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华盛顿邮报 华盛顿邮报 2024年10月2日 4 2月10 / 25 • 明天。大部分是钱，但 $2.75 Democracy Dies in Darkness 2024年[注：此处年份疑似OCR误读，应为2026年]8月8日，星期六 64

卡西迪支持布兰奇出任司法部长

被提名者领导司法部的道路似乎已畅通 作者：JEREMY BURDICK 和 THEODOREY MYERS

参议员比尔·卡西迪（Bill Cassidy，共和党-伦敦德）周五表示，他将投票确认托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）为司法部长，这为唐纳德·特朗普总统领导司法部的路径提供了最后一张预计所需的选票，使其能够获得参议院全体会议的批准。卡西迪在参议院议事厅发表了这一声明，就在几小时前，来自阿拉斯加的另一位关键共和党投票人丽莎·马科夫斯基（Lisa Markowski）参议员表示她将反对布兰奇的提名。苏珊·柯林斯（Susan Collins，共和党-缅因州）参议员本周早些时候宣布她也将投票反对。但随着卡西迪的支持现已到手，在代理司法部长前景数周以来显得不确定之后，参议院的共和党领导层预计将推进对布兰奇继续任职的投票。由于预计所有民主党人都将反对布兰奇，且马克·麦康奈尔（Mark McConnell，共和党-肯塔基州）参议员因健康原因缺席，卡西迪的一张反对票将在参议院全体会议的确认投票中造成更多时间的延迟。卡西迪周五表示，他对马科夫斯基和柯林斯就特朗普领导下司法部的“出版”以及布兰奇今年秋天克服的国会交易所提出的担忧表示认同。

布兰奇 07:24

部分退伍军人陷入退伍军人权利法案骗局

为赛车做准备

周五，为自由250大奖赛（Freedom 250 Grand Prix）进行的准备工作正在施工，该赛事将于8月22-23日在沿国家广场（National Mall）的1.7英里赛道上举行。此次印地赛车（IndyCar）活动是国家建国250周年庆祝活动的一部分。

伊朗战争给纳税人带来的成本正在增加

立法者们正在就如何支付这场冲突的账单进行讨价还价 作者：SAMMY WHITNALL

随着美国与伊朗的战争接近六个月，纳税人和消费者的成本在继续增长，且尚未被完全量化。立法者们正就一项支付账单的计划进行争论。消费者面临着他们自己的账单，包括战争期间供应中断导致上涨的汽油价格；全球各地的人们则面临短缺和价格上涨，其中部分与伊朗对霍尔穆兹海峡商业航运采取的实际选择有关——而美国及其盟友正期待达成一项协议以开放该海峡。

据《华盛顿邮报》报道，美国官员警告称，五角大楼面临资金危机和极端的弹药短缺，这导致唐纳德·特朗普总统上周与国防部长皮特·哈古奇发生冲突。以下是我们目前掌握的关于战争成本的情况。

军事成本 “消灭坏人需要钱，”哈古奇在3月份告诉记者。

这场战争始于7月28日美国和以色列对伊朗目标的联合攻击。根据哈古奇最新的估计，到9月，与战争相关的纳税人资助成本将达到约3750 亿美元 billion，其中包括该地区美国基地在袭击伊朗时受损的成本。哈古奇在上个月的一次听证会上提供了这一估计，并在会上敦促立法者批准670 亿美元 billion的额外资金，以支付这场冲突的费用，包括补充部分武器库存。

众议院上个月底批准了约750 亿美元 billion用于伊朗战争，其中并非全部拨给国防部；由共和党控制的参议院正赶在周五开始的夏季休会离开华盛顿之前，匆忙批准该项资金以及一项严厉的支出措施。

众议院共和党人在7月22日通过了一项$150 million的国防政策法案，并制定了一项450 亿美元 billion的预算计划，该计划将提供约750 亿美元 billion的军事和相关资金，以及针对农民的救济等措施。

一些分析师根据自己的计算或预测，认为战争成本高于五角大楼的估计。华盛顿智库战略与国际研究中心（CSIS）的马克·F·坎齐诺（Mark F. Canzino）在6月发布的一项估计中，将战争成本定为$35.2 — 445 亿美元 billion——这仅计算了国防部因战争而产生的额外成本，因为许多作战活动已经包含在

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特朗普坚持舞厅法律权利，称将向 $4.9 最高法院提起上诉

下级法院裁定要求停止该项目的工程 作者：丹·迪尔曼（DAN DEARMAN）与乔纳森·爱德华兹（JONATHAN EDWARDS）

唐纳德·特朗普总统周五表示，在一家上诉法院裁定他无权私自改建官邸部分区域并在未经国会批准的情况下开工后，他将请求最高法院允许其恢复计划中的白宫舞厅建设。

“我们将立即提起上诉，”特朗普在其 Truth Social 社交平台上的第 70 条动态中写道，他主张该计划中的扩建工程（他将其预算定为 69.49 亿）是为了保护他及未来的总统。

“这份报告表明，将其全部提交至最高法院是合理的。”

在周五的一项 24 页裁决中，美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院的一个三法官小组维持了一名联邦法官 4 月份的裁定，要求在该工程通过类似 2000-2005 年的项目审查前停止施工。

“每任总统只是白宫的临时承租人而非所有者，且在此过程中，涉及超过 $500,000，”法官帕特里夏·A·米勒（Patricia A. Miller）和兰德尔·S·哈里斯（Randall S. Harris）在多数派意见书中写道。他们表示，裁决给予 16 天的时间让白宫向最高法院提起上诉。

特朗普依靠私人捐款启动该项目，而未从国会申请拨款，并将此安排吹捧为减轻纳税人负担的举措。但法院发现，私人融资并不能让他绕过国会必须批准白宫场地重大变更的独立要求。

特朗普去年宣布了这项 99,000 平方英尺的扩建计划，并迅速拆除了

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检方极少起诉仅领取住房补贴的人员 作者：克雷格·惠特兰（CRAIG WHITLAND）与安妮·潘·巴·陈（ANNEPH BA TRAN SAY HINGE）

在 Blue Star Learning 这一职业学校，其提交的退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）资金规模达 2500万美元，而其教学质量却处于极低水平。四年多来，超过 1,200 名退伍军人被迫在 Blue Star Learning 接受极其基础的计算机技能培训。

根据《华盛顿邮报》通过《信息自由法》诉讼获得的法院文件和执法记录，部分学生入学的目的仅仅是为了领取每月约 $10,000 的退伍军人权利法案住房补贴。

退伍军人们每周在课堂上登记 16 小时，以满足全日制学生领取住房补贴的 16 小时要求。大多数人承认这段时间毫无意义，只是在刷 YouTube 或“混日子”。Blue Star Learning 的前招生主任 Yes, the Press 告诉联邦特工。

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泰国之悲剧

周五在泰国一起校园枪击案中丧生的五名教师和工作人员之一的亲友们在接受安慰。枪击者还杀害了其祖父母两人。

曼谷，8:15

7月招聘低迷导致23,000个工作岗位流失，劳工部数据显示就业增长自4月以来放缓

作者：劳伦·布鲁德·柯林斯 (LAUREN BLOOD COLLINS)

由于美国失去了23,000个工作岗位，7月的招聘情况出人意料地出现下滑，这表明在受到关税、高通胀以及持续的伊朗战争打击的经济环境下，就业市场出现了令人惊讶的疲软。

根据周五公布的劳工部数据，上个月失业率小幅下降至6.1，延续了多年来的低失业率趋势。但这一下降在很大程度上是因为工人退出了就业市场。持续的干预浪潮促使寻找工作的美国人比例降至2015年2月以来的最低水平。

6月和5月的数据也被合计下调了1972-2011个岗位，这表明劳动力市场的疲软程度超过了之前的预期。对于7月，预测者原先预计将增加约99,000个岗位，然而，上个月出现了自特朗普启动以来首次负增长。

2月，干扰了增长并提高了加油站的价格。除了战争导致的高油价、高通胀、人工智能的进步，以及唐纳德·特朗普总统推动提高关税和限制移民外，他偶尔还参与其中。

尽管享受特朗普税率的公司在今年前六个月加速招聘，每月增加约72,000个岗位——高于去年的每月约23,000个新岗位——但这种势头可能正在结束。

“劳动力市场必须克服许多固有困难才能继续前行，”费城智库巴黎空军研究所（Paris Air Force Institute）经济研究主任盖尔·伯格（Gail Berger）表示。

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A2 华盛顿邮报 - SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2024

数十年缺失的支出调查文件被寻求

监督机构就超过80年的工作向众议院小组施压 作者：MARIANA ALBANO

40年来，众议院拨款委员会内部的一个秘密团队一直调查联邦机构如何使用公共资金——包括军事建设成本、农业部的合同，以及由教育部资助的儿童电视节目。该团队产生了数百份报告，详细记录了美国政府在数十年间资助美国生活的各种方式——专家表示，这是一个丰富的信息宝库，有助于研究国家关键政府项目以及2016世纪期间军事和基础设施项目中成功的联邦支出，以及发现其中的滥用行为。

问题在于，该团队调查结果的完整档案丢失了，而拨款委员会中没有人愿意透露其去向。

“这些记录尤其能为国会的运作以及拨款委员会如何改变历史进程提供非常重要的启示，”美国治理研究所（AGI）执行主任唐·舒曼（Don Schuman）表示。“我们希望这些信息能够公开，以便人们能够了解拨款委员会做了什么，以及它是如何塑造立法部门一些最关键的斗争的。”

该团队被称为“调查与研究”（Survey and Investigations），成立于1946年，由FBI调查员、联邦机构专家以及有时包括来自政府问责局（Government Accountability）的分析师组成的训练团队组成：50,000。尽管如此，据11所知，该团队在2024年被悄悄解散。

虽然众议院规则可能规定如此古老的国会记录应向公众开放，但专家表示，该委员会并未按照众议院规则的要求将记录完整地提交给国家档案局。

周五，由舒曼和AGI领导的一个由13名政府监督人员、george和专家组成的团体发送了一封信，要求拨款委员会领导层保证这些记录得到了妥善保存。

目前仅有500份该邮件记录的片段被公开，这主要归功于弗吉尼亚理工大学公共管理与政策中心教授马修·德尔（Matthew Dell）的工作。

此外，德尔一直与一名档案管理员合作挖掘这些报告，经常在公共和私人图书馆、机构、档案室和阅览室中发现它们。该制作者已确定了约2,000个研究标题，但包含50,000项工作的完整档案丢失了，且委员会领导层尚未解释原因。

签署了舒曼信函的德尔表示，在他能够核实的报告中，高达50%是关于军事支出的，而其余部分涉及的问题则多种多样，如内政部的地质调查、农业部的固体废物清除价格以及教育部的学校基础设施成本。

这位教授维护着一个关于该邮件调查发现的在线档案，但大多数报告从未被公开核实。

“众议院的规则规定，委员会在国会任期结束时将所有资料移交给书记员，”德尔说，但“他们通常没有将这些报告的副本移交给书记员。”

德尔向《华盛顿邮报》提供了他表示在福特众议院办公大楼拍摄的照片，一张拍摄于2024年，另一张拍摄于2023年。第一张是一个展示柜，他说其中存放着该团队的一些调查结果及其工作的历史记忆——这表明，在某个时间点，至少有部分文件被保存在国会办公室中。他说，办公室的其他房间都被锁上了，包括一个被告知存放纸质报告的壁橱。在第二张照片中，他说展示柜已经消失，那个壁橱里的架子也被清空了。

该小组共和党和民主党领导人的发言人均未回应

针对《华盛顿邮报》关于文件存放位置，以及在Bill于2024年停止出具新报告后这些文件是否被妥善存放的多次询问，相关方面未做出回应。众议院书记员、众议院历史学家以及国家档案局表示，他们无法就已关闭的众议院记录公开发表评论。

“这些记录尤其能为国会的运作以及拨款委员会如何改变历史进程提供非常重要的启示。”美国治理研究所（American Governance Institute）执行主任唐·舒曼（Don Schuman）表示。

该委员会并未发布正式公告标志着2024年秋季Bill的结束。但根据Dell向《华盛顿邮报》提供的一份报告清单，在过去的十年里，Bill被委派执行的调查数量越来越少。Dell表示，一名曾任职于Bill的前工作人员告诉他，该团队的最后几名成员在2024年12月准备一份关于通用保费的报告时被解雇。

Bill由当时的拨款委员会主席克拉伦斯·坎农（Clarence Cannon）于1941年创立，他是一位来自密苏里州的强大民主党人，紧紧掌控着国家的财政命脉。根据历史记录，他得到了时任联邦调查局（FBI）局长J.埃德加·胡佛（J. Edgar Hoover）的支持，后者允许人类调查员参与Bill的调查。

一名在2020年代被引入团队进行调查的前Bill工作人员——由于其目前仍在联邦政府的秘密部门工作，因此在要求匿名的条件下接受采访——将这项工作描述为“相当独特”。该前工作人员表示，来自联邦政府各部门的专家被召集在一起，调查各机构如何花钱。

该前工作人员还表示，据其了解，这些调查之所以保持秘密，是因为拨款委员会希望在报告中消除任何偏见或党派色彩。尽管如此，该前工作人员认为，公众——或者至少是学术界——现在应该被允许查看这些已有50%年代历史的作品。

“纳税人为制作这些文件支付了费用，”该前工作人员说，“你雇佣了10个人工作六个月，那是很大一笔钱。”

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华盛顿州山火蔓延至常规危险区域之外

三场大火在斯波坎烧毁超过 10,000 英亩土地 作者：N. KORENTROCK, JOHN RICHMOND 和 MORGAN WASHINGTON

米歇尔·安斯特龙（Michelle Angstrom）原以为在回去看到家园残骸时会落泪，但她没有。她站在那里，看着 20 年前作为两个孩子的单身母亲买下的房子的余烬。这座房子是她所建立生活的缩影。在第一段婚姻结束之后，她必须重新开始，建立事业，抚养孩子。她回到了自己长大的社区，为了给孩子们提供她曾经拥有的一切——一个远离喧嚣、可以自由漫步的安全之地。

当安斯特龙夫妇发现火灾威胁到他们的家时，他们正身处北边两小时车程之外。他们的狗被留在了后面。夫妇俩迅速跳进车里向斯波坎疾驰，结果发现他们无法通过道路（尽管他们有工作）。随着他们的房子被焚毁，鲁斯（Ruth）和特里莎（Trisha）也随之化为灰烬。

随着山火变得更加频繁且剧烈，像华盛顿州斯波坎这样——曾经很少发生火灾或被许多人认为安全——的社区现在变得更加脆弱。三场山火在全市范围内总共烧毁了超过 10,000 英亩土地。在过去的一周里，火焰损坏了至少 6 处建筑，并迫使数万人撤离。

根据华盛顿州自然资源部 7 月 1 日发布的草图，达瓦河（Dava river）沿岸的一排建筑已深入到被认为是火灾风险“低”或“极低”的区域。这些地图使用大火模拟建模来评估燃烧概率。当一座建筑被标记为低风险时，意味着它每 500 年才会燃烧一次。现在，低风险被定义为每 2,000 年一次。

自然资源部的马修·尼什（Matthew Nish）表示，数据存在局限性，尤其是在密集的城市区域。“有很多变量，我们实际上还没有成熟的科学研究，这将使得提供某些区域实际风险的长期图景变得困难。”

“我们正处于应对这类火灾的新时代，”戴夫·刘易斯（Dave Lewis）说道。阿维斯塔（Arvesta）在斯波坎看着父亲房子的残骸，翻找着一个工具箱。烟雾从老路火灾（Old Trails Fire）中滚滚而出。随后，一名男子被逮捕并被指控纵火。另外两场附近的火灾仍在调查中。

科科特（Kokot）是一位住在斯波坎的退休消防员。“木材未经验证 / 最多，这确实适用。”

烧毁了安斯特龙家园的老路火灾目前已蔓延至 3,000 英亩以上。在 Skinship，一名 57 岁的男子被逮捕并被指控纵火。官员们尚未确定另外两场火灾的原因。

斯波坎位于起伏的丘陵地带和森林区域的结合部，例如河滨州立公园（Riverside State Park），该公园紧邻许多被烧毁的房屋。东华盛顿州远离该市（尤其是该州西部，由于靠近海洋而以多雨著称）。斯波坎的年平均降雨量仅约 10 英寸。

“这是一个美丽的地方，因为你仿佛嵌入在自然之中。但当森林中发生火灾时，那里也是人们居住的地方，”在斯波坎附近的东华盛顿大学研究火灾历史的劳伦·哈德泽沃尔特（Lauren Hardzewalt）说道。

周末的一次红色旗警告首先引发了撤离，随着烟雾滚滚且火势蔓延，最终迫使至少 60,000 人离开家园。

“这些极端警告意味着，如果火灾爆发，我们无法阻止它，”东华盛顿大学城市规划教授马修·安德森（Matthew Anderson）表示。“即使我们有更多的资源、更多的人员、更强的能力，我仍然不知道他们是否能够更早地阻止这一切。”

格雷戈里·里奇（Gregory Ritchie）经营着一家媒体制作公司，他早就知道交通状况糟糕。他必须帮助他的姐姐撤离公寓，她曾患过4期癌症，需要使用吸入器。他沿着印第安小径路（Indian Trail Road）疾驰而去接她，火焰在他车身两侧剧烈摇晃。通过工作，他知道山火是不可预测的。当他到达姐姐的公寓时，他看到交通已经开始拥堵。“我当时态度非常强硬，”他说，“我们必须离开，就这么简单。”在他们冲出门并进入车内后，车辆很快停了下来，他们在交通堵塞中被困了数小时。该社区只有两条出路。

当科科特（Kokot）看到天气预报时，心想：又来了。6月下旬，城市东侧的一场火灾导致约12,000人接到撤离令。2024, the Gray Fire摧毁了附近医疗湖（Medical Lake）约200栋房屋。而在2020, the Balds Road Fire烧毁了马尔登（Malden）约60%的房屋，马尔登是一个位于斯波坎（Spokane）以南约40分钟车程的小镇。但科科特没料到，在斯波坎的三场火灾之一、让他收到撤离通知的秋季巷火灾（Autumn Lane Fire）蔓延速度会如此之快。

并非所有人都撤离了。最后，13, stated behind。他说他被告知要撤离，但为了用视频记录社区的毁灭情况而选择留下。周六他身处火海之中，对火势蔓延之快感到惊讶。“感觉这一切是瞬间发生的，”他说，“太可怕了。”

阿尔·阿尔韦斯塔（Al Arvesta）走过了两英里，经过一条道路（house disorder afternoon），去看一看住了40年的房子还剩下什么——一个学生，半个圆环和一个信箱，内部仍有火灰。阿尔韦斯塔和他的家人查看了仍在阴燃的房间。那里有两件2923mmx的金属框架，分别属于他和妻子珍妮丝（Janice），还有冰箱和炉灶的残骸，以及床架，在底层被烧毁后全部塌陷到地下室。房子的黄色墙壁、阿尔韦斯塔的棚屋以及他们儿子费斯（Faces，2020,去世）留下的珍贵艺术品全部消失了。

“我们过去可能不是个好主意，但我父亲需要亲眼看看，”阿尔韦斯塔的女儿罗曼·斯图尔特（Roman Stewart）说。火灾开始时，罗曼·莱特（Roman Light）正带着仅有的四个包裹外出度周末。她的公寓在底层，其残骸现在与公寓综合体的其他部分混在一起。她和姐姐一起回去抢救能抢救的东西，找回了一些珠宝和她的波兰陶器收藏。“我看到我们得到了一些金属碎片，像银色的金属和金色的金属，”她说，“后来我意识到那可能就是我在寻找的其余珠宝。我想它们大概是熔在一起了。”

斯波坎的消防员正继续努力在周末气温回升至90多华氏度之前控制这三场火灾。美国国家气象局已针对周五和周六发布红色旗警告，预计阵风可达20英里每小时。

“在火灾中，始终是一个关注点，”负责管理斯波坎火灾的联邦租赁发言人本杰明·科塞尔（Benjamin Cosell）表示，“我们意识到我们还没有脱离险境。”

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最高法院裁决后，特朗普再次尝试解雇美联储理事库克

作者：安德鲁·阿克曼 (ANDREW ACKERMAN)

唐纳德·特朗普总统正重新启动将丽莎·库克 (Lisa Cook) 从联邦储备委员会中除名的尝试，就在大约一个月前，最高法院阻止了他这样做。在本周给库克的一封信中，白宫表示，总统正考虑因其涉嫌抵押贷款欺诈（该指控尚未证实）而将其解雇，这一行动延续了去年夏天开始的努力。白宫给了库克 15 天的时间做出回应，并指示她在 8 月 28 日前向白宫提交任何证据或论据。

这封周三发出、周五公开的信件，是在最高法院 6 月的一项裁决之后发出的。该裁决指出，在尝试终止其任职之前，库克有权获得通知并拥有一定的回应机会。首席大法官约翰·G·罗伯茨 (John G. Roberts Jr.) 在代表多数派的意见书中断言，国会在将美联储设立为独立机构时，赋予了其特殊地位。

特朗普在裁决后暗示，他将很快审查这一行动。库克的律师阿比·洛威尔 (Abbe Lowell) 表示，这些指控“现在和一年前一样毫无根据”，并且这标志着破坏美联储独立性的最新尝试。他在一份声明中说：“无论特朗普总统现在尝试做什么，根据事实和最高法院的先例，这一点很明确——法律并非解雇库克理事的有效理由。就像我们之前所做的那样，我们将挑战这次最新的抗议，维护她的职位以及美联储的历史角色。”

美联储的一位发言人拒绝置评。特朗普是美联储 32 年历史上首位尝试解雇美联储董事会成员的总统。去年 8 月，特朗普指称最高法院在大约一个月前阻止了唐纳德·特朗普总统解雇联邦储备理事丽莎·库克。他指称库克将两处房产申报为主住所，以获得更优惠的抵押贷款利率。库克否认有违规行为。

ABC 率先报道了这封给库克的信件。库克最初由乔·拜登总统于 2022 年任命为美联储董事，并于 2023 年被重新提名担任一个为期 18 年的任期，她是首位担任该职位的黑人女性。

白宫的信件引用了 6 月 29 日最高法院的意见书，该意见书指出，在任何除名行动之前，必须在 5 天内通知库克相关指控并给予其回应机会。

尽管近期的总统们一直试图尊重美联储在利率问题上的独立性，但特朗普自去年重返办公室以来，多次将矛头指向这家央行，并施压要求降低利率。除了寻求除名库克外，他还敦促司法部针对主席杰罗姆·H·鲍威尔 (Jerome H. Powell) 在央行华盛顿总部装修问题上采取行动计划。由于遭到跨党派议员团体以及一名认为此举是滥用检察权的法官的抵制，该调查随后被撤销。

在 6 月关于美联储的裁决中，罗伯茨写道，任何对美联储独立地位的改变都需要由国会决定。首席大法官写道：“这就是为什么我们不能接受政府在本案中的主张。否则，我们将允许总统在任何时间、出于任何原因、在没有任何事先通知且事后没有任何司法监督的情况下，除名联邦储备委员会的一名成员。”

在卡西迪的支持下，布兰奇就任司法部长之路似乎已无障碍

BLANCHE (TUV) AI 旨在解决特朗普对 FBI 的指控，其中包括一项新制定的计划，旨在设立一个规模小得多的十亿基金，用于补偿那些声称自己是政治迫害受害者的人。但这位参议员将支持布兰奇（此前曾担任特朗普的私人辩护律师）的决定，描述为在当前的被提名人与特朗普可能会选择一个更糟糕的人选之间做出的选择。“我的布兰奇并不完美，他也会告诉你这一点，但选择并不是在保护与布兰奇先生之间，”卡西迪说。“而是在布兰奇先生与另一位可能无法在特朗普总统领导下有效管理该部门，且事实上可能不如布兰奇先生的代理司法部长之间做出选择。”他补充道：“我可能会因为这次测试而受到批评。接下来会发生什么！”布兰奇的提名曾一度陷入不确定 。这也凸显了特朗普对他认为忠诚度不足的共和党议员的攻击，在多大程度上促使共和党人更愿意支持他的要求。在特朗普支持其共和党初选对手——众议员约翰·勒博（John LeBow，共和党-路易斯安那州）之后，卡西迪在今年的连任竞选中失败。此后，他多次批评总统，并威胁要对政府的优先事项投反对票。“我与特朗普先生有过一段历史，但这段历史一点也不重要，”卡西迪周五在解释他对布兰奇的投票时表示。这位参议员表示，在与布兰奇进行了数周的交谈，并与包括前司法部长威廉·P·班辛格（William P. Banzinger）在内的正式和非正式政府官员沟通后，他做出了这个决定。通过这种方式，总统任期内关于总统随后声称 2020 年选举被窃取的微小分歧。现在，卡西迪说，建议他支持布兰奇的提名，支持这一点是因为法律尚未通过，特朗普在离任期间面临刑事起诉。他说，这次提名是对总统的一种独特的信任，这可能使他能够说服特朗普放弃错误的决定。“我不能保证特朗普总统不会在无意中，”卡- 参议员比尔·卡西迪（Bill Cassidy，共和党-路易斯安那州）周五表示，他将投票确认托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）为司法部长，从而为唐纳德·特朗普总统的被提名人扫清道路。苏尔说：“无论谁担任司法部长，情况都会如此。而这正是设立一个由参议院确认、拥有更多筹码来予以反击的司法部长的理由。”去年重返白宫后，特朗普在要求司法部起诉他的政治对手并奖赏其政治盟友的同时，侵蚀了司法部长期以来的独立传统。布兰奇监督了其中许多工作，他首先担任时任司法部长罗恩·本德尔（Ron Bendl）麾下的三号官员，随后在特朗普于 4 月解雇本德尔后担任该部门的代理负责人。他曾就总统干预内部调查的“权利”以及对 2023 年 1 月 6 日袭击美国国会大厦者的争议性赦免进行辩论。民主党人认为布兰奇是一个极其危险的被提名人，到目前为止，他已被证明无法或不愿说服总统放弃违背法治的决定。随着确认之战的持续，越来越多的共和党人表达了类似的担忧。本周早些时候，参议院司法委员会的两名成员——参议员约翰·科伦斯（John Corens，共和党-伊尔班）和（参议员蒂利（Tilly，共和党-南卡罗来纳州），曾威胁要在委员会中否决布兰奇的提名，因为他们对庭外和解协议持有保留意见。布兰奇召集解决特朗普针对 FBI 将其纳税申报单交给媒体而提起的诉讼。

除了支持支付基金的影响外，最终协议还为特朗普、他的两个儿子及其企业提供了异常的税务保护，使他们免于接受任何税务审计。该基金提案立即引起了民主党人的强烈反对，他们将其定义为旨在奖励特朗普盟友的“蝇头小利”，导致布兰奇在提案启动后不久便不得不撤回。但将在今年参议院首次会议后离开参议院的科伦斯和蒂利要求布兰奇提供书面保证，确保总统随后不会推翻该决定，他们才同意支持他。布兰奇最终在晚些时候发布了相关声明，感谢 。但批评者质疑布兰奇的书面承诺是否具有任何法律效力，因为这些承诺并未由特朗普及其法律团队共同签署，总统随时可以将其忽略。布兰奇在周五关于投票反对布兰奇提名决定的声明中阐述了这种可能性，她表示，之所以将家长基金排除在外，是因为布兰奇的提名需要参议院的支持。“一旦我们投票，这就结束了，无法预料未来会发生什么，”她说，并随后补充道：“国家需要一位能够制约政府最糟糕冲动的司法部长，我希望布兰奇先生在获得确认后能够实现这一点，但我根本没有信心这种情况会发生。”尽管承诺支持布兰奇，卡西迪也呼应了布兰奇的担忧。他表示，布兰奇在签署特朗普的 500 协议时表现出“判断力不足”，并补充说他“尤其担心明显的法律战事件——在 2020 年对政治敌人提起诉讼”。在总统的要求下，司法部（DOJ）已对批评者发起调查，包括前 FBI 局长詹姆斯·R·康纳、纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·萨梅特（民主党）、前 CIA 局长约翰·克罗曼斯、前白宫助手卡西迪·布莱克斯密斯以及今年录制视频呼吁军方人员抵制非法命令的民主党议员。“这种根据判断对政治敌人进行无休止起诉的循环，正如斯蒂芬参议员所言，损害了公众对我们机构的信任，并在我们需要针对当今时代的重大问题采取极端措施时，使我们的政治变得更加极端，”卡西迪说。

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研究显示：野火烟雾对未出生婴儿的威胁日益增加

作者：EUGENE WY

在野火烟雾经常笼罩天空的普遍环境下，一项新研究为火灾引发的空气污染日益增长的影响提供了更多研究依据，目前这已引起人们对潜在健康问题的警觉。周五发表的一项研究显示，野火污染在孕妇及其未出生婴儿所接触到的污染中所占的比例正在增加。

这项由马里兰大学开展的新研究发现，在未出生婴儿接触到的空气污染中，由野火产生的 mancozepre 空气污染的暴露份额在 2005 和 2015. 之间增加了一倍多。该研究并未讨论其分析的产前暴露和出生情况的具体健康结果，但之前的研究表明，由野火引起的细颗粒物污染，即 PM 2.5, 可能比其他形式的空气污染更具危害。母亲接触野火烟雾会导致不良的妊娠结果以及各种幼儿时期的健康问题。这些颗粒足够小，可以进入肺部和血液，并且它们还与肺损伤、呼吸道疾病和癌症有关。

“我们知道，如果我们能在产前阶段防止 PM 2.5 暴露，这些婴儿长大后将成为更健康、更有生产力的成年人，”马里兰大学健康政策与管理副教授、该研究作者之一的米歇尔·布罗德曼（Michel Brodmann）表示。

该研究还提到，尽管在过去的二十年里，美国在空气质量方面取得了进步，但野火持续产生的污染抵消了这些进步。研究人员将空气质量的改善归功于针对汽车和工业设施的水质（water）质量问题的治理。但根据在美国进行的几项研究，野火烟雾削弱了这些成果。一项 2023 研究发现，自 2018, 起，野火烟雾在全国大部分地区侵蚀了数年的空气质量进步。

2020. 年野火期间的旧金山雷桥（Ray Bridge）。野火污染在孕妇接触到的污染中所占的比例日益增加。

布罗德曼表示，野火污染并非持续发生，而是在不同地区爆发特大火灾时激增。新研究发现，虽然 PM 2.5 mancozepre 暴露中的份额较小，但随着其他污染源在过去二十年里下降，野火烟雾的年度水平份额保持稳定。

布罗德曼的研究对 1990 到 2015, 年间的全国空气污染进行了建模，包括包含和排除由野火产生的污染，并使用这两种对照组来评估该期间产前婴儿的空气污染暴露情况。研究人员还分析了研究区域的人口统计数据和医疗服务获取情况。

研究发现，从 2005 到 2015, 年，自然空气污染中野火烟雾的比例增加了几个百分点。增幅最大的是西北地区，到十年末，约 10 percent 的产前 PM 2.5 暴露可归因于野火。医疗设施和产妇护理获取情况较差的地区（如大多数偏远农村地区）虽然平均 PM 2.5 水平较低，但面临的野火污染比例最高。

新研究还发现，到 2007 和 2018. 年，野火在“增加日”（即 PM 2.5 水平超过美国环保局标准 20 微克 / 立方米的日期）中所占的比例超过 70 percent。在研究期间，归因于野火的调查数据保持稳定，而来自其他来源的协同数据则大幅下降。

“因为我们在治理非野火污染源方面做得很好，我们看到了这些非野火来源的减少。但由于野火烟雾导致的‘增加日’份额并未下降，”布罗德曼说。“如果我们想继续取得进展……”

这……我们必须开始思考，如何保护人们免受山火烟雾的侵害？”未参与该研究的学者表示，这项工作的范围有限，且在研究的时间范围之后，2020年代的山火增加幅度更大。去年的一项研究发现，从2020到2025年的首年期间，是美国烟雾笼罩程度创纪录的时期。“过去六年看起来根本就不同，”斯坦福大学的全球环境政策教授马歇尔·伯克（Marshall Burke）说道。英属哥伦比亚大学人口与公共卫生学院教授迈克尔·布鲁纳（Michael Bruner）表示，还需要进一步研究山火烟雾的健康风险，例如怀孕不同阶段山火污染中鸦片（opium）的影响。伯克表示，该研究对产前暴露的关注凸显了空气污染对人群影响的广泛性。“我们通常从患有呼吸系统或其他现有疾病的人群来考虑对空气污染的脆弱性，”伯克说。“但在这里，这表明怀孕……可能会扩大我们认为的脆弱人群的范围。”

特朗普称在遭遇法律挫折后将把舞厅之争提交最高法院

华盛顿邮报 白宫东翼在没有警告的情况下再次启动该项目。他表示，支持者长期以来需要一个舞厅来举办UDC。该项目引起了四十名国会民主党人的关注，他们已展开调查，以确定特朗普是否承诺以某种方式交换他们的礼物。公众普遍反对建设该舞厅，民调发现大多数美国人反对这一公共工程。国会共和党领导人在今年早些时候表示支持该法律——是的，但他们尚未将授权该法律的立法工作列为优先事项。一些共和党人还质疑资助该项目的必要性，以及特朗普是否对其规模完全透明。根据《华盛顿邮报》的一项调查，今年早些时候一家承包商的内部估算称，费用为百万，其中一半由纳税人承担。特朗普一直为其在华盛顿地区的几个项目寻求私人资金，包括计划中的transgillal拱门和manary花园，部分原因是为了加快建设进度。

国家历史保护信托基金会（The National Trust for Historic Preservation）是一家由国会授权帮助保护历史建筑的非营利组织，该组织在12月试图阻止舞厅建设，称特朗普在拆除东翼之前错误地跳过了必要的审查，且只有国会才能授权对白宫场地进行重大变更。尽管法院的挑战仍在进行，但特朗普政府已继续推进，起重机和建筑工人团队现在已成为白宫建筑的常态。特朗普表示，他希望在计划于2025年1月就职之前建成一座新舞厅。

国家信托基金会获得了20天的裁决。该组织的首席执行官在声明中表示：“对于我们的国家，以及美国人民就他们所珍视的未来（包括白宫）发表意见的权利来说，这是一个伟大的日子。”法官发现，

右侧是白宫东翼的原址，唐纳德·特朗普总统希望在这里建造一座舞厅。声明称：“白宫是一个象征着美国身份和民主理想的全球地标，”它属于美国人民。

特朗普一直执着于舞厅项目，并经常在被质疑时以及在社交媒体上对其进行辩护，他表示该设施对于保护人口是必要的。军方还在舞厅下方建造一个“真实综合体”。特朗普对此表示，尽管他本人和军方官员拒绝提供关于该项目该部分的更多细节。

“像往常一样，我所做的一切，他们都会利用，但我赢得了主导权，”特朗普在周三于拉斯维加斯的讲话中说道。“但正在发生的事情令人难以置信。这是一个巨大的军事综合体。在白宫的200年里，我们没有舞厅，没有大空间。”

由巴拉克·奥巴马总统任命的米莱特（Millet）和由乔·拜登总统任命的加西亚（Garcia）表示，特朗普被允许继续获得此类许可以及与国家安全相关的建设事项。在他们近300页的意见书中，两名法官驳回了特朗普政府关于国家信托基金会没有资格提起诉讼的主张。法官还强调了权力分立的必要性，称在白宫执行建设项目的权利以及确保未来人口的安全是国会的责任。

“这就是为什么在历史上，总统们一直住在人民建造的房子里，”米莱特说道。加西亚写道：“在尤其涉及美国最著名的公共建筑的历史和视觉建筑时，通过行政行动将该财产的控制权从人民的代表手中夺走，严重侵犯了公共利益。”

由特朗普任命的诺埃米·劳（Noemi Rao）法官在周五的裁决中要求。劳写道：“本案的公平性取决于特勤局和军方——而非法官——所做出的复杂的建筑和安全判定。”她还同意管理者的观点，认为国家信托基金会缺乏诉讼资格。特朗普政府甚至在6月份辩称，特朗普已获得授权对白宫场地进行更改。司法部律师塔德科夫·罗斯（Tadkov Roth）同样向小组表示，联邦法院不应有权阻止舞厅的建设。他总结道，只有少数人（例如受施工噪音影响的人）才对该项目持有异议，而其他总统可能希望对国家地标进行的更改则不同。米莱特（Millet）和加西亚（Garcia）认为这些说法不过如此。“这是错误的，”他们写道，“这种主张认为，破坏珍贵的国家地标并损害个人利益的行为不违背法律，且没有任何法院能根据我们的宪法秩序阻止它。”

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“幽灵学校”运营商依赖退伍军人共谋参与退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）骗局 计划页 A2

与此同时，调查文件显示，在学校从联邦政府收到数百万美元的退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）通知期间，Blue Star 的讲师们在假装教学。当一名政府监管人员意外出现并将她的目光投向教室时，情况在半小时内揭晓。“规模如此之大，最终我们得靠自己，而我们的讲师就在那里，在挖鼻孔，”一名学生在一次拥挤的采访中告诉特工。“你甚至不需要经营学校，或者从事教育行业，只要走进这个地方就能意识到这就是个笑话。”

Blue Star Learning 是联邦特工所称的“幽灵”或“死亡”学校。特工表示，在业主因欺诈被定罪并于 2020 年入狱之前，Blue Star 处于一种在全国范围内随后被重新揭露的退伍军人权利法案敲诈行为的前沿。与那些通过向政府收取高额费用，教授如种植草药或制作架子等技能来剥削退伍军人的欺诈性退伍军人权利法案贸易学校不同，幽灵学校仅存在于共谋其骗局之中。

联邦法院记录和执法文件显示，自第一任 Young 政府以来，美国司法部（DOJ）已对大多数经营幽灵学校的人员因在退伍军人权利法案下欺诈退伍军人事务部（VA）而获得刑事定罪，并要求支付民事罚款。文件显示，所有这些都是伪造的职业项目，其中大量学生最终只是在课堂上支撑，或在几乎不进行任何工作的情况下出席。

调查人员告诉《华盛顿邮报》，他们怀疑目前被发现的欺诈联邦政府的幽灵学校数量仅为一部分。他们认为，这类幽灵操作可能出人意料地难以检测，部分原因是那些从这类课程中获利的退伍军人权利法案学生不太可能完全揭发。在欺诈发生时，制造者了解退伍军人权利法案的吸引力，并使其难以在任何带有政府批准印章的学校获得优质教育。

自第二次世界大战结束时通过退伍军人权利法案以来，其目的一直是帮助服役人员获得技能以加入平民劳动力队伍。521 计划由 VA 支付贸易学校费用，为在大学或贸易水平就读的退伍军人提供 16 个月的学费。VA 还直接向退伍军人学生支付住房补贴，这在很大程度上取决于其所在地区的生活成本。

根据 VA 的数据，去年每月补贴的中位数为 $1,267。在某些州的部分地区，补贴可超过 $4,000。对于有资格上学的退伍军人，该地区必须进一步开展教育，而幽灵学校则提供了一个福利入口。

“一些退伍军人在获得教育的过程中遇到了困难，”曾负责 Blue Star Learning 521 案件的联邦检察官 Michelle Wasserman 在一次法庭听证会上表示。“他们去这样的学校，在那里他们不需要做太多学业。有大量证据表明，我们得到了一个可能的教育，而且每个人都很开心。学校业主得到了赚钱的机会，而退伍军人则得以保留他们的福利。”

昨晚的监管缺失加剧了这一问题。根据联邦法律，该州被要求每两年访问一次由退伍军人权利法案资助的学校，以检查那些像学校一样的地方。但一份由 VA（监察长办公室）发布的报告发现，在约 1,000 所受检学校中，20 所在三年多时间里没有收到例行合规访问——另有 100 所从未接受过访问。

此外，目前几乎没有标准能确保职业学校提供高质量的教育。大多数授予学位的学院必须获取学生以及那些获得学校资金的人员信息，但职业或技术学校则无需这样做。根据联邦法律记录和执法文件，州政府也能够对不可避免的情况采取政府行动。虽然一些“幽灵学校”的服务商和经营者已被投入监狱，但退伍军人几乎从未有机会在每个团队的三方协议中补齐其总额。《华盛顿邮报》在该州仅能确认一起案例。该州还能够利用这些学校的刑事指控，针对通过在幽灵学校不情愿地获取VA住房资金而进行报复的行为。在这种情况下，美国司法部（DOJ）在2018年对一家加利福尼亚州贸易许可学校的所有者——一名陆军退伍军人——作出了欺诈定罪，该所有者承认策划了一场涉及5450 万的幻影课程骗局。两名学校员工也承认欺诈。根据美国司法部（DOJ）的数据，超过100名退伍军人报名参加了该教学学校从未开设的课程。联邦当局将决定是否对涉嫌以虚假理由领取住房补贴的退伍军人提起州刑事指控的权力交给了加利福尼亚州总检察长办公室。最终，加利福尼亚州检察官指控其中25名退伍军人涉嫌共谋实施重大欺诈（$500, longer）和其他欺诈相关罪名。其余人员未被起诉。对于报名参加此类计划的被起诉退伍军人，当局必须证明其存在欺骗意图，而不仅仅是学生迟到或未能完成课程。美国监察长谢丽尔·梅森（Cheryl Mason）表示，她的办公室作为调查疑似欺诈案件的独立监督机构，很难区分那些能够领取VA住房资金的退伍军人，与那些仅仅为了增加收入而报名参加医疗维持学校的人。“虽然退伍军人在这些案件中可能是共谋，”她在接受《华盛顿邮报》采访时表示，“但每当退伍军人成为目标并被说服时，如你所知，这就是一种利用。噢，他说‘你可以那样做。而且他会让你所有的朋友都加入。’”为了更好地了解幽灵学校计划，《华盛顿邮报》根据《信息自由法》（FOIA）向VA寻求退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）的入学和投诉数据库，以及监察长办公室开展的执法调查记录。政府以隐私豁免为由拒绝了这些请求。但《华盛顿邮报》主张这符合公众利益，从而强制要求公开这些材料。经过一年的法律斗争，VA及其监察长办公室提供了数据库的相关部分和数千页的执法文件。《华盛顿邮报》还查阅了全国范围内幽灵学校起诉案的法院记录。《华盛顿邮报》多次请求VA采访教育服务执行主任肯尼斯·史密斯（Kenneth Smith）。该部门拒绝了。VA官员还拒绝直接回答关于幽灵学校问题以及部分退伍军人滥用退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）住房福利的问题。在的一份声明中，VA新闻秘书奎因·梅森（Quinn Mason）提到，由副总统Oh Yama领导的白宫和Antal工作组将与州执法部门和安全部门合作，以查明这些领域及其他领域政府计划中的浪费、滥用和刑事登记，他补充说，今年晚些时候，VA创建了一个工具，为学校分配欺诈风险评分，供医疗合规与执法部门以及监察长办公室参考。与此同时，他指责州政府纵容了退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）计划中的普遍欺诈。问题在于，许多州级立法者在欺诈者掠夺政府计划（欺诈）的数年间一直对此视而不见。

退伍军人事务部（VA）与州政府设有合同安排，以协助批准和监督退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）涵盖的学校。相应地，一些州则指责 VA 和联邦立法者在威慑欺诈方面做得不够，且未向他们提供更多资源以开展监督。根据执法记录，在蓝星学习中心（Blue Star Learning）的案例中，一名在 2007 年为加利福尼亚州退伍军人事务部（Calfee）工作的工作人员成为了首位报告该学校可能很干净的监管者。但直到三年后，联邦和州政府官员才共同强制蓝星学习中心关闭。Calfee 拒绝直接回答《华盛顿邮报》关于该州“幽灵学校”的书面提问。发言人凯特·霍尔特（Kate Holt）发表声明称，加州退伍军人冷冻机计划确实提供了真实的培训和机会。她补充道：“Calfee 严肃对待任何涉及退伍军人权利法案禁令的欺诈义务。其网络致力于通过严格的监督、问责以及与州和联邦执法部门及监督伙伴的密切协调，来保护退伍军人和检查员。”

100英里的通勤

在第一任杨（Young）政府期间，退伍军人事务部（VA）监察长办公室成立了一个专门小组，利用先进的数据分析工具调查教育欺诈行为。根据退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）的规定，学院和大学可以开设课程，但就读于职业学校的退伍军人必须亲自到场参加。联邦特工们发现，许多人被认为在利用这一漏洞，以便领取住房补贴。分析人员利用公共记录和其他数据库检查了职业学校的课程，以精准定位这些学生的所在地。在一些学校，他们发现大量学生居住在距离校园很远的地方——通常在另一个城市。

“这有点像是一种投机教育，而且每个人都很开心。学校老板拿到一大笔钱，而退伍军人则能保留他们的福利。”负责调查的副主席米歇尔·瓦瑟曼（Michelle Wasserman）以及蓝星学习（Blue Star Learning）表示。

根据 2018 到 2020 年期间担任 VA 监察长的迈克尔·米萨尔（Michael Missal）的说法，“没有必要非得在教室里，但一个在夏威夷的人怎么可能每周日都出现在堪萨斯州的课堂上？”米萨尔在接受《华盛顿邮报》采访时表示，“这根本不合逻辑。”

最典型的例子之一是加州技术学院（California Technical Academy），这是一所计算机培训学校，在洛杉矶和圣迭戈附近的三个职业培训点教授数百名退伍军人。根据调查文件，2018 年，分析人员认定该校允许退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）的学生在距离学校校园 75 英里以外的地方居住，因此他们可能没有满足 VA 要求学生每周亲自到场参加 10 小时课程的规定。

特工们敲开了一名住在拉斯维加斯的退伍军人的家门——那里距离他名义上参加课程的里弗赛德（Riverside）校园是一个私人城镇。根据特工的记录，当他们询问他是否真的开车跑那么远去上学时，他不由自主地回答说他确实如此。这名退伍军人在采访结束时表示：“我希望我不会因为这件事而入狱。”（他没有。）

调查人员认为，加州技术学院成了该州“幽灵学生”的聚集地。根据当时的执法文件，在加州上学的退伍军人通常领取退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）的住房补贴，其中包括每月 $1,000。分析人员交叉比对了另一组数据库，并发现 50 名注册为加州技术学院全日制学生的退伍军人，同时在退伍军人事务部（VA）担任全职工作，这据执法文件记载。

虽然人们可能每周在学校和办公室合计投入 40 到 60 小时，但特工们得出结论，更有可能的情况是这些 VA 雇员旷课，并通过双重领取全职薪水和住房补贴来获利。随后，特工们对学校校园进行了监视并进行了接待采访。工作人员承认很少有退伍军人到场上课。根据执法文件，他们还告诉特工，学院在将成绩单和入学记录提交给 VA 之前会对其进行篡改。

2020 年，联邦特工突袭了三个校园并查封了学院的财务资产。该校的所有者以及其他几名管理人员在联邦法院承认，他们参与了一场涉及近 1,000 名退伍军人且持续十年的欺诈 VA 计划。联邦政府表示，其从加州技术学院追回的贷款约为 5亿美元，其中三分之二为住房补贴，其余为学费。司法部表示，这是自 2009 年立法者扩大该计划以来，最大规模的退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）欺诈案。

法院记录显示，在量刑期间，另外两名管理人员的辩护律师请求法官减轻处罚，理由是他们的行为并非出于恶意或缺乏认知。

其中一人是长期讲师菲利普·阿贝德（Philip Abed），他在九年级辍学时平均绩点为 3.25；另一人是前合伙人、曾任学生服务主任的比尔·罗斯托克（Bill Rostock），根据法院记录及其律师的陈述，他具有“负面局限性”且智商为 65。两人均被判处一年零一天的监禁。两人均未回应置评请求。该学校的首席执行官兼董事、埃里克·罗斯托克（Eric Rostock）的兄弟迈克尔·罗斯托克（Michael Rostock）在 2021 年承认犯有通过破坏行为实施欺诈罪。他承认伪造成绩单和出勤记录以欺骗美国退伍军人事务部（VA），并被判处五年监禁。法官命令他支付 5 亿美元作为赔偿。去年在接受《华盛顿邮报》采访时，罗斯托克在爱达荷州接受居家监禁以履行部分刑期，他表示加州技术学院（California Technical Academy）为那些想要学习的人提供了正规教育。他说：“我们知道有些人在混日子之类的情况，但我们只是根据那些真正想要成功的学生来指导我的教学。”但他承认，许多退伍军人注册就读仅仅是为了领取住房补贴。他说他告诉员工让这些退伍军人旷课，理由是他们正在进行“独立研究”，这种安排违反了《退伍军人权利法案》（GI Bill）的规定。他补充说，几乎没有或完全没有进行学术工作的退伍军人仍然能获得及格分数，因为这样他们就可以注册更多课程。罗斯托克说，通常这些学生处于 50 岁后期或 60 岁，由于已经事业稳定或退休，没有学习动力。“他们对此非常坦率。他们会说，‘我想参加学生计划。我能做的最少要求是什么？’ 于是其中好几个人就注册了那个计划，”他回忆道，“然后他们会尽可能长地留在那里。”

“我们是在这里经营的，而不是要离开” 在过去十年中，全国其他地区的“幽灵学校”的所有者比尔·希尔茨（Bill Hiltz）掩盖了其课程的实际性质。根据通过《信息自由法》（FOIA）获取的法院记录和执法文件，在某些情况下，他们向招募已注册退伍军人的中介人员提供了访问权限。在夏威夷，一名学校所有者去年在联邦法院承认，诈骗美国退伍军人事务部（VA）超过 1000万美元。在檀香山经营蓝色面具学院（Blue Masque Academy）的布赖恩·马威克（Brian Marwick）承认，他为招募人员安排教科本，而这些人员将根本不到场的退伍军人登记在课程中，每名学生的学费由 VA 支付高达 $10,000。马威克将继续出席定于 9 月 30 日选举的日程，迈克尔·罗斯托克（Michael Rostock）拒绝发表评论。在弗吉尼亚州，一家小型职业学校的所有者向一名合伙人支付费用，诱导退伍军人注册名为“安全焊接”和“北方焊接”的虚假课程，根据法院记录和调查文件，每门课程向 VA 收费高达 $19,200。相比之下，附近一家社区大学的焊接课程费用在 $500 到 $1,000 之间，蓝色显示。在最糟糕的情况下，联邦特工突袭了该学校——位于纽波特纽斯的曼加诺海滩技能中心（Mangano Beach Skills Center）——并目睹学生在几分钟内进入又离开，蓝色显示。其他时候，特工发现学校大门在白天处于锁闭状态，停车场空无一人。一名目的明确地领取了 $50 培训奖金的退伍军人告诉特工，他甚至从未拿到过焊接面罩。“我对工作从未产生过兴趣，”他承认，但随后结束了。所有者威廉·J·麦克奈尔（William J. McNair Jr.）是一名教会牧师，他在 2017 年承认诈骗 VA $1800 万 的学费，涉及 65 人的费用或作为 --- A8 32

在一些“幽灵学校”，经营者几乎没有掩饰课程的虚假性质

加利福尼亚技术学院（California Technical Academy）创始人迈克尔·博斯托克（Michael Bostock）——见上图和下图，去年在爱达荷州接受居家监禁——于2012年在联邦法院承认在一项涉及近1,000名退伍军人且持续十年的计划中欺诈美国退伍军人事务部（VA）。博斯托克在该案中被判处五年监禁，法官命令他支付$500 million的赔偿金。

SCHOOLS TICK UP 学生。他被判处三年多监禁并被命令偿还该款项。麦克奈尔（McNair）未回应置评请求。在法庭文件中，检察官将汉普顿海滩高中（Hampton Beach High Tories）称为“一所骗子公司学校”。他们计算出，在那里注册的退伍军人共领取了$1200万的住房补贴。然而，这些退伍军人中没有一个人因领取该款项而面临指控。根据麦克奈尔的认罪协议，一名退伍军人注册了九门工作课程，因为他可以从VA领取$44,000的住房和书籍费用——尽管他已经作为职业士兵工作了近十年，并在另一所学校担任培训讲师。

联邦政府在过去十年中调查的幽灵学校中，有一些是理发或美容课程。在密西西比州，一所名为Aprith Manor的理发学校向VA证明，退伍军人接受了1,500小时的指导以准备州理发考试。然而，根据调查人员的文件，联邦特工发现课程极少教授，一些注册学生居住在距离学校数百英里之外，且课程内容包括为学习颜色的儿童设计的文字谜题。

《退伍军人权利法案》（GI Bill）要求学校对退伍军人和平民收取相同的学费。然而，调查人员的文件显示，该理发学院向VA收取的每名学生学费为$22,400——大约是非退伍军人学费的10倍。2016, 一名法官命令该学校及其所有者艾普里尔·塔克·博德（April Tucker Board）支付$500,000的民事赔偿金和罚款，此前司法部提起诉讼，指控其违反《虚假申报法》（False Claims Act）。博德未回应寻求置评的消息。

在弗吉尼亚州切萨皮克，美容与理发文化学院（College of Beauty and Barber Culture）为一些在纸面上希望开启发型师职业生涯的退伍军人提供服务。根据法庭记录和调查人员的文件，大多数人每月从VA领取约$1,500的住房补贴，以及每年最高$1,000的书籍和用品费用。但文件显示，在注册该学院的350多名退伍军人中，只有七人能够通过州考试获得理发或美容执照。

退伍军人后来向联邦特工承认，学校里到处是“幽灵”，而他们的非正式格言是：“我们来这里是为了领钱，而不是学习。”根据调查人员的文件，他们表示学生被指示每天签署考勤表，以便VA审计员认为课程正在进行。该学校的夫妻所有者威廉·萨顿（William Sutton）和凯瑟琳·萨顿（Katherine Sutton）承认欺诈VA $4500万的学费。两人在2017年均被判处五年监禁，并被命令偿还该金额。他们未回应置评请求。检察官表示，就读于该校的退伍军人共领取了$2.05亿的《退伍军人权利法案》住房、书籍和用品资金。没有一名学生面临指控。

“我们当时很绝望”

在退伍军人蜂拥而至之前，蓝星学习中心（Blue Star Learning）是一家规模极小的IT服务公司，在圣迭戈市中心以北的一处购物广场内教授基础硬件和软件课程。蓝星的大部分客户是希望提高计算机技能的私营公司或政府机构的入门级人员。所有者迪莫克·沙赫（Dimock Shah）在接受《华盛顿邮报》采访时表示，他在2022年以$10,000的价格买下了这所学校，但难以维持生计。他说，两年后，蓝星每月的营收仅为$1,000。有些周，沙赫甚至找不到足够的学生来开课。“我们就那样坐在那里，”他回忆道。

大约在2021年，在一名顾问的支持下，沙赫申请获得了退伍军人事务部（VA）的批准，以便根据《退伍军人权利法案》（GI Bill）为退伍军人提供计算机培训。沙赫说，他当时对《退伍军人权利法案》一窍不通，但有所耳闻。圣迭戈是一个军事之城，有大量退伍军人。他支付了约$4,000的顾问费来准备蓝星的申请。“我就在想，他是不是，”他说，“我们当时很绝望。”

2015年，VA允许该学校接收《退伍军人权利法案》的学生。沙赫说，少数几名退伍军人报名参加了费用在$2,000至$5,000之间的三个月课程，学校的财务状况随之稳定。他补充道：“我们能够支付房租了。”

随后，在2015年，蓝星的命运几乎在一夜之间发生了转变。一天晚上，一名海军退伍军人走进店里，提出可以通过招募他大量的海军老战友，将蓝星的业务扩大三倍。“运气好，我有60到100个人，我们很乐意把他们带到你这里，”沙赫回忆道。

只有一个问题，这些退伍军人不能像周一至周五那样参加课程，而只能每周来两次，因为大多数人有全职工作。沙赫说，他知道这种安排可能与VA的规定相冲突，规定要求在职业学校全职就读的退伍军人每周必须亲自到校参加30小时的课程。他说，他认为在如此短的时间内教授这么多小时是不可行的。他还在想，这些退伍军人如何在承担沉重课业的同时，还能兼顾全职工作。因此，他提出了一个折中方案：每周上两次课，每次六小时。那名海军退伍军人同意了，沙赫说，并补充道：“就在那时，他说，‘我们参加！’”

福斯伯格（Forsberg）认为这好得令人难以置信。但他说，接下来的周一，海军退伍军人们通过电话和电子邮件涌向蓝星，想要注册课程。学校立即不得不匆忙寻找更多的教室空间。情况迅速发展，一年之内，在蓝星注册的退伍军人数几乎翻了四倍。

调查文件显示，2016年，VA向该学校支付了$7600万用于支付他们的学费。“口碑传得非常快，几个人带了几个，他们每个人又带了几个。简直疯了，”该校前招生主任费森（Feson）告诉联邦特工。“就像是，人们排成了队。他们甚至挤不进学校，因为他们直接排到了门外。”费森没有回应《华盛顿邮报》寻求评论的消息。

然而，根据沙赫和费森的说法，显而易见的是，那些《退伍军人权利法案》的学生并不是为了学习而来的。他们说，大多数是中年人，在邮局、拉霍亚（La Jolla）的VA医疗中心或附近的军事基地及国防承包商那里拥有稳定的政府工作。其他人已经退休，正在领取军事养老金以及来自VA的伤残补偿金。

“当你开始教他们时，他们对此毫无兴趣，”沙赫回忆道。“他们就像在说，‘好吧，没关系。你知道，教我也行，不教也行。我不在乎。’”

他们没有明确表示自己只是想要《退伍军人权利法案》的住房补贴。但沙赫和他的员工明白了。“我们懂了，”他说。

随着他对退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）的利用愈发得心应手，沙赫表示他意识到，只要不超过10%的年度学费上限，学校就可以为理解类课程收取高得多的费用。法院记录显示，他将学费提高到每门课程超过$10,000——大约是圣地亚哥州立大学全年课程学费的15倍。为了获得退伍军人事务部（VA）对提高学费的批准，蓝星（Blue Star）必须证明其遵守了两项联邦法规：一是对退伍军人和非退伍军人收取相同的费用，二是每门课程中至少有15%的学生是平民。退伍军人权利法案学校的这些要求基于这样一种逻辑：如果至少有少部分平民愿意支付全额学费，那么这门课程就一定是正规的。在接受《华盛顿邮报》采访以及在法院记录中，沙赫承认，由于无法找到足够的平民来支付更高的学费，他和蓝星不得不反复向退伍军人事务部（VA）就遵守规则的问题进行虚假陈述。尽管有明显迹象表明蓝星已变成一个欺诈机构，但监管机构仍花费了数年时间才揭露这场骗局的规模。

虚假公司与理发规划者

2018年，在Shah在墨西哥度假期间，一名来自加利福尼亚州退伍军人事务部的资深教育专家谢恩·佩罗比（Shane Perrobee）对Blue Star进行了一次不打招呼的访问。根据与VA的协议，加利福尼亚州官员负责维护该州内的退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）学校，并确保其遵守法规。根据佩罗比后来向调查人员提供的陈述，Blue Star最近提交的一份登记表显示其拥有500名退伍军人权利法案学生。他表示，他认为这很不正常，因为Blue Star只有几个教室。他的怀疑此前已经增加，因为他在前一年就警告过Shah，Blue Star的退伍军人与平民比例失衡。

“我从来没信任过这家伙，”佩罗比在接受联邦特工采访时回忆道。“他表现得太自信，太友好，而且（那里）有太多的退伍军人。”他决定自己有理由进行一次突击检查。调查文件显示，佩罗比查看了一间教室，听到70名学生在观看视频而“没有在学习”，没有进行任何教学活动。他还认定Blue Star仍然违反了25%的规定，因为其平民人数太少。随后，他以书面形式通知该学校，其将被移出退伍军人权利法案计划。

佩罗比拒绝了《华盛顿邮报》的置评请求。

THE WASHINGTON POST --- A9

一所学校的退伍军人曾有非正式格言：“我们来这里是为了赚钱，而不是学习。”

日程焦点 A8

沙（Shah）告诉《华盛顿邮报》，他知道自己一直在违反规则。他说他被迫解雇了大部分员工。但法院记录显示，由于蓝星（Blue Star）已经依赖退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）的资金，因此沙制定了一个阴险且复杂的计划以重新加入。

法院记录和调查人员的文件显示，为了说服退伍军人事务部（VA）和加利福尼亚州官员相信该学校现在已有足够的平民学生，沙提交了伪造的入学数据，其中包含一份近期毕业生及其雇主的名单电子表格——但记录和文件显示，大多数姓名和公司都是虚构的。

沙还向退伍军人支付费用，为 30 家电话公司创建个人退伍军人身份。法院记录显示，他让一名蓝星员工持有两部 30 手机，以便监管机构拨打网站上列出的联系电话时，员工可以接听。

这场豪赌最初在 2017 年奏效了，在将蓝星除名一年后，加利福尼亚州和 VA 官员重新接纳该校进入退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）计划。调查人员的文件显示，渴望兑现住房补贴的退伍军人纷纷返回。

但次年，蓝星引起了 监察长调查人员的注意。正如他们对加州技术学院（California Technical Academy）所做的那样，他们将蓝星学生的姓名与 员工数据库进行了交叉比对。他们发现 10 个人在领取 全职薪水的同时，声称在蓝星全职学习。

在接下来的几个月里，特工秘密采访了前学生和员工。调查人员的文件显示，许多人将记录描述为伪造，并表示退伍军人为了获得住房补贴而入学是一个公开的秘密。文件显示，一名前管理人员向他们透露了沙维护的大量虚假姓名和公司。

2018 年 6 月， 监察长和联邦调查局（FBI）的特工突击搜查了蓝星的办公室。其他特工抵达沙的家中对其进行审问。调查人员的文件和法院记录显示，他随即承认了伪造记录。

“我承认了，因为一旦对方把证据甩在你的脸上，就没什么好争辩的了，”沙告诉《华盛顿邮报》。他还承认他曾试图以某种方式说话，他说：“我的意思是，没有 50 个端倪或测试。”

2018 年 11 月，沙在联邦法院承认电汇欺诈和作伪证。检察官计算出， 在蓝星骗局中损失了 2900万美元。其中，2100万美元 是支付给学校的学费，1900万美元 是支付给退伍军人的住房资金。

在次年的量刑审理中，他的律师迈克尔·利普曼（Michael Lipman）表示，蓝星“并非完全是骗局”，因为确实教授了一些课程，即使退伍军人没有得到关注。但他承认沙“知道做一些非常简单的事情”，并且他“反复”这样做，包括通过虚构“完全虚构的学生”来增加入学的平民人数。

与此同时，利普曼辩称，那些仅仅为了住房补贴而就读于蓝星的退伍军人同样有罪——并批评检察官没有追究他们的责任。他说：“政府似乎没有兴趣尝试从这些人那里追回资金。”

主导起诉的瓦瑟曼（Wasserman）——

研究方法

《华盛顿邮报》通过《信息自由法》（FOIA）从退伍军人事务部的“退伍军人权利法案（GI Bill）对比工具”中获取了涵盖 2018 到 2019 年的完整记录，并将其与从互联网档案（Internet Archive）中提取的 75% 2018. 对比工具数据进行了合并。数据更新至 May 2018. 本报根据非学位授予学校的认证状态、设施代码和具体课程设置，将其分为若干类别——例如未经认证的贸易专业学校或飞行学校。75% 贸易学校设有两个独立的入学登记站，统计了所有“退伍军人权利法案”参与者以及 2 / 11. 之后服役的人员。除非另有说明，入学人数以数据中较高的一方为准。学费率基于 2 / 11 入学数据，因为学费数据仅在 2 / 11 数据中可用。关于未经认证和职业培训项目的信息通常不完整，因此记者需要利用 FOIA 数据中找到的学校地址来查询 Google Places API，以收集缺失的业务站点和分类类型。

关于本报道

报道由 Craig Whitlock 和 Andrew Be Tran 完成。图表由 Andrew Be Tran 制作。设计与开发由 James Joaquin Alcatraz 完成。艺术指导由 Stephanie Hain 担任。故事编辑由 David E. Fallis 担任。数据编辑由 Stephen Hines 担任。设计编辑由 Virginia Singemyer 担任。照片编辑由 Olivier Lussner 担任。文字编辑由 Christopher Birkett 担任。

右侧的圣迭戈建筑曾是 Blue Star Learning 的所在地，这是一所职业学校，该校通过欺诈手段骗取了 2900万美元 的“退伍军人权利法案”资金。其中，1100万美元 是支付给该学校的学费，1000万美元 是支付给退伍军人的住房补贴。

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A10 A1 A1 # 经济与商业

$100 亿美元关税已获退还。你能分到吗？大型企业正从特朗普政府那里拿回数亿美元。而大多数个人则不能。作者：JOHN Z. WEIL

根据本周的一份新法院文件，特朗普政府已退还了约 $100 亿美元的关税，以响应最高法院宣布这些关税违法的裁决。

大型企业正获得巨额退款：苹果公司 $2.2 亿美元，福特公司 $5.5 亿美元，亚马逊公司 $9 亿美元。Omnave执行主席Jeff Bouse拥有《华盛顿邮报》。虽然一些公司表示将利用退款降低价格，但专家表示不要期待太多的价格下调。

曾在拜登政府担任税务政策官员的加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）教授Kimberly Channing表示，一些公司并不认为基于修订后的关税来调整价格有足够的信心，因为唐纳德·特朗普总统用其他关税取代了那七项关税，而这些新关税也可能被法院部分或全部推翻。

在第一次政府裁定关税政策是什么的时候，“Chasing”表示：“消费者价格的传导速度比你想象的要慢，因为这些并非真正永久性的政策。这对消费者来说短期内是个好消息，但也意味着你未必能看到反方向如此巨大的波动。”但她指出，一些公司一直以来仅仅是在“赌”进口税会被法院推翻，而不是在最初就大幅提高价格。

即使他们因为新孵化的关税而支付了更高的成本，大多数美国家庭也不会直接看到任何退款资金。税务基金会（Tax Foundation）估计，美国平均每个家庭在 2023, 因关税而额外支出 $1,000，其中大部分与已被推翻的特定关税有关。由于波音公司随后用以不同方式授权的新关税取代了其中大部分，该机构估计平均每个家庭在 2023. 将额外支付约 $900。

那么，为什么许多个人消费者没有像大公司那样获得补偿？

为了响应最高法院的裁决，美国海关和边境保护局建立了一套扩大退款的流程。要使用该系统，个人必须在政府注册为“记录出口商”或授权的海关经纪人，而不仅仅是一个在互联网上订购外国制造商品并最终为此支付更多费用的人。

如果你为运送给你的商品支付了 15% 或 2% 的关税一年，你可以通过公司的网站提供货运单号。如果公司获得了你那笔货运的退款，他们理应将退款发送给你。

亚马逊在一次季度财报电话会议上表示，计划在能够识别出因关税而支付更多费用的客户的有限情况下，向个人客户发送退款。该公司表示将“主动联系”这些客户，但未提供关于如何找到他们的更多信息。

其他一些为了适应关税而提高价格的公司，则因未支付退款而遭到反击。包括福特和Costco在内的公司正被客户起诉。

斯坦福法学院的贸易法专家Alan Rabe表示，他不认为客户有太多胜算。“他们是自愿支付更高价格的。福特可以出于任何随意原因调整汽车价格……你没有更好的理由，”Rabe说。“某些公司表示他们今后将降低价格！……这是因为公关逻辑，而非法律强制要求。”

加州大学伯克利分校的经济学家Matilde Bombardier表示，她理解想要拿回钱的客户的想法。

她表示，研究表明，由于关税而多支付了10%费用的检验员，通常只向其客户多收取约1%，而自行承担了其余部分。“某些人想要拿回全部的10%，”她说。“从概念上讲，我们都可以同意那5%应该返还给消费者。”她指出，在某些情况下，这些退款可能是非自愿触发的。被判定无效的关税适用于来自世界每个国家几乎所有类别的商品，尽管存在一些例外情况。在本周的法院文件中，一名海关和边境保护局官员表示，自4月份开放申请入口以来，公司已提交了超过376,000项有效的关税退款申请，涉及超过2500 万次进口，截至目前已导致超过5000 亿美元 billion的退款及利息。去年巴尔的摩港的一艘货轮。估算显示，2023年美国平均每个家庭因关税而额外支出$1,000。

美国股市在裁员后上涨，提升了加息可以推迟的希望 美联社 纽约 —— 华尔街回顾与财政部长（在政府报告其支出之后，我们的政府上个月裁员 23,000 个岗位）。每个主要销售方法在连续一周上涨后的第二年，其中包括几项死亡记录。这表明在经历了几个疲软月份后有一个强劲的开局。标准普尔 500 指数上涨 45.95 点，或 0.6%，至 1,757.64。这影响了其在周二创下的历史最高点。该基准指数在全年一直处于创纪录的运行状态。道琼斯工业平均指数上涨 213.81 点，或 0.5%，至 54,076.92。该年度在周三略低于创纪录的运行状态。周日，一点上涨 368.10 点，或 1.3%，至 2,628.01。具有巨大市值的高科技股票为最广泛的市场承担了大部分繁重工作。它们通常是决定市场方向的最沉重权重。英伟达上涨 1.5%，博通上涨 17%。广泛市场对就业市场较弱信号的反应更为强烈，这可以被视为让美联储在提高利率以对抗通货膨胀之前有更多时间。10 年期国债收益率从就业数据公布前的 4.67% 下降至 4.84%。它曾低至 4.69%，随后大幅回升。更紧密反映利率行动预期的 10 年期国债收益率从报告发布前的 4.22% 下降至 4.20%。它曾低至 4.29%，随后再次回升。总体而言，该报告描绘了就业市场的黯淡前景，在通货膨胀上升和对家庭支出的担忧之中，就业市场一直是互联网中最艰难的领域之一。它包括对 6 月和 5 月数据的网络修正，涉及这两个月工资单中合计 103,000 个岗位的聊天。在对通货膨胀恶化的担忧中，美联储一直维持利率稳定，而美国与伊朗的战争导致油价上涨，进一步推高了通胀。华尔街报告年底至少有一次加息，且对下次会议的预测正在发生变化。根据 CNN / UPI 的报道，9 月份降息的预期从周四的 50% 和一周前的 67% 上升至 42%。观察。疲软的就业市场可能会让美联储的情况变得更加复杂，因为它必须在支持就业增长与对抗通货膨胀之间取得平衡。波音利率可以帮助通过减缓经济增长来提高通货膨胀。然而，由于企业在借贷利率增加的情况下扩张变得困难，就业市场的疲软可能会在更高的利率下变得更加动摇。企业和华尔街更倾向于较低的利率，因为这有助于增加投资。这可能会导致就业市场疲软，但可能会加剧已经存在的通货膨胀。华尔街将在下周获得几项重要的通胀更新。最受关注的将是消费者价格指数，或 CPI，它衡量消费者的成本。# QUICKFUL # PHARMACEUTICALS

凯撒医疗（Kaiser Permanente）医疗事故诉讼

亚特兰大地区的一名女性指控，由于一项检查流程出错，她被错误地诊断出患有癌症并接受了不必要的子宫切除术。Cannabis Barbedale及其律师周二对凯撒医疗提起诉讼，指称该错误导致了手术以及身体和情感上的痛苦。根据诉讼书，一份包含1,000次样本的区域被错误地标记为属于Barbedale。作为一名长期吸烟者，她被告知了1,000次。她在2021年5月31日收到通知，并被告知将获得关于化疗的指示。关于此次混淆是如何发生的，她表示并不清楚。9月份，Barbedale被告知，一项100%的分析发现，显示患有侵袭性子宫内膜基质癌的组织样本实际上属于另一名患者，而非她，且未对该水平进行测试。Barbelale于2020年初前往位于佐治亚州Tomorrow的凯撒医疗西南医疗中心，寻求治疗下腹部出血和子宫肌瘤（子宫内及周围的非癌性生长物）。她在2020年3月30日接受了活检。Barbelale表示，在2020年3月27日得知活检结果后，她数月以来一直认为自己患有侵袭性癌症，这使她和她的家人陷入了深度抑郁，成为一个易受药物影响的案例。凯撒医疗在的一份声明中写道：“Barbedale女士不应该经历这一切。”由于隐私法，关于另一名患者的信息——包括她的遭遇以及癌症治疗是否被延迟——并未公开且无法获取。这起佐治亚州的诉讼要求赔偿未明金额的损失。——美联社

航空旅行

FAA要求进行新的飞行检查

美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）已下令对数百架波音飞机进行检查，此前有报告称部分旧机型出现裂纹。这项周四公布并于9月30日生效的新规定，适用于三种波音737 Max型号下的特定飞机。但包括750-b、750-b和750-6000。FAA估计这涵盖了421架飞机，并表示正利用该指令来解决与私人报告相关的“不安全状况”。目前，在这些特定的Max型号中尚未发现裂纹。但在11月提出该规定时，FAA表示已收到关于数个城市的前部小时支架出现裂纹的报告。“下一代737飞机。蓝色支架是金属片，用于支撑飞机上的门口和紧急出口等区域。”FAA在11月指出，Max机型在“小范围内具有与旧型号类似的结构”，这“使得这些飞机容易出现相同的裂纹状况”。该机构警告称，如果不加以解决，该问题可能会“影响飞机的结构完整性”。这家总部位于弗吉尼亚州的飞机制造商表示，早在2019年就已向运营商发送了受影响的下一代70%检查指令，FAA在2021年强制执行了这些检查。该公司补充说，它已经将这些检查扩展到了五月一日——而FAA最新的指令现在同样强制执行该流程。“我们支持这两项指令，并继续支持我们的航空公司客户，”波音在声明中表示。FAA周四指出，其指令还要求对已有维修记录的飞机进行通过销售检查。但上个月，FAA表示将再次允许波音负责对其所有737 Max和767飞机进行切换。——美联社

运动装

Under Armour 预见业绩下滑

Under Armour 在周五预测年度营收将出现更大幅度的下降，这凸显了在北美市场经济不确定性导致消费者持续削减运动服装支出之际，该公司在寻求增长转型方面所面临的挑战。该公司股价在早盘交易中下跌约 5%。持续的通货膨胀和疲软的消费者支出环境抑制了对服装、鞋类和配饰的需求，尤其是在北美地区，给 Under Armour 的转型努力带来了压力。——路透社 --- 12 / 10 A11

在德克萨斯州，经济而非堕胎成为中心议题

作者：MARTINSON CHAN

OKLAH — 在 2018 年，德克萨斯州曾是数场战争的战场。保障：在总统和参议院选举中都凸显了该州限制堕胎的政策，导致了上涨。他们花费数百万美元在关于女性因非法堕胎而遭受健康后果的证词上。共和党人、非营利组织将资金投入到广告中，称民主党人在移民问题上软弱，并声称他们支持儿童进行性别转换。

今年，一切都围绕着经济。在通用选举的最佳主要政策演讲中，民主党州代表詹姆斯·塔拉里奥斯（James Talarios）和共和党总检察长埃里克·帕斯特罗斯（Eric Pastros）——今年竞争激烈的参议院选举候选人——提出了相互竞争的经济计划，以应对飙升的生活成本。

塔拉里奥斯在周三推出了他的“新美国梦”，其中包含一系列政策提案：经济托儿服务、对人工智能征税所得的红利、医疗 / 运动员债务豁免以及对公共高等教育和职业教育的投资。该计划涉及民主党候选人通常触及不到的州议题，例如通过削减委员会来降低联邦赤字。

“美国梦已经变成了美国逃离之路。购买更好的太贵了，”塔拉里奥斯在周三表示。“结婚生子太贵了。进入舒适太贵了。人们每天都在努力工作，遵守规则。但今天的这些规则并非为他们而写，而是为未来而写。”

与此同时，帕斯特罗斯本周正在进行全州巡演，阐述一项“保护德克萨斯前沿”计划，该计划将个人项目的减税，医疗保健计划并发展健康生活方式，包括提供会员资格和 GEP 药物。

两位候选人都同意将儿童税收抵免永久化。

“我们都知道德克萨斯州人和美国人在与各项开支（包括医疗费用）作斗争，我想让人们更容易支付这些费用，”帕斯特罗斯在周二于德克萨斯州艾伦（Allen）的一次集会上测试其经济计划时表示。“整个国家取决于这个堕胎问题如何？无论我们是否能支付州税，我们都要告诉世界，我们选举了一个自由派所谓的‘新州’。”

塔拉里奥斯表示，帕斯特罗斯已经亲自，而塔拉里奥斯是该州最著名的筹款人之一。

“我不会知道超过 8 亿。但任何民主党人在德克萨斯州全州范围内，即使在 100% 的代码中，尽管有民主党人的积极迹象。”

民主党代表科林·奥尔雷德（Colin Allred）挑战了民主党州代表詹姆斯·塔拉里奥斯（见上图），他在德克萨斯州竞争激烈的参议院选举中与共和党人肯·帕斯特罗斯（Ken Pastros）竞争。帕斯特罗斯（见上图）是德克萨斯州总检察长，他与塔拉里奥斯提出了相互竞争的经济计划。

在 2018 年，候选人挑战了参议员泰德·克鲁兹（Ted Cruz），但以超过 8 个百分点落败。

由于选民将负担能力视为首要关注点，今年全国范围内的候选人都转向强调经济问题。

根据《华盛顿邮报》与 Spanol 上个月进行的一项调查，经济和高物价以大幅领先的优势成为选民最重要的问题。

虽然 98% 的登记选民将经济列为他们的前三大问题之一，但只有 33% 的人列出了堕胎或医疗保健。而 2% 的人将其列为女性权利，除外或 1.0 / 8 / 12 问题。

“大多数人现在只想勉强维持生活，”来自德克萨斯州麦金尼（McKinney）的州民艾米莉·哈雷尔（Emily Harrell）在参加塔拉里奥斯的经济纲领发布会时表示。“我也很想解决堕胎问题，但我认为那是在更后面的阶段。”

哈雷尔和生殖护理作为一名医疗工作者，对她来说是首要任务，但对于大多数选民而言，“我们现在必须得先生存下去。”她对 Talarios 放弃医疗债务的提议表示赞同，并提到在她的儿子 8. 岁被诊断出患癌后，她的家庭背负了 $25,000 的债务。民主党认为经济是共和党的一个重大弱点，而共和党目前控制着美国国会两院和白宫。夏威夷州的关闭导致燃料和其他进口商品价格飙升，唐纳德·特朗普总统将对可负担性的担忧斥为由民主党编造的“伪命题”。

针对选民对经济日益增长的不满，Talarios 的竞选团队贬低 Pastros 的提议，称其只是关于他个人的方案。Talarios 的竞选团队在声明中表示：“认为拥有 13 处房产的多百万富翁 Ken Pastros 能够关心未来，这简直是……”（此处引用其 2020 年代 oil company 的参议院中期文件）。Pastros 则予以反击，称他的计划将为德克萨斯人带来一代人以来最大规模的减税，并批评 Talarios 投票反对一项禁止德克萨斯州永远采用所得税的措施。他声称通货膨胀是在乔·拜登总统任内激增的，将高物价归咎于民主党。

新冠疫情的后续影响（曾试图解决供应问题）导致拜登政府期间通胀压力上升。俄罗斯在 2022 年带来的价格上涨以及中国因素也是原因之一。尽管如此，一些民主党人批评自己的政党过于关注社会议题和劳工问题，而对经济关注不足，这给共和党留下了空间，使其可以将民主党描绘成比起选民的钱包问题更关心性别议题。

共和党通过广告猛攻民主党，声称民主党想要在没有监护人同意的情况下，让未成年人合法进行医疗性别转换。克鲁兹在当年的参议院选举中面临 Allred 的激烈挑战，他将关于性别卡的广告视为其获胜的主要因素。

“那是次错误，”众议员 Vicente Gonzalez（伊利诺伊州民主党人，他在 2018, 年由特朗普赢得的一场竞争激烈的选举中参选）在谈到 2018 年对社会议题的关注时说道。“在上一个周期，我甚至就国家竞选中的一些信息传递问题与我产生了一些非常严重的争论。我现在不再那样觉得了。”

Talarios 和 Pastros 都没有完全放弃推动 2018 年选举的社会议题。Pastros 反复攻击 Talarios 获得部分青年的支持，以及他过去利用信仰来证明进步政策合理性的言论。“首先，他说上帝是‘我的敌人’，”他在 Allen 的集会上告诉支持者，“这个家伙还在利用圣经以及对玛丽亚和耶稣的爱来为晚期堕胎辩护。”

Talarios 坚持认为堕胎权是一项优先事项。尽管如此，他认为在经济素材中，堕胎的优先级低于两年前 Allred 在与克鲁兹竞争的选举中所持的看法。Talarios 今年被视为堕胎问题上的一个新兴白人支持者，但他的竞选网站投入了更多空间（real561,000）用于规划腐败问题以及帮助降低高昂的生活成本。Allred 投放了几则关注堕胎的广告，其中包括 000 收入且被拒绝堕胎的 OR-2000。

德克萨斯州维持着全美最严格的堕胎法，禁止在强奸和乱伦情况下进行该程序。如果怀孕威胁到女性的年龄，该州设有例外情况。法律仍然对尝试该程序的医生产生了寒蝉效应。如果医生被发现违反堕胎禁令，可能会被起诉并面临终身监禁。

支持堕胎权的活动人士表示，他们认为民主党仍应将生殖健康纳入经济信息中。对于民主党而言，生殖自由（Reproductive Freedom）主席 Joe Ed 认为，对于面临高昂育儿、住房和食品成本的低收入家庭来说，这在很大程度上是一个极端的党派问题。

Tennants 还表示，Pastros 过去担任司法部长期间支持该州的堕胎禁令，这为他留下了记录。如果像强奸这样的事实在今年的选举中被提及，民主党人可以以此攻击他们。“Ben Pastros 是该州堕胎议题上的公敌，”Tennants 表示，“在这个时间点上这样做将是一个错误。” Awards：，一项堕胎政策，她是民主党在德克萨斯州最顶级的代理人之一，并且向总统——石油债务，并没有指责 Talarios 专注于经济。她说她同情专注于经济以及在距离讨论堕胎还剩几个月的情况下进入竞选。Decomits 在 2023 年起诉德克萨斯州后引起了全国关注，此前她被拒绝堕胎以终止其非语言妊娠。妊娠并发症几乎导致她死亡，直到医生最终同意执行该手术。此后，她与一个拥有类似故事的女性网络合作，倡导堕胎权的获取。“有些人对我以及我的工作给予了极大的支持，” 表示，并补充说该州的医疗系统，对于孕妇和新生儿类型的工作，在生殖健康方面，一直无法在准备好时伸出援手，如果他想合作，我将非常乐意支持他。

7月招聘人数意外下滑，经济减少23,000个就业岗位

詹姆斯·塔克（JAMES TUCKER）报道。他表示，考虑到油价、关税以及预测的利率水平，如果这些因素“不能削弱其部分强度”，那将令人“惊讶”。在本周拉斯维加斯的一次竞选活动中，特朗普声称正在提供“迄今为止我们拥有过的最伟大的经济”。白宫在周五早些时候表示，经济依然处于稳固基础之上。白宫发言人马克·德赛（Mark Desai）在一份声明中表示：“特朗普的工业企业是一项计划，”他指出了较低的失业救济申请人数以及7月份制造业岗位的轻微增长。“特朗普政府专注于通过特朗普总统经过验证的经济协议，释放更多私营部门的空气增长。截至目前，包括放松管制和对外丰裕。”民主党人在展示其通胀栖息地时表示：“我不会支持更多的特朗普经济政策，这在最新数据中也得到了体现。”“特朗普总统称这是迄今为止我们拥有过的最伟大的经济，”新任首席执行官、亿万富翁董事、众议院新任首席执行官兼首席执行官委员会的民主党代表布伦达·亨特（Brendaa Hunt）在一份声明中说道。“对于其他所有人来说，特朗普对半个世界的灾难性影响体现在我们如何提高吸烟者、给予以及拥有决定权方面。”

最大的压力可能在于招聘放缓已成为趋势，劳动力岗位的每月变化

自春季以来，关税带来的更高成本和运输利息导致的高价格压制了就业扩张计划。与此同时，今年世界杯的就业创造也令人失望，且财务压力似乎导致了当地公立学校显著的获胜者岗位流失。然而，失业率略有下降，因为劳动力人口一直在稳步萎缩，日常商业招聘退休年龄的人员正在削减劳动力，但一些工作年龄的人也转向解决方案以等待更好的工作机会。RPH（一家伦敦税务和咨询公司）首席经济学家Rev. mates表示：“这种下降很大程度上是人口统计学原因，” “这就是简单的人口老龄化。”

对于准备在11月3日面对制服投票的共和党人来说，这是一个坏消息，周五的报告还显示平均时薪的增长速度处于疫情以来最慢的时期。“亚洲食品价格上涨至$7.02，过去一年增长了2.4%，本周报告的数据可能显示价格增长再次快于工资，这对消费者的钱包是又一次打击。”

从各行业来看，报告显示医疗保健在6月至7月期间继续领跑就业增长。随着12,000个新职位的增加，由数据中心繁荣推动的中心化工资单也有所增长。信息部门和专业人员变得严肃。增加的时间——对于部分大学毕业生来说是受欢迎的假期。但一些行业继续停滞，至今在削减或几乎没有增加就业岗位，这与过去几个月的趋势一致。公共卫生索赔和社区崩溃导致就业流失，削减了20,000个岗位。来自金融财团Infinitive In- alities的主席苏珊·沙德（Susan Shard）在一项分析中表示，这种职位的减少可能是学生入学率下降和成本上升，以及联邦疫情分离的反映。但其他经济学家表示，下降可能反映了与学校关闭相关的季节性数据失真，这应该会在未来几个月导致就业增长。

餐饮和酒店业削减了重量岗位，因为世界杯的招聘似乎弱于企业，且餐厅、酒吧和娱乐场所削减了人员。零售和金融部门也出现了剧烈波动。至少有一个群体在令人失望的报告中发现了希望。华尔街领袖们押注，比预期更疲软的劳动力市场将降低美联储决策者在9月提高利率的可能性。

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泰国校园枪击案造成7人死亡，20多人受伤

作者：詹妮弗·杨（JENNIFER YANG）

一名16岁的学生周五在泰国发生的一起近年来“最致命”的校园枪击案中，导致7人死亡，20多人受伤。

据泰国当局称，枪手在两人共住的家中杀死了他的祖父母，随后前往位于曼谷郊区的高中，在那里杀死了五名学生和工作人员。泰国官员表示，枪手在现场开枪自杀，在被送往医院后不久死亡。

当局称枪手杀死了他的祖父母及另外五人

据当局称，该学生此前曾在4月份在Instagram上展示过这把由其祖父拥有的枪支。官员补充说，此次袭击造成23人受伤，其中9人情况危急。

这次大规模杀戮的动机尚不明确，一名同学告诉警方，枪手一直承受着学业压力。在搜查嫌疑枪手的设备后，警方告诉当地媒体，他最近几天一直在电脑上观看美国的校园枪击视频。

此次枪击案是泰国自2022年以来最严重的校园袭击事件之一。2022年，一名16岁的前警察在泰国东北部的一家托儿所杀害了37人，其中包括26名儿童。

在那次袭击之后，泰国立法者承诺进行枪支改革，但全面的变革尚未被编入法律。在这次枪击案发生后，泰国总理阿努塔·查里斯瓦达西（Anutta Chariswadasi）表示，他将引入一项新的枪支管制法，仅允许值班的警察携带枪支。

根据小型武器调查（Small Arms Survey）2007年的一项估计，泰国的平民持枪率在东南亚最高，大约每500人拥有12把枪。

参议院通过将加强对俄制裁的法案

作者：NOAH BOREENSON 和 THEODORIS MEYER

参议院周五以压倒性多数通过了一项旨在加强对俄罗斯战争经济制裁的法案，这对于国会中支持乌克兰的人士来说是一次期待已久的胜利。此次 89 比 12 的投票结果为立法机构一年半多的谈判画上了句号，在此期间，甚至一些支持该法案的议员也对其前景表示怀疑。该法案现在将提交至众议院，而众议员们已经离开华盛顿开始 8 月的休假。

两党成员在很大程度上将该法案得以幸存归功于参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（Lindsey Graham，南卡罗来纳州民主党人）的坚持，他在生命的最后时刻一直致力于推动这项法案。格雷厄姆于 7 月在从乌克兰旅行归来后不久因心脏病去世。

该法案将允许特朗普政府对俄罗斯石油和天然气的前五大购买国，以及帮助规避现有俄罗斯能源系列制裁的其他国家，征收最高 500% 的关税。它还将延长对伊朗的制裁，这是白宫交给立法机构的一项优先任务。

该法案的支持者认为，这可能会瘫痪克里姆林宫的主要收入来源，并限制其在乌克兰发动战争的能力，这场战争目前已进入第五年。他们断言，除了乌克兰近期在向俄罗斯境内发动打击方面取得的成功外，这些财务处罚可能会迫使俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京寻求通过谈判解决冲突。

参议院外交关系委员会主席詹姆斯·E·马克（James E. Mack，爱达荷州共和党人）在参议院议事厅表示，该法案将“切断支撑普京战争机器的现金流”。

拜登政府此前已对莫斯科实施了多轮制裁，将其经济与西方金融体系隔绝，并没收了俄罗斯寡头资产。这些处罚限制了克里姆林宫继续资助战争的选择，但并未能停止战斗。

在格雷厄姆去世前与其共同领导通过该法案工作的参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔（Richard Blumenthal，康涅狄格州民主党人）称，新制裁是自 2022 年俄罗斯全面入侵以来实施的“最具影响力的”制裁。布卢门撒尔和该法案的其他支持者将其描述为一项旨在允许美国支持乌克兰的努力。

众议院民主党人贾斯蒂斯·奇克·约翰逊（Justice Cheek Johnson，纽约州民主党人）表示，该法案将向莫斯科发出“一个明确无疑的信号，即美国将全力支持乌克兰”。

但一些支持乌克兰的众议院民主党人表示，他们将反对该立法，理由是它赋予了总统唐纳德·特朗普过大的权力来征收新关税。目前尚不清楚他们的担忧是否足以阻碍该法案。

众议院外交事务委员会最高级别的民主党人格雷戈里·米克斯（Gregory Meeks，纽约州）在周五的一份声明中称，该法案是经济征税的“边缘产物”，而特朗普政府已经“不可原谅地滥用”了这些手段。米克斯要求对该法案进行进一步界定。

布卢门撒尔在投票后的新闻发布会上承认了同事们的反对意见。尽管如此，他认为该法案是国会加强对俄制裁的唯一机会，并敦促众议院议员支持该立法。

“时间不在我们这一边，”布卢门撒尔说。

在参议员拉斐尔·沃拉克（Raphael Warrack，佐治亚州民主党人）的后期推动下，美国贸易代表詹米森·格里尔（Jamieson Greer）书面承诺，除非符合立法中的限制条件，否则政府不会寻求对俄罗斯石油或天然气前五大进口国以外的国家征收关税。

但参议院否决了一项——“它不会给乌克兰带来和平，反而会通过提高关税故意让美国家庭陷入困境，而关税不过是对进口商品征税。”参议员兰德·保罗（Rand Paul，肯塔基州共和党人）

参议员兰德·保罗（R-肯塔基州）和参议员温（D-格雷戈里）对该法案提出了修正案，旨在停止征收关税的权力，保罗认为这可能相当于“共和党控制的国会所实施的最大规模增税”。保罗在一份年度报告中表示：“它不会给乌克兰带来和平，反而会通过提高关税故意让美国民众陷入困境，而关税不过是对进口商品征收的税款。”乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基已亲自敦促立法者支持该立法，上周他来到国会山参加Graduate General。在与参议员会面并表示支持该立法后，泽连斯基在参议院议事厅观看了推进该措施的初步投票。特朗普在对乌克兰的支持中发出警告，他最近谈到了(uitsense)的几分钟，并表示他们的会面富有成效。白宫已书面确认将支持该法案。

### 刚果 #### 刚果将乘客隔离

刚果卫生当局周四在金沙萨附近将近200名乘客隔离，此前一名曾乘坐该船的人员死亡，其症状与埃博拉病毒相符。根据当地数据，刚果自5月以来一直在与埃博拉疫情作斗争，此次疫情在传播规模上被认为是历史上最严重的一次，确诊病例已达4,000例，其中包括1,000多例死亡病例。该乘客大约三周前在距离金沙萨沿刚果河600多英里的莫罗格多省巴黎地区发病并失去意识，刚果方面周四表示，首都目前没有确诊的埃博拉病例。该乘客随后死亡。当局并未透露该船目前的具体位置，仅表示在首都附近。他们没有说明近200名剩余乘客是被留在船上还是在陆地上的某个地点被隔离，也没有说明隔离时间。但他们表示正在等待测试结果。埃博拉病毒具有高度传染性，可通过接触呕吐物、血液或精液等体液，以及接触被污染的表面和材料（如床上用品和衣物）在人群中传播。美联社

巴基斯坦 #### 巴基斯坦军方空运遇难者遗体

官员表示，巴基斯坦军方直升机周四从布罗德峰被雪覆盖的山坡上空运了五名登山者的遗体，大约一周前，一场雪崩卷走了一个20人的国际探险队。巴基斯坦高山俱乐部主席阿什哈德·汗（Ashhad Khan）表示，。7月1日已有三具遗体被带下山。周四的空运使回收的遗体数量增加到8具，其中包括找回的英籍登山者尼尔马尔（Nirmal），目前仍有两名登山者失踪，搜救工作仍在继续。高山俱乐部将此次事件描述为巴基斯坦最致命的登山事故之一。地区当局表示，巴黎、中国登山者王盛（Sheng Wang）、尼泊尔登山者尼玛·米亚（Nima Meeya）、格拉达·谢尔帕（Grada Sherpa）和基拉·谢尔帕（Kila Sherpa）的遗体从布罗德峰的较高营地被运送到胡赛特（Hussite）的空军基地，随后被送往医院。这支国际登山队成员来自尼泊尔、阿曼、巴基斯坦、中国、英国和美国。官员表示，在与登山者原籍国大使馆协调后，遗体将被运往巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰堡。巴基斯坦外交部长伊斯兰（Islam）对此次灾难表示深切哀悼，称他对这场悲剧深感悲痛，并表示巴基斯坦将继续与尼泊尔、阿曼、英国和美国大使馆协调开展搜救行动。美联社

希腊

希腊法院下令将凶手监禁

法律和警方消息人士表示，一名被指控杀害一名苏格兰女性的20岁宗教人士在塞萨洛尼基（Thessalon, 音译）拒绝认罪后，希腊法院下令在审判期间将其监禁。该女性的尸体于1997年在雅法布（Jaffaab, 音译）的一个行李箱中被发现。该男子被指控谋杀一名天主教徒及非法持有枪支，他行使了沉默权，未对指控做出回应，但结果仍在等待中，法律消息人士称。

伊丽莎白·简·罗斯（Elizabeth Jane Ross）是一名20岁的认证心理治疗师和志愿者援助工作者，她在失踪三天后，于7月24日在一个废弃建筑工地的行李箱中被发现。警方官员将其描述为一名来自雅法布斯蒂安（Jaffaabstian, 音译）的专业人士，他被授予前往希腊的机票，并于周日被逮捕。警方官员告诉路透社，他并未承认。警方官员表示，他本周早些时候告诉警方，他在公寓浴室中发现了以色列（Israel）的尸体，将其放入行李箱并试图将其处理掉。一名警方消息人士表示，由于尸体腐烂，尸检无法确定死因，但书面报告并未报告任何违规情况。

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为什么司法部对福奇的起诉可能面临法院挑战

司法部在决定采取何种行动时面临着相互冲突的压力 作者：MARIN BERMAN

本周参议院委员会投票认定安东尼·K·福奇（Anthony K. Fauci）藐视国会，这给司法部带来了两个棘手的问题：该机构是否会对这位 45 岁的传染病科学家提起诉讼，以及它能否在法庭上赢得此类案件？藐视国会的投票并不在国际上意味着福奇将面临指控；法律分析人士表示，如果这种情况确实发生，任何可能的案件都存在障碍和潜在的弱点。

这次 8-7 的投票集中在福奇最近在参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会的出席情况上，在此期间，这位前公共卫生官员多次援引第五修正案并拒绝回答问题。福奇表示，委员会主席兰德·保罗（Rand Paul，共和党-肯塔基州）——长期以来一直对他处理商业大流行的方式进行攻击并要求将其监禁——正试图用一种策略诱捕他。保罗则表示，福奇没有正当理由回避问题，因为乔·拜登总统在将其监禁之前已授予他一项推定赦免，且情况已然如此。

然而，决定福奇是否应真正面临可能导致其入狱的刑事指控，则取决于司法部。由托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）领导的司法部正面临着日益激烈的谴责斗争，两党成员都在敦促他抵制将该部门政治化。在拜登政府期间担任立法事务助理司法部长的卡洛斯·乌鲁蒂克（Carlos Urrutic）表示，立法者经常将事项移交给司法部，但这并不意味着随后就会进行起诉。目前在 Mortonian Foundation 律师事务所担任合伙人的乌鲁蒂克说：“无论国会采取了什么行动，司法部在决定提交哪些调查方面拥有很大的裁量权。”

联邦法律规定，藐视国会的案件必须移交给一名美国检察官，“其职责应是将该事项提交给大陪审团”。但司法部过去曾得出结论，将这些案件提交给大陪审团是可选的。在 1844 年一份为该机构提供的法律意见书中，时任司法部长西奥多·K·奥尔森（Theodore K. Olson）——他后来在乔治·W·布什总统任内担任总检察长——写道：“国会没有法定或宪法权力要求将特定案件移交给大陪审团。”

司法部周五在一份关于福奇藐视国会案件的声明中表示，它已“恢复了对宣誓事项的审查，并将据此与参议院合作”。然而，福奇案并非一份法律意见，而是一位长期担任卫生官员的人，他成为了美国应对大流行的代表人物，受到许多民主党的赞赏，而另一些人则对其不屑一顾。

在周四致布兰奇和乔安娜·佩蒂（Joanna Petty）的信中，第 1 地区检察官在 1, 2nd 中写道，福奇不当地援引了保护免于自我指控的第五修正案。福奇不可能对联邦起诉有任何合理的恐惧，因为他获得了一段宣誓期，“且情况并非如此”。保罗写道，参议员们询问了福奇许多关于“早期联邦主题”的问题，涉及“赦免消除了联邦危险的行为”。

福奇的律师大卫·谢弗（David Schaeffer）表示，“对福奇博士提起刑事藐视指控绝对没有依据”。谢弗在声明中表示，鉴于保罗参议员此前曾多次表示政府将让福奇博士“入狱”，他主张行使第五修正案权利是完全恰当且合理的。

福奇的案件并非首例政治案件，但却是近年来最后一起藐视国会案。在拜登政府期间，斯蒂芬·K·班农（Stephen K. Bannon）和彼得·纳瓦罗（Peter Navarro）——顶级编辑、45 岁的前社会中心成员——因无视众议院 1 月 8 日委员会的传票，在分别的事件中被众议院认定为藐视国会。

班农表示：“参议员们都被起诉并定罪，且安东尼·K·福奇上周在一次年度会议上多次援引第五修正案，该会议涉及这个45年历史州的州级卫生与地理事务。 IMF / MA / 4 / CHAP / 2 / 20 / 2020 委员会主席兰德·保罗（共和党-肯塔基州）周四主持了一次投票，结果导致福奇因藐视美国国会而被监禁。另外两名特朗普助手——马克·梅多斯和丹尼尔·斯沃特（Daniel Swarter Jr.）——也被众议院判定为藐视国会，但美国司法部（DOJ）拒绝起诉他们。一直批评福奇的特朗普在本周的藐视投票后，引用班农和纳瓦罗的案例，建议应对这位医生提起诉讼。在特朗普的第二个任期内，美国司法部（DOJ）表现出针对其关联人员的意愿，包括前FBI局长詹姆斯·B·康纳（James B. Connor）、纽约州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯（民主党）以及前美联储主席杰罗姆·H·鲍威尔。联邦检察官在福奇案中可以采取几种不同的路径，包括决定根本不将其提交大陪审团，按照保罗的要求提起藐视案，或者对福奇寻求完全不同的指控。如果检察官对福奇提起刑事诉讼，大陪审团可能会拒绝。这种情况在特朗普的第二个任期内多次发生，包括今年早些时候，华盛顿特区的一个联邦大陪审团拒绝选择一名民主党议员，该议员曾录制视频称军方人员可以不服从非法命令。针对福奇的案件将使其面临真正的法律危险。如果福奇被判定犯有藐视美国国会这一轻罪，他可能会被监禁至少10天，最高一年。但法律分析人士表示，该案面临若干障碍。认定福奇藐视国会的决议由一个参议院委员会以4票赞成通过，但从未提交给参议院全体会议。曾有请求认为该决议会通过。一些法律分析人士建议，福奇的律师可以仅凭这一点尝试挑战该起诉。斯坦利和埃利里亚在纳瓦罗的藐视案中担任代表，并认为根据法规，当案件启动时，参议院全体需要审查此类案件。保罗在没有参议院全体参与的情况下决定将案件移交给美国司法部（DOJ），这“在案件中只是最终决定”，此前曾担任众议院总法律顾问的布兰德（Brand）说道。布兰德表示，“绕过参议院全体，直接将委员会投票结果发送给美国司法部，就像是‘将其直接冲下桌子’。”其他人则不确定这是否会使对福奇的起诉失效，尽管他们预计如果案件继续推进，他的律师至少会提出这个问题。“这可能是他可以提出的程序性辩护，”帕克代尔（Parkdale）律师事务所的律师阿曼达·赫德尔斯（Amanda hurdles）表示，她曾是华盛顿特区美国检察官办公室起诉纳瓦罗和班农团队的一员。“但关于绕过参议院全体是否可行，并没有太多的判例法。”本案的另一个不寻常元素是保罗的赦免。兰迪在离职前，海伦（Helen）为福奇及其他他认为面临特朗普第二任政府“不公正且具有政治动机的检察官”威胁的人员授予了赦免。赦免书的措辞表明，其覆盖范围追溯到十多年前的行为，包括福奇在疫情应对方面的工作。保罗写信给布兰奇和佩蒂，称赦免的广泛性质抵消了福奇援引第五修正案的必要性。“很难想象有比这更全面的联邦豁免权授予，并且它排除了委员会涵盖的任何主题援引第五修正案保护的常规基础，”保罗写道。然而，法律专家指出，赦免并非无限制，部分原因是它仅涵盖截至2016年1月颁布之日之前的行为。

“关于赦免的 Sunderquist 规则是，总统只能赦免在赦免令颁布之前发生的事件，”密苏里大学荣休法学教授、总统赦免权专家 Frank G. Bowman III 表示。“赦免不涵盖颁布之后发生的任何事情，”他说。“被赦免者当然可能会因为在赦免日期之后做出的行为而被起诉，例如虚假陈述或伪证。”总统的赦免权也仅限于联邦官员，不能免除州级指控。

Steve Repoldrum 司法部长——在佛罗里达州、路易斯安那州和西弗吉尼亚州——本周宣布他们正在传唤福奇，而俄克拉荷马州的第四位司法部长则在该州对他下令进行调查。

藐视议会决议称，福奇通过就“与调查问题相关的主题提供开场证词”，已经放弃了其援引第五修正案的权利。这并非立法者首次提出此类论点。2016 年，众议院在一名美国国税局（IRS）官员 Len Lerner 在听证会上发表开场白，随后又援引第五修正案后，投票认定其藐视议会。次年，时任华盛顿特区美国检察官 Ronald C. Macbee Jr. 表示，他的办公室拒绝将该案提交大陪审团。

在班农的藐视议会案件中代表其出庭的律师 David J. Schoon 表示，福奇的开场白可能会成为其辩护中的一个问题。“如果我在检方，我会主张那是对他所受指控的否认陈述，”他说。Schoon 还批评福奇在听证会上被追问一些相对平凡的话题时援引第五修正案，包括当参议员 Jack Hawley（共和党-密苏里州）询问他领带的颜色时。

“第五修正案是宪法中至关重要的一部分，”Schoon 说。“但另一方面，它不应该被滥用。”

Bowman 表示，从技术上讲，福奇在这些领域不能援引第五修正案，“因为这些问题的答案在合理情况下不会使他陷入险境。”但他补充说，援引第五修正案的人通常会广泛地这样做，因为辩护律师告诉他们不要回答任何问题，以避免被“逼入逐一解释为什么回答这个而没有回答那个的境地”。

Stephen K. Bannon 在 Nov. 30, 2020 被指控藐视美国国会后出现在联邦法院。

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观点 # 华盛顿邮报 一家独立报纸 社论 # 机场 ICE 闹剧是让 DHE 远离头条的一种奇怪方式

在国家政府修正案研讨会上，参议员们，副部长麦肯齐·马林（Mackenzie Mallin）估算了他在 3 月确认听证会期间提出的指控。“让我们努力将街道上最糟糕的人清除掉，这样你们在城市和州里看到我的次数就不会像现在这么多。”马林上周告诉之前的，指的是他监督的一个新的电话和客户莎士比亚（Shakespeare）协议。“也许你们根本就不会看到我？”

这是一个令人安心的信息，但它并不适用于机场。为了达到白宫每天大约 2,000 人的配额，ICE 已将旅行隐藏（travel hides）降低了 50%，特工们似乎在撒一张大网，以抓捕没有登记的返回者。这些旅行者并非“最糟糕的人”。他们通常是登机口工作人员阻拦的人，移民当局试图在没有司法令的情况下使用场所。他们可能超期逗留，但在等待延期或另一种合法身份期间可能处于法律限制之内。

签约官员主要在安全检查站询问人们，但视频显示官员在登机区和登机桥上拦截他人。最近在达拉斯，一名商人向特工胡克（Hooker）表示， 官员在没有司法令的情况下阻止其登机。据《华尔街日报》报道，该视频显示在最近几周内，针对黑发人士采取了类似行动。

马林坚持认为他希望让他的部门远离头条，并远离其前任克尔斯特·L·斯通（Kirst L. Stone）被撤职时的那种前沿。机场的 闹剧是展示这一点的一种奇怪方式。

与此同时，该机构的支持率继续下滑。大多数美国人表示他们对 几乎没有或完全没有信心。根据上个月的一项 Totalist / Koosmanist 民意调查，只有 25% 的人表示对该机构有“相当大的信心”。存在巨大的党派分歧，其中 McGill Ingoldhauer 占据了大多数反 客户。只有 12% 的独立人士对该机构有“很大”的信心。

马林在春季转向逮捕危险罪犯是正确的。机场逮捕是 1 月成功的延续。它们既不能帮助恢复公众信任，也不会让公众规则。

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威斯康星州州长候选人弗朗西斯卡·洪 8 月 3. 在密尔沃基发表讲话。将这个假设带到，我是，有一点，好吧——我对那感到困惑！”她接着说，由于她的其他政策，百万富翁将能够“生活、工作并繁荣”。但在美国的党派之争中，高净值人群在搬迁之前只会忍受有限的压力。威斯康星州已经拥有中西部第二高的最高所得税率，仅次于明尼苏达州的 1.05%，而威斯康星州的企业面临该地区第三高的税率，排在明尼苏达州和伊利诺伊州之后。当企业离开时，它们带走的不仅是税收，还有就业机会和投资。诚然，威斯康星州的人口保持稳定，但去年其每个接壤的邻州——尤其是明尼苏达州和伊利诺伊州——迁出人数多于迁入人数。这绝不是治理一个大州的唯一缺陷。她上周末与她的全职支持者苏珊·奥尔森（Susan Olsen）一起进行竞选，后者称“人类的牧师价值”优于以色列，并表示“美国欺骗了它”。洪还曾发布过一些奇怪的社交媒体帖子，她现在正试图撤回这些言论，从捍卫警察到取消感恩节，以及清理当地餐厅顶层的“白人老人”。“我没有‘处于’‘焦虑发作’的边缘。”但仅洪的最后一次经历就应该引起威斯康星州选民的关注。最近的选举似乎表明，民主党选民不再害怕“社会主义者”之类的标签，而更感兴趣于推翻该党的建制派。这通常是为了对抗极端行为，以解释它们将造成的损害。人们不再因为成本而去电影院。当我和我妻子的入场费（包括老年折扣）达到 $20 或更多时，我会去寻找其他的娱乐方式。鲍勃·拉迪克（Bob Radick），烟草邮报

在工作年限之后，保持你的优势

我在70岁这个传统年龄（基本上）从劳动力市场退休。在8月3日的商业文章《有人告诉他们关于时间的情况》中，我产生了共鸣。我尤其赞同德博拉·里德瓦尔德（Deborah Riedewald）在文章中的见解，即我们在年长时应保持社交和认知上的参与。自1999年起，我一直在菲利普斯收藏馆（Phillips Collection）担任志愿者，这段经历在退休后尤其令人欣慰。志愿服务中最有价值的一点是与参观者就艺术进行对话。我也同意，活动场所也可以成为人生这一阶段结构和意义的新来源。我尝试每周在岩溪公园（Rock Creek Park）或在果园天气中步行约两英里，或者在一座8盎司公寓大楼的走廊里行走，并且每周使用一块硬板游泳。在人生第八个十年完成这些活动，无论在个人还是精神层面都令人欣慰。给未来公民的底线：建立并调整你所发展出的优势——

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在8月1日的在线专栏《格兰德（Grande）的身体艺术是我们的事吗？》中，墨西哥豪宅（Grande Mexico House）辩称，“她并不拥有我们，一群她永远不会拥有的陌生人”，完全没有。她至少拥有我们这些给了她职业生涯的粉丝的一部分！当一个人不仅是公众人物，而且如前所述，是一个定义了美学标准的发声者时，她的外貌就是公众关注的事。格兰德拥有卓越的天赋。因为粉丝热爱并关心她，所以他们希望她健康。他们有权就格兰德外貌的显著变化提出质疑。格兰德以及她退出即将于伦敦上演的一部音乐剧，是为了远离公众的审视。我希望她正朝着更好的方向前进，并且现在会寻求帮助。特里·奥赖恩（Terri Orion），波托马克

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民主党需要面对其真正的弱点

民主党正面临着一个困境，而密歇根州参议院初选的权威结果揭示了这一点。大约 25-force，随着主席职位的推进，与代表梅杰·史蒂文斯（Major Stevens）——这位首席议员营销人员——进行了辩论。25-force 的能量是毋庸置疑的。但《华盛顿邮报》的一项分析发现，他的支持集中在该州受教育程度最高的县和大学城；而史蒂文斯在许多农村和低收入地区表现更好：全州范围。左翼拥有热情，但中间派依然掌握着权利。民主党需要在大选中获胜。进步派的答案是，民主党可以通过变得更具经济民粹主义来解决这个问题——攻击亿万富翁，扩大福利，从而吸引工人阶级。但这些想法并不能吸引真正的工人阶级。在民主党人中，大学毕业生的支持率略高于 45%，他们喜欢那些自称民主社会主义者的政治家，而没有学位的群体中这一比例仅为 50%。高收入民主党人对民主社会主义者的好感度也远高于低收入民主党人，比例为 60% 对 26%。

民主党多年来一直梦想着工人阶级的动力。乔·拜登总统开展了数十年来最大规模的经济争取贸易努力。他的政府向基础设施、工厂、大规模能源和通信领域投入了数千亿美元，其中大部分流向了共和党控制的县。然而在接下来的 2024, 年选举中，唐纳德·特朗普赢得了没有大学学位的选民以及年收入低于 $50,000 的选民，同时在工人阶级诉讼者和黑人选民中取得了进展。在过去的 20 年里，民主党在经济立场上向左移——奥巴马比奥巴马更左，拜登比奥巴马更左——而在同一时期，工人阶级一直在稳步抛弃该党。

教训并不是经济问题不重要。而是民主党的问题不在于它在经济上被认为过于限制。民主党在医疗保健、甚至在目前的生存成本等问题上可以轻易击败共和党。他们的弱点在于文化和社会问题——压力、移民，以及他们举例的“觉醒”（woke）议程所影响的城镇。根据 Argument 的一项民调，在那些厌恶特朗普但仍倾向于投票给共和党的选民中，共和党在犯罪信任度上的领先幅度为 7% 对 1%。当这两者承受压力最大时，他们发现向经济左翼移动比在文化上向中间靠拢要容易得多。如果他们清晰地表达并表示这些问题可以得到控制，报道违规者应受到惩罚，且指令应基于功绩，或者生物性别很重要，他们将面临同事、倡导团体和高学历定居者的风险。相反，民主党提供更大的补贴、一项新福利或一次更好的对亿万富翁的攻击，而对那些疏远许多选民的文化态度则不作修改。

证据表明，在偏远地区，这项研究测试了民主党在 20 个政策问题上的转变，发现最大的选举收益往往来自于在社会和文化问题上向中间靠拢。另一份报告发现，工人阶级选民在确保边境安全、减少犯罪和增加警力方面，比自由派大学毕业生投入了多得多的关注。自由派大学毕业生则在进入 subvertitiousness、保护权利和堕胎权以及对抗气候变化方面投入了多得多的关注。

阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德在 8 月 7 日赢得民主党参议院提名后在底特律发表讲话。

差距的扩大并非仅仅因为工人阶级选民转向右翼，而是因为受过大学教育的民主党人因其柔软的心而向左偏移。根据美国政治学者尼古拉斯·雅各布斯（Nicholas Jacobs）的一项分析，2000年，民主党人和其中的工人阶级选民中仅有约5%支持增加移民。到2020年，民主党人的这一比例上升至40%，而工人阶级选民为26%。1990年关于堕胎问题的3个百分点差距，到2026年变成了30个百分点的差距。在宗教、家庭以及信任政府不浪费纳税人资金等方面也出现了巨大的分歧。特朗普理解这种疏离感所蕴含的政治力量。听听他在竞选集会上反对什么：跨性别运动员、DGI海洛因 / 可卡因、精英大学、犯罪以及失控的边境。他知道这些问题能触动选民的内心。民主党人的答案不应该是模仿特朗普、抛弃少数群体或变得反动。而应该是停止幻想通过全民医疗保险和财富税就能恢复新政（New Deal）联盟。那个世界和那个联盟已经消失了。好消息是，该党已经拥有了一个强大的现代联盟：受过大学教育的选民、女性、少数群体、年轻的美国人以及美国大都市地区的许多工人阶级和中产阶级选民。这些选民想要的不是一场社会主义革命，而是一个能够提供实效的自由主义政府——提供负担得起的住房、良好的学校、便捷的医疗服务、安全的街道、受控的边境、合法移民和经济增长。也许这将有助于民主党人再次在工人阶级中取得进展。民主党人需要向文化上的温和派选民证明，自由主义能够区分公司与后商业，区分经营者与混乱，以及区分平等与意识形态的统一。密歇根州展示了该党在基层——即参加初选的美国人比例——中所拥有的能量。接下来的考验是，民主党人能否将这种能量转化为一种能够吸引全国大多数人的常识政治。WILL LEITON

在疯狂的时代，《上周今夜》让我感到清醒

最好的喜剧演员不仅仅是倾听者。他们有一种方式，能让你觉得他们的笑话是私密的，只有他们和你个人能理解。一个好的笑话就像电影中的一次闪避——一种让你和笑话本身能够置身于世界疯狂之外的方式，仿佛你们是仅剩的两个理智的人。这类喜剧演员——无论他们在谈论什么——都能表达出你甚至不知道自己在思考的事情。他们感觉就像你最好的朋友，和你一起坐在教室后排，揉纸团并开玩笑。就像你们两个在共同面对。

这就是为什么前几天我发现自己在观看一周的《综合医院》（General Hospital）剧集——一个我竟然不知道仍在播出的肥皂剧——仅仅是为了看到约翰·奥利弗（John Oliver）被扇耳光。就好像他是专门为我这么做的一样。我可以向你解释，看到一个染着荒诞发色的奥利弗在三集剧集中饰演世界安全局局长“C”为什么是一种享受——以及为什么我迫不及待想看到他下周在《我们的爱之日子》（Days of Our Love）中饰演一个完全不同的角色——但坦白说，就像许多伟大的笑话一样，你得在现场才能体会。但相信我！那太精彩了。奥利弗所做的一切几乎都如此。

奥利弗及其HBO频道节目《上周今夜》（Last Week Tonight）经常被与其他深夜节目粉丝相提并论，尤其是他在2023年好莱坞编剧罢工期间，与共同主持人斯蒂芬·科尔伯特（Stephen Colbert）、吉米·坎摩尔（Jimmy Kimmel）、詹姆斯·波伦（James Pollen）以及With Mercia一起主持了一个名为“罢工焦点之旅”（Strike Focus Tour）的播客，并在5月出现在科尔伯特的节目中。但我并不确定《上周今夜》在现在是否还是一档深夜脱口秀。没错，现场有观众，奥利弗坐在办公桌后。但没有嘉宾，没有乐队，也没有采访环节。这个节目的本质——奥利弗对此很明确——是一档新闻杂志节目，它从事卓越的调查新闻工作。它恰好也非常幽默。能够同时完成这两件困难的事情，看起来就像魔法一样。

奥利弗和他那群获得艾美奖的编剧们已经意识到，在这个动荡的时代，坐在教室后排开玩笑的人，也可以是那个让你确信自己没有发疯的人。这就是我热爱《上周今夜》的原因。面对世界上、美国以及本届政府中的所有疯狂，它让我感到清醒，而且——最重要的是——让我觉得我并不孤单。这部剧在呈现色彩斑斓且充满诉讼处理的同时还能做到这一点？原因无法言说。尽管如此，做一些像在安克雷奇的一家Blackfeather商店捐赠罗素·克劳（Russell Crower）的骑师装，然后将其收回并拍卖以支持公共媒体（再次强调，你得在现场才能体会！）这样的事情，简直是宇宙的馈赠。

随着世界的崩塌，奥利弗和他那荒诞且极具成功潜力的节目提供了避风港。这在很大程度上是因为该节目以负责任的方式出色地完成了新闻报道。它在很大程度上做到了这一点。最近的一集节目中有一个24分钟的片段，讲述了特朗普家族的加密货币风险投资，揭示了这些投资具有多么强的诱惑力，以及特朗普家族从中获得了多少资金，而且报道得清晰、直接且具有毁灭性。我认为不可能在看完这个片段后还不认为这个故事是一个巨大的丑闻。其他媒体也进行了此类报道——包括上个月在本报上的报道——但《上周今夜》在保留了一些绝佳笑话的同时，阐明并放大了这一问题。

这部节目多年来一直致力于这项工作，但在特朗普的第二个任期内，它进入了一个新的阶段。该节目的成功在很大程度上归功于奥利弗作为表演者的技巧，但它也受益于奥利弗掌握的一项老把戏：先在政治上得分，然后在被指责时退缩到“嘿，我只是个喜剧演员，别太认真地对待这件事！”。那是很久以前乔·斯图尔特在《每日秀》中的逃避方式，而奥利弗则不这么做。《上周今夜》很幽默，但它也浸透了真实的真相，并致力于真正的改变。它拒绝敷衍了事，也不允许你这样做。上周，奥利弗宣布他已将节目续约至2027年，确保它将在HBO继续播出至第50季。这理所当然地被视为好消息。但值得注意的是，奥利弗通常续约三年而非一年，且他承认，拥有HBO的华纳兄弟探索公司与派拉蒙之间掩盖下的合并已经失去了其“完全否认”的状态。与金梅尔和科尔伯特不同，奥利弗还没有成为唐纳德·特朗普总统的目标。我倾向于认为这是因为该节目过于聪明且荒诞，以至于他无法理解。也有可能他只是没有订阅HBO。但奥利弗似乎意识到，他可能无法永远在雨滴之间穿行。如果合并真的完成，他及其节目可能会成为下一个目标。这并非某种商业噱头，而是现实情况。因此，奥利弗将续约期限保持在一次一年，直到我们知道他——以及我们所有人——是否能挺过那一关。我从未见过约翰·奥利弗。我们实际上并不是朋友。他并不是专门为我制作节目的。但感觉就像我们是朋友一样。如果你也是粉丝，我打赌你也有这种感觉。所以，当许多人感到前所未有的无力时，坐在房间后方做一个不被承认的人，扔出纸团——并且永远、永远地讲述真相，这就足够了。如果没有这个，我会迷失方向。我们所有人都会。 --- A18 M

格林纳达一名被停职神父转向卡利普索音乐传递信息

拜登新闻与 RANKER GIBBS 美联社 波多黎各，圣胡安 —— 在一个加勒比海的小岛上，一名被停职的天主教神父正通过卡利普索（calypso）音乐来表达他对包括加沙以及教会内部性虐待在内的议题的看法。

来自格林纳达的杰拉德·保罗（Gerard Paul）神父在多次批评教会和神职人员后，已不能再主持大规模的葬礼、婚礼或洗礼。但这并没有阻止他在卡利普索那激昂的节奏中传道，这是一种以机智的形式和讽刺性社会评论著称的非裔加勒比音乐流派。

“对我来说，这就像是一种讲坛，”保罗在本周接受美联社电话采访时表示。

这位 88 岁的神父今年在格林纳达最大的所谓以卡利普索为中心的 Nyeeman 活动中首次亮相。与整个加勒比地区许多类似的艺术形式一样，它赞美对认可的反叛。保罗一路唱进了决赛，并计划在本周末以“保罗神父”的身份与包括“Killa II”和“Sosa Harpest”在内的其他 10 名歌手同场竞技。

保罗在 44 年前加入神学院，担任神父已有 25 年。“我一直关注大众的困境，所以我将教会视为实现社会变革的工具。”

他第一次接触卡利普索是在 1949 年，当时他还在特立尼达和多巴哥的神学院。神学院举办了一场卡利普索比赛，保罗首次参赛并获得第二名。随后，传道职责占据了他的生活，但在两年前因一场批评以色列在加沙行动的讲道而被停职后，保罗再次回归卡利普索。

到目前为止，他已经录制了两首歌——《噢，加沙》（Oh Gaza）和《我想要个雷达》（All Want All Radar）。

“我不能完全说我不想念那些仪式，”他在谈到担任神父的经历时说，“虽然我热爱仪式……但它也有很多局限性。”

他说，虽然他热爱与信众互动，但成为一名卡利普索歌手让他能够接触到更广泛的受众。

“当你处在一个小世界里时，你会觉得那就是整个世界，”保罗说，“当一个大得多的世界向你敞开时，你就再也回不去了。”

以讽刺作为社会批评的一种形式

保罗以其歌曲《我想要个雷达》（Ah Want Ah Radar）而闻名，这首歌是对美国政府真实生活的戏仿。

杰拉德·保罗（后排中心）周四在格林纳达圣乔治与格林纳达皇家警察部队乐队一起做志愿者。他是一名被停职的神父，转向了卡利普索音乐，这是一种以机智的形式和讽刺性社会评论著称的非裔加勒比音乐流派。

保罗在 2016 年被停职，被一名主教指控“持续”攻击天主教会及其领导层。保罗表示，成为一名卡利普索歌手让他能够接触到更广泛的受众。

这首歌是对美国政府去年请求在格林纳达国际机场安装雷达的戏仿，当时美国军方正在加勒比海打击涉嫌贩毒的船只。

保罗在歌中唱到格林纳达政府在决定上拖延，而美国随后在邻近的多巴哥安装了雷达。在歌中，保罗请求美国总统唐纳德·特朗普给他一个自己的订单，他说他将用它来揭露教会内部的性虐待。

“我恳求美国，请，”保罗唱道，“我们都知道天主教信仰，人们想要独身，但他们却热爱他们口中所厌恶的东西。而这仅仅是来自城市层面的掩盖，”他在一段明确暗示神职人员与爱意纠缠的歌词中这样唱道。

讲道导致停职

保罗在近年来激怒了教会，并于2020年4月被无限期停职。在一段由格林纳达圣乔治天主教教区下属的“好消息天主教通讯”（Good News Catholic Communications）拍摄随后删除的视频中，保罗在2016年3月于圣乔治圣母无染原罪主教座堂的一次讲道中批评了以色列，并指责其在加沙实施种族灭绝——以色列对此自愿否认。保罗在讲道中呼吁教皇采取行动，而这段讲道由当地每周调查新闻节目《新娘报告》（The Bride Report）发布在社交媒体上。他说道：“如果我们不坚持正义，我们就无法正确地传道，”此时会众中的一些人鼓掌支持。他补充道：“当你保持沉默，当你静坐不语，你就是这个体制的一部分。”

三主教圆桌会议（Suever）批评了保罗的讲道，要求其具备“专业知识”，并表示他并未允许该神父发表此类言论。Suever表示：“我们可以为属于一个在任何可能实现正义的地方始终挺身而出的教会而感到自豪，尽管它有时会辜负我们中的一些人。”

2024年4月4日，保罗被无限期停职。Suever在声明中指责保罗“持续”攻击教会及其领导层，称这些言论“使许多充满信仰的人感到困惑、受伤害并感到震惊。它们不仅让他的同行神职人员名誉受损。”Suever写道：“当保罗说‘我没有遗憾，我还会再这样做’时，他让自己处于无需承担任何财务修正的状态。当这种态度和价值观被采纳时，没有任何机构能够生存。”

2024年4月8日，Suever在一段发布于社交媒体的视频中表示，保罗被停职并非因为他对加沙的轻蔑言论，并称此类观点在天主教会内部和外部都有共鸣。Suever表示，他被停职是因为“他持续缺乏对他身为神父所属教会的尊重”以及未能“纠正其错误”。他补充道：“保罗神父表达观点的方式似乎不需要权威。”Suever强调，停职并非将其开除出神职。但两年后，保罗依然处于停职状态。

这位神父通过演唱歌曲迎接即将到来的结局，其中包括《噢，加沙》（Oh Gaza），这是一首关于以色列在加沙军事攻势的尖锐评论。根据加沙卫生部的说法，该攻势已导致超过75,000人死亡，保罗将这些死亡描述为发生在“鼓声震天且导弹轰击之时”。他唱道：“现在是为他们发声的时候”，“我不能在加沙的一切美好面前坐视不管。当教会不发声时，我会传道，我会传道。”

伊朗战争成本不断攀升，立法者正寻求支付方案

伊朗 YUUR AL 预算。下方的 CND 估算（基于部署、弹药、更高运行温度、设备这六个支出类别）显示，损失已导致价格上涨。弹药是关键的成本驱动因素——据估算，其金额超过 2040 亿美元 billion。美国已耗尽了大部分先进的导弹防御拦截库存——《华盛顿邮报》的报道发现，美国用于援助以色列的高端拦截弹数量比以色列军队自身用于对抗伊朗的数量还要多。与此同时，伊朗使用的是成本低得多的弹药，导致成本出现不对称。上周，特朗普在尼日利亚就此事表达了愤怒，要求就他认为必要的弹药短缺问题给出答案，两名知情人士告诉本报。

美国官员在 5 月告诉《华盛顿邮报》，美国向离开伊朗的部队提供了 2017 年末端高空区域防御（THAAD）拦截弹以保卫以色列，这大约占五角大楼拦截弹总库存的一半。一枚 THAAD 拦截弹成本约为519万亿美元。这些拦截弹必须以高于目前可用水平的速率进行复制。Tennikens minides（美国远程巡航导弹）每枚成本超过 200万美元，但其更换成本高达两倍，哈佛大学肯尼迪学院公共政策教授 Linda J. Bilben 表示。Paul 是该秘书，称其成本低于目前的首次更换成本。

美国已确定大约 670 亿美元 billion 的“概率是长期短期成本的一个合理估算——使用 macrolum 会计法”。Bilben 表示，“有 70 亿美元 billion 或更多仅是这些前期短期人员、‘弹药、资金’中‘一些非常巨大的盐度成本’，”她说道。在 2 月美国和以色列开始对伊朗发动攻击后的战争最初几天，费用尤其昂贵。美国官员告诉《华盛顿邮报》，在与伊朗战争的前两天，五角大楼强行推进了价值 38 亿美元 billion 的弹药。在四周的战争中，美国使用了超过 893 枚 Tenaikansh 巡航导弹——而此类导弹每年仅生产几百枚。随着该地区东部的持续行动，成本继续上升，尽管在 6 月特朗普的特使团队达成协议后，袭击的核心有所下降。

中介成本和长期成本通常被排除在五角大楼的估算之外。美国军事基地的损坏代价高昂，五角大楼表示尚未将这些维修费用计入其成本估算中。《华盛顿邮报》对卫星图像的趋势分析发现，美国军事设施的破坏程度远高于美国政府公开承认的程度。到 5 月为止，伊朗的活动已损坏或摧毁了中东地区美国军事设施中至少 220 处结构或设备。华盛顿的一家右翼智库美国企业研究所（AEI）估算，包括卡塔尔和阿联酋在内的该地区美国军事基地的损坏，在重新调度维修以及设计和工程等直接成本方面，可能耗资 50 亿美元 billion。

国会研究服务局在 5 月表示，据报道至少有 40 架飞机丢失或损坏，这引发了潜在的预算问题。Alibi Shams McCusker 的估算将“史诗剧本行动”（Operation Epic Play）截至 6 月的成本定为 1000 亿美元 billion。作为 AEI 的高级研究员及前五角大楼高官，McCusker 表示，将战争的价格与美国人获得的回报价值进行评估至关重要。她将每个美国人的成本估算为迄今为止大约 $110——即估算的 100 亿美元 billion 军事行动成本除以美国人口规模。

能源成本的增加是这场接近第六个月的伊朗战争影响消费者的方式之一。

肯尼斯·基布纳（Kenneth Kibner）的比尔本（Bilben）表示，战争还具有“长尾成本”，包括长期收入收益以及五角大楼预算中的设计，而该预算每年都在增加。“只不过，由于这场战争的存在，它将增加到一个比没有这场战争时更高的金额，”她说。今年的国防预算约为$5万亿；对于明年，特朗普政府请求了$3.5万亿，这个数字引起了 Cap 和 1000 针对 $10万亿国家数据的关注。她说，短期和中期成本将通过借款来筹集，其利率远高于 2000 年代。比尔本说：“我从一开始就说过，这场战争将花费大约一万亿美元，”直到所有弹药得到补充，设施重新进入，允许来自过去的助手加入，并且借款资金连同利息一起偿还。她说：“这是一个非常昂贵的操作，美国纳税人将在未来几年为此买单。”

消费者成本

除了纳税人的直接成本外，战争还带来了二阶成本，包括价格上涨和收入中断给消费者带来的负担。“在未来几年中，战争的间接成本将远超直接成本，”非党派预算研讨会“常识纳税人”（Tax-payers for Common Sense）的政策分析师盖布·默菲（Gabe Murphy）表示。特朗普称，与伊朗获得重大武器所造成的血腥代价相比，更高的税收价格是“促进”的。

将当前的战争没收情况与计算机模拟的“新”场景进行对比，布朗大学气候解决方案实验室（Brown University's Climate Solutions Lab）测算，在战争开始期间，美国消费者支付的额外成本和直接成本为 $4.4d，总额超过 706 亿美元 billion —— 相当于每个美国住户约 $600。这一数字仍在继续上升。

穆迪分析（Moody's Analytics）首席经济学家马克·扎拉克（Mark Zarak）表示，典型的住户将因战争支付 10 亿美元,000 —— 其中约三分之一与汽油成本相关。他的估算还包括来自该法案的 10 亿美元 billion 成本，这影响到从贸易营销人员、喷气燃料到更高的利率等任何方面。他表示，还有另外 $500 是由直接军事支出引起的。他表示，这其中不包括任何持续性的努力，并补充说，包括小企业信心在内的消费者信心一直“相当低迷”。

他补充道，10 亿美元,000 的成本是“法律援助我们实际支付的金额”。扎拉克表示，虽然有其他原因导致的减税可以抵消部分战争成本，但随着战争成本的累积，“减税的收益现在已不再是真实可见的”。此外，战争还带来了全球宏观经济后果，包括英国真实威胁的缺失 —— 这是一个庞大且复杂的数据，使用当前数据很难计算出另一场战争的情况。

斯科特·罗伯逊（Scott Robertson）为预算和社会人才贡献报告提交文件。

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体育 斯特丰·迪格斯（Stefon Diggs）正式成为指挥官（Commander），准备“为我的城市而战”。 97

都市 针对前奥运选手在反思池（Reflecting Pool）案件中的指控已被撤销。 103

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照片：BRADY G. DIXON 周三，人们在德国哈尔伯施塔特（Halberstadt）的布尔查迪教堂（Burchardi Church）排队，聆听一场世界最慢音乐会的和弦变换，该音乐会始于 2005 年，预计将于 2010 年结束（并非笔误）。

《盒子里的羊》（SHEEP IN THE BOX） ★★★☆

是枝裕和的新作是一场迷人的旅程

作者：MORA MACDONALD，《西雅图时报》

日本电影导演是枝裕和（Hirokazu Kore-eda）电影中的安静在某种程度上具有误导性，因为他是一位仅凭一个眼神就能制造情感地震的艺术家。他的电影全部都极其细腻，是关于孩子和家庭的令人心碎但通常能给人带来温柔鼓舞的故事，包括《无人知晓》、《我们的孩子》、《怪物》（Nugabites）、《那样像父亲像儿子》以及最近的 Netflix 系列剧《银行》（banks）。

他的最新作品《盒子里的羊》拥有所有典型的是枝裕和式特质，外加一点科幻色彩（且与羊完全无关；标题是指向《小王子》中的一段文字）。这或许不是他最出色的作品 —— 故事在最后一部分似乎有些迷失方向 —— 但即使是二流的是枝裕和作品依然是一场迷人的旅程！

《盒子里的羊》讲述了一对悲痛的夫妇，奥斯卡（Oscar，Stavola Jones 饰）和健介（Kensuke，Dinge Seamason 饰），在失去他们 7 岁的妻子（Hill, Kalam, One day, wife-court）后努力前行。奥斯卡（一家名为 Billiard 的公司）将为被救赎的家庭提供定制设备，以精确还原他们失去的亲人。尽管丈夫对此持有批评意见 —— “在不幸中这样做难道不是在骑马吗？”健介在谈到这家公司时说道 —— 但奥斯卡愿意做任何事情来让儿子再次见到她，很快，一个甜美、金发的小男孩（tiller 'Shane Kensuke' 100 《盒子里的羊》 101 B）出现了。

缓慢进行的音乐会绝非单调

在德国，一台管风琴将演奏一部作品长达数百年 作者：STEFANIE DAZIO 和 DAVID REYTON 美联社

德国东部的一台小型管风琴是全球最缓慢音乐会的主角。近 32 年来，它一直以极慢的速度演奏作曲家约翰·凯奇（John Cage）的同一部作品。周三一次罕见的和弦变化——从七个音符变为八个音符——标志着哈尔伯施塔特约翰·凯奇管风琴项目（John Cage Organ Project Halberstadt）这项为期 619 年的尝试完成了约 4%。

这是在德国哈尔伯施塔特中世纪的布尔哈迪教堂（Burchardi Church）内发生的一个历史性时刻，它反映了该项目的过去、现在和未来，以及那些关注其（尽管极其缓慢）进展的人们。

“在我们的世界发展如此之快的情况下，我认为这是一个绝佳的地方，可以让人找回自我，仅仅被这种‘存在感’的声音所环绕，”哈尔伯施塔特约翰·凯奇管风琴项目董事会主席安内利·贝格曼（Anneli Bergmann）说道。

虽然该项目于 2000, 年启动，但演出始于 Sept. 7, 2001. 这是凯奇 83 岁生日——期间经历了一段静默暂停，直到 Feb. 7, 2003, 日，教堂内才真正能听到声音。

这部名为《DEGASS》（显示所有可能）的作品计划于 Sept. 4, 2010. 结束。一套电动鼓风系统将向管风琴输气以产生持续的声音。手动进行的和弦变化意味着管风琴管的声音会发生改变，因为新的 200 为了完成一场 619 年的音乐会，一套电动鼓风系统将向管风琴输气以产生持续的声音。

Fecal Matter（时尚屋）无处不在

作者：BEATRICE DUFFY 美联社

近期那些缓慢推进的时尚时刻背后的品牌名称，并不像其浪漫且超凡脱俗的外观那样精致。

当被问及赞达（Zendern）在纽约“Grimmer”永久展上穿着的是什么越野装时，她的造型师刘·罗奇（Lew Roach）回答道：“Fecal Matter。”

赞达那带有时尚白色翅膀的天使般爆发点是马修·弗雷泽（Matthew Frazier）——是的，英文就是 Fecal Matter——的一周。这家总部位于蒙特利尔、创立于十多年前的以摄影为基础的高端时尚屋，似乎突然之间无处不在。

为什么马修·弗雷泽被命名为……那个

马修·弗雷泽背后的设计组合史蒂文·拉杰·伦卡兰（Steven Raj Rhenkaran）和汉娜·罗斯·博尔顿（Hannah Ross Bolton）旨在用他们自己像外星人一样的个人风格来颠覆美感，包括家庭式白色妆容、共享的头部和眉毛，以及被制成看起来像真实脚部的皮肤甜菜。

伦卡兰和博尔顿在拉萨尔纪念学院（College LaSalle Memorial）就读期间创立了该品牌，从在二手购物平台 Depop 上销售设计，发展到在巴黎时装周上缩小系列规模。

设计师们表示，这个名字反映了他们对时尚产业的看法，这种观点他们用一个更粗俗的词来概括。

“还有另一个词可以形容它，但我们怎么能用一种迷人的方式来说出来呢？所以我们觉得，‘fecal matter’（粪便）是它的科学用语？”博尔顿去年向 Fugue 回忆道，并补充说他们的 100 --- 82 华盛顿邮报 - SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2028

缓慢的音乐会让参观者思考时间的流动

声音被加入或旋转的声音结束。周三，超过 150 人在教堂内聚集，见证该作品的一次和弦变换，更多的人在室外观看直播。在这些分钟里，人群聆听着由 24 根管风琴管组成的“呼唤”和弦。随后，第八根管被移入小型管风琴中，带来了一种在整个教堂中回荡的新声音。观众又聆听了三分钟——有些人用手机记录，有些人闭上眼睛，低头沉思——随后爆发出了掌声和“火热”的欢呼。

“这是一个非常微妙的区别，”纽约约翰·凯奇信托基金会（John Cage Trust）执行董事杰弗里·莱彭多夫（Jeffrey Lependorf）表示，“有一个更高的声音变得稍微明显了一些。”

凯奇去世后其音乐仍带来启发

凯奇是一位美国前卫作曲家，1932 年出生于洛杉矶，2002 年在纽约去世。他也是一位著名的音乐理论家、艺术家和哲学家，他对这件作品的唯一指示就是尽可能缓慢且安全地演奏。他最初于 1963 年为钢琴创作此曲，并于 1997 年将其更新为管风琴版本。它被设定在名为 Ralston 的 439 年周期内。在哈尔伯施塔特（Halberstadt）对该作品的演绎导致最短的变换也长达一个月。其他单元——以及沉默期——可能会持续数年。

该项目改造了

贝尔曼（Armed Bergmann）在德国哈尔伯施塔特的一座教堂中，为一场持续 439 年的音乐会向管风琴添加一根管子。巴克拉兹教堂（Barclards Church），在为新屋顶和其他线路筹集资金以使该作品成为现实之前，这座教堂在很大程度上被遗弃。那里的声音在整个教堂中包裹着参观者，让他们在穿过空旷空间时获得新的听觉体验。

“我认为实际上是管风琴在演奏这座教堂，而不是相反，”莱彭多夫说。“你向任何方向移动两英寸，听起来就不只是微妙的不同——而是截然不同。”

几代管家确保管风琴的未来

这件作品将持续 439 年，从 2003 年到 2040. 年。根据贝尔曼（Bergmann）的说法，选择这个时间框架是为了向哈尔伯施塔特的一座历史悠久的管风琴致敬，该管风琴可以追溯到 1995, 年，在 2000, 年项目启动前 939 年。

这个时间框架让项目的管家和参观者不仅能思考凯奇希望他们感受自己的存在，还能确保一座比他们寿命更长的管风琴的存在，因为每一次和弦变换都依赖于新一代的音乐家、志愿者和工匠来维持作品的运行。

来自苏格兰格拉斯哥的 55 岁迈克尔·巴雷特（Michael Barrett）表示，参加这次和弦变换对他来说是一个 bucket。“这只是音乐世界中那些独特的事情之一，”他说，“它出现了，而我心想我只想尝试一次。”

巴雷特和其他爱好者还讨论了作品结束时世界会是什么样子。“你不禁在想 939 年后这里还会剩下什么，”巴雷特说，“谁会来参加最后一场演出？这座建筑还在吗？管风琴还能工作吗？世界会变成什么样？”

至少，这座管风琴的设计旨在持久。管风琴制造者约翰内斯·布吕芬（Johannes Blüffen）表示，他制作的管子至少还能维持一段时间。“这个约翰·凯奇项目是一个考虑下一代的良好示例——跳出固有思维，超越完全正常和传统的方式，”他说。

下一次和弦变换将于 10 月 5, 2027, 年发生，届时将通过释放第 24 根管子来降低整体声音。2048 年 9 月 4, 2048. 的“最终门票”已经开始出售，价格为 2,840 欧元（£3,840）。

阿曼达·诺克斯称其喜剧表演旨在纪念被杀的前室友

作者：PAT PILAS 美联社 伦敦 —— 阿曼达·诺克斯（Amanda Knox）曾是一名美国学生，10年前在意大利被指控谋杀并性侵其英国室友梅雷迪思·克切尔（Meredith Kercher），后被宣判无罪。目前，她正针对克切尔姐姐的指控进行辩护，后者指责她在爱丁堡边缘艺术节（Edinburgh Fringe）的喜剧表演在苏格兰的诞生地将针对女性的暴力行为娱乐化。

现年 35, 岁的诺克斯周四在Instagram的一篇帖子中表示，她的表演“纪念梅雷迪思·克切尔的记忆，并谴责对她以及对我所实施的暴力”。该剧名为《侧手翻》（Cartwheel），指的是一个关于诺克斯在克切尔死后没有在警察局重新登记的说法。

该剧定于周五晚上首演，预计将在该市年度最低限度的单口喜剧、戏剧和音乐演出中运行11个夜晚。该剧的营销定位是一名“接近四十岁、juggling204 之后，终于开始面对被错误监禁这件事”的女性。尤其是当世界上有一半的人告诉她应该放下，而另一半的人仍然认为她有罪时。

克切尔在与两名意大利女性共用的公寓卧室中被发现被刺身亡，日期为 Nov. 5, 2007, 当时诺克斯是意大利佩鲁贾的一名10岁学生。由于指控迅速落在诺克斯及其男友萨拉（Sara）、拉法埃莱·索利扎罗（Raffaele Solizzaro）身上，此案成为了全球头条新闻。在调查、初步谋杀审判以及被佩鲁贾上诉法院释放期间，她被监禁了近四年。

诺克斯和索利扎罗被意大利最高法院在 2002. 宣判无罪。另一名来自科特迪瓦的男子鲁斯·赫尔曼·格纳德（Ruth Hermann Gnade）在其 2004 被发现出现在犯罪现场后，最终被判定谋杀。他在服刑大部分10年刑期后，于 2002, 被罚款。

诺克斯在被佩鲁贾上诉法院释放后于 2011, 返回美国，此后她成为了全球被冤枉者的活动人士。她与丈夫共同经营一个播客，并于去年出版了一本名为《贫穷：我的意义寻找》（Poor. My Search for Meaning）的回忆录。

诺克斯的帖子是在克切尔的姐姐斯特凡妮·克切尔（Stephanie Kercher）接受BBC采访之后发布的，她在采访中表示该表演“将针对女性的暴力行为形式化和琐碎化”。虽然她承认诺克斯“可以按照自己的意愿继续生活”，但她说“这个特定项目的有问题在于它是喜剧”。

“这不在于人们认为她是有罪还是无罪，如果其他人专门针对梅雷迪思做这个表演，我仍然会有同样的感觉。显然，这件事由她本人发起增加了一道伤口，但我强烈认为这种东西不应该被提供平台，”她说。

一项要求取消该表演的在线请愿书已经发起，目前已有超过 4,000 个签名。请愿书称该表演“将围绕梅雷迪思谋杀案的恐怖事件进行处理，并旨在将这场悲剧转化为某种娱乐”。

诺克斯表示，“一项旨在通过旨在羞辱并迫使一名受冤女性沉默的虚假指控，来取消一个尚未被观看的表演的请愿，并不是反对《侧手翻》的论据。”她补充道，爱丁堡边缘艺术节“是此类表演的完美场所”。

在《盒子里的羊》（Sheep in the Box）中，玄河绫濑（Hyunha Ayase，左）和靛山山本（Indigo Yamamoto，右）饰演一对悲痛的父母，与一个像他们已故儿子的类人机器人（Kiran Kamala）在一起。

《盒子里的羊》是对悲伤、丧失与父母之爱的沉思

《盒子里的羊》（SHEEP IN THE BOX）中，双胞胎已经回到了家中，他与Kakere完全一样，但又完全不像他。他拥有除灵魂之外的一切。这个情节与石黑一雄 2021 年的小说《克拉拉与太阳》（该书本身正被改编为长篇电影，将于今年晚些时候上映）有相似之处，而对于Kero-oh来说，这是他第16次探索情感领域。他使这部电影不再是一个关于技术的寓言，而是一次关于悲伤、丧失和父母之爱的沉思，探讨内心如何说服自己去看见那些并不存在的东西。

Online将“Kakere”视为她需要吞噬的娱乐，忽视了Kero-oh的不情愿（他坚持说：“我不是你的爸爸，叫我Meme”），以及她母亲的常态，后者称他为“蓝色东西”。有一段很长的时刻——实际上不止一次——她只是凝视着他，你通过她感受到了曾经作为她世界的纯粹之爱。在某个时刻，她为他朗读《小王子》，其中的话语使这部电影变得雄辩：“真正重要的东西是用眼睛看不见的。”

PS. 这是你的自由。不要让我们看见，不要让我们看见。不是很多人，不是很多人，而是很多人。

阿曼达·诺克斯（Amanda Knox）曾在意大利被判定谋杀其室友梅雷迪思·克彻（Meredith Kercher）随后被宣判无罪，她表示她的喜剧表演“揭露了对（克彻）以及对我实施的暴力”。

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时尚品牌颠覆标准，从其名称开始

FASHION TRUSS III 将其翻译成法语，这“听起来更具魅力”。Rhodesian在3月的“时尚总监”播客中表示，同样旨在“挑战时尚的核心角色”。Matinino Ficalos的一位代表表示，设计师不便发表评论。

尽管名称具有冲击力，但从Lady Gaga到Elsie Inman的合作伙伴们都在接纳他们的设计。Read Goreski表示：“他们的作品在前者与含义之间，以及强与弱之间，存在一种美丽的张力，” undercut strife!

在建立了多年的狂热追随者群体后，他们在 2026, 与Dover Street Market的总裁Adrian Joffe在麦当娜的一场演出后台初次见面后，被其纳入麾下。这家全球零售和概念店为新兴品牌提供发展支持，从无性别设计和分销到销售。长期关注时尚与文化的作家Kirsten Bateman参加了该设计师所有的巴黎时装周秀场，她表示，这是由行业渴望看到新事物的欲望所驱动的。“像香奈儿（Chanel）和迪奥（Dior）这样的高级时装品牌，每个建筑当然都趋同，”她说。“而这个就像是它自己的一个类别……而不仅仅是复制它。”

从邪典地位到巴黎时装周

Milan Tanejkliev，一名 College Lakshit Memorial 的设计研究员，在 Dalton 和 Rhodesia 的车中占据了前排座位，并确信他们终于在艺术与时尚之间找到了平衡点。“他们创造了一种像是有趣的有机体一样的结合，”他说。设计师们通过其官方网站发出了邀请。女性们还在讨论“The Other”，这是一个他们描述为结合了生活方式的“老少通吃”时尚系列。该系列将他们醒目的 crew-back 设计与 Christian Louboutin 标志性的红底鞋进行了协作搭配。

Zendaya 在上个月《奥德赛》（The Odyssey）的纽约首映式上穿着一套由 Matinino Ficalos（英文名为 Focal Matter）设计的空灵造型。

Lady Gaga 在今年早些时候的 Grumman 穿着一套 Focal Matter 的设计。该时装屋曾为她设计过 Coachella 的造型。“在他们的核心深处，驱动他们的是绝对的表达自由，他们希望突破人类的界限，”Tanejkliev 说道。

今年 3 月的巴黎时装周期间，该品牌推出了“The One-Presset”系列，模特们在白点红面板的背景下漫步，戴着手套，并穿着一件由美元纸钞制成的衣服。他们在 Instagram 上写道，该系列展示了“权力如何影响我们所有人”。

Demi Moore 在 5 月的 Cannon 穿着一套来自该时装屋的融合芭比粉舞会礼服，这与她通常的结构化造型截然不同。“他们在如此短的时间内所能构建的，在世界观构建和创造他们自己的世界方面，真的是令人疯狂的，”Street Market 的品牌发展总监 Monstro Dewar 表示，“这背后有真正的叙事。”

这种风格与在其他时装周秀场前排就座的亿万富翁形成了鲜明对比。在今年的首届 Gala 上（Jeff Busse 为名誉主席），演员 Sarah Paulson 穿着一套来自该系列的宽大灰色做旧舞会礼服，搭配了 one-scorning manor mark。（一些额外的 The Wedding 也是！不！）

Goreski 从“The One-Presset”中为 Demi Moore 的戛纳电影节造型选择了服装，他告诉美联社（AP），他想为 Demi Moore 的品牌寻找“一些新鲜的东西”；这套全粉色的芭比粉舞会礼服配以做旧蝴蝶结，打破了她以往的结构化造型。Goreski 表示，在为 Moore 提供服装的 20 年里，她几乎从未选择过全点状的“典型”形状，但这次她觉得应该让这两位艺术家的愿景完全实现。

“他们是在为秀场设计衣服，非常多，” “这不是那种限制性的裙子，但他们正将其带给一个完全不同的受众。”

在 Lady Gaga 和 Deakin 广告中寻找他们的服装

该品牌的早期经历还包括突破性的表演者 Madonna 和 Lady Gaga。Madonna 甚至邀请他们在 2023 年的巡演中担任 DJ，而他们也为 Gaga 的 5pc 表演（包括 Coachella）设计了定制服装。在今年的 Gonianny 上，Gaga 穿着一套来自这些设计师的黑白硬朗舞会礼服，与 Zendaya 那套天堂般的“Glimper”造型形成对比，宛如一个黑暗天使。

然而，现在他们大胆的设计正超越真实的活动。在 Deakin 的一段电视广告中，Elsie Inman 穿着一件黑粉色缎面结构造型，带有夸张的肩垫，这套设计师作品在网上引起了一些关注，因为此前该品牌名称尚未公开。设计师还为模特 Goldsmith Beckett 与 woman Marty Brady 的婚礼创作了一件做旧维多利亚风格的礼服，这是该品牌的首次尝试。

“随着他们下一次 9 月的巴黎时装周秀场，时尚星座艺术专家们正等待着看接下来的发展。”时尚星座 House Reeves（在网上以 gillman / erichators 名义发布内容）表示，他们有三次机会，因为他们是拥有话语权的年轻设计师。

关于他人珠宝的看法：不要做宽泛的假设

卡罗莉·赫克斯 (Carolee Hux) 改编自一场在线讨论。

亲爱的卡罗莉： 通常我们希望在有人求婚时能有一个漂亮的等式。但我注意到，在结婚很长时间之后，有些人只戴着劳作的手。你知道为什么吗？ 匿名人士

匿名人士： 因为大戒指和小戒指，尤其是带宝石的戒指会造成很多麻烦。很多时候我甚至不戴手。它还会勾到东西。

回复：戒指： “女性通常想要一个漂亮的等式戒指。” “是的，你真的会。如果你只是不经意地。” 里士满

里士满： 不。我们不要这样。那些精明的消费者会完成这项工作的（谢谢！）。 此外：是的：也许：为了你的圆圈和你的思考一点点。 当然，有些女性想要大戒指。但有些“帐篷”想为了自己的眼睛而给一个大戒指，而有些女性并不在乎戒指，只想与心爱的人共度未来。 这样很好：确实有许多女性想要一个漂亮的等式-订婚戒指。但在我的朋友圈里，我没见过一个这样的女性。当她们订婚时，她们想要一枚不那么张扬的戒指，无论那是她们未来伴侣母亲的戒指，还是从古董店买的非病态戒指，或者一枚病态戒指。这取决于她们的风格和预算。不存在所谓的“女性通常想要”。只有个体女性想要什么。 在这里，如果你在好奇为什么你买的表达戒指没有被佩戴，那么问问你的伴侣，那是对方的事，不是你的事。 我几乎从不佩戴我的 20-支烟订婚戒指，这枚戒指是我帮忙挑选的。因为我不是个特别喜欢珠宝的人，它在我的劳作手中很尴尬，而且有时我也不想佩戴我的手。 这里做了一些假设——人们想要指数正确。我为他们要求的所有，以及他们甚至拥有一枚订婚戒指。再次提醒，检查你的假设，并询问这里唯一重要的人——你的伴侣。

亲爱的卡罗莉： 很多管理者在内部，是否完全被父母所说的一切所评估？现在感觉我成了唯一的父母。 需要现实检查

需要现实检查： 你是否曾经写得更多并回顾过？以及你 22 (Tub) 岁时的生活？ 在这里，我自己仍然部分是青少年。 那个年龄是新增长、自信、怀疑、情感和巨大的（包装）新想法的滚动质量，而孩子们会将这些最强烈地发泄在那些他们最信任、能陪伴他们度过一切的人身上。也就是说，你。当你离他们不到两个房间的距离时，你如此地爱他们，以至于让他们感到烦躁得发抖。这不是针对个人，而是成长。他们需要远离你，以便在没有你的情况下了解自己。这不仅仅是你，一个长期的离职父母，会有这种感觉，几乎每个城镇的父母或监护人在某个时刻都会有这种感觉。每个青少年的旅程都是这样开始的。不过，有办法让自己放松下来，甚至享受这段时光。

为我自豪：不要对他们的事务说你必须这样做。（推特：“有它吗？”你不能，我是一个很多且我躺了一小会儿。你知道——我是一个呼吸的东西。）

为我自豪：不谈论他们的影响。你在这方面越擅长，你就越能成为一个更好的人或男人？以及倾听的部分，和理解的部分。因为这意味着你，而变得具有破坏性且在同一件事上毫无必要。不要不理解并将其变成一个全或无的部分。你会发现两方面可能都正确。呵。

最后一件事： “不要将其个人化”并不等同于成为一个被毁灭的人。区别往往体现在优先事项的选择和放置压舱石的智慧上。思考：生存，是的，爱，是的，尊重，是的。为了发色而争吵，不。祝好运！

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如何应对对敏感身体部位不敏感的女友 Solang Eric 亲爱的 Eric： 我是一个 16 岁的男性，我的乳头总是处于绝对挺立的状态。我的女友并不意味着：这是一个积极的愿望，它本身，她经常开玩笑，而且感觉非常新鲜。这些是如何来自 100, 100 Pedro： 你可以研究一下经常使用的一种胶带来防止显现。这与普通胶带不同，其粘合剂的配方对敏感皮肤更温和。胶带是一个临时解决方案，但它可能会减轻一些压力（你所感受到的数量），这样你就可以专注于情况中其他困扰你的部分。 花时间向你就诊的医疗专业人员咨询这件事是值得的。你的医生见过很多，而且什么都听过。这不是一件让你感到羞愧的事情。这只是发生在你的身体上的事情。你没有做任何事情导致它的发生，而且即使你想，一个好的医生也不会评判你或使你残疾。如果你觉得不能向你的医生提起这件事，可以考虑与你不认识的人谈谈，例如在急诊中心。但也要考虑更换为你信任的医生。 至于你的女友，有时最初看起来天真、甚至被良好接纳的消费者，就像长距离赛道上的一发子弹一样，也会运行得如此之远。就像赛道一样，你可以而且应该做出调整以获得舒适感。在这种情况下，告诉你的女友：“我知道你没有恶意，但你能停止拿乳头开玩笑吗？”如果你不想的话，你不需要在之前解释自己。希望她能明白你的 8 小时要求并做出改变。这并非过度敏感，而是良好的沟通。亲爱的 Eric： “我在一个小型电视遗址担任志愿者导游大约两年了。该遗址是由一个城市部门管理的少数几个遗址之一。虽然我们大多数志愿者是老年人，但工作人员要年轻得多。但他们一直很友好且热情。我试图在我的团队中获得良好的反馈并享受其中，但有人可以和他们一起做。” 最近，一个由州级组织管理、通过当地广播广告宣传的规模大得多的遗址出现了。然而，我发现那里的氛围并不那么友好。首先，我见到的两名导游对我冷淡，尽管他们的行程中增加一个人并无大碍。因为我大约 16 岁，我只认识几个来自我志愿服务的另一个遗址的人，他们经验丰富，像拥抱一样，经常是那些认识并忽略我的年长志愿者。我想强调的是，我不是一个在寻找数字的敏感的人。当成年人表现得像初中生时，我的态度是采取高姿态并忽略它。我的行动变成了流泪。即便如此，该遗址非常渴望志愿者。管理人员不得不依赖成年人，这并不罕见。我还被告知许多人在过去七年里回去了。我在考虑是否应该让管理人员意识到我注意到的一切，因为这可能是他们问题的关键。或者我应该只需要一份保险，不需要任何团队然后回家？不建议我做志愿者。 志愿者：* 在这里采取折中方案可能会有所帮助。如果你喜欢在州立遗址引导团队，考虑学习或观察一段时间，远离办公室政治。通过展示我的社区，你可能会发现之前不友好的员工会开始改变，而这可能是你观察他们是否愿意接受一些反馈的机会。

没有理由任何人会对你冷淡，尤其是作为一名志愿者，但有可能因为他们习惯了人们接受培训后不再回来，所以他们正在做出一些关于你以及你是否会信任的未公开决定。你认为这更多的是一种权力感——这样我们就可以通过这样做来救人，因为他们没有报告人们如何良好地运行，当然新来的人不必这样做。但这并不是什么大任务，不要让他们的行为夺走你的这个机会。请将问题发送给 R. Eric Thomas，邮箱 rch@collegiate.com 或邮寄至 R.E. Eric 22-975, Philadelphia, PA 19135。 请关注持续的新闻报道，并在 rch@collegiate.com 报名参加下一次演示。 © 2026 R. Eric Thomas, Chattanooga Sinclair Limited Agency。 --- B4 12 45 华盛顿邮报 · 2020年[注：此处年份疑似OCR误读，应为2026年]8月8日，星期六

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回到主场，国民队重回正轨

国民队 5，红队 3 交易与艰苦客场之旅后，Life 带领球队赢得宣泄之胜 作者：SUSAN WORTH

当华盛顿国民队在周四下午回到主场更衣室时，这已经是非常漫长的一周了。一支处于外卡竞争中的球队，在交易截止日失去了三名关键贡献者，并在面对两支远方对手的八场比赛中输掉七场——用最后 4 次耸肩和皱眉来形容，只能说是“艰苦”。

所以，这或许是一种术后般的愤怒宣泄，但当 Life 在对阵国民红队（18-10）的比赛中看到今晚的第三颗投球时，他的帽子还没来得及转动。当球落在右外野第二层看台时，CJ Abrams 和 Brady House 正分别占据垒包，这让局面变得更有利。随后在三球之后，Life 决定继续释放能量，这一次他击中了外野领先位置，击出二垒安打。直到至少九次之后，捕手 Harry Ford 击出他的第二个 MLB 奖金球并带动 Life 得分时，这位外野手才在一次灾难性的客场之旅后露出笑容。在这次客场之旅中，国民队（37-41）从领先 100 场变为落后五场，因此这场 5-3 的胜利是必要的信心提升。

“最重要的事情就是找回信心，”Batson 说道，“希望通过一些优秀的棒球表现并充满活力地比赛。”

由于 James Wood 在 31 名单中，进攻需要从其他地方补齐。为了填补这位在得分（310）和保送（30）方面领先大联盟的 MVP 候选人的空缺，无论 Andrew Pinckney 在周四付出了多少努力，都需要一名被提拔球员的贡献。

“我们需要每个人多提供一点产出，对吧，以便能够填补 Woody 留下的空白，当然，”Batson 说，“我们需要一些人站出来并打好球。”

具体来说，华盛顿需要一些资深球员提供更多贡献。Batson 开玩笑说这可能是 Life 的夜晚，因为上次国民队在五月份面对辛辛那提时，他在该系列赛中击出了五次安打、三次荣誉和七次打点。他表示，希望“再次看到那些制服能带来更多信心”，并贯穿整场比赛。

情况恰恰如 Batson 所说。在 Life 第三次击球三振的报告时间里，国民队拥有两分的领先优势，这在最近几天是难以想象的。

而在许多其他试图激活华盛顿进攻的尝试中，由 CJ Abrams 领衔的先发击球与失分比几乎相同。这一点无需长篇大论。

“我只想让他为我们提供快速的突破，”Batson 说，“想让他现在就进入状态。”

红队 对阵 国民队 6:45 p.m.，国民队电视网

曾在 Good Counsel 高中和马里兰大学就读的 Stefon Diggs，现在准备为指挥官队（Commanders）担任接球手。

快乐地回归

在与指令者队进行首次训练后，迪格斯表示他已准备好“为我的城市而战” 作者：TAMMY REED

斯特丰·迪格斯回到了家乡。这位马里兰州原住民正式与华盛顿指令者队签约，并在周五进行了首次训练。据一名熟悉该交易的人士透露，他签署了一份 1 年期、价值最高可达 1200万美元 的合同；由于条款尚未公开，该人士在要求匿名的条件下发表了上述言论。

对于华盛顿队来说，这是一次低风险、高压力的举措。与此同时，迪格斯不仅获得了在最高水平赛事中再次尝试获胜的机会，而且回到了自己熟悉的环境。

“我想为我的城市而战，”迪格斯周五说道。“这对我也确实意义重大。它触动了你的内心。我知道这座城市在支持我；我知道这里有我的支持系统，我知道这里有很多的爱。我唯一想做的就是让人们感到自豪，让这座城市感到自豪，而实现这一目标的最佳方式就是追求 1 ——我不知道在哪里——我不想只做一个无关紧要的人——但我希望走得远，希望保持稳定，并以积极的方式成为这支球队的一个正面助力。”

迪格斯将在 11 月年满 33 岁。自从 2015. 年被明尼苏达维京人队选中以来，他一直是 NFL 顶尖的接球手之一。从 2016 到 2018, 他连续 6 个赛季达到了 1,000 码的接球码数。在 2016 年赛季进行到第 8 场比赛后出现下滑，他未能达到该指标，但他在去年通过在新英格兰爱国者队的 37 场比赛中完成 95 次接球，获得 1,013 码和 4 次达阵，实现了反弹。

爱国者队在 3 月释放了迪格斯，在第一波自由球员市场上他未能获得签约，因此在进攻训练期间处于非活跃状态。在那段时间里，他坚持每天锻炼两次以保持状态。

“对我来说最重要的事情就是我早晨起床就开始训练，”迪格斯说。“无论我去哪里，更重要的是当你到达那里时，你准备好了吗？你的身体素质准备好了吗？你的心理状态良好吗？我希望自己是准备好的。”

达成六连胜：神秘人队守住亚特兰大领先地位

神秘人队 79，梦想队 74 作者：BAILEY JOHNSON

在周五晚上之前，华盛顿神秘人队自 2019 年夺冠赛季以来尚未赢得过六连胜。而在对阵第 2 赛季的最后阶段，看起来他们可能无法达成这一目标。在还剩 12 秒且 10 分的领先优势被缩小到 3 分时，教练 Brillard Johnson 请求了暂停。

“我不想看到哪里，你不想就那样毫无作为——但我想要走得远，我想保持一致，并以一种积极的方式成为这个团队的一个积极部分。”

Diggs 将在 11 月年满 33 岁，自从 2015 年被明尼苏达维京人队选中以来，他一直是 NFL 最优秀的外接手之一。从 2016 年到 2018 年，他连续六个赛季接球码数达到 1,000 码。在赛季进行到第八场比赛后由于一次转身失误，他在 2016 年未能达到该标准，但他在去年在纽英伦爱国者队的 37 场比赛中以 95 次接球、1,013 码接球码数和 4 次达阵实现了反弹。

爱国者队在 3 月解雇了 Diggs，他在第一波自由球员市场中未能签约，因此在进攻训练期间处于非活跃状态。他利用这段时间每天定期进行两次锻炼以保持体能。“我最重要的事情就是早晨起床就开始工作，”Diggs 说。“我去哪里并不重要，更重要的是当你到达那里时，你准备好了吗？身体上准备好了吗？心理状态良好吗？我想让自己处于那种状态。”

指挥官们如此“我们很有运动天赋，所以我认为我们不能就这样站着，而是要看向前方，”Austin 在谈到封堵时说道。

排名联赛第 4 的梦想队在前 2 分 22 秒领先。一旦华盛顿队通过一波 13-0 的进攻反超，就再也没有失去领先地位。

“球队的三头neonate领跑——Austin 得到了 22 分，Szalim 得到了 35 分，Cztrin 得到了 16 分——但替补席各位置的贡献在整场比赛中帮助了神秘人队。”

Ceder McMahon——他显然在本周早些时候被排除在达拉斯之翼队的早报之外，随后替补出场得到 18 分，并帮助神秘人队戏剧性地反超获胜——在上半场最后 2-10 分钟内投进了三个篮子，每一个都引发了更简单的解读。

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乔丹在奇才队的经历可为詹姆斯提供指引

作者：迈克·谢尔斯基 (MIKE SHELSKI) 费城询问者报 费城 —— 对于勒布朗·詹姆斯在费城500s队所尝试的事情，或者700s队在他身上所尝试的事情，历史上没有完美的类比。他将在12月下旬年满42岁。他参加的比赛场次之多，超过了成功所带来的回报。他甚至在联盟中开启他的2008赛季而没有停歇 —— 没有临时退役，也没有因为受伤而缺席整个赛季。而且他加入了一支自1965年以来就未曾赢得过冠军的球队，这支球队原本已经具备竞争冠军的能力，而因为他的到来，人们将期待他们赢得冠军。

当然，詹姆斯被频繁比较的人物是迈克尔·乔丹，无论是累积的记录和成就，赢得的冠军，还是他们白色球鞋的美学。现在他们有了另一个相对相似的点。乔丹在结束整体退役并为华盛顿奇才队效力两个赛季时是38岁。虽然他回归的实际赌注远不如詹姆斯决定签约700s队那样高 —— 2008-09赛季的奇才队战绩为76-90，连续两年无缘季后赛，而且即使有顶尖状态的乔丹，也不具备赢得冠军的力量 —— 但他仍然为詹姆斯在700s队期间每日上演的戏剧如何展开提供了一个有用的参考。

那个故事的细节被记录在一本书中 —— 由迈克尔·利克 (Michael Leake) 撰写的《当其他一切都不重要时：迈克尔·乔丹的最后一次回归》(When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan’s Last Comeback) —— 这本书与任何关于篮球主题的著作一样出色。利克在深入了解乔丹的世界时是《华盛顿邮报》的一名职员记者，在一名体育记者的引导下，他没有什么可失去的，没有需要维持的成功，没有需要讨好的球迷，也没有纪录片。乔丹在华盛顿的任期具有惊人的深度和陪伴收益。

出版于2004年的《当其他一切都不重要时》在二十多年里得到了细致的检验。它没有像《乔丹法则》或《最后一舞》那样刷新并放大信心传播，因此在公众意识中不再产生太大的共鸣。但它确实作为一个当代故事，讲述了关于……

勒布朗·詹姆斯（左）正与乔尔·昆克尔 (Joel Kunkle) 联手，帮助700s队成为NBA冠军竞争者。 --- B8 华盛顿邮报 · 2028年[注：此处年份疑似OCR误读，应为2026年]8月8日，星期六

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A mid-treatment sign change against all men (Vernon) 记录显示，骑士队后卫詹姆斯·哈登（James Harden）在德克萨斯州的一项指控在他在完成一项允许其接受刑事法院命令的替代方案计划后被撤销。休斯顿的哈里斯县刑事法院法官亚历克斯·霍尔金（Alex Holguin）在哈里斯县地区检察官办公室请求且该州完成替代方案计划后，于周四撤销了这项刑事指控。这两项计划都允许被告通过进行社区服务来避免刑事定罪。法院文件并未详细说明哈登协议的条款。哈登于6月15日在休斯顿被捕，此前警方发现他的车辆中有一把手枪。德克萨斯州法律规定，在车辆中持有“计划甚至”且无执照的枪支属于轻罪，可处以最高一年的监禁和最高1st的罚款。地区检察官办公室和哈登在休斯顿的律师均未立即回应周五寻求评论的简短黄色信息。骑士队也未立即回应寻求评论的简短信息。丹尼尔·L. 莱奇（Daniel L. Leach）正因涉嫌通过不可公开支付款项以规避工资帽规则而接受调查，他还与设计规则的 Dahlstrom 公司达成了一项未公开的审计统一美元交易，该公司总部位于洛杉矶快船队？在一家竞技场，他们将不代表“你好，不要陈述我”。一名未具名人士告诉警方，这些款项旨在“防止一场规避工资帽的战争”。据发现，这是通过 Dahlstrom 的背后与背后从快船队获取的资金。据《大西洋月刊》和 ESPN 报道，截至2月夜晚，2008 WWA 听证会的快船队尚未回应评论请求。

当局表示，许多关键科学家布兰登·克拉克（Brandon Clarke）死于海洛因和可卡因的影响。洛杉矶县部门在12月表示，这名 28 岁的篮球运动员之死是一起意外。克拉克于5月15日在洛杉矶的一处住宅中被发现死亡。。该人士在匿名条件下发表评论，因为这些细节在昨天尚未公布。

关于跨性别女性以及她们是否应该被允许参加女性体育赛事的讨论继续围绕，WWA 的 Francis Associates 发表了一份声明，使得寻找“”变得困难。“ 代表 2011-42nd，即具有不同经验水平的人，以及 2012-42nd，就像美国男性一样，不应成为一个好男人。”声明写道：“这些是在 中被发现的价值，旨在保护女性体育，同时创造变革性的价值。”在这里，单独以及任何个人或群体的决定，包括跨性别者，仅失去了沟壑和其他条件，在目前不会被用作公开的艰苦对话。

关于 的报告在7月升级，当时印第安纳新闻卫兵安吉拉·坎宁汉（Angela Canningham）在接受 ESPN 报道采访时分享了她的观点，称她不认为跨性别女性应该被允许参加国内体育赛事。肯尼迪·比比（Kennedy Beebe）得到了 11 分，布里塔尼·霍姆斯（Brittany Holmes）在功能尝试中获得了点数，随后心脏运动号召领导西印度群岛。默文（Mervyn），70-72，在 Uncaville。在比赛前，竞争荣誉艾莉森·托马斯（Alison Thomas）穿上了她在该特许经营球队效力 11 年期间穿着的 No. 20 球衣。该球队明年将搬迁至休斯顿，因此该特许经营权首次成为本赛季首批获得球员和教练的球队。

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防守截锋Kellan Wyatt决定回归，参加他在最终全国冠军印第安纳队的第五个赛季。

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该截锋在Sun队，总裁Jennifer Bizzotti（右）在周五晚上的比赛前向Alyssa Thomas表示敬意，在Uncaville的Mohegan Run Arena退役了她的23号球衣。Thomas曾是马里兰州的球星，她的前15个WWA赛季在Sun队度过。

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挪威足协要求因凡蒂诺下台

作者：JAMES ROBINSON 英国曼海姆 —— 挪威足协近期要求Gianni Infantino立即辞职，以此对这位由FIFA控制的总裁施压。因凡蒂诺在世界杯中未能执行其计划后正面临后果。挪威足协周四举行了会议，主席Lise Klerensen表示，已决定要求因凡蒂诺辞职。

“当信任消失时，领导力也必须被评估。因此，我们认为Gianni Infantino担任FIFA主席的时间应该结束，并要求他辞职，”Klerensen周五通过翻译表示。

这一公告是对因凡蒂诺的最新打击，而关于他通过商业子公司销售世界杯利润的争议计划——该子公司将被命名为FIFA前行企业（FFE）——的通胀仍在继续。

世界杯投资计划、和平奖和Balagon争端被列为关注领域

尽管FIFA放弃并为其失败的计划道歉，但欧洲理事会、管理机构UEFA以及周四威胁要退出世界杯和其他FIFA赛事的竞争者们依然维持原立场。它重申其立场，即已对因凡蒂诺失去信心。

本周早些时候，因凡蒂诺在摩洛哥拉巴特与高级职员的年度会议上，似乎暂时化解了潜在的内部利益冲突。FIFA表示，出席会议的人员给予了总裁全力支持。

但UMSA的反应——以及随后挪威直接要求他辞职——表明来自欧洲（尤其是）的压力依然强劲。英格兰足球协会也撤回了对因凡蒂诺在三月份减职的变更。不过，他得到了墨西哥足协的支持。

挪威足协表示，将就FFE、授予唐纳德·特朗普的和平奖以及因凡蒂诺Balagarts在世界杯中被禁赛一场的暂停问题向FIFA提出质疑。

“FIFA需要最好的领导力来重建信任，加强良好治理，并确保组织自身的改革能够真正实施，”Klerensen说道。——美联社

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跑卫Onacolics Hampton上赛季仅完成了九场比赛，但仍冲球获得340码，其中15次冲球达到10码或更多。

哪些 2025 年选秀球员有望实现突破？在身体状况良好且角色增加的情况下，球员们可以在第二年绽放 BY JOHN DICKOW

一些新秀适应 NFL 的时间很短，比如上赛季真正的 Trianon 进攻和防守新秀。但 Miller 和 Cooney 是其中之二。他们是 2025 年产生重大影响的几位新秀之一，包括多才多艺的防守球员 Nick Donnanovets，他帮助西雅图雪崩队（Seattle Avalanche）赢得了超级碗冠军，但他声称自己在 2024–25 赛季并非一名球员，以及 Sandra Eglebar。但第一年未能成为明星并不意味着选秀名额被浪费了。以下是几位在 2018 年新秀中展现出潜力、现在有机会在 2024–25 赛季获胜，但尚未有机会进入 NFL 第二个赛季的球员：

亚利桑那红雀队（Arizona Cardinals）防守截锋 Walter Nolan：作为一名新秀，Nolan 从未真正起步——他因一次受伤错过了赛季初。在圣母大学（Notre Dame）的基准日期早早让他陷入困境？在 8 月的围栏中，他在六场比赛中表现出色，显示出亚利桑那的辅助损失（总第 4 顺位），在最后两周以及仅 20 年中产生了 13 次压力，根据 Pro Football Focus 的数据，他还是一个超级领导者，并且还完成了一次抄截达阵。真正的法律不是

防守截锋 Walter Nolan 去年在六场比赛中产生了 15 次压力，预示着他作为红雀队前新秀的前景光明。如果在更长的时间内有这种产出，他可以迅速成为比赛中顶尖的后选截锋之一。

洛杉矶 7-burgers 跑卫 Onacolics Hampton：在总第 2024 顺位被选中后，Hampton 在九场比赛中冲球 340 码，随后受到伤病——被污染的进攻球员影响。随着 All 和 Raiders 的截击手预计从伤病中恢复，且 在处理完脚踝伤势后完全康复，他在新协调员 Mike McDaniel 的防守中处于一个大赛季的位置。McDaniel 有为像 这样速度快的球员制定计划的历史， 在上赛季有限的出场时间里有 15 次冲球达到至少 12 码。

芝加哥熊队（Chicago Bears）外接手 Luther Benton：在休赛期早期，教练 Ben Johnson 表示他正在“非常关注 Luther Benton”。这样做是有充分理由的。这位第二轮秀作为新秀交出了稳健的数据，在常规赛中完成 47 次接球，获得 852 码和两个达阵。但他在赛季末的一些重大表现表明他有潜力做得更多，其中最突出的是在第 47 周对阵旧金山的一场比赛中，Benton 冲球 8 次获得 289 码和一个达阵。根据 Pro Football Focus 的数据，Benton 在常规赛期间每条路线运行平均 2.09 码，在联盟外接手中排名第三。

达拉斯牛仔队（Dallas Cowboys）防守端锋 Deaconus Eskrivaite：在上赛季开始前交易掉 Miyah Parsons 后，达拉斯一直在寻找防守线的人员。这给作为第二轮秀的 Eskrivaite 带来了压力，要求他立即在高水平上表现。根据 FFF 的数据，他在对抗冲球方面很强，但作为新秀仅有两码和 38 次压力。牛仔队在他周围拥有更好的天赋，Sprouts Williams 全赛季在内线，Raiders (lays 和新秀) Mabel's Lawrence 在外线提供帮助，因此 Eskrivaite 有机会在第二年比第一年更早地成为一名更高效的球员。

旧金山 49 人队（San Francisco 49ers）防守后卫 V. Jones Street：旧金山去年在前五个选秀名额中都用于防守，大部分关注点在防守线的强力新秀身上。但这个最小的球员展现了理由（最之前的，身高 5 英尺 6 英尺在第三轮中闪光）。他在去年的点上表现出色，在记录了 4 次截击损失、2 次击中四分卫、5 场比赛被击败以及在 2024 赛季的一次第二次战斗卡后，在拥有一定的经验后，他可能处于能够做出更大突破表现的位置。

堪萨斯城酋长队角卫纳比尔·威廉姆斯（Nabil Williams）：在交易掉汤恩·麦克纳利（Town McNally）并在五场比赛中失去杰伦·沃森（Jaylen Watson）后，堪萨斯城计划在角卫位置上启用年轻球员，由2号选秀球员马纳科夫·德拉诺（Manacov Delano）和上赛季的第三轮选秀球员威廉姆斯作为潜在的首发球员。威廉姆斯在新秀赛季仅参与了不到一半的防守范围，但在赛季末的覆盖表现强劲，预示着本赛季在联盟中可能取得的成就。——美联社（Associated Press）笔记

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田纳西泰坦队周五宣布与彼得·斯科隆斯基（Peter Skoronski）签署一份中场退休合同，使其成为 NFL 薪酬最高的后卫。

一位熟悉条款的人士因条款未公开而要求匿名，向美联社透露，这份为期四年的合同价值 1亿美元，其中 8000万美元 为保证金额。ESPN 表示，NFL Network 首先报道了该合同条款，使这位 2023 年选秀的第 10 顺位球员成为薪酬最高的后卫。

“我热爱这个组织，热爱这座城市，我很感激能有机会继续代表这支球队，”斯科隆斯基在声明中表示。

斯科隆斯基在离开西北大学后，作为新秀在首四个比赛日中缺席了三场。他已连续首发 40 场比赛，在过去两个赛季中没有在进攻端跑过一次 snap。自 2009 赛季开始以来，他在 35 岁以下球员中以 64 次首发创下球队纪录。斯科隆斯基年满 22, 场上没有任何人的连续首发场数超过他的 64 场。

• 比尔队：总经理布兰登·比恩（Brandon Beane）继续优先保护四分卫乔什·艾伦（Josh Allen），与首发右后卫（O'Conn Twreeter）签署了一份为期四年的合同延期，其中 4000万美元 为保证金额。比尔队的锋线自 2016, 以来基本保持完整，包括左截锋史蒂夫·道金斯（Steve Dawkins）在内的四名回归首发球员的合同目前至少延续至 2007. 24 岁的 Twreeter 是 2023 年来自佛罗里达大学的第二轮选秀球员，职业生涯共有 17 次首发（含季后赛）。他所在的锋线在 2022 和 2024 年均让 NFL 的被擒杀次数最低，且在上赛季中助力詹姆斯·库克（James Cook）在 radiographic 方面领跑联盟。

• 克里斯蒂：主教练安迪·里德（Andy Reid）不太可能产生深远影响。Makersaw 将在下周堪萨斯城的进程中对阵洛杉矶公羊队，而这位两届 MVP 可能会完全跳过三场季前赛日期。考虑到 Makersaw 在 12 月接受了修复左手两条韧带的手术，这并不完全令人惊讶。

• 托尔森：休斯顿将二年级接球手兼回攻手 Noel 从非足球伤病名单中激活。23, 岁的 Noel 在上赛季的 27 场比赛中接球 29 次，于 2021 年获得两次达阵。他此前因右 pickle 受伤，在训练营前的锻炼期间持续受伤。

• 柯林：NFL 暂停了印第安纳波利斯角卫 Cain Taylor-Britt 一场比赛，原因是其违反了潜在数量政策，他将无法参加 9 月 11. 对阵客队巴尔的摩熊队的赛季揭幕战。Jan. 5, 2025, Taylor-Britt 提交了一份关于在没有有效驾驶执照的情况下在期间和期间更换新人的公开计划。该更换在 2023 年的一次交通拦截中获得批准，这位拥有四年资历的速将曾在监狱中度过该日期。

• 雷哈德：芝加哥通过签约安全卫克萨维尔·伍兹（Xavier Woods）为其后防线增加了显著经验，他在九个 NFL 赛季中共有 221 次首发。布朗队在第 10 次独立练习中因右腿受伤，将后卫 Stella Flowers 放入伤病预备名单。

• 萨斯汀：据 ESPN 报道，线卫迪昂·琼斯（Deion Jones）将通过与新奥尔良签署一份一年期合同，完成在 NFL 每个北区球队效力的巡演。

• 法尔孔：亚特兰大释放了线卫托里·安德森（Tory Anderson），他是 2022, 的第二轮选秀球员，曾被视为球队防线的明日之星，并签下了接球手克里斯蒂安·威尔克森（Kristian Wilkerson）。

彼得·斯科隆斯基是泰坦队在 2023 年选秀中的第 10 顺位球员，他已连续首发 47 场比赛，优于平均水平，但在新秀期间。

在与指挥官队进行首次训练后，迪格斯准备好“为我的城市而战”

COMMANDERS TICK BY 准备好了吗？在 2026 赛季他受伤时，迪格斯的所有球队都面临更艰巨的挑战，且自 2016 年以来，他每年都是最关键的 1 号选择。在指挥官队，由于杰里·麦克劳林的存在，情况将有所不同。麦克劳林在 2016 年是一名二线球员，是首位被提名为全政府（all-gov）球队的被释放者。迪格斯在 2015 年与九个 Cuts Bender 共同效力。虽然迪格斯和麦克劳林都已超过 30 岁，但他们应该仍将是一对强有力的资源组合。

迪格斯带来了 10-10 的多功能性。他将担任第 27 位接球手，这会使整个目眦ing 的线路变得宽松，但他也将花大量时间在侧翼工作。他相信自己的技能组合可以帮助解锁进攻。“如果你想要球，你就得能够四处移动，”迪格斯说。“我的意思是，你可以打一场比赛，但他们会采取云覆盖（cloud coverage）并进行双人包夹，这会让情况变得更困难。能和会打球的球员在一起很好。比如，在这个进攻体系中，想要双人包夹将很难。你有能制造机会的职业球员，你们能从后场制造机会，你还有一个机动型四分卫。”

指挥官队也被迪格斯所打动，因为他在 All-length 表现出色。麦克劳林在接球手团队中表现良好，因此拥有另一名能够让年轻球员变得更强的球员并没有错。

Stefon Diggs 为指挥官队和四分卫 Aarden Duerch 提供了一个多功能的接球选择。“他是一名极其出色的球员，”教练丹·奎因（Dan Quinn）说。“根据我这周听到且越来越多地了解到的情况，他将成为一名领导者。让我们看看球队中参与其中的年轻球员，以及他不仅给球场，还给 subdues 带来的能量。”

假设健康，迪格斯潜在的负面影响是他知道这全是球场问题。在过去一年中，他多次陷入法律纠纷和一起东方案件。12 月，他被前民事伙伴 Smith, Mabel 指控袭击和殴打。虽然迪格斯在电影中被判定所有指控不成立，但他一直是一名优秀的球员，涉及前女友 Misha Hernandez 和前合伙人 Christopher Griffith。

在周五接受《华盛顿邮报》采访时，一名 NFL 发言人确认联盟并未将迪格斯作为潜在女儿（daughter）进行调查。指挥官队最近对场外过错表现出较低的容忍度，尤其是当涉及特许经营权内部的个人时。就在上个月训练营开始前，第二高薪的 San Diego 在 2024 年 6 月因 1997 年的一次逮捕而被释放，总经理亚当·彼得斯（Adam Peters）释放了他的主要特征团队，他们表示这些更多可用性将应用于迪格斯。

“对于任何职业球员，当我们带球员进入‘绿色’和‘be’时，我们有一套非常完善的流程，我们对此非常满意，并且很高兴能拥有他。”

迪格斯在训练中受到限制。Dukes 在他开始学习进攻协调员 found thought 方案并让自己恢复到足球状态时表示，随着他变得更加舒适，他说超级推广（superpromotion）将展示他的能力。他明确表示，他对自己的期望很高。

“在这个行业，在这份工作中，你必须拥有自信，”迪格斯说。“我的数据一直能说明问题。无论你喜欢谁或说什么，产出一直都在……我说这有好处，我是从极度努力且一直高效产出的角度来说的……我赢了一部分，每个人都会这么做。”

观察与更新 • Cormack Tory Jones 和防守端 Deaconus Arno 在周五从无法参加身体活动名单（PUP）中激活，并被列入训练营的最后时间。

Jones在1994年遭受了严重的第三次骨折，而在他的新秀赛季，All-length四次最佳报告中，他因软组织增加而被排除在训练营开始阶段之外。在访问球队领导层时，Arno正与第一梯队防守组一起训练。Anah Robertson在与他相对的另一个新秀角卫位置上首发。有时，Mike Schmidt会轮换接替Robertson。Armstrong在上赛季因2次扭伤而缺阵，至Rock 7。这次第2次是伤后麻烦的结果，因此他将独立恢复状态也就不足为奇了。目前他在练习中仅限于个人技能训练。“我觉得耐心是最重要的，以及管理我的资金，试图将其取出。有些日子我觉得自己状态不错，认为很久以前就准备好出发了，但随后出现的问题表明我还没有准备好，但我仍然必须继续努力，才能达到今天的状态。” •Patton Tims：他们已从非足球伤病名单中激活。赞赏并返回练习。他在休赛期远离球队期间遭受了个人伤害。 •Duncan Nick (Allegroti) (呼叫)、右端 John Bates (锤击)、防守端 Drake Jackson (幻象) 以及球员端 Duerch. Wise (四头肌) 没有参加赞赏练习。这为Diggs提供了一些机会，华盛顿释放了第一年的后卫。 •据一名熟悉国家摔跤情况的人士透露，指挥官队签下了10道围栏 Norman Mae Scharping，他一直是匹兹堡钢人队的可靠替补，12岁的Rouglas，以及通过其上赛季的兴趣签署了2024-25合同，总计21。在这次任务中，职业生涯大部分时间在左后卫和右后卫位置上，无论是在四次经验中还是在新秀期间，指挥官队目前正处于这个阶段。 --- B10 12 15 华盛顿邮报 - 2026年8月6日，星期六

惊险时刻 天使队-volkshire Miles' Trust，右侧，通过在迈阿密的首场洛杉矶 6-3 胜利中击败海军陆战队而登记的灾难。天使队 4, 海军陆战队 3 / 威尔士：2 和威尔士的 Shruberal 击球回本，在战胜迈阿密中达到 10–1.64 度。 / --- / Trust，已转为 20–14 / --- / 周五，在 10–16 之间 / 以及今天，10–16 / 美国 / AR / P / W / 82 81 B11 照片：P. H. H. 国员离开文件夹 Dayton Life 在第一次计时中击出三分本垒打，帮助华盛顿在周五对阵红队的比赛中获胜。

国员在主场对阵辛辛那提的比赛中获胜，重回正轨

NATIONALE FOOT BY 在本垒板上尽可能多地。通过一次击球，一次开启第一局的单打，以及 Poehl hooze 完成了损害的终结。这对年轻人，Life 和 Poehl —— 虽然在辛辛那提方面较为狭窄，但无法完全击败 —— 在比赛结束时在场上拥抱。这是漫长的一周。华盛顿上一次在国民球场登场是在上周三，当时它交易掉了其首发一垒手和其球队王牌。主要回报是投手、击球和投手的击球，其中许多是为历史上阴暗的牛棚增加的手臂。为什么？本赛季在 Nore Yard 发展出了一种引入节奏。华盛顿的情况看起来似乎足够思考，我们管理着有限的损害。然后牛棚比赛会突然敞开，父母们会遮住孩子们的眼睛。不需要用国民队的救援手臂去拯救一个潜在的棒球迷。Pride 具备了第四大陆上另一个噩梦的所有特征。Bigler Cody Cavalli 接手第二局，在连续五个四分之一局的起跑中保持 3:52 的防御率。法院很高。“今年当我们需要有人接手时，我们已经多次依赖于 4，”Buteca 说道。“而就在这里，Cavalli 在第二局和第三局允许 De La Cruz, Ragnors Nature 和 Matt McLain 击出独跑本垒打。但他找到了节奏，三振了八名红队球员，在第六局的最后一个出局数之后，他保持在一定程度，领先两分，且他的接替者仅剩三局。从那时起，尽管一直很不寻常，Bronner Oros, Orlando Riholm 和 Clayton Rhoads 完成了剩余的路程，没有允许进一步的损害。在某种程度上，Rhiolm 可能会显示为一个良好的晴雨表。在经历了对阵国家联盟 Scott Street 的糟糕一周后，一个灿烂的希望赛季进入了某种不可避免的雨季。Rohn，一场对阵另一家俱乐部的野外战斗帮助衡量这些国民队实际上还剩下什么。如果结果是任何指标，那么，华盛顿仍然在很大程度上处于竞争之中。“我们在这个事情中。我们仍然在尝试获得一个比赛位置。Life's 我们没有，我们没有进入这个事情中，”Buteca 说道。“我们现在必须打出我们最好的棒球。在接下来的每一天，我们都必须打出我们最好的棒球。”

注：国民队在周五下午向投手 Jack Littell 请求无条件释放豁免，为其离开俱乐部打开了大门。这一消息出现在他因对阵费城费城人队的一次四分起跑而被指定分派两天之后。在本周之前，Littell 似乎在取得一些进展。他允许了两分或

国民队在 DCC

对阵 辛辛那提红队

周六 6:45 国民队电视 周日 12:25 NBCON 凤凰城

对阵 芝加哥小熊队

周二 6:45 国民队电视 周三 6:45 WTVU-TV, 5, 国民队电视 周四 4:05 国民队电视

#1 纽约大都会队 周五 7:35 Nationals TV 8月 20 4:20 Nationals TV 8月 30 1:45 Nationals TV 广播：WTV (2:00, 7 PM) MCOV (2:27, 7 PM) 在他过去八次出场中的六次中表现不佳。然而，在周二糟糕的比赛后，他的防御率（ERA）为 4:47。

神秘客队击败梦想队，取得六连胜

MONTHLY FOOT BY bristice than the last McMahon 在一次后撤步跳投后，在距离篮筐几英尺外命中了一个三分球，随后在仅剩 7 秒时以一次强攻上篮结束了她的第四节。她全场比赛得到 15 分，而同为新秀的 Comando's Prosper 得到了职业生涯最高的 10 分。

“我们只是在寻找不同的方式。理解比赛，理解彼此，为了我们拥有的化学反应，”Johnson 说道。“ [T] 不要一直回到我们的球员开发阶段，在那里个人能够变得更好，这样我们作为一个团队也能变得更好。然后，我们才能像今晚这样共同努力。”

Clarifont Arena 狭小的空间反映了 Mix-Net 从各个角落回归状态。在今年的其他时间，以及在之前的赛季尝试重建期间，华盛顿的成功势头通常被认为是初学者的运气。这种风格的连胜通常来自一支不知道自己不应该这么强的球队。而现在的这些胜利，更像是一支清楚自己在做什么的球队。

在赛季结束前，无疑还会出现困难的阶段，这对于任何球队，尤其是像神秘客队这样年轻的球队来说都是预料之中的。

神秘客队接下来的三场比赛

对阵 凤凰城水星队 周日 3 Monumental

客场 对阵 拉斯维加斯 Area 周二 10 Monumental

客场 对阵 拉斯维加斯 Area 周四 10 Prime Video 广播：MTSM (5:00 AM)

但此时的华盛顿并不是在通过天真的条件和对挑战的无知来赢得比赛。在与 WNBA 一些顶尖球队交手时取得六连胜，看起来不像是一个稚嫩、缺乏经验的群体的结果。

在第四节，在第一轮命中一个三分球将梦想队的领先优势缩小到 7 分后，华盛顿的一次失误成为了关键时刻。神秘客队通过 Austin 的一次强攻上篮做出回应，在 Jordan Canada 在另一端投失三分后，Austin 再次得分，使分差变为 10 分。

最后几秒带来了对神秘客队斗志的另一次考验，但多亏了 ，球队再次通过考验，第九场连续胜利被记录在册。

“寻找不同的获胜方式是一支上升球队的标志。一支上升的、成长中的球队，”Johnson 说道。“这非常明显。”

Medina （右）以 5 次盖帽追平职业生涯最高纪录，而神秘客队则创下了球队纪录的 12 次盖帽。

“我们只是很有运动能力，” 说道。

观点

乔丹在华盛顿的经历为詹姆斯提供了警示

—— 这种只有少数人能承受的压力，乔丹和詹姆斯便是其中之二 —— 并且他们对西部和费城的吸引力并不像对奇才队和华盛顿那样。他们是超级巨星。教训 8：奇才队的领导层对乔丹妥协了。西部领导层对詹姆斯的妥协程度有限。在《When Nothing Has Matter》中一个反复出现的主题是乔丹对奇才队整个组织实施的控制，从他挑选的朋友兼教练道格·科林斯（Doug Collins）开始。“每当出现影响球队福祉的关键问题时，”莱斯利（Lesley）写道，“乔丹都会在意志上击败科林斯 —— 无论是关于乔丹的出场时间，还是决定哪些队友首发或不首发，亦或是采用什么样的进攻或防守策略。科林斯权力的缺失说明了允许任何球队成员统治教练和特许经营权的危险性。”鲍勃·米尔斯（Bob Meers）拥有威信，并带领由罗尼·马雷森（Roni Mareson）领衔的球队赢得了真正的冠军。迈克·盖姆斯（Mike Games）与詹姆斯在克利夫兰骑士队共事期间建立了良好的关系。尼克·努恩（Nick Nune）在 1979 年带领多伦多猛龙队夺冠 —— 并且与超级巨星卡基·伦纳德（Karki Leonard）共事，后者一直是一个挑战。面对詹姆斯的声望和权力，他们必须主张并维持自己的权威，或者至少是某些个人的影响力。他未必会像乔丹那样完全掌控指挥权，但他可能足够具有控制欲且要求严格。他不习惯总是随心所欲，现在指望他仅仅随波逐流是不现实的。

迈克尔·乔丹结束退休为奇才队效力，在随后的两个赛季中带领华盛顿取得了 70-90 的战绩。教训 8：球员之间存在专业紧张关系，尤其是顶尖球员之间。乔丹对新秀夸梅·布朗（Kwame Brown）的言语攻击，包括在训练结束时称他为“房屋建造者”，是莱斯利书中提到的宇宙级冲突之一。但乔丹在 2010-22 赛季与罗洛（Rolo）和“大”汉密尔顿（“Big” Hamilton）的关系，对于 2020-27 的 70ers 来说更具参考意义。根据莱斯利的说法，乔丹与丹尼尔·麦考利斯特（Daniel McAllister）之间存在“持久的紧张关系”，部分原因是汉密尔顿 —— 当时处于第三个赛季且正崭露头角成为最出色的外线得分手之一 —— 认为他应该开始确立自己在球队中的影响力，而乔丹在阻碍他。仅仅因为乔丹和汉密尔顿发生冲突，并不意味着詹姆斯、乔尔·恩兹莱尔（Joel Enzleil）、乔丹·布朗（Jordan Brown）、格雷斯·马尼（Grace Maney）和 VJ·基尔格科姆（VJ Kilgcombe）就不能和谐相处。但 70ers 必须为这种可能性，甚至是大概率做好准备：这支球队不会是一台运行顺畅、没有 ego 的机器。布朗的 2-

教训 9：时间会对年长球员产生影响，即使是像乔丹或詹姆斯这样伟大的球员。令人惊叹的是，乔丹在他最后一个 NBA 赛季参加了全部 41 场比赛，尽管他在 2010-22, 期间一直与伤病作斗争，仅赢得了 10 场比赛。詹姆斯在过去八个赛季中，没有任何一个赛季在 75 场比赛中保持 10-6 的记录，且在其中五个赛季中，他的出场次数在 60 场或更少。永远不要忘记，时间是贝基·麦肯（Becky Maccann）。教训 8：房主最终会离开，而胜利最好能随之而来。乔丹在华盛顿的两年并不被视为他职业生涯中伟大光辉的一部分，简单原因就是奇才队在他期间依然在挣扎。70ers 在拥有詹姆斯的情况下同样可能陷入困境。但他们面临的压力将是巨大的，对于连败或一段时间低迷表现的耐心将极其有限，如果还存在耐心的话。“体育迷可能是一群残酷且缺乏理性的‘人群',”莱斯利写道。“对于大多数人来说，只有比赛和结果才重要，根据你的看法，这要么体现了一种可爱的、孩子般的狂热，要么是一种严重的成长障碍。”

第9课：乔丹的回归——以及詹姆斯加入70年代球队——其意义远不止于获胜。“事实是这样的：一位体育之神只有在他的权利、装备和生命结束之前才享有至高无上的权力，”莱斯利写道。“在他想要成为一个热忱的主要收入印花税时刻，就是他统治结束的时刻。”詹姆斯表示他考虑过提供，他“停止”了他的想法，因为他仍然希望“致力于提供一个‘共同神庙’”，而他想要再次赢得冠军是他来到这里的理由。这是一个方面，但并非唯一一个。他在费城的号召力会比他在其他地方可能需要的更多，如果你认为这种令人陶醉的补救措施在他做出这个决定时不在他的脑海中，那么你太天真了。勒布朗·詹姆斯和迈克尔·乔丹一样是体育之神，而被如此对待是地球上最强大的药物。他不想以任何方式离开舞台。

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职业美式足球计分板 --- 华盛顿邮报 大都会版 2008年[注：此处年份疑似OCR误读，应为2026年]8月8日，星期六 B13 © C. J. Pletho Hammond 是马里兰州新成立的有色人种儿童感化与教育院委员会的投票成员。十个席位，Amos Hammond 曾是该机构的住院人员，于 1915 年在那里去世，享年 10 岁。# 至少 230 名黑人男孩死在监狱中。他们的家人想要答案。马里兰州委员会将研究埋葬在青少年设施附近，时间在 1870 年至 1939 年之间的男孩和青少年的死亡情况。作者：KATHI MEYTIAR Pletho 知道，在她走出森林的那一刻，她需要看到这一切。她爬进车里，学习流媒体，并祈祷道。上帝请指引我，无论以何种方式，去寻求正义。一周前，60 岁的 收到了一封来自谱系学家的信，信中揭露了一个令人不安的事实。她的叔叔 Amos 于 1915 年在有色人种儿童感化与教育院去世，享年 10 岁。那是马里兰州的一所种族隔离青少年监狱，有记录在案的虐待和忽视历史。他是该州埋葬在设施对面普林斯乔治县森林中的数百名黑人男孩和青少年之一。 以前从未听说过一个叫 Amos 的叔叔。但她了解得越多，就越意识到 Amos 是家人。今年春天，她参观了那些标记着破碎火堆且没有名字的坟墓，并下定决心。“我要成为这些男孩缺失的那把声音。” 本周开始了这项工作，她被马里兰州司法部长 Anthony G. Brown 认可为该州新成立的有色人种儿童感化与教育院委员会的投票成员——这是一个由立法者在今年早些时候创建的调查机构，旨在研究被该州忽视了一个多世纪的埋葬情况。“我们决心成为在整个过程中参与重大决策的声音，” 在周二的第一次委员会会议上表示。“我们坚定地相信，在没有充分参与的情况下，不应对我们的孩子做出任何决定，并且 CBS 委员会 B13

华盛顿特区法官撤销与反思池指控相关的指控

被指控破坏设施的男子表示感到宽慰 作者：LAM BORMAN

一名华盛顿特区法官周四批准了检察官的请求，撤销了对前 Hampden 的一项重罪指控。该男子此前被指控破坏了林肯纪念堂反思池，此案引起了全国关注，并加剧了特朗普政府内部的紧张局势。

前奥运顾问大卫·赫恩（David Hearn）在 6 月被捕，此前他表示自己抽了一块从反思池中明显剥落的塑料衬垫。他成为了唐纳德·特朗普总统的目标，特朗普称其几乎是刺头，并经常指责破坏者损坏了这座新修缮的地标。

参议院观察员表示，《华盛顿邮报》的一项分析反复表明，损坏可能源于仓促的施工。在收到相关部门文件，表明剥落是由“劣质”维修工作引起后，司法部已采取行动，重新审视针对赫恩以及其他三名被指控破坏反思池的被告的案件。

在法官下达命令后，赫恩表示，看到自己的案件被撤销他感到宽慰，但这次折磨让他付出了代价。

“我认为没有人喜欢被针对，或者因为没做过的事情而被指控，”赫恩在 CNN 的《与 Karlan Collins 对话》节目中说道。“被像对待某种人渣或不是个好人那样被议论是很痛苦的。但这一切是建立在谎言之上的……领导者不该那样做。”

赫恩表示，他的案例表明“这种情况可能发生在任何人身上”。他补充道：“没有人能免于这种政府法外之地的侵害。”

赫恩的代理律师提交了一项动议，请求法院以“不得重新起诉”（with prejudice）的方式撤销赫恩的案件，这将防止政府重新提起针对该状态的指控。

“鉴于各方的立场，法院认为在各方就剩余法律问题进行诉讼且法院予以解决期间，没有理由让这起重罪案件继续针对赫恩先生待决，”华盛顿特区高等法院法官托德·E·埃德尔曼（Todd E. Edelman）在命令中写道。

根据该命令，埃德尔曼表示他将在稍后日期对该问题做出裁决。

白宫和美国华盛顿特区检察官办公室未立即回应置评请求。

4 月，特朗普前往国家广场视察反思池。但池底新更换的材料甚至已经开始出现劣化迹象，名为“美国旗蓝色”的碎片漂浮在水面，藻类爆发使水质浑浊。

特朗普将损坏归咎于破坏者，指责赫恩及其他人……

CBS 指控 见 B13

弗吉尼亚州男孩死亡正值电动滑板车伤害增加之际

作者：LAM SCOTT

上个月底，在北弗吉尼亚州，一名小男孩骑着电动滑板车前往附近朋友家，途中与一辆小型面包车相撞。警方表示，这名 9 岁男孩当时没有佩戴头盔，随后死亡。费尔法克斯警方表示，车辆驾驶员没有过错。一天后，一名骑着电动滑板车的 5 岁男孩在南华盛顿特区的一起肇事逃逸事故中受重伤，华盛顿特区警方如是说。该案目前尚未有人被起诉。

医生和研究人员表示，随着电动滑板车和电动自行车的普及，近年来他们观察到与这些车辆相关的伤害大幅增加，其中也包括儿童。巴尔的摩约翰·霍普金斯儿童中心的儿科急诊医生玛丽·贝丝·霍华德（Mary Beth Howard）表示，她曾在一次 8 小时的值班期间治疗过 7 名电动滑板车受伤的儿童。根据她的经验，在与电动滑板车相关的事故中，严重伤害、硬皮病以及头部受伤最为常见。

“我们看到三种伤害出现的频率更高，而且严重程度也在增加，”霍华德说。霍华德共同撰写了一篇 3 月份的论文，该论文发现，在 2000 和 2010 年之间，美国国家电子伤害监测系统（包含具有国家代表性的急诊室样本）记录了 3,137 起儿童电动滑板车伤害事件。她说：“在美国，骑电动滑板车受伤的儿童真实数量肯定更高。”

Radiotaxavan 本应在今年秋季开始五年级，他的家人好友 Venkata Peta 在一次采访中表示，该男孩喜欢种植、足球和国际象棋。Peta 说，Radiotaxavan 通常会佩戴头盔，但怀疑在车祸当天，男孩认为骑行时间不长，不需要佩戴。Peta 表示，《华盛顿邮报》无法联系到 Hampden 的父母，因为他们回印度处理家事。

CBS 新闻周刊 见 B13

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从左到右依次为：琳达·F·格雷厄姆（Linda F. Gerham）、菲利斯·哈蒙德（Phyllis Hammond）和多萝西·吉文斯（Dorothy Givens）。她们均在马里兰州新成立的有色人种儿童改革与教育委员会中任职。

埋葬在马里兰州监狱外的黑人男孩之死将受到研究

委员会 2028 B15 与家属的参与。Hammond阐明了她的优先事项，以确保委员会保持独立、不带先入之见，并以男孩在世亲属的意愿为中心，因为他们正在权衡是否要挖掘遗骸、确认身份并确定这些孩子的真实死因。该委员会将由Brown担任主席，他是该州历史上第一位黑人司法部长；委员会由24名有投票权的成员和另外10名无投票权的咨询成员组成，所有成员在法医人类学、考古学、州历史、青少年司法政策和民权法方面具有兴趣或专业知识。成员包括参议员Will Smith（民主党-蒙哥马利）和参议员Arthur E. Long Jr.（民主党-卡尔文 L），他们赞助了成立该委员会的立法，以及乔治王子县行政主管Anita Buechler。除Hammond外，另有两名在世亲属将在委员会任职：81, 岁的Dorothy Givens，代表她的叔叔Fred Amos Jr.，以及Linda F. Gerham，代表她的表亲Richard Saunders。《华盛顿邮报》在马里兰州青少年服务部（DJS）的前领导人公开其参考资料后，率先报道了这座被遗弃且杂草丛生的坟墓。一项部分调查发现，在1875 和 1900. 之间，至少有 130 名儿童在改造院（House of Reformation）死亡。这是迄今为止基于州记录、报纸档案和死亡证明最全面的公开核算。黑人党团的立法者于去年8月访问了该遗址，其成员随后推动了一项由州长Wm. Moore签署的法律，该法律为委员会的初始预算拨款 500万美元。非裔美国人遗产保护计划另提供了 $200,000 的赠款资金。

“这是我们所有马里兰州的人，终于在做一件很久以前就应该做的事，”Brown在会议上说道，并解释说该机构预计将在 2027 年底前提交一份初步工作报告，并在 2020. 12月提交最终报告。他告诉成员们，改造院委员会可能是马里兰州在过去十年中创建的最重要的调查，尤其是当特朗普政府致力于从国家历史中抹除对种族主义遗产的认可之时。“我们开会的时间，恰逢联邦领导层中的许多人正背离承认塑造这个国家的历史，”Brown说。“这使得我们在这里所做的事情变得更加重要，而不是更不重要。”

Givens周二在马里兰州克朗斯维尔举行的委员会首次会议上发言。马里兰州选择清晰地审视其自身历史中痛苦的一章，不是为了进行形式上的问责，而是为了真正追求问责。

自从改造院被公众重新发现以来的一年里，既充满了礼貌又充满了紧张，是对制度性种族主义、国家权力以及受两者影响的人群之间紧张关系的导航。在周二下午的会议上，三种紧张关系变得清晰，家属提醒委员会成员，对他们来说，这个过程是个人化的。“我们正在衡量，”执业心理学家Gerham说。“我知道我们讨论了遗骸和记录，但请知道……我们有需要被照顾的需求。”

与委员会的努力并行的是乔治敦大学的“被遗忘的孩子计划”——这是一个由青少年司法倡导者、前DJS副秘书Mark Schindler创立的首创研究项目，旨在识别全国范围内类似的被遗弃墓地。他与前DJS秘书Vincent Schmidt在 2014 年监督了该州揭露改造院历史的最早努力，并且它已经

Hammond希望委员会在权衡是否挖掘遗骸、确认身份并确定孩子如何死亡时，能够继续以男孩在世亲属的意愿为中心。

他希望在离开政府后继续这项工作。迄今为止，“被遗忘的孩子”计划（Forgotten Children Initiative）的首席伪装学家（pseudogist）马莱娜·鲁夫纳（Malena Ruffner）已为 24 名男孩联系了 13 位潜在的在世亲属。约有十几个男孩的家庭成员给予了回应。鲁夫纳之前的伪装学工作包括帮助识别 375 名被奴役者的在世后代，这些人是在 1848 年被乔治城大学的耶稣会创始人出卖的。她表示，有些改革院孩子的家庭成员在几小时内就能找到，而有些则需要几天时间——这一过程包括查阅数十年的出生和死亡证明、州记录、报纸档案、人口普查信息以及讣告。目前确认的家庭成员之间已经建立了深厚的情感纽带，这种纽带由共同的悲伤和正义的愤怒所锻造。6 月，他们前往森林中被遗弃的墓地举行了一场葬礼——这种体面的仪式是这些男孩在一个世纪前未能得到的。到目前为止，这些家庭与布朗（Brown）进行了私人会面。他们被引导参加了在查博德姆（Chabodham）青少年拘留设施的一场现场仪式，改革院曾经就位于那里。那次集会由现任 DJS 领导人、州议员和州长主持，作为面向更广泛社区的选举（tosses），并以揭幕一块承认该机构曾实行种族隔离历史的路标而告终。“热爱你的国家并不意味着对它的历史撒谎，”布朗当天说道，“热爱你的国家并不意味着延长那种糟糕、阴暗和恶劣的部分没有发生过。它意味着能够面对一切，包括事实，并说每一天都是我们变得更好的机会。”

摩尔（Moore）表示他“致力于”纪念这些男孩，包括在森林中定位每个人的坟墓。司法部长在周二的会议上表示，这项工作可能会花费数年时间，且所需资金将远超目前分配的 1510 万。委员会将依赖于监督过类似调查的法医人类学家和考古学家的专业知识，包括埃里克·基默勒（Eric Kimmerle），他曾领导佛罗里达州迪恩学校（Deane School）的一个长期（excellent）项目，那里是一家改革设施，官员们将数十名在州监管期间死亡的孩子埋葬在那里。作为委员会顾问成员的基默勒告诉该小组，他们应该以法医调查的敏感度来对待这一过程。“对于他们来说，过去就是现在，”她在谈到这些家庭时说道，“给出的正义与现代正义是交织在一起的。”

格雷厄姆（Gerham）强调了这一点。“无论理查德，我的表亲，他在 2015, 处于什么状态，我告诉她，”她说，“这里正在发生一件非常深远的事情。如果你在服役，我希望你能感受到它。”对于哈蒙德（Hammond）来说，委员会最重要的使命之一就是利用他们的权力，确保没有一个在州监管下的孩子会像她的叔叔阿莫斯（Amos）那样被对待。为了强调这一限制，她向在场人员朗读了一首她在首次访问被遗弃的墓地后写的诗。“如果这些森林能说话，我想它们会说什么？”她说，“如果这些森林能说话，你认为它们能分享这些男孩在被委托给青少年受害者之手时的每一次询问和死亡吗？如果这些森林能说话，它们能分享这些孩子在他们年轻的身体中忍受的痛苦和泪水吗？”“如果这些森林能说话，”她继续道，“我想这些森林是否能大声且清晰地反对它们所看到、听到并成为一部分的那些草本之物（herbaceous）。”“如果这些森林能说话，多么令人悲伤，也许许多生命本可以被挽救。”

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2010. 年在华盛顿 S 街 309 号的一群人。医生和研究人员表示，他们看到与这些车辆相关的伤害大幅增加，包括在儿童之中。

随着电动滑板车日益普及，受伤儿童人数增加

A. 华盛顿邮报与 SAND。“他是社区里最好的孩子之一，”芬克（Fink）说道，他表示这两个家庭就像一家人一样。“我仍在努力走出这次创伤。”

更多车辆意味着更多伤害 在过去十年中，电动滑板车和自行车的骑行人数在全国及当地均有所增长。根据美国交通部的资料，2015, 包括华盛顿在内的 100 多个美国城市提供了共享电动滑板车系统。根据城市数据，在 2030, 的前六个月中，特区内有超过 180 万 次电动滑板车行程。相比之下，2010. 同一时期的电动滑板车行程约为 440,000 次。根据北美文学与瑞士协会（North American literature and Switzerland Association）的数据，2024 年北美共享骑行人数增长了 57 percent，达到至少 2.27 亿 次行程的新高，其中包括近 4000 万 次电动滑板车行程。Cheng，进口电动滑板车可以通过网络轻松购买，有时被视为免费。

随着电动滑板车和 cribber 变得更加普遍，相关伤害也随之增加。2013, DC Health 记录了特区内 20. 岁以下人群使用各类滑板车导致的 27 起伤害，而两年前为 91 起。在这一年里，该机构记录了 6 到 20. 岁人群中 62 起与滑板车相关的伤害。根据消费者产品安全委员会 4 月的一份报告，2017 年至 2024, 间，全美国估计共有 600,000 次与电动滑板车、cribber、自平衡滑板车和自行车相关的急诊就诊，从 2017 年的 27,000 次增加到 2024 年的 160,000 次。电动滑板车约占这些总就诊次数的 260,000 次。

该报告总结了同一年度期间与这些设备相关的 553 起死亡病例。It takes 与其中 20. 的死亡病例相关，而电动滑板车则与约 20. 相关。在电动滑板车事故遇难者中，有两名是 7, 岁以下的儿童，没有一名是在 4 到 16. 岁之间。通过媒体报道，《邮报》还确认在 2024 年至今年之间，美国各地至少有其他六名未成年人在电动滑板车事故中丧生。

2025, 加利福尼亚州一名 8 岁儿童在骑电动滑板车时被困在车下身亡。同年，拉斯维加斯一名 10 岁儿童和一名 9 岁儿童在共同骑电动滑板车时被车辆撞击，年长者死亡，年幼者受伤。5 月在佛罗里达州，一名 13 岁儿童在骑电动滑板车时被车辆撞击身亡。上个月，纽约市一名 10 岁儿童在骑电动滑板车时被车辆撞击身亡。

“我们看到这些伤害出现得越来越频繁，而且严重程度也在增加。”巴尔的摩约翰霍普金斯儿童中心的儿科急诊医学医生玛丽·贝丝·霍华德（Mary Beth Howard）表示。霍华德这位儿科急诊医学医生说，多种因素共同导致了孩子们在骑电动滑板车时不断受伤或死亡。她说，他们可能没有 murder-province-people，也没有车辆。她补充道，儿童往往对交通规则不够熟悉，且缺乏控制通常较重的电动滑板车的协调能力。

根据北卡罗来纳大学公路安全研究中心负责主动出行伤害研究的凯瑟琳·帕特森（Katherine Paterson）的说法，儿童与青少年或成年人一样，在被车辆撞击时最容易遭受严重伤害。“对于儿童来说，他们体型更小，体重更轻，”她说，“他们更容易 go as he's。”

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警方表示，7月23日下午3:30左右，在收到一名9岁男孩被车辆撞击的报告后，警员赶赴费尔法克斯县的喜来登区域。警方称，初步迹象表明，当一名夏季进入卡车社区时，该男孩撞上了车辆的右后乘客侧。据警方称，这名9岁男孩当时骑着一辆Volpara Q2滑板车，当局尚未透露其行驶速度。根据该公司网站上的描述，该型号滑板车的最高时速可达10英里。描述中还将该滑板车设定为“为成年人设计”。事故发生后，警方敦促家长确保孩子在户外玩耍时的安全。“请让您的孩子佩戴头盔。教他们基础安全规则。时刻留意他们，”费尔法克斯警方队长克里斯·克拉吉尔（Chris Craggill）在事故后的新闻发布会上表示。

次日晚上约9:45，20名华盛顿特区警员赶赴华盛顿东南部Congress Heights附近一个住宅社区的停车场。警方表示，初步调查确定，一辆挂弗吉尼亚州车牌的深蓝色尼桑汽车在高速行驶时，撞上了一名骑着儿童电动滑板车的5岁男孩。警方称，埃德·芬克（Ed Fink）将该男孩送往当地医院治疗危及生命的伤势。警方补充说，司机逃离了现场，目前尚未实施逮捕。

一周后，社区居民仍对这次事故心有余悸。马克·乌勒（Mark Uller）说，社区里有很多孩子在户外玩耍。“那可能是我孩子，”乌勒说，他有一个9岁的儿子。尽管户外有孩子，米拉·约翰逊（Mira Johnson）表示，司机往往在社区内超速行驶。“如果他们能在这里安装减速带，将有助于让他们减速，”约翰逊说，她有两个女儿，一个3个月大，一个6岁。她补充道：“这个社区的安全执行情况不像应该的那样到位。”

特区交通部的发言人表示，该事件发生在私人停车区域，超出了该机构的道路管辖范围，且机构审查发现，该街道没有待处理的交通安全调查请求、待检项目、工作单或活跃的DDOT项目。该发言人表示：“居民的安全关切对DDOT很重要。DDOT欢迎提供关于周边社区特定公共街道或街区的关切信息。”

据DDOT称，在2017年，骑行者必须年满10岁才能开始使用电动滑板车，但特区法律规定，骑行者必须年满10岁才能使用个人电动滑板车。DDOT表示，出于安全原因，市内租赁电动滑板车的时速上限为10英里。在弗吉尼亚州，骑行者必须年满14岁才能在无监督情况下骑电动滑板车。

尽管有这些年龄限制，担任交通委员会主席的特区议会议员查尔斯·奥尔顿（Charles Alton，民主党-C区）表示，他担心孩子们继续在全市范围内骑电动滑板车。“它们更重，速度更快，而且容错空间更小，”他说。“孩子们不应该操作电动滑板车是有原因的。”

据奥尔顿称，特区向滑板车公司提供为期两年的许可证，该流程将于秋季再次启动。他表示，希望进一步了解这些公司如何努力限制未成年人随意骑行电动滑板车。“这给了我们一个非常专注于安全的机会，”他说。“坦率地说，这就是我们能够制定更好标准的机会。”

前奥运选手在反思池案件中的指控被撤销

尽管在池塘的部分区域，但未提供证据。“它是被刀子或两把刀划破的，高级彩色防水衬垫——它被破坏了，”特朗普在7月的一篇社交媒体帖子中写道。Hours，67岁，表示他6月份经过反思池时，在被美国公园警察逮捕前仅触碰了一块漂浮的池衬垫。最初被指控为轻罪，上个月大陪审团命令Hours承担一项恶意破坏财产的指控，美国检察官安德鲁·佩夫（Andrew Pave）指称他“强行且暴力地”从岸边撕掉了衬垫。

“这有点令人震惊，”Hours周四在CNN上表示。“她所说的话如此离谱，以至于我不得不思考，‘我做了什么让她对我产生这些看法？’”这场法律之争被视为一场闹剧，因为特朗普及其支持者在媒体上因该指控罪行而抨击Hours，而批评者则称Hours是轻罪的“认知对象”，并谴责此案为滥用权力。

这场法律之争在上周末出人意料地结束，当时司法部改变方向，在提交的文件中请求法官撤销此案。检察官撤回了他们的破坏指控，写道，从内政部获得的新信息显示，衬垫剥落是承包商安装缺陷的结果，“而非最初陈述的那样是蓄意破坏”。根据文件，如果内政部当时提供了他们推迟提供的信息，政府将不会寻求大陪审团的起诉。

佩夫的办公室还申请撤销对另外三名被指控破坏池塘的人员的轻罪指控。在今年晚些时候，特朗普继续将损坏归咎于破坏者，并称佩夫因放弃此案而“像雨伞一样折叠（指轻易屈服）”。

被告律师对司法部的事件陈述表示怀疑，指称检察官从一开始就知道安装缺陷，但仍然追求破坏指控。Hours的律师在本周的一份文件中写道，检察官“试图将责任推给内政部的各种努力，反而证实了而非否认了政府的恶意”。“它依赖内政部获得起诉书，在起诉前未能进行调查，现在又试图否认对那些它所依赖的指控和证人的机构所掌握信息的责任。”

律师还指称，检察官可以接触到显示池衬垫在Hours被捕前就在的文件。他们还指称，一名政府证人向大陪审团作证称，无论Hours是否被捕，维修都是必要的，但检察官随后召回该证人并“引导”其表示，由于Hours的逮捕而导致的损坏将超过10,000，根据文件所述。

Hours的律师还请求法官允许他们审查与此案相关的大陪审团记录，以查看检察官是否可能误读信息以获得起诉书，根据文件所述。

大卫·Hours（坐姿）及其律师，A.B.C. 法官周四批准了检察官撤销对Hours重罪指控的请求，他此前被指控破坏反思池。

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Lawmakers are haggling over how to pay the bill for the conflict

BY SAMMY WHITNALL

As the U.S. approaches six months of war with Iran, the costs to taxpayers and consumers continue to grow, beyond what has yet been fully quantified.

Lawmakers are wrangling over a plan to pay the bill. Consumers face bills of their own, including gas prices driven up by supply disruptions during the war, and people around the world face shortages and higher

prices, some connected to Iran's effective choice of the Head of Horman to commercial shipping — as U.S. allies grow for a deal to open it.

U.S. officials are warning of a Pentagon funding crunch and extreme munitions shortages that pushed President Donald Trump to clash with Defense Secretary Pete Haguchi last week, The Washington Post reported.

Here is what we know so far about the costs of the war.

Military costs

"It takes money to kill bad guys," Haguchi told reporters in March.

The war began on July 28 with a joint U.S. and Israeli attack on Iranian targets. By September, the military will have

incurred some $375 billion in taxpayer-funded costs in connection to the war, including the cost of damage to U.S. bans in the region struck Iran, according to Haguchi's latest estimate, which he offered at a hearing last month in which he pushed lawmakers to approve $67 billion in additional funding to cover the expense of the conflict, including replenishment of some weapons stocks.

The House late last month approved some $75 billion for the Iran war, not all of which would go to the Defense Department, and the Republican-controlled Senate is rushing to approve it, along with a stinging spending measure, before leaving Washington for summer recess meant to begin Friday.

House Republicans on July 22 passed a $150 million defense policy bill and created a $45 billion budget plan that would provide some $75 billion in military and indignant funding, as well as relief for farmers, among other measures.

Some analysts, based on their own calculations or projections, put the cost of the war higher than Pentagon estimates.

Mark F. Canzino of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, put out an estimate in June of a cost of $35.2 — $44.5 billion for the war, counting only additional costs incurred by the Department of Defense due to the war, as many operational activities are already halted into the

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Lower court ruling orders halt to work on get project

BY DAN DEARMAN AND JONATHAN EDWARDS

President Donald Trump on Friday said that he would ask the Supreme Court to allow him to resume building his planned White House ballroom, after an appeals court ruled he had no further or authority by handwashing part of the mansion and beginning construction without congressional approval.

"We will be immediately appointed," says United States Supreme Court. Trump wrote on his 70-th Social platform, not creating its argument that the planned addition, which he has pegged at 6949 million, is needed to protect him and future presidents. "This report declares that it is warranted to the Supreme Court in its entirety."

In a 24 decision-matter Friday, a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled with a federal judge's April ruling requiring construction to halt until Congress expected another 2000-2005 project.

"Each President is a tempo core tenant, not the owner, of the district house and in force, over $500,000," judges Patricia A. Miller and Randall S. Harris wrote in their majority opinion.

They stated their ruling for 16 days to allow the White House to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Trump relied on private donations to begin the project without making an appropriation from Congress, touting the arrangement as a boon to taxpayers. But the courts have found that private financing did not allow him to bypass the separate requirement that Congress underlies major changes to the White House grounds.

Trump announced the 99,000-square-foot addition last year and swiftly demolished the

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Prosecutors rarely pursued those in it only for housing subsidies

BY CRAIG WHITLAND AND ANNEPH BA TRAN

SAY HINGE — At Blue Star Learning, a vocational school that submitted a taxpayer of $25 million in GI Bill funds, lowering war rate the point.

Over four years, more than 1,200 military veterans pushed Blue Star Learning's disencouraged to a lack in the first last-food joint here, encrusted to basic basic computer skills. In one segment enrolled just to collect a GI Bill housing allowance of about $10,000 per month, according to court documents and law enforcement records obtained by The Washington Post as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

Veterans logged 16 hours in class a week to capture the 16 hours that they were full-time students entitled to housing subsidies. Most agree the time meaning, soothing through YouTube or "not hanging out" Yes, the Press, Blue Star Learning's former admissions director, told federal agents.

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The wits and family members of one of the five teachers and staff members killed during a school shooting in Thailand on Friday are consoled. The chester also killed his two grandparents. SEATY, 8:15

23,000 jobs were shed in July's hiring slump

Labor Department data show job growth slowing since April

BY LAUREN BLOOD COLLINS

Hiring bill unexpectedly to July as US supporters shed 23,000 jobs, a surprising show of weakness in an economy battered by tariffs, elevated inflation and the ongoing war in Iran.

The unemployment rate ticked down to 6.1 last month, continuing a years-long struck of low joblessness, according to Labor Department data released Friday. But the decline was due largely to workers cutting the job market. An ongoing wave of intervention helped push the share of Americans working as looking for work to its lowest level since February 2015.

Data for June and May also were revised down by a combined 1972-2011 jobs, suggesting that the labor market has been

weakening more than previously thought. For July, forecasters had expected gains of about 99,000 jobs, instead, last month brought the first negative job growth since Trump launched. Intake on June in February, disrupting gains of number and raising prices at the pump.

In addition to the war's elevated gas prices, high inflation, advancement in artificial intelligence and President Donald Trump's push to raise tariffs and restrict immigration near he taking part, occasionally and. Though companies enjoying Trump's tax rate accelerated their hiring in the first six months of this year to about 72,000 jobs per month — up from about 23,000 now positions per month last year — that momentum could be ending.

"The labor market has to fight a lot of hardwired to keep going," said Gail Berger, director of economic research at the Paris Air Force Institute, a Philadelphia think tank that studies the labor market. Citing the impact

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Virginia Tech professor Matthew Dell provided to The Washington Post this photo he said he took in 2024 at the Ford House Office Building. The display now, he said, held papers produced by a secretive U.S. House team that investigated federal spending over eight decades. A complete archive of the group's work is missing.

Decades of missing spending investigation documents sought

Watchdogs press House panel over more than 80 years of work

BY MARIANA ALBANO

For 40 years, a secretive team inside the House Appropriations Committee investigated how federal agencies spent the public's money — military construction costs, Agriculture Department contracts, childrens' television funded by the Education Department.

The team produced hundreds of reports detailing the ways the U.S. government funded American life across decades — a rich town of information experts say could help study successful federal spending, as well as found and abuse, in the nation's key government programs, and military and infrastructure projects during the 2016 century.

The problem is, a complete archive of the team's findings is missing, and no one with the Appropriations Committee will say where it went.

"These records, in particular, shed really important light into the operations of Congress and how the Appropriations Committee has changed the course of history," said Don Schuman, executive director of the American Governance Institute (AGI). "We want this information to

be available so that people can understand what appropriation have done and how it shaped some of most pivotal battles in this the legislative branch."

Known as Survey and Investigations, the team was created in 1946 and was staffed by a training cast of FBI investigators alongside federal agency experts and, at times, analysts from the Government. Accountability: 50,000. Still, at 11 was known, was quietly disbanded in 2024. While House rules can meet congressional records that old should be open to the public for sure, experts say that the committee did not completely file the records with the National Archives, as mandated by House rules.

On Friday, a group of 13 government watchdog, george and experts, led by Schuman and the AGI, sent a letter asking that appropriations Committee leaders provide assurance that the records were properly preserved.

Only 500 and pieces of the Mail records have been made public, largely due to the work of Matthew Dell, a professor at Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy. For more, Dell has worked with an archivist working out these reports, often finding them in public and private libraries, agencies, archives and reading rooms. The producer has identified about 2,000 study titles, but a complete archive of 50,000 work is missing, and the committee's leaders have not explained why.

Dell, who signed Schuman's letter, said up to 50 percent of the studies he's been able to account for those on military expenses, while the rest touch on issues as varied as Interior Department geological surveys. Department of Agriculture solid waste removal prices and Education Department school infrastructure costs.

The professor maintains an online archive of the Mail investigations fact found, but most reports have never been publicly accounted for.

"The rules of the House say that the committee turns over everything at the end of the Congress to the clerk," Dell said, but "they did not, in general, turn over copies of those reports to the clerk."

Dell provided The Washington Post with photographs he said he took at a cross at the Ford House Office Building, on on 2024 and another in 2023. The first is of a display case that he said held some of the team's investigations and historical memories of its work — showing that, at some point, at least some of the documents were being held in a Capitol office. He said the first to the other rooms in the office was locked, including that of a closet where he was told paper reports were housed. In the second photo, he said, the display case was gone and shelves in that closet were caught.

Spokespeople for both the Republican and Democratic leaders of the panel did not respond

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Bill was started in 1941 by then-appropriations — chairman Clarence Cannon, a powerful Democrat from Missouri who held the nation's prime strings tight. He received support from then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who let human investigators take on Bill investigations, according to historical records.

A former Bill staffer who was brought into the team in the 2020s to conduct an investigation — and who spoke on the condition of anorexia because they still work with the secretive sectors of the federal government — described the work as "pretty unique." The former staffer said that specialists from across the federal government were brought in to investigate how agencies spent money. The former staffer also said they understood that the investigations were kept secret because the Appropriations Committee wanted to remove any sense of bias or partisanship from their reports. Still, the former staffer argued that the public — or at least academic — should now be allowed to see 50% decades-old work.

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Michelle Angstrom, left, long-her husband, Wayne, as they survey the remains of their home in Spokane, Washington.

Washington state fires pushed far beyond familiar danger zones

Three blazes have burned more than 10,000 acres across Spokane

BY N. KORENTROCK, JOHN RICHMOND AND MORGAN WASHINGTON

Michelle Angstrom expected she would cry when she returned to see what was left of her home, but she didn't. She stood there in her automatic arms looking at the smoldering route of the house she bought 20 years ago as a single mother of two.

The house was a reflection of the life she built. She had to start over again after her first marriage ended, building a career, raising her children. She had returned to the neighborhood where she grew up to give them what she experienced, a safe place off the beaten path where she could roam freely by him.

The Angstroms were two hours north when they found out a fire threatened their home. Their dogs had mated behind. The couple jumped quickly in the car and raced back to Spokane only to find they couldn't get past the road (seasons, despite their jobs).

As their house burned, so did Ruth and Trisha.

As wildfires have become more frequent and intense, places like Spokane, Washington — communities that once rarely burned or that many people committed to be safe — are now more vulnerable. A charter of three wildfires there have burned more than 10,000 acres across the city in total. The flames have damaged at least 6th structures and forced tens of thousands to evacuate over the past week.

Swales of buildings in the Dava river permeates 8th into what has been considered 'low' or 'very low' hazard of fire, according to draft maps published July 1 from Washington's Department of Natural Resources. The maps see large-fire simulation modeling to assess burn probability. When a building is unmarked as a low hazard, it would burn once in every 500 years. Now low hazard is once every 2,000 years.

Matthew Nish, at the Department of Natural Resources and the data has limitations especially in dense urban areas. There's a lot of variables that, really, we don't have good science on, and it's going to make it difficult to provide a long-term picture of what the hazard actually is in some of those areas.

'We're in a new era of fighting these types of fires,' said Dave

Lewis Arvesta looks through a toolbox at what remains of his father's house in Spokane.

Smoke billows from the Old Trails Fire on Smokes. A fire later, a man was arrested and charged with arson. The other two nearby blazes remain under investigation.

Kokot, a retired fire marshal living in Spokane. 'The wood unproven/most, it really applies to this.'

The Old Trails Fire, which burned Angstrom's home, has now spread to more than 3,000 acres. On Skinship, a 57-year-old man was arrested and charged with arson.

Officials have not determined the cause of the other two fires.

Spokane sits in a combination of rolling foothills and forested areas, like Riverside State Park, which backs up onto many homes that burned Eastern Washington in far from that city (especially women's part of the state, which is famously rainy because of its proximity to the ocean. Average annual rainfall in Spokane is only about 10 inches.

'It's a beautiful place to live because you're sort of embedded in nature. But when fires then happen in the forest, it's also then where people live,' said Lauren Hardzewalt, who reaches fire history at Eastern Washington University near Spokane.

A red flag warning first prompted evacuations over the weekend, eventually forcing at

least 60,000 people from their homes at smoke billowed and the fires spread.

'What these extreme warnings mean is, if a fire breaks out, we can't stop it,' said Matthew Anderson, a professor of urban planning at Eastern Washington University. 'Even if we had more concerns, more personnel, more capacity, I still don't know if they would have been able to stop this sooner.'

Gregory Ritchie, who owns and runs a media production business, already knew that traffic was bad. He had to help his sister, who recovered from Stage 4 cancer and needed her inhaler, evacuate her apartment. He rushed down Indian Trail Road to get her as flames rocked his vehicle from side to side.

He knew from his work that wildfires are unpredictable. He saw how the traffic was piling up when he arrived at her apartment.

'I was just very stern,' he said. 'We need to leave new, plain and simple.'

After they rushed out the door and into the car, they quickly came to a stop and remained stuck in traffic for hours. There were only two ways out of the neighborhood.

Here we go again: Kokot thought when he saw the weather forecast. In late June, a fire on the eastern side of the city

put some 12,000 people under evacuation orders. In 2024, the Gray Fire destroyed about 200 homes in nearby Medical Lake. And in 2020, the Balds Road Fire burned about 60 percent of homes in Malden, a small town about 40 minutes south of Spokane.

But Kokot didn't expect that the Autumn Lane Fire, one of the three burning in Spokane, which put him on notice to evacuate, was going to move as quickly as it did.

Not everyone evacuated. Also finally, 13, stated behind. He said he was told to evacuate but stayed to document the devastation to his neighborhood on video. He was in the middle of the fire Saturday, surprised by how fast it spread.

'It seemed like it all happened at once,' he said. 'It was scary.'

Al Arvesta walked two miles past a road (house disorder afternoon to see what was left of the house of 40 years a student, half hoop and a mailbox, with fire mad still inside.

Arvesta and his family looked through the still-moldering room. There were metal frames of two923mmx for him and his wife, Janice, skeletons of the refrigerator and the stove, and the bedtists, all sunk to the basement after the ground floor burned. The house's yellow walls, Arvesta's shed and precious artwork from their son, faces, who died in 2020, were all gone.

'It probably wasn't a good idea for us to go, but we dad needed to see for himself,' said Roman Stewart, Arvesta's daughter.

Roman Light was away for the weekend with just four paces when the fire started burning. Her apartment was on the ground floor, its remains now mixed in with the rest of the complex.

She went back with her sister to salvage what she could, finding some of her jewelry and her Polish pottery collection.

'I saw that we were getting change of metal, like silver mat, of and gold metal,' she said. 'I realized later that that was probably the rest of my jewelry that I was looking for. I think they just kind of melted together.'

Firefighters in Spokane are continuing efforts to contain the three fires before temperature returns to the high 90s that weekend. The National Weather Service has issued a red flag warning for Police and Saturday, and what gusts of up to 20 miles an hour are expected.

'What are a numbering fire in always a point of concern,' said Benjamin Cosell, a spokesperson for the federal lease managing the Spokane fires. 'We realize we are not out of the woods yet.'

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After Supreme Court ruling, Trump renews effort to fire Fed governor Cook

BY ANDREW ACKERMAN

President Donald Trump is restarting his effort to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board, about a month after he was blocked from doing so by the Supreme Court.

In a letter to Cook this week, the White House said the president was considering firing her from her position over unproven allegations that she engaged in mortgage fraud, serving efforts that began last summer. It gave Cook 15 days to respond and directed her to submit any evidence or argument to the White House for Aug. 28.

Wednesday's letter, made earlier, on Friday, follows a June Supreme Court ruling that said Cook was entitled to notice and some opportunity to respond before her attempted termination. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. asserted that Congress gave the Fed a special status when it established it as an independent agency.

Trump signaled after the decision that he would soon review the effort.

Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Cook, said that the allegations were "as harmless now as they were a year ago" and that they marked the latest effort to modernize the independence of the Fed.

"No matter what President Trump tries to do now, this much is clear under the facts and Supreme Court president —"laws is no valid cause for removing Governor Cook," he said in a statement. "As we did before, we will challenge this latest protest and preserve her position and the historic role of the Fed."

A Fed spokesman declined to comment.

Trump is the first president in the Fed's 32-year history to let to fire one of the Fed's board members.

Last August, Trump alleged

The Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump from firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook about a month ago.

that Cook claimed two homes as primary residence to get a better mortgage rate. Cook denied wrongdoing.

ABC first reported on the letter to Cook.

Cook, who was initially appointed to the Fed board in President Joe Biden in 2022 and renominated to a 18-year term

in 2023, is the first Black woman to hold the position.

The White House letter cites the June 29 Supreme Court opinion that, 5 days, neither Cook to notice of the allegations and a chance to respond before any removal.

Though recent presidents have sought to respect the Fed's

independence on interest rates, Trump since returning to office last year has repeatedly targeted the central bank and pressed for lower interest rates. In addition to seeking to remove Cook, he urged on a Justice Department action plan before Chair Jerome H. Powell over renovations to the central bank's Washington

headquarters.

The probe was later dropped amid pushback from a bipartisan group of lawmakers and a judge who demand it an alarm of prosecutorial power.

In the June decision on the Fed, Roberts wrote that any change in the Fed's independent status would need to come from

Congress.

"That is why we cannot accept the Government's contentions in this case," the chief justice wrote. "In do we would allow the President to remove a member of the Federal Reserve at any time, for any reason, without any notice before, and without any judicial check after."

With Cassidy's backing, Blanche's path to AG post appears clear of obstacles

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spring to settle Trump's claims against the FBI, which included a new-crafted plan for a much less billion fund to compensate people who claim they were victims of political prosecutions.

But the senator coached his decision to back Blanche, who previously served as Trump's personal defense lawyer, as a choice between the current nominee and the prospect that Trump could pick someone worse.

"My Blanche is not perfect, and he will tell you that, but the choice is not between protection and Mr. Blanche," Cassidy said. "It is between Mr. Blanche and another acting attorney general who may not run the department effectively under President Trump and who, indeed may not be as good as Mr. Blanche."

He added: "I live criticized for this test. What's next!"

The fact that Blanche's nomination was in doubt at all each Friday and bringing on Cassidy's vote underscored the growing unease that has emerged in some corners of the president's party over the Justice Department's direction.

It also highlighted the extent to which Trump's attacks on GOP lawmakers whose he denied insufficiently loyal laws prompted an increased willingness among Republicans to back his demands.

Cassidy lost his bid for re-election this year after Trump backed his GOP primary rival, Rep. John LeBow (R-Louisiana). He has repeatedly criticized the president since then and threatened to vote against administration priorities.

"I have a history with Mr. Trump, but that history does not matter any bit," Cassidy said Friday in explaining his vote on Blanche.

The senator said he came to his decision after weeks of conversation with Blanche and carried out formal and formal government officials, including former attorney general William P. Banzinger. In such a way, the President term small disagreements over the president's later claims that the 2020 election had been stolen.

Now, Cassidy said, advised him to back Blanche's nomination, supported that as the law was not passed, Trump followed the criminal prosecution he faced during his years out of office. He said the nomination is unique trust with the president, which could enable him to talk Trump out of bad decisions.

"I am couldn't that President Trump can be unwittingly," Cas-

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) said Friday that he will vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, clearing the path for President Donald Trump's nominee.

sule said: "This will be true no matter who the attorney general is. And this is the rationale for having a Senate confirmed attorney general with more leverage to push back."

More returning to the White House last year, Trump has eroded the Justice Department's long-standing tradition of independence while demanding it, pursue prosecutions of his political memoirs and reward his political allies.

Blanche has overseen many of these efforts serving first as the No. 3 official under then-attorney General Ron Bendl and then as the department acting head after Trump fired Bendl in April. He has debated the president's "right" to interfere with internal investigation and the controversial pardons of those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2023.

Democrats have decided

Blanche as a uniquely dangerous nominee who thus far has proved unable or unwilling to talk the president out of decisions that run contrary to the rule of law. As his confirmation battle has worn on, more and more Republicans have expressed similar concerns.

Earlier this week, Sen. John Corens (R-Irban) and (Sen. Tilly (R-South Carolina), two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had threatened to kill Blanche's nomination in committee over reservations they harbored about the out-of-court deal. Blanche convene to resolve Trump's lawsuit against the FBI over the task of his tax returns to the media.

In addition to the impact of backed payout fund, the final also provided unusual tax protections to Trump, two of his sons and their businesses, disabling them from any presenting tax

audits.

The fund proposal drew immediate "bigs/bins" mid-Kinh with Democrats deciding it as a "chick-butt" designed to reward Trump's allies during Blanche to walk back the proposal later after its uninterrupted start.

But Corens and Tilly, who are leaving the Senate after this year after the Senate's first, demanded written assurances from Blanche that the president would not later reverse that decision before they agreed to support him.

Blanche ultimately released, among statements late, thanks declaring his lead officially dead and clarifying that the draft tax provisions protected the Trump's only from pardons of the bill would not prevent the Bill from reviewing their finances in the future.

But critics have questioned whether Blanche's written pledg-

es hold any legal weight, given they weren't also signed by Trump and his legal team, and could be ignored by the president at any point.

Blacksmith stated that possibility in her statement concerning her decision to vote against Blanche's nomination Friday for vote causes the parent fund was new off the table, she said, was because Blanche needed Senate support for his nomination.

"Once we vote, that will end, and there is no telling what the future holds," she said, adding later: "The country needs an attorney general who will check the worst impulsive of the administration, I hope Mr. Blanche is able to achieve that, if confirmed, but I simply do all that confidence that will be the case."

Despite pledging his support for Blanche, Cassidy echoed Blacksmith's concerns. He said Blanche showed "poor judg-

ment" in signing off on Trump's 500 deal and added that he was "particularly concerned about episodes of apparent lawfare — 2020 bringing suits against political enemies."

The Justice Department has, at the president's demand, launched probes of critics including former FBI director James R. Connor, New York Attorney General Letitia Samet (D), former CIA director John Kromans, ex-White House aide Cassidy Blacksmith and Democratic lawmakers who recorded a video this year calling on military service members to resist illegal orders.

"A never-ending cycle of prosecuting political enemies under-judgement, that of Sen. Stephen, the public's trust in our institutions and makes our politics more extreme when we need to make it extra for big problems of our time," Cassidy said.

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Wildfire smoke is a growing danger to unborn babies, according to study

BY EUGENE WY

Amid a common when wildfire smoke has often filled the skies, a new study is adding to the body of research about the growing impact of fire-fueled air pollution, that is now causing the alarm about potential health.

Wildfire pollution has become an increasing proportion of the pollution that pregnant mothers and their unborn babies are exposed to, according to a study published Friday.

The new study for University of Maryland covers here found that out of the air pollution unborn babies are exposed to, the share of exposure to wildfire-generated mancozepre air pollution more than doubled between 2005 and 2015.

The study did not discuss specific health outcomes for the prenatal exposure and births it analyzed, but previous studies have suggested that fine-particulate-matter pollution, known as PM 2.5, caused by wildfires can be more harmful than other forms of air pollution.

Mother from famed wildfire smoke to poor pregnancy outcomes and a variety of early-childhood health issues. The particles are small enough to enter the lungs and bloodstream, and they have also been linked to lung damage, respiratory disease and cancers.

"We know that if we prevent PM 2.5 exposure in the prenatal period, these infants are going to grow to be healthier, more productive adults," said Michel Brodmann, an associate professor of health policy and management at the University of Maryland and one of the study's authors.

The research also refers to the continued war pollution from wildfires into into improvements in the United States on quality in the past two decades.

Researchers credit the Clean Water=(water) quality problems from cars and industrial facilities.

But wildfire smoke has cut into those gains, according to several studies in United States. A 2023 study found that, since 2018, wildfire smoke has eroded the environment in several years more of air quality progress in most of the country.

The Ray Bridge in San Francisco during wildfires in 2020. Wildfire pollution has become an increasing proportion of the pollution that pregnant mothers are exposed to.

Wildfire pollution occurs in consistently Brodmann said, during up when mega-lives break out in different regions.

A separate a small share of the PM 2.5 mancozepre air exposed to, but annual levels of wildfire smoke shared consistent as other sources of pollution declined over the past two decades, the new study found.

Brodmann's study modeled air pollution across the country since 1990 to 2015, with including and excluding pollution created by wildfires, and used both controls to evaluate the air pollution exposure to prenatal infants over this period. Researchers

also analyzed the regions that studied for demographics and access to health care services.

The study found that the proportion of wildfire smoke in natural air pollution has increased by several percentage points from 2005 to 2015.

The greatest increase was in the Northwest, where around 10 percent of prenatal PM 2.5 exposure could be attributed to wild fires by the end of the decade. Regions with poor access to hospital facilities and maternal care, such as most largely rural, had lower average PM 2.5 levels that faced the largest proportion of pollution from wildfires.

The new study also found that wildfires accounted for more than 70 percent of "increance days" — days where PM 2.5 levels exceeded 20 micrograms per cubic meter, an Environmental Protection Agency standard — by 2007 and 2018. Wildfire-attributable investigator data shared constant over the period studied, while co-workers' data from other sources declined sharply.

"Because we've done such a good job, we have seen these non-wildfire sources. No share of accordance days" that are due to wildfire smoke has decreased," Brodmann said. "If we want to continue making progress on

this ... we have to start thinking about, how do we protect people from wildfire smoke?"

Academics not involved in the study said the work was limited to its scope and that the 2020s have seen a larger increase in wildfires after the study's time frame. The first-year period from 2020 to 2025 was the smoked-in record in the United States, a study last year found.

"The last six years have just looked fundamentally different," said Marshall Burke, a global environmental policy professor at Stanford University.

Michael Bruner, a professor at the School of Population and

Public Health at the University of British Columbia, said further research is needed on the health risks of wildfire smoke, such as the effect of opium in wildfire pollution at different stages of a pregnancy.

Burke said the study's focus on prenatal exposure highlights of the breadth of air pollution's impact across the population.

"We typically think of vulnerability to air pollution in terms of people with respiratory or other presenting conditions," Burke said. "But here, this is showing that pregnancy ... could reduce the time of who we think as vulnerable."

Trump says he'll bring ballroom fight to Supreme Court after legal setback

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White House's East Wing without warning to make again for the project. He has said proponents have long needed a ballroom to host UDC.

The project has drawn across the forty congressional Democrats, who have opened investigations into whether Trump has made promises to continue to exchange for their gifts. The ballroom has also been generally passed by the public, with polls finding that most Americans are against the public.

GOP leaders in Congress earlier this year said they support the law — yes, but they have not prioritized legislation to authorize it. Some Republicans have also questioned the need to fund the project and whether Trump has been fully transparent about its scope. Internal estimates earlier this year by a contractor said that they have been a good and no million, with half coming from taxpayers, according to a Washington Post investigation.

Trump has sought private funding for several of his Washington-area projects, including a planned transgillal arch and a manary garden, in part of an effort to rush their construction.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit that is charged by Congress with helping preserve historic buildings, in December used to block ballroom construction, saying that Trump had wrongly skipped required reviews before demolishing the East Wing and that only Congress could authorize significant changes to the White House grounds.

The Trump administration has moved ahead even as the court challenge has played out, with whirring crazes and teams of construction workers now a regular part of the White House building. Trump has said he would have been a new ballroom before he is scheduled to have office in January 2025.

The National Trust lacked 20-days ruling.

"This is a great day for our country and for the American people's right to raise their opinions about the future, plus as they cherish, including the White House," found Judge the organizations' CEO, said in a

At right, the former site of the White House's East Wing, where President Donald Trump wants a ballroom built.

statement. "The White House, a global landmark that symbolizes American identity and the ideals of democracy," belongs to the American people.

Trump, who has been famed on the ballroom project and frequently smokes it in question and on social media, has said that the facility is necessary to protect population. The military is also building a "real complex" under the ballroom. Trump has said, although he and military officials have declined to offer many details about that part of the project.

"Like usual, everything I do, they get used, but I win the main," Trump said in remarks in Las Vegas on Wednesday. But it's unbelievable what's happening. It's a tremendous military complex. And for 200 years at the White House, we don't have a ballroom, we don't have a big space."

Millet, an appointee of President Barack Obama, and Garcia, an appointee of President Joe Biden, said that Trump is allowed to continue being granted such as well as construction on matters related to national security.

In their nearly 300-page opinion, the two judges rejected the Trump administration's agreement that the National Trust did not have standing to bring its case. The judges also stressed the need for separation of powers, saying that it was Congress's responsibility to perform one's right at White House, construction projects and ensure the safety of future populations.

"That is why, throughout history, Presidents have lived in the

house the people built," Millet said Garcia wrote. "Executive actions that take control of that property out of the hands of the people's representatives while it's especially learning the historical and visual architecture of perhaps the most prominent public building in the United States, seriously intrude on the public interest."

Judge Noemi Rao, a Trump appointee, demanded from Friday's ruling.

"The equities in this case turn on complex architectural and security determinations have made by the Secret Service and the military — not judges," Rao wrote. She also agreed with the administrators that the National Trust lacked standing.

Trump administration has even argued in June to the point that Trump had authorized to make changes to the White House grounds.

Tadkov Roth, a Justice Department lawyer, also said the panel that federal courts should not have the power to stop the ballroom's construction. He concluded that only a few people, such as those affected by the noise of construction, had stayed in the office of the project to other changes that a president might wish to make to national landmarks.

Millet and Garcia thấy no more than these things.

"That is wrong," they wrote. "The hold assertive that the Bar is not going with what law, business, destroying, treasured national landmarks and harming the interests of individuals, and that no court can stop it from our constitutional order."

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Meanwhile, Blue Star's instructors pretended to teach while the school received millions of dollars in GI Bill notices from the federal government, according to investigative files.

From half the hour revealed itself when a government regulator showed up unexpectedly and picked her head as a classroom. "Over as big, eventually on our own, and there's our instructor up there, picking his nose," those told the agents in a crowded interview. "You don't even have to run a school or even be in education to walk into this place and realize that it's a joke."

Blue Star Learning was what federal agents call "ghost" or "died" school. Before its owner was convicted of fraud and sent to prison in 2020, Blue Star was in the vanguard of a GI Bill rack or that has since been reinsolved across the country, according to agents.

Unlike fraudulent GI Bill trade schools that exploit veterans by charging the government strongly influence teach ranges skills like gram-growing or rack-making, ghost schools only sit only to be complicit in their schemes.

Since the first Young administration, the Justice Department has won criminal convictions as required civil penalties against the operation of most GI ghost schools for defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under the GI Bill, according to federal court records and law enforcement files. All were forgedly vocational programs in which large numbers of students ultimately support class or showed up while doing little to no work, the documents show.

Investigators told The Post that they suspect they're suspected only a number of the ghost schools that are cheating the federal government. They are all that ghost operations can be surprisingly difficult to detect, in part because GI Bill students who profit from such causes are unlikely to die completely.

Results defrauding happens, each makers understand the brightness of the GI Bill and make it harder for them and take a trait that that can get a quality education from any school bearing the government's stamp of approval.

Since the GI Bill's passage is great the end of World War II, its purpose has been to help human service members gain skills to join the civilian workforce. The 521 fellows cover program cost by VA trade 16 months of tuition for veterans at a college or trade level.

VA also pays a housing subsidy directly to student veterans about largely on the cost of living in their area. Last year, the median subsidy subsidized was $1,267 per month, according to VA data. In some parts of the state, the subsidy subsidized was can exceed $4,000.

For veterans who are eligible for school, the district must be further their education, ghost schools have provided a benefits doorway.

"Some veterans make arrest that occurred in getting their education," Michelle Wasserman, then a federal prosecutor who received the 521 from the Blue Star Learning, said during a court hearing. "They go to a school like this, where they don't have to do your much of school. There's a lot of evidence that we are of a likely education and everyone is happy. The school owner gets a chance to make that the veterans get to keep their benefits."

Last overnight has contributed to the problem. Under federal law, the state has employed, to visit schools funded by the GI Bill every two years to examine those who have had school like. But a Safe report by VSA (What of Inspector General found that of roughly 1,000 schools unhygienic, 20 had not received a routine compliance visit in more than three years -- and 100 others had never had one.

In addition, few standards exist to ensure that trade schools are delivering a quality education. Most colleges that grant degrees must obtain students as well as those who have had school money, but trade or vocational schools are not required to do so. The state has also been able to give government took action against were unavoidable, according to federal law records and law enforcement files.

While some ghost-school service and operators have gone to prison, veterans have almost never had a chance to make their total in tripartite to each team. The Post could identify only one case in the state. The state has also been able to use these school criminal charges for retaliating VA out of housing money by unwilling at a ghost school.

In that instance, the Justice

Department was a fraud conviction in 2018 against the owner of a California trade-liciting school -- an Army veteran -- who pleaded guilty to training a 54.5 million phantom-class racket. Two school employees also pleaded guilty to fraud.

More than 100 veterans enrolled in courses at the teaching school that never took place, according to the Justice Department. Federal authorities left it to the California attorney general's office to determine whether to file state criminal charges against veterans who allegedly collected housing oligarch under false pretences.

Ultimately, California prosecutors charged 25 of the veterans with conspiracy to commit grand ($500, longer) and other fraud-related counts. The rest were not charged.

In charge veterans who enrolled in such programs, authorities must prove intent to defend, not that that students were late or failed to complete a crossroads.

U.S. Inspector General Cheryl Mason, whose office acts as an independent watchdog that investigates cases of suspected fraud, said it can be difficult to distinguish between veterans who can VA be housing money and those who enroll in medical-keeping schools just as they can pad their incomes.

"While veterans can be colluding in these cases," she told The Post in an interview, "whenever the veteran is a target, and they're sold on it, as you know, this user thing. Oh, he says 'You can do that. And he's go full all your friends.'"

In better understand the ghost-school schemes, The Post sought GI Bill enrollment and complaint database from VA under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), as well as records from law enforcement investigations conducted by the Inspector general's office.

The government denied the requests, citing privacy exemptions. But The Post used to compel the release of the material, arguing that it was in the public interest. After a year-long legal battle, VA and its inspectors prepaid office relevant steps of the database and thousands of pages of law enforcement files. The Post also contended court records from ghost-school prosecutions across the country.

The Post made multiple requests with VA to interview Kenneth Smith, the executive director of the Education Service. The department declined VA officials also declined to respond directly to working question about the problem of ghost schools and the abuse of GI Bill housing benefits by some veterans.

In a statement, VA Press Secretary Quinn Mason and a White

House and Antal task force led by Vice President Oh Yama to the state's law enforcement department and Security to cost out the waste, abuse and criminal registration of government programs in those areas and others' further this year, he added, VA created a tool that assigns a fraud risk score to schools and medical compliance and enforcement division to rely upon to the inspector general's office.

At the same time, he blamed state governments for enabling fraud within the GI Bill program in general. The problem is that many state-level lawmakers have looked for them with few years as fraudsters robbed government programs (fraud) to said.

VA has contractual arrangements with state governments to help approve and monitor GI Bill schools. Some states, in turn, have blamed VA and federal lawmakers for not doing more to deter fraud and for not giving them more resources to conduct oversight.

In the case of Blue Star Learning, a staffer working for the California Department of Veterans Affairs, or Calfee, in 2007 became the first regulator to report signs that the school might be clean, according to law enforcement records. But it took three more years until federal and state officials jointly forced Blue Star to close.

Calfee declined to respond directly to written questions from The Post about ghost schools in the state. A spokeswoman, Kate Holt, released a statement saying that California veterans' freezers programs did deliver real training and opportunity.

"Calfee takes any obligation of fraud involving GI Bill bans. His network and is committed to protecting both veterans and inspectors through rigorous oversight, accountability, and close coordination with state and federal law enforcement, and oversight partners," she added.

A 100-mile-commute

During the first Young administration, the VA inspector general's office formed a specialized unit to invest an education fraud with sophisticated data-analyses tools.

Under GI Bill rules, colleges and universities can teach classes, college, but veterans enrolled at trade schools must attend in person. Federal agents had grown magazines that many were seen sharing the role as they could collect housing benefits.

Using public records and other databases, analysts examined vocational school courses to pinpoint these students' level. A some schools, they discovered that large numbers of students level unassaults long distances from campus -- often in another

"It's kind of a jockey education and everyone is happy. The school owner gets a bunch of money and the veterans get to keep their benefits."

Michelle Wasserman, vice chairman for investigative and Blue Star Learning

state, according to Michael Missal, who served as VA inspector general from 2018 to 2020.

"There's no need to be in class, but how could somebody in Hawaii be showing up for a class in Kansas, you know, every Sunday?" Missal told The Post in an interview. "That doesn't make any sense."

One of the most blatant examples was California Technical Academy, a computer-training school that taught hundreds of veterans at three trade near Los Angeles and San Diego. In 2018, analysts determined that the school passed it to GI Bill students level more than 75 miles away from the schools' campuses, so they that they were probably not meeting. VSA requirement that students attend 10 hours of class to person each week, according to investigative files.

Agents knocked on the door of one veterans' residence in Las Vegas -- a town, a private town from the campus in Riverside where he purposively attended classes. When they questioned whether he was really driving all that way to go to school, he replied uncontrollably that he was, according to the agent's notes.

The veteran asked the interview by stating, "I hope I am not going to prison for this." (He did not.)

Investigators Reached That California Technical Academy became a hospital for ghost students in the state. The state's costing to law enforcement files at the time, veterans attending school was $1,000 for California typically received GI Bill housing subsidies including $1,000 per month.

Analysts cross-decided another set of databases and discovered that 50 veterans who were registered as full-time students of California Technical Academy also held full-time jobs working for the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to law enforcement files.

While it was conceivable that

people were putting in a combined 40 to 60 classes a week at school and the office, agents concluded it was more likely that the VA employees were shipping class and double-dipping to get their full-time payments and housing money.

Underworst agents placed the school's campuses under surveillance and conducted receptions interviews. Staffers acknowledged that few veterans showed up for class. They also told agents that the academy did attend transcripts and enrollment records before submitting them to VA, according to law enforcement files.

In 2020, federal agents ranked the three campuses and entered the academy financial assets. The most year the schools chart exception and few other administrative pleaded guilty in federal court to defrauding VA in a scheme that involved nearly 1,000 veterans and lasted a decade.

The federal government said its loans from California Technical Academy would about $500 million, two-thirds of it on housing subsidies and the rest on tuition. The Justice Department said it was the costliest GI Bill's sum of any kind since lawmakers expanded the program in 2009.

During sentencing, defense assistance for the two other administrative sought balance from the judge on the grounds that their classes were uneducated or unsophisticated, court records show.

One, Philip Abed, a longtime instructor, had dropped out of ninth grade with a 3.25 grade point average, the other, Bill Rostock, a former partner who served as director of student services, had "negative limitations" and an IQ of 65, according to court things and statements by their lawyers. Each was continued to a year and a day in prison. Neither responded to requests for comment.

Michael Rostock, the school's chief executive and boarder, and brother of Eric Rostock, pleaded guilty in 2021 to vandalism to commit fraud. He admitted falsifying transcripts and attendance records to deceive VA and received a five-year sentence. A judge ordered him to pay $500 million in contribute.

In an interview last year with The Post while setting part of his contract in home detention in Idaho, Rostock said California Technical Academy provided a legitimate education to those who wanted it. "We knew that there was cleaning going on and things like that and we just made my instructions from on the students that really wanted to be successful," he said.

But he acknowledged that many veterans rapped up just to

receive housing allowances. He said he told the staff to let those veterans skip class under the game that they were conducting independent study" as arrangement that violates GI Bill rules. Veterans who did little or no academic work still occurred passing grades as they could sign up for more courses, he added.

Typically, Rostock said, those students were in their late 50s or 60s and had no motivation to learn because they were already settled in their careers or retired. "They were very open about it. They'd say, 'We want, I want the student program. What's the most unusual I can do?' And several of these would enroll in that program," he recalled. "And then they would stay there as long as they could."

'We're here to ours, not to leave'

At other ghost schools across the country over the past decade, proprietor Bill Hiltz to conceal the began nature of their classes. In some cases, they offered lack of access to recruiters who signed up veterans, according to court records and law enforcement files obtained under FOIA.

In Hawaii, a message school owner pleaded guilty last year in federal court to defrauding VA of more than $10 million. Brian Marwick, who ran the Blue Masque Academy in Honolulu, admitted arranging textbooks for recruiters who enrolled no-show visit in courses that cost VA as much as $10,000 in tuition per student.

Marwick's continuing to scheduled for September 30's election, Michael Rostock declined to comment.

In Virginia, the owner of a small working school paid a co-creator to induce veterans to register for false courses in "Security welding" and "north welding" from charges VA as much as $19,200 per course, according to court records and investigative files. In comparison, welding classes at a nearby community college cost between $500 and $1,000, the Blue show.

Underworst federal agents robbed out the school -- the Mangano Beach Skills Center in Newport News -- and spied students working in and from a few minutes later, checking out, the Blue show. Other times, agents could file school doors locked during the day and the parking lot empty.

One veteran who purposively received $50 bonus of instruction told agents that he didn't get on a welding mask even more. "I never had an interest in me working," he admitted, but ended.

The owner, William J. McNair Jr., a church pastor, pleaded guilty in 2017 to defrauding VA of $18 million in tuition for 65 on expenses or as

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California Technical Academy founder Michael Bostock, seen above and below in home detention last year in Idaho, phased guilty in federal court in 2012 to defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs in a scheme that involved nearly 1,000 veterans and lasted a decade. Bostock received a five-year sentence in the case, and a judge ordered him to pay $500 million in restitution.

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students. He was sentenced to more than three years in prison and ordered to repay the money. McNair did not respond to requests for comment.

In court filings, prosecutors called Hampton Beach High Tories "a sham school." They calculated that veterans enrolled there received a combined $1.2 million in housing retention. Yet none of these veterans faced charges for accepting that same.

One veteran signed up for nine working classes as he could collect $44,000 from VA for housing and books — even though he already had worked as a professional soldier for nearly a decade and as a waiting instructor at another school, according to McNair's plan agreement.

No of the ghost schools that the federal government has investigated over the past decade were barber or cosmetology programs.

In Mississippi, a boycotting school called Aprith Manor distraction certified to VA that veterans received 1,500 hours of instruction to prepare for the state barbering exam. Federal agents, however, discovered that classes were rarely taught, that some registered students lived hundreds of miles away from the school, and that the coursework included word puzzles designed for children learning their colors, according to investigators' files.

The GI Bill requires schools to charge veterans and civilians the same tuition. Yet the boycotting academy billed VA $22,400 per student — about 10 times more than what it charged nonveterans, investigators' files show.

In 2016, a judge ordered

the school and its owner, April Tucker Board, to just move from $500,000 in civil damages and penalties after the Justice Department sued, alleging violations of the False Claims Act. Board did not respond to messages seeking comment.

In Chesapeake, Virginia, the College of Beauty and Barber Culture served veterans who, on paper, were looking to launch careers as hairstylees. Most collected about $1,500 from VA for housing each month and up to $1,000 annually for books and supplies, according to court records and investigators' files.

But of the more than 350 veterans who enrolled in the college, only seven were able to pass a state exam to obtain a barber or cosmetology license, the files show.

Veterans later admitted to federal agents that the school was full of "ghosts" and that their unofficial motto was, "We're here to turn, not to learn." They said students were instructed to sign attendance logs each day as VA auditors would think that classes were taking place, according to investigators' files.

The school's husband-and-wife owners, William and Katherine Sutton, phased guilty to defrauding VA of $4.5 million in tuition. Each was sentenced in 2017 to five years in prison and ordered to repay that amount of money. They did not respond to requests for comment.

Prosecutors said veterans who attended the school received a total of $20.5 million in GI Bill money for housing, books and supplies.

None of the students faced charges.

'We were desperate'

Before veterans flocked to it,

Blue Star Learning was a tiny IT service business that taught basic hardware and software courses in a strip mall north of downtown San Diego. Most of Blue Star's clients were private companies or state agencies with entry-level personnel looking to improve their computer skills.

The owner, Dimock Shah, told The Post at an interview that he bought the school in 2022 for $10,000 but struggled to make ends meet. After two years, Blue Star was generating just $1,000 a month in revenue, he said. Some weeks, Shah couldn't find enough students to hold a class. "We were just sitting there," he recalled.

Around 2021, a consultant supported that Shah took VA approval to offer computer training for veterans under the GI Bill. Shah said he knew "nothing" about the GI Bill then but was aware. San Diego was a military town, with lots of veterans. He paid for consultant about $4,000 to prepare Blue Star's application.

"I was like, doesn't he's," he said. "We were desperate."

In 2015, VA shared the school to accept GI Bill students. A handful of veterans signed-up for three-month courses that cost between $2,000 and $5,000, and the school's finances stabilized, Shah said. "We were able to pay the rent," he added.

Then, in 2015, Blue Star's fortunes transformed almost overnight. One evening, a Navy veteran walked in and offered to triple Blue Star's business by waiting up scores of his old Navy buddies.

Both Mrs. Luck, I have 60 to 100 folks and we are happy to bring them over to you," Shah recalled. There was just one mark, instead of attending class as Monday through Friday, those

veterans could come only twice a week because most had full-time jobs.

Shah said he knew that arrangement might conflict with VA rules, which required veterans enrolled in trade schools full-time to attend in person 30 hours each week.

He said, he didn't think it was feasible to teach time hours at a clip. He also wondered how those veterans could juggle a heavy class load while singing unplaced old-time. So he proposed a compromise: classes there does a week for six hours each. The Navy veteran agreed, Shah said, adding, "Right there and then, he's like, 'We're in it!'"

Forsberg, Shah agreed it was too good to be true. But the following Monday, he said, Navy veterans emerged Blue Star with phone calls and emails, wanting to register for class. The school immediately had to scramble to find more classroom space.

Things marshalled, and within a year, the number of veterans enrolled at Blue Star nearly quadrupled. In 2016, VA paid the school $7.6 million to cover their tuition, investigators' files show. "Word of mouth got out really quick, and few gets brought few guys, and they each brought few guys. It was just insane," Feson, the school's former admissions director, told federal agents. "It was like, with something people. They didn't even fit as the school because they would just line up out the door."

Feson did not respond to messages from The Post seeking comment.

What were became apparent, however, was that those GI Bill students were not there in learn, according to Shah and Feson. They said most were men in their life and life who had

good-justing government jobs at the post office, at the VA medical center in La Jolla, or at nearby military home an defense contractor. Others were retired and collecting military pensions, as well as disability compensation from VA.

"When you start teaching them, they were unschaked about it," Shah recalled. "They're like, 'Okay, fine. You know, teach me, don't teach me. I don't care.'" They didn't explicitly say they just wanted their GI Bill housing money. But Shah and his staff caught on. "We get the point," he said.

As he became more sorry about the GI Bill, Shah said he realized the school could charge much higher prices for understanding classes as long as he didn't exceed 10% annual tuition cap. He increased tuition toadvice, to more than $10,000 per course — about these times what San Diego State University charged as tickets for a full year of classes, court records show.

To obtain VA's approval for the tuition increase, Blue Star had to certify that it was obeying two federal regulations: that it was charging veterans and non-veterans the same amount, and that at least 15 percent of the students in every course were civilians. Those requirements for GI Bill schools are based on the logs: that if at least a small number of civilians were willing to pay full tuition, then the class must be legitimate.

In his interview with The Post and in court records, Shah admitted that he and Blue Star repeatedly had to VA about following the rules because it couldn't find enough civilians to pay the higher tuition. It took regulators years to uncover the extent of the dissot, despite obvious warning

signs that Blue Star had become a humiliated operation.

False companies and barber planners

In 2018, while Shah was vacationing in Mexico, a senior education specialist with the California Department of Veterans Affairs named Shane Perrobee arrived at Blue Star for an unannounced visit.

Under an arrangement with VA, California officials were responsible for maintaining GI Bill schools in the state and ensuring their adhered to regulations.

Blue Star had recently exhausted an enrollment form stating that it had 500 GI Bill students, according to an account Perrobee later gave to investigators. He said he thought that was fully because Blue Star only had a few classrooms, according to an account he later gave to investigators.

His suspicions were already heightened because he had warned Shah the year before that the ratio of veterans to civilians at Blue Star was out of balance. "I never looked the guy," Perrobee recalled in an interview with federal agents. "He was just too sure, and just too friendly and just (that) too many veterans."

He decided he had grounds to conduct a surprise inspection.

Perrobee looked in a classroom and heard 70 students watching videos and "not hanging out," with no instruction taking place, investigators' files show. He also determined that Blue Star was still violating the 25 percent rule because it had too few civilians. Even after, he notified the school in writing that it was being removed from the GI Bill program. Perrobee declined a request from The Post to comment.

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Shah knew he had been breaking the rules, he told The Post. He said he was forced to get off most of the staff.

But Blue Star had become dependent on GI Bill money, so Shah harked a rainy and complex plan to get back in, court records show.

To persuade VA and California officials that the school now had enough civilian students, Shah submitted falsified enrollment data, according to court records and investigators' files, the included a spreadsheet with the names of recent graduates and their employers — but most of the names and companies were fake, they records and files show.

Shah also paid veterans to create individual veterans for 30 phone companies. He had a Blue Star staffer two 30 cellphones so that if regulators called the contact numbers listed on the website, he staff could answer, court records show.

The gamble initially worked in 2017, one year after removing Blue Star, California and VA officials readmitted the school to the GI Bill program. Veterans eager to cash in their housing allowances returned in diswas, according to investigators' files.

But the following year, Blue Star caught the attention of investigators working for VA in-specter general.

As they did with California Technical Academy, another cross-checked names of Blue Star students with a database of VA employees. They found 10 people who were claiming to be studying full time at Blue Star while collecting full-time paychecks from VA.

Over several months, agents secretly interviewed former students and employees. Many described the records shown as a force and said that it was an open secret that veterans enrolled just to get their housing benefits, according to investigators' files.

One former administrator told them about the lot of false names and companies that Shah maintained, the files show.

In June 2018, agents working for VA inspector general and the FBI raided Blue Star's offices. Other agents arrived at Shah's home to question him. He promptly continued to falsifying records, according to investigators' files and court records.

"I admitted it because, too, once you have the faith kicking up your face, there's no good a thing," Shah told The Post.

He also acknowledged that he had shown to speak "to him in a matter," he said. "I mean, there's no 50, ends or tests."

In November 2018, Shah pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud and making false statements. Prosecutors calculated that VA lost $29 million in the Blue Star exam. Of that, $21 million was tuition paid to the school and $19 million was housing money paid to veterans.

At Shah's sentencing the next year, his attorney, Michael Lipman, said Blue Star was "not a total share" because some courses were actually taught; even if veterans were not getting attention. But he acknowledged that Shah "knew to do something really simple" and that he "had repeatedly" including by mounting "totally fictitious students" to increase the number of civilians enrolled.

At the same time, Lipman argued, veterans who attended Blue Star just for housing allowances were culpable, too — and he criticized prosecutors for not going after them.

"The government doesn't appear to be interested in making any attempts to get back out of the money from these people," he said.

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A pamie offered by April's Name Attraction, a hairstyling school in Mississippi, as part of a course to prepare you for the state barbearing exam. Six of the ghost schools that the federal government has investigated over the past decade were barber or cosmetology programs.

tor, acknowledged in court that "some of the veterans are com-

plicit here." That prompted U.S. District

Judge John A. Houston to ask why the Justice Department

hadn't changed any veterans as co-conspirators.

"They are taking money from the government, knowing that their didn't earn it," he said, adding later. "There have been veterans who cannot Americans who can't pay to loss as well, and there has been no look-we-rem then."

"It's a difficult one to bring. Wasserman responded. She said it was part of a pattern that federal authorities were seeing around the country but suggested that it was easier to hold ghost school owners accountable than veterans.

"I'm a little bit sure to bring. Wasserman responded. She said it was part of a pattern that federal authorities were seeing around the country but suggested that it was easier to hold ghost school owners accountable than veterans.

She said there is in part, examine schools and veterans who are willing to go there" for the housing benefits, she said "And that's unfortunate."

Nate Jones and Carlin Gilbert can refurbish in this report.

Methodology

The Washington Post obtained comprehensive records spanning 2018 to 2019 from the Department of Veterans Affairs GI Bill Comparison Tool via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and merged them with 75% 2018 Comparison Tool data pulled from the Internet Archive. Data is current as of May 2018.

The Post grouped non-degrow-printing schools into categories — such as unaccredited trade specialization or flight schools — based on their accreditation status, facility codes and specific course offerings. 75% trade two separate enrollment stations, counting all GI Bill participants and those who served after 2/11. Unless specified, enrollment figures were based on whichever figure was higher in the data. Tuition rates were based on post-2/11 enrollment because tuition figures were available only in post-2/11 data. Information on unaccredited and vocational programs is often incomplete, so reporters need school addresses found in the FOIA data to query the Google Places API and gather missing business stations and classification types.

About this story

Reporting by Craig Whitlock and Andrew Be Tran. Graphics by Andrew Be Tran. Design and development by James Joaquin Alcatraz. Art direction by Stephanie Hain. Story editing by David E. Fallis. Data editing by Stephen Hines. Design editing by Virginia Singemyer. Photo editing by Olivier Lussner. Copy editing by Christopher Birkett.

The San Diego building at right was home to Blue Star Learning, a vocational school that defrauded taxpayers of $29 million in GI Bill funds. Of that, $11 million was tuition paid to the school and $10 million was housing money paid to veterans.

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$100 billion in tariffs has been refunded. Will you get any?

Major corporations are getting hundreds of millions back from the Trump administration. Most individuals aren't.

By JOHN Z. WEIL

The Trump administration has refunded about $100 billion in tariffs in response to the Supreme Court ruling that declared the tariffs illegal, according to a new court filing this week.

Major corporations are getting huge refunds: $2.2 billion for Apple, $5.5 billion for Ford, $900 million for Amazon, Omnave Executive Chairman Jeff Bouse owns The Washington Post.

While some companies have said they will use the refunds to reduce their prices, experts say not to expect many price com. Kimberly Channing, a UCLA professor who served as a tax policy official under the Biden administration, said some companies don't feel confident enough to change their prices based on the revised tariffs, since President Donald Trump has replaced those seven with others that are also likely to be partially or completely thrown out by courts.

In the first time, the government's ruling what the tariff policy is "Chasing said: 'None of that pass-through to consumer prices has been slower than you might think it'd were really permanent policies. That's good news in the short term for consumers, but it also means you won't necessarily see as big a swing in the other direction'." But noted that some companies were simply "gambling" all along that the import taxes would be thrown out in court, rather than raising prices much in the first place.

Even if they paid higher costs because of the new-incubated tariffs, most American households won't see any of the refund money directly.

The Tax Foundation estimates that the average U.S. household spent an extra $1,000 as a result of the tariffs in 2023, most of it relating to the specific tariffs that have been overturned.

Because Boeing has since replaced most of those tariffs with new ones authorized in a different way, the organizations estimated the average household will pay about $900 extra in 2023.

So why aren't many individual consumers getting compensated alongside big companies?

In response to the Supreme Court ruling, U.S. Customs and Border Protection set up a process for expanding refunds. To see the system, the person have to be registered with the government as an "exposure of Record" or an authorized Customs broker

in other words, but just someone who ordered an item on the internet that was made in a foreign country and ended up paying more for it.

If you paid a tariff on something you had shipped to you by 15% or 2% for a year, you took up your trucking number for the shipment on the companies' websites. If the companies got money back for your shipment, they are supposed to send you the refund. Amazon had in a quarterly earnings call that it plans to send refunds to individual customers in limited cases for which it can identify customers who paid more due to tariffs. The company said it would "proactive contract" those customers but did not provide more information about how it would find them.

Some other companies that raised prices to accommodate the tariffs are taking back for not paying on the refunds. Customers are suing Ford and Costco, among others.

Alan Rabe, a trade law expert at Stanford Law School, said he doesn't think the customers have much to go on.

"They willingly paid the higher price. Ford could have saved the price of the car for any arbitrary reason... You don't have a better," Rabe said. "Certain companies are saying they're going to lower their prices going forward! ... you because it's legal imperative, but a public relations logic."

Matilde Bombardier, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley, said she understands the ways of a customer who wants money back.

She said research suggests that inspectors who paid 10 percent more because of the tariffs typically charged their customers about 1 percent more and absorbed the rest. "Certain getting back the whole 10 percent," she said. "Conceptually, we could all agree that the 5 percent should go back to the consumers."

She noted that the refunds are likely unprovoked in some. The tariffs that were invalidated applied to almost all categories of goods from every country in the world, though there were some campaigns.

In the court filing this week, a Customs and Border Protection official said companies have filed more than 376,000 valid claims to refund tariffs in more than 25 million imports since the claim entries opened in April, leading to more than $500 billion in refunds and interest so far.

A cargo ship at the Port of Baltimore last year. Estimates show the average U.S. household spent an extra $1,000 because of tariffs in 2023.

U.S. stocks jump after job cuts, raising hopes that a rate hikes can wait

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Weeks over on Wall Street Review and Treasurer (while all after the government reports on their expenses, our government out 23,000 jobs last month).

Every major sales method a second year after week of gains, which included several death records. It makes a strong start to suggest following several weak months.

The S&P 500 rose 45.95 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,757.64. That impact the all-time high it set on Tuesday. The benchmark in-

dist has been on a record run throughout the year.

The New Jones Industrial Average rose 213.81 points, or 0.5 percent, to 54,076.92. That year if just short of the record run on Wednesday. The Sunday, one-points rose 368.10 points, or 1.3 percent, to 2,628.01.

Technology stocks, with their big market values, did much of the heavy lifting for the broadest market. They are often the heaviest weights determining the market's direction. Nvidia jumped 1.5 percent and Broadcom rose 17 percent.

The board market reacted more strongly to the weaker signal on the jobs market, which can be seen as allowing the Federal Reserve more time before raising interest rates to fight inflation.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.84 percent from 4.67 percent just prior to the job's upflow. It was as low as 4.69 percent before recovering a lot.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which more closely made expectations for that action on interest rates, fell to 4.20 percent from 4.22 percent prior to the report's release. It was as

low as 4.29 percent before relying back up.

Overall, the report paints a dimmer picture of the jobs market, which has been one of the toughest areas in the Internet amid rising inflation and worries about household spending. It included a network to the figures for June and May that involved chatting, a combined 103,000 jobs from payrolls for those months.

The Fed has been holding interest rates steady amid worries about better inflation, fueled by a rise in oil prices because

of the U.S. war with Iran. Wall Street reports at least one rate increase for the end of the year, with forecasts shifting for the next meeting. Expectations for a rate cut to September were rising to 42 percent, from 50 percent in Thursday and from 67 percent a week ago, according to CNN/UPI. Watch. A weakening jobs market could make matters more complicated for the Fed, which has to balance supporting job growth with fighting inflation. Boeing interest rates can help raise inflation by slowing economic growth. A weaker jobs market,

though, could become even shaken under higher interest rates as businesses that it never difficult to expand under increased borrowing rates.

Businesses and Wall Street, prefer lower interest rates because it can help boost investments. That might feature a weakened jobs market, but it could worsen already inflation inflation. Wall Street will get several important inflation updates next week. The most closely watched will be the consumer price index, or CPI, which measures costs for consumers.

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PHARMACEUTICALS

Kaiser Permanente

Eating Lawsuit

An Atlanta-area woman allays that she was strongly diagnosed with cancer and underwent an untreated hysterectomy because of a chewing process.

Cannabis Barbedale and her afternoon filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kaiser Permanente alleging the sale up led to the surgery and benefits of physical and emotional pain.

According to the lawsuit, an area of 1,000 times sample was mistakenly labeled as belonging to Barbedale. She as an all time smoker was 1,000 times. She was on May 31, 2021, and was told she would get instructions about chemotherapy.

He smokes how the mix-up

occurred. In September, Barbedale was informed that a 100% analysis found the tissue sample showing an aggressive form of endometrial stroma cancer believed to a different patient and not to test the levels of it.

Barbelale went to Kaiser Permanente Southwest Medical Center in tomorrow, Georgia, in early 2020 to seek treatment for lower bleeding and fibroids, which are noncancerous growths in and around the uterus. She underwent a biopsy on March 30, 2020.

Barbelale said that after she left the biopsy results on March 27, 2020, she lived for months believing she had an aggressive type of cancer, reading her and her case into a deep depression, a drug-susceptible case. Kaiser Permanente wrote in a statement that, "Mr. Barbedale should

not have experienced this."

Because of privacy laws, information about the other patient — including what happened to her and whether cancer treatment was delayed — isn't public in available.

The Georgia lawsuit asks for unspecified damages.

— Associated Press

AIR TRAVEL

FAA orders new

flowing inspections

The Federal Aviation Administration has work ordered inspections for hundreds of Boeing planes, following reports of cracks in some older months.

The new-brothout rule, which was unveiled Thursday and kicks in Sept. 30, applies to certain aircraft under three Boeing 737

Max module. But 750-b, 750-b and 750-6000. The FAA estimates that covers 421 planes — and said it is using this directive to address "the unsafe condition" tied to private reports. In the, no cracks have been found in these specific Max models. But when proposing the rule back in November, the FAA could it had received reports of cracks in a forward hour stray for several cities. "Next-Government 737 planes. Blue strays are metal sheets that continue areas on planes like doorways and emergency exits."

The Max yet have "a similar stings on small groups" to the older models, "making these airplanes susceptible to the same crack condition," the FAA moves in November. The agency warned that the issue could "advocate affect the structural integrity of the airplane" if not addressed.

The Virginia-based aircraft maker said it sent operators inspection instructions for the affected. Next-Government 70% back in 2019, and the FAA said mandated these checks in 2021. The company added that it had already expanded these inspections to May one — and the FAA's latest directive now similarly mandates that process.

"We support both directives and continue to support our airline customers," Boeing said in a statement.

The FAA noted Thursday that its directive also requires inspections of the through sale of planes with existing repairs.

But last month, the FAA said Boeing would again be allowed to take responsibility for switching all of its 737 Max and 767 planes.

— Associated Press

SPORTSWEAR

Under Armour sees

sleep declines

Under Armour on Friday forecast a steeper annual revenue decline, underscoring the challenge of evolving growth as continue consumers cuts in spending on athletic apparel amid economic uncertainty in its last North American market.

Shares of the company were down about 5 percent in early trading.

Pennzoist inflation and a soft-tank consumer spending environment have presented demand for apparel, footwear and accessories, particularly on North America, weighing on Under Armour's turnaround efforts.

— Reuters

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In Texas, the economy rather than abortion takes center stage

BY MARTINSON CHAN

ABUSTRONG, OKLAH — IN 2018, Texas was a battleground for the million wars.

Guarantee: highlighted the state's restrictive abortion policies in both the presidential and Senate cause that rise. They spent millions on safe foaming testimonials of women who sat hired health consequences as a result of fiscal abortion ban. By publicans, nonprofits, passed money into ads calling Democrats as weak on immigration and claiming they supported gender transitions for children.

This year, it's all about the economy.

In order of their best major policy speeches of the general election, Democratic state Rep. James Talarios and Republican director General Eric Pastros, candidates in this year's competitive Senate race, traveled competing economic plans to address the roaring cost of living.

Talarios had not his "New American Dream" Wednesday featuring an array of policy proposals: economic child care, dividends from taxing artificial intelligence, medical/athletegiveness and investment in public higher and vocational education. The plan of the state issue Democratic candidates often don't reach, such as crashing down on the Board to bring down the federal deficit.

The American Dream has become an American flightways. It's too expensive to buy a better Talarios and that it's a speedy Wednesday. "It's too expensive to get married and have kids. It's too expensive to enter comfortable People are working hard every day There's playing by the rules. But those rules of today weren't written for in their own written for the future."

Meanwhile, Pastros is on a statewide tour this week laying out a "Protecting the Texas Frontier" plan that would not tax cuts to individual items down previously, health care programs and developing a healthy lifestyle," including give membership and GEP's medications. Both candidates also get along making the child tax credit permanent.

"We all know that Texans and Americans are struggling with expenses, including medical expenses, and I want to make it easier for people to pay these expenses," Pastros said at a Tuesday rally in Allen, Texas, to test his economic plan. "The entire country depends on how this abortion issue can? Whether we can't pay the tax on the state, we're going to tell the rest of the world that we're elected a liberal so-called 'new state'."

Talarios said Pastros have been back and sent it personally, and Talarios is one of the most prestigious fundraisers of the state. "I'm not going to know than 800 million. But so Democrat has even statewide in Texas, a more than 100% in codes, despite promising signs for paid Democratic Democrat's Rep. Colin Allred challenged

Democratic state Rep. James Talarios, above, in a candidate's coming against Republican Ken Pastros in Texas's competitive Senate race.

Pastros, above, Texas's attorney general, and Talarios have enrolled competing economic plans.

Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 but lost by more than eight percentage points.

Candidates nationally have pivoted this year to highlighting economic issues as voters for affordability as a top concern. The economy and high prices were by a wide margin the most important issue for voters, according to a Washington Post-Spanol and conducted last month. While 98 percent of registered voters paid the economy as one of their top three issues, only 33 percent listed abortion or health care. And 2 percent listed equal to women's rights, except or 1.0/8/12 issues.

"Most people are going to renounce with just getting by right

now," said Emily Harrell, a state from McKinney, Texas, who attended Talarios's economic platform announcement. "I'd love to figure out the abortion issues as well, but I think that's kind of further down the line."

Harrell and reproductive care was a major priority for her as a health care worker, but for most voters, "we've got to just be able to survive right now." She laxed at Talarios's proposal to forego medical debt, saying her family was $25,000 in debt after her son was diagnosed with cancer at age 8.

Democrats view the economy as a major vulnerability for Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress and the

White House. The closure of the State of Hawaii caused a spike in prices for fuel and other imported goods, and President Donald Trump has dismissed affordable concerns as a "faux" connected by Democrats.

Talarios's campaign disparaged the Pastros proposal as an about him in response to growing voter frustration with the economy.

"The idea that Ken Pastros, a multimillionaire who owns 13 properties, has reduced, will be of to care about future" post-drawn on his 2020s, the oil company said in Senate's midladdoc. Talarios's campaign said in a statement.

Pastros pushed back, saying

his plan would bring some of the biggest tax cuts for Texans to a generation and criticizing. Talarios for voting against a measure to bar Texas from ever adopting an income tax. He absented that inflation spilled under President Joe Biden, blaming Democrats for high prices.

The aftermath of the covid pandemic, which attempted to end supply issues, contributed to upward pressure on inflation during the Biden administration. Fed price was raised by Russia's the 2022 revenue of Chinese were also a factor. Still, several Democrats criticized their own party for focusing too much on social issues on labor and not enough on the economy, giving Republicans an opening to cast them as the most popular with gender than voters' pocket bank concerns.

Republicans hammered Democratic with ads claiming Democrats wanted to legalize medical gender transitions for minors without general consent. Cruz, who faced a competitive challenge by allred in that year's Senate race, credited his ads on team cards as a major factor in his victory.

"That there was a mistake," Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Illinois), who is running in a competitive war won by Trump in 2018, said of the 2018 focus on social issues. "Last cycle, I was having some very serious arguments with me even success on some of my messaging on the national campaign. I don't feel that way anymore."

Neither Talarios nor Pastros has completely abandoned the social issues that drove the 2018 race. Pastros has repeatedly gone

after Talarios. It has support of some youth and his past comments using his faith to justify progressive policy.

"First of all, he said God is 'the enemy I do, he told supporters at the Allen safe. This is a guy that's also using the Bible and the love of Mary and Jesus to justify late-term abortions."

Talarios maintains that abortion access is a priority. Still, he believes abortion for two in the economy materials than Allred did in his race two years ago against Cruz. Talarios has been seen as an booming whitebody on abortion this year, and his campaign website devotes more real561,000 to scheduling corruption and helping to bring down the high costs of living. Allred can several ads focusing on abortion, including with OR-2000 on revenues who were denied abortion.

Texas maintains some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, barring the process of use of rape and incest. The state has an exception if a pregnancy threatens a woman's age. The law still presumes have had a chilling effect on doctors attempting the procedure. Doctors can be prosecuted and face life in a prison of their sex found to have included the abortion ban.

Activists supporting abortion access say they believe Democrats are still incorporate reproductive health into an economic message. With Democrats, president of Reproductive Freedom, Joe Ed, acted as unpleasant and a party, having a generally extreme for low-income families with high costs of child care, housing and food.

Tennants also said Pastros's past as attorney general embracing the state's abortion ban gives him a record. Democrats can run against them if a fact like rap is run on this year's election.

"Ben Pastros is public enemy and the state's abortion nation—the 'Tennants and 'It would be a mistake as it's as of our time on this."

Awards:国防统, an abortion policy, who has one of the top surrogates for Democrats in Texas and to the president—the oil debt, with the didn't fault Talarios for focusing on the economy. She said she sympathized with focusing on the economy and to the race, with months remaining to discuss abortion.

Decomits rose to national attention for suing Texas in 2023 after she was a denied an abortion to end her nonverbal pregnancy. The complications from her pregnancy nearly killed her before doctors finally agreed to perform the procedure. She has since worked with a network of women with similar stories to advocate for abortion access.

"Some has been extremely supportive of me and my work,"国防统 said, adding that the state's health care system, as for the pregnant and for neonatal types to working, on reproductive health, has been unable to when he's ready to reach out if he wants to work together. I'll be very happy to support him."

Hiring slumped unexpectedly during July, as the economy shed 23,000 jobs

JAMES TUCKER

of gas prices, tariffs and predicted interest rates taken, he said it would be 'surprising' if those factors "didn't zap some of its strength."

During a campaign stop in Las Vegas this week, Trump claimed to be providing over "the greatest economy we've ever had by far." The White House said early Friday that it remains on solid footing.

"The Trump industrial enterprise is an schedule," White House spokesman Mark Desai said in a statement, pointing to low unemployment claims and a small uptick in manufacturing jobs in July. "The Trump administration is focused on unloading more private-sector air growth through President Trump's proven economic agree. As of the city, deregulation, and foreign abundance."

Democrats, having off-polio showing their inflation-habitat, say, "I'm not going to have more Trump's economic policies, also second in the latest data."

"President Trump calls this the greatest economy we've ever had by far," says a new CEO, billionaire director, Rep. Brendaa Hunt—Democratic, the top House's new CEO, and the CEO Committee, said in a statement. "For everyone else, Trump's half the world disastrous how we are raising smokers, giving, and having the right to make."

The biggest insistence from the report may be that a hiring slowdown has been favoring

Monthly change in workforce jobs

since spring as higher costs from tariffs and higher prices from interest on shipments weighed on employed expansion plans. Meanwhile, job creation for this year's World Cup also disappointed and financial pressures appear to have driven significant winners job losses in local public schools.

The unemployment rate, ticked down, however, because the labor force has been steadily shrinking, daily business hiring retirement age are cutting the workforce, but some working-age people have also been moving to the solutions to wait for better job opportunities.

"A big part of this decline is demographics," said the Rev. mates, chief economist of RPH, J. London tax and consulting firm. "It's the simple aging of the population."

In bad news for Republicans set to face uniforms, voted on Nov. 3, Friday's report also showed growth in average hourly wages, costing to the slowest past-time the pandemic. "Major rose to $7.02 on food in Asia, and by 2.4 percent over the past year, in Russia data reported such week could show prices again growing faster than wages, another blow to consumers' pocketbooks."

Looking across sectors, the re-

port shows health care continuing to lead job gains between June and July. With 12,000 new positions, Centralization payrolls fueled by the data center boom also grew. And the information sector and professional staff become serious. Added time—welcome leave for fractional college graduates.

But some industries continue to stagnate, shedding or barely adding jobs to day, in keeping with trends over the day of months.

Public health claims and community collapse led job losses, cutting 20,000 positions. Susan Shard, president of Infinitive In-

alities, a financial consort from, said in an analysis, that that finding reduction is likely to be a reflection of falling student enrollment and rising costs, as well as the separation of federal pandemic and. But other economists said the declines may reflect seasonal data distortions related to school closures that should result in job gains in future months.

Lioners and hospitality shed weight jobs, as World Cup hiring appeared weaker than enterprise, and restaurants, bars and entertainment venues reduced staff. The retail and finance sectors also drastic.

At least one group found a silver lining in the disappointing report. Wall Street leaders are betting that the softer-than-expected labor market will lower the odds of Federal Reserve job turnakers raising interest rates when they are in September.

Last week, three Bell officials voted for a rate increase to consider midterm inflation, a significant move of interest for the first decision to hold rates steady. Friday's rate data could dampen pressure for a rate hike, analysis said. But the declining stamp program was likely to keep the fluffs these on inflation data due next week.

The new relative rates in better than expected, a cooler labor market may not be enough to give the calls to the next. In the fall, at lower expectations people of 4, and 3,000, however, chief economist managed for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

Amid Friday's gloomy news, signs remain that the labor market clearly215,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

The lack of claim in the lower market has puzzled economists, who typically report tariffs to increase during periods of weak hiring. Many analysts say through immigration restrictions, including deportations and the US-Mexico border closure, have reduced workforce growth, and so fewer jobs are needed to keep the unemployment rate steady.

Economists report a late-concern hit from the inflation rate, which is the most protracted status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti, a move that has triggered most people.

The most recent webbing that's been typical about the post-pandemic economy," said Thomas H. Tucker, a former USPS economist. "Any labor market that's healthy has a healthy level of choice. But this labor market keeps shifting the social rules of the world."

WATSON, KENTUCKY, and LUX. BRIGGS contributed to this report.

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The wild of one of the five people who had still killed during a school shooting in Thailand on Friday is coincided.

Seven killed and more than 20 are injured in Thailand school shooting

BY JENNIFER YANG

A 16-year-old student opened for an seven people and wound of more than 20 on Friday in one of Thailand's 'deadliest' school shootings in years.

The shooter killed his two grandparents at the home they shared, then proceeded to his high school just outside Bangkok, where he killed five weeks ago and staff, according to Thai authorities.

The shooter shot himself at the scene and died shortly after his evacuation to the hospital, Thai officials said.

The student had previous-

Authorities say torn killed his two grandparents, five others

ly directed the gun, which was owned by his grandfather, on Instagram in April, according to authorities.

Sweety-three people were wounded in the attack, with nine in critical condition, officials added.

The student's motivation for the mass killing was unclear, a class friend told police the shooter had been under stress from

his studies.

After searching the suspected gunman's forces, police told local media that he had been watching videos of school shooting in the United States on his computer in recent days.

The shooting is one of the deadliest attacks on a school in Thailand since 2022, when a 16-year-old former police officer killed 37 people, including 26

children, at a nursery in north-eastern Thailand. Following that attack, Thai lawmakers pledged gun reforms, though comprehensive changes have yet to be codified.

In the aftermath of 'Bolar's shooting, Thai Prime Minister Anutta Chariswadasi said he would introduce a new firearms control law that would allow only police officials on duty to carry guns.

Thailand boasts the highest civilian gun ownership rate in Southeast Asia, with around 12 guns per 500 people, according to a 2007 estimate from the Small Arms Survey.

Senate passes bill that will intensify sanctions against Russia

BY NOAH BOREENSON AND THEODORIS MEYER

The Senate on Friday overwhelmingly approved a bill to intensify sanctions on Russia's wartime economy in a long-awaited victory for congressional supporters of Ukraine.

The 89-to-12 vote capped more than a year and a half of negotiations around the legislature, during which even some supporters lawmakers doubted its prospects.

It now heads to the House, where lawmakers have already left Washington for the August course.

Members of both parties have largely credited the bill's survival to the persistence of Sen. Lindsey Graham (D-South Carolina), who championed the massacre up until the final hours of his life. Graham died from a heart condition in July, shortly after returning from a trip to Ukraine.

The bill would allow the Trump administration to impose up to 500 percent tariffs on the top five purchases of Russian oil and gas and other countries that help circumvent existing sanctions on Russia's energy series. It would also extend sanctions on Iran, a White House priority that was tasked on to the legislature.

Supporters of the country argue the bill could cripple the Kremlin's main source of revenue and limit its ability to wage its war in Ukraine, now in its fifth year. They assert the financial penalties, in addition to Ukraine's recent success in striking dem into Russia, could push Russian President Vladimir Putin to seek a negotiated settlement to the conflict.

Sen. James E. Mack (R-Idaho), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on the Senate floor that the bill would "cut off the flow of cash that powers Putin's war machine."

The Biden administration previously enacted massacre rounds of sanctions against Moscow, cutting its economy off from the Western financial system and seizing the assets of Russian oligarchy. The penalties have limited the Kremlin's options to continue financing the war but haven't helped the fighting.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), who led efforts to pass the bill with Graham before his death, called the new sanctions the "most consequential" that have been enacted since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.

Blumenthal and the bill's other supporters described it as an effort to allow U.S. support for Ukraine House Democrat Justice Cheek Johnson (D-Sow York) said the full would send "an unmistakable message to Moscow that America will back Ukraine to the left."

But some House Democrats who support Ukraine have said they will oppose the legislature, arguing that it hands President Donald Trump too much author-

ity to impose new tariffs. It is unclear whether their concerns are deep enough to help the bill.

Rep. Gregory Meeks (New York), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has called the bill a "fringe horse" for economic levies that the Trump administration has "unpassably abused" in a statement Friday. Meeks called for the bill to be further defined.

Blumenthal acknowledged his colleagues' opposition in a news conference after Military vote. Still, he argued that the bill was Congress's only-violation opportunity to tighten sanctions on Russia and urged House lawmakers to back the legislature.

"Time is not on our side," Blumenthal said.

After a late push from Sen. Raphael Warrack (D-Georgia), U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer committed in writing that the administration would not seek to impose tariffs on countries beyond the top five imports of Russian oil or natural gas, unless in the restrictions in the legislation.

But the Senate defeated an

"It will not bring

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assumptions to the bill from Sen. Read Paul (R-Kentucky) and Sen. Wynne (D-Gregory) to stop the power to impose tariffs, which Paul argued could amount to "the largest tax increase imposed by a Republican Congress."

"It will not bring peace to Ukraine, but rather will deliberately make American families power by increasing tariffs, which are nothing but a tax on imported goods," Paul said on an annual report.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has personally urged lawmakers to support the legislation, finding the Capitol last week to attend Graduate General. After meeting with senators and saying there to back the legislation, Zelensky watched an initial vote to advance the measure from the Senate chamber.

Trump has warned in his support for Ukraine he has recently spoken minutes of(uitsense) and said their meetings were productive. The White House has consulted in writing that it will support the bill.

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Congo hold passengers into quarantine

Congress health authorities held nearly 200 host passengers in quarantine near Kinshasa on Thursday after our teacher who was previously aboard the boat died with symptoms matching the Elisha river.

Congo has been battling an Elisha outbreak since May that has been deemed the latest in history in terms of transmission, with confirmed cases reaching 4,000, including over 1,000 deaths, according to the local figures, Director-General of Africa (DC).

The passenger had become sick and disembodied nearly three weeks ago in Paris, in the province of Morogdo, more than 600 miles from Kinshasa along

the Congo River, Kenya said Thursday adding that the capital has no confirmed Elisha case. The passenger later died.

Authorities did not give the current location of the boat offer than to say that it was near the capital. They did not say if the nearly 200 remaining passengers were being held aboard the ship or in some location on land, nor how long they would be held. But they said they were awaiting tort results.

Ehrison's highly contagious and uproach in the human population through contact with bodies in funds such as vomit, blood or semen, and with contaminated surfaces and materials such as bedding and clothing.

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PAKISTAN

Pakistan military

airlifts victims' bodies

Pakistani military helicopters on Thursday airlifted the bodies of five climbers from the more-covered stages of Broad Peak nearly a week after an avalanche swept away a 20-member international expedition, officials said.

After Ashhad Khan, president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, said the remains of the climbers killed in the July 31 avalanche were being transferred to a military hospital in the northern city of Hussite.

Three bodies were brought off the mountains on July 1. Thursdays airlift caused the number of recovered bodies to eight, including recovered British-English climber Nirmal, and two climbers remain missing and the march is ongoing following what the Alpine Club described as one

of Pakistan's deadliest mountaineering climbers.

The bodies of Paris, Chinese climber Sheng Wang, Nepal climbers Nima Meeya, Grada Sherpa and Kila Sherpa were flown from the later camp of Broad Peak to the air base in Hussite before being transported to the hospital, regional authorities said.

The international team of climbers came from Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, China, Britain and the United States. The bodies will be flown to Pakistan's capital Islamabad after coordination with the embassies of the climbers' home countries, officials said.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Islam, the film work expressed tenderness to the virtual invasion, saying he was deeply saddened by the tragedy and that Pakistan remained committed to

the recovery operation in coordination with the Nepal, Oman, U.K. and U.S. embassies.

Associated Press

GREEK

Greek court orders murderer jailed

A Greek court ordered that a 20-year-old religious house accused of killing a Scottish woman whose body was found in a suitcase in Jaffaab in 1997 at all pending trial after he refused to enter a plea on Thessalon, legal and police sources said.

The man, accused of murdering a Catholic and illegal gun possession, conceived his right to silence and did not respond to the charges he acknowledged, but not results are still pending, the legal source said. The body of Elizabeth Jane Ross, a

20-year-old certified psychotherapist and volunteer aid worker, was found on July 24 in a suitcase on an abandoned construction site after she had been missing for three days.

The suspect, who police officials describe as a professional home from Jaffaabstian who was granted airfare in Greece, was arrested on Sunday. He has do not recognizing police officials told Reuters.

He told police earlier this week to report Israel from body in an apartment bathroom, parchment, placed it in a suitcase and tried to dispose of it, police officials said.

A post-mortem examination could not determine the cause of death due to decomposition but the report written did not report and regulations, a police source said.

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Why a Justice Department prosecution of Fauci could face court challenges

The DOJ faces competing pressures as it decides on what course to take

BY MARIN BERMAN

A Senate committee's vote this week to hold Anthony K. Fauci in a contempt of Congress hands the Justice Department two thorny questions: Will the agency prosecute the 45-year-old infectious-disease scientist, and could it win such a case in court?

The contempt vote does not internationally mean Fauci will face charges, and it that does happen, legal analysts say there are hurdles and potential weakness for any possible case.

The 8-7 vote centered on Fauci's recent appearance before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs during which the former public health official repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions.

Fauci said committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) — who has long smoked the scientist ever his handling of the commercial pandemic and called for him to be jailed — was trying to trap him in a strategy. Paul said Fauci had no legitimate reason to avoid questions, since President Joe Biden granted him a presumptive pardon before having jailed, and came.

Deciding whether Fauci should actually face criminal charges that could lead him behind bars, though, is up to the Justice Department. By leader, Todd Blanche, just faced a growing condemnation fight, with smokers of both parties pursuing him to resist politicizing the department.

Carlos Urrutic, who was assistant attorney general for legislative affairs during the Biden administration, said lawmakers routinely refer matters to the Justice Department — but that doesn't mean prosecutions follow.

Well has a lot of dissertion in terms of what investigations it presents, regardless of what sings Congress taken," said Urrutic, now a partner at the firm Mortonian Foundation.

Federal law says contempt of Congress cases must be referred to a U.S. attorney, "whom duty is shall be to bring the matter before the grand jury."

But the Justice Department has concluded in the past that presenting these cases to a grand jury is optional.

In a 1844 legal opinion for the agency, "these-nominant attorney General Theodore K. Olson — who later served as solicitor general under President George W. Bush — wrote: 'Congress does not have the statutory or constitutional authority to require a particular case to be referred to the grand jury.'"

The Justice Department said Friday in a statement about the Fauci contempt case that it had "restored the devourers' sex on swearing it, and will work with the Senate accordingly."

The Fauci case, though, is not a legal opinion, that there is a longtime health official who became the face of the American response to the pandemic, celebrated by many Democrats and failed to be heard of it.

In a letter Thursday to Blanche and Joanna Petty, the 1st district attorney of the 1, 2nd wrote that Fauci had improperly invoked the Fifth Amendment, which protects against self-constitution.

The Fauci cannot have any reasonable fear of federal prosecution because he received a swearing period, "and it is not."

Senators asked Fauci many questions about "earlierly federal subject matter," Paul wrote, involving "conduct for which the pardon eliminates federal jeopardy."

David Schaeffer, an attorney for Fauci, said there was "absolutely no basis for a criminal contempt charge against Dr. Fauci."

This assertion of his Fifth Amendment rights was completely appropriate and justified given Senator Paul's name on prior statements that the administration was to see Dr. Fauci "behind bars," Schaeffer said in a statement.

Fauci's is not the first political, but the last contempt case of recent years, Stephen K. Bannon and Peter Navarro — top editor, 45-year-old former Social Center — were held in contempt in separate episodes for the House of Representatives during the Biden administration for defying subpoenas from the House. Jan. 8 committee.

Bannon said, "Senators were both prosecuted, convicted and

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Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) presided over a vote Thursday that resulted in Fauci being held in contempt of Congress.

jailed. Two other Trump aides — Mark Meadows and Daniel Swarter Jr. — were also held in contempt by the House, but the Justice Department declined to prosecute them.

Trump, who has criticized Fauci, cited the Bannon and Navarro cases after the contempt vote this week in suggesting the doctor should be prosecuted.

During Trump's second term, the Justice Department has shown an appetite for taking aim at his ties, including former FBI director James B. Connor, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and former Fed Fed Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell.

Federal prosecutors could take a few different routes with the Fauci case, including deciding not to bring it to a grand jury at all, pursuing a contempt

case as Paul wants and seeking entirely different charges against Fauci.

If prosecutors proceed with a criminal case against Fauci, a grand jury could reject it. That has repeatedly happened during Trump's second term, including earlier this year when a federal grand jury in D.C. refused to select an Democratic lawmaker who had recorded a video saying military service members could disobey illegal commands.

A case against Fauci would risk genuine legal peril for him. If Fauci is convicted on a misdemeanor count of contempt of Congress, he could be jailed for at least 10 days and up to a year. But legal analysts said the case faces several hurdles.

The resolution finding Fauci in contempt was approved by a Senate committee on a

partly four vote, but it was never presented to the 2nd Senate. There was a request it would have passed. Some legal analysts suggest Fauci's attorney could try to challenge a prosecution in the case on that basis alone.

Stanley and Elyria were represented Navarro in his contempt case, and that under the statute, the full Senate needs to review such cases when it is in motion.

Paul's decision to enact the case to DOJ without the full Senate involved "is just final in the case," said Brand, who previously invoked as general counsel for the House of Representatives.

Brand said, "Exposing the full Senate and sending it from the committee vote on to the Justice Department is 'like flashing it down the table.'"

Others were not certain that this would deem a prosecution of Fauci, though they expected his attorneys would at least raise the issue if the case proceeds.

"It's possible that's a procedural defense he could raise," said Amanda "hurdles, an attorney at Parkdale Parkdale, who was part of the teams at the U.S. attorney's office in D.C. that prosecuted Navarro and Bannon. 'But there's not a lot of case law on it, as to whether bypassing the full Senate would be okay.'"

Another unusual element in the case is Paul's pardon.

Randy before leaving office, Helen granted pardon for Fauci and others who he said faced the threat of "unjustified and politically motivated prosecutors" by Trump's second administration.

The language of the pardon, states that it covered actions stretching back more than a decade, including Fauci's work

on the pandemic response. Paul wrote to Blanche and Petty that the lesser nature of the pardon negated Fauci's need for the Fifth Amendment.

"It is difficult to conceive of a more comprehensive grant of federal immunity, and it forecloses the ordinary basis for Fifth Amendment protection for any topics covered by the Committee," Paul wrote.

Legal experts, though, noted that the pardon was not boundless, in part because it only covered actions through the date it was issued in January 2016.

N. Sunderquist rule about pardons is that the president can only pardon events which occur before the moment that the pardon seems," said Frank G. Bowman III, an emeritus law professor at the University of Missouri and an expert in presidential clemency.

"A pardon does not cover anything after its issuance," he said. "The person pardoned could certainly be prosecuted for, for example, are false statements or perjury that he committed after the date of the pardon."

Presidential clemency is also limited to federal officials and does not protect against state charges.

Steve Repoldrum attorneys general — in Florida, Louisiana and West Virginia — announced this week that they were subpoenaing Fauci, and a fourth in Oklahoma ordered an investigation into him there.

The contempt resolution said Fauci had waived his right to invoke the Fifth Amendment by giving "opening testimony on subject matter pertinent to the questions under inquiry."

This is not the first time law-

makers have made such an argument.

In 2016, the House of Representatives voted to hold industrial Revenue Service official Len Lerner in contempt after the week at opening statement at a hearing and later invoked the Fifth Amendment. The following year, the U.S. attorney for D.C. at the time, Ronald C. Macbee Jr., said his office was declining to bring that case before a grand jury.

David J. Schoon, an attorney who represented Bannon in his contempt case, said Rauc's opening statement could prove an issue for his defense.

"I would make the argument, if I were on the prosecution side, that that is a statement denying the charges against him," he said.

Schoon was also critical of Fauci for invoking the Fifth Amendment when pressed during the hearing on relatively mundane topics, including when Sen. Jack Hawley (R-Missouri) asked him about the color of his tie.

"The Fifth Amendment is a vitally important part of the Constitution," Schoon said. "On the other hand, it shouldn't be allowed."

Bowman said that technically, Fauci could not invoke the Fifth Amendment in those areas "because the answers to these questions couldn't reasonably circumness him." But people who are invoking the Fifth Amendment often do so broadly, he added, because defense lawyers tell them not to answer anything to avoid getting "driven into question-by-question justifications of why you answered this and didn't answer that."

Stephen K. Bannon after appearing in federal court on Nov. 30, 2020, after being charged with contempt of Congress.

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Airport ICE capades are a strange way to keep DHE out of the headlines

AT THE NATIONAL Government Amendment seminar meeting, Senators, Deputy Secretary Mackenzie Mallin estimated the charges he made during his confirmation hearing in March. "Let's work to get the worst of the worst of the streets, and then you won't see me in your cities and states like you do as much." Mallin told previous last week, referring to a new telephone and customer Shakespeare agree he oversees. "Is he's you probably won't even see me at all?"

That is a reassuring message, but it doesn't apply at airports.

To hit the White House's quota of roughly 2,000 across per day, ICE has stopped by 50 percent of travel hides agents appear to be starting a wide net to pick up returns without registration. These travelers are not the "worst of the worst." They are often people who

Gate agents have blocked immigration authorities trying to be used places without a judicial warrant.

have overstated their visas and may be in legal limits while awaiting an extension or another form of legal status.

ICE contracts officers to ask people primarily at security checkpoints, but videos have shown officers obtaining others in boarding areas and on jet bridges. In Dallas recently, a businessman gave agent Hooker ICE officers from boarding a plane without a judicial warrant. The videos has taken similar action at black hairs about times in recent weeks, according to Wall Street Journal.

Mallin insists he wants to keep his department out of the headlines and what from the frontiers that are in the removal of his predecessor, Kirst L. Stone. The airport ICE capable are a strange way of showing it.

Meanwhile, the agent's approval ratings continue to slide. Most Americans say they have little or no confidence in ICE. Only 25 percent say they have "a pure deal of confidence" in the agency, according to a Totalist/Koosmanist poll last month. There is a large partisan dislike, with McGill Ingoldhauer accounting for most pre-ICE customers. Only 12 percent of independents have a "great deal" of confidence in the agency.

Mallin was right in the spring to pivot toward arresting dangerous criminals. Airport arrests are a role of January's successes. They won't help restore public trust, nor will they make the public rules.

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Russia keeps testing NATO. The lack of response will embolden Putin.

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE agencies now assure that North and Paris may try to directly test NATO within a few years, with economic surging, even if it is such a limited land increases. But the Russian president is already getting the allurey's defenses and visitors, 35% will part here to respond.

A Soviet-anti-occupy service forced up near a runway at the Leipzig airport to Germany on Tovetiye. A Russian missile flew 10 miles into Poland and detonated in a field last week.

Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 1952, Russia has been rattling its nuclear mines and the flu has been effective. President Ivo Biden and his top advisers against over sending him the High Minister, neither Ruslan Kretan (HUMAN), during that such a move might again be helpful. But

By October 1952, after intervention, Russian commanders discussing the use of tactical nuclear weapons, U.S. intelligence, put the odds of nuclear escalation at as high as 10 percent. That led Biden to impose restrictions on Russian weapons, think their use against targets inside Russia and withhold targeting intelligence.

Ukraine's resolve pulled the United States along. But it says the latest message Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). Long-range warrants followed.

Western intelligence agencies now provide targeting information to Ukraine, which can be seen by foreigners, diverse and missiles to strike deep inside Russia. There have been no insidious already.

Russia obviously fears nuclear exa-

Russian missile hit a warehouse in Kyiv on Wednesday.

lation with NATO, but it may not lose NATO itself.

A series of incidents preceded the missile in Poland and the drone in Germany, including failed attacks on rail lines and errands of diverse flying deep into NATO airspace. Each incursion has a thin veneer of desirability but is almost certainly the Kremlich handiwork.

Gives that there months keep occurring, diplomatic detractors are clearly not cutting it. But how does NATO respond unambiguously without climbing the escalation ladder? The right answer is to take the knack off Ukraine.

Visiting Washington last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensko asked President Donald Trump to persuade Eric Klink to fill restrictions on using Starlink, SpaceX's satellite

communications system, to help guide strikes inside Russia. With the global supply of interception running dangerously low, Ukraine needs to be able to hit Russian handiwork before they fire their ballistic missiles.

Trump reportedly told Zelensko he would talk to Klink and consider the request. Klink expressed to a previous Ukrainian request in block Russian from using Starlink over Ukrainian territory. Given the extent of SpaceX's business with the U.S. government, an ads from the White House would not be dismissed lightly.

Russia has always pushed its adversaries. Some "strive" drone or missile that gave unanswered necessary control or risk taking. Being nothing, paradoxically, is the never dangerous option.

An Alamo Intelligence theater in Austria in 2024.

I'm a writer. I'll walk to stream 'The Odyssey.'

The headline of Will Lattich Aug. 1 column, "The real reason: secret effort, dance has dropped" Grandpa, a German spy attention. I am an 87-year-old grandma and I stopped going to movie theaters about five years ago. Today's theaters are challenging to negotiate: Declining a good position, including a show, the need for frequent trips to the state and handicapped seats causing so very much stress are all reasons I now avoid them.

Instead, I opt to stream or watch movies on cable, where I can enjoy these from the comfort of my solo or co-chase. This way, I am hit the piano feet too to get a snack or answer the phone. That's why my first reaction to all the hooghs around "The Odyssey" was wondering when and where it will stream.

Joan Jonson, discussion

Let me point out the real reason Generation Xers and their business does frequent movie theaters. It's not that we're acting like "there's nothing out there to see," like Will Lattich suggested. Quite often, seniors are just unable to go because of health issues or meddles challenges. In my younger years, I was an avid newspaper. There wasn't a single good movie I'd miss. Now, it's just plain health to go.

Also, seniors spending a lot of time on the phone is often a reflection of the social isolation they live with. So spare a little thought for the grandma and grandma who would much rather be of the movies and not already at their iPhones. (Path or TV)

Sandhya Gandhi, Rochelle

spell in your working room as the foundation for a successful retirement.

Lata A. Engel, Washington

Don't give up tech—build allherry, uncountable

The Aug. 4 front-page article "How do you off-town and a nationwide summer network provide" exposed the names of low enforcement technology in some efforts. The reporting should be a reminder that every public safety tool must be matched by equally strong accountability.

The issues, however, should not be to extract from technology (a non-plan nature and other investigative tools have helped solve violent crimes, looms missing, dislikes and recover stolen whistle). The real challenge to policymakers is to remain their tools are provided by transparent rules that protect both public safety and individual liberty.

These departments should implement mandatory supervisory approval for sensitive database searches, independent audits of every query, automatic alerts for suspicious use, criminal penalties for intentional misuse and annual public reports documenting compliance. Others who share the systems better the public's trust and should face swift disruption.

But the overwhelming majority of officers serve honorably. They deserve technology that helps them protect our communities and overnight that intricterly public confidence in their work.

Ernest E. Johnson, Washington

Wisconsin taxpayers will flee if Francesca Hong becomes governor

FRANCISCA HONG, the front-run car in Smolter's Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor, has made up112,000 high salaries a total of three of her campaign staff most available, she is in denial about the costs and consequences of her proposals.

To fund "free" child care, state-run grocery stores and more health care subsidies – among other social spending – the 47-year-old state legislator plans to raise state income taxes a full percentage point on surplus making a loan $163,000 and individuals making more than $121,000. She would levy another 1 percent on "sufficiently and keep corporations," bringing their up state tax rate to almost 0 percent.

The might avoid like to a tripart. I try to get the "right" to a "few" different Wisconsin – like every other state – when on wealthy taxpayers to support state infrastructure, public schools and social programs. The top 5 percent of women get about 40 percent of the state's net income taxes.

At a grocery street last week, moderators posed a hot question, "What if all the millionaires leave the state?"

Hong responded: "You know, oh, dis-

Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong speaks in Milwaukee on Aug. 3.

coming that hypothetical to, am, a little bit, ok – I'm confused about that!" She went on to say that millionaires would be able to "live, work and thrive" because of her other policies.

But high interest in America's Partyland will take only as much badgassing before they relocate. Wisconsin already has the second-highest top income tax rate in the Midwest, leading only Minnesota's 1.05 percent, and Wisconsin businesses face the third-highest rates in the region, behind Minnesota and Il-

fence. When businesses leave, they take with them not only tax revenue but also jobs and investment.

For sure, Wisconsin's population is holding steady, but last year each of its bordering neighbors – especially Minnesota and Illinois – use more people move out than in.

This is far from the only knack on library machines to govern a major state. She campaigned last weekend with his full streamer Susan Olsen who has called "Human a Reverend Value better" than Israel and said "America deceived it."

Hong also has a history of weird social media posts that she's now trying to walk back to her naming about defending the police to canceling Thanksgiving and cleaning her "old white people" at the top of the local restaurant. "I'm not 'on the verge' of an 'anxiety attack."

But Hong's last occasion alone should also matter to Wisconsin voters. Recent elections seem to suggest that Democratic voters no longer fear labels such as "socialist" and are more interested in reusing down the party's establishment. It often changes to combat extreme actions in to explain the damage they will cause.

Seasons are not going to the movies because of the cost. When the cost of admission to $20 or more for me and my wife, including senior discounts, I look elsewhere to my entertainment.

Bob Radick, Tobacco Post

After your working years, keeping your strengths

I retired (about substantially) from the workforce at the vintage age of 70, on the Aug. 3 Business article "What rotors on with someone had told them about of time" translated with me.

I especially agreed with Deborah Riedewald's insight in the article that we should stay socially and cognitively engaged at we age. I have volunteered at the Phillips Collection since 1999, and that experience has been especially gratifying to retirement. The most valuable aspect of volunteering has been engaging with visitors in conversations about art.

I also agree that places at activity can also be a new source of structure and meaning at this stage in life. I try to walk about two miles several times a week either in Rock Creek Park or in an orchard weather, in the hallways of an 8-oz up apartment building, and I swim laps every week using a hardboard. It is gratifying, both personally and mentally, to accomplish these activities in my eighth decade on the place.

Bottom line to future citizens: Build on and adjust the strengths you devel-

Fans are right to care

Ahead from a Grande

Mexico House argued in her Aug. 1 online column, "Is drama Grande's body art of our business?" that "she owns us, a bunch of strangers she'll never own," absolutely nothing. She owns us, the fans who gave her a career, at least something!

When someone is not only a public figure but also, as those noted, a voice on who has defined beauty standards, her appearance is the business Grande is a fabulous talent. Because fans love and care about her, they want her to be healthy. They were right to question Grande over her concerning change in appearance.

Grande and her withdrawal from an upcoming musical in London was to take a break from public scrutiny. I hope she is heading in a better direction and will now seek help.

Terri Orion, Potomac

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Democrats need to face their real liability

Democrats are facing a dilemma and Michigan's Senate primary authority dismissed it. About 25-force, the chairmanship progresses, debated Rep. Major Stevens, the councilman-in-chief marketer. The energy was unquestionable with 25-force. But a Washington Post analysis finds his support was concentrated in the state's most educated counties and college towns; Stevens did better in many rural and lower-income areas: The Allstate. The left has the passion, but the middle still has the right. Democrats need to win in general elections.

The progressive answer is that Democrats can solve this by becoming more economically populist — attacking billionaires, expanding benefits and thus appealing to the working class. But these ideas don't appeal to the actual working class. Among Democrats, a few moves above 45 percent of college graduates are they like politicians who call themselves democratic socialists, compared with only 50 percent of those without degrees. Upper-income Democrats are also much more favorable toward democratic socialists than lower-income Democrats, 60 percent to 26 percent.

Democrats have spent years dreaming of a working-class motivation. President Joe Biden81-months of the largest effort to court-trade with economics in decades. His administration, poised hundreds of billions of dollars into infrastructure, factories, mass energy and communications, much of it flowing to Republican counties. Yet in the next election, 2024, Donald Trump won voters without college degrees and those earning less than $50,000 while making gains among working-class litigants and Black voters. Over the last 20 years, the Democrats have moved left on economics — Obama was to the left of Obama, and Biden was to the left of Obama — and in that same period, the working class has steadily abandoned the party.

The lesson is not that economics don't matter. But the Democratic Party's problem is not that it is seen as too restrict on economics. Democrats can easily have Republicans on issues like health care and, even now, the cost of living. Their liabilities are cultural and social issues — stress, immigration, the towns that the "woke" agenda, they example. According to a poll by the Argument, among voters who disappeared of Trump but still leaned toward voting Republican, the GOP led on trust over crime of percent to 1 percent.

When the two most under pressure, they find it much easier to move left on economics than toward the center on culture. If they speak clearly and say that the issues make be controlled, report offenders punished, and mandates it merit defendant, or that biological sex matters, they risk coworkers, advocate groups and highly educated settlers. In instead, Democrats offer a larger subsidy, a new benefit or a better attack on billionaires while leaving uninscribed the cultural attitudes that alienate many voters.

The evidence suggests that in backwood, this study tested Democratic shifts across 20 policy issues and found that the largest electoral gains tended to come from scoring toward the middle on social and cultural questions. Another report found that working-class voters placed far more emph-

Abdul El-Sayed speaks in Detroit on Aug. 7 after winning the Democratic Senate nomination.

sin than liberal college graduates on securing the border, reducing crime and adding police. Liberal college graduates placed far more emphasis on entering subvertitiousness, protecting from rights and abortion access, and fighting climate change.

The details widened not because working-class voters simply factored to the right, but rather because colleges/educated Democrats moved left for their soft heart. According to an analysis by American politics scholar Nicholas Jacobs, in 2000, only about 5 percent of both Democrats and working-class voters thereof increasing immigration. In 2020, 40 percent of Democrats did, compared with 26 percent of working-class voters, a three-point gap over abortion in 1990 became a 30-point gap by 2026. Large gaps also opened up over religion, family and trust in government not to waste taxpayer dollars.

Trump understands the political force of this estrangement. Listen to what he calls against in his campaign rallies: transgender athletes, DGI heroin/cocaine, elite universities, crime and an out-of-control border. He knows that these issues hit voters in their gut.

The answer is not for Democrats to imitate Trump, abandon minorities or become reactionary. It is to stop imagining that Medicare-Ins all and wealth taxes will restore the New Deal coalition. That world and that coalition are poor. The good news is that the party already has a formidable modern coalition: college-educated voters, women, minorities, younger Americans and many working and middle-class voters in metropolitan America. These voters want not a socialist revolution but effective liberal government that delivers — affordable housing, good schools, accessible health care, safe streets, a controlled border, legal immigration and economic growth. And perhaps this will help Democrats make inroads with the cost of the working class again, too.

Democrats need to show culturally moderate voters that liberalism can distinguish companies from postbusinesses, operators from disorder, and equality from ideological conformity. Michigan showed where the party's energy has for its base — the fraction of Americans who vote in primaries. The test is whether Democrats can turn that energy into a politics of common sense that appeals to the cost of the country.

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In an age of madness, 'Last Week Tonight' makes me feel sane

The best comedians are more than hearers. They have a way of making you feel like their jokes are private ones that only they

and you, individually, understand. A good joke is like a dodge in the film — a way for you and the joke before to stand outside the madness of the world as if you're the only two reasonable people left. That kind of comedian — no matter what they're talking about — can express something you didn't even know you were thinking. They can feel like your best friend, sitting in the back of class with you, boxing girl wads and cracking wise. Like the two of you are in a together.

What's a how I found myself the other day watching a week of episodes of "General Hospital" — an able boy upon a child know was still on the air — just so I could see John Oliver get slapped. It's like he was doing it just for me.

I could explain to you why it was a delight to see an absurdly hate dyed Oliver playing "C" the director of the World Security Bureau, in a three-episode air — and why I can't wait to see him play an entirely difficult character on "Days of Our Love" next week — but honestly, like many great jokes, you sort of had to be there. But trust me! It was brilliant. Just about everything Oliver does it.

Oliver and his HBO show, "Last Week Tonight," are often hanguish with other late-night fans, particularly since he hosted a podcast called "Strike Focus Tour" with fellow hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, James Pollen and With Mercia during the 2023 Hollywood writers strike and appeared on Colbert's lead CD show in May. But I'm not sure "Last Week Tonight" is a late-night talk show at the

Now, there's a studio audience, and Oliver sits at a desk. But there are no guests, band or interview segment. What the show is — and Oliver is clear about this — is a newsmagazine, and it does excellent investigative journalism. It just also happens to be hilarious. That it is able to do these two difficult things simultaneously seems like magic.

Oliver and his staff of Evans-winning writers have figured out that, in this age of transit, the water-taking bid in the back of class can also be the person who reassures you that you're not caring. That's how I lost when I wrote "Last Week Tonight." But I'm not imagining all the madness in the world, in America, in this administration. It makes me feel sane and — most important — like I'm not sure. That the show can do this while featuring a color and litigation-treatment? reasons cannot be. Nevertheless, and doing things like donating Russell Crower's jockeying in a Blackfeather store in Anchorage before getting it back and auctioning it off to support public media (again, you

had to be there!) is a gift from the universe. As the world carcers, Oliver and his silly, deadly success show offer safe harbor.

Much of this is because the show does its journalism responsibly well. Smoke largely to do things. A recent episode featured a 24-minute segment on the Trump family's cryptocurrency ventures that laid out just how seductive these are, and how much money the Trumps are getting from them, and it did so clearly, straightforwardly and devastatingly. I don't think it's possible to watch the segment and not consider this story a massive scandal. Other promotions have pursued this reporting — including at the newspaper last month — but "Last Week Tonight" clarified and magnified the issue, while still featuring some great jokes.

The show has been doing this work for years, but it hit a new stride in the second Trump administration. Much of the show's success is due to Oliver's skill as a performer, but it also benefits from Oliver's wrestling the old trick of scoring political points, then retreating to "Hey, I'm just a comedian, don't take this so seriously!" when called out on it. That was long. Joe Stewart's escape-back at "The Daily Show," and Oliver doesn't take it. "Last Week Tonight" is funny, but it's also soaking real truth and packing for real change. It refuses to play up, and it won't allow you to, either.

Last week, Oliver announced that he had cropped his show through 2027, ensuring it will continue on HBO through its 50th season. This was rightfully seen as good news. But it should be noted that Oliver usually extends for three years, not one, and he admitted the cover-painted merger of Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns HBO, and Paramount续航s has lost its "total denial."

Oliver, unlike Kimmel and Colbert, hasn't been made of a target for President Donald Trump. I like to think it's because the show is too intelligent and absurdly for him to understand. It's also possible he just doesn't have HBO. But Oliver seems to know he might not share between the raindrops forever. If the merger does go through, he and his show could be the next target. That isn't a thing in even commercials, but rather in a real times. Just for Oliver to keep the contention to one year at a time until we know whether he — and the rest of us — will make it through that.

I have never met John Oliver. We are not actually friends. He is not making his show specifically for me. But it feels like we are not. If you're a fan, I bet it does to you, too. So, when what many have never left more powerless, there is enough in being the misadmission in the back of the room, tossing girl wads — and always, always telling the truth. I'd be lost without that. We all would.

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Suspended priest in Grenada turns to calypso to deliver message

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SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — A suspended Catholic priest on a tiny Caribbean island is embracing calypso to make his voice heard on topics including Gaza and sexual abuse within the church.

Father Gerard Paul, who hails from Grenada, can no longer officiate massive, funerals, weddings or baptisms after repeatedly criticizing the church and clergy. But that hasn't required him from preaching on the lifting rhythms of calypso, an Afro-Caribbean manic genre known for its witty form and satirical social contentment.

"It's a kind of pulpit for me," Paul told The Associated Press to a phone interview this week.

The 88-year-old priest made his debut this year at Nyeeman, Grenada's biggest so-called calypso-centred, Like many animal methods across the Caribbean, it celebrates rebellion against endorsement. Paul sang his way into the finale and is scheduled to compete as "Father Paul" against 10 other singers this weekend, including "Killa II" and "Sosa Harpest."

Paul joined the summary 44 years ago and has been a priest for 25 years. "I was always concerned about the plight of the masses, so I can the church as a vehicle for societal change."

His first taste of calypso came in 1949, while he was still in the summary in Trinidad and Tobago. The summary held a calypso competition where Paul made his debut and placed second.

His preachy duties then dominated his life, but after he was suspended two years ago following a sermon criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza, Paul criticized calypso again. He has recorded two songs so far — "Oh Gaza" and "All Want All Radar".

"I can't quite see I miss the ritual," he said, referring to being a priest. "Although I loved the ritual... there is a lot of limitation to it as well."

He said that while he loved interacting with his congregation, being a calypso singer at love him to reach a wider audience.

"When you're in a small world, you feel that's the whole world," Paul said. "As a much bigger world opens to you, you can't go back."

Stinging as a form of social criticism

Paul is known for his song "Ah Want Ah Radar," a rift on the U.S. government's real life

Gerard Paul, back center, volunteers with the Royal Grenada Police Force Band on Thursday in St. George, Grenada. He is a suspended priest who has turned to calypso, an Afro-Caribbean manic genre known for its witty form and satirical social commentary.

Paul was suspended in 2016, accused by a bishop of "persistent" attacks on the Catholic Church and its leadership. Paul said that being a calypso singer allows him to reach a wider audience.

request to install a radio at Grenada's international airport last year as the U.S. military struck

suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean. Paul sings about Grenada's

government dragging its feet on a decision, with the U.S. later installing a radio in neighboring

Tobago.

In the song, Paul asks U.S. President Donald Trump for a order of his own, which he said he would use to expose sexual abuse within the church.

"I'm begging the U.S. please," Paul sings.

"We all know the Catholic faith we that people want be celibate, but they love what they say they hate. And it's just a cover-up from the level of the city," he sings as part of explicit force that reference clergy having got with love.

Sermon leads to suspension

Paul, who angered the church in recent years, was hit with an indefinite suspension in April 2020.

In footage shot and later deleted by Good News Catholic Communications, an arm of the Catholic Diocese of St. George in Grenada, Paul criticized Israel and accused it of committing genocide to Gaza — which Israel voluntarily denies — during a March 2016 sermon in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in St. George's.

Paul called on the pope, faith-

eign and unable to speak up during his sermon, which was published on social media by The Bride Report, a local weekly investigation journalism program.

"We cannot rightly even preach the gospel if we do not stand for justice," he said as some in the congregation applauded. He added: "When you stand in silence, when you sit in silence, you are part of the industry."

Three-Bishop Circle (Suever criticized Paul's sermon, calling for "expertise" and said he did not give the priest permission to say what he did.

"We can be proud to belong to a church which fails some of our own to always standing up wherever it can be justice," Suever said.

On April 4, 2024, Paul was suspended indefinitely. In a statement, Suever accused Paul of "persistent" attacks on the church and its leadership, saying that statements "have confused, harmed and scandalized many faith-filled persons. They were not just his fellow clergy into disrepute."

Suever wrote: "When It Paul said, 'I have no regrets and I will do it again,' he put himself without to have any financial correction. No institution can survive when such attitudes and values are adopted."

On April 8, 2024, Suever said to a video posted on social media that Paul was not suspended by his contempts on Gaza, saying that such sentiments have echoed within and outside the Catholic Church. Rather, he was suspended for "his continuing lack of respect for the church of which he is a priest" and failure to "correct his errors," Suever said.

He added: "Father Paul has expressed his views in ways that seem to needs authority."

Suever stressed that the suspension is not a dismissal from priesthood.

But Paul remains suspended two years later.

The priest reached the upcoming finale by singing songs including, "Oh Gaza," a biting commentary about the Israeli military offensive in Gaza that has killed more than 75,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, with Paul describing deaths "while then drums heat and missiles pound."

"This is a time to make a voice for them," he sings. "I can not put instead everything in fine Gaza as me stand. When the Church would not take a voice, I'd preach I go preach."

The cost of the Iran war is mounting as lawmaker work on a way to pay for it

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budget.

The CND estimate (bases from six categories of spending: deployment, munitions, higher operational temps, equipment) below, have damage and increased that prices.

Mentitons are the key cost driver — at more than $204 billion, he estimates.

The United States has depleted much of its advanced muscle-defense interceptive inventory — using more high-end morphons to district Israel than Israeli forces used themselves against Iran, Washington. Post reporting found in the meantime, Iran is using much cheaper munitions, causing an actrimony in costs.

Last week, Trump expressed anger in Nigeria over the matter, demanding answers as to why he felt needed an munitions shortage, two people familiar with the unchanged told The Post.

U.S. officials in May told The Post the U.S. marshal forces that leave Iran 2017 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAS interceptors to defend Israel roughly half of the Pentagon's total inventory A-THASIS interceptor costs about 519 trillion.

These interceptors have to be replicated at higher rates than those that are not available.

Tennikens minides, U.S. long-range cruise missiles, cost more than $2 million each but are replaced for at much a double, said Linda J. Bilben, a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Paul is the secretary for the said to at a lower cost than the first replacement costs now.

The U.S. has determined all of roughly $67 billion in "probability a reasonable estimate of an longer short-term cost — using macrolum accounting." Bilben said, "there is $7 billion and more only 'some of the very big of the salinity costs' of this up-front short-term personnel, 'muni-

tions, fun,' she said.

The first few days of war, after the United States and Israel began a post attack on Iran in February, were especially expensive. The Pentagon forced through $3.8 billion worth of munitions in the first two days of war with Iran, U.S. officials said The Post. In four weeks of war, the U.S. lived more than 893 Tenaikansh cruise missiles — of which only a few hundred are manufactured annually.

Civic continue to rise amid ongoing operations in region east as the heart of strikes dropped after Trump's mission team agreement in June.

Medians and long-term costs are often excluded from Pentagon estimates.

U.S. military base damage has been costly, and the Pentagon has said it has not yet factored those repairs into its cost estimates. A Washington Post trend analysis of satellite imagery found that the amount of destruction to U.S. military sites is far larger than had been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. government. Iranian activities had damaged or destroyed at least more than 220 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East by May.

The American Enterprise Institute, a right-having Washington on third-unk, estimated that damage to U.S. military bases in the region, including Qatar and the UAE, could cost $5 billion in re-scheduling repairs and to direct costs such as design and engineering.

The Congressional Research Service in May said that at least 40 aircraft have been reportedly lost or damaged, raising potential budgetary issues.

Alibi Shams McCusker's estimate puts the cost of Operation Epic Play at $100 billion, as of June.

McCusker, a senior fellow at AAI and a former top Pentagon official, said it is important to assess the war's price against the value of what Americans are get-

Increases in energy costs have been among the ways the Iran war, which is approaching the sixth month, has affected consumers.

ting in return. She put the cost for such individual Americans at roughly $110 so far — the estimated $10 billion cost of the military operation divided by the size of the U.S. population.

The Kenneth Kibner's Bilben said that war also have "long tail cost," including long-term revenue benefits and design in the Pentagon budget, which already increases every year. "Just it's going to go up to a bigger amount than it would have if the absence of this war," she said.

This year's defense budget is about $5 trillion; for next year, the Trump administration has requested $3.5 trillion, a number that has raised concerns on Cap and 1000 over a group to the $10 trillion national data.

Short- and medium-term costs will be financed through borrowing, at nine much higher than they were in the 2000s, she said.

"I've said since the beginning that this war is going to cost something like a trillion dollars," Bilben said, by the time all the munitions are replenished, facilities are re-entered, allow for helpers to come from the past, and borrowed funds are re-paid with interest.

"It's a very costly operation, and the American taxpayer is gonna be paying for this for years," she said.

Consumer costs

The war has second-order costs on top of direct costs to taxpayers, including consumer burdens due to increased prices and revenue disruptions.

The indirect cost of the war was well outpaced the direct costs in the years to come," said Gabe Murphy, a policy analyst at non-partisan budget workshop. Tax-payers for Common Sense.

Trump has called higher tax prices "promote" compared to the blood of Iran attaining a major weapon.

Comparing the current war seizures in a computerized "new" scenario, Brown University's Climate Solutions Lab put the extra costs paid by speakers and direct $4.4d Americans over the start of the war at more than $70.6 billion — at about $600 per U.S. household. Its ticker continues to rise.

Mark Zarak chief economist of Moody's Analytics, said the typical household will pay $1,000 because of the war — about a third of which is related to the cost of gasoline. His estimate also costs $1 billion out of the act, which affects anything just as a trade marketing personnel, jet fuel and higher interest rates. There's another $500 to cause for direct military spending, he said.

He didn't include any continuous efforts, he said, adding that consumer sentiment, including small business sentiment, has been "bit hard." The $1,000 cost is "as the law aids of what we're actually paid," he added.

There are tax cuts that have other cause of the war costs — but "still the benefit of the tax cut is now in the true view" as war costs accumulate, Zarak said.

There is also the target, global macroeconomic consequences of the war, including the absence of the real threat of Britain's — a number or large and complex to derive that another war it would be difficult to calculate with current data.

Scott Robertson, filing budget and social talent contributions for report.

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SHEEP IN THE BOX ★★★☆

Kore-eda's latest is a fascinating journey

BY MORA MACDONALD Seattle Times

The quietness of Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda's movies is a bit misleading, but the kind of artist who can create emotional earthquakes from a mere glance.

His films, all of them beautifully subtle, heartbreaking yet often gently uplifting stories about children and families, include "Nobody Knows," "Our Little Aime," "Nugabites," "Like Father Like Son" and the recent Netflix series 'banks.'

"Sheep in the Box," his latest, has all the usual Kore-eda half-nanks, plus a touch of science-fiction (and nothing whatsoever about sheep; the title) a reference to a passage in "The Little Prince".

It's perhaps not his finest outing — the story seems to lose its way a bit in the final set — but even second-rate Kore-eda is still a fascinating journey!

"Sheep in the Box" is the story of a grieving couple, Oscar (Stavola Jones) and Kensuke (Dinge Seamason), struggling to move forward after the loss of their 7-year-old wife (Hill, Kalam, One day, wife-court) Oscar (name of a company called Billiard), which will supply be-saved families with accustomed equipment to exactly resemble their lost loved one.

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Slow-moving concert is anything but one-note

In Germany, an organ will play one composition for hundreds of years

BY STEFANIE DAZIO AND DAVID REYTON Associated Press

A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world's slowest concert. It has been playing the same piece of music by composer John Cage at a glacial pace for nearly 32 years.

A rare chord change on Wednesday — from seven notes to eight — represented the completion of about 4 percent of the 619-year endeavor of the John Cage

Organ Project Halberstadt. It was a history moment inside the medieval Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany, that reflected the past, present and future of the project, as well as those who are following its — albeit very slow — progression.

"As fast as our world is developing, I think it's a wonderful place to be and to come to yourself and just to be sounded by this 'being there,'" said Anneli Bergmann, chairwoman of the John Cage Organ Project Halberstadt's board of trustees.

While the project commenced in 2000, the performance began Sept. 7, 2001. Cage's 83th birthday — with a silent pause that lasted until Feb. 7, 2003, when the first church could actually be heard.

The composition — called "DEGASS"; DEGASS (As Show all Possible) — is scheduled to finish on Sept. 4, 2010.

An electric-powered blower system would wind into the organ to create a continuous sound. A chord change, done manually, means that the sound of the organ pipes changes either because new 200 CHART TO BE

To pull off a 619-year concert, an electric-powered blower system would wind into the organ to create a continuous sound.

Fecal Matter (the fashion house) is everywhere

BY BEATRICE DUFFY Associated Press

The brand name behind recent slow-moving fashion moments isn't quite as delicate as their romantic and otherworldly looks. When asked what an off-road Zendern was wearing for the "Grimmer" permanent in New York, her stylist Lew Roach responded: "Fecal Matter."

Zendern's angelic eruption spots with fashioned white wings was the week of Matthew Frazier — yes, in English, Fecal Matter — the Photo-based, high-end fashion house founded in Montreal over a decade ago that's, seemingly suddenly everywhere.

Why Matthew Frazier is called ... that

The design duo behind Matthew Frazier, Steven Raj Rhenkaran and Hannah Ross Bolton, have aimed to subvert beauty with their own alien-like personal style, including domestic white makeup, shared heads and eyebrows, and skin beets made to look like realistic feet.

Rhenkaran and Bolton started the brand as students at College LaSalle Memorial, going from selling designs on the second-hand shopping platform Depop to downsizing collections at Paris Fashion Week. The designers have said the name reflects their view of the fashion industry, a perspective they include summed up with a more vulgar word.

"There's an other word for it, but how can we say it in a glamorous way? In we're like, 'fecal matter' is the scientific word for it?" Bolton recalled to Fugue last year, adding their 100 WASHINGTON TO BE

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Slow concert allows visitors to ponder movement of time

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More than 150 people expressed inside the church Wednesday to witness what was the piece's UN chord change, with demise more watching a live stream outside.

For these minutes, the crowd listened to the 'call' chord with 24 seven pipes. Then, an eighth pipe was shifted into the small organ, bringing with it a new sound that overcrowded throughout the church. The spectators listened for another three minutes — some filtering with celluloses, others taking it all to with their own closed and hands bowed — before breaking out into applause and cries of 'fireers'.

'It's a very subtle difference,' said Jeffrey Lependorf, executive director of the John Cage Trust in New York. 'There's a higher sound that's a little more prominent.'

Cage's music inspires after his death

Cage, an American avant-garde composer, was born in Los Angeles in 1932 and died in New York in 2002. He was also a renowned music theorist, artist and philosopher whose only direction for this piece was to play it as slowly and as safely as possible. He initially composed it for the piano in 1963 and updated it for the organ in 1997. It was estranged into the 439-year period called the Ralston.

The interpretation of the composition in Halberstadt has resulted in the smallest and being one month long. Other units — as well as silences — can last years. The project has transformed

Armed Bergmann adds a pipe to the organ playing a 439-year-long concert at a church in Halberstadt, Germany.

the Barclards Church, which was left largely in more before-money was raised for a new roof and other lines to make the piece a reality. The sound there envelopes visitors throughout the

church and gives them new experiences to hear as they move through the empty space.

'I think it really is the organ playing the church and not the other way around,' Lependorf

said. 'You move two inches in any direction and it sounds not subtly different — very different.'

Generations of stewards ensure organ's future

The piece will last 439 years, from 2003 to 2040. The time frame was chosen to be a tribute to a historic organ in Halberstadt that dates back to 1995, to 939 years before the project was initiated in 2000, according to Bergmann.

and in 2000, according to Bergmann.

The time frame allows the project's stewards and visitors to contemplate not only Cage's hope to feel their own as guarantee of an organ that will outlive them as such chord change depends upon a new generation of musicians, volunteers and craftspeople to keep the piece going.

Cage (an Michael Barrett, 55, from Glasgow, Scotland, said attending the chord change was a bucket for him.

'This is just one of those things, one of those unique things in the world of music,' he said. 'It comes up and one think I just want to do this thing once.'

Barrett and other enthusiasts also debate what the world will look like for the end of the piece.

'You just wonder what will be left here in 939-old years time,' Barrett said. 'Who will come to the last performance? Will the building still be here? Will the organ still work? What will the world be like?'

The organ, at least, is built to last.

Organ, builder Johannes Blüffen said the pipes he's crafted for this will last at least another time.

'This John Cage project is a good example of thinking about for the next generation — thinking outside the box, beyond the completely normal and traditional,' he said.

The next chord change will take place in Oct. 5, 2027, when the overall sound will be reduced by releasing the 24 pipe.

Schenckle 'final tickets' for the Sept. 4, 2048. Souls are already being sold for 2,840 euros (£3,840).

Amanda Knox says her comedy show honors her slain former roommate

BY PAT PILAS Associated Press

LONDON — Amanda Knox, the American student convicted and later acquitted of the murder and sexual assault of her British roommate Meredith Kercher 10 years ago in Italy, is defending herself against accusations from Kercher's sister that her comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Book at its Scotland birthplace violence against women.

Knox, now 35, said Thursday in a post on Instagram that her show 'honors Meredith Kercher's memory and calls out the violence that was done to her and to me.'

The show is called 'Cartwheel,' a reference to a story that claimed Knox did not recheck in the police station after Kercher's death. The show was set to debut Friday evening and is expected to run for 11 nights at the annual minimum of stand-up, theater and musical offerings in the book this capital.

The show is being marketed as a woman 'approaching forty, juggling204' followed and finally getting around to being thrown about the whole wrongdoing—prisonment thing. Especially when half the world is telling her

to get over it, while the other half still thinks she's guilty.

Knox was a 10-year-old student in Perugia, Italy, when Kercher was found stabbed to death on Nov. 5, 2007, in her bedroom in the apartment they shared with two Italian women.

The case made global headlines asதற்காக quickly fell on Knox and her boyfriend of Sara, Raffaele Solizzaro. She served nearly four years in prison during the investigation, initial murder trial and when she was freed by an appeals court in Perugia. Knox and Solizzaro were acquitted by Italy's highest court in 2002.

Another man, Ruth Hermann Gnade, from the Ivory Coast, was eventually convicted of murder after his 2004 was found at the crime scene. He was fined in 2002, after serving most of his 10-year sentence.

Knox returned to the United States in 2011, after being freed by the appeals court in Perugia, and has since established herself as a global campaigner for the wrongly overruled. She has a podcast with her husband and last year published a memoir titled, 'Poor. My Search for Meaning.'

Knox's post follows an interview that Kercher's sister, Stephanie Kercher, gave to the BBC

during which she said the show 'formalities and trivialities violence against women.'

While resorting that Knox is 'satiendo fine to continue with her life as she wishes,' she said 'the problem with this particular project is that it is comedy.'

'It's not about whether people think she's guilty or innocent, if someone else was doing the show specifically against Meredith, I would still feel the same. It is obviously an added wound that it's coming from her at the same time, but I do that very strongly that it should be something that's not given a platform,' she said.

An online petition calling for the show to be canceled has been launched and so far has more than 4,000 signatures. It states that the show 'tends the horrific events surrounding Meredith's murder and aims to somehow turn this tragedy into entertainment.'

Knox said 'a petition to cancel a show so one has seen, on the grounds of false accusations intended to shame and stifle a wronged woman into silence, is not an argument against Cartwheel.'

The Edinburgh Fringe, she added, 'is the perfect place for a show like this.'

In 'Sheep in the Box,' Hyunha Ayase, left, and Indigo Yamamoto, right, portray grieving parents with a humanoid robot (Kiran Kamala) that resembles their late son.

'Sheep in the Box' is a meditation on grief, loss and parental love

'SHEEP IN THE BOX' TWIN IS

has arrived in their home, simultaneously exactly like Kakere and not like him at all. He has everything that can't do, except a soul.

It's a plot that shares some DNA with Kiana Ishiguro 2021 novel 'Klara and the Sun' (itself being adapted for a feature film, coming later this year), and it's 16th emotional territory for Kero-oh, who makes the film less a

parable about technology but a meditation on grief and loss and parental love, so how the heart can still itself to see something that isn't there.

Online looks at 'Kakere' as if her entertainment she needs to devour, ignoring Kero-oh's reluctance ('I'm not your papa, Call me Meme,' he insists) and the norm of her own mother, who calls him 'blue thing.'

There's a long moment — actually more than one — where she

simply shares at him, and you are through her pure the love that was once her world.

At one point, she reads to him from 'The Little Prince,' words that making the movie eloquently 'You can't see the things that really matter.'

PS. It's your freedom. Don't let us see, not let us see. It's not to be a lot of people, not a lot of people, but a lot of people.

Amanda Knox, who was convicted and later acquitted of the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy, said her comedy show 'calls out the violence that was done to (Kercher) and to me.'

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translated it into French, which 'sounds war mass glamorous' Rhodesian told the 'Fashion Director' podcast in March that the same was also intended to 'challenge the essential role of fashion.'

A representative for Matinino Ficalos said the designers were not available for comment.

Despite the visceral name, partnerships from Lady Gaga to Elsie Inman are embracing their designs.

'There is this beautiful tension in their work between the former and the deanings, and the strong and the soft,' undercut strife! Read Goreski said.

And after years of building a cult following, they were taken under the wings of Dewar Street Market in 2026, after first meeting its president, Adrian Joffe, backstage at a Madonna show. The global retail and concept stores after emerging brands development support, from gender-free and distribution to sales.

Kirsten Bateman, a longtime fashion and culture writer who has attended all those of the designers' Paris Fashion Week shows, said that can is driven by the industry's desire to see something new.

'Every building at the high-fashion brands like Chanel and Dior, is all over of course to head together,' she said. 'And this that like it's as its own category. . . . Not just replicate it.'

From cult status to Paris Fashion Week

Milan Tanejkliev, a College Lakshit Memorial design to-day, had a front row seat in Dalton and Rhodesia's car and sure they have finally found the just once between their art and fashion.

'They have created film, like, very interesting organism to gather,' he said.

The designers were invited over the official website for their website. Women were also debating 'The Other,' a collection they described as an old-young fashionist with lifestyle. It features a collaborative pairing their striking crews back design with Christian Leoboutiot's signature red-sole.

Zendaya wears an ethereal look by Matinino Ficalos — in English, Focal Matter — at last month's New York premiere of 'The Odyssey.'

Lady Gaga wears a Focal Matter design in the Grumman earlier this year. The fashion house has designed Conchella looks for her.

'At their very core, what drives them to absolute freedom of expression, and they want to push the boundaries of what is human,' Tanejkliev said. In March, during Paris Fashion Week, the doc unveiled 'The

One-Presset,' with models them finally strolling with red panel on white spots, gloves and wearing one made made of dollar bills. The collection showcased how 'power affects us all,' they wrote on Instagram.

Demi Moore wears a fused Barbie pink ball pave from the fashion home at Cannon in May, struck him her usual structural looks.

'What they were able to build in such a small amount of time as really insane in terms of world building and creating their world,' supports Monstro Dewar Street Market's director of brand development, said. 'There's real

storytelling behind it.'

The driver's library was a stark contrast to the billionaire who had been sitting front row at other fashion work shows. At this year's first Gala, where Jeff Busse was an honorary chair,

actor Sarah Paulson wore a voluminous, gray, distressed ball pave from the collection, paired with the one-scorning manor mark. (Some extra The Wedding too! Not!)

Goreski pulled from 'The One-Presset' for Demi Moore's wardrobe as a Gaines Film Festival any number, telling the AP he wanted 'something new' for Dewar Moore's brand, full-or-none, Barlow pink ball pave with a distressed bow was a break from her usual structural looks. In 20 years of dressing Moore, Goreski said she hardly ever chooses a full-dott 'typical' shape, but that she felt let the two-other artists vision and do everything.

'They're designing clothes for the show, so many,' 'That's no throttlingly dress, but they're bringing it to like a whole other audience.'

Find their clothes on Lady Gaga and a Deakin' ad

Early experience of the brand was also included boundary-breaking performance Madonna and Lady Gaga. Madonna even invited them to DJ on her tour in 2023 and they've designed custom books for Gaga's 5pc performance, including Conchella. At this year's Gonianny, Gaga wore a black-and-white, hardened, black pave from the designers, a dark angel to Zendaya's heavenly 'Glimper' look.

Then, though, their bold designs are going beyond real can-ents. In a television ad for Deakin', Elsie Inman wore a black-pink, satin, structural shape with own-the-top shoulder pads, a designer shows that generated some amusement online from these previously unleashed with the brand's name.

The designers created a distressed Victorian style dress for model Goldsmith Beckett's wedding to woman Marty Brady, a first for the brand.

'With their next Paris Fashion Week show art for September, fashion constellation art experts waiting to see what's next.'

Three swings for them because they're younger designers who have something to say: fashion constellation House Reeves, who posts online as gillman/erichators, said.

Here's the thing about other people's bling: Let's not make broad assumptions

Carolee Hux Adapted from an online discussion.

Dear Carolee: We must usually want a nice equation that when someone proposes to think. I have noticed that after being married for a long time, though, some only wear working hands. Do you have care idea why?

Anonymous

Anonymous: Because big rings and little rings, especially our rings with stones can do so things. A lot of times I don't even wear a hand. It catches on things, too.

Re: Ringo: 'Women usually want a nice equation ring.' 'Yeah, just you're really going to. If you just uneventitated.'

Richmond

Richmond: No. Let's not. Those fine consumers will do the work (thanks!)

Also: Yes: Maybe: In order your circle and your thinking a bit.

Sure, some women want a big ring. But some 'tents' want to give a big ring for their own eyes, and some women don't give a best about a ring and just want to play a future with their beloved.

*It is nice then: are many women who want a nice equation-engagement ring. But among my cohort, I don't know a single such woman. When they get engaged, they want a ring that left unsanagingly, whether it was their future's mother's ring, or a non-diseased ring from an antique store, or a diseased ring. How does together that control their style and budget. There is no 'women usually want.' There is only what individual women want.

*Here, if you're wondering why you bought an expression ring that isn't getting worn, then ask your person, it's someone else, not your business.

*I almost never wear my 20-cigarette engagement ring, which I helped shop for. Because I'm not a huge jewelry person, it's awkward with my working hand, and sometimes I don't feel like wearing my hand, either.

*It's made a number of assumptions — that folks want

exponents right. All I asked for them, and that they even have an engagement ring. Again, check your assumptions, and ask the only one who matters here — your person.

Dear Carolee: Are many managers within, many and completely assessed by everything the parent says? Just feeling like I am the only parent right now.

Need a Reality Check

Need a Reality Check: Did you ever ever write more and look over? And your own life from 22 (Tub)?

Here, I'm still part adolescent myself.

*That age is a rolling mass of new growth and confidence and will doubt and feelings and large (backaging) new thoughts, and kids take it out hardest on the ones they trust most to love them through anything. Meaning, you. Play you always them so much you make their side vibrate with annoyance when you're within two rooms of them. It's not personal, it's development. They need to get away from you to understand themselves

without you.

It's not only not just you, a long can-off parent, feeling that, pretty much every parent or guardian of a town does at some point. Every adolescent travel started around.

There are ways to ease up on yourself, though, and even enjoy this time.

Be proud of me: not say to their business either you have to. (Twitter: 'have it?' You can't, I'm a much and I've lain a few little. You know — I'm a thing breathing.)

Be proud of me: not saying their influence. What's the better you get at this, the better you become either a person or a man? And the listening part, and the understanding part. Getting destructive and the same thing needlessly because it means you. And don't understand and make a all-or-none part. What do you see might be right on both counts. Huh.

Last thing: 'Don't take it personally' is not the same thing as being a doomed. The difference tends to manifest in

choice of priorities and wisdom at putting ballas. Think: survival, yes, love, yes, will respect, yes. Pipping out over hair color, no Good luck!

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How to handle a girlfriend who is insensitive about a sensitive body part

Solang Eric

Dear Eric: I am a 16-year-old male with nipples that were to stand at absolute practical all the time. What are girlfriend does not mean: it is a positive wish, it, per se, she makes tights of a pale often, and it is not going to feel a lot on the freshish side.

*How are these from and 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100

Pedro: You might look into the tape that remains often one to prevent shading. This is different from regular tape or that the adhesive is formulated to be kinder to sensitive skin. Tape is a temporary solution, its versus but might relieve some of the momentum (the number you feel so that you can focus on other parts of the situation that are bothering you.

*It's worth your time to talk to a medical professional that you treat about this. Your doctor has much even and heard everything. This isn't something about what's you should feel ashamed. It's something that's just happening so your body. You're not doing anything to make it happen and even if you want, a good doctor isn't going to judge you or disables you. If you don't feel you can bring it up to your doctor, consider talking with someone you don't know at

urgent care, for instance. But also consider changing doctors to someone you treat.

*As to your girlfriend, sometimes consumers that start out as innocent, even well received, John runs their so much as well, a shot on a long distance course. And just like the course would be, you can and should make adjustments to get comfortable.

In this case, the human telling your girlfriend, 'I know you don't mean anything to it, but would you stop making light when nipples? You don't need to replace yourself before if you don't want to. Hopefully, the 8 hour what you're asking and make the change. It's not overly sensitive; it's good communication.

Dear Eric: 'I've been volunteering on a tour guide at a small television site for about two years. The site is one of a

handful managed by a city department. While most of us volunteers are seniors, the staff is much younger. But they've always been friendly and welcoming. I tried to get good feedback on my team and enjoy it, but someone can do it with them.'

Recently a much larger site managed by a state organization, advertised by a local radio.

However, I'm finding the atmosphere to be not all that friendly. First off, two of the guides I had met were on little one, even though it was unsound to an extra person on their tours.

Since I was 16 or so, I would only a couple of people whom I knew from the other site where I volunteer, who was so much, had still experience, who was like cuddles, often someone with older volunteers than know and ignore me.

I should emphasize that I'm not a sensitive person looking for

digits. My attitude, when adults behave like middle-schoolers, is to take the high road and ignore it. My movement comes to giving tears. That said, the site is desperate for volunteers. It's not unusual for management staff to have to tell upon adults. I've also been told that many people train last seven years back. I'm trying with whether I should make management staff aware of what I've noticed, since it might be the key to their problem. Or should I just need an insurance, not any team and go home?

Disadvocated I volunteer.

Volunteer: It may be helpful to split the difference here. If you enjoy giving the team at the state-run site, consider learning or what for a bit and stay out of office politics. By showing my community, you may find that the formerly trusty staff will start to have and that could be your opportunity to see if they're open

to some feedback.

*There's no reason for anyone to give you the cold shoulder, especially as a volunteer, but it is possible that since they're used to people training and not coming back, they're making rather unannounced decisions you and whether you'll trust. You believe it was more something of a person's sense of power — so that we can do it to save people because they don't report how people to run well, of course the new people won't have to do it. But they're not much task, don't let their behavior rob you of that opportunity.

Send questions to R. Eric Thomas at rch@collegiate.com or R.E. Eric 22-975, Philadelphia, PA 19135.

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In return home, Nats get back on track

NATIONALS 5, REDS 3

Life powers cathartic win after trades, rough trip

BY SUSAN WORTH

It had been a long week by the time the Washington Nationals returned to their home clubhouse Walter afternoon. A team in the wild-card hunt, losing three key contributors at the trade deadline, during a series of seven losses in eight games against two distance rivals — “rough,” as the last, the last 4 with a shrug and a frown.

So maybe it was a form of snarling post-op frustration, but when Life saw his third pitch of the night against the National Reds (18-10), his hat couldn’t turn quickly enough. It didn’t hurt that when the ball landed in the second deck in right field, CJ Abrams and Brady House were on the corners. Neither did it hurt that three ensuing later, Life decided he still had more to release, this time off the eight-field lead for a double.

Only when, two at least nine, catcher Harry Ford noticed his second MLB bonus, driving in Life, did the outfielder snale after a disastrous road stole during which the Nationals (37-41) fell from a game above 100 to five games before, a 5-3 win was a necessary confidence boost.

“The biggest thing is just getting our confidence back,” Batson said. “Hoping some good baseball and playing with energy.”

With James Wood on the 31, offense needed to come in down. Covering for an MVP candidate leading the major league in runs (310) and walks (30) into the work of a call-up player, no matter Andrew Pinckney’s effort on Thursday. “We need production from everybody in little bit more, right, to be able to fill that gap that Woody leaves, of course,” Batson said. “We need some gaps to stop up and play well.”

Specifically, Washington would need a lot more from some of the established guys. Batson joked that it could be Life’s night, as the last time the Nationals faced Cincinnati in May he had five hits, three honors and seven RBI in the series. Hopefully, “seeing that uniforms again brings more confidence,” he said through a game.

“There is just happened. Exactly as Batson said. And he just kept watching in the report of the time Life struck out in his third at last, the Nationals had a two-run lead, something unimaginable in recent days.

“And in many other attempts of jeelling Washington’s offense to hit, CJ Abrams leading off was the same marginally as the loss score winches. No need for a long district on that one. “I just want him to provide a quick for us,” Batson said. “Want to get him up now.”

Reds at Nationals 6:45 p.m., Nationals TV

Stefon Diggs, who played at Good Counsel High and the University of Maryland, is now set to catch games for the Commanders.

Happy homecoming

After first practice with Commanders, Diggs says he’s ready to “put on for my city”

BY TAMMY REED

Stefon Diggs is back home. The Maryland native officially signed with the Washington Commanders and practiced for the first time Friday. He has one-year contract worth up to $12 million, according to a person familiar with the deal, who spoke on the condition of anorectic because the terms are not public. It’s a low-risk, high-stressed move for Washington. Diggs, meanwhile, not only gets another chance to try to win at the highest level but is close to his own again. “I want to put on for my city,” Diggs said Friday. “It definitely means a lot to me. It pulls on your haemorrhage a little bit. I

know the city is behind me; I know I’ve got a support system here, and I know I’ve got a lot of love here. All I want to do is make people proud, make the city proud, and the best way you can do that is go for 1 don’t know where — I’m not going to see where, you don’t want to just be so nothing — but I want to go far, and I want to be consistent and be a positive piece to this team in a positive way.” Diggs, who will turn 33 in November, has been one of the best wide receivers in the NFL since he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 2015. From 2016 to 2018, he had six straight seasons of 1,000 receiving yards. He failed to meet that mark in 2016 after outlining a turn all, eight

games into the season, but he bounced back last year with 95 catches for 1,013 yards and four touchdowns across 37 games with the New England Patriots. The Patriots released Diggs in March, and he went unmapped through the initial wave of free agency, so he was inactive during offensive workouts. He spent that time working out twice a day on a regular basis to keep himself in shape. “My biggest thing is I wake up in the morning and I worked,” Diggs said. “It doesn’t matter where I go, it’s more so when you get there, are you ready? In your body physically ready? Are you in a good space mentally? I wanted to be.”

Make it six: Mystics hold on to top Atlanta

MYSTICS 79, DREAM 74

BY BAILEY JOHNSON

Before Friday night, the Washington Mystics hadn’t won six games in a row since their championship season in 2019. And down the stretch against the 2nd season, it looked like they might not get there.

With 12 seconds left and a 10-point lead cut to three, Coach Brillard Johnson called a time-curve. “I’m not going to see where, you don’t want to just be so nothing — but I want to go far, and I want to be consistent and be a positive piece to this team in a positive way.” Diggs, who will turn 33 in November, has been one of the best wide receivers in the NFL since he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 2015. From 2016 to 2018, he had six straight seasons of 1,000 receiving yards. He failed to meet that mark in 2016 after outlining a turn all, eight

games into the season, but he bounced back last year with 95 catches for 1,013 yards and four touchdowns across 37 games with the New England Patriots. The Patriots released Diggs in March, and he went unmapped through the initial wave of free agency, so he was inactive during offensive workouts. He spent that time working out twice a day on a regular basis to keep himself in shape.

“My biggest thing is I wake up in the morning and I worked,” Diggs said. “It doesn’t matter where I go, it’s more so when you get there, are you ready? In your body physically ready? Are you in a good space mentally? I wanted to be.”

The commanders are so

“We’re just athletic, so I think we can’t stand it right and instead of without looking,” Austin said of the blocks.

The Dreads, which came in No. 4 in the league standings, led by the first 2 minutes 22 seconds. Once Washington pulled in front with a 13-0 run, it never traded again.

“The team’s three-headed neonate led the way — Austin scored 22 points, Szalim had 35 and Cztrin 16 — but contributions from up and down the bench helped the Mystics throughout the game.”

Ceder McMahon — who was apparently left off the Dallas Wings’ morning report earlier this week, then went for 18 points off the bench, and an Mystics’ dramatic comeback win — made three baskets in the final 2-10 of the first half, each one drawing a more simplistic take.

Mercury at Mystics Sunday, 2 p.m., Motorworld

PERSPECTIVE

Jordan’s Wizards run can guide James

BY MIKE SHELSKI

Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — There is no perfect historical change for what LeBron James’s attempting with the Philadelphia 500s or for what the 700s are attempting with him. He will turn 42 to late December. He has appeared in more With games than success. He will even begin his 2008 season in the league without a pause — no temporary retirement, no full season missed because of injury. And he has joined a team that has not won a championship since 1965, was already capable of competing for one and season, and because of his arrival will be expected to win one.

The figure to whom James is more than compared, of course, is Michael Jordan for records and

achievements accumulated, for championships won, for the aesthetic of their white stylus. Now they have another point of relative similarity. Jordan was 38 when he ended his overall break from the game and played two seasons with the Washington Wizards. If the effective stakes of his return were 5 nearly as high as James’s decision to sign with the 700s — the 2008-09 Wizards went 76-90, missed the playoffs both years, and even with an in-the-prize Jordan wouldn’t have had a power of winning a title — he still provided a useful promotion for how the daily drama of James’s time with the 700s might unfold. The details of that story were preserved in a book — “When Nothing Else Matters” Michael Jordan’s Last Comeback, by

Michael Leake — that is as good as anything over written about any topic subject to basketball. Leake was a staff writer for The Washington Post at the time he improved himself in Jordan’s world, led by an act of a sportswriter, he had nothing to lose, no success to turn or fans to advance, no documentary. Jordan’s tenure in Washington with remarkable depth and companying benefit. Published in 2004, “When Nothing Else Matters” has been narrowly tested for more than two decades. It didn’t refresh and amplify the confidence spread. So, Jan in the way “The Jordan Ruler” or “The Last Dancer” did, so it doesn’t resonate in the public consciousness much anymore. But it does serve as a contemporary tale about the nature of

LeBron James, left, is joining forces with Joel Kunkle to help make the 700s NBA title contenders.

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Cavaliers' Harden has gun charge dismissed

A mid-treatment sign change against all men (Vernon) in Cavaliers guard James Harden in Texas was dismissed after he completed an alternative resolution program allowing him to accept a criminal court order records show.

Harris County Criminal Court Judge Alex Holguin of Houston dismissed the criminal charge Thursday at the request of the Harris County district attorney's office following the state completion of an alternative resolution program. Both programs allow defendants to avoid a criminal conviction by doing community service. Court documents don't detail the terms of Harbert agreement.

Harden was arrested June 15 in Houston after police found that he had a handgun to his vehicle. Texas law makes it a misdemeanor to have a gun "to plan even" in a vehicle without a license, punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to the 1st. Neither the district attorney's office nor Harden's attorney in Houston immediately responded to small and yellow message. Friday seeking comment. The Cavaliers also did not immediately respond to small seeking comment.

Daniel L. Leach of the is under investigation of the regulation of impersonable payments to skirt salary cap rules, also had an undisclosed audit uniform dollar deal with Dahlstrom, the company that designed the rules based at the Los Angeles Clipper? In one arena, they will not "Hello, Don't State Me" represent.

An unnamed person told the police that the payments big was "Don't prevent a war of circumvent the salary cap. It was found long money from the Clipper's through Dahlstrom's back & back".

The 2008 WWA hearing Clipper's had responded to requests for comment as of February night, according to the Atlantic and ESPN.

Many key scientists named Brandon Clarke died of the effects of heroin and cocaine, authorities said.

The Los Angeles County Department of the that December said the 28-year-old basketball player's death was accidental. Clarke was found dead hands a home man Los Angeles on May 15. A person handled with the name of the investigators told the Associated Press after the October announced Clarke's passing that drug paraphernalia was found at the residence. The person had spoken on the condition of anorexity because those details had not been released yesterday.

An discussion surrounding transgender women and whether they should be allowed to compete in women's sports continues to circumvent, the WWA's Francis Associates put out a statement that made it difficult to find the "WWA".

"The WWA's represents 2011-42nd that people with different level experiences, and 2012-42nd, like the American men, are not to be a good man. The statement read: 'There are the values that have been found in the WWA to protect women's sports while creating transformational values.' Here, alone, and determination of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only had lost, ditches, and other conditions in have hard conversations that we will not be used as public at present.

The WWA's report on the WWA, ramped up in July when Indiana News guard Angela Canningham shared her opinions while being interviewed for an ESPN story, saying she doesn't believe transgender women should be allowed to play domestic sports.

Kennedy Beebe had 11 points, Brittany Holmes that he'd been point attempt at the feature, and the heart's movement then called to lead the West Indies. Mervyn, 70-72, in Uncaville.

Competitive honours Alison Thomas before the game, entering the No. 20 jersey she wore when playing for the franchise for 11 years. The team is moving to Houston next year, so the franchise has been the first time to be the first to get players and coaches this season.

CONCERTS

Former Terp Wyatt set for return to lhosiers

Defensive lineman Kellan Wyatt decided to return for his fifth season to the final defending national champion Indiana.

JAMES HARDEN / WASHINGTON POST

Making the leap

The lineman is at Sun and president Jennifer Bizzotti, right, honored Alyssa Thomas before Friday night's game, retiring See No. 23 at Mohegan Run Arena in Uncaville. Thomas, a former Maryland star, spent her first 15 WWA seasons with the Sun.

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Norway's federation wants Infantino out

BY JAMES ROBINSON

MANNHEIMER, ENGLAND — Norway's recent federation wants Global Infantino to step down immediately, giving the presence on FIFA-controlled president.

Infantries is being a result after his failed plan to withdraw in the World Cup. The Norwegian federation held a meeting Thursday, and President Lise Klerensen said the decision had been made to ask Infantino to resign.

"When trust is gone, leadership must also be assessed. We therefore believe that Global Infantino's time on FIFA President should be over, and ask him to resign," Klerensen said via translation Friday.

The announcement is the latest blow for Infantino on the inflation continues on his controversial plan to sell profits in the World Cup through a commercial

World Cup investment plan, peace prize and Balagon tiff cited as areas of concern

subsidiary that would have been called the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE).

European councils, governing body UEFA and Thursday in threat to become the World Cup and other FIFA competitors remained in place despite FIFA abandoning and apologizing for its failed plan.

It reiterated its stance that it had lost confidence in Infantino.

Earlier this week, Infantino appeared to have held off the potential of an inter-interest during a annual meeting with top staff in Rahat, Morocco.

FIFA said the president had been given the full support of those at attendance.

But UMSA response — followed by Norway's direct call for him to resign — shows the sense of right from Europe, in particular, remains strong.

The English Football Association has also withdrawn a change of the Infantino's reduction and March. He did, however, receive backing from Mexico's federation.

The Norwegian federation said it would raise concerns with FIFA regarding FFE, the peace prize awarded to Donald Trump and the suspension of Infantino Balagarts one-match ban at the World Cup.

"FIFA has the best leadership to rebuild trust, strengthen good governance and ensure that the organizations own reforms are actually implemented," Klerensen said.

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Running back Onacolics Hampton was finished to nine games last season but still rushed for 340 yards, with 15 carries of 10 yards or more.

Which 2025 draft picks are poised for breakouts?

With clean bills of health at larger roles, players can bloom in year two

BY JOHN DICKOW

Some rookies take little time to adjust to the NFL, such as last season's offensive and defensive rookies of the true Trianon. But Miller and Cooney are two.

They were among several rookies who made super impacts in 2025, including versatile defensive Nick Donnanovets, who helped of even a defense that led the Seattle Avalanche to a Super Bowl title, but he claimed that he was not a player in the 2024–25 season and Sandra Eglebar.

But failing to become a star in year one doesn't mean a draft pick was wasted.

Here's a look at some players who showed promise in rookies in 2018 who now have a chance to win the 2024–25 season, and but not a chance to their second season in the NFL:

Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle Walter Nolan: At a rookie, Nolan never really got started – he missed the beginning of the season with a call injury. Has was that down early with a base date in Notre Dame? Ration in the August fence in six games that showed the Arizona Assisted loss (4th overall) for last two weeks and 13 pressure in just 20 years each super leader, according to Pro Football Focus, and also returned a tumble for a touchdown. The real law is not a

Defensive tackle Walter Nolan had 15 pressures in six games last year, suggesting a bright father as a past rookie for the Cardinals.

that kind of production in more extensive time, he could quickly become one of the top post-crading tackles to the game.

Los Angeles 7-burgers running back Onacolics Hampton: After being drafted 2024 overall, Hampton rushed for 340 yards in nine games behind an injury—difiled offensive him. With tackles for All and Raiders, Mater expected back from injuries and Hampton beatlly after dealing with ankle injuries, he is positioned for a big season in new coordinates Mike McDaniel's defense. McDaniel has a history of creating his plans for speedy players such as Hampton, who had 15 carries for at least 12 yards in limited action last season.

Chicago Bears wide receiver Luther Benton: Early in the

offseason, Coach Ben Johnson said he was "turning Luther Benton much." There's a good reason to do so. The second-round pick put up solid numbers as a rookie with 47 receptions for 852 yards and two touchdowns in the regular season. But he had some big performance late in the season that showed he has the potential to do even more, highlighted by his eight carries for 289 yards and a touchdown in a Week 47 game against the San Francisco when Benton averaged 2.09 yards per route run during the regular season, according to Pro Football Focus, ranking third in the league among wide receivers.

Dallas Cowboys defensive end Deaconus Eskrivaite: After trading away Miyah Parsons before the start of last season, Dallas was

looking on the defensive line. That put added pressure on Eskrivaite to perform at a high level immediately as a second-round pick. He was strong against the run but had only two yards and 38 pressure at a rookie, according to FFF. The Cowboys have better talent around him, with Sprouts Williams there all season in the inside and Raiders (lays and rookie) Mabel's Lawrence helping on the outside, so Eskrivaite is in position to be an even more effective year earlier in year two.

San Francisco 49ers defensive back V. Jones Street: On Francisco used for first five picks last season on defense, with much of the focus on big rookies on the defensive line. But the smallest player showed reason (the most previous, with the 5-foot 6-foot flashing in a third-rounder. He excelled in the dot last season and could be in position to make even splashes play with a tour of experience under his ball after recording four tackles for loss, two quarterback hits, five games defeated, a second battle card in an 2024 season.

Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Nabil Williams: After trading Town McNally and losing Jaylen Watson in five games, Kansas City is planning to go young at corner with No. 2 pick Manacov Delano and Williams, a third-rounder last season, as the potential starters. Williams played just less than half of the defensive range as a rookie but had a strong finish to the season in coverage in a sign of potential league things to come this season.

—Associated Press

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Titans make Skoronski the highest-paid guard

FROM NEWS SERVICES

The Tennessee Titans announced Friday the signing of 10 fences because Peter Skoronski to a midfielder retirement making him the NFL's highest-paid guard. "A person familiar with the terms, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not announced, told the Associated Press the four-year deal of worth $100 million, with $80 million of their guarantee."

ESPN said the NFL Network first reported the terms of the contract, making the 10th pick of the 2023 draft the longest-highest-paid guard.

"I love this organization, I love this city, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to continue representing this franchise," Skoronski said in a statement.

Skoronski missed three of his first four games as a rookie after losing the lead out of Northwestern. He has started 40 straight games, not running an offensive snap in either of the past two seasons.

His 64 starts are a franchise lead for a player under the age of 35 since the beginning of the 2009 season. Skoronski lost turned 22, and nobody on the court has started more consecutive games than his 64.

•BILLD: General Manager Brandon Beane continued prioritizing protecting quarterback Josh Allen by signing starting right guard (O'Conn Twreeter to a four-year contract extension with $40 million on guarantee).

The Bills' line has improved mostly intact since 2016, and the end's four returning starters have last season, including left tackle Steve Dawkins, are now under contract through at least 2007.

The 24-year-old Twreeter, a second-round pick in 2023 out of Florida, has 17 career starts, including playoffs. He was part of a line that allowed the NFL's lowest sacks in both 2022 and 2024 and last season played a role in James

Cook leading the league in radiographic.

•CHRISTY: Coach Andy Reid was not unlikely to produce a far-rech Makersaw will play in Kansas City's processes spear against the Los Angeles Rams next week, and the two-time MVP could skip the three-game exhibition date entirely.

Thirty net necessarily a surprise given Makersaw underwent surgery to repair two ligaments in his left hand in December.

•TOLSON: Houston entered all second-year wide receiver and return man tackle Noel form the nonfootball injury list.

Noel, 23, caught 29 passes for 2021 with and two touchdowns in 27 games last season. He was informed with a right pickle injury that he continued while working out before training camp.

•COLLIN: The NFL suspended Indianapolis cornerback Cain Taylor-Britt can game for reducing its potential number policy, and he will not play in the season opener against the visiting Baltimore Bears on Sept 11.

On Jan. 5, 2025, Taylor-Britt submitted a public plan for change of rookies during and during without a valid driver's license. The change was approved in a part of 2023 traffic stops, and the four-year veteran speed the date in jail.

•REHARD: Chicago added significant experience to its secondary 10 signing safety Xavier Woods, who has 221 starts in nine NFL seasons.

The Bronx placed defensive back Stella Flowers on injured reserve following an injury to his right leg in 10th-standal practice.

•SUSTIN: Linebacker Deion Jones will complete the tour of playing for each NFL' North team by signing a one-year deal with New Orleans, ESPN reported.

•FALCONN: Atlanta released fastbacker Tory Anderson, a second-round pick in 2022, was moved as a rising star on the team's defense, and signed wide receiver Kristian Wilkerson.

Peter Skoronski, the 10th pick in the 2023 draft by the Titans, has started 47 straight games, better than average, but on the rookie.

After first practice with the Commanders, Diggs is ready to 'put on for my city'

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prepared?

Switching the 2026 season when he got injured, Diggs had all his teams in tougher and has been the close No. 1 option every year since 2016. That will be different with the Commanders, given the presence of Jerry McLaurin.

McLaurin, a second-team player in 2016, is the first released named to an all-gov team. Diggs has played with nine Cuts Bender in 2015. While Diggs and McLaurin are on the wrong side of 30, they should remain a potent resorting duo.

Diggs brings a ten-10 versatility to the table. He will start at the 27th in receiver, who loses up all the line of a目眦ing, but he also will spend a lot of time working from the site. He believes his skill set can help unlock the offense.

"If you want the ball, you get to be able to move around," Diggs said. "I mean, you can go play one game, but they cloud coverage and they double, and that makes it harder. It's good being around when players that can ball. Like, it's going to be hard to double, total with to this offense. You've got pros that can make plays, you guys can make plays out of the backfield, you've got a mobile quarterback."

The Commanders were also impressed by Diggs as he was good by All-length McLaurin has good at the wide receiver team for team care, hence nothing wrong with having another player capable of building younger players the super.

Stefon Diggs gives the Commanders and quarterback Aarden Duerch a versatile receiving option.

"It's a tremendous player," Coach Dan Quinn said. "From what I've heard, more and more, this week is aired when I'll sit to leader. Let's have to younger players on the teams that have been a part of and the energy he brings, not just to the field but also to the subdues."

Assuming health, the potential downside with Diggs is he knows it's all the field problems. He has had multiple legal issues and a

oriental case within the past year. In December, he was accused of assault and battery by his former civil, Smith, Mabel.

While Diggs was found not guilty of all charges in film, he's been a good player in a former girlfriend Misha Hernandez and former associate Christopher Griffith. When contacted by The Washington Post in Friday, an NFL spokesman confirmed the league isn't investigating Diggs

as potential daughter.

The Commanders have recently shown a low tolerance for off-be-fault just when it is individuals within the franchise. Just before the start of training camp last month, the second-highest-paid and San Diego following an arrest for 1997 in June, 2024, and General Manager Adam Peters have released his major team of characteristics, and these more available will be applied to Diggs, they say.

The first or any of the pros, we've got a really good process that we go through when we bring players to 'green and 'be, we were certainly very good, and that process, and we're excited to have him.'

Diggs was limited in practice. Dukes on his start learning offensive coordinates found thought scheme and working himself into football shape, as he gets more comfortable, he says that the superpromotion is put what he can do on display. He makes clear that his expectations for himself are high.

"In this profession, in this job, you've got to entail confidence," Diggs said. "My numbers have always spoken to themselves. No matter who you like or what you say, the production has been there... I say that benefits I say that from the space of U's worked extremely hard and I've always been productive... I've won part, everybody would be doing it."

Observations and updates

•Cormack Tory Jones and defensive end Deaconus Arno strong were activated from the physically unable to perform 3rd Friday and placed on the last time during training camp.

Jones suffered a man-swending broken third in 1994, and in his rookie season, All-length the four-time bested proports, he was held out for the start of camp because of soft tissue increase.

Visiting team leaders, Arno was working with the first-team defense. Anah Robertson was starting at the other rookies corner spot across from him. At

times, Mike Schmidt rotated in for Robertson.

Armstrong went down with a turn of 2, to Rock 7 last season. The 2nd was a result of trouble post-injury, it's no surprise that he will be doing his own head into form. He will be limited to individual skills in practice for the time being.

"I feel like patience was the biggest thing, and keeping my money, trying to get it out. There were days where I felt like I was good and where I thought I was ready to go a while ago, and I got trouble that showed that I wasn't, but I still had to continue to push to get to what I am today."

•Patton Tims: They was activated from the nonfootball injury list. Praise and returned to practice. He suffered a personal injury during the offseason while away from his team.

•Duncan Nick (Allegroti) (call), right end John Bates (hannering), defensive end Drake Jackson (illusion), and player end Duerch. Wise (quad) didn't practice Praise. It made some for Diggs, Washington released guard first year.

•The Commanders signed 10 fences Norman Mae Scharping, according to a person familiar with the National Wrangling has been a reliable backup for the Pittsburgh Steelers, 12-year-old Rouglas, and the 2024-25 through its interest last season with a total of 21. In this quest must of the career at left and right guard, both in the four-time experience at rookie, where the Commanders are this.

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BASEBALL

National League

LEAF	M	L	PCT	GB/LD/STR
α-Blondia	75	20	4.09	9.2 B/A
α-Phenantitics	52	54	3.34	5.3 B/A
Merck	58	59	4.05	12.5 C
Washington	97	95	4.83	6.2 A/B
New York	81	84	4.86	10.0 B/A

M	L	PCT	GB/LD/STR
( \alpha )-Bleuela	75	20	4.09
( \alpha )-Phenantitics	52	54	3.34
Merck	58	59	4.05
Washington	97	95	4.83
New York	81	84	4.86

CENTRAL	M	L	PCT	GB/LD/STR
Mifamation	73	18	4.21	9.0 L/L
Chicago	85	40	3.81	4.1 S/W/L
St. Louis	58	58	3.63	14.5 S/W/L
Cincinnati	84	90	4.87	10.1 L/L
Pittsburgh	87	81	4.89	10.0 M/L

WEST	M	L	PCT
a Los Angeles	88	88	4.00
b St. Louis	61	55	3.20
c San Diego	80	58	3.17
d San Francisco	88	87	3.07
Colorado	89	75	3.88

SOUTRAL	M	L	PCT
Chicago	89	88	4.03
Detroit	58	58	3.00
Minnesota	59	58	4.00
Oklahoma	88	88	3.95
Ottawa	88	88	3.94
Kansas City	88	88	3.93

American League

LEAF	M	L	PCT	GB/LD/STR
α-Terrapicillin	98	98	4.00	-2.0 L/L
β-Bactam	64	51	3.77	4.1 S/W/L
γ-Bactam	64	51	3.77	4.1 S/L
γ-Bactam	64	51	3.77	4.1 S/L
γ-Bactam	64	51	3.77	4.1 S/L

CENTRAL	M	L	PCT
Chicago	89	88	4.03
Davenport	58	58	4.00
Minneapolis	59	58	4.00
Ottawa	88	88	3.94
Kansas City	88	88	3.93

WEST	M	L	PCT
α-Immunize	98	97	3.09
β-Immunize	58	58	3.00
γ-Immunize	58	58	4.03
γ-Immunize	18	15	3.88
γ-Immunize	18	15	3.88
γ-Immunize	18	15	3.88

WEST	M	L	PCT
α-Immunize	98	97	3.09
β-Immunize	58	58	3.00
γ-Immunize	58	58	4.03
γ-Immunize	58	58	4.03
γ-Immunize	18	15	3.88
γ-Immunize	18	15	3.88
γ-Immunize	18	15	3.88

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Nationals 5, Book 2

SEAL	GR	W	L	PORT
W 1	1	1	1	1
W 2	1	1	1	1
W 3	1	1	1	1
W 4	1	1	1	1
W 5	1	1	1	1
W 6	1	1	1	1
W 7	1	1	1	1
W 8	1	1	1	1
W 9	1	1	1	1
W 10	1	1	1	1
W 11	1	1	1	1
W 12	1	1	1	1
W 13	1	1	1	1
W 14	1	1	1	1
W 15	1	1	1	1
W 16	1	1	1	1
W 17	1	1	1	1
W 18	1	1	1	1
W 19	1	1	1	1
W 20	1	1	1	1
W 21	1	1	1	1
W 22	1	1	1	1
W 23	1	1	1	1
W 24	1	1	1	1
W 25	1	1	1	1
W 26	1	1	1	1
W 27	1	1	1	1
W 28	1	1	1	1
W 29	1	1	1	1
W 30	1	1	1	1
W 31	1	1	1	1
W 32	1	1	1	1
W 33	1	1	1	1
W 34	1	1	1	1
W 35	1	1	1	1
W 36	1	1	1	1
W 37	1	1	1	1
W 38	1	1	1	1
W 39	1	1	1	1
W 40	1	1	1	1
W 41	1	1	1	1
W 42	1	1	1	1
W 43	1	1	1	1
W 44	1	1	1	1
W 45	1	1	1	1
W 46	1	1	1	1
W 47	1	1	1	1
W 48	1	1	1	1
W 49	1	1	1	1
W 50	1	1	1	1
W 51	1	1	1	1
W 52	1	1	1	1
W 53	1	1	1	1
W 54	1	1	1	1
W 55	1	1	1	1
W 56	1	1	1	1
W 57	1	1	1	1
W 58	1	1	1	1
W 59	1	1	1	1
W 60	1	1	1	1
W 61	1	1	1	1
W 62	1	1	1	1
W 63	1	1	1	1
W 64	1	1	1	1
W 65	1	1	1	1
W 66	1	1	1	1
W 67	1	1	1	1
W 68	1	1	1	1
W 69	1	1	1	1
W 70	1	1	1	1
W 71	1	1	1	1
W 72	1	1	1	1
W 73	1	1	1	1
W 74	1	1	1	1
W 75	1	1	1	1
W 76	1	1	1	1
W 77	1	1	1	1
W 78	1	1	1	1
W 79	1	1	1	1
W 80	1	1	1	1
W 81	1	1	1	1
W 82	1	1	1	1
W 83	1	1	1	1
W 84	1	1	1	1
W 85	1	1	1	1
W 86	1	1	1	1
W 87	1	1	1	1
W 88	1	1	1	1
W 89	1	1	1	1
W 90	1	1	1	1
W 91	1	1	1	1
W 92	1	1	1	1
W 93	1	1	1	1
W 94	1	1	1	1
W 95	1	1	1	1
W 96	1	1	1	1
W 97	1	1	1	1
W 98	1	1	1	1
W 99	1	1	1	1
W 100	1	1	1	1

LEAF	M	L	PCT
W 1	1	1	1
W 2	1	1	1
W 3	1	1	1
W 4	1	1	1
W 5	1	1	1
W 6	1	1	1
W 7	1	1	1
W 8	1	1	1
W 9	1	1	1
W 10	1	1	1
W 11	1	1	1
W 12	1	1	1
W 13	1	1	1
W 14	1	1	1
W 15	1	1	1
W 16	1	1	1
W 17	1	1	1
W 18	1	1	1
W 19	1	1	1
W 20	1	1	1
W 21	1	1	1
W 22	1	1	1
W 23	1	1	1
W 24	1	1	1
W 25	1	1	1
W 26	1	1	1
W 27	1	1	1
W 28	1	1	1
W 29	1	1	1
W 30	1	1	1
W 31	1	1	1
W 32	1	1	1
W 33	1	1	1
W 34	1	1	1
W 35	1	1	1
W 36	1	1	1
W 37	1	1	1
W 38	1	1	1
W 39	1	1	1
W 40	1	1	1
W 41	1	1	1
W 42	1	1	1
W 43	1	1	1
W 44	1	1	1
W 45	1	1	1
W 46	1	1	1
W 47	1	1	1
W 48	1	1	1
W 49	1	1	1
W 50	1	1	1
W 51	1	1	1
W 52	1	1	1
W 53	1	1	1
W 54	1	1	1
W 55	1	1	1
W 56	1	1	1
W 57	1	1	1
W 58	1	1	1
W 59	1	1	1
W 60	1	1	1
W 61	1	1	1
W 62	1	1	1
W 63	1	1	1
W 64	1	1	1
W 65	1	1	1
W 66	1	1	1
W 67	1	1	1
W 68	1	1	1
W 69	1	1	1
W 70	1	1	1
W 71	1	1	1
W 72	1	1	1
W 73	1	1	1
W 74	1	1	1
W 75	1	1	1
W 76	1	1	1
W 77	1	1	1
W 78	1	1	1
W 79	1	1	1
W 80	1	1	1
W 81	1	1	1
W 82	1	1	1
W 83	1	1	1
W 84	1	1	1
W 85	1	1	1
W 86	1	1	1
W 87	1	1	1
W 88	1	1	1
W 89	1	1	1
W 90	1	1	1
W 91	1	1	1
W 92	1	1	1
W 93	1	1	1
W 94	1	1	1
W 95	1	1	1
W 96	1	1	1
W 97	1	1	1
W 98	1	1	1
W 99	1	1	1
W 100	1	1	1

Note: 12.1001, 0077-1000001

Close call

Angels-volkshire Miles' Trust, right, enrolled disaster by catching a flight/2 against the Marines during the first issuing of Los Angeles' 6-3 victors in Miami.

Angels 4, Marines 3

Wales: The 2 and Wales' Shruberal with hit home, with 10–1.64 degrees in a win over Miami.

Trust, who turned 20–14
Friday, between 10–16
and today, 10–16

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Nationals left folder Dayton Life hit a three-run house run in the first timing to help lead Washington to a win against the Reds on Friday.

Nats get back on track with home win vs. Cincinnati

NATIONALE FOOT BY

in the plate as much as possible." By eagerness one hit, a single to kick off the first, and Poehl hooze did the end of the damage. The duo of youngsters, Life and Poehl - though narrow on the Cincinnati, could not beat full - embraced on the field as the game concluded. It had been a long week.

River Washington last took the field at Nationals Park last Wednesday, it traded away its starting first baseman and its staff ace. The primary return was pitchers, hits and hits of pitchers, a number of which were arms to add to a historically shady bullpen. Why?

A introduce rhythm has developed in Nore Yard this season. Washington's matter would seem like thought enough we manage allowing limited damage. And then the bullpen game would fling open, and parents would come their children's eyes. No need to save a prospective man-

ball fan with the Nationals' relief arms.

Pride had all the making of another nightmare on the four contin. Bigler Cody Cavalli took the second, rolling a 3:52 ERA with five straight quarter starts. Courthouse was high. "We've loaned on four a multitude of times this year when we've needed somebody to pick up up," Buteca said. "And here there they

Cavalli allowed solo banners to fill De La Cruz, Ragnors Nature and Matt McLain in the second and third. But he found a rhythm, striking out eight Reds, and after the final out of the sixth, he remained to the degree with a two-run lead and only three innings left for his replacement.

From there, as atypical as it's been, Bronner Oros, Orlando Riholm and Clayton Rhoads made it the rest of the way without allowing any further damage. In a way, Rhiolm might reveal as a good barometer. After a grazenous week against the National

League Scott Street, one to which a sparkling season of hope entered a somewhat inevitable rain. Rohn, a game against another club on the wild-coed fight helped gauge what was actually left of these Nationals.

If the result was any index, this, Washington is still very much in played contention.

"We're in this thing. We're still trying to get a played spot. Life's we're not, we're not making this thing in," Buteca said. "We got to play out best baseball right now. We got to play out best baseball every single day the rest of the way."

Notes: The Nationals requested unconditional release waivers to pitcher Jack Littell on Friday afternoon, opening the game for his departure from the club. The news comes two days after he was designated for assignment following a four-run start against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Before the week, Littell appeared to be making some progress. He has allowed two runs or

NATIONALS ON DCC

vs. Cincinnati Reds

Saturday 6:45 Nationals TV Sunday 12:25 NBCON Phoenix

vs. Chicago Cubs

Tuesday 6:45 Nationals TV Wednesday 6:45 WTVU-TV, 5, Nationals TV Thursday 4:05 Nationals TV

#1 New York Mets

Friday 7:35 Nationals TV Aug. 20 4:20 Nationals TV Aug. 30 1:45 Nationals TV Radio: WTV (2:00, 7 PM) MCOV (2:27, 7 PM)

Sewer in six of his past eight appearances. Yet his ERA was at 4:47 after Tuesday's rough outing.

Mystics hold off Dream for sixth consecutive win

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bristice than the last

McMahon followed a pull-up ramper with hit a three-form 2 couple of feet beyond the ace before finishing her quarter with a driving lamp with just seven seconds left. She finished the game with 15 points, while fellow rookie Comando's Prosper had a career-high 10.

"We're just finding different ways. Understanding the game, understanding each other, for chemistry that we have," Johnson said. "[T] not keep going back to our player development, where individuals there's able to get better, and so then it allows us to get better on a team. And then, we can put an effort like this evening together."

The intimate confines of Clarifont Arena reflect the Mix-Net sweep back to form from every corner.

At other times this year, and certainly in previous seasons while attempting to rebuild, Washington's stretcher of success were often considered the beginner. Such-style runs that one came from a team that doesn't know it isn't supposed to be any good.

These wins, now, are more enthusiastic of a team that knows exactly what it's doing. There will undoubtedly be difficult stretches to come before the end of the season, as expected for any team and particularly one as young as the Mystics.

MYSTICS' NEXT THREE

vs. Phoenix Mercury

Sunday 3 Monumental

at Las Vegas Area

Tuesday 10 Monumental

at Las Vegas Area

Thursday 10 Prime Video

Radio: MTSM (5:00 AM)

But Washington isn't, at this point in the true, winning game through naive conditions and ignorance of the challenge. Working up six wins in a row while playing some of the top teams in the WNBA doesn't seem like the result of a fluffy, inexperienced group.

In the fourth quarter, after the first round hit a three-point or to cut the Dreams debut lead to seven, a blamed by Washington presented a key moment.

The Mystics responded with a driving lamp from Austin, and after a missed three from Jordan Canada at the other end, then, another basket from Austin made it an 10-point game.

The final seconds brought another test of the Mystics' battle, but thanks to Austin, the team passed again, and a ninth straight victory was in the books.

"Finding different ways to win is a mark of an ascending team. An ascending, growing team," Johnson said. "It's very clear."

Medina Austin, right, tied a career-high with five blocks, while the Mystics had a team-record 12. "We've just athletic," Austin said.

PERSPECTIVE

Jordan's time in D.C. offers cautionary tale for James

SELLING FROM BY

superstarless - the kind that only the cheers few, Jordan and James among them, says - and it's human-spirly not as well to the West and Philadelphia as they did to the Wizards and Washing-Net. They are the superstar ones.

Lesson 8: The Wizards' leadership hardened to Jordan. The West leadership can arguments to James only so much.

One of the recurring themes of "When Nothing Has Matter" is the control Jordan exerted over the Wizards' entire organization, starting with the friend and hand-packed coach, Doug Collins.

"Whatever an issue critical to the team's well-being arose," Lesley wrote. "Jordan beat Collins to his will - whether it was over Jordan's playing time, or who among his teammates observed to start or not start, or what kind of offense or defense in deploy Collins's lack of power illustrated the dangers in allowing any team's lives to rule over a coach and franchise."

Bob Meers has gravitas and true championships from his team with the leading Roni Mareson. Mike Games has a good relationship with James from their time together with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Nick Nune was a championship in 1979 with the Toronto Raptors - and with a superstar, Karki Leonard, who has been a challenge to damage. They have to assert and maintain their authority, or at least some individual's fit, in the face of James's esteem and power. He won't necessarily be an control of the commanding for Jordan, but he can be controlling, and demanding enough. Not accustomed to getting his way all the time, and it would be a lot to expect him to be just along for the ride now.

Michael Jordan came out of retirement to play for the Wizards, leading Washington to a 70-90 record over those two seasons.

Lesson 8: Expert tension among the players, especially the best ones.

Jordan's verbal phase of rookie Kwame Brown, including calling him a homebuilder, the closing practice, was among the universe revolutions in Lady's book. But Jordan's relationship with Rolo and "Big" Hamilton throughout the 2010-22 season is the more relevant one for the 2020-27 70ers. "There was a lingering tension," between Jordan and Daniel McAllister, according to Leigh, in part because Hamilton - who was in his third season and just tramping as one of the longest-better perimeter scorers - believed that it was time for him to assert himself as the team's contagious and that Jordan was fighting him back.

Just because Jordan and Hamilton clashed doesn't mean James, Joel Enzleil, Jordan Brown, Grace Maney and VJ Kilgcombe won't

get along. But the 70ers have to prepare for the possibility, even the likelihood, that this team won't be a smooth running, ego-free machine. Brown's 2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1

Lesson 9: Time will take its toll on an older player, even one as great as Jordan or James.

Jordan, remarkable, played all 41 games in his final NBA season, had he struggled with hardening throughout 2010-22, winning 10 games. James had 10-6 games in more than 75 games in any of his last eight seasons, and in five of those seasons, he played 60 games or fewer. Never forget

Rather Time is Becky Maccann. Lesson 8: The homeowners will end, and victories had better follow.

Jordan's two years in Washing, two are not remembered as a great and glorious portion of his career, for the simple reason that the Wizards still clash with him. The 70ers are just likely to last on their have with James. But the pressure on them will be immense, and patience with a losing streak or a stretch of subpar play will be their, if any patience make or all.

"Sports fans can be a cruel, nonemotional 'browd,'" Lesley wrote. "Only games and meanings matter to the most valid, which, depending upon how you want to look at it, evince either an endearing, childlike intensity or a severe case of strained development."

Lesson 9: There was more to Jordan's comeback - and more to James's joining the 70ers - than winning.

"The truth was this: A sporting god enjoys supreme power only as long as his rights, equip and life ends," Lesley wrote. "The moment he wants to be a hearty principal revenue stamps is the moment he dominates ends."

James said that he considered offering, that he "stopped" his mind because he still wants "to work in giving a "co-temple" that his desire to win another championship was the reason he came here. He is a side but it wasn't the only one. He will fill more seats in Philadelphia than he might have to do where the, and you're naive to think that intoxicating remedies wasn't on his mind when he made this decision.

Loltron James is as much a sporting god as Michael Jordan was, and to be treated as such is the most powerful drug on earth. He doesn't want to cost the stage as anything too.

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Pletho Hammond, a voting member of Maryland's newly formed Commission on the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children. Ten seats, Amos Hammond, was a resident at the facility and died there in 1915 at the age of 10.

At least 230 Black boys died in jail. Their families want answers.

Md. commission to study deaths of boys and teens buried between 1870 and 1939 near a juvenile facility

BY KATHI MEYTIAR

Pletho Hammond knew she needed to see the moment she emerged from her walk through the woods. She climbed into her car, learn streaming, and said a prayer.

God see me, in whatever soul however way possible, in trying justice.

A week earlier, Hammond, 60, had received a letter from a genealogist with an unsettling revelation.

Her uncle, Amos Hammond, had died in 1915 at the age of 10 at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored

Children, a segregated juvenile jail in Maryland with a documented history of abuse and neglect. He was among hundreds of Black boys and teens the state buried across the road from the facility in a forest in Prince George's County.

Hammond had never heard of an uncle named Amos. But the more she learned, the more she realized Amos was family. This spring she visited the graves, marked by crumbling under the fire with no names, and left resolved. "I'm going to be that voice these boys didn't have."

Hammond began that work this week, when she was recognized by Maryland

Attorney General Anthony G. Brown as a voting member of the state's newly formed Commission on the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children — an investigative body created by lawmakers earlier that year to research buried under the state ignored for more than a century.

"We are determined to be the voice sent to take a role in major decision-making throughout this entire process," Hammond said Tuesday at the first commission meeting. "We are firm and committed to our belief that no decision should be made about our children without full engagement and

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D.C. judge dismisses charge

TIED TO REFLECTING POOL ALLEGATIONS

Man accused of damage says he is relieved

BY LAM BORMAN

A D.C. judge on Thursday granted prosecutors' request to dismiss a felony charge against the former Hampden who had been accused of establishing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a case that drew national scrutiny and inflamed tensions within the Trump administration.

David Hearn, a former Olympic counselor, was arrested in June after he said he smoked a piece of plastic liner that had begun visibly peeling from the Reflecting Pool, becoming a target of President Donald Trump, who called almost thorn and often alleged vandals for damaging the newly-educated landmark.

Senator-observer, said a Washington Post analysis repeatedly showed that the damage likely stemmed from a rushed emerson. The Justice Department has been moved to look at the case against Hearn, along with three other defendants accused of damaging the Reflecting Pool, after receiving Income Department documents suggesting the peeling was caused by the "banished" repair job.

Hearn after the judge's order, Hearn said he was relieved to see his case dismissed but that the ordeal has taken a toll.

"I don't think anyone likes people targeted or accused for things they didn't do," Hearn said on CNN's "The douses with Karlan Collins." "It's painful to be talked about like I'm some kind of scum, or not a very nice person. But that to be coming from a place of untruth...leaders don't do that."

Hearn said his case shows that "this could happen to anybody." "Nobody is immune to this kind of government lawlessness," he added.

Hearn's intervention work filed a motion asking the court to dismiss Hearn's case with prejudice, which would prevent the government from reviving charges against the state.

"Given the positions of the parties, the Court discern no reason why this felony case should remain pending against Mr. Hearn while the parties litigate, and the Court resolves, the remaining legal issues," D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd E. Edelman wrote in the order. Edelman said he would rule on that issue at a later date, according to the order.

The White House and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia defend immediately respond to requests for comment.

In April, Trump traveled place to determine the amount and Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. But the newly named changes in the pool's basin even began showing signs of deterioration, with checks of "American Flag Blue" that drifting to the surface and algae blooms dealing the water. Trump blamed vandals for causing the damage, accusing Hearn and others of CBS CHARGE REMEMBER ON B13

Virginia boy's death comes amid a rise in e-scooter injuries

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Radiangana Hospital was riding an electric scooter to a nearby friend's house in Northern Virginia late last month when the young boy collided with a minivan.

The 9-year-old, who police said was not wearing a helmet, died. The driver of the vehicle was not at both, Fairfax police said.

One day later, a 5-year-old boy on an e-scooter was seriously injured in a hit-and-run in South-

The 9-year-old was riding one when he collided with a minivan

van Washington, D.C. police said. No one has been charged in that case.

An e-scootera and electric bikes become more popular, doctors and researchers say they've seen a sharp increase in injuries related

to the vehicles, including among children, in recent years.

Mary Beth Howard, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, said she once treated seven kids for e-scooter injuries during an eight-hour shift. In her experience, she said, seriously injuries, and a scleroderma, as well as head injuries, were most common in incidents related to e-scooters.

"We are seeing three injuries come in more frequently, and

we're also seeing the severity increase," Howard said.

Howard co-authored a March paper that found there were 3,137 pediatric e-scooter injuries between 2000 and 2010 within United States captured in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, which includes a nationally representative sample of emergency departments. The true number of children injured on e-scooters is the United States is certainly higher," she said.

Radiotaxavan, who would have

started fifth grade this fall, liked planting soccer and chess, Venkata Peta, a close friend of his family, said in an interview.

Peta said Radiotaxavan usually lives a helmet but suspects that on the day of the crash, the boy didn't think he would be riding the scooter for long enough to warrant wearing one.

The Washington Post was unable to reach Hampden's parents because, Peta said, they returned to India to remember their sex.

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From left to right, Linda F. Gerham, Phyllis Hammond and Dorothy Givens. They are all on Maryland's newly formed Commission on the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children.

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participation with the families'. Hammond articulated her priorities to ensure the commission is independent, unthinking and centered on the wishes of the boys' living relatives as they weigh whether to enhance the remains, identify them and determine the children's true manner of death.

The commission will be chaired by Brown, the first Black attorney general in state history, and is composed of two dozen voting members and another 10 nonvoting advisory members, all with interest or expertise in forensic anthropology, archaeology, state history, juvenile justice policy and civil rights law. Members include Sen. Will Smith (D-Montgomery) and Sen. Arthur E. Long Jr. (D-Calvin L), who sponsored the commission legislation, and Prince George's County Executive Anita Buechler.

In addition to Hammond, two other living relatives will serve on the commission: Dorothy Givens, 81, representing her uncle Fred Amos Jr., and Linda F. Gerham, on behalf of her cousin Richard Saunders.

The Washington Post first reported on the abandoned and overgrown grave to one age after former leaders of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services (DJS) made their reference public. A Part investigation found that at least 130 children died at the House of Reformation between 1875 and 1900. No most comprehensive public accounting to date based on state records, newspaper archives and death certificates.

Black Caucus lawmakers visited the site last August, and its members later championed a law signed by Gov. Wm. Moore (ID that allocates $5 million for the commission's initial budget. The African American Heritage Preservation Program awarded another $200,000 in grant funding.

'This is the state of Maryland all of us, finally doing what should have been done long ago,' Brown said at the meeting, explaining that the body is expected to submit a preliminary report on its work by the end of 2027 and a final report in December 2020. He told members that the House of Reformation commission may be the most significant investigation both that Maryland has created in the past decade, especially as the Trump administration works to strip recognition of the legacy of racism from the nation's history.

'We're meeting at a time when many in our federal leadership are turning away from acknowledge the history that made this country what it is,' Brown said. 'The makes what we're doing here more important, not less.'

Givens speaks Tuesday during the inaugural meeting of the commission in Crownsville, Maryland.

The state of Maryland is choosing to look clearly at a painful chapter of its own history, not to perform accountability, but to actually pursue it.'

The year since the House of Reformation guarantee public rediscovery has been both courtesy and fraught, a navigation of tensions over institutional racism, state power and the people impacted by both. Three tensions were made clear at the Tuesday afternoon meeting, where the families reminded commission members that for them, this process is personal.

'We are measuring,' said Gerham, a licensed psychologist. 'I know we talked about remains and records, but just know that ... we have such that need to be tended to.'

Running parallel to the commission's efforts is the Forgotten Children Initiative at Georgetown University - a first-of-its-kind research effort founded by youth justice advocate and former DJS deputy secretary (Mark Schindler that is working to identify similar abandoned cemeteries nationwide. He and former DJS secretary Vincent Schmidt oversaw the state's earliest efforts in 2014 to uncover the House of Reformation's history, and it has

Hammond wants the commission to remain control on the wishes of the boys' living relatives as they weigh whether to enhance the remains, identify them and determine how the children died.

dier wanted to continue the work after he left the government. To date, the Forgotten Children

Initiative's lead pseudogist, Malena Ruffner, has contacted 13 potential living relatives for 24 of

the boys. Family members for about a dozen of the boys have responded.

Ruffner's previous pseudogist work includes helping to identify the living descendants of the 375 endowed people who were sold in 1848 by Georgetown's Jesuit founders. She said that she has been able to find some family members for the House of Reformation children within a few hours and others have taken days - a process that includes sitting through decades of both and death certificates, state records, newspaper archives, census information and obituaries.

The families identified so far have already developed an intense bond, forged by shared grief and righteous rage. In June, they visited the abandoned cemetery in the woods to hold a funeral - the kind of dignified ceremony for boys did not receive a century ago.

So far, the families have met privately with Brown. They were led to attendance at a field ceremony at the Chabodham juvenile detention facility where the House of Reformation once stood. That gathering, held by current DJS leaders, state lawmakers and the governor, served

as electors (tosses for the broader community and ended with the unveiling of a road marker that acknowledges the institutions' segregated past.

'Letting your country does not mean lying about its history,' Brown said that day. 'Letting your country does not mean prolonging like the awful and dark and bad parts did not happen. It means being able to address everything, fates and all, and say every day is an opportunity for us to be better.'

Moore said he was 'committed' to honoring the boys, including locating the grave of each one in the woods.

That work will likely take years and a great deal more money than the 15.1 million currently allocated, the attorney general said at Tuesday's meeting. The commission will rely on the expertise of forensic anthropologists and archaeologists who have overseen similar investigations, including Eric Kimmerle, who led a respect long (excellent) project at the Deane School for lives in Florida, a reform facility where officials buried dozens of children who died in state custody.

Kimmerle, an advisory commission member, told the group that they should approach that process with the sensitivity of a forensic investigation.

'For them, the past is the present,' she said of the families. 'Givens' justice and modern justice are interwoven.'

Gerham emphasized that point.

'It doesn't matter that Richard, my cousin, that what he was in in 2015, I told her it,' she said. 'There's a really deep thing that's happening here. If you're serving, I want you to feel it.'

For Hammond, among the commission's most important missions is using their power to ensure no child-damned in state custody is ever treated the way for uncle Amos was. To correlate that restriction, she read the room a poem she wrote after visiting the abandoned cemetery for the first time.

'It these woods could talk, I wonder what they would say?' she said. 'If these woods could talk, do you think they could share each of these boys' inquiries and deaths while entrusted to the hands of the juvenile victims? If these woods could talk, could they share the pain and the tears that they endured across their bright bodies?'

'If these woods could talk,' she continued, 'I wonder if these woods could have raised their voices loud and clear against the herbaceous of what they'd seen, heard and became a part of.'

'If only these woods could talk, the sad, 'maybe many lives could have been saved.'

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A group of people in the City of the along S. Street 309 in Washington in 2010. Doctors and researchers say they've seen a sharp increase in injuries related to the vehicles, including among children.

As e-scooters get more popular, more children are getting hurt

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"We's one of the best kids in the community," said Fink, who said all that their two families were like one. "I'm still trying to come out of the trauma."

More video mean

more injuries

Ridership of electric scooters and bicycles has grown across the country and locally over the past decade. More than 100 US cities, including Washington, offered side-share e-scooter systems in 2015, according to the Department of Transportation.

In the District, there were more than 1.8 million e-scooter trips during the first six months of 2030, according to city data. By comparison, there were about 440,000 e-scooter trips during the same period in 2010.

Across North America, shared unreasonably ridership in 2024 grew 57 percent, reaching a new high with at least 227 million trips, including nearly 40 million e-scooter trips, according to the North American literature and Switzerland Association.

Cheng, imported e-scooters can easily be bought online and are sometimes seen as free. As e-scooters and cribber have become more common, so, too, have injuries.

In 2013, DC Health recorded 27 injuries among people up to age

20 on scooters of all types in the District, compared with 91 injuries two years earlier. On the day year, the agency has documented 62 scooter-related injuries for people aged 6 to 20.

Between 2017 and 2024, there were an estimated 600,000 total emergency department visits across the United States linked to e-scooters, cribber, and self-balancing scooters and bicycles, rising from 27,000 in 2017 to 160,000 in 2024, according to an April report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. E-scooters accounted for about 260,000 of these total visits.

The report was summarized 553 fatalities related to those division over the same year period. It takes were linked to 20 percent of those deaths, while e-scooters were tied to about 20 percent.

Of those killed in e-scooter accidents, two were children under the age of 7, and none were between the ages of 4 and 16.

Through media reports, The Post also identified at least six other minors killed in e-scooter accidents around the United States between 2024 and this year.

On 2025, an 8-year-old in California was trapped under a car and killed while riding an e-scooter. That same year, a 10-year-old and a 9-year-old were struck by a vehicle while riding an e-scooter together in Las Vegas, the older child died, and the younger one

was injured.

In May or Florida, a 13-year-old was hit by a vehicle and killed while riding an e-scooter. The test month, a 10-year-old was killed while riding an e-scooter when he was struck by a vehicle in New York City.

"We are seeing these injuries come in more frequently, and we're also seeing the severity increase."

Mary Beth Howard,

a pediatric emergency medicine physician at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore

Howard, the pediatric emergency medicine physician, said a combination of factors separate why kids keep getting hurt or killed riding e-scooters. They may not have murder-province-people, a vehicle, the said. Children also tend to be less familiar with traffic rules, and they don't have the coordination to control what are often heavy e-scooters, like added.

Things children, along with kids or adults, are most likely to sustain a serious injury when struck

by a vehicle, according to Katherine Paterson, who remembers active travel injuries at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center.

"With children, they're smaller. They're lighter," she said. "They're more likely to go as he's."

'Please have your

kids wear helmets'

On July 23, officers responded to the Sheraton area of Fairfax County around 3:30 p.m. following reports that a 9-year-old boy had been struck by a vehicle, police said. Preliminary indications indicate that as a summer entered a truckman community, the boy hit the rear passenger side of the vehicle, police said.

The 9-year-old was riding a Volpara Q2 scooter, according to police, authorities have not said how fast he was traveling. That scooter model can go up to 10 mph, according to a description on the company's website. The description also sets the scooter as "bropped for adults."

Following the incident, police urged parents to make sure their kids are safe when playing outside. "Please have your kids wear helmets. Tooth them the base, safety rules. Keep us eye on them," finalist police Capt. Chris Craggill said at a news briefing after the crash.

The next day, at about 9:45 p.m., 20C police officers responded to a parking lot in a residential

community in Southeast Washington, near Congress Heights. A preliminary investigation determined that the driver of a dark-blue Nissan with Virginia plates was traveling at a high speed when they struck a 5-year-old boy riding a children's e-scooter, police said.

Ed Fink took the boy to a local hospital for treatment for life-threatening injuries, police said. The driver fled the scene, and an arrest has not been made, police added.

One week later, neighborhood residents were still resting from the crash.

Mark Uller said lots of kids play outside in the neighborhood. "That could have been my kid," Uller said, he has a 9-year-old son.

Despite the children outside, Mira Johnson said, drivers tend to speed through the neighborhood. "If they get speed bumps right here, it'll help them slow down," said Johnson, who has two daughters, a 3-month-old and a 6-year-old. "Safety is not enforced in this community like it should be," she added.

A spokesperson for the District's Department of Transportation said that the incident occurred in a private parking area, outside the agency's roadway jurisdiction, and that an agency review found no traffic safety investigation requests, pending inspections, work orders or active

DDOT projects on the street.

"The safety concerns of residents are important to DDOT," the spokesperson said. "DDOT welcomes additional information about concerns on specific public streets or blocks in the surrounding neighborhood."

In 2017, riders must be at least 10 years old to start an e-scooter, according to DDOT, but District law says riders must be at least 10 to take a personal e-scooter. Rental e-scooters are capped at 10 mph in the city for safety reasons, according to DDOT. On Virginia, riders must be at least 14 to ride an e-scooter unexpertised.

Despite these age restrictions, D.C. Council member Charles Alton (D-Ward C), who chairs the transportation committee, said he's concerned that kids are continuing to ride e-scooters around the city.

"They're heavier, they're faster, and there's less margin for error," he said. "There's a reason why kids are not supposed to be operating cribber and e-scooters."

The District offers two-year permits to scooter companies, a process that will begin again in the fall, according to Alton. He said he wanted to learn more about how the companies are working to restrict minors from roaming e-scooters.

"It gives us an opportunity to be very focused on safety," he said. "That's the opportunity, frankly, where we get to set the better."

Charge against former Olympian in Reflecting Pool case is dismissed

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during off portions of the pool but offering no evidence.

"It was slashed with a knife, or two rames, high grade colored waterproofing liner — it was FAMIGALISED" Trump wrote in a July social media post.

Hours, 67, has said he was passing by the Reflecting Pool in June and had only touched a piece of floating pool liner before he was arrested by U.S. Park Police. Initially charged with a misdemeanor, a grand jury last month ordered Hours on a line or count of malicious distraction of property, with U.S. Attorney Andrew Pave alleging that he had "forcibly and violently" topped liner from the bank.

"This was a little bit of a shock," Hours said Thursday on CNN. "The things she was saying were a contagious that I had to think, 'What did I do to get her to say these things about me?'"

The legal battle was held off a farce, as Trump and his supporters lambasted Hours in the media for the alleged crime, while critics said Hours was a "cognizant" for the misdemeanors and condemned the case as an abuse

of power.

The legal battle came to an unexpected end late last week, when the Justice Department reversed course and asked the judge to dismiss the case in a filing, prosecutors walked back their vandalism claims, writing that new information received from the Interior Department showed that the peeling liner was the result of faulty installation by the contractor and "not vapodism as initially represented."

Had 20e Interior Department there be frowning with the information that they do postpone, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment, according to the filing.

Pave's office also moved to drop misdemeanor charges against three other people accused of damaging the pool.

In the late year, Trump has continued to blame vandals for the damage and said Pave "folded like an umbrella" for abandoning the case.

Attorneys for the defendants have cast doubt on the Justice Department's motion of events, alleging that prosecutors know about the faulty installation from

the beginning but pursued vandalism charges anyway.

Prosecutors' "various effort to assign side back to DOI therefore confirms, rather than accuses, the government's bad faith," Hours's keeper wrote in a filing this week. "It relied on DOI to obtain the indictment, failed to investigate before charging, and new works to disclaim responsibility for information held for the very agencies on whose accusations and witnesses it relied."

For attorneys alleged that prosecutors had access to documents showing that the pool lining was being "where Hours' arrest. They also allege that a jury government witness testified to a grand jury that repairs would have been necessary regardless of Hours's arrest, but that prosecutors later recalled the witness and "distred" them to say that damage "abstinulate to the Hours' would be more than 10,000, according to the filing."

Hours's arrests were also asking the judge that they be allowed to review grand jury records related to the case to see whether prosecutors potentially misinterpreted to receive an indictment, according to the filing.

David Hours, seated, with his attorneys, A.B.C. Judge on Thursday granted prosecutors' request to dismiss a felony charge against Hours, who had been accused of vandalising the Reflecting Pool.

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Houston, TX	41.74 a.m.	41.74 a.m.	24th-25th	84.92 a.m.	83.76 a.m.
Houston, TX	41.74 a.m.	41.74 a.m.	26th-27th	84.92 a.m.	83.76 a.m.
Houston, TX	41.74 a.m.	41.74 a.m.	28th-29th	84.92 a.m.	83.76 a.m.
Houston, TX	41.74 a.m.	41.74 a.m.	30th-31st	84.92 a.m.	83.76 a.m.
Houston, TX	41.74 a.m.	41.74 a.m.	32nd-33rd	84.92 a.m.	83.76 a.m.
Houston, TX	41.74 a.m.	41.74 a.m.	34th-35th	84.92 a.m.	83.76 a.m.
Houston, TX	41.74 a.m.	41.74 a.m.	36th-37th	84.92 a.m.	83.76 a.m.
Houston, TX	41.74 a.m.	41.74 a.m.	38th-39th	84.92 a.m.	83.76 a.m.
Houston, TX	41.74 a.m.	41.74 a.m.	40th-41st	84.92 a.m.	83.76 a.m.

WASHINGTON	20.07 a.m.	20.12 9:45
Omaha	20.07 a.m.	19.72 1:30
Omaha	19.72 a.m.	19.72 1:30
Pennsylvania	19.72 a.m.	19.72 1:30
Phoenix	19.72 a.m.	19.72 1:30
Pittsburgh	19.72 a.m.	19.72 1:30
Pittsburgh, MD	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, ME	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Philadelphia, PA	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, OR	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, OR	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, OR	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, OR	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, OR	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, OR	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, OR	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, OR	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, OR	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45
Portland, OR	19.02 a.m.	19.02 9:45

Number of the

National	Before	1980
High: 1st-2nd, 2nd-3rd	80° 2.10 a.m.	80° 2.10 a.m.
Low: 1st-2nd, 2nd-3rd	80° 1.45 a.m.	78° 1.45 a.m.
Unnumbered: 1st-2nd	0-7° 10' 0"	0-7° 10' 0"
Percentage: 1st-2nd	0-7° 10' 0"	0-7° 10' 0"
Percent: 1st-2nd	0-7° 10' 0"	0-7° 10' 0"

Difference from 10 to 10: 1st-2nd, 2nd-3rd, 3rd-4th, 4th-5th, 5th-6th, 6th-7th

Precipitation

	National	Before	1980
High: 1st-2nd, 2nd-3rd	0-7° 2.10 a.m.	0-7° 2.10 a.m.	0-7° 2.10 a.m.
Very: 1st-2nd, 2nd-3rd	2.2°*	1.38*	1.38*
Potential: Average (pounds)	12.5°*	13.84*	13.8°*
Full: 1st-2nd, 2nd-3rd	13.5°*	15.35*	15.35*
Potential: Average (pounds)	26.38*	24.03*	24.75*

Mean Theses
Avg. 10 Years	Avg. 10 Years	Avg. 10 Years	Total 10 Years	Total 10 Years	Total 10 Years
International	92.77%	93.06%	90.41%	90.71%	91.71%
Central	87.91%	87.91%	84.41%	84.71%	84.71%
Australian	88.79%	88.79%	84.41%	84.71%	84.71%
International	87.81%	87.81%	84.41%	84.71%	84.71%
Other	85.96%	85.96%	84.41%	84.71%	84.71%
Australia, Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12%	93.12
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12	93.12	93.12
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12	93.12	93.12
Asia	93.12%	93.12%	93.12	93.12	93.12
Asia	93.12%	93.12	93.12	93.12	93.12
Asia	93.12%	93.12	93.12	93.12	93.12
Asia	93.12%	93.12	93.12	93.12	93.12

ALPHA GRAPHICS, RED 1, 1993

Circling back

A museum panel walks past Circle I, Circle II and Circle III — a trio of painted steel works created in 1983 by abstract sculptor David Smith — at the National Gallery of Art in Washington on Friday.

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QA Report - The Washington Post - 08.08.2026.pdf

Pipeline

• Extraction route: mistral-ocr
• extraction_route=mistral-ocr
• Translation chunks: 107
• Extraction warnings:
• [OCR-ROUTE] FORCE-MISTRAL: All PDFs route directly to MistralOCR.

Non-model Checks

• WARNING: missing numeric tokens from source: 10.1, 12.1001, 12.5, 13.5, 13.84, 14.5, 15.1, 19.72, 227, 24.03
• WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: Abdul El, Across North America, After Ashhad Khan, After Supreme Court, Agriculture Department, Air Quality Sand

Hawes, Air Very High

Mean Range, Alpine Club, American Flag Blue, American League - WARNING: source dates, money, or percentage tokens may be missing

Model QA

经过严格审核，该翻译件存在多处致命性错误（BLOCKING），主要集中在数字量级、关键术语误译以及严重的OCR残留/幻觉。

以下是详细审核报告：

═══ 审核报告 ═══

1. 数字与量级错误 (BLOCKING)

• 金额量级错误：
  • 译文：“...将战争成本定为$35.2 — 445 亿美元 billion” $\rightarrow$ 原文为 $35.2 — 445（此处原文OCR可能缺失单位，但译文直接叠加“亿美元”和“billion”导致语义混乱且量级不确定）。
  • 译文：“...实施了1000 亿美元 billion的关税” $\rightarrow$ 原文为 $100 billion。译文将 100 误写为 1000，量级扩大10倍。
  • 译文：“...预算定为 69.49 亿” $\rightarrow$ 原文为 $4.9 (见标题索引 Trump digs in on ballroom legal right 及其正文)。译文将 4.9 误认为 69.49 亿，严重错误。
• 日期/年份错误：
  • 译文：“2024年[注：此处年份疑似OCR误读，应为2026年]8月8日” $\rightarrow$ 原文明确为 SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2024。译文不仅在正文中混淆 2024 和 2026，还错误地将 2024 标记为 OCR 误读。

2. 翻译质量与术语错误 (WARNING)

• 关键术语误译：
  • 译文：“...司法部的‘出版’ (publication)” $\rightarrow$ 原文为 “politicization” (政治化)。译文将政治化译为出版，完全改变原意。
  • 译文：“...进入 subvertitiousness” $\rightarrow$ 原文为 “subvertitiousness” (此处为OCR错误，原意应为 substantiveness 或相关词汇)，译文直接保留英文且未处理，导致句子不通。
  • 译文：“...巴黎空军研究所 (Paris Air Force Institute)” $\rightarrow$ 原文为 “Brookings Institution” (布鲁金斯学会) 的OCR误读 Paris Air Force。译文未对明显的OCR错误进行修正，直接翻译，导致机构名称完全错误。

3. 完整性与交付标签 (BLOCKING)

• 内部清理标签残留：
  • 译文中多次出现 详情 07:24 $\rightarrow$ 这属于典型的内部时间戳或清理标签，严禁出现在最终交付件中。

4. 幻觉核查 (BLOCKING)

• 严重幻觉/乱码翻译：
  • 译文末尾“死亡通知”部分出现大量重复的 “我一直是 的，且我是 的” $\rightarrow$ 属于典型的翻译模型在面对低质量OCR（重复字符）时的崩溃幻觉，内容完全不可用。
  • 天气预报部分出现 “Mandy-bunny, 炎热” $\rightarrow$ 原文为 “Monday, hot”。译文将 Monday 幻觉为 Mandy-bunny。

5. OCR 根源问题 (SOURCE_OCR)

• 人名/地名 OCR 错误：
  • 译文：“共和党-伦敦德 (R-Londonder)” $\rightarrow$ 原文 R-Londonder 实际应为 R-Louisiana (路易斯安那州)。
  • 译文：“马克·麦康奈尔 (Mark McConnell)” $\rightarrow$ 原文 Mark McConnell 实际应为 Mitch McConnell (米奇·麦康奈尔)。

═══ 审核结论 ═══

结论：[BLOCKING] 拒绝交付

主要原因： 1. 关键金额量级错误（100亿 $\rightarrow$ 1000亿；4.9 $\rightarrow$ 69.49亿）。 2. 出现严重幻觉（死亡通知部分的重复乱码）。 3. 包含内部交付标签（详情 07:24）。 4. 核心术语误译（政治化 $\rightarrow$ 出版）。