dev. & implmt. prjct plns;Implmt. recmd. for imprvg. eng. prcs.stds. & docmtn. Min. Rqmts: Master’s Deg. in Civil Eng. or related. 12 months exp. in the job offered. Verif. references. Knwl. of or exp. in prep. transportation design plans, specifications, & cost estimates involving tempo- rary traffic control, traffic signals, signing, pavement markings, lighting systems, utilities, & road- way geometry. Knwl. of or exp. in utilizing MicroStation software to develop detailed design delivera- bles in compliance with client and regulatory standards. Knwl. of or exp. in troubleshooting & resolv- ing design issues during planning and engineering phases. Resumes to job loc: Precision Systems, Inc., 99 M Street, S.E., Suite 750, Wash- ington DC 20003. ATTN: Harlen Valenzuela..
U JOBS U.S. Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Reporter (Level 1 Journalist) sought by Reuters America LLC in Wash- ington, DC. Provide breaking news coverage by monitoring agency an- nouncements, tracking regulatory decisions & filing fast, accurate re- ports on healthcare policy & indus- try shifts. Must be at Washington DC Office 2 days/wk, per company hybrid policy. Salary: $117,085/yr. To apply online, visit: https://thom sonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs. com/External_Career_Site/job/ United-States-of-America-Wash ington-District-of-Columbia/US- Pharmaceutical-and-Healthcare- Reporter--Level-1-Journalist-_ JREQ201809-1 & refer to JREQ201809
Acentra Health, LLC seeks Systems Analyst in McLean, VA (Fully remote work permitted) to analyze & study system reqs & devel methods for problem-solving by producing complex flow charts/data flow diagrams &/or associated docs. Job reqs Bach in Comp Sci, Tech, Eng’g or rel field & 3 yrs of exp in systs analysis or a rel field. To ap- ply, email cover letter & resume to Kim Uppal at recruitment@acentra. com. Reference Job Code 4204027.
AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC, an Amazon.com company - Arling- ton, Virginia. Quality Assurance Engineer III: Own & ensure the quality, reliability, scalability, test- ing methodology & performance of highly complex SW systems & services. Salary Range: $133,300/ year to $180,300/year. Job Number: AMZ9795943. Multiple job open- ings. Standard company benefits available. Apply online: www.ama- zon.jobs – search by Job Number. EOE.
Assistant Director of Design and Construction. Bachelor’s in Archi- tecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or related + 1 year experience as Project Manager or Licensed Contractor (valid license required if qualifying). Job located in Falls Church, VA. Salary: $90,875/ year. Send resume to Jaime Pala- cios, Casaflex LLC, 7777 Leesburg Pike, Suite 303, Falls Church, VA 22043.
Computer Sciences Corporation hiring for Associate Manager Soft- ware Engineering in Ashburn, VA (Ref. #9725805). Sup a tm of sftwr engrs in the dvlpmnt of sftwr prdcts & solns, prvd gdnc, cde revs, & tech sup. Collab wth x-functionl tms to define prjct reqs, ensr the sccssfl dlvry of sftwr prjcts. Assst in the prof grwth & mntrshp of tm mmbrs thrgh reg fdbck, coachng, & crr dvlpmnt pln. Pos reqs Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 1 yrs exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. In lieu, will accept Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 3 yr exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. Will work at unanticipated client sites throughout the U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. An- nual Salary Range is: $150,758.00 - $180,300.00. FT hires elig for DXC bnfts pkg incl hlth, dentl, visn, life & disab ins; retirmt plan; PTO & more. To apply, email resume to globallmobility@dxc.com resume must include Ref. #9725805, full name, email, address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship. EOE
Computer Sciences Corporation hiring for Associate Manager Soft- ware Engineering in Ashburn, VA (Ref. #9821679). Sup a tm of sftwr engrs in the dvlpmnt of sftwr prdcts & solns, prvd gdnc, cde revs, & tech sup. Collab w/ x-fnctl tms to def prjct reqs, ensr the sccssfl dlvry of sftwr prjcts. Assst in the prof grwth & mntrshp of tm mmbrs thrgh reg fdbck, cchng, & crr dvlpmnt pln. Pos reqs Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 3 yrs exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. In lieu, will accept Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 1 yr exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. Will work at unanticipated client sites throughout the U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. Annual Salary Range is: $174,720.00 - $180,300.00. FT hires elig for DXC bnfts pkg incl hlth, dentl, visn, life & disab ins; retirmt plan; PTO & more. To apply, email resume to globallmobility@ dxc.com resume must include Ref.
& mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship. EOE
Computer Sciences Corporation hiring for Associate Manager Soft- ware Engineering in Ashburn, VA (Ref. #9575004). Sup a tm of SW en- grs in the dvlpmnt of sftwr prdcts & solns, prvd gdnc, cde revs, & tech sup. Collab wth x-fntl tms to def prjct reqs, ensr the sccssfl dlvry of sftwr prjcts. Assst in the prof grwth & mntrshp of tm mmbrs thrgh reg fdbck, cchng, & crr dvlpmnt pln. Pos reqs Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 3 yrs exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. In lieu, will accept Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 1 yr exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. Will work at unanticipated client sites throughout the U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. Annual Salary Range is: $126,090.00 - $180,300.00. FT hires elig for DXC bnfts pkg incl hlth, dentl, visn, life & disab ins; retirmt plan; PTO & more. To apply, email resume to globallmobility@ dxc.com resume must include Ref.
& mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship. EOE
some aspect of sales, public speaking or handling underperforming staff as their “kryptonite,” which can drain them, but this work might well also be necessary. I could probably get away from doing the ‘work’ aspect of the bulleted list if I decided to. However, I often realize that I am best positioned to do that work. Others will be best served if I just take a few breaths and spend time coming up with a plan around the less pleasant stuff… and perhaps a little reward once it has been dealt with. Work will always be work, but if you manage the ratios, celebrate the successes and reward yourself it can be very fulfilling.
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Tech Jobs CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.: Business Systems Analyst in Fairfax, VA (& various unan- ticipated locs thrghut US): Act as a liaison b/w the bus func & info systs. Telecomm. permitted up to 60% from assgnd loc. Must be willing to relocate to various unan- ticipated work locs thrghut the U.S. Offered Wage: $152,048.00/yr. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background chck, which may incl drug screen depending on work assgnmnt. Multiple positions available. Email resume to recruiting@cgifederal. com & ref job code 389368.
CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.: Business Systems Analyst in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipat- ed locs thrght US): Act as a liaison b/w the bus func & info systs. Tele- comm. permitted up to 60% from assgnd loc. Must be willing to relo- cate to various unanticipated work locs thrght the US. Offered Wage: $152,048.00/yr. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background chck, which may incl drug screen depending on work assgnmnt. Multiple positions available. Email resume to recruit- ing@cgifederal.com & ref job code 346928.
CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.: Business System Analyst in Fairfax, VA (& various unanticipat- ed locs thrghut US): Act as a liaison b/w the bus func & info systs. Tele- comm. permitted up to 40% from assgnd loc. Must be willing to relo- cate to various unanticipated work locs thrghut the U.S. Offered Wage: $152,048.00/yr. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background chck, which may incl drug screen depending on work assgnmnt. Multiple positions available. Email resume to recruit- ing@cgifederal.com & ref job code 360716.
CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc.: Software Developer in Fair- fax, VA (& various unanticipated locs thrghut US): Research, dsgn, dvlp, &/or modify enterprise-wide systs &/or app soft. Telecomm permitted up to 75% from assgnd loc. Must be willing to relocate to various unanticipated work locs thrght the U.S. Offered wage: $175,427.00/yr. All offers of emp are contingent upon successful comp of a background chck, which may incl drug screen depending on work assgnmnt. Multiple positions available. Email resume to recruit- ing@cgifederal.com & ref job code 338967.
Slalom’s McLean, VA office has multiple openings for Consultant. Plan, initiate, and manage informa- tion technology (IT) projects. Lead and guide the work of technical staff. Must be available to work projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States (20%). Some telecommuting per- mitted. Standard Company Bene- fits. $117,417-$129,158 /yr. Apply @ www.jobpostingtoday.com. Ref. 29850.
Tech Jobs Data Engineering Manager Responsible for architecting, de- veloping, and implementing data engineering and machine learning solutions for the enterprise data platform team. Min Reqs: Master in Comp Sci, Electrical & Comp Engineering, Data Sci, or closely related technical field plus 6 yrs industry exp in data engineer- ing w/ 3 of those yrs applying to real estate construction. Salary: $150,807 per yr. Based in Res- ton, VA. Telecommuting Permit- ted. To apply, email resume to francojc@stanleymartin.com w/ “Data Engineering Manager (VA- 4795)” in subject line. Stanley Mar- tin Homes, LLC
DXC Technology Services LLC hir- ing for SR ANALYST II SOFTWARE ENGINEERING in Ashburn, VA (Ref.
into cmpont-level dsgns to accel devlpmt. Anlyz, dsgns & revs dsgn of apps & stes of apps to ensr that cust specificatn are stsfd. Assst in revng & anlyz gthrd info in tech res- rch & in evaltng tools & methds to ensr that dsgns adhere to curr ind, clt & co stds. Pos reqs Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), or rel fld + 2 yrs exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. In lieu, will accept Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), or rel fld + 1 yr exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. Will work at unanticipated client sites throughout the U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. Annual Salary Range is: $126,090.00 - $142,500.00. FT hires elig for DXC bnfts pkg incl hlth, dentl, visn, life & disab ins; retirmt plan; PTO & more. To apply, email resume to globallmobility@ dxc.com resume must include Ref.
& mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship. EOE
DXC Technology Services LLC hiring for Manager Software Engineering in Ashburn, VA (Ref. #9939366). Lead a tm of SW engrs to dsgn, dev, & del sw solutns. Wk w/ x-fntl tms to def projct reqs & ensr sccssfl projct dlvry. Prov mnt & guidn to tm mmers for prof devlpmt, condng reg 1:1 mtgs & perf assmnts. Pos reqs Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 3 yrs exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. In lieu, will accept Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 1 yr exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. Will work at unanticipated client sites throughout the U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. Annual Salary Range is: $174,720.00 - $225,300.00. FT hires elig for DXC bnfts pkg incl hlth, dentl, visn, life & disab ins; retirmt plan; PTO & more. To apply, email resume to globallmobility@ dxc.com resume must include Ref.
& mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship. EOE
Engineering Afiniti, Inc. has the following opening in Washington D.C.: Lead Software Engineer: Dev. & integ. the Afiniti soln. into clt. envirnmts.$105,060 - $125,060 (A1018355). To apply: Please send resumes to Afiniti, Inc., 1701 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20006; recruitment@afiniti.com
LCG, Inc. Full Stack Developer II. Rockville, MD. $107,272-$125,000 p/y. Design & develop Javabased applications. Translate design to code & perform unit test on de- veloped code & apps. May tele- commute (commutability to office req’d). Travel required. Email CV to hr@lcginc.com. Ref job 1566.61.4.
LCG, Inc. Full Stack Developer II. Rockville, MD. $126,090 p/y. Trans- late design to code & perform unit test on developed code & applica- tions. May telecommute (commut- ability to office req’d). Travel req’d. May be assigned to various, unan- ticipated worksites throughout U.S. Email CV to hr@lcginc.com. Must ref job 1566.62.4.
Tech Jobs HTMS INC has multiple openings in Sterling, VA. Computer Programmer ($150,758/yr): Wrt, Idfy, Updte, Cn- trb, Collab, Cndct, Asst&Ensr proper Func. Network Engineer ($163,030/ yr): Estblsh, Build, Trblsht, Upd- te, Collab, Secure&Acmplish inf. systms. Programmer Analyst ($175,427/yr): Creat, Wrt, Prfrm, Asst, Prpre&Prjct Prgres. Software Developer ($150,758/yr): Dvlp, Col- lab, Intgrt, Mng, Implmnt, Mntr Au- tomaton&Imprv. Sr. Software Devel- oper ($175,427/yr): Ovrsee, Optmz, Dsgn, Implmnt, Ld, Upgrd&coord across depts. All pos. req trav/re- loc to var unanticipated client loc U.S.-wide w/exp. employer paid. Std. benefit. Mail resume&position to President, HTMS INC, 22375 Broderick Dr, Ste 130 B, Sterling, VA 20166;legal@htmsinc.tech.EOE.
Hughes Network Systems LLC seeks a Principal Engineer II - Cus- tomer Networks in Germantown, MD. Define, design, and administer network systems used for data communications. Recommend im- provements necessary to ensure operation of the company’s high traffic, business critical, and inter- net production environment. Man- age the load configuration of a cen- tral data communication processor. Propose and implement network system enhancements that will improve the performance and reli- ability of the network system.
Must have 10 years of experience in each of the following: C++/Java; TCP/IP, HTTP, SSH, and various networking protocol stacks.
Experience must include 3 years in each of the following (which may have been gained concurrently):
• DNS • Zabbix NMS platform • Distributed containerized architecture • API integrations • Device and appliance man- agement • Custom monitoring plugins • SNMP, COBRA, SOAP and XML • Kafka and MQTT
Annual Salary: $191,173.00
Please go to https://echostar.wd5. myworkdayjobs.com/echostar. En- ter the job number 2026-99188 in the Search Jobs field and follow the instructions to apply.
ICF Inc., LLC: Sr. QA Engr. – Reston, VA: Dsgn. & create test delivera- bles (e.g., test plan, test strategy, test cases, test scripts) based on bus. req’ts, ER diagrams, data flow diagrams, & case diagrams. Req’s Bach. deg. or frgn. equiv. in Comp. Sci., Info. Tech., Info. Sci., or rltd. tech. fld. + 5 yrs. of progressively resp. prof. exp. w/ s/w quality assur- ance and/or testing. (EEO/AA – Mi- norities/Females/Veterans/Indivs. w/ Disabilities). 100% Remote; Pos. may be performed anywhere in the U.S. Salary: $93,626–$151,744/yr. Apply online at https://careers.icf. com & ref. R2601477.
IT Professionals (Gaithersburg, MD): Business Analysts (Sala- ry-$106912.00/Year), Business Sys- tems Analysts (Salary-$210579.00/ Year), Programmer Analysts (Sal- ary- $70699.00/Year), Software Engineers (Salary-$175427.00/ Year), Software Developers (Sala- ry-$126090.00/Year). Telecommut- ing permitted. Multiple Positions. Mail resume to Ark Infotech LLC, Attn: HRGC, 6 Montgomery Village Ave. Suite 240 Gaithersburg, MD 20879.
IT Professionals: Ent. Lvl to Sen. Lvl (multiple posi- tions) Sys. Engnrs. & Sftwr Dvlprs. are needed for our Germantown, MD Office. Must be willing to travel to set up systms to various clients at unanticipated locations across the nation. Salary range: $97,157 - $185,000. Send resume, Cvr Ltr., & Sal. Req. to Q9 Software LLC at 13230 Executive Park Terrace, Ger- mantown, MD 20874.
IT Professionals (Sterling, VA): Application Developers, Business Analysts, Business Intelligence Analysts, Computer Programmers, Data Scientists, Programmer Ana- lysts, QA Engineers, QA Testers, Se- nior Business Intelligence Analysts, Senior Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Software Developers, Sr. Business Analysts. Multiple po- sitions. Telecommuting permitted. Mail resume to Antra Inc, Attn: HR- RG, 21000 Atlantic Blvd, Suite 300, Sterling VA 20166.
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Tech Jobs ITSTAC LLC has multiple openings in Sterling, VA. Computer Program- mer ($112,466/yr): Wrt, Idfy, Updte, Cntrb, Collab, Cndct, Asst&Ensr proper Func. Network Engineer ($163,030/yr): Estblsh, Build, Tr- blsht, Updte, Collab, Secure&Acm- plish inf. systms. Programmer Ana- lyst ($133,349/yr): Creat, Wrt, Prfrm, Asst, Prpre&Prjct Prgres. Software Developer ($150,758/yr): Dvlp, Col- lab, Intgrt, Mng, Implmnt, Mntr Au- tomaton&Imprv. Sr. Software Devel- oper ($175,427/yr): Ovrsee, Optmz, Dsgn, Implmnt, Ld, Upgrd&across depts. All pos. req trav/reloc to var unanticipated client loc U.S.-wide w/exp. employer paid. Std. benefits offered. Mail resume&position to CEO, ITSTAC LLC, 22375 Broderick Dr, Ste 130, Sterling, VA 20166;le- gal@itstac.tech. EOE.
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Tech Jobs Junior Business Intelligence An- alyst (Management) (Multi Open- ings wNational Placement out of Loudoun County, VA). Bach’s De- gree in either, Comp’s, Eng’g, Info Sys’s, Business, Mangnt or IT relat- ed field. Foreign educ equiv accept- able. Any suitable combo of educ, training or exp acceptable. Candi- date will produce financial & mar- ket intelligence by querying data repositories & generating periodic reports & will devise methods for identifying data patterns & trends in available info sources. Although no exp req’d candidate must have coursework or internship in at least 3 of the following: Proj Mangnt; Organizational Behavior; Mangnt of Eng’g; Mangnt Info Sys’s; Team Mangnt; Op’s Mangnt. Able to relo to unanticipated client sites as needed. 9-5, 40 hrs/wk. $115,939 / Yr. Ref# JBIM-0226 Resume to Asta CRS, Inc. 44121 Harry Byrd Hwy, Ste. 230, Ashburn, VA 20147 or re- sumes@astacrs.com. Asta CRS, Inc. is EOE M/F/V/D.
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Tech Jobs Lead Data Engineer (Warehousing) for Retail Services & Systems, Inc. dba Total Wine & More to work at our Bethesda, MD HQ. Partner w/ Data Services leadership team to develop vision for Enterprise Data & Analytics Platform. Partner w/ Data Services prod owners, data ware- house engineers, data scientists, + BI developers to support + deliver reports, predictive models, data- sets, + solutions. Design + improve data workflows to improve effi- ciency + reduce costs, + dev new features to support business req’ts. Design + build data quality testing processes + monitoring to ensure data access. Assist w/ implemen- tation of data arch + data gover- nance standards + best practices. Create + manage batch + real time data pipelines, including managing + enhancing Kafka + Kubernetes implementations. Guide optimiza- tion + advancement of platforms. Coach Jr. team members + share knowledge w/ broader team. Im- plement security practices to han- dle sensitive info. $210,600/yr plus comprehensive benefits (including healthcare plans, PTO, 401k, etc.). May undergo background checks incl drug screening. Must have Master’s in Comp Sci, tech, or relat- ed field and 5 yrs relevant alcohol beverage industry exp in data en- gineering, data warehousing, data architecture, and data modeling. Also reqs skills (5 yrs exp) in: GCP environment – BigQuery, Airflow/ Cloud Composer, Cloud functions, data loss prevention (DLP), PubSub, and Kubernetes (GKE); SQL and DBMSs; Python; dbt and Kafka data ingestion and transformation tools; data modeling solutions using cloud-native tools; data and ana- lytics platforms – Dev-ops, Docker, CI/CD including GitHub, Cloud Build, Jenkins; Power BI. Visit careers. totalwine.com for all job & benefit details and apply.
Logistics IT Analyst qualified w/ bachelor’s or foreign equiv in Mathematics or related field with 24 months of work experience to Develop calculation tools to es- tablish product pricing for plastic films and packaging materials; ex- ecuted complex unit conversions across Metric and Imperial systems by factoring in material density and gauge thickness. Conduct data-driven cost analysis for inter- national imports by researching Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) codes and coordinating with freight providers; integrated variables such as ocean/air freight (FCL/LCL) and customs duties to determine total landed costs. Optimized internal file storage and reorganized all the data in local drives into the Access database using MySQL and manage data warehouse procedure. Fully automate the process to search for logistics information by utilizing web scrapping, and email sending package in Python. Aspiring candi- dates should mail their resumes to HR Manager, Smyrna International Inc., 15060 Farm Creek Dr., Wood- bridge, VA 22191. Job Loc: Wood- bridge, VA 22191.
Computer Sciences Corporation hiring for Manager Software En- gineering in Ashburn, VA (Ref.
to dsgn, dev, & del sw solutns. Wk w/ x-fntl tms to def projct reqs & ensr sccssfl projct dlvry. Prov mn- trshp & guidn to tm mmbers for prof devlpmt, condng reg 1:1 mtgs & perf assmnts. Pos reqs Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 3 yrs exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. In lieu, will accept Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 2 yrs exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. Will work at unanticipated client sites through- out the U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. Annual Salary Range is: $203,986.00 - $225,300.00. FT hires elig for DXC bnfts pkg incl hlth, dentl, visn, life & disab ins; retirmt plan; PTO & more. To apply, email resume to globallmobility@ dxc.com resume must include Ref.
& mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship. EOE
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Tech Jobs Computer Sciences Corporation hiring for Manager Software En- gineering in Ashburn, VA (Ref.
to dsgn, dev, & delvr sw solutns. Wk w/ x-fnctl tms to def projct reqs & ensr sccssfl projct dlvry. Prov mnt & guidn to tm mmbers for prof devlp- mt, condng reg 1:1 mtgs & perf as- smnts. Pos reqs no deg, + 5 yrs exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. In lieu, will accept a Mas- ter’s deg or a foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld, + 2 yrs exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. Will work at unan- ticipated client sites throughout the U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. Annual Salary Offer: $233,230.00. FT hires elig for DXC bnfts pkg incl hlth, dentl, visn, life & disab ins; retirmt plan; PTO & more. To apply, email resume to globallmobility@ dxc.com resume must include Ref.
& mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S without sponsorship. EOE
Nestlé USA, Inc. seeks multi Sr Bus Analy in Arlington VA to sup high profile analyt ini currently in flight at NUSA, helping to connect bus probs & opps to adv analy sol’n that drive real value for the comm bus. Req: Bach deg or frgn equivt in CS, Stats, Math, Mgmt Info Sys or a rltd fld + 3yrs of exp in the job offered or as an IT Proj Mgr, Bus Analyst or rltd occ involv’g exp in tech proj mgmt. Reqs: 3yrs exp in: data visualization tech & incl his- tograms, scatter plots, box plots, heat maps, Tableau, PowerBI, Excel & SQL; proj mgmt using agile deliv procs; comm func w/in consumer prod; prep tech doc, detailing reqs, modeling & mapping bus procs & prep bus value cases for analy deliv teams; prep proj deliverables, status updates & pres for sr corp leadership. 2yrs of exp w/: dvlp’g, training & testing adv analy models; analyzing data & prep’g insights for bus users. Telwork up to 2d/wk. $124144.47 – $134144.47/yr. Re- sume to: nestlejobsgm@us.nestle. com. Job Code 0717. No calls
Prime S4 Technologies LLC has multiple openings in Ashburn, VA. Business Analyst ($154,710/ yr): Detrm, Anlyz, Dvlp, Wrk, Utliz, Mng, Creat, Prfrm, Cndct&Prvd admin&coord supp to sr. program mgrs. Computer Programmer ($112,466/yr): Wrt, Collab, Implm- nt, Dbug, Creat&Updte code libs. Software Developer ($175,427/ yr): Anlyz, Rvw, Pln, Prpre, Dsgn, Asst, Wrk&Trck coding changes. Software Engineer ($150,758/ yr): Dsgn, Resrch, Creat&Docmnt detail Specifictions. Sr. Software Engineer ($175,427/yr): Dsgn, Dvlp, Build, Ld, Mntn, Artclt, Wrk, Prtcp&Rslv Cstmr Systm Isss. All pos. req trav/reloc to var. unantic- ipated client locations U.S.-wide w/ exp. employer paid. Std. benefits offered. Mail resume&pos. to Oper- ations Head, Prime S4 Technologies LLC, 20130 Lakeview Center Plaza, Ste 400, Ashburn, VA 20147;rred- dy@primes4.com. EOE.
Micron Technology, Inc. has an opening for Process Engineer in Manassas, VA. Job duties include: Will be responsible for starting up, developing, and optimizing pro- cesses to improve product quality and reliability, working on process yield improvement, cost reduction, productivity improvement, and risk management as well as resolving manufacturing line problems. This position will identify, diagnose and resolve process-related problems by applying failure analysis, FMEA, 8D, or SPC methodology. To apply, visit Micron.com/Careers. Search by requisition no. JR102788.
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Acumen Security, LLC in Cortland, NY and Rockville, MD has an open- ing for a Security Engineer III (Com- mon Criteria) to serve as a part of and lead a team of engineers to assess the compliance of devices against the Common Criteria. Re- quires up to 20% domestic travel and up to 10% international travel. Remote work permitted within a reasonable commuting distance of Rockville, MD. $169,978-$170,978/ year. Benefits can be found at https://www.acumensecurity.net/ careers/#benefits . Send resume to Bernadette Sinclair at Bernadette.sinclair@intertek.com or apply online at https://www. acumensecurity.net/careers/
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Senior Software Developer ($175,427/yr) - Arlington, VA. Lead SDLC using Agile/SCRUM. Dvlp & optmz scalable RESTful micros- ervices using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate & MySQL; impl real-time processing w/ Kafka. Dsgn & man- age data storage/caching using Redis, Cassandra & AWS (S3, RDS, ECS). Build dashboards, reporting & analytics modules using Angular, TypeScript & BI tools. Automate CI/ CD, perform unit/integration testing & coord cross-func teams using Git & JIRA. Reqs: Master’s in CS, EE or rltd; 3 yrs exp in software dvlp in IT/software industry; exp w/ Java/ Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, ETL/ batch processing, DB optimization, Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, unit/integration testing, data secu- rity & Agile dvlp. Send Resume to Zipeng Chen, Rothur Tech Inc, 800 3rd Ave., FRNT A, STE 1563, NY, NY 10022. Code: 0701
Senior Oracle DBA – U.S. Financial Technology, LLC - Bethesda, MD – Install, setup & configure Oracle 19c or later versions of databases. Reqs: Bach or frgn equiv in Comp. Sci., Information Technology, or cls- ly rltd fld +7yrs of exp. working as database administrator of Oracle, SQL Server, RDS databases. Eligible for 100% remote work anywhere in the contiguous 48 states. Annual Slry $176,935.43 - $179,000.00. U.S. FinTech offers a competitive total compensation package, which includes an annual performance bonus, 401k match, medical, den- tal, and vision insurance coverage, Short- and Long-Term Disability, life insurance, paid holidays, a generous PTO offering. Must pass pre-emplymnt backgrnd investi- gation which may include credit check. Send CV to Recruiting@us- fintech.com. Pls ref code: 18-1896
Government Employee Insurance Company (GEICO) seeks Senior Engineer – Workday, in Bethesda, MD to Engage in cross-functional collaboration within an Agile enviro (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe). Telecom- muting is permitted from anywhere in the U.S. Multiple positions open. Salary $160,000 to $190,500 per year. See full req’s & apply online: https://careers.geico.com/ Job Reference: R0064725.
Government Employee Insurance Company (GEICO) seeks Senior Engineer – Data, in Bethesda, MD to Engage in cross-functional col- laboration within an Agile enviro (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe). Telecom- muting is permitted from anywhere in the U.S. Multiple positions open. Salary $126,090 to $215,000 per year. See full req’s & apply online: https://careers.geico.com/ Job Reference: R0064724.
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Sirtech, LLC has an opening for Java Developer in Arlington, VA & relo- cation required to various unantici- pated locations throughout the US. Duties: design, develop, implement, test & support applications soft- ware using Java technologies. Mail resume with Job Code JD to 3101 Wilson Blvd. Ste 500, Arlington, VA 22201
Software Engineers - Sterling, VA & other unantcpt’d locns nationwide. Duties: Dsgn, dvlp, create, modify, customize, test, & validate sftwr app using skills such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typscript, JSON, REST, WEBAPI, Jasmine, Karma, Angular- JS, jQuery, Oracle DB, Sublime, SVN, Git & Jenkins. Req’ts: Mstr’s deg or equiv in Computer Sci/Engg or rltd field w/min 3 yrs exp in job offered or rltd occup such as Assoc Consul- tant or Front End Dvlpr. A bacca- laureate deg w/5 yrs post-baccal, progressive exp is ok for Mstr’s equiv. Any suitable combo of educ, training, or exp is ok. Travel/reloc req’d to various unantcpt’d client work locns nationwide for long or short durations & unknown freq. Sal: $175,427. Mail resume w/proof of work elig to: Valiant Tek Group Inc, 44330 Mercure Circle, Ste 167, Sterling, VA 20166.
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Software Architect (Herndon, VA) reqs to analyze customer-report- ed issues & deliver configuration & code-level resolutions. Trans- late bus. reqmts into functional & techn’l specs. Dvlp, test & support billing-rltd applics & scripts. Dsgn event-driven & distributed system architectures to support real-time usage processing. Dvlp integra- tions between billing & provision- ing systms. Perform code reviews, iteration planning, & QA activities throughout the product lifecycle. W/ min reqmts of Bachelor’s deg in Comp Sci, Comp Info Systms, Info Technology, Engg (any) or equiva- lency based on education, training or exp w/ 60 mos of rltd exp in S/ware Engineer, Sr S/ware Engi- neer, S/ware Dvlpr, Principal Archi- tect w/ a special skill Employee may work remotely / telecommute from anywhere in the U.S. as per co. policy; primary worksite is the employer’s office location. And may req travel, if reqd, will be temporary & project-based in nature, depend- ing on specific client reqmts, & will occur for limited durations as need- ed to support assigned projects. Send resumes to Covalense Digital Solutions LLC, 13800 Coppermine Rd, Ste 180, Herndon, VA 20171. Email: prameela.kotnana@ covalensedigital.com
Xchanging Solutions, Inc. hiring for Sr Analyst III Software Engineering in Ashburn, VA (Ref. #9740840). Assst in the devlpmt of sw solutn by writng, tstng, & dbgng cde. Col- lab wth tm mmbrs to meet projct goals, tkng dir from sr tm mmbrs. Lrn & grw w/i the sw engrng fld by actvly pptng in trng & mntrng prog. Pos reqs Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 1 yr exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. In lieu, will accept Bach’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng (any), Math, or rel fld + 2 yrs exp in any occ in which req’d exp was gained. Will work at unanticipated client sites throughout the U.S. Telecommuting is permissible. Annual Salary Range is: $126,090.00 - $129,400.00. FT hires elig for DXC bnfts pkg incl hlth, dentl, visn, life & disab ins; retirmt plan; PTO & more. To apply, email resume to globallmobility@ dxc.com resume must include Ref.
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Strategy Inc seeks Sr. Cloud Support Engineer II in Tysons Corner, VA: Lead & coordinate incident response across cloud platforms, working w/ DevOps, Security & Engineering teams. Collaborate on designing resil- ient & scalable cloud infrastruc- ture. Req’s: MS +1 yr. exp. Salary: $127,462 - $186,900 per year. Submit resume w/ ref. to: Req.# 22607.91.2 at: onlinejobpostings@ microstrategy.com. Strategy Inc is an Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action Employer. Education, experi- ence & criminal background checks will be conducted.
Applied Information Sciences, Inc. seeks Sr. Infrastructure Engineer to utilize cloud, data, and infra- structure technologies to design, implement, and support complex enterprise solutions for global brands and federal agencies. $140k to $155K/yr. Job in Reston, VA & allow remote work anywhere w/in U.S. Apply @ https://www.ais.com/ careers/ Job# JR2026001279.
Applied Information Sciences, Inc. seeks Sr. Software Architect to lead design & development of scalable, distributed, & secure software solu- tions/systems using cutting-edge cloud & data technologies. $195k to $210K/yr. Job in Reston, VA & allow remote work anywhere w/in U.S. & 10% domestic travel w/in the east coast on a regular basis. Apply @ https://www.ais.com/careers/ Job# JR2026001280.
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OriGene Technologies, Inc. seeks a Technical Support Scientist to provide up-to-date tech & scien- tific support & respond to product inquiries/requests. Job in Rockville MD & allow 2-day remote work per wk in DC Metro Region. $96,706- 100K/yr. Standard benefits offered. Apply @ https://www.origene.com/ about-us/careers. #Technical Sup- port Scientist.
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Take notice that the United States has filed a proposed Final Judg- ment in a civil antitrust case in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, United States of America, et al. v. OhioHealth Corporation, Civil Action No. 2:26-cv-207. On February 20, 2026 the United States filed a Complaint alleging that OhioHealth Corporation’s use of anticompetitive contract provisions in its contracts with payors violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1. The proposed Fi- nal Judgment, filed on June 16, 2026, requires OhioHealth Corporation to void existing contract provisions that prohibit or deter insurers from offering budget-conscious health insurance plans or plan features and prevents OhioHealth from seeking or obtaining such contract provi- sions in the future, among other things. A Competitive Impact State- ment filed by the United States on July 15, 2026, describes the Com- plaint, the proposed Final Judgment, the industry, and the remedies.
Copies of the Complaint, proposed Final Judgment, and Competitive Impact Statement are available for inspection on the Antitrust Divi- sion’s website at http://www.justice.gov/atr and at the Office of the Clerk of the United States District Court named above.
Interested persons may address comments in English to Jill Maguire, Acting Chief, Healthcare and Consumer Products Section, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, 450 Fifth Street NW, Suite 4100, Washington, DC 20530 (email address: ATR.Public-Comments-Tun- ney-Act- MB@usdoj.gov) within 60 days of the first publication date of this notice. Such comments, including the name of the submitter, and responses thereto will be posted on the Antitrust Division’s website, filed with the Court, and, under certain circumstances, published in the Federal Register.
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and is sold in “as is condition” and subject to all superior covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights- of-way, as may affect same, if any.
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale.
regular assessments will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
dues and assessments that may become due after the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy is the return of the deposit. Trustee’s File No. 23-294076.
Real Estate Reporting Rule (“RRE”) issued pursuant to the Bank Secrecy Act, information necessary to comply with the RRE Rule must be obtained and provided to the Reporting Person, as defined in RRE Rule, prior to closing.
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BY SOPHIA SOLANO A tiny pig making a big difference
n the Beaux-Arts grandeur of Union Station’s main hall, be- neath the gold-leafed ceiling, towering columns and 46 Ro- man centurion statues, there is a pig.
She is very small (5.2 pounds) and very young (7 months).
Her name is Synergy. Her footsteps click-clack as she toddles on the marble floor, and she can’t walk more than a few yards before someone stops her to take a photo. Today, she’s on the job.
About 100,000 people pass through Union Station daily — tourists hoist- ing duffel bags, or locals bustling to their offices. Train stations also tend to attract a disproportionate share of unhoused people, who come for ame- nities that are hard to access when you’re without a physical home: air conditioning, heat, WiFi, bathrooms, restaurants and, occasionally, gener- ous strangers.
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Union Station is also the headquar- ters of the h3 Project, a crisis interven- tion and anti-human-trafficking group, founded in 2020. Ami M. Angell started the project, which stands for home, health and happi- ness.
Synergy is her pig. Angell is her real last name.
“It is a little pig! I’ve always wanted one!” shouts Logan McGraw, Angell’s client, from across the plaza.
He makes toward Angell with his wife, Evone. As they scratch behind her ears, Synergy rubs her back against the foot pedal of Evone’s wheelchair.
“Can I take her home with me?” she asks.
In the last year, Angell has matched 93 individuals with housing, adminis- tered 217 doses of the overdose rever- sal drug Narcan and ordered 537 documents, including legal identifica-
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BY DAN MORSE
In 1997, the man’s testimony helped send David Black to pris- on for 26 years.
Last summer, inside the same Washington courthouse, Black listened as the witness recanted one key claim after another.
No, the man said, he never saw Black fire a gun. No, he never saw him flee. No, he never saw Black kill anyone.
“I had to leave the courtroom,” Black recalled in an interview last week. “My emotions wouldn’t hold.”
The recanted testimony is now central to Black’s legal fight to wipe out his murder conviction stemming from a shooting that shocked residents near D.C.’s Chi- natown neighborhood. A beloved resident there, 78-year-old Alice Chow, was hit by a stray bullet as she walked home from church along K Street NW, dropping to the ground in the middle of a Sunday afternoon.
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David Black appears at a rally in Washington calling for his 1997 conviction to be vacated.
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BY KENDALL STATON
Concertgoers are surely used to the fan archetype who camps outside the venue for hours to secure a spot along the barricade, but the lines outside Nationals Park on Wednesday didn’t hold the promise of a better view. They didn’t even lead to the stadium.
By 7 a.m., a dozen people were lined up in front of multiple trucks around Navy Yard waiting to buy merchandise for Grammy- nominee Noah Kahan, the folk- pop singer who was to play at a sold-out show that evening. Among the hats, shirts, hoodies and bumper stickers hung a limit- ed-edition poster created by local artist Darra Sargent — originally posted online as fan art.
“The fact that he even saw the piece to begin with blows my mind. I’m sure he gets a million tags a day,” said Sargent, a self-de- scribed “music fanatic.”
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David Black from B13 detectives, a police officer and a line prosecutor — declined to comment or could not be reached.
Black, 21 at the time, was arrested and went to trial. He did not testify, was found guilty by a jury and was imprisoned until he was 47.
“I just want to get exonerated and move on with my life,” the 50-year-old said.
His attorneys filed a 68-page motion last month seeking to vacate the conviction. “Mr. Black can finally prove what he has always maintained: that some- one else fired the shot,” they wrote.
Their key witness in the effort was also a key witness for prose- cutors in 1997: Larry Johnson. On July 28, 2025 — in the throes of Stage 4 lung cancer — Johnson recanted his earlier testimony, saying that police coerced him into giving false testimony.
Johnson died on Feb. 1, accord- ing to court filings and his obitu- ary.
Black’s case illustrates how early-release programs enacted to help people convicted at a young age can offer only so much relief, especially if that person, as Black and his attorneys say, was innocent. Black was originally sentenced to 52 years in prison. In 2023, he used a law allowing people sentenced as young adults to seek early release. He pre- vailed and was released after serving half his sentence. But because his conviction remains, he said he struggles to find work and still carries the label of a murderer.
“The damage can never be undone,” he said. “Once I get exonerated, that’ll give me the opportunity to actually breathe.”
D.C. police said they do not discuss active legal disputes. Offi- cials at the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C., which prosecuted the case, declined to comment. They are scheduled to file a legal re- sponse to Black’s request by Sept. 1. In earlier filings regarding Black’s early prison release, pros- ecutors wrote that he had failed to “to accept responsibility for his actions.”
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resident, Sargent has made art her life. She started her own company, Dear Darling Design Studio, a decade ago. She shares her work on social media, and it isn’t rare to see fan art on her page. From depictions of rapper Yung Gravy to Grateful Dead gui- tarist Bob Weir, Sargent brings well-known faces into her color- ful art style, which she describes as a “girly ’70s kind of vibe.”
She has long tried to find her way into the world of creating concert posters and got a break with Kahan, her first tour com- mission. Sargent said tour offi- cials told her the poster sold out at the concert. When she put her 30 artist-edition prints up on her own website Thursday, they also all sold — in less than one minute. (She did keep three: one for herself and one for each of her children.)
The dreamy, vibrant poster she created shows cars full of bugs, a motif often used by Kahan in his lyrics and merchandise, traveling south on Interstate 95, the direc- tion drivers go from Baltimore to D.C. On the left side of the poster are nods to the District, like cherry blossoms, the Washington Monument and the Capitol. Along the right side are Mary- land-centric symbols, like the black-eyed Susan and Mr. Trash Wheel, a trash interceptor in Bal- timore’s Inner Harbor that looks like a frog.
Keen-eyed viewers will also notice the Baltimore checkerspot, a butterfly native to Maryland, and spotted lanternflies, an inva- sive species well known to D.C. and Maryland locals. “They’re there whether we like it or not,” Sargent quipped about the flies.
She has long been a Kahan fan,
It was not clear from Johnson’s new testimony why he waited so long to recant his original testi- mony.
The victim, Chow, was a Wash- ington-area native who spoke Cantonese, Mandarin and Eng- lish. She volunteered at a Chinese community center, translated documents for Chinese immi- grants and delivered groceries to disabled neighbors. Her murder occurred “at a time of increasing violence in D.C., resulting in tre- mendous pressure to solve her murder,” Black’s attorneys wrote in recent court papers.
Family and friends of Chow could not be reached. In court filings related to Black’s early-re- lease request, in 2023, prosecu- tors said they were unable to reach Chow’s relatives.
At Black’s trial, prosecutors told jurors that he recklessly fired two gunshots as he chased a man they identified as James “June Bug” Smith down K Street after an argument. Neither round hit the target, they said, but one struck Chow. The case rested largely on two witnesses, John- son and Barbara Marshall, who testified they saw Black fire the gun.
Black’s attorney at the trial, Thomas Farquhar, was able to chip away at Marshall’s credibili- ty, according to court filings. An investigator from his office testi- fied in front of jurors that on the eve of the trial, Marshall provid- ed him a signed statement re- canting what she’d earlier told police.
Johnson testified that on the day of Chow’s murder, he was in a third-floor apartment drinking a beer and getting ready to watch the Pro Bowl when he heard a “ruckus outside.” Johnson said he went to a hallway window for a better view and saw June Bug running away as Black fired two shots.
Farquhar argued that both wit- nesses were mistaken and that forensic evidence contradicted prosecutors’ claims of where the
Artist Darra Sargent holds the limited-edition poster she created for Grammy nominee Noah Kahan’s tour stop at Nationals Park in D.C.
first coming across his music in 2018 while working at Phillips Seafood in Baltimore. The restau- rant looped the same songs each day, including one of Kahan’s early singles.
Sargent sang along during her shifts and eventually started fol- lowing Kahan on social media. She kept up with Kahan’s music
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David Black at a George Floyd memorial rally in 2025. He is seeking exoneration for a 1997 conviction.
shots originated. “This case is a nightmare,” he told jurors, “be- cause he’s charged primarily on the basis of testimony of two witnesses that no reasonable per- son would believe.”
Jurors struggled in their delib- erations, asking for explanations on reasonable doubt and witness credibility, and at one point said they were deadlocked, according to court records. They came back for a second day of deliberations before reaching their decision.
Black remembered thinking their struggles were a good sign as he prepared to hear the ver- dict. “My knees buckled and I almost had a heart attack in the courtroom,” he recalled. “I could not believe it when I got convict- ed.”
In 2023 court filings, Black’s attorneys argued that under- standing their client meant first understanding a childhood de- fined by trauma, chaos and heart- break. He grew up in D.C.’s Sur- sum Corda neighborhood amid violence fueled by Washington’s crack epidemic of the late 1980s and 1990s. Black was robbed at knifepoint when he was 10. Five years later, his mother was killed after being shot nine times at a house party.
“In this kind of environment,
and saw him in concert at Merri- weather Post Pavilion in 2023 as part of the tour for “Stick Season,” the album that took Kahan main- stream in 2022. At the time, Kahan told the crowd the 19,000- person venue was the largest he had played.
After that show, Sargent creat- ed an artwork of Kahan strum-
the courtroom.
wouldn’t hold.”
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to hear a key witness recant
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ming a guitar while walking in front of a rainbow and shared it on social media. But it didn’t quite break through, and Kahan never saw it.
In April, Netflix released a documentary, “Noah Kahan: Out of Body,” just days before his highly anticipated fourth studio album “The Great Divide”
David really stood out as a calm guy,” Black’s attorney from the D.C. Public Defender Service wrote, citing a childhood friend.
The new legal filing is not Black’s first effort to get his conviction vacated. Early in his prison sentence, he appealed the conviction to the D.C. Court of Appeals but failed to get it over- turned. The new effort, led by attorneys from the Exoneration Project, cites D.C.’s Innocence Protection Act, which requires a party to identify the “specific new evidence” to demonstrate they are “actually innocent despite having been convicted at trial.”
A judge can then order a con- viction and the original charges be wiped out, thus ending the case, or grant a new trial.
The attorneys say previously undisclosed prosecution records point to an alternative suspect and undermine the eyewitness testimony. They also tried to track down Johnson and Mar- shall, the two witnesses who said they saw Black fire the gun.
Marshall died in January 2025. But the signed statement she gave to the defense attorney in- vestigator in 1997, according to court records, also amounts to a recanting of her claims against Black.
dropped. Sargent was inspired as she watched Kahan bare his soul to the world through explora- tions of his music and deep dives into his lyrics. She shared the 2023 piece again. This time Kah- an liked the post.
Later, while scrolling through TikTok, she noticed that Kahan’s “secret” account, thelastofthe-
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In the statement, Marshall said she was inside her apart- ment, heard two people arguing and looked out window, but only saw blurry images. “I was not wearing my glasses,” she said in the statement attached to court filings. “I couldn’t see who they were.”
She also said in the statement that she never saw a shooting but was harassed by the police into saying so: “All I wanted to do was go home.”
The attorneys arranged to have Johnson testify via video on July 28, 2025. He described Chow as a good friend of the whole neighborhood. “A very kind lady and good lady,” he recalled.
He had less glowing words for Black.
“We never liked each other,” he said. “He know it and I know it.”
But his testimony that Black shot Chow, he said, was a lie he felt forced to say because a police officer threatened to lock him up.
And this time, from the start, his recollections were different. Rather than being in a third-floor apartment, with a view of K Street, at the time of the shoot- ing, he was in a courtyard behind the high-rise.
“Being honest, we was out there drinking beer, and some of my friends was smoking marijua- na. And we were just sitting out there kicking it, well, talking, as you would say,” he said.
Johnson said they heard peo- ple arguing on K Street, followed by two booms, and he and his friends walked there to investi- gate.
“What did you see on K Street?” Black’s attorney Amelia Maxfield asked.
“A bunch of polices,” he said. Johnson said he also saw Chow on the ground. Asked if he ever saw anyone fire a gun, Johnson said no.
Under cross-examination, As- sistant U.S. Attorney Shehzad Akhtar got Johnson to acknowl- edge that when he initially testi- fied, he had agreed under oath to tell the truth, and that his memo- ry about what happened was better in 1997 than in 2025.
“Sir, it’s been 30 years. I can barely remember my name now,” Johnson said, according to a transcript.
Johnson said that in 1997, he couldn’t testify how he wanted to.
“I tried to tell the truth,” he said, “and they wouldn’t let me.”
bugs, had 531,000 followers. She took it as a sign.
“My dad passed when I was 13, and his birthday was 5/31,” she said. “This is the sign I’m sup- posed to be somewhere or do something. This is my chance. He’s going to see it this time.”
She stayed up all night, spent 18 hours over three days working on the Nationals Park poster and shared it across social media. Once again, Kahan saw it. His team reached out the next day and asked to commission it as an official limited-edition merch item for the D.C. stop on his tour. (Most shows don’t have city-spe- cific posters.)
Heading to her seat Wednes- day in the nosebleeds at a sold- out Nationals Park, which holds more than 40,000 people, Sar- gent saw hundreds of people walking around with her poster tucked under their arm. Fans connected with the work, Sargent said, because it was created by someone familiar with Kahan’s brand and music.
While Sargent joked that she “fangirled” her way to being a tour poster artist, she said she was especially pleased that her work resonated with Kahan, an artist she deeply respects and admires.
“As women we’re told we should be embarrassed of every- thing we like. If you like music, that’s embarrassing. If you like rainbows and butterflies and uni- corns, that’s immature,” Sargent said. “My work is about woman- hood and embracing the things that we love and not being ashamed to be girly and colorful and fun. Just put yourself out there, be yourself. Don’t be ashamed of the things that you love and your path will definitely find you.”
creative solution to an ongoing challenge
Synergy, a therapy pig, helps individuals experiencing homelessness at Union Station. Every day that h3 Project founder Ami M. Angell goes to work, Synergy tags along. The tiny animal already knows how to pass a tunnel-and-ring agility course and play a toy piano. She is also a conversation starter with the public at large.
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tion. But the year also brought challenges, including decreased funding, directives from a Trump task force to sweep homeless en- campments and the long-standing notion that homelessness outreach organizations attract more unhoused people.
Angell has long partnered with Amtrak police, who know to call her team if they witness someone experiencing a crisis. She says the influx of federal law enforcement officers at Union Station, most of whom are unfamiliar with her work, has led to height- ened interactions between armed guards and her clients, often at their worst moments.
But Angell’s clients have also adapted. Several have told her that instead of posting up somewhere semi-permanently, they break down their tent every morning and wait to pitch it until late at night.
“Our folks are so resilient,” she says. Difficult moments require creative solu- tions. Synergy, for example.
‘Moving forward because of Synergy’
Angell isn’t a smoker, but she always keeps a pack in her bag. She can’t count how many times she’s offered a cigarette to someone in a crisis, often mental-health- or substance-in- duced. It buys her the time and calming distraction she needs to de-escalate and pro- vide case management.
“We have to think outside the box, because every individual is unique,” she says. “What works for one individual may not work for another person. It’s figuring out the way in, and if you can get that door open a little, then you can get it open a lot larger.”
So when a friend of a friend told her about Juliana pigs — a hypoallergenic, friendly breed colloquially known as mini pigs — she started thinking about her clients.
“A lot of the folks that we work with, they’ve never seen a pig, let alone touched one,” she says. “With pigs, it doesn’t matter your age, your race, your gender; they love you equally.”
She found a breeder in Michigan and waited for a litter to be born in late December. Synergy moved into her home in March.
Every day that Angell goes to work, Synergy tags along. In the h3 Project office donated by Union Station, she’s hidden now under a mountain of blankets. The vast space is crowded with shelves and bins of donations — tees and sneakers organized by size, tooth- brushes and deodorant stashed in boxes. And in the center is Synergy’s pen, with a litter box and a bowl of apple juice.
“Synergy!” Angell calls. Up pops a little pink head with blue-gray eyes and a perpetual smile. Her flat nose is damp, and her skin is wrinkled and covered in wiry hair, a miniature Benjamin Button.
“Want a treat?” Angell asks. Synergy presses her snout to a green button atop the carpet, which chimes out “Yes yes yes yes yes.”
“Do you want it right now?” “Yes, baby!” says Synergy via a button. Angell obliges with a treat.
At her young age, Synergy already knows how to pass a tunnel-and-ring agility course and play a toy piano. She’s learning how to skateboard. Like many toddlers, she is still learning how to like vegetables.
Angell says she’s already helping people. One woman in her late 60s, whom Angell has known for seven years, has continually refused case management. “She’s not rude or anything,” Angell says. “She just wasn’t ready.”
When she saw Synergy, her face erupted into a smile, and she shook her head. It was the icebreaker Angell needed.
“Now she wants to work with me,” she says. “As long as the pig is right there, she will answer my questions, she will do the work with me. She’s moving forward because of Synergy.”
‘That’s my pig!’
The pig is, notably, not called Babe or Wilbur. Angell instead chose a name that spoke to what she hoped her pig would be. We are where we are, Angell says, because of our positive and negative experiences.
“There is a synergy to it all,” she says. “I just wanted her to ground folks and remind them that there’s always more to life and more to be than what is right now. For my homeless, they aren’t defined by who they are now. This is just one piece of their life. They deserve to be somewhere better.”
And it seems like Synergy knows it, too. Because now, as Angell and her pig take the elevator down to Union Station’s west porch to work with clients, her string-like tail is wagging.
“That’s my pig!” says Randall Baldree, with whom Angell has worked for several years.
“Well, you’ve definitely kissed her more than anyone,” Angell responds.
Baldree describes himself as “one of the originals of h3.” He’s among Synergy’s biggest fans.
“She helps me when I’m down, helps me when I am depressed and when I can’t get through life,” he says. “I have somebody to depend on.”
According to Angell, pets are a lifeline for some unhoused people — they can help prevent substance use or motivate people to seek stability. A man most people know by the name Cheez It (legally Joshua Bunker) has been working with h3 for eight months but is just meeting Synergy today. He didn’t bring his pit bull, Dot Dot, but thinks they would get along.
“I’ve always had dogs, and a bird, and a turtle,” he says. “They say what humans can’t say. They see what humans can’t see.”
Working, please do not disturb
When they see Synergy tip-tapping through Union Station, people tend to react as if they’ve seen a celebrity — phone cameras whip out, hands cover open mouths, gasps of delighted shock.
With her nails painted red and her pink cheetah print harness, she does look like a diva.
As she’s working with clients, Angell tends to brush off other conversations with a busi- ness card that links to information about h3 and Synergy’s Instagram. She trades Synergy’s leash sash from one that reads “I Am Working, Please Do Not Disturb” to one that reads “Wellness Ambassador for the Homeless.”
The questions come immediately. “Can I get a picture?” asks one traveler. “How old is she?” questions another. “Will you be able to carry her forever?” “It’s diet and genetics,” Angell answers, over and over again. “One parent is 12 inches tall, one is 13 inches tall. She will get bigger.”
But to Angell, the best questions are the ones that give her an opportunity to talk about the h3 Project.
“Are you a vet?” says Wendy Lesko, who was shopping in the station.
Angell responds that she worked in interna- tional law. “I came here for human trafficking, but in D.C., homelessness is closely inter- twined.”
Synergy isn’t just a way in for unhoused people — she’s also a conversation starter with the public at large. And for the people who work with h3, she can be the difference between accepting help and going it alone.
“Hey little piggy!” calls one of Angell’s clients, Dannitta Jenkins.
Her voice echoes under the stone awning. “She’s such a cutie pie!”
“I can’t believe you haven’t met Synergy,” Angell responds as Jenkins hustles over.
Jenkins goes in for a hug. Synergy, cradled snugly in Angell’s arms, aims a lick at Jen- kins’s bag of cinnamon sugar pretzels.
“I’m so glad you’re in your house now,” Angell whispers. “It’s been a long time.”
Restored Durbin House to become visitor center
BY MARISSA YELENIK
Baltimore Sun
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A piece of Westminster history will soon open to the public as the city celebrates the restoration of the Durbin House, a nearly 260- year-old structure that will be- come the Wakefield Valley Park visitor center.
The city will host a grand open- ing celebration for the restored Durbin House from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday at 1001 Fenby Farm Road to celebrate and show off the newly restored property with a tour, live music, free food, give- aways and crafts.
“It’s a pre-Revolutionary War house, and there are not a lot of these houses around that are still in existence,” Westminster Mayor Mona Becker said.
The house was restored through “extensive structural and environmental stabilization,” Becker said, a project that was entirely paid for by grant fund- ing.
Becker said the interior resto- ration is complete, but the city is still working out furnishings and historical displays. The first floor will open at a later date as a visitor center, and the second floor will serve as a caretaker apartment.
“The visitor center will high- light the history of the Wakefield Valley area as well as the history of the Durbin House,” Becker said. “It is becoming a regional park. … I think having a historical
Frederick restaurant seeks approval for rooftop music amid noise concerns
BY JOSEPH DEBELL
Frederick News-Post
The Banyan, a downtown Fred- erick restaurant, is seeking the city’s approval for amplified roof- top music, but some neighbors are concerned about loud music.
The restaurant’s request to have rooftop live entertainment — which comes before the zoning board on Tuesday — collides with neighbors’ complaints that the music that was coming from the business carried into their homes.
Owners Dan and Staci Caiola are seeking conditional-use ap- proval for rooftop entertainment Sunday through Thursday until 9 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdays until 10 p.m. Their application also seeks indoor entertainment until midnight and occasional lat- er special events.
The city planning staff is rec- ommending approval with those restrictions.
The Banyan, which opened this spring at 216 E. Patrick St., is a three-level restaurant and events venue, with a second-floor ball- room. It has a bar and food truck on the roof.
Nearby residents submitted comments saying amplified mu- sic from the restaurant’s roof can be heard in their homes and yards and on surrounding streets. The owners said they have since changed the speaker setup, im- proved soundproofing and given
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Built in 1767, the approximate- ly 2,800-square-foot stone house is recognized by the Maryland Historical Trust as a historic property and is an official Carroll County historic site.
The house is part of the city’s larger effort to transform Wake- field Valley Park, a roughly 180- acre property that had been a golf course in the late 1970s. It transi- tioned ownership in the 1980s, then fell into foreclosure in 2012 after facing economic hardships, deferred maintenance and facili- ty deterioration.
The city acquired the property in 2016 by trading water and sewer rights for another property with the owner, Westminster Common Council President Tony Chiavacci said in February. Since then, it has improved the green space and opened the Westmin- ster Wakefield Valley Park Event Center.
“A city doesn’t often get the opportunity to have a green space of this size in it,” Becker said of acquiring the property. “Recog- nizing the importance of this property as a future benefit to the City of Westminster was some- thing that was foremost on our minds when we did that.”
The council has discussed dif- ferent plans for the property, Becker said, with a trail improve- ment program for about 3.5 miles of former cart paths to be reno- vated into trails that would be deemed accessible according to the Americans With Disabilities Act. The process will take about 18 months, she said.
“I think it’s really going to improve the visit to the park,” Becker said.
management more control over performers’ volume.
Dan Caiola said the business wants to offer light entertain- ment, not operate a rooftop con- cert venue, and believes the sound can be contained.
Residents describe hearing music inside their homes
Patrick Wilson, who lives about 500 feet from The Banyan, said in an interview he supports the res- taurant and enjoys live music but described the original rooftop sound as louder than normal downtown activity.
He said the music could be heard through closed windows and that its volume and vibra- tions resonated through his prop- erty.
“I love live music myself,” Wil- son said. “I just want to choose when I go to enjoy it, I guess, not necessarily have it imposed upon me in my own property.”
He said the main issue is whether residents can hear the performances inside their homes.
“First question is, will I be able to hear it in my yard, in my house?” Wilson said.
Written comments to the city about the rooftop music request agreed with Wilson’s sentiment.
Angela Wilson, who is married to Patrick Wilson, wrote that am- plified music was audible inside their home with the windows closed. She said responding po- lice officers told her the sound
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State’s short-term rental rules leave rural counties facing new costs
BY JOSH DAVIS
Maryland’s push to make short-term rentals safer is collid- ing with a familiar complaint from rural counties: The state is requiring a new inspection sys- tem, but providing no money to fund it.
Somerset County officials are starting work on a licensing pro- gram to comply with the Jillian and Lindsay Wiener Short-Term Rental Fire Safety Act, which one of its sponsors called “legislation that will save lives.” But local leaders say meeting the mandate will require new staff, new fees and a bureaucracy the county currently does not have.
“It’s going to be a heavy lift to start,” Planning and Zoning Di- rector Jesse Drewer told the Som- erset County Commissioners on Tuesday.
The law, named for two Mary- land sisters who died in a 2022 fire at a New York vacation rental, requires short-term rentals to have fire extinguishers, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, posted evacuation drawings and emergency contacts by October. A county inspection mandate takes effect July 1, 2028.
When commissioners asked how much state funding would accompany the requirement, Drewer said there was none. Counties can charge licensing and inspection fees to recover their costs.
“It is an unfunded mandate,” Drewer said.
Somerset does not yet know how many short-term rentals op- erate in the county. Drewer rec- ommended hiring one employee
was noticeable without using their meters.
She asked the board to prohibit amplified rooftop entertainment but noted that the rooftop was full when she visited after the performances stopped.
Alice Kate Greenwood wrote that she could hear lyrics and announcements over her TV and that the music disrupted her work and increased confusion for an elderly parent in her care.
Gene Slyman, a musician who lives two blocks away, wrote that the music was clearly audible from his backyard and argued that a guitarist playing for a small audience did not need amplifica- tion.
Rosemary Wolfe, a 33-year East Church Street resident, wrote that the music disrupted her sleep and made it difficult to use her patio.
Several of those residents, however, emphasized that they support The Banyan and want it to succeed.
Owner says system was changed
Dan Caiola said The Banyan is seeking approval for activities in- cluding solo musicians, drag shows, exercise classes and fund- raisers.
He said the owners initially believed rooftop entertainment was permitted because the roof- top was within the building’s foot- print. The city later told them
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by the end of the year to establish a licensing program and set a compliance deadline for next July.
Commissioner Craig Mathies said the county should act quickly to give the new employee time to prepare.
“The quicker you get it imple- mented … there will not be as much pressure,” he said.
Drewer said outreach should begin this fall so the rules are “not going to be thrown on people at the last minute.”
“There are going to be kinks,” he said.
Drewer said only about six
conditional-use approval was re- quired.
“We thought we were just al- lowed,” Caiola said.
He said the restaurant is not trying to become a major concert venue.
“We’re not looking to throw Metallica concerts up on that roof,” Caiola said. “We’re looking to provide light entertainment to people and throw fun events and not be a nuisance to the commu- nity or our neighbors.”
The Caiolas acknowledged in their application early issues with sound carrying from the rooftop, but said the business developed a system to address them. Dan Caiola said the restaurant added speakers and soundproofing, conducted sound tests and began monitoring performances.
He declined to identify the companies that performed the testing or provide the results.
Asked about residents’ ac- counts that the music was audible inside their homes and caused vibrations, Caiola called the claims “absolutely false.”
Patrick Wilson stood by his account.
“Has he been in my yard?” Wilson said. “Has he been inside the other side of the window?”
Wilson said he hopes the new s ound-control measures work. Musician acknowledges early volume
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Maryland counties still lack short-term rental licensing. Wicomico County Council Presi- dent John Cannon said his coun- ty, the only other such jurisdiction on the Eastern Shore, is not yet developing a program. In Somer- set County, Crisfield and Princess Anne already license short- and long-term rentals.
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cian who performed amplified solo-acoustic sets on the rooftop each Friday from May 1 through June 5, said the original setup was louder at street level than per- formers realized.
“At first, I wouldn’t understand the complaints about noise,” Harden said. “We didn’t realize how loud it was … everywhere except on the roof.”
He said someone came up from the street during one perfor- mance and told the musicians how loud it sounded below.
The restaurant later required performers to connect to speak- ers distributed around the roof- top, allowing management to bet- ter control the volume.
“Once he started having us connect into his system, it got very reasonable,” Harden said.
Harden said he believes roof- top music can be offered without creating a nuisance.
He disputed that his perfor- mances could have caused win- dows to vibrate hundreds of feet away, though he said one full band might have produced more sound.
He also said the venue provides needed work for musicians. More than 10 performers have contact- ed him for help in securing book- ings, he said.
“That really helps us out as musicians and actually gives us a chance to make a living,” Harden said.
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tweaks could be considered be- fore the inspection requirement takes effect.
Del. Linda Foley, a Montgom- ery County Democrat and bill sponsor, defended the mandate, saying it was crafted with the state fire marshal and the Mary- land Association of Counties.
“The legislation enables coun- ties to establish a fee to offset costs associated with these life- saving fire inspections,” Foley said. “This is an expert-driven law that will make short-term rentals safer in Maryland, ultimately sav- ing lives.”
Police say they have spoken with management
Frederick police have spoken with The Banyan’s management about noise concerns, depart- ment spokesperson Samantha Long said.
Officers responding to com- plaints consider residents’ state- ments, their own observations, whether sound is plainly audible at distances specified by the city’s ordinance and whether the required approvals are in place.
Police may issue municipal citations when officers observe violations, Long said. Zoning and permit issues may also in- volve other city departments.
Long did not say whether po- lice directed The Banyan to stop rooftop entertainment or issued citations. The News-Post asked the department to clarify those points, but Long did not re- spond.
The planning staff concluded that the business could operate compatibly with surrounding properties if it follows city noise regulations and any conditions imposed by the board.
The board can approve or deny the request or impose addi- tional restrictions.
The hearing begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 101 N. Court St. The board will also consider entertainment requests from Lima Soul and Sandbox Brew- house.
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Bettie Debelius with husband Charles “Chuck” Debelius, then a second lieutenant in the Army, on their wedding day in 1954.
Mark Westin, 75
My husband was born on the winter solstice. He would have appreciated the symmetry of arriving on the shortest, darkest day of the year and leaving on the longest. It feels like something he had a hand in.
Mark did things completely. “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing” was one of his favorite lines. He was dependable and particular, a man of systems and manuals. He was not a fancy man, but he appreciated quality, and when he found something he liked, he bought 10 of them, just in case. And he loved dogs. His own and the ones he passed on the street, each one “a very good friend” who deserved a treat or two.
He battled Stage 4 lung cancer with grit and determination, determined to reach his 56th anniversary with me. He made it, and he left the day after. He fought the way he lived, completely.
Mark Louis Westin worked in construction and was a devoted family man. He died in Minneap- olis on June 20.
— By his wife, Kitty Westin
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Arnaldo “Roy” Rojas, right, with son Brian and two oranges from his garden in 2019.
Bettie Debelius, 94
My parents once drove from New York to Alexandria, Virginia, and stopped in Dover, Delaware, for a six-pack of beer.
“Why add an hour to the drive?” I asked. “Was it a special beer?”
“Oh, no,” my mother replied, “we just wanted to see what they had at the Dover Air Force Exchange!”
She taught me how to make it to 94 by moving at her own pace. She wasn’t interested in time-saving technology. Why use GPS when it’s more fun to take the long way? She and my dad went to Dover because it was fun for them to drive together. I will admit to getting frustrated when she acted as though she had all the time in the world and I was trying to beat rush hour. She didn’t have all the time, but she had the time she needed to love her husband, children, grandchil- dren and great-grandchildren well.
Bettie Pass Debelius was a military wife who loved the journey. She died in Annapolis, Mary- land, on March 8.
— By her daughter, Maggie Debelius
Mark Westin with his shih tzu, Gracie, in 2023.
This is the first installment of What We Remember, a new short-form obituary feature from The Washington Post
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Anne Denner, 67
Early in my relationship with Anne, I was telling her a story from my childhood. She stopped, turned to me and looking into my eyes said, “This is why I love you.” It took many years for me to understand what “this” meant. It meant when you are vulnerable and open, when I see not just you, but you.
Years into our marriage, I saw Anne walking ahead of me by a half block. She didn’t know I was there. She stopped and greeted a homeless man we often saw in the neighborhood. She looked him in the eye, then reached out and patted his arm. He gazed back at her. Seeing Anne with this small distance and recognizing what she so often gave me opened my heart to her and the world. It was a beautiful gift.
Anne Louise Denner was a psychotherapist and bike rider with a green thumb. She died in Phil- adelphia on Dec. 28.
— By her wife, Nancy Maguire
Charlotte attorney Nancy Litwak.
Courtesy of A.W. Gunter
Arnaldo “Roy” Rojas, 81
When I married into my husband’s Filipino family, I gained a kindly uncle named Tito Roy. He always showed up bearing gifts I’d never heard of, like calamansi and bitter melon grown in his garden. The extent of his gardening prowess didn’t hit me until I saw a ginormous poinsettia growing in his backyard, easily twice my height. He’d bought it tiny from a school fundraiser and planted it after Christmas. He wasted nothing.
Roy grew up poor in the Philippines and knew the value of a plant. His Texas backyard was a testament to his favorite fruits and vegetables: eggplant, figs, oranges, papaya — all grown from saved seeds. He took pride in sharing his bounty.
Recently, after his passing, his daughter was cleaning out her parents’ garage and came across a bag of unlabeled seeds. She kept them to share with the family. Tito Roy would be proud.
Arnaldo “Roy” Rojas was the chief technician at a medical care facility. He died June 1 in Houston.
— By his family member Courtenay Rudzinski
Psychotherapist Anne Denner in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in 2024.
Nancy Litwak, 39
“I like to tell a story,” was my argument against poetry.
“There’s a story, figuring it out is fun” was yours. “Well, I don’t write poetry, that’s for sure.” Driving home from work one day, NPR interviewed an organ recipient. Not one that you saved, Not one of the people you gave to. I quickly changed the station to pop music. That was a mistake. “Truly Madly Deeply” by Savage Garden Filled my car with ’90s sincerity. I remember when you got that CD. I can see the album art spinning In the boom box we took to the lake. I never thought I would cry To a Savage Garden song. But I knew it was you Letting me know That you were still there, And here I am, Stabbing keys and wiping my nose. You got me, Nancy, You got me to write a poem.
Nancy Van Zile Stewart Litwak was a mother, wife and attorney. She died Jan. 7 in Belmont, North Carolina.
— By her friend A.W. Gunter
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EDWARD THEODORE MORGAN 7/20/1942 - 1/10/2013 You are always on my mind and in my heart. There is not a day that passes by that I don’t miss your love and kindness. My heart and shining star, you left me much too soon, but God had a better plan. Love you, Beverly
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JOHN FLINN (Age 93) John Albert Flinn, Sr., of Reston, Virgin- ia, died at home peacefully on July 20, 2026, just two months shy of his 94th birthday. He was preceded by his wife, Grace (Maggi), in August 2004, and by his parents and siblings. Since 1972 John and Grace lived in Reston, Va., with their fam- ily: Christine (Wolf), Beth (Krauser), John Jr., Allison (Markell), and Jennifer (Roth). Both John and Grace passed away in that same house.
John spent more than 30 years in the U.S. government, primarily with the Navy and in the Department of Defense, retiring in 1995 as Director of Operations for the Department of Defense Comptroller. Re- tirement gave him more time to spend with his family and friends in the neigh- borhood. He is survived by his five adult children, their husbands, and 11 perfect grandkids. No formal service is planned. https://obituaries.carewellcremations. com/john-flinn
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CLINTON FRANKLIN HODGES JR. “Clint” On Monday. July 13, 2026, 12:25 p.m., it pleased the Almighty God to call Clinton Franklin Hodges, Jr. from labor to reward. He leaves to cherish four siblings: Darlease Hodges Wormack, Carolyn Hodges Bell, (Joseph), Glenda F. Hodges and Thaddeus Hodges (JoAnn); a devoted niece, Sheila A. Hobbs, a devoted nephew, Eli Hobbs ; and a host of other relatives and friends. He was predeceased by his wife of 56 years, Delorese Hodges. On Monday, July 27, 2026, friends may visit with the fam- ily from 10 am until time of service at 11 am at Allen Chapel AME Church, 2498 Al- abama Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20020 www.marshallmarchfh.com
ALEXANDROS GRIGOROPOLOUS December 30, 1950 – July 18, 2026 It is with profound sadness, but also with im- mense gratitude for a life so beautifully lived, that we announce the passing of our be- loved Alexandros Grigoropoulos, who left us peacefully on July 18, 2026, at the age of 75. Alexandros embraced life with extraordinary passion and a simple philosophy that guided everything he did: work hard, love deeply, and bring joy to everyone around you. He had a rare gift for making people feel welcome, valued, and loved. While our hearts are broken by his absence, we find comfort in knowing that his legacy lives on through his family, his friendships, and the countless lives he touched. From Humble Beginnings to the American Dream Alexandros was born on December 30, 1950, in the mountain village of Fourna, Greece, to his proud parents, Lambros and Kalliopi Grigoropoulos. Growing up alongside his four brothers—Apostolos, Dimitrios, Ioannis, and Serafim—he learned from an early age the importance of family, resilience, sacrifice, and standing together through life’s chal- lenges. Life in the village was rich in love but scarce in opportunity. At just twelve years old, Alex- andros made the remarkably courageous de- cision to leave home in search of work so he could help support his family. For years, he carried an exhausting burden far beyond his age, attending school during the day while working long hours each night—never com- plaining, never giving up, and always putting family first. In 1974, determined to build a brighter fu- ture, Alexandros embarked on the journey that would define the rest of his life. Follow- ing his older brothers, Apostolos and Dimitri- os, he immigrated to the United States. He was joined by his brother Ioannis, with his youngest brother, Serafim, arriving soon af- ter. Before long, their beloved parents were reunited with all of their sons in America, completing the family once again. Together, they poured their hearts into build-
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JOHN LOUIS ESPOSITO PHD (Age 86) John Louis Esposito, PhD, age 86 of Marco Island, FL and the Dunwoody Retirement Community in Newtown Square, PA passed away on July 15, 2026 as a result of compli- cations from heart surgery. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he was the son of the late John and Mary Esposito. John was the distinguished Professor Emeri- tus of Religion and International Affair and of Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. Dr. Esposito was the Founding Director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, mentoring thousands of stu- dents on campus and serving on dozens of MA and Ph.D Committees. He also served as the founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Under- standing and the founding director of The Bridge Initiative on Protecting Pluralism and Ending Islamophobia. Academically, John Esposito was a leading global scholar of the study of religion and international affairs, focusing on Islam and Muslim societies. It is not an exaggeration to state that he sin- gle-handedly defined and shaped the mod- ern study of Muslim societies and Islam. Dr. Esposito was a frequent guest on main- stream media, writing for and giving inter- views to newspapers and magazines in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa and the Mid- dle East. His writings have been published by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times of London and he has been interviewed by CNN, ABC Night- line, CBS, NBC, Al Jazeera and the BBC. He has, over his career, written over 50 books as well as served as Editor-in-Chief of sev- eral Oxford University Press encyclopedia projects. John also published more than a hundred peer-reviewed journal articles in major academic journals. He served as Editor-in-Chief of several Oxford University Press encyclopedia projects. He was the Founding Editor of Oxford Islamic Studies online which earned a perfect 10 on a scale of 1-10 from a review by Harvard’s Middle East Librarian. John’s books have been translated into dozens of languages. Many of John’s books are required reading today at universities and colleges around the world. Some of his books include: The Future of Islam, Is- lamophobia and the Challenge of Plural- ism in the 21st Century, Who Speaks for Islam?-What a Billion Muslims Really Think, What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?, Islam and Politics, Makers of Contemporary Islam and
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MARY LINN HOFFMANN Mary Linn Hoffmann, 97, passed away March 21, 2025, in Midlothian, VA. She was preceded in death by parents, Christine M. and Robert L. Thompson; husband of 72
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PAULINE “POLLY” LISS (Age 98) Pauline “Polly” Liss was born October 18, 1927, in Winston-Sa- lem, North Carolina, the daugh- ter of Louis and Rose Likoff Roush. She died peacefully on June 24, 2026, at Ashby Ponds
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ing a new life through hard work, opening Tippy’s Taco House and growing it into a beloved institution with multiple locations throughout the Washington metropolitan area. The Heartbeat of the Community For Alexandros, Tippy’s Taco House was nev- er simply a restaurant—it was home. It became the gathering place where friend- ships were forged, celebrations were shared, and everyone who walked through the doors was treated like family. After the customers had gone home and the lights should have gone out, the evenings were often just be- ginning. With the unmistakable voices of his favorite Greek artists, Stelios Kazantzidis and Kater- ina Stanisi, filling the room, the restaurant transformed into a place of laughter, danc- ing, storytelling, and unforgettable memo- ries. Alexandros was always at the center of it all—pouring drinks, welcoming newcom- ers, telling stories, dancing the zembekiko, and making certain no one ever felt like a stranger. His generosity knew no limits. Every major holiday became an open celebration where family, friends, members of the Greek com- munity, and even first-time visitors were wel- comed with the same warmth and hospitali- ty. If you knew Alexandros, you always had a place at his table. After many successful years in the restaurant business, Alexandros began a new chapter in construction. Trading one demanding profes- sion for another, he approached roofing with the same determination, craftsmanship, and relentless work ethic that had defined his en- tire life. There was no challenge too difficult, no task beneath him, if it meant providing for the people he loved. An Unwavering Love and the Gift of Fam- ily In 1977, Alexandros met the love of his life, Eleni. From the moment they found each other, they built a partnership rooted in uncondi- tional love, mutual respect, laughter, and un- wavering devotion. Their marriage was filled with playful teasing, deep affection, and a ro- mance that never faded. Even after decades together, his face would light up every time she entered the room. When Alexandros married Eleni, he also em- braced her four-year-old daughter, Antonia, as his own. Without hesitation, he became her father in every sense of the word. Soon after their marriage, he officially adopted her, affirming the bond that had already grown naturally between them. In 1980, their family grew once more with the birth of their son, Lambros (Ike), proudly named after Alexandros’s father. To his children, Alexandros was so much more than a provider. He was their protector, their greatest supporter, their steady founda- tion, and the example they would spend their lives trying to follow. His family was his great- est pride and life’s greatest accomplishment. A Father’s Greatest Gift
Islam, Islam: The Straight Path and Democ- racy (with John O. Voll). In recognition of his outstanding contributions to scholarship and to intellectual and public life, John was also awarded seven honorary doctorates. Furthermore, John Esposito is the only scholar to have been elected President of both the Middle East Studies Associa- tion (MESA) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR), a remarkable honor and achievement. John rounded out his public service by acting as a consultant to the U.S. Department of State and other government agencies. European and Asian governments sought his counsel, and he was constantly in demand to deliver keynote lectures at hun- dreds of universities around the world. John also served as an ambassador for the UN Alliance of Civilizations and was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Council of 100 Leaders, and a member of the European Network of Experts on De-Radicalization. Early in his career, Professor Esposito demonstrated a deep empathy for the struggles of the people in the Global South, especially in the Arab-Islamic world. He sought to understand and interpret reli- gious politics not from the perspective of empire, but rather from the vantage point of the downtrodden, the occupied and the oppressed. His Italian-American background and his Catholicism allowed John to inter- pret the Islamic tradition sympathetically but not uncritically. Like Islam today, Catholi- cism also struggled to reconcile its historical roots and normative ethical claims with the demands of modernity. John drew upon his Catholic background to understand and in- terpret the developmental challenges facing Muslim societies today. John was an early and courageous scholar who also challenged Orientalist misrepre- sentations of Islam and Muslims. His schol- arship created room for understanding in lieu of prejudice, and his intellectual insights and generosity left a lasting imprint on gen- erations of students and colleagues. John’s life reflected the best traditions of the United States and the American peo- ple rooted in religious freedom, freedom of speech and intellectual inquiry. Up until his untimely death, John had continued to di- rect a project that has never been more crit- ical than at the present moment: The Bridge Initiative: Promoting Pluralism and Ending Islamophobia, which focuses on monitoring, documenting and combating Islamophobia. John Esposito is survived by his wife of 61 years, Jean Esposito, his partner and prima- ry supporter in all his endeavors, and the enduring love of John’s life. He is the caring father of his adopted son, Emilio Gonzalez, and the adored grandfather of Jennifer, Em- ily, Nathalie, and Amy; devoted brother of Richard Esposito (Lida Syrko Esposito) and the late Louis Esposito (Frances Ferguson Esposito); and beloved uncle of Donna Es- posito Kimble, John, Michael, Ricky and Pe- ter Esposito. Services previously held. In lieu of flowers, friends and family can very significantly help to extend John’s work through a contribution of any kind to sup- port his lifelong efforts. Please use one of these links: Digital Donation: https://giving.georgetown. edu/cmcubridge Physical Checks (should be made to George- town University’s Bridge Initiative on Islam- ophobia at ACMCU):https://acmcu.george- town.edu/uncategorized/donate-by-mail/ Donate by Phone: https://giving.george- town.edu/how-to-give/gift-instructions/#- give-by-phone
years, RADM Roy F. Hoffmann; sister, Eliza- beth Dickey; and brother, Lee Thompson.
Mary Linn is survived by five daughters, Har- riet Hoffmann, Henrico, VA, Christine Car- nahan, Durham, NC, Cecile Gorham (Peter), Charlottesville, VA, Hilarie Hanson (Jackson), Poulsbo, WA, and Emilie Crow (Rory), Geron- imo, OK. Also surviving are seven grandchil- dren, Erin Lane, Seth Gorham, Kalin Soper, Kelsey Hanson, John Hanson, Todd Gorham, and Brooke Bass; and four great-grandchil- dren, Aidan Lane, Emerson Lane, Poplar Gor- ham, and Drake Bass.
Mary Linn’s memorial service was held on April 26, 2025, at Bliley’s Funeral Home, Richmond, VA. A graveside service will be held at 2:45 pm, Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at the Old Post Chapel, Arlington National Cemetery, where Mary Linn will be interred next to her beloved Roy.
We wonder if our first breaths were as soul-stirring to our Mother, as her last breath was to us.
in Ashburn, Virginia, as a result of compli- cations from Parkinson’s disease. Polly de- voted nearly 70 years to career education and STEM advocacy — founding the Arling- ton County Coalition for Career Education, chairing the Virginia State Career Education Advisory Committee for 25 years, and de- veloping Virginia’s STEM program, credited by Marquis Who’s Who with impacting more than 280,000 students. Whenever anyone asked how she was doing, even in her final days, she answered: “I’m cute and dandy.” On April 20, 1958, she married Merwin Ed- gar Liss. Merwin preceded her in death on November 22, 2017. She is survived by her daughter, Sharon Ritter of Falls Church and her children Sarah Ritter and her husband Christian Schou and William Ritter; her son, David M. Liss and his partner Rebecca Pro- copio of Vienna; and her daughter, Leslie Packard and her husband William Packard of Reston. A Celebration of Life will be held Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 2:00 PM at Temple Rodef Shalom, Falls Church, Virginia. Inter- ment will follow at Arlington National Ceme- tery. Contributions may be made to Feeding America or the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund.
Having experienced firsthand the relentless demands of the restaurant industry, Alex- andros dreamed of a different future for his son. He hoped Ike would pursue higher edu- cation and become a doctor or a lawyer. Though he could not provide financial back- ing, Alexandros gave something infinitely more valuable: his own hands, his experi- ence, his wisdom, and his tireless determi- nation. For eight grueling months, he worked side by side with his son, his son’s partners, and his brother-in-law Tommy, helping build Cava from the ground up. Every wall, every floor, every long day represented a father’s quiet sacrifice and unconditional belief in his child. What began as disappointment became one of the greatest expressions of love a father could give. His fingerprints will forever remain part of Cava’s foundation—not only in the building itself, but in the dream he helped make pos- sible. A Life Filled with Joy Despite the hardships he endured through- out his life, Alexandros never allowed adver- sity to define him. He chose joy. He possessed an extraordinary sense of hu- mor and a quick wit that could brighten any room. He had an unmatched ability to make people laugh, to ease difficult moments, and to remind everyone around him not to take life too seriously. He believed your word was your bond, and he lived by that principle every single day. He treated every person with dignity, respect, and kindness, regardless of who they were or where they came from. Above all else, he showed us that true wealth is measured not by what you accumulate, but by the love you give away. Alexandros is survived by his beloved wife, Eleni; his son, Lambros (Ike), his wife Keri, and their son Alex; his daughter, Antonia, her husband Dimitri, and their sons Harilaos and Alexandros. He is also survived by his brothers, Apostolos, Ioannis, and Serafim, as well as an enormous extended family of friends, colleagues, neighbors, and loyal pa- trons whose lives were made richer simply by knowing him. He is now reunited in eternal peace with his beloved parents, Lambros and Kalliopi; his brother, Dimitrios; and his nieces, Olga and Popi. Visitation will be held at Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church of Washing- ton DC, 721 Norwood Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20905, US, on July 30, 2026, from 10:30 am to 11:30 am, followed by the Funeral Service at the same location from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. A Committal Service will take place at All Souls Cemetery, 11401 Brink Rd, German- town, MD 20876, US, on July 30, 2026, from 1:30 pm to 2 pm, and a Reception will follow at Lakewood Country Club, 13901 Glen Mill Rd, Rockville, MD 20850, US, on July 30, 2026, from 2:30 pm to 6 pm. www.hinesrinaldifuneralhome.com
HILDEGARD S. MOHLER (Age 97) Hildegard S. Mohler, passed away peace- fully on Monday, July 20, 2026. Loving wife to John R. Mohler II (deceased) for 72 years. Mother to William Mohler (Susan), John Mohler (Kimberly), and Cynthia Dieffen- bach (David). She is also survived by five granddaughters and eight great-grandchil- dren. She was a graduate of George Wash- ington University. Teacher for 25 years. The family will hold a private service and burial. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to: bcrf.org or breakthroughT1D.org For full obituary and to view and sign the family guestbook, please visit: www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
LOUISE FARMER SMITH (Age 85) Louise Farmer Smith, 85, of Arlington, Virginia, passed away peacefully on June 7, 2026, surrounded by her family. Born October 19th, 1940, in Washington, D.C., to the late James Lawrence Farmer and Virginia Storm Farmer, Louise grew up the first of three children in Norman, Oklaho- ma. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BA in Letters and earned Master’s degrees from Yale University and Goddard College. She worked as a high school and college English teacher, interned as a family therapist, and served on a U.S. Congressman’s Washington staff. More importantly, Louise was a prolific writer of short stories and novels. Her writ- ing appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Glimmer Train, the Vir- ginia Quarterly Review, and Bellevue Liter- ary Review. Her work often chronicled the lives of women on a path of self-discovery. 2012 saw the publication of her novel, One Hundred Years of Marriage. Louise is sur- vived by her husband of 60 years, Larry K Smith; her children, Virginia Louise Smith of Los Angeles, California, and Tim K. Smith of Brooklyn, New York; her sister Pheobe Mallard and brother Larry Farmer; two grandchildren, Ray Coco Smith and Clem- entine Huston. A memorial will be held at the Jefferson Retirement community in Ar- lington, VA, on August 4th at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Planned Parenthood. Louise will be remembered for her grace, style, and kindness and how she could light up a room and move across the dance floor.
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VOULA PAPPAMIHIEL ANTONAIOU (Age 83) Voula, 83, passed away on July 4. “Fitting... She was a burst of fireworks.” Known for her big smile and vivacious, fun loving spirit,
MARY THERESA MARTIN (Age 89) Mary Theresa Murphy Martin passed away peacefully at home on July 18 surrounded by family and friends. She was born on Feb- ruary 12, 1937, to James and Lillian Murphy in Dunmore, Pa. She was married to her best friend James A. Martin Jr. for 64 years, rais-
JAMES EDWARD SNIGHT (Age 95) James Edward Snight Sr. (Jim) was born in Washington, DC on August 21, 1930 and passed peacefully away in Annapolis, MD at the age of 95 on July 21, 2026 sur- rounded by his wife of almost 71 years, Marilyn (née Miller), and his children James Jr., Susan Moreland (Richard), and William (Julianne). He is also survived by six grandchildren, seven great-grand- children, his nephews and nieces, family friends and neighbors. He was predeceased by his son, Eugene, who died in 1977; his parents, John and Susan; and his siblings Eldridge, Lorraine, Mary Violet and John. Family visitation will be held at Beall Fu- neral Home, 6512 NW Crain Highway in Bowie, Maryland 20715, on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m and 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. The Mass of Christian Burial will take place at Sacred Heart Chapel, 16301 Annapolis Road in Bowie, Maryland 20715, at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 30, 2026. Remembranc- es by his Grandchildren will be shared during the repast. Internment at Resur- rection Cemetery, 8000 Woodyard Road in Clinton, Maryland 20735.
BARBARA H. WASHINGTON Passed away on July 12, 2026. She was predeceased by her husband, William H. Washington, parents and son, Harvey D. Harrod. She is survived by her sons, Fred- erick Harrod III (Ruth) and Ricardo (Ricky) Washington (Rena); daughters, Lydia New- man, Beverly (Bunnie) Baker (Wayne), Joyce Campbell, and Marita Lumley; and daughter-in-law, Mirta Harrod; grandchil- dren, great-grandchildren, great-great grandchild, nieces, nephews, cousins, many loving relatives and dear friends. A Family Hour will be held on Thursday, July 30, 2026, at 10:00am followed by a Celebration of Life Service at 11:00am, at Clinton United Methodist Church, 10700 Brandywine Rd, Clinton, MD 20735. Inurn- ment will be held on Monday, August 17, 2026, at Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery at 2:30pm. www.mcguire-services.com
DR. CECILIA P. WILLIAMS (Age 77) Of Alexandria, VA passed away Monday, July 20, 2026. Loving mother to Kent Lee Williams, future mother-in-law to Rachel Filteau, and sister to Sonya Doherty. She will truly be missed by many, including all those she loyally served as an Optometrist for over 40 years.
Dr. Cecilia Williams graduated from Salus University, then did soft-contact lens re- search in Austria before opening her Opto- metric practice in Arlington, later moved to Springfield, Virginia.
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she never met a stranger and freely gave compliments and encouragement. A long- time member of Saint Katherine’s Greek Orthodox Church, Voula loved Greek music and festivals, where she would help with food service then dance the night away. Her life was The American Dream realized. She came to the US as a teen, got a good education, became a lifelong learner, raised a family, owned a home, and started a busi- ness: Springfield Electrolysis. She always showed up for people, and volunteered with Look Good Feel Better cancer support program. Voula was a doting mother to 3 daughters, including one with special needs. She was the “fun aunt” to many nieces and nephews, and “Yiayia” in-law to her one and only grandchild. She died from dementia surrounded by loved ones in the home she shared with her devoted youngest daughter and son in-law. Her funeral was July 8. She was laid to rest at Saint Anthony’s Greek Or- thodox Monastery in Florence Arizona. Con- dolences to the family and/or donations in Voula’s memory may be sent to the Ortho- dox Mission Church of Arizona in Florence.
ing seven children in their longtime Rock- ville home. Mary was an involved grandma to nine grandchildren and two great-grand- children, and step-grandma to three kids and their three children. Dedicated to service to God, family and community, Mary always put others first. She was a decades-long Scout leader, a firm believer in making new friends while keep- ing the old. After retiring as an executive assistant, Mary volunteered at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital for the past 35 years. Known to family as an “energizer bunny,” Mary was always up before dawn and ready to tackle the project of the day before set- tling in with a favorite novel. Mary was preceded in death by her loving husband, her parents, two sisters and a brother. She is survived by her children Ei- leen Rising (Greer), Joseph Martin (Christie), Tom Martin (Allene), Andrew Martin, Teresa Wallace, Jeanne Lay (Stephen), Marian Van Pelt (Derek), along with the grandchildren and great-grandchildren, nieces and a neph- ew. For service information, please see the funeral home website. www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
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HARRY OBST Harry was born on March 4, 1932 in East Prussia. After receiving his Bachelor’s De- gree in translation from the University of Mainz in 1954, he came to the United States and enjoyed a prestigious career at the U.S. Department of State as Chief German Inter- preter. Harry interpreted for and traveled with seven consecutive presidents (John- son, Nixon, Ford, Carter, George H.W. Bush and Clinton). He later acted as Director of
MATTHEW A. OPEKA “Matt” (Age 95) December 10, 1930 - July 19, 2026
Matt was born in Oakdale, Pennsylvania on December 10, 1930, the youngest of three brothers, all now deceased. He attended local schools nearby, but took the train to Pittsburgh to attend both high school and college. Matt graduated from The Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mel- lon University) with an engineering degree, majoring in mechanical/aeronautical engi- neering, but soon entered the Air Force to pursue his love of flying. Stationed in Texas and Georgia he mastered that art, however an ear problem grounded him and caused him to leave the Air Force as a Major. He continued to serve as a Reservist until he retired from there.
After moving to Baltimore, he began work at The Glenn L, Martin Company and through an associate there he met Jean on a blind date. That date lasted for almost 70 years as they would have celebrated that anniver- sary on August 31 of this year.
Before long two sons arrived, Mark in 1957 and Keith in 1959. When Mark married Pam (Suter) two grandsons arrived, Benjamin and Samuel.
Matt left The Martin Company to work at the Federal Aviation Administration, and then shortly after NASA was created he began working there at The Goddard Space Flight
NANCY BRADFORD ORDWAY On Wednesday, July 22, 2026 Nancy Bradford Ordway of Washington, DC, died of con- gestive heart failure. She was preceded in death by her be- loved husband, Roderic “Butch” Ordway in 2010 and is survived by devoted members of the Ordway, Roddy, Bradford, and Baker families.
Born in Minot, North Dakota, Nancy spent her childhood in the Midwest before relocat- ing to Washington. She was a loyal alumna of Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and Rosemont College. While proud of her mid-
ROBERT LAWRENCE PILLOTE “Bob” On Tuesday, July 22, 2026, Robert Lawrence Pillote of Bethesda, Maryland. Bob was born in Escanaba, Michigan on June 25, 1929. His family moved to Washington, D.C. in the mid-1930’s when his parents came to the area to work for the federal government. He graduated from McKinley Tech High School in June, 1947. After taking a year off to ex- plore Alaska he attended Gettysburg College, graduating in 1952. He was then drafted into the army and following a year of service in the Army Corps of Engineers, he attended George Washington University Law School, graduating in 1956.
RICHARD PAUL SACKS (Age 89) Richard Paul Sacks, M.D. (89), passed away July 13, 2026, surrounded by his loving chil- dren. Richard earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University before re- ceiving his Doctor of Medicine degree from
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the Office of Language Services until his re- tirement in 1997. He was awarded the Grand Decoration of Merit by the President of Austria in 1972. After his retirement from public service Harry served as the Director and Principal Instructor of the Inlingua School of Interpre- tation until 2004. He wrote a book on his experiences entitled White House Interpreter: The Art of Interpre- tation and has been a strong advocate for university training of interpreters. An avid baseball (and chess!) fan, Harry also created “Harry’s Grand Slam” baseball game in 1962, which was later rereleased. He passed away peacefully on June 10, 2026 at the age of 94 years in the excellent care of The Harbor and Medi Home Hospice. He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Elnina, their children Mattina Michele and Jennifer Lynn, and grandchild, Cara Lynn. He is also sur- vived by his daughter Christina and grand- children Estelle and Elsa. He will be dearly missed by his family, friends, caregivers and colleagues. Donations in his honour may be made to Medi Home Hospice and St. Labre Indian School. Special gratitude to Robert and Kar- en Field for their kindness and friendship. Services will be announced at a later date. Requiescat in Pace.
Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His accom- plishments there were many, including be- ing tasked by NASA to assist the President’s Commission in investigating the nuclear ac- cident at Three Mile Island. Before he retired from NASA a tree was planted in his honor for his years of service. To our knowledge, this was the first time this had been done for a living person.
According to those whom he worked for at NASA, Matt was instrumental in the success of many missions whose flight hardware was processed through the Integration and Test facilities at Goddard. In the 1970’s - 80’s Matt ran the operations and kept flight hardware testing on a tight schedule to meet mission launch dates. His ‘’get it done” attitude and his high standard of ethics were the hallmark of his achievements. One of his co-workers stated, “Whether Matt was your boss, your customer, your mentor, your employee, or your friend, he made you better. I am the luckiest guy in the world to be able to have considered Matt all these things.”
Matt continued to work until he was 88 years of age, employed by companies to manage their NASA contracts. One of those companies instituted a yearly commenda- tion to an employee called the MORE award - the initials for the Matt Opeka Reward of Excellence.
Jean and Matt traveled constantly all around the world. They loved cruising, riverboating in Europe, steamboating in the U.S, and vis- ited every state and almost every continent.
To say that Matt was loved and respected by everyone would be an understatement - he unselfishly sought to help others to be the best that they could be. His whole life was an example of the best in all of us, and we will miss him always.
A Memorial Service for Matt will be held at Borgwardt’s Funeral Home, 4400 Powder Mill Road, Beltsville, MD from 2-4 on Satur- day, July 25. No flowers, please, but contributions in his memory can be made to Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, 10774 Rhode Island Ave- nue, Beltsville, MD 20705.
western roots, Nancy loved New York City, where she spent much of her adult life. Her passion for helping others led her to careers in teaching, social work, and human resourc- es. She later founded Bradford Management, her own career consulting firm, where she delighted in mentoring individuals as they discovered their passions and built meaning- ful careers.
Nancy had a packed social calendar, always visiting a new gallery, enjoying a musical, cheering on Army, or bowling and golfing at the Chevy Chase Club. Perhaps her greatest gift was her unwavering commitment to her family and friends. She was a fixture and cheerleader on each sideline and in every audience. Nancy’s ability to connect with generations of individuals was unparalleled. Her genuine curiosity and concern made so many feel loved and important. Although deeply saddened by her sudden passing, we take solace in the fact that Nancy is reunited with the love of her life, Butch, and countless loved ones. We adore you, Fancy Nancy!
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Ann Catholic Church, 4001 Yuma St NW, Washington, DC, on Thursday, July 30 at 10 a.m. Reception to follow. Interment will be held at a later date at Arlington National Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made to the Roderic Edward Ordway Award Fund at Medstar Georgetown University Hos- pital in memory of Nancy Ordway. www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
Bob met the love of his life, Barbara Wie- gand, through the youth group at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, where they were married on July 25, 1953. Bob practiced law in the District of Columbia and Montgomery Coun- ty, Maryland for 44 years, the last 20 years of which were in partnership with his son, Robert, Jr. He retired in 2000 to focus on his other passions - he was an avid golfer, en- joyed traveling, and particularly enjoyed an ice-cold glass of Yuengling beer or a tumbler of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey on the rocks.
He is survived by his beloved wife of 73 years, Barbara Wiegand Pillote, his three children, Margaret Lynn (Gunther), Katherine (Brian) and Robert, Jr. (Christine), his grand- children, Andrew, Sarah, Jeff, Vicki, Zibby, and Bobby, and 6 great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held on Thursday, July 30, 2026 at 11 am, at St. Paul’s Luther- an Church, 4900 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008, with visitation in the Lower Auditorium of the church before the service starting at 9:30 am. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. Paul’s Lu- theran Church, Washington, D.C., or Gettys- burg College.
George Washington School of Medicine. He completed his Radiology residency at Let- terman Army Hospital in San Francisco. He proudly served as a Radiologist in the Army during the Vietnam War, ultimately attaining the rank of Major. He returned to George Washington Hospital where he served as a physician specializ- ing in Nuclear Medicine and as a Clinical Professor of Radiology, with a passion for teaching and mentoring countless students and young physicians with his keen sense of humor and warmth. He is lovingly remembered by his children, Elizabeth Houck, Michael Sacks (Robin), Bruce Sacks (Mayra); his sister, Honey Levick, and cherished grandchildren, Aus- tin Sacks (Ashley), Diana Sacks, Mitchell Sacks (Amy), Nathan Cole (Katelyn), Bruce Sacks, and Robert Sacks, and his lov- ing great-grandsons, Camden Sacks, and step-grandson, Weston. Services are private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to George Washington School of Medicine, Hospice Amedisys Health Care in Butler, Ga. or NPR Radio. May his memory be a blessing.
HERBERT HAWVERMALE “Herb” (Age 93) Peacefully slipped away from us, from pneu- monia, at home on May 20, 2026, surround- ed by his loving family. He lived for 67 years in the family home that he built at age 26, in Bethesda, Maryland. Herb was born in Pittsburgh, PA, on July 17, 1932, lived briefly in Berkley Springs, WV, and graduated high school as valedictorian. He attended Wa- bash University, which he held a lifelong de- votion to, graduated from George Washing- ton University, and then entered the building trade. He started as a carpenter, formed
JEROME NEITZEY Jerome Martin “Marty” Neitzey, 67, of Brid- geville, Delaware, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 17, 2026, at Beebe Health- care in Lewes, Delaware, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his loving family, cherished “Twin Home” neighbors Ginny and Tom Horsey, and the compassionate physicians, nurses, and staff who made his final days comfortable and peaceful. Born on December 29, 1958, at Prince George’s County Hospital in Cheverly, Mary- land, Marty was the son of the late John Francis and Rose Carolyn Neitzey (Wersick). He graduated from DeMatha High School in 1977 and later attended trade school. On September 18, 1999, Marty married the love of his life, Beatrice “Bea” Neitzey (Wilson), at Dahlgren Chapel in Boonsboro, Maryland a reception was held at the Old South Mountain Inn. He enjoyed a suc- cessful career as a Facilities Manager with Prince George County Government before retiring in 2021. Retirement allowed Marty to spend even more time enjoying the hobbies he loved.
SUSAN ELIZABETH NEWTON Susan left us physically in the early hours of July 12, 2026, after nine months of a valiant effort to overcome cholangiocarcinoma. Susan wanted to be remembered for her love and joy. And no doubt she will be be- cause of how generously she offered it to truly everyone. But she will also be remem- bered for her effervescence — that spar- kling spirit for her family, friends and the natural world. Susan was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 13, 1966, to Paula and John New- ton, who nurtured her quest for knowledge and adventure. No matter where she lived or traveled, she made deep connections with people of wildly variant backgrounds — friendships she carried with her for the rest of her life. Most of all, Susan LOVED. Her greatest love was her husband, Chris Rau. They married in 2001, having fallen in love inadvertently, attempting to set up one another’s friends with each other. They have two children, Harrison and Mackenzie, who were the very center of Susan’s heart. Together they built a beautiful life and deep roots in Arlington, Virginia. After graduating from Lawrence Central High School, Susan attended Miami Univer- sity, where a professor noticed her spark and recommended her for a job in Wash- ington, D.C., at the National League of Cities. She left D.C. briefly to attend the University of Chicago and earn a master’s in public policy. Susan was a tough, driven, and nat- ural leader, working as a project manager for MCI and Sprint Nextel. She then spent 10 years at the National Park Foundation, developing programs to protect the natural, cultural, and historic resources of our na- tional parks. Wanting to make even greater change, Susan went back to school for her doctorate at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, producing a body of research on increasing diversity in the national parks. Most recently, Susan led programs focused on inclusion and equity, refugee resettle- ment, senior services, and affordable hous-
RICHARD GAN YOUNG (Age 89) With his wife of 66 years at his side, Richard Gan Young (“Dick”) died peacefully at home in Fairfax, Virginia, on June 20, 2026, ending a full, happy, and meaningful life.
A true polymath, Dick built a successful career in intellectual property law, becom- ing a partner at the Washington, DC firm, Beveridge, DeGrandi, Weilacher, and Young. All the while, Dick continued to develop his longstanding passions for history, the natu- ral world, the arts, and travel. His wide circle of family and friends knew that they could come to him with any type of problem, be it mechanical, logistical, professional, or personal, and he would think up creative, practical solutions. He once built a sailboat from scratch. He edited and published his great-grandfather’s Gold Rush journals and Civil War diary -- and after extensive re- search, made his way around Cape Horn while retracing the same ancestor’s voyage to the California Gold Rush. In retirement, he was a pro bono mediator at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and taught classes on his diverse interests at George Mason University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). His greatest interest, howev- er, was his family.
Dick Young was born on November 4, 1936, to Elmo and Maxine Young in Hutchinson, Kansas, the eldest of three children. He at- tended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, on an NROTC scholarship, graduating in 1958 with a degree in man- agement and mechanical engineering. It was in Troy that he met Lillian Hann (“Wil- lie”) and began the greatest adventure of his life. Dick and Willie married in 1959, while he was on leave from his stint in the Navy, and soon after, they settled in Northern Virgin- ia. With three children under age five, Dick earned a law degree from Georgetown Uni-
his own construction company, and built housing subdivisions and apartments in the Maryland suburbs. Herb finished his career as a land developer and always helped his son John with his construction company and residential building business. Herbert was a water lover, a skilled slalom water ski- er, and an avid fisherman throughout his life, rarely missing an opportunity to “get a line in the water.” He raised five children with his late wife Rita Hawvermale.
He is survived by four of his children, Kath- ryn Bert of Colorado, Deborah Kent of Cal- ifornia, Nancy Martindale (Ben) of Virginia and John Hawvermale of Maryland; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchil- dren. His daughter, Kim Hawvermale, prede- ceased him.
Herb will be remembered for his sharp in- tellect, his willingness to help others and his contributions to society. His family trea- sures his memory, ensuring that his legacy will endure through the love and stories they share.
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, August 1, 2026, at 11 AM at the River Road Universalist Congregation, 6301 River Road, Bethesda, Maryland, 20817 with a re- ception to follow. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Montgomery County Hospice.
He had a natural talent for golf, poker, bass fishing, and shooting sports. He was a mem- ber of the Heritage Shores 18-Hole Men’s League and the Bridgeville Rifle and Pistol Club. Marty was also a devoted Maryland Terrapins basketball fan, a passion that be- gan after his days playing CYO basketball at St. Jerome’s in Hyattsville, Maryland. In addition to his beloved wife, Bea, Marty is survived by his stepsons, Vincent Cush (Hannah Brady) and Ryan Cush (Stephanie); his grandchildren, Lindsay, William, and Na- talie Cush; his brothers, J. Matthew Neitzey (Barbara), J. Mitchell Neitzey, J. Mark Neitzey (Denise), and J. Malcolm Neitzey, along with many loving brothers- and sisters-in-law; Jeanne Rosenberger (John), Cathy Cook (Bill), Patricia Moore, Jeannie Tarran (Den- nis), Jim Wilson (JoAnn), Clyde Wilson (Ber- nadette), Brenda Pusso (Keith), Frances Wilson and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and dear friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, John Francis and Rose Carolyn Neitzey; his brother J. Michael Neitzey, mother-in-law, Gertrude Wilson; and his nephews, Nicholas and Joseph. Marty’s family extends their heartfelt grat- itude to the physicians, nurses, and staff of the Tunnell Cancer Center in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, as well as the specialists and transplant/leukemia team at the Hospi- tal of the University of Pennsylvania in Phil- adelphia, whose exceptional care, compas- sion, and dedication gave Marty many years of hope. They also wish to thank the many family members and friends whose meals, visits, cards, phone calls, car rides to Phila- delphia, and unwavering love carried Marty through his journey. Your kindness will never be forgotten. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Family and friends will be notified by mail, email, and Facebook once arrange- ments have been finalized.
Please visit Marty’s Life Memorial at www. parsellfuneralhomes.com.
ing at Lutheran Services in America. Susan loved to travel, not just as a tourist, but with an approach, which she instilled in her kids, that the privilege to see the world also helped develop perspectives and understanding. Susan spent six months studying in Luxembourg in college, hiked Machu Picchu with her mom, made a trek to the Havasupai Indian Reservation with girlfriends, explored Turkey and Italy with Chris and the family, and worked at count- less National Parks. But one of Susan’s most cherished places was Sanibel Island, Florida, where she loved to walk the beach looking for seashells and dolphins, or simply sit and read in a gentle breeze. Susan had plans to hike the Dolomites for her 60th birthday in November, as well as travel to Vietnam, but life brought her a different journey, and she faced it the same way she approached everything — brave, clear-eyed, and open hearted with every step. Susan also loved to garden, cook, bake, and dance. She savored champagne and sweets. Fittingly, her final meal was cookies from Pastries by Randolph, and a sip of cham- pagne, shared with loved ones, with her beloved border collie, Phoibe, curled up at her side. Susan will be greatly missed, but her love and joy live on in our hearts. Susan is sur- vived by Chris, Harrison, and Mackenzie, and also by an older brother, David Newton, as well as a large cadre of Newton and Rau family members. A Memorial Service for Susan Newton Rau will be held on Friday, July 31, 2026, at 2 pm, at Mount Olivet United Methodist Church in Arlington, Virginia. To share condolenc- es with the family or for more information please visit: www.murphyfuneralhomes.com
versity by taking night classes while working at a patent and trademark firm during the day. He graduated from law school in 1965, and throughout his career, he would always carve out time to attend his four children’s soccer games and swim meets. His family’s commitment to the latter sport led to Dick’s decades of service with the Northern Virgin- ia Swim League. After seven years as a team rep at Brandywine Swim Club, he was NVSL president from 1979-80 and rules chairman for the following 25 years.
Dick and his wife Willie made a formidable team. They were always the first to volun- teer for leadership roles in community or- ganizations and events and always the last to leave a good party. Holidays inevitably brought family and friends from across the country to the Young’s house. And every good thing was likely to become a tradition. Hence, getaways with distant friends were scheduled annually. Every Thanksgiving dinner was followed by a Friday crab feast. Every January saw a multi-family ski trip to Seven Springs. And every summer meant a long sojourn in Northfield, Massachusetts.
It was in Northfield that Dick took on the role of trail guide, life coach, and science educator to his six beloved grandchildren and anyone else who cared to join in on his famous woodland hikes. During this time, Dick’s deep sense of respect for nature and love for community was imprinted upon his grandchildren. Yet, in Northfield and on oth- er adventures in far-flung locations, it also became clear that Dick was every bit as interested in seeing the world through his grandchildren’s eyes as others were in see- ing it through his.
Dick is survived by his wife, Lillian (“Wil- lie”); his sister, Sharon Young and his sis- ter-in-law, Janet Young; his children, Susie Mangano (husband Jim), David Young, Bill Young (wife Katie) and Dan Young (wife Amy Sayer); his grandchildren, Dan Mangano (wife Stacey Harrington), Melissa Manga- no, Eric Young (wife Alex Scheeler), Abby Young, Lucy Young, and Owen Young; and his great-grandchildren, Oscar Young, Rose Young, and Ryan Mangano. He was preced- ed in death by his parents, Elmo and Maxine Young, and his brother, James Young.
A memorial service will take place in North- field, Massachusetts, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, August 8, 2026, at the Trinitarian Congrega- tional Church, 147 Main St. In lieu of flow- ers, the family suggests donations in Dick’s memory to the Osher Lifelong Learning In- stitute Mason, 4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, VA 22032 (olli.gmu.edu), or the NVSL,1909 Bridle Lane, Alexandria, VA 22308.
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Blue Ridge: Shenandoah National Park: Today, more humid, a thunderstorm around this afternoon. High 83. Winds east 3–6 mph. Tonight, a thunderstorm in spots, fog late. • Great Smoky Mtns. National Park: Today, partly sunny, not as warm, a stray thunderstorm this afternoon. High 72. Winds northwest 6–12 mph. Tonight, a moonlit sky. Low 61. Atlantic beaches: Ocean City, MD: Today, sunny; a good beach day. High 76. Winds north–northeast 7–14 mph. Tonight, a moonlit sky. Low 65. Winds north–northeast 4–8 mph. • Virginia Beach: Today, warmer, partly sunny; a good beach day. High 80. Winds north– northeast 7–14 mph. Tonight, an evening thunderstorm in spots.
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Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, partly sunny, a thunderstorm around in the afternoon. Wind east 4–8 knots. Waves under a foot. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, sun, a thunderstorm in the afternoon. Wind northwest 4–8 knots. Waves 0–1 foot on the Lower Potomac and the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be around 2.90 feet today, with no change of 2.90 Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
Today’s tides (Shown are High tides in Bold and low tides.)
Washington 12:43 a.m. 6:39 a.m. 1:49 p.m. 7:14 p.m.
Annapolis 3:57 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 3:28 p.m. 9:27 p.m.
Ocean City 12:21 a.m. 5:49 a.m. 11:49 a.m. 6:25 p.m.
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A beautiful sunset The sun sets behind the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. House members passed a $1.15 trillion defense policy bill last week, and advanced a measure to assist with covering Iran war costs.
Today's Air Quality & UV forecast
Air Quality: Moderate Main pollutant: Ozone
UV: Very High 10 out of 11+
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CHANCE PRECIP: 55% REALFEEL®: 93°
WIND: ESE 4–8 mph HUMIDITY: Moderate
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NATIONAL Today Tomorrow
Albany, NY 85/62/pc 88/67/t Albuquerque 96/72/t 99/75/t Anchorage 68/55/s 67/54/c Atlanta 90/74/t 94/73/pc Austin 98/75/pc 99/76/s Baltimore 84/66/t 88/70/t Billings, MT 95/69/t 95/68/s Birmingham 91/74/t 94/74/pc Bismarck, ND 105/65/s 98/66/s Boise 96/63/s 96/63/s Boston 73/59/s 77/64/s Buffalo 81/67/t 82/68/c Burlington, VT 88/66/s 87/68/t Charleston, SC 86/74/t 91/76/t Charleston, WV 85/67/t 89/71/t Charlotte 87/72/t 93/73/s Cheyenne, WY 96/68/t 91/63/t Chicago 92/76/pc 92/73/t Cincinnati 87/72/t 89/73/t Cleveland 82/68/t 86/70/t Dallas 101/80/s 102/80/pc Denver 101/73/t 96/67/t
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CHANCE PRECIP: REALFEEL® 95°
CHANCE PRECIP: REALFEEL® 89°
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Des Moines 99/77/pc 99/74/s Detroit 85/69/t 86/71/t El Paso 103/80/pc 106/79/pc Fairbanks, AK 71/53/pc 63/47/c Fargo, ND 103/69/t 97/65/s Hartford, CT 84/58/s 86/64/s Honolulu 88/75/sh 88/77/pc Houston 97/78/pc 97/79/s Indianapolis 87/72/pc 90/74/t Jackson, MS 95/75/pc 98/78/pc Jacksonville, FL 96/75/t 92/76/t Kansas City, MO 99/78/s 99/76/s Las Vegas 112/91/s 112/90/pc Little Rock 100/79/t 102/81/s Los Angeles 88/68/s 89/69/s Louisville 90/74/pc 92/78/pc Memphis 96/79/t 99/81/pc Miami 92/78/t 92/79/t Milwaukee 89/73/t 92/71/t Minneapolis 98/77/pc 99/72/s Nashville 93/74/t 95/77/s New Orleans 95/79/pc 96/80/s New York City 83/67/s 82/69/t Norfolk 81/68/pc 84/70/t
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CHANCE PRECIP: REALFEEL® 86°
WNW 8–16 mph
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High: Bullhead City, AZ 117° Low: Alturas, CA 39°
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Oklahoma City 103/75/s 103/76/s Omaha 103/79/s 103/73/s Orlando 96/79/t 94/77/t Philadelphia 88/68/s 85/71/t Phoenix 110/92/t 112/91/t Pittsburgh 83/66/t 85/70/t Portland, ME 73/51/s 76/57/s Portland, OR 80/59/c 81/61/pc Providence, RI 80/55/s 80/64/s Raleigh, NC 86/70/t 90/73/pc Reno, NV 95/60/s 95/60/s Richmond 85/66/t 87/69/t Sacramento 92/57/s 94/60/s St. Louis 96/80/pc 100/79/pc St. Thomas, VI 91/80/t 91/80/t Salt Lake City 103/81/s 103/78/s San Diego 78/70/pc 79/72/pc San Francisco 70/58/pc 71/57/pc San Juan, PR 90/79/r 91/79/t Seattle 71/57/c 76/59/pc Spokane, WA 84/59/s 85/58/s Syracuse 82/64/t 83/66/t Tampa 93/82/t 91/81/t Wichita 102/78/pc 106/77/s
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CHANCE PRECIP: REALFEEL® 87°
CHANCE PRECIP: REALFEEL® 92°
NNW 8–16 mph
NW 7–14 mph
Yesterday's World High: Ouargla, Algeria 121° Low: Perito Moreno, Argentina 11°
WORLD Today Tomorrow
Addis Ababa 67/55/r 71/55/r Amsterdam 73/61/sh 70/60/s Athens 86/68/s 90/73/s Auckland 52/39/r 56/40/s Baghdad 110/89/s 109/90/pc Bangkok 93/81/r 93/81/r Beijing 91/76/sh 93/76/t Berlin 81/60/sh 73/55/pc Bogota 66/51/sh 65/49/pc Brussels 75/60/r 75/58/sh Buenos Aires 62/54/c 62/55/c Cairo 93/76/s 94/74/s Caracas 75/68/t 77/67/t Copenhagen 67/58/c 67/55/sh Dakar 88/81/t 89/81/pc Dublin 68/54/sh 71/63/sh Edinburgh 66/51/sh 68/59/r Frankfurt 86/62/pc 81/56/sh Geneva 78/62/sh 82/58/r Ham., Bermuda 86/80/sh 87/80/t Helsinki 66/59/sh 67/57/sh Ho Chi Minh City 87/77/r 91/77/r Hong Kong 86/80/t 88/81/sh
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Solar system Moon Phases
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Islamabad 94/79/pc 97/79/t Istanbul 80/70/sh 88/73/s Jerusalem 84/68/s 86/69/s Johannesburg 70/42/pc 70/41/pc Kabul 86/69/pc 93/68/pc Kingston, Jam. 93/81/s 92/80/r Kolkata 88/78/r 87/79/r Kyiv 81/61/s 87/63/s Lagos 84/77/t 83/77/r Lima 77/70/s 76/68/pc Lisbon 85/66/s 94/66/s London 81/57/c 83/62/pc Madrid 90/66/s 95/70/s Manila 91/79/t 91/79/r Mexico City 76/55/sh 75/57/sh Montreal 83/66/pc 82/67/sh Moscow 70/58/pc 69/58/r Mumbai 86/80/r 86/81/r Nairobi 74/57/c 74/56/c New Delhi 95/84/sh 95/81/sh Oslo 72/49/pc 72/50/r Ottawa 81/64/sh 82/63/r Paris 76/60/c 82/60/s Prague 89/64/pc 75/55/sh
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79° 3:58 p.m. 65° 4:56 a.m. 88°/67° 100° 2016 55° 1976
81° 3:56 p.m. 69° 8:04 a.m. 89°/68° 100° 2016 57° 2014
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Trace 5.34" 3.39" 24.55" 24.93"
Rise Set
Sun 6:04 a.m. 8:25 p.m.
Moon 6:50 p.m. 2:54 a.m. Venus 9:50 a.m. 10:27 p.m.
Mars 2:41 a.m. 5:28 p.m. Jupiter 6:15 a.m. 8:32 p.m. Saturn 11:35 p.m. 12:03 p.m.
Aug 19 First Quarter
Rio de Janeiro 75/66/s 78/68/s Riyadh 109/85/s 107/84/pc Rome 87/73/t 88/70/s San Salvador 89/69/t 89/69/r Santiago 66/49/pc 61/49/sh Sarajevo 88/61/s 83/60/t Seoul 91/77/sh 89/77/sh Shanghai 97/83/c 93/83/pc Singapore 86/80/t 88/79/t Stockholm 68/51/sh 66/51/sh Sydney 66/47/pc 66/48/s Taipei City 97/80/t 95/80/sh Tehran 107/87/pc 107/78/pc Tokyo 89/76/t 88/75/t Toronto 82/65/t 81/69/pc Vienna 90/72/pc 84/62/s Warsaw 87/65/pc 70/54/sh
Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain, sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice
Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air quality data); National Weather Service * AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature® combines over a dozen factors for an accurate measure of how the conditions really “feel.”
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the person who saved his life
Dear Eric: A few years ago, I was directly responsible for saving “Peter’s” life. I did not know Peter before this event and soon afterward he and his family reached out to thank me and ask to meet me, obviously under better circumstances.
Asking Eric
R. Eric Thomas
I agreed to the meeting and, to be blunt, I regret it completely.
Peter is a perfectly decent person. But we just don’t have anything in common.
But he and several members of his family will not stop calling me, texting me, etc. I’m his hero, which in their eyes seems to translate to being his friend. But, honest to God, I do not like him. To be blunt, he annoys me.
He has done nothing wrong. He is just not someone who I would choose to be friends with.
However, I keep responding due to feeling horrible about it/how we actually met.
I have backed off considerably in responding to text messages, hoping that they would take a hint, but he and his family haven’t.
I don’t wish to be friends with any of them. I just don’t know how to do so without hurting their feelings. Any advice on how to get rid of them? I know I sound horrible and I’m sorry, but I seriously need them to stop bothering me.
Hero: Your core desire — to not be drawn into a relationship with people you don’t jibe with — isn’t so horrible. If you hadn’t met while saving Peter’s life, it would probably be easier to disengage. Some people don’t get along and that’s fine.
It’s possible to have a “breakup” conversation that’s brief, clear and kind. Tell Peter that you’re glad you were able to be there for him but that the ongoing contact has been a little intense. It’s fine to say something along the lines of “I’m not in a place to be friends but I wish you well.”
This may sting to hear, but it’s better to be honest in this way than to carry resentment. What you’re doing is communicating what you want, rather than continuing to try to meet his expectations. He may feel that the universe brought you together, but the universe did not necessarily bring you together forever. Tell him that you’re glad to have saved his life and you wish him nothing but the best for the rest of it.
Dear Eric: My husband and I have been married 10 years. I’m 84 and he is 75 now. My vision was to travel a bit and enjoy
Crime drama makes for a pleasantly icy summer escape
BY MOIRA MACDONALD
The Seattle Times (TNS)
If you are a subscriber to a British stream- ing service, you’ve no doubt noticed a stagger- ing number of crime dramas, ranging from grim police procedurals to cozy whodunits. Choosing just one such show to review feels, to use an out-of-season metaphor, like shoveling the walk while it’s still snowing — is it even worth bothering, with so many shows piling up? — but “Gone,” streaming on BritBox, caught my eye. Should you be looking for an escape from summer weather (and yes, some of us are), this show’s six taut episodes will provide a pleasantly icy respite.
Things get set up nicely in the first episode, with somebody missing who’s quickly reclassi- fied, by the end of the hour, as somebody dead. We’re in Bristol in southwestern England, where a scarily high suspension bridge looks down on the city with a casual menace, and the unfortunate corpse is Sarah Polly, wife of local headmaster Michael Polly (David Mor- rissey). Detective Sergeant Annie Cassidy (Eve Myles), who in the manner of all television detectives is a rule-breaker with a rather complicated personal life, is assigned to the case. Suspicion falls on Michael, who in the manner of all fictional British headmasters is taciturn, brusque and vaguely sinister-look- ing, with a way of speaking that involves not moving his face very much. Is he a brutal wife-killer, or just a guy not in touch with his emotions?
None of this is reinventing the crime-drama wheel, but “Gone” (created by George Kay, whose credits include “Lupin”) is made with competence and subtlety. It’s handsomely filmed, with the boys school in particular getting some beautifully dusty light, and full of intriguing secondary characters: Michael’s daughter Alana (Emma Appleton), a teacher at the school who seems haunted by some- thing in her past; Annie’s estranged husband Craig (Peter McDonald), who slowly morphs throughout the series from jovially repentant to something rather darker; the school secre- tary Simone (Amanda Lawrence), whose quiet competence might mask some feelings for Michael. (And someone, somewhere, had a sense of humor on this otherwise quite dour show: A brief glimpse of a news website shows the headline “Historic Oak Tree Allegedly Haunted by Very Polite Ghost.”)
But, as with all detective shows, “Gone” rises or falls on its central duo. Morrissey brings interesting shadings to Michael, a man with no compunction about making his daughter read his late wife’s diary out loud (complete with details of an affair), and who methodically grades papers while being grilled about his wife’s disappearance. (You see his logic — the papers need to be graded, no matter what’s happened — but also the glimpse of a heart carefully closed off.) “You
— Not the Hero
retirement. Two years into the marriage, he started falling. After many neurologist visits and many medical tests, it is severe neuropathy. He cannot walk or drive, and he works out three times a week in an effort to maintain what mobility he has.
I work daily to keep him motivated and supportive. Nevertheless, I want to travel. I want to be free. I don’t know what to do. I’m so frustrated. Do I stay with him, or do I leave and go my own way? I feel so guilty when I think this way, but this is not what I signed up for. I don’t know what to do. Please, help me.
Wife: No one knows what they’re signing up for when they begin a relationship, particularly marriage. We are all almost guaranteed to be presented with unexpected challenges. Part of the solution involves accepting what we cannot change. But an equal part involves knowing when and how to reach out for help.
So, there are other options besides leaving him and staying stuck. First, it’s helpful to acknowledge that this is not what he chose. It’s a hard situation for both of you, in different ways of course. It’s okay to acknowledge that this is not how you saw your life going. Preventing yourself from doing so will just lead to resentment, which will poison your marriage.
Next, have a conversation with him about bringing in help that will allow you time to travel and refresh yourself. That might look like a home health aide, a friend or relative, or someone else, depending on the specific needs he has. Ask him about his feelings on the matter. He may well want you to pursue this part of your dream.
Traveling involves coming back. It’s possible that some of the guilt and frustration you’re experiencing stems from feeling trapped. There are some aspects of his health challenges that are keeping you both from the lives you wanted. But take a lesson from the way he works out regularly to maintain mobility. He can’t do exactly what he wants but is doing what he can. You can, as well, while still maintaining a connection to and caring for someone that you love.
Send questions to R. Eric Thomas at eric@askingeric.com or P.O. Box 22474, Philadelphia, PA 19110. Follow him on Instagram and sign up for his weekly newsletter at rericthomas.com
— Stuck Wife
This week’s bestsellers
HARDCOVER FICTION
“Ransom” by Daniel Silva (Harper)
“Yesteryear” by Caro Claire Burke (Knopf)
“Whistler” by Ann Patchett (Harper)
“Classic Tales of Horror” (Canterbury Classics)
“The Country Road Murders” by Patterson/Lupica (Little, Brown)
“The Calamity Club” by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
“The Goal (collector’s ed.)” by Elle Kennedy (Bloom)
“The Legacy (collector’s ed.)” by Elle Kennedy (Bloom)
“The Romance Revival” by Christina Lauren (Gallery)
“Love You More” by Emily Giffin (Ballantine)
“The Shampoo Effect” by Jenny Jackson (Viking/Dorman)
“This Changes Everything” by Lisa Scottoline (Grand Central)
“A Parade of Horribles” by Matt Dinniman (Ace)
“Our Perfect Storm” by Carley Fortune (Berkley)
“Land” by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
“Regime Change” by Haberman/Swan (Simon & Schuster)
“The Day After” by Brian Tyler Cohen (Harper)
“The Risk Worth Taking” by Teri Ijeoma (Frederick Douglass)
“Strangers” by Belle Burden (Dial)
“Push the Wall” by Frank Miller (Saga)
“Revolution” by Eric Metaxas (Odysseus)
“Communion” by JD Vance (Harper)
“Courage Can Save Us” by Rye Barcott (Bloomsbury)
“Cancel Me If You Can” by Dave Portnoy (Gallery)
“The Land and Its People” by David Sedaris (Little, Brown)
“London Falling” by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
“The King Is Coming” by John Bevere (Thomas Nelson)
rally,” he tells his students, urging them to push on in hard times. And yet he breaks, just a few times, that hardened cloak dissolving. Annie, who’s not one to romanticize crime suspects, is intrigued by him; they start to confide in each other, unexpectedly, and you wonder if she’s playing with fire.
Myles’s Annie gets some of the series’s sharpest dialogue, and knows just how to twist it: A colleague comments on how Sarah’s phone showed that she barely called Michael at all. “Is that so weird?” Annie wonders. “They’re married,” said her colleague. “That’s what I mean,” is the tart reply. (Later, she asks a suspect, “When did it start, this affair you weren’t having?”) But that toughness is some- thing she wears for her job, like her sensible plaid shirts; like Michael, there’s something more vulnerable that’s buried. You see Annie gazing at Craig and wondering if she can somehow will him to be somebody else, the person she needs him to be; you see Annie’s devotion to the aging mother of a cold-case victim long ago, a story that just might continue into a hypothetical Season 2. Which I would, for the record, absolutely watch, on a rainy Saturday someday.
“Stop Making Stupid Investments” by David Leiter (Wiley)
“Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: Material Ultimania” (Square Enix)
“They Stole a City” by Lauren Collins (Penguin Press)
TRADE PAPERBACK
“Theo of Golden” by Allen Levi (Atria)
“Dungeon Crawler Carl” by Matt Dinniman (Ace)
“The Adventure Zone: Story and Song” by Clint McElroy et al. (23rd Street)
“The Divorce” by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
“Forsaking Midnight” by Emily McIntire (Bloom)
“Murdoku” by Manuel Garand (Puzzlewright)
“The Housemaid’s Wedding” by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
“Dolly All the Time” by Annabel Monaghan (Putnam)
“In Stormy Weather” by Chelsea Curto (Atria)
“Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine)
“Foxx” by Paisley Hope (Sourcebooks Casablanca)
“Our Last Resort” by Clémence Michallon (Vintage)
“The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
“Want to Know a Secret?” by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
“Dear Debbie” by Freida McFadden (Poisoned Pen)
Photos by James Pardon/BritBox
TOP: Eve Myles plays Detective Sergeant Annie Cassidy, who in the manner of all television detectives is a rule-breaker with a rather complicated personal life. While “Gone” doesn’t reinvent the crime- drama wheel, the six-episode series is made with competence and subtlety. BOTTOM: David Morrissey as Michael Polly in “Gone,” streaming on Britbox.
Dear Say More: My husband and I have a good relationship with his parents. They live a plane ride away, and before we had kids, their home was a wonderful gathering place. However, ever since our oldest son has been mobile, we haven’t been able to visit.
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Emily Morman
My husband asked them to buy a gun safe for our visits, and they were not willing to do it. They refused to buy a safe and (after a couple years of failed negotiations) told my husband they were done talking about this. Their one concession has been to put most of their guns in a single closet, but that’s it. Time, money and hassle are not factors here. My husband’s dad just has a knee-jerk reaction to the idea of safe gun storage, and my mother-in-law knows she can’t change his mind.
This has now been the case for years, and we have never told my son why we don’t visit Nana and Pop’s house. I feel the years slipping away, and I genuinely miss our visits there. Plus, these are people who are wonderful (not to mention reasonable) in all other ways and so kind and loving with their grandkids! They do come and see us, or we meet in other places. How do I accept that this is never going to change?
Can’t Visit: You mourn this like a loss, because it is. It’s the demise of your hopes for what this relationship would look like.
— Can’t Visit
I have fond memories of the card games, the food, the security of having a home base away from home at my grandparents’. I understand the blow it must be that this warmth is out of your kids’ reach because guns are Nana and Pop’s bonkersly out-of- whack priority.
Your priorities, on the other hand, are in precisely the right place. The concession covered only most of the guns (AHH!), and curious kids have a universal knack for getting into exactly where and what they shouldn’t. Even if the closet has a lock, you are entirely within your rights here: You have doubts about your children’s safety, for any reason, you don’t go.
is putting a strain on our family
Dear Say More: I’m sure that I am not the only parent in this position, but HELP!! My middle son quit college without a degree (It was completely free because of our work. He has no debt.), yet he has not found a job for two years. He says that he is looking and he is “frustrated” that he does nothing, but I don’t know what to do!
Razzan Nakhlawi
My husband says just to let him stay until he finds something, but I don’t think that this is helping him. My other two children are working and supporting themselves and have expressed their resentment of our policy in this situation, and I also feel that we are not doing what is best for our middle. Please help.
— He’s Stuck
He’s Stuck: Emerging from high youth unemployment rates, undiagnosed mental illness and gas station snack wrappers is a modern anchorite class. The Japanese have a local variant called “hikikomori.” There are also “failsons” propped up by their wealthy, successful families. And your son? Have you considered he is a NEET?
NEET stands for “not in employment, education or training.” Coined by researchers in Britain, the acronym was popularized on unsavory forums online. I don’t know a lot about your son, but I’d wager I know exactly how he spends his time.
Monklike, the NEET sits in their room, devoting their time to snacking, gaming and masturbating. Some NEETs are proud of their status, looking down on us “wagies” grinding away at our jobs, while they suck on energy drinks and enrich themselves on YouTube, a personal Library of Alexandria. Unburdened by rent payments, close relationships, restrictions on their time or even the restrictive concept of time, the years pass by in a diffuse blue-light stupor.
So. Escaping NEETdom requires a reimagining of the family operation, because it’s usually a family-enabled phenomenon. Supporting him with no consequence is reinforcing his helplessness. Your son has no impetus to change his behavior, not even student loan debt that flung many of us into a hardscrabble financial reality.
helplessness. Your son
change his behavior, not even student loan debt that flung many of
What triggered his dropout? Undiagnosed anxiety or depression could be worsening his failure to launch. You may need to walk with him in treatment as you wean him off the family teat. Get together with your husband and son and collaborate on a combined treatment plan-exit strategy with realistic deadlines. We might be talking years here, not months. There should be actual repercussions for failing to progress, presumably financial. Who’s funding the all- engrossing, high-fantasy Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game habit? You are! The changes will be uncomfortable for him. He’ll make it uncomfortable for you. Be firm.
You must consider that the entry-level job market is tough right now. No bachelor’s degree and two years of sending applications into the void suggests he’s been shut out of his chosen field. How about a part-time job at a grocer or a warehouse? No — not Uber driving or unstructured gig work. Yes — adults have to show up to their
I suspect you’re up against a tough combo with Pop: a warped masculinity “protector” trope — that if he locks his weapons in a safe, he can’t as easily be the Good Guy With a Gun in the event a threat appears — plus wounded pride at feeling called out as an irresponsible gun owner. Unfortunately, trying to break down that dual-engineered wall with arguments is probably only building it higher.
(Side note, are your in-laws packing heat when they come for visits? That’s definitely a reasonable question to ask, along with how they’re securing the firearms if they
job at 8 a.m. and deal with strange and sometimes insane co-workers. It’s not ultimately about the type of work, but setting up the architecture of responsibility and consistency. Once he starts waking up before 3 p.m., then you can escalate his responsibilities to the household and reduce his financial reliance on you.
Also, moving out nowadays requires some co-conspirators. It’s unlikely he’ll be able to afford his own starter apartment for a while, nor should you attempt to finance that. Does he have the disposition to live with random housemates? Does he have a solid group of friends who can supplant the support of his family if things go pear-shape out in the “real world”? These questions are as important as the job search and should be part of the launch plan.
As for his siblings, they have to remember this situation is not ideal for the NEET, surely. You have one rough semester, drop out of college and your life goes completely off the rails. You should ask them to contribute to the plan to get NEET’s life back on track and interrogate where that resentment comes from. Maybe they harbor a secret desire for NEETdom? Wouldn’t we all be so lucky.
Like many other young people struggling to enter the workforce and facing delayed life milestones, your son has slipped through the cracks. How easy it is to be caught by the familiar bosom of a gaming chair.
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are. Further action might be warranted, depending on their answer.)
Thinking way out there, though, it’s such a what-the-frijoles, dug-in refusal that I almost wonder: Could it be that the firearms are a steel-clad excuse not to have the kids over? It is possible to love small children but not love hosting them — they can be chaos machines who disrupt the status quo of a life shaped around adult company and fragile knickknacks. (I say this with love as a parent of two small kids.) Maybe your in- laws don’t mind traveling for a little beautiful chaos elsewhere, but just can’t
Why am I flailing as an adult?
Dear Say More: I did the thing where I was a super competent child/young adult and have now found myself in adulthood trying to figure out what it’s all for. I feel like I’m the only reason my parents aren’t divorced (maybe a bad thing), I’ve never been in a romantic relationship, and while I love my job it’s not enough. I do also have friends and hobbies.
Maura Judkis
For so long I was focused on getting into college and getting a good job. Without those goalposts I feel a bit lost. I had a brush with depression this past winter and am in therapy now. I keep saying I feel like I’m doing all the things. But it’s a weird identity shift/deconstruction of going from the kid who planned it all to the adult who isn’t really sure it’s worth it. Is it just a matter of making new goals? Life feels long and pointless.
— Was It Worth It?
Was It Worth It?: If we’re lucky, life is long. And, on some vast, cosmic level, maybe it is pointless. But our life’s work is to find meaning in it, somehow.
My sense from reading your letter is that you need a quest. You are a person who has excelled at making and achieving your goals, and now you’ve run out of goals. But a quest is different from a goal: A quest is the work of a lifetime. So, for now, your quest is to figure out what your quest is, before the ennui swallows you whole. Is it healing your inner child from your parents’ difficult marriage? Perfecting the art of doing or learning something just for the pleasure of it, with no inherent or extrinsic reward? As a former Gifted Kid™ myself, I know how hard that one can be.
Think of your emotional stability as being
even with it in their own space? Perhaps instead of being up-front about it — and having the guts to admit they just don’t love grandkid visits — your in-laws are leaning on their pistols as a crutch?
It might explain the intransigence if they’re otherwise “reasonable” and “wonderful” people who presumably aren’t this entrenched over other things, right? I may be giving them way too much credit, but food for thought.
Or another lens to try, if the above doesn’t ring true and you can find this in your heart: pity, even empathy, that these people you clearly care for are living in such fear of a worst-case scenario that they can’t lock their metal security blankets in a safe for a few days, at the cost of lost visits. It would be a terribly sad, self-limiting worldview to live with.
The fact that it’s guns, actually, is almost beside the point. It could be anything — a dog known to be kid-aggressive, medication they insist on leaving within reach, Grandpa’s ninja-star and throwing-knife collection laid out in all its glory. The crux of the matter is that they’ve made crystal clear that they will not change or inconvenience themselves for your children’s safety.
You will need to tell your kids eventually why you’re not visiting Nana and Pop. Something as true yet detail-light as “Nana and Pop aren’t set up to host us” could work to start, adding more information as the kiddos get older.
With the result the same no matter the motivation, grieve for what could’ve been. Let yourself be mad, cry it out, work it out at the gym, crochet furiously over the fact that your in-laws have made this call. Then move forward knowing you’ve made the right choice in sticking to your … you know … by refusing to compromise on your children’s safety.
I am truly sorry that your vision of cozy visits to Nana and Pop’s house won’t become reality, but consider it an opportunity to model pushing through disappointment for your kids. Making peace with rotten things we cannot change is a form of resilience we draw on throughout our lives. Nana and Pop have picked one form of strength; you, through example, can teach another.
supported by a three-legged stool. One leg is your work, and that one seems strong and sturdy. Another leg could be categorized as self, and it’s built of the things that keep you going: your physical health (are you exercising? Might help stave off the depression), hobbies, finances, intellectual pursuits, self-care, in whatever shape that takes for you. But the third leg of the stool is your relationships, and that one seems to be the wobbliest.
That leg is built from the people you surround yourself with — your friends, family and broader community — and the ways they make you feel the most alive. How can you fortify it? Maybe that involves trying to wrap your head around all the stuff you picked up from your parents’ relationship (your therapist can help with that). Maybe it’s gradually trying to make your own family — with a romantic partner, with friends-as-family, with some sort of community you can call your own. Or a community that you serve. It doesn’t necessarily require finding The One or relying on your family of origin — the beauty is that you get to decide what shape it takes. But if all three legs aren’t stable, the stool topples.
Life is pointless, and absurd, and magical and cruel and edifying and jaw-droppingly beautiful, sometimes all in the same week. And the meaning you’re able to construct from that swirl of chance and circumstance and self-determination is up to you. Serving others? Finding love? Making music or art? Something else? Take your time figuring it out. It’s not a college application; there is no deadline, no acceptance or rejection letter, no honor roll. Just you, on a quest to figure out your own personal version of the Meaning Of It All.
It’s worth it. You will make it worth it.
‘Common Sense’ Thomas Paine, 1776
None of the great ideas that led to the American Revolution were new. There had been revolutions and attempts at self-gover- nance dating back to ancient Athens. But before we had a Declaration of Independence, or a Constitution and Bill of Rights, we had Thomas Paine’s 47-page pamphlet, known as “Common Sense,” that helped make the Amer- ican Revolution all but inevitable.
It is a mix of history, argument and diatribe, and the writing is muscular: “Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families,” he wrote of the British and their diabolical king and all his many parasites. Paine advocated not just a breach with the “Mother Country” — a term he scoffed at as a cheap British con on the American imagination — but with history itself. The New World would have a new
TOP: A portrait of Thomas Paine, whose 47-page pamphlet helped make the American Revolution all but inevitable. ABOVE: A copy of “Common Sense” at the National Archives.
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mastodon exhibit
Charles Willson Peale, 1801
In 1799, a farmer in Upstate New York discovered the bones of a prehistoric mast- odon while draining a “marl pit,” a source of calcium-rich clay and muck used as an early fertilizer. Scientists, historians and even poli- ticians were thrilled by the discovery. Here was proof that the United States was a land with its own natural history and full of wonders. It was a land of entrepreneurs, including Charles Willson Peale, who was a naturalist, a painter and founder of the Phila- delphia Museum. Peale wanted to unearth, reassemble and put on display the giant skeleton, and in 1801 he set about what is often considered the first scientific expedition in the history of the new republic.
“The mammoth became the first emblem of North American identity,” curators wrote of a
political order. Everything you thought you knew about history, about government, about freedom was as outdated and useless as last year’s almanac.
It was an electrifying statement that galva- nized millions of people who were just begin- ning to imagine themselves as Americans. It was read in London, where the British-born Paine was denounced as a traitor. It was read in Paris, where revolution was also brewing and would take a terrible toll. (Paine, who later moved to France, was imprisoned for arguing against the execution of the French king.) His ideas were too radical even for many of our Founding Fathers, but the vigor of his writing and the clarity of his thinking were as a spark to gunpowder, and that was coming, too. — Philip Kennicott
Other notable works
Other notable works
Other notable works
“To His Excellency General Washington,” Phillis Wheatley, 1775
“Remember the ladies” letter, Abigail Adams, 1776
2020 Smithsonian exhibition that brought the original skeleton back to the United States for the first time since 1847. Its display inspired “mammoth mania,” and it was heralded by the news media as “The ninth wonder of the world.” Thomas Jefferson took an interest, which led to a lifelong friendship with one of the greatest naturalists of the age, the Ger- man-born Alexander von Humboldt.
It wasn’t just a matter of science. There was a refrain too common among European phi- losophers and naturalists that while America was new, it wasn’t particularly rich in the stuff that matters — art, culture, science, even natural wonders. It was a continent so “dis- graced by nature that everything there is either degenerate or monstrous.” Humboldt, Jefferson and Peale disagreed, and the mast- odon became a central argument in the case they made to the world. — Philip Kennicott
“George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait),” Gilbert Stuart, 1796
Speech by Seneca orator and chief Sagoyewatha (Red Jacket) to the Rev. Jacob Cram, 1805
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Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, 1787-1788
It took little more than a decade before the first serious armed insurrection against the United States, and by then the government was so weak, cash-strapped and ineffective it had to raise private troops to put down Shays’s Rebellion of 1786-1787. Clearly, the nascent United States, which lurched from crisis to crisis, needed more than the loose rules set down in the country’s first “constitution,” the Articles of Confederation.
In New York, the debate over what a new Constitution would look like produced one of the most remarkable books of political science ever written. John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, sharing the nom de plume “Publius,” collectively wrote the 85 “Federalist Papers,” which appeared every few days in two different newspapers from Octo- ber 1787 to August 1788. Political theory students still study their practical wisdom, often after devouring centuries of more specu- lative and theoretical texts. With “The Feder-
The debate over what a new Constitution would look like produced “The Federalist Papers,” one of the most remarkable books of political science ever written.
Discovered in New York in 1799, this mastodon skeleton “became the first emblem of North American identity,” according to the curators of a 2020 exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
alist Papers,” they leave the world of abstrac- tion and look under the hood as the mechanics of democracy hammered out a functional machine.
The book has been cited in hundreds of Supreme Court decisions, studied for what it says about the intent of the framers of the Constitution. The authors weren’t just ex- plaining a government, they were selling an idea, and not all their promises came to fruition. They didn’t believe we needed a Bill of Rights, arguing that the document enumer- ated the government’s powers, and everything not explicitly laid out there was presumed to be part of our inherent rights and liberties. But they also warned of demagogues who bray about freedom and liberty, and pay “obsequi- ous court to the people.” Their warnings have never been more salient or relevant to Ameri- can life. — Philip Kennicott
“The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775,” John Trumbull, 1786
“On the Equality of the Sexes,” Judith Sargent Murray, 1790
Benjamin Franklin’s “Autobiography,” 1791-1794
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RIGHT: In a 1913 drawing by Percy Moran, Key gestures toward the flag waving at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry, a sight that inspired his poem “The Defence of Fort M’Henry.”
FAR RIGHT: The manuscript of Key’s work, which later became the national anthem after some lobbying by John Philip Sousa, who made arrangements of it for the U.S. Marine Band.
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Library of Congress
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Francis Scott Key, 1814
Every schoolchild learns the story of the American national anthem: Francis Scott Key, held prisoner by the British aboard a ship in September 1814, watches the fleet attack Balti- more’s Fort McHenry, with rockets flying and bombs bursting overhead. In the morning, Key sees an enormous American flag waving proudly over the fort and is inspired to write a poem called “The Defence of Fort M’Henry,” which is set to music and renamed “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The full story is a little more nuanced.
The way new songs were circulated in the 1800s, explains John Troutman, music curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, was that words were pub- lished on broadsides or in magazines, to be applied to familiar tunes. Key wrote his words with a well-known melody in mind: “The Anacreontic Song,” making it easy for audi- ences in parlors or pubs to join in just days after the Americans repulsed the British.
If you want to blame someone for keeping the song in our flag-waving consciousness, look at John Philip Sousa, who made arrange- ments of the “The Star-Spangled Banner” for the U.S. Marine Band while director, closed his concerts with the song and lobbied for it to be the national anthem. It wasn’t until 1931, 117 years after the attack on Fort McHenry, that the song officially became the national an- them of the United States.
The knock against “The Star-Spangled Ban- ner” is that its range makes it difficult to sing, unless you’re Whitney Houston — though, Troutman points out, “it has enough drama, and climbs and crescendos” to hook listeners. At the same time, it’s supple enough for reinterpretation — think Jose Feliciano at the 1968 World Series or Jimi Hendrix at Wood- stock. It was, and remains, the first great American patriotic song. — Fritz Hahn
Other notable works
Speech by Shawnee Chief Tecumseh to the Osage, 1811
Mary Young Pickersgill makes the Star Spangled Banner, 1813
“Don’t Give Up the Ship” flag, Cmdr. Oliver Hazard Perry and Margaret Forster Steuart, 1813
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The Star-Spangled Banner, which inspired Francis Scott Key when he saw it flying over Fort McHenry, was displayed at the Boston Navy Yard for a period. Today, it’s kept at the National Museum of American History.
of Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’
Washington Irving, 1819-1820
When the Library of Congress compiled a list of “The books that shaped America” from 1750 to 2000, only one work of fiction from before 1850 was selected: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” published in Washington Ir- ving’s collection “The Sketch Book.”
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Published under a pseudonym while Irving lived in England, the book of short stories introduced three of the most enduring charac- ters in American literature: Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. Irving may have been influenced by German folktales about a man who slept for 20 years, or European stories of terrifying headless riders, but these stories were set in rural New York state, with a distinctly American voice and references.
When old Rip Van Winkle awakens after his “night” drinking and playing ninepins and wanders back home, King George III has disappeared from the village pub’s sign, re- placed by an unfamiliar “General Washing- ton.” Crane, a “perfect master” of Cotton Mather’s treatise on New England witchcraft, is superstitious about a haunted stream and tree, which are connected to the Revolution- ary War spy Maj. John André. And, of course, the horseman is rumored to be “the ghost of a Hessian trooper,” those once-feared British mercenaries.
It wasn’t just Irving’s fellow Americans who fell for his wry humor and vivid prose: Lord Byron, Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott were all fans, and European critics marveled that backwoods, backward America had pro- duced such a literary talent. Little did they know we would still be talking about his creations two centuries later. — Fritz Hahn
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“Declaration of Independence,” John Trumbull, 1817-1818
“A Visit From St. Nicholas,” published anonymously, 1823
The first Hudson River School paintings by Thomas Cole, 1825
TOP: Washington Irving, circa 1860- 1865. RIGHT: A lithograph showing a scene from Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
‘Indian Gallery’
1830-1836
In 1830, a Philadelphia lawyer turned artist named George Catlin set out for St. Louis with an unusual goal: documenting Native Ameri- cans. “If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me from visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America,” he said. The great explorer William Clark took Catlin up the Mississippi River to meet with some Native tribes, and over the next six years Catlin visited close to 50 tribes, painting hundreds of portraits, as well as scenes of battle and ritual that most Americans would never witness. Catlin rendered his paintings with remarkable detail and dignity: The vivid red leggings worn by Mick-e-no-páh, a chief of the Seminoles; the elaborate war club of Cler-mónt, the son of an Osage chief; and the full-length view of Mah-tó-he-ha, a Mandan medicine man, streaked with paint, carrying pipes decorated with eagle feathers and wear- ing fox tails.
Catlin left his beloved frontier in 1837 and traveled back east to New York, where he set up what became known as his “Indian Gallery,” and people lined up to pay 50 cents to see an array of portraits. It didn’t matter that Catlin was “a B painter,” according to George Gurney, the co-curator of a 2002 exhibit of Catlin’s Gallery at the Renwick Gallery. He document-
A Native American medicine man in an image by artist George Catlin, who depicted his Native sitters “as fellow human beings rather than savages,” per a 2002 Smithsonian Magazine feature.
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ed his Native sitters realistically and, as a 2002 Smithsonian Magazine feature pointed out, was one of the first American artists “to portray them as fellow human beings rather than savages.” At the same time, W. Richard West Jr., founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian, accused Catlin of exploi- tation: “Catlin can be seen today as a cultural P.T. Barnum, a crass huckster trading on other people’s lives and lifeways.”
Catlin later took his paintings to Europe,
complete with live Native Americans, bears
and artifacts — a sort of artsy forerunner of
the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show — but it was
his greatest wish that his gallery be acquired
by the nation. Eventually, the widow of the
railroad tycoon who had purchased Catlin’s
gallery donated it to the Smithsonian, and
hundreds of his paintings were added to
the American Art Museum’s collection. Only
a fraction of them are currently on display.
— Fritz Hahn
“The Last of the Mohicans,” James Fenimore Cooper, 1826
“An American Dictionary of the English Language,” Noah Webster, 1828
“Domestic Manners of the Americans,” Frances Milton Trollope, 1832
Nathaniel Currier begins a printmaking firm in 1834, later partnering with James Merritt Ives in 1857 as Currier & Ives
“Democracy in America,” Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave’
Frederick Douglass, 1845
In September 1838, an enslaved ship caulk- er named Frederick Douglass “self-liberated” by boarding a train north from Baltimore. He soon found his way to Massachusetts, where he became a preacher and a renowned anti- slavery orator, friendly with abolitionist Wil- liam Lloyd Garrison. It was in Massachusetts, at Garrison’s urging, that Douglass began the first of three autobiographies he would even- tually write, each with increasing scope and length. But it is Douglass’s first book, his “Narrative,” with the emphatic “Written by Himself” on the title page, that became a fixture of American literature.
The taut structure begins with his birth — date unknown — and separation from his mother. But Douglass’s forthright manner captured readers as he explained how he tricked White children into helping him learn to read and write; the ceaseless whippings and barbarous behavior at the hands of Edward
Covey, known for “breaking young slaves,” and the violent battle between them; and how Douglass was repeatedly loaned out and moved by his enslavers, at one point returning to the family farm when his “master” died because human possessions were required to be valued like any other.
Douglass was one of a number of formerly enslaved Americans who wrote autobiogra- phies in the era before “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” but his talent for writing and rhetoric set him above his contemporaries. There was, of course, a catch-22: Douglass had, as noted in the preface, put his life story on paper because “numerous persons doubted if he had ever been a slave” after hearing his eloquent addresses. Then, after the book was pub- lished, they doubted that someone who had been enslaved could write so well. But Doug- lass had decades in front of him, onstage and on the page, to eloquently argue for his own humanity and against the horrors of slavery. — Fritz Hahn
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“Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841
George Washington statue, Horatio Greenough, 1841
“The Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe, 1845
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A scene from “Moby-Dick,” a book that announced American literature as its own living creature.
Herman Melville, 1851
Fresh off the expansionist warmaking of the 1840s, the United States lurched toward the doomed Compromise of 1850 and its Fugitive Slave Act. A metaphor haunted the newspa- pers: Writers and politicians spoke of the Union as a great ship headed for a maelstrom.
Herman Melville, no stranger to the sea and its metaphors, was busy writing. Heady with Shakespeare, “Frankenstein” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s new masterpiece, “The Scarlet Letter,” he expanded and reworked his tale of a monomaniac’s doomed hunt for the White Whale.
The result is a book whose strangeness can only be experienced, not expressed. “Moby- Dick” fused the rhythms of the English Re- naissance with a ripping yarn. It is formally bizarre, containing an adventure romance, stream-of-consciousness flights of philosophy, direct address of the reader, its own metafic- tional reference texts and a stage play.
To Ishmael, every object is charged with meaning, and so “Moby-Dick” is often read and referenced as allegory — perhaps for the American spirit’s careening and violent ambi- tion, or more recently for oil wars and ecologi- cal plunder. But Melville dashes his meta- phors against the rocks as soon as he introduc- es them. Readers who venture to interpret the novel are met with only “pyramidical silence,” Ishmael says: “Read it if you can.”
Americans of the time could not. The book failed. “Though I wrote the Gospels in this century,” Melville wrote to Hawthorne, “I should die in the gutter.”
His peers of the mid-19th century were outrunning their critics and the old strictures of colonial imitation. Edgar Allan Poe had reshaped American genre fiction. Walt Whit- man sang the country an idea of itself, and Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emer- son mythologized the transcendent individu- al. Harriet Beecher Stowe set the public mind ablaze.
But it was Melville who collided raw lexical invention with formal daring, prefiguring experiments of the modern and postmodern novel, the internet manifesto, the crackpot
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blog. Decades before most readers knew it, “Moby-Dick” was announcing American liter- ature as its own living creature. The book was rescued across the Atlantic by writers includ- ing D.H. Lawrence, and later at home influ- enced writers as various as Ralph Ellison, Cormac McCarthy, Bob Dylan and Yiyun Li.
Captain Ahab’s “fiery hunt” heralded an American Renaissance: sprawling, unwieldy, inscrutable and a little mad. “To analyze it, would seem impossible,” Ishmael says, as fruitless as analyzing the color white. “… Let us try.” — Steven Johnson
Herman Melville influenced writers as various as Ralph Ellison, Cormac McCarthy, Bob Dylan and Yiyun Li.
“Oh! Susanna,” Stephen Foster, 1848
“Washington Crossing the Delaware,” Emanuel Leutze, 1851
“On Woman’s Rights” speech, Sojourner Truth, 1851
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: A daguerreotype of Frederick Douglass dating to about 1850. An 1845 edition of his first autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave,” which became a fixture of American literature. Douglass’s summer gloves, seen at his historical home in D.C. in 2019.
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RIGHT: Poet and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe. ABOVE: Howe’s uplifting “Battle Hymn of the Republic” could be sung by Americans regardless of which side of the Civil War they had fought on.
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The tailor Jacob W. Davis, who in the late 1800s helped invent Levi’s jeans.
Levi’s jeans
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, 1873
“My invention relates to a fastening for pocket-openings,” tailor Jacob W. Davis wrote in 1873, in the document known as U.S. Patent No. 139,121. “It consists in the employment of a metal rivet or eyelet at each edge of the pocket-opening, to prevent the ripping of the seam at those points.”
And thus, Davis and his fabric supplier, Levi Strauss & Co., invented the sturdy trousers with rivet-reinforced pockets that would later become known as blue jeans. One hundred and 10 years later, the legendary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent perfectly summed up what Patent No. 139,121 had wrought. “I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and noncha- lant,” Saint Laurent marveled. “They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity —
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all I hope for in my clothes.”
As early as the 1930s, Levi’s advertisements romanticized cowboys, the Wild West, the rugged frontier lifestyle. Soon, Rosie the Riv- eter in her denim jumpsuit, James Dean in his “Rebel Without a Cause” jeans and Bruce Springsteen in his worn 501s were hard at work making blue jeans a symbol of the self-reliant, freethinking American spirit; Brooke Shields helped usher in the notion that jeans could also be a luxury staple. Andre Agassi’s U.S. Open jorts, Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl bell-bottoms, Beyoncé and Lana Del Rey crooning about “Levii’s Jeans” and “Blue Jeans,” respectively — all are testaments to jeans’ unique power, forever altering the global wardrobe while remaining a specific symbol of Americana. — Ashley Fetters Maloy
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“Little Women,” Louisa May Alcott, 1868-1869
‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’
Julia Ward Howe, 1861
The familiar melody was sung at the funer- als of Abraham Lincoln and Robert F. Kenne- dy, and by soldiers landing on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Its chorus has been adapt- ed by college football crowds and European soccer fans. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted its stirring opening lyric — “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord” — as the final line of the final speech he delivered in public.
“Battle Hymn of the Republic” is probably the best-known patriotic song written during the Civil War, and yet according to historians John Stauffer and Benjamin Soskis, it proba- bly wasn’t the version preferred by soldiers. In the early days of the war, Union troops from Boston had borrowed the familiar melody of a religious camp meeting song and added new lyrics lionizing John Brown, the leader of the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia). “John Brown’s body lies a- mouldering in the grave/ His truth is march-
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ing on!” Another verse threatened to hang Confederate President Jefferson Davis from a tree.
In November 1861, poet and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, who had heard soldiers singing “John Brown’s Body” at a military review in Virginia, awoke in the middle of the night at D.C.’s Willard Hotel with new lyrics burning in her mind. Full of symbolism rooted in the Bible’s Book of Revelation — the Second Coming, the grapes of wrath — Howe’s verses mostly avoided explicit references to the Civil War in favor of an uplifting, religious and generally patriotic anthem that, after the war’s end, could be sung by Americans regard- less of which side they had fought on. That commonality is why so many disparate groups, from labor organizers to civil rights protesters to evangelicals and beyond, have claimed the song as their own in the ensuing decades. — Fritz Hahn
“Niagara,” Frederic Edwin Church, 1857
The Civil War as photographed by Mathew Brady, 1861-1865
Brooklyn Atlantics baseball card, Charles H. Williamson, 1865
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Gold miners wear Levi’s jeans in Placer County, California, circa 1882. An 1850s photo of Levi Strauss, who helped create the sturdy trousers that would later become known as blue jeans. James Dean, seen in his “Rebel Without a Cause” jeans, was among those who made jeans a symbol of the American spirit.
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ABOVE: Mark Twain, circa 1907. RIGHT: Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” gave American literature a forceful shove toward finding its own voice.
Huckleberry Finn’
a forceful shove toward finding its own voice.
Mark Twain, 1884-1885
Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” tells the story of a young nation through the absurd high jinks of a young man.
The language of “Adventures of Huckleber- ry Finn” was shocking from the jump. In 1885, the year it was published in the United States, a Massachusetts library banned the book calling it “the veriest trash.” Twenty years later, the Brooklyn Public Library removed the novel from its children’s collection, citing its use of the word “sweat” rather than perspira- tion. Decades after that, another word casual- ly applied to the formerly enslaved character Jim would foment more arguments, contro- versies and removals.
Twain courted controversy by writing in the “coarse” and “common” vernacular of 19th-cen- tury America. He also gave American literature
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Emily Dickinson, 1890-1891
Read the words out loud, and listen to the intonation.
“I felt a funeral in my Brain,/ And mourn- ers, to and fro/ Kept treading — treading, till it seemed/ That Sense was breaking through.”
“Because I could not stop for Death —/ He kindly stopped for me —/ The Carriage held but just Ourselves —/ And Immortality.”
“My Cocoon tightens — Colors tease —/ I’m feeling for the Air —/ A dim capacity for Wings/ Demeans the Dress I wear —”
That, unmistakably, is the voice of Emily Dickinson: densely layered symbolism; a keen sense of rhythm, if not always rhyme; and idiosyncratic capitalization and punctuation, including dashes that cut through the page. Though she began writing before the Civil War, she’s been called the first modern poet. Literary critic Harold Bloom once described her as “the best mind to appear among Western poets in nearly four centuries.”
And yet, only 10 of Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime, all anonymously. After her death, in 1886, her sister discovered a cache of almost 1,800 poems written over decades. Two collections, heavily edited to conform to the style of the time, were pub-
Ernest Hemingway didn’t think the novel was perfect (he especially disliked the book’s final chapters), but he couldn’t deny its power. “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called ‘Huckleberry Finn,’” Hemingway wrote in 1935. “American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”
Twain kicked off a national pastime of novelists trying to capture the “authentic” voice and character of America: Steinbeck, Bellow, Salinger and Kerouac all tried their hand. He also whetted our appetite for sto- ries of the wayward American teen. Huck Finn’s cultural heirs include “Rebel Without a Cause,” “Kids,” “Precious” and “Euphoria.” — Shane O’Neill
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Other notable works
Harvard Lampoon founded in 1876
“The Portrait of a Lady,” Henry James, 1881
“The New Colossus,” Emma Lazarus, 1883
“Madame X,” John Singer Sargent, 1884
lished to mixed reviews in 1890-1891 but became bestsellers, introducing the world to visionary poems such as “‘Hope’ is the Thing With Feathers” and “Much Madness Is Divin- est Sense.” It wasn’t until the 1950s that we read all the poems as they were originally written.
Dickinson’s private life has become a sub- ject of pop culture fascination — the solitary “Belle of Amherst,” dressed in all white, has been “liberated” in recent films such as “Wild Nights With Emily.” But it’s the intensely personal visions of life and nature that she left in her hand-bound collections that have in- spired so many that followed. — Fritz Hahn
“The White City,” World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893
“The Red Badge of Courage,” Stephen Crane, 1895
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LEFT: A portrait of Emily Dickinson, once described as “the best mind to appear among Western poets in nearly four centuries.” ABOVE: Her “Poems” series.
Eldridge Johnson, 1901
Thomas Edison’s cylinders reached the public in the 1890s, wax on metal rolls that allowed listeners to hear recorded music and voices for the first time. (They were called “talking machines” because so many early cylinders were comedy routines or political speeches.) But this primitive technology had some serious flaws. For one thing, after a few plays, the cylinder’s surface degraded, and the wax needed to be scraped and rerecorded. That’s why the real revolution came with actual discs, or what they would later be called — records. After a brief start with hard rubber, the records were made of shellac and much easier to reproduce en masse. They also lasted longer.
Enter Eldridge Johnson, an American busi- nessman and tinkerer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 amid a messy landscape of copyright battles and patent filings. Through a series of deals, Johnson led the shift that turned record players from a rare luxury into an important source of entertainment found in every proper American home. That moment came five years
later when the company introduced the Vic- trola.
His technical innovations were just part of it. He created the spring-driven motor and found a way to separate the heavy speaker from the tone arm. This allowed that giant horn to be hidden inside the cabinet and created less damage to the surface of the record. Johnson also launched the first audio- phile label, Red Seal. The imprint’s initial discs in 1903 turned Italian tenor Enrico Caruso into the first international record star. Red Seal, as a brand, remained an important marker of high-quality classical and opera recordings long after Johnson sold Victor to RCA in 1929. — Geoff Edgers
“Stars and Stripes Forever,” John Philip Sousa, 1896
“Custer’s Last Fight” 1896 chromolithograph for Anheuser Busch, based on an 1888 painting by Cassilly Adams
“Maple Leaf Rag,” Scott Joplin, 1899 Symphony Hall in Boston, McKim, Mead & White, 1900
“The Yankee Doodle Boy,” George M. Cohan, 1904
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ABOVE: Emile Berliner, who invented the gramophone and hired Eldridge Johnson to work on improving the spring mechanism. Eventually, Johnson formed the Victor Talking Machine Company. LEFT: The famous logo featuring Nipper the dog was trademarked in 1900.
D.W. Griffith, 1915
Released in 1915, D.W. Griffith’s silent film is the foundation of American cinema and po- tent racist propaganda. Technically, it was unlike anything before. Films ran about 10 minutes; “Birth of a Nation” ran more than three hours, with 13,000 feet of film whittled down from 150,000. Griffith pioneered several filmmaking techniques, such as close-ups, jump cuts and special effects.
Adapted from the novel “The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan,” the film, set in South Carolina during Reconstruc- tion, depicts Black people as incapable of freedom and dangerous. White Southerners are victims, and the KKK is made up of virtuous saviors. Millions of Americans saw it. It was the first blockbuster; figures vary, but estimates place it among the highest-grossing films for decades. It was also the first film screened inside the White House.
The film’s impact on the body politic was immediate. It fueled racial violence. Lynch- ings rose in communities where it screened. The film helped revive the KKK. “Birth” promulgated the Lost Cause narrative, which recasts Confederates as noble and whitewash- es the horrors of chattel slavery. That narrative found less-overt telling in “Gone With the Wind” and endures today.
“Birth” also sparked debates about freedom of expression and fueled civil rights activism. The National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People was only a few years old in 1915, but it waged a high-profile cam- paign against the film. Black filmmakers made their own works in response. “Birth” underscores the power of art in persuading public opinion and advancing dangerous ste- reotypes. — Elahe Izadi
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“St. Louis Blues,” W.C. Handy, 1914
ABOVE: Ku Klux
Klan members on
horseback fight a
Black militia in a
scene from D.W.
Griffith’s “The
Birth of a Nation,”
a 1915 silent film
that is the
foundation of
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and potent racist
propaganda.
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1947 showing of the
film in Flushing,
New York.
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ABOVE: Alain LeRoy Locke circa 1943, in a painting by Betsy Graves Reyneau. RIGHT: A copy of Locke’s “The New Negro,” a 1925 collection of poetry, fiction and essays by the likes of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. Perhaps no work better articulated the birth of the Harlem Renaissance quite like this 400-plus- page anthology.
FROM RIGHT: Musicians Bessie Smith, pictured circa 1924, and Fats Waller, seen at the CBS studio in New York in an undated photo. Although jazz may have originated in New Orleans, it became the soundtrack of the Harlem Renaissance and was shaped by the movement, becoming more complex and broadly popular.
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An Interpretation’
Alain LeRoy Locke, 1925
You could look at a few different moments to mark the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, the explosion of creative expression that ema- nated from the “Mecca” of Black cultural life between the 1910s and 1930s. But perhaps no work better articulated this moment quite like the 1925 publication of the anthology “The New Negro: An Interpretation.” The 400-plus- page collection of poetry, fiction and essays by the likes of Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and others was curated by philoso- pher and scholar Alain LeRoy Locke. The Harlem Renaissance was “born through the midwifery of Locke,” historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. once wrote.
Many of our greatest American artists were products of the era. Take musicians such as Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Fats Waller; jazz may have originated in New Orleans, but it became the soundtrack of the Harlem Renais- sance and was shaped by the movement, becoming more complex and broadly popular.
Writers (Hughes, Hurston as well as James Baldwin’s eventual mentor, Countee Cullen) and visual artists (chiefly Aaron Douglas, the “father of African American art,” who blended cubism with West African influences) often directly challenged the prevailing racial ste- reotypes and perceptions of Black people by infusing their works with a sense of self-ex- pression, humanity and racial pride.
Locke had initially guest-edited a special edition of “Survey Graphic” magazine featur- ing some of these writers. He was then invited to curate this expanded, special anthology that introduced some previously unknown authors to a national audience. In his seminal essay within its pages, Locke framed and contextualized what was happening. The
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Great Migration saw Black people leaving the expanding Jim Crow apparatus in the South to cities further north. In Harlem, these new arrivals also encountered swells of Black immigrants from French and British colonial powers, also arriving in search of economic opportunity as well as greater freedom of expression.
In this milieu, a new Black culture and identity was being forged and finding expres- sion through the arts. Locke saw Black people now asserting themselves as “conscious con- tributor[s]” to civilization, unafraid in de- manding their rights and creating realistic depictions of African American life through their works.
“If in our lifetime the Negro should not be able to celebrate his full initiation into Ameri- can democracy,” Locke wrote, “he can at least, on the warrant of these things, celebrate the attainment of a significant and satisfying new phase of group development, and with it a spiritual Coming of Age.”
But some of the ideas he espoused would also lead to heated debates on whether the arts were luxurious distractions from real advancement. His contemporary W.E.B. Du Bois would argue that politics and economics should be the focus of Black collective energy, and worthwhile art should actually be propa- ganda. Locke argued for the importance of self-expression and the value of the arts, of the “ethics of beauty itself.”
Eventually stymied by the Great Depres- sion, the ethos of the Harlem Renaissance would later fuel the politics of the civil rights movement and inspire the Black Arts Move- ment of the 1960s and 1970s. — Elahe Izadi
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“The Kid,” Charlie Chaplin, 1921
Miss America pageant, 1921
“Rhapsody in Blue,” George Gershwin, 1924
“The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
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LEFT: The Duke Ellington Orchestra performs with Betty Roché in the 1943 film “Reveille With Beverly.” BELOW: A 1942 photo of Hughes, who, along with other writers and visual artists at the time, directly challenged the prevailing racial stereotypes and perceptions of Black people by infusing their works with a sense of self-expression and racial pride.
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Mickey Mouse reached the public in 1928’s “Steamboat Willie,” an eight-minute short.
Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, 1928
All of it — Disneyland, Snow White, that streaming hub of an app where you get “The Mandalorian” — began with a black-and- white mouse on a steamboat just before the Great Crash.
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Walt Disney was 25 when he saw Al Jolson’s 1927 film “The Jazz Singer,” the first talkie, and decided it was time to leave silent Felix the Cat in the dust. So he and Ub Iwerks created Mickey, a plucky underdog of a mouse with weirdly adorned shorts, a mile-wide smile and those giant shoes. (The white gloves would arrive soon after.)
Mickey (and Minnie) reached the public in 1928’s “Steamboat Willie,” a feverish, nearly eight-minute-long short that bounced from scene to scene eager to share various sounds: whistling, clucking, squealing, tobacco-chew- ing, cat-tossing, and much of it to the Ameri- can folk song “Turkey in the Straw.” “Willie” wasn’t the first cartoon short with sound, but
A museum official stands before Jackson Pollock’s “Number 1A, 1948” in Atlanta in 2011. Pollock didn’t invent abstract expressionism, but with this work, he defined an era.
Jackson Pollock, 1948
Jackson Pollock didn’t invent abstraction, or abstract expressionism, and his enigmati- cally titled “Number 1A, 1948” wasn’t the first of his “drip” paintings, made by drizzling the paint directly on the canvas. But with this work, more than eight feet wide, he defined an era in art and American history. Working with canvas placed on the floor of his studio, a converted barn on Long Island, Jackson left a visual record of paint in motion, the body in motion and by extension, America in motion.
America had great artists before Pollock — and Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell, the most famous of the “abstract expressionists.” But American art always had wrestled with the accusation that it was derivative, a vigorous but imitative offshoot of European art. All that ended after the Second World War when New York became a capital not just for painters and sculptors but poets, novelists and composers. The synergy was intoxicating, and “Number
it was easily the most successful technically and commercially. And unlike the pair’s previ- ous creation — anybody remember Oswald the Lucky Rabbit? — Mickey had staying power.
On Disney’s turf, he gave us television shows, watches, lunch boxes and a silent, poseable figure walking around all of Disney’s theme parks. Without the All-New Mickey Mouse Club, who knows if we would have been blessed with those bright-eyed kids Ryan (Gosling), Britney (Spears), Justin (Timber- lake) and Keri (Russell). And outside Walt’s dynasty, Mickey provided a model for how to best employ a corporate mascot and also build a merchandising empire. It’s easy to see the direct line from Mickey to Hello Kitty to Mario. — Geoff Edgers
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“West End Blues,” Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, 1928
“American Gothic,” Grant Wood, 1930
“Little House in the Big Woods,” Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1932
“Duck Soup,” Marx Brothers, 1933
1A” feels a bit like someone has made a giant photograph not of the events themselves but of the vectors of energy that made history suddenly seem to be moving full throttle on the open highway.
The painting is a favorite with visitors to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Unlike earlier paintings that played with abstraction and used the drip technique, “Number 1A” isn’t an object you study but an event in which you lose yourself. Panegyrists of the American Century would hold up artists such as Pollock as exemplars of the new dynamism, the new liberty of free expression. The reality of Ameri- ca in the 1940s and ’50s was much darker, but here at least was a vision of who we thought we could be. — Philip Kennicott
“Citizen 13660,” Miné Okubo, 1946
“A Streetcar Named Desire,” Tennessee Williams, premieres onstage in 1947 and on film in 1951
“The Ed Sullivan Show,” Ed Sullivan and Marlo Lewis, 1948-1971
“The Catcher in the Rye,” JD Salinger, 1951
“Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison, 1952
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Robert Johnson, whose aching blues inspired future trailblazers.
recordings
1936-1937
Long before it became a lazy pop cliché, Robert Johnson sang with steadfast convic- tion about the demons right around the corner. His vision of transient living, where violence, desolation and sexuality were ex- pressed through an aching slide guitar, of- fered a counterpoint to the gospel heard throughout southern Baptist churches.
The legend around Johnson, that he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for extraordinary guitar skills, resembles the eventual rhetoric around the wicked qualities of rock-and-roll, while his death in 1938 makes him one of the earliest inductions into the “27 Club.” But Johnson’s lasting impact came from an uncan- ny ability to grab the all-encompassing dark- ness of his life and pull out jagged shards of beauty.
In the decades after his death, Johnson’s loose playing and harrowing moans set Amer-
Chef Julia Child, seen in 1978, may be the original influencer. Her impact stretches all the way from post-World War II nuclear families to the entire genre of perky DIY videos today.
French Cooking, Vol. 1’
Julia Child, 1961
“Mastering the Art of French Cooking” was written by three women. Two of them — Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle — were actually French. But it was Julia Child — the third and only American name on the cover — that we remember today.
Calling a historical figure “the original influencer” is usually about as insightful as a junior-high English teacher calling Shake- speare “the original rapper.” But in Child’s case, it’s kind of true.
“Mastering the Art of French Cooking” begot Child’s TV show “The French Chef,” which begot the entire genre of perky DIY video content, from Bob Vila to HGTV to “Queer Eye” to Alison Roman to slime recipes to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her phone in her kitchen, chopping her way into Congress.
We can thank “Mastering the Art of French
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ican music on a path that would encompass Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, even Nas. Each of those trailblazers took something from John- son’s sparse Delta blues compositions — his eye for startling lyrical detail or the archetypal boogie-woogie on “Sweet Home Chicago” — and worked it into different configurations of R&B, folk rock and boom bap.
“Only [Johnson’s] weakest songs move on an even keel; the greatest shudder and break and explode, or twist slowly around quietly shaking strings into a kind of suspension,” Greil Marcus wrote in “Mystery Train,” an influential book about American rock music, “until Johnson has created a mood so delicate and bleak one feels he cannot possibly get out of his song alive.” — Ethan Beck
“Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother),” Dorothea Lange, 1936
Action Comics #1 featuring Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, 1938
“The Wizard of Oz,” Victor Fleming, 1939
“Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles, 1941
“The Migration Series,” Jacob Lawrence, 1941-1942
Cooking” for Martha Stewart and blame it for Guy Fieri. But its legacy is even deeper than that.
The book took the abundance and individu- alism of post-World War II America — with its supermarkets full of ingredients and kitchens built for just one nuclear family — as an opportunity to create exquisite culinary mo- ments capable of impressing even the snooti- est of snobs from across the pond.
Was the message democratic, that with the right instructions you, too, could create a masterpiece all by yourself? Or was it elitist, promoting impossibly high standards for women who were already overworked, under- valued and unthanked? That is a question of personal taste. Bon appétit! — Shane O’Neill
“Atlas Shrugged,” Ayn Rand, 1957
“West Side Story,” Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, 1957
“Johnny B. Goode,” Chuck Berry, 1958
“The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling, 1959
“Catch-22,” Joseph Heller, 1961
William Anders, 1968
This was a late addition to the annals of 1968, one of the most turbulent years in American history. In April, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, and in June, Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down. There were riots, protests and a bitterly divisive war in Vietnam that looked intractable. And then, in late December, the Apollo 8 mission slipped the gravitational bonds of Earth and became the first crewed mission to orbit the moon. On Christmas Eve, astronaut William Anders saw the blue orb of Earth rising relative to the horizon of the moon. He called urgently for a camera loaded with color film and snapped one of the most influential, beloved and chastening photographs in history.
The image we now know as “Earthrise” has been flipped about 90 degrees from its origi- nal orientation, which showed the home planet “rising” to the left of the gray, pock-
marked surface of the moon. It was a canny choice, making the earth “rise” by analogy to the sun in the morning, an image of hope. It also flattered our watery planet, made it seem young, a little vulnerable and, by comparison with the barren waste of the moon, a place of refuge and possibility.
It became an icon of the environmental movement and the peace movement, and when this past April the Artemis II mission became the first crewed flight to return to the moon’s orbit since 1972, the crew sent back a melancholy book end, an “Earthset” image that captured a very different mood in a country that had almost forgotten its great age of space exploration. — Philip Kennicott
Other notable works
Other notable works
Other notable works
“Pet Sounds,” The Beach Boys, 1966
“Star Trek,” Gene Roddenberry, 1966
“Soul Train,” Don Cornelius, 1970-2006
“Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,” George Carlin, 1972
“Jaws,” Steven Spielberg, 1975
The original “Earthrise” photo, taken Dec. 24, 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders. It became an icon of the environmental and peace movements, as well as one of the most beloved photos in history.
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From left, Anders with fellow astronauts James A. Lovell Jr. and Frank Borman during a training operation in the Gulf of Mexico in October 1968.
Michael Jackson during the making of his unforgettable “Thriller” music video in 1983.
Michael Jackson, 1982
Funk designed to last 40,000 years. African- inspired chants. Hard-rock guitar solos. Rem- nants of the Motown sound. Spoken-word arguments with Paul McCartney. Ballads writ- ten by members of Toto.
While working on “Thriller,” Michael Jack- son dispensed with genre barriers. His aerody- namic, featherlight voice — delivering pained interjections on “Billie Jean” and an ecstatic performance for “Human Nature” — bounced atop Quincy Jones’s varied production, which could turn any location into a dance floor. Following a boost from the title track’s unfor- gettable music video, it took only 15 months for “Thriller” to officially become the best-sell- ing album of all time.
“Black music had to play second fiddle for a long time, but its spirit is the whole motor of pop,” Jones told Time in 1984. “Michael has
Id Software, 1993
Robert Johnson made a deal with the devil. “Doom” asked us to walk into hell and kill the demon with a gun.
In December 1993, Id Software gave away part of its new video game free over the internet. College networks buckled under the traffic, and bulletin boards lit up, as the game eventually was installed on more computers than Microsoft Windows 95 at the time. “Doom” was foundational in digital entertain- ment — a 3D world viewed in first person, self-published, with no gatekeepers and no retail store, as it gave rise to user-generated content years before anyone had a name for it. Programmer John Carmack handed the audi- ence the tools to build their own corners of hell.
Tim Sweeney, architect of Unreal Engine, which powers everything today from movies to car designs to “Fortnite” and more, says “Doom” “defined the new medium of our generation. The creative and technical leaps … were so numerous as to overwhelm the sens- es.”
By 1996, the U.S. Marine Corps used “Doom II” to train troops in fire team support and ammunition discipline. The game was a scapegoat for the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, ground zero of America’s ongoing nightmare. The killers idol- ized “Doom,” but it was people with guns, not a
connected with every soul in the world.” He was right that “Thriller” was an unfathomable breakthrough for Black music. But Jackson’s sixth solo album is also where the King of Pop cemented the figure of the global pop star as we know it.
His pop choreography, slick style-bending and imperial fashion cast a sizable shadow for anyone who’s tried to win over Top 40 listeners since, including Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and even Fall Out Boy. Meanwhile, Jackson’s tabloid fodder behavior and sexual assault allegations proved that an unthinkable level of stardom isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. — Ethan Beck
“Star Wars,” George Lucas, 1977
“Happy Birthday,” Stevie Wonder, 1980
“Planet Rock,” Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force, 1982
“The Cosby Show,” Bill Cosby, 1984
“Conga,” Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine, 1985
game, that took lives. A grieving nation feared a new form of entertainment it misunder- stood. Hearings were held on games and music, a template that would replay after nearly every mass shooting since.
The game’s spirit of sharing and communi- ty, along with its pioneering approach to guiding players through abstract environ- ments in 3D space, is rooted in the upbringing of designer John Romero, who is Native American (Yaqui, Cherokee) and Mexican. “A lot of ‘Doom’s design, especially the level design, was really influenced by just that understanding of the environment, the world, and that comes from my dad, my grandma, everybody” — generations, he says, “where people lived on the land” they believed to be shared.
This year, the Library of Congress inducted the music of “Doom” into the National Record- ing Registry, now alongside Johnson, proof that the United States can make peace with its demons. But there’s always another target. — Gene Park
“The Joy Luck Club,” Amy Tan, 1989
“Do the Right Thing,” Spike Lee, 1989
“The Simpsons,” Matt Groening, 1989- present
“Seinfeld,” Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, 1989-1998
“The Real World,” Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, 1992-2019
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Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski, 1999
In 1999, the Wachowski siblings released a glossy sci-fi action movie called “The Matrix.” It was a massive commercial success. Its “bullet time” sequences, in which time slowed and space curved, became a touchstone for video games and filmmaking. And it arguably became the most important Western allegory of the early 21st century.
In the film’s first act, Neo (Keanu Reeves) is given the choice of a red pill that will reveal the true nature of reality or a blue pill that will return him to life as he knew it. He takes the red pill and learns that most of the world is living in a massive computer simulation.
Philosophers have been pondering the ways reality is distorted by perception since Plato’s cave, but “The Matrix” brought these age-old cosmic questions into the internet age in a package that was easy to unwrap. Maybe too easy.
In 2020, Lana Wachowski said that “The Ma- trix” was a metaphor for her own transgender awakening. But by then, the “red pill” metaphor had taken on a life of its own. Men we would eventually call “incels” latched on particularly hard. To be “red pilled” came to mean waking up to the ways feminism and mainstream culture pur- portedly placed men at an unfair disadvantage.
“The Matrix” presaged the way social media algorithms would fracture our media, our politics, our culture and our collective reality.
We can all agree that its message — that we need to unplug and wake up — is as relevant as ever. It’s just that nobody can agree on what we need to unplug from, or what we ought to wake up to. — Shane O’Neill
Other notable works
Other notable works
Other notable works
“The Sopranos,” David Chase, 1999-2007
“Survivor,” Mark Burnett and Charlie Parsons, 2000-present
The iPod, Steve Jobs, 2001
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The Kardashian family, as seen in Season 1 of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” in
2007. The show, which ran for 14 years and spawned the same number of spin-offs,
introduced a new paradigm for how to be famous and helped pioneer influencer culture.
Ryan Seacrest, 2007
Think back, briefly, to the 2000s: Culture was being democratized and flattened by the internet, where high and low culture existed in exactly the same space. Celebrities started tweeting, revealing once and for all that many of them were deeply average humans. And a show about the surprisingly mundane lives of the ultrawealthy, semi-employed daughters of a megasuccessful attorney, the late Robert Kardashian — one of those daughters had gained mid-tier notoriety as Paris Hilton’s assistant — became one of the most memora- ble emblems of the era.
“Keeping Up With the Kardashians” ran for 14 years and spawned the same number of spin-offs. Perhaps more importantly, the show introduced a new paradigm for how to be famous. Yes, socialites had been famous for
A 1999 advertisement for “The Matrix,” featuring, from left, Joe Pantoliano, Laurence Fishburne, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss.
being famous since the Gilded Age. And Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith had already made must-see TV out of celebrities doing ordinary things.
But as Ellis Cashmore, author of “Kar- dashian Kulture: How Celebrities Changed Life in the 21st Century,” asserts, the Kar- dashians were pioneers of what we now know as influencer culture, semi-subtly sell- ing all the accoutrements of their day-to-day lives and unsubtly raking in the profits. KUWTK “was a brilliant study in how to advertise while leaving viewers convinced they hadn’t been advertised to,” Cashmore says. “Viewers were no longer watching celebrities between advertisements. They were watching people whose lives were actually the advertisements.”
Today, when researchers ask kids across the globe what they aspire to be when they grow up, “influencer” ranks among the most popu- lar answers. — Ashley Fetters Maloy
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Beyoncé, 2016
It was clear from the surprise first single, “Formation,” that whatever Beyoncé’s next project was, it would take her in a new and starkly political direction: The Melina Matsou- kas-directed video found the superstar in the parlor of a plantation house and atop a police car sinking into floodwaters evoking Hurri- cane Katrina.
Two months later, Beyoncé would drop the genre-transcending “Lemonade” without pri- or announcement and with a corresponding 65-minute visual album full of A-lister cameos, arresting gestures toward African and African American history, and haunting spoken-word interludes that traced the Kübler-Ross model of human response to trauma. And somehow, the album was still more audacious and ambitious than that description implies.
Matsoukas later explained that Beyoncé’s thesis statement for “Lemonade” was that slavery was still affecting Black men and women, and the Black family: “how we’re almost socialized not to be together.” Classes on “Lemonade” promptly sprang up at univer- sities such as Harvard, Penn and the Universi-
Beyoncé in a scene from “Lemonade,” her genre-transcending 2016 visual album.
A group of critics, reporters and editors who cover arts and culture at The Washington Post spent months creating, revising and arguing over this list. We spoke to historians, curators and other experts to research and support these selections. A key distinction we kept coming back to: Was a given work influential? If so, in what ways did it ripple across the American cultural landscape, for better or worse? As a result, some works we considered are inextricably entwined with ugliness — others with beauty, joy, ingenuity or freedom. Overall, our goal was to capture the complexity of the American spirit.
ty of Texas (among others).
Constance Bailey, who teaches African American literature and folklore at Georgia State University, led a Beyoncé course at the University of Arkansas. The magic of “Lemon- ade” was that “it made the concept of intersec- tionality accessible to everyday women,” Bai- ley says. “Lemonade” moves between multiple gender and racial identities seamlessly. “It’s not just ‘I’m Black,’ but ‘I’m a Black woman, and I’m a married woman.’”
“Lemonade” repopularized both the visual album and the secret album release. And in the years since, cuts from “Lemonade” have con- tinued to soundtrack dialogues about the unfinished work of racial equality in America. The Kendrick Lamar collaboration “Freedom” became an anthem for Black Lives Matter activists after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and it featured prominently in Kamala Harris’s historic presidential campaign in 2024. — Ashley Fetters Maloy
“Atlanta,” Donald Glover, 2016-22
“Whole Lotta Red,” Playboi Carti, 2020
“Reservation Dogs,” Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, 2021-23
The Eras Tour, Taylor Swift, 2023-2024
“Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” Bad Bunny, 2025
It’s an imperfect and subjective list, as is the nature of such an endeavor. At many points, we disagreed. We suspect you will, too. Please tell us what you would have included and why using the submission form at wapo.st/ americanculture.
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Dear Carolyn: When I’m not at my university dorm, I mainly stay with my mom, but I’m spending this summer with my dad and new stepmom, “Megan,” to get to know her better.
Carolyn Hax
I’m struggling. She’s nice and makes my dad happy, but her entire life is ruled by not wasting even a second of her time. Her constant refrain is: Time is the only thing you can never get more of. Everything she does is done in the most efficient way possible; all outings are meticulously planned, even her weekly trip to the grocery store. I asked if she wanted to go to the farmers market with me, and she asked if I had a map or list of the vendors. When I said no, she said it sounded like a big waste of time.
With her, there’s no appreciation for an unplanned moment or surprise encounter. I can’t even enjoy cooking because she barges in and shoves me aside, saying, “That’s not the best way to slice an onion,” cut the herbs, bread the chicken, etc.
My dad said she’s like this because of her job (project manager), but even her hobbies are treated this way. It’s not like she uses her saved time to relax. She just crams more projects into her life.
I understand that people are all different and that’s a good thing. But I’m a nervous wreck if I’m driving her somewhere, because one wrong turn and I’ve wasted some of her time, the worst sin imaginable. In fact, I’m always worried that I’m annoying her or wasting her time, so I’ve been avoiding her one-on-one, which makes it hard to get to know her. I can’t think of a way of discussing this with her without it sounding like a criticism. Which isn’t what I want. Can you help?
— Wasting My Stepmom’s Time
Wasting My Stepmom’s Time: I can tell you this: You can’t think of a way to make it not sound like criticism because it is a criticism.
A valid one, too, from my perspective, but I’d also make a lousy project manager.
Fortunately, she didn’t ask either of us how to change who she is — and that’s not the way to approach this anyway. You had the best angle with celebrating people’s differences. Just take it one logical step further.
must be safe for others, and have some duty to try to get along with those around us … for example, not to dawdle passive-aggressively with a type-A type in the car. Each of us negotiates these lines constantly based on our own comfort, nature, values and sense of self.
with those around us … for example, not to dawdle passive-aggressively with a type-A type in the car.
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The problem isn’t that she’s so different from you, it’s your response to her. (Mostly.)
And that’s for you to fix, not Megan. (Mostly.)
I’ll use your stress when driving her somewhere to explain how. Megan is just being Megan, right? Caring intensely about time is totally her prerogative. So ask yourself — does her urgent efficiency really confer any obligations onto you as the driver? Don’t you have the same prerogative to be yourself — to lollygag, say? Smell roses? Brake for poetry?
It’s a great question to ask ourselves with anyone, really (unless you’re being paid or explicitly doing a favor; transactions don’t count). We all get to be who we are. We also
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So a discussion/plea for summer mercy with Megan might feel like the thing to get you through, but it makes more sense to start with a solid understanding of your lines, and how well you maintain your identity around others — or, in this case, how quickly you collapse it and give it away.
Megan’s strong personality and stepmotherhood do make things more challenging for sure. But they don’t mean you
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have to change yourself for her or perform to her standards, no matter how much intensity you feel radiating from the passenger seat. Nor do they explain away your stress as just striving for a good impression.
The thing to ask yourself is why you don’t feel so anxious around ____ (your dad, your mom, others). Is it because their expectations are easier to meet, or because you’re okay with not meeting them? And with others who do make you anxious, is it like with Megan, the bar they set feels too high? And so on. Questions like these trace your emotional pathways to remaining yourself or folding under other people’s pressure. You know Megan flattens you, and you know you want that to stop.
Becoming sure of yourself to the point where you aren’t so reliant on outside approval is the way to become Megan-proof. Being sure of your equal prerogative to be you is where that crucial becoming takes root.
Such an abstract answer to a concrete question, I’m sorry.
Talking will always have its place, of course, and one way to ask Megan to back off is to articulate your struggles: “I get INefficient when I’m time-pressured,” for example. “When you correct my slicing, I tense up.” Positive sharing, though, can be the most productive talk: “Ahhh, Megan! A farmers market is about browsing for peak!” If you haven’t found that voice yet, then, “Okay,” and going by yourself is a perfectly fine response.
It may just be that your goal to know Megan must wait, until you’re stronger in yourself. Fortunately it’s a good one that will keep indefinitely, though it’s her loss in the meantime.
Unless … this sharp project manager is learning her vulnerabilities from you as you’re learning from her? After all, there are always some elements that don’t bend to the will of others and must be allotted the time they need. And the benefits of differences cut both ways.
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CANCER (June 21-July 22) This is a tricky day to talk to partners, spouses and close friends. You might be disappointed or confused. Be aware that there is an element today that leads to distortions of people’s views as well as subconscious feelings of distrust.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Avoid controversial discussions about politics, religion and racial issues, especially if they’re related to your job or your health. Whatever happens, know that everything is murky and misunderstandings are rife. This is a poor day to embark on any new course of action.
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ACROSS 1 Do some kidding, as
kids do 6 “Dear ___” (advice
column) 10 Disney pride member 15 Improvise at a jazz club 19 Hearing-based 20 What you play in a play
21 Car with an ECO mode 22 Service provider? 23 “Swim Good” musician
with a body of water in his name (soda) 25 Sushi servings 26 Unit of coal or sugar 27 “___ you so!” 28 DEA figure 29 Hawaiian animal
attraction (Greek liqueur) 31 ___ Piper 33 “The Umbrella
Academy” character who can communicate with the dead 35 Sch. program for 4-
and 5-year-olds 36 A series of unfortunate
events, maybe (brew from roasted beans) 40 Parts of course
schedules 44 “The Joy Luck Club”
novelist 45 “I’ll put it this way ...” 46 Sells 47 Marcher in a colony 48 Put a blot or blotch on 49 Earth’s surface area? 51 Atmosphere’s makeup 52 “CODA” honor 54 Huge mess 56 Well-put 57 Tactical attack unit
(fermented milk beverage) 60 “The Baron in the
Trees” novelist Calvino 62 “Masters of the
Universe” actor Idris 63 Fill with 51 Across 64 Person who’s known to
rhyme / At least some of the time 67 Musician’s timbre
(Mexican liquor) 70 Three-piece suit piece
in reality. Your views might be distorted.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Be careful talking to parents and family members today, because you might not have all the facts or you might not appreciate what’s happening. Subconscious influences could distort your views. Or habits picked up in childhood might confuse you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Don’t jump to conclusions when talking to siblings, relatives and neighbors today, because things might not be as they appear. Something going on in your daily environment might be misunderstood. Sit back and try to take things in.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Because fuzzy thinking is rampant today, this is a poor day for expensive purchases or important financial decisions. Basically, it’s easy to be out of touch with reality or to think something is better than it is. Save your money.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today the moon in your sign promotes a dreamy state of mind where illusions become more important than reality. Areas where you might feel confused could relate to home and family. Be smart and postpone important decisions. Just ride this one out.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Be careful, because today is tricky. It’s easy to have subconscious influences that you’re not aware of that will distort your views about something. This means you might not be able to trust your decision- making process. Tread carefully!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You might feel disappointed by a friend today or perhaps a group. The question you have to ask yourself is how realistic were your expectations. Were they pie-in-the- sky hopes? We are all frail mortals grappling in our worlds.
71 The O of Jackie O 73 Dink near the plate 74 Exercise with blades 76 “We’ve got nothing to
worry about” (anise- flavored spirit) 78 Acupuncture venue 79 Mountains running
through Russia 83 Decline 84 Actor Mitchell who
co-starred on a
Nickelodeon show
with Kenan Thompson
85 “You are so right!”
87 Talk like a pigeon
88 Org. that banned DDT
in 1972 89 Cleaned with a rag 92 “___ the night before
Christmas ...” 93 Soluble fiber used as a
gelling agent 95 Written in the stars 97 Maximum amount
that can be charged for a product (frozen beverage) 99 Court judges, briefly 100 Under 90 degrees 101 Royal Boleyn 102 1989 sports comedy
with the tagline “When these three oddballs try to play hardball, the result is totally screwball” (beer) 106 Surrender, as control 108 Bedazzles 112 Each 113 Cartographic work 114 Beverage that hints at
each scrambled circled word, and a description of the beverage formed by the first letters of the unscrambled circled words 116 Mosquito net material 117 Corn 118 “Move it, doc!” 119 Composer of the
chorus “Va, pensiero” 120 Pale-faced 121 Compound that sounds
like a woman’s name 122 Ball rooms? 123 Couturiere’s creation
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91 Down
3 International Fund for
Saving the ___ Sea (org. founded in 1993)
4 Excavation locale
5 Yellowstone beast
6 Play house?
7 Historical settler of the
Orange Free State
8 People known as the
Children of the Plains
9 Intense desire 10 Experience growth 11 Clubs carried by caddies 12 Venus de ___ 13 Where a closer warms
up 14 Made guarantees 15 Hunting dog that’s the
mascot of Southern Illinois University
16 “Ferrari” actress
Penélope 17 Peas or tomatoes in a
food fight, say 18 Featture of this clue 24 Two-goal tie score 29 Access secret files, say 30 Releases, as steam 32 Trapped by the same
old boring routine 34 Revolutionary Trotsky 36 River barriers 37 Neighbor of Yemen 38 “___ Breckinridge”
(Gore Vidal novel) 39 Activate, as a switch 40 “Meet the Parents”
co-star Polo 41 Meredith of “Petticoat
Junction” 42 Makes official, as a law 43 Path of urban design 46 Like videos that break
the internet 50 Rainy day overshoe 51 Turn up near home?
53 One getting a clue 55 Feels welcome socially 57 Tossed over a shoulder,
as a purse 58 Bar with a “Gimme a
break” ad jingle 59 “The Celtic Goddess of
New Age Music,” per Woman’s World 61 Plugging away 62 Identical in value 64 Calm and collected 65 Recorded by a camera 66 Courses where you
can coast 68 Receded at the beach 69 “You’re prolly right” 72 More likely to cause
school cancellations, as winter forecasts 75 Catch, as a radio show 77 Scraped by, with “out” 78 Houston’s cosmic
nickname 80 First part of a play 81 Tender cut of meat
82 Pop or rock piece 85 Emmy winner Loretta 86 Started the bidding 90 Stir up emotional heat 91 Barcelona bills, once 92 “Facts” 94 Less ambiguous 96 Spoils of sport 97 One doing Windows
shopping, maybe 98 West Point trainees 100 Staring intently 102 Cry that may signal a
need for milk 103 Orangutans, e.g. 104 2024 NFL MVP
___ Allen 105 Landed 107 Closed-book ___ 109 Junction box
connector 110 Edges 111 Strips outside in cold
weather? 114 BBQ rub additive 115 Format akin to Blu-ray
(!) No Pass/No Discount Ticket
AMC Georgetown 14
Moana (PG) Laser Projection;
OC: 3:15
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
OC: 3:45
Evil Dead Burn (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 7:15-9:50
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
OC: 12:00
Her Private Hell (R) Laser Projec-
tion; OC: 5:00
The Invite (R) Laser Projection;
OC: 4:30
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 12:10-3:30-
7:00-8:30-9:15
The Odyssey Premium (R) CC:
9:30-1:30-5:30-9:30; 11:00-7:00
The Odyssey: The IMAX
Experience (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:00
Backrooms: Everything Must Go
Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R)
Laser Projection; OC: 10:20
Moana (PG) Laser Projection; CC:
12:45-10:15
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 6:45-9:15
Disclosure Day (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:10-3:50
Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser
Projection; CC: 1:35-4:45-9:25
Young Washington (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 9:45AM
Motor City (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 7:10-8:55
Reading Lolita in Tehran (NR)
Laser Projection: 11:15-2:00-6:30
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 4:00-8:00
The Invite (R) Laser Projection; CC:
11:00-1:45-7:30-10:05
The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13)
Laser Projection; CC: 4:00
The Odyssey Premium (R) Dolby
Cinema; CC: 3:00
The Odyssey: The IMAX Expe-
rience (R) Laser Projection; CC:
10:05-2:00-6:00
Sia: Nostalgic For The Present
Laser Projection: 1:00
Moana (PG) Laser Projection; CC:
9:35-6:15
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 12:30
Motor City (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:15-3:20
Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser
Projection; CC: 6:05
Her Private Hell (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 2:15-7:45-10:30
Young Washington (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 11:10AM
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 10:45-2:15-
5:35
3111 K Street NW
The Odyssey: The IMAX
Experience (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:00
Moana (PG) Laser Projection; CC:
10:00-3:15-9:30
Supergirl (PG-13) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 11:45-5:15
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:30-4:30-9:45
Evil Dead Burn (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 10:30
Disclosure Day (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 4:15
Pinocchio Unstrung (R) Laser
Projection: 10:00-8:00
Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:15-2:15-4:30-
9:15
Motor City (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:15-7:40
The Invite (R) Laser Projection; CC:
10:30-1:30-5:00-7:50-10:30
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:30-11:30-12:00-12:30-
1:00-2:30-3:30-4:00-5:00-6:30-
7:30-8:00-9:00-10:30
Haunted Heist (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 10:15-2:45
Jana Nayagan (NR) Laser Projec-
tion: 12:45-9:15
Minions & Monsters 3D (PG)
Laser Projection; CC: 7:15
Moana 3D (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 1:30-6:15
Her Private Hell (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 4:30-7:20-10:10
Bad Counselors (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 7:00
Young Washington (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 11:00AM
Obsession (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:45
Toy Story 5 3D (PG) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 1:15-6:45
The Odyssey: The IMAX Expe-
rience (R) Laser Projection; CC:
10:00-2:00-6:00
The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13)
Laser Projection; CC: 4:00
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 10:00-10:45-
12:00-12:45-2:20-3:30-4:45-5:45-
7:00-8:15-9:15-10:30
The Odyssey Premium (R) CC:
11:00-3:00-7:00-11:00
Sia: Nostalgic For The Present
Laser Projection: 1:00
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 1:35-10:35
Disclosure Day (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:55
Evil Dead Burn (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 7:25-10:30
The Invite (R) Laser Projection; CC:
11:20-5:00-7:50
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 9:00-12:55-8:45
Young Washington (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 9:45-1:05-4:20
Minions & Monsters 3D (PG)
Laser Projection; CC: 12:25-5:45
Moana 3D (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 12:50-9:30
Toy Story 5 3D (PG) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 10:00-6:45
The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13)
Laser Projection; CC: 4:00
The Odyssey Premium (R) Dolby
Cinema; CC: 11:00-3:00-7:00-11:00
The Odyssey: The IMAX Expe-
rience (R) Laser Projection; CC:
10:00-2:00-6:00
Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser
Projection; CC: 9:30-3:10-8:20
Moana (PG) Laser Projection; CC:
10:30-4:20-7:35
Supergirl (PG-13) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 10:45
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
OC: 4:50
The Invite (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 9:15AM
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 12:15-7:15
The Odyssey: The IMAX
Experience (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:00
The Invite (R) Laser Projection;
OC: 2:10
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; OC: 3:50
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema -
DC Bryant Street
630 Rhode Island Avenue NE
Jurassic Park (PG-13) 7:00
Elf (PG) 3:30
Moana (PG) 12:00-2:30-6:30-
10:20
Toy Story 5 (PG) 12:15-4:15-
7:30-10:30
Minions & Monsters (PG) 11:45-
3:15-6:15-9:45
The Invite (R) 10:15-1:15-5:15-
7:15-10:15
The Odyssey (R) BigShow: 10:00-
2:00-6:00-10:00
Jurassic Park (PG-13) 11:45-9:30
The Odyssey (R) 10:30-11:30-
2:45-3:15-3:45-5:30-8:00-8:30-
9:00; 1:00
Angelika Pop-Up
at Union Market
The Odyssey (R) 12:00-2:05-4:15-
6:00-9:30
The Invite (R) 11:30AM
Ask E. Jean 11:00-7:50
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
OC: 7:00; 1:00-4:00-10:00
550 Penn Street NE - Unit E
Avalon Theatre
Ghostbusters (1984) (PG)
10:30AM
Reading Lolita in Tehran (NR)
Subtitled: 12:45-3:45-6:30
The Odyssey (R) 11:30-3:15-7:00
5612 Connecticut Avenue
Landmark
Atlantic Plumbing Cinema
The Odyssey (R) 3:35-7:00; 12:10
807 V Street Northwest
Regal Gallery Place
The Odyssey (R) 4DX: 7:00-11:00 The Odyssey 70mm (R) 11:30- 3:30-7:30-11:10 Her Private Hell (R) 11:00-1:40- 4:20-7:10-9:50 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 12:00-6:40-7:10 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 The Odyssey (R) 10:30-12:30- 2:30-4:30-6:30-8:30
701 Seventh Street Northwest
Smithsonian -
Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
601 Independence Avenue SW
Hubble (G) 4:00
Blue Angels: The IMAX Experi-
ence (G) 2:00
To Fly! 11:15AM
The Odyssey: The IMAX Experi-
ence (R) 6:30
Apollo 11: First Steps Edition
1:00
Space: The New Frontier
10:30-5:00
Wingsuit Flyers: The Science of
Flight 12:00-3:00
MARYLAND
AFI Silver Theatre
Cultural Center
Lady and the Tramp (1955) (G) 12:30 The Asphalt Jungle 6:30 The Producers (1968) 2:15 The Man From Laramie 4:15
8633 Colesville Road
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (R) 9:00 Animated Film Program 11:00AM The Odyssey (R) 8:45 The Invite (R) 1:45-4:00-6:15-8:30
AMC Academy 8
Moana (PG) Laser Projection; CC:
10:30-1:00-7:40-10:35
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:15-1:30-7:20-10:00
Evil Dead Burn (R) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:20-1:20-4:30-
7:30-10:30
Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser
Projection; CC: 11:45-2:15-4:00-
6:30-9:00
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:00-11:15-12:30-3:10-4:30-
6:00-7:00-8:30-9:50
Moana 3D (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 4:15
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 10:00-1:10-
4:10-7:15-10:20
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
OC: 4:50
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
OC: 2:00
6198 Greenbelt Road
AMC Annapolis Mall 11
1020 Annapolis Mall Road
Moana (PG) CC: 9:00-10:50-
12:40-6:20-9:20
Toy Story 5 (PG) CC: 9:30-12:20-
1:50-3:50-6:40-9:30
Evil Dead Burn (R) CC: 7:50-10:40
Minions & Monsters (PG) CC:
9:20-11:50-2:20-4:50-7:20-9:50
The Odyssey (R) CC: 9:00-12:00-
1:00-4:00-5:00-8:00-9:00
The Invite (R) CC: 9:40-12:30-
4:40-7:30-10:20
Young Washington (PG-13) CC:
9:05-3:15
Moana 3D (PG) 3:10
The Odyssey 70mm (R) 11:00-
3:00-7:00-10:50
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
CC: 9:10-12:10-1:20-3:30-4:30-
6:10-7:00-9:40-10:30
The Odyssey Premium (R) Dolby
Cinema; CC: 10:00-2:00-6:00-10:00
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
OC: 10:00AM
AMC Center Park 8
Moana (PG) CC: 12:15-3:30-
6:30-9:30
Toy Story 5 (PG) CC: 12:45-4:00-
7:15-10:30
Evil Dead Burn (R) CC: 8:00
Minions & Monsters (PG) CC:
2:15-5:30
The Odyssey (R) CC: 12:00-
12:30-1:30-3:15-3:45-4:45-6:45-
8:45-10:00
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
CC: 3:45-7:00-10:15; 12:30
4001 Powder Mill Road
AMC Columbia 14
Toy Story 5 (PG) OC: 12:45
Minions & Monsters (PG) CC:
10:15-1:45-4:30-7:00-9:30
The Invite (R) OC: 1:15
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
OC: 2:30
The Odyssey: The IMAX
Experience (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:00
Backrooms: Everything Must Go
Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R)
OC: 10:15
Moana (PG) CC: 10:30-1:30-3:15-
6:30-9:15
Toy Story 5 (PG) CC: 10:00-11:00-
3:30-6:15-9:00
Disclosure Day (PG-13) CC: 9:30
Evil Dead Burn (R) CC: 10:30
Pinocchio Unstrung (R) 4:45-
10:00
The Odyssey (R) CC: 10:30-
12:00-1:00-2:30-4:00-5:00-6:30-
8:00-9:00
The Invite (R) CC: 4:00-6:45-9:35
Her Private Hell (R) CC: 1:35-
4:35-7:25
Young Washington (PG-13) CC:
10:00AM
Bad Counselors (PG-13) CC: 7:00
The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13)
CC: 4:00
The Odyssey Premium (R) Dolby
Cinema; CC: 11:00-3:00-7:00
The Odyssey: The IMAX Expe-
rience (R) Laser Projection; CC:
10:00-2:00-6:00
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
CC: 10:00-11:00-12:00-3:30-6:00-
7:00-9:30
Sia: Nostalgic For The Present
1:00
Motor City (R) OC: 7:10
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway
AMC Magic Johnson
Capital Center 12
Moana (PG) CC: 3:15-9:30
Michael (PG-13) CC: 11:20-2:40-
6:00-9:10
Toy Story 5 (PG) CC: 1:15-7:00
Evil Dead Burn (R) CC: 12:30-
3:20-6:10-9:10
Minions & Monsters (PG) OC:
1:20; 6:45
The Odyssey (R) CC: 11:00-
12:00-1:00-3:00-4:00-5:00-7:00-
8:00-9:00
Obsession (R) CC: 3:40-6:30-9:20
Haunted Heist (R) CC: 11:30-
2:00-4:30-7:10-9:45
Toy Story 5 3D (PG) CC: 10:20-
4:15-9:45
Minions & Monsters 3D (PG) CC:
10:45-4:00-9:30
Moana 3D (PG) CC: 12:15-6:20
The Odyssey: The IMAX
Experience (R) CC: 10:00-2:00-
6:00-10:00
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
CC: 12:00-3:30-7:10
800 Shoppers Way
AMC Montgomery 16 7101 Democracy Boulevard Moana (PG) Laser Projection; CC: 10:30-12:30-1:40-3:30-4:40-6:20- 7:35-9:30 Supergirl (PG-13) Laser Projec- tion; CC: 2:45-9:00
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 9:45-10:45-1:30-4:15-7:10-
9:50
Disclosure Day (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 5:30
Evil Dead Burn (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 4:15-10:30
Motor City (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 9:45-1:30-7:10
Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser
Projection; CC: 9:30-10:15-12:00-
1:20-2:30-3:50-5:00-6:45-9:15
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 9:30-11:00-12:00-1:00-3:00-
4:00-5:00-7:00-8:00-9:00
Haunted Heist (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 7:30-10:00
Young Washington (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:20-10:00
The Invite (R) Laser Projection; CC:
4:30-7:20
Her Private Hell (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 4:15-7:00-9:45
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 1:15-4:45
The Odyssey Premium (R) CC:
10:00-2:00-6:00-9:50
Backrooms: Everything Must Go
Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R)
Laser Projection; CC: 1:10-10:10
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
OC: 12:30
The Invite (R) Laser Projection;
OC: 10:10AM
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 10:00-11:15-
12:15-2:30-3:30-6:00-7:00-8:15-
9:15-10:20
AMC Rio Cinemas 18
9811 Washingtonian Center
AMC St. Charles Town Ctr 9
Moana (PG) Laser Projection; CC:
12:45-3:45-7:30-9:45
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:00-2:15-3:30-6:15-9:15
Evil Dead Burn (R) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:45-1:30-4:15-
7:00-10:30
Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:30-1:00-5:00-
6:45-9:00
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:00-11:15-12:15-2:00-3:15-
4:15-6:00-7:15-8:15-10:00
Moana 3D (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 11:15AM
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 12:00-3:30-
7:00-10:30
11115 Mall Circle
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD 7000 Arundel Mills Circle Moana (PG) 9:55-10:45-3:45- 4:35-6:45-7:35-10:10 Toy Story 5 (PG) OC: 9:20AM Evil Dead Burn (R) OC: 11:30AM Motor City (R) OC: 2:50 Minions & Monsters (PG) OC: 10:50AM The Odyssey (R) 8:15-8:30-8:45- 11:20-12:05-3:00-3:10-3:20-6:55- 7:00-7:40-7:45-10:45-10:50- 11:10-11:30; 12:35 Jana Nayagan (NR) Subtitled: 10:25 Young Washington (PG-13) OC: 12:30 Obsession (R) OC: 11:45AM Moana 3D (PG) 12:25-9:45 The Odyssey Premium (R) XD: 9:45-2:50-6:40-10:30 Michael (PG-13) 8:25-11:40 Supergirl (PG-13) 9:05-12:10-7:05 Toy Story 5 (PG) 8:05-10:35- 10:40-1:20-2:15-4:00-5:00-6:55- 7:20-8:15-10:00 Disclosure Day (PG-13) 8:25AM Evil Dead Burn (R) 8:40-2:25- 5:15-8:10-10:50
Minions & Monsters (PG) 8:00- 8:05-9:50-12:45-1:20-3:15-3:50- 5:45-6:25-8:20 Motor City (R) 8:10-12:15-1:25- 5:25-8:00-10:35 The Odyssey (R) DBOX: 10:55- 2:45-6:35-10:35 Jana Nayagan (NR) Subtitled: 11:50-3:40-7:10-11:00 The Invite (R) 8:20-11:25-11:15 Young Washington (PG-13) 7:55AM Obsession (R) 8:05-8:50-2:30- 5:20-8:05-9:30-11:10 Chennai Love Story (NR) Subti- tled: 3:05-7:50 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 4:00-4:30 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 8:35-9:15-10:00-12:20-1:00-3:35- 4:00-4:05-7:25-7:40-10:40-10:55 The Odyssey 70mm (R) 10:50- 2:40-6:30-10:20 The Odyssey Premium (R) DBOX; XD: 8:00-11:50-3:40-7:30-11:20 Sia: Nostalgic For The Present 1:00 Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R) 8:20-4:25-10:45 Moana (PG) OC: 1:40
Cinépolis Gaithersburg 629 Center Point Way Moana (PG) 10:00-1:10-4:20- 7:30-10:30 Toy Story 5 (PG) 11:00-2:00-5:00- 8:00-10:40 Evil Dead Burn (R) 4:10-7:15- 10:20 Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:50- 1:30-4:10-7:00-9:45 The Odyssey (R) 10:00-10:30- 11:00-11:30-12:00-2:00-2:30- 3:00-3:30-4:00-6:00-6:30-7:00- 7:30-8:00-10:00-10:30 Young Washington (PG-13) 10:00-1:00
Greenbelt Cinema 129 Centerway Little Miss Sunshine (R) 1:00 The Odyssey (R) 12:30 The Invite (R) 4:20-7:45 The Odyssey (R) OC: 4:00
Landmark
Bethesda Row Cinema
The Iron Giant Sensory Friendly (PG) 11:00AM The Odyssey (R) 3:00-7:00 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 3:30-7:15 Sia: Nostalgic For The Present 1:00
7235 Woodmont Avenue
Landmark at
Annapolis Harbour Center
2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1
Moana (PG) 2:00-4:45-7:20
Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:40-1:10-
4:15-6:45
Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:40-
1:20-4:10-6:40
Her Private Hell (R) 1:15-7:10
Young Washington (PG-13)
10:20-4:30
The Odyssey (R) 10:30-12:30-
1:30-2:00-3:00-4:00-5:00-5:30-
6:30-7:30
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
1:00-7:15
The Iron Giant Sensory Friendly
(PG) 11:00AM
Sia: Nostalgic For The Present
1:00
Her Private Hell (R) 4:05
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6
Moana (PG) 12:30-3:15-6:00- 9:00 Toy Story 5 (PG) 11:30-2:00-4:30- 5:00-7:00-9:30-9:45 Evil Dead Burn (R) 11:00-1:30- 4:00-6:30-9:00 Minions & Monsters (PG) 12:00-12:45-2:30-3:00-5:30-7:30- 7:45-10:00 The Odyssey (R) 10:05-1:40- 5:20-9:05
3899 Branch Avenue
Regal Cinemas Majestic
Stadium 20 & IMAX
Bad Counselors (PG-13) 6:30
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Subtitled: 11:30AM
Sia: Nostalgic For The Present
1:00
Brunello: The Gracious
Visionary (PG-13) Subtitled:
5:00-7:50-10:40
The Floaters (NR) 7:45-10:25-
1:05-3:40-6:20-8:55
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
3:45-6:00-7:15
Motor City (R) 4:30-7:10-9:50
Her Private Hell (R) 7:50-10:35-
1:20-4:05-6:50-9:35
The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13)
4:00
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
2:50-9:20
The Odyssey: The IMAX
Experience (R) 7:30-11:10-3:05-
7:00-10:55
900 Ellsworth Drive
Regal Hyattsville Royale
Moana 3D (PG) 3:50-9:30 Moana (PG) 10:10-11:00-1:00- 2:00-4:50-6:40-7:40 The Odyssey (R) 9:50-10:30- 12:20-1:30-2:20-3:20-4:10-5:10- 6:10-7:10-8:00-9:00-10:00-10:30; 11:30AM Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:50-1:25-4:00- 6:30-9:10-10:50 Disclosure Day (PG-13) 10:20- 2:10-4:20-8:15 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 Motor City (R) 11:10-1:50-4:30- 7:50-10:40 Evil Dead Burn (R) 11:20-1:40- 5:30-7:45-10:35 Minions & Monsters (PG) 9:55- 10:40-1:10-3:30-6:00-8:30-11:00 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 10:00-1:20-4:40-7:00-10:10
6505 America Boulevard
Regal Laurel Towne Centre 14716 Baltimore Avenue
Moana (PG) 8:55-11:10-12:40-
2:00-6:30
Supergirl (PG-13) 5:00-7:40
Evil Dead Burn (R) 10:00-11:50-
2:30-8:10
Toy Story 5 (PG) 9:15-10:40-1:20-
4:15-7:00-9:50
Motor City (R) 7:20-10:20
The Odyssey (R) RPX: 9:10-1:00-
4:45-8:40
Haunted Heist (R) 8:50-4:50-
7:10-9:40
The Invite (R) 2:10
Young Washington (PG-13)
10:30AM
Moana 3D (PG) 3:30-9:20
The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13)
4:00
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
9:20-12:45-4:30-7:50-10:30
Evil Dead Burn (R) Subtitled;
OC: 5:20
Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:20-
12:50-3:20-5:40-8:00-10:25
The Odyssey (R) 9:40-11:00-
11:40-1:30-2:50-3:40-5:30-6:45-
7:30-9:30-10:00
The Invite (R) Subtitled; OC:
11:30AM
Young Washington (PG-13)
Subtitled; OC: 1:40
Minions & Monsters (PG) Subti-
tled; OC: 9:00AM
Regal Rockville Center
Moana (PG) 10:20-1:20-4:20- 6:45-9:45 Toy Story 5 (PG) 12:45-4:00- 7:15-10:00 Disclosure Day (PG-13) 10:00- 11:40-1:45 Motor City (R) 11:00-1:50-5:10- 7:45-10:15 Minions & Monsters (PG) 11:20- 2:00-3:40-6:10-8:40 The Odyssey (R) 10:30-11:30- 12:00-1:30-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:20- 6:30-7:30-8:00-8:20-9:00-9:40 The Invite (R) 2:40-5:20-8:10-9:50 Young Washington (PG-13) 10:00-1:00 Obsession (R) 4:15-7:00-10:15 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 4:40 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 10:15-1:45-5:00-8:15 Toy Story 5 (PG) Subtitled; OC: 11:00AM Minions & Monsters (PG) Subti- tled; OC: 10:15AM The Invite (R) Subtitled; OC: 11:50AM Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 3:00-6:30
199 East Montgomery Avenue
Regal Waugh Chapel
1419 South Main Chapel Way
Bad Counselors (PG-13) 6:30
The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13)
4:00
Moana (PG) 7:50-10:50-1:40-
4:40-7:40-10:40
Supergirl (PG-13) 7:40-12:15
Toy Story 5 (PG) 7:30-8:50-11:30-
2:30-5:20-8:10-11:05
Evil Dead Burn (R) 3:30-8:20
Motor City (R) 2:55-5:30-9:20
Minions & Monsters (PG) 7:35-
8:15-9:40-10:45-12:10-1:05-2:40-
6:50-8:40-11:00
Haunted Heist (R) 8:45-11:10
Young Washington (PG-13)
10:05AM
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
12:00-3:20-6:40-10:10
Sia: Nostalgic For The Present
1:10
The Odyssey (R) 8:00-8:30-9:55-
10:30-11:50-12:30-2:00-2:20-
3:40-4:20-5:00-6:00-6:30-7:30-
8:10-9:50-10:25-11:05
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Subtitled: 8:20AM
The Odyssey: The IMAX
Experience (R) 7:30-11:20-3:10-
7:00-10:55
Regal Westview
Moana (PG) Subtitled: 9:55AM Motor City (R) Subtitled: 4:55 The Odyssey (R) VIP: 8:30-10:00- 12:15-1:45-4:00-5:30-7:40-9:15 Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R) VIP: 9:40 Moana (PG) 8:00-1:10-3:25- 6:10-8:50 Disclosure Day (PG-13) 6:05-9:30 Motor City (R) 9:15-11:45-2:20- 7:30-10:05 The Odyssey (R) 4DX: 10:25-2:15- 6:00-9:45 Bad Counselors (PG-13) 6:20 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 3:50 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 9:10-12:20-3:30-6:40-7:20-9:50 The Odyssey: The IMAX Experience (R) 8:00-11:40-3:20- 7:00-10:45 Supergirl (PG-13) 10:40-9:05 Toy Story 5 (PG) 8:00-10:30- 12:45-3:05-5:35-8:05-10:40 Minions & Monsters (PG) 8:25- 8:45-9:50-11:05-12:10-1:20-2:30- 3:35-4:50-7:10-9:35 Sia: Nostalgic For The Present 1:00 Moana (PG) VIP: 8:40-11:25-2:10 The Odyssey (R) 8:15-9:00-11:00- 12:00-12:40-2:45-3:40-4:20-6:30- 8:00-10:15-10:30 Young Washington (PG-13) VIP: 8:05-12:55-3:45-6:45 Evil Dead Burn (R) VIP: 5:00- 7:50-10:35
5243 Buckeystown Pike
Xscape Theatres
Brandywine 14
7710 Matapeake Business Drive Tremors (1990) (R) 1:00-4:00- 7:00 Moana (PG) 10:30-12:20-1:20- 5:50-6:40-9:30 Michael (PG-13) 12:45-3:45- 6:35-9:35
Supergirl (PG-13) 11:45-2:15- 4:45-7:15-9:45 Toy Story 5 (PG) 11:25-1:55-4:25- 6:55-9:15 Evil Dead Burn (R) 11:05-4:15- 6:45-9:25 Minions & Monsters (PG) 12:30- 2:40-5:00-7:10-9:20 Motor City (R) 11:00-1:30-6:50- 9:10 The Odyssey (R) 10:40-11:10- 12:40-2:20-2:50-6:00-6:30- 8:00-9:40 The Invite (R) 3:20-9:00 Obsession (R) 11:55-2:35-5:05- 7:35-10:05 Haunted Heist (R) 11:20-1:40- 4:10-7:00-9:50 Moana (PG) OC: 4:00 Evil Dead Burn (R) OC: 1:35 Motor City (R) OC: 4:05 The Odyssey (R) OC: 4:20 VIRGINIA
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8
2150 Clarendon Boulevard
Moana (PG) Laser Projection; CC:
12:15-3:15-6:15-9:10
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 1:00-3:20-7:05-9:30
Disclosure Day (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 11:30AM
Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser
Projection; CC: 11:45-2:30-5:00-
7:30-9:20
The Invite (R) Laser Projection; CC:
11:00-1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00
Young Washington (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 5:40
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 11:00-1:00-3:00-5:00-7:00-
9:00
Obsession (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 2:50-10:00
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 12:00-3:45-
6:00-9:40
AMC Hoffman Center 22
Moana (PG) Laser Projection; CC:
9:40-3:50-7:15-9:40
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 2:00-4:40-7:10
Pinocchio Unstrung (R) Laser
Projection: 9:40AM
Evil Dead Burn (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 10:15-1:20-9:50
Motor City (R) Laser Projection;
OC: 10:30AM
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
OC: 10:30AM; 11:30-1:00-2:30-
3:30-5:00-7:30-9:00
Toy Story 5 3D (PG) CC: 10:20-
1:10
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 12:00-1:20-
3:30-4:40-7:00-8:00-10:30;
9:50AM
The Odyssey 70mm (R) 12:00-
4:00-8:00
The Odyssey Premium (R) Dolby
Cinema; CC: 11:00-3:00-7:00-11:00
The Odyssey: The IMAX
Experience (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:00
Backrooms: Everything Must Go
Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R)
Laser Projection; CC: 4:40-10:40;
1:20
Masters Of The Universe (PG-13)
Laser Projection; CC: 9:30-5:00
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and
Grogu (PG-13) Laser Projection;
CC: 9:50-6:30
Michael (PG-13) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:40-1:50
Supergirl (PG-13) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 10:10-1:20-10:10
Disclosure Day (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:40-3:40-6:20-
9:40
Toy Story 5 (PG) CC: 3:50
Scary Movie (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 4:20
Pinocchio Unstrung (R) Laser
Projection: 4:10-9:45
Motor City (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 7:20
Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser
Projection; CC: 9:50-2:40-5:10-7:40
Reading Lolita in Tehran (NR)
Laser Projection: 7:45
The Odyssey (R) CC: 9:30-1:30-
5:30-6:30-9:30-10:30
Haunted Heist (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 8:15
Jana Nayagan (NR) Laser
Projection: 10:30
Her Private Hell (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 12:45-3:45-6:45-9:45
The Invite (R) Laser Projection; CC:
10:40-1:30-4:20-7:15-10:10
Bad Counselors (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 1:40-7:00
Young Washington (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:45-1:45-4:45
Obsession (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:20-7:45-10:45
The Floaters (NR) Laser Projec-
tion: 10:15
Toy Story 5 3D (PG) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 9:10
Minions & Monsters 3D (PG)
Laser Projection; CC: 12:15-10:10
Moana 3D (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:30-12:50-6:45
The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13)
Laser Projection; CC: 4:00
The Odyssey: The IMAX Expe-
rience (R) Laser Projection; CC:
10:00-2:00-6:00
Sia: Nostalgic For The Present
Laser Projection: 1:00
206 Hoffman Street
AMC Potomac Mills 18
Moana (PG) CC: 10:30-11:30- 2:30-5:45-8:45; 1:20-3:20-7:40 Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection; CC: 1:25-6:55 Evil Dead Burn (R) Laser Projection; CC: 10:05-12:55-4:20- 7:15-10:10 Motor City (R) Laser Projection; OC: 1:45 Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser Projection; CC: 11:05-1:00-1:40- 2:25-6:15-7:45-10:15
2700 Potomac Mills Circle
We want supper!
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 3:45-7:45; 11:45AM
Her Private Hell (R) Laser Projec-
tion; OC: 6:45
Young Washington (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:40AM
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; OC: 12:05
The Odyssey Premium (R) Dolby
Cinema; CC: 11:00-3:00-7:00-10:55
The Odyssey: The IMAX Expe-
rience (R) Laser Projection; CC:
10:00-2:00-6:00-10:00
Backrooms: Everything Must Go
Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R)
Laser Projection; OC: 10:30
Pinocchio Unstrung (R) Laser
Projection: 11:25-1:50
Motor City (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:10-4:30-7:15-10:00
The Odyssey (R) CC: 1:30-5:30-
9:30
The Invite (R) Laser Projection; CC:
10:55-1:55-4:50-7:40
Haunted Heist (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 4:20-9:15
Jana Nayagan (NR) Laser Projec-
tion: 10:15AM
Her Private Hell (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 4:55-9:35
Bad Counselors (PG-13) Laser
Projection; CC: 7:00
Minions & Monsters 3D (PG) La-
ser Projection; CC: 10:25-3:35-8:50
Moana 3D (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:00-4:25-10:45
Toy Story 5 3D (PG) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 10:35-4:10-9:45
The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13)
Laser Projection; CC: 4:00
The Odyssey 70mm (R) 12:30-
4:30-8:30
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 10:30-1:55-
3:30-5:20-6:30-7:00-8:45-9:55-
10:25
Sia: Nostalgic For The Present
Laser Projection: 1:00
AMC Shirlington 7
Moana (PG) Laser Projection; CC:
9:45-12:50-4:00-7:15-10:15
Toy Story 5 (PG) Laser Projection;
CC: 9:30-3:30-6:15-9:00
Minions & Monsters (PG) Laser
Projection; CC: 10:20-1:45-4:20-
7:00-9:50
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
CC: 10:00-11:30-2:00-3:30-6:00-
7:30-9:40
Her Private Hell (R) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 4:30-7:20-10:15
The Invite (R) Laser Projection; CC:
4:10-7:00-10:00
Toy Story 5 3D (PG) Laser Projec-
tion; CC: 12:40
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; CC: 10:15AM
The Odyssey (R) Laser Projection;
OC: 12:15
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
Laser Projection; OC: 1:00
2772 South Randolph Street
AMC Tysons Corner 16
7850e Tysons Corner Center
AMC Worldgate 9
Moana (PG) CC: 12:15-3:15-6:15
Toy Story 5 (PG) CC: 2:15-4:15-
6:00-9:15
Evil Dead Burn (R) CC: 12:40-
4:30-7:30-10:30
Minions & Monsters (PG) CC:
12:30-1:45-4:00-7:00-9:00
The Odyssey (R) CC: 12:00-2:00-
3:00-5:00-6:30-7:10-8:45-9:30
The Invite (R) CC: 1:15-4:30-
7:20-10:30
Moana 3D (PG) CC: 10:20
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
CC: 1:00-3:30-7:00-10:15
13025 Worldgate Drive
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema -
One Loudoun
20575 Easthampton Plaza
Jurassic Park (PG-13) 11:45-
7:00-10:30
Casualties of War (R) 10:45
Elf (PG) 3:30
Toy Story 5 (PG) 9:45-12:45-3:45-
6:45-9:35
Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:10-
12:55-3:35-6:15-9:00
The Odyssey (R) 10:00-10:45- 11:15-12:00-2:00-2:45-3:15-4:00- 6:00-6:30-7:30-8:00-10:00 Moana (PG) 10:30-1:35-4:40- 7:15-10:20 The Invite (R) 10:20-1:20-4:15- 7:45-10:45
Angelika Film Center Mosaic
Moana (PG) 11:15-2:00-4:35-
7:15-8:30
Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:00-
12:05-2:10-4:20-6:30-8:45
The Odyssey (R) 11:30-12:30-
4:15-5:00-7:00-8:00-10:30
Reading Lolita in Tehran (NR)
Subtitled: 10:25-2:30-9:45
The Odyssey (R) OC: 3:15
The Invite (R) 12:00
The Odyssey 35mm (R) 10:30-
2:15-6:00-9:35
Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:05-11:00-
1:20-3:45-6:15-8:35
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
12:55-4:00-7:00-10:00
2911 District Ave
Cinema Arts Theatre
The Sheep Detectives (PG) 9:50- 12:05-2:15 The Devil Wears Prada 2 (PG-13) 10:05-2:35-9:15 The Odyssey (R) 10:00-12:30- 1:15-3:45-4:35-7:00-7:50-10:10 The Invite (R) 9:40-5:00-9:50 Motor City (R) OC: 4:50 Young Washington (PG-13) 12:00-2:30-7:30 Reading Lolita in Tehran (NR) 12:20-2:40-7:40-9:45 Winter Hymns 4:30 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 4:25-7:15 Motor City (R) 9:55-12:15-7:10- 9:50
9650 Unit 14 Main St.
Cinemark Centreville
Moana (PG) 8:35-9:00-9:35-3:35-
6:30-9:25
Toy Story 5 (PG) 8:30-6:55-9:35
Evil Dead Burn (R) 8:55-11:50-
5:30-8:20
Minions & Monsters (PG)
8:50-9:25-11:30-11:55-2:25-4:30-
7:00-9:30
The Odyssey (R) 8:30-9:00-11:10-
11:20-12:20-3:00-3:10-4:40-6:50-
8:30-10:40
Jana Nayagan (NR) Subtitled:
4:55-9:00
The Invite (R) 9:20-12:05-5:35-
8:20
Chennai Love Story (NR) Subti-
tled: 3:05-6:50-10:35
Young Washington (PG-13) 9:40-
12:40-6:40-9:40
Moana 3D (PG) 12:35
Hadestown: The Musical (NR)
9:10-12:30-3:50-7:10-10:30
Moana (PG) OC: 12:00
Toy Story 5 (PG) OC: 4:10
Evil Dead Burn (R) OC: 2:40
Minions & Monsters (PG) OC:
2:00
The Odyssey (R) OC: 12:50
The Invite (R) OC: 2:50
Young Washington (PG-13)
OC: 3:40
6201 Multiplex Drive
Cinemark
Fairfax Corner and XD
Toy Story 5 (PG) 8:40-9:15-11:20- 11:55-1:40-2:35-4:20-5:15-7:55- 10:35 Evil Dead Burn (R) 10:10 Minions & Monsters (PG) 8:40- 9:00-9:40-11:30-12:10-2:40-4:30- 5:10-7:00-7:40-9:30 The Odyssey (R) DBOX: 9:00- 12:50-4:40-8:30 Jana Nayagan (NR) Subtitled: 3:00-7:00-10:50 Chennai Love Story (NR) Subti- tled: 6:00-9:45 Young Washington (PG-13) 9:00- 12:00-3:00-6:00-9:00 Obsession (R) 10:20 Minions & Monsters 3D (PG) 2:00 Moana 3D (PG) 2:50 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 9:00-9:15-12:20-12:35-3:40-7:00- 7:15-10:35 The Odyssey Premium (R) DBOX; XD: 10:05-11:30-1:55-3:20-5:45- 7:10-9:35-11:00 Moana (PG) 9:00-11:55-2:05-5:00 Jana Nayagan (NR) Subtitled: 10:35 The Odyssey (R) 9:50-10:20- 11:10-2:10-6:00-9:50
11900 Palace Way
Medal of Honor Theater -
NMMC
18900 Jefferson Davis Highway
We, the Marines 10:00-11:00-
12:00-1:00-2:00-3:00-4:00
Paragon Founders Row 112 Founders Avenue Moana (PG) 10:10-1:00-3:50- 6:40-9:30 Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:20-1:10-4:00- 6:50-9:40 Evil Dead Burn (R) 3:30-6:15 Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:30- 1:00-3:30 The Odyssey (R) 10:30-2:20- 6:10-10:00 The Invite (R) 10:00-12:45 The Odyssey (R) 10:00-11:30- 1:50-4:00-5:40-7:00-8:00-9:00- 9:30
Phoenix Theatres
Village 14 + PTX
1600 Village Market Boulevard SE
Tremors (1990) (R) 1:00
Moana (PG) 10:00-10:30-1:30-
4:15-4:45-7:30-9:30
The Fifth Element (2024 Re-Re-
lease) (PG-13) 4:00
Supergirl (PG-13) 11:00-1:45-7:10
Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:50-1:20-3:50-
6:20-8:50
Evil Dead Burn (R) 10:15
Motor City (R) 11:10-1:45-4:20-
6:50-9:30
Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:00- 11:00-12:30-1:30-3:00-4:00-5:30- 7:45-10:00 The Invite (R) 6:30-10:15 The Odyssey (R) 10:15-11:15- 2:15-3:05-6:00-7:00-10:00 Jana Nayagan (NR) Subtitled: 1:30-5:15 Bad Counselors (PG-13) 7:00 Chennai Love Story (NR) Subti- tled: 10:00-9:00 Young Washington (PG-13) 10:00-12:50-4:20-7:00-9:50 Obsession (R) 9:45 The Odyssey Premium (R) DBOX: 1:00-4:45-8:40 The Odyssey (R) 10:45-12:15- 2:45-4:05-6:30-8:00-9:30
Regal Ballston Quarter 671 North Glebe Road Moana (PG) 10:40-1:40-4:20- 7:10-9:50 Toy Story 5 (PG) 9:20-10:20-1:00- 3:30-6:20-7:00-8:50 Motor City (R) 8:45-2:00-4:50- 7:50-10:30 The Odyssey (R) 8:50-9:30-10:30- 11:00-11:40-12:40-1:20-2:20- 2:50-4:30-6:10-6:40-7:30-8:10- 9:10-10:10-10:40 The Invite (R) 12:05-3:00-5:50- 8:30-11:05 Young Washington (PG-13) 9:50- 12:50-3:40-9:30 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 3:50 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 9:00-12:30-4:00-7:20-10:50 Motor City (R) Subtitled; OC: 11:20AM Minions & Monsters (PG) 9:10- 10:00-12:20-2:40-5:00-7:40-10:00 The Odyssey (R) Subtitled; OC: 5:20
Regal Dulles Town Center 21100 Dulles Town Circle Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 11:30-2:15-5:30-8:45-10:45 Moana (PG) 11:50-2:30-5:10- 10:35 Minions & Monsters (PG) 11:15- 2:45-5:00-8:00 Hadestown: The Musical (NR) 11:00-7:30 The Odyssey (R) 10:40-11:40- 12:40-1:30-2:20-3:20-4:20-5:10- 6:00-7:00-7:50-8:50-9:40-10:15 Supergirl (PG-13) 10:45-1:20 Backrooms: Everything Must Go Edition w/ Bonus Footage (R) 7:10-10:00 Young Washington (PG-13) 10:50-1:40 The Fifth Element (2026) (PG-13) 4:00 Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:30-1:00-3:25- 5:50-8:15-10:40 Motor City (R) 10:15-4:40-7:20- 9:50
Regal Fairfax Towne Center
4110 West Ox Road
Moana (PG) 9:40-11:10-2:00-
4:20-7:00
Supergirl (PG-13) 11:00-1:40
Toy Story 5 (PG) 10:20-1:00-3:40-
6:30-9:10
Disclosure Day (PG-13) 9:45-1:00
Minions & Monsters (PG) 10:00-
12:30-2:50-5:10-7:20-9:50
The Odyssey (R) 9:30-10:50-
11:30-12:20-1:30-2:40-4:10-5:30-
6:50-9:30-10:20
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A massive metal hearth anchors the kitchen at Brasero Atlántico, an Argentinian restaurant in Georgetown. The fire fills the air with sweet smoke, but too often, the food isn’t infused with enough of its flavor.
Brasero Atlántico
My friend texted me a photo after our dinner at Brasero Atlántico last month. “The grill left its mark on me,” he quipped alongside a picture of his neck speckled with what looked like wood ash. A little soot is to be expected at the Georgetown restaurant, whose open kitchen is taken up by a very large metal hearth. As logs burn down, their embers are moved from the central chimney stack to a structure of flattops and grates. Above this contraption, a huge vent is hard at work, but heat and smoke still sneak into the dining room. The smell is of a cozy campfire, but the surroundings are sleek and grand. When it comes to the carnal theater of live-fire cooking, this Argentine restaurant, which opened last year, is up there with the likes of the Dabney and Maydan.
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But something is wrong. In early May, when I ordered vegetables a las brasas — cooked over the coals, as their name suggests — what came to the table was a plate of broccolini and bok choy that looked as meek and colorless as if they had been boiled. The $69 rib-eye that followed was equally mystifying, its surface about as pale as my dear friend’s neck. I liked the flavors of a salad sold as “charred iceberg lettuce,” a thick cross- section dressed elegantly in vinaigrette and edible flowers. Only this, too, had all the char of a Sweetgreen bowl. Why bother grilling lettuce if the effect is that of uncooked roughage?
Scrolling back through photos I took over the course of three dinners, I struggled to locate a single grill mark. Were dishes simply being pulled off the flame too soon? That wouldn’t explain a pork chop, grilled until tough and chewy but still, somehow, lacking the dark, near-burned tone and rich, smoky flavor I expect from live fire. You will feel the flames during dinner at Brasero Atlántico, as they leap from the kitchen and grace you with their ash. Rarely will you taste them.
The timid use of fire at a live-fire restaurant will be an understandable dealbreaker for many diners (and weighed heavily in my “satisfactory” rating). It’s a shame, because there’s plenty else that executive chef Manuela Carbone and her team ace. Dinner begins with a flourish, as a server in a sharp white chore coat delivers what looks like a Minecraft coal block to each diner. This severe form turns out to be a plush and inviting loaf of bread, which Carbone hydrates with squid ink and serves with a quenelle of butter ridged like a seashell. It is buoyant, faintly sweet and winkingly on-theme for a fire-obsessed restaurant. Complimentary bread service is a dying art, and Carbone’s contribution to the genre reminds me how very sad that is.
King crab empanadas, another first impression, are the chef’s nod to a time when the now-luxe ingredient was an accessible staple of coastal Argentine communities. She fills sturdy, nicely browned pockets of flaky crust with crabmeat, béchamel and caramelized onions, plus plenty of lemon juice. “We try and keep them very simple,” she says. Maybe so, but the result is a dish of sweet, rich, oceanic complexity.
Carbone also makes a Spanish tortilla as pretty and technically precise as any you’ll find. On one of my visits, the pillowy round omelet was crowned with plump shrimp — her seafood of choice changes with the seasons, and she has since turned to octopus. Slice it open, and out spill tender chunks of potato and soft-set scrambled eggs that mix with paprika-stained oil to form a heady sauce ideal for your last bites of bread.
If you treat Brasero Atlántico more like a lounge than a full-blown restaurant, focusing on small dishes and cocktails, you will be rewarded. Perhaps this is in the restaurant’s DNA, as the offspring of one of Argentina’s great bars. The renowned bartender Renato Giovannoni opened Florería Atlántico in Buenos Aires in 2013, as a bar hidden behind a wine and flower shop. It has since become known as one of the world’s very best places to
Satisfactory 1066 Wisconsin Ave. NW. braseroatlanticodc.com 202-516-4886 Hours: Daily, 5 to 10:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Don’t miss: King crab empanadas, wild mushroom Provençal, tortilla, season’s roots, grilled octopus, salchicha parrillera. Skip: Arroz negro, vegetables a las brasas, pork chop, Argentine rib-eye, french fries. Prices: Small dishes $18 to $35, larger dishes $29 to $192 (steak for two). Sound check: 74 decibels/Must speak with raised voice. Accessibility: No barriers to restaurant entry; ADA-compliant restrooms; Florería Atlántico accessible via elevator. Dietary considerations: Allergens are not listed on menu; several pescatarian and vegetarian dishes available.
drink. Along with the Washington brasero, Giovannoni and collaborator Alex Resnik brought a version of their bar-flower-shop combo to Georgetown, opening Florería Atlántico next door to their new live-fire restaurant.
My most successful dinners at Brasero Atlántico start with a trip through the sunlit flower shop — pausing for a moment to admire the pristine arrangements — and into the dim subterranean lounge. It’s a comfortable place to hang out before your reservation, run by the same competent, relaxed staff that make even a bumpy meal next door feel pleasant.
My favorite drink down here is the Yamanas, a classic ported over from the Buenos Aires location, flavored with Scotch, gin and Earl Grey tea and dyed SeaWorld-blue with spirulina algae. The cocktails here are
sprightly and experimental. Back in the neighboring restaurant, you will find a pared- down list of more serious but no less enjoyable drinks. The Negroni Balestrini, made with seawater and eucalyptus, is a refreshing counterbalance to a dining room whose air becomes progressively hotter and heavier as the night draws on.
As you work your way down the menu and dishes rise in size and price, dinner takes a turn for the disappointing. Arroz negro ($44) looks the part, dotted with aioli and decorated with fried quail eggs and rounds of blood sausage. The rice, though, is aggressively bland and so weighted with butter that a few bites register as a full meal. Pastas are hit or miss. Hit: the lovely, lively pesto coating al dente squid ink linguine ($49). Miss: the swordfish capping the same dish, a pale slice of overcooked fish that doesn’t jibe or explain the cost. The fries that come with a $192 steak dinner for two — or that can be ordered as a $15 side — are, tragically, not homemade. Though the restaurant has them made to spec by its supplier, they very much resemble the batter-coated ones sold in jumbo bags in the freezer aisle.
Not every dish suffers from a lack of bold, direct heat. I liked octopus, served snappy and very nearly charred on a mound of creamy white beans. A tight coil of sausage imported from a Buenos Aires producer was grilled until crisp and pleasantly smoky, alongside a bright, tangy salsa. Mushrooms found a nice, dark crust on the plancha before being glossed in garlicky parsley butter and plated with a soft-boiled egg.
Among my favorite dishes in late June was a simple plate of kohlrabi and leeks that had been cooked until soft and supple. There was no intense color from the hearth, but the pure heat had brought out each vegetable’s sweetest, most essential flavor. I took it as a welcome reminder that fire does not have to singe and scorch to produce greatness. It can flicker in the background. Too often at Brasero Atlántico, you forget it’s there at all.
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This bus concept is mildly dreamy
BY ANDREA SACHS
BARCELONA — The two drivers of a bus bound for Switzerland climbed the stairs of the Twiliner double-decker and stopped by each passenger’s seat for a prede- parture briefing. Before setting off into the night, they needed to show the travelers how to sleep.
Sleeping horizontally is com- mon on overnight trains where the seats or benches convert into beds. Fully unfurling your body on a bus is rarer. Riders can usually recline a few inches, but stretching out on your back? Only in your dreams.
Twiliner, which launched in November, is hoping to revolu- tionize coach travel as Europe’s only provider of night buses with fully reclinable seats. Its 21 lie- flat seats resemble the cushy convertible pods that economy passengers pass en route to their cramped seats in the back of the plane.
“We initially started from scratch. How do we get people from A to B in the most comfort- able way?” said Joël Béla Bernau- er-Bourgeois, a Swiss industrial designer and co-founder of Twil- iner, which holds full intellectual property rights on its seat de- sign. “The inspiration was the business-class seat in aviation.”
Though budget travelers can often fly within Europe for cheap, Bernauer-Bourgeois touts the overnight bus as a less expen- sive and more environmentally- friendly alternative to flying, es- pecially when paired with a ho- tel. According to Swiss govern- ment calculations, the coaches emit up to 85 percent fewer carbon emissions per passenger- kilometer than a flight on a similar route. Environmental agencies and organizations regu- larly cite the short-haul flight as one of the biggest polluters in the industry and urge travelers to opt for greener modes of trans- portation, such as trains or bus- es.
Over the years, I have attempt- ed sleepovers on long-distance buses and trains in North Ameri- ca and Europe, and discovered that, even in a supine position, restorative rest can be elusive. The swaying or jerky motion combined with the cacophony of sounds — rattling and rustling, honks and whistles, snores and snorts — can turn even the most exhausted traveler into a wired insomniac.
But I wasn’t giving up. Perhaps the Twiliner could lull me to sleep?
“You enter the coach, and grab your cup of tea. You have big
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reece has the longest coastline in the Mediterranean, but you wouldn’t know it by the way many plan their trips to the country. Athens, Mykonos and Santorini receive the ma- jority of visitors, which doesn’t help with the overtourism Greece has been bat- tling for years.
But that trifecta makes up only a small fraction of the country’s thousands of islands and nearly 8,500 miles of water- front. There are so many more pockets to explore for warm hospitality and spec- tacular landscapes.
So if you want to end up in “a crush of tourists,” said Helen Iatrou, a freelance
journalist based in Athens, follow the Greek travel trends you see on social media. If you want sun-soaked bliss, seek out these beaches instead.
Messenia, Peloponnese
With the exception of Athens, “many people don’t know about the Greek mainland,” said Iatrou, who has lived in Greece for more than 30 years. “And that’s a shame.”
But the mainland is about to get the Hollywood treatment. Christopher No- lan’s rendition of “The Odyssey,” which is out this week, was partially filmed in the Peloponnese, a southern peninsula of the mainland.
Iatrou recommends that visitors rent
a car and take a road trip through the region. It’s sprawling, so pick one of its prefectures to explore, such as Messenia, where you’ll find some “gorgeous, gor- geous places like Voidokilia Beach,” Iatrou said.
If it’s not too hot, take advantage of the Peloponnese’s network of hiking trails that opened up this year.
Chania, Crete
More travelers are finding Crete, which is Greece’s largest and most popu- lous island. Part of the draw is the island’s beaches and ancient history, and part of it is the food. This year, Crete was awarded the official title of “European
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Ginjinha is a sweet liqueur made from the sour-cherry-like ginja berry, sugar and alcohol. It’s sold for less than $2 a shot in funky old shops throughout Portugal.
Europe’s regional spirits let you drink in the local culture
BY RICK STEVES
Finishing dinner at Rome’s Ristorante da Fortunato, my friend Stefano explains that his greatest joy is an after-dinner drink called grappa. I try my best to enjoy the local firewater and fail. Sipping the grappa, Stefano instructs me: “You must not be in a hurry when taking a grappa!” He savors it carefully, sniffing the aroma and lingering over every taste. He then tells me that his ultimate joy is to have a glass of grappa — and a Tuscan cigar — while cruising on his sailboat to Corsica.
And so it goes all over Eu- rope. Each nation has its own brand of moonshine — a dis- tilled concoction that burns your throat, waters your eyes, and clouds your mind till you think you can drink like you’re a native. Trying these regionally produced spirits and liqueurs can be a great way to drink in the distinct cultures and tradi- tions across my favorite conti- nent.
While many Americans are familiar with whiskeys and brandies, there’s a cornucopia of other specialty spirits in Europe, many made from fruits. Italy’s grappa, for example, is made from winemaking leftovers — skins, pulp, seeds and stems — distilled into a clear, potent brew. If you can’t take it straight, try a shot of it in a cup of espresso, which the Italians call “caffè corretto” (“corrected coffee”).
Ginjinha is one of my favorite Portuguese drinks. This sweet li- queur is made from the sour- cherry-like ginja berry, sugar and alcohol. It’s sold for less than $2 a shot in funky old shops throughout Portugal. Buy it with or without berries (“com elas” or “sem elas” — that’s “with them” or “without them”) and gelada (if you want it poured from a chilled bottle — very nice).
In Greece, cloudy, anise-fla- vored ouzo, supposedly invented by monks on Mount Athos, is worth a try even if you don’t like the taste of black licorice. Simi- lar to its Mediterranean cousins, French pastis and Turkish raki, ouzo turns from clear to milky white when you add ice or water (don’t drink it straight). Greeks drink it both as an aperitif and with food.
firewater, most of them a variation on slivovitz
Limoncello is like bottled sunshine. Sip it chilled after dinner for a “bella Italia” experience.
highly valued that it’s the de facto currency of
ued that it’s the de facto curren- cy of the Carpathian Mountains (often used for bartering with farmers and other mountain folk). In Hungary, for a more straightforward spirit, try pálin- ka, a powerful drink made from various fruits, most often szilva (plums) or barack (apricots).
ple some schnapps. One of the best places for this home brew is Salzburg, Austria. Look for Sporer on the city’s main drag; it’s a family-run distillery and retail shop that’s been around for a century. Its many firewa- ters are in jugs at the end of the bar: Nuss is nut, Marillen is apricot (typical of this region), the Kletzen cocktail is like a su- perthick Baileys with pear, and edle Brande are the stronger schnapps.
One of the most notorious European specialty drinks is ab- sinthe, the highly alcoholic, herb-based beverage popular among artists and writers in the late 1800s. Van Gogh and Gau- guin had their falling-out thanks, in part, to a night of ab- sinthe drinking. That same night, Van Gogh sliced off part of his ear and presented it to a prostitute.
Considered dangerously ad- dictive, absinthe was banned in 1915 but is legal again in France. There’s a ritual to drinking it that requires a special glass and a slotted spoon. First pour a shot of absinthe into the glass, then place a sugar cube on the spoon and trickle cold water slowly through the cube into the drink. The green liquid turns cloudy as the sugary water re- leases the scents of absinthe’s main flavorings — wormwood, anise and fennel.
If you want to know more about “la fée verte” (“the green fairy” — absinthe’s nickname), visit the Musée de l’Absinthe in Auvers-sur-Oise, northwest of Paris. It’s located here for a rea- son: Auvers is also the site of Van Gogh’s suicide and grave.
Compared with absinthe, li- moncello is like bottled sun- shine. This is Italy’s candy-like liqueur made from lemons. Italy is one of the world’s largest pro- ducers of lemons, and its Sor- rento area specializes in limon- cello. Sip it chilled after dinner for a “bella Italia” experience.
While taste-testing your way through Europe is fun, there’s another reason for barhopping: You’re sharing the local stuff with local people in local bars. So ask that person sitting near- by to suggest his or her favorite. It may singe your eyebrows, but you’ll never forget it.
This article is used with the permission of Rick Steves’ Europe. Rick Steves writes European guidebooks, hosts travel shows on public TV and radio, and organizes European tours.
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Region of Gastronomy” by the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism. It’s where Iatrou sends food-driven travelers.
“The Cretan diet is believed to be the basis of the Mediterranean diet,” Iatrou said. “It’s pretty much almost self-sufficient agricultur- ally. They produce most of their fruit and vegetables, olive oil … livestock as well as fish.”
One of her favorite areas of the island is Chania, which is both a city and a region in the northwest. It’s known for its 14th-century Venetian harbor and Elafonisi, a nature re- serve with a pink sand beach — which can get busy, so Iatrou recommends visiting in the mornings.
Her other beach pick is Balos Lagoon, where you’ll find “cerulean waters and white powder sand,” Iatrou said. “It has these rocky land- scapes, these rust-red cliffs surrounding it … just incredible.”
Agia Paraskevi, Spetses
When Elena Papanicolaou, founder of an Athens-based tour company, wants to “slow down and appreciate nature and simplicity,” the first island on her list is Spetses in the Saronic Gulf.
Only a two-hour ferry ride from Athens — and also easy to reach from the Peloponnese — Spetses is paradise for pedestrians, as cars are restricted to residents only. Papanicolaou says it’s a quieter alternative to nearby Hydra; it charms with pine trees lining turquoise water and neoclassical mansions. Fans of the “Knives Out” sequel “Glass Onion” might recognize this glamorous side of Spetses; the film’s party scenes were shot on the island.
Papanicolaou’s favorite beach is Agia Paraskevi, on Spetses’s uninhabited side.
Astypalaia
Ioannis Giannakakis, who runs Athens Walking Tours, sends beach-seekers to Astyp- alaia, an island off the southeastern coast that he says feels like the Greece many travelers imagine but rarely find anymore: “relaxed, genuinely local and full of character.”
Giannakakis said Astypalaia is known for its excellent beaches (such as Vatses, Kaminakia and Agios Konstantinos), secluded coves (like Plakes, Ble Limanaki and Chrysi Ammos), hiking trails and whitewashed churches. Lo- cals say there are 365 places of worship on the
TOP: Goats and tourists alike enjoy Balos Lagoon on the Greek island of Crete. Part of the draw is the island’s beaches and ancient history, and part of it is the food. MIDDLE: Agia Paraskevi, on the west side of Spetses island, which is only a two-hour ferry ride from Athens. RIGHT: Beachgoers in Elafonisi, Greece, a nature reserve with a pink sand beach.
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Argilos beach in Xerokambos, Crete, is “largely untouched by mass tourism,” says Villy Manolia, an Athens native who works for a Greek travel company.
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island — one for every day of the year.
The food is another highlight. Giannakakis recommends trying island specialties such as pouggia, a crispy cheese pie with local chlori cheese, honey and cinnamon; lambrianos, a slow-roasted stuffed lamb or goat; and “out- standing local cheeses,” he said.
If you need another reason to be charmed, Astypalaia’s nickname is “the butterfly of the Agean,” thanks to its winged shape.
On the southeastern end of Crete, the remote settlement of Xerokambos is a favorite escape for Villy Manolia, who is with the travel company Unforgettable Greece, because it is “largely untouched by mass tourism.”
“Instead of rows of sunbeds, you’ll find dramatic landscapes, pristine beaches, and a slower pace that’s becoming increasingly rare in the Mediterranean,” Manolia, an Athens native, said in an email.
What keeps Xerokambos quiet is its loca- tion. It’s about an hour’s drive from the nearest city, Sitia, and 20 minutes from the village of Zakros. Manolia says it’s worth the trek for “the chance to experience Greece the way locals have cherished it for generations.”
Psili Ammos, Naxos
Psili Ammos on the island of Naxos is another top recommendation for Manolia. Being a little farther from the island’s main tourist areas helps the beach stay “surprisingly quiet,” she said. Getting there is part of the fun. “The drive is one of the most beautiful on the island,” Manolia said.
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She also tells visitors to combine their trip to Psili Ammos with a visit to the hillside village of Apeiranthos, where you’ll find wonderful food, marble buildings and “the most hospita- ble locals,” she added.
Folegandros
Mykonos and Santorini may be the super- stars of the Cyclades, but for “something more dramatic and tranquil,” Brianna Chrisopulos, a luxury travel expert at Kensington Ultraluxe, sends clients to Folegandros. You’ll find the same whitewashed villages and panoramic views of the Aegean that are emblematic of the archipelago, but none of the crowds.
Of the island’s three villages — Karavostasis, Ano Meria and Chora — Chrisopulos is most fond of Chora, which is perched on a cliff. If you’re staying on the island overnight, don’t miss a sunset walk up to the village’s Church of Panagia.
Charter a boat
If you’d rather forget rental car lines, busy ferries and hotel hopping, Iatrou recommends signing up for a sailing tour or chartering your own boat with companies like Seafarer Cruis- ing & Sailing Holidays and Ionion Sails.
It’s a trip style that suits groups, whether it’s getting your friends together or taking a memorable multigenerational vacation, “and it gets you away from the crowds,” Iatrou added. “There’s no traffic at sea.”
Another option for exploring Greece is to charter a boat. It’s a trip style that suits groups, whether it’s getting your friends together or taking a memorable multigenerational vacation.
BY HANNAH SAMPSON
AND ANDREA SACHS
The airport can feel like a pub- lic-phone-call gantlet. Gab, gab, gab at the gate. Blah, blah, blah in the lounge. Then you’re in the air and — finally — a break.
Even as several international airlines relax their rules to allow calls in flight, a group of lawmak- ers is trying to ensure U.S. carriers will remain phone-call-free with new proposed legislation. It’s a move that the largest flight atten- dants union would welcome.
“This is about safety and secu- rity. It’s about keeping the cabin calm. It’s about making sure we can do our jobs as aviation’s first responders,” Sara Nelson, presi- dent of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, said in a state- ment. “And, it’s about overwhelm- ing public sentiment against calls on planes, no matter the technol- ogy.”
She added: “No calls on planes. Period.”
The bipartisan “Quiet Skies Act,” introduced earlier this month, seeks to “finalize a ban” on in-flight calling. The measure fol- lows up on a provision in the 2018 bill reauthorizing the Federal Avi-
Bus from F1 The accommodations on the Twiliner bus were as tidy as a hotel room
windows so you can watch your surroundings, but then you pull down the curtains, put your seat in the bed position and brush your teeth downstairs,” said Ber- nauer-Bourgeois, setting the dreamy scene. “You go to sleep and awake, hopefully refreshed, in the city center of your destina- tion.”
Booking passage on an overnight bus
Several times a week, Twiliner buses travel between Zurich and Amsterdam and Zurich and Bar- celona. Passengers can ride to the end point or disembark at an intermediary stop, such as Brus- sels, Rotterdam, Luxembourg or the Swiss city of Basel on the Amsterdam line or Girona, Spain or Bern, Switzerland, on the Barcelona route.
For my midweek journey in early July, I purchased a one-way ticket from Barcelona to Bern, the penultimate stop before Zur- ich. Without traffic or other delays, the roughly 585-mile journey should take about 121/2 hours. My $194 fare included a full set of linens, bottled water and unlimited tea and coffee from the self-serve shared kitch- enette. By comparison, a one- way flight, which would take about two hours, plus hotel would have cost more than twice as much.
Booking online was a cinch. After choosing my route, I select- ed a seat, which, as a light sleeper who values her personal space, required the strategic skills of a wedding planner or four-star general.
The forward section of the upper deck contains the bulk of seating — four rows with three seats each, with an aisle separat- ing the pair and the single. There are also two rows aft of the stairs plus a row on the lower level, wedged between the drivers’ cab and the bathroom, changing room and kitchen area.
Though a front seat up high would have been the most pan- oramic — at least before the squished bugs smudged the views — I worried about feeling pinned in by other passengers beside and behind me. The seats on the first floor were too close to the lavatory and the drivers, who would rotate shifts during the night. The back of the bus ap- peared empty, so I reserved a solo seat, hoping the squares on seat- ing chart remained empty.
With only eight people on the journey, they did.
Boarding and settling in
The Twiliner bus was sched- uled to depart Barcelona Nord Station at 7:30 p.m. I waited by the bay, in the sweltering heat, with several other passengers, including Lisa Conzelmann, a Swiss teacher returning home after a year in Madrid.
“The train was too expensive, and I didn’t want to fly,” said Conzelmann, who was trying to minimize her expenses and car- bon emissions. “I spent three hours researching FlixBus, but you have to sit up.”
Conzelmann had planned to leave two nights earlier, but the company canceled her trip due to “technical problems.”
The bus pulled up a few min- utes late, and Rene Aquino and Martin Fulo, our chirpy and cheerful drivers, hopped out. They checked off our names and stored the larger pieces of lug- gage. With no overhead bins or
ation Administration that was supposed to ban voice calls.
But the FAA did not come out with rules on how a ban would work, said Rep. Greg Stanton (D- Arizona), one of the bill’s spon- sors. This law would give the agency 180 days to issue a rule.
“Technically, because the rules haven’t been put in place, it’s not illegal,” Stanton said in an inter- view. “Now, it’s still against the rules on many of the airlines, but we want to make it clear that for all airlines, mid-flight calls are illegal.”
Fast, free WiFi
He and others point to im- provements in technology that have made fast in-flight WiFi a reality — and the possibility of passengers easily making video and voice calls a more pressing issue.
“Now that more and more air- lines have Starlink, which allows for lightning-fast WiFi and con- nectivity, this will become an even bigger problem in the future,” Clint Henderson, managing edi- tor of news at the Points Guy, said in an email. “The tech is already here, and the last thing any of us want to hear is a loud meeting or
The Twiliner double-decker bus on a route from Barcelona to Switzerland this month.
racks, the smart packers among us had filled a smaller bag with sleepover essentials.
My accommodations were as tidy as a hotel room. On the seat, I found a short stack of clean, folded bedding, including a sheet, a light quilted blanket and a case for a pillow tucked inside a purple tote.
Aquino and Fulo dropped by to demonstrate the removable tray table and seat settings, which ranged from ramrod straight to slouchy lounger to full prostration. They also explained a safety feature called a “re- straint bag” that would prevent me from sliding forward and slipping under the lap belt in the event of a crash. It resembled a large fisherman’s net that I couldn’t squirm out of.
Aquino warned me against placing my bag by my feet. Pointing at an unoccupied seat, he explained how, on an earlier trip, the footrest had collided with a traveler’s luggage. It was one of four seats stuck in daytime mode.
Before sleep
With so few passengers, we had room to move — literally. The drivers told us we could spread out or relocate. This was not the case the night before, they said, when all 21 seats were occupied.
While we still had natural light streaming through the tall windows, I explored the bus.
I started in the kitchen, which was stocked with chilled drinks (juice, soda, water) and snacks (pretzels, paprika potato chips, protein bars) available for pur- chase by QR code. A hot beverage station offered assorted teas, a jar of instant coffee and coffee pods, but no brewing machine.
Up the steps and toward the front, I met two Swiss friends returning from a yoga vacation in Barcelona. They had just fin- ished their takeout dinner and were contemplating their next activity: Remove their contact lenses? Change into their paja- mas? Put on their shoes?
phone call at 30,000 feet when we may be trying to focus or to sleep.”
TheDepartment of Transporta- tion did not respond to a request for comment. The Federal Com- munications Commission bans the use of cellphones on planes using specific mobile commercial frequencies to avoid interference with networks on the ground, but that restriction does not apply to WiFi calling. Airlines in the Unit- ed States, however, forbid all calls.
“Many U.S. airlines prohibit voice calls over WiFi to ensure a quiet environment for passen- gers,” the FAA said in a statement provided after publication. “FAA regulations require passengers to follow all crewmember safety in- structions.”
Despite that prohibition, flight attendants say they have to tell first-time passengers or remind frequent fliers that calls are off limits in the air.
“Had to inform someone to- day,” Michelle Montez, a flight attendant and host of the “Jump- seat Chronicles Podcast,” wrote in an email.
Henderson said that imple- mentation of the proposed law would give crew members backup when they try to enforce calling
Andrea Sachs/The Washington Post This Twiliner seat is in its lie-flat mode, ready for a passenger to get some shut-eye — or at least attempt to do so.
restrictions.
“For the most part, this legisla- tion wouldn’t change much but just enshrine things as they are now with WiFi widely available but with a ban on phone calls and conference video calling,” he said.
Rules around the world
In Europe and other parts of the world, rules around cellphone use on planes have eased. Emir- ates, a national carrier of the United Arab Emirates, has even touted its long-standing policy that allows calls in the air.
Zach Griff, travel expert and author of the newsletter From the Tray Table, has gone out of his way recently to take several trips to Europe on Air France because of its fast WiFi via Starlink. He said on the first of those flights, he called a friend who was also on the plane via FaceTime — with no audio — and marveled at the speed.
He said international carriers remind passengers to be consid- erate of others while using devic- es, and he has seen people abide by that request in the air.
While Griff said he could see a case for allowing travelers to lis- ten in on Zoom calls — especially
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in business or first class, where passengers are more spread out — he doesn’t believe traditional two- way phone calls should be permit- ted.
On domestic flights in the U.S., travelers are packed in much more tightly; he compared the experience to riding Amtrak in the Northeast Corridor, where many passengers take work or personal calls unless they’re in a quiet car.
“I don’t think anyone wants a plane full of people on phone calls or Zoom calls,” he said, noting that planes are loud environ- ments to begin with.
‘Hard pass’
Despite the global changes, many frequent travelers and air- line crew members based in the U.S. say they are firmly in the no-call camp.
“Air travel is already stressful and uncomfortable, why make it worse!?” Rich Henderson, a flight attendant and a host of the pod- cast “Two Guys on a Plane‚” said in an email. He said he sometimes has to remind passengers that they can’t make calls when the WiFi is good enough for them to try.
“I once got upgraded to first class, and this really feels like that, so I’m excited,” said Lea Whitcher, an actor and comedian based in Zurich. “But I don’t know how well we will sleep. We didn’t sleep well at the yoga retreat, because it was too hot.”
Unlike many European lodg- ings, the bus was frostily air-con- ditioned, the perfect blast of chilly for an American.
The pair had booked round- trip tickets, but Twiliner nixed the southern leg because of, once again, “technical issues.” (Ac- cording to the company, it had to cancel or rebook a number of trips on a third bus deemed inoperable because of “perma- nent technical issues.”) Though they had wanted to do right by Mother Earth, under such short notice, their only other option was to fly.
While we were chatting, we heard a loud thud. A swallow had flown into the bus. Strike two against Mother Earth.
Around midnight, we stopped for gas in Montpellier, France. Inside the mini-mart, I loaded up on soaps, herbs and scented sachets from Provence while Aquino filled his tank with hot chocolate.
Back on the road, smelling like a lavender field, I prepared for bed.
In the changing room, I slipped on sleepwear appropri- ate for public display and brushed my teeth. The sink wa- ter was not potable; it was also dangerously hot. I used the water in my flask to rinse and wash my face.
The restroom, heavy on the signage, was spotless. We were advised to use the toilet paper sparingly, to fill the toilet bowl with water (a simple press of a button) and to sit down regard- less of gender.
Making up my bed
Step 1: Press the “bed” button on the armrest and watch with awe as the seat wriggles and kicks, transforming into a full- fledged bed.
“There are very few places where you’re forced to sit shoul- der-to-shoulder with strangers for hours, and I think keeping phone conversations out of that environment is a reasonable ex- pectation,” he said.
Montez said she does not want to see phone use compromise safety.
“My concern would be that in an emergency passengers would ignore crew instructions and dis- regard us in order to get that last-minute call in,” she said.
Joshua Boyd, a flight attendant who co-hosts the “Jumpseat Chronicles Podcast,” said in an email that as a passenger, he be- lieves flexibility to get or make a call in an emergency is important. And he said there are “bigger fish to fry” than cellphone use in avia- tion.
Other than in an emergency or security situation, his colleague and podcast co-host Darion Foy gave in-flight calls a “hard pass.”
“I love people, but I don’t need to be an honorary guest on every- one’s video call at 35,000 feet,” he said in an email. “Let the plane be one of the last places where we can all enjoy a little peace and quiet.”
from scratch. How do we get people from A to
comfortable way? The
business-class seat in
Joël Béla Bernauer-Bourgeois, a Swiss industrial designer and co- founder of Twiliner, which holds full intellectual property rights on its seat
design
Step 2: Place the sheet over the bed, remove the safety netting from its compartment and clip it in. Plop down the pillow.
Step 3: Lie down, stick legs straight out in the restraint bag, secure the seat belt and cover body with the blanket.
Step 4: Sit up, itchy. Step 5: Swaddle body in the blanket so the scratchy restraint bag does not touch bare skin.
Step 6: Wait for sleep to come.
Sleeping — kind of
I have never been tied to a gurney, but I suspected the Twil- iner’s setup was similar to a medical transport. I could barely move my legs, which meant the restrainer bag was working.
“For safety reasons, please re- main lying on your back for the entire duration of the trip,” the instructions read.
After a futile attempt at curl- ing up on my side, I dozed. But I also woke up a lot. On two occasions, I peered out the win- dow and noticed that we were parked, once for a shift change and again when, as Fulo later told me, the cab door wouldn’t properly shut. I bolted awake for a traffic jam at the Swiss border crossing. As soon as I started seeing sunflower fields, shim- mery blue lakes and snowcapped Mont Blanc, I knew I was up for good.
Twelve hours later, we arrived in Bern. The drivers had saved time by skipping Girona, but a detour in Avignon, France, had set us back 45 minutes.
Honestly, 8 a.m. suited me just fine. Any earlier and I would have just wanted to crawl back into bed, even one on a bus.
The takeaway
The Twiliner’s beds were a comfortable cocoon. Once I adapted to the limitations on my limbs, I slept-ish. Fortunately, occupation was low, so I had privacy and relative quiet.
Sleep, of course, was not the primary purpose of the trip, nor was speed: Flying would have been much faster, even when I factored in travel to the airport and security. I was seeking an adventure, and the Twiliner de- livered. Though I did drag a little during my day in Bern, I could also blame the heat for my sluggishness.
So, would I take the Twiliner again? Absolutely. Would I ride the Twiliner if I needed to be well-rested the following day? Possibly, but only if I had a real bed at my final destination, pref- erably with an early check-in so I could catch up on any missing zzzs.
The average daily hotel rates for New York City hover above $300, but bargains can be found. The question is, are they really worth the savings? We stayed at a few in Manhattan to find out.
Nap York Central Park: $129
Once I made peace with a shared bathroom, it was a short leap to shared rooms and suddenly, I was in hostel territory with plenty of choices.
I picked Nap York Central Park, which offered an “economy pod” in two-bed, women-only accommo- dations with its own bathroom. The property has more than 5,000 reviews on Booking.com and an average score of 8.1, or “very good.” Just a few blocks from Central Park to the north and theaters to the south, the location was impeccable.
The arrival process? Not so much. My room code didn’t work, a problem that repeated during the stay and required multiple front-desk visits. I had to stop by for the promised towel and top sheet, which weren’t on my bed.
My shared room was like a long utility closet. It held a couple lockers where everything had to be stored, comfortable enough bunk beds with privacy screens, a bench, small table, chair and a tower fan. The fan moved the still, warm air around and I hoped things would cool down once the sun set. (This was a huge mistake.)
My room was windowless, but a glass door and wall revealed an adjoining room with a single futuristic-looking sleeping pod inside; it felt like a sci-fi movie. The robot concierge on the ground floor added to the dystopian vibe.
When the heat became too stifling to keep sleeping at 5:30 a.m., I alerted the front desk to the issue and slipped out to walk in Central Park. Later that morning, the problem had been solved: Some- one switched on the air conditioning.
Highlights: Location, location, location. The proximity to the park, several subway lines and the theater district was incredible. The hotel was clean, and the lounge area on the mixed-gender and female-only floors had ample room to work or relax, along with a communal kitchen area.
The bathroom was a decent size, and I had no complaints about the water pressure or tempera- ture in the shower. My roommate was everything you’d hope for in a stranger sleeping in the bottom bunk: laid-back, friendly and considerate. The other
Every time I look online for a hotel in Manhattan, I want to throw my phone in horror. I ponder Staten Island as an alternative. Sometimes I crash with friends in my former home city. What do you mean a room the size of a walk-in closet costs that much?
Last year, the average daily rate in New York City was just over $330, according to CoStar, which compiles data on hotel performance. The average in June 2025 was about the same, a number that didn’t surprise me after spending several days hunting for reasonable prices over a three-night stay last month.
“They’ve just gotten crazier and crazier,” said Pauline Frommer, a native of the city and author of the “Frommer’s New York City 2026”
Nap York’s location was impeccable, but the check-in process was not.
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guests were quiet and respectful of the space, and staffers were helpful when I needed them.
Lowlights: I spent far too much time just trying to get into my room because of recurring keypad problems. The absent AC ruined a large chunk of my time at the site; I should have been more proactive about addressing it. Pods are “strictly single occu- pancy” and the property is for guests who are 18 and older, so this is a no-go for families with kids, and not great for couples.
Did we get what we paid for? Yes, especially once cooler air entered the picture.
Hotel Moca: $210
On the weekend of my stay, $200 was still a stretch for a private room and bathroom. The best fit I found also happened to be in my former neighbor- hood, Washington Heights.
It’s not an area that sees a ton of tourists. Hotel Moca, near a busy highway, will not change that reality. Despite a cheery, all-caps “Welcome to the Heights” in the lobby, art of the George Washington Bridge and garden-inspired wall decor, I didn’t want to linger there. A long list of hotel rules and policies was taped up and a tall partition surrounded the front desk — not exactly welcoming. The industrial scented air freshener was overpowering. On Book- ing.com, the place gets a 5.3, or “fair,” to which I say: fair.
My room was small, though not microscopic, with a table, chair, TV, bed and nightstand. What the sink lacked in space the shower made up for in roomi- ness. But the floors seemed gritty. There were holes in the sheets. A towel was stained. None of it made me want to return.
Highlights: I loved walking around the area, gazing at the lovely United Palace theater, taking in the views at J. Hood Wright Park, grabbing a garlicky Cuban sandwich and cafe con leche at the Cuban- Dominican restaurant Floridita and catching the bus to the Met Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park, an Upper Manhattan gem. The room’s windows were large, and I didn’t hear much street noise on the eighth floor despite being very near a fire station.
Windows in the room at Hotel Moca were large, and very little street noise filtered in.
guidebook. Prices have increased so much that she included New Jersey hotel options in the book for the first time a couple years ago.
“I don’t want people to commute on vacation,” she said, “that’s just sad.”
When I set out to find New York City hotels for early June at rock-bottom, moderately low and not-quite-bargain prices — as we’ve done in Paris and Rome — I had some ground rules. I didn’t want to pick an abnormally cheap time, like February. I wanted to be in Manhattan for convenience to a Shakespeare production in Central Park, Broadway shows and my favorite shops and restaurants. And I didn’t want to share a bathroom with strangers.
One of those conditions quickly went out the window. Here’s what I found for about $100, $200 and $300 in the city that never sleeps.
Lowlights: The room was dingy, linens were subpar and the lobby scent was far too strong. Even if it had been cleaner, the hotel is an inconvenient home base for exploring the rest of the city.
Did we get what we paid for? No.
Distrikt Hotel: $265
Here’s where I admit I cheated the system. I wanted a hotel in easy reach of the Theater District and Penn Station. I wasn’t finding many options in the $300 range that met those needs, so I turned to Hotwire, where you can pick a neighborhood and book a hotel but the name isn’t revealed until after booking.
A four-star property in the area I needed with “very good” reviews stood out to me. I thought I could identify the hotel based on the resort fee and photos, and I learned I was correct after booking. I found the same hotel — by name — discounted on Hotel Tonight, so it can definitely be booked intentionally for a decent price, depending on demand. In busier times, the same room on a Saturday night can run $450 or more.
Distrikt Hotel, an independent boutique hotel that is part of Hilton’s portfolio, delivered. The 40th Street location was perfect for a quick walk to the Broadway outings I had planned and my early- morning train. The lobby was bright and appealing, with its own gardenesque plant wall and pendant lights. Most importantly, the woman working at the front desk was warm and helpful, getting me into a room ahead of check-in time.
I ended up in a spacious King Deluxe with skyscraper views, a Nespresso machine, large bath- room and big TV. The bed was a dream, all fluffy linens and pillows, and I wanted to stay another night.
Even the mandatory destination fee of about $33 didn’t bother me; it included a $29 credit for the on-site bistro, which I used for a light, early dinner to tide me over ahead of a late-night pizza run.
Distrikt Hotel is an independent boutique hotel that is part of Hilton’s portfolio.
Lowlights: Only one elevator was working, which led to long waits and one staircase descent from the 28th floor. While art is inspired by New York City, it still feels a bit chain-like.
Did we get what we paid for? Absolutely.
The takeaway
Finding a good price in New York can feel like hitting a moving target: If you book too far in advance, you might miss out on last-minute price drops. If you wait too long, there might not be a lot to choose from, despite hundreds of properties.
Sarah Funk, founder of walking tour company Funky Experiences, said in an email that she recommends that people looking for good prices stay in Long Island City, just across the East River in Queens. The subway ride into Midtown is quick, and prices are lower.
“And you actually get a gorgeous Manhattan skyline view as a bonus that most Midtown hotels can’t offer,” she said.
In my case, I loved the most expensive hotel I tried and thought it was a great deal for what I paid. I should have trusted the reviews on my mid-priced hotel and perhaps tried something outside Manhat- tan for a better value. In future hotel hunts, I’ll seek out deals by adjusting my date and day of the week — or rolling the dice on a secret spot with good reviews.
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