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自周六下午火灾爆发以来，华盛顿州斯波坎已有超过700座建筑被毁。
输电塔 引发 伊顿火灾
官方报告认定其老旧基础设施引发火灾
格蕾丝·图希 报道
南加州爱迪生公司管理的停用设备引发了致命的伊顿火灾，造成19人死亡，并于2025年1月摧毁了阿尔塔迪纳的大部分地区。这一结论来自州和县消防官员期待已久的报告。该报告由加州林业与消防保护局和洛杉矶县消防局于周二发布，证实了长期以来关于火灾起因的怀疑——火灾于2025年1月7日晚在一座输电塔附近引发。“经过18个月对所有证据的全面审查，并结合聘请的电气和金属专家，调查得出结论，这场野火灾难是由南加州爱迪生公司停用输电塔上发生的电弧放电事件引发。”报告列出了八项违反州刑法和公用事业法规的行为，其中多项似乎与爱迪生公司有关，但具体细节已被涂黑。涂黑是由于洛杉矶县地方检察官办公室正在对证据进行持续审查。爱迪生公司官员数月来一直表示，其使用了一个世纪的输电线路可能是火灾的起因，但该公司在面临多起诉讼时，已在法庭上否认对火灾负有全责，包括经济责任。不过，该公司已为火灾受害者提供了自愿参与的赔偿计划。在公司2025年年度报告中，代表们告诉股东，公用事业公司在火灾前的行为是“合理的”，尽管未能维护其老旧基础设施。《泰晤士报》此前已广泛报道了火灾起始地的爱迪生公司基础设施，包括该地区被视为潜在火灾隐患。爱迪生公司发言人戴夫·艾森豪尔表示，公司正在审阅该报告。“从一开始，我们就严肃对待自己在火灾起因中的潜在责任，”艾森豪尔说，“我们的心与阿尔塔迪纳社区同在，并将继续支持他们恢复和重建，通过——”
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南加州消防员赶赴支援
克拉拉·哈特 容·龚林二世 报道
圣莫尼卡消防局副局长汤姆·克莱莫自周六以来几乎未曾合眼。过去三天，他一直驻扎在华盛顿州斯波坎的一所高中内，指挥一个由多支消防队组成的指挥部，应对已摧毁约700座建筑的火灾，这些火灾与2025年袭击洛杉矶县的毁灭性火灾风暴有着惊人的相似之处。 “我们目前目睹并正在应对的是一场风驱灌木火，最终演变为社区内的城市大火，与帕利塞兹和伊顿火灾中的情况类似，”克莱莫说，“火灾面积虽小，但破坏力极大。” 斯波坎和洛杉矶的野火均在国家气象局发布的最高级别野火预警——“极度危险情况”——下引发。这意味着低湿度、强风和高温共同创造了野火迅速蔓延的完美条件。 在强风助推和干燥植被助燃下，三场野——
支持者表示这是关于社区的节日
作者：Karen Garcia
排灯节的庆祝活动包括为财富与丰饶女神照亮进入家中的道路。这也是一个通过与亲人共度时光、分享餐食或交换礼物来认可生活中关系的时刻。 这一节日——也被称为Deepavali和印度教“灯节”，并由印度教徒、锡克教徒、耆那教徒和佛教徒共同庆祝——原本将成为加州第12个州认可的法定假日，当时州长加文·纽森去年签署了相关法案。
然而，在华盛顿州东部的野地-城市交界处边缘引发的火灾中，加州消防员如克莱莫（Clemo）已加入这场战斗，这可能预示着在气候变化导致干旱条件和气温上升的背景下，加州即将面临的严峻形象。 华盛顿州州长鲍勃·弗格森（Bob Ferguson）表示，破坏规模似乎是“数以百计的房屋”。随着火灾从斯波坎北部、东部和西部包围该市，斯波坎市长丽莎·布朗（Lisa Brown）称这些火灾是“我们地区有史以来最严重的自然灾害”。火灾发生时，斯波坎刚刚记录了有史以来第10个最干旱的6月，当月降雨量仅为0.26英寸——仅为正常降雨量的22%，而7月则滴雨未下。由于积雪量接近历史最低水平，华盛顿州自2024年4月8日起已进入全州干旱紧急状态。 加州大学气候科学家丹尼尔·斯温（Daniel Swain）将这三场火灾——现被称为“斯波坎地区火灾”——称为“华盛顿州历史上破坏性最强的单一火灾”。 随着美国西部极端天气条件日益成熟，一旦发生火源，便可能引发猛烈的野火。目前，
但这一新的州法定假日目前陷入法律困境，因一个当地团体向萨克拉门托县高等法院提交了请愿书，称该法律实施成本过高、违反美国宪法，更重要的是，将排灯节确立为州内优先宗教节日。 通过正式将排灯节纳入全州公共假日名单，该法律本可允许庆祝该节日的部分学校教职员工和州政府雇员获得新的带薪假日。 该法律还将授权学校和社区学院在节日期间停课，并允许教师在课堂上开展承认和庆祝该节日的活动。 这对
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作者：Libor Jany
去年秋季的一天，罗伊·李·哈维（Roy Lee Harvey）在凤凰城搭乘Lyft穿越市区。他与司机攀谈起来，当局称哈维向司机讲述了自己从鞋类公司购买高端耐克球鞋并转售获取丰厚利润的工作。 这位Lyft司机认为这是个不错的商机，于是两人交换了联系方式，随后在附近斯科茨代尔的一间公寓见面，
布兰奇将面临参议院投票 委员会推进其总检察长提名，而小组中的民主党人反对。国家版，A4
奇特的电影评论之旅 《时报》的艾米·尼科尔森（Amy Nicholson）欢迎艾米丽·威尔逊（Emily Wilson）加入评论界的惊涛骇浪。
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天气 局部多云。 洛杉矶盆地：82 / 67。B6
其律师称这是“政治暗杀”
作者：Howard Blume
在洛杉矶联合学区（LAUSD）校监阿尔贝托·卡瓦略（Alberto Carvalho）6月辞职之前的一封机密信函中，校董事会指控这位备受赞誉的领导人存在“不专业行为、工作表现不佳以及‘违反或拒绝遵守’州法律或学区规定”的行为。 这封6月8日的信函是《洛杉矶时报》根据向学区提出的公共记录请求获得的，表明董事会有意解雇卡瓦略或迫使其辞职。 在长逾七页的文件中，教育委员会列出了解雇卡瓦略的理由，提及其涉嫌未报告的礼物、未报告的校外收——
“绝对离谱”的收益 伊朗战争期间
作者：Blanca Begert
石油公司和加州炼油商在第二季度的高额收益，再次引发州议员要求遏制行业利润的呼声。 周二，加州第二大炼油商马拉松石油（Marathon Petroleum）报告利润达51亿美元，是去年同期的四倍以上。雪佛龙（Chevron）——加州最大的炼油商和第二大石油生产商——利润达121亿美元，是去年同期的五倍，并创下至少六年来的最高收益。炼油商PBF能源和瓦莱罗（Valero）也报告了丰厚利润，后者盈利37亿美元，较去年同期增长五倍。 “这些利润绝对离谱，”州参议员乔什·贝克尔（D-门洛帕克）表示。他与参议员本杰明·艾伦（D-圣莫尼卡）共同提出了一项法案，赋予州总检察长在战时起诉 哄抬物价 的权力。“这些公司在加州无法盈利的观念——”
从4月至6月期间，
据警方调查人员称， 哈维 将他带入一个房间，里面散落着不同款式的耐克鞋及其纸板盒。 该公司限量生产的最抢手鞋款，在转售市场上的价格可达零售价的三到四倍。 转售球鞋已成为一个价值数十亿美元的全球产业。社交媒体 网红 通过开箱视频制造热度，吸引数百万观看。 被称为“球鞋迷”的时尚爱好者争相购买和交易最新款式，为最稀有的鞋款支付溢价。有些人将其视为投资，从不穿着购买的鞋款，以保持其崭新状态。他们表示，与跑车或美酒一样，鞋子的价值会随着年份增长而上升。 哈维的收藏规模如此庞大，以至于Lyft司机产生了怀疑，根据《洛杉矶时报》查阅的警方搜查令宣誓书。警方称，司机离开公寓后，在谷歌上搜索了哈维，并——
及捐赠资助的旅行。指控还包括涉嫌未经授权处理学区财产，以及不当使用学区资源，包括一辆用于工作相关任务的汽车和司机。 此外，信函还指控卡瓦略“收受承包商和说客的礼物，超出法律允许的限度”。 卡瓦略的律师在8天后以一封详细的机密信函回应，该信函同样是《洛杉矶时报》根据向学区提出的公共记录请求获得的。律师称这些指控“在法律和事实上均不成立”，并称这是“一场政治暗杀——旨在罢免一位备受尊敬的公职人员，他有勇气站在[特朗普]政府的移民执法机构与本市学童之间”。 周二上午，卡瓦略的律师——
文／萨姆·麦克尼尔、 约瑟夫·威尔逊 及科琳·巴里
布鲁塞尔——在上周大批移民涌入西班牙在北非的飞地休达后，西班牙首相佩德罗·桑切斯的移民政策周二遭到欧洲联盟各国领导人的猛烈批评。上周四和周五共有72,000名移民抵达休达，引发了该地的人道主义危机，并重新点燃了欧盟27国的移民辩论，尽管大多数移民不久后便返回。据西班牙和摩洛哥当局称，超过80名移民在事件中丧生，其中部分死于溺水或在冲越防波堤时被踩踏。来自22位欧盟领导人的公开信及桑切斯的迅速回应，揭示了欧盟内部一场激烈的争论，一方是移民鹰派，另一方是挑战欧盟内部共识的进步派西班牙领导人，争论涉及移民、北约开支、加沙及以色列等议题。
桑切斯政府驳斥这些抨击为政治动机驱使，称大多数移民在“与摩洛哥当局密切协调下”数小时内即被遣返休达，且“几乎未获得其他欧洲国家的支持”。尽管部长们在周二会议后似乎重新团结在桑切斯周围，但欧洲在休达事件后暴露出的严重分裂，正值其面临来自莫斯科的安全威胁、与华盛顿的不稳定关系及与北京的经济紧张之际，令局势雪上加霜。金融机构东方汇理（Natixis）亚太及中东首席经济学家艾丽西亚·加西亚-埃雷罗表示：“欧洲再次展现了软弱，极度的软弱。”欧盟领导人在休达相关视频疯传后迅速对桑切斯发起攻击，许多人将事件归咎于其政府的进步政策，并公开呼吁在海陆空口岸加强边境检查。
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洛杉矶市长竞选：8月2日加州版一篇关于竞选筹款的文章称，尼西娅·拉曼在初选期间筹集了略低于100万美元的资金。实际筹集金额略高于100万美元。
印刷版 + 无限数字版订阅价格： 每周七日版 $42 / 周，$2,184 / 年。 周四至周日版 $22 / 周，$1,144 / 年。 周四及周日版 $14 / ，$728 / 年。 周六及周日版 $13 / ，$676 / 年。 仅周日版 $12 / ，$624 / 年。 周一至周六版 $24 / ，$1,248 / 年（包含周日，但不包括3月29日、5月24日、9月6日、10月11日）。 周一至周五版 $24 / ，$1,248 / 年。
休达地区周四和周五有超过72,000名移民从摩洛哥越境进入。
一名不愿透露姓名的官员 就这一高度敏感问题表示， 此举“向移民发出了明确 信息： ‘来吧。只要抵达，你们就会 受到保护。’ 这一结果本应 被休达当局 预见到。” 然而，指责的矛头也指向了 另一方。西班牙国防部长 玛格丽塔·罗夫莱斯周一 要求摩洛哥首都拉巴特 调查当地未能阻止数万名 移民离开王国的失职行为。
作者：萨米·马格迪（Samy Magdy）、 阿默·马达尼（Aamer Madhani） 及马修·李（Matthew Lee）
开罗电 —— 伊朗与海湾阿拉伯国家阿曼已在重新开放霍尔木兹海峡的协议上取得进展，这一潜在突破可能有助于缓解中东地区的战争局势。地区官员周二表示。
根据正在形成的协议，船只将通过伊朗控制的航道进入波斯湾，并通过阿曼控制的航道离开，伊朗和阿曼将收取提供安全保障和维护海洋环境的服务费用。两名地区官员向美联社透露。
他们表示，谈判仍在进行中，最终协议可能采取不同形式，任何协议都将与解除美国对伊朗港口的封锁挂钩。这些官员要求匿名，以讨论正在秘密进行的敏感谈判。
任何正式确认伊朗对霍尔木兹海峡控制权的协议都将标志着德黑兰的重大战略胜利。因此，美国可能会通过拒绝解除封锁来阻止该协议。在2月28日美国和以色列对伊朗发动袭击之前，该海峡一直是一条开放的国际水道。
一名熟悉谈判情况的美国官员表示，任何通过海峡建立的“临时”航道都不会涉及——
作者：金亨进（Hyung-Jin Kim）
首尔电 —— 据韩国当局周二透露，8名韩国学生因涉嫌闯入一处美军空军基地并高呼反美口号而被拘留。
美国军方人员在首都首尔附近的乌山空军基地拘留了这4名男生和4名女生。警方表示，他们随后被移交给韩国当局。
这些学生正在接受韩国保护军事设施相关法律的调查，——
伊万·赞布拉诺 欧洲通讯社
吉尔·阿里亚斯曾于2006年至2016年担任欧盟边境管理局（Frontex）副执行主任，并曾在西班牙内政部和移民部门工作。他表示，自己“绝对不怀疑”摩洛哥不仅知晓，而且可能直接或间接参与了休达危机。“这并非仅仅由于摩洛哥的消极态度或疏忽所致，”于2020年退休的阿里亚斯告诉美联社，“这是一种邀请，或者是被鼓励的行为。”
批准来自伊朗或收费。这位未获授权公开发表评论并要求匿名的官员表示，美国仍致力于恢复“任何一方均不控制航道或通过能力”的现状。特朗普总统面临越来越大的压力，要求结束一场不受欢迎的战争，这场战争在中期选举前推高了油价，并耗尽了美国部分弹药库存。近日，他再次在威胁发动大规模打击和支持外交努力之间摇摆不定。
周一与记者交流时，特朗普重申了其公开立场，即反对在霍尔木兹海峡收费。“我不会让他们收费，”特朗普说，“任何人想收费，我们就收费。”
美国官员证实谈判取得进展 伊朗外交部发言人伊斯梅尔·巴盖伊表示，与阿曼的双边会谈重点是“建立安全的进出航道”，即“在维护主权权利的同时，也兼顾伊朗和阿曼的国家安全考量”。“谈判的最终结果将在结束后公布，”他在伊朗国家通讯社（IRNA）报道的讲话中补充道。美国国务卿
据警方称，他们在讯问中均行使了保持沉默的权利。警方表示，学生们在现场高呼口号，包括“砸烂美军第七航空队”。美军声明称，该团体试图通过大门非法进入基地，“未经授权试图进入美军设施的行为将被极其严肃对待”。军方表示，此事件将依据适用的美国和韩国法律及程序处理。韩国进步大学生联合会在脸书（Face-
摩洛哥外交官拒绝使用武力解决移民问题。“我们不是欧洲的警察。”许多右翼政客通过承诺打击移民赢得了欧盟各国的选举——他们声称已通过《欧洲移民与庇护公约》做到了这一点，该公约赋予各国首都更大权力，可监视、拘留并将移民遣返至摩洛哥等“安全国家”或欧盟以外的“遣返中心”。Frontex的数据显示，2015年欧盟移民人数达到峰值，为180万（原文为1.800 万）人，其中大多数通过巴尔干或东地中海路线入境。此后，移民人数大幅下降：2026年上半年，入境人数减少了37%，约为49,000人。“驶向欧洲的船只减少了，这是与该地区合作伙伴持续合作的结果，”Frontex执行主任汉斯·莱滕斯表示。但布鲁塞尔国际平台主任米歇尔·勒沃伊表示，休达事件表明欧盟仍未解决潜在的移民问题。
马尔科·卢比奥在国务院对记者表示：“这些谈判已经取得进展，但尚未达成最终结果。我们希望这很快就会发生。” 卢比奥此前已排除任何可能让伊朗控制海峡的协议，他在上月表示，这将为世界其他地区“开创一个非常危险的先例”。
财政部长斯科特·贝森特告诉CNBC：“我们今天或明天可能达成协议，开放海峡，并朝着这一冲突的更正常化局面迈进。” 当被问及是否会对通过海峡的船只收取通行费时，贝森特表示：“我认为这将是自由通行。” 《纽约时报》首先报道了伊朗与阿曼之间的潜在协议。
特朗普称这是伊朗的“最后机会”
在战争爆发前，全球五分之一的贸易石油和天然气通过这条水道运输。伊朗对船只的袭击已基本使其关闭，导致燃料、化肥和其他商品价格飙升，并震动了远超中东地区的经济。 特朗普周一表示，美国正在与伊朗进行谈判，称这是德黑兰“避免美国进一步军事升级的最后机会”。 “第一阶段是开放海峡。第二阶段将是去核化，”特朗普说，“这需要一段时间。” 伊朗否认正在与美国进行谈判，称对话仅限于与阿曼进行。 双方于6月达成了一项临时协议，重新开放海峡，并启动为期60天的谈判，旨在结束战争并解决伊朗核计划的长期争端。该协议因围绕海峡的敌对行动升级而破裂，距离最后期限还有约两周。
货轮报告遭袭击
一名不愿透露姓名的组织者表示，被拘留者是试图抗议美国军方反对韩国半导体集群项目的成员。 韩国警方拒绝对该组织的声明发表评论，美国军方也未对此作出回应。 韩联社报道称，美国表示其在一座因半导体项目而计划搬迁的军用机场拥有重要利益。 目前约有28,500名美军驻扎在韩国，以帮助遏制来自朝鲜的潜在侵略，这是1950-53年朝鲜战争的遗留问题，该战争以停战而非和平协议结束。
无证移民国际合作平台负责人米歇尔·勒瓦伊表示：“在休达，政治游戏正在跨境两侧人民的生命上进行。” 希腊总理基里亚科斯·米佐塔基斯表示，这场危机暴露了欧盟在“移民被武器化”时需要建立紧急机制的必要性。他在周二发表于《政客》杂志的评论文章中试图弥合欧洲政客之间的分歧。 米佐塔基斯写道：“国家和非国家行为体蓄意将移民工具化，以测试欧洲的韧性、破坏其凝聚力并谋取政治让步，这需要新的法律和行动工具来‘捍卫其外部边界、威慑那些试图利用其开放性的人，并坚定、合法且集体地应对这一新现实’。”
麦克尼尔、威尔逊和巴里为美联社撰稿。威尔逊在西班牙巴塞罗那报道，巴里在米兰报道。美联社记者雷纳塔·布里托（巴塞罗那）、阿克拉姆·乌巴希尔（摩洛哥菲尼德克）和德里克·加托普洛斯（雅典）为本报道提供了支持。
“和平协议，而不是
与此同时，一艘货船 报告在阿曼海岸附近的海峡中“被不明抛射物击中”， 英国海事贸易行动中心（United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center）表示，但未提供 有关该船的进一步信息，包括其悬挂的旗帜或 是否载有货物。 据英国海事安全公司安布雷（Ambrey）称，该船遭受了损坏，但未作进一步说明。
近几周，伊朗曾多次袭击途经阿曼附近、由美军监管的航线， 该航线旨在绕过德黑兰的控制。
马格迪、马达尼和李为美联社撰稿。马达尼和李在华盛顿报道。
一项和平条约。 民调一贯显示，多数韩国民众支持美韩军事同盟， 但美军在韩国的存在及其在韩国动荡现代史上的角色， 也长期成为韩国国内反美情绪的来源之一。 2019年，韩国警方逮捕了四名闯入美国驻首尔大使官邸的学生， 他们当时抗议特朗普政府要求韩国增加分担驻韩美军费用。
金为美联社撰稿。
德国船只残骸 在河中显现。
作者：Marko Drobnjakovic
塞尔维亚普拉霍沃—— 欧洲第二长河多瑙河的水位因干旱降至极低，导致数十艘二战时期德国战舰的残骸重新浮出水面。 这些残骸在夏季热浪危机中成为一种奇特的分心之物。多瑙河创纪录的低水位还迫使发电厂濒临关闭，中东欧各国政府正采取措施节约用电。 在分隔塞尔维亚和罗马尼亚的河流中央，靠近塞尔维亚港口普拉霍沃的位置，一艘锈迹斑斑的船体和一根断裂的桅杆如今清晰可见——纳粹旗曾在此飘扬。 这些船只部分仍装载着武器，属于纳粹德国黑海舰队。德军在从罗马尼亚撤退、苏联军队向欧洲纵深推进的战争末期，有意将其凿沉。 历史学家称，1944年9月，多达200艘德国军舰在附近被凿沉。
互相指责对方 针对平民。
美联社
俄罗斯 与 乌克兰 周二相互指责对方的袭击造成平民死亡。莫斯科地区官员称当地有五人死亡，而乌克兰当局则表示全国多地有五人遇难，其中包括两名儿童。 俄罗斯持续对乌克兰平民区进行猛烈打击，尽管莫斯科坚称其部队仅针对军事设施。 自克里姆林宫四年多前发动全面入侵以来，乌克兰已开发出能深入俄罗斯境内的远程无人机。过去一年中，乌军对石油设施、大型储存仓库及其他关键基础设施发动了多次打击。 自战争爆发以来，已有超过16,000名平民在乌克兰丧生，联合国上月在最新伤亡报告中指出，其中绝大多数发生在乌克兰政府控制的地区。伤亡人数逐年稳步上升。 联合国儿童基金会周二呼吁双方遵守要求保护儿童的国际人道主义法，并提及俄罗斯别尔哥罗德和克拉斯诺达尔地区，以及乌克兰第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克和苏梅地区近期发生的儿童死亡事件。 “杀害和伤害儿童的袭击必须停止，”联合国儿童基金会在声明中表示。 与此同时，双方在黑海对航运的升级袭击重新引发了对全球粮食安全可能受到威胁的担忧。 乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基发布
文／马龙·冈萨雷斯
特古西加尔巴（洪都拉斯）——洪都拉斯一名法官周一裁定，前总统胡安·奥兰多·埃尔南德斯在涉嫌欺诈和洗钱的审判期间无需入狱服刑。埃尔南德斯此前因美国毒品走私指控获得特朗普赦免后，刚刚返回这座中美洲国家。
此案备受关注，被视为检验该国司法体系的试金石，批评者称这位前领导人在任期间长期逍遥法外。
一名男子周二走过塞尔维亚普拉霍沃附近多瑙河上一艘德国军舰的残骸。
这些军舰于1945年在多瑙河峡谷的普拉霍沃沉没，当时它们遭到苏联军队的炮火袭击。沉船的初衷是为了减缓苏联在巴尔干地区的推进。但数月后，纳粹德国于1945年5月投降。这些老旧战舰的遗迹提醒人们，塞尔维亚政府在欧盟资金的支持下，长期以来一直试图处理这些残骸。部分船只曾被南斯拉夫共产党当局移除，但大多数因携带爆炸物而被遗留至今。如今，当局正努力维持航道交通。
一件武器向乌克兰克拉马托尔斯克附近的俄罗斯军队阵地开火。
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基在社交媒体上发布了一段视频，称视频显示一架俄罗斯无人机追踪赫尔松南部一名在街边摊卖菜的男子。
视频显示，该男子试图逃离无人机，无人机在他车辆上空盘旋，紧随其后，最终击中了他试图藏身的汽车。据他接受赫尔松地区军事管理局采访时称，他的背部、腿部和手臂受伤。
俄罗斯国防部尚未回应美联社的置评请求。
自战争爆发以来，针对平民的无人机袭击激增。乌克兰总检察长办公室周二表示，已有967人死亡，其中包括10名儿童，近7,000人受伤。
根据美联社此前的报道，俄罗斯无人机操作员会追踪并袭击从事日常活动的平民。联合国一个委员会于2025年10月得出结论，此类袭击构成反人类罪。
“全世界都必须看到这一点，”泽连斯基说，“必须看到每一项证据，证明俄罗斯已经疯狂，其士兵以杀戮和虐待平民为乐。”
周一，俄罗斯黑海度假胜地阿尔希波-奥西波夫卡发生的无人机袭击造成的死亡人数上升至[...OMITTED...]
埃尔南德斯曾被美国视为打击毒品战争的盟友，在2014年至2022年期间领导洪都拉斯。据美国检方称，他曾夸口要“把毒品直接塞进美国佬的鼻子里”。
他卸任后不久即被引渡至美国，接受毒品走私审判，并被判处45年监禁。特朗普总统于2022年出人意料地赦免了他，并支持其政党候选人纳斯里·阿斯富拉竞选总统。阿斯富拉现已就任[...OMITTED...]
在欧盟资金的支持下，当局长期以来一直试图处理这些残骸。部分船只曾被南斯拉夫共产党当局移除，但大多数因携带爆炸物而被遗留。如今，当局正努力维持航道交通[...OMITTED...]
克拉斯诺达尔边疆区当局表示，事故已造成七人死亡，其中包括四名儿童。
周二，克拉斯诺达尔边疆区当局将受伤人数更新为 58 人，其中 21 人住院治疗。
网上流传的视频显示，一架无人机撞向拥挤的海滩，背景中传来类似枪声的声音。乌克兰尚未对此次袭击发表评论。
周二，乌克兰对莫斯科周边地区发动的无人机袭击造成 5 人死亡，10 人受伤，州长安德烈·沃罗比约夫（Andrei Vorobyov）表示。大部分损失发生在切霍夫市辖区，该地区的新谢尔基工业区多处起火。
在针对俄罗斯最大在线零售商 Wildberries 的一系列袭击中，该公司表示其位于圣彼得堡附近的列宁格勒州仓库发生火灾。
在莫斯科与圣彼得堡之间的埃马乌斯村，无人机残骸部分损坏了 Wildberries 仓库的一面墙，该州州长维塔利·科罗廖夫（Vitaly Korolyov）表示。
乌克兰无人系统部队指挥官罗伯特·布罗夫迪（Robert Brovdi）称，在过去 18 天内，乌克兰无人机已袭击 15 个 Wildberries 仓库，13 个起火。
1 月，现年 57 岁的埃尔南德斯（Hernández）面临与“潘多拉一号”（Pandora I）案相关的指控。该案指控 2010 年至 2013 年间，一批前高级官员参与扩大并批准公共资金拨款，总额超过 $10.8 百万（约合 2.88 亿 伦皮拉），流向多个基金会。此系洪都拉斯反腐败网络专门检察官办公室（UFERCO）调查结果。
UFERCO 称，埃尔南德斯从这些拨款中获益，通过成立空壳公司、使用“白手套”及虚假合同等手段，至少为其政治竞选活动筹得 $2.3 百万美元。
其他涉及“潘多拉一号”案的高级官员案件被撤销，法律专家认为这预示着埃尔南德斯的可能结局。这位前总统一直滞留美国，直至洪都拉斯法官今年 6 月暂停对其逮捕令。
检方要求
多瑙河水位下降导致航运受阻，该河流经 10 个国家，低水位已造成危险局面。
专家将异常高温天气归因于全球变暖及其他因素。
普拉霍沃居民克尔斯塔·布兰迪奇（Krsta Brandic）表示，低水位几乎使船舶无法通行：“如你所见，[大型]船只已无法通过。”
伊琳娜·雷巴科娃（Iryna Rybakova） 乌克兰第 93 机械化旅
乌克兰官员称，该公司提供的商品可被军方使用。基辅还希望通过高调袭击扰乱俄罗斯民心。
俄罗斯国防部表示，其部队周一晚袭击了“乌克兰军方使用的港口、船只及港口基础设施”。
在乌克兰南部敖德萨地区的乔尔诺莫斯克港，俄方称击中一家汽车零部件厂及一处港口码头，该处正在维修军用车辆，并存放弹药和燃料。
在南部港口尼古拉耶夫，一艘装载军用物资的散货船受损；在另一乌克兰港口皮夫登内，一艘正在卸载军用物资的船只被击中，俄方声明称。
俄国防部还表示，在敖德萨以南海域，两艘装载武器和军事装备的散货船受损。
周二，土耳其再次呼吁双方确保黑海航道安全，此前两艘土耳其籍船只在驶离俄罗斯新罗西斯克港后遭无人机袭击。
土耳其外交部声明对战争日益蔓延至
达尔科·沃伊诺维奇（Darko Vojinovic） 美联社
水位下降几乎使船舶停航：“如你所见，[大型]船只已无法通过。”
德罗布尼亚科维奇（Drobnjakovic）为美联社撰稿。 美联社记者杜尚·斯托亚诺维奇（Dusan Stojanovic）自塞尔维亚贝尔格莱德报道。
黑海，威胁着商业航运，并警告此类事件可能会产生更广泛的影响，包括对全球粮食供应的影响，因为重要的粮食、化肥和其他关键产品的运输需经过这些海域。
乌克兰地区官员表示，俄罗斯对包括港口在内的米科拉伊夫的袭击造成一名89岁的女性死亡，另有7人受伤，年龄在2至83岁之间。
据地区军事行政部门负责人奥列格·基佩尔称，俄罗斯对南部敖德萨地区平民基础设施的袭击摧毁了一栋私人住宅，并造成两人受伤。
苏梅地区军事行政部门负责人奥列格·赫里戈罗夫表示，在乌克兰北部的苏梅地区，六枚俄罗斯滑翔炸弹造成两名年龄分别为5岁和10岁的女孩以及一名老年女性死亡。
哈尔科夫地区军事行政部门负责人奥列格·西涅古博夫表示，在之前的24小时内，俄罗斯军队还袭击了哈尔科夫以及该北部地区的18个城镇和村庄，造成一人死亡，七人受伤，其中包括一名8岁儿童。
当地当局表示，在同样位于哈尔科夫地区的巴拉克利亚，袭击损坏了一栋公寓楼、一座图书馆、三家商店和10多栋房屋，导致两名女性受伤。
当地官员表示，两枚滑翔炸弹袭击了乌克兰东部顿涅茨克地区的克拉马托尔斯克，造成24人受伤。克拉马托尔斯克位于乌克兰“堡垒带”的北端，西方分析人士称，在经历了四年的消耗战后，俄罗斯正重新努力寻求突破。
地区军事行政部门负责人瓦迪姆·菲拉什金敦促仍住在前线附近的人员撤离，并表示当局将提供交通、住房和其他支持方面的帮助。
联合国的埃迪斯·M·莱德勒为本报道做出了贡献。
跋涉前往 伊拉克参加 阿尔巴因 仪式
作者：卡西姆· 阿卜杜勒-扎赫拉
巴格达——数百万什叶派穆斯林周二在伊拉克圣城卡尔巴拉举行一年一度的阿尔巴因朝圣活动，此举在地区持续紧张局势及美伊战争可能再次升级的阴影下进行。阿尔巴因仪式在阿舒拉节后40天举行，纪念先知穆罕默德的孙子伊玛目侯赛因及其家人在公元680年卡尔巴拉战役中遇害。卡尔巴拉省长纳西夫·贾西姆·哈塔比周二表示，朝圣期间有超过2200万人进入该市，其中包括约500万非伊拉克访客以及来自该国不同地区的伊拉克人。这一活动被认为是全球最大的年度宗教聚会之一。在最引人注目的外国访客中，伊朗外长阿巴斯·阿拉格希于周一抵达伊拉克城市纳杰夫，随后继续前往卡尔巴拉参加朝圣活动。阿拉格希的出席提醒人们，自战争开始以来，与华盛顿和德黑兰均保持密切关系的伊拉克一直在努力保持微妙的平衡。伊拉克发现自己处于双方的交火线上，并试图避免被进一步卷入冲突。与往常一样，伊朗朝圣者大量涌入，但一些观察人士表示，来自其他国家的朝圣者人数有所减少。45岁的巴格达朝圣者阿基勒·鲁巴伊，45，在前往卡尔巴拉的路上表示，在纳杰夫-卡尔巴拉公路上，伊朗国旗尤为显眼，而来自欧洲、阿拉伯及其他伊斯兰国家的国旗则比往常少见。他将此归因于“战争及该地区正在发生的事件，这些因素影响了阿拉伯和外国朝圣者的人数”。另一位来自巴格达的朝圣者哈桑·萨拉伊，35，表示：“除了伊朗国旗，我几乎没有看到其他国旗，这些国旗在通往卡尔巴拉的道路上以及城内和周边地区都清晰可见。”志愿者队伍在通往卡尔巴拉的道路两旁提供食物、水、医疗护理及其他服务。今年的朝圣活动正值伊拉克面临严峻的经济形势，霍尔木兹海峡的关闭已扰乱了伊拉克的石油出口。伊拉克超过90%的国家收入来自石油出口，使该国经济极易受到原油运输中断的影响。与此同时，巴格达正努力应对一项艰巨的自定任务：解除该国民兵网络的武装，其中许多民兵组织受伊朗支持。伊朗支持的最强大民兵组织之一“真主党旅”在一份纪念阿尔巴因的声明中表示，拒绝解除武装的呼吁，并坚持保留其所称的“抵抗武器”。与此同时，在伊朗，许多无法前往卡尔巴拉朝圣的虔诚什叶派穆斯林在本国举行了纪念活动，有时这些活动带有政治色彩。在首都德黑兰，身着黑衣的哀悼者沿着一条近12英里的路线，从市中心出发，前往该市南部的一个什叶派圣地。哀悼者高呼口号，要求为最高领袖阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊遭美以袭击进行报复，部分示威者还践踏了美国和以色列国旗。官方媒体称，伊朗其他城市和城镇也举行了类似集会。
作者：本·维德
华盛顿——托德·布兰奇周二在确认其为司法部长的道路上跨越了第一道障碍，为本周参议院全体投票铺平了道路，共和党人正争分夺秒地争取党内三名可能持反对意见的参议员的支持。
参议院司法委员会以12票对10票的党派分歧投票通过了他的提名，此前该投票因德克萨斯州共和党参议员约翰·康宁和北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯对特朗普总统今年早些时候与美国国税局达成的和解协议的担忧而推迟。
布兰奇周日提供了书面保证，称作为和解协议一部分设立的近18亿美元“反武器化”基金已被废止，且作为和解协议一部分授予总统、他的两个儿子及其企业的税务审计豁免权将受到限制。
作者：曼努埃尔·瓦尔德斯、玛莎·贝利斯、吉恩·约翰逊
华盛顿州斯波坎——一名男子被控故意引发一场摧毁了华盛顿州第二大城市及周边地区数百栋建筑的山火。法庭文件显示，执法部门去年曾就两起火灾与他联系，但均未对他提出指控。
现年37岁的斯波坎居民亚伦·F·法拉纳奇于周一被捕，并因涉嫌一级纵火罪与“老小径”火灾有关而被收监。该火灾是三起火灾中最大的一起，已摧毁至少700栋建筑，并迫使数万人撤离家园。根据法庭记录，他否认纵火。其保释金被定为100万美元。
当局尚未说明斯波坎周边燃烧的另外两起火灾的起因。目前尚无人员死亡报告。
法拉纳奇曾于2010年在亚利桑那州杀害其父亲后服刑约十年。根据斯波坎县高等法院提交的一份可能原因声明，去年当局曾就斯波坎的两起与火灾相关的案件询问过他。
其中一起案件涉及2025年7月法拉纳奇公寓附近地区发生的多起“公交车大小”的火灾，警方记录显示。另一起案件涉及次月一场导致疏散通知的州立公园山火。
在上述两起案件中，他均未被捕。
作者：托马斯·博蒙特 和朱莉·卡尔·史密斯
美国众议院道德委员会周二表示，已对共和党众议员马克斯·米勒的家庭暴力指控展开调查。这位身陷困境的俄亥俄州议员面临来自特朗普总统的压力，并受到其前岳父——俄亥俄州参议员伯尼·莫雷诺的日益严厉批评。
米勒曾在特朗普首个总统任期内担任其高级顾问，面临周三的最后期限，需决定是否继续竞选连任。共和党人担忧，这位第二任期议员身陷的指控可能会让他们在今年中期选举中失去一个席位。
道德委员会领导人表示，委员会正在审查米勒“是否可能涉及家庭暴力和虐待或非法吸毒”。当天早些时候，米勒表示已要求对其前妻埃米莉·莫雷诺提出的指控进行调查。目前尚不清楚是他的请求还是其他原因促使委员会展开调查。
特朗普周一与米勒通话，并建议其竞选前景“不容乐观”，一位获准匿名讨论私人谈话的知情人士透露。
参议员约翰·科宁曾对“反武器化”基金表示担忧。
这足以说服科宁和蒂利斯签署支持，但两人仍对布兰奇抵挡特朗普的能力表示保留意见。特朗普曾是布兰奇的法律客户。
“在必要时为了国家利益，我会建议布兰奇先生不要害怕利用这种来之不易的信任，”科宁在周二的投票前表示。
民主党人在委员会中全体反对布兰奇的提名，并对这一颇具争议的基金表示担忧。该基金原本预计将向部分与2021年1月6日冲击美国国会大厦有关的被起诉者提供赔偿。“总统本人在很大程度上已经暗示
路人举报导致逮捕
周六，一名64岁的男子与孙子驾车经过斯波坎西北部的乡村社区时，看到一名男子站在铁轨旁，望向附近的树林。斯波坎县警探迈克尔·德拉波在可能原因陈述中写道，约10分钟后，当他们返回时，该男子仍在原地，弯腰面向树林。当车辆经过时，他起身并表现得“紧张不安”，该男子告诉警方。
回家后不久，男子的女儿注意到该区域冒出烟雾，拨打了911。男子驾车返回现场，向警官描述了他看到的男子——秃顶、白人、身穿绿色衬衫、背着背包。
一名出警的县警员在一英里外看到一名符合描述的男子正在行走，并将其拘留。另一名警员也赶到现场，举报人前来指认被拘留者——法里纳奇——正是他在火灾现场附近看到的男子，文件显示。
文件称，法里纳奇携带一个背包和腰包，里面装有香烟、防水火柴和丁烷打火机。他告诉警员自己没有纵火，并否认曾在起火地点出现。
警员当时并不知晓法里纳奇此前与火灾相关的接触记录，且
斯波坎已有超过700栋建筑被毁，数万人被迫疏散。
老特雷尔斯火灾的起因尚未确定，因此他们释放了他，让他继续参与疏散工作，德拉波在文件中写道。但次日，一名州野地火灾调查员确定火灾起始于法里纳奇曾出现过的同一区域。该调查员排除了其他可能的起火原因，包括电线打火或过往列车产生的火花，警方于周一逮捕了法里纳奇。
“在许多关键案件中，正是公民对周围环境的关注、保持警觉并愿意站出来发声，才促成了对法里纳奇先生相对迅速的逮捕，”谢里夫约翰·诺威尔斯周一告诉记者。
法里纳奇仍被关押，等待周二的听证会。斯波坎县公设辩护人办公室将在庭审期间为其辩护，如确定其需要律师，庭审后将为其指派一名律师，该办公室主任科林·沙博诺表示。
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“这是他的计划，”委员会首席民主党人、伊利诺伊州参议员迪克·德宾表示。目前，所有目光都将聚焦于参议院三位可能持反对意见的共和党人：阿拉斯加州参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基、路易斯安那州参议员比尔·卡西迪和缅因州参议员苏珊·柯林斯。柯林斯于周三表示，她将投反对票。
警方曾就早前火灾与他交谈
调查老特雷尔斯火灾的一名侦探对法里纳奇进行了犯罪记录核查，发现此前曾有执法部门两次在火灾调查期间与他接触。斯波坎警方于2025年7月8日接到多起火灾报告，起火地点均在法里纳奇公寓附近。斯波坎河附近区域发生了多起“公交车大小”的火灾，并引发了大规模紧急响应，警方记录显示。华盛顿州巡警于次月在追查河滨州立公园野火嫌疑人时与法里纳奇接触，发现他坐在公园长椅上，“似乎因可能奔跑而气喘吁吁”。
“如果担任公职人员有任何最低标准，我认为他连这最基本的标准都不符合。”莫雷诺参议员在被问及这些指控对共和党选情的影响时告诉记者，“我根本不在乎政治。”
莫雷诺对孙女表示担忧，并告诉记者，他于周日前往克利夫兰郊区的一个警察局，当时米勒正将他们2岁的女儿送回。米勒与前妻共同拥有对女儿的监护权。米勒在周末预告了自己将继续参选的意图，当时他在社交平台X上直播了一段为自己辩护的视频，并发布了一批相关文件——
以下是忠实的中文翻译：
参议员布兰奇的提名投票仍悬而未决，但另外两名参议员尚未表态将如何投票。根据参议院规则，最早可能在周六进行投票确认布兰奇的提名，除非多数党领袖约翰·图恩（共和党-南达科他州）与民主党达成协议提前投票。参议员们计划在未来几天离开华盛顿，开始为期五周的年度8月休会。
共和党在参议院拥有53个席位，但由于参议员米奇·麦康奈尔（共和党-肯塔基州）持续缺席，这意味着他们最多只能失去21,票，前提是所有民主党人都反对布兰奇的提名。
布兰奇于4月成为代理司法部长，此前司法部长帕姆·邦迪被解职。布兰奇于2011年被确认为副司法部长。即使未获确认，他仍可继续担任代理司法部长，但特朗普届时将无法任命新的副司法部长。
在上月举行的确认听证会上，参议员们就司法部处理已故性侵者杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关文件公开一事质询布兰奇——邦迪称这一过程由布兰奇主导——
21岁时枪杀父亲
警方称，21岁时，法里纳奇在亚利桑那州梅萨市与父亲因洗碗问题发生争执，开枪将其打死。法里纳奇还朝自己开枪，但幸存下来。他被控谋杀，但于2012年认罪过失杀人和严重人身攻击罪，记录显示。
2011年，一名法官裁定法里纳奇精神状况适合协助辩护，尽管辩护律师何塞·科隆继续对其精神健康提出质疑，并指出他曾多次因精神治疗住院，法庭记录显示。
在写给法官的信中，法里纳奇父亲的妻子贝丝·法里纳奇表示，二级谋杀而非过失杀人才是更合适的结案方式。但她最终同意认罪协议，因为——
米勒在社交媒体上发布了与其离婚和监护权案相关的文件。 “我不会退出竞选，我会在11月赢得胜利，”他在X平台上表示。参议员莫雷诺称，这段视频促使他打破沉默，呼吁米勒不应再担任公职。
特朗普周一拒绝公开表态是否认为米勒应退出竞选，仅称对他的指控是“指控”。 “我认识马克斯。他是个好人。我一直觉得他是个非常好的人。我会让家属们自己解决这件事，”特朗普在椭圆形办公室活动中告诉记者。
布兰奇在听证会上强调了自己与特朗普的距离——此前他曾作为特朗普的私人刑事辩护律师为其代理，后才就任公职。但他无意中自称是特朗普的律师，随后纠正称自己曾是其律师，这一失误对他不利。
“布兰奇从未摆脱过作为唐纳德·特朗普刑事辩护律师的角色，”加州民主党参议员亚当·希夫周二在委员会投票前表示。
布兰奇还被问及司法部针对特朗普对手采取的一些行动。周二，参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（共和党-北卡罗来纳州）对起诉前联邦调查局局长詹姆斯·科米一案表示愤怒，原因是科米在社交媒体上发布了一张贝壳拼成“86 47”的图片。该图片可被解读为“除掉特朗普”，但蒂利斯家乡北卡罗来纳州的联邦检察官辩称，这构成了对总统生命的威胁。
“北卡罗来纳州有个蠢货认为这是犯罪，”蒂利斯说，“他们最好确有证据支持。因为如果只是一张图片，那这个人就该丢饭碗。”
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她认为审判不会对她的家人有益。 “过失杀人适用于 意外致人死亡的情况。不适用于 故意将上膛的枪口对准 自己的父亲，”贝丝·法里纳乔维 写道。 法里纳乔维于2024年初 在亚利桑那州结束缓刑。一名缓刑官 员表示，法里纳乔维在过去一年 与女友及其家人保持了稳定的居住 状态，但同时指出他尚未 完成心理健康评估或家庭暴力 治疗。
居民返回被毁家园
这场火灾是席卷美国西部的 数十起火灾之一，已使联邦、州和 地方机构的扑救能力捉襟见肘。 周二，超过1,000名消防员—— 其中许多来自华盛顿州以外—— 驻守在斯波坎地区，预计这一数字 还将上升。 周一和周二风势减弱， 帮助了消防员的扑救工作，但预计 周三天气将变得更加炎热。 在一个社区， 烧焦的车辆、被高温扭曲的小船和 熔化的塑料回收箱依然可见。街对面， 草坪依然青翠，房屋幸免于难， 居民们继续用水管或洒水器 浇灌自家房产。 一些在周末被迫逃离火灾的 居民返回后，发现家园已被 夷为平地。 在某些情况下，仅剩烟囱 矗立。 “已经无可挽救了，” 76岁的米里亚姆·西姆（Miriam Sim）在 与丈夫丹尼尔·西姆（Daniel Sim）查看 他们自2005年起居住的房屋废墟时说道。
旧金山纳税人协会（San Francisco Taxpayers Assn.）是反对将排灯节定为假日的团体，该协会称，学校和州政府设施可能关闭，州政府雇员享有带薪假期，相关行政费用可能高达6880万美元（即6880万美元），这一数据出自法庭文件。
该团体律师保罗·斯科特（Paul Scott）表示，去年12月提交的法律请愿书“并非针对庆祝排灯节的人士”。相反，他说，这项法律会传递一个信息，即州政府认可某一特定群体的节日，违反了美国宪法禁止政府确立宗教的原则。
他还表示，这项法律还将允许在课堂上庆祝排灯节，并可能使其他群体的节日在未来未被列入官方州假日名单时处于次要地位。
“如果你不信仰这一宗教，尤其是属于其他少数宗教，这意味着排灯节在我们社区和州政府中获得了更高的地位；这在宪法上存在问题，”斯科特说。
至于圣诞节，该纳税人团体表示，“州政府将12月25日定为假日在宪法上是允许的，因为历史现实表明，该州绝大多数人都会庆祝这一节日，且当天不会去上班、上学或参加陪审团”，他说道。他补充道：“这才是最
作者：米凯拉·舒特勒
凤凰城——在牧场主表示抽取地下水用于混凝土生产可能威胁其牲畜后，特朗普政府已下令边境墙建设队伍停止在遭受干旱的新墨西哥州钻井。此命令发布之际，南部边境各地的施工队正争分夺秒完成特朗普总统最优先的国内项目之一——覆盖四个州、获得超过46美元联邦资金的屏障。得克萨斯州和加利福尼亚州已出现多起争议，边境城镇居民和环保人士报告了建设过程中的各类问题。
负责监督边境墙建设的美国海关与边境保护局表示，水是修建道路、墙体及抑尘所需混凝土的必备资源。当地牧场主称，干旱已迫使他们缩减牲畜规模。“这将立即让我们陷入灾难，不得不处理牲畜问题。我是说，这可能让一些人破产，包括我们。”牧场主拉塞尔·约翰逊说，他的土地沿边境线延伸。约翰逊在7月的一次公开会议上提出这一问题，此前他注意到一口工业水井，钻井队告诉他这口井每分钟可抽水300加仑。约翰逊的牧场共有约12口水井，每口井每分钟抽水量在3至7加仑之间。
海关与边境保护局发言人周一表示，已指示新墨西哥州的边境墙承包商停止钻探新井，但未说明已钻探的水井是否可继续抽水。该机构称将与新墨西哥州及美国农业部合作制定地下水策略。“海关与边境保护局致力于与当地土地所有者合作，确保建设活动不会对其用水需求造成不利影响，”声明中写道。在新墨西哥州承建边境墙的联邦承包商——卡德尔建筑公司和费舍尔工业公司——未回复置评请求的电子邮件或电话。巴纳德建筑公司的接线员也未回复留言。
拉塞尔·约翰逊
一名志愿者在2020年排灯节期间照料一幅象征团结与无私奉献的彩沙画（rangoli），地点位于奇诺岗。
这是一个法律允许该节日保留在州假日日历中的基本实际考量，尽管它具有宗教属性。”排灯节的情况则不同。上月，萨克拉门托——
建筑队伍于7月在新墨西哥州卢纳县钻井。水是制作混凝土所需。
斯宾塞建筑公司（Spencer Construction Co.）是约翰逊农场附近的承包商，未立即收到回复。负责全州水井监管和审批的新墨西哥州州工程师办公室表示，工作人员已在南部边境地区发现8口未经该办公室许可钻探的水井，但警告可能还有更多。工作人员7月走访了其中两口水井，报告称其抽水量为每分钟200加仑。
“新墨西哥州所有非部落水井，无论是钻探于州属还是联邦土地，均需在钻探或抽水前获得州工程师的许可，”州工程师办公室在一份声明中表示。
这些用于边境建设的水井均钻探于距边境以北60英里的一片联邦所有土地——罗斯福保留地（Roosevelt Reservation）。美国海关与边境保护局（CBP）未回应后续问题，包括联邦政府是否有权在无州监管的情况下从联邦土地抽取地下水。
新墨西哥州养牛协会主席汤姆·帕特森（Tom Patterson）表示，水资源是牧场主的头号关切，一旦水井开始干涸，为时已晚。帕特森称，在特朗普首个任期内的边境墙建设期间，承包商曾从当地农场、牧场或市政部门购买水源，这意味着附近流域的抽水量并未增加。
“他们为什么需要这么多水？”帕特森问道，“为什么不能像过去那样从农民、牧场主，甚至卢纳县（Luna County）购买？”
约翰逊表示，暂停未来水井钻探的决定是朝正确方向迈出的一步，但一名承包商告诉他，如果施工队最终需要用水，他农场附近的水井仍可能被抽取，这让他依然忧心忡忡。
尽管牛肉价格上涨，约翰逊被迫将牧群规模缩减至原有容量的1 / 3。他将旱灾列为主要原因，因旱灾导致牧草减少。
一名法官裁定支持该请愿，实际上阻止了加州将排灯节（Diwali）列为法定假日。州长纽森的办公室拒绝就未决诉讼置评。不过，该裁决为立法者留下了余地——
在首段边境墙建成前，约翰逊记得每周至少看到一辆载有人员穿越其农场的卡车。如今，他表示其农场几乎不再发生非法越境。作为前边境巡逻队特工，他支持边境墙，但认为不应以牺牲其生计为代价。
目前，约翰逊农场附近已建成半英里的二级边境墙。
“他们必须停止抽取所有这些水井，因为这些水井都是非法钻探的，”约翰逊说。
在代表该地区的新墨西哥州国会席位竞选中，两名候选人均声称对暂停钻探令负有功劳。
共和党国会候选人格雷格·坎宁安（Greg Cunningham）表示，他倡导了CBP与边境墙承包商之间的协议，并率先于周五在社交媒体上公布了这一消息。
“牧场主、家庭和地方官员向我们表达了担忧。我向特朗普政府提出了这一问题。他们听取了意见，迅速采取了行动，”坎宁安在X平台的一篇帖子中写道。
民主党众议员盖布·巴斯克斯（Gabe Vasquez）将在11月的中期选举中与坎宁安对决。本月早些时候，他在众议院发言时谈及了这一问题。
“本届政府的非法钻探本不应发生，但既然发生了，我清楚地听到了牧场主的担忧，并立即在华盛顿强烈呼吁，以完成工作、保护新墨西哥人的水权。”
拟通过一项新法律——一项不以宗教意义为框架的法律。
加州尝试承认排灯节具有重要意义，北美耆那教协会联合会主席阿图尔·沙阿表示。
“它并非旨在确立或支持某一宗教，”沙阿说，“而是承认一个重要的节日，这一节日由加州大量且多元的群体庆祝，同时认可这些社群为我州社会、文化和经济结构所做的贡献。”
加州拥有全美最大的南亚裔人口，洛杉矶则是全美都市区中南亚裔人口第四大聚居地，南亚人网络组织的数据显示。
洛杉矶县自2022年起正式承认排灯节。加州本将成为继宾夕法尼亚州和康涅狄格州之后，第8个正式承认该节日的州。新泽西州教育厅允许学生因庆祝排灯节缺勤一天，而纽约市的公立学校则在该节日当天放假。
今年排灯节将于11月8日举行，但日期每年有所不同，与农历新年类似，基于印度教阴历。加州大学戴维斯分校宗教研究教授阿尔查纳·文卡特桑表示，州政府批准的排灯节假日与加州承认圣诞节类似，因为两者都带有宗教元素，但其核心都是世俗的庆祝活动；“其本质是对社区和家庭纽带的庆祝。”
沙阿认为，纽森签署的州立法在范围上有所限制。该法案为符合条件的州政府雇员提供了庆祝灵活性，并授权学校和社区学院通过地方协议决定是否停课。
“它并未为所有加州人创设强制性带薪假日，也未关闭法院，”他说。
“归根结底，排灯节的永恒信息属于每一个人，”沙阿说，“其主题——和平、慈悲、希望、知识、慷慨以及善良战胜邪恶——是普世价值，能够增强我们共同的公民生活，并帮助加州人跨越文化与信仰的界限团结起来。”
罗伯特·戈捷 《洛杉矶时报》
未提供进一步回应。“昨日洛杉矶联合学区调查报告的发布再次确认，阿尔贝托·卡瓦略并未违反任何法律，”其声明称。“尽管学区的信函声称列举了其他‘关注事项’，但其表述方式不完整且具有误导性——正如我们在回复学区的信函中所述。”该声明还强调，学区广受关注的学术进步与“其表现不尽人意、不专业或其以任何方式不适合任职”的说法相矛盾。
在6月份的有力辩护中，卡瓦略的律师（来自Holland & Knight律师事务所）针对部分指控提供了具体反驳，并按类别处理了其他指控。总体而言，他们坚称部分所谓的过失相对较轻，仅涉及文书错误。信函还指出，其他指控则基于误传：例如，督学在事后被追责，而其所采取的行动均在公开场合进行，且事先获得学区及其法律团队的充分知情和批准。
卡瓦略自2022年2月起担任全美第二大学区的督学，直至今年6月21日周日辞职。教育委员会于2月27日对卡瓦略实施带薪停职，此前两天，联邦调查局特工突击搜查了其位于圣佩德罗的住所及洛杉矶市中心的办公室。此次搜查与联邦对AllHere公司的调查有关，该公司曾被洛杉矶联合学区聘用，开发一款名为Ed的人工智能聊天机器人，被宣传为能彻底改变学校与家庭互动及学生学习体验的工具。该项目最终以AllHere的财务崩溃告终。
卡瓦略未被指控任何不当行为，并否认与该项目或其他任何事项有关的不当行为。洛杉矶联合学区的信函显示，校董会正在为以“正当理由”解雇卡瓦略奠定法律基础，这将使其无法获得合同约定的离职补偿。卡瓦略最终通过辞职放弃了离职补偿的权利，同时避免了被解雇的可能性。该信函由校董会主席斯科特·施默尔森签署，称：“若您选择辞职……教育委员会将无需继续投票决定是否以‘正当理由’解雇您。”信函以直白、法律化的口吻逐条列出多项指控，暗示可能存在其他案例，且调查仍在进行中。
前洛杉矶联合学区督学阿尔贝托·卡瓦略于6月21.辞职。上图中，他于2025年讨论了考试成绩的提高。
指控的范围 信中援引州《教育法》中关于解雇的条款，指控存在“不当职业行为”、“不称职表现”、“明显不适合任职”以及“持续违反或拒绝遵守州教育法律或学区合理制定的规章制度（23, 2023）”。
卡瓦略的律师在回应中全盘否认了这些指控。 “我们一眼就能看出这是借口和报复性解雇，而你们的做法毫不隐晦（24），”信件由Holland & Knight律所的约翰·L·布朗利（John L. Brownlee）签署。“这封信在法律和事实上都站不住脚，并非善意履行监督职责。”
在指控中，学区指责卡瓦略多次未在要求的披露表格上列出礼品和额外收入。他的律师承认了这种可能性。 学区的信件提到多起卡瓦略未报告的涉嫌咨询工作，每小时收费$500或$600，涉及教育事务。信中未披露其咨询总收入，也未说明咨询行为不当。 相关公司包括AlphaSights、Tyton Partners、Tegus和Third Bridge。信件未指控这些公司有不当行为。
学区信件称，即使卡瓦略正确填写了披露表格，其涉嫌收受的礼品金额也远超法定上限——信中指出2024年的上限为$590，目前来自单一来源的上限为$630（700.）。 “卡瓦略先生从未故意在《700表》中隐瞒任何收入或礼品，”律师表示，该表格为州披露表。
律师在卡瓦略的辩护中提到，他在2022年的一份表格中错误高估了其股票持有价值：“这不是试图向董事会或公众隐瞒额外收入的人会有的行为（25.）。”
《泰晤士报》查阅的披露表显示，卡瓦略在2022-23、2023-24和2024-25学年未列出私营公司的兼职工作。但他披露了为丹佛学区督学亚历克斯·马雷罗（Alex Marrero）提供的“高管教练”服务，2022年的报酬在$2,000至$10,000之间，另一笔金额为$10,000。丹佛邮报近期报道称，丹佛公立学校在卡瓦略担任洛杉矶学区督学期间，涉嫌向其支付了$107,000，用于指导和培训马雷罗。
卡瓦略从洛杉矶联合学区辞职后，提交了2025-26学年的《700表》及一份单独的“离任”《700表》。其中一份或两份表格列出的工作包括：为总部位于伦敦的AlphaSights提供咨询，价值$1,001至$10,000；咨询
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纽约——纽约州 无法禁止联邦特工 佩戴面部遮盖物， 也无法要求他们佩戴 明显的身份标识， 一名联邦法官周一裁定。 此前，一名联邦法官 今年早些时候曾阻止加州 一项类似法律的实施， 该法律是在特朗普政府 大力推动增加移民 逮捕行动后颁布的。 针对纽约北区， 美国地方法官梅·达戈斯蒂诺 写道，尽管纽约州“在 追求警务透明化方面 似乎出于善意”， 但这并非法院审理的内容。 “本庭目前审理的问题 涉及合宪性—— 而非透明度或更可取的 政策选择，”她写道。 联邦政府已证明
作者：马修·李
华盛顿——特朗普政府已通知国会，计划关闭位于非洲、亚洲和西半球的五个较小的美国大使馆、领事馆及其他外交机构，尽管该政府正推进重新开放利比亚和叙利亚的已关闭外交机点，并已重新开放长期关闭的驻委内瑞拉大使馆。
在上周晚些时候分别发送给议员的通知中，
为马萨诸塞州的美国公共事务局提供咨询服务，价值在$1,001至$10,000之间；以及为哈佛大学提供教学服务，价值在$10,001至$100,000.之间。卡瓦略还列出了其妻子为艾伯维美国公司（Abbvie US）提供的有偿工作，价值在$10,001至$100,000.之间。
在6月下旬单独向《泰晤士报》提供的信息中，卡瓦略的代表承认，其咨询工作和差旅费用的条目本应包含在卡瓦略早前的表格中，但适当的补救措施——例如修正并更正表格——将使他面临罚款。
学区的信函指控卡瓦略未披露的差旅费用由教育公司承担，包括学乐集团（Scholastic）为其2022年参加董事会会议及2023年的另一活动提供的资助。
信函还指责卡瓦略未披露由学区承包商Hazel Health支付的差旅和住宿费用，用于参加2024年在华盛顿水门酒店举行的学生医疗保健会议，该行程费用为$4,738.。
学区信函还提到卡瓦略在2024年有两次未在披露表格中报告的行程：他前往亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔，费用为$1,000，据称由卡内基学习公司（Carnegie Learning）支付，以在名为“AI时代的领导力”的活动上发表演讲。此外，乐高教育公司（Lego Education）据称为其参加在丹佛举行的乐高教育媒体圆桌会议支付了约$1,000的差旅和住宿费用。
他的律师在信中为卡瓦略的行程辩护，称他公开进行这些行程——通常是为了处理学区的公务，并经学区法律顾问批准，且经常与其他代表洛杉矶联合学区的高级管理人员同行。
“贵方忽略了与这些事件相关的关键事实——如果学区董事会有意追求真相而非政治博弈，这些事实本可轻易解释，”律师在信中表示。“指控中提及的活动和差旅完全符合卡瓦略先生的职责。……如校长接受了任何差旅、住宿或餐饮费用，他这样做是为了节省学区资金，并推动学区的持续成功。”
作为卡瓦略诚信行事的例证，他们提到卡瓦略处理学乐集团（Scholastic）为其出席该公司活动支付的酬金的方式。“卡瓦略校长明确与洛杉矶联合学区总法律顾问讨论了如何处理学乐集团为其出席活动支付的酬金——这些酬金按照他的要求，捐赠给了一个为无家可归学生设立的学区基金。
一名戴着口罩的联邦探员于2025年7月在纽约移民法庭的走廊巡逻。
这些措施违反了美国宪法中的最高条款，该条款禁止州政府规范联邦执法工作，达戈斯蒂诺写道。这些措施被纳入一系列法律中——
国务院表示将关闭位于加勒比海岛国格林纳达的美国大使馆；日本名古屋和印度尼西亚棉兰的领事馆；加拿大温尼伯的美国驻地办事处；以及喀麦隆杜阿拉的大使馆分支办公室。共和党政府的这些关闭行动预计每年将为政府节省约$4.4百万美元，根据美联社获取的通知。但即将关闭的机构雇员人数与其他机构相比极少——
达米安·多瓦甘斯 美联社
执法政策作为州预算法案的一部分，该法案已于5月由民主党州长凯茜·霍楚尔签署成为法律。霍楚尔和纽约州总检察长利蒂希娅·詹姆斯在法官裁决后发表声明称，他们
大使馆 位于格林纳达圣乔治，以及名古屋领事馆各自仅有 一名美国工作人员和五名当地雇员。 棉兰领事馆有四名直接雇佣的美国工作人员和47名当地雇员。温尼伯办事处仅有两名当地工作人员，而杜阿拉大使馆办事处仅有14名当地工作人员。美国国务院今年早些时候宣布计划永久关闭位于巴基斯坦白沙瓦的美国领事馆。
对于其旅行中可能存在的披露问题，没有提出任何担忧。”
与AllHere的关联
AllHere是FBI调查的核心公司，据信函指称，该公司于2024年支付了4,633美元，用于卡瓦略前往华盛顿的一次旅行，期间他参加了拜登白宫举办的网络安全会议。他的律师表示，由AllHere资助的旅行“已与洛杉矶联合学区总法律顾问明确讨论过”。学区信函还指称，卡瓦略在该合同审议期间“多次与AllHere的一名顾问共进晚餐”。此类关键时期被称为“静默锥”，旨在限制与可能影响或看似影响学区合同决策的供应商的接触。为卡瓦略辩护的律师援引了学区此前的一次审查结果：“你们忽略了此前对AllHere事件的调查结果，该调查已澄清卡瓦略先生没有任何不当行为。”在周二的声明中，律师
还讨论了与AllHere相关的互动：“洛杉矶联合学区未发现阿尔贝托在与AllHere或任何其他供应商的互动中违反联邦法律的证据。”学区信函还批评卡瓦略让学区司机“多次送其妻子前往洛杉矶国际机场，在下班后开车送他和一名女性学区雇员前往餐厅及其他社交场合，并约有十几次送该雇员回家”。律师表示，如果卡瓦略过度使用学区提供的车辆，合理的补救措施仅需要求其报销相关费用。律师还将董事会的解雇威胁与特朗普政府针对洛杉矶联合学区的多项执法行动联系起来，包括诉讼。卡瓦略曾公开批评特朗普政府。律师信函暗示，董事会是在屈服于
此类压力，而非像卡瓦略那样坚持抵制政府。“董事会也应记住如何做正确的事，”信函写道，“为了我们的社区和洛杉矶联合学区的学生。”
“坚持我们的信念，即蒙面特工不会让纽约更安全，我们的办公室目前正在审查所有法律选项。” 纽约的面部遮盖和身份识别措施已于6月生效，根据裁决所述。加州成为首个禁止大多数执法人员佩戴面部遮盖物的州，该法案于9月签署，此前洛杉矶夏季发生了移民官员的多起高调突袭。当该法被阻止时，这一决定预计将对全国其他已采取措施限制移民官员的州产生影响。5月，美国司法部对康涅狄格州提起联邦诉讼，因该州一项新法律禁止联邦特工佩戴面具。
距离阿富汗最近的外交使团 自2021年美军撤离以来。 这些举措正值该部门 推动精简国内外运作， 同时投入数百万美元重新开放 美国驻委内瑞拉加拉加斯、 叙利亚大马士革和 利比亚的黎波里的大使馆， 以恢复美国在这些国家的正式外交存在， 此前这些国家的长期独裁者被推翻。
发现他面临加州多项 州级重罪指控，涉嫌经营一 个庞大的运动鞋盗窃团伙。 上周，联邦当局 对哈维提起了另一项 诉讼，公布了一份 起诉书，指控他与洛杉矶、 芝加哥和印第安纳州的 多名主要鞋类转售商合谋， 贿赂耐克员工协助盗窃 数百双难以寻觅的款式， 再将其转售。 哈维已表示不认罪。在 其州法院案件中，他的辩护律师 指责警方执法过度，辩称 没有证据表明其当事人知晓 这些鞋子是赃物，并补充称 耐克并未因鞋子在转售市场 销售而蒙受损失。 洛杉矶警察局商业犯罪 调查科的侦探马克·斯特宁 在2024年9月的预审听证会上 作证称，他于2024年1月 开始调查这起涉嫌盗窃团伙， 此前耐克的调查人员与他联系， 后者在田纳西州孟菲斯的 一处配送中心发现了一些 标签异常的包裹。 斯特宁作证称，这些包裹 贴有UPS标签，却被发现 放在一辆美国邮政卡车的 后部。它们原本应送往 哈维居住或有权出入的 好莱坞私人住宅，而非耐克 零售商，这名侦探表示。 耐克内部调查确定， 涉嫌盗窃者通过覆盖原始 运输标签，将包裹重新 导向好莱坞地区的多个 地址，这一手法被称为 “幽灵标签”，斯特宁称。 耐克调查人员发现至少 28个此类被错误标记的箱子。 调查中的库存清单 宛如一份运动鞋爱好者的 圣诞愿望清单： Nike Dunk Low Off-White系列。
作者：加里·菲尔兹
华盛顿——特朗普总统提议的250 英尺高纪念拱门 可能会破坏其计划选址附近 数十处遗址的历史意义， 国家公园管理局的一份评估显示。 数十年来，华盛顿的 众多纪念碑、建筑和遗址 经过精心规划，旨在 反映国家历史上的重要时刻， 并通过与其他遗址的视线连接 传递象征意义。 这座提议的高耸镀金拱门 上月获得联邦关键委员会 初步批准，但可能会影响 数十处历史遗产的“完整性”， 因为它将改变这些遗址之间 “定义性的视觉与空间关系”。 公园管理局的报告称， 该项目所在区域位于 纪念大道文化景观内， “这是一个具有国家级 历史意义的
作者：埃里克·塔克
华盛顿——一个由数千名FBI探员组成的协会及其他团体正在支持三名去年因参与调查总统特朗普试图推翻2020年总统选举结果而被解雇的联邦调查局雇员提起的诉讼。
FBI探员协会（FBI Agents Assn.）提交的法律意见书是过去一周内支持这三名探员的五份外部意见书之一。他们是在FBI局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）进行的更广泛人事清洗中被解雇的，此次清洗针对的是调查过特朗普或被认为与政府利益相悖的雇员。
这些文件——包括来自FBI和司法部前雇员的意见书——共同凸显了对帕特尔在过去一年半中对FBI进行改造的强烈且跨党派的抵制。这些解雇引发了联邦调查局的动荡。
意见书认为，这些解雇是非法的，因为探员们被剥夺了正当程序，并因被认为具有政治倾向而受到惩罚。文件还指出，这些解雇行为与数十年来“联邦调查局中立、专业的职业探员队伍”可以在不危及职业生涯的情况下处理敏感案件的预期背道而驰。
“如果个别特工必须在接受可能导致自己被解雇的合法任务，或拒绝任务并因此成为目标之间做出选择，联邦调查局将无法正常运作。”
在洛杉矶的CoolKicks店内，一名顾客展示了一双2023年售价约为10,000美元的Air Jordan球鞋。
Nike SB Dunk Low City of Loves。Nike 6 Protro，又称“反向格林奇”。据斯特宁（Sternin）称，这些球鞋均保存在原装鞋盒中。
斯特宁表示，在与Nike和FBI合作下，洛杉矶警察局（LAPD）的调查人员制定了一个计划，在28个包裹中安装GPS追踪装置，并允许这些包裹被送达。
LAPD的监视小组在预定送货时间前对该建筑进行了监视，并看到哈维（Harvey）和一名女子取走了包裹，斯特宁在法庭上作证称。警方随后拦下了哈维驾驶的U-Haul卡车，车上仍有同一名女子，并扣押了包裹，据这名侦探在法庭上的陈述。
两人被带回好莱坞警局接受讯问。哈维告诉侦探，他一直在从事球鞋生意——
该设计景观位于华盛顿特区的林肯纪念堂与弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的阿灵顿国家公墓之间，延伸6英里。
报告中提到的最明显的问题之一是，拱门将破坏林肯纪念堂、纪念大桥和阿灵顿庄园（即南方邦联将军罗伯特·E·李的故居）之间的对齐关系。
“该桥梁的对齐及相关仪式性景观旨在通过横跨波托马克河的协调纪念性构图，在物理和象征层面上将南北方统一起来，”报告称。
林肯纪念堂与阿灵顿庄园的连接是数十个受拟建建筑直接影响的历史遗址和建筑之一。报告还指出，国家广场、美国国会大厦、华盛顿纪念碑及其周边区域，以及伯德·约翰逊公园也将受到直接影响。
这份报告给一项一直顺利推进的项目带来了阻碍——
自16岁起便从事这一行当， 但除此之外拒绝回 答 他们的 问题， 斯特宁作证称。 警探 获得了搜查哈 维的手机及其 iCloud账户的搜查令，从而获 取了他的通话记录、 笔记、照片、短信 及其他数据。 一个带有田纳西州谢尔比县 901 区号的号码引起了斯特宁的注意，因 为哈维多次与之联系。耐克内部人事记录显示， 该号码属于迈克尔·雷诺·珀金斯，他在公司位于 孟菲斯的约 100万平方英 尺的配送中心担任主管。 根据初步听证会上这名警探的证词，珀金斯 涉嫌招募其监管下的 21, 名员工参与该 涉嫌计划。警方称，哈维充当了中间人的角色， 指导珀金斯及其同谋根据转售商的需求决定偷窃哪些鞋款。 7月21日，珀金斯与哈维及另外 10 人在田纳西州联邦法院被起诉。 在被起诉的其他人中，包括 39 岁的前洛杉矶知名球鞋零售商CoolKicks联合创始人 贝雷凯特·亚伯拉罕。 根据在线记录，亚伯拉罕尚未 提出抗辩。其律师比尔·马西拒绝置评， 称其法律团队正“忙于审阅 迄今提供的信息”。 在联邦案件中，被告被控 合谋窃取至少价值 200 万美元的耐克产品——
游客于7月9日在拟建凯旋门模型前拍照。
“它将成为华盛顿特区乃至 全球 最具标志性的地标之一，” 白宫发言人戴维斯·英格尔在电子邮件回复中表示。 “它将提升阿灵顿国家公墓的游客体验，无论是退伍军人、 阵亡将士的家属，还是所有美国人，都将从中获得视觉上的提醒， 铭记那些为我们今日自由付出的 无数 美国英雄在长达 250 年的历史中所承受的崇高牺牲。” 该凯旋门是特朗普推动的多个项目之 一，旨在
联邦调查局 特工 长期以来一直明白，他们随时可能根据局方需求被指派或重新指派任务，且无需说明理由，最长可达 10 年，甚至可能因不服从命令而被解雇。” 拥有近 12,000 名会员的特工协会在其诉状中写道。 前司法部高级官员提交的诉状称，这些解雇行为破坏了“作为指导原则的半个世纪的独立性”。 “撇开对原告权利的侵犯不谈，此次‘清洗’的必然影响将是对剩余及未来联邦调查局、 司法部及其他执法机构的职业特工、检察官、 分析师 及其他工作人员独立性的威慑，他们如今必须在明知其调查和执法行动 可能因政治原因受到审查或报复的情况下开展工作，而这一风险在过去 9 个月内已显著加剧。”诉状补充道。
执法 裁决 首次 在其职业生涯中 可能 被 置于 党派政治 视角下审视，”该诉状称。 三名 特工 —— 米歇尔·鲍尔、杰米·加尔曼和布莱尔·托尔曼—— 在3月提交的联邦诉讼中表示，他们因 参与调查特朗普 而成为“报复行动”的目标， 于2024, 遭到解雇。 诉讼称，这些特工在联邦调查局（FBI）的工作表现 “优秀且无瑕疵”， 本期望在该 机构 度过职业生涯的剩余时光， 却突然无故被解雇， 且未获申辩机会。 这些特工参与的调查 最终促成了特别检察官杰克·史密斯的起诉书，
杰伊·L·克伦丁（Jay L. Clendenin）《洛杉矶时报》
涉及2021年至2024年间的交易。 CoolKicks的另一位所有人 阿迪尔·沙姆斯 未被起诉书点名。 沙姆斯 当时正在CoolKicks的仓库进行直播， 洛杉矶警方在10月的搜查令行动中突然闯入， 拘留了他和其他员工， 指控该公司购买被盗鞋。沙姆斯随后 被无罪释放。 在联邦指控宣布后， CoolKicks发表声明称已 “终止”与 埃利·亚伯拉罕（Eli Abraham）的合作关系。 “尽管 亚伯拉罕先生 持有CoolKicks的股份， 但起诉书中并未指控 CoolKicks或任何与CoolKicks相关人员 存在不当行为，” 声明称。 其他被起诉的同谋者 包括豪尔赫·加西亚（Jorge Garcia）
提议建造的纪念碑涉及诉讼。原告——三名退伍军人和一名历史学家—— 对其建设提出质疑， 称需国会批准。 “我们的主张实质上是， 这些行为从一开始就没有任何 授权，”代表原告的 公民诉讼集团律师 尼古拉斯·桑松表示。在国家广场核心区、 华盛顿特区建造纪念碑 “必须获得国会授权”。
起诉书中指控特朗普 密谋推翻其败给拜登总统的 2020年大选。 史密斯最终放弃了该案， 以及另一起指控特朗普 在佛罗里达州棕榈滩的 马阿拉歌庄园 非法留存机密文件的案件， 因特朗普在2024年重新当选总统后， 司法部法律意见禁止 对在任总统提起联邦起诉。 帕特尔和时任司法部长 帕姆·邦迪表示， 被解雇的特工和 参与史密斯团队的检察官 滥用联邦执法权， 这一说法也出现在 他们的解雇信中， 但原告称其为 诽谤且毫无根据。
库埃利亚尔，30，是另一位知名的 在线球鞋转售商和社交媒体人物， 网名为“horehead_sales”。 尝试联系库埃利亚尔未果。 库埃利亚尔拥有Horhead Investments， 一家位于洛杉矶的球鞋转售公司， 该公司在2023年4月至2023年11月期间， 通过电汇向共同被告基思·坎农 拥有的一家孟菲斯食品卡车公司 转账了$696,700， 根据斯特宁的证词。CoolKicks分别向 坎农和哈维支付了$127,000和$88,275， 该侦探在法庭上表示。 斯特宁在法庭证词中称， 调查人员在搜查哈维的手机数据时， 发现了他与两名女性之间的群组聊天记录， 似乎显示他们正在协调如何 取回从耐克仓库秘密运出的 “幽灵标签”包裹。 哈维指示这两名女性租用U-Haul货车， 并与司机在指定地点会面， 以收取UPS包裹，这些地点 也被转达给了库埃利亚尔， 斯特宁在法庭上表示。 哈维最初于2024年初接受调查， 当局指控他即使在得知警方盯上他后， 仍继续窃取球鞋。 当局在法庭文件中提及 Lyft事件，要求法官撤销 哈维的保释。据斯特宁这名 洛杉矶警察局侦探的法庭证词， 这名网约车司机在哈维 据称威胁要伤害他、他的妻子、 他们的儿子和他们的狗后联系了 洛杉矶警察局。哈维尚未 因此案被起诉。 根据搜查令宣誓书， 哈维在前往凤凰城时， 正处于审前释放状态， 条件是要求他停止销售球鞋， 并未经许可不得离开加州。
玛丽安·祖海卜 美联社
他说，将“公园管理局的土地”用于其他用途 需要国会法案。国家公园管理局的评估 证实了原告所称的建设将对 这一象征性和庄严区域造成的影响， 他补充道。 “国家公园管理局本身 也认识到这将产生的影响， 我认为这非常重要，”桑索内说。
菲尔兹为美联社撰稿。
这些文件在法律上被称为“法庭之友”意见书。 有时由诉讼外的第三方提交， 以强调特定论点或影响法官的思考。 提交意见书的其他团体包括 一批第一修正案学者、 一个名为“法律与法治律师”的团体， 以及一个名为“司法联系”的 前司法部校友网络， 该网络在其意见书中警告称， “政治化”的联邦调查局可能会 因公民的言论、结社或被视为的不忠 而对其采取行动。 “宪法的设计正是为了 防止这种滥用行为，” 该意见书称。
斯温表示，目前“太平洋西北部内陆地区的情况几乎已接近灾难性的糟糕”，但火灾天气也正在落基山脉和大盆地的大片区域重新出现。加州今年迄今成功避免了野火演变为灾难。但“随着加州即将迎来高温和干燥天气，我预计未来几天火灾活动会有所增加，因为可燃物会变得非常干燥”，斯温说。由于加州近期预报中缺乏强风和极端火灾天气条件，这些火灾可能会被控制在小型或中型规模。但“如果出现大风或雷电事件，加州目前的可燃物干燥程度已足以引发更大规模的野火爆发”，斯温说。这种破坏对洛杉矶地区的居民来说并不陌生，因为在2025年，他们
亲身经历过。正在燃烧的斯波坎火灾，与帕利塞兹和伊顿火灾一样，在极端火灾天气和极度干燥的冬季过后，迅速在居民区附近蔓延。周六标志着华盛顿州首次发布此类警报，警报于下午2点至8点生效。火灾于周六下午3点左右开始。气象学家史蒂文·范霍恩在火灾发生前一天的简报会上表示，周六的预报条件尤其不寻常，因为7月下旬和8月初出现了强风。国家气象局斯波坎办公室的范霍恩说：“此外，干燥的植被也是另一个关键因素：目前该地区的可燃物非常干燥，异常干燥。” “这也是这些‘特别危险情况’红旗警报的另一个关键因素——过去39天几乎没有降雨。”
在斯波坎地区目前燃烧的三场火灾中，烧毁斯波坎市部分区域的“老小径火灾”是最严重的问题，斯温说。“当然，这里还存在严重至极端干旱，”斯温说。“该地区有大量开放的、不连续的松树和其他针叶林，位于城市边缘和城市西侧的交界处。火灾在这一环境中被引燃，并迅速顺风蔓延，越过斯波坎河，直奔社区。”斯波坎地区的火灾已累计烧毁超过12,000英亩，从历史标准来看并不算特别大规模——
[爱迪生公司，详见A1版]
我公司的“野火恢复赔偿计划”。 在为火灾受害者的诉讼中为自己辩护的同时，该公司还卷入了与洛杉矶县及其他供水机构的诉讼，公司声称这些机构在火灾损失中也负有责任。 在其主张中，公司指出县政府发布的疏散警报延迟，导致西阿尔塔迪纳的许多居民在火灾已威胁该地区后才收到警报。 米拉·哈什莫尔是代表洛杉矶县在与爱迪生公司诉讼中的律师，她在周二表示，这份报告明确指出了伊顿火灾的责任方。 “专家现已证实爱迪生公司一直以来的认知，”哈什莫尔在声明中表示。“伊顿火灾是由于爱迪生公司年久失修的设备引燃了其负责维护的灌木丛区域而引发的。...爱迪生公司拖延火灾受害者正义、指责第一响应者尽管他们竭尽全力保护生命和财产的策略已经够了。” “每一位火灾幸存者网络”的负责人乔伊·陈也希望看到爱迪生公司承担全部责任并赔偿火灾幸存者。陈利用周二的调查结果，试图反对萨克拉门托的一项她称之为为造成灾难性野火的公用事业公司提供“救助”的努力。
华盛顿州曾预报出现“特别危险的情况”，原因是低湿度、强风和高温。 76岁的米里亚姆·西姆周一在谈及她被烧毁的社区时有所反应。
报告详细说明了调查过程，确定爱迪生公司的设备是导致这场致命火花的来源，该火花在极端圣安娜风的作用下在干燥的灌木丛中爆燃。 根据报告，调查人员几乎立即被吸引到位于伊顿峡谷内一处冲沟中的输电塔，基于目击者的报告和地面证据。 该地区的视频证据“显示在短时间内发生了两次电弧放电事件，导致未知燃烧物从南加州爱迪生公司塔的位置落入下方干燥的易燃物中，”报告称。在12秒内，塔下的灌木丛被点燃并发展成大火，
洛杉矶县的帕利塞兹和伊顿火灾共烧毁了超过38,000英亩土地，造成31人死亡，摧毁了超过16,000栋住宅、商业建筑和其他建筑物；2018年比尤特县的坎普火灾摧毁了天堂镇，烧毁了超过153,000英亩土地，摧毁了超过18,000栋建筑物，造成至少85人死亡。 也许洛杉矶火灾中吸取的最明显教训是当地执法部门迅速疏散居民的行动，克莱莫说。 “治安官在两小时内将斯波坎部分地区的60,000人安全疏散，无人受伤或事故，”克莱莫说。“这令人难以置信。” 斯波坎的火灾在白天迅速蔓延可能有助于提高公众意识。 迄今为止，斯波坎火灾尚未报告人员死亡，尽管有数万人生活在火灾的直接路径上。
调查人员在火灾后被吸引到爱迪生公司的输电塔及周围干燥区域。
这场火灾最终烧毁了超过14,000英亩土地，摧毁了超过9,400栋建筑物，并花费了24天才完全控制。这场火灾是极端圣安娜风事件期间发生的多起火灾之一。它在致命的帕利塞兹火灾爆发数小时后被引燃，共同成为洛杉矶
处理疏散工作在伊顿火灾和帕利塞兹火灾（共造成31人死亡）的事后成为批评焦点。这一问题在阿尔塔迪纳西部尤为突出，当地警报在火灾开始数小时后才发出，而伊顿火灾的19名死者几乎全部发生于此。
克莱莫还表示，华盛顿州为应对“特别危险情况”警告，已努力提前部署消防资源。“我们很早就呼叫了大量资源并进行了预先部署，”他说道。
尽管斯波坎的火灾情况严重，斯温表示，若非消防员相对有效地控制火势——包括通过飞机投放阻燃剂——火灾可能会更加恶化。但他指出，消防员无法阻止火势顺风蔓延。
野火一旦进入城市社区，便演变为纯粹的城市火风暴，“这种模式近年来在西部地区已变得令人不安地熟悉，”斯温说，“城市在高风险区域拥有大规模郊区开发，毗邻某种高度易燃植被——此次是针叶树，即松林，且[该区域]紧邻火灾风险角度准备不足的上风向区域，在特别关键的火灾天气期间。”
周二，近1,000名消防员在现场作业，预计未来几天人数将翻倍，因为互助救援队伍持续抵达——包括数百名来自加州的消防员。克莱莫的团队主要由南加州和中海岸的消防人员组成，包括来自圣莫尼卡、洛杉矶、圣巴巴拉和文图拉的成员。
加州林业与消防保护局已派遣约150名人员和20辆消防车前往华盛顿州，各加州消防部门也在提供支援。例如，洛杉矶县消防局周一派出了一个25人营地救援队和一个3人推土机小组前往火灾现场，一名部门发言人表示。加州州长紧急服务办公室协调了洛杉矶消防局、圣贝纳迪诺县消防保护区、橙县消防局和科罗纳消防局的四支队伍的部署。
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艾伦·J·沙本 洛杉矶时报
代表蒙特雷帕克的民主党众议员赵美心表示，调查结果是“向幸存者、他们的家人及我们社区迈向问责与正义的重要一步，他们承受了难以想象的损失”。她呼吁爱迪生公司“现在采取一切必要措施帮助阿尔塔迪纳和帕萨迪纳重建，确保此类悲剧不再重演”。
她同时借此机会呼吁特朗普总统和国会共和党人兑现对火灾幸存者的承诺，解锁加州申请的联邦灾难援助资金，称这些资金对其选民“漫长的复苏之路”至关重要。调查由洛杉矶县消防局纵火调查部门与加州林业与消防保护局共同开展。
埃里克·塞耶 洛杉矶时报 长滩港扩大基地，进军市中心大厦
长滩港购买的大楼位于其总部对面。
用于容纳培训 项目并吸引 与贸易相关的企业
作者：卡罗琳·佩特罗-科恩
长滩港 继续在市中心 扎根， 收购了 一栋 办公 大楼。 该港口斥资3600万美元 购买了位于 100 Oceangate的物业，这是一栋13层 建筑，位于港口 总部 对面，距离港口不到10 分钟车程。 此次收购正值 长滩市中心 办公空置率 达到历史最高水平35%之际，数据来自 长滩市中心联盟。 “这是一个购买的好时机，” 长滩港首席执行官诺埃尔·哈塞加巴 在采访中表示。“此次收购是一项战略性 投资，旨在推动 长滩的经济发展， 并创造一个海事商业 枢纽。这反映了我们 对港口未来的信心。” 该大楼的入住率 约为70%—— 港口将继承这些租约 并从中获利。 港口将利用可用空间 吸引国际 航运和物流公司、 制造商及其他与贸易相关的企业。 “他们的货物 已经通过我们的码头， 这是我们为他们提供 一个家的方式，”哈塞加巴说。 该大楼还将成为 港口大学（Port U）的所在地，这是港口的内部 培训和职业发展项目。 此次收购历时数月， 港口于7月27日签订了 买卖协议。哈塞加巴表示， 此举支持长滩市长雷克斯·理查森的 经济发展战略“AnchorLB”， 该战略由市长于1月宣布。 AnchorLB旨在
作者：塞里斯·戴维斯
Spotify正式创下新纪录，拥有3亿高级订阅用户。在周二发布的第二季度财报中，这家瑞典流媒体公司称这是“音频流媒体服务前所未有的里程碑”。Spotify表示，高级订阅用户增长了9%，月活跃用户增长12%，达到7.77亿。总收入增长14%，达到48亿欧元（约合55亿美元）。
“我们拥有历史上少数公司才能达到的规模，业务健康且不断增长，并拥有只有我们才能把握的机遇，”Spotify联合首席执行官亚历克斯·诺斯特伦在声明中表示。“Spotify贯穿你的整个日常——通勤、健身、学习、游戏、餐桌，甚至睡眠。在我们的规模下，这极为罕见。”
Spotify还在周二的新闻稿中宣布与数字音乐授权公司Merlin达成一项新的人工智能协议。该合作将使Merlin网络中的30,000家唱片公司的艺术家能够参与Spotify即将推出的AI工具。该工具尚未上线，但目标是让粉丝在平台上创作由AI生成的混音和翻唱作品。
“与Merlin的协议确保参与——”
吸引国际公司，包括航运和制造企业，进驻市中心办公空间。“我呼吁港口与我合作，”理查德森在采访中表示。“AnchorLB是将我们的经济从一个商品流通地转变为决策地的下一步。”该大厦建于1972年，于2016年以4650万美元的价格出售给房地产公司Faring，据CoStar数据。该建筑总面积为225,486平方英尺，去年估值为5430万美元，但洛杉矶县估价师今年将其价值下调了47%，至2490万美元。南加州的办公空置率持续飙升，今年第二季度大洛杉矶地区整体空置率约为20%，据房地产公司Avison Young数据。办公入住率下降是由远程办公的永久性转变、利率上升以及企业迁入更小型、更高端建筑的趋势推动。
“电子商务和居家办公的兴起减少了对办公空间的需求，因此我们正在探索的策略之一是利用我们靠近港口的优势，创造更多需求，”理查德森表示。入驻企业正抓住机会成为业主，尤其是在洛杉矶市中心，自疫情期间入住率下降以来，高耸的摩天大楼价值大幅下跌。公共部门用户是买家之一。洛杉矶市计划购买市中心一栋35层的大厦，供水电部使用。Manulife美国房地产投资信托基金今年4月宣布，将以9250万美元的价格出售位于南菲格罗亚街865号的高层建筑，待洛杉矶官员批准。该建筑估值为2.48亿美元。另一家市中心办公大楼的主要公共买家是洛杉矶县，该县于2024年以2亿美元的价格购买了煤气公司大厦，较其2020年6.32亿美元的估值大幅下降。县官员当时表示，这笔止赎出售的机会不容错过。Hacegaba表示，港口的这笔建筑购买是同类交易中的首例。“据我所知，这是任何港务局首次进行此类投资，”他说。“我们有充分的商业理由投资这栋大楼，加上当前商业地产行业的状况，这笔战略投资对我们来说非常合理。”Hacegaba说，该建筑的部分租户来自海事行业，包括工程和律师事务所。大楼内还设有城市国家银行、一家紧急护理中心和一家Crunch健身房。“我们对空置楼层的计划是
港口将优先为港口合作伙伴提供办公空间，另一部分空间将用于培训我们的员工，”哈塞加巴表示。“这让我们有机会确保在这座与港口近在咫尺的设施中，为明天的劳动力进行投资。”港口的新大楼还可能帮助该市为2028年奥运会的举办做好准备。长滩会议中心将承办手球、水球及其他赛事，而沙滩排球将在阿拉米托斯海滩举行，公开水域游泳和帆船比赛则将在贝尔蒙特海岸进行。“长滩作为一座城市将登上世界舞台，这将吸引来自国际合作伙伴的大量人流，”哈塞加巴表示。“在奥运会期间，拥有可供激活的空间可能会吸引一些参赛国家的团队——”
艺术家的署名和报酬得到保障，每一项创作都能将听众引导回原作品，”Spotify全球音乐主管查理·赫尔曼在一份声明中表示。“我们很自豪能将这一模式扩展到独立音乐社区，并期待在持续发展中迎接更多合作伙伴。” 在最新的人工智能合作之外，该公司还在努力扩大其人工智能布局。Spotify最近推出了“个人播客”（Personal Podcasts），这是一款能生成个性化音频剧集（如每日简报）的代理人工智能程序。该公司还将其人工智能DJ的语言支持扩展至四种新语言，包括法语、德语、意大利语和巴西葡萄牙语。对于许多流媒体
阻止交易的努力 是出于政治而非 对市场的担忧
作者：梅格·詹姆斯
派拉蒙 董事长 大卫·埃里森认为， 围绕他提议的1110亿美元 收购 华纳兄弟 探索频道的拉锯战 归根结底是一个问- 题：能否信任他掌控CNN？ “我认为这场斗争并非 真正关乎市场份额，” 埃里森在周二发表于《纽约时报》 的专栏文章中写道，并指出全球 监管机构——包括美国司法部—— 已批准这项1110亿美元的交易，但目前被加州 总检察长罗布·邦塔及其民主党 州检察长联盟提起的反垄断诉讼 暂时阻止。 “我认为，在诉讼文件和 新闻稿背后，隐藏着一个更直白的 担忧，”埃里森写道。“问题在于， 我是否能被信任成为华纳旗下CNN 的守护者。” 这篇罕见的观点文章 是埃里森承认其家族与 特朗普总统的密切关系 已损害了他在好莱坞及其他领域 的声誉。 CBS新闻部（隶属派拉蒙） 的人事动荡、CBS深夜节目主持人 斯蒂芬·科尔伯特的离职，以及 明显的总统游说活动——包括4月底 在华盛顿为特朗普举办奢华晚宴， 以及6月参加白宫草坪举行的特朗普 生日盛会（配有UFC格斗）—— 都付出了代价。 今年早些时候，超过5,000名 娱乐行业从业者——包括简·方达、 本·斯蒂勒、布莱恩·克兰斯顿和 马克·鲁法洛等知名明星—— 签署了一封公开信，呼吁邦塔 阻止这项合并。 该组织声称，这项交易将削弱 好莱坞，带来“创作者机会减少、 整个制作生态系统的就业岗位减少、 成本上升，以及观众选择减少”。 埃里森约730字的文章并未提-
埃里森在文章中表示，他收购 华纳兄弟的决心源于对电影的热爱。
服务，人工智能带来了挑战和机遇， 因为音频平台充斥着AI生成的音乐曲目。 为此，Spotify推出了验证徽章， 以区分人类艺术家与AI，而Tidal 则禁止AI生成的音乐在其平台上 获得版税。 法国流媒体平台Deezer 最近披露，其平台每天上传的AI曲目 多达90,000首，占音乐上传总量的 50%以上。 成立于2006年，Spotify 在洛杉矶艺术区拥有庞大业务。 在过去的二十年里，它已成为全球 最受欢迎的音频流媒体订阅服务， 拥有超过1亿 tracks、 700万播客节目和 700,000本有声书。周二，美国地方法官阿拉塞莉·马丁内斯-奥尔金 为邦塔及其11个州检察长联盟提起的 反垄断诉讼设定了3月2日的审判日期。 派拉蒙原本希望在11月进行审判， 以便在年底前完成这项重塑行业的交易。 邦塔及其他州检察长声称， 两大电影制片厂的合并将使派拉蒙-华纳兄弟 占据超过25%的院线宽幅发行市场。 他们的诉讼——同样回避了政治背景—— 认为合并后的公司将拥有过多有线电视频道—— 超过50,个，包括CNN、TBS、HGTV和 喜剧中心。邦塔，
在最近接受《泰晤士报》采访时，邦塔否认这起诉讼有政治动机。“这只是一起纯粹的反垄断案件，”邦塔表示。好莱坞许多人担心，两家历史悠久的制片厂合并将导致数千人失业，并加剧就业形势的恶化。埃里森的天空之舞传媒（Skydance Media）一年前收购派拉蒙后，已裁减了2,000个工作岗位。根据联邦劳工数据，自2022年以来，洛杉矶地区估计已有57,000个娱乐行业工作岗位消失。
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诚然，一些反对华纳兄弟交易的人士认为，不应允许一个家族同时控制两家重要新闻机构：隶属于华纳兄弟探索公司的CBS新闻和CNN。大卫·埃里森在文章中试图消除这类担忧。“外界对我的政治立场、忠诚度和意图有诸多猜测，”埃里森写道。
“不幸的是，我无法让任何人窥见我的内心和想法，但我可以分享这一点：我定期投票支持两党候选人；我的一些观点可能被视为保守，另一些则可能被视为自由派，就像大多数美国人一样，”埃里森说。“而在经营方面，我并不希望这些公司的编辑室屈从于我的观点。我认为这应基于事实和真相。”埃里森援引民意调查称，公众对媒体的信任度低。“像CNN和CBS这样的优秀机构，其使命是客观报道新闻，”埃里森说。“这需要反映整个世界的新闻编辑室，而非偏向某一方。这需要独立性。我们的记者将继续对事实和他们服务的所有受众负责——而非任何政党或事业。”
“这些是CNN和CBS的立业之本，是泰德·特纳和爱德华·R·默罗等传奇人物所秉持的原则，也正是这种独立性成就了《60分钟》的伟大，”埃里森写道。被解雇的《60分钟》记者，包括塞西莉亚·维加，曾抱怨自去年秋季巴里·韦斯担任CBS总编辑以来，记者被要求在报道争议事件时带有倾向性，包括今年早些时候明尼苏达州针对移民与海关执法局（ICE）行动的抗议活动，该事件导致两名美国人死亡。自接管派拉蒙以来，CBS部分节目的收视率有所下降，但《60分钟》在记者被解雇前（包括斯科特·佩利、莎琳·阿方西和执行制片人塔尼娅·西蒙，后者于5月离职）的常规赛季观众人数有所增加。消息人士称，韦斯经常提出修改建议，但记者们予以抵制。这些人士表示，没有人被要求在报道中加入虚假论点。尽管如此，人才仍受到冲击。CNN的安德森·库珀已提前离开《60分钟》
在第二季度末，该公司全球全职员工总数为7,302人，营业收入达6.55 亿欧元（约合$7.54 亿）。“本季度表明，我们正在构建未来：更好的工程、更快的运输、新产品和用户互动的新方式，”联席首席执行官古斯塔夫·瑟德斯特伦在声明中表示。“我们仍处于可能性的早期阶段，并将继续对投资设定高标准。”Spotify预计，在下一季度，其高级订阅用户和月活跃用户将分别增长至3.05 亿和7.88 亿。总收入预计将达到50亿欧元（约合$57 亿）。
今年早些时候，CNN的葆拉·里德（Paula Reid）因担忧新闻机构在潜在新东家领导下的发展方向而离开了该网络。埃里森表示，他收购华纳兄弟的坚定决心源于对电影的热爱。“从我能安静坐下来看电影的年纪起，我就爱上了电影，”埃里森在文章中写道。在法律文件中，派拉蒙对原告州的诉讼基础提出异议，称这些州未能考虑到包括Netflix、谷歌的YouTube和亚马逊工作室在内的科技公司的崛起，这些公司同样吸引了大量观众。美国编剧工会（Writers Guild of America）已单独提起诉讼，试图阻止这场并购，称这将导致编剧机会减少、薪酬降低，使他们更难在行业中立足。负责审理这一备受瞩目案件的马丁内斯-奥尔金（Martínez-Olguín）法官发布了临时禁令，
在双方整理证据期间阻止并购完成。上月底，派拉蒙做出重大让步，同意将并购完成时间推迟至反垄断审判结束后——或最晚至1, 2027年6月1日，以较早到来的日期为准。在周五提交的法庭文件中，邦塔及其联合的其他11位民主党州检察长提议进行为期两到三周的审判以权衡证据。原告州包括科罗拉多、华盛顿、俄勒冈、内华达、新墨西哥、纽约和明尼苏达州。“这些州声称这笔交易将使一家公司对院线发行和有线电视运营商拥有过大影响力，而编剧工会则认为我们的联合市场力量将损害编剧利益，”埃里森在评论文章中表示。“这两起诉讼都想象了一个不复存在的好莱坞——一个由少数传统制片厂主导的行业。”
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“无论他们是否在加州或其他地方找借口，这些都是过分的利润，我们必须尽力而为。” 雪佛龙表示，其业绩反映的是全球运营情况，而非州或地区业绩，且由过往投资推动。
“为了满足消费者需求，过去一年我们将能源产量提高了近20%，并在第二季度将炼油厂产能利用率维持在约97%，”发言人罗斯·艾伦在电子邮件中表示。
这些利润是以司机为代价的。自战争爆发以来，美国的汽油价格上涨了30%至50%。在加州，战前就一直保持全美最高油价，目前价格仍徘徊在每加仑$5.60以上。
价格飙升促使一些议员表示，加州应停止要求使用其在1990年代为减少空气污染而制定的更清洁燃油混合标准。
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Palantir科技公司在发布第二季度销售额远超华尔街预期后，上调了全年收入和利润预测，称其数据分析工具的需求“超乎想象”。
Palantir目前预计今年调整后营业收入将达48.9亿至49.1亿美元，高于此前预测区间上限的44.5亿美元。这家软件开发商和主要军事供应商预计销售额最高可达81.6亿美元，超出市场平均预期的约77亿美元——
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这些规定及其他环境要求常被指责为加州汽油价格高昂的原因。
州参议员亨利·斯特恩（D-洛杉矶）提出了一项法案，旨在简化加州销售普通汽油的流程，并向供应商收取费用，该费用可用于电动汽车返利等项目。支持者包括忧思科学家联盟及部分环保团体，他们认为全国汽油标准和现代、更清洁的汽车使得加州特殊配方汽油的必要性降低。暂停该配方将使从其他州进口更便宜的汽油变得更容易，并减少对生产该配方的州内炼油厂的依赖。
但西部各州石油协会这一行业组织对此表示反对，称这将惩罚已经投资生产更清洁燃料的加州炼油厂。“这增加了炼油厂的不确定性，抑制了对州内生产的投资，并推动了无助于改善燃料可负担性或可靠性的政策理念，”该组织在6月的一封反对信中表示。
该组织还在抵制贝克尔的法案，该法案将战争纳入可触发加州哄抬物价法的紧急情况清单——如自然灾害和疫情。该法律将价格上涨幅度限制在紧急情况前水平的10%以内。
贝克尔表示，他关注的是加州特有的哄抬物价证据，因为少数几家炼油厂服务于一个相对孤立的市场，燃料来源选择有限。他援引了消费者监察组织的研究，显示加州汽油价格在今年前25周中的13周比全国平均水平高出1.50美元，其中12周是在战争开始后。去年这一情况仅出现了两周。2024年仅出现了四周。
加州能源委员会并不认同。
首席执行官亚历克斯·卡普表示，Palantir第二季度美国商业销售额“惊人”，同比增长149%，达到7.64亿美元。这一强劲前景缓解了投资者对Palantir业务可能因Anthropic PBC等AI开发商自行销售软件，以及美国以外政府越来越多与本土科技公司合作而受损的担忧。卡普在周一致投资者的信中反驳了AI新贵取代其业务的担忧，指出“让模型在家中自由运行”的风险。Palantir股价在盘后交易中最高上涨15%，至144.65美元。若周二常规交易中涨幅保持，该公司将创下逾一年来最大的盘中涨幅。
“本季度表现超凡脱俗，”卡普在准备好的发言中表示，“这样的成就在任何企业中都足以令人惊叹；对于一家我们这种规模、影响力和重要性的公司而言，这简直是惊人。”
Palantir因作为一家隐秘的硅谷初创公司向美国政府及盟军销售定制数据分析软件而声名鹊起。自特朗普总统上任以来，公司领导层一直在塑造亲美形象，例如在会议上发言
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价格普遍高于全国平均水平，但战争期间的涨幅与全国趋势一致，该机构表示。该机构燃料市场监管主任泰·米尔德指出了另一个问题：该州品牌加油站的汽油价格平均比非品牌加油站高31美分 / 加仑。而全国品牌与非品牌加油站的价格差异约为6美分。
加州雪佛龙加油站的价格在所有品牌中最高，5月份平均每加仑$6.34。西部各州石油协会表示，品牌汽油价格更高可能有多种原因，包括房地产成本和“用于提升车辆性能的专有汽油添加剂”。
“品牌产品比普通替代品溢价销售在任何市场都是完全正常的，”发言人吉姆·斯坦利表示。“我想不出有哪种消费品不是这样。”
该公司市值自2024年末以来已增长一倍以上，达到约3000 亿美元亿美元。帕兰提尔在美国政府的销售依然强劲，但欧洲领导人已表示希望减少对美国科技公司的依赖，并与本土企业开展更多业务。近几个月来，法国和英国的官员已采取行动终止与帕兰提尔的合作。
“有时我们会做出违背经济利益的决定，比如我们正在支持欧洲的许多机构，”卡普在周一的分析师电话会议上表示。
关于限制战时石油利润的倡议，他表示，这将使加州在确保进口方面处于竞争劣势，并“可能导致我们经济依赖的能源短缺”，因为加州已越来越依赖进口燃料。
在国家层面，国会多名民主党人也提出了针对暴利的立法，包括加州参议员亚当·希夫和谢尔曼奥克斯的众议员布拉德·谢尔曼。斯特恩和贝克尔的法案都将于8月13日在州议会拨款委员会面临下一关。
消费者监督组织主席杰米·考特支持贝克尔的法案，但表示州政府忽视了其已有的最有效工具来限制价格飙升——州长加文·纽森2022年签署的一项法律，允许加州能源委员会限制炼油厂利润。
考特表示，$1 / 加仑的上限远高于战争前1月份炼油厂44美分的利润率，但该法律从未被使用过。
与此同时，帕兰提尔的海外销售额同比增长33%，达到$362.5百万美元。该公司上季度调整后毛利率为86%，略有下降，原因是为政府客户提供云托管服务，首席财务官戴夫·格雷泽在分析师电话会议上表示。他警告称，第三季度支出将增加，部分原因是季节性因素。卡普将帕兰提尔的软件描述为直接与制造大型语言模型的AI公司合作的替代方案。他称赞帕兰提尔的客户拒绝成为“语言实验室的附庸国”。
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自该法案签署以来，本已可为加州司机节省6.11亿美元。
但自该法案通过后，州内两家大型炼油厂的关闭令立法者和监管机构对在电动汽车取代汽油需求之前规范这些设施持谨慎态度。
加州能源委员会已将“降低”使用其新权限设定价格上限列为“次要优先事项”，但“仍在持续分析数据，以更好地了解炼油利润率及设定上限对消费者的潜在影响”，发言人妮基·伍达德（Niki Woodard）表示。
今年以来，石油和天然气行业已在游说州议会上花费超过1700万美元。彭博智库分析师布雷特·吉布斯（Brett Gibbs）表示，全球石油利润很大程度上与炼油环节相关，因袭击和原油短缺导致的炼油厂关闭加剧了燃料短缺。
马拉松（Marathon）和瓦莱罗（Valero）均指出其西海岸炼油厂表现强劲，原因包括近期加州炼油厂关闭、加州原油供应增加，以及战争影响。PBF能源公司的马丁内斯炼油厂因2025年2月至今年5月的一场火灾停产，该公司表示预计未来几个季度加州市场的高利润将持续。
研究与分析机构伍德麦肯兹（Wood Mackenzie）估计，如果油价保持高位且全年平均维持在每桶90美元左右，石油公司今年的利润可能飙升至4950亿美元。多数公司选择保留这笔意外之财，而非将其再投资于生产，伍德麦肯兹企业研究副总裁汤姆·埃拉科特（Tom Ellacott）表示。
作者：凯茜·布塞维茨
美国石油和天然气巨头在伊朗与美国之间的冲突阻碍石油运输之际，今年春季获得了巨额利润，而全球消费者则面临燃料价格上涨和供应短缺的困境。
这场冲突已持续六个月，导致霍尔木兹海峡的大部分航运中断。该海峡此前是全球五分之一石油和天然气的运输通道。随着全球供应紧张，布伦特原油（国际基准）价格从约 $70 飙升至 $100 以上，在3月、4月和5月的大部分时间里保持这一水平，并在某一时刻达到 $126.
石油公司在4月初至6月底期间积累的利润今年可能会受到更多审视。在此期间，汽油、柴油和航空燃油价格急剧上涨，增加了司机和航空乘客的成本。部分国家供应短缺，导致澳大利亚出现零星燃料配给，尼泊尔和斯里兰卡的政府办公室关闭。
埃克森美孚周五报告称，其二季度利润翻倍至 145.3 亿美元 billion，得益于柴油产量创纪录。这家总部位于德克萨斯州斯普林的石油巨头收入增长了 42%，达到 1160.2 亿美元 billion。
总部位于休斯敦的雪佛龙利润大幅增长至 120.7 亿美元 ，收入飙升 56% 至 700.6 亿美元 。
欧洲六大石油公司一季度的利润总和为 220 亿美元 ，较去年同期增长了 40% 以上。
“全球有不少群体正从这场危机中获益，而石油生产商就是其中之一，”化石燃料研究负责人帕特里克·盖利表示。
股市创新高；油价回落
作者：斯坦·乔
由于企业利润持续增长，油价回落，美国股市周二创下新高。
标准普尔 500 指数上涨 1.8%，创下数月前刚刚创下的历史新高。道琼斯工业平均指数上涨 907 点，或 1.7%，创下前一天的纪录，而纳斯达克综合指数则大涨 2.6%。
尽管市场对高通胀、伊朗战争、经济不满以及人工智能技术繁荣可能导致的股市泡沫存在担忧，华尔街仍创下新高，并奖励了那些因企业利润持续飙升而保持耐心的投资者。从长期来看，股价往往跟随企业盈利走势。
Palantir Technologies 领涨，涨幅达 29.5%。这家人工智能公司不仅公布的春季利润超出分析师预期，还上调了 2026 年全年收入预测。
卡特彼勒上涨 5.6%，此前这家重型设备制造商公布的利润和收入均超出分析师预期。这是卡特彼勒首次实现超过 200 亿美元 。
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全球见证组织（Global Witness）是一家调查环境问题的非营利机构。"当你将其与数亿面临轮流停电、用电限制、配给、排队购买食物的人相比，或是与化肥中断及其对食品价格的潜在影响相比时，我们认为这对世界其他地区来说并不是一个合理的代价。"
立法者提议对石油生产商征税 埃克森美孚和雪佛龙等能源公司并不决定美国石油的价格，该价格在本季度从每桶$68飙升至$115。价格由供需关系决定，以及交易商、炼油厂和其他买家愿意支付的价格。尽管如此，国会民主党人在3月提出法案，拟对从2026年起大型石油生产商的利润征税，并将税收用于——
在一个季度内实现销售和收入增长，首席执行官乔·克里德表示，公司正看到各主要业务的订单率强劲增长，积压订单不断增加。卡特彼勒还通过为数据中心提供动力的涡轮机等订单从人工智能热潮中受益。它们是最新一批交出超出投资者预期季度利润的公司，此前亚马逊、微软等公司也公布了强劲业绩。进入本周，标普500指数成分公司的每股收益预计将较去年同期增长近50%，据FactSet数据显示。这将是自2021年经济从新冠疫情低谷强劲复苏以来的最大涨幅。随着企业利润大幅增长，而股价仍大致维持在两个月前的水平，股票的估值不再像之前那样昂贵，Leuthold Group联席投资组合经理菲尔·塞格纳表示。周二股市上涨的另一个助力是油价再次下跌。作为国际基准的布伦特原油价格下跌5.3%，至每桶$79.36，市场情绪再次从恐慌转向乐观。7月份，油价在$72至$102之间剧烈波动，原因是——
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收益将重新分配给消费者。 “与其削减儿童食品项目，对超额暴利征收暴利税是公平的，”罗德岛民主党参议员谢尔顿·怀特豪斯表示，他提出了参议院版本的立法。 怀特豪斯的措施和众议员罗·康纳（D-Fremont）提出的配套法案将修订美国税法，对在2025年生产或进口至少300,000桶石油的公司征收每桶税。 “上周末我经过的加油站油价再次突破每加仑4美元，这对那些依靠工作面包车或卡车四处奔波谋生的家庭来说是一笔巨大开支，”怀特豪斯说。 美国普通汽油的平均价格在美以对伊朗发动袭击之前低于每加仑3美元，
不确定与伊朗的战争何时能让油轮自由驶出波斯湾，向全球运送原油。 油价在不确定性的影响下多次大幅波动，这种不确定性时而加剧，时而缓解，不仅每周如此，甚至每小时都在变化。分析师警告称，未来可能会有更多波动，但最近油价的下跌仍然缓解了华尔街对通胀的担忧。这拉低了债券市场的收益率，进而缓解了整体经济以及股票和其他投资价格的压力。 10年期国债收益率从周一的4.70%降至4.62%，上周末为4.75%。这是债券市场的显著变化，尽管仍远高于伊朗战争前3.97%的水平。 在海外股市，欧洲和亚洲大部分地区的指数小幅上涨。 韩国综合股价指数（Kospi）出现了更显著的上涨，涨幅达1.6%。首尔经历了全球最剧烈的波动，因为两家受人工智能热潮影响的公司主导了其市场，分别是三星电子和SK海力士。 Kospi在前两天分别下跌了5.1%和上涨了17.9%。
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周五达到4.11美元，比一年前的这个时候高出约1美元。 英国和其他欧洲国家在2022.对化石燃料公司实施了临时暴利税。根据欧洲税务基金会的数据，英国将这一税收延长至2030,。 “基于上次他们通过暴利税，对那些在危机时刻支持这些国家并提供产品的企业进行处罚，从长远来看是非常短视的，”埃克森首席执行官达伦·伍兹在周五与投资者的电话会议上表示。“我们取消了原计划在欧洲的投资。”
埃克森和雪佛龙等拥有炼油厂的公司在当前市场条件下处于最有利的盈利地位，能源金融学助理教授汤姆·森格表示。
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nance at Texas Christian University。 炼油厂将石油转化为汽油、柴油、航空燃油和家用取暖油。尽管加工的原油减少且销售的产品减少，但这些产品的价格上涨意味着雪佛龙在2026,的炼油利润是之前的六倍。 “从百分比来看，炼油的回报率飙升，”森格说。“目前石油的定价是由伊朗战争决定的。但与此同时，炼油厂正在大赚特赚。” 全球炼油市场供不应求，由于俄罗斯和中国等国家不再出口，包括埃克森美孚和雪佛龙在内的公司不得不填补这一缺口，Tortoise Capital的高级投资组合经理罗布·图梅尔说。 “全球将面临航空燃油、柴油和汽油短缺，因此我们可能会继续看到该领域的利润上升。41%” 田纳西大学研究石油行业的商业经济学教授蒂莫西·菲茨杰拉德表示，自冲突开始以来，并非所有炼油厂都能获得足够的原油供应以满足需求。25% 因此，拥有充足石油供应的炼油厂，包括美国的炼油厂，正在获得高额利润，尤其是在生产航空燃油和柴油时，美国的柴油价格比霍尔木兹海峡被封锁前上涨了41%。 “如果你是一家拥有大量炼油能力的公司，情况看起来相当不错，”菲茨杰拉德说。 美国炼油厂正以接近满负荷运行，并准备从中东和俄罗斯部分炼油厂受损中获益。而亚洲无法获得中东炼油所需的石油量。 “最终，能源服务的使用者会为此买单，”菲茨杰拉德说。“消费者，比如你我这样购买零售汽油或柴油或机票的人。但这也意味着我们购买的几乎所有其他商品都包含能源成本……而这正是你开始担心它推高成本的地方。”
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菲茨杰拉德表示，在当前的地缘政治环境下，一些公司是赢家，另一些则是输家。 “如果你是像美国石油生产商这样的公司，甚至是像埃克森美孚或雪佛龙这样在美国境外拥有大量产能的国际公司，情况会很好。你能以更高的价格出售产品，”他说。
但中东地区的公司无法从高油价中获益，因为它们难以将液化天然气运出波斯湾，或拥有大量受损的油田或加工设施，对近期事件的看法截然不同，菲茨杰拉德补充道。 “你能销售的能力和可能获得的产量受到严重限制，收入大幅下降，同时还要承担更高的运输和安全成本，”他说。
由于石油交易方式的影响，埃克森美孚和雪佛龙在第一季度的利润并不理想；它们真正有机会利用高油价是在4月。那些拥有大量储存在浮式油轮上并可用于现货市场交易的石油的公司，包括一些欧洲公司，能够从3月的高油价中获益，森格说。
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今年1月，《纽约时报》询问特朗普总统，他的全球权力是否有任何限制。 “是的，”总统回应道，“有一件事。我自己的道德。我自己的思想。这是唯一能阻止我的东西。”
那是八个月前的事了，但幸运的是，克里斯托弗·诺兰的大片《奥德赛》改编让古希腊文学重新变得重要。趁这个机会尚未消失，我想谈谈傲慢（hubris）。
如今，这个词主要指过度的骄傲或自大。这也是希腊人所指的一部分，但其含义更丰富、更具体。傲慢是一种无礼或过分的行为，冒犯了众神，通常是因为冒犯者声称拥有仅属于至高无上的神的能力或权威。
诺兰在电影中重新命名并略微修改了“xenia”（好客）的概念，称其为“宙斯法则”。在导演的诠释中，凡人应遵循众神制定的规则，特别是要求尊重陌生人的规定，以免他们是乔装的神。从某种意义上说，傲慢是xenia的对立面，或至少是对它的拒绝。求婚者的傲慢，以及奥德修斯本人的傲慢，招致了众神及其凡人工具的惩罚。
这让我想到了唐纳德·特朗普。他声称自己在全球舞台上行使个人权力不受任何限制，这是政治领导人有史以来表现出的最极端的傲慢之一。
特朗普的说法在他提出时显然是虚假的。他曾誓言能在24小时内结束俄乌战争。他已证明无力实现这一目标。如果他拥有神力能随心所欲，为何——
一条拟建的缆车线路将在洛杉矶州立历史公园设站。
作为一名多年来与唐人街居民共同参与缆车项目公众审查流程的人，我发现这篇专栏对一个更为复杂的讨论进行了极为片面的报道。它忽略了众多居民、小企业主和社区组织，他们多年来一直倡导这一项目，因为他们将其视为投资唐人街未来的机会。对我们许多人来说，这不仅仅是一条缆车。这是对一个长期被忽视的社区进行投资，支持小企业，连接空间，并为唐人街提供一个难得的机会，让它能够塑造自己的未来，而不是被未来所取代。
公众理应听到辩论的各方声音，而不仅仅是反对者。看到我们的声音被压制，令人愤怒。
洛佩斯的专栏未能承认唐人街支持这一项目并努力争取有意义社区利益的联合声音，呈现了一个不完整的叙事，对《洛杉矶时报》读者和社区本身都是一种伤害。
恩里克·皮内达 洛杉矶
我读了洛佩斯的专栏，心想：“又来了。”作为一名土生土长的圣费尔南多谷居民，我们从不认为能轻易获得公园。谷地拥有洛杉矶地区最严重的公园缺口。在范奈斯和帕诺拉马城这样的社区，家庭能使用的公园用地仅为专家建议的一小部分。
正因为如此，我无法理解为何有人被敦促将一座优质的市中心公园视为可及性是件坏事。公园应服务于所有洛杉矶人。来自谷地的家庭应与其他人一样，能在公园度过一个下午——无论是去看道奇队比赛，还是仅仅寻找一个孩子们可以奔跑玩耍的地方。在我们的城市绿地如此稀缺的情况下，每一座优质公园都应共享。洛杉矶难道不属于所有人吗？
史蒂夫·马丁内斯 帕诺拉马城
我住在距离洛杉矶州立历史公园很近的地方。尽管距离很近，但前往公园从未像想象中那么便捷。
洛佩斯的专栏几乎完全聚焦于反对该项目的人。我希望他也能采访像我这样的人，我们将其视为对社区的投资，以及一个让公园对每天生活在其旁边的人们更加友好和便捷的机会。
海蒂·罗德里格斯 洛杉矶
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我并非任何超级政治行动委员会的支持者，但LZ·格兰德森（LZ Granderson）将密歇根州初选简化为他与众议员黑利·史蒂文斯（密歇根州民主党人）接受美国以色列公共事务委员会资金的分歧，错失了当下的关键时刻。
11月的参议院多数党地位岌岌可危，而这场初选无疑是决定民主党能否夺回参议院、不再依赖共和党“跛脚鸭”议员投票的关键选战之一。这正是密歇根州历史最悠久的黑人报纸支持史蒂文斯的原因。这也是众议员吉姆·克莱伯恩（南卡罗来纳州民主党人）飞赴密歇根的原因。这想必让格兰德森感到不快，我也理解史蒂文斯在演讲和民粹议题上不如阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）那样具有伯尼·桑德斯的风范，但这关乎谁能从共和党手中赢回参议院——这正是州长格雷琴·惠特默（Gretchen Whitmer）支持史蒂文斯的原因。难道我们还没有从缅因州几乎酿成的悲剧性错误中吸取教训吗？缅因州和密歇根州都至关重要。
戴维·托科夫斯基 鹰岩
在格兰德森的专栏中，他敏锐地指出，背书在今年中期选举的结果中将发挥次要作用。他所举的克莱伯恩呼吁密歇根州选民支持史蒂文斯的例子尤为有说服力，这一呼吁并未提升她竞选参议员的胜算。但格兰德森忽略了背书在美国政治中仍然相关的一个重要方面：它们作为评估背书者品格的试金石的实用性。
要确定哪些民主党领袖对实现全民医保、免费大学教育及其他激进政策最为坚定，一个万无一失的方法是看哪些人在2016年支持了被建制派钦点的希拉里·克林顿，又有哪些人冒险支持了民粹派的“火药桶”伯尼·桑德斯。
因此，即使背书不再左右被劝说者的想法，它们仍有助于明确主要政客在当今最具争议的政治角逐中站在何方。
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关于《“孤立”选民可能在中期选举中发挥关键作用》的报道，8月3日
我住在加州第40国会选区，并投票支持了第50号提案，明知其通过几乎肯定会确保我的选区因这一信念而选出一名共和党人担任该席位。唯一可能有机会获胜的当地民主党人是凯蒂·波特，她却决定将剩余的政治资本浪费在一场堂吉诃德式的州长竞选上。 因此，我面临的选择是：要么投票给现任议员、来自阿纳海姆山的共和党人金映玉（Young Kim），她对选民毫无回应；要么投票给共和党人肯·卡尔弗特（Ken Calvert），他在国会33年的最显著成就是提出一项法案，为杰出飞行十字勋章获得者设立纪念碑。两人都不值得我投票，我打算在11月将该栏留空。 BW Radley 米申维耶霍
至少拿破仑和希特勒在领教傲慢之愚蠢前，曾取得过一系列真正令人印象深刻的胜利。特朗普权力的局限性，却被远不如二战盟军联合力量或可怕的俄罗斯严冬那样强大的势力所揭露。 伊朗是一个相对中等的强国。但该政权在承受打击的同时，能在霍尔木兹海峡强制推行其意志，这对特朗普权力的约束，已超越其道德或理智。值得一提的是，至少在言辞上，他的道德并未构成太大约束。他曾多次承诺，若伊朗政权拒不投降，将摧毁其“文明”。 但他们没有——短期内也不会——因为该政权的忍痛能力远超特朗普。油价飙升的恐惧、海湾国家君主的愤怒、武器储备减少及国内民意的不满，正在发挥国际法、国会监督和外交政策专家的集体意见无法或不愿发挥的作用。 若我将特朗普视为比理性和事实所允许的更英勇，我会说他的西西弗斯式困境带有希腊悲剧的气息。特朗普因伊朗人不遵守协议或认可他无数过早的胜利宣言而烦恼——这为他的誓言赋予了新的含义，即他的总统任期将让人们厌倦于胜利。他们几乎是在比特朗普更像特朗普。 若他当初听从了伟大的希腊悲剧作家索福克勒斯的警示：“宙斯极度厌恶傲慢之言”，情况或许会好些。
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州长加文·纽瑟姆公开了他近四年的所得税申报表，算是公开了。我说“算是”，是因为他只向少数媒体展示了这些申报表，且不允许复印或拍照，也未直接向他的选民——加州人民——公开。一位真正坦诚的民选官员只需将其发布在官网上即可。 州长显然已被他声称要整顿的体制所腐蚀，这令人悲哀。 Cary Brazeman 洛杉矶
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反对批判性思维的战争
Finn Gomez Getty Images 一项取消军事院校文职终身教职的提案将削弱美国未来领导人的能力
据报道，五角大楼正在考虑取消军事院校和高级战争学院的文职终身教职。这份草案提议还要求国防部官员对课程进行逐行审查，并决定哪些材料是“非必要”或“意识形态驱动”的。政治影响如何培养军官行使判断力的方式，其后果远超课堂。
这些机构的毕业生最终将指挥部队、为国家领导人提供建议，并帮助决定国家如何运用军事力量。他们必须能够识别错误的假设，并在错误演变为灾难之前向高级领导人传达不受欢迎的真相。
军事教育必须培养宪法服务所需的独立判断力，而不仅仅是教授被认可的条令。
该提案涉及的机构——包括西点军校、海军学院和空军学院——在军官职业生涯的不同阶段为他们提供服务，在任命前让未来的领导人沉浸在学术研究、军事纪律和严格的标准中。指挥与参谋学院为军官准备更广泛的作战责任。高级战争学院则教育经验丰富的军事和文职人员——
新学年的开始给家长们带来了一系列熟悉的责任：购买学习用品、跟踪表格、协调交通以及回复教师和管理人员源源不断的电子邮件。尽管许多家庭努力分担这些责任，但研究一致发现，母亲往往承担了更多与孩子教育相关的工作。这不仅包括参加学校活动或准备午餐，还包括预约医生、报名课后活动以及回复教师和管理人员的电子邮件或电话等不太显眼的工作。我们是研究性别与家庭的经济学家。我们想了解学校本身是否可能无意中加剧这种不平衡，默认更多地联系母亲而非父亲。经济学家和其他社会科学家早已认识到，即使父母双方都全职工作，母亲在育儿方面花费的时间仍比父亲多12倍。尽管过去几十年来男性承担了更多照顾责任，但女性在照顾孩子和家庭方面仍然花费更多时间。这一差距很重要，因为育儿分工的方式不仅影响父母的工作安排，还可能导致长期压力和倦怠，并影响夫妻对关系公平性的感知。它还会通过影响工作时间、晋升机会和收入来影响父母的职业发展。在2022年夏天，我们在美国开展了一项全国性实地实验，涉及超过80,000名K-12学校校长。学校收到了一封来自虚构双亲家庭的电子邮件，该家庭有父亲和母亲，有意让孩子入学。邮件列出了父母双方，各自附有电话号码，并请校长致电其中一位。由于我们随机改变了姓名和措辞的
军事院校的领导者需要在战略层面做出决策，将军事力量和其他国家权力工具与政治目标相结合。
这些院校应对其使命负责。国防部领导人完全有权要求严谨性和相关性。课程应服务于国防，教授应达到严格标准。但围绕模糊政治标签进行的课程审查，加之取消终身教职，将使学术探究越来越容易受到政治影响。
西点军校近期的事件表明，这种压力传播得有多快。2025年，哲学教授格雷厄姆·帕森斯（Graham Parsons）在课程和阅读材料被撤换、教师学术研究被限制以符合行政部门的指令后辞职。《华盛顿邮报》近日报道称，一项关于美国自由扩张的历史作业被替换为银行业相关内容，马克思被从西方思想课程中移除，教授们因担心职业后果而隐瞒观点或拒绝发表机会。
军事机构尤其容易受到这种预期服从的影响。它们在为将高层指令转化为行动而建立的等级体系内运作。宽泛的指示很少[...OMITTED...]
学生们在格伦代尔联合学区的“国际步行上学日”庆祝活动中与家长和老师手牵手。
声音 劳拉·K·吉（Laura K. Gee）、克里斯蒂·布扎德（Kristy Buzard）和奥尔加·斯托达德（Olga Stoddard） 特约撰稿人
劳拉·K·吉、克里斯蒂·布扎德和奥尔加·斯托达德分别是塔夫茨大学、雪城大学和杨百翰大学的经济学副教授。本文由《对话》协作完成。
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在电子邮件中，我们能够分离出家长的性别是否会影响谁会收到回电。
确实如此。 当父母双方的可用性看起来相当时，母亲收到第一通回电的可能性约为父亲的1.4倍。在回电的校长中，约60%首先联系了母亲，40%首先联系了父亲。
我们还测试了提供更多信息是否会改变这一模式。当电子邮件明确说明父亲有更多空闲时间交谈时，校长更倾向于先给他打电话。但即使父亲被呈现为更可用的家长，许多学校仍然优先联系母亲。
另一个微妙的线索也起到了作用。如果父亲发送了电子邮件并抄送了母亲，学校更可能联系他。然而即便如此，母亲仍然收到了相当大比例的电话。
这些发现表明，许多学校仍然将母亲视为联系孩子事务的默认家长，即使他们获得的信息显示父亲同样——甚至更加——可用。
重要的是，这并不一定意味着学校工作人员有意识地优先联系母亲。学校管理者通常信息有限，会基于经验快速做出决定。如果他们以往发现母亲更容易回应，优先联系她们可能看起来是最高效的选择。
但当类似的决定在学校和其他组织中被重复400次时，可能会强化许多家庭中已存在的不平等的照护责任分工。
学校只是与孩子相关需求的来源之一。此前的研究表明，与父亲相比，母亲更可能安排医生预约、协调课外活动——
这一计划被狭隘地应用。教职员工和管理人员开始预期来自上级的反对，并在任何人下达直接命令前主动移除可能引发问题的内容。
五角大楼已经展示了意识形态审查在实践中可能多么笨拙。去年，在搜寻被禁止的多样性相关内容时，埃诺拉·盖伊轰炸机的图片因其名称包含“gay”一词而被标记为需移除。海军学院最初根据类似宽泛的指示移除了近400本图书馆藏书，后在五角大楼提供更明确的标准后几乎全部归还。
拟议的课程审查将使教职员工和管理人员有理由评估每一堂课、每一份出版物或每一个研究问题的政治安全性。取消终身教职将增加抵制这种压力的职业成本。
军事和文职教授为职业军事教育贡献了不同的优势。身着制服的教员带来作战经验、专业背景和对机构的理解。文职学者则带来通过多年研究培养的探究习惯，以及跨越一代代学生的专业知识连续性。由于他们的职业生涯较少依赖军事指挥链，他们也能带来可能——
文职教授的角色并非为了反对而反对。严肃的学者会权衡证据，并参与不同的解释——包括那些可能偏离传统智慧的观点。有时，这项工作会促使他们质疑整个机构已接受的假设。
接触一种思想并非灌输。军事院校不会通过教授马克思主义来培养马克思主义者。他们研究塑造了军官必须理解的世界的思想和动荡。他们研究诸如伤膝河事件和美莱村屠杀等事件，不是为了羞辱学生或组织，而是为了理解权力如何被滥用，以及未来的领导者如何防止类似事件再次发生。
我并不认同海军学院文职教官提出的每一个观点。有时我得出了不同的结论。这正是其价值所在。他们让我们接触到不同的视角和令人不适的想法，要求我们检验自己的假设，形成能够捍卫的立场，并理解他人如何看待世界。他们教会我们如何批判性思考，而不是要求我们像他们那样思考。
学术自由允许学者诚实地探索和教授棘手的问题。终身教职则为学者提供了一定的职业保障，即使其研究得出的结论是机构领导不愿听到的。两者共同作用，使教师能够在教学和示范独立判断时，无需先考虑每个问题或结论是否在政治上安全。五角大楼的提案将削弱这两者。基于模糊意识形态标准的逐行审查将缩小教授教学和开展研究的思想空间。取消终身教职将使挑战这些限制在职业上变得更加危险。可能的结果是更多的自我审查，以及一种越来越多由政治认可而非学术价值塑造的教育。这将教导未来的军官，接受机构的前提比质疑它们更安全。他们可能会更加熟悉当前的教条，却变得更加缺乏准备——
课外活动和管理许多维持家庭生活顺利运转的幕后工作。这些责任通常被描述为育儿的“心理负担”，因为它们涉及规划、监督和协调。
我们的研究表明，学校和其他机构可能在无意中加重了这种心理负担，因为它们更多地将要求指向母亲。在我们与实验同步进行的调查中，经常与家庭互动的教育工作者和其他成年人——包括托儿所工作人员、教练和医疗专业人员——也报告称更常联系母亲而非父亲。
一个电话看似微不足道。但经过一个学年——以及跨越诊所、运动队、夏令营和其他活动——这些打扰会累积起来。它们成为父母时间上的又一项要求，而这一要求不成比例地落在母亲身上。
美国军方相对于规模更大的对手的最大优势之一，在于其军官能够批判性思考、灵活应变，并在无需等待政治教条提供答案的情况下独立行使判断。俄罗斯和中国的军事体系历来更依赖集中控制和政治忠诚。美国军事教育传统则一直致力于培养不同的特质。让军事院校更依赖于“批准”的思想，将意味着放弃这一优势的部分内核。这还将模糊一项重要的宪法界限。美国军官宣誓效忠的是宪法，而非某种意识形态或个人领袖。他们的教育应当强化合法的文官控制，同时培养宪法服务所需的专业判断力和政治中立性。五角大楼的提案将使教员的职位更不稳定，学术探究更依赖于政治批准，未来的军官也更难接触到挑战政府或其所服务机构的观点。政治净化后的军校或许能培养出更顺从的军官，但绝不会培养出更优秀的领导者。
乔恩·达菲是一名退役海军上校，毕业于美国海军学院。他撰写有关领导力与民主的文章。
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这一观点也有助于解释为何在努力更平等地分担责任的夫妇中，性别差异在照护工作中仍然持续存在。育儿任务的不均分配不仅受家庭内部决策影响，也受家庭之外的期望和惯例塑造。许多学校允许家庭指定优先联系人，或根据不同情况指定不同的联系人。随着新学年伊始建立这些惯例，明确表达这些偏好可能有助于学校沟通更准确地反映每个家庭选择分担责任的方式。
洛杉矶时报传媒集团（LA Times Media Group Inc.）目前正根据《1933年证券法》第4(a)(2)条（经修订）（“该法”）及 / 或《D条例》第506条规则进行优先股的私募发行。Digital Offering（FINRA / SIPC会员）是本次发行的经纪商。投资者在投资前应仔细考虑洛杉矶时报传媒集团的投资目标、风险及投资期限。与洛杉矶时报传媒集团每次股权发行相关的发行文件将包含此信息及其他内容，投资前应仔细阅读。洛杉矶时报传媒集团的证券依据《1933年证券法》（经修订）第506(c)条的注册豁免规定进行发行和销售。据此，您应知悉：（i）证券仅可出售给“合格投资者”，对于自然人而言，合格投资者需满足特定的年收入或净资产门槛；（ii）证券发行仅依赖于《证券法》注册要求的豁免，无需遵守《证券法》项下适用于注册的特定披露要求；（iii）美国证券交易委员会不会对证券的价值、发行条款或任何发行材料的准确性或完整性进行审查或批准；（iv）证券将受制于转让和转售的法律限制，投资者不应假设其能够转售证券；投资证券涉及风险，投资者应能够承受投资损失。
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博伊尔高地一场大型仓库火灾的清理工作仍在继续，社区遭受重创。
为鸟类 带来 希望
数量正在下降， 但部分物种在当地 表现良好。
作者：Mack Baysinger
全球范围内，鸟类数量正在悄然减少，但一项新研究为我们如何成为羽翼朋友的更好邻居带来了希望。加州州立理工大学圣路易斯奥比斯波分校的研究人员和鸟类界的其他人一样，知道在过去半个世纪里，已有30亿只鸟类消失，但他们想更深入地了解其中的原因。因此，他们研究了空气污染、光污染、夏季高温及其他11种影响鸟类的环境和人口因素。
令他们惊讶的是，他们发现一些物种在空气质量差或夜间灯光明亮的地区反而表现良好，这得益于大自然赋予它们的生存工具。“我们的研究相当有力地表明，在某些地方我们正在失去鸟类，但在其他地区的局部种群中，鸟类数量却在增加，因此情况并非全面严峻。”该研究的共同作者、加州州立理工大学生物科学教授克林顿·弗朗西斯（Clinton Francis）表示。这项研究发表在《当代生物学》（Current Biology）上。
在西部部分空气污染严重的地区，俄勒冈灯芯草雀和斑点鸟的幼鸟数量实际上有所增加。这可能是因为它们大部分时间都在四处跳跃，避免了烟雾对呼吸系统造成的压力，而这种压力会影响更活跃的物种。
在南加州，美洲知更鸟和金翅雀在城市化地区的数量有所增加。研究人员通过电子邮件表示，知更鸟在有零星树木的草地上表现良好，而城市公园往往能提供这样的环境。
“虽然没有人会质疑我们在许多不同种群中失去了大量鸟类，”弗朗西斯说，“但我也从这项研究中看到了很多希望。”在研究人员调查的11种压力因素中，有两种整体负面影响最大——
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厌倦了青少年骑电动自行车在城里横冲直撞？洛杉矶市议会成员也有同感。
市议会规则委员会周二通过了一项动议，要求该市交通部提出监管电动自行车的方案，包括谁可以骑行及如何骑行。该措施接下来将提交公共安全委员会，然后交由全体市议会审议。
该动议概述了多项可能的措施，包括禁止销售不符合法定标准的电动自行车、电动摩托车和电动滑板车，禁止对电动自行车进行可能提速的改装，并要求18岁以下或无驾照的骑手接受教育。由议员希瑟·哈特（Heather Hutt）和约翰·李（John Lee）提出的这项动议还建议制定存储和充电规则，以防止电池起火。
“禁止将电动自行车改装为电动摩托将是重要的一步——
电动自行车伤害事件在未成年人中有所上升，周二通过的动议指出。
百货公司定义阶层
作者：Shelby Grad
在洛杉矶长大的孩子心中，没有什么比百货公司更能衡量阶层的了。我的祖母总是解释说，梅百货（May Co.）在打折时还算实惠。百老汇百货（Broadway）稍贵一些，但运气好时也能淘到便宜货。布洛克斯百货（Bullock’s）是别克和林肯车主的地盘。罗宾逊百货（Robinsons）则是清一色的凯迪拉克。而I. Magnin则是奔驰和劳斯莱斯的天下。
她大多时候只是逛逛橱窗。但百货公司是她进入战后洛杉矶不同阶层的通行证，是她向往另一种生活的机会，哪怕最终她带走的只是喷在手心的一小瓶香水试用装。
今年夏天，标志性的洛杉矶百货公司消亡已满20年。2006年的这个时候，工人们拆除了南加州各商场和门店的最后一批罗宾逊-梅百货（Robinsons-May）招牌，这不仅仅是一个时代的终结。罗宾逊-梅百货比布洛克斯、巴夫姆（Buffums）和奥巴克斯（Orbachs）活得更久，但它
作者：Sandra McDonald
预防伤害，”赫特办公室在声明中表示。“最重要的是，我们需要确保儿童骑行适合其年龄的车辆，”包括禁止16岁以下儿童骑行电动摩托车。
如果市议会全体通过该措施，交通部将有30天时间提交建议报告。
电动自行车按速度和功能分为三类。1类仅提供脚踏助力，最高时速20英里。2类配有油门，但同样限速20英里。3类为脚踏助力，最高时速可达28英里，要求骑行者年满16岁，且通常不能在自行车道上使用。任何更快的车辆都被归类为机动脚踏车或电动摩托车，可能需要骑行者持有摩托车驾照。
Allen J. Schaben 洛杉矶时报
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博伊尔高地火灾复苏
并追究责任
作者：Gavin J. Quinton 和Connor Sheets
博伊尔高地仓库火灾发生数周后，浓烟、灰烬和成群的苍蝇仍笼罩着该地区。洛杉矶市和县官员周二公布了一系列措施，旨在加快灾后复苏、加强企业问责，并扩大对受灾居民和企业的经济援助。
代表博伊尔高地的市议员伊莎贝尔·胡拉多（Ysabel Jurado）在市政厅提出了一系列措施，包括拨款高达$10 million用于除臭、害虫防治和直接援助居民。这些提案需先经委员会批准，才能提交市议会全体投票表决。
胡拉多的发言人梅森·圣玛丽亚（Mason Santa Maria）表示，他相信市议会将迅速采取行动。“近七周来，家庭一直生活在
为加州节省2070 亿美元 billion
还保护了公民权利、 城市和家庭
作者：凯文·雷克托
加州总检察长罗布·邦塔（Rob Bonta）周二表示，他的办公室通过每周起诉特朗普政府约一次，保护了超过2000 亿美元亿的联邦资金、捍卫了核心公民权利，并将军队撤出了洛杉矶街头。
“自特朗普总统重新上任以来，加州一直受到攻击——并率先进行反击，”邦塔说。
邦塔表示，自特朗普去年就职以来，他的办公室已对该政府提起了82起诉讼，此外还提交了122份支持其他方起诉政府的法庭之友意见书，以及112封回应联邦行动的评论信函。
邦塔称，这些工作为该州节省了约$207.1亿美元的资金，其中包括1680 亿美元亿——相当于该州年度预算的三分之一——这些资金在去年特朗普政府试图冻结数万亿美元的联邦拨款时受到威胁。
邦塔还表示，数十亿美元的交通、应急准备、教育和家庭援助资金削减威胁也得以避免。
这些工作还保护了移民在美国出生子女的公民身份，确保国民警卫队不会违背地方领导人的意愿在加州主要城市部署，并解除了
[见诉讼，B5]
市长卡伦·巴斯（Karen Bass）设定的45天清理期限即将到来，朱拉多（Jurado）对Lineage能否按时完成表示怀疑。如果未能完成，该公司将面临经济后果。
周一，Lineage官员估计，公司已清除了仓库中约80%的食物垃圾，高于周五的60%。
朱拉多的动议还呼吁市议会考虑对责任方处以更高额的罚款——从$25,000到$1百万美元不等——以确保罚款足够严厉，无法被视为“经营成本”而轻易忽视，根据议会文件所述。
另一项动议指示市检察官探索对任何责任方采取法律行动，以追回纳税人在紧急情况下支出的资金。
朱拉多表示，市政府将对Lineage和Altus Power两家公司追究法律责任。据报道，火灾发生时，Altus Power正在仓库屋顶的太阳能电池板上进行维护。她在周二的议会发言中呼吁，暂停Lineage等冷藏公司在博伊尔高地的业务长达两年。
Altus的代表未立即回应
[电动自行车，B1版]
电动自行车在帮助洛杉矶居民锻炼和在一个为汽车而建的城市中出行方面发挥了作用，但根据该动议，电动自行车碰撞造成的伤害激增，尤其是在未成年人中。今年3月，一名老年妇女在一名青少年骑电动自行车撞到她后受伤；5月，一名来自加登格罗夫的13岁少年在失去对电动摩托车的控制后，因碰撞身亡。 市议会已提出其他动议限制电动自行车，包括在骑马道和徒步小径上禁止电动自行车。 赫特的办公室在一份声明中表示，潜在的电动自行车教育将通过机动车辆管理局标准化，并提供线上或线下选项。声明还表示，州议会还可以考虑向制造商征收附加费，以支付教育部分的费用，作为其责任的一部分。 非营利倡导组织BikeLA的执行董事伊莱·秋叶·考夫曼表示，他支持该动议的教育要求，但认为变革需要着眼于长期效果。 “在我看来，任何法律，无论多么公正或惩罚性，都无法取代教育项目的价值，”考夫曼说。 理想情况下，任何地方要求的项目都应以面对面的方式进行，让电动自行车骑手获得监
博伊尔高地仓库周边的社区一直饱受烟雾和异味的困扰。
未回应置评请求。 在周二的会议上，县监事会批准了一项动议，指示县公共卫生部与法律顾问合作，向监事会提供建议，以潜在加大对负有公共卫生违规责任的公司的处罚力度。 从7月开始，公共卫生部门因仓库火灾现场存在“不卫生和滋扰”状况，每天对Lineage处以$500的罚款。 “确保那些将我们的环境和公共卫生置于风险中的公司受到问责，这是公平的。”
“这些工具是可量化的，并有助于为这些恢复工具提供资金，”该措施的发起人、县监事会成员席尔达·索利斯表示。
该动议呼吁县政府官员考虑要求“位于敏感地点附近且具有高社区环境危害暴露风险的企业”向公共卫生部门提交社区健康与安全计划。
该动议还将启动一项小型企业中断基金，以帮助东洛杉矶未合并地区以及受未来紧急情况影响的企业。县监事会还批准使用县级企业中断基金中的资金（该基金于3月设立）来帮助受博伊尔高地火灾及其他紧急情况影响的企业，包括5月东洛杉矶的石油泄漏事件。县经济机会部主任凯利·洛比安科在会议上表示：“小型企业仍在面临收入损失，因为火灾的持续影响。”“如果你去过该地区，就会知道那里仍然弥漫着刺鼻的气味。随着热浪来袭，情况变得更糟。企业最初遭受了财产损失、临时关闭、员工影响，并且交通影响仍在持续。”
该措施还指示县区域规划主任及法律顾问确定县政府是否可以通过向“所有新建制造、回收、仓储及任何在洛杉矶县未合并地区运营、可能对小型企业经济活力造成负面影响的工业用地设施”收取费用，来为县级企业中断基金提供资金。
洛杉矶地区商会首席政策官卡洛斯·辛格在周二县监事会会议前提交的书面意见中表示，商会“支持该动议的核心救济条款”。但他表示，商会要求对动议进行修正，包括减少企业为遵守规定需填写的文书工作、确保要求范围不至过于宽泛，并确保动议不会对未参与仓库灾难的企业造成过重负担。
县监事会在投票通过该动议前未采纳所请求的修正案。
艾伦·J·沙本 洛杉矶时报
他表示，此类培训应提供实操性强的自行车安全与教育培训。此类培训不应交由机动车管理局或其他州级机构负责，而应通过像他所在的非营利组织及“所有人的街道”这样的机构进行，这些组织在电动自行车方面拥有经验，并倡导此类教育。
主要问题涉及电动助力车和电动摩托车，这些车辆通常在无驾驶执照或未注册的情况下非法行驶，考夫曼表示。法律往往错误地将合法电动自行车与这些非法车型混为一谈，他说，这影响了那些安全使用更可持续交通方式的人。他表示，监管需要更加细化，而不是允许危险车辆上路，并在事后对骑行者进行处罚。
“这是投资不足的问题，”考夫曼说。“这就像狂野的西部——抱着最好的希望，但做着最坏的打算。”
测试环球影城的无障碍设施
探索公园对残障游客的友好体验
作者：海莉·布兰森-波茨
我的父母从Oklahoma来南加州看望我的孩子们——他们唯一的外孙——的探访变得越来越困难。过去几年里，我的父亲是一名陆军退伍军人，有着和我一样冷幽默的性格，一直在与一种进行性神经系统疾病作斗争，这种疾病导致他的手臂、腿和颈部出现严重震颤。他还不到60岁。诊断结果却令人沮丧地难以确定。
尽管他承受着疼痛、疲惫，行走也越来越困难，但他和我母亲还是多次驾车来加州——乘坐皮卡车在Interstate 40上行驶超过20小时——因为他不喜欢在飞机上受到他人的注视，也因为我们这些固执的中西部人不会对横跨全国的公路旅行望而却步。
他最近开始使用轮椅。
电线杆、电梯与挫败感
今年春天，当我母亲不得不推着他绕着整个街区才能到达Southern California南湾一所中学的操场，观看我女儿的足球训练时，他默默地生着闷气，因为人行道被电线杆和“禁止停车”标志挡住了。
上个月，我们一家去托伦斯的德尔阿莫时尚中心，带孩子们观看《小黄人大眼萌怪》，途中因一组损坏的电梯而步履维艰。他的双腿疼了好几天。
当他说想带我们去环球影城时——
作者：鲁本·比韦斯
据家属及公司官员证实，一名23岁的加州女子是本周末爱达荷州双子瀑布市一家In-N-Out餐厅外枪击案中遇难的三人之一。
44,岁的萨布丽娜·加里贝在周一晚间向《洛杉矶时报》确认，她的女儿阿什莉·加里贝是In-N-Out的员工，在此次事件中遇难。她表示已向该汉堡连锁店提供了一份声明，将以她的名义发布，并拒绝进一步置评。
在众筹网站GoFundMe上，加里贝形容女儿是一个“拥有光芒四射的心灵”的非凡灵魂。
“阿什莉是一位深受爱戴的女儿、姐妹、姨妈和所有人的挚友，”她写道，“她给无数人留下了永恒的印记。”
作者：西默斯·博兹曼
一名洛杉矶男子周一被判处略超过三年联邦监禁，罪名是在去年美国移民和海关执法局突击搜查期间，于洛杉矶市中心的抗议活动中妨碍执法。当局表示。
来自林肯高地的23岁男子亚丘亚·毛里西奥·弗洛雷斯（Yachua Mauricio Flores）于4月下旬承认一项在民事骚乱期间妨碍、阻碍和干扰执法人员的罪名，美国司法部在新闻稿中表示。他被判处37个月监禁。
对弗洛雷斯的指控源于2025年6月8日的一场抗议活动。检方称，他“参与了”在101号高速公路主街立交桥上的“暴乱”。他与其他人向下方高速公路上的警员投掷石块、混凝土块、滑板车、路标、烟花和燃烧的碎片，当局表示。
此事件发生在国民警卫队被部署到洛杉矶的同一天。在特朗普政府激进的移民突击搜查行动中，抗议者与联邦特工之间发生了零星冲突。许多抗议活动保持和平，但在洛杉矶县也出现了一些暴力事件。在部分抗议活动中，特工使用了闪光弹和胡椒球，抗议者则投掷石块和瓶子。
当局表示，在6月8日的事件中，弗洛雷斯向一辆正在燃烧的加州公路巡警车辆倾倒了两瓶打火机油以加剧火势。检方称，他随后指示另一人如法炮制。
超级任天堂世界于2023,在好莱坞环球影城开幕，其中包括一项马里奥卡丁车游乐设施。
好莱坞环球影城
……为我儿子的生日去环球影城，我忐忑不安。他能行吗？ 事实证明，我的担心是多余的。
马里奥卡丁车、魔法与行动能力
我那痴迷马里奥的儿子自2023年超级任天堂世界开幕以来，一直央求去环球影城。他8岁生日时，与宠爱他的祖父母一同前往，这让他喜出望外。我父亲穿着一件自嘲残疾的T恤——戏仿新百伦运动品牌标志，上面写着“无平衡”——他开心地驾驶着电动轮椅在园区穿梭，孩子们争着坐在他腿上。
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阿什莉·加里贝（Ashley Garibay）通常在她居住的斯托克顿的一家In-N-Out工作，经常穿梭全美协助开设新店。家人在声明中表示，她在特温福尔斯遇害时正在执行这项任务。据公司称，特温福尔斯的门店于7月24日刚刚开业。
“阿什莉的离去让我们心碎且悲痛欲绝……她乐观开朗、聪明上进，从不让困难阻挡前行，”家人在声明中写道，“她的灿烂笑容和富有感染力的笑声能照亮整个房间。她是所有人的朋友，无论面临何种困境，总能帮助他人在黑暗中找到光明。”
声明称，In-N-Out是阿什莉的第一份工作，她曾梦想管理其中一家门店。另一名加州人——
作者的父亲和女儿在园区内莫酒馆前微笑合影。
……游乐设施，入口处的一名工作人员帮助停放我父亲的电动
周六枪击事件中一名受害者据报遇害。据《纽约时报》报道，遇害者名为克里斯托弗·克朗奇（Christopher Claunch）。
他的妹妹告诉该媒体，克朗奇在爱达荷州生活了约30年，但每次返回加州时总会在汉堡店停留。
根据KTLA的报道，克朗奇来自南加州，在圣克拉丽塔社区的峡谷乡村（Canyon Country）长大。
第三名遇害者的身份尚未公布。爱达荷州官员尚未公布遇害者姓名，因他们正在通知家属。
In-N-Out的所有者兼总裁琳西·斯奈德（Lynsi Snyder）表示，她对加里贝和其他遇害者的去世感到悲痛。
“In-N-Out将与遇害者家属一同哀悼，并为他们在这段痛苦时期祈祷，”斯奈德周日在Facebook声明中写道。“我并不陌生于失去，但这实在太过艰难，我的心也与所有当时在场的员工和顾客同在，他们经历了这场创伤性事件。”
特温福尔斯警局局长马修·希克斯（Matthew Hicks）周日表示，除遇害者外，另有24人受伤。一名下班州警员和一名武装市民向嫌疑枪手开火。
遇害者阿什莉·加里贝（ASHLEY Garibay）右侧照片中，她被形容为“深受爱戴的女儿、姐妹、姨妈和……最好的朋友”。
嫌疑枪手被确认为24岁的查德·威廉姆斯（Chad Williams），他在现场因自杀式枪伤身亡。
“我们赞扬他们的英勇行为，相信这帮助嫌疑人远离现场，避免了更多伤亡，”警方在Facebook声明中写道。
警方称嫌疑人单独行动，调查仍在进行中。两名伤者在现场接受治疗后出院，三人情况稳定，另有两人情况危急。
“我们的思念与受害者、他们的家人及所有受影响的人同在，”警方声明称。“我们理解这在社区中引发的恐惧、悲伤和担忧。”
在《哈利·波特》的魔法世界中，一名工作人员引导我们穿过霍格沃茨城堡，来到一个专用转换平台，让我父亲可以乘坐手动轮椅直接进入游乐设施车厢，并有充足时间入座。当我们飞越魁地奇比赛、躲避摄魂怪和打人柳时，他开心地大笑，双腿像其他人一样晃荡。
轮椅员工推着他来到队伍前端，递给他一把手动轮椅，并愉快地引导他排到队首，等待片刻后，他只需迈出几步即可登上设施。
弗兰肯斯坦、他的新娘和我父亲
在等孩子们化妆时——我儿子摆姿势让人画了一幅与“小黄人”怪兽搏斗的漫画肖像，女儿则在脸上画了一只粉色蝴蝶——一对扮成弗兰肯斯坦和新娘的演员走近我父母。
新娘入戏地摸着我母亲的长发，假装惊叹，弗兰肯斯坦则伸出巨大的绿色手掌与我父亲握手。当一名兴奋的少年插到我父亲前面时，弗兰肯斯坦一言不发，示意少年耐心等待，拍了拍我父亲的背，并摆好姿势合影。
父亲说，知道弗兰肯斯坦在支持他，感觉很好。
同样欣慰的是，知道这家主题公园支持残障游客。我们逗留了10小时。他玩遍了所有游乐设施，并说这是他所需的极度快乐的一天。
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对警员造成死亡或严重身体伤害，”司法部表示。 “暴力袭击执法人员将导致联邦监狱服刑，”美国首席助理检察官比尔·埃赛利（Bill Essayli）说。“那些煽动混乱并危及警员安全的人将被追究责任。今天的判决体现了我们保护那些宣誓维护社区安全的男女警员的决心。”
司法部此前曾有多起指控抗议者对联邦当局施暴的案件被驳回。上周，联邦检察官提交动议，要求撤销对劳工领袖戴维·韦尔塔（David Huerta）的指控。韦尔塔在南加州夏季首日移民突袭搜查行动中被捕，并被控妨碍联邦官员执法。韦尔塔表示，这证明他没有做错任何事。
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对鸟类的负面影响：夜间光照增多 和空气污染加剧。 研究人员发现这一结果令人 鼓舞，因为这些都是 人类在当地可以改变的 条件。 例如，减少 过度的 街道照明 确实有所帮助，尤其是在 需要低光照导航的物种栖息地。 离开家时关灯 对鸟类也有益。 “我现在正从窗户 向外看，可以看到 各种夜间光源 本可以更好地遮蔽，却只是为了 照亮植物。虽然夜间看起来很美， 但植物并不需要 夜间光照，”弗朗西斯说。 研究人员表示，人们能做的 任何减少火灾风险的事情 也能减少空气污染， 从而使鸟类受益。 空气和光污染 成为鸟类数量下降的 最强影响因素之一， 这一点并未让洛杉矶县 自然历史博物馆鸟类学副馆长 艾莉森·舒尔茨感到意外。 “多年来的许多观察 基本与此吻合，”她说。 “只是看到这些结果 通过真实数据和统计 得到证实，真的很欣慰。” 舒尔茨并未参与 这项研究。但博物馆 收藏的90670件鸟类标本（包括头骨） 被纳入了数据集。这是因为 眼睛较大的鸟类能够吸收 更多光线，从而使它们
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劳尔·罗阿（Raul Roa） 《洛杉矶时报》
每只成鸟的雏鸟数量变化 随时间变化，通过计算飞入网中的鸟类数量来追踪。鸟类的年龄、翼长及 其他健康指标也会在放飞前记录。每个脚环上刻有一系列 字母和数字，如果这只鸟再次被捕获，这些信息将告诉 下一位研究人员这只鸟曾去过哪里。 这些观测站的数据集涵盖了 北美常见的46个物种。 在研究中，加州州立理工大学（Cal Poly）的 研究人员使用了近600,000个数据点。 “在鸟类研究领域，我们很幸运， 因为有许多不同的大规模 数据集，通常由普通人 收集，”该研究的主要作者、 加州州立理工大学（Cal Poly）博士后研究员 萨拉·詹宁斯说。詹宁斯指出， 他们仅使用了能在网中捕获以进行 环志调查的物种。 想象一下那些你可能在公园或后院 见到的小型鸣禽。 研究人员将鸟类数量 变化的地区与11种条件进行了比较， 使用了空气质量、光照和气候等 数据集。舒尔茨表示，这项研究的优势 在于其大陆尺度和跨越数十年的数据。 然而，这种尺度的权衡是缺乏局部细节。 例如，研究将研究人员架设网具当天的 条件进行了年化处理。 “如果我们在7月4日之后的那天往外看， 空气看起来与今天大不相同， 或者如果附近发生了野火，”舒尔茨说。
舒尔茨还领导着一项 社区科学项目，研究当 野火席卷某一地区时， 鸟类行为可能发生的变化。凤凰计划 邀请来自西部各州的志愿者 每周观察所在地区的鸟类， 并通过EBird（一个流行的观鸟应用） 提交观察结果。她目前正在分析 去年火灾季的数据，并预计 很快会有结果。 “我真的很兴奋，想看看 在分析凤凰计划的结果和野火烟雾时， 这些是否与他们看到的更广泛趋势相符？” 她说。
根本无法与全国连锁店和不断变化的消费者行为相抗衡，后者更青睐塔吉特（Target）和科尔士（Kohl's）这样的折扣商店。
在这个一键购物和在Instagram上浏览橱窗的时代，很难想象这些实体百货商店在20世纪的洛杉矶所拥有的地位和影响力。它们的广告曾主导报纸版面，甚至在那里也能感受到一种等级制度。
中端连锁店如梅百货（May Co.）和百老汇百货（Broadway）会在新闻版面投放数页照片，展示其商品。而高端连锁店如罗宾逊（Robinsons）则被保留在特写版面，配以精美的手绘插图，画中美丽的女性和英俊的男性置身于壮丽的风景之中，这些画作本身就值得装裱。
这些百货商店最初以洛杉矶市中心的大型商场起家，乘坐有轨电车即可到达。但它们轻松适应了汽车和战后的郊区生活。每建成一个新的住宅区，它们就会成为购物中心的核心，成为郊区生活的“市中心”。
布洛克斯（Bullock's）或罗宾逊（Robinsons）的入驻，标志着一个社区的地位——你生活在一个高雅的地方。
我祖母的迪士尼乐园 我们所遗忘的是，它们不仅仅是购物的场所。我祖母所有的衣服都在低端的Fedco购买，通常是“半码”的涤纶衬衫，品牌名为“The Discriminating Woman”。而那些高档商店则是她的游乐园。
她带我们去位于装饰艺术杰作布洛克斯·威尔希尔（Bullock's Wilshire）顶层的华丽茶室，在那里我们共进午餐，惊叹于20世纪80年代末的洛杉矶，这里是女性仍戴着帽子和手套的唯一地方。
她还会在比佛利山的罗宾逊百货闲逛，寻找名人踪迹，可能并未意识到这座建筑背后的用料：来自秘鲁的石灰华、来自葡萄牙的玫瑰大理石、来自巴西的黑色花岗岩，以及来自马达加斯加的红木。
当这家分店于2006, 年关闭时，老员工们哀叹洛杉矶失去的不仅是一家昂贵的商店，更是一个独特的公共空间。“我曾做过女鞋，后来做男鞋和男装。现在我做拆除工作，”一位员工说道。
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多重关税推高了美国消费者的成本，并多次阻止政府干预加州选举。邦塔表示：“我们保护了用于维护社区安全、养活贫困家庭、确保孩子获得应有教育的资金。我们一直将案件诉至最高法院，捍卫宪法权利——并赢得了胜利。我们保护了选举，阻止了城市军事化。我们捍卫了将公共安全置于协助总统不人道移民议程之上的权利。”邦塔说。
与以往一样，白宫周二抨击邦塔的诉讼为不明智之举。 “加州总检察长非但没有吹嘘对特朗普政府提起无聊的诉讼，反而应该专注于解决本州的问题——比如《新闻垃圾》政府允许无数非法犯罪外国人逍遥法外、恐吓社区的问题，30,”白宫发言人阿比盖尔·杰克逊在给《时报》的声明中表示。
白宫此前曾表示，特朗普正“努力恢复美国的伟大”，并称如果邦塔不再阻挠总统，加州民众的处境将“得到极大改善”。
根据2025年特别会议通过的一项法案，邦塔的办公室每年需向州议会报告其与特朗普政府抗争的工作情况，该法案还为其提供了额外2500万美元（2500万美元）的诉讼资金。
其办公室周二向立法者提交了最新报告。 报告称，截至7月30日，该办公室已获得1920万美元（1920万美元）的特别会议拨款，这些资金“为诉讼提供了支持——但远不足以覆盖全部成本”。
比弗利山庄的罗宾逊-梅百货大楼于2014年被拆除。这家高端零售连锁店曾面向凯迪拉克车主群体。
我祖母去世的时间比罗宾逊-梅百货早几年。但每当我漫步在年轻时常去的商店时，总会不由自主地想起她。
几年前，我和两个朋友进入了威尔希尔大道上一座曾经是I. Magnin的空置建筑。那里曾是大理石、精美雕刻和优雅曲线的交响乐。
如今，它已被封板，黑色大理石外墙因涂鸦和疏于维护而褪色。不远处，布洛克斯威尔希尔百货已被西南法学院精心修复并保护。但上次我走进这处房产时，却被一名保安赶了出来。
和她那一代的许多人一样，我祖母将这些标志性品牌视为品味的象征，却从未考虑过这种排他性背后的阴暗面。
她如此喜爱的茶室在20世纪40年代曾是抗议和诉讼的对象，由加州总检察长起诉——
加州总检察长罗布·邦塔表示，自去年以来，他的办公室已对特朗普提起82起诉讼。
邦塔的办公室还在过去两个财政年度获得了定期拨款，用于资助此类诉讼，上一财年为1420万美元，本财年为2390万美元。该办公室的总预算约为14亿（约14.2亿美元）。
在当天上午与其他州领导人的新闻发布会上，邦塔表示，自特朗普上任以来，他的办公室已在“联邦问责工作”上总计花费近3000万美元，并称这一投资“已获得丰厚回报”，节省了数十亿美元。
州参议院临时议长莫妮克·利蒙（D-戈利塔）和州众议院议长罗伯特·里瓦斯（D-霍利斯特）与邦塔一同出席，表示赞同。
利蒙表示，她为与邦塔和州长加文·纽森合作建立“集体防线”对抗特朗普政府感到自豪，而里瓦斯则称向邦塔办公室提供的资金“可能是本届立法机构做出的最明智投资之一”。
这些黑人曾被拒绝提供服务。他们最终取得了胜利，得以加入我祖母的行列，沉浸在这些零售殿堂的逃避现实（和专制）中，这些殿堂坚称自己代表着洛杉矶的理想。
在帕萨迪纳的湖街大道上，你仍能体验到我祖母时代的百货商店。布洛克斯（现为梅西百货）是她的最爱之一：一个充满奇思妙想的空间，复古的装置和家具、老式电梯，以及随处可见的壁画和墙纸，仿佛能将你带回过去。
我祖母会把我们塞进车里，前往帕萨迪纳“看看另一半人的生活”。
每次梅西百货宣布新一轮关店时，我都会屏息等待，看401 S. Lake Ave.是否会出现在名单上。目前它还在坚持。
克里斯蒂娜·豪斯 《洛杉矶时报》
在82起诉讼中，有66起仍在进行中，报告显示。
尽管如此，邦塔表示，他的办公室已赢得45项裁决，为加州提供了针对特朗普政府行动的初步救济，并获得了21项最终有利裁决。
他说，在8起案件中，特朗普政府“在审判前就做出了让步”。
邦塔的办公室在针对特朗普政府的诉讼中也曾败诉，包括代表其他诉讼方，特别是在跨性别权利和特朗普重塑政府及联邦移民政策的行政权限等问题上。
然而，邦塔声称，在加州提起的案件中，其办公室已赢得83%的法院裁决，并称赞他的团队“夜以继日地为加州人民工作，熬了无数个通宵”才取得这些成果。
邦塔将在11月竞选连任，其竞选活动部分基于他愿意对抗——
布洛克斯威尔希尔百货这座装饰艺术杰作已被精心修复。
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特朗普——民意调查和投票结果显示，许多加州人希望他们的民选官员采取这样的立场。
泽维尔·贝塞拉（Xavier Becerra）是民主党加州州长候选人，也在传递类似的信息。在担任美国卫生与公众服务部部长之前，贝塞拉曾接替邦塔的职位，并对特朗普第一任政府提起诉讼超过120次，且多次胜诉。
邦塔表示，他期待贝塞拉在未来的斗争中成为“令人难以置信的伙伴”。
共和党人迈克尔·盖茨（Michael Gates）——正在竞选邦塔的对手，以及史蒂夫·希尔顿（Steve Hilton）——正在竞选贝塞拉的对手并获得特朗普的背书，均表示他们将与特朗普政府合作，确保满足加州人的需求，而不是事事对抗。
希尔顿曾表示：“我希望与政府合作，帮助加州人。”盖茨则称邦塔反对特朗普的竞选活动“脱离实际”。
邦塔的办公室对特朗普政府提起的许多诉讼，都是作为民主党总检察长多州联盟的一部分提交的。
随着近几十年来两党总统都在扩大行政权力，各州总检察长在反击时变得更加协作和诉讼化——在特朗普任期内尤其如此。
邦塔表示，特朗普将因其“对加州、加州人、我们的宪法和我们的民主的反复攻击”而被铭记，但加州将因反击而被铭记。
“这是艰难的时刻吗？100%。绝对是的，”邦塔说。“但我们不应无助，因为我们并非无助。”
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丹尼尔（杰克）·雅各布斯于1945年1月5日出生于伯班克的圣约瑟夫医院，并在圣费尔南多谷生活了二十三年，期间就读于圣母高中、谷学院和皮尔斯学院。除了在圣何塞和凤凰城生活的几年外，他的大部分人生都在加州的瓦伦西亚度过。
他的职业生涯与温室、苗圃和景观行业的园艺相关。家族企业雅各布斯兄弟纺织公司成立于1923年，是一家制造和分销公司，业务遍及全球。总部和制造工厂位于塞普尔韦达，在圣何塞设有设施，还有一家独立的公司——雅各布斯兄弟夏威夷有限公司，为夏威夷群岛提供服务。
杰克是一位热衷于高尔夫的球手，长期会员于瓦伦西亚乡村俱乐部。他的艺术和创造力体现在木工、雕刻以及为家人和朋友烹饪美食上。
他机智风趣，笑声爽朗，热爱幽默，即使以自己为代价也乐在其中。
杰克身后留下了前妻格里（两人保持着友谊）、儿子布赖恩（特里西娅）、孙辈凯蒂、艾莉森和杰克，以及女儿丹妮尔（本）和继孙女阿祖尔，还有两个侄子和侄女，即2014年去世的哥哥唐的孩子们。
安妮·库萨克 洛杉矶时报
蒂娜·阿佩莱斯
1955年7月14日 - 2026年7月31日
卡罗尔于7月31日在最亲近的家人陪伴下平静离世，此前她与癌症进行了平静而勇敢的斗争。她身后留下了深爱的丈夫史蒂夫、儿子乔纳森和安德鲁、儿媳莉齐、妹妹南希以及一个庞大的大家庭。她温暖的笑容、爽朗的笑声和机智的言谈让她成为身边人的快乐源泉。卡罗尔最大的快乐是环游世界、与儿子们共度时光、与史蒂夫在家中享受惬意的日子以及观看真实犯罪节目。作为一位深受爱戴的母亲、教师和志愿者，卡罗尔慷慨付出自己的时间，她的离去将让人无尽怀念。追思会将于8月6日星期四在山景纪念公园举行。
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沿海至低谷地区温暖潮湿：高空高压将持续控制天气至周末。沿海至谷地的气温将比平均水平高出几度，湿度保持较高，夜间温暖。更高的热浪将席卷内陆地区，火灾和高温风险至少持续至周六。
高 / 低温为整个区域的平均预测值。
洛杉矶盆地 谷地 海滩 山区 沙漠
82 / 67 94 / 66 77 / 67 84 / 53 110 / 85
94 / 66
温暖晴朗 潮湿 大部分晴朗 温暖晴朗 部分多云 周四 周五 周六 周日
大部分 86 / 68 大部分 88 / 69 86 / 70 87 / 71
南海岸空气质量管理区空气质量预测 空气质量
圣巴巴拉县
圣巴巴拉
文图拉县
文图拉
奥海
76 / 60 99 / 66
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74 / 64
奥克斯纳德
74 / 65
从康塞普申角至墨西哥
内陆水域：风向转为西风，风速10-15节。浪高2-4英尺。西向涌浪2英尺，周期5-6秒。南向涌浪2英尺，周期14秒。 冲浪区：洛杉矶和文图拉县海滩的离岸流风险为中等，其他地区风险较低。
县 浪高 周期 方向 水温
圣巴巴拉 1-3英尺 5秒 西 69 文图拉 2-4英尺 5秒 西 70 洛杉矶 2-4英尺 73 橙县 1-3英尺 14秒 西南 74 圣迭戈 1-3英尺 14秒 西南 75
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洛杉矶外港，单位为英尺。
今日 2:20 3.1 高 7:33 1.9 低 14:43 5.3 高 22:28 1.2 低 周四 4:41 2.8 高 8:17 2.4 低 15:49 5.5 高 23:58 0.6 低
敏感人群晒伤时间（分钟）
拉斯维加斯，10 洛杉矶，10 凤凰城，10 旧金山，25
周二 今日 周四 周二 今日 周四**
城市 最高 / 最低 降水量 最高 / 最低 最高 / 最低
赫斯佩里亚 102 / 68 -- 91 / 65 --
卡马里奥 78 / 65 96 / 64
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尔湾 78 / 65
埃斯孔迪多 87 / 65
阿纳海姆 89 67 86 67 87 70 阿瓦隆 / 卡塔利娜 74 62 75 60 79 63 贝克斯菲尔德 107 77 106 75 106 78 巴斯托 114 78 113 81 111 83 大熊湖 89 50 84 53 85 54 毕晓普 107 60 107 61 109 63 伯班克 91 65 90 66 92 67 卡马里奥 77 63 78 65 80 66 查茨沃斯 91 65 92 64 96 67 奇诺 98 63 96 64 98 67 康普顿 81 68 80 68 82 69 达纳角 78 62 01 76 61 77 65 死亡谷 121 95 126 98 126 98 德尔马 79 68 01 76 67 77 69 埃斯孔迪多 87 65 90 66 尤里卡 66 53 65 52 64 52 福尔布鲁克 84 64 81 63 83 65 弗雷斯诺 71 105 72 106 74 富勒顿 88 68 87 68 89 68 赫米特 101 62 101 65 103 65 赫斯佩里亚 101 66 102 68 100 70 亨廷顿比奇 79 67 78 65 77 67 伊迪尔怀尔德 96 66 104 67 103 67 尔湾 83 67 77 69
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传球与强力地面战 释放进攻潜力
作者：Ryan Kartje
在林肯·莱利担任主教练的四年间，南加大进攻一直稳居全美顶尖水平。无论你如何评价莱利的战术布置或整体管理能力，但在莱利任期内，仅有一支大学橄榄球队在对手调整后的进攻效率（FEI）上优于南加大（抱歉，是俄勒冈）。在莱利执教的四个赛季中，南加大仅有一次跌出该效率值全国前七。
上赛季，南加大进攻FEI排名全国第三。而2026赛季，进攻表现有望更上一层楼，理由有二。
第一条路径可能显而易见，无疑将成为所有南加大赛季前电视节目的焦点。莱利的成功之路始终离不开四分卫。杰登·马伊瓦（Jayden Maiava）具备成为核心的一切潜质。他在上个休赛期取得了长足进步，若能延续这一势头，本赛季有望跻身全国顶尖四分卫行列。
但马伊瓦在过去两个赛季中身边始终有经验丰富的接球手，其中一位刚在NFL选秀首轮被选中。他目前的头号接球手塔努克·海因斯（Tanook Hines）因伤缺席训练营开局，而其他接球手要么是新生，要么是转校生。海因斯的缺阵时间尚不明确，但任何时长都不理想。马伊瓦需在训练中迅速建立默契，并在比赛中随机应变。
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晴间多云 95 / 67 炎热 96 / 68 晴；炎热 97 / 69 晴间多云 95 / 69
潮湿 77 / 67 部分晴 78 / 67 潮湿 79 / 68 80 / 67
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洛杉矶县
西米谷 查茨沃斯 伯班克 蒙罗维亚
92 / 64 89 / 63
90 / 66 90 / 68
加州大学洛杉矶分校
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西湖村 伍德兰希尔斯
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圣莫尼卡
77 / 67 84 / 69 87 / 68
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长滩 纽波特比奇
82 / 68
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最高 / 最低 85 / 65 85 / 69 76 / 63 常年最高 / 最低 83 / 65 86 / 67 75 / 59 一年前最高 / 最低 85 / 61 82 / 64 70 / 57 历史最高 / 日期 94 / 1971 97 / 2009 85 / 1971 历史最低 / 日期 52 / 1912 59 / 2011 50 / 1951
安大略
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洛杉矶市中心 / 南加大 86 68 -- 82 67 86 68 洛杉矶国际机场 77 68 -- 77 67 77 68 拉古纳海滩 73 68 79 67 80 68 兰开斯特 102 75 106 75 103 76 长滩 82 68 82 68 83 69 马麦斯湖 88 48 90 50 91 52 米申维耶霍 83 68 81 70 蒙罗维亚 91 68 90 68 92 69 蒙特雷 69 56 70 54 威尔逊山 85 58 78 58 78 59 尼德尔斯 115 90 113 91 115 93 纽波特海滩 77 66 76 64 75 66 诺斯里奇 95 66 102 69 98 69 奥克兰 75 59 72 58 74 56 欧申赛德 84 65 82 64 83 68 奥哈伊 94 66 99 66 100 67 安大略 97 66 95 67 97 68 棕榈泉 112 86 110 85 111 89 帕萨迪纳 90 69 89 68 90 70 帕索罗布尔斯 96 50 96 57 102 59 雷丁 109 71 106 69 106 69 河滨 98 65 99 66 101 67 萨克拉门托 99 59 97 60 100 61 圣贝纳迪诺 101 66 99 68 103 71
跑锋韦蒙德·乔丹在上赛季受伤前平均每次冲跑推进6.55码，在9月的一场比赛中持球冲锋。
在这方面。但如果南加大本赛季真的要发挥其进攻潜力，我认为将是依靠冲跑游戏来实现。莱利因在俄克拉荷马培养出色的传球手而赢得了声誉，这是有原因的。他在执教俄克拉荷马的前三个赛季中，培养出了两位海斯曼奖得主和一位亚军，这三人现在都是NFL的先发四分卫。在传球方面，没有哪位大学教练的履历能与之相提并论。但人们常常忽略的是，莱利执教的俄克拉荷马球队还拥有一支出色的冲跑进攻，这支进攻在任何时候都必须被重视，反过来也使得传球进攻更具爆发力。
部分晴 85 / 54 阵雨 82 / 52 部分晴 82 / 51 阵雨 86 / 56
波莫纳 / 费尔普莱克斯 圣贝纳迪诺
94 / 65 95 / 67 99 / 68
惠蒂尔山
奇诺 河滨
圣安娜
80 / 69
97 / 64 83 / 68
拉古纳海滩 圣克莱门特
79 / 67 79 / 66
降水量 洛杉矶 富勒顿 文图拉*
24小时总量（截至下午2点） 0.00 0.00 本季总量（自10月1日起） 18.87 15.62 20.39 上赛季同期（10月1日至今） 7.96 3.93 6.50 常年同期（10月1日至今） 14.15 11.73 16.00 湿度（最高 / 最低） 87 / 63 86 / 49 89 / 65
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78 / 70
圣迭戈 76 70 78 70 81 旧金山 77 58 74 58 73 56 圣盖博 92 68 94 67 96 69 圣何塞 85 60 82 60 84 59 圣路易斯奥比斯波 76 54 78 55 81 56 圣安娜 78 70 80 69 81 70 圣巴巴拉 74 61 76 60 76 62 圣克拉丽塔 94 66 97 69 圣莫尼卡码头 76 66 77 67 圣保拉 87 64 91 65 92 65 圣罗莎 85 53 83 53 82 52 西米谷 88 63 89 63 91 66 塔霍谷 86 45 89 45 89 50 特梅库拉 97 60 97 64 101 64 千橡树 82 65 85 66 88 67 托伦斯 79 68 80 67 79 69 加州大学洛杉矶分校 79 65 79 67 凡奈斯 96 64 94 65 96 68 文图拉 71 62 74 64 74 65 惠蒂尔山 87 69 84 69 87 69 伍德兰山 99 62 106 66 102 65 赖特伍德 90 68 97 68 96 73 约巴林达 90 66 87 66 89 67 优胜美地谷 102 100 60 103 60
南加大的冲跑游戏自莱利接手以来并不差，绝非如此。实际上，从每次冲跑推进的预期得分增加来看，特洛伊人在莱利执教的四个赛季中，每年都跻身全美大学橄榄球冲跑效率前15名。他们只是没有像这种效率所暗示的那样频繁地冲跑。本赛季将是调整这一比例的绝佳时机。因为这是莱利在南加大执教以来最强大的后场阵容。在上赛季受伤前，韦蒙德·乔丹正被视为十大联盟乃至全国最优秀的跑锋之一。他平均每次冲跑推进6.55码，在全国符合条件的跑锋中排名第15位，但
育卡谷
118 / 84
河滨县
赫米特 棕榈泉
101 / 65 110 / 85
圣迭戈县
拉莫纳
91 / 60
波威
81 / 67
更棒的是，他平均每次接触后的推进码数（5.15）仅次于全国另一名跑锋。 假设他已从去年10月的脚踝伤势中完全康复，乔丹应能立即让所有人重新意识到，他注定会成为明星。而他的跑锋搭档可能也相差无几。 金·米勒直到上赛季第6周才开始获得稳定的持球机会，此前乔丹受伤下场。但他最终仍完成了26次10码或以上的冲跑。这意味着每6次持球就有一次突破。这简直疯狂，更何况米勒此前还是一名未被招募的球员。 这两名跑锋的组合，加上马伊瓦的腿部威胁，让南加大拥有了一支多样化的跑锋群，能够
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在任何时刻都能打出大 的进攻。更棒的是，在 大十联盟，这让莱利和 他的进攻能够延长驱动并 消耗对方防守。这在南加 州大学来到大十联盟后 一直缺失。但本赛季没 有理由不更多依赖跑攻。 再加上南加州大学在进攻 线上比莱利任期内任何时 候都更有深度和天赋，不 难想象一支能够在地面和 空中主宰对手的特洛伊进 攻。进攻从来不是莱利在 南加州大学的问题。但我 们也尚未看到莱利的进攻 发挥到极致。如果南加州 大学想要
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首次进入季后赛 在莱利的带领下，这一情况必须在本赛季改变。 非四分卫的季前MVP候选：韦蒙德·乔丹……伤愈复出后，我打赌乔丹会比以往更出色。 突破新秀：凯登·迪克森-怀亚特，大一外接手……在外接手位置上挑选顶尖新秀，但我认为迪克森-怀亚特可能成为南加大所需的大威胁。 最大问号：外接手 / 近端锋……人才济济，但几乎没有得到验证。不要惊讶如果有你意想不到的人在这个位置上脱颖而出。 大胆预测：大一近端锋马克·鲍曼将成为球队接球达阵次数最多的球员。
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离开突袭者队的工作后，“但戴维斯先生，你执教过大学橄榄球，”哈巴反驳道。“是的，”戴维斯说，“但那是在南加大，不是圣迭戈大学。”哈巴知道自己做出了正确的决定，从未怀疑过，即使他和防守协调员戴夫·阿道夫——另一位NFL的常客——不得不亲自卷起袖子，清理狭小肮脏的圣迭戈大学更衣室；即使他和助理教练们经常要制作数百份花生酱果酱三明治，为那些在NCAA一级FCS级别没有奖学金的球员提供深夜小吃；即使他在训练中拼尽全力——别忘了，他是主教练——以至于把自己弄得吐了满身。“他对我们要求很高，”前托雷罗斯队线卫马特·加巴德回忆道，“但他对自己也同样严格。”他们至今仍称之为哈巴山，一条俯瞰校园训练场的陡峭土路。
橄榄球队员们会在训练营期间艰难地爬上这座山，哈巴会与他们一起跑，并为他们加油鼓劲。让他感到困扰的是，没有人能跟上接球手尼克·加顿的步伐，后者在高中时还擅长足球和田径，能轻松地跑上坡道，仿佛不费吹灰之力。“就没有人能挑战一下这家伙吗？”哈巴说道。“最后，我说，‘我来。’”于是他做到了，与加顿并肩奔跑，直到自己吐得满身都是。但这位教练并没有停下脚步。“我得了第二名，”本周在闪电队训练后回忆起这段往事时，他仍然为自己的成就感到自豪。哈巴在圣迭戈大学执教了三个赛季，始于2004年，当时他离开球员生涯已有三年。接手这份工作时他40岁，仍然有重披战袍的念头。
他甚至考虑过打室内橄榄球，还动过为洛杉矶复仇者队效力的念头，但这个想法只持续了一两天。他真正想做的是教练，并在第一个赛季带上了父亲杰克·哈巴，负责指导跑卫。吉姆和杰克每天从科罗纳多的家中拼车前往校园，父子俩讨论战术、人员、家庭和生活。“我看到的是激情，”杰克·哈巴说，他执教高中和大学橄榄球长达六十年。“如果要用一个词来形容，那就是吉姆对这项运动的激情。他会像这是他最后一份工作那样去执教。”
[公羊队，B10版]
马修·斯塔福德 是现任NFL最有价值球员。 与斯塔福德一样，外接手 达文特·亚当斯可能也将 入选名人堂。 外接手普卡·纳库阿有望 成为NFL历史上同位置身价 最高的球员。 新任防守端锋迈尔斯·加勒特 曾两度当选NFL年度防守球员。 而三度当选年度防守球员的亚伦·唐纳德 可能即将复出。他们同样 有望入选名人堂。 因此，公羊队堪称 明星荟萃。 而麦克维则是最佳领航者。 “我爱这些家伙，”他说道。 “我想让他们感受到我们与他们同在。”
公羊队在九个赛季中七次闯入季后赛。 他们曾两度征战超级碗，并赢得一次冠军。 这一切都始于训练营。 以及麦克维。 “他曾与众多顶级球员共事，因此他知道需要付出什么，”柯尔说道， “也知道何时该放手……他会照顾我们。”
在公羊队运动医学与表现高级副总裁 雷吉·斯科特的指导下， 麦克维将洛约拉马利蒙特大学的训练营 设计为四天工作周期。 会议在训练前完成。两天训练后， 第三天进行慢跑训练， 第四天再进行一次训练，然后休息一天。
吉姆·哈巴夫在圣迭戈监督训练，一位前USD球员形容他的激情为“超乎寻常的强度”。
闪电队安全卫德温·詹姆斯 Jr.在托雷罗斯主场的训练营训练中做出手势。
这引起了球员们的共鸣。 “当我们看到哈巴夫教练带着那种超乎寻常的强度出现时，你会感到脊背发凉，”防守后卫菲尔·布雷奇说道。 “就像是，‘哇，这将完全不同。’但你已经做好了准备，对吧？ 我们来到这里只有一个原因，那就是我们热爱橄榄球。” 这一转变 来得突然。哈巴夫接手了一个历史上表现平庸的职业球队， 并在三个赛季中带队取得了29胜6负的战绩。2006赛季球队以11胜1,1负的成绩 赢得先锋联盟冠军，
公羊队球迷为球员们加油，也为一位不在场的球员——防守截锋亚伦·唐纳德——送上支持。
斯塔福德、 亚当斯和 加勒特等老将 都有计划中的休息日。 这一概念对亚当斯来说是全新的， 这位13年职业生涯的老将在上赛季加盟 公羊队之前从未经历过。 “过去有人告诉我，‘如果你不想参加训练，就告诉我们你的感受，’”亚当斯说道。 “我不是那样的人。我不会说我不想参加训练。你得告诉我
哈巴夫还入围了埃迪·罗宾逊奖决赛， 该奖项颁发给FCS联盟最佳教练。 他的一大成就之一是将阿道夫从退役中劝回。 这位防守专家当时已年近70岁， 曾在多支NFL球队（克利夫兰、堪萨斯城、突袭者和闪电队）担任转型教练， 但晚年主要照顾患病的妻子。 哈巴夫不断提出邀请，最终在为阿道夫夫妇 安排每日数小时的上门护理后，得到了肯定的答复。
“我不会说我不想参加训练。” 麦克维理解，亚当斯口中的“老派方式” ——即通过严苛训练让球员为赛季做好准备—— 可以在“不把我们累垮在场上”的前提下实现。 “当我们训练时，我们全力以赴，”他说道。 “我们这群人不会因为他会在赛程安排上 稍微照顾我们而有所懈怠。” 这包括一些
在这样的水平上执教，意味着为了热爱这项运动而做出牺牲。球队会议结束后，没有学校经费为饥肠辘辘的球员提供食物，因此哈博 和其他教练——基本上都是志愿者——每晚自掏腰包购买成桶的花生酱、大桶果冻和几十条面包。 “我们总是在寻找热量，”布雷奇说。“我记得在我的职业生涯中，有大约六个月的时间，我靠卡尔快餐店的99美分鸡肉三明治维生。我们总是开玩笑说，‘如果我们当时有那些大型项目拥有的训练餐桌，我们会变成什么样？’”
但那些球队有着不同的东西。他们有哈博。 “从教练的角度来看，我们每场比赛都有竞争优势，”跑卫J.T.罗根说，他后来在斯坦福和密歇根与哈博共事。“我会称他为我的足球父亲，但这样说可能低估了他对我的生活产生的影响。”
这不仅仅关乎哈博的足球智慧、坚定不移的强度和热情。他还有人脉。当他带领球队前往门洛学院比赛时，他请来了杰里·赖斯进行赛前演讲。史蒂夫·马里乌奇也对球队发表了讲话。他的姐夫、长期执教大学篮球的教练汤姆·克里恩也同样如此。
比如不在训练后安排会议，角卫特伦特·麦克达菲说，他在职业生涯的前40个NFL赛季中效力于堪萨斯城酋长队。 “他允许你给自己留出那一点心理空间，暂时卸下足球的负担，”麦克达菲在谈到麦克维时说。“不是说我们要离开去做自己的事，而是说……‘来恢复、进食、与队友相处。’我认为这在团队凝聚力方面非常棒，展现了他们在这里的行事方式。”
当托雷罗斯队需要为在代顿的比赛准备御寒衣物时，哈博说服了他曾效力过的闪电队（Chargers）捐赠了一些他们封存的装备。 “我们得到了带有闪电队标志的高领衫，”罗根回忆道。“我们有这些夹克，上面印着闪电队的大闪电标志，是深蓝色的，在浅蓝色流行之前的时代。”
对哈博来说，这份工作既是执教，也是“让我们做个交易”。当圣玛丽学院取消了橄榄球项目时，他不仅致电东湾的学校招募球员，还收集了原本会被闲置的装备。最终，他几乎买下了该项目的所有物品，从个人账户中开出了一张$10,000的支票。 “我得到了所有的训练裤、头盔、大腿护板，一切，”他说。他租了一辆U-Haul卡车，驱车前往莫拉加收集这些物品。就在哈博准备离开时，圣玛丽学院的教练又问了一个问题： “你需要球门柱吗？” 哈博立刻来了兴趣。 “他给我看了这些使用了一年的球门柱，”他说。“它们很漂亮。我把它们装上U-Haul卡车，也一并带走了。” 卡车装满后，正当他准备出发时，哈博接到了一个电话。是一位来自奥克兰的名不见经传的USD四分卫新秀。
沃利·斯卡利吉 美联社
现年40岁的麦克维，距离公羊队让他成为NFL现代史上最年轻主教练的那一天，已经过去了十年era。
格雷戈里·布尔 美联社 摄影
名叫乔什·约翰逊。他本应参加新生入学培训，但却无法从湾区前往圣迭戈。哈巴夫反应迅速。
“他说，‘我父母在工作，没法送我去，’”哈巴夫说道，“我就说，‘这样吧，你能在一小时内准备好吗？’他说可以，于是我开着U-Haul卡车去他家，一小时后接上了他。”
接下来的七个小时里，两人一起驱车前往USD。即使到现在，哈巴夫也明确表示他并未违反规定。
“这对乔什·约翰逊来说不是额外的福利，”他说，“我让他干活了。他卸了整辆卡车的货。”
在首次训练中，约翰逊从四分卫深度表的第七位跃升至第二位。他后来成为该校历史上最伟大的球员之一，带领球队连续两年赢得先锋联盟冠军。他创下了多项校史纪录，包括在2007赛季中传出42次达阵传球，仅有一次被截断。
约翰逊现效力于辛辛那提孟加拉虎队，曾为14支NFL球队效力，其中一些球队不止一次。这是联盟历史上四分卫效力球队最多的纪录。从圣迭戈一所小型非奖学金大学崛起，堪称一段传奇般的征程。
哈巴夫对此深有同感。
项目和训练营。麦克维在2017年安全卫约翰·约翰逊在新秀训练营中拉伤腹股沟后，取消了选秀后新秀训练营的实战训练。他每年都会取消或缩短季后训练营结束时的强制性迷你训练营。
去年夏天，斯塔福德因背部问题缺席了整个训练营，麦克维发现这位有18年职业经验的老将在训练营中的缺席并未对其表现造成负面影响。甚至可能有所提升。
麦克维在训练中的个人动作也随时间发生了变化。
在最初的几年里，这位前四分卫兼佐治亚州高中年度最佳球员经常在训练中与公羊队接球手一同跑位，或在贴身防守中与他们对位。
麦克维现在不再那么频繁地这样做，但仍会在训练中与球员互动。
上周，他在训练后的新闻发布会上出现时，手上有一道流血的伤口。
“我不知道自己是怎么弄的，”他说，“可能是太兴奋，撞到了谁的护肩什么的。”
毫无疑问，这是有意为之。且谨慎行事。
“他想让你完成比赛，想让你变得优秀，”柯尔说，“所以这也是我们对教练的全部要求。”
国家联盟
西区 胜 负 胜率 胜差 近10场 道奇队 69 44 .611 — 4胜6负
亚利桑那 60 53 .531 9 6胜4负
圣迭戈 58 55 .513 11 8胜2负
旧金山 48 65 .425 21 5胜5负
科罗拉多 45 68 .398 24 4胜6负
中区 胜 负 胜率 胜差 近10场 密尔沃基 69 43 .616 — 5胜5负
芝加哥 64 49 .566 5½ 6胜4负
匹兹堡 57 57 .500 13
圣路易斯 56 .496 13½
辛辛那提 53 58 .477 15½
东区 亚特兰大 67 45 .598 7胜3负
费城 60 .531 7½
迈阿密 55 .513 9½
华盛顿 59 .482 13 3胜7负
纽约 47 66 .416 20½
美国联盟
西区 休斯顿 56 .509 8胜2负
西雅图 .487 2½
德州 .487 2½ 3胜7负
奥克兰 67 .402 12 2胜8负
天使队 43 .384 14 2胜8负
中区 芝加哥 59 52 .532
克利夫兰 .504 3
明尼苏达 .496 4
底特律 54 .482 5½
堪萨斯城 46 .407 14
东区 坦帕湾 66 46 .589 7胜3负
纽约 63 50 .558 3½
波士顿 51 .541
巴尔的摩 54 12
多伦多 .469 13½
今日比赛 道奇队 vs 芝加哥（国联）............... 上午11:20 天使队 vs 巴尔的摩....................... 下午3:35 多伦多 休斯顿......................... 上午11:10 旧金山 德州........................... 上午11:35 坦帕湾 科罗拉多..................... 中午12:10 华盛顿 费城........................... 下午3:40 奥克兰 辛辛那提....................... 下午3:40 纽约（国联） 克利夫兰............... 下午3:40 圣路易斯 纽约（美联）............... 下午4:05 芝加哥（美联） 波士顿............... 下午4:10 迈阿密 亚特兰大..................... 下午4:15 匹兹堡 密尔沃基..................... 下午4:40 明尼苏达 堪萨斯城................... 下午4:40 底特律 西雅图......................... 下午6:40 圣迭戈 亚利桑那..................... 下午6:40
芝加哥小熊队 10，道奇队 5
道奇队 打数 得分 安打 打点 平均打击率 大谷 指定打击 4 1 2 0 .294 佩吉斯 中外野手 1 0 .270 埃德曼 二垒手 3 .300 弗里曼 一垒手 .309 贝茨 游击手 .226 塔克 右外野手 2 .240 T·埃尔南德斯 左外野手 .259 E·埃尔南德斯 三垒手 .313 b-卡尔 .248 阿方佐 捕手 .185 总计 34 5 10
300 101 000 — 5 10 222 013 00x —10 a-第6局替换阿尔坎塔拉上场保送。b-第9局替换E·埃尔南德斯上场触击出局。 保送——道奇队1：塔克1。芝加哥7：克劳-阿姆斯特朗1，铃木1，C·凯利1，霍纳1，斯旺森1，阿尔坎塔拉1，哈普1。三振出局——道奇队4：埃德曼2，弗里曼1，E·埃尔南德斯1。芝加哥10：克劳-阿姆斯特朗1，布雷格曼3，布施1，霍纳2，拉米雷斯2，哈普1。失误——塔克（3），克劳-阿姆斯特朗（5）。残垒——洛杉矶3，芝加哥6。二垒安打——布雷格曼（22）。本垒打——埃德曼（3），对博伊德；T·埃尔南德斯（11），对博伊德；铃木（19），对罗布莱斯基；阿尔坎塔拉（1），对罗布莱斯基；C·凯利（7），对罗布莱斯基；布施（14），对罗布莱斯基。打点——埃德曼3（21），T·埃尔南德斯（41），铃木2（63），阿尔坎塔拉2（5），C·凯利3（40），布施3（63）。盗垒——斯旺森（16）。盗垒失败——斯旺森（1）。得分位置残垒——道奇队1（大谷）；芝加哥4（克劳-阿姆斯特朗，斯旺森，霍纳2）。得分圈机会——道奇队2打4；芝加哥2打6。双杀打——T·埃尔南德斯。双杀——芝加哥1（拉米雷斯，霍纳，布施）。 投球局数 安打 失分 自责分 保送 三振 投球数 防御率 罗布莱斯基，败，11胜3负..........4 1 / 3 7 7 91 3.31 恩里克斯......................1 30 3.27 斯科特 .......................2 / 3 2.38 J·埃尔南德斯....................2 28 7.32 投球局数 失分 自责分 保送 三振 投球数 防御率 博伊德，胜，7胜1负 ................6 2 / 3 9 5 92 3.59 桑顿 .....................1 1 / 3 22 2.86 伍德福德.......................1 7.18 继承跑垒者得分——斯科特3-3。裁判——克里斯·西格尔，拉兹·迪亚兹，埃里希·巴库斯，布莱恩·奥诺拉。用时——2:40。售出门票——39,384（41,363）。
匹兹堡 4，密尔沃基 3
匹兹堡 AB R H BI Avg. Mangum cf 5 0 1 1 .302 Lowe 2b 5 1 1 0 .254 Reynolds lf 5 1 2 0 .270 Valdez rf 1 1 0 0 .260 Horwitz dh 4 0 1 3 .276 Gonzales 3b 4 0 0 0 .309 Triolo 3b 0 0 0 0 .244 Rodríguez 1b 4 1 3 0 .266 Gonzalez ss 4 0 0 0 .234 Davis c 3 0 0 0 .173 Totals 35 4 8 4
匹兹堡 003 100 000 —4 8 1 密尔沃基 000 012 000 —3 6 1 a-在第6局被Hamilton三振出局。 保送—匹兹堡 4：Valdez 3，Davis 1。密尔沃基 5：Turang 1，Chourio 2，Bauers 1，Vaughn 1。三振—匹兹堡 13：Mangum 2，Lowe 2，Reynolds 1，Valdez 1，Horwitz 2，Gonzales 2，Rodríguez 1，Gonzalez 1，Davis 1。密尔沃基 12：Turang 2，Chourio 2，Yelich 1，Contreras 2，Bauers 1，Vaughn 2，Pratt 2。 失误—Valdez (1)，Pratt (2)。留垒—匹兹堡 8，密尔沃基 8。二垒安打—Horwitz (12)。打点—Horwitz 3 (36)，Mangum (24)，Vaughn (29)。盗垒—Rodríguez (6)。 盗垒失败—Rodríguez (1)。 牺牲触击—Turang。 跑者在得分位置留垒—匹兹堡 5（Horwitz、Mangum、Davis、Gonzales、Reynolds）；密尔沃基 3（Contreras、Turang、Pratt）。得分圈安打—匹兹堡 2 for 10；密尔沃基 2 for 6。跑者推进—Gonzalez。双杀—Yelich。双杀—匹兹堡 1（Rodríguez）。 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Chandler, W, 4-8............5 2⁄3 4 3 2 4 5 96 4.49 Soto, H, 8....................1 1⁄3 1 0 0 1 3 35 3.59 Doval, H, 5 ....................1 0 0 0 0 1 9 4.54 Montgomery, S, 3-5 ..........1 1 0 0 0 3 18 3.72 密尔沃基 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sproat, L, 3-7 .................3 5 4 4 2 4 64 5.27 Stallings........................3 2 0 0 1 4 43 0.00 Ashby...........................2 1 0 0 1 3 38 3.73 Patrick..........................1 0 0 0 0 2 13 3.46 继承跑者得分—Soto 1-0，Stallings 1-1。触身球—Soto（Mitchell）。 暴投—Sproat（3）。裁判—John Libka、James Hoye、D.J. Reyburn、Sean Barber。 用时—2:40。售票—30,684（41,700）。
多伦多 010 200 000 —3 7 0 休斯顿 000 001 000 —1 10 1 a-在第7局被Trammell三振出局。 保送—休斯顿 5：Peña 1，Alvarez 2，Paredes 1，Varsho 1。 三振—多伦多 7：Guerrero 2，Okamoto 1，Springer 2，Kirk 1，Sánchez 1。休斯顿 10：Peña 1，Alvarez 1，Paredes 1，Varsho 1，Walker 1，Trammell 1，Dezenzo 1，Diaz 2，C.Smith 1。失误—Trammell（2）。留垒—多伦多 3，休斯顿 13。 二垒安打—Straw（9）。全垒打—Kirk（4），对阵 Javier。打点—Kirk（15），Sánchez（30），Clement（36），Peña（37）。盗垒—Straw（7）。牺牲飞球—Clement。跑者在得分位置留垒—多伦多 2（Giménez、Okamoto）；休斯顿 5（Altuve、Peña、Walker、Paredes 2）。得分圈安打—多伦多 1 for 8；休斯顿 1 for 5。跑者推进—Lukes 2。双杀—。双杀—多伦多 1（Giménez、Clement、Guerrero）；休斯顿 1（、Diaz、）。 多伦多 Bieber, W, 3-2...............5 2⁄3 9 1 1 2 6 87 5.11 Fisher, H, 10 ..................1 1 0 0 2 0 19 4.00 Little, H, 1...................1 1⁄3 0 0 0 1 4 21 12.00 Rogers, S, 3-6.................1 0 0 0 0 0 12 1.62 休斯顿 Javier, L, 1-2 ..................6 7 3 3 0 2 85 6.59 Imai.............................3 0 0 0 0 5 34 5.55 继承跑者得分—Fisher 2-0，Little 1-0。故意保送—Fisher（Alvarez）。 裁判—Emil Jimenez、Gabe Morales、Doug Eddings、Mike Muchlinski。 用时—2:28。售票—22,789（41,000）。 亚利桑那 5，圣迭戈 1
多伦多 3，休斯顿 1
圣迭戈 AB R H BI Avg. Tatis rf 4 0 0 0 .280 Cronenworth 2b 4 0 0 0 .210 Machado dh 4 0 0 0 .208 France 1b 3 1 0 0 .294 Merrill cf 4 0 1 0 .237 Rengifo lf 4 0 1 0 .237 Campusano c 3 0 2 0 .314 Bogaerts ss 3 0 1 0 .221 Song 3b 3 0 1 0 .208 Totals 32 1 6 0
圣迭戈 000 000 100 —1 6 1 亚利桑那 000 300 02x —5 9 1 a-在第7局代替开普勒的替补击球员。 保送——圣迭戈 1: France 1。亚利桑那 5: Perdomo 1, Kepler 1, Marte 2, Arenado 1。三振——圣迭戈 5: Tatis 1, Cronenworth 1, Machado 1, France 1, Bogaerts 1。亚利桑那 7: Carroll 2, Perdomo 1, Kepler 1, Arenado 1, McCann 1, Waldschmidt 1。失误——King (1), Arenado (5)。残垒——圣迭戈 5, 亚利桑那 8。 二垒安打——Campusano (9), McCann (5)。本垒打——Tawa (5), off King。打点——Tawa 3 (24), McCann (19), Barrosa (11)。牺牲打——Barrosa。救援——Del Castillo。得分位置上的跑垒员——圣迭戈 2 (Bogaerts 2); 亚利桑那 3 (Carroll, Arenado, Waldschmidt)。RISP——圣迭戈 1 for 3; 亚利桑那 3 for 7。双杀——Song, Kepler。 双杀守备——圣迭戈 1 (Cronenworth, Bogaerts, France); 亚利桑那 1 (Marte, Perdomo, Tawa)。 圣迭戈 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA King, L, 6-8....................5 5 3 3 4 5 104 3.45 Matsui........................1 1⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 22 2.30 Estrada ........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 7 3.80 Peralta .........................1 3 2 2 0 0 25 3.47 亚利桑那 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Pfaadt, W, 6-1...............6 2⁄3 5 1 0 1 3 90 3.66 Morillo, H, 14 ...............1 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 18 2.54 Garcia ..........................1 0 0 0 0 0 12 2.03 继承跑垒员得分——Matsui 1-0, Estrada 1-0, Morillo 2-0。ABS 挑战——Pfaadt (Ball-Confirmed); King (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Matsui (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Marte (Strike-Confirmed); Merrill (Strike-Confirmed)。裁判——Ramon De Jesus, Paul Clemons, James Jean, Quinn Wolcott。用时——2:33。售出门票——22,008 (48,359)。
芝加哥 AB R H BI Avg. Crw-Amstng cf 4 2 1 0 .282 Suzuki rf 4 2 1 2 .273 Bregman dh 5 1 1 0 .246℃.Kelly c 4 1 1 3 .260 Busch 1b 4 1 2 3 .243 Hoerner 2b 3 0 0 0 .256 Ramirez 3b 4 0 1 0 .307 Swanson ss 3 1 2 0 .214 Alcantara lf 1 1 1 2 .238 a-Happ lf 1 1 0 0 .215 Totals 33 10 10 10
密尔沃基 AB R H BI Avg. Turang 2b 3 0 0 0 .269 Chourio lf 3 1 0 0 .274 Yelich dh 4 0 0 0 .234 Contreras c 4 0 0 0 .268 Bauers rf 3 2 1 0 .270 Vaughn 1b 3 0 1 1 .299 Mitchell cf 3 0 0 0 .262 Hamilton 3b 2 0 1 0 .238 a-Pratt ss 2 0 0 0 .286 Ortiz ss-3b 4 0 3 1 .241 Totals 31 3 6 2
Carroll rf 5 0 0 0 .244 Perdomo ss 3 0 2 0 .242 Kepler lf 2 0 0 0 .224 a-Vargas 1b 1 0 0 0 .272 Marte 2b 2 1 0 0 .249 Arenado 3b 3 1 1 0 .244 Del Castillo dh 3 1 1 0 .199 Tawa 1b-lf 4 2 3 3 .224 McCann c 4 0 2 1 .319 Waldschmidt cf 3 0 0 0 .286 Barrosa cf 0 0 0 1 .187 Totals 30 5 9 5
大卫·班克斯 美联社 沃布勒斯基客场表现持续低迷
大谷翔平（右）在第二局结束时被小熊队一垒手迈克尔·布施以夹杀出局。
[道奇队，见B10版]
“本系列赛我们需要打得更好。虽然不知道结果如何， 但我们会更加紧迫地比赛。” 道奇队（69-44）基本上按照这一预言开局。面对左投手 马修·博伊德，大谷翔平和安迪·佩吉斯先后击出一垒安打， 汤米·埃德曼随即击出一记左外野三分本垒打。 随后博伊德稳住阵脚。他连续三次让对方打出飞球出局—— 小熊队球迷热情地嘘着凯尔·塔克，后者在芝加哥效力一个赛季后成为自由球员， 原本就不指望他会续约，当他击出右外野飞球出局时。 道奇队左投手全明星贾斯汀·沃布勒斯基表现挣扎。连续第二场先发， 他被击出四支本垒打。 “看起来他们就是——”
周一比赛第三局，球迷围拢在巨人队李政厚击出的本垒打球周围。李政厚在第八局再次击出本垒打，帮助巨人队以5-1击败游骑兵队。
坦帕湾 13，科罗拉多 9
坦帕湾 Díaz dh 4 0 0 1 .298 Aranda 1b 5 2 4 2 .286 Caminero 3b 5 3 2 3 .283 Mullins cf 4 2 2 1 .204 Mesa rf 5 0 0 0 .203 Simpson lf 4 1 2 2 .298 Palacios 2b 4 2 2 2 .229 Piper c 4 1 1 0 .250 Walls ss 5 2 2 2 .215 Totals 40 13 15 13
坦帕湾 2 4 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 —13 15 0 科罗拉多 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 4 — 9 15 2
四坏球——坦帕湾 3：马林斯 1，帕拉西奥斯 1，派珀 1。三振——坦帕湾 3：迪亚斯 1，辛普森 1，帕拉西奥斯 1。科罗拉多 9：卡罗斯 1，卡里格 2，古德曼 3，莫尼亚克 1，卡斯特罗 1，约翰斯顿 1。失误——古德曼（10），托瓦尔（9）。残垒——坦帕湾 5，科罗拉多 7。二垒安打——阿兰达（19），马林斯（8），约翰斯顿（25），麦卡锡（23），卡里格（11）。三垒安打——卡斯特罗（1），莫尼亚克（4）。本垒打——卡米内罗（31），对阵洛伦岑；卡米内罗（32），对阵戈登；帕拉西奥斯（5），对阵戈登；托瓦尔（9），对阵西摩；莫尼亚克（18），对阵格罗夫。打点——卡米内罗 3（69），沃尔斯 2（23），迪亚斯（64），阿兰达 2（67），辛普森 2（22），马林斯（35），帕拉西奥斯 2（36），托瓦尔（36），卡罗斯 2（41），麦卡锡 2（64），莫尼亚克 2（49），卡里格（28），古德曼（66）。 盗垒——马林斯（17），辛普森（28）。牺牲打——迪亚斯，辛普森，麦卡锡，古德曼，莫尼亚克。得分位置残垒——坦帕湾 3（卡米内罗，帕拉西奥斯，沃尔斯）；科罗拉多 3（弗里曼，卡里格，约翰斯顿）。得分机会——坦帕湾 6 打 14；科罗拉多 4 打 10。跑垒推进——梅萨 2，迪亚斯。双杀——卡米内罗。 双杀——科罗拉多 1（托瓦尔，卡斯特罗，约翰斯顿）。
坦帕湾 投手 / 局数 / 被安打 / 失分 / 自责分 / 四坏球 / 三振 / 投球数 / 防御率 :----------------- / :--------- / :----- / :--- / :----- / :--- / :----- 西摩，W，8-3..............6 / 7 / 2 / 0 / 9 / 90 / 4.27 格罗夫 / 2 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 0 / 28 / 3.60 莱古米纳 / 2⁄3 / 4 / 0 / 23 / 4.47 凯利 / 1⁄3 / 0 / 0. / 0 / 1 / 2.12
科罗拉多 投手 / 局数 / 被安打 / 失分 / 自责分 / 四坏球 / 三振 / 投球数 / 防御率 :----------------- / :--------- / :----- / :--- / :----- / :--- / :----- 洛伦岑，L，3-10.............3 / 7 / 3 / 0 / 75 / 6.94 戈登 / 6 / 8 / 6 / 4 / 0 / 3 / 58 / 5.91
接替投手得分（Inherited runners-scored）——凯利 1-0。触身球——莱古米纳（卡罗斯）。捕逸（PB）——派珀（1）。裁判——亚历克斯·麦凯，艾伦·波特，罗伯托·奥尔蒂斯，吉姆·沃尔夫。用时——2:38.。售出门票——19,598（50,144）。
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科罗拉多 AB R H BI Avg. 麦卡锡 lf 4 1 1 2 .289 卡罗斯 3b 4 1 2 2 .271 卡里格 cf 5 1 2 1 .308 古德曼 c 4 0 0 1 .256 莫尼亚克 dh 4 1 2 2 .277 卡斯特罗 2b 5 0 2 0 .265 弗里曼 rf 4 1 1 0 .251 拉姆菲尔德 1 0 0 0 .296 约翰斯顿 1b 4 1 1 0 .283 托瓦尔 ss 4 3 4 1 .202 总计 39 9 15 9
“一切都很不顺，”罗伯茨说道。“有些球他投得还算不错，但对方还是打出了好球，当他投出好球时，他们又破坏了。而当他出现失误时，球似乎就直接飞出了球场。所以我们必须深入分析。我知道他已经做好了准备，也在尽力而为，但很难防住这些本垒打。”
当被问及是否怀疑沃布尔斯基暴露了投球意图时，罗伯茨表示球队会调查这一点。
前三个本垒打都出现在有人在垒上的情况下，加速了失分。而且这些本垒打来自小熊队阵容的不同位置。第一局，二号击球手铃木清打出一记快球，将球击入看台，得到两分。接下来的一局，九号击球手凯文·阿尔坎塔拉击出两分本垒打，帮助小熊队（64-49）取得领先。第三局，四号击球手卡森
旧金山 5，德克萨斯 1
旧金山 打数 上垒 得分 安打 打点 平均打击率 弗曼 指定打击 4 0 0 0 .000 李 右外野 4 2 3 3 .306 阿达梅斯 游击 4 0 0 0 .222 德弗斯 一垒 4 0 0 0 .248 苏萨克 捕手 3 1 0 0 .258 吉尔伯特 中外野 4 1 1 0 .239 巴萨贝 二垒 3 0 1 1 .333 麦克雷 左外野 2 1 0 0 .130 科斯 三垒 4 0 1 0 .174 总计 32 5 6 4
旧金山 021 000 011 —5 6 0 德克萨斯 000 000 001 —1 7 5 四坏球—旧金山 5：弗曼 1，阿达梅斯 1，苏萨克 1，麦克雷 2。德克萨斯 3：兰福德 1，西格 1，迪亚兹 1。三振—旧金山 6：弗曼 1，李 1，阿达梅斯 1，德弗斯 1，科斯 2。德克萨斯 10：佩德森 2，兰福德 2，西格 1，尼莫 1，卡特 1，伯格 1，洛佩兹 2。失误—杜兰（4），尼莫（4），温斯 2（3），西格（5）。残垒—旧金山 7，德克萨斯 8。二垒打—杜兰（20）。本垒打—李（7），对阵匡特里尔；李（8），对阵格雷；杜兰（13），对阵贝克。打点—巴萨贝（6），李 3（43），杜兰（59）。盗垒—兰福德（8）。牺牲打—巴萨贝，李。得分位有跑者—旧金山 4（吉尔伯特，阿达梅斯 2，弗曼）；德克萨斯 4（洛佩兹，卡特，佩德森，尼莫）。得分圈机会—旧金山 1 打 6；德克萨斯 0 打 7。跑者推进—奥苏纳。双杀—考利。双重杀—旧金山 1（阿达梅斯，巴萨贝，德弗斯）。 投球回合 安打 失分 自责分 四坏 三振 投球数 防御率 韦布，胜 7-7 .................6 5 0 1 8 96 3.74 K.温，救援 12.................2⁄3 1 10 3.03 亨特格斯，救援 7 ...............11⁄3 20 2.52 贝克............................1⁄3 17 6.92 桑马丁 .....................2⁄3 4 6.75 德克萨斯 投球回合 安打 失分 自责分 四坏 三振 投球数 防御率 匡特里尔，败 4-4...............6 4 3 87 3.62 皮普尔斯.........................1 27 2.19 格雷.............................1 12 3.53 金厄姆........................1 2 22 9.00 接替投手得分—亨特格斯 1-0，桑马丁 1-0。裁判—丹·伊阿索格纳，阿德里安·约翰逊，卢·克鲁帕，亚当·贝克。用时—2:51。售出门票—23,736（40,000）。
打数 上垒 得分 安打 打点 平均打击率 佩德森 指定打击 4 0 1 0 .253 兰福德 左外野 3 0 0 0 .268 西格 游击 3 0 1 0 .190 尼莫 右外野 4 0 0 0 .267 卡特 中外野 4 0 0 0 .204 伯格 一垒 4 0 0 0 .235 杜兰 三垒 4 1 4 1 .274 温斯 捕手 2 0 1 0 .101 奥苏纳 1 0 0 0 .257 迪亚兹 捕手 0 0 0 0 .246 洛佩兹 二垒 3 0 0 0 .277 考利 1 0 0 0 .213 总计 33 1 7 1
费城 6，华盛顿 3
华盛顿 伍德 右外野 4 0 1 0 .265 克鲁斯 右外野 0 0 0 0 .226 奥尔蒂斯 一垒 3 1 1 1 .400 查帕罗 一垒 1 0 0 0 .217 特纳 指定打击 3 0 0 0 .240 艾布拉姆斯 游击 4 0 0 0 .284 鲁伊兹 捕手 4 1 2 0 .265 莱尔 左外野 4 1 1 2 .248 努涅斯 二垒 4 0 0 0 .237 维瓦斯 三垒 1 0 0 0 .240 豪斯 三垒 1 0 0 0 .230 扬 中外野 3 0 1 0 .235 32 3 6 3
费城 特纳 游击 4 0 0 0 .248 施瓦伯 指定打击 2 0 0 0 .246 克劳福德 指定打击 0 1 0 0 .261 哈珀 一垒 4 1 1 2 .255 博姆 三垒 4 0 1 0 .226 德拉·克鲁兹 右外野 1 1 0 0 .429 斯托特 二垒 3 1 1 0 .253 索萨 左外野 2 1 1 0 .211 马什 左外野 1 0 0 0 .279 希尔 中外野 3 1 1 4 .242 斯塔布斯 捕手 3 0 0 0 .147 27 6 5 6
华盛顿 120 000 000 —3 6 0 费城 000 000 42x —6 5 1 保送——华盛顿 3：特纳 1，维瓦斯 1，扬 1。费城 5：施瓦伯 2，德拉克鲁兹 1，斯托特 1，索萨 1。三振——华盛顿 10：伍德 1，查帕罗 1，艾布拉姆斯 3，鲁伊斯 1，努涅斯 2，扬 2。费城 6：特纳 1，施瓦伯 2，哈珀 1，索萨 1，斯塔布斯 1。失误——巴克胡斯（1）。残垒——华盛顿 6，费城 4。本垒打——奥尔蒂斯（1），对诺拉；莱尔（14），对诺拉；希尔（9），科斯格罗夫；哈珀（24），比特。打点——奥尔蒂斯 1（1），莱尔 2（56），希尔 4（21），哈珀 2（68）。盗垒——艾布拉姆斯（20）。得分位有跑者——华盛顿 5（扬，鲁伊斯 2，查帕罗 2）；费城 0。得分圈打击——华盛顿 0 打 6；费城 1 打 2。跑者推进——伍德。双杀——伍德，希尔，德拉克鲁兹。双杀守备——华盛顿 2（维瓦斯，努涅斯，奥尔蒂斯；艾布拉姆斯，努涅斯，奥尔蒂斯）；费城 1（斯托特，特纳，哈珀）。
华盛顿 投球局数 被安打 失分 自责分 保送 三振 投球数 防御率 阿尔瓦雷斯........................61⁄3 3 2 2 3 5 81 3.94 科斯格罗夫，L, 0-1, BS, 1-2....2⁄3 1 14 3.52 比特..........................1⁄3 0 8 4.09 伊恩............................2⁄3 13 1.80 费城 投球局数 被安打 失分 自责分 保送 三振 投球数 防御率 诺拉 ............................6 6 97 5.55 巴克胡斯，W, 2-1 ..............1 20 4.95 克金，H, 12 ..............1 21 3.35 杜兰，S, 25-27...............1 15 1.93 接替跑者得分——科斯格罗夫 2....2。触身球——阿尔瓦雷斯（德拉克鲁兹），伊恩（德拉克鲁兹），杜兰（豪斯）。U——曼尼·冈萨雷斯，汤姆·汉纳汉，罗恩·库尔帕，斯科特·巴里。用时——2:38。售出门票——41,115（42,901）。
5月10日对阵亚特兰大勇士队。 “总体来说，今天投球表现显然不够好，”沃布尔斯基说。“最近这两场比赛让我相当沮丧。所以还是继续努力，提高自己，希望能回来打出一波连胜，有一个不错的零失分纪录。”
然而，小熊队在第六局的三分反击打消了可能的反攻念头。埃德加多·恩里克斯在完成上一局最后两个出局后，本局先被安打，又连续送出三个保送。坦纳·斯科特接替他上场，送出满垒保送给凯利，并被布施击出一记两分打。
圣路易斯 13，纽约洋基 7
圣路易斯 打数 得分 安打 打点 打击率 韦瑟霍尔特 二垒 3 2 1 0 .249 沃克 右外野 5 1 2 0 .285 伯利森 一垒 5 3 3 6 .288 埃雷拉 指定打击 3 1 0 0 .240 托雷斯 左外野 3 0 1 0 .244 乔丹 三垒 2 1 1 0 .244 温恩 游击 4 1 0 0 .239 丘奇 中外野 3 2 2 4 .232 费尔明 三垒-左外野 5 1 2 1 .245 克鲁克斯 捕手 4 1 1 2 .174 总计 37 13 13 13
圣路易斯 211 200 070 —13 13 0 纽约 000 030 400 — 7 10 0 保送——圣路易斯 7：韦瑟霍尔特 2，埃雷拉 2，温恩 1，丘奇 2。纽约 1：卡巴列罗 1。三振——圣路易斯 11：沃克 2，伯利森 1，托雷斯 1，温恩 3，费尔明 2，克鲁克斯 2。纽约 9：格里沙姆 1，琼斯 2，多明格斯 2，麦克马洪 1，卡巴列罗 2，韦尔斯 1。残垒——圣路易斯 4，纽约 3。二垒安打——费尔明（10），格里沙姆（15）。三垒安打——乔丹（3）。本垒打——伯利森（16），施利特勒；伯利森（17），希尔；丘奇（9），奇维利；克鲁克斯（4），奇维利；伯利森（18），奇维利；韦尔斯（8），麦格里维；格里沙姆（12），布鲁尔；麦克马洪（10），斯塔内克；卡巴列罗（12），斯塔内克；加西亚（24），索里亚诺。打点——伯利森 6（77），费尔明（24），丘奇 4（35），克鲁克斯 2（11），韦尔斯 2（16），格里沙姆（43），麦克马洪（27），卡巴列罗（41），加西亚 2（78）。盗垒——埃雷拉（7），多明格斯（7）。盗垒失败——丘奇（4），多明格斯（1）。得分位有跑者——圣路易斯 1
(Burleson)；纽约 1（Rice）。得分权上垒——圣路易斯 2 次 8 打数 2.；纽约 1 次 4 打数 4.。双杀打——Winn、Burleson。双杀——纽约 2。圣路易斯 投手局数安打失分自责分四坏球三振用球数防守率 McGreevy.....................4 1⁄3 4 2 2 1 5 91 3.59 Bruihl.........................1 2⁄3 3 2 1 1 0 0 24 3.64 Stanek, H, 19.................1.................1⁄3 3 3 3 0 1 11 4.74 Soriano, BS, 2-8..............2..............2⁄3 3 1 1 1 0 1 18 3.62 Graceffo, W, 7-1 ..............1 ..............2 0 0 0 0 2 24 3.04 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Schlittler .......................3 4 4 4 5 6 83 2.26 Hill............................1 1⁄3 1, 2 2 2 0 1 27 4.50 Castro ........................1 2⁄3 0, 1 0 0 1 2 28 2.08 Yarbrough......................1 1. 1 1 1 0 0 16 3.68 Chivilli, L, 1-1, BS, 0-1.......1 5 6 6 1 0 37 3.78 Cruz.............................1 0 0 0 0 2 10 2.79 Inherited runners-scored—Soriano 1-1, Yarbrough 1-0, Chivilli 1-1. U— Andy Fletcher, Alex Tosi, Cory Blaser, Austin Jones. T—3:25. Tickets sold—38,151 (47,309).
Toronto AB R H BI Avg. Lukes rf 4 0 0 0 .271 Guerrero 1b 4 0 0 0 .261 Okamoto 3b 4 1 2 0 .231 Springer dh 4 1 1 0 .239 Kirk c 4 1 1 1 .237 Sánchez lf 4 0 1 1 .271 Schneider lf 0 0 0 0 .147 Clement 2b 2 0 0 1 .288 Giménez ss 3 0 0 0 .230 Straw cf 3 0 2 0 .223 Totals 32 3 7 3
LEAGUE LEADERS Through Monday
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>> Player G AB H R Avg. Arraez SF .......................105 420 136 52 .324 O.Lopez Mia ...................109 436 140 68 .321 F.Freeman DODGERS........110 417 129 57 .309 Gonzales Pit ...................108 411 127 61 .309 J.Lee SF.........................103 389 119 55 .306 Moreno Ari.......................85 299 89 46 .298 Rumfield Col...................110 389 115 48 .296 Ohtani DODGERS ............103 395 116 71 .294 McCarthy Col....................98 346 100 50 .289 Burleson StL...................112 431 124 60 .288
HOME RUNS Goodman, Colorado ......... 33 Schwarber, Philadelphia..... 33 Olson, Atlanta.................. 31
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> Player G AB H R Avg. Alvarez Hou ....................112 406 134 77 .330 Y.Díaz TB........................108 419 125 59 .298℃.Simpson TB.................105 386 115 46 .298 Jo.Jung Tex.......................92 354 104 .294 Rafaela Bos....................107 415 120 56 .289 Clement Tor....................110 424 122 47 .288 McGonigle Det................108 411 118 71 .287 Aranda TB......................109 405 116 53 .286 Contreras Bos.................103 356 101 55 .284 Caminero TB...................112 424 120 69 .283
New York AB R H BI Avg. Grisham cf 5 2 2 1 .214 Rice dh 4 0 0 0 .263 García 1b 4 1 2 2 .285 Jones lf 4 0 0 0 .228 Domínguez rf 4 0 1 0 .230 Chisholm 2b 4 0 0 0 .217 McMahon 3b 4 2 2 1 .212 Caballero ss 3 1 1 1 .245 Wells c 4 1 2 2 .167 Totals 36 7 10 7
Houston Peña ss 4 0 1 1 .320 Alvarez dh 3 0 1 0 .330 Paredes 3b 4 0 0 0 .252 Varsho cf 4 0 1 0 .243 Walker 1b 5 0 1 0 .237 Altuve 2b 4 0 2 0 .236 Trammell lf 3 0 0 0 .236 a-Dezenzo lf 1 0 0 0 .213 Diaz c 4 1 2 0 .261℃.Smith rf 4 0 2 0 .216 36 1 10 1
RUNS BATTED IN Abrams, Washington......... 81 S.Stewart, Cincinnati......... 85 J.Walker, St. Louis............. 81
圣迭戈教士队在交易截止日前的强势表现足以说服总经理A.J.普莱勒再次为季后赛冲刺做出几笔重磅交易。
教士队周一从旧金山巨人队引进了左投罗比·雷，并从底特律老虎队引进了右投凯西·迈兹，为此付出了三名最高评级的新秀。
“我们就是要赢，”普莱勒说，“我们不会为此道歉。我们要赢得冠军，要打进季后赛，年复一年地做到这一点。”
圣迭戈将右投米格尔·门德斯和17岁的游击手乔尼尔·埃尔南德斯送往旧金山，后者将承担雷2500万美元薪水的一部分。教士队还从底特律得到了内野手盖奇·沃克曼，并送出了左投卡什·梅菲尔德和杰克逊·沃尔夫。
雷和迈兹今年冬天可以成为自由球员，因此他们可能只是教士队的季末租借。但在全明星赛后以.500胜率跌跌撞撞进入休赛期，并经历了15胜28负的低迷后，教士队（58胜55负）在最近10场比赛中赢下8场，距离国家联盟最后一个外卡季后赛席位仅落后2场。尽管球队的拼凑型先发轮换防御率高达4.66 ERA，但这促使这位一贯激进的总经理再次进入买家模式，又一次送出了大量已严重枯竭的农场系统资源，以填补对优质先发投手的迫切需求。
“我们绝对感到兴奋
[沙伊金，B10版] 天使队通过交易“向前迈进一步”
天使队在交易截止日前对阵容进行了调整，包括在最后9小时内完成的5笔交易。莫泽利亚克引进了9名新秀，其中仅1人将直接进入大联盟球队。
六周前，球队老板阿特·莫雷诺和新任总裁莫莉·乔利招募莫泽利亚克时，承诺他可以开始一场迫在眉睫的重建。如今，这一计划真的开始落地，或许真的有“天使”在外野守护。
“真正让我印象深刻的是我获得的信任程度，”莫泽利亚克说。
天使队去年和前年均排名垫底，本赛季有望输掉100场比赛，这将是球队历史上的首次。他们的季后赛荒即将达到12年，是棒球界最长的纪录。
但现在有了一个计划，而不只是一堆“如果”和希望，尽管天使队可能需要先退一步，再进两步
猎鹰队与罗宾逊签订联盟顶薪跑卫合同
记者及通讯社报道
亚特兰大 猎鹰队 与比詹·罗宾逊达成一份为期三年的合同延长协议，直至2030赛季， 使这位第四年球员成为NFL薪资最高的跑卫。 罗宾逊周二上午转发了NFL的Instagram帖子，详细介绍了这份延长合同，并写道： “上帝，这是献给你的！祝福。热爱这支球队和这座城市！” 这份延长合同价值最高可达7500万美元，其中5100万美元为保障金额，一位知情人士向美联社透露。由于条款尚未公布，该知情人士要求匿名。合同的基本价值为6675万美元，罗宾逊的年均薪资为2225万美元，使他成为联盟薪资最高的跑卫。费城跑卫萨昆·巴克利的年均薪资为2060万美元。 NFL Network和ESPN率先报道了这份延长合同。
凯西·迈兹周一从底特律加盟后，应立即成为圣迭戈的先发投手。
“能拥有他们真是太好了，”内野手赞德·博加茨在教士队位于亚利桑那的更衣室内说道，此前球队以5比1不敌响尾蛇队。“引入两位如此水准的球员绝对能提振更衣室的每一个人。” 雷和迈兹应立即加入教士队先发轮换，该队可能还将在未来一个月内迎回受伤的先发投手尼克·皮维塔、乔·马斯格罗夫和卢卡斯·吉奥里托。 据MLB.com报道，皮维塔在周二与湖艾尔西诺尔的复健赛中投出第14球后因明显伤势离场。这位右投手自4月以来一直因右肘屈肌拉伤缺阵。 雷本赛季战绩为10胜6负，防御率3.08，在122 2⁄3局中三振107次，这是他在旧金山的第三个赛季。过去两个月，他表现大多出色，自5月以来防御率为1.65，在过去11场先发中的9场均仅失1分或更少。 雷曾在2021年随多伦多队赢得美联赛扬奖，并在2023年初因接受汤米·约翰手术而缺席。
迈进。 “可以说我们今天迈出了重要一步，”莫泽利亚克在交易截止日结束后的视频会议上表示。
新秀！再多说点！ 天使队获得的唯一一位排名前50的新秀：20岁的游击手阿尔琼·尼马拉。 多伦多蓝鸟队用他和另外两名小联盟球员换来了投手何塞·索里亚诺。莫泽利亚克表示，尼马拉距离进入大联盟还有大约两年时间。 唯一一位即将进入大联盟的新秀：捕手 / 指定击球手莫伊塞斯·巴列斯特罗斯，莫泽利亚克表示他将在接下来的三场比赛中担任两场的指定击球手。
这意味着豪尔赫·索勒不会担任指定击球手。 在周一未能将其交易后，天使队周二将其指定为自由球员。这意味着莫泽利亚克在交易截止日前后的几天内，将八名球员——基本相当于球队三分之一的阵容——从大联盟名单中移除。
比詹·罗宾逊（7号）签下的延长合同使其年薪达到2225万美元。
他将在妻子在弗吉尼亚家中遭枪击后重返教练组。埃利亚·比尼米（Elijah Bieniemy）因涉嫌枪击其母亲米娅而被捕。……汤姆·加菲尼克在担任迈阿密海豚队总裁兼首席执行官13年后，宣布辞职，球队宣布了一系列运营变动。
旧金山巨人队曾效力于西雅图，但现已重返球队，成为一名可靠的先发投手。巨人队本赛季再度令人失望，正在进行后期调整。
“我们对几周前选秀期间做出的交易感到满意，现在我们认为球队中有一些位置球员和投手有望在旧金山拥有光明的未来，但这还有待观察，”巨人队棒球运营总裁巴斯特·波西（Buster Posey）表示。
波西希望巨人队球迷知道，球队对近几年的成绩并不满意。自2016年以来，旧金山巨人队仅在季后赛中亮相过一次。
“我想你可以用任何方式来形容它，但我不一定会说这是重建，”波西说。“显然，我们今天从阵容中调整了6名大联盟球员。我想传达的信息是，我们对今年和过去几年的表现并不满意，我们正在竭尽所能，继续打造一个让所有人都兴奋的产品，让大家愿意——”
谁被交易了？ 索里亚诺（Soriano）、外野手乔·阿德尔（Jo Adell）、捕手洛根·奥霍普（Logan O’Hoppe）以及救援投手瑞安·泽弗简（Ryan Zeferjahn）、布伦特·苏特（Brent Suter）、柯比·耶茨（Kirby Yates）和蔡斯·西尔塞斯（Chase Silseth）。除苏特和耶茨外，其他球员的合同均超出本赛季。
谁没有被交易？ 投手里德·德特默斯（Reid Detmers）和游击手扎克·内托（Zach Neto）（“我们确实听取了报价，但对收到的报价并不满意”）以及一垒手诺兰·沙努埃尔（Nolan Schanuel）（“有人询问过他，但不像其他人那样频繁”）。莫泽利亚克（Mozeliak）上个月曾表示，交易特劳特（Trout）“不可能发生”。周一，他表示曾邀请特劳特在交易截止日前观摩球队的作战室。
“他是这支球队的门面，”莫泽利亚克说。“从我的角度来看，从与他的接触来看，我们希望为他和其他人创造更好的局面。我们的球迷希望看到胜利。”
莫泽利亚克曾表示，该组织……卡罗来纳黑豹队2024年首轮新秀泽维尔·莱格特（Xavier Legette）在尝试接球时不慎摔倒，因颈椎刺伤被抬下场……达拉斯牛仔队近端锋普林斯顿·方特（Princeton Fant）在周一的训练营中膝盖受伤，赛季报销。方特前交叉韧带撕裂，内侧副韧带部分撕裂，他——
2018年被底特律老虎队以状元签选中的迈兹（Mize）本赛季为老虎队出战16场先发，战绩4胜6负，防御率2.70，尽管他一直在与腹股沟伤势作斗争。他克服了汤米·约翰手术，并在去年成为全明星，还在去年秋季的季后赛中先发两场。
教士队近期的成功得益于进攻端的觉醒，弥补了因伤病导致先发轮换阵容薄弱的问题。圣迭戈教士队目前仅有迈克尔·金（Michael King）和沃克·比勒（Walker Buehler）两名固定先发投手，迫使球队在每轮轮换中进行三场牛棚投手比赛，由格里芬·坎宁（Griffin Canning）、兰迪·巴斯克斯（Randy Vásquez）和赫尔曼·马尔克斯（Germán Márquez）担纲主投。
华盛顿国民队全明星外野手詹姆斯·伍德（James Wood）因周一晚击球时左侧腹斜肌拉伤，将进入10天伤病名单。国民队主教练布莱克·布特拉（Blake Butera）表示，周二的核磁共振检查显示为轻度拉伤，“希望这对詹姆斯来说是短期问题”……堪萨斯城皇家队激活了全明星游击手鲍比·维特二世（Bobby Witt Jr.），他因背部紧绷缺席了两周……救援投手延尼尔·卡诺（Yennier Cano）与巴尔的摩金莺队达成了一份价值750万美元（$7.5）的两年合同，涵盖2027和2028赛季，并包含2029赛季1000万美元（$10）的球队选项……奥克兰运动家队将一垒手尼克·库尔茨（Nick Kurtz，右手拇指拉伤）和左投手杰弗里·斯普林斯（Jeffrey Springs，右髋不适）分别列入10天和15天伤病名单。
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天使队不应需要 全面重建，因为大市场球队 可用的资源应能缓解摧毁球队 并仅让年轻球员上场的需求。他认为 天使队下赛季能否变得更好？ 听听他怎么说：“我们 需要保持纪律性 和耐心，遵循一个过程， 而不是急于将一些 球员推上大联盟。... 如果他们还没准备好， 而我们也无法用这批人 竞争，那我们 将通过更多的 自由球员模式来增强实力。”
这听起来开始像是 一个长期计划。莫泽利亚克是否会长期留任， 正如业内大多数人认为的那样？ 莫泽利亚克表示他尚未 决定是否想留下， 也还没有与莫雷诺和乔利 讨论此事。但他说了两点让我印象深刻。 第一：“重返比赛很有趣。 我没意识到自己有多想念它。” 第二：“我们已经带来了 改变。变化是真实的。”
布林·安德森 美联社
将在未来几周内 接受手术，主教练 布莱恩·肖滕海默说。... 巴尔的摩乌鸦队 与两届职业碗接球手 泽·弗劳尔斯签订了为期4年、价值$140百万的 合同延长协议， 消息人士透露。... 亚特兰大猎鹰队 后卫贾隆·沃克 在训练中左腿受伤后被抬下场。 沃克是2025年佐治亚州的 首轮新秀， 作为新秀首发出场，贡献了36次铲球、5.5次擒杀 和2次强制失误。... 芝加哥熊队 正与右截锋达内尔·赖特 签订一份为期4年、价值$116百万的 合同延长协议。NFL网络率先 报道了这笔交易。
在芝加哥小熊队 11:15 a.m. SNLA, MLB
道奇队
在巴尔的摩 3:30 ABTV
季前赛：8月15日对阵堪萨斯城，1 p.m., CBS
公羊队
季前赛：8月13日对阵休斯顿，5 p.m., CBS
闪电队
下一场：8月15日对阵休斯顿，5:30 p.m., Apple TV
银河队
瓜达拉哈拉竞技 7:30* Apple TV
洛杉矶FC
天使城
在芝加哥 6 SpecSN, USA, CNBC
火花队
*联赛杯 阴影表示主场比赛。时间均为太平洋时间。
今日电视转播
时间 赛事 电视；广播
11 a.m. 道奇队对芝加哥小熊队 SNLA, MLB; 570, 1020
3:30 p.m. 天使队对巴尔的摩 ABTV; 830
4 p.m. 圣路易斯对纽约洋基队 Amazon Prime
4:30 p.m. 匹兹堡对密尔沃基 ESPN, ESPND
6:30 p.m. 底特律对西雅图 MLB
篮球：WNBA
4 p.m. 西雅图对纽约 USA
6 p.m. 火花队对芝加哥 SpecSN, USA, CNBC
自行车
6:45 a.m. （周四） 环法女子赛第6赛段 Peacock
高尔夫
6 a.m.（周四） 欧洲女子巡回赛，伦敦锦标赛首轮 Golf
冰球
辛卡·格雷茨基杯，瑞典对加拿大 NHL
赛马
10 a.m. 萨拉托加直播 FS2
小联盟：垒球世界系列赛
7 a.m. 新泽西对日本 ESPN2
10 a.m. 华盛顿对待定 ESPN2
橄榄球
2:45 a.m. （周四） NRL，黄金海岸对北昆士兰 FS2
垒球：无限运动员联赛
小联盟职业赛
足球
11:30 a.m. 友谊赛，阿森纳对皇家贝蒂斯 CBSSN, FoxD
1 p.m. 非洲女子国家杯，埃及对尼日利亚 beIN
3:30 p.m. 中北美及加勒比海U20，加拿大对牙买加 FS1
USL，里士满对纽约 CBSSN
7 p.m. NWSL，丹佛对北卡罗来纳 CBSSN
7 p.m. 联赛杯，托卢卡对西雅图 FS1, Apple TV
中北美及加勒比海U20，墨西哥对巴拿马
7:30 p.m. 联赛杯，洛杉矶FC对瓜达拉哈拉 Apple TV
网球
8 a.m. ATP / WTA，加拿大，早轮 Tennis
ATP / WTA，加拿大，早轮 Tennis
体育增刊
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东契奇前未婚妻 撤回申请
湖人球星卢卡·东契奇（Luka Don- čić）的前未婚妻阿纳玛丽亚·戈尔特斯（Ana- maria Goltes）周一请求撤回她于3月在洛杉矶高等法院提交的子女抚养费申请，据《泰晤士报》获取的法庭文件显示。 “我撤回《子女抚养费申请》，特别意在通过友好协商解决此事，并达成一项符合我们子女最佳利益的共同协议，”戈尔特斯在文件中写道。 ——史蒂夫·亨森
对阵亚利桑那 5 SNLA
对阵亚利桑那 6:30 SNLA
对阵迈阿密 4 ABTV
对阵迈阿密 1 ABTV
对阵巴尔的摩 上午9:30
托卢卡* 7 Apple TV, FS1
对阵明尼苏达 6 Prime Video
参加下周开始的辛辛那提公开赛。主办方周一表示，他们收到了一张双打项目的外卡参赛资格。
这支新WNBA球队将被命名为克利夫兰塞壬队，该球队在火箭竞技场的活动中公布了队名和品牌标识……凯尔西·普拉姆（Kelsey Plum）在她代表水星队的首秀中得到20分，帮助球队以106比101战胜芝加哥天空队。普拉姆于周六从火花队被交易而来，在比赛还剩53秒时从底角命中一记三分，帮助水星队以103比101领先。
玛伦·罗伊塞尔（Marlen Reusser）在女子环法自行车赛中夺得黄衫，她在个人计时赛中创下最快成绩，赢得第四赛段。
阿巴拉契亚州立大学体育总监道格·吉林（Doug Gillin）被任命为大学橄榄球季后赛遴选委员会成员。
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上午10:30
对阵西雅图 6 ESPN
金州 4 ESPN、 Disney+
格雷戈里·布尔 美联社 在熟悉的领域深度连接
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贾斯汀·赫伯特（Justin Herbert）在闪电队于圣迭戈大学进行为期两天的训练期间与球迷互动，这也开启了他教练的第二职业。
训练营值得 写信回家
作者：加里·克莱因
NFL训练营是两周的高强度训练。 两周的宿舍生活和会议。与家人分离。 对于公羊队来说，在主教练肖恩·麦克维（Sean McVay）的带领下，显然还有其他内容。 “他这样管理训练营，”安全卫卡姆·柯尔（Kam Curl）说，“是爱。” 爱？ 明确一点：训练营不再是几十年前那种每天两练、全接触的苦差事。 没有擒抱训练。球员们很少穿全套护具训练。 但为期17场的常规赛，以及可能的4场季后赛，仍然是一场磨练。 公羊队被视为有望打满全部21场比赛的热门球队——并最终在2025年赢得第五十六届超级碗（Super Bowl LXI）冠军。 理由很充分。 四分卫
戴维·班克斯 美联社 伍罗布莱斯基客场表现挣扎
贾斯汀·伍罗布莱斯基（Justin Wrobleski）近期的困境引发了人们对他是否暴露投球意图的质疑。
作者：玛迪·李
2026年8月5日，星期三 :: LATIMES.COM / SPORTS
公羊队主教练肖恩·麦克维（Sean McVay）调整了训练营安排，让球员们在身心上得到恢复。“他照顾我们，”一名球员说。
[详见公羊队，B7版]
2025年全明星投手克里斯·布比克（Kris Bubic）等球员。所有这些势头，以及阵容中惊人的天赋，掩盖了道奇队近期的低迷表现。在主场被波士顿红袜队横扫后，他们本有机会在瑞格利球场对阵芝加哥小熊队时重整旗鼓。然而，他们以5比10失利，将连败场次延长至赛季新高的四场。 “这是一支季后赛级别的球队，”主教练戴夫·罗伯茨（Dave Roberts）在比赛前谈到小熊队时说。“我们必须打得更好。就像我[周日]说的，我们被打败了。被比下去了。所以我们需要打得更好。我们会——”
教练回顾根源
作者：Sam Farmer
圣迭戈——这里是吉姆·哈巴夫（Jim Harbaugh）一切的起点，这座坐落在山顶的圣迭戈大学（University of San Diego）校园风景如画，俯瞰城市与海洋，西班牙文艺复兴风格的建筑与棕榈树环绕的庭院相映成趣。
哈巴夫曾在其他地方担任助理教练，先后在西肯塔基大学（Western Kentucky）担任进攻顾问，以及为奥克兰突袭者队（Oakland Raiders）担任四分卫教练，积累经验。但这里是他首次担任主教练的地方。这一机会开启了他长期NFL四分卫职业生涯的第二春，带领他前往斯坦福大学、旧金山49人队——其球队曾与隆巴迪杯（Lombardi Trophy）失之交臂——并在密歇根大学赢得全国冠军，如今则来到闪电队（Chargers），开始他的第三个赛季。
本周二和周三，闪电队将训练营移师圣迭戈大学，让哈巴夫得以重返这片传奇突袭者队老板阿尔·戴维斯（Al Davis）曾劝他不要来的地方。
“哇，吉米，吉米，我还以为你想成为职业教练呢。”戴维斯在2004年得知哈巴夫决定前往圣迭戈大学时，语气中透着失望地对他说。
Voices BILL SHAIKIN专栏作家 天使队交易或将终结 长期失利困局
迄今为止，没有任何日期能超越2002年10月27日，那天天使队赢得了球队唯一的世界大赛冠军。
我们可以谈论1984年9月30日，迈克·威特（Mike Witt）投出天使队历史上唯一一场完美比赛的日子。或者2009年6月9日，天使队选中球队历史上最优秀的球员迈克·特劳特（Mike Trout）的日子。又或者2018年7月29日，弗拉基米尔·格雷罗（Vladimir Guerrero）成为首位以天使队球员身份入选名人堂的球员。
或者，如果你愿意从悲观的角度看，可以回顾1979年秋天那个命运攸关的日子，当时的总经理巴齐·巴瓦西（Buzzie Bavasi）曾表示，可以用“两名8-7战绩的投手”来取代刚刚在安纳海姆以16-14战绩结束最后一个赛季的诺兰·瑞安（Nolan Ryan）。
这不是在说冷知识。这是为了说明，周一可能会成为天使队历史上值得铭记的重要日子之一。
近年来，天使队一直在自欺欺人，也欺骗球迷，抱有诸如以下的幻想：他们已经组建了一支能够获胜的年轻核心阵容；大谷翔平（Shohei Ohtani）真的想留下；以及他们在小联盟系统中普遍且持续的糟糕排名应被忽视。
周一，约翰·莫泽利亚克（John Mozeliak）改变了这一切。这位天使队的临时总经理交易了大联盟阵容中的7名球员。
[详见Harbaugh，B7版]
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临时总经理约翰·莫泽利亚克已开始对天使队进行重组。
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Michael Reaves Getty Images 斯库巴尔表现稳健，但道奇队遭遇五连败
道奇队新援左投塔里克·斯库巴尔（Tarik Skubal）在其洛杉矶首秀中对芝加哥小熊队的反超得分做出反应。此役他表现稳健，6局内仅失2分、被击出4支安打，但最终道奇队以1-5告负。
作者：Maddie Lee
芝加哥——左投塔里克·斯库巴尔在瑞格利球场（Wrigley Field）的“友好围墙”内投球时，迎来的却是充满敌意的接待。
比赛前，当他走近右外野的牛棚大门进行热身时，小熊队球迷对他报以嘘声。当他在第一局下半局登上投手丘时，嘘声变得更大、更持久。
这一切都源于他新球衣胸前潦草写着的“洛杉矶”（Los Angeles）字样。上周末，他还只是棒球界最炙手可热的交易目标，如今却成了道奇队“邪恶统治”的象征。一家体育博彩网站甚至抓住这一时机，在周二比赛前几小时租用飞机在瑞格利球场上空拉起一条“THE DODGERS RUINED BASEBALL”（道奇毁了棒球）的横幅——
但天使队再次落败
美联社
皮特·阿隆索击出一支2分一垒安打， 泰勒·奥尼尔本赛季第三次代打全垒打， 交易后实力削弱的巴尔的摩金莺队周二晚 以3-1击败天使队。 凯德·波维奇在近三个月的首场先发中 投出六局无失分，帮助金莺队在交易截止日 送走阿德利·拉茨曼、泰勒·沃德、泰勒·韦尔斯 和迪恩·克雷默后，仍保有争夺外卡季后赛席位的竞争力。 克里斯蒂安·富兰克林完成大联盟首秀， 顶替沃德此前的左外野位置，并在第三局 凭借阿隆索的安打得分，对手是前金莺队球员 格雷森·罗德里格斯 (3-4)。 奥尼尔在第八局代替首位打者迪伦·比弗斯 上场，面对米奇·法里斯击出本赛季第八支全垒打。 此前天使队在上半局凭借沃恩·格里森姆的 一支带有打点的二垒安打将比分追至2-1， 奥尼尔的全垒打帮助金莺队重新确立2分领先。 延尼尔·卡诺在第九局完成第二次救援成功。 巴尔的摩 (55-58) 目前距离克利夫兰的美联外卡 最后一个席位仅差1 1 / 2场，但仍是多支胜率不足.500的球队之一。
横幅倒挂着。 在嘘声渐息之际，他在 道奇队的首秀表现出色。 但这不足以成为球队的新救援投手， 道奇队的进攻哑火，以5-1落败， 连败场次创下赛季新高的5场， 并确保连续第二个系列赛失利。 斯库巴尔作为道奇队球员投出的第一球， 是一记速度达96.3英里 / 小时的沉球， 据Statcast数据显示，这记球穿过好球区上沿， 帮助他在对阵小熊队MVP候选人皮特·克劳-阿姆斯特朗时 取得先机。 接下来的4球中，他交替使用四缝线快速球 和变速球——先是变速球，然后是曲球。 在结束这轮打席时，他
自5月初因左肘炎症休战以来， 波维奇送出七次安打、七次三振和一次保送， 投出88球，其中60球为好球。 金莺队将克雷默交易至双城队后， 为他腾出了先发轮换的位置。 天使队全场11次安打，但在得分圈有跑者时 12次机会仅1次成功。 罗德里格斯本赛季首次投满七局， 失2分、被击出3支安打，将防禦率降至7.24。 金莺队在休赛期将他交易至天使队， 换来沃德，后者在交易截止日被送往西雅图。
太平洋十二校联盟与山区联盟和解未决诉讼
太平洋十二校联盟（Pac-12）和山区联盟（Mountain West）已就“挖角”和退出费用达成最终和解。两大联盟于周二宣布，各方已就所有未决诉讼达成最终协议。
声明中提及的学校包括博伊西州立大学、科罗拉多州立大学、犹他大学，以及代表圣迭戈和弗雷斯诺的加州大学董事会。
他将一个下沉球精准定位在好球区底部，三振出局。这是一个强势的首秀，也是他六次三振中的第一个。斯库巴尔（Skubal）让前六名击球员出局，其中包括中外野手安迪·佩吉斯（Andy Pages）的滑接和右外野手凯尔·塔克（Kyle Tucker）的鱼跃接球。
第二局结束时，斯库巴尔诱使新加盟小熊队的泰隆·泰勒（Tyrone Taylor）追打一个偏外的变速球。斯库巴尔从投手丘上后退一步，将拳头塞进手套口袋庆祝。
接下来的一局，斯库巴尔略显不稳。他先是被丹斯比·斯旺森（Dansby Swanson）打出一记首球全垒打。随后，佩吉斯再次滑接成功并三振一人后，他又被克劳-阿姆斯特朗（Crow-Armstrong）击出一垒安打，并保送铃木诚也（Seiya Suzuki）。
在当晚首个高压局面中，斯库巴尔诱使亚历克斯·布雷格曼（Alex Bregman）打出一个变速球，形成高飞球出局。
金莺队的泰勒·奥尼尔（Tyler O'Neill）在周二巴尔的摩3比1战胜天使队的比赛中，击出一记代打全垒打（本赛季第三支），绕过一垒手诺兰·沙努尔（Nolan Schanuel）奔向垒包。
随后，他重回稳定状态。斯库巴尔在第四局和第五局表现完美。
第六局，一个不幸的反弹让领先分跑回本垒。一人出局后，斯库巴尔在四球内保送铃木诚也。随后，他对布雷格曼投出的快球未能命中目标，布雷格曼将球击向右外野深处。塔克追球至警戒线，但撞墙后未能接住。这记二垒安打让跑垒员进占二垒和三垒。
斯库巴尔再次让小熊队受挫，他让迈克尔·布施（Michael Busch）击出一记滚地球，被在内野草皮边缘防守的二垒手汤米·埃德曼（Tommy Edman）接住。埃德曼传球回本垒，完成该局第二个出局。
随后，厄运降临。斯库巴尔的快球本应奏效，
“随着这些事项的解决，联盟和院校可以确定地向前发展，专注于服务学生运动员、校园、球迷和社区，”声明称。
联盟于5月宣布达成原则性协议。太平洋十二校联盟及部分即将加入的新学校于2024年在加州提起诉讼，称联盟在签署足球赛程协议时同意的“挖角条款”无效。
该条款要求首支退出球队向山区联盟支付1000万美元，此后每增加一支球队，金额递增50万美元，最高总额为5500万美元。
与山区联盟达成的赛程协议允许俄勒冈大学和华盛顿大学在2024年10所学校退出太平洋十二校联盟后，拼凑足球赛程，当时联盟的未来前景堪忧。
去年11月，在双方夏季调解未能达成协议后，法官克劳迪娅·威尔肯（Claudia Wilken）驳回了太平洋十二校联盟的撤诉动议。科罗拉多大学和犹他大学此前提起单独诉讼——后博伊西州立大学加入——试图避免支付1900万美元至
小熊队的尼科·霍纳尔将球击入地面。但球弹起后，在空中划出一道弧线，随后落在草地上，为布雷格曼赢得了足够的时间跑回本垒，拿下超前分。
瑞格利球场的球迷们开始起哄，高喊着“斯库——巴——尔”。去年在国联分区系列赛中，他们也曾用类似的方式嘲讽过酿酒人队的王牌投手弗雷迪·佩拉尔塔。
斯库巴尔沉着应对，最终让泰勒打出了一个腾空球，化解了这一局。那记变速球旨在诱使他挥棒落空，也为斯库巴尔的本场比赛画上了句号。
他的球队以2比1落后，唯一的一分来自塔克的全垒打。自从塔克在自由球员市场离开小熊队后，这是他首次重返瑞格利球场，整个系列赛期间都遭到了球迷的嘘声。而小熊队则继续在道奇队的牛棚面前发起反击。
斯蒂芬妮·斯卡布罗 美联社
$3800 万。 科罗拉多州立大学、犹他州立大学、圣迭戈、弗雷斯诺和博伊西州立大学将于今年秋季离开山地西部联盟，加入太平洋十二校联盟。
该联盟去年已吸纳德克萨斯大学，达到八支球队的最低要求，从而有资格让其冠军自动获得大学橄榄球季后赛的参赛资格。
冈萨加大学也将于今年秋季离开西海岸联盟，以非橄榄球成员身份加入太平洋十二校联盟。
山地西部联盟则将于今年秋季新增德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校、夏威夷大学和北伊利诺伊大学的橄榄球项目。
苏珊娜·霍夫斯的专辑《The List》预计于9月18日发行，展现了这位多才多艺艺术家丰富的叙事才华。一份秘密的约会清单成为她创作情歌的灵感来源。
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玛丽·麦克纳马拉 文化评论员
以爱情 领跑 票房
《Brand New Day》趣味十足，但其深刻的情感关系才是成功的核心。
凭借史上最强劲的全球开画周末，《Spider-Man: Brand New Day》正以势如破竹之势席卷票房，让《The Odyssey》相形见绌（相对而言；《The Odyssey》同样拥有强劲的全球首映表现，并有望成为第三部票房突破10亿美元的R级影片）。
然而，尽管克里斯托弗·诺兰对这部近3,000年历史的史诗巨著的诠释——除了少数不以为然的古典学者和惯常的“替代理论”阴谋论者——赢得了影迷对振兴电影业的感激之情，《Spider-Man》的成功却让这些人感到困惑。
评论褒贬不一；有人认为剧情简洁且个性鲜明，汤姆·霍兰德奉献了其最佳表演，另一些人则——
[详见《Spider-Man》，E6版]
重塑经典 过山车
诺茨浆果农场重新打造的Montezooma’s Ride即将在未来几天内试运营。详见E2版
《Brand New Day》 里程碑 《Spider-Man》系列电影最新一部已打破多项票房纪录。详见E6版
W E D N E S DAY , AU G U S T 5 , 2 0 2 6 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / E N T E R TA I N M E N T
苏珊娜·霍夫斯称之为“the list”：一张从Filofax日程本上撕下的泛黄纸片，上面潦草地记录着她约会过的每一个男人的名字——有些名人，有些不是，有些“kind of douchey”，她耸耸肩说道。
“这就像是互联网时代前的约会档案，”霍夫斯谈及这份清单时说。她在1991.末期创作了这份名单，当时她作为邦乔飞乐队主唱，创作了包括冠军单曲《Walk Like an Egyptian》和《Eternal Flame》在内的多首热门歌曲。“我是个乖乖的犹太女孩，”她补充道，“我只是在记录，做作业而已。”
如今，清单底部用全大写字母写着杰伊·罗奇的名字。这位电影导演是霍夫斯1991年在一次相亲中认识的。他也是新歌《None of Them Were You》的主题。在这首歌中，霍夫斯历数罗奇之前的追求者——“一位非常时髦的英国人”、“一位风度翩翩的英俊演员”——然后感慨她与这位结婚33年的丈夫之间的深厚情感。
“我最终遇到了一个这么好的人，”她说，“这全——”
观点 艾米·尼科尔森 影评人
如何看待畅销书译者艾米莉·威尔逊对热门电影的尖锐评论
秉承宙斯款待宾客的律法，我荣幸地欢迎古典学教授艾米莉·威尔逊踏入影评界。正如她最近所发现的，这是一场直冲散发着霉味的网络巨魔岛屿、与克里斯托弗·诺兰和乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨等影视文学巨擘正面交锋的冒险之旅。
为她的成就清单 再添一笔
诺兰将威尔逊2017年翻译的荷马史诗《奥德赛》开篇——“告诉我一个复杂的男人”——部分归功于激发了他对这部古代史诗的改编。该片上映近1个月来，票房正朝着10亿美元大关迈进。与此同时，威尔逊的译本现已成为全国畅销书第2名。威尔逊在《伦敦书评》上发表的那篇火药味十足的文章中，表达了她对诺兰这部大片并不看好的观点，这被一些人视为傲慢，包括奥茨，她在社交媒体上谴责这位学者“轻蔑的语气”。
米凯尔·伍德 流行音乐评论家
“最让人热泪盈眶的时刻。” 《他们中没有一个是你》并非霍夫斯即将于下月发行的专辑中唯一一首有此潜力的歌曲。这张名为《清单》的专辑——霍夫斯3,0多年来首张原创作品——将于9月18日由她的巴洛克民谣厂牌发行，收录了12首基于她作为艺术家、妻子、商人和母亲的人生经历的动人而机智的歌曲。67岁的她，甜美的歌声依然与大波浪发型和摇曳耳环的时代别无二致。然而，这些音乐反映出的情感智慧，却是通过岁月的磨砺才得以积累，如民谣风格的《时间》，思考着她与罗奇与2个成年儿子的关系。
“我看到你在厨房里跳舞／我感受到你小小的手握在我的手中，”她唱道，“如果你今年夏天飞回家／我们可以共度一段时光。”（注意，父母们——这首歌会让你泪崩。）
霍夫斯爽朗健谈，笑声爽朗，她指出自2012年的《有朝一日》以来，她“可从没躲在洞穴里”。2024,年，她发行了一张搁置已久的个人专辑，收录了她早在1999年录制的歌曲；此前，她还制作了一系列
[详见霍夫斯，E3]
迈克尔·贝克尔 Apple TV
苏戴基斯在艾美奖获奖剧集中饰演性格温和的泰德。
罗伯特·劳埃德 电视评论家
重返赛场 《泰德·拉索》 第四季回归
杰森·苏戴基斯回归执教女子球队。
时隔3年，《泰德·拉索》重返绿茵场。它真的有必要回来吗？第三季的大结局——直到现在看起来都像是全剧终——为几乎每个角色的故事线画上了令人满意且可信的句号，那些不那么令人满意的结局同样可信，同时为你留下了想象未来的空间，或者干脆不再多想。或者你可以写同人文。（有人这么做。）我喜欢这部剧，但它的缺席并未让我感到痛苦。
无论如何，它回来了，将于周三在Apple TV首播，我对此感到足够高兴。严格来说，这是一次全新的冒险，就像一部《夺宝奇兵》电影可能接续另一部一样，杰森·苏戴基斯饰演的主角泰德·拉索重返里士满，执教一支新成立的女子足球队。这个项目早在第三季结尾时就已提及，如今已“筹备了3年”。
我们现在身处何方？明星球员杰米·塔特已经
[详见《泰德·拉索》，E3]
蒙特苏玛：禁忌要塞
诺氏草莓园
诺氏草莓园
TODD MARTENS 专栏作家
四年前，诺氏草莓园面临一个决定。 其1978年推出的游乐设施 “蒙特苏玛的复仇”是首个采用飞轮发射系统的过山车——一个巨大、高度可见的圆形鼓状机械装置，配有缆绳——也是主题公园历史上的重要组成部分。 但这座过山车需要翻新，而如今已不再生产同类设备。飞轮设计曾是一项先进的机械技术，能让“蒙特苏玛”在不到五秒内从零加速至55英里 / 小时，但如今已不再流行。替换零件将难以获取，甚至可能无法实现。 那么，他们是要重新构想“蒙特苏玛的复仇”，还是利用其场地建造另一个游乐设施？ “没有其他人在90年代之前尝试过全速、地面水平发射，”杰里米·汤普森（Jeremy Thompson）说道。他在自己的网站“过山车哲学”（Roller Coaster Philosophy）上撰写过山车分析，并在主题公园设计公司Thinkwell工作了十年。 “它远远领先于时代。” 过山车历史学家认为，失去“蒙特苏玛的复仇”将是一种遗憾。值得庆幸的是，诺氏草莓园也认同这一点。经过四年时间和$20百万美元的投资，“蒙特苏玛”现已更名为“蒙特苏玛：禁忌要塞”，并计划在未来几天内试运营。原定于上月举行的盛大开幕媒体活动推迟至8月14日。 “我们反复思考：‘如果拆掉它，我们会在这里放什么？’”诺氏草莓园园长拉菲·卡普雷利安（Raffi Kaprelyan）说，“但我们总是回到同一个答案：‘为什么要这么做？’这座过山车独一无二。”
[威尔逊，来自E1]
以及“高傲的优越感”。 如果你没有关注这场争议， 威尔逊认为诺兰通过大幅抹去希腊众神和奥德修斯的机智、欲望及棘手的矛盾，将这部2,700年历史的史诗平庸化。 奥茨将威尔逊的批评语气比作 “MAGA人士的粗鄙言辞”。简而言之：威尔逊将一首2,700年的古诗 偷运进主流品味的大门——而在这场胜利之后，她的傲慢让她孤立无援。 如果你读过荷马史诗，这听起来熟悉；如果你只看过电影，则不然。 威尔逊说得对，诺兰的电影缺少奥德修斯的自大天才。 我来当和事佬。威尔逊如此热爱奥德修斯，以至于在她的右腿上纹了他的弓。 坦白说，诺兰似乎并不像威尔逊或我一样喜欢这位诗中狡黠、好色、暴力的老兵—— 半是《乱世佳人》中的瑞德·巴特勒，半是《第一滴血》中的兰博—— 因为如果他喜欢，那个奥德修斯就会出现在银幕上。 但看过他的电影两次后，我认为显然诺兰对威尔逊的第一行不如第五行感兴趣：“为我们这个时代讲述这个古老的故事。”这点他做到了。我在他最初的评论中写道，他对荷马的诠释“是一部道德化的《奥本海默》前传”。顺便说一句，我还是挺喜欢的。 电影评论家和翻译家的工作起点相同。第一步：艺术家的意图是什么？威尔逊考虑了荷马故事的全部，并决定“polytropos”一词最贴切的翻译是“复杂”。我权衡了诺兰在自己版本中选择保留、调整和放弃的内容，得出结论：他想拍一部关于社会衰落的动作悲剧。
重新装修的“蒙特祖玛：禁忌要塞”过山车将于8月14日盛大开幕。
这座原版过山车于1978年开放，是Knott’s Berry Farm的首个同类项目。右上图为诺特家族在开幕当天体验这项游乐设施。
他补充道：“像这样的标志性游乐设施， 你会希望尽可能长久地保留它。” 这座过山车原计划命名为“Loco Motion”， 但后来更名为“Montezooma’s Revenge”，以纪念一支同名的流行乐队， 他们经常在公园内演出， 尼古拉斯· 拉斯克维奇说， 一位过山车历史学家
电影必须以自身的野心来衡量。 一部毒品喜剧不能用莎士比亚戏剧的标准来评判（反之亦然）。 威尔逊在此搁浅。她希望给予诺兰创作自由， 知道希腊剧作家也像漫威对待蜘蛛侠一样重塑过奥德修斯和美狄亚这样的人物。 甚至原诗还有衍生作品，讲述奥德修斯与喀耳刻生下孩子的故事。 然而，讲述者必须保护角色的核心。 美狄亚必须愤怒，蜘蛛侠必须乐于助人，而奥德修斯，该死的，必须有魅力。 达蒙没有。 这正是威尔逊值得同情的地方，尽管她无法以同样的宽容对待诺兰。 作为宾夕法尼亚大学的古典学教授， 她将成为首批被迫纠正诺兰大幅改编剧本的学者之一， 因为未来几十年，高中生——甚至一些高中老师—— 可能只会随手播放他的蓝光碟，然后就此打住。 诺兰最终确实达成了目标， 但他的剧本摇摆不定。他拍了一部关于奥德修斯对发明特洛伊木马感到悔恨的电影， 却缺少一个关键场景：他发明木马的那一刻。 我们看到奥德修斯在特洛伊城外的海滩上默默漫步， 却没有看到他跑回营地推销这个能结束战争、让盟友回家的点子时的自豪。 诺兰想要描绘的情感弧线本应从这里开始。 这个情节的缺失令人困惑，因为奥德修斯还需要表现出聪明（但他从未做到）。 这就是衡量一部电影的意义所在
与纪录片制作人 以及非营利组织美国 过山车爱好者协会合作。 在开放时，它是世界上 最高的过山车，得益于 148英尺的尖峰。它也是 现存最古老的原地环形 往复式过山车，往复式 过山车指的是没有完整 回路的游乐设施，意味着 游客会被沿直线推出
雄心。只有在我们接受 诺兰仅对人类的 错误感兴趣后，才能衡量 他对希腊众神的忽视。 我欣赏这一选择——它 大胆——但仍认为他错失 了机会，没有用个性取代 莎莉兹·塞隆饰演的卡吕普索 和赞达亚饰演的雅典娜的 魔法力量。浪费了两位 出色演员。难怪奥茨会为 他辩护。她的小说《金发女郎》 同样剥夺了爱神玛丽莲·梦露 的能动性，其2022年 电影改编也引发了无数热议。 《奥德赛》永远不会有 忠实的现代电影版本。 不，哪怕是埃隆·马斯克 声称已批准的AI垃圾项目， 我确信这个项目
从发射站出发，沿直线 穿过环形轨道，然后 反向通过整个路程。 “往复式过山车 当然不如过去新颖，” 拉斯克维奇说，他还在 体验艺术公司Meow Wolf 担任设计师。“但我认为 它非常符合Knott’s Berry Farm 的基因。它是
会像他‘随时可能登陆火星’ 的承诺一样迅速实现。 问题不仅在于诗歌的长度。 还在于当今观众对 关于可怕罪行的幸福结局 毫无耐心。我们几乎无法 合理化对求婚者的屠杀。 没人想看荷马笔下 那血腥的一幕，当忒勒玛科斯 残忍地命令十几名奴隶女孩 清理现场，然后 将她们一并处决。 唯有一部1968年 由迪诺·德·劳伦提斯制作的 七个半小时的意大利迷你剧 敢于提及这第二场 血腥屠杀，甚至在该剧中， 女仆们也是在被保证（虚构地） 她们曾试图先杀死他们后， 才在画外被绞死。（题外话： 迪诺版的佩涅洛佩由 伟大的艾琳·帕帕斯饰演， 是我的最爱。） 此前的电影改编——
Jess Boyer Knott’s Berry Farm
对大多数在南加州长大、 将其作为第一个环形过山车的人来说。 他们值得赞扬，因为投资了 [一种]许多其他乐园已淘汰的 游乐设施。” 由过山车大师 安东·施瓦茨科普夫 设计，拉斯克维奇表示， 目前仅存一台使用原始发射系统的 施瓦茨科普夫飞轮过山车， 位于日本的长岛温泉乐园。 施瓦茨科普夫还设计了 六旗魔法山的 “大美利坚革命”， 该设施于1976年开放， 是世界上首个现代垂直环形 过山车。 “他在轨道倾斜和 物理制造方面是天才，” 拉斯克维奇说。 “他的游乐设施运行如丝般顺滑。 他在没有计算机技术的情况下 能做到这一点，令人难以置信。” 那么这次翻新有哪些变化？ “蒙特苏马的复仇”已重新 打造，配备新车厢， 增强主题元素
苏珊娜·霍夫斯（Susanna Hoffs）在她的布伦特伍德家中拍摄，计划于 9 月 18 日发行她的巴洛克民谣厂牌新专辑《The List》。
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精心策划的翻唱专辑，包括三张她与力量流行乐（powerpop）大师马修·斯威特（Matthew Sweet）共同录制的专辑。但在 2023 年出版她的第一部小说——《This Bird Has Flown》，一部关于一名寻求东山再起的单曲成名歌手的迷人畅销书——重新激发了霍夫斯对词曲创作的热情。
“我从未想过这本书会大卖，也从未想过它会获得好评，”她在最近一个下午于其布伦特伍德的家中说道。“这在职业生涯上是一个重大转折。”
为了制作《The List》，霍夫斯与 C.J. Camerieri 合作，他是一位音乐家兼制作人，以与保罗·西蒙（Paul Simon）和 Bon Iver 等人的合作而闻名；Camerieri 随后招募了一批词曲作者与他们二人合作，其中包括两位格莱美奖得主丹·威尔逊（Dan Wilson）和杰西·哈里斯（Jesse Harris）。
“苏在这个圈子里积累了数十年的人脉，”Camerieri 坐在沙发上，就在霍夫斯身边说道，“所以当你给丹这样的音乐人打电话，问‘嘿，想和苏珊娜·霍夫斯一起写首歌吗？’他会说，‘好啊，我来。’”
制作人解释道，这个过程很简单：“我们会从早上 10 点在苏的厨房里喝咖啡开始——”
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将剧情一直推进到 巴塞罗那； 装备管理员 变教练变竞争对手 又变回装备管理员的内特·谢利 却不见踪影。但可以说， 除了罗伊·肯特（布雷特·戈德斯坦）—— 泰德回到堪萨斯城（密苏里州） 多陪伴儿子亨利（格兰特·菲利饰， 接替格斯·特纳）后接任主教练一职—— 和比尔德教练（布伦丹·亨特）—— 如今已变成一个沉默寡言的大胡子—— 整个AFC里士满队的情况大抵如此。 不过，这并非该队的真实故事， 尽管剧集世界内外（或许）的某些粉丝 可能更希望如此。
已制作完成的10集中， 有4集提供给媒体评论。 第一集在某种程度上是个障碍， 陷入了种种刻意安排， 以让泰德从堪萨斯城回到里士满， 他一直在那里“努力帮助[亨利] 成为最好的自己”。 问题是，兼职担任超市助理经理的泰德， 是否过着最好的自己。 答案显而易见，除了泰德本人， 所有人都看得出来：不是。 他自然四处散播阳光， 因为这就是他的本性， 但这并非你会为他设想的未来， 也不是第三季大结局所暗示的， 当时我们看到他执教 亨利的足球队。但这给了他一个
回归的起点。 于是，俱乐部老板丽贝卡·韦尔顿 （汉娜·沃丁厄姆）、运营总监莱斯利·希金斯 （杰里米·斯威夫特）和营销女王基利·琼斯 （朱诺·坦普尔）出现在泰德家门口， 提议让他执教“灰狗女队”， “为你曾与我们的男队共同打造的 里士满文化奠定基础”。 （显然他一直没查看信息， 因此需要三人亲自登门拜访。）
除了拼凑各方棋子， 开篇一集的大部分内容 似乎旨在满足展示堪萨斯城的冲动—— 苏代基斯正是在该地区长大。 多次前往烧烤店， 每次都让丽贝卡的衣服沾上污渍。 还去了CPKC体育场， “世界上首座完全由私人资助的 职业女子足球专用体育场”， 观看堪萨斯城潮流队的比赛。
发现美国爵士博物馆闭馆后， 希金斯（此前已确认是一名低音提琴手） 穿过第18街来到黑人联盟棒球博物馆， 一位友好的讲解员（米兰·卡特饰） 向他讲述了博物馆的历史， 包括对投手萨切尔·佩奇的长篇致敬， 中间穿插了奇怪的纪录片镜头。 （希金斯感慨他们的经历 “与我们在英格兰的遭遇颇为相似，
主唱霍夫斯（中）与Bangles乐队成员及音乐高管在1987年庆祝乐队热门专辑《Different Light》的派对上合影。
“我真的很擅长煮咖啡，” 霍夫斯插话道，“我是说，我用的是Nespresso。 但我擅长招待所有小伙子们。” “所以我会给每个人发一本 黄色便签本，苏就开始讲故事，” 卡梅里埃里补充道。 “我们都在本子上涂涂写写， 大约一个小时后，我们会说‘差不多了’， 然后就根据她讲的内容写歌。” 他们在霍夫斯家录音—— “我们挪开这张沙发，鼓就放在这里，” 她说道——在拱形天花板下， 营造出恰到好处的氛围。 常被邀请的乐手如格雷格·莱斯和温迪·梅尔沃因也顺道参与了录制； 在一首乡村风格的小调《孤独的严重病例》中， 他们请来了鲁弗斯·温赖特合唱和声， 霍夫斯曾与他合作翻唱过海龟乐队的《在一起很快乐》， 收录于罗奇2025年的喜剧电影《玫瑰》中。 这些梦幻的根源风格编曲 无不精致动人—— 最美的当属《傻瓜》， 霍夫斯说这首歌的灵感来自她对 迪翁·沃里克和伯特·巴卡拉克合作唱片的喜爱。 然而，《清单》这张专辑 是为展现霍夫斯丰富的叙事才华而生。 专辑以《卡萨布兰卡》开场，她在其中 [...OMITTED...]
他们的道路再次交织，泰德（杰森·苏戴奇斯饰）与俱乐部老板丽贝卡（汉娜·沃丁厄姆饰）在《泰德·拉索》中达成协议，该剧将于周三上线。
“多年来，英格兰的女性不被允许踢足球，”他的黑人东道主用一句意味深长的“嗯——”打断了他的想法。）“她们这样做不是为了名利。她们这样做是因为不踢球是无法接受的，”有人告诉他。或者，正如前AFC里士满前锋丹尼·罗哈斯所说的那样：“足球就是生活。” 第二集的表现更为自然（并自此逐渐提升），终于将我们带回里士满。泰德唯一真正反对离开的理由是——
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回忆起20世纪80年代末在新奥尔良与感恩至死乐队的鲍勃·威尔的一次邂逅。The Bangles乐队当时正在为乔治·迈克尔巡演开场；感恩至死乐队则在新奥尔良大学的湖畔体育馆演出。霍夫斯和威尔后来参加了内维尔兄弟举办的小龙虾派对，两人沿着庞恰特雷恩湖散步——“他很可爱，”霍夫斯说——随后又漫步穿过法国区。 “有一刻，我回头看，发现一群‘死忠粉’意识到那是鲍勃·威尔，”她说。“但我和他在一起。我成了他的朋友，这简直让我难以置信——”
堪萨斯城几乎轻而易举地被说服，亨利和他的母亲米歇尔（安德烈娅·安德斯饰）——前妻但并未疏远——与他同行。在前三季中赢得了所有怀疑者的信任后，泰德需要新的对象来施展魅力，而这位对象将是教练爱丽丝·奇尔顿（塔尼娅·雷诺兹饰），她原本希望得到经理的职位。她是个有点阴郁的人，忧郁且缺乏幽默感，尽管被忽视可能让她理所当然地感到不满。雷诺兹无疑将成为本季的明星，
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发生的一切。这太美妙了。”（在两次散步之间，The Bangles乐队曾与感恩至死乐队一同登台表演《Iko Iko》。） 在我们交谈时，卡梅里耶里告诉霍夫斯，他最近遇到了威尔的前巡演经理——威尔于1月去世，享年78岁——并转述了霍夫斯对那次邂逅的回忆。“他说，‘我听过这个故事，’”卡梅里耶里转述经理的话，“‘鲍勃常提起他和苏珊娜·霍夫斯一起在新奥尔良散步的时光。’”” “噢，我的天！”霍夫斯说，眼眶开始湿润。“所以这对他来说也意义非凡。” 《The List》的结尾是《What Are Wings For》，一首关于坚持自我的庄严民谣，由霍夫斯、卡梅里耶里和埃迪·布里克尔共同创作，后者嫁给了保罗·西蒙，他们是在2024年世界大赛期间前往得克萨斯州的牧场旅行时写下这首歌的。 “我们当时正好赶上2024年世界大赛，”卡梅里耶里回忆道，“每晚在创作歌曲后，我们都会和保罗一起观看洋基队的比赛。” “他还告诉我，他认为The Bangles翻唱的《Hazy Shade of Winter》比他的版本更好，”霍夫斯笑着补充道。“我当时说，‘拜托——你的版本才是经典。’”
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通过克制的表演给人留下深刻印象，几乎完全用眼神传达情感，因此当她不由自主地露出微笑时，显得格外动人。 在球员中，我们的注意力被吸引到布茨（裘德·麦克饰）身上，她留着短发，是守门员，还有一个怪癖——尽管她实力强劲，“但没有大俱乐部愿意接纳她，因为她不肯戴手套。”（她更喜欢保持触感。“如果无法感受生活，人生还有什么意义——”
为了1987年的《Less Than Zero》创作配乐，该乐队当时已经是电台和MTV上的常客。Hoffs于1981年与Vicki和Debbi Peterson姐妹共同组建了该团体，她们在Hoffs父母家的车库里一起学习演奏，那里距离这位歌手如今居住的地方仅几个街区。Bangles乐队在深受60年代影响的洛杉矶Paisley Underground场景中脱颖而出，在加入Michael Steele并推出《Manic Monday》后走红，这首闪耀的流行摇滚瑰宝是Prince赠给乐队的。（除了她的男朋友名单，Hoffs早年收藏的珍宝之一就是Prince录制的《Manic Monday》原始磁带Demo。）“他才华横溢但顽皮，”Hoffs在谈到这位已故的先驱时说道，她在小说中塑造的Jonesy这个角色就是以他为原型的。“我记得有一次他在半夜邀请我们去Sunset Sound。我们到了那里开始即兴演奏，
然后突然环顾四周，发现他消失了。‘好吧，我想我们结束了。’”在推出了8首前40名单曲和一张三倍白金专辑后，Bangles乐队在1989年因对乐队创作方向和抱负的分歧而分道扬镳。成员们分别从事个人或其他项目，但后来为了给1999年的《奥斯汀·鲍尔斯：超级间谍》（由Roach执导）录制一首歌而重新聚首；随后在2003年和2011年又推出了两张Bangles专辑，第二张专辑中没有Steele，Hoffs说她目前与他没有联系。与Go-Go's乐队相比——后者的平行职业生涯在2020年的一部纪录片中得到了详细描述，并于一年后入选摇滚名人堂——Bangles尚未完全奠定其地位，尽管去年出了一本授权传记，且一部纪录片目前正在开发中。然而，Hoffs似乎并不特别担心Bangles可能会
被低估的可能性，也许是因为她自己有很多事情在忙。在《The List》发行之前，她将在9月5日在Largo at the Coronet的一场演出以及为Billy Idol担任开场嘉宾的几次演出中演唱她的旧金曲；在新专辑发行后，她将前往东部在纽约的Café Carlyle进行驻场演出。她和Camerieri还在合作将《This Bird Has Flown》改编成舞台剧或电影。就在前几天，她在电脑上发现了一个文件夹，里面全是她多年前与Lone Justice乐队的朋友Marvin Etzioni共同创作的歌曲。“我不喜欢用‘遗愿清单’这个词，但所有这些事情都是出于热爱，”Hoffs说。那么“遗愿清单”有什么问题？“噢，我不知道，”她笑着说，“它听起来就像是，关于死亡的。”
ing it?” Boots在剧中另一段采样情感中问道。） Lizzie (Faye Marsay) 脱颖而出，因为她带着一个可爱的小孩参加公开试镜，并且比其他人更年长、更成熟；Gemma (Abbie Hern) 则是因为与Alice之间有未解决的旧账，并且像Ted一样，需要被说服才能加入球队。 当然，这种弱势方的特质将被强调——一支新球队，处于亏损的第二级别联赛，拥有二流的更衣室设施，并掺杂着可能反映也可能不反映英国对女足真实态度的性别歧视。女性主义主题在Rebecca和Keeley身上一直存在，现在理所当然地占据了主导地位，Rebecca在过度纠正她可能不是女性主义者的想法——由此产生了一段与饰演她母亲的Harriet Walter之间有趣的对话——而Tracey Ullman在第4集中登场，展现出强悍的一面。 到该集结束时，将会有足够多甜蜜、庆祝的时刻来回报你的投入。（我是通过我哽咽的频率来科学衡量这一点的。）至于故事在实质方面将走向何方——也许让Roy和Keeley复合，或者给Henry和 / 或Michelle安排一些有趣的情节——现在下结论还太早。我假设它会走向某个方向，但我们将共同见证。
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CRABGRASS 作者：Tauhid Bondia
CURTIS 作者：Ray Billingsley
LOOSE PARTS 作者：Dave Blazek
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE 作者：Stephan Pastis
LIO 作者：Mark Tatulli
ZITS 作者：Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman
TUNDRA 作者：Chad Carpenter
SIX CHIX 作者：Susan Camilleri Konar
FRAZZ 作者：Jef Mallett
NON SEQUITUR 作者：Wiley
BABY BLUES 作者：Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman
CRANKSHAFT 作者：Tom Batiuk & Chuck Ayers
JUMP START 作者：Robb Armstrong
MACANUDO 作者：Liniers
BLONDIE 作者：Dean Young & John Marshall
BETWEEN FRIENDS 作者：Sandra Bell-Lundy
BIZARRO 作者：Wayno and Piraro
DRABBLE 作者：Kevin Fagan
MUTTS 作者：Patrick McDonnell
PEANUTS 作者：Charles M. Schulz
每个方格内都将填入一个数字；数字取决于网格的大小。对于6×6的谜题，使用数字1-6。任何一行或一列中不得重复出现同一数字。每个粗线框出的方格组合必须通过指定的数学运算，得出位于该框左上角的目标数字。同一框内的数字可以重复，只要不在同一行或同一列即可。
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金牛座（4月20日-5月20日）： 随着金星这一阶段接近尾声，放下自我怀疑。直觉优于分析才是正道。
双子座（5月21日-6月21日）： 在金星位于处女座的最后时刻，放下仅仅“能用”的东西。它还必须让你感到愉悦。
巨蟹座（6月22日-7月22日）： 金星即将进入天秤座，放下阻碍你接受帮助的一切。
狮子座（7月23日-8月22日）： 金星转换话题之际，放下试图取悦他人的想法。你的热情将比表演更能成事。
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纵向 1 涂抹黄油，可能 2 八进制的 3 “总有一天你会__我” 4 酿酒厂纪念品 5 润喉饮品 6 格陵兰海岸的冰上居民 7 女演员米蕾耶 8 自助银行设备 9 “你是我的火焰／我唯一的__”：《我想要那样》开场歌词 10 黑森林蛋糕上的樱桃 11 使嘴唇破裂 12 评星 13 库斯科文明 14 曾用符号表示比特币的泰国货币 19 带齿的餐具 20 骰子游戏 25 “天哪！” 26 吉他弦轴等 27 菲律宾科迪勒拉山脉的梯田状 28 蒲式耳和配克 29 潦草的提醒 30 家庭昵称 31 汤博斯通的怀亚特 32 圣经中的兄弟 33 “跟我来” 34 皮克斯关于小海怪的电影 38 展开，如蛋白质 40 亲热 43 在皮带上磨快 45 恶意 48 建议 49 由猫王主持婚礼，可能 52 龙舌兰植物 53 客串？ 54 即 55 三叉戟形字母 56 画板 57 在奥德兰长大的天行者 58 尖顶柱 59 化学课模型 60 尝试飞行 62 里斯本问候语
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上期谜题答案
作者：弗兰克·斯图尔特
“我打开了一个麻烦罐， 却 什么 也没发生。 它们就那样待着。远不及 广告宣传的混乱。”——涂鸦。 在开局时打开麻烦罐， 就等着出问题吧。今天的西家 在四黑桃定约中首攻方块Q， 南家拿出开罐器， 从明手打出小牌。东家用2表示信号， 西家转攻梅花。东家赢得Q和A， 南家还丢了一墩红心。 “第一墩方块就出K，” 北家说，“这样西家就无法转攻梅花了。” “没关系，”南家耸耸肩。 “等他赢得红心后，还是会攻梅花的。” 南家一旦让对方
亲爱的埃里克： 我15年前的已婚前男友仍然爱着我。通过小道消息，我听说他还在谈论我，甚至试图在公共场合"偶遇"我。他总是打听我的行踪。我为他的妻子感到难过。如果她知道这件事，肯定会影响他们的婚姻。如果她还被蒙在鼓里，我真希望有人能告诉她，也许她能让他停止这种行为。这让我很烦恼。我已经15年没有想过这个人了。别人如何能礼貌地鼓励他放下过去，开始完全活在当下？
意外的长期爱情魔咒
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亲爱的意外： 这听起来不太像爱，更像是行为接近跟踪，甚至可能已经越界。这很令人担忧，必须停止。与他有联系的人可以直截了当地告诉他："你的前女友不想与你联系，你的所作所为很不恰当。你需要立即停止，否则情况会变得更糟。" 解决或处理这件事不是你的责任。不过，如果你对他所做的事情感到担忧或不适，不要犹豫，可以向有关部门反映。他们可能无法根据小道消息采取行动，但可以为你提供如何保护自己的建议，以及如果他试图联系你该怎么办。
亲爱的埃里克： 最近我做了开心手术，虽然手术成功，但需要多次从公寓乘救护车返回医院。这栋大楼只有46个单位，似乎每个业主都知道我手术和相关病情的所有细节。我知道这一点，因为我遇到的每个人都会问我的健康状况。在每天面对几十次善意的询问后，你有什么建议可以回应？
不耐烦的病人
亲爱的病人： 对于你的病痛我感到难过，但很高兴手术成功。即使是善意的询问也会让人厌烦。你可以这样说："谢谢你的关心，我好多了。如果你不介意，我真的不想谈论这件事。"这些询问不会永远持续下去，但可能需要一段时间才会传开。你没有义务回答。礼貌地感谢他们的关心并转移话题就足够了。
我和妻子自己洗衣服。几乎每次我想洗我的
家庭马戏团 作者：Bil Keane
自由放养 作者：Bill Whitehead
马默杜克 作者：Brad & Paul Anderson
幸福 作者：Harry Bliss
在第一招就打开罐子放出虫子后，他无法再把它们放回去。他必须出king of diamonds。东家赢墩后回出方块，南家将吃，清除将牌，然后出红心。如果西家出小牌，南家出明手的9，将红心输张送给东家。如果西家出大牌，南家赢墩，将吃一张方块，然后出第二张红心到明手的9。
你持有：♠8 4 ♥J 8 ♦A 10 8 2 ♣A Q 10 7 2。你的同伴开叫1红心，你叫2梅花，他再叫2红心。你怎么说？
答案： 你有足够的实力邀请成局，但不足以强迫，特别是如果同伴可能开叫轻牌。叫3方块会让你承诺成局，而叫2无将也不理想，因为有两张小黑桃。加叫到3红心。虽然同伴没有承诺6张套，但他可能有。
北家发牌 南北有局
北家 ♠J 10 5 2 ♥A K 9 ♦K 7 4 ♣K J 3 西家 东家 ♠6 3 ♠8 4 ♥Q 10 4 ♥J 8 ♦Q J 9 6 3 ♦A 10 8 2 ♣9 6 5 ♣A Q 10 7 2 南家 ♠A K Q 9 7 ♥7 6 5 3 2 ♦5 ♣8 4
北家 东家 南家 西家 1♣ 不叫 1♠ 不叫 2♠ 不叫 4♠ 全不叫
首攻——♦Q
我打开洗衣机， 看到湿衣服。 有时候 我妻子 可能在家， 有时候她可能不在。 这些衣服 可能已经放了好几天了， 这种情况下我妻子会 想要重新洗一遍，或者 可能只放了几个小时， 这种情况下应该送去烘干机。 但有些女士衣物不能放进烘干机； 女性很容易区分， 但男性就不太容易分辨。 那么，我是该重新洗一遍， 还是尝试分出娇贵衣物， 把其余的放进烘干机， 或者干脆只洗我自己的衣服， 然后把湿衣服放回洗衣机， 让她毫无察觉？
做好自己的洗衣工作 就足够了
亲爱的洗衣问题： 最简单的做法 可能是问问你妻子， 在这种情况下她希望你怎么做。 这可以开启一个关于 共同分担洗衣任务的对话， 以及如何更好地 共享洗衣空间。 一个长期的解决方案 可能是提前告知她 你计划在某个特定 日子或时间洗衣服。 你可以通过对话 或共享日历来实现。
将问题发送至 eric@askingeric.com。
打破多项票房纪录
作者：安东尼·索洛扎诺
能力越大，票房越高。 《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》以$3.6 亿的国内首映成绩一跃而起，超越《复仇者联盟：终局之战》，成为影史开画周末票房最高的电影。 汤姆·霍兰德主演的这一系列第四部作品，还创下了周四点映票房的新纪录。与另一部由新婚夫妇霍兰德和赞达亚主演的电影搭档，让《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》的票房成绩为“强强联手”一词赋予了新的含义。 以下是《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》迄今打破的纪录：
国内最高开画周末 《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》超越《复仇者联盟：终局之战》，成为国内影史开画周末票房最高的电影。《崭新之日》进账$3.6 亿，超过了迪士尼“无限传奇”终章此前创下的$3.57 亿纪录。
《蜘蛛侠》系列最高首映成绩 此前的纪录由霍兰德era,的第三部作品《蜘蛛侠：英雄无归》保持，该片国内票房为$2.6 亿。《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》在九部真人电影和两部动画作品中独占鳌头。
[《蜘蛛侠》，E1版]
批评者可能会指责《崭新之日》塞入过多系列预告，或认为30,岁的霍兰德已不再适合这个角色。 那么，为何蜘蛛侠能战胜终极反派——超级英雄疲劳？ 答案很简单：爱。 《真爱至上》中出现的孩子戴着蜘蛛侠面具，而非超人披风，这并非巧合。人们——尤其是孩子（以及他们将成为的成年人）——对蜘蛛侠的喜爱深沉而真挚。与其他超级英雄不同，
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电影《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》由汤姆·霍兰德主演，创下今夏最佳首映周末票房，进账3.6亿美元。
最高预映票房 自2012年奥罗拉影院枪击事件后，因安全考虑将午夜场提前以来，《复仇者联盟4：终局之战》曾创下最高预映开画纪录，斩获6000万美元。而《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》在周四预映中收获7200万美元，打破该纪录。
最高单日开画 这一佳绩延续至周五。《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》当日进账1.69亿美元，占其总票房的47%，超越《复仇者联盟4：终局之战》此前创下的纪录，数据来自票房统计网站Box Office Mojo。
最快突破2.5亿美元 《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》成为史上最快突破$250 million国内票房的影片，仅用时两天即达成里程碑，同样据Box Office Mojo统计。此前纪录由《复仇者联盟4：终局之战》保持。
7月最佳首映周末 搭档喜剧《死侍与金刚狼》曾在2024年开画周末斩获$211 million国内票房，称霸7月。而《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》以$360 million的成绩超越其位置。
由真实夫妻赞达亚和汤姆·霍兰德饰演的MJ与彼得·帕克 / 蜘蛛侠的动人爱情故事，是《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》的核心。这是这对银幕情侣的第四次蜘蛛侠之旅。
与众多超级英雄不同，彼得·帕克是我们中的一员。他不是超级科学家、神明、外星人，也不是能开发各种精巧反犯罪装备的1%富豪。他是个孩子，意外获得了不会令其外貌或内心扭曲（没有红房创伤、内心愤怒怪兽或长达百年的寿命）的超能力，依然保持着孩子般的天真，对自己所能做的一切充满青少年的欣喜。 他风趣、可爱，且因受到良好教养（在本次系列中由玛丽莎·托梅饰演的时髦且富有人文关怀的梅婶抚养），即使在打击坏人时也极为礼貌——在一个几乎全由成年人及其存在主义牢骚与悔恨构成的世界里，他是个俏皮的亮点。 但我们对这个角色的感情并非唯一，甚至不是最重要的爱情故事，正是它推动了《崭新之日》的成功。也许是因为年龄最接近罗密欧与朱丽叶，彼得与MJ（或格温）的复杂恋情一直是多元宇宙中最经典的内置爱情故事。曾饰演这些角色的演员——托比·马奎尔与克斯汀·邓斯特、安德鲁·加菲尔德与艾玛·斯通——无一例外地成为现实中的恋人。当系列重启，由霍兰德与赞达亚接棒时，制片人艾米·帕斯卡曾警告他们不要约会。 幸运的是，他们没有听从，而霍兰德与赞达亚这对现实中的恩爱夫妻（近期已结婚）在《崭新之日》中饰演的虚构情侣，如今却因上一部《蜘蛛侠：英雄无归》中的记忆消除咒语而分离。编剧克里斯·麦肯纳和埃里克·萨默斯决定让彼得·帕克从所有人的记忆中消失，包括MJ和内德（雅各布·巴塔伦饰），这一巧妙设定不仅拯救了我们
导演：MAX McLEAN
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从《蜘蛛侠上大学》中汲取灵感，同时注入了一种莎士比亚都会羡慕的宿命爱情悲剧色彩。 我不可能是唯一一个仅仅为了弄清彼得和MJ是否 / 何时 / 如何重归于好而购买首映周末票的人。 此事在其他地方已被剧透，但我们姑且留白：他们做到了，又没有。 尽管我们中更愤世嫉俗的人可能会将这种模糊性视为对未来电影（包括《复仇者联盟：末日》）赤裸裸的情感钩子，但彼得和MJ能够各自独立成长片刻，这一设定在主题上至关重要，甚至颇具革命性。它确实引发了一个耐人寻味的问题——关于浪漫之爱的本质，这种爱在漫威及许多其他电影中往往与“被拯救”紧密相连。 看到这对著名的
为了弄清楚彼得和MJ是否 / 何时 / 如何重归于好 而购买首映周末电影票的人。
今夏最佳首映周末 《死侍与金刚狼》 也保持着有史以来 最佳夏季电影首映周末的纪录。但这一成绩 仍无法与《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》相提并论。
最大规模的 集体周末票房 霍兰德和赞达亚的 票房号召力在他们的 两部电影及其他正在上映的影片中达到 新高度，这些影片共计获得了
约4.3亿美元—— 这是有史以来最大规模的集体周末票房。 《奥德赛》——同样由霍兰德和赞达亚 主演——在第三个周末获得了5100万美元票房。赞达亚的辉煌之年 将在今年冬天继续，届时《沙丘3》将于12月18日上映—— 与《复仇者联盟：末日》同一天。 目前尚不清楚霍兰德是否会出现在即将上映的 《复仇者联盟》电影中，但《崭新之日》的结尾处写着 “蜘蛛侠将会回归”。
杰伊·梅登特 索尼影业
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这是对决策者的恳求： 请将目光从票房数字上移开， 关注这部电影本身。 诚然，《崭新之日》充满了精彩的 荡网和飞檐走壁场景（尽管 蜘蛛侠在这些场景中比以往更加伤痕累累）， 但其力量源于情感而非视觉奇观， 更多依赖于对话而非特效。 霍兰德版的蜘蛛侠 与每个人——朋友和敌人——的互动 都比其他超级英雄更具个人色彩； 他与惩罚者（乔恩·伯恩塔尔饰）、 布鲁斯·班纳（马克·鲁法洛饰）、 德沃尔夫警探（莉莎·科隆-扎亚斯饰）， 以及结尾处赛迪·辛克饰演的神秘角色的场景， 与其说是关于剧情说明或爆炸性动作， 不如说是关于角色的揭示与联结。 他关心他人，我们也因此关心他。 爱情故事的魅力正在于此， 而《崭新之日》证明了， 爱情故事是难以超越的。
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OVER 700 structures have been destroyed in Spokane, Wash., since the fires broke out Saturday afternoon.
TOWER SPARKED EATON FIRE
an official report finds its old infrastructure set off the blaze.
By Grace Toohey
Out-of-service equip- ment managed by Southern California Edison started the deadly Eaton fire that killed 19 people and de- stroyed much of Altadena in January 2025, according to a long-awaited report by state and county fire officials. The report, released Tuesday by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and Los An- geles County Fire Depart- ment, confirms long-held suspicions about the fire’s origin after it sparked near a utility tower the night of Jan. 7, 2025. “After 18 months of thor- ough review of all evidence, alongside retained electrical and metallurgical experts, the investigation concluded that the cause of the wildfire conflagration was due to the electrical arcing events that took place on the out-of- service Southern California Edison tower,” L.A. County Fire officials wrote in a state- ment announcing the re- port. The report lists eight vio- lations of state criminal and public utility codes, among others, that appear tied to Edison, but the details were redacted. The redactions are due to an ongoing review of the evidence by the L.A. County district attorney’s office. Edison officials have said for months that one of its century-old transmission lines likely caused the fire, but the utility, facing multi- ple lawsuits, has denied full responsibility for the fire, in- cluding financially, in court. It has, however, offered an opt-in payout program for fire victims. In its annual report, com- pany representatives told shareholders the utility acted as a “reasonable” op- erator before the fire, de- spite failing to upkeep its ag- ing infrastructure. The Times has reported exten- sively on this Edison infra- structure where the fire started, including how the area was known as a poten- tial fire hazard. Dave Eisenhauer, a spokesperson for Edison, said the company is review- ing the report. “We have taken our po- tential role in the start of this fire seriously from the begin- ning,” Eisenhauer said. “Our hearts are with the Altadena community, and we contin- ue to support them as they recover and rebuild through
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arrive from Southern California to lend assistance
By Clara Harter and Rong-Gong Lin II
Santa Monica Fire Department Deputy Chief Tom Clemo has barely slept since Saturday. He’s spent the last three days based in a high school in Spokane, Wash., leading a command post of crews assigned to fires that have destroyed roughly 700 structures and have remarkable similar- ities to the destructive firestorm that hit Los Angeles County in 2025. “What we have been witness to and are managing now is a wind-driven brush fire that resulted in an urban conflagration in neighborhoods similar to [those in the] Palisades and Eaton [fires],” Clemo said. “They’re small in footprint but enormous in damage.” Both the Spokane and Los Angeles wildfires ignited while a “Particularly Dan- gerous Situation” was in place, the most ex- treme wildfire warning issued by the Na- tional Weather Service. It means that low humidity, powerful winds and high temper- atures are creating the perfect conditions for wildfires to spread voraciously. Whipped by fearsome winds and fueled by a tinderbox of dry vegetation, three wild-
ARREST MADE: Suspect charged in Spokane’s largest wildfire. NATION, A4
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DIWALI honors the spiritual victory of light over darkness. Above, a celebration in West Hollywood.
caught in court battle
preference for Diwali. Supporters say it’s about communities.
By Karen Garcia
The celebration of Diwali involves lighting the way for the goddess of prosperity and abundance into your home. It’s also a time to rec- ognize the relationships in your life by celebrating with loved ones, sharing a meal or swapping gifts. The holiday — also known as Deepavali and the Hindu “Festival of Lights” and celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists — was set to become Califor- nia’s 12th state-recognized holiday when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation
fires ignited on the edge of the wildland-ur- ban interface in eastern Washington. California firefighters like Clemo have joined the fight, which could offer a grim preview of what is ahead for California amid dry conditions and rising tempera- tures due to climate change. The scale of destruction seems to be one of “hundreds and hundreds of homes,” Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said. With fires flanking Spokane to its north, east and west, Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown called the fires “the worst natural disaster our region has faced.” The fires came as Spokane recorded its 10th-driest June on record, with just 0.26 of an inch of rain for the month — just 22% of normal, and as not a single drop of rain fell in July. The state of Washington has been in a statewide drought emergency since April 8 due to near-record-low snowpack. UC climate scientist Daniel Swain called the trio of fires — now called the Spokane Area Fires — “the single most de- structive fire in Washington state history.” The devastation comes as extreme weather conditions across the American West are becoming ripe for intense wild- fires should an ignition occur. For now,
to that effect last year. But the new state holiday is in legal limbo after a local group filed a petition with the Sacramento County Su- perior Court, arguing that the law was too costly to im- plement, violated the U.S. Constitution and, more im- portantly, established Di- wali as a preferred religious holiday in the state. By officially adding Di- wali to the statewide public holiday list, the law would have allowed some school staff and state employees who celebrate the holiday to get a new paid holiday. It also would have given schools and community col- leges the authority to close on the holiday, and allowed teachers to incorporate classroom exercises that ac- knowledge and celebrate it. That was problematic for
Lindsey Wasson Associated Press
[See Spokane, A8]
By Libor Jany
One day last fall, Roy Lee Harvey got into a Lyft in Phoenix and headed across town. He and the driver started chatting, and au- thorities say Harvey told the man about his work buying high-end Nike sneakers from shoe companies and reselling them for a healthy profit. The Lyft driver thought it sounded like a good busi- ness opportunity, so the two men exchanged numbers and later met up at an apart- ment in nearby Scottsdale,
Blanche will face Senate vote next Committee advances his nomination for attorney general while the panel’s Democrats oppose. NATION, A4
Odd odyssey into film criticism The Times’ Amy Nicholson welcomes Emily Wilson to the rough seas of reviews.
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threats behind Carvalho’s exit
accusations against chief. His attorneys called them a ‘hit job.’
By Howard Blume
In a confidential letter that preceded the June res- ignation of Los Angeles Uni- fied Supt. Alberto Carvalho, the school board accused its heralded leader of unprofes- sional conduct, unsatisfac- tory performance and “vio- lation of or refusal to obey” state laws or school district regulations. The June 8 letter, ob- tained by The Times in re- sponse to a public records request to the school dis- trict, signaled the board’s in- tent to either fire Carvalho or force his resignation. Over seven pages, the Board of Education pro- vided its justifications for Carvalho’s termination, cit- ing allegedly unreported gifts, unreported outside in-
soaring fuel profits
seek to crack down on ‘absolutely obscene’ gains amid Iran war.
By Blanca Begert
Sky-high earnings for oil companies and California refiners in the second quar- ter are renewing calls from state legislators to crack down on industry profits. Marathon Petroleum, the second-largest refiner in the state, reported $5.1 bil- lion in profit Tuesday, more than four times the same quarter last year, after fuel supplies tightened during the Iran war and prices for oil and gas soared. From April through June,
where, according to police investigators, Harvey showed him into a room strewn with different pairs of Nikes and their cardboard boxes. The most coveted shoe models, which the company manufactures in limited runs, can fetch three or four times more than their retail value on the resale market. Reselling sneakers has be- come a multibillion-dollar global industry. Social me- dia influencers generate hype through unboxing vid- eos that draw millions of views. Fashionistas known as
come and donor-funded travel. The accusations also included alleged unauthor- ized handling of district property and improper use of district resources, includ- ing a car and driver intended for work-related tasks. In addition, Carvalho re- ceived “gifts from contrac- tors and lobbyists beyond the limits permitted by law,” the letter alleged. Carvalho’s attorneys re- sponded to the letter eight days later with a detailed confidential letter of their own, also obtained by The Times in response to a pub- lic records request to the dis- trict. The attorneys said the accusations were “legally and factually deficient” and “a political hit job — an effort to remove a well-regarded public official who had the courage to stand between the [Trump] Administra- tion’s immigration enforce- ment apparatus and the schoolchildren of this city.” On Tuesday morning, Carvalho’s attorneys pro-
[See LAUSD, A6]
Chevron, the biggest refiner and second-biggest oil pro- ducer in California, made $12.1 billion in profit, five times the amount in the same quarter last year, and its highest earnings in at least six years. Refiners PBF Energy and Valero also re- ported windfalls, with the latter earning $3.7 billion, an- other fivefold increase from the year before. “These profits are abso- lutely obscene,” said state Sen. Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park), who along with Sen. Benjamin Allen (D-Santa Monica) has introduced a bill to give the state attorney general the power to prose- cute price gouging in wartime. “There’s this no- tion that these companies can’t run profitably in Cali-
[See Earnings, A10]
sneakerheads scramble to buy and trade the latest styles, paying a premium for the rarest pairs. Some treat them as investments, never wearing their purchases in order to keep them in mint condition. Like a sports car or a fine wine, they say, the value of shoes can increase as they get older. Harvey’s collection was so vast that the Lyft driver became suspicious, accord- ing to a police search war- rant affidavit reviewed by The Times. After leaving the apartment, police said, the driver googled Harvey and
[See Sneakers, A7]
By Sam McNeil, Joseph Wilson and Colleen Barry
BRUSSELS — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s migration poli- cies faced fierce criticism as leaders from across the Eu- ropean Union met Tuesday following last week’s rush of migrants to the Spanish ter- ritory of Ceuta in North Afri- ca. The arrival of 72,000 mi- grants on Thursday and Fri- day sparked a humanitarian crisis in Ceuta and reignited the immigration debate in the 27-nation bloc, though most of the migrants soon went back. More than 80 mi- grants died, including some who drowned or were tram- pled in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, accord- ing to Spanish and Moroc- can authorities. Open letters from 22 EU leaders, and a quick retort from Sánchez, have exposed a roiling debate inside the EU pitting migration hawks against the progressive Spanish leader who has challenged consensus within the bloc on migration as well as NATO spending, Gaza and Israel. Sánchez’s government has dismissed the attacks as politically motivated, saying most of the migrants were pushed back from Ceuta within hours in “close coor- dination with the Moroccan authorities and with very lit- tle support from other Euro- pean states.” While ministers seemed to rally back around Sánchez after meeting Tues- day, Europe displayed a deeply damaging disunity in the aftermath of Ceuta as it faces security threats from Moscow, instability with Washington and economic tension with Beijing, said Alicia García-Herrero, chief economist for Asia Pacific and Middle East for the fi- nancial firm Natixis. “Europe has shown weak- ness again,” she said. “Mas- sive weakness.” EU leaders quickly pounced on Sánchez once videos from Ceuta went vi- ral. Many blamed the inci- dent on his government’s progressive policies and publicly rallied for new bor- der checks at sea, air and land ports of entry. Italian Premier Giorgia
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Los Angeles mayoral race: An article in the Aug. 2 Cali- fornia section about campaign fundraising said Nithya Ra- man raised just under $1 million during the primary cam- paign. She raised just over $1 million.
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Meloni issued the most blunt criticism of Sánchez, and announced that Italy would enforce air and sea border controls with Spain. Yet Ceuta’s remote geo- graphical position meant “there was almost zero risk that people [would] really arrive in Spain and then move on to Italy,” said ana- lyst Matteo Villa at the Ital- ian Institute for Interna- tional Political Studies in Milan. He said that just 2% of migrants arriving in Eu- rope make it to Italy. Nando Sigona, a profes- sor at the University of Birm- ingham, said Meloni de- tested a move Sánchez pres- ided over in July to poten- tially grant legal status to as many as 1 million immi- grants living in the country without permission, and is eager to portray his ap- proach as a failure. Sánchez fired back in an online post that called Mel- oni’s position on Ceuta “con- trary to European law, hu- manitarian law, and the principles of solidarity that bind us together.” He said It- aly has allowed in twice the number of migrants as Spain since 2021, with Spain receiving 234,000 to Italy’s 478,000. But the criticism was EU- wide, with Meloni signing a joint letter with 21 other leaders from Finland to Malta that pointed to a July Spanish court ruling as the “trigger” for “this attack on our migration and asylum system.” Spain’s Supreme Court had ruled that migrants ar- riving by sea could not be summarily deported with- out due process — unlike those who cross by land or climb Ceuta’s border fence — because they had not crossed a physical barrier. Sánchez said the ruling had been intentionally mis- construed by migrant smug- glers to persuade thousands of people to swim around the border fence. The Socialist leader replied in his own letter, re- calling that Spain had taken in migrants who arrived at eastern European nations from Belarus in 2021 and at the southern Italian island of Lampedusa in 2023. Morocco’s government views the situation as a pre- dictable result of the court ruling, said a high-ranking diplomat who spoke on con-
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THE TERRITORY of Ceuta on Thursday and Friday saw over 72,000 migrants cross over from Morocco.
dition of anonymity to dis- cuss a highly sensitive issue. He said it “sent a clear message to migrants: ‘Come. If you arrive, you’ll be protected.’ That outcome should have been antici- pated by Ceuta’s author- ities.” Blame has been pointed the other way, however, with Spain’s Defense Minister Margarita Robles on Mon- day demanding Rabat, Mo- rocco, investigate the local failure to stop tens of thou- sands of migrants from leav- ing the kingdom.
By Samy Magdy, Aamer Madhani and Matthew Lee
CAIRO — Iran and the gulf Arab state of Oman have made progress toward a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a potential break- through that could help wind down the war in the Middle East, regional offi- cials said Tuesday. Under the emerging agreement, ships would enter the Persian Gulf through an Iran-controlled route and exit through a route controlled by Oman, with service fees charged for providing security and pre- serving the maritime envi- ronment, two regional offi- cials told the Associated Press. They said that negotia- tions are still underway and that the final agreement could take a different form, with any deal linked to lifting the U.S. blockade on Iran’s ports. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive nego- tiations unfolding behind closed doors. Any agreement formaliz- ing Iran’s control of the strait would mark a signifi- cant strategic victory for Tehran. For that reason, the U.S. could seek to block the deal by refusing to lift the blockade. The strait was an open international water- way before the U.S. and Isra- el attacked Iran on Feb. 28. A U.S. official familiar with the negotiations said that any “temporary” routes established through the strait would not involve ap-
By Hyung-Jin Kim
SEOUL — A group of eight South Korean stu- dents were detained Tues- day for allegedly breaking into a United States air base while shouting anti-U.S. slo- gans, South Korean author- ities said. U.S. military personnel detained the four male and four female students after they allegedly entered Osan Air Base near the capital, Seoul. They were later trans- ferred to the custody of South Korean authorities, police said. The students were being investigated under a law protecting military installa- tions in South Korea, ac-
of our future.
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Gil Arias, who served as deputy executive director of the EU’s border agency Frontex from 2006 to 2016 and also worked for Spain’s interior and migration min- istries, said he has “abso- lutely no doubt” Morocco not only knew of, but was likely directly or indirectly complicit in the Ceuta crisis. “This doesn’t happen simply due to a passive atti- tude or omission from Mo- rocco,” Arias, who retired in 2020, told the Associated Press. “There was an invita- tion or it was encouraged.”
provals by Iran or charges. The official, who was not au- thorized to comment pub- licly and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. remains committed to re- turning to the status quo in which “no party controls the lanes or the ability to transit through them.” President Trump is under mounting pressure to end an unpopular war that has driven up gas prices ahead of midterm elections and drawn down U.S. sup- plies of some munitions. In recent days, he has again whipsawed between threat- ening massive strikes and voicing support for diplo- matic efforts. In an exchange with re- porters on Monday, Trump reiterated his public stance that he’s opposed to tolling in the strait. “I’m not going to let them charge,” Trump said. “Any- body’s going to charge, we’ll charge.”
U.S. officials confirm progress Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said the bilateral talks with Oman are focused on “es- tablishing safe inbound and outbound shipping lanes,” routes that “uphold sover- eign rights while also ad- dressing the national securi- ty considerations of both Iran and Oman.” “The final results of these negotiations will be an- nounced once concluded,” he added, in remarks carried by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency. U.S. Secretary of State
cording to police, who said they all had invoked their right to remain silent during questioning. Police said the students shouted slogans at the site including, “Let’s smash U.S. 7th Air Force.” A U.S. military statement said that the group at- tempted to unlawfully enter the base through the main gate and that “unauthorized attempts to access a U.S. military installation are tak- en extremely seriously.” The incident will be ad- dressed in accordance with applicable U.S. and South Korean laws and pro- cedures, the military said. The Korean Progressive University Student Union said in a statement on Face-
The Moroccan diplomat rejected using force to tackle the migration phenomenon. “We are not Europe’s po- lice.” Many right-wing politi- cians have won elections across the EU by promising to crack down on migration — and they claim to have done so with the European Migration and Asylum Pact that grants capitals greater abilities to surveil, detain and deport migrants to so- called “safe countries” like Morocco or “return hubs” outside the bloc. Data from Frontex show migration to the EU peaked in 2015 with 1.8 million peo- ple, the majority of whom crossed via the Balkans or the eastern Mediterranean. Since then, numbers have dramatically fallen: In the first half of 2026, crossings fell by 37% to approximately 49,000 people. “Fewer boats are setting out towards Europe, and that is the result of sus- tained cooperation with our partners in the region,” said Frontex Executive Director Hans Leijtens. But Ceuta shows there’s still an underlying migration problem that the EU has not tackled, said Michele LeVoy, director of the Brussels- based Platform for Interna-
Marco Rubio, speaking to re- porters at the State Depart- ment, said “there’s been progress made in those talks, but not finality yet. We’re hoping that will hap- pen very shortly.” Rubio has previously ruled out any deal that would give Iran control over the strait, saying last month that it would create a “very dangerous precedent” for other parts of the world. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC that “there is a chance we may have a deal today or tomor- row to open the strait and move towards a more nor- malized position in this con- flict.” Asked whether there would be tolls for movement through the strait, Bessent said: “I think it would be freedom of movement.” The potential agreement between Iran and Oman was first reported by the New York Times.
Trump says this is Iran’s ‘last chance’
A fifth of the world’s traded oil and gas transited the waterway before the war. Iranian attacks on ships have largely shut it down, causing a spike in the price of fuel, fertilizer and other goods, and rattling econo- mies far beyond the Middle East. Trump said Monday that the U.S. was in talks with Iran, saying it was Tehran’s “last chance” to reach a deal and avoid another U.S. mili- tary escalation. “The first phase is the opening of the straits. The
book that those detained were members who were try- ing to protest what it called the U.S. military’s opposi- tion to a South Korean semi- conductor cluster project. South Korean police de- clined to comment on the group’s statement, which was not addressed by the U.S. military. The Yonhap news agency reported the U.S. said it has important interests in a mili- tary airport set to be relo- cated because of the semi- conductor project. There are about 28,500 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea to help deter potential aggression from North Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War that ended with an armistice, not
tional Cooperation on Un- documented Migrants. “On Ceuta, political games are being played over the lives of people on both sides of the border,” she said. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the crisis has exposed a need in the EU to develop an emer- gency mechanism when “mi- gration is weaponized,” he wrote in a Tuesday op-ed in Politico that attempted to make peace between Euro- pean politicians. “The deliberate instru- mentalization of migration by state and nonstate actors seeking to test Europe’s re- silience, undermine its cohe- sion and extract political concessions” requires new legal and operational tools to “defend its external bor- ders, deter those who seek to exploit its openness and re- spond to this new reality firmly, lawfully and collec- tively,” Mitsotakis wrote.
McNeil, Wilson and Barry write for the Associated Press. Wilson reported from Barcelona, Spain, and Barry from Milan. AP writers Renata Brito in Barcelona, Akram Oubachir in Fnideq, Morocco, and Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed to this report.
second phase will be the de- nuclearization,” Trump said. “And that will take a lit- tle while.” Iran has denied it is nego- tiating with the U.S., saying the talks are only with Oman. The two sides reached an interim agreement in June to reopen the strait and launch 60 days of talks aimed at ending the war and resolving the long-standing dispute over Iran’s nuclear program. That agreement collapsed over escalating hostilities focused on the strait, and the deadline is around two weeks away.
Cargo ship reports strike
Meanwhile, a cargo ship reported being “hit by an un- known projectile” in the strait off the coast of Oman, the United Kingdom Mar- itime Trade Operations Center said, without provid- ing further information on the ship, including what flag it was sailing under or whether it was carrying cargo. The ship sustained dam- age, according to British maritime security firm Am- brey, which did not elabo- rate. In recent weeks, Iran had repeatedly attacked ships using a route running close to Oman that is overseen by the U.S. military and in- tended to bypass Tehran’s control.
Magdy, Madhani and Lee write for the Associated Press. Madhani and Lee reported from Washington.
a peace treaty. Surveys have steadfastly shown a majority of South Koreans support the U.S.- South Korean military alli- ance, but the U.S. presence and its role in South Korea’s turbulent modern history also have been long-running sources of anti-U.S. senti- ment among many in South Korea. South Korean police ar- rested four students in 2019 who broke into the U.S. am- bassador’s residence in Seoul while protesting the Trump administration’s de- mands for the country to pay more to help cover the costs of U.S. troops there.
Kim writes for the Associated Press.
the hulks of German vessels are becoming visible in the river.
By Marko Drobnjakovic
PRAHOVO, Serbia — Water levels on the Danube River, the second-longest in Europe, have dropped so low because of drought that the hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships are emerging into view. They are a curious dis- traction from the summer heat crisis. The Danube’s record-low water levels have also forced power plants to the brink of shutting down, and governments across Central and Eastern Europe are taking steps to conserve electricity. In the middle of the river separating Serbia and Ro- mania near the Serbian port of Prahovo, a rusty hull is now visible along with a bro- ken mast where the Nazi flag used to fly. The ships, some still lad- en with weapons, belonged to Nazi Germany’s Black Sea fleet that the Germans deliberately sank as they re- treated from Romania and as Soviet forces advanced deeper into Europe near the end of the war. Historians say up to 200 German warships were scut- tled in September 1944 near
country. Each side accuses the other of targeting civilians.
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Russia and Ukraine traded accusations Tuesday that each side’s attacks caused civilian deaths, with officials in the Moscow re- gion saying five people were killed there while authorities in Ukraine said a similar number, including two chil- dren, died at various sites across the country. Russia has relentlessly pounded civilian areas of Ukraine, even though Mos- cow insists its forces target only military facilities. Since the Kremlin launched its full-scale inva- sion over four years ago, Ukraine has developed long- range drones that can strike deep inside Russia. In the last year, its forces have bat- tered oil facilities, major storage depots and other key infrastructure. More than 16,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the war began, the United Nations said last month in its most recent casualty report, with the vast majority occurring in areas under the Ukrainian government’s control. Casu- alties have risen steadily each year. The U.N. children’s agency on Tuesday urged both countries to uphold in- ternational humanitarian law requiring the protection of children, citing recent deaths in Russia’s Belgorod and Krasnodar regions, as well as in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions. “Attacks that kill and in- jure children must stop,” UNICEF said in a state- ment. Meanwhile, escalating at- tacks on shipping in the Black Sea by both sides have reawakened fears that glob- al food security could be put at risk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted
By Marlon González
TEGUCIGALPA, Hon- duras — A judge in Hon- duras ruled Monday that former President Juan Or- lando Hernández, who re- cently returned to the Cen- tral American country after a Trump pardon for drug trafficking charges in the U.S., will not be jailed during his trial for fraud and money laundering. The case is being closely watched as a litmus test for the country’s justice system after critics say the former leader ruled with impunity
A MAN walks by the wreckage of a German warship in the Danube River near Prahovo, Serbia, on Tuesday.
Prahovo in the Danube gorge as they came under Soviet fire. The idea behind the deliberate sinking was to slow down the Soviet ad- vance in the Balkans. But Nazi Germany surrendered months later, in May 1945. The sight of the old war- ships is a reminder that the Serbian government, with
A WEAPON is fired toward Russian army positions near Kramatorsk, Ukraine.
a video on social media that he said showed a Russian drone hunting a man selling vegetables from a street stall in the southern city of Kher- son. The video shows the man trying to flee the drone as it circles his vehicle, follows him and ultimately strikes the car where he was trying to hide. He suffered wounds to his back, legs and arms, according to an interview he gave to the Kherson regional military administration. Russia’s Defense Min- istry did not immediately re- ply to an Associated Press request for comment. Drone attacks on civil- ians have surged since the war began, with 967 people killed, including 10 children, and nearly 7,000 people in- jured, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office said Tues- day. Russian drone operators track and strike civilians go- ing about daily activities, ac- cording to previous AP re- porting. A U.N. commission concluded in October 2025 that such attacks amounted to crimes against humanity. “The world must see this,” Zelensky said. “It must see every piece of evidence that Russia has gone mad and that its soldiers take pleasure in killing and abus- ing civilians.” The death toll from a drone strike Monday in the Russian Black Sea resort of Arkhipo-Osipovka rose to
for years. Hernández, once consid- ered an ally by the U.S. in the drug war, led Honduras from 2014 to 2022, during which he boasted that he would “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos,” according to U.S. prose- cutors. He was extradited to the United States for his drug trafficking trial shortly after leaving office and was sen- tenced to 45 years in prison. President Trump unexpect- edly pardoned him last year and backed his party’s can- didate for president, Nasry Asfura, who took office in
European Union financial support, has long been try- ing to do something about them. Some were removed from the river by Commu- nist Yugoslav authorities, but most have remained be- cause of the explosives they carried. Now, however, author- ities are trying to keep traffic
seven, including four chil- dren, regional authorities said. On Tuesday, Krasnodar regional authorities up- dated the number of wounded to 58, with 21 hospi- talized. Video circulating online showed a drone slamming into a crowded beach with what sounded like gunfire in the background. Ukraine has not commented on the strike. AUkrainian drone attack Tuesday in the region around Moscow killed five people and wounded 10 oth- ers, said Gov. Andrei Vorobyov. Most of the dam- age occurred in the Chekhov municipal district, where several fires erupted at the Novoselki industrial zone, he said. In the latest in a series of attacks on Russia’s biggest online retailer Wildberries, the company said its ware- house in the Leningrad re- gion, adjacent to St. Peters- burg, was on fire. In the village of Emmaus, located between Moscow and St. Petersburg, drone debris partially damaged a wall of a Wildberries ware- house, regional Gov. Vitaly Korolyov said. In the last 18 days, Ukrainian drones have tar- geted 15 Wildberries ware- houses, 13 of which caught fire, said Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces.
January. Hernández, 57, faces charges related to a case known as Pandora I, which alleges that a network of former high-ranking offi- cials from 2010 to 2013 partici- pated in the expansion and approval of public funds disbursements totaling more than $10.8 million, or about 288 million lempiras, to various foundations, ac- cording to an investigation by the country’s Specialized Prosecutor’s Unit Against Corruption Networks, or UFERCO. According to UFERCO, Hernández benefited from
flowing on the Danube, which flows through 10 na- tions, as the dropping water levels create dangerous con- ditions. Experts have linked the unusually hot weather to global warming and other factors. Krsta Brandic, a Prahovo resident, said the low water
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Ukrainian officials say the company provides goods that can be used by the mili- tary. Kyiv is also keen to unset- tle the Russian public with high-profile attacks. The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces on Monday night struck “Ukrainian ports, vessels and port infrastructure” used by Kyiv’s army. In the port of Chornomorsk, in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, Russia said it hit an automo- bile components plant and a port terminal, where the mil- itary vehicles were being re- paired and ammunition and fuel were being stored. In the southern port of Mykolaiv, a bulk carrier with military cargo was dam- aged, while in Pivdennyi, an- other Ukrainian port, a ves- sel unloading military cargo was hit, according to the Russian statement. The ministry also said two bulk carriers hauling weapons and military equip- ment were damaged at sea, south of Odesa. Turkey on Tuesday re- peated its appeal for both countries to ensure safe pas- sage in the Black Sea after two Turkish-owned ships were attacked by drones af- ter leaving the Russian port of Novorossiysk. A Turkish Foreign Min- istry statement expressed concerns that the war is in- creasingly spreading across
these disbursements, re- ceiving at least $2.3 million for his political campaign through various schemes, including the creation of shell companies, the use of straw men and fictitious contracts. Other high-level officials implicated in Pandora I whose cases have been dis- missed indicate the likely outcome for Hernández, ac- cording to legal experts. The former president re- mained in the U.S. until his arrest warrant in Honduras was suspended by a judge in June. Prosecutors requested
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levels have almost stopped ship traffic: “As you can see, the [big] ships can’t pass anymore.”
Drobnjakovic writes for the Associated Press. Associated Press writer Dusan Stojanovic contributed from Belgrade, Serbia.
the Black Sea, threatening merchant shipping, and warned such incidents could have broader consequences, including for the global food supply, as important ship- ments of grain, fertilizer and other key products move through those waters. Russian attacks on Mykolaiv, including its port, killed an 89-year-old woman and wounded seven other people ages 2 to 83, Ukrain- ian regional officials said. The Russian strike on ci- vilian infrastructure in the southern Odesa region de- stroyed a private home and wounded two people, ac- cording to Oleh Kiper, head of the regional military ad- ministration. In Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, six Russian glide bombs killed two girls ages 5 and 10 and an elderly woman, said Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy regional military administration. Russian forces also struck Kharkiv and 18 towns and villages across the northern region in the previ- ous 24 hours, killing one per- son and injuring seven, in- cluding an 8-year-old, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional mili- tary administration. Strikes in Balakliia, also in the Kharkiv region, dam- aged an apartment building, a library, three stores and more than 10 houses, wound- ing two women, local author- ities said. Two glide bombs struck Kramatorsk in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, injuring 24 people, local offi- cials said. Kramatorsk sits at the northern end of Ukraine’s Fortress Belt, where Western analysts say Russia is making a renewed effort to break through after four years of attrition. Vadym Filashkin, head of the regional military admin- istration, urged people still living near the front to evac- uate, saying authorities would help with transporta- tion, housing and other sup- port.
Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
that he remain in custody while his case is ongoing, but the judge denied the request Monday. However, the court placed some restrictions on Hernández. He is barred from leaving the country and must check in with the court on a weekly basis. Hernández has denied the charges against him and said he willingly faces the case against him, which “lacks any legal basis.” He will return to court for his next hearing on Aug. 12.
trek to Iraq for Arbaeen rituals
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra
BAGHDAD — Millions of Shiite Muslims observed the annual Arbaeen pilgrimage Tuesday in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala, under the shad- ow of ongoing regional ten- sions and fears of another round of escalation in the U.S.-Iran war. Arbaeen is held 40 days after Ashura, which com- memorates the killing of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and members of his family, at the Battle of Karbala in 680 A.D. Karbala Gov. Nasseif Jas- sim al-Khattabi said Tues- day that more than 22 mil- lion people entered the city during the pilgrimage, in- cluding about 5 million non- Iraqi visitors as well as Iraqis from different regions of the country. The event is considered one of the world’s largest an- nual religious gatherings. Among the highest-pro- file foreign visitors was Ira- nian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who arrived in the Iraqi city of Najaf on Monday and continued on to Karbala to take part in the pilgrim- age. Araghchi’s presence was a reminder of the delicate balancing act that Iraq — which has close ties to both Washington and Tehran — has carried out since the be- ginning of the war. Iraq has found itself in the crosshairs of both sides and has sought to avoid being pulled further into the conflict. As usual, Iranian pil- grims arrived in large num- bers, but some observers said the number of pilgrims from other countries had shrunk. Aqeel al-Rubaie, 45, a pil- grim from Baghdad who was on his way to Karbala, said Iranian flags were particu- larly visible along the Najaf- Karbala road, while there were fewer flags than usual from European, Arab and other Islamic countries. He attributed this to “the war and the events unfold- ing across the region, which have affected the number of Arab and foreign pilgrims.” Another pilgrim from Baghdad, Hassan al-Sarai, 35, said, “I hardly saw any flags other than Iranian ones, which were clearly vis- ible along the road as well as inside and around the city of Karbala.” Volunteer processions providing food, water, medi- cal care and other services lined the roads leading to Karbala from across Iraq. The pilgrimage is taking place this year as Iraq faces difficult economic condi- tions following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has disrupted Iraqi oil ex- ports. More than 90% of Iraqi state revenue comes from oil exports, making the country’s economy highly vulnerable to any interrup- tion in crude shipments. It also comes as Baghdad is wrestling with a difficult task it has set for itself: dis- arming the country’s net- work of militias, many of them Iran-backed. One of the most powerful Iran-backed militias, Kataib Hezbollah, said in a state- ment marking the occasion of Arbaeen that it rejects calls to disarm and remains committed to retaining what it described as the “weapons of the resistance.” Meanwhile in Iran, many observant Shiites unable to make the pilgrimage to Kar- bala held their own observ- ances, which sometimes took on a political tone. In the capital, Tehran, black-clad mourners rallied along a nearly 12-mile route to a Shiite holy shrine in the south of the city from a start- ing point in the central part of the city. The mourners chanted slogans seeking retaliation for the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kha- menei in strikes by the U.S. and Israel, while some dem- onstrators trampled on U.S. and Israeli flags. State media said similar rallies were held in other Ira- nian cities and towns.
vote on whether to confirm him as the U.S. attorney general.
By Ben Wieder
WASHINGTON — Todd Blanche cleared the first hurdle Tuesday on his path to confirmation as attorney general, setting the stage for a vote by the full Senate this week as Republicans race to shore up support among three potential holdouts in their party. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 10 along party lines to advance his nomination, days after the vote was delayed by the concerns of Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina about a settlement President Trump reached earlier this year with the In- ternal Revenue Service. Blanche provided written assurance Sunday that a nearly $1.8-billion “anti- weaponization” fund cre- ated as part of the settle- ment was dead and that tax audit immunity granted to the president, two of his sons and their business as part of the settlement would be constrained.
setting Spokane’s largest wildfire
By Manuel Valdes, Martha Bellisle and Gene Johnson
SPOKANE, Wash. — A man charged with intention- ally setting a wildfire that has destroyed hundreds of buildings in and around Washington state’s second- largest city was contacted by law enforcement about two fires last year, though he wasn’t charged in either, court documents show. Aaron F. Farinacci, of Spokane, was arrested Mon- day and booked on suspi- cion of first-degree arson in connection with the Old Trails fire, the biggest of three blazes that have de- stroyed at least 700 build- ings and forced tens of thou- sands of people from their homes. According to court records, he denied setting the fire. His bond was set at $1 million. Authorities haven’t said what caused the other two fires burning around Spokane. No deaths have been reported. Farinacci, 37, served about a decade in prison af- ter killing his father in Arizo- na in 2010. Last year, author- ities questioned him about two fire-related cases in Spokane, according to a probable cause statement filed in Spokane County Su- perior Court. One involved several “bus-sized” fires in an area near Farinacci’s apartment in July 2025, police records say. The other involved a wildfire in a state park that prompted evacuation notic- es the following month. In neither case was he ar- rested.
By Thomas Beaumont and Julie Carr Smyth
The U.S. House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it had opened an investigation into domestic abuse allega- tions against Republican Rep. Max Miller as the em- battled Ohio congressman faced pressure from Presi- dent Trump and escalating criticism from his former fa- ther-in-law, Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno. Miller, a senior advisor to Trump during his first presi- dency, faced a Wednesday deadline to decide whether to stay in his race for reelec- tion, with Republicans nerv- ous that the allegations sur- rounding the second-term congressman could cost them a seat as they try to
SEN. JOHN CORNYN had shown concern about the “anti-weaponization” fund.
That was enough to per- suade Cornyn and Tillis to sign on, but both still voiced some reservations about Blanche’s ability to stand up to Trump, who is his former legal client. “I would advise Mr. Blanche not to be afraid to capitalize on that earned trust when necessary for the good of the country,” Cornyn said before Tuesday’s vote.
A passerby’s tip leads to an arrest
On Saturday, a 64-year- old man who lives in a rural neighborhood northwest of Spokane was driving with his grandson when he saw a man standing along railroad tracks and looking toward nearby trees, sheriff’s detec- tive Michael Drapeau wrote in the probable cause state- ment. About 10 minutes lat- er, as they were returning home, the man still was there, bending over as he faced the tree line. He stood up and acted “nervous” as the vehicle passed, the man told police. Soon after they returned home, the man’s daughter noticed smoke rising from the area and called 911. The man drove back there and gave a police officer a de- scription of the man he had seen — bald, white, wearing a green shirt and carrying a backpack. A responding sheriff’s deputy saw a man matching that description walking more than one mile away and detained him. Another deputy also responded, and the man who reported the tip showed up to identify the person in custody — Fari- nacci — as the one he had seen in the area of the fire, the document states. Farinacci had a backpack and a fanny pack, in which he had a pack of cigarettes, waterproof matches and a butane lighter, it says. He told the deputies he didn’t start the fire and denied hav- ing been in the area where it started. The deputies were un- aware of Farinacci’s prior fire-related contacts, and
hang on to their House ma- jority in this year’s midterms. Leaders of the ethics committee said the commit- tee was reviewing whether Miller “may have engaged in domestic violence and abuse or illegal drug use.” Earlier in the day, Miller said he requested his own investi- gation into the allegations made by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno. It was not clear whether his request or an- other one prompted the committee to investigate. Trump spoke with Miller on Monday and advised that his candidacy “doesn’t look good,” according to a source familiar with the conversa- tion who was granted ano- nymity to discuss a private conversation. Trump’s conversation
Democrats on the com- mittee all opposed Blanche’s nomination and expressed apprehension that the con- troversial fund, which was expected to provide payouts to some of the people charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol, could still return in another form later. “The president himself has largely telegraphed
MORE THAN 700 buildings in Spokane have been destroyed, and tens of thousands were forced to evacuate.
the cause of the Old Trails fire hadn’t been determined yet, so they released him to continue working on evacu- ation efforts, Drapeau wrote. But the following day, a wildland fire investigator for the state determined that the fire started in the same area where Farinacci had been seen, the document says. The investigator ruled out other possible causes, including sparks from elec- tric wires or passing trains, and police arrested Fari- nacci on Monday. “As it happens in so many critical cases, it was citizens who were paying attention to their surroundings, being aware and willing to step up and say something that led to the relatively quick appre- hension of Mr. Farinacci,” Sheriff John Nowels told re- porters Monday. Farinacci remained jailed ahead of Tuesday’s hearing. The Spokane County Public Defender’s of- fice will represent him dur- ing the appearance, and a
with Miller was first re- ported by Axios. But Miller, in announcing his plans on the social plat- form X to request an ethics probe, said “I have nothing to hide” and that he was seeking “to clear my name.” The former Trump aide, whom the president en- dorsed in May, is facing a flurry of legal filings by his ex-wife, who is the Republi- can senator’s daughter, and an ex-girlfriend. Sen. Moreno, who until Sunday had remained quiet about the allegations at his daughter’s request, on Tues- day described the impact on his daughter, granddaugh- ter and wider family as “truly the seventh level of hell.” “This has been brutal be- yond comprehension,” he told reporters at the Capitol.
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that’s his plan,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the top Democrat on the commit- tee. Now all attention will be trained on three potential Republican holdouts in the Senate: Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. Collins said Wednes- day that she would vote no
lawyer will be assigned to him afterward if it’s deter- mined he needs one, said its director, Colin Charbon- neau.
Police talked to him about earlier fires
A detective investigating the Old Trails fire ran a crim- inal history check on Fari- nacci and found that he had been contacted by law en- forcement twice before dur- ing fire investigations. Spokane police respond- ed to reports of several fires on July 8, 2025 near Farinac- ci’s apartment. The area near the Spokane River in- volved several “bus-sized” fires and prompted a signifi- cant emergency response, according to a police record. The Washington State Patrol made contact with Farinacci the following month while pursuing a sus- pect in a wildfire at Riverside State Park. They found him on a park bench, “seemingly out of breath from possibly running.”
“And if there’s any minimum standard for being a public official, as I said, he fails to meet that minimum, basic standard.” Asked about the election implications of the allega- tions for Republicans, Moreno told reporters, “I don’t care about the politics at all.” Moreno expressed con- cern for his granddaughter and told reporters that he traveled Sunday to a subur- ban Cleveland police sta- tion, where Miller was drop- ping off their daughter. Miller and his ex-wife share custody of the 2-year-old. Miller had previewed his intention to stay in the race over the weekend when he livestreamed a video defend- ing himself and posting a cache of documents related
on Blanche, but the other two senators have not said how they plan to vote. The earliest the Senate could vote to confirm Blanche under Senate rules would be Saturday, unless Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) strikes a deal with Democrats to vote earlier. Senators are sched- uled to leave Washington in the coming days for their an- nual five-week August re- cess. Republicans hold 53 seats in the chamber, but the ongoing absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) means that they can afford to lose only two votes, as- suming all Democrats op- pose Blanche’s nomination. Blanche became acting attorney general in April af- ter Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi was fired. Blanche was con- firmed last year as the depu- ty attorney general. He could continue to serve as acting attorney general even if not confirmed, but Trump would then be blocked from appointing a new deputy at- torney general. During his confirmation hearing last month, sena- tors questioned Blanche about the department’s handling of the release of files about deceased sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein — a process Bondi said he over-
Suspect killed his dad when he was 21
When he was 21, Farinacci shot and killed his father in Mesa, Ariz., during an argu- ment about washing dishes, police said. Farinacci also shot himself but survived. He was charged with murder but pleaded guilty in 2012 to manslaughter and aggravated assault, records show. A judge in 2011 found that Farinacci was mentally fit to assist in his own defense, though defense lawyer Jose Colon continued to raise questions about his mental health and noted that he had been hospitalized multi- ple times for psychiatric treatment, court records show. In a letter to the judge, Beth Farinacci, who had married Farinacci’s father, said second-degree murder, not manslaughter, would have been a more appropri- ate way to resolve the case. But she went along with the plea deal because she be-
to his divorce and custody cases on social media. “I’m not dropping out of this race and I’ll win in No- vember,” he said on X. Sen. Moreno said the vi- deo prompted him to break his silence and call for Miller to no longer hold public of- fice. Trump declined to say publicly Monday whether Miller should exit the race, noting that the accusations against him were “allega- tions.” “I know Max. He’s a good person. I mean, I always thought he was a very good person. And I’m going to let the families figure that out,” Trump told reporters dur- ing an Oval Office event.
saw — and his independence from Trump, whom he rep- resented as a personal crimi- nal defense attorney before taking office. Blanche didn’t do himself any favors when he acciden- tally referred to himself as Trump’s attorney, before clarifying that he used to be his attorney. “He has never been able to shed his role as criminal defense lawyer for Donald Trump,” said Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Tuesday before the committee vote. Blanche was also ques- tioned about some of the de- partment’s actions taken against Trump’s opponents. On Tuesday, Tillis ex- pressed outrage over the case brought against former FBI Director James Comey over his post on social media of a picture of seashells ar- ranged to spell “86 47.” The image could be interpreted to mean remove Trump, but federal prosecutors in Tillis’ home state of North Car- olina have argued that it was a threat to the president’s life. “Some bonehead in North Carolina thinks that’s a crime,” Tillis said. “Well, they better damn sure have information to back it up. Because if all it is is a picture, that person should lose their job.”
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lieved a trial wouldn’t be beneficial to her family. “Manslaughter is for when someone accidentally kills another person. It is not for someone who intention- ally points a loaded gun at their father,” Beth Farinacci wrote. Farinacci was released from probation in Arizona in early 2024. A probation offi- cer said Farinacci main- tained a stable residence with his girlfriend and her family in the previous year, but also noted he hadn’t completed a mental health evaluation or domestic vi- olence treatment.
Residents return to destroyed homes
The fires were among dozens across the western U.S. that have stretched the ability of federal, state and local agencies to fight them. More than 1,000 firefighters, many from outside Wash- ington state, were in the Spokane area Tuesday, and that number was expected to rise. Winds died down Mon- day and Tuesday, aiding the efforts of firefighters, but the weather was expected to get hotter by Wednesday. In one neighborhood, blackened vehicles, a boat twisted by the heat and melted plastic recycling bins remained. Across the street, lawns were still green and houses were spared, as resi- dents continued to run hoses or sprinklers to water their properties. Some residents who had to flee blazes over the week- end returned to find homes that had been burned to the ground. In some cases, only chim- neys were left standing. “There’s nothing to save,” Miriam Sim, 76, said as she and her husband, Daniel Sim, surveyed the ruins of the home where they had lived since 2005.
the San Francisco Taxpay- ers Assn., the group that ar- gued against the Diwali holi- day, saying the potential clo- sure of school and state fa- cilities and paid holidays for state employees could cost up to $68.8 million in admin- istrative expenses, accord- ing to court documents. The group’s lawyer Paul Scott said the legal petition filed in December “isn’t any- thing against folks who do celebrate Diwali.” Instead, he said, the law would have sent the message that the state endorses the holiday of a specific community, violat- ing the tenets of the U.S. Constitution, which bars government from establish- ing a religion. It also would allow the celebration of Diwali in the classrooms and give lesser status to other groups if their holidays aren’t added to the official state list in the future, he said. “If you’re not of that reli- gion and you’re of some other minority religion in particular, that would sug- gest that Diwali is somehow getting better standing in our community and with the state government; that’s constitutionally problemat- ic,” Scott said. As for Christmas, the tax- payers group said, “the state’s designation of De- cember 25th as a holiday is constitutionally permissible because of the historical re- ality that the vast majority of people in the state observe the holiday and would not show up to work or school or jury duty that day,” he said. He added, “It is this most
drilling wells in New Mexico
By Mikella Schuettler
PHOENIX — The Trump administration has ordered construction crews on a bor- der wall to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico after ranchers said pumping the groundwater needed to make concrete could threaten their live- stock. The order comes as crews across the southern border race to complete one of Pres- ident Trump’s highest do- mestic priorities — barriers that span four states and re- ceived more than $46 billion in federal funding. Contro- versies have sprouted up in Texas and California, with border-town residents and environmentalists report- ing a wide variety of issues with construction. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees border wall construction, has said water is needed to make concrete for roads, for wall construction and for dust suppression. Cattle ranchers in the area say the drought has already forced them to reduce their herd size. “It would put us in an im- mediate catastrophe and having to do something with our livestock. I mean, it could potentially put some people out of business, us in- cluded,” said Russell John- son, a cattle rancher whose property runs along the bor- der. Johnson raised the issue at a public meeting in July af- ter noticing an industrial well, which drilling crews told him would pump 300 gallons a minute, on land he leases for grazing. Johnson has roughly 12 wells across his ranch; they pump be- tween three and seven gal- lons a minute. A spokesperson for CBP said Monday that border wall contractors in New Mexico have been instructed to stop drilling new wells but did not comment on whether the wells already drilled could be pumped. The agency said it would col- laborate with New Mexico and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a groundwater strategy. “CBP is committed to working collaboratively with local landowners to ensure that construction activities do not adversely impact their water needs,” read the statement. The federal contractors building the wall in New Mexico — Caddell Construc- tion Co. and Fisher Indus- tries — did not respond to emails or phone calls seek- ing comment. Messages left with receptionists for Barnard Construction and
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A VOLUNTEER tends to a rangoli (sand art) dedicated to unity and selfless service as part of Diwali celebrations in Chino Hills in 2020.
basic practical consider- ation that legally allows the holiday to remain on the state holiday calendar, de- spite its religious attrib- utes.” That is not the case with Diwali. Last month a Sacra-
CONSTRUCTION crews drill a well in Luna County, N.M., in July. The water is needed to make concrete.
Spencer Construction Co., the contractors building near Johnson’s ranch, were not immediately returned. The New Mexico Office of the State Engineer, which monitors and approves wells across the state, said staff have counted eight wells drilled without the office’s permission along the south- ern border but cautioned there could be more. Staff visited two wells in July and reported they were pumping 200 gallons per minute. “All non-tribal wells in New Mexico, whether they are drilled on state or federal land, must have permits from the state engineer be- fore they can be drilled or water can be pumped from them,” the Office of the State Engineer said in a state- ment. The wells for border con- struction were all drilled on a federally owned strip of land 60 miles north of the border called the Roosevelt Reser- vation. CBP did not respond to follow-up questions about whether the federal government has a right to pump groundwater on fed- eral land without state over- sight. Tom Patterson, presi- dent of the New Mexico Cat- tle Growers’ Assn., said that water is the No. 1 concern for ranchers and that if wells start to go dry, it’s already too late. During wall con- struction in Trump’s first term, Patterson said, con- tractors bought water from farms, ranches or munici- palities in the area, which meant the amount of water being pumped from nearby basins didn’t increase. “Why do they need all this water?” asked Patterson. “And why can’t they buy it as they have in the past from farmers, ranchers, or even from Luna County?” Johnson said the morato- rium on future well drilling is a step in the right direction, but he’s still worried after a contractor told him the well near his ranch could eventu- ally be pumped if crews ended up needing the water.
mento judge ruled in favor of the petition, in effect block- ing California from adding the Diwali holiday. New- som’s office declined to com- ment on pending litigation. The ruling, however, left the door open for lawmakers
Though beef prices are up, Johnson has been forced to reduce his herd to one-third its original capacity. He cites the drought, which has left less grass for cattle to graze on, as the main reason for the drop. Before the first border wall went up, Johnson re- members seeing at least one truck of people crossing his ranch every week. Now, he says, illegal crossing hardly ever happens on his ranch. As a former Border Patrol agent, he supports the bor- der wall but doesn’t believe it should cost him his liveli- hood. So far, half a mile of sec- ondary wall has gone up near Johnson’s property. “They need to stop pumping all of these wells, because they were all drilled illegally,” Johnson said. Both candidates in the race for a congressional seat that represents this area in New Mexico claimed credit for the moratorium. Congressional candidate Greg Cunningham, a Re- publican, said he advocated for the agreement between CBP and border wall con- tractors and was the first to announce the news over so- cial media on Friday. “Ranchers, families and local officials brought us their concerns. I raised it with the Trump Administra- tion. They listened. They acted fast,” Cunningham said in a post on X. Congressman Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat who faces Cunningham in November’s midterm elec- tions, spoke about the issue on the House floor earlier this month. “This illegal drilling by this administration should never have happened, but when it did, I heard our ranchers’ concerns loud and clear and immediately raised hell in Washington to get the job done and protect New Mexicans’ water rights.”
to pass a new law — one that isn’t framed on religious sig- nificance. California’s attempt to recognize Diwali was mean- ingful, said Atul Shah, presi- dent of the Federation of Jain Assns. in North Ameri- ca. “It was not about estab- lishing or endorsing a reli- gion,” Shah said. “Rather, it acknowledged an important observance, celebrated by a large and diverse segment of Californians while recogniz- ing the contributions these communities have made to the social, cultural and econ- omic fabric of our state.” California has the na- tion’s largest South Asian population, with Los Ange- les being home to the fourth- largest such population of any metropolitan area, ac- cording to the South Asian
Network. Los Angeles County officially has recog- nized Diwali since 2022. Cali- fornia would have been the third state, following Penn- sylvania and Connecticut, to officially recognize the holi- day. The New Jersey Depart- ment of Education allows students to miss a day of school to observe Diwali, and public schools in New York City are closed in ob- servance of the holiday. This year Diwali will fall on Nov. 8, but the date varies each year, similar to Lunar New Year, and is based on the Hindu lunar calendar. Archana Venkatesan, a professor of religious studies at UC Davis, said a state-ap- proved Diwali holiday would be similar to California rec- ognizing Christmas Day be- cause both have aspects of religion but at their core the
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festivities are secular; “at the heart, it’s a celebration of community and family ties.” Shah argued the state legislation signed by New- som was limited in scope. It provided flexibility for ob- servance by eligible state employees and authorized schools and community col- leges to close through local agreements. “It did not create a man- datory paid holiday for all Californians or close the courts,” he said. “Ultimately, Diwali’s en- during message belongs to everyone,” Shah said. “Its themes of peace, compas- sion, hope, knowledge, gen- erosity and the triumph of good over evil are universal values that strengthen our shared civic life and help bring Californians together across cultures and faiths.”
vided an additional re- sponse. “Yesterday’s release of LAUSD’s investigation re- port confirms, once again, that Alberto Carvalho has broken no laws,” their state- ment said. “While the Dis- trict’s letter purports to re- cite other ‘issues of concern,’ it does so in an incomplete and misleading manner — as we set forth in our re- sponse to the District.” The statement also em- phasized that the district’s widely noted academic gains contradict “the idea that his performance was unsatis- factory or unprofessional or that he was in any way unfit for service.” In their robust defense in June, Carvalho’s attorneys, with the firm Holland & Knight, provided specific counters to some allegations and dealt with others by cat- egory. In general, they main- tained that some alleged miscues were relatively mi- nor, involving paperwork er- rors. Other allegations, the let- ter said, were based on mis- representations: The super- intendent, for example, was being blamed after the fact for actions that he carried out in public with the full knowledge of the school sys- tem and frequently with clearance from the district’s legal staff. Carvalho served as su- perintendent of the nation’s second-largest school sys- tem from February 2022 un- til June 21 of this year, when he resigned on a Sunday evening. The Board of Edu- cation had placed Carvalho on paid leave on Feb. 27, two days after FBI agents raided his San Pedro home and downtown L.A. office. That raid was in connec- tion to the federal investiga- tion of AllHere, a company that L.A. Unified hired to provide an artificial intelli- gence chatbot named Ed, which was touted as a tool that would revolutionize school-to-family interac- tions and students’ academ- ic experience. The effort ended with the financial col- lapse of AllHere. Carvalho has not been charged with wrongdoing and denies any misconduct in connection with that proj- ect or anything else. The L.A. Unified letter shows that the school board was laying the legal ground- work to dismiss Carvalho for cause, which would have de- prived him of contractual severance payments. Car- valho ultimately relin- quished his right to sever- ance by resigning — while avoiding the possibility of dismissal. The letter, signed by President Scott Schmerel- son of the board, said, “If you choose to resign ... the Board of Education will not need to proceed with voting whether to dismiss you for cause.” The letter’s blunt, legalis- tic tone methodically laid out pages of allegations, sug- gesting that there could be
FORMER LAUSD Supt. Alberto Carvalho resigned June 21. Above, he discusses improved test scores in 2025.
additional examples and that the investigation re- mained ongoing.
The extent of the allegations Citing provisions for dis- missal under the state’s Ed- ucation Code, the letter al- leges “unprofessional con- duct,” “unsatisfactory per- formance,” “evident unfitness for service” and “persistent violation of or re- fusal to obey the school laws of the state or reasonable regulations prescribed by the District.” Carvalho’s attorneys, in their response, rejected those claims outright. “We recognize a pretex- tual and retaliatory termina- tion when we see one, and what you have done here is not subtle,” said the letter, which was signed by John L. Brownlee of Holland & Knight. “This letter is legally and factually deficient. It is not a good-faith exercise of oversight.” Among the allegations, the district accused Car- valho of repeatedly failing to list gifts and outside income on required disclosure forms. His attorneys ac- knowledged that possibility. The district letter notes repeated alleged instances in which Carvalho did not re- port his work as a consultant for $500 or $600 an hour re- lated to education matters. It does not reveal the total amount of money he earned consulting and does not say the consulting was im- proper. The companies listed are AlphaSights, Tyton Part- ners, Tegus and Third Bridge. The letter does not accuse the companies of wrongdoing. The district letter stated that, even if Carvalho had filled out disclosure forms properly, the amounts he al-
legedly accepted in gifts far exceeded the legal limit, which the letter noted was $590 in 2024. The current limit from a single source is $630. “Mr. Carvalho never in- tentionally concealed any in- come or gifts on his Form 700 filings,” the attorneys said, referring to the state disclo- sure forms. His attorneys cited in Carvalho’s defense a mis- take he made on a 2022 form in which he overestimated the value of his stock hold- ings: “This is not the con- duct of someone attempting to conceal outside income from the Board or from the public.” His disclosure forms — which The Times reviewed — did not list side gigs from private companies for the school years of 2022-23, 2023- 24 and 2024-25. Carvalho did disclose “executive coach- ing” he provided for Denver schools Supt. Alex Marrero, listing payments in 2022 as between $2,000 and $10,000. The Denver Post recently reported that Denver Public Schools allegedly paid Car- valho $107,000 over the entire period of his L.A. superin- tendency to mentor and coach Marrero. After resigning from L.A. Unified, Carvalho filed a Form 700 for 2025-26 and a separate “leaving office” Form 700. Work listed on one or both forms includes con- sulting for London-based AlphaSights, valued at $1,001 to $10,000; consulting
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NEW YORK — New York can’t ban federal agents from wearing face coverings or require that they wear vis- ible identification, a federal judge ruled Monday. The ruling comes after a federal judge earlier this year blocked a similar law in California that was enacted after the Trump administra- tion aggressively worked to increase immigration ar- rests. For the Northern District of New York, U.S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino wrote that although New York “ap- pears to be well-intentioned in its pursuit of transparent policing,” that’s not what the court is deciding. “The issue now before the Court is about constitution- ality — not transparency or preferable policy decisions,” she wrote. The federal government has shown a likelihood that
By Matthew Lee
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has informed Congress that it intends to close five smaller U.S. embassies, consulates and other diplomatic mis- sions in Africa, Asia and the Western Hemisphere, even as it steams ahead with plans to reopen shuttered posts in Libya and Syria and has reopened the long- closed embassy in Venezue- la. In separate notices sent late last week to lawmakers,
for Massachusetts-based American Public Bureau, valued at $1,001 to $10,000; and teaching for Harvard, valued at $10,001 to $100,000. Carvalho also lists sala- ried work his wife performed for Abbvie US, valued at $10,001 to $100,000. In information provided separately in late June to The Times, a representative for Carvalho acknowledged that entries for consulting work and travel should have been included on Carvalho’s earlier forms, but an appro- priate remedy, for example, would be for him to amend and correct the forms — and be subject to a fine. The district letter alleged Carvalho’s undisclosed trav- el costs were underwritten by education companies in- cluding Scholastic, for a 2022 trip to a board of directors meeting and another event in 2023. The letter also faults Car- valho for failing to disclose travel and lodging paid for Hazel Health, a district con- tractor, to attend a 2024 stu- dent healthcare conference in Washington at the Water- gate Hotel — a trip costed out at $4,738. Two more 2024 trips were cited as unreported on dis- closure forms in the school board letter: He took a $1,000 trip to Scottsdale, Ariz., al- legedly paid for by Carnegie Learning, to speak at an event called “Leading in the Age of AI.” And Lego Educa- tion allegedly paid about $1,000 for travel and lodging
A FEDERAL agent wearing a mask patrols the halls of immigration court in New York City in July 2025.
the measures go against the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars state governments from regulating federal law en- forcement, D’Agostino wrote. The measures were in- cluded in a slate of law en-
the State Department said it would close the U.S. em- bassy on the Caribbean is- land of Grenada; the consul- ates in Nagoya, Japan, and Medan, Indonesia; the American Presence Post in Winnipeg, Canada; and an embassy branch office in Douala, Cameroon. The closures by the Re- publican administration are expected to save the govern- ment roughly $4.4 million per year, according to the no- tices obtained by the Associ- ated Press. But the missions to be closed employ very few people compared with oth-
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for Carvalho’s participation in the Lego Education Media Roundtable in Denver. His attorneys in their let- ter defended Carvalho’s trips, saying he carried them out openly — often to con- duct official district busi- ness, cleared by district legal counsel and frequently in the company of other dis- trict senior managers who also were representing L.A. Unified. “You have ignored key facts regarding several of these incidents — facts that would be easily explained if the Board were interested in the truth rather than politi- cal gamesmanship,” the at- torneys stated. “The events and travel referenced in the allegations were entirely consistent with Mr. Carval- ho’s duties. ... To the extent the Superintendent ac- cepted payment for any travel, lodging, or meals, he did so to save the District funds and advance the on- going success of the Dis- trict.” As an example of Car- valho acting in good faith, they cited Carvalho’s han- dling of honorariums from Scholastic for appearing at that company’s events. “Superintendent Car- valho explicitly discussed with the LAUSD General Counsel how to handle hon- oraria payments from Scholastic for his appear- ances at Scholastic events — which were donated, at his request, to an LAUSD fund for homeless students.
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forcement policies as part of the state budget bill that was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in May. Hochul and New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James said in a statement following the judge’s decision that they
ers. The embassy in St. George’s, Grenada, and the consulate in Nagoya have only one American staffer and five local employees each. The consulate in Medan has four direct-hire U.S. staffers and 47 local em- ployees. The Winnipeg post has only two local staffers, and the embassy office in Douala has only 14 local staffers. The State Department announced plans earlier this year to permanently close the U.S. consulate in Pesha- war, Pakistan, which was the
There were zero concerns raised regarding a potential disclosure issue for his trav- el.”
Connections to AllHere
AllHere, the company at the center of the FBI investi- gation, paid $4,633 for a trip in 2024 to Washington, where Carvalho participa- ted in a cybersecurity confer- ence at the Biden White House, the letter alleged. His attorneys said the AllHere-funded travel was “explicitly discussed with the LAUSD General Coun- sel.” The district letter also al- leged that Carvalho at- tended “multiple dinner events with a consultant for AllHere” when that contract was under consideration. Such key periods are re- ferred to as the “Cone of Si- lence” and meant to limit contact with vendors that could influence or appear to influence district contract- ing decisions. In defense, Carvalho’s lawyers referenced an earlier district review: “You have ig- nored the results of your pri- or inquiries into the AllHere matter, which cleared Mr. Carvalho of any miscon- duct.” In their Tuesday state- ment, the attorneys also dis- cussed interactions related to AllHere: “LAUSD found no evidence that Alberto violated federal law regard- ing his interactions with All- Here or any other vendor.” The district letter also faulted Carvalho for having his district driver “drop off your wife at LAX on multiple occasions, drive you and a fe- male District employee after hours to restaurants and other social outings, and her home on approximately a dozen occasions.” If Carvalho overused a district-provided car, his at- torneys said, a reasonable remedy would simply be to request reimbursement for the costs. The attorneys also linked the board’s dismissal threat to the Trump administra- tion’s targeting of L.A. Uni- fied for several enforcement actions, including lawsuits. Carvalho was a high-profile critic of the Trump adminis- tration. The school board, the attorneys’ letter sug- gested, was caving in to such pressure rather than stand- ing up to the administration as Carvalho had done. “The Board should also remember how to do the right thing,” the letter stated, “for our community and for the students of Los Angeles Unified.”
“stand firm in our belief that masked agents do not make New York safer and our of- fices are reviewing all legal options at this time.” New York’s face coverings and identification measures took effect in June, accord- ing to the ruling. California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers from wearing facial coverings, under a bill that was signed in September following a summer of high-profile raids by immigration officers in Los Angeles. When the law was blocked, the decision was ex- pected to have implications nationwide for other states that have pursued their own measures to place restric- tions on immigration agents. In May, the U.S. Depart- ment of Justice filed a fed- eral lawsuit against Con- necticut over a new state law that prohibits federal agents from wearing masks.
closest diplomatic mission to Afghanistan since Ameri- can troops withdrew in 2021. The steps come as the de- partment moves to stream- line its operations at home and abroad, while investing millions of dollars into re- opening the U.S. embassies in Caracas, Venezuela; Dam- ascus, Syria; and Tripoli, Libya, to restore America’s formal diplomatic presence following the ouster of long- ruling autocrats in those countries.
found that he faced multiple state felony charges in Cali- fornia for allegedly running an extensive sneaker theft ring. Last week, federal au- thorities added another case against Harvey, unseal- ing an indictment that charged him and several ma- jor shoe resellers in Los An- geles, Chicago and Indiana with paying Nike employees to help steal hundreds of hard-to-find styles that they in turn flipped. Harvey has pleaded not guilty. In his state court case, his attorney has ac- cused police of overreach- ing, arguing there’s no evi- dence his client knew the shoes were stolen and added that Nike didn’t suffer a loss from shoes sold on the resale market. Det. Marc Sternin of the Los Angeles Police Depart- ment’s commercial crimes division testified in a Sep- tember 2024 preliminary hearing that he began inves- tigating the alleged theft ring in January 2024 after be- ing contacted by investiga- tors from Nike, who had dis- covered some strangely la- beled packages at one of their distribution centers in Memphis, Tenn. The packages had UPS labels but were found sitting in the back of a U.S. postal truck, Sternin testified. They were bound for private residences which Harvey lived in or had access to in Hollywood, instead of a Nike retailer, the detective said. An internal Nike investi- gation determined that the suspected thieves were cov- ering up the original ship- ping labels with labels redi- recting them to several ad- dresses in the Hollywood area, a practice known as “ghost labeling,” according to Sternin. Nike investiga- tors, he said, found at least 28 such mislabeled boxes. The investigation’s in- ventory reads like a sneaker- head’s Christmas wish list: Nike Dunk Low Off-Whites.
sight lines, park service finds
By Gary Fields
WASHINGTON — Presi- dent Trump’s proposed 250- foot-tall memorial arch could disrupt the historical significance of dozens of sites near its planned loca- tion, according to an assess- ment by the National Park Service. Many of Washington’s monuments, buildings and sites have been carefully planned over decades to re- flect significant moments in the nation’s history and evoke symbolism in being connected by sight line to other sites. The proposed towering gilded arch, which received initial approval last month from a key federal commis- sion, would affect the “integ- rity” of dozens of those his- torical properties because it would change “character- defining visual and spatial relationships” between them. The park service report said the immediate project area is located within the Memorial Avenue Corridor cultural landscape, “a na- tionally significant historic
By Eric Tucker
WASHINGTON — An as- sociation of thousands of FBI agents and other groups are backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau em- ployees who were fired last year for their roles in an in- vestigation into President Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presi- dential election. A legal brief by the FBI Agents Assn. is one of five filed by outside parties in the last week in support of the agents, who were termi- nated as part of a broader personnel purge by FBI Di- rector Kash Patel that has targeted employees who in- vestigated Trump or are per- ceived as being against the administration’s interest. Taken together, the fil- ings, including from FBI and
A CUSTOMER at CoolKicks in L.A. shows off a pair of Air Jordans that were selling for about $10,000 in 2023.
Nike SB Dunk Low City of Loves. Nike 6 Protro, a.k.a. the Reverse Grinches. All in their original boxes, accord- ing to Sternin. Working with Nike and the FBI, Sternin said LAPD investigators hatched a plan to insert GPS tracking de- vices into each of the 28 packages and allow them to be delivered. An LAPD surveillance squad staked out the build- ing before the scheduled de- livery and saw Harvey and a woman retrieve the pack- ages, Sternin testified. Po- lice later pulled over a U- Haul truck that Harvey was driving with the same wom- an and seized the packages, according to the detective’s statements in court. The two were brought back to the Hollywood sta- tion for questioning. Harvey told detectives that he’d been around the shoe busi-
designed landscape extend- ing between the Lincoln Me- morial in Washington, D.C., and Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Vir- ginia.” One of the most obvious elements the report cited is that the arch would break alignment between the Lin- coln Memorial, Memorial Bridge and Arlington House that was Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s home. “The bridge alignment and associated ceremonial landscape were intended to physically and symbolically unite North and South through a coordinated monumental composition extending across the Po- tomac River,” the report said. The Lincoln Memorial- Arlington House connection was one of dozens of historic sites and structures listed as being affected directly by the proposed structure. It add- ed that the National Mall, the U.S. Capitol, Washing- ton Monument and grounds, and Lady Bird Johnson Park would also be directly affected. The report puts a snag in a project that has sailed
Justice Department alumni, underscore a concerted and bipartisan pushback to the waves of terminations that have roiled the FBI in the last year and a half as Patel has sought to remake the bureau in his own image. The briefs argue that the firings were illegal because the agents were denied due process and punished for perceived political affilia- tion, and say the termina- tions contradict decades of expectations that the bu- reau’s “apolitical, profes- sional career corps of agents” can work on sensi- tive cases without putting their careers at risk. “The Bureau simply can- not function if individual Special Agents must choose whether to accept a lawful assignment that could later get them fired, or alterna- tively to reject it and become
ness since he was 16 years old but otherwise refused to an- swer their questions, Sternin testified. Detectives obtained search warrants for Har- vey’s cellphone and his iCloud account, gaining ac- cess to his call records, notes, photographs, text messages and other data. One number, with a 901 prefix from Shelby County, Tenn., jumped out, Sternin testified, because of the number of times that Har- vey had contacted it. Nike personnel records revealed that the number belonged to Michael Reno Perkins, who worked as a supervisor on the floor of the company’s roughly 1-million-square- foot Memphis distribution facility. Perkins, according to the detective’s testimony during the preliminary hearing, is suspected of recruiting a
through several steps of the approval process in front of bodies stocked with Trump appointees and allies. The White House said in an email that it would follow all legal requirements in con- structing the arch. The proposed arch is one of several projects the Re- publican president is pursu- ing to leave his lasting im- print on Washington. With the potential to change the city’s sight line, it has al- ready sparked opposition, including through a lawsuit filed by a group of veterans and a historian. The arch design, pro- posed by Trump, has al- ready received early approv- al from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. The commis- sioners were all appointed by Trump. The National Capital Area Planning Com- mission approved the site and preliminary plans at its July meeting. The commis- sion is expected to take up the matter again at its Sep- tember meeting. “The Triumphal Arch in Memorial Circle is going to be one of the most iconic landmarks not only in Wash- ington, D.C., but throughout
subject to firing for insubor- dination. FBI Special Agents have long under- stood that they are subject to assignment and reassign- ment at any time based on the needs of the Bureau,” the agents association, which serves nearly 12,000 mem- bers, wrote in its brief. A brief filed by former senior Justice Department officials says the firings have undermined a “half-century of independence as a guid- ing principle.” “Putting aside the result- ing violation of Plaintiffs’ rights, the inevitable impact of this ‘purge’ will be to chill the independence of remain- ing and future career agents, attorneys, analysts, and other staff at the FBI, DOJ and other law enforcement agencies who must now act with the understanding that their investigative and law
group of employees under his supervision into the al- leged scheme. Harvey would act as a broker of sorts, po- lice said, instructing Perkins and his co-conspirators on which shoes to steal based on demand from resellers. On July 21, Perkins was indicted in federal court in Tennessee along with Har- vey and 10 other people. Among the others charged was Bereket Abraham, the 39-year-old former co-owner of the famous sneaker re- tailer CoolKicks of L.A. Abraham has not yet en- tered a plea, according to on- line records. His attorney, Bill Massey, declined to com- ment, saying his legal team was “busy reviewing the in- formation made available thus far.” The defendants in the federal case are charged with conspiring to steal at least $2 million in Nike prod-
VISITORS take photos in front of a model of the proposed triumphal arch July 9.
the world,” said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle in an emailed response for comment. “It will en- hance the visitor experience at Arlington National Ceme- tery for veterans, the fam- ilies of the fallen, and all Americans alike, serving as a visual reminder of the no- ble sacrifices borne by so many American heroes throughout our 250 year his- tory so we can enjoy our free- doms today.” The arch is one of several projects Trump has pro-
enforcement judgments can, for the first time in their careers, be assessed through a partisan political lens,” the brief states. The three agents — Michelle Ball, Jamie Gar- man and Blaire Toleman — said in a federal lawsuit filed in March that they were fired in a “retribution campaign” targeting them for their work on the investigation into Trump. The agents performed “exemplary and unblem- ished” service in the FBI and expected to spend the re- mainder of their careers at the bureau but were abruptly fired without cause and without being given a chance to respond, the law- suit says. The investigation the agents worked on culmi- nated in an indictment from special counsel Jack Smith
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ucts between 2021 and 2024. CoolKicks’ other owner, Adeel Shams, was not among those named in the indictment. Shams was livestreaming in a CoolKicks warehouse when LAPD offi- cers burst inside during a search warrant operation in October and detained him and other employees, accus- ing the company of buying stolen shoes. Shams was lat- er released without charges. In a statement after the federal charges were an- nounced, CoolKicks said it had “terminated” Abra- ham’s relationship with the company. “While Mr. Abraham owns stock in CoolKicks, the indictment contains no alle- gations of wrongdoing by CoolKicks or anyone else as- sociated with CoolKicks,” the statement said. Other indicted co-con- spirators included Jorge
posed that is involved in liti- gation. The plaintiffs, three veterans and a historian, have challenged its con- struction, saying it requires congressional approval. “Our claim is essentially that none of this has any au- thorization to be happening in the first place,” said Nico- las Sansone, an attorney with Public Citizen Litiga- tion Group representing the plaintiffs. Authorization of the construction of a monu- ment “in the core of Wash- ington, D.C., on National
that accused Trump of scheming to overturn the 2020 election he lost to Presi- dent Biden. Smith ultimately aban- doned that case, along with a separate one accusing Trump of illegally retaining classified records at his Mar- a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., after Trump won back the White House in 2024, citing Justice Depart- ment legal opinions that prohibit federal indictments of sitting presidents. Patel and Pam Bondi, who was the attorney gen- eral at the time, have said the fired agents and prose- cutors who worked on Smith’s team were responsi- ble for weaponizing federal law enforcement, a claim that was also asserted in their termination letters but that the plaintiffs call de- famatory and baseless.
Cuellar, 30, another popular online sneaker reseller and social media personality known as “horehead_sales.” Attempts to reach Cuellar were unsuccessful. Cuellar owns Horhead Investments, a shoe reseller in L.A. that sent wire trans- fers to a Memphis-based food truck company owned by co-defendant Keith Can- non for $696,700 between April 2023 and November 2023, according to Sternin’s testimony. CoolKicks paid Cannon and Harvey $127,000 and $88,275, respectively, the detective said in court. Sternin said in his court testimony that when investi- gators searched Harvey’s phone data, they discovered a group thread between him and two sisters that ap- peared to show them coordi- nating how they would re- trieve the “ghost label” pack- ages that had been surrepti- tiously shipped from the Nike warehouse. Harvey instructed the two women to rent a U-Haul and meet the driver to col- lect the UPS packages at designated locations, which also were relayed to Cuellar, Sternin said in court. Harvey initially came under investigation in early 2024, and authorities charge that he continued to pilfer shoes even after he knew that police were on to him. Authorities have cited the Lyft incident in court fil- ings asking a judge to revoke Harvey’s bail. The ride- share driver contacted the LAPD after Harvey alleg- edly threatened to harm him, his wife, their son and their dog, according to court testimony by Sternin, the LAPD detective. Harvey has not been charged in that case. At the time of his trip to Phoenix, according to a search warrant affidavit, Harvey was on pretrial re- lease under conditions that ordered him to stop selling shoes and to not travel out of California without permis- sion.
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Park Service land” requires an act of Congress, he said. The National Park Serv- ice assessment confirms what the plaintiffs have said the construction will do to the symbolic and solemn area, he added. “I think it’s very signifi- cant that the National Park Service itself understands that this is the effect that it’s going to have,” Sansone said.
Fields writes for the Associated Press.
The filings are known in the law as amici, or friend-of- the-court, briefs. They are sometimes submitted by outside parties in lawsuits to help stress particular argu- ments or inform a judge’s thinking. Other groups who sub- mitted briefs include a col- lection of 1st Amendment scholars, a group called Lawyers for the Rule of Law; and Justice Connection, a network of department alumni that warned in its fil- ing that a “politicized” FBI could turn against citizens because of their speech, as- sociation or perceived dis- loyalty. “The Constitution,” the filing said, “is designed to prevent precisely this kind of abuse.”
Swain said, it’s “the interior Pacific Northwest, where conditions are essentially verging on catastrophically bad,” but fire weather is also reemerging across swaths of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Basin. California has managed to keep wildfires from de- scending into catastrophe so far this year. But “with up- coming heat and dryness in California, I do expect there to be a growing amount of fire activity in the coming days as fuels really dry out,” Swain said. Those fires will probably be kept to small or medium sizes, given a lack of the kind of strong winds and extreme fire weather condi- tions in California in the im- mediate forecast. But “if we do get a big wind or lightning event, we are now set up with fuel dry- ness in California to have a much bigger wildfire out- break,” Swain said. The destruction is famil- iar to those in the L.A. region because, in 2025, residents lived it. The ongoing Spokane fires, like the Pali- sades and Eaton blazes, ex- ploded near residential areas, during extreme fire weather on the heels of ex- tremely dry winters. Saturday marked the first time such an alert had been issued in the state of Washington, and it went into effect between 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. The fires started on Sat- urday around 3 p.m. What made the forecast conditions particularly un- usual for Saturday were the strong winds for late July and early August, meteorol- ogist Steven Van Horn of the weather service’s Spokane office said in a briefing a day before the fires hit. “And then the dry vegeta- tion. This is also another really key factor here: that the fuels that we have across the region are very dry right now, very anomalously dry,” Van Horn said. “And that’s also another key factor with these PDS red flags — little to no rainfall in the past 39 days.” Of the three fires now burning in the Spokane area, the Old Trails Fire — which burned through a swath of the city of Spokane — was the most problemat- ic, Swain said. “And of course there’s a severe to extreme drought,” Swain said. “And in this re- gion, there’s a lot of open, discontinuous pine and other conifer forest at the edge of the city and in the in- termix of the western side of the city. Fire ignited in that environment and rapidly progressed in alignment with the wind,” jumping over the Spokane River and heading straight into neigh- borhoods. The Spokane-area fires, which have collectively burned more than 12,000 acres, aren’t particularly large by historical measures
wind or lightning event, we are now set up with fuel dryness in California to have a much bigger wildfire outbreak.’
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our Wildfire Recovery Com- pensation Program.” While defending itself in litigation from fire victims, the utility is also embroiled in a lawsuit against L.A. County and other water pro- viders, which the company claims also share a role in the fire’s toll. Among its claims, it pointed to the county’s de- layed evacuation alerts that came, for many in west Alta- dena, after the fire had al- ready threatened the area. Mira Hashmall, an attor- ney representing L.A. County in the lawsuit with Edison, said Tuesday’s re- port makes clear where blame lies for the Eaton fire. “The experts have now confirmed what Edison knew all along,” Hashmall said in a statement. “The Eaton Fire started due to Edison’s dilapidated equip- ment igniting a fire in a brush covered area that Edi- son was responsible for maintaining. ... Enough of Edison’s strategy of delaying justice for the victims of the fire and blaming first re- sponders despite their best efforts to protect lives and property.” Joy Chen, leader of the
A “PARTICULARLY Dangerous Situation” had been forecast in Washington due to low humidity, high winds and high temperatures.
MIRIAM SIM, 76, reacts while talking about her burned neighborhood Monday.
for the American West. The Palisades and Eaton fires in L.A. County that de- stroyed much of Pacific Pali- sades and Altadena collec- tively burned more than 38,000 acres, left 31 dead, and destroyed more than 16,000 homes, businesses and other structures; the Camp fire that leveled the town of Paradise in 2018 in Butte County burned more than 153,000 acres and destroyed more than 18,000 structures, killing at least 85 people. Perhaps the clearest ex- ample of lessons learned from the Los Angeles fires
Every Fire Survivor’s Net- work, also wants to see Edi- son take full responsibility and compensate fire sur- vivors. Chen used Tuesday’s findings as an opportunity to try to push back on an ef- fort in Sacramento that she said would provide a “bailout” to utilities respon- sible for catastrophic wild- fires. The report provided a breakdown of the investiga- tive process that deter- mined Edison’s equipment was the source of the fateful spark, which exploded in dry brush in extreme Santa Ana winds. According to the report, investigators were almost immediately drawn to the transmission towers located in a wash within Eaton Can- yonbased off what witnesses had reported and evidence on the ground. Video evidence from the area “revealed two electrical arcing events that occurred in quick succession, leading to an unknown burning ma- terial falling from the SCE tower’s location into the dry receptive fuel bed below,” the report said. Within 12 seconds, the brush below the tower ignited and devel- oped into the conflagration
was the haste with which lo- cal law enforcement worked to evacuate residents, Clemo said. “The sheriff evacuated 60,000 people out of a por- tion of Spokane in a matter of two hours without injury or accident,” Clemo said. “That’s unbelievable.” That the fire in Spokane spread rapidly during day- light hours may have aided public awareness. Thus far there have been no fatalities reported in the Spokane fires, even though tens of thousands of people lived in the direct path of
INVESTIGATORS were drawn to Edison’s transmission towers and the surrounding dry area after the fire.
that would burn more than 14,000 acres, destroy more than 9,400 buildings and take 24 days to fully contain. The fire was one of sev- eral that broke out during the extreme Santa Ana wind event. It ignited just hours after the deadly Palisades fire had erupted, together becoming the most destruc- tive natural disaster in Los
devastation. The handling of evacu- ations emerged as a point of criticism in the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, which killed 31 people. This was especially the case in western Altadena, where alerts came hours after the blaze started and where al- most all of the Eaton fire’s 19 deaths occurred. Clemo also said that Washington worked hard to stage fire resources in re- sponse to the Particularly Dangerous Situation warn- ing. “There was an early call
Angeles County history. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Mon- terey Park), whose district includes Altadena, called the findings “an important step toward accountability and justice for the survivors, their families, and our com- munities who have endured unimaginable loss.” She said Edison needs to now “take every step neces-
— Daniel Swain, UC climate scientist
for a lot of resources and a lot of pre-positioning,” he said. As bad as the fire was in Spokane, Swain said the fire could have been easily much worse had firefighters not waged a relatively effective battle against the blaze, in- cluding by dropping fire re- tardant from aircraft. But firefighters were un- able to control the fire from spreading directly in the di- rection of the wind, Swain said. Once the wildfire entered urban neighborhoods, it be- came a purely urban fire- storm, “and that’s a pattern we’ve become uncomfort- ably familiar with in recent years all throughout the West,” Swain said, “a city with large suburban devel- opment in high-risk zones, adjacent to some sort of highly flammable vegeta- tion — in this case, it was co- niferous trees, a pine forest
sary to help Altadena and Pasadena rebuild, and to en- sure a tragedy like this never happens again.” But she also used the mo- ment to call on President Trump and congressional Republicans to fulfill their commitment to fire sur- vivors by unlocking the fed- eral disaster aid California has requested. She called
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— ... [and is] immediately upwind of an area that is in- adequately prepared, from a wildfire-risk perspective, during a particularly critical fire weather period.” Nearly 1,000 firefighters were on the ground Tuesday, a number expected to dou- ble in the coming days as mutual-aid crews continue to arrive — including hun- dreds from California. Clemo’s team is largely made up of firefighting per- sonnel based in Southern California and the Central Coast, including members from Santa Monica, Los An- geles, Santa Barbara and Ventura. The California Depart- ment of Forestry and Fire Protection has dispatched about 150 personnel and 20 engines to Washington, while individual California fire departments are also loaning crews. The Los Angeles County Fire Department, for exam- ple, sent a 25-person camp crew and a three-person dozer team to the wildfires on Monday, according to a department spokesperson. The California Gover- nor’s Office of Emergency Services coordinated the de- ployment of four teams from the Los Angeles Fire De- partment, the San Bernar- dino County Fire Protection District, the Orange County Fire Authority and the Co- rona Fire Department.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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those funds key to her con- stituents’ “long road to re- covery.” The investigation was done by the L.A. County Fire Department’s arson investi- gation unit, alongside Cal Fire.
Eric Thayer Los Angeles Times Port of Long Beach expands base with downtown tower
THE BUILDING bought by Port of Long Beach sits across from its headquarters.
to house its training program and attract trade-related firms.
By Caroline Petrow-Cohen
The Port of Long Beach continues to plant roots downtown with the acquisition of an office tower. The port spent $36 mil- lion to buy the property at 100 Oceangate, a 13-story building across the street from the port’s head- quarters and less than a 10- minute drive from the port. The purchase comes as the office vacancy rate in downtown Long Beach reaches an all-time high of 35%, according to data from the Downtown Long Beach Alliance. “It’s a good time to buy,” Port of Long Beach chief executive Noel Hacegaba said in an interview. “This acquisition is a strategic in- vestment to drive economic development for Long Beach and an opportunity to create a maritime business hub. It reflects our confi- dence in the port’s future.” The building has an occu- pancy rate of around 70% — leases that the port will in- herit and make money from. The port will fill the available space with international shipping and logistics com- panies, manufacturers and other trade-related firms. “Their cargo already crosses our docks, and this is a way for us to offer them a home,” Hacegaba said. The building also will be home to Port U, the port’s in- ternal training and career development program. The acquisition has been a months-long process, with the port entering into a sale and purchase agreement on July 27. Hacegaba said the move supports Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson’s economic development strategy dubbed AnchorLB, which the mayor announced in January. AnchorLB is designed to
announces deal for an interactive AI tool.
By Cerys Davies
Spotify has officially hit a new record with 300 million premium subscribers. In its second-quarter earnings report Tuesday, the Swedish streamer called it a “milestone no audio streaming service has ever reached.” Spotify said pre- mium subscribers grew 9% and its monthly active users climbed 12% to 777 million. Total revenue increased 14% to 4.8 billion euros (roughly $5.5 billion). “We have a scale that few companies in history have reached, a business that is
attract international com- panies, including shippers and manufacturers, to downtown office spaces. “I called on the port to partner with me,” Rich- ardson said in an interview. “AnchorLB is the next step to move our economy from being a place where goods move through to being a place where decisions are made.” The tower was built in 1972 and sold in 2016 to the real estate firm Faring for $46.5 million, according to CoStar. Totaling 225,486 square feet, the building was valued at $54.3 million last year, but the Los Angeles County assessor wrote down the value by 47% to $24.9 mil- lion this year. Office vacancies have been soaring across South- ern California, reaching around 20% overall in the greater Los Angeles area in the second quarter this year, according to real estate firm Avison Young. The fall in of- fice occupancy has been spurred by permanent shifts to remote work, interest rate spikes and a trend of compa- nies moving into smaller, more high-end buildings. “The advent of e-com- merce and work from home takes the demand away from office space, so one of the strategies we’re exploring is to leverage our proximity to the port to create more de- mand,” Richardson said. Occupant businesses are seizing the opportunity to become owners, especially in downtown Los Angeles, where glittering high-rises have plummeted in value since occupancy dropped during the pandemic. Office users from the public sector are among the buyers. The city of Los Ange- les plans to buy a 35-story tower downtown for use by the Department of Water and Power. Manulife U.S. Real Estate Investment Trust said in April that it would sell its high-rise at 865 S. Figueroa St. for $92.5 million pending approval from Los Angeles officials. It has an assessed value of $248 million. Another major public
healthy and compounding, and opportunities only we are positioned to pursue,” Alex Norström, Spotify’s co- chief executive, said in a statement. “Spotify lives across your whole day — the commute, the workout, studying, gaming, the din- ner table, and sleep. At our scale, that is rare.” Spotify also announced a new artificial intelligence deal in a news release on Tuesday with the digital mu- sic licensing company Mer- lin. The partnership will en- able artists across the 30,000 labels in Merlin’s network to participate in Spotify’s up- coming AI tool. It hasn’t launched yet, but the goal is to let fans create AI-generat- ed remixes and covers of ex- isting songs on the platform. “This agreement with Merlin ensures participa-
buyer of a downtown office building was Los Angeles County, which in 2024 bought Gas Co. Tower for $200 million, a steep drop from its $632-million valua- tion in 2020. County officials said at the time that the fore- closure sale was too good to pass up. Hacegaba said the port’s building purchase is the first of its kind. “It’s the first time any port authority that I’m aware of has done some- thing like this,” he said. “There’s a business case for why we needed to invest in the building, and when you combine that with the cur- rent state of the commercial real estate sector, it just makes sense for us to make this strategic investment happen.” Some of the building’s oc- cupants work in the mar- itime industry, including en- gineering and law firms, Hacegaba said. It’s also home to City National Bank, and an urgent care center and a Crunch Fitness. “Our plan with the va- cant floors is to prioritize of- fice space for the port’s part- ners, and another portion of it will be used for our own purposes to train our work- force,” Hacegaba said. “It’s an opportunity for us to en- sure that we are investing in tomorrow’s workforce in this facility that’s literally right next door to the port.” The port’s new tower also could prepare the city to help host the Olympic Games in 2028. The Long Beach Conven- tion Center is hosting hand- ball, water polo and other events, while beach volley- ball will be held at Alamitos Beach, and open water swimming and sailing will be at Belmont Shore. “Long Beach as a city is going to be on the world stage, and that’s going to generate a lot of foot traffic from some of our interna- tional partners,” Hacegaba said. “Having space avail- able that could be activated during the Olympic Games could attract some of the countries whose teams are participating.”
ting artists are credited and compensated, and that ev- ery creation drives listeners back to the original work,” Charlie Hellman, Spotify’s global head of music, said in a statement. “We’re proud to extend this model to the in- dependent community, and we look forward to welcom- ing more partners as we con- tinue to build.” Looking beyond its latest AI partnership, the com- pany has made efforts to ex- pand its AI footprint. Spotify recently launched Personal Podcasts, an agen- tic AI program that gener- ates personalized audio epi- sodes like a daily briefing. The company also expanded its AI DJ to speak four new languages, including French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese. For many streaming
merger fears in new op-ed
efforts to stop the deal are about politics, not concerns over market.
By Meg James
Paramount Chairman David Ellison believes the tug-of-war over his proposed $111-billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery comes down to a single ques- tion: Can he be trusted to control CNN? “I believe this fight is not really about market share,” Ellison wrote in a Tuesday op-ed in the New York Times, noting that regula- tors around the world, in- cluding the U.S. Justice De- partment, have approved the deal that has been tem- porarily blocked by an an- titrust lawsuit brought by California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and his coalition of Democratic state attorneys general. “I believe a plainer worry sits beneath the briefs and the news releases,” Ellison wrote. “The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN.” The rare opinion piece serves as Ellison’s acknowl- edgment that his family’s close association with Presi- dent Trump has sullied his standing in Hollywood and beyond. Shakeups at CBS News, which is part of Paramount, the departure of CBS late- night host Stephen Colbert, and a visible presidential lobbying effort — including hosting a lavish dinner for Trump in Washingtonin late April and attending Trump’s birthday extrava- ganza in June with UFC fights on the White House lawn — have come with a cost. More than 5,000 enter- tainment industry workers, including such high-profile stars as Jane Fonda, Ben Stiller, Bryan Cranston and Mark Ruffalo, signed an open letter early this year, calling on Bonta to try to block the merger. The group alleged the transaction would weaken Hollywood with “fewer op- portunities for creators, fewer jobs across the pro- duction ecosystem, higher costs, and less choice for au- diences.” Ellison’s roughly 730- word essay does not men-
ELLISON’S essay said his determination to acquire Warner Bros. grew from his love of the movies.
services, AI has presented challenges and opportuni- ties as the audio platforms are flooded with AI-generat- ed music tracks. For its part, Spotify added a verification badge to distinguish human artists from AI, and Tidal banned AI-generated music from receiving royalties on its platform. Deezer, a French streaming platform, recently disclosed that up to 90,000 AI tracks are being uploaded to its platform daily, representing more than 50% of music uploads. Founded in 2006, Spotify maintains a large presence in L.A.’s Arts District. Over the last two decades, it has become the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, with more than100 million tracks, 7 million podcast titles and 700,000 audiobooks. At the
tion Trump by name nor ties between the president and his father, tech billionaire Larry Ellison. Trump has endorsed the deal and be- stowed praise on David Ellison, who contends the deal will make Hollywood stronger. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Ol- guín set a March 2 trial date for the antitrust lawsuit brought by Bonta and his co- alition of 11 other state attor- neys general. Paramount had been seeking a trial in November so it could wrap up the industry-reshaping deal by year’s end. Bonta and the other state attorneys general have alleged the merger of two major film studios would give Paramount-Warner Bros. more than 25% of the wide-release theatrical film market. Their lawsuit — which also sidesteps the po- litical backdrop — contends the combined company would own too many cable TV channels — more than 50, including CNN, TBS, HGTV and Comedy Central. Bonta, in a recent inter- view with The Times, denied the lawsuit was motivated by politics. “This is just a straight-up meat and potatoes antitrust case,” Bonta said. Many in Hollywood fear the consolidation of two his- toric studios will bring thou- sands of layoffs and contrib- ute to a bleaker employment picture. Ellison’s Skydance Media’s takeover of Pa- ramount a year ago resulted in the loss of 2,000 jobs. Since 2022, an estimated 57,000 Los Angeles-based entertainment jobs have been erased, according to federal labor data. To be sure, some have op- posed the Warner Bros. deal by saying one family shouldn’t be allowed to con- trol two significant news op- erations: CBS News and CNN, which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. In his essay, David Ellison, tried to allay such concerns. “There has been specu- lation about my politics, my loyalties, my intentions,” Ellison wrote. “Unfortunately, I can’t give anyone a view into my heart and mind, but I can share this: I have regularly voted for candidates of both parties; I hold some views that would be called conser- vative and others that would
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end of its second quarter, the company’s workforce con- sisted of 7,302 full-time em- ployees globally, and its op- erating income reached 655 million euros (roughly $754 million). “This quarter demon- strated that we are already building that future: better engineering, faster shipping, new products and new ways for users to engage,” Gustav Söderström, co-chief execu- tive, said in a statement. “We are still in the very early stages of what is possible and will continue to have a high bar for investments.” In its next quarter, Spo- tify said it expects premium subscribers and monthly ac- tive users will grow to 305 million and 788 million, re- spectively. Total revenue is expected to reach 5 billion euros (roughly $5.7 billion).
be called liberal, just like most Americans,” Ellison said. “And when it comes to our news operations, I do not aspire to lead these com- panies to bend their news- rooms to my views. I believe that news should be based on facts and truth.” Ellison pointed to opin- ion polls that show trust in the news media is low. “Great news organiza- tions like CNN and CBS News are here to tell it straight down the middle,” Ellison said. “That requires newsrooms that reflect the whole world, not one side of it. And it requires independ- ence. Our journalists will continue to answer to the facts and to all the people they serve — not to any party or cause. “These were founding principles for both CNN and CBS News, for legends like Ted Turner and Edward R. Murrow, and it is exactly that kind of independence that has always fueled the greatness of “60 Minutes,” Ellison wrote. Fired “60 Minutes” corre- spondents, including Cecilia Vega, have complained that since Bari Weiss became ed- itor in chief of CBS News last fall, journalists have been asked to tilt the presenta- tion of controversial news events, including protests to Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions earlier this year in Minnesota, which led to the deaths of two Americans. Since taking over Pa- ramount, ratings at some CBS News programs have declined, although “60 Min- utes” increased its regular season audience before the ouster of journalists that also included Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi and exe- cutive producer Tanya Si- mon, who ran the news mag- azine until May. Sources have said Weiss often suggests changes, but journalists have pushed back. No one has had to sprinkle in false talking points into their reports, these people said. Still, talent has been shaken. CNN’s Anderson Cooper left “60 Minutes” ear- lier this year, and CNN’s Paula Reid is departing the network, in part due to con- cerns about the direction of the news organization under the prospective new owners. Ellison’s driving determi- nation to acquire Warner Bros. grew from his love of films, he said. “I have loved film since I was old enough to sit still for one,” Ellison wrote. In legal documents, Pa- ramount has disputed the foundation of the plaintiff states’ lawsuit, saying the states failed to factor in the rise of technology compa- nies, including Netflix, Google’s YouTube and Ama- zon Studios, which also at- tract significant swaths of viewership. The Writers Guild of America has separately sued to block the merger, saying it would lead to fewer opportunities and lower pay for writers struggling to stay in the industry. Martínez-Olguín, who is overseeing the high-profile case, issued a temporary re- straining order to block the merger from finalizing while the two sides hashed out the evidence. Late last month, Paramount made a signifi- cant concession by agreeing to delay the close of the merger until after the an- titrust trial — or until June 1, 2027 whichever date comes first. In court documents filed Friday, Bonta and his coali- tion of 11 other Democratic attorneys general proposed having a two- to three-week trial to weigh the evidence. The plaintiff states include Colorado, Washington, Ore- gon, Nevada, New Mexico, New York and Minnesota. “The states claim this deal will give one company too much influence over the- atrical releases and cable operators, while the W.G.A. argues that our combined market power will hurt writ- ers,” Ellison said in the opin- ion piece. “Both suits imag- ine a Hollywood that no longer exists — an industry ruled by a handful of legacy studios.”
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fornia or whatever their ex- cuses are, but these are ob- scene profits and we need to do what we can.” Chevron said its perform- ance reflected global opera- tions, not state or regional results, and was driven by past investments. “To meet consumer de- mand, in the past year we in- creased energy production nearly 20 percent and op- erated our refineries at roughly 97 percent capacity in the second quarter,” spokesperson Ross Allen said in an email. The profits come at the expense of drivers, who in the U.S. saw gas prices jump between 30% and 50% since the war began. In California, which consistently had the country’s highest gas prices before the war, prices are still hovering over $5.60 a gallon. The price spikes have prompted some legislators to say the state should stop requiring its cleaner-burn- ing fuel blend established in the 1990s to help reduce air pollution. Refiners have
By Lizette Chapman
Palantir Technologies Inc. raised revenue and in- come forecasts for the full year after posting second- quarter sales that far ex- ceeded Wall Street’s esti- mates, describing demand for its data analytics tools as “otherworldly.” Palantir now expects $4.89 billion to $4.91 billion in adjusted income from oper- ations this year, up from $4.45 billion at the top end of the range previously. The software developer and ma- jor military vendor proj- ected as much as $8.16 billion in sales, above estimates of roughly $7.7 billion on aver-
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often blamed these and other environmental re- quirements for the high price Californians pay for gasoline. State Sen. Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) has intro- duced a bill that would make it easier for California to sell regular gasoline and charge providers a fee that could go toward programs such as electric vehicle rebates. Supporters, including the Union of Concerned Sci- entists and some environ- mental groups, say national gasoline standards and modern, cleaner-burning cars make the special Cali- fornia blend less necessary. Suspending it would make it easier to import cheaper gas from other states and re- duce reliance on in-state re- finers that produce the blend. But the Western States Petroleum Assn. trade group opposes that, saying it would penalize California refiners that have already in- vested in making the cleaner fuel. “It increases uncertainty for refiners, discourages in-
age. Chief Executive Alex Karp said U.S. commercial sales in the second quarter were “staggering,” rising 149% from a year earlier to $764 million. The stronger outlook worked to assuage investors’ fears that Palan- tir’s business would suffer from AI developers such as Anthropic PBC selling their own software and from gov- ernments outside the U.S. increasingly working with tech firms at home. Karp hit back at the fear of AI up- starts replacing his business in a letter to investors on Monday, pointing to the risks of “letting the models loose within their homes.” Palantir’s shares rose as much as 15% in late trading
vestment in in-state produc- tion, and advances policy ideas that do nothing to im- prove fuel affordability or re- liability,” a June opposition letter said. The group is also fighting Becker’s bill, which would add war to the list of emer- gencies — such as natural di- sasters and pandemics — that can trigger California’s price-gouging laws. The laws cap price increases at 10% of pre-emergency levels. Becker said he’s focused on evidence of price gouging in California specifically, where a small handful of re- fineries serve a relatively iso- lated market with limited al- ternatives for sourcing fuel. He cited research from the group Consumer Watch- dog showing that California gas prices ran $1.50 above the national average for 13 of the first 25 weeks of the year, 12 of them after the war started. Last year that hap- pened for only two weeks. In 2024 it happened during only four. The California Energy Commission doesn’t agree. California gas prices al-
to $144.65. If the gains hold in regular trading Tuesday, the company will notch its big- gest intraday gain in more than a year. “This quarter was other- worldly,” Karp said in pre- pared remarks. “Such an achievement would be cause for astonishment in any business; for one of our size, scale, and consequence, it is simply staggering.” Palantir gained fame as a stealthy Silicon Valley start- up selling customized data analysis software to the U.S. government and allied mili- tary forces. Company lead- ers have cultivated a pro- America image since Presi- dent Trump took office, for example speaking at confer-
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ways run higher than na- tional averages, but in- creases during the war are in line with national trends, it said. Tai Milder, director of the agency’s fuels market watchdog, pointed to a dif- ferent issue: Branded gaso- line stations in the state charge 31 cents more per gal- lon on average than un- branded ones. Nationally the difference between branded and unbranded is about 6 cents. California Chevron sta- tions have the highest prices of any brand, averaging $6.34 per gallon in May. The Western States Pe- troleum Assn. said branded gas can cost more for a num- ber of reasons, including real estate costs and “propri- etary gasoline additives for improved vehicle perform- ance.” “Branded products sell- ing at a premium above a ge- neric alternative is com- pletely normal in any mar- ket,” spokesperson Jim Stanley said. “I cannot think of a single consumer good where that isn’t the case.” Regarding the initiative
ences on the role of AI in war. The company has more than doubled its market val- ue since late 2024 to roughly $300 billion. Palantir’s U.S. government sales remain strong, but European lead- ers have signaled their de- sire to reduce reliance on U.S. tech companies and do more business with firms at home. In recent months, of- ficials in both France and the U.K. have moved to end deals with Palantir. “Sometimes we make de- cisions that are against our economic interests, like we’re supporting lots of in- stitutions in Europe,” Karp said in a call with analysts Monday. Palantir’s sales abroad
to cap oil profits during wartime, he said, it would make California a less com- petitive market for securing imports and “risk shortages of the energy our economy depends on” as California has become increasingly re- liant on imported fuels. At the national level, sev- eral Democrats in Congress have also introduced legisla- tion targeting windfall prof- its, including California Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks). Both Stern’s and Becker’s bills face their next hurdle in the state Assembly Appropriations Committee on Aug. 13. Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court backs Becker’s bill but said the state is ignoring the most valuable tool it already has to limit price spikes — a law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2022 that allows the California Energy Com- mission to cap refinery prof- its. Court said a cap at $1 per gallon, well above refiners’ 44-cent profit margins in January before the war
grew 33% from a year earlier to $362.5 million. The com- pany’s adjusted gross mar- gin was 86% in the last quar- ter, down slightly after it took on cloud hosting for a government customer, Chief Financial Officer Dave Glazer said on the analyst call. He cautioned that ex- penses will ramp up in the third quarter, partly due to seasonality. Karp character- ized Palantir’s software as an alternative to working di- rectly with AI companies that make LLMs. He praised Palantir customers for de- clining to become “vassal states of the language labs.”
Chapman writes for Bloomberg.
started, already could have saved California drivers $611 million. But since that law was signed, the shuttering of two major refineries in the state has left lawmakers and agencies skittish about regulating the facilities be- fore electric vehicles have displaced the demand for gas. The California Energy Commission has “de-pri- oritized” using its new au- thority to cap prices but “continues to analyze the data to better understand refining margins and the po- tential impacts to consum- ers” of setting a cap, spokes- person Niki Woodard said. So far this year, the oil and gas industry has spent more than $17 million lobby- ing the state Legislature. Global oil profits can in large part be tied to refining, since refinery closures due to attacks and crude oil shortages have exacerbated the fuel scarcity, said Bloomberg Intelligence ana- lyst Brett Gibbs. Marathon and Valero noted strong performance from their West Coast refin- eries, citing recent Califor- nia refinery closures and in- creased availability of Cali- fornia crudes, in addition to the war. PBF Energy, which had its Martinez refinery out of commission from Feb- ruary 2025 to this May due to a fire, said it expected con- tinued high profits in Cali- fornia over the quarters to come. Research and analytics firm Wood Mackenzie esti- mates that oil company profits could rise to $495 bil- lion this year if oil prices re- main high and average around $90 per barrel. That’s more than double what com- panies expected when prices were $60 per barrel before the war. Most companies are choosing to hold on to the windfall, rather than rein- vesting in production, Tom Ellacott, vice president of corporate research at Wood Mackenzie, said.
By Cathy Bussewitz
American oil and gas gi- ants raked in massive spring profits while fighting be- tween Iran and the U.S. im- peded petroleum shipments and consumers around the world paid more for fuel and confronted shortages. The conflict, now in its sixth month, halted most shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow water- way that previously served as a delivery route for a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas. With global supplies constrained, prices for Brent crude, the interna- tional standard, soared from about $70 to above $100 a barrel for much of March, April and May, and at one point reached $126. The money that oil com- panies accrued between the beginning of April and the end of June could receive ex- tra scrutiny this year. Gaso- line, diesel and jet fuel prices climbed sharply during that period, increasing costs for drivers and airline passen- gers. Supplies ran low in some countries, leading to sporadic fuel rationing in Australia and government office closures in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Exxon Mobil on Friday reported that its second- quarter profits doubled to $14.53 billion, boosted by record diesel production. The oil giant, based in Spring, Texas, brought in $116.02 billion in revenue, up 42%. Chevron, based in Hous- ton, greatly expanded its profit to $12.07 billion, and its revenue jumped 56% to $70.06 billion. Six of Europe’s largest oil companies posted com- bined first-quarter profits of $22 billion, more than 40% higher than last year. “There are constitu- encies around the world who are having a very good crisis, and the oil producers are one of them,” said Patrick Galey, fossil fuels lead at
Stocks hit records; oil prices ease
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The U.S. stock market rallied to records on Tues- day as profits kept piling up for companies and as oil prices eased. The Standard & Poor’s 500 shot up 1.8%, and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a cou- ple months ago. The Dow Jones industrial average added 907 points, or 1.7%, to its own record set the day be- fore, while the Nasdaq com- posite jumped 2.6%. Despite worries about high inflation, the war in Iran, frustration with the economy and a possible bub- ble in stock prices because of the boom in artificial-intelli- gence technology, Wall Street hit its latest apex and rewarded investors who re- mained patient because profits keep soaring for com- panies. Stock prices tend to follow the path of corporate earnings over the long term. Palantir Technologies helped lead the way and surged 29.5%. Besides re- porting a stronger profit for the spring than analysts ex- pected, the AI company also raised its revenue forecast for the full year of 2026. Caterpillar climbed 5.6% after the heavy-equipment maker likewise reported stronger profit and revenue than analysts expected. It was the first time Caterpillar made more than $20 billion
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Global Witness, a nonprofit that investigates environ- mental issues. “When you compare that to the hun- dreds of millions of people who are struggling with rolling blackouts, with elec- tricity curbs, rationing, wait- ing in line for food queues, or the disruption to fertilizers and the potential impact that that has on food prices, we don’t think that it’s a jus- tifiable price for the rest of the world to be paying.”
Lawmakers propose taxing oil producers Energy companies such as Exxon and Chevron do not set the price of American oil, which ricocheted from $68 to $115 a barrel during the quarter. It’s driven by supply and demand, and what tra- ders, refiners and other buy- ers are willing to pay. Nevertheless, Demo- crats in Congress intro- duced bills in March to tax major oil producers for prof- its they show from 2026 on- ward and have the tax pro-
in sales and revenue in a quarter, and Chief Executive Joe Creed said it’s seeing strong order rates and a growing backlog across its main businesses. Caterpillar is also ben- efiting from the AI boom through increased orders for turbines used to power data centers, among other things. They’re the latest com- panies to deliver even better profits for the latest quarter than investors expected, fol- lowing strong results from Amazon, Microsoft and oth- ers. Coming into this week, companies in the S&P 500 index were on track to deliv- er growth of nearly 50% in earnings per share for the spring from a year earlier, ac- cording to FactSet. That would be the big- gest such jump since 2021, when the economy was roar- ing back to life after crater- ing in the COVID-19 pan- demic. With corporate prof- its up so much, when stock prices are still roughly where they were two months ago, stocks don’t look as expen- sive as they did before, ac- cording to Phil Segner, a co- portfolio manager at the Leuthold Group. Also helping stocks on Tuesday was another drop for oil prices. Brent crude, the interna- tional standard, sank 5.3% to $79.36 per barrel as hope once again took over from fear in the oil market. It had swung sharply between $72 and $102 through July on un-
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ceeds redistributed to con- sumers. “It’s fair to put a windfall profits tax on inordinate windfall profits rather than cut off children’s food pro- grams,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat who introduced the Senate version of the leg- islation. Whitehouse’s measure and a companion bill intro- duced by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) would amend the U.S. tax code to impose a per-barrel tax on companies that produced or imported at least 300,000 barrels of oil per day in 2025. “We cracked $4 again per gallon last weekend in gas stations that I drove by, and that’s a big expense, particu- larly for families that get their income from driving around from job to job in the work van or the work truck,” Whitehouse said. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the U.S., which was below $3 before the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran,
certainty about when the war with Iran would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Per- sian Gulf again to deliver crude around the world. It’s jerked up and down many times as uncertainty built, receded and then built again, not only week to week but also hour to hour. Ana- lysts warn more swings could be ahead, but the lat- est drop in oil prices never- theless helped ease Wall Street’s worries about infla- tion. That pulled down yields in the bond market, which in turn relaxed pres- sure on the overall economy and on prices for stocks and other investments. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.62% from 4.70% Monday and from 4.75% at the end of last week. That’s a notable move for the bond market, though it remains well above its 3.97% level from before the war with Iran. In stock markets abroad, indexes rose modestly across much of Europe and Asia. South Korea’s Kospi had a more significant move and climbed 1.6%. Seoul has seen some of the world’s sharpest swings because two compa- nies swept up in AI mania dominate its market, Sam- sung Electronics and SK Hynix. The Kospi had dropped 5.1% and soared 17.9% in the prior two days.
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reached $4.11 Friday, about $1 more than a year ago at this time. The U.K. and other Euro- pean countries imple- mented temporary windfall profit taxes on fossil fuel companies in 2022. The U.K. extended that to 2030, ac- cording to Tax Foundation Europe. “Penalizing the busi- nesses who stood by those countries and provided that product going forward is very shortsighted,” Exxon Chief Executive Darren Woods said in a call with in- vestors Friday. “We canceled investments that we had planned for Europe based on the last time they passed a windfall profits tax.”
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Outfits such as Exxon and Chevron, which also own refineries, are in the best position to profit from the current market condi- tions, said Tom Seng, assist- ant professor of energy fi-
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nance at Texas Christian University. Refineries turn oil into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and home heating oil. Higher prices for those products meant Chevron’s quarterly refinery profit was six times as big in 2026, despite proc- essing less crude and selling less product. “The return on refining, on a percentage basis, has skyrocketed,” Seng said. “Oil right now is priced what it is priced because of the Iran war. But in the mean- time, the refineries are mak- ing money hand over fist.” The global refining mar- ket is undersupplied, and with countries such as Rus- sia and China no longer ex- porting, companies includ- ing Exxon and Chevron have to pick it up, said Rob Thum- mel, senior portfolio man- ager at Tortoise Capital. “The world is going to be short jet fuel, diesel and gas- oline, so we’ll probably con- tinue to see higher profits there.” Globally, not all refineries have been able to get the supply of crude oil they need to meet demand since the conflict began, said Timothy Fitzgerald, a University of Tennessee professor of busi- ness economics who studies the petroleum industry. As a result, refineries that have ample oil to work with, including those in the U.S., are turning high prof- its, particularly when they make jet fuel and diesel, which is priced about 41% higher in the U.S. than be- fore the Strait of Hormuz was blocked. “If you’re a company that owns a bunch of refinery ca- pacity, things look pretty good,” Fitzgerald said. American refineries are running at near-full capacity and poised to benefit be- cause some refineries in the Middle East and Russia were damaged. And Asia can’t get the amount of Mid- dle East oil needed for refin- ing. “Ultimately, users of the
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In the present geopoliti- cal environment, some com- panies are winners while others are losers, Fitzgerald said. “If you’re a company like a U.S. [oil] producer, even a U.S.-based international company like an Exxon or Chevron who’s got lots of production outside the gulf, things are good. You’re sell- ing your product at a higher price,” he said. But companies in the Middle East that are not able to benefit from higher prices because they are struggling to get their lique- fied natural gas out of the Persian Gulf or have a lot of damaged oil fields or proc- essing facilities have a very different take on recent events, Fitzgerald added. “Your ability to sell any- thing and the volume that you may be getting out is so curtailed that your revenues are way down and you’re in- curring higher transporta- tion costs and security costs,” he said. Exxon and Chevron wer- en’t as profitable in the first quarter due to the way oil is traded; the first real oppor- tunity they had to take ad- vantage of higher oil prices was in April. Companies that had a lot of oil stored in floating tankers and avail- able for spot-market trad- ing, including some Europe- an ones, were able to benefit from March’s higher oil prices, Seng said.
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n January, the New York Times asked President Trump if there were any limits on his global powers. “Yeah,” the president re- sponded, “there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” That was eight months ago, but fortunately Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of “The Odyssey” has made ancient Greek literature newly relevant. Before that window closes, I’d like to talk about hubris. Today, the term mostly means excessive pride or arrogance. That’s part of what the Greeks meant by it too, but the meaning was a bit richer and more specific. Hubris was an insolent or outra- geous act that offended the gods, often because the transgressor was claiming abilities or author- ities that solely belonged to supreme beings. Nolan renamed and slightly modified the concept of xenia for the film, calling it “Zeus’ law.” In the director’s telling, mortals should follow the rules laid out by the gods, specifically the require- ment to treat strangers with re- spect lest they be gods in disguise. In a sense, hubris is the oppo- site, or at least the rejection, of xe- nia. The hubris of the suitors, and at times Odysseus himself, invites punishment by the gods and their mortal instruments. Which brings me back to Don- ald Trump. His claim that there are no constraints on his personal power to dictate events on the global stage was one of the greatest expressions of hubris ever uttered by a political leader. Trump’s claim was obviously false when he made it. He vowed that he could end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours. He’s proved powerless to make that happen. If he had divine pow- ers to work his will, why would he
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s someone who has spent years working together with fellow Chinatown residents through the public review process for the proposed gondola, I found this column to be a deeply one-sided account of a far more complex conversation. It ignores the many residents, small business owners and community organizations who have spent years advocating for the project because they see it as an opportunity to invest in Chinatown’s future. For many of us, this is about more than a gondola. It is about investing in a neighborhood that has too often been overlooked, supporting small busi- ness, connecting spaces and a rare opportunity for Chinatown to shape its future rather than be displaced by it. The public deserves to hear from all sides of the debate, not just those who oppose it. It’s maddening to see our voices silenced. By failing to acknowledge the coalition of Chinatown voices that have supported this project and worked to secure meaningful community benefits, Steve Lopez’s column pre- sents an incomplete narrative that does a disservice to Los Angeles Times readers and the community itself. Enrique Pineda Los Angeles
I read Lopez’s column and thought, “here we go again.” As a lifelong San Fernando Valley resident, access to parks isn’t some- thing we take for granted. The Valley has some of the worst park deficits in the Los Angeles area. In neigh- borhoods like Van Nuys and
PRESIDENT TRUMP has cast himself as a dominant leader, unconstrained by law or allies.
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have balked at implementing his tariffs so often that Wall Street adopted the “TACO trade” term for his deals? “TACO” stands for “Trump always chickens out.” And why would Trump have made so many embarrassing con- cessions to China — from rescind- ing tariffs on Chinese goods to al- lowing them to buy crucial and in- credibly valuable computer chips? But Trump saw his success at capturing Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro as proof of his abil-
Panorama City, families have access to only a frac- tion of the parkland that experts recommend. That’s why I don’t under- stand why leaders are being urged to treat a great down- town park as if making it accessible is a bad thing. Public parks should serve
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all Angelenos. A family from the Valley should feel just as welcome spending an after- noon there as anyone else — whether they’re heading to a Dodgers game or simply looking for a place where their kids can run and play. With so little green space across our city, every great
ity to launch missiles to the same effect as Zeus’ lightning bolts. Trump believed he was the most powerful man who ever lived. This is no exaggeration. In March, when the Iran invasion seemed successful, Trump gave a document penned by “Presidential Historian David King” to New York Times reporters Maggie Ha- berman and Jonathan Swan pur- porting to prove that Trump was “the most powerful person to have EVER walked this planet.” King
park should be shared. Is L.A. not for all? Steve Martinez Panorama City
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I live just a short dis- tance from Los Angeles State Historic Park. Despite living so close, getting to the park has never been as easy as it should be. Lopez’s column focused almost exclusively on those who oppose the project. I wish he had also spoken with residents like me who see this as an investment in our neighborhood and an opportunity to make the park more welcoming and accessible for the people that live beside it every day. Heidi Rodriguez Los Angeles
is too important
Re “The year of the not-at- all-close decisions,” Opinion Voices, July 31
I am not an advocate of any mega PAC, but LZ Granderson misses the moment by reducing the Michigan primary to his disagreement with Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) taking money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The U.S. Senate majority is on the line in November, and this primary is no doubt one of the races that will determine if Democrats can take the Senate and not rely on lame-duck Republican votes. That’s why the oldest Black newspaper in Michi- gan supports Stevens. That’s why Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) flew to Michigan. This must bum Granderson out, and I understand Stevens does not have the Bernie Sanders vibe that Abdul El-Sayed has in speaking and popu- list issues, but this is about who can win the Senate from the Republicans — and
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was, in fact, a businessman and oc- casional caddy for legendary golfer Gary Player. King compared Trump favor- ably to many of history’s most pow- erful, and often heinous, figures: Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, William the Conqueror, Na- poleon Bonaparte, Joseph Stalin, Genghis Khan, Mao Tse Tung, Ad- olph Hitler and Vladimir Lenin. Many of these men thought they were the most powerful person in the world, too. And many were de-
that’s why Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorses Stevens. Haven’t we learned a bit from the near-tragic error in Maine? Maine and Michigan matter. David Tokofsky Eagle Rock
In his column, Grand- erson aptly observes that endorsements will play a minor role in the outcome of this year’s midterms. Espe- cially persuasive is the example he gives of Clyburn, whose call upon Michigan voters to support Stevens won’t improve her bid for Senate. But Grand- erson overlooked an impor- tant way in which endorse- ments remain a relevant aspect of American politics: their utility as a litmus test for assessing the characters of those who make them. A surefire way to deter- mine which leading Demo- crats bear the greatest commitment to achieving universal healthcare, free college and other radical policies is to ask which ones stood behind the establish- ment-anointed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and which ones went out on a limb for the populist firebrand Bernie Sanders instead. So even if they no longer sway the minds of those they exhort, endorsements still help to clarify where major politicians align themselves in the most contentious political con- tests of our time. Oliver Zinn Laguna Beach
with bad options
Re “‘Orphaned’ voters may be key in midterms,” Aug. 3
I live in California’s 40th Congressional District and voted in favor of Proposition 50, with the knowledge that its passage almost certainly ensured that my district
feated precisely because they be- lieved it. At least Napoleon and Hitler had a string of truly impressive vic- tories before they learned the folly of hubris. The limits on Trump’s power have been exposed by far less august forces than the com- bined might of the allies in World War II or the fearsome Russian winter. Iran is a comparatively mid- dling power. But the regime’s abil- ity to absorb punishment while im- posing its will on the Strait of Hor- muz has proved to be a greater con- straint on Trump’s power than his morality or mind. We should note that, at least rhetorically, his mo- rality has not proved much of a con- straint. He has repeatedly promis- ed to destroy Iranian “civilization” if the regime refuses to capitulate. But they haven’t — and won’t anytime soon — because the re- gime’s tolerance for pain far out- strips Trump’s. The combined fear of skyrocketing oil prices, outrage of Gulf state potentates, diminish- ing weapon supplies and domestic unpopularity is doing the work that international law, congres- sional oversight and the collective opinion of foreign policy experts can’t or won’t do. If I considered Trump more he- roic than reason and facts could al- low, I would say his Sisyphean pre- dicament has the whiff of Greek tragedy to it. Trump is vexedby the fact that the Iranians won’t honor deals or ratify his countless prema- ture claims of victory — giving new meaning to his vow that his presi- dency would make people tired of winning. It’s almost like they’re out-Trumping Trump. Things might have gone better if he’d heeded that great Greek tra- gedian Sophocles: “For Zeus ut- terly abhors the boasts of a proud tongue.”
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would elect a Republican to the seat. The only local Democrat who might have had a chance at winning was Katie Porter, who decided to waste her remaining politi- cal capital on a quixotic run for governor. Accordingly, I am left with the choice of voting for either my district’s incum- bent, Rep. Young Kim (R- Anaheim Hills), who, in my experience, is unresponsive to constituents, and Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Corona), whose most notable act in his 33 years in Congress is introducing a bill designat- ing a memorial for recipi- ents of the Distinguished Flying Cross. Neither merits my vote, and I intend to leave that space blank in November. BW Radley Mission Viejo
so transparent
Re “Tax returns show Newsoms in upper echelon of earners,” Aug. 1
So Gov. Gavin Newsom has disclosed his last four income tax returns, sort of. I say “sort of” because he has only shared them with a small group of media, he did not allow the tax returns to be copied or photographed, and he has not shared them directly with his constitu- ents, the people of Cali- fornia. A truly forthcoming elected official would just post them on his website and be done with it. It’s a sad day when the governor has apparently become corrupted by the system he purports to want to clean up. Cary Brazeman Los Angeles
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Finn Gomez Getty Images A proposal to eliminate civilian tenure at military academies would weaken America’s future leaders
he Pentagon report- edly is considering eliminating civilian ten- ure across the military service academies and senior war colleges. The draft pro- posal also would direct Defense De- partment officials to conduct a line-by-line review of courses and decide what material is “non-es- sential” or “ideologically driven.” Political influence over how officers are prepared to exercise judgment carries consequences far beyond the classroom. Graduates of these institutions eventually command forces, advise national leaders and help deter- mine how the country uses its mili- tary power. They must be able to recognize flawed assumptions and tell senior leaders unwelcome truths before mistakes become ca- tastrophes. Military education must develop the independent judgment constitutional service re- quires, not merely teach approved doctrine. The institutions covered by the proposal — including West Point, the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy — serve officers at different stages in their devel- opment, immersing future leaders in academic study, military disci- pline and demanding standards before commissioning. Command and staff colleges prepare officers for broader operational responsi- bilities. Senior war colleges edu- cate experienced military and civil-
he start of the school year brings a familiar list of responsibilities for parents: buying school supplies, keep- ing track of forms, coordinating transportation and responding to a steady stream of emails from teachers and administrators. Although many families strive to share these responsibilities, re- search has consistently found that mothers tend to shoulder a larger share of the work tied to their kids’ schooling. That includes not only attending school events or packing lunches, but also the less visible work of scheduling doctor appoint- ments, signing up for after-school activities and responding to emails or calls from teachers and adminis- trators. We are economists who study gender and families. We wanted to understand whether schools themselves might unintentionally contribute to this imbalance by de- faulting to contacting mothers more than fathers. Economists and other social scientists have long recognized that mothers spend more time than fathers on childcare, even when both parents work full-time. And even though men have as- sumed more caretaking responsibilities over the past sev- eral decades, women still spend more time caring for their children and homes. This gap matters, because the way child care is divvied up shapes much more than parents’ work schedules. It can contribute to chronic stress and burnout and in- fluence how couples perceive fair- ness within their relationships. It can also influence parents’ careers by affecting work hours, opportunities for advancement and how much they earn. In the summer of 2022, we con- ducted a nationwide field experi- ment involving more than 80,000 K-12 school principals across the United States. Schools received an email from a fictitious two-parent household with both a mother and father interested in enrolling a child. The email listed both par- ents, each with a phone number and asked the principal to call one of them. Because we randomly varied the names and wording of the
ian leaders for decision-making at the strategic level, where military force and other instruments of na- tional power must be connected to political objectives. These schools should be ac- countable to their missions. De- fense Department leaders have ev- ery right to insist on rigor and rele- vance. Curricula should serve na- tional defense, and professors should meet exacting standards. But course reviews built around vague political labels, combined with the elimination of tenure, would make scholarly inquiry in- creasingly vulnerable to political influence. Recent events at West Point show how quickly such pressure can spread. Philosophy professor Graham Parsons resigned in 2025 after courses and readings were re- moved and faculty scholarship was restricted to conform with the ad- ministration’s directives. The Washington Post recently reported that a history assignment on the expansion of American freedom was replaced with one on banking, Marx was removed from a Western thought course, and professors withheld views or declined publica- tion opportunities because they feared professional consequences. Military institutions are espe- cially vulnerable to that kind of an- ticipatory compliance. They op- erate inside hierarchies built to translate senior direction into ac- tion. Broad instructions are rarely
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emails, we could isolate whether a parent’s gender influenced who re- ceived the callback. It did. When neither parent appeared more available than the other, mothers were about 1.4 times more likely than fathers to receive the first phone call. Among principals who called someone back, roughly 60% contacted the mother first and 40% contacted the father. We also tested whether provid- ing more information changed these patterns. When the email ex- plicitly stated that the father had more availability to talk, principals became substantially more likely to call him. But even when fathers were presented as the more avail- able parent, many schools still called mothers first. Another subtle cue also mat- tered. If the father sent the email and copied the mother, schools were more likely to contact him. Yet even then, mothers continued to receive a substantial share of the calls. These findings suggest that
SECRETARY Pete Hegseth's plan to scrub “ideological” material from American military academies has raised alarms.
applied narrowly. Faculty and ad- ministrators begin anticipating ob- jections from above and removing potential sources of trouble before anyone has to issue a direct order. The Pentagon already has shown how clumsily ideological re- views can play out in practice. Last year, images of the Enola Gay were flagged for removal during a search for prohibited diversity-related content, apparently because the bomber’s name contained the word “gay.” The Naval Academy initially removed nearly 400 library books under similarly broad direc- tion, then returned almost all of them after the Pentagon provided narrower standards. The proposed course review would give faculty and administra- tors reason to calculate the politi- cal safety of every lesson, publica- tion or research question. Elimi- nating tenure would increase the professional cost of resisting that pressure. Military and civilian professors contribute different strengths to professional military education. Uniformed faculty bring opera- tional experience, professional context and an understanding of the institution. Civilian academics bring habits of inquiry developed through years of research and con- tinuity of expertise across genera- tions of students. Because their ca- reers are less dependent on the mil- itary chain of command, they also can bring perspectives that might
many schools still view mothers as the default parent to contact about their children, even when they are given information indicating that fathers are equally — or even more — available than mothers. Importantly, this does not nec- essarily mean that school staff members are intentionally con- tacting mothers. School adminis- trators often have limited informa- tion and make quick decisions based on experience. If they have historically found mothers to be more responsive, calling them first may seem like the most efficient choice. But when similar decisions are repeated thousands of times across schools and other organiza- tions, they can reinforce the un- equal division of caregiving re- sponsibilities that already exists within many families. Schools are only one source of child-related demands. Previous research has shown that mothers are more likely than fathers to schedule doctor appointments, coordinate extra-
otherwise go unexamined. A civilian professor’s role is not to oppose the institution for the sake of opposition. Serious schol- ars weigh evidence and engage competing interpretations, includ- ing those that may depart from conventional wisdom. Sometimes that work leads them to question assumptions the larger institution has come to accept. Exposure to an idea is not in- doctrination. Military schools do not teach Marx to produce Marx- ists. They examine ideas and up- heavals that shaped the world that officers must understand to op- erate in. They study events such as Wounded Knee and the My Lai Massacre not to shame students or the organization, but to under- stand how authority can be abused and how future leaders might pre- vent recurrence. I did not agree with every posi- tion my civilian instructors pre- sented at the Naval Academy. Sometimes I reached a different conclusion. That was part of the value. They exposed us to compet- ing perspectives and uncomfort- able ideas, requiring us to test our assumptions, develop positions we could defend and understand how others saw the world. They were teaching us how to think critically, not requiring us to think as they did. Academic freedom allows schol- ars to pursue and teach difficult questions honestly. Tenure gives
curricular activities and manage many of the behind-the-scenes tasks that keep family life running smoothly. These responsibilities are often described as the “mental load” of parenting, because they in- volve planning, monitoring and co- ordinating. Our research suggests that schools and other organizations may unintentionally amplify that mental load by directing more re- quests toward mothers. In surveys we conducted along- side our experiment, educators and other adults who regularly in- teract with families — including child-care providers, coaches and medical professionals — also re- ported contacting mothers more often than fathers. One phone call may seem incon- sequential. But over the course of a school year — and across doctor of- fices, sports teams, camps and other activities — those interrup- tions can add up. They become one more demand on parents’ time, and that demand disproportion- ately falls on mothers.
civilian professors a measure of professional security when that work produces conclusions institu- tional leaders would rather not hear. Together, they allow faculty to teach and model independent judgment without first calculating whether each question or conclu- sion is politically safe. The Pentagon proposal would weaken both. A line-by-line review based on vague ideological stand- ards would narrow the intellectual space in which professors teach and conduct research. Eliminating tenure would make challenging those limits more professionally dangerous. The likely result would be more self-censorship and an ed- ucation increasingly shaped by po- litical approval rather than intel- lectual merit. That would teach future officers that accepting the institution’s premises is safer than questioning them. They might well become more fluent in current doctrine while becoming less prepared for the moment it fails. One of the American military’s greatest advantages over larger ad- versaries has been its officers’ abil- ity to think critically, adapt and ex- ercise judgment without waiting for political dogma to supply the answer. Russian and Chinese mili- tary systems historically have re- lied more heavily on centralized control and political loyalty. Ameri- can military education tradition- ally has sought to cultivate some- thing different. Making military colleges more dependent on approved ideas would surrender part of that ad- vantage. It also would blur an im- portant constitutional distinction. American officers swear allegiance to the Constitution, not to ideology or an individual leader. Their edu- cation should reinforce lawful civil- ian control while developing the professional judgment and politi- cal neutrality that constitutional service requires. The Pentagon’s proposal would make faculty less secure, inquiry more dependent on political ap- proval and future officers less likely to encounter arguments that chal- lenge the government or the insti- tution they serve. Politically sanitized military schools may produce more compli- ant officers. They will not produce better leaders.
Jon Duffy is a retired Navy captain and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He writes about leadership and democracy.
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This perspective also helps ex- plain why gender gaps in caregiv- ing can persist even among couples who are trying to divide responsi- bilities more equally. The unequal distribution of parenting tasks is shaped not only by decisions within households, but also by ex- pectations and routines outside the home. Many schools allow families to specify whom to contact first or designate different contacts for different situations. As those rou- tines are established at the start of the school year, making those pref- erences explicit may help school communication better reflect how each family chooses to share re- sponsibilities.
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CLEANUP continues at the site of a massive warehouse fire in Boyle Heights that devastated the community.
sees hope for the birds
numbers are dropping globally, some species are thriving locally.
By Mack Baysinger
Bird multitudes are slip- ping away on a global scale, but a new study offers hope for how we can be better neighbors to feathered friends. Researchers at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo knew, like everyone else in the bird world, that 3 billion birds have been lost in the last half-century, but they wanted to know more about why. So they looked at changes in air pollution, light pollution, summer heat and eight other environmen- tal and demographic condi- tions that affect birds. To their surprise, they found some species are do- ing well in some places with bad air or bright nights, thanks to what nature put in the birds’ survival toolkit. “Our study shows pretty convincingly that we are los- ing birds in some places, but we’re also gaining birds at lo- cal populations in other areas, so it’s not dire across the board.” said Clinton Francis, a Cal Poly biological sciences professor and co- author of the new study pub- lished in Current Biology. In some parts of the West that have bad air pollution, Oregon juncos and spotted towhees actually had more babies. It could be because they spend much of their day hopping from place to place, avoiding the respiratory stress of smoke that afflicts more athletic species. In Southern California, the numbers of American robins and goldfinches in- creased in urbanized areas. Robins do well in grassy fields with scattered trees, which city parks often pro- vide, the researchers said via email. “I don’t think anyone’s going to dispute that we’ve lost a lot of birds across a lot of different populations,” Francis said. “But I also find a lot of hope in our study.” Of the 11 stressors the re- searchers examined, two had the biggest overall nega-
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the brakes on e-bike chaos
Tired of teens terrorizing the town on e-bikes? Los Angeles City Council mem- bers are too. The council’s Rules Committee passed a motion Tuesday that asks the city’s Department of Transportation to come up with ways to regulate e-bikes, in- cluding who can ride them and how. The measure next goes to the Public Safety Committee, then the full City Council. The motion outlines a number of pos- sible measures including banning the sale of e-bikes, e-motorcyles and electric mopeds that don’t meet legal standards out of the box, banning modifications that can make e-bikes faster and requir- ing education for riders under 18 or who don’t have a driver’s license. The motion, authored by Councilmembers Heather Hutt and John Lee, also suggested imple- menting rules for storage and charging to prevent battery fires. “Banning the conversion of e-bikes to an e-moto will be an important step to
E-BIKE injuries have risen among minors, says the motion passed Tuesday.
When department stores defined class
By Shelby Grad
As a kid growing up in Los Angeles, there was no greater barometer of class than the department store. As my grandmother loved to explain, May Co. was affordable when there was a sale. Broadway was a bit pricier but you might find a deal on a good day. Bull- ock’s was for the Buick and Lincoln crowd. Robinsons: strictly Cadillacs. And I. Magnin: the land of Mer- cedes and Rolls-Royce. She was mostly a window shopper. But department
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preventing injuries,” Hutt’s office said in a statement. “Most importantly we need to ensure children are riding the appropri- ate vehicle for their age,” including kids staying off e-motos until they are 16 years old. If the full council approves the mea- sure, the Department of Transportation will have 30 days to report back with rec- ommendations. E-bikes are classified into three cate- gories based on speed and function. Class 1 is pedal-assisted only up to 20 mph. Class 2 includes a throttle but is also capped at 20 mph. Class 3 is pedal assist but goes up to 28 mph, requires riders to be at least 16 years old and cannot typi- cally be used on bike paths. Anything faster is classified as a moped or e-motor- cycle, which can require someone to have a motorcycle classification on their li- cense. While e-bikes are lauded for increasing
stores were her passport into the different strata of postwar L.A., a chance to as- pire to a different life even if all she left with was a per- fume sample sprayed on her palm. This summer marks 20 years since the classic L.A. department store died. It was this time in 2006 when workers removed the last of the Robinsons-May signs from stores and malls across Southern California, mark- ing the end of an era in more ways than one. Rob-May outlived Bullock’s and Buffums and Orbachs, but it
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move to speed fire recovery in Boyle Heights
on aid for residents and businesses and seek accountability.
By Gavin J. Quinton and Connor Sheets
Weeks after a warehouse fire blanketed Boyle Heights with smoke, ash and swarms of flies, Los Angeles city and county officials unveiled a slate of measures aimed at speeding recovery, increas- ing corporate accountability and expanding financial as- sistance for residents and businesses affected by the disaster. City Councilmember Ys- abel Jurado, who represents Boyle Heights, introduced a series of measures at City Hall on Tuesday, including setting aside up to $10 mil- lion for odor and pest control and direct aid to residents. The series of motions must first be approved by a committee before coming to the council floor for a vote. Mason Santa Maria, a spokesperson for Jurado, said he believes the City Council will act quickly. “For nearly seven weeks, families have lived with
against Trump saved state $207 billion
pushback also has protected civil rights, cities and families.
By Kevin Rector
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Tuesday that his office has protected more than $200 billion in federal funding for the state, de- fended core civil rights and removed military forces from Los Angeles streets by suing the Trump adminis- tration about once a week. “Since President Trump returned to office, California has been under attack — and has led the way in fight- ing back,” Bonta said. Bonta said his office has filed 82 lawsuits against the administration since Trump’s inauguration last year, in addition to 122 ami-
smoke and ash, odor, flies and pests, disruption and uncertainty. Seven weeks of summer memories that our children will never get back,” Jurado said at a news confer- ence before Tuesday’s coun- cil meeting. “Residents did not cause this disaster, but were forced to suffer its con- sequences — an environ- mental burden that the Eastside has carried for gen- erations.” Representatives of Line- age, which operated the burned-out cold storage warehouse, didn’t immedi- ately respond to a request for comment. At the news conference, Jurado appealed to Gov. Gavin Newsom to deploy ad- ditional state resources for the cleanup effort. The gov- ernor declared a state of emergency in the first days of the disaster, sending thousands of N95 masks and air purifiers to Boyle Heights aimed at helping residents affected by the un- healthy conditions. “We’re urging, we’re beg- ging, we’re pleading to send more resources,” Jurado said. “We haven’t seen the governor down here. I would hope he would come and vis- it.”
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cus briefs supporting law- suits against the adminis- tration by other parties and 112 comment letters in re- sponse to federal actions. That work has saved the state an estimated $207.1 bil- lion, Bonta said, including $168 billion — equal to a third of the state’s annual budget — that was threatened when the Trump administration tried to freeze trillions of dol- lars in federal funding to the states last year. Billions in threatened cuts to transportation, emergency preparedness, education and family assist- ance funding were also pre- vented, Bonta said. The work has also pro- tected birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of immigrants, ensured that National Guard troops are not deployed in major Cali- fornia cities against the wishes of local leaders, lifted
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Mayor Karen Bass’s 45- day cleanup deadline is fast approaching, and Jurado was doubtful that Lineage could meet it. If it fails, the company would face finan- cial consequences. On Monday, Lineage offi- cials estimated the company had removed about 80% of food waste in the warehouse, up from 60% on Friday. Jurado’s motion also calls on the City Council to consider slapping responsi- ble parties with much steep- er fines — ranging from $25,000 to $1 million — for fu- ture incidents. The move is intended to create penalties steep enough that they can’t be shrugged off as the “cost of doing business,” accord- ing to council documents. Another motion directs the city attorney to explore legal action against any responsi- ble parties to recoup taxpay- er dollars spent on the emer- gency. Jurado said the city will seek legal consequences for both Lineage and Altus Power, which reportedly was conducting maintenance on solar panels atop the ware- house when the fire broke out. Her move on the council floor Tuesday called for halt- ing cold-storage companies such as Lineage from doing business in Boyle Heights for up to two years. Representatives at Altus didn’t immediately respond
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exercise and helping Ange- lenos get around in a city otherwise built for cars, in- juries from e-bike crashes have surged, especially in minors, according to the mo- tion. An elderly woman in March was injured after a teen struck her riding an e- bike, and in May a collision killed a Garden Grove 13-year-old after he lost con- trol of his electric motor- cycle. The council has authored other motions to limit e-
track of a great recommendation again.
NEIGHBORHOODS surrounding the warehouse in Boyle Heights have been racked by smoke and smells.
to a request for comment. At its meeting Tuesday, the county Board of Super- visors approved a motion di- recting the county Depart- ment of Public Health to work with legal counsel to provide the board with rec- ommendations for poten- tially increasing penalties for companies responsible
bikes elsewhere, including a ban for e-bikes on equestri- an and hiking trails. Hutt’s office said in a statement that potential e- bike education would be standardized through the Department of Motor Vehi- cles and have online or in- person options. The state Legislature could also con- sider a surcharge on manu- facturers to pay for the edu- cation component as part of their liability, the statement said. Eli Akira Kaufman, exe-
for public health violations. Beginning in July, the public health department hit Lineage with fines of $500 a day for “unsanitary and nuisance” conditions at the site of the fire. “It’s only fair to ensure that companies that place our environmental and pub- lic health at risk are held ac-
cutive director for the non- profit advocacy group BikeLA, said that he sup- ported the motion’s educa- tion requirements, but that changes need to be made with long-term effects in mind. “No law, however just or punitive, will ever replace in my mind the value of educa- tional programming,” Kauf- man said. Ideally, any locally re- quired programming should be done in person, with e- bike riders getting super-
countable and contribute to funding these recovery tools,” Supervisor Hilda So- lis, the measure’s sponsor, said. The board motion calls on county officials to con- sider requiring that “busi- nesses with high-risk of community exposure to en- vironmental hazards lo-
vised, hands-on training with their bikes to promote safety and education, he said. Such trainings shouldn’t be entrusted to the DMV or another state entity, but through nonprof- its like his and Streets for All, which have experience with e-bikes and advocate for this kind of education. The main problem in- volves e-mopeds and e- motorcycles, which are typi- cally illegal to ride without a driver’s license or regis- tration, Kaufman said. Laws
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cated in proximity to sensi- tive locations” submit com- munity health and safety plans to the public health department. The motion also would launch a Small Business In- terruption Fund to help af- fected businesses in unin- corporated parts of East L.A., as well as those affected
erroneously tend to lump in legal e-bikes with these illegal versions, he said, affecting people who are safely trying to use a more sustainable transportation method. Regulation needs to be nuanced, he said, in- stead of allowing dangerous vehicles on the road and penalizing riders after the fact. “It’s just a lack of invest- ment,” Kaufman said. “It’s like the Wild Wild West — hoping for the best, but look- ing for the worst.”
by future emergencies. The board also approved using money in the County- wide Business Interruption Fund, which was estab- lished in March, to help busi- nesses affected by the Boyle Heights fire and other emer- gencies, including the May oil spill in East Los Angeles. Kelly LoBianco, director of the county Department of Economic Opportunity, said “small businesses are con- tinuing to face revenue loss” as a result of the ongoing ef- fects of the fire. “If you’ve been out in the area, you know that there’s still a persistent smell. With the heat wave, it exacerbates things,” LoBianco said dur- ing the meeting. “Folks have initially had property dam- age, temporary closures, workforce impacts, and they continue to have traffic im- pacts.” The measure also di- rected the county’s director of regional planning and le- gal counsel to determine whether the county could help fund the Countywide Business Interruption Fund by collecting a fee from “all new manufacturing, recy- cling, warehouse, and any in- dustrial land use facilities that have the potential to negatively impact the econ- omic vitality of small busi- nesses due to their opera- tions in unincorporated Los Angeles County.” Carlos Singer, chief pol- icy officer for the Los Ange- les Area Chamber of Com- merce, said in written com- ments submitted ahead of Tuesday’s Board of Supervi- sors meeting that the cham- ber supports “the motion’s core relief provision.” But he said the chamber requested amendments to the motion, including provi- sions to minimize the paper- work businesses will have to fill out in order to comply, to ensure that the scope of the requirements isn’t too broad, and to otherwise en- sure the motion isn’t too on- erous for businesses that played no role in the ware- house disaster. The Board of Supervi- sors did not take up the re- quested amendments be- fore voting for the motion.
Putting Universal Studios’ accessibility to test
into the park reveals a welcoming experience for disabled guests.
By Hailey Branson-Potts
My parents’ visits from Oklahoma to Southern Cali- fornia to see my children, their only grandchildren, have gotten harder. For the last few years, my dad, an Army veteran with my bone-dry sense of humor, has fought a progressive neurological disorder that causes severe tremors in his arms, legs and neck. He is not yet 60. A diagnosis is maddeningly elusive. Despite his pain, exhaus- tion and increasing difficulty walking, he and my mom have repeatedly driven to California — more than 20 hours on Interstate 40 by pickup truck — because he doesn’t like people’s stares on airplanes and because we stubborn Middle America types don’t balk at cross- country road trips. He recently began using a wheelchair.
Poles, elevators and frustration This spring, he quietly fumed as my mom had to push him all the way around the block to reach a middle school field in the South Bay for my daughter’s soccer practice because the side- walks were obstructed by telephone poles and No Parking signs. A trip last month to the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance to take my kids to watch “Minions & Mon- sters” included an agonizing walk due to a set of broken el- evators. His legs ached for days. When he said he wanted to take us to Universal Stu-
lives of two California natives
By Ruben Vives
A 23-year-old California woman was one of three peo- ple killed over the weekend in the shooting outside an In-N-Outrestaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, according to family and company offi- cials. Sabrina Garibay, 44, con- firmed to The Times on Monday evening that her daughter Ashley Garibay, an In-N-Out employee, was killed. She said she provided a statement to the burger chain that would be released on her behalf and declined to comment further. On the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, Garibay de- scribed her daughter as an amazing soul with “a radiant heart.” “Ashley is a beloved daughter, sister, auntie and a best friend to everyone,” she wrote. “She has left a lasting impression on so many souls.”
By Seamus Bozeman
A Los Angeles man was sentenced Monday to a little over three years in federal prison for obstructing law enforcement during pro- tests in downtown L.A. amid the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps last year, authorities said. Yachua Mauricio Flores, 23, of Lincoln Heights pleaded guilty in late April to one count of obstructing, im- peding and interfering with law enforcement officers during civil disorder, the De- partment of Justice said in a news release. He was sen- tenced to 37 months in pris- on. The charges against Flo- res stemmed from a June 8, 2025, protest, where prose- cutors said he “participated in a riot” on the Main Street overpass of the 101 Freeway. He and others threw rocks,
SUPER NINTENDO World opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2023 and includes a Mario Kart ride.
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dios Hollywood for my son’s birthday, I fretted. Could he do it? My fears were for naught.
Mario Kart, magic and mobility
My Mario-obsessed son has been begging to go to Universal ever since its Su- per Nintendo World opened in 2023, and his 8th birthday trip with his doting grand- parents was a surprise. My dad wore a T-shirt poking fun at his own disa- bility — a parody of the New Balance athletic-wear logo that read “No Balance” — and beamed as he easily zipped through the park with his mechanized chair, my kids clamoring to ride on his lap. We rushed to Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge, an aug- mented reality-enhanced
Ashley Garibay, who typically worked at an In-N- Out in Stockton, where she lived, often traveled across the U.S. to help open new stores and was doing that in Twin Falls when the gun- man opened fire, the family said in its statement. Ac- cording to the company, the Twin Falls location had just opened July 24. “We are heartbroken and devastated by the loss of Ashley. ... She was adventur- ous, outgoing, smart and driven, never letting obsta- cles get in her way,” the fam- ily’s statement read in part. “She lit up a room with her bright smile and a laugh that was contagious. She was a friend to all, and no matter what difficulties she was fac- ing, she always found a way to help others find the light in the darkness.” The statement said that In-N-Out was Ashley’s first job and that she dreamed of managing one of the stores. Another California na-
chunks of concrete, scoot- ers, street signs, fireworks and burning debris at the of- ficers on the freeway below, according to authorities. This incident occurred the same day that the Na- tional Guard was deployed to Los Angeles. Amid ag- gressive immigration raids by the Trump administra- tion, there were scattered clashes between protesters and federal agents. Many of the protests remained peaceful, but there were some instances of violence across L.A. County. At some protests, agents deployed flash bangs and pepper balls and protesters threw rocks and bottles. Authorities say that, in the June 8 incident, Flores poured two bottles of lighter fluid onto a burning Califor- nia Highway Patrol vehicle to intensify the flames. He then directed another indi- vidual to follow suit, prose- cutors said.
THE AUTHOR’S father and daughter smile in front of Moe’s Tavern in the park.
ride, and were met at the en- trance by a staffer who helped park my dad’s elec-
tive reportedly was killed in Saturday’s shooting. The New York Times identified the victim as Christopher Claunch. His sister told the outlet that Claunch had lived in Idaho for about 30 years but always stopped at the bur- ger joint whenever he re- turned to California. Claunch was from South- ern California, according to reporting by KTLA. He grew up in the Santa Clarita com- munity of Canyon Country. The identity of the third person who died has not been made public. Officials in Idaho have not yet shared the names of the victims as they work to notify families. Lynsi Snyder, owner and president of In-N-Out, said she was saddened over the death of Garibay and the other victims. “In-N-Out will be mourn- ing with the families and praying for them as they tread through a very painful season,” Snyder wrote Sun-
tric chair, brought him a ma- nual one, and cheerfully guided him to the front of
ASHLEY Garibay, right, was “a beloved daughter, sister, auntie and ... best friend.”
day in a statement on Facebook. “I am no stranger to loss, but this is so incred- ibly tough, and my heart also goes out to all of the associ- ates and customers who were there during this trau- matic event.” Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks said Sunday that in addition to those killed, seven others were in- jured in the chaotic attack. An off-duty state trooper and an armed citizen re- turned gunfire toward the
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the queue, where, after a short wait, he had to take only a few steps to board.
suspected shooter, identi- fied as Chad Williams, 24, who died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. “We commend their hero- ic actions, which we believe helped drive the suspect away from the scene and prevent further casualties,” the department wrote in a statement on Facebook. Police said the suspect acted alone and an investi- gation remained ongoing. Two of the wounded were
In the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, a staffer guided us through Hog- warts Castle to a dedicated transfer platform where my dad could take a manual chair right up to the ride car and take his time getting in. He laughed with delight, legs dangling just like every- one else’s, as we flew through a Quidditch match and es- caped Dementors and the Whomping Willow.
Frankenstein, his bride and my dad
While we waited for the kids to get painted — my son posed for a caricature sketch depicting him fighting a “Minions” monster and my daughter got a pink butter- fly painted onto her face — a costumed Frankenstein and his bride approached my parents. The bride, in character, played with my mom’s long human hair in faux wonder, and Frankenstein reached out with his huge green hand to shake my dad’s hand. When an excitable teenager cut in front of my dad, Frank- enstein — without saying a word — gestured for the kid to be patient and wait, pat- ted my dad on the back and posed for a picture. Dad said it felt good, knowing Frankenstein had his back. It also was nice knowing this theme park has the back of guests with disabilities. We stayed for 10 hours. He rode every ride and said it was just the deliriously joyful day he needed. A spokeswoman for the park told me accessibility in- formation can be found at www.universal studioshollywood.com/web/ en/us/accessibility- information.
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treated and released at the scene, three were in stable condition, and two others were in critical condition as of Sunday. “Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, and everyone impacted,” the police statement said. “We understand the fear, grief, and concern this has caused in our community.”
Times staff writer Grace Toohey contributed to this report.
death or serious bodily in- jury to the officers,” the De- partment of Justice said. “Violent attacks on law enforcement will result in federal prison time,” said First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli. “Those who escalate chaos and endanger officers will be held accountable. To- day’s sentence reflects our commitment to protecting the men and women sworn to keep our communities safe.” The Justice Department has had several cases dis- missed in which they ac- cused protesters of violence against federal authorities. Last week, federal prose- cutors filed a motion to dis- miss the case against labor leader David Huerta, who was arrested during the first day of summer immigration raids in the Southland and charged with obstructing a federal officer. Huerta said it was proof he did nothing wrong.
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tive effect on birds: less dark- ness at night and worse air pollution. They found that hopeful because those are condi- tions that people can change locally. Reducing misdirected street lighting for example can really help, especially in areas with species that need low light for navigation. Turning off lights when you leave the house is also good for birds. “I’m looking out my win- dow right now and I can see all kinds of sources of light at night that could be better shielded, just shining to illu- minate plants. Which can look really nice at night, but also, the plant doesn’t need light at night,” Francis said. Anything people can do to reduce fire risk can also lead to less air pollution, benefiting birds, the re- searchers said. The fact that air and light pollution turned out to be among the strongest factors in bird decline wasn’t much of a surprise to Allison Shultz, associate curator of ornithology at the Natural History Museum of Los An- geles County. “It basically matches a lot of observations that we’ve had over the years,” she said. “It’s just it’s really nice to see it actually confirmed with real data and statistics.” Shultz was not affiliated with the study. But the mu- seum has a collection of bird skulls that was included in its dataset. That’s because birds with larger eyes can ab- sorb more light, giving them
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babies-per-adult changes over time by counting how many fly into the nets. A bird’s age, wing length and other fitness metrics are also recorded before it is re- leased. Etched onto each of the bands is a series of let- ters and numbers that, if it’s captured again, tells the next researcher where this bird has been. The dataset from the sta- tions takes in 46 species common to North America. In their study, Cal Poly re- searchers used close to 600,000 data points. “We’re lucky in the world of birds that we have lots of different large-scale datasets collected oftentimes by, you know, just everyday individuals,” said Sarah Jennings, lead author on the study and a postdoctoral researcher at
Cal Poly. Jennings noted they used only species that could be captured in nets for banding surveys. Think small song birds you could see in a park or your back- yard. The researchers com- pared places where bird numbers were changing with the 11 conditions, using datasets for air quality, light and climate, among others. Shultz said the strength of the study is its continental scale and data that span decades. The trade-off for working at such scale is lack of local detail, however. One example would be that the study annualized the condi- tions found on the days re- searchers strung their nets. “If we looked outside the day after the Fourth of July, the air looked a lot different than it does when you look outside today, or if there happens to be a wildfire nearby,” she said. Shultz also leads a com- munity science effort to study how bird behavior may change when wildfire rolls through a region. Proj- ect Phoenix asks volunteers from Western states to observe birds in their area each week and submit what they see through EBird, a popular birding app. She is currently analyzing data from last year’s fire season and expects to have results soon. “I’m actually really ex- cited to see, as we’re looking at our Project Phoenix re- sults and at wildfire smoke, you know, are these match- ing the broader trends that they’re seeing?” she said.
was no match for the na- tional chains and changing consumer behavior that fa- vored discounters like Tar- get and Kohl’s. In a world of one-click purchasing and window- shopping on Instagram, it’s hard to imagine the status and influence these brick- and-mortar stores imparted on 20th century Los Angeles. Their ads dominated the pages of the newspapers, and even there you detected a caste system. Mid-market chains like May Co. and Broadway ad- vertised in the news sections with pages and pages of pho- tos showing off their wares. The upscale chains like Rob- insons were reserved for the features sections, with glori- ous hand-drawn sketches of beautiful women and hand- some men against dramatic landscapes that were worthy of framing. The stores got their start with huge emporiums in downtown L.A., a street car ride away. But the stores easily adapted to the car and postwar suburbia. With ev- ery new tract, they would an- chor the shopping malls that became the downtowns of suburban life. The arrival of a Bullocks or a Robinsons in your com- munity was a mark of status, that you were living in a so- phisticated place.
My grandmother’s Disneyland What we forget is that they were more than places to shop. My grandmother bought all her clothes at the down-market Fedco, usually “half-size” polyester blouses with the brand name “The Discriminating Woman.” The fancy stores were her amusement park. She took us to the ornate tea room atop the art deco masterpiece Bullock’s Wilshire, where we lunched and marveled at the one place in late 1980s L.A. where women still wore hats and gloves. She made the rounds at the Robinsons in Beverly Hills, spying for celebrities and likely unaware of all that went into the edifice: Trav- ertine stone from Peru. Rose marble from Portugal. Black granite from Brazil. Rose- wood from Madagascar. When the outpost closed in 2006, longtime employees lamented L.A. was losing not just an expensive store but a unique public space. “I did ladies’ shoes and later men’s shoes and clothing. Now I’m doing demolition,” one said.
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multiple sets of tariffs driv- ing up costs for American consumers and repeatedly blocked administration ef- forts to interfere in Califor- nia’s elections, Bonta said. “We’ve protected funding that keeps our communities safe, feeds hungry families, and ensures our kids get the education they deserve. We’ve gone all the way to the Supreme Court to defend constitutional rights — and won. We’ve protected our elections and stopped the militarization of our cities. We’ve defended our right to prioritize public safety over assisting with the Presi- dent’s inhumane immigra- tion agenda,” Bonta said. As it has done in the past, the White House on Tuesday derided Bonta’s lawsuits as misguided. “Instead of bragging about filing frivolous law- suits against the Trump Ad- ministration, the California AG should focus on address- ing problems in his own state — like the countless criminal illegal aliens the Newscum Administration allows to roam free and terrorize com- munities,” said White House spokeswoman Abigail Jack- son in a statement to The Times. The White House has previously said Trump is “trying to restore American Greatness” and that Califor- nians would be “infinitely better off” if Bonta got out of the president’s way. Bonta’s office is required to report annually to the state Legislature on its work fighting the Trump adminis- tration as part of a 2025 spe- cial session measure deliv- ering it an extra $25 million to fund such litigation. His office published its latest report to lawmakers Tuesday. The report said the office had received $19.2 million of the special session funding through July 30, which had “contributed to — but in no way has been sufficient to cover — the costs of the liti- gation.”
THE BEVERLY HILLS Robinsons-May building was demolished in 2014. The upscale retail chain was geared toward the Cadillac crowd.
My grandmother died a few years before Rob-May. But I cannot help but think about her when I roam through the stores of my youth. A few years ago, two friends and I got inside the empty building on Wilshire that once housed I. Magnin. It was a symphony of mar- ble, grand etchings and ele- gant curves. Now, it’s boarded up, the black marble exterior faded by graffiti and neglect. Down the block, the Bullock’s Wilshire has been lovingly restored and protected by the Southwestern Law School. But the last time I walked into the property, I was shooed away by a securi- ty guard. Like so many in her gen- eration, my grandmother saw those iconic names as markers of discriminating taste without considering the dark side of all that ex- clusivity. The tea room whose pre- tensions she so loved was the subject of protests and lawsuits in the 1940s by
CALIFORNIA Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said his office has filed 82 lawsuits against Trump since last year.
Bonta’s office has also re- ceived regular appropria- tions to fund such litigation in each of the state’s last two budgets, of $14.2 million last fiscal year and $23.9 million this fiscal year. The office’s overall budget is about $1.4 billion. At a morning news con- ference with other state leaders, Bonta said his office has spent close to $30 million on its “federal accountability work” overall since Trump took office, and argued that investment has been “pay- ing off in droves” given the billions saved. State Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón (D-Goleta) and As- sembly Speaker Robert Ri- vas (D-Hollister), standing with Bonta, agreed. Limón said she was proud to have worked with Bonta and Gov. Gavin New- som to form a “collective backstop” against the Trump administration, while Rivas said the funding provided to Bonta’s office “may be one of the smartest investments that this Legis- lature has ever made.”
Black people who were re- fused service there. They eventually prevailed and got to join my grandmother in the escapism (and tyranny) of these retail temples that insisted they represented the L.A. ideal.
Seeing ‘how the other half lives’
One of the last places you can experience the depart- ment store the way my grandmother did is on Lake Avenue in Pasadena. The Bullock’s (now Macy’s) was one of her favorites: a whim- sical space that transports you back in time with vin- tage fixtures and furniture, an old-fashioned elevator, and murals and wallpaper galore. My grandmother would pile us into the car and head to Pasadena “to see how the other half lives.” Every time Macy’s an- nounces another round of store closures, I hold my breath to see if 401 S. Lake Ave. will be on this list. It’s surviving for now.
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Of the 82 lawsuits, 66 re- main active, according to the report. Despite that, Bonta said, his office has won 45 orders providing some early relief from the Trump administra- tion’s actions, and 21 final or- ders in its favor. In eight cases, he said, the administration “backed down” in advance of a trial. Bonta’s office has lost ar- guments made against the Trump administration, in- cluding on behalf of other litigants, particularly on is- sues related to transgender rights and the scope of Trump’s executive power to reshape government and federal immigration policy. However, Bonta claimed his office has won in 83% of the court orders issued in cases brought by the state and praised his team for hav- ing “worked around the clock on behalf of Califor- nians, pulling countless all- nighters along the way” to make it possible. Bonta, who is up for reelection in November, is campaigning in part on his willingness to stand up to
THE BULLOCK’S Wilshire, an art deco masterpiece, has been lovingly restored.
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Trump — which polling and voting has suggested many Californians want their elected officials to do. Xavier Becerra, the Democratic candidate for California governor, is run- ning on a similar message. Before he was the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, Becerra had Bon- ta’s job and sued the first Trump administration more than 120 times, often successfully. Bonta said he expects Becerra will be an “incred- ible partner” in the fight moving forward. Republicans Michael Gates, who is running against Bonta, and Steve Hilton, who is running against Becerra and is en- dorsed by Trump, have said they would work collabora- tively with the Trump ad- ministration to ensure the needs of Californians are met, rather than fighting it at every turn. “I would be wanting to work with the administra- tion to help Californians,” Hilton has said. Gates has called Bonta’s campaign against Trump “out of touch.” Many of the lawsuits Bonta’s office has brought against the administration have been filed as part of a multistate coalition of Democratic attorneys gen- eral. As presidents of both parties have flexed more executive power in recent decades, state attorneys general have become more collaborative and litigious in fighting back — and that has been especially true under Trump. Bonta said Trump will be remembered in part for his “repeated attacks on Cali- fornia, on Californians, on our Constitution, and on our democracy,” but California will be remembered for fighting back. “Are these trying times? 100%. Absolutely, yes,” Bonta said. “But we shouldn’t be helpless, be- cause we’re not helpless.”
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offensive potential in pairing passing with a strong ground game.
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The USC offense, in four years with Lincoln Riley as coach, has consistently remained among the best in the sport. Say what you will about Riley as a play-caller or an overall CEO type, but only one team in college football ranks better in average opponent-adjusted efficiency, or FEI, on offense over the course of Riley’s tenure (sorry, it’s Oregon). And only once, in four sea- sons with Riley, has USC fallen out of the top seven nationally in that efficiency rate. USC finished third in the nation in offensive FEI last season. And there’s a legiti- mate case to be made that the offense should be even better in 2026. Two cases, really. The first path is probably obvious and will no doubt be the source of every pre- season TV segment about USC. The road to success for Riley has always run through the quarterback. And Jayden Maiava has all the tools necessary to be that guy. He took a huge step forward last offseason, and if he continues that trajectory, he should be one of the best quarterbacks in the country this season. But Maiava has also been surrounded by experi- enced receivers the last two seasons, including one who just got picked in the first round of the NFL draft. His top returning receiver, Tanook Hines, is sitting out with an injury to start camp, while the rest of the pass- catcher two-deep is made up of either freshmen or transfers. We don’t know how long Hines will have to sit out, but any amount of time isn’t ideal. It’ll be on Maiava to build chemistry in the room and make it all work on the fly. I suspect he’ll do just fine
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RUNNING BACK Waymond Jordan, who averaged 6.55 yards per carry before getting hurt last season, rushes during a September game.
in that regard. But if USC is really going to reach its offensive potential this season, I believe it’ll be the run game that gets them there. Riley earned his reputa- tion as a passing savant at Oklahoma for good reason. He had two Heisman Tro- phy-winning passers and one runner-up in his first three seasons with the Sooners, and all three are now starting NFL quarter- backs. There’s no college coach with a resume even close to comparable when it comes to passing. But what’s often lost about those Riley teams is that Oklahoma also had a stellar rushing attack, one that had to be accounted for at all times, and, in turn, made the passing attack all the more explosive.
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USC’s run game hasn’t been bad since Riley took over, not by any stretch. In fact, in terms of expected points added per rush play, the Trojans have ranked among the 15 most efficient run games in college football in each of Riley’s four sea- sons. They just haven’t run the ball nearly as much as that efficiency suggests they would. This season would be a great time to shift that ratio. Because this is the best backfield Riley has had at USC. Before he got hurt last season, Waymond Jordan was on his way to being seen as one of the best backs in the Big Ten, if not the coun- try. He averaged 6.55 yards per carry, which ranked 15th among qualifying running backs in the country, but
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better yet, he picked up more yards on average after contact (5.15) than all but one other running back in the nation. Assuming he’s fully healed from his ankle injury last October, Jordan should immediately remind every- one that he’s bound for stardom. And his backfield mate may not be that far behind. King Miller didn’t get regular carries until Week 6 last season, after Jordan went down. But he ended up busting 26 rushes of 10 yards or more anyway. That’s once every six carries. That’s bonkers, even before you consider that Miller is for- merly a walk-on. The pairing of those two backs, plus the threat of Maiava’s legs, gives USC a varied backfield capable of
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breaking a big play at any moment. Better yet, in the Big Ten, it gives Riley and his offense the ability to extend drives and wear down opposing defenses. That’s too often been miss- ing from USC’s offense since coming to the Big Ten. But there’s no excuse not to lean more on the run this season. Throw in the fact that USC is deeper and more talented on the offen- sive line than at any other point in Riley’s tenure, and it’s not hard to envision a Trojan offense dynamic enough to dominate teams on the ground and through the air. Offense has never been a problem for Riley at USC. But we also haven’t seen Riley’s offense at the full extent of its powers just yet. And if USC is going to make
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the playoff for the first time under Riley, that’s going to have to change this season. Preseason MVP pick (non-QB): Waymond Jor- dan … Back from injury, I’m betting Jordan is better than ever. Breakout pick: Kayden Dixon-Wyatt, freshman wide receiver … Take your pick of top prospects at the receiver position, but I think Dixon-Wyatt could be the big-play threat USC needs alongside Hines. Biggest question mark: Wide receiver/tight end … So much talent, but so little of it is proven. Don’t be sur- prised if someone you’re not expecting breaks out at the position. Bold prediction: Fresh- man tight end Mark Bow- man leads the team in touchdown catches.
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leaving his Raiders gig. “But Mr. Davis, you coached college football,” Harbaugh countered. “Yeah,” Davis said, “but that was at USC, not U-S-D.” Harbaugh knows he made the right decision, and never doubted it, even when he and defensive coordina- tor Dave Adolph — another NFL fixture — had to roll up their sleeves and scrub down the cramped and filthy USD locker room themselves; even when he and his assist- ant coaches routinely made hundreds of PB&J sand- wiches to provide late-night snacks for their players, who don’t receive scholarships at the NCAA Division I FCS level; and even when he pushed himself so hard at practice — he was the head coach, mind you — that he got sick all over himself. “He was very demanding of us,” recalled former Tore- ros linebacker Matt Gab- bard, “but it wasn’t some- thing he didn’t demand of himself.” They still call it Har- baugh Hill, a steep dirt road overlooking the practice fields on campus. Football players would plod up it as part of their training camp, and Harbaugh would run with them and urge them along. It bothered him that nobody could keep pace with receiver Nick Garton, who also excelled in soccer and track in high school, and could breeze up the grade like it was nothing. “Isn’t anybody going to challenge this guy?” Har- baugh said. “Finally, I said, ‘I’ll do it.’ ” So he did, matching Gar- ton stride for stride before losing his breakfast all over himself. The coach didn’t stop running, though. “I finished second,” he said, recalling the episode after Chargers practice this week and clearly still proud of his accomplishment. Harbaugh coached at USD for three seasons, starting in 2004, and was three years removed from his playing career. He was 40 when he took the job and still had thoughts of putting the pads back on. He even looked into playing arena football and entertained the idea of playing for the Los Angeles Avengers, but that thought only lasted a day or so. He really wanted to be a coach, and brought along his dad, Jack Harbaugh, to oversee the running backs in that first season. Jim and Jack would car- pool to campus every day from their Coronado homes, father and son talking plays, personnel, family and life. “What I saw was pas- sion,” said Jack Harbaugh, who spent six decades coaching high school and college football. “If I could use one word, it’s Jim’s pas- sion for the game. He would coach as if that was maybe the last job he’d ever had.”
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Matthew Stafford is the reigning NFL most valuable player. Like Stafford, receiver Davante Adams is probably headed to the Hall of Fame. Receiver Puka Nacua could eventually become the high- est-paid player at his posi- tion in NFL history. New defensive end Myles Garrett was twice voted NFL defensive player of the year. And three-time defen- sive player of the year Aaron Donald is possibly coming out of retirement. They, too, are probably heading to the Hall of Fame. So yes: The Rams are a constellation of stars. And McVay has proved the ultimate compass. “I love these guys,” he said. “I want them to feel like we’re in it with them.” The Rams have made the playoffs seven times in nine seasons. They played in two Super Bowls, winning one. It all starts with training camp. And McVay. “He’s had so many elite players to where he knows what it takes,” Curl said, “and he knows when to hold off. ... He takes care of us.” McVay — with guidance from Reggie Scott, the Rams’ senior vice president of sports medicine and per- formance — structures camp at Loyola Marymount in four-day working blocks. Meetings are completed be- fore workouts. Two days of practice are followed by a jogthrough on the third day, and a practice on the fourth before a day off.
JIM HARBAUGH oversees a practice in San Diego, where his passion was described by a former USD player as “next-level intensity.”
CHARGERS safety Derwin James Jr. gestures during a training camp session at the home of the Toreros.
That resonated with the players. “When we saw coach Har- baugh come in and have that next-level intensity, you kind of get chills running down your spine,” defensive back Phil Bretsch said. “Like, ‘Oh boy, this is going to be differ- ent.’ But you’re ready for it, right? We’re not there for any other reason other than we love football.” The turnaround was abrupt. Harbaugh inherited a historically mediocre pro- gram and coached his team to a 29-6 record in three sea- sons. The 2006 team went 11-1, won the Pioneer League,
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Stafford, Adams and Garrett are among veterans with scheduled rest days. That was a new concept for Adams when the 13th- year pro signed with the Rams before last season. “I’ve been told in the past, ‘You let us know how you’re feeling if you don’t want to go,’ ” Adams said. “I’m not built that way. I’m not going to tell you I’m not going to practice. You have to tell me
and Harbaugh was a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Award, presented to the top coach in the FCS. One of his biggest accom- plishments was luring Ad- olph out of retirement. The defensive specialist was al- most 70 and was a turn- around artist with all sorts of NFL franchises — Cleve- land, Kansas City, Raiders and Chargers — but in his later years was the primary caregiver for his ailing wife. Harbaugh asked and asked and asked, and finally got a yes when he helped arrange for in-home care for the Ad- olphs for several hours a day.
I’m not going to practice.” McVay understands that the “old-school way” of toughening and preparing players for a season can be achieved without “killing us on the field,” Adams said. “When we go, we go,” he said. “The type of people that we have, nobody’s tak- ing advantage of the fact that he’ll look out for us a lit- tle bit in the schedule.” That includes small
Coaching at this level was about making sacrifices for the love of the game. There was no school money to feed the hungry players after their team meetings, so Har- baugh and the other coaches — essentially volun- teers — shelled out for tubs of peanut butter, vats of jelly and dozens of loaves of bread every night. “We were always on the hunt for calories,” Bretsch said. “I think I stayed alive off Carl’s Jr. 99-cent chicken sandwiches for about six months throughout my ca- reer. We always joked, ‘What if we would have had the training table the big pro- grams had? What would we have been like?’ ” But those teams had something different. They had Harbaugh. “We had a competitive advantage from a coaching standpoint every game we went into,” said running back J.T. Rogan, who went on to work with Harbaugh at Stanford and Michigan. “I would refer to him as my fa- ther in football, but that would probably be diminish- ing the impact he’s had on my life.” It wasn’t just about Har- baugh’s football mind or un- wavering intensity and en- thusiasm. He had connec- tions. When he took his team up to play Menlo College, he had Jerry Rice deliver the pregame talk. Steve Mari- ucci spoke to the team as well. So did longtime college basketball coach Tom Crean, Harbaugh’s brother- in-law.
things such as no meetings after workouts, said corner- back Trent McDuffie, who played his first four NFL sea- sons with the Kansas City Chiefs. “He allows you to give yourself that mental space to unload and get away from football for a minor second,” McDuffie said of McVay. “Not in the sense of we’re go- ing to leave and go do our own thing but ... It’s ‘come
When the Toreros needed cold-weather clothing for a game at Dayton, Harbaugh cajoled the Chargers, where he spent part of his playing career, into donating some of their mothballed gear. “We got turtlenecks with the Chargers insignia on them,” Rogan recalled. “We’d have these jackets with a big Chargers light- ning bolt, the dark-blue stuff before the baby-blue stuff was en vogue.” For Harbaugh, the job was part-coaching and part “Let’s Make a Deal.” When Saint Mary’s dropped its football pro- gram, he called the East Bay school not only to recruit players but to round up equipment that would oth- erwise go unused. He wound up buying virtually every- thing the program had, writ- ing a $10,000 check out of his personal account. “I got all the practice pants, the helmets, the thigh boards, everything,” he said. He rented a U-Haul and drove to Moraga to collect the stuff. When Harbaugh was about to head out, the Saint Mary’s coach asked one more question: “You need goalposts?” Harbaugh was all ears. “He showed me these year-old goalposts,” he said. “They were beautiful. I put them in the U-Haul and took them too.” With the truck loaded and as he was preparing to pull out, Harbaugh got a call on his cell. It was an unher- alded USD quarterback recruit from Oakland
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get your recovery, eat, spend time with the guys.’ And I think that’s really cool from a team bonding aspect of how they do things around here.” McVay, 40, is a decade re- moved from the day the Rams made him the young- est coach in the NFL’s mod- ern era. During his tenure, he evolved the way the Rams conduct their offseason pro-
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named Josh Johnson. He was supposed to be at fresh- man orientation but didn’t have a way to get from the Bay Area down to San Diego. Harbaugh was quick on his feet. “He said, ‘My parents are working and can’t take me down there,’ ” Harbaugh said. “I said, ‘Tell you what, can you be ready in an hour?’ He said he could be, so I drove the U-Haul over to his place and picked him up an hour later.” The two spent the next seven hours together, driv- ing to USD. Even now, Har- baugh made clear he wasn’t bending the rules. “It wasn’t an extra bene- fit for Josh Johnson,” he said. “I put him to work. He unloaded the whole truck.” In his first practice, John- son went from seventh on the quarterback depth chart to second. He would go on to become one of the greatest players in the history of the program, leading the Tore- ros to back-to-back Pioneer League championships. He set many school records, in- cluding his 2007 season in which he threw 42 touch- down passes with one inter- ception. Johnson, now playing for the Cincinnati Bengals, has played for 14 NFL franchises, some more than once. That’s the most in league history for a quarterback. It’s an as- tounding rise from a tiny, non-scholarship university in San Diego. An odyssey of an ascent. Harbaugh, for one, can relate.
gram and training camp. McVay scrapped on-field workouts in post-draft rook- ie camps after safety John Johnson suffered a groin in- jury in 2017. He annually can- cels or cuts short mandatory minicamps at the end of off- season workouts. And he discovered after last summer — when Stafford sat out all of train- ing camp because of a back issue — that the 18th-year pro’s absence during camp workouts had no ill effects on Stafford’s performance. And it might actually have en- hanced it. McVay’s own movements during practices also have changed with time. In his first few years, the former quarterback and Georgia state high school player of year routinely shadowed Rams receivers step for step on routes dur- ing practice, or lined up op- posite them in press cov- erage. McVay does not do that as often, but he still engages players throughout work- outs. Last week, he arrived for a post-practice news confer- ence with a bloody cut on his hand. “I don’t even know what I did,” he said, adding, “I think I got excited hitting some- body’s shoulder pads or whatever.” No doubt done with pur- pose. And care. “He wants you to make plays and he wants you to be great,” Curl said. “So that’s all we really asked for from a coach.”
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Arizona 60 53 .531 9 6-4
San Diego 58 55 .513 11 8-2
San Francisco 48 65 .425 21 5-5
Colorado 45 68 .398 24 4-6
Central W L Pct. GB L10 Milwaukee 69 43 .616 — 5-5
Chicago 64 49 .566 51⁄2 6-4
Pittsburgh 57 57 .500 13 4-6
St. Louis 56 57 .496 131⁄2 4-6
Cincinnati 53 58 .477 151⁄2 6-4
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Philadelphia 60 53 .531 71⁄2 4-6
Miami 58 55 .513 91⁄2 6-4
Washington 55 59 .482 13 3-7
New York 47 66 .416 201⁄2 4-6
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Seattle 55 58 .487 21⁄2 4-6
Texas 55 58 .487 21⁄2 3-7
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ANGELS 43 69 .384 14 2-8
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Minnesota 56 57 .496 4 6-4
Detroit 54 58 .482 51⁄2 6-4
Kansas City 46 67 .407 14 3-7
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New York 63 50 .558 31⁄2 5-5
Boston 60 51 .541 51⁄2 8-2
Baltimore 54 58 .482 12 5-5
Toronto 53 60 .469 131⁄2 6-4
Today’s games Dodgers at Chicago (NL) ................. 11:20 a.m. Angels at Baltimore ......................... 3:35 p.m. Toronto at Houston ......................... 11:10 a.m. San Francisco at Texas .................... 11:35 a.m. Tampa Bay at Colorado ................... 12:10 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia ............... 3:40 p.m. Athletics at Cincinnati ...................... 3:40 p.m. New York (NL) at Cleveland ............... 3:40 p.m. St. Louis at New York (AL) ................ 4:05 p.m. Chicago (AL) at Boston ..................... 4:10 p.m. Miami at Atlanta ............................. 4:15 p.m. Pittsburgh at Milwaukee ................... 4:40 p.m. Minnesota at Kansas City ................. 4:40 p.m. Detroit at Seattle ............................ 6:40 p.m. San Diego at Arizona ....................... 6:40 p.m.
CHICAGO CUBS 10, DODGERS 5
Dodgers AB R H BI Avg. Ohtani dh 4 1 2 0 .294 Pages cf 4 1 1 0 .270 Edman 2b 4 1 1 3 .300 Freeman 1b 4 0 1 0 .309 Betts ss 4 0 0 0 .226 Tucker rf 3 1 2 0 .240 T.Hernández lf 4 1 2 1 .259 E.Hernández 3b 3 0 0 0 .313 b-Call 1 0 0 0 .248 Alfonzo c 3 0 1 0 .185 Totals 34 5 10 4
Dodgers 300 101 000 — 5 10 1 Chicago 222 013 00x —10 10 1 a-walked for Alcantara in the 6th. b-lined out for E.Hernández in the 9th. Walks—Dodgers 1: Tucker 1. Chicago 7: Crow-Armstrong 1, Suzuki 1, C.Kelly 1, Hoerner 1, Swanson 1, Alcantara 1, Happ 1. Strikeouts—Dodgers 4: Edman 2, Freeman 1, E.Hernández 1. Chicago 10: Crow-Armstrong 1, Bregman 3, Busch 1, Hoerner 2, Ramirez 2, Happ 1. E—Tucker (3), Crow-Armstrong (5). LOB—Los Angeles 3, Chicago 6. 2B—Bregman (22). HR—Edman (3), off Boyd; T.Hernández (11), off Boyd; Suzuki (19), off Wrobleski; Alcantara (1), off Wrobleski; C.Kelly (7), off Wrobleski; Busch (14), off Wrobleski. RBIs—Edman 3 (21), T.Hernández (41), Suzuki 2 (63), Alcantara 2 (5), C.Kelly 3 (40), Busch 3 (63). SB—Swanson (16). CS—Swanson (1). Runners left in scoring position—Dodgers 1 (Ohtani); Chicago 4 (Crow-Armstrong, Swanson, Hoerner 2). RISP—Dodgers 2 for 4; Chicago 2 for 6. GIDP—T.Hernández. DP—Chicago 1 (Ramirez, Hoerner, Busch). Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Wrobleski, L, 11-3..........41⁄3 7 7 7 3 4 91 3.31 Henriquez......................1 1 3 3 3 2 30 3.27 Scott ...........................2⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 14 2.38 J.Hernández....................2 1 0 0 0 2 28 7.32 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Boyd, W, 7-1 ................62⁄3 9 5 4 1 3 92 3.59 Thornton .....................11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 22 2.86 Woodford.......................1 1 0 0 0 0 14 7.18 Inherited runners-scored—Scott 3-3. U— Chris Segal, Laz Diaz, Erich Bacchus, Brian O’Nora. T—2:40. Tickets sold—39,384 (41,363).
PITTSBURGH 4, MILWAUKEE 3
Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Mangum cf 5 0 1 1 .302 Lowe 2b 5 1 1 0 .254 Reynolds lf 5 1 2 0 .270 Valdez rf 1 1 0 0 .260 Horwitz dh 4 0 1 3 .276 Gonzales 3b 4 0 0 0 .309 Triolo 3b 0 0 0 0 .244 Rodríguez 1b 4 1 3 0 .266 Gonzalez ss 4 0 0 0 .234 Davis c 3 0 0 0 .173 Totals 35 4 8 4
Pittsburgh 003 100 000 —4 8 1 Milwaukee 000 012 000 —3 6 1 a-struck out for Hamilton in the 6th. Walks—Pittsburgh 4: Valdez 3, Davis 1. Milwaukee 5: Turang 1, Chourio 2, Bauers 1, Vaughn 1. Strikeouts—Pittsburgh 13: Mangum 2, Lowe 2, Reynolds 1, Valdez 1, Horwitz 2, Gonzales 2, Rodríguez 1, Gonzalez 1, Davis 1. Milwaukee 12: Turang 2, Chourio 2, Yelich 1, Contreras 2, Bauers 1, Vaughn 2, Pratt 2. E—Valdez (1), Pratt (2). LOB—Pittsburgh 8, Milwaukee 8. 2B—Horwitz (12). RBIs—Horwitz 3 (36), Mangum (24), Ortiz (29), Vaughn (29). SB—Rodríguez (6). CS—Rodríguez (1). S—Turang. Runners left in scoring position—Pittsburgh 5 (Horwitz, Mangum, Davis, Gonzales, Reynolds); Milwaukee 3 (Contreras, Turang, Pratt). RISP—Pittsburgh 2 for 10; Milwaukee 2 for 6. Runners moved up—Gonzalez. GIDP—Yelich. DP—Pittsburgh 1 (Rodríguez). Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Chandler, W, 4-8............52⁄3 4 3 2 4 5 96 4.49 Soto, H, 8....................11⁄3 1 0 0 1 3 35 3.59 Doval, H, 5 ....................1 0 0 0 0 1 9 4.54 Montgomery, S, 3-5 ..........1 1 0 0 0 3 18 3.72 Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sproat, L, 3-7 .................3 5 4 4 2 4 64 5.27 Stallings........................3 2 0 0 1 4 43 0.00 Ashby...........................2 1 0 0 1 3 38 3.73 Patrick..........................1 0 0 0 0 2 13 3.46 Inherited runners-scored—Soto 1-0, Stallings 1-1. HBP—Soto (Mitchell). WP—Sproat(3). U— John Libka, James Hoye, D.J. Reyburn, Sean Barber. T—2:40. Tickets sold—30,684 (41,700).
Toronto 010 200 000 —3 7 0 Houston 000 001 000 —1 10 1 a-struck out for Trammell in the 7th. Walks— Houston 5: Peña 1, Alvarez 2, Paredes 1, Varsho 1. Strikeouts—Toronto 7: Guerrero 2, Okamoto 1, Springer 2, Kirk 1, Sánchez 1. Houston 10: Peña 1, Alvarez 1, Paredes 1, Varsho 1, Walker 1, Trammell 1, Dezenzo 1, Diaz 2, C.Smith 1. E—Trammell (2). LOB—Toronto 3, Houston 13. 2B—Straw (9). HR—Kirk (4), off Javier. RBIs—Kirk (15), Sánchez (30), Clement (36), Peña (37). SB—Straw (7). SF—Clement. Runners left in scoring position—Toronto 2 (Giménez, Okamoto); Houston 5 (Altuve, Peña, Walker, Paredes 2). RISP—Toronto 1 for 8; Houston 1 for 5. Runners moved up—Lukes 2. GIDP—Walker. DP—Toronto 1 (Giménez, Clement, Guerrero); Houston 1 (Walker, Diaz, Walker). Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bieber, W, 3-2...............52⁄3 9 1 1 2 6 87 5.11 Fisher, H, 10 ..................1 1 0 0 2 0 19 4.00 Little, H, 1...................11⁄3 0 0 0 1 4 21 12.00 Rogers, S, 3-6.................1 0 0 0 0 0 12 1.62 Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Javier, L, 1-2 ..................6 7 3 3 0 2 85 6.59 Imai.............................3 0 0 0 0 5 34 5.55 Inherited runners-scored—Fisher 2-0, Little 1-0. IBB—off Fisher (Alvarez). U— Emil Jimenez, Gabe Morales, Doug Eddings, Mike Muchlinski. T—2:28. Tickets sold—22,789 (41,000). ARIZONA 5, SAN DIEGO 1
TORONTO 3, HOUSTON 1
San Diego AB R H BI Avg. Tatis rf 4 0 0 0 .280 Cronenworth 2b 4 0 0 0 .210 Machado dh 4 0 0 0 .208 France 1b 3 1 0 0 .294 Merrill cf 4 0 1 0 .237 Rengifo lf 4 0 1 0 .237 Campusano c 3 0 2 0 .314 Bogaerts ss 3 0 1 0 .221 Song 3b 3 0 1 0 .208 Totals 32 1 6 0
San Diego 000 000 100 —1 6 1 Arizona 000 300 02x —5 9 1 a-pinch hit for Kepler in the 7th. Walks—San Diego 1: France 1. Arizona 5: Perdomo 1, Kepler 1, Marte 2, Arenado 1. Strikeouts—San Diego 5: Tatis 1, Cronenworth 1, Machado 1, France 1, Bogaerts 1. Arizona 7: Carroll 2, Perdomo 1, Kepler 1, Arenado 1, McCann 1, Waldschmidt 1. E—King (1), Arenado (5). LOB—San Diego 5, Arizona 8. 2B—Campusano (9), McCann (5). HR—Tawa (5), off King. RBIs—Tawa 3 (24), McCann (19), Barrosa (11). SF—Barrosa. S—Del Castillo. Runners left in scoring position—San Diego 2 (Bogaerts 2); Arizona 3 (Carroll, Arenado, Waldschmidt). RISP—San Diego 1 for 3; Arizona 3 for 7. GIDP—Song, Kepler. DP—San Diego 1 (Cronenworth, Bogaerts, France); Arizona 1 (Marte, Perdomo, Tawa). San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA King, L, 6-8....................5 5 3 3 4 5 104 3.45 Matsui........................11⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 22 2.30 Estrada ........................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 7 3.80 Peralta .........................1 3 2 2 0 0 25 3.47 Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Pfaadt, W, 6-1...............62⁄3 5 1 0 1 3 90 3.66 Morillo, H, 14 ...............11⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 18 2.54 Garcia ..........................1 0 0 0 0 0 12 2.03 Inherited runners-scored—Matsui 1-0, Estrada 1-0, Morillo 2-0. ABS Challenge—Pfaadt (Ball-Confirmed); King (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Matsui (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Marte (Strike-Confirmed); Merrill (Strike-Confirmed). U— Ramon De Jesus, Paul Clemons, James Jean, Quinn Wolcott. T—2:33. Tickets sold—22,008 (48,359).
Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Crw-Amstng cf 4 2 1 0 .282 Suzuki rf 4 2 1 2 .273 Bregman dh 5 1 1 0 .246 C.Kelly c 4 1 1 3 .260 Busch 1b 4 1 2 3 .243 Hoerner 2b 3 0 0 0 .256 Ramirez 3b 4 0 1 0 .307 Swanson ss 3 1 2 0 .214 Alcantara lf 1 1 1 2 .238 a-Happ lf 1 1 0 0 .215 Totals 33 10 10 10
Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg. Turang 2b 3 0 0 0 .269 Chourio lf 3 1 0 0 .274 Yelich dh 4 0 0 0 .234 Contreras c 4 0 0 0 .268 Bauers rf 3 2 1 0 .270 Vaughn 1b 3 0 1 1 .299 Mitchell cf 3 0 0 0 .262 Hamilton 3b 2 0 1 0 .238 a-Pratt ss 2 0 0 0 .286 Ortiz ss-3b 4 0 3 1 .241 Totals 31 3 6 2
Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Carroll rf 5 0 0 0 .244 Perdomo ss 3 0 2 0 .242 Kepler lf 2 0 0 0 .224 a-Vargas 1b 1 0 0 0 .272 Marte 2b 2 1 0 0 .249 Arenado 3b 3 1 1 0 .244 Del Castillo dh 3 1 1 0 .199 Tawa 1b-lf 4 2 3 3 .224 McCann c 4 0 2 1 .319 Waldschmidt cf 3 0 0 0 .286 Barrosa cf 0 0 0 1 .187 Totals 30 5 9 5
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SHOHEI OHTANI, right, is tagged out by Cubs first baseman Michael Busch on a pickoff play at first to close out the second inning.
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play better this series. I don’t know the results, but we will play with more urgency.” The Dodgers (69-44) essentially played out that prophecy to begin the game. Against left-hander Matthew Boyd, Shohei Ohtani and Andy Pages hit back-to-back sin- gles, and Tommy Edman roped a three-run homer to left. Then Boyd settled in. He got out of the inning with three straight fly- outs — Cubs fans enthusiastically booing Kyle Tucker, who was never expected to re-sign with the team when he hit free agency after one season in Chicago, when he flied out to right. Dodgers left-handed All-Star Justin Wrobleskistruggled. For the second start in a row, he surren- dered four home runs. “It just seemed like they were on
Fans converge on a home run ball hit by the Giants’ Jung Hoo Lee in the third inning of Mon- day’s game. Lee also had a home run in the eighth inning as the Giants beat the Rangers 5-1.
TAMPA BAY 13, COLORADO 9
Tampa Bay AB R H BI Avg. Díaz dh 4 0 0 1 .298 Aranda 1b 5 2 4 2 .286 Caminero 3b 5 3 2 3 .283 Mullins cf 4 2 2 1 .204 Mesa rf 5 0 0 0 .203 Simpson lf 4 1 2 2 .298 Palacios 2b 4 2 2 2 .229 Piper c 4 1 1 0 .250 Walls ss 5 2 2 2 .215 Totals 40 13 15 13
Tampa Bay 241 100 212 —13 15 0 Colorado 001 010 214 — 9 15 2
Walks—Tampa Bay 3: Mullins 1, Palacios 1, Piper 1. Strikeouts—Tampa Bay 3: Díaz 1, Simpson 1, Palacios 1. Colorado 9: Karros 1, Carrigg 2, Goodman 3, Moniak 1, Castro 1, Johnston 1. E—Goodman (10), Tovar (9). LOB—Tampa Bay 5, Colorado 7. 2B—Aranda (19), Mullins (8), Johnston (25), McCarthy (23), Carrigg (11). 3B—Castro (1), Moniak (4). HR—Caminero (31), off Lorenzen; Caminero (32), off Gordon; Palacios (5), off Gordon; Tovar (9), off Seymour; Moniak (18), off Grove. RBIs—Caminero 3 (69), Walls 2 (23), Díaz (64), Aranda 2 (67), Simpson 2 (22), Mullins (35), Palacios 2 (32), Tovar (36), Karros 2 (41), McCarthy 2 (64), Moniak 2 (49), Carrigg (28), Goodman (66). SB—Mullins (17), Simpson (28). SF—Díaz, Simpson, McCarthy, Goodman, Moniak. Runners left in scoring position—Tampa Bay 3 (Caminero, Palacios, Walls); Colorado 3 (Freeman, Carrigg, Johnston). RISP—Tampa Bay 6 for 14; Colorado 4 for 10. Runners moved up—Mesa 2, Díaz. GIDP—Caminero. DP—Colorado 1 (Tovar, Castro, Johnston). Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Seymour, W, 8-3..............6 7 2 2 0 9 90 4.27 Grove ...........................2 4 3 2 0 0 28 3.60 Legumina......................2⁄3 4 4 4 0 0 23 4.47 Kelly............................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 1 2.12 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Lorenzen, L, 3-10.............3 7 7 7 3 0 75 6.94 Gordon .........................6 8 6 4 0 3 58 5.91 Inherited runners-scored—Kelly 1-0. HBP—Legumina (Karros). PB_Piper (1). U— Alex MacKay, Alan Porter, Roberto Ortiz, Jim Wolf. T—2:38. Tickets sold—19,598 (50,144).
Colorado AB R H BI Avg. McCarthy lf 4 1 1 2 .289 Karros 3b 4 1 2 2 .271 Carrigg cf 5 1 2 1 .308 Goodman c 4 0 0 1 .256 Moniak dh 4 1 2 2 .277 Castro 2b 5 0 2 0 .265 Freeman rf 4 1 1 0 .251 Rumfield 1 0 0 0 .296 Johnston 1b 4 1 1 0 .283 Tovar ss 4 3 4 1 .202 Totals 39 9 15 9
everything,” Roberts said. “Some balls that were executed decently, they still took good swings, and when he made good pitches, they spoiled. And when he did make mistakes, it just seemed like they went out of the ballpark. So we’ve got to dig into it. I know he’s pre- pared and doing what he can, but it’s just hard to defend the homer.” When asked if he suspected Wrobleski was tipping his pitches, Roberts said that was something the team would look into. The first three came with men on base, expediting the damage. And they came from all over the Cubs’ lineup. In the first inning, No. 2 hitter Seiya Suzuki lined a fast- ball into the stands for two runs. The next inning, it was No. 9 hitter Kevin Alcántara who put the Cubs (64-49) ahead with a two-run blast. In the third, cleanup hitter Carson
SAN FRANCISCO 5, TEXAS 1
San Francisco AB R H BI Avg. Furman dh 4 0 0 0 .000 Lee rf 4 2 3 3 .306 Adames ss 4 0 0 0 .222 Devers 1b 4 0 0 0 .248 Susac c 3 1 0 0 .258 Gilbert cf 4 1 1 0 .239 Basabe 2b 3 0 1 1 .333 McCray lf 2 1 0 0 .130 Koss 3b 4 0 1 0 .174 Totals 32 5 6 4
San Francisco 021 000 011 —5 6 0 Texas 000 000 001 —1 7 5 Walks—San Francisco 5: Furman 1, Adames 1, Susac 1, McCray 2. Texas 3: Langford 1, Seager 1, Díaz 1. Strikeouts—San Francisco 6: Furman 1, Lee 1, Adames 1, Devers 1, Koss 2. Texas 10: Pederson 2, Langford 2, Seager 1, Nimmo 1, Carter 1, Burger 1, Lopez 2. E—Duran (4), Nimmo (4), Wynns 2 (3), Seager (5). LOB—San Francisco 7, Texas 8. 2B—Duran (20). HR—Lee (7), off Quantrill; Lee (8), off Gray; Duran (13), off Beck. RBIs—Basabe (6), Lee 3 (43), Duran (59). SB—Langford (8). SF—Basabe, Lee. Runners left in scoring position—San Francisco 4 (Gilbert, Adames 2, Furman); Texas 4 (Lopez, Carter, Pederson, Nimmo). RISP—San Francisco 1 for 6; Texas 0 for 7. Runners moved up—Osuna. GIDP—Cauley. DP—San Francisco 1 (Adames, Basabe, Devers). San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Webb, W, 7-7 .................6 5 0 0 1 8 96 3.74 K.Winn, H, 12.................2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 10 3.03 Hentges, H, 7 ...............11⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 20 2.52 Beck............................1⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 17 6.92 Sanmartin .....................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 4 6.75 Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Quantrill, L, 4-4...............6 4 3 1 1 4 87 3.62 Peoples.........................1 0 0 0 1 1 27 2.19 Gray.............................1 1 1 1 1 0 12 3.53 Kingham........................1 1 1 1 2 1 22 9.00 Inherited runners-scored—Hentges 1-0, Sanmartin 1-0. U— Dan Iassogna, Adrian Johnson, Louie Krupa, Adam Beck. T—2:51. Tickets sold—23,736 (40,000).
Texas AB R H BI Avg. Pederson dh 4 0 1 0 .253 Langford lf 3 0 0 0 .268 Seager ss 3 0 1 0 .190 Nimmo rf 4 0 0 0 .267 Carter cf 4 0 0 0 .204 Burger 1b 4 0 0 0 .235 Duran 3b 4 1 4 1 .274 Wynns c 2 0 1 0 .101 Osuna 1 0 0 0 .257 Díaz c 0 0 0 0 .246 Lopez 2b 3 0 0 0 .277 Cauley 1 0 0 0 .213 Totals 33 1 7 1
Kelly jumped on a slider for a two- run shot. Wrobleski finally threw a hitless fourth, working around a leadoff walk to briefly stymie the Cubs’ of- fensive push. Then in the fifth, he threw a sinker down the middle to left-han- ded hitter Michael Busch, who drove it out for a solo homer. Busch, a former Dodger, coinci- dentally is part of the Skubal trade tree. The Cubs acquired him and reliever Yency Almonte for pitch- ing prospect Jackson Ferris and outfield prospect Zyhir Hope. Hope was part of the trade pack- age for Skubal. Roberts pulled Wrobleski after Busch’s home run. The seven earned runs he gave up tied a sea- son high. But this time, he only pitched 41⁄3 innings, compared to the 82⁄3 innings he threw against
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PHILADELPHIA 6, WASHINGTON 3
Washington AB R H BI Avg. Wood rf 4 0 1 0 .265 Crews rf 0 0 0 0 .226 Ortiz 1b 3 1 1 1 .400 Chaparro 1b 1 0 0 0 .217 Tena dh 3 0 0 0 .240 Abrams ss 4 0 0 0 .284 Ruiz c 4 1 2 0 .265 Lile lf 4 1 1 2 .248 Nuñez 2b 4 0 0 0 .237 Vivas 3b 1 0 0 0 .240 House 3b 1 0 0 0 .230 Young cf 3 0 1 0 .235 Totals 32 3 6 3
Philadelphia AB R H BI Avg. Turner ss 4 0 0 0 .248 Schwarber dh 2 0 0 0 .246 Crawford dh 0 1 0 0 .261 Harper 1b 4 1 1 2 .255 Bohm 3b 4 0 1 0 .226 De La Cruz rf 1 1 0 0 .429 Stott 2b 3 1 1 0 .253 Sosa lf 2 1 1 0 .211 Marsh lf 1 0 0 0 .279 Hill cf 3 1 1 4 .242 Stubbs c 3 0 0 0 .147 Totals 27 6 5 6
Washington 120 000 000 —3 6 0 Philadelphia 000 000 42x —6 5 1 Walks—Washington 3: Tena 1, Vivas 1, Young 1. Philadelphia 5: Schwarber 2, De La Cruz 1, Stott 1, Sosa 1. Strikeouts—Washington 10: Wood 1, Chaparro 1, Abrams 3, Ruiz 1, Nuñez 2, Young 2. Philadelphia 6: Turner 1, Schwarber 2, Harper 1, Sosa 1, Stubbs 1. E—Backhus (1). LOB—Washington 6, Philadelphia 4. HR—Ortiz (1), off Nola; Lile (14), off Nola; Hill (9), off Cosgrove; Harper (24), off Beeter. RBIs—Ortiz (1), Lile 2 (56), Hill 4 (21), Harper 2 (68). SB—Abrams (20). Runners left in scoring position—Washington 5 (Young, Ruiz 2, Chaparro 2); Philadelphia 0. RISP—Washington 0 for 6; Philadelphia 1 for 2. Runners moved up—Wood. GIDP—Wood, Hill, De La Cruz. DP—Washington 2 (Vivas, Nuñez, Ortiz; Abrams, Nuñez, Ortiz); Philadelphia 1 (Stott, Turner, Harper). Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Alvarez........................61⁄3 3 2 2 3 5 81 3.94 Cosgrove, L, 0-1, BS, 1-2....2⁄3 1 2 2 1 1 14 3.52 Beeter..........................1⁄3 1 2 2 1 0 8 4.09 Yean............................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 13 1.80 Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Nola ............................6 6 3 3 2 5 97 5.55 Backhus, W, 2-1 ..............1 0 0 0 1 1 20 4.95 Kerkering, H, 12 ..............1 0 0 0 0 2 21 3.35 Duran, S, 25-27...............1 0 0 0 0 2 15 1.93 Inherited runners-scored—Cosgrove 2-2. HBP—Alvarez (De La Cruz), Yean (De La Cruz), Duran (House). U— Manny Gonzalez, Tom Hanahan, Ron Kulpa, Scott Barry. T—2:38. Tickets sold—41,115 (42,901).
the Atlanta Braves on May 10. “Overall, just didn’t throw the ball well enough today, obviously,” Wrobleski said. “I’ve been pretty frustrated these last two. So just continuing to work on things, get better and hopefully come back out and go on a run here and have a nice little scoreless streak.” The Dodgers countered with a one-run rally in the fourth, and Teoscar Hernández hit a solo home run onto Waveland Avenue in the sixth inning. The Cubs, however, squashed thoughts of a potential comeback with a three-run rally in the sixth. Edgardo Henriquez, after record- ing the last two outs of the previous inning, gave up a hit and issued three walks to open the inning. Tanner Scott replaced him, issued a bases-loaded walk to Kelly and gave up a two-run single to Busch.
ST. LOUIS 13, N.Y. YANKEES 7
St. Louis AB R H BI Avg. Wetherholt 2b 3 2 1 0 .249 Walker rf 5 1 2 0 .285 Burleson 1b 5 3 3 6 .288 Herrera dh 3 1 0 0 .240 Torres lf 3 0 1 0 .244 Jordan 3b 2 1 1 0 .244 Winn ss 4 1 0 0 .239 Church cf 3 2 2 4 .232 Fermín 3b-lf 5 1 2 1 .245 Crooks c 4 1 1 2 .174 Totals 37 13 13 13
St. Louis 211 200 070 —13 13 0 New York 000 030 400 — 7 10 0 Walks—St. Louis 7: Wetherholt 2, Herrera 2, Winn 1, Church 2. New York 1: Caballero 1. Strikeouts—St. Louis 11: Walker 2, Burleson 1, Torres 1, Winn 3, Fermín 2, Crooks 2. New York 9: Grisham 1, Jones 2, Domínguez 2, McMahon 1, Caballero 2, Wells 1. LOB—St. Louis 4, New York 3. 2B—Fermín (10), Grisham (15). 3B—Jordan (3). HR—Burleson (16), off Schlittler; Burleson (17), off Hill; Church (9), off Chivilli; Crooks (4), off Chivilli; Burleson (18), off Chivilli; Wells (8), off McGreevy; Grisham (12), off Bruihl; McMahon (10), off Stanek; Caballero (12), off Stanek; García (24), off Soriano. RBIs—Burleson 6 (77), Fermín (24), Church 4 (35), Crooks 2 (11), Wells 2 (16), Grisham (43), McMahon (27), Caballero (41), García 2 (78). SB—Herrera (7), Domínguez (7). CS—Church (4), Domínguez (1). Runners left in scoring position—St. Louis 1 (Burleson); New York 1 (Rice). RISP—St. Louis 2 for 8; New York 1 for 4. GIDP—Winn, Burleson. DP—New York 2. St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA McGreevy.....................41⁄3 4 2 2 1 5 91 3.59 Bruihl.........................12⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 24 3.64 Stanek, H, 19.................1⁄3 3 3 3 0 1 11 4.74 Soriano, BS, 2-8..............2⁄3 1 1 1 0 1 18 3.62 Graceffo, W, 7-1 ..............2 0 0 0 0 2 24 3.04 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Schlittler .......................3 4 4 4 5 6 83 2.26 Hill............................11⁄3 2 2 2 0 1 27 4.50 Castro ........................12⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 28 2.08 Yarbrough......................1 1 1 1 0 0 16 3.68 Chivilli, L, 1-1, BS, 0-1.......1 5 6 6 1 0 37 3.78 Cruz.............................1 0 0 0 0 2 10 2.79 Inherited runners-scored—Soriano 1-1, Yarbrough 1-0, Chivilli 1-1. U— Andy Fletcher, Alex Tosi, Cory Blaser, Austin Jones. T—3:25. Tickets sold—38,151 (47,309).
Toronto AB R H BI Avg. Lukes rf 4 0 0 0 .271 Guerrero 1b 4 0 0 0 .261 Okamoto 3b 4 1 2 0 .231 Springer dh 4 1 1 0 .239 Kirk c 4 1 1 1 .237 Sánchez lf 4 0 1 1 .271 Schneider lf 0 0 0 0 .147 Clement 2b 2 0 0 1 .288 Giménez ss 3 0 0 0 .230 Straw cf 3 0 2 0 .223 Totals 32 3 7 3
LEAGUE LEADERS Through Monday
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>> Player G AB H R Avg. Arraez SF .......................105 420 136 52 .324 O.Lopez Mia ...................109 436 140 68 .321 F.Freeman DODGERS........110 417 129 57 .309 Gonzales Pit ...................108 411 127 61 .309 J.Lee SF.........................103 389 119 55 .306 Moreno Ari.......................85 299 89 46 .298 Rumfield Col...................110 389 115 48 .296 Ohtani DODGERS ............103 395 116 71 .294 McCarthy Col....................98 346 100 50 .289 Burleson StL...................112 431 124 60 .288
HOME RUNS Goodman, Colorado ......... 33 Schwarber, Philadelphia..... 33 Olson, Atlanta.................. 31
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>> Player G AB H R Avg. Alvarez Hou ....................112 406 134 77 .330 Y.Díaz TB........................108 419 125 59 .298 C.Simpson TB.................105 386 115 46 .298 Jo.Jung Tex.......................92 354 104 46 .294 Rafaela Bos....................107 415 120 56 .289 Clement Tor....................110 424 122 47 .288 McGonigle Det................108 411 118 71 .287 Aranda TB......................109 405 116 53 .286 Contreras Bos.................103 356 101 55 .284 Caminero TB...................112 424 120 69 .283
New York AB R H BI Avg. Grisham cf 5 2 2 1 .214 Rice dh 4 0 0 0 .263 García 1b 4 1 2 2 .285 Jones lf 4 0 0 0 .228 Domínguez rf 4 0 1 0 .230 Chisholm 2b 4 0 0 0 .217 McMahon 3b 4 2 2 1 .212 Caballero ss 3 1 1 1 .245 Wells c 4 1 2 2 .167 Totals 36 7 10 7
Houston AB R H BI Avg. Peña ss 4 0 1 1 .320 Alvarez dh 3 0 1 0 .330 Paredes 3b 4 0 0 0 .252 Varsho cf 4 0 1 0 .243 Walker 1b 5 0 1 0 .237 Altuve 2b 4 0 2 0 .236 Trammell lf 3 0 0 0 .236 a-Dezenzo lf 1 0 0 0 .213 Diaz c 4 1 2 0 .261 C.Smith rf 4 0 2 0 .216 Totals 36 1 10 1
RUNS BATTED IN Abrams, Washington......... 85 S.Stewart, Cincinnati......... 85 J.Walker, St. Louis............. 81
The San Diego Padres’ surge before the trade dead- line was enough to persuade general manager A.J. Preller to take yet another couple of huge swings at a postseason push. The Padres acquired left- hander Robbie Rayfrom the San Francisco Giants and right-hander Casey Mize from the Detroit Tigers on Monday, giving up three of their highest-rated prospec- ts in deadline trades for two proven starting pitchers. “We’re trying to win,” Preller said. “We don’t apolo- gize for it. We’re trying to win championships. We’re try- ing to get to the postseason, and do it year after year.” San Diego sent right- hander Miguel Mendez and 17-year-old shortstop Joniel Hernandez to San Fran- cisco, which will pay part of Ray’s $25-million salary. The Padres also got in- fielder Gage Workman from Detroit while giving up left- handers Kash Mayfield and Jackson Wolf. Ray and Mize can be- come free agents this winter, so they could wind up being only late-season rentals for San Diego. But after stum- bling into the All-Star break at .500 following a 15-28 skid, the Padres (58-55) have won eight of 10 to move two games back of the final Na- tional League wild-card playoff spot despite a patch- work rotation with an ugly 4.66 ERA. That prompted their ever-aggressive general manager to go into buyer mode again, shipping out yet another chunk of his se- verely depleted farm system to fill his obvious need for quality starters. “We’re definitely excited
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roster ahead of the trade deadline, including five within the final nine hours. Mozeliak imported nine prospects, only one of which will report to the major- league team. It was one thing for owner Arte Moreno and new team president Molly Jolly to recruit Mozeliak six weeks ago and promise that he could embark on a desperately overdue re- build. To see it actually come to fruition? Maybe there really are Angels in the outfield. “What’s really impressive for me is just the amount of trust I’ve been granted,” Mozeliak said. The Angels finished in last place last year, and the year before that. They are on pace to lose 100 games this season, for the first time in franchise history. Their postseason drought is about to hit 12 years, the longest in baseball. But now there is a plan, not just a bunch of ifs and hopes, even if the Angels might have to take another step back to take two steps
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The Atlanta Falcons agreed to a three-year con- tract extension with Bijan Robinson through the 2030 season that makes the fourth-year player the NFL’s highest-paid running back. Robinson reposted the NFL’s Instagram post de- tailing the extension on Tuesday morning, writing “God this is for you! Bless- ings. Love this team and this city!” The extension is worth up to $75 million with incen- tives, with $51 million guar- anteed, a person with knowl- edge of the details told the AP. The person spoke on condition of anonymity be- cause terms weren’t an- nounced. The base value of $66.75 million gives Rob- inson a $22.25-million aver- age per year that makes him the league’s top-paid run- ning back. Philadelphia run- ning back Saquon Barkley’s average is $20.6 million. NFL Network and ESPN first reported the extension.
CASEY MIZE should immediately slot in as a starter for San Diego after arriving from Detroit on Monday.
to have them,” infielder Xan- der Bogaerts said in the Pa- dres’ clubhouse in Arizona before a 5-1 loss to the Di- amondbacks. “Adding two guys of that caliber defi- nitely boosts everyone in the clubhouse.” Ray and Mize should slot in immediately for the Pa- dres, who could also get back injured starters Nick Pivetta, Joe Musgrove and Lucas Giolito within the next month. Pivetta left with an ap- parent injury after his 14th pitch in a rehab outing with Lake Elsinore on Tuesday, according to MLB.com. The right-hander has been out since April with a flexor strain in his right elbow. Ray is 10-6 with a 3.08 ERA and 107 strikeouts in 122 2⁄3 innings this season, his third with San Francisco. He has been largely out- standing over the past two months, posting a 1.65 ERA since May while yielding one earned run or fewer in nine of his past 11 starts. Ray won the AL Cy Young Award with Toronto in 2021 and had Tommy John surgery in early 2023 while
forward. “I would say we took a step forward today,” Mozeliak said on a video- conference after the trade deadline passed.
Prospects! Tell me more! The only top-50 prospect the Angels acquired: short- stop Arjun Nimmala, 20. The Toronto Blue Jays swapped him and two other minor leaguers for pitcher José Soriano. Mozeliak said Nimmala is about two years from the majors. The only prospect com- ing to the majors: catcher/ designated hitter Moises Ballesteros, whom Mozeliak said would DH in two of the next three games.
That means Jorge Soler won’t be the DH. After the Angels failed to trade him on Monday, they designated him for assign- ment on Tuesday. That meant Mozeliak moved eight players — basically, one-third of the team — off the major league roster in the days preceding and following the trade dead- line.
BIJAN Robinson (7) agreed to an extension that pays him $22.25 million a year.
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with Seattle, but has re- turned to be a dependable starter for the Giants, who are retooling late in another disappointing season. “We feel good about the moves we made back from a few weeks ago in the draft, and then now we feel like we’ve got some position players and pitchers that hopefully will have a bright future in San Francisco, but that still remains to be seen,” Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey said. Posey wanted Giants fans to know the club isn’t satisfied with the results of recent years. San Francisco has made one playoff ap- pearance since 2016. “I guess you can charac- terize it how you want, I wouldn’t necessarily say a rebuild,” Posey said. “Obvi- ously we moved six major league players off of our ros- ter today. I guess the mes- sage is we’re not satisfied with the way we’ve played this year and the last few years, and we’re trying everything we can to contin- ue to build a product that we can all be excited to come
Who was traded? Soriano, outfielder Jo Adell, catcher Logan O’Hoppe and relievers Ryan Zeferjahn, Brent Suter, Kirby Yates and Chase Silseth. All but Suter and Yates were under the An- gels’ control beyond this season.
And who was not traded? Pitcher Reid Detmers and shortstop Zach Neto (“We definitely listened to offers, but we were not comfortable with the offers we received”) and first baseman Nolan Schanuel (“He was asked about, but not to the level of others”). Mozeliak had said last month that a Trout trade was “not happening.” He said Monday that he had invited Trout to observe the team’s war room ahead of the trade deadline. “He’s the face of this franchise,” Mozeliak said. “From where I stand, from being around him, we want to get this better for him, and for others. Our fans want to see winning.”
Mozeliak had said the
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and watch.” Mize, the No. 1 overall draft pick by Detroit in 2018, is 4-6 with a 2.70 ERA in 16 starts for the Tigers this sea- son despite managing a groin injury. He overcame Tommy John surgery and became an All-Star last sea- son before starting two play- off games last fall. The Padres’ recent suc- cess has been driven by an offense that has awoken from its first-half slumber, making up for a starting ro- tation that was thin because of injuries. San Diego’s only regular starting pitchers are Michael King and Walker Buehler, forcing the team to throw three bullpen games per rotation turn with Grif- fin Canning, Randy Vásquez and Germán Márquez anchoring the out- ings.
Etc. Washington Nationals All-Star outfielder James Wood is headed to the 10-day injured list after suffering a left oblique strain while bat- ting Monday night. An MRI scan Tuesday showed a mild strain, according to Nation- als manager Blake Butera, who said, “Hopefully, this is a short-term thing for James.” ...The Kansas City Royals activated All-Star shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. from the IL after he missed two weeks with back tightness. ... Relief pitcher Yennier Cano and the Baltimore Orioles agreed to a $7.5-million, two- year contract for the 2027 and 2028 seasons, a deal that includes a $10-million club option for 2029. ...The Athlet- ics placed first baseman Nick Kurtz (strained right thumb) on the 10-day IL and left-hander Jeffrey Springs (right hip discomfort) on the 15-day IL.
Angels should not need a total rebuild because the resources available to a major-market team should mitigate the need to tank and just play kids. Does he believe the Angels could be better next season? Hear it from him: “We need to remain disciplined and patient to a process and not just try to rush some people to the big leagues. ... If they’re not ready, and we’re not ready to compete with that group, that’s where we’re going to aug- ment using more of the free-agent model.”
This is starting to sound like a long-term plan. Is Mozeliak here for the long term, as most inside the industry believe he is? Mozeliak says he hasn’t decided if he wants to stay, and he hasn’t yet met with Moreno and Jolly to discuss the matter. But he said two things that stuck out to me. One: “It’s fun being back in the game. I didn’t realize how much I missed it.” Two: “We have made a difference. Change has been real.”
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JUSTIN HERBERT greets fans during the Chargers’ two-day stint at the University of San Diego, which launched a second career for his coach.
camp worth writing home about for Rams
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NFL training camps are two weeks of hot practices. Two weeks of dorm life and meet- ings. Separation from family. For the Rams, under coach Sean McVay, it’s also apparently something else. “How he runs it,” safety Kam Curl said, “it’s love.” Love? Let’s be clear: Training camps no longer are the two-a-day-workout, full- contact slogs of decades past. There is no tackling. Players rarely practice in full pads. But it is still a grind to prepare for a 17-game regular season and, possibly, four postseason games. The Rams are regarded as a favorite to play in all 21 — and to cap the season with a victory in Super Bowl LXI at SoFi Stadium. With good reason. Quarterback
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JUSTIN WROBLESKI’S recent troubles have raised questions whether the lefty is tipping his pitches.
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RAMS coach Sean McVay has tailored his training camp to allow players to refresh mentally and physically. “He takes care of us,” one player says.
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a 2025 All-Star in pitcher Kris Bubic. All of that momentum, and the staggering amount of talent on the roster, have overshadowed the Dod- gers’ recent poor play. A clean slate against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field was a chance to set a new tone after being swept by the Boston Red Sox at home. Instead, they lost 10-5,
extending their losing streak to a sea- son-high tying four games. “This is a playoff-contending team,” manager Dave Robertssaid of the Cubs before the game. “We’ve got to play well. Like I said [Sunday], we got outplayed. Outcompeted against. So we need to play better. We’re going to
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back in San Diego as coach reflects on roots
By Sam Farmer
SAN DIEGO — This is where it all started for Jim Harbaugh, this idyllic hilltop University of San Diego campus with its sweeping views of the city and ocean, Spanish Renaissance archi- tecture and courtyards lined with palm trees. Harbaugh had been an assistant coach elsewhere, learning the ropes as an offensive consultant at Western Ken- tucky and quarterbacks coach for the Oakland Raiders, but this was his first chance to be a head coach. It launched a second career for the longtime NFL quarterback, taking him to Stanford, the San Francisco 49ers — where his team fell just short of a Lombardi Tro- phy — to a national championship at Michigan, and now to the Chargers, where he’s beginning his third season. The Chargers have moved training camp to USD for Tuesday and Wednes- day this week, reuniting Harbaugh with a place legendary Raiders owner Al Davis advised him not to come. “Awww, Jimmy, Jimmy, I thought you wanted to be a pro coach,” Davis, voice dripping with disappointment, told him in 2004 when he learned Harbaugh was
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o date will ever top Oct. 27, 2002, the date the Angels won their lone World Series. We could talk about Sept. 30, 1984, the date Mike Witt threw the Angels’ lone perfect game. Or June 9, 2009, the date the Angels drafted the best player in franchise history, Mike Trout. Or July 29, 2018, the date Vladimir Guerrero became the first player to wear an Angels cap on a Hall of Fame plaque. Or, if you care to look at it from a cynical angle, that fateful fall day in 1979 when then-general manager Buzzie Bavasi said he could replace Nolan Ryan, who had just gone 16-14 in his final year in Anaheim, with “two 8-7 pitchers.” This isn’t about trivia. This is to say that Monday might well be remembered as one of those significant dates in Angels history. In recent years, the An- gels have deluded them- selves and their fans with
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INTERIM general man- ager John Mozeliak has started an Angels retool.
such beliefs as: They had assembled a young core that could win; Shohei Ohtani really wanted to stay; and the universally and consistently poor rank- ings of their minor league system should be dismissed. On Monday, John Mozeliak changed all that. The Angels’ interim general manager traded seven players off the major league
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NEW DODGER Tarik Skubal reacts to the Cubs’ go-ahead run in his otherwise strong L.A. debut in which he yielded two runs and four hits in six innings of a 5-1 loss.
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CHICAGO — Southpaw Tarik Skubal’s experience pitching in the Friendly Confines of Wrigley Field came with a hostile reception. Cubs fans booed him as he ap- proached the bullpen gate in right field to warm up before the game. They jeered even louder and longer as he took the mound in the bottom of the first inning. That’s what came with the “Los Angeles” scrawled across the chest of his new blue jersey. Over the weekend he’d gone from the top trade candidate in baseball, to a symbol of the Dodgers’ evil reign. Asports betting site even seized on the moment and paid for an air- plane to fly a “THE DODGERS RUINED BASEBALL” banner over Wrigley Field a few hours be- fore the game Tuesday — although
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Pete Alonso hit a two-run sin- gle, Tyler O’Neill had his third pinch-hit homer of the season, and the trade-depleted Baltimore Ori- oles beat the Angels 3-1 on Tuesday night. Cade Povich pitched six score- less innings in his first start in nearly three months for the Ori- oles, who traded Adley Rutschman, Taylor Ward, Tyler Wells and Dean Kremer at the deadline but remain in contention for a wild-card playoff berth. Christian Franklin made his major league debut, starting in Ward's former spot in left field, and scored on Alonso's third-inning single against former Oriole Grayson Rodriguez (3-4). O’Neill pinch-hit for leadoff bat- ter Dylan Beavers in the eighth in- ning against Mitch Farris and con- nected for his eighth homer of the season. That restored Baltimore’s two-run lead after the Angels got within 2-1 in the top half on Vaughn Grissom’s RBI double against An- drew Kittredge. Yennier Cano worked the ninth for his second save. Baltimore (55- 58) moved within 11⁄2 games of Cleveland for the final AL wild- card spot but is one of several teams sitting a few games under .500.
it was upside down. As the boos quieted, he au- thored a quality start in his Dodgers debut. But that wasn’t enough to serve as the team’s new stopper, as the Dodgers’ offense fell flat. They stumbled to a 5-1 lossand extended their skid to a season-high five games and ensure a second straight series loss. The first pitch Skubal threw as a Dodger, en route to holding the Cubs to two runs and four hits in six innings, was a sinker that zipped through the top of the strike zone at 96.3 mph, according to Statcast, to get ahead in the count against Cubs MVP candidate Pete Crow-Armstrong. For the next four pitches, he al- ternated between his four-seam fastball and off-speed pitches — first his changeup and then curve- ball. And to finish off the at-bat, he
Sidelined since early May with left elbow inflammation, Povich gave up seven hits, struck out sev- en and walked one while throwing 88 pitches, 60 for strikes. The Ori- oles’ trade of Kremer to the Twins opened up a spot in their starting rotation. The Angels had 11 hits but went one for 12 with runners in scoring position. Rodriguez pitched a season- high seven innings, giving up two runs and three hits to lower his ERA to 7.24. The Orioles traded him to the Angels in the offseason for Ward, who was shipped to Seat- tle at the deadline.
Pac-12, MWC settle pending litigation
The Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences have finalized a settle- ment over “poaching” and exit fees. The two conferences an- nounced on Tuesday that all sides have reached final agreements to settle all pending litigation. The statement included Boise State, Colorado State, Utah State and the Board of Trustees of the California State University on be- half of San Diego State and Fresno State.
located a sinker at the bottom of the zone for a called strike three. It was a strong first impression, and his first strikeout of six. Skubal retired the first six bat- ters he faced, with the help of a slid- ing catch by center fielder Andy Pages and a diving grab by right fielder Kyle Tucker. To end the second inning, Skubal got new Cub Tyrone Taylor to chase a changeup just outside. Skubal skipped backward off the mound and buried his fist in the pocket of his glove in celebration. The next inning, Skubal wa- vered slightly. He gave up a first- pitch solo home run to Dansby Swanson. Then, after another slid- ing catch by Pages and a strikeout, he gave up a single to Crow-Arm- strong and walked Seiya Suzuki. In his first high-pressure situa- tion of the night, Skubal induced Alex Bregman to fly out on a
ORIOLES’ Tyler O’Neill, left, rounds the bases past first baseman Nolan Schanuel after hitting a pinch-hit home run, his third of the season, during a 3-1 win over the Angels Tuesday in Baltimore.
“With these matters concluded, the conferences and institutions can move forward with certainty and focus on serving their student- athletes, campuses, fans, and com- munities,” the statement said. The conferences announced an agreement in principle in May. The Pac-12 and some of the new schools joining the conference filed a lawsuit in California in 2024, claiming the poaching clause the league agreed to when it signed a scheduling agreement for its foot- ball teams was invalid. The clause called for payments to the Mountain West of $10 million for the first team that left, with the amount increasing by $500,000 for
changeup. Then, he was back to cruising. Skubal put together perfect fourth and fifth innings. In the sixth, an unlucky bounce pushed the go-ahead run across the plate. With one out, Skubal walked Suzuki on four pitches. Then he missed his spot with a fastball to Bregman, who roped a line drive to deep right field. Tucker tracked it back to the warning track but just missed the catch as he slammed into the wall. The double put run- ners on second and third. Skubal held the Cubs at bay for one more batter by getting Michael Busch to skip a groundball to sec- ond baseman Tommy Edman, playing on the edge of the infield grass. He fired home for the second out of the inning. Then came that dose of misfor- tune. Skubal’s fastball did its job,
every additional team — to a total of $55 million. The scheduling agreement with the Mountain West allowed Ore- gon State and Washington State to piece together football schedules after 10 schools left the Pac-12 in 2024, leaving the conference’s fu- ture in doubt. The Pac-12 had its motion to dis- miss denied by Judge Claudia Wilken in November after the sides failed to reach an agreement in mediation last summer. Colorado State and Utah State filed a separate lawsuit — later joined by Boise State — against the Mountain West seeking to avoid exit fees ranging from $19 million to
as the Cubs’ Nico Hoerner drove it into the ground. But on the bounce, the ball shot up in the air, and then it settled in the grass, giv- ing Bregman enough time to score the go-ahead run. The Wrigley faithful turned up the heat, taunting “Skuuuu- ubaaaaalll.” They’d done some- thing similar in the National League Division Series last year to Brewers ace Freddy Peralta. Skubal bore down and got out of the inning with a flyout from Tay- lor. That changeup, designed to get him to chase, wrapped up Skubal’s outing. His team trailed 2-1, their only run a solo homer from Tucker, who’d been booed throughout his first series back at Wrigley since departing the Cubs in free agency. The Cubs, on the other hand, continued to rally against the Dod- gers’ bullpen.
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$38 million. Colorado State, Utah State, San Diego State, Fresno State and Boise State are set to leave the Mountain West and join the Pac-12 this fall. The conference added Texas State last year to reach the eight- team minimum to be eligible for an automatic bid for its champion in the College Football Playoff. Gonzaga also is leaving the West Coast Conference to join the Pac-12 as a non-football member this fall. The Mountain West has added Texas El Paso, Hawaii and North- ern Illinois for football starting this fall.
SUSANNA HOFFS’ album, “The List,” expected Sept. 18, showcases the multi-hyphenate’s rich storytelling. A secret dating list served as inspiration for love songs.
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leads with love at the box office
‘Brand New Day’ is great fun, but its deep relationships are the heart of its success.
With the biggest global opening weekend in his- tory, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is cleaning up at the box office in a manner that left “The Odyssey” spitting sand. (Relatively speaking; “The Odyssey” also had a strong world- wide debut and is on track to become the third R- rated film to hit the billion- dollar mark.) But while Christopher Nolan’s vision of a nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem has received— with the exception of a few less- than-impressed classics experts and the usual “replacement theory” nut jobs — waves of gratitude for helping revitalize cine- ma, the success of “Spider- Man” has many of these same people scratching their heads. Certainly the reviews have been mixed; some find the narrative streamlined and personal with Tom Holland giving his best- ever performance, others
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Reimagining a classic coaster
The rebranded Montezooma’s ride at Knott’s Berry Farm is set to soft open in the coming days. E2
‘Brand New Day’ milestones The latest installment in the “Spider-Man” movie franchise has broken multiple box office records. E6
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first collection of original material in more than a decade
usanna Hoffs calls it “the list”: a faded piece of paper ripped from a Filofax day planner on which are scrawled the names of every guy she’s ever gone out with — some famous, some not, some “kind of douchey,” as she puts it with a what-can- you-do shrug. “It was like a dating profile but pre-internet,” Hoffs says of the tally, which she composed some- time in the late 1980s as she was racking up hits — among them the chart-topping “Walk Like an Egyp- tian” and “Eternal Flame” — as the frontwoman of the Bangles. “I’m a nice Jewish girl,” she adds. “I was just keeping track, doing my homework.” Today at the bottom of the list in all caps sits the name of Jay Roach, the movie director whom Hoffs met on a blind date in 1991. He’s the subject of a new song called “None of Them Were You,” in which the singer runs down some of Roach’s predecessors — “a very dapper Brit,” “a suave and handsome actor” — before musing on her deep connection with the man to whom she’s now been married for 33 years. “I ended up with such a good guy,” she says. “It al-
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into film criticism
What to make of bestselling translator Emily Wilson’s cutting remarks on hit movie.
In the spirit of Zeus’ law to be generous toward guests, I’m honored to welcome classics professor Emily Wilson to the land of film criticism. As she’s recently learned, it’s an adventure that sails smack into islands of musky inter- net trolls and clashes with cinematic and literary titans like Christopher Nolan and Joyce Carol Oates.
ADDING TO HER LIST OF FEATS
Nolan credits the open- ing line of Wilson’s 2017 translation of Homer’s “The Odyssey” — “Tell me about a complicated man” — as partly inspiring his adapt- ation of the ancient epic, which, nearly a month into its release, is soldiering toward a billion-dollar box office gross. Symbiotically, Wilson’s edition is now the No. 2 bestselling book in the country. That Wilson’s incendiary essay in the London Review of Books revealed she doesn’t think much of Nolan’s blockbust- er struck some as hubris, including Oates, who took to social media to decry the scholar’s “tone of dismissal”
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most brings a tear to the eye.” “None of Them Were You” isn’t the only tune with that potential on an album Hoffs is preparing to re- lease next month. Due Sept. 18 from her Baroque Folk label, “The List” — Hoffs’ first set of original ma- terial in more than a decade — collects a dozen touching and witty songs based on tales from her life as an artist, wife, businessperson and mother. At 67, her winsome singing voice is remarkably unchanged from the era of big hair and dangly earrings. Yet the music reflects an emotional wisdom that had to be earned through experience, as in the folky “Time,” which ponders her and Roach’s relationships with their two adult sons. “I see you dancing in the kitchen / I feel your tiny hand in mine,” she sings, “What if you fly back home this summer? / We could spend a little while.” (Be- ware, parents — this one will wreck you.) A voluble presence with an easy laugh, Hoffs points out that she’s hardly been “hiding in a cave” since 2012’s “Someday.” In 2024, she put out a long- shelved solo record of songs she’d cut back in 1999; before that, she made a series of
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SUDEIKIS as the good- natured Ted in the Emmy-winning show.
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game on again for ‘Ted Lasso’
Jason Sudeikis returns to the field to coach a women’s squad in the series’ Season 4.
After three years, “Ted Lasso” has returned to the pitch. Did it need to? The third season finale, which seemed until now to be a series finale, brought most every character’s arc to a satisfying, credible conclusion — the less satis- fying ones were just as cred- ible — while pointing to a fu- ture you were free to imag- ine, or think nothing more about. Or you could write fan fiction. (People do.) I loved the show, but its absence has not been a painful one. Anyway, it’s back, begin- ning Wednesday on Apple TV, and I am glad enough. Strictly speaking, it’s a new adventure, as one Indiana Jones movie might follow an- other, with Jason Sudeikis’ title character returning to Richmond to manage a new women’s soccer team, a proj- ect raised way back at the end of Season 3, and which now has “been three years in the making.” Where are we now? Star player Jamie Tartt has de- [See ‘Ted Lasso,’ E3]
Farm’s reimagined Montezooma: The Forbidden Fortress.
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Four years ago, Knott’s Berry Farm was faced with a decision. Its 1978 ride Mon- tezooma’s Revenge was the first-ever coaster built with a flywheel launch system — a large, highly visible, circular drum-like mechanism with a cable attached to it — and an important piece of the theme park’s history. But the coaster was in need of refurbishment and they don’t make things like they used to. The flywheel design, once an advanced piece of machinery that al- lowed Montezooma’s to go from zero to 55 mph in less than five seconds, was no longer in vogue. Replace- ment parts weren’t going to be easy to come by, if pos- sible at all. So would they attempt to reimagine Montezooma’s Revenge, or use its footprint for another attraction? “Nobody else really at- tempted a full-speed, ground-level launch until later in the ’90s,” says Jere- my Thompson, who writes coaster analysis on his web- site Roller Coaster Philoso- phy and worked for a decade at theme park design firm Thinkwell. “It was way ahead of its time.” It would have been a shame, roller coaster histori- ans argue, to lose Mon- tezooma’s Revenge. Thank- fully, Knott’s Berry Farm agreed, and after four years and a $20-million invest- ment, Montezooma’s, now rebranded as Montezooma: The Forbidden Fortress, is set to soft open in the com- ing days. A grand opening media event, postponed from last month, is slated for Aug. 14. “We thought quite a bit about, ‘If we take this out, what would we put in there?’ ” says Knott’s Berry Farm Park President Raffi Kaprelyan. “But the answer we always came back to was, ‘Why would you do that?’ This is a perfectly unique ride.”
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and “haughty superiority.” If you haven’t been fol- lowing the controversy, Wilson felt that Nolan had flattened the saga by mostly erasing the Greek gods and Odysseus’ wit, lust and thorny contradictions. Oates likened the tone of Wilson’s critique to the “crude language of MAGA folks.” In short: Wilson snuck a 2,700-year-old poem through the gates of main- stream taste — and after that victory, her arrogance left her marooned. Sounds familiar if you’ve read Homer. Less so if you’ve only seen the film. Wilson is right that Nolan’s movie lacks Odysseus’ egomaniacal brilliance. I’m here to play peace- maker. Wilson adores Odysseus so much that she has his bow tattooed on her right leg. Frankly, Nolan doesn’t seem to like the wily, libidinous and violent trick- ster-veteran of the poem — half Rhett Butler, half Rambo in “First Blood” — as much as Wilson or I do. Because if he did, that Odysseus would be on- screen. But having seen his movie twice, I think it’s obvious that Nolan is less interested in Wilson’s first line than her fifth: “Tell the old story for our modern times.” That, he’s done. His take on Homer is, as I wrote in my original review, “a moralistic ‘Oppenheimer’ prequel.” For the record, I like it anyway. Film critics and trans- lators start work in the same place. Step one: What is the artist’s intent? Wilson considered the entirety of Homer’s tale and decided the right word for polytro- pos was “complicated.” I weighed what Nolan chose to protect, tweak and aban- don in his own version and concluded that he wanted to make an action-tragedy about societal decline.
THE GRAND opening for the remodeled Montezooma: The Forbidden Fortress is scheduled for Aug. 14.
THE ORIGINAL coaster opened in 1978 and was the first of its kind for Knott’s Berry Farm. Above right, the Knott family tries out the attraction on opening day.
He adds: “An iconic ride like this, you want to main- tain as long as possible.” The coaster was planned to be named Loco Motion, but it was rebranded as Montezooma’s Revenge af- ter a popular band with the same name that would regu- larly perform at the park, says Nicholas Laschke- witsch, a coaster historian
Movies must be mea- sured against their own ambitions. A stoner comedy can’t be graded like a Shakespearean drama (and vice versa). Here’s where Wilson runs aground. She wants to allow Nolan cre- ative freedom, knowing that the Greek playwrights rebooted figures like Odysseus and Medea just like Marvel treats Spider- Man. There’s even a spinoff of the original poem in which Odysseus has kids with Circe. Yet, storytellers have to protect the core of their characters. Medea must be angry, Spider-Man must be helpful and Odysseus, dang it, must have swagger. Da- mon doesn’t. This is why Wilson de- serves empathy even if she can’t bring herself to grant Nolan the same grace. As a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania, she’ll be on the front line of academics condemned to unteach Nolan’s heavily altered screenplay to stu- dents who will arrive quot- ing it chapter and verse. For decades to come, high school kids — probably even a few high school teachers — are just going to pop in his Blu-ray and call it a day. Nolan does hit his target, eventually. Yet his script wobbles. He’s made a movie about Odysseus’ remorse for inventing the Trojan horse without a crucial scene: the moment he in- vents it. We see Odysseus silently stroll the beach outside Troy, but not the pride he must have felt running back to base to pitch an idea that will finish the war and let his allies go home. The emotional arc Nolan wants to trace should start there. The beat’s ab- sence is confounding since Odysseus also needs to appear clever (and never does). This is what it means to measure a film against its
and documentary producer with nonprofit American Coaster Enthusiasts. At the time of its opening, it was the tallest roller coaster in the world, thanks to 148-foot spikes. It’s also the oldest looping shuttle coaster in its original location, a shuttle coaster being a ride without a complete circuit, meaning guests are propelled out of
ambitions. Only after we accept that Nolan is solely interested in human mis- takes can we gauge his disregard for the Greek gods. I dig that choice — it’s bold — yet still think he flubs it by not replacing the magical powers of Charlize Theron’s Calypso and Zendaya’s Athena with, say, a personality. What a waste of two terrific actors. It’s no wonder Oates stuck up for him. Her novel “Blonde” also stripped the agency from love goddess Marilyn Monroe and its own 2022 movie adaptation launched a thousand hot takes. There will never be a faithful modern film version of “The Odyssey.” No, not even whatever AI slop Elon Musk claims he’s green- lighted, a project I’m sure
the launch station in a linear path through a loop and then backward through the whole course. “A shuttle coaster is cer- tainly not as novel as it once was,” says Laschkewitsch, who also works as a designer at experiential art firm Meow Wolf. “But I think it’s very much a part of the DNA of Knott’s Berry Farm. It’s
will come to fruition as fast as his any-year-now claim that he’s landing on Mars. The issue isn’t just the poem’s length. It’s that today’s audiences have zero stomach for happy endings about horrible wrongs. We can barely rationalize the slaughter of the suitors. No one wants to watch Homer’s gory scene after that, when Telemachus cruelly orders a dozen enslaved girls to clean up the mess and then ex- ecutes them too. Only a seven-and-a-half hour Italian miniseries produced by Dino de Laurentiis in 1968 dares mention that second bloodbath and even in that, the women are hung off- screen after we’ve been assured (fictitiously) that the maids tried to kill them first. (Side note: Dino’s Penelope, played by the mighty Irene Papas, is my favorite.) Previous movie adapt-
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most people’s first looping coaster who grew up in Southern California. They deserve a lot of credit for in- vesting in [a type of] ride a lot of other parks have thrown out.” Designed by coaster mastermind Anton Schwarzkopf, Laschke- witsch says there’s only one remaining Schwarzkopf- created flywheel coaster us- ing its original launch sys- tem in existence, and it’s in Japan at Nagashima Spa Land. Schwarzkopf was also be- hind the Great American Revolution at Six Flags Magic Mountain, which opened in 1976 as the world’s first modern vertical looping roller coaster. “He was a genius as far as how to bank track, and how to physically manufacture track,” Laschkewitsch says. “His rides were as smooth as glass. The fact that he was able to do this without com- puter technology is incred- ible.” So what’s changed in the refurbishment? Montezooma’s has been remade with new cars, en- hanced thematic touches
ations of “The Odyssey” soft-pedal or ignore the hero’s postwar PTSD. You catch a glimpse of it in the two-part NBC special from 1997 in which Armand Assante’s Odysseus rescues a Trojan toddler. But mainly, he spends more time hot-tubbing with Vanessa Williams’ Calypso. That’s not a knock. The ’90s “Odyssey” is as tacky as Caesars Palace, but As- sante’s smooth-talking horndog is closer to my ideal Odysseus than Damon’s neutered mope. He sleeps with both Calypso and Circe and still earns his tender reunion with Penelope by choosing her beloved wrin- kles over those gods’ im- mortal perfection. (For what it’s worth, Oates is a fan of it too. Wilson has yet to comment.) Only the two most recent versions — Nolan’s and Uberto Pasolini’s 2024 “The Return,” starring a sinewy Ralph Fiennes — center on Odysseus’ culpability for the carnage of the Trojan War. Damon’s Odysseus is numbed by the massacre of Troy’s civilians; Fiennes’ hates himself for leading the best men of Ithaca to their
lightly inspired by Maya de- signs, and boasts both a brand new track as well as a refreshed launch system. It now blasts out of the station with electromag- netic propulsion, technol- ogy, says Thompson, that is found on virtually all mod- ern launch coasters (see Dis- ney California Adventure’s IncrediCoaster, which also jolts from zero to 55 mph in five seconds). That means there will be a difference in “feel” at the launch. Thompson com- pares it to riding in a modern electric vehicle versus, say, a 1970s hot rod. “You’re losing something there,” he says. Namely the instanta- neous tension, says Laschkewitsch, which will now be smoothed out. “There’s just something spe- cial about how that flywheel launch really kicked you in the face,” he says. The coaster in its initial form lasted just 38 seconds. That won’t necessarily change with Montezooma: The Forbidden Fortress, but Kaprelyan says the new ride system will allow the park to offer different ride profiles. The electromagnetic track, for instance, can jolt guests forward, and then tease them by reversing course, lending a linear coaster a sense of surprise. Those changes are com- ing down the road, but prob- ably not until the ride has been open for about a year. “The ride will maybe take you up to the front a little bit, and then shoot you back up the hill, and then shoot you forward again,” Kaprelyan says. “There will be different sequences.” And overall just a differ- ent tone. When all is working properly, the coaster will launch through a haze of fog effects. And it’s blessedly no longer associated with an unsavory name that poten- tially had some negative cul- tural implications. Under- standable, and the right call says Thompson, but “it kind of loses that zany ’70s hu- mor.” Prepare to hear fewer potty jokes at Knott’s Berry Farm.
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death, gutting his own community in the heedless destruction of another. I’m tempted to diagnose the current gloom as the result of our own post-9/11 forever wars. The 21st century has seen enough genocide for Homer to compose a hun- dred sequels. Only those stubbornly ignorant to the human cost of actual com- bat would be psyched to bring on more of it. (Just ask the veterans in my family how they feel things are going in Iran.) At the end of “The Return,” when Fiennes stands entrail-smeared before his beloved Penelope (Juliette Binoche), she recoils from the horror of the battlefield brought right into their home. That interpretation has its flaws too. The middle stretch has a concocted outdoor chase sequence that feels like a clumsy campground slasher. Wilson applauded its “stylish sparseness.” Fair enough. I’d still love to invite her and Nolan and even Oates to a banquet of wine and roasted fowl and have a blast agree- ing to disagree. No weapons allowed.
SUSANNA HOFFS, shown at her Brentwood home, plans to release “The List,” her new album from her Baroque Folk label, on Sept. 18.
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expertly curated covers al- bums, including three she recorded with the power- pop maestro Matthew Sweet. But publishing her first novel in 2023 — “This Bird Has Flown,” a charm- ing bestseller about a one- hit wonder looking for a comeback — rejuvenated Hoffs’ devotion to songwrit- ing. “I never thought the book would sell, and I never thought it would get great reviews,” she says on a re- cent afternoon at her home in Brentwood. “That was a big turn career-wise.” For “The List,” Hoffs teamed with C.J. Camerieri, a musician and producer known for his work with Paul Simon and Bon Iver, among others; Camerieri in turn re- cruited an array of songwrit- ers to collaborate with the two of them, including a cou- ple of Grammy winners in Dan Wilson and Jesse Har- ris. “Sue has built up decades and decades of goodwill in this town,” Camerieri says, seated next to Hoffs on a sofa, “so you call up some- body like Dan and you say, ‘Hey, you want to write a song with Susanna Hoffs?’ and he goes, ‘Great, yeah, I’m in.’ ” The process was simple, the producer explains: “We’d start in Sue’s kitchen with coffee at 10 in the morning—”
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parted the show all the way to Barcelona; kit man turned coach turned compe- tition turned kit man Nate Shelley is nowhere to be seen. But as much may be said of the whole of AFC Richmond, apart from Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), who took over as manager when Ted returned to Kansas City, Mo., to spend more time with son Henry (Grant Feely, replacing Gus Turn- er), and Coach Beard (Bren- dan Hunt), who has turned into an uncommunicative mass of hair. This is not at all that team’s story, though certain fans within (and per- haps without) the world of the series might prefer that it was. Four episodes out of 10 have been made available for review. The first is some- thing of a hurdle, bogged down in contrivances to get Ted back to Richmond from Kansas City, where he has been “trying to help [Henry] become the best version of himself.” The question is whether Ted, working part time as the assistant man- ager of a supermarket, is liv- ing the best version of him- self. The answer, as everyone but Ted recognizes, is no. Naturally, he spreads sun- shine all over the place, be- ing who he is, but this is not the future you would have written for him, nor one sug- gested by the third season fi- nale, where we saw him coaching Henry’s soccer team. But it gives him a
FRONTWOMAN Hoffs, center, poses with fellow members of the Bangles and music executives at a party for the band’s hit album “Different Light” in 1987.
“I’m really good at cof- fee,” Hoffs interjects. “I mean, I use Nespresso. But I’m good at being a hostess to all the lads.” “So I’d give everybody a yellow legal pad and Sue would start telling stories,” Camerieri adds. “We’re all scribbling notes, and after about an hour, we’d go, ‘I think we got enough here,’ and we’d go write songs about what she’d told us.” They recorded at Hoffs’ place — “We’d move this couch and the drums would go right here,” she says — be- neath a vaulted ceiling that provided just the right ambi- ence. First-call players such as Greg Leisz and Wendy
place to come back from. And so club owner Re- becca Welton (Hannah Waddingham), director of operations Leslie Higgins (Jeremy Swift) and queen of all marketing Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) show up on Ted’s doorstep to propose that he manage the Lady Greyhounds, “to lay the foundations of the Rich- mond culture that you cre- ated with our men.” (He has not been checking his mes- sages, apparently, necessi- tating this in-person, three- person visit.) In addition to dragging the pieces into place, much of the opening episode seems meant to satisfy an impulse to show off Kansas City — Sudeikis grew up in that area. There are multiple excursions for barbecue, each resulting in stained clothes for Rebecca. There’s a trip to CPKC Stadium, “the first privately funded stadium in the world solely for pro women’s soccer,” to see the Kansas City Current play. Finding the American Jazz Museum closed, Hig- gins (earlier established as a double bassist) wanders across 18th Street to the Ne- gro Leagues Baseball Museum, where a friendly docent (Milan Carter) schools him on its history, in- cluding a long tribute to pitcher Satchel Paige, with oddly interpolated docu- mentary footage. (Higgins ventures that their experi- ence is “quite similar to how
Melvoin stopped by to take part in the sessions; for har- mony vocals in a country-ish ditty called “Bad Case of Loneliness,” they got Rufus Wainwright, with whom Hoffs had done a version of the Turtles’ “Happy To- gether” for Roach’s 2025 comedy “The Roses.” The dreamy-rootsy ar- rangements are never less than handsome — and never prettier than in “Fool,” which Hoffs says was in- spired by her love of the re- cords Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach made to- gether. Yet “The List” was built to showcase Hoffs’ rich storytelling. The LP opens with “Casablanca,” in which she
THEIR PATHS entwining again, Ted (Jason Sudeikis) and club owner Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) make a deal in “Ted Lasso,” streaming Wednesday.
women in England weren’t allowed to play football for years,” an idea his Black host shoots down with a well-aimed, “Mmmmm.”) “They didn’t do it for fame or fortune. They did it ’cause to not play would have been unacceptable,” he’s told. Or, as former AFC Richmond striker Dani Ro- jas said of soccer: “Football is life.” Things improve in the more natural second epi- sode (and improve from there), which takes us finally back to Richmond. Ted’s only real objection to leaving
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recounts a run-in with the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir in New Orleans in the late ’80s. The Bangles were on tour opening for George Michael; the Dead had a gig at the University of New Orleans’ Lakefront Arena. After Hoffs and Weir ended up at a crawfish boil put on by the Neville Brothers, the two took a walk along Lake Pontchartrain — “He was very cute,” Hoffs says — then later strolled again through the French Quarter. “At one point, I looked back and there was a sea of Deadheads who realized it was Bob Weir,” she says. “But I was with him. I got to be his pal, which I just couldn’t believe was hap-
Kansas City is almost too easily overcome by suggesti- ng that Henry and his mother, Michelle (Andrea Anders), the ex- but not es- tranged wife, come with him. Having won over all doubt- ers over the first three sea- sons, Ted needs someone new to charm, and that will be coach Alice Chilton (Tan- ya Reynolds), who had hoped for the manager’s job. She’s a little rain cloud of a person, dour and humorless, though perhaps rightly of- fended by being passed over. Reynolds, who’ll certainly emerge as the season’s star,
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pening. It was delicious.” (Between the two walks, the Bangles famously jumped onstage with the Dead to perform “Iko Iko.”) As we’re talking, Camerieri tells Hoffs that he recently met Weir’s former tour manager — Weir died in January at age 78 — and that he’d relayed Hoffs’ memory of the encounter. “He was like, ‘I know this story,’ ” Camerieri says the manager replied. “ ‘Bob used to talk about the time he got to walk around New Orleans with Susanna Hoffs.’ ” “Oh my God!” Hoffs says, eyes starting to glisten. “So it meant something to him too.” Ending “The List” is “What Are Wings For,” a stately ballad about sticking to one’s guns that Hoffs and Camerieri wrote with Edie Brickell, who’s married to Simon, on a trip they took to the couple’s ranch in Texas. “We were there during the World Series [in 2024],” Camerieri recalls, “and we watched the Yankees game with Paul every night after working on songs.” “He also told me that he thinks the Bangles’ version of ‘Hazy Shade of Winter’ is better than his,” Hoffs adds with a laugh. “I was like, ‘Please don’t — yours is the iconic version.’ ” By the time the Bangles covered that Simon & Gar-
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makes a big impression by holding things in, acting al- most entirely with her eyes, so that when she cracks a smile in spite of herself, it registers as huge. Among the players, our attention is directed to Boots (Jude Mack), whom we notice because of her short-cropped hair, and be- cause she’s the goalkeeper, and has a quirk — though she’s a powerhouse, “none of the big clubs will touch her because she won’t wear gloves.” (She prefers to keep things tactile. “What’s the point of life if you’re not feel-
funkel tune for the sound- track to 1987’s “Less Than Zero,” the band was already a fixture on the radio and MTV. Hoffs formed the group in 1981 with sisters Vicki and Debbi Peterson, who learned to play together in the garage of Hoffs’ par- ents’ house, just a few blocks from where the singer lives today. The Bangles came up through L.A.’s ’60s-steeped Paisley Underground scene and found stardom after the addition of Michael Steele with “Manic Monday,” a sparkling pop-rock gem gifted to the band by Prince. (Beyond her list of boyfriends, one of Hoffs’ prize possessions from back in the day is Prince’s original cassette demo of “Manic Monday.”) “He was brilliant but mis- chievous,” Hoffs says of the late trailblazer, on whom she modeled the character of Jonesy from her novel. “I re- member one time he invited us to Sunset Sound in the middle of the night. We get there and we’re jamming, then suddenly we look around and he’s disap- peared. ‘OK, I guess we’re done.’ ” After eight Top 40 singles and a triple-platinum LP, the Bangles split in 1989 amid differing ideas about the band’s creative direction and ambitions. The mem- bers pursued solo and other projects but reunited to record a song for 1999’s “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” which Roach directed; two more Bangles albums followed in 2003 and 2011, the second mi- nus Steele, whom Hoffs says she’s not in touch with at the moment. Compared with the Go-Go’s, whose parallel ca- reer was detailed in a 2020 documentary and who were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a year lat- er, the Bangles haven’t quite cemented their legacy, though an authorized biog- raphy came out last year and a doc is currently in devel- opment. Yet Hoffs doesn’t seem especially troubled by the possibility that the Bangles might be underappreciated, perhaps because she’s got plenty of her own stuff going on. Before “The List” comes out, she’ll play her old hits in a Sept. 5 gig at Largo at the Coronet and in a handful of dates opening for Billy Idol; after the new album drops, she’ll head east for a resi- dency at New York’s Café Carlyle. She and Camerieri are also at work on a musical adaptation of “This Bird Has Flown” for the stage or the screen. And just the other day she found a folder on her computer full of songs she wrote years ago with her friend Marvin Etzioni of Lone Justice. “I don’t like using the word ‘bucket list,’ but all these things are labors of love,” Hoffs says. What’s the trouble with “bucket list”? “Oh, I don’t know,” she says, smiling. “It just seems, like, death-y.”
ing it?” Boots asks in anoth- er of the show’s sampler sen- timents.) Lizzie (Faye Marsay) stands out because she arrives to an open call with a cute child in tow and is older and more mature than the others, Gemma (Abbie Hern), by virtue of having unresolved old business with Alice, and having, like Ted, to be talked onto the team. The underdog aspect of it all will be emphasized, of course — a new team, in a money-losing second divi- sion, with second-rate locker room accommodations, sea- soned with sexism that may or may not reflect actual British attitudes toward women’s soccer. Feminist themes, always present vis- a-vis Rebecca and Keeley, not unreasonably take the foreground, with Rebecca overcorrecting the thought that she might not be one — a funny conversation with Harriet Walter as her mother comes out of this — and Tracey Ullman arriving in Episode 4 to be badass. By the end of that epi- sode, there will have been enough sweet, celebratory moments to have rewarded your investment. (I gauge this scientifically by how often I choke up.) Where the story is going in any substan- tial way — maybe get Roy and Keeley back together, do something interesting with Henry and/or Michelle — it’s too soon to tell. I assume it’s going somewhere, but we’ll find that out together.
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HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19): On the last day of Venus in Virgo, let go of overthinking. Going forward you’ll need more curiosity than cer- tainty. Taurus (April 20-May 20): As this Venus chapter draws to a close, let go of sec- ond-guessing yourself. In- stinct over analysis is the way. Gemini (May 21-June 21): In these final moments of Venus in Virgo, let go of what merely functions. It’s got to delight you too. Cancer (June 22-July 22): As Venus packs her bags for Libra, let go of whatever stands in the way of accept- ing help. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): As Venus changes the subject, let go of trying to impress anyone. Your warmth will accomplish what perform- ance never could. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
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ACROSS 1 Mess up 6 Beer foam 10 Golden Arches sandwich 15 Sneeze sound 16 Upfront stake 17 Family, in Hawaiian 18 First lesson in “How To DJ”? 21 Summer shirts 22 “Let me say it again ... “ 23 Antlered grazer 24 Trauma ctrs. 25 Vocalized 26 First lesson in “Plumbing: A Beginner’s Guide”? 32 Rights org. 35 Uttered 36 Mexican state on the Gulf of California 37 Leap happily 39 Some jeans 41 Lute in Hindi cinema 42 Hosts 44 2022 Super Bowl winners 46 Forecast no. 47 First lesson in “Sport Climbing and You”? 50 Like Death Valley 51 Coconut __ 52 Poke bowl protein 55 Home exercise bike brand 59 Natural disaster, legally 61 First lesson in “A Handbook of Competitive Eating”? 63 More frigid 64 Ingredient in a cooling lotion 65 Locations for Christmas lights 66 Welcome relief on a hot day 67 Scottish lids 68 High-protein grain
DOWN 1 Slather with butter, perhaps 2 In base eight 3 “You’ll __ me someday” 4 Winery keepsake 5 Throat-soothing brew 6 Ice dweller off the coast of Greenland 7 Actress Mireille 8 Self-serve bank device
As Venus leaves your sign, let go of believing every an- swer has to come from you. The next chapter is collabo- rative. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): As Venus returns home to your sign, let go of waiting to enjoy your life. Scorpio(Oct. 24-Nov. 21): As Venus heads home to Li- bra, let go of trying to read every hidden motive. Some people are exactly as kind as they appear. Sagittarius (Nov. 22- Dec. 21): As Venus waves goodbye to Virgo, let go of perfection. Going forward, you’ll need more connection than correction. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As the atmosphere soft- ens, let go of measuring ev- ery opportunity by its imme- diate usefulness. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As Venus slips into Li- bra, let go of assuming you have to do everything differently. Innovation often involves invention, but not
9 “You are my fire / The one __”: “I Want It That Way” opening lyrics 10 Cherries atop Black Forest cake 11 Crack, as lips 12 Assign stars to 13 Cuzco civilization 14 Thai currency whose symbol was once used to represent Bitcoin 19 Tined flatware 20 Dice game 25 “Heavens!” 26 Guitar peg, e.g. 27 Like the rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras 28 Bushels and pecks 29 Scribbled reminder 30 Family nickname 31 Wyatt of Tombstone 32 Biblical brother 33 “Follow me” 34 Pixar film about a young sea monster 38 Unfold, as a protein 40 Makes out 43 Sharpen on a leather belt 45 Ill will 48 Suggest
always. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): As one Venus story ends and another begins, let go of being the emotional sponge for those with messy feel- ings. You’re allowed to live in lightness too. Today’s birthday (Aug. 5): It’s your Year of Righting Personal Injustice. In what- ever ways you’ve settled, you’ll draw a new boundary and rise. With every choice to bring your focus back to what you find exciting, fun and fulfilling, your life grows richer. Stressors and limits fall away. More highlights: You’ll hone your voice and be applauded for originality. Unexpected money will be best lavished on you. Sanc- tuary, laughs and agency. Aquarius and Virgo adore you. Lucky numbers: 9, 33, 2, 27 and 12.
Mathis writes her column for Creators Syndicate Inc. The horoscope should be read for entertainment.
49 Gets married by Elvis, perhaps 52 Tequila plant 53 Guest spot? 54 Namely 55 Trident-shaped letters 56 __ A Sketch 57 Skywalker raised on Alderaan 58 Pointed column 59 Chemistry class model 60 Try to fly 62 Lisbon greeting ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
By Frank Stewart
“I opened a can of worms, and nothing happened. They just sat there. Hardly the chaos that was adver- tised.” — graffiti. Open a can of worms on the opening trick and expect problems. Today’s West led the queen of diamonds against four spades, and South got out his can opener when he played low from dummy. East signaled with the deuce, and West shifted to a club. East took the queen and ace, and South also lost a heart. “Play the king on the first diamond,” North said, “so West can’t shift to a club.” “Wouldn’t matter,” South shrugged. “He leads a club when he wins his heart trick.” Once South let the
Dear Eric: My married ex- boyfriend from more than 15 years ago is still in love with me. Through the grapevine, I have heard he still talks about me and even tries to bump into me in public. He is always asking about my whereabouts. I feel badly for his wife. If she knows about this, certainly it must strain her marriage. If she is in the dark, surely, I hope someone will enlighten her and per- haps she can get him to knock it off. I’m perturbed. I haven’t thought of this person in 15 years. How can others politely encourage him to get over the past and start fully living in the pre- sent? Accidental Long-term Love Spell
8/5/26
Dear Accidental: This sounds less like love and more like behavior that verges on stalking, if not fully tipping over into it. It’s con- cerning, and it needs to stop. People who are in contact with him can tell him as much. “Your ex doesn’t want to be in contact with you and the things you’re doing are inappropriate. You need to stop right now before this gets worse.” None of this is your job to fix or address. However, if you’re concerned with or un- comfortable about what he’s doing, don’t hesitate to talk to the authorities about it. They may not be able to act on things you’ve heard
FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane
FREE RANGE By Bill Whitehead
MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
BLISS By Harry Bliss
worms out of the can at Trick One, he couldn’t put them back in. He must play the king of diamonds. East wins and returns a diamond, and South ruffs, draws trumps and leads a heart. If West plays low, South plays dummy’s nine, passing his heart loser to East. If West plays an honor, South takes the king, ruffs a dia- mond and leads a second heart to dummy’s nine. You hold: ♠8 4 ♥J 8 ♦A 10 8 2 ♣A Q 10 7 2. Your partner opens one heart, you bid two clubs and he rebids two hearts. What do you say? Answer: You have enough strength to invite game but not to force, espe- cially if partner is apt to open light hands. To bid three dia- monds would commit you to game, and to bid 2NT is unattractive with two low
through the grapevine, but they can give you guidance about how to keep yourself safe and what to do if he does try to make contact.
Dear Eric: Recently I had open heart surgery which, although successful, neces- sitated several trips by am- bulance back to the hospital from my apartment in a con- dominium building. There are only 46 units in the build- ing, and it seems that every owner knows all the details of my operation and related illnesses. I know this as I am questioned as to my health by each person I encounter. What is your suggestion as to a response after dozens of well-meaning inquiries ev- ery day? Impatient Patient
Dear Patient: I’m sorry about your medical trials but I’m glad the surgery was successful. Even well-mean- ing inquiries can get annoy- ing. It’s fine to say, “thanks for your concern; I’m doing much better. If it’s all the same to you, I don’t really want to talk about it.” These inquiries aren’t go- ing to last forever, but it may take a little while for word to get out. You’re under no obli- gation to answer. A polite thanks for their thoughts and a redirect will suffice.
Dear Eric: My wife and I do our own laundry. Almost every time I want to wash my
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SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly
spades. Raise to three hearts. Though partner has not promised a six-card suit, he may have one.
North dealer N-S vulnerable
NORTH ♠J 10 5 2 ♥A K 9 ♦K 7 4 ♣K J 3 WEST EAST ♠6 3 ♠8 4 ♥Q 10 4 ♥J 8 ♦Q J 9 6 3 ♦A 10 8 2 ♣9 6 5 ♣A Q 10 7 2 SOUTH ♠A K Q 9 7 ♥7 6 5 3 2 ♦5 ♣8 4 NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 1♣ Pass 1♠ Pass 2♠ Pass 4♠ All Pass
Opening lead — ♦Q
clothes, I open the washer and see wet clothes. Sometimes my wife might be home at the time, sometimes she may be out. The clothes might have been there for several days, in which case my wife would want to rewash them, or they might have been there only for several hours in which case they should be headed for the dryer. But some ladies’ clothes cannot go into the dryer; easy for wom- en to separate, but less so for men to distinguish. So do I rewash the clothes, or do I try to separate the delicates and put the rest in the dryer, or do I just quickly do my laundry and put the wet clothes back in the washer where she will be none the wiser? Doing my Laundry is Enough
Dear Laundry: The eas- iest course of action might be to ask your wife what she’d like you to do in this sit- uation. This can open up a conversation about your shared laundry chores and how you can both better share the laundry room. One long-term solution might be letting her know in advance that you plan to do your laundry on a certain day or time. You could do that through conversation or on a shared calendar.
Email questions to eric@askingeric.com.
Spider-Man franchise has broken multiple box office records.
By Anthony Solorzano
With great power comes great box office. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” swung to a record $360-million domestic de- but, surpassing “Avengers: Endgame” to become the film with the biggest open- ing weekend in box office his- tory. The fourth installment of Tom Holland’s block- buster series also set re- cords for its Thursday pre- view gross. Paired with an- other film starring newly- weds Holland and Zendaya, the earnings of “Spider- Man: Brand New Day” have helped give new meaning to the phrase “power couple.” Here are the records “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has broken so far:
Top domestic opening weekend “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” surpassed “Avengers: Endgame” as the biggest opening week- end at the domestic box of- fice. “Brand New Day” earned $360 million, ex- ceeding the previous record set by Disney’s final movie in the Infinity Saga, which made $357 million.
Biggest debut in the ‘Spider-Man’ franchise The previous record be- longed to the third film in the Holland era, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which earned $260 million domes- tically. “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” reigns supreme over nine live-action movies and two animated features.
Day’ leads with love, not thrills
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declare “Brand New Day” to be overstuffed with franchise teasers and/or suggest that, at 30, Holland is getting a bit old for the job. So how is it, pundits wondered, that Spidey has vanquished the ultimate supervillain: superhero fatigue. It’s simple, really: love. There’s a reason “Love Actually” featured a kid in Spider-Man face paint, as opposed to a Superman cape. People, especially kids (and the adults they will become), love Spider- Man with an affection that is deep and true. Unlike so
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THE MOVIE “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” starring Tom Holland, had the best debut weekend of the summer, hauling in $360 million.
Highest-earning Thursday previews Since midnight showings of movies were moved up due to safety concerns after the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, “Avengers: Endgame” earned the biggest preview opening with $60 million, a record bro- ken by “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” after it collected $72 million Thursday.
Biggest opening day The success continued into Friday. “Spider-Man:
many other superheroes, Peter Parker is one of us. He’s not a super-scientist or a god or an extraterres- trial or a one-percenter able to develop all manner of nifty crime-fighting gadgetry. He’s a kid who, having been accidentally endowed with superpowers that do not disfigure him, physically or emotionally (no Red Room trauma, inner rage monster, centurylong life span), remains a kid with an ado- lescent’s delight in all he can now do. He’s funny, sweet and, having been raised right (in this latest iteration by Marisa Tomei’s hip and humanitarian Aunt May), extremely polite, even as he takes down all the bad guys — a cheeky bright spot in a landscape super-peopled almost exclusively with adults and all their exist- ential whinging and regret- ful brooding. But our feelings for the character is not the only, or most important, love story helping to drive the success of “Brand New Day.” Per- haps because they are closest in age to Romeo and Juliet, the complicated courtship of Peter and MJ (or Gwen), has always been the best built-in love story in the multiverse. The actors playing those roles — Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone — invariably became ro- mantic partners so when the series was revived with Holland, with Zendaya as MJ, producer Amy Pas- cal warned them not to date. Mercifully, they did not listen and in Holland and Zendaya, “Brand New Day” has a real-life beloved couple (recently married) playing a fictional beloved couple, now divided by the memory-erasing spell of the previous film, “Spider- Man: No Way Home.” Screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Som- mers’ decision to have Peter Parker wiped from everyone’s memory, includ- ing MJ’s and Ned’s (Jacob Batalon), was a brilliant twist that not only saved us
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Brand New Day” earned $169 million — 47% of its to- tal gross — beating out the previous record set by “Avengers: Endgame,” according to Box Office Mojo.
Fastest to reach $250 million
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” became the fastest to reach $250 million domestically, hitting the milestone in two days, according to Box Office
THE POIGNANT love story of MJ and Peter Parker/Spider-Man, played by real-life spouses Zendaya and Tom Holland, is at the heart of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.” It is the couple’s fourth Spidey adventure.
Mojo. The previous record was set by, you guessed it, “Avengers: Endgame.”
Top opening weekend of July
The buddy comedy “Deadpool & Wolverine” had its claws into July after it earned $211 million do- mestically in its opening weekend in 2024. It was overtaken by “Spider-Man: Brand New Day’s” $360 mil- lion.
from “Spider-Man Goes to College” but also injected a star-crossed romantic pathos that Shakespeare would envy. I can’t have been the only person who bought an opening weekend ticket for the sole purpose of finding out if/when/how Peter and MJ would find their way back to each other. This has been spoiled elsewhere, but we’ll leave it at they do and they don’t. Although the more jaded among us might see the ambiguity as a nakedly emotional hook for future films, including “Avengers: Doomsday,” the opportu- nity for both Peter and MJ to mature a bit, independ- ent of each other, feels thematically essential and more than a little revolu- tionary. It certainly sparks an intriguing question about the nature of roman- tic love, something too often associated with “be- ing saved” in Marvel, and many other, films. Seeing the famously
who bought an opening weekend ticket for the sole purpose of finding out if/when/how Peter and MJ would find their way back to each other.
Top opening weekend of summer “Deadpool & Wolverine” also held the record for the best debut weekend of any summer film. That total was no match for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.”
The biggest collective weekend Holland and Zendaya are taking their box office prow- ess to new heights after their two movies and other films currently in theaters earned
private couple playfully interact with each other and Batalon during the press tour of “Brand New Day” only amped up the already fevered anticipa- tion of how the trio will regroup as surely they must — the love Peter has for Ned is just as strong and singular as his love for MJ. The fact that we’ve watched these actors grow up before our eyes (Zen- daya and Batalon were 19 and Holland 20 when they filmed “Spider-Man: Homecoming” in 2016) makes it even more of a family affair — of course we want to know what hap- pens to Spidey and his gang! Given the extraordinary success of “Brand New Day,” on top of “The Odyssey,” there is a very good chance that Holly- wood, in its infinite and historically flawed wisdom, will decide that superhero fatigue is a myth and that what audiences really want is spectacle. So this is a
roughly $430 million — the biggest collective weekend in box office history. “The Odyssey,” which also stars Holland and Zen- daya, made $51 million in its third weekend. Zendaya’s banner year will continue this winter when “Dune: Part Three” hits theaters Dec. 18 — the same day as “Avengers: Doomsday.” It is unknown if Holland will appear in the upcoming “Avengers” film, but “Brand New Day” concludes with “Spider-Man will return.”
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plea for those in charge to tear their eyes away from the box office returns and look at the film itself. Yes, “Brand New Day” is full of terrific web-slinging and swinging scenes (albe- it ones in which Spider- Man gets even more beat up than usual), but its power is emotional not spectacular, built more on dialogue than special ef- fects. Holland’s Spider-Man relates more personally to everyone — friends and foes — than any other superhero; his scenes with the Punisher (Jon Bern- thal), Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), Det. DeWolff (Liza Colón-Zayas) and, at the end, Sadie Sink’s mys- terious character, are less about exposition or explo- sive action than character revelation and connection. He cares and so do we. That’s how it works in love stories and, as “Brand New Day” is proving, love stories are pretty hard to beat.
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