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A three-part series

St i l l fee l ing the fa l lout

US military lifts curfew in test for troops in S. Korea‘ The suspension ...is an opportunity to demonstrate USFK’s ability to maintain good order anddiscipline at alltimes and underall conditions. ’

Col. Jonathan Doyle

BY KIM GAMEL

Stars and Stripes

SEOUL, South Korea — The U.S. military temporarily lifted a 1-5 a.m. curfew for troops in South Korea on Monday, saying the suspen-sion will be reevaluated in 90 days.

The reprieve, which was to take effect at 8 a.m., followed a policy review ordered by Gen. Robert Abrams after he took command of U.S. Forces Korea in November.

“The suspension will serve as an evaluation period … and is an opportunity to demonstrate

USFK’s ability to maintain good order and dis-cipline at all times and under all conditions,” provost marshal Col. Jonathan Doyle said in a statement.

“Our professional servicemembers will act in accordance with our standards and Korean laws at all times,” he added.

Initially imposed after the 9/11 attacks, the curfew, also called a readiness recall, has long been an unpopular feature of military life for all branches on the divided peninsula.

Former USFK commander Gen. Walter Sharp briefly rescinded the curfew in July

2010, saying, “I believe that we can trust ourservicemembers to do the right thing.”

But it was reinstated after several months amid outrage over two high-profile rape cases involving American soldiers.

The curfew — which requires that troopsbe on base, in their residences or hotel roomsduring specified hours — was extended indefi-nitely in its recent form in January 2012.

It applied to all servicemembers in South Korea except for those attached to the U.S.

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BY MARTIN EGNASH Stars and Stripes

BOCOCU, Romania — German and Dutch paratroopers jumped from low altitude into corn and wheat fields to battle U.S. troops modeled after Russia -backed Ukrainian separatists in an exer-cise in Romania on Thursday.

The Dutch and German sol-diers were later joined by Texas National Guardsmen in a fight against the U.S. Army’s 1st Bat-talion, 4th Infantry Regiment, based in Hohenfels Germany, as part of the ongoing Swift Re-sponse exercise.

In the scenario, the American mock enemy force is a militia backed by a large, well-funded country attempting to extend its influence.

It’s similar to eastern Ukraine, where Russia -backed separatists have been fighting since 2014, said U.S. Army Capt. Michael La-padot, an intelligence officer with the 173rd Infantry Brigade Com-bat Team (Airborne). “We looked at what was happening in the real world and applied it to this sce-nario,” Lapadot said.

The allied force plans to seize an airfield and hold it against enemy attacks, then move on to further scenarios over the next few days. “It’s going to be a tough fight,” Lapadot said, citing the militia’s high-tech weapons, like modern mortars and anti-aircraft capabilities.

The fight in the fields is part of Swift Response, a U.S. Army-led exercise in the region involving more than 7,000 soldiers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy,

the Netherlands, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S. The exercise is de-signed to test the Global Response Force, a primarily airborne-based command tasked to respond to unplanned threats at a moment’s

notice. More bat-

tles and sce-narios are expected to continue dur-ing Swift Re-sponse until the exercise finishes June 25.

This sum-mer, U.S. European Command will place a priority on exercises in southern Eu-rope and the Black Sea re-gion, where Romania is a

key player. In recent years, U.S. Army Europe also has steadily expanded its presence in the country, where Mihail Kogal-niceanu Air Base serves as a hub for forces moving in and out of Romania.

NATO also has established a Romanian-led multinational bri-gade in the country to boost al-lied defenses in the region. The moves come amid concerns about Russia’s buildup around the Black Sea region and Crimea, in par-ticular, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.egnash.martin@stripes.comTwitter: @Marty_Stripes

Clash in the cropsMILITARY

Germany, Dutch paratroopers battle US soldiers during Romania exercise

Left: A camouflaged German soldier waits for orders amid the corn during the exercise . Right : Another German soldier looks through a range finder.

PHOTOS BY MARTIN EGNASH/Stars and Stripes

Dutch paratroopers jump over corn and wheat fields to link up with German allies on the ground during an exercise against U.S. forces in Boboc, Romania, on Thursday .

‘ We looked at what was happening in the real world and applied it to this scenario. ’

Army Capt. Michael Lapadot

173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne)

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MILITARY

BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS

Stars and Stripes

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — As the Coast Guard cut-ter Bertholf concluded six months deployed in the Western Pacific, its sister ship, the cutter Stratton, left its homeport in California on Wednesday to take its place, ac-cording to the Coast Guard.

While operating in the Pacific under the aegis of the 7th Fleet, the Bertholf sailed with a Navy destroyer through the Taiwan Strait, the first Coast Guard cut-ter to do so. It also sailed through the contentious waters of the East China Sea and exercised with ships of the Philippine coast guard near Scarborough Shoal, a ring of sand in the South China Sea claimed zealously by China.

Sending the Bertholf and the Stratton, both national security cutters, represents a law enforce-ment approach to a problem of international relations. The Coast Guard has operated in the West-ern Pacific previously but not in such high-profile fashion.

“This is, for us, just a return to engagement in an area that we have been and conducted op-erations in before and consistent with international law,” Vice Adm. Linda Fagan, commander of the Coast Guard Pacific Area, said in a conference call with re-porters Tuesday.

In addition to exercising rights of free navigation in the Western

Pacific, the Bertholf also policed ship-to-ship transfers of goods barred by international sanctions from entering North Korea.

Coast Guard vessels, with their white hulls and orange bands, represent something less than a military threat to potential adver-saries. U.S. vessels in the West-ern Pacific are often shadowed by Chinese ships.

Fagan said that while discuss-ing Pentagon resourcing a few years ago the service committed to provide the Defense Depart-ment “a ship into the Western Pacific to partner and engage and bring our unique Coast Guard authorities and access into the region.”

White hullsPhilippine Coast Guard Lt.

Cmdr. Jay Terriela, during an April presentation to the Yokosu-ka Council on Asia-Pacific Stud-ies, said Indo-Pacific nations are increasingly engaging in “white hull” diplomacy, using their coast guards — not always their navies — to challenge China’s maritime territorial claims.

“(The) China trend is a rea-son why the coast guard is get-ting bigger, but only in the last decade,” he said of the increas-ing coast guard presence in the Indo-Pacific.

Fagan in a January press re-lease called the Bertholf’s de-ployment a “force multiplier” in

its work with the Defense Depart-ment. She said the Coast Guard is committed to a “free and open Indo-Pacific and a rules-based international system.”

Defense officials commonly use that phrase when referring to growing challenges in the re-gion as countries — most notably, China — make claims to land fea-tures in the South China Sea not recognized by international law.

With each land mass claimed comes the assertion that the 12 nautical miles around the islets are the country’s territorial wa-ters. China claims 27 features in the South China Sea, accord-ing to the Center for Strategic and International Studies Asia Maritime Transparency Initia-tive. The Chinese navy regularly follows foreign vessels that come within the 12 nautical miles with-out first seeking permission.

The Coast Guard’s dual role as a federal law enforcement agency and an armed force allows it “to conduct defense operations in support of combatant command-ers on all seven continents,” ac-cording to a Tuesday statement.

When the Bertholf left Alam-eda Coast Guard Base, Calif., in January, its commanding officer, Capt. John Driscoll, in a video posted to Twitter Jan. 20 said the ship would “live up to the name ‘national security cutter.’ ”

National security cutters are equipped with advanced com-mand and control features and

for long-range patrols. Each ship is 418 feet long, can carry a crew of 170 and travel at speeds beyond 28 knots. The Coast Guard in Au-gust will commission two new na-tional security cutters to be based in Hawaii.

“When we get underway, we’re going to be working for the Unit-ed States Indo-Pacific Command combatant commander and we’re going to be executing national se-curity operations throughout the Pacific,” Driscoll tells his crew in the video.

A cutter firstTwo months later, the Bertholf

sailed through the Taiwan Strait with the USS Curtis Wilbur — the seventh such transit by U.S. naval vessels since July but the first by a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. The 110-mile-wide strait separates Taiwan from mainland China.

Afterward, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Sh-uang said Beijing protested to U.S. leaders.

The Bertholf also raised eye-brows in Beijing when it practiced search and seizure procedures

last month with the Philippine coast guard near ScarboroughShoal. Both the Philippines andChina claim the shoal, but China“effectively controls” it with aconstant coast guard presencethere since 2012, according to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative.

The cutter also made port visits in Hong Kong, the first for a CoastGuard cutter in 17 years, and inManila, the first for the service in seven years.

Fagan said the Coast Guard isinterested in helping partner na-tions improve their maritime lawenforcement capabilities.

“We’ll do things like send asmall training team into a nationand help teach them how to do afisheries enforcement boarding to guard against fishing incur-sions,” she said. “When Strattongets into theater, you’ll see somesimilar engagement, partnershipcapacity-building and a contin-ued commitment to a safe, secure, predictable conduct of vessels navigating on the high seas.” doornbos.caitlin@stripes.comTwitter: @CaitlinDoornbos

BY WYATT OLSON

Stars and Stripes

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. David Stilwell was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as U.S. assistant secretary of state for Asian and Pacific affairs, the top diplomatic posi-tion in the region.

The seat has had no permanent replace-ment since Daniel Russel left in early 2017 while Barack Obama was still president.

Susan Thornton, a longtime foreign ser-vice officer, filled in on an acting basis, and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had reportedly urged President Donald Trump to nominate her for a permanent job.

But the Trump administration did not

deem her “sufficiently hawkish on China,” and she retired in July soon after Tillerson left, according to a Washington Post report last year.

Stilwell would likely match the more pugnacious style of his new boss, Secre-tary of State Mike Pompeo, particularly with the administration’s view of China as more a strategic competitor than a trading partner.

In written testimony presented at his March confirmation hearing, Stilwell said he shared the White House’s concerns about “China’s use of covert, corrupt and coercive means to interfere in affairs out-side its borders, as well as its use of mili-tary threats to compel other states to heed its agenda.”

“China’s actions often undermine na-

tional autonomy, whether through com-mercially unviable projects that indebt

other countries or militarization of the South China Sea,” he said.

Stilwell, a Hono-lulu resident, retired from the Air Force in 2015 after a 25-year career that included extensive experience in Asia.

Just before retir-ing, he worked in the

Pentagon as deputy director for political-military affairs for Asia, where he was responsible for implementing the national security strategy and supporting the com-

manders of U.S. Pacific Command andU.S. Central Command, according to a bi-ography by the East-West Center in Hono-lulu, where Stilwell was an adjunct seniorfellow.

In that Pentagon position, he worked closely with Adm. Harry Harris, then commander of Pacific Command. Stilwell will now have the chance to do so again, asthe since-retired Harris became U.S. am-bassador to South Korea a year ago.

Stilwell also served as defense attache toChina from 2011 to 2013 and, prior to that,served as commander of the 35th FighterWing at Misawa Air Base in Japan.

He is proficient in the Chinese and Ko-rean languages.olson.wyatt@stripes.comTwitter: @WyattWOlson

BY CARLOS M. VAZQUEZ II AND AYA ICHIHASHI

Stars and Stripes

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Two U.S. Marines were injured Thursday when their Humvee was rear-ended by a 2-ton truck that went on to hit another vehicle

on the Okinawa Expressway, an Okinawa police spokesman said.

The unidentified Marines, both in their 20s, were seated in their parked vehicle alongside the two-lane expressway between the Ishikawa Interchange and the Okinawa-Kita Interchange exits when the truck struck the Hum-

vee from behind about 4 p.m., the spokesman said. The require-ments of his job do not allow him to be identified by name.

“The cause of the accident is currently under investigation,” he said. “The Marines said they were driving from Camp Hansen to (Camp) Kinser.”

They were treated for minor injuries at the Navy hospital at Camp Foster, the spokesman added.

The truck’s driver also suffered minor injuries and was treated at a local hospital, he said. No inju-ries were reported from the other vehicle that was struck.

It’s unclear why the Humvee was parked, and the extent of dam-age to the vehicle is unknown.

Marine officials did not imme-diately respond to a request forfurther information .

vazquez.carlos@stripes.comTwitter: @StripesCarlosichihashi.aya@stripes.com

Stilwell

MATTHEW MASASCHI/Courtesy of the U.S. Navy

Petty Officer 3rd Class Brendan Hoban, left, and Ensign Cristina Sandstedt monitor vessel traffic as the Coast Guard cutter Bertholf approaches Hong Kong on April 15 . The Bertholf’s sister ship, the Stratton, is taking its place in the Western Pacific.

Retired Air Force general assumes top US diplomatic post in Asia

2 Marines injured when parked Humvee is rear-ended on Okinawa Expressway

As 1 cutter departs, a 2nd deploys to Western Pacific

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FROM FRONT PAGE

Embassy or the Joint U.S. Mili-tary Affairs Group-Korea.

Violations were subject to pun-ishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Civilians and contractors work-ing for the Defense Department were highly encouraged to abideby the policy.

The decision to lift it on Monday was aimed at improving moraleand making South Korea a more attractive assignment, as well asgiving servicemembers a chanceto see more of the country, Doyle said.

“We looked at it and disciplineissues are at a steady state,” hetold Stars and Stripes in an in-terview. “We asked, ‘Is it reallya problem between those hours?’And the answer was no.”

The suspension will last until Sept. 17, at which time Abrams will decide whether to continuethe evaluation period, maintainor rescind the off-installationcurfew.

That will depend on troop be-havior, morale and readinessfactors, USFK said, stressing the importance of maintaininggood relations with South Koreaand “to continue enabling a cul-ture of self-policing both on and off-duty.”

Some 28,500 American ser-vicemembers are stationed in South Korea, which remainstechnically at war with the North after their 1950-53 conflict endedin an armistice instead of a peacetreaty.gamel.kim@stripes.comTwitter: @kimgamel

MILITARY

Study finds moreopioids prescribedto rural veterans

Probe: No anti-Muslim bias in hijab case; more sensitivity needed

Curfew: Brief suspension to be reevaluated in September

BY WYATT OLSON

Stars and Stripes

Rural veterans are given al-most a third more opioids than urban vets, according to a study that analyzed outpatient pre-scribing practices in 2016 by doc-tors within the Veterans Health Administration.

While opioid prescribing by the VHA among rural veterans declined significantly from 2012 to 2016, it remains “unclear as to why rates remain 32% higher than urban counterparts,” con-cluded the study, published in the most recent issue of the journal Military Medicine.

Most of the difference between rural-urban opioid prescribing was due to differences in long-term use by veterans, with rates of short-term use similar between the two groups, the study said.

The study did not assess whether this higher rate of rural prescribing has played a role in America’s growing opioid epi-demic, which has led to a dramatic increase in deaths and overdoses, particularly in rural states such as Kentucky, West Virginia and Oklahoma.

The Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention reported earlier this year that the nation’s overall total of opioid-related deaths increased by 12% from 2016 to 2017, with 47,600 deaths attributable to opioids in that lat-ter year.

The higher rate of prescribing

opioids to veterans in rural areas due to long-term use is “a poten-tially concerning thing,” said Dr. Hilary Mosher, one of the study’s co-authors and a hospital-ist at Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. “There is good evidence that long-term opioid prescribing has more risks than benefits,” she said.

A 2017 study published in the journal Pain looked at opioid pre-scriptions among veterans who had served between 2009 and 2012 and concluded the pain med-ication’s use was “characterized by moderate doses that are used over relatively long periods of time by a minority of veterans.”

The 2017 study found, how-ever, that a major factor associ-ated with prolonged opioid use by those veterans was their location in rural areas.

The new study, authored by researchers at the Iowa City VA Healthcare System, examined VHA data from 2016 representing almost 5 million patients, roughly 800,000 of whom received at least one opioid prescription.

The types of opioids considered in the study were non injectable doses of butorphanol, fentanyl, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, levorphanol, meperidine, metha-done, morphine, oxycodone, oxymorphone, pentazocine and tapentadol. Only outpatient pre-scriptions were included.

For comparison purposes, the researchers measured the pre-scription volume of those diverse

opioids using “morphine milli-gram equivalents” dispensed per capita.

The VHA in 2016 prescribed 1,038 morphine milligram equiv-alents per capita, nationwide, which would equate to nearly five weeks of regular opioid use for every veteran under VHA care, the study said.

In rural areas, the VHA pre-scribed opioids at a rate of 1,306 morphine milligram equiva-lents per capita, significantly higher than urban use, at 988 equivalents.

The findings suggest that rural veterans with chronic pain use opioids for long periods because alternative treatments are avail-able primarily in urban areas.

“Do they have access to physi-cal therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic?” Mosher said. “Do you have access to pain specialists who can put to-gether a multimodal approach to

treat chronic pain?“Bottom line, those kinds of

services may be easier to access or located in an urban setting.”

The study concludes “it is rea-sonable to hypothesize that rural veterans have diminished access to non-pharmacologic treatment alternatives, which could be an important explanation of our findings.”

The hypothesis is supported by the study’s finding that VA facili-ties serving rural areas with more dense populations of veterans had smaller rural-urban differences in dispensed opioid volume — as compared with facilities treating the sparsest rural populations of veterans.

The finding suggests that those facilities serving rural areas with higher densities of veterans may have developed more effective non opioid pain treatments.olson.wyatt@stripes.comTwitter: @WyattWOlson

BY TOM ROEDER

The (Colorado Springs, Colo.) Gazette

When the story broke in March, an in-cident at Fort Carson was portrayed as a clear-cut example of anti-Muslim bigotry.

But a lengthy Army investigation re-leased to The Gazette shows something far more complex: Army regulations clashing with Islamic concepts of modesty and a recent convert to the faith whose religious life conflicted with her military duties.

The Army debunked the discrimination claim, but investigators admit leaders need to learn more about the interaction with a faith that’s unfamiliar to most Ameri-cans and a source of contention for many soldiers.

The Army’s investigation was triggered by a March 6 incident that occurred as soldiers from the post’s 2nd Brigade Com-bat Team attended a suicide prevention class. Sgt. Cesilia Valdovinos, a cook, was in the class along with one of her bosses, Command Sgt. Maj. Kerstin Montoya. The sergeant major told investigators she spot-ted something amiss with Valdovinos’ hair under a hijab, a head covering commonly worn by Muslim women.

“Even though Sgt. Valdovinos was wear-ing a religious head cover, I could see that the bulk of her hair did not meet regula-tory standards,” Montoya wrote, citing an Army rule that requires women to wear long hair in a bun.

Montoya talked to a chaplain and her boss, a female captain, before taking a step that wound up going viral worldwide: She took Valdovinos and the captain outside for

a closeup inspection of the sergeant’s hair.Valdovinos removed her hijab as or-

dered, but then complained to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and its founder, Mikey Weinstein, who launched a media offensive, with the Muslim sergeant as the star of the show. Newspapers as far away as Great Britain picked up the tale, along with television networks and web-sites by the dozen.

“I felt naked without it,” Valdovinos told the Colorado Springs Independent. “It’s like asking you to take off your blouse. It felt like I was getting raped, in a sense.”

Weinstein called post leaders liars for their story about Valdovinos’ hair.

“Fort Carson is simply, shamefully and dishonestly falsely reporting about this shocking incident of blatant Islamophobic bigotry perpetrated by one of its highest ranking NCO’s on the installation,” Wein-stein said on his website.

Col. David Zinn, who commanded the brigade, assigned Capt. Jeremey Kinder to investigate the conflagration, documents released to The Gazette under the Free-dom of Information Act show.

Kinder conducted more than a dozen in-terviews in assembling a 67-page report.

It cleared the Army of the discriminationclaims but also showed the service hasplenty of learning to do.

“I find that better communication with all parties involved would have de-esca-lated the situation and recommend thatfuture inspections of a personal nature beconducted in complete privacy,” Kinderwrote, adding that Army regulations and manuals for leaders address how to handle a hair standards investigation involving a hijab.

He also found that nearly 18 years after9/11 anti-Muslim feelings run high in the ranks.

“I find that Sgt. Valdovinos was sub-jected to improper comments by fellowsoldiers, but I find evidence that suggeststhe command took appropriate steps to ad-dress these incidents,” he wrote.

The Army took longer to approve Mus-lim headgear than it did to move againstanti-Islamic slurs.

While Muslim troops fought for decades to have the hijab approved for wear, theArmy didn’t authorize it until 2017. Andit required that the soldiers comply withregulations even underneath their headcovering.

Courtesy of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation

An Army investigation debunked a discrimination claim by Spc. Cesilia Valdovinos but found other issues related to Muslims serving in the U.S. military.

PAUL BROWN JR./Courtesy of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Navy veteran Peter Johnson receives acupuncture in 2016 to help relieve chronic pain caused by injuries he suffered during the Vietnam War. A study has found that rural veteran are given more opioid prescriptions than their urban counterparts.

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VETERANS

BY CHRISTINE VESTAL

Stateline.org

CHARLESTON, S.C. — To Army veteran Everett Brock-ington, 52, there’s no mystery about why so many veterans die by suicide: “They’ve seen things and done things that they can’t handle. And they’ve lost too many of their close friends.”

Most of the veterans Brocking-ton knows rely on one another for support instead of seeking mental health services.

“We talk to each other about our problems all the time,” Brockington said. But he admit-ted, “It would be better if we had someone to talk to who knew what they were doing.”

Although retired and active military servicemembers die by suicide at twice the rate of civil-ians, research shows that veter-ans who receive mental health care are much less likely to end their lives than those who don’t. A soon-to-be-released study from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston may shed light on how to persuade reluctant veterans to seek that professional help.

For veterans, the primary bar-rier to treatment is the stigma associated with seeking mental health services, which male veter-ans, in particular, consider a sign of weakness, said Tracy Stecker, a psychologist at the Medical Uni-versity of South Carolina’s School of Nursing and the lead research-er in the study.

Fears and myths about suicide prevention also get in the way, she said.

“Veterans are afraid that if they admit they’re thinking about killing themselves, somebody will come snatch them up and put them in a hospital and make them take medicine,” she said.

Stecker’s study, funded by the Department of Defense, aimed to find out whether a simple phone call could help veterans suffer-ing from suicidal thoughts take that first critical step in seeking treatment.

She and a team of researchers called 1,000 veterans who volun-teered to participate in the study. They screened them for mental health symptoms —sleep loss, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, substance use, pain and suicidal thoughts or attempts — five times during the year after they initially made contact.

Half of the participants also received a call from a psycholo-gist who discussed with them their fears and concerns about seeking mental health treatment. For any participants who decided they wanted treatment during the study, the researchers connected

them directly to a local mental health provider.

Stecker’s study, slated for pub-lication later this summer, found that the veterans who simply talk-ed on the phone to a mental health professional about getting help fared better in terms of suicidal thoughts and other mental health symptoms than those who didn’t, and they were more than twice as likely to seek mental health care during suicidal episodes.

“That was our hypothesis going in so it wasn’t surprising,” Steck-er said.

Surprising recruitment“What was surprising was how

easy it was to recruit a thousand veterans from across the coun-try who said they had considered or attempted suicide, hadn’t re-ceived mental health services and were willing to participate in our study,” Stecker said.

Nationwide, an average of 20 current and former military ser-vicemembers die by suicide each day. Of those, an average of six were connected to the Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs health system. Only half of all veterans who need mental health services are receiving them, according to the VA.

But even as suicide rates are rising in both the civilian and military populations, the rate of death by suicide among veterans connected to the VA health sys-tem is declining.

“The VA has done a good job of focusing on suicide and making sure that those in their health sys-tem get quality care,” said Jerry Reed, who heads a suicide pre-vention research and advocacy group at the Washington-based Education Development Center.

“The real challenge is to find the veterans who are not con-nected to the system. The VA is still trying to crack the code for finding those 14 veterans of the 20 who take their lives every day in the civilian community.”

Charleston, home to the Citadel military academy and combined Air Force and Navy training cen-ter Joint Base Charleston, has the seventh-largest metropolitan concentration of military person-nel in the country. South Caro-lina, with a population of roughly 5 million, ranks 11th in the nation for its percentage of military in the adult population.

South Carolina’s suicide rate in 2017 was 16 per 100,000 people, slightly higher than the national average of 14. Its veteran suicide rate is roughly equal to the na-tional average of 30.

In 2018, a total of 815 South Car-olina residents died by suicide.

At the Ralph H. Johnson VA

Medical Center in Charleston, where more than 360 mental health practitioners see dozens of veterans every month who are haunted by suicidal thoughts, it’s clear that many factors beyond the battlefield put veterans at risk of ending their lives.

As in the general population, economic pressures, broken re-lationships, health problems and loneliness are among more than 30 factors that the VA has deter-mined can increase the risk of suicide among retired and active-duty military personnel.

“What’s so shocking is that only 50% of the veterans at high risk for suicide are involved in get-ting mental health care,” said Dr. Donald Myrick, who heads the hospital’s mental health unit. He and his staff are trying to change that.

Most want helpAbout a year ago, Myrick’s

group started using a database that incorporated risk factors for his department’s more than 26,000 patients — including age, recent cancer diagnosis, divorce, substance use, homelessness and job loss — to predict who was at greatest risk of suicide.

They found roughly 400 pa-tients at high risk of suicide and started calling them every week to see if they wanted help with depression, anxiety, PTSD or sui-cidal thoughts.

“We found that 70% were en-gaging with us,” Myrick said. “They were saying they wanted help, and they followed through.”

In addition, the Charleston-area VA embeds mental health professionals in its primary care clinics outside the city so veter-ans seeking physical health care can see a therapist if their doctor thinks they may need one.

At the hospital in historic downtown Charleston, physicians and psychologists follow up with all discharged mental health pa-tients, completing at least four phone calls with each patient to check on how they’re feeling.

Brockington walks with a cane and wears a back brace.

“I have so many medical prob-lems, it’s depressing,” he said.

But sitting in front of the VA hospital here in late May, sur-rounded by palmettos and well-maintained gardens, he said he considers himself one of the lucky ones.

A South Carolina native, Brock-ington said he traveled nearly two hours to get to Charleston on a scorching afternoon last month so he could pick up a new CPAP breathing machine for his sleep apnea problems. He said he’s OK in the mental health department, though his face saddens when he talks about the prevalence of sui-cide among his fellow veterans.

Sleep loss is a major suicide risk factor, Stecker said, as are chronic health problems. “Most people who are at risk of suicide don’t know it,” she said. “That’s a big part of the problem.”

At the national level, the VA this year launched a multimillion-dol-lar social media and ad campaign to find veterans who may be at el-evated risk of suicide.

That came after a scathing Government Accountability Of-fice report that concluded lack of leadership in the department dur-ing the first year of the Trump ad-ministration had led to a failure to reach out to and educate veterans about suicide risk and the value of mental health services.

Since then, the VA’s suicide pre-vention division spent $12 million on outreach in 2018, including $1.5 million on paid media. This year’s suicide prevention out-reach budget is $20 million, ac-cording to the VA.

In addition, local suicide pre-vention coordinators connected to the VA’s 170 medical centers nationwide held more than 20,000 outreach events to contact veter-ans at risk for suicide, according to the VA. As a result, they are now managing care for nearly 11,000 veterans, according to the agency.

“We’re trying to improve our outreach to veterans where they work, live and thrive in the com-munity,” Dr. Keita Franklin, the VA’s director of suicide preven-

tion, told Stateline in an interview.“When they’re in active duty,they’re taught a culture of ‘Fight on, push on, pull yourself up by your bootstraps.’ Then when they leave, we tell them they need toask for help and come in and getmental health care. It’s a toughtransition,” she said. “But we know that once they get into care,they do better.”

Veterans who are in crisis or having thoughts of suicide, and those who know a veteran in crisis, can call 800-273-8255 and press 1, chat online at Vet-eransCrisisLine.net/Chat or text838255.

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Army veteran Everett Brockington , shown outside the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, S.C. , says most veterans he knows rely on each other instead of seeking mental health help.

Study may help coax suicidal vets to get treatment

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BY CAROL MORELLO, KAREEM FAHIM

AND SIMON DENYER The Washington Post

Secretary of State Mike Pom-peo said Sunday that the United States will guarantee the safe transit of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, and continued to blame Iran for attacks on two tankers last week in the Gulf of Oman.

“We’re going to guarantee the freedom of navigation through the straits,” Pompeo said on “Fox News Sunday.” “This is important to the entire globe. The United States is going to make sure that we take all actions necessary, dip-lomatic and otherwise, to achieve that outcome.”

Pompeo defended U.S. intelli-gence that he said provided “un-mistakable” evidence that Iran was responsible for the tanker at-tacks on Thursday.

Germany’s foreign minister has questioned the utility of a video released by the Pentagon purporting to show Iranians in a small boat removing an exploded mine from one of the tankers, saying it is insufficient to blame Iran. And the owner of the Japa-nese tanker has said the crew believes the vessel was hit by a flying object, not a mine, as the United States has asserted.

Pompeo said “the world will come to see” much of the intelli-gence and data the United States has collected and not released publicly yet.

“The American people should rest assured, we have high con-fidence with respect to who con-ducted these attacks, as well as half-dozen other attacks through-out the world over the past 40 days,” he said.

Iran has denied any responsi-bility for the suspicious explosions on the tankers. Pompeo has said that Iran is conducting a number

of attacks on U.S. allies and in-terests in an attempt to reverse the administration’s strategy of imposing an escalating series of sanctions to drive Iran’s oil ex-ports to zero. That campaign will continue on the diplomatic and economic front, he said Sunday.

“President (Donald) Trump has done everything he can to avoid war,” he said. “We don’t want war. We’ve done what we can to deter this. The Iranians should understand very clearly that we will continue to take ac-tions to deter Iran from engaging in this kind of behavior.”

Pompeo said he telephoned his counterparts around the world to stress the risk to the world’s oil supplies. But he sidestepped

questions about sending more troops, ships, planes and subma-rines to the region.

“We’ve taken a handful of those actions to increase the opportu-nity to convince Iran that these actions aren’t in their best inter-est,” he said. “And it appears to be Iran that wants to escalate this conflict.”

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, square-

ly blamed Iran and allied forces for recent attacks on commercial tankers in the waterways of the Persian Gulf and called on the in-ternational community to take a “decisive stance” against what he called Iranian expansionism.

Saudi Arabia “does not want a war in the region, but we will not hesitate to deal with any threat to our people, our sovereignty and our vital interests,” the crown

prince said in an interview pub-lished Sunday by the Saudi-ownedAsharq al-Awsat newspaper.

The European Union and Chinareleased statements last weekurging Iran and the United States to exercise caution, in a show of international concern that bel-licose language — or a singleincident — could spark a violent confrontation.

In another sign of disquiet among U.S. allies, Japanese of-ficials said the government wasseeking more conclusive evidencefrom the Trump administrationthat Iran was indeed responsiblefor attacks on the two tankers, in-cluding a Japanese-owned vessel, in the Gulf of Oman last week, ac-cording to a report Sunday fromthe Kyodo News agency.

The Japanese shipping compa-ny that owns the vessel cast doubton the U.S. version of events onFriday, with the president ofKokuka Sangyo saying that theFilipino crew thought the ship had been attacked by “flying ob-jects” rather than a mine.

On Sunday, Kyodo said “a source close to Prime MinisterShinzo Abe” told the news agencythat Pompeo’s evidence did not amount to “definite proof” thatIran carried out the attack. “Evenif it’s the United States that makes the assertion, we cannot simplysay we believe it,” he said.

Trump and Abe spoke by phoneFriday about the attacks andhis trip, with the U.S. president thanking the Japanese leader“for his effort to facilitate com-munication with Iran,” the WhiteHouse said.

After the call, Abe told report-ers that Japan urged “all related countries” to avoid an accidentalconfrontation or doing anything that would raise tensions.

“Japan adamantly condemns the act that threatened a Japaneseship, no matter who attacked.”

Monday, June 17, 2019

MIDEAST

Pompeo pledges safe transit of oil in Persian Gulf

CENTCOM: Rebel downing of US drone hints at Iranian role BY CHAD GARLAND

Stars and Stripes

Iran-backed rebels in Yemen shot down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone at an altitude that U.S. Central Command said Sunday shows improved capability and likely as-sistance by Iran.

A CENTCOM statement confirmed previous reports of the incident, which took place earlier this month, and comes as the U.S. has accused Iran of attacking merchant ships in the region amid rising tensions in a standoff between Washington and Tehran.

The drone was shot down June 6 by what officials believe was a SA-6 missile. About a week later, on Thursday, a second surface-to-air missile — a modified SA-7, CENTCOM said — was launched at anoth-er MQ-9 over the Gulf of Oman but missed its target by about half a mile.

In that case, the unmanned aircraft had arrived minutes earlier over the M/T Front Altair, which was on fire following what U.S. officials have attributed to a mine attack by the Iranian Republican Guard Corps. Tehran has denied involvement in

the incident.“Subsequent analysis indicates that this

was a likely attempt to shoot down or oth-erwise disrupt the MQ-9 surveillance of the IRGC attack on the M/T Kokuka Cou-rageous,” CENTCOM spokesman Lt. Col. Earl Brown said in a statement.

The missile shot could explain confusion over the incident in the Strait of Hormuz, which the Japanese tanker ship’s owner said he believed was caused by flying ob-jects that caused an explosion and put a hole in the ship. Some of the crew reported seeing two shots.

Company officials had said Thursday that the vessel first had been hit toward the stern by what appeared to be an artillery shell, causing a fire in the engine room. The tanker was carrying methanol from Saudi Arabia to Singapore at the time. The crew was able to extinguish the fire.

The U.S. has said the vessel was attacked by limpet mines, and last week released a video showing what it said was an Irani-an vessel removing an unexploded mine from one of the ships. Officials have said Iran took the device to hide evidence of its involvement.

Limpet mines are designed to disable a vessel without sinking it. They are mag-netic and attach to the hull.

But Yutaka Katada, president of Kokuka Sangyo, theorized that a mine would have caused more widespread damage than what the Kokuka Courageous suffered, though he said, “This is just an assumption or a guess.”

Three hours after the first blast, the ship was attacked again on the same side, after which the captain ordered the crew to take to the lifeboats.

The U.S. Navy sent the USS Bainbridge in response to calls for help from the Front Altair, which was carrying flammable naptha, and the Kokuka Courageous. The Bainbridge picked up 21 sailors from the Japanese vessel.

The crew members of the Norwegian-owned Front Altair originally were picked up by a passing ship but then were handed over to Iran. They were released and ar-rived in Dubai on Saturday.

The suspected attacks follow similar incidents in which four other oil tankers were damaged off the nearby port city of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates in

recent weeks.Last month, citing increasing threats

from Iran in the region, the U.S. rushed an aircraft carrier strike group, a bombertask force and other military assets to theregion.

Since last year, when President DonaldTrump withdrew America from the 2015 nuclear deal that Iran reached with worldpowers, the administration has been im-posing sanctions that have strained Iran’s economy and have cut into its oil exports.

In response, Iran’s leaders repeatedlyhave threatened to close the Strait of Hor-muz, through which 20% of the world’s oilflows. Tehran also has threatened to begin enriching uranium closer to weapons-grade levels if European nations don’t offernew terms for the nuclear agreement.

Iran has accused the U.S. of escalating tensions in the region and said Americanforces there are a destabilizing presence.Washington, however, has said its moves are aimed at protecting its interests andallies in the region and it does not want tofight in another conflict in the region.garland.chad@stripes.comTwitter: @chadgarland

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, shown speaking last week, on Sunday condemned Iran while promising the U.S. will provide safe transit for oil tankers through the Persian Gulf.

‘ We’re going to guarantee the freedom of navigation through the straits. ’

Mike PompeoU.S. s ecretary of s tate

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BY MARY CLARE JALONICK AND LISA MASCARO

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Alarmed by President Donald Trump’s will-ingness to accept foreign dirt on a political opponent, House Demo-crats are accelerating their efforts to strengthen election security ahead of the 2020 campaign.

Lawmakers had already been compiling a fresh package of bills in the aftermath of special coun-sel Robert Mueller’s findings in the Trump-Russia probe. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of California, said Democrats are now pushing ahead with votes be-cause it’s part of “what the Amer-ican people elected us to do.”

It remains to be seen if passage of bills through the House will break the stalemate in Congress over what to do about election se-curity. While Russia interfered in the presidential election more than two years ago, lawmak-ers have yet to act on legislation — and there is no shortage of proposals.

Democrats sped up their ef-forts after Trump suggested Wednesday in an interview with ABC News that he was open to ac-cepting a foreign power’s help in his 2020 campaign. He appeared to walk those comments back Friday, telling Fox News that, “of course,” he would go to the FBI or the attorney general if a foreign power offered him dirt about an opponent.

Still, the controversy gave fresh energy to an issue that Democrats have prioritized since they took the House majority in January. Even though the nation’s intel-ligence agencies said from early

2017 that it was clear Russia triedto influence the 2016 election infavor of Trump, Republicans wholed both chambers did not move comprehensive legislation to ad-dress the issue. Senate MajorityLeader Mitch McConnell has de-clined to hold a vote on a Senateelection security bill that has bi-partisan support.

The House bills seek to securestate election systems, put stricter limits on foreign election interfer-ence and provide more oversightof the executive branch, accord-ing to aides familiar with the leg-islation. The House could vote as soon as this week on the first billin the package, a series of mea-sures to improve state electionsystems with paper ballots, auditsand funding of grants to states.

Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md.,among those leading the effort,said Trump’s attitude towardforeign interference was “breath-taking,” and he believes the presi-dent is taking the country in the “opposite direction of where thepublic wants to go, which is to feelmore confident, not less confi-dent,” in the vote.

“People should be concerned that we’re going to see anotherround of attempts to attack ourdemocracy of the kind we sawin ’16,” Sarbanes said in an in-terview. He said special counselMueller’s report, which exten-sively detailed the Russian in-terference, flashed a “neon sign”that Russia was “coming again.”

Congress has struggled to im-prove election security in the aftermath of the 2016 election, tangled by partisan fighting andthe intricacies of state-run elec-tion systems.

BY COLLIN BINKLEY

Associated Press

After receding from the nation-al stage, the free college move-ment is resurfacing as a central rallying point for Democrats as they set their sights on the White House.

At least 18 of the party’s 23 presidential contenders have come out in support of some ver-sion of free college. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, prom-ises free tuition at public col-leges and universities. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, of Minnesota, says it should be limited to two years of community college. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, of New York, wants to provide free tuition in exchange for public service.

The candidates are responding to what some say is a crisis in col-lege affordability, an issue likely to draw attention in the first pri-mary debates later this month. Year after year, colleges say they have to raise tuition to offset state

funding cuts. Students have shouldered the

cost by taking out loans, push-ing the country’s student debt to nearly $1.6 trillion this year. Even for many in the middle class, ex-perts say, college is increasingly moving out of reach.

Free college, a catchall term for a range of affordability plans, is increasingly seen as a solution. Nearly 20 states now promise some version of free college, from Tennessee’s free community col-lege program to New York’s Ex-celsior Scholarship, which offers up to four years of free tuition at state schools for residents with family incomes below $125,000 a year.

But research on the effective-ness of state programs has been mixed. Critics say the offers are often undermined by lim-ited funding and come with nar-row eligibility rules that exclude many students.

“This is a problem that has not gone away but has gotten worse in

many communities,” said Mark Huelsman, associate director of policy and research for Demos, a liberal think tank. “It’s enough of a problem that people expect some action on it and they expect some plan for how to get there.”

Plans from Warren, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former President Barack Obama hous-ing chief Julian Castro aim to eliminate tuition at all public institutions. The candidates say that would open college to a wider group of Americans and greatly reduce the need for loans. War-ren argues that college, like other levels of schooling, is “a basic public good that should be avail-able to everyone with free tuition and zero debt at graduation.”

Others, including Klobuchar and former Vice President Joe Biden, have backed more mod-erate plans to provide two years of free tuition at community col-leges, similar to an idea pushed by Obama in 2015.

BY BERNARD CONDON

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner took in as much as $135 million in revenue during their second year as aides to President Donald Trump, gen-erated from their vast real estate holdings, stocks and bonds and even a book deal, according to their financial disclosures re-leased Friday.

Ivanka Trump’s stake in her family’s Washington hotel down the street from the Oval Office generated $3.95 million in rev-enue in 2018, barely changed from a year earlier. The hotel, a favorite gathering spot for for-eign diplomats and lobbyists, is at the center of two federal lawsuits claiming Donald Trump is violat-ing the Constitution’s ban on for-

eign government payments to the president.

Another big Ivanka Trump holding, a trust that includes her personal business selling hand-bags, shoes and accessories, generated at least $1 million in revenue in 2018, down from at least $5 million the year before. Ivanka Trump announced in July of last year that she planned to close her fashion company to focus on her work as a White House adviser for her father.

The disclosure for her husband, Jared Kushner, shows that he took in hundreds of thousands of dollars from his holdings of New York City apartments and that he owns a stake in the real estate investment firm Cadre worth at least $25 million.

The disclosures released by the White House and filed with

the U.S. Office of GovernmentEthics show minimum revenuefor the couple of $28 million last year generated from assets val-ued at more than $180 million.The disclosures filed by federalgovernment officials each yearshow revenue, assets and debtsin broad ranges between low andhigh estimates, making it dif-ficult to precisely chart the riseand fall of business and financialholdings.

Among the dozens of sources of income for Ivanka Trumpwas a $263,500 book advance for“Women Who Work: Rewritingthe Rules for Success,” published in 2017.

Kushner’s holdings of apart-ment buildings through his fam-ily real estate firm, Kushner Cos.,were the source of much of his income.

Alarmed Dems pushto strengthen 2020 election security

ELISE AMENDOLA/AP

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at a campaign event Friday in Windham, N.H. Candidates including Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed plans to eliminate tuition at public colleges and universities, while former Vice President Joe Biden and others back plans for free community college.

EVAN VUCCI/AP

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, left, and Ivanka Trump, right, shown with Kim Kardashian West at a White House event on Thursday , took in as much as $135 million last year, according to their financial disclosures for 2018.

2020 race brings free college debate back to national stage

Financial disclosures: Ivanka Trump, Kushner took in up to $135M last year

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NATION

FAA proposes $715K fine over Allegiant engine work

Census reports more than 60% of the 121 million US men are fathers

Wash. state asks waterfront owners to take dead whales

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal safety regulators have proposed a fine of more than $715,000 against Allegiant Air, saying the discount airline failed to properly fix an engine that put out hotter-than-normal exhaust fumes.

Allegiant said Friday that it followed a procedure approved by the manufacturer and the government.

The incident happened in April 2018 with one of the McDonnell-Douglas MD-88 planes that Alle-giant has since retired.

The Federal Aviation Ad-ministration said that after a takeoff in Virginia, Allegiant properly turned off the automat-

ic reverse thrust system on the engine, as recommended by the manufacturer.

But rather than taking the next step of finding the reason the ex-haust gas was too hot, Allegiant deactivated the jet’s reverse thrust system and operated 28 flights over the next eight days, the FAA said.

Allegiant said it followed a pro-cedure developed by McDonnell-Douglas, now part of Boeing Co., and later approved by the FAA.

The airline’s handling of the incident “never jeopardized the safety of our aircraft or our op-erations,” said Allegiant spokes-woman Sonya Padgett. “We believe the proposed fine is inap-propriate and inconsistent with

existing FAA policy.”The FAA countered that it told

Allegiant in 2017 not to deac-tivate an MD-80’s functioning automatic reverse thrust system unless the system itself was caus-ing overly hot exhaust because something else could be causing the high temperatures.

The Las Vegas-based carrier has 30 days to respond to the FAA’s allegations, which are civil and not a criminal matter. Air-lines frequently negotiate down the size of proposed penalties.

In recent years, Allegiant has faced stepped-up scrutiny from the FAA and criticism from safe-ty advocates after a series of inci-dents including aborted takeoffs and a high rate of in-flight me-

chanical problems. The FAA has taken no action against Allegiant, however, saying it was satisfied that it was dealing with problems inspectors found.

Allegiant’s rate of breakdowns appeared to be related partly to the age of its fleet, especially the

MD-80-series jets, which werenearly 30 years old on average.

Older planes can be operatedsafely, but they tend to burn morefuel and require more mainte-nance. Allegiant retired its last MD-80s in November, replacingthem with newer Airbus jets.

BY MIKE SCHNEIDER

Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — Fathers in the U.S. tend to be better edu-cated than men without children, and relatively few men have chil-dren over age 40.

These are some of the conclu-sions in a report released last week by the U.S. Census Bureau, just in time for Father’s Day.

The data in the report comes from 2014 when the bureau for the first time asked both men and women about their fertility histo-ries. The goal of the report was to shed greater light on men’s fertil-ity, a topic less known than that of women’s fertility, according to

the Census Bureau. It found more than 60% of the

121 million adult men in the U.S. were fathers. About three-quar-ters of fathers were married. Al-most 13% of dads were divorced and 8% had never been married.

Just under a quarter of U.S. men between ages 40 and 50 were childless, and about 17% had never been married by the time they were in their 40s. Both figures were noticeably higher than for women who had reached middle age.

There were also noticeable dif-ferences in workforce participa-tion between fathers and mothers with young children. Nearly 90% of fathers whose youngest child

was under age 6 were employed, while that figure was only around 60% for mothers, according to the report. There was no difference between the sexes for childless men and women.

Fatherhood also varied by race, ethnic background and age.

Almost 30% of Hispanics in their 20s were fathers. That was true for about a quarter of black men, more than a fifth of white men and an eighth of Asian men.

By the time men were in their 40s, those disparities had nar-rowed. More than 83% of Hispan-ics were fathers, around 80% of black and Asian men were dads and around three-quarters of white men were fathers.

Associated Press

PORT HADLOCK, Wash. — At least one Washington state water-front landowner has said yes to a request to allow dead gray whales to decompose on their property.

So many gray whale carcasses have washed up this year that the National Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration Fisher-ies says it has run out of places to take them.

In response, the agency has asked landowners to volunteer property as a disposal site for the carcasses. By doing so, landown-ers can support the natural pro-cess of the marine environment, and skeletons left behind can be used for educational purposes, of-ficials said.

But the carcasses can be up to 40 feet long. That’s a lot to decay, and it could take months.

Landowner Mario Rivera, of Port Hadlock, Wash ., told KING5-TV that the smell is intermittent and “isn’t that bad.”

“It is really a unique opportuni-ty to have this here on the beach and monitor it and see how fast it goes,” said his wife, Stefanie Worwag.

The federal agency said about 30 whales have stranded on

Washington’s coast this year, the most in two decades.

On the U.S. West coast, about70 whales have been found dead this year along California, Ore-gon, Washington and Alaska, themost since 2000. About five werefound on British Columbia beach-es. Still, that’s a small fraction ofthe total number because mostsink or wash up in remote areasand are unrecorded.

NOAA Fisheries late last month declared the die-off an “unusual mortality event” and providedadditional resources to respondto the deaths.

“With the unusual mortality event of these gray whales, we know more whales will be comingin, or there is a high likelihood thatmore whales will die within Puget Sound and out on the coast,” said Port Townsend Marine ScienceCenter Citizen Science Coordina-tor Betsy Carlson.

Officials say the gray whalepopulation remains strong atabout 27,000.

Lime is being used to helpbreak down the whale carcass onthe beach near where Rivera andWorwag live.

“The lime appears to be work-ing,” Rivera said. “It is decom-posing nicely. I think.”

DAVID BECKER/AP

Allegiant Air was fined more than $715,000 for failing to fix an engine properly after it put out hotter-than-normal exhaust fumes.

MICHAEL DWYER/AP

The U.S. Census Bureau has released a new report showing more than 60% of the 121 million men in the U.S. are fathers.

JEFF CHIU/AP

Duat Mai stands atop a dead whale in San Francisco in May. Federal officials are asking waterfront landowners in Washington state to allow dead gray whales’ carcasses to remain on their properties.

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BY ANDREW SELSKY AND PATRICK WHITTLE

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine — Un-daunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers, surprising Border Pa-trol agents more accustomed to Spanish-speaking migrants.

Officials in Texas and even Maine are scrambling to absorb the sharp increase in African migrants. They are coming to America after flying across the Atlantic Ocean to South America and then embarking on an often harrowing overland journey.

In one recent week, agents in the Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector stopped more than 500 African migrants found walking in sepa-rate groups along the arid land after splashing across the Rio Grande, children in tow.

That is more than double the total of 211 African migrants who were detained by the Border Pa-trol along the entire 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border in the 2018 fiscal year.

“We are continuing to see a rise in apprehensions of immigrants from countries not normally en-countered in our area,” said Raul

Ortiz, head of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector.

The immigrants in Texas were mostly from the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola. Camer-oonians have also been traveling up through Mexico and into the U.S. in larger numbers and seek-ing asylum at ports of entry.

On a recent Saturday in Tijua-na, there were 90 Cameroonians lined up to get on a waiting list to request asylum that has swelled to about 7,500 names. Also on the waiting list are Ethiopians, Er-itreans, Mauritanians, Sudanese and Congolese.

Cameroonians generally fly to Ecuador because no visa is required and take about four months to reach Tijuana. They walk for days in Panama through dense forest, where they are often robbed and held in government-run camps. They come from Cameroon’s English-speaking south with horrifying stories of rape, murder and torture since late 2016 by soldiers of the coun-try’s French-speaking majority, which holds power.

A few days after the big groups of African immigrants were ap-prehended in Texas, federal of-ficials dropped off dozens of them in San Antonio. Officials in the Texas city sent out a plea for French-speaking volunteers for

translating work “and most im-portantly, making our guests feel welcome.”

Many were bused to Portland, Maine, about as far as one can get from the Mexican border and still be in the continental United States. Word has spread among migrants that the city of 67,000 is a welcoming place. Somali refu-gees were resettled in Portland in the 1990s.

A total of 170 asylum-seekers arrived in recent days. Hundreds more are expected in an influx that City Manager Jon Jennings called unprecedented. With one shelter already full, a basketball

venue called the Portland Ex-position Building was converted into an emergency shelter.

Portland officials tweeted Thursday that rumors some of the migrants are carrying the Ebola virus “are patently false,” and said that as asylum-seekers, they are in the United States legally.

On Thursday afternoon, fami-lies in the Expo chatted in French and Portuguese as children kicked a soccer ball near rows of cots. One of the men, Prince Pombo, 26, described himself as a pro-democracy activist and said he had fled his native country, the Democratic Republic of Congo,

because of political oppression.He went to neighboring Angola, then flew to Brazil. There, he met a local woman and they hada baby they named Heaven, 16months old, who giggled as sheplayed with her mother in theExpo. Pombo said his journeyfrom Congo to America tookthree years.

More migrants are on the way.Mexico is on pace to triple thenumber of African immigrants itis processing this year, up from2,100 in 2017.

The explosion in immigrationto the United States from sub-Saharan Africa coincides with a steep drop in the migration flowacross the Mediterranean to Eu-rope after European countriesand two main embarkation points— Turkey and Libya — decided to crack down. From Jan. 1 toJune 12, only 24,600 migrants arrived in Europe by sea, com-pared with 99,600 over the same period in 2017, according to theInternational Organization for Migration.

Pombo, who was a teacher in Congo, learned in an internetsearch and by asking around thatPortland is a good place for mi-grants. He said his next step is tostart rebuilding a life for himself and his family.

“I’d like to feel safe. I’d like tobuild a decent life,” he said.

African migrants swarming to US-Mexico borderPHOTOS BY ELISE AMENDOLA/AP

A migrant woman reads a Bible as she rests inside the Portland Exposition Building in Portland, Maine , on Thursday.

Prince Pombo speaks about his family’s journey as migrants from Africa at the Portland Exposition Building .

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NATION

Police: Off-duty officer shot man in Costco store

Guam Catholic group protests recruitment of abortion doctors

Vaccines are mandatory for New York summer camp

BY MICHAEL HILL

Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. — The battle to contain the worst U.S. measles outbreak in 27 years has a new front: summer camp.

Vaccinations have been made mandatory this summer for campers and staff in several counties north of New York City that annually fill up with kids from the Orthodox Jewish com-munities that have been hit hard-est by measles.

Ulster County took the extra step of mandating the measles vaccine or proof of immunity at all day camps and overnight camps, becoming the latest county in the area to issue immunization requirements. Rockland County announced a similar order this month, following mandates from Sullivan and Orange counties.

“We have to make sure our t’s are crossed and our i’s are dotted in making sure all these vaccina-tion records are in and have been fine-combed through to make sure everything is in compli-ance,” said Rabbi Hanoch Hecht, of Ulster County’s Camp Emu-nah, which hosts many girls from a Chabad community in Brook-lyn’s Crown Heights.

“In the past where we accepted religious exemptions for certain

things,” said Hecht, who is get-ting his own blood checked for immunity. “Now we cannot.”

The state of New York requires summer camps to keep immu-nization records for all campers but doesn’t bar children from at-tending if they haven’t gotten a measles shot.

Children are required to get the measles vaccine to attend schools in New York, however, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Thursday eliminat-ing an exemption for kids whose parents object to vaccinations on religious grounds.

The Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention reported that, as of June 1, more than 1,000 measles cases had been reported in the U.S. since the start of the year, up from fewer than 100 cases a year a decade ago. The bulk of those cases have been di-

agnosed in ultra-Orthodox Jew-ish neighborhoods in Brooklyn and suburban Rockland County.

The CDC recommends every-one over a year old should get the vaccine, except for people who had the disease as children. Those who have had measles are immune.

Several camp administrators interviewed by The Associated Press expressed no objection to mandatory vaccinations.

Rabbi Dovid Teichman, direc-tor of Camp Govoah, which caters to Orthodox campers in rural Greene County, said staffers were “combing through each and every application to make sure that ev-eryone is vaccinated.”

“I can’t jeopardize anybody,” he said. “So if I find somebody that’s on the list that’s not vaccinating, I’m not taking them into camp.”

Associated Press

HAGATNA, Guam — A Catho-lic group has protested the gov-ernor of Guam’s plan to recruit abortion providers to the U.S. territory where no doctors are currently willing to terminate pregnancies.

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero’s re-cruitment idea has drawn criti-cism and support from residents, the Pacific Daily News reported Friday.

The Democratic governor told The Associated Press she is con-cerned women could be forced to seek unsafe and illegal proce-dures after the last abortion pro-vider retired last year.

One resident told the Pacific Daily News that recruiting an abortion doctor will make Guam a better place.

“If the governor makes it hap-pen, it’ll truly show that she meant it when she said she’ll make Guam a better place,” said Kimmi Yee, 20, who was born and raised on Guam. “I’d be glad to know that women have the ability to choose and will be able to do it safely.”

A Catholic anti-abortion group protested the recruitment idea at the governor’s office on Friday.

Patricia Perry, co-chair of the group, sent invitations encour-aging people to attend a prayer rally.

“If the governor is not con-vinced, we’ll do other measuresto further our cause,” Perry said.“We will not stop until all abor-tion is outlawed and all anti-lifelaws will be abolished.”

Part of the invitation reads,“Say no to recruiting doctors who will kill our unborn children! Sayyes to recruiting doctors who helpus save lives!”

Jayne Flores, the director of the Bureau of Women’s Affairs, saidshe is meeting with Public Health officials to talk about a plan to re-cruit a doctor to provide abortionservices. The administration isalso working to provide greateraccess to birth control to reduce unwanted pregnancies.

The archdiocese on the heavily Catholic island said in a statementit was appealing to the governorto change her position.

“The fact is that human life be-gins at conception and the RomanCatholic Church affirms and pro-motes this truth. There is no othermoral or logical place to draw theline,” the Archdiocese of Aganasaid.

Government records showabout 250 abortions a year wereperformed on Guam from 2007 to2017, the Pacific Daily News said.No abortions have been reportedin the past 12 months.

Associated Press

CORONA, Calif. — An off-duty police officer opened fire inside a Costco Wholesale warehouse store, killing a man who had at-tacked him and wounding two others, the Corona Police Depart-ment said.

Kenneth French, 32, of River-side assaulted the Los Angeles Police Department officer Friday night while he was holding his young child, the department said in a statement Saturday. The of-ficer fired his gun, hitting French and two of French’s relatives, the department said.

French was killed, the depart-ment said. The relatives are in critical conditions at hospitals.

The officer, whose identity is being withheld, was treated at a nearby hospital and released, and the officer’s child was not injured, the department said.

The officer was the only person who fired shots in the store, the

department said.The shooting prompted a stam-

pede of frightened shoppers to flee the store east of Los Angeles and seek cover inside.

Witnesses said they saw a man with a Mohawk haircut arguing with someone near a freezer sec-tion when shots rang out at least six times.

The man involved in the argu-ment was killed, Corona police Lt. Jeff Edwards said.

Witnesses said there was an altercation. Shoppers and em-ployees described terror and chaos when shots rang out shortly before 8 p.m. Friday and police swarmed the store.

Shrieks from inside the store were heard on video recorded by shopper Nikki Tate, who had stopped by with her daughter to pick up steaks and lobsters for Father’s Day.

Tate said Saturday she was by the meat section when she

heard “about six or seven shots.” She dropped to the ground and crawled toward her daughter who was at the other end. They huddled until they were able to escape through a side door.

“I saw people and heard shots and my first thought was ‘Jesus, is this another mass shooting?’ ” she said. “I didn’t know if this was a random thing or a domestic thing or if this was a mass shooting. Ev-erything was happening so fast, I just wanted to get me and my kid to safety.”

In the video, her daughter says, “Mommy, we need to go.”

The Los Angeles Police Depart-ment said in a statement Saturday afternoon that it has launched its own investigation of the incident.

Christina Colis told the River-side Press-Enterprise that she was in the produce area when she heard six to seven shots and hid with other shoppers in a refriger-ated produce room. She said her mother saw people injured on the floor.

“I thought maybe someone

dropped a bottle of wine, but thenI kept hearing shots,” shopper Will Lungo told the Press-Enter-prise newspaper. “An employeecame in and helped us out through the emergency exit.”

Witnesses told KCAL-TV that shoppers and employees rushed to the exits. The station reportedthat more than 100 people were outside the store at one point.

Left behind inside the storewere purses, cellphones andbackpacks from panicked shop-pers, Corona police said.

WILL LESTER, INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN, SCNG/AP

Heavily armed police officers exit the Costco following a shooting inside the wholesale warehouse in Corona, Calif., on Friday involving an off-duty police officer.

MIKE GROLL/AP

As a measles outbreak stretches toward summer camp season, New York counties with a concentration of Orthodox Jewish camps are requiring vaccinations for campers and staff.

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BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN AND ELAINE KURTENBACH

Associated Press

HONG KONG — Hong Kong residents were gathering Sunday for another massive protest over an unpopular extradition bill that has highlighted the territory’s ap-prehension about relations with mainland China, a week after the crisis brought as many as 1 mil-lion into the streets.

A steady stream of mourners were stopping by a makeshift me-morial, meanwhile, to lay flowers and pray for a man who fell to his death Saturday after hanging a protest banner.

The man slipped from the grasp of rescuers after clinging for a time to scaffolding outside a shopping mall. He missed a big cushion set up to capture him and was declared dead at a nearby hospital.

The banner read, “Make Love, No Shoot” and “No Extradition to China.”

“I’m really sad. I’m grieving,” said one visitor, Peron Kwong, after tying a white ribbon to a street rail. “As a person born and raised in Hong Kong, I’m heart-broken when I see Hong Kong be-come like this.”

Pro-democracy activists were calling for a general strike on Monday despite Hong Kong Chief

Executive Carrie Lam’s decision to suspend work on the legisla-tion. Some labor unions, teach-ers associations and other groups were planning boycotts of work and classes.

“We encourage all the public to carry on the campaign,” said Bonny Leung and other leaders of the pro-democracy Civil Human Rights Front.

Many opponents of the extradi-tion legislation are urging Lam to step down and want her to drop the legislation, which many fear would undermine freedoms en-joyed by this former British colo-ny but not elsewhere in China.

The communist government in Beijing issued multiple state-ments backing Lam’s decision, which she announced in a news conference Saturday.

The battle over legislation has evolved into Hong Kong’s tough-est political test since the Com-munist Party-ruled mainland took control in 1997 with a prom-ise not to interfere with the city’s civil liberties and courts.

Marchers wearing black fanned themselves in sweltering heat as they gathered at the city’s Victo-ria Park ahead of the midafter-noon protest. A week earlier, up to 1 million rallied in protest, and demonstrations on Wednesday turned violent, with dozens in-jured as police fought back with

tear gas, rubber bullets and other forceful measures.

Lam has said the extradition legislation is needed if Hong Kong is to uphold justice, meet its international obligations and not become a magnet for fugi-tives. The proposed bill would expand the scope of criminal sus-pect transfers to include Taiwan, Macau and mainland China.

China has been excluded from Hong Kong’s extradition agree-ments because of concerns over its judicial independence and human rights record.

Speaking to reporters after an-nouncing her decision Saturday, Lam sidestepped questions over whether she should quit. She in-sisted she was not withdrawing the proposed amendment and

defended the police.But she said she was suspend-

ing the bill indefinitely. It was time, she said, “for responsiblegovernment to restore as quick-ly as possible this calmness insociety.”

“I want to stress that the gov-ernment is adopting an open mind,” she said. “We have no in-tention to set a deadline for thiswork.”

Many here believe HongKong’s legal autonomy has beensignificantly diminished despiteBeijing’s insistence that it is stillhonoring its promises, dubbed“one country, two systems.”

Prosecutions of activists, de-tentions without trial of five Hong Kong book publishers andthe illegal seizure in Hong Kongby mainland agents of at least one mainland businessman areamong moves in recent years thathave unnerved many in the cityof 7 million.

Associated Press

GUATEMALA CITY — Gua-temalans voted for their next president Sunday in an election plagued by widespread disillu-sion and distrust, and as tens of thousands of their compatriots flee poverty and gang violence to seek a new life in the U.S.

With 19 candidates in the race for president and the winner needing an absolute majority, a runoff between the two top vote-getters is likely in August.

The road to this presidential election has been a chaotic flurry of court rulings and shenanigans, illegal party-switching and alle-gations of malfeasance that tor-pedoed the candidacies of two of the top three candidates.

Three of the last four elected presidents have been arrested postpresidency on charges of corruption.

Graft allegations have also tar-

geted current President Jimmy Morales and his inner circle, though he denies wrongdoing and has been protected from prosecu-tion due to his immunity while in office.

A recent poll from CID Gallup Latinoamerica found that nearly a third of Guatemalan adults sur-veyed believe the election will be plagued by fraud. Another 20% said the election’s legitima-cy would be suspect because so many candidates were kept from running.

The election marks the first time that Guatemalans can cast

ballots from abroad. At least 60,000 are eligible to

vote in Los Angeles, New York, Maryland and the District of Co-lumbia, all home to large num-bers of Guatemalan emigres.

Unemployment, violence, cor-ruption, rising costs of living and the shoddy state of the country’s highways are among top concerns for the country’s electorate.

Surging migration has not emerged as a major campaign issue, even as an estimated 1 per-cent of Guatemala’s population of some 16 million people has left the country this year.

Associated Press

BEIJING — The U.N. counter-terrorism chief visited Xinjiang last week despite protests from the U.S. and a rights group that the trip would be inappropriate in light of the human rights con-ditions in China’s far west region.

Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov traveled to Beijing and Xinjiang from Thursday to Saturday , said a statement Sunday from the Chi-nese Foreign Ministry. Voronkov and Chinese Vice Foreign Minis-ter Le Yucheng exchanged views on international counterterror-ism efforts and reached “broad consensus,” the statement said.

The U.S. and researchers and rights groups estimate that as many as 1 million ethnic Mus-lims may be arbitrarily detained in Xinjiang, home to the Uighur and Kazakh minority groups.

Former detainees have told The Associated Press that they were held without charge in “re-education centers,” where they were forced to renounce their faith and pledge loyalty to the rul-ing Communist Party. The Chi-nese government denies there is

widespread abuse in the centers,which it says are vocational train-ing schools aimed at combating extremism and helping Xinjiang residents gain skills.

In a conversation with U.N. Secretary-General AntonioGuterres on Friday, U.S. DeputySecretary of State John Sullivanconveyed “deep concerns” about Voronkov’s visit.

“Beijing continues to paint itsrepressive campaign against Ui-ghurs and other Muslims as le-gitimate counterterrorism effortswhen it is not,” Sullivan said, add-ing that Voronkov was putting theU.N.’s reputation and credibility at risk “by lending credence tothese false claims.”

Human Rights Watch said Fri-day the U.N. should have sent ahuman rights expert instead of acounterterrorism official.

China’s Foreign Ministry didnot provide details of Voronkov’s trip to Xinjiang. “Counterterror-ism cannot be linked to specific countries, ethnic groups and re-ligions,” the ministry said in itsSunday statement. “It cannotadopt ‘double standards.’ ”

OLIVER DE ROS/AP

A runner is seen Saturday through a vandalized campaign poster in Guatemala City promoting a candidate in Guatemala ’s presidential election, which was being held Sunday. .

PHOTOS BY KIN CHEUNG/AP

Above: Protesters, who numbered in the tens of thousands , flash their smartphones’ lights on the streets as they continue to rally against an extradition bill Sunday in Hong Kong. Below: The protesters carry posters and banners as they march through the streets .

Demonstrations in Hong Kong go on as protester mourned

Guatemalan election held amid disillusion

UN counterterrorism official visits China’s Xinjiang region

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Notre Dame holds 1st Mass after fire 2 killed in heavy storms in Switzerland, France

BERLIN — Authorities said atourist drowned in Switzerland’s Lake Geneva after her boat cap-sized in a driving storm, and an-other was killed in nearby Franceafter high winds brought down atree on her campsite.

The Swiss news site 20 Mi-nuten reported Sunday the pre-vious day’s storm brought heavyrain, hail and wind gusts as high as 75 mph.

Police said a tourist couple’s boat capsized in Lake Genevaaround 5 p.m. Local media re-ported the man swam to another boat and fired off two flares, butby the time rescuers arrived they were unable to find the woman.

Her body was recovered laterby divers.

About 30 miles to the south inFrance, a 51-year-old Germanwoman was killed when a tree fell on her camper.

Israeli leader’s wife pleads guilty, is fined

JERUSALEM — The wife ofIsrael’s prime minister has beensentenced to pay a fine of roughly$15,000 for misusing state funds.

A Jerusalem magistrate courton Sunday accepted the plea bar-gain Sara Netanyahu signed withprosecutors to settle the allega-tions she misused some $100,000 in state money on lavish meals.

The State Attorney’s office saidthe wife of Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu will pay addition-al fines to close the case, which accused her of running up largetabs at luxury restaurants whilethe official residence employed a full-time chef.

Sara Netanyahu was indicted on charges of fraud and breach of trust last year. The settlementsaw her admit to more minor charges and reduced the over-spending charge to $50,000.

The prime minister faces an in-dictment on separate corruptioncharges.

Strong quake hits island chain off New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand— A magnitude 7.4 earthquakestruck an arc of islands off NewZealand on Sunday, and the Pacif-ic Tsunami Warning Center said it may cause only minor sea level changes in some coastal areas.

The U.S. Geological Surveysaid the earthquake hit a spot about 541 miles northeast of Ngunguru, New Zealand, a town of about 1,400 people. It occurredat a depth of 6 miles .

The area the quake struck iscalled the Kermadec Islands,about 497 miles northeast of NewZealand’s North Island.

New Zealand’s Ministry of CivilDefense and Emergency Man-agement cleared New Zealand of a tsunami threat moments after issuing a beach warning.

The Kermadec Islands, a vol-canic archipelago, are prone toearthquakes. The islands are a dependency of New Zealand andlie at the western edge of the Ker-madec Trench. From The Associated Press

Finland hosts yearlyhobby horse competition

Associated Press

PARIS — The archbishop wore a hard-hat helmet, burnt wood debris was still visible and only about 30 people were let inside, but Notre Dame Cathedral on Saturday held its first Mass since the devastating April 15 fire that ravaged its roof and toppled its masterpiece spire.

Exactly two months after the blaze engulfed the landmark Gothic building in the French capital, the service was celebrat-ed by Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit in a chapel behind the choir, a place confirmed by con-struction experts as safe.

French Culture Minister Franck Riester said last week the cathedral remains in a “frag-ile” state, especially its vaulted ceiling, which is still at risk of collapsing.

For security reasons, only about 30 people — mainly priests, canons and church employees — were admitted inside the cathe-dral for the service, while Aupetit and others wore construction worker’s helmets. Some of the workers rebuilding the church were also invited.

Other worshippers could watch the Mass live on a Catholic TV station. The video showed some

burnt wood still in the church but a famous statue of the Virgin and Child appeared intact behind wooden construction planks.

The annual Dedication Mass commemorated the cathedral’s consecration as a place of worship.

“This cathedral is a place of worship; it is its very own and unique purpose,” Aupetit said.

One French priest called the service “a true happiness, full of hope.”

“We will rebuild this cathedral. It will take time, of course — a lot of money, lot of time, lot of work — but we will succeed,” Father Pierre Vivares told The Associ-ated Press outside the cathedral. “Today it’s a small but a true vic-tory against the disaster we have had.”

It is unclear when the cathedral will reopen to the public.

French President Emmanuel Macron has set a goal of rebuild-ing it in just five years, which many experts consider unrealis-tic. In the meantime, the French parliament is debating amend-ments to a new law that would create a public body to expedite the restoration of the cathedral and circumvent some of France’s complex labor laws.

BY JARI TANNER

Associated Press

HELSINKI — The 400 contes-tants at a sports arena in Finland show jumped, barrel raced and pranced in a dressage competi-tion. They just didn’t do it with live horses.

What organizers called “the biggest hobby horse event in the world” took place Saturday in Finland’s western town of Seina-joki, which hosted the annual national championships for the sport that simulates the gymnas-tic elements of real-life horseback riding.

Teens and young girls, most-ly 10 to 18 years old galloped, jumped and pranced with their homemade stuffed horse heads on a wooden stick in the physically demanding competition as more than 2,500 spectators watched, Elviira Sarakoski, of the Finnish Hobby Horse Association, told The Associated Press.

The Western horsemanship section included barrel racing modeled after North American rodeos.

Competitor Aquata Kirves-kari, 19, said hobby-horsing “is a sport for everybody, but the boys haven’t been participating so much yet. But there are more and more coming every year.”

Sarakoski said Finland has more than 10,000 hobby horse aficionados — by far the largest number in any country — and says the sport is gradually gaining mo-mentum in some other European nations like Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, all hotbeds for equestrian sports.

There’s a bit of a social media subculture among the hobby-ists, who often spend dozens of hours creating their own wooden horses.

Sarakoski said most cite the camaraderie, the “do-it-your-self” spirit and the lack of bossing adults, not competition success, as what hooked them on the sport.

“At real horse stables, you al-ways have adults telling you what is right and how things should be

done. It’s not that it is bad, par-ticularly concerning safety, but still,” she said, adding that many — but not all — of the competi-

tors have some experience with live horses.

Kirveskari said she didn’t mind journalists flocking to the arena “because they can show this hobby isn’t just childish play-ing around.”

“This is a serious competition, and they can show it to people all around the world,” she said.

The highlight of Saturday’s event came as Marie Karkkainen, of Finland, scored the country’s new hobby-horse high jumping record, leaping over a bar set at 4 feet, 7 inches high.

“I wasn’t expecting anything like this at all. I was expecting like 1 meter or something,” the elated 16-year-old said, gently patting her hobby horse.

KARINE PERRET/AP

Priests attend a Mass on Saturday led by Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit in a side chapel at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the first service in the cathedral since a devastating fire in April.

PHOTOS FROM APTN VIDEO/AP

Young hobby horse competitors care for their toy horses in Seinajoki, Finland, on Saturday.

Dozens of hobby horses are lined up ready to be ridden during the hobby horse championships.

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BY CLAUDIA GRISALES

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON

When Lincoln Grahlfs reported to Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in California, he was suffering from a strange abscess on his face, a 103-degree fever and an ab-normal white blood cell count.

The symptoms demanded an unortho-dox treatment: A doctor shot the Navy

sailor’s face with X-rays with only a shield to cover his eyes.Soon after, the abscess cleared.“That was the hair of the dog that bit you,” the doctor told

him.It was the spring of 1947. Grahlfs believed he heard a coded

message in the doctor’s words. He knew servicemembers were getting sick from a massive, secret U.S. government project.

In his 20s, the petty officer first class participated in Opera-tion Crossroads in the Pacific Ocean, the first U.S. atomic bomb tests since the nuclear weapon attacks of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Over the next seven decades, more mysterious illnesses sur-faced for Grahlfs and the generations who followed.

“We were experimental subjects who did not give our advised consent to be experimental subjects,” said Grahlfs, 96, a retired sociology professor and author of the book “Voices From Ground Zero: Recollections and Feelings of Nuclear Test Veterans.”

At least 200,000 U.S. troops participated in the tests and cleanup operations during World War II and later in the Pacific Ocean, the Nevada desert, New Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. They took the human brunt of deadly ionizing radiation that contaminated nearby lands, water and communities.

Even today, the wide-ranging implications of hun-dreds of tests conducted from the 1940s until the 1960s and cleanup operations that followed in the late 1970s ha ve yet to be fully understood. In all, the U.S. has con-ducted more than 900 such tests.

Until 1996, the atomic vets were sworn to silence, forced to keep their burdens from their families, their friends and doctors. They had limited records and medical help for their illnesses, and faced a threat of prison if they revealed the secret too soon.

Grahlfs has battled gastrointestinal and sleep prob-lems, an overactive thyroid, and skin and prostate cancers. His son was diagnosed with a rare adrenal disease, his daughter died of a malignant brain tumor in her late 40s and a granddaughter was born with a foot deformity.

“The next generation can suffer,” Grahlfs said from a senior living facility in Madison, Wis., where he lives with his wife, Joan.

The vast majority of nuclear veterans are gone, with less than 5 percent, or an estimated 10,000, alive today. Still, a fight goes on to bring the government operations to light and gain recognition for their sacrifices.

CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

Veterans exposed to atomic tests wage final fight

VETERANS

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

Today: Veterans exposed to atomic tests wage final fight for benefits, recognition.

Tuesday: For some, toxic exposure didn’t end with atomic blasts.

Wednesday: After the tests, a dangerous cleanup job remained.For video and more photos, go to stripes.com/conspiracy

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and shipped off to complete a four-year de-gree program in electronics in a mere six months.

Today, the Department of Veterans Af-fairs recognizes Bruessel as a retired soldier, but it doesn’t acknowledge his ra-diation exposure.

Still, Bruessel considers himself lucky. For his work, he was posted in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, thousands of miles away from the detonations. Today, he has no related illnesses and with his wife, Nancy, enjoys a big, healthy family.

“It’s been a good life we have now,” said Bruessel, who has eight children, 18 grandchildren, 36 great grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. “I’m still upright, which sure beats lying in bed with tubes attached to me.”

Still, Bruessel works with the National Association of Atomic Veterans, or NAAV, for recognition.

The atomic veterans have yet to receive a service medal after years of failed legis-lation on Capitol Hill. This year, they are slated to get a certificate of participation instead.

“I guess that’s better than nothing, but

VETERANS: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

Alex Partezama was drafted into the Marines in 1952, left. A year later, he was dispatched to participate in atomic bomb testing for Operation Upshot-Knothole in Nevada. Partezama and other Marines were told to “watch the bomb.” “At 20 years old you are too damn naive to really realize the implications here,” said Partezama, now 88, right. “Orders are orders and that’s the end of the story.”Photos courtesy of Alex Partezama

2nd Class Petty Officer Lincoln Grahlfs is shown

in 1944. Two years later, Grahlfs participated in

atomic bomb testing for Operation Crossroads from aboard the USS ATR-40, a

rescue tug.

Grahlfs and his wife, Joan Grahlfs, below,

celebrate his 90th birthday. Even into his late 90s,

Grahlfs continues to do work on behalf of the National

Association of Atomic Veterans.

Photos courtesy of Lincoln Grahlfs

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“They are a dying breed,” said Keith Kiefer, an Air Force veteran who runs the National Association of Atomic Veterans. “And with them also goes their story, be-cause of a very small percentage of the U.S. or world population is even aware of the atomic veterans.”

‘Watch the bomb’Alex Partezama was nervous when he

got to the Nevada Yucca Flat in the dead of night.

It was April 1953, and the Marine days earlier had learned of Desert Rock V, the code name for the military exercise tied to Operation Upshot-Knothole.

“We had nothing special. No special gog-gles. No badge. Just like you would go into combat,” said Partezama, now 88. “It was 4 in the morning in the desert. Pitch black. And they had loudspeakers.”

The Pennsylvania native was drafted a year earlier. A crotchety Marine master sergeant told him it was his lucky day to pick a service and rank the branches by his liking.

Partezama listed the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. He forgot the Marines.

“He started pounding the table and he says, ‘No way!’ and the language he used I can’t tell you,” Partezama said. “And then he says, ‘You just joined the Marine Corps.’ My heart went down to my shoes.”

The son of a coal miner was sent to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

With a peace agreement underway for the Korean War, his regiment was sent to the Nevada Test Site, about 65 miles north-west of Las Vegas.

Partezama didn’t think much of it until he was told to sign a paper offering an ad-ditional $10,000 in life insurance.

“I’m thinking, ‘Now wait a minute, are you telling me something is going to hap-pen over there?’ ” he said.

A day before the test, the Marines ran the course and saw their selected positions.

Military planes, tanks, jeeps, cannons and mannequins dressed in Marine fa-tigues dotted the desolate landscape. Rab-bits and pigs were in cages. Sheep were tied to cactuses.

In the middle, a 300-foot steel tower held a nuclear bomb in place.

Just 1 ½ miles away, Partezama and other Marines were told to crouch down into a 5-foot trench. A countdown began, and when it reached 5, they braced for impact.

“When that bomb went off, they instruct-ed you, ‘Wait for the shock blast to come from the bomb, and wait for the shock blast to come back,’ ” he said.

If they stood a second too soon, they were warned, the force of the blast would take off their heads. Then, they were told to look.

“They said, ‘Open your eyes, watch the

bomb,’ ” Partezama remembered. “All you saw was this mushroom cloud and this red, angry ball going up.”

His trench shook like a snake with a sur-real, violent force.

A deep depression marked the earth.“You’ve got 23,000 tons of TNT in that

bomb; what do you think it’s going to do to the earth? And all I could think is, ‘My God, we’re on solid ground, how can that happen?’ ” he said. “The unknown will scare the hell out of you.”

Geiger counters went off scale. The tower was eviscerated. Remaining debris was melted and thrown hundreds of feet from ground zero. Sand turned to glass. Animals were killed. Sheep that survived ran on fire.

“America says, ‘Wait a minute, we have to see what these atomic bombs will do to troops,’ so this is why your tests started,” he said. “At 20 years old you are too damn naive to really realize the implications here. . . . Orders are orders and that’s the end of the story.”

Occasionally, someone will tell Parteza-ma, “Well, I wouldn’t have gone.”

“I say, ‘Excuse me, it’s either go there or you go to prison,’ ” he said. “Period.”

A secret to keepIn certain circles, Myron “Myke” Brues-

sel doesn’t exist.A 1973 fire in St. Louis destroyed a rash of military records, including those of

the Army veteran.He served in the Signal Corps con-

ducting off-site tests to detect atomic bombs at Operation Ivy at the Pacific Proving Grounds and Upshot-Key-hole in the Nevada Yucca Flat in the 1950s.“As far as the Army is concerned,

we didn’t exist,” said Bruessel, who is 87 and lives in Silver City, N.M.

“We’re still trying to resolve that.”

He was drafted in 1951 from California

they deserve a medal,” said Rep. Jim Mc-Govern, D-Mass., chairman of the HouseRules Committee, who has helped lead theatomic vets’ charge on the Hill. “It’s a sign of disrespect we haven’t formally honored these veterans and we can remedy thisvery easily.”

Previous attempts to honor the veteranshave been met with setbacks.

In 1983, President Ronald Reagansigned a resolution to name July 16 Na-tional Atomic Veterans Day. However, theresolution failed to say it should be repeat-ed “hereafter.”

In 1995, President Bill Clinton launchedan advisory committee to probe U.S. humanradiation experiments. A few months later,Clinton apologized to the atomic veteransand others affected by the tests at an Oct. 3White House ceremony to accept the pan-el’s 1,000-page report.

“Americans were kept in the dark aboutthe effects of what was being done to them,”Clinton said. “The deception extended be-yond the test subjects themselves to en-compass their families and the American people.”

The groundbreaking moment was short-lived. Within two hours, a Los Angelesjury returned a “not guilty” verdict in theO.J. Simpson murder trial, overtaking theheadlines.

The following year, Congress repealed the Nuclear Radiation and Secrecy Agree-ments Act, releasing the veterans fromtheir oaths of secrecy.

“There are a significant number ofatomic veterans even today who don’t knowtheir oath of secrecy has been lifted,” said Kiefer, 62, the head of NAAV and an Air Force veteran who became an atomic vetafter participating in nuclear test cleanupoperations in the late 1970s. “I still run into them today.”

‘Guinea pigs’Frank Farmer and his wife, Judy, were

walking out after dinner at his local Amer-ican Legion Santiam Post 51 in Lebanon, Ore., when a bulletin board notice stoppedhim dead in his tracks.

“Wanted: Atomic Veterans,” the veter-an Navy sailor read aloud. “I think that’s me.”

It was 2002, six years after the secrecy veil was lifted on the military’s nucleartesting program.

Farmer didn’t know.He told his wife his story for the first

time.“She couldn’t believe this was happen-

ing,” the Nashville, Tenn., native, 83, said.He was 22 when he served as a petty of-

ficer third class at Operation Hardtack 1 in the Pacific’s Marshall Islands. He wasa machinist on the internal combustionengine repair ship USS Hooper Islandcharged with ship maintenance around Enewetak Atoll, the ring-shaped coral reefin the Pacific Proving Grounds.

Over three months, Farmer saw 18 tests. Sailors were told to go topside for the deto-nations, which were equivalent to 54,000 tons of dynamite. He felt the ship jolt andrattle.

Once, when the wind shifted as a blastwent off, the Hooper Island crew was told to pull anchor, grab servicemembers off anearby island and “run,” he remembered. The ship’s top speed was 13 knots.

“They said just go as fast as you can toget away from it,” he said. “How the hellare you going to get away from the wind at 13 knots?”

Judy Farmer said her husband needed to get in touch with the man who posted theflyer — Fred Schafer, vice commander forNAAV. Schafer is a bit of a legend in thesecircles.

“He went through the whole thing withme,” Frank Farmer said. “He said, ‘We’vebeen released from the secrecy oath since1996.’ They claimed they put it out overradio or TV, but I never saw it.”CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

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In some circles, Myron “Myke” Bruessel doesn’t exist. His Army records, including documentation of his time in the Signal Corps conducting off-site tests to detect the atomic bomb, were destroyed in a 1973 fire. Still, he’s fighting for recognition for the atomic veterans.

Inset: Bruessel as a soldier. Courtesy of Myron “Myke” Bruessel

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NAAV was started in 1979 by Orville and Wanda Kelly, of Iowa, who defied the se-crecy oath. Orville Kelly died in 1980, but his wife and a wave of new veterans carried its mission forward to fight for benefits and recognition.

Farmer fought the Department of Vete-ans Affairs for years, and is still fighting.

“It’s a continuous battle,” he said. “Most of us think they are waiting for us to die so they don’t have to worry about it.”

During his time in the Pacific, Farmer and other servicemembers frequently swam in the tainted waters. Once, he scraped his leg against the coral and an in-tense skin rash developed.

More than 60 years later, it continues to plague his entire body.

In 2003, he received a 10 percent dis-ability rating from the VA for hearing loss. About five years ago, it was raised to 40 percent for his rash, translating into a monthly payment of about $600.

“I still can’t believe our government did that to us,” Farmer said. “I laugh about it sometimes, but it’s sad, you know? There was no reason to use us as guinea pigs. They knew what it could do, but they still put us through it. It’s a disgrace.”

‘Maybe I’m the only one’Karl Ulle wonders whether he’s

the last surviving crew member of the USS Pasig.

The World War II sailor, who enlisted at 17, was one of the youngest on the AW-3 water dis-tilling ship.

He learned through ship re-unions that 80 percent of the 267 men who served with him died by age 55.

“Maybe I’m the only one,” said Ulle, now 91.

During his four-year tour, the Navy supply officer’s ships took part in Operations Crossroads and Sandstone in the Pacific in the 1940s. He saw the final deto-nation for Operation Sandstone, known as the “Zebra” test, at En-ewetak Atoll.

Ulle said the Pasig was 7 to 8 miles away from detonation at daybreak in May 1948. As part of his duties, the lieutenant junior grade passed out welder’s goggles with taped airholes.

The blast overtook the dark skies with an incredible brightness, he said.

“We could feel the heat wave hit us about a minute or two later, followed a minute later with this big rumble, ‘Ba-buuum!’ ” Ulle said.

The Pasig’s scientist wanted to measure the blast’s ra-diation levels, so the ship turned toward ground zero and came within 2 miles.

“They had Geiger counters to measure radiation levels and they had the men lined up. They were going up the pant leg, up the middle, clicking like mad,” he remem-bered. “I don’t think they knew what they were doing. We were all guinea pigs.”

That evening, a storm known as “black rain” pelted the Pasig and other ships with radioactive materials. The men were called to swab and hose down the ship.

Ulle was locked away in the supply office putting together the weeklong captain’s menu. Mulligan stew, the Irish soup of meat and potatoes, was expected on Thursdays.

“I didn’t want to run away from it, but I was glad to get away from it,” he said.

The Pennsylvania native signed up for the Navy after his high school best friend was drafted into the Marines and killed on Okinawa six months later. Ulle’s par-ents, German and Austrian immigrants, like other families in Mason Town, Pa., knew all too well the Marines were getting slaughtered in the war.

The Navy seemed to offer better odds for survival. So Ulle served from 1945 to 1949, and it changed the trajectory of his life. He ditched plans to become a mechanical en-gineer to be an accountant after his work as

a supply officer.He worked as a CPA

for 60 years, opened a tax preparation office in San Diego and employed eight people at its height. He sold it in 2005.

The retired accountant, who has five children, nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, only recently began to share his nuclear vet story. He learned about NAAV two years ago after serving as district commander in Cal-ifornia for the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Ulle has also battled health problems. Tumors started showing up in his chest, sciatic nerve and spi-nal cord the year he left the Navy. A gastrointestinal sarcoma tumor was recent-ly found near his stomach area. He said doctors won’t biopsy or remove it for fear

the procedure will kill him.

Ulle has always been under the impression that the VA only helps the “paupers,” so he hasn’t pur-sued disability payments.

“The only thing I got from the VA was a pair of hear-ing aids,” he said.

His plan is to undergo an autop-sy after he dies, and if his tumor is linked to ionizing radiation, his children will pursue compensa-tion from the government.

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act into law allowing one-time compen-sation payments for eligible ser-vicemembers, nearby residents and others. Veterans could re-ceive a flat payment of $75,000.

However, the Department of Justice, which issues the awards, said as of May 31 it’s approved claims from only 4,624 “onsite participants,” which includes

servicemembers.At least 3,585 have been denied.

A deafening soundJerome Gehl’s ears still ring every day.It’s been 60 years since the Army private first class par-

ticipated in Operation Hardtack 1 at the Bikini Atoll .As a guard, Gehl saw all 35 tests conducted at the Pa-

cific Proving Grounds site in 1958.“My ears ring 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and it’s

been like that since I got off the island,” the 80-year-old said. “They’re ringing right now.”

He has also suffered from skin cancer and has limited feeling in his legs and feet.

Two years ago, the Wisconsin native was approved for 10 percent service-connected disability, about $130 monthly, for hearing loss.

“They denied it the first time, then after a while they ended up giving it to me,” he said. “I thought I earned it. I was a good soldier, you know?”

About 10% to 15 % of the general popu-lation suffers from the hearing condition, but for atomic veterans, it’s closer to 100 percent, they say.

Gehl told a doctor about the hearing problem during a physical in 1959.

“And he says, ‘Well everybody’s ears ring,’ ” he remembered. “Well, bullshit.”

Recently, he was hospitalized near his home in Kaukauna, Wis., when his lungs reached an alarmingly low 40 percent ca-pacity. Now he’s on an inhaler and pursu-ing new VA benefits.

Gehl joined the Army at 17 after he was inspired by an uncle who served

in the Navy. He was assigned to Sandia Base in Albuquerque, N.M., the DefenseDepartment’s primary nuclear weapons installation site. From there, 57 men in hiscompany, including Gehl, were shippedoff to the Bikini Atoll .

“You did whatever you were told to do,” he said. “You just do it to the best of yourability.”

What Gehl knew of atomic bombs came only from newsreels of the blasts inJapan.

At his new assignment, he guarded theperimeter of the island, a runway wheresmall planes landed and the inside of the building where workers assembled thebombs.

He and the other guards donned short-sleeve shirts and Bermuda shorts, while the assemblers wore white, protective cov-erings from head to toe.

“I think that’s where we got a lot of ra-diation,” he said. “We were probably 50 feet away.”

For the tests, Gehl was about 3 milesfrom the detonations and wore the high-density goggles. First, they felt the heat,then the shock wave and finally, a deafen-ing sound.

“It’s just like somebody shooting a gunoff right alongside your ear when thatshock wave hits,” he said. “It’s ‘Bang!’ It’s there and it’s gone. That’s what wreckedmy ears.”

Asked if he would do it over again,Gehl doesn’t hesitate. “I would say yes,absolutely.”

‘Forgotten veterans’More than 50 years since the nuclear

tests, and more than 20 years since the government declassified the programs, the struggle toraise awareness and recognize the atomic vets remains.

Frank Farmer wears his atomic veteran gear every-where to find others who might not know the secrecy oathwas lifted.

“I wear my hat and jacket wherever I go ; it’s like an ad-vertisement,” Farmer said. “Two or three times a year, I still run into a new person who didn’t know.”

Farmer’s daughter, Barb Jordan, is fighting for the atomic veteran service medal.

“I don’t want to be the one that gets that medal on hisbehalf when he’s gone, because I wasn’t there. He was,” said Jordan, the Alaska Area Commander for NAAV. “Hedeserves it, not me.”

While Canada, Russia, China, Australia and New Zea-land have bestowed the honor on their atomic veterans, the U.S. has yet to take that step. The British Nuclear Test Veterans Association, which held its annual meeting inMay, is working with defense officials and members of their Parliament to gain the recognition.

At the U.S. Capitol, McGovern plans to refile his legis-lation this year seeking the medal. Last year, lawmakers approved the participation certificate for the veterans aspart of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, orNDAA. But more than nine months later, veterans finallyreceived word on how to apply for the certificate in earlyJune

In October 2017, McGovern and Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., wrote President Donald Trump to urge his sup-port. There was no response.

“They’ve never been properly recognized,” McGovern, who was drawn to the issue years ago by several constitu-ents, said of the atomic vets. “They served with distinction and were exposed with radiation.”

Lincoln Grahlfs said he understands the drive for themedal, but he was satisfied when his victory arrived in theform of 40 percent service-connected disability four yearsago for his radiation-related illnesses.

“The government is finally acknowledging that they had done me dirty,” Grahlfs said. “I have been fighting this battle for 70 years.”

This year, lawmakers have also filed legislation to ex-tend VA benefits to a newer generation of atomic veteranssuch as Kiefer , he national commander for NAAV, who took part in nuclear cleanup operations at the EnewetakAtoll in the Marshall Islands.

Kiefer said there are about 400 veterans left out of the4,000 who participated in cleaning up the Pacific Oceansite from 1977 to 1980.

For them, time is running out.“Some of them are getting up there in age, and many of

them have died because of their exposure to radiation,”McGovern said. “It would be nice to properly honor them while they are still alive.”

VETERANS: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE

Frank Farmer found out that atomic veterans had been released from the secrecy oath in 2002, six years after President Bill Clinton’s administration ended the directive. The Navy veteran has since been active with the national atomic vets group hoping to raise awareness.ALL PHOTOS ON THIS PAGE BY CLAUDIA GRISALES/Stars and Stripes

Navy veteran Karl Ulle has never pursued veteran disability benefits, but he wants to give his children the option after he dies.

Jerome Gehl told a doctor about his hearing problem during a physical in 1959.“And he says, ‘Well everybody’s ears ring,’ ” Gehl remembered. “Well, bullshit.”

VA response Department of Veterans Affairs spokes-

man Terrence L. Hayes issued a statement in response to the atomic veterans’ difficulties obtaining disability benefits:

“VA encourages all Veterans who feel their military service has affected their health to submit a claim, which will be adjudicated using the latest scientific and medical evi-dence. VA has granted service connection for ailments associated with atomic exposure, and does so on an individual, case-by-case basis after a physical examination and a review of a Veteran’s case if the claimed condition is not one of the presumptive cancers.

The longstanding legal criteria for establish-ing service-connected compensation for a disability requires a confirmed diagnosis of the disability, evidence of an event or injury that occurred during military service, and evidence showing that the current disability is linked to the in-service event or injury.”

For more information, go to https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/radiation/sources/enewetak.asp.

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service in the U.S. Navy in Janu-ary 1944. He landed on the beach-es of Normandy six months later,on June 11, as part of the AlliedInvasion.

He went on to fight in several combat missions to help liberate the French cities of Le Havre and Nantes.

Police: Student stabbed principal in rehearsal

NJ RUTHERFORD — Au-thorities said a prin-

cipal was stabbed at a schoolduring a rehearsal for eighth-grade graduation.

A Rutherford police news re-lease said a 14-year-old male student ran across the Washing-ton School gymnasium on Friday morning and struck the UnionSchool principal in the chest several times. The student thenturned around, dropped the knife and put his hands in the air.

The principal was identified asKurt Schweitzer. Both he and thestudent were treated at a hospitalfor non-life-threatening wounds.Rutherford Public Schools Su-perintendent Jack Hurley saidSchweitzer was shaken but fine.

19 dead animals found in pet carriers, bags

PA WINFIELD TOWN-SHIP — Nineteen dead

animals were found behind aPennsylvania home in what onehumane officer called the worstcase of animal cruelty she’s everseen.

The bodies of one dog and 18cats were found Wednesday incarriers, bins or garbage bags in a wooded area of Butler County.

Butler County Humane Police Officer Janice Lawniczak saidanimal cruelty charges are pend-ing against Tamara Rusz and Kevin Delehanty.

The discovery was made thesame day the pair was to appearin court on a previous charge ofanimal cruelty for abandoning six cats and leaving them to die. Dele-hanty appeared but Rusz did not.

Man mows lawns forveterans across US

AL BIRMINGHAM — AnAlabama man said

he has completed his quest tomow lawns for veterans in all 50 states.

Rodney Smith Jr. tweeted Fri-day that he’s headed home fromHawaii after cutting grass in Oahu. He got to his last state withhelp from Delta Air Lines.

He said he will continue pro-viding free lawn care to the el-derly, disabled, single mothersand veterans in Alabama.

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Buhr also thanked a teacher she said was regularly intoxicated for being an example of “the dangers of alcoholism.”

The district says Buhr’s speech didn’t follow her pre-approved version and was inappropri-ate. But Buhr’s mother said she couldn’t be prouder.

Moose breaks intovacant pizza parlor

ME DOVER-FOXCROFT — Police said a moose

smashed through the window of a vacant pizzeria .

Piscataquis County correc-tions officer Matt Poole snapped a photo of the moose stepping through broken glass onto East Main Street early Friday in Dover-Foxcroft.

The Dover-Foxcroft Police De-partment posted on Facebook, “We found the suspect and they

are not in custody. Boring right?” Police Chief Ryan Reardon said

it was first time in 26 years he’d seen a moose run into a building.

University to display Hefner’s typewriter

IL URBANA — An exhibit of unique typewriters,

including one used by the found-er of Playboy, will open later this month at the University of Illinois.

The university’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library will feature typewriters used by Hugh Hefner and Roger Ebert. Both men were alumni of the university.

Hefner’s Underwood Standard portable typewriter that he used in college and to write for Play-boy is one of the main exhibits. It is on loan to the library after being sold at auction in Decem-ber for $162,500.

The typewriters used by poet Carl Sandburg and novelist James Jones will also be featured.

The exhibit is called “Writers & Their Tools: Parchment-Paper-Processors.” It opens Monday and ends in August.

WWII veteran gets French Legion of Honor

GA KENNESAW — A World War II veteran

has been bestowed with a high honor for his valor on the front lines in France.

WXIA-TV reported the French Consulate on Thursday awarded Alan Hall with the French Le-gion of Honor, an award given to French citizens and foreign nationals who “served France or the ideals it upholds,” chiefly the Americans who risked their lives fighting on French soil .

Hall, of Kennesaw, began his From wire reports

AMERICAN ROUNDUP Fans wait hours to ride Hagrid’s roller coaster

FL ORLANDO — Univer-sal Orlando Resort’s

new Harry Potter-themed roller coaster opened last week, and visitors were waiting in line for multiple hours to ride it.

Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure opened Thursday at the resort’s Islands of Adventure park. The wait to get on the ride was more than five hours, and even hours longer at some points in the day.

Fans started lining up in pre-dawn hours.

The ride opened late on Friday morning due to its popularity the day before. The ride operated past midnight due to the number of people waiting in line. Univer-sal officials said the late open-ing on Friday allowed for proper maintenance.

Apollo 11 exhibition to land in Cincinnati

OH CINCINNATI — The last of five stops for a

special exhibition for the 50th an-niversary of the first moon land-ing will be in Cincinnati.

“Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission” will open at the Cin-cinnati Museum Center on Sept. 28 and run through Feb. 7, 2020. The exhibition features the Co-lumbia command module and more than 20 objects flown on the Apollo 11 mission.

There are also models and videos exploring the birth and development of the U.S. space program.

Detroit marks a Negro Leagues centennial

MI DETROIT — A new ex-hibit celebrates the cen-

tennial anniversary of a Negro Leagues professional baseball team and Detroit’s black baseball history.

“Detroit Stars & The Negro Leagues” opened Saturday at the Detroit Historical Museum. A reception is scheduled to in-clude remarks by Joyce Stearnes Thompson, daughter of Stars’ outfielder Norman “Turkey” Stearnes.

The exhibition includes graph-ic display panels, including a life-sized painting of Stearnes, as well as artifacts and a timeline of black baseball in the city. A dis-play also chronicles the history of women in black baseball.

The Stars were among three Negro Leagues teams to play at Hamtramck Stadium in the De-troit enclave of Hamtramck .

Graduation speechcriticizes school staff

CA SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Union-Tri-

bune reported San Ysidro High valedictorian Nataly Buhr initial-ly thanked parents, friends and some teachers.

Then she thanked a school counselor for teaching her to fend for herself by never being avail-able and the main office staff for not informing her of scholarships until a day before the deadline.

DON KNIGHT, THE (ANDERSON, IND.) HERALD-BULLETIN/AP

Registered nurse Stanna Kirchenbauer, left, and nurse practitioner Jolyn Veza, inspired by The Flintstones, dress up for the dinosaur theme of this year’s Madison County Relay for Life at Beulah Park in Alexandria, Ind., on Friday.

Bedrock principles

The number of yearsof service an MRI ma-chine in Peoria, Ill, hadbefore it was given a retirement party. The

12,000-pound medical imaging devicewas hoisted out of the facility by a fork-lift. The device is being replaced by a wide-bore MRI later this summer.

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BY JONATHAN LANDRUM JR.Associated Press

Zachary Levi plays a bulletproof superhero in “Shazam!,” but the actor’s nerves of steel are being test-ed leading up to his hosting duties for the MTV Movie & TV Awards.

Levi knows those anxious feelings will be amplified when he first steps onstage to tape the ceremony. But he believes showing what he called the “best version” of himself will ultimately put him at ease.

“This is the biggest thing I’ve ever hosted,” he said in an interview last week. “There are some nerves starting to build a little. ... But I want to encourage people and not take things too seriously. I want myself and everyone else to feel at ease and feel like they’re in their safe place.”

Levi said he’s hosted other shows before, but nothing as big as the gender-neutral MTV Movie & TV Awards, which airs June 18 on AFN-Movie.

“Avengers: Endgame,” “Game of Thrones” and “RBG” are the top nominees at the ceremony, held in Santa Monica, Calif. The show introduces new categories this year including reality royalty, most meme-able moment and best real-life hero.

“Endgame” will compete for best movie against “BlacKkKlansman,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “Us” and “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.” The Marvel superhero film also earned nods in the best fight category and for stars Robert Downey Jr. and Josh Brolin.

Levi also could come away with a golden popcorn statue or two: The actor is nominated for best hero and best comedic performance through his role as an adult superhero in “Shazam!”

“This awards show is an extension of what ‘Shazam!’ has brought me,” said Levi, whose breakthrough came in the NBC spy comedy “Chuck.” He’s also had roles in TV’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and the film “Thor: The Dark World.”

“It’s helped me jump into a higher caliber of hosting,” he said. “I love feeling joy and love bringing joy. With this show, I think that is the best approach.”

Taylor Swift’s latest song has anew target: homophobes.

The pop star released a newtune called “You Need to Calm Down” late on June 13, whereshe addresses her own haters but also calls out those who attack theLGBTQ community.

At one point on the beat-laden track, Swift sings: “And controlyour urges to scream about all the people you hate / ’Cause shadenever made anybody less gay.”

At another point she sings: “Youneed to just stop, like can you just not step on his gown?”

“You Need to Calm Down” is the second single from Swift’sjust-announced seventh album, “Lover,” set to drop on Aug. 23.

Swift also released a colorfullyric video to match the new song on YouTube — appropriately dur-ing Pride Month.

On “You Need to Calm Down,”Swift even references the gayrights organization GLAADwhen she sings, “Why are youmad when you could be GLAAD?/ Sunshine on the street at the pa-rade / But you would rather be inthe dark ages / Making that sign must’ve taken all night.”From The Associated Press

BY MESFIN FEKADU

Associated Press

Missy Elliott, the creative mastermind who has written hit songs for a number of female acts and created camaraderie among women in the music industry for more than two decades, felt the love back from her musical sis-ters June 13 as she became the first female rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Queen Latifah inducted Elliott, paying homage to their long-last-ing friendship. And even former first lady Michelle Obama took her turn to say how much of a Missy Elliott fan she is.

“Missy, I want to thank you for all of your trailblazing ways,” Obama said in a video played at the event in New York. “Thank you not for just sharing your gift with the world, but for being an advocate for so many people out there, especially young girls who are still figuring out how to make their voices heard.”

Near the end of her 10-minute speech, Elliott broke down .

“I am thankful,” she said, pausing for a few seconds.

“Every time I come up to a podium ... even with all the work that I’ve done, I don’t know, and I’m assuming it’s just God, I don’t know why I am here,” she said with tears in her eyes as the audience erupted with cheers and applause. “I want to say one thing to the writers, to the upcoming writers, ‘Do not give up.’ We all go through writer’s block. Sometimes you just have to walk away from a record and come back to it. But don’t give up because I’m standing here. And this is big for hip-hop, too.”

Elliott is just the third rap-per to enter into the Songwrit-ers Hall, following Jay-Z and Jermaine Dupri’s inductions in 2017 and 2018, respectively. While she’s written her own hit songs — from “Get Ur Freak On” to “Work It” to “Lose Con-trol” — Elliott has also lent her writing skills to others — spe-cifically girl groups and pop and R&B soloists, including the late icon Aaliyah, Beyonce, Whit-

ney Houston, Monica, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Ariana Grande, Destiny’s Child, Fantasia, Jazmine Sul-livan, SWV, Total, 702, Mya, Tweet and others.

The 2019 class included other heavyweights in the music in-dustry, such as legendary British singer Cat Stevens and country-folk icon John Prine.

The Spanish Oscar-winning writer and director Pedro Almo-dovar will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Film Festival.

The decision from the board of the Biennale di Venezia, follows a proposal by the festival’s direc-tor, Alberto Barbera.

Almodovar, whose film cred-its include 1999’s “All About My Mother” and 2002’s “Talk to Her,” said June 14 he has good memories of Venice, where he made his international debut in 1983: “This Lion is going to be-come my pet, along with the two cats I live with.”

Barbera praised Almodovar as “the greatest and most influential Spanish director since Bunuel” and “a filmmaker who has offered us the most multifaceted, contro-versial, and provocative portraits of post-Franco Spain.”

The 76th Venice Film Festival runs Aug. 28 to Sept. 7.

Broadcast pioneerLew Klein dies

Lew Klein, a broadcast pioneer who helped create “American Bandstand” and launched the

careers of Dick Clark and Bob Saget, has died. He was 91.

Klein died Wednesday, accord-ing to Temple University, whereKlein taught and mentored stu-dents for more than six decades.

He began working at WFIL-TV,now WPVI-TV, where he directed “Romper Room” and co-created“Captain Noah and His MagicalArk,” two popular children’s pro-grams in the 1960s that attracted a bigger local audience than “Ses-ame Street.”

A native of Philadelphia, Kleinserved as executive producerof “American Bandstand,” thepopular music performance anddance television show hosted bythe late Clark. Klein is credited with launching Clark’s careerand served on the board of DickClark Productions.

Other news

� A judge on June 13 issued afive-year restraining order forbid-ding Sam Lutfi, Britney Spears’ former manager, from contactingthe singer or her family or mak-ing disparaging statements aboutthem online.From The Associated Press

Venice Film Festival to honor director AlmodovarSongwriters Hall inductionbrings Missy Elliott to tears

BRAD BARKET, INVISION/AP

Rapper Missy Elliott expresses gratitude and encouragement June 13 at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards ceremony in New York.

REBECCA CABAGE, INVISION/AP

MTV Movie & TV Awards host Zachary Levi also has two nominations.

FACES

Ready to bolt Swift song defends LGBTQ community

‘Shazam!’ star Zachary Levi feeling nervous about hosting

MTV Movie & TV Awards

CHRIS PIZZELLO, INVISION/AP

Taylor Swift’s latest single is “You Need to Calm Down.”

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Chernobyl: Radioactive topic in Russia BY LUKE JOHNSON

Special To The Washington Post

In the first episode of HBO’s minise-ries “Chernobyl,” a Communist offi-cial suggests that the real danger isn’t the nuclear power plant that has just

exploded, but the news of the tragedy.“It is my experience that when the peo-

ple ask questions that are not in their own best interest, they should simply be told to keep their minds on their labor and leave matters of the state to the state,” says Zhar-kov (Donald Sumpter), a party member who seems to have been a young man dur-ing the Bolshevik Revolution. “We seal off the city. No one leaves. And cut the phone lines. Contain the spread of misinforma-tion.” His suggestion is met not with hor-ror, but with applause.

This speech might seem dramatic, but like the rest of “Chernobyl,” it represents a sincere attempt to convey the inhuman-ity, willful ignorance and lies that defined the Soviet Union in the 1980s. This quality has made “Chernobyl” a surprising must-watch summer hit in the United States. But in Russia, the series has run squarely into the historical revisionism favored by the Russian government and its amplifiers in the media, who treat critical explorations of the Russian and Soviet past as attacks on the country’s present.

The Russian government, much like the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union, invokes past greatness, most importantly the Soviet vic-tory in World War II, to legitimize its auto-cratic regime. Victory Day remains a huge annual celebration of military hardware in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin has attempted to recast the Sovi-ets’ Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Hitler, which divided up Eastern Europe and di-rectly led to Germany invading Poland, as a noble attempt by the Soviet Union to bro-ker peace after Western nations abdicated their responsibilities.

So it’s unsurprising that pro-Kremlin media outlets have treated “Chernobyl,”

and American enthusiasm for the series, as a particular affront.

In a review headlined “A Wall of Lies: The ’Chernobyl’ Miniseries Is an Excel-lent Propaganda Weapon” published in the government-owned newspaper Argu-menty i Fakty, columnist Andrey Sidor-chik argued that the series was a Trojan horse for a larger attack on Soviet history. “Look at the ratings — the audience loves it,” he complained. “And then, as the plot develops, they casually feed viewers some-thing about the Holodomor (Stalin’s forced famine in Ukraine), and Stalin’s terror, and they equate Soviet soldiers with Hitler’s.”

In the tabloid Ekspress-Gazeta, jour-nalist Yuri Tkachev called it a “brilliant propaganda victory” for the Americans, adding, “If anybody in the show looks like a superhero, it’s Mikhail Gorbachev, who’s traditionally revered in the West as the great reformer who put an end to commu-nist ideology.”

Gorbachev is a generally reviled — and often ignored — figure in Russia for presid-ing over the collapse of the Soviet Union, and therefore a positive Western depiction of him would draw suspicion.

The reaction of pro-Kremlin media to “Chernobyl” illustrates a principle that undergirds Putin’s entire theory of how Russia’s history and its past relate to each other. The past must be recast as a period of national greatness in order for the con-

temporary political promise of a returnto strength at home and abroad to makesense .

Chernobyl is hardly the only subject where this rule applies. Russian govern-ment figures have defended Stalin’s purg-es. Half of all Russian youths do not knowabout them at all.

“Chernobyl” depicts the Soviet Union asmore of a Third World country than a greatpower. The nuclear power plant operatorshave no idea what they’re doing. The fire-fighters don’t have adequate protective gear. The Soviet leadership needs to askthe West for help in the cleanup. The seriesis ultimately sympathetic to the difficult choices made at the top of Soviet leader-ship and the heroism of ordinary people,but clear that the system is dysfunctional.

Yet some of the most dramatic elementsof the show seem less drawn from Soviet realities than from the ideas of Americanscreenwriters. The composite character of a Belarusian scientist, Ulyana Khomyuk,seems more like the Hollywood idea of a whistleblower than a believable portrait of what it took to defy the Communist system.The show wraps up at a trial where Kho-myuk and Soviet scientist Valery Legasovdetail what went wrong .

Nevertheless, “Chernobyl” is a much more serious attempt to accurately portray the Soviet Union than what is to come. And Russian viewers and some Russian criticsseem to recognize that: The show has a 9.1viewer rating on Kinopoisk, the Russian equivalent of IMDb.

The Soviet Union may have fallen. Butthe reaction of Kremlin-allied critics to“Chernobyl shows us that in one respect,not much has changed. Blaming an exter-nal enemy for catastrophes to preservethe perception of national greatness didn’tguarantee a glorious Soviet future in 1986. The same strategy still won’t work now.Luke Johnson is a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., who writes on politics and global affairs.

Depopulation widens East-West gap in Germany BY LEONID BERSHIDSKY

Bloomberg

Elections are coming up later this year in three eastern German states — most of the former Ger-man Democratic Republic. In all

three, the combined popularity of the far left and the far right is greater than that of the current governing coalition. In Bran-denburg, the state that surrounds Berlin, the far-right Alternative for Germany is the most popular party.

One reason for that, Felix Roesel, from the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, suggested in a report Wednesday, could be that Germany’s post-Communist eastern states haven’t been able to reverse the de-population trend that began in the 1950s. According to Roesel, the number of people in the country’s east (including former East Berlin, normally not counted in official sta-tistics as part of the east) has sunk to the level of 1905, and in some rural regions to that of the mid-1800s. Roesel wrote this could be a rarely discussed root cause of east Germans’ growing dissatisfaction.

The population decline that has per-sisted since 1949 may have a greater im-pact on eastern Germans than previously assumed. The situation is further aggra-vated by recent disappointments about the longed-for transformation to democracy and a market economy after 1990, which

has changed nothing about the drifting apart of East and West; quite the contrary. The powerful long-term trend may over-shadow all short-term successes, such as the current easing of the labor market and the increase in incomes since 1990.

The German government, which regu-larly reports on how the country’s east-west division is healing, has stressed in recent years that the population outflow from the eastern states has largely stopped. In 2016, the east even attracted 1,000 people more than it lost. But the increase was mostly due to Berlin, its Brandenburg suburbs and, to a smaller extent, Saxony, another state with elections this year (the third is Thuringia).

Besides, it’s probably a better idea to look at the population dynamics the way Roesel does — not at the internal migra-tion numbers but at the growing difference between east and west. According to him, the population of the western states has in-creased by 60% since before World War II, while that of the eastern ones has dropped by 15 percent. And the gap keeps increas-ing, in part because western Germany re-ceives more immigrants; in the east, both the relative poverty and the popularity of anti-immigrant political forces scare them away.

The depopulation is, of course, in part an economic problem. But it’s also a psycho-logical one.

The east of Germany is older than theWest — and getting older faster. Rural communities especially are less vibrant as a result, and there’s a sense of defeatthat breeds dissatisfaction with the Ger-man government’s cohesion efforts. Eventhe big eastern cities, such as Dresden and even Leipzig, often hailed as the newBerlin in recent years, are more provin-cial and less exciting because of the poordemographics .

Eastern Germany, of course, is not theonly region in Europe that’s suffering from such dismal demographics. Nine of the 28European Union member states saw theirpopulation shrink in 2017, with Lithuanialosing almost 14 people out of every thou-sand and Croatia 12 out of every thousand.

Not all of the population losers are post-Communist. Greece, Portugal and Italy arealso on the list. Not all of these countrieshave embraced extreme, populist politicsto the same degree as eastern Germany— at least not yet .

As a former East German, ChancellorAngela Merkel certainly should have donemore to bridge the population gap betweeneast and west in her 13 years in power. Shemight only have herself to blame if her party, the Christian Democratic Union,does as badly in this year’s state electionsas polls suggest today.Leonid Bershidsky is Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist.

Blaming an external enemy for catastrophes to preserve the percep-tion of national great-ness didn’t guarantee a glorious Soviet future in 1986. The same strategy still won’t work now.

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BY DAVID KOENIG

Associated Press

Uncertainty over a Boeing jet and apprehension about the glob-al economy hover over the air-craft industry as it prepares for this week’s Paris Air Show.

That show and its alternating-years companion, the Farnbor-ough International Airshow near London, are usually upbeat cele-brations of the latest and greatest in aviation technology. In recent boom years, they have become a stage for huge aircraft orders.

This year, the mood could be different.

The Boeing 737 Max has been grounded worldwide for three months after new flight software played a role in two deadly plane crashes. There is no clear date for when it might fly again.

There are other troubling signs for the industry. After several years of surging growth, passen-ger traffic in March grew at the weakest rate in nine years, al-though April was slightly better. The chief of the International Air Transport Association, a global airline trade group, blamed a slowing global economy and dam-age from tariffs and trade fights.

Air cargo shipments — consid-ered a leading economic indicator — fell 4.7% in April, continuing a slump that began in January and could dent demand for air freighters.

And airlines have committed to buy so many planes that Boeing now has a backlog of 5,500 orders and Airbus has 7,200 — far high-er than usual. Airlines might not have much appetite for more.

“There is a lot to be concerned about,” said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst with Teal Group. “It might make for kind of

a grim Paris.”Heading into the show, Boeing

and Airbus have reported much weaker orders this year. Boeing received no orders in May after getting just one in April. Deliver-ies of completed jets tumbled 56% last month as it stopped shipping new Max jets. Airbus saw an in-crease in deliveries, but it report-ed just one new order last month.

Airlines have placed so many orders for the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 family already that analysts expect few new sales for those so-called narrow body planes during the air show.

Credit Suisse analysts predict-ed that no airline will order any more Max jets until the ground-ing is lifted.

“I do believe that that aircraft will get back in the air and com-mercially minded airlines will buy it, but just not next week,” said Samuel Engel, a senior ex-

ecutive at the airline and aircraft-finance consultant ICF. He said public doubt and fear about flying on the plane is too great right now but — and this is a view widely shared in the industry — will di-minish over time.

With so many of its airline cus-tomers and suppliers at the air show, Boeing will be under pres-sure to provide an update on the Max’s expected return to flying, and how quickly after that Boe-ing can increase production. The company cut Max production in mid-April from a rate of 52 planes a month to 42.

The Max, the newest version of Boeing’s best-selling plane, is critical to the company’s future. The Max was a direct response to Airbus’ fuel-efficient A320neo. Airbus has taken 6,500 orders for various neo models, outpacing the Max with its nearly 5,000 orders.

Boeing has struggled to get a

handle on the Max controversy. Its fix for software implicated in crashes that killed 346 people has taken months longer than ex-pected, and it is unclear how long it will take the Federal Aviation Administration and other regula-tors to approve Boeing’s work.

The acting head of the FAA has faulted the company for not tell-ing regulators for more than a year that a safety indicator in the Max cockpit didn’t work. Pilots were furious that the company didn’t tell them about the new software on the plane.

Boeing’s public relations strat-egy has been “measured and passed through lawyers,” said Engel, who believes its leaders need to be more forthcoming. “Information that seemed to be important to the discussion came from outside Boeing. The company should be putting that information out there ahead of bloggers.”

The company plans to hold briefings on the Max and its business strategy during the air show. “The air show is an im-portant event for us to meet with customers, partners and suppli-ers and engage with them on our path forward on the 737 MAX and reinforce our unrelenting commitment to safety,” Boeing spokesman Peter Pedraza said in a statement.

Airbus executives said the Max crashes didn’t affect their own strategy for the air show.

“What has happened with the Max ... doesn’t change the way to talk to customers,” Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said.

Press coverage of the air shows often boils down to who logs the most sales, Boeing or Airbus.

“Airbus tends to stockpile or hold on to orders to announce at

the air show, so I would certainlyexpect more activity out of Airbusthan Boeing” in Paris, said KenHerbert, an aerospace analystfor Canaccord Genuity. “I don’tthink that will surprise anybody,considering the Max and every-thing else.”

Herbert said if Boeing can justmake “a decent to good show-ing” in orders for its bigger “widebody” planes, the 777 and 787, theevent will be deemed a success for the Chicago-based company.

Monday, June 17, 2019

WEATHER OUTLOOK

Mildenhall/Lakenheath

66/53

Ramstein74/48

Stuttgart75/52

Lajes,Azores68/63

Rota71/57

Morón90/53 Sigonella

90/68

Naples81/67

Aviano/Vicenza81/64

Pápa74/65

Souda Bay78/71

MONDAY IN EUROPE

Brussels73/57

Bahrain97/89

Baghdad109/79

Doha120/84

KuwaitCity

111/92

Riyadh109/83

Djibouti105/87

Kandahar101/68

Kabul85/64

MONDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY IN THE PACIFIC

Misawa64/51

Guam86/82

Tokyo73/63

Okinawa80/76

Sasebo70/64

Iwakuni70/66

Seoul77/61

Osan77/60 Busan

73/62

The weather is provided by the American Forces Network Weather Center,

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

Military ratesEuro costs (June 17) .........................$1.1563Dollar buys (June 17 ........................ €0.8648British pound (June 17) ....................... $1.30Japanese yen (June 17) .....................106.00South Korean won (June 17) .........1,154.00

Commercial ratesBahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770British pound .....................................$1.2627Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3372China (Yuan) ........................................6.9238Denmark (Krone) ................................ 6.6410Egypt (Pound) .................................... 16.7591Euro ........................................$1.1244/0.8893Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.8272Hungary (Forint) .................................286.29Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.5977Japan (Yen) ...........................................108.37Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3040Norway (Krone) ...................................8.6981Philippines (Peso).................................52.00Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.78Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...........................3.7505Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3696South Korea (Won) ..........................1,184.35Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9965Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 31.20Turkey (Lira) ........................................ 5.8886(Military exchange rates are those available to customers at military banking facilities in the country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., purchasing British pounds in Germany), check with your local military banking facility. Commercial rates are interbank rates provided for reference when buying currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, which is represented in dollars-to-pound, and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)

EXCHANGE RATES

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

BUSINESS/WEATHER

Boeing grounding hovers over Paris air show

MICHEL EULER/AP

Boeing planes are displayed at the Paris Air Show on June 20, 2017. This year’s air show comes amid concerns over Boeing’s troubled 737 Max and worrisome economic signs.

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Saturday’s transactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RHP

Luis Ortiz to Norfolk (IL). Recalled RHP Jimmy Yacabonis from Norfolk.

BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned 1B Sam Travis to Pawtucket (IL). Reinstated LHP Brian Johnson from the 10-day IL. Sent 1B Steve Pearce and RHP Hector Velazquez to Lowell (NYP) for rehab assignments. Signed SS Cameron Cannon, C Jacob Her-bert, 1B Dominic D’Alessandro, LHP Bran-don Walter, OFs Leon Paulino and Dean Miller and RHPs Dylan Spacke and Devon Roedahl to minor league contracts.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Traded RHP Brooks Pounders to the N.Y. Mets for cash. Signed Cs Austin Pinorini and Mi-chael Amditis; 1B Joe Naranjo and Will Bartlett; OFs Will Brennan, Micah Pries and Julian Escobedo; LHPsAndrew Mi-siaszek, Chandler Fidel and Randy La-baut; SSs Yordys Valdes, Jordan Brown, Christian Cairo and SS Joab Gonzalez; and RHPs Daniel Espino, Hunter Gaddis, Xzavion Curry, Zach Hart, Nick Miko-lajchak, Matt Waldron, Jacob Forrester, Trey Benton, Jordan Jones, Kevin Kelly, Nic Enright, Allan Hernandez, Eric Mock, Serafino Brito, Nate Ocker, Jared Janc-zak, Kevin Coulter and Alec Wisely to mi-nor league contracts.

DETROIT TIGERS — Placed C Grayson Greiner on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Friday. Optioned OF Victor Reyes, LHP Ryan Carpenter and 3B Jeimer Cande-lario to Toledo (IL). Recalled LHP Gregory Soto from Toledo. Selected the contract of C Bobby Wilson from Toledo. Trans-ferred RHP Tyson Ross to the 60-day IL.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Sent RHP Collin McHugh and 2B Jose Altuve to Round Rock (PCL) for rehab assignments.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned 1B Ryan O’Hearn to Omaha (PCL). Recalled OF Jorge Bonifacio from Omaha (PCL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Designated RHP Cody Allen for assignment. Recalled RHP Taylor Cole from Salt Lake (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned RHP Fernando Romero to Rochester (IL). Re-called RHP Zack Littell from Rochester.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Sent OFs Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL) for rehab as-signments.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent RHP Felix Hernandez to Tacoma (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Traded INF Adri-an Rondon to the L.A. Angels for cash. Optioned 3B Daniel Robertson and RHP Hunter Wood to Durham (IL). Reinstated 2B Joey Wendle from the 10-day IL. Re-called RHP Jake Faria from Durham. Signed LHP John Doxakis to a minor league contract.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned LHP Thomas Pannone to Buffalo (IL).

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed

C Alex Avila on the 10-day IL. Recalled C Caleb Joseph from Reno (PCL).

CHICAGO CUBS — Placed RHP Kyle Hendricks on the 10-day IL.

CINCINNATI REDS — Placed LHP Wan-dy Peralta on the 10-day IL. Recalled OF Phillip Ervin from Louisville (IL). Signed OF Wendell Marrero and Cs Yamil Nieves and Eric Yang to minor league contracts.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Recalled RHP Jesus Tinoco from Albuquerque (PCL).

NEW YORK METS — Optioned RHP Tim Peterson to Syracuse (IL). Sent LHP Jus-tin Wilson to Brooklyn (NYP) for a rehab assignment. Signed 3B Brett Baty to a minor league contract.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Designated SS Phil Gosselin for assignment. Select-ed the contract of 2B Brad Miller from Le-high Valley (IL). Sent OF Roman Quinn to Reading (EL) for a rehab assignment.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHP Dovydas Neverauskas to Indianapolis (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Dario Agrazal from Indianapolis. Transferred RHP Keone Kela to the 60-day IL. Signed 3B Ernny Ordonez and OF Sammy Siani to minor league contracts.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled RHP Phil Maton from El Paso (PCL). Optioned RHP Miguel Diaz to El Paso (PCL).

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Bought out the final two years of D Dion Phaneuf’s con-tract.

COLLEGEFLORIDA GULF COAST — Named An-

drew Danna men’s golf coach.OKLAHOMA STATE — Named John

Bargfeldt softball pitching coach.

CONCACAF Gold CupGROUP A

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

Saturday’s gamesAt Pasadena, Calif.

Canada 4, Martinique 0Mexico 7, Cuba 0

Wednesday, June 19At Denver

Cuba vs. MartiniqueMexico vs. Canada

Sunday, June 23At Charlotte, N.C.

Canada vs. CubaMartinique vs. Mexico

GROUP B GP W D L GF GA PtsBermuda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Costa Rica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Haiti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nicaragua 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Sunday’s gamesAt San Jose, Costa Rica

Haiti vs. BermudaCosta Rica vs. Nicaragua

Thursday, June 20At Frisco, Texas

Nicaragua vs. HaitiCosta Rica vs. Bermuda

Monday, June 24At Harrison, N.J.

Bermuda vs. NicaraguaHaiti vs. Costa Rica

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

Monday, June 17At Kingston, Jamaica

Curacao vs. El SalvadorJamaica vs. Honduras

Friday, June 21At Houston

El Salvador vs. JamaicaHonduras vs. Curacao

Tuesday, June 25At Los Angeles

Jamaica vs. CuracaoHonduras vs. El Salvador

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

Tuesday, June 18At St. Paul, Minn.

Panama vs. Trinidad and TobagoUnited States vs. Guyana

Saturday, June 22At Cleveland

Guyana vs. PanamaUnited States vs. Trinidad and Tobago

Wednesday, June 26At Kansas City, Kan.

Trinidad and Tobago vs. GuyanaPanama vs. United States

QUARTERFINALSSaturday, June 29

At HoustonGroup B second place vs. Group A first

placeGroup A first place vs. Group B second

placeSunday, June 30At Philadelphia

Group C first place vs. Group D second place

Group D first place vs. Group C second place

SEMIFINALSTuesday, July 2

At Glendale, Ariz.Houston quarterfinal winners

Wednesday, July 3At Nashville, Tenn.

Philadelphia quarterfinal winnersCHAMPIONSHIPSunday, July 7

At ChicagoSemifinal winners

MLSEastern Conference

W L T Pts GF GAPhiladelphia 9 4 4 31 31 20Montreal 8 7 3 27 21 28D.C. United 7 4 6 27 23 18Atlanta 8 5 2 26 19 11New York 7 6 3 24 27 19New York City FC 5 1 8 23 23 17Toronto FC 5 6 4 19 26 25Orlando City 5 7 3 18 22 21Chicago 4 6 6 18 24 23Columbus 5 9 2 17 16 24New England 4 8 4 16 17 33Cincinnati 3 11 2 11 14 33

Western Conference W L T Pts GF GALos Angeles FC 11 1 4 37 39 13LA Galaxy 9 6 1 28 22 19Seattle 7 4 5 26 26 21Houston 7 3 3 24 21 14FC Dallas 6 6 4 22 22 22Minnesota United 6 7 3 21 23 25Real Salt Lake 6 8 1 19 21 27San Jose 5 6 4 19 23 27Vancouver 4 6 6 18 17 20Sporting KC 3 5 7 16 26 27Colorado 4 9 3 15 25 34Portland 4 7 2 14 19 26

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

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

Sunday, June 23Sporting Kansas City at Columbus

MLS leadersThrough Saturday, June 8

GoalsCarlos Vela, LFC 16Zlatan Ibrahimovic, LA 11Josef Martinez, ATL 10Kei Kamara, COL 8Nani, ORL 8Wayne Rooney, DC 8Diego Rossi, LFC 8Chris Wondolowski, SJ 8Krisztian Nemeth, KC 7Johnny Russell, KC 7Saphir Taider, MTL 7

AssistsCarlos Vela, LFC 10Maximiliano Moralez, NYC 9Nicolas Lodeiro, SEA 8Alejandro Pozuelo, TOR 8Diego Valeri, POR 7Eduard Atuesta, LFC 6Sebastian Blanco, POR 6Alberth Elis, HOU 6Cristian Espinoza, SJ 6Romain Metanire, MIN 6

ShotsCarlos Vela, LFC 87Zlatan Ibrahimovic, LA 61Aleksandar Katai, CHI 55Diego Rossi, LFC 55Josef Martinez, ATL 52Wayne Rooney, DC 50Kei Kamara, COL 48Sebastian Blanco, POR 42Mauro Manotas, HOU 42Alexandru Mitrita, NYC 42Darwin Quintero, MIN 42

Shots on GoalCarlos Vela, LFC 35Diego Rossi, LFC 25Zlatan Ibrahimovic, LA 20Kei Kamara, COL 20Josef Martinez, ATL 20Aleksandar Katai, CHI 18Nani, ORL 18Felipe Gutierrez, KC 17Wayne Rooney, DC 17Jefferson Savarino, RSL 17Saphir Taider, MTL 17

CautionsDiego Chara, POR 6Anibal Godoy, SJ 6Samuel Piette, MTL 6Bacary Sagna, MTL 6B. Schweinsteiger, CHI 6

9 players tied with 5 Cards Y R TOTALDiego Chara, POR 6 1 7Cristian Espinoza, SJ 5 1 6Anibal Godoy, SJ 6 0 6Damir Kreilach, RSL 5 1 6Samuel Piette, MTL 6 0 6Bacary Sagna, MTL 6 0 6B. Schweinsteiger, CHI 6 0 6

12 players tied with 5Goals-Allowed Avg.

Brad Guzan, ATL 0.73Tyler Miller, LFC 0.81Bill Hamid, DC 1.06Joe Willis, HOU 1.08Sean Johnson, NYC 1.15David Bingham, LA 1.19Luis Robles, NYR 1.20Maxime Crepeau, VAN 1.21Jesse Gonzalez, DAL 1.29David Ousted, CHI 1.31Zack Steffen, CLB 1.31

ShutoutsBrad Guzan, ATL 8Bill Hamid, DC 7Evan Bush, MTL 6Sean Johnson, NYC 6Tyler Miller, LFC 6David Bingham, LA 5Stefan Frei, SEA 5Vito Mannone, MIN 5David Ousted, CHI 4Luis Robles, NYR 4Zack Steffen, CLB 4

SavesBill Hamid, DC 67David Bingham, LA 56Stefan Frei, SEA 51Daniel Vega, SJ 48Maxime Crepeau, VAN 47Vito Mannone, MIN 45Tim Melia, KC 45Brian Rowe, ORL 43Tim Howard, COL 41Evan Bush, MTL 40Luis Robles, NYR 40

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

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

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

Friday, June 21Utah at Portland

Saturday, June 22Houston at WashingtonOrlando at Sky Blue FC

Sunday, June 23Reign FC at Chicago

College World SeriesOmaha, Neb.

(Double Elimination; x-if necessary)Saturday’s games

Michigan 5, Texas Tech 3Florida State 1 vs. Arkansas 0

Sunday, June 16Game 3 — Louisville (49-16) vs. Van-

derbilt (54-11)Game 4 — Mississippi State (51-13) vs.

Auburn (38-26)Monday, June 17

Game 5 — Texas Tech (44-19) vs. Ar-kansas (46-19)

Game 6 — Michigan (46-20) vs. Florida State (42-21)

Tuesday, June 18Game 7 — Game 3 loser vs. Game 4

loserGame 8 — Game 3 winner vs. Game 4

winner,Wednesday, June 19

Game 9 — Game 5 winner vs. Game 6 loser

Thursday, June 20Game 10 — Game 7 winner vs. Game

8 loserFriday, June 21

Game 11 — Game 6 winner vs. Game 9 winner

Game 12 — Game 8 winner vs. Game 10 winner

Saturday, June 22x-Game 13 — Game 6 winner vs. Game

9 winnerx-Game 14 — Game 8 winner vs. Game

10 winnerChampionship Series

(Best-of-3)Monday, June 24: Pairings TBDTuesday, June 25: Pairings TBDx-Wednesday, June 26: Pairings TBD

Libema OpenSaturday

At Autotron RosmalenDen Bosch, Netherlands

Purse: Men, $720,160 (WT250); Wom-en, $226,750 (Intl.)

Surface: Grass-OutdoorSingles

MenSemifinals

Adrian Mannarino, France, leads Bor-na Coric (2), Croatia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-6 (3-2), susp., rain.

Jordan Thompson, Australia, leads Richard Gasquet (8), France, 7-5, 5-3 (30-40), susp., rain.

WomenSemifinals

Alison Riske, United States, def. Ve-ronika Kudermetova, Russia, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5).

Kiki Bertens (1), Netherlands, def. Ele-na Rybakina, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 6-4.

DoublesMen

ChampionshipDominic Inglot, Britain, and Austin

Krajicek, United States, def. Marcus Dan-iell, New Zealand, and Wesley Koolhof, Netherlands, 6-4, 4-6, 10-4.

WomenSemifinals

Lesley Kerkhove and Bibiane Schoofs, Netherlands, def. Kiki Bertens and Demi Schuurs (2), Netherlands, 6-1, 6-4.

ChampionshipShuko Aoyama, Japan, and Aleksan-

dra Krunic (4), Serbia, lead Lesley Kerk-hove and Bibiane Schoofs, Netherlands, 3-2, susp., rain.

Nature Valley OpenSaturday

Nottingham Tennis CentreNottingham, England

Surface: Grass-OutdoorSingles

SemifinalsDonna Vekic (2), Croatia, def. Tatjana

Maria (9), Germany, 5-7, 6-0, 6-0.Jennifer Brady, United States, leads

Caroline Garcia (1), France, 6-4, 2-5 (30-0), susp., rain.

DoublesQuarterfinals

Monica Niculescu and Elena-Gabri-ela Ruse, Romania, def. Alexa Guarachi, Chile, and Erin Routliffe, New Zealand, 7-6 (5), 6-2.

SemifinalsEllen Perez and Arina Rodionova, Aus-

tralia, def. Xenia Knoll, Switzerland, and Vera Lapko, Belarus, 4-6, 6-4, 14-12.

Desirae Krawczyk, United States, and Giuliana Olmos, Mexico, def. Monica Niculescu and Elena-Gabriela Ruse, Ro-mania, 6-1, 6-4.

Mercedes CupSaturday

At TC WeissenhofStuttgart, Germany

Purse: $769,170 (WT250)Surface: Grass-Outdoor

SinglesSemifinals

Matteo Berrettini, Italy, def. Jan-Len-nard Struff, Germany, 6-4, 7-5.

Felix Auger-Aliassime (7), Canada, def. Milos Raonic (6), Canada, walkover.

DoublesSemifinals

Rohan Bopanna, India, and Denis Shapovalov, Canada, def. Nick Kyrgios and Matt Reid, Australia, 6-3, 6-4.

June 17 1954 — Rocky Marciano scores a 15-

round unanimous decision over Ezzard Charles at New York to retain the worldheavyweight title.

1961 — Gene Littler shoots a 68 in the final round to edge Doug Sanders and Bob Goalby in the U.S. Open.

1962 — Jack Nicklaus beats ArnoldPalmer by three strokes in a playoff towin the U.S. Open.

1962 — Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3-1 in Santiago, Chile to win its secondstraight FIFA World Cup title. Czechoslo-vakia scored first on a goal by Josef Ma-sopust at 15 minutes. Two minutes later Amarildo tied the game. In the secondhalf, Zito and Vava scored goals to giveBrazil the victory.

1973 — John Miller shoots a 63 in the final round to win the U.S. Open by onestroke over John Schlee at Oakmont, Pa.Miller’s 8-under 63 is the first ever card-ed in a major championship.

1976 — The 18-team NBA absorbs fourof the six remaining ABA teams: the NewYork Nets, Indiana Pacers, San AntonioSpurs and Denver Nuggets.

1979 — Hale Irwin wins the U.S. Open by two strokes over Gary Player andJerry Pate.

1989 — The Quebec Nordiques selectSwedish center Mats Sundin with the No. 1 pick in the NHL Draft. He’s the first Eu-ropean player to be taken with the firstpick.

1990 — Fifty-year-old Harry Gant be-comes the oldest driver to win a NASCARrace as he posts a 2.4-second victory over Rusty Wallace in the Miller 500 at Pocono International Raceway.

1991 — Payne Stewart escapes with a two-stroke victory over Scott Simpson in the highest-scoring U.S. Open playoff in 64 years.

1995 — Claude Lemieux snaps a tie at 3:17 of the third period as the New JerseyDevils open the Stanley Cup finals with a 2-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.The victory, the ninth on the road, breaksthe NHL playoff record for road wins.

2007 — Angel Cabrera holds off TigerWoods and Jim Furyk by a stroke to cap-ture the U.S. Open. Cabrera shoots a 1-under-par 69 in the final round at brutal Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club.

2007 — Kate Ziegler breaks swim-ming’s oldest world record, shatteringthe 1,500-meter freestyle mark by 9 1/2 seconds at the TYR Meet of Champions Mission Viejo, Calif. Ziegler wins the 30-lap race in 15:42.54, easily erasing Janet Evans’ 1988 mark of 15:52.10 set in Orlan-do, Fla. At the time, Evans was the firstwoman to break 16 minutes.

2008 — The Boston Celtics win their 17th NBA title with a stunning 131-92 blowout over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 6. Kevin Garnett scores 26 points with 14 rebounds, Ray Allen scores 26 and Paul Pierce, the finals MVP, adds 17.

2010 — The Los Angeles Lakers beat Boston for the first time in a Game 7 torepeat as NBA champions. The Lakerswin their 16th NBA championship, dra-matically rallying from a fourth-quarter13-point deficit to beat the Celtics 83-79.

2011 — Rory McIlroy becomes the firstplayer in the 111-year history of the U.S. Open to reach 13-under par, and despitea double bogey into the water on the fi-nal hole, his 5-under 66 is enough set the 36-hole scoring record at 131.

2012 — Webb Simpson wins the U.S.Open outlasting former U.S. Open cham-pions Jim Furyk and Graeme McDowell.

2018 — Brooks Koepka wins a secondconsecutive U.S. Open, the first player to do so since Curtis Strange in 1989.

Fight scheduleJune 19

At Chiba City, Japan, Kazuto Ioka vs. Aston Palicte, 12, for the vacant WBO World super flyweight title; Hiroto Kyo-guchi vs. Tanawat Nakoon, 12, for Kyo-guchi’s WBA Super World light flyweighttitle.

June 21At Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ire-

land, Tyrone McKenna vs. Darragh Foley,12, for the vacant WBC International su-per lightweight title.

At WinnaVegas Casino & Resort, Sloan, Iowa, Sebastian Fundora vs. Hec-tor Zepeda, 10, super welterweights; Rene Tellez Giron vs. Michel Rivera, 10, lightweights.

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

June 22At Wolstein Center, Cleveland, De-

wayne Beamon vs. Froilan Saludar, 12,for the vacant WBC United States (US-NBC) super flyweight title; Cody Crowleyvs. Navid Mansouri, 12, for the vacantWBC United States (USNBC) super wel-terweight title.

June 23At Mandalay Bay Resorts & Casino,

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

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

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WOMEN’S WORLD CUPScoreboard

First roundGROUP A

W L T GF GA Ptsx-France 2 0 0 6 1 6Norway 1 1 0 4 2 3Nigeria 1 1 0 2 3 3South Korea 0 2 0 0 6 0

x-advanced to knockout stageFriday, June 7

At ParisFrance 4, South Korea 0

Saturday, June 8At Reims, France

Norway 3, Nigeria 0Wednesday, June 12At Grenoble, France

Nigeria 2, South Korea 0At Nice, France

France 2, Norway 1Monday, June 17

At Rennes, FranceFrance vs. Nigeria

At Reims, FranceSouth Korea vs. Norway

GROUP B W L T GF GA Ptsx-Germany 2 0 0 2 0 6Spain 1 1 0 3 2 3China 1 1 0 1 1 3South Africa 0 2 0 1 4 0

x-advanced to knockout stageSaturday, June 8

At Rennes, FranceGermany 1, China 0

At Le Havre, FranceSpain 3, South Africa 1

Wednesday, June 12At Valenciennes, France

Germany 1, Spain 0Thursday, June 13

At ParisChina 1, South Africa 0

Monday, June 17At Montpellier, France

Germany vs. South AfricaAt Le Havre, France

China vs. SpainGROUP C

W L T GF GA Ptsx-Italy 2 0 0 7 1 6Brazil 1 1 0 5 3 3Australia 1 1 0 4 4 3Jamaica 0 2 0 0 8 0

x-advanced to knockout stageSunday, June 9

At Valenciennes, FranceItaly 2, Australia 1

At Grenoble, FranceBrazil 3, Jamaica 0

Thursday, June 13At Montpellier, France

Australia 3, Brazil 2Friday, June 14

At Reims, FranceItaly 5, Jamaica 0

Tuesday, June 18At Grenoble, France

Australia vs. JamaicaAt Valenciennes, France

Italy vs. BrazilGROUP D

W L T GF GA Ptsx-England 2 0 0 3 1 6x-Japan 1 0 1 2 1 4Argentina 0 0 2 0 1 1Scotland 0 2 0 2 4 0

x-advanced to knockout stage Sunday, June 9At Nice, France

England 2, Scotland 1Monday, June 10

At ParisArgentina 0, Japan 0

Friday, June 14At Rennes, France

Japan 2, Scotland 1At Le Havre, France

England 1, Argentina 0Wednesday, June 19

At Nice, FranceJapan vs. England

At ParisScotland vs. Argentina

GROUP E W L T GF GA Ptsx-Netherlands 2 0 0 4 1 6x-Canada 2 0 0 3 0 6New Zealand 0 1 0 0 1 0Cameroon 0 2 0 1 4 0

x-advanced to knockout stageMonday, June 10

At Montpellier, FranceCanada 1, Cameroon 0

Tuesday, June 11At Le Havre, France

Netherlands 1, New Zealand 0Saturday, June 15

At Valenciennes, FranceNetherlands 3, Cameroon 1

At Grenoble, FranceCanada 2, New Zealand 0

Thursday, June 20At Reims, France

Netherlands vs. CanadaAt Montpellier, France

Cameroon vs. New ZealandGROUP F

W L T GF GA Ptsx-United States 2 0 0 16 0 6x-Sweden 2 0 0 7 1 6Chile 0 2 0 0 5 0Thailand 0 2 0 1 18 0

Tuesday, June 11At Rennes, France

Sweden 2, Chile 0At Reims, France

United States 13, Thailand 0Sunday, June 16At Nice, France

Sweden 5, Thailand 1At Paris

United States 3, Chile 0Thursday, June 20

At Le Havre, FranceSweden vs. United States

At Rennes, FranceThailand vs. Chile

Associated Press

NICE, France — A couple of seconds elapsed before a disbelieving Kanjana Sungn-goen raised her arms in celebration.

It really happened.Thailand had finally scored at this Women’s

World Cup.By the time Sungngoen found the net against

Sweden in the first minute of stoppage time, Thailand was already trailing 4-0 Sunday.

But simply scoring was a triumph after Thailand’s humiliating 13-0 opening loss to the United States. Coaches embraced on the bench and Thai flags were raised in the stands on the French Riviera.

They were still beaming after the final whis-tle, even after Elin Rubensson scored with the final kick of the game from the penalty spot to seal a 5-1 victory for Sweden, which advanced to the round of 16 with a game to spare.

“Everyone was very happy that we at least scored one,” Kanjana said through a transla-tor. “The whole team is very glad.”

Even if it was only a consolation goal and the team remains bottom of Group F.

“It was a difficult goal and playing a great team like Sweden, it meant so much,” Thai-land coach Nuengrutai Srathongvian said through a translator. “It meant that all of our preparation paid off. We had a lot of chances today. This one goal made us laugh, made us smile and makes us happy.”

Forget that Thailand’s 18 goals conceded equals the tournament record set by Argenti-na in 2007. And, Thailand still must face Chile in the group finale.

Even Sweden goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl, through the disappointment of not keeping a clean sheet, could see what scoring meant to the Thais.

“We are all human,” Lindahl said, “and

having had that defeat they had against the US, and now scoring their goal, you can feel some empathy for them.”

It helped that her teammates had already scored four times by the time Sungngoen got on the end of a high ball on the right flank and cut in before beating Lindahl at her near post.

The first of the five Swedish scorers netted in the 6th minute in Nice, with Linda Sem-brant heading past Waraporn Boonsing.

The Thai goalkeeper did manage to palm away Anna Anvegard’s shot in the 19th min-ute but she couldn’t recover the ball to prevent Kosovare Asllani scoring. Boonsing couldn’t stop the 41st-minute strike from Fridolina Rolfo curling into the top corner.

Just like in the game against the United States, it was 3-0 at halftime. Unlike in Paris, Thailand didn’t concede another four times in the opening 11 minutes of the second half.

In fact, it took Sweden until the 81st minute to find the net again through Lina Hurtig’s header before being beaten by Thailand on the counterattack.

So when the final whistle blew, the Thai squad was able to bow to its fans. Some pride had been restored.

“Our defeat in the last game was massive,” Srathongvian said. “We were disappointed, but scoring one today we made some success. We still need to develop and we need to im-prove and make it better. We need to get as close to other super teams. We need to play better so we can enjoy it more.”

Canada 2, New Zealand 0: Jessie Flem-ing and Nichelle Prince each had second-half goals and Canada advanced to the knockout round on Saturday night at Grenoble, France.

Fleming took a well-placed pass from Prince and scored in the 48th minute to break

up a scoreless match. The Netherlands also made it through to the round of 16 with a 3-1 victory over Cameroon in the other Group E match earlier in the day.

Fleming, who made her debut with the se-nior national team at 15, currently plays for UCLA.

Prince got her goal in the 79th minute, a re-bound of Christine Sinclair’s header that hit the post.

Led by Tom Sermanni, former coach of Sweden and the United States, New Zealand was hurt in the first half when defender CJ Bott was injured and had to be subbed out.

The Canadians had never advanced from the group stage playing outside of North America.

CLAUDE PARIS/AP

Sweden’s Lina Hurtig celebrates after scoring her side’s fourth goal Sunday during the Group F match against Thailand in Nice, France. Sweden won 5-1.

Thailand scores its first goal in loss

Associated Press

PARIS — Carli Lloyd scored a pair of goals for the United Stated in a somewhat subdued 3-0 vic-tory over Chile that advanced the defending Women’s World Cup champions to the round of 16.

The United States were criti-cized after its record-breaking 13-0 rout of Thailand when play-ers celebrated goals even after the victory was well in hand. The Americans were more muted in this one, and all three goals were in the first half.

Sweden also advanced out of Group F with a 5-1 victory over Thailand earlier Sunday in Nice. Japan, playing in Group D with England, also went through to the knockout stage because both the United States and Sweden won.

Lloyd earned the start after coming in off the bench in the opener, and in the 11th minute be-came the first player to score in six straight World Cup matches.

She added another on a header off a corner in the 35th minute for her 10th career World Cup goal, which moved her into third on the all-time U.S. list behind Abby Wambach (14) and Michelle Akers (12).

Four years ago at the World Cup in Canada, Lloyd scored three goals in the opening 16 minutes of the finale to lead the United States to a 5-2 victory over Japan

for the team’s third overall title.She nearly got another hat trick

but her penalty kick in the 81st minute went wide left.

After routing Thailand in their opener, Jill Ellis made sweeping changes to the start-ing lineup against Chile with a

new front line: Lloyd, Christen Press and Mallory Pugh. Morgan was moved to the bench along with Megan Rapinoe and Tobin Heath.

Becky Sauerbrunn, who sat out of the match against Thailand be-cause of a minor quad injury, re-

turned and anchored a backline that included 20-year-old Tierna Davidson, who was making her World Cup debut. Davidson is the youngest player to start for the U.S. in the World Cup since Tif-fany Roberts against Norway in 1995.

US advances to knockout round

ALESSANDRA TARANTINO/AP

The United States’ Carli Lloyd, center, celebrates with teammates after scoring her team’s third goal during Sunday’s Group F match against Chile in Paris.

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SPORTS BRIEFS/COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — Stage fright was no factor for a Michigan baseball program that’s in the College World Series for the first time in 35 years. The Wolverines just kept doing what they’ve been doing since the NCAA Tournament started.

“Pitching, defense, timely hitting seems to be the recipe of the postseason,” coach Erik Bakich said.

The Wolverines got all three once again Saturday at TD Ameritrade Park.

Jimmy Kerr’s first triple in two years helped build an early lead, Karl Kauff-mann pitched seven strong innings and the Wolverines opened their first CWS appearance since 1984 with a 5-3 victory over Texas Tech.

The last time Michigan made it this far, a team led by future Hall of Famer Barry Larkin went 0-2. The Wolverines had lost four straight in the CWS since winning their first game in 1983.

These Wolverines (47-20) were swept in a three-game series at Texas Tech in March and were winless in seven meetings against the Red Raiders. They lost five of seven to end the regular season and lost their open-er in the Big Ten Tournament, which was played at TD Ameritrade. They sneaked into the 64-team NCAA Tournament with one of the last four at-large bids.

“We didn’t win the Big Ten Tournament, but it didn’t matter because we had confi-dence and we had belief, and once we got into the tournament, we didn’t care if we were one of the last four in or one of the first four in,” Bakich said.

Coming off a three-game super regional where they knocked off No. 1 national seed UCLA, the Wolverines built a 4-0 lead in

the third and Kauffmann and Jeff Criswell worked out of trouble when the Red Raid-ers (44-19) threatened.

Michigan broke it open in the third when Kerr drove a ball just inside the right-field line into the corner for a two-out, two-run triple. The triple was Kerr’s first in 112 games since April 2017, and he came home on Blake Nelson’s single to make it 4-0.

“Guys did a great job setting the tone, getting on base, and our two-strike ap-proach as a team — choke up on the barrel, put it in play and make something hap-pen,” Kerr said. “I got a pitch that I was able to put something in play on. We had guys on base all day, good at-bats through-out the lineup and that allowed us to get a four-spot early.”

Brian Klein’s second homer of the sea-son, and first since March 10, cut the lead to 4-2 in the bottom half, and the Red Raid-ers were within a run in the sixth on an RBI groundout after Josh Jung’s infield single and Cameron Warren’s double.

Michigan got that run back when a wild pitch and Jung’s throwing error from shortstop allowed Jesse Franklin to score.

Kauffman (11-6), the Colorado Rockies’ second-round draft pick this month, al-lowed three runs and eight hits and won his third straight start. He got out of po-tential trouble in the fifth, thanks to second baseman Ako Thomas, who robbed Dylan Neuse with a diving catch of a line drive up the middle.

Criswell, who made his first career re-

lief appearance in super regionals, tookover in the eighth and earned his secondsave. Texas Tech, the Big 12 champion andNo. 8 national seed, had runners on first and second in the bottom of the ninth when Criswell struck out Klein to end the game.

Florida State 1, Arkansas 0: Drew Par-rish limited Arkansas to five hits in eightinnings and J.C. Flowers scored on a sac-rifice fly in the ninth to give Florida State a win.

Parrish and Arkansas starter IsaiahCampbell engaged in a classic pitcher’sduel sprinkled with outstanding defen-sive plays, neither team budging until the Seminoles broke through against relieverCasey Scroggins in the last inning.

The win was the sixth straight in theNCAA Tournament for Florida State (42-21), which is trying to bring retiring 40th-year coach Mike Martin his first nationalchampionship in 17 trips to the CWS.

Arkansas (46-18), which scored 30 runsin its three super regional games againstMississippi, including 14 Monday, was shut out for only the second time this season.

Parrish (8-5), the Seminoles’ left-handedace, hadn’t made it past the fifth inning in his previous four starts. He was masterful against the Razorbacks, striking out nineand walking two and getting out of trouble every time he encountered any.

He was never better than in the eighth,when Christian Franklin doubled into theright-field corner leading off and was onthird after a groundout. Still throwing 93 mph after crossing the 100-pitch thresh-old, Parrish struck out Casey Martin andMike Goodheart with a pair of wickedchange-ups.

NATI HARNIK/AP

Michigan’s Jordan Nwogu scores on a sacrifice fly by Jordan Brewer as Texas Tech catcher Braxton Fulford waits for the throw in the first inning of their College World Series game Saturday in Omaha, Neb. Michigan won 5-3.

Michigan tops Texas Tech for first win in CWS

Briefl y

Associated Press

CHICAGO — The New York Yankees acquired AL home run leader Edwin Encarnacion in a trade with the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night, adding anoth-er feared slugger to what could be baseball’s most powerful lineup when Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton return from injuries.

Seattle is sending the Yankees $8,397,849, leaving New York to pay $8 million of remaining $16,397,849 Encarnacion is guar-anteed. New York is sending 19-year-old minor league pitcher Juan Then to Seattle.

Speaking before the trade was announced, New York manager Aaron Boone declined comment. But asked about having room for another power bat, Boone coyly responded, “There’s always room for good players.”

The 36-year-old Encarnacion has hit 21 home runs this season and has averaged 37 homers and 109 RBIs in his last seven years. He is owed $11,397,849 of his $20 million salary this year plus a $5 million buyout of a $25 million club option for 2020.

There had been speculation the Yankees would be in the market for a top pitcher as the July 31 ap-proached, but the Bronx Bomb-

ers always have room for big boppers.

“We know Edwin is a really good hitter,” Gleyber Torres said after homering for the AL East-leading Yankees in an 8-4 win over the Chicago White Sox.

Encarnacion was not on the field with the Mariners as they warmed up for their game at Oak-

land. The Yankees and Mariners announced the trade right after Seattle lost 11-2.

“Edwin did great things here for us. I really think a lot of him, how he went about his business here, knowing that this could probably happen,” Mariners man-ager Scott Servais said. “It’s hard to go out and produce the way he did. He did everything we could ask him. He’s leading the league in home runs, he’s been awesome in our clubhouse. Certainly wish him the best.”

Encarnacion, a first baseman and designated hitter, is hitting .241 and is among the league leaders with 49 RBIs and 48 runs scored. The three-time All-Star moved from Cleveland to Seattle last December in a three-team trade that included Tampa Bay.

Encarnacion has 401 ca-reer home runs, including 18 in 69 games at the new Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees have been one of baseball’s best teams despite a long list of injuries.

Stanton could return next week after being sidelined by biceps, shoulder and calf injuries, and Judge also is inching closer after he strained his left oblique in April. Both stars are on rehab as-

signments in Triple-A.Encarnacion’s arrival means

more juggling for the Yankees, who will have a roster full of tal-ented players once everyone re-turns from the injured list. Last month, they acquired first base-man/DH Kendrys Morales from Oakland, but he’s struggled with New York.

The Mariners said Then, who has been pitching in extended spring training, will report to Class A Everett. Originally signed by Seattle, he was traded to the Yankees after the 2017 season in a deal for pitcher Nick Rumbelow.

Kings buy out veteran Phaneuf’s contract

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Los Angeles Kings have bought out the final two years of defense-man Dion Phaneuf’s contract.

The Kings made the move Saturday.

The 34-year-old veteran spent 93 games with the Kings, who acquired him in February 2018. Phaneuf scored 16 points and racked up 68 penalty minutes, but the former Maple Leafs cap-tain occasionally sat as a healthy scratch last season for the first time in his career.

Phaneuf had two years left ona seven-year, $49 million contractthrough the 2020-21 season. Heagreed to the deal in Toronto, buthas been traded twice since.

Henderson takes lead at Meijer LPGA Classic

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Brooke Henderson birdied thefinal three holes Saturday for a 3-under 69 and a two-stroke leadover Annie Park in the Meijer LPGA Classic, with Lexi Thomp-son three shots back after match-ing the course record with a 62.

Trying to break a tie for theCanadian victory record for bothwomen and men, the 21-year-old Henderson had a 19-under 197total at Blythefield Country Club.She opened with consecutive 64s,playing 30 holes Friday after rain delayed the start Thursday, thengot off to a slow start Saturday with three birdies and three bo-geys in the first 15 holes.

“I kind of found it hard to findmy rhythm during the middle part of the round, so I kind of gotstarted batting third and that’snever a good sign,” Henderson said. “But to come back with threebirdies at the end there makes theround feel a little bit better.”

Yankees get Encarnacion from Mariners

MARK J. TERRILL/AP

The Mariners traded AL home run leader Edwin Encarnacion to the New York Yankees on Saturday.

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MLB SCOREBOARD American League

East Division W L Pct GBNew York 42 27 .609 —Tampa Bay 42 28 .600 ABoston 38 34 .528 5AToronto 25 45 .357 17ABaltimore 21 49 .300 21A

Central DivisionMinnesota 47 22 .681 —Cleveland 36 33 .522 11Chicago 34 35 .493 13Detroit 25 42 .373 21Kansas City 22 48 .314 25A

West DivisionHouston 48 23 .676 —Texas 38 32 .543 9AOakland 36 35 .507 12Los Angeles 35 36 .493 13Seattle 30 44 .405 19A

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBAtlanta 41 30 .577 —Philadelphia 39 31 .557 1ANew York 34 36 .486 6AWashington 32 38 .457 8AMiami 25 43 .368 14A

Central DivisionChicago 39 31 .557 —Milwaukee 39 31 .557 —St. Louis 35 34 .507 3APittsburgh 31 39 .443 8Cincinnati 30 38 .441 8

West DivisionLos Angeles 47 24 .662 —Colorado 37 33 .529 9AArizona 38 34 .528 9ASan Diego 34 37 .479 13San Francisco 30 38 .441 15A

Saturday’s gamesL.A. Angels 5, Tampa Bay 3Boston 7, Baltimore 2Houston 7, Toronto 2Cleveland 4, Detroit 2Minnesota 5, Kansas City 4N.Y. Yankees 8, Chicago White Sox 4Texas 4, Cincinnati 3Oakland 11, Seattle 2San Francisco 8, Milwaukee 7Arizona 10, Washington 3Miami 4, Pittsburgh 3N.Y. Mets 8, St. Louis 7Philadelphia 6, Atlanta 5Colorado 14, San Diego 8Chicago Cubs 2, L.A. Dodgers 1

Sunday’s gamesBoston at BaltimoreCleveland at DetroitL.A. Angels at Tampa BayTexas at CincinnatiKansas City at MinnesotaN.Y. Yankees at Chicago White SoxToronto at HoustonSeattle at OaklandPittsburgh at MiamiSt. Louis at N.Y. MetsPhiladelphia at AtlantaArizona at WashingtonSan Diego at ColoradoMilwaukee at San FranciscoChicago Cubs at L.A. Dodgers

Monday’s gamesTampa Bay (TBD) at N.Y. Yankees

(Tanaka 4-5)L.A. Angels (Pena 4-1) at Toronto

(Jackson 1-4)Houston (Miley 6-3) at Cincinnati

(Castillo 6-1)Cleveland (Clevinger 1-0) at Texas

(Lynn 7-4)Boston (Porcello 4-6) at Minnesota

(Berrios 8-2)Baltimore (TBD) at Oakland (Fiers 6-3)Kansas City (Duffy 3-3) at Seattle

(TBD)Philadelphia (Arrieta 6-5) at Washing-

ton (Corbin 5-5)Houston (Miley 6-3) at Cincinnati

(Castillo 6-1)N.Y. Mets (Wheeler 5-4) at Atlanta (So-

roka 7-1)Miami (Hernandez 0-1) at St. Louis

(Mikolas 4-7)Milwaukee (Chacin 3-7) at San Diego

(Lucchesi 5-4)San Francisco (Beede 0-2) at L.A.

Dodgers (Maeda 7-3)

Saturday Rockies 14, Padres 8

San Diego Colorado ab r h bi ab r h biG.Grcia 3b 4 2 1 0 Blckmon rf 6 3 4 2Hosmer 1b 3 1 1 3 Story ss 4 2 3 1Machado ss 3 2 2 0 Arenado 3b 5 1 2 0Tts Jr. ss 2 0 2 0 Dahl lf 4 3 3 3Renfroe lf 4 0 0 0 Desmond cf 4 2 2 5Myers cf 5 1 0 0 McMahn 2b 4 0 3 1Kinsler 2b 5 0 3 3 M.Rynld 1b 3 1 1 1Naylor rf 4 1 1 0 Estevez p 0 0 0 0A.Allen c 5 0 2 0 Bettis p 0 0 0 0Lauer p 1 0 0 0 B.Shaw p 0 0 0 0Erlin p 1 0 0 0 Wolters c 3 1 0 0Margot ph 1 1 1 0 Marquez p 3 1 1 1Maton p 0 0 0 0 D.Mrphy 1b 2 0 0 0F.Reyes ph 1 0 0 0 G.Reyes p 0 0 0 0 Totals 39 8 13 6 Totals 38 14 19 14San Diego 301 003 100— 8Colorado 131 240 30x—14

E—Dahl (1), Desmond (3). DP—San Di-ego 1, Colorado 1. LOB—San Diego 9, Col-orado 9. 2B—G.Garcia (9), Machado (10), Kinsler (11), Blackmon (17), Story (18), M.Reynolds (7), Marquez (2). 3B—Dahl (4). HR—Desmond (9). SF—Desmond (2), M.Reynolds (3). S—Bettis (3). IP H R ER BB SOSan DiegoLauer L,5-6 2C 10 5 5 2 2Erlin 2B 6 6 6 2 2Maton 1 0 0 0 0 0G.Reyes 2 3 3 3 1 2ColoradoMarquez W,7-3 5C 10 7 7 4 8Estevez B 2 1 0 1 1Bettis H,4 2 1 0 0 0 2B.Shaw 1 0 0 0 0 0

Estevez pitched to 3 batters in the 7th HBP—by Erlin (Dahl). WP—Marquez 2, Bettis. T—3:39. A—46,133 (50,398).

Athletics 11, Mariners 2Seattle Oakland ab r h bi ab r h biM.Smith cf 4 0 0 0 Semien ss 4 3 3 2J.Crwfr ss 3 0 1 1 M.Chpmn 3b 4 2 2 1Do.Sntn rf 4 0 2 0 M.Olson 1b 5 0 1 0Vglbach 1b 4 0 0 0 K.Davis dh 4 1 1 1Narvaez c 3 1 1 0 Canha lf 3 3 1 0K.Sager 3b 4 0 0 0 Lureano cf 5 1 1 2T.Bckhm dh 4 0 1 0 Profar 2b 4 0 3 4Wllmson lf 4 0 0 1 Pinder rf 4 0 0 0D.Moore 2b 3 1 1 0 Phegley c 4 1 1 0Totals 33 2 6 2 Totals 37 11 13 10Seattle 010 010 000— 2Oakland 310 502 00x—11

E—Smith (4), Crawford 2 (4), Seager (4). DP—Seattle 3. LOB—Seattle 6, Oakland 7. 2B—Beckham (15), Moore (6), Chapman (15), Olson (7), Canha (5), Phegley (12). HR—Semien (10). SB—Profar (5). IP H R ER BB SOSeattleBautista L,0-1 C 2 3 3 3 1LeBlanc 2C 8 6 6 0 1Tay.Scott 2 2 2 0 0 0Biddle 1C 1 0 0 0 1Bass 1 0 0 0 1 0OaklandMontas W,9-2 6 6 2 2 1 9Petit 1 0 0 0 0 1Buchter 1 0 0 0 1 1Soria 1 0 0 0 0 1

HBP—by Tay.Scott (Canha). T—2:58. A—14,846 (46,765).

Cubs 2, Dodgers 1Chicago Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h biSchwrbr lf 4 0 1 0 Pderson lf 3 0 0 0Bryant 3b 3 1 0 0 C.Tylor ph-lf 1 0 1 0Rizzo 1b 4 1 1 2 Verdugo cf 4 1 1 1J.Baez ss 4 0 0 0 J.Trner 3b 4 0 0 0Heyward cf 4 0 0 0 Bllnger rf 3 0 0 0Cratini c 4 0 0 0 Muncy 2b 3 0 1 0C.Gnzal rf 3 0 0 0 Beaty 1b 4 0 0 0Darvish p 2 0 0 0 K.Hrnan ss 3 0 1 0Bote ph-2b 0 0 0 0 A.Brnes c 3 0 0 0Russell 2b 3 0 1 0 Buehler p 2 0 0 0Kntzler p 0 0 0 0 P.Baez p 0 0 0 0Ryan p 0 0 0 0 Freese ph 1 0 1 0Strop p 0 0 0 0 K.Jnsen p 0 0 0 0Totals 31 2 3 2 Totals 31 1 5 1Chicago 000 000 002—2Los Angeles 000 100 000—1

E—Muncy (6), K.Hernandez (3). DP—Los Angeles 1. LOB—Chicago 4, Los Angeles 5. HR—Rizzo (19), Verdugo (5). SB—Bellinger (8). IP H R ER BB SOChicagoDarvish 7 2 1 1 1 10Kintzler C 2 0 0 0 0Ryan W,2-1 B 1 0 0 0 0Strop S,8-10 1 0 0 0 1 2Los AngelesBuehler 7 2 0 0 0 6P.Baez H,15 1 0 0 0 1 0K.Jansen L,2-2 BS,3 1 1 2 2 0 2

HBP—by K.Jansen (Bryant). T—2:49. A—51,596 (56,000).

Yankees 8, White Sox 4New York Chicago ab r h bi ab r h biLMahieu 3b 5 0 2 0 L.Grcia cf 4 0 1 0Voit 1b 5 1 1 0 Ti.Andr ss 4 0 1 0A.Hicks cf 4 1 1 0 J.Abreu 1b 4 1 2 0G.Sanch c 3 2 1 3 J.McCnn dh-c 4 1 1 3Grgrius ss 4 0 2 1 El.Jmen lf 4 0 2 0G.Trres 2b 4 1 2 3 Bnuelos p 0 0 0 0C.Frzer dh 4 0 0 0 W.Cstll c 3 0 0 0Maybin rf 4 1 1 1 Tilson lf 1 0 0 0Gardner lf 1 2 0 0 J.Rndon 3b 4 0 1 0 Y.Sanch 2b 4 1 1 0 Cordell rf 4 1 1 0Totals 34 8 10 8 Totals 36 4 10 3New York 000 401 201—8Chicago 000 000 040—4

E—LeMahieu (4). DP—New York 1, Chicago 2. LOB—New York 7, Chicago 5. 2B—LeMahieu (16), G.Sanchez (5). HR—G.Torres (15), Maybin (2), J.McCann (5). SB—LeMahieu (3). SF—G.Torres (4). IP H R ER BB SONew YorkGreen 2 1 0 0 0 6Cortes Jr. W,1-0 5 6 2 2 0 7Holder 1 2 2 2 0 2A.Chapman 1 1 0 0 0 1ChicagoR.Lopez L,4-7 6 6 5 5 2 4Minaya C 2 2 2 2 1Osich B 0 0 0 0 0Vieira 1B 2 1 1 1 1Banuelos C 0 0 0 2 1

Cortes Jr. pitched to 2 batters in the 8th T—3:27. A—36,074 (40,615).

Angels 5, Rays 3Los Angeles Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h biK.Clhun rf 5 0 0 0 Av.Grci dh 4 1 1 0Trout cf 4 0 0 0 Pham lf 3 1 2 0Ohtani dh 4 0 0 0 Meadows rf 4 0 0 0K.Smith c 3 2 2 1 Y.Diaz 3b 4 1 1 3Goodwin lf 4 1 1 1 Choi 1b 4 0 0 0Fltcher 3b 4 1 2 2 Adames ss 3 0 0 0Bour 1b 4 1 1 1 B.Lowe ph 1 0 0 0Tovar ss 4 0 0 0 Krmaier cf 4 0 1 0Rengifo 2b 3 0 1 0 d’Arnud c 3 0 1 0 Wendle 2b 3 0 0 0Totals 35 5 7 5 Totals 33 3 6 3Los Angeles 030 100 010—5Tampa Bay 000 003 000—3

E—Choi (4). LOB—Los Angeles 5, Tam-pa Bay 4. 2B—K.Smith (8), Goodwin (12), Rengifo (6). HR—K.Smith (2), Fletcher (5), Bour (6), Y.Diaz (11). IP H R ER BB SOLos AngelesJ.Suarez W,2-1 5C 5 3 3 1 3Bedrosian H,6 1B 1 0 0 0 1Buttrey H,14 1 0 0 0 0 0H.Robles S,10-12 1 0 0 0 0 1Tampa BayMorton L,8-1 6 5 4 4 2 9Kolarek 1 0 0 0 0 1Faria 2 2 1 1 0 2

T—2:40. A—22,320 (25,025).

Mets 8, Cardinals 7St. Louis New York ab r h bi ab r h biM.Crpnt 1b-3b 5 1 1 1 McNeil 2b 4 1 1 0De.Fwlr rf-cf 4 1 2 3 J..Dvis lf 5 3 4 1DeJong ss 4 1 3 1 Lagares cf 0 0 0 0Ozuna lf 4 0 1 1 Cnforto rf 3 0 1 1Molina c 5 0 1 1 P.Alnso 1b 4 1 2 3Flherty pr 0 0 0 0 T.Frzer 3b 4 1 1 1Wong 2b 5 0 2 0 W.Ramos c 4 1 1 1Bader cf 3 0 0 0 A.Rsrio ss 4 0 0 0Gllegos p 0 0 0 0 Gomez cf-lf 2 1 0 1Gdshm ph-1b 0 0 0 0 Syndrgr p 3 0 0 0Munoz 3b 4 1 1 0 Gsllman p 0 0 0 0T.Webb p 0 0 0 0 D.Smith ph 1 0 0 0Brebbia p 0 0 0 0 S.Lugo p 0 0 0 0Wacha p 1 1 1 0 Ed.Diaz p 0 0 0 0Edman ph 0 1 0 0 G.Cbrra p 0 0 0 0 J.Mrtin rf 0 1 0 0 Totals 35 7 12 7 Totals 34 8 10 8St. Louis 101 010 301—7New York 510 002 00x—8

E—W.Ramos (4), Wong (7). DP—New York 1. LOB—St. Louis 8, New York 9. 2B—M.Carpenter (10), Wong (10), J..Davis (8), W.Ramos (6). HR—De.Fowler (7), J..Davis (8), P.Alonso (23). SB—DeJong (5), Ozuna (7), Wong 2 (13), Munoz (2), Edman (1), Conforto (5). SF—De.Fowler (1), DeJong (2), Gomez (1). IP H R ER BB SOSt. LouisWacha L,4-3 4 7 6 5 1 4G.Cabrera 1C 2 2 2 2 3Gallegos 1B 0 0 0 0 0T.Webb B 1 0 0 0 0Brebbia C 0 0 0 0 1New YorkSyndergaard W,5-4 6 6 5 4 2 5Gsellman 1 2 1 1 0 0S.Lugo H,10 1 1 0 0 2 3Ed.Diaz S,15-18 1 3 1 1 0 1

Syndergaard pitched to 1 in 7th HBP—by Wacha (McNeil), by Syndergaard (Ed-man), by G.Cabrera (P.Alonso), by T.Webb (Conforto). T—3:33. A—32,589 (41,922).

Phillies 6, Braves 5Philadelphia Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h biSegura ss 5 0 0 0 Acn Jr. cf 4 2 1 0B.Hrper rf 3 1 0 0 D.Swnsn ss 3 0 1 0Ralmuto c 3 1 1 0 F.Frman 1b 4 1 0 1Nicasio p 0 0 0 0 Dnldson 3b 4 1 3 3J.Alvrz p 0 0 0 0 Mrkakis rf 4 0 0 0Franco ph 1 0 0 0 Riley lf 4 1 1 1E.Ramos p 0 0 0 0 L.Jcksn p 0 0 0 0Neris p 0 0 0 0 Albies 2b 4 0 0 0Hoskins 1b 3 1 1 0 Flowers c 4 0 2 0Bruce lf 2 0 0 0 Newcomb p 1 0 0 0N.Wllms lf 2 0 0 0 Tssaint p 1 0 0 0Kingery cf 3 1 3 2 J.Webb p 0 0 0 0S.Rdrig 3b 3 1 1 0 Joyce ph 1 0 0 0C.Hrnan 2b 4 1 2 3 Minter p 0 0 0 0Nola p 2 0 0 0 Swarzak p 0 0 0 0Hammer p 0 0 0 0 Clbrson ph-lf 1 0 0 0Knapp c 2 0 0 0 Totals 33 6 8 5 Totals 35 5 8 5Philadelphia 003 100 002—6Atlanta 011 030 000—5

E—Donaldson (10), L.Jackson (2), B.Harper (3). DP—Atlanta 2. LOB—Phila-delphia 5, Atlanta 7. 2B—Realmuto (13), Hoskins (14), Kingery (12), D.Swanson (12), Donaldson (16). HR—C.Hernandez (7), Donaldson (11), Riley (11). CS—Kingery (1). S—S.Rodriguez (3).Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SONola 4B 6 5 5 2 4Hammer C 0 0 0 0 1Nicasio 1C 1 0 0 1 2J.Alvarez B 0 0 0 0 1E.Ramos W,1-0 1 1 0 0 0 1Neris S,15-16 1 0 0 0 0 0AtlantaNewcomb 2C 3 2 0 2 3Toussaint 2B 3 2 1 1 3J.Webb H,5 1 0 0 0 0 1Minter H,3 1 0 0 0 0 2Swarzak H,6 1 0 0 0 0 1L.Jackson L,3-2 BS,6 1 2 2 0 0 0

Toussaint pitched to 1 batter in the 6th HBP—by Toussaint (Hoskins), by Nola (D.Swanson). WP—E.Ramos. T—3:55. A—43,593 (41,149).

D-backs 10, Nationals 3Arizona Washington ab r h bi ab r h biK.Marte cf 4 3 2 2 T.Trner ss 5 1 3 0I.Vrgas 2b 5 0 2 0 Eaton rf 3 0 0 1D.Prlta lf 5 0 1 1 Rendon 3b 4 0 1 0A.Jones rf 5 1 1 1 J.Soto lf 4 1 2 1E.Escbr 3b 4 2 1 0 M.Adams 1b 4 1 1 1C.Wlker 1b 4 1 2 1 B.Dzier 2b 4 0 1 0Y.Lopez p 0 0 0 0 Gomes c 4 0 1 0J.Dyson ph 0 0 0 0 V.Rbles cf 4 0 1 0McFrlnd p 0 0 0 0 Strsbrg p 2 0 0 0Ahmed ss 5 2 4 1 Javy.Gr p 0 0 0 0C.Kelly c 3 0 1 2 Parra ph 1 0 0 0Clarke p 2 0 0 0 Brrclgh p 0 0 0 0Chafin p 0 0 0 0 Sipp p 0 0 0 0Lcastro ph 1 0 0 0 Rsnthal p 0 0 0 0Hirano p 0 0 0 0 M.Tylor ph 1 0 0 0K.Cron 1b 2 1 1 2 Totals 40 10 15 10 Totals 36 3 10 3Arizona 221 100 031—10Washington 300 000 000—3

E—T.Turner (7). DP—Washington 2. LOB—Arizona 8, Washington 7. 2B—I.Vargas (5), D.Peralta (20), Ahmed (20), B.Dozier (10). 3B—Ahmed (2), T.Turner (3). HR—K.Marte 2 (19), A.Jones (13), C.Walker (12), K.Cron (3), J.Soto (11), M.Adams (7). SF—C.Kelly (1), Eaton (2). IP H R ER BB SOArizonaClarke 4C 7 3 3 0 6Chafin B 0 0 0 0 1Hirano W,3-3 1C 2 0 0 0 2Y.Lopez H,7 1B 0 0 0 0 1McFarland 1 1 0 0 0 0WashingtonStrasburg L,7-4 5 9 6 6 1 5Javy.Guerra 2 1 0 0 0 2Barraclough B 3 3 3 1 0Sipp C 1 0 0 0 0Rosenthal 1 1 1 1 2 0

WP—Barraclough. T—3:30. A—38,044 (41,313).

Astros 7, Blue Jays 2Toronto Houston ab r h bi ab r h biSogard 2b 3 0 2 1 Bregman ss 3 0 1 1Grichuk rf 4 0 0 0 Brntley dh 3 0 0 0Grrl Jr lf 4 0 0 0 Gurriel 3b 4 0 0 0T.Hrnan cf 2 0 0 0 Alvarez lf 4 1 3 1Tellez dh 4 0 0 0 White 1b 3 1 2 0Galvis ss 4 1 2 0 Reddick rf 4 1 1 1Biggio 1b 4 1 1 0 Myfield 2b 4 3 3 1D.Jnsen c 3 0 0 0 Stubbs c 4 0 0 1Drury 3b 3 0 1 1 Straw cf 4 1 2 2Totals 31 2 6 2 Totals 33 7 12 7Toronto 000 020 000—2Houston 021 202 00x—7

E—Biggio (2). DP—Toronto 2, Houston 2. LOB—Toronto 5, Houston 5. 2B—White (8), Mayfield 3 (4), Straw (1). HR—Alva-rez (4), Reddick (8). SB—T.Hernandez (4). SF—Sogard (2).Toronto IP H R ER BB SORichard L,0-3 5 7 5 5 2 1Kingham 2 5 2 2 0 1J.Romano 1 0 0 0 0 1HoustonF.Valdez W,3-2 6 4 2 2 2 8Devenski 2 1 0 0 0 2James 1 1 0 0 0 0

HBP—by Richard (Brantley). WP—F.Valdez 2, Richard 2, Kingham. T—2:26. A—38,012 (41,168).

Marlins 4, Pirates 3Pittsburgh Miami ab r h bi ab r h biNewman ss 4 0 1 1 Grndrsn lf 5 0 0 0B.Rynld rf 3 0 1 0 Cooper 1b 4 2 3 0S.Marte cf 4 1 1 0 Bri.And 3b 3 1 1 0Bell 1b 4 0 2 1 S.Cstro 2b 4 0 1 1Moran 3b 4 1 0 0 H.Rmrez rf 4 1 3 1C.Dckrs lf 4 0 2 1 Riddle cf 3 0 0 0El.Diaz c 3 1 1 0 Dean ph 1 0 0 0Me.Cbrr ph 1 0 0 0 Romo p 0 0 0 0A.Frzer 2b 2 0 0 0 Alfaro c 3 0 1 1Agrazal p 2 0 0 0 Rojas ss 3 0 1 0Hrtlieb p 0 0 0 0 P.Lopez p 3 0 0 0G.Plnco ph 1 0 0 0 N.Andrs p 0 0 0 0Liriano p 0 0 0 0 R.Hrrra ph-cf 0 0 0 0Totals 32 3 8 3 Totals 33 4 10 3Pittsburgh 001 200 000—3Miami 000 310 00x—4

E—A.Frazier (4). DP—Pittsburgh 1, Miami 3. LOB—Pittsburgh 4, Miami 9. 2B—S.Marte (14), Bell (26), C.Dickerson (3), El.Diaz (8), Bri.Anderson (13). SB—H.Ramirez (2). CS—B.Reynolds (1).Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SOAgrazal 4 6 3 2 0 3Hartlieb L,0-1 2 3 1 1 1 2Liriano 2 1 0 0 1 2MiamiP.Lopez W,5-5 7 7 3 3 1 4N.Anderson H,3 1 0 0 0 1 2Romo S,12-13 1 1 0 0 0 0

HBP—by Agrazal (Bri.Anderson), by Liriano (Alfaro). WP—P.Lopez. T—2:46. A—11,464 (36,742).

Twins 5, Royals 4Kansas City Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h biMrrfeld rf 5 2 4 1 Kepler cf 3 1 1 1Mondesi ss 4 1 1 0 J.Plnco ss 4 0 1 1A.Grdon lf 4 0 0 0 Cruz dh 4 0 0 0Soler dh 4 1 2 2 E.Rsrio lf 3 1 0 0Duda 1b 3 0 0 1 Garver c 4 1 1 0Cthbert 3b 4 0 0 0 Gnzalez rf 4 1 2 2N.Lopez 2b 4 0 1 0 C.Cron 1b 4 0 1 1Mldnado c 4 0 0 0 Adranza 3b 2 1 0 0B.Hmltn cf 4 0 0 0 Schoop 2b 3 0 1 0Totals 36 4 8 4 Totals 31 5 7 5Kansas City 200 020 000—4Minnesota 000 131 00x—5

E—Gonzalez (4), C.Cron (6), Adrian-za (3), Cuthbert (3). DP—Minnesota 1. LOB—Kansas City 9, Minnesota 5. 2B—J.Polanco (21), C.Cron (15). HR—Merri-field (8), Soler (18), Kepler (17), Gonzalez (9). SF—Duda (2). IP H R ER BB SOKansas CitySparkman L,1-3 5 5 5 4 2 3Barlow 1 2 0 0 1 0Wi.Peralta 1 0 0 0 0 1Boxberger 1 0 0 0 0 0MinnesotaOdorizzi W,10-2 6 7 4 4 2 7May H,9 1 0 0 0 0 1Parker H,6 C 0 0 0 0 1R.Harper H,5 B 0 0 0 0 0T.Rogers S,8-10 1 1 0 0 1 0

Sparkman pitched to 1 batter in the 6th T—3:09. A—39,267 (38,649).

Rangers 4, Reds 3Texas Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h biChoo lf 5 1 1 1 Senzel cf 3 0 0 0Da.Sntn cf-rf 4 1 2 0 Peraza ph-cf 1 0 0 0Andrus ss 4 0 0 1 Votto 1b 3 0 0 0Mazara rf 3 0 1 0 E.Sarez 3b 2 1 1 0DShelds cf 1 0 0 0 Puig rf 4 1 1 2A.Cbrra 3b 3 0 1 1 Ervin lf 3 0 0 0Odor 2b 4 1 1 0 Detrich ph 1 0 0 0Guzman 1b 4 0 0 0 J.Iglss ss 4 0 0 0Mathis c 4 1 2 1 Casali c 2 1 1 1Minor p 3 0 0 0 Winker ph 1 0 0 0Ch.Mrtn p 0 0 0 0 K.Frmer 2b 3 0 1 0Leclerc p 0 0 0 0 Roark p 2 0 0 0Pence ph 1 0 0 0 Brnhart ph 1 0 0 0Kelley p 0 0 0 0 Garrett p 0 0 0 0 Lrenzen p 0 0 0 0Totals 36 4 8 4 Totals 30 3 4 3Texas 200 200 000—4Cincinnati 000 200 100—3

E—Senzel (2), Votto (4), Ervin (1). DP—Texas 1. LOB—Texas 6, Cincinnati 4. 2B—Odor (10), Mathis (3). HR—Puig (12), Casali (4). SB—A.Cabrera (3).Texas IP H R ER BB SOMinor W,6-4 6B 4 3 3 4 6Ch.Martin H,11 C 0 0 0 0 0Leclerc H,5 1 0 0 0 0 2Kelley S,8-12 1 0 0 0 0 0CincinnatiRoark L,4-6 7 8 4 2 0 5Garrett 1 0 0 0 1 2Lorenzen 1 0 0 0 0 2

T—2:39. A—25,693 (42,319).

Indians 4, Tigers 2Cleveland Detroit ab r h bi ab r h biLindor ss 5 0 1 0 Goodrum ss 4 0 1 0Mercado lf 5 1 2 0 C.Stwrt lf 3 1 0 0C.Sntna 1b 3 1 1 0 Cstllns rf 4 1 1 0Luplow rf 3 1 1 1 Mi.Cbrr dh 4 0 3 0Ramirez 3b 4 0 1 1 Bkhm pr-dh 0 0 0 0Kipnis 2b 5 0 0 0 Dixon 1b 4 0 1 2Plwecki c 3 0 2 1 H.Cstro cf 3 0 0 0Bauers dh 4 0 0 0 J.Jones ph 1 0 0 0L.Mrtin cf 4 1 1 0 Ro.Rdri 2b 3 0 0 0 Joh.Hck c 3 0 0 0 D.Lugo 3b 3 0 0 0Totals 36 4 9 3 Totals 32 2 6 2Cleveland 000 030 010—4Detroit 000 000 200—2

E—Goodrum (7). DP—Cleveland 1. LOB—Cleveland 11, Detroit 4. 2B—Lu-plow (7), L.Martin (7), Goodrum (14),Mi.Cabrera (11). SB—Lindor 2 (9), Mer-cado (3), C.Santana (2), L.Martin (4). SF—Ramirez (3). IP H R ER BB SOClevelandBieber W,6-2 7C 4 2 2 1 12O.Perez H,6 B 1 0 0 0 1Hand S,20-20 1 1 0 0 0 2DetroitG.Soto 4 2 0 0 4 3Ni.Ramirez L,3-1 3 6 3 3 1 1V.Alcantara 1 1 1 1 0 0J.Jimenez 1 0 0 0 0 1

T—2:43. A—25,523 (41,297).

Giants 8, Brewers 7Milwaukee San Francisco ab r h bi ab r h biCain cf 5 0 1 0 Panik 2b 3 1 2 1Yelich rf 4 3 1 1 Ystrzms lf 4 1 2 0Braun lf 4 0 3 0 Belt 1b 4 1 1 1Grandal 1b 2 1 0 2 Sndoval 3b 5 0 1 1Mstakas 3b 4 1 1 0 Vogt c 4 2 3 2H.Perez 2b 3 1 0 1 Pillar rf 5 1 2 2Arcia ss 4 0 0 1 B.Crwfr ss 4 1 3 0Pina c 3 1 2 2 Duggar cf 4 0 0 0Nelson p 2 0 0 0 Bmgrner p 1 1 0 0Houser p 1 0 0 0 Lngoria ph 1 0 1 0Ju.Grra p 0 0 0 0 Gott p 0 0 0 0Claudio p 0 0 0 0 Austin ph 1 0 0 0Burnes p 0 0 0 0 Watson p 0 0 0 0Aguilar ph 1 0 0 0 Will.Sm p 0 0 0 0Totals 33 7 8 7 Totals 36 8 15 7Milwaukee 001 310 101—7San Francisco 000 131 21x—8

E—Pillar (4), Yelich (1). DP—Milwau-kee 1. LOB—Milwaukee 6, San Francisco10. 2B—Moustakas (15), B.Crawford 2(8). 3B—Vogt 2 (2). HR—Yelich (26), Pina (3). SB—Yelich (16). SF—Grandal 2 (5), H.Perez (1), Panik (3), Vogt (1). IP H R ER BB SOMilwaukeeNelson 4 5 4 4 3 6Houser 2 3 1 1 1 1Ju.Guerra L,2-1 BS,3 1 3 2 1 0 2Claudio C 4 1 1 0 0Burnes B 0 0 0 0 0San FranciscoBumgarner 6 5 5 3 3 6Gott W,3-0 1 1 1 1 1 1Watson H,14 1 0 0 0 0 0Will.Smith S,18-18 1 2 1 1 0 2

Nelson pitched to 3 batters in the 5th T—3:06. A—34,560 (41,915).

Red Sox 7, Orioles 2Boston Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h biBetts rf 4 1 0 0 Albrto 3b-2b 5 1 2 0Bnntndi lf 5 1 2 0 Mncini 1b-rf 5 1 2 0Mrtinez dh 5 1 1 1 Sverino c 4 0 0 0Devers 3b 5 2 2 0 R.Nunez dh 4 0 2 1Bgaerts ss 2 1 1 2 Sntnder rf-lf 3 0 1 0Holt 2b 5 1 3 2 Villar 2b-ss 2 0 0 1Chavis 1b 5 0 2 0 Broxton cf 3 0 0 0Brdly J cf 4 0 1 0 C.Davis ph-1b 1 0 0 0Leon c 3 0 0 0 S.Wlkrs lf-cf 4 0 0 0 Ri.Mrtn ss 2 0 0 0 R.Ruiz ph-3b 1 0 1 0Totals 38 7 12 5 Totals 34 2 8 2Boston 000 003 103—7Baltimore 000 002 000—2

E—Alberto (6), Severino (6). DP—Balti-more 1. LOB—Boston 9, Baltimore 9. 2B—Bogaerts (20), R.Nunez (12). HR—Marti-nez (16). SB—Holt (1). SF—Bogaerts (4),Villar (2). IP H R ER BB SOBostonSale W,3-7 6 6 2 2 1 10Walden H,4 1 1 0 0 0 2M.Barnes H,11 1 1 0 0 1 3Workman 1 0 0 0 1 0BaltimoreBundy L,3-8 5 8 3 2 2 8Bleier 1C 1 1 1 0 1Armstrong C 0 0 0 1 2P.Fry C 0 0 0 0 1M.Castro 1 3 3 2 1 0

Bundy pitched to 4 in the 6th WP—M.Barnes 2. T—3:19. A—30,050 (45,971).

CalendarJune 19-20 — Owners meeting, New

York.June 29-30 — New York Yankees vs.

Boston at London.July 2 — International amateur sign-

ing period opens.July 9 — All-Star Game at Cleveland.July 12 — Deadline for drafted players

to sign, except for players who have ex-hausted college eligibility.

July 21— Hall of Fame induction, Coo-perstown, N.Y.

July 31 — Last day during the season to trade a player.

Aug. 18 — Pittsburgh vs. Chicago Cubsat Williamsport, Pa.

Aug. 31 — Last day to be contracted toan organization and be eligible for post-season roster.

Sept. 1 — Active rosters expand to 40 players.

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CHICAGO — Gleyber Torres hit a two-run homer and the New York Yankees stayed perfect when they use an opener, cooling off the Chicago White Sox with an 8-4 win Saturday night.

Torres capped New York’s four-run fourth with his 15th homer off Reynaldo Lopez. He also had a sacrifice fly.

Gary Sanchez added three RBIs as New York leapfrogged Tampa Bay for the AL East lead. Cameron Maybin homered and Didi Gregorius had two hits.

The Yankees have been battling the Rays for the division lead for much of the season.

Chicago had won five of six to get back to .500 for the first time since April 5. But it was unable to overcome another shaky performance by Lopez (4-7), who permit-ted five runs and six hits in six innings after the start of the game was delayed 32 minutes by rain.

Catcher Welington Castillo and manag-er Rick Renteria were ejected for arguing balls and strikes in the top of the eighth.

The Yankees improved to 5-0 this year when employing an opener, with Chad Green starting each one of those victories. The right-hander struck out six in two dominant innings against the White Sox.

Athletics 11, Mariners 2: Frankie Mon-tas struck out nine in six innings for his team-leading ninth win, and host Oakland beat Seattle .

Marcus Semien homered and scored three runs for the A’s, extending his ca-reer-high hitting streak to 12 games. Ju-rickson Profar had three hits and drove in four runs.

Domingo Santana singled twice for Se-attle, which lost for the third time in five games.

Red Sox 7, Orioles 2: Chris Sale struck out 10 over six sharp innings, J.D. Marti-nez homered in a third straight game and Boston won at Baltimore.

Sale (3-7) gave up two runs, six hits and a walk. Both runs came in the sixth, after the left-hander extended his streak of in-nings without allowing an earned run to 22. Sale ended his outing by blowing a third strike past Keon Broxton with run-ners on the corners and Boston nursing a 3-2 lead.

Angels 5, Rays 2: Charlie Morton lost for the first time in 22 starts and Los An-geles hit three homers in a win at Tampa Bay.

Morton (8-1) struck out nine in six in-nings, giving up four runs on five hits in his first loss since Aug. 11.

Phillies 6, Braves 5: Cesar Hernandez singled in two runs off closer Luke Jackson in the ninth inning, and visiting Philadel-phia rallied from a one-run deficit to snap Atlanta’s eight-game winning streak.

It was a big comeback for the Phillies, who looked poised to lose for the fifth time in six games and fall 3 ½ games behind their rivals in the NL East race.

Astros 7, Blue Jays 2: Yordan Alvarez homered and Jack Mayfield hit three dou-bles as Houston’s rookies led the way in a win over visiting Toronto.

Alvarez became the fourth player in major league history to hit four home runs

in his first five games. He sent a solo drive into the upper deck in right field and fin-ished with three hits.

Rangers 4, Reds 3: Jeff Mathis had a pair of hits and drove in a run, Mike Minor pitched into the seventh inning for his first win in nearly a month, and Texas won its second straight at Cincinnati.

The Rangers took advantage of three Reds errors and finally got some run s for Minor (6-4).

The lefty gave up Yasiel Puig’s two-run homer and Curt Casali’s solo shot in 6 1⁄3 in-nings for his first win since May 20. Shawn Kelley pitched the ninth for his eighth save

in 12 chances. Giants 8, Brewers 7: Catcher Steven

Vogt hit two triples and left fielder Mike Yastrzemski made a nifty catch for the final out to help host San Francisco beatMilwaukee.

The Giants rallied from a 5-1 deficit fortheir fourth straight win.

Christian Yelich hit his major league-leading 26th homer for the Brewers, who have lost three of four. Yelich extended hishitting streak to 12 games and Manny Pina also homered for the Brewers.

Diamondbacks 10, Nationals 3: KetelMarte hit two of Arizona’s four solo hom-ers off Stephen Strasburg in a win at Washington.

Strasburg (7-4) allowed four homers in agame for the second time in his career, thefirst since August 8, 2014, at Atlanta. Stras-burg gave up a season-high nine hits and tied a season-high by allowing six earnedruns.

Adam Jones and Christian Walker also homered off Strasburg. Kevin Cron hit apinch-hit homer.

Marlins 4, Pirates 3: Pablo Lopezpitched seven strong innings and al-lowed three runs as host Miami edgedPittsburgh.

Garrett Cooper and Harold Ramirezeach had three hits for the Marlins while Starlin Castro knocked in the go-aheadrun in the fifth.

Mets 8, Cardinals 7: Second basemanJeff McNeil made a game-saving throwfrom right field to home plate for the finalout, and host New York held off St. Louisafter starter Noah Syndergaard exitedwith a strained right hamstring.

Twins 5, Royals 4: C.J. Cron drove in the go-ahead run for host Minnesota witha sixth-inning double, making Jake Odor-izzi the second 10-game winner in the ma-jors this season and capping a comebackvictory.

Cubs 2, Dodgers 1: Anthony Rizzo hit ago-ahead, two-run homer off closer KenleyJansen in the ninth, lifting Chicago TO awin at NL West-leading Los Angeles.

Jansen hit Kris Bryant in the arm lead-ing off the ninth. Rizzo followed with his19th homer.

Rockies 14, Padres 8: Charlie Black-mon finished with four hits for the thirdstraight game, Ian Desmond hit a grandslam and drove in five runs, and host Colo-rado beat San Diego in another wild CoorsField game.

BY NOAH TRISTER

Associated Press

DETROIT — Leonys Martin noticed Victor Alcantara putting his head down while pre-paring to pitch.

It was the right time for the Cleveland bas-erunner to take off for the plate.

“I wasn’t afraid, man,” Martin said.Martin stole home in the eighth inning for

an insurance run, and the Indians beat the De-troit Tigers 4-2 on Saturday behind an impres-sive start by Shane Bieber. Detroit managed only one baserunner in the first six innings against Bieber, who lasted into the eighth.

Bieber (6-2) allowed four hits and struck out 12 in 7 2/3 innings. Detroit scored twice in the seventh but never led.

Martin provided the highlight of the game with two outs in the eighth, getting a good-sized lead and taking off from third on Alcantara.

“He keep the head down every single time,” Martin said. “After I see a couple pitches, I said this is the right moment, this is a good opportunity. The third baseman helped me a little bit in that decision, because he was far away from the base.”

Alcantara stepped off and threw to the plate, and although the ball arrived at the same time as Martin, the Cleveland runner’s hand knocked the ball away as he reached for home.

“We’re playing in the hole with the third baseman, over toward shortstop, and Victor’s

got his little thing when he comes set wherehe looks down. I saw Leo way down the line,that’s why the pitch before I kind of faked likewe were going to throw behind him,” Detroitcatcher John Hicks said. “When Victor came set, I saw him take off. I was yelling with ev-erything I have to step off. The ball got thereright as he did and when I went to tag him, he knocked it out of my glove.”

The Indians led 4-2 after that play. OliverPerez relieved Bieber and got the final out ofthe eighth, then Brad Hand finished for his20th save in 20 chances.

Detroit manager Ron Gardenhire wasejected in the sixth. Bench coach Steve Liddlesaid there was a disagreement over the strikezone.

Roundup

MLB

NAM Y. HUH/AP

New York Yankees’ Gleyber Torres, right, celebrates after hitting a two-run home run as Chicago White Sox Welington Castillo looks to the field during the fourth inning .

PAUL SANCYA/AP

Cleveland pitcher Shane Bieber had 12 strikeouts in 7 2⁄3 innings in a 4-2 win Saturday at Detroit .

Torres’ homer helps Yankees past White Sox

Indians’ Martin steals home, Bieber dominates

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NBA/BOXING

BY GREG BEACHAM

Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Tyson Fury put on a show before, during and after his first bout in the fight capital of the world.

The British heavyweight star stopped Tom Schwarz with 6 seconds left in the second round Saturday night, packing plenty of entertainment into his brief Las Vegas debut.

Fury (28-0-1, 20 KOs) made short work of his previously un-beaten German opponent, batter-ing him with a jab before knocking him down to a knee in the second round right after Schwarz (24-1) landed a big punch. Fury pressed ahead after the knockdown and forced Schwarz’s corner to throw in the towel before the bell.

Fighting for the first time since he dramatically rose from a devastating 12th-round knock-down to secure a draw with De-ontay Wilder, Fury confirmed his world-class ability following his comeback last year from a 2 ½-year ring absence.

“I came here to enjoy myself and put on a show for Las Vegas,” Fury said. “I hope everybody en-joyed it as much as I did.”

Although Fury already had memorable fights in New York and Los Angeles, the Manchester native wanted something special in Sin City, which he once vowed never to visit before he got a fight here.

The performance by the world’s lineal heavyweight champion against an overmatched foe was just as dominant as expected, but Fury’s shenanigans before and after the bout at the MGM Grand Garden might prove to be even more memorable.

After Schwarz ring-walked to the mellow strains of Bob Marley, Fury appeared in red-white-and-blue gear — including a top hat

— as he stepped through a cordonof showgirls. With a broad grin,he took the ring to James Brown’s “Living in America,” the entireentrance in homage to ApolloCreed’s famed fictional entranceat the MGM Grand in “RockyIV.”

Unlike Creed, Fury survivedand won.

And after the bout, Fury showedoff his decent singing voice inwhat’s becoming a post-fight tra-dition. With the microphone in his boxing glove, Fury serenadedhis wife, Paris, with Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.”

The first fight of the 30-year-old Fury’s lucrative new co-pro-motional deal with Top Rank wasintended to introduce his violent skills and loquacious characterto ESPN’s large audience, and hedid both — however briefly.

“The key tonight was to enjoymyself,” Fury said. “I used thejab. I was slipping and sliding. I caught him with the straight left.It was a good shot. It could putanybody away. I put on an extra12 pounds, and I could really feel[the power].”

The 6-foot-5 Schwarz is highlyranked by the WBO, but he hadnever fought outside his nativeGermany or the Czech Republicbefore Fury’s camp picked himfor this showcase bout.

Schwarz was aware that just two weeks ago, Anthony Joshuawas stopped by Andy Ruiz Jr. atMadison Square Garden in oneof the biggest upsets in recentboxing history. Schwarz neverappeared to have a chance of pull-ing a similar upset — not with the6-foot-9 Fury towering over himand fighting in crisp form.

Fury said he plans to fight again on Sept. 21 or Oct. 5, “and next year, we’re going to hold down Deontay Wilder and makehim give me that green (WBC championship) belt.”

Fury stops Schwarz to remain unbeaten

JOHN LOCHER/AP

Tyson Fury celebrates after defeating Tom Schwarz in a heavyweight boxing match on Saturday in Las Vegas.

BY BRETT MARTEL

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Anthony Davis will wind up with LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lak-ers after all.

The New Orleans Pelicans have agreed to trade the disgrun-tled Davis to the Lakers for point guard Lonzo Ball, forward Bran-don Ingram, shooting guard Josh Hart and three first-round draft choices, several people familiar with the situation said Saturday.

The people spoke to The Asso-ciated Press on condition of ano-nymity because the trade cannot become official until the new league year begins July 6. ESPN first reported the trade.

The deal ends a nearly five-month saga that became an awk-ward NBA sideshow, arguably derailed the Lakers’ push to make the playoffs and even cost people jobs after Davis requested a trade in late January through his agent, Rich Paul, who also represents James.

Now the 26-year-old Davis, a six-time All-Star, will bring his dynamic, up-tempo, above-the-

rim play to Hollywood alongside the 34-year-old James, a three-time NBA champion and Finals regular.

In return, the Pelicans receive the promise of a young core the Lakers are blowing up in order to make the deal, as well as the

opportunity to add more; New Orleans already had the first pick overall in Thursday’s draft and will have the Lakers’ fourth overall choice, giving new bas-ketball operations chief David Griffin the chance to add another top-tier prospect to his presumed first pick of Duke star Zion Williamson.

Getting a deal done for Davis became a near-imperative for general manager Rob Pelinka and owner Jeanie Buss after the Lak-ers’ latest round of front-office drama. On the final day of their franchise-record sixth straight non-playoff season, president of basketball operations Magic Johnson abruptly quit his job and criticized Pelinka for talking be-hind his back.

Johnson couldn’t resist another backhanded shot at Pelinka on Saturday with a telling series of tweets that began: “Great job by Owner Jeanie Buss bringing An-thony Davis to the Lakers!”

New Orleans acquires Ball, Ingram, Hart and three first-round picks

Lakers, Pelicans strike Davis deal

BY TIM REYNOLDS

Associated Press

The saga is over.When this trade is done, every-

body can say they won.The Lakers, the Pelicans, Rich

Paul, LeBron James, they all can take a victory lap. The trade that will be official in the coming weeks sending Anthony Davis from the New Orleans Pelicans to the Los Angeles Lakers for Bran-don Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart and three first-round draft picks — first reported by ESPN, later confirmed to The Associ-ated Press by several people with knowledge of the matter — is per-fect for both sides.

James gets the superstar team-mate he wanted. Paul, the agent James and Davis share, pulls off a power move. The Lakers in-stantly become major players in a suddenly open Western Confer-ence. Davis finally gets his wish to leave New Orleans. The Pelicans don’t begin Zion Williamson’s era with a disgruntled superstar in the locker room. They load up on young players and have tons of draft chips to play around with.

For the Pelicans, it’s a new beginning.

For the Lakers, it’s about win-ning now.

Draft picks, including No. 4 in this year’s class, smartly were not overvalued by the Lakers — a team with a superstar who is turning 35 in December and should be doing anything nec-essary to help him win a fourth championship before his window

closes. The Lakers have tons of money to spend starting June 30 and the sales pitch to Kemba Walker, Kyrie Irving or anyone else changes mightily after this move.

Before Saturday it would have been Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka saying, “We’re try-ing to get Anthony Davis.”

Now it’ll be Pelinka saying, “We’ve got Davis, we’ve got LeBron and they want you with them.”

That’ll be a tough offer for any-one to ignore.

Clearly, the Lakers’ focus will be on a guard, which is why the

rumor mill will be all about either Walker or Irving going to Los An-geles in free agency.

The offseason is already in high gear.

Hard to believe it really just got started.

There will be countless big moves in the coming weeks. The Lakers, who have missed the playoffs in the last six seasons and have been stuck in dysfunc-tion mode for the last couple months following the resignation of Magic Johnson and soap opera that followed, got the first one of the offseason to go their way.

Welcome to summer. Game on.

‘ Great job by Owner Jeanie Buss bringing Anthony Davis to the Lakers! ’

Magic Johnsonformer Lakers president of basketball

operations, in a tweet on Saturday

TYLER KAUFMAN/AP

Sources say the Pelicans have agreed to trade six-time All-Star forward Anthony Davis, pitctured, to the Los Angeles Lakers for point guard Lonzo Ball, forward Brandon Ingram, shooting guard Josh Hart and three first-round draft choices.

Both sides can claim win in trade

RICK SCUTERI/AP

Los Angeles Lakers forward Brandon Ingram, right, was reportedly traded to the New Orleans Pelicans as part of a three-player, three-draft pick deal for six-time All-Star Anthony Davis on Saturday.

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US OPEN

SaturdayAt Pebble Beach Golf Links

Pebble Beach Calif.Purse: $12.5 million

Yardage: 7,075; Par 71Third Round

a-denotes amateurGary Woodland 68-65-69—202 -11Justin Rose 65-70-68—203 -10Brooks Koepka 69-69-68—206 -7Chez Reavie 68-70-68—206 -7Louis Oosthuizen 66-70-70—206 -7Rory McIlroy 68-69-70—207 -6Matt Kuchar 69-69-70—208 -5Chesson Hadley 68-70-70—208 -5Danny Willett 71-71-67—209 -4Graeme McDowell 69-70-70—209 -4Jon Rahm 69-70-70—209 -4Henrik Stenson 68-71-70—209 -4Matt Wallace 70-68-71—209 -4Byeong Hun An 70-72-68—210 -3Xander Schauffele 66-73-71—210 -3Adam Scott 70-69-71—210 -3Abraham Ancer 74-68-69—211 -2Nate Lashley 67-74-70—211 -2Brandon Wu 71-69-71—211 -2Dustin Johnson 71-69-71—211 -2Francesco Molinari 68-72-71—211 -2Scott Piercy 67-72-72—211 -2Patrick Cantlay 73-71-68—212 -1Hideki Matsuyama 69-73-70—212 -1Matthew Fitzpatrick 69-71-72—212 -1Jim Furyk 73-67-72—212 -1Tyrrell Hatton 70-74-69—213 EJason Day 70-73-70—213 EMarc Leishman 69-74-70—213 ETiger Woods 70-72-71—213 EViktor Hovland 69-73-71—213 EHaotong Li 71-70-72—213 EShane Lowry 75-69-70—214 +1Nick Taylor 74-70-70—214 +1Alex Prugh 75-69-70—214 +1Rickie Fowler 66-77-71—214 +1Billy Horschel 73-70-71—214 +1Jason Dufner 70-71-73—214 +1Jordan Spieth 72-69-73—214 +1Sergio Garcia 69-70-75—214 +1Rhys Enoch 78-66-71—215 +2Martin Kaymer 69-75-71—215 +2Tom Hoge 71-73-71—215 +2Chandler Eaton 72-70-73—215 +2Webb Simpson 74-68-73—215 +2Paul Casey 70-72-73—215 +2Carlos Ortiz 70-70-75—215 +2Patrick Reed 71-73-72—216 +3Erik van Rooyen 71-73-72—216 +3Collin Morikawa 71-73-72—216 +3Bryson DeChambeau 69-74-73—216 +3Billy Hurley III 73-70-73—216 +3Rory Sabbatini 72-71-73—216 +3Emiliano Grillo 68-74-74—216 +3Charles Howell III 72-70-74—216 +3Phil Mickelson 72-69-75—216 +3Harris English 71-69-76—216 +3Sepp Straka 68-72-76—216 +3Aaron Wise 66-71-79—216 +3Tommy Fleetwood 71-73-73—217 +4Adri Arnaus 69-75-73—217 +4Andrew Putnam 73-71-73—217 +4Daniel Berger 73-70-74—217 +4Clement Sordet 76-68-74—218 +5Brandt Snedeker 75-69-74—218 +5Rafa Cabrera Bello 70-74-74—218 +5Brian Stuard 71-73-74—218 +5Marcus Kinhult 74-70-74—218 +5Andy Pope 72-71-75—218 +5Kevin Kisner 73-70-75—218 +5Zach Johnson 70-69-79—218 +5Kyle Stanley 71-73-75—219 +6Luke Donald 72-70-77—219 +6Charlie Danielson 72-70-77—219 +6Chip McDaniel 71-73-76—220 +7Cameron Smith 71-72-77—220 +7Justin Walters 72-72-77—221 +8Bernd Wiesberger 71-73-78—222 +9Michael Thorbjornsen 71-73-84—228 +15

Scoreboard

BY EDDIE PELLS

Associated Press

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Dustin Johnson stayed in neutral. Rory McIlroy barely budged. Jordan Spi-eth went backward.

For three players with seven major titles between them, Moving Day at the U.S. Open came and went with barely a ripple — sidetracked by balky putters that couldn’t bail them out of errors they made from the fairways.

Spieth shot 2-over 73 and fell to 1 over for the tour-nament, 12 back of leader Gary Woodland.

Johnson shot even to stay at 2 under.McIlroy opened the day in a tie for fourth but shot

70 to fall to sixth, five shots off the lead at 6 under.“I just didn’t make anything,” Spieth said after a

round that included 28 putts, good for 33rd in the 79-man field. “I hit really nice putts, and then they just didn’t go in today. It was actually the best I’ve hit it in quite a while.”

A few of Spieth’s misses — like the birdie attempts

on a 10-footer on No. 4 and an 18-footer on No. 8 — he thought he’d hit perfectly, only to see them slideoff at the last second.

“You’re looking to shoot 5- or 6-under in a roundlike that,” he said. “I pulled the wrong club on 11,and other than that, I didn’t make anything.”

About that wrong club — there was no video re-play of the exchange between Spieth and his caddie, Michael Greller, but Spieth blamed him for givinghim the wrong club Thursday, leading to a ball in the ocean, then over the green on No. 8, en route toa double bogey.

This time, the wrong club led to double bogey on11, which put Spieth at 2 over for the round.

Meanwhile, Johnson needed 29 putts. Farther up the scoreboard, McIlroy’s chances of

going low were pretty much squandered after heplayed the first seven holes — prime scoring ter-ritory at Pebble Beach — at even par, sandwichingfive pars between an opening bogey and a birdie onthe 98-yard seventh.

BY DOUG FERGUSON

Associated Press

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Gary Woodland hit a shank and a chunk and both times made par, and he made a birdie from a deep divot in the fairway. Such mo-ments, even on a Saturday, can go a long way toward winning a U.S. Open.

Even better for Woodland was a 2-under 69 — and just two bogeys over 54 holes at Pebble Beach — for a one-shot lead over Justin Rose.

“I worked for this my whole life,” Woodland said. “I know what it takes to win. And my game is in a great spot. I’m at a beautiful golf course. I came here to win, and that’s what we’re going out to do tomorrow.”

He’s not alone in that thinking.Rose was right where he want-

ed to be after working more short-game magic from bunkers and thick grass and awkward spots around greens that were getting a little firmer and faster, even under another day of thick ma-rine layer that has blanketed the Monterey Peninsula all week. He has 34 one-putt greens through 54 holes, the last one an up-and-down from the bunker for birdie on the par-5 18th for a 68 that put him in the final group.

“One back gives me the free-dom to feel like I’ve got every-thing to gain, nothing to lose,” said Rose, the 2013 U.S. Open cham-pion at Merion. “I’m not chasing, really. I’m so close to Gary that I have to go out and play my game tomorrow.”

Brooks Koepka thinks he can win because no one has been win-ning majors like him in the last two years. He played bogey-free for a 68, settling for par when he made a bold attempt to slash a fairway metal around a cypress on the 18th hole. Four shots be-hind is close enough for Koepka to have a shot at a record that has stood for 114 years as he tries to join Willie Anderson with a third straight U.S. Open title.

“I feel as confident as ever right now,” said Koepka, words that

carry a little more weight from a guy who has won four of his last eight majors.

Standing in the way of all of them is Pebble Beach, a strong enough test that has been missing strong wind, its best defense.

The final hour of the third round gave a glimpse of possi-bilities, how fortunes can change quickly.

Woodland twice looked as though he were about to lose two shots or more of his lead until chipping in from 35 feet on the par-3 12th hole, and holing a par putt from just over 40 feet on the par-5 14th.

“I’m excited to be where I’m at right now,” Woodland said.

He was at 11-under 202 and with hardly any margin for error against Rose.

Koepka had some theatrics of his own, misjudging a lie in the rough so deep he could barely see the golf ball left of the 15th green. His shot sailed long into the first cut, some 35 feet away, and he holed the putt for par to keep a clean card.

He was part of a group four shots back that included Louis Oosthuizen, who birdied three of his last four holes to salvage a 70; and Chez Reavie, who made his share of long par putts for a 68.

Koepka won at Erin Hills in 2017 with his power and at Shin-necock Hills last year with his clutch putting. He might need a little of both to make up a four-shot deficit at Pebble Beach, though he brings the most recent experience handling the pressure of a final round in a major. He is

going for his fifth major title in his last nine tries, a stretch not seen since Tiger Woods at his peak.

“I just enjoy the pressure,” Koepka said. “I enjoy having to hit a good golf shot, making a putt when the pressure is on. If you’re within three on the back nine, anything can happen. I’ll hang around all day and see what happens.”

Rory McIlroy had to settle for a 70, leaving him five shots behind.

As for Woods, he joined a list of big names that went the wrong di-rection. Woods had a 71 and was 11 shots behind. Dustin Johnson also had a 71 and was nine back. Phil Mickelson saw his career Grand Slam hopes vanish at sea when he hit driver in the Pacific on the 18th hole and made triple bogey for a 75.

Major players don’t make moves

Woodland takes 1-shot lead over Rose

DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP

2016 U.S. Open winner Dustin Johnson shot an even-par 71 Saturday to stay at 2-under but is now nine shots behind leader Gary Woodland at the U.S. Open in Pebble Beach, Calif.

MATT YORK/AP

Gary Woodland reacts after missing a putt on the 18th hole during the third round of the U.S. Open Saturday in Pebble Beach, Calif. He leads Justin Rose by a stroke going into Sunday’s final round.

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United States players celebrate after teammate Julie Ertzscored their second goal against Chile during the Women’sWorld Cup in Paris, on Sunday. The U.S. won 3-0.ALESSANDRA TARANTINO/AP

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