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VIRUS OUTBREAK Japan mulls no fans at Olympics, report says

BY MATTHEW M. BURKE Stars and Stripes Japanese officials are mulling whether to prolong emergency COVID-19 mitigation measures that would interfere with this month’s Tokyo Olympics, as infec- tions begin to surge again in the country’s metropolitan areas. The Japanese government is considering an extension of To- kyo’s quasi-state of emergency by ‘A historic chapter “two to four weeks,” which would clash with the start of the games on July 23, Bloomberg reported Tuesday evening, citing Japan’s Mainichi newspaper. is coming to an end’ Such a declaration would likely mean Olympic events without PHOTOS BY TORSTEN KRAATZ/German army spectators. The German mission in Afghanistan ends as service members head to the last Airbus A400M leaving the Mazar-e-Sharif airfield Tuesday. Meanwhile, the U.S. military in Japan reported no new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday. German, Italian troops withdraw from Afghanistan as US forces continue to leave Japan had 1,765 new cases Wednesday, 692 more than the BY J.P. LAWRENCE second largest contribution to the previous day and 13 less than the Stars and Stripes NATO mission after the United same day last week, according to KABUL, Afghanistan — The States. It focused on northern Af- public broadcaster NHK and the last German and Italian military ghanistan and last had bases in World Health Organization. troops left Afghanistan and ar- Mazar-e-Sharif and Kabul. Fifty- There were 38 deaths nationwide. rived home Wednesday, ending nine German troops died during The government has counted the war for two of the NATO coali- the nearly 20 years of war, The As- more than 795,000 COVID-19 in- tion’s largest contributors as the sociated Press reported. fections during the pandemic and withdrawal of foreign forces ac- Three transport aircraft landed 14,500 deaths, the WHO said. celerates. at Wunstorf air base in northern Tokyo on Wednesday reported “A historic chapter is coming to Germany on Wednesday after- another 714 cases, 238 more than an end,” German Defense Minis- noon, the AP reported. The troops, the previous day and 95 more than ter Annegret Kramp-Karren- wearing masks, lined up on the the same day last week, according bauer said in a statement. She tarmac for a brief ceremony, but to NHK, which cited metropolitan thanked the more than 150,000 the military dispensed with a big- government data. There were troops who served in the country ger reception because of the coro- three deaths. since 2002 and said that the na- navirus pandemic. Okinawa prefecture, home to tion’s military had “proved itself “We have worked long and hard most U.S. troops in Japan, report- in battle.” The commander of German forces in Afghanistan, Brig. Gen. Ansgar Germany most recently had the SEE WITHDRAW ON PAGE 6 Meyer, prepares to leave Camp Marma in Mazar-e-Sharif. SEE JAPAN ON PAGE 8 PAGE 2 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, July 1, 2021 BUSINESS/WEATHER US home prices jump at fastest pace since 2005 EXCHANGE RATES Military rates South Korea (Won) 1,129.94 Associated Press homes in suburbs rather than blistering price increases are like- Switzerland (Franc) 0.9238 Euro costs (July 1) $1.16 Thailand (Baht) 32.06 WASHINGTON — U.S. home apartments or smaller homes in ly to cool off soon. Dollar buys (July 1) 0.8198 Turkey (NewLira) 8.6732 British pound (July 1) $1.35 prices soared in April at the fastest cities. Historically low mortgage Even as demand rose during the Japanese yen (July 1) 108.00 (Military exchange rates are those available pace since 2005 as potential rates, restrained in part by the pandemic, fewer Americans were South Korean won (July 1) 1,104.00 to customers at military banking facilities in the Commercial rates country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Ger­ buyers bid up prices on a limited Federal Reserve’s low-interest willing to sell their properties, many, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Bahrain(Dinar) 0.3769 For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., pur­ supply of available properties. rate policies, have also spurred perhaps reluctant to have waves Britain (Pound) 1.38 chasing British pounds in Germany), check with Canada (Dollar) 1.2370 your local military banking facility. Commercial The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shill- demand, just as the large millen- of potential buyers troop through China(Yuan) 6.4574 rates are interbank rates provided for reference Denmark (Krone) 6.2624 er 20-city home price index, re- nial generation ages into a peak their homes. That sharply re- Egypt (Pound) 15.6980 when buying currency. All figures are foreign leased Tuesday, jumped nearly home-buying period. The price duced the number of houses avail- Euro 0.8422 currencies to one dollar, except for the British Hong Kong (Dollar) 7.7665 pound, which is represented in dollars­to­ 15% in April from the previous gains have been so dramatic that able, setting off bidding wars for Hungary (Forint) 296.21 pound, and the euro, which is dollars­to­euro.) Israel (Shekel) 3.2591 year. That is up from a 13.4% an- home sales have started to slow as most properties. 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TODAY IN STRIPES American Roundup ...... 11 Classified ...... 13 Comics ...... 16 Crossword ...... 16 Faces ...... 18 Opinion ...... 14 Sports ...... 19-24 Thursday, July 1, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 3 MILITARY SD to send Guard troops to Texas-Mexico border BY ROSE L. THAYER Stars and Stripes Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called upon other states to assist with security at the U.S.-Mexico border and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem responded Tuesday Stars and Stripes with a pledge to send up to 50 Na- Protesters march outside Ramstein Air Base, Germany, in 2018. tional Guard troops to Texas using Peace activists plan to demonstrate again this year, starting Sunday. funds from a private donation. Noem’s office declined to say whether troops had already left for Texas or when they expect to de- Peace activists to ploy, but the initial rotation should last between 30 to 60 days. South Dakota Adjutant General Jeff return to Ramstein Marlette and the South Dakota De- partment of the Military are work- ing with their counterparts in Tex- starting July 4 as to finalize the details of the mis- sion. BY MARCUS KLOECKNER they say are illegal wars. They are “The Biden administration has BREANNE DONNELL/Army National Guard Stars and Stripes demanding an end to what they say failed in the most basic duty of the South Dakota National Guard troops greet Gov. Kristi Noem during a KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany is the use of the air base to relay te- federal government: keeping the 2019 training exercise in Custer State Park, S.D.. Noem announced — An annual peace protest outside lemetry to drones that collect infor- American people safe,” Noem, a Tuesday that she will send up to 50 National Guard troops to Texas' Ramstein Air Base will start for mation on terrorist groups and at- Republican, said in a statement. border with Mexico, using funds from a private donation. about a week beginning Sunday, fol- tack designated targets. The attacks “The border is a national security lowing last year’s cancellation due on suspected terrorists and mili- crisis that requires the kind of sus- April to support law enforcement he believes in the work of both gov- to the coronavirus pandemic. tants are extrajudicial and have tained response only the National at his state’s border. Other states ernors and “wanted to help out as The activists from the Stopp Air killed civilians, the group has said. Guard can provide.” have responded to Abbott and Du- an American citizen.” Base Ramstein Campaign will set Air Force officials have denied In March, Abbott, also a Repub- cey by sending state law enforce- He built his Tennessee-based up a “peace camp” near the base for years that any data is relayed lican, sent about 500 Texas Nation- ment personnel to help. South Da- foundation through his success in through July 11, the group said in a through Ramstein for drone oper- al Guard members to the border to kota is the first state to deploy the auto industry. Johnson in 1982 statement. ations. support the Texas Department of Guard troops. founded the company Copart, On July 10, about 150 people are However, a German high court in Public Safety, which has increased “We should not be making our which owns salvage yards and expected to gather in Kaiserslau- 2019 determined that there were resources to the southern part of own communities less safe by hosts online vehicle auctions, ac- tern at the main train station around “substantial indications” known to the state, where the governor said sending our police or highway pa- cording to the company’s website. 11 a.m., said Andreas Wildberger, a the German government that U.S. they have cracked down on illegal trol to fix a long-term problem He is a longtime and frequent do- Landstuhl police spokesman. When drone missions assisted from Ram- border crossings and drug smug- President [Joe] Biden’s adminis- nor to the Republican Party, ac- the protest was last held in 2019, stein are at least in part “violating gling. tration seems unable or unwilling cording to the website OpenSe- thousands were expected to partici- international law.” Little information has been re- to solve. My message to Texas is crets.org, which tracks campaign pate, police said at the time. “All this happens with the knowl- leased about the Guard troops, and this: help is on the way,” Noem contributions. The protest will move to a rally edge and the toleration of the (Ger- Abbott’s office referred questions said. These state missions are in addi- near the air base around 1 p.m., man) federal government,” the ac- Tuesday to the Department of Pub- While Texas and Arizona said tion to a federal National Guard Wildberger said. Afterward, the tivist group said in a recent state- lic Safety. funding for these missions will mission to support U.S. Customs demonstrators are planning to ride ment. Ericka Miller, spokeswoman for come from the state, Noem’s office and Border Protection across the bicycles around the perimeter of the The protest has been peaceful in the department, declined to an- said South Dakota’s troops will be entire southern U.S. border that base. the past and is expected to be again swer questions about who will paid for by a private donation from began under former President Do- Traffic delays can be expected this year, Wildberger said. command the South Dakota Guard the Willis and Reba Johnson Foun- nald Trump in April 2018 and con- near the base on July 10, due to the Air Force officials were not im- troops and what work they will per- dation, which was provided direct- tinues under Biden. About 3,600 protest and because of scheduled mediately available for comment form because the department does ly to the state. active-duty service members and construction on the Einsiedlerhof Wednesday, but have said in the not discuss operational specifics. Noem’s office declined to say Guard troops from several states bridge, Wildberger said. Drivers past that they respect the rights of On June 10, Abbott announced how much money was donated. are deployed for that mission, ac- heading on base that day should the protesters, and want to ensure an agreement between Texas and Willis Johnson also declined Tues- cording to the Defense Depart- avoid the street between Ramstein that everyone involved and nearby Arizona to request border support day to say how much money he ment. and Mackenbach, he said. remains safe. from other states. Arizona Gov. gave to the state. An Army veteran

Under their slogan “We are back Doug Ducey, a Republican, de- who served in Vietnam, Johnson [email protected] again!” the group will protest what [email protected] ployed 250 Guard members in said he made the donation because Twitter: @Rose_Lori Putin: US aircraft joined UK destroyer in Black Sea Correction Associated Press of Britain’s Defender on June 23 to access to a long Black Sea coast. can’t emerge as winners in that A story in Wednesday’s edi- MOSCOW — Russian President force it from an area near Crimea The U.S. Defense Department war, and it’s very important,” Pu- tion about the U.S. military Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Moscow claims as its territo- had no immediate comment tin said during his annual live call- placing monthly purchase that a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft rial waters. Britain insisted its Wednesday. in show when Russians ask him limits on wine at on-base was operating in sync with a Brit- ship wasn’t fired upon and said it Asked if the events could have questions. shops in South Korea incor- ish destroyer last week when the was sailing in Ukrainian waters. triggered World War III, Putin re- Russian officials have warned rectly stated that commis- ship sailed through the Black Sea The episode was the latest to raise sponded that the West wouldn’t that if a Western warship enters saries sell alcohol. That isn’t in what he described as a “provo- tensions between Russia and the risk a full-scale conflict. the waters again, the military the case overseas. cation” to test Moscow’s response. West since Russia’s annexation of “Even if we sank that ship, it could fire to hit. Since it annexed Moscow said one of its warships Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in wouldn’t put the world on the Crimea, Russia has chafed at NA- fired warning shots and a war- 2014, a move not recognized by brink of World War III because TO warships visiting the area as plane dropped bombs in the path most countries but one that gives it those who do it know that they destabilizing. PAGE 4 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, July 1, 2021 PACIFIC Japan seeks help to solve N. Korea abduction issue

BY HANA KUSUMOTO None have been returned since Stars and Stripes five were released in 2002. TOKYO — Japan needs the “I am extremely shameful and world’s help to secure the return of regretful” that more progress has citizens abducted by North Korea not been made, said Kato, who also more than 40 years ago, the gov- serves as Japan’s minister in ernment’s top spokesman said charge of the abduction issue. Tuesday during an online United It is believed that the abductees Nations symposium. were used to train North Korean “Needless to say, the abduction agents to pass as Japanese citi- issue is the most important issue zens, according to the Ministry of for the Suga administration,” said Foreign Affairs. Stars and Stripes Katsunobu Kato, chief cabinet Kato said the victims’ families Commuters walk past photos of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at Shinjuku secretary under Prime Minister are getting old, so working to se- Station in Tokyo. Yoshihide Suga. cure their return should not be de- The annual symposium — co- layed. four decades. He, along with his mined to take the lead himself to North Korea to release the abduc- hosted by Japan, the United One of the family members who wife, Sakie Yokota, had led the vic- resolve the abduction issue and es- tees as soon as possible. States, Australia and the Europe- spoke at Tuesday’s symposium is tims’ association and became a fig- tablish fruitful relationship be- Kato lauded President Joe Bi- an Union — has taken place since Takuya Yokota, secretary-general urehead for the abduction issue. tween Japan and North Korea,” he den who, during a U.S.-Japan 2016 to deliver the “real voices” of of the Association of Families of Takuya Yokota said he hopes his said. summit in April, expressed Amer- the families of the North Korean Victims Kidnapped by North Ko- sister will return to Japan so their But Kato said cooperation from ica’s commitment to resolving the abductees and to discuss ways to rea. 85-year-old mother can see her the international community is al- issue. Kato also pointed to a March resolve the issue. Yokota — brother of Megumi again. so needed. resolution by the U.N. Human It was not held last year because Yokota, who was taken at age 13 in “She is exhausted physically “I strongly hope that this sym- Rights Council that condemned of the coronavirus pandemic. This 1977 — urged the North to return and mentally,” he said. “Please al- posium will intensify the momen- North Korea and called for the ab- year’s event was streamed live on all abductees as soon as possible low her to reunite with Megumi in tum of the international society, ductees’ immediate return. YouTube. and called on the Japanese gov- Japan while she is well and which urges resolution of the ab- “This was an important step to- The Japanese government has ernment to show strong leader- healthy.” duction issue as a global issue,” he ward solving the abduction issue,” officially identified 17 people as ship and take the initiative to make Kato said that Suga is willing to said. he said. “I ask continued coopera- having been abducted by North it happen. meet with North Korean leader The U.S. ambassador to the tion by related countries.” Korea during the 1970s and ‘80s, His father, Shigeru Yokota, died Kim Jong Un without any precon- U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield,

Kato said, though suspected ab- last year after fighting for the re- ditions. said the U.S. is united with the Ja- [email protected] ductees number in the hundreds. turn of his daughter for more than “Prime Minister Suga is deter- panese people and strongly urged Twitter: @HanaKusumoto Yokosuka-based sailor accused of drunken driving after crash BY SETH ROBSON way on the Shuto Highway, after lice spokesman identified the District Public Prosecutor’s Of- declined to comment on the alle- AND HANA KUSUMOTO entering from an exit ramp” at driver only as a 25-year-old petty fice without making an arrest, he gation, citing the ongoing investi- Stars and Stripes about 3:45 a.m., base spokesman officer third class. It’s customary said. gation. TOKYO — Japanese police say Randall Baucom said in an email in Japan for some government of- In Japan, it is prosecutors, not Baucom said the Navy is coop- a U.S. Navy sailor was intoxicated Wednesday. ficials to speak the media without police, who decide on formal erating with police. when he crashed his vehicle into “The sailor was treated at a local giving their names. charges. “The Navy takes all allegations two trucks on a Japanese express- hospital and the occupants of the The sailor told police he drank The Kanagawa newspaper re- involving misconduct of our Sail- way on May 16 in Yokohama. other vehicles did not seek medi- alcohol in his car in Tokyo after ported Wednesday that liquid con- ors very seriously,” he said. The unnamed service member, cal care at the scene,” he said. driving there by himself, accord- taining cannabis was found in the who is assigned to Yokosuka Naval The Navy did not provide the ing to the spokesman. Police re- sailor’s vehicle after the crash and [email protected] Twitter: @SethRobson1 Base, was “involved in a multi-ve- sailor’s name, age, rank or unit, ferred a case of suspected drink- in the ambulance that took him to [email protected] hicle accident, driving the wrong and a Kanagawa Prefectural Po- ing and driving to the Yokohama hospital. The police spokesman Twitter: @HanaKusumoto Soldiers on electric scooter accused of hit-and-run while drunk in Seoul

BY DAVID CHOI gation officer said Wednesday. Police said both soldiers’ blood- uation,” spokesman Col. Lee Pe- incident in which a USFK civilian AND YOO KYONG CHANG It’s customary for some South Ko- alcohol levels were above 0.08%, ters said in a statement Wednes- employee was accused of assault- Stars and Stripes rean government officials to which is double the legal limit for day. “We are cooperating with the ing a Seoul parking lot attendant. CAMP HUMPHREYS, South speak to the media on condition of operating a vehicle and high [Korean National Police] who A small group of South Korean Korea — South Korean author- anonymity. enough to have their licenses re- maintain jurisdiction of this in- activists protested near the U.S. ities are investigating two U.S. As they fell, the soldiers hit the voked. vestigation.” Embassy in Seoul and demanded soldiers accused of riding an elec- shoulder of a Korean woman, who The soldiers have been turned Peters added that USFK could the employee be punished. tric scooter while drunk and then was forced to the ground, the offi- over to U.S. Forces Korea mili- not comment on an ongoing in- Roughly 28,500 U.S. troops are leaving the scene of an accident cer said, adding that the scooter’s tary police, the officer said. Nei- vestigation, but that it “remains stationed on the Korean peninsu- in Seoul over the weekend. passenger ran away before police ther South Korean police nor committed to being good neigh- la. Most are at Camp Humphreys, The unnamed pair was on the arrived. It’s unclear if the woman USFK would identify the soldiers bors with our host nation and roughly 40 miles south of Seoul. scooter together around 1 a.m. was injured. or reveal where they are sta- maintaining a strong [South Ko- Sunday when they suddenly fell The passenger was found and tioned. rea]-US alliance.” [email protected] from the vehicle, a Yongsan Po- detained, along with the scooter’s “USFK is aware of the allega- South Korean authorities are Twitter: @choibboy lice Station senior traffic investi- driver, the officer said. tions and is investigating the sit- also investigating an early June [email protected] Thursday, July 1, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 5 MILITARY Panel proposes cut to military personnel funding

BY SARAH CAMMARATA for the Pentagon. Stars and Stripes During the last week of July, the WASHINGTON — Members of House Armed Service Committee Gino Lucci the House Appropriations Com- is set to hold a series of hearings to The RD4 that retired Air Force Master Sgt. Gino Lucci bought in May 2019 and turned into a motor home, mittee want to cut funding for mil- debate each of its seven subcom- is 38 feet long, just under the maximum length allowed in the U.S. for a road vehicle. itary personnel by $488 million mittee’s spending bills. At that from the Biden administration’s time, lawmakers will offer amend- fiscal 2022 budget proposal, ac- ments and compromises on ele- USAF retiree converts plane to RV cording to a draft of a subcommit- ments included in the bills. The tee spending bill. full committee is scheduled to de- BY KARIN ZEITVOGEL It took a year to convince the sold them the other two planes in- But the proposal from the com- bate the NDAA’s provisions on Stars and Stripes skeptical plane owner to sell it to cluding the one that flew in D- mittee’s subpanel on defense in- Sept. 1. Air Force retiree Gino Lucci’s Lucci, but he finally did in May Day. All three now sit on the 5- cludes the administration’s re- The draft bill released Tuesday motor home is 38 feet long, has a 2019 “for the price of a used car,” acre farm in Nashville, Mich., quest for a 2.7% pay raise for ser- does not seem to stray far from the light pink streak down the sides — Lucci said. He declined to say how where Lucci lives and runs his vice members, providing a total of defense budget proposed by the and is made out of an old RD4, the much he paid for the aircraft. business. $166.8 billion in funding for troops Biden administration and Penta- Navy version of the C-47 military After the purchase, he and Gia- The plane-turned-RV still turns and Defense Department contrac- gon, which both sought to divest transport plane. cinto lined the plane up with their heads on the road. tors. The proposal also matches from legacy systems to funnel The plane-turned-RV is a child- truck, which they knew was with- His most memorable encoun- the administration’s request to cash into new technologies. How- hood dream of Lucci’s. in the 40 feet length allowed in the ters have come at gas stations, fund an active-duty military force ever, it could face criticism from “My dad, who was a cabinet U.S. for a road vehicle, and cut the which he has to visit fairly often of 1,346,400 troops. Republican lawmakers who have maker, had built a motor home fuselage off at the truck’s rear because the RV gets just 8 miles The draft spending bill, which called for a 3-5% increase to the when we were kids,” Lucci, who bumper. The wings were removed per gallon. Once, in Missouri, a was released Tuesday and was set overall defense budget. At the left the service as a master ser- and transported in separate trips stranger approached him as he fil- to be considered by the subcom- same time, Democratic lawmak- geant, said in a phone interview. back to Michigan, 455 miles away. led up and asked if he would come mittee in a closed session Wednes- ers have pushed for significant “And I thought, ‘When I build my There, Lucci and his son gutted meet her father, who she said had day, proposes $706 billion in de- cuts in defense spending. motor home,’ because I thought the plane and began turning it into flown C-47s. fense spending, largely in line “Democrats have landed on a that’s what people do, build their an RV. “When we got there, this guy is with Biden’s $715 billion proposal responsible funding level for the own motor homes — buying one The motor home, dubbed the in a wheelchair in his driveway, for the Defense Department. The Department of Defense that main- never crossed my mind, ‘I’m go- Fabulous Flamingo, has been dri- he’s got an Air Force shirt on, an administration’s request includes tains a strong national security ing to make one out of an air- ven from Lucci’s home in Michi- Air Force hat, and he’s got a U.S. $10 billion for Pentagon infras- posture today, while making im- plane.’” gan to Texas, and from there to flag and he’s waving it,” he said. tructure projects, which is part of portant investments in modern- His son Giacinto, now 21, found Maine. “He started telling us how he flew a separate bill. ization that will make us even the RD4, built in 1943, along with It’s 12 feet, 6 inches high, or one those in World War II and then in That legislation from the mili- stronger in the years to come,” two other planes while searching foot under the height permitted the Korean War until he went to tary construction subpanel of the said Rep. Betty McCollum, D- satellite imagery. All three were for road use. F-86s. Afterward, his daughter House Appropriations Committee Minn., chairwoman of the defense once part of a fleet that belonged The fuselage sits on the chassis said, ‘Dad never told us anything was approved last week and pro- subcommittee of the House Ap- to air cargo services company of an old delivery truck used by that he just told you.’ vides $10.9 billion for construction propriations Committee. Baron Aviation, but had been the company he founded after re- “I was fighting back tears. It projects. It was set to be debated The measure adds $1.7 billion in damaged in a tornado and were tiring from the Air Force in 2015, was so neat. And yet, at the begin- Wednesday by the full House Ap- funding for weapons procurement sitting on an airfield in Rolla, Mo. following a 25-year career that ning of this project, I can’t tell you propriations Committee. from President Joe Biden’s bud- Lucci tracked down the owner took him from Kyrgyzstan to Ko- the number of people who told me The House Appropriations get, but reduces money for devel- of the planes and told him he sovo, the Persian Gulf and Diego I couldn’t do it, I’d never get it ap- Committee’s work on the pair of oping next-generation weaponry wanted to buy one of them. Garcia. proved, it’s a dumb idea,” he said. defense-related measures kicks to deter China and Russia by $1.6 “I told him it would never fly — A year after buying the Flamin- “Don’t listen to the naysayers. off months of deliberations on the billion. there was a kink in the fuselage go, Lucci and his son drove it back Follow your dream, like I did.” National Defense Authorization and corrosion in the tail — and I to Rolla to show the owner of Bar-

Act — the annual defense legisla- [email protected] wanted to make a motor home out on Aviation what they had done [email protected] tion that sets policy and funding Twitter: @sarahjcamm of it,” he said. with it. He was so impressed, he Twitter: @StripesZeit Study: 23 male service members had heart inflammation after vaccination

BY JOHN VANDIVER atively small, is substantially higher than the overall confidence in the value of vaccina- Instead, it resulted in 19 cases among cur- Stars and Stripes expected number,” the journal said. tion,” JAMA reported. rent military members, the report said. The Male troops experienced heart inflamma- Myocarditis is typically caused by a viral Meanwhile, the risk of developing cardiac other troops had received their first shot while tion at a higher than expected rate after re- infection, resulting in inflammation. The con- problems from being infected with the coro- one other had left the service. The group had ceiving the coronavirus vaccination, but the dition can hinder the heart’s ability to pump navirus is much greater, with the prevalence an average age of 25. condition is still so rare that it shouldn’t under- effectively, cause abnormal heartbeats and of cardiac injury as high as 60% in seriously ill “Increased attention to myocarditis as a po- mine confidence in getting inoculated, a new even lead to a heart attack in extreme cases, patients, the report said. tential adverse event following immunization medical study found. according to the Mayo Clinic. Most patients “Given that COVID-19 vaccines are re- is warranted,” JAMA said. The study, published by the JAMA Cardiol- who receive care for the condition quickly re- markably effective at preventing infection, Of the 177 million people in the U.S. who ogy medical journal Tuesday, examined 23 cover, according to the Centers for Disease any risk of rare adverse events following im- were fully or partially vaccinated against CO- cases of male military members who experi- Control and Prevention. munization must be carefully weighed VID-19 as of June, 616 cases of heart inflam- enced heart swelling after getting a dose of ei- While instances of heart inflammation against the very substantial benefit of vacci- mation were reported, the CDC said. ther the Moderna or BioNTech/Pfizer vac- were higher than expected, the overall occur- nation,” it said. cine. rence among service members was still char- When compared to national averages, it Stars and Stripes reporter Karin Zeitvogel contributed to this “The observed number of male military acterized as rare. was expected that the 436,000 second doses report. [email protected] members who experienced myocarditis after “Concerns about rare adverse events fol- administered to male troops would result in Twitter: @john_vandiver their second dose of mRNA vaccine, while rel- lowing immunization should not diminish up to eight cases of myocarditis. PAGE 6 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, July 1, 2021 MILITARY Coast Guard on Guam now at full strength

BY ALEX WILSON Guam.” Stars and Stripes Now that they’re in homeport, After a 69-day journey, one of Rooke said the crew will be taking the Coast Guard’s newest Senti- some time off before preparing for nel-class fast-response cutters ar- the triple commissioning of the rived Tuesday at its new homeport Frederick Hatch and its sister on Guam. ships on July 29. The 154-foot Frederick Hatch The trio of fast-response cutters steamed into Apra Harbor after now homeported on Guam re- TORSTEN KRAATZ/German army departing Key West, Fla., on April place the Coast Guard’s 110-foot German service members head to the last Airbus A400M aircraft leaving the Mazar­e­Sharif airfield for 21. It joins its two sister cutters, patrol boats and possess advanced home Tuesday, as the German military mission in Afghanistan ends. the Myrtle Hazard and the Oliver communications technology and Henry, which arrived on the U.S. surveillance systems, according island territory in September and to a statement issued by the ser- Withdraw: December, respectively. vice in February. Countries around the Placing the three cutters on Armed with four .50-caliber Guam is meant as a response to machine guns and a remote-con- “coercive and antagonistic behav- trolled 25-mm cannon, the $65 world continue to leave Afghanistan ior from China,” Coast Guard million cutters can be used for commandant Adm. Karl Schultz search and rescue, drug interdic- FROM PAGE 1 other nations remain out of the ap- over the last 20 years. said in October 2019. tion, defense operations, maritime proximately 36 that once contrib- “A great deal has been The Frederick Hatch, built in law enforcement and environ- to stand here today,” said Brig. uted troops to the fight against the achieved, but we also need to be Louisiana by Bollinger Shipyards, mental protection. Gen. Ansgar Meyer, the last com- Taliban, al-Qaida and other mili- realistic: the results are not irre- carries a crew of 24. Approxi- They can reach speeds up to 28 mander of the German contin- tant groups. versible,” Dutch Defense Minis- mately 100 of their dependents knots and can remain at sea for gent, as quoted by the AP. “As The U.S. military is finalizing its ter Ank Bijleveld-Schouten said at had already arrived on Guam five days, giving them a range of your commander, I can say for exit from the country by Sept. 11, a ceremony last week. ahead of the cutter. Photos posted more than 2,500 nautical miles, you: ‘Mission accomplished.’ You though most troops are expected Some 650 U.S. troops could re- to the ship’s Facebook page on according to the Coast Guard. have fulfilled your task.” to leave well before that date. Ba- main in the country after the with- Tuesday showed spouses and chil- The Guam-based cutters are ex- At the military airport in Pisa, gram Airfield, once the largest drawal to protect the U.S. Embas- dren greeting the arriving crew pected to help police China’s ille- Italy, Italian Defense Minister Lo- U.S. base in Afghanistan, is ex- sy in Kabul. with heartfelt embraces and col- gal fishing in the region through renzo Guerini welcomed the final pected to close in the coming days, Additional U.S. troops could re- orful signs. “fisheries patrols, enhance mari- troops back from Italy’s base in Afghan officials said. main until September to ensure The ship’s commander, Lt. time domain awareness and en- Herat. He paid tribute to the 53 The troop withdrawals come the safety of Kabul’s international Craig R. Rooke, said the crew had forcement efforts” with U.S. part- Italians who died, and 723 who amid increasing violence in Af- airport. In the longer term, NATO been away from their families ners in the Western Pacific “who were injured over the past two ghanistan, which has seen numer- member Turkey could take over since November, when they re- have limited offshore surveillance decades. ous districts fall to the Taliban in handling security for the airport, ported to Louisiana. and enforcement capacity,” then- Forces from Denmark, Estonia, recent weeks. The New York Times reported “For the majority of the crew, national security adviser Robert Finland, Georgia, the Nether- Leaving Afghanistan without Tuesday. they’d never been underway be- O’Brien said Oct. 23. lands, Norway, Spain and Sweden securing peace has led to mixed fore, so it was an experience,” he In December, the Navy, Marine have also left Afghanistan, news feelings among defense officials Stars and Stripes reporter Marcus Kloeckner contributed to this report. told Stars and Stripes in a phone Corps and Coast Guard issued reports over the past couple of in countries like the Netherlands, [email protected] interview Wednesday. “It was “Advantage at Sea,” a tri-service weeks said. The U.S. and a few which partnered with the U.S. Twitter: @jplawrence3 stressful, but at the same time we naval strategy responding to Chi- made it enjoyable as well.” na’s “revisionist approach that Throughout its journey, which aims at the heart of the United covered approximately 11,400 States’ maritime power.” Honor Flights to resume trips in August nautical miles, the cutter stopped “Since the beginning of the 21st at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, century, our three services have BY NIKKI WENTLING ans in their communities to the board of directors that gov- transited the Panama Canal and watched with alarm the growing Stars and Stripes Washington to see the memorials erns the network decided to end made port calls in Mexico, Los An- naval power of [China] and the in- WASHINGTON — The Honor for their wars. Representatives all trips through 2020 because of geles and Hawaii. creasingly aggressive behavior of Flight Network, which sends vet- from the hubs met virtually June the ongoing risks. The voyage also provided time the Russian Federation,” the re- erans to tour war memorials in 12 and decided to restart the The Honor Flight Network for training exercises and real- port said. Washington, D.C., will restart flights in August. didn’t want to take risks, partic- world experience, according to Beijing’s strategy hinges on the flights in August after a 16-month The network is requiring all ularly because it serves a vulner- the cutter’s prolific Facebook use of a multipronged deployment suspension during the coronavi- veterans, guardians and volun- able population of veterans, the posts. In one instance, the vessel of ships from its navy, coast guard rus pandemic. teers to be vaccinated against the group said. Priority for the flights stopped to rescue a sea turtle from and maritime militia “to subvert Flights will resume Aug. 16, coronavirus or take a coronavirus is often given to terminally ill and entangled trash. other nations’ sovereignty and en- said Carol Harlow, communica- test 72 hours before the flight de- older veterans, many of whom The Frederick Hatch also re- force unlawful claims.” tions officer for the Honor Flight parts, Harlow said. On the day of live in nursing homes. ceived a marijuana decal after in- The report suggested that a Network. their flight, participants must fill Typically, the network trans- terdicting a vessel that was smug- more robust Coast Guard pres- “We have been monitoring out a self-assessment form that ports about 20,000 veterans to gling illegal substances, although ence in the Western Pacific could closely the [Centers for Disease asks whether they’ve experi- Washington each year. Once trav- details of the incident were not re- provide joint force commanders Control and Prevention] guide- enced any coronavirus symptoms el resumes, the group is expected leased. greater flexibility in responding to lines and also the District of Co- in recent days. to reach the milestone of provid- “A lot of [the crew] were learn- China’s “gray zone” confronta- lumbia guidelines,” Harlow said. When the coronavirus pandem- ing 250,000 trips to veterans in ing their jobs and there was a lot of tions that remain below the “We wouldn’t do this if we we- ic hit the United States last year, the 16 years since Honor Flight training — everyone handled it ve- threshold of armed conflict. ren’t confident we could do it the network canceled trips was founded. ry well,” Rooke said. “It was a safely.” through April 2020 and later ex- good time, we learned a lot and [email protected] The Honor Flight Network has tended the cancellations through [email protected] we’re excited to be out here in Twitter: @AlexMNWilson 125 chapters that help send veter- June, then August. Eventually, Twitter: @nikkiwentling Thursday, July 1, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 7 MILITARY More legal woes for former enlisted leader BY CHAD GARLAND Cavalry Regiment, when he came vestigation into the charges of ob- 2017 investigation by requesting Stars and Stripes under investigation. struction of justice, Walters said. destruction of “physical and fo- A former command sergeant The Army eventually charged Murray was informed on Feb. rensic evidence,” and with sexual major faces a court-martial on him with several offenses, includ- 6, 2020, of that investigation and assault for coercing the officer to charges he sexually assaulted an ing sexually assaulting the private that he would remain “flagged” have sex with him in May 2018. officer and asked her to destroy first class, mistreating her, engag- until it was complete, officials He threatened to divulge details evidence ahead of an earlier trial ing in a prohibited relationship said. But a little over a month later of their previous liaisons to her on separate sexual misconduct with her, fostering a sense of un- he received retirement orders husband and the Army, says a charges. due familiarity with a female first with a June 2020 effective date lightly redacted charge sheet the Clinton Murray, now a master lieutenant, and attempting to in- through what the Army said was 82nd Airborne Division provided sergeant at Fort Bragg, N.C., was fluence the investigation into his an administrative error. to Stars and Stripes on Wednes- acquitted of earlier charges he’d conduct. Prosecutors told the federal day. sexually assaulted a private first Facebook Most of the charges were with- court that he forged two soldiers’ He’s also charged with using class, but was found guilty last Master Sgt. Clinton Murray, drawn, including the one involv- signatures and made an unautho- such threats to extort her for “in- year of having a prohibited rela- shown in 2016, faces several ing the officer, and Murray was rized change to a signed leave timate visual images.” Charges tionship with her during a 2017 court­martial charges, including acquitted of the sexual assault form, allowing him to sign off base were added in January that he’d Afghanistan deployment. sexual assault and another and maltreatment charges. But June 4, 2020. He got three weeks attempted “revenge porn” by try- Days after he was sentenced to related to destroying evidence. after a four-day trial, he was of retirement pay and received ing to broadcast intimate images a reprimand and reduction in found guilty of the six-month pro- signed letters from the president of an unnamed woman in Fayette- rank in that January 2020 trial, he to the charges. His lead attorney, hibited relationship with the ju- and Army leaders thanking him ville, N.C., without her consent. was again under investigation and John Hafemann, told Army Times nior enlisted soldier and was sen- for his service, court records Murray also faces charges that “flagged” to prevent favorable the defense team looks forward to tenced to a reprimand and reduc- show. he began an adulterous relation- personnel action. Yet Murray was representing him at court-mar- tion in rank. A little over a month later, after ship in Kabul that continued for able to retire briefly and now tial, but declined to discuss specif- It was during the court-martial the Army realized what hap- several months after he returned faces a slew of charges that in- ics of the case. that the officer approached prose- pened, his company commander to North Carolina. clude desertion and fraudulent The legal trouble for Murray cutors and said she had helped left him a voicemail informing “Charges are merely accusa- separation. began while he was in Kabul with Murray cover up evidence of his him his retirement orders had tions and the accused is presumed Some details about Murray’s the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st sexual misconduct, at his request, been revoked and that he had to innocent until proven guilty,” said career and the allegations against Brigade Combat Team. and had an adulterous relation- report back to Fort Bragg. He Lt. Col. Mike Burns, a spokesman him, first reported by Army Murray, who earned a Bronze ship with him, Maj. Clifford Wal- didn’t show up and was declared for the 82nd Airborne, in an Times, were disclosed in a lawsuit Star for valor and an Army Com- ters, chief of military justice for AWOL before he sued to block the emailed statement. he filed against the Army last July mendation Medal with valor dur- the 82nd Airborne Division, said recall, but he was apprehended His trial is scheduled for Oct. for revoking his retirement or- ing over 20 years of service, was in a sworn statement filed in fed- weeks later. His suit was dismis- 11. ders. Prosecutors said he was able on his fifth combat deployment. eral court last year. sed in September. to retire by forging signatures. He was the command sergeant Army Criminal Investigative The Army charged him in Au- [email protected] Murray has pleaded not guilty major of the 3rd Squadron, 73rd Command then launched an in- gust with trying to impede the Twitter: @chadgarland Gallagher: Book reveals realities of special ops work BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS ians and stabbing a captured teen- of civilians and the ISIS teen. Gallagher writes of praying to Stars and Stripes age Islamic State fighter to death, Gallagher, wearing a T-shirt keep his platoon safe — and for WASHINGTON — In his new leading to 10 charges of war reading “Kill Bad Dudes,” told God to “allow us to take out as book, notorious ex-Navy SEAL crimes. He was acquitted on all Stars and Stripes he hoped his many enemy fighters as possible.” Eddie Gallagher — acquitted of but one — posing with the teenag- book would show civilians an hon- “To a non-warfighter, that last nine war crimes in 2017 — writes er’s corpse in a photo he sent to est view of warfare and offer fel- part may sound callous — praying like he’s speaking to battle bud- friends — and was reduced in low veterans a relatable narrative. for God to help you kill people — dies hardened by the brutality of rank after his conviction, from “I wrote it like I always talked but that’s why you aren’t a war- war. chief petty officer to petty officer when I was in the military,” Gal- fighter,” Gallagher wrote. “For some, killing becomes an first class. Then-President Donald lagher said. “I hope the reader, if Gallagher, 42, said it’s that kind of morbid honesty that he hopes addiction, but I consider it a good Trump reversed the decision they’re civilian, can at least ab- will move readers to “gain a better addiction needed to win wars,” shortly after, and his rank was re- sorb that information better than Stars and Stripes perspective on special operations Gallagher writes in his book, re- stored. me trying to … talk in such a mil- Former Navy SEAL Eddie and the guys that actually do the leased Monday. “For me, getting The book, “The Man in the Are- itarized manner.” Gallagher, 42, speaks to Stars job.” into firefights and killing the ene- na: From Fighting ISIS to Fighting and Stripes via Skype about his The book is dark, depicting the “Just because our job involves my was the biggest high I ever ex- for my Freedom,” largely focuses new book, “The Man in the brutality that special operators killing doesn’t make us a psycho- perienced.” on his life and career, rehashing Arena: From Fighting ISIS to faced fighting ISIS in 2017. It at- path. We’re not broken or dam- Fighting for my Freedom.” That’s the reality of Gallagher’s his case and taking aim at SEALs tempts to explain the conditions aged,” he said. “That’s just some 20-year career in special oper- from his platoon he claims plotted that led to Gallagher’s trophy pho- of the things that I hope you will ations, he told Stars and Stripes. to accuse him of war crimes. Warfare Operators 1st Class Dy- to with the dead ISIS teen. An ac- take into perspective that special Gallagher made national head- “Those two spent more time and lan Dille and Dalton Tolbert, who companying text, “Got him with operators have to deal with.” lines in September 2018 when energy trying to turn the platoon served in his platoon and told Na- my hunting knife,” led to the accu- members from his platoon ac- against me than they did trying to sations, but his lawyer said it was val Criminal Investigative Servic- [email protected] cused him of shooting Iraqi civil- kill ISIS,” he wrote about Special es of Gallagher’s alleged killings not a confession, but dark humor. Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos PAGE 8 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, July 1, 2021 VIRUS OUTBREAK Japan: Government, Olympic organizers to discuss spectator policy FROM PAGE 1 The government set a limit of ed another 67 new infections and 10,000 people, or 50% of a venue’s two deaths Wednesday, 17 less capacity, at Olympic events than the previous day and 29 less should the quasi-state of emergen- than the same day last week, ac- cy be lifted, despite warnings cording to NHK. from infectious disease experts. Okinawa remains in a state of Japanese officials and Olympic emergency until July 11. organizers will hold talks to revisit Japan initially lagged other de- their policy on spectators should veloped nations in inoculating its the quasi-state of emergency be population but has been offering extended, the Bloomberg report vaccines in recent weeks at mass said. state-run clinics. Meanwhile, in South Korea, Despite these efforts, which U.S. Forces Korea had 11 people — have largely focused on the elder- nine service members, a contrac- ly, new cases have begun to trend tor and a family member — test upward in recent weeks. positive between June 23 and Sun- The seven-day average rose to day, the command announced in a 495 on Tuesday from 406 a week statement Tuesday evening. AARON KIDD/Stars and Stripes prior, according to data presented Four service members at Osan A shop sells coronavirus­related T­shirts in the Harajuku district of central Tokyo, Sunday. by NHK. Japan’s government has Air Base tested positive on June 24 already scaled back the torch re- and Friday after coming into close A USFK contractor who works All 11 patients are in quarantine Control Headquarters. lay. contact with positive individuals, at the K-16 base in Seoul tested at either Camp Humphreys or The government has counted A quasi-state of emergency, the statement said. positive on Friday during a South Osan, the statement said. more than 155,000 COVID-19 in- which limits alcohol sales, restau- Three more service members at Korean public health department South Korea added 794 new fections during the pandemic and rant hours and crowd sizes, is in Osan and two at Camp Casey test- contact trace, the statement said. cases at midnight Tuesday and a 2,000 deaths, the WHO said. effect until July 11 for a handful of ed positive between June 23 and A family member tested positive single death, according to the Ko- prefectures, including Tokyo and Sunday after developing CO- June 24 after developing symp- rea Disease Control and Preven- [email protected] Osaka. VID-19 symptoms. toms. tion Agency’s Central Disease Twitter: @MatthewMBurke1 Tuskegee experiment relatives Data: Gaps in US vaccination promote vaccines in ad campaign rates show regions at risk Bloomberg to lean politically to the right — only Associated Press The gap between the most vacci- 28% of people have received a first Tuskegee is the one-word answer nated and least vaccinated places in dose of a vaccine, on average, and some people give as a reason they’re the U.S. has exploded in the past 24% are fully vaccinated. avoiding COVID-19 vaccines. A new three months, and continues to wid- “The consequences could be ad campaign launched Wednesday en despite efforts to convince more quite severe,” Timothy Callaghan, with relatives of men who unwit- Americans to get a COVID-19 shot. who studies rural health at Texas tingly became part of the infamous On a national level, the news ap- A&M University. “We’re going to experiment wants to change minds. pears good. About 300,000 new peo- have counties where vaccination is Omar Neal, 63, a former mayor of ple are getting a COVID vaccine ev- rare and nowhere close to herd im- the Alabama town, said he was hes- ery day in the U.S., and 54% of the munity, and others where it’s high. itant at first about the shots. Neal is a full U.S. population has at least one We could be headed toward a divid- nephew of Freddie Lee Tyson, a dose. The country’s vaccine cam- ed country of haves and have nots.” family man who was among several paign is among the most successful Gaps in vaccination rates can hundred Black men who decades in the world, states have lifted re- leave smoldering embers of infec- ago became involved without their AD COUNCIL/AP strictions on business and socializ- tion, ready to set an epidemic newly consent in the federally backed Former Mayor Omar Neal, left, speaks during an interview in ing, and hospitalizations have ablaze elsewhere. And they can cre- syphilis study. Tuskegee, Ala., as part of an education campaign aiming to encourage plunged. ate fertile ground for new muta- Neal said he agreed to appear in confidence in COVID­19 vaccination. Neal’s uncle unwittingly became But newly available county-level tions, giving the virus a chance to the national campaign after doing part of the country’s syphilis experiment on Black men decades ago. data show how those national fig- evade vaccines. research to gain confidence in the ures hide very different local vac- Bloomberg’s analysis looks at vaccines. disease that can be cured with pen- ed while 54%, have received one cine realities. county-level data on the number of “I want to save lives,’’ Neal told icillin. dose. People of color have lagged be- In the least vaccinated group of people who have received at least The Associated Press. “I didn’t want Neal and other Tyson relatives hind white Americans in getting the counties, many of which are in the one dose of a vaccine, from the U.S. people to use Tuskegee and what are among half a dozen Tuskegee shots. south and central regions of the Centers for Disease Control and transpired there as a reason for not descendants involved in the ads, Authorities are concerned about U.S., less than half as many people Prevention as well as the state of taking the vaccine.’’ which focus on vaccine hesitancy the slowing pace of new vaccina- have gotten at least one COVID vac- Texas. In 1932 and over 40 years, Black among Black Americans. They say tions amid persistent pockets of re- cine dose as in the most vaccinated Polling by the Kaiser Family men in Tuskegee were subjected to vaccination is needed to curb a dis- sistance. Limited access is an issue counties in the cities and on the Foundation suggests that about 13% experimentation without their ease that has disproportionately af- for some Black people, but so is mis- coasts. Those less vaccinated places of Americans plan to avoid the vac- knowledge. Most of the 600 men had fected Black Americans. trust of the medical system. are not catching up, either. The gap cine no matter what, while another syphilis — including Tyson, who got “Don’t deny ourselves the oppor- The campaign includes a mini- between more- and less-vaccinated 12% say they are waiting before infected before birth — but they tunity the men were denied,’’ Ty- documentary and 60-second ver- counties is expanding, and the trail- making a decision and 7% will get were left untreated so researchers son’s 76-year-old daughter, Lillie sions made for TV and online use. ing counties are far below levels vaccinated only if required. Among could study the natural history of the Tyson Head, said in one of the ads. They are part of the Ad Council’s on- needed to halt future waves of infec- the most hesitant groups, according disease. Vaccines are highly effective going multimillion-dollar education tion. to KFF, are Republicans, people of Tyson died from unrelated caus- against COVID-19. Yet U.S. vacci- campaign aiming to encourage con- In the bottom fifth of counties — color, young people, and rural resi- es in 1988, 16 years after the study nation rates are lower than govern- fidence in the shots, paid for by do- which tend to be more rural, more dents — similar to Bloomberg’s ended. But many others died from a ment goals, with 46% fully vaccinat- nations from media corporations. poor, less educated and more likely analysis. Thursday, July 1, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 9 NATION 4 more bodies found in Fla. condo rubble

Associated Press of becoming tropical systems in SURFSIDE — Four more bod- the coming days, but it is unclear ies have been found in the rubble at this point whether they would of a collapsed Florida condo tow- pose a threat to the United States. er, a fire official said Wednesday, Charles Cyrille of the Miami- raising the death toll in the disas- Dade County Office of Emergen- ter to 16 people. cy said 900 workers from 50 fed- Miami-Dade Assistant Fire eral, state and local agencies were Chief Raide Jadallah told family working seamlessly on the search. members at a morning briefing Elected officials have pledged that rescuers found the bodies to conduct multiple investigations Tuesday night. He said relatives into the sudden collapse of the 12- have not yet been identified. story Champlain Towers South in In addition to the four bodies, Surfside last week. crews also found other human re- Miami-Dade County Mayor mains. Rescuers were able to Daniella Levine Cava said that build a ramp for a crane to reach she and her staff will meet with areas at the top of the pile they engineering, construction and ge- had not been access before, Jadal- ology experts, among others, to lah said. review building safety issues and State Fire Marshal Jimmy Pe- develop recommendations “to en- tronis described the ramp as “a sure a tragedy like this will never, Herculean effort” that would al- ever happen again.” low the use of more heavy equip- State Attorney Katherine Fer- ment. LYNNE SLADKY/AP nandez Rundle said she will pur- “Now you are able to leverage Search and rescue personnel work atop the rubble Wednesday at the Champlain Towers South condo sue a grand jury investigation to massive equipment to remove building, where scores of people remain missing almost a week after it partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla. examine factors and decisions mass pieces of concrete that could that led to the collapse. lead to those incredible good news ended search for survivors in an Guthrie said the new team, Atlantic, heading to the Carib- Gov. Ron DeSantis evoked a events,” Petronis told Miami tele- area prone to tropical weather. which would likely come from bean. We have eight urban rescue well-known military commitment vision station WSVN. The possibility that severe Virginia, would be on hand if se- teams in Florida. We talked about to leave no one behind on the bat- More than 140 people remained weather in coming days could fur- vere weather hits the area in com- doing a relief,” Guthrie said at a tlefield and pledged to do the unaccounted for as of Wednes- ther stretch Florida’s search and ing days and allow crews that news conference Tuesday night. same for the people still missing day. rescue resources prompted state have been working at the site for “We have all the resources we in the rubble. The discovery of the bodies officials to ask the federal govern- days to rotate out. Authorities said need, but we’re going to bring in “The way I look at it, as an old came the morning after Florida ment for the additional team, Ke- it’s still a search-and-rescue oper- another team. We want to rotate Navy guy, is when somebody is authorities asked the federal gov- vin Guthrie of the Florida Divi- ation, but no one has been found those out so we can get more re- missing in action, in the military, ernment for an additional rescue sion of Emergency Management alive since hours after the col- sources out.” you’re missing until you’re found. team to comb the rubble of the said Tuesday. Already, intermit- lapse Thursday. The National Hurricane Center We don’t stop the search,” DeSan- tower, a request that underscored tent bad weather has caused tem- “There are two areas of (possi- says two disorganized storm sys- tis said at a news conference the strenuous nature of the open- porary delays in the search. ble storm) development out in the tems in the Atlantic have a chance Tuesday. Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’ Associated Press cent years has been presenting the tice Department prosecutors ob- arguing in a Washington Post opin- Chairman Jerrold Nadler said in WASHINGTON — Federal law company with between 2,400 to tained phone records belonging not ion piece that “prosecutors too of- opening remarks Wednesday that enforcement agencies secretly 3,500 secrecy orders a year, or only to journalists, but also to mem- ten are exploiting technology to the Trump administration took ad- seek the data of Microsoft custom- about seven to 10 a day. bers of Congress and their staffers abuse our fundamental freedoms.” vantage of outdated policies on dig- ers thousands of times a year, ac- “The fact that law enforcement as part of leak investigations. Mi- Attorney General Merrick Gar- ital data searches to target journal- cording to congressional testimony requested, and courts approved, crosoft, for instance, was among land, meanwhile, has said the Jus- ists and others in leak investiga- being given Wednesday by a senior clandestine surveillance of so the companies that turned over re- tice Department will abandon its tions. The New York Democrat executive at the technology compa- many Americans represents a sea cords under a court order, and be- practice of seizing reporter records said that reforms are needed now ny. change from historical norms,” cause of a gag order, had to then and will formalize that stance soon. to guard against future overreach Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate Burt will say. wait more than two years before Burt is among the witnesses at a by Justice Department prosecu- vice president for customer securi- The relationship between law disclosing it. Judiciary Committee hearing tors. ty and trust, will tell members of enforcement and Big Tech has at- Since then, Brad Smith, Micro- about potential legislative solutions “We cannot trust the department the House Judiciary Committee tracted fresh scrutiny in recent soft’s president, called for an end to to intrusive leak investigations. to police itself,” Nadler said. that federal law enforcement in re- weeks with the revelation that Jus- the overuse of secret gag orders, House Judiciary Committee Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction overturned by Pa. Supreme Court

Associated Press stand. by’s first trial, when the jury dead- other accusers in similar cases. cases, including to show a crime PHILADELPHIA — Pennsyl- The 83-year-old Cosby, who was locked. He then, however, allowed The law on prior bad act testimony pattern so specific it serves to vania’s highest court overturned once beloved as “America’s Dad,” five other accusers to testify at the varies by state, though, and the identify the perpetrator. Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction was convicted of drugging and retrial about their experiences ruling only holds sway in Pennsyl- In Cosby’s case, one of his ap- Wednesday after finding that an molesting the Temple University with Cosby in the 1980s. vania. pellate lawyers said prosecutors agreement with a previous prose- employee at his suburban estate. The Pennsylvania Supreme Prosecutors did not immediate- put on vague evidence about the cutor prevented him from being He was charged in late 2015, Court said that testimony tainted ly say if they would appeal or seek uncharged conduct, including charged in the case. when a prosecutor armed with the trial, even though a lower ap- to try Cosby for a third time. Cosby’s own recollections in his Cosby has served more than two newly unsealed evidence — Cos- peals court had found it appropri- The justices voiced concern not deposition about giving women al- years of a three- to 10-year sen- by’s damaging deposition from ate to show a signature pattern of just about sex assault cases, but cohol or quaaludes before sexual tence at a state prison near Phila- her lawsuit — arrested him days drugging and molesting women. what they saw as the judiciary’s encounters. delphia. He had vowed to serve all before the 12-year statute of limi- Cosby was the first celebrity increasing tendency to allow testi- “The presumption of innocence 10 years rather than acknowledge tations expired. tried and convicted in the #Me- mony that crosses the line into just didn’t exist for him,” Jennifer any remorse over the 2004 en- The trial judge had allowed just Too era, so the reversal could character attacks. The law allows Bonjean, the lawyer, argued to the counter with accuser Andrea Con- one other accuser to testify at Cos- make prosecutors wary of calling the testimony only in limited court in December. PAGE 10 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, July 1, 2021 NATION Biden to Deaths raise pay likely for federal firefighters Associated Press tied to WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is set to temporarily raise pay for federal firefighters to ensure that no one fighting wildland fires is making less than $15 per hour, ac- US heat cording to a senior administration official. Associated Press Biden planned to announce plans SPOKANE, Wash. — About a for the higher pay — and other dozen deaths in Washington and moves to boost U.S. wildfire fight- Oregon may be tied to an intense ing capacity and prevention efforts heat wave that brought scorching — during a virtual meeting temperatures to the Northwest and Wednesday with governors from caused one power utility to impose Western states to discuss what is rolling blackouts amid heavy de- shaping up to be a torrid wildfire mand. season. The dangerous weather that gave Biden has expressed dismay at Seattle and Portland consecutive the starting pay for federal fire- days of record high temperatures KATHY PLONKA, /THE (SPOKANE, WASH.) SPOKESMAN­REVIEW / AP fighters. Pay for new federal fire- exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit Robert Peluso of Blanchard, Idaho, and his dog Bailey cool off in the creek at Rathdrum’s City Park on fighters typically starts at $11 per eased in those cities on Tuesday. Tuesday in Rathdrum, Idaho. He’s training Bailey to be a service dog for PAWS For Veterans, which hour to $14 per hour and they are But inland Spokane, towns in east- provides funding for service dogs to military veterans suffering from PTSD. Robert has been in the Army overtime eligible, according to the ern Oregon and cities in Idaho saw for 22 years. Interior Department. temperatures spike. “That’s going to end in my admin- The National Weather Service were without power as of shortly af- ing weather. were from Everett, Granite Falls istration,” Biden said during a visit said the mercury reached 109 F in ter 2 p.m. Tuesday, mostly on the The King County Medical Exam- and Marysville in Washington. last week to the Federal Emergency Tuesday in Spokane — the highest north side of the city, and those cus- iner’s office said two people died The heat may have claimed the Management Agency for a briefing temperature ever recorded there. tomers had been alerted about the due to hyperthermia, meaning their life of a worker on a nursery in Ore- on natural disaster prevention ef- About 9,300 Avista Utilities cus- planned outage. About 21,000 cus- bodies had became dangerously gon, the state’s worker safety agen- forts. “That’s a ridiculously low sal- tomers in Spokane lost power on tomers were warned Tuesday overheated. The Seattle Times re- cy, known as Oregon OSHA, said on ary to pay federal firefighters.” Monday, and the company said morning that they might experi- ported they were a 65-year-old Tuesday. The new approach to firefighter more planned blackouts began on ence an outage, she said. Seattle woman and a 68-year-old The man who died was from Gua- pay was laid out by by an adminis- Tuesday afternoon in the city of Rosentrater said the outages Enumclaw, Wash., woman. temala and had apparently arrived tration official who briefed report- about 220,000 people. were a distribution problem and did And the Snohomish County Med- in the United States only a few ers on the condition of anonymity “We try to limit outages to one not stem from a lack of electricity in ical Examiner’s Office on Tuesday months ago, said Andres Pablo Lu- because the official was not autho- hour per customer,” said Heather the system. told the Daily Herald in Everett, cas, owner of Brother Farm Labor rized to publicly discuss the plan Rosentrater, an Avista vice presi- Meanwhile, authorities said mul- Wash., that three men — ages 51, 75 Contractor that provided workers before Biden's announcement. dent for energy delivery. tiple recent deaths in the region and 77 — died after experiencing for the nursery, including the man The pay raise will come in the She said about 2,400 customers were possibly related to the scorch- heat stroke in their homes. They who died. form of retention incentives and by providing additional bonuses to those working on the front lines. More experienced permanent fire- fighters could also be eligible for a House votes to remove Taney 10% retention incentive. bust and Confederate statues United Airlines purchases BY CHRIS MARQUETTE er white supremacists, such as John neatly to the political dynamics of CQ-Roll Call C. Calhoun, a former vice president. the antebellum period and late 19th 270 new planes WASHINGTON — For the sec- “What we should do today is rele- century. United Airlines is making one of ond straight year, the House voted gate these statues to the dustbin of McCarthy also noted that Presi- the largest orders ever for com- to remove the bust of the late Chief history,” Majority Whip James E. dent Joe Biden and Speaker Nancy mercial airplanes in an aggressive Justice Roger B. Taney — who au- Clyburn said. The South Carolina Pelosi have in the past praised the bet that air travel will rebound thored the infamous Dred Scott de- Democrat noted that he met his late late West Virginia Sen. Robert C. strongly from the pandemic. cision that held Black people were wife in jail after protesting racial in- Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan mem- United said Tuesday that it will not U.S. citizens — along with statu- equities. ber. He also took aim at critical race buy 200 Boeing Max jets and 70 es and busts of Confederates and Clyburn rhetorically asked why theory. planes from Europe’s Airbus so white supremacists. his home state in 1910 sent to the “Today, the Democratic Party that it can replace many of its The final vote on Tuesday was Capitol a statue of Calhoun. had doubled down on what I consid- J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP smallest and oldest planes, and 285-120. Sixty-seven Republicans “Simply because he was this na- er this shameful history by replac- A marble bust of Chief Justice have room to grow its fleet. joined 218 Democrats to vote for the tion’s foremost proponent of slav- ing the racism of the past with the Roger Taney is displayed in the It’s the biggest order in United’s measure. The 120 no votes were all ery,” Clyburn answered. racism of the critical race theory,” Old Supreme Court Chamber in history and the biggest by any U.S. Republicans. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said. the U.S. Capitol. carrier since American Airlines Taney would be replaced by an- McCarthy, who supported the bill, Congress authorized the National ordered 460 Boeing and Airbus other Marylander in the Old Su- used his floor remarks to imply the Statuary Hall Collection in 1864 to approve a replacement — if the re- jets in 2011. preme Court Chamber of the Capi- Democratic Party is racist, due to its allow each state to donate two statu- quest has first been backed by a res- Combined with previous or- tol: Thurgood Marshall, the first past ties to racism. es of notable citizens “illustrious for olution adopted by the state’s legis- ders, United expects to add about Black Supreme Court justice. The “But let me state a simple fact: All their historic renown or for distin- lature and governor. The statue up one new plane every three days in measure, introduced by House Ma- of the statues being removed by this guished civic or military services” for replacement must have been 2023, up from just over one a jority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D- bill are statues of Democrats,” the for display in the Capitol. displayed in the Capitol for at least month next year. Md., would also remove the statues California Republican said, leaving In 2000, the law was changed to 10 years; the committee can waive and busts of people who voluntarily out the context that the modern two- allow states to ask the Joint Com- the requirement for cause at a served in the Confederacy and oth- party system does not compare mittee on the Library of Congress to state’s request. From The Associated Press Thursday, July 1, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 11 AMERICAN ROUNDUP

Error sends dumpling machine to wrong city PORTLAND — Try- ME ing to fill this dum- pling order left one business in a pinch: A common but disruptive shipping error sent a custom dum- pling-making machine manufac- tured in China to the wrong Por- tland in May. The owners of Little Brother Chinese Food, which sells frozen dumplings in Portland, Maine, or- dered a custom dumpling ma- chine to help them fulfill demand, but an emailed shipping receipt delivered the bad news, the Por- tland Press Herald reported. “We saw that it was headed for Tacoma, Washington, and then Portland, Oregon,” Richard Lee said. Lee and co-owner Claire Guyer hired customs broker Oceanair to help redirect the machine they hoped would fold some 3,000 dum- plings a week for them. Kelly L’Heureux, vice presi- dent of Oceanair, was able to file a required document that directed the machine to be put on a truck to Maine, not Oregon, when it landed in Tacoma, Wash. Man arrested after sauce error led to threat ANKENY — Police ar- IA rested an Ankeny man af- MATT ROURKE/AP ter he allegedly threatened to blow up a McDonald’s restaurant for neglecting to include dipping Creativity at work sauce with his order of chicken Mural Arts Philadelphia artist Felix St. Fort, right, along with artists Lucia Michel, center, and Clara, lays out a grid for his creation to be painted McNuggets. on the ground at Eakins Oval in Philadelphia,. The work titled "Welcome Back, Philly" is expected to be completed ahead of Independence Day. Television station WHO 13 re- ported that police in the Des must notify law enforcement if THE CENSUS plan is for it to re-open as a 36- Moines suburb arrested the 42- one escapes. room, boutique hotel in Septem- year-old man after he admitted to The approximate weight in pounds of illegal fireworks author- ber. investigators that he called the Motorist tops 100 mph in 15K ities in Northern California seized, as well as $1 million, as part The property was originally Ankeny restaurant upon realizing pursuit across 2 counties of an investigation into a major distribution line of the illegal explosives. Au- comprised of a bank built in 1880 his order mistakenly didn’t in- thorities are urging people to forgo July 4 fireworks displays amid a historic and the Levee Board Building clude the dipping sauce. During BANGOR — A man drought and fears of wildfires. The major seizure comes months after a massive built in 1883. the call, he threatened to blow up ME who led police on a fireworks explosion left two people dead in Southern California in March and The Levee Board acquired the the restaurant and punch an em- chase topping 100 mph across two caused at least $3.2 million worth of damage. bank in 1919. In 1997 the property ployee. counties faces numerous charges, was converted into a hotel and a The man was charged with a fe- police said. rived at the beach area in the Pot- least 10 feet, the Salisbury Daily third building was erected, creat- lony of false report of an explosive It started when the motorist de- Nets Seaside Mobile Home Park Times reported. ing a courtyard between the two or incendiary device. clined to stop for a trooper in Stet- with his family on Jet Skis. Then, When company president An- original buildings. son and sped away in a sport utility police said the 51-year-old Mills- toinette Bruno confirmed that the Venomous snake on the vehicle. At one point, the motorist boro man grabbed a screwdriver ride would be dismantled and re- Kayaker finds plastic bin loose in capital city stopped, entered a home and then and stabbed the second man in the located, she said it wouldn’t oper- containing body departed with a stolen vehicle, po- head and cut the torso of a third ate this summer. But Trimper’s RALEIGH — Officials lice said. man who tried to break up the Rides said “It’s baaaaack!!” in a DELAWARE — A NC in North Carolina were The man tried to steal another fight. Facebook post with an accompa- OH kayaker picking up warning people to be on the loo- car after the vehicle was disabled The three men received medi- nying photo of its 149-foot-tall Fer- trash and debris at an Ohio lake kout for a venomous snake on the by spike mats, police said. cal attention for their injuries and ris wheel. ended up finding a man’s body in a loose. The man had two outstanding police charged the Millsboro man plastic storage container, author- The Raleigh Police Department warrants and faces new charges with aggravated menacing, sec- Historic inn to reopen ities said. sent out a notice urging anyone including eluding an officer, pass- ond-degree assault and disorderly after virus shutdown The Delaware County sheriff’s who sees the missing zebra cobra ing a roadblock, driving to endan- conduct. office said the kayaker called au- to stay away and call 911. They say ger, burglary and theft, police GREENVILLE — A thorities to report finding the the venomous snake could spit said. Ferris wheel reopens MS historic northwest large bin in Alum Creek lake and and bite if cornered. after zoning violation Mississippi building complex with seeing what appeared to be a hu- An animal control officer was Police: Man attacked 19th century roots was purchased man leg inside. called to a home for a report of a 2 men with screwdriver OCEAN CITY — The by a nonprofit economic develop- Crews recovered the bin from snake on a resident’s porch, police MD Ferris wheel at a his- ment group and will reopen as a the water and confirmed that the said. But when the officer arrived, MILLSBORO — A toric amusement park on the hotel this fall after closing down bin contained the body of a man. the snake had slithered away. DE Millsboro man faces Ocean City boardwalk has reo- during the pandemic. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Then they learned that a zebra co- several felonies after police said pened following a zoning viola- The Delta Democrat-Times re- Investigation is taking part in the bra was missing from a home in he attacked two men with a screw- tion. ported that the Greenville Inn and investigation. The sheriff’s office the area. driver on a Delaware beach dur- Trimper’s Rides said June 9 Suites building was purchased says it’s unclear how long the plas- Venomous snakes are legal to ing an argument over Jet Skis. that it would move the ride after a from the Mississippi Levee Board tic bin has been in the river. own in North Carolina, but they Delaware State Police said in- surveyor contracted by the com- in June by Main Street Greenville, must be kept in an escape-proof, vestigators determined that an ar- pany found that the Ferris wheel a division of Greater Greenville bite-proof enclosures and owners gument began when a man ar- overhung town property by at Development Foundation. The From The Associated Press PAGE 12 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, July 1, 2021 SCIENCE/MEDICINE Black hole witnessed swallowing neutron star BY SETH BORENSTEIN scientists was published Tuesday Associated Press in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Talk about a heavy snack. For While astronomers had seen the first time, astronomers have gravitational waves from two witnessed a black hole swallowing black holes colliding with each a neutron star, the most dense ob- other and two neutron stars collid- ject in the universe — all in a split- ing with each other, this is the first second gulp. time they saw one of each crashing Ten days later they saw the same together. thing, on the other side of the uni- Neutron stars are corpses of verse. In both cases, a neutron star massive stars, what's leftover after — a teaspoon of which would a big star dies in a supernova ex- weigh a billion tons — orbits ever plosion. They are so dense that closer to that ultimate point of no they have about 1.5 to two times the return, a black hole, until they fi- mass of our sun, but condensed to nally crash together and the neu- about 6 miles wide, Brady said. tron star is gone in a gobble. Some black holes, known as stellar Astronomers witnessed the last black holes, are created when an 500 orbits before the neutron stars even bigger star collapses into it- were swallowed, a process that self creating something with such took far less than a minute and powerful gravity that not even briefly generated as much energy light can escape. as all the visible light in the observ- Scientists think there should be able universe. SOHEB MANDHAI / AP many of these neutron star and “It was just a big quick (gulp), This illustration depicts the warping of time and space as a black hole, left, is about to swallow a neutron black hole pairings, but they’ve yet gone,” said study co-author Pa- star. In a report released on Tuesday, astronomers say they have witnessed a black hole swallowing a to find one in our own galaxy. trick Brady, an astrophysicist at neutron star, the most dense object in the universe. “This is very cool,” said Johns the University of Wisconsin Mil- Hopkins University astrophysicist waukee. The black hole “gets a The bursts of energy from the mic energetic ripples soaring lion light-years away. The waves Marc Kamionkowski, who wasn’t nice dinner of a neutron star and collisions were discovered when through space and time as first the- were detected in January of 2020, part of the research. He said this makes itself just a little bit more detectors on Earth spotted the orized by Albert Einstein. They but the study analyzing and inter- will help astronomers predict how massive.” mergers' gravitational waves, cos- each came from more than one bil- preting the data by more than 100 abundant these pairings are. 2 women donate a kidney to other’s husband after sharing their stories

BY CATHY FREE bands at the same time and we on the national kidney cadaver do- The Washington Post could also be in a position to help nor waiting list, according to the Tia Wimbush and Susan Ellis them,’” Wimbush recalled. American Kidney Fund. have been co-workers for a dec- “That’s when we both knew: We The women said they were wor- ade, and while they didn’t know had to get tested,” she said. ried their husbands didn’t have each other well, they learned two Antibody tests revealed that that kind of time. years ago that their spouses each each woman was an excellent “When Tia and I got our anti- needed a kidney transplant. match for the other’s spouse. body tests back and everything Then in August, something re- So in March, seven months after was almost 100% positive, it was markable happened. that chance conversation, Wim- like a validation for us that this The women saw each other in a bush donated one of her kidneys to was going to work,” Ellis, 42, re- restroom at work and started chat- Lance Ellis, 41, and Susan Ellis do- called. ting. They had a lot in common, nated one of hers to Rodney Wim- “It was a relief to know that we Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta both working in information tech- bush, 45. could each give one of our kidneys Tia Wimbush, left, and Susan Ellis, two months after they each nology at Children’s Healthcare of Both transplants done at Pied- and get them off that cycle of dial- donated a kidney to the other’s husband. Atlanta and dealing with the same mont Atlanta Hospital went so ysis and waiting,” Wimbush, 45, medical stress at home. well that the men have almost ful- added. little bit, Tia Wimbush said, but to consider becoming living organ Neither was a match to be an or- ly recovered and are going on Christina Klein, a nephrologist they weren’t all in the same room donors. gan donor for her own husband, weekend hikes with friends and and medical director of Pied- until they came to the hospital for A video of their story made by and the transplant waiting lists are family, Tia Wimbush said. mont’s kidney transplant pro- a final round of testing a few days the hospital where they work has impossibly long. “They’ve each gained the gift of gram, said it is extremely rare for before the surgeries. been widely shared on social Wimbush casually asked Ellis health and more years — it’s won- two people to propose their own “You could feel the emotion, but media. what her husband’s blood type derful to see how they now have paired organ exchange and ac- we were all quietly excited to get it “It’s really just a story about was. quality of life after so many years tually be a match for each other. over with,” she said. simple kindness,” Ellis said. “For He’s type O, Ellis replied. of dialysis treatments,” she said. “I’ve personally never seen this The four surgeries lasted about us, the kindness came in conver- Wimbush said her husband was Lance Ellis, who runs a sign happen,” Klein said. “When we three to four hours each and were sation and in reaching out to a col- type AB. company, had received a kidney put pairs into large databases for executed with no complications, league. It started with two people The women paused for a mo- from his mother in 2017, Susan El- national paired exchange pro- according to Clark Kensinger, the just being good humans. Now we’d ment and looked at each other. lis said. But his body rejected it in grams, some pairs wait months or surgeon who handled the donor like to tell people they can do the Then Wimbush realized they August 2019, and his name was even years for a compatible operations. same.” might have stumbled upon some- added to the national kidney match.” “Donors are heroes, and this Rodney Wimbush said he will thing that might help save both of transplant waiting list. The surgeries were bumped a case is especially unique and be forever grateful that his wife their husbands’ lives. Rodney Wimbush, a high school few times after Lance Ellis was beautiful because two wonderful decided to bring up a conversation Wimbush thought she might be math teacher, had his name added hospitalized with blood clots in patients facilitated lifesaving do- about blood types in the office res- a match for Ellis’s husband, and — to the list in 2020, when he was di- December and Susan Ellis tested nations simply by sharing their troom last year. incredibly — she thought Ellis agnosed with kidney failure after positive for the coronavirus in Ja- stories with one another,” he said. He’s looking ahead to more could be a match for her husband. several weeks of feeling lethargic nuary and had to isolate in a hotel Three months after the March years with Tia and their two sons, “I told Susan, ‘Wait a second — and nauseous, Tia Wimbush said. for 10 days. 19 kidney donations, Susan Ellis while Lance Ellis said he’s antici- what are the odds that we’re both Patients can wait five years or Once things were back on track, and Tia Wimbush are speaking pating a more active life with Su- going through this with our hus- longer for their name to come up the couples chatted on FaceTime a out in the hope of inspiring others san and his two stepdaughters. Thursday, July 1, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 13 WORLD

France opens IVF access EU citizens could to lesbians, single women PARIS — France’s lower house of parliament adopted a law Tues- day that will allow single women and lesbians access to medically lose legal status assisted reproduction for the first time. The wide-ranging bioethics law, presented by French President Emmanuel Macron’s govern- to live in the UK ment, was approved by the Na- tional Assembly in a 326-115 vote. ALBERTO PEZZALI/AP The new law will expand access BY SYLVIA HUI 2019, and the deadline for appli- A Brexit supporter holds a British flag with the slogan “Leave Means to fertility treatments such as arti- Associated Press Leave” during a rally near parliament in London on Jan. 31, 2020. cations was Wednesday. ficial insemination and in vitro LONDON — Marlies Haselton From Thursday, any European fertilization, currently reserved has called Britain home for more migrant who hasn’t applied will lived in the U.K. for decades are fully received her “settled” sta- only for infertile heterosexual than 30 years. The Dutch national lose their legal right to work, rent not aware they have to apply, and tus, meaning she can reside per- couples. married a Briton, had her chil- housing and access to some hospi- official figures show that only 2% manently in the U.K., she said the dren there, and considers herself tal treatments or welfare benefits of applicants were 65 years old or whole process has made her feel German authorities “part and parcel” of the United in the U.K. They may even be older. Many parents also don’t re- insecure about the life she built in foil cyberattack Kingdom. Until Britain’s divorce subject to deportation. alize they have to apply for their Britain. German authorities thwarted a from the European Union, she Meanwhile, the freedom of children, migrants rights’ groups Britain’s government says cyberattack on a data service pro- had never given a thought to her movement that over 1 million say. some 5.6 million people — the vider used by federal agencies immigration status in the U.K. Britons have long enjoyed in EU Other vulnerable people, such majority from Poland and Roma- and pushed back on a report that a Haselton, 55, is among the mil- countries is also ending. Those as an estimated 2,000 children in nia — have applied, far more than broad assault targeted critical in- lions of Europeans who have free- applying for post-Brexit residen- social care, also risk falling the initial estimates. While about frastructure and banks. ly lived, worked and studied in cy permits in France also face a through the cracks and ending up half were granted settled status, The attempt was quickly dealt the U.K. for decades, but whose deadline on Wednesday. with no legal status. some 2 million migrants who with and impact on service was rights are no longer automatically Campaigners in the U.K. are For Haselton and many others, haven’t lived in the U.K. long “very marginal,” Interior Minis- granted due to Brexit. Britain’s worried that tens or even hun- it’s a moment that drives home enough were told they have to put try spokesman Steve Alter told re- government introduced a “settle- dreds of thousands of Europeans the impact of Britain’s referen- in the paperwork again when they porters Wednesday. ment” plan for the country’s large may not have applied by the dead- dum to leave the EU five years have completed five years of resi- European migrant community in line. Many older people who have ago. Although Haselton success- dency in the country. From wire reports PAGE 14 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, July 1, 2021 OPINION

Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Marci Hoffman, Europe commander Lt. Col. Michael Kerschbaum, Pacific commander Former Sen. Biden must use a different skill set Michael Ryan, Pacific chief of staff BY DAVID IGNATIUS two investment packages explicit, Biden gave comments. “If they can’t get every single Washington Post Writers Group away the game. thing they want ... are they going to vote ‘no’? I WASHINGTON Biden’s legislative strategy, for months, has don’t think so.” EDITORIAL resident Joe Biden took office with been a two-track approach. Against Demo- What’s ahead is a legislative numbers Terry Leonard, Editor an immense challenge: How to en- crats who argued that he needed to make a game, in which every action can produce a [email protected] act the once-in-a-generation invest- hard either/or decision — stop trying to com- counteraction. If Senate Minority Leader ment programs the country needs, promise with Republicans and instead drive Mitch McConnell tries to block the compro- Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor P working with what may be the most polarized his agenda unilaterally — Biden wisely pur- mise infrastructure bill, for example, moder- [email protected] Congress in our history. sued a both/and strategy. He would seek ate Democratic senators such as Joe Man- Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content We’ve learned since Inauguration Day that enough GOP votes to pass a compromise bill chin, of West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema, of [email protected] Biden is most effective when he measures his for brick-and-mortar infrastructure and then Arizona, may be more likely to embrace the words, negotiates quietly with his former col- come back for a second slice of social spend- broader reconciliation package. If progres- Sean Moores, Managing Editor for Presentation [email protected] leagues in Congress, and advances the agenda ing using the “reconciliation” provision of the sives load that bill with too much spending, the country wants. To achieve that, he has held Budget Act, approval of which requires only Manchin, Sinema and other moderate Demo- Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital small meetings with nearly 200 House and his 50 Democratic senators. crats may bolt. [email protected] Senate members over the past five months, Republicans were furious that Biden had Biden’s ability to be an effective political according to the White House. Biden makes linked the two. Progressive Democrats, wary bargainer is crucial, because the stakes are so BUREAU STAFF mistakes when he acts like a senator rather of the slimmed-down compromise, were mo- high. The country is divided, but as we emerge than a disciplined chief executive. mentarily appeased. But this balance of anger from the pandemic, there’s broad agreement Europe/Mideast The senatorial Biden was on display last was reversed two days later when Biden tried that we are at an “inflection point,” as Brian Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief [email protected] Thursday. He sounded almost giddy in an- to undo his mistake. He conceded that his ear- Deese, head of the National Economic Coun- +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 nouncing a compromise infrastructure pack- lier statement “understandably upset some cil, put it during a speech last week to the At- Pacific age negotiated with a bipartisan group of 10 Republicans, who do not see the two plans as lantic Council. Deese outlined a plan for a new Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief senators, touted as a $1.2 trillion deal but with linked,” and “also created the impression that American “industrial policy” to compete with [email protected] only $579 billion in new money. In a theatrical I was issuing a veto threat ... which was cer- China and for economic and technological +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 exchange later that day with reporters in the tainly not my intent.” strength. The need to meet the challenge from Washington East Room, he spoke at times in stage whis- Biden got into last week’s mess partly be- China may be the best card Biden can play in Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief pers and boasted (accurately but needlessly): cause he was trying to reassure the left wing of the negotiations ahead. It’s the one theme on [email protected] “I know the Senate and the House better than his party. He doesn’t need to do that, any more which there seems clear, unambiguous (+1)(202)886-0033 Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News most of you know it.” than he needs to plead with obstructive Re- agreement between Republicans and Demo- [email protected] Biden’s real blunder was that he openly publicans. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., didn’t crats. A sign was the Senate’s passage this linked the fate of the limited investment pack- win the presidency in November, and neither month, 68 to 32, of a $52 billion plan to invest in CIRCULATION age Republicans will support to passage of the did the Republicans. Biden’s strength is that the United States’ semiconductor manufac- Mideast broader $1.8 trillion American Families Plan the country seems to want what he’s selling — turing industry to compete with Beijing. Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager for social investment that progressive Demo- agovernment that can stop bickering and pass Biden’s career has been spent in the glad- [email protected] crats want. “If this is the only thing that comes legislation that matters. handing, backslapping world of the Senate. [email protected] to me, I’m not signing it. It’s in tandem,” Biden Biden should listen to his own counsel: “My His brand is passing legislation. 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Love calls Rodrigo ‘rude’ copycat over promotional artwork Courtney Love has accused Oli- via Rodrigo of plagiarizing art- work from “Live Through This,” the 1994 album by Love’s band Hole. What began as a sweet Insta- gram exchange June 24 between the veteran rocker and the Gen Z superstar spiraled into allegations of intellectual-property theft over the weekend when Love accused Rodrigo of “stealing” Hole’s con- cept to promote her concert film “Sour Prom.” “Spot the difference! #twin- Historic ning,” Love captioned a promo- tional photo of Rodrigo holding a bouquet of flowers while wearing a tiara and smudged mascara. The image, shared by Love on Instagram and Facebook, bears a Quest resemblance to the album cover for “Live Through This,” which sees the lead singer in a similar costume and pose. “love u and live through this sooooo much,” Rodrigo replied to Love’s Instagram post highlight- JASON MENDEZ, INVISION/AP ing the similarities. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson attends a special screening of “Summer of Soul” at The Richard Rodgers Amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park “Olivia — you’re welcome,” on June 19 in New York. His documentary, premiering Friday in theaters and on Hulu, highlights the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Love wrote back. “My favorite flo- rist is in Notting Hill, London! Dm me for deets! I look forward to Roots drummer reluctantly adds ‘director’ to varied résumé, reading your note!” Things then turned sour when Love elaborated on Facebook that attempts to bring back erased history with ‘Summer of Soul’ the photo shoot for Rodrigo’s You- Tube special gave her more than BY DAN DELUCA in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park (now Marcus he’d be the ideal music nerd to make the film. just a little déjà vu. The Philadelphia Inquirer Garvey Park) from June to August in 1969, “They said, ‘If ever there was a time for you “it was rude of [Rodrigo and her esides The Roots and their nightly more than 300,000 people witnessed incandes- to jump into this medium, this is the perfect label] not to ask myself or [”Live gig on “The Tonight Show Starring cent performances by Sly and the Family diving board,’ “ he said. “I just had to get over Through This” cover photogra- Jimmy Fallon,” Ahmir “Questlove” Stone, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, B.B. King, myself and my fears.” pher] Ellen von unwerth” for per- BThompson has many other jobs. Gladys Knight & the Pips, Hugh Masekela, the For all of his encyclopedic knowledge, Ques- mission, Love replied on Face- “Usually, I jump into the unknowing lake of Chambers Brothers, the 5th Dimension, the tlove had never heard of the Harlem fest. book to a fan’s comment that Ro- creativity with absolute abandon,” says the Staple Singers and more. Soon he realized that not only was the festiv- drigo’s artwork was “a total rip- drummer, A-list DJ and “Questlove Supreme” Staged the turbulent year after the assassi- al real, but he had seen some of the exceedingly off.” “It’s happened my whole ca- podcast host. nation of Martin Luther King Jr., the festival rare footage before. “In 1997, when The Roots reer so [I don’t care]. But manners “Write a book? I’ll do that. Teach at NYU? was a Black celebration for an intergeneration- were in Japan for the first time, my translator is manners!” Yeah, I’ll do that. Everything I’ve done in the al crowd sporting dashikis and Afros. took me to a place that weirdly enough was “Stealing an original idea and food world (including his “Questlove’s Pot- Veteran television producer Hal Tulchin called the Soul Train Cafe.” TV monitors not asking permission is rude. luck” shows and plant-based Questlove’s played bootleg clips of what he now realizes There’s no way to be elegant about Cheesesteaks). Anything outside my comfort was Sly Stone’s performance at the HCF. it,” Love added in response to a zone of drumming.” “[The producers] said, That performance footage as thrilling as Facebook user who shamed her But when the opportunity arose to take Stone’s could have been discarded is a cultural for getting mad about “a silly charge of what would become “Summer of ‘If ever there was a crime that Questlove resolved to correct. thing” and “sniping at someone Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be “I kept making excuses in my head,” he says, paying homage” to her. Televised),” his joyous and insightful docu- time for you to jump noting that many of the artists at the festival, mentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Fes- like Wonder and the Staple Singers, had not yet tival, he wasn’t so sure. into this medium, this reached their peak of popularity, potentially “With directing a movie, I was sort of like ... explaining why mainstream America had no (making a screeching sound, slamming on the is the perfect diving interest in an event that chronicled a golden brakes),” he says, speaking via Zoom about the era of Black music achievement. film, which won the Grand Jury Prize and the board.’ I just had to get “But the truth of the matter is, whether it’s Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festiv- blatant racism — like ‘they will not cross this From left: Artwork for the Olivia al. It opens Friday in theaters and on Hulu. over myself and my bridge over our dead bodies’ racism — or be- Rodrigo concert film “Sour “I don’t know if I can jump off this cliff, nign racism, which is more dismissive, it Prom” and Hole’s 1994 album guys,” he remembers thinking. “I was trying to fears.” doesn’t make a difference. I’ll say benign rac- “Live Through This.” inch my way out of it. Why can’t I just be an Questlove ism stings more, because it’s done so passive- executive producer and a talking head?” aggressively.” Other news Questlove served as a music consultant and His need to tell the HCF story hit home, ■ Despite competition from voice actor on last year’s Pixar film “Soul,” but filmed the entire festival, which aired in one- Questlove says, when he was reading Prince’s NBA conference finals and the he was reluctant to add “movie director” to his hour excerpts on late-night New York TV. He posthumous memoir “The Beautiful Ones.” Olympic trials, “America’s Got list of occupations, partly due to the magnitude then tried for decades to sell it as “the Black “He talks about this moment with his dad Talent” reached seven million of the task before him. “Summer of Soul” Woodstock” to network television execs or as a taking him to see the Woodstock movie when viewers last week with auditions brings back to life a glorious Black music event documentary film. he was 11, and how that changes his life. He for its 16th season on NBC and was so dazzling in presentation and scale that its Producers David Dinerstein and Robert Fy- knew instantly: That’s what I’m going to do. the week’s most-watched show, erasure from the historical record for half a volent told Questlove — who taught Prince 101 And I thought, ‘Whoa, what if this film had ex- the Nielsen company said. century is mind-boggling. at New York University and whose fifth book, isted then?’ Think of the millions of other kids In a series of free concerts held on Sundays “Music Is History,” is due in October — that that this could have affected.” From wire reports Thursday, July 1, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 19 SCOREBOARD/COLLEGE WORLD SERIES

PRO SOCCER PRO BASKETBALL COLLEGE BASEBALL DEALS MLS WNBA World Series Tuesday’s transactions EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE At Omaha, Neb. BASEBALL Bulldogs (Double Elimination; x-if necessary) Major League Baseball WLTPts GF GA WLPct GB Saturday, June 19 MLB — Suspended Seattle RHP Hector Game 1: N.C. State 10, No. 9 Stanford 4 Santiago 10 games and fined an undis- New England 7 2 2 23 18 13 Connecticut 11 5 .688 — Game 2: No. 4 Vanderbilt 7, No. 5 Arizona closed amount for possessing a foreign Orlando City 6 1 3 21 18 7 Chicago 9 8 .529 2½ 6, 12 innings substance on his glove during a June 27 Sunday, June 20 game against Chicago White Sox. Sus- Philadelphia 5 2 4 19 15 10 New York 8 9 .471 3½ Game 3: Virginia 6, No. 3 Tennessee 0 pended San Francisco (Triple-A Sacra- too much NYCFC 5 3 2 17 18 11 Washington 7 9 .438 4 Game 4: No. 7 Mississippi St. 2, No. 2 Tex- mento) RHP Gregory Santos 80 games as 1 without pay after testing positive for a Columbus 4 3 3 15 9 7 Atlanta 6 9 .400 4½ Monday, June 21 performance-enhancing substance. Nashville 3 1 6 15 13 11 Indiana 1 15 .063 10 Game 5: No. 9 Stanford 14, No. 5 Arizona 5 American League New York 4 5 1 13 14 13 Game 6: N.C. State 1, No. 4 Vanderbilt 0 CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms WESTERN CONFERENCE Tuesday, June 22 with RHP Hunter Speer on a minor league D.C. United 4 6 1 13 10 13 Game 7: No. 2 Texas 8, No. 3 Tennessee 4 contract. Placed OF Jake Lamb on the 10- CF Montréal 3 3 4 13 11 10 WLPct GB for Vandy Game 8: No. 7 Mississippi St. 6, Virginia 5 day IL, retroactive to June 28. Optioned OF Wednesday, June 23 Luis Gonzalez to Charlotte (Triple-A East). Atlanta 2 2 6 12 11 10 Seattle 12 4 .750 — Game 9: No. 4 Vanderbilt 6, Stanford 5 Recalled 1B Gavin Sheets from Charlotte. BY ERIC OLSON Cincinnati 3 5 1 10 9 17 Las Vegas 11 4 .733 ½ Thursday, June 24 Reinstated OF Billy Hamilton from the 10- Inter Miami CF 2 6 2 8 9 16 Dallas 8 8 .500 4 Game 10: No. 2 Texas 6, Virginia 2 day IL. Associated Press Friday, June 25 CLEVELAND INDIANS — Signed RHP Zack Toronto FC 1 7 2 5 12 20 Phoenix 7 7 .500 4 Game 11: No. 4 Vanderbilt 3, N.C. State 1 Godley to a minor league contract. OMAHA, Neb. — Mississippi Chicago 1 7 2 5 7 17 Minnesota 7 7 .500 4 Game 12: No. 2 Texas 8, No. 7 Mississippi DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned OF Derek State’s first three wins in the College Los Angeles 6 8 .429 5 St. 5 Hi;ll to Toledo (Triple-A East). WESTERN CONFERENCE Saturday, June 26 KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled LHP World Series were one-run games. Richard Lovelady from Omaha (Triple-A WLTPts GF GA Monday’s games Game 13: N.C. State vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt, no-contest. East). The Bulldogs’ fourth was a blowout, No games scheduled LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Recalled RHP Seattle 7 0 4 25 20 7 Game 14: No. 7 Mississippi St. 4, No. 2 Tuesday’s games Texas 3 James Hoyt from Salt Lake (Triple-A and it was well-timed. Sporting KC 7 3 2 23 22 15 Championship Series West). Optioned RHP Dillon Peters to Salt Connecticut 90, Washington 71 Lake. Houston Harding and Preston LA Galaxy 7 3 0 21 17 15 Atlanta 73, New York 69 (Best-of-three) Monday: No. 4 Vanderbilt 8, No. 7 Missis- MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms Johnson combined on a four-hitter Colorado 5 3 1 16 15 11 Wednesday’s games with LHP Sean Gilmartin on a minor league sippi St. 2 and MSU capitalized on struggling Minnesota 4 4 2 14 10 12 Chicago at Dallas Tuesday: No. 7 Mississippi St. 13, No. 4 contract. Houston 3 3 5 14 15 16 Minnesota at Phoenix Vanderbilt 2 NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Vanderbilt pitching in a 13-2 victory Las Vegas at Los Angeles Wednesday: No. 7 Mississippi St. vs. No. Brooks Kriske to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Portland 4 5 1 13 13 15 4 Vanderbilt (Triple-A East). Returned RHP Darren Tuesday night that forced a decid- Real Salt Lake 3 2 4 13 14 11 Thursday’s game O’Day from rehab and reinstated from the Connecticut at Indiana CYCLING 10-day IL. ing third game in the College World LAFC 3 4 3 12 12 12 OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Reinstated RHP Friday’s games Series finals. San Jose 3 7 1 10 12 20 Tour de France J.B. Wendelken from the 10-day IL. Select- FC Dallas 2 4 4 10 11 15 Chicago at Dallas ed INF Frank Schwindel from Las Vegas The easy win allowed Bulldogs Atlanta at Seattle (Triple-A West). Optioned INF Vimael Ma- Austin FC 2 5 4 10 6 11 Tuesday Las Vegas at Los Angeles 4th Stage chin to Las Vegas. Designated RHP Cam coach Chris Lemonis to hold back Vancouver 2 6 2 8 10 16 A 150.4-kilometer (93.5-mile) ride from Bedrosian for assignment. rested pitchers, including star re- PRO TENNIS Redon to Fougeres TAMPA BAY RAYS — Recalled 2B Mike Note: Three points for victory, one point Brousseau from Durham (Triple-A East). for tie. 1. Mark Cavendish, Great Britain, Deceu- TEXAS RANGERS — Select contract of C liever Landon Sims, for the winner- Saturday, June 26 Wimbledon ninck-QuickStep, 3h 20m 17s. John Hicks from Round Rock (Triple-A 2. Nacer Bouhanni, France, Team Arkea- take-all Game 3 on Wednesday Tuesday West). Optioned OF Jason Martin to Round Sporting Kansas City 2, Los Angeles FC 1 Samsic, same time. Rock. night. Cincinnati 2, Toronto FC 0 At All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet 3. Jasper Philipsen, Belgium, Alpecin-Fe- Club TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Acquired RHP Houston 1, Real Salt Lake 1, tie nix, same time. Adam Cimber, OF Corey Dickerson and “We’re ecstatic because, one, Philadelphia 3, Chicago 3, tie London 4. Michael Matthews, Australia, Team Surface: Grass cash consideration from Miami in ex- we’re still playing, and, two, we used CF Montréal 1, Nashville 1, tie BikeExchange ,same time. change for INF Joe Panik and RHP Andrew Vancouver 2, Seattle 2, tie Men’s Singles 5. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Bora-Hans- First Round McInvale. Designated LHP Travis Bergen two arms tonight,” Lemonis said. LA Galaxy 3, San Jose 1 grohe, same time. for assignment. Recalled OF Jonathan Da- Minnesota 1, Portland 0 Daniel Evans (22), Britain, def. Feliciano 6. Cees Bol, Netherlands, Team DSM, vis from Buffalo (Triple-A East). Sent C “We have an opportunity to use Sunday, June 27 Lopez, Spain, 7-6 (4), 6-2, 7-5. same time. Danny Jansen to Buffalo on a rehab as- some different guys tomorrow now Sebastian Korda, United States, def. 7. Christophe Laporte, France, Cofidis, signment. New York 0, Atlanta 0, tie Alex de Minaur (15), Australia, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 same time. New York City FC 2, D.C. United 1 National League because of the score. It was nice af- (5), 7-6 (5). 8. Mads Pederson, Denmark, Trek-Sega- CHICAGO CUBS — Selected LHP Adam Columbus 0, Austin FC 0, tie Alexander Zverev (4), Germany, def. Tal- fredo, same time. ter the game. I grabbed Landon, I FC Dallas 2, New England 1 Morgan from Iowa (Triple-A East). Op- lon Griekspoor, Netherlands, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1. 9. Boy van Poppel, Netherlands, Inter- tioned RHP Trevor Megill to Iowa. Trans- Thursday’s game Denis Shapovalov (10), Canada, def. Phi- marche-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux, same ferred 3B Matt Duffy from the 10-day IL to said, ‘Man, it was sure nice not hav- time. Portland at Austin FC lipp Kohlschreiber, Germany, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, the 60-day IL. Placed RHP Ryan Tepera on ing to pitch you tonight’ because I 5-7, 6-4. 10. Andre Greipel, Germany, Israel Start- the 10-day IL. Recalled RHP Tommy Nance Saturday’s games Antoine Hoang, France, def. Zhizhen Up Nation, same time. from Iowa. feel like in every win for the last New England at Columbus Zhang, China, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-2. Also MIAMI MARLINS — Recalled RHP Jordan Toronto FC at D.C. United Roger Federer (6), Switzerland, def. 92. Brandon McNulty, United States, UAE Holloway from Jacksonville (Triple-A month he has been out there.” Miami at CF Montréal Adrian Mannarino, France, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 3-6, Team Emirates, same time. East). Selected the contract of LHP Steven The Commodores (49-17) will be New York at Orlando City 6-2, 0-0, ret. 102. Neilson Powless, United States, EF Okert from Jacksonville. Sent RHP Jorge Atlanta at Chicago Richard Gasquet, France, def. Yuichi Education-Nippo, same time. Guzman to Jacksonville on a rehab assign- going for their second straight na- San Jose at Minnesota Sugita, Japan, 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. 161. Sepp Kuss, United States, Jumbo- ment. Optioned RHP Nick Neidert to Jack- Philadelphia at Nashville Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, def. Gilles Simon, Visma, 1m 28s behind. sonville. tional title and third since 2014 after Cincinnati at Houston France, 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3. 162. Sean Bennett, United States, Qhube- NEW YORK METS — Sent RHP Jeurys their most lopsided loss in their 29 Los Angeles FC at Real Salt Lake Hubert Hurkacz (14), Poland, def. Loren- ka-NextHash, 1m 28s behind. Familia and C Tomas Nido to Syracuse Overall Standings Sunday’s games zo Musetti, Italy, 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-1. (Triple-A East) on rehab assignments. Re- all-time CWS games. Daniil Medvedev (2), Russia, def. Jan- 1. Mathieu van der Poel, Netherlands, Al- called LHP Thomas Szapucki from Syra- Vancouver at FC Dallas Lennard Struff, Germany, 6-4, 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 pecin-Fenix, 16h 19m 10s. cuse. Designated RHP Jerad Eickhoff for “Just got to have a short memo- Seattle at Colorado (3). 2. Julian Alaphilippe, France, Deceu- assignment. ry,” Vandy’s CJ Rodriguez said. “I Sporting Kansas City at LA Galaxy Laslo Djere, Serbia, def. Pablo Cuevas, ninck-Quickstep, 8s behind. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned Wednesday, July 7 Uruguay, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. 3. Richard Carapaz, Ecuador, Ineos Gre- RHP Spencer Howard to Lehigh Valley (Tri- think we need to wash it out as fast as Tennys Sandgren, United States, def. nadiers, 31s behind. ple-A East). Reinstated 2B Jean Segura Toronto FC at New England Norbert Gombos, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 4. Wout Van Aert, Belgium, Jumbo-Vis- from the 10-day IL. we can and get it done tomorrow.” New York City FC at CF Montréal 6-3. ma, same time. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned LHP Mississippi State (49-18) will be Orlando City at Chicago Pablo Andujar, Spain, def. Pierre- 5. Wilco Kelderman, Netherlands, Bora- Austin Davis to Indianapolis (Triple-A Houston at Seattle Hugues Herbert, France, 7-6 (7), 4-6, 7-6 (7), Hansgrohe, 38s behind. East). Reinstated LHP Sam Howard from playing for its first championship. Los Angeles FC at Austin FC 5-7, 8-6. 6. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team the 10-day IL. Minnesota at Colorado Marc Polmans, Australia, def. Yen-hsun Emirates, 39s behind. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Sent CF Harri- “This game is done, and we’re go- Real Salt Lake at Vancouver 7. Enric Mas Nicolau, Spain, Movistar Lu, Taiwan, 6-2, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1. son Bader to Memphis (Triple-A East) on a ing to remain cool, calm and collect- FC Dallas at LA Galaxy Alex Bolt, Australia, def. Filip Krajinovic, Team, 40s behind. rehab assignment. Thursday, July 8 Serbia, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 7-5. 8. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, Team Ar- SAN DIEGO PADRES — Reinstated LHP ed and bring the same energy out to- kea-Samsic, same time. Drew Pomeranz from the 10-day IL. Philadelphia at New York Women’s Singles First Round 9. Pierre Latour, France, TotalEnergies, SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed RHP morrow,” MSU’s Scotty Dubrule Atlanta at Nashville 45s behind. Gregory Santos on the restricted list. Re- Maria Sakkari (15), Greece, def. Arantxa 10. David Gaudu, France, Groupama-FDJ, said. “Tomorrow is a new day and Friday, July 9 Rus, Netherlands, 6-1, 6-1. called INF Thairo Estrada from Sacramen- 52s behind. to (Triple-A West). Optioned INF/OF Maur- Columbus at Cincinnati Ons Jabeur (21), Tunisia, def. Rebecca Also we’re going to have to face some Peterson, Sweden, 6-2, 6-1. icio Dubon to Sacramento. 53. Neilson Powless, United States, EF WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled tough arms.” NWSL Donna Vekic, Croatia, def. Anastasia Po- Education-Nippo, 6m 1s behind. RHP Ryne Harper from Rochester (Triple-A tapova, Russia, 6-1, 6-4. 92. Brandon McNulty, United States, UAE The start in this one was delayed WLTPts GF GA East). Selected the contract of LHP Kyle Karolina Pliskova (8), Czech Republic, Team Emirates, 11m 48s behind. Lobstein from Rochester. Placed RHP Tan- def. Tamara Zidansek, Slovenia, 7-5, 6-4. two hours because of rain, but that Orlando 4 1 3 15 12 8 121. Sean Bennett, United States, Qhube- ner Rainey on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Elise Mertens (13), Belgium, def. Harriet ka-NextHash, 18m 30s behind. June 28. Designated RHP Justin Miller for didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of North Carolina 4 2 1 13 12 4 Dart, Britain, 6-1, 6-3. 160. Sepp Kuss, United States, Jumbo- assignment. Nadia Podoroska, Argentina, def. Ann Li, Portland 4 3 0 12 12 6 Visma, 26m 56s behind. FOOTBALL another pro-MSU crowd that in- United States, 6-4, 7-6 (1). National Football League Washington 3 1 3 12 8 7 Shelby Rogers, United States, def. Sam GOLF ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed TE Kyle cluded Dallas Cowboys quarter- Gotham FC 3 1 2 11 6 2 Stosur, Australia, 6-1, 5-7, 6-3. Pitts to a four-year contract. Tereza Martincova, Czech Republic, def. back Dak Prescott in a pinstriped Louisville 3 3 1 10 6 10 World rankings SOCCER Alison Riske (28), United States, 6-2, 4-6, Major League Soccer “State” baseball jersey and former Houston 3 3 1 10 8 8 6-1. Through June 27 PHILDELPHIA UNION — Promoted Tom- Chicago 2 4 2 8 5 13 Zhu Lin, China, def. Mona Barthel, Ger- my Wilson to director of academy and pro- NFL QB Jay Cutler and basketball many, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-3. Reign FC 2 4 1 7 5 8 1. Jon Rahm ESP 9.83 fessional development. coach Jerry Stackhouse represent- Liudmila Samsonova, Russia, def. Kaia 2. Dustin Johnson USA 9.61 SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES — Released Kansas City 0 6 2 2 4 12 Kanepi, Estonia, 6-4, 6-2. 3. Justin Thomas USA 7.94 Jesse Fioranelli as general manager. ing the Commodores. Note: Three points for victory, one point Venus Williams, United States, def. Mi- 4. Collin Morikawa USA 7.43 COLLEGE for tie. haela Buzarnescu, Romania, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. NEW MEXICO — Named Michael Lopez Like Game 1, when Vanderbilt Ashleigh Barty (1), Australia, def. Carla 5. Xander Schauffele USA 6.83 Saturday, June 26 baseball pitching coach. scored seven first-inning runs on its Suarez Navarro, Spain, 6-1, 6-7 (1), 6-1. 6. Bryson DeChambeau USA 6.67 TENNESSEE — Named Taren C. Moore as- Gotham FC 3, Reign FC 0 Angelique Kerber (25), Germany, def. Ni- 7. Brooks Koepka USA 6.31 sistant director for culture. way to an 8-2 win, this one was over Louisville 3, Chicago 0 na Stojanovic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-3. 8. Patrick Cantlay USA 6.28 North Carolina 2, Portland 0 Andrea Petkovic, Germany, def. Jasmine AP SPORTLIGHT early as the Bulldogs broke things Houston 2, Orlando 1 Paolini, Italy, 6-4, 6-3. 9. Patrick Reed USA 5.95 Washington 2, Kansas City 1 Marta Kostyuk, Ukraine, def. Kiki Ber- 10. Rory McIlroy NIR 5.89 open with a four-run third inning. July 1 Friday’s games tens (17), Netherlands, 6-3, 6-4. 11. Tyrrell Hatton ENG 5.79 “Big bounce-back game from our Barbora Krejcikova (14), Czech Repub- 1859 — Amherst defeats Williams 73-32 Chicago at Washington 12. Harris English USA 5.59 lic, def. Clara Tauson, Denmark, 6-3, 6-2. 13. Louis Oosthuizen SAF 5.47 in the first intercollegiate baseball game. guys, just a resilient group,” Lemon- Kansas City at Gotham FC Coco Gauff (20), United States, def. Fran- The game is played by Massachusetts Reign FC at Houston cesca Jones, Britain, 7-5, 6-4. 14. Viktor Hovland NOR 5.46 Rules, a wide-open form of the sport com- is said after MSU’s biggest winning Saturday’s game Anna Blinkova, Russia, def. Timea Ba- 15. Webb Simpson USA 5.24 monly known as roundball and Amherst margin in Omaha since beating Ge- Portland at Louisville bos, Hungary, 6-2, 6-2. 16. Daniel Berger USA 4.87 wins by reaching the pre-established Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, def. Se- 17. Tony Finau USA 4.87 score of 65 runs. Amherst exceeds the 65- orgia Southern 15-1 in 1990. “We’ve Sunday’s game rena Williams (6), United States, 3-3, ret. 18. Hideki Matsuyama JPN 4.87 run limit during a 10-run 26th inning. North Carolina at Orlando Jessica Pegula (22), United States, def. 1920 — Suzanne Lenglen of France be- had our back against the wall feels Caroline Garcia, France, 6-3, 6-1. 19. Scottie Scheffler USA 4.67 comes the first player to win three Wim- like all year long and they just keep Friday, July 9 Elena Vesnina, Russia, def. Martina Tre- 20. Abraham Ancer MEX 4.47 bledon titles in one year, taking the sin- Louisville at Orlando visan, Italy, 7-5, 6-1. 21. Paul Casey ENG 4.41 gles, doubles and mixed doubles. responding.” PAGE 20 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, July 1, 2021 COLLEGE SPORTS/SPORTS BRIEFS

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As NIL era arrives, some may cash in Champion sprinter Naser gets 2-year doping ban NCAA athletes can now LAUSANNE, Switzerland — monetize fame without World champion sprinter Salwa Eid Naser was banned for two hurting their eligibility years and will miss the Tokyo Olympics after sport’s highest BY RALPH D. RUSSO court on Wednesday overturned a Associated Press ruling that had cleared her on a Social media stardom came un- technicality for doping tests she expectedly to Haley and Hanna missed. Cavinder. A way to pass time dur- The Court of Arbitration for ing the pandemic now has Fresno Sport reversed an independent State’s twin sister basketball stars tribunal’s October 2020 decision positioned to be among the most that at the time cleared the Bah- successful college-athlete entre- raini 400-meter runner to com- preneurs as soon as the rules allow pete in the Tokyo Games. it. In other Olympic news: Ohio State lacrosse player ■ Canadian basketball player Mitchell Pehlke has been cultivat- Kim Gaucher, who is breastfeed- ing his online following for years. ing her infant daughter, has won When NCAA athletes are finally in her quest to bring the baby to able to monetize their fame with- the Tokyo Olympics. The Interna- out compromising their eligibility, tional Olympic Committee says Pehlke is ready to restart the busi- nursing mothers will now be al- ness of his brand. lowed to bring their babies to To- A new era in college sports kyo. dawns Thursday when, for the first time, athletes at the highest Pogacar wins time trial, levels of college sports will be per- KYLE ROBERTSON /AP moves into 2nd in Tour mitted to be compensated for the Ohio State lacrosse player Mitchell Pehlke, an aspiring YouTube personality who broadcasts a channel to use of their name, image or like- 14,000 subscribers, poses for a photo outside his dorm at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. LAVAL, France — Defending ness. They can earn money based champion Tadej Pogacar powered on their celebrity or fame without is considering waiving its rules to victory in Wednesday’s time running afoul of school, confer- “I’m going to do against such payments, schools trial at the Tour de France to as- ence or NCAA rules. would follow state NIL laws where sert himself as the odds-on favor- The transition has been any- as much as I can applicable, and schools would set ite at the three-week race. thing but smooth. More than a their own policies in states with no Pogacar lagged 39 seconds be- half-dozen states have laws set to on that first day NIL law. hind leader Mathieu van der Poel go into effect Thursday designed All the uncertainty has been a at the start of Stage 5 in the west- to open up the market for athletes and just kind of source of worry for the Cavinders’ ern Mayenne region and erased a and bar the NCAA from interfer- parents, who fear an eager move big chunk of the deficit to move in- ing. The NCAA is on board with keep the train by the twins could cost them eligi- to second place in the general clas- the idea of reforming its NIL rules, bility. sification. but change has come slowly and going.” “I know the girls keep saying, Girl, 13, sues Florida over awkwardly. At some point, Con- ‘Oh, July 1’ and they’re excited, gress is expected to step in and Mitchell Pehlke but we still are just like, ‘OK, put transgender athletes ban provide a law that brings unifor- Ohio State lacrosse player with on the brakes for a little bit until TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A 13- mity across the country. 14,600 YouTube subscribers we make sure that it does get year-old transgender girl sued Despite the uncertainty, the ISAAC BREKKEN/AP passed,’ ” Katie Cavinder said. Republican Florida Gov. Ron De- doors to the college athlete market Athletic accomplishment is on- Fresno State’s Haley Cavinder, Pehlke also said he is proceed- Santis on Wednesday over a new are about to swing open and some ly a small piece of the puzzle. In a above, and her twin sister Hanna ing cautiously with guidance from law that will prevent her from of them are prepared to cash in world where anybody with a may be able to monetize their Ohio State and Opendorse, but ex- playing girls sports at public immediately. smart phone can be a content cre- popular TikTok videos. pects to ramp up the business he schools, arguing that the ban is “I’m going to do as much as I can ator, the Cavinders’ TikTok videos had to shut down when he became discriminatory and will deprive on that first day and just kind of that often combine dancing and schools on NIL programming and a college athlete in 2020. her of opportunities. keep the train going,” said Pehlke, basketball have really caught on. education. He said the estimated Pehlke has been a YouTuber whose YouTube channel has more As the views and followers value of a social media account since high school. Not only was he Toews reveals rare illness than 14,600 subscribers. “But I started piling up into the millions, can be determined by followers. A already monetizing his posts, but kept him out last season think right now it’s figuring out Haley and Hanna found out their tweet, for example, can garner $10 he was selling merchandise like T- Chicago Blackhawks captain what I want to do and then draw- videos could have value way be- per 1,000 followers for the account shirts and Pop Sockets to his fans. Jonathan Toews revealed ing it out with my compliance con- yond family bonding during quar- that posts it. Between the two, Pehlke said, the Wednesday that he missed this tact to see if that’s all OK, and then antine. Icon Source, a company Instagram is closer to $20 per revenue could get into the “thou- past season while dealing with get everything prepared for July 1, that connects brands and athletes follower, according to Lawrence. sands” of dollars. what he described as chronic im- and then just hit the ground run- through an app, said wireless TikTok followers are worth $3-$4 Nebraska quarterback Adrian mune response syndrome. ning.” communications brand Boost Mo- and YouTube followers range Martinez isn’t a big social media The Cavinders are 5-foot-6 bile plans to offer a deal to the Cav- from $4-$7. Actual value is ulti- guy, but he started thinking about Source: Saints’ Ramczyk identical twins who posted similar inders on Thursday. mately determined by engage- ways to take advantage of the stat lines for Fresno State as soph- “We have discovered you can, ment with the post, which compa- changes last fall. He started a pod- agrees to extension omores last season. Haley was the like, monetize all your accounts nies can measure by likes, com- cast called Athletes Unfiltered NEW ORLEANS — Saints right Bulldogs’ leading scorer at 19.8 and you can create a profit off ments, retweets and shares. with NIL in mind. He’s got some tackle Ryan Ramczyk has agreed points per game while Hanna av- them, and then partnering with The Cavinders said companies other ideas, too, such as putting his to a five-year extension worth up eraged 17. Haley was the Moun- brands is really a cool, eye-open- have been in touch but they are name on football camps or maybe to $96 million, a person with tain West player of the year. ing thing,” Hanna said over a cautious. signing autographs for money. knowledge of the situation said. The Cavinders are good enough Zoom call from their home in Gil- “A lot of brands have reached “The opportunity is too good to The person spoke to The Associ- to think about possible pro ca- bert, Ariz. out, but we obviously cannot work pass up and thankfully we have ated Press on Wednesday because reers, but they are also the perfect “We never knew that could be a with them because of the rules and great people here at Nebraska that the new contract for the 2019 All- example of how the NIL market thing,” Haley added. eligibility,” Hanna said. have helped me kind of get outside Pro offensive lineman has not will be a boon for way more than Blake Lawrence is the CEO of The NCAA is close to a stopgap my comfort zone and become been announced. just star quarterbacks and point Opendorse, one of a handful of plan that will allow all athletes to somewhat of a content creator,” guards at high-profile schools. companies working with dozens of be compensated for NIL usage. It Martinez said. Associated Press Thursday, July 1, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 21 WIMBLEDON/NBA PLAYOFFS Even: Williams fills in ably for Hawks’ Young FROM PAGE 24 third quarter to tie the series at NBA scoreboard two wins apiece. Game 5 is Thursday night in Playoffs Milwaukee. CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-seven) It’s not known if Young or Ante- x-if necessary tokounmpo will be able to play. Eastern Conference Milwaukee 2, Atlanta 2 Williams, long one of the NBA’s Atlanta 116, Milwaukee 113 Milwaukee 125, Atlanta 91 best players off the bench, will be Milwaukee 113, Atlanta 102 ready to start again for the Hawks, Tuesday: Atlanta 110, Milwaukee 88 Thursday: at Milwaukee if needed. Saturday: at Atlanta x-Monday: at Milwaukee “I knew about an hour before Western Conference this game that I was going to start, Phoenix 3, L.A. Clippers 2 Phoenix 120, L.A. Clippers 114 when they said Trae was out, so I Phoenix 104, L.A. Clippers 103 L.A. Clippers 106, Phoenix 92 just had to refocus my energy, put Phoenix 84, L.A. Clippers 80 on a different hat and get ready for L.A. Clippers 116, Phoenix 102 Wednesday: at L.A. Clippers the game,” Williams said, x-Friday: at Phoenix Young was declared out about 45 minutes before tipoff, having IAN WALTON/AP sustained a bone bruise when he but never made it back to the Serbia’s Novak Djokovic falls during Wednesday’s second­round match against South Africa’s Kevin twisted his right ankle stepping on court, heading to the locker room Anderson at Wimbledon in London. Djokovic won the match in straight sets, 6­3, 6­3, 6­3. an official’s foot along the sideline for good when the Hawks blew the in Game 3. He watched from the game open. bench in a black warmup suit, Atlanta outscored the Bucks barely noticeable with a hood over 25-8 the rest of the quarter to seize his head and a mask across his a commanding 87-62 lead. face. The Hawks led 51-38 at half- More slipping, sliding, Turns out, he wasn’t needed. time, holding the Bucks to their “Everybody played with confi- lowest-scoring half of the postsea- dence. Everybody played at a high son. level,” Williams said “Going back to Milwaukee, we’re going to have Middleton struggles to bottle it up and take it with us.” Two nights after tying his ca- even without any rain Antetokounmpo endured a dis- reer playoff high with 38 points in mal first half, scoring just six a Game 3 victory, Milwaukee’s BY HOWARD FENDRICH that said, in part: “The preparation points and chucking up a pair of Khris Middleton was held to 16 Associated Press of the grass courts has been to ex- airballs from the free-throw line. points on 6-for-17 shooting. WIMBLEDON, England — actly the same meticulous standard He bounced back with eight points He missed all seven of his three- Asked about his connection with as in previous years.” in the first 4½ minutes of the third point attempts. the Centre Court crowd after his Wimbledon’s courts are re- quarter, including a step-back second victory there this week, No- moved annually and new grass is jumper that sliced Atlanta’s lead Reddish shines vak Djokovic joked: “I seem to be installed. So the fact that the 2020 to 62-54. With Young out, Atlanta needed having a really nice connection edition was called off because of the The next time down the court, some little-used players to step up. with the grass.” pandemic shouldn’t affect things. Williams worked a pick-and-roll No one was bigger than Cam The five-time champion at the “Even though we didn’t have The with Clint Capela, who went up for Reddish. All England Club chuckled at his Championships, our renovation a dunk that Antetokounmpo tried In just his second appearance own line, then added, “I don’t recall program was the same,” Neil Stu- to contest. since February, Reddish scored falling this much in the first two bley, the club’s head of courts and The Bucks star landed awk- 12 points, pulled down five re- matches of Wimbledon.” horticulture, said before competi- wardly and went down in a heap, bounds and came up with two Yes, less than 24 hours after Se- tion began Monday. “So we literally grasping at his left knee while a steals. rena Williams and Roger Federer’s just ripped the courts up and sort of hush fell over the arena. Reddish missed the final 42 opponent pulled out of matches af- KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/AP re-leveled, reseeded and then just The entire Milwaukee bench games of the regular season with ter getting hurt in falls, the slips Serena Williams retired from grew them back in for this year.” came out to check on Anteto- an Achilles injury and the first two kept coming Wednesday. Tuesday’s first­round match Djokovic offered another possi- kounmpo, who had to be helped to rounds of the playoffs. His first ap- The No. 1-seeded Djokovic was against Aliaksandra Sasnovich of ble explanation: Players are out of the locker room with what was di- pearance since Feb. 21 came dur- no worse for wear after losing his Belarus after injuring herself practice on grass. Not only was last agnosed as a hyperextended knee. ing garbage time of the Bucks’ footing at least five times while during a fall on the grass. season’s circuit on the surface He returned briefly to the bench, blowout win in Game 2. beating Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-3, wiped out, but there were only two 6-3 in a rematch of their 2018 final with her “heartbroken” and in weeks, instead of the standard at the Grand Slam tournament, but tears after just 30 minutes and less three, between the end of the clay- he was merely one example of than a set Tuesday. She injured her court French Open and start of someone who couldn’t stay upright. right leg when her left shoe lost Wimbledon. Bianca Andreescu, Nick Kyr- traction behind the baseline in al- His first-round match Monday, gios, John Isner and a ball kid were most the exact same spot that and the matches involving Wil- among the folks taking tumbles on Adrian Mannarino twisted his right liams and Mannarino on Tuesday, Day 3. knee while leading Federer. were played with the main stadi- “I didn’t slip just once; I slipped, Both of those matches were on um’s retractable roof shut because like, six times during the match. Centre Court. But Isner’s trouble of rain. And that — rather any sort The courts are pretty wet,” said An- came on Court 18 during his five- of change to the grass itself at the ol- dreescu, the 2019 U.S. Open cham- set loss Wednesday, and Kyrgios dest Grand Slam tournament — is pion and No. 5 seed who lost to Alize came down awkwardly on No. 1 what the All England Club blamed Cornet 6-2, 6-1 on No. 2 Court. “I Court. for how slick the surface was dur- mean, the courts are super slip- In what sounded like an attempt ing what it said were the wettest pery. I have only played here once to dispel the notion that anything two opening days of Wimbledon “in before, but they weren’t like this at might be different about the grass almost a decade.” BRYNN ANDERSON/AP all.” two years since the tournament Keeping the roof closed for a long The Hawks’ Lou Williams, left, keeps the ball away from the Williams’ latest bid for a record- was last held, the All England Club period leads to “additional mois- Milwaukee Bucks’ Jrue Holiday during the first half of Game 4 of the tying 24th Grand Slam title ended issued a statement Tuesday night ture” on the grass, the club said. Eastern Conference finals Tuesday in Atlanta. PAGE 22 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, July 1, 2021 MLB

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East Division WLPct GB Judge, Sánchez power Yankees Boston 49 31 .613 _ Tampa Bay 47 33 .588 2 Toronto 41 36 .532 6½ New York 41 38 .519 7½ New York overcomes Angels, two Baltimore 26 54 .325 23 homers by Ohtani, in 11-5 rout Central Division WLPct GB Associated Press Chicago 46 32 .590 _ NEW YORK — Aaron Judge and Gary Sán- Cleveland 42 33 .560 2½ chez powered a long-awaited onslaught from Detroit 34 45 .430 12½ New York’s star-studded lineup, helping the Minnesota 33 44 .429 12½ Yankees overcome two more home runs by big Kansas City 33 45 .423 13 league leader Shohei Ohtani to beat the Los An- West Division geles Angels 11-5 Tuesday night. WLPct GB Judge and Sánchez each homered as New Houston 48 32 .600 _ York set a season high for runs. Oakland 47 34 .580 1½ Ohtani cleared the right field fence with a Seattle 41 39 .513 7 pair of scorching, low drives that pushed his Los Angeles 38 41 .481 9½ Texas 31 48 .392 16½ major league-most total to 28. José Iglesias also homered for the Angels, a two-run drive in the National League second inning. East Division Sánchez hit a solo shot in the first inning for WLPct GB his 14th of the season, and Judge’s two-run shot New York 41 34 .547 _ in the second was his team-leading 18th. Both Washington 39 38 .506 3 homers came off Andrew Heaney (4-6), who Philadelphia 37 40 .481 5 was charged with seven runs in three-plus in- Atlanta 37 41 .474 5½ Miami 33 45 .423 9½ nings. Dodgers 3, Giants 1:Max Muncy homered, Central Division Walker Buehler pitched three-hit ball into the WLPct GB seventh inning and Los Angeles swept a two- Milwaukee 47 33 .588 _ game series against visiting San Francisco. Chicago 42 38 .525 5 Cincinnati 39 39 .500 7 Chris Taylor had a two-run single in the first FRANK FRANKLIN II/AP St. Louis 39 41 .488 8 inning of the fifth consecutive victory for the The New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge follows through on a two­run home run during the Yan­ Pittsburgh 29 49 .372 17 defending World Series champions, who kees’ 11­5 win Tuesday in New York over the Los Angeles Angels. West Division chased Giants ace Kevin Gausman after five innings and won despite getting just three hits. Red Sox 7, Royals 6:J.D. Martinez drove in been a record-tying eighth no-hitter this sea- WLPct GB Phillies 4, Marlins 3: Vince Velasquez four runs, including two on a go-ahead double son before allowing Ka’ai Tom’s single leading San Francisco 50 29 .633 _ tossed a two-hitter over seven innings, Rhys in the sixth inning, and host Boston outlasted off the ninth inning in host Colorado’s win over Los Angeles 49 31 .613 1½ San Diego 48 33 .593 3 Hoskins hit a solo homer and host Philadelphia slumping Kansas City. Pittsburgh. Colorado 33 47 .413 17½ held on to beat Miami. Mets 4, Braves 3:James McCann hit a tying Padres 5, Reds 4: Tommy Pham homered Arizona 22 59 .272 29 Velasquez (3-2) allowed singles to Jazz three-run homer off Charlie Morton in the and San Diego relievers pitched four scoreless Tuesday’s games Chisholm Jr. and Jon Berti, struck out seven four-run seventh inning, Francisco Lindor fol- innings in a win at Cincinnati. Washington 4, Tampa Bay 3 and retired the last 13 batters he faced. lowed four batters later, singling in the go- Brewers 2, Cubs 1: Brandon Woodruff Toronto 9, Seattle 3 N.Y. Yankees 11, L.A. Angels 5 Nationals 4, Rays 3: Kyle Schwarber led off ahead run off A.J. Minter, and New York won pitched another gem and Milwaukee made the Boston 7, Kansas City 6 Chicago White Sox 7, Minnesota 6 the first inning with his 12th home run in 10 at Atlanta. most of its two hits, hanging on to edge visiting Baltimore 13, Houston 3 games, and host Washington beat Tampa Bay White Sox 7, Twins 6:Gavin Sheets had two Chicago for a season-high seventh straight Texas 5, Oakland 4 Detroit at Cleveland, ppd. for its third straight win, moving above .500 for hits and two RBIs in his major league debut, win. Philadelphia 4, Miami 3 the first time since the opening week of the sea- helping Lucas Giolito and host Chicago beat Orioles 13, Astros 3: Cedric Mullins home- N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 3 Colorado 8, Pittsburgh 0 son. Minnesota. red among his four hits, Austin Hays and Mai- San Diego 5, Cincinnati 4 St. Louis 3, Arizona 2 Schwarber tied Albert Belle in 1995 for the Cardinals 3, Diamondbacks 2: Carlos Mar- kel Franco had three RBIs each, and Baltimore Milwaukee 2, Chicago Cubs 1 most home runs over a 10-game span since at tínez ended a seven-start winless streak, Nolan won at Houston. L.A. Dodgers 3, San Francisco 1 least 1901. Arenado broke a fifth-inning tie with a two-run Rangers 5, Athletics 4: Joey Gallo homered Wednesday’s games Blue Jays 9, Mariners 3: Marcus Semien homer, and host St. Louis beat Arizona for its twice to give him 18 on the season, putting Tex- Tampa Bay at Washington Detroit at Cleveland homered and drove in five runs, Bo Bichette hit first consecutive wins in two weeks. as ahead with his sixth-inning drive, and Nick L.A. Angels at N.Y. Yankees Seattle at Toronto a three-run homer, and Toronto beat visiting Rockies 8, Pirates 0: German Márquez Solak added a late two-run shot in a win at Oak- Detroit at Cleveland Seattle. came within three outs of what would have land. Kansas City at Boston Baltimore at Houston Minnesota at Chicago White Sox Texas at Oakland Arizona at St. Louis Attorney: Woman says Dodgers’ Bauer assaulted her Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Pittsburgh at Colorado Miami at Philadelphia BY GREG BEACHAM tions of this nature very seriously, dena. San Diego at Cincinnati N.Y. Mets at Atlanta Associated Press but will have no further comment Jon Fetterolf, Bauer’s co-agent, LOS ANGELES — Police are in- at this time,” the club said. disputed the allegations that Thursday’s games L.A. Angels (Canning 5-4) at N.Y. Yan- vestigating an allegation of assault The protection order was ob- Bauer committed any nonconsen- kees (Montgomery 3-2) against Los Angeles Dodgers tained under the Domestic Vio- sual violence. He said Bauer met Seattle (Kikuchi 5-3) at Toronto (Ryu 7-4) pitcher Trevor Bauer and an attor- lence Prevention Act and was the the woman in April, and the two Kansas City (TBD) at Boston (Eovaldi 8-4) ney for the accuser says the wom- result of an “assault that took had “a brief and wholly consen- Minnesota (Berríos 7-2) at Chicago an has obtained a protection order. place at the hands of Mr. Bauer” sual sexual relationship initiated” White Sox (Rodón 6-3) Texas (Dunning 3-6) at Oakland (Ma- Major League Baseball also is where the woman “suffered se- by the woman. naea 6-4) Houston (Valdez 4-1) at Cleveland looking into the allegation. vere physical and emotional “Her basis for filing a protection (Mejía 1-2) “The Dodgers were made pain,” attorney Marc Garelick order is nonexistent, fraudulent, Miami (López 4-4) at Philadelphia (Eflin 2-6) aware of the allegations against said. and deliberately omits key facts, L.A. Dodgers (Gonsolin 0-0) at Wash- Trevor Bauer late this afternoon Pasadena police spokesman Lt. information, and her own relevant ington (Corbin 5-6) Milwaukee (Burnes 3-4) at Pittsburgh and immediately contacted MLB, Bill Grisafe confirmed that the de- communications,” Fetterolf said. (Crowe 1-4) San Diego (Weathers 3-2) at Cincinnati which will be handling this mat- partment is looking into accusa- “Any allegations that the pair’s en- (Castillo 3-10) JAE C. HONG/AP ter,” the team said in a statement tions of an assault involving counters were not 100% consen- N.Y. Mets (deGrom 7-2) at Atlanta (An- derson 5-4) Police are investigating whether during its game Tuesday night Bauer, but provided no additional sual are baseless, defamatory, and St. Louis (Wainwright 6-5) at Colorado Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher against San Francisco. details. TMZ, which first reported will be refuted to the fullest extent (Senzatela 2-7) San Francisco (Cueto 6-3) at Arizona Trevor Bauer assaulted a woman. “The Dodgers take any allega- the story, said Bauer lives in Pasa- of the law.” (Kelly 4-7) Thursday, July 1, 2021 • STARS AND STRIPES • PAGE 23 NHL Oilers’ McDavid takes home Hart, Lindsay awards BY JOHN WAWROW the points standings was team- Associated Press mate Leon Draisaitl with 84, with Connor McDavid’s award-win- Boston’s Brad Marchand a distant ning season came with one regret. third with 69. In earning his second career MVP Toronto’s Auston Matthews fin- honor Tuesday, the Edmonton Oil- ished second in the MVP voting, ers captain wished his team was followed by Colorado’s Nathan still playing. MacKinnon. “We had a special group this Vegas’ Marc-Andre Fleury beat year, and obviously we didn’t do out Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilev- what we wanted to do,” McDavid skiy and Colorado’s Philipp Gru- said, referring to the Oilers being bauer to win his first Vezina Tro- swept in the first round of the play- phy as the NHL’s goalie of the offs by the Winnipeg Jets. year. The Golden Knights tandem “But it was still so fun to be a of Fleury and Robin Lehner al- part of, and get the fans of Edmon- ready won the William M. Jen- ton excited again for what’s to nings Trophy, for combining to al- PHELAN EBENHACK/AP come,” he added. “We had so low an NHL-low 124 goals this sea- Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Mikhail Sergachev, left, checks Montreal Canadiens right wing Brendan many guys take the next step, and son. Gallagher during Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. Sergachev, a 2016 ninth­round pick by the Canadiens, I’m just part of that. If we’re all The 36-year-old Fleury finished played only four games with Montreal before being traded to Tampa Bay. continuing to do that, we’re going third in the NHL with 26 wins, a to go and do some special things in 1.98 goals-against, .928 save per- this league.” centage and six shutouts in 36 McDavid became just the sec- games. He also closed the season ond unanimous Hart Trophy se- with a nine-game winning streak, Hab to Hab not: Sergachev lection — joining Wayne Gretzky while moving into third place on in 1982 — in receiving all 100 first- the NHL career list with 492 wins. place votes from members of the The New York Rangers’ Adam Professional Hockey Writers’ As- Fox won the Jack Norris Trophy as thriving now for Lightning sociation. The 24-year-old dou- the NHL’s top defenseman, beat- bled up on honors by also winning ing out Tampa Bay’s Victor Hed- his third Ted Lindsay Award as man and Colorado’s Cale Makar. BY STEPHEN WHYNO and it just took time.” the league’s most outstanding The 23-year-old Fox led NHL Associated Press Scoreboard Sergachev used his time wisely, player, which is voted on by NHL defensemen with 42 assists and TAMPA, Fla. — Mikhail Serga- learning from McDonagh, Norris players. was second with 47 points. He also chev put on a Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup Final Trophy winner Victor Hedman The NHL presented its awards ranked seventh among skaters in jersey when they chose him with (Best-of-seven; x-if necessary) and other more experienced de- remotely for a second consecutive ice-time. Fox became the second Tampa Bay 1, Montreal 0 the ninth pick in the 2016 draft, Tampa Bay 5, Montreal 1 fensemen. He wanted to be more season because of the coronavirus player to win the Norris in his sec- then wore one in a game just four Wednesday: at Tampa Bay like them, talks to them every day pandemic, and a day after Tampa ond season, joining Bobby Orr Friday: at Montreal times before being traded to the Monday, July 5: at Montreal about what he can do better and be- Bay opened the Stanley Cup Final who won in 1968. Tampa Bay Lightning. x-Wednesday, July 7: at Tampa Bay came committed to rounding out series with a 5-1 win over Mon- Minnesota’s Kirill Kaprizov x-Friday, July 9: at Montreal That was not enough time for x-Sunday, July 11: at Tampa Bay his style of play. treal. In previous years, the won the Calder Memorial Trophy Sergachev to imagine lifting the “I want to be a leader on the team awards ceremony was held in Las as rookie of the year in becoming Stanley Cup with Montreal’s icon- is doing so many of the other im- and I’m trying to do the same as Vegas after the playoffs, and with just the fourth rookie since 1993- ic “CH” logo on his chest. portant things needed to win at this they do on the ice: blocking shots an audience and players present. 94 to lead his team in scoring. The “I was still too young, but getting stage of the playoffs. He blocked and playing heavy when I need to McDavid, who also won MVP 24-year-old from Russia led NHL drafted was pretty cool,” the 23- two shots in the waning minutes of be, bringing offense when I need to honors in 2017, led the way, much rookies with 27 goals and 51 points, year-old Russian recalled. “My Game 7 of the semifinals against bring offense,” Sergachev said. like he did during a regular season and became the first Wild player parents were happy. I was happy. the New York Islanders and was He had 10 points in the Light- in which he had already won his to win the Calder. And getting traded: Obviously it huffing and puffing on the bench ning’s 2020 championship run and third Art Ross Trophy in six years Carolina goalie Alex Nedeljkov- was great getting traded here.” after being on the ice for 2:25 — assisted on one of Nikita Kuche- for leading the NHL with 105 ic and Dallas forward Jason Ro- Four years since the trade, Ser- more than double the longest aver- rov’s two goals in Game 1 against points (33 goals, 72 assists) in 56 bertson were the other two Calder gachev is trying to go back to back age shift in the NHL. the Canadiens. Perhaps more im- games. The next closest player in finalists. with the Lightning by beating the “All that mattered for me (is) portant, he blocked a couple of team that picked him and sent him that we won,” Sergachev said. “I’m shots and wasn’t afraid to lay the packing. The bruising defense- trying to be in the right spot all the body — between the whistles and man known for his offensive acu- time — not get out of a position, so I after — on Montreal forward men has added some snarl, physi- can block a shot or be in a lane or Brendan Gallagher. cality and sacrifice to his game to have a good stick. Obviously my The elements of hockey that become a complete player. compete level is high.” were lacking in Sergachev’s game “He wants to work at being a Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper are now front and center, and it’s a 200-foot, all-around defenseman, recalls Sergachev taking plenty of big reason Tampa Bay is inching and he’s definitely coming into his long shifts as a junior star because toward another title. own,” veteran teammate Ryan of his talent. When Sergachev “Boy has he ever gravitated to it McDonagh said. “The thing I love joined Tampa Bay, the 6-foot-3, now and takes pride in it,” Cooper about him is his willingness to get 215-pounder also had a bad habit of said. “There could be some players better in all areas and taking a lot of playing with one hand on his stick that, they’ll ‘yes’ you to death and pride in being tough to play and struggled with the defense go out there and want to keep doing against: being physical, blocking part of being a defenseman. it their way. Sergy really bought in- shots, just taking a lot of pride and “He just had some things to to becoming a well-rounded defen- keeping the puck out of his own learn,” Cooper said. “It was really seman and it’s been fun to watch JASON FRANSON /AP net.” hurting his defending. And he him work because that kid’s got a Edmonton captain Connor McDavid was voted the Hart Trophy winner Sergachev has only three assists could use his legs to get out of trou- bright future and a long one as the MVP for the second time in his career. He’s just the second in 19 games this postseason, but he ble, but he had to use that big frame ahead.” unanimous Hart Trophy selection — joining Wayne Gretzky in 1982. PAGE 24 • STARS AND STRIPES • Thursday, July 1, 2021 Under investigation SPORTS Woman accuses Dodgers’ Bauer of assaulting her ›› MLB, Page 22

NBA PLAYOFFS

The Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo, center, is surrounded by Hawks players Tuesday during Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals in Atlanta.

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Hawks pull even with Bucks Atlanta ties series without Young; Antetokounmpo hobbles off court

BY PAUL NEWBERRY In another stunning twist to a series no one saw Associated Press coming, two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo ATLANTA — The Atlanta Hawks proved they are hobbled off the court with an injured left knee, de- more than a one-man team. priving the Bucks of their best player. Now, it’s the Milwaukee Bucks who may have to “We’ll see how he is tomorrow,” coach Mike Bu- show they can get by without the Greek Freak. denholzer said. “We’ll take everything as it comes. With Trae Young sidelined by an unusual injury, We’ll evaluate it. We’ve got a heck of a team, a heck of Lou Williams and a host of Hawks stepped up to fill a roster.” the void, leading Atlanta to a 110-88 rout of the Bucks Williams started for Young and did a stellar job in Game 4 to even the Eastern Conference finals with 21 points, Bogdan Bogdanovic added 20 to break Tuesday night. a series-long slump, and Atlanta pulled away in the “A total team effort,” Hawks coach Nate McMillan BRYNN ANDERSON/AP said. SEE EVEN ON PAGE 21 Hawks point guard Trae Young missed Game 4 with an ankle injury.

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