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The Air Force wants to create a
one-stop shop for abuse victims
after a survey administered last
year found more than half of re-
spondents had experienced psy-
chological or physical abuse dur-
ing the prior two years, but few re-
ported it, service officials said
Tuesday.
Self-identified abuse victims
lacked confidence that reporting
harmful incidents would accom-
plish anything, and those who
sought help were largely dissatis-
fied with their experiences, ac-
cording to an Air Force report re-
leased Tuesday.
Top service officials involved in
administering the survey, which
was the basis for the report entit-
led Interpersonal Violence in the
Department of the Air Force, said
the Air Force needed to do more to RYAN CALLAGHAN/U.S. Air Force
A new report says that abuse victims in the Air Force often lack confidence that reporting incidents will accomplish anything.
Hidden
victimsAir Force survey findsthousands of abusecases go unreported
BY COREY DICKSTEIN
Stars and Stripes
SEE SURVEY ON PAGE 4
Twenty-three years ago, then-
Defense Secretary William Cohen
publicly pondered whether any
American warfighter would ever
again need to be buried as an uni-
dentifiable “unknown.”
Cohen’s rumination came after
DNA testing conclusively identi-
fied the remains lying in the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier for the
Vietnam War as 1st Lt. Michael
Blassie, a 24-year-old Air Force
flyer shot down May 11, 1972, in
South Vietnam.
“It may be that forensic science
has reached a point where there
will be no other unknowns in any
war,” Cohen told reporters during
a Pentagon briefing on June 30,
1998.
“I could be proven wrong, but it
would seem to me that given the
state of the art today, it’s unlikely
that we’ll have future unknowns,”
he said.
Almost a quarter-century later, DEDAN DIALS/U.S. Air Force
Blood-sample cards sit at the Armed Forces Repository of SpecimenSamples for the Identification of Remains at Dover Air Force Base, Del.
Forensic science advances mean US war fightersare no longer likely to be buried as ‘unknown’
BY WYATT OLSON
Stars and Stripes
SEE UNKNOWN ON PAGE 5
SILVER SPRING, Md. —
Shares in Rivian Automotive are
set to trade publicly Wednesday,
and the world should get a better
idea of just how hot investors are
for the electric vehicle market.
Rivian, the EV startup backed
by Amazon and Ford, raised at
least $10.5 billion in its public of-
fering to help it ramp up produc-
tion of its trucks, vans and SUVs.
It’s the latest in what’s becoming a
long line of companies trying to
carve out some of Tesla’s dom-
inant market share.
The offering of 135 million
shares was priced at $78 per share,
giving Rivian a market value of $77
billion on a fully diluted basis. That
compares with Honda’s $53 billion
and Ford’s $80 billion.
Automakers big and small, new
and old, are chasing Tesla, which
has largely dominated the electric
vehicle market for years, amass-
ing a market value of more than $1
trillion along the way. So far this
year, Tesla has sold around
627,300 vehicles.
Craig Irwin, an analyst who cov-
ers electric vehicle and EV charg-
ing companies for Roth Capital,
said that even with more compa-
nies entering the EV market, there
is still plenty of room left for new-
comers.
“EVs are inevitable, and it’s a
good thing for the markets to have
another credible EV competitor
come public,” Roth said. “Rivian’s
IPO marks a point of incremental
maturation for the industry and
shows that billions in capital is
available for credible players.”
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Thursday, November 11, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 3
Normal recovery time from a
concussion is sometimes double
what it was previously thought to
be, according to a recent Universi-
ty of Michigan study that was heav-
ily funded by the Pentagon.
Researchers studied 1,751 stu-
dent-athletes, including service a-
cademy cadets, and found that full
recovery can take up to 28 days.
And even that was not long enough
for some of the study subjects to
fully heal.
The findings should reduce stig-
ma for those previously considered
slow in their healing and inform
coaches, commanders and others
about when concussed people
should return to duty or sports, said
Steve Broglio, lead study author.
“There can be unintentional
pressure to return,” said Steve
Broglio, lead author of the study.
“(They’re told) ‘You’re at day 16;
why aren’t you getting better?’
Hopefully, they’ll pump the
brakes.”
Half the participants in the study
fully recovered from their concus-
sions within two weeks of injury
and were cleared for unrestricted
sports activity. That finding was in
line with previous concussion stud-
ies.
But it was a month until 85% of
them were fully recovered. The
other 15% had not fully recovered
even then.
The study by the NCAA-DOD
Concussion Assessment, Research
and Education Consortium, billed
as the largest concussion and re-
petitive head impact study in histo-
ry, began in 2014 and involves ath-
letes playing 22 sports at 30 colleg-
es.
It found negligible differences in
recovery time between men and
women and in subjects experienc-
ing their first concussion versus
those who’d had previous concus-
sions, Broglio said.
The Defense Department, which
provided the majority of the fund-
ing for the study, has a huge stake
in understanding how to respond to
concussions, also called mild trau-
matic brain injury.
Although TBI has been called
the “signature injury” of the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan, a signifi-
cant majority of concussions in ser-
vice members occur outside of
combat, Broglio said. He listed sce-
narios such as sports, vehicle
crashes and falls.
In 2015, two dozen U.S. Military
Academy cadets were diagnosed
with concussions after a traditional
pillow fight marking the end of
summer training turned into may-
hem as some cadets swung pillow-
cases packed with hard objects like
helmets, according to the acade-
my.
“One of the most common and
most disabling injuries of the last
two decades of military conflict has
been TBI, and particularly concus-
sions,” Navy Capt. Scott Cota, divi-
sion chief of the TBI Center of Ex-
cellence, said in a statement. “Con-
cussions represent more than 80%
of the TBIs in the military since
2001.”
Both the NCAA and the Defense
Department have concussion pro-
tocols for assessing recovery. The
DOD uses a protocol that facilitates
return to duty in a six-stage proc-
ess.
Medical providers repeatedly
assess symptoms such as head-
ache, dizziness, forgetfulness and
irritability; patients’ physical and
cognitive screenings; and their re-
sponse to increasingly strenuous
activities.
The earliest a service member
can progress through all six stages
and be returned to full duty is sev-
en days after concussion.
If a service member isn’t ready
to return to duty after 15 days, the
protocol suggests a referral to a
TBI clinic or medical specialty
clinic that deals with lingering
symptoms, such as physical ther-
apy for persistent neck pain or be-
havioral health for mood or sleep
problems.
Cota said the study findings
won’t change that protocol because
“the progression is symptom-dri-
ven, not time driven.”
Concussions needmore recovery timethan once thought
BY NANCY MONTGOMERY
Stars and Stripes
montgomery.nancy@stripes.comTwitter:@montgomerynance
“One of the mostcommon andmost disablinginjuries ofmilitary conflicthas been TBI[traumatic braininjury], andparticularlyconcussions.”
Scott Cota
TBI Center of Excellence division chief
MILITARY
BEIJING — Chinese military
forces are holding exercises near
Taiwan in response to a visit by a
U.S. congressional delegation to
the island.
The drills in the area of the Tai-
wan Strait are a “necessary mea-
sure to safeguard national sover-
eignty,” China’s Defense Ministry
said in an announcement Tuesday
that gave no details on the timing,
participants and location of the ex-
ercises.
It said the “joint war prepared-
ness patrol” by the Eastern Thea-
ter Command was prompted by
the “seriously incorrect words
and actions of relevant countries
over the issue of Taiwan” and the
actions of those advocating the
self-governing island’s independ-
ence.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson
Wang Wenbin said China consid-
ers the delegation’s visit a “serious
violation” of U.S. commitments
not to have formal relations with
Taiwan, which China claims as its
territory.
“China is firmly opposed to that
and has made solemn representa-
tions to the U.S.,” Wang said at a
daily briefing Wednesday.
“All risky and provocative ac-
tions against China’s reunification
is like an ant trying to topple over a
giant tree and is doomed to fail,”
Wang said.
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Twenty-three U.S. representa-
tives have called on President Joe
Biden and Secretary of State Anto-
ny Blinken to “prioritize active
diplomatic engagement” with the
two Koreas and end the Korean
War.
The 23 lawmakers, including
Democrats Andy Kim of New Jer-
sey, Grace Meng of New York, Ju-
dy Chu of California and Ilhan
Omar of Minnesota, wrote a letter
dated Nov. 4 urging the president
and the top diplomat to seek a
“binding peace agreement” that
would formally declare a “final
end” to the Korean War. No Re-
publican lawmakers signed the
letter.
The 1950-53 Korean War was
concluded through an armistice
agreement rather than a peace
treaty. The United States, through
the United Nations Command,
was a signatory to the agreement,
along with China and North Korea.
“Despite this period of conflict
ending many decades ago in 1953,
a peace treaty was never officially
signed,” the lawmakers said in the
letter. “While North Korea’s nu-
clear weapons continue to pose a
threat to peace and security
around the world, a forever state
of war does not resolve this issue,
nor does it serve the national inter-
est of the United States and our al-
lies.”
The lawmakers argued that a
“forever state of war” hinders a
resolution to North Korea’s weap-
ons program and makes “progress
on the nuclear issue more diffi-
cult.”
All of the congressional leaders
who signed the letter are also cos-
ponsors to Rep. Brad Sherman’s
Peace on the Korean Peninsula
Act, which would require the State
Department to review travel re-
strictions for U.S. nationals bound
for North Korea.
Roughly 100,000 Americans still
have relatives living in North Ko-
rea, according to the bill spon-
sored by the California Democrat,
and some of them have expressed
adesire to attend funerals and oth-
er religious ceremonies.
U.S. nationals are prohibited
from traveling to, from or through
North Korea unless approved by
the State Department. The depart-
ment issues special validated
passports to qualified applicants
with a “national interest,” such as
American Red Cross workers,
those with “compelling humani-
tarian considerations” and jour-
nalists.
The lawmakers’ argument
echoed remarks made by South
Korean President Moon Jae-in
earlier this year, when he renewed
his calls for the armistice agree-
ment’s signatories to “come to-
gether and declare that the war on
the Korean Peninsula is over.”
“More than anything, an end-of-
war declaration will mark a piv-
otal point of departure in creating
a new order of reconciliation,”
Moon said in his speech before the
United Nations General Assembly
in September.
Moon, who is scheduled to step
down next year after serving a sin-
gle five-year term, has prioritized
his campaign to formally end the
Korean War.
South Korean and U.S. diplo-
mats have traveled between their
respective countries and held dis-
cussions about the possibility in
recent weeks. White House na-
tional security adviser Jake Sulli-
van in October declined to elabo-
rate on the negotiations, but said
the ongoing talks were “very pro-
ductive.”
MEREDITH TIBBETTS/Stars and Stripes
The Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C., commorates a war that ended in an armistice, not peace.
Nearly two dozen House Dems urgeBiden to formally end Korean War
BY DAVID CHOI
Stars and Stripes
choi.david@stripes.comTwitter: @choibboy
PAGE 4 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Thursday, November 11, 2021
bridge a gap between victims and
their commanders, who generally
believe abuse victims receive
proper care, the report found.
“It seems to be uniformly true
that people at the lower levels who
have experienced these things are
telling us that there’s a problem,
and the senior leadership is not
perceiving that there is that prob-
lem,” Air Force Secretary Frank
Kendall told reporters in a news
briefing to discuss the report’s
findings. “So, we’ve got an issue
right there.”
The survey was sent out in 2020
by the Air Force Interpersonal Vi-
olence Task Force, which was set
up by service leaders during the
summer in the wake of the Army’s
troubling findings of widespread
abuse and harassment at Fort
Hood, Texas.
The task force, led by Air Force
Brig. Gen. April Vogel, issued the
survey to the Air Force Depart-
ment’s about 654,000 airmen,
Space Force guardians and civil-
ian employees. The task force con-
ducted more detailed follow-up
surveys and focus groups to un-
derstand victims of interpersonal
violence, which it defined as 81 be-
haviors in which abusers use
“power or force resulting in psy-
chological or physical harm or
that detracts from a culture of dig-
nity and respect.” They described
such abuses as ranging from
“stalking and bullying to domestic
violence and sexual assault.”
About 54% of the 68,000 Air
Force Department personnel who
responded to the survey reported
they had experienced such abuse
during the previous two years.
This includes airmen, Space
Force guardians and Air Force ci-
vilian employees. The report also
found more than half of the re-
spondents in each component of
the department — the active-duty
Air Force, the Space Force, the Air
National Guard, the Air Force Re-
serves and the civilian employees
— reported facing such abuse.
Workplace bullying, reported
by about 36% of survey respon-
dents, was the most common
abuse reported. About 29% re-
ported workplace harassment.
Some 9% reported intimate part-
ner violence, and another 21% re-
ported violence from others.
Less than 40% of victims report-
ed their abuse to commanders or
law enforcement authorities, ac-
cording to the report. Most who
did not report the abuse said they
did not believe anything would
happen if they did report it or they
were concerned they would face
negative consequences for report-
ing, the Air Force found. Those
who did report the abuse or sought
help found mixed results in the
services offered to victims by the
Air Force.
Vogel said many victims report-
ed they were discouraged after
struggling to find the right loca-
tion to receive help or report
abuse. She said the Air Force
should work to build a single loca-
tion within the service for abuse
victims to seek help or report an
incident.
“The hope is that if our airmen
and guardians knew that they had
one place to go, where they would
get help or support for whatever
challenge they were facing …
[where] they wouldn’t be turned
away and told to go to a different
location, that they might be more
likely to come forward and ulti-
mately get … the help they need,”
Vogel said.
She said the report was a start-
ing point for the Air Force to im-
prove its response to victims of
abuse, and she said that further
analysis and data collection would
be needed to draw more conclu-
sions.
The data collected via the sur-
vey might not be a true represen-
tation of the prevalence of such
abuse in the force, Kendall said.
He said he believes the roughly
10% of Air Force Department per-
sonnel who did respond are “more
likely to have experienced some
form” of abuse than those who did
not.
Nonetheless, the Air Force sec-
retary said that he did take the is-
sue seriously and was not attempt-
ing to downplay the survey’s find-
ings.
“Even if this is all there is [with-
in the department] it’s way too
many,” Kendall said. “This is a
great many people who have ex-
perienced some form of interper-
sonal violence in this department.
It does not tell you what the total
numbers are, but the numbers are
big enough that you have to take
this incredibly seriously, and I
am.”
Survey: Lack of confidence in support system leads to unreported abuse cases
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MILITARY
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germa-
ny — The U.S. Army’s 21st Thea-
ter Sustainment Command ob-
served Veterans Day in a ceremo-
ny Wednesday at its Panzer Ka-
serne headquarters, specifically
recognizing veterans who ren-
dered exemplary service in two
major crises this year.
With a color guard standing in
front of a line of state flags on the
parade ground, unit deputy com-
mander Col. Douglas LeVien be-
gan by recognizing the veterans in
attendance.
LeVien then focused on veter-
ans who defended the U.S. Capitol
in Washington on Jan. 6.
He mentioned Reps. Ruben
Gallego of Arizona and Jason
Crow of Colorado, along with Cap-
itol Police officers Eugene Good-
man and Brian Sicknick, who died
in the line of duty during the riot-
ing.
He went on to mention the vet-
erans who volunteered to help Af-
ghan refugees in Europe and in
the United States during and after
the chaotic mass evacuations fol-
lowing the Taliban’s return to
power.
Following his speech, LeVien
and Command Sgt. Maj. Sean Ho-
ward placed a wreath at a memo-
rial on the edge of the parade
ground that honors veterans from
the unit who died in combat.
Veterans Day was originally
known as Armistice Day, to mark
the Nov. 11, 1918, end of World War
I.
It has been called Veterans Day
since 1954.
In honor of all veterans, the song
of each of the six services was
played to end the ceremony.
Soldiershighlightwork ofveterans
BY MICHAEL ABRAMS
Stars and Stripes
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL ABRAMS/Stars and Stripes
Col. Douglas LeVien, the 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s deputy commander, speaks at the unit’sVeterans Day observance Wednesday at Panzer Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Soldiers listen to the national anthems of the United States andGermany during the 21st Theater Sustainment Command’s VeteransDay observance at Panzer Kaserne.
abrams.mike@stripes.comTwitter: @stripes_photog
ISLAMABAD — A top Taliban
official on Wednesday urged for-
mer Afghan military pilots to re-
main in the country, saying they
were protected by a national am-
nesty and would not face arrest.
Government spokesman Zabi-
hullah Mujahid’s assurances
came after dozens of U.S.-trained
Afghan pilots left Tajikistan in a
U.S.-brokered evacuation Tues-
day, three months after they
sought refuge there from a Tali-
ban takeover of Afghanistan.
Afghan air force pilots played a
key role, alongside their U.S.
counterparts, in the 20-year war
against Taliban insurgents that
ended with the departure of for-
eign troops in late August. The air-
strikes inflicted heavy casualties
among the Taliban and repeatedly
drove them from positions they
had seized in different parts of the
country.
As the U.S.-backed Afghan gov-
ernment collapsed and the Tali-
ban took over in mid-August, doz-
ens of Afghan pilots fled to Central
Asian countries, including Taji-
kistan and Uzbekistan.
A U.S. defense official con-
firmed Wednesday that about 140
pilots, along with other personnel,
were flown from Tajikistan to the
United Arab Emirates on Tues-
day. It is likely that the evacuees
will eventually come to the United
States, said the official, who spoke
on condition of anonymity to dis-
cuss operations not yet public.
Tajik media reported that in all,
191 Afghans, including 143 pilots,
were flown to the Emirates.
“It is regrettable that a number
of pilots have gone, or they are go-
ing,” Mujahid said.
Taliban urgepilots to stay
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Thursday, November 11, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 5
DNA technology has only gotten
better, and no American service
member killed in action over the
past 30 years has been buried as
unknown.
But could today’s forensic sci-
ence succeed in the aftermath of a
conflict such as World War II, a
cataclysm out of which the re-
mains of roughly 8,500 American
troops were recovered but
deemed unidentifiable?
“Yes and no,” said Josh Hyman,
director of the DNA sequencing
facility at the University of Wis-
consin’s Biotechnology Center.
“I say yes because the technol-
ogy is capable of giving us pretty
good detail on a genetic level,” he
said during a phone interview Oct.
28.
Add to that, he said, the Defense
Department maintains blood sam-
ples taken from inductees into the
armed forces over the past 25
years that can be used for flawless
DNA comparisons.
“The reason I say probably no is
because in a lot of situations it’s
not that you can’t identify some-
thing coming from a bone or a
tooth,” he said. “It’s just that — es-
pecially in World War II — you
had mass graves and things got
mixed. We have a lot of bones in
our body. The difficulty back then
and now is that if you ever have a
mass grave, if you ever have a
mixture and you don’t have any
way of definitively separating
them out to begin with, well, it’s
simply not feasible to test every
single bone to make a decision.
“You try and assemble things
and do your best. You have to have
someone who can look at the phys-
ical bones and say, yeah, these
seem to belong together and then
you can start testing and test a
number of them.”
DNA misconceptionsForensic anthropologist Denise
To agrees, touting the advances in
DNA technology while offering up
similar caveats.
“One of the common miscon-
ceptions is that DNA is the end-all
be-all of all identifications,” said
To, who manages the forensic lab-
oratory for the Defense POW/
MIA Accounting Agency at Joint
Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Ha-
waii, during a phone interview
Oct. 27.
“It’s not that simple,” she said.
“It’s complex enough that we re-
quire multiple lines of evidence to
make an identification, such as
dental evidence, forensic anthro-
pology, forensic archaeology.”
Today’s capacity to identify
American war dead stands atop a
painful history.
“At Arlington, there are over
4,000 unknown soldiers from the
Civil War,” said Philip Bigler, a
former historian at Arlington Na-
tional Cemetery and author of
“Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: A
Century of Honor” published in
2019.
Fighters from both North and
South sometimes carried little in
the way of identification, often not
even wearing a uniform or insig-
nia, Bigler said during a phone in-
terview Oct. 19.
“If you were killed on the battle-
field, you had a pretty good chance
of not being identified during the
Civil War, just by the nature of the
combat,” he said.
U.S. war fighters first began
wearing metal identification tags
during World War I, a practice
that became uniform and wide-
spread during World War II when
they were dubbed dog tags.
“But even that system is not par-
ticularly foolproof because we
have many examples of people
holding dog tags in their pockets of
either fallen individuals or even
living individuals,” To said.
In 2009, the lab identified the re-
mains of a World War I soldier
who was in possession of dog tags
belonging to a fellow soldier who
had survived the war and lived un-
til 1972, she said.
Safeguarding recordsThorough medical recordkeep-
ing, including detailed dental dia-
grams and X-rays, were main-
tained on the vast number of ser-
vice members during World War
II. Those records have been inval-
uable in identifying unknowns
from that war, but they also re-
vealed a weakness in relying on
such documentation.
In July 1973, fire broke out at the
National Personnel Records Cen-
ter in St. Louis, which held mil-
lions of official military files span-
ning the 20th century. The mas-
sive blaze destroyed the records of
about 18 million veterans, includ-
ing roughly 80% of Army person-
nel discharged between 1912 and
1960 and 75% of Air Force person-
nel discharged between 1947 and
1964.
“We learned the lesson that, fo-
rensically, you want to keep med-
ical records better,” To said.
DNA identification technology
emerged in the late 1980s.
In a nutshell, the method com-
pares unique DNA markers in an
individual with that of a close rela-
tive or descendant. In some cases
it is compared to a database of in-
dividuals.
The key to the method’s suc-
cess, then, is procuring that com-
parable sample, but when no rela-
tive can be found, the DNA test is
of little use.
For example, DPAA recently
concluded a multiyear project to
exhume and identify 388 sailors
and Marines buried as unknowns
from the battleship USS Oklaho-
ma, which was destroyed during
the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl
Harbor.
The agency identified many of
the remains — which had been
badly burned and commingled —
through DNA testing. But a hand-
ful are slated to be buried once
again as unknowns next month be-
cause in some cases comparative
samples from next of kin could not
be found.
Game-changing collectionCongress moved to fix that
shortcoming in 1992 by mandating
the collection of blood samples
from incoming service members.
The collection’s sole purpose is to
maintain “self-reference” DNA
samples that will exactly match
that of any service member who
dies on the battlefield.
As of early 2019, the Armed
Forces Repository of Specimen
Samples for the Identification of
Remains at Dover Air Force Base,
Del., held almost 8 million blood
samples taken from inductees into
the armed services over the past
25 years. The index cards carry-
ing two splotches of blood are vac-
uum sealed and held for 50 years.
“Identifying the deceased with
a self-reference is superior to
identifying the deceased through
DNA with a comparative sample
to a relative,” To said. “The self-
reference is really important to us,
and it is a game-changer in terms
of identifying individuals who die
now in combat in our wars.”
The samples were used to posi-
tively identify more than 800 ser-
vice members who died during
Operation Enduring Freedom, the
Defense Department said in a
2019 news release.
Still, even DNA science could be
stymied by unidentified remains
under certain circumstances in
future wars.
“For example, right now, we
can’t really obtain DNA sequenc-
es from samples that are heavily
burned,” To said. “Fire destroys
DNA so there could be some re-
mains that have been thermally
altered where the DNA cannot be
extracted.”
Hyman said that even badly
burned bodies yield some DNA
samples, particularly from the
teeth.
“But it’s true that if you inciner-
ate things at certain temper-
atures, then all you have is ash,”
he said. “There’s nothing there to
get. I mean, at that point, there
aren’t any remains, only ashes.”
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MILITARY
YOKOHAMA, Japan — The
quiet grounds of a Yokohama
cemetery took on a vibrant tone
Wednesday as U.S. sailors spent
their morning tidying up the
graves of American veterans.
About 30 sailors from Yokosuka
Naval Base made the trip to the
Yokohama Foreign General Cem-
etery, in the Naka Ward of Japan’s
second-most populous city, to
clean up areas dedicated to Amer-
icans in preparation for Veterans
Day.
Using rakes, brooms, leaf blow-
ers and hedge trimmers, they
cleaned the final resting places of
veterans of World War I, World
War II and the crew of the sloop-
of-war USS Oneida, which sank
near Yokohama in 1870 after col-
liding with a British steamer.
“It’s very humbling,” Petty Offi-
cer 2nd Class Alexandra Nerio
told Stars and Stripes. “To be able
to give back to those who fought
before us to honor them and honor
their legacy, even with something
as small as raking leaves, it paints
a bigger picture.”
The cleanup efforts are part of
biannual visits to the cemetery or-
ganized by the naval base, said
Petty Officer 1st Class Marc Van-
ta, who helped coordinate
Wednesday’s event. The cleanups
typically coincide with Memorial
Day and Veterans Day each year.
Vanta said the events demon-
strate the Navy’s commitment to
the Japanese community and pro-
vide a chance for sailors to re-
member their predecessors.
“Because of the history that’s at-
tached to the cemetery, it gives
our current generation of sailors a
way to pay their respects and to
honor these fallen sailors and sol-
diers,” Vanta said.
Vanta, along with Petty Officer
2nd Class Ignacio Fuentes, said
that while cemetery groundskeep-
ers maintain the graves, the fam-
ilies of the deceased may not nec-
essarily be in Japan to take care of
the individual plots.
“I think the main reason we’re
out here is that, clearly, everybody
didn’t get to make it home,”
Fuentes said. “We’re out here to
help out — for us, it might not
seem like much, but it means a lot
to the families.”
The cemetery was founded in
1854, shortly after the second visit
to Japan by U.S. Navy Commo-
dore Matthew Perry’s “black
ships.” His first visit in 1853 her-
alded the end of Japanese isola-
tion.
A 24-year-old Marine aboard
one of Perry’s ships, Robert Wil-
liams, died while in Japan. Perry
negotiated with the Japanese gov-
ernment to secure a plot for Wil-
liams that overlooked the sea.
Williams was laid to rest on a
bluff less than a mile from the
shores of Tokyo Bay, a location
that grew over the years into the
Yokohama Foreign General Cem-
etery, according to the cemetery’s
website.
Yokosuka sailors tidy upAmerican graves in Japan
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Sailors from Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, clean grounds dedicated toU.S. veterans Wednesday at Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery.
BY ALEX WILSON
Stars and Stripes
PAGE 6 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Thursday, November 11, 2021
MARINE CORPS AIR STA-
TION IWAKUNI, Japan — The
deputy commander of Air Force
Special Operations Command
made a quick trip to Marine Corps
Air Station near Hiroshima on
Tuesday to learn more about Ja-
pan’s ShinMaywa US-2 seaplane,
a version of which the Air Force is
also developing.
“The US-2 seaplane is definitely
of interest to Air Force Special Op-
erations,” Maj. Gen. Eric Hill told
Stars and Stripes on Tuesday.
“We’ve been working a number of
issues to try and think about how
we get to runway independence.”
“If you think about the area
here, the South China Sea for in-
stance, if we can turn that into a
landing zone for special operation
forces, there might be a lot of op-
portunity there,” Hill said.
The Air Force, like its sister ser-
vices, is developing a doctrine to
help it counter a rising challenge
in the region from China. Runway
independence means an aircraft
does not require an established
runway; in this case, a body of wa-
ter allows a pilot to put an aircraft
down almost anywhere.
The Air Force version of a sea-
plane, in the development stage, is
a modified MC130-J Commando
II, the special operations version
of the venerable Super Hercules
airlifter, Hill said.
Hill visited the Japan Maritime
Self-Defense Force’s Fleet Air
Wing 31 to give the US-2 a look.
Special Operations Command
partnered with the Air Force Re-
search Laboratory to design a sea-
plane based on the MC-130J.
The command and its private
sector partners are using virtual
reality to test amphibious proto-
types created by digital design, ac-
cording to the Air Force.
The command plans to produce
a demonstration model of the am-
phibious Super Hercules before
the end of 2022, Hill said in Sep-
tember at the Air Force Associ-
ation convention, according to De-
fenseNews.com.
The Japanese use the US-2 for
search and rescue, airlift missions
and reconnaissance for identify-
ing hostile ships and anti-subma-
rine warfare. It took eight years to
develop, and incorporates spray
suppressors and spray strips that
prevent damage to the airframe
on water landings. Also, because it
can cruise at extremely low
speeds, the US-2 can take off and
land on waves up to 9 feet high, ac-
cording to ShinMaywa Industries.
“I think we are a little early to
tell the direction we may go with
this, whether we procure and fin-
ish developing our own capability
or whether we look at something
that is already in play,” Hill said.
“Or we might do some combina-
tion of both in the future.”
Runway independence is some-
thing the Air Force is looking at as
it focuses on employing its agile
combat employment doctrine in
the Pacific region. This doctrine
includes launching, recovering
and maintaining aircraft from
multiple dispersed forward oper-
ating locations in concert with al-
lies and partners.
“The partnership here is really
strong, there is a willingness mil-
itary-to-military level — to work
together on very complex prob-
lems that are presented here in
this region by a number of com-
petitors both for the Japanese and
for the U.S.,” Hill said.
Air Force: Seaplanes bring ‘runway independence’ BY JONATHAN SNYDER
Stars and Stripes
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Capt. Koichi Washizawa of the Japan Maritime SelfDefense Force gives a tour of the ShinMaywa US2seaplane to the deputy commander of Air Force Special Operations Command, Maj. Gen. Eric Hill, atMarine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, on Tuesday.
assessed it as a trace of a ballistic
missile,” the release said.
The North Korean missile per-
formed “pull-up maneuvers” in
flight, according to the ministry. It
first descended and then changed
its trajectory to an ascent path.
Soon after the October missile
launch, Japanese Prime Minister
Fumio Kishida announced the
North had launched two missiles.
South Korea, however, which
shares intelligence with Japan,
said it detected only one.
South Korean lawmakers ex-
pressed concern, making it the
main topic of a South Korean par-
liamentary briefing with Defense
Minister Suh Wook in October.
Japanese Defense Ministry offi-
cials stressed that the mistaken-
missile case was a very rare oc-
currence, according to a report
Wednesday by public broadcaster
NHK. The ministry said it will re-
view procedures to make sure
such a case will not happen again.
TOKYO — Japan’s Ministry of
Defense on Tuesday said North
Korea fired one ballistic missile in
October, retracting its initial as-
sessment that the communist re-
gime had launched two projec-
tiles.
Further analysis of the Oct. 19
launch concluded that North Ko-
rea fired a new type of submarine-
launched ballistic missile, accord-
ing to a ministry news release. Ra-
dar mistook a second object in
space as another ballistic missile.
“We have come to an analysis
that the surveillance radar, which
improved its capability, acciden-
tally detected a space object and
Japan clarifies N. Korea launched only 1 missile in OctoberBY HANA KUSUMOTO
Stars and Stripes
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forces on Okinawa through the
coronavirus pandemic. Marine
Corps camps across the island ex-
perienced surges in COVID-19
cases that amounted to hundreds
daily and put bases on lockdown in
summer 2020.
Clardy put the Corps’ new is-
land-fighting doctrine, called ex-
peditionary advanced base oper-
ations, to the test with numerous
field exercises. He also helped im-
prove III MEF integration with
the Navy’s 7th Fleet and encour-
aged innovation through a series
of technology and innovation com-
petitions within the ranks.
“The accomplishments of III
Marine Expeditionary Force dur-
ing your tenure are a direct reflec-
tion of your outstanding leader-
ship,” Marine Corps Comman-
dant Gen. David Berger wrote in a
message to Clardy that was read
MARINE CORPS AIR STA-
TION FUTENMA, Okinawa —
The III Marine Expeditionary
Force, the United States’ rapid-re-
sponse force in the Pacific, has
taken on a new but seasoned com-
mander at a time when tensions
with global competitor China are
on the rise.
Lt. Gen. James Bierman took
command of III MEF from Lt.
Gen. H. Stacy Clardy III during a
ceremony Tuesday afternoon on
MCAS Futenma’s windswept
flight line.
“It is a challenging time here for
all of us in III MEF, but it’s part of
the only forward-deployed MEF
in the Marine Corps,” Bierman
told Stars and Stripes after the
ceremony.
Taiwan has been the focus of in-
creased tension
in recent weeks
with Chinese
troops practic-
ing for an inva-
sion and flying
warplanes near
the island de-
mocracy that is
home to 23.5 million people. Late
last month, President Joe Biden
said the U.S. would defend Taiwan
if China attacked, although his
comments were walked back by
the White House.
Bierman is a Bronze Star recip-
ient coming from command of the
3rd Marine Division on Okinawa,
a major component of III MEF.
The appointment marks the
fourth time in 16 years Bierman
has taken command of a unit with-
in III MEF, he said.
“We certainly find ourselves
facing new, significant challeng-
es,” he told a gathering of about
200 Americans and Japanese, one
of the largest on base since the
coronavirus pandemic began in
early 2020.
“III MEF will continue to do
whatever needs to be done,” he
said. “We will spare no effort to
deter would-be adversaries, to
maintain peace in this region.”
Bierman said his Marines were
prepared to deploy, “fight and
win” on short notice.
Clardy is retiring after 38 years
in the Corps and heading home to
South Carolina, spokesman 2nd
Lt. Zachary Voss told Stars and
Stripes before the ceremony.
Clardy took command of III MEF
from Lt. Gen. Eric Smith on May
31, 2019.
Clardy’s tenure may be best re-
membered for his leading U.S.
aloud Tuesday.
Berger said Clardy’s efforts to
support allies Japan and South
Korea will have a “positive im-
pact” for years to come.
The ceremony Tuesday was the
type of formation many had not
seen since before the pandemic.
The Marines displayed an array of
weaponry, from the F-35 Light-
ning II stealth fighter to the M142
High Mobility Artillery Rocket
System and an AH-1Z Viper attack
helicopter.
Lt. Gen. Steven Rudder, com-
mander of Marine Forces Pacific,
presided over the change of com-
mand. He served with Bierman at
the Pentagon, where the comman-
dant would look to Bierman for ad-
vice, Rudder told the audience.
Marines in Japan are ready to ‘fight and win’BY MATTHEW M. BURKE
Stars and Stripes
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Bierman
PACIFIC
PAGE 8 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Thursday, November 11, 2021
MILITARY
She has earned two doctorates,
researched some of the world’s
deadliest viruses in Africa and
spent 300 days in space — and
now Kate Rubins is a soldier.
Rubins, 43, who returned from
her latest six-month trip aboard
the International Space Station in
April, was commissioned as a ma-
jor in the Army Reserve during a
ceremony last week.
She will serve with the 75th In-
novation Command, a unit de-
signed to help the Army make in-
roads into the private sector for
research and development. It sup-
ports the Army Futures Com-
mand’s efforts to modernize the
service for strategic competition
with China and Russia.
“Now, more than ever, we need
top-notch scientists, clinicians
and microbiologists like Dr. Ru-
bins paving the way for the future
of the Army and our great nation,”
Col. Amy Roy, deputy command-
er of U.S. Army Medical Recruit-
ing Brigade, said during a com-
missioning ceremony Nov. 2 in
Houston.
The astronaut and scientist will
bring a “wealth of education,
skills and experience” to the ser-
vice’s medical corps, said Lt. Gen.
Jody J. Daniels, commanding
general of U.S. Army Reserve
Command.
She cited Rubins’ degrees, fel-
lowships and “on-scene medical
experience combating viral out-
breaks in central and west Afri-
ca,” in addition to being among the
top four female astronauts in
terms of time in space.
Born in Connecticut and raised
in Napa, Calif., Rubins knew from
the time she was 5 that she wanted
to be an astronaut, geologist and
biologist, Roy said.
In a NASA interview just before
she was selected as one of nine
members of space agency’s 20th
astronaut class in July 2009, she
said she’d initially thought she
would have to be a fighter pilot be-
fore getting to go to space.
While an undergraduate at the
University of California, San Die-
go, she conducted HIV research at
the Salk Institute for Biological
Sciences, which was founded by
polio vaccine developer Dr. Jonas
Salk. She earned a doctorate in
cancer biology from Stanford Uni-
versity Medical School in 2005.
Rubins studied smallpox and
the Ebola virus at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
and the U.S. Army Medical Re-
search Institute of Infectious Dis-
eases, she said in the 2009 NASA
interview. On her first mission to
the ISS in 2016, she became the
first person to sequence DNA in
space and grew heart cells in a cell
culture as part of the Cardinal
Heart experiment.
On her last mission to the ISS,
she realized she wanted to give
back to the U.S., she said last
week. Rubins decided to join the
Army Reserve in part because of
her time working at Fort Detrick,
Md., from 2000 to 2009, she said.
The cutting-edge research at
that facility was promising not just
for therapeutic treatments and
vaccines against bioweapons, but
for civilian applications, such as
the COVID-19 pandemic, she said.
Rubins was also inspired and
encouraged by her stepfather,
who had served as an Army Re-
serve chaplain for 10 years.
“I really admire him and I ad-
mire many of the people that are
here today,” she said. “A lot of my
heroes are in the Army and they
embody values that I would like to
strive to become.”
“It seemed like a really excel-
lent fit” with her career as an as-
tronaut, Rubins said. “I’m looking
forward to both of these careers
together.”
Astronaut, virusresearcher joinsArmy Reserve
BY CHAD GARLAND
Stars and Stripes
BILL INGALLS/NASA
Expedition 64 NASA astronautKate Rubins is helped out of aSoyuz spacecraft after she, andtwo Russian cosmonauts, landedin April 17.
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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germa-
ny — Kaiserslautern remembered
one of Germany’s darkest nights
in its history Tuesday at the for-
mer site of the city’s synagogue,
which was destroyed by the Nazis
in 1938.
Kristallnacht, or the “night of
broken glass,” marked the accel-
eration of the systematic persecu-
tion of Jews in Nazi Germany 83
years ago.
For two nights, synagogues
were destroyed and Jewish busi-
nesses plundered by mobs of Nazi
troops and sympathizers. More
than a thousand people were
killed and 30,000 were removed
from their homes.
In Kaiserslautern, where tens of
thousands of U.S. service mem-
bers and their families are based,
an LED panel allowed visitors a
glimpse of the interior and exte-
rior of the synagogue at the site
where it once stood.
The rendering, which was also
scheduled for display Wednesday,
was created with computer-ani-
mated 3D modeling using surviv-
ing visual records by Darmstadt
Technical University.
The event is part of an initiative
of the World Jewish Congress, in
cooperation with the Central
Council of Jews in Germany,
which has sponsored the creation
of 18 of these digital reconstruct-
ions of synagogues that were de-
stroyed or damaged during the
two-night pogrom.
Reproductions are being shown
in 13 locations in Germany and
five in Austria, as part of the coun-
cil’s #WeRemember-campaign,
which will lead up to Holocaust
Memorial Day on Jan. 27.
Kaiserslautern Mayor Beate
Kimmel said that cities have a cru-
cial role in conserving the past for
future generations.
“It is part of our special respon-
sibility for today’s leadership of
our city to commemorate these
events and to not let the memory
of these crimes against humanity,
the Shoah, fade,” Kimmel said
during a speech Tuesday, refer-
ring to the Hebrew word for the
Holocaust.
For more than five decades af-
ter its inauguration in 1886, the
Kaiserslautern Synagogue, which
was built in Moorish-Byzantine
style, was considered an architec-
tural sight and one of the most
prominent houses of worship in
the region.
After Nazi leaders declared
their plans for Kaiserslautern as a
regional capital in a reorganized
Germany, however, the building
was suddenly in the way of a
planned parade route.
City officials deemed its once-
heralded design “un-German”
and seized the property from its
owners for “city beautification”
purposes, according to historical
accounts given at speeches onsite
Tuesday. The building itself was
destroyed before Kristallnacht in
the late summer of 1938.
Today, the small plaza is sur-
rounded by a bank, regional gov-
ernment offices, residential build-
ings and busy bus stops.
All that remains of the house of
worship are two reconstructed
sandstone columns inscribed with
the names of Kaiserslautern’s 192
Holocaust victims and a low hedge
tracing the building’s outline. Bi-
nocular-style viewing points allow
visitors to see glimpses of the
structure that once was.
The memorial of the lost syn-
agogue and Kaiserslautern citi-
zens who were murdered by the
Nazi regime started with simple
wooden signs commemorating the
dead, placed by local activists de-
termined to not let anyone forget.
“We fought for years to create
this memorial in this space be-
cause it is such an important place
in the city,” said Walter Warstadt,
an organizer for the annual com-
memoration event with the Asso-
ciation of Persecutees of the Nazi
Regime/Federation of Antifas-
cists in Kaiserslautern. “If we
don’t remember what happened
here, where do we remember? We
can never allow to repeat what
happened here.”
The LED display also was
scheduled for viewing Wednesday
from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Synago-
genplatz along Fischerstrasse.
Other locations for the project in-
clude Berlin, Hamburg, Munich,
Frankfurt, Cologne, Hannover,
Dortmund, Darmstadt, Pader-
born, Minden, Bamberg and
Plauen.
ALEXANDER W. RIEDEL/Stars and Stripes
Visitors view a virtual 3D video rendering of the Kaiserslautern Synagogue in its original state Thursday inGermany.
3D display shows Kaiserslauternsynagogue destroyed by Nazis
KAISERSLAUTERN CITY ARCHIVES
An archival photo shows theentrance to the KaiserslauternSynagogue before its destructionby the Nazis in 1938.
BY ALEXANDER RIEDEL
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Thursday, November 11, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 9
NATION
WASHINGTON — A federal
judge rejected former President
Donald Trump’s request to block
the release of documents to the
House committee investigating
the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
In denying a preliminary in-
junction, U.S. District Judge Ta-
nya Chutkan said Tuesday that
Congress had a strong public in-
terest in obtaining records that
could shed light on a violent riot
mounted by the former presi-
dent’s supporters. She added that
President Joe Biden had the au-
thority to waive executive privi-
lege over the documents despite
Trump’s assertions otherwise.
Barring a court order, the Na-
tional Archives plans to turn over
Trump’s records to the committee
by Friday. But Trump’s lawyers
swiftly promised an appeal to the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Dis-
trict of Columbia Circuit. The case
will likely eventually head to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
“At bottom, this is a dispute be-
tween a former and incumbent
President,” Chutkan wrote. “And
the Supreme Court has already
made clear that in such circum-
stances, the incumbent’s view is
accorded greater weight.”
Trump “does not acknowledge
the deference owed” to Biden’s
judgment as the current presi-
dent, Chutkan said. She noted ex-
amples of past presidents declin-
ing to assert executive privilege
and rejected what she said was
Trump’s claim that executive
privilege “exists in perpetuity.”
“Presidents are not kings, and
Plaintiff is not President,” she
said.
According to an earlier court fil-
ing from the archives, the records
include call logs, drafts of remarks
and speeches and handwritten
notes from Trump’s then-chief of
staff, Mark Meadows. There are
also copies of talking points from
then-press secretary Kayleigh
McEnany and “a draft Executive
Order on the topic of election in-
tegrity,” the National Archives
has said.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-
Miss., who chairs the House com-
mittee, said in a statement after
the ruling that the records are cru-
cial for understanding the attack
and “in my view, there couldn’t be
a more compelling public interest
than getting answers about an at-
tack on our democracy.”
On CNN, Thompson said Trump
should stop behaving like a
“spoiled brat.”
The nine-member House com-
mittee is investigating not just
Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6 —
when he told a rally to “fight like
hell” shortly before rioters over-
ran law enforcement — but his ef-
forts in the months before the riot
to challenge election results or ob-
struct a peaceful transfer of pow-
er. The committee has inter-
viewed more than 150 witnesses
and issued more than 30 subpoe-
nas, including ones announced
Tuesday to McEnany and former
top adviser Stephen Miller. It is
unclear, so far, whether the law-
makers will eventually call
Trump to testify.
Trump has repeatedly attacked
the committee’s work and contin-
ued to promote unfounded con-
spiracy theories about wide-
spread fraud in the election, de-
spite the fact that Biden’s win was
certified by all 50 states and his
claims have been rebuked by
courts across the country.
Judge refusesTrump requestto block records
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — House inves-
tigators issued subpoenas to 10 for-
mer officials who worked for Do-
nald Trump at the end of his presi-
dency, an effort to find out more
about what the president was doing
and saying as his supporters vio-
lently stormed the U.S. Capitol on
Jan. 6 in a bid to overturn his defeat.
The subpoenas issued Tuesday,
which included demands for docu-
ments and testimony from former
senior adviser Stephen Miller and
former press secretary Kayleigh
McEnany, bring the House panel
tasked with investigating the insur-
rection even closer inside Trump’s
inner circle — and closer to Trump
himself. They come a day after the
committee subpoenaed six other
associates of the former president
who spread mistruths about wide-
spread fraud in the election and
strategized about how to thwart
President Joe Biden’s victory.
“The Select Committee wants to
learn every detail of what went on
in the White House on January 6th
and in the days beforehand,” said
Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thomp-
son, the Democratic chairman of
the panel. “We need to know pre-
cisely what role the former presi-
dent and his aides played in efforts
to stop the counting of the electoral
votes and if they were in touch with
anyone outside the White House at-
tempting to overturn the outcome
of the election.”
It is so far unclear if the Jan. 6
panel will subpoena Trump,
though the committee’s leaders
have said they haven’t ruled any-
thing out. The panel has now issued
more than 30 subpoenas, including
to White House Chief of Staff Mark
Meadows, longtime ally Steve Ban-
non and others who were close to
the former president.
The House later voted to hold
Bannon in contempt after he said
he would not comply, and the Jus-
tice Department is still deciding
whether to prosecute the case.
Meadows and others have “en-
gaged” with the committee, ac-
cording to lawmakers, but may still
be held in contempt if they do not
fully comply.
The panel has already inter-
viewed more than 150 witnesses,
and lawmakers have said they want
to not only probe the attack itself
but its origins — namely the lies
that Trump spread about massive
voter fraud even though all 50
states had certified Biden’s win and
courts across the country rejected
his claims. The violent mob of
Trump’s supporters echoed those
false claims as they pushed past po-
lice, broke through windows and
doors and threatened lawmakers
who were certifying the election
that day.
The 10 former officials who were
subpoenaed Tuesday either could
not be reached or did not immedi-
ately respond to requests for com-
ment.
ANDREW HARNIK/AP
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and former White House senior adviser StephenMiller have been subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 Select Committee.
House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas 10 former White House aides
Associated Press
NEW YORK — At least 13 for-
mer Trump administration offi-
cials, including Jared Kushner and
Mike Pompeo, violated the law by
intermingling campaigning with
their official government duties,
according to a federal investiga-
tion.
The report from the Office of
Special Counsel released Tuesday
says the officials broke the law
without consequence and with the
administration’s approval as part
of a “willful disregard for the Hatch
Act,” which prohibits government
officials from using their official
roles to influence elections, includ-
ing supporting candidates while
acting in their official capacities.
“The cumulative effect of these
repeated and public violations was
to undermine public confidence in
the nonpartisan operation of gov-
ernment,” they wrote, adding that,
“such flagrant and unpunished vio-
lations erode the principal founda-
tion of our democratic system—the
rule of law.”
The office investigated officials’
comments in the lead-up to the
2020 presidential election, includ-
ing the Republi-
can National
Convention,
which was held at
the White House
in a major break
from historical
norms.
While the Of-
fice of Special Counsel concluded
that hosting the event at the White
House did not itself violate the
Hatch Act, it found plenty of other
instances where Trump officials
did, mostly by promoting the for-
mer president’s reelection in
media interviews in which they ap-
peared in their official capacity.
Among the officials cited are for-
mer White House chief of staff
Mark Meadows; Kushner,
Trump’s son-in-law, who served as
senior adviser to the president; for-
mer White House press secretary
Kayleigh McEnany; Kellyanne
Conway, then counselor to the
president; Stephen Miller, who
served as Trump’s senior policy
adviser; and Robert O’Brien, the
former national security adviser.
Conway had been repeatedly cited
by the office, which at one point
went so far as to call for her remov-
al.
“In each case, the subject official
was identified by their official title,
discussed administration policies
and priorities related to their offi-
cial duties, and/or spoke from the
White House grounds,” the report
reads.
The report notes the office re-
peatedly warned Trump White
House officials about their viola-
tions, but that the former president
who is responsible for enforcing
the law for high-ranking officials
never bothered to do that.
Probe finds at least 13 Trump officials repeatedly violated Hatch ActAssociated Press
Kushner
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NATION
BALTIMORE — The Biden ad-
ministration is relying on infras-
tructure dollars to help fix the
clogged ports and blanket the na-
tion with internet access — but a
series of initiatives rolled out on
Tuesday show that the urgent
pace might not be fast enough to
address the immediate needs of
an economy coping with a supply
chain squeeze and a shift to re-
mote work.
President Joe Biden spoke with
the CEOs of Wal-Mart, Target,
UPS and FedEx on Tuesday about
how to relieve the supply chain
challenges as ships are still wait-
ing to dock at some of the coun-
try’s leading ports. The key prob-
lem is that these ports are experi-
encing record volumes of ship-
ping containers as the economy
has recovered from the pandem-
ic.
Biden received updates from
the CEOs on how deliveries are
being sped up to ensure that store
shelves will be well-stocked this
holiday season, according to a
White House official. Bloomberg
News first reported Biden's con-
versations with the corporate
leaders.
Yet the concrete policy steps
being discussed by the adminis-
tration show that there is no quick
fix to supply chain issues that are
still hurting smaller businesses
and causing consumers to face
higher prices. Nor can the admin-
istration build out a national
broadband network fast enough
as more Americans are pivoting
toward remote work.
Commerce Secretary Gina Rai-
mondo highlighted at the White
House briefing the $65 billion for
broadband access in the the $1
trillion infrastructure package
that cleared the House on Friday.
She said that jobs would be cre-
ated and poorer Americans would
receive “affordable” internet ser-
vice, though she did not spell out a
precise dollar amount on what the
monthly bills could be.
The plan involves careful logis-
tics that would take time to imple-
ment. Each state would receive at
least $100 million to help lay fibe-
roptic cables and ensure its citi-
zens can access the internet. This
process would occur as jobseek-
ers are increasingly requesting
remote work where they can work
from home on their computers.
“The president wants us to get
it right,” Raimondo said. “And if it
takes a little longer to lay the
groundwork for fiber and broad-
band, then we’re going to do that.”
Similarly, the administration
announced plans on Tuesday to
identify and pay for possible up-
grades to U.S. ports within the
next 90 days — hoping to ulti-
mately tamp down the inflation
being caused by ships waiting to
dock and a shortage of truck driv-
ers to haul goods.
As the U.S. emerges from the
coronavirus pandemic, the eco-
nomic recovery has been ham-
pered by congested and aging
ports. The mix of inflation and the
potential for empty store shelves
during holiday shopping has cre-
ated a sense of frustration for
many Americans and hurt Presi-
dent Joe Biden and Democrats
politically.
Senior administration officials
said Tuesday that the Transporta-
tion Department would allow port
authorities to redirect any left-
over money from grant projects to
address the supply chain issues.
For example, the Georgia Ports
Authority will use $8 million to
convert its inland facilities for the
port of Savannah into container
yards, freeing up dock space and
speeding the flow of goods to their
final destinations.
The officials spoke on condition
of anonymity to discuss the forth-
coming plans, which come on the
heels of the House backing the bi-
partisan infrastructure package
late Friday. The package includes
$17 billion to improve coastal and
land-based ports that can help to
tackle the challenges in the longer
term.
White House rushes fixes to infrastructure Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Women —
and some men — in Congress
have been fighting for govern-
ment child care assistance for al-
most 80 years. With President Joe
Biden’s $1.85 trillion social servic-
es package, they are as close as
they have ever been to winning.
And it’s not just child care sub-
sidies. Biden’s bill making its way
through Congress would put the
U.S. on course to providing free
prekindergarten, paid family
leave to care for children or sick
loved ones, and an enhanced child
tax credit in a massive expansion
of federal support to working fam-
ilies.
Taken together, it’s Democrats’
answer to President Richard Nix-
on’s veto of a 1971 child care bill
and the earlier scrapping of
World War II-era child care cen-
ters, potentially providing fam-
ilies with more government help
than ever as many struggle in the
wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I think COVID really illustrat-
ed to people how broken our child
care system is in a way that peo-
ple finally understood,” said Sen.
Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois
Democrat with two young chil-
dren.
Biden’s big bill combines a se-
ries of long-sought Democratic
goals to shore up families that
have been tried before only to run
into resistance, as they have again
today, with Republicans in lock-
step against the package.
The child care subsidies would
attempt to guarantee that most
Americans don’t spend more than
7% of their income on child care.
And while Congress approved
the Family and Medical Leave
Act nearly 30 years ago to guaran-
tee time off, the U.S. remains
among a handful of wealthy coun-
tries that do not offer paid time off
to care for children or sick loved
ones. Biden’s bill would change
that.
All told, the federal govern-
ment’s new programs for paid pa-
rental leave, child care and an ex-
panded child tax credit “would be
pretty major, if not landmark,
change for social policy and ex-
panding its reach into the depths
of how families cope in the mod-
ern economy,” said Sarah Binder,
a political science professor at
George Washington University.
Long before child care started
eating up a sizable share of a fam-
ily’s income and the COVID-19
crisis pushed women from the
workforce to care for kids at
home, Congress tried to lower the
costs of child raising in the U.S.
Some 80 years ago, Rep. Mary
Norton of New Jersey — she was
known as “Battling Mary,” the
first female Democrat elected to
the House — was instrumental in
securing money for child care
centers during World War II as
mothers went off to work. But the
program was terminated soon af-
ter the war ended and never res-
urrected.
A quarter of a century later,
Nixon invoked both communism
and traditional female roles when
he vetoed bipartisan legislation to
federally fund child care, saying it
was “radical” and had “family
weakening implications.”
“We’re still fighting for it,” says
House Appropriations Committee
Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro, a
Connecticut Democrat who has
been pushing for child care sub-
sidies and other programs to help
families since she was a Senate
aide in the 1980s. “You don’t have
a functioning economy without a
strong childcare system. You
can’t do it, OK? Because women
are the anchor in the economy.”
With Republicans opposed,
Democrats are trying to pass Bi-
den’s bill on their own in what has
become a messy, grueling proc-
ess. One conservative Democrat,
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virgin-
ia, is not fully on board with pa-
rental leave and some other pro-
posals, leaving their final inclu-
sion uncertain.
US-funded child care assistanceis nearing reality with Biden bill
Associated Press
JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, DIll., attends a discussion of care policieswith Vice President Kamala Harris on Oct. 14 in Washington.
WASHINGTON — Prices for
U.S. consumers jumped 6.2% in
October compared with a year
earlier as surging costs for food,
gas and housing left Americans
grappling with the highest infla-
tion rate since 1990.
The year-over-year increase in
the consumer price index exceed-
ed the 5.4% rise in September, the
Labor Department reported
Wednesday. From September to
October, prices jumped 0.9%, the
highest month-over-month in-
crease since June.
Inflation is eroding the strong
gains in wages and salaries that
have flowed to America’s workers
in recent months, creating politi-
cal headaches for the Biden ad-
ministration and congressional
Democrats and intensifying pres-
sure on the Federal Reserve as it
considers how fast to withdraw its
efforts to boost the economy.
Driving the price spikes are
persistent supply shortages re-
sulting from robust consumer de-
mand and COVID-related factory
shutdowns coming out of the pan-
demic recession. Ports across the
world have become bottlenecked.
America’s employers, facing la-
bor shortages, have also been
handing out sizable pay increases,
and many of them have raised
prices to offset their higher labor
costs, thereby contributing to in-
flation.
The result has been accelerat-
ing prices for a broad range of con-
sumer goods, from food, heating
oil and patio furniture to paints,
chemicals and window blinds.
After initially affecting mainly
goods in pandemic-disrupted in-
dustries, surging inflation has
broadened into the many services
that Americans spend money on,
notably for restaurant meals, rent-
al apartments and medical servic-
es, which jumped 0.5% in October.
Job gains and pay raises have
been much healthier during the
pandemic recovery than they
were after the Great Recession
roughly a decade ago. But in con-
trast to the years that followed that
downturn, when inflation was low,
rising prices are diminishing
Americans’ confidence in the
economy, surveys have found.
In October, excluding the vola-
tile food and energy categories, so-
called core prices rose 0.6% from
September. Core prices are now
up 4.6% compared with a year ago.
Energy costs soared 4.8% just
from September to October, with
gasoline, natural gas and heating
oil surging.
In the past year, energy costs
have jumped a whopping 30%,
with gasoline soaring nearly 50%.
Consumer prices soared 6.2% in past year, most since 1990Associated Press
Thursday, November 11, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 11
ing a quarter of the money for 2.5
million pounds of food.
The cost of canned green
beans and peaches is up nearly
9% for them, Altfest said; canned
tuna and frozen tilapia up more
than 6%; and a case of 5-pound
frozen chickens for holiday ta-
bles is up 13%. The price for dry
oatmeal has climbed 17%.
On Wednesdays, hundreds of
OAKLAND, Calif. — U.S. food
banks already dealing with in-
creased demand from families
sidelined by the pandemic now
face a new challenge — surging
food prices and supply chain is-
sues walloping the nation.
The higher costs and limited
availability mean some families
may get smaller servings or sub-
stitutions for staples such as pea-
nut butter, which costs nearly
double what it did a year ago.
“What happens when food
prices go up is food insecurity
for those who are experiencing it
just gets worse,” said Katie Fitz-
gerald, chief operating officer of
Feeding America, a nonprofit or-
ganization that coordinates the
efforts of more than 200 food
banks across the country.
Food banks that expanded to
meet unprecedented demand
brought on by the pandemic
won’t be able to absorb forever
food costs that are two to three
times what they used to be, she
said,
Supply chain disruptions, low-
er inventory and labor shortages
have all contributed to increased
costs for charities on which tens
of millions of people in the Unit-
ed States rely on for nutrition.
Donated food is more expensive
to move because transportation
costs are up, and bottlenecks at
factories and ports make it diffi-
cult to get goods of all kinds.
If a food bank has to swap out
for smaller sizes of canned tuna
or make substitutions in order to
stretch their dollars, Fitzgerald
said, it’s like adding “insult to in-
jury” to a family reeling from
uncertainty.
In the prohibitively expensive
San Francisco Bay Area, the Ala-
meda County Community Food
Bank in Oakland is spending an
extra $60,000 a month on food.
Combined with increased de-
mand, it is now shelling out $1
million a month to distribute 4.5
million pounds of food, said Mi-
chael Altfest, the Oakland food
bank’s director of community
engagement.
Pre-pandemic, it was spend-
people line up outside a church
in east Oakland for its weekly
food giveaway.
Shiloh Mercy House feeds
about 300 families on those days,
far less than the 1,100 families it
was nourishing at the height of
the pandemic, said Jason Bautis-
ta, the charity’s event manager.
But he’s still seeing new people
every week.
“And a lot of people are just
saying they can’t afford food,” he
said. “I mean they have the mon-
ey to buy certain things, but it’s
just not stretching.”
Families can also use a com-
munity market Shiloh opened in
May. Refrigerators contain car-
tons of milk and eggs while sacks
of hamburger buns and crusty
baguettes sit on shelves.
Oakland resident Sonia Lujan-
Perez, 45, picked up chicken,
celery, onions, bread and pota-
toes — enough to supplement a
Thanksgiving meal for herself,
3-year-old daughter and 18-
year-old son. The state of Cali-
fornia pays her to care for
daughter Melanie, who has spe-
cial needs, but it’s not enough
with monthly rent at $2,200 and
the cost of milk, citrus, spinach
and chicken so high.
“That is wonderful for me be-
cause I will save a lot of money,”
she said, adding that the holiday
season is rough with Christmas
toys for the children.
Food banks struggle as price keep risingBY JANIE HAR
Associated Press
TERRY CHEA/AP
A volunteer packs onions in the warehouse of the Alameda County Community Food Bank in Oakland,Calif., on Friday.
NATION
KENOSHA, Wis. — Sobbing so
hard at one point that the judge
called a break, Kyle Rittenhouse
took the stand at his murder trial
Wednesday and said he was under
attack when he shot three men
during a night of turbulent pro-
tests in Kenosha.
“I didn’t do anything wrong. I
defended myself,” he said
Rittenhouse, 18, is on trial on
charges of killing two men and
wounding a third during unrest
that erupted in the summer of
2020 over the wounding of a Black
man by a white Kenosha police of-
ficer.
He could get life in prison if con-
victed of the most serious charges
against him.
Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the
time, went to Kenosha with a
semi-automatic rifle and a medic
bag in what he said was an attempt
to protect property from rioters
who had set fires and ransacked
businesses in the two preceding
nights.
Rittenhouse said he fatally shot
Joseph Rosenbaum after Rosen-
baum chased him and put his hand
on the barrel of Rittenhouse’s ri-
fle. Then Rittenhouse shot and
killed Anthony Huber, testifying
he opened fire after Huber struck
him in the neck with a skateboard
and grabbed his rifle.
When a third man, Gaige Gross-
kreutz, “lunges at me with his pis-
tol pointed directly at my head,”
Rittenhouse shot him, too, wound-
ing him.
“I didn’t intend to kill them, I in-
tended to stop the people who
were attacking me,” Rittenhouse
said.
During Rittenhouse’s testimo-
ny, the judge sent the jury out of
the room and berated the prosecu-
tor for questioning the defendant
about whether he was using dead-
ly force to protect property.
Judge Bruce Schroeder heated-
ly accused lead prosecutor Tho-
mas Binger of improperly trying
to introduce testimony that he had
earlier said he was inclined to pro-
hibit. The judge accused Binger of
attempting to provoke a mistrial.
Much of the testimony Wednes-
day was centered on the first
shooting of the night, since it was
Rosenbaum’s death that set in mo-
tion the bloodshed that followed.
Rittenhouse said he was walk-
ing toward a Car Source lot with a
fire extinguisher to put out a fire
when “I hear somebody scream,
‘Burn in hell!’ And I respond with
‘Friendly, friendly, friendly!’”
He said Rosenbaum was run-
ning at him from one side and an-
other protester with a gun in front
of him, “and I was cornered.” He
said that’s when he began to run.
He said another protester, Josh-
ua Ziminski, told Rosenbaum,
“Get him and kill him.”
Rittenhouse said he heard a
gunshot directly behind him, and
as he turned around, Rosenbaum
was coming at him with his arms
out in front of him. “I remember
his hand on the barrel of my gun,”
Rittenhouse said.
“I shoot him,” he recounted. He
also said he thought the object Ro-
senbaum threw during the chase
— a plastic hospital bag — was the
chain he had seen Rosenbaum
carrying earlier.
Rittenhouse said he intended to
help Rosenbaum but was in shock
as someone else attended to him.
Rittenhouse said he thought the
“safest option” was to turn himself
in to police who were on nearby.
When defense attorney Mark
Richards asked Rittenhouse why
he didn’t keep running away from
Rosenbaum, he said: “There was
no space for me to continue to run
to.”
Rittenhouse said that earlier
that night, Rosenbaum was hold-
ing a chain and had twice threat-
ened to kill him.
Apologizing to the court for his
language, Rittenhouse said Ro-
senbaum was walking down the
street with the chain and
screamed, “If I catch any of you
(expletives) alone I’m going to
(expletive) kill you!”
And later that night, he testified,
Rosenbaum said: “I’m going to cut
your (expletive) hearts out!”
In shooting trial, Rittenhousetestifies: ‘I defended myself’
Associated Press
MARK HERTZBERG/AP
Kyle Rittenhouse, center, and his lawyers Corey Chirafisi and NatalieWisco look on after a break in proceedings in his trial at the KenoshaCounty Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Tuesday.
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NATION
DENVER — Around the U.S.,
cities are increasingly warming to
an idea that once induced gags:
Sterilize wastewater from toilets,
sinks and factories, and eventual-
ly pipe it back into homes and
businesses as tap water.
In the Los Angeles area, plans to
recycle wastewater for drinking
are moving along with little fan-
fare two decades after similar ef-
forts in the city sparked such a
backlash they had to be aban-
doned. The practice, which must
meet federal drinking water stan-
dards, has been adopted in several
places around the country, includ-
ing nearby Orange County.
“We’ve had a sea change in
terms of public attitudes toward
wastewater recycling,” said Da-
vid Nahai, the former general
manager of the Los Angeles De-
partment of Water and Power.
The shifting attitudes around a
concept once dismissively dubbed
“toilet to tap” come as dry regions
scramble for ways to increase wa-
ter supplies as their populations
boom and climate change intensi-
fies droughts. Other strategies
gaining traction include collecting
runoff from streams and roads af-
ter storms, and stripping seawater
of salt and other minerals, a proc-
ess that’s still relatively rare and
expensive.
Though there are still only
about two dozen communities in
the U.S. using some form of recy-
cled water for drinking, that num-
ber is projected to more than dou-
ble in the next 15 years, according
to WateReuse, a group that helps
cities adopt such conservation
practices.
In most places that do it, the
sterilized water is usually mixed
back into a lake, river or other nat-
ural source before being reused —
a step that helps make the idea of
drinking treated sewage go down
easier for some.
Funding for more wastewater
recycling projects is on the way.
The bipartisan infrastructure bill
passed by Congress has $1 billion
for water reuse projects in the
West, including the $3.4 billion
project in Southern California.
And tucked into the federal bud-
get reconciliation package being
debated is $125 million in grants
for alternative water sources na-
tionwide that could include reuse
technologies.
The Southern California project
would be the nation’s largest
wastewater recycling program,
producing enough water to supply
500,000 homes, according to the
Metropolitan Water District,
which serves 19 million people in
Los Angeles and surrounding
counties.
In Colorado, over two dozen fa-
cilities already recycle water for
non-drinking purposes, which is
more affordable than cleaning it
for drinking.
But growing populations mean
cities could need to pull additional
supply from the Colorado River,
which is already strained from
overuse.
At that point, it might make
sense to start recycling for drink-
ing purposes as well, said Greg
Fisher, head of demand planning
for Denver Water.
To warm residents to the idea,
Colorado Springs Utilities is host-
ing a mobile exhibit that shows
how wastewater recycling works.
On a cold, rainy afternoon, dozens
of visitors showed up to learn
about the carbon-based purifica-
tion process and sample the re-
sults, which several noted tasted
no different than their usual sup-
ply.
The recycling process typically
entails disinfecting wastewater
with ozone gas or ultraviolet light
to remove viruses and bacteria,
then filtering it through mem-
branes with microscopic pores to
remove solids and trace contami-
nants.
Not all water can be recycled lo-
cally. Often, Western communi-
ties are required to send treated
wastewater back to its source, so
that it can eventually be used by
other places that depend on that
same body of water.
“You have to put the water back
into the river because it’s not
yours,” said Patricia Sinicropi, ex-
ecutive director of WateReuse.
As a result, much of the country
already consumes water that’s
been recycled to some degree,
simply by living downstream from
others.
It’s why drinking water under-
goes stringent sterilization even
when it’s pulled from a river or
lake that looks clean.
Encouraged by efforts in other
cities, even places with stable wa-
ter supplies are considering recy-
cling their own wastewater.
After a poll showed broad sup-
port for the idea in Boise, Idaho,
city officials began studying plans
to recharge local groundwater
with treated wastewater.
As cities grow, wastewater recycling gets another look
BRITTANY PETERSON/AP
Billy Kinn drinks wastewater thatwas sterilized at the PureWaterColorado Mobile Demonstrationon Oct. 14.
BY BRITTANY PETERSON
AND SAM METZ
Associated Press
Thursday, November 11, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 13
WORLD
GLASGOW, Scotland — Govern-
ments are poised to express “alarm
and concern” about how much
Earth has already warmed and en-
courage one another to end their
use of coal, according to a draft re-
leased Wednesday of the final doc-
ument expected at U.N. climate
talks.
The early version of the docu-
ment circulating at the negotiations
in Glasgow, Scotland, also impress-
es on countries the need to cut car-
bon dioxide emissions by about half
by 2030 — even though pledges so
far from governments don’t add up
to that frequently stated goal.
In a significant move, countries
would urge one another to “accel-
erate the phasing out of coal and
subsidies for fossil fuels” in the
draft, though it has no explicit ref-
erence to ending the use of oil and
gas. There has been a big push
among developed nations to shut
down coal-fired power plants,
which are a major source of heat-
trapping gases, but the fuel re-
mains a critical and cheap source of
electricity for countries like China
and India.
While the language about mov-
ing away from coal is a first and im-
portant, the lack of a date when
countries will do so limits the
pledge’s effectiveness, said Green-
peace International Director Jen-
nifer Morgan, a long-time climate
talks observer.
“This isn’t the plan to solve the
climate emergency. This won’t give
the kids on the streets the confi-
dence that they’ll need,” Morgan
said.
The draft doesn’t yet include full
agreements on the three major
goals that the United Nationsset go-
ing into the negotiations — and may
disappoint poorer nations because
of a lack of solid financial commit-
ments from richer ones. The goals
are: for rich nations to give poorer
ones $100 billion a year in climate
aid, to ensure that half of that mon-
ey goes to adapting to worsening
global warming and the pledge to
slash emissions that is mentioned.
The draft does provide insight,
however, into the issues that need
to be resolved in the last few days of
the conference, which is scheduled
to end Friday but may push past
that deadline. Still, a lot of negotiat-
ing and decision-making is yet to
come since whatever emerges
from the meetings has to be unani-
mously approved by the nearly 200
nations attending.
The draft says the world should
try to achieve “net-zero (emissions)
around mid-century.” That means
requiring countries to pump only as
much greenhouse gas into the at-
mosphere as can be absorbed again
through natural or artificial means.
It also acknowledges “with re-
gret” that rich nations have failed to
live up to the climate aid pledge.
Poorer nations, which need fi-
nancial help both in developing
green energy systems and adapting
to the worst of climate change, are
angry that the promised aid hasn’t
materialized.
“Without financial support, little
can be done to minimize its debil-
itating effects for vulnerable com-
munities around the world,” Mo-
hammed Nasheed, the Maldives’
parliamentary speaker and the am-
bassador for a group of dozens of
countries most vulnerable to cli-
mate change, said in a statement.
He said the draft fails on key is-
sues, including the financial aid
and strong emission cuts.
“There’s much more that needs
to be done on climate finance to
give developing countries what
they need coming out of here,” said
Alden Meyer, a long-time confer-
ence observer, of the European
think-tank E3G.
The document reaffirms the
goals set in Paris in 2015 of limiting
warming to “well below” 3.6 de-
grees Fahrenheit since pre-indus-
trial times, with a more stringent
target of trying to keep warming to
2.7 degrees Fahrenheit preferred
because that would keep damage
from climate change “much low-
er.”
Highlighting the challenge of
meeting those goals, the document
“expresses alarm and concern that
human activities have caused
around 2 F of global warming to
date and that impacts are already
being felt in every region.”
Climate talks draft agreement shows ‘alarm and concern’Associated Press
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
With a wink, judge bansElf on the Shelf
GA MARIETTA — Santa
may have fewer eyes in
homes this Christmas season after
a Georgia judge — jokingly —
banned the Elf on the Shelf.
Cobb County Superior Court
Chief Judge Robert Leonard post-
ed a mock order on Twitter ban-
ishing these elves.
“Tired of living in Elf on the
Shelf tyranny? Not looking for-
ward to the Elf forgetting to move
and causing your kids emotional
distress? I am a public servant and
will take the heat for you. My gift
to tired parents,” Leonard tweet-
ed.
According to the holiday tradi-
tion, the elves hide in homes for
weeks before Christmas and re-
port back to Santa on who’s been
naughty and nice. The elf dolls are
supposed to move to a different lo-
cation each night.
Leonard did make an allowance
for parents who don’t feel over-
whelmed by the “Elf on the Shelf
tyranny,” writing in his tweet: “If
you love your elf, keep your elf. No
contempts.”
Trash can makes its wayfrom US to Ireland
SC MYRTLE BEACH —
Instead of a message in
a bottle, it was the decals on a bar-
nacle-covered trash barrel that
shows just how far it traveled,
from the southeastern U.S. coast
to a beach in Ireland, more than
3,500 miles from home.
The City of Myrtle Beach said a
waste barrel had somehow
washed up in County Mayo, on the
emerald isle’s northwestern coast.
According to the city, Keith
McGreal of Ireland wrote them
and shared pictures of the bright
blue barrel with city stickers on it.
The city posted the photos online,
showing that the barrel’s Atlantic
crossing took enough time for it to
be encrusted with shells.
Man barred from sellingor breeding dogs
IA SEYMOUR — An Iowa
man who violated federal
animal welfare laws more than
100 times was barred from selling,
breeding or brokering dogs and
must give up 514 dogs he kept in
various locations around the state.
A federal judge approved an
agreement against Daniel Ginger-
ich, whose main site was in rural
Seymour, KCCI-TV reported.
The agreement settles a lawsuit
filed against Gingerich by the U.S.
Department of Justice on behalf of
the U.S. Department of Agricul-
ture. The USDA said Gingerich vi-
olated the Animal Welfare Act 120
times since March.
Officials disruptmultistate drug ring
WA SEATTLE — Sixteen
people were indicted
after a series of arrests disrupted a
multistate methamphetamine and
fentanyl distribution ring, accord-
ing to federal officials.
The drugs were coming from
California and being sold in at
least six Washington state coun-
ties, said U.S. Attorney Nick
Brown.
The investigation started in
early 2020 when people working
with law enforcement agencies
provided information about the
drug sales. Officials seized 10
pounds of meth in a May 2020 traf-
fic stop and 44 pounds of meth in
an April 2020 stop. In September
2021, officials seized 83 pounds of
meth and 20,000 fentanyl pills.
Prosecutors said the leaders of
the drug distribution ring, Jose
Maldonado-Ramirez, 33, and his
fiancé, Iris Amador-Garcia, 30, of
Bellflower, Calif., were arrested
Oct. 28.
City passes referendumto study reparations
MD GREENBELT —
Voters in a Maryland
city passed a referendum to estab-
lish a commission to study repara-
tions for African American and
Native American residents.
The referendum asked Green-
belt residents if they wanted the
city to establish a 21-member
council to review, discuss and
make recommendations related to
local reparations. It passed with a
vote of 1,522 to 910, according to
city spokeswoman Chondria An-
drews.
The idea was proposed by May-
or Colin Byrd and the city council
voted in August to put the referen-
dum on the ballot, news outlets re-
port. Byrd has said that repara-
tions could reverse harm to fam-
ilies of color and reduce the racial
wealth gap.
Law: Used cars must besold with working airbags
NY ALBANY — A new law
will prohibit used car
dealers in New York from selling
vehicles that don’t have working
airbags.
Democratic New York Gov.
Kathy Hochul announced she
signed the bill into law. It’s named
after 18-year-old Anthony Amo-
ros, a Rockland County resident
who died in a crash in 2013 while
driving a car without airbags.
The bill will require dealers to
give buyers documentation show-
ing the vehicle has an airbag and a
readiness indicator light that
shows it is functioning.
National park cavesvandalized with graffiti
CA PINNACLES NA-
TIONAL PARK — A fa-
mous cave system at Pinnacles
National Park in central Califor-
nia was closed for removal of ex-
tensive graffiti damage.
Officials expected to reopen the
Balconies Caves on Nov. 10, the
park said in a Facebook posting.
“This act of vandalism also pro-
vides us all an opportunity to re-
flect on how we care for our public
lands,” the park said. “Graffiti that
took a couple of minutes to spray
will take well over 100 personnel
hours and 500 pounds of equip-
ment to remove.”
Voters OK early closingtime for beach bars
FL MIAMI BEACH — Last
call could come three
hours earlier in Miami Beach,
where a majority of voters fed up
with nighttime violence chose
“Yes” to rolling back the 5 a.m.
closing time for alcohol sales.
The voter referendum was held
in response to increasingly rau-
cous crowds and public drinking
in the South Beach entertainment
district, where tension has been
bubbling for years as party
crowds grew from a few weekends
into a year-round presence. It
worsened during the pandemic
when city officials closed the main
drag to vehicles and allowed res-
taurants to offer more outdoor
seating along Ocean Drive.
Now city staff must develop leg-
islation to codify the referendum.
Mayor Dan Gelber said he expects
commissioners to support such
measures now that voters have
spoken.
DON CAMPBELL, THE (ST. JOSEPH, MICH.) HERALDPALLADIUM/AP
Kiteboarders take advantage of windy conditions along Lake Michigan at Tiscornia Park in St. Joseph, Mich.
Wind in their sails
THE CENSUS
3.6 The amount, in millions of dollars, that an original 1945 Nor-man Rockwell painting sold for at auction. American Legion
Post 193 in Winchendon, Mass., auctioned the artwork in order to raise fundsafter years of dwindling revenue made worse by the pandemic. The organiza-tion acquired the painting through a donation in 1959 from a local priest’s artcollection. The painting, “Home for Thanksgiving,” depicts a soldier seatedbeside his mother, who looks at him lovingly while he peels potatoes. It wascommissioned for the Nov. 24, 1945, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
From The Associated Press
In James Austin Johnson,
“Saturday Night Live” has a
new master impressionist
on board whose take on Do-
nald Trump last weekend was a
breakout performance for the roo-
kie.
Johnson nailed a stream-of-con-
sciousness Trump during an
opening segment Saturday that
discussed Republican Glenn
Youngkin’s election as Virginia
governor. Critics at Vulture and
TheWrap said Johnson “stole the
show,” or at least the cold open.
“‘Saturday Night Live’ finally
has a truly great Trump imperson-
ator,” wrote Dan Spinelli of Moth-
er Jones. “Close your eyes and
you’ll think new cast member
James Austin Johnson is the real
thing.”
With Youngkin, portrayed by
cast member Alex Moffat, looking
uncomfortable on a split screen
next to him, Johnson circled
through topics like “Dune,” “Star
Wars,” Chris Pratt and Santa
Claus as a subject “countdown”
mirroring ESPN’s “Pardon the In-
terruption” appeared onscreen.
“Most people don’t like him, but
he’s a wonderful guy, OK? Tall,
rich, like my sons. Glenn, you’re
like my son,” Johnson’s “Trump”
said.
“Please don’t say that,” Moffat
replied.
Johnson, a 32-year-old stand-up
comic from Nashville, has already
impersonated
President Joe
Biden twice in
the season’s five
episodes, along
with Adam Driv-
er, Joe Buck, Jon
Gruden, Lindsey
Graham and
Louis C.K. It’s an
unusually fast start for a new
“SNL” player, particularly now
that the on-air cast has swelled to
21 people.
The show did not make Johnson
available for an interview on Mon-
day. Even before he joined “Satur-
day Night Live,” he had attracted
attention for his mimicry, partic-
ularly of Trump. A video of John-
son, as Trump discussing Scooby
Doo, has received more than 2.4
million views on Twitter since be-
ing posted a year ago.
Of that performance, Vice’s
Josh Terry wrote last year that
“there’s something jaw-dropping
about how accurately Johnson is
able to channel the president’s ca-
dence, speech patterns and eccen-
tricities.”
While it’s unclear how much the
news will dictate Johnson appear-
ing as Trump on “Saturday Night
Live,” he’s clearly the successor to
Alec Baldwin, who made his last
appearance as Trump shortly af-
ter the 2020 election.
In an interview with Vice last
year, Johnson said that Baldwin
brought “pure evil” to the imper-
sonation of Trump.
“A lot of the mainstream shows
miss how much love there is for
Trump,” he told Vice. “In the
quest to depict him as the monster
that, of course, I believe he is,
they’re alienating some of the peo-
ple who would otherwise laugh at
their jokes. It’s really hard to
laugh at a lot of depictions of
Trump. It doesn’t make you feel
good. I really just want my come-
dy to be a balm by being really sil-
ly.”
Yet not everyone was happy to
see Trump make a “reappear-
ance” on the comedy show.
The Atlantic’s Molly Garber
wrote that Johnson’s imperson-
ation is “deeply skillful,” poking
fun at Trump’s tendency to make
himself inescapable. Yet giving
Johnson the platform allowed
Trump to hijack its attention.
“‘SNL,’ for too long, was so in-
terested in Trump as a joke that it
ignored him as a threat,” Garber
wrote. The most recent episode
“suggests that the show has looked
back over the previous years —
and learned precisely nothing.”
A new ‘Trump’ attracting attention on ‘SNL’New cast member James Austin Johnson earning praise for mimicry after portraying former president in sketch
BY DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press
NBC
James Austin Johnson portrays former President Donald Trumpduring the cold open of “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 6. Johnson hasmade a mark early in the new season with a variety of impressions.
Johnson
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FACES
Paul Rudd has been crowned as
2021’s Sexiest Man Alive by Peo-
ple magazine.
Rudd, known for his starring
roles in Marvel’s “Ant-Man”
films, “This is 40” and “Clueless,”
was revealed as this year’s winner
Tuesday night on CBS’ “The Late
Show with Stephen Colbert.”
The actor tells the magazine in
an issue out Friday that some will
be surprised by him receiving the
honor.
“I do have an awareness,
enough to know that when people
hear that I’d be picked for this,
they would say, ‘What?’” he said.
“This is not false humility. There
are so many people that should get
this before me.”
But of course, Rudd won’t turn
down the honor. He jokingly hopes
the new title will grant him an in-
vitation to “those sexy dinners”
with George Clooney, Brad Pitt
and Michael B. Jordan — all re-
cent winners.
Other past honorees include
John Legend, Dwayne Johnson,
Chris Hemsworth, Idris Elba,
Adam Levine, Channing Tatum
and David Beckham.
“I figure I’ll be on a lot more
yachts,” Rudd said. “I’m excited
to expand my yachting life. And
I’ll probably try to get better at
brooding in really soft light. I like
to ponder. I think this is going to
help me become more inward and
mysterious. And I’m looking for-
ward to that.”
Rudd’s first major breakout
performance came in 1995’s
“Clueless,” a cult classic starring
Alicia Silverstone. He also made
his mark in several comedies such
as the “Anchorman” films, “The
40-Year-Old Virgin” and “This Is
40,” a spin-off from the comedy
“Knocked Up.”
The actor reached superstar
status in a slew of Marvel superhe-
ro films including “Ant-Man,”
“Ant-Man and the Wasp,” “Cap-
tain America: Civil War” and
“Avengers: Endgame.” He’ll star
in the upcoming “Ghostbusters:
Afterlife” and appear alongside
Will Ferrell in the new Apple TV+
series “The Shrink Next Door,”
which premieres Nov. 12.
Rudd, 52, said his wife was ini-
tially “stupefied” after he told her
the news. The couple has two kids,
17-year-old Jack and Darby, who
is 12.
“But you know, she was very
sweet about it,” he said of his wife,
Julie, of 18 years. “After some gig-
gling and shock, she said, ‘Oh, they
got it right.’ And that was very
sweet. She was probably not tell-
ing the truth, but what’s she going
to say?”
Rudd expects his circle of
friends to give him “so much
grief.” He won’t blame them, be-
cause he would do the same.
“I mean, I’m going to lean into it
hard. I’m going to own this,” he
said. “I’m not going to try to be like
‘Oh, I’m so modest.’ I’m getting
business cards made. But all of my
friends will destroy me, and I ex-
pect them to, and that’s why
they’re my friends.”
People selects Paul Ruddas 2021’s Sexiest Man AliveBY JONATHAN LANDRUM JR.
Associated Press
AP
Actor Paul Rudd joins the likes ofGeorge Clooney, Brad Pitt andMichael B. Jordan with hisselection as People magazine’sSexiest Man Alive.
The creator of Netflix’s “Squid
Game” says the hit TV series will
be back for a season two, even
though most TV shows in South
Korea run for just one season. Due
to the show’s global success,
Hwang Dong-hyuk said, “I almost
feel like you leave us no choice.”
“There’s been so much pres-
sure, so much demand and so
much love for a second season,” he
said at a red carpet celebration for
the show Monday night.
“It’s in my head right now. I’m
in the planning process currently.
But I do think it’s too early to say
when and how that’s going to hap-
pen. So I will promise you this, Gi-
hun will be back and he’ll do some-
thing for the world,” explained
Hwang.
Netflix has not announced a sec-
ond season. The series, starring
Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun and
others in the ensemble cast, cen-
ters on people who are so desper-
ate for money that they agree to
take part in a series of schoolyard
games with a deadly twist.
The dystopian survival drama
from South Korea is said to have
become Netflix’s biggest-ever TV
show.
‘Quantum Leap’ actor
Stockwell dies at 85Dean Stockwell, a top Holly-
wood child actor who gained new
success in middle age in the sci-fi
series “Quantum Leap” and in a
string of indelible performances
in film, including
David Lynch’s
“Blue Velvet,”
Wim Wenders’
“Paris, Texas”
and Jonathan
Demme’s “Mar-
ried to the Mob,”
has died. He was
85.
Jay Schwartz, a family spokes-
person, said Stockwell died of nat-
ural causes at home Sunday.
Stockwell was Oscar-nominat-
ed for his comic mafia kingpin in
“Married to the Mob” and was
four times an Emmy nominee for
“Quantum Leap.”
But in a career that spanned
seven decades, Stockwell was a
supreme character actor whose
performances — such as lip-syn-
cing Roy Orbison in a nightmarish
party scene in “Blue Velvet” —
didn’t have to be lengthy to be
mesmerizing.
Creator says ‘Squid Game’will be back for season 2
Associated Press
Stockwell
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4 Juan’s home
8 Round bread
of India
12 Cave flier
13 Pakistan
neighbor
14 Monster
15 MRI alternatives
17 Soft shoes,
for short
18 Sugar suffix
19 Joy
21 Caravan
mammals
24 Author Yutang
25 Actress/model
Mendes
26 “You betcha!!”
28 Starring roles
32 Queue
34 Peruke
36 Part of Q.E.D.
37 Impudent
39 Chewable stick
41 Attempt
42 Up to
44 Ryan O’Neal film
46 More inclined
50 Refusals
51 Zorro’s garment
52 November 11
honorees
56 Clock radio
toggle
57 “Yeah, right!”
58 PBS funder
59 Disorder
60 Pre-college
exams
61 Kinsey study
DOWN 1 Alphabet starter
2 Goat’s plaint
3 Footrests
4 Emmy-winner
Tyson
5 Altar
constellation
6 Grit
7 Photographer
Adams
8 Candidate
9 Awestruck
10 Eyebrow
shape
11 Egg container
16 Compass dir.
20 Rapper — Kim
21 Animation frames
22 Athletic shoe
brand
23 Stitch
27 Pen pal?
29 Skilled workers
30 Mend socks
31 Eyelid woe
33 Reveres
35 Gloomy guy
38 Shrill bark
40 Paintings by
Claude
43 Jeans brand
45 In favor of
46 Swindle
47 Docile
48 Actor Omar
49 Country’s
McEntire
53 Asian holiday
54 Born abroad?
55 Kenny G’s
instrument
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OPINION
Military service members re-
turning from America’s “for-
ever” wars in Iraq and Af-
ghanistan have often faced
deeply personal questions about their expe-
rience.
As one veteran explained to me: “I’ve
been asked, ‘Have you ever killed anyone in
war? Are you messed up at all?’”
“I don’t take offense to any of that be-
cause I realize we went somewhere, we
were gone for a couple of years, and now
we’re back, and now no one knows how to
talk to a person.”
This sense of estrangement from the rest
of the population is, in my experience, com-
mon among veterans. I interviewed 30 for-
mer military personnel between 2012 and
2018 for “After Combat: True War Stories
from Iraq and Afghanistan” — a book I co-
authored with retired Army Col. Michael
Gibler, who served as an infantry officer for
28 years, including deployments to both
Iraq and Afghanistan.
As the U.S. marks the 20th anniversary of
the 9/11 attacks and the global war on ter-
rorism, I believe that civilians would bene-
fit from hearing veterans’ stories. It can
help provide an understanding of the expe-
rience of mortality among the men and
women who served in America’s name.
Neither I nor my co-author asked veter-
ans directly if they had killed, and every
person we spoke with had a unique experi-
ence of combat. All 30 interviewees, aged
between 20 and 55 and from various back-
grounds, were guaranteed anonymity to al-
low them to talk freely with us about their
experiences of killing in combat. Their
names have been changed for this article.
Killing in contemporary war rarely clar-
ifies combat portrayed in war movies or
video games, where the opponent is visible
and threatening. In the fictional scenario, it
is clear when a life is threatened and how to
fight for the survival of oneself or one’s unit.
“People think it’s like ‘Call of Duty,’” one
veteran said, referring to the popular video
game, or that “it’d be cool to do that.” How-
ever, even in a direct engagement, like an
ambush, it may not be clear who you are
shooting at — it could be a response to a
muzzle flash in the distance or laying down
covering fire, he explained.
Describing an incident in which three
men attacked his unit, one veteran, Beau,
recalled the moral clarity he felt while
shooting at a visible combatant.
“I know that they’re bad because they’re
shooting at me,” he said.
But in other firefights, the situation was
less clear, and as Beau explained, “For ev-
ery innocent person that dies, that’s five
more terrorists. I need to get this right.”
Many recruits like Beau go into combat
believing that killing is necessary for war
conditions and believing that the wars in Af-
ghanistan and Iraq were militarily and po-
litically justified. But they are still changed
by having killed.
One soldier shot back from his guard post
when under fire from a nearby house. His
unit entered the house to find a dead man
with a warm rifle. But the guard was dis-
comfited when congratulated on this kill by
fellow soldiers. To his comrades, he had act-
ed in self-defense and protected others
from the shooter. But even in this situation
of militarily justified killing, he felt he had
crossed a line by taking a life.
Others expressed guilt for exposing civil-
ians to danger. One veteran spoke of feeling
responsible when a young informant was
executed after providing crucial informa-
tion to Americans.
“We found out that the family living there
told the Taliban that that little boy ratted
them out,” Robin recalled. “I found this out
two days later, that they executed the little
boy that I chose to bring into that com-
pound.”
While some veterans return from combat
without suffering moral injury or post-trau-
matic stress, others suffer enduring im-
pacts of killing. Studies have shown that the
act of killing in combat can cause “signifi-
cant psychological distress” and is associ-
ated with elevated risks of PTSD, alcohol
abuse and suicide in veterans.
As former U.S. Army Lt. Col. David
Grossman wrote in his book examining the
psychological impact of killing, a “dead sol-
dier takes his misery with him, the man who
killed him must forever live and die with
him.”
Reuben can attest to that. He fired on a
vehicle accelerating into an Iraqi check-
point. As the vehicle approached the check-
point, he shot into and stopped the advanc-
ing automobile. Approaching it to investi-
gate, the unit saw he had killed the driver.
But he had also “splattered his head all over
the driver’s child. Six years old. He was sit-
ting in the passenger seat. The fifty caliber
does a number on the human body. The
man’s head was just gone. It was every-
where.”
Reuben has ruminated over that moment
for years, trying to reconcile how he had fol-
lowed the standard protocol but with horrif-
ic results — and trying to convince himself,
as he told us, that he is not a monster.
Most civilians will never carry the bur-
den of mortality that Reuben bears.
As the 20th anniversary of the terrorist
attacks of 9/11 and the inception of Amer-
ica’s global war on terror approached, the
Biden administration withdrew the last re-
maining troops from Afghanistan.
The military members returning from
this conflict, and that in Iraq, will not all be
traumatized by combat experience, and not
all soldiers who deploy have been killed.
But those who have entered a moral space,
very few of us share or even particularly un-
derstand.
After 20 years of war, vets feel estrangedBY MARIAN EIDE
Texas A&M University
Even by the brutal political rules of
Baghdad, the recent attempt to as-
sassinate Prime Minister Mustafa
al-Kadhimi appears to have
shocked many Iraqis — and undermined the
Iranian-sponsored militias who had been
trying to drive him from power.
The “cowardly” attack, as Kadhimi de-
scribed it, has been condemned by the Unit-
ed Nations, the Biden administration, a wide
range of Iraqi politicians — and even Iran, a
prime suspect in the strike by three drones
early Sunday morning. Two of the drones
were shot down, but one hit Kadhimi’s resi-
dence.
The implications of the Baghdad drone at-
tack were summarized in an email from Ran-
da Slim, director of conflict resolution at the
Middle East Institute. “There is enough cir-
cumstantial evidence pointing to Iran-
backed Iraqi militias having orchestrated
this attack. But it already backfired on them.
It was a stupid and shortsighted move that
achieved the exact opposite of their objective
to deny Prime Minister Kadhimi a second
term. This assassination attempt made his
second term in office almost certain.”
Kadhimi is the rare personality in the Mid-
dle East who has defied threats from Iran
and its proxies without flinching. He has
been living in the crosshairs since he took of-
fice in May 2020 and has tried to steer a
course between the United States and Iran.
Since then, Iranian-backed militias have at-
tacked the Green Zone, murdered one of his
friends and defied his security officials in
their campaign of intimidation.
The Iranian-backed militias’ rage at Kad-
himi is partly a matter of sour grapes after
their failure in last month’s elections. The big
winner was the mercurial, independent-
minded Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr who,
like Kadhimi, has tried to distance himself
from Iran and promised he would “not leave
Iraq in its grip.” Sadr’s party won 73 seats in
the 329-member parliament, the largest
block. The pro-Iran coalition known as “Fa-
tah,” which includes the militias, won just 17
seats.
Kadhimi didn’t run, hoping that Sadr and
other leaders would turn to him as an inde-
pendent, as they did last year.
Soon after the ballots were counted, the
Iranian-backed groups began claiming
fraud, although the polling had been moni-
tored by the United Nations and other inde-
pendent groups. The militias even dubbed
their protest movement “Stop the Steal” in a
bizarre reference to former President Do-
nald Trump.
The showdown turned violent Friday,
when the militants besieged the Green Zone
and assaulted Iraqi security forces protect-
ing government offices and foreign embas-
sies there. The troops fired back, and two
protesters were killed. An Iraqi official close
to Kadhimi told me Sunday that more than 80
security forces and about 27 militia support-
ers were injured. “This was a staged cam-
paign to block Kadhimi’s reelection,” said
the official.
Then came the assassination attempt early
Sunday, and expressions of anger from Ira-
qis who had hoped Kadhimi could reform
Iraq’s gross corruption and thread the needle
between America and Iran. “We will pursue
those who committed yesterday’s crime; we
know them well and we will expose them,”
Kadhimi said in a statement from his office.
Other Iraqi politicians issued supportive
statements.
Iran and its militia allies made a predict-
able attempt to suggest that the United States
was somehow to blame.
But the anti-American spin isn’t likely to
gain traction, even among conspiracy-mind-
ed Iraqis. And it’s easily rebutted because
the drones were recovered. If Kadhimi can
stay alive, he has a better chance than a week
ago of remaining in power and mobilizing the
kind of reforms that Iraq desperately needs.
The spectacular failure of assassination try in IraqBY DAVID IGNATIUS
Washington Post Writers Group
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SCOREBOARD
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Tuesday’s scoresMIDWEST
Miami (Ohio) 45, Buffalo 18W. Michigan 45, Akron 40 Ohio 34, E. Michigan 26
ScheduleThursday’s game
EASTNorth Carolina (5-4) at Pittsburgh (7-2)
Friday’s gamesSOUTH
Cincinnati (9-0) at South Florida (2-7)FAR WEST
Wyoming (5-4) at Boise St. (5-4)Saturday’s games
EASTMaine (4-5) at Umass (1-8)Robert Morris (3-5) at Monmouth (NJ) (6-3)Wagner (0-9) at Sacred Heart (6-3)Penn (3-5) at Harvard (6-2)Houston (8-1) at Temple (3-6)Michigan (8-1) at Penn St. (6-3)Bucknell (1-8) at Army (5-3)Merrimack (5-4) at St. Francis (Pa.) (4-5)CCSU (3-6) at Duquesne (5-3)Georgetown (2-6) at Lehigh (1-8)Colgate (3-6) at Lafayette (3-6)New Hampshire (3-6) at Rhode Island (6-3)Norfolk St. (6-3) at Delaware St. (4-5)LIU Brooklyn (2-6) at Bryant (5-4)Morgan St. (1-8) at Albany (NY) (1-8)Holy Cross (7-2) at Fordham (6-3)Brown (2-6) at Columbia (5-3)Stony Brook (4-5) at Villanova (7-2)Yale (5-3) at Princeton (7-1)NC Central (4-5) at Howard (2-7)Cornell (2-6) at Dartmouth (7-1)Elon (4-5) at Towson (4-5)UAB (6-3) at Marshall (6-3)
SOUTHMississippi St. (5-4) at Auburn (6-3)New Mexico St. (1-8) at Alabama (8-1)Samford (4-5) at Florida (4-5)East Carolina (5-4) at Memphis (5-4)Syracuse (5-4) at Louisville (4-5)Uconn (1-8) at Clemson (6-3)Bethune-Cookman (1-8) at Grambling (3-6)Stetson (4-5) at Morehead St. (5-4)Marist (4-4) at Presbyterian (2-7)Hampton (4-5) at Campbell (3-6)NC A&T (4-5) at SC State (5-4)Charleston Southern (3-5) at Gardner-
Webb (3-6)Georgia St. (4-5) at Coastal Carolina (8-1)SE Missouri (3-6) at Murray St. (4-5)Alabama St. (3-5) at MVSU (2-7)Wofford (1-8) at The Citadel (2-7)VMI (6-3) at Furman (4-5)Delaware (5-4) at Richmond (4-5)ETSU (8-1) at W. Carolina (3-6)UT Martin (8-1) at Tennessee Tech (3-6)S. Alabama (5-4) at Appalachian St. (7-2)Prairie View (7-1) at Alcorn St. (5-4)Austin Peay (4-5) at Tennessee St. (5-4)Kennesaw St. (8-1) at North Alabama (2-7)Chattanooga (6-3) at Mercer (6-2)Miami (5-4) at Florida St. (3-6)James Madison (8-1) at William & Mary
(6-3)FAU (5-4) at Old Dominion (3-6)Duke (3-6) at Virginia Tech (4-5)Charlotte (5-4) at Louisiana Tech (2-7)Louisiana-Lafayette (8-1) at Troy (5-4)Georgia (9-0) at Tennessee (5-4)FIU (1-8) at Middle Tennessee (4-5)Boston College (5-4) at Georgia Tech (3-6)Tulsa (3-6) at Tulane (1-8)Incarnate Word (7-2) at Nicholls (5-4)Arkansas St. (1-8) at La.-Monroe (4-5)Jackson St. (8-1) at Southern U. (4-5)Kentucky (6-3) at Vanderbilt (2-7)Texas A&M (7-2) at Mississippi (7-2)Northwestern St. (2-7) at SE Louisiana (7-2)NC State (7-2) at Wake Forest (8-1)Notre Dame (8-1) at Virginia (6-3)Arkansas (6-3) at LSU (4-5)
MIDWEST
Rutgers (4-5) at Indiana (2-7)Northwestern (3-6) at Wisconsin (6-3)N. Dakota St. (8-1) at Youngstown St. (2-6)Davidson (7-1) at Dayton (5-4)Valparaiso (3-6) at Butler (2-7)West Virginia (4-5) at Kansas St. (6-3)S. Illinois (6-3) at Indiana St. (4-5)St. Thomas (Minn.) (5-3) at Drake (2-7)S. Dakota St. (7-2) at South Dakota (6-3)Illinois St. (4-5) at North Dakota (4-5)N. Iowa (5-4) at Missouri St. (6-3)Minnesota (6-3) at Iowa (7-2)Purdue (6-3) at Ohio St. (8-1)Maryland (5-4) at Michigan St. (8-1)South Carolina (5-4) at Missouri (4-5)
SOUTHWESTUCF (6-3) at SMU (7-2)Oklahoma (9-0) at Baylor (7-2)E. Kentucky (6-3) at Sam Houston St. (8-0)W. Kentucky (5-4) at Rice (3-6)Tarleton St. (5-4) at Abilene Christian (4-5)Alabama A&M (5-3) at Texas Southern (3-6)McNeese St. (3-6) at Houston Baptist (0-9)Georgia Southern (2-7) at Texas State (3-6)Florida A&M (7-2) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (2-7)Iowa St. (6-3) at Texas Tech (5-4)Southern Miss. (1-8) at UTSA (9-0)UTEP (6-3) at North Texas (3-6)Jacksonville St. (4-5) at Lamar (2-7)Stephen F. Austin (6-3) at Cent. Arkansas
(5-4)Kansas (1-8) at Texas (4-5)TCU (4-5) at Oklahoma St. (8-1)
FAR WESTUtah (6-3) at Arizona (1-8)Montana (7-2) at N. Arizona (4-5)Idaho (3-6) at Montana St. (8-1)Southern Cal (4-5) at California (3-6)Weber St. (4-5) at S. Utah (1-9)Hawaii (4-6) at UNLV (1-8)Stanford (3-6) at Oregon St. (5-4)Arizona St. (6-3) at Washington (4-5)Air Force (6-3) at Colorado St. (3-6)New Mexico (3-6) at Fresno St. (7-3)E. Washington (7-2) at UC Davis (8-1)Idaho St. (1-8) at Cal Poly (1-8)Portland St. (5-4) at Sacramento St. (7-2)Colorado (3-6) at UCLA (5-4)Fort Lewis (0-1) at Dixie St. (0-9)Nevada (7-2) at San Diego St. (8-1)Utah St. (7-2) at San Jose St. (5-5)Washington St. (5-4) at Oregon (8-1)
UAB 102, UNC-Asheville 77 UNC-Greensboro 57, NC A&T 53 VCU 57, St. Peter’s 54 VMI 111, Carlow 55 Virginia Tech 82, Maine 47 W. Carolina 79, Bowling Green 71, OT W. Kentucky 79, Alabama St. 74 Winthrop 110, MBU 78 Wofford 117, Bob Jones 79
MIDWESTButler 56, IUPUI 47 Cincinnati 65, Evansville 43 Creighton 90, Ark.-Pine Bluff 77 Dayton 64, Ill.-Chicago 54 Drake 87, Coe 61 Fort Wayne 103, Earlham 54 Illinois 71, Jackson St. 47 Illinois St. 68, UNC-Wilmington 63 Indiana 68, E. Michigan 62 Indiana St. 81, Green Bay 77 Iowa 106, Longwood 73 Iowa St. 84, Kennesaw St. 73 Kansas 87, Michigan St. 74 Loyola Chicago 103, Coppin St. 45 Marquette 88, SIU-Edwardsville 77 Milwaukee 75, North Dakota 60 Minnesota 71, UMKC 56 Missouri 78, Cent. Michigan 68 N. Dakota St. 88, Concordia (Moor.) 44 Nicholls 62, N. Iowa 58 Northwestern 80, E. Illinois 56 Ohio 92, Belmont 80 Ohio St. 67, Akron 66 Omaha 67, HCB 57 Purdue 96, Bellarmine 67 S. Dakota St. 81, Bradley 65 SE Missouri 99, Missouri St. 94 Saint Louis 96, Cent. Arkansas 61 Toledo 69, Valparaiso 61 W. Illinois 75, Nebraska 74 Wichita St. 60, Jacksonville St. 57 Wisconsin 81, St. Francis (NY) 58 Wright St. 86, Lake Erie 53 Xavier 63, Niagara 60
SOUTHWESTArkansas 74, Mercer 61 Arkansas St. 81, Harding 55 Houston 83, Hofstra 75, OT Lamar 67, Wiley 50 North Texas 84, Oklahoma Christian 53 Oklahoma 77, Northwestern St. 59 Oklahoma St. 88, Texas-Arlington 45 Rice 82, Pepperdine 63 SMU 86, McNeese St. 62 Stephen F. Austin 82, LSU-Alexandria 73 Texas 92, Houston Baptist 48 Texas A&M-CC 102, Texas Lutheran 64 Texas St. 75, Incarnate Word 57 Texas Tech 89, North Florida 74 UALR 69, S. Illinois 66 UTEP 85, W. New Mexico 57 UTSA 97, Trinity (Texas) 66
FAR WESTArizona 81, N. Arizona 52 Arizona St. 76, Portland 60 BYU 69, Cleveland St. 59 Boise St. 76, Utah Valley St. 56 Cal Baptist 87, San Francisco St. 65 Cal Poly 86, Westcliff 53 Chattanooga 75, Loyola Marymount 64 Chicago St. 77, St. Thomas (Minn.) 72 Colorado 94, Montana St. 90, OT Colorado St. 109, Oral Roberts 80 Denver 68, Regis 65 Fresno St. 74, Fresno Pacific 54 Gonzaga 97, Dixie St. 63Grand Canyon 74, Grambling St. 53 Idaho St. 82, E. Oregon 61Montana 74, Dickinson St. 27 N. Illinois 71, Washington 64 Nevada 91, E. Washington 76 New Mexico St. 62, UC Irvine 51 Oregon 83, Texas Southern 66 Oregon St. 73, Portland St. 64 S. Utah 116, Bethesda 74Sacramento St. 89, William Jessup 59 Saint Mary’s (Cal.) 87, Prairie View 68 San Diego 103, La Verne 38San Diego St. 66, UC Riverside 53
Tuesday’s men’s scoresEAST
American 77, Marist 73, OT Army 83, New Paltz 52 Boston College 73, Dartmouth 57 Brown 89, Salve Regina 59 Bryant 122, Fisher 54 Colgate 65, Northeastern 58 Cornell 76, Binghamton 69 Delaware St. 80, Cairn 41 Duquesne 73, Rider 61 Fordham 77, Columbia 67 George Washington 75, St. Francis (Pa.) 72Harvard 86, Morehouse 70 Holy Cross 98, Regis 51 Howard 87, Dist. of Columbia 59 Iona 65, Appalachian St. 53 Manhattan 99, Manhattanville 42 Maryland 83, Quinnipiac 69 Mass.-Lowell 91, Rivier 55 Morgan St. 118, St. Mary’s (Md.) 55 New Hampshire 98, St. Joseph’s (Maine) 53Princeton 94, Rutgers-Camden 28 Providence 80, Fairfield 73 Rhode Island 71, Boston U. 62 Sacred Heart 86, La Salle 81, OT Saint Joseph’s 69, Md.-Eastern Shore 67 St. Bonaventure 75, Siena 47 St. John’s 119, MVSU 61 Syracuse 97, Lafayette 63 The Citadel 78, Pittsburgh 63 Towson 77, Albany (NY) 56 UConn 99, CCSU 48 UMass 77, UMBC 60 Villanova 91, Mount St. Mary’s 51 Wagner 77, Hartford 59 West Virginia 60, Oakland 53 Yale 88, Vassar 42
SOUTHAlabama 93, Louisiana Tech 64 Alabama A&M 82, Tennessee St. 73 Auburn 77, Morehead St. 54 Austin Peay 86, Martin Methodist 79 Campbell 85, William Peace 50 Charleston South. 118, Johnson & Wales 71Charlotte 68, Monmouth (NJ) 66 Clemson 64, Presbyterian 53 Coastal Carolina 101, Ferrum 73 Davidson 93, Delaware 71 Duke 79, Kentucky 71 E. Kentucky 93, Georgetown (Ky.) 63 East Carolina 70, SC State 62 Florida 74, Elon 61 Florida Gulf Coast 94, Florida National 57 Furman 118, North Greenville 66 George Mason 74, Stony Brook 52 Georgia 58, FIU 51 Georgia Southern 82, Ball St. 71 Georgia St. 97, Brewton-Parker 37 Hampton 101, Mid-AtlanticChristian 51 High Point 108, Shenandoah 59 Jacksonville 79, Trinity Baptist 43 LSU 101, Louisiana-Monroe 39 Lipscomb 105, Birmingham Southern 98 Louisiana-Lafayette 81, West Florida 47 Louisville 72, Southern U. 60 Memphis 89, Tennessee Tech 65 Miami (Ohio) 72, Georgia Tech 69 Miami 77, Canisius 67 Middle Tennessee 98, Brescia 59 Mississippi 82, New Orleans 61 Murray St. 109, Cumberland (Tenn). 77 N. Kentucky 82, Wheeling Jesuit 54 NC State 88, Bucknell 70 Navy 66, Virginia 58 Norfolk St. 79, Bridgewater (Va.) 56 North Carolina 83, Loyola (Md.) 67 Radford 84, Emory & Henry 72 Richmond 70, NC Central 60 Samford 99, Maryville (Tenn.) 78 South Alabama 102, Spring Hill 41 South Carolina 78, SC-Upstate 60 South Florida 75, Bethune-Cookman 54 Southern Miss. 81, William Carey 67 Stetson 74, Florida Memorial 67 Tennessee 90, UT Martin 62 Troy 104, Carver 42 Tulane 70, SE Louisiana 67
San Francisco 98, LIU 64Santa Clara 84, Cal St.-Fullerton 77 Southern Cal 89, CS Northridge 49 Stanford 62, Tarleton St. 50 Texas Rio Grande 74, Texas A&M Int'l. 59 UC Davis 72, Utah St. 69UC San Diego 80, California 67 UCLA 95, CS Bakersfield 58Utah 70, Abilene Christian 56 Washington St. 85, Alcorn St. 67 Weber St. 100, Western St. (Col.) 60
Tuesday’s women’s scoresEAST
Binghamton 59, Siena 55Boston College 86, Harvard 60 Boston U. 76, Mass.-Lowell 47 Buffalo 102, Canisius 42Columbia 78, Hampton 56Coppin St. 73, La Salle 70Delaware 87, Chestnut Hill 48 Fairfield 76, Brown 52Fordham 79, Quinnipiac 71, OT George Washington 58, American U. 47 Georgetown 73, Navy 62Iona 60, Bryant 56Lehigh 82, East Stroudsburg 35 Manhattan 74, St. Francis Brooklyn 66 Marist 52, Drexel 50Marshall 108, Bluefield State 45 Maryland 97, Longwood 67Niagara 81, Loyola (Md.) 71 Penn St. 85, LIU 66Rhode Island 83, Dartmouth 37 Rutgers 59, St. Peter’s 38Saint Joseph’s 84, Md.-Eastern Shore 49 Seton Hall 81, Mount St. Mary’s 68 St. Bonaventure 61, Robert Morris 53 Stony Brook 87, Delaware St. 46 Temple 73, St. Francis (Pa.) 53 Towson 114, Frostburg State 59 UMBC 79, Gettysburg College 33 UMass 87, CCSU 50Vermont 87, Merrimack 57Wagner 61, NJIT 49Yale 63, Providence 57, OT
SOUTHAlabama 109, Charleston Southern 32 Appalachian St. 75, Lees-McRae 41 Belmont 88, Chattanooga 70Campbell 99, Pfeiffer 35Charlotte 63, Richmond 45Coastal Carolina 117, Agnes Scott 25 Coll. of Charleston 80, Wofford 48 Duke 95, Winthrop 39Elon 68, High Point 66Florida 84, Georgia St. 70Florida Gulf Coast 105, Florida Memorial 41Florida St. 78, North Florida 50 George Mason 63, FIU 60Grambling St. 69, Louisiana-Monroe 61 Jacksonville St. 89, Auburn-Montgomery 39James Madison 84, Virginia 69 Kennesaw St. 100, Thomas (GA) 31 Kentucky 81, Presbyterian 53 LSU 82, Nicholls 40Liberty 89, Belmont Abbey 40 Louisiana Tech 103, Jarvis Christian 53 Louisiana-Lafayette 84, Texas A&M-
Kingsville 58 Memphis 84, Xavier 64Miami 72, Jackson St. 67Middle Tennessee 70, East Carolina 49 Mississippi St. 91, Alabama St. 62 Murray St. 79, Asbury 40Norfolk St. 81, Chowan 53North Alabama 114, Blackburn College 52North Carolina 92, NC A&T 47 Northwestern St. 91, Centenary College 52Old Dominion 80, SC State 52 South Alabama 63, Mobile 59 South Carolina 66, NC State 57 South Florida 63, Rio Grande 56 Southern Miss. 72, William Carey 42 Stetson 127, Johnson (FL) 36 Tennessee St. 94, Fisk 48Tennessee Tech 85, Bethel (TN) 46 Troy 101, Talladega 81
Tulane 66, Southeastern 58UCF 68, Duquesne 39UNC-Greensboro 52, UNC-Asheville 48 Vanderbilt 75, Gardner-Webb 59 Virginia Tech 76, Davidson 57 W. Carolina 72, Emory & Henry 48 Wake Forest 68, Mercer 55
MIDWESTAkron 97, Slippery Rock 54Ball St. 84, Milwaukee 75, OT Bradley 84, Wright St. 65Cleveland St. 81, ETSU 54Dayton 73, Alabama A&M 52 DePaul 114, Texas Southern 71 E. Illinois 86, Lindenwood 30 Evansville 62, Austin Peay 52 Fort Wayne 102, Manchester 35 Georgia Tech 74, Cent. Michigan 40 Illinois 73, NC Central 56Indiana St. 88, Stephens 33 Iowa 93, New Hampshire 50Iowa St. 65, Nebraska-Omaha 38 Jacksonville 69, Minnesota 66 Kansas St. 103, Cent. Arkansas 40 Loyola Chicago 63, Detroit 40 Marquette 96, Alcorn St. 35 Michigan 67, IUPUI 62, OTMichigan St. 93, Morehead St. 31 N. Illinois 77, Illinois St. 60 N. Iowa 63, Saint Louis 54Nebraska 108, Maine 50Notre Dame 105, Ohio 69Oklahoma 73, South Dakota 71 S. Dakota St. 70, Green Bay 49 SE Missouri 68, St. Louis College of Phar-
macy 45 Toledo 84, Oakland 72W. Michigan 95, Kentucky State 58 Wichita St. 78, Chicago St. 34 Youngstown St. 70, E. Michigan 67
SOUTHWESTAbilene Christian 99, University of the
Southwest 43 Arkansas St. 83, Central Baptist College 52Baylor 77, Texas State 70Houston 80, Howard 48McNeese St. 65, Ark.-Pine Bluff 60 Missouri St. 76, UALR 62North Texas 93, University of Science
and Arts of Oklahoma 58 Prairie View 83, Paul Quinn College 70 Rice 84, St. Edwards 41SMU 75, UMKC 63Stephen F. Austin 77, UTSA 50 TCU 78, Houston Baptist 48Texas 131, New Orleans 36Texas A&M 87, Texas A&M-CC 54 UNLV 85, Oral Roberts 81
FAR WESTAir Force 79, Denver 62Arizona 87, CS Northridge 44 Arizona St. 71, N. Colorado 41 BYU 81, Lipscomb 58CS Bakersfield 111, Bethesda 19 Cal St.-Fullerton 71, S. Utah 69 California 90, Sacramento St. 71 California Baptist 62, UC Riverside 59 Colorado St. 77, Colorado Christian 42 Dixie St. 107, Life Pacific College 57 Idaho 95, Lewis-Clark State 46 Long Beach St. 80, Biola 61 Montana 84, Northwest Nazarene 46 Montana St. 69, Carroll College 60 New Mexico 71, Lamar 54New Mexico St. 94, Western New Mexico 40Oregon 91, Idaho St. 34Portland St. 87, Warner Pacific 64 San Diego 86, Hawaii 53San Diego St. 72, Cal State Los Angeles 57 San Francisco 69, Morgan St. 53 Seattle 89, Northwest University 32 UC Davis 69, Academy of Art 51 UC Irvine 114, Westcliff 53 UC Santa Barbara 61, Loyola Marymount 58Utah St. 83, Westminster (UT) 78 Utah Valley 90, Park University Gilbert 47 Washington St. 86, San Jose St. 56 Weber St. 72, North Dakota 57 Wyoming 67, CSU-Pueblo 53
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Tuesday’s transactionsBASEBALL
Major League BaseballAmerican League
DETROIT TIGERS — Sent RHP Drew Carl-ton outright to Toledo (Triple-A East).
National LeagueCHICAGO CUBS — Named Greg Brown
hitting coach.SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Named Mark
Hallberg third base coach, Pedro Guerreroassistant hitting coach and Taira Uematsuassistant coach.
BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association
NBA — Suspended Denver C Nikola Jokicone game without pay for forcefully shov-ing Miami F Markieff Morris to the floorfrom behind during Monday’s game. FinedMarkieff Morris $50,000 for committing aflagrant foul 2 on Jokic that initiated the in-cident.
MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Re-called G Leandro Bolmaro from Iowa.
FOOTBALLNational Football League
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed OL Mar-cus Henry and DL Zach Kerr from the prac-tice squad to the active roster. PromotedOL Danny Isadora and LB Joe Walker fromthe practice squad to the active roster. Re-signed OL Koda Martin to the practicesquad.
ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed DB ChrisWilliamson to the active roster. WaivedOLB Jacob Tuioti-Mariner and P Cam Nizia-lek.
BUFFALO BILLS — Placed WR Jake Kume-row on the reserve/COVID-19 list.
CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed OL Aa-ron Monteiro to the practice squad. Re-leased QB Josh Love from the practicesquad.
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Acquired LBClay Johnson from Carolina. Placed SBrandon Wilson, LBs Akeem Davis-Gaitherand Markus Bailey on the reserve/CO-
VID-19 list.CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed G Wyatt
Teller to a four-year contract extension.DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed K Greg
Zuerlein on the reserve/COVID-19 list.Signed WR Ja’Marcus Bradley and DT Shel-don Day from the practice squad to the ac-tive roster. Placed RBs Nick Chubb and De-metric Felton on the reserve/COVID-19list. Signed RB Brian Hill, S Nate Meadorsand WR Isaiah Zuber to the practicesquad. Released CB Tim Harris from thepractice squad.
DENVER BRONCOS — Signed LB AveryWilliamson and OL Austin Schlottmann.Placed OL Graham Glasgow on injured re-serve. Waived CB Duke Dawson Jr., WR Da-vid Moore and TE Caleb Wilson. ActivatedG Netane Nuti from the reserve/IVID-19list. Placed DB Michael Ojemudia and LBJustin Strnad on the reserve/COVID-19 list.
DETROIT LIONS — Promoted S Jalen El-liott to the active roster from the practicesquad. Signed TE Nick Eubanks and WRTravis Jonsen to the practice squad. Des-ignated QB Tim Boyle to return from in-jured reserve to practice.
HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed TE DemoneHarris to the practice squad. Claimed RBRoyce Freeman off waivers from Carolina.Placed RB Scottie Phillips on injured re-serve.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Designatted CBT.J. Carrie to return from injured reserve topractice.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released TE Na-kia Griffin-Stewart from the practicesquad. Signed G Darryl Williams to thepractice squad.
LOS ANGELES RAMS — Placed WR/TE Ja-cob Harris on injured reserve.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed C EvanBoehm to the practice squad.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Promoted DEKenny Willekes from the practice squad tothe active roster. Signed DT T.Y. McGill andDE Nate Orchard to the practice squad.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — ActivatedQB Jarrett Stidham from the physically un-
able to perform (PUP) list. Released CBBrian Poole from the practice squad.
NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived CB SamBeal.
NEW YORK JETS — Placed S MarcusMaye and TE Tyler Kroft on injured re-serve. Signed S Elijah Riley. Placed WRDenzel Mims on the reserve/COVID-19 list.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Waived LBChase Hansen.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed CBCraig James to the practice squad. WaivedCB Mac McCain.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Released KJosh Lambo from the practice squad.
TENNESSEE TITANS — Waived CB BreonBorders and WR Josh Reynolds. ReleasedDB Nate Brooks from the practice squad.
WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM —Signed K Joey Slye. Waived K Chris Blewitt.Placed OT Saahdiq Charles on the re-serve/COVID-19 list.
HOCKEYNational Hockey League
ANAHEIM DUCKS — Placed GM Bob Mur-ray on administrative leave pending anongoing investigation.
CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled LWJosh Leivo from Chicago (AHL).
COLORADO AVALANCHE — Recalled CAlex Newhook from Colorado (AHL).
MINNEOSTA WILD — Reassigned F Alex-ander Khovanov from Iowa (AHL) to IowaCity (ECHL).
NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled FsMichael McCarron and Mathieu Olivierfrom Milwaukee (AHL). Placed Fs NickCousins and Filip Forsberg on injured re-serve.
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled Fs Jesp-er Boqvist and Tyce Thompson from Utica(AHL).
PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Recalled DNick Seeler from Iowa (AHL).
SOCCERMajor League Soccer
NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Re-signed F Gustavo Bou to a two-year con-tract extension.
DEALS
SEE SCOREBOARD ON PAGE 19
PRO SOCCER
MLS playoffsFirst Round
Eastern ConferenceNov. 20-23
No. 2 Philadelphia vs. No. 7 NY Red Bulls No. 3 Nashville SC vs. No. 6 Orlando City No. 4 New York City FC vs. No. 5 Atlanta
Western ConferenceNov. 20-23
No. 2 Seattle vs. No. 7 Real Salt Lake No. 3 Sporting Kansas City vs. No. 6 Van-
couver No. 4 Portland vs. No. 5 Minnesota United
Conference SemifinalsEastern Conference Nov. 25-30
No. 1 New England vs. New York City FC-Atlanta winner
Nashville-Orlando City winner vs. Phila-delphia-NY Red Bulls winner
Western ConferenceNov. 25-30
No. 1 Colorado vs. Portland-MinnesotaUnited winner
Sporting Kansas City-Vancouver winnervs. Seattle-Real Salt Lake winner
Conference FinalsEastern Conference
Dec. 4-5Semifinal winners
Western ConferenceDec. 4-5
Semifinal winners
NWSL playoffsSunday, Nov. 7
First RoundChicago 1, Gotham FC 0 Washington 1, North Carolina 0, OT
Sunday, Nov. 14Semifinals
OL Reign vs. WashingtonPortland vs. Chicago
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SCOREBOARD/NHL
PRO FOOTBALL
NFL
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
Buffalo 5 3 0 .625 235 118
New England 5 4 0 .556 230 170
N.Y. Jets 2 6 0 .250 144 251
Miami 2 7 0 .222 155 242
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Tennessee 7 2 0 .778 255 211
Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 245 213
Jacksonville 2 6 0 .250 132 209
Houston 1 8 0 .111 128 258
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Baltimore 6 2 0 .750 221 195
Pittsburgh 5 3 0 .625 161 169
Cincinnati 5 4 0 .556 236 203
Cleveland 5 4 0 .556 224 196
West
W L T Pct PF PA
L.A. Chargers 5 3 0 .625 199 201
Las Vegas 5 3 0 .625 196 189
Denver 5 4 0 .556 187 153
Kansas City 5 4 0 .556 221 227
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
Dallas 6 2 0 .750 241 192
N.Y. Giants 3 6 0 .333 179 216
Philadelphia 3 6 0 .333 227 218
Washington 2 6 0 .250 156 227
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Tampa Bay 6 2 0 .750 260 183
New Orleans 5 3 0 .625 201 155
Atlanta 4 4 0 .500 175 220
Carolina 4 5 0 .444 171 183
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Green Bay 7 2 0 .778 199 180
Minnesota 3 5 0 .375 194 191
Chicago 3 6 0 .333 150 224
Detroit 0 8 0 .000 134 244
West
W L T Pct PF PA
Arizona 8 1 0 .889 277 155
L.A. Rams 7 2 0 .778 261 196
San Francisco 3 5 0 .375 185 202
Seattle 3 5 0 .375 181 169
Thursday’s game
Baltimore at MiamiSunday’s games
Atlanta at DallasBuffalo at N.Y. JetsCleveland at New EnglandDetroit at PittsburghJacksonville at IndianapolisNew Orleans at TennesseeTampa Bay at WashingtonCarolina at ArizonaMinnesota at L.A. ChargersPhiladelphia at DenverSeattle at Green BayKansas City at Las VegasOpen: Cincinnati, Houston, Chicago, N.Y.
GiantsMonday’s game
L.A. Rams at San Francisco
FROM PAGE 18
Eastern ConferenceAtlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Florida 13 10 2 1 21 52 35
Detroit 14 7 5 2 16 43 46
Tampa Bay 12 6 3 3 15 36 37
Toronto 13 7 5 1 15 33 37
Boston 10 6 4 0 12 28 28
Buffalo 12 5 5 2 12 36 36
Ottawa 12 3 8 1 7 30 43
Montreal 14 3 10 1 7 28 48
Metropolitan Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Carolina 11 10 1 0 20 41 21
N.Y. Rangers 13 7 3 3 17 33 37
Washington 12 6 2 4 16 42 32
Philadelphia 10 6 2 2 14 32 25
Columbus 10 7 3 0 14 32 28
New Jersey 11 6 3 2 14 33 33
N.Y. Islanders 10 5 3 2 12 27 25
Pittsburgh 11 4 3 4 12 35 35
Western ConferenceCentral Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
St. Louis 11 8 2 1 17 40 27
Minnesota 11 8 3 0 16 37 36
Winnipeg 12 6 3 3 15 39 35
Nashville 12 6 5 1 13 32 33
Dallas 11 4 5 2 10 25 35
Colorado 10 4 5 1 9 30 36
Chicago 14 3 9 2 8 31 50
Arizona 12 1 10 1 3 19 49
Pacific Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Edmonton 11 9 2 0 18 47 32
Calgary 12 7 2 3 17 41 26
Anaheim 14 7 4 3 17 46 39
San Jose 12 7 4 1 15 36 31
Los Angeles 13 7 5 1 15 38 34
Vegas 13 7 6 0 14 41 42
Vancouver 13 5 6 2 12 35 37
Seattle 13 4 8 1 9 38 48
Tuesday’s games
New Jersey 7, Florida 3Boston 3, Ottawa 2Los Angeles 3, Montreal 2, OTCarolina 2, Tampa Bay 1, OTDetroit 4, Edmonton 2St. Louis 3, Winnipeg 2, SOChicago 3, Pittsburgh 2, SOSan Jose 4, Calgary 1Vegas 4, Seattle 2Anaheim 3, Vancouver 2, OT
Wednesday’s games
Toronto at PhiladelphiaNashville at DallasMinnesota at Arizona
Thursday’s games
Calgary at MontrealEdmonton at BostonFlorida at PittsburghLos Angeles at OttawaN.Y. Islanders at New JerseyWashington at DetroitNashville at St. LouisSan Jose at WinnipegVancouver at ColoradoAnaheim at SeattleMinnesota at Vegas
Scoreboard
TENNIS
Stockholm OpenTuesday
At Kungliga tennishallenStockholm
Purse: Euro 508,600Surface: Hardcourt indoor
Men’s SinglesRound of 32
Arthur Rinderknech, France, def. Alex-ander Bublik (6), Kazakhstan, 6-1, 2-0, ret.
Botic van de Zandschulp, Netherlands,def. Nino Serdarusic, Croatia, 7-6 (5), 7-6(5).
Pedro Martinez, Spain, def. Emil Ruusu-vuori, Finland, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4).
Andy Murray, Britain, def. Viktor Dura-sovic, Norway, 6-1, 7-6 (7).
Taylor Fritz (5), United States, def. EgorGerasimov, Belarus, 6-4, 6-4.
Men’s DoublesRound of 16
Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, and AndresMolteni, Argentina, def. Marcelo Melo,Brazil, and Ivan Dodig (1), Croatia, 6-7 (5),7-5, 10-7.
Markus Eriksson and Elias Ymer, Swe-den, def. Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands,and Andreas Mies, Germany, 2-6, 6-4, 10-5.
Robert Lindstedt and Andre Goransson,Sweden, def. Mohamed Safwat, Egypt,and Karl Friberg, Sweden, 6-1, 3-6, 10-6.
goal at 4:44 of the third. Smith and
Vesey closed out the scoring.
Red Wings 4, Oilers 2:Vladislav
Namestnikov scored in the first and
second period, leading host Detroit
past Edmonton.
The Oilers had won nine of their
first 10 games for the first time in
franchise history. They went 0-for-2
on the power play after becoming
the first team since Pittsburgh in
2007 to open a season with a power-
play goal in 10 straight games.
Dylan Larkin had a goal and Mo-
ritz Seider scored into an empty net
as the Red Wings won their third
straight.
Edmonton goalie Stuart Skinner
stopped 35 shots in his season debut,
filling in for Mikko Koskinen on the
first night of a five-game road trip.
Bruins 3, Senators 2: Patrice
Bergeron scored the tiebreaking
goal late in the second period and
host Boston held on to beat short-
handed Ottawa.
The Senators, who canceled prac-
tice Monday for precautionary rea-
sons, were without five players and
an assistant coach who have been
placed on the COVID protocol list.
Hurricanes 2, Lightning 1 (OT):
Martin Necas scored from the left
circle 3:26 into overtime and visiting
Carolina won its 10th game of the
season.
The Hurricanes (10-1-1) set a
team record for the fewest games to
reach 10 wins. Carolina had its sea-
son-opening, nine-game winning
NEWARK, N.J. — Mackenzie
Blackwood made 34 saves and the
New Jersey Devils beat Florida 7-3
Tuesday night, handing the Pan-
thers a second-straight regulation
loss after they went 11 games with-
out one.
Andreas Johnsson scored twice
and defenseman P.K. Subban had
the go-ahead goal as the Devils had
their biggest offensive output of the
season.
“We’ve been looking for offense,”
Devils coach Lindy Ruff said.
“Hopefully we can use this a spring-
board.”
Florida lost for the first time in
regulation against the Rangers on
Monday after a 10-0-1 start.
“The last two games we haven’t
really grabbed those momentum
swings,” Panthers coach Andrew
Brunette said. “We allowed two
goals in 30 seconds in a 4-3 game and
next thing you know, it’s 6-3.”
Nico Hischier, Pavel Zacha, Ty
Smith and Jimmy Vesey also scored
for the Devils, who are 6-3-2.
“Our skating and our compete
were evident all night,” Ruff added.
“We had our defense joining the
rush. Once we got the puck, we were
on the move.”
With the score tied 3-3, Subban’s
shot from the point late in the second
period eluded Panthers goaltender
Spencer Knight for his first goal of
the season. Zacha gave the Devils a
two-goal cushion with a power-play
streak end Saturday in a 5-2 loss at
Florida.
Steven Stamkos scored for the
Lightning, who are 4-0-2 in the past
six games.
Kings 3, Canadiens 2 (OT):
Adrian Kempe scored on a sweep-
ing move at 3:39 of overtime and vis-
iting Los Angeles extended its win-
ning streak to six games with a victo-
ry over Montreal.
Brendan Lemieux and Alex Iafal-
lo also scored for the Kings, who
boast the longest current winning
streak in the NHL.
Blues 3, Jets 2 (SO): Ryan
O’Reilly was the only scorer in the
shootout and visiting St. Louis beat
Winnipeg.
Eight skaters took shots in the
contest, with O’Reilly beating Jets
goalie Connor Hellebuyck, who fin-
ished with 31 saves.
Blackhawks 3, Penguins 2 (SO):
Marc-Andre Fleury made 42 saves
and then two more stops in the shoo-
tout, and host Chicago won again un-
der interim coach Derek King, top-
ping Pittsburgh.
King took over after Jeremy Col-
liton was fired Saturday with a 1-9-2
record for a team that began the sea-
son with playoff aspirations.
Jeff Carter scored twice for Pitts-
burgh, which lost for the fifth time in
six games.
Golden Knights 4, Kraken 2:
Shea Theodore and Reilly Smith
scored 46 seconds apart early in the
third period to lift host Vegas past
Seattle.
It was the second meeting of the
NHL’s two newest franchises. The
Golden Knights beat the Kraken on
opening night, 4-3.
After a 1-4 start to the season, Ve-
gas is on a 6-2-0 surge.
Ducks 3, Canucks 2 (OT): Troy
Terry scored 3:52 into overtime to
give visiting Anaheim a win over
Vancouver.
Cam Fowler and Isac Lundes-
trom scored in regulation for the
Ducks, who extended their win
streak to five games.
Sharks 4, Flames 1: Logan Cou-
ture’s third-period goal proved to be
the winner, leading visiting San Jose
over Calgary.
Tomas Hertl and Jonathan Dah-
len added empty-net goals for the
Sharks.
San Jose was without head coach
Bob Boughner for a fifth straight
game because he’s in COVID-19
protocol.
NHL ROUNDUP
Devils hand Pantherstheir 2nd straight loss
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Devils defenseman P.K. Subban, left, reacts in front of teammates after scoring against the FloridaPanthers during the second period on Tuesday in Newark, N.J. The Devils beat the Panthers 73.
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NFL
AFC team statistics
AVERAGE PER GAME
OFFENSE
Yards Rush Pass
Baltimore 427.9 161.6 266.2
Las Vegas 394.5 89.4 305.1
Kansas City 393.3 112.3 281.0
Buffalo 390.1 119.8 270.4
L.A. Chargers 384.9 102.5 282.4
Cleveland 380.1 160.2 219.9
Indianapolis 371.0 137.3 233.7
Cincinnati 361.4 97.1 264.3
Tennessee 356.8 138.9 217.9
Denver 345.9 113.2 232.7
New England 345.6 106.8 238.8
Jacksonville 332.9 111.5 221.4
N.Y. Jets 328.9 77.1 251.8
Pittsburgh 324.1 88.4 235.8
Miami 297.4 75.1 222.3
Houston 280.1 75.8 204.3
DEFENSE
Yards Rush Pass
Buffalo 262.6 85.6 177.0
Cleveland 309.7 84.8 224.9
Denver 321.8 98.3 223.4
New England 340.3 108.9 231.4
Las Vegas 340.4 133.5 206.9
Pittsburgh 354.2 109.8 244.5
L.A. Chargers 358.6 161.6 197.0
Cincinnati 361.2 100.9 260.3
Tennessee 365.8 100.0 265.8
Indianapolis 367.2 106.4 260.8
Baltimore 374.2 91.8 282.5
Jacksonville 375.4 103.4 272.0
Kansas City 381.4 121.8 259.7
Houston 385.9 136.9 249.0
Miami 391.9 111.0 280.9
N.Y. Jets 408.1 133.2 274.9
NFC team statistics
AVERAGE PER GAME
OFFENSE
Yards Rush Pass
Dallas 434.2 142.8 291.5
Tampa Bay 423.1 95.6 327.5
L.A. Rams 399.3 103.0 296.3
Arizona 398.4 132.6 265.9
Minnesota 385.1 124.9 260.2
San Francisco 365.6 113.1 252.5
Washington 348.6 118.1 230.5
Philadelphia 346.1 136.6 209.6
Atlanta 338.0 80.4 257.6
N.Y. Giants 334.6 95.9 238.7
Green Bay 333.4 109.7 223.8
Detroit 321.1 93.1 228.0
Carolina 318.7 110.4 208.2
New Orleans 314.6 123.0 191.6
Seattle 314.0 102.9 211.1
Chicago 280.7 136.6 144.1
DEFENSE
Yards Rush Pass
Carolina 293.1 111.7 181.4
Arizona 321.0 111.1 209.9
Green Bay 321.2 110.8 210.4
Tampa Bay 335.8 78.0 257.8
San Francisco 338.1 131.6 206.5
New Orleans 347.0 73.8 273.2
L.A. Rams 348.2 99.6 248.7
Chicago 348.9 122.8 226.1
Philadelphia 355.3 119.7 235.7
Atlanta 360.5 123.1 237.4
Dallas 371.5 101.0 270.5
N.Y. Giants 372.4 122.6 249.9
Detroit 378.9 134.5 244.4
Minnesota 383.6 136.6 247.0
Washington 389.4 102.6 286.8
Seattle 401.5 127.6 273.9
AFC individual leaders
Quarterbacks
Att Com Yds TD Int
Carr, Las 312 210 2565 13 7
Mahomes, KC 362 236 2534 20 10
Burrow, Cin 286 195 2497 20 11
Herbert, LAC 319 211 2350 18 6
Allen, Buf 319 209 2236 17 5
Jackson, Bal 266 173 2209 13 7
Wentz, Ind 300 190 2198 17 3
Bridgewater, Den 285 200 2163 14 5
Tannehill, Ten 289 191 2145 11 8
M.Jones, NE 300 204 2135 10 7
Rushers
Att Yds Avg LG TD
Henry, Ten 219 937 4.3 76t 10
Taylor, Ind 140 821 5.9 83 8
Chubb, Cle 120 721 6.0 70t 6
Mixon, Cin 150 636 4.2 27 7
Jackson, Bal 97 600 6.2 31 2
Harris, NE 133 547 4.1 35 7
Harris, Pit 150 541 3.6 20 4
J.Robinson, Jac 88 482 5.5 58 5
Ekeler, LAC 101 479 4.7 28 5
Gordon, Den 109 477 4.4 70t 4
Receivers
No Yds Avg LG TD
Chase, Cin 44 835 19.0 82t 7
Hill, KC 68 772 11.4 75t 6
Brown, Bal 46 682 14.8 49t 6
Pittman, Ind 50 658 13.2 57 5
Cooks, Hou 57 641 11.2 52 2
Kelce, KC 54 628 11.6 46t 5
Allen, LAC 57 600 10.5 42 2
Diggs, Buf 48 588 12.3 61 3
Sutton, Den 41 588 14.3 55 2
Williams, LAC 37 575 15.5 72t 6
Punters
No Yds Lg Avg
Cole, Las 31 1624 71 52.4
Morstead, NYJ 23 1108 59 48.2
Scoring
Touchdowns
TDRush Rec Ret Pts
Henry, Ten 10 10 0 0 60
Mixon, Cin 9 7 2 0 54
Kicking
PAT FG LG Pts
Folk, NE 19/22 21/23 52 82
Bass, Buf 23/23 18/19 57 77
Weekly statistics
NFC individual leaders
Quarterbacks
Att Com Yds TD Int
Stafford, LAR 321 219 2771 23 6
Brady, TB 343 231 2650 25 5
K.Murray, Ari 256 186 2276 17 7
Ryan, Atl 301 209 2157 15 6
Cousins, Min 302 206 2140 16 2
Jones, NYG 293 190 2059 8 5
Prescott, Dal 255 177 2045 18 5
Goff, Det 308 206 1995 8 6
Darnold, Car 306 182 1986 7 11
Hurts, Phi 273 168 1981 11 4
Rushers
Att Yds Avg LG TD
Elliott, Dal 128 622 4.9 47 5
Henderson, LAR 121 562 4.6 29 5
Cook, Min 115 554 4.8 66 2
Kamara, NO 146 530 3.6 23t 3
Jones, GB 116 516 4.4 57 3
Hurts, Phi 83 494 6.0 27 5
Mitchell, SF 89 469 5.3 39 3
Conner, Ari 115 454 3.9 35 10
Gibson, Was 111 442 4.0 27 3
Fournette, TB 101 439 4.3 21 4
Receivers
No Yds Avg LG TD
Kupp, LAR 74 1019 13.8 59 10
Samuel, SF 49 882 18.0 83 4
Adams, GB 58 786 13.6 59 3
Moore, Car 53 677 12.8 39 3
Godwin, TB 50 660 13.2 44 4
Jefferson, Min 46 632 13.7 50t 4
Lamb, Dal 41 632 15.4 49t 4
Metcalf, Sea 39 580 14.9 84t 8
Lockett, Sea 41 579 14.1 69t 3
McLaurin, Was 43 573 13.3 40t 4
Punters
No Yds Lg Avg
Lee, Ari 31 1584 62 51.1
Way, Was 22 1109 66 50.4
Scoring
Touchdowns
TDRush Rec Ret Pts
Conner, Ari 11 10 1 0 66
Kupp, LAR 10 0 10 0 60
Kicking
PAT FG LG Pts
Gay, LAR 28/29 17/18 54 79
Prater, Ari 34/34 13/16 62 73
Scoring is down, home-field advantage hasn’t re-
turned even if the fans have, and the AFC could be in a
wild race for playoff spots.
As the NFL gets set to start the second half of its 18-
week season, there are a few notable statistical trends
to pay attention to, with the two most notable being
the reduction of scoring and home-team struggles.
Points per game have dropped by nearly two points
per contest per team so far this season as a marked
increase in offensive penalties and a small decrease
in passing efficiency has taken a toll.
The average team is scoring 1.95 fewer points per
game through nine weeks this season than in 2020, the
third-biggest one-week drop through nine weeks
since the merger. The only bigger ones came in 1991
(2.58 per game) and 1977 (1.97 per game).
One factor could be a big increase in offensive pe-
nalties with holding, false starts and delay of games
all increasing from last year’s pace. That has contrib-
uted to to a 35% increase in offensive penalties, while
defensive penalties have remained flat.
While some of those pre-snap penalties could be
because of the return of fans, the sold-out stadiums
have not made life more difficult overall for road
teams and reversed the trend from last season when
home teams had a losing record (127-128-1) for the
first time since the merger.
Instead, road teams have gotten even better in
2021, finishing the first half of the season with a 70-64
record (.522), not counting two games played in Lon-
don when the designated “home” team won.
This trend started in 2019, when home teams post-
ed a .518 winning percentage for the lowest mark in
the NFL since 1972.
Here are some others:
Jam-packed AFCThe standings are tight at the top of the AFC with
nine teams with exactly five wins, including all four in
the AFC West.
Tennessee (7-2) and Baltimore (6-2) sit at the top of
the conference, but the 11 teams with winning records
through nine weeks matches the most in NFL history.
The only other time that happened was in 2014.
That season ended with six AFC teams getting dou-
ble-digit wins and four missing the playoffs despite
posting winning records.
Rookie QBsWith five quarterbacks selected in the first round of
the draft in April, rookie quarterbacks figured to be a
story line in 2021.
Three of them stepped in as Week 1 starters, with
No. 1 pick Trevor Lawrence getting the job in Jack-
sonville, No. 2 pick Zach Wilson taking over for the
Jets and No. 15 pick Mac Jones winning the job in New
England.
No. 11 pick Justin Fields became the starter in
Week 3 for Chicago, while No. 3 pick Trey Lance and
third-rounder Davis Mills have gotten starts because
of injuries to starters in San Francisco and Houston.
In all, the rookies have made 34 starts for the sec-
ond-most ever through nine weeks of a non-strike
season, compared to the 41 in 2012 in a class headlined
by Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson and Robert Griffin
III.
While that trio made the playoffs as rookie starters,
only Jones has his team in position for a playoff spot at
the midpoint this season.
The rookies have combined for a 10-27 record as
starters, with Jones earning half the wins. Lawrence,
Wilson, Fields and Mills have four of the worst six
passer ratings among 33 qualified QBs.
All or nothingThe increase in fourth-down tries to a record pace
so far this season have made both comebacks more
prevalent and blowouts more common.
There have been a record-tying 41 games won by
teams that trailed in the fourth quarter so far this sea-
son, matching the most through Week 9, previously
done in both 1989 and 2012.
There have been a record 35 games with the win-
ning score coming in the final two minutes of regu-
lation or overtime, and 13 that have gone to an extra
period, tied for the fourth most.
RON JENKINS/AP
The Dallas Cowboys’ Osa Odighizuwa (97) and Micah Parsons (11) celebrate sacking Denver Broncosquarterback Teddy Bridgewater during Sunday’s game in Arlington, Texas. The average team is scoring1.95 fewer points this season than last season and road teams have a 7074 advantage.
Scoring down, home-fieldstruggles among trends
BY JOSH DUBOW
Associated Press
Thursday, November 11, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 21
COLLEGE FOOTBALL/NBA
PHILADELPHIA — Giannis
Antetokounmpo had 31 points
and 16 rebounds, Grayson Allen
scored 25 points and hit a key
three-pointer late in the fourth
quarter, and the Milwaukee
Bucks held off the short-handed
Philadelphia 76ers 118-109 on
Tuesday night.
Bobby Portis added 19 points
for the NBA champions, who
played a day after celebrating the
franchise’s first title in 50 years
with a trip to visit President Joe
Biden at the White House. The
Bucks won for just the second
time in the past seven.
Tyrese Maxey scored 31 points
for the 76ers, who played without
four-time All-Star Joel Embiid
for the second straight game.
Embiid was one of four Philadel-
phia players out due to the NBA’s
health and safety protocols, along
with Tobias Harris, Matisse Thy-
bulle and Isaiah Joe.
Seth Curry (left foot contusion)
also sat for the 76ers, and Ben
Simmons (personal reasons)
hasn’t played all season.
Jazz 110, Hawks 98: Donovan
Mitchell scored 27 points to lead
host Utah over Atlanta.
Bojan Bogdanovic and Jordan
Clarkson added 16 points apiece
for the Jazz. Rudy Gobert
grabbed 14 rebounds. Utah shot
51% from the field to beat the
Hawks for the second time in five
days.
Kevin Huerter scored 28
points and Trae Young added 27
for Atlanta. Cam Reddish had 16
points, while Clint Capela fin-
ished with 13 points and 12 re-
bounds. Atlanta lost despite
shooting 51% from three-point
range.
The Jazz scored baskets on
seven straight possessions at one
point in the second quarter and
shot 12-for-18 from the field dur-
ing the period to break open a
close game.
Clippers 117, Trail Blazers
109: Paul George scored 24
points, Reggie Jackson added 23
and Los Angeles extended its
winning streak to five, beating
visiting Portland.
Nicolas Batum added a season-
high 22 points for the Clippers,
who are 6-4 after losing four of
their first five to start the season.
George, the reigning Western
Conference player of the week,
played only 33 minutes after get-
ting into foul trouble midway
through the third quarter.
Despite the decreased playing
time, he was near a triple-double
with nine rebounds and seven as-
sists.
Damian Lillard led the Trail
Blazers with 27 points and Nor-
man Powell scored 23. Jusuf Nur-
kic had 15 points and 13 rebounds
for Portland, winless in its first
five road games.
MATT SLOCUM/AP
The Milwaukee Bucks’ Jrue Holiday, left, goes up for a shot against the Philadelphia 76ers’ CharlesBassey during the Bucks’ 118109 win Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Embiid, Harrissit again; 76ersfall to Bucks
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Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Philadelphia 8 4 .667 —
Brooklyn 7 4 .636 ½
New York 7 4 .636 ½
Toronto 6 5 .545 1½
Boston 4 6 .400 3
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Miami 7 3 .700 —
Washington 7 3 .700 —
Charlotte 5 7 .417 3
Atlanta 4 8 .333 4
Orlando 3 8 .273 4½
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Chicago 7 3 .700 —
Cleveland 7 4 .636 ½
Milwaukee 5 6 .455 2½
Indiana 4 7 .364 3½
Detroit 1 8 .111 5½
Western Conference
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
Dallas 7 3 .700 —
Memphis 6 4 .600 1
San Antonio 3 7 .300 4
Houston 1 9 .100 6
New Orleans 1 10 .091 6½
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Utah 8 3 .727 —
Denver 6 4 .600 1½
Portland 5 6 .455 3
Oklahoma City 3 6 .333 4
Minnesota 3 6 .333 4
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
Golden State 9 1 .900 —
Phoenix 6 3 .667 2½
L.A. Clippers 6 4 .600 3
L.A. Lakers 6 5 .545 3½
Sacramento 5 6 .455 4½
Tuesday’s games
Milwaukee 118, Philadelphia 109Utah 110, Atlanta 98L.A. Clippers 117, Portland 109
Wednesday’s games
Brooklyn at OrlandoWashington at ClevelandDetroit at HoustonMilwaukee at New YorkToronto at BostonCharlotte at MemphisDallas at ChicagoOklahoma City at New OrleansSacramento at San AntonioIndiana at DenverPortland at PhoenixMiami at L.A. LakersMinnesota at Golden State
Scoreboard
No. 3 Oregon, No. 4 Ohio State
and No. 5 Cincinnati all moved up
one spot behind No. 1 Georgia and
No. 2 Alabama in the second Col-
lege Football Playoff rankings,
which were released Tuesday
night.
Two Southeastern Conference
teams sat atop the ranking for a
second straight week, but after Mi-
chigan State lost last weekend, at
least one spot in the top four was
certain to change.
The CFP selection committee
simply bumped up the Ducks,
Buckeyes and Bearcats and drop-
ped Michigan State to No. 7 behind
No. 6 Michigan.
“It’s worth noting that teams
ranked two through six all won, but
the committee just didn’t see a sep-
aration," committee chairman and
Iowa athletic director Gary Barta
said.
The Spartans beat the Wolve-
rines 37-33 just two weeks ago, but
the head-to-head result didn't car-
ry the debate with the committee.
“The Michigan-Michigan State
discussion started last week," Bar-
ta said. "The committee went back
and forth. Michigan, statistically,
is probably a more complete
team.”
For the second straight week,
Cincinnati set a new mark for best
ranking for a team outside the
Power Five conferences. The
Bearcats were sixth in the first
rankings.
Unbeaten Oklahoma remained
at No. 8 and Notre Dame and Okla-
homa State rounded out the top 10.
There are three more regular-
season rankings before the CFP
selection committee sets the semi-
final matchups and other New
Year's Six bowls with its final Top
25 on Dec. 5.
The College Football Playoff
semifinals will be played at the Or-
ange Bowl and Cotton Bowl on
Dec. 31.
The national championship
game is scheduled for Jan. 10 in In-
dianapolis.
Sooners have a shotThe Sooners and the Big 12 have
quite a bit of ground to make up,
but will have plenty of fuel left on
the schedule to get a boost.
Oklahoma's next three are
against Baylor, the committee's
No. 13 team, Iowa State (unranked
but 6-3), and Oklahoma State. The
Cowboys have already split games
with Baylor and Iowa State.
“The committee noted, as prob-
ably anybody who has been watch-
ing Oklahoma, the quarterback
change to Caleb Williams has
changed that team,” Barta said.
The freshman Williams took
over for Spencer Rattler four
games ago an Oklahoma's offense
has taken off since.
Ohio State movesinto CFP position;Cincinnati is fifth
BY RALPH D. RUSSO
Associated Press
College Football Playoff Rankings
Team Record
1. Georgia 9-0
2. Alabama 8-1
3. Oregon 8-1
4. Ohio State 8-1
5. Cincinnati 9-0
6. Michigan 8-1
7. Michigan State 8-1
8. Oklahoma 9-0
9. Notre Dame 8-1
10. Oklahoma State 8-1
11. Texas A&M 7-2
12. Wake Forest 8-1
13. Baylor 7-2
14. BYU 8-2
15. Mississippi 7-2
16. NC State 7-2
17. Auburn 6-3
18. Wisconsin 6-3
19. Purdue 6-3
20. Iowa 7-2
21. Pittsburgh 7-2
22. San Diego State 8-1
23. UTSA 9-0
24. Utah 6-3
25. Arkansas 6-3
The playoff semifinals match the No. 1seed vs. the No. 4 seed, and No. 2 will faceNo. 3. The semifinals will be hosted at theCotton Bowl and Orange Bowl on Dec. 312021. The championship game will beplayed on Jan. 10, 2022 at Lucas Oil Stadi-um, Ind.
Scoreboard
NBA ROUNDUP
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Ohio State, led by runnig back TreVeyon Henderson (32), moved intothe fourth spot in the College Football Playoff rankings.
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —
John Carter Jr. scored 19 points,
Sean Yoder added 15 and Navy got
its first win over a ranked team
since the David Robinson era,
stunning No. 25 Virginia 66-58 in
the season opener for both teams
on Tuesday night.
The Midshipmen beat a team
ranked in The Associated Press
Top 25 — where Virginia’s stay
will be brief — for the first time
since Robinson led them past Sy-
racuse 97-85 on March 16, 1986.
Facing one of college basket-
ball’s top programs over the past
decade, Navy was the better team
in every respect. The Midshipmen
outshot Virginia 45.3% to 41.2%,
outrebounded the Cavaliers 35-
30, got 10 second-chance points to
Virginia’s six and had 15 bench
points to the Cavaliers’ six.
“I just try to concentrate on who
we are in our three things: defend,
rebound, take care of the ball. And
if we win two of the three of those
things, we got a chance to win the
game,” Navy coach Ed DeChellis
said.
East Carolina transfer Jayden
Gardner led Virginia with 18
points and 10 rebounds, but after
the Cavaliers tied the game at 55-
all with 8:53 left, they didn’t score
again for more than 8½ minutes.
Another transfer, Armaan Fran-
klin, made a three-pointer with 15
seconds left.
Yoder, meanwhile, scored twice
inside and Daniel Deaver had a
putback while Virginia went cold,
making one of its last 10 shots.
Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett
was more concerned with the de-
fensive breakdowns.
“They shot lights out and some-
times we were there, sometimes
we weren’t,” he said. “And then
any time we broke down, they
kind of took advantage.”
Franklin’s three-pointer was his
second field goal. The Indiana
transfer, coveted for his outside
shooting, missed nine of 11 shots
and six of seven threes in his Vir-
ginia debut.
Carter scored 16 of his points in
the first 13 minutes as the Mid-
shipmen blistered the Cavaliers
from long range, making eight of
its first 10 three-point tries. The
Mids made two of their next 10 be-
fore Carter connected for his fifth
with 24 seconds to play. That gave
Navy a 64-55 lead and sent fans fil-
ing for the exits.
Big pictureNavy: A hot shooting start in a
hostile atmosphere demonstrated
that while the Midshipmen lost
their best player from last year’s
team, their four returning starters
play with a confidence born of ex-
perience. Carter and Yoder led
the long-distance success, but
three others made a three.
“I credit our players. They just
did a great job of handling the
pressure,” DeChellis said, noting
it was Navy’s first game in front of
a crowd since 2019.
“We’ve got some guys with
some minutes on them.”
Virginia: Bennett’s signature
pack-line defense often struggles
early in the season, especially
when incorporating new players
like Gardner and Franklin. That
was especially true early as the
Mids made eight three-pointers in
the first 13 minutes.
Navy knocks off 25th-ranked VirginiaBY HANK KURZ JR.
Associated Press
ANDREW SHURTLEFF/AP
Navy forward Jaylen Walker, right, moves around Virginia forward Jayden Gardner during Tuesday’s gamein Charlottesville, Va. Navy knocked off No. 25 Virginia 6658.
NEW YORK — Ochai Agbaji said he was
close to turning pro and skipping his senior
season at Kansas.
He’s glad he decided to stay.
Agbaji scored a career-high 29 points and
No. 3 Kansas beat Michigan State 87-74 on
Tuesday night in the Champions Classic at
Madison Square Garden on the opening
night of college basketball.
“(I came back) for this. Be on this stage,
be in this moment,” Agbaji said. “Lead my
team to a win. I know my team has the ut-
most confidence in me. That’s why I chose
to come back and do something with this
season.”
The Jayhawks forward said he “made the
right decision, I know I did” to stay.
Remy Martin added 15 points and David
McCormack had 10 for Kansas, which re-
turned four starters from last season’s
squad that lost to USC in the second round
of the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks
were missing forward Jalen Wilson, who
was suspended last week for the first three
regular-season games after he was arrested
on suspicion of drunken driving last month.
Kansas led by seven at the half before the
Spartans cut it to 48-45. After a timeout, Ag-
baji caught an alley-oop for a dunk and then
stole the ball on the other end before finish-
ing that possession with another dunk to re-
store the seven-point lead.
“He was terrific tonight. He’s had some
big games in the past,” Kansas coach Bill
Self said. “I don’t know if he’s had a bigger
game on a bigger stage with the bright
lights. He basically carried us. I was really
happy for him and he was really good.”
FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP
Kansas’ Remy Martin, bottom, protectsthe ball from Michigan State’s Joey Hauserduring the second half of Tuesday’s gamein New York. Kansas won 8774.
Agbaji leadsKansas pastMichigan St.
BY DOUG FEINBERG
Associated Press
Duke, which led by four at halftime, built
the advantage to 15 with just under 10 min-
utes left behind Keels. The Wildcats didn’t
go away, scoring the next 11 points to get to
69-65 on a three-point play by Oscar
Tshiebwe with 6:07 left.
That’s as close as Kentucky got.
“We got it to four and then we’ll watch the
tape,” Wildcats coach John Calipari said.
“Two shots blocked. All I said all week is if
you drive, don’t get it blocked.”
Keels scored on the Blue Devils’ next pos-
session and Banchero followed with a
three-point play after a huge block by Mark
Williams to start a 7-0 run.
Kentucky only got within six the rest of
the way.
“We’re never going to back down from a
fight, we’ll always play to the end,” said the
Wildcats’ Jacob Toppin.
Tshiebwe finished with 17 points and 19
rebounds. Sahvir Wheeler added 16 points
and 10 assists for the Wildcats.
Parting giftsWith this being Krzyzewski’s last game at
MSG, the Garden front office staff present-
ed his family with a few gifts before the
game. They made a donation to the Emily K
Center and gave him a framed photo mosaic
that had more than 300 images from his
time at MSG. Finally, they gave him six bot-
tles of wine, each with a custom label from
some of his top moments at the Garden, in-
cluding his 1,000th victory and one from
when he was a player for Army and his team
played South Carolina at MSG.
Big pictureDuke’s sensational freshmen didn’t dis-
appoint and could carry the Blue Devils a
long way this season. Kentucky looked good
in spurts and the early season loss will only
help the Wildcats get better.
Cheering on their schoolsThe Knicks players were divided with
their rooting interests. Julius Randle, Ner-
lens Noel and Kevin Knox II all went to
Kentucky, while RJ Barrett attended Duke.
They were all sitting courtside. Obi Toppin
didn’t go to either school, but his brother Ja-
cob plays for Kentucky. The Knicks’ sec-
ond-year forward was sitting with his mom
Roni, who was celebrating her birthday.
Blue Devils success at MSGKrzyzewski has gone 34-11 at MSG, in-
cluding winning five of the last six there.
The Blue Devils are 39-18 overall at the are-
na.
Opener: Kentucky couldn’t getcloser than 4 during second halfFROM PAGE 24
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indi-
ana fans welcomed coach Mike
Woodson back to Assembly Hall
with a rousing ovation Tuesday.
He walked off the court with a
new addition for his trophy case.
After months of wondering
what new wrinkles the former
Hoosiers star would install and
hoping yet another coaching
change would finally restore the
Hoosiers’ glorious past, Wood-
son finally got a chance to show
everyone the work he’s done.
“It feels good to be 1-0, but
we’ve got a long way to go,” he
said after Indiana held on for a
68-62 victory over Eastern Mi-
chigan, Woodson’s first as a col-
lege coach. “And I will keep that
ball as a souvenir.”
The opening day of college
basketball tipped off Tuesday fil-
led with hope, certainly at Indi-
ana and some five dozen schools
that changed coaches during a
tumultuous offseason. The Hoo-
siers’ opponent was among
them, bringing back one of their
former players, Stan Heath.
Woodson isn’t the biggest
name or most prominent school
on the list of changes.
Hubert Davis dressed in a
powder blue pullover for his first
game since replacing three-time
national champion Roy Williams
at North Carolina. The 19th-
ranked Tar Heels rolled past
Loyola (Maryland) 83-62.
“It is a big deal. It’s emotional
and it’s a change,” Davis said.
“Me being in this role is differ-
ent. I understand the impact of
me being in this position.”
Mike Krzyzewski, a five-time
national champ and the career
leader in wins, began his final
season at No. 9 Duke with suc-
cessor Jon Scheyer at his side for
a showdown against No. 10 Ken-
tucky. Former national runner-
up coach Chris Beard left Texas
Tech for Texas, where he re-
placed Shaka Smart (who went
to Marquette), and began his
next chapter Tuesday against
Houston Baptist.
Porter Moser, who led Loyola
Chicago to the Final Four and re-
placed Lon Kruger at Oklahoma,
made his debut against North-
western State. And new Arizona
coach Tommy Lloyd started his
job against Northern Arizona.
Lloyd was considered Gonza-
ga’s coach-in-waiting after 20
years as Mark Few’s right-hand
man, but took the opportunity to
lead one of the West’s other elite
programs — drawing a buzz at
the McKale Center even before
the opener. It revved up even
more during the pregame hype
video, capped by a loud roar dur-
ing introductions.
The Wildcats fired Sean Miller
in the spring, while Indiana
made the same decision with
Miller’s brother, Archie, open-
ing the door for Woodson’s hir-
ing and much-anticipated debut.
It was a fitting start for a new
era at Indiana.
In December 1971, Bob Knight
made his Indiana debut at the
grand opening of one of the
state’s best-known basketball ca-
thedrals. This time, as the Hoo-
siers tipped off their 50th season
inside the building, Woodson be-
came the first true Knight disci-
ple to return to the Indiana
bench — though longtime assist-
ant Dan Dakich served in that
capacity briefly as an interim
coach.
“I’m excited for the change,”
said 56-year-old Walter Marker,
a fan from New Castle, Ind. “I
think he’ll bring in some talent
and expose the guys to an NBA
style. I think it’s a great culture
change, similar to Bob Knight,
and when you talk to people
around New Castle, everyone’s
excited.”
Woodson, other new coaches, win debutsBY MICHAEL MAROT
Associated Press
AJ MAST/AP
New Indiana coach MikeWoodson saw his team defeatEastern Michigan 6862 onTuesday in Bloomington, Ind.
Men’s Top 25 faredTuesday
No. 1 Gonzaga (1-0) beat Dixie St. 97-63.Next: vs. No. 5 Texas, Saturday.
No. 2 UCLA (1-0) beat CS Bakersfield 95-58. Next: vs. No. 4 Villanova, Friday.
No. 3 Kansas (1-0) beat Michigan St. 87-74. Next: vs. Tarleton St., Friday.
No. 4 Villanova (1-0) beat Mount St. Ma-ry’s 91-51. Next: at No. 2 UCLA, Friday.
No. 5 Texas (1-0) beat Houston Baptist92-48. Next: at No. 1 Gonzaga, Saturday.
No. 6 Michigan (0-0) did not play. Next:vs. Buffalo, Wednesday.
No. 7 Purdue (1-0) beat Bellarmine 96-67.Next: vs. Indiana St., Friday.
No. 8 Baylor (0-0) did not play. Next: vs.Incarnate Word, Friday.
No. 9 Duke (1-0) beat No. 10 Kentucky 79-71. Next: vs. Army, Friday.
No. 10 Kentucky (0-1) lost to No. 9 Duke79-71. Next: vs. Robert Morris, Friday.
No. 11 Illinois (1-0) beat Jackson St. 71-47. Next: vs. Arkansas St., Friday.
No. 12 Memphis (1-0) beat TennesseeTech 89-65. Next: vs. NC Central, Saturday.
No. 13 Oregon (1-0) beat Texas Southern83-66. Next: vs. SMU, Friday.
No. 14 Alabama (1-0) beat LouisianaTech 93-64. Next: vs. S. Dakota St., Friday.
No. 15 Houston (1-0) beat Hofstra 83-75.Next: vs. Rice, Friday.
No. 16 Arkansas (1-0) beat Mercer 74-61.Next: vs. Gardner-Webb, Saturday.
No. 17 Ohio St. (1-0) beat Akron 67-66.Next: vs. Niagara, Friday.
No. 18 Tennessee (1-0) beat UT-Martin90-62. Next: vs. ETSU, Sunday.
No. 19 North Carolina (1-0) beat Loyola(Md.) 83-67. Next: vs. Brown, Friday.
No. 20 Florida St. (0-0) did not play. Next:vs. Pennsylvania, Wednesday.
No. 21 Maryland (1-0) beat Quinnipiac83-69. Next: vs. George Washington,Thursday.
No. 22 Auburn (1-0) beat Morehead St.77-54. Next: vs. Louisiana-Monroe, Friday.
No. 23 St. Bonaventure (1-0) beat Siena75-47. Next: vs. Canisius, Sunday.
No. 24 UConn (1-0) beat Central Connec-ticut St. 99-48. Next: vs. Coppin St., Satur-day.
No. 25 Virginia (0-1) lost to Navy 66-58.Next: vs. Radford, Friday.
Scoreboard
SPORTS
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NEW YORK — Mike Krzyzew-
ski’s farewell tour started with a
win thanks to his latest group of
stellar freshmen at Duke.
Trevor Keels scored 25 points
and classmate Paolo Banchero
added 22 to help the No. 9 Blue
Devils open their coach’s final
season by beating 10th-ranked
Kentucky 79-71 on Tuesday night
in the nightcap of the Champions
Classic.
“It was an amazing game that
felt so good with the Garden
crowd and playing against an out-
standing team,” Krzyzewski said.
“They are tough. and we are
tough. That was a big-time game.
Really big time.”
Krzyzewski announced that he
would retire at the end of the sea-
son. The Hall of Famer has won
1,098 games and five national
championships in his 42 years
coaching the Blue Devils. Overall
he has 1,171 wins, the most in the
history of the sport.
“We wanted to get this win for
Coach in this first game,” Banch-
ero said. “We had a chance to
make a statement with this game
and come out and play well. That’s
what we were thinking about com-
ing in.”
The two basketball blue bloods,
who have quite the history be-
tween them on the game’s biggest
stage, put on a spectacular show to
open the season. The loud split
crowd at Madison Square Garden
that included many members of
the New York Knicks and Bruce
Springsteen was on its feet for
most of the second half.
PHOTOS BY FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP
Above: Duke’s Theo John reacts after scoring during the second half of Tuesday’s game against Kentuckyat Madison Square Garden in New York. Left: Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski reacts after Duke’sPaolo Banchero (5) scored during the second half. Duke won 7971.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Duke winsbig openerBlue Devils top No. 10 Kentuckyto begin Coach K’s final season
BY DOUG FEINBERG
Associated Press 34-11Record of Duke coach Mike Krzyzew-ski at Madison Square Garden, in-cluding winning five of the last sixthere. The Blue Devils are 39-18overall at the arena.
SOURCE: Associated Press
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