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The Air Force wants to create a

one-stop shop for abuse victims

after a survey administered last

year found more than half of re-

spondents had experienced psy-

chological or physical abuse dur-

ing the prior two years, but few re-

ported it, service officials said

Tuesday.

Self-identified abuse victims

lacked confidence that reporting

harmful incidents would accom-

plish anything, and those who

sought help were largely dissatis-

fied with their experiences, ac-

cording to an Air Force report re-

leased Tuesday.

Top service officials involved in

administering the survey, which

was the basis for the report entit-

led Interpersonal Violence in the

Department of the Air Force, said

the Air Force needed to do more to RYAN CALLAGHAN/U.S. Air Force

A new report says that abuse victims in the Air Force often lack confidence that reporting incidents will accomplish anything.

Hidden

victimsAir Force survey findsthousands of abusecases go unreported

BY COREY DICKSTEIN

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SEE SURVEY ON PAGE 4

Twenty-three years ago, then-

Defense Secretary William Cohen

publicly pondered whether any

American warfighter would ever

again need to be buried as an uni-

dentifiable “unknown.”

Cohen’s rumination came after

DNA testing conclusively identi-

fied the remains lying in the Tomb

of the Unknown Soldier for the

Vietnam War as 1st Lt. Michael

Blassie, a 24-year-old Air Force

flyer shot down May 11, 1972, in

South Vietnam.

“It may be that forensic science

has reached a point where there

will be no other unknowns in any

war,” Cohen told reporters during

a Pentagon briefing on June 30,

1998.

“I could be proven wrong, but it

would seem to me that given the

state of the art today, it’s unlikely

that we’ll have future unknowns,”

he said.

Almost a quarter-century later, DEDAN DIALS/U.S. Air Force

Blood-sample cards sit at the Armed Forces Repository of SpecimenSamples for the Identification of Remains at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

Forensic science advances mean US war fightersare no longer likely to be buried as ‘unknown’

BY WYATT OLSON

Stars and Stripes

SEE UNKNOWN ON PAGE 5

SILVER SPRING, Md. —

Shares in Rivian Automotive are

set to trade publicly Wednesday,

and the world should get a better

idea of just how hot investors are

for the electric vehicle market.

Rivian, the EV startup backed

by Amazon and Ford, raised at

least $10.5 billion in its public of-

fering to help it ramp up produc-

tion of its trucks, vans and SUVs.

It’s the latest in what’s becoming a

long line of companies trying to

carve out some of Tesla’s dom-

inant market share.

The offering of 135 million

shares was priced at $78 per share,

giving Rivian a market value of $77

billion on a fully diluted basis. That

compares with Honda’s $53 billion

and Ford’s $80 billion.

Automakers big and small, new

and old, are chasing Tesla, which

has largely dominated the electric

vehicle market for years, amass-

ing a market value of more than $1

trillion along the way. So far this

year, Tesla has sold around

627,300 vehicles.

Craig Irwin, an analyst who cov-

ers electric vehicle and EV charg-

ing companies for Roth Capital,

said that even with more compa-

nies entering the EV market, there

is still plenty of room left for new-

comers.

“EVs are inevitable, and it’s a

good thing for the markets to have

another credible EV competitor

come public,” Roth said. “Rivian’s

IPO marks a point of incremental

maturation for the industry and

shows that billions in capital is

available for credible players.”

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Normal recovery time from a

concussion is sometimes double

what it was previously thought to

be, according to a recent Universi-

ty of Michigan study that was heav-

ily funded by the Pentagon.

Researchers studied 1,751 stu-

dent-athletes, including service a-

cademy cadets, and found that full

recovery can take up to 28 days.

And even that was not long enough

for some of the study subjects to

fully heal.

The findings should reduce stig-

ma for those previously considered

slow in their healing and inform

coaches, commanders and others

about when concussed people

should return to duty or sports, said

Steve Broglio, lead study author.

“There can be unintentional

pressure to return,” said Steve

Broglio, lead author of the study.

“(They’re told) ‘You’re at day 16;

why aren’t you getting better?’

Hopefully, they’ll pump the

brakes.”

Half the participants in the study

fully recovered from their concus-

sions within two weeks of injury

and were cleared for unrestricted

sports activity. That finding was in

line with previous concussion stud-

ies.

But it was a month until 85% of

them were fully recovered. The

other 15% had not fully recovered

even then.

The study by the NCAA-DOD

Concussion Assessment, Research

and Education Consortium, billed

as the largest concussion and re-

petitive head impact study in histo-

ry, began in 2014 and involves ath-

letes playing 22 sports at 30 colleg-

es.

It found negligible differences in

recovery time between men and

women and in subjects experienc-

ing their first concussion versus

those who’d had previous concus-

sions, Broglio said.

The Defense Department, which

provided the majority of the fund-

ing for the study, has a huge stake

in understanding how to respond to

concussions, also called mild trau-

matic brain injury.

Although TBI has been called

the “signature injury” of the wars

in Iraq and Afghanistan, a signifi-

cant majority of concussions in ser-

vice members occur outside of

combat, Broglio said. He listed sce-

narios such as sports, vehicle

crashes and falls.

In 2015, two dozen U.S. Military

Academy cadets were diagnosed

with concussions after a traditional

pillow fight marking the end of

summer training turned into may-

hem as some cadets swung pillow-

cases packed with hard objects like

helmets, according to the acade-

my.

“One of the most common and

most disabling injuries of the last

two decades of military conflict has

been TBI, and particularly concus-

sions,” Navy Capt. Scott Cota, divi-

sion chief of the TBI Center of Ex-

cellence, said in a statement. “Con-

cussions represent more than 80%

of the TBIs in the military since

2001.”

Both the NCAA and the Defense

Department have concussion pro-

tocols for assessing recovery. The

DOD uses a protocol that facilitates

return to duty in a six-stage proc-

ess.

Medical providers repeatedly

assess symptoms such as head-

ache, dizziness, forgetfulness and

irritability; patients’ physical and

cognitive screenings; and their re-

sponse to increasingly strenuous

activities.

The earliest a service member

can progress through all six stages

and be returned to full duty is sev-

en days after concussion.

If a service member isn’t ready

to return to duty after 15 days, the

protocol suggests a referral to a

TBI clinic or medical specialty

clinic that deals with lingering

symptoms, such as physical ther-

apy for persistent neck pain or be-

havioral health for mood or sleep

problems.

Cota said the study findings

won’t change that protocol because

“the progression is symptom-dri-

ven, not time driven.”

Concussions needmore recovery timethan once thought

BY NANCY MONTGOMERY

Stars and Stripes

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“One of the mostcommon andmost disablinginjuries ofmilitary conflicthas been TBI[traumatic braininjury], andparticularlyconcussions.”

Scott Cota

TBI Center of Excellence division chief

MILITARY

BEIJING — Chinese military

forces are holding exercises near

Taiwan in response to a visit by a

U.S. congressional delegation to

the island.

The drills in the area of the Tai-

wan Strait are a “necessary mea-

sure to safeguard national sover-

eignty,” China’s Defense Ministry

said in an announcement Tuesday

that gave no details on the timing,

participants and location of the ex-

ercises.

It said the “joint war prepared-

ness patrol” by the Eastern Thea-

ter Command was prompted by

the “seriously incorrect words

and actions of relevant countries

over the issue of Taiwan” and the

actions of those advocating the

self-governing island’s independ-

ence.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson

Wang Wenbin said China consid-

ers the delegation’s visit a “serious

violation” of U.S. commitments

not to have formal relations with

Taiwan, which China claims as its

territory.

“China is firmly opposed to that

and has made solemn representa-

tions to the U.S.,” Wang said at a

daily briefing Wednesday.

“All risky and provocative ac-

tions against China’s reunification

is like an ant trying to topple over a

giant tree and is doomed to fail,”

Wang said.

Chinese forces exercise near TaiwanAssociated Press

Twenty-three U.S. representa-

tives have called on President Joe

Biden and Secretary of State Anto-

ny Blinken to “prioritize active

diplomatic engagement” with the

two Koreas and end the Korean

War.

The 23 lawmakers, including

Democrats Andy Kim of New Jer-

sey, Grace Meng of New York, Ju-

dy Chu of California and Ilhan

Omar of Minnesota, wrote a letter

dated Nov. 4 urging the president

and the top diplomat to seek a

“binding peace agreement” that

would formally declare a “final

end” to the Korean War. No Re-

publican lawmakers signed the

letter.

The 1950-53 Korean War was

concluded through an armistice

agreement rather than a peace

treaty. The United States, through

the United Nations Command,

was a signatory to the agreement,

along with China and North Korea.

“Despite this period of conflict

ending many decades ago in 1953,

a peace treaty was never officially

signed,” the lawmakers said in the

letter. “While North Korea’s nu-

clear weapons continue to pose a

threat to peace and security

around the world, a forever state

of war does not resolve this issue,

nor does it serve the national inter-

est of the United States and our al-

lies.”

The lawmakers argued that a

“forever state of war” hinders a

resolution to North Korea’s weap-

ons program and makes “progress

on the nuclear issue more diffi-

cult.”

All of the congressional leaders

who signed the letter are also cos-

ponsors to Rep. Brad Sherman’s

Peace on the Korean Peninsula

Act, which would require the State

Department to review travel re-

strictions for U.S. nationals bound

for North Korea.

Roughly 100,000 Americans still

have relatives living in North Ko-

rea, according to the bill spon-

sored by the California Democrat,

and some of them have expressed

adesire to attend funerals and oth-

er religious ceremonies.

U.S. nationals are prohibited

from traveling to, from or through

North Korea unless approved by

the State Department. The depart-

ment issues special validated

passports to qualified applicants

with a “national interest,” such as

American Red Cross workers,

those with “compelling humani-

tarian considerations” and jour-

nalists.

The lawmakers’ argument

echoed remarks made by South

Korean President Moon Jae-in

earlier this year, when he renewed

his calls for the armistice agree-

ment’s signatories to “come to-

gether and declare that the war on

the Korean Peninsula is over.”

“More than anything, an end-of-

war declaration will mark a piv-

otal point of departure in creating

a new order of reconciliation,”

Moon said in his speech before the

United Nations General Assembly

in September.

Moon, who is scheduled to step

down next year after serving a sin-

gle five-year term, has prioritized

his campaign to formally end the

Korean War.

South Korean and U.S. diplo-

mats have traveled between their

respective countries and held dis-

cussions about the possibility in

recent weeks. White House na-

tional security adviser Jake Sulli-

van in October declined to elabo-

rate on the negotiations, but said

the ongoing talks were “very pro-

ductive.”

MEREDITH TIBBETTS/Stars and Stripes

The Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C., commorates a war that ended in an armistice, not peace.

Nearly two dozen House Dems urgeBiden to formally end Korean War

BY DAVID CHOI

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @choibboy

• S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Thursday, November 11, 2021

bridge a gap between victims and

their commanders, who generally

believe abuse victims receive

proper care, the report found.

“It seems to be uniformly true

that people at the lower levels who

have experienced these things are

telling us that there’s a problem,

and the senior leadership is not

perceiving that there is that prob-

lem,” Air Force Secretary Frank

Kendall told reporters in a news

briefing to discuss the report’s

findings. “So, we’ve got an issue

right there.”

The survey was sent out in 2020

by the Air Force Interpersonal Vi-

olence Task Force, which was set

up by service leaders during the

summer in the wake of the Army’s

troubling findings of widespread

abuse and harassment at Fort

Hood, Texas.

The task force, led by Air Force

Brig. Gen. April Vogel, issued the

survey to the Air Force Depart-

ment’s about 654,000 airmen,

Space Force guardians and civil-

ian employees. The task force con-

ducted more detailed follow-up

surveys and focus groups to un-

derstand victims of interpersonal

violence, which it defined as 81 be-

haviors in which abusers use

“power or force resulting in psy-

chological or physical harm or

that detracts from a culture of dig-

nity and respect.” They described

such abuses as ranging from

“stalking and bullying to domestic

violence and sexual assault.”

About 54% of the 68,000 Air

Force Department personnel who

responded to the survey reported

they had experienced such abuse

during the previous two years.

This includes airmen, Space

Force guardians and Air Force ci-

vilian employees. The report also

found more than half of the re-

spondents in each component of

the department — the active-duty

Air Force, the Space Force, the Air

National Guard, the Air Force Re-

serves and the civilian employees

— reported facing such abuse.

Workplace bullying, reported

by about 36% of survey respon-

dents, was the most common

abuse reported. About 29% re-

ported workplace harassment.

Some 9% reported intimate part-

ner violence, and another 21% re-

ported violence from others.

Less than 40% of victims report-

ed their abuse to commanders or

law enforcement authorities, ac-

cording to the report. Most who

did not report the abuse said they

did not believe anything would

happen if they did report it or they

were concerned they would face

negative consequences for report-

ing, the Air Force found. Those

who did report the abuse or sought

help found mixed results in the

services offered to victims by the

Air Force.

Vogel said many victims report-

ed they were discouraged after

struggling to find the right loca-

tion to receive help or report

abuse. She said the Air Force

should work to build a single loca-

tion within the service for abuse

victims to seek help or report an

incident.

“The hope is that if our airmen

and guardians knew that they had

one place to go, where they would

get help or support for whatever

challenge they were facing …

[where] they wouldn’t be turned

away and told to go to a different

location, that they might be more

likely to come forward and ulti-

mately get … the help they need,”

Vogel said.

She said the report was a start-

ing point for the Air Force to im-

prove its response to victims of

abuse, and she said that further

analysis and data collection would

be needed to draw more conclu-

sions.

The data collected via the sur-

vey might not be a true represen-

tation of the prevalence of such

abuse in the force, Kendall said.

He said he believes the roughly

10% of Air Force Department per-

sonnel who did respond are “more

likely to have experienced some

form” of abuse than those who did

not.

Nonetheless, the Air Force sec-

retary said that he did take the is-

sue seriously and was not attempt-

ing to downplay the survey’s find-

ings.

“Even if this is all there is [with-

in the department] it’s way too

many,” Kendall said. “This is a

great many people who have ex-

perienced some form of interper-

sonal violence in this department.

It does not tell you what the total

numbers are, but the numbers are

big enough that you have to take

this incredibly seriously, and I

am.”

Survey: Lack of confidence in support system leads to unreported abuse cases

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MILITARY

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germa-

ny — The U.S. Army’s 21st Thea-

ter Sustainment Command ob-

served Veterans Day in a ceremo-

ny Wednesday at its Panzer Ka-

serne headquarters, specifically

recognizing veterans who ren-

dered exemplary service in two

major crises this year.

With a color guard standing in

front of a line of state flags on the

parade ground, unit deputy com-

mander Col. Douglas LeVien be-

gan by recognizing the veterans in

attendance.

LeVien then focused on veter-

ans who defended the U.S. Capitol

in Washington on Jan. 6.

He mentioned Reps. Ruben

Gallego of Arizona and Jason

Crow of Colorado, along with Cap-

itol Police officers Eugene Good-

man and Brian Sicknick, who died

in the line of duty during the riot-

ing.

He went on to mention the vet-

erans who volunteered to help Af-

ghan refugees in Europe and in

the United States during and after

the chaotic mass evacuations fol-

lowing the Taliban’s return to

power.

Following his speech, LeVien

and Command Sgt. Maj. Sean Ho-

ward placed a wreath at a memo-

rial on the edge of the parade

ground that honors veterans from

the unit who died in combat.

Veterans Day was originally

known as Armistice Day, to mark

the Nov. 11, 1918, end of World War

I.

It has been called Veterans Day

since 1954.

In honor of all veterans, the song

of each of the six services was

played to end the ceremony.

Soldiershighlightwork ofveterans

BY MICHAEL ABRAMS

Stars and Stripes

PHOTOS BY MICHAEL ABRAMS/Stars and Stripes

Col. Douglas LeVien, the 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s deputy commander, speaks at the unit’sVeterans Day observance Wednesday at Panzer Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Soldiers listen to the national anthems of the United States andGermany during the 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s VeteransDay observance at Panzer Kaserne.

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ISLAMABAD — A top Taliban

official on Wednesday urged for-

mer Afghan military pilots to re-

main in the country, saying they

were protected by a national am-

nesty and would not face arrest.

Government spokesman Zabi-

hullah Mujahid’s assurances

came after dozens of U.S.-trained

Afghan pilots left Tajikistan in a

U.S.-brokered evacuation Tues-

day, three months after they

sought refuge there from a Tali-

ban takeover of Afghanistan.

Afghan air force pilots played a

key role, alongside their U.S.

counterparts, in the 20-year war

against Taliban insurgents that

ended with the departure of for-

eign troops in late August. The air-

strikes inflicted heavy casualties

among the Taliban and repeatedly

drove them from positions they

had seized in different parts of the

country.

As the U.S.-backed Afghan gov-

ernment collapsed and the Tali-

ban took over in mid-August, doz-

ens of Afghan pilots fled to Central

Asian countries, including Taji-

kistan and Uzbekistan.

A U.S. defense official con-

firmed Wednesday that about 140

pilots, along with other personnel,

were flown from Tajikistan to the

United Arab Emirates on Tues-

day. It is likely that the evacuees

will eventually come to the United

States, said the official, who spoke

on condition of anonymity to dis-

cuss operations not yet public.

Tajik media reported that in all,

191 Afghans, including 143 pilots,

were flown to the Emirates.

“It is regrettable that a number

of pilots have gone, or they are go-

ing,” Mujahid said.

Taliban urgepilots to stay

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DNA technology has only gotten

better, and no American service

member killed in action over the

past 30 years has been buried as

unknown.

But could today’s forensic sci-

ence succeed in the aftermath of a

conflict such as World War II, a

cataclysm out of which the re-

mains of roughly 8,500 American

troops were recovered but

deemed unidentifiable?

“Yes and no,” said Josh Hyman,

director of the DNA sequencing

facility at the University of Wis-

consin’s Biotechnology Center.

“I say yes because the technol-

ogy is capable of giving us pretty

good detail on a genetic level,” he

said during a phone interview Oct.

28.

Add to that, he said, the Defense

Department maintains blood sam-

ples taken from inductees into the

armed forces over the past 25

years that can be used for flawless

DNA comparisons.

“The reason I say probably no is

because in a lot of situations it’s

not that you can’t identify some-

thing coming from a bone or a

tooth,” he said. “It’s just that — es-

pecially in World War II — you

had mass graves and things got

mixed. We have a lot of bones in

our body. The difficulty back then

and now is that if you ever have a

mass grave, if you ever have a

mixture and you don’t have any

way of definitively separating

them out to begin with, well, it’s

simply not feasible to test every

single bone to make a decision.

“You try and assemble things

and do your best. You have to have

someone who can look at the phys-

ical bones and say, yeah, these

seem to belong together and then

you can start testing and test a

number of them.”

DNA misconceptionsForensic anthropologist Denise

To agrees, touting the advances in

DNA technology while offering up

similar caveats.

“One of the common miscon-

ceptions is that DNA is the end-all

be-all of all identifications,” said

To, who manages the forensic lab-

oratory for the Defense POW/

MIA Accounting Agency at Joint

Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Ha-

waii, during a phone interview

Oct. 27.

“It’s not that simple,” she said.

“It’s complex enough that we re-

quire multiple lines of evidence to

make an identification, such as

dental evidence, forensic anthro-

pology, forensic archaeology.”

Today’s capacity to identify

American war dead stands atop a

painful history.

“At Arlington, there are over

4,000 unknown soldiers from the

Civil War,” said Philip Bigler, a

former historian at Arlington Na-

tional Cemetery and author of

“Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: A

Century of Honor” published in

2019.

Fighters from both North and

South sometimes carried little in

the way of identification, often not

even wearing a uniform or insig-

nia, Bigler said during a phone in-

terview Oct. 19.

“If you were killed on the battle-

field, you had a pretty good chance

of not being identified during the

Civil War, just by the nature of the

combat,” he said.

U.S. war fighters first began

wearing metal identification tags

during World War I, a practice

that became uniform and wide-

spread during World War II when

they were dubbed dog tags.

“But even that system is not par-

ticularly foolproof because we

have many examples of people

holding dog tags in their pockets of

either fallen individuals or even

living individuals,” To said.

In 2009, the lab identified the re-

mains of a World War I soldier

who was in possession of dog tags

belonging to a fellow soldier who

had survived the war and lived un-

til 1972, she said.

Safeguarding recordsThorough medical recordkeep-

ing, including detailed dental dia-

grams and X-rays, were main-

tained on the vast number of ser-

vice members during World War

II. Those records have been inval-

uable in identifying unknowns

from that war, but they also re-

vealed a weakness in relying on

such documentation.

In July 1973, fire broke out at the

National Personnel Records Cen-

ter in St. Louis, which held mil-

lions of official military files span-

ning the 20th century. The mas-

sive blaze destroyed the records of

about 18 million veterans, includ-

ing roughly 80% of Army person-

nel discharged between 1912 and

1960 and 75% of Air Force person-

nel discharged between 1947 and

1964.

“We learned the lesson that, fo-

rensically, you want to keep med-

ical records better,” To said.

DNA identification technology

emerged in the late 1980s.

In a nutshell, the method com-

pares unique DNA markers in an

individual with that of a close rela-

tive or descendant. In some cases

it is compared to a database of in-

dividuals.

The key to the method’s suc-

cess, then, is procuring that com-

parable sample, but when no rela-

tive can be found, the DNA test is

of little use.

For example, DPAA recently

concluded a multiyear project to

exhume and identify 388 sailors

and Marines buried as unknowns

from the battleship USS Oklaho-

ma, which was destroyed during

the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl

Harbor.

The agency identified many of

the remains — which had been

badly burned and commingled —

through DNA testing. But a hand-

ful are slated to be buried once

again as unknowns next month be-

cause in some cases comparative

samples from next of kin could not

be found.

Game-changing collectionCongress moved to fix that

shortcoming in 1992 by mandating

the collection of blood samples

from incoming service members.

The collection’s sole purpose is to

maintain “self-reference” DNA

samples that will exactly match

that of any service member who

dies on the battlefield.

As of early 2019, the Armed

Forces Repository of Specimen

Samples for the Identification of

Remains at Dover Air Force Base,

Del., held almost 8 million blood

samples taken from inductees into

the armed services over the past

25 years. The index cards carry-

ing two splotches of blood are vac-

uum sealed and held for 50 years.

“Identifying the deceased with

a self-reference is superior to

identifying the deceased through

DNA with a comparative sample

to a relative,” To said. “The self-

reference is really important to us,

and it is a game-changer in terms

of identifying individuals who die

now in combat in our wars.”

The samples were used to posi-

tively identify more than 800 ser-

vice members who died during

Operation Enduring Freedom, the

Defense Department said in a

2019 news release.

Still, even DNA science could be

stymied by unidentified remains

under certain circumstances in

future wars.

“For example, right now, we

can’t really obtain DNA sequenc-

es from samples that are heavily

burned,” To said. “Fire destroys

DNA so there could be some re-

mains that have been thermally

altered where the DNA cannot be

extracted.”

Hyman said that even badly

burned bodies yield some DNA

samples, particularly from the

teeth.

“But it’s true that if you inciner-

ate things at certain temper-

atures, then all you have is ash,”

he said. “There’s nothing there to

get. I mean, at that point, there

aren’t any remains, only ashes.”

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MILITARY

YOKOHAMA, Japan — The

quiet grounds of a Yokohama

cemetery took on a vibrant tone

Wednesday as U.S. sailors spent

their morning tidying up the

graves of American veterans.

About 30 sailors from Yokosuka

Naval Base made the trip to the

Yokohama Foreign General Cem-

etery, in the Naka Ward of Japan’s

second-most populous city, to

clean up areas dedicated to Amer-

icans in preparation for Veterans

Day.

Using rakes, brooms, leaf blow-

ers and hedge trimmers, they

cleaned the final resting places of

veterans of World War I, World

War II and the crew of the sloop-

of-war USS Oneida, which sank

near Yokohama in 1870 after col-

liding with a British steamer.

“It’s very humbling,” Petty Offi-

cer 2nd Class Alexandra Nerio

told Stars and Stripes. “To be able

to give back to those who fought

before us to honor them and honor

their legacy, even with something

as small as raking leaves, it paints

a bigger picture.”

The cleanup efforts are part of

biannual visits to the cemetery or-

ganized by the naval base, said

Petty Officer 1st Class Marc Van-

ta, who helped coordinate

Wednesday’s event. The cleanups

typically coincide with Memorial

Day and Veterans Day each year.

Vanta said the events demon-

strate the Navy’s commitment to

the Japanese community and pro-

vide a chance for sailors to re-

member their predecessors.

“Because of the history that’s at-

tached to the cemetery, it gives

our current generation of sailors a

way to pay their respects and to

honor these fallen sailors and sol-

diers,” Vanta said.

Vanta, along with Petty Officer

2nd Class Ignacio Fuentes, said

that while cemetery groundskeep-

ers maintain the graves, the fam-

ilies of the deceased may not nec-

essarily be in Japan to take care of

the individual plots.

“I think the main reason we’re

out here is that, clearly, everybody

didn’t get to make it home,”

Fuentes said. “We’re out here to

help out — for us, it might not

seem like much, but it means a lot

to the families.”

The cemetery was founded in

1854, shortly after the second visit

to Japan by U.S. Navy Commo-

dore Matthew Perry’s “black

ships.” His first visit in 1853 her-

alded the end of Japanese isola-

tion.

A 24-year-old Marine aboard

one of Perry’s ships, Robert Wil-

liams, died while in Japan. Perry

negotiated with the Japanese gov-

ernment to secure a plot for Wil-

liams that overlooked the sea.

Williams was laid to rest on a

bluff less than a mile from the

shores of Tokyo Bay, a location

that grew over the years into the

Yokohama Foreign General Cem-

etery, according to the cemetery’s

website.

Yokosuka sailors tidy upAmerican graves in Japan

ALEX WILSON/Stars and Stripes

Sailors from Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, clean grounds dedicated toU.S. veterans Wednesday at Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery.

BY ALEX WILSON

Stars and Stripes


MARINE CORPS AIR STA-

TION IWAKUNI, Japan — The

deputy commander of Air Force

Special Operations Command

made a quick trip to Marine Corps

Air Station near Hiroshima on

Tuesday to learn more about Ja-

pan’s ShinMaywa US-2 seaplane,

a version of which the Air Force is

also developing.

“The US-2 seaplane is definitely

of interest to Air Force Special Op-

erations,” Maj. Gen. Eric Hill told

Stars and Stripes on Tuesday.

“We’ve been working a number of

issues to try and think about how

we get to runway independence.”

“If you think about the area

here, the South China Sea for in-

stance, if we can turn that into a

landing zone for special operation

forces, there might be a lot of op-

portunity there,” Hill said.

The Air Force, like its sister ser-

vices, is developing a doctrine to

help it counter a rising challenge

in the region from China. Runway

independence means an aircraft

does not require an established

runway; in this case, a body of wa-

ter allows a pilot to put an aircraft

down almost anywhere.

The Air Force version of a sea-

plane, in the development stage, is

a modified MC130-J Commando

II, the special operations version

of the venerable Super Hercules

airlifter, Hill said.

Hill visited the Japan Maritime

Self-Defense Force’s Fleet Air

Wing 31 to give the US-2 a look.

Special Operations Command

partnered with the Air Force Re-

search Laboratory to design a sea-

plane based on the MC-130J.

The command and its private

sector partners are using virtual

reality to test amphibious proto-

types created by digital design, ac-

cording to the Air Force.

The command plans to produce

a demonstration model of the am-

phibious Super Hercules before

the end of 2022, Hill said in Sep-

tember at the Air Force Associ-

ation convention, according to De-

fenseNews.com.

The Japanese use the US-2 for

search and rescue, airlift missions

and reconnaissance for identify-

ing hostile ships and anti-subma-

rine warfare. It took eight years to

develop, and incorporates spray

suppressors and spray strips that

prevent damage to the airframe

on water landings. Also, because it

can cruise at extremely low

speeds, the US-2 can take off and

land on waves up to 9 feet high, ac-

cording to ShinMaywa Industries.

“I think we are a little early to

tell the direction we may go with

this, whether we procure and fin-

ish developing our own capability

or whether we look at something

that is already in play,” Hill said.

“Or we might do some combina-

tion of both in the future.”

Runway independence is some-

thing the Air Force is looking at as

it focuses on employing its agile

combat employment doctrine in

the Pacific region. This doctrine

includes launching, recovering

and maintaining aircraft from

multiple dispersed forward oper-

ating locations in concert with al-

lies and partners.

“The partnership here is really

strong, there is a willingness mil-

itary-to-military level — to work

together on very complex prob-

lems that are presented here in

this region by a number of com-

petitors both for the Japanese and

for the U.S.,” Hill said.

Air Force: Seaplanes bring ‘runway independence’ BY JONATHAN SNYDER

Stars and Stripes

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JONATHAN SNYDER/Stars and Stripes

Capt. Koichi Washizawa of the Japan Maritime SelfDefense Force gives a tour of the ShinMaywa US2seaplane to the deputy commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, Maj. Gen. Eric Hill, atMarine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, on Tuesday.

assessed it as a trace of a ballistic

missile,” the release said.

The North Korean missile per-

formed “pull-up maneuvers” in

flight, according to the ministry. It

first descended and then changed

its trajectory to an ascent path.

Soon after the October missile

launch, Japanese Prime Minister

Fumio Kishida announced the

North had launched two missiles.

South Korea, however, which

shares intelligence with Japan,

said it detected only one.

South Korean lawmakers ex-

pressed concern, making it the

main topic of a South Korean par-

liamentary briefing with Defense

Minister Suh Wook in October.

Japanese Defense Ministry offi-

cials stressed that the mistaken-

missile case was a very rare oc-

currence, according to a report

Wednesday by public broadcaster

NHK. The ministry said it will re-

view procedures to make sure

such a case will not happen again.

TOKYO — Japan’s Ministry of

Defense on Tuesday said North

Korea fired one ballistic missile in

October, retracting its initial as-

sessment that the communist re-

gime had launched two projec-

tiles.

Further analysis of the Oct. 19

launch concluded that North Ko-

rea fired a new type of submarine-

launched ballistic missile, accord-

ing to a ministry news release. Ra-

dar mistook a second object in

space as another ballistic missile.

“We have come to an analysis

that the surveillance radar, which

improved its capability, acciden-

tally detected a space object and

Japan clarifies N. Korea launched only 1 missile in OctoberBY HANA KUSUMOTO

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @HanaKusumoto

forces on Okinawa through the

coronavirus pandemic. Marine

Corps camps across the island ex-

perienced surges in COVID-19

cases that amounted to hundreds

daily and put bases on lockdown in

summer 2020.

Clardy put the Corps’ new is-

land-fighting doctrine, called ex-

peditionary advanced base oper-

ations, to the test with numerous

field exercises. He also helped im-

prove III MEF integration with

the Navy’s 7th Fleet and encour-

aged innovation through a series

of technology and innovation com-

petitions within the ranks.

“The accomplishments of III

Marine Expeditionary Force dur-

ing your tenure are a direct reflec-

tion of your outstanding leader-

ship,” Marine Corps Comman-

dant Gen. David Berger wrote in a

message to Clardy that was read

MARINE CORPS AIR STA-

TION FUTENMA, Okinawa —

The III Marine Expeditionary

Force, the United States’ rapid-re-

sponse force in the Pacific, has

taken on a new but seasoned com-

mander at a time when tensions

with global competitor China are

on the rise.

Lt. Gen. James Bierman took

command of III MEF from Lt.

Gen. H. Stacy Clardy III during a

ceremony Tuesday afternoon on

MCAS Futenma’s windswept

flight line.

“It is a challenging time here for

all of us in III MEF, but it’s part of

the only forward-deployed MEF

in the Marine Corps,” Bierman

told Stars and Stripes after the

ceremony.

Taiwan has been the focus of in-

creased tension

in recent weeks

with Chinese

troops practic-

ing for an inva-

sion and flying

warplanes near

the island de-

mocracy that is

home to 23.5 million people. Late

last month, President Joe Biden

said the U.S. would defend Taiwan

if China attacked, although his

comments were walked back by

the White House.

Bierman is a Bronze Star recip-

ient coming from command of the

3rd Marine Division on Okinawa,

a major component of III MEF.

The appointment marks the

fourth time in 16 years Bierman

has taken command of a unit with-

in III MEF, he said.

“We certainly find ourselves

facing new, significant challeng-

es,” he told a gathering of about

200 Americans and Japanese, one

of the largest on base since the

coronavirus pandemic began in

early 2020.

“III MEF will continue to do

whatever needs to be done,” he

said. “We will spare no effort to

deter would-be adversaries, to

maintain peace in this region.”

Bierman said his Marines were

prepared to deploy, “fight and

win” on short notice.

Clardy is retiring after 38 years

in the Corps and heading home to

South Carolina, spokesman 2nd

Lt. Zachary Voss told Stars and

Stripes before the ceremony.

Clardy took command of III MEF

from Lt. Gen. Eric Smith on May

31, 2019.

Clardy’s tenure may be best re-

membered for his leading U.S.

aloud Tuesday.

Berger said Clardy’s efforts to

support allies Japan and South

Korea will have a “positive im-

pact” for years to come.

The ceremony Tuesday was the

type of formation many had not

seen since before the pandemic.

The Marines displayed an array of

weaponry, from the F-35 Light-

ning II stealth fighter to the M142

High Mobility Artillery Rocket

System and an AH-1Z Viper attack

helicopter.

Lt. Gen. Steven Rudder, com-

mander of Marine Forces Pacific,

presided over the change of com-

mand. He served with Bierman at

the Pentagon, where the comman-

dant would look to Bierman for ad-

vice, Rudder told the audience.

Marines in Japan are ready to ‘fight and win’BY MATTHEW M. BURKE

Stars and Stripes

[email protected]: @MatthewMBurke1

Bierman

PACIFIC


MILITARY

She has earned two doctorates,

researched some of the world’s

deadliest viruses in Africa and

spent 300 days in space — and

now Kate Rubins is a soldier.

Rubins, 43, who returned from

her latest six-month trip aboard

the International Space Station in

April, was commissioned as a ma-

jor in the Army Reserve during a

ceremony last week.

She will serve with the 75th In-

novation Command, a unit de-

signed to help the Army make in-

roads into the private sector for

research and development. It sup-

ports the Army Futures Com-

mand’s efforts to modernize the

service for strategic competition

with China and Russia.

“Now, more than ever, we need

top-notch scientists, clinicians

and microbiologists like Dr. Ru-

bins paving the way for the future

of the Army and our great nation,”

Col. Amy Roy, deputy command-

er of U.S. Army Medical Recruit-

ing Brigade, said during a com-

missioning ceremony Nov. 2 in

Houston.

The astronaut and scientist will

bring a “wealth of education,

skills and experience” to the ser-

vice’s medical corps, said Lt. Gen.

Jody J. Daniels, commanding

general of U.S. Army Reserve

Command.

She cited Rubins’ degrees, fel-

lowships and “on-scene medical

experience combating viral out-

breaks in central and west Afri-

ca,” in addition to being among the

top four female astronauts in

terms of time in space.

Born in Connecticut and raised

in Napa, Calif., Rubins knew from

the time she was 5 that she wanted

to be an astronaut, geologist and

biologist, Roy said.

In a NASA interview just before

she was selected as one of nine

members of space agency’s 20th

astronaut class in July 2009, she

said she’d initially thought she

would have to be a fighter pilot be-

fore getting to go to space.

While an undergraduate at the

University of California, San Die-

go, she conducted HIV research at

the Salk Institute for Biological

Sciences, which was founded by

polio vaccine developer Dr. Jonas

Salk. She earned a doctorate in

cancer biology from Stanford Uni-

versity Medical School in 2005.

Rubins studied smallpox and

the Ebola virus at the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention,

and the U.S. Army Medical Re-

search Institute of Infectious Dis-

eases, she said in the 2009 NASA

interview. On her first mission to

the ISS in 2016, she became the

first person to sequence DNA in

space and grew heart cells in a cell

culture as part of the Cardinal

Heart experiment.

On her last mission to the ISS,

she realized she wanted to give

back to the U.S., she said last

week. Rubins decided to join the

Army Reserve in part because of

her time working at Fort Detrick,

Md., from 2000 to 2009, she said.

The cutting-edge research at

that facility was promising not just

for therapeutic treatments and

vaccines against bioweapons, but

for civilian applications, such as

the COVID-19 pandemic, she said.

Rubins was also inspired and

encouraged by her stepfather,

who had served as an Army Re-

serve chaplain for 10 years.

“I really admire him and I ad-

mire many of the people that are

here today,” she said. “A lot of my

heroes are in the Army and they

embody values that I would like to

strive to become.”

“It seemed like a really excel-

lent fit” with her career as an as-

tronaut, Rubins said. “I’m looking

forward to both of these careers

together.”

Astronaut, virusresearcher joinsArmy Reserve

BY CHAD GARLAND

Stars and Stripes

BILL INGALLS/NASA

Expedition 64 NASA astronautKate Rubins is helped out of aSoyuz spacecraft after she, andtwo Russian cosmonauts, landedin April 17.

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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germa-

ny — Kaiserslautern remembered

one of Germany’s darkest nights

in its history Tuesday at the for-

mer site of the city’s synagogue,

which was destroyed by the Nazis

in 1938.

Kristallnacht, or the “night of

broken glass,” marked the accel-

eration of the systematic persecu-

tion of Jews in Nazi Germany 83

years ago.

For two nights, synagogues

were destroyed and Jewish busi-

nesses plundered by mobs of Nazi

troops and sympathizers. More

than a thousand people were

killed and 30,000 were removed

from their homes.

In Kaiserslautern, where tens of

thousands of U.S. service mem-

bers and their families are based,

an LED panel allowed visitors a

glimpse of the interior and exte-

rior of the synagogue at the site

where it once stood.

The rendering, which was also

scheduled for display Wednesday,

was created with computer-ani-

mated 3D modeling using surviv-

ing visual records by Darmstadt

Technical University.

The event is part of an initiative

of the World Jewish Congress, in

cooperation with the Central

Council of Jews in Germany,

which has sponsored the creation

of 18 of these digital reconstruct-

ions of synagogues that were de-

stroyed or damaged during the

two-night pogrom.

Reproductions are being shown

in 13 locations in Germany and

five in Austria, as part of the coun-

cil’s #WeRemember-campaign,

which will lead up to Holocaust

Memorial Day on Jan. 27.

Kaiserslautern Mayor Beate

Kimmel said that cities have a cru-

cial role in conserving the past for

future generations.

“It is part of our special respon-

sibility for today’s leadership of

our city to commemorate these

events and to not let the memory

of these crimes against humanity,

the Shoah, fade,” Kimmel said

during a speech Tuesday, refer-

ring to the Hebrew word for the

Holocaust.

For more than five decades af-

ter its inauguration in 1886, the

Kaiserslautern Synagogue, which

was built in Moorish-Byzantine

style, was considered an architec-

tural sight and one of the most

prominent houses of worship in

the region.

After Nazi leaders declared

their plans for Kaiserslautern as a

regional capital in a reorganized

Germany, however, the building

was suddenly in the way of a

planned parade route.

City officials deemed its once-

heralded design “un-German”

and seized the property from its

owners for “city beautification”

purposes, according to historical

accounts given at speeches onsite

Tuesday. The building itself was

destroyed before Kristallnacht in

the late summer of 1938.

Today, the small plaza is sur-

rounded by a bank, regional gov-

ernment offices, residential build-

ings and busy bus stops.

All that remains of the house of

worship are two reconstructed

sandstone columns inscribed with

the names of Kaiserslautern’s 192

Holocaust victims and a low hedge

tracing the building’s outline. Bi-

nocular-style viewing points allow

visitors to see glimpses of the

structure that once was.

The memorial of the lost syn-

agogue and Kaiserslautern citi-

zens who were murdered by the

Nazi regime started with simple

wooden signs commemorating the

dead, placed by local activists de-

termined to not let anyone forget.

“We fought for years to create

this memorial in this space be-

cause it is such an important place

in the city,” said Walter Warstadt,

an organizer for the annual com-

memoration event with the Asso-

ciation of Persecutees of the Nazi

Regime/Federation of Antifas-

cists in Kaiserslautern. “If we

don’t remember what happened

here, where do we remember? We

can never allow to repeat what

happened here.”

The LED display also was

scheduled for viewing Wednesday

from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Synago-

genplatz along Fischerstrasse.

Other locations for the project in-

clude Berlin, Hamburg, Munich,

Frankfurt, Cologne, Hannover,

Dortmund, Darmstadt, Pader-

born, Minden, Bamberg and

Plauen.

ALEXANDER W. RIEDEL/Stars and Stripes

Visitors view a virtual 3D video rendering of the Kaiserslautern Synagogue in its original state Thursday inGermany.

3D display shows Kaiserslauternsynagogue destroyed by Nazis

KAISERSLAUTERN CITY ARCHIVES

An archival photo shows theentrance to the KaiserslauternSynagogue before its destructionby the Nazis in 1938.

BY ALEXANDER RIEDEL

Stars and Stripes


NATION

WASHINGTON — A federal

judge rejected former President

Donald Trump’s request to block

the release of documents to the

House committee investigating

the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

In denying a preliminary in-

junction, U.S. District Judge Ta-

nya Chutkan said Tuesday that

Congress had a strong public in-

terest in obtaining records that

could shed light on a violent riot

mounted by the former presi-

dent’s supporters. She added that

President Joe Biden had the au-

thority to waive executive privi-

lege over the documents despite

Trump’s assertions otherwise.

Barring a court order, the Na-

tional Archives plans to turn over

Trump’s records to the committee

by Friday. But Trump’s lawyers

swiftly promised an appeal to the

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Dis-

trict of Columbia Circuit. The case

will likely eventually head to the

U.S. Supreme Court.

“At bottom, this is a dispute be-

tween a former and incumbent

President,” Chutkan wrote. “And

the Supreme Court has already

made clear that in such circum-

stances, the incumbent’s view is

accorded greater weight.”

Trump “does not acknowledge

the deference owed” to Biden’s

judgment as the current presi-

dent, Chutkan said. She noted ex-

amples of past presidents declin-

ing to assert executive privilege

and rejected what she said was

Trump’s claim that executive

privilege “exists in perpetuity.”

“Presidents are not kings, and

Plaintiff is not President,” she

said.

According to an earlier court fil-

ing from the archives, the records

include call logs, drafts of remarks

and speeches and handwritten

notes from Trump’s then-chief of

staff, Mark Meadows. There are

also copies of talking points from

then-press secretary Kayleigh

McEnany and “a draft Executive

Order on the topic of election in-

tegrity,” the National Archives

has said.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-

Miss., who chairs the House com-

mittee, said in a statement after

the ruling that the records are cru-

cial for understanding the attack

and “in my view, there couldn’t be

a more compelling public interest

than getting answers about an at-

tack on our democracy.”

On CNN, Thompson said Trump

should stop behaving like a

“spoiled brat.”

The nine-member House com-

mittee is investigating not just

Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6 —

when he told a rally to “fight like

hell” shortly before rioters over-

ran law enforcement — but his ef-

forts in the months before the riot

to challenge election results or ob-

struct a peaceful transfer of pow-

er. The committee has inter-

viewed more than 150 witnesses

and issued more than 30 subpoe-

nas, including ones announced

Tuesday to McEnany and former

top adviser Stephen Miller. It is

unclear, so far, whether the law-

makers will eventually call

Trump to testify.

Trump has repeatedly attacked

the committee’s work and contin-

ued to promote unfounded con-

spiracy theories about wide-

spread fraud in the election, de-

spite the fact that Biden’s win was

certified by all 50 states and his

claims have been rebuked by

courts across the country.

Judge refusesTrump requestto block records

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House inves-

tigators issued subpoenas to 10 for-

mer officials who worked for Do-

nald Trump at the end of his presi-

dency, an effort to find out more

about what the president was doing

and saying as his supporters vio-

lently stormed the U.S. Capitol on

Jan. 6 in a bid to overturn his defeat.

The subpoenas issued Tuesday,

which included demands for docu-

ments and testimony from former

senior adviser Stephen Miller and

former press secretary Kayleigh

McEnany, bring the House panel

tasked with investigating the insur-

rection even closer inside Trump’s

inner circle — and closer to Trump

himself. They come a day after the

committee subpoenaed six other

associates of the former president

who spread mistruths about wide-

spread fraud in the election and

strategized about how to thwart

President Joe Biden’s victory.

“The Select Committee wants to

learn every detail of what went on

in the White House on January 6th

and in the days beforehand,” said

Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thomp-

son, the Democratic chairman of

the panel. “We need to know pre-

cisely what role the former presi-

dent and his aides played in efforts

to stop the counting of the electoral

votes and if they were in touch with

anyone outside the White House at-

tempting to overturn the outcome

of the election.”

It is so far unclear if the Jan. 6

panel will subpoena Trump,

though the committee’s leaders

have said they haven’t ruled any-

thing out. The panel has now issued

more than 30 subpoenas, including

to White House Chief of Staff Mark

Meadows, longtime ally Steve Ban-

non and others who were close to

the former president.

The House later voted to hold

Bannon in contempt after he said

he would not comply, and the Jus-

tice Department is still deciding

whether to prosecute the case.

Meadows and others have “en-

gaged” with the committee, ac-

cording to lawmakers, but may still

be held in contempt if they do not

fully comply.

The panel has already inter-

viewed more than 150 witnesses,

and lawmakers have said they want

to not only probe the attack itself

but its origins — namely the lies

that Trump spread about massive

voter fraud even though all 50

states had certified Biden’s win and

courts across the country rejected

his claims. The violent mob of

Trump’s supporters echoed those

false claims as they pushed past po-

lice, broke through windows and

doors and threatened lawmakers

who were certifying the election

that day.

The 10 former officials who were

subpoenaed Tuesday either could

not be reached or did not immedi-

ately respond to requests for com-

ment.

ANDREW HARNIK/AP

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and former White House senior adviser StephenMiller have been subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 Select Committee.

House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas 10 former White House aides

Associated Press

NEW YORK — At least 13 for-

mer Trump administration offi-

cials, including Jared Kushner and

Mike Pompeo, violated the law by

intermingling campaigning with

their official government duties,

according to a federal investiga-

tion.

The report from the Office of

Special Counsel released Tuesday

says the officials broke the law

without consequence and with the

administration’s approval as part

of a “willful disregard for the Hatch

Act,” which prohibits government

officials from using their official

roles to influence elections, includ-

ing supporting candidates while

acting in their official capacities.

“The cumulative effect of these

repeated and public violations was

to undermine public confidence in

the nonpartisan operation of gov-

ernment,” they wrote, adding that,

“such flagrant and unpunished vio-

lations erode the principal founda-

tion of our democratic system—the

rule of law.”

The office investigated officials’

comments in the lead-up to the

2020 presidential election, includ-

ing the Republi-

can National

Convention,

which was held at

the White House

in a major break

from historical

norms.

While the Of-

fice of Special Counsel concluded

that hosting the event at the White

House did not itself violate the

Hatch Act, it found plenty of other

instances where Trump officials

did, mostly by promoting the for-

mer president’s reelection in

media interviews in which they ap-

peared in their official capacity.

Among the officials cited are for-

mer White House chief of staff

Mark Meadows; Kushner,

Trump’s son-in-law, who served as

senior adviser to the president; for-

mer White House press secretary

Kayleigh McEnany; Kellyanne

Conway, then counselor to the

president; Stephen Miller, who

served as Trump’s senior policy

adviser; and Robert O’Brien, the

former national security adviser.

Conway had been repeatedly cited

by the office, which at one point

went so far as to call for her remov-

al.

“In each case, the subject official

was identified by their official title,

discussed administration policies

and priorities related to their offi-

cial duties, and/or spoke from the

White House grounds,” the report

reads.

The report notes the office re-

peatedly warned Trump White

House officials about their viola-

tions, but that the former president

who is responsible for enforcing

the law for high-ranking officials

never bothered to do that.

Probe finds at least 13 Trump officials repeatedly violated Hatch ActAssociated Press

Kushner


NATION

BALTIMORE — The Biden ad-

ministration is relying on infras-

tructure dollars to help fix the

clogged ports and blanket the na-

tion with internet access — but a

series of initiatives rolled out on

Tuesday show that the urgent

pace might not be fast enough to

address the immediate needs of

an economy coping with a supply

chain squeeze and a shift to re-

mote work.

President Joe Biden spoke with

the CEOs of Wal-Mart, Target,

UPS and FedEx on Tuesday about

how to relieve the supply chain

challenges as ships are still wait-

ing to dock at some of the coun-

try’s leading ports. The key prob-

lem is that these ports are experi-

encing record volumes of ship-

ping containers as the economy

has recovered from the pandem-

ic.

Biden received updates from

the CEOs on how deliveries are

being sped up to ensure that store

shelves will be well-stocked this

holiday season, according to a

White House official. Bloomberg

News first reported Biden's con-

versations with the corporate

leaders.

Yet the concrete policy steps

being discussed by the adminis-

tration show that there is no quick

fix to supply chain issues that are

still hurting smaller businesses

and causing consumers to face

higher prices. Nor can the admin-

istration build out a national

broadband network fast enough

as more Americans are pivoting

toward remote work.

Commerce Secretary Gina Rai-

mondo highlighted at the White

House briefing the $65 billion for

broadband access in the the $1

trillion infrastructure package

that cleared the House on Friday.

She said that jobs would be cre-

ated and poorer Americans would

receive “affordable” internet ser-

vice, though she did not spell out a

precise dollar amount on what the

monthly bills could be.

The plan involves careful logis-

tics that would take time to imple-

ment. Each state would receive at

least $100 million to help lay fibe-

roptic cables and ensure its citi-

zens can access the internet. This

process would occur as jobseek-

ers are increasingly requesting

remote work where they can work

from home on their computers.

“The president wants us to get

it right,” Raimondo said. “And if it

takes a little longer to lay the

groundwork for fiber and broad-

band, then we’re going to do that.”

Similarly, the administration

announced plans on Tuesday to

identify and pay for possible up-

grades to U.S. ports within the

next 90 days — hoping to ulti-

mately tamp down the inflation

being caused by ships waiting to

dock and a shortage of truck driv-

ers to haul goods.

As the U.S. emerges from the

coronavirus pandemic, the eco-

nomic recovery has been ham-

pered by congested and aging

ports. The mix of inflation and the

potential for empty store shelves

during holiday shopping has cre-

ated a sense of frustration for

many Americans and hurt Presi-

dent Joe Biden and Democrats

politically.

Senior administration officials

said Tuesday that the Transporta-

tion Department would allow port

authorities to redirect any left-

over money from grant projects to

address the supply chain issues.

For example, the Georgia Ports

Authority will use $8 million to

convert its inland facilities for the

port of Savannah into container

yards, freeing up dock space and

speeding the flow of goods to their

final destinations.

The officials spoke on condition

of anonymity to discuss the forth-

coming plans, which come on the

heels of the House backing the bi-

partisan infrastructure package

late Friday. The package includes

$17 billion to improve coastal and

land-based ports that can help to

tackle the challenges in the longer

term.

White House rushes fixes to infrastructure Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Women —

and some men — in Congress

have been fighting for govern-

ment child care assistance for al-

most 80 years. With President Joe

Biden’s $1.85 trillion social servic-

es package, they are as close as

they have ever been to winning.

And it’s not just child care sub-

sidies. Biden’s bill making its way

through Congress would put the

U.S. on course to providing free

prekindergarten, paid family

leave to care for children or sick

loved ones, and an enhanced child

tax credit in a massive expansion

of federal support to working fam-

ilies.

Taken together, it’s Democrats’

answer to President Richard Nix-

on’s veto of a 1971 child care bill

and the earlier scrapping of

World War II-era child care cen-

ters, potentially providing fam-

ilies with more government help

than ever as many struggle in the

wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I think COVID really illustrat-

ed to people how broken our child

care system is in a way that peo-

ple finally understood,” said Sen.

Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois

Democrat with two young chil-

dren.

Biden’s big bill combines a se-

ries of long-sought Democratic

goals to shore up families that

have been tried before only to run

into resistance, as they have again

today, with Republicans in lock-

step against the package.

The child care subsidies would

attempt to guarantee that most

Americans don’t spend more than

7% of their income on child care.

And while Congress approved

the Family and Medical Leave

Act nearly 30 years ago to guaran-

tee time off, the U.S. remains

among a handful of wealthy coun-

tries that do not offer paid time off

to care for children or sick loved

ones. Biden’s bill would change

that.

All told, the federal govern-

ment’s new programs for paid pa-

rental leave, child care and an ex-

panded child tax credit “would be

pretty major, if not landmark,

change for social policy and ex-

panding its reach into the depths

of how families cope in the mod-

ern economy,” said Sarah Binder,

a political science professor at

George Washington University.

Long before child care started

eating up a sizable share of a fam-

ily’s income and the COVID-19

crisis pushed women from the

workforce to care for kids at

home, Congress tried to lower the

costs of child raising in the U.S.

Some 80 years ago, Rep. Mary

Norton of New Jersey — she was

known as “Battling Mary,” the

first female Democrat elected to

the House — was instrumental in

securing money for child care

centers during World War II as

mothers went off to work. But the

program was terminated soon af-

ter the war ended and never res-

urrected.

A quarter of a century later,

Nixon invoked both communism

and traditional female roles when

he vetoed bipartisan legislation to

federally fund child care, saying it

was “radical” and had “family

weakening implications.”

“We’re still fighting for it,” says

House Appropriations Committee

Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro, a

Connecticut Democrat who has

been pushing for child care sub-

sidies and other programs to help

families since she was a Senate

aide in the 1980s. “You don’t have

a functioning economy without a

strong childcare system. You

can’t do it, OK? Because women

are the anchor in the economy.”

With Republicans opposed,

Democrats are trying to pass Bi-

den’s bill on their own in what has

become a messy, grueling proc-

ess. One conservative Democrat,

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virgin-

ia, is not fully on board with pa-

rental leave and some other pro-

posals, leaving their final inclu-

sion uncertain.

US-funded child care assistanceis nearing reality with Biden bill

Associated Press

JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, DIll., attends a discussion of care policieswith Vice President Kamala Harris on Oct. 14 in Washington.

WASHINGTON — Prices for

U.S. consumers jumped 6.2% in

October compared with a year

earlier as surging costs for food,

gas and housing left Americans

grappling with the highest infla-

tion rate since 1990.

The year-over-year increase in

the consumer price index exceed-

ed the 5.4% rise in September, the

Labor Department reported

Wednesday. From September to

October, prices jumped 0.9%, the

highest month-over-month in-

crease since June.

Inflation is eroding the strong

gains in wages and salaries that

have flowed to America’s workers

in recent months, creating politi-

cal headaches for the Biden ad-

ministration and congressional

Democrats and intensifying pres-

sure on the Federal Reserve as it

considers how fast to withdraw its

efforts to boost the economy.

Driving the price spikes are

persistent supply shortages re-

sulting from robust consumer de-

mand and COVID-related factory

shutdowns coming out of the pan-

demic recession. Ports across the

world have become bottlenecked.

America’s employers, facing la-

bor shortages, have also been

handing out sizable pay increases,

and many of them have raised

prices to offset their higher labor

costs, thereby contributing to in-

flation.

The result has been accelerat-

ing prices for a broad range of con-

sumer goods, from food, heating

oil and patio furniture to paints,

chemicals and window blinds.

After initially affecting mainly

goods in pandemic-disrupted in-

dustries, surging inflation has

broadened into the many services

that Americans spend money on,

notably for restaurant meals, rent-

al apartments and medical servic-

es, which jumped 0.5% in October.

Job gains and pay raises have

been much healthier during the

pandemic recovery than they

were after the Great Recession

roughly a decade ago. But in con-

trast to the years that followed that

downturn, when inflation was low,

rising prices are diminishing

Americans’ confidence in the

economy, surveys have found.

In October, excluding the vola-

tile food and energy categories, so-

called core prices rose 0.6% from

September. Core prices are now

up 4.6% compared with a year ago.

Energy costs soared 4.8% just

from September to October, with

gasoline, natural gas and heating

oil surging.

In the past year, energy costs

have jumped a whopping 30%,

with gasoline soaring nearly 50%.

Consumer prices soared 6.2% in past year, most since 1990Associated Press


ing a quarter of the money for 2.5

million pounds of food.

The cost of canned green

beans and peaches is up nearly

9% for them, Altfest said; canned

tuna and frozen tilapia up more

than 6%; and a case of 5-pound

frozen chickens for holiday ta-

bles is up 13%. The price for dry

oatmeal has climbed 17%.

On Wednesdays, hundreds of

OAKLAND, Calif. — U.S. food

banks already dealing with in-

creased demand from families

sidelined by the pandemic now

face a new challenge — surging

food prices and supply chain is-

sues walloping the nation.

The higher costs and limited

availability mean some families

may get smaller servings or sub-

stitutions for staples such as pea-

nut butter, which costs nearly

double what it did a year ago.

“What happens when food

prices go up is food insecurity

for those who are experiencing it

just gets worse,” said Katie Fitz-

gerald, chief operating officer of

Feeding America, a nonprofit or-

ganization that coordinates the

efforts of more than 200 food

banks across the country.

Food banks that expanded to

meet unprecedented demand

brought on by the pandemic

won’t be able to absorb forever

food costs that are two to three

times what they used to be, she

said,

Supply chain disruptions, low-

er inventory and labor shortages

have all contributed to increased

costs for charities on which tens

of millions of people in the Unit-

ed States rely on for nutrition.

Donated food is more expensive

to move because transportation

costs are up, and bottlenecks at

factories and ports make it diffi-

cult to get goods of all kinds.

If a food bank has to swap out

for smaller sizes of canned tuna

or make substitutions in order to

stretch their dollars, Fitzgerald

said, it’s like adding “insult to in-

jury” to a family reeling from

uncertainty.

In the prohibitively expensive

San Francisco Bay Area, the Ala-

meda County Community Food

Bank in Oakland is spending an

extra $60,000 a month on food.

Combined with increased de-

mand, it is now shelling out $1

million a month to distribute 4.5

million pounds of food, said Mi-

chael Altfest, the Oakland food

bank’s director of community

engagement.

Pre-pandemic, it was spend-

people line up outside a church

in east Oakland for its weekly

food giveaway.

Shiloh Mercy House feeds

about 300 families on those days,

far less than the 1,100 families it

was nourishing at the height of

the pandemic, said Jason Bautis-

ta, the charity’s event manager.

But he’s still seeing new people

every week.

“And a lot of people are just

saying they can’t afford food,” he

said. “I mean they have the mon-

ey to buy certain things, but it’s

just not stretching.”

Families can also use a com-

munity market Shiloh opened in

May. Refrigerators contain car-

tons of milk and eggs while sacks

of hamburger buns and crusty

baguettes sit on shelves.

Oakland resident Sonia Lujan-

Perez, 45, picked up chicken,

celery, onions, bread and pota-

toes — enough to supplement a

Thanksgiving meal for herself,

3-year-old daughter and 18-

year-old son. The state of Cali-

fornia pays her to care for

daughter Melanie, who has spe-

cial needs, but it’s not enough

with monthly rent at $2,200 and

the cost of milk, citrus, spinach

and chicken so high.

“That is wonderful for me be-

cause I will save a lot of money,”

she said, adding that the holiday

season is rough with Christmas

toys for the children.

Food banks struggle as price keep risingBY JANIE HAR

Associated Press

TERRY CHEA/AP

A volunteer packs onions in the warehouse of the Alameda County Community Food Bank in Oakland,Calif., on Friday.

NATION

KENOSHA, Wis. — Sobbing so

hard at one point that the judge

called a break, Kyle Rittenhouse

took the stand at his murder trial

Wednesday and said he was under

attack when he shot three men

during a night of turbulent pro-

tests in Kenosha.

“I didn’t do anything wrong. I

defended myself,” he said

Rittenhouse, 18, is on trial on

charges of killing two men and

wounding a third during unrest

that erupted in the summer of

2020 over the wounding of a Black

man by a white Kenosha police of-

ficer.

He could get life in prison if con-

victed of the most serious charges

against him.

Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the

time, went to Kenosha with a

semi-automatic rifle and a medic

bag in what he said was an attempt

to protect property from rioters

who had set fires and ransacked

businesses in the two preceding

nights.

Rittenhouse said he fatally shot

Joseph Rosenbaum after Rosen-

baum chased him and put his hand

on the barrel of Rittenhouse’s ri-

fle. Then Rittenhouse shot and

killed Anthony Huber, testifying

he opened fire after Huber struck

him in the neck with a skateboard

and grabbed his rifle.

When a third man, Gaige Gross-

kreutz, “lunges at me with his pis-

tol pointed directly at my head,”

Rittenhouse shot him, too, wound-

ing him.

“I didn’t intend to kill them, I in-

tended to stop the people who

were attacking me,” Rittenhouse

said.

During Rittenhouse’s testimo-

ny, the judge sent the jury out of

the room and berated the prosecu-

tor for questioning the defendant

about whether he was using dead-

ly force to protect property.

Judge Bruce Schroeder heated-

ly accused lead prosecutor Tho-

mas Binger of improperly trying

to introduce testimony that he had

earlier said he was inclined to pro-

hibit. The judge accused Binger of

attempting to provoke a mistrial.

Much of the testimony Wednes-

day was centered on the first

shooting of the night, since it was

Rosenbaum’s death that set in mo-

tion the bloodshed that followed.

Rittenhouse said he was walk-

ing toward a Car Source lot with a

fire extinguisher to put out a fire

when “I hear somebody scream,

‘Burn in hell!’ And I respond with

‘Friendly, friendly, friendly!’”

He said Rosenbaum was run-

ning at him from one side and an-

other protester with a gun in front

of him, “and I was cornered.” He

said that’s when he began to run.

He said another protester, Josh-

ua Ziminski, told Rosenbaum,

“Get him and kill him.”

Rittenhouse said he heard a

gunshot directly behind him, and

as he turned around, Rosenbaum

was coming at him with his arms

out in front of him. “I remember

his hand on the barrel of my gun,”

Rittenhouse said.

“I shoot him,” he recounted. He

also said he thought the object Ro-

senbaum threw during the chase

— a plastic hospital bag — was the

chain he had seen Rosenbaum

carrying earlier.

Rittenhouse said he intended to

help Rosenbaum but was in shock

as someone else attended to him.

Rittenhouse said he thought the

“safest option” was to turn himself

in to police who were on nearby.

When defense attorney Mark

Richards asked Rittenhouse why

he didn’t keep running away from

Rosenbaum, he said: “There was

no space for me to continue to run

to.”

Rittenhouse said that earlier

that night, Rosenbaum was hold-

ing a chain and had twice threat-

ened to kill him.

Apologizing to the court for his

language, Rittenhouse said Ro-

senbaum was walking down the

street with the chain and

screamed, “If I catch any of you

(expletives) alone I’m going to

(expletive) kill you!”

And later that night, he testified,

Rosenbaum said: “I’m going to cut

your (expletive) hearts out!”

In shooting trial, Rittenhousetestifies: ‘I defended myself’

Associated Press

MARK HERTZBERG/AP

Kyle Rittenhouse, center, and his lawyers Corey Chirafisi and NatalieWisco look on after a break in proceedings in his trial at the KenoshaCounty Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Tuesday.


NATION

DENVER — Around the U.S.,

cities are increasingly warming to

an idea that once induced gags:

Sterilize wastewater from toilets,

sinks and factories, and eventual-

ly pipe it back into homes and

businesses as tap water.

In the Los Angeles area, plans to

recycle wastewater for drinking

are moving along with little fan-

fare two decades after similar ef-

forts in the city sparked such a

backlash they had to be aban-

doned. The practice, which must

meet federal drinking water stan-

dards, has been adopted in several

places around the country, includ-

ing nearby Orange County.

“We’ve had a sea change in

terms of public attitudes toward

wastewater recycling,” said Da-

vid Nahai, the former general

manager of the Los Angeles De-

partment of Water and Power.

The shifting attitudes around a

concept once dismissively dubbed

“toilet to tap” come as dry regions

scramble for ways to increase wa-

ter supplies as their populations

boom and climate change intensi-

fies droughts. Other strategies

gaining traction include collecting

runoff from streams and roads af-

ter storms, and stripping seawater

of salt and other minerals, a proc-

ess that’s still relatively rare and

expensive.

Though there are still only

about two dozen communities in

the U.S. using some form of recy-

cled water for drinking, that num-

ber is projected to more than dou-

ble in the next 15 years, according

to WateReuse, a group that helps

cities adopt such conservation

practices.

In most places that do it, the

sterilized water is usually mixed

back into a lake, river or other nat-

ural source before being reused —

a step that helps make the idea of

drinking treated sewage go down

easier for some.

Funding for more wastewater

recycling projects is on the way.

The bipartisan infrastructure bill

passed by Congress has $1 billion

for water reuse projects in the

West, including the $3.4 billion

project in Southern California.

And tucked into the federal bud-

get reconciliation package being

debated is $125 million in grants

for alternative water sources na-

tionwide that could include reuse

technologies.

The Southern California project

would be the nation’s largest

wastewater recycling program,

producing enough water to supply

500,000 homes, according to the

Metropolitan Water District,

which serves 19 million people in

Los Angeles and surrounding

counties.

In Colorado, over two dozen fa-

cilities already recycle water for

non-drinking purposes, which is

more affordable than cleaning it

for drinking.

But growing populations mean

cities could need to pull additional

supply from the Colorado River,

which is already strained from

overuse.

At that point, it might make

sense to start recycling for drink-

ing purposes as well, said Greg

Fisher, head of demand planning

for Denver Water.

To warm residents to the idea,

Colorado Springs Utilities is host-

ing a mobile exhibit that shows

how wastewater recycling works.

On a cold, rainy afternoon, dozens

of visitors showed up to learn

about the carbon-based purifica-

tion process and sample the re-

sults, which several noted tasted

no different than their usual sup-

ply.

The recycling process typically

entails disinfecting wastewater

with ozone gas or ultraviolet light

to remove viruses and bacteria,

then filtering it through mem-

branes with microscopic pores to

remove solids and trace contami-

nants.

Not all water can be recycled lo-

cally. Often, Western communi-

ties are required to send treated

wastewater back to its source, so

that it can eventually be used by

other places that depend on that

same body of water.

“You have to put the water back

into the river because it’s not

yours,” said Patricia Sinicropi, ex-

ecutive director of WateReuse.

As a result, much of the country

already consumes water that’s

been recycled to some degree,

simply by living downstream from

others.

It’s why drinking water under-

goes stringent sterilization even

when it’s pulled from a river or

lake that looks clean.

Encouraged by efforts in other

cities, even places with stable wa-

ter supplies are considering recy-

cling their own wastewater.

After a poll showed broad sup-

port for the idea in Boise, Idaho,

city officials began studying plans

to recharge local groundwater

with treated wastewater.

As cities grow, wastewater recycling gets another look

BRITTANY PETERSON/AP

Billy Kinn drinks wastewater thatwas sterilized at the PureWaterColorado Mobile Demonstrationon Oct. 14.

BY BRITTANY PETERSON

AND SAM METZ

Associated Press


WORLD

GLASGOW, Scotland — Govern-

ments are poised to express “alarm

and concern” about how much

Earth has already warmed and en-

courage one another to end their

use of coal, according to a draft re-

leased Wednesday of the final doc-

ument expected at U.N. climate

talks.

The early version of the docu-

ment circulating at the negotiations

in Glasgow, Scotland, also impress-

es on countries the need to cut car-

bon dioxide emissions by about half

by 2030 — even though pledges so

far from governments don’t add up

to that frequently stated goal.

In a significant move, countries

would urge one another to “accel-

erate the phasing out of coal and

subsidies for fossil fuels” in the

draft, though it has no explicit ref-

erence to ending the use of oil and

gas. There has been a big push

among developed nations to shut

down coal-fired power plants,

which are a major source of heat-

trapping gases, but the fuel re-

mains a critical and cheap source of

electricity for countries like China

and India.

While the language about mov-

ing away from coal is a first and im-

portant, the lack of a date when

countries will do so limits the

pledge’s effectiveness, said Green-

peace International Director Jen-

nifer Morgan, a long-time climate

talks observer.

“This isn’t the plan to solve the

climate emergency. This won’t give

the kids on the streets the confi-

dence that they’ll need,” Morgan

said.

The draft doesn’t yet include full

agreements on the three major

goals that the United Nationsset go-

ing into the negotiations — and may

disappoint poorer nations because

of a lack of solid financial commit-

ments from richer ones. The goals

are: for rich nations to give poorer

ones $100 billion a year in climate

aid, to ensure that half of that mon-

ey goes to adapting to worsening

global warming and the pledge to

slash emissions that is mentioned.

The draft does provide insight,

however, into the issues that need

to be resolved in the last few days of

the conference, which is scheduled

to end Friday but may push past

that deadline. Still, a lot of negotiat-

ing and decision-making is yet to

come since whatever emerges

from the meetings has to be unani-

mously approved by the nearly 200

nations attending.

The draft says the world should

try to achieve “net-zero (emissions)

around mid-century.” That means

requiring countries to pump only as

much greenhouse gas into the at-

mosphere as can be absorbed again

through natural or artificial means.

It also acknowledges “with re-

gret” that rich nations have failed to

live up to the climate aid pledge.

Poorer nations, which need fi-

nancial help both in developing

green energy systems and adapting

to the worst of climate change, are

angry that the promised aid hasn’t

materialized.

“Without financial support, little

can be done to minimize its debil-

itating effects for vulnerable com-

munities around the world,” Mo-

hammed Nasheed, the Maldives’

parliamentary speaker and the am-

bassador for a group of dozens of

countries most vulnerable to cli-

mate change, said in a statement.

He said the draft fails on key is-

sues, including the financial aid

and strong emission cuts.

“There’s much more that needs

to be done on climate finance to

give developing countries what

they need coming out of here,” said

Alden Meyer, a long-time confer-

ence observer, of the European

think-tank E3G.

The document reaffirms the

goals set in Paris in 2015 of limiting

warming to “well below” 3.6 de-

grees Fahrenheit since pre-indus-

trial times, with a more stringent

target of trying to keep warming to

2.7 degrees Fahrenheit preferred

because that would keep damage

from climate change “much low-

er.”

Highlighting the challenge of

meeting those goals, the document

“expresses alarm and concern that

human activities have caused

around 2 F of global warming to

date and that impacts are already

being felt in every region.”

Climate talks draft agreement shows ‘alarm and concern’Associated Press


AMERICAN ROUNDUP

With a wink, judge bansElf on the Shelf

GA MARIETTA — Santa

may have fewer eyes in

homes this Christmas season after

a Georgia judge — jokingly —

banned the Elf on the Shelf.

Cobb County Superior Court

Chief Judge Robert Leonard post-

ed a mock order on Twitter ban-

ishing these elves.

“Tired of living in Elf on the

Shelf tyranny? Not looking for-

ward to the Elf forgetting to move

and causing your kids emotional

distress? I am a public servant and

will take the heat for you. My gift

to tired parents,” Leonard tweet-

ed.

According to the holiday tradi-

tion, the elves hide in homes for

weeks before Christmas and re-

port back to Santa on who’s been

naughty and nice. The elf dolls are

supposed to move to a different lo-

cation each night.

Leonard did make an allowance

for parents who don’t feel over-

whelmed by the “Elf on the Shelf

tyranny,” writing in his tweet: “If

you love your elf, keep your elf. No

contempts.”

Trash can makes its wayfrom US to Ireland

SC MYRTLE BEACH —

Instead of a message in

a bottle, it was the decals on a bar-

nacle-covered trash barrel that

shows just how far it traveled,

from the southeastern U.S. coast

to a beach in Ireland, more than

3,500 miles from home.

The City of Myrtle Beach said a

waste barrel had somehow

washed up in County Mayo, on the

emerald isle’s northwestern coast.

According to the city, Keith

McGreal of Ireland wrote them

and shared pictures of the bright

blue barrel with city stickers on it.

The city posted the photos online,

showing that the barrel’s Atlantic

crossing took enough time for it to

be encrusted with shells.

Man barred from sellingor breeding dogs

IA SEYMOUR — An Iowa

man who violated federal

animal welfare laws more than

100 times was barred from selling,

breeding or brokering dogs and

must give up 514 dogs he kept in

various locations around the state.

A federal judge approved an

agreement against Daniel Ginger-

ich, whose main site was in rural

Seymour, KCCI-TV reported.

The agreement settles a lawsuit

filed against Gingerich by the U.S.

Department of Justice on behalf of

the U.S. Department of Agricul-

ture. The USDA said Gingerich vi-

olated the Animal Welfare Act 120

times since March.

Officials disruptmultistate drug ring

WA SEATTLE — Sixteen

people were indicted

after a series of arrests disrupted a

multistate methamphetamine and

fentanyl distribution ring, accord-

ing to federal officials.

The drugs were coming from

California and being sold in at

least six Washington state coun-

ties, said U.S. Attorney Nick

Brown.

The investigation started in

early 2020 when people working

with law enforcement agencies

provided information about the

drug sales. Officials seized 10

pounds of meth in a May 2020 traf-

fic stop and 44 pounds of meth in

an April 2020 stop. In September

2021, officials seized 83 pounds of

meth and 20,000 fentanyl pills.

Prosecutors said the leaders of

the drug distribution ring, Jose

Maldonado-Ramirez, 33, and his

fiancé, Iris Amador-Garcia, 30, of

Bellflower, Calif., were arrested

Oct. 28.

City passes referendumto study reparations

MD GREENBELT —

Voters in a Maryland

city passed a referendum to estab-

lish a commission to study repara-

tions for African American and

Native American residents.

The referendum asked Green-

belt residents if they wanted the

city to establish a 21-member

council to review, discuss and

make recommendations related to

local reparations. It passed with a

vote of 1,522 to 910, according to

city spokeswoman Chondria An-

drews.

The idea was proposed by May-

or Colin Byrd and the city council

voted in August to put the referen-

dum on the ballot, news outlets re-

port. Byrd has said that repara-

tions could reverse harm to fam-

ilies of color and reduce the racial

wealth gap.

Law: Used cars must besold with working airbags

NY ALBANY — A new law

will prohibit used car

dealers in New York from selling

vehicles that don’t have working

airbags.

Democratic New York Gov.

Kathy Hochul announced she

signed the bill into law. It’s named

after 18-year-old Anthony Amo-

ros, a Rockland County resident

who died in a crash in 2013 while

driving a car without airbags.

The bill will require dealers to

give buyers documentation show-

ing the vehicle has an airbag and a

readiness indicator light that

shows it is functioning.

National park cavesvandalized with graffiti

CA PINNACLES NA-

TIONAL PARK — A fa-

mous cave system at Pinnacles

National Park in central Califor-

nia was closed for removal of ex-

tensive graffiti damage.

Officials expected to reopen the

Balconies Caves on Nov. 10, the

park said in a Facebook posting.

“This act of vandalism also pro-

vides us all an opportunity to re-

flect on how we care for our public

lands,” the park said. “Graffiti that

took a couple of minutes to spray

will take well over 100 personnel

hours and 500 pounds of equip-

ment to remove.”

Voters OK early closingtime for beach bars

FL MIAMI BEACH — Last

call could come three

hours earlier in Miami Beach,

where a majority of voters fed up

with nighttime violence chose

“Yes” to rolling back the 5 a.m.

closing time for alcohol sales.

The voter referendum was held

in response to increasingly rau-

cous crowds and public drinking

in the South Beach entertainment

district, where tension has been

bubbling for years as party

crowds grew from a few weekends

into a year-round presence. It

worsened during the pandemic

when city officials closed the main

drag to vehicles and allowed res-

taurants to offer more outdoor

seating along Ocean Drive.

Now city staff must develop leg-

islation to codify the referendum.

Mayor Dan Gelber said he expects

commissioners to support such

measures now that voters have

spoken.

DON CAMPBELL, THE (ST. JOSEPH, MICH.) HERALDPALLADIUM/AP

Kiteboarders take advantage of windy conditions along Lake Michigan at Tiscornia Park in St. Joseph, Mich.

Wind in their sails

THE CENSUS

3.6 The amount, in millions of dollars, that an original 1945 Nor-man Rockwell painting sold for at auction. American Legion

Post 193 in Winchendon, Mass., auctioned the artwork in order to raise fundsafter years of dwindling revenue made worse by the pandemic. The organiza-tion acquired the painting through a donation in 1959 from a local priest’s artcollection. The painting, “Home for Thanksgiving,” depicts a soldier seatedbeside his mother, who looks at him lovingly while he peels potatoes. It wascommissioned for the Nov. 24, 1945, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

From The Associated Press

In James Austin Johnson,

“Saturday Night Live” has a

new master impressionist

on board whose take on Do-

nald Trump last weekend was a

breakout performance for the roo-

kie.

Johnson nailed a stream-of-con-

sciousness Trump during an

opening segment Saturday that

discussed Republican Glenn

Youngkin’s election as Virginia

governor. Critics at Vulture and

TheWrap said Johnson “stole the

show,” or at least the cold open.

“‘Saturday Night Live’ finally

has a truly great Trump imperson-

ator,” wrote Dan Spinelli of Moth-

er Jones. “Close your eyes and

you’ll think new cast member

James Austin Johnson is the real

thing.”

With Youngkin, portrayed by

cast member Alex Moffat, looking

uncomfortable on a split screen

next to him, Johnson circled

through topics like “Dune,” “Star

Wars,” Chris Pratt and Santa

Claus as a subject “countdown”

mirroring ESPN’s “Pardon the In-

terruption” appeared onscreen.

“Most people don’t like him, but

he’s a wonderful guy, OK? Tall,

rich, like my sons. Glenn, you’re

like my son,” Johnson’s “Trump”

said.

“Please don’t say that,” Moffat

replied.

Johnson, a 32-year-old stand-up

comic from Nashville, has already

impersonated

President Joe

Biden twice in

the season’s five

episodes, along

with Adam Driv-

er, Joe Buck, Jon

Gruden, Lindsey

Graham and

Louis C.K. It’s an

unusually fast start for a new

“SNL” player, particularly now

that the on-air cast has swelled to

21 people.

The show did not make Johnson

available for an interview on Mon-

day. Even before he joined “Satur-

day Night Live,” he had attracted

attention for his mimicry, partic-

ularly of Trump. A video of John-

son, as Trump discussing Scooby

Doo, has received more than 2.4

million views on Twitter since be-

ing posted a year ago.

Of that performance, Vice’s

Josh Terry wrote last year that

“there’s something jaw-dropping

about how accurately Johnson is

able to channel the president’s ca-

dence, speech patterns and eccen-

tricities.”

While it’s unclear how much the

news will dictate Johnson appear-

ing as Trump on “Saturday Night

Live,” he’s clearly the successor to

Alec Baldwin, who made his last

appearance as Trump shortly af-

ter the 2020 election.

In an interview with Vice last

year, Johnson said that Baldwin

brought “pure evil” to the imper-

sonation of Trump.

“A lot of the mainstream shows

miss how much love there is for

Trump,” he told Vice. “In the

quest to depict him as the monster

that, of course, I believe he is,

they’re alienating some of the peo-

ple who would otherwise laugh at

their jokes. It’s really hard to

laugh at a lot of depictions of

Trump. It doesn’t make you feel

good. I really just want my come-

dy to be a balm by being really sil-

ly.”

Yet not everyone was happy to

see Trump make a “reappear-

ance” on the comedy show.

The Atlantic’s Molly Garber

wrote that Johnson’s imperson-

ation is “deeply skillful,” poking

fun at Trump’s tendency to make

himself inescapable. Yet giving

Johnson the platform allowed

Trump to hijack its attention.

“‘SNL,’ for too long, was so in-

terested in Trump as a joke that it

ignored him as a threat,” Garber

wrote. The most recent episode

“suggests that the show has looked

back over the previous years —

and learned precisely nothing.”

A new ‘Trump’ attracting attention on ‘SNL’New cast member James Austin Johnson earning praise for mimicry after portraying former president in sketch

BY DAVID BAUDER

Associated Press

NBC

James Austin Johnson portrays former President Donald Trumpduring the cold open of “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 6. Johnson hasmade a mark early in the new season with a variety of impressions.

Johnson


FACES

Paul Rudd has been crowned as

2021’s Sexiest Man Alive by Peo-

ple magazine.

Rudd, known for his starring

roles in Marvel’s “Ant-Man”

films, “This is 40” and “Clueless,”

was revealed as this year’s winner

Tuesday night on CBS’ “The Late

Show with Stephen Colbert.”

The actor tells the magazine in

an issue out Friday that some will

be surprised by him receiving the

honor.

“I do have an awareness,

enough to know that when people

hear that I’d be picked for this,

they would say, ‘What?’” he said.

“This is not false humility. There

are so many people that should get

this before me.”

But of course, Rudd won’t turn

down the honor. He jokingly hopes

the new title will grant him an in-

vitation to “those sexy dinners”

with George Clooney, Brad Pitt

and Michael B. Jordan — all re-

cent winners.

Other past honorees include

John Legend, Dwayne Johnson,

Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba,

Adam Levine, Channing Tatum

and David Beckham.

“I figure I’ll be on a lot more

yachts,” Rudd said. “I’m excited

to expand my yachting life. And

I’ll probably try to get better at

brooding in really soft light. I like

to ponder. I think this is going to

help me become more inward and

mysterious. And I’m looking for-

ward to that.”

Rudd’s first major breakout

performance came in 1995’s

“Clueless,” a cult classic starring

Alicia Silverstone. He also made

his mark in several comedies such

as the “Anchorman” films, “The

40-Year-Old Virgin” and “This Is

40,” a spin-off from the comedy

“Knocked Up.”

The actor reached superstar

status in a slew of Marvel superhe-

ro films including “Ant-Man,”

“Ant-Man and the Wasp,” “Cap-

tain America: Civil War” and

“Avengers: Endgame.” He’ll star

in the upcoming “Ghostbusters:

Afterlife” and appear alongside

Will Ferrell in the new Apple TV+

series “The Shrink Next Door,”

which premieres Nov. 12.

Rudd, 52, said his wife was ini-

tially “stupefied” after he told her

the news. The couple has two kids,

17-year-old Jack and Darby, who

is 12.

“But you know, she was very

sweet about it,” he said of his wife,

Julie, of 18 years. “After some gig-

gling and shock, she said, ‘Oh, they

got it right.’ And that was very

sweet. She was probably not tell-

ing the truth, but what’s she going

to say?”

Rudd expects his circle of

friends to give him “so much

grief.” He won’t blame them, be-

cause he would do the same.

“I mean, I’m going to lean into it

hard. I’m going to own this,” he

said. “I’m not going to try to be like

‘Oh, I’m so modest.’ I’m getting

business cards made. But all of my

friends will destroy me, and I ex-

pect them to, and that’s why

they’re my friends.”

People selects Paul Ruddas 2021’s Sexiest Man AliveBY JONATHAN LANDRUM JR.

Associated Press

AP

Actor Paul Rudd joins the likes ofGeorge Clooney, Brad Pitt andMichael B. Jordan with hisselection as People magazine’sSexiest Man Alive.

The creator of Netflix’s “Squid

Game” says the hit TV series will

be back for a season two, even

though most TV shows in South

Korea run for just one season. Due

to the show’s global success,

Hwang Dong-hyuk said, “I almost

feel like you leave us no choice.”

“There’s been so much pres-

sure, so much demand and so

much love for a second season,” he

said at a red carpet celebration for

the show Monday night.

“It’s in my head right now. I’m

in the planning process currently.

But I do think it’s too early to say

when and how that’s going to hap-

pen. So I will promise you this, Gi-

hun will be back and he’ll do some-

thing for the world,” explained

Hwang.

Netflix has not announced a sec-

ond season. The series, starring

Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun and

others in the ensemble cast, cen-

ters on people who are so desper-

ate for money that they agree to

take part in a series of schoolyard

games with a deadly twist.

The dystopian survival drama

from South Korea is said to have

become Netflix’s biggest-ever TV

show.

‘Quantum Leap’ actor

Stockwell dies at 85Dean Stockwell, a top Holly-

wood child actor who gained new

success in middle age in the sci-fi

series “Quantum Leap” and in a

string of indelible performances

in film, including

David Lynch’s

“Blue Velvet,”

Wim Wenders’

“Paris, Texas”

and Jonathan

Demme’s “Mar-

ried to the Mob,”

has died. He was

85.

Jay Schwartz, a family spokes-

person, said Stockwell died of nat-

ural causes at home Sunday.

Stockwell was Oscar-nominat-

ed for his comic mafia kingpin in

“Married to the Mob” and was

four times an Emmy nominee for

“Quantum Leap.”

But in a career that spanned

seven decades, Stockwell was a

supreme character actor whose

performances — such as lip-syn-

cing Roy Orbison in a nightmarish

party scene in “Blue Velvet” —

didn’t have to be lengthy to be

mesmerizing.

Creator says ‘Squid Game’will be back for season 2

Associated Press

Stockwell


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8 Round bread

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12 Cave flier

13 Pakistan

neighbor

14 Monster

15 MRI alternatives

17 Soft shoes,

for short

18 Sugar suffix

19 Joy

21 Caravan

mammals

24 Author Yutang

25 Actress/model

Mendes

26 “You betcha!!”

28 Starring roles

32 Queue

34 Peruke

36 Part of Q.E.D.

37 Impudent

39 Chewable stick

41 Attempt

42 Up to

44 Ryan O’Neal film

46 More inclined

50 Refusals

51 Zorro’s garment

52 November 11

honorees

56 Clock radio

toggle

57 “Yeah, right!”

58 PBS funder

59 Disorder

60 Pre-college

exams

61 Kinsey study

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2 Goat’s plaint

3 Footrests

4 Emmy-winner

Tyson

5 Altar

constellation

6 Grit

7 Photographer

Adams

8 Candidate

9 Awestruck

10 Eyebrow

shape

11 Egg container

16 Compass dir.

20 Rapper — Kim

21 Animation frames

22 Athletic shoe

brand

23 Stitch

27 Pen pal?

29 Skilled workers

30 Mend socks

31 Eyelid woe

33 Reveres

35 Gloomy guy

38 Shrill bark

40 Paintings by

Claude

43 Jeans brand

45 In favor of

46 Swindle

47 Docile

48 Actor Omar

49 Country’s

McEntire

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OPINION

Military service members re-

turning from America’s “for-

ever” wars in Iraq and Af-

ghanistan have often faced

deeply personal questions about their expe-

rience.

As one veteran explained to me: “I’ve

been asked, ‘Have you ever killed anyone in

war? Are you messed up at all?’”

“I don’t take offense to any of that be-

cause I realize we went somewhere, we

were gone for a couple of years, and now

we’re back, and now no one knows how to

talk to a person.”

This sense of estrangement from the rest

of the population is, in my experience, com-

mon among veterans. I interviewed 30 for-

mer military personnel between 2012 and

2018 for “After Combat: True War Stories

from Iraq and Afghanistan” — a book I co-

authored with retired Army Col. Michael

Gibler, who served as an infantry officer for

28 years, including deployments to both

Iraq and Afghanistan.

As the U.S. marks the 20th anniversary of

the 9/11 attacks and the global war on ter-

rorism, I believe that civilians would bene-

fit from hearing veterans’ stories. It can

help provide an understanding of the expe-

rience of mortality among the men and

women who served in America’s name.

Neither I nor my co-author asked veter-

ans directly if they had killed, and every

person we spoke with had a unique experi-

ence of combat. All 30 interviewees, aged

between 20 and 55 and from various back-

grounds, were guaranteed anonymity to al-

low them to talk freely with us about their

experiences of killing in combat. Their

names have been changed for this article.

Killing in contemporary war rarely clar-

ifies combat portrayed in war movies or

video games, where the opponent is visible

and threatening. In the fictional scenario, it

is clear when a life is threatened and how to

fight for the survival of oneself or one’s unit.

“People think it’s like ‘Call of Duty,’” one

veteran said, referring to the popular video

game, or that “it’d be cool to do that.” How-

ever, even in a direct engagement, like an

ambush, it may not be clear who you are

shooting at — it could be a response to a

muzzle flash in the distance or laying down

covering fire, he explained.

Describing an incident in which three

men attacked his unit, one veteran, Beau,

recalled the moral clarity he felt while

shooting at a visible combatant.

“I know that they’re bad because they’re

shooting at me,” he said.

But in other firefights, the situation was

less clear, and as Beau explained, “For ev-

ery innocent person that dies, that’s five

more terrorists. I need to get this right.”

Many recruits like Beau go into combat

believing that killing is necessary for war

conditions and believing that the wars in Af-

ghanistan and Iraq were militarily and po-

litically justified. But they are still changed

by having killed.

One soldier shot back from his guard post

when under fire from a nearby house. His

unit entered the house to find a dead man

with a warm rifle. But the guard was dis-

comfited when congratulated on this kill by

fellow soldiers. To his comrades, he had act-

ed in self-defense and protected others

from the shooter. But even in this situation

of militarily justified killing, he felt he had

crossed a line by taking a life.

Others expressed guilt for exposing civil-

ians to danger. One veteran spoke of feeling

responsible when a young informant was

executed after providing crucial informa-

tion to Americans.

“We found out that the family living there

told the Taliban that that little boy ratted

them out,” Robin recalled. “I found this out

two days later, that they executed the little

boy that I chose to bring into that com-

pound.”

While some veterans return from combat

without suffering moral injury or post-trau-

matic stress, others suffer enduring im-

pacts of killing. Studies have shown that the

act of killing in combat can cause “signifi-

cant psychological distress” and is associ-

ated with elevated risks of PTSD, alcohol

abuse and suicide in veterans.

As former U.S. Army Lt. Col. David

Grossman wrote in his book examining the

psychological impact of killing, a “dead sol-

dier takes his misery with him, the man who

killed him must forever live and die with

him.”

Reuben can attest to that. He fired on a

vehicle accelerating into an Iraqi check-

point. As the vehicle approached the check-

point, he shot into and stopped the advanc-

ing automobile. Approaching it to investi-

gate, the unit saw he had killed the driver.

But he had also “splattered his head all over

the driver’s child. Six years old. He was sit-

ting in the passenger seat. The fifty caliber

does a number on the human body. The

man’s head was just gone. It was every-

where.”

Reuben has ruminated over that moment

for years, trying to reconcile how he had fol-

lowed the standard protocol but with horrif-

ic results — and trying to convince himself,

as he told us, that he is not a monster.

Most civilians will never carry the bur-

den of mortality that Reuben bears.

As the 20th anniversary of the terrorist

attacks of 9/11 and the inception of Amer-

ica’s global war on terror approached, the

Biden administration withdrew the last re-

maining troops from Afghanistan.

The military members returning from

this conflict, and that in Iraq, will not all be

traumatized by combat experience, and not

all soldiers who deploy have been killed.

But those who have entered a moral space,

very few of us share or even particularly un-

derstand.

After 20 years of war, vets feel estrangedBY MARIAN EIDE

Texas A&M University

Even by the brutal political rules of

Baghdad, the recent attempt to as-

sassinate Prime Minister Mustafa

al-Kadhimi appears to have

shocked many Iraqis — and undermined the

Iranian-sponsored militias who had been

trying to drive him from power.

The “cowardly” attack, as Kadhimi de-

scribed it, has been condemned by the Unit-

ed Nations, the Biden administration, a wide

range of Iraqi politicians — and even Iran, a

prime suspect in the strike by three drones

early Sunday morning. Two of the drones

were shot down, but one hit Kadhimi’s resi-

dence.

The implications of the Baghdad drone at-

tack were summarized in an email from Ran-

da Slim, director of conflict resolution at the

Middle East Institute. “There is enough cir-

cumstantial evidence pointing to Iran-

backed Iraqi militias having orchestrated

this attack. But it already backfired on them.

It was a stupid and shortsighted move that

achieved the exact opposite of their objective

to deny Prime Minister Kadhimi a second

term. This assassination attempt made his

second term in office almost certain.”

Kadhimi is the rare personality in the Mid-

dle East who has defied threats from Iran

and its proxies without flinching. He has

been living in the crosshairs since he took of-

fice in May 2020 and has tried to steer a

course between the United States and Iran.

Since then, Iranian-backed militias have at-

tacked the Green Zone, murdered one of his

friends and defied his security officials in

their campaign of intimidation.

The Iranian-backed militias’ rage at Kad-

himi is partly a matter of sour grapes after

their failure in last month’s elections. The big

winner was the mercurial, independent-

minded Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr who,

like Kadhimi, has tried to distance himself

from Iran and promised he would “not leave

Iraq in its grip.” Sadr’s party won 73 seats in

the 329-member parliament, the largest

block. The pro-Iran coalition known as “Fa-

tah,” which includes the militias, won just 17

seats.

Kadhimi didn’t run, hoping that Sadr and

other leaders would turn to him as an inde-

pendent, as they did last year.

Soon after the ballots were counted, the

Iranian-backed groups began claiming

fraud, although the polling had been moni-

tored by the United Nations and other inde-

pendent groups. The militias even dubbed

their protest movement “Stop the Steal” in a

bizarre reference to former President Do-

nald Trump.

The showdown turned violent Friday,

when the militants besieged the Green Zone

and assaulted Iraqi security forces protect-

ing government offices and foreign embas-

sies there. The troops fired back, and two

protesters were killed. An Iraqi official close

to Kadhimi told me Sunday that more than 80

security forces and about 27 militia support-

ers were injured. “This was a staged cam-

paign to block Kadhimi’s reelection,” said

the official.

Then came the assassination attempt early

Sunday, and expressions of anger from Ira-

qis who had hoped Kadhimi could reform

Iraq’s gross corruption and thread the needle

between America and Iran. “We will pursue

those who committed yesterday’s crime; we

know them well and we will expose them,”

Kadhimi said in a statement from his office.

Other Iraqi politicians issued supportive

statements.

Iran and its militia allies made a predict-

able attempt to suggest that the United States

was somehow to blame.

But the anti-American spin isn’t likely to

gain traction, even among conspiracy-mind-

ed Iraqis. And it’s easily rebutted because

the drones were recovered. If Kadhimi can

stay alive, he has a better chance than a week

ago of remaining in power and mobilizing the

kind of reforms that Iraq desperately needs.

The spectacular failure of assassination try in IraqBY DAVID IGNATIUS

Washington Post Writers Group


SCOREBOARD

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Tuesday’s scoresMIDWEST

Miami (Ohio) 45, Buffalo 18W. Michigan 45, Akron 40 Ohio 34, E. Michigan 26

ScheduleThursday’s game

EASTNorth Carolina (5-4) at Pittsburgh (7-2)

Friday’s gamesSOUTH

Cincinnati (9-0) at South Florida (2-7)FAR WEST

Wyoming (5-4) at Boise St. (5-4)Saturday’s games

EASTMaine (4-5) at Umass (1-8)Robert Morris (3-5) at Monmouth (NJ) (6-3)Wagner (0-9) at Sacred Heart (6-3)Penn (3-5) at Harvard (6-2)Houston (8-1) at Temple (3-6)Michigan (8-1) at Penn St. (6-3)Bucknell (1-8) at Army (5-3)Merrimack (5-4) at St. Francis (Pa.) (4-5)CCSU (3-6) at Duquesne (5-3)Georgetown (2-6) at Lehigh (1-8)Colgate (3-6) at Lafayette (3-6)New Hampshire (3-6) at Rhode Island (6-3)Norfolk St. (6-3) at Delaware St. (4-5)LIU Brooklyn (2-6) at Bryant (5-4)Morgan St. (1-8) at Albany (NY) (1-8)Holy Cross (7-2) at Fordham (6-3)Brown (2-6) at Columbia (5-3)Stony Brook (4-5) at Villanova (7-2)Yale (5-3) at Princeton (7-1)NC Central (4-5) at Howard (2-7)Cornell (2-6) at Dartmouth (7-1)Elon (4-5) at Towson (4-5)UAB (6-3) at Marshall (6-3)

SOUTHMississippi St. (5-4) at Auburn (6-3)New Mexico St. (1-8) at Alabama (8-1)Samford (4-5) at Florida (4-5)East Carolina (5-4) at Memphis (5-4)Syracuse (5-4) at Louisville (4-5)Uconn (1-8) at Clemson (6-3)Bethune-Cookman (1-8) at Grambling (3-6)Stetson (4-5) at Morehead St. (5-4)Marist (4-4) at Presbyterian (2-7)Hampton (4-5) at Campbell (3-6)NC A&T (4-5) at SC State (5-4)Charleston Southern (3-5) at Gardner-

Webb (3-6)Georgia St. (4-5) at Coastal Carolina (8-1)SE Missouri (3-6) at Murray St. (4-5)Alabama St. (3-5) at MVSU (2-7)Wofford (1-8) at The Citadel (2-7)VMI (6-3) at Furman (4-5)Delaware (5-4) at Richmond (4-5)ETSU (8-1) at W. Carolina (3-6)UT Martin (8-1) at Tennessee Tech (3-6)S. Alabama (5-4) at Appalachian St. (7-2)Prairie View (7-1) at Alcorn St. (5-4)Austin Peay (4-5) at Tennessee St. (5-4)Kennesaw St. (8-1) at North Alabama (2-7)Chattanooga (6-3) at Mercer (6-2)Miami (5-4) at Florida St. (3-6)James Madison (8-1) at William & Mary

(6-3)FAU (5-4) at Old Dominion (3-6)Duke (3-6) at Virginia Tech (4-5)Charlotte (5-4) at Louisiana Tech (2-7)Louisiana-Lafayette (8-1) at Troy (5-4)Georgia (9-0) at Tennessee (5-4)FIU (1-8) at Middle Tennessee (4-5)Boston College (5-4) at Georgia Tech (3-6)Tulsa (3-6) at Tulane (1-8)Incarnate Word (7-2) at Nicholls (5-4)Arkansas St. (1-8) at La.-Monroe (4-5)Jackson St. (8-1) at Southern U. (4-5)Kentucky (6-3) at Vanderbilt (2-7)Texas A&M (7-2) at Mississippi (7-2)Northwestern St. (2-7) at SE Louisiana (7-2)NC State (7-2) at Wake Forest (8-1)Notre Dame (8-1) at Virginia (6-3)Arkansas (6-3) at LSU (4-5)

MIDWEST

Rutgers (4-5) at Indiana (2-7)Northwestern (3-6) at Wisconsin (6-3)N. Dakota St. (8-1) at Youngstown St. (2-6)Davidson (7-1) at Dayton (5-4)Valparaiso (3-6) at Butler (2-7)West Virginia (4-5) at Kansas St. (6-3)S. Illinois (6-3) at Indiana St. (4-5)St. Thomas (Minn.) (5-3) at Drake (2-7)S. Dakota St. (7-2) at South Dakota (6-3)Illinois St. (4-5) at North Dakota (4-5)N. Iowa (5-4) at Missouri St. (6-3)Minnesota (6-3) at Iowa (7-2)Purdue (6-3) at Ohio St. (8-1)Maryland (5-4) at Michigan St. (8-1)South Carolina (5-4) at Missouri (4-5)

SOUTHWESTUCF (6-3) at SMU (7-2)Oklahoma (9-0) at Baylor (7-2)E. Kentucky (6-3) at Sam Houston St. (8-0)W. Kentucky (5-4) at Rice (3-6)Tarleton St. (5-4) at Abilene Christian (4-5)Alabama A&M (5-3) at Texas Southern (3-6)McNeese St. (3-6) at Houston Baptist (0-9)Georgia Southern (2-7) at Texas State (3-6)Florida A&M (7-2) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (2-7)Iowa St. (6-3) at Texas Tech (5-4)Southern Miss. (1-8) at UTSA (9-0)UTEP (6-3) at North Texas (3-6)Jacksonville St. (4-5) at Lamar (2-7)Stephen F. Austin (6-3) at Cent. Arkansas

(5-4)Kansas (1-8) at Texas (4-5)TCU (4-5) at Oklahoma St. (8-1)

FAR WESTUtah (6-3) at Arizona (1-8)Montana (7-2) at N. Arizona (4-5)Idaho (3-6) at Montana St. (8-1)Southern Cal (4-5) at California (3-6)Weber St. (4-5) at S. Utah (1-9)Hawaii (4-6) at UNLV (1-8)Stanford (3-6) at Oregon St. (5-4)Arizona St. (6-3) at Washington (4-5)Air Force (6-3) at Colorado St. (3-6)New Mexico (3-6) at Fresno St. (7-3)E. Washington (7-2) at UC Davis (8-1)Idaho St. (1-8) at Cal Poly (1-8)Portland St. (5-4) at Sacramento St. (7-2)Colorado (3-6) at UCLA (5-4)Fort Lewis (0-1) at Dixie St. (0-9)Nevada (7-2) at San Diego St. (8-1)Utah St. (7-2) at San Jose St. (5-5)Washington St. (5-4) at Oregon (8-1)

UAB 102, UNC-Asheville 77 UNC-Greensboro 57, NC A&T 53 VCU 57, St. Peter’s 54 VMI 111, Carlow 55 Virginia Tech 82, Maine 47 W. Carolina 79, Bowling Green 71, OT W. Kentucky 79, Alabama St. 74 Winthrop 110, MBU 78 Wofford 117, Bob Jones 79

MIDWESTButler 56, IUPUI 47 Cincinnati 65, Evansville 43 Creighton 90, Ark.-Pine Bluff 77 Dayton 64, Ill.-Chicago 54 Drake 87, Coe 61 Fort Wayne 103, Earlham 54 Illinois 71, Jackson St. 47 Illinois St. 68, UNC-Wilmington 63 Indiana 68, E. Michigan 62 Indiana St. 81, Green Bay 77 Iowa 106, Longwood 73 Iowa St. 84, Kennesaw St. 73 Kansas 87, Michigan St. 74 Loyola Chicago 103, Coppin St. 45 Marquette 88, SIU-Edwardsville 77 Milwaukee 75, North Dakota 60 Minnesota 71, UMKC 56 Missouri 78, Cent. Michigan 68 N. Dakota St. 88, Concordia (Moor.) 44 Nicholls 62, N. Iowa 58 Northwestern 80, E. Illinois 56 Ohio 92, Belmont 80 Ohio St. 67, Akron 66 Omaha 67, HCB 57 Purdue 96, Bellarmine 67 S. Dakota St. 81, Bradley 65 SE Missouri 99, Missouri St. 94 Saint Louis 96, Cent. Arkansas 61 Toledo 69, Valparaiso 61 W. Illinois 75, Nebraska 74 Wichita St. 60, Jacksonville St. 57 Wisconsin 81, St. Francis (NY) 58 Wright St. 86, Lake Erie 53 Xavier 63, Niagara 60

SOUTHWESTArkansas 74, Mercer 61 Arkansas St. 81, Harding 55 Houston 83, Hofstra 75, OT Lamar 67, Wiley 50 North Texas 84, Oklahoma Christian 53 Oklahoma 77, Northwestern St. 59 Oklahoma St. 88, Texas-Arlington 45 Rice 82, Pepperdine 63 SMU 86, McNeese St. 62 Stephen F. Austin 82, LSU-Alexandria 73 Texas 92, Houston Baptist 48 Texas A&M-CC 102, Texas Lutheran 64 Texas St. 75, Incarnate Word 57 Texas Tech 89, North Florida 74 UALR 69, S. Illinois 66 UTEP 85, W. New Mexico 57 UTSA 97, Trinity (Texas) 66

FAR WESTArizona 81, N. Arizona 52 Arizona St. 76, Portland 60 BYU 69, Cleveland St. 59 Boise St. 76, Utah Valley St. 56 Cal Baptist 87, San Francisco St. 65 Cal Poly 86, Westcliff 53 Chattanooga 75, Loyola Marymount 64 Chicago St. 77, St. Thomas (Minn.) 72 Colorado 94, Montana St. 90, OT Colorado St. 109, Oral Roberts 80 Denver 68, Regis 65 Fresno St. 74, Fresno Pacific 54 Gonzaga 97, Dixie St. 63Grand Canyon 74, Grambling St. 53 Idaho St. 82, E. Oregon 61Montana 74, Dickinson St. 27 N. Illinois 71, Washington 64 Nevada 91, E. Washington 76 New Mexico St. 62, UC Irvine 51 Oregon 83, Texas Southern 66 Oregon St. 73, Portland St. 64 S. Utah 116, Bethesda 74Sacramento St. 89, William Jessup 59 Saint Mary’s (Cal.) 87, Prairie View 68 San Diego 103, La Verne 38San Diego St. 66, UC Riverside 53

Tuesday’s men’s scoresEAST

American 77, Marist 73, OT Army 83, New Paltz 52 Boston College 73, Dartmouth 57 Brown 89, Salve Regina 59 Bryant 122, Fisher 54 Colgate 65, Northeastern 58 Cornell 76, Binghamton 69 Delaware St. 80, Cairn 41 Duquesne 73, Rider 61 Fordham 77, Columbia 67 George Washington 75, St. Francis (Pa.) 72Harvard 86, Morehouse 70 Holy Cross 98, Regis 51 Howard 87, Dist. of Columbia 59 Iona 65, Appalachian St. 53 Manhattan 99, Manhattanville 42 Maryland 83, Quinnipiac 69 Mass.-Lowell 91, Rivier 55 Morgan St. 118, St. Mary’s (Md.) 55 New Hampshire 98, St. Joseph’s (Maine) 53Princeton 94, Rutgers-Camden 28 Providence 80, Fairfield 73 Rhode Island 71, Boston U. 62 Sacred Heart 86, La Salle 81, OT Saint Joseph’s 69, Md.-Eastern Shore 67 St. Bonaventure 75, Siena 47 St. John’s 119, MVSU 61 Syracuse 97, Lafayette 63 The Citadel 78, Pittsburgh 63 Towson 77, Albany (NY) 56 UConn 99, CCSU 48 UMass 77, UMBC 60 Villanova 91, Mount St. Mary’s 51 Wagner 77, Hartford 59 West Virginia 60, Oakland 53 Yale 88, Vassar 42

SOUTHAlabama 93, Louisiana Tech 64 Alabama A&M 82, Tennessee St. 73 Auburn 77, Morehead St. 54 Austin Peay 86, Martin Methodist 79 Campbell 85, William Peace 50 Charleston South. 118, Johnson & Wales 71Charlotte 68, Monmouth (NJ) 66 Clemson 64, Presbyterian 53 Coastal Carolina 101, Ferrum 73 Davidson 93, Delaware 71 Duke 79, Kentucky 71 E. Kentucky 93, Georgetown (Ky.) 63 East Carolina 70, SC State 62 Florida 74, Elon 61 Florida Gulf Coast 94, Florida National 57 Furman 118, North Greenville 66 George Mason 74, Stony Brook 52 Georgia 58, FIU 51 Georgia Southern 82, Ball St. 71 Georgia St. 97, Brewton-Parker 37 Hampton 101, Mid-AtlanticChristian 51 High Point 108, Shenandoah 59 Jacksonville 79, Trinity Baptist 43 LSU 101, Louisiana-Monroe 39 Lipscomb 105, Birmingham Southern 98 Louisiana-Lafayette 81, West Florida 47 Louisville 72, Southern U. 60 Memphis 89, Tennessee Tech 65 Miami (Ohio) 72, Georgia Tech 69 Miami 77, Canisius 67 Middle Tennessee 98, Brescia 59 Mississippi 82, New Orleans 61 Murray St. 109, Cumberland (Tenn). 77 N. Kentucky 82, Wheeling Jesuit 54 NC State 88, Bucknell 70 Navy 66, Virginia 58 Norfolk St. 79, Bridgewater (Va.) 56 North Carolina 83, Loyola (Md.) 67 Radford 84, Emory & Henry 72 Richmond 70, NC Central 60 Samford 99, Maryville (Tenn.) 78 South Alabama 102, Spring Hill 41 South Carolina 78, SC-Upstate 60 South Florida 75, Bethune-Cookman 54 Southern Miss. 81, William Carey 67 Stetson 74, Florida Memorial 67 Tennessee 90, UT Martin 62 Troy 104, Carver 42 Tulane 70, SE Louisiana 67

San Francisco 98, LIU 64Santa Clara 84, Cal St.-Fullerton 77 Southern Cal 89, CS Northridge 49 Stanford 62, Tarleton St. 50 Texas Rio Grande 74, Texas A&M Int'l. 59 UC Davis 72, Utah St. 69UC San Diego 80, California 67 UCLA 95, CS Bakersfield 58Utah 70, Abilene Christian 56 Washington St. 85, Alcorn St. 67 Weber St. 100, Western St. (Col.) 60

Tuesday’s women’s scoresEAST

Binghamton 59, Siena 55Boston College 86, Harvard 60 Boston U. 76, Mass.-Lowell 47 Buffalo 102, Canisius 42Columbia 78, Hampton 56Coppin St. 73, La Salle 70Delaware 87, Chestnut Hill 48 Fairfield 76, Brown 52Fordham 79, Quinnipiac 71, OT George Washington 58, American U. 47 Georgetown 73, Navy 62Iona 60, Bryant 56Lehigh 82, East Stroudsburg 35 Manhattan 74, St. Francis Brooklyn 66 Marist 52, Drexel 50Marshall 108, Bluefield State 45 Maryland 97, Longwood 67Niagara 81, Loyola (Md.) 71 Penn St. 85, LIU 66Rhode Island 83, Dartmouth 37 Rutgers 59, St. Peter’s 38Saint Joseph’s 84, Md.-Eastern Shore 49 Seton Hall 81, Mount St. Mary’s 68 St. Bonaventure 61, Robert Morris 53 Stony Brook 87, Delaware St. 46 Temple 73, St. Francis (Pa.) 53 Towson 114, Frostburg State 59 UMBC 79, Gettysburg College 33 UMass 87, CCSU 50Vermont 87, Merrimack 57Wagner 61, NJIT 49Yale 63, Providence 57, OT

SOUTHAlabama 109, Charleston Southern 32 Appalachian St. 75, Lees-McRae 41 Belmont 88, Chattanooga 70Campbell 99, Pfeiffer 35Charlotte 63, Richmond 45Coastal Carolina 117, Agnes Scott 25 Coll. of Charleston 80, Wofford 48 Duke 95, Winthrop 39Elon 68, High Point 66Florida 84, Georgia St. 70Florida Gulf Coast 105, Florida Memorial 41Florida St. 78, North Florida 50 George Mason 63, FIU 60Grambling St. 69, Louisiana-Monroe 61 Jacksonville St. 89, Auburn-Montgomery 39James Madison 84, Virginia 69 Kennesaw St. 100, Thomas (GA) 31 Kentucky 81, Presbyterian 53 LSU 82, Nicholls 40Liberty 89, Belmont Abbey 40 Louisiana Tech 103, Jarvis Christian 53 Louisiana-Lafayette 84, Texas A&M-

Kingsville 58 Memphis 84, Xavier 64Miami 72, Jackson St. 67Middle Tennessee 70, East Carolina 49 Mississippi St. 91, Alabama St. 62 Murray St. 79, Asbury 40Norfolk St. 81, Chowan 53North Alabama 114, Blackburn College 52North Carolina 92, NC A&T 47 Northwestern St. 91, Centenary College 52Old Dominion 80, SC State 52 South Alabama 63, Mobile 59 South Carolina 66, NC State 57 South Florida 63, Rio Grande 56 Southern Miss. 72, William Carey 42 Stetson 127, Johnson (FL) 36 Tennessee St. 94, Fisk 48Tennessee Tech 85, Bethel (TN) 46 Troy 101, Talladega 81

Tulane 66, Southeastern 58UCF 68, Duquesne 39UNC-Greensboro 52, UNC-Asheville 48 Vanderbilt 75, Gardner-Webb 59 Virginia Tech 76, Davidson 57 W. Carolina 72, Emory & Henry 48 Wake Forest 68, Mercer 55

MIDWESTAkron 97, Slippery Rock 54Ball St. 84, Milwaukee 75, OT Bradley 84, Wright St. 65Cleveland St. 81, ETSU 54Dayton 73, Alabama A&M 52 DePaul 114, Texas Southern 71 E. Illinois 86, Lindenwood 30 Evansville 62, Austin Peay 52 Fort Wayne 102, Manchester 35 Georgia Tech 74, Cent. Michigan 40 Illinois 73, NC Central 56Indiana St. 88, Stephens 33 Iowa 93, New Hampshire 50Iowa St. 65, Nebraska-Omaha 38 Jacksonville 69, Minnesota 66 Kansas St. 103, Cent. Arkansas 40 Loyola Chicago 63, Detroit 40 Marquette 96, Alcorn St. 35 Michigan 67, IUPUI 62, OTMichigan St. 93, Morehead St. 31 N. Illinois 77, Illinois St. 60 N. Iowa 63, Saint Louis 54Nebraska 108, Maine 50Notre Dame 105, Ohio 69Oklahoma 73, South Dakota 71 S. Dakota St. 70, Green Bay 49 SE Missouri 68, St. Louis College of Phar-

macy 45 Toledo 84, Oakland 72W. Michigan 95, Kentucky State 58 Wichita St. 78, Chicago St. 34 Youngstown St. 70, E. Michigan 67

SOUTHWESTAbilene Christian 99, University of the

Southwest 43 Arkansas St. 83, Central Baptist College 52Baylor 77, Texas State 70Houston 80, Howard 48McNeese St. 65, Ark.-Pine Bluff 60 Missouri St. 76, UALR 62North Texas 93, University of Science

and Arts of Oklahoma 58 Prairie View 83, Paul Quinn College 70 Rice 84, St. Edwards 41SMU 75, UMKC 63Stephen F. Austin 77, UTSA 50 TCU 78, Houston Baptist 48Texas 131, New Orleans 36Texas A&M 87, Texas A&M-CC 54 UNLV 85, Oral Roberts 81

FAR WESTAir Force 79, Denver 62Arizona 87, CS Northridge 44 Arizona St. 71, N. Colorado 41 BYU 81, Lipscomb 58CS Bakersfield 111, Bethesda 19 Cal St.-Fullerton 71, S. Utah 69 California 90, Sacramento St. 71 California Baptist 62, UC Riverside 59 Colorado St. 77, Colorado Christian 42 Dixie St. 107, Life Pacific College 57 Idaho 95, Lewis-Clark State 46 Long Beach St. 80, Biola 61 Montana 84, Northwest Nazarene 46 Montana St. 69, Carroll College 60 New Mexico 71, Lamar 54New Mexico St. 94, Western New Mexico 40Oregon 91, Idaho St. 34Portland St. 87, Warner Pacific 64 San Diego 86, Hawaii 53San Diego St. 72, Cal State Los Angeles 57 San Francisco 69, Morgan St. 53 Seattle 89, Northwest University 32 UC Davis 69, Academy of Art 51 UC Irvine 114, Westcliff 53 UC Santa Barbara 61, Loyola Marymount 58Utah St. 83, Westminster (UT) 78 Utah Valley 90, Park University Gilbert 47 Washington St. 86, San Jose St. 56 Weber St. 72, North Dakota 57 Wyoming 67, CSU-Pueblo 53

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Tuesday’s transactionsBASEBALL

Major League BaseballAmerican League

DETROIT TIGERS — Sent RHP Drew Carl-ton outright to Toledo (Triple-A East).

National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS — Named Greg Brown

hitting coach.SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Named Mark

Hallberg third base coach, Pedro Guerreroassistant hitting coach and Taira Uematsuassistant coach.

BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association

NBA — Suspended Denver C Nikola Jokicone game without pay for forcefully shov-ing Miami F Markieff Morris to the floorfrom behind during Monday’s game. FinedMarkieff Morris $50,000 for committing aflagrant foul 2 on Jokic that initiated the in-cident.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Re-called G Leandro Bolmaro from Iowa.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed OL Mar-cus Henry and DL Zach Kerr from the prac-tice squad to the active roster. PromotedOL Danny Isadora and LB Joe Walker fromthe practice squad to the active roster. Re-signed OL Koda Martin to the practicesquad.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed DB ChrisWilliamson to the active roster. WaivedOLB Jacob Tuioti-Mariner and P Cam Nizia-lek.

BUFFALO BILLS — Placed WR Jake Kume-row on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed OL Aa-ron Monteiro to the practice squad. Re-leased QB Josh Love from the practicesquad.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Acquired LBClay Johnson from Carolina. Placed SBrandon Wilson, LBs Akeem Davis-Gaitherand Markus Bailey on the reserve/CO-

VID-19 list.CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed G Wyatt

Teller to a four-year contract extension.DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed K Greg

Zuerlein on the reserve/COVID-19 list.Signed WR Ja’Marcus Bradley and DT Shel-don Day from the practice squad to the ac-tive roster. Placed RBs Nick Chubb and De-metric Felton on the reserve/COVID-19list. Signed RB Brian Hill, S Nate Meadorsand WR Isaiah Zuber to the practicesquad. Released CB Tim Harris from thepractice squad.

DENVER BRONCOS — Signed LB AveryWilliamson and OL Austin Schlottmann.Placed OL Graham Glasgow on injured re-serve. Waived CB Duke Dawson Jr., WR Da-vid Moore and TE Caleb Wilson. ActivatedG Netane Nuti from the reserve/IVID-19list. Placed DB Michael Ojemudia and LBJustin Strnad on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

DETROIT LIONS — Promoted S Jalen El-liott to the active roster from the practicesquad. Signed TE Nick Eubanks and WRTravis Jonsen to the practice squad. Des-ignated QB Tim Boyle to return from in-jured reserve to practice.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed TE DemoneHarris to the practice squad. Claimed RBRoyce Freeman off waivers from Carolina.Placed RB Scottie Phillips on injured re-serve.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Designatted CBT.J. Carrie to return from injured reserve topractice.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released TE Na-kia Griffin-Stewart from the practicesquad. Signed G Darryl Williams to thepractice squad.

LOS ANGELES RAMS — Placed WR/TE Ja-cob Harris on injured reserve.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed C EvanBoehm to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Promoted DEKenny Willekes from the practice squad tothe active roster. Signed DT T.Y. McGill andDE Nate Orchard to the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — ActivatedQB Jarrett Stidham from the physically un-

able to perform (PUP) list. Released CBBrian Poole from the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived CB SamBeal.

NEW YORK JETS — Placed S MarcusMaye and TE Tyler Kroft on injured re-serve. Signed S Elijah Riley. Placed WRDenzel Mims on the reserve/COVID-19 list.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Waived LBChase Hansen.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed CBCraig James to the practice squad. WaivedCB Mac McCain.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Released KJosh Lambo from the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived CB BreonBorders and WR Josh Reynolds. ReleasedDB Nate Brooks from the practice squad.

WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM —Signed K Joey Slye. Waived K Chris Blewitt.Placed OT Saahdiq Charles on the re-serve/COVID-19 list.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ANAHEIM DUCKS — Placed GM Bob Mur-ray on administrative leave pending anongoing investigation.

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled LWJosh Leivo from Chicago (AHL).

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Recalled CAlex Newhook from Colorado (AHL).

MINNEOSTA WILD — Reassigned F Alex-ander Khovanov from Iowa (AHL) to IowaCity (ECHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled FsMichael McCarron and Mathieu Olivierfrom Milwaukee (AHL). Placed Fs NickCousins and Filip Forsberg on injured re-serve.

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled Fs Jesp-er Boqvist and Tyce Thompson from Utica(AHL).

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Recalled DNick Seeler from Iowa (AHL).

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Re-signed F Gustavo Bou to a two-year con-tract extension.

DEALS

SEE SCOREBOARD ON PAGE 19

PRO SOCCER

MLS playoffsFirst Round

Eastern ConferenceNov. 20-23

No. 2 Philadelphia vs. No. 7 NY Red Bulls No. 3 Nashville SC vs. No. 6 Orlando City No. 4 New York City FC vs. No. 5 Atlanta

Western ConferenceNov. 20-23

No. 2 Seattle vs. No. 7 Real Salt Lake No. 3 Sporting Kansas City vs. No. 6 Van-

couver No. 4 Portland vs. No. 5 Minnesota United

Conference SemifinalsEastern Conference Nov. 25-30

No. 1 New England vs. New York City FC-Atlanta winner

Nashville-Orlando City winner vs. Phila-delphia-NY Red Bulls winner

Western ConferenceNov. 25-30

No. 1 Colorado vs. Portland-MinnesotaUnited winner

Sporting Kansas City-Vancouver winnervs. Seattle-Real Salt Lake winner

Conference FinalsEastern Conference

Dec. 4-5Semifinal winners

Western ConferenceDec. 4-5

Semifinal winners

NWSL playoffsSunday, Nov. 7

First RoundChicago 1, Gotham FC 0 Washington 1, North Carolina 0, OT

Sunday, Nov. 14Semifinals

OL Reign vs. WashingtonPortland vs. Chicago


SCOREBOARD/NHL

PRO FOOTBALL

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA

Buffalo 5 3 0 .625 235 118

New England 5 4 0 .556 230 170

N.Y. Jets 2 6 0 .250 144 251

Miami 2 7 0 .222 155 242

South

W L T Pct PF PA

Tennessee 7 2 0 .778 255 211

Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 245 213

Jacksonville 2 6 0 .250 132 209

Houston 1 8 0 .111 128 258

North

W L T Pct PF PA

Baltimore 6 2 0 .750 221 195

Pittsburgh 5 3 0 .625 161 169

Cincinnati 5 4 0 .556 236 203

Cleveland 5 4 0 .556 224 196

West

W L T Pct PF PA

L.A. Chargers 5 3 0 .625 199 201

Las Vegas 5 3 0 .625 196 189

Denver 5 4 0 .556 187 153

Kansas City 5 4 0 .556 221 227

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

East

W L T Pct PF PA

Dallas 6 2 0 .750 241 192

N.Y. Giants 3 6 0 .333 179 216

Philadelphia 3 6 0 .333 227 218

Washington 2 6 0 .250 156 227

South

W L T Pct PF PA

Tampa Bay 6 2 0 .750 260 183

New Orleans 5 3 0 .625 201 155

Atlanta 4 4 0 .500 175 220

Carolina 4 5 0 .444 171 183

North

W L T Pct PF PA

Green Bay 7 2 0 .778 199 180

Minnesota 3 5 0 .375 194 191

Chicago 3 6 0 .333 150 224

Detroit 0 8 0 .000 134 244

West

W L T Pct PF PA

Arizona 8 1 0 .889 277 155

L.A. Rams 7 2 0 .778 261 196

San Francisco 3 5 0 .375 185 202

Seattle 3 5 0 .375 181 169

Thursday’s game

Baltimore at MiamiSunday’s games

Atlanta at DallasBuffalo at N.Y. JetsCleveland at New EnglandDetroit at PittsburghJacksonville at IndianapolisNew Orleans at TennesseeTampa Bay at WashingtonCarolina at ArizonaMinnesota at L.A. ChargersPhiladelphia at DenverSeattle at Green BayKansas City at Las VegasOpen: Cincinnati, Houston, Chicago, N.Y.

GiantsMonday’s game

L.A. Rams at San Francisco

FROM PAGE 18

Eastern ConferenceAtlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Florida 13 10 2 1 21 52 35

Detroit 14 7 5 2 16 43 46

Tampa Bay 12 6 3 3 15 36 37

Toronto 13 7 5 1 15 33 37

Boston 10 6 4 0 12 28 28

Buffalo 12 5 5 2 12 36 36

Ottawa 12 3 8 1 7 30 43

Montreal 14 3 10 1 7 28 48

Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Carolina 11 10 1 0 20 41 21

N.Y. Rangers 13 7 3 3 17 33 37

Washington 12 6 2 4 16 42 32

Philadelphia 10 6 2 2 14 32 25

Columbus 10 7 3 0 14 32 28

New Jersey 11 6 3 2 14 33 33

N.Y. Islanders 10 5 3 2 12 27 25

Pittsburgh 11 4 3 4 12 35 35

Western ConferenceCentral Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

St. Louis 11 8 2 1 17 40 27

Minnesota 11 8 3 0 16 37 36

Winnipeg 12 6 3 3 15 39 35

Nashville 12 6 5 1 13 32 33

Dallas 11 4 5 2 10 25 35

Colorado 10 4 5 1 9 30 36

Chicago 14 3 9 2 8 31 50

Arizona 12 1 10 1 3 19 49

Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA

Edmonton 11 9 2 0 18 47 32

Calgary 12 7 2 3 17 41 26

Anaheim 14 7 4 3 17 46 39

San Jose 12 7 4 1 15 36 31

Los Angeles 13 7 5 1 15 38 34

Vegas 13 7 6 0 14 41 42

Vancouver 13 5 6 2 12 35 37

Seattle 13 4 8 1 9 38 48

Tuesday’s games

New Jersey 7, Florida 3Boston 3, Ottawa 2Los Angeles 3, Montreal 2, OTCarolina 2, Tampa Bay 1, OTDetroit 4, Edmonton 2St. Louis 3, Winnipeg 2, SOChicago 3, Pittsburgh 2, SOSan Jose 4, Calgary 1Vegas 4, Seattle 2Anaheim 3, Vancouver 2, OT

Wednesday’s games

Toronto at PhiladelphiaNashville at DallasMinnesota at Arizona

Thursday’s games

Calgary at MontrealEdmonton at BostonFlorida at PittsburghLos Angeles at OttawaN.Y. Islanders at New JerseyWashington at DetroitNashville at St. LouisSan Jose at WinnipegVancouver at ColoradoAnaheim at SeattleMinnesota at Vegas

Scoreboard

TENNIS

Stockholm OpenTuesday

At Kungliga tennishallenStockholm

Purse: Euro 508,600Surface: Hardcourt indoor

Men’s SinglesRound of 32

Arthur Rinderknech, France, def. Alex-ander Bublik (6), Kazakhstan, 6-1, 2-0, ret.

Botic van de Zandschulp, Netherlands,def. Nino Serdarusic, Croatia, 7-6 (5), 7-6(5).

Pedro Martinez, Spain, def. Emil Ruusu-vuori, Finland, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4).

Andy Murray, Britain, def. Viktor Dura-sovic, Norway, 6-1, 7-6 (7).

Taylor Fritz (5), United States, def. EgorGerasimov, Belarus, 6-4, 6-4.

Men’s DoublesRound of 16

Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, and AndresMolteni, Argentina, def. Marcelo Melo,Brazil, and Ivan Dodig (1), Croatia, 6-7 (5),7-5, 10-7.

Markus Eriksson and Elias Ymer, Swe-den, def. Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands,and Andreas Mies, Germany, 2-6, 6-4, 10-5.

Robert Lindstedt and Andre Goransson,Sweden, def. Mohamed Safwat, Egypt,and Karl Friberg, Sweden, 6-1, 3-6, 10-6.

goal at 4:44 of the third. Smith and

Vesey closed out the scoring.

Red Wings 4, Oilers 2:Vladislav

Namestnikov scored in the first and

second period, leading host Detroit

past Edmonton.

The Oilers had won nine of their

first 10 games for the first time in

franchise history. They went 0-for-2

on the power play after becoming

the first team since Pittsburgh in

2007 to open a season with a power-

play goal in 10 straight games.

Dylan Larkin had a goal and Mo-

ritz Seider scored into an empty net

as the Red Wings won their third

straight.

Edmonton goalie Stuart Skinner

stopped 35 shots in his season debut,

filling in for Mikko Koskinen on the

first night of a five-game road trip.

Bruins 3, Senators 2: Patrice

Bergeron scored the tiebreaking

goal late in the second period and

host Boston held on to beat short-

handed Ottawa.

The Senators, who canceled prac-

tice Monday for precautionary rea-

sons, were without five players and

an assistant coach who have been

placed on the COVID protocol list.

Hurricanes 2, Lightning 1 (OT):

Martin Necas scored from the left

circle 3:26 into overtime and visiting

Carolina won its 10th game of the

season.

The Hurricanes (10-1-1) set a

team record for the fewest games to

reach 10 wins. Carolina had its sea-

son-opening, nine-game winning

NEWARK, N.J. — Mackenzie

Blackwood made 34 saves and the

New Jersey Devils beat Florida 7-3

Tuesday night, handing the Pan-

thers a second-straight regulation

loss after they went 11 games with-

out one.

Andreas Johnsson scored twice

and defenseman P.K. Subban had

the go-ahead goal as the Devils had

their biggest offensive output of the

season.

“We’ve been looking for offense,”

Devils coach Lindy Ruff said.

“Hopefully we can use this a spring-

board.”

Florida lost for the first time in

regulation against the Rangers on

Monday after a 10-0-1 start.

“The last two games we haven’t

really grabbed those momentum

swings,” Panthers coach Andrew

Brunette said. “We allowed two

goals in 30 seconds in a 4-3 game and

next thing you know, it’s 6-3.”

Nico Hischier, Pavel Zacha, Ty

Smith and Jimmy Vesey also scored

for the Devils, who are 6-3-2.

“Our skating and our compete

were evident all night,” Ruff added.

“We had our defense joining the

rush. Once we got the puck, we were

on the move.”

With the score tied 3-3, Subban’s

shot from the point late in the second

period eluded Panthers goaltender

Spencer Knight for his first goal of

the season. Zacha gave the Devils a

two-goal cushion with a power-play

streak end Saturday in a 5-2 loss at

Florida.

Steven Stamkos scored for the

Lightning, who are 4-0-2 in the past

six games.

Kings 3, Canadiens 2 (OT):

Adrian Kempe scored on a sweep-

ing move at 3:39 of overtime and vis-

iting Los Angeles extended its win-

ning streak to six games with a victo-

ry over Montreal.

Brendan Lemieux and Alex Iafal-

lo also scored for the Kings, who

boast the longest current winning

streak in the NHL.

Blues 3, Jets 2 (SO): Ryan

O’Reilly was the only scorer in the

shootout and visiting St. Louis beat

Winnipeg.

Eight skaters took shots in the

contest, with O’Reilly beating Jets

goalie Connor Hellebuyck, who fin-

ished with 31 saves.

Blackhawks 3, Penguins 2 (SO):

Marc-Andre Fleury made 42 saves

and then two more stops in the shoo-

tout, and host Chicago won again un-

der interim coach Derek King, top-

ping Pittsburgh.

King took over after Jeremy Col-

liton was fired Saturday with a 1-9-2

record for a team that began the sea-

son with playoff aspirations.

Jeff Carter scored twice for Pitts-

burgh, which lost for the fifth time in

six games.

Golden Knights 4, Kraken 2:

Shea Theodore and Reilly Smith

scored 46 seconds apart early in the

third period to lift host Vegas past

Seattle.

It was the second meeting of the

NHL’s two newest franchises. The

Golden Knights beat the Kraken on

opening night, 4-3.

After a 1-4 start to the season, Ve-

gas is on a 6-2-0 surge.

Ducks 3, Canucks 2 (OT): Troy

Terry scored 3:52 into overtime to

give visiting Anaheim a win over

Vancouver.

Cam Fowler and Isac Lundes-

trom scored in regulation for the

Ducks, who extended their win

streak to five games.

Sharks 4, Flames 1: Logan Cou-

ture’s third-period goal proved to be

the winner, leading visiting San Jose

over Calgary.

Tomas Hertl and Jonathan Dah-

len added empty-net goals for the

Sharks.

San Jose was without head coach

Bob Boughner for a fifth straight

game because he’s in COVID-19

protocol.

NHL ROUNDUP

Devils hand Pantherstheir 2nd straight loss

ADAM HUNGER/AP

Devils defenseman P.K. Subban, left, reacts in front of teammates after scoring against the FloridaPanthers during the second period on Tuesday in Newark, N.J. The Devils beat the Panthers 73.

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NFL

AFC team statistics

AVERAGE PER GAME

OFFENSE

Yards Rush Pass

Baltimore 427.9 161.6 266.2

Las Vegas 394.5 89.4 305.1

Kansas City 393.3 112.3 281.0

Buffalo 390.1 119.8 270.4

L.A. Chargers 384.9 102.5 282.4

Cleveland 380.1 160.2 219.9

Indianapolis 371.0 137.3 233.7

Cincinnati 361.4 97.1 264.3

Tennessee 356.8 138.9 217.9

Denver 345.9 113.2 232.7

New England 345.6 106.8 238.8

Jacksonville 332.9 111.5 221.4

N.Y. Jets 328.9 77.1 251.8

Pittsburgh 324.1 88.4 235.8

Miami 297.4 75.1 222.3

Houston 280.1 75.8 204.3

DEFENSE

Yards Rush Pass

Buffalo 262.6 85.6 177.0

Cleveland 309.7 84.8 224.9

Denver 321.8 98.3 223.4

New England 340.3 108.9 231.4

Las Vegas 340.4 133.5 206.9

Pittsburgh 354.2 109.8 244.5

L.A. Chargers 358.6 161.6 197.0

Cincinnati 361.2 100.9 260.3

Tennessee 365.8 100.0 265.8

Indianapolis 367.2 106.4 260.8

Baltimore 374.2 91.8 282.5

Jacksonville 375.4 103.4 272.0

Kansas City 381.4 121.8 259.7

Houston 385.9 136.9 249.0

Miami 391.9 111.0 280.9

N.Y. Jets 408.1 133.2 274.9

NFC team statistics

AVERAGE PER GAME

OFFENSE

Yards Rush Pass

Dallas 434.2 142.8 291.5

Tampa Bay 423.1 95.6 327.5

L.A. Rams 399.3 103.0 296.3

Arizona 398.4 132.6 265.9

Minnesota 385.1 124.9 260.2

San Francisco 365.6 113.1 252.5

Washington 348.6 118.1 230.5

Philadelphia 346.1 136.6 209.6

Atlanta 338.0 80.4 257.6

N.Y. Giants 334.6 95.9 238.7

Green Bay 333.4 109.7 223.8

Detroit 321.1 93.1 228.0

Carolina 318.7 110.4 208.2

New Orleans 314.6 123.0 191.6

Seattle 314.0 102.9 211.1

Chicago 280.7 136.6 144.1

DEFENSE

Yards Rush Pass

Carolina 293.1 111.7 181.4

Arizona 321.0 111.1 209.9

Green Bay 321.2 110.8 210.4

Tampa Bay 335.8 78.0 257.8

San Francisco 338.1 131.6 206.5

New Orleans 347.0 73.8 273.2

L.A. Rams 348.2 99.6 248.7

Chicago 348.9 122.8 226.1

Philadelphia 355.3 119.7 235.7

Atlanta 360.5 123.1 237.4

Dallas 371.5 101.0 270.5

N.Y. Giants 372.4 122.6 249.9

Detroit 378.9 134.5 244.4

Minnesota 383.6 136.6 247.0

Washington 389.4 102.6 286.8

Seattle 401.5 127.6 273.9

AFC individual leaders

Quarterbacks

Att Com Yds TD Int

Carr, Las 312 210 2565 13 7

Mahomes, KC 362 236 2534 20 10

Burrow, Cin 286 195 2497 20 11

Herbert, LAC 319 211 2350 18 6

Allen, Buf 319 209 2236 17 5

Jackson, Bal 266 173 2209 13 7

Wentz, Ind 300 190 2198 17 3

Bridgewater, Den 285 200 2163 14 5

Tannehill, Ten 289 191 2145 11 8

M.Jones, NE 300 204 2135 10 7

Rushers

Att Yds Avg LG TD

Henry, Ten 219 937 4.3 76t 10

Taylor, Ind 140 821 5.9 83 8

Chubb, Cle 120 721 6.0 70t 6

Mixon, Cin 150 636 4.2 27 7

Jackson, Bal 97 600 6.2 31 2

Harris, NE 133 547 4.1 35 7

Harris, Pit 150 541 3.6 20 4

J.Robinson, Jac 88 482 5.5 58 5

Ekeler, LAC 101 479 4.7 28 5

Gordon, Den 109 477 4.4 70t 4

Receivers

No Yds Avg LG TD

Chase, Cin 44 835 19.0 82t 7

Hill, KC 68 772 11.4 75t 6

Brown, Bal 46 682 14.8 49t 6

Pittman, Ind 50 658 13.2 57 5

Cooks, Hou 57 641 11.2 52 2

Kelce, KC 54 628 11.6 46t 5

Allen, LAC 57 600 10.5 42 2

Diggs, Buf 48 588 12.3 61 3

Sutton, Den 41 588 14.3 55 2

Williams, LAC 37 575 15.5 72t 6

Punters

No Yds Lg Avg

Cole, Las 31 1624 71 52.4

Morstead, NYJ 23 1108 59 48.2

Scoring

Touchdowns

TDRush Rec Ret Pts

Henry, Ten 10 10 0 0 60

Mixon, Cin 9 7 2 0 54

Kicking

PAT FG LG Pts

Folk, NE 19/22 21/23 52 82

Bass, Buf 23/23 18/19 57 77

Weekly statistics

NFC individual leaders

Quarterbacks

Att Com Yds TD Int

Stafford, LAR 321 219 2771 23 6

Brady, TB 343 231 2650 25 5

K.Murray, Ari 256 186 2276 17 7

Ryan, Atl 301 209 2157 15 6

Cousins, Min 302 206 2140 16 2

Jones, NYG 293 190 2059 8 5

Prescott, Dal 255 177 2045 18 5

Goff, Det 308 206 1995 8 6

Darnold, Car 306 182 1986 7 11

Hurts, Phi 273 168 1981 11 4

Rushers

Att Yds Avg LG TD

Elliott, Dal 128 622 4.9 47 5

Henderson, LAR 121 562 4.6 29 5

Cook, Min 115 554 4.8 66 2

Kamara, NO 146 530 3.6 23t 3

Jones, GB 116 516 4.4 57 3

Hurts, Phi 83 494 6.0 27 5

Mitchell, SF 89 469 5.3 39 3

Conner, Ari 115 454 3.9 35 10

Gibson, Was 111 442 4.0 27 3

Fournette, TB 101 439 4.3 21 4

Receivers

No Yds Avg LG TD

Kupp, LAR 74 1019 13.8 59 10

Samuel, SF 49 882 18.0 83 4

Adams, GB 58 786 13.6 59 3

Moore, Car 53 677 12.8 39 3

Godwin, TB 50 660 13.2 44 4

Jefferson, Min 46 632 13.7 50t 4

Lamb, Dal 41 632 15.4 49t 4

Metcalf, Sea 39 580 14.9 84t 8

Lockett, Sea 41 579 14.1 69t 3

McLaurin, Was 43 573 13.3 40t 4

Punters

No Yds Lg Avg

Lee, Ari 31 1584 62 51.1

Way, Was 22 1109 66 50.4

Scoring

Touchdowns

TDRush Rec Ret Pts

Conner, Ari 11 10 1 0 66

Kupp, LAR 10 0 10 0 60

Kicking

PAT FG LG Pts

Gay, LAR 28/29 17/18 54 79

Prater, Ari 34/34 13/16 62 73

Scoring is down, home-field advantage hasn’t re-

turned even if the fans have, and the AFC could be in a

wild race for playoff spots.

As the NFL gets set to start the second half of its 18-

week season, there are a few notable statistical trends

to pay attention to, with the two most notable being

the reduction of scoring and home-team struggles.

Points per game have dropped by nearly two points

per contest per team so far this season as a marked

increase in offensive penalties and a small decrease

in passing efficiency has taken a toll.

The average team is scoring 1.95 fewer points per

game through nine weeks this season than in 2020, the

third-biggest one-week drop through nine weeks

since the merger. The only bigger ones came in 1991

(2.58 per game) and 1977 (1.97 per game).

One factor could be a big increase in offensive pe-

nalties with holding, false starts and delay of games

all increasing from last year’s pace. That has contrib-

uted to to a 35% increase in offensive penalties, while

defensive penalties have remained flat.

While some of those pre-snap penalties could be

because of the return of fans, the sold-out stadiums

have not made life more difficult overall for road

teams and reversed the trend from last season when

home teams had a losing record (127-128-1) for the

first time since the merger.

Instead, road teams have gotten even better in

2021, finishing the first half of the season with a 70-64

record (.522), not counting two games played in Lon-

don when the designated “home” team won.

This trend started in 2019, when home teams post-

ed a .518 winning percentage for the lowest mark in

the NFL since 1972.

Here are some others:

Jam-packed AFCThe standings are tight at the top of the AFC with

nine teams with exactly five wins, including all four in

the AFC West.

Tennessee (7-2) and Baltimore (6-2) sit at the top of

the conference, but the 11 teams with winning records

through nine weeks matches the most in NFL history.

The only other time that happened was in 2014.

That season ended with six AFC teams getting dou-

ble-digit wins and four missing the playoffs despite

posting winning records.

Rookie QBsWith five quarterbacks selected in the first round of

the draft in April, rookie quarterbacks figured to be a

story line in 2021.

Three of them stepped in as Week 1 starters, with

No. 1 pick Trevor Lawrence getting the job in Jack-

sonville, No. 2 pick Zach Wilson taking over for the

Jets and No. 15 pick Mac Jones winning the job in New

England.

No. 11 pick Justin Fields became the starter in

Week 3 for Chicago, while No. 3 pick Trey Lance and

third-rounder Davis Mills have gotten starts because

of injuries to starters in San Francisco and Houston.

In all, the rookies have made 34 starts for the sec-

ond-most ever through nine weeks of a non-strike

season, compared to the 41 in 2012 in a class headlined

by Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson and Robert Griffin

III.

While that trio made the playoffs as rookie starters,

only Jones has his team in position for a playoff spot at

the midpoint this season.

The rookies have combined for a 10-27 record as

starters, with Jones earning half the wins. Lawrence,

Wilson, Fields and Mills have four of the worst six

passer ratings among 33 qualified QBs.

All or nothingThe increase in fourth-down tries to a record pace

so far this season have made both comebacks more

prevalent and blowouts more common.

There have been a record-tying 41 games won by

teams that trailed in the fourth quarter so far this sea-

son, matching the most through Week 9, previously

done in both 1989 and 2012.

There have been a record 35 games with the win-

ning score coming in the final two minutes of regu-

lation or overtime, and 13 that have gone to an extra

period, tied for the fourth most.

RON JENKINS/AP

The Dallas Cowboys’ Osa Odighizuwa (97) and Micah Parsons (11) celebrate sacking Denver Broncosquarterback Teddy Bridgewater during Sunday’s game in Arlington, Texas. The average team is scoring1.95 fewer points this season than last season and road teams have a 7074 advantage.

Scoring down, home-fieldstruggles among trends

BY JOSH DUBOW

Associated Press


COLLEGE FOOTBALL/NBA

PHILADELPHIA — Giannis

Antetokounmpo had 31 points

and 16 rebounds, Grayson Allen

scored 25 points and hit a key

three-pointer late in the fourth

quarter, and the Milwaukee

Bucks held off the short-handed

Philadelphia 76ers 118-109 on

Tuesday night.

Bobby Portis added 19 points

for the NBA champions, who

played a day after celebrating the

franchise’s first title in 50 years

with a trip to visit President Joe

Biden at the White House. The

Bucks won for just the second

time in the past seven.

Tyrese Maxey scored 31 points

for the 76ers, who played without

four-time All-Star Joel Embiid

for the second straight game.

Embiid was one of four Philadel-

phia players out due to the NBA’s

health and safety protocols, along

with Tobias Harris, Matisse Thy-

bulle and Isaiah Joe.

Seth Curry (left foot contusion)

also sat for the 76ers, and Ben

Simmons (personal reasons)

hasn’t played all season.

Jazz 110, Hawks 98: Donovan

Mitchell scored 27 points to lead

host Utah over Atlanta.

Bojan Bogdanovic and Jordan

Clarkson added 16 points apiece

for the Jazz. Rudy Gobert

grabbed 14 rebounds. Utah shot

51% from the field to beat the

Hawks for the second time in five

days.

Kevin Huerter scored 28

points and Trae Young added 27

for Atlanta. Cam Reddish had 16

points, while Clint Capela fin-

ished with 13 points and 12 re-

bounds. Atlanta lost despite

shooting 51% from three-point

range.

The Jazz scored baskets on

seven straight possessions at one

point in the second quarter and

shot 12-for-18 from the field dur-

ing the period to break open a

close game.

Clippers 117, Trail Blazers

109: Paul George scored 24

points, Reggie Jackson added 23

and Los Angeles extended its

winning streak to five, beating

visiting Portland.

Nicolas Batum added a season-

high 22 points for the Clippers,

who are 6-4 after losing four of

their first five to start the season.

George, the reigning Western

Conference player of the week,

played only 33 minutes after get-

ting into foul trouble midway

through the third quarter.

Despite the decreased playing

time, he was near a triple-double

with nine rebounds and seven as-

sists.

Damian Lillard led the Trail

Blazers with 27 points and Nor-

man Powell scored 23. Jusuf Nur-

kic had 15 points and 13 rebounds

for Portland, winless in its first

five road games.

MATT SLOCUM/AP

The Milwaukee Bucks’ Jrue Holiday, left, goes up for a shot against the Philadelphia 76ers’ CharlesBassey during the Bucks’ 118109 win Tuesday in Philadelphia.

Embiid, Harrissit again; 76ersfall to Bucks

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Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB

Philadelphia 8 4 .667 —

Brooklyn 7 4 .636 ½

New York 7 4 .636 ½

Toronto 6 5 .545 1½

Boston 4 6 .400 3

Southeast Division

W L Pct GB

Miami 7 3 .700 —

Washington 7 3 .700 —

Charlotte 5 7 .417 3

Atlanta 4 8 .333 4

Orlando 3 8 .273 4½

Central Division

W L Pct GB

Chicago 7 3 .700 —

Cleveland 7 4 .636 ½

Milwaukee 5 6 .455 2½

Indiana 4 7 .364 3½

Detroit 1 8 .111 5½

Western Conference

Southwest Division

W L Pct GB

Dallas 7 3 .700 —

Memphis 6 4 .600 1

San Antonio 3 7 .300 4

Houston 1 9 .100 6

New Orleans 1 10 .091 6½

Northwest Division

W L Pct GB

Utah 8 3 .727 —

Denver 6 4 .600 1½

Portland 5 6 .455 3

Oklahoma City 3 6 .333 4

Minnesota 3 6 .333 4

Pacific Division

W L Pct GB

Golden State 9 1 .900 —

Phoenix 6 3 .667 2½

L.A. Clippers 6 4 .600 3

L.A. Lakers 6 5 .545 3½

Sacramento 5 6 .455 4½

Tuesday’s games

Milwaukee 118, Philadelphia 109Utah 110, Atlanta 98L.A. Clippers 117, Portland 109

Wednesday’s games

Brooklyn at OrlandoWashington at ClevelandDetroit at HoustonMilwaukee at New YorkToronto at BostonCharlotte at MemphisDallas at ChicagoOklahoma City at New OrleansSacramento at San AntonioIndiana at DenverPortland at PhoenixMiami at L.A. LakersMinnesota at Golden State

Scoreboard

No. 3 Oregon, No. 4 Ohio State

and No. 5 Cincinnati all moved up

one spot behind No. 1 Georgia and

No. 2 Alabama in the second Col-

lege Football Playoff rankings,

which were released Tuesday

night.

Two Southeastern Conference

teams sat atop the ranking for a

second straight week, but after Mi-

chigan State lost last weekend, at

least one spot in the top four was

certain to change.

The CFP selection committee

simply bumped up the Ducks,

Buckeyes and Bearcats and drop-

ped Michigan State to No. 7 behind

No. 6 Michigan.

“It’s worth noting that teams

ranked two through six all won, but

the committee just didn’t see a sep-

aration," committee chairman and

Iowa athletic director Gary Barta

said.

The Spartans beat the Wolve-

rines 37-33 just two weeks ago, but

the head-to-head result didn't car-

ry the debate with the committee.

“The Michigan-Michigan State

discussion started last week," Bar-

ta said. "The committee went back

and forth. Michigan, statistically,

is probably a more complete

team.”

For the second straight week,

Cincinnati set a new mark for best

ranking for a team outside the

Power Five conferences. The

Bearcats were sixth in the first

rankings.

Unbeaten Oklahoma remained

at No. 8 and Notre Dame and Okla-

homa State rounded out the top 10.

There are three more regular-

season rankings before the CFP

selection committee sets the semi-

final matchups and other New

Year's Six bowls with its final Top

25 on Dec. 5.

The College Football Playoff

semifinals will be played at the Or-

ange Bowl and Cotton Bowl on

Dec. 31.

The national championship

game is scheduled for Jan. 10 in In-

dianapolis.

Sooners have a shotThe Sooners and the Big 12 have

quite a bit of ground to make up,

but will have plenty of fuel left on

the schedule to get a boost.

Oklahoma's next three are

against Baylor, the committee's

No. 13 team, Iowa State (unranked

but 6-3), and Oklahoma State. The

Cowboys have already split games

with Baylor and Iowa State.

“The committee noted, as prob-

ably anybody who has been watch-

ing Oklahoma, the quarterback

change to Caleb Williams has

changed that team,” Barta said.

The freshman Williams took

over for Spencer Rattler four

games ago an Oklahoma's offense

has taken off since.

Ohio State movesinto CFP position;Cincinnati is fifth

BY RALPH D. RUSSO

Associated Press

College Football Playoff Rankings

Team Record

1. Georgia 9-0

2. Alabama 8-1

3. Oregon 8-1

4. Ohio State 8-1

5. Cincinnati 9-0

6. Michigan 8-1

7. Michigan State 8-1

8. Oklahoma 9-0

9. Notre Dame 8-1

10. Oklahoma State 8-1

11. Texas A&M 7-2

12. Wake Forest 8-1

13. Baylor 7-2

14. BYU 8-2

15. Mississippi 7-2

16. NC State 7-2

17. Auburn 6-3

18. Wisconsin 6-3

19. Purdue 6-3

20. Iowa 7-2

21. Pittsburgh 7-2

22. San Diego State 8-1

23. UTSA 9-0

24. Utah 6-3

25. Arkansas 6-3

The playoff semifinals match the No. 1seed vs. the No. 4 seed, and No. 2 will faceNo. 3. The semifinals will be hosted at theCotton Bowl and Orange Bowl on Dec. 312021. The championship game will beplayed on Jan. 10, 2022 at Lucas Oil Stadi-um, Ind.

Scoreboard

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Ohio State, led by runnig back TreVeyon Henderson (32), moved intothe fourth spot in the College Football Playoff rankings.


COLLEGE BASKETBALL

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

John Carter Jr. scored 19 points,

Sean Yoder added 15 and Navy got

its first win over a ranked team

since the David Robinson era,

stunning No. 25 Virginia 66-58 in

the season opener for both teams

on Tuesday night.

The Midshipmen beat a team

ranked in The Associated Press

Top 25 — where Virginia’s stay

will be brief — for the first time

since Robinson led them past Sy-

racuse 97-85 on March 16, 1986.

Facing one of college basket-

ball’s top programs over the past

decade, Navy was the better team

in every respect. The Midshipmen

outshot Virginia 45.3% to 41.2%,

outrebounded the Cavaliers 35-

30, got 10 second-chance points to

Virginia’s six and had 15 bench

points to the Cavaliers’ six.

“I just try to concentrate on who

we are in our three things: defend,

rebound, take care of the ball. And

if we win two of the three of those

things, we got a chance to win the

game,” Navy coach Ed DeChellis

said.

East Carolina transfer Jayden

Gardner led Virginia with 18

points and 10 rebounds, but after

the Cavaliers tied the game at 55-

all with 8:53 left, they didn’t score

again for more than 8½ minutes.

Another transfer, Armaan Fran-

klin, made a three-pointer with 15

seconds left.

Yoder, meanwhile, scored twice

inside and Daniel Deaver had a

putback while Virginia went cold,

making one of its last 10 shots.

Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett

was more concerned with the de-

fensive breakdowns.

“They shot lights out and some-

times we were there, sometimes

we weren’t,” he said. “And then

any time we broke down, they

kind of took advantage.”

Franklin’s three-pointer was his

second field goal. The Indiana

transfer, coveted for his outside

shooting, missed nine of 11 shots

and six of seven threes in his Vir-

ginia debut.

Carter scored 16 of his points in

the first 13 minutes as the Mid-

shipmen blistered the Cavaliers

from long range, making eight of

its first 10 three-point tries. The

Mids made two of their next 10 be-

fore Carter connected for his fifth

with 24 seconds to play. That gave

Navy a 64-55 lead and sent fans fil-

ing for the exits.

Big pictureNavy: A hot shooting start in a

hostile atmosphere demonstrated

that while the Midshipmen lost

their best player from last year’s

team, their four returning starters

play with a confidence born of ex-

perience. Carter and Yoder led

the long-distance success, but

three others made a three.

“I credit our players. They just

did a great job of handling the

pressure,” DeChellis said, noting

it was Navy’s first game in front of

a crowd since 2019.

“We’ve got some guys with

some minutes on them.”

Virginia: Bennett’s signature

pack-line defense often struggles

early in the season, especially

when incorporating new players

like Gardner and Franklin. That

was especially true early as the

Mids made eight three-pointers in

the first 13 minutes.

Navy knocks off 25th-ranked VirginiaBY HANK KURZ JR.

Associated Press

ANDREW SHURTLEFF/AP

Navy forward Jaylen Walker, right, moves around Virginia forward Jayden Gardner during Tuesday’s gamein Charlottesville, Va. Navy knocked off No. 25 Virginia 6658.

NEW YORK — Ochai Agbaji said he was

close to turning pro and skipping his senior

season at Kansas.

He’s glad he decided to stay.

Agbaji scored a career-high 29 points and

No. 3 Kansas beat Michigan State 87-74 on

Tuesday night in the Champions Classic at

Madison Square Garden on the opening

night of college basketball.

“(I came back) for this. Be on this stage,

be in this moment,” Agbaji said. “Lead my

team to a win. I know my team has the ut-

most confidence in me. That’s why I chose

to come back and do something with this

season.”

The Jayhawks forward said he “made the

right decision, I know I did” to stay.

Remy Martin added 15 points and David

McCormack had 10 for Kansas, which re-

turned four starters from last season’s

squad that lost to USC in the second round

of the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks

were missing forward Jalen Wilson, who

was suspended last week for the first three

regular-season games after he was arrested

on suspicion of drunken driving last month.

Kansas led by seven at the half before the

Spartans cut it to 48-45. After a timeout, Ag-

baji caught an alley-oop for a dunk and then

stole the ball on the other end before finish-

ing that possession with another dunk to re-

store the seven-point lead.

“He was terrific tonight. He’s had some

big games in the past,” Kansas coach Bill

Self said. “I don’t know if he’s had a bigger

game on a bigger stage with the bright

lights. He basically carried us. I was really

happy for him and he was really good.”

FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP

Kansas’ Remy Martin, bottom, protectsthe ball from Michigan State’s Joey Hauserduring the second half of Tuesday’s gamein New York. Kansas won 8774.

Agbaji leadsKansas pastMichigan St.

BY DOUG FEINBERG

Associated Press

Duke, which led by four at halftime, built

the advantage to 15 with just under 10 min-

utes left behind Keels. The Wildcats didn’t

go away, scoring the next 11 points to get to

69-65 on a three-point play by Oscar

Tshiebwe with 6:07 left.

That’s as close as Kentucky got.

“We got it to four and then we’ll watch the

tape,” Wildcats coach John Calipari said.

“Two shots blocked. All I said all week is if

you drive, don’t get it blocked.”

Keels scored on the Blue Devils’ next pos-

session and Banchero followed with a

three-point play after a huge block by Mark

Williams to start a 7-0 run.

Kentucky only got within six the rest of

the way.

“We’re never going to back down from a

fight, we’ll always play to the end,” said the

Wildcats’ Jacob Toppin.

Tshiebwe finished with 17 points and 19

rebounds. Sahvir Wheeler added 16 points

and 10 assists for the Wildcats.

Parting giftsWith this being Krzyzewski’s last game at

MSG, the Garden front office staff present-

ed his family with a few gifts before the

game. They made a donation to the Emily K

Center and gave him a framed photo mosaic

that had more than 300 images from his

time at MSG. Finally, they gave him six bot-

tles of wine, each with a custom label from

some of his top moments at the Garden, in-

cluding his 1,000th victory and one from

when he was a player for Army and his team

played South Carolina at MSG.

Big pictureDuke’s sensational freshmen didn’t dis-

appoint and could carry the Blue Devils a

long way this season. Kentucky looked good

in spurts and the early season loss will only

help the Wildcats get better.

Cheering on their schoolsThe Knicks players were divided with

their rooting interests. Julius Randle, Ner-

lens Noel and Kevin Knox II all went to

Kentucky, while RJ Barrett attended Duke.

They were all sitting courtside. Obi Toppin

didn’t go to either school, but his brother Ja-

cob plays for Kentucky. The Knicks’ sec-

ond-year forward was sitting with his mom

Roni, who was celebrating her birthday.

Blue Devils success at MSGKrzyzewski has gone 34-11 at MSG, in-

cluding winning five of the last six there.

The Blue Devils are 39-18 overall at the are-

na.

Opener: Kentucky couldn’t getcloser than 4 during second halfFROM PAGE 24


COLLEGE BASKETBALL

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indi-

ana fans welcomed coach Mike

Woodson back to Assembly Hall

with a rousing ovation Tuesday.

He walked off the court with a

new addition for his trophy case.

After months of wondering

what new wrinkles the former

Hoosiers star would install and

hoping yet another coaching

change would finally restore the

Hoosiers’ glorious past, Wood-

son finally got a chance to show

everyone the work he’s done.

“It feels good to be 1-0, but

we’ve got a long way to go,” he

said after Indiana held on for a

68-62 victory over Eastern Mi-

chigan, Woodson’s first as a col-

lege coach. “And I will keep that

ball as a souvenir.”

The opening day of college

basketball tipped off Tuesday fil-

led with hope, certainly at Indi-

ana and some five dozen schools

that changed coaches during a

tumultuous offseason. The Hoo-

siers’ opponent was among

them, bringing back one of their

former players, Stan Heath.

Woodson isn’t the biggest

name or most prominent school

on the list of changes.

Hubert Davis dressed in a

powder blue pullover for his first

game since replacing three-time

national champion Roy Williams

at North Carolina. The 19th-

ranked Tar Heels rolled past

Loyola (Maryland) 83-62.

“It is a big deal. It’s emotional

and it’s a change,” Davis said.

“Me being in this role is differ-

ent. I understand the impact of

me being in this position.”

Mike Krzyzewski, a five-time

national champ and the career

leader in wins, began his final

season at No. 9 Duke with suc-

cessor Jon Scheyer at his side for

a showdown against No. 10 Ken-

tucky. Former national runner-

up coach Chris Beard left Texas

Tech for Texas, where he re-

placed Shaka Smart (who went

to Marquette), and began his

next chapter Tuesday against

Houston Baptist.

Porter Moser, who led Loyola

Chicago to the Final Four and re-

placed Lon Kruger at Oklahoma,

made his debut against North-

western State. And new Arizona

coach Tommy Lloyd started his

job against Northern Arizona.

Lloyd was considered Gonza-

ga’s coach-in-waiting after 20

years as Mark Few’s right-hand

man, but took the opportunity to

lead one of the West’s other elite

programs — drawing a buzz at

the McKale Center even before

the opener. It revved up even

more during the pregame hype

video, capped by a loud roar dur-

ing introductions.

The Wildcats fired Sean Miller

in the spring, while Indiana

made the same decision with

Miller’s brother, Archie, open-

ing the door for Woodson’s hir-

ing and much-anticipated debut.

It was a fitting start for a new

era at Indiana.

In December 1971, Bob Knight

made his Indiana debut at the

grand opening of one of the

state’s best-known basketball ca-

thedrals. This time, as the Hoo-

siers tipped off their 50th season

inside the building, Woodson be-

came the first true Knight disci-

ple to return to the Indiana

bench — though longtime assist-

ant Dan Dakich served in that

capacity briefly as an interim

coach.

“I’m excited for the change,”

said 56-year-old Walter Marker,

a fan from New Castle, Ind. “I

think he’ll bring in some talent

and expose the guys to an NBA

style. I think it’s a great culture

change, similar to Bob Knight,

and when you talk to people

around New Castle, everyone’s

excited.”

Woodson, other new coaches, win debutsBY MICHAEL MAROT

Associated Press

AJ MAST/AP

New Indiana coach MikeWoodson saw his team defeatEastern Michigan 6862 onTuesday in Bloomington, Ind.

Men’s Top 25 faredTuesday

No. 1 Gonzaga (1-0) beat Dixie St. 97-63.Next: vs. No. 5 Texas, Saturday.

No. 2 UCLA (1-0) beat CS Bakersfield 95-58. Next: vs. No. 4 Villanova, Friday.

No. 3 Kansas (1-0) beat Michigan St. 87-74. Next: vs. Tarleton St., Friday.

No. 4 Villanova (1-0) beat Mount St. Ma-ry’s 91-51. Next: at No. 2 UCLA, Friday.

No. 5 Texas (1-0) beat Houston Baptist92-48. Next: at No. 1 Gonzaga, Saturday.

No. 6 Michigan (0-0) did not play. Next:vs. Buffalo, Wednesday.

No. 7 Purdue (1-0) beat Bellarmine 96-67.Next: vs. Indiana St., Friday.

No. 8 Baylor (0-0) did not play. Next: vs.Incarnate Word, Friday.

No. 9 Duke (1-0) beat No. 10 Kentucky 79-71. Next: vs. Army, Friday.

No. 10 Kentucky (0-1) lost to No. 9 Duke79-71. Next: vs. Robert Morris, Friday.

No. 11 Illinois (1-0) beat Jackson St. 71-47. Next: vs. Arkansas St., Friday.

No. 12 Memphis (1-0) beat TennesseeTech 89-65. Next: vs. NC Central, Saturday.

No. 13 Oregon (1-0) beat Texas Southern83-66. Next: vs. SMU, Friday.

No. 14 Alabama (1-0) beat LouisianaTech 93-64. Next: vs. S. Dakota St., Friday.

No. 15 Houston (1-0) beat Hofstra 83-75.Next: vs. Rice, Friday.

No. 16 Arkansas (1-0) beat Mercer 74-61.Next: vs. Gardner-Webb, Saturday.

No. 17 Ohio St. (1-0) beat Akron 67-66.Next: vs. Niagara, Friday.

No. 18 Tennessee (1-0) beat UT-Martin90-62. Next: vs. ETSU, Sunday.

No. 19 North Carolina (1-0) beat Loyola(Md.) 83-67. Next: vs. Brown, Friday.

No. 20 Florida St. (0-0) did not play. Next:vs. Pennsylvania, Wednesday.

No. 21 Maryland (1-0) beat Quinnipiac83-69. Next: vs. George Washington,Thursday.

No. 22 Auburn (1-0) beat Morehead St.77-54. Next: vs. Louisiana-Monroe, Friday.

No. 23 St. Bonaventure (1-0) beat Siena75-47. Next: vs. Canisius, Sunday.

No. 24 UConn (1-0) beat Central Connec-ticut St. 99-48. Next: vs. Coppin St., Satur-day.

No. 25 Virginia (0-1) lost to Navy 66-58.Next: vs. Radford, Friday.

Scoreboard

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NEW YORK — Mike Krzyzew-

ski’s farewell tour started with a

win thanks to his latest group of

stellar freshmen at Duke.

Trevor Keels scored 25 points

and classmate Paolo Banchero

added 22 to help the No. 9 Blue

Devils open their coach’s final

season by beating 10th-ranked

Kentucky 79-71 on Tuesday night

in the nightcap of the Champions

Classic.

“It was an amazing game that

felt so good with the Garden

crowd and playing against an out-

standing team,” Krzyzewski said.

“They are tough. and we are

tough. That was a big-time game.

Really big time.”

Krzyzewski announced that he

would retire at the end of the sea-

son. The Hall of Famer has won

1,098 games and five national

championships in his 42 years

coaching the Blue Devils. Overall

he has 1,171 wins, the most in the

history of the sport.

“We wanted to get this win for

Coach in this first game,” Banch-

ero said. “We had a chance to

make a statement with this game

and come out and play well. That’s

what we were thinking about com-

ing in.”

The two basketball blue bloods,

who have quite the history be-

tween them on the game’s biggest

stage, put on a spectacular show to

open the season. The loud split

crowd at Madison Square Garden

that included many members of

the New York Knicks and Bruce

Springsteen was on its feet for

most of the second half.

PHOTOS BY FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP

Above: Duke’s Theo John reacts after scoring during the second half of Tuesday’s game against Kentuckyat Madison Square Garden in New York. Left: Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski reacts after Duke’sPaolo Banchero (5) scored during the second half. Duke won 7971.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Duke winsbig openerBlue Devils top No. 10 Kentuckyto begin Coach K’s final season

BY DOUG FEINBERG

Associated Press 34-11Record of Duke coach Mike Krzyzew-ski at Madison Square Garden, in-cluding winning five of the last sixthere. The Blue Devils are 39-18overall at the arena.

SOURCE: Associated Press

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