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from vice presidential office
Former workers describe toxic, dysfunctional atmosphere
BY SUsAN FERRECHIO her over the past decade report that she Ms. Harris, 59, is on track to clinch
THE WASHINGTON TIMES was a tyrannical boss who terrified her the Democratic presidential nomination
employees, cursed, discouraged direct in a virtual vote and without opposition.
Vice President Kamala Harris has eye contact and made employees stand Multiple reports, focusing on anec-
churned through her office staff, raising at attention when she entered a room. dotal complaints from former employ-
questions about her management style One Democratic official whose son ees, have focused on low morale and high
and leadership abilities as she advances worked as an intern for Ms. Harris dur- turnover in her vice presidential office.
unchallenged toward the Democratic ing her years as California’s attorney In a new report by the watchdog group
presidential nomination. general (2011-2017) wrote in late 2019, Open the Books, researchers quantified
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Researchers who analyzed payroll after she launched her failed presidential her human resources problem. They
ALWAYS A PROSECUTOR: Vice President Kamala Harris would put staffers on data found an “extraordinarily high” exo- bid, “There is another side of Kamala discovered a 92% staff turnover through
“the witness stand,” a former employee said, adding that “the grilling” is likely to dus rate from Ms. Harris’ vice presiden- Harris which the general public does
work to her benefit in her presidential campaign against Donald Trump. tial office. Those who have worked for not know.” » see HARRIS | A4

U.S. ENDS MEN’S GYMNASTICS MEDAL DROUGHT ACCOUNTABILITY

IRS keeps dozens

of intentional tax
cheats on payroll
Red flags no barrier to hiring
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Dozens of IRS employees

who have “willfully” cheated on
their taxes remain working for
the agency, and some have even
been hired back after evasion,
an inspector general reported
Monday.
According to the audit, 5% of
the IRS’s workforce failed to pay
their taxes in full and on time at
some point while working for
the agency. Most of those were
deemed mistakes. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Still, 70 current employees ON FILE: Most of the failures

were found to have intentionally to pay taxes in full and on time
cheated. Of those, only 20 were were deemed mistakes, but the
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ousted. Most of the rest remain IRS suspended others.
U.S. men’s gymnastics team members (from left) Brody Malone, Asher Hong, Fred Richard, Paul Juda and Stephen Nedoroscik wave the on the job after a short suspen-
American flag after snapping a 16-year medal drought by winning the bronze medal in the artistic team finals Monday in Paris. Story, B12. sion. Under the law, all of them
should have been fired unless included avoiding taxes, falsify-
they received a special exemption ing documents or theft.
from the commissioner. Sen. Joni Ernst, the Iowa Re-
HIGHER EDUCATION The IRS also rehired nearly publican who requested the audit,
400 former employees despite said the agency must do signifi-

Students score better with new AP testing red flags in their files. They in-
cluded 85 who failed to pay their
taxes in full and on time and 34
cant self-cleaning if it wants to
make Americans pay their taxes.
“While the IRS warns, ‘tax eva-
BY SEAN SALAI
THE WASHINGTON TIMES College Board denies revenue in an email. “Our only goal was to
ensure fairness for students and
who were deemed to have peeked
at taxpayers’ secret information.
sion is a serious crime punishable
by imprisonment, fines, and the

A surge in Advanced Place- for struggling schools is goal that we are setting appropriate
standards for Advanced Place-
Hundreds more former em-
ployees were hired back as con-
imposition of civil penalties,’ the

ment test scores after a change in ment that align with the skills tractors despite red flags that » see IRS | A4
how the College Board evaluates nationwide, as tracked by digital 72% this year. valued for college credit.”
the exams has sparked accusa- software implemented in 2019. A College Board spokesper- The College Board has scored
tions of grade inflation. The share of students earning son said educator feedback and AP examinations on a scale of 1 to
The College Board revealed passing scores jumped in the new data drove the decision to 5 for high school students since CHINA
this month that it started scor- years that each exam adopted the replace a panel of 10 to 18 scholars 1954. Universities accept no less
ing the tests differently in 2022
to bring up all of its exams to
new system. Pass rates increased
for AP English literature by 30
who tweaked the grading system
every five to 10 years with an “ev-
than a “qualified” score of 3 for
students to test out of roughly 40 Regime carries out
genocide of faithful
pass rates of 60% to 80%. It said percentage points to 77.9% in idence-based standard setting.” introductory classes in languages,
that range best reflects the letter 2022, for AP chemistry by 21 “Revenue was not a consid- social studies, arts, mathematics
grade distribution in Advanced points to 75.1% in 2023 and for eration in our score verification
Placement high school classes AP U.S. history by 16.7 points to process,” the College Board said » see COLLEGE | A4
Destruction policy slow, quiet
VENEZUELA BY ANdREW SALMON For those at the International Re-

U.S., other opponents of Maduro THE WASHINGTON TIMES ligious Freedom Summit Asia in
Tokyo last week, the discussion
TOKYO | Dorjee Tseten is 41 but was precise and the target clear in

weigh response to election ‘victory’ has never set foot on his home
country’s soil.
“My family escaped Tibet,
what many said was the Chinese
communist regime’s quiet, de
facto policy of genocide in Tibet
BY BEN WOLfGANG retired diplomat and Mr. Madu- polls showing the opposition but 1.2 million Tibetans have and Xinjiang.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ro’s opponent, suggested that the with a significant lead. lost their lives over the last seven “The term ‘genocide’ is some-
official government vote totals “By engaging in repression decades through military occupa- times misused to get attention,”
Venezuela teetered on the were fraudulent and he was the and electoral manipulation, and tion, famine and while escaping,” said Robert Rehak, the Czech
brink of a political crisis Monday rightful winner. by declaring a winner without said Mr. Tseten, a member of Ti- Republic’s special envoy for Ho-
after President Nicolas Maduro The election stakes were high. the detailed precinct-by-precinct bet’s parliament in exile. “Every locaust issues, interfaith dialogue
claimed reelection amid con- U.S. adversaries such as Russia polling results … to support a family has this kind of story.” and freedom of religion. “It may
tested and seemingly suspicious and China are cultivating closer claim, Maduro representatives It hits him hardest when he not be the mass killing of a huge
vote tallies, while the Biden ad- ties with oil-rich Venezuela to have stripped the supposed elec- views TV news. “When I hear number of people, but if the long-
ministration cast heavy doubt on help them strengthen their foot- tion results they announced of of the killing of innocents, it re- term aim is to end a nation, you
the results and critics said Mr. hold in South America. any credibility,” a senior U.S. ASSOCIATED PRESS
minds me of what is happening can call it genocide.”
Maduro’s socialist government The Biden administration im- administration official told re- NO ‘WEAKNESS’ Venezuelan in Tibet,” he said. Conference sponsors included
had flagrantly overturned the will mediately demanded that Ven- porters in a background briefing. President Nicolas Maduro Bloody conflicts raging in the Freedom House, the Family
of the country’s voters. ezuela release precinct-level vote received congratulations from Gaza Strip, Sudan and Ukraine
Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, a totals, citing preelection and exit » see VENEZUELA | A5 Chinese and Russian leaders. generate loose talk of genocide. » see GENOCIDE | A5

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“Oscar Mayer’s vegan hot dogs are as delicious Carolina, the NRCC chairman.
INSIDE THE
BELTWAY
as they are kind to animals, who feel pain and fear “Fortunately, these Republican candidates
just as humans do and don’t deserve to be killed for are already well on their way to running winning
a fleeting taste,” said Tracy Reiman, PETA execu- campaigns that will grow our House majority in
BY JENNIFER HARPER tive vice president. November,” he said.
“PETA relishes the opportunity to serve vegan The program also requires these hopefuls “to
eats to policymakers and encourages people every- work towards specific goals and meet benchmarks
where to leave animals off their plates,” she said. throughout the election cycle to ensure their
NOT KEEN ON THE DRAFT
The group will congregate at the Rayburn campaigns remain competitive, well-funded and
Is there a draft in here? House Office Building, and advise they have a “free communicative within their districts.”
We’re talking about the military draft. A new ASSOCIATED PRESS
vegan starter kit” for those interested in going the Who are they? Here’s the list, alphabetically by
Rasmussen Reports survey found that only 21% of Just 21% of U.S. voters surveyed say there should be vegetarian route. state: Caroleene Dobson (Alabama); Nancy Dahl-
voters believe the U.S. should have a military draft, a military draft, while 61% there should not and 18% strom (Alaska); Kevin Lincoln, Scott Baugh and
while 61% disagree and 18% are not sure. are unsure, Rasmussen Reports found. Matt Gunderson (California); Jeff Hurd and Gabe
MEANWHILE IN MANHATTAN
The survey of 1,110 likely U.S. voters was con- Evans (Colorado); George Logan (Connecticut);
ducted online and by phone July 10-14, and on July Let us briefly visit with the New York Young Joe McGraw (Illinois); Randy Niemeyer (Indi-
19 and released Monday. To illustrate how far ahead Mr. Vance is in the Republicans Club, established in Manhattan in 191l ana); Prasanth Reddy (Kansas); Austin Theriault
Meanwhile, here’s what the Selective Service publishing world, consider that in that short period, and the nation’s oldest and largest club for young (Maine); Tom Barrett (Michigan); Joe Teirab
has to say about the draft. the book sold over 197,000 copies. That’s not bad Republicans. And they know how to socialize. (Minnesota); John Lee (Nevada); Yvette Herrell
“While there is currently no draft, registration for a book originally published in 2016. In second “Join us for an exciting Tiki Tuesday! Enjoy (New Mexico); Alison Esposito (New York); Laurie
with the Selective Service System is the most pub- place is a 2022 book called “The Housemaid” by tropical cocktails with fellow members and net- Buckhout (North Carolina); Derek Merrin and
licly visible program during peacetime that ensures Freida McFadden — which sold 31,452 books. work in a lively atmosphere,” the club said in an Kevin Coughlin (Ohio); Monique DeSpain (Or-
operational readiness in a fair and equitable man- invitation shared with Inside the Beltway. egon); Ryan Mackenzie, Rob Bresnahan and Rob
ner. If authorized by the President and Congress, But that’s not all. Events scheduled for August Mercuri (Pennsylvania); Mayra Flores (Texas) and
THE VEGGIE DOG FACTOR
our Agency would rapidly provide personnel to include a scholarly talk with two authors, one an Derrick Anderson (Virginia).
the Department of Defense while at the same time Things will be interesting at the U.S. Capitol on attorney, the other a pastor who is also an attorney.
providing an Alternative Service Program for con- Wednesday at high noon. Also on the schedule: An “epic day of paintball” at
POLL DU JOUR
scientious objectors,” the Selective Service said in a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals a paintball site in nearby New Jersey.
written statement directed to men of a certain age. will be on hand for its long-standing efforts to raise • 33% of the “world’s population” say inflation is
lawmakers’ awareness of vegetarian hot dogs and a key issue facing their country.
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
other meatless fare. • 30% cite crime and violence as a key issue.
STILL NO. 1
“‘My Hot Dog Has a First Name. It’s V-E-G-A- The National Republican Congressional Com- • 29% cite poverty and social inequality.
An extra and perhaps unexpected benefit con- N!’ Oscar Mayer’s delicious new veggie dogs will mittee has revealed the initial list of 26 candidates • 28% cite unemployment.
tinues to up the appeal of J.D. Vance, running mate be served with all the trimmings to members of in the 2024 Young Guns program. • 26% cite financial or political corruption.
of former President Donald Trump. Mr. Vance’s Congress and their staff on Wednesday during The program mentors candidates in competitive • 23% cite the quality of health care.
book “Hillbilly Elegy” is ruling the bestseller list. PETA’s 28th Congressional Veggie Dog Lunch U.S. House races and provides “the necessary tools • 17% cite climate change.
“In the week after J.D. Vance was named the Re- — which started as a protest in 1996 but is now a to run successful, winning campaigns against their • 10% cite military conflict between nations.
publican vice-presidential candidate, more copies Capitol Hill institution,” the animal rights organiza- Democratic opponents,” according to a committee • 8% cite terrorism.
of the 2018 trade paperback edition of his Hillbilly tion said in a written statement shared with Inside statement. • 4% cite COVID-19.
Elegy were sold than in the previous 234 weeks the Beltway. Almost all the candidates are challenging Dem- SOURCE: AN IPSOS GLOBAL ADVISOR POLL OF 25,520 ADULTS LIVING
IN ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BRAZIL, BRITAIN, CANADA, CHILE,
combined. Put another way, that edition’s print unit “In addition to the animal-friendly franks, PETA ocratic incumbents, and the others are newcomers COLOMBIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, HUNGARY, INDONESIA, ISRAEL, ITALY, JAPAN,
sales for the week were greater than its print unit will hand out free vegan cookbooks, pig plushies, seeking to hold Republican seats that an incumbent MALAYSIA, MEXICO, THE NETHERLANDS, PERU, POLAND, SINGAPORE,
SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH KOREA, SPAIN, SWEDEN, THE U.S., THAILAND AND
sales for an entire year — any year. No matter how and pig-shaped toys for congressional staffers’ is vacating. TURKEY. THE POLL WAS CONDUCTED JUNE 21-JULY 4 AND RELEASED
MONDAY. RESPONDENTS COULD PICK MORE THAN ONE ISSUE.
you look at it, it’s the bestselling book in the U.S. canines,” the group said. “Extreme House Democrats’ border, crime and
by a country mile,” reported Publishers Weekly, an Pig plushies, by the way, are little stuffed cost of living crises wrecked Americans’ safety • Follow Jennifer Harper on X @HarperBulletin,
industry source. animals. and security,” said Rep. Richard Hudson of North on Facebook @HarperUniverse.

IMMIGRATION

GOP announces bill to stop DHS from releasing terrorist migrants into U.S.
BY STEPHEN DINAN criminal records and potential terrorist ties are being terrorists defined as those charged or identified as that circumvent the usual immigration process to
THE WASHINGTON TIMES let into the country, our national security is at risk,” a terrorist by a U.S. authority, and “special interest siphon people into the U.S.
said Mr. Daines, Montana Republican, who is joined aliens,” which it defines as those whose “travel pat- Under the Obama and Trump administrations,
Sen. Steve Daines announced new legislation by eight other GOP senators in sponsoring the bill. terns” suggest a national security risk. parole averaged 5,623 people a year. Mr. Mayorkas
Monday to stop Homeland Security from offering The bill comes amid growing worries over the Homeland Security would be prohibited from may have paroled as many as 1.2 million in the last
“parole” to migrants whom the government has possibility of a foreign terrorist gaining access to granting them parole, a special type of catch-and- year alone, according to the top Republican on the
flagged as terrorists or who are otherwise deemed the U.S. through its immigration system. release that offers tentative permission to be in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“special interest” because of their origin and travel FBI Director Christopher A. Wray last week U.S. despite lacking any legal visa to do so. At least one of the eight Tajik men Mr. Wray
patterns. raised the possibility of terrorists launching a “soft The key wrinkle to the bill is that it gives state referred to in his testimony is reported to have en-
The bill would not only create a bar on Secretary target” attack, similar to the Islamic State attack on attorneys general the power to sue in federal court tered the U.S. under Mr. Mayorkas’ parole authority.
Alejandro Mayorkas but would give states the power a concert hall in Russia this spring. He also pointed to stop releases that violate the law, and urges judges Mr. Daines’ bill has already drawn support from
to go to a federal judge to force him to comply. to the FBI’s work in tracking down Tajik migrants to speed the case. Heritage Action, the Immigration Accountability
“Joe Biden and Senate Democrats’ refusal to who have been caught and released and only later Parole has become the Biden administration’s Project, the Federation for American Immigration
secure the southern border has resulted in the loss were determined to be worrying cases. chief tool for catch-and-release, with Secretary Ale- Reform, NumbersUSA and the America First Policy
of American lives, and as long as migrants with The legislation covers “known” or “suspected” jandro Mayorkas inventing multiple new programs Institute.

Mr. Newsom had the highest unfavorability of

INSIDE the potential picks, with 21% viewing him favor-

POLITICS ably and 33% viewing him unfavorably.

2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

— Mallory Wilson

SPENDING
Harris team opens 3 new Georgia offices
Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential
Federal debt crosses $35 trillion mark campaign will open three new offices in Georgia
The federal government’s total debt now tops this week, saying they expect to keep the state
$35 trillion, the Treasury Department reported firmly in the blue column in November.
Monday, marking the latest grim milestone in a The three new offices are on top of the 24
deteriorating budget picture. offices already operating in the Peach State and
Uncle Sam is now on the hook for are part of the campaign’s overall spending in
$35,001,278,179,208. Of that, $27.8 trillion is debt competitive Sun Belt states. Ms. Harris’ campaign
held by the public, which is the core measure of announced the expansion ahead of her scheduled
the country’s indebtedness. campaign stop in Atlanta on Tuesday.
The House Budget Committee said total debt Dan Kanninen, director of battleground states
increased more than $2 trillion over the last year for the Harris campaign, said they believe Geor-
and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a watchdog, gia is in play for two key reasons. He said Ms.
said it will grow another $1 trillion between now Harris is talking about issues such as abortion
and Election Day. and student debt that resonate with younger vot- ASSOCIATED PRESS

The number ignited a new round of blame. ers in the state. That, coupled with criticism of Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance will kick off a trip of Mountain West swing
“We don’t have a $35 trillion-dollar debt be- former President Donald Trump by in-state Re- states with a pair of events in Nevada on Tuesday and a rally in Arizona on Wednesday.
cause we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion- publicans, will play in Ms. Harris’ favor, he said.
dollar debt because we spend too much,” said Rep. — Jeff Mordock VICE PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Jodey Arrington, the committee’s chairman.
— Stephen Dinan VICE PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Vance set for first trip to Mountain West swing states
Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio is heading out the presidential race. Voters there will also
VICE PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Whitmer: Harris pick coming in 6-7 days this week on his first swing through the have the final say in high-profile, competi-
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Mon- Mountain West as Donald Trump’s running tive Senate races that will help determine
Kelly polls best among Democrats day that Vice President Kamala Harris could mate in the race for the White House. which party controls the upper chamber.
Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona has the highest announce her choice for running mate in a week. Mr. Vance will kick off the swing-state Mr. Vance, meanwhile, is getting an early
favorability rating of potential running mates for Ms. Whitmer, a co-chair of the Harris cam- trip with a pair of events in Nevada on taste of the intense scrutiny that comes with
Vice President Kamala Harris. paign, told “CBS Mornings” the decision could be Tuesday and plans to hold a rally the next being tapped as a party’s vice presidential
However, an ABC News/Ipsos poll shows that coming soon. day in Arizona. nominee.
Mr. Kelly isn’t the best known Democrat among “Everything is truncated, and she’s going to The trip will give 39-year-old Mr. Vance He has faced a barrage of criticism over
the potential vice-presidential picks — Trans- make that decision probably in the next six, seven a chance to introduce himself to voters in comments he made in 2021 about Vice
portation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and California days,” she said. “I would imagine we’ll know who a pair of battleground states that helped President Kamala Harris not having biologi-
Gov. Gavin Newsom are. her running mate is and we’ll get ready for the President Biden send Mr. Trump packing in cal children, saying she is one of the “child-
Still, Mr. Kelly, a former astronaut, holds the convention.” the race for president four years ago. less cat ladies” who want to “make the rest
highest favorability rating, with 22% viewing him Ms. Whitmer said that she is not being vetted With three months to go before Election of the country miserable, too.”
favorably and 12% viewing him unfavorably. A by Ms. Harris to be her second in command and Day, both states appear to be up for grabs in — Seth McLaughlin
plurality of 41% said they didn’t know him, and is completing her term as governor.
24% said they had no opinion. — Mallory Wilson

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HOUSE

Task force members

named in probe
of Trump shooting
Pennsylvania’s Kelly to lead panel
BY LINdsEY MCPHERsON colleagues to get the American
THE WASHINGTON TIMES people the answers they deserve.”
The other task force members
Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican have backgrounds in law or the
who represents the Pennsylvania military.
district where former President Four of the task force members
Donald Trump was nearly killed are Army veterans: Mr. Green and
at a rally earlier this month, will Mr. Crow both served in Iraq and
chair a special House bipartisan Afghanistan and were awarded
task force empaneled to investi- the Bronze Star. Mr. Waltz, also
gate the assassination attempt. a Bronze Star recipient, served in
House Speaker Mike Johnson the Special Forces and later as a
and Minority Leader Hakeem Jef- White House and Pentagon advi-
fries on Monday announced the sor. Mr. Higgins worked in law en-
lawmakers who will serve on the forcement after his Army service
13-member task force examin- and maintains an active commis-
ing the events surrounding Mr. sion and Peace Officer’s Standards
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, and Training certification.
Jan. 6 defendant John Strand, who was released last week, said he spent four months in solitary confinement in a federal prison. Pennsylvania, where the Republi- Mr. Fallon and Ms. Houlahan
can presidential nominee was shot are Air Force veterans.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT by a lone gunman. One person The bipartisan support for the
was killed and two others were task force is unlike some past

‘Reduced to a pulse and ... nothing else’ seriously wounded.

In addition to Mr. Kelly, the
other Republican members are
House investigative panels that
had partisan origins, such as the
special committees that looked
Reps. Mark Green of Tennessee, into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the
Recently released Jan. 6 defendant endured four months of solitary who chairs the Homeland Security U.S. Capitol and the Sept. 11, 2012,
Committee; David Joyce of Ohio; attack on the U.S. consulate in
BY KERRY PICkET was erased after the Supreme or picketing in a Capitol “There are 25 or 30 of these Laurel Lee and Michael Waltz of Benghazi, Libya.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Court ruled last month in the building. people in various cells in that Florida; Clay Higgins of Louisiana Mr. Johnson proposed the task
case of another Jan. 6 defen- During a portion of his isolation unit, and they are rais- and Pat Fallon of Texas. force to streamline investigations
A Jan. 6 defendant said he dant that the government was prison sentence at the Miami ing hell like you can’t believe Rep. Jason Crow, Colorado that the House Oversight and Ac-
spent four months in solitary misapplying the obstruction facility, Mr. Strand was placed and they basically never stop,” Democrat, will serve as the rank- countability, Homeland Security
confinement in federal prison, statute. Federal prosecutors in solitary in the isolation unit. he said. “I hyperventilated at ing member of the task force. The and Judiciary committees have
harsh conditions that could had filed the charge against “It’s like a giant steel, rusted one point, because I was just other Democrats on the panel are already started. All three panels
have been avoided in light of multiple other defendants in red, brownish color. Every- losing my mind at the ruckus. Reps. Lou Correa of California; held hearings on the assassination
the Supreme Court’s ruling the attack at the Capitol, in- thing else in the cell is con- They are going back and forth Madeleine Dean and Chrissy Hou- attempt last week.
that the Justice Department cluding Mr. Strand. crete, so it’s all grayish, ugly to each other, sometimes just lahan of Pennsylvania; Glenn Ivey Homeland Security ranking
overreached when it charged The justices ruled that the and depressing…and you’re screaming, bloody murder.” of Maryland and Jared Moskowitz member Rep. Bennie G. Thomp-
hundreds of the Capitol defen- obstruction charge is intended reduced to a pulse and almost The Washington Times of Florida. son, Mississippi Democrat, was
dants with felony obstruction. for cases of tampering with nothing else,” he said. reached out for comment to “We have the utmost confi- not named to serve on the task
John Strand, who was re- evidence. Prison policy dictates that the Bureau of Prisons and the dence in this bipartisan group force, although his GOP counter-
leased early from prison last Mr. Strand walked out of a those locked up in solitary Miami Federal Corrections of steady, highly qualified, and part Mr. Green was selected.
week, said federal prison of- Louisiana prison last Wednes- confinement must be granted Institute. capable members of Congress to Mr. Thompson reportedly said
ficials in Miami locked him in day and was a free man after one hour of “recreation time” By last November, Mr. move quickly to find the facts, en- he was not interested in serving on
solitary confinement for four serving one year. He said he or outdoor time per day, but Strand’s circumstances sure accountability, and help make the panel. Republicans also sought
months of his term over accu- is “grateful” for the ruling and Mr. Strand says they violated reached Capitol Hill during certain such failures never hap- to keep him off it. Mr. Johnson,
sations ranging from publicly had been praying that it would their own policy at the Miami a House hearing when Rep. pen again,” Mr. Johnson and Mr. who had ultimately say over the
revealing online how far he had come to pass, though he and his facility. Matt Gaetz, Florida Republi- Jeffries said in a joint statement. picks from both parties, communi-
to walk to reach a computer, to lawyer had expected the high “They don’t even honor can, confronted Director of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jeffries cated to Mr. Jeffries that he didn’t
helping other Jan. 6 defendants court would rule in favor of Jan. that. You only get that about the Federal Bureau of Prisons will serve as ex-officio members think Mr. Thompson would be a
in prison receive support from 6 defendants. 50% of the time, so probably Colette S. Peters about the of the task force, but will not have good choice.
outside groups. Following the high court’s roughly three hours per week treatment of Jan. 6 inmates by voting privileges. They each will The House Freedom Caucus
“It’s kind of like your en- decision, Mr. Strand said, U.S. that I got access ‘rec’ was a dog prison officials. designate a leadership staffer to took a rare official position urging
tire existence is within a giant District Judge Christopher cage,” he said. “It’s still inside Ms. Peters responded that have access to task force meetings, the speaker to keep Mr. Thomp-
concrete shoe box,” Mr. Strand, Reid Cooper claimed he would the concrete hut. They just “retaliation will not be stood hearings, briefings and materials. son off the panel, citing a bill he
39, said of the cell where he have sentenced him to one year took the ceiling off that por- for on her watch” when asked The task force, which will have authored that would have denied
served his sentence at the in prison anyway, even without tion, so you’re still inside four by Mr. Gaetz if the Bureau the power to subpoena witnesses Secret to Service protection to Mr.
Miami Federal Correctional the felony conviction. Judge concrete walls, concrete floor of Prisons retaliated against and documents, must issue a final Trump if he were sent to prison.
Institution. “It’s covered on all Cooper is an Obama appointee. and dog cage mesh and razor people based on “constitution- report of its findings and recom- “Americans cannot trust that
sides. There’s supposed to be a “[Judge Cooper] said, if the wire everywhere.” ally protected speech.” mend any legislative proposals to he will be an unbiased arbiter of
window, there’s usually some felony had not been there, but Mr. Strand also said that Ms. Peters said, “if any- the House no later than Dec. 13. the facts,” the Freedom Caucus
sliver of excuse for a window, I’d gone to trial, he would have prison officials did not allow one engages in retaliation, The panel also can issue interim said.
but it’s not much of a window sentenced me to 12 months on him to shower often while he [the Bureau] will hold them reports as it deems necessary. Including Mr. Green, five task
to the outside, so it’s almost a first-time nonviolent misde- was in isolation. accountable.” In a rare unanimous vote, the force members also serve on the
windowless.” meanor,” he said in a phone in- “I went through isolation Mr. Gaetz demanded that House adopted a resolution last Homeland Security Committee.
Mr. Strand was sentenced terview. “That’s not just crazy. for four straight months where he see Mr. Strand himself week to establish the task force, The others are Mr. Higgins, Mr.
to two years and eight months That’s like 10 times crazy.” I couldn’t shower for up to 72 during a prison visit, and Ms. 416-0. Correa, Ms. Lee and Mr. Ivey.
in prison after a Washington The misdemeanor charges hours at a time,” he said. “I Peters agreed, but that visit Mr. Kelly, an auto dealership While the top Republicans
D.C. jury found him guilty of were entering and remain- could barely sleep. My skin never happened. After the owner, grew up and still lives in and Democrats on the Oversight
a felony charge of obstruction ing in a restricted building or was crawling.” highly publicized hearing, Mr. Butler. He was at Mr. Trump’s July and Judiciary Committees were
of an official proceeding and grounds, disorderly and dis- At the same time, he could Strand was transferred from 13 rally and authored the resolu- not named to the task force, four
four misdemeanor violations ruptive conduct in a restricted hear the screams of other in- the Miami corrections facility tion to impanel the task force. members from each panel were.
stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 building or grounds, disorderly mates serving their time in to a federal prison in Oakdale, “It’s important that we don’t Mr. Waltz, Mr. Moskowitz, Mr.
attack at the Capitol. conduct in a Capitol building, solitary confinement. Many of Louisiana, where he spent the jump to any conclusions as we Higgans and Mr. Fallon serve on
But the obstruction charge and parading, demonstrating them were long-term inmates. final months of his sentence. begin these investigations,” he Oversight.
said in a Newsweek op-ed. “I Ms. Lee, Mr. Correa, Ms. Dean
look forward to working with my and Mr. Ivey serve on Judiciary.

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

FBI wants ‘standard’ interview of Trump as victim in assassination attempt

BY STEPHEN DINAN ANd MATT DELANEY The Trump campaign con- Director Christopher Wray’s testi- sharing notes about the suspicious This time one of the counter- wounding two others and grazing
THE WASHINGTON TIMES firmed to The Washington Times mony to Congress on Wednesday behavior of the shooter, Thomas snipers shared photos of Crooks, Mr. Trump’s right ear.
last week that the FBI had yet to because it was clear that the FBI Matthew Crooks, more than 90 and law enforcement was on Secret Service snipers killed
The FBI said Monday it does interview Mr. Trump, who was didn’t have the former president’s minutes before he aimed at Mr. high alert. Crooks within seconds after he
want to interview former Presi- the target of a 20-year-old gun- perspective. Trump. “Kid learning [sic] around opened fire.
dent Donald Trump as the vic- man at a campaign rally in Butler, In particular, Mr. Wray cast Secret Service countersnipers building we are in. AGR I believe Little is known about Crooks’
tim of the July 13 assassination Pennsylvania. doubt on Mr. Trump’s view that texted each other about Crooks it is,” the agent said. “I did see motive.
attempt. A former agent who was part he was struck by a bullet from the lingering near the Butler County him with a range finder looking Investigators found photos of
Kevin Rojek, special agent in of the investigation into the 1981 gunman — an assessment shared warehouse where he eventually towards stage. FYI. If you wanna several high-profile figures on
charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh of- shooting of President Reagan by the emergency room doctors opened fire on Mr. Trump, ac- notify SS snipers to look out. I lost his phone, including Mr. Trump,
fice, called it a “standard victim said the delay was an “absolute and the former White House cording to messages obtained by sight of him.” President Biden, Attorney Gen-
interview.” disgrace.” physician. Even The New York The New York Times. Two minutes later, another eral Merrick Garland and FBI
“We want to get his perspec- Thomas J. Baker, who was the Times, after conducting photo and One sniper, who finished his agent responded, “Call it in to Director Christopher Wray.
tive on what he observed,” Agent first FBI agent on the scene of the audio analysis, concluded that Mr. shift just under two hours before command and have a uniform He registered for the Butler
Rojek said, according to the As- Reagan shooting, said he quickly Trump was likely struck by the Mr. Trump took the stage, saw the check it out.” rally on July 7, though he looked
sociated Press. assigned two agents to speak with first of the gunman’s eight rounds. 20-year-old sitting at a picnic table Two Butler Township po- up speaking dates for Mr. Biden
The announcement comes Reagan. They had to wait two days On Friday, the FBI backtracked as he left the building. He texted lice officers were sent to find and the Democratic National
three days after the FBI belatedly while the president was fighting from Mr. Wray’s doubt and said the other two snipers inside the Crooks. An officer hoisted the Convention.
acknowledged that Mr. Trump for his life in the hospital. the former president was struck warehouse that Crooks saw him other officer up over the edge of He also researched Michigan
was struck in the ear by a bullet, Mr. Baker said Reagan — and in the ear by “a bullet, whether and probably determined more the warehouse roof. Crooks then school shooter Ethan Crumbley
either whole or fragmented. now Mr. Trump — are “victim- whole or fragmented into smaller agents were nearby. pointed his AR-15-style rifle at the and how far away Lee Harvey
It’s not clear why the FBI witnesses.” Even if they don’t end pieces, fired from the deceased Authorities lost track of officer, who fell to the ground to Oswald was when he assassinated
waited more than two weeks up providing new details, their subject’s rifle.” Crooks until around 5:40 p.m., take cover. President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
after the shooting to seek out the voice is important, he said. New details also emerged roughly 35 minutes before shots Moments later, Crooks fired Crooks fired from about 150 yards
interview. He said he was struck by FBI about law enforcement officials rang out. eight rounds, killing one rally-goer, from Mr. Trump.
A4 | POLITICS ☆R TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2024

SUPREME COURT

Biden: Court’s ‘extreme opinions’ necessitate new rules on justices

BY JEFF MORDOCK AND ALEX SWOYER on distorting the law to their con- Democratic candidates for both anniversary of the Civil Rights justices to disclose gifts, retain In an op-ed in The Washing-
THE WASHINGTON TIMES servative ideology. Among the chambers. Act. The event was scheduled from public or political activities, ton Post, Mr. Biden declared his
decisions Mr. Biden cited were House Speaker Mike Johnson earlier this month but had been and recuse themselves from cases “great respect for our institutions
President Biden called Mon- the ruling granting presidents accused Mr. Biden of trying to postponed after an assassina- in which their spouses or others and separation of powers” but
day for legislation to bring major broad immunity and overturning “delegitimize” the court. tion attempt on former Presi- have financial conflicts of interest. said that “what is happening now
changes to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade. “President Biden’s proposal dent Donald Trump, the GOP The high court has been tar- is not normal.”
saying its “extreme opinions” “In recent years, extreme to radically overhaul the U.S. nominee. geted by Democrats and their The justices split ideologically
intrude on Americans’ freedoms opinions that the Supreme Supreme Court would tilt the bal- “We have certainly needed re- allies in the mainstream news earlier this month, ruling that
and necessitate new guardrails Court has handed down have ance of power and erode not only forms to restore trust in the court, media since a conservative 6-3 presidents enjoy absolute im-
such as term limits for justices undermined long-established the rule of law, but the American preserve the system of checks majority was appointed under munity from criminal prosecution
and an enforceable code of ethics. civil rights principles and pro- people’s faith in our system of and balances that are vital to President Trump. for actions taken under their core
Vice President Kamala Harris, tections,” Mr. Biden said. justice,” Mr. Johnson, Louisiana our democracy,” Mr. Biden said, A Marquette University poll in presidential functions, presumed
who quickly became the Demo- He said he expects even more Republican, said. comparing his Supreme Court May revealed the approval rating immunity for all official acts, and
crats’ presumptive presidential bad decisions to come from the “It is telling that Democrats overhaul to the struggle for Civil for the Supreme Court was at no immunity for nonofficial acts.
nominee after Mr. Biden bowed court if his proposed changes are want to change the system that Rights. 39%, its second lowest since 2020. The challenge was brought
out of the race, said she was not implemented. has guided our nation since its Mr. Biden, 81, argued that A spokesperson from the Su- by Mr. Trump seeking immunity
completely onboard with the “So many other civil rights founding simply because they lifetime appointments to the preme Court did not immedi- from prosecution in the election
overhaul to fix a “clear crisis of that Americans take for granted disagree with some of the court’s Supreme Court give presidents ately respond to a request for fraud case brought by special
confidence” with the high court’s are likely to come before the recent decisions,” he said. “This undue influence decades after comment. counsel Jack Smith.
conservative majority. court in the years to come,” he dangerous gambit of the Biden- their term has ended. He has Mr. Biden championed a Su- The ruling frustrated liber-
In a speech in Texas, Mr. said. Harris administration is dead on proposed a system in which a preme Court committee when he als as the decision delayed the
Biden ticked off a litany of de- The proposal, however, was arrival in the House.” president would appoint a justice first took office to reenvision the election fraud case and other
cisions by the Supreme Court more political than practical. It Mr. Biden delivered the re- every two years to spend 18 years Supreme Court, which issued its cases pending against the former
that he and Ms. Harris disagreed has no chance of advancing in marks at the Lyndon B. Johnson on the bench. report in 2021, but the president president.
with, depicting the justices as the narrowly divided Congress Presidential Library in Austin, He also proposed a code has done little with the commit- • Mallory Wilson contributed
out-of-control ideologues bent but will serve as a rallying cry for Texas, to celebrate the 60th of conduct that would require tee’s recommendations until now. to this report.

HARRIS dysfunctional environment in the vice

president’s office that seemed to worsen
as Ms. Harris’ approval ratings sank.
respond to an inquiry through social
media.
The exodus of the vice president’s
we got to deal with over in here.”
She said outside criticism of Ms. Har-
ris “did not deter her.”
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Office management troubles go back top aides triggered multiple rounds of Mr. Andrzejewski said Ms. Harris’
payroll records. even further in her career. news reports questioning whether Ms. vice presidential office is concealing
Half of her staff listed on public In a Nov. 5, 2019, article, Nevada Harris could hold a qualified office team the full roster of employees and their
payroll records quit in the past year, the County (California) Planning Commis- together. salaries, breaking with past vice presi-
organization calculated. sioner Terry McAteer said Ms. Harris Some former top staffers have re- dents and presidents who disclose staff
“Taxpayers can draw their own con- treated his son and other staffers poorly mained silent about her sudden political and salaries, all of which are funded by
clusions about Harris’ management or when he served as her intern while she leap and have not even posted about it taxpayers.
leadership style, but what we found was the state’s attorney general. on social media. Although Open the Books obtained at
corroborates comments from former “Senator Harris vocally throws Former spokeswoman Symone Sand- least a partial list through congressional
staffers that the vice president is difficult around ‘F-bombs’ and other profan- ers-Townsend fully endorsed Ms. Harris records, the Harris vice presidential
to work for,” said Adam Andrzejewski, ity constantly in her berating of staff for president but hinted at the difficulties office has claimed to be exempt and
CEO of OpenTheBooks. and others. The staff is in complete of working for her. rejected public information requests to
High turnover in the White House fear of her and she uses her profanity She said on MSNBC last week that provide all the information.
isn’t new, but Ms. Harris’ numbers are throughout the day,” Mr. McAteer Ms. Harris is known for “the grilling,” Open the Books, in conjunction with
higher than others. wrote. “As Attorney General, Senator which she said could be an advantage in another watchdog organization, is pre-
In the same time span, President Harris instructed her entire staff to a race against former President Donald paring to sue for the information.
Trump experienced a 72% turnover rate stand every morning as she entered Trump. “Kamala Harris is the least transpar-
and President Biden had 77% turnover. the office and say, ‘Good Morning “Former staff like to refer to it as ent elected official in the entire country.
Vice President Mike Pence hired General.’” putting someone on the witness stand,” We don’t know anyone else that gets to
29 employees during his first year in He said Ms. Harris never once in- Ms. Sanders-Townsend said. “She knows shield their spending,” Mr. Andrzejew-
the Trump administration, and five re- troduced herself to his son, who was how to do that quite well.” ski said.
mained on staff after three years, indicat- instructed “to never address Harris or Ms. Sanders-Townsend said she once The Harris campaign did not respond ASSOCIATED PRESS

ing an 83% turnover rate. look her in the eye as that privilege was told the vice president, who was often to an inquiry for this report. The Wash- Political strategist Symone Sanders-
Ms. Harris hired 49 staffers and re- only allowed to senior staff members.” the subject of criticism over her perfor- ington Times also reached out to a half Townsend said she once told Vice
tained only four three years later. Mr. McAteer’s son could not be mance, “Ma’am, you might be the last dozen former Harris staffers, who did President Kamala Harris, “Ma’am, you
Past employees described a toxic and reached for comment and did not woman I work for because it’s a lot that not respond. might be the last woman I work for.”

COLLEGE higher, compared with 84% who got at

least a C in the class.
Advocates of the changes said these
a lot of kids now are doing dual enroll-
ment, which seems to be replacing the
AP classes,” said Julie Giordano, the
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results speak for themselves. executive of Wicomico County in east-
and science. “They’ve appropriately replaced [an ern Maryland and a former high school
Critics have accused the College old model] with a new model that uses English teacher. “Why would anyone
Board of slackening scoring to attract much larger data sets, involves hundreds risk getting lower than a 3 on an AP
more students to pay for AP exams as of faculty members, and can be updated test when they can get college credits
four-year colleges struggle with rising in real time,” said Len Jessup, former just for going to class and completing
costs and falling enrollments. president of the public University of mediocre work?”
“The College Board is probably look- Nevada, Las Vegas. For more than a decade, high school
ing at a materially significant decline in Mr. Jessup added in an email that the teachers have observed a trend of se-
revenue,” said Gary Stocker, a former new scoring system may be “just now niors piling up AP courses, which have
chief of staff at private Westminster Col- better at reflecting an underlying trend.” weighted grades, to enhance their GPAs
lege in Missouri and founder of College for college applications. They say these
Viability, which evaluates campuses’ ASSOCIATED PRESS Declining value students have little interest in putting in
financial stability. “They are adjusting Conservatives have accused the College Board of trying to fill classroom desks by The AP test scoring has changed as the preparatory work for the notoriously
their scoring to incent more students to adding trendy topics to the list of AP courses. Recent additions to the course catalog colleges eliminate many core humani- difficult AP exams.
pay and take AP exams.” include AP African American studies, which will be offered in August. ties requirements for freshmen, making At the same time, conservatives have
At $98 per exam, the AP system gen- four-year degrees more accessible and criticized the College Board for adding
erated about $500 million in revenue for affordable. trendy topics to the list of AP courses to
the College Board in 2022, or roughly increased from 5% in 2021 to 17% in 2022 added in an email. “At the end of the day, Some say that trend could weaken the attract students and encourage them to
half the nonprofit group’s $1.04 billion as the scoring system changed. the increase in scores of 3 or higher is appeal of AP testing for students who pay for exams.
budget. Over the same period, the share of staggering and changes the AP program have traditionally relied on the exams Recent additions to the course catalog
Mr. Stocker pointed out that more “well-qualified” 4s jumped from 12% to in a fundamental way.” to save on tuition by graduating faster. include AP African American studies,
than half of all public and private four- 27% and the share of 3s increased from According to the National Student Other pressures on the AP system which will be offered for the first time
year colleges don’t graduate 50% of their 27% to 34%. Clearinghouse Research Center, un- include a surge in high school students in August.
students in four years. Meanwhile, the share of “possibly dergraduate college enrollment fell by taking dual-enrollment courses at com- “The lack of clarity in AP curricula
“I believe the changes to the AP scor- qualified” scores of 2 plunged from 37% more than 900,000 students, or nearly munity colleges. and exams is unacceptable for an or-
ing methodology by the College Board to 14% and “not qualified” scores of 1 fell 6% of total enrollment, from fall 2019 “This shift [in AP grading] will hurt ganization that wields such massive
are primarily driven by profit,” said from 19% to 8% of tested students. to fall 2023. higher education by helping students influence over the schooling of millions
Shaan Patel, founder and CEO of Prep “Yes, the exams are getting easier, In a July 22 news release, the College skip countless college courses and grad- of American children,” said Timothy K.
Expert, a Las Vegas company that offers but it is entirely possible that they were Board said it implemented the new scor- uate in three or even two years,” said Minella, a senior fellow at the conserva-
private tutoring for AP exams. “Yes, too difficult in the first place, just as the ing system in nine AP exams that were Robert Weissberg, a retired University tive Goldwater Institute. “Students of all
these changes do ‘dumb down’ the tests.” College Board has claimed,” said John not reaching the desired minimum of of Illinois political scientist and expert backgrounds do not benefit from this
Mr. Patel pointed to College Board Moscatiello, a New Jersey high school 60% of students earning at least a 3. in pedagogy. “The impact will be espe- lowering of the bar.”
data showing that the number of public teacher who founded the company Each exam subsequently exceeded cially large in English and some of the Chester E. Finn Jr., a distinguished fel-
high school graduates who took an AP Marco Learning to help schools build that target pass rate this spring: AP humanities and social sciences.” low and former president at the Thomas
Exam increased from 31.5% of the class AP programs. world history (64%), AP English lit- According to the latest data from the B. Fordham Institute, a conservative
of 2013 to 34.7% of the class of 2023. Mr. Moscatiello, who attended the erature (72%), AP biology (68%), AP National Student Clearinghouse, dual education think tank, predicted that top
AP annual conference in Las Vegas last macroeconomics (62%), AP microeco- enrollment of high school students up colleges will raise the bar for AP scores
Surging scores week, is one of several critics who have nomics (65%), AP chemistry (75%), to age 17 rose by 10% at all colleges from as more students pass.
The College Board estimates that 1.2 slammed the College Board in articles AP U.S. government (73%), AP U.S. spring 2023 to spring 2024, accounting “It’s no secret that colleges resist los-
million public high school seniors took for not sharing the data behind the history (72%) and AP European his- for 28.1% of undergraduate enrollment ing tuition dollars,” said Mr. Finn, who
more than 4 million AP exams in 2022. changes. tory (72%). increases in the spring. has written against the change in AP
According to the nonprofit, the share “Many people are raising concerns The College Board pointed out that “In my opinion, I think they made scoring. “And the more students who
of students scoring an “extremely quali- that the end result of this score increase 72% of students who took the AP U.S. the test easier so more students would seek credit upon arrival, the more loath
fied” 5 on the AP English literature exam will be a diminishing of standards,” he history exam this year earned a 3 or be apt to take the AP courses because they’ll be to confer it.”

IRS “removed” from the agency.

Another 47 were suspended. The fate
of the other three was redacted from the
Traci M. DiMartini, the IRS human
capital officer, said the agency reviewed
more than 2,000 employees the inspec-
The inspector general also found that
the IRS had rehired former employees
with black marks in agency employ-
She said the agency has reviewed all
the flagged people and ensured someone
is addressing the problems.
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public version of the audit, though based tor general flagged as having outstanding ment files. That included 13 willful tax The inspector general said it “ap-
agency is rewarding its own tax dodg- on the inspector’s past work, they likely taxes as of May 6, 2023. As of June, 58% cheats and 34 deemed to have accessed pears” that addresses the issue.
ers with paychecks and lavish benefits retired or resigned. of them had resolved their issues to the taxpayer information that was required A 2015 report looked at a 10-year
made possible, ironically, with the taxes “Although the law requires an em- agency’s satisfaction. to be kept secret. period and found 1,580 employees who
paid by you, me, and other hardworking ployee who has either willfully not filed The IRS official said the report gave The inspector general made two willfully evaded their taxes. Of those,
Americans,” Ms. Ernst said. or willfully understated their taxes due the IRS a generally clean bill of health. recommendations in the audit, including 61% were allowed to remain at the IRS.
She has written legislation to ban to be removed, subject only to the IRS It found that the agency “has policies requiring the IRS human capital officer That means the agency has become
the IRS from employing anyone with Commissioner’s mitigation, this disci- and procedures in place to detect and to follow up on the employees flagged more lenient, allowing 67% of the cur-
“seriously delinquent tax debts” and to plinary action is not always enforced,” remedy employee and contractor tax and make sure their taxes have been filed rent tax evaders to remain on the job.
require the agency to submit an annual the inspector general said. non-compliance.” and their balances paid. After the 2015 report, the IRS said it
review of its workers. In its official response, the IRS said The IRS also subscribes to “progressive Ms. DiMartini disagreed. She said her would adopt rules to require documen-
Of the 70 willful tax cheats the IRS the commissioner exercised that discre- discipline,” meaning employees are given office doesn’t have the power to collect tation when the agency kept employees
flagged within its workforce over an 18- tion in each of those cases after receiving the “least serious” punishment initially and or enforce tax laws, even on agency on the job despite willful tax evasion.
month period from 2021 to 2023, 20 were a recommendation from a review board. stiffer penalties for further offenses. employees.
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VENEZUELA result announced does not reflect the

will or the votes of the Venezuelan
people,” Mr. Blinken said. “It’s critical
In Moscow, Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin congratulated Mr. Maduro
and said he hopes their two nations can
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that every vote be counted fairly and “continue our constructive joint work
Caracas was said to be tense but transparently, that election officials im- on key issues on the bilateral and inter-
peaceful as both sides rushed to shore mediately share information with the national agenda.”
up their claims to electoral victory. opposition and independent observers For Russia and China, Venezuela is an
Moscow and Beijing congratulated without delay, and that the electoral au- important military, economic and diplo-
Mr. Maduro on his “victory” shortly after thorities publish the detailed tabulation matic ally in the Western Hemisphere.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, of votes. The international community Venezuela provides China with a
which is loyal to Mr. Maduro’s ruling is watching this very closely and will significant amount of oil, among other
socialist party, announced the results. respond accordingly.” ties. Russia views Venezuela as a strategi-
Leaders across Latin America said the Josep Borrell, the European Union’s cally vital military partner. Earlier this
election must be fully reviewed. top diplomat, expressed similar month, two Russian warships docked at
According to the official government sentiments. the Venezuelan port of La Guaira after
totals, 51% of the vote Sunday went to “The people of Venezuela voted on exercises in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mr. Maduro and 44% to Mr. Gonza- the future of their country peacefully. … The Biden administration earlier this
lez. Those figures differ wildly from Your will must be respected,” he said in a year offered to ease economic sanctions
independent exit polling conducted by post on X, according to English-language if Mr. Maduro agreed to allow free and
Edison Research, which sampled nearly translations. “It is vital to ensure full fair elections. The offer sparked criticism
7,000 voters at 100 polling sites across transparency of the electoral process, on Capitol Hill.
Venezuela. ASSOCIATED PRESS
including detailed vote counting and “I am concerned but not surprised
About 65% of voters backed Mr. Protesters smashed an advertising board during demonstrations Monday against the access to polling station voting records.” that Nicolas Maduro is tightening his
Gonzalez, compared with just 31% for official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection. Polls showed At least eight Latin American nations grip on Venezuela,” Sen. James E. Risch
Mr. Maduro, according to those Edison voters widely favoring his opponent, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia. called for an emergency meeting of the of Idaho, the top Republican on the Sen-
exit surveys. Organization of American States. ate Foreign Relations Committee, said
Mr. Maduro, a protege of the late “We are putting diplomatic relations in a statement Monday. “To be sure,
anti-U.S. populist Hugo Chavez seeking Caracas, where Mr. Maduro’s United third six-year term amid deep turmoil. on hold until a complete review of the Maduro is reaping the benefits of three
a third six-year term, sought to stop a Socialist Party of Venezuela controls all Venezuela sits atop the world’s larg- voting records and of the voting com- years of appeasement policies by the
brewing political crisis before it had the three branches of government. est oil reserves and once boasted Latin puter system is carried out,” Panamanian Biden-Harris administration.”
chance to start. He appeared Monday “Venezuelans and the entire world America’s most advanced economy. President Jose Raul Mulino said at a The senior U.S. official would not de-
at a nationally televised ceremony and know what happened,” said Mr. Gonza- After Mr. Maduro came to power, the news conference, according to Reuters. tail the Biden administration’s next steps
unequivocally declared victory. lez, urging his supporters to remain calm. economy tumbled into a free fall marked China and Russia took the opposite as the election results are being tabulated
“We have never been moved by ha- It wasn’t immediately clear what Mr. by plummeting oil prices, widespread tack, as did friendly left-leaning West- but said Washington was prepared to
tred. On the contrary, we have always Gonzalez intended to do next. Legal shortages of basic goods and hyperinfla- ern Hemisphere regimes in Cuba and rally allies in the region and globally
been victims of the powerful,” he said. challenges are a certainty, though the tion of 130,000%. Bolivia. against any attempt to steal the election.
“An attempt is being made to impose a tight grip of Mr. Maduro’s party over “China congratulates Venezuela on “I don’t think we’re going to get into
coup d’etat in Venezuela again of a fascist the Venezuelan political system means Taking sides the smooth presidential election and the details of how we would respond,
and counterrevolutionary nature. such challenges may accomplish little. Global powers split over whether to congratulates President Nicolas Maduro but I will note that numerous nations
“We already know this movie, and this Mr. Maduro’s socialist party has con- accept the official election results from on his successful reelection. China and and institutions in the international
time, there will be no kind of weakness,” trolled Caracas for 25 years, beginning Caracas. Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Venezuela are good friends and part- community have already expressed con-
Mr. Maduro said. with Chavez’s ascent to power in 1999. Secretary of State Antony Blinken cast ners that support each other,” Chinese cerns about the current situation,” the
Before Mr. Maduro’s public com- Under pressure to ease harsh U.S. and doubt on the Venezuelan government’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian official said.
ments, Mr. Gonzalez made clear that he international sanctions on his economy, tallies. told reporters at a press conference in • This article is based in part on wire
did not believe the official figures from Mr. Maduro sought reelection to his “We have serious concerns that the Beijing. service reports.

GENOCIDE regimes fear faith,” said Katrina Lantos

Swett, co-chair of the Tokyo religious
freedom summit. “What they need is
ubiquitous and never-resting artificial in-
telligence monitoring of the population.
“Families cannot communicate with
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control of their populations, but if people each other,” said Ilham Mahmut, chair-
Research Council and The Washington have acquired convictions, they are man of Japan’s Uyghur Cultural Center.
Times Foundation. much harder to control.” “People got skeptical about each other,
Though Beijing does not operate According to Chinese regulations, even within the family.”
death camps or fill mass graves, the “all religious venues should have per- He said he speaks from personal ex-
central government’s policy toward the missions, all [religious] teachers should perience. “The last time I communicated
people of the two regions represents have certifications and have ‘Xi Jinping with my mother was in April 2017. She
“slow-motion” genocide, experts say. ideology,’” said Tsewang Gyalpo Arya, said, ‘Please don’t call me. I’ll call you if
“Not every massacre or war crime is a the Dalai Lama’s representative for Japan something happens.’”
genocide,” said Marco Respinti, director and East Asia. “Where is the religion?” With the human cost comes repres-
of Bitter Winter, a magazine focused on Ethnic identities and religious prac- sion in the physical space. Structures
religious liberty and human rights. “To tices are replaced with uniform identities central to religious culture, notably
have a genocide, you have to have the and party-approved practices. Among mosques and monasteries, are being
intention to destroy an entire portion of the worst abuses are torture, disap- destroyed or repurposed.
humankind, you have to make a project pearances and organ harvesting. More Speakers at the Tokyo gathering urged
to do that and you have to make tools mainstream methods of control include citizens to demand action from their
you need.” heavy police presence and mass deten- governments. The U.N. Human Rights
Chinese leaders angrily denounce the tions in camps. Office warned in 2022 that China may be
charge of genocide. They are particularly “The purpose of the camps is to break committing crimes against humanity. The
furious that the Trump administration lineage, roots and connections to origins Dutch government has joined the U.S. in
and then the Biden administration for- — to eliminate the Uyghurs as an ethnic labeling Beijing’s policies genocidal.
mally declared Beijing’s policies against identity in China,” Mr. Kanat said. He Other countries need to add pressure,
the local ethnic Muslim Uyghur popula- estimates that “tens of thousands” from particularly from inside China’s region.
tion of Xinjiang a genocide. all walks of life have been incarcerated. “We’ve got to have strong Asian democ-
“There has never been so-called Since 2016, Tibetan children as young racies stand up,” Mr. Brownback said.
genocide, forced labor or religious op- ASSOCIATED PRESS
as 5 have been wrenched from their Mr. Respinti said those who plan
pression in Xinjiang,” Chinese Foreign Authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing families and placed in “colonial board- and implement the genocidal policies
Minister Wang Yi told a meeting of the the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ing schools.” should be held to account, but the clock
United Nations Human Rights Council Communist Party’s ideology, as part of an attack on their cultural identity. “When children come out, their con- is ticking.
in 2021. “Such inflammatory accusations nection with their families has changed,” “In 10 or 20 or 30 years, you won’t
are fabricated out of ignorance and Mr. Tseten said. “They can’t speak Ti- have identifiable religious or ethnic
prejudice. They are simply malicious expressed surprise and unhappiness on genocides,” said Sam Brownback, the betan, they forget their traditions and groups, and it will be ‘mission accom-
and politically driven hype and couldn’t a visit to the Xinjiang city of Kahsgard. U.S. ambassador-at-large for interna- are not able to communicate with their plished,’” he said. “When they can’t prac-
be further from the truth.” “Some reports said he asked, ‘Why tional religious freedom during the families. tice their religion or can’t speak Tibetan
are Uyghurs still Uyghurs?’” said Omer Trump administration. He added a “Some of them even become critical or Uyghur or do not understand it, when
Long, slow process Kanat, president of the Uyghur Human Han Chinese group to the Tibetans and of their grandparents,” he said. “They it is just the standardized language and
Neither a sudden event nor a shock Rights Project. “He criticized officials … Uyghurs. ask them, ‘Why don’t you know Chinese? culture of China, what’s left?”
policy, genocide usually builds over a and they decided to forcefully assimilate Why are you not like other Chinese?’” Mr. Tseten, born overseas, said he
long period. the Uyghur people.” Targeting the faithful dreams of a Tibetan homeland he has
Xinjiang, which many Uyghurs call Systemic assimilation policies China’s critics say that, just as the Technology and repression never seen.
Eastern Turkestan, was occupied by “turned into genocide in 2017,” Mr. Nazis exterminated followers of Judaism, To prevent free expression and free “I know where my village is and what
China in 1949. Tibet was annexed by Kanat said. Beijing is targeting those with strong assembly, “authoritarian regimes have it looks like. I live with the memory of
force in 1950. Natives of both say the rul- “One of the most current, pressing religious identities: Tibetan Buddhists, technologies they only dreamed of in Tibet through my parents and grandpar-
ing Chinese Communist Party’s policies human rights issues” facing Tibetans Uyghur adherents of Islam, and Chinese the past,” Mr. Brownback said. ents,” he said. “Deep down, I feel one day
of cultural liquidation have accelerated — forced indoctrination of children Falun Gong, which combines Buddhist A security web that synchronizes I will go, when the people in my village
since President Xi Jinping took office — began to be enforced after 2016, Mr. and Taoist teachings with breathing and high technologies, from CCTV cam- and across Tibet will be free from fear
in 2013. Tseten said. meditation exercises. era networks to spyware embedded to practice what they want, to continue
In 2014, Mr. Xi was said to have “The CCP is conducting three “It makes sense that authoritarian in personal digital devices, allows for to do what their forefathers have done.”

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Nation
EDUCATION

Thousands of schools exempt from

Title IX rule under escape clause
BY VALERIE RIcHARDSON
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

It turns out that thousands of schools

have at least one student with a parent
who belongs to Moms for Liberty.
More than 2,000 schools in 45 states
will be exempt from the Biden admin-
istration’s final rule adding “gender
identity” to Title IX, based on a judge’s
order blocking the regulations from tak-
ing effect at any school with a Moms for
Liberty parent.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Ko-
bach submitted to the U.S. District Court
for Kansas on Friday an “initial list of the
ASSOCIATED PRESS
K-12 schools attended by the children of
A 2019 police shootout with two robbers left a hijacked UPS driver and a passerby its members,” a 63-page document listing
dead. A Florida police union leader blasted prosecutors Monday, saying four officers K-12 schools with the Moms for Liberty
involved had no choice but to return fire on a busy suburban street. connection.
U.S. District Judge John Broomes ASSOCIATED PRESS

granted a temporary injunction on July More than 2,000 schools in 45 states have at least one parent who belongs to Moms
FLORIDA 2 to four states challenging the Title for Liberty. Therefore, those schools will be exempt from the Biden administration’s
IX rewrite — Kansas, Alaska, Utah and

Police union leader

final rule adding “gender identity” to Title IX.
Wyoming — as well as schools with a
Moms for Liberty parent, or at least
one student who belongs to Young subject to it while the judicial review Membership in Moms for Liberty

warns of ‘chilling effect’ America’s Foundation or Female Ath-

letes United.
Two weeks ago, the plaintiffs turned
process plays out in courts across the
country,” the judge said in his July 19
order. “Congress gave DoE the authority
is free.
The list of schools submitted to the
court includes nearly 60 in Virginia, in-

of case against officers in a list of more than 670 colleges, univer-

sities and other higher-education institu-
tions in 50 states with a Young America’s
to postpone the effective date of the Final
Rule pending judicial review. Maybe DoE
should use that authority.”
cluding schools in the Culpepper, Fairfax,
Fauquier and Prince William counties;
and 37 schools in Maryland, including
Foundation or Female Athletes United What’s more, Judge Broomes ex- those in the counties of Anne Arundel,
Two killed in crossfire with robbers member, meaning that the entire institu-
tion falls under the injunction.
tended the deadline to submit the list of
schools from July 15 to July 26. He also
Frederick, Howard and Montgomery.
No public schools in the District of
BY TERRY SPENcER charged in the robbers’ deaths. “The list includes 364 colleges and uni- said that more schools could be added Columbia were listed.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Mr. Stahl pointed out that the same versities in 26 states that aren’t currently as parents join the groups. Federal judges have blocked the Title
prosecutors charged fired Broward suing the Biden administration over the “This court’s ruling did not state that IX redo from taking effect in 21 states
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. | A Florida County sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson regulations,” said Inside Higher Ed, which it was limited to individuals who were pending the outcome of the lawsuits, as
police union leader blasted prosecutors for not pursuing the shooter who mur- provided a searchable format for the col- members of a Plaintiff Organization on well as at least two school districts. The
Monday for bringing a criminal case dered 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory leges covered by the court injunction. a certain date,” said Judge Broomes, a rule is scheduled to take effect Aug. 1.
against four officers over a 2019 shootout Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. The court order creates an adminis- Trump appointee. “Individuals are free The administration has defended
with two robbers that left a UPS driver Mr. Peterson was acquitted of child trative headache for the Department of to join or leave an organization whenever its final rule, which extends Title IX’s
and a passerby dead, saying they had neglect charges last year. Education as it seeks to enforce the rule they so choose.” protections against sex-based discrimi-
no choice but to return fire on the busy “We have the same prosecutor that in a patchwork of schools, in some cases Moms for Liberty said its member- nation in education to biological males
suburban street. prosecuted officers for not engaging an holding schools within the same district ship list “will be periodically updated who identify as female.
Steadman Stahl, president of the active shooter, and the same prosecutor to different Title IX standards. as more and more members choose to “Title IX guarantees that no per-
South Florida Police Benevolent Asso- now is going after officers for engaging,” The department urged the court ear- add their child’s school to the list and son experience sex discrimination in a
ciation, said that by bringing the case, Mr. Stahl said. “Makes no sense.” lier this month to limit the scope of the ensure they will be safe from Title IX federally-funded educational environ-
Broward County prosecutors are send- Broward State Attorney Harold Pryor injunction to members of the organiza- overreach.” ment,” a DOE spokesperson said. “The
ing the message that officers could face declined to comment Monday. In a tion as of the court filing or injunction, The parental rights group said it con- department crafted the final Title IX
charges if they fire at shooters while statement last month, he said: “Deciding but Judge Broomes refused, calling it “a tinues to enroll members on its website regulations following a rigorous process
hostages or other innocent people are whether to use deadly force is among problem of DoE’s own making.” with an opt-in feature for parents who to realize the Title IX statutory guaran-
nearby. That “could have a chilling ef- the most serious and consequential “As the court suggested in its prior seek “to protect their children’s schools tee. The department stands by the final
fect” on how they respond, he said. decisions a police officer can make. We order, Congress has given DoE at least from the implementation of the Biden Title IX regulations released in April
“Those officers didn’t pick that loca- understand that these decisions are one tool to mitigate the hardships that Administration’s Title IX redo for gen- 2024, and we will continue to fight for
tion to have that shootout in. It’s the often made during intense and uncertain its new rule imposes on those who are der ideology in K-12 education.” every student.”
bad guys,” Mr. Stahl said after a hearing circumstances.”
where the officers’ trial was scheduled Officers Mateo and Mirabal are still
to begin Feb. 17. “Unfortunately, two employed by Miami-Dade police. Mr.
[innocent] people lost their lives out Lee retired three years ago and Mr. ECONOMY
there. Our hearts go out to them. Nobody Santiesteban was fired, the Miami Herald
wanted that to happen.”
A grand jury indicted Miami-Dade
reported.
Under Florida law, manslaughter is After two years of aggressive rate hikes,
Fed expects reduction in September
County Officers Rodolfo Mirabal, Jose an unlawful killing committed while
Mateo, Richard Santiesteban and Leslie demonstrating “culpable negligence”
Lee last month on manslaughter charges — that is defined as an act that shows
in the death of 27-year-old UPS driver “a wanton or reckless disregard for
Frank Ordonez after a four-year inves- human life.” BY CHRISTOPHER RUGAbER will the policymakers ultimately cut rates? to decline.
tigation by the Florida Department of Alexander and Hill robbed Regent ASSOCIATED PRESS It’s a question of keen interest to both “They want to be very gradual in
Law Enforcement. Jewelers in the Miami suburb of Coral major presidential candidates, too. Any how they pull back,” said Gennadiy
Officer Mirabal is also charged in the Gables on the afternoon of Dec. 5, 2019. Two years after launching an ag- signal that the Fed will rapidly cut rates Goldberg, head of U.S. rates strategy at
death of Richard Cutshaw, a 70-year-old When officers arrived, shots were being gressive fight against inflation and one could boost the economy and poten- TD Securities.
union negotiator, who was shot while fired inside. A store worker was hit in the year after leaving its benchmark interest tially lift Vice President Kamala Harris’ “But if the labor market actually looks
driving nearby. head by a ricochet, but survived. rate at a near-quarter-century high, the election prospects. Former President like it’s slowing down,” Mr. Goldberg
Blame for their deaths needs to be The robbers fled and hijacked Or- Federal Reserve is expected to signal this Donald Trump has argued that the Fed suggested, Fed officials might conclude
placed on the robbers, 41-year-old cous- donez’s van while he was inside. They week that it expects to reduce borrowing shouldn’t cut rates until its next meeting, that “they should be moving a little bit
ins Lamar Alexander and Ronnie Jerome led officers on a long chase into southern costs as soon as September. in November, which will come two days quicker than they otherwise would.”
Hill, who also died in the shootout, Mr. Broward County that attracted television A rate reduction this fall — the first after the election. There are signs that the labor mar-
Stahl said. Alexander and Hill could have news helicopters, which broadcast it live since the pandemic — would amount Futures markets have priced in a 64% ket is cooling, as the Fed has intended.
surrendered, but they chose “to go out nationally. to a momentous shift and a potential likelihood that the Fed will cut rates Job growth has averaged a decent but
in a blaze of glory,” he said. The hijackers fired from inside the boost to the economy. Fed rate cuts, over three times this year, in September, unspectacular 177,000 a month for the
All four officers have pleaded not van, which finally stopped in the middle time, typically lower borrowing costs for November and December, according past three months, down from a red-
guilty and were freed without bail. They lane at a busy intersection, caught behind such things as mortgages, auto loans and to CME FedWatch. As recently as last hot three-month average of 275,000 a
face a maximum sentence of 30 years if a wall of vehicles at a red light. credit cards. month, Fed officials had collectively year ago.
convicted, but as first-time offenders that Witnesses said gunfire suddenly A single cut in the Fed’s key rate, now forecast just one rate reduction in 2024 It’s not yet clear whether that cool-
would be unlikely. erupted as officers ran between cars at roughly 5.3%, wouldn’t by itself make and four in 2025 and 2026. ing reflects a return of the economy to a
About 20 officers fired at the van. toward the van. Ordonez, Alexander much difference to the economy. Finan- How the economy fares in the com- more sustainable, less inflationary period
Prosecutors have not said why only the and Hill were killed inside the vehicle. cial markets widely expect it and some ing months will likely determine how of growth or whether the cooling will
four officers were charged. Mr. Stahl Cutshaw was found dead in his car. borrowing costs already have dropped quickly the Fed acts. Should growth continue until the economy slides into
guessed their bullets accidentally hit Investigators have not said whether Or- slightly in anticipation of the move. remain solid and employers keep hiring, a recession.
Ordonez, while a bullet Officer Mira- donez and Cutshaw were shot by police, As a result, the main question for the the Fed would prefer to take its time and “That’s the million-dollar question at
bal fired hit Cutshaw. No officers are the robbers or both. central bank will be: How fast and how far cut rates slowly as inflation continues this point,” Mr. Goldberg said.

ABORTION

Minnesota prepares for influx of clients from Iowa as ban is to take effect
ASSOCIATED PRESS Previously, abortion was legal up to effects across the region. Across the country, the state of abor- has served women from South Dakota,
BLOOMINGTON, MINN. | Minnesota 20 weeks of pregnancy in Iowa. Last “When the Dobbs decision came tion access has been changing ever since Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Texas,
medical providers and public officials July, the state’s Republican-controlled down, many of the patients coming to the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida and Ar-
were preparing to welcome patients Legislature passed a new ban on the Iowa were from Missouri,” Dr. Traxler Jackson Women’s Health Organization. kansas over the past year. Amy Hag-
traveling from Iowa, where a ban on procedure after six weeks of pregnancy, said in an interview with Minnesota Trigger laws immediately went into ef- strom Miller, founder and CEO of the
most abortions after about six weeks which is often before women know they Public Radio. “This is going to have fect, new restrictions were passed, court clinic, said she expects to see an increase
of pregnancy went into effect Monday. are pregnant. There are limited excep- resounding impacts on the region itself, battles put those on hold and in some in patient demand after Iowa’s restric-
On Thursday, Minnesota Lt. Gov. tions in cases of rape, incest, fetal abnor- especially the Midwest and the South.” places, there was expanded access. tions take effect.
Peggy Flanagan, a Democrat, toured mality or when the life of the mother is The Iowa Supreme Court reiterated In states with restrictions, the main Ms. Flanagan said Minnesota would
Whole Woman’s Health of Minnesota, in danger. in June that there is no constitutional abortion options are getting pills by mail remain committed to serving people
a nonprofit abortion clinic in Blooming- Dr. Sarah Traxler, an OB-GYN in right to an abortion in the state and or- or underground networks and traveling, traveling from other states seeking abor-
ton. She welcomed Iowa residents who Minnesota and the chief medical officer dered a hold on the law to be lifted. The vastly driving up demand in states with tion services.
were seeking abortions after the state’s of Planned Parenthood North Central district court judge’s orders last week set more access. “If you’re afraid, come to Minnesota,”
new restrictions take effect. States, said Iowa’s law could have ripple July 29 as the first day of enforcement. Whole Woman’s Health of Minnesota Ms. Flanagan said. “We’ve got you.”
TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2024 ☆R NATION | A7

MUSIC

Experts piece together massive pipe organ used in silent movie era
BY COREY WILLIAMS said. scrambled to remove the massive instru-
ASSOCIATED PRESS “One guy could do it all,” Mr. Smith ment, parts of which stood two stories
said. “In the big cities, they were literally tall, before the theater was demolished.
DETROIT | A massive pipe organ that filling the theaters’ thousands of seats Przybylski died in 2000, but that did
underscored the drama and comedy of multiple times during the day. They were not spell the end of the Barton Opus’
silent movies with live music in Detroit’s showing live shows along with the films. odyssey.
ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a cen- It was a big production.” Steven Ball, a professional organist
tury ago was dismantled into thousands The Barton Opus enjoyed good who taught at the University of Michi-
of pieces and stashed away. acoustics at the Hollywood Theatre, gan’s Organ Department, asked Przb-
The Barton Opus, built in 1927, spent according to the Detroit Theatre Organ ylski’s widow in 2003 if the pipe organ
four decades stored in a garage, attic and Society. The theaters in Detroit at that was for sale.
basement in suburban Detroit. time, the golden age of the city’s automo- In 2019, Rochester Institute of Tech-
But the towering musical curiosity is tive industry, were as glamorous as any nology President David C. Munson Con-
being lovingly restored in Indianapolis in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and tacted Mr. Ball, whom he had known
and will eventually be trucked, piece San Francisco, according to John Lauter, since Mr. Munson served as the dean of
by piece, to the Rochester Institute an organist and organ technician. engineering at the University of Michi-
of Technology in western New York, In the decades that followed, televi- gan years earlier.
to be reassembled and rehoused in sions began to appear in living rooms “I contacted Steven and asked where
a theater specifically designed to ac- ASSOCIATED PRESS
across the nation and silent movie we could acquire the best theater organ,”
commodate it. “One guy could do it all,” Carlton Smith (left) said of The Barton Opus pipe organ. The houses fell out of favor. The Hollywood Mr. Munson said. “Steven said, ‘Well that
In its heyday, the Barton Opus was instrument has been undergoing restoration at Carlton Smith Pipe Organ Restorations Theatre closed in the 1950s, its fixtures would be mine.’”
able to recreate the sounds of many in- in Indianapolis. Mr. Smith has been working on it since 2020. were sold and its famed Barton Opus The exact cost of the work hasn’t
struments, including strings, flutes and was on the verge of being lost to history. yet been determined, Mr. Munson
tubas, said Carlton Smith, who has been But in the early 1960s, Mr. Lauter’s said. “It’s an investment we’re making,
restoring the organ since 2020. instruments such as a piano, xylophone, could produce sound effects including friend Henry Przybylski bought it at but I think the results are going to be
It also contained real percussion glockenspiel, cymbals and drums and steamboat and bird whistles, Mr. Smith auction for about $3,500. Przybylski remarkable.”

FAST FOOD wounded when gunfire erupted Sun- prosecutors say they stole the identi- CALIFORNIA
McDonald’s same-store sales day evening at a crowded public park
in Rochester.
BRIEFLY ties of congregants and then applied
for government loans in their name.
Firefighters make progress
fall for first time since COVID Hundreds of people were at an all- THE NATION Authorities say that when they thanks to better weather
They’re not lovin’ it. day gathering in Rochester’s Maple- began to investigate, Kenneth C. FOREST RANCH | Firefighters were
McDonald’s global same-stores fell wood Park when the shooting started Sparks III, who is accused of being the aided by improving weather over the
for the first time in nearly four years in around 6:20 p.m., authorities said. ringleader, bullied church members weekend in the battle against the wild-
the second quarter as inflation-weary Police Chief David Smith said Cohen came on the final day of argu- into turning over information by tell- fires covering massive areas and leav-
consumers skipped meals out or chose multiple weapons were fired but no ments in the second stage of a civil ing them he was an “apostle of God” ing a trail of damage in the western
cheaper options. suspects were in custody. trial brought by New York Attorney and his “actions and decrees could not United States, but further evacuations
The company said Monday it’s Tyasia Manning, 25, a city em- General Letitia James. be questioned.” and resources have been necessary
working on meal deals and new menu ployee, was killed at the scene and The first phase of the trial, de- Sparks told them the money would as thousands of personnel tackle the
items, but it expects same-store sales Phylicia Council, 34, died later. cided in February by a Manhattan help the church, Faith Walk Ministry flames.
to be down for a few quarters. The five other people hit by bul- jury, found Mr. LaPierre and another in Paris, Missouri. Instead, the indict- The fire, the largest wildfire in Cali-
Sales at locations open at least a lets suffered graze wounds and other deputy liable for misspending millions ment says, he personally siphoned fornia this year, was one of more than
year fell 1% in the April-June period, injuries that weren’t life-threatening, of dollars on personal expenses. hundreds of thousands of dollars from 100 blazes burning Sunday in the U.S.,
the first decline since the final quarter authorities said Monday. Judge Cohen also said he had con- the scheme and spent it on clothing according to the National Interagency
of 2020 when the pandemic shuttered — Associated Press cerns about “speech-chilling govern- and cars. Fire Center.
stores and millions stayed home. ment intrusion” on the group, but Making matters worse, prosecu- Some were sparked by the weather,
In the U.S., same-store sales fell NEW YORK those First Amendment concerns did tors say Sparks submitted a pandemic with lightning strikes hitting bone-dry
nearly 1%. McDonald’s saw fewer cus- not apply to Mr. LaPierre’s involve- loan application in his own name, even land.
tomers but said those who came spent
LaPierre banned for 10 years, ment with the organization. though he was a convicted felon and The fire had scorched more than
more because of price increases. but NRA won’t have overseer — Associated Press facing a new indictment at the time. 562 square miles of Northern Califor-
— Associated Press NEW YORK | A New York judge on He had been convicted of sexually nia, an area greater than the city of
Monday banned Wayne LaPierre, the MISSOURI abusing a 14-year-old parishioner at a Los Angeles, darkening the sky with
former head of the National Rifle As- previous church — again using his reli- smoke and engaging thousands of
NEW YORK
sociation, from holding a paid position
Church leaders accused gious authority to keep her compliant firefighters.
Two dead, five others wounded with the organization for a decade, but of pandemic-aid fraud scheme — and then was charged with failing Winds and temperatures were ex-
in shooting at public park declined to have an independent moni- Leaders of a Missouri church to register as a sex offender when he pected to increase slightly amid a drop
ROCHESTER | Two women were tor to oversee the gun rights group. have been charged in a $1.2 mil- moved to Missouri. in humidity, officials said Monday.
killed and five other people were The split decision from Judge Joel lion pandemic fraud scam in which — Stephen Dinan — Associated Press

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World
INTELLIGENCE
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Intel officials warn foes eye election infrastructure THE WORLD

Americans express concerns over

BY RYAN LOVElACE Mr. Trump reported getting suggested
THE WASHINGTON TIMES full searches that did not include the VENEZUELA
former president. Some people typing in
The U.S. intelligence community said
it has observed foreign adversaries scan-
political agendas of Big Tech firms “President Donald” reported seeing sug-
gestions to query for “President Donald
Election could create
seismic shift in politics
ning election infrastructure ahead of the scanning the website of a state board of efficient ways to create content targeted Duck” instead of Mr. Trump. CARACAS | Venezuelans were vot-
contentious November election, raising election, according to a House Permanent to local audiences. “Wow, Google has a search ban on ing Sunday in a presidential election
concerns that hostile powers are probing Select Committee on Intelligence report Iran appears to have ramped up its President Donald Trump!” Elon Musk whose outcome will either lead to a
America’s defenses for any vulnerability. in 2018 on Russian active measures. The efforts to influence the presidential elec- wrote on the X social media platform he seismic shift in politics or extend by
The new alarm from the Office of FBI recommended in 2016 that every state tion, which intelligence officials said owns. “Election interference?” six more years the policies that caused
the Director of National Intelligence search activity logs for similar activity. involved “vast webs of online personas Google spokesperson Lara Levin told the world’s worst peacetime economic
on Monday about heightened risk to In 2024, adversaries such as China and propaganda mills” to spread disin- The Washington Times no manual ac- collapse.
America’s voting apparatus comes with and Russia are turning to private-sector formation and exacerbate tension over tion was taken on the search predictions Whether it is President Nicolas
just under 100 days remaining until marketing and public relations firms to the Israel-Gaza conflict. regarding the attempted assassination Maduro who is chosen, or his main
Election Day. do their dirty work, according to intel- “Foreign actors continue to rely on and that autocomplete results for Mr. opponent, retired diplomat Edmundo
Government officials are on edge ligence officials. The firms can typically witting and unwitting Americans to seed, Trump were not working correctly. Gonzalez, the election will have ripple
about foreign forces looking to exploit move more nimbly and with fewer bu- promote and add credibility to narratives Ms. Levin said Google’s systems pro- effects throughout the Americas.
the political process to their advantage reaucratic hurdles than their govern- that serve the foreign actors’ interests,” tect against autocomplete predictions Government opponents and sup-
and top intelligence officials gave report- ment counterparts. the ODNI said in a statement. associated with political violence, which porters alike have signaled their inter-
ers a glimpse at their efforts to guard “Moscow is leveraging Russia-based Intelligence officials declined to talk worked before the attempted assas- est in joining the exodus of 7.7 million
against foreign threats. influence-for-hire firms to shape public about the attempted assassination of sination and the company is seeking to Venezuelans who have left their homes
“We haven’t seen any efforts by for- opinion in the United States, includ- former President Donald Trump on July update its systems now. for opportunities abroad should Mr.
eign actors to conduct what we consider ing with election-related operations,” 13, citing the ongoing law enforcement Meta, meanwhile, is facing similar Maduro win another term.
election interference, which is to prevent the Office of the Director of National investigation. accusations of censorship revealing a Polls opened at 6 a.m., but voters
the United States from conducting [an] Intelligence said in a statement. “These While the intelligence community bias against Mr. Trump on its platforms. started lining up at some voting cen-
election,” an intelligence official told firms have created influence platforms, placed special emphasis on foreign firms’ Users who posted a photo of a defiant ters across the country much earlier,
reporters. “There is, however, efforts directly and discreetly engaged Ameri- political manipulation, Americans are Mr. Trump raising his fist after surviv- sharing water, coffee and snacks for
to scan networks related to election cans, and used improved tools to tailor also worried about Big Tech firms’ po- ing the assassination attempt reported hours.
infrastructure.” content for U.S. audiences, while hiding litical agendas. seeing the image restricted on Meta’s The number of eligible voters for
Officials declined to provide details Russia’s hand.” Pro-Trump users erupted with out- platforms and a tag added to say fact- this presidential election is estimated
about the foreign foes scanning Amer- Intelligence officials said China’s gov- rage this week over concerns that social checkers found a similar photo was to be around 17 million. Polls were to
ica’s election infrastructure, including ernment, meanwhile, collaborated with media giants Google and Meta were altered. close at 6 p.m. local time, but it was
who was responsible. a “China-based technology company” censoring content involving Mr. Trump. Meta spokeswoman Dani Lever said unclear when electoral authorities will
Such scanning is not new. The FBI to advance the communist regime’s co- Users who began typing a Google the alleged censorship was an error release the first results.
spotted an unknown actor in June 2016 vert influence operations, seeking more query about the assassination attempt on meant to apply to a different image. Authorities set Sunday’s election to
coincide with what would have been
the 70th birthday of former Presi-
dent Hugo Chavez, the revered leftist
SECURITY firebrand who died of cancer in 2013,
leaving his Bolivarian revolution in the

U.S. upgrades regional hands of Mr. Maduro.

But Mr. Maduro and his United
Socialist Party of Venezuela are more

security ties across Asia unpopular than ever among many vot-
ers who blame his policies for crush-
ing wages, spurring hunger, crippling
Austin, Blinken boost alliances in Tokyo the oil industry and separating families
due to migration.
Mr. Maduro, 61, is facing off
BY ANDrEW SAlMON lines of command and coordination. against an opposition that has
THE WASHINGTON TIMES “Essentially, the component U.S. managed to line up behind a single
commands in Japan — Army, Navy, Air candidate after years of intraparty
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA | With authori- Force, Marines — answered to their ser- divisions and election boycotts that
tarian states asserting their power and vice HQs in Hawaii, so U.S. Forces Japan torpedoed their ambitions to topple
the prospect of an “American First” would have fought under four separate the ruling party.
administration returning to power in commands,” said Lance Gatling, a retired Mr. Gonzalez is representing a
Washington, senior U.S. officials have U.S. officer who served in Japan. ASSOCIATED PRESS
coalition of opposition parties after
been busily enhancing security ties in “In levels of integration, ‘joint’ just Secretary of State Antony Blinken (center) looks as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio being selected in April as a last-minute
the region in recent days. means two or more services — army Kishida shakes hands with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. They met about stand-in for opposition powerhouse
Both Secretary of State Antony and navy; air and space; whatever,” said strengthening regional security ties in Tokyo on Monday. Maria Corina Machado, who was
Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Mr. Gatling, now principal of Tokyo’s blocked by the Maduro-controlled
Austin attended multiple meets in Tokyo Nexial Research. “Combined means one Supreme Tribunal of Justice from run-
on Sunday and Monday, and met with command, one commander, with mutu- emergent but fragile security coopera- body, the Biden administration — aided ning for any office for 15 years.
Japanese Premier Fumio Kishida. Their ally agreed authority to direct combat tion between Japan, South Korea and the by pro-U.S., pro-alliance governments — Associated Press
packed schedules suggest the Biden operations.” U.S. Inked by the defense ministers of in Manila, Seoul and Tokyo — has
administration is feeling an urgent need The new Japan-based command, the three countries, it formalizes “high- worked to strengthen regional security UKRAINE
to get deals done while there’s still time. based on Mr. Austin’s comments on level policy consultations, information relationships.
In the biggest move, Mr. Blinken, “expanded missions,” might enjoy wider sharing and trilateral drills.” While current Vice President Kamala
Kyiv says it struck oil depot
Mr. Austin, Japan’s Minister for Foreign regional leeway, given shared Tokyo- The specter of a second Trump ad- Harris looks to continue the current in Russia; 5 dead, 15 wounded
Affairs Yoko Kamikawa and Japan’s Min- Washington concerns over the security ministration is not the only political wild administration’s policies if she wins KYIV | Ukraine said Sunday it struck
ister of Defense Minoru Kihara agreed of the Philippines and Taiwan in the face card. Some analysts worry that when in November, there are concerns that an oil depot in southern Russia that
Sunday to significantly U.S. military of threats from China. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, Mr. Trump is less protective of allies supplies the Kremlin’s troops as Rus-
command structures in Japan, which In a statement following the joint whose pro-Japan posture enabled secu- and less focused on historic alliances. sian strikes in Ukraine’s eastern Do-
hosts the largest single group of GIs meetings, the Japanese and U.S. delega- rity trilateralism, leaves office in 2027, In his first term, he demanded increased netsk region, where Moscow claimed
stationed overseas. tions concurred that China wants to Seoul politics may revert to its custom- payments for the upkeep of GIs in Japan further gains, left five civilians dead
“The United States will upgrade the reshape the international order for its ary anti-Tokyo stance. and Korea, leading some to accuse him and 15 others wounded.
U.S. Forces Japan to a joint force head- benefit at the expense of others. They The three governments are hedging of lacking the strategic vision to under- Ukraine’s General Staff said in a
quarters, with expanded missions and accused Beijing of employing political, against that possibility. They have com- stand the import of boots on the ground statement that Kyiv’s security services
operational responsibilities,” Mr. Austin economic and military coercion of other mitted to an annual trilateral exercise, in those countries. were responsible for a drone strike in
said in a statement. countries to achieve its objectives. Freedom Edge — initiated last month This month, in an interview with Russia’s southern Kursk region that
That effectively shifts the command’s Sunday’s meeting also discussed up- — and to establishing a joint secretariat. Bloomberg, Mr. Trump again linked morning on an oil depot used to meet
mission administrative management to grading bilateral presence in Japan’s A third meeting, held Monday in defense to economics. the needs of the Russian military, and
having the ability to fight a war. The flashpoint southwest islands. Japan is Tokyo, brought together members of the “I don’t think we’re any different from contains 11 tanks with a total volume of
new command, which will report to currently fortifying the Ryukyus, which Quad Security Dialog - Australia, India, an insurance policy,” Mr. Trump said 7,000 cubic meters, adding the attack
Hawaii-based Indo-Pacific Command, dominates critical seaborne attack cor- Japan and the U.S. The top diplomats of Washington’s security stance toward prompted “powerful explosions and a
will serve as a counterpart to Japan’s ridors north of Taiwan. It is also con- from the four countries agreed to rein- Taipei. “Why are we doing this?” fire … probably involving containers
recently established Self-Defense Forces fronting Chinese maritime assets in the force maritime safety, create cybersecu- “I think Taiwan should pay us for with oil products.”
Joint Operations Command, Mr. Austin Senkakus, which are claimed by China, rity initiatives and also support regional defense,” he added. He also claimed “The defense forces continue to
said, who called the move the “most which calls them the Diaoyu. countries in upgrading their defenses on Taiwan had stolen U.S. semiconductor take all measures to undermine the
significant change to U.S. Forces Japan A separate agreement signed in the region’s tense seas. technologies. military and economic potential of
since its creation” some 70 years ago. Tokyo this week, the “Trilateral Security With the Indo-Pacific region lacking • Mike Glenn contributed to this report the Russian occupiers and force the
It will streamline currently tangled Cooperation Framework,” entrenches a NATO-style multinational defense from Washington. Russian Federation to stop its armed
aggression against Ukraine,” the state-
ment said.
Earlier on Sunday, Russia’s Defense
MIDDLE EAST Ministry said seven Ukrainian drones
were shot down overnight over Rus-
Escalation feared after Lebanese rocket killed 12, Israel says sian territory, while a regional official
said a drone strike set fire to the oil
depot in the Kursk province.
BY MElANIE LIDMAN AND SAMY MAGDY Israel and Lebanon. border. Twelve were killed and 20 others Israel’s most loyal citizens, although Firefighters were battling the
ASSOCIATED PRESS The Israeli military said it struck wounded, according to the Israeli mili- those in the Golan Heights have a more blaze on Sunday morning after three
several targets in Lebanon overnight tary. One 11-year-old child was missing, fraught relationship with authorities. fuel tanks went up in flames, accord-
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL | The Middle East into Sunday, though their intensity was residents told Israeli media. Israel captured the Golan, a strategic ing to acting regional Gov. Alexei
braced for a potential flare-up in vio- similar to months of cross-border fight- “I feel darkness inside and out. Noth- plateau, from Syria in the 1967 Mideast Smirnov. Mr. Smirnov said no one
lence on Sunday after Israeli authorities ing between Israel and Iran-backed He- ing like this happened here,” resident war and annexed it in 1981. Much of the was hurt.
said a rocket from Lebanon struck a soc- zbollah. Hezbollah said it also carried Anan Abu Saleh said. “There’s no way international community considers the The Kursk region lies on the border
cer field in the Israel-controlled Golan out strikes. There were no immediate to explain this. I saw children, I don’t area to be occupied territory. with Ukraine’s Sumy province, where
Heights, killing 12 children and teens in reports of casualties. want to say what I saw, but it’s horrible, While Druze leaders in the Golan Ukraine has in recent months repeat-
what the military called the deadliest Saturday’s attack came as Israel and really horrible. We need more security.” profess allegiance to Syria, relations with edly targeted various sites, including
attack on civilians since Oct. 7. Hamas are negotiating a cease-fire pro- On Sunday, the coffins passed through Israel are normally good. oil depots and other military infra-
It raised fears of a broader regional posal to end the nearly 10-month war in a crowd of thousands. “Big anger, big, big. I have no feelings structure, inside Russian territory,
war between Israel and Hezbollah, which the Gaza Strip. The Druze are a religious sect that that I can explain to you,” said Hassan with drones and other weapons.
in a rare move denied it was responsible. Here is a look at the broader began as an offshoot of Shiite Islam and Shakir, a Majdal Shams resident. Ukrainian officials have been pres-
The White House National Security repercussions: has communities in Israel, Syria and Attacks along the Israel-Lebanon suring Western allies to be able to
Council said it had been speaking with On Saturday, a rocket slammed into Lebanon. There are about 25,000 Druze border have simmered below the thresh- use their modern, more powerful and
Israeli and Lebanese counterparts since a soccer field where dozens of children in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, old of all-out war since the start of the more sophisticated weapons to strike
the attack and was working on a diplo- and teens were playing in the Druze according to Yusri Hazran of the Hebrew conflict in Gaza. But the toll and young more valuable targets inside Russian
matic solution to “end all attacks once town of Majdal Shams, about 7 miles University. victims in Saturday’s attack could push territory.
and for all” in the border area between south of Lebanon and next to the Syrian The Druze are considered among Israel to respond more severely. — Associated Press
TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2024 ☆R LIFE | A9

CULTURE
Widow thinks invitation to
Taking back their history livestream wedding is rude
BY PHILIp MARCELO “These drawings weren’t just DEAR ABBY: ABIGAIL taking. She has in-
ASSOCIATED PRESS made because they were beauti- The daughter of a VAN BUREN vited herself along,
ful,” Mr. Yellowman said. “They friend is getting and I don’t know
NEW YORK | Tucked within were made to show the actual married and sent DEAR ABBY how to politely tell
the expansive American Indian history of the Cheyenne and an email announce- her she can’t come
halls of the American Museum Arapaho people.” ment with a link to watch a unless she has the money
of Natural History is a diminutive Institutions elsewhere are tak- livestream of the cer- up front to pay her share.
wooden doll that holds a sacred ing other approaches. emony. I have never been Please advise. — RESPON-
place among the tribes whose ter- In Chicago, the Field Museum invited to NOT attend an SIBLE LADY OUT WEST
ritories once included Manhattan has established a Center for Repa- event before, and frankly, DEAR LADY: Who has
For more than six months now, triation after covering up several my feelings are hurt. (My paid for the food and car
the ceremonial Ohtas, or Doll cases in its halls dedicated to an- husband was an incred- rentals that this couple
Being, has been hidden from view cient America and the peoples of ible artist. Should I send a didn’t have the money to
after the museum and others the coastal Northwest and Arctic. livestream of others enjoy- cover? Were those relatives
nationally took dramatic steps to The museum has also since ing his work in person?) ever reimbursed? Unless
board up or paper over exhibits returned four items back to Does etiquette require you want to foot the bill
in response to new federal rules ASSOCIATED PRESS
tribes, with another three pend- I send a wedding gift? I for your SIL on this trip (to
requiring institutions to return “If things move slowly, then address that,” Joe Baker, a member of the ing, through efforts that were would’ve understood not which she has invited her-
sacred or culturally significant Delaware Tribe of Indians, said. “The collections, they’re part of our underway before the new regula- being invited if they were self), you’ll have to summon
items to tribes — or at least to story, part of our family. We need them home. We need them close.” tions, according to spokesperson keeping it a small affair, up the courage to tell her
obtain consent to display or study Bridgette Russell. but inviting a widow to you will under no circum-
them.
The doll, also called Nahn- Tribes waiting for items six months At the Cleveland Museum in
Ohio, a case displaying artifacts
witness a friend’s emo-
tional, romantic moment
stances be doing that. If her
feelings are hurt when you
eetis, is just one of some 1,800
items museum officials say
after museums closed exhibits from the Tlingit people in Alaska
has been reopened after their
in the solitude of her home state the obvious (that you
seems cruel. Am I out of are not a pushover), so be it.
they’re reviewing as they work leadership gave consent, accord- touch with what is socially DEAR ABBY: I am a
to comply with the requirements displayed objects in order to begin draws and also a mainstay for ing to Todd Mesek, the museum’s acceptable? — NOT GOING 79-year-old woman. I have
while also eyeing a broader over- contacting tribal communities. generations of area students spokesperson. But two other dis- IN TEXAS had a friend since high
haul of the more than half-cen- The museum also plans to learning about the region’s tribes. plays remain covered up, with DEAR NOT GOING: If the school who is five months
tury-old exhibits. open a small exhibit in the fall He suggests museums use rep- one containing funerary objects wedding is being held some younger than I am. A few
But some tribal leaders remain incorporating American Indian licas made by Native peoples from the ancient Southwest to distance from where you weeks, sometimes months,
skeptical, saying museums have voices and explaining the history so that sensitive cultural items be redone with a different topic live, then the invitation to before my birthday rolls
not acted swiftly enough. The new of the closed halls, why changes aren’t physically on display. and materials. livestream was probably an around, she’ll come out
rules, after all, were prompted by are being made and what the “I don’t think tribes want to And at Harvard, the Peabody attempt to be considerate. with comments about
years of complaints from tribes future holds, he said. have our history written out Museum’s North American In- Today, many meaningful her being several months
that hundreds of thousands of Museum officials envision a of museums,” Mr. Gumbs said. dian hall reopened in February events are livestreamed, younger. These comments
items that should have been re- total overhaul of the closed East- “There’s got to be a better way after about 15% of its roughly including funerals and hover between sarcastic
turned under the federal Native ern Woodlands and Great Plains than using artifacts that literally 350 items were removed from memorials. If you would and just plain mean.
American Graves Protection and halls — akin to the five-year, $19 were stolen out of gravesites.” displays, university spokesperson find watching the ceremony I think she thinks she’s
Repatriation Act of 1990 still re- million renovation of its North- Gordon Yellowman, who Nicole Rura said. depressing and prefer not being clever, but after
main in museum custody. west Coast Hall, completed in heads the department of language Chuck Hoskin, chief of the to “tune in,” then don’t do many years of this, it is
“If things move slowly, then 2022 in close collaboration with and culture for the Cheyenne and Cherokee Nation, said he believes it. And, no, you are not RE- no longer funny. When
address that,” said Joe Baker, a tribes, Mr. Decatur added. Arapaho Tribes, said museums many institutions now under- QUIRED to send a gift. (A she makes a comment
Manhattan resident and member “The ultimate aim is to make should look to create more digital stand they can no longer treat sweet e-card congratulating this year about my BIG
of the Delaware Tribe of Indi- sure we’re getting the stories and virtual exhibits. Indigenous items as “museum the couple would be a nice birthday, what could my
ans, descendants of the Lenape right,” he said. He said the tribes, in Okla- curiosities” from “peoples that gesture.) comeback be, in essence,
peoples European traders en- Lance Gumbs, vice chairman homa, will be seeking from the no longer exist.” DEAR ABBY: My brother telling her to knock it off?
countered more than 400 years of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, New York museum a sketch- The leader of the tribe in is married to a very nice — SAME AGE IN FLORIDA
ago. “The collections, they’re part a federally recognized tribe in book by the Cheyenne warrior Oklahoma said he visited the woman. It’s the second DEAR SAME AGE: How
of our story, part of our family. New York’s Hamptons, said he Little Finger Nail that contains Peabody this year after the uni- marriage for both, and about this, spoken with a
We need them home. We need worries about the loss of repre- his drawings and illustrations versity reached out about return- they both work, although smile of course: “Oh, Honey,
them close.” sentation of local tribes in public from battle. ing hair clippings collected in they do not handle money age is only a number. My
Sean Decatur, the New York institutions, with exhibit closures The book, which is in storage the early 1930s from hundreds well. They have traveled to birthday may come before
museum’s president, promised likely stretching into years. and not on display, was plucked of Indigenous children, including family events and ended yours, but you are RIGHT
tribes will hear from officials The American Museum of from his body after he and other Cherokees, forced to assimilate up running out of money behind me. I’m trying out
soon. He said staff these past few Natural History, he noted, is one tribe members were killed by in the notorious Indian boarding for meals, car rentals, etc. the number before you
months have been reexamining the of New York’s major tourism U.S. soldiers in Nebraska in 1879. schools. My sister-in-law heard get there. At this point, I
about a girls trip my consider each day a blessing
daughters-in-law, a few and so should you.”
close friends and I will be

Yoo, Lee, Akopian claim U.S. national titles

ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

TODAY’S BIRTH- 22). You’ll make

T
HOLIDAY
he U.S. has a genera- Kf3 Bg5 — the troublesome Black’s game to go after — DAY (July 30). You’ll MATHIS key judgments
tion-spanning trio of g-file is now securely locked Kraai is strategically won and receive a vision for a today, and the same
new champs as the down and Black can cash in at wastes no time steering the life-changing project HOROSCOPE decision-making
U.S. Senior, Junior and his leisure. victory into port. and fulfill it, too. process can be ap-
Junior Girls Championships With the White queen still Thus: 30. Bxe5 dxe5 31. d6 People will seek and apply plied whether you’re choos-
were all decided at the Chess imprisoned in her corner, the (add a powerful passed pawn to your wisdom. The improve- ing an avocado, a plumber
Club of St. Louis last week. end comes quickly: 39. Kg4 White’s growing list of assets) ments that come of this will or a friend. You’ll pose ques-
GM Vladimir Akopian Ne3+ 40. Kh5 Kf7!, and the Re6 32. Qd7! Rce8 (guarding make your heart soar. More tions, gather information
picked up his first American threat of 41...g6 mate can only the rook but leaving himself highlights: You’ll be drawn and go with your gut.
senior title in style, dusting a be put off for a few moves; wide open to another tactic) to people who are compas- LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct.
field that included such veter- White resigned. 33. Rxg7+! Qxg7 34. Rg1 Qxg1+ sionate, gentle and loving 23). To recognize a bound-
ans as GMs ◾◾◾ 35. Nxg1 e4 (Black’s pawns may because these qualities are ary and make sure it’s hon-
Joel Benjamin, Guo-Yoo after 24. Nf3 look scary, but his still-weak so strong inside you. You’ll ored is an act of respect that
DAVID R.
SANDS Alex Shabalov While Akopian, 52, took king is the deciding factor here) attend coveted conferences will make relationships bet-
and Gregory the honors in the senior event, 36. Nh3 f3 37. Ng5, and Black re- and events. You’ll enjoy a gift ter, especially if the bound-
CHESS Kaidanov and g5 31. Bf5 h5, with a clear edge veteran GM Jesse Kraai de- signed. There’s no good defense of status. Gemini and Scorpio ary is your own. In subtle
clinching the for Black) Rxf3! (White’s threat serves a major shout-out for his to 38. Qf7+ Kh8 39. Qh7 mate. adore you. Your lucky num- ways, you’ll teach others the
title with a round to spare with was 26. Qh7+ Kf8 27. Bf5) 26. unexpected second-pace finish. ◾◾◾ bers are: 10, 3, 33, 28 and 15. rules of interacting with you.
an undefeated 7-2 score. gxf3 Qh3 27. f4 (Qh7+?! Kf8 28. The lowest-rated player in the ARIES (March 21-April SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
It was a closer battle in the Qh8+ Bg8 29. f4 Qg4+ 30. Kf1 f5, 10-grandmaster field, Kraai Virginia will be the focus 19). You feel like you’re 21). It’s your move. Again.
two junior events, but top- and White has trapped his own looked out of the running after of the U.S. chess world for the playing a small part, but glue Since nothing will happen
seeded GM Christopher Yoo queen in the corner). two early losses, but closed next week as the 124th U.S. also feels that way. It seeps until you act, it’s your turn
held off IM Justin Wang to take White’s last move has slowed with a four-game win streak Open kicked off this week at into the cracks and takes up until the next thing happens.
the junior title, also at 7-2, and down the Black attack, but at to finish just a point behind Norfolk’s Sheraton Waterside the least amount of room, Also, if it’s still unclear if the
thus booked a berth in the next the significant cost of blocking Akopian at 6-3. Hotel and runs through Sunday, but in the end, time ensures other person is your oppo-
U.S. national championship. In in his own dark-squared bishop. He topped off his strong Aug. 4. We’ll have the results it’s the thing keeping every- nent or your teammate, the
the Junior Girls section, top- But there’s still plenty of finishing kick with a last-round and some of the on-field action thing else together. answer is “both.”
seeded IM Alice Lee bounced play in the position, and Black win over GM Julio Becerra in the coming weeks. TAURUS (April 20-May SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
back from a Round 1 upset at nearly throws away his edge Rivero. Black’s Classical King’s 20). There’s a growing sense Dec. 21). You can’t make
the hands of expert Iris Mou in the ensuing complications: Indian here may not be much of contentment creeping up them see it your way but try
(which we ran in this space last 27...Qg4+ 28. Kh2 (Kf1 Bh5 29. in favor in elite circles these Guo-Yoo, U.S. Junior Champi- on you. Happiness comes anyway. You’ll show them
week) to claim the crown by Rae1 Qh3+ 30. Kg1 Bf3 and days, but it is a tough nut to onship, St. Louis, July 2024 on for reasons. Sometimes, what you see and tell them
a half-point over a dogged FM wins) Nb4?! (tempting but not crack and produces an absorb- 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 those reasons are vague. what you think. The exercise
Rose Atwell, with Mou another the strongest; powerful was ing struggle across the entire Nc6 5. c3 e6 6. Nf3 Bd6 7. O-O Nge7 8. Other times, they are will- teaches you what’s impor-
point back in third. simply 28…Re8 29. Rg1 Bxf4+ board. Re1 O-O 9. h3 h6 10. a4 Qc7 11. Na3 a6 ful. Today, you’re happy tant to you. Those who get it
Yoo got off to a confidence- 30. Bxf4 Qxf4+ 31. Kg2 Rxe2 Becerra Rivero gets into trouble 12. Nc2 f6 13. Ne3 Bd7 14. c4 Bb4 15. because you decided to be. will join you.
building start in St. Louis with 32. Qxe2 Nxd4) 29. Qh7+ Kf8 just as Kraai castles queen- Re2 Be8 16. cxd5 exd5 17. Nf5 Nxf5 18. GEMINI (May 21-June CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
a tough Round 1 victory against 30. Qh8+ Bg8 31. f3 (Bh7 falls side, declaring his intention Bxf5 Bf7 19. Bc2 Rfe8 20. Be3 Bd6 21. 21). You feel like your main Jan. 19). Emotions are not
GM Arthur Guo, a tricky just short after 31...Kf7 32. Ree1 to launch a kingside attack: 18. Qd3 Re4 22. Qd1 Qd7 23. Nd2 Rh4 24. job is a moral support posi- simple. There’s not one kind
Caro-Kann Exchange line that Nc6 33. Rg1 Qh5+ 34. Kg2 Bxh7 0-0-0 Qf6? (the queen-bishop Nf3 Rxh3 25. Qd3 Rxf3 26. gxf3 Qh3 27. tion, and you’re not wrong of mad or sad. Every time a
quickly produced complex play. 35. Qxh7 [Qxa8 Be4+ 36. Kf1 battery looks strong but the f4 Qg4+ 28. Kh2 Nb4 29. Qh7+ Kf8 30. about it. It is by helping the feeling comes up, it has its
With both sides eyeing kingside Ne7 37. Qxb7 Bd3+ 38. Kg2 Qe2 queen is misplaced here; better Qh8+ Bg8 31. f3 Qh5+ 32. Kg1 Qxf3 33. others that you figure out own flavor. The best feelings
attacks, Yoo as Black gets in the 39. Rae1 Be4+ 40. Kg3 Qf3+ 41. was 18...Nb3+ 19. Nxb3 axb3 20. Rg2 Qxe3+ 34. Kh1 Qh3+ 35. Kg1 Qxg2+ what your best gifts are. are so complex, to try and de-
first real shot on 21. Qd3 Re4 Kh2 Qh5+ 42. Kg3 g5 43. Rh1 Qxb3 f4 21. Bd4 Bxd4 22. Rxd4 36. Kxg2 Nxc2 37. Rg1 Bxf4 38. Kf3 Bg5 You’ll grow into your pur- scribe them would only take
22. Qd1 Qd7!, offering a very Bxf4+ 44. Bxf4 gxf4+ 45. Kxf4 Nc5 23. Qc2 Re8, with chances 39. Kg4 Ne3+ 40. Kh5 Kf7 White resigns pose and out of it, too. away from the joy of tasting.
modern exchange sacrifice to Qf3 mate] Ne7, solidifying the for both sides) 19. Kb1 Rac8 CANCER (June 22-July AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
try to get one of White’s best defense) Qh5+?! (and now 31... 20. Be2 (also good was 20. gxf5 22). Even if you set out to do 18). The compliments of
pieces — the bishop on c2 — Qxf3! was the way to go; e.g. 32. Bxf5 21. Rg3 Rb8 22. Be2 Rf7 23. Kraai-Becerra Rivero, things on your own, people others will help you identify
off the board. Rg2 Qxg2+ 33. Kxg2 Nxc2 34. Rdg1, since Black’s defensive U.S. Senior Champion- will be drawn to you, so strengths, but don’t let that
When White declines the Rg1 Nxe3+ 35. Kf3 Nf5 36. Kg4 shield in front of his king can’t ship, St. Louis, July 2024 you’ll wind up in a group. be your only indicator for
offer, the rook suddenly takes Nxd4 37. Kh5 Nf5 38. Kg6 Ke7 hold out for long) Rfe8 21. gxf5 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 d6 To get time to yourself will making decisions for your
a left turn to join the kingside 39. Re1+ Kd7 and wins) 32. Kg1 Bxf5 22. Bg4! (very logical — re- 5. e4 O-O 6. h3 e5 7. d5 a5 8. g4 Na6 9. be a struggle that may not work. People focus on what
assault. After 23. Nd2 (Bxe4!? Qxf3, and now Guo might have moving the opponent’s best de- Be3 Nd7 10. h4 Ndc5 11. Rg1 Bd7 12. be worth it. The easy way is they need and prefer. Only
dxe4 24. Nd2 f5 is roughly registered an unlikely save with fensive piece) Nd3 23. Bxf5 gxf5 h5 c6 13. Nd2 a4 14. a3 cxd5 15. exd5 to surrender and learn from you know what feels right
equal, but Black’s position looks 33. Bh7! Kf7 34. Bg6+! Kxg6 35. 24. Nb5, and the White pawn f5 16. hxg6 hxg6 17. Qc2 e4 18. O-O-O the collective. to you.
a lot more fun to play) Rh4 24. Rg2+ Kf5 36. Bd2, with hugely on b2 is poison: 24...Qxb2+? 25. Qf6 19. Kb1 Rac8 20. Be2 Rfe8 21. gxf5 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). PISCES (Feb. 19-March
Nf3 (see diagram; now 24...Re4 complex play and chances for Qxb2 Nxb2 26. Rxg7+ Kxg7 27. Bxf5 22. Bg4 Nd3 23. Bxf5 gxf5 24. Words mean something dif- 20). You’ll be organized
likely heads for a draw by rep- both sides. Kxb2 with a big edge. Nb5 Nc7 25. Bd4 Ne5 26. Qxa4 Nxb5 ferent than their definition. in your efforts to make
etition, while 24...Rh5?! 25. Bd2 Instead, Black has a killer On 25. Bd4 Ne5 26. Qxa4 27. Qxb5 Re7 28. f4 exf3 29. Nxf3 f4 30. You’re a master of reading things happen. However,
Rd8 26. Qf1 f5 27. Rae1 poses no simplification after 33. Rg2? (with the long diagonal safely Bxe5 dxe5 31. d6 Re6 32. Qd7 Rce8 33. the large context, and this is this doesn’t mean launching
problems for White) Rxh3!? 25. Qxe3+ 34. Kh1 Qh3+! (the only bottled up, White can afford Rxg7+ Qxg7 34. Rg1 Qxg1+ 35. Nxg1 what will make you a master into the planning stage right
Qd3 (gxh3 Qxh3 forces White winning move; not 34...Qe7?? to go pawn hunting) Nxb5 27. e4 36. Nh3 f3 37. Ng5 Black resigns of understanding the smaller away. To plan before you
to find the tricky 26. Bc1! to 35. Bh7 Qf7 36. Bg6 Qe7 37. Bh7, Qxb5, White is up material, one, too. What you come to recognize the true nature
keep the balance; bad would be and if 37... Kf7??, White wins controls the long diagonal and • David R. Sands can be understand is deeper than of things would be in vain.
26. Rd2?! Re8 27. Qf1 Qxf3 28. with 38. Rxg7+) 35. Kg1 Qxg2+! the half-open g-file, and has reached at 202/636-3178 or at words. Observe well first.
Qg2 Qh5 29. Qh1 Qxh1+ 30. Kxh1 36. Kxg2 Nxc2 37. Rg1 Bxf4 38. several other weak targets in [email protected]. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. CREATORS.COM
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Region
DISTRICT

Three left dead in three separate shootings over the weekend

No arrests have been made in killings 1990s.
Major crimes are down 34%
shooting took place about 12
hours after a brief barricade situ-
as a dark-skinned Black male
who was last seen wearing a dark
Hours later, shots rang out
about a block north of the bus-
from last year’s apex, but vio- ation unfolded in Southeast. burgundy shirt and black shorts. tling U Street Corridor.
BY MATT DELANEY were killed and nine people in- lence has predictably risen back Police said officers arrived The third deadly shooting MPD said officers found two
THE WASHINGTON TIMES jured in seven different shootings up during the summer months. at the 3200 block of 28th Street erupted Friday night near the women with gunshot wounds
across the city. That trend continued Mon- Southeast just before 2:45 p.m. Truxton Circle neighborhood. and a man who was injured by
A man was shot and killed No arrests have been made day when police said a man was Sunday after receiving reports Police said officers rushed to flying glass shortly before 3:30
early Monday in Northeast, end- in any of this weekend’s killings. shot dead at about 2:45 a.m. on of a shooting. the 300 block of N Street North- a.m. Saturday on the 2100 block
ing a violent weekend in the Dis- Metropolitan Police said in a the 3500 block of Ames Street Units at the scene first pre- west at about 10:30 p.m. while of 8th Street Northwest.
trict that saw two other people statement last week that violent Northeast. pared for a standoff, but officers responding to sounds of gunfire. Police said they’re looking for
slain in separate incidents and crime is currently 12% lower Authorities said they’re with- quickly discovered the body of Authorities said they arrived a Black man between the ages of
at least three more wounded in than what it was in 2019 — the holding more details about the 44-year-old Bobby Addison of to find Trent Davis, 37, of North- 25-30, who was last seen wearing
a fourth shooting attack. year before a pandemic-era man’s killing until they verify Southeast. west, lying motionless and suf- a white shirt with a blue Nike
The spasm of bloodshed came crime wave swept through the his identity and notify his next MPD said the victim died fering from gunshot wounds. swoosh on it.
days after a hectic 24-hour pe- District, peaking in 2023 being of kin. from multiple bullet wounds. He was pronounced dead at the All the victims in that incident
riod last week where two men the deadliest year since the late The deadly Northeast Police described the suspect scene. are expected to survive.

NORTH CAROLINA

Democrats sue to reverse ruling that put Kennedy on state ballot

ASSOCIATED PRESS supporters of We the People in violation of state law. voted yes, he still said that We The Democratic Party asked him admiration from conserva-
RALEIGH. N.C. | The North turned in enough valid signa- Petition instructions for We the People had engaged in “sub- that a judge act by Aug. 16 to tives such as former Fox News
Carolina Democratic Party has tures from registered and quali- the People stated that the party’s terfuge” and suggested that any- issue a preliminary injunction Channel host Tucker Carlson.
challenged the state election fied voters to exceed the petition purpose was to put Mr. Kennedy one challenging the vote in court preventing printed ballots for Democrats are worried Mr.
board’s recent decision to rec- threshold in state law. on the ballot, the complaint con- would “have a very good case.” the fall to contain We the People Kennedy still has enough left-
ognize a new political party that In the complaint filed in Wake tends. According to the Demo- We the People representa- candidates. wing star appeal that he could
will put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on County Superior Court, lawyers cratic Party’s lawyers, that’s not a tives have defended the sig- Mr. Kennedy, an avowed en- peel off voters from their presi-
the state’s presidential ballots. representing the Democratic permissible purpose under state nature drive as legitimate and vironmentalist, has long been dential nominee, who was ex-
The complaint filed Thursday Party alleged that Mr. Kenne- law, and Mr. Kennedy needed to aligned with state law. The party a champion of liberal causes. pected to be President Biden
seeks to reverse the board’s ac- dy’s campaign evaded tougher follow the rules for independent said its candidates would in- But he has also been a leading until he dropped his reelection
tion that made We the People an standards for independent can- candidates. clude Mr. Kennedy and running proponent of vaccine conspiracy bid earlier this month. Now
official party in the presidential didates to get on the ballot — six The board voted 4-1 in favor mate Nicole Shanahan, along theories, which helped him rise Vice President Kamala Harris
battleground state. times as many signatures — by of recognition. While Demo- with candidates for two other to greater prominence as the has locked up support for the
Board staff last week said that masquerading as a political party cratic board Chair Alan Hirsch local races. pandemic continued and earned nomination.

NORTH CAROLINA
NEW JERSEY

$575 million to help coastal areas State: Nonprofit run

Federal aid designed to guard against floods, climate disasters by Robinson’s wife
BY WAYNE PARRY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
owes over $132,000
PERTH AMBOY, N.J. | The Review cites disallowable expenses
federal government is giving
more than half a billion dol- BY GARY D. RObERTSON attributed over $80,000 of these
lars to coastal communities to ASSOCIATED PRESS disallowed costs to “administra-
help them use nature-based tive labor” or “operating labor.”
preventive measures to address RALEIGH. N.C. | North Caro- The records don’t provide details
climate-related flooding and lina state regulators now declare about the labor costs.
other disasters. a nonprofit run by the wife of This week’s compliance re-
The National Oceanic and North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark view did say that Balanced Nu-
Atmospheric Administra- Robinson must repay over trition should have disclosed
tion on Friday announced it $132,000 for what they call disal- and received approval from the
is allocating $575 million to 19 lowed expenses while carrying program that Ms. Hill’s daughter
resiliency projects in several out a federally funded child care was working for the nonprofit.
states, with a particular empha- meal program. The owed amounts and pro-
sis on American Indian, urban The state Department of posed program disqualification
and traditionally underserved Health and Human Services re- can be appealed. A lawyer rep-
communities that experience vealed a larger amount in a Friday resenting Balanced Nutrition and
repeated floods, wildfires and letter to Yolanda Hill following a Ms. Hill did not immediately
other weather-related disasters. ASSOCIATED PRESS
compliance review of Balanced respond to an email Friday seek-
Commerce Secretary Gina The federal government will provide $575 million in funding for 19 climate resiliency projects across Nutrition Inc., of which Ms. Hill ing comment.
Raimondo said in a statement the country, many of them designed to use elements to address flooding and related disasters. is listed as owner and chief finan- The lawyer, Tyler Brooks, has
that the effort was intended cial officer. previously questioned the re-
to “help make sure America’s Mr. Robinson, who is also the view’s timing, alleging Balanced
coastal communities are more expanding statewide tribal ad- government recovery funds engineering” solutions such as Republican nominee for gover- Nutrition was being targeted
resilient to the effects of climate aptation technical assistance, after the 2012 storm. sea walls and bulkheads. Those, nor this fall, worked in the non- because Ms. Hill is Mr. Robin-
change,” and sharing local knowledge. “Climate change is real, it is they argue, can worsen erosion profit years ago before running son’s wife and that “political bias”
The projects include more It also includes using na- here, and it is now,” said Shawn by causing sand and sediment for elected office, according to tainted the compliance review
than $72 million for “living ture-based solutions to pro- LaTourette, New Jersey’s envi- to scour away from the barriers. his memoir. process.
shorelines” in New Jersey, tect California’s Monterey Bay, ronmental protection commis- Many coastal communities Ms. Hill previously announced Program leaders, meanwhile,
using native plants, oyster reefs establish native forests to re- sioner. “We experience routine seek to use a mixture of both she was shutting down the non- have described in written corre-
and other natural materials to duce wildfire risk in Hawaii and flooding that pushes families types of shore protection in profit’s enterprise and withdraw- spondence difficulties in obtain-
restore and protect water- open spaces on Rhode Island’s out of their homes on such a areas where nature-based solu- ing from the Child and Adult ing documents and meeting with
fronts. There is also money to Aquidneck Island. frequent basis. That illustrates tions alone won’t suffice. Care Food Program on April 30. Balanced Nutrition leaders.
replace sidewalks with perme- NOAA and Commerce De- the need for federal action and But some innovative proj- But state officials had already The Health Department is run
able pavement, to top buildings partment officials held a news investment.” ects have emerged from this announced in March that the by Democratic Gov. Roy Coo-
with plants to help absorb heat conference Friday in Perth The money is part of NO- school of thought, including fiscal year’s review of Balanced per’s administration. He is term-
and to establish parks in flood- Amboy to describe some of AA’s Climate Resilience Re- work by New Jersey’s Ameri- Nutrition would begin April 15. limited from seeking reelection.
prone areas that can absorb the work planned for that state, gional Challenge funded by the can Littoral Society to protect The review’s findings, re- Democratic Attorney General
floodwater. which was pummeled by Su- Inflation Reduction Act. the eroding shorelines of a river leased Wednesday, cited new Josh Stein is running against Mr.
Other work includes climate perstorm Sandy. The gathering Environmental groups by using coconut husk fibers in and repeat problems, including Robinson for governor.
risk assessments for over 100 was held on a bayfront walk- have long favored natural mats to stabilize the land where lax paperwork and failure to file Balanced Nutrition helped
Native communities in Alaska, way that was rebuilt using coastal protection over “hard it meets the water. valid claims on behalf of child child care centers and homes
care operators or report expenses qualify to participate in the free
accurately. The program told Ms. and reduced-price meal program,
Hill and other leaders to soon filed claims for centers to get
take corrective action on the reimbursed for meals for en-
PENNSYLVANIA manslaughter, official oppres- “serious deficiencies” or regu- rollees and ensured the centers
sion and other charges in the lators would propose they be remained in compliance with
Judge denies bid to move ex-officer’s August 2023 death of Irizarry,
27, in Kensington.
disqualified from future program
participation.
program requirements. The non-
profit received a portion of a

trial out of city due to coverage, protests

Police initially said the driver The state health depart- center’s reimbursement for its
lunged at the officer outside the ment said on Thursday that the services.
car but later said the officer’s Greensboro nonprofit also owed Balanced Nutrition, funded by
ASSOCIATED PRESS “avalanche” of press coverage Judge McDermott also said body-worn camera footage made the state $24,400 in unverified taxpayers, has collected roughly
PHILADELPHIA | A judge has about the shooting death of she had staged a mock jury se- it clear that hadn’t happened. expenses reimbursed to several $7 million in government fund-
turned down a request to move Eddie Irizarry but also street lection in June to determine the Police officials moved to fire Mr. child care providers or homes ing since 2017, while paying out
the trial of a former Philadel- protests and ,public comments level of potential bias, and al- Dial after the shooting, citing examined by regulators in the at least $830,000 in salaries to
phia police officer who shot and by elected officials. though half of the 100 would-be his refusal to cooperate with an review. Ms. Hill, Mr. Robinson and other
killed a motorist as he sat in his Common Pleas Court Judge jurors had heard of the case, only internal investigation. But Friday’s letter counted an- members of their family, tax fil-
car, saying there’s insufficient Barbara McDermott, however, 16 had read or seen anything Mr. Dial and his partner have other $107,719 in ineligible claims ings and state documents show.
evidence that the defendant ruled last week that despite about it in the last six months said they followed Irizarry’s car or expenses that the state said Mr. Robinson described in
would be unable to get a fair the public and media attention — and only two said they had after it sped past them at high was generated while Balanced his memoir how the operation
trial in the city. the coverage had been “largely fixed opinions, the newspaper speed in a bike lane and rounded Nutrition performed administra- brought fiscal stability to his fam-
Attorneys for former officer factual” and there had been “a reported. a corner, driving erratically and tive and operating activities as a ily, giving him the ability to quit
Mark Dial sought the change substantial cooling-off period Mr. Dial, 28, is scheduled finally going the wrong way on a program sponsor in the first three a furniture manufacturing job
of venue last spring, citing since the latest reports,” The for trial in September on first- residential street before pulling months of the year. in 2018 and begin a career in
not only what they called an Philadelphia Inquirer reported. and third-degree murder, into a parking space. Forms signed by regulators politics.
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TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2024 ☆ R SECTION B

Corporate America needs election integrity

Influence of third-party proxy advisory companies has received less attention than it deserves
By Ken Buck

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shared values of American businesses, write
up reports and make recommendations based
n unprecedented election season is on their own interests or their other clients’
underway — not just the interests, but without any accountability or
battle for the White House transparency. This lack of responsibility and
and Congress but also in oversight is more alarming because a number
corporate America. The of large institutional investors, such as pension
season for annual meetings, funds and mutual funds, outsource their voting
with shareholder voting, to follow the lead of these proxy advisory firms
is in full swing, and most due to the sheer volume of corporate proxy
Americans are unaware of how compromised votes that occur each year.
these elections are. Rep. Bill Huizenga, Michigan Republican, has
Shareholders grapple with questions ranging argued the same point, saying that these “proxy
from board members’ election to priorities for advisory firms have hijacked the shareholder
setting corporate goals. The implications of these process” and “really don’t answer to sharehold-
elections are consequential for domestic pro- ers or act in a fiduciary manner.”
duction, employment, retirement savings and The activist investors pushing the agendas
other issues foundational to the U.S. economy. on which ISS and Glass Lewis offer unsolicited
Before these meetings, many shareholders advice are subject to similarly minimal disclo-
are issued guidance from third-party compa- sure requirements.
nies, such as Glass Lewis or Institutional Share- Recent examples of high-profile proxy fights
holder Services, with voting recommendations. have been in the news, but the influence of ISS
Too many Americans do not notice the cor- and Glass Lewis has received less attention than
rupt influence of these companies on American it deserves.
free enterprise. ISS, a majority foreign-owned ISS and Glass Lewis supported opportunis-
company, and Glass Lewis constitute 97% of tic investor Nelson Peltz against Disney and
the shareholder proxy advisory market. They its successful CEO Bob Iger. Disney ultimately
work in concert, making activist recommenda- prevailed, but only after spending a reported
tions for corporate votes and never disclosing $60 million on the activist proxy fight. An ongo-
their other clients. Their recommendations ing battle is taking place at Masimo, one of the
often prioritize short-term political objectives nation’s leading medical device companies,
at the expense of sound governance and long- where ISS and Glass Lewis are attempting to re-
term corporate goals. place Masimo CEO Joe Kiani with an unproven
We take great measures in this nation to investor, Quentin Koffey, and his firm, Politan.
safeguard our political elections. Still, our These types of proxy fights are expensive and
corporate elections are being compromised, counterproductive to the goals that investors
with little attention paid to this unprecedented and corporate leaders share. We wouldn’t accept
control over information and influence in how this type of election interference in our politi-
many large blocks of institutional votes are cal elections. And Americans shouldn’t accept
cast. this type of behavior in our corporate elections,
With the duopoly of Glass Lewis and ISS, either.
corporate America’s elections have an undue President Calvin Coolidge is credited with
foreign influence, little transparency about the giving us corporate America’s favorite mission
proxy companies’ client lists, secret agendas statement: “The business of America is busi-
and activist objectives, and a rejection of Amer- ness.” In this year’s corporate elections, the
ican founding principles in favor of European business of America’s shareholders is to ensure
political fads. that our bedrock free enterprise values prevail.
Even worse, these proxy advisory companies Stockholders should be active in corporate elec-
are not required to disclose any potential con- tions but wary of activist agendas being pro-
flicts of interest. ISS and Glass Lewis engage moted by foreign investment advisers.
in de facto pay-to-play consulting; they charge While we debate election integrity in our
companies for “consulting services” regarding political elections, we shouldn’t lose sight of
how to appeal to their investors. ISS and Glass the need to apply the same high standards to
Lewis then make their voting recommendations our corporate elections.
based on the companies’ adherence to many ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS

of those same recommendations. Both com- the absence of transparency, however, inves- voting recommendations. Ken Buck is a former congressman who served
panies assert that their consulting activities tors cannot know if these companies require a These outside companies, with no fiduciary on the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs
are separate from their recommendations. In consulting contract in exchange for favorable obligation to the shareholders and without the committees.

J Politics of the weird Liberals love

ust two weeks since an assassin’s survive the election campaign. Mr.
bullet came within a fraction of Trump beat him before the first ballot
an inch of killing former Presi- was cast.
dent Donald Trump during a
speech on live national television, Democrats’ race games Now comes Kamala. Or at least it
appears the Democratic pooh-bahs are victims,
reveal their own racism except
Google has already begun vanishing poised to dismiss the will of Democratic
the story. primary voters and install Vice President
Type “assassination attempt on trum” Kamala Harris as their nominee.
and Google’s search engine directs you
to internet pages about an attempt by
Puerto Rican nationalists to assassinate
gushing from his wound — being rushed half of the American population who
offstage so that it would make Mr. Trump vote for Republicans.
appear less brave and heroic. The whiny scolds at MSNBC boycot-
Ms. Harris — a lifelong politician —
has attacked Mr. Trump’s VP pick as
weird and somehow disloyal to the coun-
when victim
President Harry Truman in 1950. They
never made it past the front door.
No wonder
Google eventually retired the “Don’t

no such excuse.
ted the convention. But they did not want
be evil” slogan. The New York Times has to miss an opportunity to lie to their
viewers about the GOP convention. So
try. Sen. J.D. Vance grew up poor, served
his country in the Marines and is new to
politics. Naturally, the cackling hyena Mr.
is Trump
Google’s corporate Amazingly, the best they set up a fake background screen Biden picked as VP because she was a Corporations spoke out
motto when it first reporting to come out showing the floor of the convention and “woman of color” thinks Mr. Vance is the about George Floyd,
launched had to be NUCLEAR of the assassination provided hours and hours of lies and fake “weird” one.

OPTION
“Don’t be evil.” It attempt came from “analysis” from their fake studio in New Good luck with that. Also, Trump but not former president
remains a struggle for Gary O’Donoghue, York. voters are racist for attacking the “woman
the company. BY CHARLES HURT the North American Again, I am not making up any of this. of color.” By Michael Seifert
Google’s disdain correspondent for the In one of the most deranged rants Meanwhile, Ms. Harris — the expe-

W
for free speech and BBC. Within an hour before the fake convention screen, the rienced politician — is hosting openly hen George Floyd was
determination to undermine democracy of the shooting, he aired an interview lady who normally wears a Trump wig segregated rallies for “White dudes” who killed in May 2020, some
is rivaled only by the dishonesty of the with a witness who said the gunman on TV hyperventilated that President support her. And Democrats in the media corporations leaped at the
political media, whose fortunes today rely had been spotted on the roof well before Biden (who was still in the race at the openly warn Ms. Harris against picking chance to speak out.
entirely on Google’s whims. Together, the shooting but the popular gover- Netflix said: “To be silent is to be
the media and Google work feverishly authorities failed to nor of Pennsylvania complicit. Black lives matter. We have
to erase from public consciousness the do anything. for vice president a platform, and we have a duty to our
attempt on Mr. Trump’s life, lest it garner In the most because, well, he has a Black members, employees, creators
sympathy for him among voters before fitting irony of this problem. and talent to speak up.”
November’s election and reveal him to moment in Ameri- That problem Meanwhile, the child labor em-
be the bravest man in American politics can political media, — which they are ployer Nike released a video that said:
today. Mr. O’Donoghue is openly talking about “For once, Don’t Do It. Don’t pre-
These are some seriously sick and blind. — is that Gov. Josh tend there’s not a problem in America.
twisted people. Not only was Shapiro is Jewish, and Don’t turn your back on racism. Don’t
It is no different from what the media an actual blind an alarming portion accept innocent lives being taken from
have done since Mr. Trump arrived on man able to see of the Democratic us. Don’t make any more excuses.
the political scene. They spun crazy the story that the Party today openly Don’t think this doesn’t affect you.
conspiracy theories about Mr. Trump entire American hates Jews. If she Don’t sit back and be silent. Don’t
and his family while lying to the public to political press picks Mr. Shapiro as think you can’t be part of the change.
prop up and protect any Trump political refuses to see, her running mate, the Let’s all be part of the change.”
opponent who came along. but he would Democratic media And Uber said in a statement: “We
Remember the silver-tongued porn have done a bet- warns, she will lose stand with the Black community. We
lawyer Michael Avenatti? He was going ter job than the the support of enough stand with those peacefully protesting
to be the next president, according to Secret Service at Democrats that she injustice, hatred and racism. We stand
CNN, but instead, he is serving time in protecting Mr. could lose Michigan in support of orgs like [the Equal Jus-
federal prison for extortion, fraud and Trump from get- ASSOCIATED PRESS and even Minne- tice Initiative] and [Policing Equity]
embezzlement. ting shot in the Vice President Kamala Harris sota — and thus the working to make America more just
As for Mr. Trump’s near-assassina- first place. election. for all.”
tion, the American political media have By the time the Republican Na- time) would prove just as heroic as Mr. Weird times indeed. But not weird in These companies and others used
strained to disappear the story. Even tional Convention in Milwaukee rolled Trump’s assassination survival if he were the way Democrats claim. Floyd’s killing to virtue signal. They
when forced to report the biggest news of around a few days after the assassina- to survive a bout of COVID-19. not only told the public that they were
the year, The New York Times cropped tion attempt, the media were in no Of course, we now know that Mr. Charles Hurt is the opinion edi-
the photograph of Mr. Trump — blood mood to listen to Republicans or the Biden survived COVID-19 but did not tor at The Washington Times. » see SEIFERT | B4
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COMMENT & ANaLYSIS

Wray’s magic shrapnel theory
FBI director peddles conspiracies before Congress

T
he left is trying to memory-hole the multiple rounds before the Secret Service
attempted assassination of former responded, there’s no need to invent a magic
President Donald Trump. To down- projectile theory.
play the significance of what happened on Rep. Ronny Jackson, the Texas Republi-
July 13, the FBI director openly wondered can who served as White House physician
whether the former president was shot at all. for President Barack Obama and Mr. Trump,
“With respect to former President Trump, had harsh words for Mr. Wray after review-
there’s some question about whether or ing Mr. Trump’s injuries.
not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, “There is absolutely no evidence that it
that hit his ear,” said Christopher Wray at was anything other than a bullet,” Dr. Jackson
a House Judiciary Committee hearing last said in a statement Friday. “Congress should
Thursday. correct the record as confirmed by both the
Nobody outside crazed left-wing circles hospital and myself.”
has any doubt Mr. Trump was shot before a Feeling the heat, the FBI retreated in a
crowd of supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania. statement attributed to the bureau: “What
Unlike with the assassination of President struck former President Trump in the ear
John F. Kennedy, we have more than the was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented

The truth about

grainy Zapruder film to go on. This was the into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased
first attempt on a former or current presi- subject’s rifle.”
dent’s life to be recorded simultaneously Bullets don’t break apart in flight, so even
from multiple angles by hundreds of high- in walking back his misstatement, Mr. Wray

Gaza and Israel

definition cameras. is indulging leftist conspiracy theories to sug-
New York Times photographer Doug gest it could be a “fragment.” James Comey,
Mills even captured the photograph of a Mr. Wray’s predecessor as FBI director, used
lifetime — Mr. Trump speaking at the lec- similar tactics in turning the Steele dossier
tern as a bullet streaked past his head. It’s a into a political weapon against Mr. Trump. Progressive Democrats can’t handle it
bullet, not a ricochet, and not a supernatural Hillary Clinton’s campaign spread the
fragment of glass from a teleprompter. fallacious document, enabling biased FBI By Cal Thomas where it’s lowest in Gaza? It’s lowest in
Perhaps Mr. Wray was too busy opening agents to effectively say “there’s some ques- Rafah.”

L
ast week, one of the world’s great What about another Hamas lie that
new prosecutions of people who rioted 3½ tion” about whether Mr. Trump was a Rus- orators came to Washington humanitarian aid is not reaching civil-
years ago at the U.S. Capitol to notice Mr. sian agent. In a matter of days, investigators and delivered an address to ians (a lie Vice President Kamala Harris
Trump’s teleprompters were intact through- realized the dossier’s supposed evidence was Congress that was so powerful perpetuated after she met with Mr.
out the event. unsubstantiated nonsense, but the FBI kept and so true that a number of progres- Netanyahu).
There is a video showing the bullet strik- mum about its findings. sive Democrats boycotted his remarks, “The prosecutor of the International
ing Mr. Trump’s ear at the moment the By continuing its baseless investigation apparently because they can’t handle the Criminal Court has shamefully ac-
truth. cused Israel of deliberately starving
former president turned his head to point to for years, FBI leadership left a cloud of doubt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin the people of Gaza,” Mr. Netanyahu
a chart displayed on a large television moni- over the Republican candidate who became Netanyahu proved a comment once said. “This is utter, complete nonsense.
tor. A straight line can be drawn from the president. made by ABC newsman Ted Koppel: It’s a complete fabrication. Israel has
shooter’s rooftop position to Mr. Trump’s One hopes if Mr. Trump moves back into “Our society finds truth too strong a enabled more than 40,000 aid trucks to
upper right ear. the White House next year that he will have medicine to digest undiluted. In its enter Gaza. That’s half a million tons
purest form, truth is not a polite tap on of food, and that’s more than 3,000
Clear lines can also be drawn to retired learned his lesson about the wisdom of re- the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.” calories for every man, woman and
firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was taining the FBI director. Mr. Wray confirmed Mr. Netanyahu delivered a howling child in Gaza. If there are Palestinians
killed, as well as the two others in the crowd last week he is unfit to continue holding reproach to the anti-Israel and antise- in Gaza who aren’t getting enough
who were wounded. As the gunman fired the office. mitic demonstrators food, it’s not because
outside the Capitol Israel is blocking it,
building and on col- Just how useful these it’s because Hamas is
lege campuses when “idiots” are to Iran was stealing it.”
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR he said: “Defeating
our brutal enemies
noticeable in an earlier
with
After meeting
Ms. Harris, Mr.
statement by Iran’s supreme
requires both cour- Netanyahu said her
There’s evil, but GOP isn’t it age and clarity.
Clarity begins by
leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, who said anti-
public statement dif-
fered from what she
President Biden and I finally agree former President Donald Trump, the look in the mirror to see what true knowing the differ- Israel demonstrators on told him in private.
on something: The U.S. is engaged in a bubble popped and the charade was evil looks like. Evil is a party that ence between good
war of good against evil (“The Kamala over. The Democrats realized the will do anything to stay in power. It and evil. Yet incred-
college campuses are “on She asserted that
Gaza residents were
reset: Democrats reshape the narrative American people had seen the truth favors other nations over our country ibly many anti-Israel the right side of history.” suffering from food
around Harris,” web, July 24). The soul and Mr. Biden would never beat Mr. and people, and it favors criminals protesters, many insecurity and some
of our nation is indeed at stake — but Trump, so they launched a coup to over law-abiding citizens. It is a party choose to stand with evil. They stand were starving. She highlighted the old
Mr. Biden appears confused about remove him from the ticket. This was that has corrupted and weaponized with Hamas.” formula that only a two-state solution
which party is evil. I’m not sure not for the good of the country, but the justice system and suppresses He called such people “useful can end the regional conflict. This has
how he defines evil, but let’s start rather because the far-left puppet constitutional rights. It’s a party idiots” to Iran, which he said was been debunked so many times by state-
with honesty (or the lack thereof, masters feared losing power. where the ends justify the means. As behind much of the demonstrations ments from Israel’s enemies, which
in this case). Just weeks after many had sug- the late and corrupt Sen. Harry Reid that promote hatred of Israel, Jews favor a one-state solution. Amazingly,
Regardless of what we’ve all seen gested that Vice President Kamala responded when called out for having and, yes, America, as we saw when the line continues to be repeated over
since Mr. Biden took office, the White Harris was a drag on the ticket and spread the lie that Mitt Romney hadn’t demonstrators burned American flags several administrations.
House, Democratic leadership and should be replaced, the Democrats paid federal taxes in years: “Romney outside Union Station and defaced After his meeting with Mr. Netan-
their conspirators in the press have did a complete 180 and launched didn’t win, did he?” monuments. yahu at Mar-a-Lago, former President
told us he is fine, stronger than ever their next propaganda campaign. Just how useful these “idiots” are to Donald Trump said he asked the prime
and anything to the contrary is a lie. Yes, Mr. Biden, it is a war of good SAM JONES Iran was noticeable in an earlier state- minister why so many American Jews
But during last month’s debate with versus evil, but your party needs to Fairfax Station, Virginia ment by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatol- vote for Democrats, many of whom
lah Ali Khamenei, who said anti-Israel vote against Israel’s (and America’s)
demonstrators on college campuses interests. “Habit,” he quoted Mr. Netan-
Harris would finish what Obama started are “on the right side of history.”
Mr. Netanyahu mocked the demon-
yahu as saying.
What ought to stick with Americans
Former President Barack Obama is a veteran who fought communists in and drug dealers at the border, Ms. strators: “These protesters chant ‘From is what Mr. Netanyahu said about Iran’s
contemptible, two-faced backstabber. the Vietnam War, I can say with cer- Harris was supposed to do it — and she the river to the sea.’ But many don’t ultimate goal: “Last month, I heard a re-
He made President Biden his vice presi- tainty that he hasn’t got a snowball’s is derelict in her duty to do so. have a clue what river and what sea vealing comment, ostensibly about the
dent for eight years and then, behind chance at getting me or any significant Ms. Harris also chose to stick up for they’re talking about. They not only war in Gaza, but about something else.
the scenes, conspired to get rid of him percentage of our military members, rioting protesters who were burning get an F in geography, they get an F in It came from the foreign minister of
so he could support an even bigger past or present, to buy in to his and down our cities, telling them to keep history. They call Israel a colonialist Iran’s proxy Hezbollah, and he said this:
liar and incompetent, far-left traitor, Ms. Harris’ socialist agenda. Not now, protesting. And instead of living up to state. Don’t they know that the land ‘This is not a war with Israel. Israel,’ he
Kamala Harris (“Obama endorses not ever. her sworn duty to uphold the law, she of Israel is where Abraham, Isaac and said, ‘is merely a tool.’ The main war,
Kamala Harris for president: ‘She Mr. Biden praised the laughing has sided with the “defund the police” Jacob prayed, where Isaiah and Jer- the real war, is with America.’”
has the vision, the character and the hyena and pathological liar Ms. Har- movement. emiah preached and where David and If Iran is allowed to produce a
strength,’” web, July 26). ris, saying she was tough and ready to By endorsing Ms. Harris, Mr. Solomon ruled?” nuclear bomb, it is likely to prove the
I believe Mr. Obama the head lead, two more bald-faced lies. Now Obama is effectively telling everyone He also responded to Hamas’ truth of that claim.
puppet master and his minions gave the news media say Ms. Harris never that if she is elected, Ms. Harris will propaganda that Israel is deliberately
Mr. Biden an ultimatum: Resign or we really was “border czar,” but this con- burn down the country to finish what targeting civilians in the Gaza Strip, Readers may email Cal Thomas at
invoke the 25th Amendment. flicts with the many reports that say she Mr. Biden started. saying that “despite all the lies you’ve [email protected]. Look for
In his farewell speech, Mr. Biden was tasked with fixing the border. No heard, the war in Gaza has one of the Cal Thomas’ latest book, “A Watch-
said he wanted unity in the coun- matter what anyone wants to call stop- GREGORY J. TOPLIFF lowest ratios of combatants to non- man in the Night: What I’ve Seen
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Trump knows Chinese military is crushing us in space Abortion,

vandalism
Biden has dangerously weakened Space Force
By Douglas MacKinnon

V
banner of freedom and peace.”
It is fair to say that Mr. Trump was
irtually no one in
politics focuses
on the grave and
the only president since Kennedy who
truly understood — and understands —
the military vulnerabilities the United
and
politics
growing military States faces in space. Mr. Trump does
threat the United realize that China is literally looking to
States faces in plant “a hostile flag of conquest” on the
space from China. surface of the moon as it declares that
Little do they real- body its sovereign — and protected
ize that if we aren’t the preeminent — territory. Progressive activists
force in space, we could soon lose Why would China do so? Other than
everything, including very nation. the fact that it represents the ultimate target pro-life
While many politicians don’t “high ground,” the Chinese want the
see the warning lights flashing from moon for energy independence, a goal pregnancy centers
space, former President Donald Trump they hope to achieve via helium-3.
has taken note of them for years. In Helium-3 is an isotope that litters the
By Scott Wheeler

S
his acceptance speech on July 18 at the surface of the moon and could provide late magazine recently profiled
Republican National Convention in Mil- a potentially limitless supply of safe, a supporter of abortion access
waukee, he gave a shout-out to the Space clean energy. Some experts estimate who was found guilty of vandal-
Force, a command he is rightfully proud the moon’s surface holds over 2 million ism against a pro-life crisis preg-
of creating. metric tons of helium-3, and that just 25 nancy center in Buffalo, New York.
On Dec. 20, 2019, then-President metric tons could fuel the energy needs Sadly but not surprisingly, Slate takes
Trump signed into law legislation creat- of the United States for a year. the side of the 39-year-old woman.
ing the U.S. Space Force and said that China’s space program is a military It isn’t the only one. The woman
“space is the world’s newest warfight- program controlled by that nation’s receives high-priced legal representa-
ing domain. Amid grave threats to our leaders. They realize that the United tion from the Manhattan office of Davis
national security, American superiority States is falling further and further Wright Tremaine. (The firm’s D.C.
in space is absolutely vital. We’re leading, behind in space. They will act when lawyers share office space on K Street
but we’re not leading by enough, and the time is best for them in Earth orbit with The Washington Post.)
very shortly, we’ll be leading by a lot.” and on the surface of the moon. They From the article and the response of
Mr. Trump was correct in his as- intend to use the promise, riches and the pro-life pregnancy center Com-
sessment until the moment President military high ground of space to deter passCare, there are plenty of claims
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and then defeat the United States. and counterclaims. In Slate, the woman
took office. Had that not happened, the Mr. Trump understands this and says her pregnancy test was positive, a
United States would have been “leading will move quickly to reestablish our revelation complicated because “due to
by a lot,” thanks entirely to the leader- preeminence in space. He will do so a medical condition, she believed she
ship and push by Mr. Trump to make the because, as he said in part from the could not conceive but wanted a medi-
U.S. preeminent in space. Mr. Biden and Rose Garden a few weeks before creat- cal professional’s confirmation.” She
Ms. Harris — who is also the missing- ing the Space Force: “Our adversaries could have turned to an OB-GYN or her
in-action head of the National Space are weaponizing Earth’s orbits. … So, own medical professional.
Council — quickly unraveled that vital just as we have recognized land, air, sea, Instead, she found CompassCare, a
mission by making NASA perhaps the and cyber as vital warfighting domains, 35-year-old crisis pregnancy center in
most “woke” agency in the U.S. govern- we will now treat space as an indepen- Buffalo. The pro-life group’s website in-
ment while dangerously weakening our ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS
dent region overseen by a new unified cludes the tagline “Erasing the need for
military. geographic combatant command.” abortion.” One of its slogans is “Three
Mr. Trump wanted to create the its survival than the United States. For private sector. They have been known The Biden-Harris administration has lives saved — one appointment.”
Space Force in part because he under- years, the Chinese military has been for decades. irresponsibly ceded the ultimate high The woman says her appointment
stood what so many liberals foolishly identifying which of our satellites to In his speech on Sept. 12, 1962, at Rice ground — with potentially the most went poorly; Slate says she remains
deny. That said, once humans cut target and how best to take them offline University on the need for the United promising energy source ever — to “haunted” by it. Later, she spray-
through Earth’s atmosphere into the or destroy them. China is on the brink of States to become the “preeminent space- China. Mr. Trump knows it could be painted the word “Liars” in giant letters
vacuum of space, their flaws, greed, doing so. faring nation,” President John F. Kennedy game over if we don’t get it back. with blood-red paint on CompassCare’s
prejudice, hate and military ambition These are issues I worked on for stressed: “We mean to be a part of it — business sign facing the street. She was
come with them. This reality has been three years at the Pentagon while advis- we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the Douglas MacKinnon is a former White arrested and charged with third-degree
proved by history time and again. ing and assisting our ballistic missile world now look into space, to the moon House and Pentagon official and au- criminal mischief, a Class E felony that
China understands that no nation defense program and as a past adviser to and to the planets beyond, and we have thor of the book “The 56: Liberty Les- carries a maximum penalty of four
is more dependent upon its satellites, NASA and the space shuttle team, and vowed that we shall not see it governed sons From Those Who Risked All to years in prison.
in near and geosynchronous orbit, for have continued to address since in the by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a Sign the Declaration of Independence.” Local media reported that the woman
had entered a plea agreement and
avoided jail time; she also agreed to pay
$2,580 in restitution. Soon after, she filed

Capitalism saves lives, and socialism always fails a medical malpractice lawsuit against
CompassCare. Enter Davis Wright
Tremaine.
There is no better policy than economic freedom To those following the seemingly
limitless attacks against Christians and
By Johan Norberg people are not living in extreme poverty. move us emotionally. As Stalin once said in the op- abortion foes, the CompassCare story

L
Why? The free market. Economic growth and posite context: “The death of one man is a tragedy. features several familiar patterns: first,
ike every election cycle, 2024 will come down poverty reduction started in places where and in The death of a million is a statistic.” the sophomoric lashing out in anger of a
to economics. Despite the bluster of big periods when major steps were being taken to pro- The same goes for progress. When one man supporter of abortion access.
personalities and the petty partisanship that tect property rights, promote business and invest- rises out of poverty, we feel it viscerally and Also, by finding CompassCare
dominates today’s discourse, pocketbook is- ment and expand trade. People, goods and services empathize. A million people rising out of poverty, instead of her own gynecologist or
sues like inflation will reign supreme. They always traveled across borders, and countless millions however, is just a statistic. her own doctor, the woman traveled
do. prospered. Therefore, it is important to emphasize that such the well-worn path used by activists
According to recent a data point is made up of in Colorado who have trained their
Pew polling, strength- 1 million real people of flesh sights on bakery owner Jack Phil-
ening the U.S. economy and blood, hopes and fears, lips, a Christian. His refusal to bake
is indeed voters’ top who can now, for the first cakes for events that conflict with
policy priority in 2024. time, put food on the table his beliefs, such as same-sex wed-
And that has nothing to and send their kids to school. dings and gender transitions, has led
do with vice presiden- The most powerful testa- to harassment, lawsuits and, for him,
tial picks or high-profile ment to the free market’s a near-equal amount of courtroom
donor meetings; it has positive impact lies in the vindication.
everything to do with lives that are changed for the It also follows the pattern of the
the pocketbook, the better. political left engaging in violence
most bipartisan issue Such stories are perfectly against those with whom it disagrees.
there is. encapsulated in the new Starting in May 2020, the Catholic
Will Americans take documentary “She Rises News Agency began tracking vandal-
a step toward economic Up,” which chronicles the ism and other attacks by pro-abortion
freedom, or will the journeys of three remark- groups against pro-life organizations
steady decline into able female entrepreneurs in or churches. This includes vandal-
ever-larger government developing nations who are ism, graffiti, property damage, threats,
overreach continue? If lifting up their entire com- theft and even arson.
the 2024 election is the munities through business In roughly 21 months, CNA
most consequential of activity. From manufactur- documented 115 attacks. (CNA’s study
our lifetime, as we often ing to commerce, the three includes the vandalism by the 39-year-
hear, the direction of women have fought the odds old woman against CompassCare.) As
U.S. economic policy is to launch and expand small of last November, CNA counts attacks
the most consequential. businesses, creating jobs against pro-lifers in at least 32 states
I hope for a national where the government could and the District of Columbia.
embrace of the free not and offering prosperity As for CompassCare, it remains
market. But it seems that had never existed before committed to defending itself and
both major parties are in their neighborhoods. exposing what it feels is the targeting of
turning away from the Critics of capitalism may pro-abortion activists. “People have a
system that has made want to ignore these stories, right to know who is funding [the] high-
America the most but those of us who believe dollar attorneys out of Davis Wright
successful economy in the free market can never Tremaine a New York City law firm,”
in history. On the one forget them. There are too said the Rev. Jim Harden, CompassCare
side, we find the old many human stories to CEO. “If truth and the rule of law is
leftist rejection of ignore, and there is no better so loved by pro-abortion legislators
free enterprise; on the time to tell them than now. and lawyers, how can the provocation
other, the new national Stripping away the politi- of violence against pro-life people go
conservative hostility to cal noise, my hope in 2024 is uninvestigated and uncensored?”
free trade. Both parties for a greater understanding Mr. Harden added that “abortionists
are wedded to deficit- that economics is not just do nothing but abortion for a fee while
funded spending. about numbers but about Christian pro-life pregnancy centers do
Therefore, we must people. Whenever someone everything but abortion for free.”
remind ourselves of ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH says that they want to control Indeed, the CompassCare website
some basic truths: Capi- the market and restrict trade, landing page highlights a fundraising
talism creates wealth and saves lives. Socialism and Except the number isn’t “countless.” From they really seek to control and restrict people — campaign. It is encapsulated in three
protectionism always fail. By a large margin, the 2002 to 2022, nearly 1 billion people moved out of and their creativity and dreams. sentences: “Serve Women. Save Babies.
free market is the most successful weapon against extreme poverty globally. Astonishingly, roughly Whether you trust in anecdotal or empirical Never Stop.” Sadly, it appears that, at
poverty ever, and it will continue to lift up the poor 135,000 people escaped poverty every day. The evidence, there is no better policy than economic least for now, attacks against pro-lifers
if we allow it. primary reason is economic freedom, with even freedom. That’s how we all continue to rise up and and the unborn will never stop either.
Just look at the data: 200 hundred years ago, at totalitarian regimes such as China embracing some up again.
the birth of industrial capitalism, there were only form of economic liberalization. Scott Wheeler is an investigative jour-
about 80 million people in the world who were not With such overwhelming evidence, why do so Johan Norberg is an author, lecturer and docu- nalist who has been a war correspon-
living in extreme poverty, meaning $2 a day or less, many people neglect the beneficial effects of the mentary filmmaker born in Sweden. He is a senior dent and foreign correspondent, and
adjusted for inflation. Today, more than 7.3 billion free market? One reason is that statistics rarely fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington. worked undercover inside Hamas.
B4 | OPINION ☆R TUESDAY, JULY 30, 2024

This will be my last Olympics

ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER

Tasteless Last Supper tableau at opening ceremony a transgression against moral decency

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By Scott R. Hammond this abuse. It’s a complete disgrace to see on such from his side. Through this unimaginable suffer- iteration of “phobic.”
a huge stage.” ing, Jesus took upon himself the sins of humanity It is curious that Christianity, a religion of
n Jan. 7, 2015, two French As the camera panned the long table of “vogu- so that each might have salvation and eternal life peace, charity and forgiveness, was singled out
Algerian brothers entered ing” luridly eye-shadowed disciples, particularly with God. for this burlesque and not, say, Islam.
the Paris office of the satiri- disturbing was not the bearded humanoid in a At this year’s Olympic opening ceremony, the France is home to approximately 6 million
cal magazine Charlie Hebdo. midnight blue bustier; it was the little brown- venerated Christian image of the Last Supper was Muslims, make up more than one-third of Eu-
Their rifles already leveled, haired girl in dandelion yellow, sandwiched near hijacked for a cult movement’s deviant political rope’s entire Muslim population. Many of them
the duo executed 12 employ- the middle. purposes. With a little girl in its clutches, the cult live in unassimilated enclaves that prioritize their
ees and critically injured 11. The Last Supper of Jesus took place ap- gloatingly declared, “We have your children.” religious doctrines and Shariah (Islamic law) over
The Kouachi broth- proximately 1,465 years before Leonardo da Vinci Indeed, gender-bending indoctrination is the statutes of polite French society.
ers exacted revenge for a published cartoon of painted his masterpiece. It took place during the embedded in public school curricula across the The history of Islamic extremism is still a
the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Although not Jewish celebration of Passover. On the eve of United States, beginning in kindergarten. But poignant memory. It does not take much imagi-
forbidden by the Quran, disparaging images of the Jesus’ crucifixion, Jesus broke a loaf of bread and what is billed as benign gender affirmation is con- nation to visualize the Shariah-inspired response
prophet are considered profane and can elicit a said to his disciples, “This is my body given for demned as “irreversibly harmful” by the Ameri- — in a country brimming with Kouachi-aged men
violent response. you; do this in remembrance of me.” He poured can College of Pediatricians. — to an act blasphemous to Islam performed in
Last Friday, at the Olympic opening ceremony in a cup of wine and said, “This is the new covenant The tasteless Olympic exhibition was not only front of the world.
Paris, Jesus was mocked in a drag-queen tableau in my blood, which is poured out for you.” an affront to 2.4 billion Christians but also was a 2024’s Olympic opening ceremony was ex-
of the Last Supper. The role of Jesus, with a high, These acts have been ritualized in the Catholic transgression against moral decency. ploitative and disrespectful, but in keeping with
sparkly crown and immodest decollete, was ceremony of the Eucharist, when congregants As evidenced in gay pride parades in cities Christian grace, it will be forgiven. According to
played by a presumed beauty pageant winner, consume the symbolic body and blood of Christ such as San Francisco and Seattle, the LGBTQ Romans 12:18-19: “Do all that you can to live in
patently guilty of at least two deadly sins. and solemnly recall his excruciating torture movement has turned increasingly lewd. Public peace with everyone. Dear friends, never take re-
Rep. Lauren Boebert, Colorado Republican, and death — the merciless scourging, crown of nudity and pornographic acts have become com- venge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God.”
wrote on X: “Mocking God at the Olympics is just thorns, spikes driven through his hands and feet, mon, and moral objections are swiftly stifled by
disgusting. Christians are constantly subject to and Longinus’ spear drawing blood and water “woke” countercharges of some cancel-worthy Scott R. Hammond is a Boston resident.

Harris is Democrats’ poster child for failing up

Let’s focus on her record, not her race
By Craig J. DeLuz Alas, it did not. president, a position she obtained solely because

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In her next position, as California attorney Democratic then-presidential nominee Joe Biden
mid the perceived ascendancy of Vice general, Ms. Harris again proved less than committed to selecting a Black woman as his
President Kamala Harris as the top successful. In this role, she tended to side with running mate.
contender to succeed President Biden criminals instead of their victims. As a result of Ms. Harris holds the second-highest office in
as the Democratic Party’s represen- her “Smart on Crime” policies, California expe- the nation, and once again, she has failed to make
tative in the November election, I received a rienced a 10% increase in violent crime, putting any meaningful impact in her role. Whether in
communique from a confidant imploring me to an end to what was a streak of 22 consecutive her role as “border czar,” as the overseer of the
refrain from criticizing her. years in which violent crime went down in the White House’s Office of Gun Violence Preven-
I was made to under- tion or as the administration’s
stand that as a Black man, to lead on tackling the challenges
blatantly reject her candidacy surrounding artificial intel-
in favor of the Republican ligence, she cannot claim one
candidate, former President significant achievement. She
Donald Trump, would result does get to claim credit for
in my complete detachment overseeing the worst border
from the Black community. crisis in U.S. history.
While I can attest to my Yet despite her lack of merit
friend’s sincerity and concern and achievement at every stage
for my well-being, I had to of her career, liberal Democrats
suppress my initial response have deemed her the perfect fit
of righteous indignation. to be their front-runner for the ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH
The message, however, 2024 presidential election.
is emblematic of a disturb-
ing trend in our society: Any
While it may make for a
compelling narrative to have
Seifert
disagreement with a Black Ms. Harris as the first Black From page B1
politician is automatically la- woman to be a major party’s
beled a betrayal to the Black presidential nominee, that behind the Black Lives Matter movement, but
community. This tactic is not alone does not qualify her they put their money where their mouth is.
only intellectually disingenu- for the position. While it is Companies lined up to donate to groups
ous but dangerous; it stifles understandable that some may that support the end of the nuclear family and
any meaningful discussion want to support Ms. Harris in “defunding the police.”
and analysis of policies and the name of equity, as symbol- It was a wave of support for a political cause
qualifications and feeds into ism can be powerful, we must never before seen from corporate America. It
the negative aspects of the remember that symbolism transformed American politics and led to sev-
diversity, equity and inclu- should never be prioritized eral police departments slashing their budget.
sion narrative. over substance. But here’s the thing: Not one of these
First and foremost, one’s Let us not reduce Ms. companies has spoken out about the attempted
race should not dictate one’s Harris to a mere symbol but assassination of former President Donald
political beliefs or loyalties. hold her accountable for her Trump, and not one of them has encouraged
We should all be able to actions and qualifications. donations to the family of Corey Comperatore,
freely and critically evaluate To that end, Kamala Harris the patriotic American who was killed in Butler,
all candidates, regardless of exemplifies the left’s bra- Pennsylvania.
their skin color. To suggest zen penchant for promoting One could argue that the leftist causes they
that I must blindly support incompetent leaders. She is championed over the years fostered the envi-
(or at least not oppose) the poster child for failing up. ronment that led to the shooting of Mr. Trump.
Ms. Harris because she is Her ascendancy to becom- The Black Lives Matter Global Foundation,
Black is to diminish both ing the front-running Demo- which received millions from corporate Amer-
my agency as a person and cratic nominee in 2024 is an ica, tweeted that Mr. Trump is a “terrorist.”
her competence as a civic unequivocal testament to the The attempt on Mr. Trump’s life was one
leader (the latter of which is left’s detachment from reality of the most shocking moments of my lifetime.
ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER
questionable). and competence. We were less than an inch away from the abyss.
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failure spanning her entire political career, Ms. since. Yet the Democrats lauded her and cata- cannot align with the damaging narrative that I leaders such as France’s Emmanuel Macron
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fectively. She had the worst felony conviction the Senate and the second most absent in votes shooting. After all, why stand by a company
rate of any big-city prosecutor in California and compared with her Senate colleagues, miss- Project 21 Ambassador Craig J. DeLuz has almost that refuses to stand by this nation?
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Home Improvement The object of this suit COHN, GOLDBERG & DEUTSCH, LLC
1099 WINTERSON ROAD, SUITE 301
COHN, GOLDBERG & DEUTSCH, LLC
1099 WINTERSON ROAD, SUITE 301 TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 3133 PROSPERITY AVE,
is to interplead surplus
funds into the Court’s LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, MARYLAND 21090 LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, MARYLAND 21090 FAIRFAX, VA 22031. In execution of a certain Deed
The bathroom of your registry and allow www.cgd-law.com www.cgd-law.com of Trust dated March 19, 2004, in the original
dreams in as little as 1 potential claimants to
day. Limited Time Offer file claims for the funds principal amount of $235,000.00 recorded in the
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES'
- $1000 off or No derived from the sale SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Fairfax County,
Payments and No of real property known Virginia, in Book 16016 at Page 0772 as Instrument
as 2901 Stockholm 24 MARTINS LANE 8830 PINEY BRANCH ROAD, UNIT #609
Interest for 18 months ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 AND PARKING SPACE S-5 No. 2004018019.002. The undersigned Substitute
for customers who Way, Woodbridge, VA
qualify. BCI Bath & 22191. SILVER SPRING, MD 20903 Trustee will offer for sale at public auction in the
It is hereby ORDERED By authority contained in a Deed of Trust dated front of the Circuit Court building for Fairfax
Shower. Many options that Beverly Freeman
available. Quality March 17, 2023 and recorded in Liber 66936, Folio By authority contained in a Deed of Trust dated County, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA, on
appear in the Circuit 280, among the Land Records of Montgomery April 26, 2005 and recorded in Liber 29828, Folio
materials & Court of the County of September 18, 2024, at 11:45 AM, the property
professional County, Maryland, with an original principal 650,among the Land Records of Montgomery
Prince William, Virginia described in said Deed of Trust, located at the
installation. Senior & to protect her interest balance of $641,400.00, and an interest rate of County, Maryland, with an original principal
Military Discounts in this matter on or 21.500%, default having occurred thereunder, the balance of $117,575.45, and an interest rate of above address, and more particularly described as
Available. Call Today! 1- before September 16, Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at 8.750%, default having occurred thereunder, the follows: LOT TWENTY-NINE (29), PINE RIDGE,
844-945-1631 2024 ; and the Courthouse door for the Circuit Court for Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at SECTION ONE (1), AS THE SAME APPEARS DULY
It is further ORDERED Montgomery County (Maryland Avenue entrance), the Courthouse door for the Circuit Court for DEDICATED, PLATTED, AND RECORDED IN DEED
that this Order of 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850, on Montgomery County (Maryland Avenue entrance),
Publication be BOOK C-14, AT PAGE 306, AMONG THE LAND
Eliminate gutter 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850, on
published once a week RECORDS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND AS
cleaning forever! for four successive August 7, 2024 AT 11:15AM
weeks in The August 14, 2024 AT 11:15AM AMENDED BY DEED RECORDED AMONG THE LAND
LeafFilter, the most ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE property more fully RECORDS OF DEED BOOK P-14 AT PAGE 5. TERMS
Washington Times , a
advanced debris- newspaper of general described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE property more fully OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of ten
blocking gutter circulation in the property is improved by a dwelling. described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The percent (10%) of the sale price or ten percent
protection. County of Prince property being sold is a condominium unit and all
William, Virginia. The (10%) of the original principal balance of the
Schedule a FREE Washington Times
Terms of Sale: The property will be sold “as is” common elements appurtenant thereto.
subject Deed of Trust, whichever is lower, in the
LeafFilter estimate shall send the subject to any conditions, restrictions, easements
today. and agreements of record affecting same with no Terms of Sale: The property will be sold “as is” form of cash or certified funds payable to the
Certificate of
20% off Entire Publication and the bill warranty of any kind. A deposit of $39,000.00 by subject to any conditions, restrictions, easements Substitute Trustee must be present at the time of
Purchase. to: BWW Law Group, certified funds only (no cash accepted) required and agreements of record affecting same with no the sale. The balance of the purchase price will be
LLC, 8100 Three Chopt at time of auction. Balance of the purchase price warranty of any kind. A deposit of $9,000.00 by due within fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise
Plus 10% Senior & Road, Suite 240, to be paid within 10 days of ratification of sale by certified funds only (no cash accepted) required
Military Discounts. Richmond, Virginia Purchaser’s deposit may be forfeited to Trustee.
the Court, with interest at the note rate from date at time of auction. Balance of the purchase price
Call 1-877-614-6667 23229. of sale to settlement. If settlement is delayed for to be paid within 10 days of ratification of sale by
Time is of the essence. If the sale is set aside for
Enter this 26th day of July, any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be
2024 ANY reason, there shall be no abatement of the Court, with interest at the note rate from date
interest or taxes. Real estate taxes and all other of sale to settlement. If settlement is delayed for entitled to a return of the deposit paid. The
Eliminate gutter Jacqueline C. Smith, public charges, or assessments, including water ANY reason, there shall be no abatement of Purchaser may, if provided by the terms of the
cleaning forever! Esq. and sewer facilities charges, ground rent, interest or taxes. Real estate taxes and all other Trustee’s Memorandum of Foreclosure Sale, be
LeafFilter, the most Clerk of the Circuit Court condo/HOA assessments, private utility, or front public charges, or assessments, including water
By: Susan Freche entitled to a $50 cancellation fee from the
advanced debris- foot benefit payments, not otherwise divested by and sewer facilities charges, ground rent,
Deputy Clerk Substitute Trustee, but shall have no further
blocking gutter ratification of the sale, to be adjusted as of date of condo/HOA assessments, private utility, or front
auction. Transfer and recordation taxes, and all foot benefit payments, not otherwise divested by recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or
protection. other costs incident to settlement, shall be borne ratification of the sale, to be adjusted as of date of the Mortgagee’s attorney. A form copy of the
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Schedule a FREE Equity Trustees, LLC by purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for auction. Transfer and recordation taxes, and all Trustee’s memorandum of foreclosure sale and
LeafFilter estimate By Counsel obtaining physical possession of the property. other costs incident to settlement, shall be borne contract to purchase real property is available for
today. by purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for viewing at www.bwwsales.com. Additional terms,
20% off Entire Jessica S. Tate TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to go obtaining physical possession of the property.
if any, to be announced at the sale and the
VSB No. 84468
Purchase. Supervising Attorney
to settlement within ten days of ratification, or
Purchaser may be given the option to execute the
Plus 10% Senior & BWW Law Group, LLC
otherwise fails to comply with the terms of sale, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to go
contract of sale electronically. This is a
Military Discounts.
Call 1-877-614-6667
8100 Three Chopt Road,
Suite 240 TWEET the Trustee may declare the entire deposit
forfeited and resell the property at the risk and
to settlement within ten days of ratification, or
otherwise fails to comply with the terms of sale, communication from a debt collector and any
Richmond, VA 23229
(804) 521-6133(telephone) LIKE expense of defaulting purchaser, who agrees to
pay reasonable attorneys' fees and costs if a
the Trustee may declare the entire deposit
forfeited and resell the property at the risk and
information obtained will be used for that
purpose. The sale is subject to seller confirmation.
COMMENT
(804) 521-6153 (facsimile) motion to resell the property has been filed, expense of defaulting purchaser, who agrees to
Prepare for power [email protected] Substitute Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 8100
purchaser waives personal service of any paper pay reasonable attorneys' fees and costs if a
outages today with a Date: July 23, 2024 Three Chopt Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229.
Generac Home
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July 30, 2024
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Trustee's Sale Trustee's Sale TRUSTEE’S SALE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 1764 WESTWIND WAY, UNIT Trustee's Sale
5501 Seminary Road Apt#1114, 13621 Venturi Lane, Oak Hill, VA 20171 8330 CARNEGIE DRIVE, 102, A/R/T/A 1764 WESTWIND WAY, UNIT 102A, 14550 Oakmere Dr,
Falls Church, VA 22041 (Parcel Id: 0154 07 0160) VIENNA, VIRGINIA 22180 MCLEAN, VA 22102. In execution of a certain Deed Centreville, VA 20120
(Parcel Id: 0623 12S 1114) COUNTY OF FAIRFAX of Trust dated August 26, 2005, in the original (Parcel Id: 0443 04 0375)
Default having been made in the terms of a principal amount of $242,000.00 recorded in the
Default having been made in the terms of a certain Deed of Trust dated 10/27/2006, in the This Property will be sold subject to Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Fairfax County, Default having been made in the terms of a
certain Deed of Trust dated 06/22/2006, in the original principal amount of $343,950.00 and a first lien and sold in second position. Virginia, in Book 17746 at Page 0687 as Instrument certain Deed of Trust dated 11/01/2005, in the
original principal amount of $306,000.00 and recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court No. 2005037899.001. The undersigned Substitute original principal amount of $353,000.00 and
recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the Fairfax county, Virginia on 10/31/2006, as In execution of a certain deed of trust dated Trustee will offer for sale at public auction in the recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court
of the Fairfax county, Virginia on 07/05/2006, as Instrument No. 2006033754.013, in Book 18876, 12/18/06, in the original principal amount of front of the Circuit Court building for Fairfax of the Fairfax county, Virginia on 11/10/2005, as
Instrument No. 2006021273.002, in Book 18587, Page 2006, the undersigned Substitute Trustees $123,000.00 recorded in the County of Fairfax, County, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA, on Instrument No. 2005046291.001, in Book 17945,
Page 2133, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction on 09/04/2024 at 12:00 Virginia, as Book 19019, Page 1540, as Instrument September 4, 2024, at 11:45 AM, the property Page 2004, the undersigned Substitute Trustees
will sell at public auction on 9/4/2024 at 12:00 PM, Fairfax Circuit Court, at the front of the No. 2006039721.012, as amended by an described in said Deed of Trust, located at the will sell at public auction on 09/04/2024 at 12:00
PM, Fairfax Circuit Court, at the front of the courthouse, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA instrument appointing the undersigned as above address, and more particularly described as PM, Fairfax Circuit Court, at the front of the
courthouse, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA 22030, the property designated as: Substitute Trustee, default having occurred in follows: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY, courthouse, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA
22030, the property designated as: the payment of the Note thereby secured and at SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, 22030, the property designated as:
Unit 160, Phase Nine (9), Coppermine Crossing the request of the holder, the undersigned VIRGINIA, TO WIT: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR
The following described property, situate, lying Condominiums, as the same is set forth in Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public PARCEL OF LAND TOGETHER WITH ALL LOT 375, SECTION 10, SULLY STATION, AS THE
and being in Fairfax County, Virginia, to wit: Declaration of Coppermine Crossing auction in the front of the building housing the IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND SAME APPEARS DULY DEDICATED, PLATTED AND
Condominium recorded in Deed Book 15431 at Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, BEING IN THE COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA, AND RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 6872 AT PAGE 450
Condominium Unit #1114S in SKYLINE SQUARE page 321, as corrected and re-recorded in Deed located at 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF FAIRFAX
CONDOMINIUM, in accordance with the Book 15438 at page 2001; as further amended by Virginia, 22030 on August 15, 2024, at 11:00 am, FOLLOWS: TOWNHOUSE NO. 102-A, THE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
Declaration and Plat attached thereto, duly Amendment to Declaration recorded in Deed the property described in said deed of trust, WESTERLIES, A CONDOMINIUM, IN ACCORDANCE
recorded in Deed Book 5630, at Page 536, et seq., Book 17666 at page 2041, corrected in Deed Book located at the above address, with WITH THE DECLARATION OF A MASTER DEED TERMS: CASH. A deposit of $35,300.00 or 10% of
among the land records of Fairfax County, 17873 at page 657; Deed Book 17794 at page improvements thereon and more particularly RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 3519 AT PAGE 425, the sale price, whichever is lower, will be
Virginia, and further shown in Exhibits attached 2051; Deed Book 17863 at page 2109; Deed Book described as follows: LOT 26, BLOCK E, SECTION AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY, required of the successful bidder at time of sale.
thereto, all of which are hereafter referred to 17873 at page 657; Deed Book 18052 at page 5, DUNN LORING WOODS, AS THE SAME APPEARS VIRGINIA, AND AMENDED BY DEED OF Prior to the sale, interested bidders will be
collectively as the "Declaration". Together with 1039; Deed Book 18066 at page 864; Deed Book DULY DEDICATED, PLATTED AND RECORDED IN CORRECTION RECORDED AMONG THE AFORESAID required to register with and must present a bid
the exclusive right to use the limited common 18130 at page 1437; Deed Book 18222 at page 65; DEED BOOK 2088 AT PAGE 625, AMONG THE COUNTY RECORDS IN DEED BOOK 3525 AT PAGE deposit which may be held during the sale by the
element hereby made legally appurtenant to and Deed Book 18311 at page 1150; Deed Book 18397 LAND RECORDS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA. 224. TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit trustee. The bid deposit must be certified funds
attached to the above-described condominium at page 180; Deed Book 18686 page 560 and Deed TERMS OF SALE: Neither the Substitute Trustee of ten percent (10%) of the sale price or ten and/or cash, but no more than $9,900.00 of cash
unit. Book 18842 page 1876, any and all subsequent nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of percent (10%) of the original principal balance of will be accepted. The successful bidder's deposit
amendments thereto, among the Land Records trust will deliver possession of the property to the subject Deed of Trust, whichever is lower, in will be retained at the sale and applied to the
TERMS: CASH. A deposit of $30,600.00 or 10% of of Fairfax County, Virginia. the successful bidder. The purchaser at the sale the form of cash or certified funds payable to the sale price. If held by the trustee, all other bid
the sale price, whichever is lower, will be will be required to pay all closing costs. Real Substitute Trustee must be present at the time of deposits will be returned to the unsuccessful
required of the successful bidder at time of sale. TOGETHER WITH an undivided interest in the estate taxes, water/sewer fees and other public the sale. The balance of the purchase price will be bidders. Settlement is to be made within 15 days.
Prior to the sale, interested bidders will be common elements appurtenant thereto, as charges will be prorated as of the date of sale. due within fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise The successful bidder will be responsible for
required to register with and must present a bid amended from time to time, as more specifically The risk of loss or damage to the property Purchaser’s deposit may be forfeited to Trustee. obtaining possession of the property, and for all
deposit which may be held during the sale by the defined in Amendment to Declaration dated passes to the purchaser immediately upon the Time is of the essence. If the sale is set aside for costs and fees related to recording the Trustee's
trustee. The bid deposit must be certified funds October 16, 2006, recorded October 18, 2006, in conclusion of the Substitute Trustee’s sale. any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be Deed, including the grantors tax. The successful
and/or cash, but no more than $9,900.00 of cash deed book 18842 page 1876, among the aforesaid Terms: A bidder’s deposit of ten percent (10%) of entitled to a return of the deposit paid. The bidder will be required to execute a
will be accepted. The successful bidder's deposit land records. the sale price or ten percent price (10%) of the Purchaser may, if provided by the terms of the Memorandum of Trustee's Sale, available for
will be retained at the sale and applied to the original principal balance of the subject deed of Trustee’s Memorandum of Foreclosure Sale, be review upon request before the sale, outlining
sale price. If held by the trustee, all other bid TERMS: CASH. A deposit of $34,395.00 or 10% of trust, whichever is lower, in the form of cash or entitled to a $50 cancellation fee from the additional terms of sale and settlement. A
deposits will be returned to the unsuccessful the sale price, whichever is lower, will be certified funds payable to the Substitute Trustee Substitute Trustee, but shall have no further Trustee's Deed will be prepared by Trustee's
bidders. Settlement is to be made within 15 days. required of the successful bidder at time of sale. must be present at the time of sale. The balance recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or attorney at high bidder's expense.
The successful bidder will be responsible for Prior to the sale, interested bidders will be of the purchase price will be due within 20 days the Mortgagee’s attorney. A form copy of the
obtaining possession of the property, and for all required to register with and must present a bid at the office of the Substitute Trustee. The Trustee’s memorandum of foreclosure sale and For More Information Contact:
costs and fees related to recording the Trustee's deposit which may be held during the sale by the Substitute Trustee reserves the right to suspend contract to purchase real property is available for
Deed, including the grantors tax. The successful trustee. The bid deposit must be certified funds bidding prior to completion of the sale. Time is of viewing at www.bwwsales.com. Additional terms, Western Progressive - Virginia, Inc
bidder will be required to execute a and/or cash, but no more than $9,900.00 of cash the essence as to the closing date and the if any, to be announced at the sale and the Regus Arlington Ballston,
Memorandum of Trustee's Sale, available for will be accepted. The successful bidder's deposit payment of the purchase price. If payment of the Purchaser may be given the option to execute the 4250 N Fairfax Drive, Suite 600
review upon request before the sale, outlining will be retained at the sale and applied to the balance does not occur within twenty days of the contract of sale electronically. This is a Office Number 675
additional terms of sale and settlement. A sale price. If held by the trustee, all other bid sale date, the deposit will be forfeited. Seller communication from a debt collector and any Arlington VA 22203
Trustee's Deed will be prepared by Trustee's deposits will be returned to the unsuccessful shall not be responsible for any costs incurred by information obtained will be used for that Telephone #: 866-960-8299
attorney at high bidder's expense. bidders. Settlement is to be made within 15 days. the purchaser in connection with their purchase purpose. The sale is subject to seller confirmation. Fax #: 866-960-8298
The successful bidder will be responsible for or settlement, including, without limitation, state Substitute Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 8100 Email: [email protected]
For More Information Contact: obtaining possession of the property, and for all and local recording fees, title insurance or Three Chopt Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229.
costs and fees related to recording the Trustee's research, or any other costs of purchaser’s For more information contact: BWW Law Group,
Western Progressive - Virginia, Inc Deed, including the grantors tax. The successful acquisition. Trustee shall have no duty to obtain LLC, attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003 Run Dates: July 30th, 2024
Regus Arlington Ballston, bidder will be required to execute a possession for purchaser. All risks of casualty Executive Blvd, Suite 101, Rockville, MD 20852, August 6th, 2024
4250 N Fairfax Drive, Suite 600 Memorandum of Trustee's Sale, available for pass to successful bidder at conclusion of 301-961-6555, website: www.bwwsales.com.
Office Number 675 review upon request before the sale, outlining bidding. The property and the improvements VA-354436-3. AD#84911
Arlington VA 22203 additional terms of sale and settlement. A thereon will be sold “AS IS” and without
Telephone #: 866-960-8299 Trustee's Deed will be prepared by Trustee's representation or warranties of any kind. The July 30, 2024
Fax #: 866-960-8298 attorney at high bidder's expense. sale is subject to all liens, encumbrances, August 6, 2024
Email: [email protected] conditions, easements and restrictions, if any, AD#85100
For More Information Contact: superior to the mentioned deed of trust and TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 7614 RANGE ROAD,
lawfully affecting the property. Sale is subject to ALEXANDRIA, VA 22306. In execution of a certain
Run Dates: July 30th, 2024 Western Progressive - Virginia, Inc post-sale confirmation that the borrower did not Deed of Trust dated May 12, 2005, in the original
August 6th, 2024 Regus Arlington Ballston, file for protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy principal amount of $480,000.00 recorded in the
TRUSTEE SALE
4250 N Fairfax Drive, Suite 600 Code prior to the sale, as well as to post-sale Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Fairfax County,
5531 Shipley Ct,
AD#85174 Office Number 675 confirmation and audit of the status of the loan Virginia, in Book 17285 at Page 1345 as Instrument
Centreville, VA 20120
Arlington VA 22203 with the loan servicer including, but not limited No. 2005019317.013. The undersigned Substitute
Fairfax County
Telephone #: 866-960-8299 to, determination of whether the borrower(s) Trustee will offer for sale at public auction in the
Fax #: 866-960-8298 entered into any repayment agreement, front of the Circuit Court building for Fairfax
In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original
Email: [email protected] reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. County, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA, on
principal amount of $307,500.00, dated September
Trustee's Sale In any such event, the sale shall be null and void, September 4, 2024, at 11:45 AM, the property
23, 2013 recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit
7855 Enola Street Apt. 101, Tysons Corner and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or described in said Deed of Trust, located at the
Court of the Fairfax County, Virginia, in Document
a/k/a McLean, Virginia 22102 Run Dates: July 30th, 2024 equity, shall be the return of the Purchaser’s above address, and more particularly described as
No. 2013041949.002, in Book No. 23401, at Page 0525
(Tax Map No.: 0392 26050101) August 6th, 2024 deposit without interest. Additional terms to be follows: LOT 87, "SECTION 3 AND RESUBDIVISION
and modified in Document No. 2020035268.004, in
announced at the sale. For more information OF LOT 49, SECTION 2, KIRKSIDE", AS THE SAME
Book No. 26196, at Page 0359 and modified in
Default having been made in the terms of a AD#85175 contact: Michael T. Cantrell, Esq., member of APPEARS DULY DEDICATED, PLATTED AND
Document No. 2023023990.001, in Book No. 27919,
certain Deed of Trust dated September 6, 2017, in Surety Trustees, at 301-490-3361 or RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 2364 AT PAGE 258 AND
at Page 1127, at the request of the holder of the
the original principal amount of $151,200.00 and www.mwc-law.com. SUPPLEMENTED BY SUPPLEMENTAL DEED OF
Note, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer
recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court for sale at public auction at the entrance to the DEDICATION RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 2383 AT
of the County of Fairfax, Virginia in Deed Book July 9th, 2024 PAGE 5 46, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF
Fairfax County Judicial Center, 4110 Chain Bridge
25176, page 1741, the undersigned Substitute July 16th, 2024 FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA. TERMS OF SALE: ALL
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF Road, Fairfax, on S eptember 3, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Trustees will sell at public auction on August 20, July 23rd, 2024 CASH. A bidder’s deposit of ten percent (10%) of
6810 RIGBY LANE, the property described in said deed, located at the
2024, at 1:15pm in front of the building housing the July 30th, 2024 the sale price or ten percent (10%) of the original
MCLEAN, VIRGINIA 22101 above address and briefly described as:
Fairfax County Circuit Court, 4110 Chain Bridge COUNTY OF FAIRFAX principal balance of the subject Deed of Trust,
Road, Fairfax, VA 22030, the property designated AD#84405 whichever is lower, in the form of cash or certified
Lot 24, Section 3, Sequoia Farms, with any
as Condominium Unit Number 5-7855-101-1 of In execution of a certain deed of trust dated improvements thereon funds payable to the Substitute Trustee must be
McLean Hills, a Condominium pursuant to the 06/06/07, in the original principal amount of present at the time of the sale. The balance of the
Declaration recorded on August 28, 1984, in Deed 612,500.00 recorded in the County of Fairfax, Subject to any and all covenants, conditions, purchase price will be due within fifteen (15) days
Book 6013 at Page 60, among the land records of Virginia, as Book 19379, Page 1830, as Instrument restrictions, easements, and all other matters of of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s deposit may be
Fairfax County, Virginia. Together with the use NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SALE forfeited to Trustee. Time is of the essence. If the
No. 2007016686.002, as amended by an 4001 Guinea Road, record taking priority over the Deed of Trust, if
and enjoyment of the Limited Common Elements instrument appointing the undersigned as any, affecting the aforesaid property. sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at
appurtenant thereto, as set forth in the Annandale, VA 22003 the sale shall be entitled to a return of the deposit
Substitute Trustee, default having occurred in
R e s t r i c t i o n s a n d R e s e rv a t i o n s f o r s a i d the payment of the Note thereby secured and at T ERMS OF SALE: CASH: A deposit of $20,000.00 or paid. The Purchaser may, if provided by the terms
Condominium. NOTE: Previous Deeds erroneously By virtue of the power and authority contained in a of the Trustee’s Memorandum of Foreclosure Sale,
the request of the holder, the undersigned Deed of Trust dated January 24, 2006 and recorded 10% of the sales price, whichever is lower, cash or
state the Unit Number as 5-7877-101-1. The correct Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public certified check will be required at the time of sale, be entitled to a $50 cancellation fee from the
Unit Number is 5-7855-101-1 as stated in the legal January 31, 2006 in Book 18180 Page 0905 Substitute Trustee, but shall have no further
auction in the front of the building housing the Instrument Number 2006003985.005 in the Clerk's but no more than $10,000.00 of cash will be
above. Sale is subject to all prior liens, easements, Circuit Court of the COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, VA accepted, with settlement within fifteen (15) days recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or
restrictions, covenants, and conditions, if any, of Office for the Fairfax County Virginia Circuit Court, the Mortgagee’s attorney. A form copy of the
located at 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Virginia, securing a loan which was originally from the date of sale. Sale is subject to post sale
record, or other matters which would be disclosed Virginia, 22030 on A ugust 22, 2024, at 11:00 am, confirmation that the borrower did not file for Trustee’s memorandum of foreclosure sale and
by an accurate survey or inspection of the $750,000.00. The appointed SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE, contract to purchase real property is available for
the property described in said deed of trust, Commonwealth Trustees, LLC will offer for sale at protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to
premises. TERMS: CASH. A deposit of $15,000.00 or located at the above address, with the sale which affects the validity of the sale, as viewing at www.bwwsales.com. Additional terms,
10% of the sale price, whichever is lower, will be public auction at the front of the entrance of the if any, to be announced at the sale and the
improvements thereon and more particularly Fairfax County Circuit Court Courthouse located at well as to post-sale confirmation of the status of
required of the successful bidder at time of sale. described as follows: LOT 14, MCLEAN CREST, AS the loan with the loan servicer including, but not Purchaser may be given the option to execute the
Prior to the sale, interested bidders will be 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA 22030. contract of sale electronically. This is a
THE SAME APPEARS DULY DEDICATED, PLATTED limited to, determination of whether the borrower
required to register with and must present a bid AND RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 10062 AT PAGE entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated communication from a debt collector and any
deposit which may be held during the sale by the August 30, 2024 at 11:00 AM information obtained will be used for that
1181, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF FAIRFAX or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such
trustee. The bid deposit must be certified funds COUNTY, VIRGINIA TERMS OF SALE: Neither the event, the sale shall be null and void, and the purpose. The sale is subject to seller confirmation.
and/or cash, but no more than $9,900.00 of cash improved real property, with an abbreviated legal Substitute Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 8100
Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note description of the following described property, to Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be
will be accepted. The successful bidder’s deposit secured by the deed of trust will deliver the return of his deposit witho ut interest. Three Chopt Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229.
will be retained at the sale and applied to the sale wit: For more information contact: BWW Law Group,
possession of the property to the successful Additional terms may be announced at the time of
price. If held by the trustee, all other bid deposits bidder. The purchaser at the sale will be required sale. Pursuant to the Federal Fair Debt Collection LLC, attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003
will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders. Being part of Lot Number Seven (7), of the Division Executive Blvd, Suite 101, Rockville, MD 20852,
to pay all closing costs. Real estate taxes, of Land of Ashton C. Jones, et. al., as recorded in Practices Act, we advise you that this firm is a debt
Settlement is to be made within 15 calendar days. water/sewer fees and other public charges will collector attempting to collect the indebtedness 301-961-6555, website: www.bwwsales.com.
The successful bidder will be responsible for Deed Book V-11 at Page 63 and shown on plat VA-355593-2.
be prorated as of the date of sale. The risk of attached thereto made by Walter Ralph, C.L.S. and referred to herein and any information we obtain
obtaining possession of the property, and for all loss or damage to the property passes to the will be used for that purpose.
costs and fees related to recording the Trustee’s more particularly described as follows: Beginning July 30, 2024
purchaser immediately upon the conclusion of at a point in the center of Guinea Road at its
Deed, including the grantors tax. The successful the Substitute Trustee’s sale. Terms: A bidder’s SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C., Substitute Trustee August 6, 2024
bidder will be required to execute a Memorandum intersection with the Southerly side of Little River AD#85059
deposit of ten percent (10%)of the sale price or Turnpike (as widened to 60`) then with the center
of Trustee's Sale, available for review on the ten percent price (10%) of the original principal This is a communication from a debt collector.
Foreclosure Sales page of www.glasserlaw.com, of said road, S 21 degrees 07` W. 167.22` to a point;
balance of the subject deed of trust, whichever is thence with new division line through the residue
outlining additional terms of sale and settlement. lower, in the form of cash or certified funds FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
A Trustee’s Deed will be prepared by Trustee’s of the Bennett Property, S 80 degrees 25`30" E.
payable to the Substitute Trustee must be 278.22` to a pipe on the easterly side of said Lot 7 TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 8632 VILLAGE SQUARE DRIVE,
attorney at high bidder’s expense. This is a present at the time of sale. The balance of the SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C. (89320)
communication from a debt collector, Glasser and and the westerly line of Lot 6, thence with said line U N I T 1 6 / 8 6 3 2 , A L E X A N D R I A , V A 2 2 3 0 9 . In
purchase price will be due within 20 days at the N. 11 degrees 56`E. 63.98` to a pipe on the 448 Viking Drive, Suite 350 execution of a certain Deed of Trust dated August
Glasser, P.L.C. on behalf of Atlantic Trustee office of the Substitute Trustee. The Substitute Virginia Beach, Virginia 23452
Services, L.L.C., and/or REO Solutions, LLC, and/or southerly side of Little River Turnpike (as 16, 2012, in the original principal amount of
Trustee reserves the right to suspend bidding widened), thence with said Pike N. 80 degrees 757-457-1460 - Call Between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. $141,600.00 recorded in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit
NFPDS-VA LLC, Substitute Trustees, Crown Center prior to completion of the sale. Time is of the or visit our website at www.siwpc.net
Building, Suite 600, 580 East Main Street, Norfolk, 25`30" W. 252.52` to beginning, containing 1.00 Court for Fairfax County, Virginia, in Book 22505 at
essence as to the closing date and the payment acres; Page 0433 as Instrument No. 2012037767.002. The
VA 23510, File No. 226867-02, Tel: (757) 321-6465, of the purchase price. If payment of the balance July 30th, 2024
between 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 noon only. undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale
does not occur within twenty days of the sale Less And Except that portion of said tract August 6th, 2024 at public auction in the front of the Circuit Court
date, the deposit will be forfeited. Seller shall not conveyed to the Commonwealth of Virginia, in building for Fairfax County, 4110 Chain Bridge
Run Dates: July 30th, 2024 be responsible for any costs incurred by the AD#85698
August 6th, 2024 Deed Book 1603 at Page 527 and platted in State Road, Fairfax, VA, on September 4, 2024, at 11:45
purchaser in connection with their purchase or Highway Plat Book 2, at Page 311, and containing AM, the property described in said Deed of Trust,
settlement, including, without limitation, state 0.06 Acres, More or Less, reference being made to l o c a t e d a t t h e a b o v e a d d r e ss, a n d m o r e
AD#84889 and local recording fees, title insurance or the same for a more particular description therein. particularly described as follows: UNIT 8632,
research, or any other costs of purchaser’s AND as more fully described in the aforesaid Deed VILLAGE SQUARE, THE VILLAGES, SECTION 1-C, AS
acquisition. Trustee shall have no duty to obtain TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
of Trust. PER MASTER DEED RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 4058
possession for purchaser. All risks of casualty 10918 WARWICK AVENUE,
AT PAGE 503, OF THE LAND RECORDS OF FAIRFAX
pass to successful bidder at conclusion of FAIRFAX, VA 22030
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF TERMS OF SALE: The property will be sold “AS IS,” COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AS AMENDED IN DEED BOOK
bidding. The property and the improvements WITHOUT REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF 4536 AT PAGE 189, AND DEED BOOK 4536 AT PAGE
2208 HARVARD DRIVE, thereon will be sold “AS IS” and without In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original
ALEXANDRIA, VA 22307 ANY KIND AND SUBJECT TO conditions, 195. TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit
representation or warranties of any kind. The principal amount of $118,969.78, with an annual
restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of of ten percent (10%) of the sale price or ten
sale is subject to all liens, encumbrances, interest rate of 3.875000% dated July 31, 2015,
In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original way, and all other matters of record taking priority percent (10%) of the original principal balance of
conditions, easements and restrictions, if any, recorded among the land records of the Circuit
principal amount of $340,000.00, with an annual over the Deed of Trust to be announced at the time the subject Deed of Trust, whichever is lower, in
superior to the mentioned deed of trust and Court for the County of Fairfax as Deed Book
interest rate of 2.875000% dated June 30, 2006, of sale. A deposit of $20,000 or 10% of the sale the form of cash or certified funds payable to the
lawfully affecting the property. Sale is subject to 24243, Page 0095, the undersigned appointed
recorded among the land records of the Circuit price, whichever is lower, will be required at the Substitute Trustee must be present at the time of
post-sale confirmation that the borrower did not Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public
Court for the COUNTY OF FAIRFAX as Deed Book time of sale, in the form of certified check, the sale. The balance of the purchase price will be
file for protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy auction all that property located in the County of
18589, Page 1859, the undersigned appointed cashier's check or money order by the purchaser. due within fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise
Code prior to the sale, as well as to post-sale Fairfax, on the courthouse steps at the front of
Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public The balance of the purchase price, with interest at Purchaser’s deposit may be forfeited to Trustee.
confirmation and audit of the status of the loan the Circuit Court building for the County of
auction all that property located in the COUNTY the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from Time is of the essence. If the sale is set aside for
with the loan servicer including, but not limited Fairfax located at 4110 Chain Bridge Road,
OF FAIRFAX, o n the courthouse steps at the front the date of sale to the date said funds are received any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be
to, determination of whether the borrower(s) Fairfax, Virginia on September 24, 2024 at 10:00
of the Circuit Court building for the County of in the office of the SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE, will be entitled to a return of the deposit paid. The
entered into any repayment agreement, AM, the property with improvements to wit:
Fairfax located at 4110 Chain Bridge Road, due within fifteen (15) days of sale. In the event of Purchaser may, if provided by the terms of the
reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. default by the successful bidder, the entire deposit Trustee’s Memorandum of Foreclosure Sale, be
Fairfax, Virginia on September 24, 2024 at 1:15 In any such event, the sale shall be null and void, TOWN & COUNTRY FOREST LT 26 - 12711 SF 9598-
PM, the property with improvements to wit: shall be forfeited and applied to the costs and entitled to a $50 cancellation fee from the
and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or 1265
expenses of sale and Substitute Trustee's fee. All Substitute Trustee, but shall have no further
equity, shall be the return of the Purchaser’s other public charges or assessments, including recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or
BUCKNELL MANOR LT 5 BLK C deposit without interest. Additional terms to be Tax Map No. 57 1 26 026
water/sewer charges, whether incurred prior to or the Mortgagee’s attorney. A form copy of the
announced at the sale. For more information after the sale, and all other costs incident to Trustee’s memorandum of foreclosure sale and
Tax Map No. 0833 13C 0005 contact: Michael T. Cantrell, Esq., member of THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT
settlement to be paid by the purchaser. In the contract to purchase real property is available for
Surety Trustees, at 301-490-3361 or COLLECTOR.
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT event taxes, any other public charges have been viewing at www.bwwsales.com. Additional terms,
www.mwc-law.com. advanced, a credit will be due to the seller, to be if any, to be announced at the sale and the
COLLECTOR. TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder's deposit of
adjusted from the date of sale at the time of Purchaser may be given the option to execute the
July 23rd, 2024 10% of the sale price, will be required in cash,
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder's deposit of settlement. Purchaser agrees to pay the seller's contract of sale electronically. This is a
July 30th, 2024 certified or cashier's check. Settlement within
10% of the sale price, will be required in cash, attorneys at settlement, a fee of $470.00 for review communication from a debt collector and any
fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustees may
certified or cashier's check. Settlement within of the settlement documents. information obtained will be used for that
AD#84749 forfeit deposit. Additional terms to be
fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustees may Additional terms will be announced at the time of purpose. The sale is subject to seller confirmation.
announced at sale. Loan type: Conventional.
forfeit deposit. Additional terms to be sale and the successful bidder will be required to Substitute Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 8100
Reference Number 24-296697.
announced at sale. Loan type: Conventional. execute and deliver to the Substitute Trustees a Three Chopt Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229.
Reference Number 15-250398. memorandum or contract of the sale at the For more information contact: BWW Law Group,
conclusion of bidding. LLC, attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003
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5611 BIRCHLEAF PARK COURT, 1307 N Danville St, Arlington, VA 22201 DUMFRIES, VA 22025 8527 PINEY PT CT, 7211 LAKEWOOD LN
CENTREVILLE, VA 20120 Arlington County MANASSAS, VA 20110 SPOTSYLVANIA, VA 22551
In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original principal
In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original amount of $20,000.00 dated September 28, 2022 and
In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original recorded in the land records of Prince William County,
In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original In execution of the Deed of Trust in the original
principal amount of $350,000.00, with an annual principal amount of $1,168,700.00, dated June 22, Virginia at Instrument 202210120072865 , default having principal amount of $260,000.00, with an annual principal amount of $177,721.00, dated September
interest rate of 5.750000% dated April 1, 2004, 2007 recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit been made in the indebtedness secured thereby, the interest rate of 5.375000% dated July 8, 2005, 30, 2016, and recorded as Instrument Number
recorded among the land records of the Circuit Court of the Arlington County, Virginia, in undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public recorded among the land records of the Circuit 160017074 in Spotsylvania County land records,
Court for the County of Fairfax as Deed Book Document No. 2007186177, in Book No. 4114, at auction at the Front Entrance for the Circuit Court for Court for the County of Prince William as Deed the appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for
Page 2508, at the request of the holder of the Note, Prince William County, located at 9311 Lee Avenue Instrument Number 200507130116416, the
15883, Page 1990, the undersigned appointed sale at public auction in the front of the Circuit
the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for Manassas, Virginia 20110, the above referenced property
Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public undersigned appointed Substitute Trustee will Court building for Spotsylvania County, 9107
and fixtures or improvements thereon briefly described as
auction all that property located in the County of sale at public auction at the entrance to the Circuit offer for sale at public auction all that property Judicial Center Lane, Spotsylvania, Virginia
“Lot 26 in the Subdivision of Country Club Lake” on
Fairfax, on the courthouse steps at the front of Court of Arlington County, 1425 N Courthouse Rd, located in the County of Prince William, o n t h e 2 2 5 5 3 - 0 0 9 6 o n A u g u s t 2 9 , 2 0 2 4 a t 2 : 1 5 P M , the
the Circuit Court building for the County of Arlington, on A u g u s t 2 6 , 2 0 2 4 a t 1 2 : 0 0 P M the August 13, 2024 AT 10:00 am Court House steps in front of Main Entrance for property described in said deed of trust, located
Fairfax located at 4110 Chain Bridge Road, property described in said deed, located at the the Circuit Court building for the County of Prince at the above address and more particularly
above address and briefly described as: TERMS OF SALE: The property is being sold subject to a William located at 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas,
Fairfax, Virginia on October 1, 2024 at 10:00 AM, described as follows:
senior Deed of Trust recorded on March 8, 2005 as
the property with improvements to wit: V i r g i n i a o n S e p t e m b e r 3 , 2 0 2 4 a t 1 : 0 0 P M , the
Instrument # 200503080036219 in the amount of
Lot 68-A, Block B, Clarendon, with any property with improvements to wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND,
$257,000.00 and any senior judgments or liens of record.
Rocky Run improvements thereon The property will be sold “AS IS,” WITHOUT WITH IMPROVEMENTS THEREON AND
LT 147 Sec 5 REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND LOT 606 SEC 3 APPURTENANCES THERETO LYING, BEING AND
Subject to any and all covenants, conditions, SUBJECT TO any environmental or other conditions, POINT OF WOODS SITUATE IN LIVINGSTON MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT,
Tax Map No. 0541 07 0147 restrictions, easements, and all other matters of covenants, restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of TH SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA KNOWN AS
record taking priority over the Deed of Trust, if way, prior liens, and all other matters of record taking
priority over the Deed of Trust, if any. Substitute Trustee LOT 13, LAKEWOOD ESTATES, AS SHOWN ON
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT any, affecting the aforesaid property. Tax Map No. 33456 PLAT OF CORBIN SURVEYS, INC., DATED JUNE 10,
shall have no obligation to deliver possession of the
COLLECTOR. property or any other obligation as to the premises. 1975, AND RECORDED IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE,
TERMS OF SALE: CASH: A deposit of $20,000.00 or THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT CIRCUIT COURT, SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY,
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder's deposit of 10% of the sales price, whichever is lower, cash or A bidder’s deposit of $5,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, COLLECTOR. VIRGINIA, IN DEED BOOK 370, PAGE 506.
10% of the sale price, will be required in cash, certified check will be required at the time of sale, whichever is lower, will be required at the time of sale in
but no more than $10,000.00 of cash will be the form of a certified check or cashier’s check from the TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder's deposit of
certified or cashier's check. Settlement within purchaser or the bid will be rejected. Successful bidder
TAX ID: 56-1-13
fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustees may accepted, with settlement within fifteen (15) days 10% of the sale price, will be required in cash,
will be required to sign a memorandum of sale at the time
forfeit deposit. Additional terms to be announced from the date of sale. Sale is subject to post sale of the sale and settle by remitting the balance of the certified or cashier's check. Settlement within TOGETHER WITH THAT CERTAIN MOBLE HOME:
at sale. Loan type: Conventional. Reference confirmation that the borrower did not file for purchase price within fourteen (14) days of sale. If the fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustees may MAKE MODEL YEAR 2003, I.D.
Number 24-296781. protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to buyer wishes to use their own settlement company and forfeit deposit. Additional terms to be announced #S:BR03NC140286B/A. PERMANETLY AFFIXED
the sale which affects the validity of the sale, as documentation, there will be a fee of $300.00 for review of at sale. Loan type: Conventional. Reference
well as to post-sale confirmation of the status of their settlement documents. In the event of default by the Number 24-295991.
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE CORPORATION The property and improvements will be sold in
the loan with the loan servicer including, but not successful bidder, the entire deposit shall be forfeited and
OF VIRGINIA, Substitute Trustees, applied to the costs and expenses of sale and Substitute "as is" physical condition without warranty of
C/O LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP, limited to, determination of whether the borrower PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE CORPORATION any kind.
Trustee's fee according to the Code of Virginia.
Mailing Address: entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated OF VIRGINIA, Substitute Trustees,
10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400, or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such All other public charges or assessments, including C/O LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP, TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder's
Charlotte, North Carolina 28216 event, the sale shall be null and void, and the water/sewer charges to be prorated through date of sale; 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200, deposit of 10% of the sale price or 10% of the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be those incurred after the sale date, and all other costs Manassas, Virginia 20109
(703) 449-5800. original principal amount of the subject Deed of
the return of his deposit witho ut interest. incident to settlement to be paid by the purchaser. In the
(703) 449-5800. Trust, whichever is lower, by cashier's or certified
event taxes, any other public charges have been
Run Dates: July 30th, 2024 Additional terms may be announced at the time of check required at time of sale except for the
advanced, a credit will be due to the seller, to be adjusted
August 27th, 2024 sale. Pursuant to the Federal Fair Debt Collection from the date of sale at the time of settlement. Sale is Run Dates: June 27th, 2024 party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss
September 3rd, 2024 Practices Act, we advise you that this firm is a debt subject to post sale confirmation that the borrower did July 30th, 2024 on purchaser from date and time of auction.
collector attempting to collect the indebtedness not file for protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code August 6th, 2024 Balance of the purchase price must be paid by
AD#85733 referred to herein and any information we obtain prior to the sale as well as to post-sale confirmation of the cashier's check within 15 days from sale date.
will be used for that purpose. status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not AD#84963
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered Except for Virginia Grantor tax, all settlement
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the costs and expenses are purchaser's
SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C., Substitute Trustee loan prior to the sale or whether other legal impediment responsibility. Taxes are pro-rated to the date of
to title exists. In any such event, the sale shall be null and sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF This is a communication from a debt collector. void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, possession of the property. If purchaser defaults,
13536 LEITH COURT,
shall be the return of the deposit without interest. Trustee's Sale deposit may be forfeited and property resold at
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Additional terms may be announced at the time of sale. 14619 Aurora Drive,
CHANTILLY, VA 20151 the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser who
Woodbridge, Virginia 22193 shall be liable for any deficiency in the purchase
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Cohn Goldberg Deutsch,
In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C. (86139) 410-296-2550 or www.cgd-law.com re: CGD #460695. Cohn
(Parcel ID: 8291-45-4596) price and all costs, expenses and attorney’s fees
principal amount of $253,791.50, with an annual 448 Viking Drive, Suite 350 Goldberg Deutsch is a debt collector; any information of both sales. If Trustee does not convey title for
interest rate of 5.740000% dated February 25, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23452 obtained will be used for that purpose. Default having been made in the terms of a any reason, purchaser's sole remedy is return of
2008, recorded among the land records of the 757-457-1460 - Call Between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. certain Deed of Trust dated March 10, 2020, in the deposit without interest. This sale is subject to
or visit our website at www.siwpc.net BLUE RIDGE TRUSTEES LLC original principal amount of $381,954.00 and
Circuit Court for the County of Fairfax as Deed post-sale audit of the status of the loan secured
Book 19853, Page 0793, the undersigned recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court by the Deed of Trust including but not limited to
Run Dates: July 16, July 23, July 30, August 6 Ad#84833
appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at July 29th, 30th, 31st, 2024 of the County of Prince William, Virginia in determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy
public auction all that property located in the August 1st, and 2nd, 2024 Instrument No. 202003120019914, the undersigned was filed, a forbearance, repayment or other
County of Fairfax, on the courthouse steps at the Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction on agreement was entered into or the loan was
front of the Circuit Court building for the County AD#85628 TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 14425 VILLAGE DRIVE, A u g u s t 2 0 , 2 0 2 4 , a t 0 1 : 0 0 P M in front of the reinstated or paid off; in any such event this sale
of Fairfax located at 4110 Chain Bridge Road, WOODBRIDGE, VA 22191. In execution of a certain building housing the Prince William County Circuit shall be null and void and purchaser’s sole
Fairfax, Virginia on August 27, 2024 at 10:00 AM, Deed of Trust dated July 22, 2005, in the original Court, 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas, VA 20110, the remedy shall be return of deposit without
principal amount of $111,000.00 recorded in the property designated as Lot 744 Section 1 Dale City
the property with improvements to wit: Trustee Sales: Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Prince William as the same appears duly dedicated plat and
interest. This communication is from a debt
collector and is an attempt to collect a debt and
ARMFIELD ESTATES Prince William Co. County, Virginia as Instrument No. recorded in deed book 347 at page 258 among the any information obtained will be used for that
LT 29A 200507270126463. The undersigned Substitute land records of Prince William County Virginia. purpose.
Trustee will offer for sale at public auction in the Sale is subject to all prior liens, easements,
Tax Map No. 0344 09 0029A Trustee's Sale front of the Circuit Court building for Prince restrictions, covenants, and conditions, if any, of SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE: RAS Trustee Services, LLC,
2786 Wakewater Way, William County, 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas, record, or other matters which would be disclosed 4012 Raintree Road, Suite 100A,
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT Woodbridge, Virginia 22191 Virginia, on September 4, 2024, at 9:45 AM, the by an accurate survey or inspection of the Chesapeake, Virginia 23321
COLLECTOR. (Parcel ID: 8290-62-9398) property described in said Deed of Trust, located premises. TERMS: CASH. A deposit of $38,000.00 or
at the above address, and more particularly 10% of the sale price, whichever is lower, will be
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder's deposit of Default having been made in the terms of a described as follows: LOT 44, SECTION 2, VILLAGE required of the successful bidder at time of sale. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
10% of the sale price, will be required in cash, certain Deed of Trust dated April 19, 2013, in the SQUARE, AS THE SAME APPEARS DULY DEDICATED Prior to the sale, interested bidders will be
certified or cashier's check. Settlement within original principal amount of $230,100.00 and PLATTED AND RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 390 AT required to register with and must present a bid RAS Trustee Services, LLC, Substitute Trustee
fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustees may recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court PAGE 246, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE deposit which may be held during the sale by the c/o Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane
forfeit deposit. Additional terms to be announced of the County of Prince William, Virginia in WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. TERMS OF SALE: ALL trustee. The bid deposit must be certified funds & Partners, PLLC
at sale. Loan type: Conventional. Reference Instrument No. 201304290043318, the undersigned CASH. A bidder’s deposit of ten percent (10%) of and/or cash, but no more than $9,900.00 of cash 11350 McCormick Road,
Number 24-296700. Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction on the sale price or ten percent (10%) of the original will be accepted. The successful bidder’s deposit Executive Plaza I, Suite 302
August 27, 2024, at 1:00 pm in front of the building principal balance of the subject Deed of Trust, will be retained at the sale and applied to the sale Hunt Valley, Maryland 21031
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE CORPORATION housing the Prince William County Circuit Court, whichever is lower, in the form of cash or certified price. If held by the trustee, all other bid deposits (844) 442-2150
OF VIRGINIA, Substitute Trustees, 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas, VA 20110, the funds payable to the Substitute Trustee must be will be returned to the unsuccessful bidders. (470) 321- 7112
C/O LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP, property designated as Lot 84, Section 8, Port present at the time of the sale. The balance of the Settlement is to be made within 15 calendar days.
Mailing Address: Potomac, as the same appears duly dedicated, purchase price will be due within fifteen (15) days The successful bidder will be responsible for July 23rd, 2024
10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400, platted and recorded as instrument no. of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s deposit may be obtaining possession of the property, and for all July 30th, 2024
Charlotte, North Carolina 28216 200503010031882, among the land records of forfeited to Trustee. Time is of the essence. If the costs and fees related to recording the Trustee’s
(703) 449-5800. Prince William County, Virginia. Sale is subject to sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at Deed, including the grantors tax. The successful AD#85028
all prior liens, easements, restrictions, covenants, the sale shall be entitled to a return of the deposit bidder will be required to execute a Memorandum
Run Dates: June 25th, 2024 and conditions, if any, of record, or other matters paid. The Purchaser may, if provided by the terms of Trustee's Sale, available for review on the
July 23rd, 2024 which would be disclosed by an accurate survey of the Trustee’s Memorandum of Foreclosure Sale, Foreclosure Sales page of www.glasserlaw.com,
July 30th, 2024 or inspection of the premises. The property will be be entitled to a $50 cancellation fee from the outlining additional terms of sale and settlement.
sold subject to the right of redemption of the Substitute Trustee, but shall have no further A Trustee’s Deed will be prepared by Trustee’s TRUSTEE'S SALE
AD#84814 Internal Revenue Service. TERMS: CASH. A deposit recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or attorney at high bidder’s expense. This is a 903 BELLOWS AVE
of $23,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is the Mortgagee’s attorney. A form copy of the communication from a debt collector, Glasser and FREDERICKSBURG, VA 22405
lower, will be required of the successful bidder at Trustee’s memorandum of foreclosure sale and Glasser, P.L.C. on behalf of Atlantic Trustee
time of sale. Prior to the sale, interested bidders contract to purchase real property is available for Services, L.L.C., and/or REO Solutions, LLC, and/or In execution of the Deed of Trust in the original
will be required to register with and must present viewing at www.bwwsales.com. Additional terms, Auction.com-VA, LLC, Substitute Trustees, Crown principal amount of $125,000.00, dated January 9,
a bid deposit which may be held during the sale by if any, to be announced at the sale and the Center Building, Suite 600, 580 East Main Street, 2006, and recorded as Instrument Number
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
the trustee. The bid deposit must be certified Purchaser may be given the option to execute the Norfolk, VA 23510, File No. 232921-01, Tel: (757) LR060001773 in Stafford County land records, the
9903 BEACH MILL ROAD,
funds and/or cash, but no more than $9,900.00 of contract of sale electronically. This is a 321-6465, between 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 noon only. appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at
GREAT FALLS, VA 22066
cash will be accepted. The successful bidder’s communication from a debt collector and any public auction o n t h e c o u r t h o u s e s t e p s o f t h e
deposit will be retained at the sale and applied to information obtained will be used for that Run Dates: July 23rd, 2024 Circuit Court building for the County of Stafford
In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original
the sale price. If held by the trustee, all other bid purpose. The sale is subject to seller confirmation. July 30th, 2024 located at 1300 Courthouse Road, Stafford,
principal amount of $2,263,000.00, with an annual
deposits will be returned to the unsuccessful Substitute Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 8100 Virginia 22555-0069 on August 29, 2024 at 4:15 pm,
interest rate of 4.500000% dated September 18,
bidders. Settlement is to be made within 15 Three Chopt Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229. AD#84810 the property described in said deed of trust,
2007, recorded among the land records of the
calendar days. The successful bidder will be For more information contact: BWW Law Group, located at the above address and more
Circuit Court for the County of Fairfax as Deed
responsible for obtaining possession of the LLC, attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003 particularly described as follows:
Book 19571, Page 1881, the undersigned
property, and for all costs and fees related to Executive Blvd, Suite 101, Rockville, MD 20852,
appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at
public auction all that property located in the recording the Trustee’s Deed, including the 301-961-6555, website: www.bwwsales.com. Trustee Sales: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND TOGETHER
County of Fairfax, on the courthouse steps at the grantors tax. The successful bidder will be VA-350806-2. Virginia WITH ALL IMPROVEMENTS THEREON AND RIGHTS
front of the Circuit Court building for the County required to execute a Memorandum of Trustee's AND PRIVILEGES THERETO APPURTENANT,
Sale, available for review on the Foreclosure Sales July 30, 2024 SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN HARTWOOD
of Fairfax located at 4110 Chain Bridge Road,
page of www.glasserlaw.com, outlining additional August 6, 2024 DISTRICT, STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, SHOWN
Fairfax, Virginia on October 1, 2024 at 1:15 PM, Trustee's Sale
terms of sale and settlement. A Trustee’s Deed AD#84999 AS LOT 15, SECTION ONE, OLD FORGE
the property with improvements to wit: 2057 Farragut Drive,
will be prepared by Trustee’s attorney at high SUBDIVISION, ON PLAT OF MARTIN, CLIFFORD &
Stafford, VA 22554 (Parcel Id: 21-B-1959)
SCHLEGEL SUBD LT 1 bidder’s expense. This is a communication from a ASSOCIATES, DATED AUGUST 1970, OF RECORD IN
debt collector, Glasser and Glasser, P.L.C. on THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
Default having been made in the terms of a
Tax Map No. 0081-01-0017 behalf of Atlantic Trustee Services, L.L.C., and/or STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN PLAT BOOK 4,
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 8113 MORNINGSIDE DR, certain Deed of Trust dated 04/22/2005, in the
REO Solutions, LLC, and/or Auction.com-VA, LLC, PAGES 192 AND 193, ALONG WITH A DEED OF
MANASSAS, VA 20112. In execution of a certain original principal amount of $292,000.00 and
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT Substitute Trustees, Crown Center Building, Suite DEDICATION TO SECTION ONE, OLDE FORGE
Deed of Trust dated February 20, 2007, in the recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court
COLLECTOR. 600, 580 East Main Street, Norfolk, VA 23510, File SUBDIVISION, OF RECORD IN DEED BOOK 207,
original principal amount of $329,500.00 recorded of the Stafford county, Virginia on 04/27/2005, as
No. 230844-04, Tel: (757) 321-6465, between 10:00 PAGE 642.
in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Prince Instrument No. LR050014875, in Book ---, Page ---
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder's deposit of a.m. & 12:00 noon only.
William County, Virginia as Instrument No. , the undersigned Substitute Trustees will sell at
10% of the sale price, will be required in cash, TAX MAP # 45H-1-15
200703050027010. The undersigned Substitute public auction on 0 9 / 0 3 / 2 0 2 4 a t 0 9 : 3 0 A M ,
certified or cashier's check. Settlement within Run Dates: July 30th, 2024
Trustee will offer for sale at public auction in the Stafford Circuit Court, located at the front of the
fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustees may August 6th, 2024 The property and improvements will be sold in "as
front of the Circuit Court building for Prince courthouse, 1300 Courthouse Road, Stafford, VA
forfeit deposit. Additional terms to be announced is" physical condition without warranty of any
William County, 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas, 22555, the property designated as:
at sale. Loan type: Conventional. Reference AD#85099 kind.
Virginia, on September 4, 2024, at 9:45 AM, the
Number 20-287520. Lot Number 1959, on a plat of Section 6, AQUIA
property described in said Deed of Trust, located TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder's
at the above address, and more particularly HARBOUR SUBDIVISION, recorded in the Clerk`s
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE CORPORATION deposit of 10% of the sale price or 10% of the
described as follows: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED office of the Circuit Court of Stafford County,
OF VIRGINIA, Substitute Trustees, original principal amount of the subject Deed of
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 15466 THOROUGHFARE RD, REAL ESTATE SITUATE IN PRINCE WILLIAM Virginia in Plat Book 5 at Page 11.
C/O LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP, Trust, whichever is lower, by cashier's or certified
GAINESVILLE, VA 20155. In execution of a certain COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY check required at time of sale except for the party
Mailing Address: Deed of Trust dated February 3, 2021, in the TERMS: CASH. A deposit of $29,200.00 or 10% of
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 7-B, BROOKHAVEN, secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on
10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400, original principal amount of $338,279.00 recorded the sale price, whichever is lower, will be
AS THE SAME IS SHOWN ON PLAT ATTACHED TO purchaser from date and time of auction. Balance
Charlotte, North Carolina 28216 in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Prince required of the successful bidder at time of sale.
DEED OF VACATION, RESUBDIVISION AND of the purchase price must be paid by cashier's
(703) 449-5800. William County, Virginia as Instrument No. Prior to the sale, interested bidders will be
REDEDICATION RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 1110, AT check within 15 days from sale date. Except for
202102190020851. The undersigned Substitute PAGE 227, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE required to register with and must present a bid
Run Dates: July 30th, 2024 Virginia Grantor tax, all settlement costs and
Trustee will offer for sale at public auction in the WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. TERMS OF SALE: ALL deposit which may be held during the sale by the
August 27th, 2024 expenses are purchaser's responsibility. Taxes are
front of the Circuit Court building for Prince CASH. A bidder’s deposit of ten percent (10%) of trustee. The bid deposit must be certified funds
September 3rd, 2024 pro-rated to the date of sale. Purchaser is
William County, 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas, the sale price or ten percent (10%) of the original and/or cash, but no more than $9,900.00 of cash
responsible for obtaining possession of the
Virginia, on August 28, 2024, at 9:45 AM, the principal balance of the subject Deed of Trust, will be accepted. The successful bidder's deposit
AD#85694 property. If purchaser defaults, deposit may be
property described in said Deed of Trust, located at whichever is lower, in the form of cash or certified will be retained at the sale and applied to the
forfeited and property resold at the risk and cost
the above address, and more particularly funds payable to the Substitute Trustee must be sale price. If held by the trustee, all other bid
of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for
described as follows: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED present at the time of the sale. The balance of the deposits will be returned to the unsuccessful
any deficiency in the purchase price and all costs,
PROPERTY, WITH IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, purchase price will be due within fifteen (15) days bidders. Settlement is to be made within 15 days.
expenses and attorney’s fees of both sales. If

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LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF PRINCE WILLIAM, of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s deposit may be The successful bidder will be responsible for
Trustee does not convey title for any reason,
VIRGINIA (THE "PROPERTY"): LOT E-1, forfeited to Trustee. Time is of the essence. If the obtaining possession of the property, and for all
purchaser's sole remedy is return of deposit
GAINESVILLE ACRES, AS THE SAME IS SHOWN ON sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at costs and fees related to recording the Trustee's
without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale
A PLAT OF RE-SUBDIVISION ATTACHED TO A DEED the sale shall be entitled to a return of the deposit Deed, including the grantors tax. The successful
audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed
OF RE-SUBDIVISION RECORDED IN DEED BOOK paid. The Purchaser may, if provided by the terms bidder will be required to execute a
of Trust including but not limited to determining

Notices
1267, AT PAGE 1218, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS of the Trustee’s Memorandum of Foreclosure Sale, Memorandum of Trustee's Sale, available for
whether prior to sale a bankruptcy was filed, a
OF PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA. TERMS OF be entitled to a $50 cancellation fee from the review upon request before the sale, outlining
forbearance, repayment or other agreement was
SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of ten percent Substitute Trustee, but shall have no further additional terms of sale and settlement. A
entered into or the loan was reinstated or paid off;
(10%) of the sale price or ten percent (10%) of the recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or Trustee's Deed will be prepared by Trustee's
in any such event this sale shall be null and void
original principal balance of the subject Deed of the Mortgagee’s attorney. A form copy of the attorney at high bidder's expense.
and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of
Trust, whichever is lower, in the form of cash or Trustee’s memorandum of foreclosure sale and deposit without interest. This communication is
certified funds payable to the Substitute Trustee For More Information Contact:
DC & Maryland
contract to purchase real property is available for from a debt collector and is an attempt to collect
must be present at the time of the sale. The viewing at www.bwwsales.com. Additional terms, a debt and any information obtained will be used
balance of the purchase price will be due within if any, to be announced at the sale and the Western Progressive - Virginia, Inc
for that purpose.

202-636-4953 fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s Purchaser may be given the option to execute the Regus Arlington Ballston,
deposit may be forfeited to Trustee. Time is of the contract of sale electronically. This is a 4250 N Fairfax Drive, Suite 600
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE: RAS Trustee Services, LLC,
essence. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the communication from a debt collector and any Office Number 675
4012 Raintree Road, Suite 100A,

Virginia Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled to a return information obtained will be used for that Arlington VA 22203
Chesapeake, Virginia 23321
of the deposit paid. The Purchaser may, if provided purpose. The sale is subject to seller confirmation. Telephone #: 866-960-8299
by the terms of the Trustee’s Memorandum of Substitute Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 8100 Fax #: 866-960-8298

703-425-0903 Foreclosure Sale, be entitled to a $50 cancellation

fee from the Substitute Trustee, but shall have no
Three Chopt Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229.
For more information contact: BWW Law Group,
Email: [email protected]
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:

further recourse against the Mortgagor, the LLC, attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003 RAS Trustee Services, LLC, Substitute Trustee
Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. A form Executive Blvd, Suite 101, Rockville, MD 20852, Run Dates: July 30th, 2024
c/o Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane
copy of the Trustee’s memorandum of foreclosure 301-961-6555, website: www.bwwsales.com. August 6th, 2024
& Partners, PLLC
sale and contract to purchase real property is VA-370209-1. 11350 McCormick Road,
available for viewing at www.bwwsales.com. AD#84910
Executive Plaza I, Suite 302
Additional terms, if any, to be announced at the July 30, 2024 Hunt Valley, Maryland 21031
sale and the Purchaser may be given the option to August 6, 2024 (844) 442-2150
execute the contract of sale electronically. This is a AD#85061 (470) 321- 7112
communication from a debt collector and any
information obtained will be used for that purpose. July 23rd, 2024
The sale is subject to seller confirmation. July 30th, 2024
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Three Chopt Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229. AD#84973
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Trustee Sales: Trustee Sales: Estate

Virginia Virginia Prince William Co.

WE
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 11400 TOWERING OAK WAY, TRUSTEE'S SALE COMMISSIONER OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE
RESTON, VA 20194. In execution of a certain Deed 20 Bridgeport Circle, THIRTY-FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT
of Trust dated August 25, 2004, in the original Stafford, VA 22554 COUNTY OF PRINCE WILLIAM,
principal amount of $501,500.00 recorded in the CITIES OF MANASSAS AND MANASSAS PARK
Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Fairfax County, THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY
Virginia, in Book 16455 at Page 1801 as Instrument INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR IN THE OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF ACCOUNTS
No. 2004034792.005. The undersigned Substitute THIRTY-FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT OF VIRGINIA

WANT
THAT PURPOSE.
Trustee will offer for sale at public auction in the
front of the Circuit Court building for Fairfax In execution of the Deed of Trust in the original
County, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA, on RE: Estate of OWENS, Malcolm Devonshire Sonja, Deceased
principal amount of $510,570.00 dated June 16,
August 28, 2024, at 11:45 AM, the property 2022 and recorded as Instrument No. 220013085,
described in said Deed of Trust, located at the of the Stafford County land records, the NOTICE OF DEBTS AND DEMANDS HEARING
above address, and more particularly described as appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at
follows: LOT THIRTY-NINE (39), BLOCK TWO (2), public auction o n t h e c o u r t h o u s e s t e p s o f t h e Pursuant to the provisions of Section 64.2-550 of the Code of Virginia, 1950,

TO
SECTION SEVENTY FIVE (75), RESTON, AS THE Circuit Court building for the County of Stafford notice is hereby given that the undersigned Commissioner of Accounts, at the
SAME IS DULY DEDICATED, PLATTED AND located at, 1300 Courthouse Rd, Stafford, Virginia request of A keisha Nichole Owens, Administrator, has appointed August 29,
RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 8254, AT PAGE 477, 2 2 5 5 4 o n A u g u s t 1 3 , 2 0 2 4 a t 1 2 : 3 0 P M , the 2 0 2 4 a t 2 : 3 0 P M , at his office at 7915 Lake Manassas Drive, Suite 303,
AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY, property described in said deed of trust, located Gainesville, VA 20155, as the time and place for receiving proof of debts and
VIRGINIA. TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s at the above address and more particularly demands against the aforesaid decedent and/or his/her estate.
deposit of ten percent (10%) of the sale price or described as follows::
ten percent (10%) of the original principal balance G IVEN UNDER my hand as Commissioner of Accounts this 24th day of July,
of the subject Deed of Trust, whichever is lower, in 2024.

HEAR
Lot 96, Section 3, HAMPTON OAKS, as the same
the form of cash or certified funds payable to the appears duly dedicated, platted and recorded in
Substitute Trustee must be present at the time of Timothy A. Cope
Deed Book 737, at Page 124, and in Plat Book 20, Commissioner of Accounts
the sale. The balance of the purchase price will be Page 121, among the Land Records of Stafford
due within fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise County, Virginia.
Purchaser’s deposit may be forfeited to Trustee.
Advertised: July 30th, 2024 AD#85760
Time is of the essence. If the sale is set aside for Parcel Identification Number: 20P-3-96
any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be

WHAT
entitled to a return of the deposit paid. The The property and improvements will be sold in
Purchaser may, if provided by the terms of the “as is” physical condition without warranty of
Trustee’s Memorandum of Foreclosure Sale, be
entitled to a $50 cancellation fee from the
any kind. Auctions: DC
Substitute Trustee, but shall have no further TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s
recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or deposit of 10% of the sale price or 10% of the
the Mortgagee’s attorney. A form copy of the STORAGE TREASURES AUCTION
original principal amount of the subject Deed of

YOU
Trustee’s memorandum of foreclosure sale and Trust, whichever is lower, by cashier’s or certified
contract to purchase real property is available for Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction
check, required at time of sale except for the at the location indicated:
viewing at www.bwwsales.com. Additional terms, party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss
if any, to be announced at the sale and the on purchaser from date and time of auction.
Purchaser may be given the option to execute the
72 Florida Ave NE Washington DC, 20002
Balance of the purchase price must be paid by August 6th, 2024 at 2:30pm.
contract of sale electronically. This is a cashier’s check within 15 days from sale date.
communication from a debt collector and any Except for Virginia Grantor’s tax, all settlement Units: 6132, 7104, 8067 and 8324.
information obtained will be used for that purpose. costs and expenses are purchaser’s

HAVE
The sale is subject to seller confirmation. responsibility. Taxes are pro-rated to the date of The auction will be listed and advertised on
Substitute Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 8100 sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be
Three Chopt Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229. possession of the property. If purchaser defaults, made with cash only and paid at the above
For more information contact: BWW Law Group, deposit may be forfeited and property resold at referenced facility in order to complete the
LLC, attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003 the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser who transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse
Executive Blvd, Suite 101, Rockville, MD 20852, 301- shall be liable for any deficiency in the purchase any bid and may rescind any purchase up until
961-6555, website: www.bwwsales.com. price and all costs, expenses and attorney’s fees the winning bidder takes possession of the

TO
VA-193215-4. of both sales. If Trustee does not convey title for personal property.
any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of
July 23,2024 deposit without interest. This sale is subject to
July 30, 2024 post-sale audit by the Substitute Trustee of the July 30, 2024 Ad#85684
AD#84761 conduct of the auction itself as well as the status
of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust,
including, but not limited to, determining whether STORAGE TREASURES AUCTION

SAY
prior to sale a bankruptcy was filed, a
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 42887 EDGEGROVE HEIGHTS forbearance, repayment or other agreement was Life Storage will hold a public auction at the
TERRACE, ASHBURN, VA 20148. In execution of a entered into or the loan was reinstated or paid location indicated:
certain Deed of Trust dated April 29, 2015, in the off; in any such event this sale shall be null and
original principal amount of $485,397.00 recorded void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return 2000 Bladensburg RD NE Washington, DC 20018
of deposit without interest. This communication August 6, 2024 at 1:30pm
in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Loudoun
County, Virginia as Instrument No. 20150429- is from a debt collector and is an attempt to
collect a debt and any information obtained will 0065,0095,0143,101, 2218,3060,3236, 4009 & 4612
0026757. The undersigned Substitute Trustee will
offer for sale at public auction in the front of the be used for that purpose.
The auction will be listed and advertised on
Circuit Court building for Loudoun County, 18 E. www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be
Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia, on September 4, SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE: Lenox Title Trustee
Services, LLC, c/o McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC, made with cash only and paid at the above
2024, at 2:00 PM, the property described in said referenced facility in order to complete the
Deed of Trust, located at the above address, and 3550 Engineering Drive, Suite 260, Peachtree
transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse
more particularly described as follows: LOT 5094, Corners, GA 30092
any bid and may rescind any purchase up until
SECTION 11, LANDBAY 5, LOUDOUN VALLEY the winning bidder takes possession of the
ESTATES II, AS THE SAME APPEARS DULY FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
personal property.
DEDICATED AND RECORDED AS INSTRUMENT
NUMBER 201403040010440, WITH PLAT RECORDED Lenox Title Trustee Services, LLC,
AS INSTRUMENT NUMBER 201403040010441, Substitute Trustee July 30, 2024 Ad#85748
AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF LOUDOUN c/o Adrian G. Jacobs, Esq.
COUNTY, VIRGINIA. TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC
bidder’s deposit of ten percent (10%) of the sale 3550 Engineering Drive, Suite 260
Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction
price or ten percent (10%) of the original principal at the location indicated:
balance of the subject Deed of Trust, whichever is Phone: 404.474.7149
lower, in the form of cash or certified funds Fax: 404.745.8121
1240 Mt. Olivet RD NE, Washington, DC 20002
payable to the Substitute Trustee must be present MTG File No.: VA2024-00155
202.768.9995 on 08/06/2024 at 12:00 PM.
at the time of the sale. The balance of the
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purchase price will be due within fifteen (15) days Run Dates: July 23rd, 2024 Unit Number(s): 3019, 5100 and 6166
of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s deposit may be July 30th, 2024
forfeited to Trustee. Time is of the essence. If the The auction will be listed and advertised on
sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at AD#84706 www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be
the sale shall be entitled to a return of the deposit made with cash only and paid at the above
paid. The Purchaser may, if provided by the terms referenced facility in order to complete the
of the Trustee’s Memorandum of Foreclosure Sale, transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse
any bid and may rescind any purchase up until
be entitled to a $50 cancellation fee from the
Substitute Trustee, but shall have no further
Estate Alexandria Estate Alexandria the winning bidder takes possession of the
recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or personal property.
the Mortgagee’s attorney. A form copy of the IN THE OFFICE OF THE
Trustee’s memorandum of foreclosure sale and COMMISSIONER OF NOTICE OF INTENDED
ACCOUNTS CIRCUIT TRANSFER July 30, 2024 Ad#85496
contract to purchase real property is available for
COURT OF THE CITY OF
viewing at www.bwwsales.com. Additional terms, State Department
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
if any, to be announced at the sale and the Federal Credit Union
Purchaser may be given the option to execute the IN RE: ESTATE OF hereby gives notice Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction at
contract of sale electronically. This is a AUDREY MAY KIRBY that it will transfer the location indicated:
communication from a debt collector and any $36,388.63 from the
FIDUCIARY NO. 22001035
account of 6011 Blair Rd. NW Washington DC, 20011,
information obtained will be used for that Lambert Heyniger
purpose. The sale is subject to seller confirmation. NOTICE 30 days after last
(202) 748-6044 on August 6th, 2024 at 10:30 am.
Substitute Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 8100 publication of this
Three Chopt Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229. Pursuant to provisions notice. Unit Number(s)# 1013, 2008, 2046, 2112, 3176,
of Virginia Code §64.2- 6002, 6064, 7009, 7040, 7076A, 7104
For more information contact: BWW Law Group,
550, notice is hereby The funds will be
LLC, attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003 given that the transferred to The auction will be listed and advertised on
Executive Blvd, Suite 101, Rockville, MD 20852, u n d e r s i g n e d Nicholas Heyniger,
301-961-6555, website: www.bwwsales.com. www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be
Commissioner of Executor of the estate.
VA-310412-4.
made with cash only and paid at the above
Accounts has, at the The decedent died
request of Rachel referenced facility in order to complete the
while domiciled in
Davis, Esquire, attorney New Hampshire transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse
July 30, 2024
for the personal Written claim to said any bid and may rescind any purchase up until
August 6, 2024
representative of the funds should be sent the winning bidder takes possession of the
AD#85078 personal property.
Estate of Audrey May to SDFCU, 1630 King
Kirby, appointed Street, Alexandria,
September 4, 2024, at Virginia 22314. July 30, 2024 Ad#85498
10:00 a.m., at his office Attn: William Parker.
at 520 King Street,
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 47565 ROYAL BURNHAM TER, Room 306, Alexandria, Publication dates:
S T E R L I N G , V A 2 0 1 6 5 . In execution of a certain Virginia, as the place
7-23-2024, 7-30-2024 Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its
8-6-2024, 8-13-2024
Deed of Trust dated September 29, 2006, in the for receiving proof of Ad#85633
affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will
original principal amount of $413,500.00 recorded debts and demands hold a public auction at the location indicated:
in the Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Loudoun against the aforesaid
County, Virginia as Instrument No. 20061003- decedent and/or 1420 U St NW, Washington, DC, 20009,
0084492. The undersigned Substitute Trustee will his/her estate. 08/06/2024 11:30AM
offer for sale at public auction in the front of the Given under my hand
as Commissioner of 170k,3037,6118,7134
Circuit Court building for Loudoun County, 18 E. Accounts this 24th day
Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia, on September 4, of July, 2024.
2024, at 2:00 PM, the property described in said The auction will be listed and advertised on
Deed of Trust, located at the above address, and
www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be
/s/ Gary W. Lonergan
Gary W. Lonergan
made with cash only and paid at the above
more particularly described as follows: LOT 120,
Commissioner of referenced facility in order to complete the
SECTION 20A, CASCADES, AS THE SAME APPEARS
Accounts transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse
DULY DEDICATED, PLATTED AND RECORDED AT
Circuit Court any bid and may rescind any purchase up until
INSTRUMENT NO. 200507130075367, (PLAT AT the winning bidder takes possession of the
Alexandria, Virginia
INSTRUMENT NO. 200507130075368), AMONG THE personal property.
LAND RECORDS OF LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA. July 30th, 2024
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bidder’s deposit of AD#85767 July 30, 2024 Ad#85710
ten percent (10%) of the sale price or ten percent
(10%) of the original principal balance of the
subject Deed of Trust, whichever is lower, in the
form of cash or certified funds payable to the N O T I C E O F P U B L I C S A L E : Self-Storage Unit
Substitute Trustee must be present at the time of contents will be sold for cash by Self Storage
the sale. The balance of the purchase price will be Plus -New York Ave to satisfy a lien for rental
due within fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise
WE on August 8th, 2024 at approximately 1:00 PM

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Purchaser’s deposit may be forfeited to Trustee. at www.storagetreasures.com for the

ARE
Time is of the essence. If the sale is set aside for following location: 301 New York Ave NE,
any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be Washington DC 20002.
entitled to a return of the deposit paid. The

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Purchaser may, if provided by the terms of the

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Run Date: July 30th, 2024
Trustee’s Memorandum of Foreclosure Sale, be
AD#85752
entitled to a $50 cancellation fee from the
Substitute Trustee, but shall have no further
recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or

COMMENT
the Mortgagee’s attorney. A form copy of the
Trustee’s memorandum of foreclosure sale and Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction
contract to purchase real property is available for at the location indicated: 2800 8th St NE
viewing at www.bwwsales.com. Additional terms, Washington DC 20017, (202) 302-5359 on

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if any, to be announced at the sale and the August 06, 2024 at 2:00pm. Unit Numbers
Purchaser may be given the option to execute the 4021,4035,4122,3060,5250 and 4091 The
contract of sale electronically. This is a auction will be listed and advertised on
communication from a debt collector and any www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be
information obtained will be used for that made with cash only and paid at the above

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purpose. The sale is subject to seller confirmation. referenced facility in order to complete the
Substitute Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 8100 transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse
Three Chopt Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229. any bid and may rescind any purchase up until
For more information contact: BWW Law Group, the winning bidder takes possession of the

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LLC, attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003 personal property.
Executive Blvd, Suite 101, Rockville, MD 20852,
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Djokovic beats rival Nadal in 60th

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Korean Choi Sebin, declined to com-
ment to The Associated Press on her
U.S. beats Japan to open bid bout as she left the venue.
for eighth straight gold medal Two complaints were filed in

and likely last head-to-head meeting VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, FRANCE | A’ja

Wilson scored 24 points and Breanna
Stewart added 22 to help the U.S. beat
an arbitration procedure known as
Section 9 ahead of the Olympics by
fencers disputing whether Nazlymov
BY HOWARD FENDRICh Japan 102-76 on Monday night in the and men’s saber fencer Mitchell Saron
ASSOCIATED PRESS Olympic opener for both teams. should have been included on the U.S.
The Americans now have a 56-game team for Paris.
PARIS |Novak Djokovic, who won, and Olympic winning streak that dates to
Rafael Nadal, who lost, met at the net and the 1992 Barcelona Games. WATER POLO
hugged after playing at the Paris Olym- The last of those victories before
pics in the 60th — and quite possibly Monday also came against Japan when
U.S. women’s team handed
last — installment of a record-breaking the two teams played for the gold a rare loss by Spain
and often riveting rivalry between two medal in the Tokyo Games three years SAINT-DENIS, FRANCE | The U.S.
tennis greats who share a mutual respect ago. Now Monday’s victory tipped off women’s water polo team was handed
if not a close friendship. the run to keep that streak going. a rare loss at the Paris Olympics on
This 6-1, 6-4 victory for Djokovic Japan, which was severely under- Monday, falling 13-11 to Bea Ortiz and
came in only the second round of the sized against the U.S., used its frenetic Spain in a rematch of the final at the
Summer Games — instead of a Grand style of shooting Tokyo Games.
Slam final, like nine previous head-to- 3s off drives to the The U.S. is going for its fourth con-
head encounters — and it was not the basket to try and secutive gold medal. No team — men
most scintillating contest, either, other keep the game or women — has won four straight
than for a 20-minute interlude in the sec- close. water polo titles at the Olympics.
ond set, when Nadal’s final push made It worked for It was the program’s second loss
things briefly competitive after he ceded about 17 minutes at the Olympics since it dropped the
10 of the initial 11 games. ASSOCIATED PRESS
as Japan only 2008 final. It went 5-0-1 in London, 6-0
Afterward, neither Nadal, who is 38, Novak Djokovic points upward as he leaves the court after beating rival Rafael Nadal, trailed 37-32 with in Rio de Janeiro and 6-1 in Tokyo.
nor Djokovic, 37, was willing to concede 6-1, 6-4, in their Summer Olympics men’s singles second round match Monday. 3:01 left before the
they won’t play each other again, even if half. The U.S. then SWIMMING
that seems likely. Nadal certainly seems scored 13 of the final 19 points before
as if he could be close to retirement; he’s the legs of 20 years ago, is almost im- otherwise glittering resume is a priority, break, including a three-point play by
Americans grabbed plenty
had two injury-filled seasons, needed possible,” said Nadal, whose right thigh are accustomed to meeting — and fans Wilson with 8.2 seconds left to open of hardware, but no gold
hip surgery a little more than a year ago, has been taped up for all of his matches are accustomed to watching them — in up a double-digit lead. NANTERRE, FRANCE | American
and spoke in 2023 about 2024 being his in Paris. the latter stages of events. It happened swimmers added plenty to the U.S.
farewell. Djokovic was asked whether this much earlier this time because while WOMEN’S FENCING medal count Monday night, just not
But he’s not done at these Olympics, might mark the end of head-to-head Djokovic is the top seed at the Olympics, the ones they most wanted.
pairing with Carlos Alcaraz in doubles competition between the pair. Nadal’s ranking is outside the top 150 on
U.S. saber fencers lose Olympic Katie Grimes and Emma Weyant
for Spain, and said Monday he’s a bit “Of course it can be, but we don’t account of a lack of matches. bouts overshadowed by probe stood side by side on the Paris podium.
tired of getting asked every day about know that. It really depends on many The place was packed, from the press PARIS | All three U.S. women’s saber Ryan Murphy picked up the seventh
his future. different factors,” the Serbian said. “I just seats where there was jostling for space, fencers lost their opening bouts at the medal of his illustrious career. And
“I cannot live every single day with hope for the sake of our rivalry, and the to the highest spots in the upper deck, for Paris Olympics on Monday under the Luke Hobson earned his first in a stir-
the feeling that it’s going to be, or not sport, in general, that we’ll get to face what felt like a historic occasion. Rapper cloud of an investigation that exam- ring race. But none of them were gold.
going to be, my last match. I come here, each other once, maybe a few times, on Snoop Dogg sat beside tennis icon Billie ined possible match-fixing in qualify- In a way, it felt like a changing of
I try my best, I play. And when I decide different surfaces, in different parts of Jean King; Vogue editor Anna Wintour ing for the Games. the guard, especially when Murphy
to stop playing, or when I decide to the world, because I feel like it can only was with film director Baz Luhrmann. Bethesda native Tatiana Nazlymov could only manage a bronze and long-
keep going, I will let you know. I don’t benefit the sport. But I don’t know how “You could feel the tension coming was competing a month after she testi- time breaststroke stalwart Lilly King
know,” Nadal said. “If I feel that I am he feels in his body, what his plans are.” into the match, but also incredible hype, fied in a 13-hour arbitration hearing was edged out of a medal by a mere
not competitive enough to keep going Djokovic owns 24 Grand Slam titles, incredible atmosphere,” Djokovic said. in which two other American fencers, hundredth of a second.
or physically I am not … ready to keep and Nadal 22, the two highest men’s “There was a lot of interest for this including the team’s Olympic alternate Grimes and Weyant could cel-
going, I will stop, and I will let you know.” totals in the century-plus history of match. People wanted to see it live. Maia Chamberlain, challenged her ebrate knowing nobody was going to
What was clear for the first 1 1/2 the sport. Both have been ranked No. People wanted to see it on the TV, as place on the Paris roster. Nazlymov, as catch 17-year-old Canadian Summer
hours against Djokovic is that Nadal was 1, and no pair of men has played each well. I was just very proud to be part of well as her teammates Magda Skar- McIntosh in her dominant 400-meter
diminished, nowhere near the skilled and other more often in the professional era. this match.” bonkiewicz and Elizabeth Tarta- individual medley victory.
ever-hustling version of himself that won They are two-thirds of the so-called Big After a ho-hum stretch, the indefati- kovsky, all lost their round-of-32 bouts McIntosh touched in 4 minutes,
a record 14 French Open trophies on the Three of men’s tennis, along with Roger gable Nadal finally got going, transform- in the individual saber. They compete 27.71 seconds to capture Olympic gold
same red clay at Roland Garros that is Federer, who retired with 20 Slam titles, ing it into something competitive, which again in the team event Saturday. in commanding fashion. Grimes fin-
hosting Summer Games matches. a cohort that enjoyed unprecedented surely no one — least of all Djokovic USA Fencing CEO Phil Andrews ished second in 4:33.40 for silver and
He acknowledged as much after leav- success and prompted endless debates — found too surprising. had cited “emotional strain” as a Weyant earned bronze with a 4:33.93.
ing Court Philippe Chatrier, where fans about which is the “GOAT” — “Greatest “If you give him time, he can hurt concern before the competition, but it Former world record-holder Mur-
repeatedly tried to encourage him with of All Time.” you. We know that. I’ve experienced that wasn’t immediately clear if the inves- phy won his bronze in the 100 back-
chants of “Ra-fa! Ra-fa!” But Nadal, a gold medalist in sin- in the past,” Djokovic said. “I started to tigation had any impact on the three stroke, while Hobson earned one of his
“Playing against Novak without creat- gles and doubles at past Olympics, and hesitate a little on my shot. He stepped U.S. fencers’ performances Monday. own in the 200 freestyle.
ing damage to him, and without having Djokovic, who says adding a gold to his in. The crowd got involved.” Nazlymov, who lost 15-14 to South FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AUTO RACING

Cardinals add starter in a
three-team, seven-player trade
The St. Louis Cardinals added start-
Verstappen to regroup over break with foes on his tailpipe
ing pitcher Erick Fedde and the Kansas BY JOSEPH WILSON
City Royals acquired veteran right- ASSOCIATED PRESS
hander Michael Lorenzen as playoff
contenders made BARCELONA, SPAIN | What a difference
deals Monday, the a year can make in Formula 1.
day before MLB’s Yes, Max Verstappen is still on pace
SPORTS trade deadline. for yet another world title — it will be
BRIEFS Fedde and
outfielder Tommy
No. 4 in a row for the Dutchman unless
Red Bull self-implodes.
Pham went from But no longer is it a foregone conclu-
the lowly White sion that Verstappen will dominate the
Sox to the Cardinals as part of a competition and, let’s face it, bore many
three-team deal involving seven play- fans looking for him to at least be made
ers. Chicago also sent hard-throwing to sweat.
reliever Michael Kopech to the NL F1 instead has been lit up this summer
West-leading Dodgers. as Red Bull’s speed advantage has evapo-
Los Angeles also acquired utility- rated thanks to huge improvements from
man Tommy Edman from the Car- more than one rival.
dinals, and the Dodgers sent infield The four cars fielded by Mercedes
prospects Miguel Vargas, Alexander and McLaren have emerged as threats
Albertus and Jeral Perez to Chicago. to Verstappen, while Ferrari’s Prancing
Reigning World Series champion Horses are also right there. That has
Texas, which went into Monday four produced thrillingly unpredictable races
games under .500 and in third place in like Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix where
the AL West, traded Lorenzen to the Verstappen finished fourth.
Royals for minor league left-handed A week before that, McLaren’s Oscar
reliever Walter Pennington. Piastri and Lando Norris made it a
Seattle made its third significant one-two at Budapest, while Verstappen
move ahead of the deadline acquiring finished fifth. The seven winners in 13
veteran Justin Turner from Toronto in races after the Hungarian GP had already ASSOCIATED PRESS

exchange for minor league outfielder made this season the most competitive Red Bull driver Max Verstappen appeared to be off to another title march this year after winning four of his first five races. But since
RJ Schreck. since 2012. then, he has just three wins in the last nine grand prix and has gone four straight races without a win for the first time since 2020.
The 31-year-old Fedde is 7-4 with “It’s great. It’s really fantastic, I think,
a 3.11 ERA in 21 starts in a successful for the sport to be having such close
return to the majors. He was selected teams and drivers,” said Lewis Hamilton, season. He won 15 races in 2022. relax, but at the same time we are com- Hamilton snapped a long dry spell dat-
by Washington in the first round of the who was declared the winner in Belgium Verstappen appeared to be off to an- mitted to being better and faster and are ing to 2021 when he won the British GP
2014 amateur draft and is 28-37 with a after Mercedes teammate George Rus- other title march this year after winning trying to find solutions as we go into the in early July. George Russell followed
4.92 ERA in 123 big league games (109 sell was disqualified for his car being four of the first five races. But since then, rest of the season,” Verstappen said after that up with a victory in Austria. They
starts). underweight. he has just three wins in the last nine the race at Spa. thought they had a one-two at Belgium,
“The pedigree of drivers at the top grand prix and has gone four consecu- “We had a great start to the season, before Russell was disqualified.
NFL today are really elite and amazing,” the tive races without a victory for the first our last few races have been a bit more That let Hamilton, who is bound for
former seven-time world champion time since 2020, before he became the difficult, but we have been pushing to Ferrari next season, take his record win
Rodgers angry after being said. dominant force in F1. find a solution how to do that,” Ver- haul to 105 grand prix.
stepped on, Jets’ sloppiness Last year, Verstappen recorded an This time, Verstappen enters the stappen said. “Next race is obviously “We didn’t expect to be competing
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. | Aaron Rodgers eighth straight victory by finishing first at summer break with a 78-point advantage my home race in Zandvoort. It will be a with the McLarens or the Red Bulls at
was downright ticked off. the Belgian GP and entered the summer over McLaren’s Lando Norris with 10 tough battle and it will be all about tire this point in the season, you know, with
The New York Jets quarterback break with a 125-point lead over team- races to go. The season restarts at the management, but it will be great to be in how we started off,” Hamilton said. “So
took the snap, started to drop back — mate Sergio Pérez. Verstappen would Dutch GP on Aug. 25. front of my home crowd again.” for us to now have closed up and be, it’s
and ended up sprawled on the grass go on to make it an F1 record 10 wins “We are looking forward to the sum- Mercedes enters the break on a high going to be one hell of a second half of
after one of his offensive linemen in a row and 19 wins in 22 races for the mer break and having a bit of time to with three wins in the last four races. the season for sure.”
stepped on one of his feet.
Rodgers shouted. He wasn’t hurt,
but he was angry.
Monday was that kind of a day, the
first this summer in full pads, for the
Jets’ offense. The temperature was hot
LYLES don’t want to leave. But I feel like after
these Olympics, I’m going to have to have
conversations higher up than me in mak-
“I do get nervous but when I get into
the village it always goes away,” he said
back then.
it sucked.”
Lyles hasn’t lost a 200-meter race
since, and has now become a threat in
From page B12
and so was the quarterback’s temper. ing that more available. ... I’m not even Lyles has not been shy when it comes the 100, as well. He is one of the must-
When it’s a four-time NFL MVP and 4x100 relay) set him on a path to the most popular person in the village. to talking about his need to stay on top see athletes at the Olympic track meet.
coming off a torn Achilles tendon stardom. I know I’m not the only one who’s had of his mental and emotional health. He “This is what I dream of, is these
getting fired up on the field, though, it But while nobody in this sport has to deal with situations like this.” works with three therapists and has moments right here,” Lyles said. “I get
raises eyebrows a bit more than usual. been more giving of his time, and his Simone Biles and the U.S. gymnastics told stories about how the atmosphere more excited the bigger the crowd is.”
Foot faults and would-be sacks insight, in an effort to promote both team are staying at the village. LeBron three years ago at the pandemic-delayed Unless that crowd is asking him for
aren’t the only issues blowing up the himself and his sport, Lyles also has done James and the U.S. men’s basketball Tokyo Games, with no fans in the stands, selfies while he’s trying to eat break-
offense. Another source of frustration a good job of separating his public and team are not. impacted his performance. fast, or to sign something while he’s
has been an increased number of high private time. Back in the day, another well-known “I just remember being so, ‘This is stretching.
snaps during camp from center Joe That’s not as much in his control at sprinter, Usain Bolt, stayed in the village, not it. This is not fun. This is not cool. “We still are human beings, and we
Tippmann, who has launched a few the living quarters for some of the 14,000 famously saying he loved the round-the- This is not what I wanted. This is not still want to be able to have our space
balls that Rodgers has had to reach up athletes and sports officials who are clock McDonalds that was available and what I thought it was going to feel like,’” and our time,” Lyles said. “I want to
and snare. camping out in Paris over these 17 days. that mingling with other athletes, most of he said of the moments before his 200- enjoy the Olympics just like you guys
Rodgers, who wasn’t scheduled to And to think, Lyles doesn’t even race whom doubled as fans, put him at ease. meter final in Tokyo, where he won the are. Trying to find a safe place has been
speak to reporters Monday, has been until Saturday. In 2016, though, a concession was made bronze medal. “And that’s literally the a little difficult these last few days as I’m
working regularly with Tippmann as “It has come with its own challenge and Bolt got his own room, as opposed last few thoughts I had going through trying to prepare and dive deep into my
the two try to smooth things out. of finding my own safe place,” he said. “I to sharing. my mind as I got into the blocks. And mental state.”

Texans’ Autry suspended six

games for violating PED policy
HOUSTON | Houston Texans de-
fensive lineman Denico Autry was
NATIONALS Rizzo agreed to ship Thomas to the
Guardians on Monday in what was the
latest in a busy month. The 28-year-old
MLB.com.
“We feel we got ourselves an upside
guy that can impact a baseball game,”
pitcher Alex Clemmey, shortstop Rafael
Ramirez and third baseman Jose Tena.
Tena is the most MLB-ready prospect
From page B12
suspended for the first six games outfielder has served as an everyday Rizzo told MLB.com. “[He] plays really of the bunch. He averaged .298 with 17
of the regular season on Monday to the trade deadline, sending outfielder outfielder for the Nationals in 2024, but good defense at third; he’s got a really home runs in Triple-A this season after
for violating the NFL’s policy on Jesse Winker to the New York Mets on he was slated to enter arbitration in the good arm; he’s got power potential and a brief trip to the big leagues in 2023.
performance-enhancers. Sunday. fall and could become a free agent after he’s a really good hitter, so we liked the
Autry denied he knowingly in- Winker, who originally signed a the 2025 season. skill set.” Next to go?
gested a banned substance but said he minor league deal to join the Nationals Washington’s prospect pool is also By dishing Winker to the Mets, Rizzo Rizzo promised that his front office
would accept the suspension. Autry in February, exceeded expectations in loaded with promising outfielders, leav- added 24-year-old pitcher Tyler Stuart would be active at the trade deadline.
said he discovered the pharmacy that D.C. The 30-year-old averaged .257 with ing Thomas’s future with the club in to his prospect pool. The 6-foot-9 starter Experts around the league expect Wash-
filled a prescription for him had “in- 11 home runs through 101 games with the doubt. Rookie outfielder James Wood led the minor leagues in ERA last season ington to keep selling off veterans, even
tentionally, recklessly, or negligently” Nationals. has impressed in his first month in the while pitching for High-A Brooklyn and as the rebuild enters its late stages.
included a banned substance. His impact was felt in the clubhouse, majors, while 2023 first-round pick Dylan Double-A Binghamton. The Athletic reported that Rizzo
Autry is allowed to participate in too. Crews is expected to join the Nationals’ “A big-frame kid; he throws strikes; he would look to offload players on expir-
preseason practices and games. His “He kept everybody loose, but he outfield later this season. competes, so he gives us a little bit more ing contracts or eligible for arbitration.
first regular-season availability will be cared. He cared a lot about the players depth, starting pitching-wise. …” Marti- Closer Kyle Finnegan is the most obvi-
Oct. 20 at Green Bay. Autry apologized around him, his teammates,” Nationals Recently acquired nez said, highlighting the right-hander’s ous remaining trade candidate. The
to the Texans organization, teammates manager Dave Martinez said of Winker. Third baseman Cayden Wallace was slider and changeup. “Hopefully, when 32-year-old is entering the final year
and fans for any distraction his posi- “He helped our young guys out. He’s Washington’s biggest addition from this we do get him up here in the future, he of his contract. Other potential trade
tive test causes. Autry, 34, has 59 sacks very astute when it comes to guys pitch- year’s midseason trades. The 22-year- can get outs for us.” candidates include Derek Law and Dylan
in 10 NFL seasons. He had a career- ing against him. He did everything we old was the No. 2 prospect in Kansas In the Thomas trade, Washington Floro, a pair of relievers in their 30s
high 111⁄2 last season for the Tennes- asked him to do.” City’s prospect pipeline, according to added a trio of young prospects in whose contracts expire after this season.
see Titans and signed a two-year, $20
million free-agent contract with the
Texans in March.

NBA TENNIS with before, really get to know him,”

Tiafoe said. “Also someone that I’ve
known but not actually worked with.
7-6 (3). O’Connell faces American Bran-
don Nakashima in the next round. And
Cristian Garin of Colombia won 86%
quarterfinals of the Atlanta Open before
flying to the District and winning on Sat-
urday and Sunday to make the main draw.
Hawks acquire Roddy From page B12
He’s done really well here with Jess. He of his first-serve points in a 6-4, 6-2 win The lone men’s match to go three sets
from Suns for Liddell longtime coach Wayne Ferreira at the did an incredible job with Jess, incredible over Aslan Karatsev. during the early session saw Emil Ruusu-
ATLANTA | The Atlanta Hawks ac- beginning of this year and following a job with Venus. I think hopefully, the Qualifier Mattia Bellucci continued his vuori outlast Borna Coric in a three-hour
quired David Roddy from the Phoenix short-lived reunion with another confi- third time’s lucky with me.” whirlwind of a weekend, advancing past battle, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (8), 6-4, with the Finn
Suns in exchange for E.J. Liddell in a dante, Diego Moyano. In other results Monday, Australian American Mackenzie McDonald, 7-6 (4), saving two match points along the way
swap of power forwards on Monday. “I think it’s really good to start brand- Christopher O’Connell defeated French- 7-6 (3). The Italian has played matches on before play was temporarily suspended
Liddell was traded for the second new and have someone I haven’t worked man Harold Mayot in straight sets, 6-7, four straight days, losing late Friday in the across the grounds due to lightning.
time in less than one month. The
Hawks acquired Liddell as part of a
package that included two first-round
draft picks in a deal that sent high-
scoring guard Dejounte Murray to
the New Orleans Pelicans on July 6.
GYMNASTICS competing for a team. And it’s no dif-
ferent this competition. I mean yeah,
this one’s a little bit different, a little bit
at the core group at the top grew a little too
comfortable due in part to a lack of com-
petition from those trying to catch them.
quite grasped.
And when Nedoroscik gracefully
swooped from one end of the horse to
From page B12
Liddell was a second-round pick from bigger. But same concept.” Sam Mikulak went to three Olympics the other, his hands working dutifully
Ohio State by New Orleans in 2022. that offered a hint of what it might look With perhaps a much more impact- with teams that had considerable tal- in tandem on an event that has given
Roddy started 13 of 65 games with like in Los Angeles four years from now. ful result. ent. He never came home with a medal, the Americans fits for years, the bronze
Memphis and Phoenix in the 2023-24 Mostly, however, they leaned on each Nedoroscik is 26. Malone is 24. Juda though on Monday night he was chatting that felt in some ways like gold was won.
season and averaged 6.5 points and 3.2 other and their experiences to shake off is 23. Hong and Richard are 20. There is with Nedoroscik as he prepared for his Standing there in the aftermath, Mi-
rebounds. Liddell (6-7, 240) saw lim- an iffy qualifying session on Saturday in a feeling of real momentum within the pommel horse set that served as the kulak couldn’t help but speculate about
ited playing time in only eight games which they finished a sloppy fifth. U.S. men’s program for the first time in exclamation point. what might lie ahead.
with New Orleans last season. Liddell “We just told each other we were a while. Yet to keep it going, the pipeline While they talked, Mikulak told Ned- “I think the guys are going to be hun-
averaged 7.8 points and 4.0 rebounds gonna treat it like an NCAA champion- behind them needs to keep churning. oroscik to stay calm, that 80% of his best gry for more,” he said. “And hopefully
for Atlanta’s summer league team. ships because we’ve all been there,” There was a sense in the 2010s that the would be good enough. To soak in a this spurs men’s gymnastics in the U.S.
FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS. Malone said. “And it’s high pressure U.S. had grown stale in part because those moment Mikulak dreamed of but never like never before.”
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Nationals staying active ahead of trade deadline

Thomas shipped to Guardians for
BY LIAM GRIFFIN of teams had interest in Hunter,” Rizzo
THE WASHINGTON TIMES said on 106.7 The Fan after the trade.

prospects as team’s rebuild continues

“The timing worked for us because they
The Nationals kicked off the final were willing to give up the 39th pick.
24 hours before Tuesday night’s MLB So we had to make the trade before the
trade deadline by dealing outfielder Winker to the New York Mets. Nationals sent him to the Kansas City draft, obviously.”
Lane Thomas to Guardians. For the “We’re always busy at the deadline, Royals on July 13, just a day before the The 29-year-old pitcher recorded a
third straight season, the Nationals are whether we’re hunting championships or MLB draft. The Nationals added a pros- 4.20 ERA with 50 strikeouts through 45
primed to sell established assets to the rebuilding or in the mix of both,” Rizzo pect and the No. 39 pick in the draft in innings in 2024. He was tied for the MLB
highest bidders at the deadline as they told MLB.com. “So it’s always an active the trade. lead with 26 holds before the trade.
build for the future. trade deadline season, and we’re looking With the playoffs seemingly out of Washington used the No. 39 pick on
ASSOCIATED PRESS
General manager Mike Rizzo signaled forward to the challenge to improve our reach — the Nationals entered Monday’s Caleb Lomavita, Baseball America’s top-
The Nationals dealt outfielder Lane the start of the sale earlier this month club for this year and for the future.” action 6 1⁄2 games behind the Mets for the ranked catcher in this year’s draft class.
Thomas on Monday to the Guardians for when he sent reliever Hunter Harvey final NL wild-card spot — several teams Rizzo remained active in the lead-up
three prospects as the team has been to the Kansas City Royals. It continued Recently departed called Rizzo about Harvey’s availability.
active ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline. Sunday when he shipped outfielder Jesse Harvey was the first to go. The “Kansas City had a lot of interest; a lot » see NATIONALS | B11

TENNIS

Endurance
put to test
for women’s
D.C. draw
Opening matches
go three-set limits
BY GeORge GeRbO
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Endurance was the name of the game

in the early session at the D.C. Open
Monday, with the first three women’s
matches on opening day needing all
three sets to decide, and a men’s match
needing more than three hours to com-
plete before lightning suspended play.
No. 7 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
took three sets to finish off American
and D.C. newcomer Ashlyn Krueger, 6-3,
4-6, 6-4. A Washington finalist nine years
ago, the Russian could face the American
woman she lost to in that final — Sloane
Stephens — in the second round.
China’s Yafan Wang surprised former
ASSOCIATED PRESS
world No. 1 Karolina Pliskova, com-
The U.S. men’s gymnastics team lifts Stephen Nedoroscik in celebration after ending a 16-year Olympic medal drought with the bronze in Paris on Monday. ing back after dropping the first set to
win, 5-7, 6-3, 6-0. Pliskova struggled to

SENDING A MESSAGE
find her form, only winning 61.8% of
her total points in the match on her
serve. American Caroline Dolehide also
needed the distance to beat Ukraine’s
Lesia Tsurenko, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.
The first day of the men’s draw at the
BY WIll GRAVeS
ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. gymnasts hope NCAA notices stronger and stronger and we’re only
(going up),” Richard said. “And I think
Fitzgerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek
Park moved along at a more expeditious

PARIS | Before they stood with their after ending lengthy medal drought we did that today. I think a lot of young
boys watching are inspired by us.”
pace, with the day’s first five matches
decided in straight sets.
arms wrapped around each other in That’s the way it was for Richard American J.J. Wolf was the first win-
a brotherhood forever etched into Yes, the bronze medal the Ameri- a reality the five men who stood on the as a kid in the Boston suburbs. There ner in the ATP draw, dispatching com-
U.S. Olympic lore, Brody Malone, cans so emphatically earned ended a podium with their arms around each were pictures on the wall at the gym of patriot Zachary Svajda 6-4, 7-5. The
Frederick Richard, Asher Hong, Paul 16-year drought on the sport’s biggest other are only too aware of. the medal-winning 2004 and 2008 U.S. Ohio native converted half of his break
Juda and Stephen Nedoroscik were stage. Richard, a rising junior at Michi- men’s Olympic teams. Richard would chances in the match (4-of-8) and will
collegians. Yet it was also a message to athletic gan, has made it his life’s mission stare at the pictures and wonder how face 12th-seeded Serbian Miomir Kec-
Yes, the dreams the members of the directors at the dozen schools that still to bring more people to a side of those teams put all the pieces together. manovic in the second round.
U.S. men’s gymnastics team had fos- have Division I gymnastics — and to the sport that — at least in the U.S. “It looks like they all came together Tuesday’s action will include the
tered since childhood began in small be honest, to the ones that don’t, too anyway — has long plugged along on the same day and just did like these return of Frances Tiafoe to his home
gyms scattered across the country. — that the sport is worth saving. anonymously. perfect routines,” Richard said. “And tournament. The fifth-seeded Hyattsville
But they became tangible at Stanford, “If you want to keep seeing USA And while he’s carved out a rapidly you’re like, how is that possible?” native will open his D.C. Open with a
Michigan and Penn State. Gymnastics and Team USA on a gym- expanding niche on social media, Richard found out firsthand. second-round evening match on Stadium
So when it was time for those nastics podium, at least on the men’s Richard is savvy enough to understand The Americans didn’t record a Court against qualifier Colombia’s Dan-
dreams to become fully, vividly real- side, you’re going to have to give us the one thing guaranteed to attract major fall during any of their 18 rou- iel Galan, who advanced Monday 4 and 3
ized inside a raucous Bercy Arena on more opportunities to compete in people to men’s gymnastics isn’t a tines in the final and finished closer to over American Maxime Cressy.
Monday night, they leaned on the ex- college,” said Juda, who is in graduate viral video, but hardware like the second-place China than fourth-place For Tiafoe, D.C. — which he jokingly
periences they gained during all those school at Michigan. medal he kept grabbing in the giddy Britain. They leaned into the energy calls “the fifth” major — provides an
meets in all those sometimes sparsely Opportunities that are in danger of aftermath. from a vocal contingent of U.S. fans opportunity to realign his season and
filled gyms that taught them about vanishing quickly thanks to a rapidly “My goal even here was to make finish the year with a return to his top-10
pressure and teamwork and belief. evolving college sports landscape. It’s a statement that the U.S. is getting » see GYMNASTICS | B11 form of 2023.
“Now I’m at a stage where I want
to chase my dreams and do my thing,
Lyles finds fame, but not much ultimately do the goals I always wanted
to do as a kid, kind of focus on that,

privacy at Paris’ Olympic Village continue to have fun and continue to

innovate the game,” Tiafoe said. “That’s
kind of my focus.”
BY EDDIe PellS village. Unfortunately, that comes The No. 29 player in the world has
ASSOCIATED PRESS with its own set of challenges.” recently added David Witt, who has
He’s picking odd times to eat and worked successfully with fellow Ameri-
PARIS | Athletes at the Olympics stationing himself in remote corners cans Venus Williams and Jessica Pegula,
are showering Alexandria native Noah of the dining area. He’s having trouble as his coach.
Lyles with the first big taste of ce- getting a routine workout in, lest he “He’s so relaxed and laid back, instills
lebrity he’s been working so hard to get stopped by all the fencers, rowers, a lot of confidence in guys, aggressive-
make his own. judokas and others who, to now, have ness in their game,” Tiafoe said of Witt.
Nearly a week into this brush with only seen him on TV. “It’s not just on the court when you’re
fame — at least inside the athletes His major role in the Netflix track hiring a coach. It’s also day to day, how
village — he’s not so sure he’s loving documentary “SPRINT” that dropped they are. We’re very similar in our ap-
the spotlight. this month has certainly raised the proach to how we see life. Just go about
“I’m struggling with my mental,” profile of a sprinter whose three world ASSOCIATED PRESS
it in a very chilled, relaxed way.”
Lyles conceded at the U.S. track and championships last summer (100, 200 “I’m struggling with my mental (health),” U.S. track star and Alexandria Witt joins Tiafoe’s team after the
field team’s news conference Monday. native Noah Lyles said. “I’ve become kind of popular at the (athletes) village. Hyattsville native parted ways with
“I’ve become kind of popular at the » see LYLES | B11 Unfortunately, that comes with its own set of challenges.”
» see TENNIS | B11