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Above: Vehicles line up as health care workers help to check-in those being tested at the COVID-19 drive-thru test center at Hard Rock Stadi-um in Miami Gardens on Sunday. Below: University of Utah student Abigail Shull takes a rapid COVID-19 test Wednesday, in Salt Lake City.
Delays testing patienceAs holidays loom, lines for free COVID-19 testsstretch for blocks in cities strained by surge
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CAROLYN THOMPSON
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PACIFIC
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE,
Japan — The Navy sent another
warship through the Taiwan Strait
over the weekend, which also in-
cluded an unconfirmed visit to the
island by the officer in charge of
intelligence gathering in the Indo-
Pacific region, according to wire
and Navy reports.
Reuters on Monday reported
that Rear Adm. Michael Stude-
men, director of intelligence for
Indo-Pacific Command, arrived in
Taiwan on Sunday. The Pentagon
declined comment, the report
said.
Studemen’s visit would not be
the first by a high-ranking U.S. of-
ficial to Taiwan this year. Health
and Human Services Secretary
Alex Azar, the most senior U.S. of-
ficial to visit Taiwan since 1979,
touched base there in August.
On Saturday, the Navy contin-
ued a record-seeking pace by
sending a warship through the
Taiwan Strait for the 12th time this
year, according to 7th Fleet
spokesman Lt. Joe Keiley. The
guided-missile destroyer USS
Barry’s “routine Taiwan Strait
transit” was conducted “in ac-
cordance with international law,”
he said by email on Saturday.
The transit matched the Navy’s
all-time high of 12 Taiwan Strait
transits in a single year, set in
2016. It made nine such trips last
year, three in 2018 and five in 2017.
“The ship’s transit through the
Taiwan Strait demonstrates the
U.S. commitment to a free and
open Indo-Pacific,” Keiley said.
The Barry, based in Yokosuka,
last steamed through the strait
Oct. 12.
The number of Navy trips
through the strait has increased
along with tensions between the
United States and China in the
South and East China seas. The
110-mile-wide strait separates
mainland China from Taiwan, and
Navy passes through the water-
way typically provoke condemna-
tion from Beijing.
The U.S. regards the strait as in-
ternational waters and acknowl-
edges China’s claim to Taiwan un-
der its “One China” policy but
views the island’s status as unset-
tled. Taiwan split from mainland
China in 1949.
The Barry’s transit came a day
after the U.S. and Taiwan agreed
to annual economic talks for the
next five years following a round
of talks in Washington last week,
according to the State Depart-
ment.
The U.S.-Taiwan Economic
Prosperity Partnership Dialogue
“was an opportunity to continue
work in existing areas of economic
cooperation while also forging
new economic ties,” according to
the statement Friday.
Taiwan has also purchased bil-
lions in new arms through Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s administra-
tion.
The State Department in early
November approved the sale of
MQ-9B Reaper drones, a package
worth $600 million, according to
Bloomberg. That deal followed
$4.2 billion in approved arms sales
in previous weeks, the news ser-
vice reported Nov. 4.
Last year, Taiwan purchased
$10 billion in materiel, from M1A1
Abrams tanks to F-16 Fighting
Falcons, according to Voice of
America on Nov. 6.
Navy sails anotherwarship throughTaiwan Strait
SAMUEL HARDGROVE/U.S. Navy
Ensign Antonia Vinci scans the horizon from the bridge of the USS Barry as the guidedmissile destroyersails through the Taiwan Strait on Friday.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 5
WAR/MILITARY
added in its news release. A story
in the New York Daily News said
that Kryscuk reportedly is a porn
star.
While the firearms charges
against Duncan, Collins and Krys-
cuk were previously disclosed,
Friday’s release represents the
first time prosecutors referred to
the group’s “ties to white suprem-
acy.”
Attorneys who represented
Duncan, Collins and Kryscuk dur-
ing proceedings in the case in Ida-
ho didn’t immediately respond to
emails asking if they were still in-
volved in the case or could com-
ment on the latest developments.
Don Connelly, a spokesman for
the Raleigh-based federal prose-
cutor’s office, said in an email that
he didn’t have further information
on attorneys representing the four
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —
Two men previously charged with
conspiring to make and sell illegal
firearms also discussed shooting
protesters after scouting a Black
Lives Matter rally and had partici-
pated in live-fire weapons training
where participants displayed Nazi
symbols, prosecutors said in court
documents unsealed Friday.
The U.S. Department of Justice
said Paul James Kryscuk, 35,
Liam Montgomery Collins, 21,
Jordan Duncan, 26, and Justin
Wade Hermanson, 21, were
charged in a superseding indict-
ment obtained in federal court in
North Carolina. Hermanson is a
current Marine while Collins and
Duncan are former Marines pre-
viously assigned to Camp Lejeune
in North Carolina, the department
men.
According to the indictment,
Collins posted frequently on the
online message board platform
called Iron March, which prose-
cutors said was used by neo-Nazi
and white supremacy extremist
groups. Collins spoke of recruiting
for a group he described as “a
modern day SS” located in the
Northeast, and in 2016, he posted
that he was organizing a paramil-
itary force.
The indictment said Collins and
Kryscuk would eventually discuss
the three steps they felt were nec-
essary to effect the change in the
country they were seeking, in-
cluding “knocking down The Sys-
tem, mounting it and smashing
(its) face until it has been beaten
past the point of death.”
According to the news release,
Iron March shut down in late 2017.
From May 2019 to now, the in-
dictment said, Collins made mul-
tiple money transfers through his
personal account to Kryscuk to
buy firearms, including a 9 mm
pistol and suppressor, as well as a
short barrel rifle. Kryscuk then
bought items from vendors to
make the firearms and suppres-
sors.
Collins and Kryscuk recruited
additional members, including
Duncan and Hermanson, and con-
ducted training, including a live-
fire training in a desert area near
Boise, Idaho, the news release
said. It said that from video foot-
age recorded by the members
during the training, Kryscuk,
Duncan and others produced a
montage video of their training
which showed participants firing
short barrel rifles and other as-
sault-type rifles. The end of the
video, according to court docu-
ments, shows the four participants
outfitted in skull masks and giving
the “Heil Hitler” sign, beneath the
image of a black sun, a Nazi sym-
bol. The last frame bears the
phrase, “Come home white man.”
The indictment also described
how Kryscuk was within sight of a
Black Lives Matter rally on the
campus of Boise State University
on July 21, initially sitting in his
vehicle before driving slowly
around the rally for approximate-
ly 20 minutes.
One month later, Black Lives
Matter held another protest in
downtown Boise and Kryscuk’s
vehicle was in the vicinity for
around six minutes, the indict-
ment said.
Marines facing gun charges tied to white supremacyFrom wire reports
DAKAR, Senegal — Al-Qaida’s
North African branch said it has
appointed a new leader after con-
firming the death of its former
chief, who was killed in June by
French forces, according to the
SITE Intelligence Group.
The Washington-based group,
which monitors jihadisites, said in
a video published Saturday that
al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb,
also known as AQIM, showed the
dead body of its former leader,
Abdelmalek Droukdel, for the
first time.
AQIM also said that Yazid Mub-
arak, also known as Abu Ubaida
Yusuf al-Annabi, is the new lead-
er. Droukdel was killed in Mali by
French forces who had been hunt-
ing him in the Sahel region for
years.
Al-Qaida’s North African
branch also confirmed the death
of Swiss missionary Beatrice
Stockly, who had been captured in
January 2016 from Mali’s north-
ern city of Timbuktu. The group
attributed her death to a failed at-
tempt by “French crusaders” to
free her, and also held the Swiss
government responsible for “de-
laying the issue and making ‘futile
efforts’” according to SITE.
Al-Qaida names new North Africa leader, reports kidnapping deathAssociated Press
PAGE 6 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
While her friend who lacked in-
surance had to pay $125 for the
test, Serulneck’s price was only
$35. The real cost came from the
two days she had to take off from
work, she said.
“People are just trying to get by,
and they can’t be taking off work
for a week to wait for results,” said
Serulneck, who works at a spa.
“People need rapid testing to be
available and affordable.”
Dr. Mark Shrime said his work
gave him the flexibility to wait in
line six hours for a test in New
York City last week, but he knows
that not everyone can do the same.
“If I’m an hourly worker, I can’t
take off six hours just so I can get a
test so I can go back to work,” said
Shrime, who needed a test to avoid
a 14-day quarantine after travel-
ing from Boston. “Another option
was another place 10 blocks away
from me where I could pay $250 to
get a rapid test, so the structure
that we set up for people to be able
to keep themselves safe from CO-
VID baked into those structures is
an inequity.”
Serulneck says it’s been frus-
trating to watch people do rapid
tests so that they can go to parties
or travel for the holidays.
“Some people who need rapid
testing to work can’t afford it,” she
said. “It’s not fair. The majority of
people are in my position.”
As numbers of infections cases
climb in the United States and the
country faces what health experts
say will be a dark winter due to the
uncontrolled spread of the virus,
the demand for testing becomes
greater. The U.S. has had more
than 12 million reported cases and
more than 255,000 deaths from
the coronavirus since the start of
the pandemic.
Social worker Chelsea Collins
said she had to pay $150 for a drug
store test after she lost her insur-
ance due to the pandemic. After
her husband, a union painter,
learned he may have been ex-
posed to COVID-19, she was faced
with needing to get tested again.
After visiting a free drive-thru
testing site at 5:30 a.m. in Scran-
ton, Pa., on Saturday and waiting
about 1½-2 hours for a test, the 32-
year-old Collins said she consid-
ers herself lucky. But she thought
about those people without the
means to get to a testing site not
served by public transit.
“I feel for a lot of people with
families, at the holidays and hav-
ing to shell out $150 because
they’re exposed,” Collins said.
Lines: Inequity marks different COVID testsFROM PAGE 1
BELGRADE, Serbia — After
the two most senior Serbian Or-
thodox Church leaders died with-
in a month after testing positive
for the coronavirus, health ex-
perts and even hardcore believers
are starting to worry. The spread
of the virus within the largest reli-
gious group in the Balkans is get-
ting more alarming with every
day.
A senior Orthodox Church
priest, who took part in the
prayers at the funeral of Serbian
Patriarch Irinej on Sunday when
most of the preventive measures
against the coronavirus were ig-
nored, has tested positive for CO-
VID-19, Serbia’s state TV said
Monday.
Bishop David is the latest per-
son among the top clergy to get the
virus, raising concerns in the Bal-
kans that the Orthodox Church
could be helping to spread the vi-
rus with its doctrine that true be-
lievers can't get infected during
Holy Communion and other
church services.
But the two most senior Serb re-
ligious leaders — the patriarch
and Bishop Amfilohije — died af-
ter COVID-19 complications.
They both downplayed the dan-
gers of the pandemic, avoided
wearing masks in public and Am-
filohije described large religious
gatherings as “God’s vaccine.”
Thousands of people on Sunday
attended the funeral of the Ser-
bian patriarch. Irinej, 90, who died
on Friday, three weeks after at-
tending the funeral of Amfilohije
in neighboring Montenegro dur-
ing which mourners kissed his re-
mains lying in an open casket.
On Sunday, many mourners
and most priests holding the fu-
neral service in the massive St. Sa-
va Temple in the Serbian capital,
Belgrade, didn’t wear masks or
adhere to social distancing inside
the church, kissing the glass
shield covering Irinej’s remains
and even using a single spoon dur-
ing Holy Communion.
Although the church has asked
mourners to keep their distance
and wear face masks in line with
the anti-virus recommendations,
even priests inside the temple
were without masks.
DARKO VOJINOVIC/AP
A priest cleans the plastic on the coffin of Patriarch Irinej during the procession at the St. Sava Temple inBelgrade, Serbia.
COVID deaths of senior Serbreligious leaders trigger alarm
Associated Press
VIRUS OUTBREAK
LONDON — Pharmaceutical
company AstraZeneca said Mon-
day that late-stage trials showed
its coronavirus vaccine was up to
90% effective, giving public health
officials hope they may soon have
access to a vaccine that is cheaper
and easier to distribute than some
of its rivals.
The results are based on interim
analysis of trials in the U.K. and
Brazil of a vaccine developed by
Oxford University and manufac-
tured by AstraZeneca. No hospi-
talizations or severe cases of CO-
VID-19 were reported in those re-
ceiving the vaccine.
AstraZeneca is the third major
drug company to report late-stage
results for a potential COVID-19
vaccine as the world anxiously
waits for scientific breakthroughs
that will bring an end to a pandem-
ic that has wrought economic dev-
astation and resulted in nearly 1.4
million confirmed deaths.
Pfizer and Moderna last week
reported preliminary results from
late-stage trials showing their vac-
cines were almost 95% effective.
But, unlike its rivals, the AstraZe-
neca vaccine doesn't have to be
stored at ultra-cold temperatures,
making it easier to distribute, es-
pecially in developing countries.
“I think these are really exciting
results,” Dr. Andrew Pollard,
chief investigator for the trial, said
during a news conference. “Be-
cause the vaccine can be stored at
fridge temperatures, it can be dis-
tributed around the world using
the normal immunization distri-
bution system. And so our goal …
to make sure that we have a vac-
cine that was accessible every-
where, I think we’ve actually man-
aged to do that.”
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vac-
cine is also cheaper. AstraZeneca,
which has pledged it won’t make a
profit on the vaccine during the
pandemic, has reached agree-
ments with governments and in-
ternational health organizations
that put its cost at about $2.50 a
dose. Pfizer’s vaccine costs about
$20 a dose, while Moderna's is $15
to $25, based on agreements the
companies have to supply their
vaccines to the U.S. government.
All three vaccines must be ap-
proved by regulators before they
can be widely distributed.
Oxford researchers and Astra-
Zeneca stressed that they aren't
competing with other projects,
and that multiple vaccines will be
needed to reach enough of the
world's population and end the
pandemic.
“We’re not thinking about vac-
cinations working in terms of one
person at a time. We have to think
about vaccinating communities,
populations, reducing transmis-
sion within those populations, so
that we really get on top of this
pandemic,” said Sarah Gilbert, a
leader of the Oxford research
team. “And that’s what it now
looks like we’re going to have the
ability to contribute to in a really
big way.”
The results come as a second
wave of COVID-19 has hit many
countries, once again shutting
businesses, restricting social in-
teraction and pummeling the
world economy.
AstraZeneca said it will imme-
diately apply for early approval of
the vaccine where possible, and it
will seek an emergency use listing
from the World Health Organiza-
tion so it can make the vaccine
available in low-income countries.
Third major vaccineshown as effective,cheaper than others
Associated Press
JOHN CAIRNS/AP
A researcher in a laboratory at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England,works on the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca andOxford University.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 7
VIRUS OUTBREAK
BEIJING — Chinese author-
ities are testing millions of people,
imposing lockdowns and shutting
down schools after multiple local-
ly transmitted coronavirus cases
were discovered in three cities
across the country last week.
As temperatures drop, wide-
scale measures are being enacted
in Tianjin, Shanghai and Manz-
houli, even though the number of
new cases remains low compared
to the United States and other
countries that are seeing new
waves of infections.
Experts and government offi-
cials have warned that the chance
of the virus spreading will be grea-
ter in cold weather. Recent fla-
reups have shown that there is still
a risk of the virus returning, de-
spite being largely controlled
within China.
On Monday, the National
Health Commission reported two
new locally transmitted cases in
Shanghai over the previous 24
hours, bringing the total to seven
since Friday. China has recorded
86,442 cases overall and 4,634
deaths since the coronavirus was
initially detected in the central
Chinese city of Wuhan late last
year.
The two latest cases confirmed
in Shanghai were close contacts of
another airport worker who was
diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier
in November.
On Sunday night, the city's Pu-
dong International airport decid-
ed to test its workers, collecting
17,719 samples through the early
hours of Monday morning. Plans
call for testing others in surround-
ing communities if further cases
are detected.
Videos on social media purport-
edly from workers showed what
appeared to be chaotic scenes at
the airport as they were given last-
minute orders to get tested. In the
videos, people are seen standing
in large groups pushing against of-
ficials in hazmat suits.
China tests millions ascases flare up in 3 cities
Associated Press
TOKYO – The U.S. military on
Monday announced 54 new coro-
navirus cases in Japan and South
Korea that popped up in recent
weeks, including 21 over the
weekend at an installation in west-
ern Tokyo.
Yokota Air Base, where a spike
in locally acquired infections be-
gan Nov. 13, reported 21 new cases
Saturday and Sunday, 19 of them
already in quarantine due to con-
tact tracing, according to a base
Facebook post. The remaining two
are new arrivals to Japan who
tested positive at Haneda Interna-
tional Airport and were also quar-
antined, the base said.
Yokota, the headquarters of
U.S. Forces Japan, now has 43 ac-
tive cases. November hit the base
hard, bringing nearly three times
more individual cases of the virus
than it reported between June and
October.
Tokyo, which set a pandemic re-
cord last week with three consec-
utive days of 500-plus new cases,
reported 314 newly infected indi-
viduals Monday, a relative res-
pite, according to public broad-
caster NHK. The Tokyo Metropol-
itan Government reported 391
cases on Sunday, ending the run of
days exceeding 500 cases, accord-
ing to metro government data.
In western Japan, Marine Corps
Air Station Iwakuni, fresh from a
mid-month spate of new cases
generated locally, had nine people
test positive over the weekend, ac-
cording to news releases from the
base Sunday and Monday.
On Monday, the base an-
nounced that seven people had
been infected through contact
with previously infected individu-
als. All seven were already isolat-
ed from the general population,
the release said.
Two cases announced Sunday
recently arrived at MCAS Iwaku-
ni via government-chartered
flights called the Patriot Express.
Both tested positive on a test re-
quired before exiting two weeks of
restricted movement, a form of
quarantine required of all new ar-
rivals.
MCAS Iwakuni has reported 23
confirmed coronavirus cases this
month, more than three times the
number it reported between July
and October. On Thursday, base
commander Col. Lance Lewis, cit-
ing a parallel increase in the local
community around the base, or-
dered limits on contacts anyone
affiliated with the base may have
with off-base schools and busi-
nesses until Nov. 30.
Air station personnel, including
civilian employees and family
members, are limited to essential
services only in the surrounding
city, such as medical and dental
care and grocery shopping.
Kadena Air Base on Okinawa
late Friday reported that two indi-
viduals tested positive for the vi-
rus while in isolation after return-
ing from travel outside Japan. An
unspecified number of their con-
tacts are also quarantined, ac-
cording to a post on the base Face-
book page.
In addition, Okinawa prefecture
on Monday said the U.S. military
reported 10 infections over the
weekend: another eight at Kadena
and one each at the Marine Corps
bases Camp Schwab and Marine
Corps Air Station Futenma, a pub-
lic health official told Stars and
Stripes by phone.
Kadena typically updates its
coronavirus count within days of
positive test results. The Marines
stopped publicly reporting its new
cases in early November.
USFJ, however, in a tally on its
website, listed five active cases as
of Friday at three Marine bases on
Okinawa: two at Camp Foster and
one each at Camps Hansen and
Schwab and MCAS Futenma.
USFJ listed 104 active cases at
all U.S. bases in Japan as of Fri-
day.
Okinawa prefecture reported 16
new cases of its own on Monday,
the health official said.
U.S. Forces Korea said 22 peo-
ple tested positive after arriving
on the Korean Peninsula over 15
days.
USFK on Monday said the new-
ly identified patients arrived from
the United States between Nov. 5
and Friday. Eight service mem-
bers and three dependents flew
into Osan Air Base via the Patriot
Express on Nov. 8, 9, 12, 15 and
Wednesday.
Ten service members and one
civilian contractor arrived on
commercial flights at Incheon In-
ternational Airport on Nov. 5, 15,
16, 17, Thursday and Friday, the
command reported.
According to USFK, 18 people
tested positive before entering
quarantine, and four tested posi-
tive on their second test. The new
cases in South Korea are in isola-
tion at the Army’s Camp Hum-
phreys or Osan Air Base.
South Korea’s Central Disease
Control Headquarters on Monday
reported 255 new cases through-
out the peninsula, including 109 in
Seoul, which, like Tokyo, is off-
limits to U.S. military personnel
except those on official business
or who reside there.
Authorities in Seoul on Monday
announced a tightening of social
distancing regulations, including
shuttering nightclubs, limiting
service house at restaurants and
reducing public transportation,
according to The Associated
Press. The measures, which go in-
to effect on Tuesday, include a ban
on public rallies or demonstra-
tions of more than 10 people.
Military has over 50 new cases in Japan, S. KoreaBY JOSEPH DITZLER
PAGE 8 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP
NEW YORK — In souvenir
shops from Times Square to the
World Trade Center, shelves full
of T-shirts and trinkets still
(heart) New York. But the pro-
prietors wonder when their cus-
tomers will, again.
The coronavirus pandemic has
taken a voracious bite out of a slice
of New York life as recognizable
as a piece of pizza: the gifts-slash-
luggage-and-sometimes-slash-
electronics stores that dot tourist-
friendly areas, offering Statue of
Liberty figurines, toy taxis, NYPD
ballcaps, Big Apple fridge mag-
nets and anything and everything
emblazoned with the famous “I
(HEART) NY” logo
Like the miniature-skyline
snow globes they sell, the shops
are a microcosm of a city that has
thrived on drawing visitors from
around the world and now is feel-
ing their near-absence.
“It’s a fight for survival,” Ali
Zaidi said one recent morning at
his shop two blocks from the
World Trade Center. And with
coronavirus cases rising and win-
ter approaching, what would nor-
mally be the build-up to a busy ho-
liday season instead is “getting
worse and worse, day by day.”
After setting records year after
year since 2010, travel to the Unit-
ed States’ biggest city has plum-
meted since the pandemic shut-
tered Broadway theaters, closed
many other attractions for months
and ushered in federal bans on
some foreign visitors and New
York quarantine rules affecting
many interstate arrivals.
City tourism agency NYC & Co.
is now projecting visitors will total
about 23 million this year, an “un-
matched drop” from over 66 mil-
lion last year, though the agency
forecasts the numbers will re-
bound to reach new records by
2024. Hotel occupancy is current-
ly down about 80% from normal,
and traffic at metro area airports
about 75%, according to the Hotel
Association of New York City and
the Port Authority of New York &
New Jersey.
CaliforniaSACRAMENTO — California
Gov. Gavin Newsom and his fam-
ily are quarantining after three of
his children were exposed to
someone who tested positive for
the coronavirus, his office said
late Sunday.
Newsom, his wife and four chil-
dren, ages 4 to 11, all tested nega-
tive for the virus Sunday, spokes-
man Jesse Melgar said in an
emailed statement.
Newsom was notified Friday
evening that a California Highway
Patrol member who had contact
with three of his children later
tested positive for the virus, the
statement said. The CHP provides
security for Newsom and his fam-
ily. It said Newsom and his wife,
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, did not
have contact with the officer.
The Newsoms were not tested
until Sunday based on advice from
health professionals “to improve
the accuracy of the test,” Melgar
said.
The family is quarantining at
their home in Sacramento County.
They will be tested regularly, Mel-
gar said.
The governor’s quarantine
comes as California experiences a
rise in virus cases and as he’s im-
posed a fresh round of restrictions
on people and businesses.
A 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew took
effect over the weekend and offi-
cials are warning people about
getting together with family and
friends for Thanksgiving.
DelawareWILMINGTON — The seven-
day average daily coronavirus
case count in Delaware set an all-
time high as the state tested a re-
cord number of people in the days
before Thanksgiving.
The numbers show more people
in Delaware are seeking out a test
and a significant portion of them
are returning positive results. The
daily average percent of tests that
are positive is 5.9%, the highest it’s
been since early June. The aver-
age daily case count has grown by
90% over the past two weeks.
Health officials in Delaware
and across the country are urging
people to reconsider holiday
plans, especially those that in-
volve travel, and celebrate only
with members of their house-
holds.
New restrictions that became
effective Monday limit private in-
door gatherings to 10 people. Gov.
John Carney said last week the
state will rely on voluntary com-
pliance and won’t be “knocking on
doors” to enforce the restriction
on Thanksgiving.
ArizonaWINDOW ROCK — The Navajo
Nation is reporting 383 more con-
firmed cases of COVID-19, an all-
time high for the vast reservation.
Tribal health officials Sunday
announced the latest daily figure
of new cases as well as five more
coronavirus-related deaths. The
total number of known cases now
stands at 15,039, including 42 de-
layed reported cases.
The death toll for the Navajo Na-
tion is now up to 631.
Tribal health officials said
147,793 people have been tested
for COVID-19 since the pandemic
started and 8,131 have recovered.
The Navajo Nation is currently
under a three-week stay-at-home
order. Only essential workers are
allowed to come and go. Others
are permitted to travel in cases of
emergency or for essentials.
The coronavirus has affected 29
communities throughout the res-
ervation, which spans more than
27,000 square milesin parts of Ari-
zona, New Mexico and Utah.
MinnesotaMINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim
Walz planned to unveil a new tech-
nology Monday that’s designed to
help slow the spread of COVID-19,
which has been surging in the
state this month.
Minnesota health officials re-
ported 7,219 new coronavirus
cases on Sunday, lifting the total
number of positive cases to more
than 270,000 since the start of the
pandemic. Officials also con-
firmed 40 deaths due to complica-
tions from COVID-19 in the last
day, for a total of 3,241 fatalities.
There were 1,591 new cases per
100,000 people in Minnesota over
the past two weeks, which ranks
sixth in the country for new cases
per capita. One in every 120 peo-
ple in Minnesota tested positive in
the past week.
North DakotaBISMARCK — North Dakota
health officials are rolling out free
rapid COVID-19 testing for teach-
ers, staff and school administra-
tors this week as part of a pilot pro-
ject designed to slow the virus’
spread by identifying and quickly
isolating people who may be
asymptomatic.
Testing of K-12 teachers will
start in the Fargo and West Fargo
school districts and will be ex-
panded to other districts in com-
ing days and weeks. Teachers,
staff and administrators who work
closely with students are being en-
couraged to get tested weekly
through Dec. 31. Students will not
be tested as part of the effort.
State Superintendent Kirsten
Baesler said the rapid testing will
add an additional layer to strong
mitigation strategies schools are
already using to keep in-person
learning safe.
North Dakota ranks first in the
country in new COVID-19 cases
per capita, with 2,418 new cases
per 100,000 people over the past
two weeks. One in every 86 people
in North Dakota tested positive in
the past week.
NebraskaLINCOLN — Nebraska report-
ed one of the smallest numbers of
new virus cases this month Sun-
day, but the number of people hos-
pitalized with the virus remained
high and continues to strain hospi-
tal capacity in the state.
The state reported 1,032 new vi-
rus cases to give Nebraska a total
of 114,061 cases since the pandem-
ic began.
Nebraska said 976 people were
being treated for COVID-19 in the
state’s hospitals, which is slightly
below the record of 987 set on Fri-
day. So 23% of the state’s hospital
beds are occupied by COVID-19
patients, which is approaching the
threshold of 25% that will trigger
more social distancing restric-
tions from the state.
Nebraska had the seventh-high-
est rate of infection in the nation
Sunday, according to data from
Johns Hopkins University.
New HampshireCONCORD — At least 100 peo-
ple protested New Hampshire Re-
publican Gov. Chris Sununu’s
mask mandate, chanting “Breathe
free or die,” and “We will not com-
ply,” outside his home in New-
fields.
Sununu issued an executive or-
der requiring masks be worn in
public spaces, indoors or outside,
when social distancing isn’t possi-
ble.
It wasn’t known if Sununu was
home at the time.
Sununu had resisted calls for a
statewide mandate, even as sur-
rounding states enacted similar
measures. He said last week a
mandate was appropriate given
the rising percentage of positive
test results, the fact that the num-
ber of people hospitalized with
COVID-19 has doubled in the last
two weeks, new outbreaks at five
nursing homes and an “incredibly
alarming rate” of asymptomatic
community transmission.
WisconsinJANESVILLE — U.S. Rep.
Bryan Steil tested positive for CO-
VID-19 on Sunday, according to a
statement from the Republican
lawmaker, who represents Wis-
consin’s 1st congressional district.
The congressman said he began
experiencing mild symptoms over
the weekend and contacted his
health care provider while at
home in Janesville.
Steil said he spent all of last
week in Washington, D.C.
“Following CDC guidelines, I
am immediately quarantining and
will continue serving the people of
Southeast Wisconsin from my
home in Janesville,” he said.
With few tourists,New York giftshops struggle
MARY ALTAFFER / AP
Visitors to New York's Times Square browse through the "I Love NY" Tshirts for sale at a gift shop Nov. 12in New York. With few tourists, souvenir shops in the city are struggling. After setting records year afteryear since 2010, travel to New York has plummeted during the pandemic.
Associated Press
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NATION
BELLEVUE, Neb. — Author-
ities arrested a 23-year-old man in
an attack at a Nebraska fast food
restaurant in which two employ-
ees were shot and killed, two were
wounded and officers responding
to a report of a possible bomb in-
side a moving truck in the parking
lot arrived to find the vehicle on
fire.
Roberto Carlos Silva Jr. of Oma-
ha was booked into Sarpy County
jail early Sunday on suspicion of
first-degree murder and first-de-
gree arson in Saturday night’s at-
tack at a Sonic Drive-in restaurant
in Bellevue, the Omaha World-
Herald reported. Silva was being
held without bond Sunday before
making his initial court appear-
ance.
In a news release early Sunday,
Lt. Andy Jashinske said Bellevue
police received a call at 9:23 p.m.
Saturday about a possible bomb in
a U-Haul truck parked outside of
the restaurant in the Omaha sub-
urb. A minute later, the call was
updated to a possible shooting, he
said.
Officers who arrived found the
moving truck burning and four
restaurant employees who had
been shot. Two were sent to the
University of Nebraska Medical
Center for treatment, and the oth-
er two were declared dead at the
scene, Jashinske said.
Police identified those killed as
Nathan Pastrana, 22, and Ryan
Helbert, 28. The two employees
who were taken to the hospital are
Zoey Reece Atalig Lujan, 18, and
Kenneth Gerner, 25. A fifth Sonic
employee suffered a minor injury
but declined treatment at a hospi-
tal.
Video tweeted by Omaha TV
station KETV showed crews bat-
tling the truck fire late Saturday.
The Omaha Police Department’s
bomb squad was at the scene early
Sunday to check on a “device,” as
a precaution to make sure the area
was safe, Jashinske said. They de-
termined there was no bomb.
The attack
came days after
Silva was arrest-
ed outside of the
restaurant after
allegedly using
someone else’s
Sonic app ac-
count to buy a to-
tal of $57 worth
of hamburgers
and corn dogs in four separate
purchases at that location, the
World-Herald reported. Silva was
released from jail on Thursday af-
ter posting 10% of his $1,500 bail.
At the time of that arrest, police
seized three firearms from Silva,
and police still held those weap-
ons, Jashinske said Sunday.
After the shooting, police seized
four firearms, though Silva was
unarmed and didn’t resist when
he was arrested outside the res-
taurant, Jashinske said.
Jashinske said the investigation
was in its “infancy,” and he
couldn’t explain what led to the
shooting.
Sonic Drive-in, which is based
in Oklahoma City, issued a state-
ment Sunday saying the company
was “stunned and saddened by
what occurred at the Bellevue,
Neb., Sonic Saturday night.
Nebraska man
arrested in
attack at SonicAssociated Press
Silva
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two peo-
ple died and multiple others were
injured in a stabbing Sunday
night at a church in California
where homeless people had been
brought to shelter from the cold
weather, police said.
The stabbing happened at
Grace Baptist Church in San
Jose, where police said on Twitter
that no services were taking
place.
“Unhoused individuals were
brought into the church to get
them out of the cold,” the depart-
ment tweeted.
It was unclear exactly how
many people were wounded, but
some of the injuries were life-
threatening, police said.
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo
initially tweeted that a suspect
had been arrested, but police lat-
er said no arrest could be con-
firmed. KTVU-TV reported that a
22-year-old man was apprehend-
ed in the stabbing.
Video shown by news outlets
near the church showed several
ambulances and police cars, and
police tape and traffic cones cor-
doning off the road.
NHAT V. MEYER, BAY AREA NEWS GROUP/ AP
San Jose Police investigate a possible stabbing at Grace Baptist Church at the corner of South 10th andEast San Fernando Streets in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Sunday.
2 dead in stabbing at Calif. churchAssociated Press
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 11
WORLD
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s
military is warning civilians in the
besieged Tigray regional capital
that there will be “no mercy” if
they don’t “save themselves” be-
fore a final offensive to flush out
defiant regional leaders — a
threat that Human Rights Watch
on Sunday said could violate inter-
national law.
“From now on, the fighting will
be a tank battle,” spokesman Col.
Dejene Tsegaye said late Saturday,
asserting that the army was march-
ing on the Tigray capital, Mekele,
and would encircle it with tanks.
“Our people in Mekele should be
notified that they should protect
themselves from heavy artillery.”
He accused the Tigray leaders of
hiding among the population of the
city of roughly a half-million people
and warned civilians to “steer
away” from them.
But “treating a whole city as a
military target would not only be
unlawful, it could also be consid-
ered a form of collective puni-
shment,” Human Rights Watch re-
searcher Laetitia Bader tweeted
Sunday.
“In other words, war crimes,”
former U.S. national security ad-
viser Susan Rice tweeted.
Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-
winning prime minister, Abiy
Ahmed, in a new statement is giv-
ing the leaders of the Tigray Peo-
ple’s Liberation Front 72 hours to
surrender, saying that “you are at a
point of no return.” He accused the
TPLF leaders of using religious
sites, hotels, schools “and even
cemeteries” as hideouts and using
Mekele residents as human
shields.
For days, Abiy’s government
has asserted it was marching to
Mekele in a final push to end the
deadly conflict that erupted on
Nov. 4 between the federal gov-
ernment and the heavily armed
Tigray regional government. The
TPLF dominated Ethiopia’s rul-
ing coalition for a quarter-century
before Abiy took office and intro-
duced dramatic political reforms
and sidelined TPLF leaders.
Each side now regards each oth-
er as illegal, complicating interna-
tional pleas for dialogue amid con-
tinued worries that one of Africa’s
most powerful and populous na-
tions could ultimately fracture
and destabilize the strategic Horn
of Africa.
With communications and
transport to the Tigray region al-
most completely severed, it’s diffi-
cult to verify the warring sides’
claims.
Ethiopia’s government has ex-
pelled an analyst with the Interna-
tional Crisis Group, William Davi-
son. The government hasn’t given
a formal reason, the organization
said, but “ultimately, there is little
doubt that the reason for his de-
portation relates to the current
tense situation in the country and
the authorities’ increasing sensi-
tivity to points of view that do not
hew to its line.”
NARIMAN ELMOFTY/AP
Tigray refugees who fled a conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray region run at Village 8, the transit center nearthe Lugdi border crossing, eastern Sudan, on Sunday.
Ethiopia warns its civilians of‘no mercy’ in Tigray offensive
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
— The Group of 20 summit
opened Saturday with appeals
from the world's most powerful
leaders to collectively chart a way
forward as the coronavirus pan-
demic overshadows this year's
gathering, transforming it from
in-person meetings to a virtual
gathering of speeches and decla-
rations.
The pandemic, which has
claimed more than 1.37 million
lives worldwide, has offered the
G-20 an opportunity to prove how
such bodies can facilitate interna-
tional cooperation in crises — but
has also underscored their short-
comings.
“We have a duty to rise to the
challenge together during this
summit and give a strong message
of hope and reassurance,” Saudi
Arabia’s King Salman said during
the opening remarks of the sum-
mit.
While G-20 countries have con-
tributed billions of dollars toward
developing a vaccine for the virus,
they have also mostly focused on
securing their own vaccine suppli-
es. Countries such as Britain, the
United States, France and Germa-
ny — all G-20 member states —
have directly negotiated deals
with pharmaceutical companies
to receive billions of doses, mean-
ing that the vast majority of the
world’s vaccine supply next year
is already reserved.
A day before the summit, U.N.
Secretary-General Antonio Gu-
terres said that while $10 billion
has been invested in efforts to de-
velop vaccines, diagnostics and
therapeutics, another $28 billion
is needed for mass manufactur-
ing, procurement and delivery of
new COVID-19 vaccines around
the world.
Guterres called on more G-20
nations to join COVAX, an inter-
national initiative to distribute
COVID-19 vaccines to countries
worldwide. The U.S. has declined
to join under President Donald
Trump.
Leaders urge unityon virus responseat opening of G-20
Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey
and Germany were at loggerheads
Monday after a German frigate
enforcing an arms embargo
against Libya intercepted a Turk-
ish freighter in the Mediterranean
sea and carried out what a senior
Turkish official dismissed as an
“illegal” search.
Turkey said personnel from the
German frigate Hamburg were
flown by helicopter aboard the
freighter Rosaline-A on Sunday as
itsailed off the Libyan coast to car-
ry out an hourslong search.
Germany’s Defense Ministry
said Turkey ordered a halt to the
search, forcing the German per-
sonnel to depart before complet-
ing their work. During their
search, the German team had not
discovered any cargo that contra-
vened the arms embargo, German
Defense Ministry spokesman
Christian Thiels told reporters in
Berlin.
A Turkish government official
said the German warship’s per-
sonnel boarded Rosaline-A with-
out Turkey’s permission in viola-
tion of maritime laws. They ended
the search around dawn after “un-
derstanding that there was noth-
ing but humanitarian aid, biscuits
and other material such as paints
on board,” the official said.
The Rosaline-A continued on its
way to Misrata after the search,
the official said, adding that Tur-
key planned to lodge formal com-
plaints about the incident. The of-
ficial spoke on condition of ano-
nymity in line with Turkish gov-
ernment rules.
German warship searches Libya-boundTurkish freighter over arms embargo
Associated Press
HONG KONG — Prominent
Hong Kong pro-democracy activ-
ist Joshua Wong and two other ac-
tivists were taken into custody
Monday after they pleaded guilty
to charges related to a demonstra-
tion outside police headquarters
during anti-government protests
last year.
Wong, together with fellow ac-
tivists Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow,
pleaded guilty to charges related
to organizing, taking part in and
inciting protesters to join an unau-
thorized protest outside police
headquarters last June. The trio
were members of the now-dis-
banded Demosisto political party.
They were remanded in custody
at a court hearing Monday, and
the three are expected to be sen-
tenced Dec. 2. Those found guilty
of taking part in an unlawful as-
sembly could face as many as five
years in prison depending on the
severity of the offense.
“I am persuaded that neither
prison bars, nor election ban, nor
any other arbitrary powers would
stop us from activism,” Wong said,
ahead of the court hearing.
“What we are doing now is to ex-
plain the value of freedom to the
world, through our compassion to
whom we love, so much that we
are willing to sacrifice the free-
dom of our own. I’m prepared for
the thin chance of walking free.”
Wong rose to prominence as a
student leader during the 2014
Umbrella Movement pro-democ-
racy protests and is among a grow-
ing number of activists being
charged with relatively minor of-
fenses since Beijing imposed a
sweeping national security law on
the territory in June that has se-
verely restricted political speech.
Pro-democracy supporters
have said the legal charges are
part of a campaign to harass and
intimidate them.
Wong wrote on his Facebook
page on Sunday that he and Lam
had decided to plead guilty after
consulting with their lawyers. The
two previously pleaded not guilty
to the charges.
Chow had already pleaded
guilty to charges of inciting others
and taking part in the protest.
Prominent democracyactivist in Hong Kongis taken into custody
Associated Press
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WORLD
RAMALLAH, West Bank —
The Palestinian Health Ministry
has recommended strict limits on
Christmas celebrations in Bethle-
hem this year due to the coronavi-
rus outbreak.
Celebrations in the biblical
town revered by Christians as Je-
sus’ birthplace are usually attend-
ed by thousands of people from
around the world.
But this year, the ministry has
recommended that the upcoming
Christmas tree lighting ceremony
in Manger Square be limited to 50
people, with the lights of the tree
and area restaurants closed at 9
p.m. throughout the entirety of the
Christmas season. In its recom-
mendations Saturday, it said reli-
gious services on Christmas Eve
should also have limited attend-
ance.
Bethlehem’s economy, filled
with hotels, gift shops and restau-
rants, relies heavily on the Christ-
mas season. The cancellation or
scaling back of the celebrations
will deal another blow to an econo-
my that has already been hit hard
by the coronavirus pandemic this
year.
Palestinian officials are expect-
ed to make a final decision on
Christmas celebrations in the
coming days. Israel’s internation-
al airport — the main entry point
for foreign travelers — has been
closed to tourists for months, lim-
iting the potential numbers of pil-
grims in any case.
Christmas celebrations may belimited in Bethlehem this year
Associated Press
SYDNEY — A man died Sunday
after being attacked by a shark in
Western Australia state, the
eighth fatality in the country this
year.
Police were called to Cable
Beach, a popular tourist spot on
Australia’s Indian Ocean coast, at
about 8:40 a.m. The 55-year-old
man was pulled from the water
with serious injuries and treated
by police before paramedics ar-
rived. He died at the scene, police
said.
Police said later that they shot at
the shark, which lingered close to
the shore, for almost a half-hour
after the attack. The species of the
shark was not immediately con-
firmed, but locals told reporters it
may have been a tiger shark,
which are sometimes drawn close
to the shore by shoals of small fish.
Kimberley District Office Po-
lice Inspector Gene Pears told re-
porters that the victim had been
body boarding about 100-130 feet
from the beach when he was at-
tacked. A couple on the beach saw
thrashing in the water and rushed
to drag the man to safety. The man
suffered injuries to his leg and
hand.
Man killed in shark attack
in Western Australia stateAssociated Press
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Man spit at hikers;claimed he has virus
MA ASHBURNHAM —
Police in a central
Massachusetts town are asking
the public’s help in identifying a
hiker who claimed he had COVID
as he spit at two other hikers for
not wearing face masks.
Ashburnham police said two
young women were hiking the
Midstate Trail near the New
Hampshire state line Nov. 15
when the incident happened.
WCVB-TV reported an older
man criticized the two hikers for
not wearing protective face masks
while they paused at the Hudson
Overlook.
A video of the incident shows
the man and at least one of the
women arguing before he ap-
proaches them, removes his mask
and then spits in their direction
while saying “I have COVID.”
“It was hostile, it was inappro-
priate, it was threatening, it could
even be assaultive,” Police Lt.
Chris Conrad told the station.
Possible weather ballooncrashes in remote area
AZ PHOENIX — Navajo
Nation officials in east-
ern Arizona are trying to deter-
mine if a satellite or a high-alti-
tude weather balloon crash-land-
ed in a remote area of the reserva-
tion.
A Navajo Nation Council dele-
gate said the gray object appeared
to have four large solar panels
with an orange parachute.
Navajo Police Department spo-
keswoman Christina Tsosie de-
scribed the object as a satellite,
which she said crash-landed in the
remote area of Dennehotso.
Tsosie said the cause of the
crash wasn’t immediately known
and the “satellite material” was
released to employees from a
company called Polar Field Ser-
vices, the Republic said.
FBI arrests man afterdrone hits police helo
CA LOS ANGELES — A
Hollywood man was ar-
rested for allegedly operating a
drone that crashed into a Los An-
geles Police Department helicop-
ter and forced an emergency land-
ing two months ago, the U.S. attor-
ney’s office said.
FBI special agents arrested An-
drew Rene Hernandez, 22, on a
complaint charging him with one
count of unsafe operation of an un-
manned aircraft, a statement said.
The complaint states that police
officers responding to a burglary
call requested air support. The po-
lice helicopter was approaching
the scene when the pilot saw the
drone and unsuccessfully at-
tempted to evade it.
The helicopter’s nose, antenna
and bottom cowlings were dam-
aged.
The drone’s camera and memo-
ry card led to identification of
Hernandez as the operator.
Sheriff: Woman jumpscar to escape captors
NC ROCKINGHAM — A
woman jumped from
the trunk of a speeding car to es-
cape her captors, and deputies
have arrested two of three people
wanted in the case, a North Caroli-
na sheriff’s office said.
The Rockingham County Sher-
iff’s Office said in a news release
that deputies responded to a call
from a motel in Madison about an
assault and kidnapping.
Investigators said three people
entered the victim’s room, as-
saulted her and put her in the
trunk of their car. The sheriff’s of-
fice said the car traveled 200
yards before she jumped out of the
trunk. According to the sheriff’s
office, the woman suffered severe
injuries and was taken to a hospi-
tal for treatment.
The sheriff’s office said Takiyah
Kenyhata Broadnax, 21, was
charged with first-degree kidnap-
ping, breaking and entering, and
assault inflicting serious injury.
An unidentified juvenile faces
similar charges.
Rabid cat bites animalcontrol officer
NJ HAMILTON — A rabid
cat bit an animal control
officer in New Jersey last week,
authorities said.
Police said in a news release
that the stray cat was found in Ha-
milton Township. the Press of At-
lantic City reported.
Atlantic County authorities said
the cat bit the animal control offi-
cer as he was removing it from the
road.
County spokeswoman Linda
Gilmore said the cat was taken for
evaluation and was euthanized
due to the extent of its injuries.
The state lab confirmed that the
animal tested positive for rabies.
The animal control officer has
been treated for rabies exposure,
Gilmore said.
Monster truck museumwill relocate
IN BUTLER — A shrine to
the best drivers and
builders in the history of monster
truck competition is relocating
from one northern Indiana town to
another.
The International Monster
Truck Museum and Hall of Fame,
currently housed at Kruse Plaza
in Auburn, is moving to the former
Eagles lodge in Butler, museum
president Jeff Cook said.
The 12,700-square-foot building
will allow the museum to expand
and display historic monster
trucks, as well as monster trucks
currently used on tour.
A monster truck parade is
planned for next spring, in addi-
tion to an open house sometime in
May or June, Cook said.
Salvation Army bell ringerthwarts bucket theft
GA ALBANY — A Salva-
tion Army volunteer in
southwest Georgia said he
couldn’t bear to stand aside after
thieves snatched his donation
bucket.
Instead, Larry Adams, 65,
sprang into action when someone
grabbed his bucket outside the Al-
bany Mall and hopped into a pick-
up truck.
Adams reached into the driver’s
side window as the thieves tried to
drive away, WALB-TV reported.
Adams said he kept pulling on the
steering wheel until the driver
stopped and handed the bucket
back to him.
Albany police said they’re still
investigating the attempted heist.
Boy, 13, gets juvenilesentence for thefts
IL URBANA — A 13-year-
old central Illinois boywho admitted stealing five vehi-cles earlier this year was sen-tenced to seven years in juvenileprison after a judge rejected hispleas for another chance.
The Rantoul teen sobbed as aChampaign County judge sen-tenced him for the vehicle thefts,which occurred in Champaignand Urbana between June and Oc-tober,
State’s Attorney Julia Rietz toldthe court that after the first vehi-cle theft, the boy was given achance at a diversion program,but he was arrested again.
The teen pleaded guilty to anAugust vehicle theft and was onhome detention when he was ar-rested again the day before hissentencing hearing.
He pleaded guilty to two Sep-tember vehicle thefts and wasagain released on home detention-pending sentencing. Rietz said theteen then committed the fifth ve-
hicle burglary in October.
WARREN DILLAWAY, THE (ASHTABULA, OHIO) STARBEACON/AP
Sarah Mayes of Orville, Ohio, prepares for a lift during the 32nd Annual Ironman's Bench Press Championships at the Ashtabula County YMCAin Ashtabula, Ohio.
Pressing issues
THE CENSUS
$5M The amount of a grant that will help restore one of the majorcoral reefs in federally protected waters around the Florida
Keys. The reef is part of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The Na-tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration awarded the grant through the National Coastal ResilienceFund. In 2019, NOAA announced Mission: Iconic Reefs, a plan to restore muchof the Florida Reef Tract. It’s one of the largest strategies ever proposed for coralrestoration.
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The country’s dilemma about what
to do about Thanksgiving this
year is reflected back to me hour
after hour in my work as a family
and couples therapist.
My office is like the Butterball hotline but
with the focus on get-together angst during
the pandemic rather than turkey roasting.
If you hacked into my Zoom sessions, this is
a representative sampling of what you’d
hear:
“What if this is the last Thanksgiving with
my 92-year-old mother and she could have
joined us, but we played it safe?”
“How should I tell my kids they can’t
come to Thanksgiving? What if this be-
comes a permanent disruption and they
never come back?”
“What if I invite my hardy family mem-
bers to an outdoor Thanksgiving but some
other relatives find out and are insulted?”
Since I’ve struggled to figure out my own
Thanksgiving plans, I don’t presume to
have the answers for my patients. Instead, I
commiserate with them about everything
we’ve already missed this year — the vaca-
tions postponed, and the special occasions
and holidays we’ve had to celebrate apart
because of COVID-19.
A wistfulness shows up in their wish to
embrace Thanksgiving, which has all the
ingredients of a nourishing time — cooking
together, lolling around the table with a sur-
feit of high-caloric food, the leisure to tell
and retell family stories and the healing
laughter that follows. Now more than ever
we could benefit from reconnecting with
our loved ones and welcoming everyone
home.
Thanksgiving, the mother of all family
dinners, is a potent ritual. With rich aromas
and special foods, it connects us to our
childhoods and to previous generations, of-
ten through the passing down of family reci-
pes. Thanksgiving makes us feel that we’re
part of something bigger than ourselves,
when we see our extended family and re-
member our past gatherings.
But any vibrant ritual also has to be able
to adapt and flex to accommodate change.
We already do this every Thanksgiving to
some extent, since a year’s passing inevita-
bly brings new developments — a daughter
will be spending the holiday with her part-
ner’s family, a spouse serving in the mili-
tary is stationed overseas, a grandparent
has died and left an empty seat.
It is the push and pull of continuity on the
one hand and change on the other that gives
Thanksgiving its texture and vitality. But
this year, the change is being forced upon us
since we’ve been advised to have small
gatherings, if we gather at all.
So maybe this is the year you hold a vir-
tual cooking class to make sure those near
and dear know how to properly prepare a
turkey.
It could be a perfect opportunity to record
family tales via Zoom, without signaling to
your relatives that you want to preserve
their stories before they die.
This year I’m especially grateful to be
part of the Family Dinner Project, a non-
profit initiative based at Massachusetts
General Hospital that offers families ways
to increase the frequency and quality of
their shared mealtimes. I’ve guided many
of my patients to our Thanksgiving Virtual
Care Package, which offers loads of down-
loadable games and activities for families
who will be celebrating apart this year.
Calling the whole dinner off is another
option. Think of it as a sabbatical year
where you step away from the holiday to
gain perspective. Or think of the sabbatical
in terms of its biblical roots, which refer to
taking a year off from sowing the field.
Leaving the holiday fallow may mean that
next year it emerges more robustly or in a
different form — the dinner could be rotat-
ed, like crops, among hosts in future years.
One family that shared their Thanksgiv-
ing story with the Family Dinner Project is
stepping away from their traditional
Thanksgiving and choosing to celebrate
with a day of favorites — they’ll be ordering
Peking duck, making ice cream sundaes
and baking a family recipe of eggnog cake
that they’ll share with neighbors.
Thanksgiving is a feast, but this year I’m
thinking of how I can celebrate this favorite
holiday with less abundance. I’m planning a
quick, chilly, outdoor New England picnic
with one son and his partner while Zooming
with many of the other usual guests. We’ll
play a round of the guessing game Top Four
while warmed by two fire pits. Maybe I’ll
get some baking tips during a virtual cook-
ing session with my other son and his wife.
As the mother of my oldest childhood
friend used to say, “Sometimes, enough is
as good as a feast.” What will be your
“enough” this year?
Thanksgiving break: Do something different this yearBY ANNE K. FISHEL
Los Angeles Times
Anne K. Fishel is an associate clinical professor of psychology atHarvard Medical School, co-founder of the Family DinnerProject and director of the family and couples therapy programat Massachusetts General Hospital.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 17
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32 Corporate
symbol
33 Drive-in
servers
35 Postpone
36 “Hail, Caesar!”
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38 Martial arts
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45 “May It Be”
singer
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26 “Nova” airer
27 Texter’s chuckle
28 Turkish title
29 Singer Orbison
31 Chest-beating
beast
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39 “To Live and
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refusal
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FACES
Taylor Swift won her third consecutive artist
of the year prize at the American Music
Awards, but she missed the show for a good
reason: She said she’s busy re-recording her
early music after her catalog was sold.
In a video that aired during Sunday’s awards
show, the pop star said “the reason I’m not
there tonight is I’m actually re-recording all of
my old music in the studio where we originally
recorded it. So it’s been amazing. And I can’t
wait for you to hear it.”
Last year, music manager Scooter Braun —
who manages Justin Bieber and Ariana
Grande — announced that his Ithaca Holdings
company had acquired Big Machine Label
Group, the home to Swift’s first six albums.
This month, Braun said he has sold the master
rights to Swift’s first six albums to an invest-
ment company; Swift acknowledged the sale
on social media and said she would not work
with the new buyers because Braun was still
involved.
Instead, she headed back to the studio.
Swift beat out Bieber, Post Malone and Rod-
dy Ricch to win the top award. She also won
favorite music video and favorite pop/rock fe-
male artist, winning three honors and tying
Bieber, Dan + Shay and the Weeknd for most
wins Sunday.
The Weeknd lost artist of the year, but he still
kicked off his all-star week as a big winner:
Days before he’s expected to land multiple
Grammy nominations, he won favorite soul/
R&B male artist, favorite soul/R&B album for
“After Hours” and favorite soul/R&B song for
“Heartless” two days before the 2021 Grammy
nominations are announced.
The Weeknd accepted his awards and per-
formed with his face wrapped in gauze, which
matched the vibe of his recent album and mu-
sic videos where he appears blooded and
bruised.
He was one of several artists who appeared
live at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles for
the fan-voted awards show. Others recently
taped their performances because of the coro-
navirus pandemic, though host Taraji P. Hen-
son appeared live from the venue.
Henson joked that A-list celebrities were in
the audience, including Beyonce — actually,
cardboard cutouts of the singer, Jay-Z and oth-
er stars appeared in seats.
But a good number of chart-toppers were in
the building. Breakthrough singer-rapper Do-
ja Cat performed and won new artist of the
year and favorite soul/R&B female artist.
Grammy-winning country duo Dan + Shay
beautifully performed “I Should Probably Go
to Bed” and won favorite country duo or group,
collaboration of the year and favorite country
song for “10,000 Hours,” the latter two shared
with Bieber. And Megan Thee Stallion — who
won favorite rap/hip-hop songs for “WAP”
with Cardi B — performed “Body” from her re-
cently released debut album “Good News.”
Other performers included Bieber and
Shawn Mendes, BTS, Lewis Capaldi, Machine
Gun Kelly, Lil Baby, Bell Biv DeVoe, Nelly and
Katy Perry.
This year the AMAs launched more Latin
categories. Becky G — who burst on the music
scene in 2014 with the pop hit “Shower” but has
recently had success singing in Spanish — won
favorite Latin female artist.
Nominees for the AMAs were based on
streaming, album and digital sales, radio air-
play and social activity, and reflect the time pe-
riod of Sept. 27, 2019, through Sept. 24, 2020.
ABC/AP
Taylor Swift accepts the award for artist of the year on Sunday at the American Music Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Swift also won favorite music video and favorite pop/rock female artist.
Swift wins top prize at AMAsAmerican Music Awards
Winners at the 2020 American Music Awards, heldSunday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.Artist of the year: Taylor SwiftNew artist of the year: Doja CatCollaboration of the year: Dan + Shay and JustinBieber, “10,000 Hours”Favorite pop/rock female artist: Taylor SwiftFavorite pop/rock male artist: Justin BieberFavorite pop/rock duo or group: BTSFavorite pop/rock song: Dua Lipa, Don’t Start Now”Favorite pop/rock album: Harry Styles, Fine Line”Favorite rap/hip-hop female artist: Nicki MinajFavorite rap/hip-hop male artist: Juice WRLDFavorite rap/hip-hop song: Cardi B and Megan TheeStallion, “WAP”Favorite rap/hip-hop album: Roddy Ricch, “PleaseExcuse Me For Being Antisocial”Favorite soul/R&B female artist: Doja CatFavorite soul/R&B male artist: The WeekndFavorite soul/R&B song: The Weeknd, “Heartless”Favorite soul/R&B album: The Weeknd, “AfterHours”Favorite country female artist: Maren MorrisFavorite country male artist: Kane BrownFavorite country duo or group: Dan + ShayFavorite country song: Dan + Shay and JustinBieber, “10,000 Hours”Favorite country album: Blake Shelton, “Fully Load-ed: God’s Country”Favorite female Latin artist: Becky GFavorite male Latin artist: Bad BunnyFavorite Latin song: Karol G and Nicki Minaj, “Tusa”Favorite Latin album: Bad Bunny, “YHLQMDLG”Favorite alternative rock artist: twenty one pilotsFavorite adult contemporary artist: Jonas BrothersFavorite contemporary inspirational artist: LaurenDaigleFavorite electronic dance music artist: Lady GagaFavorite social artist: BTSFavorite music video: Taylor Swift, “cardigan”Favorite soundtrack: “Birds of Prey: The Album”
Associated Press
CHRIS PIZZELLO, Invision/AP
The Weeknd accepts the awardSunday for favorite soul/R&Balbum for “After Hours.”
CHRIS PIZZELLO, Invision/AP
Doja Cat won new artist of theyear and favorite soul/R&B female artist.
BY MESFIN FEKADU
Associated Press
One of the five teens wrongly
imprisoned for the assault on a
Central Park jogger has a memoir
coming out in the spring.
Grand Central Publishing an-
nounced Monday that it had ac-
quired Yusef Salaam’s “Better,
Not Bitter: Living On Purpose in
The Pursuit of Racial Justice.”
The publisher is calling the book a
“candid and poignant look at the
life of an American citizen, born
and raised in Harlem, N.Y., who
was accused and convicted by a
flawed criminal injustice system
designed to ensnare and decimate
as many Black and Brown bodies
as possible.”
Salaam is one of the so-called
Central Park Five, now also
known as the Exonerated Five.
The five Black and Latino teens
were coerced into confessing to a
rape they didn’t commit in 1989.
All served prison time before be-
ing exonerated in 2002. Ken Burns
made a documentary about them
and Ava DuVernay directed a Net-
flix series.
‘Wipeout’ contestant dies
after completing course A contestant on “Wipeout” has
died after completing the game
show’s obstacle course, author-
ities and sources close to the pro-
duction said Nov. 20.
The man in his 30s was declared
dead at a hospital shortly before 7
p.m. Nov. 18, Los Angeles County
coroner’s spokeswoman Sarah
Ardalani said. The cause of death
has not been released, and the
man’s name was being withheld
until relatives could be notified.
The reality competition show, in
which contestants navigate an ex-
treme obstacle course featuring
giant balls and pitfalls that often
result in spectacular crashes, ran
on ABC from 2008 until 2014 and is
being rebooted by TBS and pro-
duction company Endemol Shine
North America.
Other news Bruce Swedien, a five-time
Grammy-winning audio engineer
who collaborated with Michael
Jackson and Quincy Jones, died
Nov. 16 in Gainesville, Fla., after
battling an illness and complica-
tions from surgery. He was 86.
Swedien was best known for his
collaborations on Jackson’s hit al-
bums “Thriller” and “Off the
Wall.”
The Taiwanese film “My
Missing Valentine” won big Nov.
21 at the annual Golden Horse
Awards, taking five honors, in-
cluding best feature film.
A long-lost trove of Bob Dy-
lan documents has sold at auction
for $495,000. Boston-based R.R.
Auction said Nov. 20 the collection
privately held by the late Ameri-
can blues artist Tony Glover, a
longtime Dylan friend, was sold
Nov. 19 as individual lots.
Yusef Salaamwriting memoir
Associated Press
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 19
SCOREBOARD/COLLEGE FOOTBALL/NBACOLLEGE FOOTBALL
AP Top 25The Top 25 teams in The Associated
Press college football poll, with first-placevotes in parentheses, records throughNov. 21, total points based on 25 points fora first-place vote through one point for a25th-place vote, and previous ranking:
Record Pts Prv
1. Alabama (62) 7-0 1550 1
2. Notre Dame 8-0 1471 2
3. Ohio St. 4-0 1440 3
4. Clemson 7-1 1358 4
5. Texas A&M 5-1 1249 5
6. Florida 6-1 1223 6
7. Cincinnati 8-0 1201 7
8. BYU 9-0 1109 8
9. Oregon 3-0 951 11
10. Miami 7-1 936 12
11. Northwestern 5-0 922 19
12. Indiana 4-1 899 9
13. Georgia 5-2 828 13
14. Oklahoma 6-2 693 18
15. Iowa St. 6-2 658 17
16. Coastal Carolina 8-0 622 15
17. Marshall 7-0 542 15
18. Wisconsin 2-1 540 10
19. Southern Cal 3-0 461 20
20. Texas 5-2 321 22
21. Oklahoma St. 5-2 289 14
22. Auburn 5-2 259 23
23. Louisiana-Lafayette 7-1 218 24
24. Tulsa 5-1 164 25
25. North Carolina 6-2 108 —
Others receiving votes: Washington 35,Liberty 31, Nevada 23, SMU 17, Iowa 15,Boise St. 6, FAU 5, Buffalo 3, San Jose St. 3.
Amway Top 25The Amway Top 25 football poll, with
first-place votes in parentheses, recordsthrough Nov. 22, total points based on 25points for first place through one point for25th, and previous ranking:
Carolina 20, Detroit 0Cleveland 22, Philadelphia 17Houston 27, New England 20New Orleans 24, Atlanta 9Pittsburgh 27, Jacksonville 3Tennessee 30, Baltimore 24, OTWashington 20, Cincinnati 9Denver 20, Miami 13L.A. Chargers 34, N.Y. Jets 28Dallas 31, Minnesota 28Indianapolis 34, Green Bay 31, OTKansas City 35, Las Vegas 31Open: Buffalo, Chicago, N.Y. Giants, San
Francisco
Monday's game
L.A. Rams at Tampa Bay
Thursday, Nov. 26
Houston at DetroitWashington at DallasBaltimore at Pittsburgh
Sunday, Nov. 29
Arizona at New EnglandCarolina at MinnesotaCleveland at JacksonvilleL.A. Chargers at BuffaloLas Vegas at AtlantaMiami at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.N.Y. Giants at CincinnatiTennessee at IndianapolisNew Orleans at DenverSan Francisco at L.A. RamsKansas City at Tampa BayChicago at Green Bay
Monday, Nov. 30
Seattle at Philadelphia
Thursday, Dec. 3
Dallas at Baltimore
Sunday, Dec. 6
Cleveland at TennesseeWashington at PittsburghLas Vegas at N.Y. JetsJacksonville at MinnesotaCincinnati at MiamiIndianapolis at HoustonDetroit at ChicagoNew Orleans at AtlantaN.Y. Giants at SeattleL.A. Rams at ArizonaNew England at L.A. ChargersPhiladelphia at Green BayDenver at Kansas City
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 21
Hill guides Saints to 7th straight winBY BRETT MARTELL
Associated Press
PAGE 22 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
over the winless Jets and a home
victory in nasty weather against a
now-slumping Baltimore can't be
buoyed by Sunday's defeat at
Houston. Yes, a Texans club
whose only two previous victories
were over the second-worst team
in the league, Jacksonville.
“It’s disappointing, but we’ll
turn the page here and move on,”
New England coach Bill Belichick
said. “(I) still have a lot of confi-
dence and belief in the team. If we
just do things a little bit better,
then the results will be different
and better. But, I don’t know, we
just couldn’t do it today.”
Nor on many other days in a 4-6
campaign.
Then there are the Vikings, who
started 1-5 before they won three
straight division games. A home
victory over the struggling Cow-
boys could have established Min-
nesota's place in the playoff chase.
Instead, inconsistency on both
sides of the ball led to an ugly loss.
“There are positives to point to,"
quarterback Kirk Cousins said,
"but ultimately when you don’t
win, you leave the stadium feeling
sick to your stomach.”
Indeed, nausea often accompa-
nies mediocrity.
Then there are the Falcons and
Lions, really outsiders to join in
the postseason chase even before
Sunday.
Atlanta had won three of four
under interim coach Raheem
Morris after an 0-5 start. So it lost
to a quarterback making his first
NFL start, Taysom Hill, and the
Saints, in a relative blowout. The
Lions were even worse, getting
blanked for the first time in 11
years at Carolina, which broke a
five-game slide using a QB also in
his first NFL start, P.J. Walker.
Hill mainly has been a special-
teamer and Walker's last start was
in the XFL.
“We have really good guys
here,” embattled Lions coach
Matt Patricia said when asked if
he feels as though he’s losing the
locker room. “We have guys who
are fighting every day and work-
ing really hard. That’s the one
thing — I just love this locker
room. These guys are strong; they
want to win. They’re trying to
compete. They’re trying to do ev-
erything right.”
Maybe they are just too me-
diocre to achieve that. Also stum-
bling in Week 11 was Miami,
which had won five straight but
lost at Denver. The Dolphins' de-
fense is for real, and they are well
coached. But they lack maturity.
That said, they seem much
more solid than the collection of
current pretenders mentioned
above.
Finally, there's the case of the
Cleveland Browns, who are 7-3
and quite possibly headed to 10 or
11 victories and ending the
league's longest playoff drought —
since the Browns' only such ap-
pearance during their reincarna-
tion, in 2002.
Philadelphia, one of those NFC
East weaklings, pretty much
handed the Browns their win Sun-
day. Other than taking down Indi-
anapolis before the Colts began
their turnaround, Cleveland has
beaten the dregs of the NFL: Cin-
cinnati twice, Washington, Dallas,
Houston and Philly. None of those
teams has won more than three
times in 2020.
Awry: Patriots, Vikings,others may be pretendersFROM PAGE 24 “We’ll turn the
page here andmove on.”
Bill Belichick
Patriots coach
NFL
LANDOVER, Md. — Chase
Young told college teammate Joe
Burrow he loved him and to get
well after the top pick’s scary knee
injury Sunday.
Then, the No. 2 pick and Wash-
ington got going on defense, and
the quarterback taken first overall
15 years ago led a comeback victo-
ry. After Burrow was carted off
with a likely season-ending left
knee injury, Young and 36-year-
old Alex Smith helped Washing-
ton beat the Cincinnati Bengals
20-9 to stay in the thick of the NFC
East race.
“We definitely took over after
that,” said Young, selected one
slot after Burrow in this year’s
draft. “Sacks started coming. Ev-
erything just started falling into
place.”
Burrow, Cincinnati’s franchise
quarterback, was injured early in
the third quarter when he was hit
high and low by two Washington
linemen after throwing a pass. His
left leg bent awkwardly, and he
couldn’t put any weight on it, end-
ing his day at 22-for-34 passing for
203 yards and a touchdown.
“That’s an injury right there to a
team leader that can take the wind
out of your sails,” Bengals coach
Zac Taylor said. “It’s not fun. He
was making improvements every
week”
Burrow’s season appears over,
too. He tweeted: “Thanks for all
the love. Can’t get rid of me that
easy. See ya next year.”
Burrow’s departure allowed
Smith and Washington (3-7) to
seize momentum and move a half-
game back of Philadelphia for first
place in the NFL’s weakest divi-
sion. Just after Burrow left, Smith
— who broke his right tibia and
fibula on the same field just more
than two years ago — led a go-
ahead, 55-yard scoring drive that
ended with a 3-yard TD pass to
Steven Sims.
In his second start since that in-
jury Nov. 18, 2018, Smith was 17-
for-25 for 166 yards and had a pass
intercepted after it was tipped.
This was his first win since that
day, wearing the same vintage
uniform.
“The last time I wore them, I got
them cut off me in an ambulance,
so fun to be where I’m at now,”
Smith said.
AL DRAGO / AP
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow shakes hands with Washington quarterback Dwayne Haskins, right, as Burrow is carted away.
Smith rallies Washington after Bengals’ Burrow is hurtBY STEPHEN WHYNO
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Even after Ja-
son Witten’s touchdown put the
Las Vegas Raiders ahead with
1:43 to play, the mood on the Kan-
sas City Chiefs’ sideline was calm
and cool.
Not much can stop the Super
Bowl champs lately. Not when
they have the quarterback who
makes everything go.
“We’ve got Patrick Mahomes,”
running back Clyde Edwards-He-
laire said. “I’m not worried about
anything.”
Mahomes threw a 22-yard
touchdown pass to Travis Kelce
with 28 seconds to play, and the
Chiefs avenged their only loss in
the last 12 months with a 35-31
victory over the Raiders on Sun-
day night.
Mahomes passed for 348 yards
and led two go-ahead scoring
drives in the frantic fourth quar-
ter for Kansas City (9-1), which
split its season series with Las
Vegas (6-4) in dramatic fashion.
The Chiefs also took firm control
of the race for its fifth straight
AFC West title with an assertive
comeback in its closest rivals’
home building.
When Derek Carr found Witten
for the Raiders’ go-ahead score
Sunday, Mahomes said he knew
what would happen next.
“We’re going to score,” Ma-
homes said. “I just didn’t know if
it was going to be overtime, or we
were going to win it.”
Kansas City didn’t need a tying
field goal: It only needed 75 sec-
onds to march 75 yards, with Ma-
homes going 6 of 7 on the drive.
Kelce, who caught eight passes
for 127 yards, slipped free of Las
Vegas’ safeties for the easy win-
ning catch.
“He turns it up when it matters
the most, and he was out there
showing out tonight,” Kelce said
about Mahomes.
ISAAC BREKKEN / AP
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce snares a gamewinning touchdown catch Sunday in his team's3531 defeat of the Raiders in Las Vegas.
Chiefs edge Raiders onMahomes' pass to Kelce
BY GREG BEACHAM
Associated Press
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 23
NFL
The Green Bay Packers have
succeeded this season by protect-
ing leads, taking care of the foot-
ball and controlling the clock.
They failed to do any of those
things Sunday.
Green Bay committed four
turnovers and squandered a two-
touchdown halftime advantage in
a 34-31 overtime loss to the Indi-
anapolis Colts. The defeat caused
the Packers (7-3) to fall behind
New Orleans (8-2) in the race for
the NFC’s best record.
“I thought the first half was
pretty good, complementary foot-
ball,” coach Matt LaFleur said.
“In the second half, they went on
long drives. We go three-and-out.
We fumble on a kickoff. That stuff
is just not going to cut it in this
league.”
This marked the first time in La-
Fleur’s two-year coaching tenure
that the team lost a game it led at
halftime, though they were tied
14-14 midway through a 28-22 loss
to the Minnesota Vikings on Nov.
1. Green Bay’s collapse was sur-
prising not only because of how
the game started but because of
how the Packers performed in
practice all week.
“I felt like this was the first
week all season where we prac-
ticed like a great team and not just
agood team, so that was encourag-
ing,” quarterback Aaron Rodgers
said. “I figured the performance
would be really solid based on
that. That’s how it goes some-
times. The mistakes can happen,
regardless of how you practice.”
This latest loss showcased one
weakness that has been apparent
for much of the season. The de-
fense that allowed Minnesota’s
Dalvin Cook to score four touch-
downs on Nov. 1 couldn’t slow
down Colts rookie running back
Jonathan Taylor in the second
half.
But Green Bay also made un-
characteristic mistakes. The
Packers committed just three
turnovers in their first 8½ games,
but have six turnovers in the 1½
games since.
MICHAEL CONROY / AP
Indianapolis Colts defender DeForest Buckner (99) recovers a fumble by Green Bay Packers wide receiver Marquez ValdesScantling (83) during a 3431 overtime win for the Colts Sunday in Indianapolis.
Packers' mistakes costlyin overtime loss to Colts
BY STEVE MEGAREE
Associated Press
BALTIMORE — For three
quarters, the undermanned Rav-
ens put the clamps on Derrick
Henry and the Tennessee Titans.
By the time if was all over, the
star running back and Tennessee
would again head out of Baltimore
with an upset victory to savor.
Henry ran for a 29-yard touch-
down with 5:21 left in overtime
Sunday to cap another memorable
performance against the Ravens
and provide the Titans with a 30-
24 win.
Heading into the fourth quarter,
Henry had 44 yards on 18 carries
and Tennessee trailed 21-13. He
finished with 133 yards on 28 car-
ries — his sixth 100-yard game of
the season. His big day also put
him over 1,000 yards for the third
consecutive year.
“You could just kind of tell as
the game wore on to the fourth
quarter that we were wearing on
them offensively,” Titans coach
Mike Vrabel said.
It was reminiscent of Henry’s
outing last January, when he ram-
bled for 195 yards to carry his
team to a 28-12 upset of top-seeded
Baltimore in the AFC divisional
playoff.
“I try to do anything I can when
the ball’s in my hand to help our
team win,” Henry said.
This one didn’t have the same
win-or-go-home significance, but
it was close.
“It’s a violent game, a physical
game, an emotional game,” Vra-
bel said.
The harsh stare downs and
trash talking began before the
game and carried well into over-
time.
“We kind of knew there was go-
ing to be some extra stuff coming
into this game because of last
year,” Tennessee wide receiver
Corey Davis said. “We tried to
keep our poise and go out there
and handle business.”
After forcing a Ravens punt to
begin overtime, the Titans (7-3)
moved 73 yards on six plays to get
back on track after losing three of
their previous four games.
“I had a ton of confidence that as
soon as we got the ball we were go-
ing to march it down and get in the
end zone,” quarterback Ryan Tan-
nehill said.
Baltimore (6-4) has lost two
straight and three of four. Until
the fourth quarter, the Ravens did
a decent job of controlling Henry
without injured defensive line-
men Calais Campbell (calf) and
Brandon Williams (ankle).
Tennessee trailed 21-10 early in
the third quarter and 21-16 late in
regulation before launching a 90-
yard drive featuring the running
of Henry and some precise throws
by Tannehill.
On third down from the Balti-
more 14, A. J. Brown caught a
short pass on the right side and
broke four tackles before scoring
while standing up with 2:18 left.
Tannehill ran in the conversion to
make it 24-21.
Lamar Jackson then drove the
Ravens to the Tennessee 10 before
Justin Tucker kicked a 29-yard
field goal with 15 seconds remain-
ing to force overtime.
“We’ve got to finish drives,”
Jackson lamented.
Henry’s TD in OTlifts Titans overskidding RavensRB rushes for 89 of his 133 yards in 4th quarter
BY DAVID GINSBURG
Associated Press
NICK WASS / AP
Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry (22) runs for his gamewinning 29yard touchdown Sunday in Baltimore.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Pitts-
burgh’s latest victory was picture
perfect.
The Steelers defense gathered
in the end zone after each turn-
over — four times in all — and
posed for the cameras. Some of the
celebrations were planned, some
candid, most cheesy.
All of them well-deserved.
Ben Roethlisberger and Co.
gladly shared the spotlight during
a 27-3 drubbing of skidding Jack-
sonville on Sunday. After all, it
was the defense’s latest and great-
est performance of the season.
Terrell Edmunds and Minkah
Fitzpatrick intercepted two pas-
ses each and Pittsburgh steam-
rolled the lowly Jaguars (1-9) to
get to 10-0 for the first time in fran-
chise history.
“They’re fun to watch,” Roeth-
lisberger said. “They’re turning
the ball, getting turnovers for us.”
Rookie quarterback Jake Luton
looked lost most of the day against
the blitzing Steelers, who allowed
206 yards and finished with just
two sacks even though Bud Du-
pree and T.J. Watt dominated
Jacksonville’s offensive tackles.
Luton completed 16 of 37 passes
for 151 yards, with four intercep-
tions and a couple more close
calls.
“No matter what happens on the
last play, you’ve got to play the
next one,” Luton said. “Whatever
happened last time, you can’t let it
affect you.”
The turning point came late in
the second quarter. With the Jag-
uars trailing 10-3 and driving for a
potential tying touchdown, former
Jacksonville defensive lineman
Tyson Alualu tipped Luton’s pass
at the line of scrimmage. Fitzpa-
trick picked it off at the 2 and re-
turned it 37 yards.
“The defense is playing big,”
Edmunds said. “We just play for
each other.”
Roethlisberger found Diontae
Johnson down the left sideline a
few plays later. Johnson made a
leaping, juggling, contested catch
at the 1, setting up Benny Snell’s
TD run.
“We did the job today,” coach
Mike Tomlin said. “We checked
the boxes. It wasn’t perfect, but
nothing is perfect about us except
our record.”
Steelers dominate reeling JagsBY MARK LONG
Associated Press
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Mediocrity is mediocrity. You
can’t hide it, especially in the
NFC East, where being me-
diocre is a compliment.
This, however, isn’t about those weak-
lings. It’s about teams many thought might
be making moves toward relevance in the
standings: New England, Minnesota, San
Francisco, Chicago. Maybe even Detroit
and Atlanta.
Never mind.
Thanksgiving week is here, which means
the stretch run to the play-
offs is at hand. Even with
the extra wild card in each
conference, it's a pipe
dream to rely on those
half-dozen teams.
Neither the 49ers (4-6),
the most injury-ravaged
team in the NFL, nor the
Bears (5-5), the most of-
fensively inept, played
this week. Barring almost inhumanly quick
health improvement for San Francisco, it
won't come close to defending its NFC title,
particularly in the NFC West, where every-
one else decidedly isn't mediocre.
As for Chicago, it's not unreasonable to
see the Bears go from 5-1 to the bottom of
the NFC North, which other than Green Bay
decidedly is mediocre.
New England might be the most disap-
pointing of these underperformers, though
losing the main reason it won six Super
Bowls, Tom Brady, is significant enough to
cause a major step backward.
Those who believed the Patriots were
progressing after a down-to-the-wire win DAVID J. PHILLIP / AP
New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton walks off the field after failing to make first down against the Texans during the second half, Sunday, in Houston. The Patriots fell to 46 following a 2720 loss to the Texans.
StepbackPush for playoffsgoes awry forresurgent teams
