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Associated Press
WASHINGTON — After several thou-sand supporters of President Donald Trump protested the election results and marched to the Supreme Court, nighttime clashes with counterdemonstrators led to fistfights,
at least one stabbing and more than 20 arrests.
Several other cities on Saturday also saw gatherings of Trump supporters unwilling to accept Democrat Joe Biden’s Electoral College and popular vote victory as legiti-mate. Cries of “Stop the Steal” and “Count Every Vote” rang out despite a lack of evi-dence of voter fraud or other problems that
could reverse the result.The demonstrations in the nation’s capital
went from tense to violent during the nightand early Sunday. Videos posted on socialmedia showed fights, projectiles and clubs as Trump backers sparred with those de-manding they take their MAGA hats andbanners and leave.
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BY MATTHEW LEE AND JAMES LAPORTA
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United States and Israel worked together to track and kill a senior al-Qaida operative in Iran this year, a bold intelligence operation by the allied nations that came as the Trump ad-ministration was ramping up pres-sure on Tehran.
Four current and former U.S. offi-cials said Abu Mohammed al-Masri, al-Qaida’s No. 2, was killed by assas-sins in the Iranian capital in August. The U.S. provided intelligence to the Israelis on where they could find al-Masri and the alias he was using at the time, while Israeli agents carried out the killing, according to two of the officials. The two other officials confirmed al-Masri’s killing but could not provide specific details.
Al-Masri was gunned down in a Tehran alley on Aug. 7, the anni-versary of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Al-Masri was widely believed to have participated in the planning of those attacks and was wanted on terrorism charges by the FBI.
Al-Masri’s death is a blow to al-Qaida, the terror network that or-chestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the U.S, and comes amid rumors in the Middle East about the fate of the group’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahri. The officials could not confirm those reports but said the U.S. intelligence community was trying to determine their credibility.
Two of the officials — one within the intelligence community and with direct knowledge of the opera-tion and another former CIA officer briefed on the matter — said al-Masri was killed by Kidon, a unit within the secretive Israeli spy organization Mossad allegedly responsible for the assassination of high-value targets. In Hebrew, Kidon means bayonet or “tip of the spear.”
The official in the intelligence community said al-Masri’s daugh-ter, Maryam, was also a target of the operation.
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BATH, Maine — Months after a bitter strike during a pandemic, Bath Iron Works managers and production workers are starting to get on the same page when it comes to catching up on the pro-duction schedule.
Machinists Union Local S6 and shipyard managers have been meeting with help from a federal mediator since the two-month strike ended in August.
The result is a number of agree-ments, “substantial progress” on
grievances and many new ideas for operational improvements going forward, said Martin Cal-laghan of the federal mediation service.
The shipbuilder, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, contended during the strike that changes were necessary after falling six months to a year behind on con-struction of Navy destroyers.
Bath Iron Works President Dirk Lesko said that he expects the federally mediated discus-sions to yield positive results by
year’s end, as the shipyard and union embark on a three-year plan to get caught up.
George Edwards, a district of-ficial with the Machinists Union, agreed that things are improv-ing. “The parties are working to-gether and trying to move on. I’m not going to say it’s 100% mended. But they’re heading in the right direction,” he said.
Bath Iron Works is one of the Navy’s largest shipbuilders and is a major employer with 6,800 workers in Maine.
Shipyard, union working together after strike
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BY THERON GODBOLD Stars and Stripes
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Military department stores in the Pacific scheduled lotteries for Friday and Saturday to draw lucky purchasers of two new gen-erations of gaming consoles.
Sony’s PlayStation 5 and the Microsoft Xbox Series X were re-leased on Thursday and Tuesday, respectively. Supplies are limited and demand is high.
The coronavirus pandemic, which has made gaming products very popular, also complicates their sales. New versions of either system would normally attract a surge of buyers the first day the consoles are available.
“The pandemic has created unprecedented demand in the gaming category. Shoppers are staying home and purchasing more gaming items, which has created worldwide supply short-ages,” said Col. Scott Maskery, the Army and Air Force Ex-change Service’s Pacific Region commander, in an email to Stars and Stripes on Nov. 9. “This, com-bined with the excitement over the new console launches, will likely make more popular items harder to find through the holidays.”
The exchanges started taking preorders online for both systems in September, spokespeople for both exchange commands said. Those orders will be shipped to the customer or available for in-store pickup.
“The level of interest and busi-ness surpassed any of our ex-pectations for either preorder campaign,” Kristine M. Sturkie, a public affairs specialist at the Navy Exchange Service Com-mand, said in an email Tuesday. “All stores have created ‘pickup’ schedules with customers to avoid any larger crowd issues.”
Individual stores, however, re-ceived their own shipment of game
consoles. Those were the systems available by lottery. Winners had the opportunity to buy the system of their choice at the store and take it home immediately.
At Yokota, home of U.S. Forc-es Japan in western Tokyo, the drawing was held at 5 p.m. Friday for the new Xbox X and Xbox S consoles. The PlayStation draw-ing was scheduled for the follow-ing day.
Some AAFES exchanges could expect larger quantities than they anticipated, Maskery said. Manufacturers determine unit allocations to different retailers and purchasing specialists work with vendors to secure more units as they become available, he said in his email.
“These efforts are paying off for authorized shoppers looking to pick up a PS5, Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S as the Exchange secured 50% more units than pre-vious console launches,” Maskery said. “To ensure all authorized shoppers have an equal chance, Pacific Exchanges are conduct-ing lotteries to distribute these limited supply products.”
In Japan, the new generation of PlayStation consoles were avail-able by preorder, but consumers had to make special arrange-ments to receive them.
“To protect customers, retail-ers, and staff, we have no plans to do events or sell the PS5 in-store when it goes on sale,” Sony said on the Japanese PlayStation blog on Nov. 5.
Xbox had no such restrictions.Excitement is also building for
the games that will come with the new consoles.
“I am more excited to see the advancement in the games than I am in the systems themselves,” said Jerome Ray, a spouse at [email protected] Twitter: @GodboldTheron
BY JOHN VANDIVER
Stars and Stripes
STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. special operations forces are drilling with military responder units in Sweden to rehearse how they would jointly confront an enemy force in the Baltics, U.S. Special Operations Command Europe said Friday.
Navy SEALs, Green Berets, special boat teams and aircraft are all taking part in the drills to test the ability of U.S. and Swed-ish forces to contend with an im-minent threat, officials said.
The bilateral exercise with Sweden is the latest push by SO-CEUR into the Baltic Sea region, where coastal nations are con-cerned about a more aggressive Russia.
SOCEUR, in cooperation with the Swedish Defense University, authored a paper in 2019 that details a “Resistance Operating Concept” strategy for fighting back against a larger adversary like Russia.
“When a nation loses control of territory, resistance is applicable
(and) potential adversaries must be put on notice that they will not succeed; they will be ousted,” Maj. Gen. Kirk Smith, then-SOCEUR commander, wrote in a forward to the strategy document.
The training unfolding in Swe-den incorporates some aspects of the resistance concept, SOCEUR spokesman Maj. Juan Martinez said.
For example, U.S. special op-erators are linking up with Swed-ish homeland defense reserves, who would play a central role in a guerrilla warfare campaign in the event of a foreign armed incursion.
“In theory, if something were to happen, our guys would be em-bedded there as well,” Martinez said.
SOCEUR, in a statement de-tailing some of the training, said some efforts were taking place at an undisclosed location while other parts were happening in the Baltic Sea near the Swedish naval base of Karlskrona.
The training also incorporates the Navy destroyer USS Ross and the England-based U.S. Air
Force’s 48th Fighter Wing and100th Air Refueling Wing.
“This exercise provides the op-portunity to train with SOF part-ners as well as U.S. and Swedishconventional forces across allwarfighting functions and do-mains,” Air Force Col. NathanOwendoff, joint special operationstask force commander for the ex-ercise, said in a statement.
In recent years, SOCEUR has bolstered its ties throughout the area. NATO has also stepped up its presence with multinationalbattlegroups in all of the Baltic states as well as Poland.
An official from Sweden’s spe-cial operations command said the exercise showcases the impor-tance of its partnership with U.S.forces.
“The strength of Swedish andU.S. special operations forces together enable conventionalarmed forces to defend the re-gion,” said the official who couldnot be named under Swedish mil-itary rules. [email protected]: @john_vandiver
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The U.S. believed she was being groomed for a leadership role in al-Qaida and intelligence suggested she was involved in op-erational planning, according to the official, who, like the others, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
Al-Masri’s daughter was the widow of Hamza bin Laden, the son of al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden. He was killed last year in a U.S. counterterror-ism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
The news of al-Masri’s death
was first reported by The New York Times.
The CIA and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, which oversees the Moss-ad intelligence agency, declined to comment.
At the time of the killings, the Trump administration was in the advanced stages of trying to push through the U.N. Security Council the reinstatement of all international sanctions on Iran that were lifted under the nucle-ar agreement. None of the other Security Council members went along with the U.S., which has vowed to punish countries that do
not enforce the sanctions as part of its “maximum pressure” cam-paign on Iran.
Israeli officials are concerned the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden could return to the nuclear accord. It is likely that if Biden does engage with the Iranians, Israel will press for the accord to be modi-fied to address Iran’s long-range missile program and its military activity across the region, specifi-cally in Syria and its support for groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The revelations that Iran was harboring an al-Qaida
leader could help Israel bol-ster its case with the new U.S. administration.
Al-Masri had been on a kill or capture list for years, but his presence in Iran, which has a long history of hostility toward al-Qaida, presented significant obstacles to either apprehending or killing him.
Iran denied the reports, saying the government is not harboring any al-Qaida leaders and blam-ing the U.S. and Israel for trying to foment anti-Iranian sentiment. U.S. officials have long believed a number of al-Qaida leaders have been living quietly in Iran for
years and publicly released intel-ligence assessments have made that case.
Al-Masri’s death, albeit under an assumed name, was reportedin Iranian media on Aug. 8. Re-ports identified him as a Leba-nese history professor potentiallyaffiliated with Lebanon’s Irani-an-linked Hezbollah movementand said he had been killed by motorcycle gunmen along withhis daughter.
Lebanese media, citing Ira-nian reports, said that those killed were Lebanese citizen Habib Daoud and his daughter Maraym.
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SEALs, Green Berets join in large defense drill in Sweden
Israel: Killing of al-Qaida official latest development in US-Mideast relations
MATTHEW YOUNG/U.S. Navy
Swedish special forces, U.S. Navy special warfare combatant-craft crewmen and special reconnaissance unmanned underwater vehicle operators perform launch and recovery training in the Baltic Sea near Karlskrona, Sweden, during a bilateral exercise Friday .
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Iraqis who aided US military fear revenge attacks
The Washington Post
BAGHDAD — Iraqis who have worked closely with the U.S. mili-tary in their country have grown increasingly alarmed that they could be targeted for attack, fear-ing their personal identifying in-formation has been obtained by Iran-backed militias.
At a time when militia attacks on supply convoys for the U.S.-led coalition and against other U.S. interests have been on the rise, the sharing of this information — including names, addresses and license plate numbers — could present a heightened threat to hundreds of Iraqis who have long worked with American forces, in particular as translators.
The U.S. military provides this personal information to the Iraqi security forces, as required by Iraqi authorities, to secure per-mission for the translators to move around Iraq, according to documents and Iraqi military officials. But Iran-backed mili-tias have so permeated parts of Iraq’s security apparatus that the information has, in some cases, become accessible to groups that have taken up arms against the Americans and their local sup-port staff, Iraqi officials say.
“It’s not a surprise that militias have these documents,” said an official in Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s office. He added, “They believe it’s going to be a long battle, so they will gather as much leverage over U.S. interests as possible.”
In June, a list purporting to contain personal information about Iraqis admitted to the Union III military base in Bagh-dad, the main headquarters of the U.S.-led military coalition, was published by the Sabreen news agency, which is affiliated with Iran-backed militias. The list in-cluded the names, addresses and identification numbers of Iraqi drivers and the make, model, year and license plate numbers of their cars, among other specif-ics, and the document bore logos of the U.S.-led military coalition and the U.S. Defense Depart-ment. The Washington Post could not independently verify the au-thenticity of the list.
Separately, two Iraqi transla-tors said they witnessed militia-men who were stationed near an Iraqi military checkpoint check a list containing personal informa-tion that had been acquired from a military coordination center run by the Iraqi security forces.
“When we realized where the information had come from, we were shocked. The list contains everything. Phone numbers, ID numbers, even our real names,”
said one translator from Bagh-dad. The Post reviewed a copy of the list and confirmed this description.
“It’d be an easy mission to hunt us down,” the translator said. “They have all the information now. What if this list now goes on-line?” This man, like seven other translators interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
In response to a request for comment, a U.S. military spokes-man said the U.S.-led coalition does not share personally identifi-able information about the trans-lators with the Iraqi military or government.
But three documents obtained by The Post show that such infor-mation provided by the U.S.-led coalition has been circulated by various elements of the Iraqi se-curity forces over the past year. The documents, all issued by the national operations center under Iraq’s prime minister, say the in-formation was obtained from the U.S.-led coalition and then shared with Iraqi security forces, includ-ing at three military camps in Baghdad; the special division for the Green Zone in central Bagh-dad; and the military intelligence directorate. In one case, the docu-ment includes personal informa-tion for 143 of the employees.
A senior Iraqi military offi-cer said the U.S. military shared the information so the transla-tors could travel outside military bases.
When the U.S. military spokesman was asked about the documents showing that the U.S.-provided information had been given to various Iraqi secu-rity forces, he had no additional comment.
The translators, who have been employed by Valiant Integrated Services, a Virginia-based con-tractor, represent one of the larg-est groups of Iraqis who have worked closely with the U.S.-led coalition. Many have served on front lines with U.S. and other coalition troops, sleeping in the same foxholes and camping out in abandoned buildings as fight-ing raged around them.
The threat facing the transla-tors has grown more intense in recent months. Many have been laid off as the United States pre-pares to withdraw its forces from the country, leaving the former contract workers unemployed and potentially unprotected.
The translator from Baghdad, now out of work, has been renting temporary accommodations with two former colleagues to hide out. But money is running out. “We are literally eating our savings buying food here,” he said. “We’ll
be empty-handed by the end of the year.”
Under its contract with the U.S. military, Valiant hires transla-tors, formally known as linguists, for work in Iraq, Syria and other places. The company has shared little information publicly about its work and employees, citing contract restrictions.
Militia access to the personal information of Valiant’s employ-ees could exacerbate a threat long felt by Iraqi support staff, who in some cases already fear they have been identified by mi-litiamen monitoring checkpoints and military bases.
“We have interpreters right now who call me to say they have been threatened when they visit the bazaar or even just when they leave their homes,” said an Iraqi translator who coordinates a network of former support staff. “Some people have been told: ‘We can’t touch U.S. citizens here, but we can touch you.’ ”
This translator, who lives in the northern city of Kirkuk, re-called a recent evening when he was leaving a busy cafe. A man he didn’t recognize approached from behind and tapped his shoulder firmly. “I turned around and he looked at me directly. He told me I had to leave this city,” recounted the translator.
In response to a request for comment, the U.S. military de-clined to say whether it had taken any steps to protect the personal information of Iraqi translators and address the threats they now face as a result of this information being accessible to Iran-backed groups.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led
coalition said he had contacted Valiant and that the company had responded that “it does not share information that puts the safety of their warfighters or teammates in jeopardy.” The spokesman, Col. Wayne Marotto, said Valiant should be contacted for any fur-ther information.
When contacted, Valiant did not provide further formal com-ment. But a person familiar with the issue said Valiant’s policy is to notify the appropriate military unit if a current or former em-ployee reports a threat, which the person said has occurred “a few times a year.” The person added: “This is a priority. The military takes it from there.”
When the U.S. military was contacted again and asked how it handles these threats once it has been notified, the spokesman pro-vided no further comment.
Although Iran-backed militias participated in the U.S.-support-ed campaign to oust the Islamic State’s caliphate, these armed groups have recently been esca-lating their attacks on American interests in Iraq, especially after the U.S. killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in January.
Militias in Iraq have described the translators as traitors. Iraqis driving equipment and logistics convoys on behalf of the U.S.-led coalition have been targeted. There have been at least 30 rocket or improvised explosive attacks on the convoys since the summer, according to figures compiled by Joel Wing, an Iraq expert and au-thor of the Musings on Iraq blog, which chronicles security and po-litical developments. At least two
people have been killed and an-other eight have been wounded.
The Trump administration’splans to draw down most of the remaining U.S. troops in Iraq has come amid escalating militia as-saults against the convoys and other U.S. interests, includingrepeated rocket attacks on baseshosting American forces.
Between March and August,hundreds of Iraqi personnel working in support of the U.S. mission received emails saying their contracts had ended due to aloss of funding, stoking fears thatthey would be even more vulner-able to revenge attacks once theAmericans depart.
Those who have been working remotely due to the coronavirusoutbreak were told not to returnto their bases. Those still workingat military installations along-side U.S. soldiers said they were informed that their departurewould be “coordinated” in shortorder.
“I knew the risks when I signedon, but I also knew that the United States had told us that no matter the threat, they would stand byus,” said another translator from Kirkuk.
During four years of service,he said, he had worked with theU.S. Navy SEALs and the Mon-tana Army National Guard andhad most recently been helping train Iraqi forces at two centers in northern Iraq.
When he received his termina-tion notice, he got goosebumps. “Iknew then that it isn’t a matter ofasking whether something will happen to us. It’s a matter of ask-ing when,” he said.
Meanwhile, the United States nolonger allows Iraqis who workedwith the U.S. government in Iraqto apply for a so-called SpecialImmigrant Visas program, which stopped accepting new applica-tions in 2014. A parallel programfor Iraqi and Afghan translatorsremains open, but it is capped at 50 people per year.
EMILIENNE MALFATTO/The Washington Post
Members of the Hashd al-Shaabi militias watch as photos featuring Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis are unveiled in the Karrada vicinity of Baghdad in January. Iraqis who have worked with American forces fear they could be targeted for attack.
‘ I knew then that it isn’t a matter of asking whether something will happen to us. It’s a matter of asking when. ’
Iraqi translator
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PACIFIC
Philippines relations may be rough during Biden era
S. Korea to fine $90 for not wearing mask
USS Reagan families gather on Facebook for homecoming
BY SETH ROBSON
Stars and Stripes
A new U.S. administration under President-elect Joe Biden will tread carefully in its deal-ings with Philippines strongman President Rodrigo Duterte, de-fense experts predict.
Relations between the long-time allies went through a rough patch after Duterte took office in June 2016 and launched a sweep-ing anti-drug crusade that has included thousands of extrajudi-cial killings of drug dealers and users.
When U.S. officials criticized the drug war, Duterte respond-ed by calling President Barack Obama a “son of a whore” and vowing to seek closer ties with China and Russia. He also cut bilateral military training and called for the departure of U.S. Special Forces from his country.
Relations have warmed dur-ing President Donald Trump’s time in office, but it hasn’t been a smooth road.
In January, Duterte threatened to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement that governs Ameri-can military training in the coun-try over the denial of a U.S. visa to a former police chief who orches-trated the drug war. This week, Duterte extended the agreement for another six months.
Officials will seek to avoid more drama after Biden takes office, according to Jay Batongbacal, director of the University of the
Philippines’ Institute for Mari-time Affairs and Law of the Sea.
“I think they will treat Duterte rather gingerly,” he told members of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines during a Tuesday video confer-ence. “They will know [Duterte] has certain eccentricities and a tendency for impulsive decisions and reactions.”
However, there will still be pressure over human rights in the Philippines during the Biden administration, according to Carlyle Alan Thayer, an emeri-tus professor at the University of New South Wales and lecturer at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
“Human rights will be an issue,” he said during Tuesday’s video conference. “If it’s just members of Congress and the State De-partment doing it in a diplomatic fashion, that might not trigger a Duterte counter-reaction.”
It will be important for Biden and Duterte to meet to establish common ground, something that might happen on the sidelines of some international forum, Thay-er said.
“There is no baggage that Biden carries that Duterte should be worried about,” he said, add-ing that the new administration should be careful not to close off options for dealing with the Philippines.
“There is a way of raising these human rights issues … you don’t have to shout from the rooftop …
(or) use megaphone diplomacy,” he said.
Relations between the Pacificallies have improved since theU.S. helped Philippine forcesovercome Islamic State mili-tants in the Battle of Marawi on the southern island of Mindanaoin 2017. That could be built uponduring a Biden administration,Thayer said.
Partners since 1951 in a Mu-tual Defense Treaty, the twonations share an interest in free-dom of navigation in the South China Sea, where China has oc-cupied territory claimed by thePhilippines.
The next U.S. ambassador to thePhilippines will be key to keepingthe relationship on track, PatricioAbinales, a Philippines expert atthe University of Hawaii, said in an email Wednesday.
“Duterte was ranting about the U.S. a lot until the arrival of Am-bassador [Sung Kim],” he said ofthe Obama appointee, who servedin Manila for most of the Trumpadministration but departed for a new job as ambassador to Indone-sia last month.
Kim’s quiet approach and focus on nurturing business tiesand helping local forces fight Is-lamic terrorism ahead of flashymilitary drills such as the annual Balikatan exercise was effective,Abinales said.
“If the next ambassador issomeone like Kim, then the rela-tionship will be fine,” he said.
Stars and Stripes
CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — South Korean authori-ties will fine people who fail to wear masks in public up to 100,000 won, about $90, national broadcaster MBC and The Asso-ciated Press reported Friday.
Masks are now required in a wide range of venues, includ-ing restaurants, cafes, hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacies, nightclubs, karaoke bars, wed-ding halls, cinemas, beauty shops, religious facilities, health clubs and on public transport such as buses and subways, according to the reports. Masks must also be worn at grocery stores and while waiting to order takeout food. At swimming pools or saunas, face coverings are required in dress-ing rooms.
People must also wear masks unless they can maintain at least 6½ feet distance from others while climbing, hiking or gather-ing with 500 or more people, the
MBC report said.Business operators can be
fined up to 3 million won, about $2,690 if they fail to ask custom-ers to wear masks, MBC report-ed. However, youngsters under 15 and those unable to wear a mask due to a disability are not subject to fines.
In Seoul, city employees are being sent to subway stations and bus stops to monitor commuters, according to AP.
U.S. Forces Korea told Stars and Stripes in a statement Fri-day that it is aware of the new regulations.
“USFK has already directed that masks are mandatory for all USFK-affiliated individuals off-installation, and has informed our community that USFK indi-viduals are subject to the fine if found in violation of [South Ko-rean] laws and directives,” the statement [email protected]: @StarsAndStripes
BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS Stars and Stripes
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Sailors manned the rails 6 feet apart aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan as it returned to its homeport here on Saturday.
Homecoming isn’t the same during the coronavirus pandemic. There were no loved ones on the pier, no bands and no fanfare to welcome the crew home after a five-month patrol that included rare dual-carrier operations and three visits to the South China Sea.
Families instead watched their sailors pull into port via a live-streamed video posted to the carrier’s Facebook page. More than 1,500 were viewing the event at 10:15 a.m., sending virtual hearts and leav-ing comments like “OMG he’s back!” and “BEST DAY EVER! Welcome home!”
The ship planned to disembark its 5,000-person crew “in a controlled, socially dis-tance manner,” carrier spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Dawn Stankus told Stars and Stripes on Thursday.
“In order to get Sailors home to see their loved ones, the ship will rely heavily on pre-designated walking routes on base and the use of buses,” she said by email.
Carrier Air Wing 5 flew off the carrier to its home at Marine Corps Air Station
Iwakuni on Nov. 6, according to a post on the base Facebook page.
The Reagan deployed in early June, but many of the crew had not seen their families since going into pre-deployment quarantine as early as April. The month before, the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt diverted to Guam mid-deploy-ment to address an outbreak that infected more than 1,150 crewmembers with the coronavirus.
While the Reagan successfully avoided a widespread coronavirus outbreak this pa-trol, a “small number” of its sailors tested positive aboard the ship on Aug. 27.
Despite the infections, the Reagan con-tinued its operations by imposing mea-sures that contained the virus’ spread, Vice Adm. Phil Sawyer, deputy chief of naval operations for operations, plans and strategy, told reporters during a Septem-ber conference call.
During its patrol, the Reagan twice par-ticipated in operations this summer with the carrier USS Nimitz, based in Bremer-ton, Wash. In June, the carriers trained together in the Philippine Sea, and in July met for exercises in the South China Sea.
Dual-carrier operations are relatively rare. The Navy has conducted just eight in the Indo-Pacific since 2001, three of them this year.
Although China planned its own car-
rier operations in the South China Sea, ac-cording to the South China Morning Post on May 24, the U.S. Navy in July said the presence of the Reagan and the Nimitz in the same area was “not in response to any specific political or world events.”
The carriers’ exercise also took place about a week before Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on July 13 for the first time laid out the official U.S. stance rejecting China’s claims of sovereignty over most of the 1.4 million square miles of the South China Sea and dozens of militarized is-lands within it.
The Reagan returned to the contested waters twice more this fall before making its way home. The carrier held air-defense exercises there in August, and maritime security operations including flight opera-tions and maritime strike exercises, the Navy said Oct. 15.
China reportedly held live-fire drills in the South China Sea the day after the Rea-gan’s August exercises, the Chinese mili-tary said at the time.
During its 2020 deployment, the carrier also participated in exercises, including Valiant Shield, transited the Strait of Ma-lacca twice and operated with the navies of regional allies and partners, such as Japan. [email protected] Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
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Airmen from the 51st Fighter Wing wear masks last month as they stroll outside Osan Air Base, South Korea .
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BY ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Associated Press
Despite painstaking efforts to keep election sites safe, some poll workers who came in contact with voters on Election Day have test-ed positive for the coronavirus, including more than two dozen in Missouri and cases in New York, Iowa, Indiana and Virginia.
The infections cannot be tied definitively to polling places. Because COVID-19 is spread-ing rapidly in the U.S., there is no way to determine yet whether in-person voting on Election Day contributed to the surge, public health experts said.
Still, the infections among poll workers raise concerns because of how many people passed through voting sites, which implemented social-distancing rules, erected protective barriers and stocked sanitizer, masks, gloves and other safety gear. In most places, poll workers were required to wear masks.
The cases emerged while elec-tion workers continued counting thousands of ballots. As a hand tally of the presidential race began in Georgia, the state’s top elec-tion official placed himself under quarantine after his wife tested positive for the coronavirus.
In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which is in a county considered a national virus hot spot, an election official who worked an early voting site later tested positive.
“I’m actually surprised that we don’t have more cases,” said Linn County Election Commissioner Joel Miller, who noted that sever-al county workers in his building tested positive in the last week. “It actually seems kind of far-fetched that we didn’t have more, but they might not be reporting it to us.”
Election workers in Jackson County, Mo. , in the Kansas City suburbs, seem to be the hardest hit , with about 28 staffers test-ing positive in the past couple of
weeks.Tammy Brown, head of the
Jackson County Election Board, said her staffers urged voters who felt ill to avoid coming inside, though she suspects not everyone listened. The board dealt with nearly 200,000 voters, including more than 60,000 who cast early ballots.
“We, as election officials, all knew we were at risk,” Brown said. “I don’t think this was shock-ing to any of us.”
With transmission rates high in Missouri, health officials are not ready to link the cases to poll-ing places. They say the work-ers could have become infected anywhere.
The county offered drive-thru voting for people with COVID-19 or who were quarantining because of contact with someone who was infected. When part-time workers became ill, full-time election board staff worked the drive-thru line.
It’s difficult to trace cases back to polling places because the virus manifests in different ways, and some people never get symp-toms. Infections also are spiking as people gather with extended family or friends and return to more crowded public settings.
While that spread increases the likelihood poll workers may have contracted the disease elsewhere, there have been calls for their co-workers to quarantine and voters to be tested as a precaution.
It could be several weeks be-fore the effect of in-person vot-ing nationwide is known. Pollingplaces that used safety measurescould have greatly minimizedtransmission rates, perhaps mak-ing them less risky than going to a restaurant with friends, said M.Kumi Smith, an assistant profes-sor with the epidemiology divisionat the University of Minnesota.
No major reports of safety laps-es or risky voting conditions haveemerged.
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PARIS — Dry-coughing as he pedals — a hack, hack, hack after-effect of his own personal battle with COVID-19 — the doc-tor cycles through the dark of pre-dawn Paris, speeding to a crisis meeting at his hospital where, way back in February, the disease carried away the first of what has now become more than a quarter-million dead in Europe.
In the nine months since then, critical care chief Philippe Montravers and the 150 doctors and nurses he leads at the
towering Bichat Hospital in Paris have become experts about their enemy. That knowledge is proving invaluable against the second deadly surge of the virus that is again threatening to overwhelm European health systems.
Puffing and spluttering as he pedals, because his lungs are still congested, Mon-travers details the progress that he and his team have made in their care since they fought off the gruesome initial wave of cases last spring, therapeutic advances that are helping Bichat and other hospitals better resist the renewed tide of infections.
Bichat in February was the first hospital outside Asia to record the death of a per-son infected with the virus: an 80-year-old tourist from China.
“In the first wave, people didn’t dare come to the hospital. They were scared, scared of being infected,” Montravers re-calls. “When they arrived, they were on their last legs, exhausted, unable to move, and so — hop! — we intubated and venti-lated them.”
Now, there are steroid treatments that weren’t available to Bichat’s doctors in the first surge. They have also learned
not to put patients on ventilators if at all possible and to instead keep them awake and bathed in oxygen, dispensed through face masks instead of invasive tubes. Thesick are also savvier, and are seeking helpearlier for their symptoms, making them easier to treat.
Added together, these and other ad-vances mean that patients more often arespending days instead of weeks in critical care and surviving in greater numbers.
“We’ve won about 15 days in caring forthem and the mortality has dropped bynearly half,” Montravers says.
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BUCHAREST, Romania — A fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in northeastern Roma-nia killed 10 people Saturday and injured 10 others, seven of them critically, officials said. Prosecu-tors quickly opened a criminal investigation.
The blaze spread through the intensive care ward designated for COVID-19 patients at the pub-lic hospital in the city of Piatra Neamt, local Emergency Situa-tions Inspectorate spokesperson Irina Popa said. Most of the peo-ple who died or were injured in the blaze were hospital patients.
Health Minister Nelu Tataru told Romanian media the fire at Piatra Neamt Regional Emer-gency Hospital was “most likely triggered by a short circuit.”
Romania’s national prosecu-tor’s office said it would investi-gate the blaze as a possible case of criminal manslaughter. The prosecutor who led the probe into
a 2015 blaze that killed 64 people at an underground nightclub in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, was assigned to lead the new in-vestigation, the office said.
The fire at the Colective night-club sparked massive protests that forced the Romanian gov-ernment to relinquish office. The government was led at the time by the left-leaning Social Demo-crat Party, known as PSD.
The PSD hopes to reclaim power in the next general elec-tion, set for Dec.6. It is almost certain to use the Saturday fire in Piatra Neamt in its attacks against the center-right National Liberal party, or NLP, which has controlled Romania’s minority government since last October.
The minority government has been struggling to contain the economic fallout from the corona-virus pandemic by curbing social spending, and the tragic death of patients in a public COVID-19 hospital is likely to add to the
ruling party’s woes ahead of theelection.
News outlets reported that Pia-tra Neamt Regional EmergencyHospital has long been poorly managed, with eight government-appointed managers overseeing the facility in the last year.
The hospital’s current man-ager, Lucian Micu, was appointed just three weeks ago after his pre-decessor resigned over the poortreatment of patients. The res-ignation followed media reportsof patients, including many sus-pected to have COVID-19, being forced to wait outside in the coldto see a doctor.
Micu said Saturday that a doc-tor on duty tried to save the pa-tients from the flames and was in critical condition with first- andsecond-degree burns covering80 percent of his body. Anotherdoctor and two nurses also werebeing treated for burns.
Piatra Neamt is about 219 miles north of Romania’s capital,Bucharest.
Poll workers contract virus; link to Election Day unclear
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A man hands his completed ballot to an election worker at a drive-thru polling location Nov. 3 in Kansas City, Mo. More than two dozen poll workers in Missouri have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Paris hospitals see signs of hope despite surging virus
Fire in Romanian COVID-19 intensive care unit kills 10
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Investigators wearing protective suits stand inside the destroyed COVID-19 intensive care ward at the hospital in Piatra Neamt, northern Romania, on Saturday after a fire that killed 10 people and critically injured 10 others.
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BERLIN — Austria announced Saturday that it is tightening its partial lockdown, including clos-ing nonessential stores and shift-ing schools to online teaching, amid galloping coronavirus in-fection rates in the Alpine nation.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said the measures had become neces-sary because Austria has seen 550 new cases of coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants in the past week, a level 11 times greater than what authorities said would be sustainable.
“If we don’t react massively, then there’s a great risk that the numbers will continue to rise or stay at a high level,” Kurz told reporters in Vienna. Austrian health officials are unable to
trace 77 percent of new cases, he added.
Starting Tuesday, the country of almost 9 million inhabitants will impose a limited curfew, banning people from leaving their homes except to go to work, get essential supplies, to exercise or to help people who need assis-tance. The partial lockdown is set to last until Dec. 6 .
“My urgent plea for the next four weeks is: meet nobody,” Kurz said. “Every social contact is one too many.”
In addition to restaurants and leisure facilities, which have been shut for almost two weeks, authorities in Austria are order-ing the closure of hairdressers, sports facilities and libraries.
Health Minister Rudolf An-schober warned that many
medical workers are nearing ex-haustion, saying the new infec-tion-control measures are “the last chance to stop a collapse of the hospitals.”
His words were echoed by doc-tors in neighboring Germany, who have called for the government to provide greater financial assur-ances to hospitals so non-urgent surgeries can be postponed and staffs can concentrate on criti-cally ill COVID patients.
A German doctors union and four medical associations said in a joint statement Saturday that unless the strain on personnel can be eased, “many intensive care units in particular will soon pass breaking point.”
Germany had more than 141 new cases of coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants in the past
week. Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet senior officials Mon-day to discuss whether existing measures imposed for the month of November are sufficient.
There has been widespread support for the restrictions in Germany, but a vocal minority — supported by far-right extrem-
ists — has staged regular protestsagainst public health rules andregulations such as the require-ment to wear masks.
Police in the central city ofFrankfurt used water cannonsSaturday against both the partici-pants of an anti-mask rally andcounterprotesters.
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BERLIN — The German gov-ernment has released a tongue-in-cheek ad hailing an unlikely hero in the fight against the coro-navirus pandemic: the humble couch potato.
The 90-second video posted online Saturday begins with an elderly man recalling his “ser-vice” to the nation back when he was just a young student “in the winter of 2020, when the whole country’s eyes were on us.”
“I had just turned 22 and was studying engineering,” he contin-ues, “when the second wave hit.”
With violins stirring at viewers’ heart strings, the setting switch-es to a scene of the narrator as a young man.
“Suddenly the fate of this coun-try lay in our hands,“ he says. “Sowe mustered all our courage anddid what was expected of us, theonly right thing. We did nothing.”
“Days and nights we stayed onour backsides at home and foughtagainst the spread of the corona-virus,” the narrator continues.“Our couch was the front line and our patience was our weapon.”
The ad ends with a government message that “you too can be-come a hero by staying at home.”
Germany imposed fresh re-strictions to curb the spread ofCOVID-19 at the start of No-vember, shutting restaurants,bars and gyms, and setting lim-its on the number of people whocan meet in public and private settings.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Saint Nicholas arrived in the Netherlands on Saturday amid a partial coronavirus lockdown that forced the cancellation of celebrations in many towns and cities.
The Dutch celebrate what they call Sinterklaas on Dec. 5 by giv-ing gifts to children, but the saint arrives — legend has it — in the country weeks earlier in what is usually a nationwide party.
A nationally televised arrival celebration went ahead Saturday without the usual crowds of thou-sands of children and their par-ents amid a partial lockdown in the Netherlands aimed at reining in coronavirus infections.
Other towns and cities held on-
line events and at least one town organized a drive-through cel-ebration where children could see Sinterklaas from the socially distanced safety of cars.
In neighboring Belgium, the saint’s official welcome in the port city of Antwerp was also banned, though the government said in a tongue-in-cheek letter that Nich-olas wouldn’t have to quarantine after arriving in Belgium from Spain, where he lives, and would be able to walk rooftops to drop gifts into chimneys even during curfew hours.
Belgian government ministers, however, cautioned St. Nicholas to “always respect distancing, wash hands regularly and wear a face mask,” despite his long white beard.
German ad pays tribute to the ‘humble couch potato’
Austria tightens restrictions in effort to curb numbers
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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz prepares to make an address Saturday at the federal chancellery in Vienna, Austria.
Dutch restrictions lead to subdued arrival of St. Nick
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A giant statue of Saint Nicholas stands in front of the town hall of Sint-Niklaas, Belgium .
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MIAMI — Florida’s Depart-ment of Health on Saturday confirmed 4,544 new cases of COVID-19 and Miami-Dade’s surge puts the county over 200,000 cases. The state now has 875,096 confirmed cases, the third-highest state in the coun-try, after Texas and California, according to the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention.
The state also announced 44 resident deaths, bringing the resident death toll to 17,489. One new nonresident death was also announced, bringing the nonresi-dent toll to 215.
Though Saturday’s count was lower than Friday’s 6,933 new cases — the highest single-day count since Aug. 12 when Florida added 8,109 cases, excluding the Sept. 1 Quest Diagnostics data dump of 7,569 single-day cases — testing was also down due to the lingering floods of Tropical Storm Eta.
Most South Florida coronavirus testing sites reopened Tuesday and Thursday after Eta drenched the area and brought tropical storm force winds.
Arkansas LITTLE ROCK — The number
of newly reported coronavirus cases and the number of hospital-izations of those with COVID-19 declined slightly on Saturday, a day after setting record highs, ac-cording to the Arkansas Depart-ment of Health.
There were 1,848 newly con-firmed or probable cases, 11 ad-ditional deaths and 812 people hospitalized, 14 fewer hospital-izations than reported Friday, the department said.
Data from Johns Hopkins Uni-versity shows the seven-day roll-ing average of new cases in the state has risen from 962.7 new cases per day to 1,584, while the daily average of deaths has fallen from 16.8 per day 13.1.
CaliforniaLOS ANGELES — Los Ange-
les County public health officials reported 20 new deaths and 3,780 new confirmed cases of the coro-navirus on Saturday, the highest number of positive cases in one day since the summer.
County officials attributed the growth in cases to increased test-ing across the county — more than 56,000 tests were processed Friday — yet the positivity rate remains high, at nearly 6%. The new positive cases reported Sat-urday are the largest one-day fig-ure since mid-July not associated with a backlog of cases, health of-ficials said.
Additionally, there are 966 peo-ple currently hospitalized with COVID-19, with over a quarter in the ICU. That’s the highest num-ber of hospitalizations in nearly two months, officials said.
Younger people are driving the increase in new coronavirus cases, with those under 50 com-prising nearly three-quarters of the cases reported Saturday.
ConnecticutBridgeport Hospital is join-
ing others across Connecticut in implementing visitor restrictions again because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The restrictions, which took effect Saturday, prohibit visi-tors, with possible exceptions for pediatric patients, maternity pa-tients, those at the end of life and others.
Other hospitals with similar restrictions include Yale New Haven Hospital, Norwalk Hospi-tal and Waterbury Hospital.
The Connecticut Post reported that Bridgeport’s other major hospital, St. Vincent’s Medi-cal Center, is still allowing visi-tors, though it does have tighter guidelines than it did before the pandemic.
Hawaii HONOLULU — Hawaii health
officials have reported 110 newly confirmed coronavirus cases and no new deaths. The figures re-ported Friday bring the statewide total to 16,412 cases.
The state has reported 222 deaths from the virus since the beginning of the pandemic, in-cluding 173 deaths on Oahu, 31 on Hawaii island, 17 on Maui and one from Kauai who died on the mainland, the Honolulu Star-Ad-vertiser reported.
Friday’s new reported figures include 92 infections on Oahu, eight on the Big Island, two on Kauai, one on Maui and seven state residents diagnosed outside of the state, according to the state Department of Health. The new cases came from 4,860 corona-virus tests, meaning the state’s positivity rate was 2.3%.
There have been 14,172 con-firmed cases on Oahu, 1,459 in Hawaii County, 443 on Maui, 106 on Lanai, 75 on Kauai and 17 on Molokai. There have also been 138 Hawaii residents diagnosed outside of the state.
Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Illinois re-
ported 11,028 new or probable coronavirus cases Saturday and 166 deaths.
A delay in data had prevented earlier reporting of 66 of the deaths, the Department of Public Health said.
Illinois hospitals said they had 5,415 patients with COVID-19 on Friday night, including 9% on ventilators.
Local health officials issued a stay-at-home advisory for subur-ban Chicago. Mayor Lori Light-foot also urged Chicago residents to stay home to fight a surge in COVID-19 cases. Gov. J.B. Pritz-ker has made similar pleas, say-ing he could step up restrictions if things don’t change.
Mississippi JACKSON — Officials have
identified a coronavirus outbreak at a prison in the Mississippi Delta in which more than 50 in-mates have tested positive for COVID-19.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections and the Missis-sippi State Department of Health confirmed the outbreak occurred at the Marshall County Correc-tional Facility in Holly Springs. The facility is operated by private prison management group Man-agement & Training Corporation of Centerville, Utah. Marshall County borders the Mississippi-Tennessee state line and the greater Memphis metropolitan area.
Dr. Raman Singh is the medi-cal director for the correction department’s medical provider, VitalCore Health Strategies. He said three inmates in the pris-on’s 959-inmate population be-came symptomatic last week and tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.
Singh said the facility began contact tracing and identified 109 inmates who were either living in
the area of the three positive in-mates or had contact with them.
ArizonaWINDOW ROCK — The Na-
vajo Nation on Monday will re-instate a stay-at-home lockdown for the entire reservation while closing tribal offices and requir-ing new closures and safety mea-sures for businesses due to rising COVID-19 cases.
The lockdown goes into effect Monday for a three-week period, tribal officials announced Friday night. A previously ordered 56-hour weekend curfew began Fri-day night.
Much of the Navajo Nation was closed between March and August as the coronavirus swept through the vast reservation that covers parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah in the U.S. Southwest.
The Navajo Nation Department of Health on Wednesday warned residents of new “uncontrolled spread” of the virus in 34 com-munities on the reservation.
Nevada CARSON CITY — A day after
announcing he’d tested positive for COVID-19, Gov. Steve Sisolak warned Saturday that Nevada’s response to the coronavirus out-break was at “a critical juncture” as the state reported a record number of new confirmed cases for the second day in a row.
The new cases announced Sat-urday with 15 additional deaths increased the state’s totals to 119,006 cases and 1,908 deaths.
Sisolak warned Nevadans ear-lier in the week that if the state fails to slow the spread of the virus within two weeks, he will be forced to reimplement stricter measures. He asked residents to commit to a “Stay-at-Home 2.0” mentality to ensure the state’s hospitals don’t become overwhelmed.
Sisolak, a 66-year-old Demo-crat, told reporters Friday he was not experiencing any symptoms.
New HampshireA Wolfeboro church has sus-
pended in-person services afterat least 14 members tested posi-tive for the coronavirus.
Church officials said on their website that several people began feeling ill the week of Nov. 2. By Nov. 11, 14 had tested positive.
Meanwhile, the coronaviruspandemic continues to wreak havoc with fall tournaments forNew Hampshire’s high schoolathletes.
The Valley News reports that atleast 20 state tournament gamesacross five sports involving 15schools have been canceled. Mostrecently, Lebanon joined Exeter,St. Thomas and Winnisquam asfootball teams forced out of theirpostseasons, in most cases be-cause too many players have beenexposed to someone who testedpositive for the virus.
VermontVermont will start testing K-12
teachers and staff for COVID-19starting next week as a strategythat health officials hope will help to track the spread of the corona-virus in communities.
Teachers and school staff arenot at a higher risk of contractingthe illness caused by the virus, but they “represent a large groupof individuals in an organized setting” and could help the state better identify cases before a po-tential outbreak, Health Commis-sioner Dr. Mark Levine said thisweek.
The tests will be given vol-untarily starting next weekand resume monthly after theThanksgiving holiday break, theBurlington Free Press reported.Those who are tested will notbe required to quarantine whileawaiting their results.
The state reported 94 newcases Saturday, while the num-ber of deaths remained at 59. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Vermont has risen over the past two weeks from 20 new cases per day on Oct. 30 to 60new cases per day on Nov. 13.
Texas HOUSTON — The value of oil
fields in West Texas have plum-meted due to the coronaviruspandemic, which has caused the demand for crude to go down.
Eli Huffman, a land broker andattorney at Houston-based Lone Star Production Co., said he hasseen land prices fall below $1,000 an acre for property that used to be worth more than $10,000 an acre.
The average price of U.S. shaleacreage has fallen by more than70% in two years — from $17,000 per acre in 2018 to $5,000 per acre in 2020, according to Norwegianenergy research firm Rystad.
Despite that, the prices of someshale plays have held up, theHouston Chronicle reported. ThePermian-Delaware basin is stillvalued at $30,000 per acre andthe Midland basin is currently valued at $17,000 an acre, Rystadadded.
Monday, November 16, 2020
VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP
Fla. reports another day of over 4K new cases
K.M. CANNON, LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL/AP
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak updates the state’s COVID-19 response during a news conference at the Sawyer Building in Las Vegas.
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Support: Thousands rally across the States
GOP leaders in 4 states quash dubious Trump bid to flip
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Police said they made 21 ar-rests on a variety of charges, including assault and weapons possession, and recovered eight firearms. Four officers were in-jured. No arrest has been made in the stabbing, and the victim was hospitalized with non-life-threat-ening injuries.
Trump himself had given an approving nod to the gathering Saturday morning by sending his motorcade through streets lined with supporters before roll-ing on to his Virginia golf club. People chanted “USA, USA” and “four more years,” and many car-ried American flags and signs to show their displeasure with the vote tally and insistence that, as Trump has baselessly asserted, fraud was the reason.
“I just want to keep up his spir-its and let him know we support him,” said one loyalist, Anthony Whittaker of Winchester, Va. He was outside the Supreme Court, where a few thousand assembled after a march along Pennsylva-nia Avenue from Freedom Plaza, near the White House.
A broad coalition of top govern-ment and industry officials has declared that the Nov. 3 voting and the following count unfolded smoothly with no more than the usual minor hiccups — “the most secure in American history,” they said, repudiating Trump’s efforts to undermine the integrity of the contest.
In Delray Beach, Fla., several hundred people marched, some carrying signs reading “Count
every vote” and “We cannot live under a Marxist government.” In Lansing, Mich. , protesters gathered at the Capitol to hear speakers cast doubt on results that showed Biden winning the state by more than 140,000 votes. Phoenix police estimated 1,500 people gathered outside the Ari-zona Capitol to protest Biden’s narrow victory in the state. Pro-testers in Salem, Ore., gathered at the Capitol.
Among the speakers in Wash-ington was a Georgia Republican newly elected to the U.S. House. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories, urged people to march peacefully toward the Supreme Court.
The marchers included mem-bers of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist group known for street brawling with ideological oppo-nents at political rallies.
Multiple confrontations ap-peared later in the day as small groups of Trump supporters attempted to enter the area around Black Lives Matter Plaza, about a block from the White House, where several hundred anti-Trump demonstrators had gathered.
In a pattern that kept repeating itself, those Trump supporters who approached the area were harassed, doused with water and saw their MAGA hats and pro-Trump flags snatched and burned, amid cheers. As night fell, multiple police lines kept the sides apart.
Videos posted on social media showed some demonstrators and counterdemonstrators trading shoves, punches and slaps. A man with a bullhorn yelling “Get out of here!” was shoved and pushed to the street by a man who was then surrounded by several people and shoved and punched until he fell face first into the street. Bloody and dazed, he was picked up and walked to a police officer.
The “Million MAGA March” was heavily promoted on social media, raising concerns that it could spark conflict with anti-
Trump demonstrators, who have gathered near the White House in Black Lives Matter Plaza for weeks.
In preparation, police closed off wide swaths of downtown, where many stores and offices have been boarded up since Election Day. Chris Rodriguez, director of the city’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, said the police were experienced at keeping the peace.
The issues that Trump’s cam-paign and its allies have pointed to are typical in every election:
problems with signatures, secre-cy envelopes and postal marks onmail-in ballots, as well as the po-tential for a small number of bal-lots miscast or lost. With Bidenleading Trump by wide marginsin key battleground states, none of those issues would have any impact on the outcome of theelection.
A former administration of-ficial, Sebastian Gorka, whippedup the crowd by the Supreme Court by saying, “We can win be-cause he did win.” But, he added, “It’s going to be tough.”
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Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won’t participate in a legally dubi-ous scheme to flip their state’s electors to vote for President Donald Trump. Their comments effectively shut down a half-baked plot some Republicans floated as a last chance to keep Trump in the White House.
State GOP lawmakers in Arizona, Mich-igan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have all said they would not intervene in the selection of electors, who ultimately cast the votes that secure a candidate’s victory. Such a move would violate state law and a vote of the people, several noted.
“I do not see, short of finding some type of fraud — which I haven’t heard of anything — I don’t see us in any seri-ous way addressing a change in electors,” said Rusty Bowers, Arizona’s Republican House speaker, who says he’s been inun-dated with emails pleading for the legisla-ture to intervene. “They are mandated by statute to choose according to the vote of the people.”
The idea loosely involves GOP-controlled legislatures dismissing Biden’s popular vote wins in their states and opting to se-lect Trump electors. While the endgame was unclear, it appeared to hinge on the
expectation that a conservative-leaning Supreme Court would settle any dispute over the move.
Still, it has been promoted by Trump al-lies, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and is an example of misleading informa-tion and false claims fueling skepticism among Trump supporters about the integ-rity of the vote.
The theory is rooted in the fact that the U.S. Constitution grants state legislatures the power to decide how electors are cho-sen. Each state already has passed laws that delegate this power to voters and ap-point electors for whichever candidate wins the state on Election Day. The only opportunity for a state legislature to then get involved with electors is a provision in federal law allowing it if the actual election “fails.”
If the result of the election was unclear in mid-December, at the deadline for nam-ing electors, Republican-controlled legis-
latures in those states could declare that Trump won and appoint electors support-ing him. Or so the theory goes.
The problem, legal experts note, is that the result of the election is not in any way unclear. Biden won all the states at issue. It’s hard to argue the election “failed” when Trump’s own Department of Home-land Security reported it was not tampered with and was “the most secure in Ameri-can history.” There has been no finding of widespread fraud or problems in the vote count, which shows Biden leading Trump by more than 5 million votes nationally.
Trump’s campaign and its allies have filed lawsuits that aim to delay the certifi-cation and potentially provide evidence for a failed election. But so far, Trump and Re-publicans have had meager success — at least 10 of the lawsuits have been rejected by the courts in the 10 days since the elec-tion. The most significant that remain ask courts to prevent Michigan and Pennsyl-
vania from certifying Biden as the winnerof their elections.
But legal experts say it’s impossiblefor courts to ultimately stop those states from appointing electors by the December deadline.
“It would take the most unjustified and bizarre intervention by courts that thiscountry has ever seen,” said Danielle Langof the Campaign Legal Center. “I haven’tseen anything in any of those lawsuits thathas any kind of merit — let alone enough to delay appointing electors.”
Even if Trump won a single court fight, there’s another potential roadblock: Con-gress could be the final arbiter of whetherto accept disputed slates of electors, ac-cording to the Electoral Count Act of 1887,the law outlining the process. In the end,if the Democratic-controlled House and GOP-controlled Senate could not agree onwhich electors to accept, and there is novote and no winner, the presidency wouldpass to the next person in the line of suc-cession at the end of Trump and Vice Pres-ident Mike Pence’s term on Jan. 20. Thatwould be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, aDemocrat.
“If this is a strategy, I don’t think itwill be successful,” said Edward Foley, aconstitutional law professor at Ohio StateUniversity. “I think we’re in the realm of fantasy here.”
EVAN VUCCI/AP
Supporters of President Donald Trump cheer as his motorcade drives past a rally of supporters near the White House, on Saturday, in Washington.
‘ I don’t see us in any serious way addressing a change in electors. They are mandated by statute to choose according to the vote of the people. ’
Rusty BowersArizona’s Republican House speaker
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Hurricane Iota intensifies as it moves forward
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Iota became the 13th hurricane of the Atlantic season early Sunday, threatening to bring another dan-gerous system to Nicaragua and Honduras — countries recently clobbered by a Category 4 Hur-ricane Eta.
Iota was already a record-breaking system, being the 30th named storm of this year’s ex-traordinarily busy Atlantic hur-ricane season. Such activity has focused attention on climate change, which scientists say is causing wetter, stronger and more destructive storms.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Sunday morning that
Iota had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph , making it a Category 1 hurricane. But, fore-casters said Iota would rapidly strengthen and was expected to be a major hurricane by the time it reaches Central America.
Iota was centered about 240 miles east of Isla de Providen-cia, Colombia, and was moving west-northwest at 6 mph Sunday morning. Forecasters said Iota was expected to pass or cross over Providencia sometime Mon-day and then approach the coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras on Monday evening.
The system was forecast to bring up to 30 inches of rain from northeast Nicaragua into northern Honduras. Costa Rica,
Panama and El Salvador could also experience heavy rain and possible flooding, the hurricane center said.
Forecasters said the island of Providencia and parts of Nica-ragua and Honduras were under hurricane warnings. Storm surge could increase water levels by up to 13 feet in Nicaragua and Honduras.
Iota threatened to wreak more havoc in a region where people are still grappling with the af-
termath of Eta. That system hit Nicaragua just over a week ago as a Category 4 hurricane, kill-ing at least 120 people as torren-tial rains brought flash floods and landslides to parts of Cen-tral America and Mexico. Then it meandered across Cuba, the Florida Keys and around the Gulf of Mexico before slogging ashore again near Cedar Key, Fl a., and dashing across Florida and the Carolinas.
BY DAVID PORTER
Associated Press
NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York ruled Saturday thatActing Department of HomelandSecurity Secretary Chad Wolf as-sumed his position unlawfully, adetermination that invalidated Wolf’s suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivalsprogram, which shields youngpeople from deportation.
“DHS failed to follow the orderof succession as it was lawfullydesignated,” U.S. District JudgeNicholas Garaufis wrote. “There-fore, the actions taken by pur-ported Acting Secretaries, who were not properly in their rolesaccording to the lawful order ofsuccession, were taken without legal authority.”
Wolf issued a memorandum in July effectively suspendingDACA, pending review by DHS.A month earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that President Donald Trump failed to followrule-making procedures when he tried to end the program, but the justices kept a window open forhim to try again.
About 650,000 people are partof DACA, which allows young immigrants who were brought to the country as children to le-gally work and shields them fromdeportation.
Karen Tumlin, an attorneywho represented a plaintiff in oneof the lawsuits that challengedWolf’s authority, called the ruling“another win for DACA recipientsand those who have been waiting years to apply for the program forthe first time.”
In August, the GovernmentAccountability Office, a bipar-tisan congressional watchdog, said Wolf and his acting deputy,Ken Cuccinelli, were improperlyserving and ineligible to run the agency under the Vacancies Re-form Act. The two have been atthe forefront of administrationinitiatives on immigration and law enforcement.
In Garaufis’ ruling Saturday,the judge wrote that DHS didn’tfollow an order of succession es-tablished when then-SecretaryKirstjen Nielsen resigned in April2019. Kevin McAleenan, who suc-ceeded Nielsen until he resignedin October 2019, also didn’t have statutory authority to hold the po-sition, Garaufis wrote.
DHS did not immediately re-spond to a request for comment on the ruling. The departmenthas maintained that Wolf’s ap-pointment was legal even withoutSenate confirmation, which isstill pending in the final weeks of the Trump administration.
President-elect Joe Biden plansto reinstate DACA and is expected to use executive orders to reversesome of Trump’s other immigra-tion actions.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — A 75-foot Nor-way spruce arrived Saturday at New York City’s Rockefeller Cen-ter to serve as one of the world’s most famous Christmas trees.
The tree was trucked in early Saturday morning and later lifted into its spot by a crane.
The tree will be decorated over
the coming weeks, and its more than 5 miles of lights will be illu-minated at a ceremony at 7 p.m. Dec. 2, according to NBC, which is broadcasting the event.
No in-person spectators will be allowed this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the net-work said on the “Today” show Saturday.
The tree was donated by Al
Dick of Daddy Al’s General Store in Oneonta, in central New York.
Tishman Speyer, the company that owns Rockefeller Center, has said it’s especially proud to keep up the tree tradition this year. The pandemic has spurred the cancellation of some other New York holiday customs, such as the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — And how the bidders loved him!
A buyer shouted out with glee that they would pay $368,000 for the Rudolph and Santa Claus figures used in the perennially beloved Christmas special “Ru-dolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.”
Bidding for the figures soared past the projected sale price of between $150,000 and $200,000 on Friday at the Icons & Legends of Hollywood Auction held in Los Angeles by Profiles in History.
The buyer was not identified. The seller was Peter Lutrario, 65, of New York, who told The Asso-ciated Press before the auction that he thought he would never part with the dolls but wanted to be able to take care of his chil-dren and grandchildren with the money.
The figures were among sever-al used to make the 1964 stop-mo-tion animation television special.
The 6-inch-tall Rudolph and 11-inch-tall Santa were made in Tokyo of wood, wire, cloth and leather, and are still malleable. Rudolph’s nose still lights up. San-ta’s beard is made from yak hair.
Other highlights from the two-day auction include Marilyn Monroe’s tiger-striped gown from “The Seven Year Itch,” which sold for a whopping $593,750. Another Monroe gown that she wore when she met Queen Elizabeth II at a London film premiere went for $294,400.
CRAIG RUTTLE/AP
The 2020 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a 75-foot tall Norway Spruce that was acquired in Oneonta, N.Y., is suspended by a crane as it is prepared for setting on a platform at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, in New York.
DELMER MARTINEZ/AP
Residents wade through a flooded road in the aftermath of Hurricane Eta in Planeta, Honduras, on Nov. 5 .
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WBAL-TV reported two em-ployees ended up in the hospital. One is still there with broken bones.
Anne Arundel County policesaid the incident took place insidea Cold Stone Creamery . Police said the mask request turned into a sidewalk beating.
“Just asking someone to prop-erly put on their mask and withthat conversation it just escalat-ed,” Sgt. Kam Cook said.
Armed carjacking leads to pursuit, 2 arrests
WI SHEBOYGAN — Two teens are in custody
after shots were fired during a carjacking in Sheboygan and alaw enforcement pursuit, accord-ing to authorities.
Sheriff’s officials said the boys,ages 16 and 17, were in a stolenvehicle when they tried carjack-ing another vehicle . The driverdrove away and the vehicle was hit by gunfire. No one was hurt.
A short time later the boys took a vehicle at gunpoint in She-boygan. Officers deployed spikestrips on Interstate 43 near Bel-gium in Ozaukee County. The vehicle was stopped, but the boysfled on foot. They were eventu-ally taken into custody.
Both suspects were turned over to Sheboygan County Sheriff’sOffice.
Ex-Microsoft worker sentenced in $10M scam
WA SEATTLE — A for-mer Microsoft work-
er was sentenced to nine yearsin prison for a scheme to steal$10 million in digital currency— money authorities said he usedto buy a $160,000 car and a lake-front home.
Volodymyr Kvashuk, 26, a Ukrainian citizen living in Rent-on , was responsible for helping test Microsoft’s online retail sales platform.
Prosecutors said he stole digi-tal currency such as gift cardsor codes that could be redeemedfor Microsoft products or gamingsubscriptions, then resold themon the internet.
A federal jury convicted Kvashuk in February of tax, money laundering and fraudcharges. U.S. District JudgeJames Robart sentenced him andordered him to pay more than$8.3 million in restitution.
Much of the money was stolen using email accounts associated with other Microsoft employees.
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through a nearby retirement home, police said.
Witnesses described the driver as approximately 40 to 50 years old with dark hair and a mustache or beard.
The man is accused of driv-ing through the front doors of a Super 1 Foods in Columbia Falls and continuing to drive through the store before turning around and driving out the way he had entered, police said.
Shortly after discovering the vehicle, police received a report of a nude male running down the hallway of a retirement home that was adjacent to the abandoned vehicle. Officers found the man about one block west of the home and detained him.
Septic hauler fined in illegal dumping lawsuit
MA BOSTON — A Massa-chusetts septic haul-
ing company agreed to pay up to $500,000 to settle allegations
that it dumped waste into a local town’s sewer system to avoid pay-ing disposal fees.
State Attorney General Maura Healey said that as part of the settlement, Midstate Sewerage Company of Millbury will also be barred from seeking state or mu-nicipal contracts for two years.
State authorities accused Mid-state of dumping septic waste at a municipal pump station instead of the regional treatment facility where it would be required to pay fees.
Officials say water not safe to drink for 6,000
ME SKOWHEGAN — Au-thorities in Maine told
6,000 residents not to drink water from their faucets following a re-port of a strange odor and taste.
The Maine Water Company was notifying customers in Skow-hegan not to drink or consume the water, WABI-TV reported.
Officials said they observed a
sheen on two ponds that feed the water treatment plant and Maine Water said in a Facebook post that they believed the ponds were also the source of a soapy smell.
The ponds are no longer feed-ing water into the system, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said in a state-ment, but it may take several days for any contaminated water to be flushed out.
While the order is in place, authorities told residents to use bottled water for food prepara-tion and anything else where they would consume water like mak-ing ice or teeth brushing.
Store workers beaten after mask request
MD EDGEWATER — Po-lice in Maryland said
they’re looking for a man and a woman who attacked employees of an ice cream store after they were asked to wear masks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
AMERICAN ROUNDUP
The wind speedin miles per hour of guststhat toppled trucks and
forced flight cancellations in Reno, Nev. The Nevada Highway Patrol said two semi-trucks blew over in the Wash-oe Valley between Reno and Carson City over the weekend. No injuries werereported. Three flights were canceledand three others diverted due to turbu-lence at Reno Tahoe-International Air-port, where winds gusted to 58 mph .
Mom charged after kids test positive for meth
KY ELIZABETHTOWN — A 27-year-old Ken-
tucky mother was arrested after three of her young children test-ed positive for meth while police were investigating an injury her infant son sustained.
Child Protective Services and Elizabethtown police were called to investigate how Malaynah Root’s infant son received a large bruise on his forehead, according to an arrest citation.
While the children were in pro-tective custody, officials tested them for drugs and determined Root’s 5-year-old, 3-year-old and 2-year-old children all had meth-amphetamine in their systems, according to police. Two of the children also tested positive for THC, an ingredient in marijuana, investigators said.
The injured infant was not able to be tested because authorities could not obtain a hair sample, the citation said. Officials noted it could be “assumed” the baby was also exposed to drugs. Police also said they could not determine how he was injured.
Alligator survives car crash, returns to swamp
FL COCOA . — A motorist hit and injured a small
alligator that crawled onto U.S. 1 on Florida’s Atlantic Coast.
Cocoa police said in a tweet that patrol officers rescued the gator after “he wandered into danger-ous territory.”
The alligator was fine and the driver wasn’t injured either, po-lice said.
Officers called the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Com-mission. A wildlife officer took the gator to a safer place for it to roam.
Gray seal returns to the ocean after recovery
MD ASSATEAGUE IS-LAND — A gray seal
pup that was found on a Delaware beach with infections and other health problems was released in Maryland after nine months of recovery.
The Daily Times of Salisbury reported that the seal, named Pippi Longstocking, was released at Assateague State Park.
The pup was one month old when it was found in February in Dewey Beach. She was dehy-drated, malnourished and suffer-ing infections on her front flipper and in her ear.
The Marine Education Re-search Rehabilitation Institute coordinated the seal’s recovery at the National Aquarium’s Animal Rescue Center in Baltimore. Her nine months there was the longest seal case the center has had since it began in 1991.
Nude man arrested after driving into store
MT COLUMBIA FALLS — A man who crashed
his car into a Montana grocery store and fled the scene was later arrested after running nude
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A crew from Welborn’s Floral Company work together to get the top section of the city of Owensboro’s Christmas tree in place before decorating the tree in Smothers Park in Owensboro, Ky.
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Tigray commander confirms firing of missiles at Eritrea
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — The lead-er of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region has confirmed firing mis-siles at neighboring Eritrea’s capital and is threatening more, marking a huge escalation as the deadly fighting in northern Ethiopia between Tigray forces and the federal government spills across an international border.
Tigray regional President Debretsion Gebremichael, in a phone interview Sunday with The Associated Press, would not say how many missiles were fired at the city of Asmara on Saturday but said it was the only city in Er-itrea that was targeted.
“As long as troops are here fighting, we will take any legiti-mate military target and we will fire,” he said, accusing Eritrea of sending troops into the Tigray re-gion and denying reports that Ti-gray regional forces have entered Eritrea.
“We will fight them on all
fronts with whatever means we have,” he said. He asserted that around 16 Eritrean divisions are fighting in what he called a “full-scale war.”
The brewing civil war in Ethio-pia between a regional govern-ment that once dominated the country’s ruling coalition, and a Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister whose sweeping reforms marginalized the Tigray region’s power, could fracture a key U.S. security ally and destabilize the strategic Horn of Africa, with the potential to send scores of thou-sands of refugees into Sudan.
In a separate, bloody example of Ethiopia’s growing tensions, at least 34 people were killed in a “gruesome attack” on a passenger bus in the western Benishangul-Gumuz Region on Friday night, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said, and “there are reports of similar attacks” in other parts of that region. The at-tackers were not clear.
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Refugees from the Tigray region of Ethiopia wait to register at the UNCHR center at Hamdayet, Sudan, on Saturday .
Peru’s interim leader resigns after upheaval
LIMA, Peru — Peru’s interimpresident announced his resigna-tion Sunday as the nation plunged into its worst constitutional crisis in two decades following massive protests unleashed when Con-gress ousted the nation’s popularleader.
In a short televised address,Manuel Merino said he’d actedwithin the law when he wassworn into office as chief of state Tuesday, despite protesters’ alle-gations that Congress had stageda parliamentary coup.
Merino, a little-known politi-cian and rice farmer, becamePeru’s leader Tuesday after astunning vote by Congress to oust popular ex-President MartinVizcarra. As head of Congress,Merino was next in line to the presidency when Vizcarra wasremoved. But protesters contendthe move amounted to an illegalparliamentary coup and refused to recognize him.
Rebel leaders return to Sudan after deal made
CAIRO — Sudan’s rebel leaders returned to the capital, Khartoum on Sunday, signaling the first major steps toward implement-ing a peace agreement with the government that aims to end the country’s decadeslong civil war.
Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of Sudan’s ruling sovereign council, welcomed leaders of the Sudan Revolutionary Front as “partners and peacemakers“ upon their arrival from South Sudan.
The front — a coalition of sev-eral armed groups centered in the western Darfur region, South Kordofan and Blue Nile — inked a peace agreement with the transi-tional government on Oct. 3 aftermonths of arduous negotiations in South Sudan’s capital, Juba.
Al-Hadi Idriss, head of therebel front, told a televised newsconference in Khartoum that their return to Sudan “means that we have become part of the tran-sitional government.” From The Associated Press
The Washington Post
MANILA, Philippines — Doz-ens are dead and whole villages remain underwater three days after Typhoon Vamco slammed into the Philippines, the third ty-phoon and fifth tropical cyclone to wallop the region in recent weeks.
Vamco wreaked havoc with continuous rain and wind from Wednesday night into Thursday, causing the worst flooding in years and a power outage for mil-lions in the capital region of Ma-nila. The extent of the devastation in northeastern provinces is still unfolding.
As waters in areas reached two stories high, some stranded peo-ple, desperate for help, flooded social media with their locations and pleas for assistance.
The pandemic has further complicated the situation, with thousands of displaced people crowding evacuation centers and travel restrictions — which were not eased until Sunday — poten-tially hampering aid and media access.
Vamco followed on the heels of Typhoon Goni, which hit in early November and clocked in as the world’s strongest typhoon this year. Goni narrowly missed the Manila region, home to 12 mil-lion people.
The waves of successive storms walloping the Philippines this year have cost an estimated $207 million in agricultural damages.
Local broadcaster ABS-CBN reported that in Tuguegarao City, the region’s most populous area, floodwater remained 39 feet high Saturday evening. At least 40 neighborhoods and over 20 towns across Cagayan province were still submerged, days after the typhoon hit.
Authorities declared a state of calamity and said at least nine people in Cagayan Valley had died — some by drowning, land-slides and electrocution.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday announced the creation of a task force to streamline di-saster responses. Authorities were “working round-the-clock, nonstop,” he said. “Help is on the way.”
Villages still submerged days after typhoon hit Philippines
Floodwaters brought about by Typhoon Vamco inundate Cagayan valley region in northern Philippines on Sunday .
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BY ELAINE KURTENBACH
Associated Press
China and 14 other countries agreed Sunday to set up the world’s largest trad-ing bloc, encompassing nearly a third of all economic activity, in a deal many in Asia are hoping will help hasten a recovery from the shocks of the pandemic.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, was signed virtu-
ally Sunday on the sidelines of the annual summit of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
“I am delighted to say that after eight years of hard work, as of today, we have officially brought RCEP negotiations to a conclusion for signing,“ said host country Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
“The conclusion of RCEP negotiation, the largest free trade agreement in the
world, will send a strong message that af-firms ASEAN’s leading role in supporting the multilateral trading system, creating a new trading structure in the region, en-abling sustainable trade facilitation, re-vitalizing the supply chains disrupted by COVID-19 and assisting the post pandemic recovery,” Phuc said.
The accord will take already low tariffs on trade between member countries still lower, over time, and is less comprehensive
than an 11-nation trans-Pacific trade deal that President Donald Trump pulled out of shortly after taking office.
Apart from the 10-member Associationof Southeast Asian Nations, it includes China, Japan, South Korea, Australia andNew Zealand, but not the United States. Of-ficials said the accord leaves the door open for India, which dropped out due to fierce domestic opposition to its market-openingrequirements, to rejoin the bloc.
BY SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press
CAIRO — Egyptian antiquities officials on Saturday announced the discovery of at least 100 an-cient coffins, some with mum-mies inside, and around 40 gilded statues in a vast Pharaonic ne-cropolis south of Cairo.
Colorful, sealed sarcophagi and statues that were buried more than 2,500 years ago were displayed in a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the famed Step Pyr-amid of Djoser at Saqqara.
Archaeologists opened a coffin with a well-preserved mummy wrapped in cloth inside. They
also carried out X-raying visual-izing the structures of the ancient mummy, showing how the body had been preserved.
Tourism and Antiquities Min-ister Khaled el-Anany told a news conference that the discovered items date back to the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt for some 300 years — from around 320 B.C. to about 30 B.C., and the Late Period (664-332 B.C.).
He said they would move the artifacts to at least three Cairo museums including the Grand Egyptian Museum that Egypt is building near the famed Giza Pyramids. He said they would
announce another discovery at the Saqqara necropolis later this year.
The discovery at the famed ne-cropolis is the latest in a series of archaeological finds in Egypt. Since September, antiquities au-thorities revealed at least 140 sealed sarcophagi, with mum-mies inside most of them, in the same area of Saqqara.
Egyptian archaeologists found other “shafts full of coffins, well-gilded, well-painted, well-deco-rated,” Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters on Saturday.
ASEAN, China, others set up world’s largest trade pact
Egypt unveils large cache of ancient coffins, relics found in Saqqara
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People look at ancient sarcophagi on display, discovered in a vast necropolis in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt, on Saturday
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BY ROBERT B. ZOELLICK Special to The Washington Post
This month, Americans showed how democracies work. Amid a pandemic, with sharp political divisions and a huge shift to bal-
loting by mail, poll workers served dili-gently, state and local officials explained carefully, and more than 150 million citi-zens voted responsibly. While China, in the Maoist tradition, this fall has moved a step closer toward anointing Xi Jinping as party chairman for life, the people of the United States voted to send Donald Trump home.
Yet an expected Democratic “blue wave” only trickled ashore. Republicans will likely keep a Senate majority, add House seats and maintain their majorities in state legislatures. Referendums in California and Illinois — Democratic states — turned back signature causes of the new progres-sive era.
As president, Joe Biden will need to learn the art of working with a Congress controlled in part by the other party. Pres-idents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush mastered this skill, as did Bill Clin-ton later in his presidency. But it is hard to do. The executive branch must make con-gressional friends, accept some opposition ideas, negotiate big initiatives that appeal to both sides (such as the 1986 tax reform bill and the 1990 Americans With Disabili-ties Act), and maneuver to win swing votes. This approach should be natural for Biden. The president-elect should start by calling every senator to establish a personal line of contact.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., has already signaled the need to pass a new stimulus bill, which he would sweeten by adding funds for state and local governments. Some Republicans have been uncomfortable with Trump’s posi-
tions on science, health care, trade and immigration. Others who face reelection in 2022 would like to run on accomplish-ments. Senators who have won reelection by demonstrating their independence, such as Susan Collins. R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, may be open to Biden’s overtures, putting pressure on Mc-Connell to negotiate. Biden and McConnell know the Senate’s folkways and the nature of shifting coalitions.
The Biden transition team is wisely concentrating on the coronavirus and a broad-based economic revival, but the new administration, once in office, would do well to quickly establish a record of legis-lative success by reviving bipartisan ideas languishing in Congress. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have promoted the End-less Frontier Act to boost investment in fun-damental research and support the United States’ technological edge; Biden included a similar idea in his plan to compete with China. His administration could combine this legislation with the creation of a tech-nology group among democracies.
Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Pat-rick Leahy, D-Vt., kept alive U.S. funding for international affairs despite Trump’s calls for cuts. If Graham the dealmaker rediscovers his inner John McCain, he and Leahy could spearhead an initiative, based on President George W. Bush’s emergency global AIDS relief model, to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines and treatments reach Africa and Latin America.
On immigration, Biden should be able to assemble a coalition to assist the “dream-ers” who arrived in the United States as the children of migrants, and perhaps to aid Central America while securing U.S. borders safely and humanely.
Defense experts in both parties recog-nize the need to shift military investments away from legacy platforms and toward re-
silient networks of high-tech, autonomoussystems that can deny China dominancein the Indo-Pacific. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, co-authored a bipartisan cybersecurity plan.
A number of Republicans in Congress shrank from Trump’s trade protection-ism and would like to help Biden shapethe international trade rules of the future.Younger Democrats seem to favor open trade, but some of Biden’s congressionalallies will resist. A new administrationcould explore middle-ground initiatives,such as using the framework of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement for trade ne-gotiations with Britain. The USMCA wonDemocratic and union support by stress-ing labor rights, an area where Britain ranks at least as well as the United States.Unions in the United States should be able to accept Britain’s labor rights.
Both parties in Washington are search-ing for new approaches to help workingpeople adjust to job and technological dis-ruptions. A shrewdly political administra-tion should look to broaden its coalition byembracing policy innovation, regardless ofthe source.
Some Republicans will resist working with Biden. Some Democrats will objectthat this bipartisan agenda would deflatetheir expectations. Actually, the voters al-ready did that. But Biden will need to pay special attention to those voting groups, in-cluding African Americans, who deliveredhis victory. Past presidents who wanted to get results have always needed to endureassaults from their flanks. Biden will have to decide whether he wants to lead a causeor leave a record. Like the good politicianhe is, Biden should line up with the UnitedStates’ voters.Robert B. Zoellick, former president of the World Bank, is the author of “America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.”
BY SCOTT SUMNER
Tribune News Service
When Joe Biden assumes the presidency in January, which is overwhelmingly likely as I write this, he will face an im-
portant decision: Should priority be given to reform or recovery? In my view, recov-ery should take precedence.
In early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took office at the low point of the Great Depres-sion and faced a similar choice. He decided to pursue both objectives simultaneously. My research suggests that while FDR’s recovery measures boosted the economy, his reform initiatives slowed the recovery. In late 1933, the hugely influential econo-mist (and progressive hero) John Maynard Keynes reached a similar conclusion in a letter of advice to FDR, printed in The New York Times:
“(The) NRA, which is essentially reform and probably impedes recovery, has been put across too hastily, in the false guise of being part of the technique of recovery.”
Keynes is referring not to the National Rifle Association, but to the National In-dustrial Recovery Act, which among other things mandated an across-the-board wage increase of roughly 20%, despite high rates of unemployment. This act is now widely seen as having slowed the recovery that was being aided by other FDR initia-tives, such as dollar devaluation and fiscal stimulus.
Biden supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. There is
a vigorous debate among economists as to the merits of this idea. My own view is that workers can be helped more ef-fectively with an expanded Earned In-come Tax Credit, which helps put money in low-income workers’ pockets but does not raise business costs and discourage employment.
Furthermore, the optimal minimum wage rate varies widely by state; what’s appropriate for California may not be ap-propriate for Mississippi or West Virginia. Each state should have some latitude to make its own decisions, reflecting local differences in worker productivity and cost of living. It is worth noting that even Trump-friendly Florida recently voted to gradually raise its minimum wage to $15. Federalism on this issue does not mean that nothing will be done in red states.
Even if the administration decides to go ahead with a higher federal minimum wage, it should delay any major increases for a few years in order to hasten the labor market’s recovery from the 2020 economic shock. Once a vaccine is available, it is im-portant that policy not impede the rebuild-ing of key sectors of the economy, such as hotels, restaurants and other service industries. Minimum wage increases are less likely to cost people their jobs when the labor market is already strong.
Fiscal stimulus is one popular method for boosting the economic recovery, but even if this course is blocked in the Sen-ate, there are other methods to promote economic growth. For instance, the Fed can be encouraged to engage in additional
asset purchases, including for corporatebonds if necessary, as required to achieve its 2% inflation target and higher levels ofemployment.
A Biden administration will also havewide latitude to roll back the burdensomeinternational trade barriers that slowed in-vestment in 2019. They should allow moreimmigration of the sort of high-skilled workers who are known to create dynamic new American businesses. And any tax increases on businesses should be delayedfor several years, until the economy hasrecovered.
Finally, the administration can andshould encourage states to make it easierto build new housing, and thus lower hous-ing costs. Across the country, so-called“NIMBY” policies have made it extremely difficult to do so. This has restricted eco-nomic growth and people’s ability to seekcareers in many of the areas with the high-est productivity, such as Silicon Valley.
Of course, many progressives will not bepleased with my suggestion to prioritize re-covery over reform. But as Keynes pointedout in his 1933 letter, a strong economy isthe best way to create the political capitalrequired to pursue a reform agenda:
“It will be through raising high the pres-tige of your administration by success in short-range recovery that you will have the driving force to accomplish long-range reform.”Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a professoremeritus at Bentley University.
Biden, GOP-led Senate can make real progress
Unlike FDR, Biden should put recovery before reform
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Primed for the partGillian Anderson’s Margaret Thatcher is one of the best things about Season 4 of ‘The Crown’
BY LYNN ELBER � Associated Press
Gillian Anderson’s portrayal of British political leader Margaret Thatch-er in “The Crown” was built step by step, from distinctive voice to helmet-hair wig to padded wardrobe.
Olivia Colman, who as Queen Elizabeth II goes coif to coif with Thatch-er, found Anderson’s Thatcher so uncanny that it was “quite scary.” The U.K.’s first female prime minister and Conservative Party leader died at 87 in 2013.
“Sitting opposite her, especially with the light behind her a bit, it was” — at which point the Oscar-winning Colman paused, shivering dra-matically and widening her eyes — “like she was there.”
“It was like having a ghost around,” concurred Helena Bonham Carter, who plays Princess Margaret, the queen’s sister, in the dra-ma’s 10-episode fourth season out Sunday on Netflix.
From wire reports
The Weeknd has been chosen to head-line the Super Bowl LV halftime show in February, following in the footstepsof Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Lady Gaga,Beyonce, Maroon 5, Justin Timberlakeand Katy Perry, to name just a few.
“(P)erforming on the iconic stage.see you 02/07/21,” the Canadian singertweeted Nov. 12.
The “Can’t FeelMy Face” performer,real name Abel Tes-faye, added in a state-ment: “We all grow up watching the world’sbiggest acts playingthe Super Bowl and one can only dream of being in that position.I’m humbled, honored
and ecstatic to be the center of that infa-mous stage this year.”
“The #PepsiHalftime Show on @CBS featuring @theweeknd is sure tobe nothing short of transcendent,” theNFL tweeted .
Jay-Z also praised the headlinerchoice, saying in a statement, “TheWeeknd has introduced a sound all hisown. His soulful uniqueness has de-fined a new generation of greatness in music and artistry. This is an extraor-dinary moment in time and the PepsiSuper Bowl LV Halftime Show is going to be an extraordinary experience withan extraordinary performer.”
Blackpink’s panda stunt prompts anger in China
A publicity stunt involving South Korean girl group Blackpink anda baby panda has prompted out-raged comments and calls for anapology . The endangered animalsare native only to China, whichclaims ownership over all pandasloaned to foreign zoos, including those born abroad. Many Chineseare particularly sensitive aboutrepresentations of what they view as a national symbol .
The outrage over a video ofgroup members cuddling thebaby panda in Everland Zoo nearSeoul “violated the professional requirements for protection of the giant panda,” the China WildlifeConservation Association said .
In comments under a posting of national broadcaster CCTV’s reporton the controversy, users called for apologies from the band and expla-nation from the zoo itself.
The band’s management re-moved the video by Nov. 13 and scrapped plans to use it in its re-ality TV show, although no formal apology has been offered.
Other news� Sen. Tammy Duckworth has
written a memoir, “Every Day Is aGift,” which comes out March 30.Twelve, a Hachette Book Group im-print, announced the deal Nov. 12, the
16th anniversary of the day Sen. Duck-worth was shot down in a helicopter while serving in Iraq and lost both ofher legs. Duckworth, 52, will tell of herlife from her childhood in Southeast Asia and Hawaii to her 23 years in theArmy to her time in public service. Fi-nancial terms were not disclosed.
Super Bowl’shalftime pick: The Weeknd
Anderson is so arresting as Thatcher that even cynical late-night hosts became giddy fans when she was on as a guest. “I’m already giving you the Emmy for this,” Jimmy Kimmel said, asking if she’d called President-elect Joe Biden with official congrats. Stephen Colbert saluted her performance as “extraordinary.”
The actor, who gained fame and awards for “The X-Files,” is Chicago-born but spent her childhood in Britain. She’s made England her home for nearly two de-cades, appearing on a variety of TV shows and the London stage.
While she moves easily between the accents of her native and adopted coun-tries, Anderson worked at evoking Thatcher’s cadence and mannerisms with film and audio recordings as guides. The actor said she didn’t bring “massive precon-ceptions” to the role because her family moved back to America from Britain in 1979, the year Thatcher took office.
“Normally, when working on either a historical character or literary character, I find that it’s good to start from a blank slate anyway,” An-derson said. “It was helpful to have less to wipe away.”
Then came the wig and wardrobe fittings and make-up tests, which she called “a fun part” of the process but more involved than it might seem for the creative team involved.
“Everybody is deciding and discussing which particular hair color it (the wig) was going to be and whether there’s going to be more than one wig in the season,” she said. Model No. 1 required a makeover after it flunked its screen test, with “huge chunks” of hair pulled out so that it didn’t appear to be “too much of a hel-met,” Anderson said.
A bonus of Thatcher’s addition to “The Crown”: unexpected-ly comedic moments involving her and the queen, including a scene in which the prime minister who became known as “the Iron Lady“ executes a curtsy verging on Monty Python-esque.
Oxford-educated but with middle-class roots, Thatcher is portrayed as ill-equipped to meet the Windsor standard for fitting behavior. While she gets scant royal help, the future and well-born Princess Diana (Emma Corrin) passes with “flying colors,” as cast member Tobias Menzies puts it.
“It is a very ingrained English thing that we use class to put people in their places,” said Menzies, who plays Prince Philip. Thatcher’s treatment is perhaps “the royal family at their least beguiling,” he suggested.
As depicted in “The Crown,” the queen and Thatcher had something in common other than being less than a year apart in age: A shared distrust of women in au-thority, themselves exempted.
“Even though it’s an extraordinary moment in history, and certainly in British history,” Anderson noted, Thatcher appointed only one female cabinet member in her 11-year tenure.
An exchange between Elizabeth and Thatcher on the subject plays as biting satire as crafted by series creator and writer Peter Morgan (Anderson’s off-screen partner).
“I’m assuming no women” will get a cabinet post, the queen says to the newly elected Thatcher. Cer-tainly not, the politician replies, and only in part because there are no “suitable candidates.”
“I have found women in general tend not to be suited to high office. They become too emo-tional,” she says. Elizabeth’s confident reply: “I doubt you’ll have that trouble with me.”
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Gillian Anderson, at top in character and at right, plays Margaret Thatcher with the help of a large wig in Season 4 of “The Crown.”
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East W L T Pct PF PABuffalo 7 2 0 .778 242 233Miami 5 3 0 .625 222 161New England 3 5 0 .375 166 194N.Y. Jets 0 9 0 .000 121 268
Sunday’s gamesHouston at ClevelandJacksonville at Green BayPhiladelphia at N.Y. GiantsTampa Bay at CarolinaWashington at DetroitBuffalo at ArizonaDenver at Las VegasL.A. Chargers at MiamiCincinnati at PittsburghSan Francisco at New OrleansSeattle at L.A. RamsBaltimore at New EnglandOpen: Kansas City, N.Y. Jets, Atlanta,
DallasMonday’s game
Minnesota at ChicagoThursday’s game
Arizona at SeattleSunday, Nov. 22
Atlanta at New OrleansCincinnati at WashingtonDetroit at CarolinaNew England at HoustonPhiladelphia at ClevelandPittsburgh at JacksonvilleTennessee at BaltimoreMiami at DenverN.Y. Jets at L.A. ChargersDallas at MinnesotaGreen Bay at IndianapolisKansas City at Las VegasOpen: Buffalo, Chicago, N.Y. Giants,
San FranciscoMonday, Nov. 23
L.A. Rams at Tampa Bay
NFL injury reportNEW YORK — The National Football
League injury report, as provided by the league (DNP: did not practice; LIMITED: limited participation; FULL: Full partici-pation):
MONDAYMINNESOTA VIKINGS at CHICAGO
BEARS — VIKINGS: DNP: RB C.J. Ham (shoulder, not injury related), TE Irv Smith (groin). LIMITED: CB Cameron Dantzler (concussion). FULL: DE Ifeadi Odenigbo (shoulder), WR Adam Thielen (shoulder). BEARS: DNP: DT John Jenkins (ankle), TE Cole Kmet (groin), S Sherrick McManis (hand), RB David Montgomery (concus-sion), C Sam Mustipher (knee), T Jason Spriggs (knee), QB Mitchell Trubisky (right shoulder). LIMITED: S Tashaun Gipson (foot), LB Barkevious Mingo (shoulder), WR Allen Robinson (knee), LB Roquan Smith (back). FULL: TE Jimmy Gra-ham (not injury related), DT Akiem Hicks (not injury related), LB Danny Trevathan (not injury related), DT Brent Urban (shin, thumb), LB Josh Woods (ankle, calf).
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ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Signed C Tyler Heineman to a minor league contract.
Minor League BaseballFrontier League
OTTAWA LYNX — Signed INF Elliot Cur-tis.
SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Signed OF Nick Zaharion to a contract extension.
BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association
CHICAGO BULLS — Named Maurice Cheeks, Josh Longstaff, John Bryant, Da-mian Cotter and Billy Schmidt assistant coaches. Named Henry Domercant, Ron-nie Burrell, Ty Abbott and Max Rothschild player development coordinators.
FOOTBALLNational Football League
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Activated OL J.R. Sweezy from injured reserve. Signed DL Trevon Coley to the active roster. Placed DL Leki Fotu on injured reserve. Promoted RB D.J. Foster and C Jace Whit-taker to the active roster from the prac-tice squad.
ATLANTA FALCONS — Placed DE Dante Fowler on reserve/COVID-19 list.
BUFFALO BILLS — Placed CB Josh Nor-man, TE Tyler Kroft, CB Levi Wallace and S Dean Marlowe on reserve/COVID-19 list. Promoted LB Darron Lee, CB Daryl Worley, WR Jake Kumerow, S Josh Thomas and CB Dane Jackson to the active roster from the practice squad.
CAROLINA PANTHERS — Activated S Justin Burris from injured reserve. Pro-moted RB Rodney Smith to the active ros-ter from the practice squad. Re-signed K Taylor Bertolet to the practice squad.
CINCINNATI BENGALS — Activated DE Sam Hubbard from the reserve/COVID-19 list. Placed CB Darius Phillips and WR John Ross on injured reserve. Promoted WR Stanley Morgan, CB Jalen Davis, G Quin-ton Spain and DT Kahlil McKenzie to the active roster from the practice squad.
CLEVELAND BROWNS — Activated RB Nick Chubb from injured reserve. Promot-ed G Michael Dunn to the active roster from the practice squad.
DETROIT LIONS — Promoted DT Frank Herron and T Dan Skipper to the active roster from the practice squad.
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Activated LB Christian Kiirksey from injured reserve. Placed TE John Lovett on injured reserve. Promoted S Henry Black and WR Juwann Winfree to the active roster as COVID-19 replacements. Promoted CBs KeiVarae Russell and Stanford Samuels to the ac-tive roster from the practice squad.
HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed RB David Johnson and ILB Dylan Cole on injured re-serve. Activated S A.J. Moore from injured reserve. Signed C.J. Prosise to the active roster. Promoted ILB Nate Hall, DE Corey Liuget and C/G Greg Mancz to the active roster from the practice squad.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Placed S Josh Jones on injured reserve. Waived DL Caraun Reid. Promoted LB Joe Giles-Har-ris, WR Terry Godwin, OL KC McDermott and S Doug Middleton to the active roster. Activated S Andrew Wingard from injured reserve.
LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Placed RB Justin Jackson on injured reserve. Signed RB Kalen Ballage.
LOS ANGELES RAMS — Activated S Jor-dan Fuller and OL Joe Noteboom from in-jured reserve.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Activated LB Kyle Van Noy from the reserve/COVID-19 list. Promoted WR Antonio Callaway to the ac-tive roster.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Waived G Pat Elflein. Activated LS Austin Cutting from the reserve/COVID-19 list.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Activated OL Jermaine Eluemunor from injured re-serve. Activated LBs Terez Hall and Cassh Maluia from the practice squad. Signed TE Paul Quessenberry to the practice squad. Released DL Nick Thurman and placed LB Shilique Calhoun on injured reserve.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Promoted DT T.Y. McGill, CB Michael Jacquet and TE Ca-leb Wilson to the active roster from the practice squad.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Activated QB Ben Roethlisberger, OL Jerald Hawkins, RB Jaylen and LB Vince Williams from the reserve/COVID-19 list. Placed G Kevin Dotson on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Pro-moted S Antoine Brooks to the active ros-ter from the practice squad.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Promoted S Jared Mayden and TE Daniel Helm to the active roster from the practice squad.
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Promoted DT Damon Harrison and RB Alex Collins to the active roster. Placed DT Bryan Mone on injured reserve. Activated CB Neiko Thorpe from the injured reserve list.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Placed WR Jaydon Mickens and practice squad WR Cyril Grayson on the reserve/COVID-19 list.
BY STEPHEN WADE
Associated Press
TOKYO — The IOC and Tokyo Olympic organiz-ers have been shouting the message for months now, that despite the continuing pandemic, the Games will open on July 23, 2021.
The volume will be turned up louder on Monday and Tuesday. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will be in Tokyo making the rounds, shaking hands and posing for photos in his first visit since the Olympics were postponed 7 ½ months ago.
Bach will make his point to supportive politicians, and to a skeptical public distracted by the pandemic and ambivalent about the Games. And worried about jobs and the economy.
He is unlikely to give many new details in public, but he has said repeatedly that the IOC is planning “many scenarios” to get 11,000 athletes into Tokyo, and some fans, too. The Paralympics will draw 4,350 more athletes. Bach has spoken with increas-ing confidence that a vaccine will be available, and also rapid testing. He’s said both would make the Olympics easier to deliver, as well as holding stalled qualifying events.
“I think we can become more and more confident that we will have a reasonable amount of specta-tors,” Bach said last week at the IOC’s headquarters in Switzerland. Fans from abroad are also possible, though numbers and protocols are unclear.
Bach was also asked last week whether he was going to Tokyo to talk about contingencies for can-celing the Olympics.
“No,” he replied.Bach is travelling on a private charter and will
meet new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Mon-day morning. A few hours later he will give former prime minister Shinzo Abe an Olympic award.
An hour later he’s with Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, and then holds a media conference withTokyo organizing committee President Yoshiro Mori, another former prime minister. Several of the events will be on-line, but others are open to mediaattending in person.
Japan has reported just under 1,900 deaths attrib-uted to COVID-19. It has controlled the virus betterthan most places, but has recorded a record num-ber of cases over the last several days as the virussurges around the globe.
Bach has no public appearances on Tuesday untilmidafternoon. It could be time to see a sponsor, or a moment slotted for interviews with Japanese news-papers and television.
Prodded by the giant Japanese advertising agen-cy Dentsu Inc., domestic sponsors have contributeda record $3.3 billion to local organizers, more than twice as much as any previous Olympics.
Bach’s two big photo opportunities are Tuesdayafternoon at the Athletes’ Village — a complexalongside Tokyo Bay — followed by a stop at the new$1.4 billion National Stadium.
The IOC president has has called Tokyo the bestprepared Olympics in history, a point he’s likely torepeat.
He’s unlikely to dwell on the costs, most of whichfall on Japan. A University of Oxford study says these are the most expensive Summer Olympics onrecord.
A government audit last year said Olympic costscould reach the $25 billion range. All but $5.6 billionis public money.
That was before another $2 billion to $3 billionmay be added on by the delay. The IOC has said itwould chip in about $650 million to Japan for the postponement, but has given few public details.
Tokyo said the Olympics would cost $7.3 billion in2013 when it was awarded the Games.
Bach in Tokyo to supportclaims Games will proceed
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LAS VEGAS — Terence Craw-ford started slowly and finished fast, stopping Kell Brook with a barrage of punches in the fourth round Saturday night to retain his welterweight title.
Crawford remained unbeaten and kept his place on the mythi-cal pound-for-pound best list with an impressive stoppage of the vet-eran Brook, who fought well for three rounds before succumbing to Crawford’s power.
Crawford turned the fight around with a big right hand that sent Brook into the ropes and prompted referee Tony Weeks to give him an 8-count. When the fight resumed, Crawford landed a half dozen punches to the head before Weeks waved the fight to a close at 1:14 of the fourth round.
“Kell is a tremendous talent, I can’t take nothing away from him,” Crawford said. “But he lost to a better man tonight.”
Brook said he thought he was controlling the fight when he got hit with the punch that sent him across the ring.
“Never in my career, nobody has ever done that to me, not even in sparring,” Brook said.
Crawford, who scored his 28th knockout in running his record to 37-0, took his time in the open-
ing rounds to figure out Brook, who used his jab and speed to win early rounds. After switching from an orthodox stance to south-paw he began landing at a better pace before unleashing a right hook early in the fourth round that sent Brook (39-3) staggering across the ring.
The British challenger was held upright by the ropes but when the fight resumed, he was unable to defend himself as Crawford landed a flurry of punches before Weeks stopped the bout.
Fight statistics showed Craw-ford landing 36 of 111 punches to 26 of 109 for Brook. It was the eighth straight title knockout for Crawford.
Crawford said after the fight that he wanted to fight Manny Pacquiao next, a fight that was in negotiation before Crawford turned to Brook instead.
“I’m looking to secure a Pac-quiao fight,” the Nebraska fighter said.
Promoter Bob Arum said he has had negotiations to match Crawford with Pacquiao, with a possible fight sometime in the spring in the Mideast.
The fight followed a bizarre ending in a 115-pound title re-match that left Joshua Franco still holding the belt he won in his
first fight with Andrew Moloneyin June.
Franco’s eye swelled up from what was ruled an accidentalhead butt in the first round of thescheduled 12-round bout. After the ringside physician ruledFranco couldn’t go on at the endof second round because his eyewas shut, the fight was called a nocontest.
Nevada Athletic Commission officials reviewed the replay sev-eral times, spending a total of 26minutes before upholding the nocontest decision by referee Rus-sell Mora. As the waiting went on,the ESPN broadcast team was ad-amant on the air that they couldsee no head butt and that Moloney should have been declared thewinner because the eye damagewas caused by punches.
Arum was livid about the de-cision, protesting to no avail to Bob Bennett, head of the Nevadacommission.
“This is an absolute disgrace,”Arum said. “There was no head-butt. Andrew Moloney should be the new champion.”
The fight was a rematch of theirfirst fight when Franco knockedMoloney down in the 11th round and scored a unanimous deci-sion over the formerly unbeatenAustralian.
Crawford stops Brook in 4th round
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Floyd’s death this spring sparked an unprecedented out-pouring of anger over police violence against Black men and women — a concern that soon spilled into sports.
NBA players walked off the court, refusing to play with-out the promise of change. The WNBA’s Atlanta Dream took a stand against their team owner, U.S. Sen. Kelly Loef-fl er, a Georgia Republican, when she belittled the Black Lives Matter movement. Even the long-dismissive NFL painted slogans such as “End Racism” in its end zones (while players such as Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid re-main out of the league).
But in college basketball, where most of the players are Black — and all of them are supposed to be there to study — programs have been presented with the teachable mo-ment of our times.
Some of them are looking at Harvard for the blueprint.“I’ve had many coaches, many people who have called
and inquired, ‘Talk to me more about what you guys have done. Can you help me maybe do this where I am?’ ” Amak-er said. “And I’ve had so many former players that reach back and say how grateful they were to be a part of this program.”
A former Duke point guard who coached at Seton Hall and Michigan before arriving at Harvard in 2007, Amaker
took over a program that had never won an Ivy League championship, beaten a ranked team or cracked The Associated Press Top 25. Under his leadership, the Crimson have claimed seven conference titles, twice advancing in the NCAA Tour-nament as a double-digit seed. (He won’t add to those totals this season, as the Ivy League on Thursday can-celed winter sports because of the coronavirus pandemic.)
Ask Amaker about his successes, though, and he is as likely to point with pride to former captain Chris-topher Egi, who while in school cre-ated a nonprofi t called “No More Names” to fi ght for fairness in the criminal justice system and encour-age the youth vote.
Or 2018 Ivy League Player of the Year Seth Towns, who a day after his remote Harvard graduation this spring was detained by police at a protest over Floyd’s killing. (Amak-
er’s fi rst public statement about the killing was a tweet in support of Towns.)
“He’s looking at the whole person, and he realizes that it doesn’t end with the box scores and how many points they got,” said sports sociologist Harry Edwards, one of the many guests Amaker has brought in to speak to his team. “It ends with what kind of a human being does he turn out.
“This wasn’t a trick on his part. This wasn’t an effort to show that he was cool or in touch,” Edwards said. “This was going on when Black Lives Matter was still a slogan.”
After all, coaching is teaching, Edwards said. But while many college coaches are content to look no farther than
the boundaries of the court, Amaker sees it as the starting point.
The Harvard basketball media guide includes among the statistics and bios a section called “Teach. Lead. Serve.” In it, there are pictures of players with fi gures from Miami Heat President Pat Riley to American Express CEO Ken Chenault to actor and rapper LL Cool J.
Amaker also brings the players to the annual W.E.B. Du Bois Medal ceremony, where Harvard honors trailblazers in politics, culture and business. Among them: comedian Dave Chappelle, Microsoft Chairman John Thompson, Black Entertainment Television co-founder Sheila John-son and Kaepernick himself.
“I just remember studying Harry Edwards in high school,” said Towns, adding that he has kept in touch with the civil rights pioneer who worked with athletes from Jon Carlos and Tommie Smith to Kaepernick. “Coming to meet him, and him sending me handwritten letters — things I could never imagine — helped propel my passion for so-cial justice.”
The son of a schoolteacher, Amaker was the only Black varsity coach among Harvard’s 32 teams when he was hired. He soon set out to create a community of Black lead-ers on campus and connect it to his program.
His monthly “Breakfast Club” brings players together with Harvard faculty and staff and Boston bigwigs — many, but not all, African-American — for informal chats with guests that have included Edwards, NBA player-turned-Congressman Tom McMillen and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker.
“He wants the team to refl ect Harvard’s best efforts to show diversity,” said Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who spoke to the team in 2016. “That has a big effect on other schools, which in turn has a big impact on society.”
Under Amaker, the basketball team’s road games often resemble educational fi eld trips.
He scheduled a game against Howard, the historically Black school in Washington, on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday in 2019. While there, the team visited the MLK Memorial and met with Supreme Court Justice Elena Ka-gan, the former Harvard Law School dean, who talked to them about clerking for Thurgood Marshall.
In Atlanta to play Mercer in 2018, the Crimson met for-mer president Jimmy Carter and ate at Paschal’s Restau-rant, known as a favored meeting spot for King and his lieutenants. They also made a stop at the King Center, the National Historic Site dedicated to the civil rights leader’s legacy.
“I don’t see (Amaker) preach. I don’t see him telling guys what to think,” said Arne Duncan, a former Harvard basketball player who served in the Obama administration as secretary of education. “I see him exposing them” to new ideas.
When Harvard played Stanford in Shanghai in 2016, a trip that also included a meet-and-greet at the online com-merce company Alibaba and a visit to ancient temples, faculty members from the fi elds of Chinese language and history traveled along.
A player from each team was selected to speak; Harvard center Zena Edosomwan, an East Asian Studies concentra-tor, addressed the crowd in Chinese.
“Tommy ... knows that a very small number (of players)
will make basketball their life’s work,” former Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust said. “He is preparing them to lead lives of meaning and purpose, to make contribu-tions in whatever fi eld they choose, to serve a society he has helped to educate them about.”
Faust, a Civil War historian who led the school from2007-18, made Amaker a special advisor. He also servedon the school’s Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging TaskForce.
As the codirector of the National Association of Basket-ball Coaches’ Committee on Racial Reconciliation, Amak-er has used his position to argue for a required course on Black history. And he has campaigned for the NCAA to drop the SAT and ACT as eligibility requirements, citing a history of racial disparity.
(The College Board, which administers the SAT, andthe ACT each denied their test is discriminatory. “Stan-dardized tests shine a light on these disparities; they don’t create them,” ACT spokeswoman Tarah DeSousa told the AP.)
Amaker doesn’t just talk about supporting Black-owned businesses; he brings his team to eat at Black-owned res-taurants in Boston. Then they visit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston.
Duncan, who predated Amaker at Harvard, predictedthe players will only remember a dozen or so games from their basketball careers.
“I’d bet a lot of money they’ll remember every single one of those off-court experiences,” he said. “Those expe-riences are a lot more important than throwing a ball in the basket.
“These are the kinds of lessons not just basketballcoaches, but all coaches should be working with their stu-dent-athletes on in every way they can.”
Pressing: Amaker’s program the blueprint for using teachable moments
‘ This wasn’t a trick on his part. This wasn’t an effort to show that he was cool or in touch. This was going on when Black Lives Matter was still a slogan. ’
Harry Edwardssports sociologist
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Aztecs get rare visit from No. 22 UCLA for openerBY BERNIE WILSON
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — Uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic and a long friend-ship between coaches Brian Dutcher of San Diego State and Mick Cronin of UCLA led to the No. 22 Bruins committing to a rare regular-season appearance on the Aztecs’ home court.
The Aztecs will host the Bruins on Nov. 25 as part of a four-team event at Viejas Arena, with Pepperdine playing UC Irvine. On Nov. 27, SDSU will play UC Irvine and UCLA will play Pepperdine.
Fans will not be allowed.SDSU will face UCLA for the first time
since beating the Bruins 78-69 in the 2012 John R. Wooden Classic in Anaheim.
It will be UCLA’s first regular-season game on SDSU’s home floor since Dec. 14, 1991 .
SDSU has played several home-and-home series with other Pac-12 schools in recent seasons. UCLA, which has 11 NCAA championship banners hanging in Pauley Pavilion, hasn’t been one of them.
“UCLA, which is their history, rarely goes on the road in Southern California,” Dutcher said. “They don’t play a road game in the state. You have to go to Pauley to play them. But Mick Cronin and I have been friends a long, long time.”
Both teams had been scheduled to play in a bubble in Orlando.
“Neither one of us were overly excited about putting our teams on a flight for five hours to play basketball during COVID,” Dutcher said.
When the bubble was canceled, “Mick was more than willing to come play us as part of a Southern California event, along with Pepperdine and UC Irvine, where teams can just get on a bus, come down to
San Diego and get a couple of really quality games out of the event.”
The only drawback, Dutcher said, will be a lack of fans at the 12,414-seat campus arena, where a raucous student section has given the Aztecs a formidable home-court advantage over the years.
“That’s what we’re going to be missing, obviously. Maybe that was one of the rea-sons Mick agreed to come. He knew the building would be empty,” Dutcher said with a chuckle.
San Diego State was 30-2 last year, won the Mountain West regular-season title and was expected to receive either a No. 1 or 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament before it was canceled due to the pandemic. The Aztecs lost Mountain West Conference Player of the Year Malachi Flynn to the NBA Draft .
UCLA was 19-12 last season under Cro-nin, who was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year in his first season in Westwood.
Dutcher and Cronin are both sons of coaches. They’ve known each other since Cronin was an assistant at Cincinnati and Dutcher was an assistant at Michigan.
“Our relationship goes back many, many years,” Dutcher said. “I’ve followed his ca-reer with great interest as he’s done an out-standing job at Cincinnati as a head coach and now at UCLA, bringing the Bruins back to national prominence and rankings.”
Dutcher put this event together quickly, with Cronin’s help.
“He was excited by the idea. He wanted to play good teams,” Dutcher said. “He knew that we had been historically good. It’s a credit to him. He’s not afraid to go to a neutral floor in order to play good games. It will be a lot more neutral than it would have been if we had fans in the stands, but I’m excited by him wanting to come here and then to play a very good Pepperdine team in another game here.”
GERRY BROOME/AP
When George Floyd died this spring under a policeman’s knee, Harvard coach Tommy Amaker didn’t send out a tweet affirming Black Lives Matter or add a uniform patch calling for Equality. He simply continued exposing his players to social justice issues, as he had been doing for more than a decade.
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Associated Press
BOSTON — Ian Book threw three touch-down passes and ran for a score and No. 2 Notre Dame overcame an early deficit to roll to a 45-31 victory over Boston College on Saturday.
The Fighting Irish gave coach Brian Kelly his 100th career victory at the school, tying him with Lou Holtz for second place — five behind Knute Rockne. Notre Dame has won eight straight in the series between the FBS’s only Catholic institutions.
Coming off a thrilling victory over Clem-son, the Irish (8-0, 7-0 Atlantic Coast Con-ference) racked up a season-high 561 total yards against the Eagles (5-4, 4-4).
Book was 20-for-27 for 283 yards, and ran for a 85 yards and a touchdown. Ben Skowronek caught all three of Book’s TD passes, but also had one of three Notre Dame fumbles. C’Bo Flemister ran for two touchdowns before leaving the game in the fourth quarter with an apparent left leg injury.
Boston College’s Phil Jurkovec, a trans-fer playing against his former team for the first time, was 18-for-40 for 272 yards, a touchdown and an interception.
No. 9 Miami 25, Virginia Tech 24:D’Eriq King threw for 255 yards and a touchdown and ran for a score in the Hur-ricanes’ comeback win on the road.
Miami (7-1, 6-1 Atlantic Coast Confer-ence) overcame an 11-point, third-quarter deficit to win its fourth consecutive game and stay alive for a spot in the ACC cham-pionship game.
The Hurricanes scored the final 12 points and held the Hokies (4-4, 4-3) score-less on their last five possessions.
King guided Miami on two long sec-ond-half scoring marches. A 13-play, 75-yard drive ended with Cam’Ron Harris’ 6-yard touchdown run, and cut the lead to 24-19 with 1:27 left in the third quar-ter. The Canes failed to convert a 2-point conversion.
No. 11 Oregon 43, Washington State 29: Tyler Shough threw for 312 yards and four touchdowns and the Ducks rallied for a road win.
Travis Dye caught two second-half touchdown passes to help Oregon improve to 2-0. The Ducks piled up 582 yards of total offense.
Oregon has won 17 of its past 19 games and is on track to claim a second consecu-tive Pac-12 championship.
Freshman Jayden de Laura threw for 321 yards and two touchdowns for the Cou-gars (1-1), who led at halftime but could not stop the Ducks in the second half .
No. 13 Wisconsin 49, Michigan 11: Nakia Watson and Mason Stokke each scored two touchdowns in the first half,
helping the Badgers build a big lead over the host Wolverines.
Wisconsin (2-0) returned to competition after canceling two games of its all-Big Ten schedule due to a COVID-19 breakout within the program and didn’t look rusty at all against a hapless team.
Michigan (1-3) fell behind 28-0 at half-time, their largest deficit at home since the Big House opened in 1927, and the Wolver-ines are off to their worst start since 1967.
The Badgers finished with 341 yards rushing and five scores on the ground, and Graham Mertz was 12-for-22 for 127 yards with two touchdowns for Wisconsin .
No. 16 Marshall 42, Middle Tennessee 14: Redshirt freshman Grant Wells threw a season-high five touchdown passes and the Thundering Herd commemorated the 50th anniversary of the worst disaster in U.S. sports history during a home win.
Marshall (7-0, 4-0 Conference USA) got another standout performance from its defense and turned three turnovers into scores on a day when the university and community remembered 75 people killed in a Nov. 14, 1970, plane crash.
The Thundering Herd wore special black uniforms and the No. 75 on its hel-mets to honor those who were lost, which included most of the school’s football team. The crash occurred as the team’s plane was returning from a game at East Caro-
lina. There were no survivors. Tulsa 28, NO. 19 SMU 24: Zach Smith
threw for 325 yards and three touchdowns to help the host Golden Hurricane recover from a 21-point second quarter deficit and beat the Mustangs.
After throwing an interception and los-ing a fumble that led to another touchdown on his first two possessions, Smith bounced back. He completed 26 of 38 passes, in-cluding a 4-yard touchdown toss to James Palmer with 2:11 remaining.
It was the third time this season Tulsa (4-1, 4-0 American Athletic) won after trail-ing by double digits in the first half, and the second time it did it against a ranked team. It trailed 23-5 against No. 11 UCF on Oct. 3 before rallying to win 34-26.
No. 20 Southern California 34, Ari-zona 30: Vavae Malepeai bulled his way through multiple tacklers for an 8-yard touchdown run with 25 seconds left, and the No. 20 Trojans won on the road with a late rally. .
USC was outplayed by the Sun Devils-last week in its opener before scoring two touchdowns in the final three minutes to win 28-27. The Trojans again had two late scoring drives to win a game they were outplayed in for most of the afternoon.
No. 22 Liberty 58, Western Kentucky 14: Malik Willis threw for 306 yards and three touchdowns and ran for two more
scores, leading the host Flames over theCatamounts.
Liberty (8-0) won its 10th straight gameand remained second behind Notre Damefor the nation’s longest active winning streak. It was Western Carolina’s opener.
Willis completed 14 of 19 passes withtouchdown strikes of 44, 40 and 83 yards. He scored on runs of 11 and 43 yards andrushed for 97 yards on eight carries. KevinShaa caught two passes for a career-high137 yards and a touchdown .
No. 23 Northwestern 27 Purdue 20: Peyton Ramsey threw for 212 yards andthree touchdowns, all to Ramaud Chiaokh-iao-Bowman, and the Wildcats won on the road.
Northwestern’s defense also made two late stops to preserve a fifth straight BigTen win and the school’s first 4-0 start inleague play since coach Pat Fitzgerald was still playing in 1996.
No. 25 Louisiana-Lafayette 38, South Alabama 10: Levi Lewis passed for 252yards and three touchdowns and theRagin’ Cajuns ran for 254 yards to wrap up a third straight Sun Belt Conference WestDivision title with a win over the visitingJaguars.
Lewis tossed TD passes of 5 yards toJalen Williams and 3 yards to Errol Rog-ers. He also hit running back Trey Ragasfor a 25-yard score on a fourth-down con-version, with Ragas narrowly staying in-side the left sideline to put the game awayin the fourth quarter.
Tulane 38, Army 12: Michael Pratt threw for 197 yards and two touchdowns, Amare Jones scored a rushing touchdownand the Green Wave broke open a closegame with the visiting Black Knights.
Tulane (5-4) built a two-score lead in thefirst quarter when Pratt threw a 4-yardtouchdown to Tyrick James and Jones had a 50-yard scoring run just before the endof the quarter.
Army (6-2) got back in it when ChristianAnderson threw a 10-yard scoring pass toTyrell Robinson, and Andersen’s 19-yard touchdown run brought the Black Knights within 14-12 following a blocked point-after attempt and a failed two-point conversion.
Nebraska 30, Penn State 23: Luke Mc-Caffrey had a hand in two touchdowns in his first start, the host Cornuskers’ defense made two huge late defensive stops and Ne-braska (1-2) held on for its first win.
McCaffrey took over for Adrian Marti-nez, who had started all of his 23 previousgames but turned in flat performances inthe Cornhuskers’ first two games.
A Top 10 team to start the season, the Nittany Lions (0-4, 0-4) are off to their worst start since Joe Paterno’s 2001 team also opened with four straight losses.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP
No. 2 Irish give Kelly his 100th win at school
MICHAEL DWYER/AP
Coach Brian Kelly won his 100th game at Notre Dame as the No. 2-ranked Fighting Irish defeated Boston Colllege 45-31 Saturday in Boston.
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BY NOAH TRISTER
Associated Press
EAST LANSING, Mich. — For Ty Fryfogle and No. 10 Indiana, each game brings something new to be excited about.
Fryfogle had 11 catches for 200 yards — surpass-ing career highs he’d set just a week earlier — and the Hoosiers handled Michigan State 24-0 on Sat-urday. Indiana remained unbeaten, turning what looked like a potential trap game into an easy win.
Now, the Hoosiers can look ahead to a showdown next weekend at No. 3 Ohio State.
“It doesn’t matter what everybody says about us,” said Fryfogle, who had seven catches for 142 yards against Michigan last weekend. “We’re going to keep doing us and keep executing each and every week, getting better every week. That’s what’s excit-ing about this team. We’re getting better each and every week.”
Michael Penix Jr. threw for 320 yards and hit Fry-fogle for two touchdown passes.
Penix also threw two interceptions in the first half, but that didn’t matter much. The Spartans (1-3, 1-3 Big Ten) were just as sloppy — to the point where quarterback Rocky Lombardi was pulled in the second quarter.
Fryfogle did most of his damage in the first two quarters, when all the game’s scoring occurred. Michigan State was shut out at home for the first time since a 31-0 loss to Michigan in 1985.
Indiana has won its first four Big Ten games for the first time since 1987, and the Hoosiers beat the Spartans for the Old Brass Spittoon for only the sec-ond time in the last 12 meetings.
“We sat down at the beginning of the year with our leadership council, come up with our goals,” Indi-ana coach Tom Allen said. “One of the major things that guys wanted was, win our trophy games.”
Since beating rival Michigan on Oct. 31, Michigan State has lost its last two games by a combined 73-7.
The Spartans and the Hoosiers combined for five turnovers in the first 18:15, but only Indiana showed any ability to take advantage. It went 50 yards in seven plays after Lombardi’s first interception, tak-ing a 7-0 lead on an 8-yard run by Stevie Scott. Then came a messy sequence of plays for that put the Hoosiers in control.
A penalty on the kickoff forced Michigan State to start on its own 14, and on the second play of the drive, Anthony Williams fumbled, giving Indiana the ball at the 16. Penix threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Fryfogle.
Shakur Brown intercepted Penix in the second
quarter around the goal line, but Lombardi waspicked off on the very next play, setting up a Hoo-siers field goal.
Payton Thorne replaced Lombardi at quarterbackand broke free for a 38-yard run on his first play, but that drive stalled.
“It was nice to get in there and get some real ac-tion and be able to move the ball around a little bit,”said Thorne, a redshirt freshman. “I wish I wouldhave played a little bit better today, obviously, but it was nice to get out there and get some snaps.”
Indiana went up 24-0 when Penix found Fryfogleup the right sideline for a 65-yard TD.
The takeawayIndiana: The Hoosiers didn’t have a letdown after
a big win over Michigan last weekend. They tookadvantage of the Spartans’ early mistakes and ledcomfortably for the entire second half.
Michigan State: The Spartans have been hurt byturnovers in all three of their losses, and this was noexception. Lombardi isn’t the only one to blame, butit was time for Michigan State to try another optionat quarterback. Thorne went 10-for-20 for 110 yardswith an interception.
“We thought it was some decision making early in the game,” Spartans coach Mel Tucker said. “Pay-ton was the next man up.”
Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Kyle Trask has gone from Heisman hopeful to potential Heisman Tro-phy front-runner in two months, much of it coming in the last two weeks.
Trask threw for 356 yards and six touchdowns, extending his school record for consecu-tive games with at least four TDs to six, and No. 6 Florida over-whelmed Arkansas 63-35 on Sat-urday night in the Swamp.
Trask repeatedly torched the Razorbacks (3-4), who were with-out coach Sam Pittman and with-out much of a chance by halftime. It was the second time this season Trask tossed six TDs in a game. He’s the only player in school his-tory to accomplish that feat.
“The more success teams have sometimes, the more individual awards come,” coach Dan Mullen said. “If we keep being successful as a team, we keep making plays, he’s going to have the opportunity to get individual awards.”
Arkansas quarterback Feleipe Franks, a three-year starter for the Gators (5-1), was booed early in his return to Florida Field and unable to do much to steal the spotlight from Trask. Florida players and coaches lined up to hug Franks after the game, and the home crowd responded with a warm ovation as he left the sta-dium for the last time.
“It’s awesome, man, just to be just to be around those guys and see the excitement they had to see me and me to see them,” Franks said. “It’s fun. You love the game, that’s what you play it for, the re-lationships you build .”
Trask, meanwhile, started a new streak by throwing at least four TD passes in the first half for the second straight week. He had five in the Gators’ first six drives and might have had another had they not failed to convert a fourth-down play at the Razorbacks’ 16.
Still, it was Trask’s most im-pressive half in two years as a starter and put him in elite company as Florida won its 11th straight at home and moved a step closer to locking up a spot in the Southeastern Conference championship game.
“I think I did a great job of ex-ecuting and being efficient,” said Trask, who now has an SEC-re-cord 28 TD passes and just three interceptions in six games.
“You strive for perfection, but it’s really hard to get there,“ Trask said.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Top 25 Fared No. 1 Alabama (6-0) did not play. Next:
vs. Kentucky, Saturday.No. 2 Notre Dame (8-0) beat Boston
College (45-31). Next: at North Carolina, Saturday, Nov. 27.
No. 3 Ohio State (3-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 10 Indiana, Saturday.
No. 4 Clemson (7-1) did not play. Next: at Florida State, Saturday.
No. 5 Texas A&M (5-1) did not play. Next: vs. Mississippi, Saturday.
No. 24 Auburn (4-2) did not play. Next: vs. Tennessee, Saturday.
No. 25 Louisiana-Lafayette (7-1) beat South Alabama (38-10). Next: vs. Central Arkansas, Saturday.
Saturday’s scoresEAST
Illinois 23, Rutgers 20Marshall 42, Middle Tennessee 14Notre Dame 45, Boston College 31West Virginia 24, TCU 6
SOUTHAppalachian St. 17, Georgia St. 13Florida 63, Arkansas 35Georgia Southern 40, Texas State 38Kentucky 38, Vanderbilt 35Liberty 58, W. Carolina 14Louisiana-Lafayette 38, South Ala-
bama 10Miami 25, Virginia Tech 24Mississippi 59, South Carolina 42NC State 38, Florida St. 22North Carolina 59, Wake Forest 53Tulane 38, Army 12UCF 38, Temple 13Virginia 31, Louisville 17W. Kentucky 10, Southern Miss. 7
MIDWESTIndiana 24, Michigan St. 0Nebraska 30, Penn St. 23Northwestern 27, Purdue 20Wisconsin 49, Michigan 11
SOUTHWESTCent. Arkansas 37, E. Kentucky 25Houston 56, South Florida 21Stephen F. Austin 26, Pittsburg St. 7Texas Tech 24, Baylor 23Tulsa 28, SMU 24UTSA 52, UTEP 21
FAR WESTColorado 35, Stanford 32Fresno St. 35, Utah St. 16Nevada 27, New Mexico 20Oregon 43, Washington St. 29San Diego St. 34, Hawaii 10San Jose St. 34, UNLV 17Southern Cal 34, Arizona 30Washington 27, Oregon St. 21
Scoreboard
Trask, No. 6 Gators pummel Razorbacks
Penix, Fryfogle lead No. 10 Indiana in 24-0 defeat of Michigan State
Hoosiers shut out Spartans
BRAD MCCLENNY, THE GAINESVILLE SUN/AP
Florida coach Dan Mullen talks with quarterback Kyle Trask during the Gators’ 63-35 defeat of Arkansas on Saturday in Gainesville, Fla.
PHOTOS BY CARLOS OSORIO/AP
Above: Indiana quarterback Michael Penix Jr. threw for 320 yards and two touchdowns in the Hoosiers’ 24-0 win Saturday over Michigan State in East Lansing, Mich. Below: Indiana tight end Peyton Hendershot jumps over Michigan State cornerback Shakur Brown.
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BY DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Dustin John-son began his assault on Augusta National with a 5-iron for a tap-in eagle, and he never relented until he matched the 54-hole record at the Masters and built a four-shot lead to put himself in prime posi-tion for another major.
Johnson has been in this posi-tion before, and he plans to lean on his experience.
Not from the 82 he shot at Peb-ble Beach in the 2010 U.S. Open. Not the three-putt from 12 feet on a bumpy 18th green that cost him at Chambers Bay. Not even the one-shot lead he lost three months ago at Harding Park. They were among four times he had at least a share of the 54-hole lead in a major without converting.
He’s talking about the last three days at Augusta National. It’s been a masterful performance.
“If I can play like I did today, I think it will break that streak,” Johnson said Saturday. “Tomor-row, it’s just 18 holes of golf. I need to go out and play solid. I feel like I’m swinging really well. If I can just continue to give myself a lot of looks at birdie, I think I’ll have a good day.”
A third round that began with 10 players separated by one shot turned into a one-man show.
The No. 1 player in the world looked every bit the part with a 7-under 65, pulling away with the eagle and two birdies in the open-ing four holes, nearly holing a wedge from the seventh fairway, handling the par 5s on the back nine with two-putt birdies and going the last 30 holes without a
bogey.He was at 16-under 200, match-
ing the 54-hole record Jordan Spi-eth set in 2015 when he won the Masters by four shots over Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose.
The cast of challengers are not nearly as experienced.
Two of them are Masters rook-ies. Sungjae Im, the supreme ball-striker from South Korea who won his first PGA Tour title two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down golf in the spring, birdied the last hole for 68. Abraham Ancer of Mexico saved par on the 18th for a 69.
Joining them at 12-under 204 was Cameron Smith of Australia, who had 12 straight pars before running off three straight bird-ies and then closing with three scrambling pars for a 69.
“He’s been there before multi-ple times, and No. 1 in the world,” Ancer said. “I think he’s right where he wants to be. We know that we have to go low, and that’s it. It’s very simple. If DJ goes out there and plays really solid like today, it’s going to be pretty much impossible to catch him. Whatev-er has to be done out there has to be pretty special.”
Still, there is enormous pres-sure on Johnson because of his history. He has not converted two 54-hole leads, nor has he won at two majors where he shared the 54-hole lead. His only major was the 2016 U.S. Open, when he ral-lied from four shots behind .
“Anyone with a four-shot lead is expected to win,” Smith said. “There’s going to be plenty of boys firing tomorrow.”
Attacking flags is what Augusta National has allowed in Novem-ber, with rain earlier in the week and warm, calm conditions that have kept the turf soft.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Stuck in the bushes. Behind a tree. Caught in the branches.
Rory McIlroy saw every part of the 13th hole at Augusta National this week — except for the mid-dle of the fairway. On Saturday, he turned a 9-foot birdie chance into a three-putt bogey and cost himself any chance at a Masters victory that would complete his career Grand Slam.
“I have zero thoughts about winning this golf tournament right now,” he said after shooting a 5-under 67 to finish the day at 8-under par, eight strokes behind leader Dustin Johnson. “I think I’ve left myself too far back after the bad first day. But I’ll go and give it a good effort tomorrow and see where that leaves me.”
Following an opening 75 with a 66 on Friday, McIlroy was on his way back to contention after chip-ping in from the greenside bun-ker on No. 12 for his fifth birdie in a bogey-free round. But the 13th, where he took a drop on Thursday and got blocked by a tree trunk on Friday, stymied him again in the
third round. The 31-year-old from Northern Ireland caught some branches with his drive; he laid up with his second shot to avoid the tributary of Rae’s Creek that fronts the green, then chipped to within 9 feet of the hole. But he slid the birdie putt 4 feet past the hole, then lipped out on the come-backer for his second bogey on No. 13 in three rounds.
Instead of improving to 6 under, he was back to 4 under. He made birdie on No. 16.
“Eleven under for the last two days, I think that sort of speaks for itself,” he said. “The good golf was in there, I just didn’t allow myself to play that way on the first 18 holes. This course can do that. This course can make you a little bit careful and a little bit tentative at times.”
On Thursday, McIlroy was even
at the turn and 1 over when hearrived at No. 13, where he flewhis drive into the heavy brush to the left of the fairway; he took adrop, punched out, landed an ap-proach 18 feet from the pin and two-putted.
That started a string of three bogeys in four holes.
“I try to view everything as a learning experience,” McIlroysaid. “But, yeah, I’ll look back at that and rue some of the shots that I hit and some of the thoughtprocesses I had and just try to learn from it and be better the next time.”
McIlroy won the U.S. Open in2011, the British Open in 2014 and the PGA Championship twice, in 2012 and ’14. His best finish atAugusta was fourth in 2015.
Scoreboard
Unlucky 13: McIroy shoots 67, but one hole costs him‘ The good golf was in there, I just didn’t allow myself to play that way on the first 18 holes. ’
Rory McIlroyAfter shooting 67 Saturday to fi nish the day eight strokes off the lead
Look out for No. 1: Johnson takes charge
DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP
Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, looks for his ball in the bushes on the 13th hole during the first round of the Masters. He had two bogeys in his first three rounds while playing the hole.
MATT SLOCUM/AP
Dustin Johnson shot 65 on Saturday to take a four-shot lead going into the final round at the Masters.
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SPORTS
Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker, pictured in 2019,
has been making his players aware of social justice issues for more than a decade, establishing the
program as a model for other teams only now showing an interest.
AP
BY JIMMY GOLEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis policeman, Harvard basketball coach Tommy Amaker knew it was time to get to work.
Or, more precisely, back to work.He lined up guest speakers, many of them Black leaders
and veterans of the civil rights movement. A program to place minority interns in college athletic departments was launched. Harvard coaches made sure every player on the team had registered to vote.
None of it was new for Amaker, nor was it a surprise to those who have watched him invigorate the Harvard basketball program even as he made it a model for others only now awakening to social justice causes.
“In Tom’s case, he’s been doing it for years. And it’s been authentic,” said Kentucky coach John Calipari, who partnered with Amaker on the internship program named for John McLendon, one of basketball’s fi rst Black coaches. “You know, it’s not for optics. He’s not doing it now because this all hit. He was doing it for these kids because he knew it would make a difference.”
SEE PRESSING ON PAGE 20
For Harvard coach Tommy Amaker, class is constantly in session
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Pressing for change
‘ I’ve had many coaches, many people who have called and inquired, “Talk to me more about what you guys have done. Can you help me maybe do this where I am?” ’
Tommy Amaker
DJ in the driver’s seatJohnson surges to 4-shot lead going into fi nal round » Page 23
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