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Afghans travel in a convoy with cars decorated with portraits of anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, the 18th anniversary of his murder.

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Taliban, but only after cease-fire

BY KIM GAMEL

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea offered Monday to restart stalled nuclear negotiations with the U.S. later this month but warned “dealings may come to an end” if the Americans don’t bring something

new to the table. Talks have been stalled since President

Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un failed to reach an agreement during their second summit in February in Vietnam.

The leaders agreed to resume working-level talks during their impromptu meet-

ing on June 30 on the Korean border, but no date has been set. North Korea also raised tensions by test-firing several short-range ballistic missiles during the summer.

Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said Monday that North Korea was ready to come back to the table after repeated calls for talks by the U.S.

However, Choe said she hopes the U.S.will have new proposals that are accept-able to the North Koreans, noting that Kim previously had called for a “new way ofcalculation” and had given an end-of-yeardeadline for that to occur.

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Does Navy chiefs’ coin trade devalue beloved tradition?

BY JOSHUA KARSTEN

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MANAMA, Bahrain — There’s a burgeoning online market for the elaborate and colorful coins pressed into the palms of Navy petty officers when they pin on their anchors and take the chief petty officer’s pledge, but some critics say the trade diminishes the value of the tradition.

The origins of the military coins, also called “challenge coins,” is hazy, but military lead-ers have bestowed them to infor-mally recognize a job well done or as a sign of appreciation for decades, if not a century or more.

In more recent years, chiefs’ messes and chiefs themselves have produced coins in an ex-

panding variety of shapes, sizes and complex features, leading collectors, even self-described “addicts,” to hunt down the more elusive and rare ones in online fo-rums and in-person meets.

It’s “devolved into a sort of trad-ing card culture,” the Navy’s top enlisted sailor said in an email, saying he hoped to get back to the kind of exchange “that coins are really about,” such as giving sailors a sense of belonging with a unit, recognizing hard work or saying, “Thank you, shipmate.”

“I don’t fault them, but I do want to bring them around to the more traditional mindset of these exchanges being special,” said Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russell Smith.

It’s unclear when Navy leaders began bestowing coins, though the practice appears to have Army battlefield roots. The Naval History and Heritage Command could not “shed light on how this tradition started,” an official said by email.

Historians and librarians with the National Defense University, Pentagon, Army and Navy could find no written records of the tra-dition, the Defense Department said in a blog post last month that found three popular theories tracing the origins to either World War I, Army infantry-run bars in Vietnam or the Green Berets of the 1960s.

Retired Adm. Scott Swift, for-mer Pacific Fleet commander, believes they originated in the Civil War to promptly reward sol-diers on the battlefield as awards processes lagged. He noticed it catching on in the Navy in the early 1990s around the time of Desert Storm.

For collectors, though, a com-mander’s kudos isn’t the curren-cy, as posts online offer coins up for trade or for sale — “UFT” and “UFS,” respectively, in the insid-ers’ lingo. Coins celebrating chief ranks generally, not a specific unit’s mess, are dubbed “pride coins” and the hard-to-find issues are dubbed “unicorns.”

Some collectors focus on themes, such as coins shaped like Marvel comic book characters, football team logos or beer bot-tles, but hang on to doubles and other extras as “trade bait.”

With a collection of about 400 coins, San Diego-based Chief Petty Officer Jorge Banuelos is “either an addict or a novice” de-pending on who’s talking, he said. Some chiefs have well over 1,000 coins.

Still, the hobby is about more than expanding a collection of metal trinkets, Banuelos said. It’s

about being part of a community and meeting fellow chiefs, like two coin-trading buddies who helped him find a place to live when he moved from Europe to California.

“The whole point is to unite people, to talk, hear stories,” said Chief Petty Officer Orlando Aten-cia. “Trading coins in itself cre-ates a memory.”

Some critics, however, argue that the hobby has gotten out of hand and that coins are grow-ing more expensive as chiefs and messes try to outdo each other with larger and more complicat-ed designs.

Collectors and producers ac-knowledge that the coins have gotten more elaborate. Martin Kidder, a retired master chief who now operates a family-run coin business, remembers seeing his first chiefs’ mess and com-mand master chief coins in the late 1990s.

“All we did was take the com-mand coin and we put a chief’s cover on it,” he said of the first coin he designed while stationed in Iceland in 1997.

Now coins come shaped as Iron Man or Spider-Man, but with goat heads — goat locker is a term for

the chiefs’ mess — or the logo ofthe NFL’s Miami Dolphins withan anchor on it, for example.

Kidder’s business bloomed outof the growing demand almostexclusively from the chiefs’ mess in the early 2000s. He got into the business after difficulty finding acoin maker willing to take ordersof fewer than 100 coins and hiscustomer base grew by word ofmouth.

“I like where it has gone, if you want to call it a coin culture,” said Kidder, whose business producedsome 800,000 coins last year.

Even collectors seem to valuethe ones with personal meaning most. For Banuelos, his favoriteis still the first coin he received from his first chief.

Atencia, who began collecting coins after receiving them from flag officers, has pushed mostof his commanders’ coins to theback of his case.

“People always ask why youhave the admirals in the back?”Atencia said. “I tell them, ‘Be-cause the chiefs are the ones thatcount.’ ”

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A display case features command and flag officer coins . The origin of commanders presenting coins to deserving sailors is disputed, but some historians think the tradition originated in the Civil War.

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WAR ON TERRORISM

Ghani: Cease-fire must precede Taliban talks

Germany pulls police advisers out of Afghanistan after attack

BY J.P. LAWRENCE

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The Afghan government is ready to pick up peace negotia-tions with the Taliban after they were abruptly called off by Presi-dent Donald Trump, but insisted that the insurgents first agree to a cease-fire, Afghanistan’s presi-dent said Monday.

Afghans were bracing for more violence following Trump’s sur-prise weekend announcement, in which he blamed the breakdown of the peace process on continued Taliban attacks, including a sui-cide car bombing that killed an American soldier Thursday near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

Afghanistan has “chosen sus-tainable and dignified peace and we will not go back,” President Ashraf Ghani was quoted by Af-ghanistan’s ToloNews as saying.

“Negotiations are impossible without a cease-fire,” he added. “We created the environment for peace, but the Taliban took it wrong.”

It’s unclear whether talks be-tween the U.S. and the Taliban will resume, but Ghani, whose government was not included in the now-stalled negotiations, has invited Taliban chief Maulvi Hi-batullah Akhunzada to a video conference and urged him to “at least talk with people” instead of hiding, The Associated Press re-ported. The insurgents dismiss Ghani’s government as a U.S. puppet.

Even as Afghans prepared for the violence to drag on, many said the breakdown of the talks was inevitable, calling the insurgents untrustworthy liars who wanted only to return to power.

The Taliban have been lying throughout the peace talks, hop-ing to secure a deal that would see coalition troops pull out of the country, said Najibullah Fakhri, from northeastern Badakhshan province. Badakhshan never fell under Taliban control when the

militants ruled the country in the 1990s, but several districts in the province have been overrun by the militants in recent years.

“The Taliban do not speak honestly,” said Fakhri, who fled his home in the district of Jurm, southeast of the Badakhshan’s

provincial capital, Fayzabad, five years ago when the militant group began fighting there. “They are just trying to come into power again.”

Afghanistan was “in chaos,” said Malik Abdul Hadi, a tribal elder in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province, after Trump announced Saturday that he had called off peace negotiations and canceled secretly planned talks that would have been held separately with the Taliban and the Afghan government over the weekend in Camp David, Md.

“After nine months of talks,

there is no result,” Hadilamented.

“The Taliban cannot be trust-ed,” he added, echoing what Trump said on Twitter — that he’d called off the talks because “the Taliban’s persistent, grisly violence made them untrust-worthy partners.”

What the Taliban said duringthe talks with the U.S. in Doha“is very different from what they are doing here,” said Fakhri, who represents some 3,000 familieswho fled to the Badakhshan cityof Baharak after militants tookcontrol of their towns.

Despite a Taliban statement in February that said the groupis “committed to all rights ofwomen,” locals in Badakhshanhave said that in the parts of theprovince controlled by the group girls aren’t allowed to go to schoolafter sixth grade.

Watching television, listening to the radio, playing music or usingmobile phones are all banned inthose regions, Fakhri and otherlocals said.

Men are flogged for commit-ting acts of “vice,” which have in-cluded things such as flying a kite or having too short a beard. At the same time, “the Taliban are beat-ing our wives,” said Fakhri.

While many Afghans appear tolack faith in the goodwill of the in-surgents, they also mourned theloss of a chance for peace after the cancellation of the U.S.-Tal-iban talks.

“Every day, Afghan people arekilled,” said Basher Walizada, abusinessman from Logar prov-ince. “Every day (there is an) explosion.”lawrence.jp@stripes.comTwitter: @jplawrence3

BY MARCUS KLOECKNER

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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Ger-many has withdrawn most of its police advisers from Afghanistan following last week’s deadly attack on an international compound in Kabul, media reports said Monday.

Twenty-two federal German police offi-cers were in the Green Village compound in central Kabul when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the entrance gate, news magazine Der Spiegel reported. Sixteen people were killed and 119 wound-ed in the blast.

Due to “substantial damages” caused to the Green Village, all German federal po-licemen have left the compound, Der Spie-gel quoted a spokesman with the Interior Ministry as saying.

“The situation is being reviewed and we are looking at options that will allow us to continue our successful cooperation with Afghan security authorities,” the spokes-man said.

During the attack, the policemen and international aid workers took shelter in secure areas at the compound, the report said. No Germans were injured in the

bombing.The German police had recently moved

into offices with reinforced concrete walls in the Green Village, according to Der Spiegel. But unnamed security sources in Berlin said the compound was “not safe anymore” after last week’s attack, the re-port said.

German police officers have been in Afghanistan since 2002 as part of the Ger-man Police Project Team, which was set up to train and advise the Afghan police force after the Taliban regime was ousted the previous year.

The team is part of a larger interna-tional police training mission under NATO auspices.

About 50 German police officers were stationed in Kabul and Ma zar-e-Sharif until last week’s attack, according to the German Interior Ministry’s website. Spie-gel said most have already been withdrawn from Afghanistan.

On Thursday, an American soldier, a Ro-manian servicemember and 10 civilians were killed in another attack on an area near the U.S. Embassy where diplomats live. kloeckner.marcus@stripes.com

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A German police officer oversees Afghan National Police training at Camp Shaheen, Afghanistan, in October 2010. Germany has withdrawn most of its police officers from Afghanistan after a suicide attack on an international compound in Kabul last week.

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Najibullah Fakhri, a local representative in the town of Baharak in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, says the Taliban have lied throughout peace talks with the U.S.

‘ The Taliban do not speak honestly. They are just trying to come into power again. ’

Najibullah Fakhrilocal Afghan representative

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“I think the U.S. has since had enough time to find the calculation method that it can share with us,” Choe was quoted as saying in an English-language report in the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

“We have willingness to sit with the U.S. side for comprehensive discussions of the issues we have so far taken up at the time and place to be agreed late in September,” she added.

Choe warned that North Korean-U.S. “dealings may come to an end” if the Americans stick to their previous stance.

The comments came a day after Secre-tary of State Mike Pompeo expressed hope that talks with the North Koreans would resume “in the coming days or perhaps weeks.”

“President Trump has made a com-mitment to their security and economic prosperity,” Pompeo said Sunday in an in-terview on ABC’s “This Week.”

“I think President Trump would be very disappointed if Chairman Kim doesn’t re-turn to the negotiating table,” he said.

He also said the U.S. administration was disappointed about the short-range mis-

sile tests but didn’t consider them a deal breaker. The launches stopped short of breaking Kim’s promise to suspend long-range missile and nuclear tests, although experts say they violated U.N. Security Council sanctions resolutions that ban bal-listic technology.

“Our mission set at the State Depart-ment is very clear: to get back to the table” and deliver a mechanism to achieve “a full, completely denuclearized and verified de-nuclearized North Korea,” Pompeo said.

Neither side has given an indication about changes in their negotiating stances.

The talks in Hanoi broke down over North Korea’s demands for extensive sanctions relief in exchange for what the Trump ad-ministration said was insufficient steps to-ward denuclearization.

The U.S. envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, also said last week that the Trumpadministration is ready to negotiate as soonas it hears from the North Koreans.

“We are ready, but we cannot do this byourselves,” he was quoted as saying in aspeech at the University of Michigan.gamel.kim@stripes.comTwitter: @kimgamel

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TOKYO — Yokosuka Naval Base suf-fered moderate damage, but fallen trees and minor flooding were the worst that most U.S. military bases around Tokyo ex-perienced from a typhoon that brought re-cord winds to central Japan early Monday.

Typhoon Faxai made landfall near the Japanese capital before 5 a.m., accord-ing to Japan’s Meteorological Agency. Its strongest winds measured 129 mph at 4.30 a.m. near Chiba City. At Haneda Airport, where 138 flights were canceled, winds peaked at 97 mph at 3.30 a.m.

One person died in Tokyo from a fall re-lated to the storm, and dozens of people in the Kanto area were injured, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK. No injuries were reported on U.S. bases.

About 932,000 households in the Kanto area were without power at 8 a.m. Monday, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. That number fell to about 800,000 by the afternoon.

On military bases in Tokyo and nearby Kanagawa prefecture, most residents were asked to stay home from work and school for two or three hours while cleanup crews cleared fallen trees and branches from the streets.

At Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, personnel inbound from off-base homes were met with traffic jams and no morning trains.

“The (Yokohama-Yokosuka) Express-way is closed and Route 16 is in gridlock traffic. The Keikyu (rail line) has just now started running, and the status of the JR line is unknown,” the base’s official Face-book page announced at 10:10 a.m. The all-clear was given at 11:15 a.m.

Defense Department schools at Yokosu-ka and the Ikego housing area were closed Monday, according to the same page.

The naval base was in recovery mode for nearly 5½ hours, with only essential personnel expected at work and assess-ment teams from public works surveying damage.

Yokosuka-based ships, including the air-craft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and the 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge, did not

relocate during the storm, 7th Fleet spokes-man Lt. Joe Keiley said in an email.

“Our units and our personnel took every appropriate measure to weather the storm,” he wrote.

The storm left myriad fallen trees and a carpet of branches in its wake. At Yoko-suka, a fallen tree blocking a street forced temporary closure of the Womble gate about 6 a.m., according to the base’s offi-cial Facebook page.

Facebook groups associated with Yo-kosuka posted photos of trees that fell on automobiles, damage to a McDonald’s res-taurant window and some flooding and waves lapping over the seawall. A portion of a sidewalk along the seawall appeared to be damaged, according to Facebook posts. Other photos appeared to show debris left overnight by surging water.

At Yokota Air Base — home of 5th Air Force and U.S. Forces Japan in west-ern Tokyo — workers and residents were clearing fallen branches from yards and streets ahead of a late start to school and work Monday. The base’s official Facebook page stated that the morning bus to Narita International Airport was delayed and that trains into Tokyo were also delayed due to a fallen tree.

Nonessential personnel at Yokota were told to report for work three hours later than normal, while schools were delayed two hours, official said.

In Yokota’s eastside housing area, Duke, a golden retriever belonging to Jon and Sara Rember, guarded the remains of the large pine that had, fortunately, fallen in the opposite direction of nearby homes.

Jon Rember and Duke heard the tree fall during the storm, said Sara Rember, who slept through it.

Base residents had ample warnings from officials ahead of the typhoon, and the cou-ple prepared by bringing potted plants and a swing inside on Sunday, she said.

“We know this is typhoon season. There were two storms last year. The second one took down so many cherry blossom trees,” Sara Rember said.

U.S. Army Garrison Japan’s Facebook page said crews were responding to multi-

ple reports of downed trees at Camp Zama, some of which were blocking roadways Monday morning.

Anyone other than essential personnel was asked to report to work by 9:30 a.m., with school buses picking up students two hours later than normal.

At Naval Air Facility Atsugi, north of Yokosuka, commanders issued the all-clear Monday morning but announced the base health clinic was accepting urgent-care patients only and cance ling routine appointments.

A section of Kearsarge Street off King Street was temporarily impassable, ac-cording to a base Facebook post about 9 a.m. Classes at Shirley Lanham Elemen-tary School on base were canceled for the day, although teachers reported for work, said base spokeswoman Briana Baglini.

Damage was minimal, she said, and consisted mostly of downed trees and branches.

Faxai hit Japan a day after Typhoon Lin-gling tore through South Korea, leaving

heavy damage in its wake as it skirted the peninsula’s western coast with winds of more than 80 mph before making landfall in North Korea.

At Yongsan Garrison in Seoul, toppledtrees knocked out power lines, leaving apopulated area known as South Post with-out electricity for about 24 hours. Brian D.Allgood Army Community Hospital and Dragon Hill Lodge operated with emer-gency generators, officials said.

Elsewhere in South Korea, Linglinggrounded planes, knocked out electric-ity for more than 57,000 homes and left at least two people dead, according to TheAssociated Press.

Traffic to Incheon International Airportalso was disrupted due to the closure of itsgateway bridge and a power failure on acommuter rail network, the news agencyreported.Stars and Stripes reporters Joseph Ditzler, Kim Gamel, Hana Kusumoto, Christian Lopez, Dave Ornauer and Seth Robson contributed to this report.news@stripes.com

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Workers clear debris from Typhoon Faxai at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, on Monday .

Yokosuka bears brunt of typhoon in Japan

BY JOHN WAGNER

The Washington Post

The Air Force has launched a review of its selection of lodging accommodations amid height-ened scrutiny of a decision to place a crew at the Trump Turn-berry resort in Scotland, which it

acknowledged Sunday “might be allowable but not advisable.”

In a statement, the Air Force said its leadership has directed the Air Mobility Command to “review all guidance pertaining to selection of airports and lodg-ing accommodations during in-ternational travel.”

The statement cited the epi-sode in March in which seven crew members flying on a transport plan from Kuwait to Alaska stayed at the Trump fam-ily-owned resort during a lay-over at the Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which is about 30 miles from Trump’s resort and has

been used with greater frequen-cy during Trump’s presidency.

“While initial reviews indicate that aircrew transiting through Scotland adhered to all guidance and procedures, we understand that U.S. servicemembers lodg-ing at higher-end accommoda-

tions, even if within governmentrates, might be allowable but not advisable,” the statement said.

The statement also defended the increased use of the Prest-wick airport, saying it is “ideallysuited along the route of flightto/from Europe and the MiddleEast.”

Korea: Neither side has given an indication about changes in negotiating stances

Air Force reviewing layover guidelines amid scrutiny

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WAR/MILITARY

Soldiers welcomethe return of USOto Baumholder

Alleged American ISIS sniper indicted

Activists: Airstrikes killed 18 militants in east Syria

BY BASSEM MROUE AND QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA

Associated Press

BEIRUT — Unknown war-planes overnight targeted an arms depot and posts of Iran -backed militias in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, killing at least 18 fighters, Syrian opposi-tion activists said Monday.

The strikes come amid rising tensions in the Middle East and the crisis between Iran and the U.S. in the wake of the collapsing nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.

An official with an Iran -backed militia in Iraq blamed Israel for the airstrikes that hit in the east-ern Syrian town of Boukamal. There was no immediate com-ment from Israel.

Israel i Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu said last month that Iran has no immunity any-where and that the Israeli mili-tary “will act — and currently are acting — against them.”

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the airstrikes began late Sunday and continued after mid-

night, killing 18 Iranian and pro-Iran fighters and also causingextensive damage.

The Sound and Pictures, alocal activist collective in eastern Syria, gave a higher death tolland said 21 fighters were killedand 36 wounded. The collective said the strikes targeted positionsbelonging to Iranian militias andthose of Iraq’s Popular Mobiliza-tion Forces, a mostly Iran-backedShiite militia , but did not say who the dead and wounded were.

A Syria-based official for theIraqi militia claimed that Israelwas behind the attack, adding that four missiles fired by war-planes hit a post manned by Ira-nian gunmen and members ofLebanon’s Hezbollah group.

The official, who spoke on con-dition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said there were no Iraqicasualties in the strike, which hesaid hit about 2 miles from theIraqi border.

Meanwhile, the Israeli militaryhad no comment on the airstrikebut said rockets launched from Syria on Monday fell short anddid not land in Israel.

BY JENNIFER H. SVAN

Stars and Stripes

BAUMHOLDER, Germany — A former French army bath-house at Baumholder now serves as a place for U.S. soldiers and their families to unwind and con-nect while off duty after the USO returned to this hilly outpost northwest of Ramstein Air Base, for the first time in more than a decade.

More than 300 people at the grand opening of the USO’s new-est center in Europe enjoyed a free Hawaiian buffet and toured the center’s many rooms, in-cluding a large kitchen, a sitting area with four flat-screen televi-sions, a computer room, a play area for kids and a small movie theater equipped with a popcorn machine.

“It’s an investment in this com-munity ... a place for everyone to go,” said Col. Jason T. Edwards, U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz commander.

“I’m just so ecstatic that it’s here.”

The previous USO at Baum-holder closed in 2005 amid a post-Cold War drawdown of forces on the base and across Europe.

That trend has been reversed during the past several years, and about 4,000 soldiers are current-

ly assigned to the post, Edwards said.

Although he couldn’t comment on whether the base population would continue to grow, U.S. Army Europe has announced plans to move more units to Baumholder. There are also plans to renovate base housing and replace the two schools on post.

Building 8106 on Smith Bar-racks, a former bathhouse for the French who occupied Baumhold-er after World War II, underwent extensive upgrades to meet cur-rent building codes and house the USO.

The garrison contributed $200,000 to renovations, and the USO added $100,000, said Kon-rad Braun, USO Kaiserslautern area director.

It’s the newest USO in Europe, which operates about 20 centers across the Continent, Braun said.

Overseas, the USO is open to all U.S. military ID card holders and their families, he said.

“Our mission is to strengthen our servicemembers by connect-ing them to family, home and country,” Braun said,

First Lt. Alexandra Pogany, 25, an ordnance officer at Baum-holder and a USO volunteer, said she was excited to see the center open.

“The soldiers have been asking for one for the longest time,” she said. The center “provides an-other common space” for soldiers and their families to hang out on a post where there aren’t many such places.

“No matter when, they’re going to have a place to go,” she said, noting the center is open every day, year-round.

“It’s definitely better than stay-ing in the barracks.”svan.jennifer@stripes.comTwitter: @stripesktown

BY J.P. LAWRENCE

Stars and Stripes

An American citizen who alleg-edly became a sniper and weap-ons trainer for Islamic State in Syria has been indicted in federal court, the Justice Department said.

Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, 43, faces a possible life sentence after accusations of providing material support to ISIS and training ter-rorists in weaponry, said a state-ment released last week.

Asainov, a naturalized Ameri-can citizen born in Kazakhstan, allegedly left his home in Brook-lyn on a one-way flight to Istanbul around Christmas of 2013, accord-ing to the Justice Department.

Prosecutors allege that Asain-ov entered Syria and joined ISIS as a sniper, eventually becom-ing an “emir” known as “Sulei-man Al-Amriki” and “Suleiman Al-Kazakhi.”

Asainov taught other ISIS members how to use weapons and also tried to recruit another person from the United States to

travel to Syria to join ISIS, the court filings said.

Asainov was captured by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and handed over to the FBI in July 2019.

“The defendant, a naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Brooklyn, turned his back on the country that took him in and joined ISIS, serving its violent ends in Syria and attempting to recruit others to its cause,” United States Attor-ney Richard Donoghue said at the time.

Prosecutors say they have a treasure trove of incriminat-ing messages, including photos of three dead fighters, received from a confidential informant working with New York police, the New York Post reported.

The messages by Asainov at-tempt to both cajole and threaten the informant to leave New York and go to Syria to join ISIS.

“We will get you,” he said in messages published by the New York Post. “You need to obey. You need to be punished you f–king

[redacted]. We will find you and teach you how to behave.”

In March 2015, Asainov asked the informant for $2,800 to buy a rifle scope, and later sent pho-tos of himself holding an assault rifle with a scope attachment, the statement said.

As many as 80 U.S. citizens or residents have traveled to Syria or Iraq to join extremist groups since 2011.

Six have been repatriated to face charges for joining ISIS, Voice of America reported. lawrence.jp@stripes.comTwitter: @jplawrence3

Ruslan Maratovich Asainov

PHOTOS BY MICHAEL ABRAMS/Stars and Stripes

Top row, from left: Konrad Braun, area director of USO Kaiserslautern ; Col. Jason Edwards, U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz commander; and Megan Rivera, manager of the Baumholder USO, and other dignitaries cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the new USO center in Baumholder, Germany, on Tuesday .

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

USO volunteers dish out food at the grand opening of the new USO center on Smith Barracks in Baumholder .

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NATION

Associated Press

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Coast Guard rescuers found four South Korean crew members trapped inside a massive cargo ship by rappelling down the side and drilling a hole through the hull to contact them Monday.

“The early indication is they are on board and OK,” Lt. Lloyd Hef-lin told The Associated Press.

Heflin said the rescue team is communicating with the trapped sailors through the hole they drilled, but getting them out re-mains quite challenging.

The capsizing of the Golden Ray in Georgia’s St. Simons Sound early Sunday caused fires and smoke, and while the flames are now apparently out, the huge ship is listing at roughly 90 de-grees with more than 4,000 ve-

hicles inside it.A South Korea Foreign Minis-

try statement said Monday that the crew members were alive and isolated inside an engine room. It said 10 South Koreans and 13 Fil-ipinos had been on board, along with a U.S. harbor pilot, when the ship began tilting over.

The 656-foot vehicle carrier is now stuck in the shipping chan-nel, closing the busy Port of Brunswick.

Coast Guard crews lifted 20 people into helicopters hovering overhead on Sunday before res-cuers determined the smoke and flames and unstable cargo made it too risky to venture further inside.

Rescuers were able to climb aboard on Monday after officials determined it was stable enough for a helicopter to land on the hull,

Coast Guard Lt. Kit Pace said.The Coast Guard said it was

notified of the capsized vessel by a 911 call about 2 a.m. Sunday. The cause remains under inves-tigation. Hurricane Dorian was already well beyond the Geor-gia coast, where it blew past last week before being downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone.

The ship channel is currently closed to vessel traffic, with a safety of a half-mile around the Golden Ray in St. Simons Sound. The Coast Guard said the over-turned ship hasn’t released any pollutants so far, but cleanup ef-forts are ready if needed.

The ship is owned by Hyundai Glovis, which carries cars for au-

tomakers Hyundai and Kia, aswell as others. Brunswick is oneof the busiest U.S. seaports forshipping automobiles.

Nearly 614,000 vehicles andheavy machinery units moved across its docks in the 2019 fis-cal year that ended June 30, ac-cording to the Georgia PortsAuthority.

BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump presented the nation’s highest award for public safety Monday to six Ohio police officers who responded swiftly to reports of gunfire last month in Dayton, confronted the shooter in under a minute and prevented more deaths.

Trump also recognized five

civilians who put themselves at risk after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in August.

The twin shootings, hours apart, sparked renewed national discus-sion of gun control, a topic on Congress’ agenda as it returned to Washington on Monday.

“These incredible patriots re-sponded to the worst violence and most barbaric hatred with the best of American courage, char-

acter and strength,” Trump said at the White House as he shared a stage in the East Room with the 11 men and women.

“Faced with grave and harrow-ing threats, the men and women standing behind us stepped for-ward to save the lives of their fel-low Americans,” he said.

The six police officers each received the Medal of Valor, es-tablished by law in 2001 as the

nation’s highest public safety award.

Nine people were killed and more than two dozen were wounded in the early morning attack Aug. 4 in a bustling enter-tainment district.

Since they are civilians, the five individuals from El Paso each received Certificates of Commendation for “displaying tremendous bravery,” Trump said, and helping others to flee

the scene of the Aug. 3 shooting,in which 22 people were killedand many others wounded.

Trump had already recognized14 public safety officers with theMedal of Valor earlier this year.

Attorney General William Barr,who joined Trump at the cere-mony, said the law allows him toexpand the number of recipients“when exceptional instances of bravery arise.”

BY JOHN RABY

Associated Press

WHEELING, W.Va. — Carrie Jones is looking for work for the first time in two decades. She’s even more worried about what will happen to her psychiatric patients.

“Where are they going to go?” Jones said. “We’re honestly like their family.”

Jones is among nearly 1,100 employees being laid off at Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheel-ing and its sister facility, East Ohio Regional Hospital in nearby Martins Ferry, Ohio.

The layoffs are the latest blow to a region on the edge of the Rust Belt that hasn’t fully benefited from the economic recovery that President Donald Trump — who attended a private campaign fundraiser in Wheeling in July — has touted.

The area had managed to hang on after steel mills and other manufacturing plants closed, in part by forging a new identity as a health care hub.

But after two years of owner-ship, Irvine, Calif.-based Alecto Healthcare Services announced

both hospitals will close by next month. The company cited sev-eral factors, including losses of more than $37 million since

taking over, increasing fa-cility improve-ment needs and the lack of a potential partner or buyer, includ-ing a cross-town hospital.

Acute and emergency admissions were suspend-ed Wednes-day night at OVMC, where workers held an emotional candlelight

vigil just before midnight.The Appalachian hilltop re-

gion’s economy has steadily eroded in recent decades, a trend forecasters expect to continue. Steel mills farther north were shuttered long ago. Aluminum and other manufacturing plants in Ohio left as well.

As the jobs went, so have resi-

dents. The population in the three-county area on either side of the river about an hour west of Pittsburgh has fallen steadily since the early 1980s, including a 5.3% drop from 2010 to 2018.

Powered by a natural gas frack-ing boom, employment rebound-ed after the Great Recession. But a 2018 report by West Virginia University researchers said the area would need “a significant positive economic shock” to halt long-term declines.

North of Wheeling, a natural gas-fired power plant is planned on a reclaimed coal strip mine but would create only 30 perma-nent jobs.

In Ohio, a petrochemical plant proposed in Belmont County has languished in the planning stages for years.

A block away from OVMC, the 166-year-old Centre Market Dis-trict is filled with restaurants and shops that cater to hospital work-ers and patients’ families. Some business owners said they will be affected by the hospital closing but are prepared to handle it.

A few miles east, Wheeling Hospital is one of the state’s top

10 private employers. In Ohio, three of Belmont County’s top employers are hospitals. Doctors who work at the two hospitals will be forced to go elsewhere.

Belmont County’s seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate of 5.0 percent in July was slightly above the state rate of 4.6% but lower than in surrounding coun-ties. In Ohio County, where Wheel-ing is located, the 3.9% rate is well below the 4.6% state average.

West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resourcesspokeswoman Allison Adler saidDHHR staff and Gov. Jim Jus-tice have “been striving to ensurethat as OVMC leaves the Wheel-ing market, there is no lapse ofquality care for those patientstransferred to other facilities,and that services provided byOVMC remain available in thecommunity.”

TERRY DICKSON/AP

People are shown on Jekyll Island’s Driftwood Beach as the Golden Ray cargo ship is capsized in the background off the Georgia coast on Sunday .

4 found in capsized cargo ship in Ga.

Edge of Rust Belt hit hard by hospital closings

JOHN RABY/AP

The Centre Market District of shops and restaurants is a block away from Ohio Valley Medical Center , which is laying off 1,100 workers.

‘ Where are they (patients) going to go? We’re honestly like their family. ’Carrie Jones

Ohio Valley Medical Center employee being

laid off

Trump honors mass shooting responders with awards

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Union opens itsown probe intoopera superstar

Schools face backlash for not telling parents of threats to children

9 students hospitalized for THC in candy in Fla.

BY JOCELYN GECKER AND JOCELYN NOVECK

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The union that represents opera performers and staff has launched its own inves-tigation into sexual harassment allegations against superstar Placido Domingo, saying it can-not be sure that opera companies will delve into them sufficiently themselves.

The American Guild of Musi-cal Artists said its investigation was prompted by two Associated Press stories in which multiple women accused the opera legend of sexual harassment or other in-appropriate conduct.

The union sent an email to its members noting that it had asked companies that employed the 78-year-old singer to fully investi-gate the allegations, but that the companies “have been unwilling or unable to provide AGMA with sufficient assurances about the scope and timing of their investi-gations, as well as whether or not

the findings will be publicly dis-closed or otherwise made avail-able to the union.”

The Los Angeles Opera, where Domingo has served as general director since 2003, has hired outside counsel to conduct an in-vestigation but has declined to disclose any details about how it will be conducted or whether the results will be made public.

The union’s email, sent to members Friday night, said its investigation will be conducted by criminal defense attorney J. Bruce Maffeo, a former federal prosecutor now with the firm Cozen O’Connor.

It quoted Len Egert, the union’s national executive director, as saying the investigation would not be limited to conduct at a specific company or during a specific time. Egert said the in-vestigation will “examine the sys-temic failures within the industry that could have allowed this con-duct, if substantiated, to continue unchallenged for decades.”

Domingo’s spokeswoman has

called the allegations in the AP’s stories “riddled with inconsisten-cies” and “in many ways, simply incorrect,” but has offered no specifics.

In the AP’s initial Aug. 13 story, numerous women accused the long-married, Spanish-born su-perstar of sexual harassment or inappropriate, sexually charged behavior and of sometimes dam-aging their careers if they reject-ed him.

In a follow-up story published Thursday, singer Angela Turner Wilson told the AP that Domingo reached into her robe and force-fully grabbed her breast in a makeup room during a 1999 pro-duction at the Washington Opera, as the company was then called.

Washington National Opera issued a statement saying it was “disturbed and disheartened” by the new allegations but did not say whether it planned to investi-

gate them.Other women came forward to

share new stories about encoun-ters with Domingo that they saidincluded unwanted touching, per-sistent requests for private get-togethers and sudden attempts tokiss them on the lips.

Several backstage employeesdescribed for the AP how theystrove to shield young womenfrom the star as administrators looked the other way.

BY MARTHA WAGGONER

Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. — When of-ficials at a Catholic high school in South Carolina learned that a 16-year-old student made vid-eos of himself firing a gun and using racial slurs, they alerted police, but not parents. After the videos made it into the news over the summer, the backlash came quickly.

Outraged parents complained they were left in the dark about the teen’s threat to shoot people at Cardinal Newman School while their children were at risk. The principal took more than two weeks to send letters to parents about the videos and later apolo-gized for not sharing information sooner.

While schools are more vigi-lant than ever about threats or signs of potential violence, some have faced intense criticism for favoring privacy over informing the community. When trying to strike a balance, security experts say there’s one rule: Tell parents as much as you can as soon as you can.

“Every school district has to determine what kind of news

conference they want to have,” said Ronald Stephens, executive director of the National School Safety Center in California. “Do they want to have one where they say ‘Oh, yeah, we knew we had Charlie Manson Jr. walking the halls and we did nothing about it.’ Or do they want to have the other one where they say, ‘We informed the parents and students’ ” and diffused the situation.

Some school districts are now sending letters home even if a threat isn’t specific or to warn what consequences children face if they make a threat.

Parents got more concerned about what schools tell them about security threats after de-tails emerged about a shooter who killed nine people last month in an Ohio entertainment district.

The 24-year-old gunman had been suspended from his high school years before the shooting for compiling a “hit list” of fellow students, former classmates say. Police told at least some of his classmates that they were on the list, but it’s not clear what infor-mation the school shared widely at the time.

The suburban Dayton school

district has refused to release information about Connor Betts, who was shot and killed by police, citing legal protections for stu-dent records.

Schools can seem less trans-parent than police, who are le-gally allowed to reveal more information, and administrators can struggle to stay ahead of ru-mors as students quickly post on social media.

Schools can’t release children’s names, but those that don’t com-municate at all can face parent revolts when details come out later.

In Ohio’s Highland Local Schools, where some staffers can

carry concealed weapons, angry parents told the school board that they should have been told when a first grader picked up a loaded handgun left unattended by an employee in March. Instead, they learned about it in August in The Columbus Dispatch newspaper.

School board president Wayne Hinkle said officials could have communicated better with parents.

“I’m still working on what should have and could have and whatever,” he said. “Heaven for-bid this ever happens again. If it does, I do believe the school will be better equipped to handle it.”

Associated Press

COOPER CITY, Fla. — Au-thorities say nine students froma Florida charter school ate mari-juana-infused candy and were hospitalized with stomach pains.

News outlets reported students between the ages of 10 and 11 from Renaissance Charter Schoolat Cooper City were hospitalizedFriday .

A statement from schoolspokeswoman Colleen Reynoldssays a student “inadvertently”brought in THC-laced candy in apackage similar to that of a popu-lar sour candy and shared it with their friends.

Reynolds said EMS and lawenforcement were immediately contacted.

Broward County sheriff’s spokesman and Battalion ChiefMichael Kane said the students had abdominal pain after con-suming the edibles.

Kane said their injuries weren’tlife-threatening.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Donald Prichard said no criminal charges werefiled Friday but the investigationis ongoing.

LASZLO BALOGH/AP

An opera union has decided to launch its own investigation into sexual harassment allegations against opera star Placido Domingo, above .

FRED SQUILLANTE, THE COLUMBUS (OHIO) DISPATCH/AP

Elementary school parent Monica Davis expresses her displeasure during an Aug. 22 meeting at Highland High School in Marengo, Ohio, about how the school board handled an incident in which a child pointed a gun at another student and parents weren’t informed.

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BY JENNIFER HABERKORN

Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — Congress returns to Washington this week amid mounting pressure from Democrats and the public to enact new gun restrictions, but lawmakers from both parties say meaningful action hangs solely on President Donald Trump.

Since lawmakers were last in session Aug. 2, three mass shootings have killed 38 people and injured many more.

The White House is expected to release gun policy proposals that Trump supports, possibly this week. But few gun safety ad-vocates or Democrats are optimistic that the proposals will be as expansive as they want.

Returning lawmakers will also face a quick deadline to fund the government again or risk another shutdown.

And the White House needs to pick up the pace on negotiations with Congress over a revised NAFTA trade agreement if Trump’s top legislative priority, now called the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, is to become law this year.

All the while, some House Democrats will be clamoring to get impeachment pro-ceedings against Trump underway.

The White House gun proposal comes at the urging of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is trying to balance growing public support for in-creased background checks with a slate of Republican senators who are skeptical of angering the powerful gun lobby.

McConnell said no legislation will get a vote on the Senate floor without approval from Trump, whose popularity in Repub-lican-leaning states would give political cover to Republican senators to vote in

favor.Even the most ardent gun control sup-

porters acknowledge only Trump can move the needle in Congress.

“The administration recognizes this is a moment where people are looking for leadership and looking for action,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who said he has raised the issue with Ivanka Trump, who is the president’s daughter and a White House adviser. Coons is advocating for legislation that would require federal of-ficials to notify states when someone fails a background check when trying to buy a firearm, a potential warning sign of a mass shooting.

“If after all this and what he has said, if President Trump fails to take a clear po-sition and lead, I think there will be very widespread disappointment and anger,” he said.

Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., a member of the GOP leadership, said Trump needs to “set some guidelines” for what he would support. “The president needs to step up here,” Blunt said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

But he warned against doing nothing at all. “We take this silly, ‘If we don’t get ev-erything, we don’t do anything’ (approach) and fail to do the things we could do,” he said.

Trump has spoken with several lawmak-ers sponsoring gun policy bills, including a 30-minute meeting with Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III, of West Virginia, on Thursday evening at the White House.

A few Republicans and Democrats, in-cluding Coons and Manchin, have held conversations over the August recess on a potential compromise. So far, those nego-tiations have not yielded any agreement.

Trump has been unclear on where he stands. After back-to-back mass shootings last month in Texas and Ohio, the president said he was open to enhanced background checks, but then later seemed to backtrack and echo the position of the powerful Na-tional Rifle Association.

One possible outcome is that the White House releases a proposal that Democrats view as inadequate, a move that could force Democrats to choose between supporting weak reform or rejecting it for the status quo.

While the gun debate could linger, Con-gress faces a more pressing deadline to approve spending bills to avoid another government shutdown on Oct. 1.

Neither party wants another shutdown. House Democrats are eyeing a stopgap

measure to fund the government throughNov. 22, just before lawmakers leave townfor Thanksgiving.

House Democrats have enacted 10 of the12 required spending bills, but the Senate has done none.

While Senate Republicans plan to workon those bills this week, there’s little timeto sort out the differences between theHouse and Senate bills. Senate Republi-cans are likely to rebuff the House stopgapplan, but it is unclear whether they would block its passage.

The House is scheduled to be in Wash-ington for only 10 more weeks this year,meaning that any legislation Democratshope to pass — such as prescription drug policy or a new trade agreement — must be acted upon soon.

BY MARY CLARE JALONICK

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee will vote Thursday to establish rules for hearings on impeachment, esca-lating the panel’s investigations of President Donald Trump.

The resolution is a technical step toward Trump’s impeach-ment, but the panel would still have to introduce impeachment

articles against Trump and win approval from the House. It’s un-clear if that will ever happen, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has urged caution on the issue, saying the public still isn’t yet supportive of taking those steps.

Still, House Judiciary Commit-tee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, of New York, has said the committee will move forward with impeach-ment hearings this fall, bolstered

by lawmakers on the panel who roundly support moving forward with the process.

The vote on Thursday will set rules for those hearings, empow-ering staff to question witnesses, allowing some evidence to re-main private and permitting the president’s counsel to respond to some of the testimony.

The committee says the resolu-tion is similar to procedural votes taken at the beginning of the im-

peachment investigations into Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.

“The adoption of these ad-ditional procedures is the next step in that process and will help ensure our impeachment hear-ings are informative to Congress and the public, while providing the president with the ability to respond to evidence presented against him,” Nadler said in a statement announcing the vote.

“We will not allow Trump’s con-tinued obstruction to stop us from delivering the truth to the Ameri-can people.”

The committee has also filed two lawsuits against the admin-istration after the White Househas repeatedly blocked the panelfrom obtaining documents and testimony. Pelosi has said she wants to see what happens incourt before making any deci-sions on impeachment.

BY MIKE DEBONIS AND EMILY GUSKIN

The Washington Post

Americans across party and demographic lines overwhelm-ingly support expanded back-ground checks for gun buyers and allowing law enforcement to temporarily seize weapons from troubled individuals, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, as President Donald Trump and Republicans face fresh pres-sure to act.

Although the poll finds a con-

tinued partisan divide on more far-reaching gun control propos-als, public opinion is firmly be-hind Democrats’ push for action as Congress returned to Wash-ington on Monday.

More Americans say they trust congressional Democrats over Trump to handle the nation’s gun laws, 51 % to 36 %, with indepen-dents siding with Democrats by a 17-point margin — a divide that could have political ramifications for the 2020 presidential and con-gressional elections.

Democrats and allied activists have been trying to kick-start a national push for new federal gun restrictions for weeks, since the mass shootings last month in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Urgency dissipated as a six-week congressional recess wore on, but the deadly rampage in West Texas on Aug. 31 has reignited the issue.

The Post-ABC poll finds 86 percent of Americans support implementing “red flag” provi-sions, which allow guns to be taken from people judged to be a

danger to themselves or others. And 89 percent support expand-ing federal background checks to cover private sales and gun show transactions.

Both measures are supported by at least 8 in 10 Republicans, white evangelical Christians, members of gun-owning house-holds and other traditionally con-servative groups.

More far-reaching restrictions also have majority support, the survey finds, albeit by more mod-est margins.

Six in 10 support a federal banon gun magazines holding morethan 10 rounds of ammunition.

A 56 percent majority sup-ports a new federal ban on salesof military-style assault weapons,and nearly all who support sucha ban also back a mandatory fed-eral buyback program for thoseweapons — a notion that has beendecried as government “confis-cation” by gun rights support-ers and has been at the fringesof the national gun debate untilrecently.

J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP

Congress returns to Washington this week for its fall session with pressure mounting to address gun violence and with a looming deadline to fund the government or risk another shutdown.

Congress facing fights over guns laws, budget

House Judiciary panel to set rules for impeachment probe

Poll shows majority favors ‘red flag’ laws, expanded background checks

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Man streams chase before being fatally shotAssociated Press

RICHFIELD, Minn. — Police near Minneapolis shot and killed a driver following a chase after he apparently emerged from his car holding a knife and refused their commands to drop it.

The chase started late Satur-day night in Edina and ended in Richfield with officers shooting the man, Brian J. Quinones, who had streamed himself live on Facebook during the chase.

Police responded after Qui-nones ran a red light and wouldn’t pull over, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. According to emergency dispatch audio, Qui-nones continued running through red lights in Richfield.

After police forced the car to stop, Quinones got out holding what appears in the video to be a large knife in his left hand. In the dispatch audio, officers can be heard yelling, “Drop the knife. Drop the knife.” Shots can then be heard before they say, “Shots fired. Shots fired.”

Quinones seemed calm and expressionless during the chase, sometimes glancing in the rear-view mirror. Just before the livestream, he posted on Face-book, “So sorry.”

No officers were hurt. The

Hennepin County Sheriff’s Of-fice is investigating and declined comment Sunday.

“The Edina and Richfield Po-

lice Departments express our thoughts and prayers to all those involved in this tragic incident,” the departments said in a joint

news release.A crowd gathered at the scene

after the shooting, which hap-pened behind an apartment com-

plex. Some in the crowd shoutedat the police as dozens of officerslined up behind police tape to keep order.

On Sunday evening, local media outlets reported that a smallgroup of demonstrators briefly shut down part of Interstate 494to protest the shooting.

The Minneapolis-St. Paul area has had several police-involvedshootings in recent years that have sparked angry protests, in-cluding the 2016 killing of a blackdriver, Philando Castile, by a po-lice officer in the Twin Cities sub-urb of Falcon Heights. Castile’sgirlfriend streamed the immedi-ate aftermath of the shooting liveon Facebook.

In July, top Minnesota law en-forcement officials announced they were launching a working group and public hearings to find ways to prevent and respond to fatal encounters with police.

Minnesota Attorney GeneralKeith Ellison, a Democrat, and Public Safety CommissionerJohn Harrington are leading the16-member group. Protesters disrupted the group’s first meet-ing in August, saying the groupwas skewed toward lawmakers and law enforcement and needed more representation by familiesaffected by police shootings.

ANTHONY SOUFFLE, STAR TRIBUNE (MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.)/AP

Police stand in front of a body at the scene of an officer-involved shooting on East 77th Street in Richfield, Minn., on Saturday .

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BY JENNIFER PELTZ

Associated Press

NEW YORK — When the names of near-ly 3,000 Sept. 11 victims are read aloud Wednesday at the World Trade Center, a half-dozen stacks of stone will quietly sa-lute an untold number of people who aren’t on the list.

The granite slabs were installed on the memorial plaza this past spring. They rec-ognize an initially unseen toll of the 2001 terrorist attacks: firefighters, police and others who died or fell ill after exposure to toxins unleashed in the wreckage.

The unusual addition reflects a memori-al that is evolving as the aftermath of 9/11 does. For families like Joanna Reisman’s, the new 9/11 Memorial Glade gives their loved ones a place in the landscape of re-membrance at ground zero.

A firefighter’s widow, she emphasizes that the losses thousands of families suf-fered on Sept. 11 were horrific.

“We just have to recognize that there were others too,” said Reisman, whose husband, Lt. Steven Reisman, searched through the World Trade Center debris for remains and then died in 2014 of brain cancer. He was 54.

Subtle and sculptural, the memorial glade features six stone pieces inlaid with salvaged trade center steel. They jut from the ground along a tree-lined pathway.

Unlike the plaza’s massive waterfall pools memorializing people killed on 9/11 — those whose names are read at anni-versary ceremonies — the boulders are not inscribed with the names of those they honor. There is no finite list of them, at least not yet.

Instead, nearby signs dedicate the glade “to those whose actions in our time of need led to their injury, sickness, and death,” including first responders, recovery work-ers, survivors and community members at the attack sites at the trade center, at the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pa.

The collapse of the trade center’s twin towers produced thick dust clouds, and fires burned for months in the rubble.

Many rescue and recovery workers later developed respiratory and digestive sys-tem ailments potentially linked to inhaled and swallowed dust. Some were diagnosed with other illnesses, including cancer.

Research continues into whether those illnesses are tied to 9/11 toxins. A 2018 study did not find higher-than-normal death rates overall among people exposed to the dust and smoke, but researchers have noted more deaths than expected from brain cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lym-phoma and certain other diseases and an unusual number of suicides among rescue and recovery workers.

Studies also have suggested that highly exposed workers may face more problems, including somewhat higher death rates and a modestly higher risk of heart trouble, than less-exposed colleagues.

More than 51,000 people have applied to

a victims compensation fund that makes payments to people with illnesses poten-tially related to 9/11; it has awarded more than $5.5 billion so far. After impassioned advocacy, lawmakers this summer ensured it won’t run out of money.

None of that was foreseen when the me-morial design was chosen in January 2004. But the selection jury “knew that we’d be picking something that allowed for an evo-lution of the site,” said member James E. Young, a retired University of Massachu-setts Amherst professor.

As attention grew to the deaths of ailing 9/11 rescue, recovery and cleanup work-ers, some memorials elsewhere began adding their names. A remembrance wall focused on them was dedicated in 2011 in Nesconset, on Long Island, N.Y.

But the trade center memorial has a “re-sponsibility — especially where it’s locat-ed, on sacred ground — to continue to tell the story,” said John Feal, who lost part of a foot while working as a demolition super-visor there and later founded a charity that maintains the Nesconset memorial.

Ground zero memorial leaders had mis-givings at first, memorial CEO Alice Gre-

enwald said. They noted that the health problems were documented in the below-ground Sept. 11 museum, though it gets far

fewer visitors than the memorial plaza. And the leaders felt protec-tive of the memory of people killed on 9/11.

Responders and health advocates “could see what we couldn’t see right away … that this was really some-thing that needed to be commemorated, as much as documented,” Greenwald said.

Plans for the $5 mil-lion glade, designed by memorial plaza archi-tects Michael Arad and Peter Walker, were ul-timately announced in 2017.

The traditional image of a memorial is an immutable tribute, literally written in stone — if also potentially susceptible to shifting views of its subject, as demon-strated by ongoing debate over Confeder-

ate statues around the American South.But sometimes, monuments adapt to takeon more meanings.

Some memorials built after one war getexpanded or rededicated to include veter-ans of other wars. A memorial to victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was destroyed on 9/11, and their names wereincluded in the current memorial.

After the Vietnam Veterans Memorialwas built in Washington, additions near-by recognized nurses and other women who served, and veterans who died years later from lasting effects of the defoliant Agent Orange, post-traumatic stress disor-der or other injuries that initially weren’t recognized.

Such memorials speak to a change overtime in how, and whom, monuments com-memorate, said Kirk Savage, a University of Pittsburgh art and architecture history professor and memorials expert.

Rather than a 19th-century leader on apedestal, newer memorials often acknowl-edge everyday people’s involvement inhistoric events and shift focus “from rec-ognizing people that we emulate to peoplethat we grieve for,” he said.

PHOTOS BY SETH WENIG/AP

A rose rests next to a photograph of New York City Fire Department Lt. Steven Reisman in the 9/11 Memorial Glade near the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Reisman, who searched through the World Trade Center debris for remains, died in 2014 of brain cancer at age 54.

Left: Tina Tilearcio pauses at a stone that is part of the new 9/11 Memorial Glade after its dedication ceremony May 30 in New York. Her husband, Robert Tilearcio, died in 2017 of an illness related to his recovery work at ground zero. Right: People gather last spring around the new memorial, which is set in a glade of trees .

Evolving memorialAt 9/11 monument, new recognition for a longer-term toll

‘ We just have to recognize that there were others too. ’

Joanna Reisman

lost her husband, fire department

Lt. Steven Reisman, to brain

cancer in 2014

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BY CAROL MORELLO

The Washington Post

MARSH HARBOUR, Baha-mas — The U.S. humanitarian response in islands devastated by Hurricane Dorian has shifted into a new phase as desperate survivors flee the worst-hit areas of the Bahamas for towns and cit-ies that were largely spared.

Though some remain behind, many residents of the storm-bat-tered Abaco Islands have left for Nassau, Freeport and other areas where more assistance is avail-able. Shelters are overflowing, and local officials have reported a surge in looting.

Tens of thousands of people are believed to be homeless or in need of help.

Mark Green, the administra-tor of the U.S. Agency for Inter-national Development , took an aerial tour Sunday of the disaster zones, flying in a U.S. Navy Sea Stallion over flattened forests and communities reduced to rubble.

“Some places, it’s like noth-ing happened,” he said. “Other places, it’s like they were hit by a nuclear bomb.”

The death toll remained at 44 on Sunday, but the government has warned that the number will be significantly higher when the extent of the damage becomes clearer.

The United States has provided $2.8 million in aid for the Baha-mas, about a third for food and the rest for shelter, hygiene kits and other commodities and for coordinating relief efforts. So far, 47 metric tons of supplies donated by the United States have arrived in the Bahamas, about the equiv-alent in size of two shipping con-tainers. Officials said it is enough to help 44,000 people.

Much more will be needed. The immensity of the task was written on Green’s face as he stood at the open window of the helicopter, his pant legs flapping loudly in the wind several hundred feet above Abaco Islands, where Dorian had raced across at 180 mph.

Acre upon acre of uprooted trees were strewn around like matchsticks. Fields were flooded with stagnant water covered with green scum. Domes were blown off huge oil storage bins, expos-ing the slimy black liquid that remained. Rooftops were peeled away, and some houses were no more than piles of wood and other debris that no one has yet figured how to remove.

“We are here to help,” he told reporters at the end of his day-long trip, quickly adding, “The re-sponse will not affect the ongoing response for residents of the Unit-ed States affected by Dorian.”

In meetings with Prime Min-ister Hubert Minnis and with a charities expert in emergency relief, Green repeatedly offered

assurances that the United States — from the highest levels of the administration on down — is committed to helping the island

nation off the coast of Florida.USAID has brought in Tim Cal-

laghan to manage the U.S. relief effort in the Bahamas. Callaghan

has worked for USAID for twodecades and tackled some of themost difficult humanitarian chal-lenges, including finding survi-vors after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and stemming the outbreakof Ebola in Africa. Callaghan had been working in Bolivia on the effects of the fire consuming theAmazon.

Callaghan said he has rarelyseen damage as severe as in theBahamas, where Dorian made

landfall overa week ago asa Category 5 storm, thenstalled overthe Abaco Islands.

“It stoodthere doingthis,” he said, pounding his fist into hisopen hand three times.

About 80Americans involved inhumanitar-ian aid have been on theground since

Friday. Most of them operatefrom a rudimentary base at whatremains of a private airport onthe islands.

The most pressing task is beingdone by 57 search and rescue specialists from Fairfax County,Va., who along with a similar team from Los Angeles regularlywork for USAID following disas-ters around the world.

They have waded throughmarshes in 100-degree heat,slogging on foot through pockets of mud, debris and garbage leftwhen the high water receded.They start at sunrise and work until sundown.

Their progress is difficult tomeasure, in large part because their communications are severe-ly limited.

The challenges remain mam-moth. Formerly navigable chan-nels for boats to get through weremoved by the storm and have to be reopened. When flat-bottombarges get through with supplies, they are filled with survivors lin-ing up to evacuate.

Nassau’s airport is overflowingwith people seeking to get to the United States. Some nongovern-mental groups are making plans to keep working in the Bahamasfor a year or longer.

Green paid tribute to a smallgroup of USAID workers whoaccompanied him to a meetingwith international relief groupsthat have come to the Bahamas tohelp meet medical, food and basicsurvival needs.

He posed for a photograph withthem, dressed like them in theunofficial but ubiquitous uniformof tan chinos and light blue polo shirts emblazoned with the slo-gan, “USAID from the AmericanPeople.”

“You are the face of Americancompassion,” he told them, “andwe really, really appreciate it.”

BY CHABELI HERRERA

Orlando (Fl a.) Sentinel

COCOCAY, Bahamas — As tourists zipped down water slides, zoomed along zip lines and zigzagged between bustling shops, crowded pools and cabanas, it would be difficult to say that things at Royal Caribbean International’s private island, “Perfect Day at CocoCay,” were anything other than the name advertised Sunday, only a week since the passage of Hurricane Dorian.

Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” was even blasting from the speakers at one point.

The island, just 30 miles from where the eye wall of Dorian carved a path of destruction across the northern Bahamas, welcomed its first cruise ships back over the weekend — at least one of which, just last week, was offloading supplies in the ravaged city of Freeport and picking up evacuees heading to Nassau.

So is the case in the Bahamas now. In an ar-chipelago that counts the $4.3 billion tourism industry as king — it makes up more than 50% of its gross domestic product — vacations exist alongside relief efforts.

In Nassau, tourists perused the shops by the port while on the other side of the city, ships fer-ried in hundreds of evacuees from the Abacos, where Dorian hit, many of them hungry, newly homeless and carrying with them only the shirts on their backs. Even in CocoCay, where all seems in regular order, hundreds of people worked tire-lessly after the passage of the storm to clear the debris, bricks and sand that had washed in with Dorian so that by Saturday, travelers could do what they do best: spend money.

They were doing just that in a straw market run by Bahamians from the island next door, Great Harbour Cay, when Mariner of the Seas pulled into port Sunday. “I really thought we weren’t going to work for at least a month,” said Denise Sawyer, one of the vendors.

But CocoCay got lucky. It just missed the worst of the storm, getting tropical storm-force winds. Royal brought in 40 contractors from Nassau and hired about another 50 people from the neighbor-ing island to assist with the cleanup in addition to its 300 employees, many of whom are local Baha-mians. By Sunday, 70% of the cleanup was done.

Sawyer returned to work sooner than expect-ed, but the ensuing months are more uncertain. Will people skip the Bahamas altogether because

they think Dorian devastated the entire chain, when in reality it hit two out of the more than 700 islands in the archipelago? Geography suddenly becomes critically important.

“A lot of persons think all of the Bahamas is gone, the entire thing,” Sawyer said. “You know, something like this, even around the world, when people see devastation like this, they tend to hold back on what they plan on doing.”

It’s a perception issue that the Caribbean has faced time and again when pelted with hurri-canes. For a region of the world that depends on people thinking it’s safe enough to travel there, getting that message out is in a way a part of the relief effort.

Ellison Thompson, deputy director general of the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and Aviation, said the ministry is working around the clock to tell the world that top destinations like Nassau, the Exumas, Eleuthera and Bimini are doing fine.

“In order for the reconstruction to happen, we would need our visitors to keep coming so taxes can be used to aid in the reconstruction of those two islands (Abaco and Grand Bahama, where Dorian hit),” Thompson told the Orlando Sen-tinel. Preliminary estimates put the cost of the damage at $7 billion, according to Bloomberg.

Desperate Dorian survivors flee worst-hit areas

Relief efforts depend on tourism dollars

USA photos

Hurricane Dorian food relief boxes are loaded onto trucks after arriving on the Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas ship in Freeport, Bahamas, on Saturday .

USAID official surveys damage in Bahamian disaster zones

Yvette Prince, a souvenir vendor in Nassau, takes a positive outlook on the impact Hurricane Dorian could have on the Bahamas . Nassau sustained only minor damage.

‘ Some places, it’s like nothing happened. Other places, it’s like they were hit by a nuclear bomb. ’

Mark GreenUSAID

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WORLD

Watchdog confirms Iran installing new centrifuges

Japanese case highlights paternity leave issues

India locates lander lost on moon approach

Parliament to be suspended amid stall in UK Brexit plans

BY JILL LAWLESS AND GREGORY KATZ

Associated Press

LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted Monday a new Brexit deal can be reached to ensure Britain leaves the Europe-an Union by the Oct. 31 deadline as he acknowledged that with-drawing without one would be a “failure” for which he’d be par-tially to blame.

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar warned Johnson that “there’s no such thing as a clean break,” and if Britain crashed out, it would “cause severe dis-ruption for British and Irish peo-ple alike.”

The two leaders met in Dub-lin as a showdown between the British government and lawmak-ers was reaching a climax in London.

An opposition-backed measure designed to rule out a no-deal Brexit on Oct. 31 became law after receiving the formal assent of Queen Elizabeth II, hours be-fore legislators were set to reject Johnson’s demand for a snap elec-tion to break the political dead-lock engulfing the government.

Later Monday, the government

is due to suspend Parliament for five weeks to try to curb rebel-lious lawmakers who have played havoc with Johnson’s Brexit plans.

Johnson, who insists Britain must leave the 28-nation EU in just over 50 days, come what may, said in Dublin that leaving without an agreement on divorce terms “would be a failure of state-craft for which we would all be responsible.”

After their first meeting since Johnson became prime minister in July, the U.K. and Irish lead-ers said they’d had “a positive and constructive meeting,” but there was no breakthrough on the issue of the Irish border, the main stumbling block to a Brexit deal.

The EU says Britain has not produced any concrete propos-als for replacing the contentious “backstop,” a provision in the withdrawal agreement reached by Johnson’s predecessor, The-resa May, that is designed to en-sure an open border between EU member Ireland and the U.K.’s Northern Ireland.

An open border is crucial to the regional economy and under-pins the peace process that ended decades of sectarian violence in

Northern Ireland.Opposition to the backstop was

a key reason Britain’s Parlia-ment rejected May’s Brexit deal with the EU three times earlier this year. British Brexit-backers oppose the backstop because it locks Britain into EU trade rules to avoid customs checks, some-thing they say will stop the U.K. from striking new trade deals with countries such as the United States.

Varadkar said he was open to any alternatives that were “legal-ly workable,” but none has been received so far.

Johnson is adamant he won’t ask for an extension to the dead-line, saying he’d “rather be dead in a ditch” than delay Brexit.

But he has few easy ways out of it. Johnson’s options — all of them extreme — include disobeying the law, which could land him in court or even prison, and resign-ing so that someone else would have to ask for a delay.

Johnson’s spokesman, James Slack, confirmed that Parliament will be prorogued, or suspended, at the close of the day’s business until Oct. 14. The government had earlier said it would happen sometime this week.

The suspension limits Parlia-ment’s ability to block Johnson’s plans for Brexit. It is being chal-lenged in court by opponents who say the suspension is anti-demo-cratic and illegal.

Also Monday, House of Com-mons Speaker John Bercow said he will step down by the end of next month after a decade in the job.

The colorful speaker, famousfor his bellowing cries of “Order!”during raucous debates, told law-makers he will quit the same day Britain is due to leave the EU un-less an election is called before then. In that case, he will stepdown ahead of the campaign.

He said he will quit both asspeaker and as a member ofParliament.

BY DAVID RISING

Associated Press

BERLIN — The United Na-tions’ atomic watchdog confirmed Monday that Iran is preparing to use more advanced centrifuges, another breach of limits set in the country’s unraveling nuclear deal with major powers.

Iran had already announced the step, its latest violation of the 2015 agreement as it tries to pres-sure European signatories to find a way to maintain oil shipments and ease the toll of U.S. sanctions on the Iranian economy.

The International Atomic Ener-gy Agency reported its inspectors verified the installation of new centrifuges. The agency said all had been “prepared for testing” but none yet tested at the time of the weekend inspection.

The nuclear deal was meant to keep Tehran from building atom-ic weapons — something Iran de-nies it wants to do — in exchange for economic incentives. Its col-lapse started with the United States unilaterally withdrawing from the deal last year and im-posing increased sanctions.

The other signatories — Brit-ain, France, Germany, China and Russia, as well as the European Union — have been struggling to salvage the agreement and find a way to meet Tehran’s demands.

To put pressure on them, Iran

has already pushed past limits inthe deal, called the Joint Compre-hensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, on nuclear enrichment purity andstockpiles of enriched uranium.

A centrifuge is a device thatenriches uranium by rapidly spinning uranium hexafluoride gas. The IAEA said the ones itsinspectors saw included 30 ad-vanced IR-6 and three IR-6s models, as well as multiple IR-4and IR-5 models.

Under the atomic accord,Iran has been limited to oper-ating 5,060 older-model IR-1centrifuges.

Asked what the new centri-fuges could mean to enhancingIran’s ability to enrich uranium, IAEA acting Director GeneralCornel Feruta said “output is not a simple matter” but also it was“not for the agency to judge what these actions will bring.”

Feruta, who returned from Tehran on Sunday night, told theagency’s board in Vienna on Mon-day that inspectors on the ground continue “to verify and monitorIran’s nuclear-related commit-ments under the JCPOA.”

French President Emmanu-el Macron has been talking toWashington and Tehran about aproposal to create a $15 billionline of credit for Iran to entice it to remain in the nuclear deal.

Associated Press

NEW DELHI — The lander module from India’s moon mission was located on the lunar surface Sun-day, one day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts are underway to try to establish contact with it, the head of the nation’s space agency said.

The Press Trust of India news agency cited Indian Space and Research Organization chairman K. Sivan as saying cameras from the moon mission’s orbiter had located the lander.

“It must have been a hard landing,” PTI quoted Sivan as saying.

ISRO officials could not be reached for comment.The space agency said it lost touch with the Vikram

lunar lander Saturday as it made its final approach to the moon’s south pole to deploy a rover to search for signs of water.

A successful landing would have made India just the fourth country to land a vessel on the lunar sur-

face, and only the third to operate a robotic rover there.

Only three nations — the United States, the former Soviet Union and China — have landed a spacecraft on the moon.

Associated Press

TOKYO — He sits in an office of a major Japanese sportswear maker but reports to no one. He is assigned odd tasks like trans-lating into English the manual on company rules like policies on vacations and daily hours, though he has minimal foreign language skills.

He was sidelined, he says, as retribution for taking paternity leaves after each of his two sons was born.

Now he’s the plaintiff in one of

the first lawsuits in Japan over “pata-hara,” or paternity harass-ment, as it is known here. The first hearing is scheduled for this week.

His case is unusual in a country that values loyalty to the company, long hours and foregone vacations, especially from male employees. He asked not to be named for fear of further retribution.

The man, whose sons are now 4 and 1, was initially assigned to a sales marketing section at Asics, where he rubbed shoulders with athletes, but was suddenly sent

to a warehouse after his first pa-ternity leave in 2015, according to his lawsuit. After he hurt his shoulder, he was assigned to the section he is in now, where he says he is forced to sit and do little.

He wants his original as-signment back and $41,000 in damages.

Japanese law guarantees both men and women up to one year leave from work after a child is born. Parents aren’t guaranteed pay from their companies, but are eligible for government aid while off.

NIALL CARSON, PA/AP

Ir ish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, left, welcomes Bri tish Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday in Dublin , where they met to search for a compromise on the Brexit crisis.

AIJAZ RAHI/AP

The moon is seen behind a tracking antenna at the Indian Space Research Organization’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility Friday . India’s space agency said it has located its Vikram lunar lander it lost touch with Saturday.

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BY EILEEN NG

Associated Press

HONG KONG — Thousands of students formed human chains outside schools across Hong Kong on Monday to show solidarity to push for democratic reforms after violent weekend clashes in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.

The silent protest comes as the Hong Kong government con-demned the “illegal behavior of radical protesters” and warned the U.S. to stay out of its affairs.

Hong Kong’s government agreed last week to withdraw an extradition bill that sparked a summer of protests, but demon-strators want other demands to be met, including direct elections of

city leaders and an independent inquiry into police actions.

Protesters in their Sunday march appealed to President Donald Trump to “stand with Hong Kong” and ensure Con-gress passes a bill that proposes economic sanctions and penal-ties on Hong Kong and Chinese officials who are found to be sup-pressing democracy and human rights in the city.

Hong Kong’s government ex-pressed regret over the U.S. bill, known as the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. It said in a statement Monday that “foreign legislatures should not interfere in any form in the inter-nal affairs” of Hong Kong.

High school and university students across Hong Kong held

hands for a second straight week Monday to form long human chains that snaked into the streets outside their schools before the bell rang. They were joined by many graduates wearing the pro-testers’ trademark black tops and masks.

At the St. Paul Co-educational College, a Catholic school, stu-dents in blue dresses also chanted “Five key demands, not one less,”

the slogan of protesters who have refused to yield until all their de-mands are met.

Apart from the extradition bill’s withdrawal, protesters also want direct elections for Hong Kong’s leader, an independent probe into alleged police brutality against demonstrators, unconditional re-lease of those detained and not characterizing the protests as riots.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

WORLD

Opposition in Moscow city election gains big support

Frying pan explodes in Germany; 1 dead, 14 hurt

Students form protest chains in Hong Kong

Hezbollah says it shot down Israeli drone over Lebanon

BY NATALIYA VASILYEVA

Associated Press

MOSCOW — The party of Rus-sian President Vladimir Putin suffered big losses in Moscow elections as candidates endorsed by his arch-rival won almost half the seats, authorities said Monday.

Elections to the Moscow City Duma are usually low-key affairs but Sunday’s vote grew in promi-nence when election authorities refused to register a dozen inde-pendent candidates, including well-known Kremlin critics.

Their dismissal triggered major opposition protests over the summer and, despite a tough police crackdown, the demon-strations were the largest in Rus-sia for years.

With all the votes counted, 20 candidates supported by opposi-tion leader Alexei Navalny got seats in the 45-member legis-lature. All of the 20 candidates, although often nominally oppos-ing authorities, were endorsed by Navalny’s Smart Voting strategy which called on voters to cast their ballots in order to oust the

candidates of Putin’s United Rus-sia party.

“This is a terrific result, and we fought for it together,” Navalny said in a tweet in the early hours on Monday.

In a sign that United Russia is losing ground in Moscow, the party did not officially nominate a single candidate for the Moscow City Duma, and all of its members or candidates affiliated with the party ran as independents, play-ing down their ties to the party.

United Russia nominees were seen winning governorships in several dozen regions in Sunday’s elections.

In the Far East, however, they suffered a crushing defeat. The Liberal Democratic Party won all but one seat in the Khabarovsk City Duma and dominated in sev-eral other local elections includ-ing the mayoral vote.

Voting in Russia’s second-largest city, St. Petersburg, was marred by violations and re-ported election fraud. Central Election Commission chief Ella Pamfilova told reporters Monday that she was aware of the reports and will look into them.

Alexander Beglov, who was endorsed by Putin, was seen win-ning the race for governor with 64% of the vote.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that the election results showed that the opposition’s idea of pro-test voting has largely failed.

The opposition celebrated Sun-day’s election results that would cut the pro-government presence in the Moscow city council from 38 to 25 but many expressed dis-appointment with what has been perceived as an unfair registra-tion process.

Daria Besedina, a candidate from the liberal Yabloko party who was allowed on the ballot and won in her district, said Monday that she would vote for the dis-solution of the legislature when it convenes.

“We shouldn’t forget that these were not real elections — a lot of genuine (opposition) candidates who would have won were not al-lowed to run,” she tweeted. “Mos-cow would have got an opposition Duma if all the candidates were registered.”

Associated Press

BERLIN — Police said onewoman died from severe burnssustained during a frying pan explosion that also injured 14 at a village festival in westernGermany.

Another five people were in life-threatening condition — four from burns and one who suffereda heart attack during the explo-sion at the festival in Freuden-berg, the German news agencydpa reported Monday.

Police told dpa it appearslikely that oil inside a big frying pan caused the blast at the local Backesfest on Sunday .

The explosion may have beentriggered by raindrops fallinginto the hot oil, but investiga-tors said it would still take themseveral days to fully understand what happened.

BY BASSEM MROUE

Associated Press

BEIRUT — The Lebanese militant Hezbol-lah group said it shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon early Monday, shortly after it crossed from Israel amid rising ten-sions along the border between the two coun-tries in recent weeks.

A Hezbollah statement said the drone was downed with “suitable weapons” over the vil-lage of Ramieh and that the militants now have

it. The statement did not elaborate further.The Israeli military said a “drone on a rou-

tine mission in northern Israel fell,” without elaborating on what it was doing nor how it was downed. It said the drone was “simple” and that there was no risk of a breach of infor-mation if it fell into enemy hands.

The military said the drone fell Sunday, not Monday, and the reason for the discrepancy was not clear.

Last month, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nas-

rallah said his group would confront and shoot down any Israeli drones that enter Lebanese airspace, raising the potential for conflict amid heightened tensions.

Nasrallah spoke after authorities said one alleged Israeli drone crashed in a Hezbol-lah stronghold in southern Beirut, landing on the roof of a building that houses Hezbol-lah’s media office, and another exploded and crashed in a plot behind the building, causing material damage.

ANDREW LUBIMOV/AP

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny casts his ballot during a city council election in Moscow on Sunday .

KIN CHEUNG/AP

Students wearing masks hold hands to surround St. Stephen’s Girls’ College in Hong Kong in a protest Monday.

RENE TRAUT, DPA/AP

A damaged booth is shown after an explosion Sunday in Freudenberg, Germany .

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BY GREGORY KATZ

Associated Press

LONDON — British Airways says it has had to cancel almost all flights as a result of pilots’ 48-hour strike over pay.

In a statement Monday, the airline said it had “no way of pre-dicting how many [pilots] would come to work or which aircraft they are qualified to fly.”

As a result, it said it had “no op-tion but to cancel nearly 100%” of its flights.

BA said it stands ready to re-turn to talks with pilots’ union

Balpa and that it is offering af-fected customers full refunds or the option to rebook.

BA said in a statement: “We understand the frustration and disruption Balpa’s strike action has caused our customers. After many months of trying to resolve the pay dispute, we are extremely sorry that it has come to this.”

BA said it has offered pilots a pay rise of 11.5% over three years, but the union said its mem-bers want a bigger share of the company’s profits.

The union accuses BA of mak-ing massive profits at the expense

of workers who made sacrifices during hard times. A further strike is penciled in for Sept. 27.

Union leader Brian Strutton said pilots are determined to be heard. “They’ve previously taken big pay cuts to help the company through hard times,” he said. “Now, BA is making billions of pounds of profit; its pilots have made a fair, reasonable and affordable claim for pay and benefits.”

BA operates up to 850 flights a day. The company said it under-stands the frustration of passen-gers affected by the strike.

London’s Heathrow Airport will be the most affected by the work stoppage as it is BA’s major hub and used for many of the company’s long-haul internation-al flights.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Military ratesEuro costs (Sept. 10) ........................$1.1342Dollar buys (Sept. 10) .......................€0.8817British pound (Sept. 10) ...................... $1.27Japanese yen (Sept. 10) ....................104.00South Korean won (Sept. 10) ........1,164.00

Commercial ratesBahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770British pound .....................................$1.2366Canada (Dollar) ................................... 1.3163China (Yuan) ........................................ 7.1225Denmark (Krone) .................................6.7474Egypt (Pound) ....................................16.4929Euro ........................................ $1.1056/0.9045Hong Kong (Dollar) .............................7.8385Hungary (Forint) .................................298.64Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.5266Japan (Yen) ........................................... 107.00Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3039Norway (Krone) ...................................8.9280Philippines (Peso)................................. 51.83Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.92Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7497Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3792South Korea (Won) ..........................1,193.00Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9903Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 30.61Turkey (Lira) ......................................... 5.7470(Military exchange rates are those available to customers at military banking facilities in the country of issuance for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., purchasing British pounds in Germany), check with your local military banking facility. Commercial rates are interbank rates provided for reference when buying currency. All figures are foreign currencies to one dollar, except for the British pound, which is represented in dollars-to-pound, and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)

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BY LORI ARATANI

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The head of the agency that manages Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Air-port and oversees the multibil-lion-dollar Silver Line rail project received more than $246,500 in salary increases and bonuses last year, further solidifying his rank-ing as one of the highest-paid air-port executives in the country.

Jack Potter, a former postmas-ter general who took the job as head of the Metropolitan Wash-ington Airports Authority in 2011, has a base salary of $488,595. However, with bonuses, his total pay is just over $720,000.

In November, the MWAA board voted to give Potter a 3% raise and a 30 percent bonus — more than $142,300 — for his work in 2018.

Under the terms of his contract, he also received a $90,000 reten-tion bonus, which he remains eli-gible for as long as he remains in the job.

In comparison, the Washington region’s other top transportation official, Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld, makes $456,000 a year.

The terms of Potter’s 2018 pay package were outlined in a docu-ment posted on the board of direc-tor’s section of the MWAA website under “Reference Materials.”

MWAA officials had previously declined to release information beyond Potter’s base salary to The Washington Post, citing pri-vacy concerns.

However, after a story about the authority’s refusal appeared in the newspaper last year, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., demanded that the MWAA make

the information public.“There is no case to be made

for withholding from the Ameri-can public basic information on how MWAA compensated its ex-ecutives,” Norton wrote in a letter to the authority last June.

As head of MWAA, Potter over-sees a workforce of about 1,700 employees and a budget of nearly $2 billion.

Potter’s salary is not paid for by taxpayers. Dulles and National, like most U.S. airports, are self-supporting — funded through landing fees, rent and conces-sions, including parking and food and beverage sales.

However, the airports author-ity does receive federal funding as part of its management of con-struction of the $5.8 billion Silver Line rail extension. The project received a $900 million federal grant to fund its first phase and

nearly $2 billion in federal loans to pay for the second, which is scheduled to open for passenger service next year.

The project has been plagued with construction problems, and on Friday, Metro Inspector Gen-eral Geoffrey Cherrington issued management alerts detailing more issues.

He said the problems could create significant cost and opera-tional issues and is urging Metro not to accept control of the line until the issues are resolved.

The project, one of the largest rail lines under construction in the United States, is more than a year behind schedule. While the MWAA is managing construc-tion of the rail line, Metro will manage and operate it once that is completed.

Head of DC agency among highest-paid airport CEOs in US

British Airways pilots strike, forcing flight cancellations

FRANK AUGSTEIN/AP

British Airways says it stands ready to return to talks with striking pilots and is offering affected customers full refunds.

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Cicero police posted a photo of the suspect on its Facebook page

State considers bus driver fitness standards

ME AUGUSTA — The state of Maine is con-

sidering new physical fitness requirements for school bus drivers.

Officials are considering the new standards along with other new safety requirements, includ-ing seat belts on all large school buses and clearer standards for annual driver physicals.

The push for new standards is inspired by a December 2017 crash in Oakland, Iowa, that killed a driver, 74, and a student, 16.

An investigation found a lack of physical fitness testing contrib-uted to the crash.

The Portland Press Herald re-ported that Maine is among 44 states that don’t require physical performance tests for drivers.

Obnoxious parents drive away game officials

RI CRANSTON — The or-ganization that oversees

high school sports in Rhode Is-land is asking overzealous par-ents to settle down, because they are driving away qualified game officials.

Tom Mezzanotte, executive di-

rector of the Rhode Island Inter-scholastic League, told WJAR-TV that the primary reason the state has a shortage of referees and umpires is because officials don’t want to put up with obnoxious parents.

In a letter to parents of high school athletes, Mezzanotte wrote, “Yelling, screaming and berating the officials humiliates your child, annoys those sitting around you” and “embarrasses your child’s school.”

Man demands return of pot seized by police

OH SHARONVILLE — A man confused about

Ohio drug laws called a police department demanding that of-ficers return the small amount of marijuana they “stole” from him.

WXIX-TV reported the man told a Sharonville police dis-patcher in an expletive-laced call Sept. 3 that it’s legal to possess 3.5 ounces of marijuana, and the amount officers seized was just

0.14 ounces. While some Ohio cities have

decriminalized pot possession, it remains illegal in the state.

Woman shot during nearby home invasion

FL ORLANDO — Sheriff’s officials said a sleeping

woman was caught in the cross-fire of a shooting in a neighboring apartment that killed one person.

Orange County Sheriff’s Lt. Tony Boles said the woman was taken to the hospital early Fri-day for treatment of wounds that were not thought to be life-threatening.

Boles said the shooting start-ed after someone broke into an apartment in the complex near Orlando shortly after 2 a.m. Mul-tiple shots rang out, and one bul-let struck the woman as she slept in the nearby apartment.

Boles said a possible sus-pect was killed in the shooting . The suspect’s name hasn’t been released.

Bronze bull statuedamaged by vandal

NY NEW YORK — Po-lice said a Texas man

bashed New York’s Charging Bullstatue with a metal object and damaged one of its horns.

Tevon Varlack, of Dallas, wasarrested Saturday on chargesof criminal mischief, disorderlyconduct and criminal possessionof a weapon for allegedly attack-ing the bronze beast.

Police sa id Varlack, 42, hit the bull with a metal object that looked like a banjo, leaving the statue with a hole in its right horn.

Creative car stickerearns an A, and a fine

WA SEATTLE — A Wash-ington motorist who

police say used a black marker totry to make the vehicle tab stickeron the license plate appear cur-rent received an A for effort along with a $228 ticket .

The Seattle Times reportedthat Washington State Patrolspokeswoman Heather Axtmantweeted a photo of the doctoredtabs Thursday, noting the “color-ing skills are kind of on point.”

She told the newspaper that it was one of the more creative onesshe’s seen.

AMERICAN ROUNDUP

The number of lobster rolls a Connecticut man scarfed down to win a competitive eating contest at the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival in New Hampshire. The Portsmouth Herald reported that Manny Camba, of Middletown, Conn., was one of eight contestants who had 10 minutes to eat as many of the rolls

as possible Saturday. Camba took home $600 for his efforts.

Man driving dump truck drops gravel on highway

OR PORTLAND — A man police say used a dump

truck to drop loads of gravel on Interstate 5 in Portland and at-tempted to elude police in the ve-hicle has been taken into custody.

KOIN-TV reported that Craig Ferrero, 50, was arrested Friday on suspicion of criminal mischief, reckless driving, reckless en-dangering and unlawful use of a vehicle.

Dozens of police officers pur-sued the dump truck that left the freeway. It finally stopped on Southwest Barbur Boulevard after spike strips shredded its tires.

Man throws urine on prosecutor in court

FL FORT LAUDERDALE — Police said a man

awaiting sentencing on an at-tempted murder charge tossed urine on the prosecutor inside a Florida courtroom.

The attack happened Wednes-day in Broward Circuit Judge Susan Alspector’s courtroom. Albert Narvaez, 28, is now also charged with battery for his at-tack on Broward Assistant State Attorney Andrew Newman.

An arrest report says urine went inside Newman’s mouth and all over his clothing.

The Miami Herald reported that Narvaez charged at New-man, flung the urine at him and yelled, “He told me to do it!”

He didn’t say whom he was re-ferring to. The sentencing hear-ing was postponed.

Police: Man carjacked SUV, caused crashes

MA BOSTON — Police said a 72-year-old

man forced several people out of a sport utility vehicle and drove off before crashing into several vehicles in Boston.

Massachusetts State Police said multiple 911 callers reported the carjacking on an overpass shortly before 5 p.m. Friday.

Officials said the Hyannis man drove the wrong way and struck numerous other vehicles before the SUV crashed and rolled over.

No serious injuries were reported.

Officials said responding troop-ers restrained the man, who was taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation. His name has not been released.

Man struck in head with ball in bowling brawl

IL CICERO — Officials said a man was critically in-

jured when he was struck in the head with a thrown bowling ball.

WBBM-TV reported that Damante Williams, 28, is in critical condition at Loyola Uni-versity Medical Center, where he remained in a medically induced coma Friday.

Cicero town spokesman Ray Hanania said the injury occurred during a fight Wednesday eve-ning at Town Hall Bowl in the Chicago suburb.

THE CENSUS

Sheep shaving

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From wire reports

Sam Raney, 17, of Garden City, Texas, grooms her fine wool sheep, named Buck, on Saturday as she prepared to show it Sunday at the Permian Basin Fair & Expo in Odessa, Texas.

MARK ROGERS, ODESSA (TEXAS) AMERICAN/AP

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FACES

BY SONAIYA KELLEY

Los Angeles Times

Finn Wolfhard has been hav-ing a great couple of years.

Since the 16-year-old Canadian actor broke out

in Netflix’s sleeper hit “Stranger Things,” he’s been heavily in demand for popular spooky franchises, includ-ing Warner Bros.’ 2017 megahit “It” (which surpassed “The Exorcist” to become the highest-grossing horror film domestically) and next month’s animated “Addams Family” movie.

Next year he’ll star in “Ghost-busters 2020” and the horror remake “The Turning” based on the Henry James’ novella “The Turning of the Screw.” But the teenager insists his genre-heavy résumé is purely circumstantial.

“I never liked horror up until I was like 10 years old,” he said. “A lot of it is coincidence that I’ve done (so much) horror. But I love horror because what makes a great horror movie is that it’s not just scary, it’s (a little of) every-thing. In a real-life horrifying situa-tion there’s always (some) comedy or something sad. I think that’s in all the horror stuff I’ve done because I try to make it the realest (portrayal).”

This month, Wolfhard reprises his role as Richie Tozier in “It Chapter Two,” which picks up on the second half of the Stephen King horror tome, and he has a supporting role in the non-horror drama “The Goldfinch,” which opens this week and is adapted from Donna Tartt’s 2013 novel.

The Times caught up with Wolf-hard to talk about returning to Derry, playing a Russian expat in “The Gold-finch” and what the future holds for the aspiring director.

Los Angeles Times: I read that you got your first acting job from Craigslist. Had you always wanted to be an actor, or did it just kind of fall in your lap?

Wolfhard: Well, I kind of did the math in my head when I was like, 9. I was like, “Well, if I want to make films” — because I want to be a director — “I could just go on a film set and learn there.” And then I ended up falling in love with acting and the set and making friends all the time. And so I’ve just been doing that ever since.

When would you like to branch into directing?

Hopefully in the next few years. I’m trying to direct some shorts and I have some stuff written, so hopefully soon.

What kind of movies do you want to make?

Indies and lots of human stories. But comedies, totally. I’d love to make a hor-ror movie; that’s definitely where I want to be one day.

What attracted you to “The Goldfinch” script?

It’s like a classic ’70s kind of film, just the subject matter of it, and it’s a real human story, which you don’t get a lot of anymore. I mean you do, but a lot of them are watered down. This one is a really, really serious and true telling of what it’s like to grow up with loss. I just loved how unapologetic it was and how the charac-ters were just so honest.

How did you prepare to do a Russian accent for the role?

We had a dialect coach named Christi-na who is originally from Russia that lives in New York now. And she just basically held my hand and took me through every-thing. It was really hard. But once I got it, it was like there was no character without the accent. So it made me kind of a better actor or at least a more prepared actor.

What were the differences in shooting the first “It” and “Chapter Two”?

Well, “It” was just the kids, so it was like three months of hanging out every single day. “It 2” we weren’t in as much but still had (to shoot) flashback scenes so it was the same experience, just kind of on

a shorter scale. It was just as fun, just for less time.

Was it less creepy acting opposite Pennywise the second time?

Honestly, it’s less creepy for us now be-cause we know Bill (Skarsgard). It was pretty creepy because we didn’t know who he was when we first met him (on the set of “It”) because they wanted to keep him away from us so that we could have an organic reaction (to his character).

What did it feel like returning to the role of Richie? Was it difficult getting back into character?

No, because Richie is kind of part of me now. I was basically just playing myself for a summer, so it was easy to kind of step back into it.

What was your reaction to the suc-cess of the first movie?

I didn’t really care if it was a big hit or not because I had so much fun, but I was really pleasantly surprised.

With the popularity of “Stranger Things,” how long do you think the show will continue?

As long as (creators) the Duffer (broth-ers) keep liking to do it, in my opinion. We’ll go for as long as they want to go, which could be one, two or three (more seasons). It’s one of those things where it’s like the Harry Potter (movies) where you want to see these kids grow up.

What’s the most and least fun thing about acting in movies and TV series that are set in the ’80s?

Fun would be that you don’t have to do a scene on your phone or anything — a lot of it’s just like talking to someone, which is great. Not that there are movies now where you don’t talk to someone, but I mean it’s not as much (face to face). You’re more present. And I guess the least fun is being in short shorts, probably.

Would you ever want to join a block-buster franchise like Marvel’s Avengers or Star Wars?

Oh, man. Yeah, of course, who wouldn’t? I mean, I’m really interested in doing indies but totally, if the situation arose, that’d be cool.

Two New Jersey icons — Bruce Spring-steen and Jon Stewart — will once againheadline this year’s Stand Up for Heroesfundraiser, which benefits injured veter-ans and their families.

The comedy and musical event will alsofeature John Oliver, Hasan Minhaj andRonny Chieng. It will be held Nov. 4 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Stand Up for Heroes was first held in2007 and is produced by the New York Comedy Festival and the Bob Woodruff Foundation. Woodruff was nearly killed during a 2006 attack in Iraq while embed-ded with U.S. troops for ABC News.

“Even after 13 years of Stand Up for Heroes, the event continues to inspire our audience and our nation,” Woodruff saidin a statement. “We can’t forget that these brave individuals stand up to serve in our military, and we need to show our supportby standing up for them in return.”

Springsteen and Stewart have long given their time to the annual event overthe years . The Stand Up for Heroes eventkicks off New York Comedy Festival, which runs Nov. 4-10.

Dark ‘Joker’ wins top Venice Film Festival prize

Todd Phillips’ dark comic book film “Joker” won the Golden Lion Award at the76th Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 7 and cemented its place as a legiti-mate contender for the awards season.

“Joker” star Joaquin Phoenix did notwin the best actor prize — it went to Italianactor Luca Marinelli for the Jack Londonadaptation “Martin Eden.”

Roman Polanski’s Dreyfus affair film,“An Officer and a Spy,” won the grand juryprize, which recognizes other strong con-tenders. The inclusion of “An Officer and aSpy” among the 21 films competing for theGolden Lion was widely criticized. Polan-ski, who fled the U.S. after pleading guiltyto unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, hasbeen a fugitive for more than 40 years . Hewas not on hand to accept the award.

Roy Andersson won best director for“About Endlessness,” and Ariane Ascaridetook the best actress prize for the French domestic drama “Gloria Mundi.”

Notable films in the main competitionleaving empty-handed include the BradPitt space epic “Ad Astra,” Steven Soder-bergh’s Meryl Streep-led Panama Paperscomedy “The Laundromat”; and Noah Ba-umbach’s “Marriage Story,” with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver.

‘It Chapter Two’ jumpstarts fall movie season with $91M

A robust audience turned out to catch“It: Chapter Two” in movie theaters thisweekend, but not quite as big as the first.

Warner Bros. says Sunday that “It:Chapter Two,” the only major new release,earned an estimated $91 million from North American ticket sales.

Trailing only its predecessor, which de-buted to a record $123.4 million in Septem-ber 2017, the launch of “It Chapter Two”is the second highest opening for a horrorfilm ever and the month of September .

Based on Stephen King’s novel, “ItChapter Two” brings the Losers Club backto Derry, Maine, 27 years later to take on the demonic clown Pennywise, and starsJames McAvoy, Jessica Chastain and Bill Hader.

The rest of the top 10 was populated by holdovers: “Angel Has Fallen” took a dis-tant second with $6 million and “GoodBoys” placed third with $5.4 million.From The Associated Press

NJ’s Springsteen,Stewart headlineveteran fundraiser

Accidental horror starFinn Wolfhard a teen actor in demand after ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘It’

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BY MARK PHELAN

Detroit Free Press

BANFF, Alberta

Volvo will launch its Polestar per-formance line in a big way this fall with a couple of electrically augmented models, the 2020

XC60 Polestar SUV and V60 Polestar sta-tion wagon.

Both vehicles get a slightly more power-ful version of Volvo’s T8 E-AWD plug-in hybrid drivetrain, which consists of a su-percharged and turbocharged 2.0L engine and an electrically powered rear axle.

Volvo also announced new services, in-cluding lifetime free towing to the nearest Volvo dealer and a lifetime guarantee on replacement parts and service costs.

The two Polestars should reach dealer-ships any day, along with an updated ver-sion of Volvo’s bigger XC90 SUV, which has three rows of seats, and a beefed-up Cross Country version of the V60 wagon.

Polestar is Volvo’s performance arm, in the same way AMG is Mercedes’ in-house speed shop. Polestar tweaks the engineer-ing of Volvo vehicles and will build Volvo-based electric performance vehicles under its own name. Polestar was an inde-pendent racing company that specialized in Volvos until the automaker bought it in 2015.

You can recognize Polestar engineered Volvos by their gold seat belts, big yellow Akebono brake calipers and an asterisk-like etching on a small chrome plate. Volvo sold a handful of Polestar modified S60 sedans last year. The XC60 and V60 mark the sub-brand’s real introduction to American buyers.

Volvo charges a significant premium for Polestar’s cosmetic and performance changes, starting at $71,000 for the XC60 Polestar.

I recently drove the 2020 XC60 Pole-

star, V60 Cross Country and XC90 on highways, logging roads and mountain trails in the Canadian Rockies.

All the vehicles bristle with advanced safety and driver assistance features. Vol-vo’s stated goal is to eliminate all deaths and serious injuries in its vehicles.

The XC60 ride and handling is im-proved, adding power from the Polestar treatment. Its 415 horsepower and 494 pound-feet of torque are nothing to sneeze at, but they’re up only 15 hp and 22 pound-feet from the base XC60 T8 hybrid, 3.6% and 8%, respectively. The added power trims 0.1 second from the T8 hybrid’s 0-60 mph time, from an already respectable

5.0 seconds to 4.9.The steering and suspension upgrades

that come with the “Polestar-engineered” tag deliver plenty of value though. Firmer steering, a bar connecting the front strut towers and a taut but still comfortable, ride are apparent.

Polestar retuned the steering, throttle response and shift points, but the big im-provement comes from an adjustable sus-pension with Ohlins dampers. They keep the Polestar XC60 flat and stable in quick maneuvers and heavy braking while also absorbing bumps for a comfortable ride.

The massive Akebono calipers and 14.6-inch front brake discs deliver all the stopping power you’d ever want. Even more useful in daily driving, the retuned brakes also provide smoother, more natu-ral pedal feel when they’re being used to recharge the hybrid’s 11.6 kWh lithium-ion battery.

Visual differences from the regular XC60 — in addition to the golden seat belts that look a lot better than you’d ex-pect and the brake calipers Volvo insists are the same color but aren’t — include a glossy black frame around the grille and Polestar alloy wheels.

Volvo considers the Audi SQ5 the XC60 Polestar’s main competitor.

Its $71,000 base price is daunting, but it includes Nappa leather, adaptive cruise control, a big sunroof and much more. The plug-in hybrid’s projected battery-only range of 18-21 miles is not particu-larly impressive, and the big tablet-style touch screen that controls many features is less responsive than those of the best competitors.

The V60 Cross Country AWD is a lifted version of the V60 station wagon, with big-ger wheel arches, burly tires and moldings for a rugged appearance. It’s got 2.5 inch-es more ground clearance than a standard

V60 wagon. That, and the hill descent fea-ture to use engine braking when goingdown particularly steep grades, provedvery useful when I drove a V60 Cross Country down a steep, twisting and rock-strewn trail from a 7,700-foot mountainpeak to the road below.

Volvo softened the wagon’s suspensionfor off road. Unlike the Polestar plug-in hybrids, the gasoline-only V60 Cross Country has a mechanical all-wheel drivesystem. Prices start at $45,100.

Volvo didn’t make a V60 Polestar avail-able to drive. The Polestar wagon has thesame mechanical upgrades and visualtouches as the XC60: asterisk badging,gold seat belts, big yellow Akebono brakecalipers and black grille surround.

Prices for the V60 T8 E-AWD start at $67,300.

The XC90 three-row SUV launched Vol-vo’s resurgence with a bang when it de-buted in 2015 as a 2016 model. For 2020,it gets some upgrades and new features toface new competitors like the Audi Q7 andLincoln Aviator.

The big changes are inside: a new Or-refors crystal shifter, wool upholstery for buyers who want an upscale interior without the karmic burden they feel from leather and bucket seats in the second row for a six-seat interior.

Other new features include the bigger, 11.6 kWh battery, which should improveelectric range 2-3 miles from the previ-ous rating of 18; automatic braking linkedto the cross-traffic and blind spot alerts;and optional Harman Kardon audio. Themain exterior changes are a concave grille other Volvos will adopt, new colorsand wheels.

Prices for the 2020 Volvo XC90 start at$48,350.

SHIFTING GEARS

Volvo 2020 XC60

Base price: $71,000Highs: Looks, handling, featuresLows: Price; electric range; touch screen

responsivenessEngine: 2.0L super- and turbocharged four-

cylinder engine, rear wheels electric-poweredTotal system power: 415 hp, 494 pound-

feet of torqueTransmission: 8-speed automatic0-60 mph acceleration: 4.9 secondsTowing capacity: 3,500 pounds

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Volvo introduces hybrid performance brand

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America was founded as a safe haven to persecuted people and a beacon of hope, liberty and free-dom to people around the world.

Those themes reflect our values, and the welcoming of refugees to our shores is one of our proudest legacies and a fundamental part of who we are as a nation.

As military leaders, we spent nearly four decades defending these values. But today, a core American legacy is at risk, as the Trump administration is reportedly considering issuing severe, unprecedented cuts — potentially even zeroing out — the bipartisan U.S. Refugee Admissions Pro-gram, the established legal means of entry for these deserving people. We recently joined a group of 27 retired generals and admirals — all of whom have been opera-tional leaders in military conflicts and ex-hibited courage in defending our values on the battlefield — in writing to President Donald Trump expressing grave concerns about the direction of this vital program.

That’s because for many of us, welcoming refugees is not just a matter of smart policy and a reflection of our national values; it is also personal. Many of us know these refu-gees. They worked for and with us in our fight against terrorists and insurgents. The tangible and significant improvements we were able to make in the lives of millions as well as efforts to protect our own soldiers, sailors and Marines would not have been possible without the dedicated efforts of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan interpret-

ers, logisticians, engineers and others.Many of those individuals were targeted

because of their assistance to us. They and their families have been threatened for working with coalition forces, yet they bravely continued in their service at every level from translating conversations at the infantry squad level to contributing to task force-level diplomatic missions. They may claim different cultures and speak differ-ent languages, but they have all put their lives on the line along with our citizens .

Many of our partners continue to live in fear, given the continued hazardous situa-tions in various parts of the world. In Iraq alone, more than 100,000 await entry to the United States. We promised our Iraqi part-ners support and safety when they were shoulder to shoulder with us fighting a de-spicable enemy. If today we turn these peo-ple away, or reduce the numbers who are allowed entry, it will be extremely difficult to ask others to assist us in the future.

Providing safety to people who assist American troops is a core function of our refugee program, but it does not stop there. We are living in a moment of unprecedent-ed global displacement. Of the nearly 26 million refugees across the globe, most are hosted by low- and middle-income coun-tries bordering the unstable areas that people are fleeing. A small proportion of the most vulnerable — less than 5 percent — are selected for resettlement. In addi-tion to humanitarian assistance, resettling refugees is a concrete way that the United States offers support to these countries, while also strengthening regional stability and reducing the risk that people will be forced to return to conflict zones.

We know firsthand that both the hu-manitarian and strategic consequencesof conflicts in Iraq, Syria, the Balkansand East and West Africa would be muchworse had neighboring countries closedtheir borders. We also know that conflicts can restart when refugees are sent home prematurely. Of the 15 largest returns ofrefugees since 1990, a third have result-ed in the resumption of conflict and theslaughter of innocents.

When we slam the door on refugees, weencourage other nations to do the same, contributing to a less compassionate andmore dangerous world, one in which ourmilitary will increasingly be called to pro-vide stability.

Over the past 40 years, the United Stateshas welcomed about 3 million refugeesfrom around the world who have gone on tocontribute to and strengthen this countryin immeasurable ways. The average refu-gee admission level across both Repub-lican and Democratic administrations is 95,000 annually. Yet in the last two years,admissions have plummeted 75 percent.

In the next two weeks, the president will decide how many refugees we will admit in 2020. That decision will determine whether we uphold America’s legacy as a haven forthe persecuted, and it will send a powerfulmessage to the world about who we are asa people. We recommend that this lifesav-ing humanitarian program be restored to historic bipartisan-supported levels.Robert J. Natter is a retired U.S. Navy admiral who served as commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and U.S. Fleet Forces from 2000 to 2003. Mark P. Hertling is a retired lieutenant general who served as commanding general of U.S. Army Europe from 2011 to 2012.

BY AARON BLAKE

The Washington Post

Early Friday morning, Politico ran a provocative story titled, “Can the F-Bomb Save Beto?” In it, they chewed over presidential candi-

date Beto O’Rourke’s frequent swearing, whether it’s appropriate and whether it works for him as a symbol of his passion.

By 8:30 that morning, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock’s campaign had an an-nouncement to make: He, too, had said a bad word! “Governor Bullock on The Daily Show: I’ve Actually Had to Get S--- Done,” blared its news release.

The 2020 Democratic primary has at times felt like a competition over who can employ the most strategic curses. The majority of candidates have uttered at least one (depending upon how you define “curse”). We seem to be headed in a direc-tion of more rather than fewer .

It was probably inevitable. We’ve got a foul-mouthed president, relative to his pre-decessors, who has tempted Democrats to emulate his norm-breaking ways. Presi-dent Donald Trump has cursed at least 87 times in public, during speeches, inter-views and on Twitter, according to Factba.se transcripts, and he’s cursed more each year he’s been in office (only seven times in 2017, but 46 thus far in 2019).

We’ve also got a Democratic Party that is righteously angry about Trump’s presidency, and we’ve got a crowded 2020 Democratic field in which pulling stunts is sometimes the only way to get noticed.

But to be clear, the cursing is often a stunt, and transparently so. It’s not a coin-cidence that the most vulgar words, both by quantity and quality, have been uttered by those toward the bottom of the polls. I’ve often said that if you’re cursing, you’re losing. And the four candidates who lead in the polls — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris —

have kept it almost completely clean dur-ing their candidacies.

The most vulgar candidate also happens to be the one who has lost the most ground. O’Rourke swore off swearing in early April, when he was near 10% in the Real-ClearPolitics average. Today, he’s at about 2% and has unleashed a growing torrent of foul words — particularly when talking about the issue of gun violence.

Given the mass shooting that took place in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, that’s understandable. But now O’Rourke has taken things a step further and is selling campaign T-shirts that say “This is f----- up” repeatedly, on top of “End gun vio-lence now” and “Beto for America.”

Julian Castro’s vulgarities have been less plentiful but more awkward. In April, Castro appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show and dropped two “bulls---s.” Both times, Maher seemed pained to hear the politician try so hard. A couple of months earlier, Castro used the word while talk-ing to NPR about why young Latinos aren’t speaking Spanish. “Whoa, did you just say BS?” his interviewer asked. “I did,” Cas-tro affirmed with an air of self-satisfac-tion. Earlier that month, he told New York magazine “50% of headlines are bulls---.” Castro has also run a TV ad in which he quotes President Donald Trump saying “s---holes,” though it’s beeped out.

Cory Booker used that word in July’s de-bate, and CNN wasn’t quick enough to cen-sor it. He has also said that “thoughts and prayers” for victims of gun violence are “bulls---.” When some on the right raised questions about Harris’ heritage, Booker tweeted Harris “doesn’t have s--- to prove.” And his campaign manager tweeted a text message in which Booker called Trump’s comments about gun violence “a bulls--- soup of ineffective words.”

Other examples: � Andrew Yang said at a debate that,

“Russia has been laughing their a--es off”

at our country.� Tim Ryan said Republicans “need to

get their s--- together and stop panderingto the NRA” and at one point tweeted thef-word with the “u” removed.� Castro and Pete Buttigieg have said

some version of “p---ed off” at a debate.� Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and Bill de

Blasio have each said d--- (rhymes withham) in a debate.

Not that the major candidates have neverhad potty mouths. Joe Biden’s occasionalcurse words were a focus during the 2012campaign (remember “BFD”?). Harris isreportedly fond of a compound swear word involving a female parent, and she used it ina 2017 New York Times interview. She alsosaid the f-word publicly in 2017. And Sand-ers in 2015 offered a “bulls---” at one point. But even as their opponents have moved inthat direction, they haven’t repeated theirpast sins . And the most ascendant 2020 candidate , Warren, once remarked thather favorite swear word was “poop.”

The odd swear word can be effective when deployed in the right circumstances.But the more everybody is using them, theless novel and effective they become. They can also quite easily come off as contrivedand desperate. We know politicians are con-stantly measuring the things they say andthat they aren’t supposed to swear publicly.So when they do curse, it’s difficult not to at least think it might be calculated.

Democrats can occasionally try a littletoo hard too — especially when it comes to playing Trump’s game. Whatever you thinkof Trump, his vulgarity doesn’t seem con-trived because he’s never been a polishedpolitician. And what Democrats don’t needright now is for people to believe their pas-sion is superficial and that they’re uttering bad words because they think it will poll well or get people to pay attention to them. That’s the danger here. Aaron Blake covers national politics for The Washington Post .

Cutting refugee effort unfair to many who aided GIs

Democrats try to curse their way to voters’ attention

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SCOREBOARD/BASKETBALL

Deals

College football

Pro soccer Auto racing

Pro basketball

Golf

AP sportlight

Go to the American Forces Network website for the most up-to-date TV schedules.myafn.net

Sports on AFN

AP Top 25The Top 25 teams in The Associated

Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Clemson (56) 2-0 1544 1 2. Alabama (6) 2-0 1489 2 3. Georgia 2-0 1385 3 4. LSU 2-0 1336 6 5. Oklahoma 2-0 1315 4 6. Ohio St. 2-0 1291 5 7. Notre Dame 1-0 1072 8 8. Auburn 2-0 1056 10 9. Florida 2-0 997 1110. Michigan 2-0 936 711. Utah 2-0 905 1312. Texas 1-1 877 913. Penn St. 2-0 781 1514. Wisconsin 2-0 714 1715. Oregon 1-1 677 1616. Texas A&M 1-1 643 1217. UCF 2-0 544 1818. Michigan St. 2-0 495 1919. Iowa 2-0 473 2020. Washington St. 2-0 343 2221. Maryland 2-0 207 NR22. Boise St. 2-0 164 2423. Washington 1-1 161 1424. Southern Cal 2-0 137 NR25. Virginia 2-0 122 NR

Others receiving votes: Iowa St. 96, California 95, Mississippi St. 73, TCU 66, North Carolina 48, Army 42, Colorado 21, Oklahoma St. 20, Memphis 12, Arizona St. 4, Boston College 2, Kentucky 2, Appala-chian St. 2, Syracuse 2, Minnesota 1.

Coaches Top 25 The Amway Top 25 football poll, with

first-place votes in parentheses, records through Sept. 7, total points based on 25 points for first place through one point for 25th, and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Clemson (60) 2-0 1572 1 2. Alabama (3) 2-0 1513 2 3. Georgia 2-0 1415 3 4. Oklahoma 2-0 1362 4 5. LSU 2-0 1314 6 6. Ohio State 2-0 1309 5 7. Notre Dame 1-0 1118 8 8. Florida 2-0 1064 10 9. Auburn 2-0 993 1310. Michigan 2-0 945 711. Penn State 2-0 868 1412. Utah 2-0 839 1513. Texas 1-1 823 914. Wisconsin 2-0 739 1615. Texas A&M 1-1 668 1116. Central Florida 2-0 584 1717. Oregon 1-1 568 1818. Iowa 2-0 496 1919. Michigan State 2-0 446 2020. Washington State 2-0 418 2121. Washington 1-1 314 1222. Boise State 2-0 214 2423. Mississippi State 2-0 134 NR24. Southern California 2-0 120 NR25. Maryland 2-0 109 NR

Others Receiving Votes: Virginia 64; Kentucky 62; California 51; Iowa State 48; Memphis 46; Oklahoma State 45; North Carolina 42; Boston College 31; Army 31; TCU 28; North Carolina State 28; Colora-do 16; Stanford 8; Hawaii 7; Appalachian State 6; Minnesota 5; Wyoming 3; Wake Forest 2; Troy 2; Arizona State 2; Tulane 1; Nebraska 1; Navy 1.

Sunday’s transactionsBASEBALL

American LeagueHOUSTON ASTROS — Recalled RHP

Bryan Abreu from Round Rock (PCL).LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Reinstated

RHP Justin Anderson from the 10-day IL.NEW YORK YANKEES — Reinstated 3B

Gio Urshela and 2B Thairo Estrada from the 10-day IL. Recalled C Kyle Higashioka and INF Breyvic Valera from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Assigned RHP Matt Carasiti outright to Tacoma (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Reinstated RHP Tyler Glasnow from the 60-day IL. Re-called 3B Michael Brosseau from Durham (IL). Sent LHP Blake Snell to Durham for a rehab assignment.

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Rein-

stated RHP Yoshihisa Hirano from the 10-day IL.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Traded OF Ryan LaMarre to Minnesota for cash.

CHICAGO CUBS — Assigned OF Mark Zagunis outright to Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Recalled RHP Jim-my Herget from Louisville (IL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Recalled RHP Rico Garcia from Albuquerque (PCL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Announced the one-game suspension of Justin Turn-er for bumping umpire Rob Drake on Aug. 26 was rescinded.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed OF Jason Martin on the 60-day IL. Selected the contract of RHP James Marvel from Indianapolis (IL). Reinstated RHP Yefry Ramirez from the 10-day IL.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled RHP Trey Wingenter from Amarillo (TL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled C Spencer Kieboom from Harrisburg (EL) and placed him on the 60-day IL. Select-ed the contract of RHP Tres Barrera from Harrisburg.

MLSEastern Conference

W L T Pts GF GANYC FC 15 5 8 53 53 35Philadelphia 15 8 6 51 54 42Atlanta 15 10 3 48 47 33D.C. United 11 10 9 42 39 38New York 12 12 5 41 47 44Toronto FC 11 10 8 41 49 46New England 10 10 9 39 42 49Montreal 11 15 4 37 42 56Orlando City 9 13 8 35 37 41Chicago 8 12 10 34 44 43Columbus 8 15 7 31 33 44Cincinnati 5 21 3 18 29 72

Western Conference W L T Pts GF GALos Angeles FC 19 4 6 63 76 32Seattle 13 9 7 46 46 45Minnesota 13 9 6 45 46 37San Jose 13 10 5 44 48 43Real Salt Lake 13 11 4 43 40 35Portland 13 11 4 43 45 41FC Dallas 12 10 7 43 47 38LA Galaxy 13 12 3 42 41 45Sporting KC 10 12 7 37 42 47Colorado 9 14 6 33 47 54Houston 9 15 4 31 38 49Vancouver 6 15 9 27 30 53

Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday’s gamesNew York City FC 2, New England 1Toronto FC 5, Cincinnati 1Los Angeles FC 2, Orlando City 2, tieColorado 2, Seattle 0Portland 2, Sporting Kansas City 1

Wednesday’s gamesToronto FC at New York City FCMinnesota at HoustonLA Galaxy at ColoradoSan Jose at Real Salt Lake

Saturday, September 14San Jose at New York City FCFC Dallas at ChicagoColumbus at AtlantaCincinnati at MontrealNew England at Orlando CityLos Angeles FC at PhiladelphiaHouston at Vancouver

Sunday, September 15D.C. United at PortlandColorado at Toronto FCReal Salt Lake at MinnesotaNew York at SeattleSporting Kansas City at LA Galaxy

NWSL W L T Pts GF GAPortland 10 4 6 36 39 23North Carolina 10 4 4 34 34 18Chicago 10 8 2 32 32 26Utah Royals FC 9 6 4 31 20 15Reign FC 8 5 6 30 19 21Washington 7 7 4 25 22 19Houston 6 9 4 22 18 31Sky Blue FC 4 12 4 16 16 27Orlando Pride 4 13 2 14 20 40

Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Friday’s gameUtah Royals FC 1, Portland 0

Saturday’s gamesNorth Carolina 2, Sky Blue FC 1Reign FC 3, Orlando Pride 1

Sunday’s gameChicago 3, Houston 0

Wednesday, September 11Chicago at Orlando PrideNorth Carolina at Portland

Friday, September 13Utah Royals FC at Houston

Saturday, September 14Orlando Pride at North CarolinaReign FC at Washington

Brickyard 400Sunday

At Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayIndianapolis

Lap Length: 2.5 miles(Pole position in parentheses)

1. (1) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 160.2. (4) Joey Logano, Ford, 160.3. (15) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet, 160.4. (29) William Byron, Chevrolet, 160.5. (3) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 160.6. (33) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 160.7. (9) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 160.8. (22) Ryan Newman, Ford, 160.9. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 160.10. (2) Paul Menard, Ford, 160.11. (20) Daniel Suarez, Ford, 160.12. (18) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 160.13. (25) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 160.14. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford, 160.15. (16) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet,

160.16. (23) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, 160.17. (21) Michael McDowell, Ford, 160.18. (26) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota,

160.19. (30) Corey LaJoie, Ford, 160.20. (17) David Ragan, Ford, 160.21. (13) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 160.22. (34) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 160.23. (37) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet,

160.24. (36) Ryan Sieg, Chevrolet, 157.25. (35) BJ McLeod, Ford, 157.26. (40) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 157.27. (27) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 156.28. (38) Garrett Smithley, Ford, 156.29. (39) Josh Bilicki, Ford, 155.30. (8) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 155.31. (12) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Ford, 153.32. (28) Matt Tifft, Ford, Accident, 147.33. (19) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, Acci-

dent, 129.34. (11) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, Ac-

cident, 109.35. (5) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, Ac-

cident, 105.36. (32) Parker Kligerman, Toyota, Ac-

cident, 104.37. (7) Kyle Busch, Toyota, Engine, 87.38. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, Acci-

dent, 48.39. (14) Erik Jones, Toyota, Accident,

48.40. (31) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, Ac-

cident, 40.Race Statistics

Average Speed of Race Winner: 119.443 mph.

Time of Race: 3 Hours, 20 Minutes, 6 Seconds. Margin of Victory: 6.118 Sec-onds.

Caution Flags: 9 for 48 laps.Lead Changes: 13 among 8 drivers.Lap Leaders: K. Harvick 0; K. Harvick

1-12; R. Chastain 13; K. Harvick 14-42; J. Logano 43-52; K. Larson 53-56; K. Harvick 57-84; K. Larson 85; W. Byron 86; J. Lo-gano 87; J. Johnson 88-91; P. Menard 92; K. Harvick 93-111; R. Blaney 112-130; K. Harvick 131-160.

Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Lead, Laps Led): Kevin Harvick 5 times for 118 laps; Ryan Blaney 1 time for 19 laps; Joey Logano 2 times for 11 laps; Kyle Larson 2 times for 5 laps; Jimmie Johnson 1 time for 4 laps; William Byron 1 time for 1 lap; Ross Chastain 1 time for 1 lap; Paul Men-ard 1 time for 1 lap.

Italian Grand PrixSunday

At Monza AutodromeMonza, Italy

Lap length: 5.00 kilometres(Start position in parentheses)

1. (1) Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 53 laps, 1:23.722, 25 points.

2. (3) Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mer-cedes, 53, +00.835 seconds, 18.

3. (2) Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Mercedes, 53, +35.199, 16.

4. (5) Daniel Ricciardo, Australia, Re-nault, 53, +45.515, 12.

5. (6) Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Re-nault, 53, +58.165, 10.

6. (8) Alexander Albon, Thailand, Red Bull Racing Honda, 53, +59.315, 8.

7. (18) Sergio Perez, Mexico, Racing Point BWT Mercedes, 53, +1:13.802, 6.

8. (19) Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Bull Racing Honda, 53, +1:14.492, 4.

9. (10) Antonio Giovinazzi, Italy, Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari, 53, +1:21.956, 2.

10. (16) Lando Norris, Great Britain, McLaren Renault, 52, +1 lap, 1.

11. (17) Pierre Gasly, France, Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda, 52, +1 lap.

12. (9) Lance Stroll, Canada, Racing Point BWT Mercedes, 52, +1 lap.

13. (4) Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Fer-rari, 52, +1 lap.

14. (14) George Russell, Great Britain, Williams Mercedes, 52, +1 lap.

15. (20) Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari, 52, +1 lap.

16. (13) Romain Grosjean, France, Haas Ferrari, 52, +1 lap.

17. (15) Robert Kubica, Poland, Wil-liams Mercedes, 51, +2 laps.

18. (11) Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Haas Ferrari, did not finish, 43.

19. (12) Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda, did not finish, 29.

20. (7) Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, McLaren Renault, did not finish, 27.

Driver Standings1. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Mer-

cedes, 268 points.2. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Mercedes,

203.3. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red

Bull Racing Honda, 181.4. Sebastian Vettel, Germany, Ferrari,

169.5. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari,

157.6. Pierre Gasly, France, Scuderia Toro

Rosso Honda, 65.7. Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, McLaren Re-

nault, 58.8. Daniil Kvyat, Russia, Scuderia Toro

Rosso Honda, 33.9. Kimi Raikkonen, Finland, Alfa Ro-

meo Racing Ferrari, 31.10. Alexander Albon, Thailand, Red

Bull Racing Honda, 26. Manufacturers Standings

1. Mercedes, 471.2. Ferrari, 326.3. Red Bull Racing Honda, 254.4. McLaren Renault, 82.5. Scuderia Toro Rosso Honda, 51.6. Renault, 43.7. Racing Point BWT Mercedes, 40.8. Alfa Romeo Racing Ferrari, 32.9. Haas Ferrari, 26.10. Williams Mercedes, 1.

European OpenSunday

Green Eagle Golf CourseHamburg, GermanyPurse: $2.2 million

Yardage: 6,898; Par: 72Final

Paul Casey, England 66-73-69-66—274M. Schwab, Austria 67-72-70-66—275B. Ritthammer, Germany 71-66-70-68—275R. MacIntyre, Scotland 68-65-74-68—275B. Wiesberger, Austria 71-69-72-64—276Romain Wattel, France 72-74-67-64—277Guido Migliozzi, Italy 71-68-72-67—278Pablo Larrazabal, Spain 70-71-68-69—278A. Chesters, England 71-71-70-67—279Niklas Lemke, Sweden 71-73-68-67—279Jeff Winther, Denmark 72-69-70-70—281P. Harrington, Ireland 71-74-68-69—282L.de Jager, South Africa 72-69-71-70—282Dominic Foos, Germany 74-67-75-67—283Sam Horsfield, England 75-68-71-69—283Ben Evans, England 69-73-68-73—283J.van Zyl, South Africa 78-69-71-66—284Hugo Leon, Chile 73-72-72-67—284S. Kim, United States 72-74-69-69—284T. Pieters, Belgium 70-72-74-69—285J. Lagergren, Sweden 77-69-69-70—285

AlsoP. Reed, United States 74-72-71-72—289

US tops Brazil for spot in quarters

Sept. 10 1962 — Rod Laver becomes the first

man since Don Budge in 1938 to win the Grand Slam, beating Roy Emerson 6-2, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 at the U.S. Open. Margaret Smith becomes the first Australian wom-an to win the U.S. Open with a 9-7, 6-4 win over Darlene Hard.

1967 — Billie Jean King wins the sin-gles, doubles and mixed doubles cham-pionships at the U.S. Lawn Tennis Asso-ciation championships. King, who also swept the three titles at Wimbledon, is the first to accomplish the feat of two sweeps in the same year since Alice Marble in 1939.

1972 — The U.S. men’s basketball team loses its first game in Olympic competi-tion. The Soviet Union wins 51-50 with the help of a controversial ending. William Jones, secretary general of the Interna-tional Amateur Basketball Federation, tells the referees to have the players replay the final three seconds and the Soviets score a last-second basket. The Americans, who had the lead when the buzzer sounded the first time, protest in vain. The U.S. team later refuses to ac-cept the silver medal.

1972 — Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Italian Grand Prix to become the young-est to win a Formula I championship. Fit-tipaldi, 25, wins his fifth race of the sea-son and clinches the title with two races remaining.

1977 — Chris Evert beats Wendy Turn-bull 7-6, 6-2 to capture the U.S. Open title for the third straight year.

1988 — Steffi Graf becomes the third women to complete the Grand Slam, de-feating Gabriela Sabatini 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 in the U.S. Open.

1993 — Pernell Whitaker and Julio Ce-sar Chavez fight to a majority draw. Two judges score the fight 115-115 and the third scores the fight 115-113 for Whita-ker. It’s the first blemish on Chavez’s re-cord — he was 87-0 entering the bout.

2000 — Arizona’s Randy Johnson be-comes the 12th player to reach the 3,000 strikeout plateau, fanning a season-high 14 in seven innings when the Diamond-backs lost to Florida 4-3 in 12 innings.

WNBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GBx-Washington 26 8 .765 —x-Connecticut 23 11 .676 3x-Chicago 20 14 .588 6Indiana 13 21 .382 13New York 10 24 .294 16Atlanta 8 26 .235 18

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBx-Los Angeles 22 12 .647 —x-Las Vegas 21 13 .618 1x-Minnesota 18 16 .529 4x-Seattle 18 16 .529 4x-Phoenix 15 19 .441 7Dallas 10 24 .294 12

x-clinched playoff spot Saturday’s games

No games scheduledSunday’s games

New York 71, Atlanta 63Indiana 104, Connecticut 76Seattle 78, Dallas 64Los Angeles 77, Minnesota 68Washington 100, Chicago 86Las Vegas 98, Phoenix 89

Monday’s gamesNo games scheduled

Tuesday’s gamesNo games scheduled

Wednesday’s gamesPhoenix at ChicagoMinnesota at Seattle

LeadersScoring

G FG FT PTS AVGGriner, PHO 31 270 101 642 20.7Delle Donne, WAS 31 220 114 606 19.5Ogunbowale, DAL 33 214 145 630 19.1Howard, SEA 34 227 128 614 18.1Bonner, PHO 34 190 153 585 17.2

Rebounds G OFF DEF TOT AVGJones, CON 34 113 217 330 9.7McCowan, IND 34 108 197 305 9.0Fowles, MIN 34 92 210 302 8.9Ogwumike, LAS 32 73 209 282 8.8Delle Donne, WAS 31 48 208 256 8.3

BY TIM REYNOLDS

Associated Press

SHENZHEN, China — Thefirst mission for the U.S. is com-plete: The Americans are going to the Tokyo Olympics.

And now the World Cup quar-terfinals await.

Kemba Walker and MylesTurner each scored 16 points, and the Americans earned a top seedfor the quarterfinals by beatingBrazil 89-73 on Monday in thefinal second-round game of the tournament.

The U.S., bidding to become thefirst nation to win three consecu-tive World Cups, will face France on Wednesday — and won’t haveto go through any extra qualify-ing tournament next summer for the Olympics.

“We’re thrilled that we’ve qual-ified for the Olympics,” said U.S.coach Gregg Popovich, who willlead the Americans in Tokyo nextsummer as well. “With this newsituation in qualifying, you don’twant to do that every year. That’sa pretty big grind.”

It was a win three nationscould celebrate: The U.S. victory also clinched an Olympic spot for Argentina and a quarterfinalspot for the Czech Republic. TheCzechs moved on despite losing earlier Monday to Greece.

The Czech Republic grabbedthe last place in the round of eight via a three-team, points-differen-tial tiebreaker over Greece andBrazil after they all went 3-2 in group play.

“It’s already been a dream,” Czech guard Tomas Satoranskysaid.

Greece defeated the Czech Republic 84-77 , an outcome that meant the U.S. went into the Bra-zil game assured a spot in the quarters. All that was at stake was seeding and where it was going, either to nearby Dongguan by bus or back on a plane to Shanghai.

Get the bus ready. France, a100-98 loser to Australia on Mon-day, awaits the U.S. on Wednes-day in the quarterfinals. Otherquarterfinal matchups: Spain vs.Poland and Serbia vs. Argentina on Tuesday, and Australia vs. the Czech Republic on Wednesday.

The only way to stay in the mixfor gold now is to keep winning.That’s the approach the Ameri-cans — likening the World Cup feel to an NBA Finals feel — have carried throughout the tourna-ment anyway.

“Pop talked about how this isJune, this is June basketball,” U.S.guard Joe Harris said. “That’swhat our mentality has got to belike.”

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BY HOWARD FENDRICH

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Rafael Nadal’s 19th Grand Slam trophy went from inevitable to suddenly in doubt in a thrill-a-minute U.S. Open final.

What had all the makings of a casual crowning morphed into a grueling contest thanks to Nad-al’s opponent, Daniil Medvedev, a man a decade younger and ap-pearing in his first major title match. Down by two sets and a break, Medvedev shifted styles, upped his level against a rattled Nadal — and even received an unexpected boost from the Ar-thur Ashe Stadium spectators.

Truly tested for the only time in the tournament, the No. 2-seeded Nadal managed to stop Medve-dev’s surge Sunday and hold off his historic comeback bid, pulling out a 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-4 victory in 4 hours, 50 minutes of high-light-worthy action and Broad-way-worthy drama to collect his fourth championship at Flushing Meadows.

“One of the most emotional nights of my tennis career,” said Nadal, who covered his face with his hands while crying when arena video boards showed clips from each of his Slam triumphs.

Now at 19 majors — a total Medvedev called “outrageous” — Nadal is merely one away from rival Roger Federer’s record for men.

But this one did not come eas-ily. Not at all.

Not since 1949 has anyone won a U.S. Open final after trailing by two sets to none. Never before had Medvedev won a five-set match. Only once before had Nadal lost a Grand Slam match after taking

the opening two sets.And yet the tension was real.“What he went through during

the match and still being able to survive and finish the match that way, it’s out of this world,” said one of Nadal’s coaches, Carlos Moya. “You have to be, mentally, a genius. He’s still there, still fight-ing and turning things around when things look really bad. He was able to do that today.”

Add the Spaniard’s haul in New York to his 12 titles at the French Open, two at Wimbledon and one at the Australian Open, and the 20-19 gap between Federer and Nadal is the closest it’s been in 15 years. Nadal says he wants to finish his career at No. 1 in the Grand Slam standings — ahead of Federer and Novak Djokovic, looming in third place currently with 16 — but also insists he won’t base his happiness on how it all shakes out in the end.

BY MICHAEL MAROT

Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmie Johnson drove through pit road with his rear bumper dangling off the back, already aware of the consequences when he parked the car.

His chance at ending a 27-month victory drought with a record-tying fifth Brickyard 400 win gone. His quest for a record-breaking eighth series title put on hold. And his distinction as the only driver to make every NASCAR playoff since it was adopt-ed in 2004 was history, too.

An almost flawless run Sunday by Kevin Harvick ruined any chance Johnson had of execut-ing his win-to-get-in strategy, and when he hit the wall in the second turn with 55 laps to go at India-napolis Motor Speedway made it official: Johnson would miss the playoff for the first time.

“Damn, oh, what a bummer and a letdown,” he said on a Twit-ter post. “I promise you (my fans) we will finish this season strong and be a threat next year in 2020. I just want to thank you for all being there, for your support. Chasing eight will have to wait till next year.”

Harvick beat Joey Logano by 6.118 seconds to claim his second Brickyard win.

But for Johnson, it has been a second straight tough season.

His only victory was in an ex-hibition race in February. He en-dured two major changes in his pit box, the first coming at the end of last season when Hendrick Mo-torsports announced Johnson’s longtime crew chief Chad Knaus would be paired with William Byron. In July, Johnson’s team made another change.

Yet, somehow he still entered

Sunday two spots and 18 points below the postseason cutline and started the third stage 12 points out.

But with Byron and Johnson running side-by-side off a restart, Johnson’s back end spun, suck-ing him up the track and into the path of Kurt Busch. Both Chevro-lets slammed hard into the wall, starting an eight-car melee that ended the streak just that fast.

“I’ve had 25 races coming into this where I’ve been worried about it,” Johnson said. “I’m not stoked by the situation at all. I am impressed that we have been in 15 consecutive playoffs. I’m not sure anybody else has done that. So, our record doesn’t stink. We wish we could have kept it going, but life goes on.”

With Johnson out, Clint Bowyer, Harvick’s teammate with Stew-art-Haas Racing, held onto the 15th spot in the 16-car field. And Ryan Newman, of Roush Fenway Racing, broke a tie for the final spot with Daniel Suarez and put the No. 6 Ford in the playoffs.

Demolition derby: John-son’s early exit put him in good company.

Defending race winner Brad Keselowski wound up climbing out of the cockpit on his knees after his car and Erik Jones’ touched, sending Keselowski sideways into a tire barrier. Keselowski called on speedway officials to consider safety improvements to the 90-degree angle of the wall in hopes of preventing a similar result in the future.

Two-time race winner and regular-season champion Kyle Busch parked his car on pit row after blowing an engine.

In all, there were six crashes and nine yellow flags for 48 laps in the 160-lap race.

Swept away: After winning the first three “crown jewels” of the NASCAR season, Joe Gibbs Rac-ing was going for an unprecedent-ed single-season sweep Sunday. Instead, Denny Hamlin had the top finishing Toyota for the team, coming in sixth. Jones was 39th , Kyle Busch was 37th and Martin Truex Jr. wound up 27th.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Medvedev’s comeback falls short in 5-set final

Nadal wins 19th Grand Slam

CHARLES KRUPA/AP

Rafael Nadal reacts after defeating Daniil Medvedev during the U.S. Open men’s singles final on Sunday in New York. Nadal won 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-4.Harvick

Harvick captures 2nd Brickyard as Johnson’s playoff run comes to end

AUTO RACING/US OPEN

Scoreboard

SundayUSTA Billie Jean King

National Tennis CenterNew York

Men’s SinglesFinal

Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def. DaniilMedvedev (5), Russia, 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-4.

Women’s DoublesFinal

Elise Mertens, Belgium, and Aryna Sabalenka (4), Belarus, def. Victoria Aza-renka, Belarus, and Ashleigh Barty (8),Australia, 7-5, 7-5.

All-Time Men’s Grand SlamSingles Titles

Through 2019 U.S. Open Aus Fre Wim U.S TotalRoger Federer 6 1 8 5 20 Rafael Nadal 1 12 2 4 19 Novak Djokovic 7 1 5 3 16 Pete Sampras 2 - 7 5 14 Roy Emerson 6 2 2 2 12 Bjorn Borg - 6 5 - 11 Rod Laver 3 2 4 2 11 Bill Tilden - - 3 7 10 Andre Agassi 4 1 1 2 8 Jimmy Connors 1 - 2 5 8 Ivan Lendl 2 3 - 3 8 Fred Perry 1 1 3 3 8 Ken Rosewall 4 2 - 2 8

EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AP

Daniil Medvedev returns a shot to Rafael Nadal on Sunday.

MIKE FAIR/AP

Jimmie Johnson (48) is hit by Parker Kligerman (96) in the second turn during the NASCAR Brickyard 400 on Sunday in Indianapolis.

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Brewers 8, Cubs 5Chicago Milwaukee ab r h bi ab r h bi Zobrist 2b 5 0 1 1 Cain cf 5 1 1 0Schwarber lf 4 0 0 0 Nelson p 0 0 0 0Castllanos rf 4 0 1 0 Hader p 0 0 0 0Rizzo 1b 4 0 0 0 Grandal c 3 0 0 0Contreras c 3 1 0 0 Yelich rf 2 1 1 0Heyward cf 4 1 2 2 Braun lf 3 1 1 1Russell ss 0 1 0 0 Gamel lf 1 0 1 0Happ 3b 3 0 0 0 Thames 1b 4 1 1 1Bote 3b-ss 2 1 1 0 Perez 3b-ss 4 0 1 1Caratini ph 1 0 1 0 Spngnbrg 2b 4 2 1 0Lester p 2 1 1 1 Arcia ss 1 0 0 0Undrwood p 0 0 0 0 Moustks 3b 0 0 0 0Kemp ph 1 0 0 0 Freitas ph 0 1 0 0Hultzen p 0 0 0 0 Suter p 0 0 0 0Strop p 0 0 0 0 Taylor ph 1 0 1 1Garcia ph 1 0 0 0 Jackson p 0 0 0 0 Pomeranz p 0 0 0 0 Claudio p 0 0 0 0 Grshm ph-cf 0 0 0 0 Houser p 1 0 0 0 Austin ph 1 1 1 3 Shaw 3b 1 0 0 0Totals 34 5 7 4 Totals 31 8 9 7Chicago 003 000 002—5Milwaukee 100 502 00x—8

E—Yelich (4). DP—Chicago 2, Milwau-kee 0. LOB—Chicago 5, Milwaukee 5.2B—Lester (2), Zobrist (2), Heyward (17), Braun (27). 3B—Spangenberg (1). HR—Heyward (19), Austin (1), Thames (21).SB—Russell (2). IP H R ER BB SOChicagoLester L,12-10 5B 7 8 8 3 7Underwood Jr. C 1 0 0 1 2Hultzen 1 1 0 0 0 3Strop 1 0 0 0 1 1MilwaukeeHouser 4 4 3 3 1 6Suter W,1-0 2 1 0 0 0 1Jackson B 0 0 0 0 1Pomeranz C 0 0 0 0 0Claudio 1 0 0 0 0 0Nelson B 2 2 2 1 1Hader S,29-35 C 0 0 0 0 2

HBP—Houser (Russell), Hultzen (Yelich). WP—Houser. T—3:09. A—44,217 (41,900).

MLB

St. Louis ace improves ERA to 0.76 since All-Star break

Cardinals’ Flaherty dominant against Pirates

Indians’ Clevinger wins 10th straight decision Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — Mike Clev-inger and the Cleveland Indians gave the Minnesota Twins anoth-er reminder that winning their first division title in nine years won’t be easy.

Clevinger won his 10th straight decision, and Carlos Santana and Francisco Lindor homered as the Indians beat the Twins 5-2 on Sunday.

Cleveland, 1 ½ games behind Oakland for the second wild card in the American League, moved back to 5 ½ games behind Min-nesota in the AL Central. The In-dians and Twins close the season series with a three-game set in Cleveland that begins on Friday.

Clevinger (11-2) put Cleveland in a good spot on Sunday, allowing two runs and four hits with two walks and seven strikeouts in 6 1⁄3 innings. He hasn’t lost since June 28. In his last 13 starts, Clevinger is 10-0 with a 2.00 ERA and 108 strikeouts in 81 innings.

Reds 4, Diamondbacks 3: Relief pitcher Michael Lorenzen lined a game-ending, pinch-hit

double in the ninth inning to lift host Cincinnati over Arizona, stopping the Diamondbacks’ five-game winning streak.

Rays 8, Blue Jays 3: At St. Petersburg, Fla., Tyler Glasnow struck out five over two innings in his return from a four-month layoff .

Yankees 10, Red Sox 5: Gley-ber Torres, Mike Tauchman, Aaron Judge hit home runs as visiting New York broke the fran-

chise record for homers in a sea-son in a win over Boston.

Athletics 3, Tigers 1:Sean Ma-naea (1-0) matched his career high by striking out 10 in his second start following shoulder surgery, and host Oakland gave Detroit its first 100-loss season since 2003.

Nationals 9, Braves 4: Max Scherzer (10-5) won for the first time in two months, Juan Soto homered and visiting Washington stopped Atlanta’s nine-game win-ning streak .

Phillies 10, Mets 7: At New York, Maikel Franco, Scott Kingery and Adam Haseley hom-ered as Philadelphia overcame a 3-0 deficit and closed within two games of Chicago for the second NL wild-card spot.

Brewers 8, Cubs 5: Tyler Austin drove a pinch-hit, three-run homer during the a five-run fourth against Jon Lester (12-10), and Milwaukee pulled within two games of visiting Chicago.

Dodgers 5, Giants 0: Corey Seager and Matt Beaty homered off Dereck Rodriguez (5-9) as host Los Angeles (93-52) cut its

magic number to clinch the NL West to two.

Astros 21, Mariners 1: Ger-rit Cole (16-5) celebrated his 29th birthday by allowing one hit with 15 strikeouts in a season-high eight innings and winning his 12th straight decision.

Marlins 9, Royals 0: Sandy Alcantara (5-12) threw a four-hitter and became the first Mar-lins pitcher with two shutouts in his rookie season since Dontrelle Willis in 2003.

Rangers 10, Orioles 4: Rook-ie Nick Solak had three hits and four RBIs, Ronald Guzman and Rougned Odor homered and Texas completed its first four-game sweep at Baltimore since July 1972 at Memorial Stadium.

White Sox 5, Angels 1: At Chi-cago, Danny Mendick hit his first career home run and Jose Abreu got his 31st this season.

Padres 2, Rockies 1: At San Diego, Wil Myers singled off Yency Almonte with one out in the 10th to drive in Manny Mach-ado, who walked against Jesus Tinoco (0-2).

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Cardinals starting pitcher Jack Flaherty delivers during the first inning of Sunday’s game against the Pirates in Pittsburgh. Flaherty struck out 10 against five hits and a walk over eight innings in St. Louis’ 2-0 victory over Pirates.

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Cleveland Indians pitcher Mike Clevinger throws against the Twins on Sunday in Minneapolis.

BY WILL GRAVES

Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — Jack Flaherty always had the tools. Figuring out how to put them together has been the challenge for the 23-year-old pitcher since the former first-round pick arrived in St. Louis two years ago.

While Flaherty is sketchy on specifics about what what exactly he changed head-ing into the All-Star break, one thing is for certain: the roadblocks — mental, physical and otherwise — are all gone. Flaherty is rolling, and so are the Cardinals.

Flaherty overwhelmed the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 2-0 victory on Sunday, strik-ing out 10 against five hits and a walk over eight electric innings to keep up a dazzling run that has turned him into the de facto ace for the NL Central leaders. Flaherty (10-7) won for the sixth time in eight starts while dropping his post All-Star break ERA to 0.76 as St. Louis pushed its lead in the division to 4 ½ games over second-place Chicago with three weeks to go in the regular season.

“He’s in control of the conviction of what he’s doing,” Cardinals manager Mike Shildt said. “Just a lot of big league pitches consistently. Fastball where he wants it to with good life on it, and a really good slider as well. That’s what pitching looks like. Phenomenal job.”

Flaherty’s surge began with seven in-nings of two-hit ball against San Francisco on July 7. The Cardinals lost 1-0 that day, but the switch flipped. Flaherty has been lights out while fueling St. Louis’ sprint to first and has allowed just three earned runs 56 innings across eight starts since Aug. 1.

“(I’ve made) small adjustments, not re-ally to my mechanics, but mentally to how

I was going about things,” Flaherty said. “So little things here and there. Just tried to kind of carry it from one start to the next.”

Carlos Martinez worked a perfect ninth for his 19th save to finish off a season se-ries dominated by the Cardinals. St. Louis won 14 of its 19 meetings with Pittsburgh, including 10 of 12 in the second half, one of the main reasons the Cardinals are head-ing to October while the Pirates are plan-ning for next season.

“Guys are healthy,” Flaherty said. “We’re playing together. Playing as a team. Not letting any moment get too big.”

Paul Goldschmidt had an RBI double, and Harrison Bader added a run-scoring

single off Pittsburgh rookie James Marvel (0-1). Matt Carpenter went 2-for-3 while starting at third base and is hitting .400 (6-for-15) in September as the veteran tries to shake out of a season-long slump.

“Like everybody else, he understands it’s about the team,” Shildt said of Carpen-ter. “He’s got his head in the right spot to help us win baseball games.”

Flaherty’s effectiveness ended Pitts-burgh manager Clint Hurdle and second baseman Adam Frazier’s respective days a little bit early. Both were ejected by home-plate umpire Roberto Ortiz in the seventh for arguing balls and strikes after Ortiz ruled a pair of borderline pitches in favor of Flaherty.

“He’s taken it to another level,” Hurdlesaid of Flaherty. “He was as advertised from what we watched coming in here. It’sbeen going on for two months.”

Marvel-ous debut: Marvel, the 1,087thplayer chosen in the 2015 draft, was solidin his first major-league start after pil-ing up 16 victories across Double-A andTriple-A this season. With more than 40 people in the stands who roared every time he stepped out of the dugout onto the fieldat PNC Park, Marvel gave up two runs and four hits in five-plus innings with twowalks and two strikeouts.

“I can’t really hear things when I’mpitching,” Marvel said. “I tend to zone outand focus on what I’m doing and the glove. But I’d be lying if I said that today thereweren’t a few instances where I heardthem.”

There was plenty to cheer about. Marvel,who won 16 games combined during stopsat Double-A and Triple-A this summer,didn’t allow a hit until Marcell Ozuna’s two-out single in the fourth. Bader’s flareto center in the fifth scored Carpenter to put the Cardinals in front and Goldschmidthit an opposite-field double following alead-off walk to Kolten Wong in the sixth.Otherwise, Marvel was efficient and rarely rattled.

“A very good first impression,” Hurdle said.

Marvel will get a chance at a second, third and fourth.

‘ He’s taken it to another level. He was as advertised from what we watched coming in here. It’s been going on for two months. ’

Clint HurdlePittsburgh Pirates manager,

on Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty

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American LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBNew York 94 50 .653 —Tampa Bay 86 59 .593 8ABoston 76 67 .531 17AToronto 55 89 .382 39Baltimore 46 97 .322 47A

Central DivisionMinnesota 88 55 .615 —Cleveland 83 61 .576 5AChicago 63 80 .441 25Kansas City 53 91 .368 35ADetroit 42 100 .296 45A

West DivisionHouston 94 50 .653 —Oakland 84 59 .587 9ATexas 72 73 .497 22ALos Angeles 67 77 .465 27Seattle 58 86 .403 36

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBAtlanta 89 55 .618 —Washington 79 63 .556 9Philadelphia 74 68 .521 14New York 72 70 .507 16Miami 51 91 .359 37

Central DivisionSt. Louis 81 62 .566 —Chicago 76 66 .535 4AMilwaukee 74 68 .521 6ACincinnati 67 77 .465 14APittsburgh 62 81 .434 19

West DivisionLos Angeles 93 52 .641 —Arizona 75 68 .524 17San Francisco 69 74 .483 23San Diego 66 76 .465 25AColorado 60 84 .417 32A

Sunday’s gamesTampa Bay 8, Toronto 3Miami 9, Kansas City 0Texas 10, Baltimore 4Houston 21, Seattle 1Cleveland 5, Minnesota 2Chicago White Sox 5, L.A. Angels 1Oakland 3, Detroit 1N.Y. Yankees 10, Boston 5Cincinnati 4, Arizona 3St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 0Washington 9, Atlanta 4Milwaukee 8, Chicago Cubs 5Philadelphia 10, N.Y. Mets 7L.A. Dodgers 5, San Francisco 0San Diego 2, Colorado 1, 10 innings

Monday’s gamesN.Y. Yankees at BostonOakland at HoustonCleveland at L.A. AngelsAtlanta at PhiladelphiaArizona at N.Y. MetsMilwaukee at MiamiPittsburgh at San FranciscoChicago Cubs at San Diego

Tuesday’s gamesN.Y. Yankees (TBD) at Detroit (Jackson

3-9)L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 12-3) at Balti-

more (Blach 1-2)Boston (Eovaldi 1-0) at Toronto (Font

3-4)Washington (Sanchez 8-7) at Minne-

sota (Berrios 11-8)Tampa Bay (Yarbrough 11-3) at Texas

(Lynn 14-10)Kansas City (Junis 9-12) at Chicago

White Sox (Nova 9-12)Oakland (Roark 9-8) at Houston (Miley

13-4)Cleveland (Plesac 7-6) at L.A. Angels

(Suarez 2-5)Cincinnati (Bauer 10-12) at Seattle

(Sheffield 0-1)Atlanta (Fried 16-4) at Philadelphia

(Vargas 6-7)Arizona (Gallen 3-4) at N.Y. Mets

(Wheeler 10-7)Milwaukee (Anderson 6-4) at Miami

(Hernandez 3-5)St. Louis (Wacha 6-6) at Colorado

(Gonzalez 0-6)Pittsburgh (Keller 1-3) at San Fran-

cisco (Cueto )Chicago Cubs (Quintana 13-8) at San

Diego (Bolanos 0-1)

SundayYankees 10, Red Sox 5

New York Boston ab r h bi ab r h bi LMhieu 3b-1b 4 1 1 0 Betts rf 4 1 2 1Judge rf 5 1 2 2 Devers 3b 4 0 1 0Gregorius ss 4 2 0 0 Bogaerts ss 4 0 0 0Sanchez c 5 1 0 1 Martinez dh 4 0 0 0Encrncion dh 5 1 3 1 Benintndi lf 4 0 0 0Torres 2b 5 2 3 4 Holt 2b 4 1 2 0Gardner cf 5 0 0 0 Morelnd 1b 4 1 1 1Voit 1b 4 0 1 0 Leon c 3 1 2 11-Wade pr 0 0 0 0 Brdley Jr. cf 3 1 1 2Urshela 3b 1 0 0 0 Tauchman lf 2 2 2 2 Maybin lf 2 0 1 0 Totals 42 10 13 10 Totals 34 5 9 5New York 022 220 002—10Boston 002 200 010— 5

E—Devers 3 (22). DP—New York 2, Bos-ton 0. LOB—New York 7, Boston 2. 2B—Tauchman (18), Torres (23), Moreland (14), Leon (3). HR—Torres (35), Tauch-man (13), Judge (21), Bradley Jr. (18), Betts (27). SB—Torres (5). IP H R ER BB SONew YorkTanaka 4 8 4 4 0 2Green, W, 3-4 3 0 0 0 0 5Ottavino 1 1 1 1 0 0Loaisiga 1 0 0 0 0 2BostonPorcello, L, 12-12 4 7 6 6 0 1Brasier B 2 2 1 0 1Kelley B 0 0 0 0 0Taylor B 0 0 0 0 1Chacin 1 0 0 0 1 0Smith 2 2 0 0 0 2Walden B 1 2 1 1 0Velazquez C 1 0 0 0 0

T—3:48. A—35,681 (37,731).

Indians 5, Twins 2Cleveland Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h bi Lindor ss 5 1 2 1 Kepler rf 1 0 0 0Mercado cf 4 0 1 1 Miller cf 2 0 0 0Santana 1b 3 1 1 1 a-Cron ph 1 0 0 0Puig rf 4 1 1 0 LaMarre cf 1 0 0 0Kipnis 2b 4 1 3 0 Garver dh 4 1 1 1Reyes dh 4 0 2 2 Polanco ss 4 0 0 0Allen lf 4 0 1 0 Rosario lf 4 0 0 0Plawecki c 4 0 0 0 Astudillo c 4 0 1 0Chang 3b 3 1 0 0 Arraez 3b 4 1 1 0 Adrianza 1b 4 0 1 0 Wade Jr cf-rf 1 0 1 1 Schoop 2b 2 0 0 0Totals 35 5 11 5 Totals 32 2 5 2Cleveland 021 010 100—5Minnesota 000 100 100—2

DP—Cleveland 0, Minnesota 1. LOB—Cleveland 8, Minnesota 8. 2B—Kipnis (22), Lindor (36), Mercado (21), Astudi-llo (8), Adrianza (8). HR—Santana (33), Lindor (29), Garver (29). SB—Lindor (21). SF—Mercado (4). IP H R ER BB SOClevelandClevinger, W, 11-2 6B 4 2 2 2 7Wittgren, H, 11 C 1 0 0 1 2O.Perez, H, 20 1 0 0 0 0 0Hand, S, 34-39 1 0 0 0 1 1MinnesotaDobnak, L, 0-1 2 3 2 2 1 1Smeltzer 4 5 2 2 1 5Stashak B 1 1 1 1 0Harper 1 0 0 0 0 2Romero 1C 2 0 0 1 2

Harper pitched to 1 batter in the 8th. HBP—Hand (Wade Jr). WP—Romero. T—3:07. A—31,380 (38,649).

Phillies 10, Mets 7Philadelphia New York ab r h bi ab r h bi Hernndez 2b 5 1 1 0 McNeil 3b 5 1 2 0Segura ss 4 2 2 1 Alonso 1b 5 1 1 0Dickerson lf 5 0 1 2 Conforto rf 5 1 1 0Hoskins 1b 5 1 2 0 Ramos c 4 2 3 3Kingery cf 4 1 1 2 Cano 2b 3 1 1 2Haseley rf 2 1 1 1 J.Davis lf 4 0 1 0Gosselin ph 1 1 1 1 Nimmo cf 3 1 1 1Rodriguez rf 1 1 0 0 Rosario ss 5 0 3 0Franco 3b 5 1 2 2 Syndergrd p 2 0 0 0Knapp c 3 1 1 0 Frazier ph 1 0 0 0Velasquez p 2 0 0 0 Sewald p 0 0 0 0Hughes p 0 0 0 0 Avilan p 0 0 0 0Suarez p 0 0 0 0 Wilson p 0 0 0 0Pirela ph 1 0 1 0 Bashlor p 0 0 0 0Alvarez p 0 0 0 0 Zamora p 0 0 0 0Morin p 0 0 0 0 Panik ph 1 0 1 1Harper ph 0 0 0 1 Diaz p 0 0 0 0Parker p 0 0 0 0 Familia p 0 0 0 0Vincent p 0 0 0 0 Lowrie ph 1 0 0 0Neris p 0 0 0 0 Totals 38 10 13 10 Totals 39 7 14 7Philadelphia 001 123 300—10New York 300 012 100— 7

E—McNeil (7). DP—Philadelphia 1, New York 0. LOB—Philadelphia 7, New York 14. 2B—Hoskins 2 (30), Franco (15), Ramos (16). HR—Haseley (4), Franco (16), Kingery (18), Ramos (14), Cano (12). SB—Kingery (12), Hernandez 2 (9), Segura (8). SF—Segura (3), Cano (2). S—Kingery (1). IP H R ER BB SOPhiladelphiaVelasquez 4B 6 4 4 4 5Hughes 0 0 0 0 1 0Suarez W,5-1 C 1 0 0 0 1Alvarez H,12 C 2 2 2 1 0Morin H,7 B 0 0 0 0 0Parker 1 2 1 1 1 1Vincent H,1 1 1 0 0 0 2Neris S,24-30 1 2 0 0 0 2New YorkSyndergaard 5 6 4 4 1 5Sewald L,0-1 B 1 1 1 0 0Avilan C 3 2 2 0 0Wilson C 2 2 2 0 2Bashlor 0 1 1 1 3 0Zamora B 0 0 0 0 0Diaz 1 0 0 0 0 2Familia 1 0 0 0 0 1

Hughes pitched to 1 batter in the 5th, Bashlor pitched to 4 batters in the 7th. HBP—Velasquez (Alonso). T—4:29. A—30,264 (41,922).

Nationals 9, Braves 4Washington Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h biTurner ss 3 1 1 0 Acuna Jr. cf 2 0 0 0Difo ss 2 0 1 0 Hamilton cf 2 0 0 0Eaton rf 4 2 2 3 Albies 2b 3 0 0 0Taylor rf 1 0 0 0 Hchvrria 2b 1 0 0 0Rendon 3b 4 1 2 0 Freeman 1b 3 0 0 0Sanchz pr-3b 0 1 0 0 Culbrson 1b 1 1 1 1Soto lf 4 1 1 1 Donldson 3b 2 0 0 0Stevenson lf 0 0 0 0 Camargo 3b 1 1 1 0Cabrera 2b 5 0 4 3 Joyce rf 3 1 2 1Adams 1b 5 0 0 0 Riley ph 1 0 0 0Robles cf 5 0 2 0 Swanson ss 4 1 1 0Gomes c 5 2 2 2 Flowers c 3 0 0 0Scherzer p 3 1 1 0 Ortega lf 3 0 0 0Suero p 0 0 0 0 Walker p 0 0 0 0Dozier ph 1 0 1 0 Cervelli ph 1 0 1 1Guerra p 0 0 0 0 Soroka p 2 0 0 0 Sobotka p 0 0 0 0 Minter p 0 0 0 0 Duvall lf 2 0 1 1Totals 42 9 17 9 Totals 34 4 7 4Washington 211 000 401—9Atlanta 010 000 003—4

DP—Washington 0, Atlanta 2. LOB—Washington 8, Atlanta 6. 2B—Rendon 2 (41), Eaton (22), Cabrera (8), Robles (29), Joyce (10), Cervelli (5). HR—Eaton (13), Gomes 2 (9), Soto (33), Joyce (7), Culber-son (5). SB—Scherzer (2). IP H R ER BB SOWashingtonScherzer W,10-5 6 2 1 1 2 9Suero 1 0 0 0 1 2Guerra 2 5 3 3 0 3AtlantaSoroka L,11-4 6 7 4 4 1 7Sobotka B 3 4 4 1 1Minter 1B 4 0 0 0 1Walker 1B 3 1 1 0 3

T—3:16. A—31,789 (41,149).

Rays 8, Blue Jays 3Toronto Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h bi Bichette ss 4 0 1 0 Wendle 2b 4 1 1 0Hernndez cf 3 0 0 0 Pham dh 4 0 1 0Alford ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Meadows lf 4 3 2 1Tellez 1b 4 1 1 0 Garcia rf 4 2 3 3Guerrero dh 3 1 1 1 Choi 1b 2 0 0 1Grichuk rf 4 1 1 2 d’Arnaud c 3 0 1 1Davis lf-cf 4 0 1 0 Kiermaier cf 2 1 0 0Drury 3b 3 0 1 0 Lowe ph 1 0 0 0Jansen c 4 0 0 0 Heredia cf 1 0 0 0Urena 2b 3 0 0 0 Adames ss 4 1 1 0 Robertson 3b 3 0 1 2Totals 33 3 6 3 Totals 32 8 10 8Toronto 020 000 001—3Tampa Bay 120 030 20x—8

DP—Toronto 1, Tampa Bay 0. LOB—To-ronto 5, Tampa Bay 4. 2B—Tellez (15), Garcia 2 (22), Adames (22), d’Arnaud (13). 3B—Robertson (1). HR—Grichuk (25), Meadows (28), Garcia (19). SF—Choi (6). IP H R ER BB SOTorontoWaguespack, L, 4-4 4B 7 6 6 2 2Font C 1 0 0 0 1Gaviglio 2 2 2 2 0 2Giles 1 0 0 0 0 0Tampa BayGlasnow 2 1 2 2 2 5Richards, W, 2-0 2C 1 0 0 0 2Roe, H, 24 B 0 0 0 0 0Castillo 2 0 0 0 0 3Sulser 1 1 0 0 0 0Banda 1 3 1 1 0 0

HBP—Gaviglio (Robertson). T—2:36. A—14,071 (25,025).

Athletics 3, Tigers 1Detroit Oakland ab r h bi ab r h bi Reyes cf 3 0 1 0 Semien ss 4 1 2 0Demeritte rf 4 0 0 0 Chapman 3b 4 0 0 0Candlario dh 3 0 0 0 Olson 1b 3 0 0 0Rodriguez 2b 2 0 0 0 Canha cf 3 1 2 1H.Castro ph 1 0 0 0 Pinder rf 4 1 1 0Lugo 3b 4 0 0 0 Davis dh 3 0 1 2Stewart lf 3 1 1 1 Profar lf 3 0 0 0Hicks 1b 3 0 0 0 Grossman lf 0 0 0 0Greiner c 3 0 0 0 Neuse 2b 3 0 0 0Mercer ss 3 0 0 0 Phegley c 3 0 1 0Totals 29 1 2 1 Totals 30 3 7 3Detroit 000 010 000—1Oakland 100 200 00x—3

E—Greiner (5). DP—Detroit 1, Oakland 0. LOB—Detroit 4, Oakland 5. 2B—Reyes (14), Semien (37), Davis (10). HR—Stew-art (9). SB—Reyes (5). IP H R ER BB SODetroitNorris L,3-12 3 1 1 1 0 2VerHagen 4B 6 2 2 0 3Soto C 0 0 0 1 0OaklandManaea W,1-0 7 2 1 1 2 10Petit H,26 1 0 0 0 1 2Hendriks S,19-24 1 0 0 0 0 1

HBP—Norris (Olson). WP—Soto. T—2:14. A—24,550 (46,765).

White Sox 5, Angels 1Los Angeles Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi Goodwin lf 4 0 0 0 Moncada 3b 5 0 1 0Fletcher ss 2 1 0 0 Mendick ss 5 2 2 1Ohtani dh 4 0 1 1 Abreu 1b 2 1 1 1Pujols 1b 3 0 0 0 Jimenez lf 5 1 1 0Calhoun rf 3 0 0 0 McCann c 4 0 2 1Rengifo 2b 3 0 1 0 Skole dh 3 1 2 0Smith c 4 0 1 0 Cstllo ph-dh 0 0 0 0Thaiss 3b 3 0 0 0 Goins rf 2 0 1 0Hermsillo cf 3 0 2 0 Cordell rf 0 0 0 1 Sanchez 2b 4 0 1 1 Engel cf 4 0 0 0Totals 29 1 5 1 Totals 34 5 11 5Los Angeles 100 000 000—1Chicago 101 011 10x—5

DP—Los Angeles 0, Chicago 3. LOB—Los Angeles 7, Chicago 11. 2B—Jimenez (14), Moncada (27). HR—Abreu (31), Mendick (1). SB—Hermosillo (1). SF—Cordell (2). IP H R ER BB SOLos AngelesRamirez C 2 1 1 1 0Barria L,4-8 4B 4 2 2 1 2Del Pozo C 2 1 1 1 1Middleton B 0 0 0 0 0Cahill B 2 1 1 0 1Mejia 0 0 0 0 1 0Cole 1C 1 0 0 1 1ChicagoCease 3B 4 1 1 5 4Osich W,2-0 2C 1 0 0 0 2Bummer H,20 2 0 0 0 1 1Colome 1 0 0 0 0 1

Mejia pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. WP—Cease. T—3:19. A—22,681 (40,615).

Rangers 10, Orioles 4Texas Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h bi Choo rf 6 1 3 2 Alberto 3b 5 0 3 0Odor 2b 5 2 2 1 Mancini rf 3 0 1 0Calhoun lf 5 1 2 0 Wlkrsn ph-2b 1 0 0 0Solak dh 4 1 3 4 Santander lf 4 0 0 0Forsythe ss 5 1 1 0 Nunez 1b 4 1 1 1Guzman 1b 5 2 3 1 Villar 2b 2 1 0 0DeShields cf 5 0 2 1 Stewart rf 0 1 0 0Kin.-Falfa 3b 5 1 1 0 Trumbo dh 4 0 1 0Trevino c 4 1 3 1 Wynns pr-dh 0 1 0 0 Hays cf 3 0 0 0 Severino c 3 0 1 2 R.Martin ss 4 0 0 1Totals 44 10 20 10 Totals 33 4 7 4Texas 131 103 100—10Baltimore 010 010 002— 4

DP—Texas 1, Baltimore 2. LOB—Texas 15, Baltimore 6. 2B—Guzman (17), Cal-houn (11), Severino (13). HR—Guzman (9), Odor (24), Nunez (29). SB—DeShields (21). SF—Trevino (1). IP H R ER BB SOTexasMinor W,13-8 8 6 2 2 1 3Guerrieri B 1 2 2 3 0Farrell C 0 0 0 0 1

BaltimoreWojciechowski L,2-8 2 6 4 4 1 2Ynoa 2 6 2 2 1 1Scott 1 1 0 0 0 1Tate C 1 3 3 2 1Fry B 1 0 0 0 0Hess 2 5 1 1 0 1Givens 1 0 0 0 1 2

HBP—Wojciechowski (Calhoun), Tate (Guzman). T—3:20. A—16,142 (45,971).

Dodgers 5, Giants 0San Francisco Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h bi Solano 2b 1 0 0 0 Pederson rf 3 1 0 0Crwfrd ph-ss 3 0 0 0 Hrnndz ph-rf 1 0 1 0Posey c 4 0 2 0 Seager ss 4 1 1 3Slater 1b 1 0 1 0 Pollock lf 3 0 0 0Belt ph-1b 2 0 0 0 Bellinger 1b 3 1 0 0Longoria 3b 4 0 0 0 Beaty 3b 4 1 2 2Pillar cf 4 0 0 0 Taylor cf 4 0 0 0Yastrzmski lf 3 0 1 0 Lux 2b 2 0 0 0Davis rf 3 0 0 0 Martin c 3 1 1 0Dubon ss-2b 3 0 0 0 Urias p 0 0 0 0Rodriguez p 2 0 0 0 Maeda p 0 0 0 0Selman p 0 0 0 0 Sadler p 0 0 0 0Barrclough p 0 0 0 0 Wil.Smth ph 1 0 0 0Peralta p 0 0 0 0 Y.Garcia p 0 0 0 0Joseph ph 1 0 0 0 Kolarek p 0 0 0 0B.Smith p 0 0 0 0 Sborz p 0 0 0 0Totals 31 0 4 0 Totals 28 5 5 5San Francisco 000 000 000—0Los Angeles 000 230 00x—5

E—Dubon (1). LOB—San Francisco 5, Los Angeles 4. 2B—Beaty (18). HR—Beaty (9), Seager (14). SB—Davis (1). S—Maeda 2 (13). IP H R ER BB SOSan FranciscoRodriguez L,5-9 4C 3 5 2 3 4Selman 1B 0 0 0 0 0Barraclough C 0 0 0 0 2Peralta B 1 0 0 0 0B.Smith 1 1 0 0 0 1Los AngelesUrias 2 3 0 0 0 4Maeda W,9-8 4 1 0 0 0 6Sadler 1 0 0 0 0 0Y.Garcia C 0 0 0 0 0Kolarek B 0 0 0 0 0Sborz 1 0 0 0 1 1

WP—Urias. T—2:46. A—52,310 (56,000).

Reds 4, Diamondbacks 3Arizona Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h bi Locstro cf-rf 4 1 0 0 VnMtr rf-2b 4 0 0 0Rojas lf 3 0 1 0 Lornzen ph 1 0 1 1Marte 2b 4 1 1 2 Votto 1b 4 1 2 0Escobar 3b 3 1 0 0 Suarez 3b 4 2 3 3Lamb 1b 2 0 0 0 Barnhart c 4 0 1 0Almonte rf 4 0 0 0 Galvis 2b-ss 4 0 1 0Chafin p 0 0 0 0 J.Iglesias ss 3 0 1 0Sherfy p 0 0 0 0 Garrett p 0 0 0 0Scott p 0 0 0 0 Stephnsn p 0 0 0 0Lopez p 0 0 0 0 Aquino ph 1 0 0 0McFarland p 0 0 0 0 R.Iglesias p 0 0 0 0Ahmed ss 4 0 1 1 Dietrich lf 3 0 0 0Avila c 3 0 0 0 Blandino ph 1 0 0 0Leake p 3 0 0 0 O’Grady cf 2 0 1 0Andriese p 0 0 0 0 Peraza ph 1 1 1 0Dyson cf 0 0 0 0 DeSclafni p 2 0 0 0 Ervin rf 2 0 1 0Totals 30 3 3 3 Totals 36 4 12 4Arizona 010 020 000—3Cincinnati 002 000 011—4

E—Suarez (15). DP—Arizona 0, Cincin-nati 1. LOB—Arizona 7, Cincinnati 8. 2B—Rojas (4), Lorenzen (2). HR—Marte (32), Suarez 2 (44). SB—Lamb (1). IP H R ER BB SOArizonaLeake 6B 7 2 2 0 3Andriese H,4 C 0 0 0 0 0Chafin H,23 B 0 0 0 0 1Sherfy BS,1-2 C 2 1 1 0 0Scott B 0 0 0 0 1Lopez L,2-6 0 2 1 1 0 0McFarland 0 1 0 0 0 0CincinnatiDeSclafani 6 3 3 2 3 3Garrett 1 0 0 0 1 0Stephenson 1 0 0 0 1 3R.Iglesias W,3-11 1 0 0 0 1 0

Lopez pitched to 2 batters in the 9th, McFarland pitched to 1 batter in the 9th. HBP—DeSclafani (Locastro), Leake (O’Grady). WP—Garrett. T—3:12. A—19,717 (42,319).

Marlins 9, Royals 0Kansas City Miami ab r h bi ab r h bi Merrifield cf 4 0 1 0 Rojas ss 5 1 2 1Hahn p 0 0 0 0 Castro 3b 4 3 2 2Mondesi ss 3 0 1 0 Cooper rf 5 0 3 0Skoglund p 0 0 0 0 Alfaro c 4 1 1 0Cuthbert 3b 1 0 0 0 Ramirez lf 4 1 2 2Soler rf 3 0 0 0 Prado 1b 3 1 1 0Starling rf 1 0 0 0 Diaz 2b 3 1 1 1Dozier 3b 3 0 1 0 Brinson cf 3 1 1 2Speier p 0 0 0 0 Alcantara p 3 0 0 0Phillips cf 1 0 0 0 O’Hearn 1b 4 0 0 0 McBroom lf 3 0 0 0 Dini c 2 0 0 0 N.Lopez 2b 3 0 0 0 Montgmry p 1 0 0 0 Zimmer p 0 0 0 0 Mejia ph 0 0 0 0 Arteaga ss 1 0 1 0 Totals 30 0 4 0 Totals 34 9 13 8Kansas City 000 000 000—0Miami 100 422 00x—9

E—Merrifield (11). DP—Kansas City 1, Miami 1. LOB—Kansas City 5, Miami 7. 2B—Rojas (23), Castro (25). HR—Castro (18). S—Alcantara (3). IP H R ER BB SOKansas CityMontgomery L,2-6 4 8 5 5 0 2Zimmer 1 1 2 2 4 2Skoglund 1 3 2 2 0 0Speier 1 0 0 0 0 1Hahn 1 1 0 0 0 2MiamiAlcantara W,5-12 9 4 0 0 2 8

HBP—Montgomery (Alfaro). WP—Zim-mer. T—2:40. A—10,934 (36,742).

Astros 21, Mariners 1Seattle Houston ab r h bi ab r h bi Gordon ss 3 0 0 0 Springer rf 7 2 1 4Moore ss 1 0 0 0 Altuve 2b 3 1 1 0Long 2b 3 1 1 1 Stubbs pr-lf 1 3 1 0Nola 1b-3b 3 0 0 0 Bregman ss 2 1 1 0Seager 3b 2 0 0 0 Straw pr-ss 3 3 3 1Court 1b 1 0 0 0 Alvarez dh 6 1 4 6Narvaez c 3 0 0 0 Diaz 1b-2b 4 1 2 2Voglbach dh 3 0 0 0 Tucker lf-1b 5 2 2 3Lopes lf 3 0 0 0 Toro 3b 5 3 2 0Bishop cf 3 0 0 0 Maldnado c 5 3 2 1Broxton rf 3 0 0 0 Marisnck cf 6 1 3 2Totals 28 1 1 1 Totals 47 21 22 19Seattle 000 100 000— 1Houston 049 021 50x—21

E—Gordon (9). LOB—Seattle 0, Hous-ton 10. 2B—Toro 2 (2), Altuve (25), Alvarez3 (22), Diaz (8), Tucker 2 (3), Maldonado(4), Stubbs (2). HR—Long (2), Marisnick(10), Springer (31). IP H R ER BB SOSeattleHernandez L,1-6 2 7 11 7 2 1Swanson 1 3 2 2 1 1LeBlanc 3 6 3 3 2 5McClain 1 5 5 5 2 0Grotz 1 1 0 0 0 1HoustonCole W,16-5 8 1 1 1 0 15Devenski 1 0 0 0 0 2

Hernandez pitched to 7 batters in the 3rd. HBP—Hernandez (Bregman). T—2:50. A—35,569 (41,168).

Cardinals 2, Pirates 0St. Louis Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h bi Edman rf-3b 4 0 0 0 Newman ss 3 0 1 0Wong 2b 3 1 0 0 Reynolds lf 4 0 0 0Gldschmdt 1b 3 0 1 1 Baron c 0 0 0 0Ozuna lf 4 0 1 0 Marte cf 3 0 0 0DeJong ss 4 0 0 0 Diaz ph 1 0 0 0Molina c 3 0 0 0 Moran 3b 4 0 1 0Carpenter 3b 3 1 2 0 Osuna 1b 4 0 1 0Arozrna pr-rf 1 0 0 0 M.Cbrera rf 3 0 2 0Bader cf 3 0 1 1 Frazier 2b 3 0 0 0Flaherty p 2 0 0 0 Crick p 0 0 0 0C.Martinez p 0 0 0 0 Ramirez p 0 0 0 0 Stallings c 2 0 0 0 Krmer ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Marvel p 1 0 0 0 Rios p 0 0 0 0 Tucker ph 1 0 0 0 Wang p 0 0 0 0 Reyes 2b-lf 0 0 0 0Totals 30 2 5 2 Totals 30 0 5 0St. Louis 000 011 000—2Pittsburgh 000 000 000—0

DP—St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 0. LOB—St.Louis 6, Pittsburgh 5. 2B—Carpenter (17), Goldschmidt (19), Newman (18), Osuna(16). S—Flaherty (7). IP H R ER BB SOSt. LouisFlaherty W,10-7 8 5 0 0 1 10C.Martinez S,19-22 1 0 0 0 0 1PittsburghMarvel L,0-1 5 4 2 2 2 2Rios 1 0 0 0 0 0Wang 1 1 0 0 1 0Crick 1 0 0 0 1 2Ramirez 1 0 0 0 0 0

Marvel pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.HBP—Flaherty (Newman). WP—Flaherty.T—2:50. A—18,363 (38,362).

Padres 2, Rockies 1 (10)Colorado San Diego ab r h bi ab r h bi Story ss 4 0 0 0 G.Garcia 2b 4 0 0 0Blackmon rf 4 0 2 0 Martini lf 5 0 1 0Arenado 3b 3 0 0 0 Machado 3b 3 1 0 0Murphy 1b 3 0 1 0 Hosmer 1b 4 0 1 0Desmond lf 4 0 0 0 Myers cf-rf 5 0 3 1Hampson cf 2 0 0 0 Naylor rf 1 1 1 0Hilliard ph-cf 2 0 0 0 Jnkwski pr-cf 1 0 0 0Valaika 2b 3 1 1 0 Hedges c 3 0 0 0Estevez p 0 0 0 0 Urias ss 3 0 1 1Diaz p 0 0 0 0 Lauer p 2 0 0 0Alonso ph 1 0 0 0 Allen ph 1 0 0 0Tinoco p 0 0 0 0 Bednar p 0 0 0 0Howard p 0 0 0 0 Strahm p 0 0 0 0Almonte p 0 0 0 0 Yates p 0 0 0 0Butera c 1 0 0 1 Margot ph 1 0 0 0McMhn ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Stammen p 0 0 0 0Lambert p 1 0 0 0 Fuentes ph 1 0 0 0 Johnson p 0 0 0 0 Shaw p 0 0 0 0 Daza ph 1 0 0 0 Wolters c 0 0 0 0 Totals 31 1 4 1 Totals 33 2 7 2Colorado 001 000 000 0—1San Diego 000 100 000 1—2

DP—Colorado 1, San Diego 1. LOB—Colorado 3, San Diego 11. 2B—Valaika (2),Blackmon (41), Myers (18), Naylor (12). SB—Jankowski (1). SF—Butera (1). IP H R ER BB SOColoradoLambert 5 5 1 1 3 4Johnson C 1 0 0 1 0Shaw 1B 0 0 0 1 2Estevez 1 0 0 0 0 0Diaz 1 0 0 0 0 1Tinoco L,0-2 B 0 1 1 1 0Howard 0 0 0 0 1 0Almonte 0 1 0 0 0 0San DiegoLauer 6 4 1 1 2 4Bednar 1 0 0 0 0 2Strahm 1 0 0 0 0 1Yates 1 0 0 0 0 2Stammen W,8-7 1 0 0 0 0 2

Howard pitched to 1 batter in the 10th,Almonte pitched to 1 batter in the 10th. HBP—Johnson (Urias). WP—Johnson(2),Lauer. T—3:15. A—26,834 (42,445).

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NFLAmerican Conference

East W L T Pct PF PABuffalo 1 0 0 1.000 17 16New England 1 0 0 1.000 33 3N.Y. Jets 0 1 0 .000 16 17Miami 0 1 0 .000 10 59

SouthTennessee 1 0 0 1.000 43 13Houston 0 0 0 .000 0 0Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 24 30Jacksonville 0 1 0 .000 26 40

NorthBaltimore 1 0 0 1.000 59 10Cincinnati 0 1 0 .000 20 21Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 13 43Pittsburgh 0 1 0 .000 3 33

WestKansas City 1 0 0 1.000 40 26L.A. Chargers 1 0 0 1.000 30 24Denver 0 0 0 .000 0 0Oakland 0 0 0 .000 0 0

National ConferenceEast

W L T Pct PF PADallas 1 0 0 1.000 35 17Philadelphia 1 0 0 1.000 32 27Washington 0 1 0 .000 27 32N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 17 35

SouthNew Orleans 0 0 0 .000 0 0Carolina 0 1 0 .000 27 30Atlanta 0 1 0 .000 12 28Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 17 31

NorthGreen Bay 1 0 0 1.000 10 3Minnesota 1 0 0 1.000 28 12Detroit 0 0 1 .500 27 27Chicago 0 1 0 .000 3 10

WestSan Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 31 17L.A. Rams 1 0 0 1.000 30 27Seattle 1 0 0 1.000 21 20Arizona 0 0 1 .500 27 27

Thursday’s gameGreen Bay 10, Chicago 3

Sunday’s gamesBaltimore 59, Miami 10Kansas City 40, Jacksonville 26Minnesota 28, Atlanta 12Tennessee 43, Cleveland 13Buffalo 17, N.Y. Jets 16L.A. Rams 30, Carolina 27Philadelphia 32, Washington 27L.A. Chargers 30, Indianapolis 24, OTSeattle 21, Cincinnati 20Dallas 35, N.Y. Giants 17San Francisco 31, Tampa Bay 17Arizona 27, Detroit 27, OTNew England 33, Pittsburgh 3

Monday’s gamesHouston at New OrleansDenver at Oakland.

Thursday, Sept. 12Tampa Bay at Carolina

Sunday, Sept. 15Seattle at PittsburghIndianapolis at TennesseeArizona at BaltimoreNew England at MiamiL.A. Chargers at DetroitDallas at WashingtonJacksonville at HoustonSan Francisco at CincinnatiBuffalo at N.Y. GiantsMinnesota at Green BayKansas City at OaklandChicago at DenverNew Orleans at L.A. RamsPhiladelphia at Atlanta

Monday, Sept. 16Cleveland at N.Y. Jets

Bills overcome 16-point deficit, stun Jets

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Josh Allen and the Bills had more turnovers than points while scuf-fling through much of the first three quarters against the Jets.

None of those early struggles mattered in the end.

Allen threw a 38-yard touch-down pass to John Brown with 3 minutes left, and Buffalo over-came four early turnovers to rally from a 16-point second-half defi-cit and stun Le’Veon Bell and the Jets in the season opener Sunday.

“We just kept fighting until the time was up,” Brown said.

After struggling to get much going on offense, the Bills finally were able to move the ball after Jets middle linebacker C.J. Mos-ley left with a groin injury late in the third quarter.

Bills 17, Jets 16Buffalo 0 0 3 14—17New York 6 0 10 0—16

First QuarterNYJ—Mosley 17 interception return

(kick failed), 10:34.Third Quarter

NYJ—safety, 11:52.NYJ—Bell 9 pass from Darnold (Bell

pass from Darnold), 7:01.Buf—FG Hauschka 43, 3:48.

Fourth QuarterBuf—Allen 3 run (Hauschka kick), 10:21.Buf—J.Brown 38 pass from Allen

(Hauschka kick), 3:00.A—78,523.

Buf NYJFirst downs 23 17Total Net Yards 370 223Rushes-yards 25-128 21-68Passing 242 155Punt Returns 1-10 0-0Kickoff Returns 0-0 1-10Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-21Comp-Att-Int 24-37-2 28-41-0Sacked-Yards Lost 1-12 4-20Punts 3-43.3 7-43.4Fumbles-Lost 2-2 2-1Penalties-Yards 7-55 8-67Time of Possession 27:59 32:01

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Buffalo, Singletary 4-70,

Allen 10-38, Gore 11-20. New York, Bell 17-60, Crowder 1-4, Montgomery 2-4, Darnold 1-0.

PASSING—Buffalo, Allen 24-37-2-254. New York, Darnold 28-41-0-175.

RECEIVING—Buffalo, J.Brown 7-123, Beasley 5-40, Singletary 5-28, Sweeney 2-35, Jones 2-18, DiMarco 2-9, Knox 1-1. New York, Crowder 14-99, Bell 6-32, R.Anderson 3-23, Griffin 3-10, Bellamy 1-15, Enunwa 1-(minus 4).

MISSED FIELD GOALS—New York, Ve-dvik 45.

Vikings trample Falcons behind defense, Cook

MINNEAPOLIS — Anthony Harris highlighted a thorough thrashing by Minnesota’s defense with two interceptions of Matt Ryan and a fumble recovery, Dalvin Cook carried a revived running attack, and the Vikings started the season by beating the Atlanta Falcons.

Eric Wilson recovered his own blocked punt at the Atlanta 21-yard line after a three-and-out by the Falcons on the first posses-sion of the game, and the Vikings were well on their way to winning a fourth straight opener. They turned all four Falcons turnovers into touchdowns.

Kirk Cousins connected with Adam Thielen for a 23-yard score to finish the short first drive and crossed the goal line on a 1-yard sneak in the second quarter to cap a 79-yard march to give Min-nesota a 21-0 lead.

Cook had 21 rushes for 111 yards and two touchdowns behind the new zone blocking scheme in-fluenced heavily by new offensive adviser Gary Kubiak, the former Houston and Denver head coach.

Vikings 28, Falcons 12Atlanta 0 0 0 12—12Minnesota 14 7 7 0—28

First QuarterMin—Thielen 23 pass from Cousins

(D.Bailey kick), 11:50.Min—Cook 19 run (D.Bailey kick), 8:22.

Second QuarterMin—Cousins 1 run (D.Bailey kick),

4:40.Third Quarter

Min—Cook 7 run (D.Bailey kick), :29.Fourth Quarter

Atl—Ridley 20 pass from Ryan (pass failed), 9:19.

Atl—J.Jones 2 pass from Ryan (pass failed), 1:05.

A—66,714. Atl MinFirst downs 27 18Total Net Yards 345 269Rushes-yards 17-73 38-172Passing 272 97Punt Returns 4-46 0-0Kickoff Returns 2-44 1-13Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-0Comp-Att-Int 33-46-2 8-10-0Sacked-Yards Lost 4-32 1-1Punts 4-32.5 5-49.4Fumbles-Lost 1-1 2-0Penalties-Yards 9-78 11-100Time of Possession 30:13 29:47

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Atlanta, It.Smith 6-31, Ryan

2-24, Freeman 8-19, Gage 1-(minus 1). Minnesota, Cook 21-111, Mattison 9-49, Abdullah 2-8, Cousins 6-4.

PASSING—Atlanta, Ryan 33-46-2-304. Minnesota, Cousins 8-10-0-98.

RECEIVING—Atlanta, Hooper 9-77, J.Jones 6-31, Sanu 5-57, Ridley 4-64, Hardy 4-41, Freeman 3-12, Gage 1-13, It.Smith 1-9. Minnesota, Thielen 3-43, Diggs 2-37, Cook 2-9, Beebe 1-9.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Seahawks hold offDalton, Bengals

SEATTLE — Russell Wilson hit Tyler Lockett for a 44-yard touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter, and Seattle with-stood a career day from Andy Dalton to beat Cincinnati.

Wilson and the Seahawks struggled offensively for most of the game, but got the big plays they needed on a day Dalton looked great running new coach Zac Taylor’s offense. Wilson was 14-for-20 for 196 yards and two scores .

Wilson’s numbers were pe-destrian compared to Dalton’s. The veteran threw for a career-high 418 yards and two first-half touchdowns to John Ross. But the Bengals failed to score on three possessions inside Seattle’s 36-yard line in the third quarter.

Ross, who had 210 yards re-ceiving all of last season, finished with seven catches for 158 yards. He caught a 33-yard touchdown on a flea-flicker midway through the second quarter and hauled in a 55-yard TD pass with 7 seconds left in the first half .

Seahawks 21, Bengals 20Cincinnati 3 14 0 3—20Seattle 0 14 0 7—21

First QuarterCin—FG Bullock 39, 2:48.

Second QuarterSea—Carson 1 run (Myers kick), 6:36.Cin—Ross 33 pass from Dalton (Bull-

ock kick), 5:12.Sea—Carson 10 pass from R.Wilson

(Myers kick), :52.Cin—Ross 55 pass from Dalton (Bull-

ock kick), :07.Fourth Quarter

Sea—Lockett 44 pass from R.Wilson (Myers kick), 14:53.

Cin—FG Bullock 27, 7:00.A—68,710.

Cin SeaFirst downs 22 12Total Net Yards 429 233Rushes-yards 14-34 25-72Passing 395 161Punt Returns 4-34 0-0Kickoff Returns 0-0 1-21Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0Comp-Att-Int 35-51-0 14-20-0Sacked-Yards Lost 5-23 4-35Punts 4-44.3 8-47.0Fumbles-Lost 4-3 1-1Penalties-Yards 7-57 8-55Time of Possession 35:50 24:10

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Cincinnati, Bernard 7-21,

Mixon 6-10, Boyd 1-3. Seattle, Carson 15-46, Penny 6-18, R.Wilson 4-8.

PASSING—Cincinnati, Dalton 35-51-0-418. Seattle, R.Wilson 14-20-0-196.

RECEIVING—Cincinnati, Boyd 8-60, Ross 7-158, Eifert 5-27, Uzomah 4-66, Er-ickson 4-28, D.Willis 3-30, Bernard 2-42, Mixon 2-7. Seattle, Carson 6-35, Metcalf 4-89, Vannett 2-16, Lockett 1-44, Dissly 1-12.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Cincinnati, Bullock 45.

Sherman, 49ers upend Winston, Buccaneers

TAMPA, Fla. — Richard Sher-man and Ahkello Witherspoonreturned two of a retooled SanFrancisco defense’s three inter-ceptions of Jameis Winston for touchdowns in the 49ers’s victoryover Tampa Bay.

Jimmy Garoppolo threw for166 yards and one touchdown in his first game in nearly a year.

Winston threw for 194 yards to become Tampa Bay’s career pass-ing leader, including a 10-yard scoring pass to Chris Godwin that trimmed a deficit to 20-14 late inthe third quarter. The Bucs couldnot overcome the fifth-year quar-terback’s mistakes and dropped their debut under coach BruceArians, who was lured out of re-tirement after Tampa Bay fin-ished 5-11 last season .

Garoppolo, who missed mostof last season with a knee injury,completed 18 of 27 passes withone interception.

49ers 31, Buccaneers 17San Francisco 3 3 14 11—31Tampa Bay 0 7 7 3—17

First QuarterSF—FG Gould 29, 11:08.

Second QuarterTB—Hargreaves 15 interception return

(Gay kick), 8:41.SF—FG Gould 36, 2:55.

Third QuarterSF—James 39 pass from Garoppolo

(Gould kick), 12:31.SF—Sherman 31 interception return

(Gould kick), 11:44.TB—Godwin 10 pass from Winston

(Gay kick), 5:43.Fourth Quarter

TB—FG Gay 31, 4:47.SF—FG Gould 47, 2:17.SF—Witherspoon 25 interception re-

turn (Samuel pass from Garoppolo),2:01.

A—55,976. SF TBFirst downs 17 21Total Net Yards 256 295Rushes-yards 32-98 26-121Passing 158 174Punt Returns 0-0 1-0Kickoff Returns 0-0 3-60Interceptions Ret. 3-57 1-15Comp-Att-Int 18-27-1 20-36-3Sacked-Yards Lost 1-8 3-20Punts 2-45.5 2-21.0Fumbles-Lost 1-1 3-1Penalties-Yards 11-87 8-87Time of Possession 30:04 29:56

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—San Francisco, Mostert 9-

40, Breida 15-37, Coleman 6-23, Garoppo-lo 2-(minus 2). Tampa Bay, R.Jones 13-75,Barber 8-33, Winston 5-13.

PASSING—San Francisco, Garoppolo 18-27-1-166. Tampa Bay, Winston 20-36-3-194.

RECEIVING—San Francisco, Kittle 8-54, Samuel 3-17, Coleman 2-33, James 1-39, Bourne 1-9, Pettis 1-7, Goodwin 1-7, Mo-stert 1-0. Tampa Bay, Ogunbowale 4-33, Howard 4-32, Godwin 3-53, M.Evans 2-28, Barber 2-12, Perriman 2-10, Brate 2-8, R.Jones 1-18.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—San Francisco,Gould 57.

SETH WENIG/AP

Jets running back Le’Veon Bell, right, runs past the Bills’ Shaq Lawson during the second half on Sunday. Bell had 60 yards rushing.

BRUCE KLUCKHOHN/AP

Vikings running back Dalvin Cook finds running room against the Falcons on Sunday.

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NFL

Chargers 30, Colts 24 (OT)Indianapolis 0 6 10 8 0—24L.A. Chargers 7 10 7 0 6—30

First QuarterLAC—Ekeler 1 pass from Rivers (Long

kick), 2:55.Second Quarter

Ind—Hilton 4 pass from Brissett (kick failed), 10:02.

LAC—Allen 28 pass from Rivers (Long kick), 5:58.

LAC—FG Long 40, 1:02.Third Quarter

Ind—FG Vinatieri 44, 11:15.LAC—Ekeler 55 pass from Rivers (Long

kick), 8:27.Ind—Mack 63 run (Vinatieri kick),

7:40.Fourth Quarter

Ind—Hilton 19 pass from Brissett (Mack run), :38.

OvertimeLAC—Ekeler 7 run, 5:01.A—25,363.

Ind LACFirst downs 22 25Total Net Yards 376 435Rushes-yards 33-203 21-125Passing 173 310Punt Returns 1-5 1-0Kickoff Returns 2-44 1-43Interceptions Ret. 1-26 0-0Comp-Att-Int 21-27-0 25-34-1Sacked-Yards Lost 2-17 4-23Punts 3-36.0 2-49.0Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-1Penalties-Yards 3-10 3-20Time of Possession 32:09 32:50

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Indianapolis, Mack 25-174,

Hines 4-13, Brissett 3-9, Campbell 1-7. Los Angeles, Ekeler 12-58, Jackson 6-57, Rivers 1-6, Watt 2-4.

PASSING—Indianapolis, Brissett 21-27-0-190. Los Angeles, Rivers 25-34-1-333.

RECEIVING—Indianapolis, Hilton 8-87, Hines 4-4, Funchess 3-32, Cain 2-35, Doyle 1-20, Ebron 1-8, Alie-Cox 1-3, Campbell 1-1. Los Angeles, Allen 8-123, Ekeler 6-96, Henry 4-60, M.Williams 2-29, Benjamin 2-12, Inman 1-5, Green 1-4, Jackson 1-4.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Indianapolis, Vinatieri 46, Vinatieri 29.

Cowboys 35, Giants 17New York 7 0 3 7—17Dallas 7 14 14 0—35

First QuarterNYG—Engram 1 pass from Manning

(Rosas kick), 8:06.Dal—Jarwin 28 pass from Prescott

(Maher kick), 3:19.Second Quarter

Dal—Witten 4 pass from Prescott (Ma-her kick), 10:19.

Dal—Cooper 21 pass from Prescott (Maher kick), 1:13.

Third QuarterNYG—FG Rosas 28, 10:59.Dal—Cobb 25 pass from Prescott (Ma-

her kick), 9:48.Dal—Elliott 10 run (Maher kick), 1:14.

Fourth QuarterNYG—Gallman 2 run (Rosas kick),

2:49.A—90,353.

NYG DalFirst downs 25 23Total Net Yards 470 494Rushes-yards 17-151 30-89Passing 319 405Punt Returns 2-7 0-0Kickoff Returns 2-46 1-0Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0Comp-Att-Int 33-48-0 25-32-0Sacked-Yards Lost 1-4 0-0Punts 4-41.5 4-41.3Fumbles-Lost 3-2 0-0Penalties-Yards 8-70 6-47Time of Possession 27:42 32:18

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—New York, Barkley 11-120,

Gallman 2-17, Manning 1-6, D.Jones 1-5, Penny 2-3. Dallas, Elliott 13-53, Pollard 13-24, Prescott 4-12.

PASSING—New York, Manning 30-44-0-306, D.Jones 3-4-0-17. Dallas, Prescott 25-32-0-405.

RECEIVING—New York, Engram 11-116, S.Shepard 6-42, Fowler 5-40, Barkley 4-19, Latimer 3-74, Gallman 3-24, Ellison 1-8. Dallas, Gallup 7-158, Cooper 6-106, Cobb 4-69, Jarwin 3-39, Witten 3-15, Elliott 1-10, Austin 1-8.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Eagles 32, Redskins 27Washington 10 10 0 7—27Philadelphia 0 7 14 11—32

First QuarterWas—Davis 48 pass from Keenum

(Hopkins kick), 10:54.Was—FG Hopkins 41, 2:48.

Second QuarterWas—McLaurin 69 pass from Keenum

(Hopkins kick), 9:57.Phi—D.Jackson 51 pass from Wentz

(Elliott kick), 4:19.Was—FG Hopkins 48, :00.

Third QuarterPhi—Jeffery 5 pass from Wentz (Elliott

kick), 7:50.Phi—D.Jackson 53 pass from Wentz

(Elliott kick), 5:07.Fourth Quarter

Phi—Jeffery 2 run (Sproles run), 14:55.Phi—FG Elliott 22, 3:10.Was—Quinn 4 pass from Keenum

(Hopkins kick), :06.A—69,696.

Was PhiFirst downs 15 22Total Net Yards 398 436Rushes-yards 13-28 31-123Passing 370 313Punt Returns 1-11 4-46Kickoff Returns 3-46 0-0Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0Comp-Att-Int 30-45-0 28-39-0Sacked-Yards Lost 1-10 1-0Punts 5-54.4 3-51.3Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0Penalties-Yards 12-96 6-54Time of Possession 25:33 34:27

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Washington, Guice 10-18,

Thompson 3-10. Philadelphia, Sproles 9-47, Howard 6-44, Sanders 11-25, Wentz 4-5, Jeffery 1-2.

PASSING—Washington, Keenum 30-45-0-380. Philadelphia, Wentz 28-39-0-313.

RECEIVING—Washington, Thomp-son 7-68, McLaurin 5-125, Davis 4-59, Richardson 4-36, Quinn 4-33, Guice 3-20, Harmon 2-31, Sprinkle 1-8. Philadelphia, D.Jackson 8-154, Ertz 5-54, Jeffery 5-49, Sproles 3-16, Goedert 2-16, Howard 2-11, Agholor 2-11, Sanders 1-2.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Rams 30, Panthers 27L.A. Rams 0 13 10 7—30Carolina 0 3 10 14—27

Second QuarterLa—FG Zuerlein 49, 13:43.La—Brown 5 run (Zuerlein kick), 12:44.La—FG Zuerlein 56, 1:02.Car—FG Slye 46, :00.

Third QuarterLa—FG Zuerlein 27, 11:53.Car—McCaffrey 8 run (Slye kick), 8:28.La—Brown 1 run (Zuerlein kick), 2:51.Car—FG Slye 52, :11.

Fourth QuarterCar—McCaffrey 2 run (Slye kick),

13:10.La—Higbee 5 pass from Goff (Zuerlein

kick), 6:37.Car—Armah 1 run (Slye kick), 1:58.A—72,005.

LAR CarFirst downs 22 21Total Net Yards 349 343Rushes-yards 32-166 23-127Passing 183 216Punt Returns 2-19 2-24Kickoff Returns 0-0 2-51Interceptions Ret. 1-26 1-0Comp-Att-Int 23-39-1 25-38-1Sacked-Yards Lost 1-3 3-23Punts 4-34.5 4-48.3Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-2Penalties-Yards 5-43 6-46Time of Possession 33:16 26:44

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Los Angeles, Gurley 14-97,

Brown 11-53, Woods 2-16, Henderson 1-0, Goff 4-0. Carolina, McCaffrey 19-128, Armah 1-1, Newton 3-(minus 2).

PASSING—Los Angeles, Goff 23-39-1-186. Carolina, Newton 25-38-1-239.

RECEIVING—Los Angeles, Woods 8-70, Kupp 7-46, Higbee 4-20, Cooks 2-39, Ever-ett 1-7, Gurley 1-4. Carolina, McCaffrey 10-81, Moore 7-76, Olsen 4-36, Samuel 3-32, Wright 1-14.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Los Angeles, Zuerlein 41. Carolina, Slye 53.

Ravens 59, Dolphins 10Baltimore 21 21 10 7—59Miami 0 10 0 0—10

First QuarterBal—Ingram 1 run (Tucker kick),

10:34.Bal—M.Brown 47 pass from Jackson

(Tucker kick), 8:37.Bal—M.Brown 83 pass from Jackson

(Tucker kick), 4:17.Second Quarter

Bal—Snead 33 pass from Jackson (Tucker kick), 13:49.

Mia—FG Sanders 54, 10:38.Bal—Boykin 5 pass from Jackson

(Tucker kick), 6:50.Bal—Ingram 2 run (Tucker kick), 1:42.Mia—P.Williams 6 pass from

R.Fitzpatrick (Sanders kick), :13.Third Quarter

Bal—Ricard 1 pass from Jackson (Tucker kick), 7:54.

Bal—FG Tucker 34, :22.Fourth Quarter

Bal—Andrews 3 pass from Griffin (Tucker kick), 9:24.

A—65,012. Bal MiaFirst downs 31 12Total Net Yards 643 200Rushes-yards 46-265 12-21Passing 378 179Punt Returns 2-29 1-0Kickoff Returns 1-9 3-59Interceptions Ret. 2-14 0-0Comp-Att-Int 23-26-0 15-32-2Sacked-Yards Lost 1-1 3-11Punts 1-56.0 6-53.7Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1Penalties-Yards 4-40 9-64Time of Possession 40:07 19:53

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Baltimore, Ingram 14-107,

Levine 1-60, Edwards 17-56, Hill 7-27, Grif-fin 4-9, Jackson 3-6. Miami, Drake 4-12,R.Fitzpatrick 1-8, Wilson 1-1, Walton 1-1, Ballage 5-(minus 1).

PASSING—Baltimore, Jackson 17-20-0-324, Griffin 6-6-0-55. Miami, R.Fitzpatrick 14-29-1-185, Rosen 1-3-1-5.

RECEIVING—Baltimore, Andrews 8-108, M.Brown 4-147, H.Hurst 3-41, Boyle3-26, Snead 2-41, Roberts 1-10, Boykin1-5, Ricard 1-1. Miami, D.Parker 3-75,P.Williams 3-24, Gesicki 2-31, Drake 2-15, Wilson 2-13, Hurns 1-22, Ballage 1-13, Grant 1-(minus 3).

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Ekeler scores 3 TDs in Chargers’ OT victory

CARSON, Calif. — Austin Ekeler has been a solid backup to Melvin Gordon in the Los An-geles Chargers’ backfield the past two seasons, but he hasn’t gotten much attention while sit-ting behind one of the NFL’s top rushers.

Ekeler isn’t going to be over-looked any longer after his perfor-mance on Sunday as the Chargers defeated the Indianapolis Colts 30-24 in overtime.

With Gordon holding out for a new contract, Ekeler had a career-best 154 yards from scrimmage. He also scored three touchdowns, including the winner on a 7-yard run with 5:01 remaining in over-time to cap an eight-play, 75-yard drive.

Ekeler went undrafted before signing with Los Angeles in 2017. It is his second multi-TD game but the first in which he had a rushing and receiving score. Ac-cording to the Elias Sports Bu-reau, Ekeler is the first undrafted player since Dan Reeves in 1967 to have at least 150 scrimmage yards, two receiving TDs and a rushing touchdown in a game.

Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, completed 25 of 34 passes for 333 yards and three TDs.

Cowboys’ Prescott takes load off Elliott

ARLINGTON, Texas — Eze-kiel Elliott’s workload in the opener didn’t matter much after the Dallas Cowboys running back missed the entire preseason in a holdout.

Now there are more questions about how soon quarterback Dak Prescott will get the big pay-day his backfield mate enjoyed just four days before the season started.

Prescott tied his career high with four touchdown passes while throwing for 405 yards, and the Cowboys rolled up 494 yards under new play-caller Kel-len Moore in a 35-17 win over Eli Manning and the New York Gi-ants .

Saquon Barkley ran 59 yards on his first carry of the season, setting up Eli Manning’s TD pass for a 7-0 lead. But the Giants sim-ply couldn’t keep up with a Dallas offense anxious to see what could happen at full strength.

As expected, Elliott didn’t seem to be in peak form after spending almost all of training camp try-ing to stay in shape in Mexico while waiting for the $90 million, six-year contract extension that was settled on the morning of the first full workout of the regular season.

WR Jackson shines in Philadelphia return

PHILADELPHIA — DeSean Jackson’s homecoming turned into a highlight show for the speedy receiver.

Carson Wentz threw two deep touchdown passes to Jackson, and the Philadelphia Eagles over-came a 17-point deficit to beat the Washington Redskins 32-27.

Wentz was 28-for-39 for 313 yards and three TDs in his first game since Week 14 after not taking a snap in the preseason. Jackson had eight catches for 154 yards. The Eagles racked up 436 total yards.

Case Keenum threw for 380 yards and three TDs, helping the Redskins build a 17-0 lead in his first start with his fourth team in four seasons.

Philadelphia’s powerful offense took over from there and the de-fense settled down after a sloppy start.

Playing his first game back in Philadelphia since former Eagles coach Chip Kelly cut him follow-ing his third Pro Bowl season in 2013, Jackson picked up where he left off six years ago and showed no signs of slowing down at age 32.

Gurley shows up at right time for Rams

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For the better part of three quarters, Todd Gurley was barely visible.

Then the two-time All-Pro run-ning back showed up in a big way to carry the load when the Rams need him most. He ran for 64 of his 97 yards in the fourth quarter to help Los Angeles grind out a 30-27 victory over the Carolina Panthers.

Gurley’s carries were trun-cated late in the Rams’ NFC championship season due to knee soreness, causing some question about his durability heading into 2019. And after Gurley gained just 8 yards on five carries in the first half, there was even more head scratching.

Gurley seemed to catch his stride with a 25-yard burst in the third quarter. And with the Rams protecting a three-point lead with 10 minutes remaining, Gurley carried four straight times, pick-ing up 41 yards to set up a 5-yard touchdown pass from Jared Goff to Tyler Higbee — the difference on the scoreboard.

Gurley added a first down in the final two minutes, allowing the Rams to run out the clock.

“It was four-minute situation,” Gurley said of his mindset. “Get a first down, get out of here and go back to L.A. with the win.”

Jackson throws for 5 TDs as Ravens roll

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.— Nine minutes into the season,Lamar Jackson had fans booing his hometown team.

The South Florida native lookedunstoppable, and tied a Ravens re-cord with five touchdown passesto help them humiliate the MiamiDolphins and rookie coach BrianFlores 59-10.

The Ravens set a franchise re-cord for points in the first half,and an NFL record for points inthe first half of an opener, takinga 42-10 lead at the break. Theybroke franchise marks for pointsand total yards with 643.

Jackson’s first nine passes, all completions, went for 204 yardsand four TDs, including scores of 47 and 83 yards to first-round draft pick Marquise Brown in thefirst 11 minutes.

The performance should help dispel the impression Jackson isone-dimensional.

“Not bad for a running back,”he said.

Mark Ingram, making his Ra-vens debut, ran for 107 yards and two scores.

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Chargers RB Austin Ekeler celebrates after scoring the winning touchdown during overtime against the Colts.

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Cowboys QB Dak Prescott passed for 405 yards and four touchdowns in a convincing victory over the Giants.

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Eagles WR DeSean Jackson hauled in two long touchdowns from QB Carson Wentz. Jackson had eight catches for 154 yards.

BRIAN BLANCO/AP

Rams RB Todd Gurley had a quiet first half but came on strong in the fourth quarter against the Panthers.

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Ravens QB Lamar Jackson relaxes on the sidelines during the second half Sunday. Jackson threw for five TDs.

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Chiefs 40, Jaguars 26Kansas City 17 6 7 10—40Jacksonville 7 6 0 13—26

First QuarterKC—Watkins 68 pass from Mahomes

(Butker kick), 13:24.KC—FG Butker 28, 8:57.Jac—Chark 35 pass from Foles (Lambo

kick), 5:23.KC—Watkins 49 pass from Mahomes

(Butker kick), 2:36.Second Quarter

Jac—FG Lambo 37, 11:36.KC—FG Butker 25, 7:56.Jac—FG Lambo 23, 4:22.KC—FG Butker 46, :24.

Third QuarterKC—Dam.Williams 1 run (Butker kick),

2:25.Fourth Quarter

KC—Watkins 3 pass from Mahomes (Butker kick), 10:56.

Jac—Westbrook 15 pass from Min-shew (pass failed), 7:32.

KC—FG Butker 35, 3:33.Jac—Conley 21 pass from Minshew

(Lambo kick), 1:55.A—60,157.

KC JacFirst downs 24 18Total Net Yards 491 428Rushes-yards 26-113 16-81Passing 378 347Punt Returns 1-0 0-0Kickoff Returns 2-45 2-38Interceptions Ret. 1-5 0-0Comp-Att-Int 25-34-0 27-33-1Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 1-3Punts 1-51.0 2-48.0Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1Penalties-Yards 5-55 10-71Time of Possession 31:15 28:45

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Kansas City, McCoy 10-81,

Dam.Williams 13-26, Hill 1-5, Mahomes 1-2, Moore 1-(minus 1). Jacksonville, Four-nette 13-66, Armstead 1-7, Minshew 1-6, Westbrook 1-2.

PASSING—Kansas City, Mahomes 25-33-0-378, Moore 0-1-0-0. Jacksonville, Foles 5-8-0-75, Minshew 22-25-1-275.

RECEIVING—Kansas City, Watkins 9-198, Dam.Williams 6-39, Kelce 3-88, Hill 2-16, Sherman 1-15, McCoy 1-12, Bell 1-7, Thompson 1-3, D.Robinson 1-0. Jackson-ville, Conley 6-97, Westbrook 5-30, Chark 4-146, O’Shaughnessy 4-32, Fournette 4-28, Swaim 4-17.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Lions 27, Cardinals 27Detroit 0 17 0 7 3—27Arizona 0 3 3 18 3—27

Second QuarterDet—FG Prater 55, 14:07.Det—Amendola 47 pass from Stafford

(Prater kick), 12:23.Det—Golladay 9 pass from Stafford

(Prater kick), 3:38.Ari—FG Gonzalez 20, 1:19.

Third QuarterAri—FG Gonzalez 42, 4:38.

Fourth QuarterDet—Hockenson 23 pass from Stafford

(Prater kick), 14:47.Ari—FG Gonzalez 34, 11:09.Ari—D.Johnson 27 pass from K.Murray

(Gonzalez kick), 5:57.Ari—Fitzgerald 4 pass from K.Murray

(Kirk pass from K.Murray), :43.Overtime

Ari—FG Gonzalez 28, 7:17.Det—FG Prater 33, 3:48.A—60,687.

Det AriFirst downs 23 21Total Net Yards 477 387Rushes-yards 32-116 23-112Passing 361 275Punt Returns 5-(minu 3-18Kickoff Returns 3-48 4-86Interceptions Ret. 1-0 0-0Comp-Att-Int 27-45-0 29-54-1Sacked-Yards Lost 3-24 5-33Punts 8-39.3 8-47.5Fumbles-Lost 3-2 0-0Penalties-Yards 9-59 7-35Time of Possession 39:23 30:37

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Detroit, Ker.Johnson 16-49,

Anderson 11-35, Stafford 3-22, T.Johnson 1-6, M.Jones 1-4. Arizona, D.Johnson 18-82, K.Murray 3-13, Kirk 1-12, Edmonds1-5.

PASSING—Detroit, Stafford 27-45-0-385. Arizona, K.Murray 29-54-1-308.

RECEIVING—Detroit, Amendola 7-104, Hockenson 6-131, M.Jones 4-56, Golladay 4-42, McKissic 2-24, Ker.Johnson 2-13,James 1-15, Bawden 1-0. Arizona, Fitzger-ald 8-113, D.Johnson 6-55, Kee.Johnson5-46, Byrd 4-42, Kirk 4-32, Williams 1-15, Clay 1-5.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Murray leads stirring rally, but Cardinals tie

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Arizona quarterback Kyler Murray watches the final seconds tick off the clock Sunday. The top overall draft pick brought the Cardinals back from an 18-point deficit in the fourth quarter against the Detroit Lions.

BY DAVID BRANDT

Associated Press

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Kyler Murray al-ready had produced a few storybook moments during his first game as an NFL quarterback, and he seemed on the verge of another in overtime. On third down, the Arizona Cardi-nals rookie bounced around for a moment and then fired a pass over the middle.

The ball smacked the hand of Lions line-backer Christian Jones.

It fell harmlessly to the turf.To everyone’s disbelief, all that drama was

about to end in a 27-27 tie with the Detroit Lions on Sunday. For the Cardinals, it almost felt like a victory, considering how things started.

“I’ve never tied before,” Murray said. “It’s better than a loss, that’s all I can say.”

The Cardinals nearly finished an improb-able comeback in the rookie’s debut, rallying from an 18-point deficit in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 24 in regulation.

They had two chances to win in extra time and so did the Lions, but all they could do was trade field goals.

“It’s like a participation trophy,” Arizona offensive lineman Justin Pugh said. “I want to throw it out.”

It was a strange ending to a thrilling game.Arizona’s new-look offense under first-year

coach Kliff Kingsbury was a dud for most of the afternoon before inexplicably coming alive in the fourth quarter. Murray hit David Johnson for a 27-yard touchdown to pull the Cardinals within 24-16 with less than six min-utes remaining.

After the defense stopped the Lions, the top overall draft pick was at it again, leading

a nine-play, 60-yard drive that ended with a 4-yard touchdown throw to Larry Fitzger-ald. Murray found Christian Kirk for a two-point conversion to tie it with 43 seconds remaining.

Murray was 15 of 19 for 154 yards and two touchdowns during the fourth-quarter rally. Overall, he was 29 of 54 for 308 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

“We just started doing what we were good at,” Murray said. “I don’t want to say simple, but just running our stuff and going fast. I think that opened things up.”

Kingsbury took the blame for the early problems.

“It was three quarters of the worst offense I’ve seen in my life and it was my fault,” Kingsbury said. “Bad play calls, just trying to do too much, and we’ll get that corrected.”

Detroit had one final chance to drive for the win with 1:10 left in overtime, but it didn’t go anywhere. Stafford threw a dangerous pass that was nearly intercepted by Tramaine Brock with 10 seconds left.

Brock said he made the mistake of looking toward the end zone before making the catch.

“We knew they were trying to get out of bounds, but when the ball did come, my eyes popped open wide,” Brock said.

Matthew Stafford threw for 385 yards and three TDs for the Lions.

Chiefs roll over JaguarsKC loses Hill; Jacksonville QB Foles breaks clavicle

NFL

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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Sammy Watkins runs past Jacksonville Jaguars defensive back Jarrod Wilson for a 68-yard touchdown on a pass from quarterback Patrick Mahomes to open the scoring Sunday in Jacksonville, Fla. Watkins had a career-high 198 yards receiving and three touchdowns.

BY MARK LONG

Associated Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Pat-rick Mahomes was every bit as good as he was during his MVP campaign. Sammy Watkins was better than ever.

Mahomes and Watkins — along with new teammate LeSean McCoy — helped the Kansas City Chiefs open the season much like they finished last year: as legiti-mate Super Bowl contenders.

Despite losing star receiver Tyreek Hill early to a shoulder injury, Mahomes threw for 378 yards and three touchdowns while leading the Chiefs to a testy and tactful 40-26 victory over the injury-riddled Jacksonville Jag-uars on Sunday.

“They’ve done that to a lot of football teams,” Jaguars coach Doug Marrone said.

Jacksonville had major issues on both sides of the ball, none more concerning than the health of quarterback Nick Foles. Foles broke his left clavicle in the first quarter and was to have surgery Monday. Chris Jones hit Foles as he released a 35-yard TD pass to DJ Chark. Jones landed on top of Foles, but did not draw a flag.

Foles is expected to be put on injured reserve and won’t be eli-gible to play again until Week 11.

“It’s not the way you want to start your time here,” said Foles, who signed a four-year, $88 mil-lion contract in March. “Some-times things don’t happen like we expect them to, but we just have to have faith that it’s for a reason.”

The injury leaves rookie Gard-ner Minshew in line to start a sig-nificant chunk of Jacksonville’s

season. Minshew was one of the team’s few bright spots. He com-pleted 22 of 25 passes for 275 yards, with two touchdowns and an interception.

Chark caught four passes for

146 yards, and Chris Conley added six receptions for 97 yards and a score against his former team.

Mahomes completed passes to nine receivers. Watkins had most of the highlights.

Watkins had nine receptions for a career-high 198 yards and three TDs. He slipped through the mid-dle of Jacksonville’s defense for a 68-yard score on the third play of the season and added a 49-yard TD reception late in the opening quarter. He made defenders Ron-nie Harrison, Jalen Ramsey and Miles Jack look silly while stroll-ing into the end zone twice. He beat Ramsey again for a short TD in the fourth quarter.

Mahomes took a beating even though he wasn’t sacked and even had to leave the game to get his left ankle taped in the second quarter.

It barely slowed him and the Chiefs; they scored on their first seven possessions.

McCoy carried 10 times for 81 yards despite barely knowing the offense.

“We have a mindset through-out the season of taking care of certain goals and this was one of them,” Chiefs All-Pro tight end Travis Kelce said. “Just come out blazing, on fire, like we were last year. ... I think we’re on the right track and we’re going to keep working to get where we want to be.”

The Chiefs’ head athletic train-er, Rick Burkholder, said Hill had a “sternoclavicular joint injury” and was taken to Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville. His care was turned over to an ortho-trau-ma physician.

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trendy pick to buck decades of awfulness and win its division, and maybe even more.

Instead, the first game ended in front of a mostly empty home stadium, with the deficit swelling to more than four touchdowns; it was the first Cleveland loss of 30-plus points since 2015.

Nothing went right.“That is not the way we want to

be represented,” said Kitchens, who put on a brave face follow-ing his team’s demoralizing 2019 debut. “We lost our discipline and we lost our composure. ... I did not see it coming.”

No one did. Except maybe the Titans.

The Browns were favored to win their first season opener in 15 years, and after taking the opening kickoff, Mayfield drove the offense 73 yards for a TD in the opening five minutes. Things looked promising, and Cleve-land’s crowd was roaring at un-safe decibels.

But rookie Austin Seibert missed the extra point, and the penalties began piling up like laundry in front of a washing machine.

Cleveland was called for 10 infractions in the first half, with starting left tackle Greg Robin-son’s ejection for kicking Titans safety Kenny Vaccaro in the head the most egregious act.

“We do not tolerate that,” Kitch-ens said. “That is unacceptable.”

Vaccaro isn’t sure what prompt-ed Robinson’s reaction.

“I knocked him over and he kicked me in my head,” Vaccaro said. “I thought it was funny. It’s going to be a hefty fine, I feel bad for him. I didn’t want him to get ejected. We were taught on this team, no dumb penalties.”

Mayfield tried to find positives from an otherwise awful after-noon. He’s confident his team-mates will regroup and rally.

“Because everybody is going to throw us in the trash,” he said. “I think that is good. I know what type of men we have in this locker room. Quite frankly, I do not give a damn what happens on the out-side. I know how we are going to react. I know what we are going to do.

“We are going to bounce back. We have a Monday night game coming up, so we do not really care. We are ready to go.”

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Patriots 33, Steelers 3Pittsburgh 0 0 3 0— 3New England 7 13 10 3—33

First QuarterNE—Gordon 20 pass from Brady (Gost-

kowski kick), 4:46.Second Quarter

NE—FG Gostkowski 25, 11:52.NE—Dorsett 25 pass from Brady (Gos-

tkowski kick), 3:49.NE—FG Gostkowski 41, :17.

Third QuarterPit—FG Boswell 19, 10:17.NE—Dorsett 58 pass from Brady (Gos-

tkowski kick), 8:05.NE—FG Gostkowski 35, :13.

Fourth QuarterNE—FG Gostkowski 39, 6:38.A—65,878.

Pit NEFirst downs 15 24Total Net Yards 308 465Rushes-yards 13-32 29-99Passing 276 366Punt Returns 0-0 2-35Kickoff Returns 2-43 2-35Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-0Comp-Att-Int 27-47-1 25-37-0Sacked-Yards Lost 1-0 1-7Punts 5-45.6 3-41.0Fumbles-Lost 2-0 0-0Penalties-Yards 6-54 7-55Time of Possession 27:27 32:33

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Pittsburgh, Conner 10-21,

Roethlisberger 1-7, Samuels 2-4. NewEngland, Burkhead 8-44, White 4-26, Mi-chel 15-14, Edelman 1-8, Bolden 1-7.

PASSING—Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger27-47-1-276. New England, Brady 24-36-0-341, Edelman 1-1-0-32.

RECEIVING—Pittsburgh, Smith-Schus-ter 6-78, Switzer 6-29, Conner 4-44, D.Johnson 3-25, Moncrief 3-7, Washing-ton 2-51, McDonald 2-40, Samuels 1-2. New England, Edelman 6-83, White 5-56, Burkhead 5-41, Dorsett 4-95, Gordon 3-73, Meyers 1-22, Izzo 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Titans 43, Browns 13Tennessee 3 9 10 21—43Cleveland 6 0 7 0—13

First QuarterCle—Hilliard 4 run (kick failed), 10:11.Ten—FG Santos 37, 6:32.

Second QuarterTen—Henry 1 run (Santos kick), 9:39.Ten—safety, 1:42.

Third QuarterTen—FG Santos 53, 11:53.Cle—Njoku 3 pass from Mayfield (Seib-

ert kick), 2:10.Ten—Henry 75 pass from Mariota

(Santos kick), 1:57.Fourth Quarter

Ten—Walker 11 pass from Mariota (Santos kick), 12:32.

Ten—Walker 7 pass from Mariota (Santos kick), 9:03.

Ten—Butler 38 interception return (Santos kick), 3:02.

A—67,431. Ten CleFirst downs 21 19Total Net Yards 339 346Rushes-yards 28-123 20-102Passing 216 244Punt Returns 0-0 1-18Kickoff Returns 3-50 4-103Interceptions Ret. 3-66 0-0Comp-Att-Int 14-24-0 25-38-3Sacked-Yards Lost 4-32 5-41Punts 6-46.2 5-46.6Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0Penalties-Yards 6-54 18-182Time of Possession 29:18 30:42

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHING—Tennessee, Henry 19-84,

Mariota 3-24, J.Smith 1-10, Lewis 3-7, Tan-nehill 2-(minus 2). Cleveland, Chubb 16-74, D.Johnson 2-14, J.Landry 1-10, Hilliard 1-4.

PASSING—Tennessee, Mariota 14-24-0-248. Cleveland, Mayfield 25-38-3-285.

RECEIVING—Tennessee, Walker 5-55, A.Brown 3-100, Lewis 3-6, Henry 1-75, J.Smith 1-7, Humphries 1-5. Cleveland, Beckham 7-71, J.Landry 4-67, Njoku 4-37, Chubb 3-10, Higgins 2-46, D.Johnson 2-23, Ratley 2-17, Hilliard 1-14.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Brady starts his 20th season with 341-yard, three-TD performance

Pats open title defense with rout of SteelersNFL

ELISE AMENDOLA/AP

New England quarterback Tom Brady passes against the Steelers on Sunday in Foxborough, Mass. The 42 year-old Brady began his 20th season by leading the defending Super Bowl champions to a 33-3 win.

BY JIMMY GOLEN

Associated Press

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots trolled the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday and then blew them out Sunday night.

A day after the acquiring for-mer Steelers malcontent Antonio Brown, the reigning Super Bowl champions showed they might not even need him, getting 341 yards and three touchdown passes from 42-year-old Tom Brady to beat Pittsburgh 33-3.

“Well, he’s the best in the world,” Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. “There’s a reason he’s the best when he’s out there doing his thing.”

Phillip Dorsett caught two touchdown passes, including a 58-yard score, and Josh Gordon — another receiver who wore out his welcome elsewhere — caught one TD pass. On the night New England unveiled its sixth NFL championship banner, Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman caught six passes for 83 yards and also com-pleted a throw to help the Patriots begin their title defense.

No one has won back-to-back NFL titles since New England did it in 2003 and ‘04.

“We were so locked in on the mo-ment. We were locked in because we knew of the expectations,” de-fensive back Duron Harmon said. “We knew that when we had the opportunity to play the Steelers, on opening night, with the banner

raising, we were going to do ev-erything possible to prepare the right way.”

Facing the last team to beat them, back in Week 15 last year, the Patriots opened a 20-0 lead before Pittsburgh kicked a field goal on fourth-and-goal from the 1 with 10:17 left in the third quar-ter. Brady responded with a 58-yard touchdown pass to Dorsett and a 27-3 lead.

Dorsett had four catches for 95 yards and the first multi-score game of his career. He will be

moving down the depth chart Monday when the Patriots are expected to make Brown’s sign-ing official.

“He’s a playmaker,” Edelman said. “The more playmakers you have, the more dynamic we can be.”

The move couldn’t be wel-come in Pittsburgh. Unable to get Brown to behave, the Steelers refused to trade the disgruntled diva to New England only to see him wind up with the team that has reached the AFC champion-

ship game eight straight seasons.“Whatever,” Roethlisberger

said“Didn’t spend a lot of time

thinking about it or dwelling on it,” said Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. “I’m not specifically worried about anything relative to Antonio Brown.”

Roethlisberger completed 27 of 47 passes for 277 yards and an interception, though 116 of the yards came on non-scoring drives in the fourth quarter with the Steelers down four scores. The

offense showed the effects of los-ing two of its biggest playmakers:Brown, who talked and tweeted his way out of both Pittsburgh and Oakland in one offseason, and running back Le’Veon Bell, a two-time All-Pro who sat out all lastseason to avoid a franchise tag.

In their place, James Connergained 21 yards on 10 carries;the Steelers gained only 32 yardsrushing in all. Top receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster caught six passesfor 78 yards .

Flag: Browns suffer worst loss since 2015

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The Browns’ Baker Mayfield sits on the sidelines during the second half of Sunday’s 43-13 loss to the Tennessee Titans in Cleveland.

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SPORTSNFL

BY EDDIE PELLS

Associated Press

CLEVELAND

Undisciplined. Mistake-prone. Just down-right awful.

These Cleveland Browns looked a lot like THOSE Cleveland Browns — the ones the fast-growing bandwagon of

Browns fans thought, or at least hoped, had been left far back in the rearview mirror.

The most hyped team during the NFL offseason racked up 18 penalties for 182 yards in Sunday’s sea-son opener, while star-in-the-making quarterback Baker Mayfield threw three interceptions in the

fourth quarter.The Browns lost 43-13 to Tennessee to drop to 1-19-

1 in openers since 1999.“You all can crown them if you want to crown

them,” Titans tight end Delanie Walker said. “We still have to play football.”

With Mayfield entering his second season, and with newly acquired receiver Odell Beckham Jr., and with a new coach (Freddie Kitchens) and the momentum from a strong finish to 2018, Cleveland became the

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‘ You all can crown them if you want to crown them. We still have to play football. ’

Delanie WalkerTennessee tight end, following the Titans’ 43-13 demolition of the much-hyped Cleveland Browns on Sunday

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