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THE WASHINGTON TIMES U.S. allies and values. Over the weekend, just days after Republicans are presenting a largely President Biden took offi ce, China staged unifi ed front as the Senate prepares to a major escalation of its military pressure kick off a second impeachment trial of campaign against Taiwan. In Russia, the former President Donald Trump, with Kremlin issued a sharp rebuke for what it a growing number saying they don’t said was U.S. interference in its domestic believe the Constitution envisioned pur- political crisis sparked by protests over suing conviction of someone already the detention of a top opposition fi gure. out of offi ce. Many of Mr. Biden’s top national On Monday, after nearly two weeks security and diplomatic appointees of delay, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are still awaiting confi rmation, and the California Democrat, will transmit the Democratic administration has signaled article of impeachment that offi cially ac- hopes to focus early on problems closer cuses Mr. Trump of inciting insurrection to home, including COVID-19 and the with his speech to supporters ahead of ailing U.S. economy. the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS “We know that China tests Ameri- Under a deal struck late Friday, the can administrations early on,” regional Senate will receive the article and swear FROM expert Gordon Chang told Fox News on in members as jurors on Tuesday, but will ABROAD: Sunday, citing the 2001 incident early in delay arguments in an impeachment trial Th e Biden the George W. Bush administration in- until the week of Feb. 8, giving Mr. Trump administration’s volving the midair collision of a Chinese time to prepare his defense. foreign policy jet and a Navy surveillance aircraft. Republicans urged Mr. Trump to was tested In Moscow, President Vladimir Pu- focus on the constitutional arguments this weekend tin’s main spokesman reacted sharply to over whether a former president can be with a Russian Western criticism of the government’s impeached because the chief punish- crackdown handling of demonstrations in Moscow ment is removal from offi ce. A secondary on protests and more than 100 other cities across punishment is banishment from seeking of opposition Russia in support of opposition leader offi ce again. Many senators say that is leader Alexei Alexei Navalny. tied to the removal, which is impossible Navalny’s jailing A fi erce critic of Mr. Putin, Mr. Na- for someone already out of offi ce. and an intrusion valny was detained by offi cials upon “A trial after the president has left of- of 15 Chinese his return to Moscow last week from fi ce is beyond the Senate’s constitutional warplanes into authority,” Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Taiwan’s air zone. » see TESTS | A6 Republican, told Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures” program. “The more I talk to Republican senators, the more they’re ELECTIONS beginning to line up behind the position I announced a couple weeks ago.” He said the prospect of a trial of someone out of offi ce for nearly three Voters lose trust in accuracy of ballot systems weeks won’t sit well with Americans dealing with a pandemic and with a new BY SETH MCLAUGHLIN Reformists clash on types of solutions was denied the Georgia governorship administration in place. THE WASHINGTON TIMES because of shenanigans with voting rolls. Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republi- Ms. Abrams never conceded, and can, called the attempt to ban Mr. Trump Matt Luceen didn’t vote for President charade.” been explosively vocal about their distrust Democrats, who took control of the House from offi ce “arrogant.” He told “Fox News Trump in November, but he came to “We don’t ever really put the paper into of the election system, but discontent in 2018, made her cause a rallying cry to Sunday” that voters should decide. Washington last week to protest President piles and count them by hand anymore,” runs through a swath of voters across the repair the election system. Other Republicans have said they Biden’s inauguration, saying the election the 34-year-old computer programmer political spectrum. Last year, it was Mr. Trump arguing can’t imagine 17 Republicans who would was fl awed. said. “We just trust the machines, and we In 2016, Democrats were complaining early and often that mail-in voting was join all 50 members of the Democratic Mr. Luceen, a supporter of Sen. Ber- shouldn’t because we have documented that the election was tainted by Rus- fraud, suggesting that votes were being nard Sanders, said he toted signs that read proof that these machines are vulnerable.” sian interference. Two years later, the » see IMPEACH | A6 “Count our votes by hand” and “End the Mr. Trump and his supporters have party complained that Stacey Abrams » see VOTERS | A5

SECURITY SOCIAL MEDIA Violent protesters at Capitol left Parler’s freedom trails on videos, social media from censorship BY ROWAN SCARBOROUGH would allow us to hunt at night Washington. The FBI received a comes at cost THE WASHINGTON TIMES if we wanted to,” commander call on Nov. 12 from an alarmed Thomas E. Caldwell, 65, of Vir- tipster who quoted a Calhoun so- A group of right-wing militia ginia, said via Facebook on the cial media post as saying, “We are of users’ privacy members arrived in Washington eve of President Trump’s Jan. going to kill every last communist bent on breaching the U.S. Capitol 6 “Stop the Steal” rally at the who stands in Trump’s way.” BY RYAN LOVELACE ASSOCIATED PRESS and booked a room for two in a Capitol. On Jan. 2, John Earl Sullivan THE WASHINGTON TIMES motel in Arlington, Virginia, for Meanwhile, lawyer McCall (known on social media as Jayden PUSHING THROUGH: Rioters at the Capitol on at least six fellow Oath Keepers. Calhoun Jr. was on the road head- Jan. 6 had been planning their incursion, and they Few people heard of the social media platform “This is a good location and ing from Americus, Georgia, to » see CAPITOL | A7 weren’t about to let police barriers stop them. Parler before Big Tech’s political censorship made it a refuge for conservative voices in the 2020 election season. Elevated to center stage in the internet’s censor- INTERNET ship wars, Parler is now ﬁ ghting for survival. Big Tech and other critics condemn it as a safe space for insurrectionists, though Parler’s supporters herald PragerU fi ghts Big Tech’s ‘cancel culture and the mob’ it as the last vestige of free speech on the internet. Parler resembles the rival Twitter, hosting mi- BY JAMES VARNEY with Big Tech. chief marketing offi cer at the California croblogging posts, aka Parleys.

THE WASHINGTON TIMES But the conserva- company. “On Parler, we got 2,500,000 fol- The company’s use of a less-restrictive censor- tive online educational lowers in a week or two.” ship regime attracted new scrutiny after the Jan. 6 An occasional interview series with Ameri- video company’s top The divide between the trickle on Twitter riot at the Capitol. Google and Apple removed Parler cans who are challenging the status quo. executives can make a and the rush on Parler would appear to but- from their app stores, and Amazon Web Services PragerU, for all the brainpower that has highly educated guess. tress Mr. Strazzeri’s belief that social media took Parler offl ine. gone into making hundreds of online videos, “We have about 500,000 followers on companies have suppressed PragerU content. Critics also accuse Parler of data mining: has no formula to pinpoint how big its audi- Twitter, and we have been on Twitter for Strazzeri ence would be without the constant ﬁ ght more than 10 years,” said Craig Strazzeri, » see ONLINE | A6 » see PARLER | A7

THE MEDIA REMAINS ADDICTED TO TRUMP challenging. INSIDE THE “While he is powering down, in some ways, he has to power up, He is a hard habit to break. in other ways, and focus his attention. Other presidents could take The news media and partisan critics are still obsessed with for- years to write their books, but he has impeachment right before mer President Donald Trump, his time in offi ce, and the prospects BELTWAY him — and a full legal plate,” presidential historian Martha Kumar for his post-White House future. Consider that during the most re- BY JENNIFER HARPER told Mr. Crilly. cent White House press conference on Friday, 15 out of the fi rst 23 questions posed by a suddenly polite press corps to press secretary ABE LINCOLN’S PROACTIVE APPROACH Jen Psaki were about Mr. Trump, according to a handy count by Newsbusters.org, a conservative press watchdog. There has been much ado over Inauguration Day security these Mr. Trump’s immediate future is mesmerizing journalists, who days. It is of note that Abraham Lincoln had the same concerns, appear to daydream of Mr. Trump’s impeachment, or treat it like and was proactive in securing his own safety. an upcoming major sports or entertainment event. There’s talk he A rare letter from Lincoln, which reveals that he personally plans to found a new cable network, launch an independent politi- arranged his own personal security for his inauguration in 1861, cal party or is already-knee-deep in planning a political comeback has just come up for sale, penned in Lincoln’s hand and outlining in 2024. his expectations, and off ering an invitation to Maj. David Hunter All this chatter continues to erupt — and Mr. Trump has not to join several other military escorts who eventually accompanied even been out of offi ce a week. Speculation is rampant. him on a train bound for Washington from his home in Springfi eld, “Most ex-presidents spend their time out of offi ce playing golf, Illinois. getting their libraries in order, making well-paid speeches, writing “I have determined to leave here for Washington on February even more lucrative memoirs and biting their tongues about what 11th subject to be changed for any extraordinary cause. I fi nd the the next guy is doing. Other than the golf, the road ahead for Don- ASSOCIATED PRESS journey will have to be a circuitous and rather tedious one. I expect ald Trump, a president who has never adhered to his offi ce’s norms, News media has been rampantly speculating on what former President the pleasure of your company,” Lincoln wrote in his dispatch, dated will be unlike any other,” predicts Bloomberg News. Donald Trump will do now that he has left offi ce. Jan. 26, 1861. “With a love for the limelight, Trump is expected to pursue The Raab Collection is off ering the original letter; it has been in media opportunities of some kind, whether a book deal, a lucra- a private collection and has a current value of $150,000. tive role at a news channel or his own media venture,” the news The research ultimately found, however, that “public speaker” “This powerful letter shows the 16th president taking a personal organization says. was the chosen occupation of most presidents of the modern role in his own security during the pre-inauguration period. We’ve “What’s next for Trump and Trumpism?” asked the BBC. “What era, though Bill Clinton was described as a “political analyst” and never seen another like it,” said Nathan Raab, president of the will Trump do next?” asked Yahoo News. “Donald Trump’s drama- George W. Bush as an “amateur painter” when they took their Pennsylvania-based organization. fi lled presidency is over. But will there be a second act?” asked leave of the White House. Curious? Find the details at Raabcollection.com, under the ABC News. “Buy” heading. Certainly the news media would like to see a second act, accom- MR. TRUMP’S PARTICULARS OF THE MOMENT modated by their own catcalls and analysis. Otherwise, the news POLL DU JOUR cycle may get pretty dull. Now for a brief reality check, with more to come. Here’s what Meanwhile, Wall Street 24/7 has tracked down what every presi- we know about the 45th president and his current activities. ⦁ 11% of U.S. adults say people in their community take steps to dent did after leaving offi ce, based on historic information on all Former President Donald Trump is playing some golf and enjoy- limit the spread of COVID-19 “all of the time”; 8% of Republicans, U.S. presidents from the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, ing a little down time at serene Mar-a-Lago, his private club and 12% of independents and 11% of Democrats agree. from White House historical records, and information supplied by residence. ⦁ 32% say people take these steps “most of the time”; 28% of the History Channel. But a new workplace is already in the making. The former presi- Republicans, 28% of independents and 39% of Democrats agree. The news organization reveals that the earliest presidents dent is setting up shop with the help of a small team of “fi ve junior ⦁ 32% say people “occasionally” take those steps; 28% of Repub- simply returned to their previous lives as lawyers or landown- staff ers” who served with Mr. Trump during his time in offi ce. So licans, 34% of independents and 33% of Democrats agree. ers. Some became offi cials with universities. John Adams — the says Rob Crilly, an observant, boots-on-the-ground kind of guy ⦁ 24% say people “rarely or never” take those steps; 33% of Re- nation’s second president — wrote books and news columns for 25 who covers the White House for The Washington Examiner. publicans, 24% of independents and 17% of Democrats agree. years after leaving offi ce. They are “Trump’s young guns,” Mr. Crilly writes. ⦁ 1% “do not go out in public” in their community; 0% of Repub- A few former presidents succeeded in running for Congress, This is not unique. Other former presidents have followed a licans, 1% of independents and 1% of Democrats agree. some became activists in various social causes, some died in offi ce similar pattern, arriving at their chosen place of retirement with a SOURCE: A CNN/SSRS POLL OF 1,003 U.S. ADULTS CONDUCTED JAN. 9-14 AND RELEASED JAN. 21. or were assassinated. William Howard Taft , the 27th president, small, deft staff who are familiar with the ex-president in question. became chief justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Trump, however, has much in his future, some of it quite ⦁ Kindly follow Jennifer Harper on Twitter @HarperBulletin.

PUBLIC HEALTH INSIDEINSIDE POLITICS “Aft er all, here were Biden ban on thousands upon thousands of people who continued to travel meant spread the idea that U.S. SENATE ELECTIONS the election had to slow spread Sanders: Democrats face disaster in 2022 been stolen,” Sen. Mitt Romney said. Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont said Sunday ASSOCIATED PRESS Ofﬁ cials racing that Democrats face a potential wipeout in the 2022 midterms if they don’t use their full control against virus variants of Washington to push forward with a bold agenda on coronavirus relief and other issues. BY DAVID SHERFINSKI

“If we do not respond now, yes, I believe two THE WASHINGTON TIMES years from now the Republicans will say, ‘hey, you elected these guys. They did nothing. Vote for us.’ President Biden plans to impose new restric- And they will win,” Mr. Sanders, Vermont inde- tions Monday on people traveling to the U.S. from pendent, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” South Africa and reimpose travel restrictions President Biden has expressed hope at winning covering much of Europe and Brazil that former Republican support for his $1.9 trillion coronavirus President Donald Trump had moved to lift. relief package, but there have been few takers yet. The new ban on travel by most non-U.S. citi- Mr. Sanders said he is prepared to use a bud- zens from South Africa is intended to mitigate get tool that would allow Democrats to muscle REPUBLICANS the spread of a new COVID-19 variant. through parts of the package without Republican Romney says Senate should not punish Cruz, Hawley over Capitol riots “We are adding South Africa to the restricted support if the GOP holds out for too long. list because of the concerning variant present “If Republicans are willing to work with us to Sen. Mitt Romney said Sunday that the Senate the idea that the election had been stolen,” Mr. that has already spread beyond South Africa,” address that crisis, welcome — let’s do it,” he said. doesn’t need to punish fellow Republican Sens. Romney said. said Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director “But what we cannot do is wait weeks and weeks Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri Mr. Cruz and Mr. Hawley objected to the of the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- and months and months to go forward.” for objecting to the 2020 election results, saying election results in Arizona and Pennsylvania on tion, told Reuters, which fi rst reported the news. Mr. Sanders is in line to chair the Senate Budget history will judge who was complicit in the Jan. 6 Jan. 6. Last week, Mr. Trump issued an order that Committee once leadership in both parties can attack on the U.S. Capitol. Without support from a senator, the House lifted coronavirus-related travel restrictions for strike a deal on organizational issues. “I think history will provide a measure of objections to the election results would have the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil and much — David Sherfi nski judgment with regards to those that continue to died quickly, as they did for several other states. of Europe starting on Jan. 26. spread the lie that the president began with, as Senate Democrats fi led an ethics complaint Mr. Biden’s team had already indicated that REPUBLICANS well as the voters in our respective communi- against Mr. Cruz and Mr. Hawley last week, they would swiftly reimpose those restrictions. Arizona GOP condemns top state offi cials ties,” the Utah Republican said on CNN’s “State saying the senators “lent legitimacy to the mob’s “With the pandemic worsening, and more of the Union.” “I don’t think the Senate needs to cause and made future violence more likely” by contagious variants emerging around the world, Arizona Republican Party members have take action.” continuing with the objections after the Capitol this is not the time to be lifting restrictions on censured Gov. Doug Ducey, former Sen. Jeff Flake “After all, there were thousands upon was attacked. international travel,” White House press secre- and Cindy McCain, widow of the late Sen. John thousands of people who continued to spread — David Sherfi nski tary Jen Psaki tweeted last week. McCain, all of whom have clashed with former Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top health adviser to Mr. President Donald Trump. Biden, said it’s unlikely that the South African The symbolic action came Saturday night after ARKANSAS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES variant has made its way into the U.S. but that the state GOP reelected Kelli Ward, who calls Huckabee Sanders to run for governor Powell establishes election-fraud PAC he couldn’t say for sure. herself a “Trump Republican,” for a second term as A separate variant discovered in the United chairwoman. All three attended the inauguration Former White House press secretary Sarah Sidney Powell, the pro-Trump lawyer who led Kingdom has already made its way into at least of President Biden in Washington last week. Huckabee Sanders is expected to announce Mon- several failed bids to overturn the recent presiden- 20 U.S. states. The party said it censured Mr. Ducey over day that she is running for governor of Arkansas tial election, announced the formation Saturday of Dr. Fauci said on Sunday that the South Af- his imposing of emergency COVID-19 rules that in 2022, according to people familiar with her a political action committee, Restore the Republic. rican variant strain can counteract monoclonal “restrict personal liberties and force compliance to plans. Ms. Powell said in a statement that she co- antibodies that have been used as treatment. unconstitutional edicts.” Mrs. Sanders, a conservative who served two founded the group with Mike Lindell, the CEO of “It looks like it does diminish more so the The state GOP said Mrs. McCain “has sup- years as press secretary to former President the My Pillow bedding company. effi cacy of the vaccine,” Dr. Fauci said on the ported globalist policies and candidates” and has Donald Trump, is the daughter of former Arkansas Federal Election Commission records show CBS program “Face the Nation.” “But we’re still “condemned President Trump for his criticism of Gov. Mike Huckabee. Restore the Republic fi led a statement of organiza- within that cushion level of the vaccines being her husband and erroneously placed behaviors Her bid for governor has been long anticipated, tion form Friday via Jesse Binnall, another pro- effi cacious against these mutants.” over actual presidential results.” with backing from Mr. Trump, who encouraged Trump lawyer who has previously worked with Dr. Vivek Murthy, Mr. Biden’s pick to be U.S. It said Mr. Flake has “condemned the Repub- her to run when she left the White House in sum- Ms. Powell. Surgeon General, said on Sunday that the new lican Party, rejected populism, and rejected the mer 2019. The super PAC “will be dedicated to support- variants constitute a “shot across the bow.” interests of the American people” for globalism. Current Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson is ing candidates who will fi ght vigorously for our “The bottom line is, we’re in a race against Mr. Ducey came under fi re from Mr. Trump in term-limited. Constitutional rights, freedom of speech and the these variants,” Dr. Murthy said on ABC’s “This November, when he resisted Mr. Trump’s calls to Her announcement will be released in a video, sacred right of free and fair elections,” Ms. Powell Week.” “The virus is going to change. And it’s overturn Mr. Biden’s narrow win in the state. The Washington Post fi rst reported Sunday. said. up to us to adapt and to make sure that we’re — Dave Boyer — Dave Boyer — Andrew Blake staying ahead.”

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IMMIGRATION PUBLIC HEALTH Texas suit challenges Biden’s Biden on track to temporary deportation halt meet 100 million

BY STEPHEN DINAN immigrants who have been in immigration law gives U.S. Im- THE WASHINGTON TIMES sanctuary for years are leaving migration and Customs Enforce- shots in 100 days their hideouts, confident Mr. ment 90 days after a migrant is Texas argued to a federal court Biden’s team will grant them a ordered deported to carry that Sunday that ICE is now actively free pass — including Francisca out. Mr. Biden’s policy violates ASSOCIATED PRESS Faces pressure to aim higher releasing immigrants who are in Lino, who’d been shut in at Adal- that law, he said. Texas Attorney General Ken the U.S. illegally into the state, berto United Methodist Church “By ‘pausing’ removals for 100 Paxton has fi led a lawsuit to BY TOM HOWELL JR. bolstering its demand that a judge in Chicago for more than three days, DHS has ensured it cannot stop the Biden administration’s THE WASHINGTON TIMES step in and order a delay to Presi- years. meet Congress’s 90-day removal temporary halt to deportations. dent Biden’s new temporary de- In Texas, Mr. Paxton says re- deadline for numerous illegal The U.S. is administering portation amnesty. leases will end up being a bur- aliens,” Mr. Paxton argued to roughly 1 million COVID-19 vac- The lawsuit by Texas Attorney den, which now must provide Judge Drew B. Tipton, a Trump the lawyer said is left to the dis- cine doses per day, placing Presi- General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit, essential services such as emer- appointee to the Southern Dis- cretion of Homeland Security. dent Biden on track to meet his fi led and argued in a snap hearing gency Medicaid and schooling trict of Texas. Mr. Paxton’s team countered 100-day goal of 100 million shots Friday and supplemented in new to undocumented immigrants Beyond immigration law, Mr. that the Temporary Restraining while heaping pressure on his briefs this weekend, is the fi rst in who would otherwise have been Paxton says the Biden administra- Order they are seeking wouldn’t White House to speed the eff ort, what’s expected to be a stream of ousted from the U.S. tion broke a binding agreement mandate deportations, but would as virus deaths rise and newly litigation against Mr. Biden and The Biden policy stops de- the Trump administration signed have ICE go back to its previ- eligible Americans clamor to roll his set of opening-week execu- portations except for national in its waning days giving Texas ous situation where deportations up their sleeves. ASSOCIATED PRESS tive actions. security threats, people deemed — and several other jurisdictions were occurring. Scientists say 70%-75% of the An average of 1.06 million doses “Defendants’ refusal to re- to have crossed the border after — the chance to get a 180-day no- Mr. Paxton, in a brief Sunday, U.S. population needs to be in- were administered per day over move illegal aliens is directly Nov. 1, 2020, and cases of “aggra- tice before any major reduction pointed to reporting by Tucker oculated to bring the virus to the last week, according to a leading to the immediate release vated felony.” Jessica Vaughan at in immigration enforcement can Carlson of Fox News in an email manageable levels. That translates tracker. Th e administration is of additional illegal aliens in the Center for Immigration Stud- take place. to ICE deportation offi cers in- to roughly 240 million people, or facing pressure to vaccine faster. Texas,” Mr. Paxton argued in his ies said that’s even more generous That deal by the Trump team structing them not only to halt 480 million doses with available latest fi ling Sunday. than President Obama’s policy. now binds the Biden team, Mr. deportations but to “release them two-shot vaccines — a schedule The deportation pause, which Ms. Vaughan calculated that Paxton said. all, immediately.” that would take until next year “Third is to look for additional Mr. Biden promised during the just 15% of migrants awaiting de- The Justice Department, dur- Texas was fi rst with its law- under the current pace. manufacturing sites — sites where campaign and which he had portation are aggravated felons. ing a snap hearing Friday, called suit, but other GOP-led states are “We need to be setting our it may be feasible to manufacture Homeland Security announced Acting Homeland Security the agreement unenforceable, likely to follow as they peruse Mr. sights higher,” said Dr. Paul Offi t, a and/or fi ll& fi nish COVID-19 vac- last week, is among the most Secretary David Pekoske said the questioning how a prior admin- Biden’s expansive list of executive pediatrics professor at the Univer- cines,” he said in an email. “This contentious, with the Center for deportation halt was needed so istration could bind a successor. actions. sity of Pennsylvania and member could help both the currently Immigration Studies saying it Homeland Security could “surge The U.S. government’s lawyer President Trump faced a of the Food and Drug Administra- authorized vaccines but also help carves 85% of undocumented resources to the border” to over- also said the judge didn’t have the similar swarm of lawsuits from tion’s vaccine advisory panel. get ready with more manufactur- immigrants with criminal records haul the asylum system amid the power to intervene because doing Democrat-led states during his An average of 1.06 million ing capacity for a future vaccine out of risk of deportation. coronavirus pandemic. so would eff ectively be mandat- term, particularly on immigra- doses were administered per day such as [Johnson & Johnson] and/ Some undocumented Mr. Paxton, though, said ing deportations — something tion matters. over the last week, according to a or Astra Zeneca-Oxford if and Bloomberg News tracker, as states when they are authorized.” expand eligibility to American Reported U.S. cases of the seniors and get better at reaching coronavirus have dropped in re- people who want the vaccine. cent days, to around 200,000 per Congressional Republicans are day instead of 250,000 earlier SECURITY poking Mr. Biden, saying former in the month. Hospitalizations President Donald Trump put the are declining, too, but scientists Democrat in a position to meet are worried about fast-spreading National Guard troops called back home his pledge from the start and that variants detected in the U.K. and he should fi nd ways to double South Africa, saying the problem his goal — particularly since a could surge again. Governors furious growing share of available shots The disease is still claiming will be devoted to second doses, 3,000 lives per day in the U.S., and over treatment instead of expanding the num- states are trying to expand the ber of people receiving initial categories of people who are im- at U.S. Capitol protection. munized but worry they will run The Biden team said it be- out of does if they overpromise. BY JEFF MORDOCK lieves 100 million shots in 100 It’s unclear whether the new

THE WASHINGTON TIMES days remains a worthy goal but administration can squeeze more it is eyeing improvements, tout- vaccines out of drugmakers who Thousands of National Guard troops ing a “wartime” posture that uses are up and running, given global were recalled to their home states over the the Defense Production Act to demands and the fact both com- weekend by governors who were furious compel manufacturing of supplies panies say they’re running at full that the troops were banished to a nearby for vaccines, along with tests and capacity. parking garage after securing the U.S. Capitol protective equipment. Pfi zer/BioNtech and Moderna for President Biden’s inauguration. “The fundamental diff erence say they’re doing everything they The governors of Florida, Texas and New between the Biden approach and can and have raised their projec- Hampshire immediately moved to bring the Trump approach is that we’re tions for global supply by the end home the troops saying they were being going to take responsibility at of 2021. But they haven’t revealed treated as “servants.” the federal government. We’re many specifi cs beyond a recom- Despite the recall, at least 5,000 troops going to own this problem,” Mr. mitment to their contractual ob- will remain in Washington through mid- Biden’s chief of staff , Ron Klain, ligations in the U.S., with each March, National Guard offi cials said in a told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on committing to supply 100 million statement. ASSOCIATED PRESS Sunday. doses by the end of March and 100 The thinking among defense offi cials and Governors called for National Guard troops to return home aft er they learned the troops “We’re going to work closely million more by the end of June. lawmakers is that former President Donald were banished to a nearby parking garage aft er securing the U.S. Capitol for inauguration. with the states, they are key “We remain committed to Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial poses partners in getting this done, but partnering with the Biden admin- a security concern. Offi cials fear a repeat of we’re also going to do the work istration to deliver our vaccine to the deadly violence of Jan. 6, when a pro- useless and banished to a corner of a park- Mr. Sununu blasted the relocation in a ourselves. We’re going to set up the American people as quickly as Trump mob stormed the Capitol. ing garage.” statement. these federal vaccination centers possible,” Pfi zer said in a written Mr. Trump’s Senate trial is scheduled to On Thursday afternoon, Capitol Police “They did an outstanding job serving to make sure that in states that statement. begin Feb. 8. asked the National Guard to relocate the our nation’s capital in a time of strife and don’t have vaccination sites, we fi ll “Because of the urgent need “We are providing assistance such as troops who had been resting in the Capitol should be graciously praised, not subject to those gaps. We’re going to work to vaccinate more people, we’re security, communications, medical evacu- in between shifts, National Guard Bureau substandard conditions,” Mr. Sununu said closely with the manufacturers already making process improve- ation, logistics and safety support to state spokesman Maj. Matt Murphy told CBS in a statement. to ramp up production,” he said. ments, expanding our manufac- district and federal agencies,” the National News. Federal lawmakers on both sides were The White House gave at turing facilities and adding more Guard said in a statement. “As Congress is in session and increased also angered. least one fi rm example of how it suppliers and contract manufac- The announcement comes after it was foot traffi c and business is being conducted, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. will use the DPA in its fi rst days. turers to our supply chain,” the revealed that more than 100 Guard troops Capitol Police asked the troops to move Schumer, New York Democrat, called the It plans to procure more “low company said. stationed at the Capitol for President their rest area,” Mr. Murphy said. “They move “outrageous” and vowed to get to the dead-volume” syringes, which are Moderna said it is not sharing Biden’s inauguration have tested positive were temporarily relocated to the Thurgood bottom of it. better are drawing a sixth dose — weekly or monthly production for COVID-19. Hundreds more troops are Marshall Judicial Center garage with heat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCon- instead of just fi ve — from Pfi zer/ estimates but “we continue to be in quarantine. and restroom facilities.” nell, Kentucky Republican, called the situa- BioNTech’s multidose vials. on track with our expectations Defense offi cials are pointing to the Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda tion unacceptable. He said Congress needs “The current Biden adminis- of delivering 100 million doses of cramped rest and working areas as the Pittman issued a confl icting statement say- to transition to a more sustainable law en- tration plan is focused on scal- vaccine by the end of Q1, and 200 reason for the spread, pointing to relocat- ing that the department did not instruct the forcement presence rather than supplement ing up production of personal million doses by the end of Q2.” ing troops to the parking garage as the National Guard to vacate the Capitol. the Capitol Police with uniformed troops. protective equipment and pri- “Production and releases are outbreak’s cause. “The department is also working with Rep. Madison Cawthorn, North Carolina oritizing needed supplies to FDA not linear and we have explained Outraged politicians on both sides of the Guard to reduce the need for sleeping Republican, tweeted that he had visited the approved vaccine manufacturers,” that we have been successfully the aisle fumed after photos of the troops accommodations by establishing shorter troops, brought them pizza and told them said Brook Baker, a law professor scaling up our production yields hunkering down in a cold, cramped parking shifts and will ensure they have access they could sleep in his offi ce. at Northeastern University who over time,” the company said. garage instead of the Capitol quickly went to the comfortable accommodations they “No soldier will ever, ever sleep on a tracks the issue. “The vaccine The U.S. is eagerly awaiting viral. Guard members were moved to the absolutely deserve when the need arises,” garage fl oor in the U.S. Capitol while I work side of the plan is quite limited in trial results from drugmaker John- garage to take their break time, according she said, in a statement. in Congress,” he tweeted. “Our Troops de- ambition. It is focused on amelio- son & Johnson, which could seek to Politico, which fi rst reported the story. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle serve better.” rating immediate component and approval of its one-dose vaccine The photos showed guardsmen resting swiftly condemned the move to the garage. Rep. Elise Stefanik called the move, “ab- equipment shortages and elimi- by the end of the month. between 12-hour shifts crowded together on At least three governors immediately or- solutely unacceptable and despicable.” nating certain supply bottlenecks, Former FDA Commissioner the ground with some resting their heads dered their troops to return home. “We need to demand answers now and but regrettably is not focused on Mark McClellan, who sits on J&J’s against cement pillars. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, this needs to be fi xed immediately,” she truly expanding supply capacity.” board, said approval of the shots Guardsmen were told they could no Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. wrote. Prashant Yadav, a senior fellow would be a game-changer “if the longer access areas of the Capitol complex, Greg Abbott said they had seen enough. More than 26,000 troops were deployed at the Center for Global Devel- clinical trial works out.” including a Senate offi ce cafeteria that had “I mean, these folks are soldiers,” Mr. De- to Washington to secure the inauguration in opment who works on medical “I do know that J&J is making been their rest area while protecting the Santis said in an interview with Fox News. response to fears of more rioting after the supply chains, said after the Biden a very large supply, going all out building, Politico reported. “They’ve served our country all around the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Those fears administration tackles simpler with its production, both here in “We honestly just feel betrayed,” one world. They’ve served our State of Florida never materialized with only a few minor things like syringes it should en- the U.S. and elsewhere around guardsman told the news outlet. “After ev- after natural disasters. ... They’re soldiers. arrests on Inauguration Day. sure that manufacturers can scale the world, with the goal of having erything went seamlessly, we were deemed They’re not Nancy Pelosi’s servants.” Roughly 10,600 troops remain. up critical supplies, such as lipids perhaps enough vaccines for 100 that play a vital role in the ap- million Americans by spring, by proved messenger-RNA vaccines. this April or so,” he told CNBC. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 ☆ R POLITICS | A5

LABOR Two NLRB leaders fi red, Biden promotes union organizing

BY DAVID SHERFINSKI several labor-related orders from track to be confirmed as Mr. over labor groups in moving to

THE WASHINGTON TIMES former President Trump, includ- Biden’s treasury secretary on cancel the permit for the Key- ing one that made it easier to fi re Monday, told the Senate Finance stone XL pipeline on his fi rst day President Biden is quickly certain federal employees. Committee she looks forward in offi ce. making good on his vow to be The order said it’s the policy to working with lawmakers on Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas ques- the most “pro-union” president in of the United States “to protect, issues important to the labor tioned Pete Buttigieg, Mr. Biden’s U.S. history, fi ring Trump appoin- empower, and rebuild the career movement. pick to lead the Department of tees perceived as hostile to labor Federal workforce.” “I would … look forward to Transportation, over the decision and making it offi cial U.S. policy “It is also the policy of the working with you and other at Mr. Buttigieg’s confi rmation to promote union organizing and United States to encourage union members of Congress to advance hearing last week. collective bargaining. organizing and collective bar- proposals to strengthen worker “With the stroke of a pen, Within hours of taking offi ce, gaining,” the order said. “The Fed- organizing, collective bargaining, President Biden has told those Mr. Biden fi red Peter Robb as eral Government should serve as and unions,” Ms. Yellen said in 11,000 workers — those union general counsel of the National ASSOCIATED PRESS a model employer.” response to a written question workers — your jobs are gone,” Labor Relations Board (NLRB) President Biden fi red Peter Robb as general counsel of the National House Democrats hailed the from Sen. Bob Casey, Pennsylva- Mr. Cruz said. “Mr. Buttigieg, after Mr. Robb refused to resign Labor Relations Board aft er taking offi ce last Wednesday. move. nia Democrat. what do you say to those work- nearly a year before his term “We look forward to partner- One of fi rst lady Jill Biden’s ers whose jobs have just been expired. ing with the new administration fi rst events after the inaugural eliminated by presidential edict?” “That’s an individual who was Alice Stock, Mr. Robb’s No. 2 “President Biden’s continuous to ensure that collective bargain- festivities was a virtual chat with Mr. Buttigieg replied that it not carrying out the objectives of who had been installed as acting calls for unity and civil discourse ing, whistleblower protection the heads of the country’s two will be important to ensure that the NLRB,” White House press general counsel, was also out of a upon taking his oath of offi ce are and merit principles remain a largest teachers unions. Mr. Biden’s “climate vision” leads secretary Jen Psaki said when job by the end of the week. already proving to be empty as- foundation of the federal civil “I’m ready to work with you to net positive job gains. asked whether Mr. Biden was Rep. Virginia Foxx of North pirations,” said Ms. Foxx, the top service,” said Rep. Carolyn Ma- — and the unions that support “The answer is that we are trying to “purge” Trump offi cials. Carolina said it looked like the Republican on the education and loney, New York Democrat and you every day,” Mrs. Biden said. very eager to see those workers “So they’re no longer in their po- Biden administration was quickly labor committee. Oversight and Reform Commit- In one early test of Mr. Biden’s continue to be employed in good sition. We’ll make those decisions getting to work on “rewarding Mr. Biden also signed an ex- tee chairwoman. loyalties to liberal interest groups, paying union jobs, even if they as needed.” their friends in Big Labor.” ecutive order Friday to unwind Janet Yellen, who appears on he sided with environmentalists might be diff erent ones,” he said.

Congressional District doesn’t the number was 22%. voting periods and voting rights our government.” comment. VOTERS have a winner 2½ months after “There is mistrust in elections, extended to felons and, in some The Democratic-controlled At the heart of the debate From page A1 Election Day. The Republican but Democrats and Republicans cases, those younger than 18. Senate announced that Mrs. Pe- over elections is a philosophical holds a lead, but a state judge has have diff erent worries,” said Dar- For Republicans, voter integ- losi’s bill is a top priority. divide. One side is arguing for manufactured for his opponent, ordered more study of ballots that rell West, vice president of gov- rity is the priority. They point Though he has departed the sanctity of Election Day, with and claiming that some vote- were counted and rejected. ernance studies at the Brookings to accounts of noncitizens cast- Washington, Mr. Trump also rare mail-in balloting and other counting systems were siphon- Polling suggests that many Institution. ing ballots and to counties and plans to focus on elections. He exceptions. The other side wants ing his votes to build totals for in both parties are skeptical of “Democrats think voter sup- districts where more voters are said he will push to tighten rules a more expansive voting season, Mr. Biden. how votes are tallied, though the pression is the real problem registered than census estimates on submitting ballots that were with ballots available through the Democrats had their own depths of distrust often turn on while Republicans fear that mail say are possible. eased during the pandemic. mail and eligible to be counted complaints. Mr. Luceen said he whether their candidates have ballots encourage fraud,” Mr. Republicans say the answers “You’re going to see him days after Election Day. thinks the party’s nomination was emerged victorious. West said. “Since there is more lie in cleaner voting rolls and emerge as the nation’s leader on The pandemic tipped the stolen from Mr. Sanders last year Heading into the 2016 elec- evidence that voter suppression stricter ID checks. Democrats ballot voting integrity,” Trump ad- scales toward lax rules. and in 2016. tion, 84% of Democrats had is a problem, Democrats will say those tactics amount to voter viser Jason Miller said Thursday Logan Churchwell of the Pub- “I don’t think Trump is being confi dence in the system. After beef up voting rights enforce- suppression and are designed to on “Just the News.”. lic Interest Legal Foundation, honest, but I do think his voters Mr. Trump won the presidential ment and encourage states to discourage minorities and poor He said Congress won’t ad- which pushes for voter integrity may have been disenfranchised, race, the share of Democrats who keep early voting and mail ballot people from voting. dress meaningful changes while measures, said Mr. Biden could but there is no way to prove trusted the results fell to 65%, options. After the 2018 Georgia elec- Democrats are in charge, so Mr. restore trust in the voting system it because we are not counting according to Morning Consult. “The one thing both parties tion, House Speaker Nancy Pe- Trump will focus on states with by rolling back the pandemic the paper,” he said. “We trust Just 56% of Republicans had agree on is election security and losi, California Democrat, put Republican legislatures. changes. whatever is coming out of the confi dence heading into Election keeping foreign agents from dis- election reforms at the top of her “We’re going to start ramping “The American experiment machines.” Day, but that number jumped to rupting electoral infrastructure,” list of legislative priorities. up here, not immediately. … We’ll has worked this long because The Democratic candidate for 73% after Mr. Trump’s win. he said. The eff ort didn’t go anywhere give them a little bit of a transi- we traditionally saw where the Iowa’s 2nd Congressional Dis- Two weeks after the 2020 vote, Beyond that is a chasm under split control of Congress. tion period, but this is critical,” chips fell on election night. The trict is challenging her loss and only 44% of Americans told Mon- between Democrats and Now that Democrats control both Mr. Miller said. further we stray from Election has asked the House to overturn mouth University Polling Insti- Republicans. chambers, she is more optimistic. It remains to be seen what Mr. Day and make the act of voting a the result, unseat the Republican tute that they were “very confi - Democrats say there are too “It is a priority for us,” she Biden plans to do. private aff air away from our fel- winner and install her instead. dent” the election was fair and many restrictions on voting. They told reporters last week. “This is A spokesperson did not low citizens, distrust will spiral,” In New York, the 22nd accurate. Among Republicans, want easier registration, longer really central to the integrity of respond to an email seeking Mr. Churchwell said.

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Talks with allies TESTS In another bit of message-sending, From page A1 the Pentagon revealed over the weekend that newly confirmed Defense Germany. He had been mysteriously Secretary Lloyd Austin had made two poisoned in an attack widely blamed on of his fi rst offi cial overseas calls to his Mr. Putin’s government. counterparts from South Korea and Security offi cials declared the pro- Japan — two longtime allies that likely tests illegal and detained at least 3,500 will be key in dealing with China and people. North Korea. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov Pentagon readouts of the calls said singled out a decision by the U.S. Em- Mr. Austin underscored the U.S. com- bassy in Moscow to issue a “demonstra- mitment to defend both countries, in tion alert” warning U.S. citizens of the particular restating the long-standing safety risks associated with Saturday’s U.S. commitment to defend Japan in its protests. Embassy spokeswoman Re- dispute with China over the contested becca Ross issued a statement on Twitter Senkaku Islands, and to oppose “any saying the U.S. supported “the right of all unilateral attempts to change the status people to peaceful protest [and] freedom quo in the East China Sea.” of expression.” China late last week enacted a law “Of course, these [comments] are empowering its coast guard to take inappropriate,” Mr. Peskov said in an armed action when China’s sovereignty interview Sunday on a state TV channel, is threatened by “foreign organizations or The Moscow Times reported. The U.S. individuals at sea.” The state-controlled government was off ering what he called press described the law as a measure to “direct support for the violation of the strengthen Chinese claims to the strate- law of the Russian Federation, support gically located island chain. for unauthorized actions.” The Japanese Defense Ministry said Mr. Navalny is accused of violating Mr. Austin and Defense Minister Nobuo the terms of a suspended sentence that ASSOCIATED PRESS Kishi discussed the importance of the was imposed in a 2014 fraud and money Th e Kremlin declared protests of the detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny illegal, and a spokesman said the Biden bilateral alliance to “the peace and se- laundering conviction, charges he said administration made “inappropriate” comments about “the right of all people to peaceful protest [and] freedom of expression.” curity of the Indo-Pacifi c region” — a were designed to punish him for his po- term favored by the Trump administra- litical activism. He is to appear in court tion to defi ne the ring of U.S.-East Asian on Feb. 2 for a hearing on whether the not ready for boorishness and we’re not and a reconnaissance aircraft also were Washington to his inauguration last alliances designed to contain Chinese suspended sentence will be converted ready for any crossing of red lines,” he spotted. week, the fi rst such invitation since aggression. to 3½ years in prison, The Associated added. The aircraft fl ew in international the Carter administration formally rec- Relations with Seoul and Tokyo were Press reported. airspace but inside the air defense iden- ognized the Beijing regime as China’s strained over the past four years as the The State Department has issued Chinese challenge tifi cation zone, prompting Taiwan to offi cial government. Trump administration pushed for both a statement calling for Mr. Navalny’s The early challenge from China, deploy air defense measures in response. The U.S. Indo-Pacifi c Command allies to bear a greater fi nancial share of release and European Union offi cials which developed an increasingly an- The Taiwanese Defense Ministry said announced Saturday that the aircraft the joint defense burden. Talks on new said Sunday the bloc plans to meet this tagonistic relationship with Washington jet interceptors were ordered to track the carrier strike group led by the USS cost-sharing deals with both countries week to discuss the situation in Russia. in the fi nal days of the Trump admin- fl ights and radio warnings were issued Roosevelt had entered the South China were left unfi nished as Mr. Biden took Mr. Biden has already made one sig- istration, has been even less subtle for along with the deployment of air defense Sea, where China has claimed disputed offi ce. nifi cant overture to Mr. Putin. He off ered Mr. Biden. missile systems to monitor the activity. islands. The carrier is conducting what Mr. Kishi told Japanese reporters Sat- last week to extend the soon-to-expire A group of 15 Chinese warplanes U.S. intelligence agencies have been offi cials said were routine operations. urday that it was “vital” for Washington New START arms control treaty after the intruded into Taiwan’s air defense zone closely monitoring China’s military for But Mr. Chang said the Roosevelt and Tokyo to quickly renegotiate a new Kremlin and the Trump administration on Saturday, prompting the State Depart- any signs of threatening activities toward voyage was also sending a message to cost-sharing deal for American troops failed to reach a deal. But Mr. Biden has ment to voice its concern over military Taiwan, according to a U.S. offi cial. No Beijing as it passed through the Taiwan based in Japan before the current deal also ordered a full-scale review by U.S. pressure by Beijing on the island state. activities by Chinese ground or naval Strait on the way to the South China Sea. expires in March. intelligence agencies of alleged Russian Department spokesman Ned Price ex- forces have been detected in recent days. “Essentially what the Biden team is South Korean Defense Minister Suh interference in the Nov. 3 election, re- pressed in a statement U.S. concern over During the Trump administration, saying to China [is] that they had better Wook said Sunday’s call came at Mr. ports of Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers “the pattern of ongoing PRC attempts more than $12 billion in arms were leave Taiwan alone, especially with our Austin’s request. in Afghanistan and the “SolarWinds” to intimidate its neighbors, including off ered to the government of indepen- carrier strike group,” he said on Fox, add- Neither the U.S. nor the South Ko- Russian hacking operation of public and Taiwan.” dence-leaning Taiwanese President Tsai ing that he expected Chinese pressure on rean statement referred to the stalled private computer networks. “We will stand with friends and al- Ing-wen, including 66 F-16 jets and mis- the Biden administration to escalate in coast-sharing talks or U.S. troop levels “Even as we work with Russia to lies to advance our shared prosperity, siles capable of reaching the Chinese the coming months. in South Korea. advance U.S. interests, so do we work to security, and values in the Indo-Pacifi c mainland. Many of Mr. Biden’s appoin- Lo Chih-Cheng, a leading foreign Mr. Austin “underscored the U.S. hold Russia to account for its reckless region — and that includes deepening tees, including Secretary of State Antony policy voice in Taiwan’s parliament and commitment to defend [South Korea and adversarial actions,” White House our ties with democratic Taiwan,” Mr. Blinken, have endorsed much of Mr. a member of the ruling Democratic through both the U.S.-South Korea] spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Thursday. Price said. Trump’s harder line against China on Progressive Party, said China’s leaders combined defense posture and the U.S. Those remarks sparked anger in Mos- Taiwan’s defense ministry announced economics, human rights and regional were clearly trying to lay down a marker extended deterrent,” the Pentagon said cow. Kremlin press secretary Dmitri that eight Chinese bombers and four security, while saying they will try to for the new team in Washington on how in a readout of the call. Peskov said Sunday that the U.S. and fighter jets were detected entering work with China’s communist leaders much support to give to Taipei. The South Korean Defense Ministry Russia were closer to being “enemies” the southwestern corner of the air in areas of mutual interest. “It’s sending a message to the Biden said the two men agreed to meet in than “partners” these days. defense identifi cation zone Saturday. Mr. Biden made a point of invit- administration,” he told the Reuters person “in the near future” for more “We’re not ready for dictates, we’re Two anti-submarine warfare planes ing Taiwan’s de facto ambassador in news agency. intensive talks.

the 14th Amendment, which was written to know.” Mr. Trump was impeached on a 232- time frame, but his spokesman said the IMPEACH after the Civil War to allow Congress to Republicans aren’t all in agreement 197 vote in the House, with support from deal Mr. Schumer announced was good From page A1 bar people who fought against the U.S. against impeachment. 10 Republicans. Some of those Republi- enough. from holding offi ce. It requires only a Sen. Mitt Romney, Utah Republican, cans are now facing political backlash. “Especially given the fast and mini- Caucus in voting to convict the presi- majority vote by Congress. who voted to convict Mr. Trump during In the Senate, it would take a two- mal process in the House, Republicans dent, given the facts of the case and the Mr. Kaine said he said he thought the fi rst impeachment trial, said he sees thirds vote to convict the former presi- set out to ensure the Senate’s next constitutional uncertainties. Republicans would be more likely to the need for this one, too. dent but only a majority vote to ban him steps will respect former President “Well, it takes two-thirds, right, to support invoking the 14th Amend- “If we’re going to have unity in our from seeking offi ce. Trump’s rights and due process, the convict, so it’s kind of like the fi rst time ment than the constitutionally dubious country, I think it’s important to recog- The timing of the trial has been heat- institution of the Senate, and the offi ce around. We kind of have an inkling of impeachment. nize the need for accountability, for truth edly contested. of the presidency. That goal has been what the outcome is going to be,” said “I think not only is the threshold and justice,” he said. Mrs. Pelosi announced Friday that she achieved,” said McConnell spokesman Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican. lower, I think you’re more likely to get Mr. Trump was impeached on Jan. 13, would send the article of impeachment Doug Andres. “I mean, Democrats this time didn’t Republican votes on it than on convic- while he was still in offi ce, a week after Monday, triggering a trial beginning The legal briefs could be particularly even bother to go through the motions tion because I think Cotton has given some of his supporters stormed the Capi- Tuesday. momentous because of the weighty con- of getting sworn testimony and having Republicans a safe place to land,” Mr. tol and chased members of Congress That would have delayed action on stitutional questions surrounding action hearings in the House. This is not a Kaine said. “I don’t like the behavior, but from their chambers while they were other Democratic priorities such as against a former president. serious eff ort.” I’m not sure you can convict.” counting the electoral votes to confi rm confi rming Mr. Biden’s nominees. Democrats say they don’t see a prob- Only once, in the case of a War De- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota President Biden’s victory. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. lem with impeaching someone who can’t partment secretary in the 1870s, has a Democrat, said Sunday that lawmakers Mr. Trump has insisted a speech to Schumer, New York Democrat, and Mi- be removed from offi ce and that the trial former offi cial been tried on impeach- have “many options,” including the 14th supporters before the attack was “ap- nority Leader Mitch McConnell, Ken- itself is a step toward accountability. ment charges in the Senate. He was Amendment or a censure of Mr. Trump. propriate,” and his defenders point to tucky Republican, struck a deal Friday “I believe that this impeachment acquitted. She predicted more evidence will be his call for peaceful protest. evening to set a new schedule. The oath trial, I hope conviction, ultimate dis- Even some Democrats fi gure im- released in the next few weeks. In the weeks since the assault, it of offi ce for the trial will be administered qualifi cation are the very fi rst powerful peachment is a fool’s errand. “As if it’s not enough that he sent an became clear that some of the attackers to senators Tuesday, followed by a two- steps toward unity and our country Sen. Tim Kaine, Virginia Democrat, angry mob down the Mall to invade the planned mayhem even before the presi- week period for the president and the moving forward,” Rep. Madeleine Dean, doubted that enough Republicans are Capitol, didn’t try to stop it, and a police dent’s speech, but others told investiga- House impeachment managers to brief Pennsylvania Democrat and one of the ready to join Democrats to convict. He offi cer was killed,” she said on ABC. “I tors that they went to the Capitol at the their case. impeachment managers, said on CNN’s is suggesting an alternate path, fl exing don’t really know what else you need president’s behest. Mr. McConnell proposed a longer “State of the Union.”

his views on what socialism achieves. On YouTube, more than 200 PragerU Still, PragerU’s reach has grown. In a people,” he said. “I think a lot of parents ONLINE Instead, it explains how socialism spells videos have been “restricted,” and a running tally on its homepage, PragerU were alarmed. But while a lot of parents From page A1 doom regardless of whether a leader Google search reminds viewers that sailed past 4.5 billion views as of Sunday are looking for resources for their chil- sings the national anthem on television PragerU is not an “accredited affi liation” afternoon. dren, they are also understandably wor- PragerU is an “educational media or whether Hollywood celebrities praise and blares a “restricted” category. Mr. Strazerri, 34, joined PragerU six ried about getting bullied by the mob for company” that uses fi ve-minute videos the country. The company carefully tries to avoid years ago. With only a handful of employ- expressing doubts.” to off er conservative perspectives on “We are trying to appear strategically any obscure or subjective “community ees, he said, it had a fl edgling feel. It now Consequently, PragerU has added a diverse topics such as elementary school to a younger audience,” Mr. Strazzeri standard” that will get it silenced. employs 60 people. “Resources for Educators and Parents and international relations. As the brawl said. “We’d love to get more athletes and Mr. Strazzeri said he found it disqui- As its quickly amassed Parler follow- (PREP)” section, along with founder rages between free speech advocates social media infl uencers involved.” eting how quickly Apple and Google re- ing shows, PragerU’s growth has been Dennis Prager’s “Fireside Chats” and and modern liberals who control the Perhaps Robert George sums up moved the Parler app from their off erings. robust. In 2018, a decade after its found- “The Candace Owens Show.” discussion platforms, PragerU is a will- best the mission of PragerU. In a fi ve- “They don’t operate in good faith,” he ing, total views passed 1 billion. That The emergence of provocative and ing pugilist. minute video from 2015, “Why We’re said of Big Tech overlords. “They’ve got number doubled in 2019 and added 1.6 popular conservatives such as Ms. Owens “We’re fi ghters here. We are all fi ght- Losing Liberty,” the Princeton Univer- us labeled as if we were porn or violent.” billion last year. has allowed PragerU to “be more strate- ing,” he said. “We know it is an uphill battle sity scholar traces the growth of the Mr. Strazzeri said people have created Some of PragerU’s most popular vid- gic in appealing to a younger audience,” against cancel culture and the mob.” federal government, often facilitated their own videos using the same text as eos — including “Left or Liberal” and Mr. Strazzeri said, although he acknowl- PragerU, short for Prager University, by a Supreme Court swollen out of PragerU’s but attracted no fl ags or warn- “Immigrants! Don’t Support What You’ve edged that the San Fernando Valley-based has no campus with stately oaks or the proportions the Founding Fathers ings from censors. Fled” — sport an average age of 3.6 years company is always looking for athletes, mossy Gothic castles. It has no enrolled envisioned for it. “They say, ‘Well, that doesn’t matter and viewership of 14.2 million. social infl uencers and the like to serve students or tenured faculty. It doesn’t “The further we’ve drifted, the more because they have a much smaller reach A new video is added each week. Last as lecturers. give degrees, and resumes usually don’t powerful the federal government has than you do,’ but what this is really about week’s video was provided by R. Max PragerU has a better chance of prevail- include content viewed. become and the less free Americans have is who gets to decide what information is Eden of the Manhattan Institute, who ing in California courts than before the Instead, PragerU tries to improve the become,” he said, highlighting the often- on the internet?” he said. “It’s gone from discussed the rapid expansion of critical federal bench, Mr. Strazzeri predicted, national conversation a little bit each ignored Ninth and 10th Amendments in troubling to scary what has happened, race theory in American education. but the “nonpartisan fact-checkers — and week by publishing original content and the Bill of Rights. “Freedom can be taken and most Americans should be standing PragerU is “trying to be more stra- I use both terms very loosely there” — graphics, Mr. Strazzeri said. As a 501(c)3 away, but it can also be given away out up and fi ghting.” tegic in appealing to young people,” circle constantly. nonprofi t, PragerU does not make po- of sheer ignorance.” PragerU has lawsuits pending in state Mr. Strazzeri said, but the coronavirus “People are afraid of a public backlash, litical endorsements, and its videos are Mr. Strazzeri said he doesn’t see how and federal courts but has been rebuff ed shutdowns allowed the company to reach and they are afraid of repercussions if overwhelmingly focused on ideas and Mr. George’s philosophy is dangerous thus far. The legal argument in support of more parents last year. With many class- they speak out,” he said. “But we know trends, not specifi c people. or how his words are menacing, but blackouts or restrictions against PragerU rooms going online, parents were able to we have to fi ght this uphill battle to redo A video about how socialism has fact-checkers at Facebook have judged is essentially that, as private businesses, get a clearer look at what exactly their and undo all the damage the left has done ravaged Venezuela does not mention hundreds of videos PragerU has made Facebook and Google can remove content children were being taught. to the country. We are just getting started former President Donald Trump and along the same lines as out of bounds. without violating the First Amendment. “COVID was a real eye-opener for in terms of infl uencing culture.” MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 ☆ R POLITICS | A7

that he came to Washington to seize the CAPITOL Capitol: “Victory smoke in the Capitol, From page A1 boys. This is f-----g awesome. I knew we could take this motherf-----r over [if we] X), one of the few left-wing extremists just tried hard enough.” identifi ed and arrested so far as a Capi- A witness who knows Mr. Pezzola and tol invader, told his followers, “Time to his Proud Boys contingent came forward burn it all down.” His post featured the to repeat remarks they reportedly made hashtags “blm” and “antifa” and the goal: about that day. “abolish capitalism.” The witness, the FBI affi davit said, Black Lives Matter and Antifa want “stated that other members of the group an end to capitalism. talked about things they had done dur- These snapshots of rioters are found ing the day, and they said that anyone in scores of law enforcement affi davits, they got their hands on they would have the government’s first rough official killed, including Nancy Pelosi. W-1 fur- histories of the calamitous Jan. 6 assault ther stated that members of this group, on Congress. which included ‘Spaz,’ said that they In more than 100 U.S. District Court would have killed Mike Pence if given affi davits, FBI agents, federal marshals ASSOCIATED PRESS the chance.” and police offi cers justify arrest war- Invaders of the Capitol left plenty of evidence for more than 100 U.S. District Court affi davits, FBI agents, federal marshals and Prosecutors charged Mr. Pezzola with rants on charges of conspiracy, violent police offi cers to justify arrest warrants on charges of conspiracy, violent entry, assaulting offi cers and disorderly conduct. destruction of government property and entry, assaulting offi cers and disorderly illegal entry. He was ordered detained at conduct. They are helped by videos that a Jan. 15 hearing. rioters took and posted of their own as a “large but loosely organized col- control of the Capitol Building in a hand bullhorn, a crowbar and pepper spray, actions. lection of militia who believe that the to hand hostile takeover.” the latter of which he unleashed on po- Left -wing incursion The narratives create a picture of the federal government has been coopted Mr. Calhoun did not follow through lice. Mr. Harkrider brandished a baton. John Earl Sullivan clearly planned to Capitol invasion by a number of Trump by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying with his violent threats. Prosecutors On Dec. 24, Mr. Nichols posted a instigate a Capitol rebellion. He said so supporters after hearing his speech to strip American citizens of their rights. charged him with invading the Capitol photo of a bullet on Facebook: “By bul- on his various social media accounts. claiming the election was stolen for Though the Oath Keepers will accept and disorderly conduct. let or ballot restoration of the republic Mr. Sullivan is a Black Lives Matter Joseph R. Biden. Courts in fi ve states anyone as members, what diff erenti- is coming.” supporter who attended a civil rights dismissed election fraud complaints ates them from other anti-government Mother and son At the Capitol, Mr. Nichols yelled march in Washington in August. His fi led by Trump attorneys. Attorney Gen- groups is their explicit focus on re- Lisa Marie Eisenhart and Eric G. into his bullhorn, “If you have a weapon, video shows him urging protesters to eral William Barr said he saw no major cruiting current and former military, Munchel were a mother-and-son team you need to get your weapon. This is the attack the White House. election fraud that would have changed law enforcement and fi rst responders on Jan. 6. second revolution right here folks. … He also helped organize a violent the outcome. personnel.” Mr. Munchel is one of the more [Vice President Mike] Pence better do demonstration in Provo, Utah, where he Among Trump supporters wearing The “oath” refers to that taken by infamous protesters. His gear included the right thing or we’re going to MAKE is accused of blocking and threatening “Make America Great Again” hats were federal officeholders to defend the camoufl age attire, zip-tie handcuff s, a you do the right thing.” drivers and damaging cars. hard-core, violence-prone activists who Constitution. chest-mounted camera and a hip holster. Mr. Pence, the presiding offi cer of He described himself as a video jour- planned days earlier to breach the Capi- Video and social media posts show He and his mother entered together. the joint session of Congress that day, nalist, though he has no such credentials. tol and block Congress from affi rming that the three militia members led the At one point, the two joined a mob chas- had angered Mr. Trump by refusing his He recorded much of his own activities Mr. Biden’s electoral victory. The ac- Capitol incursion. ing two police offi cers, the FBI affi davit demand to send the election results back on Jan. 6 while wearing pro-Trump cloth- cused urged the throng to advance on Mr. Caldwell later posted a Facebook against them states. to battleground states. ing and a ballistic vest and shouting for outnumbered U.S. Capitol Police offi cers. message and video: “Us storming the “Eisenhart and Munchel immediately As the Capitol siege began, Mr. Trump the crowd to break into the Capitol. They came with all the tools: bullhorns, castle. Please share. … I am such an follow behind the individuals pursu- tweeted at 2:24 p.m.: “Mike Pence didn’t On his website, he sells black-Antifa- guns, tactical vests, crowbars, batons, instigator!” ing the offi cers,” the document says. have the courage to do what should have type garb, and he often repeats the lingo body armor, gas masks, pepper spray, “Munchel and Eisenhart are seen holding been done to protect our Country and of Antifa and its “anti-fascist” reason camoufl age attire, Tasers and helmets. All the way from Georgia fl ex cuff s in each of their hands during our Constitution, giving States a chance for being. Near Congress, police found a GMC Mr. Calhoun, the lawyer from Ameri- the pursuit. The footage refl ects that both to certify a corrected set of facts, not the Under the Twitter handle @real- Sierra 1500 stocked with Molotov cock- cus, was more blunt with his plans for offi cers ultimately made good on their fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they jaydenx, Mr. Sullivan tweeted on Jan. 1: tails, an assault rifl e, handguns and am- visiting Washington. He began issuing escape to a lower level of the building, were asked to previously certify. USA “We need numbers to sho up No Fascist munition. Offi cers arrested owner Lon- messages in November, according to as well as Eisenhart then appearing to demands the truth!” in DC-March Against Fascism spread nie Coff man of Alabama. a witness. He clearly planned for an shout at the offi cers while leaning over The affidavit says Mr. Harkrider the word Comrades!” His hashtags were The Oath Keepers at the Virginia invasion. a bannister.” posted a photo with the caption: “We’re “F--k Trump” and “Antifa.” motel included Mr. Caldwell; Jessica The affi davit against him quotes Mr. The affi davit quoted an online Times in. 2 people killed already. We need all He heads a group called Insurgence Watkins, who said she commands the Calhoun as saying: “Some of you will of London story with the headline the patriots of this country to rally the USA and urged followers in another post Ohio Regular Militia; and Donovan live long enough to be exterminated with “Trump’s militias say they are armed f--k up and fi ght for our freedom or it’s to meet up on the Mall on Jan. 6. Crowl. extreme prejudice” and “it’s going to be and ready to defend their freedoms.” gone forever. Give us liberty, or give us Under his online name Jayden X, Mr. “Records obtained from Facebook hard to buy a beer when Democrats are Mr. Munchel was quoted as saying, death. We won’t stand for it.” Sullivan posted a video of himself on indicate that Caldwell was involved in being shot on site.” “We wanted to show that we’re willing The government charged Mr. Nich- YouTube on Jan. 6. planning and coordinating the January On the Parler messaging platform on to rise up, band together and fi ght if ols and Mr. Harkrider with conspiracy, The FBI affi davit cited his commands: 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol in which Jan. 5, he wrote: “Headed to D.C. to give necessary. Same as our forefathers, who violent entry and assaulting a federal “We about to burn this s--t down,” and Watkins, Crowl and other Oath Keeper the GOP some back bone — to let them established this country in 1776.” police offi cer “using a deadly or danger- “we got Trump out of offi ce … f-----g pull militia members participated,” the af- know this is their last chance to Stop His mother said: “This country was ous weapon.” him out of that s--t … we about to go get fi davit against them states. The Steal — or they are going to have founded on revolution. … I’d rather die that motherf----r.” On New Year’s Day, Mr. Crowl sent bigger problems than these coddled a 57-year-old woman than live under ‘Victory smoke in the Capitol’ The U.S. charged him with civil dis- a Facebook message to Mr. Caldwell: Antifa burning down their safe spaces. oppression. I’d rather die and would Mr. Pence’s vulnerability comes order and violent entry. A judge in Utah “Happy New Year to you Sir!! Guess I’ll DC announced it is ‘banning guns’ when rather fi ght.” through in another FBI affi davit, this one released him to house arrest with a be seeing you soon. Will probably call we storm the Capitol tomorrow. Very Prosecutors charged the pair, who on the actions of Dominic “Spaz” Pezzola number of restrictions, including staying you tomorrow … mainly because … Iike illegal. Whether the police can enforce shared addresses in Georgia and Florida, of Rochester, New York, identifi ed as a away from online postings and weapons. to know wtf plan is. You are the man their gun laws depends on how many with conspiracy and violent entry. member of the far-right Proud Boys. As for Mr. Coff man, the 70-year-old Commander.” armed Patriots show up. ” The bearded Mr. Pezzola is one of the Alabama man with a truck loaded with Mr. Caldwell said in a Facebook post On the day of the rally, Mr. Calhoun Assault on police more infamous of the day. His photo and 11 Molotov cocktails, he was indicted on that day that he had not heard from the posted on Facebook, “We’re going to get The Texas team of Ryan T. Nichols videos were splashed across news media. Jan. 11 by a Washington grand jury on 17 overall commander. “This one we are inside the Capitol before this ends.” and Alex K. Harkrider instigated the They showed him wielding a police illegal weapons charges. doing on our own,” he said. “We will link He posted his vision for the outcome. invasion and carried items that indicated shield to break out a Capitol window to A magistrate ordered him held with- up with the north carolina crew.” “Today the American People proved that a plan to break into the Capitol, accord- let in invaders. out bond. His next hearing date is sched- The FBI describes the Oath Keepers we have the power. We physically took ing to an affi davit. Mr. Nichols carried a Lighting a cigar in a video, he implies uled for Wednesday.

Mr. Matze, whose growing team num- users in recent days. PAR LER bered approximately 20 staff ers last Whether Parler has a next chapter From page A1 summer, was happy with the headache. will be determined by who authors the Parler had long spoiled for a fi ght with internet’s rules. If the Big Tech compa- Collecting extensive information about Big Tech, and it was beginning to make nies that deleted Parler remain in charge, users that can be used for commercial waves. then prospects for the company’s return or political purposes. Mr. Matze’s October prediction that in its previous form look dim. If lawmak- According to a cached version of Par- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s social media ers and regulators intervene to write new ler’s privacy policy updated in December, model “will lose within three years” to guidelines, Parler may need to play by a Parler said it collected a wide swath of Parler had barely registered in the tech diff erent set of rules before getting back personal information that included So- community. Facebook said it had 196 onto the fi eld. cial Security numbers, driver’s license million daily active users in the U.S. and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, New York numbers, passport numbers, bank ac- Canada during 2020’s third quarter, and Democrat and chair of the House Over- count numbers, credit card numbers and Twitter said it had 152 million users in the sight and Reform Committee, has re- much more. U.S. during the same time frame. quested that the FBI investigate Parler “Parler’s collection of highly sensitive Still, Parler’s sharp user growth drew and any role it may have played in the information like Social Security numbers attention. It also drew criticism. Liberal riot at the Capitol. and driver’s licenses to enable certain ASSOCIATED PRESS opponents of Mr. Trump accused Parler’s features is pretty far outside the norm Th e conservative-friendly social media platform Parler was booted off the internet on users of participating in the riot at the for social media platforms and not some- Jan. 11 because of accusations about ties to the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol. Capitol. The Southern Poverty Law Cen- DEATH NOTICE thing you see on Twitter or Facebook,” ter labeled Parler a “haven for far-right said Zach Graves, policy chief at Lincoln extremism” and a “haven for recruitment Network, a nonprofi t group focused on the French verb “to speak” — is untradi- Parler simultaneously sought to at- and promotion for the Jan. 6 pro-Trump bridging the gap between Silicon Valley tional. The company was born outside tract liberals but failed miserably. riot at the U.S. Capitol building.” and Washington. the Silicon Valley pipelines that created Parler off ered a $20,000 bounty for a Many users in the Parler community “This is something you might [see] the major social media players. blue-check-marked Twitter fi gure with were nowhere near the Capitol. where there’s a good regulatory compli- The Parler app went live in 2018 as 50,000 or more followers who identifi ed Oklahoma, West Virginia and Wyo- ance reason, such as showing your driv- the brainchild of software engineer John as a liberal to join Parler. While several ming were the states that had the most er’s license to get an account on ZipCar, Matze, Parler’s CEO, and conservative users applied, no one met Parler’s terms users relative to their populations, ac- or similarly on platforms like DraftKings donor Rebekah Mercer. The hard launch and the company ended the off er, said cording to a study by Global Wireless or PredictIt to verify your identity for to attract users coincided with the 2020 Parler Chief Operating Offi cer Jeff rey Solutions. GWS relied on an opt-in panel payments. But there’s no good reason for Conservative Political Action Conference Wernick. of 75,000 to 100,000 consumers that Parler to collect this information to, say, near Washington. Unable to make inroads on the left, measured Android smartphone users’ enable direct messages.” A Parler representative was sched- Parler became the digital refuge for mobile app usage and content, network Parler did not respond to The Wash- uled to speak at CPAC, but the company supporters of President Trump who performance and consumer perceptions. ington Times’ questions about data instead opted to work the corridors of were angry with Facebook and Twitter’s GWS found Parler users are more mining. power in Washington to attract big-name crackdowns on the president and his sup- likely to be White, 45 or older and upper- For Parler’s fans, the freedom from allies. porters and news stories that portrayed middle-class (based on college education censorship often trumps privacy On the Tuesday after CPAC weekend, Joseph R. Biden in a negative light. and a six-fi gure income) than the national concerns. Parler invited Trump administration of- Twitter took action against 40 of Mr. average. McWilliams, Big Tech’s battle with Parler has won fi cials, lawmakers, activists, journalists Trump’s posts in a seven-day span after The dominant personality trait among Elfrieda “Ella” it many conservative allies, including and others to a private briefi ng featuring the election. Facebook and Twitter re- the Parler users was their decision to Internet Accountability Project founder Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, in stricted the distribution of news sto- turn off Fox News. According to GWS Age 83 Mike Davis, who wants government the Russell Senate Offi ce Building. ries about foreign business deals by Mr. data, Parler users spent more time on the On January 9, 2021, Ella passed away intervention to dismantle the tech com- The Las Vegas-based company’s out- Biden’s son. NewsMax App than the FoxNews App peacefully in Seattle surrounded by fam- panies’ dominance in the marketplace. reach to Washington heavyweights put it The fallout from Facebook and Twit- after Election Day. Before the election, ily. Born on March 22, 1937, Ella was pre- “Big Tech monopolists collude to on conservatives’ radars, but its foothold ter’s crackdown drove millions of people they rarely, if ever, used NewsMax’s app. deceased by her loving husband, Hubert “Sonny” McWilliams. She was mother to cancel conservatives, tell us to ‘build on the right solidifi ed in the summer. The to Parler, pushing the app atop Apple’s Parler is now locking horns with Ama- Gabriela (Donald), Alice (Fred) and, Steven your own’ social media platforms, and site had an infl ux of 100,000 users in one App Store and the Google Play Store in zon in federal court and working to get its (Kim). Ella was also a grandmother of fi ve they collude to kill those like they are day in June, including high-profi le con- the days after the election. Approximately website fully back online. Parler’s users and, a great grandmother of twelve. In light doing to Parler,” said Mr. Davis. “Big Tech servatives such as Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas 4.5 million users fl ocked to Parler during are still searching for a digital home, but of health concerns, a family memorial will is a clear and present danger to the free Republican, after pro-Trump voice @ the weekend after the November election Signal, a secure messaging application, be held at a later date. market and free speech.” CarpeDonktum was banned by Twitter alone, according to the company. and Telegram, a cloud-based messaging Please sign the Guestbook at Much about Parler — the name is and surfaced on Parler. Parler’s networks were strained, and platform, have both reported infl uxes of www.legacy.com/washingtontimes A8 | NATION ☆ R MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 Nation

ENVIRONMENT facility near Parkersburg, West on one hand, and Chemours, Virginia. on the other, agree to a 50-50 BRIEFLY More than 3,500 individual split of certain expenses incurred class members who suff ered from over a term not to exceed 20 THE NATION DuPont, Chemours reach any of six diseases linked to PFOA years, or an aggregate $4 billion fi led individual personal injury of qualifi ed expense and escrow cases against DuPont. Those contributions. 2020 CENSUS deal over ‘forever chemicals’ cases have been centralized in Under an existing agreement Citizenship data is latest Ohio federal court. from 2019, DuPont and Corteva After three trials in which will each bear 50% of the fi rst $300 rollback of Trump eff orts New agreement resolves disputes over liabilities juries returned verdicts in favor million. After that, DuPont would The U.S. Census Bureau is of the plaintiff s, DuPont agreed be responsible for 71% and Cor- suspending eff orts to create BY RANDALL CHASE unit in 2015. DuPont, Chemours and Cor- in 2017 to settle the remaining teva for the remaining 29%. That neighborhood-level statistics

ASSOCIATED PRESS The chemicals at issue are teva, an independent public com- 3,500-plus cases. would bring DuPont’s share of the on the citizenship and age of known as per- and polyfl uoro- pany that was previously the ag- Since that time, more than potential $2 billion contribution residents, using 2020 census DOVER, DEL. | The Dupont Co. alkyl substances, or PFAS. They riculture division of DowDuPont, 100 post-settlement cases have from DuPont and Corteva to about data, in the latest rollback of and its spinoff business Chemours include perfl uorooctanoic acid, also have agreed to resolve about been fi led. The fi rst trial in those $1.36 billion. Corteva’s share would Trump administration census- have agreed to resolve legal dis- or PFOA, which was used in the 95 pending cases, as well as other cases resulted in a $50 million be about $640 million. related initiatives that critics putes over environmental liabilities production of Tefl on, and also unfi led matters, in multidistrict verdict for a man who developed The companies also agreed to feared would be used to favor for pollution related to human- have been used in fi refi ghting PFOA litigation in Ohio. The $83 testicular cancer, and a mistrial in establish a $1 billion maximum es- Republicans and White people made chemicals associated with an foam, water-repellent clothing million settlement will be split a consolidated case involving a crow account to address potential during the drawing of state and increased risk of cancer and other and many other household and roughly equally among the three woman with kidney cancer. future PFAS liabilities, with annual local districts. health problems. personal items. They sometimes companies. It does not include a “The agreement will provide contributions over eight years. As part of an order President The binding memorandum of are referred to as “forever chemi- case that resulted in a $50 million a measure of security and cer- After the expiration of the Biden signed Wednesday on understanding announced Friday cals” because of their longevity in jury verdict in March that DuPont tainty for each company and our arrangement, Chemours’ indem- the 2020 census, the Census comes just over a month after the environment. is appealing. respective shareholders using a nifi cation obligations under the Bureau said Friday that it would Delaware’s Supreme Court up- The memorandum resolves The Ohio verdict stemmed transparent process to address separation agreement would discontinue eff orts to create held the dismissal of a lawsuit legal disputes originating from from a class-action lawsuit in- and resolve any potential future continue unchanged, subject to citizenship tabulations at the alleging that DuPont massively the spinoff and establishes a cost- volving about 80,000 residents legacy PFAS matters,” the CEOs certain exceptions. Chemours city-block level using 2020 downplayed the cost of envi- sharing arrangement and escrow of Ohio and West Virginia who of the three companies said in a will waive legal claims regarding census data combined with ronmental liabilities imposed on account for potential future leg- drank water that was contami- joint statement. the 2015 spinoff , and pending ar- administrative records. Chemours when DuPont spun off acy PFAS liabilities arising out of nated by chemical releases from Under the cost-sharing ar- bitration regarding those claims — Associated Press its former performance chemicals pre-July 1, 2015, conduct. DuPont’s Washington Works rangement, DuPont and Corteva, will be dismissed. LOTTERY Michigan Mega Millions SECOND AMENDMENT ticket wins $1 billion DETROIT | Someone in Michigan bought the winning States eye allowing concealed carry without permits ticket for the $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot, which is the BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST homicides or violent crime. Utah third-largest lottery prize in U.S.

ASSOCIATED PRESS does not require a permit for guns history. carried openly. The winning numbers for SALT LAKE CITY | Republican In Tennessee, Republican Friday night’s drawing were 4, lawmakers in several more states lawmakers are expected to push 26, 42, 50 and 60, with a Mega want to loosen gun restrictions again to allow most adults 21 Ball of 24. The winning ticket by allowing people to carry con- and older to carry fi rearms — was purchased at a Kroger store cealed fi rearms without having to concealed or openly — without in the Detroit suburb of Novi, get a permit, continuing a trend a license that now requires a the Michigan Lottery said. that gun control advocates call background check and training. The Mega Millions top prize dangerous. Republican Gov. Bill Lee had been growing since Sept. 15, Fifteen states already allow backed the idea last year, though when a winning ticket was sold concealed carry without a permit, the proposal and others were put in Wisconsin. The lottery’s next and lawmakers in nine others on hold amid the pandemic. estimated jackpot is $20 million. have proposed allowing or ex- The push in Tennessee came — Associated Press panding the practice. GOP gov- after the GOP-dominant Gen- ernors are backing the changes eral Assembly relaxed the state’s OREGON in Utah and Tennessee. Another handgun law in 2020 by allowing Body of woman swept bill expanding permitless carry people to obtain a concealed- in Montana has passed the state carry-only handgun permit that away in mudslide found House. didn’t require them to demon- Sheriff ’s deputies and fi re- Most states require people to ASSOCIATED PRESS strate the ability to fi re a weapon. fi ghters on Saturday recovered do things like get weapons train- Utah is one of several more states weighing proposals this year that would allow people to carry concealed In Montana, the House re- the body of an Oregon woman ing and undergo a background guns without having to get a permit, a trend supporters say bolsters Second Amendment rights. cently passed a bill to allow peo- whose vehicle was swept away check to get a permit to carry a ple to carry concealed fi rearms in a deep mudslide during a gun hidden by a jacket or inside without a permit in most places. winter storm last week, authori- a purse. Groups like the National requirements are a frightening check or weapons course. The bill “I have that right to protect Similar bills that would allow ties said. Rifl e Association and state law- trend for Shannon Watts, founder does allow gun owners who want myself, the Constitution says we or expand concealed carry without Jennifer Camus Moore, a makers who support gun rights of the gun control group Moms to carry a concealed weapon out have the right. Why are we put- a permit have been introduced in registered nurse from Warren- argue those requirements are in- Demand Action. of state to get a permit to do so ting a barrier for law-abiding Texas, South Carolina, Florida, In- dale, was driving in the Colum- eff ective and undermine Second “It is dangerous to allow peo- after a background check and citizens?” said Rep. Walt Brooks, diana, Alabama and Georgia. bia River Gorge near the small Amendment protections. ple to carry hidden, loaded hand- safety course. the Republican lawmaker spon- In Texas, where the NRA plans community of Dodson when The proposed changes come guns possibly without a back- Newly elected Republican soring the bill that got an early to incorporate soon and where her SUV was buried under after gun sales hit historic lev- ground check or any training,” Gov. Spencer Cox has said he nod of approval from a House some lawmakers bring concealed about 15 feet of mud and rock. els last summer — refl ected in Ms. Watts said, adding that the supports the idea, in contrast committee Friday. The software handguns to work at the state The Multnomah County FBI background checks — amid annual rate of aggravated assaults to his predecessor and fellow company president has repre- Capitol, the Republican Party has Sheriff ’s Offi ce said road crews uncertainty and safety concerns with a fi rearm has increased 71% Republican Gary Herbert, who sented rural southern Utah for listed the issue as one of just eight used front loaders, dump trucks about the coronavirus pandemic, in Alaska since the state became vetoed a similar bill in 2013. about four years. legislative priorities. and other heavy equipment to the struggling economy and pro- the fi rst to allow concealed carry Supporters of the change Mr. Brooks pointed to a mul- The idea has failed to gain clear the edges of the debris tests over racial injustice. Since without a permit in 2003. argue that other state laws against tistate study published in 2018 traction for years, though, and fi eld as they tried to locate her then, a violent mob stormed the The proposal in Utah would such things as felons having guns by the Journal of the American with the pandemic promising to in the wet, unstable mud. U.S. Capitol. allow any U.S. citizen 21 and older and anyone carrying a fi rearm College of Surgeons that found be the predominant force in the — Associated Press Against that backdrop, the ef- to carry a concealed weapon with- while intoxicated are enough to loosening concealed carry per- upcoming session, its prospects forts to loosen concealed carry out the now-required background ensure guns are used safely. mit laws didn’t lead to more are once again uncertain. CALIFORNIA Authorities investigate blast at anti-gay church MEDIA EL MONTE | The FBI and local police are investigating an ex- plosion early Saturday at a Los Larry King, broadcasting staple for half-century, dies at 87 Angeles-area church that had been the target of protests for BY ANDREW DALTON Perot, who in 1992 announced “It’s time to hang up my nightly given the surname King by the its anti-LGTBQ message.

ASSOCIATED PRESS his presidential candidacy on Mr. suspenders.” station manager, who thought Offi cers responding around King’s show. Once the leader in cable TV Zeiger sounded “too Jewish.” 4:30 a.m. initially thought a van- LOS ANGELES | Larry King, Mr. King conducted an esti- news, Mr. King ranked third in his By the early 1960s, Mr. King dal had broken the windows of the suspenders-sporting every- mated 50,000 on-air interviews. time slot with less than half the landed at a much larger Miami First Works Baptist Church in man whose broadcast interviews In 1995, he presided over a Middle nightly audience than during his station, scored a newspaper col- El Monte, said Lt. Christopher with world leaders, movie stars East peace summit with Pales- peak year, 1998, when “Larry King umn and become a local celebrity Cano of the city’s police depart- and ordinary Joes helped defi ne tine Liberation Organization Live” drew 1.64 million viewers. himself. ment. Offi cers then noticed American conversation for a half- Chairman Yasser Arafat, King His approach to interviewing by Mr. King was signed in 1978 smoke coming from inside. century, died Saturday. He was 87. Hussein of Jordan and Israeli then felt dated in an era of edgy to host radio’s fi rst nationwide No injuries were reported, Mr. King died at Cedars-Sinai Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. questioning by other hosts. call-in show on the Mutual net- said FBI spokeswoman Laura Medical Center in Los Angeles, He welcomed a variety of guests He found a new sort of celeb- work. “The Larry King Show” Eimiller. his production company, Ora including the Dalai Lama, Eliza- rity on Twitter, attracting over was eventually heard on more Offi cials didn’t immediately Media, tweeted. No cause of beth Taylor, Mikhail Gorbachev, more than 2 million followers than 300 stations. detail the extent of the damage death was given, but a spokes- Barack Obama, Bill Gates and who mocked and loved him for A few years later, CNN inside the church east of down- person said Jan. 4 that Mr. King Lady Gaga. his esoteric style. founder Ted Turner off ered Mr. town Los Angeles. had COVID-19, received supple- Especially after he relocated “I’ve never been in a canoe. King a slot on his young network. FBI technicians are working mental oxygen and been moved to Los Angeles from Washing- #Itsmy2cents,” he said in a typical “Larry King Live” debuted in 1985, with the Los Angeles County out of intensive care. ton, “Larry King Live” frequently tweet in 2015. and became CNN’s highest-rated Sheriff ’s Department bomb A longtime nationally syndi- ended up in the thick of breaking Mr. King was born Lawrence program. Mr. King’s salary of squad and the El Monte Police cated radio host, he also was a celebrity news. The show fea- ASSOCIATED PRESS Harvey Zeiger in 1933, a son of $100,000 a year eventually grew Department during the initial nightly fi xture on CNN from 1985 tured Michael Jackson’s friends Larry King, host of “Larry King Jewish immigrants who ran a bar to more than $7 million. investigation, Ms. Eimiller said. through 2010 as the host of “Larry and family members talking Live” from 1985 to 2010 on and grill in Brooklyn. He was just 18 when he mar- She said it was premature to King Live.” He won many honors, about the singer’s death in 2009. CNN, has died. He conducted A fan of such radio stars as ried high school girlfriend Freda call the incident a hate crime, including two Peabody awards, “I don’t pretend to know it all,” an estimated 50,000 on-air Arthur Godfrey and comedians Miller in 1952. The marriage but “that’s always going to be during the show’s 25-year run. Mr. King said in a 1995 Associ- interviews during his career. Bob & Ray, Mr. King on reach- lasted less than a year. His last considered as a theory when a Mr. King set himself apart ated Press interview. “Not, ‘What ing adulthood set his sights on a marriage, in 1997, was to Shawn house of worship is attacked.” with the curiosity he brought to about Geneva or Cuba?’ I ask, broadcasting career. He headed Southwick, a country singer and Protesters have targeted the every interview, whether ques- ‘Mr. President, what don’t you After a gala week marking to Miami in 1957 and landed a job actress 26 years Mr. King’s junior. church headed by Pastor Bruce tioning the assault victim known like about this job?’ Or ‘What’s his 25th anniversary in 2010, he sweeping fl oors at a tiny AM radio The couple fi led for divorce in Mejia, who has condemned as the Central Park jogger or the biggest mistake you made?’ abruptly announced he was retir- station. When a deejay abruptly 2010, rescinded the fi ling, then same-sex relationships. billionaire industrialist H. Ross That’s fascinating.” ing from CNN, telling viewers, quit, he was put on the air — and fi led for divorce again in 2019. — Associated Press MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 ☆ ☆ R WORLD | A9 World

ARGENTINA those who cannot access abortion fought for legal abortion, often to communicate.” wearing green scarves at protests, BRIEFLY The Argentine Catholic vowed to “continue monitoring Church has repudiated the law compliance with the law.” THE WORLD Argentina’s new 14-week and conservative doctors’ and “We trust the feminist net- lawyers’ groups have urged re- works that we have built over sistance. Doctors and health decades,” said Laura Salome, one MEXICO abortion law goes into eff ect professionals can claim consci- of the movement’s members. 19 burned bodies found entious objection to performing A previous abortion bill was abortions, but cannot invoke the voted down by Argentine law- near Mexico-U.S. border Supporters acknowledge major obstacles ahead right if a pregnant person’s life or makers in 2018 by a narrow mar- CIUDAD VICTORIA | Mexican health is in danger. gin. But in the December vote authorities say they have found BY ALMUDENA CALATRAVA A statement signed by the it was backed by the center-left 19 shot and burned bodies near

ASSOCIATED PRESS Consortium of Catholic Doctors, government, boosted by the so- a town across the Rio Grande the Catholic Lawyers Corpora- called “piba” revolution, from the from Texas in an area that has BUENOS AIRES | Argentina’s tion and other groups called on Argentine slang for “girls,” and seen violent territorial dis- ground-breaking abortion law doctors and lawyers to “resist opinion polls showing opposition putes between organized crime went into force Sunday under the with nobility, fi rmness and cour- had softened. groups in recent years. watchful eyes of women’s groups age the norm that legalizes the The law’s supporters expect The Tamaulipas state pros- and government offi cials, who abominable crime of abortion.” backlash in Argentina’s conserva- ecutor’s offi ce said late Saturday hope to ensure its full implemen- The pro-life group Unidad tive provinces. In the northern that the bodies were discovered tation despite opposition from Provida also urged doctors, province of Salta, a federal judge along a dirt road outside Ca- some conservatives and church nurses and technicians to fi ght this week rejected a measure fi led margo after residents reported groups. for their “freedom of conscience” by a former legislator calling for a burning vehicle. Argentina became the largest and promised to “accompany the law to be suspended because Authorities found two nation in Latin America to legalize them in all the trials that are the legislative branch had ex- vehicles on fi re, one containing elective abortion after its Senate on necessary.” ceeded its powers. Opponents of four bodies and the other 15. Dec. 30 passed a law guaranteeing ASSOCIATED PRESS Under the law, private health abortion cite international trea- All had been shot, but shell the procedure up to the 14th week Argentina’s law to legalize elective abortion has gone into eff ect. Th e centers that do not have doctors ties signed by Argentina pledging casings were not found at the of pregnancy and beyond that in law allows abortions up to the 14th week of pregnancy and beyond that willing to carry out abortions to protect life from conception. site, leading investigators to cases of rape or when a pregnant in cases of rape or when a woman’s health is at risk. must refer people seeking abor- Ms. Gomez Alcorta said crimi- believe they were killed some- person’s health is at risk. tions to clinics that will. Any nal charges currently pending where else. The vote was hailed as a triumph public offi cial or health author- against more than 1,500 women A Camargo offi cial said for the South American country’s criticized the decision. Support- of us,” said Elizabeth Gomez ity who unjustifi ably delays an and doctors who performed abor- the killings occurred Friday feminist movement that could pave ers of the law say they expect Alcorta, Argentina’s minister of abortion will be punished with tions should be lifted. She said the but people had been afraid to the way for similar actions across lawsuits from pro-life groups in women, gender and diversity, imprisonment from three months number of women and doctors report them. the socially conservative, heavily Argentina’s conservative prov- who has acknowledged there will to one year. detained “was not that many,” but Camargo is a major smug- Roman Catholic region. inces and some private health be obstacles to the law’s full im- The National Campaign for didn’t provide a number. gling transit point for drugs But Pope Francis had issued clinics might refuse to carry out plementation across the country. the Right to Legal, Safe and Free “The Ministry of Women is and migrants. Organized a last-minute appeal before the the procedure. Ms. Gomez Alcorta said a Abortion, an umbrella group going to carry out its leadership” crime groups covet control of vote and church leaders have “Another huge task lies ahead telephone line will be set up “for for organizations that for years to end these cases, she said. stretches of the border because they make money off everything that crosses the border. Camargo is near the edge of BRITAIN territory historically controlled by the Gulf cartel. British doctors seek review of 12-week gap between shots — Associated Press ISRAEL BY JILL LAWLESS the effi cacy of its jab after such in order to study how many an- deaths is relatively small, and Israelis open embassy in ASSOCIATED PRESS a long gap. tibodies they are producing at fatality rates are aff ected by many The British Medical Associa- diff erent intervals, from 3 weeks things, including the care that UAE, expanding relations LONDON | A major British doc- tion on Saturday urged Britain’s to 24 months, to get an answer patients get and their age and JERUSALEM | Israel on Sun- tors’ group is says the United chief medical offi cer to “urgently to the question of what timing is health, beyond having COVID-19. day said it has opened its em- Kingdom’s government should review the U.K.’s current position best for the shots. Britain has recorded 95,981 bassy in the United Arab Emir- “urgently review” its decision of second doses after 12 weeks.” The doctors’ concerns came deaths among people who tested ates, following through on last to give people a second dose of In a statement, the association a day after government medical positive, the highest confi rmed year’s U.S.-brokered agreement the Pfi zer-BioNTech coronavi- said there was “growing concern advisers said there was evidence virus toll in Europe. to establish full diplomatic ties rus vaccine up to 12 weeks after from the medical profession re- that a new variant of the virus The U.K. is in a lockdown to with the Persian Gulf country. the fi rst, rather than the shorter garding the delay of the second fi rst identifi ed in southeast Eng- try to slow the latest surge of the Israel’s Foreign Ministry gap recommended by the manu- dose of the Pfi zer-BioNTech vac- land carries a greater risk of death virus, and the government says said the embassy would be facturer and the World Health cine as Britain’s strategy has be- than the original strain. an end to the restrictions will in a temporary offi ce while a Organization. come increasingly isolated from Chief scientifi c adviser Pat- not come soon. Pubs, restaurants, permanent location is prepared. The U.K., which has Europe’s many other countries.” rick Vallance said Friday “that gyms, entertainment venues and Eitan Na’eh, a veteran Israeli deadliest coronavirus outbreak, “No other nation has adopted ASSOCIATED PRESS there is evidence that there is many shops are closed, and peo- diplomat, will serve as the head adopted the policy in order to the U.K.’s approach,” Dr. Chaand Th e British Medical Association an increased risk for those who ple are required to stay largely of mission. give as many people as possible Nagpaul, chairman of the British urged Britain’s chief medical have the new variant,” which is at home. Foreign Minister Gabi Ash- a fi rst dose of vaccine quickly. Medical Association, told the offi cer to “urgently review the also more transmissible than the The British government is kenazi said the opening of the So far, almost 5.5 million BBC. U.K.’s current position of second original virus. He said the new considering tightening quaran- new embassy would allow the people have received a shot of He said the WHO had recom- doses aft er 12 weeks.” strain might be about 30% more tine requirements for people ar- broadening of what already are either a vaccine made by U.S. mended that the second Pfi zer deadly, but stressed that “the riving from abroad. Already trav- warm ties between Israel and drugmaker Pfi zer and Germany’s vaccine shot could be given up to evidence is not yet strong” and elers must self-isolate for 10 days, the UAE. BioNTech or one developed by six weeks after the fi rst but only director of Public Health Eng- more research is needed. but enforcement is patchy. Au- The UAE Cabinet on Sunday U.K.-Swedish pharmaceutical “in exceptional circumstances.” land, defended the decision as Research by British scientists thorities are considering requir- approved the establishment of giant AstraZeneca and Oxford “I do understand the trade-off “a reasonable scientifi c balance advising the government said al- ing arrivals to stay in quarantine an embassy in Tel Aviv in Israel, University. and the rationale, but if that was on the basis of both supply and though initial analyses suggested hotels, a practice adopted in other state-run WAM news agency AstraZeneca has said it be- the right thing to do then we also protecting the most people.” that the strain did not cause more countries, including Australia. reported. lieves a fi rst dose of its vaccine would see other nations following Researchers in Britain have severe disease, several more re- “We may need to go further to Since formally establish- off ers protection after 12 weeks, suit,” Dr. Nagpaul said. begun collecting blood samples cent ones suggest it might. protect our borders,” Prime Min- ing ties in September, the but Pfi zer says it has not tested Yvonne Doyle, medical from newly vaccinated people However, the number of ister Boris Johnson said Friday. two countries already have established direct fl ights and exchanged numerous trade delegations, while thousands of ZIMBABWE Israeli tourists have visited the UAE. Fourth Zimbabwean cabinet member dies of COVID-19 — Associated Press MEXICO BY FARAI MUTSAKA In poor areas such as Chitung- Lopez Obrador announces ASSOCIATED PRESS wiza, the sprawling residential area about 18 miles southeast he is infected with virus HARARE, ZIMBABWE | Four Zim- of Harare, grave diggers are MEXICO CITY | Mexican Presi- babwean Cabinet ministers have overwhelmed. dent Andres Manuel Lopez Ob- died of COVID-19, three within “Coronavirus, this is something rador said Sunday he has tested the past two weeks, highlighting I used to read about in the news, positive for COVID-19 and that a resurgence of the disease that is [but] it is here on our doorsteps the symptoms are mild. sweeping through this southern now. People are dying,” said Coleta Mexico’s president, who has African country. Moyana, a Chitungwiza resident. been criticized for his handling President Emmerson Mnan- Officials are seeking more of his country’s pandemic and gagwa said the coronavirus is burial space to accommodate for not setting an example of reaping a “grim harvest” in the rising numbers of deaths. prevention in public, said on his country. Many people are not being offi cial Twitter account that he “The pandemic has been in- tested, nor are they going to hos- is under medical treatment. discriminate. There are no spec- pitals for help, said a doctors’ “I regret to inform you that tators, adjudicators, no holier association, noting that on some I am infected with COVID-19,” than thou. No supermen or su- days, nearly half of COVID-19 he tweeted. “The symptoms perwomen. We are all exposed,” deaths happen outside hospitals. are mild but I am already under Mr. Mnangagwa said on a nation- ASSOCIATED PRESS “Those undiagnosed cases are medical treatment. As always, I ally televised address. Pallbearers carry the casket of Dr. Ellen Gwaradzimba, a cabinet minister who died of COVID-19. Zimbabwe super-spreading,” the Zimbabwe am optimistic. We will all move Mr. Mnangagwa presided at President Emmerson Mnangagwa urged people to wear masks, social distance and sanitize. Senior Hospital Doctors Associa- forward.” the burial of one Cabinet minister tion said earlier this month. Jose Luis Alomia Zegarra, last week, shortly after the death “COVID-19 is aff ecting every- Mexico’s director of epidemiol- of the foreign minister was an- government of neglecting the African countries, initially re- Jan. 23, up from the slightly more one, but it is not aff ecting every- ogy, said Mr. Lopez Obrador nounced. Then came the death public hospitals, where many ill corded low numbers of COVID-19 than 10,000 cases and 277 deaths one equally. It has entrenched had a “light” case of COVID-19 of the transport minister. Several with COVID-19 cannot get oxy- but recently has experienced a at the beginning of December, and exacerbated the extreme and was “isolating at home.” other high-profi le politicians and gen needed to survive. Many of spike in cases. There are fears that according to government fi gures. inequalities and injustices that Mexico’s president wrote prominent Zimbabweans also the country’s elites are treated at a new, more infectious variant Zimbabwe’s rate of deaths by existed before the pandemic,” Itai that while he recovered Interior have died recently. expensive private facilities or fl y of the virus came to the country COVID-19 has doubled recently, Rusike, director of the Harare- Secretary Olga Sanchez Cor- The opposition accuses the gov- out of the country for health care. when scores of thousands of Zim- with the seven-day rolling aver- based organization, Community dero would be taking over for ernment of using COVID-19 as a The government says it is babweans living in South Africa age of daily deaths rising over the Working Group on Health, told him in his daily news confer- weapon by detaining its members doing its best, and that despite returned home for the holiday past two weeks from 0.10 deaths The Associated Press on Sunday. ences, at which he usually of parliament, offi cials and other the wide political and economic season. per 100,000 people on Jan. 9 to “The majority of poor Zim- speaks for two hours without critics in overcrowded jails where diff erences, fi ghting the virus is The country of 15 million 0.28 deaths per 100,000 people babweans without medical in- breaks each weekday. the disease is easily transmitted. everyone’s war. people recorded a total of 31,007 on Jan. 23, according to Johns surance end up dying at home,” — Associated Press Critics also accuse the Zimbabwe, like many other cases, including 974 deaths, on Hopkins University. he said. A10 | WORLD ☆ R MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 U.S.– Russia Crosstalk

America through the looking glass: Who’s Russian now? By Julia Gorin Americans. The fl uidity of the And so we fi nd ourselves in all they’re doing. The “enemy” the country fi nally turn inward Russia-to-Republican gear shift is 2021, with Fox News’ Mike Tobin should not have a platform, and and look at ourselves and have o agape was the world breathtaking. And so we get head- reporting, “The lockdown in D.C. if it does, that’s a legitimate target the fi ght we’ve been avoiding by at the Jan. 6 spectacle lines like this one from The Daily was like nothing ever seen for (ergo, Parler’s troubles). And if pointing in Russia’s direction, or of conservatives setting Beast: “Can U.S. Spy Agencies an inauguration before. Twenty- “enemy mouthpieces” are legiti- will this go doubly bad, wherein Sthemselves up for moral Stop White Terror: Other coun- fi ve miles of fencing and 25,000 mate targets, then of course, at we resolve nothing internally equivalence with the left that tries have domestic spy agencies troops on the ground from the the very least, Republicans must and paper over it temporarily by everyone forgot to invoke the to fi ght extremists at home. Does National Guard.” (Suddenly, walls be stripped of a voice for their continuing to poke Russia and invisible hand of Russia-Putin. America need one, too?” Jeff Stein and policing are good.) “propaganda.” By the corporate stoke World War III, so that we Unless you count Hillary Clin- and those who conspired with writes, “The pro-Trump fanatics It was a show of force by the tech giants to whom censorship might simulate unity? ton and Nancy Pelosi. “I would the domestic terrorists should be stormed and trashed the citadel of consolidated Woke regime: “We has been outsourced by lawmak- Indeed, we may be only weeks love to see [President Trump’s] expelled immediately. … Elected American democracy, nearly ex- rule now; you are traitors who will ers dog-whistling, “Police your away from President Biden “uni- phone records to see whether he leaders should … advocat[e] new ecuting what al-Qaeda had failed be treated as such.” And Trump- forums!” fying” the country through war. was talking to Putin the day the criminal laws at the state and to do: destroy the US Capitol.” supporting National Guardsmen Of course, all this would mean Will conservatives let themselves insurgents invaded our Capitol,” federal levels that hold white su- Then there was Mr. Biden need not apply. Indeed, a dozen we’re in a war, a cold civil war, be recruited again, and as usual Mrs. Clinton told Speaker Pelosi premacists accountable and track himself at his inauguration. “In were removed for social media as Louis Marano called it last let the destructive impulses of on her Jan. 18 podcast. Mrs. Pelosi the activities of extremists. Twitter the same breath as he called for posts, with Rep. Steve Cohen, week on “American Greatness,” the left become “bipartisan” off ered, “I don’t’ know what Putin and other companies … will have ‘unity’ and ‘healing,’ wrote jour- Tennessee Democrat, calling any explaining that “conservatives policy? (Yugoslavia, Syria, Rus- has on him politically, fi nancially to do more.” nalist and blogger Nebojsa Malic, Trump supporters among them have lost. Every U.S. institution sia, climate change, COVID-19 or personally, but what happened The coupling of White suprem- “Joe Biden denounced his op- “suspect” and in need of vetting. is dominated by cultural Marx- lockdowns, etc.) last week was a gift to Putin, be- acy and Russia is hardly unique to position as ‘domestic terrorists’ The same Steve Cohen who in ists, their fellow travelers, their It’s quite something to use cause Putin wants to undermine Hillary Clinton. Where you see and Nazis. Even before he gets 2018 tweeted, “Where are our supplicants, stooges or useful non-communist Russia to sow democracy in our country and one mentioned, you see the other. sworn in, his party is using the military folks?” hinting for a mili- idiots. Common-sense assump- communism here. Russia watches throughout the world, and these To wit, a random article in a ran- Capitol unrest to criminalize po- tary coup against Trump for not tions that held for 4,000 years as we regress to progressivism people, unbeknownst to them dom issue of The New York Times litical dissent in America. Almost buying into the intel on Russian now are taboo. What was ac- 30 years after we dismantled maybe, are Putin puppets. … So, (found when unwrapping a mug every single mainstream outlet election meddling. “The Com- cepted wisdom until 15 minutes theirs, what Jan. 6 misguidedly yes, we should have a 9/11 com- purchased at Goodwill) had these is rushing to interview ‘national mander in Chief is in the hands ago will get you fi red, ostracized, aimed to prevent. The diff erence mission, and there is strong sup- two paragraphs on Sept. 24, 2020: security experts’ and ‘extremism of our enemy!” barred from earning a living, is the communists killed more port in the Congress to do that.” “Mr. [Chad] Wolf’s confi rmation researchers,’ who are selling the Former CIA Director John possibly divorced and estranged people than will be killed here, The thread didn’t seem to gain hearing [as Homeland Security line that a new War on Terror is O. Brennan went on MSNBC from your kids. but they emerged still being Rus- much traction nationally, and secretary] … came amid allega- needed, right here at home, with and used all the angry-children- “It’s ‘Lord of the Flies,’ and sians, Poles, Serbs, Ukrainians, that’s because the ultimate tar- tions from current and former fellow Americans as the enemy.” approved buzzwords: “Members conservatives are Piggy. It’s ‘Chi- Azerbaijanis, Croats and so on. get — the endgame of the Russia members of his department that There were warning signs that of the Biden team … are now natown,’ Jake, but we can’t just Here, they’ll accelerate the defi xation — brought itself within the agency had mishandled or Republicans were to be bigger moving in laserlike fashion to try forget it and walk away. There’s mographic shift, turning America reach: American conservatives, downplayed the rising threats of enemies than jihad, cartels and to uncover as much as they can no place to go. … Conservatives into a land of squabbling tribes, in today known as “white suprema- Russian interference and violent assorted criminals (whom we’ve about what looks very similar are an occupied population in agreement on only one thing: The cists” and “conspiracy theorists,” White supremacy. … The depart- duly been releasing while jail- to insurgency movements: reli- their own country.” Old America was racist and mali- have now been upgraded to “do- ment’s former intelligence chief, ing conservatives and COVID gious extremists, authoritarians, Similarly, Mr. Malic, an en- cious and had to be destroyed. mestic terrorists.” Brian Murphy, claimed that the skeptics). Back in 2009 a Home- fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, dangered RT journalist by the We will be left with just the That the Russia hunt has been acting secretary … directed him land Security Department report even libertarians.” looks of it, wrote, “Just look at trappings of America, such as the in large part a sublimation, a to hold back reports that warned warned of “the possibility of vio- Local network affi liates fed the glamour photos of House Capitol building, behind whose temporary fi ller, for the hunt for of white supremacist extremism lence by unnamed ‘right-wing ex- us “the harrowing stories of D.C. Speaker Nancy Pelosi reviewing stately skirts Democratic law- “red” Americans was laid bare and Russian attempts to denigrate tremists’ concerned about illegal police offi cers attacked during the National Guard troops at the makers hide as they desecrate in the immediate aftermath of the mental health of Joseph R. immigration, increasing federal the hostile takeover of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Does she it daily, inverting what it stands the Capitol occupation. Within Biden, Jr.” power, restrictions on fi rearms, Capitol.” Hostile takeover. Were look scared for her life — as the for and selling out the country. hours, Twitter users’ accounts Just to the right of that article abortion and the loss of U.S. sov- we treated to harrowing police congressional Democrats have It’ll still look like America but were getting shut down by the was one summing up a Senate Re- ereignty, and singles out return- testimonials from six months claimed in the aftermath of the will in fact be the distorted dop- thousands. No sooner did they publican investigative report into ing war veterans as particular (and counting) of violent nation- ‘insurrection’ last week — or pelganger we’ve been cultivating. migrate to Parler than Amazon Biden-Ukraine corruption, read- threats,” WorldNetDaily reported wide riots? like a leader of the winning fac- “So now it’s rightists who booted Parler off its server. No ing, “Andrew Bates, a spokesman then. Around that time, a report “The team around [Mr. Biden] tion relishing her triumph? … dream of revolution — or resto- sooner did Parler secure a new for Mr. Biden’s campaign, accused issued by the Missouri Informa- who are radicals, who believe if Meanwhile, the Republicans who ration,” Mr. Marano continues. server than Rep. Carolyn Malo- [the homeland security panel’s Re- tion Analysis Center warned law they could exterminate Republi- opposed the impeachment … kept “For those who are serious, take ney, New York Democrat, asked publican chairman, Ron] Johnson enforcement agencies to “watch cans, that would be one way to get invoking Lincoln, all about ‘mal- a tip from the Trotskyites of 1976. the FBI to investigate the social of subsidizing ‘a foreign attack for suspicious individuals who to unity,” Newt Gingrich told Sean ice towards none’ and ‘charity for Organize, network, plan, but keep media site for “Russian ties.” against the sovereignty of our may have bumper stickers for Hannity on Thursday. “As a New all.’ Supposedly a plea for unity, it quiet. … Even yard signs and In a Washington Post editorial elections with taxpayer dollars’ by third-party political candidates York Times columnist wrote this it sounds unmistakably as a plea bumper stickers are unnecessary a week earlier, Mrs. Clinton fo- promulgating ‘a long-disproven, such as Ron Paul, Bob Barr and morning, if Biden really wanted for mercy from the vanquished.” giveaways. … Be careful about cused on the fl ip side of the Russia hard-core right wing conspiracy Chuck Baldwin” and “watch out unity, he would start by lynching The sooner the right acknowl- who you trust. … Assume three- card, white supremacy: “Trump theory’ about the former vice for individuals with ‘radical’ ide- Vice President Pence.” edges this — and what the game letter agencies will penetrate ran for president on a vision of president. … [Senate Democratic ologies based on Christian views.” So this kind of speech is good was really about — the sooner your organizations. Your own America where whiteness is val- leader Charles E. Schumer said the By 2016, when a Muslim killed enough for the “Paper of Record” it can fi ght back and stop falling government will try to sting and ued at the expense of everything report read ‘as if Putin wrote it, not 50 at a gay nightclub in Orlando, when it comes from the cor- for the Russia distraction. The entrap you. … Retain good law- else …,” she said. “By the time he United States senators.’” Florida, we saw Presidential can- rect side, as it is for Twitter and question is, with the “real enemy’ yers. They’re coming after you. lost in 2020, he had whipped a It’s as if there had been a man- didate Hillary Clinton join the Facebook, but not when it comes in hand, will the Democrats be Don’t make it easier for them.” dangerous element of our country ual: Incite the country against LGBTQ community in marching from the “wrong” side. And why satiated, away from continuing ⦁ Julia Gorin was a Soviet re- into a frenzy. … I believe he should Russia, then commingle Repub- behind a banner that read, “Re- should it be? If the oath of public their pursuit of the Russian decoy fusenik who came to the U.S. in be impeached. Members of Con- licans with Russia — and voila, publican Hate Kills.” Two months offi ce is to defend the Constitu- — the conservative proxy they 1976. She is editor of “Hillarisms: gress who joined him in subvert- you’ve got the nation already later, the killer’s father attended tion “against all enemies, foreign managed to dupe conservatives The Unmaking of the First Female ing our democracy should resign, primed to turn on their fellow her rally. and domestic,” by golly, that’s into cannibalizing? That is, can President.”

Can the CIA resuscitate U.S.-Russian relations? By Edward Lozansky speaker in April 2009 during one of our U.S.-Russia forums on owadays, when some- Capitol Hill, indicating several thing bad happens in areas where the U.S. and Russia America, the popular could work together to rebuild Ngame in Washington the bilateral relationship. Unfor- is to make bets on how fast Rus- tunately, only two of these ideas sia and Vladimir Putin will be have been implemented. accused of being responsible. First is the New START treaty Therefore, it was no surprise to FBI and the Offi ce of the Director reducing and limiting strategic of- hear exactly that about the Jan. 6 of National Intelligence said there fensive nuclear arms. This treaty events on Capitol Hill. was “no intelligence to support” was signed on April 8, 2010, in One could obviously dismiss this claim. Moreover, Mr. Putin Prague and entered into force on Hillary Clinton, who apparently himself said that he does not see Feb. 5, 2011. It is due to expire in a still suff ers from 2016 sore loser’s any criminality in Hunter’s busi- couple of weeks, but it looks like syndrome, when she said she ness. Some took this statement as both countries may be moving would “love” to look at Presi- a message to Washington that the in the right direction to extend dent Trump’s phone records to Russian president is looking for it. This would be the correct see “whether he was talking to the opening of a dialogue with the move. A second one was Rus- Putin the day that the insurgents new administration, even though sia’s entry into the World Trade invaded our Capitol.” However, it’s obvious that no one in this Organization. it is no laughable matter when town is interested. All other projects proposed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, No. Needless to say, all those who Mr. Burns in 2009, including the 3 in the U.S. political hierarchy, naively expected some sort of Obama-Medvedev Commission enthusiastically endorsed Hill- Obama-like “reset,” or at least a to search for mutually benefi cial ary by saying that “Russia has “rethink” leading to a discussion cooperation in many other areas, something on Trump. There is of how to reverse the continuous were nonstarters because of the no other explanation why he is sliding — in the words of growing events in Libya, Syria and, espe- Putin’s handmaid … and these numbers of U.S. foreign policy cially, Ukraine. people, unbeknownst to them, experts — to nuclear catastrophe ASSOCIATED PRESS At the end of his speech, Mr. maybe, are Putin puppets. They are extremely disappointed. Russian President Vladimir Putin has little apparent reason to “reset” relations with the U.S. and avoid a Burns said something that is rele- were doing Putin’s business when So far, the outlook for U.S.- looming disaster with President Biden in offi ce, other than the nomination of William J. Burns as CIA director. vant today: “While the challenges they did that at the incitement of Russian relations are grim, es- are complex and demanding, it is an insurrection by the president pecially with Mr. Biden’s most vital to get U.S.-Russia relations of the United States.” At the end provocative poke into the bear’s European allies over their lack that Mr. Biden’s commingling of director of the CIA. right. … It is up to the rest of us, of the conversation, both ladies eyes: his nomination of Victo- of enthusiasm for anti-Russia foreign policy with his family’s That agency usually is not both in and outside of govern- agreed that it is the time to form ria Nuland, mother of the 2014 sanctions. business in Ukraine, which even known for promoting world ment, to translate that agenda a 1/6 commission to fi nd Russia’s Maidan coup in Ukraine, for the It’s reasonable to ask how Ms. many State Department offi cials peace, but Mr. Burns was also a into practical results.” role in what happened that day, senior position of undersecretary Nuland’s return to Foggy Bottom have criticized. president of the Carnegie Endow- Who knows — with Mr. Burns in their minds, to 9/11. of state for political aff airs. in an even more powerful posi- If one looks at the list of ment for International Peace and, as CIA chief, might that spy out- Add to this President Biden’s In 2014, Ms. Nuland, then tion can ameliorate the current other Biden Cabinet nomina- in the words of a retired clandes- fi t earn a Nobel Peace Prize? It own negative rhetoric about Rus- assistant secretary of state for crisis with Russia or restore U.S.- tions, there are hardly any folks tine services offi cer and former would look great in a display case sia during his terms in the Sen- European and Eurasian aff airs, EU relations supposedly ruined who might encourage the presi- Moscow CIA station chief Daniel at the CIA Museum in Langley. ate, as vice president and even oversaw U.S. eff orts to encourage by Mr. Trump. dent to avoid a looming disaster. Hoff man, “Burns knows Russia Unfortunately, the museum is as president-elect, when he said a violent street insurrection in Let’s remember that Mr. The one exception may be for- inside out, has been immersed not open to the public but can be the stories about his son Hunter’s Kyiv that was far deadlier than Obama made Mr. Biden a point mer Deputy Secretary of State in Russian language, culture and accessed online. laptop were a Russian disinfor- 1/6 and to appoint members of man in Ukraine and that the re- and former U.S. Ambassador to history — and that will be critical ⦁ Edward Lozansky is presi- mation scheme. This is despite a post-coup Cabinet while using sults with him at the “head of Russia William J. Burns, who to Biden.” dent of American University in rare instance in which both the expletive rhetoric toward our the table” were dismal. Add to was nominated for the post of I recall Mr. Burns, as a keynote Moscow. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 ☆ R LIFE | A11

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 25). You’ll partner with two ENTERTAINMENT types: those as adventurous and daring as you, and those who have an entirely diff erent view from yours who can show you sides of life and various options that you wouldn’t ‘No Man’s Land’ offers uneven western thrills have seen on your own. Life is not a game, but there are competitive aspects at play that you’ll do well to embrace. BY LINDSEY BAHR in the middle of the night. Bill Greer Rio Grande. siblings wanted to make a ﬁ lm

Libra and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 24, ASSOCIATED PRESS (Frank Grillo) and his son Lucas For a kid who has grown up on a about hope, even as “the world is 31, 1, 4 and 16. (Alex MacNicoll) have their guns small ranch, Jackson is shockingly growing apart” and “xenophobia ARIES (March 21-April 19). The very nature of leader- Border tensions are boiled down drawn on the family, who are un- inept at survival skills, drinking and prejudice are abundant,” the ship is to head into the unknown while acting as though to two families in “No Man’s Land,” armed and panicked. The Greers stagnant water, being a little too director wrote in a statement. you do, in fact, know a lot. Were you to act otherwise, no an uneven independent thriller with speak no Spanish and don’t seem trusting of everyone he encoun- And indeed, “No Man’s Land” one would follow. People are counting on you. Steel up. some redeeming qualities. all that interested in the fact that ters and sleeping in random barns is less about revenge than it is March forward. Its heart and homages to classic Gustavo (Jorge A. Jimenez) speaks along the way. It’s also somewhat about empathy and atonement, TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The westerns are in the right place even perfect English. hard to believe that he has not in but I’m not sure Jackson was the HOLIDAY scene has become boring. Why? Is it if the work as a whole is neither as The shouting continues and his 20 some years picked up even best point of focus. He is a nice- MATHIS because restraint was called for and is impactful nor as epic the fi lmmakers things go south quickly when the one word of Spanish, but perhaps looking kid with a lot to learn, but enacted? Or is it because no one has were striving for. other son, Jackson (Jake Allyn), the fi lmmakers are just trying to also a little dim-witted and dull. HOROSCOPE taken the initiative to face challenges The fi lm sets up two families on dashes into the situation to help and belabor the point of intolerance. He is neither hero nor anti-hero, with creativity? In the latter case, either side of the border. The Greers ends up shooting and killing Gus- On his journey to nowhere, he’s just a victim of the increas- you’re the one for the job. are American ranchers whose prop- tavo’s young son Fernando (Alessio Jackson gets a lot of charity from ingly improbable and sometimes GEMINI (May 21-June 21). More is not better, and better erty exists in no man’s land, north Valentini) in the chaos. Lucas also strangers, including a wealthy downright silly plot. is not more. You’ll love how free and light you feel as life of the Rio Grande but south of the gets shot. rancher with a stunning daughter As far as the performances go, refl ects this truth to you today. In one gesture, you will let fences. It’s a fi ne set-up as Jackson is (Esmeralda Pimentel) who let him the most compelling ones are from go of several small burdens. The Mexican family — they don’t the son who is supposed to get stay and work for a while. And he Mr. Lopez and Mr. Jimenez, who CANCER (June 22-July 22). Every time you choose to do get a last name — are just hop- out. He’s been recruited to play starts to realize that his neighbors don’t get nearly enough to do. The something without knowing how it will turn out, you’re being ing to start a new life in America. minor league baseball in New across the border are people too story would have benefi ted from brave. Joining the game, starting the project or investing in the But they have misfortune to cross York. His father is prepared to take and not nuisances to shoo away a little more Gustavo and a little venture are all possibilities that beckon your bravery. through the Greers’ on a night that the blame, but Ramirez (George with guns and hate. Oh, and he’s less Jackson. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Attraction causes you to say and they’ve decided to patrol their lands. Lopez), the Texas Ranger who also being hunted by Gustavo Conor Allyn is clearly a tal- do things you weren’t expecting to. You’ll make a commit- They’ve been frustrated that their stumbles on the scene who also and a local tough, Luis (Andres ented director and has a lot of ment and keep it. The commitment doesn’t seem that big. cattle keep getting out when their somehow does not speak Spanish, Delgado). reverence for the western genre, This is absolutely how big things start. fences are cut. suspects the cover up. When he “No Man’s Land” was written but for as good and lofty as it’s VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will extend your tender And about 30 minutes in, things comes to arrest him, Jackson and by Mr. Allyn and directed by his intentions are, “No Man’s Land” heart outside yourself and empathize with those who need come to a head in a tense showdown his horse Sundance fl ee across the brother Conor. The Texas-born comes up short. their pain to be seen and heard — more comfortable than focusing on your own feelings. You’ll get around to that when you’re ready. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You can be doing everything the others are doing, all that’s expected and more, and still Mom can’t reconcile son’s remarriage after his affair somehow feel like you’re off track. Take this intuitive nudge as an opportunity for deeper noticing. DEAR ABBY: My son had a so furious with my son for this new Mrs., especially if you prefer stay-at-home order and how much SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). People say, “You remind yearlong aff air with his wife’s selfi sh, egregious act I don’t to arrange for your grandchildren I would appreciate his wearing me of …” out of a desire to make a connection that brings best friend, which started when even like seeing him. I don’t and the daughter-in-law you loved them, but he still wears them only you into their understanding. Hopefully you will fi nd the the two families took vacations know what to do. Any advice? to have those assets. occasionally. attempt endearing even though you are so unique that together. My husband and I — MOTHER OF A CHEATER DEAR ABBY: Aft er living with I feel disrespected because he comparisons are absurd. have always been close to our DEAR MOTHER: Depending my husband’s gradual hearing isn’t willing to do this small thing SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There’s no manual daughter-in- upon the child custody arrange- loss for several years and his to make both our lives easier dur- for what you’re doing, but you’ll go on anyway, solving one ABIGAIL law and our ment between your son and his refusal to get hearing aids, I ing this period of confi nement. problem at a time. Eventually, the larger issues get solved. VAN BUREN grandchil- ex-wife, you may not have to fi nally asked him to get them How do you suggest I explain this CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). We all have limited dren, ages spend much time with the happy as a birthday gift to me. He to him so he “hears” me? — STILL experience and perception. Your desire to see beyond what DEAR ABBY 6 and 10, as newlyweds. Because you love agreed, and I expected that he FRUSTRATED IN CALIFORNIA you could yesterday is more than most people will aspire well as our your former daughter-in-law, see would wear them once he got DEAR STILL FRUSTRATED: to and will make all the diff erence in your experiences and son. The di- her as often as you wish and in- them. When he does, it greatly This may not be a matter of your soul growth. vorces are fi nal now, and the clude her in celebrations. Refrain improves his hearing. Instances husband “tuning you out.” Have AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You have not been left lovers are married. from acting out in anger. Be polite of my having to repeat myself you asked him WHY he doesn’t out of the information loop; you just have your sources Abby, we can’t stand the new to your son’s new wife. Say noth- diminish noticeably. But he sel- wear the hearing aids? Could it be on mute so that you may keep some semblance of control wife. We abhor the deceit, the ing you might later regret. You dom wears them when he’s at they are uncomfortable and need over your environment. Smart! Otherwise, the distractions betrayal and the pain she and do not have to love — or even home with me. adjusting? Is inserting the batter- would be endless! our son have caused. Now he like — the woman. I mentioned to him several ies diffi cult because they are so PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Assumptions are the enemy is demanding that we accept As to what happens to your es- times how important it was to tiny? Is he bothered by the ampli- of learning. The assumed knowledge fi lls the slot, making her. We don’t want to abandon tate in the event of your and your me, then gave up. I managed fi ed background noise? Once you it impossible for new possibilities to reside there. There’s our daughter-in-law, and I can’t husband’s death, this is a discus- to deal with it until the pan- know why he is resistant, you can genius in the mental fl exibility to upend knowledge and bear the thought of her and sion you should have with your demic forced us to stay home so consult the doctor who prescribed playfully move it around. our grandchildren’s inheritance lawyer. You are under no obliga- much of the time. I brought it up the devices. CREATORS.COM going to the new wife. Also, I am tion to reward your son and the again recently, referencing the ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

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VIRGINIA Virginia unlikely to see massive changes in redistricting

Simon, Fairfax Democrat, said that while state’s population is evenly distributed in the 2021 election. Population stayed relatively static population shifts might not be signiﬁ - among the districts. Mr. Barker, who played a key role in cant, that won’t automatically translate In past decades, the Census Bureau drawing the state Senate maps in 2010, BY MATTHEW BARAKAT some of the fastest growing suburbs in to a simpler job for the commission. He has given Virginia and New Jersey, the provided some hope it could be done.

ASSOCIATED PRESS the country. said the commission is tasked with draw- other state with 2021 legislative races, an He told the commission that a member The relative stability in population ing fair lines under criteria very diff erent early release of population data so the of President Biden’s transition team A relatively static population means means that redrawing the legislative from the partisan motivations that drove new lines can be drawn in time. reached out to him. He said the Biden Virginia’s legislative maps will be less boundaries “will not be as diffi cult to do past redistricting. This year, though, census data has team is well aware of Virginia’s needs, aff ected by redistricting than any time as in the past when there have been these “The old maps were drawn on old been delayed by lawsuits, diffi culties and he urged the feds to provide Virginia since World War II, according to a lead- radical shifts,” Mr. Barker said. criteria,” Mr. Simon said. completing the count during the corona- its full data by mid-April to early May, ing member of the state’s new redistrict- Mr. Barker is one of 16 members on The 16-member commission is com- virus pandemic and battles over whether if possible. ing commission. the newly created Virginia Redistrict- prised of equal numbers of Democrats the census should address citizenship Mr. Simon, though, was pessimistic State Sen. George Barker, Fairfax ing Commission. Voters established the and Republicans. It includes eight leg- issues. That has called into question about meeting the timeline that would Democrat, told commission members at commission in a referendum last fall. islators and eight citizens nominated whether the new lines can be drawn in be required to allow elections this year their ﬁ rst meeting Thursday evening that It takes the once-a-decade process of by legislators. time for primary elections in the summer under new boundaries. He said Mr. preliminary data show northern Virginia redrawing legislative boundaries for The commission faces a daunting task and the general election in November. Barker “is the only person I’ve spoken in line for a modest increase, and com- Congress and the state Legislature out of in drawing new lines, given the fact that A legislative attorney assigned to with who is optimistic about getting the munities on the North Carolina border the General Assembly’s hands in hopes Virginia is one of only two states that has work with the redistricting commission census data in time.” losing some representation, but nothing of reducing partisan gerrymandering. state legislative races in 2021. told the committee it was “not likely” the Once the commission receives the like the upheaval from past decades, In an interview Friday, another The lines can’t be redrawn until new commission could complete its work in needed census data, it is supposed to when Northern Virginia was home to commission member, Delegate Marcus census data is provided to ensure that the time to meet deadlines for new districts draw the new boundaries within 45 days.

BRIEFLY VIRGINIA THE METRO AREA

Lawmakers vote to remove segregationists’ statue MARYLAND UPPER MARLBORO Northam highlighted Teens arrested aft er shot ﬁ red legislation in address at offi cer at homicide scene Two teenagers charged with fatally BY SARAH RANKIN shooting a 16-year-old returned to the

ASSOCIATED PRESS crime scene as police were investigating and shot at an offi cer, Prince George’s RICHMOND | A panel of Virginia legislators ad- County Police said. vanced a bill Friday to remove a statue of Harry F. Offi cers responded to a shooting Byrd Sr., a staunch segregationist, from the state about 9:15 p.m. Thursday in Langley Capitol grounds. Park. They found Angel Villatoro, 16, The decision came amid a yearslong eff ort in of Hyattsville, in a vacant apartment. history-rich Virginia to rethink who is honored in Police said he died at the scene. the state’s public spaces. About two hours later, an offi cer in- Byrd, a Democrat, served as governor and U.S. side the apartment heard people outside senator. He ran the state’s most powerful political of a back bedroom window. The offi cer machine for decades until his death in 1966 and was identifi ed himself as police and then considered the architect of the state’s racist “mas- heard the people outside yelling “anti- sive resistance” policy to public school integration. police” statements at him, offi cials said. “It is my deep belief that monuments to seg- Someone reached through the regation, massive resistance, and the subjugation window and fi red a shot that narrowly of one race below another, like this statue, serve missed the offi cer, police said. only as a reminder to the overt and institutional Fellow offi cers outside of the apart- racism that has and continues to plague our Com- ASSOCIATED PRESS ment building gave chase and arrested monwealth,” the bill’s sponsor, Delegate Jay Jones, On Friday, a panel of Virginia legislators advance a bill to remove a statue of Harry F. Byrd Sr. from state Nelson Sanchez Perez, 17, and Joshua said when introducing the measure. Capitol grounds. Byrd served as governor and senator. He fought against public school integration. Jurado, 19. The bill moved out of the House committee on a Both are charged with fi rst-degree party-line vote of 13-5, with all Republicans voting murder and other off enses in Angel’s against it. It still must clear both chambers of the and even closed some public schools rather than views on race now considered abhorrent. death. General Assembly, but with Democrats controlling desegregate them. George Floyd’s death over the summer and the — Associated Press the statehouse and Gov. Ralph Northam backing “If we can organize the Southern states for social justice movement that followed accelerated the measure, it is almost certain to pass. massive resistance to this [court] order, I think the discussions. VIRGINIA Mr. Northam, a Democrat, highlighted the bill that in time the rest of the country will realize Lawmakers evicted a Confederate statue and in an address to lawmakers earlier this month, that integration is not going to be accepted in the busts from inside the Capitol in July. Richmond FAIRFAX saying the state should no longer celebrate a man South,” Byrd once told fellow Democrats, The As- removed some of the state’s most prominent Diversity lawsuit at elite high who fought against integration. sociated Press has previously reported. Confederate monuments from its public spaces. Rita Davis, counselor to the governor, spoke The larger-than-life statue erected in 1976 and Other localities in more conservative, rural areas school allowed to proceed on behalf of the administration Friday. located a stone’s throw from the Capitol depicts held referendums this fall and voted to keep their A judge is allowing a group of “Had Mr. Byrd had his way, I would never have Byrd with a copy of the federal budget. A nearby statues. parents to move forward with a legal the opportunity to be before you because I am plaque says the statue was dedicated in apprecia- In an unusual twist, a similar measure to remove challenge to new admissions policies Black,” Ms. Davis said. “Certain members of the tion of Byrd’s “devotion throughout a long public the Byrd statue was fi led last year by a freshman designed to create a more diverse stu- General Assembly would never be able to serve career to governmental restraint and programs Republican lawmaker. dent body at an elite public high school because they’re not White.” in the best interest of all the people of Virginia.” Republican Delegate Wendell Walker intro- in Northern Virginia. She said the question before the committee was Attempts by the AP to reach members of the duced the bill, apparently with the aim of needling Fairfax County Public Schools had “not whether we should remove Mr. Byrd’s statue Byrd family have not been successful. No one Democrats who were pushing for the removal of asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit from Capitol Square, but rather, why on earth spoke against the bill Friday. Confederate monuments, saying “what’s good for over the admissions policies at Thomas would we keep it in Capitol Square?” For several years, Virginia has been in the midst the goose is good for the gander.” Jeff erson High School for Science and In the 1950s, Byrd’s political machine imple- of a reevaluation of its historical landscape, from But when met with agreement from across the Technology, which is ranked as the mented a series of offi cial state policies that op- its hundreds of Confederate monuments, to build- aisle on removing the statue, Mr. Walker asked country’s best public high school by U.S. posed court-ordered public school integration ings and roads named after people who espoused that the bill be killed, and Democrats acquiesced. News & World Report. The county school board recently changed admissions criteria at the school to scrap a stringent standardized admissions test in favor of a more MARYLAND holistic approach. School board members say the changes are needed to address a long- Maryland pays tribute to longtime Senate president Miller standing dearth of Black and Hispanic students at the school. BY BRIAN WITTE resonates throughout the state. Senate’s most liberal members, spoke of Opponents of the new policy argue

ASSOCIATED PRESS “Public education, higher education, how Miller, a conservative Democrat, that the school’s elite status will wither the Chesapeake Bay, our health care sys- recruited people to run against him. if the school stops accepting the most ANNAPOLIS | Maryland offi cials remem- tem, all bear the indelible mark of Thomas What began as an adversarial relation- academically talented applicants as bered the nation’s longest-serving state V. Mike Miller, Jr.,” Mr. Hogan said. ship evolved into mutual respect, he said. measured by standardized tests. Senate president on Friday as a powerful Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, a former Mary- “He knew what you were thinking, — Associated Press leader who infl uenced policy for nearly land Senate president himself who is now what your emotions were, the button that half a century, a towering fi gure in state the No. 2 House Democrat in Congress, pushed you, and he also knew what moved FORT BELVOIR politics who could be gruff as well as kind. described Miller as “tough and gruff , smart people, groups of people and the sociology Fairfax teacher charged With Thomas V. Mike Miller’s body as a whip, but also kind and considerate of of group dynamics,” Mr. Pinsky said. “He lying in repose in the rotunda of the others when he wanted to be.” understood that, and that’s what made him with child sexual assault Maryland State House, senators from both ASSOCIATED PRESS Senators emphasized the kinder side a great politician.” A Northern Virginia teacher has parties and Republican Gov. Larry Hogan Gov. Larry Hogan and his wife, Yumi, that often was out of public view. They Mr. Ferguson recalled a visit by former been arrested and charged with sexu- spoke with reverence and awe at Miller’s pay their respects to the late Senate said he treated the members of the Sen- President Bill Clinton, who came to An- ally assaulting a student more than 20 nearly 50-year career in the Maryland President Th omas V. Mike Miller Jr. at the ate from both parties like family. Current napolis in 2019 for a gathering of current years ago. General Assembly, 33 of them as Senate Statehouse in Annapolis. Senate President Bill Ferguson, Baltimore and former state senators after Miller Fairfax County police say Marc president. Democrat, said that “deep personal feel- disclosed he had stage 4 prostate cancer. Cheatham, 51, of Woodbridge, has been “He always knew exactly where we ing” for his colleagues contributed to “As the longest-serving state senate a teacher in Fairfax County Public were on the road to change,” said former boundless energy who could be someone’s Miller’s unprecedented tenure. leader in Maryland and US history, my Schools for nearly 30 years. state Sen. Robert Neall. “Like a skilled worst enemy while also having a soft side “That’s what made Mike successful, is friend Mike Miller had an amazing ability He was arrested Wednesday night railroad engineer, he had his hand on for people of both parties who served in that ability to exude confi dence for this to get things done,” Mr. Clinton tweeted on charges of forcible sodomy of a the throttle of change and moved us fast the institution he cherished. institution, because he knew that over time last week when Miller’s death was an- person younger than 12, aggravated enough to overcome obstacles, yet slow Mr. Hogan recalled when Miller the politics will change, the partisanship nounced. “He was also fi ercely loyal. If he sexual assault and producing obscene enough so as not to derail the train.” worked on a political campaign in the will change, the issues will change, but this had your back, you never had to look over materials involving a minor. He is being Miller died this month from compli- early 1960s with his father and said the institution — this Senate of Maryland — your shoulder.” held without bond. At the time, he was cations from prostate cancer at the age late Senate leader occasionally babysat the this is what stands the test of time,” Mr. Miller was interred Saturday after a a teacher at Barden Elementary on Fort of 78. He was remembered Friday as a then-5-year-old future governor. Ferguson said. private service at St. John the Evangelist Belvoir, police said. master tactician of Maryland politics with Mr. Hogan said Miller’s legacy still State Sen. Paul Pinsky, one of the church in Clinton. — Associated Press ▶ Editorial: America’s mental health crisis is here / B2 LEGAL ADS INSIDE B5 OOMMENTARYMMENTARY MONDAY, JANUARY 25,C 2021 ☆ R SECTION B Chinese communists cannot be brought into civilized world through trade If that actually worked, we wouldn’t be dealing now with arrested nuns and concentration camps

By Michael McKenna Catholic, was recently arrested for violating the national security law. t the end of last year, when lots of Pope Francis, who seems to have an opinion attention in the United about everything, has sat by silently while the States was elsewhere, wolves have circled his sheep. Reuters reported that two The same day that the arrests were reported, Chinese nuns who had Dec. 30, it was also reported that Chinese and Eu- worked at the Catholic ropean Union offi cials had agreed to an economic Church’s mission in Hong investment deal between the EU and China. Kong had been arrested by “This agreement will uphold our interests and “mainland authorities” — Chinese communists promotes our core values,” European Commis- —A the previous May during a visit to their homes sion President Ursula von der Leyen said. “It in Hebei province. provides us a lever to eradicate forced labor.” The nuns were detained for three weeks I wonder which “core values” the agreement before being released into house arrest without promotes. The legitimacy of slave labor? Reli- being charged. They are not allowed to return to gious repression? Seizure of others’ territory? Or their mission in Hong Kong. perhaps those are merely the “interests” that Ms. Their crime? Being Catholic in China. More von der Leyen mentioned that the EU and China specifi cally, being Catholic in Hong Kong. share in common. The arrest of the two nuns is a clear sign that If this deal sounds like familiar territory, that’s Beijing is trying to exert con- because it is. trol over Hong Kong and the The idea that the Chi- selection of its next bishop. nese Communist Party Hong Kong had been spe- ALTERNATIVEALTERNATIVVEE can be brought into the cifi cally excluded from Pope civilized world simply Francis’s ill-advised 2018 deal HYPOTHESIS through trade and empty that lets Chinese commu- BY MICHAEL MCKENNA rhetoric about engagement nists nominate the bishops is, by now, thoroughly Rome selects to watch over discredited. the faithful in China. If that approach worked, we would not now For the communists in China, like com- be thinking about how to deal with concentra- munists everywhere, Catholics pose a serious tion camps in Xinjiang or repression of Catho- challenge. On the mainland, decades of repres- lics in Hong Kong or seizure of territory in the sion have driven much of the Catholic Church Pacifi c. underground. After the Communist Party took To its credit, the nascent Biden administra- power and eviscerated religious freedom on the tion understands that the concept of economic mainland, Hong Kong became a natural conduit engagement has been a failure. That is some- ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER for missionary outposts that helped keep contact thing that neither the Europeans nor Pope with the mainland faithful. Francis seem to grasp. State nominee Antony Blinken said former was right. China’s aggressive and illicit behav- There are an estimated 400,000 Catholics in New Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, dur- President Trump was “right in taking a tougher ior cannot be ignored, should not be tolerated, Hong Kong (in a population of 7.5 million), and ing his confi rmation hearing, called China the approach to China” and that he agreed with and will not be changed by European money. many of the city’s elite — like here in the U.S. major “pacing threat” (whatever that is) facing former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s — are products of Catholic schools. Not surpris- America and promised that military parity be- unremarkable assessment that Beijing’s cam- Michael McKenna, a columnist for The Washing- ingly, Catholics have been infl uential in the city’s tween the two powers will not happen. He also paign against the Uighurs — which consists of ton Times, is the president of MWR Strategies. He pro-democracy movement. Many have been ar- pledged to uphold U.S. commitments to help imprisonment, indoctrination and forced labor was most recently a deputy assistant to the presi- rested. One of them, publisher and entrepreneur Taiwan defend itself. — is genocide. dent and deputy director of the Offi ce of Legislative Jimmy Lai, perhaps Hong Kong’s most prominent At his confi rmation hearing, Secretary of In this instance, as elsewhere, Mr. Pompeo Aff airs at the White House. Should an extreme pro-abortionist be in charge of America’s health care? Nomination of Xavier Becerra to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is troubling

By Tony Perkins to provide information about activities it was created to less than 15 felonies for secretly recording discussions oppose. of the sale of aborted baby body parts. Mr. Becerra was ost Americans are familiar with such fed- In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court affi rmed the more angered by the exposure of the gruesome traffi ck- eral departments as Defense and Treasury. right of pro-life groups to be exactly that — pro-life. Mr. ing of the organs of tiny babies than by the practice itself. Real unity is Their names indicate what they do. Becerra’s eff ort to compel compliance with the Califor- Mr. Becerra has even sued the Little Sisters of the Poor M Fewer know much about the Department nia law forced “a government-scripted, speaker-based to force them to include abortion-causing drugs in their of Health and Human Services (HHS). But they should. health insurance program. There can be little doubt that connected to The size and scope of HHS is vast, which is why the a Secretary Becerra supports voiding the Trump admin- person leading it is so important. istration’s many pro-life policies. the hopes and First, some background. Under the large HHS Mr. Becerra is also a crusader for the LGBTQ agenda. umbrella are the 27 National Institutes and Centers of He voted against the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Preven- which guaranteed states the right to defi ne dreams of the tion, Medicare and Medicaid, the Food and marriage as they saw fi t (overturned by Drug Administration, the Administration for President Obama and his congressional Children and Families (which administers allies). And in one of his fi rst acts as Cali- American federal welfare programs), the Public Health fornia’s AG, he sued one California county Service, and much more. The total HHS budget for its “discriminatory” bathroom policy that is more than $1.3 trillion annually – compared to about provides students who identify as transgender with their people $700 billion for the Department of Defense. own restrooms, insisting that these students should be We must fi ght COVID-19, HHS has jurisdiction over virtually every aspect of able to use the men’s and women’s rooms of their choice. federal policy concerning abortion policy. Which is why And on Nov. 9, 2017, Mr. Becerra “fi led a motion restore jobs and integrate President Biden’s nomination of California Attorney for the state of California to intervene in Stockman v. General Xavier Becerra is so troubling. Trump,” which is aimed at “challenging Trump’s ban on people of color into the full Mr. Becerra served in Congress for 24 years, where transgender individuals serving in the military.” franchise of America he was one of the most strident advocates for abortion- Perhaps the most alarming aspect about Mr. Becerra’s on-demand in the House. The National Abortion Rights nomination is his complete lack of experience in admin- By Harold Ford Action League and Planned Parenthood have both given istering anything to do with health care policy. As Kaiser him 100% ratings. He “voted against a ban on partial- Health News says, Mr. Becerra “is set to be a pandemic- s we look back on the majesty of birth abortion, voted against making it a crime to hurt era secretary with no public health experience.” President Biden’s inaugu- an unborn child during another crime, and voted for Yet given President Biden’s commitment to abortion ration, we should pause to taxpayer-funded abortions.” and the LGBTQ agenda, the Becerra nomination should A consider the gravity of the As AG in California, he has even sued other states come as no surprise. Mr. Biden has now jettisoned his moment we face. The country faces a that have pro-life laws. “No government, state or federal, long-term support for the Hyde Amendment, which cascading set of crises that is unprec- has the right to make personal decisions for a woman prohibits federal funding of abortion. And, he says, he edented since the Great Depression. about her body or her healthcare,” he said last year when wants to “codify” Roe v. Wade, writing the “right” to As they prepare to lead the coun- suing the state of Missouri for its pro-life laws. abortion-on-demand into federal law. He also says that try, The Biden administration should Take note of that statement: Mr. Becerra equates his “Justice Department will do everything in its power consider the words of President John F. abortion with “healthcare.” That’s why, in 2018, he took to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate the Kennedy, as he faced the grave and con- the baton from departing California Attorney General constitutional right to an abortion.” tentious challenge of the Cold War, when Kamala Harris and fought the National Institute of The great power and reach of HHS will be placed in he said: “Let us not seek the Republican Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) all the way to the ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER the hands of the most extreme pro-abortion zealot ever answer or the Democratic answer, but U.S. Supreme Court to force pregnancy care centers to to lead it, should Xavier Becerra be confi rmed by the the right answer. Let us not seek to fi x inform women that “California provides free or low-cost disclosure requirement that (was) wholly disconnected Senate. Abortion isn’t health care. And Xavier Becerra the blame for the past. Let us accept our services, including abortions,” and provide them with a from the State’s informational interest.” In other words, must not become the next secretary of Health and responsibility for the future.” phone number to call. Ms. Harris and Mr. Becerra were trying to silence oppo- Human Services. The challenges President Biden has Based on an eff ort to enforce a California anti-life law, sition to abortion-on-demand. Thankfully, they lost. this was a clear eff ort to squelch the pro-life movement’s And in yet another example of his pro-abortion Tony Perkins is president of the Washington, D.C.- » see FORD | B3 freedom of speech. No private entity should be forced zealotry, Mr. Becerra charged David Daleiden with no based Family Research Council. 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COMMENT & ANALYSIS

America’s mental health crisis is here And it’s likely playing out in your home ith all the recent talk of worry about making fi nancial “trusting the experts” ends meet in the home, they will Wit’s easy to forget that start to mentally unravel. the best barometer of how things Again, and we really must are faring is almost always our- drive this point home, all of this selves. After all, we don’t need a was foreseeable. Democratic federal jobs report to tell us our governors across America are neighbor no longer has a small only now publicly paying lip By Sally C. Pipes business; we don’t need to read a service to this catastrophe be- Biden sets the newspaper to tell us our parents cause the short-term eff ects have resident Joe Biden recently are ill-protected in their nursing become too evident to ignore. announced his picks to lead his administration’s approach to stage for a homes; and we sure don’t need What will occur long-term is health care policy — and moder- mental health professionals to not diffi cult to predict, either. P ate they are not. radical health inform us that our children are The millions of children and Take his nominee to be Secretary psychologically breaking down. adolescents, who, at the most of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra. He served in the House for 12 care agenda But if seeing is not believing decisive developmental stages terms but has no on-the-ground experi- (or if you don’t have young ones in their lives, were cut off from ence in public health. That makes him an the Obama administration. Far from in the home), the facts recently the meaningful socialization that unusual choice to run the nation’s top a disinterested medical practitioner, health agency during a pandemic. Dr. Murthy is an experienced activist, released by the Centers for Dis- forms the building blocks of how Perhaps Mr. Becerra’s chief qualifi - having founded the advocacy groups ease Control and Prevention, they interact with the world, will cation in Mr. Biden’s eyes is his record Doctors for Obama in 2008, and later and as reported by Kaiser Health have to play catch-up. For some as a partisan defender of Obamacare. Doctors for America. News, should be convincing. of them, as evidenced by the As California’s attorney general, Mr. The latter organization promotes a Becerra led an eff ort by 20 states and system of universal coverage, and advo- For instance, children admitted above statistics, this will prove the District of Columbia to stymie a cates for “no co-pays, no deductibles, to emergency departments for too much. legal challenge to the law advanced by no unnecessary barriers to coverage like mental health issues between Their wealthy peers, many Republicans. The U.S. Supreme Court Medicaid.” As the group’s website puts mid-March and mid-October of whom were able to continue heard oral arguments in the case Nov. it, “If there has ever been a time for big 10. A decision is expected in the spring government, now is the time.” have increased now over 20 per- private school, will pull ahead, of 2021. Dr. Murthy served as an adviser to cent from the same period in socially and financially. The More telling, however, is Mr. Becer- the Biden campaign, and personally 2019; among the crucial preteen socio-economic gap politicians ra’s unqualifi ed support for Medicare backs “a well-crafted public option.” for All. He co-sponsored Medicare for The surgeon general’s chief job and adolescent age-group, the love to talk about closing will All legislation four fi gure rose by an astounding 31 further widen. Our liberal pun- times while serving percent. To use a favorite word dits and talking-heads (many in the House. And of government functionaries: proponents of the shut-down in a 2017 interview, he stated that he We are in a crisis. craze) will scratch their heads supports single- But, again, any attentive par- and point fi ngers. Somewhere payer “absolutely.” ent could have predicted that in Beijing a member of the CCP Mr. Biden if — for over a year! — you will laugh. spent much of his campaign oppos- deny children face-to-face con- This state of aff airs, the dra- ing calls from Sen. tact with peers, stick them in conian lock-downs, the fear- Bernie Sanders and front of a screen for six to eight mongering, all of it, was largely other progressives for Medicare for All. hours a day, rope off parks and pushed by Democratic lawmak- Those cries now courts so they cannot exercise, ers and governors. Now they look dubious. In drum into their heads that they have one of their own in the fact, by nominating may never be free of the killer White House. Let’s see how well an avowed fan of single-payer to lead virus, and all this while their he cleans up the mess, if not for the Department of mothers and fathers themselves optics, then for the children. Health and Human Services, Mr. Biden has set the stage for Medicare for All at the state level. If confi rmed, Mr. Becerra would have the ability to grant waivers under the terms of the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Aff ordable Care Act that would enable individual states to Biden can’t undo Trump’s mark use federal funds to create their own ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS President Biden has quickly showed of those who have been served by costly social burdens. single-payer systems, as long as their is to communicate the best available his hand by reversing numerous this project. Nevertheless, regardless of Mr. plans don’t increase the federal defi cit. public-health science in a clear and decisions implemented by former Mr. Biden has also reversed Mr. Biden’s actions he cannot erase the These waivers don’t require congressio- unbiased fashion. That task has taken President Trump — decisions that Trump’s decisions regarding im- four years of indelible imprints left nal approval. So Medicare for All could on new importance during the COVID- put America fi rst and created jobs. migration, and the ban on travel on the nation by the inspiring eff orts become a reality in states dominated 19 pandemic. But instead of selecting a Biden has cancelled the Keystone XL by Muslims from certain terrorist- of Donald Trump. by Democrats, like New York and non-partisan fi gure who can appeal to pipeline. In so doing he has chopped inhabiting countries. This move California. Americans of all political stripes, Mr. 1,000 jobs and aff ected thousands of places the American people at BOB JACK Mr. Becerra has also tried to use Biden has chosen a left-leaning activist. people, including the many families greater risk and saddles them with Harrison, Tenn. government power to bring to heel the The president may have campaigned pharmaceutical companies that are as a centrist. But his health care team going to get us out of this pandemic. suggests he’ll govern as a lefty. So Rules don’t apply to rule makers In 2020, he led a campaign by nearly much for the “healing and unity” he three dozen state attorneys general to promised the electorate. After the country witnessed leaders not to the masters. President Biden Why am I not surprised? Stand by get the Trump administration to seize from the Democratic Party repeat- has ordered that mask wearing is for more dissembling and hypocrisy the patents for remdesivir, an antiviral Sally C. Pipes is the president, CEO, and edly ignoring their own COVID-19 mandatory on federal property. Yet from our Democratic leader and his developed by Gilead Sciences Inc. that Thomas W. Smith fellow in Health Care mandates (California Gov. Gavin true to Democrat-hypocrite form, minions. has proved to shorten hospital stays for Policy at the Pacifi c Research Institute. Newsom, for one, leaps to mind), he and his family appeared at the those with COVID-19. Her latest book is “False Premise, False it has now been confi rmed that Lincoln Memorial, unmasked, after ED OBLOY Mr. Biden’s pick for surgeon gen- Promise: The Disastrous Reality of the rules apply only to the masses, the executive order was signed. Bristow, Va. eral, Dr. Vivek Murthy, is no moderate, Medicare for All” (Encounter 2020). Fol- either. He held the position during low her on Twitter @sallypipes. Support U.S., not Chinese slave labor The day after Donald Trump left the world. (Well, at least he was until many vacant commercial buildings offi ce, Amazon, the company created his now-ex-wife took him for half his on Sheridan Avenue, the main street and controlled by Jeff Bezos, off ered to total wealth.) in town. assist in getting the COVID-19 vaccines And while we look at Amazon This story is repeated all over the Published by Th e Washington Times LLC out. Where was when the vaccine fi rst let’s look at Walmart and what all country as Bezos and the Waltons came out, about a month ago, while those wealthy Waltons. Here is an- keep getting richer. Small businesses LARRY T. BEASLEY, CEO THOMAS P. McDEVITT, Chairman President Trump was still in offi ce? other example of how small business disappear and their owners become CHRISTOPHER DOLAN, President & Executive Editor Heaven forbid Mr. Bezos should do is being destroyed. Take the town of baggers at the big box store — or anything to help the American people Shenandoah, Iowa. It’s a nice farming worse, they become destitute. NEWS EDITORIAL AND OPINION when such an action did not fi t into his center in Southwest Iowa. Walmart American consumers need to IAN BISHOP, Managing Editor CHARLES HURT, Opinion Editor leftist political agenda. opened about 40 years ago on the support their small local businesses CATHY GAINOR, Managing Editor CAROL HERMAN, Deputy Editorial Page Editor Here we have one of the primary edge of the town, and the “little and American manufacturers and JOHN BOURANTAS, Assistant Managing Editor BUSINESS retailers in the world — an orga- guys” there have slowly been shut- avoid whenever possible Amazon STEPHEN DINAN, Assistant Managing Editor JOSEPH E. TEIPE, JR., Executive Vice President DAVID R. SANDS, Assistant Managing Editor nization which is destroying our ting down: hardware, clothing, all and Walmart, these two destroy- DAVID DADISMAN, General Manager MARIA STAINER, Assistant Managing Editor free-enterprise system and the small sorts of retailers. Now all that is left ers of the American free-enterprise RAYNARD BOLDING, Chief Financial Offi cer JOSEPH SZADKOWSKI, Assistant Managing Editor businesses all around America with of the old business area is a couple system. DESHONDA MURRAY, Human Resources Manager volume buying and endorsements of struggling restaurants, consign- JORGE CARRASQUILLO, Information Technology Director of Chinese slave labor. Mr. Bezos is ment shops and some nonprofi t or TOM O’HARA believed to be the richest person in health-care operations. There are Sharon, Conn. Submissions: Op-eds may only be submitted by e-mail to [email protected] Letters to the Editor must be original, exclusive to The Washington Times and sent via email. We prefer letters that are fewer than 350 words. Please include your name, address and daytime telephone number. 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By Robert Knight and treason, my colleagues and I know we could be next. But we choose to fi ght leaders and back.” kay, with the “unity” and “healing” rhetoric behind us as we enter Often, the left relies on good old-fashioned smears. On Dec. 12, NBC News the Biden/Harris years, backed by 25,000 troops, we can get back to teamed with the Southern Poverty Law Center to denigrate seven Christian the nation Othe business at hand. groups that received funds from the Paycheck Protection Program. Billing them as That would be the left’s all-out war on free speech, American “accused hate groups,” NBC listed the American College of Pediatricians, Ameri- ‘God, please withhold heritage, limited government, economic freedom, biological truth and Judeo- can Family Association, Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), Church Christian morality. Militant/St. Michael’s Media, Liberty Counsel, Pacifi c Justice Institute and the Ruth your hand’ After Mr. Biden’s soothing words, his administration took a scorched-earth Institute. All of these groups are pro-life, pro-religious liberty, defend marriage and approach on its very fi rst day. He signed executive orders reversing many positive oppose obliterating the fact that God created two sexes — male and female. By Everett Piper Trump policies, including controlling the border, achieving energy independence, Three days later, NBC ran a story sympathetic to “sex workers” who fear a “war limiting travel from terror-prone nations, protecting unborn children, keeping on porn” after Visa, Mastercard and Discover cut off Pornhub, the world’s largest was challenged this past week to biological males out of females’ bathrooms, locker rooms and sports, and assem- smut site. pray for our nation’s leaders. My bling the 1776 Commission, which was countering lies about America spread by the “Thousands of people have turned to this type of online sex work to feed their friend told me to refuse to do so is malign 1619 Project. families, and this move is aff ecting those moms who just want to buy diapers and to sin against God. All gone with the stroke of a pen, as Barack Obama liked to say. This is unity, milk,” said a “veteran porn star.” I agree. Democrat-style. The change was triggered by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who I, therefore, off er the following In his inaugural speech, Mr. Biden said, “We must end this uncivil war that reported that Pornhub was “infested” with thousands of images and videos of child prayer for the Biden administra- pits red against blue. Or rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal.” Note the sex abuse, rape, torture and revenge porn. tion in the days ahead. order. It suggests that red, rural and conservative are waging war on blue, urban and But the Christian groups are the bad guys that need to be wiped out. I Heavenly Father, liberal, when it’s the other way around. These are just the latest in a shocking litany of attacks on freedom of speech, I pray for Joe Biden and Ka- He also summed religious liberty, and mala Harris. up current confl icts as dissent of any kind I pray for them to confess their mockery “a constant struggle from Marxist cultural of your church. Please help them under- between the Ameri- deconstruction. stand that those of us who are simply can ideal that we all Along with trying to live out our days as best we can are created equal, and “unity,” Mr. Biden’s in obedience to your word are not ignorant the harsh, ugly reality idea of “health” might rubes, deplorables or domestic terrorists. that racism, nativism, be diff erent from I pray for them to open their minds fear, demonization yours and mine. His and understand that our love for you does have long torn us nominee for secretary not make us hateful and that our disagree- apart.” Agree with us of Health and Human ment with them does not make us phobic. or you’re racist, xeno- Services is California Show them that we are afraid of no one phobic and danger- Attorney General but you and that we hate nothing but sin. ous. Did we mention Xavier Becerra, best Let them know that all we ask of them is racist? known for perse- that they leave us alone so that we may Speaking of de- cuting nuns, crisis “seek justice, love mercy, walk humbly, monization, at no time pregnancy centers fear you — and you alone — and keep your in our history have and undercover jour- commandments.” we seen such naked nalists who exposed I pray for them to renounce their attack censorship carried out Planned Parenthood against religious freedom. Open their eyes on so many levels. executives discussing to understand that the wall of separation It’s not just the the sale of baby body was constructed to keep the government goons from Big Tech, parts. out of the business of the church and not who helped fi x the Mr. Biden also the church out of the business of govern- election and crushed named Rachel ment. Remind them that they have no legal Parler. About 250 Levine, Pennsylva- ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER right to tell those committed to Christ and “publishing profes- nia’s secretary of his teachings that honoring and obeying sionals” at major book houses issued a statement, “No Book Deals for Traitors.” health, as an assistant HHS secretary. Dr. Levine is a burly biological male who those teachings is illegal. Those blacklisted include any “participant” in the Trump administration or anyone sports shoulder-length curls and who ordered nursing homes to admit COVID-19 I pray for them to repent of their cel- questioning leftist orthodoxy. Simon & Schuster showed the way by canceling Mis- patients while removing his own mother from such a facility. ebration of sexual license as a moral good. souri Sen. Josh Hawley’s book contract because, acting within the law, he asked for a Words keep taking on new meanings. He is now she. Patriotism is now “White Convict them of the insult of dumbing review of vote fraud allegations before Electoral votes were counted. supremacy.” George Orwell’s dystopic novel “1984,” which used to sound farfetched, down the defi nition of the imago Dei, what Fortunately, Regnery Publishing has stepped up and will publish the book. reads like tomorrow’s news. it means to be a human being, to the imago Thomas Spence revealed this in a Wall Street Journal column, “Blacklists Are the In the world of Big Brother, “Every record has been destroyed or falsifi ed, every dog; to little more the sum total of our base Rage in Publishing.” book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street inclinations, appetites, dysphorias and In the 1990s, frustrated by the leftist mindset at every major publishing house, renamed, every date has been altered,” Orwell wrote. “And that process is continu- desires. Let them see the wisdom in the Mr. Spence started his own fi rm, Dallas-based Spence Publishing (which published ing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an scriptural proclamation that all men and my fi rst book, “The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of endless present in which the Party is always right.” women are made in the image of God, that Popular Culture”). Blogger Laurie Higgins nailed it when she wrote that leftists regard “1984” as “a we are not animals, and that we are defi ned Mr. Spence later became president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, the blueprint for progress.” by our Lord and not our libido. longtime, venerable conservative outlet. He expects retribution for publishing Mr. May Thomas Spence’s course of action be a model for the rest of us: “We choose I pray that they ask for forgiveness for Hawley. to fi ght back.” the misogyny of telling men that they are “An independent publisher is vulnerable to today’s Jacobins in many ways, for it women and boys that they are girls. May relies on large partners to print, distribute and sell its books,” he wrote. “Now that Robert Knight is a contributor to The Washington Times. His website is they repent of stealing a woman’s objective dissent from the latest version of progressive orthodoxy is equated with violence roberthknight.com. identity and worth. May they see the lie of pretending to be feminists while denying the reality of the female and claiming to be pro-woman while telling women that they millions of tests to identify the severity and scope of The government is responsible for shutting down are not even biologically and genetically Ford the COVID-19 transmission. This should not cause a the economy that has led to misery for millions. It real. From page B1 signifi cant partisan fi ght. We should treat the moment cut the heart out of economic growth. While those I pray that they stop sacrifi cing our just as we did when the terrorists fl ew the planes on Wall Street, in Big Tech and other wealthy indi- youngest children to their Beltway Baal, inherited are equally dangerous. into the twin towers. It’s time to take the gloves off viduals increased their fi nancial fortunes during this their modern-day Moloch of “choice.” Over We face a virulent pandemic that has killed over and fi ght COVID-19 like the enemy. That begins not time, we now have an obligation to help those it has 50 million executions by the scalpel of 400,000 beloved souls from communities all across the only with being more aggressive about adhering to harmed. The president’s budget has over $1 trillion in Planned Parenthood’s high priests is just country. safety protocols, but we must quickly overcome the his stimulus package to address these problems. We too much. Help them understand that fi nd- It has crippled the economy and caused millions of less-than-inspiring roll out of the vaccine. Ameri- should make sure we use the resources to rebuild ing a pregnancy untimely and inconvenient Americans to go jobless, hungry and to despair about can exceptionalism is being tested. We have the the tax code to reinvigorate Main Streets all across does not negate that the baby in question the future. know-how and technology to make it happen. We have America by cutting taxes for small businesses, has human dignity and worth. At the same time, we are reminded that the prom- no time to waste. especially restaurants, bars, small landlords, nail I pray that they stop using our nation’s ise of America continues to salons and movie theaters. children as little more than laboratory rats fall woefully short of provid- Finally, let’s take this fragile in their grisly experiment of sexual politics. ing racial equity for all God’s and unprecedented moment to Pre-school and the elementary grades children. continue the journey toward a should be a time where a child’s innocence Mr. Biden spoke eloquently more perfect union. As much is protected. It should not be a time when about putting the nation on a as COVID-19 and its impact on emotionally predatory adults attack our path toward renewal and rec- the economy have done great son’s and daughter’s hearts, minds, bodies onciliation, where trust in gov- damage to the country, greater and souls. ernment and our institutions damage has been done over I pray that they stop claiming to be is restored and calls for unity two centuries by not integrat- pro-science while denying the science of are pursued with tenacity and ing people of color into the full physiology, anatomy, genetics and DNA. a seriousness of purpose. franchise of America. Twenty- I pray that they stop worshiping the God But we must do more than one years into the 21st century, they see in the mirror and start worship- exhort the promise of unity. the United States can and must ing the God they see in the Bible. May they And we must do more than do better. repent of the narcissism that has plagued re-up our values to tackle the For unity to take root, ad- mankind since the dawn of time, of claim- challenges we face. dressing these three challenges ing to be “as God” and reversing His defi ni- We must restore the trust would be a good beginning. tions of what is evil and what is good. of the American people by But we have so much more to I pray that they follow Scripture — all of unifying them around a series do. Let’s curb homelessness. it — rather than manipulating it for politi- of smart and eff ective policy We should provide a basic cal gain and ignoring the passages they solutions that will wipe out and living income for every don’t like. COVID-19 and materially im- working American. We need to I pray that they will be broken and prove the economic trajectory expand broadband in rural and humbled rather arrogant and proud. of their lives. urban areas. And let’s increase Let their hearts of stone be softened. Toward that end, it is time resources to provide greater ac- Let their darkened minds see the light. to aim big and not be satisfi ed cess to mental health services. I pray for them to understand and take with small gestures. The mag- They are not only the right to heart the words of Christ when he said nitude of our challenges will thing to do to strengthen our we all must be born again and that none require the very best of us. It people and the country, they of us — not one single one of us — should is time to turn away from the will help us manage the next ever presume to raise a banner defi antly poisonous politics of pettiness national crisis we face. declaring that we are “born that way.” and blame and focus on fi xing Unity in our country must I pray for President Biden, and I pray for what is holding America back. be connected to the hopes Vice President Harris. I pray for their souls First, we must fi ght and dreams of all Americans. as well as that of our nation. COVID-19 like we fought the If not, it’s just another hollow ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER God forgive us. God help us. terrorists of 9-11 or World War word with little meaning. The For the sake of the remnant, God, please II. The pandemic is an existential threat to our people Second, millions of Americans are out of work country is ready for an economy that focuses on withhold your hand. and our country. In this tragic war, we have lost more through no fault of their own. We had to shut down meeting the needs of America’s families and a Amen, and amen. lives than we lost in WWI, WWII, Vietnam and the most of the economy in an eff ort to stop the spread of politics that delivers meaningful change, rather Iraq-Afghanistan confl ict combined. It is a tragedy that COVID-19. Over a million restaurants and bars may than promising too much and ultimately delivering Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @drever- didn’t have to happen. Americans must be much more be lost, hundreds of thousands of movie theaters shut too little. ettpiper), a columnist for The Washington vigilant about wearing masks, social distancing, wash- down, cities and states are in fi nancial free fall, mil- Let’s get to work. We have no time to waste. Times, is a former university president ing hands and avoiding careless contact with people. lions of Americans are on the cusp of being evicted and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Mr. Biden’s proposed stimulus will provide over from their apartments and food lines stretch for miles Harold Ford Jr. is a former Democratic U.S. represen- Daycare: The Devastating Consequences of $500 billion to re-open schools safely, hire over 100,000 populated by people who have run out of money to tative from Tennessee and currently CEO of Enpow- Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). people to help administer the vaccine and provide buy food. erment and Inclusion Capital. Classified Advertising Classified 202-636-3109 www.washingtontimes.com/classified MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 | B4 Legal Advertising %$.%t7" Place your ad online now – we are open 24 hours, 7 days a week at washingtontimes.com Employment Opportunities Announcement

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THE WASHINGTON TIMES of miss them a little bit.” lesser role than the last golf and hung out with court. The veteran made it clear plan,” Zimmerman said. “That’s Zimmerman chose not to play time he took the fi eld. his kids. And while he Washington is where he wanted not going to happen, because if What Ryan Zimmerman the 2020 season because of the But he’s comfortable didn’t play baseball to play. that happens, we’re in a bad spot. missed most during his one-sea- coronavirus pandemic. Looking with both how MLB is during that time off , he Receiving a major league I’d rather play the games that I’m son absence from playing wasn’t back now, he doesn’t regret his handling the pandemic stayed in shape, know- deal rather than a minor league supposed to play and Josh hits 35 the home runs or the web gems, decision, not with a newborn and how he fi ts in with ing he wanted to return one with a spring training invite home runs and we win 95 games. the standout moments from child and a mother with an un- the team he’s been with at some point. from the Nationals showed the I think that’s the better plan.” games that make the highlight derlying health condition. since 2005. By September, the “respect that Riz and the team Bell’s a switch-hitter with a reel. But skipping a year was never “Me and my family, Zimmerman 36-year-old fi rst base- have for me,” Zimmerman said. better split against right-handed Instead, he missed the mun- meant as a retirement signal, he everyone’s excited to man began ramping “I can’t tell you how much I ap- pitchers, likely leaving Zimmer- dane details of the daily routine said. have baseball back, to up his workouts. The preciate that.” man with pinch-hitting duties or that can make a baseball season a When Zimmerman watch the be a part of it again,” Zimmer- last two months, he started tak- Newcomer Josh Bell is expected opportunities against southpaws. slog for some players. He missed Nationals play last summer and man said Saturday. “It’s all we’ve ing grounders and hitting balls to take the bulk of the load at fi rst He’ll pick manager Dave Marti- the day-to-day activities, hanging fall, it only solidifi ed his feeling ever known. We all missed it, not again, preparing himself for next base. Bell’s a career .261 hitter who nez’s brain to learn more about in the clubhouse with his team- that he wanted to return to Wash- just me.” month’s spring training. clubbed 37 homers in 2019, the last late-game situational thinking. mates and preparing his body to ington. Playing anywhere else, of Without baseball last year, Zimmerman joked Saturday full season he played. Still, Zimmer- “I’m kind of excited about take the fi eld again on short rest. course, “would really be weird.” Zimmerman said he got to enjoy that he had “fi ve or six” other man said he’ll prepare as if he’ll play that,” Zimmerman said, “learn- “Things that don’t sound that Zimmerman comes back on a “summer things” for the first teams in the running for his ser- every day, and he’ll be ready to do ing some new things about the fun,” Zimmerman said, “but when one-year, $1 million deal, and he time since baseball became his vices, but he actually left the ball so if needed. game that I don’t know.”

are all teams rumored to be inter- left with $19 million of Staff ord’s Lions went 5-11, Staff ord fi nished Ultimately, Washington coach NBA NFL ested in Staff ord. Others like the contract on the books because of with 4,084 yards and 26 touch- Ron Rivera will be the one to Leonard scores 34, leads From page B8 Carolina Panthers, New England bonuses already paid. downs to just 10 interceptions. It dictate what he wants to do at Patriots and possibly the Denver The potential downside in was the eighth time that Staff ord quarterback. Despite the team’s Clippers over Th under most fourth-quarter comebacks Broncos have been fl oated as pos- trading for Staff ord is that there topped 4,000 yards in a season. recent front offi ce shuffl ing — Kawhi Leonard scored 34 and remains a highly productive sible candidates. are injury concerns. The one- Stafford’s 38 game-winning Washington also hired former points and the Los Angeles player. There’s no shortage of options time Pro Bowler played in all 16 drives are second only to New Panthers general manager Marty Clippers beat visiting Okla- Staff ord’s pedigree, however, for Detroit, and ESPN reported games in 2020, but was hindered Orleans’ Drew Brees. Hurney in addition to Mayhew homa City 108- is why Washington could face that Staff ord is likely to fetch at by a broken thumb late in the This past year, Washington saw — the two new hires report to 101 on Sunday a tough time in trying to trade least one fi rst-round pick in this year. He also missed eight games Staff ord’s ability to engineer such Rivera, who retains fi nal say over SPORTS for their sev- for him. year’s draft. in 2019 with a fractured back. a drive when he led Detroit down football matters. BRIEFS enth consecu- Quarterbacks like Staff ord, who Washington holds the 19th Broadly, Staff ord is known for the fi eld to set up a 59-yard game- Rivera, though, has indicated tive victory turns 33 in two weeks, don’t be- overall pick — drafting ahead of playing through injuries. winner from Matt Prater. (Chase he wants people he can trust. and second come available often. And this off - teams like the Colts and the Saints And Staff ord over his 12-year Young’s roughing the passer pen- And if he leans on Mayhew for an straight over the Thunder. season, there fi gures to be a slew of but behind the 49ers and Patriots. career is 0-3 in the postseason, alty, to be fair, helped matters) opinion on Staff ord, he’ll likely re- Serge Ibaka added 17 points. teams besides Washington looking Staff ord is also an appealing though he’s certainly been ham- If Washington wants to pull ceive a glowing recommendation. At 13-4, the Clippers are tied for an upgrade under center. And option because, compared to pered at times by a lack of talent the trigger on Staff ord, the team “If you know what you’re with the Lakers for the best unlike Houston’s Deshaun Watson most starting quarterbacks, his in his supporting cast. must decide what to do with Alex looking at, you see a really tal- record in the NBA. Leonard’s — the potential crown jewel on the contract is relatively aff ordable. Since 2009, the Lions have Smith. The 36-year-old hasn’t ented guy playing,” Mayhew total was one off his season high trade market if the Texans decide With two years left on his con- only had two defenses fi nish in publicly made a decision whether told reporters in October 2015, to go with nine rebounds and to move on from the disgruntled tract, Staff ord would cost $20 the top 10 of Football Outsiders’ he wants to play in 2021, but a month before he was fi red by eight assists. 25-year-old — Staff ord would cost million in 2021 ($9.5 million base defensive DVOA metric, a stat the team can release Smith in the Lions. “If we had 11 of him (on far less. salary plus $10.5 million in roster that measures effi ciency. order to make room for Staff ord. off ense), we’d be winning a lot of COLLEGE BASKETBALL Beyond Washington, the In- and workout bonuses) and $23 Still, Staff ord’s talent — spe- Interestingly enough, Smith and games. We don’t have 11 of him. Grayson, Rucker carry dianapolis Colts, San Francisco million in 2022 for any team that cifi cally his arm strength — is un- Staff ord share the same agent in We haven’t had 11 of him — or 49ers and New Orleans Saints deals for him. The Lions would be deniable. Even last year, when the Tom Condon. 22 of him.” Army over Navy in OT Lonnie Grayson had 19 points and made 5 of 6 free throws in the fi nal minute of overtime and streak. The Packers lost in the a long fi eld-goal attempt, and Army ended Navy’s with a nine- NFC NFC championship game for the Brady found Scotty Miller down game winning streak 87-78 on From page B8 fourth time in the last seven sea- the left sideline for a 39-yard Sunday in Annapolis, Md. sons. Green Bay hasn’t reached touchdown catch with just 1 sec- Jalen Rucker added a career- Green Bay trailed 31-23 and the Super Bowl since its 2010 ond remaining. high 18 points for the Black had fi rst-and-goal from the 8 in championship season. “We didn’t come here to not Knights, although he missed the the last few minutes. But after Rodgers went 33 of 48 for 346 take chances to win the game,” potential game-winning jumper Aaron Rodgers threw three yards with three touchdowns and Arians said. “Love the play we at the end of regulation. straight incompletions, the Pack- one interception, but fell to 1-4 in had. Got a great matchup and got ers settled for Mason Crosby’s conference championship games a TD. That was huge.” MLB 26-yard fi eld goal with 2:05 left. as a starting quarterback. The Bucs built a 28-10 lead Aaron fans: Rename the The Packers had all three Tampa Bay took command in early in the third quarter thanks to timeouts left and were hoping the middle portion of the game. Brady’s three touchdown passes. Braves the ‘Hammers’ their defense could force a punt. Green Bay trailed 14-10 and Brady went 20 of 36 for 280 yards. As his adopted hometown of The Bucs foiled that plan, drain- had the ball just before halftime The Packers got the ball to Atlanta mourned Hank Aaron’s ing the rest of the clock, helped until Sean Murphy-Bunting start the second half, and Aaron death, some fans called on the by a pass interference penalty on picked off Rodgers at the Tampa Jones caught a short third-down Braves to change their name to Kevin King. Bay 49-yard line with 28 seconds pass. He took a huge hit from the Hammers in his honor. Led by Shaquil Barrett and remaining. After converting a Jordan Whitehead that knocked “Hammerin’ Hank” died Jason Pierre-Paul combining for fourth-and-4, Tampa Bay was at the ball loose. Devin White re- ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday at age 86, drawing praise fi ve sacks, Tampa Bay snapped Green Bay’s 39 with 8 seconds covered and ran 21 yards to the Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans grabs a 15-yard touchdown pass over for his Hall of Fame career. Green Bay’s seven-game winning remaining. The Bucs passed up Green Bay 8. Packers cornerback Kevin King in Sunday’s NFC championship victory. The Braves have steadfastly resisted calls to change their name, saying it’s a tribute to American Indians, not a slur. Thursday, and coach Peter Lavio- minimal down the stretch, though and Nicklas Backstrom scored — made three critical stops. Linus The Braves are among sev- CAPITALS lette said he was “in the mix” to he featured plenty in the fi rst two power-play goals, with Backstrom’s Ullmark prevented a breakaway eral big league teams that still From page B8 make his debut. It didn’t come periods. He was called for a hook- coming from behind the goal line. attempt for Backstrom, then use Indian-inspired monikers, Friday, in Washington’s shootout ing penalty and nearly combined Schultz opened the scoring with his held Washington scoreless in including the Kansas City eight points in seven contests, win over the Sabres. But Lavio- with Richard Panik for a goal in fi rst goal for the Capitals. the shootout to seal Buff alo’s win. Chiefs, Golden State Warriors including a goal in the semifi nal lette fi gured McMichael’s chance his 9:54 time on the ice. Washington struggled in the But perhaps the biggest take- and Chicago Blackhawks. before Canada lost to the United would come sooner rather than “It’s always a tall order jump- second period again, though, away is the debut of McMichael. From wire dispatches and staff reports. States in the championship. later, considering the absences. ing into a team, especially when called for three penalties and He might not become a regular After the World Juniors, Mc- And the opportunity pre- you don’t have a training camp,” conceding on two of the subse- — at least, not right away. Michael stopped at his parents’ sented itself Sunday, with Wil- Laviolette said. “Coming out of quent power plays. Then Eric Before he took the ice for his PRO CALENDAR HOME GAMES house, grabbed his belongings son’s lower-body injury leading quarantine, he’s had one real Staal gave Buff alo a momentary solo skate, his teammates in the SHADED Monday Tuesday Wednesday and traveled to Washington. He to McMichael’s promotion to the practice with the team. For him 3-2 edge on a power play in the locker room talked with him. Houston New Orleans Rockets Pelicans then spent the next seven days active squad. to jump into a competitive game third before Backstrom’s score They’d been in his skates before, 8 p.m. 9 p.m. NBC-W NBC-W in a D.C.-area hotel, waiting out “It was exciting,” McMichael like tonight, I thought he did a knotted the matchup again. after all. AM 1500 AM 1500 the NHL-mandated quarantine said. “And the fi rst person that I good job.” That forced the Capitals’ “So they knew I was probably New York period with takeout and trips to texted was my parents, and they Washington found success fourth straight overtime. In that nervous and they just made me Islanders 7 p.m. the hotel’s gym. were excited, too.” through some of the more well- period, goaltender Vitek Vanecek feel comfortable out there,” Mc- NBC-W+, NBCSN He joined the taxi squad McMichael’s influence was known names available — Oshie — who fi nished with 45 saves Michael said. FM 106.7

needed for election this year, ballots before Dec. 31, three character. Some voters ignore judge Bonds, Clemens and the Series Most Valuable Player and LOVERRO they’ll have one more shot next weeks before Aaron passed away. these or don’t give them much rest because steroid use was one World Series MVP. From page B8 year before being taken off the I submitted mine long before weight. I am not one of them. widespread and baseball didn’t He would also have to rally ballot. Their fates would then that, with the names of three Bonds is an admitted steroid test diligently — so surely there to be a human being. of America urging them not fall to the Today’s Game era players I’ve supported in the past user, testifying under oath are lots of others who didn’t get Schilling has tweeted that to vote for Bonds or Clemens, committee. — Omar Vizquel, Billy Wagner before a grand jury that he used caught. That’s not even a Judge the rioters attacking the Capitol without naming them. Bonds and Clemens have and Jeff Kent, none of whom will the “cream” and the “clear” in Judy argument. were Antifa, he’s told his follow- “The more we Hall of Fam- gradually gained ground most likely be inducted into Cooper- the BALCO case but was un- Others argue that the Hall has ers a survivor of the Parkland, ers talk about this — and we of the years they’ve been eli- stown anytime soon. aware of what they were. Clem- already inducted a number of Florida, school shooting was a talk about it a lot — we realize gible for election. But last year Vizquel is the greatest short- ens, as we know, was named in repugnant players — Cap Anson paid actor, he wrote “so much that we can no longer sit silent,” they still fell well short of the stop I’ve ever seen, and I saw a the Mitchell Report. The report and Ty Cobb among them. awesome” under a photo of a Morgan wrote. “Many of us fi nish line — Clemens at 61% lot of him (FYI, my ballot was submitted by highly-respected But I didn’t vote for them. T-shirt with the words: “Rope. have come to think that silence and Bonds at 60 %. submitted before the stories former U.S. Sen. George Mitch- And I am not bound by every Tree. Journalist. Some Assem- will be considered complicity. This year’s ballot is among surfaced of the domestic vio- ell, the man who only brokered vote that has taken place before bly Required.” Or that fans might think we are the weakest in memory, with lence allegations). I believe — peace in Northern Ireland, an me. Again, how would any He later claimed it was OK if the standards of election no clear favorites for election, since the door in Cooperstown investigation conducted by one legislative process function if “sarcasm.” Did it seem humor- to the Hall of Fame are relaxed, leaving voters to consider the is now wide open for closers of the toughest former fed- elected offi cials had to vote the ous when journalists were at least relaxed enough for ste- prospects of fi nally adding — that Wagner was among eral prosecutors in the Justice same way that those who pre- being attacked by the rioters roid users to enter and become Bonds and Clemens for fear of the most dominant of his time. Department. ceded them in offi ce did? who sought to overthrow the members of the most sacred sending in a ballot with few or Kent, an MVP winner with 377 Call me crazy, but I fi gure Speaking of repugnant, let’s government? place in Baseball. We don’t no players selected. career home runs and 1,518 RBI, they have more credibility than get to Curt Schilling. The Hall doesn’t include want fans ever to think that. Voters have had years when is among the greatest off ensive Clemens, who has denied using Schilling pitched 20 years “basic humanity” as a criteria “We hope the day never no one had enough votes to second basemen to ever play steroids. in the major leagues, with 216 for membership in Cooper- comes when known steroid qualify. But the door is per- the game. Sosa was on the 2003 posi- wins. He won 20 games twice. stown. Maybe it should. users are voted into the Hall of ceived to be open this year — of No Bonds. No Clemens. tive list published by the New But it is his postseason record You have a hard time fi gur- Fame. They cheated. Steroid all years, with the loss of Aaron, No Sammy Sosa. No Manny York Times. Ramirez has failed that makes his case for the Hall ing out what “humanity” is? users don’t belong here.” Morgan and so many others Ramirez — all steroid cheaters. multiples drug tests and had — an 11-2 record with a 2.23 See Hank Aaron. This is the ninth time on the who would have been off ended Three of the six criteria for multiple suspensions. ERA. He pitched for two World ⦁ Hear Thom Loverro on ballot for Bonds and Clemens. at the presence of either. election to Cooperstown are Defenders of those players Series champions and won one 106.7 The Fan and on The Kevin If they fail to reach the 75% Voters had to submit their integrity, sportsmanship and like to argue that it’s unfair to National League Championship Sheehan Podcast. ON WASHINGTONTIMES.COM Zimmerman secure playing Follow us on Twitter @WashTimesSports reduced role for Nationals and on Facebook at Washington Times Sports aft er skipping a season.B7 PPORTSORTS ■ Comics B6 SMONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 ☆ washingtontimes.com/sports SECTION B Rewarding Bonds, Clemens would dishonor Hall, Hank Aaron

ank Aaron, who American in- Phil Niekro. summer — they postponed expecting its greatest crowd passed away last stitutions, suf- And the grieving has con- inducting the 2020 class last ever with the delayed induc- week at 86, was a fered in 2020, tinued in 2021 with the deaths summer because of COVID-19 tion of New York Yankee great Hhead of state — that losing seven of Tommy Lasorda, Don Sutton — the event will have a pall cast Derek Jeter. state being baseball. members — and now perhaps the most pain- over it because of those losses. Many Hall of Famers see So how will Baseball Hall of the most ever ful loss of them all. That pall would take a dras- Bonds and Clemens as cheat- Fame voters honor Aaron on in a calendar Aaron is still in the minds tic turn for the worst if voters ers and have no interest in Tuesday, when ballot results year. of many the all-time home run on Tuesday elect steroid cheat- sharing the stage with either. are announced — elect Barry THOM Cooper- leader with 755. He also still ers Bonds and Roger Clemens Morgan made that clear when, Bonds, with his fraudulent LOVERRO stown said holds several career off en- to sit on that stage this summer. more than three years ago, he 762 career home runs, to good-bye to sive records, 45 years after he Hall of Famer Hank Aaron holds It could be the most repul- wrote a letter to all voters in the Cooperstown? Joe Morgan, stopped playing. the major league records for RBIs sive ceremony in the history Baseball Writers Association The Baseball Hall of Fame, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Whitey If Cooperstown holds a (2,297), total bases (6,856) and of the Hall — coming in the like a lot of Americans and Ford, Al Kaline, Tom Seaver and public induction ceremony this extra-base hits (1,477). year when the Hall would be » see LOVERRO | B7

NFL Staff ord at QB could BRADY, OF COURSE make big THE GOAT LEADS TAMPA BAY TO SUPER BOWL WITH WIN AT LAMBEAU diff erence Washington part of trade-talk buzz

BY MATTHEW PARAS

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Martin Mayhew has always BY STEVE MEGARGEE

been a believer in Matthew Staf- ASSOCIATED PRESS ford. When both were with the Detroit Lions, the general man- GREEN BAY, WIS. | Tom Brady ager had this to say about his and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ quarterback in 2015: “If we had 22 road magic has them heading Matthew Staff ords — we’d win a home to the Super Bowl, the championship every single year.” fi rst team to play in one on their Mayhew said that suggesting home fi eld. the Lions would move on from Brady owns six Super Bowl Staff ord that coming off season rings with New England and now was “comi- heads to his 10th NFL champion- cal,” calling ship game with his new team. Matthew Staff ord’s the former With help from a stifl ing pass career numbers No. 1 overall rush and a curious late call on Season...... 12 pick a “phe- fourth-and-goal by the Packers, Games...... 165 nomenal Brady and the Bucs beat top- Starts...... 165 talent.” seeded Green Bay 31-26 for the Completions...3,898 More NFC title Sunday. Attempts...... 6,224 than five “It’s great to get another road Yards...... 45,109 years later, win, and now we got a home Touchdowns.....282 the Lions game,” said Brady, who went 20 of Interceptions....144 QB rating...... 89.9 appear 36 for 280 yards with three touch- ready to downs. “Who’d ever thought a ditch Staf- home Super Bowl for us? But we ford. Ac- did it.” cording to The Bucs (14-5) earned their multiple franchise-record eighth consecu- reports, tive road victory to reach the Detroit Super Bowl for the fi rst time since is will- their 2002 championship season. ing to ac- They were helped by a strange commodate decision by Packers coach Matt Stafford’s LaFleur with just over two min- recent trade utes remaining and down by eight request. That leaves Mayhew, points. On fourth-and-goal, he Washington’s newest general elected to kick a fi eld goal to manager who was hired Friday, get within fi ve. Tampa Bay then in a position in which he could ran out the clock on the Packers explore a reunion with the player (14-4). he drafted — if interested. The Bucs will face either the With Washington coming off winner of Sunday night’s Kansas a surprising 7-9 playoff season, City Chiefs-Buff alo Bills contest Staff ord makes perfect sense for (see www.washingtontimes for a team trying to capitalize on its coverage) at Tampa’s Raymond window to compete with a young, James Stadium on Feb. 7. talented core. Since entering the “We’re coming home,” Bucs league in 2009, Staff ord has the coach Bruce Arians said. “We’re seventh-most passing yards, the ASSOCIATED PRESS coming home to win.” Tom Brady led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 31-26 victory over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC championship on Sunday. Th e » see NFL | B7 Buccaneers will be the fi rst team in NFL history to play a Super Bowl in their own stadium, while Brady will appear in his 10th Super Bowl. » see NFC | B7

CAPITALS Top prospect McMichael takes ice for short-handed Capitals

Sabres BY ANDY KOSTKA multiple absences. — even minus fans in the stands Capitals fell short. Still, there center THE WASHINGTON TIMES After a positive coronavirus — marking the beginning of the were positives. Jack Eichel case, Washington is without top prospect’s career. “I like where we’re at points- scores the Connor McMichael hopped forwards Alex Ovechkin and “This is what you work for wise and not losing a game in go-ahead on the ice, skated toward goal and Evgeny Kuznetsov, defenseman your whole life,” McMichael said. regulation yet,” veteran T.J. Oshie goal past ﬂ ung a shot into the empty net, Dmitry Orlov and goaltender “Obviously, a little bit of nerves. said. “I’d like to win a couple of goalie Vitek the only Capitals player on the Ilya Samsonov. Plus, the team But I thought I had a good game these shootouts.” Vanecek rink at the time. McMichael sent missed winger Tom Wilson, out and I had a lot of fun.” McMichael was a powerhouse during the another puck on net before the with a lower-body injury that’s With McMichael in the lineup last season playing for the London Capitals’ rest of his teammates joined him, considered day-to-day. for a team severely short-handed Knights in the Ontario Hockey 4-3 loss on ending the rookie’s solo skate. So there McMichael was, — missing three top-six forwards, League. He scored 47 goals and Sunday. The 2019 first round pick starting on the left wing in the a top-four defenseman and a added 55 assists in 52 games. And made his NHL debut Sunday in Capitals’ second line. As the netminder — Washington again at the World Juniors — represent- Washington’s 4-3 shootout loss to 20-year-old exited the locker earned a point, sending its fourth ing Canada — McMichael posted the Buff alo Sabres, put into that room, his teammates let him straight game to overtime. ASSOCIATED PRESS situation because of the Capitals’ have his moment in the spotlight But with those stars out, the » see CAPITALS | B7