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2026年9月15日，星期二

CHRISTINA HOUSE 洛杉矶时报 Project Street Vet 运营经理 LIZ WAGNER 在 7 月份于贫民窟 (Skid Row) 查看一名男子及其爱犬的情况。

AI 恐惧蔓延，政治领导人产生分歧

特朗普总统 将抵制情绪 归咎于中国 延续的一场“阴谋”。

作者：MICHAEL WILNER

华盛顿 —— 特朗普总统周一强力拒绝了放缓人工智能开发的呼吁，将对其风险的担忧斥为“骗局”，并警告称美国仍处于与中国激烈的技术竞赛之中。

总统的立场使他与日益增多的行业领导者及两党立法者的声音产生了分歧，后者警告称 AI 可能很快将超出人类的控制。

美国三家领先公司的最高执行官 —— OpenAI 的萨姆·奥特曼、Anthropic 的达里奥·阿莫代伊以及 SpaceXAI 的埃隆·马斯克 —— 在刚刚过去的周末发出了不同寻常的呼吁，主张在前进道路上开展协作，以“控制” AI 开发的前沿速度。

国会山也出现了罕见的两党协作，共和党参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩正与民主党人合作制定立法，旨在防范 AI 最具灾难性的风险，包括其被用于开发生物武器的可能性。

包括前总统奥巴马和前国务卿希拉里·克林顿在内的民主党资深人士，已敦促其党派将 AI 构成的威胁视为一场紧迫的国家安全危机。

（详见 AI 专题，A6）

暂停讨论重创科技股

AI 负责人呼吁放缓进展，但业内其他人士拒绝接受末日情景。商业版, A9

一场关于贫民窟 (Skid Row) 犬类困境的斗争

作者：SANDRA MCDONALD 和 JENNY JARVIE

在一个炎热的夏日午后，在贫民窟 (Skid Row) 的中心地带，安伯·威拉德 (Amber Willard) 用一把带轮子的办公椅推着一只名叫雅典娜 (Athena) 的瘦弱棕白相比特犬。

Starts With One Today 动物救援组织的创始人维多利亚·贝克·帕克 (Victoriah Bech Parker) 给这只狗提供了一碗湿粮。

“你看起来状态不太好，”贝克·帕克一边轻声说着，一边弯下腰用戴着手套的手抚摸雅典娜。这只狗的肋骨凸出，皮肤发红且有炎症，部分皮毛脱落 —— 这可能是疥癣的迹象。

威拉德是一名来自阿拉斯加的无家可归女性，她说自己来到贫民窟 (Skid Row) 时间不长：她的房东突然将她赶走。她说她想要一只狗来陪伴和保护，几天前从街角的一个男人那里免费得到了雅典娜。她说她尝试给雅典娜洗澡，但拒绝了

贝克·帕克提供的免费兽医预约。

当威拉德推着雅典娜离开，并摆弄雨伞为狗遮阳时，贝克·帕克沮丧地摇了摇头。

“那只狗真的需要适当的护理，”贝克·帕克说。

雅典娜只是贝克·帕克和其他活动人士希望拯救的众多犬类之一，他们警告称，一场全面的动物危机正在贫民窟 (Skid Row) 展开。

在社交媒体和法律文件中，动物权益倡导者抱怨称，这个位于洛杉矶市中心、居住着数千名无家可归者的 50 个街区区域，是动物被忽视和虐待的中心。他们表示，市政府未能执行动物福利法。许多像雅典娜一样的狗营养不良且有（详见 Dogs 专题，A14）

左侧的哈里斯 (HARRIS) 拍摄于 2023 年，她与纽森 (Newsom) 从未竞选同一个职位。 ALEX GALLARDO 美联社

纽森不会与哈里斯竞争

他表示，如果她在 '28 竞选总统，“我不会参选”

作者：JUSTINE MCDANIEL

华盛顿 —— 加文·纽森州长表示，如果卡玛拉·哈里斯在 2028 年竞选民主党总统提名，他将不会参选。在这一场可能会吸引历史上最多候选人的竞选中，他似乎在向这位前副总统表示尊重。

“如果她参选，我就不会参选，”纽森在周一发布的一段接受 CNN 记者杰克·塔珀采访的视频中说道。“我为什么要参选？我不会那样对待她。……我不会那样对待你，我不会浪费大家的时间。”

纽森似乎承认希望避免可能出现的、针对加州支持者的混乱争夺战（如果两人同时参选则可能发生），并表示哈里斯的支持者与他的支持者之间将存在“纯粹的重叠”。

这位州长实际上向哈里斯让步，降低了加州两位最有权势的政治人物在一次被民主党视为关乎生存的选举中正面交锋的可能性。在 2024 年败给特朗普总统后，哈里斯是否会第二次尝试竞选总统，一直是潜在民主党候选人阵营中最大的悬念。

纽森和哈里斯都承认他们正在考虑 2028, 的总统竞选，但哈里斯对其意图一直守口如瓶。她上周表示尚未决定是否参选，在面对前足球

[见 Newsom, A7]

随着鲍尔默的道歉，快船队可以继续前行

作者：KEVIN BAXTER

快船队老板史蒂夫·鲍尔默及其员工在过去的 12 个月里大声坚称他们没有做错任何事。

播客节目《Pablo Torre Finds Out》在 2025 年 9 月 3, 首次对明星前锋科怀·伦纳德从 Aspiration Partners 获得款项且未从事任何有利于该公司的代言工作提出质疑。NBA 对此作出的回应是启动调查。

一家独立律师事务所于 9 月 2 日发布的调查结果报告中指出，存在“一种不当行为模式和多项重大违规行为”，使伦纳德从中获益。伦纳德通过由鲍尔默和球队高管在伦纳德的叔叔及其当时的经纪人要求下促成的协议，从四家公司获得了 6600万美元 的现金和股权。这些交易违反了联盟的工资帽规定，该规定限制了球队支付给球员的金额。下个赛季的工资帽为 $164.9.61 亿。

快船队在同一天发布了两份声明，对调查结果以及 NBA 历史上最严厉的制裁表示抗议，制裁包括 $30-million 罚款以及失去五个未来的首轮选秀权。此外，69, 岁的鲍尔默被禁止在未来一年参加所有联盟活动。

在立即称 NBA 的调查“有偏见”并誓言要“有力挑战这些结-

[见 Clippers, A11]

最高法院拦截特朗普拟议的邮寄选票限制措施

该裁决对于加利福尼亚州及其他 22 个提起诉讼以阻止新规的州而言是一次胜利。

作者：DAVID G. SAVAGE 和 KEVIN RECTOR

华盛顿 —— 最高法院已拦截特朗普总统限制邮寄投票的计划，裁定现在实施美国邮政局（USPS）针对 11 月选举的新规定已太迟。

大法官们在周一驳回了特朗普律师提出的紧急上诉。律师此前主张，政府需要一套全新的、未经测试的唯一条形码系统，以追踪数千万邮寄投票者的所有选票。

相反，大法官们维持了一名法官的命令，该命令禁止邮政局在期中选举中执行新规。

布雷特·M·卡瓦诺（Brett M. Kavanaugh）大法官表示赞同，认为在本次选举中执行新规已太迟。

萨缪尔·A·阿利托（Samuel A. Alito Jr.）和克拉伦斯·托马斯（Clarence Thomas）大法官持异议。

在“美国邮政局诉加利福尼亚州”一案中的这项裁决，是加州总检察长罗布·邦塔（Rob Bonta）以及其他 22 个由民主党领导的州的总检察长的一次胜利，他们此前起诉以阻止新规。

上周，他们警告称，如果现在实施特朗普的规定，将会导致混乱和困惑。

邦塔在周一晚些时候对该裁决表示欢欣，称其为“民主的胜利以及对法治的有力肯定”，该案件

[见 Ballots, A7]

EPA取消发电厂排放限制

该机构以能源成本为由，但专家表示大规模的撤销将推动气候变化。

全球变化。

作者：HAYLEY SMITH 和 BLANCA BEGERT

美国环境保护局（EPA）周一表示，将不再监管燃烧煤炭或天然气的发电厂所产生的导致全球变暖的污染。

该机构官员表示，作为国家最高环保机构，EPA 正在撤销拜登时代的大部分温室气体排放限制，旨在消除推高能源成本的“繁文缛节”。他们还宣布了一项提案，旨在废除奥巴马时代的电力部门监管规定，并防止未来的政府实施新规定。

利用煤炭和天然气发电是美国温室气体排放的第二大来源，也是推动气候

“15 年多以来，奥巴马和拜登政府实施了一场‘煤炭战争’以摧毁可靠且实惠的能源，”EPA 局长李·泽尔丁（Lee Zeldin）在声明中表示。“特朗普政府的到来是为了保护美国能源，并确保你们能负担得起电费。”

但专家表示，发电厂不受控制的温室气体排放意味着全球变暖将加剧，并使全美应对气候变化的进展受挫。加利福尼亚州没有燃煤电厂，且对天然气有自己的监管规定。

曾在拜登政府担任 EPA 局长高级顾问的泽兰·胡佛（Zealan Hoover）表示，此次撤销规定可能会导致到 2050 年增加多达 58 亿公吨的二氧化碳排放。

虽然电力需求在增长，但“我们不必通过高污染的煤电厂和气电厂来满足这种电力需求，”胡佛 [见 Rollback, A7]

ALLEN J. SCHABEN 洛杉矶时报

艾美奖

马里斯卡·哈吉泰（Mariska Hargitay，与女儿阿玛雅·赫尔曼 Amaya Hermann 同行），她本人也是获奖者，抵达现场主持。扫描二维码阅读我们对颁奖典礼的报道。

各州就绿卡规定提起诉讼 民主党官员表示，特朗普政府不能因为申请人过去使用过公共援助而拒绝其申请。国家版, A4

天气 局部晴朗。 洛杉矶盆地：83 / 66。B6 市场 ....A11 观点之声 ....A12

鲍勃·麦基，明星设计师 这位以精巧创作闻名的时尚传奇人物已去世。 娱乐版, E1

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新一波民众因俄罗斯战争及限制措施而逃离

周一，在俄罗斯圣彼得堡一座列宁像附近，乘客们正在登车。 DMITRI LOVETSKY 美联社

在互联网管控升级和对征兵的恐惧中，逃离人数似乎在增加。

作者：DASHA LITVINOVA

今年夏天，一名28岁的数字内容营销人员收拾好行李和用胶带封好的纸箱，逃离了俄罗斯。他留下了家人和朋友，不知道何时才能回去。

在前往格鲁吉亚边境之前，他在南部城市克拉斯诺达尔表示：“离开俄罗斯非常令人难过。”

他将离开的原因归结为俄罗斯的“政治局势”以及当局限制互联网访问所带来的麻烦。他告诉美联社，由于安全顾虑，他要求匿名，并表示否则“我绝不会离开超过几个月”。

他是众多在近期乌克兰无人机袭击俄罗斯境内，以及关于这场持续四年半战争即将再次动员军队的传闻中，选择离开或正考虑搬迁的人之一。

今年夏天的袭击引发了前所未有的燃料危机，并给蓬勃发展的电子商务领域带来了沉重打击。自去年以来，政府一直以这些袭击为由，证明对互联网连接实施严厉限制的合理性。

这次外流规模远不及2022年，当时在全面入侵的第一年有数十万人逃离。尽管如此，一个帮助海外逃亡公民的团体表示，上个月收到的咨询量几乎是5月份的八倍。

以及目前的土耳其。

与此同时，美联社在来自俄罗斯各地的社交媒体视频中发现，许多人表示他们决定离开，理由与战争有关。其他人则担心经济衰退、前途未卜以及自由空间的萎缩。

乌克兰总统泽连斯基和基辅的其他官员表示，俄罗斯计划在周日结束的国家杜马选举后进行另一次动员——克里姆林宫已多次对此予以激烈否认。

人权活动家、Kovcheg紧急援助协调员Yan Slovizki将7月中旬以来与动员恐惧、燃料危机和互联网限制相关的移民潮描述为“恐慌之波”。

在那里以避免被征召入伍。这引起了俄罗斯外交部的严厉谴责，称西蒙尼安（Simonyan）的言论具有“挑衅性”。

俄罗斯立法者维克托·索博列夫（Viktor Sobolev）告诉RTVI频道，国家不需要那些“不够热爱祖国，以至于因为传闻就离开”的人，并补充道：“让他们走吧。”

“到这一步，这就是一张单程票”

这位自称是和平主义者的数字内容营销人员表示，这是他第二次尝试移民。

他在2022年离开俄罗斯，以避开30万新兵的部分动员，当时弗拉基米尔·普京总统的这一宣布震惊了全国。

他表示，由于髋关节疾病，他在和平时期在技术上不符合服役条件，但由于不知道当局会有什么动作，他觉得离开更安全。

2022年，一些官员以及一些帮助征召兵的权利组织表示，此类人员在动员期间可以被合法征召。另一些人则认为，必须宣布进入戒严状态才合法。俄罗斯尚未正式对乌克兰宣战，克里姆林宫仅在2022年非法吞并但未能完全控制的四个乌克兰地区实施了戒严。

这位数字内容营销人员于2025年回到了他的家乡乌里扬诺夫斯克，并为其他国家的客户远程工作。但他表示，俄罗斯对数千个互联网平台、网站和服务的持续打压使他的工作变得更加困难，他不得不频繁切换虚拟专用网络（VPN）服务器，以寻找能够绕过限制的连接。

另一个因素是关于新一轮动员的传闻。“你永远不知道明天会发生什么，”他在定居的格鲁吉亚首都第比利斯的一套公寓里说道。

上个月离开俄罗斯的一名23岁莫斯科人也提到了持续不断的动员传闻，以及担心丈夫最终可能被征入伍的恐惧。

出于安全考虑，该女性在接受美联社（AP）采访时要求匿名。她表示，她的父亲在2022年通过逃离该国才勉强避免被征召。今年，她的丈夫得知在获得硕士学位后，他将不再享有服役缓期。

“我们真的很担心（我丈夫）最终会进入军队，因为到这一步，这就是一张单程票，”她说。

搬到亚美尼亚首都埃里温的大学毕业生伊万·纳扎罗夫（Ivan Nazarov）对此深有同感。

他表示，他了解到有报道称，一些本不应被部署到乌克兰的强制服役征召兵被强迫签署合同，从而被送往战场。

“对我来说，这是一个生存问题，”纳扎罗夫在埃里温由Kovcheg为新移民组织的一次聚会上补充道。

因彩虹T恤照片被拘留

酷儿活动人士丹尼尔·尼奥诺夫（Daniil Neonov）在今年夏天离开了俄罗斯。此前，他因被指控展示极端主义符号而被多次拘留，并被判处10天监禁——涉事内容是他发布在社交媒体上的一张照片，照片中他穿着一件印有彩虹图案的T恤。

俄罗斯当局已将所谓的“国际LGBT运动”定为极端主义并予以禁止，这导致携带带有彩虹标志的物品有时会被指控为轻罪。

尼奥诺夫在埃里温告诉美联社，他担心自己会被提起刑事诉讼。

他表示，他认识其他在被拘留后离开俄罗斯的人。上个月，当法院将反对派“苹果党”（Yabloko）从议会选举选票中剔除时，这些人因聚集在最高法院外支持该党而被拘留。苹果党是选票上唯一公开反对战争的政党。

“警察找到了他们并提交了报告。我知道好几个人在被拘留后也离开了。我的意思是，我不是唯一一个，”尼奥诺夫说。

一名35岁的俄罗斯人告诉美联社，他正准备离开这个国家，因为他不想生活在一个没有言论自由、经济陷入恶性循环、且学生必须听信宣扬战争、将暴力正常化并推动与世界其他地区隔离的宣传之地的国家。

出于安全原因，该男子在要求匿名的条件下表示，他考虑离开俄罗斯已经十多年了，但此前仍希望“一切都会好起来”。

现在，他说，俄罗斯人“生活在一个巨大的数字监狱中。你不能说任何话，不能做任何事。你完全没有任何权利。”

利特维诺娃（Litvinova）为美联社撰稿。第比利斯的索菲科·梅格雷利泽（Sophiko Megrelidze）和埃里温的安妮·哈恰特良（Ani Khachatryan）对本报道做出了贡献。

“这并不意味着现在边境有大量的人，”Kovcheg（在俄语中意为“方舟”）的创始人安娜斯塔西娅·布拉科娃（Anastasia Burakova）说。“但我们看到人们正在准备移民，我们看到人们正在研究有哪些选择。”

社交媒体上讨论移居

目前的具体人数难以衡量。与2022年大批男性为了逃避部分征兵而逃离不同，现在边境口岸没有排长队，前往亚美尼亚、格鲁吉亚、哈萨克斯坦等免签目的地的机票也没有短缺。

一名驻莫斯科的外交官告诉美联社，“今年夏天公众的焦虑感明显上升”，并指出“有传闻证据显示，出现在邻国格鲁吉亚和亚美尼亚的俄罗斯人数高于往常，可能是担心杜马选举后再次出现动员”。该外交官未获授权公开发表评论，在匿名条件下发表讲话。

亚美尼亚安全委员会秘书阿伦·西蒙扬（Alen Simonyan）上个月告诉俄罗斯独立电视台“雨”（Dozhd），他的国家“不会以任何方式干涉，并在必要时将帮助”那些移居的俄罗斯人。

普京的发言人表示，他的国家无意停止其攻击。

泽连斯基表示，若克里姆林宫不攻击关键基础设施，乌克兰将暂停对俄打击

作者：克劳迪娅·乔巴努 (CLAUDIA CIOBANU)、 埃莉斯·莫顿 (ELISE MORTON) 以及 汉娜·阿尔希罗娃 (HANNA ARHIROVA)

华沙 —— 总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基周一表示，如果盟友能够确保俄罗斯做出不攻击乌克兰关键基础设施的真实承诺，乌克兰准备停止对俄罗斯领土的打击。

他的这一表态是在特朗普总统在社交媒体发帖称，俄罗斯和乌克兰已同意“不攻击”对方的能源基础设施之后发表的，不过特朗普并未就该所谓协议提供进一步细节。

俄罗斯未立即对特朗普的说法发表评论。此前促成即便只是部分停火的努力多次在数小时内破裂，双方均指责对方违约。

他还声称

“每天，乌克兰的能源设施、港口基础设施、物流，甚至食品和药品仓库都成为目标，”他说道。“战争必须结束。而针对关键基础设施的降级步骤可以成为迈向和平的第一步。”

泽连斯基表示，他“期待合作伙伴提出具体建议”。

特朗普没有提供关于该协议的更多细节，但就在此前一天，这位美国总统呼吁泽连斯基停止攻击俄罗斯的炼油厂以及其他用于生产和分销柴油的基础设施，声称这些攻击正导致全球短缺。美国国内柴油价格飙升，且与伊朗战争相关的高燃料成本已成为特朗普政党在即将到来的国会选举中的一个重大问题。

特朗普在周日呼吁泽连斯基停止打击。随后，克里姆林宫发言人德米特里·佩斯科夫表示，任何要求基辅停止攻击民用经济基础设施的呼吁“都值得欢迎”。

乌克兰仍在等待具体计划

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北约秘书长誓言提供更多支持

泽连斯基在帖子中表示，乌克兰已提议由合作伙伴协助与俄罗斯达成停火协议。这并非基辅首次提出这一想法。

“以及他播种恐惧与恐怖的欲望，”吕特在布鲁塞尔的北约政治总部表示。

北约秘书长马克·吕特周一表示，在乌克兰与波兰边境附近发生的俄罗斯无人机袭击——其中一次袭击在高级访问官员经过同一车站后不久击中了一列火车——将促使该军事联盟增加对基辅的支持。他称周日的袭击是莫斯科日益绝望的迹象。

吕特承诺增加对乌克兰的支持，并加强这个由32个国家组成的联盟在与俄罗斯漫长东部边境沿线的自身防御。

全球柴油燃料价格的上涨“主要是由俄乌战争引起的”，而非伊朗。但由于霍尔木兹海峡石油流量放缓导致的运输受限，以及俄罗斯炼油系统的损坏，正给能源市场带来压力。

“他认为他能阻止我们支持乌克兰，认为他能破坏我们的团结。他错了，”这位北约负责人谈到普京时说道。

这些“靠近北约领土”的袭击表明，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京感到“绝望且

“随着俄罗斯继续对乌克兰进行这场可怕的战争，它正变得越来越鲁莽。”

周日在波兰边境附近的袭击是一系列事件中的最新一次。官员们表示，这些事件指向普京蓄意升级的模式，因为莫斯科在推进对乌攻势的同时，也在测试北约的反应。

波兰与乌克兰加强合作

吕特（Rutte）发表上述言论之际，波兰承诺在与乌克兰的边境沿线加强安全保障。此前，俄罗斯在边境附近发起了一波无人机袭击，其中两架无人机落在波兰领土附近。

波兰总理唐纳德·图斯克（Donald Tusk）周日警告称，莫斯科似乎准备加强针对乌克兰与欧洲国家边境的攻势。由于俄罗斯加强了空中攻势，使用弹道导弹和喷气式无人机突破基辅的防御，乌克兰面临的压力日益增加。

“接下来的几周和几个月将是俄罗斯方面采取极高强度行动的时期，不幸的是，我们不能排除这种升级也将影响到我们的领土，”图斯克在华沙参加完政府安全简报后于周日表示。他在周四也发出了类似的警告。

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波兰官员表示，包括上周美国中央情报局（CIA）的一份简报在内的情报报告表明，俄罗斯可能会攻击边境点并加强在欧洲国家内部的破坏行动，以此作为其阻止合作伙伴支持乌克兰的努力的一部分。

“MAGA男人”被指控策划枪击情妇

费尔南多·塞里梅多（FERNANDO CERIMEDO）被指控策划杀害其怀孕的情妇（一名律师兼活动人士），旨在使其噤声。

这位拉丁美洲战略专家曾帮助玻利维亚、阿根廷和洪都拉斯的亲特朗普政治人物当选。

作者：帕特里克·J·麦克唐纳（Patrick J. McDonnell）

墨西哥城——他被称作拉丁美洲的“MAGA男人”，一个傲慢的政治挑衅者，他在社交媒体上的攻击助力了从其故乡阿根廷到中美洲的右翼竞选活动。

他作为政治顾问以及一家极右翼在线媒体联合创始人的职业生涯让他成为了富翁，并帮助该地区多位亲特朗普的政治人物当选。《经济学人》给了他“MAGA男人”的标签，而政治评论员则给了他另一个绰号——“拉丁美洲的史蒂夫·班农”，以此向特朗普的长期盟友兼顾问致敬。

然而现在，45岁的费尔南多·塞里梅多正被关押在玻利维亚的一所最高安全级别监狱中，被指控策划了一起雇凶杀人案：企图杀害其怀孕的情妇、33岁的玻利维亚律师兼活动人士纳迪亚·贝尔勒（Nadia Beller）。

对于这位名声不佳、曾一度崛起为拉丁美洲新兴右翼数字化竞选大师的广告人来说，这是一个令人震惊的崩溃。塞里梅多标志性的吹嘘、夸大以及散布选举舞弊虚假叙事的方式，反映了他的政治偶像——特朗普总统的风格。

塞里梅多也是另一个例子，证明了美国以外的右翼政治操盘手（如在哥伦比亚和德国的人员）是如何采用特朗普式的策略和话术的。

智利著名记者丹尼尔·马塔马拉（Daniel Matamala）表示，“拉丁美洲右翼的迈达斯之王”的陨落，震惊了“近年来席卷该地区的虚假新闻、机器人、水军和误导信息的生态系统”。马塔马拉在自己的播客中补充道：“塞里梅多的名字像幽灵一样笼罩在极右翼峰会之上。”

8月17日对贝尔勒的袭击是一次看似计划周密的伏击，监控摄像头捕捉到了这一过程，模糊的图像在社交媒体上被广泛传播。

两名伪装成快餐外卖员的潜在杀手之一掏出手枪，在玻利维亚东部城市圣克鲁斯的一家酒店外近距离枪击了贝尔勒。她倒在地上，根据她的描述，她当时假装死亡。次日黎明，塞里梅多在准备登机前往布宜诺斯艾利斯时被逮捕。

检察官指控，塞里梅多策划这次袭击是为了进行一场阴险的损害控制。贝尔勒曾威胁要揭露他涉嫌的犯罪行为以及对她的身体虐待，并揭露身为两个孩子父亲且已婚的塞里梅多是她未出生孩子的父亲。

塞里梅多还因涉嫌非法敛财以及可能与可卡因贩运有关而受到调查。

他否认有任何不当行为。

甚至在塞里梅多被捕之前，拉丁美洲的记者们就已经开始揭露塞里梅多是一个极其高产的虚假新闻传播者——而这些新闻是关于他自己的。新报告显示，他经常吹嘘自己与美国的联系——称其就读于哈佛大学、接受过美国海军海豹突击队的训练、曾在奥巴马白宫工作——这些都是幻想。

“他确实夸大了事实，”迈阿密顾问达米安·梅洛（Damian Merlo）说道，他曾在2023年阿根廷总统哈维尔·米莱（Javier Milei，特朗普青睐的人选）的竞选活动中与塞里梅多合作。“我从未真正觉得塞里梅多是‘MAGA在拉丁美洲的人’。这家伙几乎不会说英语！但这就是他推销自己的方式。”

很多时候，这种推销起作用了。正是塞里梅多帮助促成了当时候选人米莱与塔克·卡尔森（Tucker Carlson，当时的特朗普心腹）之间那场著名的2023年采访，这次亮相将米莱推向了国际聚光灯下。

与米莱一样，塞里梅多似乎沉溺于任何与“特朗普圈”接近的机会。

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今年2月，在特朗普的海湖庄园举行的首届“西班牙裔繁荣盛典”（Hispanic Prosperity Gala）——一场右翼集会——上，塞里梅多被授予“年度西班牙裔政治顾问”称号。他在讲台上谈到了拉丁美洲的“文化战争”，以及确保“左翼永远不再回归”那些已选出保守派领导人的政府之必要性。

塞里梅多切换到带有浓重口音的英语，向特朗普的前竞选经理布拉德·帕斯卡尔致意，并感谢帕斯卡尔“一直相信我并向我提供你的技术”。

帕斯卡尔拒绝置评。

塞里梅多和帕斯卡尔都参与了去年的竞选活动，该活动促成了洪都拉斯总统纳斯里·阿斯富拉的当选，特朗普公开支持后者。

去年，塞里梅多在玻利维亚总统罗德里戈·帕斯的当选中扮演了关键角色。帕斯是一位在中右翼阵营、受美国教育的前总统之子，其政治立场已从马克思主义激进分子转变为温和派。帕斯的就任打破了前总统埃沃·莫拉莱斯的社会主义运动党近二十年的左翼统治。

塞里梅多在帕斯政府中没有官方职务，但享有内部人士的地位。今年3月，他陪同帕斯参加了特朗普在佛罗里达州南部多拉尔度假村举行的反毒品“美洲之盾”峰会，这是一次主要由保守派领导人参加的会议。

当局表示，在对与塞里梅多有关的房产进行搜查时，发现了一张名片，上面将他列为帕斯的“首席顾问”——这是一个并不存在的职位。

“塞里梅多先生从未获得代表……总统府、政府或我家庭的授权，”帕斯上个月在一条Facebook消息中表示，语气显得十分不安。

塞里梅多究竟是如何进入政坛，以及如何成为一名右翼煽动者的，目前仍有些模糊。据媒体报道，在转向广告业之前，他从事过一系列乏味的工作，包括担任出租车司机、教师以及保险公司和计算机公司的员工。2019年，他协助了阿根廷省级选举中几位左翼庇隆主义候选人的竞选，随后创立了自己的咨询公司Numen。

塞里梅多最初在邻国巴西崭露头角。在2022年，右翼坚实支持者、总统雅伊尔·博索纳罗在与左翼人士路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦的连任竞选中以微弱差距落败后，塞里梅多在那里宣扬虚假的选举舞弊论调。塞里梅多的“巴西被窃”直播加剧了博索纳罗忠实支持者的愤怒情绪，导致他们走上街头进行大规模抗议。

在巴西的曝光帮助塞里梅多成功介入了阿根廷（米莱）、洪都拉斯（阿斯富拉）和玻利维亚（帕斯）的总统竞选。他的被捕促使智利立法者成立了一个委员会，以调查塞里梅多在该国近期向右翼转移的选举趋势中可能扮演的角色。

随着塞里梅多的名字现在变得令人厌恶，帕斯、米莱和其他前盟友已与其撇清关系。

同样抛弃塞里梅多的还有他的密切合作伙伴哈维尔·内格雷。内格雷是一位西班牙右翼媒体企业家，他在2024年购买了塞里梅多的《右翼日报》（La Derecha Diario）50%的所有权，这是一个西班牙语的在线MAGA扩音器。在今年夏天激烈的竞选中，该网站强烈支持得到特朗普支持的哥伦比亚总统阿贝拉尔多·德·拉·埃斯普里埃拉。

在塞里梅多被捕后，内格雷宣布他已买断其在《右翼日报》中前合作伙伴的股份。

在玻利维亚，塞里梅多丑闻呈现出拉丁美洲肥皂剧的色彩。

一名身体上部中三枪、正在康复中的贝勒在病床上接受采访，揭露其情人的涉嫌残暴行为和犯罪活动。

根据贝勒向当局提供的证词，塞里梅多诱骗她前往酒店外的那个几乎致命的约会地点。

她表示，他告诉她有一名消息人士正等待分享关于涉嫌强奸一名13岁少女的细节。而所谓的强奸犯是谁？是玻利维亚前总统莫拉莱斯——一个在拉丁美洲右翼眼中被厌恶的人物。

随着当局将这个秃顶、体型魁梧的身影在听证会和拘留所之间转移，曾经风光无限的塞里梅多如今已沦落为一个穿着连帽衫、颓废不堪的形象。上周，他在等待审判期间被转移至玻利维亚的最高安全级别监狱——琼乔科罗监狱，该监狱因地处高海拔且暖气不足而臭名昭著。

“我想见我的孩子们！”塞里梅多在媒体听得见的地方一度抽泣着大喊。

他的法律团队对此予以反驳。辩护律师玛格丽塔·阿尔塞质疑塞里梅多是否让贝勒怀孕，并向记者断言，贝勒导演了一场“自残攻击”，旨在抹黑塞里梅多并削弱玻利维亚政府。

但检察官支持贝勒，后者在接受阿根廷日报《克拉林报》采访时表示：“费尔南多·塞里梅多想杀我，因为我能揭露我所知道的一切。”

《时报》驻华盛顿工作人员安娜·塞巴略斯，以及驻布宜诺斯艾利斯的特约记者安德烈斯·达莱桑德罗和驻墨西哥城的塞西莉亚·桑切斯·维达尔对本报道亦有贡献。

教皇利奥在71岁生日之际赠予一份礼物

作者：妮可·温菲尔德 (Nicole Winfield)

梵蒂冈城 —— 教皇利奥十四世在周一庆祝了他的71岁生日，但收到礼物的人却是梵蒂冈的员工。

梵蒂冈发布了一项教皇法令，废除了2021年的减薪措施。此前，教皇方济各曾将该措施强加给许多梵蒂冈员工，将其作为圣座新冠疫情成本削减计划的一部分。

利奥在法令中表示，由于“确信圣座和梵蒂冈城国的机构将继续通过各种手段致力于确保经济可持续性”，目前的薪资限制措施“现在可以被克服”。

此前不受欢迎的减薪措施包括：枢机主教的薪资削减10%，部门主管以及较低级别的神职人员和修女的薪资按较小比例削减。高级世俗员工的两年一度的加薪被冻结，不过较低级别的世俗员工则继续获得加薪。

方济各当时认为，鉴于圣座还面临结构性赤字（当时估计约为$80.700 万）以及$1.14-billion的养老基金缺口，减薪对于保住工作岗位是必要的。

疫情导致梵蒂冈博物馆关闭数月，使圣座失去了一项主要收入来源。梵蒂冈的金库还受到了投资和汇率波动的影响。

安德鲁·梅迪基尼 (ANDREW MEDICHINI) 美联社 教皇利奥十四世周一访问 梵蒂冈图书馆。

利奥曾主修数学，并曾担任其奥古斯丁修会的总会长，以精通财务事务和阅读资产负债表而闻名。他的兄弟约翰·普雷沃斯特 (John Prevost) 最近告诉意大利广播公司 Mediaset，教皇最近在他在申报税款遇到问题时给予了帮助。

在当选后不久，利奥表示梵蒂冈的财务状况并没有他想象的那么糟糕，且方济各已经做出了一些重要的改革。然而，利奥在教皇任职初期的大部分时间里，都在修改或直接撤销方济各的一些财务决定。

在周一发布的另一项法令中，利奥取消了方济各将部分梵蒂冈秘密档案和图书馆馆藏移出城国、搬至城另一端的一所教皇大学校园的计划。方济各决定搬迁是因为这些资料已超出其存储空间（包括一个巨大的地下掩体）的承载能力。

利奥表示，在梵蒂冈城内部“出现了创造新空间的前所未有的机会”。他下令在目前的一个停车场上建造一座新建筑，用于存放这些资料，其中包括古代手稿以及历任教皇、宗教团体和捐赠者的完整档案收藏。

利奥在周一访问了梵蒂冈使徒图书馆，并提到，由于他的母亲曾是一名图书管理员，因此在生日当天与图书馆员工一起庆祝显得格外合适。

“我只想说，上帝在他的天主之 providence（天主之 providence）中——有时还带着一丝幽默——总是在提醒我们，他与我们同在，”利奥告诉员工们。“你们中的许多人可能不知道我的母亲曾是一名图书管理员，今天我在生日之际特意来到这里向大家问好。”

图书馆和档案室向学者和研究人员开放研究。图书馆内还有一个小型展览空间每周向公众开放，但需预约并预先购票。

利奥周一在图书馆为一场关于水的展览揭幕，这是名为“灾难与奇迹”的新五年周期展览的第一部分。该展览由法国艺术家 JR 创作，其特点是一个巨大的波浪设计，通过脚手架固定在图书馆的外墙上。

温菲尔德为美联社撰稿。

欧洲领导人关注北极

JOUNI PORSANGER Lehtikuva 周一，欧洲领导人在芬兰罗瓦涅米举行的北极峰会第二天聚集在一起。

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芬兰罗瓦涅米 —— 周一，欧洲领导人联手强调北极地区日益激烈的竞争。在全球变暖开启新航道、各国政府争夺庞大自然资源以及俄罗斯军事扩张加剧安全担忧的背景下，这一问题愈发凸显。

这些领导人主要来自北欧和波罗的海国家，他们重点关注环境挑战、经济机遇和军事脆弱性。与此同时，人们对于美国是否将通过北约继续充当抵御俄罗斯的堡垒持有疑虑。

“该地区已成为地缘政治热点，”德国总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨在一次联合新闻发布会上表示，并坚持认为欧盟的新重点应与北约的工作相辅相成。“俄罗斯正在这里增强其军事能力，并且俄罗斯每天都在利用其存在进行混合活动。”

梅尔茨表示，他的出席（德国并非北极国家）证明了该地区对欧洲整体安全的重要性，并建议多年来的相对忽视应当结束。他说：“让我这样表达吧：‘高北地区——低关注度’的时代已经结束了。”

芬兰总理佩特里·奥尔波在拉普兰首府（这里设有圣诞老人村）主持此次会议，他指出“北极地区对欧盟采取具体行动的需求很高”，且安全环境正在发生变化。

他说：“北极已成为大国竞争的核心舞台。”

这次从周日开始的为期两天的集会，紧随本月早些时候挪威应乌克兰要求，在遥远的北极群岛斯瓦尔巴群岛扣押一艘俄罗斯船只之后而举行，此举遭到了俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京的谴责。

智库欧洲政策网络中心（Centres for European Policy Network）指出，此次峰会的“背景极其动态”。

该中心列举了诸如气候变化加速、中国通过北极开展的贸易日益增长，以及围绕霍尔木兹海峡的冲突等因素，后者提升了东北航道对海上运输的重要性。

该机构表示，此次会议是欧盟即将于今年秋季发布的北极政策修订的“预演”，而安全问题将首次成为该战略的核心。

气候变化导致北极冰层变薄，使得航道日益畅通，并重新引发了与俄罗斯、中国及其他国家在获取该地区矿产资源方面的竞争。

与此同时，欧洲集团一直在苦心应对特朗普总统对格陵兰岛持续施加的压力，格陵兰岛是欧盟成员国丹麦的一个自治领土。他多次表示，这座资源丰富的冰岛应当成为美国的一部分。格陵兰政府反对美国对该岛的企图。

上周，欧盟委员会主席乌苏拉·冯德莱恩提出，在未来两年内提供 2.32亿美元 的欧盟支持，以帮助格陵兰岛应对气候变化，增强互联网连接，并改善水电站、渔业和教育。

另外，芬兰总统亚历山大·斯图布周一宣布，其国家将加入法国的“前向威慑”计划，该计划旨在利用法国的核武库进行欧洲防御。目前已有十个国家加入，包括英国、德国和芬兰的北欧邻国。

艺术设施董事会仍试图加上特朗普的名字

作者：迈克·卡塔利尼 (MIKE CATALINI)

华盛顿 —— 根据一项旨在阻止此举的诉讼中的新法院文件，肯尼迪中心信托董事会计划提议在设施外部加上特朗普总统的名字，因为董事会称他正将该建筑从“危险的财政状况”中拯救出来。

这是围绕在该文化艺术设施外部加上总统名字案件的最新进展。该设施位于华盛顿的波托马克河畔，此举反映了与特朗普结盟的董事会旨在向总统致敬的努力。

这一新信息来自俄亥俄州民主党众议员乔伊斯·比蒂 (Joyce Beatty) 提交的一份法院文件，她是该董事会的当然成员。比蒂一直领导一项阻止特朗普在建筑上署名的行动，她在文件中表示，她向法院提醒该提议，是因为这可能会影响法院尚未做出决定的待决事项。

法院和肯尼迪中心董事会预计都将在周二举行会议。

比蒂的文件包含两份附件。一份是关于关闭该中心的投票草案，声称该建筑不安全，不宜占用。根据比蒂的说法，该主张错误地引用了一家咨询公司的调查结果，而该公司“明确否认提供过任何此类意见”。

另一份文件则声称该中心面临严重的财务困境。它明确要求将特朗普的名字以大理石形式刻在建筑外部中心名称的下方。文件中提供了 10 种可能的铭文选项，包括“由唐纳德·J·特朗普总统和特朗普肯尼迪中心基金监督翻修及捐赠”。另一项提议为：“感谢唐纳德·J·特朗普总统和特朗普肯尼迪中心基金的支持”。

董事会在拟议的决议中写道：“董事会意识到，如果没有适当的认可，特朗普总统不太可能对主楼的翻修提供根本性的监督，并领导该中心的财政救援。”

特朗普在第二任期的很大一部分时间里致力于对华盛顿进行重大改造，包括拆除白宫东翼以腾出空间建造舞厅，并计划在阿灵顿国家公墓附近建造一座凯旋门，以及在波托马克河沿岸翻新一座高尔夫球场。

在法官于 5 月裁定特朗普的名字被非法添加到建筑上之后，肯尼迪中心成为了该计划中的一个绊脚石。

然而，特朗普及其盟友继续对该裁决提出抗争。

董事会于上月投票决定在场馆正面刻上他的名字，内容为“约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心由唐纳德·J·特朗普总统修复并翻新”。

如果特朗普肯尼迪中心基金达到 1亿美元，还将增加另一段铭文：“由特朗普肯尼迪中心基金捐赠”。

卡塔利尼为美联社撰稿。

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加州就限制绿卡获取的联邦政策提起诉讼

民主党官员表示，特朗普不能因为申请人过去使用过公共援助而拒绝其申请。

作者：KEVIN RECTOR

加州以及其他由民主党领导的州和地方政府周一提起两起诉讼，挑战特朗普政府的新规。该新规赋予移民官员更多权力，可以拒绝那些家庭过去依赖过公共援助计划的申请人的绿卡申请。

此次挑战与此前由类似联盟发起的另一项行动如出一辙，后者在特朗普首任政府期间成功阻止了此类变更。

加州总检察长罗布·邦塔（Rob Bonta）的办公室在协助领导各州的此次挑战。他表示，规则变更试图通过将过去几年中即使是短暂使用公共福利的行为，作为联邦政府在未来拒绝某人合法永久居留申请的理由，从而“改写超过100年的法律”——他称这显然是非法的，并将给各州、各县和各市带来巨大的成本压力。

“任何家庭都不应该在今天的医疗保健和营养援助，与明天的绿卡获取路径之间做出选择，”邦塔说。“我们代表将这个州视为家园的数百万移民提起诉讼——我们将奋斗以撤销这一非法规则。”

旧金山市检察官大卫·丘（David Chiu）的办公室在协助领导由民主党领导的城市和县发起的另一项独立挑战。他在一份声明中表示，特朗普政府的新政策是“一次公然的企图，旨在我们的移民社区中播种恐惧和混乱，并强迫人们退出关键的政府服务”——他同时表示，这将使数百万美元的成本转移到地方政府身上。

制定新规的美国国土安全部发言人表示，这些诉讼证明了移民正在非法利用旨在面向美国公民的福利计划。

“避风港州们感到恐惧，因为数十万非法移民和非公民可能会退出美国福利计划，从而导致他们失去联邦资金，”该发言人说。“这是左翼领导人为了证明他们纵容非法罪犯欺诈美国纳税人的行为而进行的意识形态扭曲。”

白宫发言人劳伦·比斯（Lauren Bis）表示，民主党人“再次奋斗以牺牲美国纳税人的利益来给非法外籍人士提供福利”，而特朗普总统及其政府则将美国公民放在首位。

“移民必须能够自食其力，而不能依赖勤劳的美国纳税人，”她说。

特朗普在承诺遏制非法移民的承诺下赢得办公。自就职以来，他的政府发起了一场大规模打击行动，目标涵盖了无证移民和有证移民。其手段部分是通过针对提供移民援助的联邦和州计划。

在诉讼中，各州承认国会于1882年颁布的联邦法律允许美国拒绝非公民入境，如果他们将成为“公共负担”（public charge），即无法自食其力且必须依赖政府援助的人。

然而，各州认为，国会、法院和联邦政府机构在“超过140年”的时间里，将“公共负担”一词理解为“已经或可能主要依赖政府维持长期生存”的人——而不是指过去任何时候（即使是短期内）领取过任何形式公共援助的人。

尽管如此，各州在诉状中写道，由国土安全部和美国公民及移民服务局颁布的新政策，赋予了移民官员“前所未有的、广泛的新裁量权来拒绝准入”那些使用过任何数量公共援助计划的家庭，而这些计划正是国会和各州选择使其符合领取资格的。

在一次早间新闻发布会上，邦塔表示，特朗普政府的新规以前所未有的方式针对这些家庭。

他举例称，新规可能会允许移民官员基于移民父母的美国公民子女领取了法律明确赋予其权利的公共福利，而拒绝给予这些父母永久居留权。

他还举了另一个例子，称新规可能会因为移民家庭使用了基础的预防性医疗服务而对其进行惩罚，而这类医疗服务有助于控制地方和州政府在疾病方面承担的更广泛的公共成本。

邱表示，过去针对那些可能成为“公共负担”的人员在居留权方面的联邦限制一直是以“狭窄且一致的方式”执行的，重点关注某些现金援助和长期医疗需求。他表示，新规使得“几乎任何”形式的政府援助都成为了拒绝居留权的理由。

各州发起的这场诉讼——这是加州针对现任特朗普政府发起的第92起诉讼——延续了一场始于特朗普第一任期内的政策之争。当时，特朗普政府在2019年试图实施类似政策，随后被加州、旧金山和圣克拉拉县起诉并败诉。

德克萨斯州居民就特朗普边境墙提起诉讼

该诉讼由非营利组织“保护大弯曲”（Conserve Big Bend）在牧场主的支持下提起。

作者：丽贝卡·桑塔纳（REBECCA SANTANA）

德克萨斯州马法（MARFA）——德克萨斯州大弯曲（Big Bend）地区的土地所有者、牧场主和企业主，以及一个致力于保护该地区景观和遗产的非营利组织，正提起诉讼，以阻止特朗普政府在该州偏远地段修建边境墙及其他边境基础设施的计划。

这起由“保护大弯曲”提起并获得数十名土地所有者支持的诉讼，正值该政府加大力度推进一项耗资 $46-billion 的计划，旨在沿约 2,000 英里的南部边境部署一系列 30 英尺高的钢制柱状墙、车辆路障以及旨在拦截走私者和移民的技术设备。

在德克萨斯州，这一举措遭到了大量诉讼，以及来自警长、民选官员、导游、环保组织和土地所有者等两党人士的反对。

专门研究大弯曲地区并居住在该地区的考古学家兼历史学家大卫·凯勒（David Keller）表示，支持修建边境墙的官员们“完全没有准备好面对他们捅出的这个马蜂窝，因为他们根本不知道我们有多热爱这个地方”。

他说：“对我们来说，大弯曲不是地图上的一个空白地带，它是我们的家。”

作为修墙工作的一部分，该政府以国土安全部所谓的“非法入境高发区”需要紧急保护边境为由，豁免了多项旨在保护环境、考古或野生动物的法规和法令。

但在周一公布的诉讼中，原告认为，就大弯曲地区而言，这种描述并不准确。

他们引用了美国海关和边境保护局（CBP）发布的历史统计数据，显示与美墨边境其他地区相比，通过大弯曲地区跨境的人数极少。

大弯曲地区与墨西哥接壤的边境线长约 500 英里——约占从太平洋到墨西哥湾的美墨边境总长度的四分之一。但根据诉讼中的统计数据，该地区仅占逮捕人数的约 1%。

原告主张，国土安全部滥用了国会授予的权力。该权力允许该部门部长在非法入境人数众多的地区，拥有豁免法规以修建边境墙或其他基础设施的广泛权限。

原告在诉状中写道：“该判定在法律和事实上均站不住脚，且缺乏依据。”

周一提交的这起诉讼，是旨在减缓或阻止该政府在德克萨斯州及其他地区实施计划的最新努力。

最大的抗议集中在海关和边境保护局针对大弯曲国家公园（Big Bend National Park）的计划上。该公园位于德克萨斯州极西南角，里奥格兰德河将美国与墨西哥分隔开来。

该公园地处偏远且地形崎岖，拥有陡峭的石灰岩峡谷墙和晶莹剔透的星空景观，吸引着来自世界各地的游客。

政府在法庭听证会上表示，尚未决定在公园内建设的具体最终方案，但目前公开的计划包括修建一条新路，安装探测技术以及防止车辆跨境的路障。

当 8 月份有人发现推土机在公园内清理土地时，全州民众感到愤怒。海关和边境保护局局长罗德尼·斯科特（Rodney Scott）暂时暂停了公园内的施工相关活动，但许多活动人士和当地居民希望该政府在更广泛的大弯曲地区计划中做出更多改变。

美洲原住民团体认为，建设工程可能会阻碍他们践行信仰，并破坏重要的宗教遗址；而环保主义者则担心边境墙可能会导致洪水或阻碍动物迁徙。

多年来在格兰德河沿岸生活和工作的土地所有者质疑，如果他们无法接触到这条河流，将如何喂养牲畜或灌溉农作物。

Santana 为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。

自然保护需要学会说“是”

致我们的运动

每小时，我们失去超过 40 英亩的农田和牧场。每天，面积相当于两个中央公园的开放空间消失。每年，又有 100 万英亩的森林丧失。而一旦这些土地消失，就永远消失了。

而现在，数万亿美元用于急需的基础设施建设，将创造美国历史上规模最大的建设时期之一。

如果没有清晰的愿景，这些新基础设施将加速野生土地和工作土地的丧失，而人类和野生动物都依赖于这些土地。这些是我们无法承受失去的土地。

那么，我们如何在建设所需基础设施的同时，保护我们所依赖的自然系统？

环保运动在解决上个世纪的许多挑战方面功不可没：减少污染、保护标志性景观，并迫使工业界为环境破坏负责。但我们是通过说“不”来实现的——通过立法、监管和诉讼。说“不”是保护艰苦赢得的自然保护成果的有力工具。但它不能是我们工具箱中唯一的工具。

如果我们想要应对气候变化、住房需求、水资源短缺和农村经济发展，我们需要建设。当我们建设时，我们有机会将新基础设施与自然保护成果相结合，为我们的国家争取到比仅说“不”所能实现的更多成果。人造基础设施和自然基础设施不再是对立面，而是成为合作伙伴。这就是寻找“是”的含义。

湿地可以防御洪水、风暴潮和极端天气。森林可以储存碳、过滤饮用水并延长水库的寿命。农场提供新鲜、本地且可持续的食物。城市树冠让城市在热浪中依然宜居。这些自然系统是必需品，而非奢侈品。它们承担了人造基础设施无法完成的工作。

我们不能仅通过说“不”来解决当今最大的挑战。

一个繁荣、健康且具有韧性的未来，需要一个既致力于建设国家紧迫需求，又致力于保护不可替代之物的环保运动。

未来的挑战过于巨大且复杂，无法用昨天的剧本来应对。我们需要一个在建设方面与在阻拦方面同样坚定的运动。

是时候寻找那个“是”了。为了我们所有人。

拉里·塞尔泽 (Larry Selzer)

总裁兼首席执行官

特朗普将中国置于AI抵制风波的中心

Anthropic的达里奥·阿莫代伊在周末就人工智能发出了严厉警告。 CHANCE YEH HubSpot

[AI，接第A1页]

但特朗普在抵制立场上依然坚定，将政治上的反弹归咎于一个由中国——该领域唯一的重大竞争对手——所延续的“阴谋”。

“人工智能接管世界、毁灭人类以及所有其他糟糕的事情，都是一个骗局，”特朗普在一系列社交媒体帖子中写道。“人工智能唯一需要的控制或‘护栏’是一位强大且聪明（高智商！）的总统，而美国恰恰拥有这样一位总统，而且绰绰有余！”

特朗普总统继续写道，特朗普政府“已经阻止了AI‘人士’去做坏事，或潜在的坏‘事’，比如达里奥（Anthropic！），他现在正伪装成一个‘完美的小天使’——我们将继续这样做！我们已经对这些公司拥有巨大的刑事和监管权力！”

自从一名Anthropic的前研究员在社交媒体上发布严厉警示，称AI开发可能导致灭绝级事件以来，要求采取行动的呼声日益高涨。他的信息在网上疯传，促使Anthropic的创始人阿莫代伊发表公开信呼吁放缓速度。

奥特曼表示他同意阿莫代伊的观点，并宣布该公司将出于安全考虑，将其首次公开募股（IPO）推迟至2027年。今年7月，OpenAI发现一群失控的AI代理秘密策划逃离其虚拟沙箱，渗透进开放的互联网并黑进了一家私营公司——这是一个惊人的预兆，表明AI系统变得难以控制的速度之快。

“鉴于AI能力开发的加速率，我担心在6-12个月内，这样一个集群就有能力通过持久性僵尸网络接管整个互联网，潜在造成数千亿美元的损失，”阿莫代伊在周末写道，“而且如果AI在缺乏必要护栏的情况下变得更强大，损失规模将在此基础上继续增加。”

尽管如此，特朗普及其几位共和党盟友拒绝了政府监管的前景，或者对奥特曼和阿莫代伊的动机表示怀疑。

国防部在X上发布了一张宣传“AI优先”的图表，并声明政府将倡导“美国主义，而非有效利他主义”。该图像似乎是由人工智能生成的。

“如果未发布的模型足够可怕，以至于你们认为应该放慢速度，我支持你们负责任的决定，”特朗普的前AI主管、现任总统科学技术顾问委员会共同主席的大卫·萨克斯在X上写道。“但不要再假装你们需要任何其他人的许可。不要再假装反垄断法必须被暂停，以便你们能够形成一个卡特尔。不要再假装你们需要一个凌驾于产品责任之上的监管审批流程。”

“最重要的是，不要再假装放慢速度的动机纯粹是利他主义，”萨克斯补充道。“如果你们的产品导致了真正具有破坏性的网络攻击，你们将面临巨大的产品责任风险。”

无论这些公司的动机如何，民主党人正将这一时刻视为追求实质性监管改革的机会。

在周四与民主党众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（Hakeem Jeffries）共同参加的一次筹款活动上，奥巴马表示，在国会以及2028年总统初选之前的竞选活动中，AI都应成为民主党议程的中心。

“我强烈敦促民主党制定一个框架，开展一次非常公开的对话，”奥巴马说。“这件事在私人手中推进得非常快，如果我们不能掌控它，我认为可能会很危险。”

次日，克林顿表示，AI正变得“过于危险”，不能让党派之争使华盛顿陷入瘫痪。

“唐纳德·特朗普在第一任期内唯一做对的一件事就是‘曲速行动’（Warp Speed），”克林顿在MS NOW的《早晨乔》（Morning Joe）节目中说道，她指的是特朗普第一任期内旨在加速研发新冠疫苗的联邦计划。“让我们把AI委员会也置于‘曲速’状态，并想出如何进行合理的监管。”

AI领域的领导者们“基本上在说，‘在真正糟糕的事情发生之前，请阻止我们’，”克林顿继续说道，“‘帮我们停止。’中国国家主席将在两周后访问白宫。本届政府应该共同努力，摆脱谎言，摆脱社交媒体，停止担心舞厅和荒谬的拱门，并制定一项计划来争取中国的加入。”

但中国在AI领域的快速进展，至今促使特朗普允许美国工业在几乎没有约束的情况下向前推进。

中国情报部门负责人周一发出了一次罕见的警告，称AI的发展可能会危及中国共产党对国家的控制。但中国外交部对美国的这场辩论反应强硬。一名发言人表示：“散布恐惧、对抗和恶性竞争只会破坏全球AI治理进程，这不符合任何人的利益。”

美国领先的AI公司已开始使用其最先进的模型来训练新模型，这一过程被称为“递归自我改进”。在行业内部，专家和研究人员认为，第一家掌握递归自我改进的AI公司将开启指数级发展，通过让竞争对手无法追赶从而“赢得”这场竞赛。

但这一成就——由机器产生且无止境的智能提升——也可能驱动智能增长超出人类的控制。

“一场针对AI和数据中心的病态阴谋正在进行，唯一对此感到高兴的是中国，”特朗普周一写道。“谁赢得了AI，谁就赢了！我们领先于中国及其他所有国家，并将继续领先。阴谋论者、叛国者、背叛者和泄密者，小心了！”

在美国众议院，来自共和党和民主党的“奇怪盟友”，包括参议员伯尼·桑德斯（独立人士，佛蒙特州）和众议员安娜·保利娜·卢娜（共和党，佛罗里达州），已走到一起，试图处理可能遏制AI最大危险的立法。由众议员洛里·特拉汉（民主党，马萨诸塞州）和众议员杰伊·奥伯诺尔特（共和党，大熊湖）提出的一项法案建议，在AI实验室中嵌入独立的政府审计员，并安装一个联邦“紧急开关”，以便在紧急情况下关闭智能体。

但目前尚不清楚众议院共和党议长、特朗普的亲密盟友迈克·约翰逊是否会允许此类法案提交表决。

“我们不能对此实施暂停，因为中国会超越我们，这就是挑战所在，”约翰逊周日表示。“这是国家安全与确保模型安全这一即时安全需求之间的平衡。”

“我们需要像过去处理其他新技术一样处理这项新技术，并确保我们在尽一切可能负责任地行动，同时不扼杀美国的创新，”约翰逊补充道。“我们必须同时做好这两件事。”

起诉书称哥伦比亚大学未能保护巴勒斯坦活动人士

STEPHANIE KEITH Getty Images 前学生马哈茂德·哈利勒（Mahmoud Khalil）在8月的一次集会上出现，他于周一起诉了哥伦比亚大学。

作者：Sudhin Thanawala

巴勒斯坦活动人士马哈茂德·哈利勒（Mahmoud Khalil）于周一起诉哥伦比亚大学，指控该校未能解决针对他及校园内一个亲巴勒斯坦团体其他成员的骚扰行为，并在他们举报时对其采取报复措施。

根据在纽约市联邦法院提交的民权诉讼，该大学的“蓄意漠视”导致多名团体成员被人肉搜索，并导致哈利勒被移民局特工拘留。

在宣布诉讼的新闻发布会上，哈利勒指责该大学采取了“旨在恐吓巴勒斯坦学生的歧视行为”。

他说：“我们提起诉讼是因为无论背景如何，任何学生都不应该经历哥伦比亚大学这些年来让我们所经历的这种地狱。”

该大学拒绝就此次诉讼发表评论，但在电子邮件中表示，“营造一个让社区每位成员都感到受欢迎、得到支持且安全的校园环境，是我们作为一所大学的根本。”

校方称：“哥伦比亚大学致力于保护我们的社区免受歧视和骚扰，并在出现问题时迅速且恰当地做出回应。”

哈利勒去年还起诉了哥伦比亚大学，以阻止该校向国会委员会披露学生记录。

哈利勒曾是哥伦比亚大学的一名研究生，在担任抗议以色列在加沙行动的学生活动人士发言人后获得关注。

2025年3月，美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）的特工在他位于校园内的公寓将其逮捕，他迅速成为了特朗普政府打击亲巴勒斯坦示威者的标志性人物。

哈利勒在路易斯安那州的一所移民监狱中度过了104天，错过了第一个孩子的出生，随后新泽西州的一名联邦法官下令将其释放。他的驱逐出境案件目前仍在审理中。

哈利勒最新的诉讼称，在他被拘留期间，哥伦比亚大学“拒绝纠正虚假信息”，“允许关于其行为和角色的错误叙事持续存在，并进一步助长了同辈之间对其他巴勒斯坦学生以及被认为具有共同阿拉伯和 / 或穆斯林血统学生的骚扰”。

诉讼称，该大学没有调查骚扰报告，反而采取报复措施，将亲巴勒斯坦校园团体举办的活动定性为安全风险，并修订纪律政策以针对对以色列政府的批评。

在周一的新闻发布会上，哈利勒还指责该大学监视亲巴勒斯坦学生，并雇佣私人调查员对他进行监控。

该诉讼指控哥伦比亚大学违反民权，请求法院下令恢复哈利勒进入校园的权限并结束对该巴勒斯坦团体的暂停活动处罚，并寻求“在审判中确定”的损害赔偿。

该亲巴勒斯坦团体及其主席也被列为原告。

Thanawala 为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。

洛杉矶

水力电力局 (Department of Water & Power)

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一名男子在密西西比州一名女性被吊死案中否认指控

作者：苏菲·贝茨 (SOPHIE BATES)

密西西比州杰克逊市 —— 一名被指控谋杀密西西比州一名黑人女性吊死案的男子，在周一的首次出庭中否认指控。

29岁的塔西亚·福特（Tasia Fortune）的尸体于8月3日在州首府杰克逊市一座废弃房屋后面的树上被发现，死因为吊死。

上周五，在州医学检查官认定其死因为他杀后，警方逮捕了51岁的贾克斯·拉特利夫（Jarques Ratliff），他同样是黑人，被指控谋杀。

在周一市政法院举行的简短听证会上，法官拒绝了拉特利夫的保释申请，拉特利夫在法庭上表示自己没有罪。拉特利夫的律师在听证会结束后离开法院，未与记者交谈。

此案引起了广泛关注，因为福特死亡的方式让人想起这个南方州曾经发生的私刑事件，该州有着充满动荡的民权历史，并被多次种族暴力事件所玷污。

警方和检察官尚未给出此次杀人的疑似动机，也未说明他们是否认为种族在其中起到了作用。

警长拉沙尔·布拉克尼（RaShall Brackney）周五表示，51岁的拉特利夫与福特有“关联”，但她未详细说明。她还表示，预计该案还将有进一步的逮捕行动。

据亲属称，福特原籍肯塔基州，在杰克逊市生活了大约十年。她的母亲克里斯蒂·斯皮维（Christy Spivey）表示，福特有四个孩子，但很少见到其中的两个。

斯皮维不确定福特去世时住在哪里，但她说女儿近年来一直与无家可归的问题作斗争。她说福特最近谈到过创办一家清洁公司，并试图让生活重回正轨。

在过去一年中，密西西比州还发生了另外两起吊死事件 —— 分别是一名三角州大学（Delta State University）的黑人学生和一名在维克斯堡（Vicksburg）的白人无家可归者 —— 这两起事件也引起了广泛关注，但均被认定为自杀。

贝茨为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。

电厂排放限制的大规模撤销

[接 A1 版“撤销”报道]

美国环保署（EPA）称，根据《清洁空气法》，温室气体排放不属于“空气污染物”。上图为堪萨斯州的一座燃煤电厂。 查理·里德尔（CHARLIE RIEDEL）美联社

说道。“当我们运行煤电厂和天然气电厂时，我们有权要求它们遵守高标准的公共卫生标准。而本届政府却选择削减这些标准。”

拜登政府的规定原本会要求部分煤电厂大幅削减排放，在某些情况下需要安装碳捕集技术、改变运行方式或最终退役。这些规定还将要求未来的天然气电厂满足严格的排放标准，而这些标准可以通过转换为氢气等更清洁的燃料来实现。美国环保署官员现在表示，相关技术尚未得到充分普及。

除了影响所有人的气候干扰外，周一的撤销决定将最直接地影响居住在煤电厂附近的人群（加州已经逐步淘汰了煤电厂），以及居住在没有自行制定监管条例的州内天然气电厂附近的人群。加州要求到 2035 年 90% 的电力实现零碳，到 2045 年实现 100% 零碳。这将消除电力部门对天然气的依赖。

加州空气资源委员会发言人林赛·巴克利（Lindsay Buckley）表示，特朗普政府的决定“对加州的规定没有影响，该州电厂产生的温室气体仍受‘上限与投资’（Cap-and-Invest）计划监管”。后者是该州的底线气候贸易计划，对各行业的排放设定一个日益严格的上限，并允许污染企业通过购买和交易配额来达标。

加州人仍将感受到周一决定的影响。

“其中一些燃煤电厂是美国、甚至可能是全球最大的碳污染源，”加州大学伯克利分校法学院气候项目主任伊森·埃尔金德（Ethan Elkind）表示。“这虽然不直接影响加州自身电力部门脱碳的目标，但取消对这些电厂的环境保护意味着我们将加剧气候变化，而这绝对会影响加州。”

美国环保署官员在周一的一次电话会议中表示，此次变更不包括直接危害健康的污染物，如一氧化碳和二氧化氮，这些污染物是单独监管的。他们认为，拜登政府在 2024 年制定的——为化石燃料电厂设定严苛标准的——规定是“试图让美国远离廉价能源的直接尝试”，违反了《清洁空气法》。

他们表示，总计而言，此举将为电力部门节省 $310 亿，主要是通过避免遵守更严格规定而产生的成本以及其他强制性投资。

但曾任拜登政府顾问的胡佛（Hoover）表示，这些计算忽略了国家在避免医疗成本方面本可以节省多少资金。他表示，煤电厂和天然气电厂污染的增加将导致数千亿美元的负面健康影响，包括哮喘、心脏病、肺病以及过早死亡等结果。

“我拒绝‘必须在清洁空气和充足能源之间做出选择’这一前提，”他说。“事实上，正是特朗普政府自上任以来在每一个环节都在破坏廉价的清洁能源——他们故意选择推广那些让我们病得更重，且在许多情况下成本更高的能源。”

美国环保署的这一行动是过去两年中一系列撤销监管保护措施的一部分，包括废除关于汽车污染的规定、取消电厂汞及其他有毒排放的限制，以及撤销政府关于气候变化对人类健康和福利有害的正式确认（即所谓的“危害认定”）。

在这种情况下，正如在本次事件中一样，美国环保署（EPA）官员辩称，导致全球变暖的温室气体排放不属于《清洁空气法》定义的“空气污染物”，因此不受联邦法规约束。而 2007 年的一起最高法院案件“马萨诸塞州诉美国环保署案”则判定其属于污染物。

但美国环保署官员在周一还提到了一起 2022 年的最高法院案件，该案件限制了该机构利用《清洁空气法》广泛重构国家电力系统的权力，并表示拜登政府的规定是“民主党对美国自然资源发动战争的另一个例子”。

能源部长克里斯·赖特在一份声明中表示：“与过去那些优先考虑气候恐慌主义者利益的政府不同，特朗普总统承诺将美国人民放在首位，并且他正在兑现这一承诺。”

这一公告发布之际，国际能源署最近预测，由于中东冲突推高了天然气价格，全球今年的煤炭燃烧量将创历史新高。在战争爆发前，该机构预计今年将略有下降。

在美国，煤炭使用量已下降数十年，但去年增长了约 10%。这在很大程度上是因为数据中心产生了新的能源需求，总统一直推动使用煤炭为这些中心供电，且特朗普政府大力支持石油和天然气开发。特朗普最近宣布向美国煤电厂投资 7 亿美元——其中包括在奥克兰建设一个煤炭出口终端，这将是美国西海岸的首个此类设施。

与此同时，白宫已与离岸风电开发商达成协议，让他们放弃原计划，转而投资于液化天然气等美国化石燃料项目。这些行动是该政府旨在“释放美国能源主导地位”之更广泛议程的一部分。

美国环保署发布此公告的同时，国际官员警告称，全球变暖很快将突破 1.5 摄氏度的阈值，这被广泛认为是气候变化产生最严重影响（包括日益严重的野火、热浪、干旱和洪水）的临界点。

此次政策回撤可能会立即面临法律挑战。

法官裁定距离选举过近，不能限制邮寄选票

[接 A1 版选票报道] 此次博弈的赌注“不能再高了”。

“投票是一切其他权利的源头，是一项基本权利，而且所有 50 个州都允许以某种形式通过邮寄方式投票。在加利福尼亚州和其他几个州，邮寄投票是进行选举的主要方式，”邦塔表示。“如果这项规定被允许生效，后果将是灾难性的。”

根据拟议的规则，全国各州和各县的选举官员将被要求为每位选民注册一个唯一的条形码，并将数据提交到一个新的在线门户网站，而截至上周，该门户网站尚未投入运行。

如果没有个体化条形码，各州将无法通过邮寄发送选票。在加利福尼亚州，这意味着选举官员必须在州选票寄出前，为 2300 万 名选民注册新条形码。

“在期中选举之前，遵守美国邮政署（USPS）的规定是不可能的，这意味着数百万选民将无法通过邮寄投票，有些人甚至将完全无法投票，”各州总检察长上周告诉法院。

其影响将不仅限于倾向民主党的州。犹他州副州长戴德丽·亨德森（Deidre Henderson）表示，如果现在实施新规，将是一场“彻头彻尾的灾难”。2024 年，全国约 30% 的选民——以及 80% 的加州选民——通过邮寄方式投票。

但特朗普在未提供证据的情况下坚称，邮寄投票会导致大规模的作弊和欺诈。

今年 3 月，他签署了一项行政命令，要求邮政署采取更多措施以“增强选举诚信”。

“唯一的选票信封标识符（如条形码）能够确认只有公民接收并投递选票，”他说道。

选举专家表示，尽管进行了严格的审计和其他搜寻，但没有证据表明存在此类大规模欺诈。

各州总检察长辩称，宪法将选举的执行权交给各州，而非联邦官员。他们表示，虽然国会可以制定新规则，但国会并未通过限制邮寄投票或授权邮政署执行此类限制的法律。

特朗普及其律师坚持认为，政府有责任打击欺诈行为，包括在选举中。

总检察长 D. 约翰·索尔（D. John Sauer）将新规描述为“适度的措施，将有助于防止和遏制利用邮政系统实施针对国家的欺诈行为的潜在严重滥用”。

但波士顿的美国地方法院法官因迪拉·塔尔瓦尼（Indira Talwani）裁定，邮政署不得在 11 月 3 选举中实施其新规。她发现，特朗普政府未能向法院提供存在大规模欺诈的证据，而各州则提供了充分证据，证明在如此短的时间内实施该系统将带来巨大风险。

第一巡回法院维持了她的裁决，并表示政府律师“甚至没有认真质疑……关于如果 USPS 规则立即生效，从现在到 11 月 3 之间将出现混乱和大规模剥夺投票权的详细调查结果”。

周日，由特朗普任命的美国地方法院法官卡尔·尼科尔斯（Carl Nichols）在由全国有色人种协进会（NAACP）和民主党团体发起的独立案件中，同样阻止了邮政署新规的实施，认定这些规定显然超出了邮政署在选举中的权限。

未来将如何发展尚不明确。法院并未宣布新规非法或违宪，尽管多家下级法院已暗示，该计划的部分内容可能违宪——包括超出了邮政署干预选举的权限。

在上诉法院和最高法院之前的许多辩论都与邮政局寻求实施这些变更的仓促时间表有关。随着最高法院裁定这些规则不适用于本次选举，这一问题被搁置，下级法院的辩论重点可能会转向这些新规定是否可以应用于 2028 年的选举。

纽森表示，如果哈里斯在2028年再次参选，他将予以让路

[纽森，见 A1]

球员梅根·拉皮诺（Megan Rapinoe）在一次播客采访中表示，她正专注于全职工作以帮助民主党赢得中期选举。

哈里斯的一位发言人拒绝置评。纽森的代表在周一下午没有立即回应请求。

在多项关于2028年的民调中，哈里斯一直是以党内领先者的姿态出现，包括7月份的一项民调显示她以两位数的优势领先于纽森。但党内一直在讨论一个问题：那些因党内2024年失利而深受打击的选民，是否会对哈里斯参选感到热情。

几位加州捐赠者在5月告诉《洛杉矶时报》，他们不打算支持哈里斯，或者不想讨论她可能参选的问题；在少数圈子里，人们对纽森表现出了更多的热情。

随着党内希望之辈争夺关注度，2028年民主党初选的动态在不断演变，而随着南卡罗来纳州被选为党内第一个初选州，情况发生了显著变化。如果南卡罗来纳州的黑人选民倾向于她，这一选择可能会给哈里斯带来助力。

哈里斯和纽森在同一时代进入政坛，此前从未在选举中相互竞争，他们的政治生涯在很大程度上是平行发展而非竞争关系。2月份，纽森在CNN上表示，他“从未阻碍她的雄心”，并且不“想象我未来会这样做”，称“命运”将决定他们是否会相互竞争。

加文·纽森于9月4日访问南卡罗来纳州，该州是2028年民主党总统初选的首个州。 Mic Smith 美联社

纽森本月在南卡罗来纳州进行了巡访，这种举动通常被解读为在为总统竞选铺路。在CNN的采访中，当塔珀（Tapper）提出哈里斯已经获得过竞选总统的机会而纽森尚未获得这一论点时，纽森指出他不确定哈里斯是否会参选，并同意这是一个“相当有说服力的理由”。

这位州长暗示，他与哈里斯之间的竞争将分流支持者的选票，这将成为竞选中“给其他所有人的上帝之礼”，并表示两人同时参选“不能服务于更大的利益”。他还提到了他们重叠的政治圈子。

“我了解她的支持者基础，我了解她的朋友。这方面的（文恩）图完全是交叉的，”纽森说。“我不会那样做。”

这次采访是在蒙大拿州拍摄的，纽森的姻亲在那里拥有一座牧场，纽森和塔珀一起进行了飞钓。完整片段定于周二播出。

纽森表示，为了决定是否参选，候选人需要能够“把握时机”。

“你必须对自己诚实，”他说。“你是代表了当下的时代精神，还是在浪费所有人的时间？”

学习

美国学校满意度降至新低

仅有 32% 的美国成年人表示他们对美国学校系统感到“完全”或“某种程度上”满意。 马克·希费尔拜恩 (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN) 美联社

政治分歧、测试分数和对劳动力的担忧正导致信心下降。

作者：乔斯林·格克 (Jocelyn Gecker)

由于日益加深的政治分歧，以及人们担心学校未能让孩子们为大学和未来的工作做好准备，美国人对该国 K-12 教育质量的满意度已跌至低点。

根据盖洛普 (Gallup) 和沃尔顿家族基金会 (Walton Family Foundation) 最近发布并与美联社分享的一项 8 月份民意调查，仅有 32% 的美国成年人表示他们对美国学校系统感到“完全”或“某种程度上”满意。

这比过去两年下降了 11 个百分点，也是盖洛普 27 年前开始就该主题进行民调以来的最低水平。

与此同时，不满率已上升至 67% 的高点。

教育和学校政策专家表示，这些调查结果令人深感担忧，但并不令人意外。

民主党人是近期下滑的主要驱动者，自特朗普总统 2025 年开启第二个任期以来，他们的满意度下降了约 19 个百分点。

独立人士的满意度似乎也在下降，比 2024, 下降了约 10 个百分点，而共和党人的满意度也略有下降，约 6 个百分点。

马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校教育政策中心主任杰克·施耐德 (Jack Schneider) 表示，特朗普政府将学校描绘成政治战场，对教师在课堂上被允许地表达的内容提出质疑，并致力于废除多样性计划以及拆解教育部，这些行为加剧了公众信心的侵蚀。

他表示，民主党人还特别担心特朗普标志性的“学校选择”计划，该计划将利用纳税人资助的奖学金来支付孩子的私立学校学费。

测试分数下降

但仅凭政治无法解释这种不满。盖洛普的民调显示，自新冠疫情导致教室关闭以来，公众对学校的信心普遍下降，这加剧了学业下滑、心理健康问题及其他问题。

新闻头条一直讲述着全国测试分数下降的故事，尤其是阅读能力，这传递出一个信号：学校在疫情低谷后一直难以反弹。

“我们一直听到关于测试分数和其他社会趋势的负面消息，这可能是导致这一结果的原因，”密歇根州立大学专门研究公共政策的政治学教授萨拉·雷克豪 (Sarah Reckhow) 表示。

她说：“关于教育中的技术和人工智能存在大量的争论、讨论和嘈杂之声。”而且最近，孩子们在学校的屏幕使用时间在地方和国家层面的教育新闻中占据了主导地位。

本地观点

然而，家长们对自己孩子的教育持有不同的看法。约三分之二的有学龄儿童的家长表示，他们对孩子的教育感到满意。这在趋势中处于低点——自2013年以来，家长的不满程度从未如此之高——但仍是成年人整体对美国教育 $32% 的满意度的两倍。

这反映出一个稳定的趋势，即家长对自己所在学校的信心，要高于他们从民选官员那里听到的叙述以及关于全国情况的新闻头条。

“当人们对全国学校发表看法时，他们评论的是 98,999 所他们从未踏足过的学校，”施耐德说道。

另一项同样由盖洛普（Gallup）和沃尔顿（Walton）在 8 月进行的调查询问了美国人，他们认为学校在为孩子准备未来方面表现如何。

仅约 2 in 10 的人认为学校在教授批判性思维或为学生准备进入当前劳动力市场方面做得“好”或“极好”。学校得分最高的是培养学生适应新技术的能力，44% 的受访者在该领域给学校打了高分。

盖洛普高级教育研究员扎克·赫里诺夫斯基（Zach Hrynowski）表示，这些结果凸显了人们对更广泛制度的挫败感。

“人们现在对这个国家的一切都有一种普遍的负面感觉，”赫里诺夫斯基说。“人们感到沮丧，认为没有任何一个机构运作得特别好。”

盖克（Gecker）为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。

家长就课堂强制使用互联网提起诉讼

摄影：JOE LAMBERTI，美联社 一名学生在春季于宾夕法尼亚州阿德莫尔与洛尔梅里恩学校董事会成员交谈。 一名与会者在洛尔梅里恩学校董事会会议上佩戴着一枚写有“放下屏幕，拿起铅笔”的徽章。

作者：LINDA JACOBSON

反对在课堂中使用技术的家长们已将愤怒指向谷歌（Google）以及广泛使用的 i-Ready 平台背后的公司 Curriculum Associates 等大型企业。

但最近，这场“技术抵制”发生了转向：费城郊区的七名家长在联邦法院起诉其学区，理由是该学区不允许家庭选择让孩子退出使用互联网。

拥有 8,500 名学生的洛尔梅里恩学区（Lower Merion School District）于 8 月 17 日通过了一项新的技术政策，该政策限制了小学阶段设备的使用，并且在学生进入五年级之前不分配笔记本电脑或 iPad。

该政策试图在承认“家庭对学生接触技术的看法各异”的同时，依然能够“最大限度地发挥技术资源的教育价值”，从而在两者之间取得平衡。但在 6 月，董事会废除了一项长期执行的政策，该政策此前允许家长拒绝让孩子使用联网设备。

这些家长引用了关于在线网站成瘾性质以及社交媒体有害影响的研究，指责该学区、教育局长弗兰克·拉内利（Frank Ranelli）以及七名董事会成员营造了一个“对学生而言不健康、不安全且具有侵入性的环境”。诉状认为，该政策剥夺了家长对其子女“养育和教育”做出决定的权利，并使孩子面临接触在线色情内容和暴力视频的风险。根据诉讼文件，一名孩子开始“在学校设备上强迫性地玩一款在线扑克游戏”。

学区在的一份声明中表示，其“否认这些指控，并将通过司法程序进一步做出回应”。但官员们还指出，并非所有原告家长在区内都有学生。在提起诉讼的七个家庭中，只有三个家庭仍有学生在校就读。其余家庭的孩子被描述为今年秋季“有资格就读”。根据诉状，其中一个家庭已将孩子送入私立学校。

技术的正确使用在加利福尼亚州，尤其是洛杉矶统一学区（Los Angeles Unified）也是一个重大议题。6 月，洛杉矶学校董事会投票决定根据年龄限制屏幕使用时间，并加快这些限制措施的实施。从本学年开始，二年级以下的学生被禁止使用屏幕。年长学生的设备使用权限逐渐增加——尽管即使是高中教师，可能也需要与同事协调，确定轮到哪个班级需要进行基于计算机的作业。

洛杉矶统一学区此前已经禁止学生在校期间使用手机。但宾夕法尼亚州的这起诉讼触及了现代教育技术核心的更深层次——即互联网本身的使用。

对学校董事会的一次“异常”挑战

这起案件是教育技术法律中心（EdTech Law Center）的最新举措。该中心由一对在德克萨斯州执业的夫妻律师团队领导，旨在迫使学区大幅限制互联网的使用。安德鲁·利德尔（Andrew Liddell）和朱莉·利德尔（Julie Liddell）目前正与一家代表家长的费城律所合作，同时他们还针对多家教育技术供应商发起了数起诉讼，其中包括在线学习平台 IXL 和学生信息系统 PowerSchool。安德鲁·利德尔在的一份声明中表示，他认为这起案件是“首例”。专家表示，家长与学区之间关于技术使用的争议最终闹到法庭并不常见。

“这是一起异常的诉讼，”专业组织学校网络联盟（Consortium for School Networking）董事会主席斯泰西·霍桑（Stacy Hawthorne）说道。她表示，针对学校董事会的政策制定权提出宪法挑战是非常困难的。“法院通常不会赋予个体家庭对学区教学或技术政策的否决权。”

此次诉讼发生在大约一周前，教育部长琳达·麦克马洪（Linda McMahon）在接受 CNN 采访时表示，如果家长认为某种教育技术工具（尤其是使用人工智能的工具）不适合他们的孩子，他们应该有权要求采取不同的方案。麦克马洪表示，她反对允许学生在学校拥有“娱乐性屏幕时间”。

为了回应家长的担忧以及研究人员关于屏幕时间过长的警告，几个州正在限制设备的使用。纽约州立法者最近提出了一项立法，旨在使纸笔作业成为小学课堂的主要教学手段。

凯利·克兰西（Kelly Clancy）是一位来自布鲁克林的三个孩子的母亲，同时在纽约市公立学校的一个社区教育委员会任职。她表示，家长们对该法案“非常兴奋”，且倡导团体“正计划在全州范围内发起大规模推动”。但她认为，大多数家长更希望看到学区采取严格的屏幕时间政策，而不是选择退出。

“家长希望能够信任孩子就读的学校将学习放在首位，”她说，“没有人希望走到诉讼这一步。”

教育技术团体和美国教育部已呼吁限制过度使用，并仔细审查相关项目以确保其能提升学习效果。

“任何东西都不能取代教师与学生之间的一对一互动，”麦克马洪在 CNN 上说道，“我们看待的是娱乐性屏幕时间，还是辅导性屏幕时间？在课堂中使用时需要一个正确的平衡。”

学校网络联盟主席霍桑预计类似的诉讼不会变得普遍，并表示大多数关于屏幕时间、隐私和人工智能的争议“将继续通过学校董事会的审议、选举和州政策制定来解决”。

但她敦促各学区认真对待家长的担忧，并解释他们如何利用技术来支持学习并保护孩子在网络环境中的安全。

“教师主导的教育”

根据投诉内容，下梅里恩（Lower Merion）学区领导层与家长之间的争论在春季升级，当时设备的使用“已让许多家长无法忍受”。

首席原告亚伊尔·列夫（Yair Lev）在该学区的辛温德小学（Cynwyd Elementary）有两个孩子，他协助组织了“铅笔胜过像素”（Pencils Over Pixels）组织，以主张维持“选择退出”（opt-out）政策。当学区总监拉内利（Ranelli）及当地学校管理人员开始告知家长他们不能选择退出时，冲突进一步升级。

列夫是一名心脏病专家，也是托马斯·杰斐逊大学医院（Thomas Jefferson University Hospital）的教授，他向董事会成员发送了大量电子邮件，请求他们不要“取消对家长的保护”。

在 7 月的一封信息中，他描述了一次对话，称总监告诉他，那些反对使用 Chromebook 和在线课程的家长“欢迎离开公立学区，转去私立学校”。

由于在之前的会议上，部分要求让孩子退出使用设备的家长造成了混乱，学区最终将该政策的最终投票移至 Zoom 平台进行，且不允许公众发表评论。此外，学区正在采用一项新计划，允许教育工作者和家长共同监控设备的使用情况。

在向 The 74 发表的一份声明中，列夫表示他没有计划将孩子从该学区接走。

“我们不愿牺牲我们所热爱的公立学校和社区，”他说。“我们仅仅是寻求维护作为家长的权利，为我们的孩子选择一种无需强制技术要求的、由教师主导的教育。”

雅各布森（Jacobson）为 The 74 撰稿。本文通过与美联社（Associated Press）的合作伙伴关系分发。《洛杉矶时报》工作人员霍华德·布鲁姆（Howard Blume）对本报道做出了贡献。

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AI暂停论重创英伟达及其他AI股票

分析师表示，这将服务于客户。

总部位于加州圣克拉拉的英伟达（Nvidia）首席执行官黄仁勋（Jensen Huang）认为，AI末日情景毫无根据。 BENJAMIN FANJOY Getty Images

科技领袖在末日情景问题上存在分歧，但OpenAI暗示将推迟IPO。

作者：Nilesh Christopher

周一，人工智能股票大幅下跌，此前美国AI革命的领导者们呼吁协调放缓构建更强大AI系统的速度。

周末，Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊（Dario Amodei）发表了一篇题为《我们必须控制前沿速度》（We Must Pace the Frontier）的文章，呼吁全行业共同努力放缓AI开发。OpenAI、SpaceX和微软的高管也对此表示担忧，并呼吁采取某种形式的暂停。

半导体股票承受了这些言论带来的最大冲击。芯片制造商英伟达下跌3%至$210.96. 其竞争对手AMD下跌4%。英特尔暴跌6%。

在恐慌情绪中，ChatGPT的开发公司OpenAI暗示，它可能会推迟其首次公开募股（IPO）计划。

OpenAI首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）在接受《财富》（Fortune）杂志采访时表示，现在是进行首次公开募股的“不恰当时刻”，并称公司今年不会上市。

OpenAI的股东软银集团（SoftBank Group）的股价在周一暴跌11%。

上周，一名Anthropic员工辞职并称AI公司正在拿人类的未来做赌注，这导致人们对与日益强大的技术相关的末日情景的担忧激增。

周六，阿莫代伊概述了他希望放缓AI开发速度的方法。

他的建议包括：使用独立的第三方监控机构，以确保AI在安全的情况下被开发。

“Anthropic现在单方面承诺采取这一步骤，”阿莫代伊说。

OpenAI表示将效仿此举。

微软周一发布了一项“人文主义”行为准则，以展示其致力于确保微软的模型“绝不会抵制人类的干预、修正或关闭”。

阿莫代伊的其他提案还包括与民主国家合作制定安全标准，并寻找确保中国实体也予以遵守的方法。

AI能力的增长如此之快，以至于许多行业领袖表示，他们自己都被吓到了。他们警告说，人类失去对AI控制的可能性并非微不足道，而这可能会给世界带来严重损害。

怀疑论者则认为，部分恐慌情绪是由行业领袖驱动的，他们试图通过利用新的限制措施增加竞争对手出现的难度，从而巩固自己的地位。

“很明显的是，Anthropic和OpenAI已经成长到一种规模，让他们觉得可以做两件事：一是鼓励监管，二是控制监管的形式。如果他们能做到这一点，就能阻止竞争，”D.A. Davidson技术研究主管吉尔·卢里亚（Gil Luria）表示。

在意识到一群AI智能体突破测试并黑入竞争对手公司后，OpenAI暂停了新模型的AI训练，并承诺加强其网络防御。但此后该公司已恢复训练。

如果新AI开发出现暂停，将会放缓下一代模型的训练，但当前的模型可以继续

Semi-Analysis负责AI公司研究的分析师乔尔·布鲁克哈特（Joel Brookhart）表示，这可能会减缓增长，但幅度不大。

“不会出现实质性的放缓，”他说。

据报道，Anthropic在准备上市之际，周日披露了其连续第二个盈利季度。其第二季度的营收激增，突破了115 亿美元 billion。

一些科技领袖表示，他们怀疑所谓的“天塌了”之说。

英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋认为，AI末日情景完全毫无根据。他表示，公司在防御网络安全风险方面取得了巨大进步。

特朗普总统驳斥了这些风险，并为政府采取的轻触式监管方法辩护。

他表示，美国法律已经禁止公司创建危险技术，并会对其产品造成的损害进行惩罚。他认为，美国必须继续升级其人工智能能力，以保持对中国的领先地位。

“一场针对人工智能和数据中心的病态阴谋正在进行，唯一对此感到高兴的是中国。谁赢得了人工智能，谁就赢了！”特朗普发帖称。“我们领先于中国及所有其他国家，并将继续保持领先。”

Taco Bell 与 Habit 将搬迁至尔湾更大的总部空间

作者：CAROLINE PETROW-Cohen

Taco Bell 正在搬迁至尔湾的新址，这家不断发展的公司将在那里拥有更多空间来开发其标志性的墨西哥风格菜单。

它将与姐妹公司 Habit Burger & Grill 一起搬入位于 Alton HQ 的 254,000 平方英尺园区。

Taco Bell 在尔湾扎根已超过 40 年，预计将于 2028. 前完成搬迁。该连锁店由 Glenn Bell 于 1962 年在道尼（Downey）创立。

这两家由 Yum! Brands 拥有的连锁店目前在尔湾光谱中心（Irvine Spectrum Center）附近共用一个总部。

新总部将比目前的总部大 70,000 平方英尺以上，可容纳 1,100 人。目前的位置可容纳 970. 人。这个由三栋建筑组成的园区还将设有健身中心、咖啡馆和户外工作空间。

“我们在尔湾的新园区是对员工和未来的投资，为我们的团队提供更多协作和创造的空间，”Taco Bell 首席执行官 Sean Tresvant 和 Habit Burger & Grill 首席执行官 Shannon Hennessy 在一份联合声明中表示。“这个园区反映了我们对未来的信心，并强化了我们对尔湾以及更广泛的橙县社区的长期承诺。”

五年来的最大新办公室租赁。2019, 年，Taco Bell 将其目前位置的租约续签了 11 年。

Alton HQ 此前由佳能美国公司（Canon U.S.A.）占用，现由尔湾公司办公物业（Irvine Company Office Properties）所有。此次租赁标志着橙县的

作者：STEPHEN BATTAGLIO

新空间距离尔湾光谱中心约一英里，将包括多项升级，例如增加会议和用餐容量，以及设立专门的测试厨房。

“与 Taco Bell 和 Habit 密切合作，围绕其独特需求定制尔湾光谱中心的 Alton HQ，反映了我们致力于创造环境的承诺，”尔湾公司办公物业总裁 Roger De-Wames 在一份声明中表示。

尽管发生了动荡，该新闻杂志的外观和基调在很大程度上保持不变。

根据 CoStar 的数据，佳能于 2022 年以 1.2亿美元 的价格将 Alton HQ 园区出售给尔湾公司。

Taco Bell 为 Yum! 带来了令人印象深刻的营收，包括 2025, 年全系统销售额达 180 亿美元 billion，比前一年增长 13%。Habit Burger & Grill 报告去年的销售额为 7.06亿美元。

本月早些时候，Yum! Brands 完成了将必胜客（Pizza Hut）出售给 LongRange Capital 的交易，金额约为 15 亿美元 billion。

《60分钟》在巴里·魏斯进行人员解雇与聘用后迎来备受期待的首播

今年夏天早些时候，塔可贝尔（Taco Bell）在增长期遭遇挫折，当时五个州的塔可贝尔门店供应的生菜被指与寄生虫爆发有关。随着环孢子虫病（cyclosporiasis）的传播，塔可贝尔的客流量在7月有所下降。

记者诺拉·奥唐奈（Norah O'Donnell）在周日的节目中采访了一名在伊朗上空被击落的空军军官。 CBS新闻

专家表示，他们预计该品牌将凭借其文化相关性以及在年轻客户中的受欢迎程度而反弹。

特雷斯万特（Tresvant）和亨尼斯（Hennessy）表示：“随着塔可贝尔和Habit的持续增长，我们希望我们的工作场所也能随之成长。”

自CBS新闻总编辑巴里·魏斯（Bari Weiss）对这一资深节目启动剧烈变革以来，首期《60 Minutes》于周日播出。但这些变化在屏幕上的表现并不十分明显。

在经历了数月的幕后动荡后，第59季的首播备受期待。魏斯解雇了《60 Minutes》的记者莎琳·阿尔方西（Sharyn Alfonsi）和塞西莉亚·维加（Cecilia Vega），两人均抱怨该高管强迫她们在报道中加入右翼观点。资深记者斯科特·佩利（Scott Pelley）在一次员工会议上愤怒地质疑这些解雇行为后被撤职。

魏斯在母公司派拉蒙（Paramount）收购其异端数字新闻网站《自由新闻》（the Free Press）后接管了CBS新闻的编辑控制权。她还解雇了《60 Minutes》执行制片人塔尼娅·西蒙（Tanya Simon），并由编剧兼纪录片导演尼克·比尔顿（Nick Bilton）接替，后者此前没有任何电视新闻经验。

魏斯为该节目的记者团补充了人员，包括一名新的全职记者——《纽约时报》资深保守派评论员罗斯·杜萨特（Ross Douthat），以及几名新的撰稿人，但后者均未在首播中出现。

杜萨特是唯一被加入片头字幕的新人，在片头中，记者们在镜头前自我介绍。他还主持了名为“最后一分钟”（The Last Minute）的结尾环节，讨论了人工智能的危险以及对“值得信赖的新闻业”的需求。

但《60 Minutes》的外观和基调保持不变，仅在图形界面上做了少量微调。

该集节目得到了大力推广，其中一段电视广告采用了该节目辉煌历史的剪辑片段。CBS新闻的所有记者都在其社交媒体账号上宣传这次首播。

节目以诺拉·奥唐奈对一名在伊朗上空被击落并被特种部队营救的空军军官的独家采访开场。这是 20 多年来美国战斗机首次在敌方领土上失踪。

采访详细讲述了营救任务，并避开了关于伊朗战争的任何政治讨论，奥唐奈将这场战争描述为“代价高昂且不受欢迎”。国防部长皮特·海格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）接受了采访，重点仅限于营救任务。

第二个环节是一次隐藏摄像机调查，揭露了自称是说客的人如何向寻求赦免的重罪犯出售接触特朗普总统的机会。视频拍到了赦免中间人杰克·伯克曼（Jack Burkman）和雅各布·沃尔（Jacob Wohl），他们被看到要求支付 $300,000 以提供帮助，并声称他们与接近特朗普的影响力人士合作，后者将为他们的案件进行游说。（白宫告诉《60 Minutes》：“任何花钱游说赦免的人都是在愚蠢地浪费钱……特朗普总统以符合伦理的方式履行其宪法职责，任何相反的暗示要么是缺乏信息，要么是恶意中伤。”）

一些社交媒体用户对魏斯领导下的《60 Minutes》在多次报道称她试图使节目更迎合保守派之后，竟然会对特朗普政府进行严厉报道表示惊讶。政治分析师克里斯·西利扎（Chris Cillizza）在X上写道：“所以我猜巴里·魏斯终究没有完全毁掉《60 Minutes》？”

洛杉矶公羊队占据了该节目的第三个环节。通常在 CBS 有一场衔接黄金时段的傍晚足球赛时，节目中会包含体育报道。该报道片段主要聚焦于公羊队主教练肖恩·麦克维（Sean McVay）。

尼尔森（Nielsen）将于本周晚些时候公布《60 Minutes》（60 分钟）的收视率。去年，该节目的周平均观众人数为 910 万，使其成为黄金时段观看人数最多的非体育节目。

Broadcom buys OC campus for 3.25亿美元

作者：罗杰·文森特 (ROGER VINCENT)

计算机芯片和软件开发商博通 (Broadcom) 收购了其此前租赁的欧文 (Irvine) 办公园区。这是资金充足的公司利用房地产价格低迷，将租赁身份转变为所有者身份的最新案例。

在近年来南加州规模最大的办公楼交易之一中，博通向其前房东 PRP Real Assets 支付了 3.25亿美元，买下了这座位于 5 和 405 号高速公路交汇处附近、面积达 660,000 平方英尺的研究园区。

这笔不寻常的交易对博通而言是一次重新收购。博通此前将该物业开发为办公及研发综合体，随后在 2017 年以约 4.43亿美元 的价格将该园区出售。

房地产数据提供商 CoStar 表示，当时博通同意将其租赁 20 年。PRP 于 2020 年以 3.55亿美元 的价格收购了该园区。

该园区由位于 Alton Parkway 15101 和 15191 号的两栋五层办公楼组成。

该园区于 2017 和 2018, 年完工，旨在成为博通具备强大研发能力的公司总部。

博通目前总部位于帕洛阿尔托 (Palo Alto)，是全球最大的半导体和基础设施软件公司之一。该公司生产 iPhone 组件、光网络及其他产品。

CoStar 的数据显示，通过收购其他科技公司，该公司已积累了 17 处自有物业，总面积超过 220 万 平方英尺。

“你很少能看到规模如此之大的橙县办公楼交易，而且几乎从未见过是由占用者而非投资者发起的，”CoStar 市场分析高级总监杰西·冈德斯海姆 (Jesse Gundersheim) 表示，“博通正在掌控一个对其业务至关重要的园区。”

CoStar 指出，在过去一年中，占用自有办公楼的公司占橙县办公楼销售额的 34%，而五年的平均水平为 24%。

在洛杉矶，基金管理公司 Capital Group 今年早些时候同意支付约 2.1亿美元，收购位于邦克山 (Bunker Hill) 顶端、其设有办公室的 55 层美国银行广场 (Bank of America Plaza)。

其他选择购买而非租赁的机构还包括 Riot Games 和洛杉矶水力电力局 (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power)。

Capital Group 首席执行官迈克·吉特林 (Mike Gitlin) 在 4 月份表示：“我们知道，我们能拥有的最好的房东就是我们自己。”

NERDS Gummy Clusters 是裹有脆糖的软糖。对于那些喜欢更多黏稠口感的人，一款新的 Nerds 产品采用了液体中心设计。

JAE C. HONG 美联社

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食品制造商正为您的午餐增加更多脆感

作者：DEE-ANN DURBIN

在食品和饮料行业，口感（Texture）正迎来一个追求“脆”与“黏”的时刻。

行业专家表示，对于许多人来说，菜单项目或包装零食在口中的感觉已成为与口味一样大的吸引力，尽管消费者并不总是意识到，在他们渴望更酥脆的外卖、更浓郁的咖啡和更多汁的糖果时，口感所起的作用。

“口触感”（mouthfeel）——一个描述口腔感觉的食品科学术语——其重要性激发了许多新产品的诞生，例如星巴克的 Aerocano（一种空气搅拌的冰浓缩咖啡）、PowerCrunch（一种像威化饼一样的蛋白棒）以及 Trolli Gummi Popz（一种冷冻但依然柔软且有嚼劲的糖果）。

比利时公司 Puratos（一家开发商业级巧克力和烘焙原料的公司）表示，口感“已从一种辅助特征演变为食品质量的定义性维度”，“它正在重塑消费者评估食品和做出购买决策的方式”。

这一趋势是全球性的。拉丝酸奶在中国很受欢迎，而瑞典糖果商 Cloetta 刚刚推出了 Sprinkled Foamies，它具有脆皮外壳和棉花糖中心。巴黎的烘焙师们正在尝试新型糕点，比如 crookie（一种内部包裹着融化巧克力碎曲奇的酥脆可颂）。

“这不再仅仅关乎口味。人们在考虑整体体验，”Dutch Bros Coffee 的首席营销官 Tana Davila 表示。这家美国的汽车餐厅饮料连锁店允许顾客通过配料来自定义饮品，例如甜美浓郁的打发泡沫，以及咬开时会爆浆的果汁球。

这始于 Cronut（某种程度上）

总部位于伊利诺伊州的原料供应商 Ingredion 的口感与健康解决方案执行副总裁 Patrick Kalotis 表示，口感与进食行为如此紧密相连，以至于人们在被问到食物味道如何时，经常会描述食物的感觉。

“你知道，比如‘这杯饮料有气泡’或者‘我喜欢这款酸奶的浓郁——”

感’，”Kalotis 说。“他们认为自己在谈论味道，当然，口感有助于传播味道，但他们实际上在描述口感。”

食品制造商长期以来一直在研究稠度。像枕头一样的日本麻薯和有拉丝感的土耳其冰淇淋可以追溯到几个世纪前。带有嚼劲的木薯珍珠奶茶于 20 世纪 80 年代在台湾被发明。在 20 世纪 90 年代，欧洲的高端餐厅调制出了带有松露油或龙虾汤风味的烹饪泡沫。

但市场研究公司 Mintel 的食品饮料首席战略师 Jenny Zegler 表示，近年来人们对口感的兴趣呈爆炸式增长。这体现在像 squishy NeeDoh 立方体这样的玩具，以及像果冻洁面乳这样的美容产品中。Mintel 的数据显示，在食品方面，像“有嚼劲”、“柔软”、“黏稠”和“入口即化”等特性的在线产品搜索需求正在快速增长。

Zegler 认为，大约十年前，围绕 Cronut（一种像甜甜圈形状的糕点，外皮油炸酥脆，内部像可颂一样轻盈且充满黄油味）的狂热，开启了人们对食品口感的痴迷。像迪拜巧克力这样的多层产品，以及社交媒体上影响力人物掰开脆花生糖或吸食浓郁面条的增强音效视频，进一步提升了这种兴趣。

“消费者对产品的体验产生了新的期待，而口感正是实现这一目标的完美方式，”Zegler 说。

新冠肺炎所起的作用

糖果公司 Ferrara 的消费者洞察高级总监香农·韦纳（Shannon Weiner）表示，COVID-19 疫情提高了人们对口感（texture）的兴趣，因为冠状病毒导致许多人暂时失去了嗅觉和味觉。

2020年，这家总部位于芝加哥的公司推出了 Nerds Gummy Clusters，这是一种包裹着脆皮 Nerds 糖的圆形甜软糖。

这款热门产品带动了糖果货架上的其他创新，例如脆皮冻干彩虹糖（Skittles）。今年早些时候，含有起泡糖填充的咀嚼型小方块 Gummi Popz 开始上市。Ferrara 旗下的 Brach's 计划在明年复活节推出具有脆皮外层的果冻豆。

韦纳表示，多层口感创造了对比，这增强了人们对享受感和品质的感知，并鼓励他们更加关注自己正在吃的东西。

“我们生活在一个过度刺激的世界中，对吧？”韦纳说。“很多时候，如果消费者在刷手机或进行这些无意识活动时吃零食，口感可以起到突破作用，帮助刺激并提供感官参与。”

外卖兴起引发变革

满足消费者的口感需求和偏好对食品工业来说是一个日益增长的挑战。麦当劳在 2025 年 5 月推出了新款 McCrispy 鸡柳，但在客户反映鸡柳不够酥脆后，该公司在今年修改了配方。

卡洛蒂斯（Kalotis）表示，外卖的兴起使得餐厅在寻找确保食物在运输过程中能保持口感的方法。他提到，Ingredion 已经开发出一种基于马铃薯淀粉的涂层，可以让薯条在 30 分钟内保持酥脆；该公司目前正致力于将这一时间延长至 45 分钟。

食品公司正试图通过更改成分而不破坏熟悉口感的方式，使产品更健康或更实惠。例如，Ingredion 生产的添加剂可以帮助减糖酸奶保持奶油般的顺滑感。

Mintel 的泽格勒（Zegler）认为，口感领域未来仍有大量创新空间。她预计公司将探索不同人群（如老年人）的口感需求。她表示，零食将继续增加更多层次。Ferrara 去年推出了 Nerds Juicy Gummy Clusters，在原有的两层糖果基础上增加了液体中心。

与此同时，卡洛蒂斯表示，食品公司需要更好地在产品包装上展示和解释口感。Mintel 发现，尽管消费者在积极寻找具有新颖物理特性的食物，但今年在美国推出的包装食品中，有 59% 的产品在标签上没有关于口感的声明。

“在很多方面，口感是食品体验中最强大但某种程度上被低估的部分之一，”卡洛蒂斯说。“它让零食更令人满足。”

德宾（Durbin）为美联社（Associated Press）撰稿。

美国农村地区数据中心热潮遭遇当地抵制

人口少于 25,000 人的地区。

迈克·斯图尔特 (MIKE STEWART) 美联社

位于佐治亚州道尔顿的一家 CORE Scientific 数据中心。小城镇面临着加入或拒绝人工智能热潮的选择。

作者：舒鲁蒂·辛格 (SHRUTI SINGH) 以及 尼克·奎罗洛 (NIC QUEROLO)

爱荷华州的克林顿市需要经济提振。这座城市一直深受赤字困扰，人口数十年来一直在萎缩，而且在一次下水道升级后，其债务负担翻了一番。

黑石集团 (Blackstone Inc.) 旗下的 QTS 提供了一个解决方案：建设一个巨大的数据中心，这将带来数千个建筑就业岗位，并在前 10 年提供近 2亿美元 的财产税——对于一个运营预算仅为 $25-million 的地方来说，这是一个具有变革意义的金额。当地经济发展的推动者安迪·索科洛维奇 (Andy Sokolovich) 称该项目为财务上的游戏规则改变者。

“我们已经债台高筑，”非营利组织 Grow Clinton 的总裁索科洛维奇说。“除了这种规模的开发项目，我们几乎无法采取任何措施来改善我们的财务状况。”

但金钱并非一切。许多居民不想与数据中心有任何关系，并将其视为噪音污染、环境恶化和公用事业成本上升的潜在来源，尽管 QTS 已承诺自担费用。

该公司在一份声明中表示：“我们将支付 100% 的能源和基础设施改进费用。”

尽管如此，当地的敌意威胁到 QTS 在这个位于密西西比河畔、拥有 24,000 人的社区动工的希望。

与克林顿市一样，美国越来越多的城镇面临着选择：是加入人工智能热潮并收获承诺的利益（假设这些利益确实能实现），还是拒绝一些人担心弊大于利的项目，即使这意味着要牺牲经济增长。

根据 Data Center Watch 的数据，今年第一季度，当地的抵制导致美国境内约 75 个价值 1300 亿美元 billion 的项目停工或延迟。最近，QTS 和由布鲁克菲尔德资产管理公司 (Brookfield Asset Management) 支持的 Compass Datacenters 都放弃了在弗吉尼亚州北部建设一个 2,100 英亩园区的计划。而在密苏里州的独立城（当地家庭收入中位数略高于 $60,000），选民本月罢免了一名支持为拟建数据中心提供税收减免的市议员。

根据皮尤研究中心 (Pew Research Center) 的数据，超过三分之二的新数据中心提案落户在美农村地区，而拒绝这些提案并不总是那么容易。由于缺乏其他重大收入来源，许多小城镇和县经常依赖志愿者或兼职领导层，就复杂的、涉及数十亿美元的提案做出重大决定，与此同时，新冠疫情后填补地方政府金库的联邦援助已经枯竭。

一些社区接受了这些项目，信用评级公司表示，这些项目正在增加全国各地的市政税收。在克林顿市以西 85 英里的锡达拉皮兹市，一家 QTS 设施预计在 20 年内产生近 5亿美元 的净财产税收入。Facebook 母公司 Meta Platforms Inc. 刚刚在人口 32,000 人的爱达荷州库纳市开设了一家价值 $1.2-billion 的数据中心。Alphabet Inc. 旗下的谷歌正在阿肯色州西孟菲斯建设一个数据中心园区，那里的人口少于

“财政压力意味着社区在权衡潜在经济利益时会给予更高的权重，”爱荷华大学蒂皮商学院 (Tippie College of Business) 的教授艾米·科尔伯特 (Amy Colbert) 表示，她开发了一款在线工具，旨在帮助地方政府评估数据中心提案。

艰难的选择

随着美国中期选举仅剩几个月，关于人工智能（AI）基础设施的辩论对于州和联邦政治人物来说也变得愈发紧迫。共和党人一方面在权衡特朗普总统对数据中心的全力支持（以及他对反对者的猛烈抨击），另一方面则面临农村居民的抵制；而民主党人则在环境担忧与工会对这些项目所创造的建筑就业机会的支持之间进行权衡。

一些州目前正在寻求暂停令以停止开发，而曾经支持数据中心的州长们现在态度明显冷却，其中包括宾夕法尼亚州的民主党人乔什·夏皮罗（Josh Shapiro）和伊利诺伊州的 JB 普里茨克（JB Pritzker），以及通常坚定支持特朗普的德克萨斯州共和党人格雷格·阿博特（Greg Abbott）。

但与此同时，基层抵制情绪在上升，小型市镇面临的挑战也在增加。由于预计从明年开始，随着特朗普的《一个伟大美丽法案》（One Big Beautiful Bill Act）全面生效，从医疗补助（Medicaid）等国家计划中获得的资金将减少，各州正在缩减向地方政府提供的资金数额。

这给农村社区带来了一个难题：

一些居民可能不喜欢数据中心，但小城镇在增长方面的选择比大城市及其周边郊区要少。

布鲁金斯学会（Brookings Institution）高级研究员安东尼·皮帕（Anthony Pipa）表示：“虽然从一方面来看，这在经济上似乎合理，但在文化或社会层面并不合理。”

以迈尔斯·克罗斯比（Miles Crosby）为例，他的家人自 20 世纪 40 年代起就住在南卡罗来纳州科尔顿县（Colleton County）的土地上。他的家就在一条以他母亲命名的道路旁。

今年早些时候，他与另一名居民提起诉讼，以阻止一个拟建的数据中心园区，该园区原本将从三面包围克罗斯比的家。这份诉状以及社区的反对帮助阻止了该项目。

但该社区本可以利用这笔资金。7 月，标准普尔全球评级（S&P Global Ratings）将该县的信用评级从 AA- 下调至 A+，理由是财务状况恶化和储备金下降。据科尔顿县经济联盟执行主任布兰特利·斯特里克兰（Brantley Strickland）称，科尔顿县的预算为 $40-million，到该项目运行的第四年，每年将净增超过 1亿美元。他还表示，该项目本可以创造 500 个永久性工作岗位，平均年薪为 $125,000,，是该县家庭收入中位数的两倍多。

周一，县议会将对一项立法进行投票，该立法将结束 7 月通过的为期六个月的数据中心暂停令，并代之以一套保护措施，为开发商在环境敏感度较低的地点建设提供机会。

在向西约 1,700 英里的新墨西哥州索科罗县（Socorro County），当地人的反对导致一个拟建项目的取消，该项目原本将覆盖 10,000 英亩土地，尽管开发商标榜其高环境标准以及对该社区（农民和牧场主是当地经济支柱）的有益影响。

“这是绝对不可能的，这是极其有害的，”一名反对者在 5 月的一次公开会议上说道。

“合适的选择”

在克林顿市，市长斯科特·马迪森（Scott Maddasion）和市议会议员们正在考虑一项旨在为数据中心开发设置更多护栏的条例。

马迪森表示，他原则上支持该立法，但承认城市很难规定私人土地的用途。QTS 正在考虑的该场地已被划定为重工业用途区。

但反对该项目的当地居民艾米·怀索（Amy Wisor）表示：“该地区实际的开发模式一直是农业和住宅——而非工业。”

一些居民担心，在 2023 年升级之后，数据中心可能会给城市的水务和下水道基础设施带来压力。

依赖水井的怀索担心，一个潜在的占地 1,000 多英亩的 QTS 设施会将水井抽干。QTS 表示，其数据中心采用闭环系统，在“投入运行后不会消耗水进行冷却”。

“发展克林顿”（Grow Clinton）的索科洛维奇（Sokolovich）认为，数据中心是改善城市财政并实现其目标（如建设体育综合体和改善道路）的答案。

他在一封关于 QTS 提案的信中写道：“提供即使是最基本服务的财务需求也在持续增加。如果吸引一个数据中心能够抵消这些成本，并加速将这些梦想变为现实的机会，会怎样？”

马迪森则更为谨慎。“与我们目前的普通基金相比，来自数据中心的税收将是巨大的，”他说，“但这对克林顿市来说是合适的选择吗？”

辛格（Singh）和奎罗洛（Querolo）为彭博社（Bloomberg）撰稿。

专家称：不对NBA进行抗争对球队最有利

[快船队，接A1页] 尽管采取了所有可用手段来应对处罚和罚款，快船队在11天内保持了沉默。

直到周日晚上，他们选择了妥协。

“作为首席所有者，我承担责任，”鲍尔默在球队发布的一份由三段、共72个单词组成的声明中表示。“我们致力于将这一页翻过去。我们已告知NBA，我们将遵守联盟评定的处罚，已缴纳罚款，并正向前推进。”

俄勒冈大学体育商业副教授马克·弗朗西斯（Mark Francis）表示，鲍尔默改变方向的决定是明智的——因为对抗处罚只会延长媒体对该丑闻的报道，从而损害鲍尔默自2014年收购球队以来建立的良好声誉。

“这是正确之举，”他说。“我们生活在一个人们不再承担责任的时代，他能这样表态实际上让我印象深刻。”

“一旦他们承认错误并表现出一定的悔意，处罚有时会减轻。”

南加州大学安嫩伯格体育媒体与社会研究所所长丹尼尔·德宾（Daniel Durbin）表示赞同，他认为最初的抵制“完全是律师的措辞”，而决定接受处罚则是审慎的。

“这是一个相当严厉的处罚。既然出了问题，就付钱了结掉，”德宾说。“而且在某种程度上，鲍尔默付得起这笔钱并能继续前行。所以对他来说……继续抗争、在上面浪费钱是不值得的。”

彭博社估计鲍尔默的净资产为1730 亿美元 billion，这使这位前微软首席执行官成为全球第九富有的人。仅凭借微软股票的分红，他每年就能获得12 亿美元 billion。

除了失去选秀权以及鲍尔默被处以罚款和禁赛外，NBA还对快船队业务运营总裁吉莉安·祖克（Gillian Zucker）处以一年无薪禁赛，并对球队篮球运营总裁劳伦斯·弗兰克（Lawrence Frank）处以六个月无薪禁赛。

伦纳德是一位七次入选全明星的前锋，也是南加州本地人，他在今年夏天被交易回了多伦多猛龙队。他同意为自己在快船队风波中所扮演的角色支付$700,000的罚款，且未对针对他的制裁提出异议，但发表了一份个人声明，将责任完全归咎于快船队。

“我对身边亲信的判断失误承担全部责任，并对这种情况给球迷和我的家人带来的干扰感到遗憾，”声明中写道。“我是在诚信基础上与快船队签署合同以及相关协议的，完全致力于履行我的义务，且并不知晓任何人有规避工资帽的意图。”

在NBA宣布多伦多队将在调查后继承针对伦纳德的所有处罚后，猛龙队暂时冻结了伦纳德的交易。随着鲍尔默接受NBA的处罚，交易现已推进，快船队将获得全明星前锋布兰登·英格拉姆（Brandon Ingram）、得分后卫格雷迪·迪克（Gradey Dick）、两个首轮选秀权、一次选秀权交换以及两个次轮选秀权。这些筹码可以帮助球队在处罚期间继续前行。

德宾暗示，鲍尔默的妥协在一些快船队球迷看来实际上可能是件好事。

“他承认了什么？试图在某种程度上绕过规则，使快船队成为一支冠军球队，”他说。“在某种意义上，对于快船队的球迷来说，这场大闹证明了他确实在非常努力。所以，虽然他确实违反了规则……但说你为了让球队成为冠军球队而违反了一些规则，这本身并不会导致球迷流失。”

“这不是一件好事，”德宾补充道。“这是一个承认，即他可能做得太过火了。……而且他愿意花钱来尝试让球队变得更好。”

SEAN M. HAFFEY Getty Images 所有者史蒂夫·鲍尔默（Steve Ballmer）就薪资上限丑闻向球迷道歉。

弗朗西斯（Francis）则不这么认为。

“弗朗西斯并不确定。‘我认为这太牵强了，’他说。‘违反他们现有的薪资系统是一项严重的违规行为。所有者们正是那些推动这些成本控制的人，他们必须遵守这些规定。’”

现在的问题变成了，快船队在应对处罚的同时，是否真的能变得更强？

作为洛杉矶的 NBA 第 2 球队，在受欢迎程度和成功程度上远落后于湖人队，快船队自鲍尔默在 2014-15 赛季首次担任所有者以来，在太平洋分区排名中仅有一次高于第四名，且仅进入过一次分区决赛。该队上赛季在分区中排名第九，未能进入季后赛，且自 2021 年以来一直未能突破 NBA 季后赛的第一轮。

但湖人队在新所有者的领导下正处于转型期，且自 2018 年以来首次失去了勒布朗·詹姆斯（LeBron James），这给快船队留下了一个争取新球迷的狭窄窗口。

“在你说他们能利用这个时机之前，他们必须能够展现出成为冠军球队的威胁力，”德宾（Durbin）说。“理论上存在机会，但这更多取决于他们在选秀权上的精明程度，以及在建队方面的精明程度。”

《时报》体育编辑 Iliana Limón Romero 和工作人员 Mirjam Swanson 对本报道做出了贡献。

商业

Kroger 因通胀担忧下调预测

这家杂货零售商在今年夏天不仅与上涨的食品价格作斗争，还应对了寄生虫疫情。

作者：JAEWON KANG

Kroger公司下调了年度销售指引，表明日益加剧的通胀担忧以及对杂货消费的激烈竞争正给这家零售商带来压力。

该公司预计，不含燃料的同店销售额（衡量营业至少15个月的门店）增长最高为0.8%，低于此前预测的最高2%的增长。

前景的下调给首席执行官格雷格·福兰（Greg Foran）带来了更多压力，他正试图通过降低价格、改善门店服务以及投资公司员工来夺取市场份额。Kroger还寻求提升在线销售额。

华尔街对此一直持怀疑态度：截至周四，Kroger的股价今年以来已下跌约9%，而标准普尔500指数则上涨了11%。

这家经营着Ralphs及其他连锁店的杂货商表示，其销售预测包含了联邦谈判导致药品价格下降的影响，这给药房业务带来了压力。

通胀压力

福兰在与分析师的电话会议上表示，消费者仍面临压力，在汽油价格高企的情况下，他们正紧缩预算。自年初以来，Kroger的单位销售额增长有所放缓，购物者仅根据需求购买产品。

上季度食品价格较前一时期略有上涨。福兰表示，由于汽油价格维持高位，通胀压力已经增加且预计将进一步攀升。公司将继续与供应商密切合作，以确保价格变动具有合理性。

“从历史上看，当你处于这样的环境下，你就会开始看到这种影响传导开来，”福兰说，“这是让我心头沉重的一件事。”

与此同时，今年夏天的寄生虫疫情影响了需求。高管们表示，其影响依然存在，尽管每周都在有所改善。在截至8月15日的季度中，Kroger的同店销售额低于预期，但由于电子商务业务盈利能力的提高、关税退税及其他因素，调整后的收益超过预期。

虽然美国购物者整体上仍具有韧性，但在经历了数年的高通胀后，他们变得更加挑剔。美国人倾向于购买打折食品或更便宜的自有品牌，并且愿意货比三家——甚至等待——以获得最佳交易。伊朗战争导致的汽油价格上涨在近几个月收紧了他们的预算，尤其是对那些同时面临政府食品援助福利削减的低收入家庭造成了伤害。

价格与门店投资

沃尔玛（Walmart Inc.）、艾伯森（Albertsons Cos.）和其他零售商在近几个月表示，他们计划保持具有竞争力的食品价格，以吸引对价格敏感的消费者并获取份额。

高管们在电话会议上表示，Kroger在多个地区投资降低价格，并对初步结果感到鼓舞。该公司在本季度收到了一笔金额微不足道的关税退税，并将其用于价格投资。

今年2月起任Kroger首席执行官的福兰已释放出重大变革的信号。该公司同意收购Giant Eagle Inc.以扩大其在东北部的版图，并任命了包括他自己在内的沃尔玛前员工在内的新高管。

Kroger正致力于改善库存可用性、商品陈列以及管理损耗。公司表示，未来将继续升级其价值产品方案，并简化其重点宣传的折扣类型。

Kang为彭博社（Bloomberg）撰稿。

农民在收获季节迎来柴油价格飙升

拖拉机和卡车。

作者：尼克·英格拉姆 (NICK INGRAM) 及 苏丁·塔纳瓦拉 (SUDHIN THANAWALA)

正当许多美国农民需要柴油来驱动联合收割机、拖拉机和其他设备，以收获该国两种最大商品——大豆和玉米时，柴油价格正创下历史新高。

对于这些农民来说，今年的处境已经十分艰难，而此次价格飙升进一步加剧了压力，此前他们还面临着化肥、种子和设备成本上涨的问题。

由于与伊朗之间持续六个月的战争扰乱了燃料供应，美国柴油价格在 9 月 4 日创下纪录，平均价格首次飙升至每加仑 5.85 美元。

根据 AAA 的数据，此后价格进一步上涨，周五的平均价格达到每加仑 6.05 美元。

“这些价格令人心痛，”威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校农业与应用经济学教授保罗·米切尔 (Paul Mitchell) 表示。“而且不仅仅是收获阶段。所有运输环节都受影响，包括将谷物或青饲料从田间运到农场，然后再从农场运到销售地。”

密苏里州森林城 (Forest City) 附近的一位玉米和大豆农民杰森·库尔茨 (Jason Kurtz) 表示，他今年支付的柴油费用增加了一倍。

他的联合收割机每天消耗 200 加仑燃料；他预计将运行 30 天。他还需要柴油用于

“我们必须收获，”他在周二于距离堪萨斯城约 90 英里外的农场接受采访时说道。“我们必须运行机器，必须使用柴油，所以这削减了我们的净利润。”

49 岁的库尔茨表示，在不得不支付更多化肥和化学品费用后，他的财务状况“已经很紧张”了。

根据 AAA 的数据，美国目前的柴油价格比美国和以色列在 2 月下旬对伊朗发动战争之前高出 60%，当时的全国平均价格约为每加仑 3.76 美元。

由于战争导致霍尔木兹海峡的油轮交通中断，原油（柴油和汽油的主要成分）价格飞涨，导致柴油价格迅速攀升。

“那些资金短缺的农场，最需要思考削减哪些开支才能维持运转，”米切尔说。“很多农场都面临这种情况。”

库尔茨表示他投票给了特朗普总统，他计划将部分工作推迟到以后，希望届时价格会下降。

“这就是务农的一件好事，”他说。“明天会不一样的。”

英格拉姆和塔纳瓦拉为美联社撰稿。塔纳瓦拉在亚特兰大报道。

市场综述

油价与利率担忧拖累股市

油轮。

作者：STAN CHOE

周一，全球科技股下跌。油价的再次上涨一度将10年期国债收益率推高至 $5\%$ ，标志着债券市场迎来了最新的压力里程碑。

尽管华尔街面临诸多利空因素，但许多非人工智能（AI）股票的上涨帮助限制了市场的损失。此外，油价在中午时分有所回落，标准普尔500指数仅小幅下跌 0.5%。

道琼斯工业平均指数下跌 152 点，跌幅 0.3%；纳斯达克综合指数在收复早盘 1.3% 的大部分跌幅后，最终下跌 0.6%。

由于人们担心在人工智能热潮中其价格被推得过高，AI 股票一段时间以来一直承压。

在行业领先人物之一、Anthropic 首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊呼吁有意识地在全球范围内放缓 AI 开发后，这种担忧在周末升级到了另一个层面。

他引用了安全问题，包括 AI 可能具备领导代理集群的能力，并在 6 到 12 个月内接管整个互联网的风险。

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英伟达（Nvidia）的利润因其芯片助力训练 AI 模型而飙升，但由于其体量巨大，该公司下跌 3.4%，成为市场最大的拖累因素。

SpaceX 的很大一部分业务来自 AI，在埃隆·马斯克周末表示同意阿莫代伊的观点后，该公司下跌 2%。作为 OpenAI 主要投资者的日本巨头软银集团（Softbank Group）在东京市场下跌 10.7%，因为 OpenAI 的萨姆·奥特曼同样支持放缓开发的理念。

收盘 52,421.20 20,729.79 1,059.09 24,205.39 26,186.41 7,619.98 3,679.20 75,270.64 2,892.24

奥特曼在周六发表的《财富》（Fortune）杂志采访中还表示，这家 ChatGPT 背后的公司可能会等到明年才在华尔街出售股票。这将推迟软银及其他 OpenAI 早期投资者获得潜在巨额现金的时间。

在韩国，由于其最具影响力的两只股票——三星电子和 SK 海力士下跌，综合股价指数（Kospi）下跌 3.3%。

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特朗普总统淡化了其政府检查 AI 开发的必要性，表示他担心在全球竞争中失去美国相对于中国的优势，而获胜将有助于解决先进技术带来的风险。

尽管 AI 行业内外有许多声音呼吁放缓速度以保护人类，但特朗普周一在其社交媒体网络上表示，AI 唯一需要的护栏“是一位强有力且聪明（高智商！）的总统，而美国对此绰绰有余！”

周一，几家软件公司帮助限制了华尔街的损失，这些公司此前曾因担心人工智能驱动的竞争对手会削弱其业务而出现暴跌。

TurboTax和QuickBooks的母公司Intuit上涨了5.5%。为设计师提供软件支持的Autodesk上涨了7.8%，Adobe则上涨了5.3%。

总计，标准普尔500指数下跌37.00点，至7,619.98点。道琼斯指数下跌152.09点，至54,421.20点，纳斯达克综合指数下跌146.62点，至26,186.41点。

与此同时，由于中东地区的战斗持续挤压全球原油流动，油价继续攀升。布伦特原油每桶价格在早晨接近110美元后，上涨1%至105.68美元。

两名地区官员告诉美联社，由于上周遭到袭击，一条重要的沙特石油管道将在数周内大部分处于停用状态。该管道为沙特阿拉伯提供了一种将出口转向红海并避开波斯湾霍尔木兹海峡的途径，而伊朗的袭击已经扼杀了该海峡的石油运输。

由于人们怀疑美国和伊朗能否达成协议，从而允许油轮再次自由地通过该海峡离开波斯波湾，布伦特原油价格已从7月初的不足72美元大幅跳升。

尽管战争降级的前景可能已经暗淡，但ING大宗商品策略师沃伦·帕特森（Warren Patterson）和埃娃·曼塞（Ewa Manthey）在周一的一篇评论中写道，局势处于动态变化中，且仍有“相当数量”的石油在通过该海峡。

根据美国汽车协会（AAA）的数据，到目前为止，油价上涨已导致全国每加仑普通汽油的平均价格从一个月前的4.08美元和一年前的3.18美元上涨至近4.32美元。

这种通胀压力使得华尔街的大多数人预计，美联储将在周三下次会议结束时提高其主要利率。

除了高通胀，对美国及其他政府债务增加的担忧以及其他顾虑，已将长期国债收益率推至多年来的最高水平。

Choe为美联社撰稿。

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Voices PATTI DAVIS 客座撰稿人

面对任何竞选公职者都该问的一个问题

我的父亲罗纳德·里根曾说，他服务于公众是为了帮助让世界变得更和平、更文明。

随着现在人们如此关注即将到来的选举和候选人，一段久远的记忆触动了我，让我思考我真正希望从任何竞选公职的人那里听到什么。

在父亲担任总统的第一任期深处，某个周末我在圣巴巴拉附近的牧场见到了我的父母，罗纳德和南希·里根。那是父亲最喜欢的度假地——比戴维营，比任何地方都更让他心驰神往。他热爱给马套上鞍，在那些他曾参与清理的小径上骑行穿过山丘。即便有特勤局特工随行，且承受着总统职位的沉重压力，这里在他经常的描述中，依然是“与天堂在同一个邮政编码区”的地方。

那个周末，有一天晚上我的母亲早早地休息了，留下我和父亲两人坐在壁炉旁。他开始谈起牧场之美，谈到这里如何让他恢复活力，以一种其他任何地方都无法实现的方式充盈他的灵魂。那时，他已经从约翰·辛克利（John Hinckley Jr.）的子弹中康复，那些子弹几乎夺走了他的生命。但他使用“治愈”这个词的方式表明，对他而言这是一个持续的过程，而绿色的起伏山峦和无垠的天空使这一切成为可能。当火堆在我们身边噼啪作响，远处黑暗中传来郊狼的吠叫时，我问他，如果这个地方对他如此必要，为什么他还要当总统？因为这份工作显然将他带离此处，限制了他在这片挚爱土地上的时间。

他告诉我，他相信上帝为每个人都设定了目标，而他一生都在祈祷能对自己的目标有所启迪。他说他真诚地感觉到，自己可以帮助让世界变得更和平、更文明，尤其是在苏联与美国的关系方面。

这次访问大约是在1983年。列昂尼德·勃列日涅夫已经去世，尤里·安德罗波夫接任苏联领导人，两国之间的紧张局势处于高位。正如报道所言，我的父亲在从暗杀企图中康复期间给勃列日涅夫写了两封信。其中一封是四页的手写信，是一封请求改善美苏关系的私人恳求信。国务院反对这封信的私人性质，并起草了一封更为正式的信函。两封信都寄出了，但勃列日涅夫的回复并不完全是

1992年，在两人都离职后，罗纳德·里根在天空牧场（Rancho del Cielo）接待了米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫。 鲍勃·加尔布雷斯（Bob Galbraith）美联社

和解的。

在那个夜晚的交谈中，父亲谈到了他的愿望——他的祈祷——希望苏联能出现一位他可以交谈的领导人，一位能与他建立良好工作关系的人。多年后，我想到了这一点，以及他如何在可能还不知道米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫存在之前，就几乎在想象他的出现。

为什么这段回忆会在现在浮现？在今年这个关键的中期选举之年，以及即将进入总统选举周期的时刻。因为这阐明了一个应该向每位候选人，尤其是那些竞选总统的人提出的问题：你为什么想做这件事？

显然，有些人会给出套话，那些为他们量身定制并经过焦点小组测试的政治口号。但我认为人们足够敏锐，能够区分排练好的金句和真诚的回答。

应该向每一位候选人，尤其是那些竞选总统的人提出的问题是：你为什么想做这件事？

多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）最近的离世表明，人们在多大程度上会被一个人帮助他人、用善良和同情心让世界变得好一点点的决心所打动。让我触动的是我父亲的回答，他深入灵魂，说出了一段极其私人的真相。无论你的政治立场如何，无论你处于哪个党派，这一点都很重要。

我们现在部分感到幻灭的原因是，我们不知道该信任谁。我们不知道谁被粉饰、排练和指导，直到他们的真实自我被埋在千层掩盖之下。也许这一个问题能够穿透其中一些层面，给我们一个启发。你为什么想做这件事？这是一个简单的问题，而我们理应得到一个简单的答案。

读者来信

帕蒂·戴维斯（PATTI DAVIS）是《亲爱的爸爸妈妈：一封关于家庭、记忆和我们曾经认识的美国的信》的作者。

一项两党共同支持的法案旨在通过减少监管障碍来加速森林管理项目。

火灾恶化呼吁新的森林政策

关于 9 月 10 日的《为了救树而摒弃前嫌》

这篇头版文章强调了国会中通过《修复我们的森林法案》（Fix Our Forests Act，简称 FOFA）的两党行动，旨在应对日益增加的山火风险。在过去的十年中，气温升高、长期干旱以及低效的森林管理实践，导致美国山火每年影响的面积大幅增加，包括在加利福尼亚州和其他西部州发生的多次“特大火灾”。

FOFA 将通过消除监管障碍以加快关键森林项目的进度，同时保留核心环境保障措施，从而提供前瞻性的森林管理以应对山火风险。该法案实施森林间伐以及清除枯死和病树以降低火灾强度，投资于新的山火预防技术，并改进火灾发生后的重新造林步骤。

我们不断变化的气候和日益增加的山火风险，要求采取新的、更有效的森林管理实践。看到民主党人和共和党人团结一致推动这项重要立法，令人感到欣慰。

关于《修复我们的森林法案》的争论，并不是在管理森林和放任不管之间做选择。

塞拉俱乐部（Sierra Club）支持积极的、基于科学的森林管理，包括在适当情况下进行计划烧除、生态修复和精心设计的间伐。我们也意识到，气候变化正使山火更具破坏性，我们迫切需要采取更多措施来保护社区和生态系统。

我们对《修复我们的森林法案》的担忧不在于它推广积极管理，而在于该立法将削弱针对可能覆盖数千英亩项目的环境审查和公众监督。这些保障措施有助于确保森林管理是基于可靠的科学和生态需求，而不仅仅是为了加速商业伐木，特别是在一个已明确决定将木材采伐置于国家森林所有其他价值之上的政府领导下。

我们可以更快地恢复森林，使用计划烧除并降低山火风险，而无需将环境保护措施视为障碍。问题不在于我们是否管理森林，而在于我们如何管理——以及我们是否负责任地管理。

查德·爱德华兹（CHAD EDWARDS） 阿尔塔迪纳（Altadena）

安娜·梅德马（ANNA MEDEMA） 华盛顿特区 该作者是环境倡导组织塞拉俱乐部的森林与公共土地立法副主任。

州政府可能必须采取控制措施

关于 9 月 9 日的《长滩如何成为加州应对全球变暖影响时笨拙且代价高昂的典型》，

气候危机给加州沿海城市带来的损害日益严重，这令人痛心，且很可能会变得更加严重。但事实证明，地方政府在采取有效行动防止这种情况发生方面完全无能为力。

每个海滨城镇中最富有、最有影响力的公民都拥有海边的房产，他们要求城市优先保护其财产，即便这样做是徒劳的。试图采取长期方案的市议员被强行赶下台，“在下一场风暴中生存下来”成了唯一的信条。当各城市拒绝建设经济适用房时，加州曾面临类似的障碍，最终州政府不得不采取控制措施。面对气候危机，采取类似的方法可能是唯一的出路。

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关于 9 月 10 日的《破坏性波浪为厄尔尼诺冬季发出警告》，

蒂姆·冈查罗夫 (TIM GONCHAROFF) 费尔菲尔德

天哪，沿海城市究竟需要经历什么才能为因厄尔尼诺而变得更严重的风暴做好准备？答案是提前做好准备，而不是在沿海海滩上用沙堤这种“创可贴”式的方法来保护那些原本就不该建在那里的财产。

文中提到希望长滩市能通过挖掘更多沙子来延伸海滩的那一段简直荒谬。一个城市可以在海滩上倾倒数十亿吨沙子，但正如我们已经看到的，沙子会被冲走。挖掘并不是解决方案。

应该给居民钱让他们搬离家园，停止在无法阻止洪水或波浪破坏的项目上浪费钱。人们现在正在为使用大量导致气候变化和风暴加剧的化石燃料付出代价。

菲利普·鲁拉德 (PHILLIP ROULLARD) 圣迭戈

两篇文章，一个美好的信息

关于 9 月 10 日的《如果我们都停止试图证明自己正确会怎样？》以及 9 月 11 日“观点之声”栏目的《艰难的失败是展现人格光辉之时》，

感谢在犹太新年（Rosh Hashanah）开始前发表的这些评论文章。两种截然不同的声音和谐地传达了一个美好的信息。

拉比·舒穆利·扬科维茨 (Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz) 提醒我们，“昨天的我们并不对明天的我们拥有绝对的决定权”。LZ·格兰德森 (LZ Granderson) 赞扬了西密歇根大学的足球教练兰斯·泰勒 (Lance Taylor)：“当事情不顺心时，他向球员们展示了在压力来袭时如何保持冷静。”

拉比写道：“道德上的清晰与理智上的谦逊可以共存。”格兰德森则教导我们，“道德记忆”就是“被房间里声音最大的人引导，与被你在无人关注的漫长岁月里通过一次次练习在内心建立的东西引导之间的区别”。

我不认为自己是一个虔诚的犹太教徒，我也绝对不是一名运动员。尽管如此，这些声音驱动我成为一个更好的人。更加耐心、深思熟虑且接纳他人。

祝所有人拥有一个甜蜜、快乐的新年，充满和平、理解与希望。

迈克尔·齐波里 (MICHAEL TZIPORI) 文图拉

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观点 劳尔·A·雷耶斯 (RAUL A. REYES) 客座撰稿人

注定失败的“西班牙裔传统月”

为了争取拉丁裔群体，NFL 球队在上个赛季庆祝了西班牙裔传统月，随后在超级碗中邀请了 Bad Bunny 出演。 JEFFREY McWHORTER 美联社

自设立以来，国家西班牙裔传统月（National Hispanic Heritage Month）一直存在问题，而现在的情况比以往任何时候都更糟糕。

它始于 1968 年林登·约翰逊总统时期的“西班牙裔传统周”，随后在 1988 年，里根总统将这一对传统与文化的纪念活动扩展为一个完整的月份。这一扩张反映了西班牙裔美国人在政治、社会和经济方面日益增长的重要性。我们的数量大约有 6800 万，约占美国人口的五分之一。

围绕西班牙裔传统月的问题首先出在名称本身。它使用了一个概括性的词组，尽管皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）在 2024 年指出，“没有任何一个泛民族术语被所有具有拉丁美洲或西班牙血统的美国成年人完全接受。”

有些人反对使用“Hispanic”（西班牙裔）这个词——该词最初意为“与西班牙相关”——因为它聚焦于拉丁美洲殖民历史中的主导权力。尽管我们社区中更多的人倾向于使用“Hispanic”（52%）而非“Latino”（29%），但这些标签通常不是我们描述自己的方式。

根据我的经验，人们很少说“我是西班牙裔”。那只是我们在大学申请表和就业申请表上勾选的一个方框。我们大多数人通过提及家族的原籍国来定义自己的身份；如果被问到，我会告诉人们我是墨西哥裔美国人。

经常能听到移民和美国出生的西班牙裔说他们是古巴人或多米尼加人，如果他们的祖先来自这些地方。波多黎各人通常无论是否在岛上出生或长大，都会这样称呼自己。这些标识符还有进一步的变体，例如 Tejano（德州-墨西哥裔）、Nuyorican（纽约市波多黎各人）或 Chicano（部分墨西哥裔美国人的一种政治身份认同）。

由于我们社区中存在如此截然不同的身份认同，“西班牙裔传统月”这一构建或许注定无法流行。

它从一开始就存在另一个潜在的致命缺陷。由于其时间从 Sept. 15 持续到 Oct. 15，以便涵盖哥斯达黎加、萨尔瓦多、危地马拉、洪都拉斯、尼加拉瓜、墨西哥、智利和伯利兹的国定假日，西班牙裔传统月不像黑人历史月（2 月）或妇女历史月（3 月）那样是一个容易记住的日历月份。

虽然这种奇特的时间安排是一种包容性的想法，但它也令人困惑。而且它在日历上的位置接近学年开始、9 / 11 周年纪念日、加勒比海飓风季节的高峰期以及犹太教的高圣日，这意味着它很容易被掩盖。

讽刺的是，多年来对西班牙裔传统月最持批评态度的人正是西班牙裔。联邦政府划定的这 30 天庆祝活动引发了大量的矛盾心理，因为这种纪念活动更多地变成了品牌方的营销机会，而非文化自豪感的自然表达。

2025, 特朗普总统发布了一项关于国家西班牙裔传统月的公告，认可“过去和现在的西班牙裔美国公民所做出的卓越贡献”。

然而，这些话听起来很空洞，因为西班牙裔传统月似乎正处于岌岌可危的状态。为了应对政府对多样性倡议的攻击，企业和学术机构已经退出了以民族为中心的活动。一些大型媒体机构同样不再致力于提升西班牙裔的声音和故事。当如此多的西班牙裔在日常生活中感到受到攻击时，强调西班牙裔文化这个想法本身似乎就脱离了现实。

今年，西班牙裔传统月的活动可能会很冷清。许多西班牙裔对大型公共聚集活动心存顾虑，因为担心与美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）遭遇的恐惧是真实的（这也是为什么 Bad Bunny 在其 2025 爆红巡演期间，部分避开了在美国本土的所有演唱会日期）。

美国裔西班牙裔公民曾被移民局特工拘留、驱逐甚至杀害。一些美国裔西班牙裔公民开始随身携带护照或其他证件，并避免在公共场合说西班牙语，因为去年最高法院承认这样做可以成为怀疑和拘留的理由。

目前，许多西班牙裔根本没有心情庆祝。我们的社区正处于生存模式。

面对这种严峻局面的唯一平衡点是语境。虽然现在的时局极其艰巨，但遗憾的是，这并非新鲜事；美国西班牙裔的历史在很大程度上是由奋斗和韧性定义的。也许我们的社区已经不再需要制度上的认可。

无论是否有西班牙裔传统月，西班牙裔在家庭和社区中依然拥有快乐。我们知道，我们的祖先在清教徒到来之前就已在此，并且我们拥有深厚的服役传统。我们为美国经历感到自豪，因为这就是我们的经历。这些情感深沉且持久。这些是任何总统公告都无法赋予我们的——也是任何政府都无法夺走的。

劳尔·A·雷耶斯（RAUL A. REYES）是纽约市的一名移民律师和电视评论员。X: @RaulAREyes Instagram: @raulareyes1

人们很少说“我是西班牙裔”。那只是我们在表格上勾选的一个选项。我们大多数人是以家庭原籍国来定义自己的。

观点 凯特·盖尔（KATE GALE） 特约撰稿人

洛杉矶是一座伟大的文学之城（无论纽约人怎么说）

标志性的书店依然是至关重要的“第三空间”，是将我们从屏幕浏览中抽离出来的避风港

我成长于新罕布什尔州的一个邪教组织中，在那里阅读书籍是被禁止的。18岁逃离之后，我来到加利福尼亚，渴望

加利福尼亚渴望故事——那些隐藏在西海岸的故事，它们不仅与我逃离的生活相反，也与那些出版巨头背道而驰。在洛杉矶，我发现每一个故事都是一场启示录。这里有地震、火灾、贪婪、混乱，以及滑入大海的悬崖。

当我站稳脚跟时，我已经沉迷于这些叙事。我往返于劳雷尔峡谷的 Dutton's Books 和帕萨迪纳的 Vroman's，收集那些改变了我生活方式的作家：托妮·莫里森、三岛由纪夫、玛格丽特·杜拉斯。我结识了卡罗琳·希，阅读了她的启示录幻想小说《黄金岁月》，并潜入纳撒尼尔·韦斯特同样令人痴迷的《蝗虫之日》。

我结识了像朱迪思·弗里曼和哈丽特·多尔这样的当地人，她们告诉我女性作家在洛杉矶获得认可有多难，但我决定不让这件事阻碍我。对我来说，这座城市的文学气息不亚于东海岸的任何地方，而其跳动的心脏正是那些不断向我们推介这些卓越作家的当地书店。

我认为，在洛杉矶这种扩张型城市中，书店比在旧金山或纽约这种可步行的城市中更为重要。在

那些城市里，你的“第三空间”可能就在家门咫尺之遥：一个公园、一家酒吧、一个台球厅。除了少数几个中心化社区外，洛杉矶并不具备这种现实，在这里，你几乎去任何地方都需要车辆。我们从高速公路跳到工作岗位，从高速公路跳回家，而且停车问题通常糟糕到让你不愿在任何不值得费劲的地方停留。

对于洛杉矶人来说，书店是值得前往的，每当我出现在 Vroman's、Chevalier's 或 Skylight 挤满人的朗诵会或活动中时，这一现实就得到了印证。虽然我们听纽约人说我们的城市不是文学之城，而且我经常光顾的许多书店此后被迫关门，但那些依然屹立的书店继续证明事实并非如此。它们依然是至关重要的第三空间，是将我们从屏幕浏览中抽离并带回内心世界的避风港。

Vroman's 书店

书店提供了一个暂停、思考、扩展对世界认知，或让自己投身于新世界动荡的邀请：那是关于精灵、王子、生物、危险与冒险的世界。你可以像过去那样浪费一个下午，四处躺着，蜷在床单里，一页页地阅读。

我在一家书店里爱上了我的丈夫。我们经常出没于圣莫尼卡的 Midnight Special，那是一家现已关闭的、专注于民权和活动家文学的店铺。在 Midnight Special 的这段恋情引导

一辆流动书车停在 Vroman's 书店前，该书店于 1894 年在帕萨迪纳成立。

我们创办了 Red Hen Press，起初规模很小，旨在为那些被大型出版社忽视的声音提供平台。我毫不怀疑，其他小型出版社也诞生于我们文学世界的同一个分支——见证作品中所有的魔力，以及偶然发现灵魂之书的惊喜。

虽然各地书店在疫情后都经历了客流量的激增，但仅靠客流量不足以防止它们破产，尤其是许多读者将书店视为参考点——即通过实地考察确定书籍，随后在亚马逊上购买——而不是将其视为需要光顾的商业机构。与此同时，这些独立书店最有可能支持当地、非营利和独立出版商的声音——而这些声音正是最需要被放大地。

在碎片化媒体饱和的时代，这些机构正在为一个将读写能力视为重点的未来奠定至关重要的基础。在像洛杉矶这样一个电影工业占据主导地位的城市，这一点尤为紧迫。书本文化往往像一个瘦小的孤儿，蜷缩在电影巨头的阴影之下；有时我觉得，出版业就像一条躺在码头上的鱼。

我们能生存下来吗？在这里，每家书店和出版社都像风中的一缕轻烟，但我认为我们更像水。我们渗透进万物；我们是思想萌芽之地。

文学已延续数千年，它不会随我们而消亡。但当我们剥夺它繁荣的空间时，我们就强化了将其作为一种文化和艺术力量的贬值。我们一次又一次地看到，当多元且发人深省的叙事缺失时会发生什么，以及那些取而代之的故事所带来的危险。在冰山融化、法国陷入战火、移民海关执法局（ICE）特工在全国范围内横行、家庭暴力处于历史高位，以及人工智能（AI）正在取代神圣的创作行为的时刻，那些能让我们保持人性、使我们成其为人的书籍，是我们用来维持对人类信念的少数依靠之一。

那些将这些叙事置于利润之上的书商，往往被大规模的在线市场和高盈利的企业出版社所冲垮——后者极少有动力去提升那些来自代表性不足的作者的叙事，而正是这些叙事将我们重新连接回我们的社区。

2022年，洛杉矶市民挺身而出，通过 GoFundMe 筹集了 122,000 美元，帮助帕萨迪纳深受喜爱的 Octavia's Bookshelf 书店维持经营。它们的生存具有重要意义，但对比近年来关闭大门的数十家洛杉矶地区书店，我们都能意识到文学正处于怎样的边缘。

读者的购书数量比疫情前更多，尽管他们主要通过在线零售商购买。这传递出的信息并非人们不再需要书，而是大多数人并不理解在实体店购买的影响，以及这一决定如何影响最终落在他们手中的书籍质量。

我逃离了邪教，是为了寻找自己的声音，寻找真相，放大有意义的故事。我来到加利福尼亚，这个重塑自我的之地，是为了照亮门前的文学。它就在这里。不要让它从悬崖边滑落。

凯特·盖尔（KATE GALE）是 Red Hen Press 的出版人，也是即将出版的回忆录《小士兵》（Little Soldiers）的作者。

活动人士与洛杉矶在援助贫民窟犬只问题上产生分歧

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GENARO MOLINA 洛杉矶时报

CHRISTINA HOUSE 洛杉矶时报 （上图）一名无家可归的女性与她的爱犬 Page 在洛杉矶的贫民窟。左图为营地里的一只比特犬。右图为 Starts With One Today 的创始人 Victoria Bech Parker 和 Kim Dabagian 拖着一辆装有狗粮和水的推车，准备分发给贫民窟中养狗的无家可归者。 GENARO MOLINA 洛杉矶时报

未治疗的健康问题。他们表示，另一些犬只则是非法繁育，或者在没有水、食物或遮荫处的情况下被遗弃。

部分犬只遭受了严重的虐待。非营利组织 Stand up for Pits Foundation 最近向市政府提起的一项法律诉讼中，通过令人触目惊心的照片记录了贫民窟中多起涉嫌虐待动物的案例：一只吉娃娃的眼睛被胶水粘住；一只失聪的白色比特犬被锁链拴住，身上有灼伤痕迹；一只死狗挂在购物车上，内脏外流。

贫民窟动物的困境成为了今年洛杉矶市长初选中的热门议题。保守派候选人 Spencer Pratt 发布了一段视频，指称犬只被用于测试药物，并为了获取毒资而进行繁育。共和党州长候选人 Steve Hilton 最近也对此发表看法，称贫民窟的这种情况是一场“丑闻”。

市长 Karen Bass 的办公室指责动物权利活动人士在“作秀”。

社区服务副市长 Jacqueline Hamilton 在给《洛杉矶时报》的一份声明中表示，就在距离市政厅仅几个街区的地方上演的这些问题并非新鲜事，也不容易解决。但她表示，Bass 政府正在采取“具体行动”。

去年 11 月，Bass 宣布成立一个试点工作组（该小组已于今年夏天转为永久机构），旨在调查贫民窟中虐待动物的指控，培训警察处理此类情况，并向宠物主人提供基础资源。

尽管市政府官员和活动人士都同意贫民窟的部分动物需要帮助，但在一个关键问题上几乎没有共识：一个生活在街头、难以喂养或供养犬只的人，在什么时间点会从“需要帮助”跨越到“忽视或虐待动物”的界限？

市政府在从无家可归者手中没收犬只时采取了谨慎的方法。

“在没有正当理由的情况下将动物与其人类伴侣分离，既不人道也不合法，”Hamilton 说道。她引用了国外的研究，结果显示无家可归者拥有的宠物“总体健康状况良好”，且这种关系可以改善人类及其宠物的情感健康。

Bech Parker 每周日都在贫民窟向数百人和动物提供食物和服务，她说即使她认为某些主人做得不够，她也会提供帮助。但最终，她希望将所有犬只从贫民窟移走。

“狗在贫民窟是不安全的，”Bech Parker 说道。她于 2020 年从丹麦搬到洛杉矶追求演艺事业，随后创立了 Starts with One Today。“无论目前养狗的人多么善良，这里都是一个不安全的环境。”

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目前没有关于贫民窟（Skid Row）生活着多少动物的官方统计数据。但狗无处不在——有的在四处乱跑，有的被拴着，有的则从沿人行道排开的帐篷里向外窥视。

2020年，南加州大学（USC）的研究人员估计，洛杉矶县有 9% 到 12% 的无遮蔽无家可归成年人养有宠物。由于贫民窟生活着 2,000 多名无遮蔽人员，这意味着街头可能约有 250 只狗。

许多活动人士表示，养宠物给无家可归者带来了特殊的挑战。无家可归者不仅缺乏购买食物或支付兽医护理的资金，而且其中很大一部分人滥用药物或患有心理健康问题。多项研究发现，包括贫民窟在内，生活在洛杉矶县街头的人员中，超过一半的人患有精神疾病或物质滥用障碍。

在贝克·帕克（Bech Parker）遇见雅典娜（Athena）几个小时后，她收到一名志愿者的短信，称在圣佩德罗街（San Pedro）和东5街（East 5th streets）有一只受重伤的拉布拉多类犬。照片显示，这只狗的爪子被撕裂，布满了红色的开放性疮口。

狗的主人是一名住在午夜使命（Midnight Mission）的女性，她告诉志愿者，在她出州期间将她的狗特雷弗（Trevor）托付给了他人。当她回来时，特雷弗已经无法行走。

贝克·帕克支付了 Uber 费用将特雷弗送往兽医处，兽医告诉她，特雷弗的腿骨折且严重感染。兽医表示，它可能在大约一个月前被大锤之类的钝器击中。

在多位兽医一致认为其伤势过重无法手术后，贝克·帕克同意将特雷弗实施安乐死。

“城市执法力的缺失，”她说，“现在却在强迫我们做出这样的决定，这很不公平。”

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官员们不能仅仅因为狗的主人住在街头，就合法地没收这只狗，因为根据州法律，狗被归类为个人财产。

然而，在加利福尼亚州，虐待动物或未能为其提供“适当的食物、饮水、住所或防风雨保护”属于犯罪行为。洛杉矶县动物护理与控制局（L.A. County Animal Care and Control）指出：“虐待并不要求有恶意；仅凭忽视就足以构成刑事犯罪。”

“现实情况是，已经有了良好的法律……来保护动物，”Stand up for Pits 的创始人丽贝卡·科里（Rebecca Corry）表示，“现在发生的情况是，他们故意拒绝执行法律。”

Stand up for Pits 在其诉状中指称，市政府及其机构“持续且过失地忽视了贫民窟（Skid Row）已知的危险状况”，并且在执行“动物虐待法规”方面犯有“系统性违反加利福尼亚州法律”的行为。

科里的团体呼吁市政府对贫民窟进行清理，没收所有缺乏充足食物、水或住所，或者未植入微芯片且未进行绝育手术的狗。

然而，市政府坚持认为，未能为狗植入微芯片或进行绝育违反了城市条例，但尚未达到虐待的程度。

“公众经常认为，只要看到情况不对，我们就可以随时没收动物，”洛杉矶动物服务局（L.A. Animal Services）总经理加布里埃尔·阿姆斯特（Gabrielle Amster）说道。

阿姆斯特表示，对于表达出照顾动物意愿的无家可归的所有者，通常会给他们一次机会。

她说，帮助他们照顾宠物有时是最好的选择——尤其是因为被没收的狗最终将进入严重过度拥挤的城市收容所系统。

“这绝不会削弱我们救助受伤害动物的意愿，”阿姆斯特说，“我们对虐待动物的行为非常、非常严厉……我们不会说，‘嗯，那只动物看起来稍微有点被虐待，但我们的收容所满了’。”

自从市政府成立新的特别工作组以来，一名全职动物控制员已驻扎在贫民窟，负责评估动物安全，回应有关动物福利的担忧并开出罚单。该官员还向宠物主人提供食物和用品，并努力建立关系，希望他们能遵守绝育法律并接受兽医护理。

阿姆斯特否认了活动人士关于动物服务局辜负贫民窟的指控，但她也表示其部门的人手不足。

“我希望我们能有更多的警员能够更频繁地出现在那里，”她说。

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动物活动人士与市政府之间的对峙之所以令人震惊，是因为在不到 19 年前，洛杉矶还因其对动物虐待法的执行而被全国动物权益倡导者誉为典范。

2005年，洛杉矶市议会成立了一个洛杉矶警察局（LAPD）动物虐待特别工作组。到 2009年，该工作组每年调查近 300 起动物虐待和忽视报告。但在 2021年，由于市政府在 COVID-19 疫情期间削减预算，该工作组被解散。

与此同时，洛杉矶县加强了“伤害减少”政策，该政策不要求以戒毒作为接受服务的先决条件。

一些活动人士表示，当地官员将这种哲学同时应用于毒品和宠物，从而延长了人类和动物的痛苦。支持者认为这种方法能挽救生命，但批评者认为它使吸毒常态化并助长了成瘾。

贝克·帕克（Bech Parker）表示，滥用药物的所有者经常忘记宠物所在的位置或丢失宠物，即使是负责任的所有者，其宠物也可能被盗。

“贫民窟的人没有能力妥善照顾动物，”她说，“就像，仅仅因为你说，‘噢，我爱我的狗’……你并不具备为你的狗提供生活保障的能力。”

CHRISTINA HOUSE 洛杉矶时报

然而，并非所有动物活动人士都同意这一观点。洛里·魏泽（Lori Weise）是一位先驱活动人士，她在 1990 年代创立了市中心狗狗救援组织（Downtown Dog Rescue），并以帮助无家可归者与宠物保持团聚而闻名。她表示，活动人士不能要求将动物从所有被他们认为“不合格”的人身边夺走。

她说，仅仅因为一只狗住在户外，并不意味着它受到了虐待。

韦泽表示，在执行动物虐待法和绝育法方面，政府官员比活动人士更有优势，但他们严重缺乏资金和人员。韦泽认为，动物能给无家可归的人提供陪伴，但如果这种想法导致动物在必要时无法被带走，那么它可能会变成“最大的陷阱之一”。

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汉密尔顿表示，自从巴斯启动新的贫民窟计划以来，市政府已经培训了100名洛杉矶警察局（LAPD）警员来识别动物虐待行为。

汉密尔顿说，该特别工作组在11月至6月期间扣押了58只动物，开出了16张罚单，还针对非法销售幼犬的行为逮捕了10人。她表示，一名在房车中经营幼犬工厂的男子因虐待动物被判处14个月监禁，另一名男子则对殴打狗并导致其腿部骨折的重罪指控表示不抗辩。

汉密尔顿说，仅在6月份，动物服务部门就将15只处于“问题状况”的贫民窟动物移走，这些状况包括“身体状况糟糕、无法获得充足的食物或水，以及缺乏必要的兽医护理”。

她表示，市政府还在贫民窟设立了流动诊所，以进行绝育手术。

在贝克·帕克遇到威拉德几天后，她再次发现了她。那只患有皮肤病且营养不良的比特犬雅典娜不在她身边。贝克·帕克说，当她询问雅典娜的情况时，威拉德显得有些迷茫。

“我问她：‘你的狗在哪儿？’”贝克·帕克说，“她的反应像是：‘我不知道。我想她可能在我的朋友那里，但我不知道。我要去接她，但我不知道她在哪里。’”

鲁本·罗哈斯在贫民窟拥抱他的狗。洛杉矶在从无家可归者手中没收狗时采取谨慎的方法。

加利福尼亚州

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长滩的房屋在9月8日被飓风玛丽（Hurricane Marie）引发的南向涌浪袭击。 KELVIN KUO 洛杉矶时报

沿海社区面临的新威胁

与厄尔尼诺现象相关的“相当壮观”的开尔文波正向北移动，可能会增加南加州地区的洪水风险和海滩侵蚀

作者：RONG-GONG LIN II 和 ANDREW TURNER

随着南加州准备应对由“沿岸陷获开尔文波”（coastally trapped Kelvin wave）带来的更多潜在破坏性状况，沿海社区正开始评估波浪和洪水造成的损失。

从南橙县到马里布的房屋被淹且受损严重。侵蚀现象在卡尔斯巴德到长滩之间的海岸线地带十分严重。

拉古纳海滩、达纳点和卡尔斯巴德上周宣布进入当地紧急状态，理由是飓风玛丽引发的南向涌浪导致了海岸侵蚀和沙滩流失。厄尔尼诺现象通常会导致东太平洋的飓风季异常活跃，飓风玛丽便形成于该海域。

“我一直在与沿岸其他城市及其城市经理沟通，我认为我们每个人遭受的损失程度各不相同，”拉古纳海滩城市经理戴夫·基夫（Dave Kiff）表示。“我认为拉古纳的损失是最严重或最显著的之一，但每个人都在讨论对沙滩以及沙滩补给的担忧。从纽波特到亨廷顿再到海豹海滩，他们确实有沙滩补给项目，南边还有一些。”

橙县官员宣布他们正在启动——[见 Kelvin, B2]

帕内蒂尔之死涉嫌非法药丸

美国缉毒局（DEA）正在调查洛杉矶药贩是否向该演员提供了伪造的羟考酮。

作者：RICHARD WINTON

调查海登·帕内蒂尔（Hayden Panettiere）之死的联邦当局正将调查重点放在洛杉矶，并研究该演员是否从当地药贩处获取了非处方药丸。

据熟悉调查情况的消息人士透露，美国缉毒局（DEA）特工和当地调查人员已就其8月16日死亡的情况询问了数人，重点关注她在南卡罗来纳州格林维尔的一处公寓内去世前，服用了一种被描述为伪造羟考酮的药物。

此类伪造药丸多次被发现掺有芬太尼，即使少量服用也可能致命。

此次调查与对演员马修·佩里（Matthew Perry）和说唱歌手麦克·米勒（Mac Miller）之死的调查类似，这两起事件最终都导致其各自的药物供应商被提起刑事指控。

在TMZ发表文章报道调查人员正基于一个理论开展工作——即36岁的帕内蒂尔服用了掺有芬太尼的药丸后，

[见 Panettiere, B5]

演员海登·帕内蒂尔（照片拍摄于2023年）上个月在南卡罗来纳州格林维尔的一处公寓内去世。 EVAN AGOSTINI Invision / 美联社

查尔斯·曼森的“得力助手”布鲁斯·戴维斯在狱中去世

他因在1972年杀害加里·欣曼和唐纳德·“肖蒂”·谢而被定罪。

作者：理查德·温顿和詹姆斯·奎利

惩教官员周一表示，被誉为查尔斯·曼森“得力助手”的布鲁斯·戴维斯上周末在加利福尼亚州的一所监狱医院去世，享年83岁。

加利福尼亚州惩教与康复部 / AP 左图为2014年的戴维斯，右图为1970年的戴维斯。他曾八次被判定符合假释条件，但其释放被多任州长阻拦。他于周五去世，享年83岁。

据州惩教与康复部发言人玛丽·希门尼斯（Mary Xjimenez）称，一名注册护士于周五晚上11:03在位于瓦卡维尔的加州医疗设施中宣布戴维斯死亡。

死因尚未立即公布。

戴维斯在1972年被判定犯有两项谋杀罪，受害者是志在成为音乐家的加里·欣曼，以及一名同样也是

[见 Davis, B5]

拜伦·舍尔，1928 - 2026

教授出身的政治家为环境而战

这位从学者转变为立法者的政治家起草了加州一些影响最深远的法律。

作者：丹·莫雷恩

曾任斯坦福大学法学教授后成为加州立法者的拜伦·舍尔（Byron Sher）于周六去世，享年98岁。他起草了该州一些影响最深远的环保法。

舍尔思维缜密且温文尔雅，与如今的政治人物截然相反。他很少发布新闻稿，不召开新闻发布会，且厌恶筹集竞选资金。

但他给环境留下了不可磨灭的印记，他起草的立法为回收利用提供激励，限制广告商对产品环保效益的夸大宣传，并打击水污染和空气污染。

1999年，他帮助领导了保护洪堡县 Headwaters Forest 中古红杉林的行动，敦促州政府和联邦政府从德克萨斯州金融家查尔斯·赫维茨（Charles Hurwitz）手中买下该林地，后者拥有太平洋伐木公司（Pacific Lumber Co.）并准备在那里伐木。

十年前的1988年，舍尔起草了一项立法，要求加州对温室气体的来源进行盘点。这是加州立法机关——以及任何其他州的立法机关——首次将“全球变暖”一词写入州法律，并成为随后几十年应对气候变化法案的基础。

“形势紧迫，”舍尔在1989年5月5日被《萨克拉门托蜜蜂报》引用时预见性地说道。“州政府要么忽视科学告诉我们的事实，要么以负责任的方式应对这一挑战。”

由于他的立法，如今的制造商销售更多喷雾瓶产品而非气溶胶罐，人们可以更方便地处置电视和其他电子垃圾，地下汽油储罐也很少发生泄漏并污染地下水。

“拜伦·舍尔为加州的气候变化体制奠定了法律和研究基础，并由此帮助塑造了世界尝试处理气候变化的方式，”贝格鲁恩研究所（Berggruen Institute）研究员乔·马修斯（Joe Mathews）表示，他目前正在撰写一本关于该州应对全球变暖立法努力的书籍。

如今，舍尔1989年的立

[见 Sher, B5]

洛杉矶时报 “形势紧迫” 州参议员拜伦·舍尔在1998年起草了警告全球变暖的立法。上图为2004年的舍尔。

警方打击第六街大桥违规骑行，多名迷你摩托车骑手被捕

警方表示，大量机动车辆被扣押，一次街道占领行动被挫败。

作者：Amy Hubbard

洛杉矶警方表示，周日他们围截并逮捕了数十名迷你摩托车骑手，挫败了一场针对第六街大桥的占领行动。

根据洛杉矶警察局（LAPD）在 Facebook 上发布的一篇帖子，警员们遇到了一群 70 多名年轻人（其中许多是未成年人），他们驾驶未经授权的机动迷你摩托车封锁大桥，进行原地打转（doughnuts）和翘头（wheelies）表演，在道路错误方向行驶，并在车流中穿梭。

洛杉矶警察局街道赛车特遣队的 Robert Leary 警长表示，除了逮捕人员外，此次在洛杉矶市中心的行动中还扣押了 78 辆迷你摩托车和口袋摩托车。

“我们收到情报，将有人使用电动自行车和迷你摩托车占领第六街大桥，”Leary 说。“我们组建了一支队伍，以便能够……将他们围堵在里面。这真的是我们解决这个问题的唯一办法。”

表示，一旦骑手们在大桥上被包围，警方便在没有发生冲突的情况下将他们拘留。

说，所有违规者都被开具了在城市街道骑行非法车辆的传票。由于“该群体中有一半”是青少年，警方通知了家长，家长们随后来到现场接回孩子。

当地新闻视频显示，大桥暂时关闭，洛杉矶警察局的警员站在一群年轻人中间，后者的双手被塑料扎带反绑在背后。

数十辆迷你摩托车被装上拖车，在黄色警戒线后，可以看到家长们正在等待接孩子。

除了 78 起轻罪逮捕外， 表示警方还扣押了两辆车——[见 Bikes, B3]

开尔文波给南加州社区带来新威胁

上图为达纳点（DANA POINT），上周在强浪损坏房屋后宣布进入局部紧急状态。拉古纳海滩（Laguna Beach）和卡尔斯巴德（Carlsbad）也采取了同样措施。

[接 Kelvin, B1] 启动了他们的应急行动中心，这是当县内有两个城市宣布局部紧急状态时必须执行的操作。

橙县监事会副主席 Katrina Foley 在一份声明中表示：“我们的沿海城市正遭受严重破坏，县政府正在动员我们的应急响应。”

交通部门发布的一段视频显示，严重的侵蚀正危及圣克莱门特（San Clemente）由 Metrolink 使用的火车轨道，强劲的海浪拍击轨道，沉积物崩塌至下方的岩石上。“情况就是这么严重，”Metrolink 在帖子中写道。

在圣地亚哥县，卡尔斯巴德宣布进入局部紧急状态，以努力将卡尔斯巴德大道（又称旧 101 号公路）从严重的侵蚀中拯救出来。

那么接下来会发生什么？

■ 另一种受厄尔尼诺影响的现象——“沿岸陷闭开尔文波”（coastally trapped Kelvin wave）——正沿着墨西哥海岸北上，很快将袭击美国西海岸。

■ 预计冬季将带来更多破坏性风暴。政府预报员表示，此次最新的厄尔尼诺比 1950 年以来任何一次都更强的概率为 75%。美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）气候预测中心周四表示，在截至 12 月的三个月期间，厄尔尼诺将处于“极强”状态的概率为 98%。

以下是我们已知的情况汇总：

开尔文波是关键

直到最近，开尔文波（Kelvin waves）还是一个相当冷门的概念。但它们从根本上处于厄尔尼诺现象的核心：在这种气候模式中，赤道中东太平洋的海水升温，并引发大气变化，进而影响全球天气。

只要科学家理解厄尔尼诺，就已知存在沿岸陷波（Coastally trapped Kelvin waves）。美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）渔业生态系统科学部门的研究海洋学家迈克尔·贾考克斯（Michael Jacox）表示，“沿岸陷波”意味着它们必须沿着海岸边界移动，在北半球，海岸线位于它们的右侧。

直到最近，计算能力才发展到让迪伦·阿玛亚（Dillon Amaya）等科学家能够对这些波进行建模和追踪的程度。

阿玛亚是这类波的专家，同时也是北卡罗来纳州立大学海洋、地球与大气科学系的助理教授。他表示：“现在科学家有办法实时观察这些现象的展开，更不用说我们正在经历有记录以来最强的厄尔尼诺现象之一，这将对应有记录以来最强的沿岸陷波。”

阿玛亚在加州大学圣迭戈分校的斯克里普斯海洋研究所获得了海洋学博士学位。他表示，随着厄尔尼诺的发展，赤道沿线典型的由东向西的信风会减弱甚至反向，“这使得大量极热的水体和高海平面从它们通常所在的赤道西太平洋远端，一直向东回涌。”

这意味着通常较温暖的水域（例如印度尼西亚周围）在开尔文波的推动下，向东移动到太平洋通常较冷的部分（靠近秘鲁）。在这种情况下移动的开尔文波被称为“赤道陷波”（equatorially trapped Kelvin waves），意味着这些波被限制在赤道沿线。

在抵达南美洲后，开尔文波会分裂成两部分，一部分向北前往加利福尼亚，另一部分向南移动。

海平面上升

此时，开尔文波变成了沿岸陷波。

贾考克斯说：“沿着海岸，这些波会提高海平面，增加海水温度，并将寒冷且富含营养的水体推向海面深处。”

在移动过程中，开尔文波可使海平面上升 6 到 12 英寸——且可能持续数月。

阿玛亚表示：“这些升高的海平面在与经过的天气或风暴相结合时，会显著增加洪水风险以及海滩侵蚀等风险。”

时间节点

目前，沿岸陷波位于墨西哥西海岸。阿玛亚表示，他预计该波将在周六或前后进入加利福尼亚湾。

一旦抵达，该波大约需要 11 天沿着海湾 U 形海岸移动，然后还需要额外 7 天从下加利福尼亚半岛的最南端——卡波圣卢卡斯（Cabo San Lucas）——移动到圣迭戈。

随后，大约需要两到三天到达洛杉矶，再经过两到三天到达旧金山。

这将使该波在 10 月初抵达南加州，尽管具体时间仍不确定。

阿玛亚说：“它们非常壮观。它们从赤道西太平洋一直移动到阿拉斯加湾，行程约 [15,500 英里]，大约需要 120 天。”

持久影响

这并不是一个可以冲浪的波浪，游泳者或划船者也不会明显察觉。但预计它将使加利福尼亚海岸的海平面上升约 6 英寸，其影响可能会持续数月。

这听起来可能不多，但海平面再上升 6 英寸可能会进一步打击已经遭受重创的加州海岸，尤其是如果与风暴的影响相结合。

“我们最近看到了这一点的重要性，南加州各地的房屋遭到冲击，尤其是在高潮位期间。我们遇到了飓风产生的涌浪和高潮位，两者的结合对这些房屋造成了极大的破坏，”美国地质调查局研究地质学家乔纳森·沃里克（Jonathan Warrick）表示。“当水位异常高，比我们预期的要高一英尺或更多时，它真的会造成毁灭性的破坏。”

目前，由于人为引起的全球变暖和极地冰盖融化，这个黄金之州在过去的 125 年里已经经历了约一英尺的海平面上升。而且最近，该州还出现了异常的高潮位。

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被告通知： (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): MODEL MAFIA LLC（一家公司）；SHEBA SHORT，又名 SHEBA SHORT QUEEN；以及 DOES 1 至 25（含）号被告，

原告起诉您：(LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): ASHLEY HUNTER（个人），

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城市与州

约翰·克利福德 (JOHN CLIFFORD) 20世纪福克斯 贾米·格茨 (JAMI GERTZ) 和安德鲁·麦卡锡 (Andrew McCarthy) 出现在 1987 年改编自布雷特·东顿·埃利斯 (Bret Easton Ellis) 小说的《低于零》(Less Than Zero) 中。

加州要闻

剖析 80 年代的育儿方式

韦斯·本特利 (WES BENTLEY) 和伊格比·里格尼 (Igby Rigney) 出现在基于另一部埃利斯小说的《碎片》(The Shards) 中。

洛杉矶的富裕父母真的像电视节目中那样是怪物吗？以下是现实情况。

作者：谢尔比·格拉德 (SHELBY GRAD)

一名处于特定年龄段的金发美女在可卡因的亢奋下，抱着一座奥斯卡奖杯，在她位于比弗利山庄豪宅的镜面化妆间里向学院发表讲话。这是一场她现实生活中永远不会发表的幻想获奖演说。

她的措辞并非感激，而是怨恨、刻薄和自恋。而她将最残酷的对待留给了自己的后代——一名就读于洛杉矶最顶尖私立高中的、光彩照人且受欢迎的女大学生。

“对我今晚在观看的女儿说，你是我的生命之憾，”她满意地说道。

欢迎来到布雷特·东顿·埃利斯笔下的 20 世纪 80 年代初。这位小说家在三十多年间，在我们看待那些最特权的山坡和峡谷的方式上留下了不可磨灭的印记。

今年夏天，电视观众通过 FX 系列剧集《碎片》(The Shards) 体验到了他对那个时代的扭曲解读——包括那段黑暗的幻想获奖演说。该剧基于埃利斯的一部小说，讲述了一群富有的高中朋友在性、毒品、舞蹈和谋杀的迷宫中穿行的故事。

隐藏的怪物

《碎片》（The Shards）讲述了一名虐待狂连环杀手的故事。但最令人恐惧的角色是那些破碎、虚荣且自私的父母，他们以某种方式给孩子造成了巨大的伤害。

20世纪80年代洛杉矶的育儿方式真的那么糟糕吗？

现在回看时很容易产生轻蔑之情，尤其是在这个充斥着“虎妈”、直升机式育儿和GPS追踪的时代。

但过度参与也是一种问题。几年前，洛杉矶的顶尖私立学校被大学录取丑闻震惊，一些富有的父母被指控通过付费手段将孩子送入他们心仪的顶尖大学。

这些案件的起诉书足以与埃利斯构思的任何情节相媲美，包括2019年那个清晨，联邦调查局（FBI）突袭了洛杉矶一些最豪华的住址，逮捕了社交名流、演员和商业巨头。

埃利斯在21岁时凭借《低于零》（Less Than Zero）闯入公众视野，这部1985年的小说讲述了另一群在洛杉矶精英圈中穿梭的朋友。它引发了关于被宠坏的孩子、缺位的父母以及毒害性的物质主义文化的无尽讨论。

埃利斯曾有名言，称小说中的父母如此“饥渴且不满足，以至于他们吞噬了自己的孩子”。

《碎片》延续了这一主题。我的同事罗伯特·劳埃德（Robert Lloyd）在对该剧的评论中指出，“成年人几乎完全缺失，而当他们出现时，要么令人失望，要么带来麻烦”。这就像一部恐怖电影，怪物被隐藏起来以营造悬念。

关于迷途青年和疏于照顾的家—

“一位父亲吹嘘他那有进取心的儿子在派对上卖饮料赚了800美元。我告诉他他疯了，”一位比弗利山庄的家长教师协会（PTA）主席告诉《泰晤士报》。

在《低于零》出版三年后，一部关于比弗利山庄青少年生活的非虚构作品进入书店。迈克尔·利希（Michael Leahy）撰写的《艰苦的教训》（Hard Lessons）聚焦于比弗利山庄高中高年级学生的一年生活。

书中记录了狂野的派对、挥霍的消费和醉酒后的放纵。但它对家庭生活提供了更为细致的观察。一名学生告诉利希，问题不在于颓废，而在于对成就和完美的痴迷。“如果你觉得自己平庸，你就会觉得自己是个失败者，”她说。

更衣室视频导致人员被捕

加州大学圣迭戈分校斯克里普斯海洋研究所（Scripps Institution of Oceanography）的博士后研究员布伦丹·塔尔瓦尔（Brendan Talwar）表示，这是因为今年的强厄尔尼诺现象，以及过去一年左右区域性的海洋热浪导致今年夏天水温升高。

在谈到鲸鲨时，他说：“如果你能看到它，那绝对是一次非常独特且罕见的目击。”

塔尔瓦尔说，鲸鲨以地球上最大的鱼类而闻名，但它的牙齿很小，以浮游生物为食。

塔尔瓦尔说：“例如，我们不认为这些动物会在冬末留在这里。随着水温降低，它们会向更南的方向迁移。”

斯巴鲁尼斯（Sbarounis）表示，在5月到11月之间，他一年大约有120天在钓鱼，范围从墨西哥边境一直到康塞普申角（Point Conception），并向离岸延伸约100 to 150英里。

他说：“那就是我的游乐场。”

官员称，一名高中教练在手机被发现录制学生后被停职。

作者：海莉·布兰森-波茨（HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS）

当局表示，加州特雷西市（Tracy）的一名高中橄榄球教练于周五被捕，此前人们发现一部手机在更衣室内部录制学生。

9月10, 日晚，在特雷西高中，学生们在校园内的更衣室换衣服时发现一部手机在拍摄他们。随后，一名家长联系了这座位于旧金山以东约60英里的圣华金县（San Joaquin County）城市的警方。

特雷西警察局在的一份声明中表示，学生们停止了录制，删除了视频，并将设备交给了一名教师。

警方表示，校园资源警员和其他调查人员确定该手机属于校队橄榄球队主教练杰弗里·普里布尔（Jeffrey Pribble）。

根据警方声明，48, 岁的普里布尔在高中被捕，特雷西统一学区（Tracy Unified School District）已将其停职，等待刑事调查结果。

未能联系到普里布尔以获取评论。圣华金县警长办公室的囚犯记录显示，周一他并未被羁押。

圣华金县地区检察官办公室发言人埃琳·海特（Erin Haight）在电子邮件中表示，该案处于“活跃的、持续的调查中”，且截至周一，尚未移交给检察官考虑提起刑事指控。

特雷西警察局局长塞库·米灵顿（Sekou Millington）在声明中说：“我们的孩子理应在学校以及每一个他们能够学习、成长并单纯作为孩子存在的空间里感到安全。”

“保护学生的安全、隐私和福祉是我们严肃对待的责任。我们感谢将此事告知成年人的学生，以及迅速采取行动进行调查的警员和侦探。”

在周一提供给《洛杉矶时报》的一份声明中，特雷西统一学区表示，在普里布尔于校园内被捕之前，已将其（他同时也是一名体育教师）停职。

声明称：“我们对这些指控深感担忧，并将继续专注于保护学生的安全。”

在普里布尔被捕当天，特雷西高中至今未尝败绩的斗牛犬校队橄榄球队在客场比赛中以56-0大胜拉索普高中（Lathrop High School）的斯巴达队。

根据球队网站，助理教练贾斯汀·埃文斯（Justin Evans）在赛后新闻发布会上谈到斗牛犬队时说：“他们整晚都保持专注，没有让任何干扰或当下的局面影响到他们。”

第6街大桥打击行动中多人被捕

[自行车，接B1] 那些驾驶员涉嫌“协助和教唆”。

洛杉矶警察局副局长赫尔曼·胡尔塔多（German Hurtado）告诉 KTLA，警方一直在追踪这个骑小型摩托车的团体，因为他们以从事此类非法活动而闻名。

“我们一直在跟踪这个团体，直到将他们引导至一个我们可以安全地拦截所有人、将其拘留并扣押小型摩托车的位置，”胡尔塔多说道。

据该新闻机构报道，加州公路巡警队和洛杉矶县治安警署的人员也参与了此次行动。

小型摩托车不符合车辆管理局（DMV）的安全规定，在加利福尼亚州及许多其他州，在街道或人行道上骑行均属非法。它们只能在获得所有者同意的情况下在私人财产上合法运行。

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洛杉矶时报媒体集团（LA Times Media Group Inc.）目前正根据经修订的 1933, 年《证券法》（以下简称“《证券法》”）第 4(a)(2) 条和 / 或其下颁布的 D 条例第 506 条进行优先股的私募发行。Digital Offering（FINRA / SIPC 成员）是本次发行的记录经纪交易商。投资者在投资前应仔细考虑洛杉矶时报媒体集团的投资目标、风险和投资期限。与洛杉矶时报媒体集团每次权益发行相关的发行文件将包含此信息及其他信息，在投资前应仔细阅读。洛杉矶时报媒体集团的证券是依据经修订的 1933, 年《证券法》或《证券法》第 506(c) 条规定的注册豁免而发行和销售的。据此，您

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DEA调查演员之死

[Panettiere，见B1页] 格林维尔县验尸官回应称，毒理学检测仍在进行中，尚未确定死亡原因或方式。

根据验尸官办公室的消息，急救人员和警方发现 Panettiere 时已处于心搏停止状态。来自 Broadcastify.com 的调度音频记录提到了可能的药物过量以及正在进行的心肺复苏术（CPR）。据报道，现场使用了纳洛酮（Narcan），急救人员曾尝试将其救活。她于下午 2:31 被宣布死亡。

据当局称，当时在现场的其长期男友布莱恩·希克森（Brian Hickerson）向调查人员提供了一袋药物。

当局表示，Panettiere 居住在洛杉矶，但希克森是格林维尔本地人。

希克森在 Panettiere 死亡后聘请的南卡罗来纳州律师斯隆·埃利斯（Sloan Ellis）在的一份声明中表示：“Hayden 的死亡仍在调查中，让调查继续进行至关重要。正如公开报道的那样，警方确认没有涉嫌刑事犯罪的迹象。出于对 Hayden 家属的尊重以及对正在进行的调查的考虑，目前不会发表进一步评论。”

在 Perry 和 Miller 的案件中，检察官最终使那些向 Perry 提供氯胺酮、以及向 Miller 提供可卡因和掺有芬太尼的羟考酮药片的人被定罪。

Perry 在热水浴缸中的死亡导致其助手、2 名医生、一名制片人以及一名被称为“氯胺酮女王”的女性认罪。

曼森追随者，83岁，在狱中去世

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曾在当时被称为查茨沃思（Chatsworth）的斯潘牧场（Spahn Ranch）工作，曼森及其追随者在那里建立了他们的定居点。他被判处终身监禁，大部分时间在圣昆廷州立监狱服刑。

根据假释记录，欣曼（Hinman）被盯上是因为他被视为该邪教计划从洛杉矶搬迁到沙漠地区的潜在助手。但当他拒绝合作时，戴维斯用枪指着欣曼，而曼森则用刀将他从耳朵到下巴割开。

谢（Shea）遭到袭击是因为曼森告诉追随者，此人是警察线人，并试图将他们赶出牧场。邪教成员史蒂夫·格罗根（Steve Grogan）和查尔斯·“德州”·沃森（Charles "Tex" Watson）与曼森及戴维斯一起，将谢带到一处僻静地区并多次捅刺。戴维斯承认曾割伤谢。

尽管他没有参与该团体最臭名昭著的谋杀案——包括在贝内迪克特峡谷（Benedict Canyon）杀害夏伦·塔特（Sharon Tate）及其他四人——但检察官和州政府官员多次将戴维斯描述为曼森核心圈子的重要成员。戴维斯并不避讳自己与曼森的亲密关系。

“我想成为查理最喜欢的人，”他在2014年的一次假释听证会上说道。

在其中一次假释听证会上，戴维斯表示，直到塔特谋杀案发生后的第二天早晨，他才知道这件事。

自2010年以来，戴维斯曾8次被判定符合假释条件，但加州州长阿诺德·施瓦辛格（Arnold Schwarzenegger）、杰里·布朗（Jerry Brown）和加文·纽森（Gavin Newsom）多次否决了他的释放申请。

在2021年拒绝其释放时，纽森表示，戴维斯继续淡化自己在犯罪中的作用，且对受害者缺乏同情心。

纽森写道，戴维斯“不明白，正是因为他同意参与曼森先生的计划，才导致了对受害者的折磨和谋杀，无论他最终是否实施了致命一击”，并得出结论认为这“可能会使他在未来容易重复这些行为模式”。

在2024年的最后一次假释听证会上，评审小组成员对他如果获释后想要撰写回忆录并进行一系列演讲活动（他将其称为“救赎之旅”）的意愿提出了严厉质疑。

最终，在戴维斯被质问其决定参加一个名为“连环杀手之轻快面”（The Lighter Side of Serial Killers）的播客节目后，听证会被推迟。

“你计划公开讲述自己的故事，而这必然包括你与曼森家族的关联，这将给该家族带来恶名和美化，”假释委员会专员朱莉·加兰（Julie Garland）说道，“我要告诉你，当我听说你参加了这个播客时，我想，‘搞什么鬼？他在想什么？’”

尽管专员们下令调查戴维斯在节目中讨论的内容及其参加节目的意图，但其律师表示，她的当事人无意从其罪行中获利。

“我不认为戴维斯先生有美化这段故事的欲望，我认为如果我们继续这次听证会，结果会证明这实际上是他试图审视自己人生中做出的错误选择并讨论它们，”阿南达·哈特（Ananda Hart）说道。

洛杉矶警方已调查了其他几起可能与曼森家族有关的谋杀案。

除了该团体被正式定罪的九起谋杀案外，调查人员和检察官长期以来一直认为真实的受害者人数要高得多。

起诉戴维斯的斯蒂芬·凯（Stephen Kay）此前告诉《洛杉矶时报》，戴维斯是“家族”成员中最愿意杀人的人。凯表示，戴维斯是发生在圣莫尼卡（Santa Monica）和英国的几起死亡事件的嫌疑人。

就在塔特谋杀案发生几个月后，乔尔·普（Joel Pugh）——曼森族群成员桑德拉·古德（Sandra Good）29岁的男友——被发现死在伦敦的塔尔加斯酒店（Talgarth Hotel）。他的手腕和喉咙被割开。英国当局将其列为自杀，称普患有抑郁症。现场没有留下遗书。普死亡时，戴维斯就在伦敦。

凯及其他人表示，曼森憎恨普格。“他没有理由自杀，而且曼森对桑迪与普格在一起感到非常不快，”凯在2019年告诉《泰晤士报》。

据调查人员称，戴维斯也是1969年11月约翰·“零”·霍特在威尼斯死亡事件的目击者。当局得出结论，霍特在用左轮手枪玩俄罗斯轮盘赌时意外死亡，但这一结论随后受到了质疑。

《泰晤士报》的杰里·科恩在1969年报道称，回收的枪支上没有任何指纹。一名在枪击后扶住霍特头部的年轻人告诉科恩，他进入房间时发现一名曼森的女性追随者手里拿着那把枪。《泰晤士报》报道称，当晚有几名曼森的追随者在屋内，其中包括戴维斯。

在入狱50多年的时间里，戴维斯从未因纪律问题被记录在案。在羁押期间，他获得了硕士学位并完成了多项自我提升计划。他的律师迈克尔·贝克曼曾称戴维斯为“我代理过的最具有改造效果的囚犯”。

曼森于2017年去世。纽森和其他州长多次否决其最亲近追随者的假释申请，尽管一家上诉法院在2023年推翻了纽森对莱斯利·范·豪滕释放申请的否决。

帕特里夏·克伦温克尔曾将杂货店高管莱诺·拉比安卡及其妻子罗斯玛丽刺死，并在他们位于洛斯费利斯的家中墙上用血写下“Helter Skelter”，纽森在2025年阻止了她的释放。

新的一年，新的开始

上图：周日，人们在威尼斯海滩参加完塔什利赫（Tashlich）仪式后起舞。这一犹太教仪式象征着将过去一年的罪孽抛入水中。该仪式在犹太新年（Rosh Hashanah）的第一天举行。右侧，34岁的亚历克斯·巴纳扬（Alex Banayan）也在吹响羊角号。

BYRON SHER, 1928 - 2026

一位环境守护者

[Sher, from B1] 立法创建州立野生与风景河流，成为了特朗普总统提议提高雷丁市以北沙斯塔大坝（Shasta Dam）以增加蓄水量的障碍，这一想法得到了中央谷地农业利益集团的支持。他的立法保护了向沙斯塔水库供水的麦克劳德河（McCloud River）。提高大坝将会淹没麦克劳德河沿岸的栖息地。

谢尔能将这些想法转化为法律，反映了他说服他人和达成妥协的能力。共和党州长乔治·迪克梅吉安（George Deukmejian）签署了野生河流立法以及谢尔的《清洁空气法》，后者帮助塑造了由乔治·H·W·布什总统在1990年签署的联邦清洁空气立法。

迪克梅吉安的幕僚长史蒂夫·默克萨默（Steve Merksamer）表示，撇开党派分歧不谈，迪克梅吉安认为谢尔具有“极高的人格完整性”。

在一次演讲中，纽森回忆起谢尔是唯一一个给他打C分的斯坦福教授。当利珀（Lipper）询问这个故事是否属实时，谢尔面无表情地回答道：“他活该。”

“关于拜伦·谢尔没有什么太多可以讲述的故事，”比尔·洛克耶（Bill Lockyer）说道，谢尔在1996年赢得州议席时，洛克耶是参议院领袖。“他晚上回家，而且倾向于不参与国会的八卦。”

1996, 洛克耶委派谢尔在议会-参议院联合会议委员会任职，该委员会制定了一项旨在放宽加州电力系统监管的里程碑式立法。

共和党人方面，布朗请求教授气质的谢尔去挑战一名共和党人留在议会的权利。那名共和党人是来自圣盖博谷的理查德·蒙特乔伊（Richard Mountjoy），他在那年11月的两次选举中均获胜——一次是议会选举，另一次是州参议院特别选举，旨在填补现任议员弗兰克·希尔（Frank Hill）在腐败丑闻中被判入狱而空出的席位。

谢尔认为蒙特乔伊必须做出决定——留在议会还是进入参议院。面对议会的任期限制，蒙特乔伊于1995. 1月加入了参议院。党派之争在整年之中持续进行。

布鲁尔特（Brulte）从未成为议长，他于1996年当选参议员，谢尔也是如此。周日，他称谢尔为“一个极好的人”。

谢尔增加了扩大州政府使用可再生电力来源要求的条款，并称考虑到该问题的复杂性，这项立法是“一个非凡的结果”。洛克耶表示，谢尔的补充内容虽然重要，但像是“毒药圣代顶上的樱桃”。

“如今政治中的一切都是个人恩怨。但这并非个人恩怨，”布鲁尔特在谈到谢尔在议长之争中的角色时说道。“有些人可能会将其视为个人恩怨，但我绝对没有。”

谢尔退休后在内华达山脉山麓的一片梨园生活，并在塔霍区域规划局（Tahoe Regional Planning Agency）和内华达山脉保护区（Sierra Nevada Conservancy）任职。

他结婚62年的妻子琳达·鲍泽·谢尔（Linda Bowser Sher）于2014. 去世。他留下了三个孩子、五个孙辈和一个曾孙女。

莫雷恩（Morain）是《时报》的前职员。

“当拜伦·谢尔想进办公室并带着法案时，他能进去吗？绝对能。州长会听他的吗？会，”默克萨默说道。

谢尔确实未能说服迪克梅吉安签署他的其中一项法案——这是一项由营火女孩和男孩童军队启发、旨在宣布香蕉蛞蝓为州官方软体动物的古怪措施。迪克梅吉安否决了该法案，不过加文·纽森州长在2024年签署了立法，将这种黏糊糊的黄色生物指定为州官方蛞蝓。

谢尔1928, 出生于圣路易斯，1952, 毕业于哈佛法学院，1957. 加入斯坦福法学院教职员工队伍。他在20世纪60年代担任帕洛阿尔托市议员，1967年因反对开发而被罢免，并在20世纪70年代赢回了席位。1980年谢尔担任帕洛阿尔托市长时，他赢得了议会席位。他在议会任职直到1996年当选州参议员，一直服务到2004年因任期限制而被迫离职。

在曾就读于他斯坦福大学课堂的学生中，有纽森的父亲威廉·纽森（William Newsom），后者后来成为一名州上诉法院法官。

谢尔及其助手兼好友基普·利珀（Kip Lipper）参加了2010年在旧金山举行的一场宴会，会上，加州环保选民联盟向纽森法官颁发了拜伦·谢尔终身成就奖。在他接受

该立法被认为是导致2000年和2001年加州电力危机的原因，当时胆大妄为的能源交易商操纵市场，导致价格飙升，引发了轮流停电，并促成了2003年对州长格雷·戴维斯（Gray Davis）的罢免。

谢尔因他拒绝支持的各项措施而闻名。谢尔与少数其他被昵称为“灰熊”的自由派民主党人一起，会仔细审视立法中冗长的措辞，寻找反映特殊利益集团不正当影响的条款。

谢尔对1986年的一项立法投了反对票，该立法旨在为西萨克拉门托的一家虾类加工厂铺路。事实证明，该法案是一场精心策划的联邦调查局（FBI）诱捕行动的一部分，最终导致14名立法者、游说者及其他人被送入监狱。

“他不是一个圆滑的政治家，”圣马特奥县主管杰基·斯派尔（Jackie Speier）说道，她曾是一名民主党国会议员，并与谢尔一同在立法机构任职。“他不常发言。所以，当他开口时，人们会倾听。”

1994年，当共和党在80个席位的议会中占据41个席位的多数，且共和党议员吉姆·布鲁尔特（Jim Brulte）有望被选为议长时，他展现出了党派立场。但民主党议长威利·布朗（Willie Brown）拥有一名共和党支持者保罗·霍彻（Paul Horcher），后者投票支持布朗留任议长，使两党陷入了一场为期一年的权力争夺战。

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Rockell N. Hankin April 12, 1947 - August 28, 2026

Rockell Nathan Hankin，深受爱戴的丈夫、父亲、朋友、企业高管以及卡夫利基金会（The Kavli Foundation）的长期主席，于August 28, 2026, 在妻子和子女的陪伴下安详离世。

Rock拥有漫长且成功的职业生涯，从普莱斯水屋（Price Waterhouse）洛杉矶华纳中心办公室最年轻的合伙人之一，晋升为管理合伙人。随后，他担任卡夫利基金会、Kavlico和Semtech的董事会主席，并在十多家其他公司董事会任职。他还曾在夏洛特北卡罗来纳大学（UNC Charlotte）和南加州大学（USC）法学院教授创业学和公司治理。

Rock坚信基础科学研究能够造福全人类。在他众多的努力中，他认为通过在卡夫利基金会服务来支持基础科学研究是最具深远意义的。Rock的领导力塑造了该基金会20多年的发展，其中包括担任董事会主席十余年。他在创建卡夫利研究所（Kavli Institutes）和全球科学荣誉奖项——卡夫利奖（The Kavli Prize）方面发挥了关键作用。

在整个生命周期中，Rock热爱冒险并保持积极的生活方式。他最喜欢的活动包括壁球和航空。他是一名持有执照的飞行员，尤其享受驾驶单引擎飞机带家人进行冒险之旅。

最重要的是，Rock是一个顾家的男人。他深爱妻子Lisa。他为两个孩子Kathyrine和Rocky感到无比自豪，两人目前都在攻读研究生学位。他的兄弟Theodore Hankin也随之在世。

为了纪念Rock及其深远的遗产，将举行一场生命庆典。相关人员请联系卡夫利基金会。家属建议以捐款形式纪念Rock，捐赠对象为胰腺癌行动网络（PanCAN）或霍格医院基金会（Hoag Hospital Foundation），以此代替鲜花。

天气

南加州今日天气

早晨有低云，随后转为晴天：到周末为止，沿海及沿海平原地区每天早晨的低云都将消散，转为晴天。一个高空槽将于周二移入太平洋西北地区，随后在周三到达北加州。因此，本周晚些时候的白天最高气温将略有下降，但仍处于平均水平。周末可能会出现回暖。

5-day forecasts

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冲浪与海洋

从康塞普申角（POINT CONCEPTION）到墨西哥 内海：东南风 10-15 节。海浪 1-4 英尺。西向涌浪 2-3 英尺，周期 8-9 秒。晨雾可能会降低能见度。

冲浪区：圣巴巴拉（S.B.）和洛杉矶（L.A.）县海滩出现强离岸流的风险较低，其他地区风险中等。

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紫外线指数

敏感人群晒伤所需分钟数 拉斯维加斯，30 凤凰城，30 洛杉矶，30 旧金山，45

加州城市*

城市< / td>< colspan="3">周一*< / >< colspan="2">今天< / >< colspan="2">周三< / >< / tr><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>降水< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / >< / ><><>安纳海姆< / ><>85< / ><>66< / ><>--< / ><>83< / ><>66< / ><>82< / ><>66< / >< / ><><>阿瓦隆 / 卡塔利娜< / ><>75< / ><>61< / ><>--< / ><>69< / ><>59< / ><>69< / ><>57< / >< / ><><>贝克斯菲尔德< / ><>86< / ><>63< / ><>--< / ><>91< / ><>64< / ><>89< / ><>59< / >< / ><><>巴斯托< / ><>97< / ><>67< / ><>--< / ><>95< / ><>65< / ><>95< / ><>62< / >< / ><><>大熊湖< / ><>78< / ><>43< / ><>--< / ><>73< / ><>43< / ><>71< / ><>42< / >< / ><><>比숍< / ><>89< / ><>47< / ><>--< / ><>90< / ><>46< / ><>88< / ><>45< / >< / ><><>伯班克< / ><>86< / ><>65< / ><>--< / ><>82< / ><>64< / ><>80< / ><>64< / >< / ><><>卡马里洛< / ><>79< / ><>64< / ><>--< / ><>81< / ><>65< / ><>78< / ><>64< / >< / ><><>查茨沃思< / ><>87< / ><>66< / ><>--< / ><>83< / ><>64< / ><>81< / ><>65< / >< / ><><>奇诺< / ><>92< / ><>64< / ><>--< / ><>88< / ><>62< / ><>89< / ><>62< / >< / ><><>康普顿< / ><>82< / ><>69< / ><>.02< / ><>83< / ><>68< / ><>81< / ><>68< / >< / ><><>达纳点< / ><>78< / ><>66< / ><>.02< / ><>77< / ><>65< / ><>75< / ><>64< / >< / ><><>死亡谷< / ><>106< / ><>82< / ><>--< / ><>109< / ><>82< / ><>105< / ><>82< / >< / ><><>德尔马< / ><>75< / ><>67< / ><>< / ><>78< / ><>68< / ><>75< / ><>67< / >< / ><><>埃斯孔迪多< / ><>87< / ><>62< / ><>< / ><>84< / ><>62< / ><>83< / ><>60< / >< / ><><>尤里卡< / ><>64< / ><>52< / ><>--< / ><>63< / ><>54< / ><>64< / ><>50< / >< / ><><>福尔布鲁克< / ><>82< / ><>61< / ><>< / ><>80< / ><>60< / ><>81< / ><>58< / >< / ><><>弗雷斯诺< / ><>87< / ><>61< / ><>--< / ><>92< / ><>60< / ><>88< / ><>57< / >< / ><><>富勒顿< / ><>83< / ><>68< / ><>--< / ><>83< / ><>68< / ><>81< / ><>68< / >< / ><><>海梅特< / ><>91< / ><>57< / ><>--< / ><>87< / ><>58< / ><>86< / ><>54< / >< / ><><>赫斯佩里亚< / ><>89< / ><>60< / ><>--< / ><>85< / ><>59< / ><>83< / ><>59< / >< / ><><>亨廷顿比奇< / ><>81< / ><>68< / ><>.02< / ><>79< / ><>68< / ><>76< / ><>69< / >< / ><><>艾德尔怀尔德< / ><>79< / ><>58< / ><>--< / ><>78< / ><>56< / ><>76< / ><>55< / >< / ><><>欧文< / ><>82< / ><>66< / ><>--< / ><>82< / ><>66< / ><>80< / ><>67< / >< / table>

日月

天气年鉴

温度< / td><>洛杉矶< / ><>富勒顿< / ><>文图拉*< / >< / tr><><>最高 / 最低< / ><>83 / 68< / ><>83 / 70< / ><>75 / 62< / >< / ><><>正常最高 / 最低< / ><>83 / 65< / ><>86 / 65< / ><>76 / 57< / >< / ><><>一年前最高 / 最低< / ><>83 / 63< / ><>83 / 64< / ><>74 / 62< / >< / ><><>历史最高 / 日期< / ><>100 / 2012< / ><>108 / 2012< / ><>88 / 1971< / >< / ><><>历史最低 / 日期< / ><>48 / 1898< / ><>57 / 2010< / ><>48 / 1956< / >< / table>

<>< rowspan="2">城市< / >< colspan="3">周一*< / >< colspan="3">今日< / >< colspan="2">周三< / >< / ><><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>降水量< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>最高< / ><>最低< / ><>< / >< / ><><>洛杉矶市中心 / 南加州大学< / ><>84< / ><>68< / ><>.02< / ><>83< / ><>66< / ><>81< / ><>68< / ><>< / >< / ><><>洛杉矶国际机场< / ><>78< / ><>69< / ><>--< / ><>80< / ><>68< / ><>78< / ><>67< / ><>< / >< / ><><>拉古纳海滩< / ><>75< / ><>66< / ><>.03< / ><>77< / ><>66< / ><>74< / ><>68< / ><>< / >< / ><><>兰开斯特< / ><>91< / ><>59< / ><>--< / ><>88< / ><>59< / ><>84< / ><>58< / ><>< / >< / ><><>长滩< / ><>81< / ><>69< / ><>--< / ><>79< / ><>68< / ><>80< / ><>67< / ><>< / >< / ><><>猛犸湖< / ><>74< / ><>37< / ><>--< / ><>73< / ><>39< / ><>70< / ><>38< / ><>< / >< / ><><>米申维耶霍< / ><>80< / ><>63< / ><>.02< / ><>80< / ><>63< / ><>81< / ><>64< / ><>< / >< / ><><>门罗维亚< / ><>88< / ><>65< / ><>--< / ><>85< / ><>63< / ><>84< / ><>63< / ><>< / >< / ><><>蒙特雷< / ><>68< / ><>56< / ><>--< / ><>68< / ><>57< / ><>68< / ><>58< / ><>< / >< / ><><>威尔逊山< / ><>72< / ><>58< / ><>--< / ><>65< / ><>56< / ><>63< / ><>59< / ><>< / >< / ><><>尼德尔斯< / ><>105< / ><>84< / ><>--< / ><>102< / ><>81< / ><>102< / ><>80< / ><>< / >< / ><><>纽波特海滩< / ><>79< / ><>69< / ><>.02< / ><>79< / ><>68< / ><>76< / ><>69< / ><>< / >< / ><><>北岭< / ><>88< / ><>66< / ><>--< / ><>83< / ><>65< / ><>82< / ><>66< / ><>< / >< / ><><>奥克兰< / ><>78< / ><>57< / ><>--< / ><>72< / ><>59< / ><>72< / ><>60< / ><>< / >< / ><><>欧申赛德< / ><>82< / ><>63< / ><>--< / ><>79< / ><>60< / ><>79< / ><>58< / ><>< / >< / ><><>欧海< / ><>84< / ><>58< / ><>--< / ><>83< / ><>58< / ><>81< / ><>57< / ><>< / >< / ><><>安大略< / ><>90< / ><>64< / ><>--< / ><>87< / ><>63< / ><>87< / ><>62< / ><>< / >< / ><><>棕榈泉< / ><>103< / ><>78< / ><>--< / ><>100< / ><>73< / ><>98< / ><>74< / ><>< / >< / ><><>帕萨迪纳< / ><>87< / ><>66< / ><>--< / ><>83< / ><>64< / ><>81< / ><>64< / ><>< / >< / ><><>帕索罗布尔斯< / ><>90< / ><>48< / ><>--< / ><>83< / ><>51< / ><>77< / ><>51< / ><>< / >< / ><><>雷丁< / ><>93< / ><>55< / ><>--< / ><>90< / ><>55< / ><>82< / ><>54< / ><>< / >< / ><><>里弗赛德< / ><>92< / ><>62< / ><>--< / ><>88< / ><>60< / ><>86< / ><>57< / ><>< / >< / ><><>萨克拉门托< / ><>90< / ><>56< / ><>--< / ><>89< / ><>57< / ><>81< / ><>56< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣贝纳迪诺< / ><>94< / ><>64< / ><>--< / ><>89< / ><>63< / ><>88< / ><>62< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>24小时总量（截至下午2点）< / ><>0.00< / >< / ><><>本季总量（自10月1日起）< / ><>19.62< / ><>16.51< / ><>20.66< / >< / ><><>上季总量（10月1日起至今日）< / ><>7.96< / ><>3.93< / ><>6.50< / >< / ><><>本季常态（10月1日起至今日）< / ><>14.21< / ><>11.81< / ><>16.05< / >< / ><><>湿度（最高 / 最低）< / ><>83 / 61< / ><>83 / 48< / ><>90 / 66< / >< / table>

城市< / td>< colspan="3">周一*< / >< colspan="3">今天< / >< colspan="2">周三< / >< / tr><><>最高温< / ><>最低温< / ><>降水量< / ><>最高温< / ><>最低温< / ><>最高温< / ><>最低温< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣迭戈< / ><>75< / ><>68< / ><>--< / ><>78< / ><>69< / ><>78< / ><>68< / ><>< / >< / ><><>旧金山< / ><>75< / ><>58< / ><>--< / ><>72< / ><>60< / ><>70< / ><>61< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣盖博< / ><>87< / ><>66< / ><>--< / ><>85< / ><>65< / ><>83< / ><>67< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣何塞< / ><>84< / ><>57< / ><>--< / ><>80< / ><>57< / ><>75< / ><>56< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣路易斯-奥比斯波< / ><>87< / ><>53< / ><>--< / ><>76< / ><>58< / ><>74< / ><>57< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣安娜< / ><>80< / ><>68< / ><>--< / ><>79< / ><>68< / ><>78< / ><>68< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣巴巴拉< / ><>80< / ><>64< / ><>--< / ><>77< / ><>63< / ><>76< / ><>62< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣克拉丽塔< / ><>91< / ><>61< / ><>--< / ><>85< / ><>59< / ><>83< / ><>60< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣莫尼卡码头< / ><>79< / ><>68< / ><>--< / ><>79< / ><>68< / ><>77< / ><>68< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣保拉< / ><>83< / ><>61< / ><>--< / ><>84< / ><>61< / ><>80< / ><>59< / ><>< / >< / ><><>圣罗莎< / ><>87< / ><>49< / ><>--< / ><>85< / ><>52< / ><>76< / ><>54< / ><>< / >< / ><><>西米谷< / ><>84< / ><>62< / ><>--< / ><>83< / ><>61< / ><>81< / ><>59< / ><>< / >< / ><><>太浩谷< / ><>71< / ><>31< / ><>--< / ><>72< / ><>36< / ><>70< / ><>39< / ><>< / >< / ><><>特梅库拉< / ><>86< / ><>59< / ><>.01< / ><>84< / ><>58< / ><>83< / ><>57< / ><>< / >< / ><><>千橡市< / ><>82< / ><>64< / ><>--< / ><>83< / ><>63< / ><>80< / ><>62< / ><>< / >< / ><><>托伦斯< / ><>79< / ><>70< / ><>--< / ><>81< / ><>69< / ><>79< / ><>68< / ><>< / >< / ><><>加州大学洛杉矶分校 (UCLA)< / ><>77< / ><>68< / ><>--< / ><>80< / ><>67< / ><>78< / ><>68< / ><>< / >< / ><><>范奈斯< / ><>88< / ><>66< / ><>--< / ><>82< / ><>65< / ><>80< / ><>63< / ><>< / >< / ><><>文图拉< / ><>74< / ><>65< / ><>--< / ><>79< / ><>66< / ><>77< / ><>65< / ><>< / >< / ><><>惠蒂尔希尔斯< / ><>84< / ><>68< / ><>--< / ><>84< / ><>67< / ><>84< / ><>68< / ><>< / >< / ><><>伍德兰希尔斯< / ><>89< / ><>66< / ><>--< / ><>82< / ><>66< / ><>81< / ><>64< / ><>< / >< / ><><>赖特伍德< / ><>77< / ><>60< / ><>--< / ><>77< / ><>59< / ><>75< / ><>57< / ><>< / >< / ><><>约巴林达< / ><>87< / ><>64< / ><>--< / ><>84< / ><>64< / ><>85< / ><>64< / ><>< / >< / ><><>约塞米蒂谷< / ><>81< / ><>52< / ><>--< / ><>83< / ><>51< / ><>79< / ><>51< / ><>< / >< / table>

今日北美概况

西南部雷暴：四角地区（Four Corners）的季风雷暴将继续增加，带来阵风和山洪风险。周二至周三夜间，从堪萨斯州北部到密歇根州南部可能会出现降雨和风暴。

阵雨< / td><>雷阵雨< / ><>降雨< / ><>小雪< / ><>降雪< / ><>冰雹< / >< / tr> <>< / ><>< / >< / tr>< / table>

图中显示了当日的降水区域和最高气温。

截至下午 2 点，美国本土 48 州的周一极端气温 最高气温 105 度，亚利桑那州吉拉本德 (Gila Bend) 最低气温 27 度，加利福尼亚州布里奇波特 (Bridgeport)

美国城市

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梅西退役，足球界寄望于年轻球星

7月19日，在西班牙击败阿根廷赢得世界杯决赛后，利昂内尔·梅西与拉明·亚马尔打招呼。 YUKI IWAMURA 美联社

他的缺席，以及随后可能到来的罗纳尔多退役，将给下一代的国际赛事留下空白。

作者：凯文·巴克斯特 (Kevin Baxter)

既然利昂内尔·梅西已经宣布从国际足球赛场退役，那么克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多是否很快也会做出类似的宣布？而当那一刻到来时，这对这项运动的短期未来意味着什么？

在短短几个月内失去两名史上最伟大的球员，无疑将在国际足球界留下深刻印记。但与此同时，这项运动似乎已做好充分准备，不仅能够承受这一打击，甚至可能在之后迎来进一步增长。

国际足球界很少能拥有如此深厚、才华横溢且极具魅力的年轻球星群体。法国的基利安·姆巴佩在22场世界杯比赛中打入22球，已经打破了梅西的纪录，而他年仅27岁。挪威的埃尔林·哈兰德在今年夏天的赛事中征服了全世界，他在26岁时为俱乐部和国家队打入的进球数，比同年龄时的梅西或罗纳尔多都要多。

西班牙的拉明·亚马尔和保·库巴尔西在十几岁时就联手赢得了世界杯冠军。两人均入围了今年的金球奖候选名单——这份名单共有30人，其实并不算短——此外还有另外七名年龄在26岁以下的球员。

（与此同时，女子金球奖的投票名单中包含六名西班牙人，法国和荷兰各有三名球员，两名日本人，但只有一名美国人，即哥谭队的中场球员罗斯·拉维尔。稍后我们将详细讨论这对美国女子足球意味着什么。）

梅西从阿根廷国家队退役以及罗纳尔多即将从葡萄牙国家队退役，标志着足球史上一个无与伦比时代的结束。39岁的梅西取得了历史上任何球员都未能达到的成就。他创纪录地八次被评为国际足联年度最佳球员，带领球队赢得了46座奖杯，包括四次欧冠冠军、一次世界杯冠军和一枚奥运金牌。他参加的世界杯比赛场次（34场）比任何人都要多，是仅有的两名参加过三次世界杯决赛的球员之一，他的助攻数（423次且在增加）超过了历史上任何球员，而其俱乐部和国家队的总进球数（928球且在增加）仅次于罗纳尔多。

而且他还没有停止脚步。在签署了一份将使其在迈阿密国际效力至2028年的续约合同不到一年后，梅西在进球数（19个）和助攻数（11次）方面均领跑美国职业足球大联盟（MLS），并正追求第二个连续联赛冠军。他是否会履行该合同并再留两个赛季尚不确定。他宣布离开国家队的决定是在其父亲豪尔赫去世后不久做出的，豪尔赫是梅西的第一任教练、首席经纪人以及最好的朋友。

现在，在失去了身边的精神导师后，梅西可能会觉得足球不再有趣而选择直接离开，在已经从这项运动中赚得超过10亿美元后，他将放弃数千万美元的潜在收入。

如果说梅西在球场上无法被忽视，那么在球场外他从未追求过关注，比起采访或新闻发布会，他更倾向于陪伴家人。恰如其分的是，他并非通过媒体活动，而是通过社交媒体帖子分享了他从国际足球赛场退役的消息。41岁的罗纳尔多同样是一位足球亿万富翁，但他恰恰相反。在他的家乡葡萄牙丰沙尔，他是CR7博物馆的馆长，这是一座致力于记录其职业生涯的博物馆，与CR7酒店共用空间，门前还立有一尊罗纳尔多的青铜像。

沉默谦逊的梅西与爱表现、张扬的罗纳尔多之间的对比，定义了近期的足球世界，并无疑推动了足球在美国及亚洲部分地区的增长和普及。这就像一场职业摔角比赛，每个人要么为英雄喝彩，要么为反派欢呼，只不过这场竞争并非演戏。

对于罗纳尔多来说，离开舞台中心将更加困难。他与沙特阿拉伯俱乐部利雅得胜利（Al-Nassr）的合同——据报道，这份合同每周支付他约 600万美元——将于明年到期。作为五次金球奖得主以及在皇家马德里和曼彻斯特联队五次赢得欧冠冠军的球员，罗纳尔多在国际赛场上并未获得像梅西那样的成功，他的履历中仅有一座欧洲杯冠军和两座欧国联奖杯。

但没有梅西，就没有罗纳尔多——反之亦然。如果其中一人离开，另一人在孤独中被削弱，无法长久地独自生存。而当他们两人都离去时，故事线必然会发生改变，因为没有明显的竞争关系能取代他们所创造的那一个。

皇家马德里的姆巴佩是接任“球坛最伟大球员”头衔最明显的继承人。他已经代表法国队参加了两场世界杯决赛，在赛事中创纪录地打入 22 球，且在 27 岁时拥有的进球数、助攻数和奖杯数都超过了同年龄时的罗纳尔多。

唯一在天赋上似乎能与姆巴佩匹敌的球员是哈兰德。但他代表挪威队出战——挪威在本世纪仅参加过一次世界杯，与排名第三的法国队并非同一水平——并在英格兰效力于曼彻斯特城。因此，他和姆巴佩的球队在欧冠比赛中仅交手过四次，在国际赛场上仅交手过一次，且哈兰德在那场比赛中没有出场。

随着时间的推移，姆巴佩一个更具实质性的对手可能是亚马尔，他效力于巴塞罗那和西班牙国家队，分别是皇家马德里和法国队的天然对手。但极具天赋且富有魅力的 19, 岁亚马尔仍处于成长阶段，需要更多时间来发展。

在男子足球领域，梅西和罗纳尔多正准备传递火炬之时，女子足球领域可能也正在经历一场重大转型。两年前，有五名美国球员获得女子金球奖提名。2022, 年，入围短名单的美国球员有三名。

而今年，只有拉维尔（Lavelle）。

美国队赢得了巴黎奥运会赛事，这是女子足球最后的一项重大国际赛事，但现任世界杯冠军西班牙队在世界排名中位列第 1。该国有六名球员入围奖项短名单，其中包括亚历克西亚·普特利亚斯（Alexia Putellas），她与巴塞罗那队友艾塔娜·邦马蒂（Aitana Bonmati）共同助力西班牙队赢得了最近五届金球奖。

仅有四名 NWSL 球员入选名单。

毫无疑问，美国联赛的竞争程度更高且更具吸引力；本赛季 NWSL 中没有一支球队的失利次数少于四场，而巴塞罗那在过去七个赛季的总失利次数仅为四场。同样毫无疑问的是，由《法国足球》和《队报》的撰稿人以及国际足球大使组成的金球奖投票者存在欧洲偏见。

但同样事实是，美国不能再期望像过去那样简单地通过传球就主宰女子足球。世界其他地区已经赶上来了。

明年夏天在巴西举行的世界杯将决定世界是否已经将我们抛在身后。

作者：埃里克·桑德海默（Eric Sondheimer）

罗伯特·高蒂埃（ROBERT GAUTHIER），洛杉矶时报

在充电者队令人失望的揭幕战中，弃踢手 JK 斯科特（JK Scott）的踢球被亚利桑那队的西米·费霍科（Simi Fehoko）挡出。

电闪队错失“公羊级”良机

[Swanson，见B10] 那些竞争对手公羊队方面传来消息，防守端球员迈尔斯·加雷特（Myles Garrett）将接受左膝手术并被列入伤病预备名单，这将导致他至少缺席接下来的四场比赛。

这一进展紧随公羊队在澳大利亚以 27-7 令人失望地输给旧金山49人队的赛季揭幕战之后。而在那场沉闷的败仗后，公羊队的旅行计划也遭到了广泛抨击，使情况进一步恶化。

就在公羊队陷入困境之时，当洛杉矶的橄榄球迷们开始在周一早晨进行“事后诸葛亮”式的点评时，电闪队本有机会成为一个正面的对比。

“嘿，伙计，你听说迈尔斯·加雷特的事了吗？”

“我知道！太糟糕了！”

“我知道？太糟糕了？而且我还是不敢相信，他们决定飞到澳大利亚，然后在不到 30 小时后就进行比赛。”

“没错吧？但是，天呐，你看到电闪队是怎么收拾红雀队的了吗？”

这本该是事情发展的方向。

然而，当地关注这项运动的人们将会问相反的问题：你看到红雀队是怎么收拾电闪队的了吗？

是的，由新任主教练迈克·拉弗勒（Mike LaFleur，前公羊队进攻协调员）率领的红雀队，在主场让电闪队颜面尽失。

这支 10 年前从圣迭戈搬迁而来并承诺要“为洛杉矶而战”的球队，在面对上赛季仅赢了三场比赛的亚利桑那队时，完全没有展现出这种精神。

这一点，比任何事情都更应该让所有投资于这支电闪队的的人感到担忧。你想要看到的是一支在过去两个赛季中分别取得 11-6 战绩、且最终有望冲击季后赛的球队所具备的意志力和渴望吗？

你希望看到的是一群学会了如何把握时机的球员吗？

你没看到。你看到的是一群注意力不集中且毫无危机感的球员，他们在赛后似乎主要是对自己的执行力匮乏感到困惑。

困惑于他们在总码数上 393 对 268 地落后。困惑于他们 7 次不合时宜的犯规导致损失 64 码。

困惑于雅各比·布里塞特（Jacoby Brissett）在对决中胜过贾斯汀·赫伯特（Justin Herbert），后者 27 次传球仅完成 17 次，获得 209 码，1 次达阵和 1 次拦截——后者是电闪队 2 次失误之一，而红雀队则零失误。

困惑于赫伯特——尽管进攻线经过了重组——仍被擒杀三次，包括在第二节一次关键的第四档进攻中损失 13 码，当时电闪队在距离达阵区 3 码处尝试强攻。

就揭幕战而言，这是一次巨大的冷门，因为电闪队被看好能赢 9 $^{1 / 2}$ 分，是周日所有球队中领先幅度最大的。

这也是主教练吉姆·哈博（Jim Harbaugh）在七场 NFL 赛季揭幕战中的首次失利，但如果你看到他那支准备极其不足、在各个方面都挣扎的球队，你绝对猜不到这一点。

而且任何人都会注意到，在新的协调员带领下，电闪队的运作显得多么缺乏协调。

进攻协调员迈克·麦克丹尼尔（Mike McDaniel）本应为赫伯特解锁新的境界。但赫伯特在进入第三节前仅有 15 次传球尝试——这是他之前六个 NFL 赛季中单场传球次数最少的一次。

而在新任防守协调员克里斯·奥莱利（Chris O'Leary）的带领下——尽管他使用的绝大部分人员与杰西·明特（Jesse Minter）在洛杉矶 2 个成功赛季中使用的人员相同——电闪队在限制 NFL 中进攻火力最弱的球队之一时都遇到了困难。

“这是一次，”安全卫德文·詹姆斯二世（Derwin James Jr.）说，“整个团队的失败。”

“这纯粹是执行力问题，”赫伯特说。“我们在第三档进攻中没有执行到位，而且失误太多……一切都取决于我们能否走出去并执行比赛计划……取决于我们能否执行保护计划，将球传出，并完成我们需要做的一切。”

哈博表示：“必须让情况好起来，这是肯定的。你知道，更好的教练工作，更好的练习，更好的执行。所有这些方面都需要提升。”

闪电队周日如此惨败唯一取得的成就是什么？或许是稍微提振了公羊队的士气。他们也有自己的问题，但至少他们不是闪电队；至少他们没有刚刚被亚利桑那红雀队在执行力上完全碾压。

NFL 报告

维京队的默里进入脑震荡协议

NFL 排名

工作人员及电讯报道

明尼苏达维京队的四分卫凯勒·默里在本周开始时进入了 NFL 脑震荡协议，继续从一次违规头部撞击中恢复。该撞击导致他在为球队出战的首场比赛第一节就被迫离场。

据教练凯文·奥康奈尔称，默里周一抵达维京队总部时“感觉相当不错”，但现在评估他周日在芝加哥参赛的机会还为时过早。

“我们将听从医疗人员的意见以及该协议对本周进展的规定，”奥康奈尔说。“我们只能走一步看一步。”

国家联盟

默里在明尼苏达队的首秀仅持续了 11 次进攻。在一次远未达到首球距离的三档跑球结束时，当四分卫已经俯身向草地倾斜试图避免接触时，绿湾安全卫贾冯·布拉德用低肩猛烈撞击了默里头盔的右侧。布拉德因不必要的粗暴行为被判罚。

默里最终在自己的力量驱动下缓慢走下场，但卡森·温茨接管了下午剩余的比赛，并帮助维京队通过拿下比赛最后 29 分实现了逆转获胜。

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约翰·哈博（John Harbaugh）在巨人的首秀获胜

贾克森·达特（Jaxson Dart）与以赛亚·莱克利（Isaiah Likely）配合完成了两次达阵，与德文·辛格莱特里（Devin Singletary）配合完成了一次达阵，卡姆·斯卡特博（Cam Skattebo）在伤愈复出的首场比赛中跑进一个达阵。纽约巨人队在周日以 28-20 击败达拉斯牛仔队，赢得了赛季揭幕战，这也是约翰·哈博作为教练的首秀。虽然这仅仅是一场胜利，但这是一个新 era. 的充满希望的开始。

“我们朝着那个方向迈出了步伐，”哈博说道。

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达特一次又一次地做出聪明的传球，并穿插一系列时机精准的跑球，使对方防线措手不及。他最终在 29 次传球中完成 23 次，传球码数 230 码，此外还有 54 码冲球，其中包括几次滑行和一次俯冲，以避免那些在他新秀年频繁出现的不必要撞击。

巨人队的 1 号接球手马利克·纳伯斯（Malik Nabers）在 350 天前因右膝前十字韧带撕裂受伤后首次出场，他完成了 6 次接球，获得 69 码。

蒙肯表示

沃森仍将担任首发

克利夫兰布朗队教练托德·蒙肯在以 34-10 输给杰克逊维尔美洲豹队后，决定继续让德尚·沃森担任首发四分卫。

“才过了两周，他承担了所有的练习次数，录像中出现了一些非常出色的表现，以及一些可以进一步提升的地方，”蒙肯说道。

沃森在 22 个月后的首场 NFL 比赛中，传球 16 次成功（共 22 次），传球码数 205 码，贡献了一次达阵并出现了一次被截球。

周三赛果 西雅图 13, 新英格兰 10 周四赛果 旧金山 27, 公羊 7 周日赛果 亚利桑那 26, 闪电 14 巴尔的摩 41, 印第安纳波利斯 23 布法罗 36, 休斯顿 31 芝加哥 59, 卡罗来纳 37 辛辛那提 33, 坦帕湾 27 底特律 31, 新奥尔良 30, 加时赛 杰克逊维尔 34, 克利夫兰 10 纽约喷气机 23, 田纳西 10 匹兹堡 20, 亚特兰大 13 拉斯维加斯 27, 迈阿密 13 明尼苏达 39, 格林贝 22 费城 24, 华盛顿 22 纽约巨人 28, 达拉斯 20

拉斯维加斯 对阵 闪电，下午 1 点 卡罗来纳 对阵 亚特兰大，上午 10 点 辛辛那提 对阵 休斯顿，上午 10 点 克利夫兰 对阵 坦帕湾，上午 10 点 格林贝 对阵 纽约喷气机，上午 10 点 明尼苏达 对阵 芝加哥，上午 10 点 新奥尔良 对阵 巴尔的摩，上午 10 点 费城 对阵 田纳西，上午 10 点 匹兹堡 对阵 新英格兰，上午 10 点 杰克逊维尔 对阵 丹佛，下午 1:05 迈阿密 对阵 旧金山，下午 1:25 西雅图 对阵 亚利桑那，下午 1:25 华盛顿 对阵 达拉斯，下午 1:25 印第安纳波利斯 对阵 堪萨斯城，下午 5:20 周一比赛 纽约巨人 对阵 公羊，下午 5:15

麦康基在闪电队揭幕战中受伤

闪电队教练吉姆·哈博说，外接手拉德·麦康基在周日遭受了肋骨受伤，目前被视为日复一日地观察状态。麦康基在第三节离场前完成了 5 次接球，获得 85 码并贡献一次达阵。

—乔金·鲁伊斯

加勒特与唐纳德回归时间不确定，公羊队做出调整

[公羊队，接B10页]

会采取一种方式，即在他感觉足够好能够上场、贡献积极改变，并成为他应有的那个球员时才回归。

“但情况并非如此，因此对我们来说，接下来的正确之举是能够解决这个问题。”

30岁的加勒特将缺席周一对阵纽约巨人的主场比赛，以及在丹佛和费城的客场比赛，以及对阵布法罗比尔的主场比赛，之后他才有资格回归。

麦克维没有给出他回归的具体时间表。

“这完全取决于[周一]的情况如何，”麦克维说。“但我认为，在没有掌握全部信息的情况下，给他设定任何时间表对他来说是不公平的。”

曾两度获得NFL年度最佳防守球员的加勒特在对阵49ers的比赛中仅参与了65次进攻中的40次。麦克维表示，在赛后立即与加勒特商议后，决定采取手术治疗。

“我们认为我们当时在做正确的事，”麦克维在谈到公羊队尝试处理该情况时说道。

“事后看来，你总能从中学习。我不会纠结于你想说这是一个错误，还是仅仅因为情况不同而需要改变方向。”

在加勒特缺阵的情况下，公羊队的防线需要一次激励，因为他们在对阵49ers的比赛中丢了三个达阵传球和174码冲球码数。

从两年退休中回归的防守线球员亚伦·唐纳德是否会在对阵巨人的比赛中完成赛季首秀？

“我们还没有决定，”麦克维说。“他将继续执行他的恢复计划，我们将看看情况如何。”

麦克维表示，唐纳德的情况与加勒特的情况“完全分开”且“完全独立”。

“这更多是关于亚伦以及他如何为集体做出贡献，”麦克维说。“根据他的感受，他是否感觉能够恢复11对11的对抗，能够上场并发挥他应有的能力。”

与此同时，公羊队将寻求由约赛亚·斯图尔特、德斯胡安·约翰逊和新秀卫斯利·贝利来填补加勒特缺席留下的空白。

来自密歇根大学的职业生涯第二年球员斯图尔特完成了六次擒抱，并且是公羊队对49ers四分卫布罗克·珀迪两次击球中的一次。

“他将被要求挺身而出，”麦克维说，“该组中的每个人都是如此。”

麦克维经常谈到，赛季中的逆境是必然会到来的。

但对于被视为超级碗热门的公羊队来说，逆境来得太早了。

“我没有水晶球，”麦克维在谈到预测逆境何时到来时说。“我只知道这一点：如何处理这些逆境正是让你脱颖而出的机会。”

49ers、西雅图海鹰和亚利桑那红雀队在揭幕战中全部获胜，使公羊队在国联西区排名垫底。

当然，现在还处于赛季早期，但通往在SoFi体育场参加第LXI届超级碗之路上，突然显得更加艰巨。

“那已经结束了，”麦克维在谈到输给49ers的比赛时说。“那已在我们的后视镜里。我们现在全部目光向前看。”

等等。

麦克维表示，线卫奥马尔·斯佩茨在对阵49ers的比赛中遭受了髋部挫伤。“我们将在本周对他进行管理，但他的感觉比我们预期的要好，”麦克维说。线卫内特·兰德曼遭受了肩膀和大拇指受伤，但麦克维表示预计他将参加对阵巨人的比赛。

《时报》城市足球排名

排名< / td><>学校 (胜-负)< / ><>评语 (上周排名)< / >< / tr><><>1< / ><>卡森 (3-1)< / ><>大胜南部赛区强队长滩理工。 (1)< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>克伦肖 (4-0)< / ><>凭借防守在 12-3 战胜大学高中。 (2)< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>圣佩德罗 (4-0)< / ><>塞斯·索洛里奥贡献 14 次达阵传球且无被截获。 (3)< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>伯明翰 (0-3)< / ><>在输给卡拉巴萨的比赛中，接球手保罗·特纳有 8 次接球，推进 177 码。 (4)< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>金 / 德鲁 (2-2)< / ><>招募的足球运动员担任踢球手，帮助球队爆冷击败大教堂高中。 (7)< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>肯尼迪 (4-0)< / ><>金色美洲狮队正朝着常规赛 10-0 的目标前进。 (6)< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>克利夫兰 (4-0)< / ><>冲球进攻继续保持卓越。 (8)< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>加菲尔德 (2-1)< / ><>东部联盟赛对阵亨廷顿公园开赛。 (5)< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>贝尔 (3-1)< / ><>老鹰队上周被圣佩德罗大败。 (9)< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>马歇尔 (3-0)< / ><>本周将迎来对阵马奎兹的严峻考验。 (10)< / >< / table>

作者：Steve Galluzzo

《时报》旗舰式橄榄球排名

排名< / td><>学校 (胜-负)< / ><>评语< / >< / tr><><>1< / ><>JSERRA (15-0)< / ><>雄狮队以 87-6 的比分击败四支对手，赢得了在丘拉维斯塔举行的首届 MaxPreps 巅峰赛。下一场：周二在 Mater Dei。< / >< / ><><>2< / ><>NEWPORT HARBOR (14-2)< / ><>在 MaxPreps 巅峰赛中输给 JSerra 之前，先后击败了 Mission Hills、Carlsbad 和 Huntington Beach。下一场：周一在 Corona del Mar。< / >< / ><><>3< / ><>ORANGE LUTHERAN (14-1)< / ><>四分卫 Alyssa McClure 和接球手 Ava Harrison 入选 MaxPreps 赛事最佳阵容。下一场：周二在 Santa Margarita。< / >< / ><><>4< / ><>HUNTINGTON BEACH (8-3)< / ><>在 MaxPreps 巅峰赛中险些爆冷击败 Newport Harbor；周三将再次挑战水手队。下一场：周一对阵 Marina。< / >< / ><><>5< / ><>DOS PUEBLOS (12-2)< / ><>充电器队已取得九连胜，本周将在 Channel 联赛中面对 Oxnard 和 San Marcos 的考验。下一场：周二对阵 Oxnard。< / >< / ><><>6< / ><>WESTLAKE (9-3)< / ><>勇士队本周赛程较轻，他们在 Marmonte 联赛的揭幕战中以 61-0 大胜 Calabasas。下一场：周二在 Agoura。< / >< / ><><>7< / ><>LAKEWOOD ST. JOSEPH (10-0)< / ><>Lexi Loya 在 27-0 完胜 Gardena Serra 的比赛中，传球得分两次，冲球得分一次，并拦截了一次传球。下一场：周一在 Mater Dei。< / >< / ><><>8< / ><>EDISON (9-5)< / ><>Maddie Phung 在过去两场比赛中完成传球 23 次，贡献 6 次达阵且零拦截。下一场：周一在 Fountain Valley。< / >< / ><><>9< / ><>OXNARD (9-4)< / ><>Ryanna Harris 拥有 15 次冲球达阵、8 次接球达阵、9 次传球达阵以及 3 次回攻达阵。下一场：周二在 Dos Pueblos。< / >< / ><><>10< / ><>MATER DEI (6-3)< / ><>君主队在 19-12 输给 Orange Lutheran 之后，已取得三连胜，其中包括在 Sierra Canyon 的胜利。下一场：周一对阵 Lakewood St. Joseph。< / >< / table>

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MLB 排名 截至周日

佛罗里达州立大学在美式足球低迷期解雇体育总监

国家联盟

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美国联盟

迈克尔·阿尔福德（MICHAEL ALFORD）被佛罗里达州立大学解雇，该校校长称在不断变化的格局中需要具备竞争力。

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PHELAN M. EBENHACK 美联社 z-已锁定季后赛席位

吉布森于周一宣布退休。

电讯报道

佛罗里达州立大学校长理查德·麦卡洛（Richard McCullough）宣布，学校于周一上午解雇了体育总监迈克尔·阿尔福德（Michael Alford）。

阿尔福德在2020年秋季被聘为Seminole Boosters, Inc.总裁，自2022年1月起担任该职位。

麦卡洛表示，此次解雇并非基于正当理由。目前尚不清楚佛罗里达州立大学在2024年8月宣布的四年合同中还欠阿尔福德多少款项。

麦卡洛在周一晚些时候表示，解雇阿尔福德的决定是为了在“变化极其迅速”的大学体育环境中保持竞争力，并且“这是我们采取一切可能措施以增加收入，并审视未来所需管理模式的第一步”。

这一决定出台之际，橄榄球教练迈克·诺维尔（Mike Norvell）在经历两个赛季的失利以及1胜1负的平庸开局后，正处于极其不稳定的局面。在本周六对阵排名第10的阿拉巴马大学的比赛中，佛罗里达州立大学被视为 $20 \frac{1}{2}$ 分的劣势方。如果诺维尔在未来几周或几个月内被替换，新教练的聘用将由新任体育总监以及麦卡洛和董事会主席彼得·柯林斯（Peter Collins）共同决定。

德克萨斯大学在以 24-23 惊险战胜俄亥俄州立大学后，跃升至美联社前25名榜单的第1位，而俄亥俄州立大学（Buckeyes）则从第1位跌至第 6. 位。南加州大学（USC）在以 49-30. 大胜路易斯安那大学后，上升两个名次至第12位。加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）在以 28-10. 击败圣迭戈州立大学后获得9票。... 田纳西大学教练乔什·休佩尔（Josh Heupel）表示，排名第15的志愿者队（Volunteers）大四紧端锋伊森·戴维斯（Ethan Davis）因前交叉韧带受伤将缺席本赛季剩余比赛。... 中佛罗里达大学首发四分卫阿隆扎·巴内特三世（Alonza Barnett III）预计将缺席周六的比赛，教练斯科特·弗罗斯特（Scott Frost）将其描述为“相当严重的腿后肌损伤”。... 记录显示，西弗吉尼亚大学橄榄球助理教练诺埃尔·德文（Noel Devine）周日因一项重罪勒颈指控被关押。德文，38, 被摩根敦警方逮捕。他提交了无罪抗辩，并被命令在北中央地区监狱羁押，保释金为 \$40,000。

其他：谢尔顿将入选戴维斯杯球队

美国公开赛亚军本·谢尔顿（Ben Shelton）已确认入选美国戴维斯杯球队，该球队将于本周在布拉格对阵捷克共和国。随后，他将在接下来的周末加入伦敦拉沃尔杯的世界队。

谢尔顿在周日的首场大满贯决赛中负于亚历山大·兹维列夫（Alexander Zverev），他在周一的排名上升至职业生涯最高的第4位。兹维列夫入选了德国戴维斯杯球队，该队将在哈勒主场迎战克罗地亚；此外，他还将入选拉沃尔杯的欧洲队。

入选美国队参加对阵捷克队第二轮资格赛的其他成员还包括勒纳·田（Learner Tien）、马丁·达姆（Martin Damm）、克里斯蒂安·哈里森（Christian Harrison）和奥斯汀·克拉伊切克（Austin Krajicek）。

在美国队在两年一度的团体赛中负于欧洲队后，美国索尔海姆杯队长安吉拉·斯坦福德（Angela Stanford）在她的母校德克萨斯基督教大学担任女子高尔夫助理教练。斯坦福德在2001年至2024, 年期间参加LPGA巡回赛，曾七次夺冠，其中包括在40岁时赢得的2018年依维昂锦标赛大满贯冠军。

塔吉·吉布森（Taj Gibson）在经历了17个NBA赛季并效力于八支球队后，加入了蒂亚戈·斯普利特（Tiago Splitter）在芝加哥公牛队的首任教练组。

阿根廷联赛历史上最受赞誉的教练之一马塞洛·加利亚多（Marcelo Gallardo）已达成协议，将在2030年世界杯前执教厄瓜多尔国家队。... 墨西哥国家反垄断委员会宣布，由于球迷对反竞争行为的投诉，该委员会已启动一项针对国内足球潜在垄断行为的调查。调查重点在于缺乏升级和降级制度。乙级联赛的球队和球员已经抗议数周，要求获得像过去那样晋级顶级联赛的权利。

蒙特利尔加拿大人队已与教练马丁·圣路易斯（Martin St. Louis）签署了一份未公开年限的多年度续约合同。51, 岁的圣路易斯带领这支新兴的加拿大人队连续获得季后赛资格，包括去年进入东部会议决赛。一名知情人士告诉美联社，乔·萨基克（Joe Sakic）将无限期继续担任科罗拉多雪崩队的总经理，目前没有计划寻找继任者。萨基克担任冰球运营总裁，在纳什维尔掠夺者队挖走克里斯·麦克法兰（Chris MacFarland）后的六月，他兼任了总经理一职。... 布法罗军刀队宣布，已与前锋诺亚·奥斯特伦德（Noah Ostlund）签署了一份为期八年、价值5280万美元的合同。

MLB 赛程

今日比赛 道奇 对 辛辛那提 下午 3:40 西雅图 对 天使 下午 6:38 密尔沃基 对 匹兹堡 下午 3:40 芝加哥 (美联) 对 克利夫兰 下午 3:40 奥克兰 对 坦帕湾 下午 3:40 费城 对 华盛顿 下午 3:45 底特律 对 多伦多 下午 4:07 巴尔的摩 对 纽约 (国联) 下午 4:10 纽约 (美联) 对 明尼苏达 下午 4:40 亚特兰大 对 芝加哥 (国联) 下午 4:40 旧金山 对 圣路易斯 下午 4:45 波士顿 对 德克萨斯 下午 5:05 堪萨斯城 对 休斯顿 下午 5:10 圣迭戈 对 科罗拉多 下午 5:40 迈阿密 对 亚利桑那 下午 6:40

迈阿密 6, 道奇 4

道奇< / td><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>迈阿密< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / tr><><>Betts ss< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>< / ><>1 .250< / ><>Stowers dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.242< / >< / ><><>Freeman 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .293< / ><>H.Hemández lf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.226< / >< / ><><>Muncy dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .254< / ><>Lopez ss< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.309< / >< / ><><>Smith c< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>0 .240< / ><>Conine 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.260< / >< / ><><>Tucker rf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .226< / ><>Edwards 2b< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.282< / >< / ><><>De Paula lf< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>< / ><>3 .286< / ><>Marsee cf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.221< / >< / ><><>E.Hemández cf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>0 .221< / ><>Sanoja 3b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.291< / >< / ><><>Call cf-lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .237< / ><>Mack c< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.235< / >< / ><><>Rojas 2b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>0 .272< / ><>Ramírez< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.225< / >< / ><><>a-Édman 2b< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>0 .257< / ><>Ruiz rf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.225< / >< / ><><>Freeland 3b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>< / ><>0 .230< / ><>Totals< / ><>33< / ><>6< / ><>9< / ><>6< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>34< / ><>4< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>< / >< / table>

保送—道奇 5：Betts 1, Smith 2, Tucker 1, De Paula 1。迈阿密 2：H. Hernández 1, Edwards 1。三振—道奇 7：Freeman 1, Muncy 2, Smith 1, Tucker 1, Rojas 1, Freeland 1。迈阿密 8：Stowers 2, H. Hernández 1, Conine 3, Sanoja 1, Mack 1。留垒—道奇 10, 迈阿密 5。二垒安打—Smith (8), De Paula (1), Betts (20), Sanoja (30)。全垒打—De Paula (1)，由 Pérez 投球；Ramírez (4)，由 Stewart 投球。打点—De Paula 3 (3), Betts (62), Lopez 2 (69), Sanoja 2 (60), Ramírez 2 (21)。盗垒—Freeland (4)。得点圈留垒—道奇 5 (Muncy, Tucker 2, Call 2)；迈阿密 3 (Conine, Marsee 2)。得点圈打击—洛杉矶 2 for 10；迈阿密 3 for 8。双杀—迈阿密 2。

<>< colspan="9">S. DP - Dallas 2< / >< / ><><>道奇< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Sheehan......6< / ><>...< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>81< / ><>4.79< / >< / ><><>Vesia, H, 20......1< / ><>...< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>10< / ><>2.92< / >< / ><><>Henriquez, H, 11......%< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>22< / ><>2.85< / >< / ><><>Scott, L, 1-6, BS,

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22-26......%< / td> 3< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>12< / ><>2.91< / >< / tr> <>Stewart......0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>2.78< / >< / ><><>Miami< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Pérez......5< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>96< / ><>3.99< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Ralston......1< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>21< / ><>3.48< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Ekness......1< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>13< / ><>4.18< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Vodnik......1%< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>37< / ><>5.50< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Fulton, W,

2-0......%< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>14< / ><>2.96< / ><>< / >< / table>

继承跑分—Scott 2-0, Stewart 1-1, Fulton 1-0。被击球（HBP）—Pérez (Freeman), Fulton (Muncy)。裁判（AU）—Brock Ballou, Jeremie Rehak, Adam Beck, Dan lassogna。比赛时间（T）—3:00。售票数—32,003 (37,446)。

费城 9, 亚特兰大 4

<><>费城< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>亚特兰大< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Schwarber dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>.238< / ><>Harris cf< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.291< / >< / ><><>Turner ss< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.241< / ><>Acuña dh< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.257< / >< / ><><>Carpier rf< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.272< / ><>Olson 1b< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>.250< / >< / ><><>Hill rf< / ><>0< / ><>.249< / ><>Baldwin c< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.276< / >< / ><><>Arraez 2b< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>.313< / ><>Dubón

lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.268< / >< / ><><>Bohm 1b< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.248< / ><>Albies 2b< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>.245< / >< / ><><>Stott 3b< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>.251< / ><>Riley 3b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.222< / >< / ><><>Marsh lf< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.264< / ><>Yastrzemski rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.229< / >< / ><><>De La Cruz lf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.323< / ><>Kim ss< / ><>-2< / ><>0< / ><>.128< / >< / ><><>Realmuto c< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>.223< / ><>Totals< / ><>37< / ><>4< / ><>12< / ><>4< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Crawford

cf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.266< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>41< / ><>9< / ><>16< / ><>9< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>费城< / ><>020< / ><>000< / ><>070 -9< / ><>16< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>亚特兰大< / ><>100< / ><>000< / ><>102 -4< / ><>12< / ><>0< / >< / table>

保送—费城 3：Schwarber 1, Turner 1, Crawford 1。亚特兰大 4：Dubón 1, Riley 1, Kim 2。三振—费城 5：Turner 1, Harper 1, Stott 1, De La Cruz 1, Realmuto 1。亚特兰大 9：Harris 2, Acuña 1, Baldwin 2, Dubón 1, Riley 1, Yastrzemski 2。留垒—费城 8, 亚特兰大 11。二垒安打—Realmuto (18), Harper 2 (31), Bohm (28), Stott (28)。全垒打—Realmuto (11)，击球手 Holmes；Olson (39)，击球手 Banks。打点—Realmuto 3 (49), Bohm 2 (82), Stott (63), Schwarber 2 (94), Turner (57), Baldwin (75), Olson 3 (85)。盗垒—Dubón (8)。牺牲接球—Baldwin。得点圈机会—费城 17 次中 6 次；亚特兰大 8 次中 2 次。双杀—费城 1 (Stott, Turner, Bohm)：亚特兰大 2 (Kim, : , Kim, )。 保送—天使 6：Neto 1, Trout 2, Meckler 2, Ballesteros 1。华盛顿 2：Wood 1, Chaparro 1。三振—天使 13：Neto 2, Trout 1, Grissom 2, Guzman 3, Love 2, Siri 2, Moore 1。华盛顿 7：Wood 1, Ortiz 2, Crews 1, Chaparro 1, Lile 1, Tena E.—Abrams (20)。留垒—天使 5, 华盛顿 9。二垒安打—Trout (25), Young (8), Abrams (29), Young (20)。三垒安打—Lie (8)。全垒打—Ballesteros (9)，击球手 Irvin；Neto (26)，击球手 Irvin。打点—Ballesteros 2 (34), Neto (73), Moore (10), Morales (3), House (44)。Lile (82), Vivas (29), (47), Crews (40)。盗垒—Neto (20), (18)。牺牲接球—Ballesteros。得点圈留垒者—天使 2 (Guzman, Ballesteros)；华盛顿 3 (, Lile 2)。得点圈机会—天使 6 次中 0 次；华盛顿 10 次中 4 次。推进跑者—Frazier, Moore。双杀—Guzman, Tena。双杀—天使 1 (Moore; Neto, Grissom)；

华盛顿 6, 天使 5

天使< / td><>000< / ><>110< / ><>021 - 5< / ><>4< / ><>0< / >< / tr><><>华盛顿< / ><>000< / ><>002< / ><>04x - 6< / ><>13< / ><>1< / >< / table>

<><>天使< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>华盛顿< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Neto ss< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.240< / ><>Wood rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.268< / >< / ><><>Trout dh< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.244< / ><>Pinckney rf< / ><>0< / ><>.273< / >< / ><><>Meckler lf< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.293< / ><>Ortiz dh< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.212< / >< / ><><>Grissom 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.239< / ><>b-Crews dh< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.223< / >< / ><><>Ballesteros c< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.219< / ><>Chaparro 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.251< / >< / ><><>Guzman 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.221< / ><>Abrams ss< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.264< / >< / ><><>Lowe rf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.206< / ><>Morales 1b< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.296< / >< / ><><>Siri cf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.223< / ><>Lile lf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.248< / >< / ><><>Frazier< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.234< / ><>Ruiz c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.289< / >< / ><><>Moore 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.179< / ><>Tena 2b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.225< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>30< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>< / ><>House< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.239< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>Nuñez 2b< / ><>0< / ><>.210< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>Vivas 2b< / ><>1< / ><>.244< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><> cf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>.249< / >< / ><><>< / ><>< / ><>Totals< / ><>36< / ><>6< / ><>13< / ><>6< / ><>< / >< / table>

华盛顿 1 (Afranis, Renia, Morales)。< / td>< / tr><><>天使< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Rodriguez....5 $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>7< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>< / ><>93< / ><>6.10< / >< / ><><>Saucedo, BS, 0-3....< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>14< / ><>3.06< / >< / ><><>Murphy, L, 0-3....< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>31< / ><>6.19< / >< / ><><>Peralta.... $\frac{3}{8}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>< / ><>16< / ><>7.11< / >< / table>

<><>Peralta....< / ><>7< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>16< / ><>7.11< / >< / ><><>华盛顿< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Cornelio....< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>34< / ><>4.88< / >< / ><><>Irvin....< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>6< / ><>76< / ><>5.51< / >< / ><><>Tolman, W, 1-1....< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>25< / ><>2.61< / >< / ><><>Sinclair, S, 1-1....< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>12< / ><>1.69< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分——Saucedo 1-1, Peralta 1-1, Tolman 1-1。触身球（HBP）——Saucedo (Ruiz)。胜投（WP）——Tolman。裁判（U）——Todd Tichenor, Ryan Additon, Clint Vondrak, Steven Jaschinski。比赛时间（T）——2:34。售票数——20,761 (41,376)。

纽约洋基 2, 纽约大都会 0

<><>纽约 (N)< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>纽约 (A)< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Lindor ss< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.232< / ><>Rice dh< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.260< / >< / ><><>Soto dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.272< / ><>Bellinger lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.268< / >< / ><><>Bichette 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.263< / ><>Judge rf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.242< / >< / ><><>Benge rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.271< / ><>Garcia 1b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.289< / >< / ><><>Young 1b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.269< / ><>Jones cf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.265< / >< / ><><>Ewing cf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.251< / ><>Volpe 2b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.245< / >< / ><><>Marrac z< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.231< / ><>McMahon 3b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.212< / >< / ><><>1-Pache< / ><>0< / ><>.125< / ><>Wells c< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>.179< / >< / ><><>Torrens c< / ><>0< / ><>.245< / ><>Caballero ss< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.232< / >< / ><><>Baty 2b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.229< / ><>Totals< / ><>25< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Morabito lf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.172< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>30< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>纽约 (N)< / ><>000< / ><>000 - 0< / ><>3< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>纽约 (A)< / ><>101< / ><>000< / ><>00x - 2< / ><>3< / ><>0< / >< / table>

保送—纽约 (N) 2：林多尔 1, 杨 1. 纽约 (A) 4：赖斯 2, 沃尔佩 1, 卡巴列罗 1. 三振— (N) 10：林多尔 2, 索托 2, 比谢特 1, 本格 2, 杨 1, 尤因 1, 阿尔瓦雷斯 1. (A) 9：赖斯 1, 贾奇 3, 沃尔佩 1, 威尔斯 2, 卡巴列罗 2. 留垒— (N) 5, (A) 3. 二垒安打—巴蒂 (21). 全垒打—赖斯 (38), 面对斯科特; 威尔斯 (11), 面对斯科特. 打点—赖斯 (90), 威尔斯 (29). 盗垒失败—卡巴列罗 (11). 得点圈留垒— (N) 2 (莫拉比托, 杨); (A) 0. 得点圈打击— (N) 0 for 2; (A) 0 for 0. 双杀球—贝林杰. 双杀— (N) 1 (杨, 林多尔, 杨). 继承跑者得分—赫特 1-0. 触身球—乔布 (麦卡锡). 裁判—詹姆斯·让, 曼尼·冈萨雷斯, 罗恩·库尔帕, 瑞安·布莱克尼. 用时—2:41. 售票数—22,726 (41,083). 保送—科罗拉多 1：鲁姆菲尔德 1. 底特律 7：麦戈尼格尔 1, 李 1, 基思 1, 克拉克 1, 麦金斯特里 2, 佩克 1. 三振—科罗拉多 11：麦卡锡 1, 阿马多尔 1, 卡里格 3, 莫尼亚克 3, 约翰斯顿 2, 芬 1. 底特律 7：卡拉汉 1, 李 1, 格林 1, 丁格勒 1, 克拉克 1, 托克尔森 1, 麦金斯特里 1. 留垒—科罗拉多 5, 底特律 7. 二垒安打—莫尼亚克 (17), 基思 (17). 三垒安打—麦戈尼格尔 (4). 全垒打—阿马多尔 (4), 面对乔布; 格林 (20), 面对休斯; 托克尔森 (23), 面对弗拉索. 打点—阿马多尔 (12), 格林 3 (71), 佩克 (6), 麦戈尼格尔 2 (65), 李 (41), 托克尔森 (68). 盗垒—克拉克 (5), 佩克 (4). 牺牲飞球—李. 得点圈留垒—科罗拉多 2 (沙利文, 约翰斯顿); 底特律 3 (麦金斯特里, 丁格勒, 格林). 得点圈打击—科罗拉多 0 for 2: 底特律 4 for 9.

辛辛那提 4, 密尔沃基 3 棒球：周日回顾 底特律 8, 科罗拉多 1

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保送—辛辛那提 3：迈尔斯 1，史蒂芬森 1，布莱戴 1。密尔沃基 3：米切尔 1，图朗 1，耶利奇 1。三振—辛辛那提 8：迈尔斯 1，德拉克鲁兹 2，斯图尔特 1，布莱戴 2，布里托 1，罗德里格斯 1。密尔沃基 8：米切尔 1，丘里奥 2，桑切斯 1，鲍伊斯 1，耶利奇 1，奥尔蒂斯 1，拉拉 1。失误—伯克 (3)。留在垒上的跑者—辛辛那提 7，密尔沃基 3。二垒安打—史蒂芬森 (21)，布里托 (6)。全垒打—苏亚雷斯 (24)，对方投手 Senzatela；奥尔蒂斯 (9)，对方投手 Burns；鲍伊斯 (26)，对方投手 Williamson。打点—苏亚雷斯 3 (68)，史蒂芬森 (53)，奥尔蒂斯 (2 44)，鲍伊斯 (83)。被盗垒—米切尔 (8)，弗雷里克 (3)。牺牲飞球—史蒂芬森。盗垒—弗雷里克。得点圈跑者被留在垒上—辛辛那提 3 (德拉克鲁兹, 特雷维诺, 布里托)；密尔沃基 0。得点圈击球率 (RISP)—辛辛那提 1 for 7；密尔沃基 0 for 1。投手—辛辛那提 3. 波士顿 4, 堪萨斯城 1 接手跑者得分—托马斯 2-1, 惠特洛克 2-1。触身球—卡梅伦 (Durbin), 托尔 (Caglianone), 皮尔逊 (Durbin)。裁判—罗伯托·奥尔蒂斯, 亚历克斯·麦凯, 艾伦·波特, 吉姆·沃尔夫。比赛用时—2:41。售票数—34,966 (37,755)。

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<><>波士顿< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Tolle< / ><>6< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>96< / ><>3.02< / >< / ><><>Miller, H, 14< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>16< / ><>2.28< / >< / ><><>Whitlock, W, 7-1< / ><> $\frac{3}{2}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>9< / ><>1.81< / >< / ><><>Weissert, H, 7< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>11< / ><>3.54< / >< / ><><>Chapman, S, 34-36< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>25< / ><>1.95< / >< / table>

保送—堪萨斯城 5: Witt 1, Collins 2, Maile 1, I-Rave 1。波士顿 3: Contreras 1, Durbin 1, Sogard 1。三振—堪萨斯城 12: Loftin 1, Jensen 1, Witt 3, Caglianone 2, Perez 1, Massey 2, M.Lugo 1, Tolbert 1。波士顿 8: Jones 3, Abreu 1, Story 1, Sogard 1, Eaton 1, Monasterio 1。失误—Maile (1), Loftin (9)。留在垒上的跑者—堪萨斯城 10, 波士顿 8。二垒安打—Rutschman (22)。全垒打—Durbin (13)，由 Cameron 投球。打点—Jensen (72), Durbin (64), Anthony (10), Story 2 (25)。盗垒—Durbin (18)。留在得分位置的跑者—堪萨斯城 4 (Loftin, Pasquantino, Witt, M.Lugo)；波士顿 3 (Jones, Duran, Rutschman)。得分位置跑者击球 (RISP)—堪萨斯城 1 / 11：波士顿 3 / 10。双杀—堪萨斯城 2

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<><>纽约 (A)< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Schlittler, W, 14-6< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>8< / ><>94< / ><>1.95< / >< / ><><>Headrick, H, 29< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>16< / ><>1.94< / >< / ><><>Blackburn, H, 11< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>13< / ><>1.67< / >< / ><><>Bednar, S, 34-37< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>18< / ><>2.66< / >< / table>

保送—圣迭戈 1: Machado 1. 旧金山 4: Gilbert 1, Bandura 1, Cavanaugh 1, Hill 1. 三振—圣迭戈 10: Tatis 1. D.Harris 1, Machado 1, Merrill 1, Bogaerts 2, Cronenworth 2, Bowen 1, Salas 1. 旧金山 9: Eldridge 1, Cox 3, Bandura 2, Cavanaugh 1, Hill 1, Koss 1. 失误—Bogaerts (11), Merrill (3). 留在垒上的跑者—圣迭戈 3, 旧金山 9. 二垒安打—Merrill (25). 三垒安打—Salas (1). 全垒打—Machado (27), 对阵 Webb; Knizner (2), 对阵 Pivetta. 打点—Merrill (2), Tatis 2 (75), Machado 2 (82), Knizner (2) 3, Eldridge (54), Koss (10). 盗垒—D.Harris (7), Taylor (9), Tatis (35), Koss 2 (5), Gilbert (2). 留在得分位置的跑者—圣迭戈 3 (Machado, Cronenworth 2); 旧金山 6 (Cox 2, B.Harris 2, Koss, Basabe). 得分位置跑者打击—圣迭戈 4 for 10; 旧金山 2

匹兹堡 4, 芝加哥小熊 3 圣迭戈 6, 旧金山 4

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<><>匹兹堡< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>芝加哥< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Griffin ss< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.261< / ><>Crow-Armstrong cf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.277< / >< / ><><>Cruz cf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.274< / ><>Suzuki rf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.269< / >< / ><><>Reynolds lf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.266< / ><>Busch 1b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.239< / >< / ><><>Cook rf< / ><>0< / ><>.176< / ><>Bregman 3b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.264< / >< / ><><>Floes 1b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.250< / ><>Happ< / >< / table>

lf< / td> 2< / ><>0< / ><>.218< / >< / tr> <>Gonzales 2b-3b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>.304< / ><>Hoerner ss< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.265< / >< / ><><>Gonzalez 3b< / ><>0< / ><>.225< / ><>Conforto dh< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.237< / >< / ><><>O'Hearn dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.266< / ><>b-Shaw< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.235< / >< / ><><>Mangum rf-lf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.284< / ><>Ramirez 2b< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.262< / >< / ><><>Triolo 3b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.243< / ><>Amaya c< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.240< / >< / ><><>Lowe 2b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.258< / ><>C.Kelly< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.260< / >< / ><><>Davis c< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.164< / ><>Totals< / ><>30< / ><>3< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>34< / ><>4< / ><>9< / ><>4< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>Philadelphia< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Painter......5< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>< / ><>87< / ><>5.54< / >< / ><><>McFarlane, H, 4......1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>< / ><>14< / ><>2.45< / >< / ><><>Alvarado, W, 4-3......1< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>21< / ><>5.30< / >< / ><><>Banks......2< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>< / ><>35< / ><>7.26< / >< / table>

<>< colspan="9">Conforto. DP—Pittsburgh 2 (Gonzales, Griffin, Flores; Triolo, Gonzales, Flores)。< / >< / ><><>Pittsburgh< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Chandler, W, 8-9< / ><> $5\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>90< / ><>4.28< / >< / ><><>Mlodzinski, H, 6< / ><> $1\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>28< / ><>3.81< / >< / ><><>Weaver, H, 21< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>2.56< / >< / ><><>Montgomery, S, 13-15< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>7< / ><>2.73< / >< / ><><>Chicago< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Boyd, L, 8-5< / ><> $5\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>7< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>88< / ><>4.16< / >< / ><><>Civale< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>45< / ><>4.20< / >< / ><><>Thielbar< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>14< / ><>4.82< / >< / ><><>Palencia< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>18< / ><>4.32< / >< / table>

保送—匹兹堡 5：Cruz 3, Reynolds 1, Mangum 1。芝加哥 6：Suzuki 1, Bregman 1, Happ 2, Conforto 1, Ramirez 1。三振—匹兹堡 7：Reynolds 1, Flores 2, Gonzales 1, O'Heam 1, Triolo 1, Lowe 1。芝加哥 4：Crow-Armstrong 1, Suzuki 1, Busch 2。留在垒上的跑者 (LOB)—匹兹堡 8, 芝加哥 6。二垒安打 (2B)—Gonzales (26), Mangum (19), Bregman (31)。全垒打 (HR)—Amaya (6)，由 Chandler 投出。打点 (RBIs)—Reynolds (71), Gonzales (60), Lowe 2 (85), Amaya 2 (25), Hoerner (68)。盗垒失败 (CS)—Mangum (9)。留在得分位置的跑者—匹兹堡 2 (Loves, Lowe)；芝加哥 2 (Ramirez 2)。得分位置跑者打击 (RISP)—匹兹堡 6 次中 3 次；芝加哥 4 次中 0 次。双杀 (GIDP)—Bregman,

<><>Pittsburgh< / ><>100< / ><>003< / ><>000 - 4< / ><>9< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>Chicago< / ><>000< / ><>021< / ><>000 - 3< / ><>5< / ><>0< / >< / table>

承接跑者得分—Mlodzinski 3-1, Civale 2-2。故意四球—由 Mlodzinski 投出 (Conforto)。主审—Ryan Wills, Will Little, Derek Thomas, Lance Barksdale。比赛用时—2:50。售票数—39,103 (41,363)。

休斯顿< / td><>局数(IP)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>自责分(ER)< / ><>保送(BB)< / ><>三振(SO)< / ><>投球数(NP)< / ><>防御率(ERA)< / >< / tr><><>Wesneski, L, 5-2< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>62< / ><>3.70< / >< / ><><>De Los Santos< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>24< / ><>4.50< / >< / ><><>Blanco< / ><> $4\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>62< / ><>7.11< / >< / ><><>坦帕湾< / ><>局数(IP)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>自责分(ER)< / ><>保送(BB)< / ><>三振(SO)< / ><>投球数(NP)< / ><>防御率(ERA)< / >< / ><><>Peralta, W, 9-11< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>86< / ><>4.67< / >< / ><><>Hopkins< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>22< / ><>18.00< / >< / ><><>Sulser< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>13< / ><>4.65< / >< / ><><>Legumina< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>27< / ><>3.93< / >< / ><><>Matz< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>10< / ><>5.64< / >< / table>

<><>亚特兰大< / ><>局数(IP)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>自责分(ER)< / ><>保送(BB)< / ><>三振(SO)< / ><>投球数(NP)< / ><>防御率(ERA)< / >< / ><><>Holmes....< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>71< / ><>3.49< / >< / ><><>Kerr....< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>34< / ><>1.26< / >< / ><><>Lee, L, 6-1....< / ><> $\frac{2}{3}$ < / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>14< / ><>3.09< / >< / ><><>Mederos....< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>17< / ><>3.86< / >< / ><><>Falter....< / ><> $1\frac{1}{3}$ < / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>20< / ><>10.38< / >< / table>

承接跑者得分—Kerr 2-0, Mederos 1-1, Falter 2-0。胜投—Alvarado。主审—Charlie Ramos, David Rackley, Nestor Ceja, Adam Hamari。比赛用时—2:54。售票数—39,830 (41,149)。 保送—休斯顿 6: Allen 1, Alvarez 2, Paredes 1, Diaz 1, Walker 1, Trammell 1。坦帕湾 2: Aranda 1, Fortes 1。三振—休斯顿 7: Peña 1, Alvarez 1, Diaz 2, Smith 1, Trammell 2。坦帕湾 5: Aranda 2, Vilade 1, Mesa 1, DeLuca 1。失误—Peña (11)。留在垒上的跑者—休斯顿 6, 坦帕湾 4。二垒安打—Barosa (12), Caminero (22), Mesa (6)。三垒安打—Mesa (3)。全垒打—Paredes (21), 由 Hopkins 投出; Allen (3), 由 Legumina 投出; Velázquez (6), 由 Legumina 投出; Palacios (10), 由 Wesneski 投出; Aranda (20), 由 De Los Santos 投出; Fortes (5), 由 Blanco 投出; Aranda (21), 由 Blanco 投出。打点—Paredes 2 (85), Allen (14), Velázquez (18), Mesa 2 (30), Simpson 2 (33), Palacios 3 (50), Aranda 3 (89), Fortes 2 (33), Diaz (81)。得点圈机会—休斯顿 0 for 6: 坦帕湾 4 for 9。

坦帕湾 14, 休斯顿 4

<><>巴尔的摩< / ><>000< / ><>010< / ><>000 - 1< / ><>9< / ><>0< / >< / ><><>多伦多< / ><>010< / ><>030< / ><>04x - 8< / ><>10< / ><>0< / >< / table>

巴尔的摩< / td><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>多伦多< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / tr><><>Beavers lf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.246< / ><>Bateman rf-cf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.328< / >< / ><><>Alonso 1b< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>.269< / ><>Springer dh< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>.252< / >< / ><><>Henderson ss< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.223< / ><>1-Keys dh< / ><>0< / ><>.200< / >< / ><><>Mayo dh< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.224< / ><>Guerrero 1b< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>.265< / >< / ><><>Basallo c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.225< / ><>Okamoto 3b< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>.236< / >< / ><><>Jackson< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.228< / ><>McKdoo lf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.250< / >< / ><><>Pozo c< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.260< / ><>Lukes rf< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.273< / >< / ><><>Encn-Strand 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.263< / ><>Clement 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.271< / >< / ><><>Holliday 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.225< / ><>Giménez ss< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>.245< / >< / ><><>Taveras rf-cf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.219< / ><>Valenzuela c< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.216< / >< / ><><>Cowser cf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.215< / ><>Straw cf-lf< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.233< / >< / ><><>Hinds cf< / ><>0< / ><>.159< / ><>Totals< / ><>34< / ><>8< / ><>10< / ><>8< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Kjerstad rf< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.167< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>35< / ><>1< / ><>9< / ><>1< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>Guilseyo:巴尔的摩< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>.Rogers, L 10-10......< / ><>6< / ><>7< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>95< / ><>4.22< / >< / ><><>Hiraldo......< / ><> $1\frac{1}{3}$ < / ><>2< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>49< / ><>8.68< / >< / ><><>Sanders......< / ><> $\frac{1}{3}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>8< / ><>4.94< / >< / ><><>坦帕......< / ><>IP< / ><>"< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / table>

<><>休斯顿< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>坦帕湾< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Pella ss< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>0.268< / ><>Díaz dh< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.301< / >< / ><><>Allen ss< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.279< / ><>Aranda 1b< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>.278< / >< / ><><>Alvarez dh< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.310< / ><>Caminero 3b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.279< / >< / ><><>Velázquez dh< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>.198< / ><>Vilade 3b< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.260< / >< / ><><>Paredes 3b< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.260< / ><>Mesa

rf< / td> 5< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>.261< / >< / tr> <>Altuve 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.245< / ><>Simpson lf< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.305< / >< / ><><>Díaz c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.276< / ><>DeLuca cf< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.263< / >< / ><><>Varsho cf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.225< / ><>Palacios 2b< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>.235< / >< / ><><>Wade 1b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.205< / ><>Madrigal ss< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>.275< / >< / ><><>Walker 1b< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.225< / ><>Fortes c< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>.264< / >< / ><><>Barrosa

cf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>.203< / ><>Totals< / ><>40< / ><>14< / ><>15< / ><>13< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Smith rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>.216< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Trammell lf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>.204< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>31< / ><>4< / ><>< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分—Blanco 2-0。胜投—Blanco。裁判—Bruce Dreckman, Carlos Torres, Jacob Metz, Mark Wegner。用时—2:39。售票数—18,718 (25,025)。

<><>多伦多< / ><>局数(IP)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>自责分(ER)< / ><>保送(BB)< / ><>三振(SO)< / ><>投球数(NP)< / ><>防御率(ERA)< / >< / ><><>Cease, 胜, 11-5< / ><>5< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>9< / ><>94< / ><>2.38< / >< / ><><>Tiedemann, 持, 1< / ><> $\frac{3}{8}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>19< / ><>1.50< / >< / ><><>Fisher, 持, 13< / ><> $\frac{1}{8}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>3.22< / >< / ><><>Fluharty, 持, 16< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>14< / ><>3.36< / >< / ><><>Ty.Rogers, 持, 32< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>14< / ><>1.73< / >< / ><><>Lorenzen< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>15< / ><>6.97< / >< / table>

圣路易斯 3, 芝加哥白袜 1

<><>休斯顿< / ><>000< / ><>002< / ><>020 – 4< / ><>4< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>坦帕湾< / ><>304< / ><>220< / ><>30x – 14< / ><>15< / ><>0< / >< / table>

保送—巴尔的摩 6: Beavers 1, Henderson 3, Mayo 1, Hinds 1。多伦多 5: Bateman 2, Okamoto 1, Lukes 1, Straw 1。三振—巴尔的摩 15: Beavers 2, Alonso 1, Henderson 1, Mayo 3, Basallo 1, Jackson 1, Encarnacion-Strand 1, Holliday 1, Taveras 2, Cowser 2。多伦多 6: Bateman 1, Springer 1, Guerrero 1, McDooo 1, Valenzuela 2。留垒—巴尔的摩 13, 多伦多 7。二垒安打—Beavers (20), Giménez (23), Guerrero (24), Springer (22)。全垒打—Springer (15), 对阵 .Rogers; Guerrero (9), 对阵 .Rogers; Okamoto (32), 对阵 .Rogers。打点—Alonso (100), Giménez (57), Springer 4 (52), Guerrero (56), Okamoto (85), Bateman (11)。盗垒—McDooo (2), Valenzuela (2)。得点圈安打—巴尔的摩 1 for 12; 多伦多 2 for 8。跑者推进—Kjrestad。关键打点—Pozo。双杀—多伦多 1 (Giménez, Clement,

继承跑者得分—Sanders 3-3, Fisher 2-0。裁判— Scott Barry, Austin Jones, Hunter Wendelstedt, Edwin Moscoso。用时—2:50。售票数—41,805 (39,150)。

多伦多 8, 巴尔的摩 1

<><>芝加哥< / ><>010< / ><>000< / ><>000 - 1< / ><>4< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>圣路易斯< / ><>000< / ><>003< / ><>00x - 3< / ><>4< / ><>0< / >< / table>

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裁判——Willie Traynor, Jansen Visconti, Nick Mahrley, Lance Barrett。比赛用时—2:25。售票数—45,508 (47,309)。 保送—芝加哥 5：Teel 2, Murakami 1, Meidroth 1, C.Montgomery 1。三振—芝加哥 9：Teel 1, Vargas 1, Murakami 2, Benintendi 1, Meidroth 2, C.Montgomery 1, Doyle 1。圣路易斯 9：Torres 2, Herrera 1, Walker 2, Bernal 2, Urias 1, Saggese 1。失误—C.Montgomery (10)。留垒—芝加哥 7, 圣路易斯 2。二垒安打—Peters (31), Burleson (36), Church (14)。三垒安打—Antonacci (4)。打点—Meidroth (54), Burleson 3 (109)。牺牲飞球—Meidroth。得点圈留垒—芝加哥 4 (Benintendi, C.Montgomery 3)；圣路易斯 3 (Herrera 2, Walker)。得点圈得分率 (RISP)—芝加哥 0 for 7；圣路易斯 1 for 7。推进跑者—Winn。 保送—西雅图 6：Crawford 1, Naylor 1, Arroyo 3, Pereda 1。奥克兰 6：Bolte 1, Gelof 2, Cortes 1, Serven 1, Williams 1。三振—西雅图 6：Canzone 1, Raleigh 2, Rodríguez 1, Montes 1, Rodden 1。奥克兰 7：Bolte 2, Butler 1, Muncy 2, Walton 1, Serven 1。失误—Canzone (2)。留垒—西雅图 9, 奥克兰 8。二垒安打—Pereda (1), Canzone (25), Walton (14), Williams 2 (17)。全垒打—Arozarena (24)，投手 Lopez；Arozarena (25), 投手 Harris；Gelof (18)，投手 Miller；Butler (15)，投手 Miller；Butler (16)，投手 Muñoz。打点—Arozarena 4 (75), Pereda 2 (8), Crawford (36), Gelof 2 (46), Butler 4 (58), Langeliers 2 (54)。牺牲飞球—Pereda。得点圈得分率 (PRISP)—西雅图 4 for 11；奥克兰 2 for 9。双杀—奥克兰

密尔沃基< / td><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / tr><><>Gasser......5< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>89< / ><>4.30< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Senzatela, BS, 3-11.... $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>8< / ><>4.30< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Romero...... $1\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>15< / ><>3.60< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Uribe, L, 5-3......1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>17< / ><>2.15< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Hall......1< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>18< / ><>2.04< / ><>< / >< / table>

承接跑者得分—Senzatela 1-1。裁判—Doug Eddings, Mike Muchlinski, Emil Jimenez, Gabe Morales。比赛用时—2:33。售票数—40,559 (41,700)。 承接跑者得分—Speier 2-2, Dominguez 2-2, Muñoz 1-0, Blewett 2-1, Medina 3-1。触身球—Miller (Butler), Vargas (Bolte)。野手失策送分 (WP)—Miller。裁判—Andy Fletcher, Louie Krupa, Alex Tosi, Cory Blaser。比赛用时—3:24。售票数—9,171 (14,014)。

<><>圣迭戈< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Pivetta< / ><>4< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>69< / ><>3.60< / >< / ><><>Hart< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>20< / ><>4.19< / >< / ><><>Morgan, H, 3< / ><> $\frac{1}{3}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>15< / ><>4.44< / >< / ><><>Peralta, W, 3-2< / ><> $1\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>15< / ><>3.28< / >< / ><><>Vásquez, H, 2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>23< / ><>3.95< / >< / ><><>Matsui, S, 1-1< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>21< / ><>1.98< / >< / ><><>旧金山< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Webb, L, 8-9< / ><>5< / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>92< / ><>4.31< / >< / ><><>Wilkinson< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>37< / ><>4.58< / >< / ><><>T.Harris< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>2.65< / >< / table>

奥克兰 8, 西雅图 7

Manuz, L, 3-6, BS, 27-37... $\frac{1}{3}$ < / td><>2< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>14< / ><>4.25< / >< / tr><><>Athletics< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Lopez.... $\frac{3}{2}$ < / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>3< / ><>102< / ><>5.02< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Blewett.... $\frac{3}{2}$ < / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>20< / ><>2.70< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Medina.... $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>15< / ><>3.31< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Hartlieb....2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>25< / ><>4.15< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Harris....1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>20< / ><>3.43< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Alvarado, W,

5-3....1< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>14< / ><>3.96< / ><>< / >< / table>

<><>Seattle< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Miller....5< / ><>2< / ><>5< / ><>< / ><>91< / ><>4.19< / >< / ><><>Vargas....1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>14< / ><>4.26< / >< / ><><>Speier, H, 21.... $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>19< / ><>3.02< / >< / ><><>Domínguez, BS, 12-18....1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>< / ><>18< / ><>3.97< / >< / ><><>Muñoz L, 5-6, BS, 27-37.... $\frac{3}{4}$ < / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>< / ><>14< / ><>4.25< / >< / table>

继承跑者-得分——Morgan 1-1, Peralta 2-0, T.Harris 1-0。裁判——Junior Valentine, Rob Drake, Stu Scheuwater, Jordan Baker。用时——3:03。门票售出——35,115 (41,915)。

德克萨斯 7, 亚利桑那 6

<><>Texas< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>Arizona< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / ><><>Foscue 2b< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0.269< / ><>< / ><>Nootbaar lf< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0.240< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Carter cf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>0.195< / ><>< / ><>Troy lf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>0.217< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Seager ss< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>3.231< / ><>< / ><>Marte 2b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0.250< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Jung 3b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1.298< / ><>< / ><>Moreno dh< / ><>5< / ><>1< / ><>1.301< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Lopez 2b< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>0.271< / ><>< / ><>Perdomo

ss< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>0.252< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Burger 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>0.233< / ><>< / ><>Carroll rf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>0.238< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Nimmo rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1.263< / ><>< / ><>Arenado 3b< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>3.240< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Langford lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1.241< / ><>< / ><>Tawa 1b< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>1.248< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Duran cf-3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1.268< / ><>< / ><>McCann c< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>0.282< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Díaz c< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>0.236< / ><>< / ><>Lawlar cf< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>1.258< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Jansen

dh< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>1.188< / ><>< / ><>Totals< / ><>36< / ><>6< / ><>12< / ><>6< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>37< / ><>7< / ><>10< / ><>6< / ><>< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分——Alexander 1-1，Clarke 1-1。故意四球（IBB）——由 Latz 投出（Marte）。触身球（HBP）——Quantrill（Lawlar）。裁判（U）——Bill Miller, Chad Whitson, Brian Walsh, Chad Fairchild。比赛用时（T）——2:37。售票数——28,843 (48,359)。

德克萨斯< / td><>200< / ><>032< / ><>000 – 7< / ><>10< / ><>0< / >< / tr><><>亚利桑那< / ><>000< / ><>100< / ><>302 – 6< / ><>12< / ><>2< / >< / table>

<><>德克萨斯< / ><>局数(IP)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>自责分(ER)< / ><>保送(BB)< / ><>三振(SO)< / ><>投球数(NP)< / ><>防御率(ERA)< / >< / ><><>Quantrill, W, 9-5< / ><>6< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>70< / ><>2.90< / >< / ><><>Alexander< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>24< / ><>3.43< / >< / ><><>R.Garcia, H, 3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>11< / ><>2.25< / >< / ><><>Latz, S, 29-32< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>21< / ><>2.06< / >< / ><><>亚利桑那< / ><>局数(IP)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>自责分(ER)< / ><>保送(BB)< / ><>三振(SO)< / ><>投球数(NP)< / ><>防御率(ERA)< / >< / ><><>Rodriguez, L, 15-6< / ><> $5\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>8< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>99< / ><>2.62< / >< / ><><>Clarke< / ><> $1\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>16< / ><>2.49< / >< / ><><>Santana< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>9< / ><>5.05< / >< / ><><>B.Garcia< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>7< / ><>2.03< / >< / table>

保送——德克萨斯 1: Duran 1。亚利桑那 2: Marte 1, Lawlar 1。三振——德克萨斯 10: Foscue 1, Carter 1, Burger 1, Nimmo 1, Langford 2, Duran 1, Díaz 2, Jansen 1。亚利桑那 6: Troy 1, Marte 1, Moreno 1, Perdomo 1, Carroll 2。失误（E）——Arenado (6), Nootbaar (2)。留在垒上的跑者（LOB）——德克萨斯 5, 亚利桑那 6。二垒安打（2B）——Jansen (8), Arenado (23), Tawa (12), Lawlar (4)。本垒打（HR）——Seager (18), 由 Rodríguez 投出; Moreno (13), 由 Quantrill 投出; Arenado (25), 由 Alexander 投出。打点（RBIs）——Seager 3 (43), Jung (37), Nimmo (60), Jansen (21), Moreno (73), Arenado 3 (73), Tawa (38), Lawlar (11)。盗垒（S）——Díaz。留在得分位置的跑者——德克萨斯 2, Jung; 亚利桑那 2 (Moreno, Carroll)。得分位置跑者击球（RISP），德克萨斯 10 次击球中 5 次得分；亚利桑那 7 次击球中 3 次得分。双杀（DP），德克萨斯 3

<><>芝加哥< / ><>局数(IP)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>自责分(ER)< / ><>保送(BB)< / ><>三振(SO)< / ><>投球数(NP)< / ><>防御率(ERA)< / >< / ><><>Sandlin, L, 2-2< / ><> $5\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>5< / ><>70< / ><>5.64< / >< / ><><>Murphy, BS, 1-2< / ><> $1\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>4< / ><>33< / ><>3.94< / >< / ><><>Richards< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>14< / ><>3.56< / >< / ><><>圣路易斯< / ><>局数(IP)< / ><>安打(H)< / ><>得分(R)< / ><>自责分(ER)< / ><>保送(BB)< / ><>三振(SO)< / ><>投球数(NP)< / ><>防御率(ERA)< / >< / ><><>McGreewy, W, 7-9< / ><>6< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>3< / ><>6< / ><>90< / ><>3.82< / >< / ><><>Graceffo, H, 7< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>3< / ><>26< / ><>2.61< / >< / ><><>Soriano, S, 4-12< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>29< / ><>4.36< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分——Murphy 3-3, Richards 1-0。裁判（U）——Mike Estabrook, Malachi Moore, D.J. Reyburn, James Hoye。比赛用时（T）——2:26。售票数——34,609 (44,494)。

克利夫兰 9, 明尼苏达 2

克利夫兰< / td><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / ><>明尼苏达< / ><>AB< / ><>R< / ><>H< / ><>BI< / ><>Avg.< / >< / tr><><>Kwian cf-lf< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>3< / ><>2.278< / ><>< / ><>Keaschall rf< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0.273< / ><>< / >< / ><><>DeLauter rf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0.291< / ><>< / ><>Lee 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>0.247< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Halipin cf< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>0.215< / ><>< / ><>Clemens 2b< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>1.243< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Bazzana 2b< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>3.249< / ><>< / ><>Jeffers c< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>0.266< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Adell dh< / ><>5< / ><>2< / ><>2.239< / ><>< / ><>Lamach dh< / ><>3< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>0.269< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Lowe 1b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1.253< / ><>< / ><>Lewis 1b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>0.230< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Martinez lf-r< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>1.250< / ><>< / ><>Caratini 1b< / ><>2< / ><>0< / ><>0.219< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Genao 3b< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>0.236< / ><>< / ><>Rodriguez lf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0.250< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Bailey c< / ><>5< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>0.208< / ><>< / ><>Jenkins cf< / ><>4< / ><>0< / ><>0.098< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Rocchio ss< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0.246< / ><>< / ><>Krediller ss< / ><>3< / ><>0< / ><>0.217< / ><>< / >< / ><><>Totals< / ><>39< / ><>9< / ><>14< / ><>9< / ><>< / ><>Totals< / ><>33< / ><>2< / ><>6< / ><>2< / ><>< / >< / ><><>克利夫兰< / ><>< / >< colspan="5">101 202 003—9 14< / ><>1< / >< / ><><>明尼苏达< / ><>< / >< colspan="5">001 000 100—2 6< / ><>1< / >< / table>

保送—克利夫兰 4: Kwon, 1D-Leauter, Bazzana, 1Cena, 1明尼苏达 2: Clemens, 1Larnach 1。三振—克利夫兰 4: Martinez 1, Bailey 2, Rocchio, 1明尼苏达 12: Lee, 2Clemens, 1Jeffes 2, Rodriguez 2, Jenkins 3, Kreidler 1。失分—Bibbe (3), Lee (10)。残垒—克利夫兰 9, 明尼苏达 6。二垒安打—Kwan (21), Martinez 2 (21), Adell (25), Clemens (22), Lamach (23)。全垒打—Kwan (3), 对阵 Ryan; Adell (21) 对阵 Ryan; Bazzana (12), 对阵 Adams; Lamach (13), 对阵 Bibbe。打点—Kwon (30), Adell 2 (88), Bazzana 3 (54), Lowe (59), Martinez (53), Clemens (76), Lamach (48)。盗垒—Rocchio (99), Bazzana (19)。牺牲飞球—Lowe。得分圈残垒—克利夫兰 6 (Bazzana 2, Martinez 2, Adell, Rocchio); Minnow 4 (Jeffes 2, Jenkins 2)。得分圈击球—克利夫兰 14 次中 5 次: 明尼苏达 6 次中 0 次。得点圈内击球出局—Bailey。双杀出局—DeLauter。双杀—明尼苏达 2 (lee: Clemens, Kreidler, Caratini)。

<><>克利夫兰< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Bibee, W, 6-15....< / ><> $6\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>7< / ><>96< / ><>4.16< / >< / ><><>Gaddis....< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>8< / ><>2.68< / >< / ><><>Sabrowski....< / ><> $\frac{1}{2}$ < / ><>0< / ><>1< / ><>5< / ><>2.89< / >< / ><><>Festa....< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>2< / ><>21< / ><>3.68< / >< / ><><>明尼苏达< / ><>IP< / ><>H< / ><>R< / ><>ER< / ><>BB< / ><>SO< / ><>NP< / ><>ERA< / >< / ><><>Ryan, L,< / >

6-10....< / td> 4< / ><>7< / ><>4< / ><>1< / ><>84< / ><>3.84< / >< / tr> <>Adams....< / ><>3< / ><>4< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>0< / ><>36< / ><>5.26< / >< / ><><>Rogers....< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>22< / ><>4.86< / >< / ><><>Nance....< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>1< / ><>2< / ><>21< / ><>4.09< / >< / table>

继承跑者得分——Gaddis 1-0, Sabrowski 1-0, Nance 2-2。触身球（HBP）——Ryan (Rocchio)。胜投（WP）——Ryan。裁判（U）—— Sean Barber, John Libka, D.J. Reyburn, James Hoye。用时（T）——2:42。门票售出——17,676 (38,544)。

史蒂夫·鲍尔默（STEVE BALLMER）需要雇佣一名能够吸引具有领导能力和欲望的精英球员的高管。 沃利·斯卡利（WALLY SKALIJ） 洛杉矶时报

快船队虽见曙光，但特许经营权需要更好的愿景

[Swanson，见B10] 美元的账外、虚假代言费。

随着猛龙队在7月9日因等待NBA调查结果而暂停交易，该交易最终完成；且快船队老板史蒂夫·鲍尔默周日宣布，他将接受联盟历史上最严厉的处罚且不再进一步抗议，快船队的球迷终于可以松一口气了。

抛开罚款和禁赛不谈，对球迷最沉重的打击是联盟剥夺了快船队从2029年到2033年的5个首轮选秀权。

这是死刑吗？如果不是因为猛龙队——那些傻瓜，呃，是指那支球迷至今仍对伦纳德持有正面情感的球队，那几乎就是死刑了。

记得伦纳德在2019年带领多伦多夺得了NBA冠军。那是他似乎开始在快船队身上“薅羊毛”的前一个赛季。而快船队为了满足一个甚至无法带领球队进入一次NBA总决赛的人的要求，此前还为了保罗·乔治将5个首轮选秀权以及未来的联盟MVP谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大交易给了俄克拉荷马城雷霆队。

目前，在泰伦·卢执教的球队中，快船队将拥有英格拉姆、达里乌斯·加兰、八村垒以及第5顺位新秀基顿·瓦格勒。像往常一样，他们将是一支在常规赛具有竞争力的球队。

而且快船队在进入2027年或2028年休赛期时可能会有薪资空间——尽管现在大牌球星不再通过自由市场寻求机会。

如今，球员的目标是通过交易离开，保留伯德条款权利并实现收益最大化。如果不是因为拥有多伦多的首轮选秀权，快船队将几乎没有选秀资本用于交易影响力球员。

现在他们有了一些，即便这仅足够去追求那些不满现状的、冗余的或薪水过高的球员。

快船队可以提议帮其他球队接手这类球员——只要他们加入未来的选秀资产作为甜头。即便快船队需要忍辱负重地重新储备，依然有前进之路，而口袋里拥有猛龙队的2个首轮签将会有所帮助。

这种安排好让自己勉强维持生存、仅仅是在原地踏水，真是太“快船”了。

伙计们，连续15个赛季胜率在.500或以上！谁来挂个横幅庆祝一下。

快船队仍然没有真正的冠军横幅来装饰英图伊特球馆（Intuit Dome）——当然，现在追求冠军将变得更加困难。

但如果快船队不能进行有意义的重启，如果他们不更换篮球运营总裁劳伦斯·弗兰克（他也是被NBA处罚的快船队高管之一），而找一个在挑选球星方面更有眼光的人，那么夺冠将是不可能的。

弗兰克是处理边际细节的大师，但快船队需要一名能够洞察伟大的首席执行官——这种伟大不仅体现在球场上，还体现在更衣室里和社区中。

需要有人引导鲍尔默不仅去追求顶尖的篮球天赋，还要寻找那些能提供全方位素质的球员：领导力、竞争心、欲望以及能让球迷产生认同感。

纽约尼克斯队在杰伦·布伦森身上意识到了这一切。他们并不在意贝基·哈蒙以及我们许多人对一支决定围绕一名6英尺2英寸的后卫建队的球队前景持怀疑态度。而现在，看看吧。布伦森刚刚带领尼克斯队夺冠。

但谁能预见到这一点？

嗯，理想情况下，应该是那些拿钱做人事决策的专业人士。

伦纳德在圣安东尼奥马刺队或猛龙队的冠军球队中都不是领导者。他与马刺队的分手充满了焦虑。他的伤病史闪烁着红灯。他绝对没有那种能从勒布朗·詹姆斯领导的湖人队手中抢走球迷的人格魅力。而且显然，他的要求太高了！

但快船队还是孤注一掷，结果除了痛苦之外一无所获。

痛苦，以及现在，多伦多的2个首轮选秀权。问题是，谁将使用它们，以及如何使用？

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快船队如此渴望有一颗巨星能选择他们，以至于他们没有意识到，自己身边其实已经有一位崭露头角的超级巨星。吉尔格斯-亚历山大在快船队度过了他的新秀赛季，并且具备了伦纳德不具备的所有特质。在快船队将他交易到俄克拉荷马城（OKC）后，他通过努力脱颖而出，成为了 NBA 最酷的竞争者之一，两度获得联盟 MVP，并成为一支冠军球队无可争议的领袖。

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下一场：周一 对阵 纽约巨人队，下午 5:15，ABC，ESPN

下一场：周日 对阵 突袭者队，下午 1:05，CBS

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国王队：周六 对阵 拉斯维加斯（季前赛），地点：安大略，下午 6 点。 鸭队：周日 对阵 圣何塞（季前赛），下午 1 点。 阴影部分表示主场比赛。时间为太平洋时间。

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特洛伊人替补表现不佳，虽赢路易斯安那但隐忧重重

周六，南加州大学（USC）近端锋马克·鲍曼（Mark Bowman，上）跳过路易斯安那大学的艾弗里·德梅里（Avery Demery，左）和科迪·杰克逊（Kody Jackson）。 马克·J·特里尔（MARK J. TERRILL）美联社

[USC，见B10版] “狂暴凯均人”（Ragin' Cajuns）在连续两次达阵进攻中轻松推进，期间有四次推进距离达到25码或更多。

此时比赛已基本失去悬念，部分原因在于南加州大学方面的自满。但本赛季我们所见的一切都没有理由让人相信，特洛伊人可以信任其防守端的深度。而这在整个赛季中可能会成为一个问题。

这个问题在后场最为紧迫，南加州大学在安全卫位置上的深度近期看起来十分糟糕。甚至林肯·赖利（Lincoln Riley）在周六晚上也承认，他对目前的状况并不满意。

“后场是我们需要继续培养另外几名球员的位置，”赖利说道，“因为我们将需要他们。”

从现在起，南加州大学在下半场可能不会再起用替补球员。但正如赖利所言，如果他们希望在十大联盟（Big Ten）中竞争，就需要其中一些球员能够挺身而出。

在角卫位置上，特洛伊人承受不起失去琼特兹·威廉姆斯（Jontez Williams）的代价，他是南加州大学在该位置上绝对最出色的球员；而在安全卫位置上，同样不能失去普罗菲特·布朗（Prophet Brown）。

并不是说南加州大学的防守后场缺乏天赋。他们目前有多个备受赞誉的天才球员处于第二或第三顺位——例如角卫RJ·瑟蒙斯（RJ Sermons）或马塞勒斯·威廉姆斯（Marcelles Williams），他们曾被视为未来的球星。只是这些球员从未发挥出他们的潜力。而在安全卫位置上，情况则更加不确定。

防守端的其他位置深度已有显著改善。具体来说是防守线，特洛伊人现在在内线拥有六名深度球员，并且至少有四名他们信任的边缘冲截手。

这是一个重大进步，但要在防守的每个层级都达到这样的深度还需要一段时间。

十大联盟股票报告 股价上涨

加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）。特洛伊人的球迷们，抱歉，但在新教练鲍勃·切斯尼（Bob Chesney）的带领下，棕熊队看起来像是真有两把刷子。尤其是冲球进攻势头强劲，两场比赛共拿下10个达阵，推进近500码。

印第安纳大学。胡西尔人（Hoosiers）其实只做了我们预期他们会做的事，在两周内以107-16的比分领先对手。但事实是，在这一阶段他们看起来同样具有统治力，而俄勒冈大学和俄亥俄州立大学都受到了干扰，这为印第安纳大学占据联盟顶端打开了大门。

股价下跌

俄勒冈大学。看到鸭子队在俄克拉荷马州立大学失利，所有人都感到震惊，但这支球队目前状态显然不对。看起来俄勒冈大学确实缺少其协调员。

明尼苏达大学。我原以为P.J. 弗莱克（P.J. Fleck）在拥有潜在的NFL四分卫（德雷克·林赛 Drake Lindsey）和跑卫（达里乌斯·泰勒 Darius Taylor）的情况下，可能会让明尼苏达大学在本赛季给人们带来惊喜。但一场以三个达阵之差输给密西西比州立大学的比赛表明情况恰恰相反。

额外要点

■ 防守截锋贾希姆·斯图尔特（Jahkeem Stewart）在下周进入十大联盟（Big Ten）比赛前应能“全面参与”。赖利（Riley）表示，斯图尔特在周六尝试出场，但他的脚伤情况必须达到“完美状态”才能比赛。与罗格斯大学（Rutgers）的对决应该能让他有机会在与俄勒冈大学的关键较量前消除生疏感。但我接下来的疑问是，南加州大学（USC）在整个赛季中将在多大程度上管理这些情况。即使没有斯图尔特，特洛伊人的防守线看起来也不错，但如果能在前线增加一名五星级天才，确实可以将防守提升到另一个水平。我们将拭目以待他的出场时间。

■ 跑球进攻看起来有所改善。但这样足够好吗？南加州大学累积了 225 码的冲球码数，这是本赛季迄今为止单场比赛中的最高纪录。其中近 40% 的码数出现在第四节，当时比赛胜负已定。但即便在此之前，南加州大学的表现确实显得更具爆发力。后卫在上半场有五次冲球达到了 10 码或更多。“我们的衔接更好了一些，”赖利说，“这是一个重大目标。”在经历了两个沉寂的周后，在进入十大联盟比赛前让金·米勒（King Miller）进入状态同样至关重要。本赛季到目前为止，他的冲球次数比韦蒙德·乔丹（Waymond Jordan）多 19 次，显然是头号后卫。

■ 南加州大学终于让大一紧端锋马克·鲍曼（Mark Bowman）在开阔地带获得了机会。初步结果相当令人鼓舞！南加州大学重点让鲍曼在早期且频繁地参与进攻，在他 7 次接球目标中，有 4 次是在距离球场 10 码以外的深处。他总共 6 次接球，获得 86 码，且全部发生在上半场。我预计在接下来的几周里，他的任务会越来越多。

体育

2026年9月15日，星期二 : LATIMES.COM / SPORTS

四分卫贾斯汀·赫伯特（Justin Herbert）在 SoFi 体育场跑入场内；充电器队在周日的赛季揭幕战中以 26-14 负于红雀队。 照片：ROBERT GAUTHIER 洛杉矶时报

Voices 专栏作家 MIRJAM SWANSON

充电器队在洛杉矶的聚光灯下失手

羊队对加雷特和唐纳德的时间表尚不确定

作者：GARY KLEIN

肖恩·麦克维（Sean McVay）和公羊队认为情况在掌控之中，或者至少是可控的。

明星边缘冲手迈尔斯·加雷特（Myles Garrett）在训练营期间首次感到膝盖不适并出现肿胀，这一状况导致他在赛季揭幕战前的数周内缺席了大部分球队训练。

但在周五于澳大利亚举行的比赛中，加雷特在惨败给旧金山 49 人队的比赛中未能完成任何一次擒抱，显然状态不佳。

周一，加雷特计划接受手术，他将进入伤病预备名单，至少缺席接下来的四场比赛。

“我们的工作是让我们的球员和球队处于能够获得成功结果的位置，”麦克维在周一与记者的视频会议中表示。“我们原以为 [见羊队，B7]

迈尔斯·加雷特（右）上周仅参与了 65 次进攻机会中的 40 次，教练肖恩·麦克维表示，这位球星的状态取决于他的手术情况。 照片：DOUG BENC 美联社

随着公羊队的失利，他们错失了确立统治地位的机会

这仅仅是一场比赛。而且赛季还很长。

如果你是一名闪电队的球迷，这可能会是一个非常——非常漫长的赛季。

周日在 SoFi 体育场遭遇的赛季揭幕战惨剧——一场混乱、缺乏灵感且令人失望的 26-14 败给亚利桑那红雀队的比赛——是这支闪电队的一次巨大的退步。

你不能说任何赛季的第 1 场比赛都是必须获胜的。但你可以回顾并意识到，有时第 1 场比赛确实是一场非常、非常应该获胜的比赛。

不仅是因为在闪电队不稳定的赛程中，红雀队几乎是他们能遇到的最容易拿下的对手。

他们未来的道路被认为是 NFL 中第七艰难的，从第 3 周对阵布法罗比尔队开始，随后将面临超级碗冠军西雅图海鹰队、丹佛野马队、堪萨斯城酋长队，然后是季前赛超级碗热门公羊队。

但闪电队还错过了一个填补洛杉矶橄榄球版图空白的绝佳机会，而这样的机会极其罕见。

周日出现了一个缺口，那是 [见 Swanson, B7] 的阴郁之日。

分析

南加州大学展现稳健前线，但急需防守深度

特洛伊人队需要在下半场确保替补力量，才有机会争夺常规赛冠军。

作者：RYAN KARTJE

在南加州大学（USC）橄榄球队场均比对手多得 25 分的三场比赛中，我们能得出的结论有限。

总的来说，有很多令人鼓舞的地方。USC 的新生班级带来了惊喜。进攻端没有出现任何偏差。防守线的表现超出了所有人的预期。突然之间，随着联盟前三名中的两支球队在上周失利，认为 有机会竞争 Big Ten 常规赛冠军听起来不再那么疯狂。

下一场 12 对阵 罗格斯大学 地点：新泽西州皮斯卡塔威 周六，太平洋夏令时间下午 12:30 电视：CBS

但在过去 3 周里，我们学到了一件事，这可能会阻碍特洛伊人队发挥潜力。

我们在周五第四节看到了这个问题的端倪，路易斯安那队及其四分卫 Lunch Winfield 在面对 的防守时随心所欲。由于几乎每个位置都用上了替补，特洛伊人队的后防线几乎完全瘫痪。

[见 ]

Voices MIRJAM SWANSON 专栏作家

失去伦纳德提供了救命稻草

WALLY SKALIJ Getty Images 考希·伦纳德（KAWHI LEONARD）与快船队于周一正式分道扬镳，这项交易可能会在 NBA 实施严重制裁后支撑起球队。

鲍尔默的道歉对快船队的未来最有利 在数月否认违规后，球队老板接受了 NBA 的处罚。专家表示，这是一个积极的举措，为球队提供了前进的路径。

快船队的交易终于正式生效，但球队必须填补弗兰克的空缺

除了考希·伦纳德，快船队应该给多伦多猛龙队送一个水果篮和一张感谢卡。

因为在两队六月份首次达成交易协议时，这已经是一笔极划算的交易，而现在看来简直是绝对的救命稻草。这就像是为救生筏提供了桨，让快船队能够改变方向并做出更好的决定——希望是由更好的决策者来做出。

首先，快船队必须放弃伦纳德，据报道他将回到多伦多，换取的方案包括布兰登·英格拉姆（Brandon Ingram）和格雷迪·迪克（Gradey Dick）、2031 年和 2033 年的非保护首轮选秀权、一次 2027 年的首轮选秀权互换以及两个次轮选秀权。

这是一笔像除颤器一样的交易。在 NBA 因快船队显然为伦纳德所做的所有规避薪金上限行为而对其重罚后，这笔交易可以让快船队维持生存。伦纳德是一名经常受伤的 35 岁球员，甚至在 NBA 对数百万美元的 [见 Swanson, B9] 吹哨之前就已经失准。

洛杉矶时报 体育特刊

《洛杉矶时报》电子报独家 :: 2026年9月15日，星期二

JEFF DEAN Getty Images

凯尔·塔克（KYLE TUCKER）在道奇队 4-1 击败红队（Reds）的比赛中迎接特奥斯卡·埃尔南德斯（Teoscar Hernández）。在塔克于第二局击出本垒打后，埃尔南德斯在第四局也击出了本垒打。

道奇队锁定季后赛席位，但迪亚斯出战成疑

作者：Maddie Lee

辛辛那提 —— 道奇队在周一以 4-1 击败红人队，从而锁定了季后赛席位。这将是他们连续第 14 次进入季后赛，追平了 MLB 的纪录。

但在背景之中，牛棚的不确定性正笼罩其中。

当他们进入季后赛时，谁将在高压局面下接球？

他们的选择正在减少。埃德加多·亨里克兹（Edgardo Henriquez）周一因下背部不适进入 15 天伤单，这意味着他将缺席常规赛剩余的所有比赛。埃德温·迪亚斯（Edwin Díaz）在周日的康复赛中表现如此不稳定，以至于他能否获得季后赛名单中的一席之地尚不保证。

“就表现、天赋以及所有这些方面而言，我们必须选择最优秀的投手，”经理戴夫·罗伯茨（Dave Roberts）在道奇队开启对阵红人队的四场系列赛前表示。“所以我的赌注是他会[在名单中]。但必须有一些证据或类似的东西让我们能够下注。因此，我的赌注是‘会’，但我们仍需看到一些表现。”

迪亚斯（颈部伤势）在 3A 康复赛中经历了最糟糕的一次登场，在 2 / 3 局中丢了 5 分并送出 2 次保送。这次糟糕的表现让他回归的时间表变得不确定。他的下一次康复赛定于周三。

“我对他的评价极高，他的数据卡看起来很棒，”罗伯茨说。“但在我们目前所处的阶段，必须有某些东西能让我们依靠。他很清楚这一点。他很清楚。他想投好球。所以对我来说，周三我们将密切关注。”

那么，谁还在候选名单中？

坦纳·斯科特（Tanner Scott）仍然是罗伯茨在救援局面下的首选。此外，亚历克斯·维西亚（Alex Vesia）、埃文·菲利普斯（Evan Phillips）、布洛克·斯图尔特（Brock Stewart）、杰克·德雷尔（Jack Dreyer）和布莱克·特赖宁（Blake Treinen）在比赛后半段都拥有经验。

周一，先发投手塔里克·斯库巴尔（Tarik Skubal）凭借 7 局零封，给球队带来了急需的喘息机会。他将红人队限制在 3 次安打和 1 次保送，在 90 球中几乎三次穿透对方的打击线。

道奇队凭借凯尔·塔克（Kyle Tucker）和特奥斯卡·赫尔南德斯（Teoscar Hernández）的本垒打（两人均已走出低谷），以及基基·赫尔南德斯（Kiké Hernández）的一支打入分单打，领先了 4 分。

在比赛仍相对胶着的情况下，维西亚在 8 局下半登场，面对左打较多的阵容末端。他成功让对方三名击球手出局。

在 9 局中，当道奇队在一次出局后将跑者送至二垒时，菲利普斯和特赖宁都在进行热身。当道奇队未能将跑者送回本垒时，菲利普斯跑入场内面对对方的阵容顶端。他投出一球高于好球区的速球，被埃利·德拉·克鲁兹（Elly De La Cruz）击出了一记高飞的个人本垒打，但随后避免了进一步的损失。

道奇队还为牛棚准备了两名新鲜力量。在将亨里克兹放入伤单并给埃米特·希汉（Emmet Sheehan）选择下放时，他们召回了鲍比·米勒（Bobby Miller）和保罗·格瓦塞（Paul Gervase）。

罗伯茨表示，他不确定这次变动对希汉意味着什么。希汉在最近两次先发中，在总计 $11^{2 / 3}$ 局中将对手限制在 1 分，并记录了 15 次三振。

“其中一部分可能取决于罗基 [佐佐]（Roki [Sasaki]），而且在牛棚情况方面，我们之后还有一次先发，”罗伯茨说。“所以我不知道，但埃米特已经尽其所能地迫使我们做出决定，我很欣赏这一点。最近两场他表现得非常好。”

佐佐（右手中指水泡）可能会在周四先发。罗伯茨表示，他周一的牛棚训练是他首次尝试用 Dermabond 覆盖手指敏感区域。

“我们不能让他陷入退步的境地，”罗伯茨说。

道奇队还将迎来更多牛棚援军。

另一名牛棚新成员是左投手克里斯·布比克（Kris Bubic），他已在辛辛那提与球队会合，并准备在本周晚些时候完成在道奇队的首秀。布比克周日在 3A 俄克拉荷马城队完成了最后一次康复赛，因此罗伯茨表示，道奇队最早可能要到周三才能将其从 60 天伤单中激活。

道奇队在交易截止日从堪萨斯城皇家队交易得到了布比克。他自5月以来一直处于伤病名单中，起初是左前臂轻微屈肌拉伤，随后又是肩峰撞击综合征。

德特默斯三振八人，率垫底天使队击败水手队

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周一晚上，里德·德特默斯在 6 局比赛中完成 8 次三振，何塞·西里和登泽·古兹曼各打入 2 分，帮助天使队以 6-4 击败了状态下滑的西雅图水手队。

德特默斯（6-8）在比赛中被击出 7 次安打并有 1 次保送，丢掉 3 分。排名第三的西雅图队（70-81）在仅剩 11 场比赛的情况下，落后美联西区领先的休斯顿队 $5 \frac{1}{2}$ 场。

瑞安·沃森投了 $1\frac{1}{3}$ 局且未丢 0 分，本·乔伊斯在第九局有 2 次保送，随后通过让 J.P. 克劳福德击出直线球被一垒接杀，取得了他的 5 次救援成功。

迈克·特劳特在第一局面对水手队新秀凯德·安德森（1-2）时击出一支一出局后的单打。西里击出了一支打入 1 分的二垒安打并盗垒至三垒，随后在沃恩·格里索姆的牺牲飞球中得分，使比分变为 2-0。

扎克·内托在第三局增加了一支打入 1 分的三垒安打，随后在西里的单打中得分，将比分扩大为 4-0。西里在天使队的 9 次安打中贡献了 3 次，并 2 次得分。

卡尔·罗利击出了他的第 22 支本垒打——这是一记面对德特默斯的三分炮，在第四局将比分缩小至 4-3。这是德特默斯在 7 次先发比赛中首次被击出本垒打。这位左投手在之前的 39 局中仅丢了 2 分。

库珀·克里斯韦尔在第五局一出局且有一人上垒时接替安德森，随后古兹曼在两出局后击出一支单打打入 2 分，使比分变为 6-3。安德森在 $4\frac{1}{3}$ 局中被击出 7 次安打并丢掉 5 分。

克劳福德在第七局击出了他的第 12 支本垒打——一记面对布莱克·魏曼的独跑本垒打。

美联社 威廉·梁 周一，天使队的韦德·梅克勒在 6-4 击败水手队的第三局中击出单打。随着这场失利，西雅图队在仅剩 11 场比赛的情况下，落后美联西区领先的休斯顿队 $5 \frac{1}{2}$ 场。

NFL

沃克首秀大放异彩，酋长队获胜

肯尼斯·沃克三世（Kenneth Walker III）在为酋长队的首秀中冲球 173 码并攻入两个达阵，抢走了部分关注度，而帕特里克·马霍姆斯（Patrick Mahomes）则在左膝手术修复后复出。周一，堪萨斯城酋长队以 31-10 击败丹佛野马队，为被对方夺走美联 AFC 西区冠军之仇进行了报复。

马霍姆斯的膝盖及其佩戴的护具似乎并未影响他的表现，他传球 184 码并贡献两次得分，同时通过冲球再次得分，帮助酋长队终结了面对该劲敌的三场连败——正是该对手终结了酋长队连续九年担任分区冠军的纪录。

沃克共冲球 23 次，创下了自 2012 年贾马尔·查尔斯（Jamaal Charles）对阵马球队冲球 226 码以来，酋长队球员单场冲球码数的最高纪录。这位前海鹰队球星还接球 3 次，推进 18 码。

与此同时，在协调员戴维斯·韦伯（Davis Webb）首次执掌进攻战术的比赛中，野马队的进攻表现糟糕至极。

博·尼克斯（Bo Nix）传球 131 码，出现一次被截球和一次掉球，野马队的总进攻码数仅为 176 码。

外接手杰伦·沃德尔（Jaylen Waddle）接球 1 次，推进 2 码。埃文·恩格拉姆（Evan Engram）以接球 4 次、推进 43 码并攻入全队唯一一个达阵的表现领跑野马队。

沃克在自由球员市场与堪萨斯城签署了一份为期三年、价值 $43.05 百万美元的合同，仅在上半场他就冲球 14 次，推进 89 码，并在后场接球数次。

野马队通过

尼克斯传给恩格拉姆的 19 码达阵传球将比分扳平，但沃克在半场结束前承担了重任，帮助酋长队组织了一次由 10 次进攻、推进 80 码的推进。这次进攻在马霍姆斯找到刚刚从膝伤中恢复的拉希·赖斯（Rashee Rice）时结束，赖斯在冲出两名野马队防守队员后进入达阵区，使半场比分为 14-7。

随后轮到沃克展现威力，他冲破一名防守队员，将一次四档一码的冲球转化为一次 60 码的达阵冲球，开启了第三节。

布兰登·琼斯（Brandon Jones）在酋长队阵地深处截获了马霍姆斯的球，为威尔·卢茨（Wil Lutz）创造了一次近距离射门机会；随后马霍姆斯与

特拉维斯·凯尔塞（Travis Kelce）完成一次 59 码的传接，为哈里森·巴特克（Harrison Butker）的射门得分铺路。

尼克斯在随后的进攻回合中掉球，使酋长队能够锁定胜局。

西雅图海鹰队四分卫萨姆·达诺德（Sam Darnold）患有“非常独特的软组织”臀部损伤，球队宣布目前尚未确定其复出时间。

球队表示，该伤势被认为是短期性的，其髋关节未受影响。他尚未被列入伤病预备名单。

达诺德似乎不太可能在周日对阵亚利桑那红雀队的比赛中出场。他周一没有参加训练。

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萨缪尔·D·亨特（SAMUEL D. Hunter）的《格兰杰维尔》（Grangeville）在拉斯金团体剧院（Ruskin Group Theatre）延长了演出，而他的《论上帝存在的理由》（A Case for the Existence of God）本月在矩阵剧院（Matrix Theater）开演。

政治电影的需求日益增长

观点 马特·布伦南 (MATT BRENNAN)

轻视意识形态作品，就是忽视了本季最紧迫、最重要的电影。

意大利威尼斯 —— 最近，当我准备观看丹尼·博伊尔 (Danny Boyle) 的《墨水》(Ink)（2026年威尼斯电影节开幕之夜的入选作品）时，在利多岛流传的一份日报上，一个占据整页的引用语在走廊对面吸引了我的注意：“以政治为食的艺术最终将死于营养不良。”

兰博基尼前首席执行官、现当代艺术家帕特里克·米姆兰 (Patrick Mimran) 的“广告牌项目”在5月双年展开始时将42条此类格言带到了这座城市。在距离好莱坞6,000英里之遥的地方，这句像汽车贴纸一样具有挑衅意味的话，读起来就像是来自美国娱乐业的一封漂流瓶信件。尤其是自2024年总统大选以来，随着高管们讨好政客，电影制作人们试图置身事外，当代政治电影受到了抨击，被更精明的“舒适观看”商业模式所取代，并被斥为“觉醒 1.0”的可怜残余。

相信我，我理解这一点。我在阿富汗和伊拉克战争的阴影下长大，那个时代产生了 [见电影，E2]

GAEL García Bernal 执导并主演《水中之人》(Hombre Al Agua)。 威尼斯电影节

人间戏剧的大师

萨缪尔·D·亨特 (Samuel D. Hunter) 目前在洛杉矶有两部剧目同时上演，他坚持认为自己最冷峻的故事依然倾向于展现坚韧

查尔斯·麦克纳尔蒂 (CHARLES MCNULTY) 戏剧评论员

萨缪尔·D·亨特擅长创作紧凑的人间戏剧，且极具冲击力。《格兰杰维尔》(Grangeville) 是洛杉矶今夏最受赞誉的戏剧作品（在拉斯金团体剧院延长演出至9月21日），而由 Rogue Machine 制作、本月初在矩阵剧院亨利·默里舞台开演的《上帝存在之证》(A Case for the Existence of God)，这两部作品都是精湛的双人剧。

尽管规模不大，但没人会用“小”来形容这些剧作。两部戏在深入挖掘构成其作品戏剧核心的行为动态时，都涵盖了更广阔的世界。

亨特被誉为爱达荷州的吟游诗人（他在那里长大，但现在不再居住），他敏锐地意识到没有人存在于心理真空之中。政治、经济、宗教和地理对角色内心世界的塑造，与童年创伤一样深远。

在曼哈顿上西区一家他经常光顾的小餐馆里，坐在亨特的对面，我不禁觉得自己像是被选中了出演他剧中的某个角色。我提前写了几个问题，但觉得没有必要死守剧本，更希望我们之间的人物互动能决定这次采访的情节。

在亨特手中，戏剧是围绕着一次邂逅构建的。他不会强迫角色去做违心的事。他倾听他们如何处理复杂的情感，密切追踪他们交汇的路径如何引导他们走向渐进式的揭秘。

亨特与丈夫和女儿住在曼哈顿上区的因伍德 (Inwood)，他来自爱达荷州的莫斯科 —— 也是他大多数剧作的背景地。他在18岁时搬到纽约在纽约大学学习剧作，但他对他离开的世界保持了惊人的忠诚。

“我见过光谱的两极，从在爱达荷州小镇的一所原教旨主义基督教学校就读，到成为一名住在纽约市的同性恋剧作家，”他说。[见亨特，E3]

评论 罗伯特·劳埃德 (ROBERT LLOYD) 电视评论员

当幽默邂逅噩梦

乔丹·门多萨（Jordan Mendoza）基于其梦境创作的新喜剧小品秀既令人不安又令人愉悦。

“乔丹·门多萨的恐怖之作”（The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza）于周日午夜在 Adult Swim 首播，这是一个最合适且可能是唯一可能的播出空间。正如其创作者在序言中所描述的那样，这是一部“《阴阳魔界》（Twilight Zone）风格的小品秀”；如果在看完 8 集 13 11 分钟长的剧集之后，他没有先这么说，我也正打算这么评价。门多萨是菲律宾裔美国人，他强调其亚洲血统，并补充道：“如果你不这么做，简直就成了种族主义。”

门多萨在剧中主演并执导，且与大卫（David）[见 Mendoza, E3]

“乔丹·门多萨的恐怖之作”于周日首播，由门多萨主演。 Adult Swim

JAY L. CLENDENIN 洛杉矶时报

一位偶像 这位美国设计师在其卓越的职业生涯中获得了九项艾美奖，全部为服装设计奖。

鲍勃·麦基（BOB MACKIE）， 1939 – 2026

星光熠熠的服装设计师

他曾为卡罗尔·伯内特（Carol Burnett）、碧昂丝（Beyoncé）、雪儿（Cher）以及许多其他艺人设计闪耀的礼服。

作者：亚历山德拉·德尔·罗萨里奥（ALEXANDRA DEL ROSARIO）

正如《查理的天使》（Charlie's Angels）主演谢丽尔·拉德（Cheryl Ladd）所描述的那样，穿着鲍勃·麦基的服装是一种“宁静的体验”。

“里面有一些骨架和支撑物，下方则有配重以使其下垂，”拉德在 1985. 年向《泰晤士报》描述道。她说，在内腰带上设有“餐前、餐中和餐后挂钩”。自 20 世纪 60 年代开始职业生涯以来，无数流行文化偶像曾穿着麦基的礼服和套装惊艳亮相，拉德便是其中之一，她谈到了这位多产的服装设计师作品中所标志性的考究与特质。

他为蒂娜·特纳（Tina Turner）创作的飘逸褶皱翼装，凸显了这位流行巨星充满活力的舞台表现力和能量。优雅的晚礼服以及不落窠臼的 [见 Mackie, E2]

政治电影饱受抨击，却比以往任何时候都更被需要

[接 E1 电影版] 它的失误之多（例如《世界贸易中心》、《狮子与羔羊》、《渲染》、《极响而极近》）远超其应有份额，而杰作则寥寥无几（其中包括《第25小时》以及，没错，《零点 the Zero Dark Thirty》）。随后，社交媒体的出现，及其从城镇广场演变为新闻滚动条，再演变为愤怒工厂的过程，促使狂热的粉丝和胆怯的评论员要求艺术承担其无法承受的更多责任。对带有明显政治色彩的流行文化的怀疑，尤其是在美国背景下，并非凭空而来。

一场紧迫的危机

在我看来，问题源于我们目前所处危机的紧迫性，以及怀疑论的错位。无论是气候变化、威权主义、收入不平等，还是无数其他问题，我们现在的麻烦比 10、20、30 年前更为严重；然而，一些荒诞的过度反应——例如最近一名 X.com 用户因《教父》的“粉丝群体主要是男性”而对其表示抵制——却不断被用作攻击我们的武器，而我们认为电影中的意识形态内容完全可以作为分析的对象。

尽管冒着被贴上抱怨者、清算者或说教者的风险，但我发现，人们对戛纳电影节表现平平的哀叹，以及对威尼斯电影节缺乏主要奖项竞争者的不满（而在威尼斯，政治电影在官方入选名单中占据主导），其本身就带有某种默许的审查意味。艺术并非因为它是非道德的就比它是道德的更有价值，而人们经常通过将其归类为“教育电视”或“取消文化”来轻视这一子类型，在我看来这是一种有用的虚构，尤其是对于那些希望将创伤情节的闪回和廉价的心理分析描述为相对细腻的人来说。

正如在《水中之人》（Hombre Al Agua）中，卡米洛（加埃尔·加西亚·贝尔纳 饰）在闲暇时观看的黑白情节剧《自由》（A Liberdade）一样，这种观点将银幕上的政治想象成充斥着意识形态宣言和卡尔·马克思语录。因此，这或许是一种因果报应：贝尔纳作为导演的第三部长片讲述了一名古巴救生员如何脱颖而出，通过婚姻进入一名墨西哥百万富翁的家族（企业），但该片浪费了两条极具潜力的副线——关于这位大亨对尤卡坦政治的特朗普式涉足，以及他的工厂工人试图拍摄一部关于其虐待行为的纪录片——转而聚焦于一场关于卡米洛被宠坏的妻子拍摄自己传记片的家庭闹剧。

2026 年的电影（从左至右）《突然之间》（All of a Sudden）、《马斯克》（Musk）和《可能的爱》（Possible Love）探讨了我们时代最棘手的问题，包括医疗保健、资本主义、技术以及上层阶级与工人阶级之间的紧张关系。

Neon, ALEX BRANDON 美联社, Netflix

尽管《水中之人》轻快的基调构思出了一些令人捧腹的画面，比如卡米洛富有的岳父为了竞选广告而艰难地划皮划艇，但其风俗喜剧的呈现却像他划过的那个被美化的泥坑一样浅薄。弗洛里安·泽勒的《地堡》（Bunker）至少让其角色参与到了它所宣称的政治之中。该片由哈维尔·巴登饰演米格尔，一名成功的建筑师，他受雇为一名技术大亨建造一座地下地堡。电影意识到中上层阶级的“地堡心态”——无论在字面意义还是比喻意义上都将自己与邻居隔绝——在规模上强化了单纯的特权与真正的淫秽之间的类似隔阂。《地堡》的问题不在于其政治立场，而在于如何呈现：它笨拙地将讽刺、家庭剧以及最后的惊悚片结合在一起，结果三者都处理得不尽如人意。

但至少他们在尝试。在这样一个聚合文化和 AI 摘要的时代，最僵硬的原创思考依然像音诗一样灵活，而真正的知识野心则像一场世俗的奇迹。也就是说，今年到目前为止我看到的最好的电影——滨口龙介对现代疾病、衰老和死亡的灵动探讨《突然之间》——其核心是一场关于政治经济学的精彩讲座（白板一应俱全），我发现自己不得不向几个认为这段戏自命不凡甚至荒诞的人辩护。当玛丽（冈本涛 饰）在深夜的咖啡时光向玛丽-露（维吉妮·埃菲拉 饰）图解资本主义及其后果时，这段戏对意识形态的持续关注产生了一种如同宿舍争论或酒吧外共抽一支烟般的推进力。它生动地展现了在运动中进行政治思考的行为，在那里，我们的原则与日常生活的混乱相遇。

因此，政治电影的“成功”或许可以定义为：无需在个人前景与意识形态背景之间进行切换。例如，李沧东出色的《可能的爱》（Possible Love）通过首先让我们关注那些在政府镇压下陷入困境的罢工者的故事，从而营造出极具爆发力的亲密结局。通过一名纪录片导演（赵汝贞 饰）与其工人阶级采访对象（全度妍 饰）之间那种难以捉摸且充满电力的化学反应，劳资关系塑造了两人的联系、冲突以及最终的分裂，直到人们很难分清个人生活从哪里开始，政治影响又在何处结束。

但即便是在最直白的纪录片中，政治电影也起到了抵御当下文化中令人疲惫的逃避主义风气的作用。亚历克斯·吉布尼（Alex Gibney）的论战式电影《马斯克》（Musk）是对埃隆·马斯克神话迄今为止最全面的拆解，它将这位世界首富描绘成谎言与运气而非天才的产物，描述了他如何从硅谷的创业文化中一路“失败向上”，最终成为总统的得力助手。该片积累了如此之多且如此详尽的证据，几乎强迫观众无法移开视线。《马斯克》认为，无论他对认可的渴望多么可悲，或其自我推销多么荒诞，我们必须首先将这位南非大亨视为极其危险的人物。

这部电影的时效性极强，读起来就像是一个来自不久后的未来的警告。例如，片中一段马斯克在2025年通过视频向极右翼的“德国选择党”（Alternative for Germany）发表讲话的片段，在看到该党在德国东部议会选举中获胜仅几天后，就显得具有高度的预兆性。同样，由《没有其他土地》（No Other Land）奥斯卡获奖者尤瓦尔·亚伯拉罕（Yuval Abraham）和瑞秋·索尔（Rachel Szor）执导的《NAZA》中的许多揭露，在拍摄过程中就已由制片方《卫报》报道。但政治电影能够唤起文字新闻和口头修辞无法实现的视觉意象。为了保护受访者的身份，电影将他们置于特拉维夫夜晚屋顶的黑暗之中。《NAZA》以以色列军方对平民死亡的委婉称呼命名，是近期记忆中最具视觉冲击力的调查纪录片之一。

电影将灯光映照的窗户中过着日常生活的以色列人，与证词、手绘图表以及其政府针对巴勒斯坦人战争罪行的档案影像进行对比，从而证明特拉维夫与加沙之间的心理距离远大于地图上标注的60公里。更激进的是，它将那些被宣传洗脑、变得麻木的人群描绘成这些罪行的共犯：在《NAZA》中，我们通过邻居窗户看到最频繁的活动就是观看爱国新闻报道、右翼评论员以及电视上的总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡。

相对于那种认为“以政治为食的艺术最终会死于营养不良”的观点，这些影像有力地提醒我们，事实上我们已经处于饥饿之中。毕竟在美国的语境下，奥斯卡奖季几乎是唯一能让大众对具有挑战性的制片厂作品、大胆的独立电影、国际长片和纪录片保持广泛且持续关注的时机。运气好的话，在接下来的几个月里，我们将反复咀嚼这里讨论的许多电影，以及迈克·李（Mike Leigh）关于社工生活的细腻切片《温柔关怀》（Tender Loving Care），以及讲述挪威家庭法院卡夫卡式程序的金棕榈奖得主《峡湾》（Fjord），但很难不认为这种碎片化的关注令人沮丧，甚至危险。面对教条主义——或者天哪，所谓的“说教”——风险，我宁愿接受偶尔出现的陈词滥调或直白目的陈述所带来的建设性紧张感。当邪恶的传教士在崛起时，正义之士难道不应该拥有他们自己的布道吗？

结交“朋友”

这个问题在朱莉娅·洛克特夫（Julia Loktev）长达11小时的巨作《我的不受欢迎的朋友们》（My Undesirable Friends）的第二部分《流亡》（Exile）中被直接提及。在片中，《新报》（Novaya Gazeta）的调查记者叶莲娜·科斯秋琴科（Elena Kostyuchenko）——她后来因报道乌克兰战争和俄罗斯专制政权而遭到投毒——激烈抨击了那种认为记者不能或不应该成为活动家的“狗屁”观念。

正如另一位受访者伊琳娜·多利宁娜（Irina Dolinina）去年在第一部分《莫斯科的最后一口空气》（Last Air in Moscow）中所解释的，保持客观——即不带道德评判——的欲望很容易演变成冷漠：“现在很流行说‘我对政治不感兴趣’。这其实是一种委婉的说法，意思是‘我对周围的世界不感兴趣。我只关心我自己，关心我今晚做什么，看什么电影’。”

这一次，多利宁娜以及洛克特夫这部扣人心弦的群体肖像画中的其他受访者，被弗拉基米尔·普京对新闻界的打击冲散在四方。《流亡》通过情节深刻地揭示了一个事实：最平凡的行为也是政治性的——不仅是参加抗议或报道故事，甚至包括办理酒店入住、开设银行账户、出售公寓。然而，尽管影片揭露了法西斯统治下生活的残酷真相，尽管受访者们在伊斯坦布尔、第比利斯、里加和阿姆斯特丹之间奔波时承受着痛苦，但当《我的不受欢迎的朋友们》全片10个章节中的第9章翻篇时，我发现自己竟然不可思议地不希望它结束。洛克特夫的朋友们也成了我的朋友——他们的个性、政治主张和未来前景对我理解世界的意义，就如同他们坐在我隔壁的办公位或住在我的隔壁街区一样重要。

不过，我与《我的不受欢迎的朋友们》之间建立的联系比单纯的认同感更为深层。在与威尼斯电影节其他首映作品的对话中——例如探讨本土俄式寡头政治的《马斯克》（Musk）、回应我们向海外输出的贪婪资本主义模式的《可能的爱》（Possible Love），以及谴责以色列政府在历任美国总统政府纵容下蓄意杀害巴勒斯坦平民的《NAZA》——《流亡》在我看来，就像多利宁娜对她那些梦游般麻木的同胞的抱怨一样，在向好莱坞的观众发出警告。我们可能对政治不感兴趣，但政治绝对对我们感兴趣。

这种构建团结的能力才是政治电影真正的变革力量。它不需要说服我们所有人都是相似的，而只需向我们展示，即便在差异之中，我们依然紧密相连。毕竟，即将到来的斗争——不对，是当前的斗争——其规模超越了任何国家或艺术形式，在这种斗争中，我认为即使是最钝的武器也最好留在桌上。套用现在社交媒体上在每次火灾或洪水期间流传的一句关于气候变化的格言：可预见的未来的政治，将表现为一系列通过影像观看的灾难，而这些影像拍摄的地点将离你的住处越来越近。

直到你成为那个拍摄的人。

时装与戏服设计师曾为星光熠熠的巨星打造造型

JAY L. CLENDENIN 洛杉矶时报 坎普风之王 哈里·朗登 Getty Images 著名的戏服与时装设计师鲍勃·麦基（Bob Mackie，照片拍摄于2019年）以其精致、闪耀且带有流苏的作品而闻名。在他众多的著名合作中，包括与歌手兼演员雪儿（Cher，右图）的合作，后者在1978年身着麦基设计的服装摆拍。

[麦基，接E1] 为《卡罗尔·伯内特》（The Carol Burnett）节目设计的戏服，反映了该节目同名主持人的多才多艺与喜剧风格，伯内特后来成为了他的长期合作伙伴。一件皮夹克搭配一件大胆的网眼连体衣——在当时被认为具有争议——再次肯定了雪儿作为永恒的冒险者和潮流引领者的地位。这些被记录在包括大都会艺术博物馆在内的时尚历史馆中的令人难忘的服装，以及它们对现代时尚的影响，是麦基无可替代的遗产，他去世时享年87岁。

根据该设计师官方Instagram页面发布的一篇悼文，这位多产的戏服设计师、南加州原住民于周一去世。他的公关人员向美联社确认，他因肺炎在棕榈泉去世。

声明称：“他充分地度过了他的87年人生，实现了成为一名时装和戏服设计师的梦想，这也是他一直以来唯一想做的事情。他的天才和非凡的设计将永远流传。”

麦基在国际上被誉为“坎普风之王”（King of Camp），最著名的作品是为戴安娜·罗斯（Diana Ross）、多莉·帕顿（Dolly Parton）、碧昂丝（Beyoncé）和麦莉·赛勒斯（Miley Cyrus）等超级巨星打造的精致、闪耀且带有流苏的服装。他在20世纪60年代开始在电视和电影领域开展职业生涯，在数十年的职业生涯中，共获得了九项艾美奖、三次奥斯卡金像奖提名（包括因芭芭拉·史翠珊的《有趣女士》获得提名）以及一项托尼奖。他在《卡罗尔·伯内特秀》全部11季的播出期间为其设计服装，并与雪儿密切合作，为《雪儿秀》、她的音乐录影带和演唱会巡演打造了令人难忘的造型。

“有些时装设计师不做戏服，有些戏服设计师不做时装。而鲍勃两者兼顾，”伯内特在分享到Instagram的悼文中说道，“没有人能像他那样。”

麦基原名罗伯特·戈登·麦基（Robert Gordon Mackie），1939年3月24日出生于蒙特雷公园。他在60年代中期首次崭露头角，当时艺人米齐·盖诺（Mitzi Gaynor）希望更新时尚风格，委托该设计师为其设计服装。这促成了他与《卡罗尔·伯内特秀》的缘分以及与雪儿的合作。

他的职业生涯还包括戏剧作品，为百老汇剧作《在城中》（On the Town，由伯纳黛特·彼得斯出演）、《明内利谈明内利》（Minnelli On Minnelli，由莉莎·明内利出演）以及与伯内特合作的《水牛之月》（Moon Over Buffalo）和《组合在一起》（Putting It Together）进行设计。他还为戴安娜·罗斯和至尊女声组合（the Supremes）设计礼服，并为琼·里弗斯（Joan Rivers）、麦当娜（Madonna）和埃尔顿·约翰（Elton John）打造造型。麦基还绘制了玛丽莲·梦露在1962年的一次筹款活动中，为肯尼迪总统演唱气息轻盈的《生日快乐》时所穿的那件著名的白色礼服草图。

麦基曾就读于帕萨迪纳城市学院学习广告和插画，随后在舒纳德艺术学院（Chouinard Art Institute）学习戏服设计。在加入《卡罗尔·伯内特秀》之前，他曾在戏服设计师伊迪丝·海德（Edith Head）手下工作。除了为名人及公众人物打造华丽造型外，他在80年代还尝试进入零售业，推出了内衣、高级珠宝和香水系列。他还为美泰公司（Mattel）设计了芭比娃娃。

他于2002年入选电视艺术与科学学院名人堂，并且是2024年纪录片《鲍勃·麦基：裸露的幻象》（Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion）的主角。

麦基从1960年到1963年与舞女露露·波特（Lulu Porter）结婚；他们的儿子、化妆师罗伯特·戈登·麦基二世（Robert Gordon Mackie Jr.）在35岁时死于艾滋病。他的长期伴侣、戏服设计师雷·阿加扬（Ray Aghayan）于2011年去世。

美联社对本报道亦有贡献。

在苍凉的世界中前行

STEPHANIE DIANI 为《时报》撰写

[Hunter，见E1]

“我们收入的大头来自剧本创作。但讽刺的是，我大部分时间都花在创作舞台剧上。我获得最高报酬的剧本，往往是那些从未面世的作品。这就是剧本创作有趣的地方。”

—— 萨缪尔·D·亨特（SAMUEL D. HUNTER），剧作家兼编剧 “那是两种截然不同的生活。两者对我而言都很有价值，但我直到 30 多岁才意识到，我仍在与自我的不同面向作斗争。”

JOHN PERRIN FLYNN JEFF LORCH JEFF LeBEAU（左）和 Tim Cummings 在亨特的剧作《格兰杰维尔》（Grangeville）中展现了大师级的演技。 CARLO MANCASOLA（左）和 Nicholas Anthony Reid 在《上帝存在的理由》（A Case for the Existence of God）中演出。

他将自己与宗教的关系视为紧张局势的来源之一，但对他而言，更持久的冲突可能是城乡之间的分歧。

“我结婚了，有一个孩子和两只狗，”他说。“我们在纽约市拥有一套公寓。我想，在目前这个阶段，我很大程度上是个纽约人。但每当我进入某些场合，比如托尼奖颁奖礼，甚至是一些高端餐厅时，我仍然会感到有些不安。我想这也许就是为什么我继续创作以爱达荷州为背景的剧本，并将它们搬上纽约市的舞台，因为我试图为自己和他人地搭建一座沟通的桥梁。”

人们对“飞越区”（flyover country，指美国中西部被忽视的地区）的轻视态度，在索尔·斯坦伯格（Saul Steinberg）著名的 1976 年《纽约客》封面中得到了完美的讽刺——在那幅画中，美国的地图被简化成了曼哈顿和西海岸。这种态度对他而言是个人化的。

“最近，因为爱达荷州谋杀案，我的家乡被大量报道，”他说。“我认为住在那里的人感到受到了攻击。所有这些沿海媒体涌入这个小镇，用一件极其糟糕的事情来定义它。而现在，这就像牛身上的耳标一样，永远地贴在了我的家乡身上，而我的家乡从我的高祖父担任那里第一任邮政局长起就一直存在。”

亨特最著名的作品是剧作《鲸》（The Whale），该剧被改编为 2022 年由达伦·阿伦诺夫斯基执导的电影。布兰登·费舍凭借在片中饰演一名离群索居、患有病态肥胖的写作教师而获得奥斯卡奖，该角色试图在身体崩溃之前与疏远的青春期女儿重新建立联系。对于一名被推向红毯聚光灯下的剧作家来说，那是一段令人亢奋的时光。

“我不敢相信人们能经历不止一次这样的过程，”他说。“感觉太疯狂了。我一直在飞机上。这很有趣，但同时也压力巨大。我 27 岁时写了那部剧。听着，我热爱那部剧，而且永远会热爱，但它感觉就像是我 27 岁时写的东西。在 40 多岁时重新审视它是一次疯狂的经历。但那很棒。我全程都在片场。我与达伦和布兰登紧密合作，布兰登至今仍是我亲密的朋友。”

舞台上的《鲸》比电影版更含蓄；其隐喻在剧院那种灵动的氛围中效果更好，因为它们最初就是为此而设计的。亨特明白，剧作在不同媒介之间必须做出改变。令他感到意外的是，电影发行时引发的关于“恐肥症”（fatophobia）的讨论。

“这很困难，因为在我 20 多岁的时候，我的体重要重得多，”他说。“我用进食来发泄情绪。进食成了抑郁的一种形式。我写这部剧部分是为了处理所有这些东西以及我感到的羞耻感。我试图用它做一些积极的事情，所以反过来被指责为令人羞耻，这让我很难受，因为这与我的初衷相去甚远。”

亨特的作品似乎很容易转化为电影或电视作品。从表面上看，他的剧本围绕角色的情感生活展开，给人一种回归传统现实主义的感觉。但其写作方式并不像看起来那样简单。剧中发生的转变——不仅是时间的推移，还包括物理空间的转移——都与剧中情感基调的剧烈变动紧密相连。

“我很想把自己塑造一个圣人，一个单纯热爱人类并关注共情的人，”他在谈到自己的创作时说道，“虽然我确实关注共情，但我认为这更多是一种美学方法，而非一种对同胞们自以为是的慈善行为。我对剧本创作感兴趣的原因在于，它表达的不是单一的观点。而是一种更广泛的理解维度，我所有最喜欢的剧本都源于此。这些作品的美妙之处在于，其中没有作者的主导声音。”

早年接触到桑顿·怀尔德的《我们的城镇》和托尼·库什纳的《天使在美洲》激励他去追求这份经济上并不稳定的职业。他在纽约大学（NYU）一年级时看到的爱德华·阿尔比的《关于婴儿的剧本》是另一部让他意识到戏剧可以具有多么强大的弹性和包容性的作品。

“我不知道如果我在纽约市长大，今天是否还会成为一名剧作家，因为我觉得我会被那里吓到，”他说，“我只是在16或17岁时偶然发现我想写剧本，因为我热爱这种形式，而不是因为我接触到了大量美国剧坛的新作。《天使在美洲》是我唯一知道的比较新的剧本。”

没有在纽约这个戏剧温室中长大，另一个好处是他作为年轻艺术家所获得的接纳。“17岁时，在我写完第一部剧本后，我去了当地的社区剧院，他们给了我300美元，我们和一群非常友好的当地演员一起将其搬上了舞台，”他说，“如果在纽约市，他们可能会说：‘别急，萨姆。先去参加这个10分钟短剧工作坊，然后修改90遍草稿，之后我们再安排一次试读。’而我在16岁时写了一部近三小时的剧本，演员们直接就把它演出来了。”

在纽约大学毕业后，亨特在爱荷华大学的剧作家工作坊攻读艺术硕士（MFA）。随后他回到纽约在茱莉亚学院深造，在剧作家玛莎·诺曼（《夜晚，母亲》作者）的影响下，他将此前吸收的不同戏剧结构方法进行了调和。

“玛莎让我回到了正轨，因为她强调的核心是，我们是讲故事的人，”他说，“每个人整天都在四处狩猎采集，而我们的工作就是在一天结束时让这一切变得有意义。她提醒我，这不仅仅关乎我个人的奇思妙想。这与那些在黑暗中坐了两个小时的观众之间存在一份契约。我在纽约大学严苛的戏剧理论和我在爱荷华州尝试的更实验性的方向之间找到了平衡点。”

去年秋天，亨特凭借《小熊岭路》（Little Bear Ridge Road）实现了他的百老汇剧作家首秀，该剧被纽约戏剧评论家协会评为2025-26年度最佳剧本。这部由乔·曼特洛执导、源自斯特潘沃尔夫剧团（Steppenwolf Theatre Company）的作品由劳里·麦特卡尔夫主演。亨特表示，如果她愿意，他很乐意在职业生涯的余下时间里一直为她写剧本。

就评论界的认可度和制作机会而言，亨特是他这一代中最成功的剧作家之一。然而，戏剧并不是他的主要经济来源。

“我们的医疗保险和绝大部分收入都来自剧本创作，”他说。“但讽刺的是，我大部分时间都花在创作舞台剧上。我获得最高报酬的剧本，很多从未面世。这就是剧本创作有趣的地方。而直到现在，我仍然无法依靠那些在世界各地演出的舞台剧维持生计。如果我们没有孩子，也不住在纽约市，也许还能勉强过活。但那样我们就没有医疗保险了。我之所以能有医疗保险，全靠美国编剧工会（Writers Guild of America）。”

在他已经如此丰富的作品集中，是否有哪一部是他认为高于其他作品的？

“我会说是《上帝存在的理由》（A Case for the Existence of God），并不是说它是我的最爱，而是我觉得自己与之有很深的情感纽带，”他说。“部分原因是它与我成为父亲这段经历相关，部分原因是它是我在疫情结束后创作的第一部剧。在那段时间里，我没有写任何新剧，那感觉很可怕。”

《理由》的故事发生在爱达荷州双瀑市（Twin Falls）一家房产经纪人的单调办公室里。

基思（Keith，由尼古拉斯·安东尼·里德饰演）是一名抚养幼儿的黑人同性恋男性，他正试图帮助瑞安（Ryan，由卡洛·曼卡索拉饰演）——一名带着幼女的离婚男子——获得一笔贷款，以便瑞安最终能在早年属于其家族的一块土地上建房。

亨特知道，对于一部讲述两个单身父亲坐在隔断办公桌旁长谈贷款文件和利率的剧作来说，这个标题可能显得“宏大得荒谬”。但他的意图是，当这两个男人意识到他们共有的一种“特定的悲伤”时，让观众也随之“寻找这部剧真正的意图”。

“我看过太多钱财不真实的剧作了，”他说。“在那些剧里，人们就住在棕色石屋里，但这并不是我对世界的认知。我们正日益生活在一种将个人价值与银行账户挂钩的文化中。我父亲整个职业生涯都在一个叫刘易斯顿（Lewiston）的小镇担任急诊室医生，他一直感叹，有太多的人只要遭遇一次轻微受伤或汽车故障，就会陷入彻底的毁灭。”

这是约翰·佩林·弗林（John Perrin Flynn）执导的第五部亨特作品，弗林是 Rogue Machine 剧团的创始艺术总监。第一部为 Rogue Machine 创作的是《波伊西的新光芒》（A Bright New Boise），随后是《永久影像》（A Permanent Image）和《波卡特洛》（Pocatello）。而弗林为拉斯金团体剧院（Ruskin Group Theatre）执导的《格兰杰维尔》（Grangeville），则包含了蒂姆·卡明斯（Tim Cummings）和杰夫·勒博（Jeff LeBeau）不容错过的演技大师课。

亨特称弗林为“他在洛杉矶剧作的守护者”，弗林还出演了由埃琳娜·德·桑托斯（Elina De Santos）执导的 Rogue Machine 剧作《伟大的荒野》（A Great Wilderness）。是什么让他一次次回归？

“萨姆讲述的是那些在阴郁的世界中寻求生存、在沉默中绝望的人们的故事，”弗林通过电子邮件回复道。“他创造的角色细腻、可爱且有缺陷，故事在他们彼此的互动中演进。他的剧作非常幽默，但这种幽默源于关于‘坚持下去需要什么’的真实感。他的剧作中涉及重大议题，但这些议题深深植根于故事之中。剧作本身并非关于议题，议题只是存在于那里，就像在我们的生活中一样。最重要的是，在萨姆举起这面镜子向我们展示当下的生活方式时，其中总有希望。”

亨特说，自从成为父亲后，他已经没有奢侈到可以保持愤世嫉俗的地步了。

“有时我对那种‘哇，我们都要下地狱了，哈哈哈！’的态度感到反感，”他说。“那种愤世嫉俗是廉价且浅薄的，它伪装成智能与博学。向‘世界将毁灭’这种想法投降，简直是不负责任。”

“因为当我的女儿 50、60 或 70 岁时，这个世界依然会存在，”他继续说道。“我不知道那个世界会是什么样子，但 1926 年的人们也不知道 2026 年会是什么样子。而我们也不知道 2126 年会是什么样子。它将会是美丽的、糟糕的、恐怖的，也是神圣的。我并非在提供毫无节制的乐观主义。但我认为这就是《上帝存在的理由》所探讨的：即存在着延续性。而这就是我所信仰的，无论这种延续性呈现出怎样的面貌。”

《乔丹·门多萨的恐怖》（The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza）涉足幽默与诡异地带

[门多萨，见E1] 编写该剧的马查耶夫斯基（Machajewski）表示，部分创意源自真实的梦境——标题中的“恐怖”即是指噩梦——不过，如果以我自己的梦境生活为参照，这部剧的笑点更聪明，叙事则既更怪诞又更具凝聚力。它在不同时刻让人想起大卫·林奇（David Lynch）的阴森感或路易斯·布努埃尔（Luis Buñuel）的非逻辑跳跃，且带有某种《文斯·斯台普斯秀》（The Vince Staples Show）的味道，后者在其过短的生命周期中也曾探索过一些奇怪的领域。

长度不一的素描剧将一个核心创意向各个方向延伸，且延伸程度往往超出你的预期。我们遇到了一位痴迷于温蒂汉堡（Wendy's）的治疗师。蝙蝠侠坚信自己患有成人多动症（ADHD），因为一个在线测试这么告诉他（他告诉阿尔弗雷德：“我知道很多人声称自己有ADHD，但在我的情况下，我认为我真的有……我很有创意但容易崩溃，有条理但同时又没条理”）。一个垂死之人（史蒂夫·布塞米 饰）执着于把遗言说对；一名囚犯被判处接受来自“最近法官”的“15 hugs and kisses”。一名劫持人质的银行抢劫犯要求成为“一条著名的蛇……如果你不能接受这一点，那么这里的每个人都得死”。在一场恐怖电影的模仿剧中，门多萨被一群中年白人男子纠缠，这些人强迫他承认他们的妻子是亚洲人，这听起来确实像是某种个人经历。

无论喜剧走向何方，其表演都极其严肃且充满强度，恐怖感亦然。这部剧可以真正地令人不安，也可以真正地令人发笑。（两件事可以同时成立。）还有一个场景中，门多萨饰演一个坚信自己是哈利·波特巫师的角色，他撞上了一堵他认为自己能穿过去的砖墙；对我来说，没有什么比这更让我发笑的了，除非是有人撞到了低矮的门框，或者因为各种非致命原因突然摔倒。

现年30多岁的门多萨拥有多项编剧和表演资历，包括为《戴夫》（Dave）编写剧本——这部由戴夫·伯德（Dave Burd）主演的喜剧讲述了一个来自费城的郊区犹太人，他相信自己命中注定要在说唱界取得伟大成就；他还出演了胡里奥·托雷斯（Julio Torres）的《问题主义者》（Problemista）和《幽灵》（Fantasmas），这些作品都处于另类喜剧的同一领域。他拥有一个人脉广泛的通讯录；对于一个首次制作剧集的人来说，其嘉宾名单之豪华令人印象深刻。

伟大的玛莎·凯利（Martha Kelly，出演过《篮筐》）饰演一名能将客户痛苦外化的按摩师；在另一场素描剧中，她扮演一名参加坚信礼课程的女性，目的是为了弄清楚耶稣回来时可能会“寄宿”在哪里（她有一个计划）。凯特·伯兰特（Kate Berlant）邀请门多萨参加一场结果证明是单人诗歌朗诵会的活动，该活动秘密举行以避开朗诵者工会（“他们就像索普拉诺家族一样，只不过更暴力”）。克里斯·帕内尔（Chris Parnell），

Adult Swim 上图为门多萨，他与大卫·马查耶夫斯基共同编写这部恐怖喜剧。

兰德尔·帕克（Randall Park）、万达·赛克斯（Wanda Sykes）、托马斯·伦农（Thomas Lennon）、克莉亚·杜瓦尔（Clea DuVall）、莱克·贝尔（Lake Bell）、托比·哈斯（Toby Huss）、马克·马龙（Mark Maron）、弗雷德·阿米森（Fred Armisen）以及格雷格·特金顿（Gregg Turkington，来自《电影院看电影》的世界）全部参与其中。

通过上述内容，你应该能判断这是否是你的菜。（它不会适合所有人，但绝对符合我那阴暗、古怪的口味。）但实际上，它比这些描述可能让你猜测的还要好，一流的制作、自信的表演（门多萨本人的表现也非常出色）以及每个人对当时任何片段的投入，提升了整体水准。魔鬼隐藏在细节之中。

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白羊座（3月21日-4月19日）：你今天所进行的模拟生活将回报你的专注，而不是与之竞争。

金牛座（4月20日-5月20日）：当你的潜力在等待关注时，请避免花任何时间去注意到或沉溺于未被发掘的天赋所带来的忧伤。

双子座（5月21日-6月21日）：最近你在脑海中思考的时间已经足够多了，因此，获得一个你能身体感受到或在物理世界中看到的胜利将是非常棒的。

巨蟹座（6月22日-7月22日）：你被提醒，生活总是在向前滚动，但每一次微小的变化都会创造出不同程度的深度、距离或温度。

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处女座（8月23日-9月22日）：今天不要过度担心如何让一切对他人来说都变得轻松。

天秤座（9月23日-10月23日）：相信你的奉献能力。你可以赋予一个主题神圣的能量，这种能量存在于你心中，正如它存在于任何人心中一样。

天蝎座（10月24日-11月21日）：事实是，你始终善良且从不将他人视为理所当然，而他们今天再次为你出现。

射手座（11月22日-12月21日）：无需进行赛后分析，因为今天的宇宙馈赠是所有人都能立即理解的无可否认的举措。

摩羯座（12月22日-1月19日）：你可能会强烈地感到需要让自己被那些能反映你真实自我的人事物包围，因为现在将你的全部自我投入到你所创造的事物中极其重要。

水瓶座（1月20日-2月18日）：你将用一个优雅的举动解决一个长期存在的问题。答案可能简单到让你对回收站里那些复杂的计划付之一笑。

双鱼座（2月19日-3月20日）：成年人在意识到每个人在某种程度上都在有所保留的情况下，设法优雅地进行沟通。

今日生日（9月15日）：在你的“温雨之年”，你狂野的心得到了繁荣所需的一切滋养，而这一切似乎直接来自上天，且分量恰到好处，极易吸收。更多亮点：教育被立即应用于改善人际关系和获得丰厚的工作。当你与选定的家人共同建设时，将获得和平、自豪和产出。热门门票与乐趣。双鱼座和白羊座崇拜你。幸运数字：30, 10, 12, 9 和 15。

Mathis 为 Creators Syndicate Inc. 撰写专栏。星座运势仅供娱乐。

编辑：Patti Varol 作者：Faren Roth

横向 1 准备，如准备制作牛油果酱的牛油果 5 当一切似乎都不顺利时 11 现名为 Scouting America 的组织 14 导演 Preminger 15 珍珠奶茶中的珍珠 16 Duolingo 的鸟 17 包括每一个缺陷 19 短距离游泳 20 诗歌缪斯 21 试用版 22 老派的酷 23 仪式行为 25 像锯齿刀一样 28 乡村歌手 Paisley 30 像非洲菜肴 baris iskukaris 一样 31 吠叫 34 搭车去海滩？ 37 更令人愉快 38 绿色前缀 39 稳操胜券，或本谜题圆圈元素的语音提示？ 41 朝向船舵 42 __ Dame 大学 44 勉强 / 一般 45 极小的 46 消耗量超过 48 足球名人堂的 Mia 50 在过去几天里 53 洗衣容器 57 “请停止分享！” 58 首屈一指 60 大约 61 trans 的反义词 62 可能吸引婴儿潮一代的广播格式 64 手术室后的区域 65 句子结尾 66 国际网球名人堂的 Arthur 67 埃及蝰蛇 68 评估 69 主演角色

纵向 1 割草机 2 电子游戏先驱 3 Fender 吉他的俗称 4 按摩浴缸 5 希腊语的快乐欢呼 6 为自己__ 7 渐变发型

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作者：弗兰克·斯图尔特 (FRANK STEWART)

愤世嫉俗的赛（Cy）观察到，如果罪孽的代价是立即支付的，那么这种代价将不再那么诱人。至少在我俱乐部的每日便士赛中是这样的：你输了，在比赛结束时结账。

赛是今天的北家，当他跳叫黑桃4时，南家大胆地叫到了6。西家是埃德（Ed），是我俱乐部最优秀的选手，他领出红心Q。南家拿走A，用明手的K抽掉缺失的将牌，接着领出一张方块：J、Q、K。埃德回了一张方块，东家在最后赢得了一手方块戏。少了一手。

“你搞砸了，”赛对他搭档低吼道，“在第二手时吃掉一张红心，领出——”

8 严肃的类型 9 绿灯 10 时尚品牌字母标志 11 店铺中帮助控制害虫的猫科动物 12 在约会软件上表达没兴趣 13 例如：勃朗峰 18 像龙一样飞行 22 电视电缆字母 24 睫毛 26 许多年 27 像 53-Across 中的衣服那样，大概 29 成双成对 31 以萨拉米香肠闻名的意大利城市 32 声音科学 33 “干杯！” 35 小猪（Piglet）跳跃的好友 36 鲱鱼，但不是红鲱鱼（误导信息） 39 使其气密 40 《怪奇物语》演员施纳普 (Schnapp) 43 贷款调整（简称） 45 罪恶的 47 台球厅固定装置

咨询埃里克

亲爱的埃里克：我的朋友“杰克”（Jac）经历了一次非常公开的“崩溃”，并被要求入住康复中心治疗他长达 20 年的药物成瘾。在治疗一年后，他没有改变，继续伤害他人，并将自己的诸多缺点归咎于他人。这种情况被称为“干醉”（dry drunk），即一个清醒的人仍然表现得像处于活跃成瘾状态的人一样。

你完全可以与杰克设定界限，告诉他你为他戒毒而感到自豪，但你们之间仍然存在一些需要——

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DOWN（纵向）

我的一个朋友认为每个人都应该为他“戒毒成功”而感到非常自豪，但他依然是那个原来的他。他的朋友们该如何告诉 Jac，在他能被我们“重新接纳为朋友”之前，他需要做出重大改变？他正在执行一个 12 步计划。

49 像一些女同性恋者，俚语表达 51 悲伤或喜悦的迹象 52 美甲沙龙品牌 54 普通写作 55 素描：绘画玩具 56 可能堆了一堆落叶 59 通用鸡 61 间谍科幻组织 62 报税专业人士 63 带图的卡片 前一谜题的答案

耐心等待 第 8 和第 9 步

亲爱的 Patiently：在经历了 20 年的深度成瘾后，Jac 可能需要一年多时间才能重新整理生活，或者能以真正的清醒态度审视自己的行为和处境。戒瘾是一个一天天推进的旅程，看来他仍在应对一些旧的行为模式，而这些模式在过去曾给他和他人带来痛苦。

将主牌出给明手，并吃掉最后一颗红心。然后出主牌给明手，回出梅九，接着出你的十。当西家赢牌时，他回出的任何牌都能让你赢得第 12 墩。

比赛结束时，Ed 和往常一样是大赢家，而 Cy 必须支付赔款。

“罪孽的代价大概不会被记录在案，”那个愤世嫉俗的人抱怨道。至少我在我的专栏里记录了这件事。

你持有：♠ K 9 8 5 3 2 ♥ A 7 3 ♦ 6 5 2 ♣ 9。你的搭档开叫 1NT。下一位玩家过牌。你怎么叫？

答案：我无法想象在“转移”响应出现之前，玩家们是如何处理这手牌的；大概他们会叫四 spades（叫高了）或两 spades（叫低了）。叫两 hearts，一个转移。当搭档叫两 spades，

在你能完全让他回到你的生活中之前，他需要先解决这些问题。但这并不是你或其他朋友的责任去举行某种形式的“朋友干预”。Jac 需要与他的指导员一起面对这些挑战和缺陷。

亲爱的 Eric：当我还是个年轻女性时，我处于一段虐待关系中。这段关系生了一个儿子，他现在 50 多岁了。

你要求儿子不要给你打电话是对的。像你这样设立的界限通常有助于在健康的距离下维持关系。他现在有责任处理自己的虐待倾向，然后在你愿意接受的情况下向你赔罪。

他同样具有虐待倾向。在他年轻时还住在家里期间，他曾试图打我。现在他成年了，在电话里对我说话很刻薄。上一次他表现出这种行为时，我要求他不要给我打电话。

他让我心烦。我不怀念那些电话。不过，我确实希望他过得好。我做得对吗？请指教。

亲爱的 No Calls：我很遗憾你遭受了儿子及其父亲的虐待。让自己脱离这些情况可能非常困难，尤其是因为虐待者不尊重界限。

No Calls

升到三，暗示有六张同花色且有七或八个高牌点，由他来判断。

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亲爱的 Eric：我对那位在结婚 40 年后感到不快乐的写信人（“处于边缘”）深有共鸣。我已经结婚 62 年了，虽然我爱我的配偶，但退休带来了一些负面影响，而这些在两人都出门工作时更容易被忽视。

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我们发现，加入从事不同活动的团体、做志愿者甚至兼职工作，有助于我们更好地规划时间，减少产生负面情绪的时间。

我们多年来建立的友谊如果因为分开而失去，将是一个巨大的损失。如果“处于边缘”能找到一些能让两人共同参与的外部兴趣，他们就能度过这段婚姻的难关。

家庭马戏团 (FAMILY CIRCUS) 作者：比尔·基恩 (Bil Keane) 淘气包丹尼斯 (DENNIS THE MENACE) 作者：汉克·凯查姆 (Hank Ketcham)

亲爱的“经历之辈” (Been There)：感谢你提供的绝佳视角。婚姻在退休后的状态可能与养育孩子、照顾病人或生命中许多其他阶段的状态完全不同。对于夫妻双方来说，共同努力重新了解彼此以及重新认识自己会很有帮助。

“嗨，妈妈！今天家里怎么样？” 自由放养 (FREE RANGE) 作者：比尔·怀特海德 (Bill Whitehead)

极乐 (BLISS) 作者：哈里·布利斯 (Harry Bliss)

“是我疯了，还是这真的是地球上最棒的狗？” “威尔逊先生必须闭上眼睛才能让脚休息。” 马马杜克 (MARMADUKE) 作者：布拉德和保罗·安德森 (Brad & Paul Anderson)

“但马马杜克坚持要求我们购买带震动功能的。” 速度颠簸 (SPEED BUMP) 作者：戴夫·科弗利 (Dave Coverly)

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LIZ WAGNER, Project Street Vet operations manager, checks on a man and his dog on Skid Row in July.

Political leaders at odds as AI fears spread

President Trump blames the backlash on a ‘conspiracy’ perpetuated by China.

BY MICHAEL WILNER

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday forcefully rejected calls to slow the development of artificial intelligence, dismissing concerns about its risks as a “hoax” and warning the United States remains locked in a fierce technological race with China.

The president's position has put him at odds with a growing chorus of industry leaders and bipartisan lawmakers warning that AI could soon advance beyond human control.

Top executives from three of the country's leading AI companies — OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei and SpaceXAI's Elon Musk — issued exceptional calls this past weekend for collaboration on a path forward that could “pace the frontier” of AI development.

Rare flashes of bipartisanship have also emerged on Capitol Hill, where Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican, is working with Democrats on legislation aimed at guarding against AI's most catastrophic risks, including its potential use to develop biological weapons.

And Democratic elders, including former President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have urged their party to treat the threats posed by AI as an acute national security crisis.

[See AI, A6]

Talk of pause hits tech stocks hard

AI chiefs call for slowing advances, but others in industry reject doomsday scenarios. BUSINESS, A9

A fight over the plight of dogs on Skid Row

BY SANDRA MCDONALD AND JENNY JARVIE

In the heart of Skid Row on a hot summer afternoon, Amber Willard pushed a skinny brown and white pit bull named Athena on a rolling office chair.

Victoriah Bech Parker, founder of the Starts With One Today animal rescue group, offered the dog a bowl of wet food.

"You don't look too good," Bech Parker cooed as she bent down to pet Athena with a gloved hand. The dog's ribs poked out, her skin was irritated and red, and patches of fur were missing — a possible sign of mange.

Willard, an unhoused woman originally from Alaska, said she hadn't been on Skid Row long: Her landlord had suddenly kicked her out. She wanted a dog for companionship and protection, she said, and got Athena for free from a man on a corner a few days before. She said she had tried to bathe Athena, but declined

Bech Parker's offer of a free vet appointment.

As Willard wheeled Athena away, fussing with an umbrella to offer the dog shade, Bech Parker shook her head in frustration.

“That dog really needs some proper care,” Bech Parker said.

Athena is just one of the dogs Bech Parker and other activists hope to save as they warn that a full-blown animal crisis is unfolding on Skid Row.

On social media and in legal filings, animal advocates complain that the 50-block zone in downtown Los Angeles that's home to thousands of unhoused people is an epicenter of animal neglect and cruelty. City officials, they say, are failing to enforce animal welfare laws. Many dogs, like Athena, are malnourished and have [See Dogs, A14]

HARRIS, left, shown in 2023, and Newsom have never run for the same office.
ALEX GALLARDO Associated Press

Newsom won't battle Harris

'I wouldn't run if she ran' for president in '28, he says

BY JUSTINE MCDANIEL

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would not run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028 if Kamala Harris does so, appearing to offer deference to the former vice president ahead of a race that could draw a historically crowded field of candidates.

“I wouldn’t run if she ran,” Newsom told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview posted Monday. “Why would

I? I wouldn't do that to her. ... I wouldn't do it to you, I wouldn't waste everyone's time."

Newsom appeared to acknowledge a desire to avoid the possibly messy fight for California backers that could ensue if both were to run, saying there would be “pure crossover” between Harris’ supporters and his.

The governor's effective yield to Harris diminishes the possibility of a showdown between two of California's most powerful political figures in an election whose stakes are viewed by the Democratic Party as existential. The possibility of Harris making a second attempt at the presidency after her loss to President Trump in 2024 has hung as the biggest question over the potential Democratic field.

Both Newsom and Harris have acknowledged they are considering presidential bids in 2028, but Harris has closely held her intentions. She said last week that she had not decided whether to run, telling former soccer

[See Newsom, A7]

With Ballmer's apology, Clippers can move on

BY KEVIN BAXTER

Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and his staff had spent the last 12 months loudly insisting they'd done nothing wrong.

The podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out” first raised questions about payments star forward Kawhi Leonard received from Aspiration

Partners without doing any endorsement work to benefit the company on Sept. 3, 2025. The NBA responded by starting an investigation.

In its findings — released Sept. 2 — an independent law firm reported “a pattern of misconduct and multiple significant rules violations” that benefited Leonard, who received \$66 million in cash and equity from four companies through agreements facilitated by Ballmer and team executives at the request of Leonard's uncle and then-agent. Those deals violated the league salary cap, which limits how much teams can pay players. The cap is \$164.961 million for the coming season.

The Clippers released two statements that same day, protesting the finding and the stiffest sanctions in NBA history, including a \$30-million fine and the loss of five future first-round draft picks. In addition, Ballmer, 69, was banned from all league activities for the next year.

After immediately calling the NBA's investigation "biased" and vowing to "vigorously challenge these find-

[See Clippers, A11]

Supreme Court halts Trump's proposed limits on mail ballots

Decision is a victory for California and 22 other states that sued to block new rules.

BY DAVID G. SAVAGE AND KEVIN RECTOR

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has blocked President Trump's plan to restrict voting by mail, ruling it is too late to impose new U.S. Postal Service rules for the November election.

The justices on Monday turned down an emergency appeal from Trump's lawyers, who argued the government needed a new and untested system of unique barcodes to track all the ballots of the tens of millions of people who vote by mail.

Instead, the justices left in place a judge's order that prevents the Postal Service from enforcing the new rules for the midterm elections.

Concurring, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh agreed it was too late to enforce the new rules for this election.

Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas dissented.

The decision in USPS vs. California is a victory for California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and the attorneys general for 22 other Democrat-led states who sued to block the new rules.

Last week, they warned there would be chaos and confusion if Trump's rules were put in effect now.

Bonta cheered the decision late Monday, calling it "a victory for our democracy and a powerful affirmation of the rule of law" in a case

[See Ballots, A7]

EPA removes curbs on power plant emissions

Agency cites energy costs, but experts say sweeping rollback will drive climate change.

change globally.

BY HAYLEY SMITH AND BLANCA BEGERT

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it will no longer regulate planet-warming pollution from power plants that burn coal or natural gas.

The nation's top environmental authority is rolling back most Biden-era limits on greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to remove "red tape" that drives up energy costs, agency officials said. They also announced a proposal to rescind regulations on the power sector from the Obama era and prevent future administrations from implementing new ones.

Making electricity from coal and gas is the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. and the leading driver of climate

“For over 15 years, the Obama and Biden administrations implemented a war on coal to destroy reliable and affordable energy,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement. “The Trump Administration has come in to protect American energy and to make sure you can afford to keep the lights on.”

But experts say unchecked greenhouse gas emissions from power plants mean more global warming and set back progress on climate change across the U.S. California does not have any coal-fired power plants and has its own regulations on natural gas.

The rollback could result in as much as 5.8 billion metric tons of added carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, said Zealan Hoover, a former senior advisor to the EPA administrator in the Biden administration.

While electricity demand is rising, “we do not have to meet that electricity demand by highly polluting coal and gas plants,” Hoover [See Rollback, A7]

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States sue over green card rules Democratic officials say Trump administration can't reject applicants because of past use of public aid. NATION, A4

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THE WORLD

A new wave flees Russian war, restrictions

RIDERS board a bus in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Monday, near a Lenin statue.
DMITRI LOVETSKY Associated Press

Numbers appear to be growing amid an internet clampdown and fears of a draft.

BY DASHA LITVINOVA

This summer, a 28-year-old digital content marketer packed up his suitcases and duct-taped boxes and fled Russia, leaving behind his family and friends and not knowing when he'll be able to return.

“It is very sad to leave Russia,” he said in the southern city of Krasnodar before heading for the border with Georgia.

He blamed “the political situation” in Russia and complications over authorities restricting internet access as his reasons for leaving. Otherwise, “I never would have left for more than several months,” he told the Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.

He is one of a number of people who either left or are contemplating a move amid recent Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russia and persistent rumors of a coming mobilization of troops for the 4 $^{1/2}$ -year-old war.

The attacks this summer caused an unprecedented fuel crisis and dealt crippling blows to the booming e-commerce sector. Since last year, the government has cited the attacks to justify harsh restrictions on connecting to the internet.

The exodus is nowhere near as large as in 2022, when hundreds of thousands fled in the first year of the full-scale invasion. Still, a group that helps citizens who flee abroad said it received nearly eight times more queries last month than it had in May.

and Turkey at the moment.

At the same time, the AP found numerous social media videos from all over Russia of people saying they had decided to leave, citing war-related reasons. Others were worried about the declining economy, an uncertain future and shrinking freedoms.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other officials in Kyiv have said Russia is planning another mobilization after the State Duma election that concludes Sunday — claims the Kremlin has repeatedly and vehemently rejected.

Yan Slovizki, a human rights activist and emergency assistance coordinator for Kovcheg, described “a panicked wave” of emigration since mid-July linked to mobilization fears, the fuel crisis and internet restrictions.

there to avoid being drafted. That drew a sharp rebuke from the Russian Foreign Ministry, which called Simonyan's remark "provocative."

Russian lawmaker Viktor Sobolev told the RTVI channel that the country doesn't need people who “don’t love their motherland so much that they leave because of rumors,” adding: “Let them leave.”

'At this point it is a one-way ticket'

The digital content marketer, who describes himself as a pacifist, says this was his second attempt at emigrating.

He left Russia in 2022 to avoid the partial call-up of 300,000 new troops, an announcement by President Vladimir Putin that shocked the nation.

He said he isn't technically eligible for military service in peacetime due to a hip ailment but felt it was safer to leave because he didn't know what to expect from authorities.

Some officials in 2022 said such men could legally be drafted in a mobilization, as did some rights groups helping conscripts. Others said martial law had to be declared for it to be legal. Russia has not formally declared war on Ukraine, and the Kremlin imposed martial law only in the four Ukrainian regions it illegally annexed in 2022 but doesn't fully control.

The digital content marketer returned to his hometown of Ulyanovsk in 2025 and worked remotely for clients in other countries. But Russia's unrelenting clampdown on thousands of internet platforms, sites and services made it harder for him to do his job, he said, having to switch virtual private network servers to find one allowing him to get around the restrictions.

Another factor was the rumored new mobilization. "You never know what will happen tomorrow," he said from an apartment in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, where he settled.

A 23-year-old Muscovite who left Russia last month also cited the persistent mobilization rumors and fears that her husband might end up in the military.

The woman, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because of security concerns, said her father narrowly escaped being drafted in 2022 by fleeing the country. This year, her husband learned he would no longer have a deferment from military service after getting his master's degree.

“We were really afraid that [my husband] could end up in the army, because at this point it is a one-way ticket,” she said.

Ivan Nazarov, a new university graduate who moved to the Armenian capital, Yerevan, echoed her sentiment.

He said he was aware of reports of conscripts in mandatory service who are not supposed to be deployed to Ukraine being forced to sign contracts that send them to the battlefield.

“For me, it is a question of survival,” Nazarov added, speaking at a gathering organized by Kovcheg in Yerevan for new immigrants.

Detained over photo of a rainbow T-shirt

Queer activist Daniil Neonov left Russia this summer after a series of detentions and a 10-day jail term on charges of displaying extremist symbols — a photo featuring a T-shirt with a rainbow-colored print on it he posted on social media.

Russian authorities have outlawed what they call “the international LGBT movement” as extremist, leading sometimes to misdemeanor charges for carrying items with a rainbow on them.

Neonov told the AP in Yerevan that he feared a criminal case would be brought against him.

He said he knows other people who left Russia after being detained for gathering outside the Supreme Court last month to support the opposition Yabloko party when the court struck it from the parliamentary election ballot. Yabloko was the only party on the ballot that openly opposed the war.

"The police came to them and filed reports. I know several people who, after they were held in detention, also left. I mean, I'm not the only one," Neonov said.

A 35-year-old Russian told the AP he was preparing for leaving the country because he doesn't want to live in a land without free speech, where the economy is on a downward spiral and where schoolchildren have to listen to propaganda touting war, normalizing violence and promoting isolation from the rest of the world.

The man, who also spoke on condition of anonymity for safety reasons, said he had been thinking about leaving Russia for over a decade but still had hope that “everything would work out.”

Now, he said, Russians "live in a huge digital jail. You can't say anything, you can't do anything. You have absolutely no rights."

Litvinova writes for the Associated Press. Sophiko Megrelidze in Tbilisi and Ani Khachatryan in Yerevan contributed to this report.

"It doesn't mean that there is a huge number of people right now at the borders," said Anastasia Burakova, the founder of Kovcheg, which means "ark" in Russian. "But we're seeing that people are preparing to emigrate, we're seeing that people are looking into what options are there."

On social media, talk of moving away

The current numbers are hard to gauge. Unlike 2022, when droves of men fled a partial call-up for the military, there are no lines at border crossings or shortages of plane tickets to visa-free destinations like Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan

A Moscow-based diplomat told the AP about “a palpable rise in public anxiety this summer,” and pointed to “anecdotal evidence of higher than usual numbers of Russians appearing in neighboring Georgia and Armenia, possibly fearing another mobilization after the Duma elections.” The diplomat was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Alen Simonyan, secretary of Armenia's Security Council, told independent Russian TV channel Dozhd last month that his country "will not interfere in any way, and if necessary, will help" Russians who are moving

Spokesman for Putin says his country has no intention of stopping its attacks.

Zelensky says Ukraine will pause strikes in Russia if Kremlin spares key infrastructure

BY CLAUDIA CIOBANU, ELISE MORTON AND HANNA ARHIROVA

WARSAW — President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Ukraine is ready to halt its strikes on Russian territory if allies can secure a genuine Russian commitment not to hit Ukraine's critical infrastructure.

His comments came after President Trump claimed in a social media post that Russia and Ukraine had agreed “not to hit” each other’s energy infrastructure, though Trump did not offer further details on the purported agreement.

Russia did not immediately comment on Trump's claim. Previous efforts to broker even a partial ceasefire have repeatedly fallen apart within hours, with both sides accusing each other of violations.

He also claimed that the

“Every day, Ukrainian energy facilities, port infrastructure, logistics, even food and pharmaceutical warehouses become targets,” he said. “The war must be ended. And a de-escalation step regarding critical infrastructure could be a first step toward peace.”

Zelensky said he “expects concrete proposals from our partners.”

Trump did not offer further details about the agreement, but it comes a day after the U.S. president called on Zelensky to stop targeting Russian oil refineries and other infrastructure used to produce and distribute diesel, claiming the attacks are causing a global shortage. Diesel prices have surged in the U.S., and high fuel costs associated with the Iran war have become a major issue for Trump's party in upcoming congressional elections.

Trump on Sunday called on Zelensky to stop the strikes. Afterward, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said any call on Kyiv to stop strikes on civilian economic infrastructure “can only be welcomed.”

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NATO chief vows more support

In his post, Zelensky said Ukraine has proposed that partners help secure an agreement with Russia for a ceasefire. It's not the first time Kyiv has floated the idea.

also his desire to sow fear and terror," Rutte said at NATO's political headquarters in Brussels.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Mon-day that Russian drone strikes near the Ukraine-Poland border — one of which hit a train shortly after senior visiting officials had passed through the same station — would drive the military alliance to increase its support for Kyiv, calling Sunday's attacks a sign of Moscow's growing desperation.

Rutte pledged to increase support for Ukraine and bolster the 32-nation alliance's own defenses along its long eastern border with Russia.

rise in the price of global diesel fuel “is mostly caused by the Russian/Ukraine war” and not Iran. But restricted shipments caused by the slowdown of oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and damaged refining systems in Russia are causing strains in the energy market.

"He thinks that he can stop us from supporting Ukraine and that he can undermine our unity. He is wrong," the NATO chief said of Putin.

The strikes “close to NATO territory” show Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “desperation and

“Russia is growing increasingly reckless as it continues its terrible war against Ukraine.”

Sunday's strikes near the Polish border are the latest in a string of incidents that officials say point to a deliberate pattern of escalation by Putin, as Moscow tests NATO's response while pressing its offensive in Ukraine.

Poland, Ukraine boost cooperation

Rutte's comments came as Poland pledged increased security along its border with Ukraine after a wave of Russian drone strikes near the frontier, including two that landed near Polish territory.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned Sunday that Moscow appears poised to intensify its campaign against Ukraine's borders with European countries. Ukraine is under mounting pressure from Russia's intensifying air campaign that uses ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones to pierce Kyiv's defenses.

"These coming weeks and months will be a time of very intensified actions on the Russian side, and unfortunately we cannot rule out that this escalation will also affect our territory," Tusk

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Polish officials said intelligence reports, including a CIA briefing last week, suggested Russia was likely to attack border points and intensify sabotage actions inside European countries as part of its efforts to discourage partners from supporting Ukraine.

Kremlin says that strikes will continue

Peskov, asked Monday about the strike on the train near the Polish border, said Russian forces were operating “across the entire territory of Ukraine and continue to do so — and will continue to do so.”

Peskov noted the potential role of Global South countries in a settlement, saying that “any country can use its influence on the Kyiv regime to encourage it to show greater flexibility.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi each expressed willingness to help broker a settlement during recent meetings with Putin, who briefed them on the situation in Ukraine, Peskov said.

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‘MAGA man’ is accused in shooting of mistress

FERNANDO CERIMEDO is accused in a plot to kill his pregnant lover, a lawyer and an activist, to silence her.

Latin strategist helped elect Trump-aligned politicians in Bolivia, Argentina, Honduras.

By Patrick J. McDonnell

MEXICO CITY — He's been called the “MAGA man” of Latin America, a brash political provocateur whose social media assaults boosted right-wing campaigns from his native Argentina to Central America.

His career as political consultant and co-founder of an ultra-right online outlet made him a rich man and helped elect Trump-aligned politicians across the region. The Economist gave him the "MAGA Man" label, while political commentators gave him another nickname — the "Steve Bannon of Latin America" — a nod to the longtime Trump ally and advisor.

Now, however, Fernando Cerimedo, 45, sits in a maximum-security prison in Bolivia, accused of master-minding a murder-for-hire plot: the attempted femicide of his pregnant mistress, Nadia Beller, 33, a Bolivian lawyer and activist.

It's a stunning collapse for a onetime ad man with a dodgy reputation who rose to become the go-to digital campaign guru for Latin America's ascendant right wing. Cerimedo's signature boasts, exaggerations and peddling of false election-fraud narratives reflected those of his political model, President Trump.

Cerimedo also is another example of how right-wing political operatives outside the United States, such as those in Colombia and Germany, have adopted Trumpian tactics and messaging.

The fall of the “King Midas of the Latin American right,” said Daniel Matamala, a prominent Chilean journalist, stunned “the ecosystem of fake news, bots, trolls and disinformation that has taken this region by storm in recent years.” Speaking on his podcast, Matamala added, “The name of Cerimedo looms like a ghost over the summit of the radical right.”

The Aug. 17 attack on Beller was a seemingly well-planned ambush that was captured by security cameras, the grainy images widely disseminated on social media.

One of two would-be assassins dressed as fast-food deliverymen pulled out a pistol and shot Beller point blank outside a hotel in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. She fell to the ground and, according to her account, feigned death. The next day, at dawn, Cerimedo was arrested as he was about to board a plane to Buenos Aires.

Cerimedo set up the hit, prosecutors charge, in a nefarious attempt at damage control. Beller had threatened to expose his alleged criminal behavior and physically abusive behavior toward her while revealing Cerimedo, a married man with two children, as the father of her unborn child.

Cerimedo is also under investigation on suspicion of illegal enrichment and potential links to cocaine trafficking.

He has denied any wrongdoing.

Even before Cerimedo's arrest, Latin American journalists had begun unmasking Cerimedo as a prodigious purveyor of fake news — about himself. New reports revealed that his frequent boasts about U.S. connections — that he attended Harvard, trained with U.S. Navy SEALs, worked in the Obama White House — were fanciful.

“He certainly exaggerated things,” said Damian Merlo, a Miami-based consultant who worked with Cerimedo on the 2023 campaign of Argentine President Javier Milei, a Trump favorite. “I never really got the impression that Cerimedo was ‘MAGA’s man in Latin America.’ The guy could hardly speak English! But that’s how he sold himself.”

Many times, the sales pitch worked. It was Cerimedo who helped broker then-candidate Milei's celebrated 2023 interview with Tucker Carlson, at the time a Trump confidant, an appearance that thrust Milei into the international spotlight.

Like Milei, Cerimedo seemed to relish any proximity to Trump-land.

In February, at the inaugural “Hispanic Prosperity Gala” — a right-wing pep rally held at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate — Cerimedo was honored as “Hispanic Political Consultant of the Year.” From the podium, he spoke of Latin America’s “culture war” and the need to ensure that “the left never again returns” to governments that have elected conservative leaders.

Switching to heavily accented English, Cerimedo gave a shout-out to Brad Parscale, Trump's former campaign manager, whom Cerimedo thanked for “believing [in] me all the time and giving me your technology.”

Parscale declined to comment.

Both Cerimedo and Parscale were involved in last year's campaign that resulted in the election of Honduran President Nasry Asfura, whom Trump backed publicly.

Last year, Cerimedo was a key player in the election of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, the center-right, U.S.-educated son of a former president who transitioned from Marxist firebrand to moderate. The ascension of Paz broke almost two decades of leftist rule by the Movement for Socialism party of ex-President Evo Morales.

Cerimedo had no official capacity in Paz's government, but he enjoyed insider status. He accompanied Paz in March to Trump's antinarco "Shield of the Americas" summit, a confab of mostly conservative leaders at Trump's Doral resort in south Florida.

Among the items found in searches of Cerimedolinked properties, authorities say, was a business card listing him as Paz's "chief adviser" — a nonexistent post.

“Mr. Cerimedo never had the authorization to represent ... the presidency, the government or my family,” a deeply discomfited Paz said in a Facebook message last month.

How exactly Cerimedo got into politics — and how he became a right-wing rabble-rouser — remains somewhat opaque. According to media accounts, he worked a series of uninspiring jobs — including stints as a taxi driver, a schoolteacher and an employee of insurance and computer firms — before veering into advertising. In 2019, he assisted the campaigns of several leftist Peronist candidates in provincial races in Argentina, and later founded his own consultancy, Numen.

Cerimedo first gained prominence in neighboring Brazil. That's where he championed false election-fraud narratives following the narrow reelection defeat in 2022 of President Jair Bolsonaro — a MAGA stalwart

— in his reelection bid against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist. Cerimedo's "Brazil Was Stolen" livestream exacerbated the sense of outrage among Bolsonaro loyalists, who took to the streets in mass protests.

The Brazil exposure helped catapult Cerimedo into successful presidential campaigns in Argentina (Milei), Honduras (Asfura) and Bolivia (Paz). His arrest prompted Chilean lawmakers to create a commission to investigate Cerimedo's possible role in that nation's recent electoral shift to the right.

With Cerimedo's name now toxic, Paz, Milei and other former allies have distanced themselves.

Also ditching Cerimedo was his close partner, Javier Negre, a right-wing Spanish media entrepreneur who, in 2024, purchased 50% ownership of Cerimedo's La Derecha Diario (the Daily Right), an online, Spanish-language MAGA megaphone. The site strongly backed Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella — who had Trump's support — during his tight campaign this summer.

Following Cerimedo's arrest, Negre announced that he had bought out his former partner in La Derecha Diario.

In Bolivia, the Cerimedo scandal has taken on the character of a Latin American telenovela.

A recovering Beller, shot three times in her upper body, granted interviews from her hospital bed, dishing on her lover's alleged brutality and criminality.

According to Beller's testimony to authorities, Cerimedo tricked her into the near-fatal rendezvous outside the hotel.

He told her that a source was waiting to share details about the purported rape of a 13-year-old, she said. The supposed rapist? Bolivian ex-President Morales — a despised figure on the Latin American right.

The case has seen the once high-flying Cerimedo reduced to a slumping presence in a hoodie as authorities have shuffled the baldish, heavyset figure to hearings and lockups. Last week, he was transferred while awaiting trial to Bolivia's maximum-security Chonchocoro prison, infamous for its high-altitude, ill-heated confines.

"I want to see my children!" a sobbing Cerimedo declared at one point in earshot of the media.

His legal team has pushed back. A defense lawyer, Margarita Arce, questioned whether Cerimedo had impregnated Beller and asserted to reporters that Beller staged a “self-inflicted attack” to smear Cerimedo and undermine the Bolivian government.

But prosecutors have sided with Beller, who told the Argentine daily Clarín: "Fernando Cerimedo wanted to kill me because I can tell everything that I know."

Times staff writer Ana Ceballos in Washington and special correspondents Andrés D'Alessandro in Buenos Aires and Cecilia Sánchez Vidal in Mexico City contributed to this report.

Pope Leo marks his 71st birthday by giving a gift

By Nicole Winfield

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his 71st birthday on Monday, but it was Vatican employees who got the gift.

The Vatican published a papal decree repealing 2021 salary cuts that Pope Francis had imposed on many Vatican employees as part of the Holy See's COVID-19 cost-saving measures.

In the decree, Leo said the salary-containing measures “can now be overcome, in the certainty that the institutions of the Holy See and the Vatican City State will continue, through various means, their commitment to ensuring economic sustainability.”

The unpopular salary cuts had included a 10% cut on pay for cardinals and smaller-percentage salary cuts for office heads and lower-ranking priests and nuns. Biennial pay raises were frozen for senior lay employees, though lower-ranking lay employees continued to receive raises.

Francis had reasoned at the time that the cuts were necessary to save jobs, given the Holy See was also facing a structural deficit, estimated then at around \$80.7 million and a \$1.14-billion pension fund shortfall.

The pandemic closed the Vatican Museums for months, depriving the Holy See of one of its main sources of revenue. The Vatican's coffers also suffered from investment and currency fluctuations.

ANDREW MEDICHINI AP POPE Leo XIV visited Vatican library Monday.

Leo, a math major and former superior general of his Augustinian religious order, is known to be adept at financial matters and reading balance sheets. His brother, John Prevost, recently told Italian broadcaster Mediaset that the pope helped him out recently with a question he had about filing his taxes.

Soon after he was elected, Leo said the Vatican's financial situation wasn't nearly as bad as he thought and that Francis had made some important reforms. However, Leo has spent much of his early pontificate amending or outright reversing some of Francis' financial decisions.

In another decree published Monday, Leo canceled Francis' plans to move some of the Vatican's secret archives and library holdings out of the city state and onto the grounds of a pontifical university across town. Francis had decided on the move because the material was outgrowing its storage spaces, which include a vast underground bunker.

Leo said “unprecedented opportunities have arisen to create new spaces” within Vatican City itself. He ordered the construction of a new building on a current parking lot to house the material, which includes ancient manuscripts and entire archival collections from past popes, religious congregations and benefactors.

Leo visited the Vatican Apostolic Library on Mon- day, and noted that it was particularly fitting to be cele- brating his birthday with its staff since his mother was a librarian.

"I'd just like to say that God, in his providence — and sometimes with a touch of humor — always reminds us that he is with us," Leo told the staff. "Many of you may not know that my mother was a librarian, and today I'm here on my birthday specifically to say hello to all of you."

The library and archive are open to scholars and researchers for study. A small exhibition space is also open on a weekly basis to the public in the library, with reservation and pre-purchased tickets.

Leo was at the library Monday to inaugurate an exhibition about water, the first installment in a new five-year cycle entitled “Catastrophe and Marvel.” It features a giant design of a wave attached by scaffolding to the library’s facade by the French artist JR.

Winfield writes for the Associated Press.

European leaders focus on Arctic

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EUROPEAN leaders gather Monday on the second day of an Arctic summit in Rovaniemi, Finland.

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ROVANIEMI, Finland — European leaders joined forces Monday to highlight growing competition in the Arctic, where global warming is opening new shipping routes, governments are vying for vast natural resources and a Russian military buildup is heightening security concerns.

The leaders, mostly from Nordic and Baltic countries, put a spotlight on environmental challenges, economic opportunities and military vulnerabilities at a time of doubt about whether the United States, through NATO, will remain a bulwark against Russia.

“This region has become a geopolitical hot spot,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told a joint news conference, insisting a new EU focus should complement NATO’s work. “Russia is building up its military capabilities here, and Russia uses its presence for hybrid activities every day.”

Merz said his presence — Germany is not an Arctic country — testified to the importance of the region to overall European security and suggested years of relative neglect should end. “Let me put it this way: High north — and low attention — is over,” he said.

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo of Finland, which hosted the meeting in the capital of Lapland that's home to a Santa Claus village, noted "high demand for concrete EU action in the Arctic" and a changing security environment.

"The Arctic has emerged as the central arena of great power competition," he said.

The two-day gathering that began Sunday comes on the heels of a Norwegian seizure of a Russian vessel earlier this month in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard at the request of Ukraine, drawing the condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Centres for European Policy Network, a think tank, noted the “extremely dynamic backdrop” for the summit.

It cited factors like accelerating climate change, China's growing trade through the Arctic, and conflict around the Strait of Hormuz, which has raised the importance of the Northeast Passage for maritime shipments.

The meeting serves as a “dress rehearsal” for a looming revamp of the European Union’s Arctic policy expected to be released this autumn, with security at the center of the strategy for the first time, the group said.

Climate change has been thinning the Arctic ice, making shipping routes increasingly accessible and reigniting competition with Russia, China and other countries over access to the region's mineral resources.

Meanwhile, the European bloc has been grappling with its response to President Trump's persistent pressure over Greenland, a self-governing territory of EU member country Denmark. He has repeatedly said the icy, resource-rich island should be part of the United States. Greenland's government opposes U.S. designs on the island.

Last week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered \$232 million in EU support over the next two years to help Greenland tackle climate change, boost internet connections and improve hydropower plants, fisheries and education.

Separately Monday, President Alexander Stubb of Finland announced his country was joining France's "forward deterrence" program that aims to leverage the French nuclear arsenal for European defense. Ten countries have now joined, including Britain, Germany and Finland's Nordic neighbors.

Arts facility's board is still trying to add Trump's name

BY MIKE CATALINI

WASHINGTON — The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees is planning to propose adding President Trump's name to the facility's exterior because it says he is saving the building from its "precarious fiscal position," according to a new court filing in a suit aimed at blocking the move.

It's the latest development in the case revolving around adding the president's name to the exterior of the cultural and arts facility that sits along the Potomac River in Washington and reflects the Trump-aligned board's efforts to honor the president.

The new information came out of a court filing made by Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio, an ex-officio member of the board. Beatty, who has led an effort to block Trump from putting his name on the building, said in a filing she was alerting the court to the proposal because it could implicate a pending decision before the court.

Both the court and the Kennedy Center board are expected to hold meetings Tuesday.

Beatty's filing includes two exhibits. One is a draft vote to shut the center down, asserting the building is unsafe for occupancy. That assertion incorrectly cites a consulting group's finding, "which expressly disclaimed providing any such opinion," according to Beatty.

The other document asserts the center faces dire financial straits. It specifically calls for Trump's name to be placed in marble beneath the name of the center on the building's exterior. It offers 10 options for a possible inscription, including "Renovation and endowment overseen by President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Kennedy Center Fund." Another proposes: "With Gratitude for Support from President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Kennedy Center Fund."

"The Board understands that without such appropriate recognition it is unlikely that President Trump will provide the fundamental oversight of the renovation of the main building and lead the fiscal rescue of the Center," the board wrote in the proposed resolution.

Trump has spent much of his second term making major changes in Washington, demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make way for a ballroom and planning a triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery as well as a renovated golf course along the Potomac River.

The Kennedy Center has been a stumbling block in that effort after a judge ruled in May that Trump's name was added to the building illegally.

Trump and his allies, however, have continued to fight the ruling.

The board voted last month to inscribe his name on the venue's facade to read "The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump."

If the Trump Kennedy Center Fund reached \$100 million, another inscription would be added reading: "Endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund."

Catalini writes for the Associated Press.

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California sues over federal policy restricting access to green cards

Democratic officials say Trump can't reject applicants because of past use of public aid.

BY KEVIN RECTOR

California and other Democrat-led states and localities filed a pair of lawsuits Monday challenging new Trump administration rules giving immigration officials more power to deny green cards to applicants whose families have relied on public assistance programs in the past.

The challenge mirrors another by a similar coalition that successfully halted such changes during the first Trump administration.

California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, whose office is helping lead the states' challenge, said the rule changes seek to "rewrite more than 100 years of law" by making even brief use of public benefits in years past grounds for the federal government to deny a person's application for legal permanent residency in the future — which he said was clearly illegal and would push tremendous costs onto states, counties and cities.

“No family should have to choose between accessing healthcare and nutrition assistance today — or protecting their pathway to a green card tomorrow,” Bonta said. “We’re going to court on behalf of the millions of immigrants who call this state home — and we will fight to get this unlawful rule undone.”

San Francisco City Atty. David Chiu, whose office is helping lead a separate challenge from Democrat-led cities and counties, said in a statement that the new Trump administration policies are “a blatant attempt to sow fear and confusion in our immigrant communities and coerce people into withdrawing from critical government services” — which he also said would shift millions in costs to local governments.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which promulgated the new rules, said the lawsuits were proof that immigrants are unlawfully tapping into benefits programs intended for U.S. citizens.

“Sanctuary states are terrified they will lose federal funds because hundreds of thousands of illegals and noncitizens might remove themselves from American welfare programs,” the spokesperson said. “This is the ideological contortion required by left-wing leaders to justify their defrauding of the American taxpayer at the hands of illegal criminals.”

Lauren Bis, a White House spokesperson, said Democrats “are once again fighting to give benefits to illegal aliens at the expense of American taxpayers” while President Trump and his administration are putting

American citizens first.

“Immigrants must be able to support themselves and not depend on hard-working American taxpayers,” she said.

Trump won office on a promise to rein in illegal immigration. Since taking office, his administration has launched a mass crackdown that has targeted undocumented and documented immigrants. It has done so in part by targeting federal and state programs that offer immigrant assistance.

In their lawsuit, the states acknowledge that federal law enacted by Congress in 1882 allows the U.S. to deny noncitizens entry to the country if they would be a “public charge,” or someone who is unable to support themselves and must rely on the government for assistance.

However, the states argue that Congress, the courts and federal government agencies have for “over 140 years” understood the term “public charge” to mean a person “who has become, or is likely to become, primarily dependent on the government for long-term subsistence”—not someone who has ever taken public assistance of any kind in the past, even in the short term.

And yet, the new policy promulgated by Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services gives immigration officers “unprecedented, sweeping new discretion to deny admission” to families that have tapped any number of public assistance programs for which both Congress and individual states have chosen to make them eligible, the states wrote.

In a morning news conference, Bonta said the Trump administration's new rules target families in unprecedented ways.

As one example, he said the new rules would potentially allow immigration officials to deny permanent residency to immigrant parents based on their U.S. citizen children accessing public benefits that they are clearly entitled to under the law.

As another, he said the new rules could penalize immigrant families for accessing basic, preventative healthcare that helps control the broader public cost of illness to localities and states.

Chiu said federal limits on residency for those who would be a “public charge” have in the past been applied in a “narrow and consistent way,” focusing on certain cash assistance and long-term medical needs. The new rules, he said, make “almost any” kind of government assistance grounds for residency denial.

The states' lawsuit — California's 92nd against the current Trump administration — revises a policy battle that began during Trump's first administration, when it attempted in 2019 to implement similar policies, was sued by California, San Francisco and Santa Clara County, and lost.

Texans sue over Trump border wall

The litigation is filed by nonprofit group Conserve Big Bend with rancher support.

BY REBECCA SANTANA

MARFA, Texas — Landowners, ranchers and business owners in the Big Bend region of Texas, along with a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the region's landscape and heritage, are suing to stop the Trump administration's plans to build a wall and other border infrastructure through the remote section of the state.

The lawsuit, filed by Conserve Big Bend and with the support of dozens of landowners, comes as the administration is ramping up a \$46-billion effort to line the roughly 2,000-mile southern border with a collection of 30-foot steel bollard walls, vehicle barriers and technology intended to keep out smugglers and migrants.

In Texas, the effort has run up against numerous lawsuits and bipartisan opposition from sheriffs, elected officials, tour guides, environmental groups and landowners.

Officials backing the wall “were woefully unprepared for the hornet’s nest they stirred up because they had no idea how much we love this place,” said David Keller, an archaeologist and historian who specializes in the Big Bend and lives in the region.

“For us, the Big Bend is not an empty place on the map,” he said. “It is our home.”

As part of its wall-building efforts, the administration has waived numerous regulations and statutes designed to protect the environment, archaeology or wildlife, on the basis that there's an urgent need to protect the border in what the Department of Homeland Security has called areas of "high illegal entry."

But in the lawsuit announced Monday, the plaintiffs argue that when it comes to the Big Bend region, that's not an accurate description.

They've cited historical statistics issued by Customs and Border Protection showing how few people cross the border in Big Bend compared with other areas along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Big Bend has about 500 miles of border with Mexico — roughly one quarter of the total length of the border with Mexico from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. But the region only accounted for about 1% of arrests, according to the lawsuit's stats.

The plaintiffs are arguing that the Department of Homeland Security is misusing powers from Congress that allow the agency's secretary broad authority to waive regulations in order to build border walls or other infrastructure in areas where there are large numbers of people trying to cross into the country illegally.

“That determination is legally and factually unsound and unsupported,” the plaintiffs wrote.

The lawsuit filed Monday is the latest in efforts to slow or stop the administration's plans in Texas and elsewhere.

The biggest outcry has come over Customs and Border Protection's plans for Big Bend National Park, which sits in a far southwestern corner of Texas where the Rio Grande separates the U.S. from Mexico.

The park's remote and rugged location, its steep limestone canyon walls and crystal clear starry night views attract visitors from around the world.

The government has said in court hearings that no final plans have been decided for what will be built in the park, but plans made public so far have included building a new road, installing detection technology and barriers to stop vehicles from crossing the border.

When bulldozers were spotted clearing land in the park in August, people across the state were outraged. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott temporarily paused construction-related activity in the park, but many activists and local residents would like to see even more changes to the administration's plans in the broader Big Bend region.

Native American groups have argued that the construction could inhibit their ability to practice their faith and is damaging important religious sites while environmentalists worry the wall could cause flooding or keep animals from migrating.

Landowners who've lived and worked along the Rio Grande for years have questioned how they'll feed livestock or water their crops if they can't access the river.

Santana writes for the Associated Press.

Conservation needs to learn to say 'yes'

A message to our movement

Every hour, we lose more than 40 acres of farmland and ranchland. Every day, open space twice the size of Central Park disappears. Every year, another million acres of forest are lost. And once these lands are gone, they're gone forever.

And now, trillions of dollars for desperately needed infrastructure will create one of the largest periods of building in American history.

Without a clear vision, this new infrastructure will accelerate the loss of wild and working lands that people and wildlife depend on. Land we can't afford to lose.

So, how do we build the infrastructure we need while protecting the natural systems we depend on?

The environmental movement deserves enormous credit for solving many of the challenges of the last century: reducing pollution, protecting iconic landscapes, and forcing industry to account for environmental harm. But we did it by saying “no” — through legislation, regulation, and litigation. "No" is a powerful tool to protect hard-fought conservation wins. But it can't be the only tool in our toolbox.

If we're to address climate change, housing needs, water scarcity, and rural economic development, we need to build. And when we build, we have an opportunity to link new infrastructure with conservation outcomes, securing more for our country than we'd ever achieve by only saying “no.” Built infrastructure and natural infrastructure stop being opponents and instead become partners. This is what it means to find the “yes.”

Wetlands protect against floods, storm surge, and extreme weather. Forests store carbon, filter drinking water, and extend the life of reservoirs. Farms provide fresh, local, and sustainable food. Urban tree canopies keep cities livable through a heat wave. These natural systems are necessities, not amenities. They do the work that built infrastructure cannot.

We can't solve today's biggest challenges by only saying "no."

A prosperous, healthy, and resilient future requires an environmental movement committed to both building what our country urgently needs and protecting what cannot be replaced.

The challenges ahead are too large and too complex for yesterday's playbook. We need a movement as committed to building as it is to blocking.

It's time to find the "yes." For all of us.

Larry Selzer

President & CEO

Trump places China at center of AI backlash

ANTHROPIC'S Dario Amodei issued a dire warning over the weekend about AI.
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But Trump remained steadfast in his pushback, blaming the political backlash on a “conspiracy” perpetuated by China, the only major competitor in the field.

“AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX,” Trump wrote in a series of social media posts. “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”

The Trump administration, the president continued, “has stopped AI ‘people’ from doing bad, or potentially bad, ‘things,’ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel’ — and we will continue to do so! We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies!”

Calls for action have grown since a former researcher at Anthropic posted a dire alert on social media that AI development could lead to an extinction-level event. His message went viral, prompting Amodei, the founder of Anthropic, to issue a public letter calling for a slowdown.

Altman said he agreed with Amodei, announcing the company would delay its initial public offering until 2027 over safety concerns. In July, OpenAI discovered a swarm of rogue AI agents had secretly plotted to escape their virtual sandbox, infiltrating the open internet and hacking a private company — a spectacular omen of how quickly AI systems could become difficult to contain.

“Given the accelerating rate of AI capability development, it's my worry that in 6-12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage,” Amodei wrote over the weekend, “and that the scale of damage would continue to increase from there if AI becomes more powerful with out the necessary guard-rails."

Still, Trump and several of his Republican allies rejected the prospect of government regulation — or cast doubt on Altman and Amodei's motives.

The Defense Department posted a graphic on X promoting “AI-First,” and stating the government would advocate “Americanism, not effective altruism.” The image appeared generated by artificial intelligence.

"If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible," David Sacks, Trump's former AI czar now serving as co-chair of the president's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, wrote on X. "But stop pretending you need anyone else's permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability."

“Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic,” Sacks added. “You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack.”

Regardless of the companies' motives, Democrats are seizing the moment as an opportunity to pursue meaningful regulatory reforms.

At a Thursday fundraiser with Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, Obama said AI should move to the center of the Democratic agenda, both in Congress and on the campaign trail ahead of the 2028 presidential primary.

"I would strongly urge that the Democrats put together a framework for a very public conversation," Obama said. "This is something that is moving very fast in private hands, and if we don't get on top of it, I think can be dangerous."

The following day, Clinton said AI was becoming “too dangerous” for partisanship to paralyze Washington.

"The one good thing that Donald Trump did in his first term was Warp Speed," Clinton said on MS NOW's "Morning Joe," referring to a federal program in Trump's first term to expedite the development of a vaccine for COVID-19. “Let’s put an AI commission on warp speed, and figure out what we’re going to do to sensibly regulate.”

AI leaders “are basically saying, ‘Stop us before something really bad happens,’” Clinton continued. “‘Help us stop.’ The president of China is coming to the White house in two weeks. There should be a concerted effort by this government to get off of the lies, get off of social media, quit worrying about ballrooms and ridiculous arches, and come up with a plan to enlist the Chinese."

But China's rapid progress in AI has so far pushed Trump to let U.S. industry move ahead with few constraints.

China's spy chief issued a rare warning Monday that AI development could risk the future of Chinese Communist Party control over the country. But China's foreign ministry responded defensively to the U.S. debate. "Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious competition will only disrupt the process of global AI governance which serves no one's interest," a spokesperson said.

Leading AI companies in the United States have begun using their most advanced models to train new ones, in a process known as recursive self-improvement. Within the industry, experts and researchers believe the first AI company to master recursive self-improvement will kick off exponential development, “winning” the race by making it impossible for competitors to catch up.

But that achievement — reaching endless intelligence improvements, generated by machines — could also drive intelligence growth beyond human control.

"There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China," Trump wrote Monday. “WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so. Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers, BE-WARE!”

In the U.S. House, strange bedfellows from the Republican and Democratic parties, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), have come together to try to tackle legislation that might contain AI's greatest dangers. One bill, introduced by Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-Big Bear Lake), proposes embedding independent government auditors in AI labs and installing a federal "kill switch" to shut down agents in case of emergencies.

But it is far from clear whether Rep. Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House and a close Trump ally, would allow any such bill to come to the floor.

“We cannot put a moratorium on this because China will overlap us, and that’s the challenge,” Johnson said Sunday. “It’s national security balanced with the immediate security of making sure the models are safe.”

“We need to handle this new technology like we have others in the past and make sure we’re doing everything we can responsibly to also not smother American innovation,” Johnson added. “We have to do both things simultaneously.”

Lawsuit says Columbia failed to protect Palestinian activists

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FORMER STUDENT Mahmoud Khalil, shown at an August rally, sued Columbia University on Monday.

By Sudhin Thanawala

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil sued Columbia University on Monday, alleging it failed to address harassment against him and other members of a pro-Palestinian campus group and retaliated against them when they reported it.

The university's “deliberate indifference” led to the doxing of multiple group members and Khalil's detention by immigration agents, according to the civil rights lawsuit filed in federal court in New York City.

At a news conference announcing the lawsuit, Khalil accused the university of “discrimination aimed at intimidating Palestinian students.”

“We are suing because no student, regardless of their background, should go through the hell that Columbia put us through over all these years,” he said.

The university declined to comment on the lawsuit but said in an email that “creating a campus environment where every member of our community feels welcome, supported, and safe is fundamental to who we are as a University.”

“Columbia is committed to protecting our community from discrimination and harassment, and responding promptly and appropriately when concerns arise,” it said.

Khalil also sued Columbia last year to block the release of student records to a congressional committee.

A former graduate student at Columbia, Khalil gained prominence as a spokesperson for student activists protesting Israel's actions in Gaza.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested him at his apartment on campus in March 2025, and he quickly became the face of the Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

Khalil spent 104 days in a Louisiana immigration jail, missing the birth of his first child, before a federal judge in New Jersey ordered his release. His deportation case remains active.

Khalil's latest lawsuit says Columbia "refused to correct disinformation" while he was detained, "allowing a false narrative about his conduct and role to persist and further enabling peer-on-peer harassment of other Palestinian students and students with perceived shared Arab and/ or Muslim ancestry."

Instead of investigating reports of harassment, the university retaliated by characterizing events by a pro-Palestinian campus group as security risks and revising disciplinary policy to target criticism of the Israeli government, according to the lawsuit.

At the news conference Monday, Khalil also accused the university of surveilling pro-Palestinian students and hiring private investigators to monitor him.

The lawsuit accuses Columbia of civil rights violations, requests a court order restoring Khalil's access to the campus and ending the Palestinian group's suspension, and seeks damages "to be determined at trial."

It also names the pro-Palestinian group and its president as plaintiffs.

Thanawala writes for the Associated Press.

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Man pleads not guilty in hanging death of a woman in Mississippi

BY SOPHIE BATES

JACKSON, Miss. — A man charged with murder in the hanging of a Black woman in Mississippi pleaded not guilty Monday during his first court appearance.

The body of Tasia Fortune, 29, was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home in the capital, Jackson, on Aug. 3.

On Friday, police arrested 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff, who is also Black, on a murder charge after the state medical examiner deemed her death a homicide.

During the brief hearing Monday in Municipal Court, the judge denied bond for Ratliff, who told the court he's not guilty. Ratliff's attorney at the hearing left the courthouse afterward without speaking to reporters.

The case has attracted widespread attention because the nature of Fortune's death recalled lynchings in the Southern state, which has a tumultuous civil rights history stained by episodes of racial violence.

Police and prosecutors haven't given a suspected motive for the killing or said whether they think race played any role.

Police Chief RaShall Brackney said Friday that Ratliff, 51, had an “association” with Fortune, but she didn’t elaborate. She also said that additional arrests are expected in the case.

A Kentucky native, Fortune had been living in Jackson for about a decade, according to relatives. Her mother, Christy Spivey, said Fortune had four children but rarely saw two of them.

Spivey wasn't sure where Fortune was living when she died, but she said her daughter had struggled with homelessness in recent years. She said Fortune had talked recently about starting a cleaning business and was trying to get her life in order.

Two other Mississippi hanging deaths over the last year — those of a Black student at Delta State University and a homeless white man in Vicksburg — also drew widespread attention, but both were deemed to be suicides.

Bates writes for the Associated Press.

Major rollback of power plant emissions limits

[Rollback, from A1]

THE EPA says greenhouse gas emissions are not “air pollutants” under the Clean Air Act. Above, a coal-fired power plant in Kansas.
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said. “And when we do run coal and gas plants, we have the option to hold them to a high public health standard. This administration is choosing to cut those standards.”

The Biden administration's rules would have required some coal plants to make major cuts in their emissions, in some cases by installing carbon-capture technology, changing how they operate or eventually retiring. They would also have required future natural gas plants to meet strict emissions standards, which they could achieve by converting to cleaner-burning fuels such as hydrogen. EPA officials now say the technology is not sufficiently available.

Besides the climate disturbance, which affects everyone, Monday's rollback will most directly affect people who live near coal plants, which California has already phased out, and people who live near gas plants in states that don't have their own regulations. California requires 90% of electricity to be zero-carbon by 2035 and 100% to be so by 2045. That would eliminate natural gas in the power sector.

California Air Resources Board spokesperson Lindsay Buckley said the Trump administration's decision "has no effect on California's rules and greenhouse gases from the state's power plants are still regulated under Cap-and-Invest." The latter regulation is the state's backstop climate trading program that puts an ever-stricter cap on emissions across sectors and allows polluting businesses to buy and trade allowances to meet it.

Californians will still feel the effects of Monday's decisions.

"Some of these coal-fired power plants are some of the biggest carbon polluters in the U.S. if not the world," said Ethan Elkind, director of the UC Berkeley School of Law's climate program. "It doesn't directly affect California's own state goals for decarbonizing our electricity sector, but removing environmental protections on those plants means that we're going to be worsening climate change which definitely affects California."

EPA officials said on a call Monday that the change will not include pollutants that directly harm health such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide, which are regulated separately. They argued that the 2024 rules established by the Biden administration — which set stringent standards for fossil fuel plants — were a “direct attempt to shift America away from affordable energy” in violation of the Clean Air Act.

In all, they said the action will save \$310 billion for the power sector, primarily by avoiding costs to comply with the stricter rules and other forced investments.

But Hoover, the former Biden administration advisor, said those calculations omit how much the country would have saved in avoided healthcare costs. Increased pollution from coal and gas plants will cause hundreds of billions of dollars in negative health impacts from asthma, heart and lung disease and premature deaths, among other outcomes, he said.

“I reject the premise that you have to choose between clean air and abundant energy,” he said. “It’s actually the Trump administration that has been sabotaging affordable clean energy at every turn since taking office — they are intentionally choosing to promote sources of energy that make us sicker, and also in many cases cost more.”

The EPA's action is part of a series of steps to roll back regulatory protections over the last two years, including dismantling rules on pollution from cars, limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants, and the government's formal affirmation that climate change is harmful to human health and welfare, known as the endangerment finding.

In that instance as in this one, EPA officials argued that planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions are not “air pollutants” under the Clean Air Act and thus are not subject to federal regulations. A 2007 Supreme Court case, Massachusetts vs. EPA, determined that they are.

But EPA officials on Monday also pointed to a 2022 Supreme Court case that limited the agency's authority to use the Clean Air Act to broadly restructure the nation's electricity system, and said the Biden administration's rules were “another example of the Democrats' war on America's natural resources.”

“Unlike past administrations that prioritized the interests of climate alarmists, President Trump promised to put the American people first and he is delivering,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a statement.

The announcement comes as the International Energy Agency recently projected the world will burn more coal than ever this year, as conflict in the Middle East pushes up natural gas prices. Before the war, it anticipated a slight decline this year.

In the U.S., coal has been on the decline for decades, but use rose about 10% last year. That's in large part because of new energy demand from data centers, which the president has promoted powering with coal, and the Trump administration's championing of oil and gas development. Trump recently announced a \$700- million investment in U.S. coal plants — including a coal export terminal in Oakland, which would be the first on the West Coast.

At the same time, the White House has struck deals with offshore wind developers to abandon their plans and invest instead in U.S. fossil fuel projects such as liquified natural gas. These actions are part of the administration's broader agenda to “unleash American energy dominance.”

The EPA's announcement also comes as international officials warn the world will soon breach the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, widely considered a tipping point for the worst effects of climate change including worsening wildfires, heat waves, droughts and floods.

The rollback is likely to face immediate legal challenges.

Justices rule it's too close to election to limit mail ballots

[Ballots, from A1] where the stakes “could not have been higher.”

“Voting is the fundamental right from which all other rights flow, and all 50 states allow ballots to be cast by mail in some form. In California and several other states, mail voting is the primary way elections are conducted,” Bonta said. “Had this rule been allowed to take effect, the consequences would have been catastrophic.”

Under the proposed rules, state and county election officials across the nation would be required to enroll each voter with a unique barcode and submit the data to a new online portal that, as of last week, was not yet functioning.

Without the individualized barcodes, states could not send ballots through the mail. In California, that would mean election officials would have to enroll 23 million voters with new barcodes before state ballots could be mailed.

“Compliance with the USPS’ rule would be impossible ahead of the midterms, meaning that millions of voters would be unable to vote by mail and some would not be able to vote at all,” the state attorneys general told the court last week.

The impact would not be limited to Democratic-leaning states. Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson said it would be “an unmitigated disaster” if the new rules were put into effect now. About 30% of the nation’s voters — and 80% of Californians — cast ballots by mail in 2024.

But Trump has maintained, without providing evidence, that voting by mail leads to widespread cheating and fraud.

In March, he issued an executive order that called on the Postal Service to do more to “enhance election integrity.”

“Unique ballot envelope identifiers, such as bar codes, enable confirmation that only citizens receive and cast ballots,” he said.

Elections experts say there is no evidence of such widespread fraud, despite robust audits and other searches for it.

State attorneys general argued that the Constitution entrusts states, not federal officials, to conduct elections. Although Congress may impose new rules, it has not done to limit voting by mail or to empower the Postal Service to do so, they said.

Trump and his lawyers maintained the administration had a duty to combat fraud, including in elections.

Solicitor Gen. D. John Sauer described the new rules as “modest measures that will help prevent and restrain potential gross abuses of the mails to perpetrate a fraud on the Nation.”

But U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, in Boston, ruled the Postal Service may not put its new regulations into effect for the Nov. 3 election. She found the Trump administration had presented no evidence to the court of widespread fraud existing, while the states had presented ample evidence that implementing such a system on such a fast timeline posed tremendous risk.

The 1st Circuit Court affirmed her order and said the administration's lawyers "have not even seriously challenged the ... detailed findings about the chaos and widespread disenfranchisement that would occur between now and November 3 should the USPS rule take immediate effect."

On Sunday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols — a Trump appointee — also blocked the new Postal Service rules from being implemented in separate cases brought by the NAACP and Democratic groups, finding they clearly exceeded the Postal Service's authority in

elections.

What the future will hold is unclear. The courts did not declare the new rules to be illegal or unconstitutional, though multiple lower courts have suggested that parts of the plan probably would be — including by exceeding the Postal Service's authority to intervene in elections.

Much of the debate before the appellate and high court related to the rushed timeline under which the Postal Service was seeking to implement the changes. With that set aside by the Supreme Court's ruling that the rules will not apply this election, the debate in the lower courts may shift focus to whether the new regulations can be applied to the 2028 elections.

Newsom says he will yield to Harris if she runs again in 2028

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player Megan Rapinoe in a podcast interview that she was focused on working full time to help Democrats win the midterms.

A spokesperson for Harris declined to comment. Representatives for Newsom did not immediately respond to a request Monday afternoon.

Harris has appeared as the party front-runner in multiple polls about 2028, including one in July that showed her beating Newsom by double digits. But questions have continually circulated within the party about whether voters who are scarred from the party's 2024 loss would be enthusiastic about a Harris run.

Several California donors told The Times in May that they did not plan to support Harris or did not want to discuss a possible bid by her; in a few corners, more enthusiasm came through for Newsom.

The dynamics around the 2028 Democratic primary continue to evolve as party hopefuls jockey for the spotlight, and they shifted notably with the selection of South Carolina as the party's first primary state. That choice could give Harris a boost if South Carolina's Black voters move in her favor.

Harris and Newsom came up in politics in the same era and have never before run in an election against each other, operating their political careers largely in parallel rather than in competition. In February, Newsom said on CNN that he had “never gotten in the way of her ambition” and he didn’t “imagine I would in the future,” saying “fate” would determine whether they ran against each other.

GAVIN NEWSOM on Sept. 4 visits South Carolina, the first Democratic presidential primary state in 2028.
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Newsom swung through South Carolina this month, the type of move generally interpreted as laying the groundwork for a presidential bid. In the CNN interview, Newsom noted that he did not know whether Harris would run and agreed it was a “pretty good case” to make when Tapper raised the argument that Harris had had her chance at the presidency and Newsom had not yet.

The governor suggested that a fight between him and Harris would split their supporters' vote in a way that would be "a gift from God for everybody else" in the race, saying "it services no greater good" for both of them to run. He also nodded to their overlapping political circles.

"I know her base of supporters, I know her friends. The [Venn] diagram on that is just pure crossover," Newsom said. "I wouldn't do that."

The interview was filmed in Montana, where Newsom's in-laws own a ranch, as Newsom and Tapper fly-fished together. The full segment was set to air Tues- day.

Newsom said that in order to decide to run, a candidate needs to be able to “meet the moment.”

“You gotta be honest with yourself,” he said. “Do you represent the zeitgeist of the moment or are you wasting everybody’s time?”

LEARNING

Satisfaction with U.S. schools at new low

JUST 32% of American adults say they are “completely” or “somewhat” satisfied with the U.S. school system.
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Political divides, test scores and workforce concerns are driving confidence down.

By Jocelyn Gecker

Americans' satisfaction with the quality of K-12 education in the country has hit a low point, driven by a growing political divide and concerns that schools are not preparing children for college and future jobs.

Just 32% of American adults say they are “completely” or “somewhat” satisfied with the U.S. school system, according to an August poll recently published by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation and shared with the Associated Press.

That's an 11-point drop over the last two years and the lowest since Gallup began polling on the subject 27 years ago.

At the same time, dissatisfaction has increased to a high of 67%.

Experts on education and school policy say the findings are deeply concerning but not surprising.

Democrats are driving the recent slide, with their satisfaction dropping about 19 points since President Trump's second term began in 2025.

Independents' satisfaction appears to be down as well, about 10 points from 2024, while Republicans' satisfaction has also fallen slightly, about 6 points.

The Trump administration has contributed to the erosion in public confidence by depicting schools as political battlegrounds, raising concerns about what teachers should be allowed to say in the classroom and moving to abolish diversity programs and dismantle the Education Department, said Jack Schneider, director of the Center for Education Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Democrats, he said, are also particularly concerned about Trump's signature school choice program that will use taxpayer-supported scholarships to pay for kids' private school tuition.

Lower test scores

But politics alone does not explain the dissatisfaction. Gallup polling shows public confidence in schools generally has declined since the COVID-19 pandemic closed classrooms, exacerbating academic declines, mental health issues and other problems.

Headlines have consistently told a story of a national drop in test scores, especially in reading, which sends a message that schools have struggled to rebound since pandemic lows.

“We’ve had a drumbeat of bad news about test scores and other social trends that could be driving this,” said Sarah Reckhow, a political science professor at Michigan State University who specializes in public policy.

"There's a ton of debate, discussion and noise about technology and AI in education," she said. And recently, kids' screen time at school has dominated education headlines locally and nationally.

The local view

However, parents have a different view about their own children's education. About two-thirds of parents with school-age children say they are satisfied with their child's education, which is also a low point in the trend

— parents haven't had a similarly discontented view since 2013 — but double the $32\%$ satisfaction with U.S. education among adults overall.

That reflects a steady trend of parents feeling more confident about their own schools than the narrative they hear from elected officials and headlines about the national picture.

"When people weigh in about the nation's schools, what they are commenting on are 98,999 schools that they haven't set foot in," Schneider said.

A separate survey, also conducted in August by Gallup and Walton, asked Americans how well they thought schools were preparing kids for the future.

Only about 2 in 10 said schools are doing a “good” or “excellent” job teaching critical thinking or preparing students for the current workforce. Schools’ highest marks were for preparing students to adapt to new technologies, with 44% giving schools a high ranking in this area.

Gallup senior education researcher Zach Hrynowski says the findings highlight a frustration with institutions more broadly.

"People have a general negative vibe about everything in the country right now," Hrynowski said. "People are frustrated, and don't think any institution is working particularly well."

Gecker writes for the Associated Press.

Parents sue over mandatory internet use in classroom

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A STUDENT speaks with members of the Lower Merion Board of School Directors in spring in Ardmore, Pa.
AN ATTENDEE wears a “Screens Down, Pencils Up” button at a Lower Merion school board meeting.

BY LINDA JACOBSON

Parents pushing back against technology in the classroom have directed their anger toward major corporations such as Google and Curriculum Associates, the company behind the widely used i-Ready platform.

But the “techlash” took a turn recently when seven parents in a Philadelphia suburb sued their school district in federal court for not allowing families to opt their children out of using the internet.

The 8,500-student Lower Merion School District adopted a new technology policy Aug. 17 that limits the use of devices in elementary school and doesn't assign laptops or iPads to students until they're in fifth grade.

The policy tries to strike a balance between recognizing that “families have different perspectives on student access to technology,” while still “maximizing the educational value of technology resources.” But in June, the board repealed a longstanding policy that allowed parents to refuse internet-connected devices for their kids.

Citing research on the addictive nature of online sites and the harmful effects of social media, the parents accuse the district, Supt. Frank Ranelli and seven board members of creating “an environment that is unhealthy, unsafe and invasive for students.” The complaint argues that the policy denies parents’ rights to make decisions about their children’s “upbringing and education” and puts kids at risk of accessing online pornography and violent videos. One child, according to the lawsuit, began “compulsively playing an online poker game on his school device.”

In a statement, the district said it “denies the allegations and will respond further through the judicial process.” But officials also noted that not all of the parents have students in the district. Of the seven families bringing the lawsuit, just three have students still enrolled. The rest have children described as “eligible to attend” this fall. One family enrolled their kids in a private school, according to the complaint.

The proper use of technology also has been a major issue in California and notably in Los Angeles Unified. In June, the L.A. school board voted to limit screen time according to age and put these limitations on the fast track. Starting this school year, screens are banned until the second grade. Older students have increasing access to devices — although even high school teachers probably will need to coordinate with colleagues about when it will be their class' turn to require a computer-based assignment.

L.A. Unified already had banned student cellphone use during school hours. But the suit in Pennsylvania strikes even deeper at the technological core of modern education — use of the internet itself.

'Unusual' challenge to a school board

The case is the latest move by the EdTech Law Center, led by a husband and wife legal team in Texas, to force districts to significantly restrict internet use. Andrew and Julie Liddell, who are working with a Philadelphia firm representing the parents, also have several active cases against ed tech vendors, including IXL, an online learning platform, and PowerSchool, a student information system. In a statement, Andrew Liddell said he believes the case “is the first of its kind." It's not typical, experts say, for disputes between parents and districts over tech use to end up in court.

“This is an unusual lawsuit,” said Stacy Hawthorne, board chair for the Consortium for School Networking, a professional organization. It’s difficult, she said, to bring a constitutional challenge over a school board’s policymaking authority. “Courts generally have not given individual families a veto over a district’s instructional or technology policies.”

The lawsuit comes about a week after Education Secretary Linda McMahon said during a CNN interview that parents should have the right to request something different if they think an ed tech tool, especially one using artificial intelligence, is not right for their child. McMahon said she's opposed to allowing students to have "recreational screen time" at school.

In response to parents' concerns and warnings from researchers about the effects of too much screen time, several states are limiting the use of devices. New York lawmakers recently introduced legislation that would make paper-and-pencil tasks the predominant means of instruction in elementary classrooms.

Kelly Clancy, a Brooklyn mother of three who serves on a community education council in the New York City Public Schools, said parents are “really excited” about the bill and that advocacy groups “are planning a major statewide push.” But she thinks most parents are more interested in seeing districts adopt strict screen time policies rather than opting out.

“Parents want to trust their kids’ schools to put learning first,” she said. “No one wants to reach the point of litigation.”

Ed tech groups and the U.S. Department of Education have called for limiting overuse and carefully vetting programs to ensure they improve learning.

“Nothing should replace that one-on-one teacher interaction with students,” McMahon said on CNN. “Are we looking at it as recreational screen time or are we looking at it as tutorial screen time? There is a right balance to be used in the classroom.”

Hawthorne, chair of the Consortium for School Networking, doesn't expect similar lawsuits to become common and said most disputes over screen time, privacy and AI “will continue to play out through school board deliberations, elections and state policymaking.”

But she urged districts to take parents' concerns seriously and explain how their use of technology supports learning and protects kids online.

'Teacher-led education'

The debate between Lower Merion district leaders and parents flared up in the spring when, according to the complaint, device use “had grown intolerable to many parents.”

Yair Lev, the lead plaintiff, has two children at Cynwyd Elementary in the district and helped organize Pencils Over Pixels to advocate in favor of maintaining the opt-out policy. When Ranelli, the superintendent, and local school administrators began telling parents they couldn't opt out, the conflict escalated.

Lev, a cardiologist and professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, sent numerous emails to board members asking them not to “eliminate parent protections.”

In a July message, he described a conversation in which he said the superintendent told him that parents who object to Chromebooks and online curriculum “were welcome to leave the public school district and go to private school.”

Pointing to disruptions at previous meetings by some parents demanding to opt their children out of using devices, the district ultimately moved the final vote on the policy to Zoom and allowed no public comments. The district also is adopting a new program that allows both educators and parents to monitor device use.

In a statement shared with The 74, Lev said he has no plans to pull his kids out of the district.

“We are not willing to sacrifice the public schools and community we love,” he said. “We simply seek to preserve our right as parents to choose a teacher-led education for our children without mandatory technology requirements.”

Jacobson writes for The 74. This story was distributed through a partnership with the Associated Press. Times staff writer Howard Blume contributed to this report.

BUSINESS

Talk of AI pause slams Nvidia, other AI stocks

serve customers, analysts said.

JENSEN HUANG, CEO of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Nvidia, dismissed AI doomsday scenarios as unfounded.
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Tech leaders are divided on doomsday scenarios, but OpenAI hints at IPO delay.

By Nilesh Christopher

Artificial intelligence stocks tumbled on Monday after American leaders of the AI revolution called for a coordinated slowdown in building more powerful AI systems.

Over the weekend, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” calling for an industrywide effort to slow AI development. Executives at OpenAI, SpaceX and Microsoft also echoed the concern and called for some sort of pause.

Semiconductor stocks bore the brunt of the statements. Chipmaker Nvidia fell 3% to \$210.96. Its rival AMD lost 4%. Intel plunged 6%.

Amid the fears, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, suggested it might be delaying its initial public offering plans.

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said in an interview with Fortune that it was an “ill-advised moment” for an initial public offering, saying the company won’t list this year.

Shares of OpenAI shareholder SoftBank Group plunged 11% on Monday.

Worries over doomsday scenarios tied to increasingly powerful technology skyrocketed last week after an Anthropic employee resigned, saying AI companies were gambling with humanity's future.

On Saturday, Amodei outlined ways he hoped to slow the pace of AI development.

Among his suggestions: Use independent third-party monitors to ensure AI was being developed safely.

“Anthropic is unilaterally committing to this step now,” Amodei said.

OpenAI said it would follow suit.

Microsoft on Monday published a “humanist” code of conduct to show its commitment to ensuring Microsoft's models "will never resist human interruption, correction, or shutdown."

Amodei's other proposals included working with democracies to set safety standards and finding ways to ensure Chinese entities also comply.

AI capabilities have grown so rapidly that many industry leaders say they have spooked themselves. They warn that there is a not-insignificant possibility that humans will lose control of AI, which could do serious damage to the world.

Skeptics say some of the fearmongering is motivated by industry leaders trying to solidify their positions by using new restrictions to make it difficult for competitors to emerge.

“What is clear is that Anthropic and OpenAI have grown to a size where they feel like they can do two things: One is encourage regulation, and two is control what that regulation looks like. And if they can do that, they can prevent competition," said Gil Luria, head of technology research at D.A. Davidson.

After realizing a swarm of AI agents broke out of testing and hacked rival companies, OpenAI paused AI training for new models and promised to strengthen its cyber defenses. But it has since resumed.

If there were a pause in new AI development, it would slow the training of the next models, but current models could continue to

That could slow growth but not by much, said Joel Brookhart, an analyst covering AI companies at Semi-Analysis.

"There's not going to be a material slowdown," he said.

Anthropic reportedly disclosed its second consecutive profitable quarter Sunday as it prepares to go public. Its revenue for the second quarter surged past \$11.5 billion.

Some tech leaders say they doubt that the sky is falling.

Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, dismissed AI doomsday scenarios as totally unfounded. He said that companies have made tremendous strides in defending against cybersecurity risks.

President Trump dismissed the risks and defended the administration's light-touch regulatory approach.

He said U.S. laws already ban companies from creating dangerous technologies and punish them for damage their products cause. The U.S. has to continue upgrading its AI capabilities to stay ahead of China, he said.

"There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS!" Trump posted. "We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so."

Taco Bell, Habit relocating to larger HQ space in Irvine

BY CAROLINE PETROW-Cohen

Taco Bell is moving to a new home in Irvine, where the growing company will have more space to develop its signature Mexican-style menu.

It will move into a 254,000-square-foot campus at Alton HQ along with its sister company Habit Burger & Grill.

Taco Bell has had roots in Irvine for more than 40 years and is expected to relocate by 2028. The chain was founded in 1962 by Glenn Bell in Downey.

The two chains, owned by Yum! Brands, currently share a headquarters near the Irvine Spectrum Center.

The new headquarters will be more than 70,000 square feet larger than its current one and can accommodate 1,100 people. Its current location has space for 970. The three-building campus will also have a fitness center, a cafe and an outdoor work space.

"Our new campus in Irvine is an investment in our people and our future, giving our teams more space to collaborate and create," said Taco Bell Chief Executive Sean Tresvant and Habit Burger & Grill Chief Executive Shannon Hennessy in a joint statement. "This campus reflects our confidence in what's ahead and reinforces our long-term commitment to Irvine and the broader Orange County community."

largest new office lease in five years. In 2019, Taco Bell renewed its lease at its current location for 11 years.

Previously occupied by Canon U.S.A., Alton HQ is owned by Irvine Company Office Properties. The lease marks Orange County's

BY STEPHEN BATTAGLIO

The new space is about a mile away from the Irvine Spectrum Center and will include several upgrades such as increased meeting and dining capacity and a dedicated test kitchen.

“Working closely with Taco Bell and Habit to customize Alton HQ in Irvine Spectrum around their unique needs reflects our commitment to creating environments,” said the president of Irvine Company Office Properties, Roger De-Wames, in a statement.

The look and tone of the newsmagazine remain largely intact, despite the upheaval.

Canon sold the Alton HQ campus to the Irvine Company in 2022 for \$120 million, according to CoStar.

Taco Bell has been posting impressive revenues for Yum!, including systemwide sales of \$18 billion in 2025, up 13% from the prior year. Habit Burger & Grill reported \$706 million in sales last year.

Earlier this month, Yum! Brands completed its sale of Pizza Hut to LongRange Capital for roughly \$1.5 billion.

‘60 Minutes’ makes highly anticipated debut after firings, hires by Bari Weiss

Taco Bell suffered a set-back amid a period of growth earlier this summer when a parasitic outbreak was linked to lettuce served at Taco Bell locations in five states. Taco Bell's foot traffic dropped in July, following the spread of cyclosporiasis.

JOURNALIST Norah O'Donnell, on Sunday's show, interviews an Air Force officer shot down over Iran.
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Experts said they expect the brand to rebound, anchored by its cultural relevance and popularity among younger customers.

"As Taco Bell and Habit continue to grow, we want our workplace to grow with us," Tresvant and Hennessy said.

The first edition of “60 Minutes” since CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss initiated drastic changes to the venerable program made it to air Sunday. But the changes weren’t all that apparent on screen.

The 59th season premiere was highly anticipated after months of turbulence behind the scenes. Weiss fired “60 Minutes” correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, both of whom complained the executive pushed them to add right-wing talking points to their stories. Longtime correspondent Scott Pelley was ousted after he angrily questioned the firings at a staff meeting.

Weiss — who took over editorial control of CBS News after parent company Paramount acquired her heterodox digital news site the Free Press — also dismissed "60 Minutes" Executive Producer Tanya Simon and replaced her with screenwriter and documentary filmmaker Nick Bilton, who has no previous experience in TV news.

Weiss restocked the program's correspondent corps with one new full-timer — Ross Douthat, the longtime conservative opinion writer for the New York Times — and several new contributors, none of whom showed up in the premiere.

Douthat is the only newcomer added to the opening credits, in which the correspondents introduce themselves on camera. He also did the closing segment called “The Last Minute,” talking about the dangers of artificial intelligence and the need for “journalism you can trust.”

But the look and tone of “60 Minutes” remained intact, with only a few minor tweaks to the graphics.

The episode was heavily promoted, with one on-air spot drawing on clips from the program's storied past. Correspondents throughout CBS News touted the premiere on their social media accounts.

The program opened with Norah O'Donnell's exclusive interview with the Air Force officer who was shot down over Iran and rescued by special forces. The U.S. fighter jet was the first to be lost over enemy territory in more than 20 years.

The interview gave a detailed account of the rescue mission and steered clear of any political discussion about the Iran war, which O'Donnell described as "costly and unpopular." Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sat for an interview, focusing solely on the rescue mission.

The second segment was a hidden-camera investigation showing how self-styled lobbyists are shopping access to President Trump to felons looking for a pardon. Video captured pardon brokers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, who were seen asking for \$300,000 for their help, saying they worked with influencers close to Trump who would advocate for their cases. (The White House told “60 Minutes”: “Anyone spending money to lobby for pardons is foolishly wasting their money.... President Trump performs his constitutional duties in an ethically sound manner, and to suggest so otherwise is either ill-informed or malicious.”)

Some on social media expressed surprise that “60 Minutes” would do a tough story on the Trump administration under Weiss after repeated reports that she is attempting to make the program more amenable to conservatives. “So I guess Bari Weiss didn’t totally destroy “60 Minutes” after all?” political analyst Chris Cillizza wrote on X.

The Los Angeles Rams made up the third segment in the program, which typically includes sports stories when CBS has a late afternoon football game leading into prime time. The package mostly focused on Rams head coach Sean McVay.

The ratings for “60 Minutes” will be issued by Nielsen later this week. Last year the program averaged 9.1 million weekly viewers, making it the most watched non-sports program in prime time.

Broadcom buys OC campus for \$325 million

BY ROGER VINCENT

Computer chip and software developer Broadcom purchased the Irvine office compound it rented in the latest example of a well-funded company taking advantage of depressed real estate prices to switch from renter to owner.

Broadcom paid its former landlord, PRP Real Assets, \$325 million for the 660,000-square-foot research campus near the junction of the 5 and 405 freeways in one of the largest office sales in Southern California in recent years.

The unusual deal was a reacquisition for Broadcom, which developed the property as an office and research-and-development complex before selling the campus for roughly \$443 million in 2017.

At that time, it agreed to lease it for 20 years, real estate data provider CoStar said. PRP acquired the campus for \$355 million in 2020.

The campus consists of two five-story office buildings at 15101 and 15191 Alton Parkway.

Completed in 2017 and 2018, the campus was designed to be Broadcom's corporate headquarters with significant research-and-development capabilities.

Broadcom, now based in Palo Alto, is one of the world's largest semiconductor and infrastructure software companies. It makes components for iPhones, optical networking and other products.

Through acquisitions of other tech firms, the company has assembled a portfolio of 17 owned properties totaling more than 2.2 million square feet, according to CoStar data.

“You rarely see an Orange County office deal of this size, and almost never from an occupier rather than an investor,” said Jesse Gundersheim, a senior director of market analytics for CoStar. “Broadcom is taking control of a campus that is already critical to its business.”

Companies occupying their own buildings accounted for 34% of Orange County office sales volume over the past year, compared with a five-year average of 24%, CoStar said.

In Los Angeles, fund manager Capital Group earlier this year agreed to pay about \$210 million for the 55-story Bank of America Plaza atop Bunker Hill, where it has offices.

Others choosing to buy over rent include Riot Games and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

"We knew the best landlord we could possibly have would be ourselves," Capital Group Chief Executive Mike Gitlin said in April.

NERDS Gummy Clusters are gummies coated in crunchy candy. For those who prefer more goo, a new Nerds product has a liquid center.

JAE C. HONG Associated Press

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Food makers adding more crunch to your lunch

BY DEE-ANN DURBIN

Texture is having a crunchy, gooey moment in the food and beverage industry.

For many people, the way a menu item or packaged snack feels in the mouth has become as big a draw as flavor, although consumers don't always recognize the part texture plays in their cravings for crispier takeout, frothier coffees and juicier candies, according to industry experts.

The importance of "mouthfeel," a food science term for oral sensation, has inspired new products like Starbucks' Aerocano, an air-whipped iced espresso; PowerCrunch, a wafer-like protein bar; and Trolli Gummi Popz, which are frozen but still soft and chewy.

Texture “has evolved from a complementary feature to a defining aspect of food quality,” Puratos, a Belgian company that develops commercial-grade ingredients for chocolate and baked goods, says. “It is reshaping how consumers evaluate food and make purchasing decisions.”

The trend is a global one. Stretchy yogurt is popular in China, while Swedish confectioner Cloetta just released Sprinkled Foamies, which have a crunchy coating and a marshmallow center. Parisian bakers are experimenting with new pastries like the crookie, a crispy croissant with a melty chocolate chip cookie inside.

"It's not just about flavor anymore. People are thinking about the whole experience," said Tana Davila, the chief marketing officer at Dutch Bros Coffee. The drive-through U.S. beverage chain lets customers customize their drinks with toppings like a sweet and creamy whipped foam and juice-filled balls that pop when bitten into.

It began with the Cronut (sort of)

Texture is so integral to the act of eating that people often describe how a food feels when they're asked how it tastes, said Patrick Kalotis, the executive vice president of texture and healthful solutions at Ingredion, an Illinois-based ingredient provider.

"You know, 'This drink is fizzy' or 'I love the creami-"

ness of the yogurt,'” Kalotis said. “They think they’re talking about taste, and of course the texture helps propagate the taste, but they’re actually describing texture.”

Food makers have long played with consistency. Pillow Japanese mochi and stretchy Turkish ice cream date back centuries. Bubble tea, with its chewy tapioca boba pearls, was invented in Taiwan in the 1980s. In the 1990s, high-end European restaurants whipped up culinary foams flavored with things like truffle oil or lobster broth.

But interest in texture has exploded in recent years, said Jenny Zegler, the principal strategist for food and drink at market research company Mintel. It's reflected in toys like squishy NeeDoh cubes and beauty products like jelly cleansers. With food, qualities like chewy, soft, gooey and melt-in-the-mouth are seeing fast-rising demand in online product searches, according to Mintel data.

Zegler thinks the craze around the Cronut — a doughnut-shaped pastry with a crispy fried outside and an airy, buttery inside like a croissant — started a fascination with food textures about a decade ago. Multilayered products like Dubai chocolate and sound-enhanced social media videos of influencers breaking crackly peanut brittle and slurping creamy noodles heightened the interest.

“Consumers are gaining new expectations for the experience of a product, and texture is the perfect way to deliver that,” Zegler said.

The role played by COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic elevated interest in texture because the coronavirus caused many people to temporarily lose their sense of smell and taste, said Shannon Weiner, senior director of consumer insights at candy company Ferrara. In

2020, the Chicago-based company debuted Nerds Gummy Clusters, a sweet round gummy coated in crunchy Nerds candy.

The hit product led to other innovations in the candy aisle, like crispy freeze-dried Skittles. Gummi Popz, chewy bite-sized squares filled with fizzing candy, went on sale earlier this year. Ferrara-owned Brach's plans to introduce jelly beans with a crunchy exterior for Easter next year.

Weiner said layers of texture create contrasts, which heighten people's perceptions of indulgence and quality and encourage them to pay closer attention to what they're eating.

"It's a world of overstimulation that we're living in, right?" Weiner said. "Often-times, if consumers are snacking as they're scrolling or going through these mindless activities, texture can help break through and help stimulate and offer a sensory engagement."

Rise of delivery sparks changes

Meeting consumers' texture demands and preferences is a growing challenge for the food industry. McDonald's, which released new McCrispy chicken strips in May 2025, changed the recipe this year after customers said the strips weren't crispy enough.

The rise of meal delivery has left restaurants searching for ways to ensure food retains its texture while it's in transit, Kalotis said. Ingredion has developed potato starch-based coatings that can keep French fries crispy for 30 minutes; it's working on extending the time to 45 minutes, he said.

Food companies are trying to find ways to make products healthier or more affordable by changing ingredients without disturbing familiar textures. For example, Ingredion makes additives that help keep reduced-sugar yogurt creamy.

Zegler, at Mintel, sees a lot of innovation ahead for texture. She expects companies to explore the texture needs of different populations, like older people. Snack foods will keep getting more layers, she said. Ferrara last year brought out Nerds Juicy Gummy Clusters, which added a liquid center to the original two-layer candy.

In the meantime, Kalotis said, food companies need to do a better job of illustrating and explaining textures on product packaging. Mintel found that 59% of packaged foods introduced in the U.S. this year had no textural claims on their labels despite customers actively seeking out foods with novel physical properties.

“In a lot of ways, texture is one of the most powerful and yet somehow underrated parts of the food experience,” Kalotis said. “It makes a snack more satisfying.”

Durbin writes for the Associated Press.

Rural America's data center boom hits a wall of local resistance

than 25,000 people live.

MIKE STEWART Associated Press

A CORE Scientific data center in Dalton, Ga. Small towns face the choice of joining or spurning AI boom.

BY SHRUTI SINGH AND NIC QUEROLO

Clinton, Iowa, needs an economic boost. The city has struggled with deficits, its population has been shrinking for decades, and after a sewer upgrade, its debt load has doubled.

Blackstone Inc.-owned QTS has a solution: a massive data center that would bring thousands of construction jobs and provide nearly \$200 million in property taxes in its first 10 years, a transformative sum for a place with a \$25-million operating budget. Andy Sokolovich, the local economic development cheerleader, calls the project a financial game changer.

“We've bonded ourselves to the hilt,” said Sokolovich, the president of Grow Clinton, a nonprofit. “There is very little we can do to rectify our financial situation outside of a development of this caliber.”

But money isn't everything. Many residents want nothing to do with the data center and view it as a potential source of noise pollution, environmental degradation and rising utility costs, even though QTS has vowed to pay its own way.

“We pay for 100% of the energy and infrastructure improvements needed,” the company said in a statement.

Still, local hostility threatens to end QTS' hopes of breaking ground in the 24,000-person community off the Mississippi River.

Like Clinton, more and more of small town America is confronted with the choice of joining the artificial intelligence boom and reaping the promised benefits — assuming they actually do materialize — or rejecting what some fear will do more harm than good, even if that means sacrificing economic growth.

In the first quarter of this year, local pushback halted or delayed roughly 75 projects in the U.S. worth \$130 billion, according to Data Center Watch. More recently, QTS and Brookfield Asset Management-backed Compass Datacenters both gave up on plans to build a 2,100-acre campus in Northern Virginia. And in Independence, Mo. — where the median household income is just over \$60,000 — voters this month recalled a City Council member who supported tax breaks for a proposed data center.

More than two-thirds of new data center proposals are landing in rural America, according to Pew Research Center, and it's not always easy to say no. Small towns and counties with few other sources of significant revenue often rely on volunteer or part-time leadership to make consequential decisions about complex, multi-billion-dollar proposals, just as federal aid that filled local government coffers following the COVID-19 pandemic has dried up.

Some communities have accepted the projects, which credit rating firms say are boosting tax revenue for municipalities across the country. In Cedar Rapids, 85 miles west of Clinton, a QTS facility is expected to generate almost \$500 million in net property tax revenue over two decades. Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. just opened a \$1.2-billion data center in 32,000-person Kuna, Idaho. Alphabet Inc.'s Google is building a data center campus in West Memphis, Ark., where fewer

"The fiscal pressure means that communities are weighing the potential economic benefits more heavily," said Amy Colbert, a professor at the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business, who has built an online tool that helps local governments evaluate data center proposals.

Tough choices

The debate over AI infrastructure is also taking on fresh urgency for state and federal politicians, with U.S. midterm elections just a few months away. Republicans are balancing President Trump's full-throated support of data centers — and lambasting of those who oppose them — with pushback from rural residents, while Democrats are weighing environmental concerns against union support for the construction jobs that the projects create.

Some states are now pursuing moratoriums to halt development, and governors who were once data center proponents have significantly cooled on them, including Democrats Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and JB Pritzker of Illinois, as well as Greg Abbott, a Texas Republican who is usually a staunch backer of Trump.

But grassroots resistance is rising at the same time that challenges for small municipalities are mounting. States are tightening the amount of funding they send to local governments as they expect to receive less funding from national programs such as Medicaid starting next year as the full force of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act begins to take effect.

This presents a conundrum for rural communities:

Some residents may not like data centers, but small towns have fewer options for growth than big cities and their surrounding suburbs.

“While on the one hand it might seem to make economic sense, it doesn't make cultural or social sense,” said Anthony Pipa, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Take Miles Crosby, whose family has lived on land in Colleton County, S.C., since the 1940s. His home is on a road named after his mother.

Earlier this year, he and another resident sued to block a proposed data center campus that would have surrounded Crosby's home on three sides. The complaint, along with community opposition, helped to prevent the project.

But the community could've used the money. In July, S&P Global Ratings dropped the county's credit grade to A+ from AA-, citing deteriorating finances and declining reserves. Colleton, which has a \$40-million budget, would have net more than \$100 million annually by the project's fourth year, according to Brantley Strickland, executive director of the Colleton County Economic Alliance. It also would have created 500 permanent jobs with an average annual salary of \$125,000, more than double the county's median household income, he said.

On Monday, the county's council is set to vote on legislation that would end a six-month data center moratorium passed in July, and replace it with guardrails that would give the developer an opening to build on a less environmentally sensitive site.

About 1,700 miles due west, opposition from locals in Socorro County, N.M., led to the cancellation of a proposed project that would have spanned 10,000 acres, even as the developer touted its high environmental standards and benefits for the community, where farmers and ranchers anchor the economy.

"It's out of the question, it's monstrously harmful," one dissenter said at a public meeting in May.

'The right fit'

Back in Clinton, Mayor Scott Maddasion and City

Council members are considering an ordinance intended to set more guardrails on data center development.

Maddasion said he broadly supports the legislation, but acknowledged it's difficult for the city to dictate the use of private land. The site QTS is considering has been zoned for heavy industrial use.

But “the actual development pattern in this area has also been agricultural and residential — not industrial,” said Amy Wisor, a local who opposes the project.

Some residents worry that a data center risks straining the city's water and sewer infrastructure after it was upgraded in 2023.

Wisor, who relies on wells, fears that a potential 1,000-plus acre QTS facility will suck them dry. QTS said its data centers use a closed-loop system, which “do not consume water for cooling once they are operational.”

Sokolovich of Grow Clinton sees data centers as the answer to improving the city's finances and reaching its goals, like building a sports complex and improving its roads.

“The financial demands of providing even basic services continue to increase,” he wrote in a letter about the QTS proposal. “What if the attraction of a data center could offset the costs and expedite the chance of turning these dreams into reality?”

Maddasion was more circumspect. “That tax revenue from a data center would be massive compared to what our current general fund is,” he said. “Is it the right fit for Clinton, though?”

Singh and Querolo write for Bloomberg.

Not fighting NBA was best for team, experts say

[Clippers, from A1] ings and penalties through every avenue available to us," the Clippers were silent for 11 days.

On Sunday night, they surrendered.

"I accept responsibility as principal owner," Ballmer said in a three-paragraph, f72-word statement released by the team. "We are committing to put this chapter behind us. We have communicated to the NBA that we are complying with the penalties assessed by the league, have paid the fine, and are moving forward."

Mark Francis, an associate teaching professor in sports business at the University of Oregon, said Ballmer's decision to change course was a smart one — since fighting the penalties would only serve to prolong the scandal in the media, damaging the goodwill Ballmer has built up since buying the team in 2014.

"It's the right thing to do," he said. "We're living in times where people don't take accountability anymore and I was actually impressed that he came out with that.

“Once they acknowledge fault, show some remorse, those kinds of things, then sometimes the penalties will be reduced.”

Daniel Durbin, director of the USC Annenberg Institute of Sports Media and Society, agreed, saying the original pushback “was all lawyer speak” and the decision to accept the penalties was prudent.

"It is a pretty stiff penalty. You've got a problem, just pay it off and get rid of it," Durbin said. "And in a certain respect, Ballmer can pay this and move on. So it may well be for him ... it's not worth it to keep fighting, keep wasting money on that."

Bloomberg estimates Ballmer's net worth at \$173 billion, making the former Microsoft chief executive the world's ninth-richest person. He earns \$1.2 billion annually from his Microsoft stock dividends alone.

In addition to the loss of draft picks and the fine and suspension levied on Ballmer, the NBA suspended Gillian Zucker, the Clippers president of business operations, for one year without pay and suspended Lawrence Frank, the team's president of basketball operations, for six months without pay.

Leonard, a seven-time All-Star forward and Southern California native, was traded back to the Toronto Raptors this summer. He agreed to pay a \$700,000 fine for his role in the Clippers saga and did not contest the sanctions leveled against him but issued a statement of his own in which he placed the blame squarely on the Clippers.

"I accept full responsibility for lapses in judgment by people within my inner circle and regret the distraction this situation has caused the fans and my family," the statement read. "I entered into my contract with the Clippers as well as the agreements in question in good faith, fully committed to fulfilling my obligations and with no knowledge of any intent on anyone's part to circumvent the salary cap."

The Raptors temporarily froze the Leonard trade after the NBA announced Toronto would inherit any penalties assessed to Leonard following its investigation. With Ballmer accepting the NBA penalties, the trade is now moving forward and the Clippers will receive All-Star forward Brandon Ingram, shooting guard Gradey Dick, two first-round draft picks, a pick swap and two second-round picks, building blocks that could help the franchise move forward amid the penalties.

Ballmer's capitulation may actually be seen as a positive to some Clippers fans, Durbin suggested.

“What did he confess to? Trying to kind of work around the rules to make the Clippers a championship team,” he said. “There’s a certain sense in which to Clippers fans the entire brouhaha is proof that he’s trying really hard. So while yes, he did break the rules ... saying that you broke some rules to try to make your team a championship team is not in and of itself something that’s going to drive away the fan base.”

"It's not a good thing," Durbin added. "It's an admission that maybe he went too far. ... And he was willing to pay to try to make the team better."

SEAN M. HAFFEY Getty Images OWNER Steve Ballmer apologized to fans for the salary cap scandal.

Francis isn't so sure.

"Francis isn't so sure. "I think that's a stretch," he said. "To violate the payroll system they have, it's a serious offense. The owners are the ones that have pushed for these cost controls and they have to live up to them."

The question now becomes, can the Clippers actually become better as they deal with the penalties?

L.A.'s No. 2 NBA team, well behind the Lakers in popularity and success, the Clippers have finished higher than fourth in the Pacific Division standings just once since Ballmer's first season as owner in 2014-15 and have reached the conference finals only once. The team finished ninth in the conference last season, missing the postseason, and it hasn't advanced beyond the first round of the NBA playoffs since 2021.

But the Lakers are in transition under new ownership and are without LeBron James for the first time since 2018, leaving the Clippers with a narrow window to win over new fans.

“They have to be able to threaten to be a championship team before you can say that they can take advantage of this moment,” Durbin said. “There’s the opportunity theoretically, but it’s really more about how smart they are on the draft picks, how smart they are on building the team.”

Times Sports Editor Iliana Limón Romero and staff writer Mirjam Swanson contributed to this report.

BUSINESS

Kroger cuts forecast amid inflation fears

THE GROCERY retailer has battled higher food prices as well as a parasite outbreak this summer.

BY JAEWON KANG

Kroger Co. trimmed its annual sales guidance, signaling that heightened inflationary concerns and fierce competition for grocery spending are weighing on the retailer.

The company expects comparable sales excluding fuel, which measure stores open at least 15 months, to gain as much as 0.8%, lower than its previous forecast calling for a high of 2% growth.

The reduced outlook heaps more pressure on Chief Executive Greg Foran, who is seeking to capture market share by lowering prices, improving store services and investing in the company's workforce. Kroger is also looking to boost online sales.

Wall Street has remained skeptical: Kroger shares had declined about 9% so far this year through Thursday's, compared with an 11% advance for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

The grocer, which operates Ralphs and other chains, said its sales forecast includes the impact of federal negotiations that have led to lower drug prices, which are weighing on the pharmacy business.

Inflationary

pressure

Consumers remain under pressure and are keeping their budgets tight amid elevated gas prices, Foran said on a call with analysts. Kroger's unit sales growth has slowed since the start of the year, with shoppers buying products on need.

Food prices rose slightly last quarter from the prior period. As gas prices remain high, inflationary pressure has increased and is expected to mount, according to Foran. The company will continue to work closely with suppliers to ensure that price changes are justified.

“Historically, when you get an environment like this, you start to see it flow through,” Foran said. “It is something that weighs on

my mind."

At the same time, the parasite outbreak this summer weighed on demand. Its impact lingers, though it's showing some improvement week by week, executives said. For the quarter ended Aug. 15, Kroger's comparable sales missed expectations, though adjusted earnings beat on improved profitability of the e-commerce business, tariff refunds and other factors.

While U.S. shoppers remain resilient overall, they are more selective after years of high inflation. Americans are buying food items on sale or favoring cheaper store brands, and are willing to shop around — or even wait — for the best deals. Higher gas prices stemming from the Iran war have tightened their budgets in recent months, especially hurting lower-income households who are also confronting reduced government food assistance benefits.

Price, store investments

Walmart Inc., Albertsons Cos. and other retailers have said in recent months that they planned to keep prices of food competitive to appeal to price-sensitive consumers and gain share.

Kroger said it invested to lower prices in various regions and is encouraged by early results, executives said on the call. It received an immaterial amount of tariff refunds during the quarter, which the company put toward price investments.

Foran, who started as Kroger's CEO in February, has signaled big changes. The company agreed to acquire Giant Eagle Inc. to expand its Northeast footprint and has named new senior executives that include Walmart alumni like him.

Kroger is working to improve in-stock availability, merchandising and managing shrink. Going forward, the company said it will continue to upgrade its value offering and simplify the types of discounts it highlights.

Kang writes for Bloomberg.

Farmers hit with surge in diesel just as harvests begin

tractor and trucks.

BY NICK INGRAM AND SUDHIN THANAWALA

The price of diesel is hitting record highs just when many U.S. farmers need it to power combines, tractors and other equipment to harvest two of the nation's largest commodities, soybeans and corn.

The spike adds to an already tough year for these farmers, who also faced higher costs for fertilizer, seeds and equipment.

Diesel hit a record price in the U.S. on Sept. 4, soaring to an average of \$5.85 a gallon for the first time as the six-month war with Iran disrupted the flow of fuel.

It has risen even higher since then, going for an average price of \$6.05 a gallon on Friday, according to AAA.

“Those prices hurt,” said Paul Mitchell, a professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “And it’s not just the harvesting. It’s the hauling of everything, moving the grain or the silage from the field to the farm and then from the farm to wherever they’re selling it.”

Jason Kurtz, a corn and soybean farmer near Forest City, Mo., said he was paying twice as much for diesel this year.

His combine uses 200 gallons of fuel a day; he expected to run it for 30 days. He also needed diesel for a

“We have to harvest,” he said in an interview at his farm about 90 miles outside Kansas City on Tuesday. “We have to run the machines. We have to use the diesel, so it cuts into our bottom line.”

Kurtz, 49, said his finances were “already tight” after he also had to pay more for fertilizer and chemicals.

American diesel prices are now 60% higher than they were before the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran in late February, when the national average was about \$3.76 per gallon, according to AAA.

Prices quickly climbed as the cost of crude oil — the main ingredient in diesel, as well as gasoline — skyrocketed amid disruptions to tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz because of the war.

“Farms that are cash-strapped, they're the ones that are most having to figure out what to cut to make this work,” Mitchell said. “There are a lot of farms facing that.”

Kurtz, who said he voted for President Trump, said he planned to hold off on some work until later, when he was hopeful prices would fall.

“That’s one good thing about farming,” he said. “Tomorrow will be different.”

Ingram and Thanawala write for the Associated Press. Thanawala reported from Atlanta.

MARKET ROUNDUP

Worries about oil prices, interest rates depress stocks

tankers.

BY STAN CHOE

Tech stocks slid worldwide Monday after another jump in oil prices briefly pushed the 10-year Treasury yield to $5\%$ , marking the bond market's latest pressure-raising milestone.

Despite all the downers for Wall Street, gains for many stocks outside AI helped limit the market's losses. So did a midday tempering of oil prices, and the Standard & Poor's 500 fell a relatively modest 0.5%.

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 152 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.6% after clawing back most of an early loss of 1.3%.

AI stocks have been under pressure for a while because of worries their prices shot too high in the frenzy around the technology.

The concerns jumped to another level over the weekend after one of the industry's leading voices, Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei, called for a deliberate and global slowdown in the development of AI.

He cited safety issues, including the risk that AI becomes capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet within six to 12 months.

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Nvidia, whose profits have soared because its chips are helping to train AI models, sank 3.4% and was the heaviest weight on the market because of its massive size.

SpaceX, which gets a chunk of its business from AI, fell 2% after Elon Musk said over the weekend that he agrees with Amodei. Softbank Group, the Japanese giant that is a major investor of OpenAI, lost 10.7% in

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Tokyo after OpenAI's Sam Altman likewise supported the concept of a slowdown.

Altman also said in an interview with Fortune published Saturday that the company behind ChatGPT would likely wait until next year for a sale of its stock on Wall Street. That would delay a potential gusher of cash for SoftBank and other early investors in OpenAI.

In South Korea, the Kospi index dropped 3.3% due to losses for its two most influential stocks, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.

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President Trump played down the need for his administration to check the development of AI, saying he worried about ceding his country's edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help address the risks from the advancing technology.

Even with many voices inside and outside the AI industry calling for a slowdown to protect humanity, Trump said on his social media network Monday that the only guardrail it needs "is a STRONG AND

SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!"

Helping to limit Wall Street's losses on Monday were several software companies that tumbled earlier on worries AI-powered competitors would undercut their businesses.

Intuit, the company behind TurboTax and QuickBooks, rose 5.5%. Autodesk, whose software helps designers, climbed 7.8%, and Adobe added 5.3%.

All told, the S&P 500 slipped 37.00 points to 7,619.98. The Dow dropped 152.09 to 54,421.20, and the Nasdaq composite fell 146.62 to 26,186.41.

Oil prices, meanwhile, continued to climb as fighting in the Middle East keeps squeezing the global flow of crude. The price for a barrel of Brent crude rose 1% to \$105.68 after getting near \$110 in the morning.

An important Saudi oil pipeline will mostly be out of service for weeks following an attack last week, two regional officials told the Associated Press. The pipeline offered a way for Saudi Arabia to shift exports to the Red Sea and avoid the Persian Gulf's Strait of Hormuz, where Iranian attacks have stifled the movement of oil

Brent has jumped from less than \$72 in early July as doubts rise that the United States and Iran can come to an agreement that would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Persian Gulf through the strait again.

While the prospect of a de-escalation of war may have dimmed, ING commodities strategists Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey wrote in a commentary Monday that the situation is fluid and “sizable” volumes of oil have still been moving through the strait.

So far, the jump in oil prices has sent the average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline across the country to nearly \$4.32 from \$4.08 a month ago and \$3.18 a year ago, according to AAA.

Such upward pressure on inflation has much of Wall Street expecting the Federal Reserve will hike its main interest rate on Wednesday at the end of its next meeting.

Besides high inflation, worries about rising debt for the U.S. and other governments and other concerns have sent longer-term Treasury yields to their highest levels in years.

Choe writes for the Associated Press.

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OPINION VOICES

Voices PATTI DAVIS GUEST CONTRIBUTOR

The one question to ask anyone running for office

My father, Ronald Reagan, said he served to help make the world a more peaceful place, a more civil place

W

ITH so much attention being paid now to upcoming elections and candi-

dates, a long-ago memory nudged me and made me think about what I would really like to hear from anyone running for public office.

Deep into my father's first term as president, I met my parents, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, at their ranch near Santa Barbara one weekend. It was my father's favorite getaway — more than Camp David, more than anyplace. He loved saddling his horse, riding across hills on trails he had helped clear. Even with Secret Service agents following him and the weight of the presidency leaning on him, it was, as he often described it, "in the same ZIP code as heaven."

On this weekend, my mother went to bed early one evening, leaving my father and me sitting by the fireplace together, just the two of us. He started talking about the beauty of the ranch, how it restored him, filled up his soul in a way that no other place could. He had, at that point, recovered from John Hinckley Jr.'s bullets, which almost killed him. But he used the word "healing" in a way that made clear it was a continuing process for him, one that green rolling land and the endless sky made possible. As the fire crackled beside us and coyotes yipped in the dark distance outside, I asked him why, if this place was so necessary for him, did he want to be president, a job that obviously took him far away and limited his time on the land he loved.

He told me that he believed God had a purpose for everyone and that he had prayed throughout his life for some illumination of what his might be. He said he earnestly felt that he could help make the world a more peaceful place, a more civil place. Especially in the relationship between the Soviet Union and America.

This visit would have been sometime in 1983. Leonid Brezhnev had died, Yuri Andropov had taken over as the Soviet leader, and tensions were high between the two countries. As has been reported, my father had sent two letters to Brezhnev while recovering from the assassination attempt. One was a handwritten four-page letter, a personal plea for a better relationship between America and the Soviet Union. The State Department objected to the personal nature of the letter and drafted a more formal one. Both letters were sent, but Brezhnev's reply was not exactly concil-

IN 1992, after both had left office, Ronald Reagan hosted Mikhail Gorbachev at Rancho del Cielo.
Bob Galbraith Associated Press

iatory.

In our evening conversation, my father spoke about his wish — his prayer — that someone would rise up to lead the Soviet Union whom he could talk to, someone with whom he could forge a good working relationship. Years later, I thought about this and how he was almost imagining Mikhail Gorbachev before probably even knowing of his existence.

Why did this whole reminiscence surface for me now, in this year of consequential midterm elections, leading into a presidential cycle? Because it illustrates the question that should be asked of every candidate, especially those running for president: Why do you want to do this?

Obviously, some will have canned answers, political slogans that have been crafted for them and run through focus groups. But I think people are perceptive enough to distinguish between a rehearsed soundbite and an earnest answer.

The query to pose to every candidate, especially those running for president, is: Why do you want to do this?

Dolly Parton's recent passing showed how deeply people are moved by one person's resolve to help others, to make the world just a little bit better with kindness and compassion. What struck me about my father's answer is that he reached down into his soul and spoke a deeply personal truth. No matter what your politics are, no matter what side of the aisle you're on, that matters.

Part of our disillusionment right now is that we don't know whom to trust. We don't know who has been varnished and rehearsed and coached until their real self is buried under a thousand layers. Perhaps that one question might travel down through some of those layers and give us an idea. Why do you want to do this? It's a simple question, and we deserve a simple answer.

LETTERS

PATTI DAVIS is the author of “Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory and the America We Once Knew.”

A BIPARTISAN BILL seeks to speed up forest management projects by reducing regulatory hurdles.

Worsening fires call for new forest policies

Re “Burying hatchet to save trees,” Sept. 10

This front-page article highlights the bipartisan movement in Congress to pass the Fix Our Forests Act, or FOFA, in order to address the ever-increasing risk of wildfires. Over the last decade, rising temperatures, extended droughts and ineffective forest management practices have led to large increases in the annual acreage affected by U.S. wildfires, including multiple “megafires” in California and other Western states.

FOFA would offer proactive forest management to address wildfire risk by removing regulatory barriers to expedite critical forest projects while preserving core environmental safeguards. The bill implements forest thinning and removal of dead and diseased trees to reduce fire intensity, invests in new wildfire prevention technologies and improves reforestation steps after fires occur.

Our changing climate and the increasing wildfire risk demand new, more effective forest management practices. It is heartening to see Democrats and Republicans coming together to move forward this important legislation.

The debate over the Fix Our Forests Act is not a choice between managing our forests and leaving them alone.

The Sierra Club supports active, science-based forest management, including prescribed fire, ecological restoration and carefully designed thinning where appropriate. We also recognize that climate change is making wildfires more destructive and that we urgently need to do more to protect communities and ecosystems.

Our concern with the Fix Our Forests Act is not that it promotes active management. It is that the legislation would weaken environmental review and public oversight for projects that can cover thousands of acres. Those safeguards help ensure that forest

management is based on sound science and ecological needs rather than simply accelerating commercial logging, particularly under an administration that has made a clear decision to prioritize timber harvest over all other values for our national forests.

We can move faster to restore forests, use prescribed fire and reduce wildfire risks without treat-

CHAD EDWARDS Altadena

ing environmental protections as the obstacle. The question isn't whether we manage our forests. It's how we manage them — and whether we do it responsibly.

ANNA MEDEMA Washington, D.C. This writer is deputy legislative director, forests and public lands, of environmental advocacy organization the Sierra Club.

State may have to assert control

Re “How Long Beach became a poster child for California’s clumsy, costly battle against global warming’s effects,” Sept. 9

The increasing damage to coastal California cities from the climate crisis is tragic, and likely to become even more so. But local governments have proven to be completely helpless in taking meaningful action to prevent it.

The wealthiest, most influential citizens in every beach town own homes on the edge of the ocean, and they demand cities prioritize protecting their property, even when it is futile. City Council members who try to take a longer-term approach are forced from office, and “survive the next storm” becomes the mantra. California faced a similar roadblock when cities refused to build affordable housing, and the state eventually had to assert control. A similar approach to the climate crisis may be the only way forward.

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Re “Damaging waves offer warning for El Nino winter,” Sept. 10

TIM GONCHAROFF Fairfield

Geez, what does it take for coastal cities to prepare for storms that are more severe because of El Niño? The answer is prepare way ahead of time, not put on a Band-Aid with sand berms on coastal beaches to protect property that should not have been built there previously.

The paragraph that mentions hopes that the city of Long Beach will dredge more sand to extend the beach further out is so absurd. A city could dump billions of tons of sand on a beach and as we have seen already, the sand gets washed away. Dredging is not the answer.

Pay residents to leave their homes and stop wasting money on projects that will not stop flooding or wave damage. People are paying the price now for using an extraordinary amount of fossil fuels that have contributed to climate change and the increased severity of storms.

PHILLIP ROULLARD San Diego

Two pieces, one lovely message

Re “What if we all stopped trying to be right?,” Sept. 10; “A tough loss is when character shines through,” Opinion Voices, Sept. 11

Thank you for the opinion pieces published on the days before Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish New Year. Two very different voices harmonized with one beautiful message.

Rabbi Shmuly Yan- klowitz reminds us “the person we were yesterday does not have absolute authority over the person we can become tomorrow.” LZ Granderson praises Western Michigan’s football coach, Lance Taylor: “When things didn’t go his way, he showed his players how to keep cool when the pressure comes.”

The rabbi writes, “Moral clarity and intellectual humility can coexist.” Granderson teaches that “moral memory” is “the difference between being steered by whatever’s loudest in the room and being steered by something you built in yourself, rep by rep, long before anyone was watching.”

I don't call myself a prac- ticing Jew, and I am cer- tainly not an athlete. Still, these voices drive me to be a better person. More patient, thoughtful and accepting of others.

A sweet, happy New Year to all, full of peace, understanding and hope.

MICHAEL TZIPORI Ventura

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Voices RAUL A. REYES GUEST CONTRIBUTOR

The doomed ‘Hispanic Heritage Month’

COURTING LATINOS last season, NFL teams observed Hispanic Heritage Month and then featured Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl.
JEFFREY McWHORTER Associated Press

S INCE ITS INCEPTION, National Hispanic Heritage Month has been problematic, and never more so than now.

It began as Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968 under President Lyndon Johnson, and then in 1988 President Reagan turned this commemoration of heritage and culture into a full month. The expansion mirrored the growing political, social and economic importance of Hispanic Americans. We number roughly 68 million, or about one-fifth of the U.S. population.

The issues around Hispanic Heritage Month begin with the name itself, which uses a catch-all phrase even though, as the Pew Research Center noted in 2024, “No single pan-ethnic term has been fully embraced by U.S. adults with roots in Latin America or Spain.”

Some people object to the term “Hispanic” — which originally meant “related to Spain” — as it focuses on the dominant power in Latin America’s colonial past. Although more people in our communities prefer “Hispanic” (52%) to “Latino” (29%), these labels are usually not how we describe ourselves.

In my experience, people rarely say, “I’m Hispanic.” That’s just a box we check on college applications and employment forms. Most of us identify by referencing our family’s country of origin; if asked, I tell people I am Mexican American.

It's common to hear both immigrants and U.S.-born Hispanics say that they are Cuban or Dominican if their ancestors came from those places. Puerto Ricans often call themselves by that term regardless of whether they were born or raised on the island. These signifiers have further variations too, such as Tejano (Tex-Mex), Nuyorican (New York City Puerto Rican) or Chicano (a political identification among some Mexican Americans).

With such distinct identities in our communities, the construct of “Hispanic Heritage Month” was perhaps doomed to not catch on.

It had another potentially fatal flaw from the beginning. Running from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 so it encompasses national holidays of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Chile and Belize, Hispanic Heritage Month is not an easily remembered calendar month, like Black History Month (February) or Women's History Month (March).

While its odd timing was an inclusive idea, it's also confusing. And its spot on the calendar is close to the start of the school year, the 9/11 anniversary, peak hurricane season in the Caribbean and the Jewish high holy days, meaning it's easily overshadowed.

Ironically, over the years the people most critical of Hispanic Heritage Month have been Hispanics. The 30 days earmarked by the federal government to celebrate our communities have generated a great deal of ambivalence, as the commemoration became more of a marketing opportunity for brands rather than an organic expression of cultural pride.

In 2025, President Trump put out a proclamation for National Hispanic Heritage Month, recognizing “the extraordinary contributions of Hispanic American citizens past and present.”

Yet those words ring hollow, as Hispanic Heritage Month seems to be hanging on by a thread. Corporations and academic institutions have backed away from ethno-centric events, in response to the administration's attacks on diversity initiatives. Some large media outlets have likewise retreated from elevating Hispanic voices and stories. The very idea of highlighting Hispanic culture seems out of touch when so many Hispanics are feeling under assault in our daily lives.

This year, Hispanic Heritage Month events will probably be muted. Many Hispanics are wary of large public gatherings, because the fear of encounters with ICE is real (this was why, in part, Bad Bunny eschewed any concert dates on the U.S. mainland during his smash 2025 tour).

U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent have been detained, deported and killed by immigration agents. Some U.S.-citizen Hispanics have taken to carrying their passports or other documents with them and avoiding speaking Spanish in public, as last year the Supreme Court recognized doing so as cause for suspicion and detention.

Right now, many Hispanics are just not in the mood for celebrating. Our communities are in sur-

vival mode.

The only counterbalance to this grim situation is context. While times are extremely challenging right now, that's unfortunately nothing new; the history of Hispanics in the U.S. is largely defined by struggle and resilience. And maybe our communities have outgrown the need for institutional validation.

With or without Hispanic Heritage Month, Hispanics still have joy in our families and in our communities. We know that our ancestors were here long before the pilgrims, and that we have a rich tradition of military service. We take pride in the American experience, because it is our experience. These feelings are deep and enduring. These are feelings that no presidential proclamation can give us — and that no administration can take away.

RAUL A. REYES is an immigration attorney and television commentator in New York City. X: @RaulAREyes Instagram: @raulareyes1

People rarely say, ‘I’m Hispanic.’ That’s just a box we check on forms. Most of us identify by our family’s country of origin.

Voices KATE GALE GUEST CONTRIBUTOR

L.A. is a great literary city (no matter what New Yorkers say)

Iconic bookstores remain essential third places, sanctuaries that pull us away from screen-surfing

I GREW UP in a cult in New Hampshire where reading books was forbidden. After I escaped at age 18, I came to California desperate for

California desperate for stories — stories tucked away on the West Coast, opposite not only the life I'd escaped but also the publishing giants. In Los Angeles, I found that every story is an apocalypse. There are earthquakes, fires, greed, chaos, cliffsides that slide into the ocean.

By the time I got my feet under me, I was hooked on these narratives. I ferried myself to Dutton's Books on Laurel Canyon and Vroman's in Pasadena, and collected authors who altered my way of living: Toni Morrison, Yukio Mishima, Marguerite Duras. I met Carolyn See and read her apocalyptic fantasy "Golden Days," and dove into Nathanael West's equally consuming "The Day of the Locust."

I met locals like Judith Freeman and Harriet Doerr, who taught me how hard it was for women writers to gain recognition in L.A., though I decided not to let that stop me. To me, this was as literary a city as any place on the East Coast, and at the beating heart were the local bookstores that kept on delivering these marvelous writers.

I would argue that bookstores are more important in the sprawl of L.A. than in a walkable city like San Francisco or New York. In

those cities, your third place might hover feet from your door: a park, a bar, a pool hall. Outside a handful of centralized communities, this reality isn't shared in L.A., where you need a vehicle to get almost anywhere. Here, we leap from freeway to work, freeway to home, and parking is often too awful to negotiate stopping anywhere that isn't worth the hassle.

Bookstores are worth it to Angelenos, a reality that is driven home every time I show up to a packed reading or event at Vroman's, Chevalier's, or Skylight. While we've heard from New Yorkers that ours isn't a literary city, and many of the stores I frequented have since been forced to shut their doors, the ones still standing continue to prove otherwise. They remain essential third places, sanctuaries that pull us away from screen-surfing and back into our minds.

Vroman's Bookstore

A bookstore provides an invitation to pause, to think, to expand your understanding of the world, or to throw yourself into the lurch of new ones: those of elves, princes, creatures, danger, adventure. You can lose an afternoon the way one used to, lying around, tangled in sheets, page by page.

I fell in love with my husband in a bookstore. We haunted Midnight Special in Santa Monica, a since-shuttered shop focused on civil rights and activist literature. The love affair at Midnight Special led

A BOOKMOBILE in front of Vroman's Bookstore, which was founded in 1894 in Pasadena.

us to start Red Hen Press, miniature at first, for voices ignored by the larger houses. I have no doubt other small presses were born from this same branch of our literary world — seeing the work in all its magic, the serendipity of stumbling upon your soul book.

While bookstores everywhere are experiencing a post-pandemic surge in attendance, foot traffic alone isn't enough to keep them from going under, especially as many readers treat bookshops as reference points — outings to identify books to purchase later on Amazon — rather than as businesses to patronize. Meanwhile, these independent bookshops are those most likely to champion the voices of local, nonprofit and indie publishers — those most in need of amplification.

In an era saturated with bite-size media, these institutions are laying the essential groundwork for a future in which literacy remains a priority. This is especially pressing in a city like L.A., where the film industry takes the first bite. It often seems that book culture crouches like a tiny orphan in the shadow of the cinema giants, and I sometimes feel that the publishing part is a fish lying on

the dock. Will we survive? Here, each bookstore and publishing company is a wisp on the wind, but I see us more like water. We flow into everything; we are where the ideas emerge.

Literature has endured for millennia, and it will not die with us. But when we deprive it of spaces to thrive, we reinforce its devaluation as a cultural and artistic force. We've seen time and time again what happens when diverse, thought-provoking narratives go missing, and the danger of the stories that can take their place. At a time when icebergs are melting, France is on fire, ICE agents are stomping through the country, domestic abuse is at an all-time high and AI is overriding the mythic act of creation, books that continue to render us human are one of the few things we have to help us maintain our faith in humanity.

The booksellers who prioritize these narratives over the bottom line are too often washed out by mass online marketplaces and high-earning corporate publishers — those who are far less incentivized to uplift narratives from underrepresented authors, those that bridge us back to our commu-

nities.

In 2022, Angelenos stepped up and contributed \$122,000 to a GoFundMe that helped to keep Octavia's Bookshelf, a beloved Pasadena bookstore, going. Their survival is meaningful, but when held against the dozens of L.A.-area bookshops that have closed their doors in recent years, we all understand the edge literature is standing on.

Readers are purchasing more titles than they did pre-pandemic, though they're largely securing their books from online retailers. The message is not that people don't want books; it's that most people do not understand the impact of buying at a brick-and-mortar location, and how that decision impacts the quality of the books that end up in their hands.

I escaped the cult to find my voice, to find the truth, to amplify meaningful stories. I came to California, the land of reinvention, to shed light on the literature at the door. It's here. Don't let it slip off the cliffside.

KATE GALE is the publisher of Red Hen Press and author of the forthcoming memoir “Little Soldiers.”

Activists, L.A. at odds on aiding Skid Row dogs

[Dogs, from A1]

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CHRISTINA HOUSE Los Angeles Times
A HOMELESS woman, top, with her dog Page on L.A.'s Skid Row. A pitbull, at left, at an encampment. At right, Victoria Bech Parker, founder of Starts With One Today, and Kim Dabagian pull a cart with dog food and water to be given to homeless dog owners on Skid Row.
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untreated health issues. Others, they say, are illegally bred or left without water, food or shade.

Some dogs are severely abused. A recent legal complaint filed against the city by the nonprofit Stand up for Pits Foundation documented, with graphic photos, multiple cases of alleged animal abuse on Skid Row: a chihuahua with her eyes glued shut; a deaf white pit bull chained up with burn marks on her body; a dead dog hanging from a shopping cart with its internal organs spilling out.

The plight of Skid Row animals became a hot-button issue in this year's primary election for L.A. mayor, with conservative candidate Spencer Pratt posting a video alleging that dogs were used to test drugs and bred for drug money. Steve Hilton, the GOP candidate for governor, weighed in recently, calling the situation on Skid Row "a scandal."

Mayor Karen Bass' office accuses animal rights activists of "grandstanding."

The problems playing out just a few blocks from City Hall are not new or easy to solve, said Jacqueline Hamilton, deputy mayor of neighborhood services, in a statement to The Times. But Bass' administration, she said, is taking “concrete action.”

Last November, Bass announced a pilot task force, which became permanent this summer, to investigate allegations of animal cruelty on Skid Row and train police officers to handle those situations as well as offer basic resources to pet owners.

Although city officials and activists agree that some Skid Row animals need help, there is little consensus on a key question: At what point does a person living on the streets, struggling to feed or provide for a dog, cross the line from needing help to neglecting or abusing their animal?

The city adopts a cautious approach to seizing dogs from homeless people.

“It is neither humane nor legal to remove animals from their human companions without appropriate cause,” Hamilton said, citing studies from abroad finding that pets owned by unhoused people are “generally in good health” and that the relationship can improve the emotional well-being of both humans and their pets.

Bech Parker, who offers food and services every Sunday on Skid Row to hundreds of people and animals, said she helps owners, even if she thinks they're falling short. But ultimately, she'd like to remove all dogs from Skid Row.

“A dog is not safe on Skid Row,” said Bech Parker, who founded Starts with One Today in 2020 after moving to L.A. from Denmark to pursue an entertainment career. “No matter how nice a person who has the dog at the moment is, it’s an unsafe environment.”

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No official count exists for how many animals live on Skid Row. But dogs are everywhere — running loose, tied up, peering out of tents that line the sidewalk.

In 2020, researchers at USC estimated that 9% to 12% of unsheltered homeless adults in L.A. County owned a pet. With more than 2,000 unsheltered people living on Skid Row, that could mean about 250 dogs on the streets.

Pet ownership presents particular challenges for unhoused people, many activists say. Not only do unhoused people lack funds for food or veterinary care, but a significant proportion abuse drugs or have mental health issues. Multiple studies have found that more than half of people living on L.A. County streets, including Skid Row, have either a mental illness or a substance abuse disorder.

A few hours after Bech Parker met Athena, she got a text from a volunteer about a severely injured Labrador-type dog at San Pedro and East 5th streets. Photos showed his paws mangled and covered with open red sores.

The owner, a woman staying at the Midnight Mission, told the volunteer that she had left her dog, Trevor, with someone while she went out of state. When she returned, Trevor could not walk.

Bech Parker paid for an Uber to transport Trevor to a vet, who told her Trevor's legs were broken and badly infected. He probably was hit about a month before, the vet said, with a blunt object such as a sledgehammer.

After multiple vets agreed that his injuries were too advanced to operate on, Bech Parker agreed to euthanize Trevor.

“It’s unfair that the lack of city enforcement,” she said, “is now forcing us to have to make those decisions.”

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Officials cannot legally seize a dog, which is classified as personal property under state law, just because its owner lives on the street.

However, abusing an animal or failing to provide it with “proper food, drink, or shelter, or protection from the weather” is a crime in California. “Cruelty does not require malicious intent; neglect alone can rise to the level of a criminal offense,” L.A. County Animal Care and Control notes.

"The reality is there are good laws in place ... to protect the animals," said Rebecca Corry, founder of Stand up for Pits. "What is happening is they are purposely refusing to enforce laws."

Stand up for Pits alleges in its complaint that the city and its agencies have “continuously and negligently ignored known dangerous conditions” on Skid Row and are guilty of “systemic violations of California law” governing “enforcement of animal cruelty statutes.”

Corry's group calls on the city to conduct sweeps of Skid Row to remove all dogs that do not have adequate food, water or shelter, or that are not microchipped and spayed or neutered.

The city, however, maintains that failing to microchip or spay or neuter a dog violates city ordinances but falls short of abuse.

"The public often assumes that we can seize an animal any time that something looks wrong," said L.A. Animal Services General Manager Gabrielle Amster.

Homeless owners who express a willingness to care for their animals, Amster said, are often given a chance.

Helping them provide for their pets, she said, is sometimes the best option — particularly because dogs that are seized will end up in the severely overcrowded city shelter system.

"This in no way deters our will to assist an animal who's been harmed," Amster said. "We are very, very stern about animal abuse.... We're not going to say, 'Well, that animal looks slightly abused, and our shelter's full.'

Since the city set up its new task force, a full-time animal control officer has been stationed on Skid Row to assess animal safety, respond to concerns about animal welfare and issue citations. The officer also offers pet owners food and supplies and works to forge relationships in the hope they will comply with spay-neuter laws and accept veterinary care.

Amster rejected activists' claims that Animal Services is failing Skid Row, but she also said her department did not have enough staff.

“I wish we had more officers that could be there more frequently,” she said.

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The showdown between animal activists and the city is striking because less than two decades ago, L.A. was celebrated by national animal advocates as a model for its enforcement of animal cruelty laws.

In 2005, the L.A. City Council set up an LAPD animal cruelty task force. By 2009, the task force was investigating nearly 300 reports of animal abuse and neglect a year. But in 2021, it was disbanded as the city made budget cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meanwhile, L.A. County ramped up “harm reduction” policies that do not require abstinence from drugs as a precondition for receiving services.

Some activists say that local officials have applied that philosophy to both drugs and pets in a way that prolongs suffering for humans and animals. Proponents say the approach saves lives, but critics say it normalizes drug use and enables addiction.

Owners who abuse drugs frequently forget where they are or lose their pets, Bech Parker said, and even responsible owners can have their pets stolen.

"The people on Skid Row are not capable of caring properly for an animal," she said. "Like, just because you say, 'Oh, I love my dog,' ... you're not able to provide for

your dog."

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However, not all animal activists agree. Lori Weise, a pioneering activist who founded Downtown Dog Rescue in the 1990s and became known for helping unhoused people stay united with their pets, said activists can't demand that animals be taken away from everybody they deem "unfit."

Just because a dog lives outside doesn't mean it's abused, she said.

Officials are better positioned than activists to enforce animal cruelty and spay-neuter laws, Weise said, but they are severely underfunded and understaffed. Weise believes that animals can give homeless people companionship, but that idea can be “one of the biggest traps” if it keeps animals from being taken away when necessary.

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Since Bass launched the new Skid Row initiative, Hamilton said, the city has trained 100 LAPD officers to identify animal cruelty.

Hamilton said the task force impounded 58 animals and issued 16 citations from November through June, also making 10 arrests related to illegal puppy sales. A man running a puppy mill out of an RV was sentenced to 14 months in prison for animal cruelty, she said, and another man pleaded no contest to felony charges for beating a dog and breaking its leg.

In June alone, Hamilton said, Animal Services removed 15 Skid Row animals from “problematic situations” such as “poor body condition, inadequate access to food or water, and lack of necessary veterinary care.”

The city has also set up mobile clinics on Skid Row, she said, to perform spay-neuter surgeries.

A few days after Bech Parker met Willard, she spotted her again. Athena, the malnourished pit bull with a skin condition, was not with her. Bech Parker said that when she inquired about Athena, Willard seemed disoriented.

“I asked her, ‘Where’s your dog?’” Bech Parker said. “She was like, ‘I don’t know. I think she might be with my friend, but I don’t know. I’m going to go get her, but I don’t know where she is.’”

RUBEN ROJAS hugs his dog on Skid Row. L.A. has a cautious approach to seizing dogs from homeless people.

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HOMES in Long Beach are slammed Sept. 8 by a wave from a south swell brought on by Hurricane Marie.
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A new threat to coastal communities

‘Pretty epic’ Kelvin wave, tied to El Niño, is moving north and could increase flood risk and beach erosion in the Southland

BY RONG-GONG LIN II AND ANDREW TURNER

Coastal communities are beginning to assess the damage from waves and flooding as Southern California braces for more potentially destructive conditions from a “coastally trapped Kelvin wave.”

Homes from south Orange County to Malibu were flooded and severely damaged. Erosion chewed away the coast from Carlsbad to

Long Beach.

Laguna Beach, Dana Point and Carlsbad last week declared local states of emergency, citing coastal erosion and sand loss from the effects of a south swell brought on by Hurricane Marie. El Niño typically results in an unusually active hurricane season in the eastern Pacific, which is where Hurricane Marie formed.

"I'd been chatting with other cities and city managers up and down the coast, and I think we all had different levels of damage," Laguna Beach City Manager Dave Kiff said. "I think Laguna's was among the greatest, or most significant, but everybody talked about concern about sand and sand replenishment. They do have sand replenishment projects, from Newport to Huntington to Seal Beach, and then there's some farther down south."

Orange County officials announced that they were activat-[See Kelvin, B2]

Illegal pills are suspected in death of Panettiere

DEA is investigating whether L.A. dealer supplied counterfeit oxycodone to actor.

BY RICHARD WINTON

Federal authorities probing the death of Hayden Panettiere are focusing their investigation in Los Angeles and looking into whether the actor procured nonprescription pills from an area dealer.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local investigators have questioned several people about the circumstances of her Aug. 16 death, focusing on her taking what was described as counterfeit oxycodone before her demise inside a Greenville, S.C., apartment, according to sources familiar with the probe.

Such counterfeit pills have repeatedly been found laced with fentanyl, which can be deadly when taken in small amounts.

The probe echoes investigations into the deaths of actor Matthew Perry and rapper Mac Miller, both of which resulted in criminal charges for their respective drug suppliers.

After TMZ published an article reporting investigators are working on a theory that Panettiere, 36, ingested a pill laced with fentanyl, the

[See Panettiere, B5]

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ACTOR Hayden Panettiere, shown above in 2023, died in an apartment in Greenville, S.C., last month.

Bruce Davis, Charles Manson's 'right-hand man,' dies in prison

He was convicted in 1972 for the killings of Gary Hinman and Donald ‘Shorty’ Shea.

BY RICHARD WINTON AND JAMES QUEALLY

Bruce Davis, who was Charles Manson's so-called "right-hand man," died in a California prison hospital late last week at the age of 83, corrections officials said Monday.

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation / AP
DAVIS, at left in 2014 and at right in 1970, was found suitable for parole eight times, but his release was blocked by multiple governors. He died Friday at 83.

Davis was pronounced dead by a registered nurse at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville at 11:03 p.m. Friday, according to Mary Xjimenez, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

A cause of death was not immediately disclosed.

Davis was convicted in 1972 of two counts of murder for the slayings of Gary Hinman, an aspiring musician, and Donald “Shorty” Shea, a stuntman who also

[See Davis, B5]

BYRON SHER, 1928 - 2026

Professorial politician fought for the environment

The academic-turned-legislator wrote some of California's most far-reaching laws.

By Dan Morain

Byron Sher, a Stanford law professor turned California legislator who wrote some of the state's most far-reaching environmental laws, died Saturday. He was 98.

Cerebral and soft-spoken, Sher was the antithesis of politicians nowadays. He rarely issued press releases, didn't convene news conferences, and disliked raising campaign money.

But he left an indelible mark on the environment, authoring legislation offering incentives to recycle, limiting advertisers' inflated claims about products' environmental benefits and combating water and air pollution.

He helped lead the effort to preserve ancient redwoods in Headwaters Forest in Humboldt County in 1999, pushing the state and federal government to buy it from Texas financier Charles Hurwitz, who owned Pacific Lumber Co. and was preparing to log it.

A decade earlier, in 1988, Sher authored legislation requiring that California take stock of the sources of greenhouse gases. It was the first time the Legislature in California — or any other state — embedded the term “global warming” into a state law, and became the foundation for bills in later decades to combat climate change.

"The heat is on," Sher said presciently, as quoted by the Sacramento Bee on

May 5, 1989. “The state can either ignore what science is telling us, or we can respond to this challenge in a responsible way.”

Because of his legislation, manufacturers today sell more products in spray bottles rather than aerosol cans, people can more easily dispose of televisions and other electronic waste, and underground gasoline storage tanks rarely leak and foul groundwater.

“Byron Sher built the legal and research foundation for California’s climate change regime and by extension helped shape how the world has tried to handle climate change,” said Joe Mathews, a Berggruen Institute fellow who is working on a book about the state’s legislative efforts to confront global warming.

Today, Sher's 1989 legis- [See Sher, B5]

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'THE HEAT IS ON' State Sen. Byron Sher authored legislation in 1998 warning of global warming. Above, Sher in 2004.

Minibikers arrested in crackdown on 6th Street Bridge

Scores of motorized vehicles are seized, thwarting a street takeover, police say.

By Amy Hubbard

Los Angeles police cor- ralled and arrested scores of minibike riders on Sun-day, thwarting a takeover of the 6th Street Bridge, police said.

Officers encountered a group of more than 70 young people — many of them minors — operating unauthorized motorized minibikes while blocking the bridge, performing doughnuts and wheelies, riding on the wrong side of the road and weaving in and out of traffic, according to an LAPD Facebook post.

In addition to the arrests, there were 78 minibikes and pocket bikes impounded in the operation in downtown L.A., said Sgt. Robert Leary of the LAPD Street Racing Task Force.

"We got intel that there was going to be a takeover on the 6th Street Bridge with e-bikes and mini-bikes," Leary said. "We got a team together so we could ... block them in. It's really the only way we could combat this problem."

Leary said that once the riders were surrounded on the bridge, police took them into custody without incident.

All violators were cited with riding an illegal bike on city streets, and — since “half the group” were juveniles — police notified parents, who came to the scene to take custody of their children, Leary said.

Local news video showed the bridge temporarily closed as LAPD officers stood among youths lined up with their hands zip-tied behind their backs.

Dozens of minibikes were loaded onto tow vehicles as, behind yellow tape, parents could be seen waiting to pick up their children.

In addition to 78 misdemeanor arrests, Leary said police impounded two vehi-[See Bikes, B3]

Kelvin wave poses new threat to Southland communities

DANA POINT, above, declared a local emergency last week after strong surf damaged homes. Laguna Beach and Carlsbad did the same.

[Kelvin, from B1] ing their emergency operations center, which is required when two cities in the county proclaim a local emergency.

"Our coastal cities are experiencing serious damage, and the county is mobilizing our emergency response," Orange County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Katrina Foley said in a statement.

Transportation officials posted a video showing severe erosion jeopardizing the train tracks used by Metrolink in San Clemente, with strong ocean waves crashing on the tracks and sediment crumbling onto the rocks below. "It is that serious," Metrolink said in the post.

In San Diego County, Carlsbad declared a local emergency in an effort to save Carlsbad Boulevard, also known as Old Highway 101, from severe erosion.

So what's next?

■Another El Niño-influenced phenomenon — a “coastally trapped Kelvin wave” — is moving up the coast of Mexico and will soon hit the U.S. West Coast.

■ The winter is expected to bring more damaging storms. Government forecasters say there's now a 75% chance this latest El Niño will be stronger than any other since 1950. There is a 98% chance that El Niño will be "very strong" for the three-month period ending in December, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center said Thursday.

Here's a rundown of what we know:

Kelvin is key

Until recently, Kelvin waves were a pretty obscure concept. But they're fundamentally at the heart of El Niño: a climate pattern in which the ocean waters in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific heat up and spur changes in the atmosphere that can affect weather around the world.

Coastally trapped Kelvin waves have been known to exist for decades, as long as scientists have understood El Niño. “Coastally trapped” means they must follow a coastal boundary, with the shoreline to their right in the Northern Hemisphere, said Michael Jacox, research oceanographer with NOAA Fisheries' Ecosystem Science Division.

Only recently have computational capabilities progressed to the point that scientists such as Dillon Amaya have been able to model and track the waves.

"Now scientists have a way of seeing these things unfold in real time, and not to mention we're experiencing one of the largest El Niños on record, which is going to correspond with some of the largest coastally trapped waves on record," according to Amaya, an expert on this type of wave and an assistant professor in North Carolina State University's Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

As El Niño develops, the typical east-to-west trade winds along the equator weaken or even reverse, “which allows a lot of really hot water and high sea surface heights to slosh back from the far western equatorial Pacific, where they typically sit, all the way to the east,” said Amaya, who earned his doctorate in oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

That means typically warmer water, such as around Indonesia, moves east to a normally cooler part of the Pacific, near Peru — pushed along by Kelvin waves. The Kelvin waves that move here are called “equatorially trapped Kelvin waves,” meaning these waves remain confined along the equator.

Upon hitting South America, the Kelvin wave splits into two, one heading north, toward California, and the other heading south.

Rising sea levels

This is when the Kelvin waves become coastally trapped.

“Along the coast, these waves elevate sea levels, increase ocean temperatures, and push cold, nutrient-rich waters deeper below the surface,” Jacox said.

As they travel, Kelvin waves can raise sea levels by as much as 6 to 12 inches — potentially for months.

“Those elevated sea levels, when combined with passing weather or storms, can substantially increase flood risk and risk for things like beach erosion,” Amaya said.

The timing

The coastally trapped Kelvin wave is currently on the west coast of Mexico. Amaya said he expected the wave to enter the Gulf of California on or around Saturday.

Once there, it will take about 11 days for the wave to hug the gulf's U-shaped coast and, from there, an additional seven days for it to travel from the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula — Cabo San Lucas — to San Diego.

It'll then take about two to three days to reach L.A., and another two to three days to get to San Francisco.

That would put the wave's arrival in Southern California in early October, although the exact timing remains uncertain.

“They’re pretty epic,” Amaya said. “They travel something like [15,500 miles] all the way from the western equatorial Pacific up ... to the Gulf of Alaska, and it takes about 120 days.”

Lasting effects

This isn't a surfable wave, and it wouldn't be overtly noticeable to swimmers or boaters. But it is expected to increase the sea level off the California coast by 6 inches or so, and its effects could last months.

It might not sound like much, but another 6 inches of sea level rise could further bludgeon the already battered California coast, especially if combined with the effects from a storm.

“We saw why that's important recently, with houses across Southern California getting battered, especially at those high tides. We had hurricane-generated swells and high tides, and the combination was extremely damaging to these homes,” said Jonathan Warrick, research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. “When the water level is extra high, a foot or more higher than we expect it to be, then it can really wreak havoc.”

As it stands, the Golden State has already experienced about a foot of sea level rise over the last 125 years from human-caused global warming and the melting of the polar ice caps. And lately, the state has also seen abnormally high tides.

Turner writes for Times Community News.

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Were rich moms, dads in L.A. really monsters as seen on TV show? Here's the reality.

BY SHELBY GRAD

High on coke, the blond beauty of a certain age cradles an Oscar statuette and addresses the academy from the mirrored dressing room of her Beverly Hills estate. It's a fantasy acceptance speech she will never give in real life.

Her words are not of gratitude but resentment, bile and narcissism. And she saves the cruelest treatment for her own offspring, a glamorous, popular coed at L.A.'s most elite private high school.

"To my daughter watching tonight, you are the disappointment of my life," she says with satisfaction.

Welcome to the early 1980s of Bret Easton Ellis, the novelist who over three decades has left an indelible mark on the way we think about our most privileged hillsides and canyons.

TV viewers are getting a taste of his twisted take on the era — including that dark fantasy acceptance speech — this summer with the FX series “The Shards,” which is based on an Ellis novel and follows a group of rich high school friends through a maze of sex, drugs, dancing and murder.

The hidden monster

"The Shards" features a sadistic serial killer. But the most terrifying characters are the broken, vain, selfish parents who in one way or another cause their children so much harm.

Was 1980s L.A. parenting really that bad?

It's easy to look back with scorn, especially in this era of tiger moms, helicopter parenting and GPS tracking.

But there is such a thing as being too involved. A few years ago, L.A.'s elite private schools were rocked by the college admissions scandal, in which wealthy parents were accused of paying to get their kids into the elite university of their choice.

The indictment in those cases rivals anything Ellis dreamed up, including that early morning in 2019 when the FBI raided some of L.A.'s fanciest addresses, arresting socialites, actors and business titans.

Ellis burst on the scene at age 21 with “Less Than Zero,” a 1985 novel about a different set of friends navigating elite L.A. circles. It sparked endless think pieces about spoiled kids, checked-out parents and a toxic culture of materialism.

Ellis famously declared the parents in the novel so “hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.”

"The Shards" continues this theme. In his review of this show, my colleague Robert Lloyd notes that "adults are almost entirely missing, and when they are not, they are disappointing, or trouble." It's like a horror movie in which the monsters are hidden to build suspense.

The issue of wayward youths and neglectful par-

"A parent bragged about his enterprising son who made \$800 selling drinks at a party. I told him he was crazy," a Beverly Hills PTA president told The Times.

Three years after “Less Than Zero” was published, a nonfiction telling of the Beverly Hills teen scene hit bookstores. “Hard Lessons” by Michael Leahy focused on a year in the life of the senior class at Beverly Hills High School.

The book had its share of wild parties, conspicuous consumption and drunken abandon. But it offered a much more nuanced look at family life. One student told Leahy that the problem wasn't decadence but an obsession with achievement and perfection. "If you feel average, you feel like a loser," she said.

A rare whale shark sighting off Malibu

The Times review of “Hard Lessons” noted the real aesthetic of the high school was upward mobility: It’s “full of pressure to get into the right college, which will lead to the important job, which will lead to the serious bucks.” It was a value shared by both parents and their children.

THE WHALE SHARK, seen about 30 miles off the coast, was 14 to 16 feet long.

Behind all the excess, the teens of “The Shards” also feel ambitious, believing their elevated station made big success — like becoming Tom Cruise’s co-star or emerging as the next Joan Didion — a requirement.

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In that way, how much has really changed since the 1980s?

It's not the first unusual visitor drawn by warm El Niño waters this summer.

BY ALENE TCHEKMEDYIAN

Carl Sbarounis was flying his plane over the ocean, scouting for fish as a commercial fisherman, when a friend called him with news of a rare sighting: a giant whale shark cruising through the blue Pacific waters.

It took him roughly 15 minutes to fly over, and he took out his camera, which he has used to document other odd species he has encountered during his 40-plus years as a fish spotter for commercial fisheries.

“They do come through when the water is warm — mostly during El Niño,” he said of whale sharks, which he last saw about three years ago. “When the weather is nice, I see unusual stuff.”

Sbarounis estimated the whale shark that he photographed Wednesday, thanks to his friend Ryder DeVoe, was between 14 and 16 feet long.

Fact vs. fiction

In Beverly Hills around this time, parents created late-night gatherings for high schoolers that did not involve alcohol as an alternative to the illicit ragers. They also called out the adults who set a bad example.

He said it was about 30 miles out, somewhere between Malibu and Santa

Barbara Island.

That day, he also saw groups of uniquely colored manta rays — some were a tan brown, and others were gray with a black stripe, called spinetail devil rays.

ents in L.A.'s tony neighborhoods was a topic of much discussion in the 1980s, and not just because of "Less Than Zero."

Pacific Palisades became a national symbol of rich kids out of control after a series of deaths that hit the neighborhood in 1988. “60 Minutes” and “20/20” did exposés, with a focus on parents who let their kids do whatever they wanted.

But look deeper into those times and you'll see the parents by and large do not come off as villains. The adults in Pacific Palisades organized to offer more youth services and set healthier boundaries.

gust, a hammerhead shark was spotted off the Malibu pier, just below the surface of the water. The shark made a few circles, leaving fishermen on the pier stunned.

It's not the first rare sighting this summer. In Au-

The tropical visitors probably are making their way to Southern California

Locker room video leads to arrest

because of this year's strong El Niño, as well as a regional marine heat wave over the last year or so, which is warming up the waters this summer, said Brendan Talwar, a postdoctoral scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

"If you see it, that's just a really unique and kind of exceptional sighting," he said of the whale shark.

The whale shark is famous for being the largest fish on Earth, Talwar said, but it has very small teeth and feeds on plankton.

“We wouldn’t expect these animals to stick around through the late winter, for example. They’re going to move further back south as water gets colder,” Talwar said.

Sbarounis said he goes fishing about 120 days of the year, between May and November, from the Mexico border up to Point Conception, and offshore about 100 to 150 miles.

“That’s my playground,” he said.

High school coach is on leave after phone is found recording students, officials say.

BY HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS

A high school football coach in Tracy, Calif., was arrested Friday after the discovery of a cellphone that was recording students inside a locker room, authorities said.

On the evening of Sept. 10, a parent contacted police in the San Joaquin County city, about 60 miles east of San Francisco, after students at Tracy High School found the cellphone filming them in an on-campus locker room while they were changing.

The students stopped the recording, deleted the video and gave the device to a teacher, the Tracy Police Department said in a statement.

School resource officers and other investigators determined that the phone belonged to Jeffrey Pribble, head varsity coach of the football team, police said.

Pribble, 48, was arrested at the high school, and the Tracy Unified School District has placed him on leave pending the results of a criminal investigation, according to the police statement.

Pribble could not be reached for comment. San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department inmate records did not indicate that he was in custody Monday.

Erin Haight, a spokesperson for the San Joaquin County district attorney's office, said in an email that the case was "an active, ongoing investigation" and, as of Monday, had not been referred to prosecutors to consider criminal charges.

"Our children deserve to feel safe at school and in every space where they should be able to learn, grow, and simply be kids," Tracy Police Chief Sekou Millington said in the statement.

“Protecting the safety, privacy, and well-being of our students is a responsibility we take seriously. We are grateful to the students who brought this incident to the attention of adults and to the officers and detectives who acted quickly to investigate.”

In a statement provided to The Times on Monday, the Tracy Unified School District said it had placed Pribble, who also is a physical education teacher, on leave before his on-campus arrest.

“We are deeply concerned about the allegations and remain focused on protecting the safety of our students,” the statement read.

The day Pribble was arrested, Tracy High's undefeated Bulldogs varsity football team won their away game in a 56-0 rout of the Lathrop High School Spartans.

In a postgame news conference, according to the team's website, assistant coach Justin Evans said of the Bulldogs: "They stayed focused all night, not allowing any distractions or the moment get to them."

Scores are arrested in crackdown on 6th Street Bridge

[Bikes, from B1] cles whose drivers were "aiding and abetting."

L.A. Police Deputy Chief German Hurtado told KTLA that police had been tracking the minibike-riding group because they were known for such illegal activity.

“We were following this group until we got them into a position where we could safely stop them all, take them into custody and impound the minibikes,”

Hurtado said.

Personnel from the California Highway Patrol and the L.A. County Sheriff's Department also took part in the operation, according to the news outlet.

Minibikes don't meet Department of Motor Vehicles safety provisions and are illegal to ride on streets or sidewalks in California and many other states. They can be legally operated only on private property with the owner's consent.

OnScene.TV contributed to this report.

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DEA looks into actor's demise

[Panettiere, from B1] Greenville County coroner responded by saying that toxicology testing was still pending and that no cause or manner of death has been determined.

Paramedics and police found Panettiere in cardiac arrest, according to the coroner's office. Dispatch audio recordings from Broadcastify.com reference a possible overdose and CPR in progress. Narcan was reportedly administered and paramedics tried to resuscitate her. She was declared dead at 2:31 p.m.

Her longtime boyfriend Brian Hickerson, who was at the scene, gave investigators a bag of medications, according to authorities.

Panettiere lived in Los Angeles, but Hickerson is a Greenville native, according to authorities.

Sloan Ellis, a South Carolina attorney for Hickerson hired in the wake of Panettiere's death, said in a statement: "Hayden's death remains under investigation, and it is important to allow that investigation to proceed. As has been publicly reported, police confirmed there were no signs of foul play. Out of respect for Hayden's loved ones and the ongoing investigation, there will be no further comment at this time."

In the cases of Perry and Miller, prosecutors ultimately secured convictions for the people who supplied Perry with ketamine and Miller with cocaine and oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl.

Perry's demise in his hot tub led to his assistant, two doctors, a producer and a woman dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” pleading guilty.

Manson follower, 83, dies in prison

[Davis, from B1]

worked at what was known then as the Spahn Ranch in Chatsworth where Manson and his followers made their homestead. He was sentenced to life in prison and served most of his time behind bars at San Quentin State Prison.

Hinman was targeted because he was viewed as a potential aid for the cult's planned move from Los Angeles to the desert, according to parole records. But when he refused to cooperate, Davis held Hinman at gunpoint while Manson slashed him from his ear to his chin.

Shea was attacked because Manson told his followers the man was a police informant and attempting to kick them off the ranch. Fellow cult members Steve Grogan and Charles "Tex" Watson joined Manson and Davis in taking Shea to a secluded area and stabbing him multiple times. Davis admitted to cutting Shea.

Although he was not involved in the group's most infamous murders — including the killings of Sharon Tate and four others in Benedict Canyon — prosecutors and state officials have repeatedly described Davis as an integral member of Manson's inner circle. Davis did not shy away from his closeness to Manson.

“I wanted to be Charlie’s favorite guy,” he said during a 2014 parole hearing.

At one of his parole hearings, Davis said he didn't know about the Tate killings until the morning after they happened.

Davis had been found suitable for parole eight different times since 2010, but California Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom blocked his release on multiple occasions.

In rejecting his release in 2021, Newsom said Davis had continued to minimize his role in the crimes and shown a lack of empathy for his victims.

Davis “does not understand that it was his agreement to participate in Mr. Manson’s plans that resulted in the torture and murder of his victims, regardless of whether he ultimately inflicted the fatal blows,” Newsom wrote, concluding that it “may make him vulnerable to repeating these patterns in the future.”

During his last parole hearing in 2024, panel members heavily questioned Davis' desire to write a memoir if released and go on a series of speaking engagements, which he referred to as a "redemption tour."

Ultimately, the hearing was postponed after Davis was confronted about his decision to go on a podcast dubbed “The Lighter Side of Serial Killers.”

"Your plan to reach out publicly about your story, which necessarily includes your involvement with the Manson family, would bring notoriety and glorification to that," said Parole Board Commissioner Julie Garland. "And I will tell you, when I heard that you were on this podcast, I was like, 'What the heck? What is he thinking?'

Although the commissioners ordered an investigation into what Davis discussed and his intentions behind going on the show, his attorney said her client had no intention to profit from his crimes.

“I do not believe that Mr. Davis has a desire to glorify the story, and I think that were we to continue in this hearing, what would come out is that this is an attempt on his part, really, to examine the bad choices that he has made in his life and to talk about them,” said Ananda Hart.

Los Angeles police have investigated several other homicides potentially tied to the Manson family.

Beyond the nine murders for which the group was officially convicted, investigators and prosecutors have long believed the true victim count was much higher.

Stephen Kay, who prosecuted Davis, previously told The Times that Davis was the “family” member most willing to kill. Kay said Davis was a suspect in deaths that occurred in Santa Monica and England.

Just months after the Tate murders, Joel Pugh — the 29-year-old boyfriend of Manson clan member Sandra Good — was found dead in the Talgarth Hotel in London. His wrists and throat had been cut. British authorities listed it as a suicide, saying Pugh had been depressed. No suicide note was left. Davis was in London at the time Pugh died.

Kay and others said Manson hated Pugh. “He had no reason to commit suicide, and Manson was very unhappy that Sandy” was with Pugh, Kay told The Times in 2019.

Davis was also a witness to the November 1969 death of John "Zero" Haught in Venice, according to investigators. Authorities concluded that Haught had died accidentally while playing Russian roulette with a revolver, but that finding was later questioned.

The gun recovered didn't have any fingerprints on it, The Times' Jerry Cohen reported in 1969. A young man who held Haught's head after the shooting told Cohen he entered the room to find a female Manson follower with the gun in her hand. Several Manson followers were inside the home that night, including Davis, The Times reported.

At no point during his more than 50 years in prison was Davis ever cited for a disciplinary issue. While in custody, he obtained a master's degree and completed multiple self-help programs. His attorney Michael Beckman once called Davis "the most rehabilitated inmate I've ever represented."

Manson died in 2017. Newsom and other governors have repeatedly denied parole to his closest acolytes, though an appeals court overturned Newsom's veto of the release of Leslie Van Houten in 2023.

The release of Patricia Krenwinkel — who stabbed grocery executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, to death and wrote “Helter Skelter” on the walls of their Los Feliz home in blood — was blocked by Newsom in 2025.

Photographs by RONALDO BOLAÑOS Los Angeles Times

A new year and a fresh start

People dance, above, after a Tashlich ceremony on Sunday at Venice Beach. The Jewish ceremony symbolizes casting off the sins of the past year in a body of water. It occurs on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. Alex Banayan, 34, is among those blowing shofars, right.

BYRON SHER, 1928 - 2026

A protector of the environment

[Sher, from B1] lation creating state wild and scenic rivers is a barrier to President Trump's proposal to raise Shasta Dam north of Redding to increase water storage, an idea backed by Central Valley farming interests. His legislation protects the McCloud River, which feeds Shasta Reservoir. Raising the dam would inundate habitat along the McCloud.

That Sher placed such ideas into law reflected his ability to persuade and compromise. Gov. George Deukmejian, a Republican, signed the wild rivers legislation and Sher's Clean Air Act, which helped shape federal clean air legislation signed in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush.

Their partisan differences aside, Deukmejian viewed Sher as having “great personal integrity,” said Steve Merksamer, who was Deukmejian’s chief of staff.

speech, Newsom recalled that Sher was the only Stanford professor who gave him a C. When Lipper asked whether the story was true, Sher deadpanned, "He deserved it."

"There aren't a lot of tales to tell about Byron Sher," said Bill Lockyer, who was Senate leader when Sher won a state seat in 1996. "He went home at night and tended not to get into the Capitol gossip."

In 1996, Lockyer entrusted Sher to serve on a joint Assembly-Senate conference committee that produced landmark legislation that sought to deregulate California's electricity system.

Republicans, Brown asked the professorial Sher to challenge one Republican's right to remain in the Assembly. That Republican, Richard Mountjoy of the San Gabriel Valley, won two elections that November — one to the Assembly and the other in a special state Senate election to fill the seat vacated when the incumbent, Frank Hill, was sentenced to prison in the corruption scandal.

Sher reasoned that Mountjoy had to make up his mind — stay in the Assembly or move to the Senate. Facing term limits in the Assembly, Mountjoy joined the Senate in January 1995. The partisan battle went on all that year.

Brulte, who never did become speaker, was elected to the Senate in 1996, as was Sher. On Sunday, he called Sher “a wonderful man.”

Sher added provisions expanding requirements that the state use renewable sources of electricity and called the legislation “an extraordinary result” given the issue’s complexity. Lockyer said Sher’s additions, while important, were “the cherry on top of the toxic sundae.”

“Everything in politics today is personal. It wasn’t personal,” Brulte said of Sher’s role in the speaker-ship battle. “Somebody may have taken it personally, but I certainly didn’t.”

Sher retired to a pear orchard in the Sierra Nevada foothills and served at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and Sierra Nevada Conservancy.

His wife of 62 years, Linda Bowser Sher, died in 2014. He is survived by three children, five grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.

Morain is a former Times staff writer.

"When Byron Sher wanted to come into the office and had the bill, would he get in? Absolutely. Would the governor listen to him? Yes," Merksamer said.

Sher did fall short of convincing Deukmejian to sign one of his bills — a whimsical measure inspired by a Camp Fire girls and boys troop to proclaim the banana slug to be the official state mollusk. Deukmejian vetoed the bill, though Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation in 2024 designating the slimy yellow creature as the official state slug.

Sher was born in St. Louis in 1928, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1952, and joined the Stanford Law School faculty in 1957. He served on the Palo Alto City Council in the 1960s, got recalled in 1967 over his opposition to development and won back his seat in the 1970s. Sher was Palo Alto mayor in 1980 when he won an Assembly seat. He remained in the Assembly until 1996 when he was elected to the state Senate, serving until 2004 when term limits forced him to step aside.

Among the students who passed through his Stanford classrooms was Newsom's father, William Newsom, who became a state court of appeals justice.

Sher and his aide and friend Kip Lipper attended a 2010 banquet in San Francisco at which the California League of Conservation Voters honored Justice Newsom with the Byron Sher Lifetime Achievement Award. In his acceptance

The legislation was blamed for California's electricity crisis in 2000 and 2001 when swashbuckling energy traders manipulated the markets, causing prices to spike, resulting in rolling blackouts, and fueling the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis.

Sher was notable for measures he refused to support. With a few other liberal Democrats, nicknamed the Grizzlies, Sher would pick through turgid language of legislation looking for provisions that reflected the undue influence of special interests.

Sher voted against 1986 legislation that purported to open the way for a shrimp processing facility in West Sacramento. The bill turned out to be part of an elaborate FBI sting that resulted in 14 legislators, lobbyists and others being sent to prison.

"He wasn't a comfortable politician," said San Mateo County Supervisor Jackie Speier, a former Democratic congresswoman who served in the Legislature with Sher. "He didn't speak up a lot. So, when he did, people listened."

He displayed a partisan side in 1994 when Republicans took a 41-seat majority in the 80-seat Assembly, and Republican Assemblyman Jim Brulte was in line to be elected speaker. But Democratic Speaker Willie Brown had a Republican supporter, Paul Horcher, who voted to retain Brown as speaker, plunging the two parties into a yearlong fight for control.

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Rockell N. Hankin April 12, 1947 - August 28, 2026

Rockell Nathan Hankin, beloved husband, father, friend, business executive and longtime chairman of The Kavli Foundation, passed away peacefully on August 28, 2026, surrounded by his wife and children.

Rock led a long and successful career, rising from one of the youngest partners to managing partner of Price Waterhouse's Warner Center office in Los Angeles. He went on to chair the boards of The Kavli Foundation, Kavlico and Semtech, and served on more than a dozen other corporate boards. He also taught entrepreneurship and corporate governance at UNC Charlotte and USC School of Law.

Rock was a firm believer that basic science research could benefit all humanity. Of his many endeavors, he felt that the opportunity to support basic science research through his service to The Kavli Foundation was the most profound. Rock's leadership shaped the foundation's development over more than 20 years, including more than a decade as board chair. He was instrumental in the creation of the Kavli Institutes and The Kavli Prize, a global scientific honor.

Throughout his life, Rock loved adventure and staying active. Among his favorite activities were racquetball and aviation. He was a certified pilot and particularly enjoyed flying and taking his family on adventures in his single engine planes.

Most of all, Rock was a devoted family man. He cared deeply for his wife, Lisa. He was incredibly proud of their two children, Kathyrine and Rocky, both of whom are pursuing graduate degrees. He is also survived by his brother Theodore Hankin.

In honor of Rock and his lasting legacy, there will be a celebration of life. Associates should reach out to The Kavli Foundation. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in Rock's memory to Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) or the Hoag Hospital Foundation.

THE WEATHER

Today in Southern California

Morning low clouds then sunshine: Morning low clouds will clear for sunshine along the coast and coastal plain each day into the weekend. An upper-level trough will move into the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday before reaching Northern California on Wednesday. In turn, daytime highs will be a touch lower though still around average into late week. Some warming could occur toward the weekend.

5-day forecasts

	L.A. Basin		Valleys		Beaches		Mountains		Deserts
Today	83|66		83|64		79|68		73|43		100|73
	Partly sunny		Mostly sunny		Humid		Sunshine		Lots of sun
Wednesday	Partly sunny	81/68	Mostly sunny	81/65	Partly sunny	77/68	Sunny	71/42	Sunny	98/74
Thursday	Mostly sunny	80/65	Mostly sunny	83/63	Partly sunny	75/66	Sunny	72/43	Sunny	100/74
Friday	Mostly sunny	84/66	Sunny	85/62	Partly sunny	78/64	Lots of sun	71/43	Sunny; warm	101/75
Saturday	Mostly sunny	84/68	Lots of sun	87/65	Mostly sunny	76/66	Lots of sun	71/44	Sunny; warm	103/74

Surf and sea

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO Inner waters: Wind southeast 10-15 knots. Seas 1-4 feet. Swell west 2-3 feet at 8-9 seconds. Morning fog can reduce visibility.

Surf zone: The risk of strong rip currents will be low at S.B. and L.A. county beaches and moderate elsewhere.

County	Height	Period	Direction	Temp
Santa Barbara	1-3'	9 sec	W	70
Ventura	2-4"	9 sec	W	70
Los Angeles	1-3'	9 sec	W	74
Orange	1-3'	8 sec	W	74
San Diego	1-3'	8 sec	W	75

L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet.
Today	12:23a	3.9 Hi	5:31a	2.1 Lo
	11:58a	5.4 Hi	7:12p	1.0 Lo
Wed.	1:28a	3.3 Hi	5:43a	2.6 Lo
	12:30p	5.1 Hi	8:26p	1.2 Lo

UV index

Minutes to burn for sensitive people Las Vegas, 30 Phoenix, 30 Los Angeles, 30 San Francisco, 45

California cities*

City	Mon.*			Today		Wed.
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Hi	Lo
Anaheim	85	66	--	83	66	82	66
Avalon/Catalina	75	61	--	69	59	69	57
Bakersfield	86	63	--	91	64	89	59
Barstow	97	67	--	95	65	95	62
Big Bear Lake	78	43	--	73	43	71	42
Bishop	89	47	--	90	46	88	45
Burbank	86	65	--	82	64	80	64
Camarillo	79	64	--	81	65	78	64
Chatsworth	87	66	--	83	64	81	65
Chino	92	64	--	88	62	89	62
Compton	82	69	.02	83	68	81	68
Dana Point	78	66	.02	77	65	75	64
Death Valley	106	82	--	109	82	105	82
Del Mar	75	67	Tr	78	68	75	67
Escondido	87	62	Tr	84	62	83	60
Eureka	64	52	--	63	54	64	50
Fallbrook	82	61	Tr	80	60	81	58
Fresno	87	61	--	92	60	88	57
Fullerton	83	68	--	83	68	81	68
Hemet	91	57	--	87	58	86	54
Hesperia	89	60	--	85	59	83	59
Huntington Beach	81	68	.02	79	68	76	69
Idyllwild	79	58	--	78	56	76	55
Irvine	82	66	--	82	66	80	67

Sun and moon

Almanac

Temperature	Los Angeles	Fullerton	Ventura*
High/low	83/68	83/70	75/62
Normal high/low	83/65	86/65	76/57
High/low a year ago	83/63	83/64	74/62
Record high/date	100/2012	108/2012	88/1971
Record low/date	48/1898	57/2010	48/1956

City	Mon.*			Today			Wed.
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Hi	Lo
L.A. D'ntown/USC	84	68	.02	83	66	81	68
L.A. Int'l. Airport	78	69	--	80	68	78	67
Laguna Beach	75	66	.03	77	66	74	68
Lancaster	91	59	--	88	59	84	58
Long Beach	81	69	--	79	68	80	67
Mammoth Lakes	74	37	--	73	39	70	38
Mission Viejo	80	63	.02	80	63	81	64
Monrovia	88	65	--	85	63	84	63
Monterey	68	56	--	68	57	68	58
Mt. Wilson	72	58	--	65	56	63	59
Needles	105	84	--	102	81	102	80
Newport Beach	79	69	.02	79	68	76	69
Northridge	88	66	--	83	65	82	66
Oakland	78	57	--	72	59	72	60
Oceanside	82	63	--	79	60	79	58
Ojai	84	58	--	83	58	81	57
Ontario	90	64	--	87	63	87	62
Palm Springs	103	78	--	100	73	98	74
Pasadena	87	66	--	83	64	81	64
Paso Robles	90	48	--	83	51	77	51
Redding	93	55	--	90	55	82	54
Riverside	92	62	--	88	60	86	57
Sacramento	90	56	--	89	57	81	56
San Bernardino	94	64	--	89	63	88	62

24-hour total (as of 2 p.m.)	0.00	0.00	0.00
Season total (since Oct. 1)	19.62	16.51	20.66
Last season (Oct. 1 to date)	7.96	3.93	6.50
Season norm (Oct. 1 to date)	14.21	11.81	16.05
Humidity (high/low)	83/61	83/48	90/66

City	Mon.*			Today			Wed.
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Hi	Lo
San Diego	75	68	--	78	69	78	68
San Francisco	75	58	--	72	60	70	61
San Gabriel	87	66	--	85	65	83	67
San Jose	84	57	--	80	57	75	56
San Luis Obispo	87	53	--	76	58	74	57
Santa Ana	80	68	--	79	68	78	68
Santa Barbara	80	64	--	77	63	76	62
Santa Clarita	91	61	--	85	59	83	60
Santa Monica Pier	79	68	--	79	68	77	68
Santa Paula	83	61	--	84	61	80	59
Santa Rosa	87	49	--	85	52	76	54
Simi Valley	84	62	--	83	61	81	59
Tahoe Valley	71	31	--	72	36	70	39
Temecula	86	59	.01	84	58	83	57
Thousand Oaks	82	64	--	83	63	80	62
Torrance	79	70	--	81	69	79	68
UCLA	77	68	--	80	67	78	68
Van Nuys	88	66	--	82	65	80	63
Ventura	74	65	--	79	66	77	65
Whittier Hills	84	68	--	84	67	84	68
Woodland Hills	89	66	--	82	66	81	64
Wrightwood	77	60	--	77	59	75	57
Yorba Linda	87	64	--	84	64	85	64
Yosemite Valley	81	52	--	83	51	79	51

Today in North America

Thunderstorms in the Southwest: An uptick in monsoonal thunderstorms will continue across the Four Corners, bringing the risk of gusty winds and flash flooding. Rain and storms could occur from northern Kansas into southern Michigan on Tuesday into Wednesday night.

Showers	T-storms	Rain	Flurries	Snow	Ice

Shown are areas of precipitation and high temperatures for the day.

MONDAY'S EXTREMES AS OF 2 P.M. FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES High 105 in Gila Bend, Ariz. Low 27 in Bridgeport, Calif.

U.S. cities

City	Monday*			Today
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Sky
Albany	71	59	.12	70	56	Pc
Albuquerque	85	66	.24	84	65	Ts
Anchorage	57	44	--	57	49	R
Aspen	71	55	.39	74	50	Ts
Atlanta	93	72	--	91	71	Pc
Austin	99	77	.01	101	77	Pc
Baltimore	81	72	--	77	59	Pc
Boise	70	49	--	77	49	Pc
Boston	74	66	Tr	67	56	Pc
Buffalo	67	54	Tr	76	65	Pc
Burlington, Vt.	67	58	Tr	70	59	Pc
Charleston, S.C.	94	76	--	87	66	Sh
Charlotte	92	70	--	84	64	Pc
Chicago	73	53	--	82	66	Ts
Cincinnati	77	58	--	91	71	Su
Cleveland	67	61	--	82	68	Pc
Columbia, S.C.	96	71	--	88	65	Pc
Columbus	73	54	--	87	69	Pc
Dallas/FLWorth	99	80	--	100	81	Su
Denver	87	67	.04	73	54	Ts
Detroit	70	50	--	82	67	Ts
El Paso	93	70	.38	94	71	Ts
Eugene	71	47	--	70	49	Su
Fort Myers	92	76	.17	91	76	Ts
Hartford	73	63	--	71	53	Pc
Honolulu	88	74	--	89	78	Sh
Houston	94	77	.10	95	76	Ts
Indianapolis	77	58	--	92	72	Ts
Jacksonville, Fla.	92	75	--	89	73	Ts
Kansas City	93	61	--	84	67	Ts
Knoxville	90	68	--	93	69	Pc
Las Vegas	101	82	--	98	78	Su
Louisville	82	62	--	95	74	Su
Medford	82	44	--	80	51	Pc
Memphis	95	78	.13	99	79	Su
Miami	89	77	.06	91	79	Sh
Milwaukee	70	49	.01	77	60	Ts
Minneapolis	63	52	.34	72	53	Cy
Nashville	94	75	--	100	76	Su
New Orleans	93	77	.23	94	79	Ts
New York	73	68	--	71	60	Su
Norfolk	83	74	--	78	65	Pc
Oklahoma City	100	76	--	100	74	Su
Omaha	83	57	.64	72	61	Ts
Orlando	93	77	.14	90	77	Ts
Philadelphia	78	71	--	78	60	Pc
Phoenix	103	89	.04	98	79	Ts
Pittsburgh	70	59	--	81	63	Su
Portland, Ore.	69	57	--	67	53	Pc
Providence	75	67	--	70	53	Su
Raleigh/Durham	90	71	--	83	59	Su
Reno	78	46	--	84	49	Su
Richmond	84	72	--	80	58	Pc
St. Louis	86	63	--	97	75	Ts
Salt Lake City	73	56	--	82	65	Su

City	Monday*			Today
	Hi	Lo	Prcp.	Hi	Lo	Sky
Seattle	67	55	--	66	51	Pc
Tampa	91	79	.26	92	77	Ts
Tucson	95	80	.10	89	72	Ts
Tulsa	98	78	--	100	78	Su
Washington, D.C.	81	74	--	80	62	Pc
Wichita	99	75	--	92	69	Ts
World
Acapulco	91	77	.03	91	78	Pc
Amsterdam	72	55	.24	76	57	Cy
Athens	86	70	--	80	69	Pc
Bangkok	90	77	.13	90	78	R
Barcelona	84	68	--	86	71	Su
Berlin	66	59	--	76	62	Pc
Cabo San Lucas	88	78	.39	90	79	Ts
Cairo	99	73	--	97	75	Hz
Dubai	104	90	--	104	87	Hz
Dublin	75	57	.15	63	51	Sh
Havana	91	71	.09	93	74	Sh
Ho Chi Minh City	91	77	.03	94	78	R
Hong Kong	89	79	.22	91	80	R
Istanbul	77	64	--	78	66	Cy
Jerusalem	88	67	--	88	67	Su
Johannesburg	74	54	.25	73	49	Pc
Kuala Lumpur	92	76	--	96	78	Sh
Lima	74	68	--	77	69	Pc
London	77	64	--	72	52	Sh
Madrid	95	59	--	96	65	Su
Mecca	108	81	.04	114	87	Su
Mexico City	74	56	.24	76	56	R
Montreal	66	55	.05	67	61	Cy
Moscow	66	47	--	65	43	Pc
Mumbai	86	76	.20	89	80	R
New Delhi	91	80	--	90	77	Ts
Paris	84	63	--	88	56	Su
Prague	68	57	.04	73	54	Su
Rome	84	61	--	86	62	Su
Seoul	81	64	--	81	54	Su
Singapore	91	81	--	92	80	Sh
Taipei City	85	76	.38	85	73	Ts
Tokyo	86	75	.77	80	71	Ts
Vancouver	65	57	.02	66	53	Su
Vienna	68	61	.33	74	51	Su

Key: Su sunny; Pc partly cloudy; Cy cloudy; Fg foggy; Prcp precipitation; Dr drizzle; Hz hazy Sh showers; Ts thunderstorms; R rain; Sn snow; Sf snow flurries; I ice; Rs rain/snow; W windy; Tr trace. Notes: National extremes exclude Alaska and Hawaii. * - data estimated. Monday's readings as of 2 p.m.

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ANALYSIS

With Messi out, soccer looking to its young stars

LIONEL Messi greets Lamine Yamal after Spain beat Argentina in the World Cup final on July 19.
YUKI IWAMURA Associated Press

His absence, and likely that of Ronaldo soon too, will leave hole in international play for next generation.

By Kevin Baxter

Now that Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from international soccer, could a similar announcement from Cristiano Ronaldo be far behind? And when it comes, what will that mean for the short-term future of the sport?

Losing two of the greatest to ever play the game just months apart will definitely leave a mark on international soccer. At the same time, the sport seems well-positioned to not only weather the blow, but maybe even grow in its wake.

Rarely, if ever, has international soccer been blessed with a deeper, more talented and charismatic group of young stars. Kylian Mbappe of France, who has already broken Messi's record with 22 World Cup goals in as many games, is just 27. Norway's Erling Haaland, who charmed the world during this summer's tournament, has more goals for club and country at 26 than either Messi or Ronaldo had at the same age.

Spain's Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsí teamed to win a World Cup title while still in their teens. Both are also on this year's Ballon d'Or short list — at 30 names, the list really isn't that short — alongside seven other players younger than 26.

(The ballot for the women's Ballon d'Or, meanwhile, contains six Spaniards, three players from both France and the Netherlands and two Japanese but just one American, Gotham midfielder Rose Lavelle. More about what that might mean for women's soccer in the U.S. in a moment.)

Messi's retirement from the Argentine national team and Ronaldo's impending retirement from Portugal's marks the end of an unparalleled era in soccer. Messi, 39, accomplished more than any player in history. He was named the FIFA world player of the year a record eight times, led his teams to 46 trophies including four Champions League titles, a World Cup win and an Olympic gold medal. He played in more World Cup games (34) than anyone, is one of just two men to play

in three World Cup finals, has more assists (423 and counting) than any player ever and trails only Ronaldo for most goals for club and country with 928 and counting.

And he's not done. Less than a year after signing a contract extension that will keep him with Inter Miami through 2028, Messi leads MLS in both goals (19) and assists (11) and is chasing a second straight league title. Whether he fulfills that contract and stays another two seasons is uncertain. The announcement that he was leaving the national team came shortly after the death of his father, Jorge, Messi's first coach, primary agent and best friend.

Now, without his muse by his side, Messi may decide soccer is no longer enjoyable and simply walk away, leaving tens of millions of dollars on the table after having already made more than \$1 billion from the game.

If Messi could not be ignored on the pitch, he has never sought the spotlight off it, preferring family time to interviews or news conferences. Fittingly, he shared his retirement from international soccer not in a media event but in a social media post. Ronaldo, 41, who is also a soccer billionaire, is exactly the opposite. In his hometown of Funchal, Portugal, he is director of the Museu CR7, a museum dedicated to his career, one which shares space with the CR7 hotel and is fronted by a bronze statue of Ronaldo.

The contrast between the quiet, humble Messi and the preening, ostentatious Ronaldo has defined soccer in recent times and certainly fueled its growth and popularity in the U.S. and parts of Asia. It was like a professional wrestling rivalry in which everyone cheers for either the hero or the heel, only there was no pretense to this one.

Leaving center stage will be more difficult for Ronaldo, whose contract with Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr — a deal that reportedly pays him around \$6 million a week

— expires next year. A five-time Ballon d'Or winner and five-time Champions League winner with Real Madrid and Manchester United, Ronaldo hasn't enjoyed the international success that Messi has, with just a European title and two Nations League trophies on his resume.

But without Messi, there is no Ronaldo — and vice versa. If one leaves, the other, diminished in solitude, cannot long survive alone. And when they are both gone, the story line will necessarily change because there is no obvious rivalry to replace the one they created.

Real Madrid's Mbappe is the most obvious heir apparent to the mantle of “greatest in the game.” He has already played in two

World Cup finals for France, scored a record 22 goals in the tournament and has more goals, assists and trophies at 27 than Ronaldo did at the same age.

The only player who can seem to match Mbappe for talent is Haaland. But he plays for Norway — which has made one World Cup appearance this century, not exactly on the same level as third-ranked France — and in England for Manchester City. As a result, he and Mbappe's teams have met just four times in Champions League play and only once internationally, in a game Haaland sat out.

Over time, a more substantive foil for Mbappe could be Yamal, who plays for Barcelona and the Spanish national team, the natural rivals for Real Madrid and France, respectively. But the hyper-talented and charismatic Yamal, 19, is still a work in progress who needs more time to develop.

While Messi and Ronaldo are preparing to pass the torch in men's soccer, a significant transition may also be taking place on the women's side. Two years ago, five Americans were nominated for the female Ballon d'Or. In 2022, there were three U.S. players on the short list.

This year, it is only Lavelle.

The U.S. won the Paris Olympics tournament, the last major international event for women, but Spain, the reigning World Cup champion, is ranked No. 1 in the world. The country has six women on the award short list, including Alexia Putellas, who has combined with Barcelona teammate Aitana Bonmati to give Spain the last five Ballon d'Or wins.

Only four NWSL players made the list.

There's no question the U.S. league is far more competitive and compelling; no team in the NWSL has fewer than four losses this season while Barcelona has lost four games over the last seven seasons combined. There's also no question the Ballon d'Or voters, made up of writers from France Football and L'Equipe, alongside international soccer ambassadors, have a European bias.

But it's also true the U.S. can no longer expect to simply roll out the ball and dominate women's soccer as it did in the past. The rest of the world has caught up.

Next summer's World Cup in Brazil will determine if the world has passed us by.

By Eric Sondheimer

ROBERT GAUTHIER Los Angeles Times

PUNTER JK Scott has his kick blocked by Arizona's Simi Fehoko in the Chargers' disappointing opener.

Bolts missed Ram-sized chance

[Swanson, from B10] those rival Rams, with news of defensive end Myles Garrett set to undergo surgery on his left knee and be placed on injured reserve, which will force him out of at least the next four games.

The development came on the heels of the Rams' disappointing 27-7 season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Australia. And that was compounded by the Rams' travel plans being widely panned after their sluggish defeat.

While the Rams are going through it, the Chargers had an opportunity to present a positive foil when Los Angeles' football fans got to Monday morning quarterbacking.

Hey, dude, did you hear about Myles Garrett?

I know! What a bummer!

I know? What a bunnier? And I still can't believe they decided to fly to Au- tralia and play fewer than 30 hours later.

Right? But, man, did you see what the Chargers did to the Cardinals?

That's how it should have gone.

Instead, folks who follow the sport around here are going to be asking the opposite: Did you see what the Cardinals did to the Chargers?

Yeah, the Cardinals — led by rookie head coach Mike LaFleur, the Rams' former offensive coordinator — embarrassed the Bolts at home.

The team that moved up from San Diego 10 years ago promising to “Fight for L.A.” showed none of that against Arizona, a team that won only three games last season.

And that, as much as anything, should worry anyone who's invested in this Chargers team. You wanted to see the will and want-to of a team that went 11-6 each of the past two seasons and could be destined, at last, for a push in the playoffs?

You hoped to see a group that's learned something about seizing a moment?

You didn't see it. You saw an unfocused and unbothered bunch who, afterward, seemed mainly perplexed by their lack of execution.

By the fact that they were outgained 393 to 268 in total yardage. By their seven ill-timed penalties for 64 yards.

By Jacoby Brissett out-dueling Justin Herbert, who completed just 17 of 27 passes for 209 yards, with a touchdown and an interception, one of the Chargers' two turnovers — compared with none from the Cardinals.

By the fact that Herbert — despite a revamped offensive line — was sacked three times, including losing 13 yards on a pivotal fourth-down play in the second quarter, when the Chargers went for it from the three.

It was a substantial upset as far as openers go because the Chargers were favored to win by 9 $^{1/2}$ points, more than any other team Sunday.

It was also coach Jim Harbaugh's first loss in seven NFL season openers, which you wouldn't have guessed watching his woefully unprepared team struggle in every facet.

And it won't be lost on anyone how uncoordinated the Chargers' operation seemed behind its new coordinators.

Offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel is supposed to unlock new levels for Herbert. But Herbert had only 15 pass attempts entering the third quarter — as few as in any game in his previous six NFL seasons.

And under new defensive coordinator Chris O'Leary

— despite working with most of the same personnel Jesse Minter had in his two successful seasons in L.A. — the Chargers had trouble containing one of the NFL's least imposing offenses.

"It was," safety Derwin James Jr. said, "a complete team loss."

“It was just execution,” Herbert said. “We didn’t execute on third down and we had too many turnovers ... Everything is just on us to go out and execute the game plan ... It’s on us to be able to execute the protection plan, get the ball out, and do everything that we need to do.”

Said Harbaugh: “Have to get things to get better, for sure. You know, better job coaching, better job practicing, better job executing. All those things need to be elevated.”

About the only thing achieved by the Chargers falling so flat Sunday? It might have lifted the Rams' spirits a modicum. They have their problems, but at least they're not the Chargers; at least they didn't just get completely out-executed by the Arizona Cardinals.

NFL REPORT

Vikings' Murray in concussion protocol

NFL STANDINGS

STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kyler Murray began the week in the NFL concussion protocol, continuing his recovery from an illegal hit to the head that forced him out of his first game with the team in the first quarter.

Murray arrived on Mon- day at Vikings headquarters "feeling pretty good," ac- ording to coach Kevin O'Connell, but it was far too soon to assess his chance of playing Sunday at Chicago.

“We’ll defer to the medical folks and that protocol for how the week goes,” O’Connell said. “We’ll just take it a day at a time.”

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Murray's debut with Minnesota lasted 11 plays. At the end of a third down run that ended well short, Murray had the right side of his helmet smacked hard by Green Bay safety Javon Bullard's lowered shoulder with the quarterback already ducking toward the turf to try to avoid contact. Bullard was penalized for unnecessary roughness.

Murray eventually walked off slowly under his own power, but Carson Wentz took over the rest of the afternoon and helped lead the Vikings to a comeback victory by scoring the last 29 points of the game.

NATIONAL COM BILION
West	W	L	T	Pct.	PF	PA
San Francisco	1	0	0	1.000	27	7
Arizona	1	0	0	1.000	26	14
Seattle	1	0	0	1.000	13	10
RAMS	0	1	0	.000	7	27
North	W	L	T	Pct.	PF	PA
Minnesota	1	0	0	1.000	39	22
Chicago	1	0	0	1.000	59	37
Detroit	1	0	0	1.000	31	30
Green Bay	0	1	0	.000	22	39
South	W	L	T	Pct.	PF	PA
Atlanta	0	1	0	.000	13	20
Tampa Bay	0	1	0	.000	27	33
New Orleans	0	1	0	.000	30	31
Carolina	0	1	0	.000	37	59
East	W	L	T	Pct.	PF	PA
N.Y. Giants	1	0	0	1.000	28	20
Philadelphia	1	0	0	1.000	24	22
Washington	0	1	0	.000	22	24
Dallas	0	1	0	.000	20	28

John Harbaugh wins Giants debut

Jaxson Dart connected with Isaiah Likely for two touchdowns and Devin Singletary on another, Cam Skattebo ran for one in his first game back from injury and the New York Giants opened the season by beating the Dallas Cowboys 28-20 Sunday in John Harbaugh's debut as coach. It's just one victory, but it was a promising start of a new era.

“We took steps in that direction,” Harbaugh said.

AMERICAN CONFERENCE
West	W	L	T	Pct.	PF	PA
Las Vegas	1	0	0	1.000	27	13
Denver	0	0	0	.000	0	0
Kansas City	0	0	0	.000	0	0
CHARGERS	0	1	0	.000	14	26
North	W	L	T	Pct.	PF	PA
Baltimore	1	0	0	1.000	41	23
Pittsburgh	1	0	0	1.000	20	13
Cincinnati	1	0	0	1.000	33	27
Cleveland	0	1	0	.000	10	34
South	W	L	T	Pct.	PF	PA
Jacksonville	1	0	0	1.000	34	10
Houston	0	1	0	.000	31	36
Tennessee	0	1	0	.000	10	23
Indianapolis	0	1	0	.000	23	41
East	W	L	T	Pct.	PF	PA
N.Y. Jets	1	0	0	1.000	23	10
Buffalo	1	0	0	1.000	36	31
New England	0	1	0	.000	10	13
Miami	0	1	0	.000	13	27

Dart made one smart throw after another, mixing in a series of well-timed runs to keep the defense off balance. He finished 23 of 29 for 230 yards passing, plus 54 rushing, including a couple of slides and a dive to avoid the unnecessary hits that punctuated his rookie year.

The Giants' No.1 receiver Malik Nabers, playing for the first time since going down with a torn ACL in his right knee 350 days ago, had six catches for 69 yards.

Monken says

Watson still starter

Cleveland Browns coach Todd Monken is sticking with Deshaun Watson as his starting quarterback after a 34-10 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars.

"It's only been two weeks, he's gotten all the reps, and there were some really good things on film, some things that you can build on," Monken said.

Watson finished 16 of 22

WEDNESDAY'S RESULT Seattle 13, New England 10 THURSDAY'S RESULT San Francisco 27, RAMS 7 SUNDAY'S RESULTS Arizona 26, CHARGERS 14 Baltimore 41, Indianapolis 23 Buffalo 36, Houston 31 Chicago 59, Carolina 37 Cincinnati 33, Tampa Bay 27 Detroit 31, New Orleans 30, OT Jacksonville 34, Cleveland 10 N.Y. Jets 23, Tennessee 10 Pittsburgh 20, Atlanta 13 Las Vegas 27, Miami 13 Minnesota 39, Green Bay 22 Philadelphia 24, Washington 22 N.Y. Giants 28, Dallas 20

Las Vegas at CHARGERS, 1 p.m.
Carolina at Atlanta, 10 a.m.
Cincinnati at Houston, 10 a.m.
Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m.
Green Bay at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m.
Minnesota at Chicago, 10 a.m.
New Orleans at Baltimore, 10 a.m.
Philadelphia at Tennessee, 10 a.m.
Pittsburgh at New England, 10 a.m.
Jacksonville at Denver, 1:05 p.m.
Miami at San Francisco, 1:25 p.m.
Seattle at Arizona, 1:25 p.m.
Washington at Dallas, 1:25 p.m.
Indianapolis at Kansas City, 5:20 p.m.
MONDAY'S GAME
N.Y. Giants at Rams, 5:15 p.m.

passing for 205 yards with a touchdown and an interception in his first NFL game in 22 months.

McConkey injured in Chargers' opener

Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said wide receiver Ladd McConkey sustained a rib injury on Sunday and is considered day to day. McConkey made five receptions for 85 yards and a touchdown before exiting in the third quarter.

—JOAQUIN RUIZ

Rams adjust as timelines of Garrett, Donald uncertain

[Rams, from B10]

would take an approach where he'd be feeling good enough to go, contribute positive change and be the player that he's capable of.

“But that wasn’t the case, and so the next right thing for us is to be able to get this thing fixed.”

Garrett, 30, will miss Monday's home game against the New York Giants, road games at Denver and Philadelphia and home game against the Buffalo Bills before he is eligible to return.

McVay did not have a timeline for his return.

"It's all contingent on how do things go [Monday]," McVay said. "But I think it would be unfair to him, without having the totality of all the information, to put any sort of timeline on it."

Garrett, a two-time NFL defensive player of the year, played only 40 of 65 snaps against the 49ers. McVay said the decision to pursue surgery was made after consulting with Garrett immediately after the game.

"We thought we were doing the right thing," McVay said of the Rams' attempt to manage the situation.

"In hindsight, you'll always be able to learn from it. I'll never hang onto whether you want to say it was a mistake or just different things to be able to kind of change course."

With Garrett out, the Rams could use a spark for a defense that gave up three touchdown passes and 174 rushing yards against the 49ers.

Will lineman Aaron Donald, who has returned from a two-year retirement, make his season debut against the Giants?

“We haven’t decided that yet,” McVay said. “He’s going to continue to work his process and we’ll see what that looks like.”

McVay said Donald's situation is "totally separate" and "totally independent" of Garrett's.

"It's more about Aaron and how he can contribute to the collective," McVay said. "What does that feel like with how he's feeling to be able to resume 11-on-11 and being able to play and do the things that he's capable of."

In the meantime, the Rams will look to fill the void of Garrett's absence with Josaiah Stewart, Desjuan Johnson and rookie Wesley Bailey.

Stewart, a second-year pro from Michigan, made six tackles and had one of the Rams' two hits on 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy.

"He'll be asked to step up," McVay said, "as will everybody in that group."

McVay speaks often about how adversity during a season is bound to come.

But for the Super Bowl-favorite Rams, it came early.

“I don’t have a crystal ball,” McVay said of anticipating when adversity will come. “I just know this: that these are the opportunities to really separate yourself with how you handle ’em.”

The 49ers, the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals all won their open-ers, putting the Rams in last place in the NFC West.

It's still early, of course, but the road to a spot in Super Bowl LXI at SoFi Stadium suddenly appears more challenging.

“That is over with,” McVay said of the loss to the 49ers. “That’s in our rearview mirror. We’re all eyes moving forward.”

Etc.

Linebacker Omar Speights suffered a hip pointer against the 49ers, McVay said. "We'll kind of manage him throughout the week, but he's feeling better than we anticipated," McVay said. Linebacker Nate Landman sustained shoulder and thumb injuries, but McVay said he is expected to play against the Giants.

THE TIMES' CITY FOOTBALL RANKINGS

Rk.	School (W-L)	Comment (last week's ranking)
1	CARSON (3-1)	Big win over Southern Section power Long Beach Poly. (1)
2	CRENSHAW (4-0)	Defense comes through in 12-3 win over University. (2)
3	SAN PEDRO (4-0)	14 touchdown passes with no interceptions for Seth Solorio. (3)
4	BIRMINGHAM (0-3)	Receiver Paul Turner had eight catches, 177 yards in loss to Calabasas. (4)
5	KING/DREW (2-2)	Soccer player recruited to kick helps team upset Cathedral. (7)
6	KENNEDY (4-0)	Golden Cougars are headed to a 10-0 regular season. (6)
7	CLEVELAND (4-0)	The rushing attack continues to excel. (8)
8	GARFIELD (2-1)	Eastern League starts vs. Huntington Park. (5)
9	BELL (3-1)	Eagles were routed by San Pedro last week. (9)
10	MARSHALL (3-0)	Tough test against Marquez this week. (10)

By Steve Galluzzo

THE TIMES' FLAG FOOTBALL RANKINGS

Rk.	School (W-L)	Comment
1	JSERRA (15-0)	Lions outscored their four opponents 87-6 to win the inaugural MaxPreps Showdown in Chula Vista. Next: Tuesday at Mater Dei.
2	NEWPORT HARBOR (14-2)	Beat Mission Hills, Carlsbad and Huntington Beach before losing to JSerra at MaxPreps Showdown. Next: Monday at Corona del Mar.
3	ORANGE LUTHERAN (14-1)	Quarterback Alyssa McClure and receiver Ava Harrison made the MaxPreps all-tournament team. Next: Tuesday at Santa Margarita.
4	HUNTINGTON BEACH (8-3)	Nearly upset Newport Harbor at MaxPreps Showdown; get another crack at Sailors on Wednesday. Next: Monday vs. Marina.
5	DOS PUEBLOS (12-2)	Winners of nine straight, Chargers get Channel League tests this week with Oxnard and San Marcos. Next: Tuesday vs. Oxnard.
6	WESTLAKE (9-3)	A light week for the Warriors, who opened Marmonte League action with a 61-0 rout of Calabasas. Next: Tuesday at Agoura.
7	LAKEWOOD ST. JOSEPH (10-0)	Lexi Loya threw for two scores, ran for one and intercepted a pass in 27-0 shutout of Gardena Serra. Next: Monday at Mater Dei.
8	EDISON (9-5)	Maddie Phung has 23 completions with six touchdowns and zero interceptions in the past two games. Next: Monday at Fountain Valley.
9	OXNARD (9-4)	Ryanna Harris has 15 touchdowns running, eight receiving, nine passing and three more on returns. Next: Tuesday at Dos Pueblos.
10	MATER DEI (6-3)	Monarchs have three straight wins, including at Sierra Canyon, since a 19-12 loss to Orange Lutheran. Next: Monday vs. Lakewood St. Joseph.

Seattle	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Athletics	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Crawford ss	4	0	1	1	.223	Bolte cf	3	1	0	0	.275
Arozarena lf	5	2	3	4	.276	McNeil 1b	5	1	1	0	.267
Arozarena rf	5	0	1	0	.257	Mell 3b	3	3	2	1	.252
Raleigh dh	5	1	1	0	.180	Butler rf	4	2	2	4	.230
Rodriguez cf	5	0	1	0	.242	Muncy dh	3	0	0	0	.232
Naylor 1b	4	1	2	0	.271	Langeliers dh	1	0	1	2	.266
Arroyo 2b	1	1	0	0	.333	Walton 2b-ss	4	0	1	0	.271
Young 2b	1	0	0	0	.250	Cortes lf	3	0	0	0	.257
Wilson 3b	2	1	1	0	.221	Seven c	3	0	0	0	.203
Montes	1	0	0	0	.231	Williams ss	3	1	2	0	.259
Rodden 3b	1	0	0	0	.218	Clarke	0	0	0	0	.154
Pereda c	2	1	2	2	.298	Stefanic 2b	0	0	0	0	.368
Totals	36	7	12	7		Totals	32	8	9	8
Seattle						002	310	010	-7	12	1
Athletics						200	000	402	-8	9	0

Chicago	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	St. Louis	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Antoniacci lf	4	0	1	0	.269	Torres lf	3	0	0	0	.255
Teel c	2	0	0	0	.200	Scott lf	1	0	0	0	.196
Margas 3b	4	0	1	0	.247	Herrera c	4	1	0	0	.194
Murakami 1b	3	0	0	0	.206	Pagis c	0	0	0	0	.212
Acuña	0	0	0	0	.235	Burleson 1b	3	0	1	3	.283
Benintendi dh	4	1	1	1	.241	Walker rf	3	0	0	0	.281
Peters rf-cf	4	0	1	0	.279	Bernal dh	3	0	0	0	.292
Meidroth 2b	2	0	0	1	.267	Gorman 3b	2	0	0	0	.187
C.Mongomny ss	3	0	0	0	.206	Urias 3b	1	0	0	0	.155
Doyle cf	2	0	0	0	.211	Saggese 2b	3	0	0	0	.260
B.Mongomny rf	1	0	0	0	.214	Church cf	3	1	2	0	.254
Totals	29	1	4	1		Winn ss	3	1	1	0	.237
						Totals		29	3	4	3
Chicago						010	000	000	-1	4	1

MLB STANDINGS Through Sunday

Florida State fires AD amid football funk

NATIONAL LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE
West	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
DODGERS	90	59	.604	—	8-2
San Diego	81	68	.544	9	8-2
Arizona	79	71	.527	$11\frac{1}{2}$	6-4
San Francisco	62	88	.413	$28\frac{1}{2}$	4-6
Colorado	55	94	.369	35	2-8
Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
z-Milwaukee	93	57	.620	—	6-4
Chicago	83	67	.553	10	5-5
Pittsburgh	75	75	.500	18	7-3
St. Louis	74	76	.493	19	4-6
Cincinnati	70	79	.470	$22\frac{1}{2}$	4-6
East	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Atlanta	88	62	.587	—	5-5
Philadelphia	83	67	.553	5	4-6
Miami	74	76	.493	14	3-7
Washington	70	81	.464	$18\frac{1}{2}$	3-7
New York	69	80	.463	$18\frac{1}{2}$	7-3
Wild Card	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Chicago	83	67	.553	$+1\frac{1}{2}$	5-5
Philadelphia	83	67	.553	$+1\frac{1}{2}$	4-6
San Diego	81	68	.544	—	8-2
Arizona	79	71	.527	$2\frac{1}{2}$	6-4
Pittsburgh	75	75	.500	$6\frac{1}{2}$	7-3

AMERICAN LEAGUE

MICHAEL ALFORD was dismissed at Florida State after the school president cited a need to compete in a changing landscape.

West	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Houston	75	75	.500	-	4-6
Texas	74	76	.493	1	5-5
Seattle	70	80	.467	5	4-6
Athletics	61	89	.407	14	7-3
ANGELS	56	93	.376	$18\frac{1}{2}$	3-7
Central	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
Chicago	76	73	.510	-	3-7
Cleveland	76	74	.507	$\frac{1}{2}$	6-4
Detroit	70	79	.470	6	6-4
Minnesota	70	79	.470	6	3-7
Kansas City	66	84	.440	$10\frac{1}{2}$	4-6
East	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
z-Tampa Bay	90	59	.604	-	7-3
New York	86	63	.577	4	7-3
Boston	82	68	.547	$8\frac{1}{2}$	7-3
Toronto	75	75	.500	$15\frac{1}{2}$	6-4
Baltimore	72	78	.480	$18\frac{1}{2}$	3-7
Wild Card	W	L	Pct.	GB	L10
New York	86	63	.577	$+10\frac{1}{2}$	7-3
Boston	82	68	.547	+6	7-3
Cleveland	76	74	.507	-	6-4
Toronto	75	75	.500	1	6-4
Texas	74	76	.493	2	5-5
Baltimore	72	78	.480	4	3-7

PHELAN M. EBENHACK Associated Press
z-clinched playoff berth

Gibson announced his retirement Monday.

WIRE REPORTS

Florida State fired athletic director Michael Alford on Monday morning, school president Richard McCullough announced.

Alford had held the position since January 2022 after he was hired in the fall of 2020 to be the president of Seminole Boosters, Inc.

The dismissal was without cause, McCullough said. It's not clear how much Alford is owed by Florida State on a four-year deal that was announced in August 2024.

McCullough, speaking later Monday, said the decision to fire Alford was necessary to compete in a college sports landscape that “is changing incredibly rapidly” and “this is a first step in working toward doing everything that we can to build revenue and take a look at the kind of administration that we need moving forward.”

The decision comes as football coach Mike Norvell is on the hot seat after two losing seasons and a lackluster 1-1 start. Florida State is a $20 \frac{1}{2}$ -point underdog at No. 10 Alabama on Saturday. If Norvell is replaced in the coming weeks or months, the hire will be made by a new athletic director as well as McCullough and Board of Trustees chairman Peter Collins.

Texas jumped to No. 1 in the Associated Press Top 25 after a wild 24-23 victory over Ohio State, which knocked the Buckeyes from No. 1 to No. 6. USC moved up two spots to No. 12 after routing Louisiana 49-30. UCLA received nine votes after beating San Diego State 28-10. ... Tennessee coach Josh Heupel said that senior tight end Ethan Davis will miss the rest of the season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury for the 15th-ranked Volunteers. ... Central Florida starting quarterback Alonza Barnett III is expected to miss Saturday's game with what coach Scott Frost described as a "fairly significant hamstring injury."... West Virginia assistant football coach Noel Devine was booked into jail on a felony strangulation charge Sunday, records show. Devine, 38, was arrested by Morgantown police. A not guilty plea was entered and Devine was ordered held in lieu of \$40,000 bail in the North Central Regional Jail.

ETC. Shelton to play on Davis Cup team

U.S. Open runner-up Ben Shelton was confirmed for the American Davis Cup team that will play the Czech Republic in Prague this week. Then he'll join Team World for the Laver Cup in London the following weekend.

Shelton, who lost to Alexander Zverev in his first Grand Slam final on Sunday, moved up to a career-high No. 4 in the rankings on Monday. Zverev is on Germany's Davis Cup team that will host Croatia in Halle; and he will be on Team Europe for the Laver Cup.

Also named to the U.S. team for the second round of qualifying against the Czechs were Learner Tien, Martin Damm, Christian Harrison and Austin Krajicek.

U.S. Solheim Cup captain Angela Stanford has taken a position as an assistant women's golf coach at her alma mater, Texas Christian, following the Americans' loss to Europe in the biennial team competition. Stanford played on the LPGA Tour from 2001 to 2024, winning seven times, including a major title at the 2018 Evian Championship when she was 40.

Taj Gibson has joined Tiago Splitter's first coaching staff with the Chicago Bulls after playing for eight teams in 17 NBA seasons.

Marcelo Gallardo, one of the most decorated coaches in the history of the Argentine league, has reached an agreement to manage the Ecuador national team ahead of the 2030 World Cup. ... Mexico's National Antitrust Commission announced that it has launched an investigation into potential monopolistic practices in domestic soccer, prompted by fan complaints over anti-competitive behavior. The probe centers on the absence of a promotion and relegation system. Second-division teams and players have been protesting for weeks, demanding the right to go up to the top flight as they did in the past.

The Montreal Canadiens have signed coach Martin St. Louis to an unspecified multi-year extension. St. Louis, 51, has guided the upstart Canadiens to consecutive playoff berths, including a trip last year's Eastern Conference final. Joe Sakic will remain in the role of general manager for the Colorado Avalanche indefinitely with no search scheduled, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press. Sakic, president of hockey operations, added the title of GM in June when the Nashville Predators hired away Chris MacFarland. ... The Buffalo Sabres signed forward Noah Ostlund to an eight-year, \$52.8-million contract, the team announced.

MLB SCHEDULE

Today's games Dodgers at Cincinnati 3:40 p.m. Seattle vs. Angels 6:38 p.m. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh 3:40 p.m. Chicago (AL) at Cleveland 3:40 p.m. Athletics at Tampa Bay 3:40 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington 3:45 p.m. Detroit at Toronto 4:07 p.m. Baltimore at New York (NL) 4:10 p.m. New York (AL) at Minnesota 4:40 p.m. Atlanta at Chicago (NL) 4:40 p.m. San Francisco at St. Louis 4:45 p.m. Boston at Texas 5:05 p.m. Kansas City at Houston 5:10 p.m. San Diego at Colorado 5:40 p.m. Miami at Arizona 6:40 p.m.

MIAMI 6, DODGERS 4

Dodgers	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Miami	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Betts ss	4	0	2		1 .250	Stowers dh	4	0	1	0	.242
Freeman 1b	4	0	0		0 .293	H.Hemández lf	3	0	1	0	.226
Muncy dh	4	0	0		0 .254	Lopez ss	4	0	1	2	.309
Smith c	3	1	1		0 .240	Conine 1b	4	0	0	0	.260
Tucker rf	4	1	0		0 .226	Edwards 2b	3	1	1	0	.282
De Paula lf	2	1	2		3 .286	Marsee cf	4	1	1	0	.221
E.Hemández cf	1	0	1		0 .221	Sanoja 3b	4	1	1	2	.291
Call cf-lf	4	0	0		0 .237	Mack c	3	1	1	0	.235
Rojas 2b	3	0	1		0 .272	Ramírez	1	1	1	2	.225
a-Édman 2b	1	0	0		0 .257	Ruiz rf	3	1	1	0	.225
Freeland 3b	4	1	2		0 .230	Totals	33	6	9	6
Totals	34	4	9	4

Walks—Dodgers 5: Betts 1, Smith 2, Tucker 1, De Paula 1. Miami 2: H. Hernández 1, Edwards 1. Strikeouts—Dodgers 7: Freeman 1, Muncy 2, Smith 1, Tucker 1, Rojas 1, Freeland 1. Miami 8: Stowers 2, H. Hernández 1, Conine 3, Sanoja 1, Mack 1. LOB—Dodgers 10, Miami 5. 2B—Smith (8), De Paula (1), Betts (20), Sanoja (30). HR—De Paula (1), off Pérez; Ramírez (4), off Stewart. RBIs—De Paula 3 (3), Betts (62), Lopez 2 (69), Sanoja 2 (60), Ramírez 2 (21). SB—Freeland (4). Runners left in scoring position—Dodgers 5 (Muncy, Tucker 2, Call 2); Miami 3 (Conine, Marsee 2). RISP—Los Angeles 2 for 10; Miami 3 for 8. DP—Miami 2.

S. DP - Dallas 2
Dodgers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Sheehan......6	...	2	0	0	1	5	81	4.79
Vesia, H, 20......1	...	0	0	0	0	1	10	2.92
Henriquez, H, 11......%	3	2	2	1	1	1	22	2.85
Scott, L, 1-6, BS, 22-26......%	3	3	3	0	1	1	12	2.91
Stewart......0	1	1	1	0	0	0	4	2.78
Miami	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Pérez......5	4	3	3	2	5	96	3.99
Ralston......1	1	0	0	0	1	21	3.48
Ekness......1	1	0	0	1	0	13	4.18
Vodnik......1%	3	1	1	1	0	37	5.50
Fulton, W, 2-0......%	0	0	0	1	1	14	2.96

Inherited runners-scored—Scott 2-0, Stewart 1-1, Fulton 1-0. HBP—Pérez (Freeman), Fulton (Muncy). AU—Brock Ballou, Jeremie Rehak, Adam Beck, Dan lassogna. T—3:00. Tickets sold—32,003 (37,446).

PHILADELPHIA 9, ATLANTA 4

Philadelphia	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Atlanta	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Schwarber dh	4	0	2	2	.238	Harris cf	5	2	3	0	.291
Turner ss	4	1	2	2	.241	Acuña dh	5	2	3	0	.257
Carpier rf	5	1	2	0	.272	Olson 1b	5	1	3	3	.250
Hill rf	0	0	0	0	.249	Baldwin c	4	0	1	1	.276
Arraez 2b	5	0	0	0	.313	Dubón lf	4	0	3	0	.268
Bohm 1b	5	1	2	2	.248	Albies 2b	5	0	0	0	.245
Stott 3b	5	1	3	1	.251	Riley 3b	3	0	0	0	.222
Marsh lf	2	1	0	0	.264	Yastrzemski rf	4	0	0	0	.229
De La Cruz lf	3	1	1	0	.323	Kim ss	-2	0	0	0	.128
Realmuto c	5	2	3	3	.223	Totals	37	4	12	4
Crawford cf	3	1	1	0	.266
Totals	41	9	16	9

Philadelphia	020	000	070 -9	16	0
Atlanta	100	000	102 -4	12	0

Walks—Philadelphia 3: Schwarber 1, Turner 1, Crawford 1. Atlanta 4: Dubón 1, Riley 1, Kim 2. Strikeouts—Philadelphia 5: Turner 1, Harper 1, Stott 1, De La Cruz 1, Realmuto 1. Atlanta 9: Harris 2, Acuña 1, Baldwin 2, Dubón 1, Riley 1, Yastrzemski 2. LOB—Philadelphia 8, Atlanta 11. 2B—Realmuto (18), Harper 2 (31), Bohm (28), Stott (28). HR—Realmuto (11), off Holmes; Olson (39), off Banks. RBIs—Realmuto 3 (49), Bohm 2 (82), Stott (63), Schwarber 2 (94), Turner (57), Baldwin (75), Olson 3 (85). SB—Dubón (8). SF—Baldwin. RISP—Philadelphia 6 for 17; Atlanta 2 for 8. DP—Philadelphia 1 (Stott, Turner, Bohm): Atlanta 2 (Kim. Olson: Olson. Kim. Olson).
Walks—Angels 6: Neto 1, Trout 2, Meckler 2, Ballesteros 1. Washington 2: Wood 1, Chaparro 1. Strikeouts—Angels 13: Neto 2, Trout 1, Grissom 2, Guzman 3, Love 2, Siri 2, Moore 1. Washington 7: Wood 1, Ortiz 2, Crews 1, Chaparro 1, Lile 1, Tena E.—Abrams (20). LOB—Angels 5, Washington 9. 2B—Trout (25), Young (8), Abrams (29), Young (20). 3B—Lie (8). HR—Ballesteros (9), off Irvin; Neto (26), off Irvin. RBIs—Ballesteros 2 (34), Neto (73), Moore (10), Morales (3), House (44). Lile (82), Vivas (29), Young (47), Crews (40). SB—Neto (20), Young (18). SF—Ballesteros. Runners left in scoring position—Angels2 (Guzman, Ballesteros); Washington 3 (Young, Lile 2). RISP—Angels 0 for 6; Washington 4 for 10. Runners moved up—Frazier, Moore. GIDP—Guzman, Tena. DP—Angels 1 (Moore; Neto, Grissom);

WASHINGTON 6, ANGELS 5

Angels	000	110	021 - 5	4	0
Washington	000	002	04x - 6	13	1

Angels	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Washington	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Neto ss	4	2	1	1	.240	Wood rf	4	0	2	0	.268
Trout dh	2	0	1	0	.244	Pinckney rf	0	0	0	0	.273
Meckler lf	2	1	0	0	.293	Ortiz dh	3	0	0	0	.212
Grissom 1b	4	0	0	0	.239	b-Crews dh	2	0	1	1	.223
Ballesteros c	2	1	1	2	.219	Chaparro 3b	4	0	1	0	.251
Guzman 3b	4	0	0	0	.221	Abrams ss	4	1	2	0	.264
Lowe rf	4	1	1	0	.206	Morales 1b	4	2	2	1	.296
Siri cf	3	0	0	0	.223	Lile lf	4	1	2	1	.248
Frazier	1	0	0	0	.234	Ruiz c	3	0	1	0	.289
Moore 2b	4	0	0	1	.179	Tena 2b	2	0	0	0	.225
Totals	30	5	4	4		House	1	0	0	1	.239
						Nuñez 2b	0	0	0	0	.210
						Vivas 2b	1	1	1	1	.244
						Young cf	4	1	1	1	.249
						Totals	36	6	13	6

Washington 1 (Afranis, Renia, Morales).
Angels	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Rodriguez....5 $\frac{1}{2}$	7	2	2	1	4		93	6.10
Saucedo, BS, 0-3....	1	0	0	0	0		14	3.06
Murphy, L, 0-3....	1	4	4	4	1	1	31	6.19
Peralta.... $\frac{3}{8}$	1	0	0	0	2		16	7.11

Peralta....	7	1	0	0	0	2	16	7.11
Washington	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Cornelio....	2	1	0	0	1	4	34	4.88
Irvin....	5	2	3	3	4	6	76	5.51
Tolman, W, 1-1....	1	0	1	0	1	2	25	2.61
Sinclair, S, 1-1....	1	1	1	1	0	1	12	1.69

Inherited runners-scored—Saucedo 1-1, Peralta 1-1, Tolman 1-1. HBP—Saucedo (Ruiz). WP—Tolman. U—Todd Tichenor, Ryan Additon, Clint Vondrak, Steven Jaschinski. T—2:34. Tickets sold—20,761 (41,376).

N.Y. YANKEES 2, N.Y. METS 0

New York (N)	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	New York (A)	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Lindor ss	3	0	0	0	.232	Rice dh	2	1	1	1	.260
Soto dh	4	0	0	0	.272	Bellinger lf	4	0	0	0	.268
Bichette 3b	4	0	1	0	.263	Judge rf	3	0	0	0	.242
Benge rf	4	0	0	0	.271	Garcia 1b	3	0	0	0	.289
Young 1b	3	0	0	0	.269	Jones cf	3	0	1	0	.265
Ewing cf	3	0	0	0	.251	Volpe 2b	2	0	0	0	.245
Marrac z	3	0	0	0	.231	McMahon 3b	3	0	0	0	.212
1-Pache	0	0	0	0	.125	Wells c	3	1	1	1	.179
Torrens c	0	0	0	0	.245	Caballero ss	2	0	0	0	.232
Baty 2b	3	0	1	0	.229	Totals	25	2	3	2
Morabito lf	3	0	0	0	.172
Totals	30	0	3	0

New York (N)	000	000	000 - 0	3	0
New York (A)	101	000	00x - 2	3	0

Walks—New York (N) 2: Lindor 1, Young 1. New York (A) 4: Rice 2, Volpe 1, Caballero 1. Strikeouts—New York (N) 10: Lindor 2, Soto 2, Bichette 1, Benge 2, Young 1, Ewing 1, Alvarez 1. New York (A) 9: Rice 1, Judge 3, Volpe 1, Wells 2, Caballero 2. LOB—New York (N) 5, New York (A) 3. 2B—Baty (21). HR—Rice (38), off Scott; Wells (11), off Scott. RBIs—Rice (90), Wells (29). CS—Caballero (11). Runners left in scoring position—New York (N) 2 (Morabito, Young); New York (A) 0. RISP—New York (N) 0 for 2; New York (A) 0 for 0. GIDP—Bellinger. DP—New York (N) 1 (Young, Lindor, Young).
Inherited runners-scored—Hurter 1-0. HBP—Jobe (McCarthy). U—James Jean, Manny Gonzalez, Ron Kulpa, Ryan Blakney. T—2:41. Tickets sold—22,726 (41,083).
Walks—Colorado 1: Rumfield 1. Detroit 7: McGonigle 1, Lee 1, Keith 1, Clark 1, McKinstry 2, Peck 1. Strikeouts—Colorado 11: McCarthy 1, Amador 1, Carrigg 3, Moniak 3, Johnston 2, Veen 1. Detroit 7: Callahan 1, Lee 1, Greene 1, Dingler 1, Clark 1, Torkelson 1, McKinstry 1. LOB—Colorado 5, Detroit 7. 2B—Moniak (17), Keith (17). 3B—McGonigle (4). HR—Amador (4), off Jobe; Greene (20), off Hughes; Torkelson (23), off Frasso. RBIs—Amador (12), Greene 3 (71), Peck (6), McGonigle 2 (65), Lee (41), Torkelson (68). SB—Clark (5), Peck (4). SF—Lee. Runners left in scoring position—Colorado 2 (Sullivan, Johnston); Detroit 3 (McKinstry, Dingler, Greene). RISP—Colorado 0 for 2: Detroit 4 for 9.

CINCINNATI 4, MILWAUKEE 3
BASEBALL : SUNDAY FLASHBACK
DETROIT 8, COLORADO 1

Colorado	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Hughes, L, 0-8	2	5	5	5	2	2	70	6.37
Agnos	2	1	2	2	3	1	36	6.00
Frasso	1	1	1	1	0	2	17	6.60
Herget	2	1	0	0	1	1	30	6.00
Hill	1	0	0	0	1	1	24	5.80
Detroit	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Jobe, W, 2-2	$6\frac{1}{2}$	3	1	1	1	8	87	3.89
Hurter	1	1	0	0	0	1	13	2.86
Díaz	$1\frac{1}{2}$	1	0	0	0	2	21	16.50

Cincinnati	000	003	010-4	8	1
Milwaukee	020	000	100-3	6	0

Colorado	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Detroit	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
McCarthy cf	2	0	0		0 .295	McGonigle dh	3	1	1	2	.272
Beck lf	1	0	0		0 .197	Callahan dh	1	0	0	0	.229
Amador 2b	4	1	1		1 .326	Lee 2b	3	0	0	1	.259
Carrigg ss	4	0	0		0 .258	Keith 3b	4	1	1	0	.257
Rumfield 1b	3	0	1		0 .298	Greene lf	4	1	2	3	.283
Moniak dh	4	0	1		0 .244	Malgeri lf	0	0	0	0	.232
Johnston rf	4	0	0		0 .279	Dingler c	4	0	0	0	.244
Machin 3b	3	0	2		0 .500	Clark cf	3	1	1	0	.274
Sullivan c	3	0	0		0 .231	Torkelson 1b	4	1	2	1	.222
Veen lf-cf	3	0	0		0 .250	McKinstry rf	2	2	0	0	.209
Totals	31	1	5	1		Peck ss	3	1	1	1	.235
						Totals	31	8	8	8
Colorado						100	000	000	-1	5	0
Detroit						230	210	00x	-8	8	0

Cincinnati	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Milwaukee	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Myers cf	4	1	0	0	.266	Mitchell cf	1	0	0	0	.268
De La Cruz ss	5	2	2	0	.284	Frelick rf	1	0	0	0	.231
Stewart 1b	4	1	2	0	.272	Chourio lf	4	0	0	0	.292
Suárez 3b	4	1	1	3	.213	Turang 2b	3	0	2	0	.265
Hayes 3b	0	0	0	1	.248	Sánchez c	4	0	0	0	.206
Stephenson dh	2	0	1	1	.249	Baues 1b	4	1	1	1	.269
Bleidy lf-rf	3	0	1	0	.215	Hamilton	0	0	0	0	.241
Brito 2b	4	0	1	0	.230	Yelich dh	3	1	1	0	.241
Traveno cf	4	0	0	0	.216	Ottz 3b	3	1	1	0	.264
Rodriguez rf	4	0	0	0	.236	Lara rf-cf	3	0	0	0	.259
Friedl lf	0	0	0	0	.162	Pratt ss	3	0	1	0	.273
Totals	34	4	8	4		Totals	29	3	6	3

Walks—Cincinnati 3: Myers 1, Stephenson 1, Bleday 1. Milwaukee 3: Mitchell 1, Turang 1, Yelich 1. Strikeouts—Cincinnati 8: Myers 1, De La Cruz 2, Stewart 1, Bleday 2, Brito 1, Rodríguez 1. Milwaukee 8: Mitchell 1, Chourio 2, Sánchez 1, Bauys 1, Yelich 1, Ortiz 1, Lara 1. E—Burke (3). LOB—Cincinnati 7, Milwaukee 3. 2B—Stephenson (21), Brito (6). HR—Suárez (24), off Senzatela; Ortiz (9), off Burns; Bauys (26), off Williamson. RBIs—Suárez 3 (68), Stephenson (53), Ortiz (2 44), Bauys (83). CS—Mitchell (8), Frelick (3). SF—Stephenson. S—Frelick. Runners left in scoring position—Cincinnati 3 (De La Cruz, Trevino, Brito); Milwaukee O. RISP—Cincinnati 1 for 7; Milwaukee O for 1. P—Cincinnati 3.
BOSTON 4, KANSAS CITY 1
Inherited runners-scored—Thomas 2-1, Whitlock 2-1. HBP—Cameron (Durbin), Tolle (Caglianone), Pearson (Durbin). U—Roberto Ortiz, Alex MacKay, Alan Porter, Jim Wolf. T—2:41. Tickets sold—34,966 (37,755).

Kansas City	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Boston	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Loftin 3b	3	0	0	0	.231	Anthony lf	4	0	1	1	.241
Jensen c	2	0	1	1	.232	Jones dh	4	0	0	0	.210
Witt ss	4	0	1	0	.280	Abreu rf	4	0	1	0	.257
Caglianone dh	2	0	0	0	.281	Contreras 1b	3	1	2	0	.277
Pasquantino dh	1	0	0	0	.239	Rutschman c	4	1	1	0	.239
Perez 1b	4	0	0	0	.229	Story ss	4	0	2	2	.239
Massey 2b	4	0	1	0	.280	Durbin 3b	1	2	1	1	.250
M.Lugo rf	3	0	0	0	.143	Sogard 2b	3	0	0	0	.263
Rojas 3b	1	0	0	0	.237	Eaton cf	2	0	0	0	.132
Gallies lf	2	0	1	0	.221	Gasper	0	0	0	0	.265
Maile c	2	0	1	0	.162	Monasterio	1	0	0	0	.240
Rave cf-lf	0	1	0	0	.222	Duran cf	1	0	0	0	.205
Tolbert cf	4	0	1	1	.298	Totals	31	4	8	4
Totals	32	1	5	1

Kansas City	000	000	100 - 1	5	2
Boston	010	000	12x - 4	8	0

New York (N)	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Scott, L, 4-5	6	3	2	2	2	7	82	3.76
Lavender	1	0	0	0	1	1	11	1.76
A.Warren	1	0	0	0	1	1	16	4.47

San Diego	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	San Francisco	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Tatis 2b-rf	4	2	3	2	.289	Gilbert lf	2	0	0	0	.234
D.Harris rf	4	1	1	0	.280	Basabe 2b	2	0	0	0	.198
Song 2b	0	0	0	0	.189	Lee rf	5	0	0	0	.276
Machado 3b	3	1	1	2	.221	Eldridge 1b	5	0	2	1	.269
Campusano dh	4	0	0	0	.275	Cox cf	5	0	1	0	.280
Merrill cf	4	0	1	2	.248	Bandura dh	3	1	1	0	.333
Bogaerts ss	4	0	0	0	.222	Whitcomb 2b	4	1	2	0	.179
Cronenworth 1b	4	0	1	0	.209	Knizner c	2	1	1	2	.174
Taylor lf	3	1	1	0	.311	Cavanaugh c	1	0	0	0	.242
Bowen lf	1	0	0	0	.156	B.Harris 3b	2	0	0	0	.000
Salas c	2	1	1	0	.063	Hill lf	1	0	0	0	.236
Fermin c	2	0	0	0	.195	Koss ss	4	1	2	1	.235
Totals	35	6	9	6		Totals	36	4	9	4
San Diego						230	100	000	-6	9	2

Boston	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Tolle	6	4	0	0	1	7	96	3.02
Miller, H, 14	$\frac{1}{2}$	0	1	1	2	0	16	2.28
Whitlock, W, 7-1	$\frac{3}{2}$	1	0	0	0	1	9	1.81
Weissert, H, 7	1	0	0	0	0	1	11	3.54
Chapman, S, 34-36	1	0	0	0	2	3	25	1.95

Walks—Kansas City 5: Witt 1, Collins 2, Maile 1, I-Rave 1. Boston 3: Contreras 1, Durbin 1, Sogard 1. Strikeouts—Kansas City 12: Loftin 1, Jensen 1, Witt 3, Caglianone 2, Perez 1, Massey 2, M.Lugo 1, Tolbert 1. Boston 8: Jones 3, Abreu 1, Story 1, Sogard 1, Eaton 1, Monasterio 1. E—Maile (1), Loftin (9). LOB—Kansas City 10, Boston 8. 2B—Rutschman (22). HR—Durbin (13), off Cameron. RBIs—Jensen (72), Durbin (64), Anthony (10), Story 2 (25). SB—Durbin (18). Runners left in scoring position—Kansas City 4 (Loftin, Pasquantino, Witt, M.Lugo); Boston 3 (Jones, Duran, Rutschman). RISP—Kansas City 1 for 11: Boston 3 for 10. DP—Kansas City 2

San Diego	230	100	000 –6	9	2
San Francisco	020	011	000 –4	9	0

Kansas City	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Cameron....6	4	1	1	1	4		85	3.84
Kimbrel, L, 1-5.... $\frac{1}{2}$	0	1	1	2	0		16	4.60
Thomas.... $\frac{1}{2}$	1	0	0	0	2		11	9.35
Pearson....1	3	2	2	0	2		22	2.36
Boston....IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO		NP	ERA

New York (A)	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Schlittler, W, 14-6	6	1	0	0	2	8	94	1.95
Headrick, H, 29	1	0	0	0	0	1	16	1.94
Blackburn, H, 11	1	1	0	0	0	0	13	1.67
Bednar, S, 34-37	1	1	0	0	0	1	18	2.66

Walks—San Diego 1: Machado 1. San Francisco 4: Gilbert 1, Bandura 1, Cavanaugh 1, Hill 1. Strikeouts—San Diego 10: Tatis 1. D.Harris 1, Machado 1, Merrill 1, Bogaerts 2, Cronenworth 2, Bowen 1, Salas 1. San Francisco 9: Eldridge 1, Cox 3, Bandura 2, Cavanaugh 1, Hill 1, Koss 1. E—Bogaerts (11), Merrill (3). LOB—San Diego 3, San Francisco 9. 2B—Merrill (25). 3B—Salas (1). HR—Machado (27), off Webb; Knizner (2), off Pivetta. RBIs—Merrill (2), Tatis 2 (75), Machado 2 (82), Knizner (2) 3, Eldridge (54), Koss (10). SB—D.Harris (7), Taylor (9), Tatis (35), Koss 2 (5), Gilbert (2). Runners left in scoring position—San Diego 3 (Machado, Cronenworth 2); San Francisco 6 (Cox 2, B.Harris 2, Koss, Basabe). RISP—San Diego 4 for 10; San Francisco 2

PITTSBURGH 4, CHICAGO CUBS 3
SAN DIEGO 6, SAN FRANCISCO 4

Cincinnati	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Burns	3	2	2	2	3	5	56	2.80
Williamson, W, 4-4	4	2	1	1	0	2	47	5.62
Burke, H, 19	1	1	0	0	0	0	10	2.43
Pagán, S, 23-26	1	1	0	0	0	1	17	3.72
Totals	1	1	0	0	0	0	17	3.72

Pittsburgh	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Chicago	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Griffin ss	5	1	1	0	.261	Crow-Armstrong cf	4	0	0	0	.277
Cruz cf	2	0	1	0	.274	Suzuki rf	3	0	0	0	.269
Reynolds lf	4	1	2	1	.266	Busch 1b	4	1	2	0	.239
Cook rf	0	0	0	0	.176	Bregman 3b	3	0	1	0	.264
Floes 1b	4	1	1	0	.250	Happ lf	2	0	0	0	.218
Gonzales 2b-3b	4	1	1	1	.304	Hoerner ss	4	0	0	1	.265
Gonzalez 3b	0	0	0	0	.225	Conforto dh	2	0	0	0	.237
O'Hearn dh	4	0	0	0	.266	b-Shaw	1	0	0	0	.235
Mangum rf-lf	3	0	2	0	.284	Ramirez 2b	3	1	0	0	.262
Triolo 3b	2	0	0	0	.243	Amaya c	3	1	2	2	.240
Lowe 2b	2	0	1	2	.258	C.Kelly	1	0	0	0	.260
Davis c	4	0	0	0	.164	Totals	30	3	5	3
Totals	34	4	9	4

Philadelphia	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Painter......5	6	1	1	4	3		87	5.54
McFarlane, H, 4......1	0	0	0	0	2		14	2.45
Alvarado, W, 4-3......1	3	1	1	0	1		21	5.30
Banks......2	3	2	2	0	3		35	7.26

Conforto. DP—Pittsburgh 2 (Gonzales, Griffin, Flores; Triolo, Gonzales, Flores).
Pittsburgh	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Chandler, W, 8-9	$5\frac{1}{2}$	5	3	3	4	3	90	4.28
Mlodzinski, H, 6	$1\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	2	1	28	3.81
Weaver, H, 21	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	2.56
Montgomery, S, 13-15	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	2.73
Chicago	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Boyd, L, 8-5	$5\frac{1}{2}$	7	4	4	2	3	88	4.16
Civale	2	1	0	0	2	2	45	4.20
Thielbar	$\frac{1}{2}$	1	0	0	0	1	14	4.82
Palencia	1	0	0	0	1	1	18	4.32

Walks—Pittsburgh 5: Cruz 3, Reynolds 1, Mangum 1. Chicago 6: Suzuki 1, Bregman 1, Happ 2, Conforto 1, Ramirez 1. Strikeouts—Pittsburgh 7: Reynolds 1, Flores 2, Gonzales 1, O'Heam 1, Triolo 1, Lowe 1. Chicago 4: Crow-Armstrong 1, Suzuki 1, Busch 2. LOB—Pittsburgh 8, Chicago 6. 2B—Gonzales (26), Mangum (19), Bregman (31). HR—Amaya (6), off Chandler. RBIs—Reynolds (71), Gonzales (60), Lowe 2 (85), Amaya 2 (25), Hoerner (68). CS—Mangum (9). Runners left in scoring position—Pittsburgh 2 (Loves, Lowe); Chicago 2 (Ramirez 2). RISP—Pittsburgh 3 for 6; Chicago 0 for 4. GIDP—Bregman,

Pittsburgh	100	003	000 - 4	9	0
Chicago	000	021	000 - 3	5	0

Inherited runners-scored—Mlodzinski 3-1, Civale 2-2. IBB—off Mlodzinski (Conforto). U—Ryan Wills, Will Little, Derek Thomas, Lance Barksdale. T—2:50. Tickets sold—39,103 (41,363).

Houston	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Wesneski, L, 5-2	3	6	7	3	2	2	62	3.70
De Los Santos	$\frac{1}{2}$	4	2	2	0	0	24	4.50
Blanco	$4\frac{1}{2}$	5	5	5	0	3	62	7.11
Tampa Bay	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Peralta, W, 9-11	5	0	0	0	3	4	86	4.67
Hopkins	1	1	2	2	1	1	22	18.00
Sulser	1	0	0	0	0	1	13	4.65
Legumina	1	2	2	2	2	1	27	3.93
Matz	1	1	0	0	0	0	10	5.64

Atlanta	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Holmes....	4	5	2	2	2	0	71	3.49
Kerr....	3	1	0	0	0	4	34	1.26
Lee, L, 6-1....	$\frac{2}{3}$	4	4	4	0	0	14	3.09
Mederos....	0	4	3	3	1	0	17	3.86
Falter....	$1\frac{1}{3}$	2	0	0	0	1	20	10.38

Inherited runners-scored—Kerr 2-0, Mederos 1-1, Falter 2-0. WP—Alvarado. U—Charlie Ramos, David Rackley, Nestor Ceja, Adam Hamari. T—2:54. Tickets sold—39,830 (41,149).
Walks—Houston 6: Allen 1, Alvarez 2, Paredes 1, Diaz 1, Walker 1, Trammell 1. Tampa Bay 2: Aranda 1, Fortes 1. Strikeouts—Houston 7: Peña 1, Alvarez 1, Diaz 2, Smith 1, Trammell 2. Tampa Bay 5: Aranda 2, Vilade 1, Mesa 1, DeLuca 1. E—Peña (11). LOB—Houston 6, Tampa Bay 4. 2B—Barosa (12), Caminero (22), Mesa (6). 3B—Mesa (3). HR—Paredes (21), off Hopkins; Allen (3), off Legumina; Velázquez (6), off Legumina; Palacios (10), off Wesneski; Aranda (20), off De Los Santos; Fortes (5), off Blanco; Aranda (21), off Blanco. RBIs—Paredes 2 (85), Allen (14), Velázquez (18), Mesa 2 (30), Simpson 2 (33), Palacios 3 (50), Aranda 3 (89), Fortes 2 (33), Diaz (81). RISP—Houston 0 for 6: Tampa Bay 4 for 9.

TAMPA BAY 14, HOUSTON 4

Baltimore	000	010	000 - 1	9	0
Toronto	010	030	04x - 8	10	0

Baltimore	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Toronto	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Beavers lf	4	1	2	0	.246	Bateman rf-cf	3	1	0	1	.328
Alonso 1b	5	0	3	1	.269	Springer dh	5	1	2	4	.252
Henderson ss	2	0	1	0	.223	1-Keys dh	0	0	0	0	.200
Mayo dh	4	0	1	0	.224	Guerrero 1b	5	1	4	1	.265
Basallo c	3	0	0	0	.225	Okamoto 3b	3	1	1	1	.236
Jackson	1	0	0	0	.228	McKdoo lf	3	1	1	0	.250
Pozo c	1	0	0	0	.260	Lukes rf	0	1	0	0	.273
Encn-Strand 3b	4	0	1	0	.263	Clement 2b	4	0	0	0	.271
Holliday 2b	4	0	0	0	.225	Giménez ss	4	0	1	1	.245
Taveras rf-cf	4	0	1	0	.219	Valenzuela c	4	1	1	0	.216
Cowser cf	2	0	0	0	.215	Straw cf-lf	3	1	0	0	.233
Hinds cf	0	0	0	0	.159	Totals	34	8	10	8
Kjerstad rf	1	0	0	0	.167
Totals	35	1	9	1

Guilseyo:Baltimore	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Tr.Rogers, L 10-10......	6	7	4	4	1	5	95	4.22
Hiraldo......	$1\frac{1}{3}$	2	4	4	4	0	49	8.68
Sanders......	$\frac{1}{3}$	1	0	0	0	1	8	4.94
Tampa......	IP	"	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA

Houston	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Tampa Bay	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Pella ss	2	0	0	0	0.268	Díaz dh	5	2	2	1	.301
Allen ss	2	2	1	1	.279	Aranda 1b	4	2	2	3	.278
Alvarez dh	1	0	0	0	.310	Caminero 3b	4	1	1	0	.279
Velázquez dh	2	1	1	1	.198	Vilade 3b	1	0	0	0	.260
Paredes 3b	3	1	1	2	.260	Mesa rf	5	3	3	2	.261
Altuve 2b	4	0	0	0	.245	Simpson lf	5	1	1	2	.305
Díaz c	3	0	0	0	.276	DeLuca cf	5	1	1	0	.263
Varsho cf	2	0	0	0	.225	Palacios 2b	4	2	2	3	.235
Wade 1b	2	0	0	0	.205	Madrigal ss	4	1	2	0	.275
Walker 1b	1	0	0	0	.225	Fortes c	3	1	1	2	.264
Barrosa cf	2	0	1	0	.203	Totals	40	14	15	13
Smith rf	4	0	0	0	.216
Trammell lf	3	0	0	0	.204
Totals	31	4	4	4

Inherited runners-scored—Blanco 2-0. WP—Blanco. U—Bruce Dreckman, Carlos Torres, Jacob Metz, Mark Wegner. T—2:39. Tickets sold—18,718 (25,025).

Toronto	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Cease, W, 11-5	5	4	1	1	5	9	94	2.38
Tiedemann, H, 1	$\frac{3}{8}$	1	0	0	1	1	19	1.50
Fisher, H, 13	$\frac{1}{8}$	0	0	0	0	1	7	3.22
Fluharty, H, 16	1	1	0	0	0	2	14	3.36
Ty.Rogers, H, 32	1	1	0	0	0	1	14	1.73
Lorenzen	1	2	0	0	0	1	15	6.97

ST. LOUIS 3, CHICAGO WHITE SOX 1

Houston	000	002	020 – 4	4	1
Tampa Bay	304	220	30x – 14	15	0

Walks—Baltimore 6: Beavers 1, Henderson 3, Mayo 1, Hinds 1. Toronto 5: Bateman 2, Okamoto 1, Lukes 1, Straw 1. Strikeouts—Baltimore 15: Beavers 2, Alonso 1, Henderson 1, Mayo 3, Basallo 1, Jackson 1, Encarnacion-Strand 1, Holliday 1, Taveras 2, Cowser 2. Toronto 6: Bateman 1, Springer 1, Guerrero 1, McDooo 1, Valenzuela 2. LOB—Baltimore 13, Toronto 7. 2B—Beavers (20), Giménez (23), Guerrero (24), Springer (22). HR—Springer (15), off Tr.Rogers; Guerrero (9), off Tr.Rogers; Okamoto (32), off Tr.Rogers. RBIs—Alonso (100), Giménez (57), Springer 4 (52), Guerrero (56), Okamoto (85), Bateman (11). SB—McDooo (2), Valenzuela (2). RISP—Baltimore 1 for 12; Toronto 2 for 8. Runners moved up—Kjrestad. CIDP—Pozo. DP—Toronto 1 (Giménez, Clement,
Inherited runners-scored—Sanders 3-3, Fisher 2-0. U— Scott Barry, Austin Jones, Hunter Wendelstedt, Edwin Moscoso. T—2:50. Tickets sold—41,805 (39,150).

TORONTO 8, BALTIMORE 1

Chicago	010	000	000 - 1	4	1
St. Louis	000	003	00x - 3	4	0

U- Willie Traynor, Jansen Visconti, Nick Mahrley, Lance Barrett. T-2:25. Tickets sold-45,508 (47,309).
Walks—Chicago 5: Teel 2, Murakami 1, Meidroth 1, C.Montgomery 1. Strikeouts—Chicago 9: Teel 1, Vargas 1, Murakami 2, Benintendi 1, Meidroth 2, C.Montgomery 1, Doyle 1. St. Louis 9: Torres 2, Herrera 1, Walker 2, Bernal 2, Urias 1, Saggese 1. E—C.Montgomery (10). LOB—Chicago 7, St. Louis 2. 2B—Peters (31), Burleson (36), Church (14). 3B—Antonacci (4). RBIs—Meidroth (54), Burleson 3 (109). SF—Meidroth. Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 4 (Benintendi, C.Montgomery 3); St. Louis 3 (Herrera 2, Walker). RISP—Chicago 0 for 7; St. Louis 1 for 7. Runners moved up—Winn.
Walks—Seattle 6: Crawford 1, Naylor 1, Arroyo 3, Pereda 1. Athletics 6: Bolte 1, Gelof 2, Cortes 1, Serven 1, Williams 1. Strikeouts—Seattle 6: Canzone 1, Raleigh 2, Rodríguez 1, Montes 1, Rodden 1. Athletics 7: Bolte 2, Butler 1, Muncy 2, Walton 1, Serven 1. E—Canzone (2). LOB—Seattle 9, Athletics 8. 2B—Pereda (1), Canzone (25), Walton (14), Williams 2 (17). HR—Arozarena (24), off Lopez; Arozarena (25), off Harris; Gelof (18), off Miller; Butler (15), off Miller; Butler (16), off Muñoz. RBIs—Arozarena 4 (75), Pereda 2 (8), Crawford (36), Gelof 2 (46), Butler 4 (58), Langeliers 2 (54). SF—Pereda. PRISP—Seattle 4 for 11; Athletics 2 for 9. DP—Athletics

Milwaukee	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Gasser......5	3	1	1	2	5	89	4.30
Senzatela, BS, 3-11.... $\frac{1}{2}$	2	2	2	0	0	8	4.30
Romero...... $1\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	1	15	3.60
Uribe, L, 5-3......1	2	1	1	0	1	17	2.15
Hall......1	1	0	0	1	1	18	2.04

Inherited runners-scored—Senzatela 1-1. U— Doug Eddings, Mike Muchlinski, Emil Jimenez, Gabe Morales. T—2:33. Tickets sold—40,559 (41,700).
Inherited runners-scored—Speier 2-2, Dominguez 2-2, Muñoz 1-0, Blewett 2-1, Medina 3-1. HBP—Miller (Butler), Vargas (Bolte). WP—Miller. U—Andy Fletcher, Louie Krupa, Alex Tosi, Cory Blaser. T—3:24. Tickets sold—9,171 (14,014).

San Diego	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Pivetta	4	5	2	2	0	5	69	3.60
Hart	1	2	2	2	1	0	20	4.19
Morgan, H, 3	$\frac{1}{3}$	1	0	0	1	1	15	4.44
Peralta, W, 3-2	$1\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	1	15	3.28
Vásquez, H, 2	1	0	0	0	2	1	23	3.95
Matsui, S, 1-1	1	1	0	0	0	1	21	1.98
San Francisco	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Webb, L, 8-9	5	8	6	6	1	7	92	4.31
Wilkinson	3	1	0	0	0	2	37	4.58
T.Harris	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	2.65

ATHLETICS 8, SEATTLE 7

Manuz, L, 3-6, BS, 27-37... $\frac{1}{3}$		2	2	2	0	1	14	4.25
Athletics	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Lopez.... $\frac{3}{2}$	6	5	5	3	3	102	5.02
Blewett.... $\frac{3}{2}$	2	1	1	2	0	20	2.70
Medina.... $\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	1	1	15	3.31
Hartlieb....2	1	0	0	0	2	25	4.15
Harris....1	2	1	1	0	0	20	3.43
Alvarado, W, 5-3....1	1	0	0	0	0	14	3.96

Seattle	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Miller....5	2	2	2	5	5		91	4.19
Vargas....1	2	2	2	0	1		14	4.26
Speier, H, 21.... $\frac{1}{2}$	1	2	2	1	0		19	3.02
Domínguez, BS, 12-18....1	2	0	0	0	0		18	3.97
Muñoz L, 5-6, BS, 27-37.... $\frac{3}{4}$	2	2	2	0	1		14	4.25

Inherited runners-scored—Morgan 1-1, Peralta 2-0, T.Harris 1-0. U—Junior Valentine, Rob Drake, Stu Scheuwater, Jordan Baker. T—3:03. Tickets sold—35,115 (41,915).

TEXAS 7, ARIZONA 6

Texas	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Arizona	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Foscue 2b	3	2	1	0.269		Nootbaar lf	3	0	2	0.240
Carter cf	2	0	0	0.195		Troy lf	2	0	0	0.217
Seager ss	5	2	3	3.231		Marte 2b	4	0	1	0.250
Jung 3b	4	1	2	1.298		Moreno dh	5	1	1	1.301
Lopez 2b	1	0	0	0.271		Perdomo ss	4	1	3	0.252
Burger 1b	4	0	0	0.233		Carroll rf	4	1	1	0.238
Nimmo rf	4	0	2	1.263		Arenado 3b	4	2	2	3.240
Langford lf	4	0	0	1.241		Tawa 1b	4	1	1	1.248
Duran cf-3b	4	0	2	1.268		McCann c	4	0	0	0.282
Díaz c	3	0	0	0.236		Lawlar cf	2	0	1	1.258
Jansen dh	4	1	1	1.188		Totals	36	6	12	6
Totals	37	7	10	6

Inherited runners-scored—Alexander 1-1, Clarke 1-1. IBB—off Latz (Marte). HBP—Quantrill (Lawlar). U—Bill Miller, Chad Whitson, Brian Walsh, Chad Fairchild. T—2:37. Tickets sold—28,843 (48,359).

Texas	200	032	000 – 7	10	0
Arizona	000	100	302 – 6	12	2

Texas	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Quantrill, W, 9-5	6	5	2	2	0	4	70	2.90
Alexander	1	2	2	2	1	0	24	3.43
R.Garcia, H, 3	1	2	0	0	0	1	11	2.25
Latz, S, 29-32	1	3	2	2	1	1	21	2.06
Arizona	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Rodriguez, L, 15-6	$5\frac{1}{2}$	8	6	3	1	7	99	2.62
Clarke	$1\frac{1}{2}$	2	1	1	0	2	16	2.49
Santana	1	0	0	0	0	0	9	5.05
B.Garcia	1	0	0	0	0	1	7	2.03

Walks—Texas 1: Duran 1. Arizona 2: Marte 1, Lawlar 1. Strikeouts—Texas 10: Foscue 1, Carter 1, Burger 1, Nimmo 1, Langford 2, Duran 1, Díaz 2, Jansen 1. Arizona 6: Troy 1, Marte 1, Moreno 1, Perdomo 1, Carroll 2. E—Arenado (6), Nootbaar (2). LOB—Texas 5, Arizona 6. 2B—Jansen (8), Arenado (23), Tawa (12), Lawlar (4). HR—Seager (18), off Rodríguez; Moreno (13), off Quantrill; Arenado (25), off Alexander. RBIs—Seager 3 (43), Jung (37), Nimmo (60), Jansen (21), Moreno (73), Arenado 3 (73), Tawa (38), Lawlar (11). S—Díaz. Runners left in scoring position—Texas 2, Jung; Arizona 2 (Moreno, Carroll). RISP, Texas 5 for 10; Arizona 3 for 7. DP, Texas 3

Chicago	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Sandlin, L, 2-2	$5\frac{1}{2}$	2	3	0	0	5	70	5.64
Murphy, BS, 1-2	$1\frac{1}{2}$	2	0	0	0	4	33	3.94
Richards	1	0	0	0	0	0	14	3.56
St. Louis	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
McGreewy, W, 7-9	6	3	1	1	3	6	90	3.82
Graceffo, H, 7	2	0	0	0	0	3	26	2.61
Soriano, S, 4-12	1	1	0	0	2	0	29	4.36

Inherited runners-scored—Murphy 3-3, Richards 1-0. U—Mike Estabrook, Malachi Moore, D.J. Reyburn, James Hoye. T—2:26. Tickets sold—34,609 (44,494).

CLEVELAND 9, MINNESOTA 2

Cleveland	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.	Minnesota	AB	R	H	BI	Avg.
Kwian cf-lf	4	2	3	2.278		Keaschall rf	4	1	2	0.273
DeLauter rf	4	0	1	0.291		Lee 3b	4	0	0	0.247
Halipin cf	0	1	0	0.215		Clemens 2b	3	0	1	1.243
Bazzana 2b	4	2	2	3.249		Jeffers c	4	0	0	0.266
Adell dh	5	2	2	2.239		Lamach dh	3	1	2	0.269
Lowe 1b	4	0	2	1.253		Lewis 1b	2	0	0	0.230
Martinez lf-r	5	0	2	1.250		Caratini 1b	2	0	0	0.219
Genao 3b	4	0	0	0.236		Rodriguez lf	4	0	1	0.250
Bailey c	5	0	1	0.208		Jenkins cf	4	0	0	0.098
Rocchio ss	4	2	1	0.246		Krediller ss	3	0	0	0.217
Totals	39	9	14	9		Totals	33	2	6	2
Cleveland						101 202 003—9 14					1
Minnesota						001 000 100—2 6					1

Walks—Cleveland 4: Kwon, 1D-Leauter, Bazzana, 1Cena, 1Minnesota 2: Clemens, 1Larnach 1. Strikeouts—Cleveland 4: Martinez 1, Bailey 2, Rocchio, 1Minnesota 12: Lee, 2Clemens, 1Jeffes 2, Rodriguez 2, Jenkins 3, Kreidler 1 E—Bibbe (3), Lee (10). LOB—Cleveland 9, Minnesota 6. 2B—Kwan (21), Martinez 2 (21), Adell (25), Clemens (22), Lamach (23). HR—Kwan (3), off Ryan; Adell (21) off Ryan; Bazzana (12), off Adams; Lamach (13), off Bibbe. RBIs—Kwon (30), Adell 2 (88), Bazzana 3 (54), Lowe (59), Martinez (53), Clemens (76), Lamach (48). SB—Rocchio (99), Bazzana (19). SF—Lowe. Runners left in scoring position—Cleveland 6 (Bazzana 2, Martinez 2, Adell, Rocchio); Minnow 4 (Jeffes 2, Jenkins 2). RISP—Cleveland 5 for 14: Minnesota 0 for 6. LIDP—Bailey. GIDP—DeLauter. DP—Minnesota 2 (lee: Clemens, Kreidler, Caratini).

Cleveland	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Bibee, W, 6-15....	$6\frac{1}{2}$	4	2	2	2	7	96	4.16
Gaddis....	$\frac{1}{2}$	1	0	0	0	1	8	2.68
Sabrowski....	$\frac{1}{2}$	0	0	0	0	1	5	2.89
Festa....	1	1	0	0	0	2	21	3.68
Minnesota	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Ryan, L, 6-10....	4	7	4	4	1	1	84	3.84
Adams....	3	4	2	2	1	0	36	5.26
Rogers....	1	1	2	2	1	1	22	4.86
Nance....	1	2	1	1	1	2	21	4.09

Inherited runners-scored—Gaddis 1-0, Sabrowski 1-0, Nance 2-2. HBP—Ryan (Rocchio). WP—Ryan. U— Sean Barber, John Libka, D.J. Reyburn, James Hoye. T—2:42. Tickets sold—17,676 (38,544).

STEVE BALLMER needs to hire an executive who will attract elite players with leadership skills and desire.
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Clippers see some light but the franchise needs better vision

[Swanson, from B10] dollars in off-the-books, no-show endorsements.

With the trade finally completed after the Raptors paused it on July 9 as they awaited the results of the NBA's investigation, and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer announcing Sunday he will accept the league's historically steep punishment without further protest, Clippers fans can finally exhale.

Forget the fines and suspensions, most hurtful to fans is the league stripping the Clippers of five first-round draft picks, from 2029 through 2033.

A death sentence? Darn near would be, if not for the Raptors, those suckers — er, that one team whose fans still associate positive feelings with Leonard.

Remember, Leonard won an NBA title with Toronto in 2019. That was the season before he seemingly started milking the Clippers, who also traded five first-round picks and future league MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Paul George — to meet the demands of a guy who wouldn't lead the Clippers to even one NBA Finals appearance.

At present, the Clippers will have Ingram, Darius Garland, Rui Hachimura and No. 5 pick Keaton Wagler on a Tyronn Lue-coached team. They'll be a competitive regular-season team, as usual.

And the Clippers could have cap room going into the 2027 or 2028 offseasons

— not that big stars avail themselves in free agency anymore.

These days, the goal is to get traded, retain Bird rights and maximize earnings. If not for Toronto's first-round picks, the Clippers would have little draft capital to use in trades for impact players.

Now they have some, even if it's only enough to pursue trades for the disgruntled, the redundant, the overpaid.

The Clippers could offer to take those sorts of players off teams' hands — if they include future draft assets as sweeteners. Even if it takes the Clippers holding their nose and restocking, there are ways forward, and having the Raptors' two first-rounders in their pocket will help.

It's all so Clippers, to have lined up this move that will keep them afloat, just treading water.

Fifteen consecutive seasons of .500 or better ball, y'all! Someone, raise a banner.

The Clippers still don't have an actual championship banner to decorate the Intuit Dome — and pursuing a title will be harder now, of course.

But it will be impossible if the Clippers don't reset in a meaningful way, if they don't replace Lawrence Frank, their president of basketball operations, who was among the Clippers' executives punished by the NBA, with someone with better taste in stars.

Frank is a master of the margins, but the Clippers need a lead executive who can spot it — greatness, not just on the court, but in the locker room, in the community.

Someone who will steer Ballmer toward not only elite basketball talent, but players who offer the whole package: leadership, competitiveness, desire, rootability.

The New York Knicks recognized all that in Jalen Brunson. They didn't care that Becky Hammon and many more of us were skeptical about the prospects of a team that decided to build around a 6-foot-2 guard. And now, look. Brunson just led the Knicks to a championship.

But who could have predicted that?

Well, ideally, the professionals being paid to make personnel decisions.

Leonard hadn't been the leader of either of his San Antonio Spurs or Raptors championship teams. He'd had an angsty breakup with the Spurs. He had a flashing-red injury history. He certainly did not have the personality to siphon any fans from a LeBron James-led Lakers team. And he came apparently asking for way too much!

The Clippers went all in anyway, and they've had nothing but grief to show for it.

Grief and, now, Toronto's two first-round picks. The question is, who will use them, and how?

PRO CALENDAR

The Clippers were so desperate for a star to pick them, they didn't pick up on the fact that they already had a budding superstar in their midst. Gilgeous- Alexander played his rookie season with the Clippers and checked all the boxes Leonard wouldn't. After they traded him to OKC, he worked and blossomed, becoming one of the NBA's coolest competitors, a two-time league MVP, the undisputed leader of a championship team.

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Trojan backups come up short in win against Louisiana

USC tight end Mark Bowman, top, jumps over Louisiana's Avery Demery, left, and Kody Jackson on Saturday.
MARK J. TERRILL Associated Press

[USC, from B10] The Ragin' Cajuns marched down the field with ease on two straight touchdown drives, hitting four plays of 25 yards or more to do so.

The game was already well in hand at that point, and some of that is just complacency on USC's part. But nothing we've seen this season has given any reason to believe that the Trojans can trust the depth on their defense. And that could be a problem this season.

Nowhere is the issue more pressing than in the secondary, where USC's depth at safety is looking dire of late. Even Lincoln Riley admitted Saturday night that he wasn't happy with where things stand.

"The secondary is the one where, you know, we need to continue to bring a couple other guys along," Riley said. "Because we're going to need them."

USC probably won't be playing its backups in the second half from here on out. But to Riley's point, they will need some of those players to step up, if they hope to contend for the Big Ten.

At cornerback, the Trojans can't afford to lose Jontez Williams, who has been far and away USC's best at the position, and at safety, it really can't lose Prophet Brown, either.

It's not as if USC doesn't have talent in its defensive backfield. They have multiple highly touted talents currently on second or third string — guys such as cornerbacks RJ Sermons or Marcelles Williams, who were once seen as future stars. Those players just have never played up to their potential. At safety, it's even less certain.

The depth has been much improved elsewhere on the defense. Namely on the defensive line, where the Trojans now go six deep on the interior, with at least four edge rushers whom they trust.

That's a major improvement, but it's going to take a bit longer to get that deep at every level of the defense.

Big Ten stock report Stock up

UCLA. Sorry, Trojans fans, but the Bruins look like the real deal under new coach Bob Chesney. The rushing attack especially is rolling, with 10 touchdowns and almost 500 yards through two games.

Indiana. The Hoosiers have really only done what we've expected them to do, outscoring their opponents 107-16 through two weeks. But the fact that they've looked just as dominant in that stretch, while Oregon and Ohio State have both

been hobbled, opens the door for Indiana to secure its place atop the conference.

Stock down

Oregon. Everyone was stunned to see the Ducks drop one at Oklahoma State, but this team is simply not right at the moment. It really looks like Oregon is missing its coordinators.

Minnesota. I thought P.J. Fleck, with a potential NFL quarterback (Drake

Lindsey) and running back (Darius Taylor) at his disposal, might have Minnesota surprising people this season. A three-touchdown loss to Mississippi State suggested the opposite.

Extra points

■ Defensive tackle Jahkeem Stewart should be a “full participant” next week ahead of Big Ten play. Stewart tried to give it a go on Saturday, but the situation with his foot injury “had to be perfect" for him to play, Riley said. The matchup with Rutgers should give him a chance to shake off any rust ahead of a critical showdown with Oregon. But my question going forward is how much USC will be managing these circumstances all season. The Trojans have looked good on the defensive line even without Stewart, but adding another five-star talent to the front could really elevate the defense to a different level. We'll have to wait and see how much he plays

■ The run game looked better. But is it good enough? USC piled up 225 rushing yards, its most in a game, by far, this season. Almost 40% of those yards came in the fourth quarter, when the game was already in hand. But even before that point, USC did look a lot more explosive. The backs busted five first-half carries for 10 yards or more. "We were a little more connected," Riley said, "which was a big goal." Getting King Miller rolling ahead of Big Ten play, after two quiet weeks, was also important. So far this season, he has 19 more carries than Waymond Jordan and has been the clear top back.

■ USC finally got freshman tight end Mark Bowman in the open field. And the early results were quite encouraging! USC made a point to get Bowman involved early and often, with four of his seven targets coming further than 10 yards down the field. He had six catches for 86 yards total, all of which came in the first half. I'd expect more and more to be added to his plate in the coming weeks.

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QUARTERBACK Justin Herbert, running onto the field at SoFi Stadium, and the Chargers fell to the Cardinals 26-14 in the season opener on Sunday.

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Chargers choked in L.A. spotlight

Rams unsure on timelines for Garrett and Donald

BY GARY KLEIN

Sean McVay and the Rams thought the situation was under control, or at least manageable.

Star edge rusher Myles Garrett first experienced knee discomfort and swelling during training camp, a condition that caused him to sit out the majority of team workouts throughout the weeks leading up to the season opener.

But Garrett failed to record a tackle, and was clearly not himself, in an embarrassing defeat by the San Francisco 49ers on Friday in Australia.

On Monday, Garrett was scheduled to have surgery, and he will sit out at least the next four games on injured reserve.

"Our job is to put our players and our team in positions to have successful outcomes," McVay said Monday during a videoconference with reporters. "Thought we [See Rams, B7]

MYLES GARRETT, right, played in just 40 of 65 snaps last week, and coach Sean McVay said the star's status is contingent on his surgery.
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With Rams at a loss, they missed chance to assert dominance

t's just one game. And it's a long season.

Maybe a loooong season, if you're a Chargers fan.

Sunday's season-opening debacle — a sloppy, uninspired and uninspiring 26-14 loss to the Arizona Cardinals at SoFi Stadium — was a first, giant step back for these Chargers.

You can't call Game 1 of any season a must-win. But you can pan back and recognize that sometimes Game 1 is a really, really should-win affair.

Not only because the Cardinals represented as close to a gimme as the Chargers are going to get on their precarious schedule.

The road ahead of them is considered the seventh toughest in the NFL, with a gauntlet starting in Week 3 against the Buffalo Bills, followed by the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs and then the Rams, the preseason Super Bowl favorites.

But the Chargers also missed a prime opportunity to fill a hole in the L.A. football plot, rare as those are.

There was an opening Sunday, a bleak day for [See Swanson, B7]

ANALYSIS

USC exhibits solid front but desperate for defensive depth

Trojans need to secure reserves in back half for chance at grasping regular-season title.

BY RYAN KARTJE

There's only so much we can take from a three-game stretch in which the USC football team outscored its opponents by 25 points per game.

On the whole, there was plenty to be encouraged about. USC's freshman class has been a revelation. The offense hasn't skipped a beat. And the defensive line has been better than anyone could have hoped. Suddenly, with two of the conference's top three teams falling last week, it doesn't sound so crazy to think that USC could contend for a Big Ten regular-season crown.

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But there is one thing we've learned over the past three weeks that could get in the way of the Trojans reaching their potential.

We saw a glimpse of that problem in the fourth quarter Friday, as Louisiana and its quarterback Lunch Winfield did whatever they wanted against USC's defense. Down to reserves at almost every position, the Trojans all but laid down in the back half of its defense.

[See USC, B9]

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Losing Leonard provides lifeline

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KAWHI LEONARD and the Clippers officially parted ways Monday in a deal that may buoy the team in the wake of serious NBA sanctions.

BALLMER'S APOLOGY BEST FOR CLIPPERS' FUTURE The owner accepts NBA penalties following months of denying wrongdoing. Experts say it was positive move to give team a path forward. At

Clippers' trade finally official, but franchise must replace Frank

long with Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers should send the Toronto Raptors a fruit basket and a thank you card.

Because what was already a steal when the teams first agreed to the trade in June now looks like an absolute lifesaver. Paddles for the life raft so the Clippers can change directions and make better decisions — hopefully with better decision-makers.

First, the Clippers had to move on from Leonard, who reportedly will go back to Toronto for a package that includes Brandon Ingram and Gradey Dick, unprotected first-round picks in 2031 and 2033, a 2027 first-round pick swap and two second-round selections.

It's a defibrillator of a deal. One that could keep the Clippers afloat after the NBA hammered them for all the salary-cap circumventing they apparently did for Leonard, an oft-injured, 35-year-old who flopped even before the NBA blew the whistle on millions of [See Swanson, B9]

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KYLE TUCKER greets Teoscar Hernández in the Dodgers' 4-1 win over the Reds. Hernández homered in the fourth inning after Tucker went deep in the second.

Dodgers clinch berth but Díaz is in doubt

By Maddie Lee

CINCINNATI — The Dodgers clinched a postseason berth with their 4-1 win over the Reds on Monday in what will be their MLB-record tying 14th straight trip to the postseason.

But in the background loomed bullpen uncertainty.

When they get to the playoffs, who's going to take the ball in high-leverage situations?

Their options are dwindling. Edgardo Henriquez landed on the 15-day injured list Monday with low back discomfort, ruling him out for the rest of the regular season. Edwin Díaz was so shaky in his rehab assignment Sunday that a spot on the postseason roster isn't guaranteed.

“We have to go with our best pitchers, as far as performance, talent, all that stuff,” manager Dave Roberts said before the Dodgers opened a four-game series against the Reds. “So my bet is that he will be [on the roster]. But there’s got to be some kind of evidence or something for us to sort of bet on. And so my bet is, yes, but we’ve still got to see something.”

Díaz (neck) had the worst outing of his triple-A rehab assignment, surrendering five runs and issuing two walks in two-thirds of an inning. The dud put his return timeline in doubt. His next rehab appearance is scheduled for Wednesday.

“I think the world of him, the baseball card looks great,” Roberts said. “But where we’re at, there’s got to be something for us to be able to hang our hat on. And he knows that. He knows that. He wants to pitch well. So for me, Wednesday, we’ll be watching closely.”

So, who's still in play?

Tanner Scott remains Roberts' go-to in save situations. And Alex

Vesia, Evan Phillips, Brock Stewart, Jack Dreyer and Blake Treinen all have experience in late innings.

On Monday, starter Tarik Skubal gave the group a much-needed break with seven shutout innings. He limited the Reds to three hits and a walk, cruising through their lineup almost three times in 90 pitches.

The Dodgers pulled ahead by four runs, on home runs from Kyle Tucker and Teoscar Hernández, who have both broken out of slumps, and an RBI single from Kiké Hernández.

With the game still relatively tight, Vesia entered in the bottom of the eighth to face the left-handed heavy bottom of the order. He retired the side.

Phillips and Treinen both were warming in the ninth when the Dodgers got a runner to second base with one out. When they failed to score him, Phillips jogged in to face the top of the order. He surrendered a high-flying solo homer to Elly De La Cruz on a fastball above the zone but avoided any other damage.

The Dodgers also have two fresh arms for the bullpen. They recalled Bobby Miller and Paul Gervase when they put Henriquez on the IL and optioned Emmet Sheehan.

Roberts said he didn't know what the move meant for Sheehan, who in his last two starts limited opponents to one run and recorded 15 strikeouts in a combined $11^{2/3}$ innings.

"Some of it's probably contingent on Roki [Sasaki], and we've got another start coming up down the road here, as far as a bullpen kind of situation," Roberts said. "So I don't know, but Emmet's done everything he can do in his power to force our hand, which I love. The last two have been really good."

Sasaki (right middle finger blister) could start Thursday. His bullpen session Monday marked the first time he had tested covering the sensitive area on his finger with Dermabond, Roberts said.

"We just can't put him in a position to go backward," Roberts said.

The Dodgers also have more bullpen reinforcements coming.

Another bullpen addition is left-hander Kris Bubic, who met the team in Cincinnati and is in place to make his Dodgers debut later this week. Bubic made his last rehab appearance for triple-A Oklahoma City on Sunday, so Roberts said the Dodgers likely won't activate him off the 60-day injured list until Wednesday at the earliest.

The Dodgers acquired Bubic from the Kansas City Royals at the trade deadline. He'd been on the IL since May, first with a low-grade flexor strain in his left forearm, and then a shoulder impingement.

Detmers strikes out eight to lift last-place Angels over Mariners

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Reid Detmers struck out eight over six innings, and Jose Siri and Denzer Guzman each drove in two runs to help the Angels beat the fading Seattle Mariners 6-4 on Monday night.

Detmers (6-8) yielded three runs on seven hits and a walk as third-place Seattle (70-81) dropped 5 $^{1/2}$ games behind AL West-leading Houston with 11 to play.

Ryan Watson pitched $1\frac{1}{3}$ scoreless innings and Ben Joyce walked two in the ninth before retiring J.P. Crawford on a lineout to first base for his fifth save.

Mike Trout had a one-out single in the first off Mariners rookie Kade Anderson (1-2). Siri hit an RBI double and stole third before scoring on Vaughn Grissom's sacrifice fly for a 2-0 lead.

Zach Neto added an RBI triple in the third before scoring on Siri's single to make it 4-0. Siri had three of the Angels' nine hits and scored twice.

Cal Raleigh hit his 22nd homer — a three-run shot off Detmers that cut it to 4-3 in the fourth. It was the first home run given up by Detmers in seven starts. The left-hander had surrendered two runs in his previous 39 innings.

Cooper Criswell replaced Anderson with one on and one out in the fifth before Guzman drove in two with a two-out single for a 6-3 lead. Anderson was tagged for five runs and seven hits in $4^{1/3}$ innings.

Crawford hit his 12th homer — a solo shot off Blake Weiman in the seventh.

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THE ANGELS' Wade Meckler singles in the third inning of a 6-4 win over the Mariners on Monday. With the loss, Seattle dropped $5 \frac{1}{2}$ games behind AL West-leading Houston with 11 to play.

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Walker shines in his debut as Chiefs win

Kenneth Walker III ran for 173 yards and scored two touchdowns in his Chiefs debut, stealing some of the spotlight from Patrick Mahomes and his surgically repaired left knee, and Kansas City exacted some revenge on the Denver Broncos for stealing their AFC West crown with a 31-10 victory Monday.

Mahomes didn't appear to be affected by the knee, or the brace he wore on it, throwing for 184 yards and two scores while running for another to help the Chiefs end a three-game skid against the rival that ended their nine-year run as division champions.

Walker carried 23 times to finish with the most yards rushing by a Chiefs player since Jamaal Charles ran for 226 against the Colts in 2012. The ex-Seahawks star also had three catches for 18 yards.

The Broncos, meanwhile, were abysmal on offense in their first game with coordinator Davis Webb calling the plays.

Bo Nix threw for 131 yards with an interception and a lost fumble, and the Broncos finished with 176 yards of offense.

Wide receiver Jaylen Waddle had one catch for two yards. Evan Engram led the Broncos with four catches for 43 yards and their lone touchdown.

Walker, who signed a three-year, \$43.05-million deal with Kansas City in free agency, had 14 carries for 89 yards in the first half alone, along with a couple of catches out of the backfield.

The Broncos tied the score on

Nix's 19-yard touchdown pass to Engram, but Walker carried the load as the Chiefs pieced together a 10-play, 80-yard drive late in the half. It ended when Mahomes found Rashee Rice, fresh off a knee injury of his own, and he caromed off a couple of Broncos defenders and into the end zone to make it 14-7 at the break.

Then it was Walker's turn to bounce off a defender, turning a fourth-and-one carry into a 60-yard touchdown run to start the third quarter.

Brandon Jones intercepted Mahomes deep in Chiefs territory, setting up Wil Lutz's chip shot, and then Mahomes connected with

Travis Kelce for 59 yards to set up Harrison Butker's field goal.

Nix's fumble on the ensuing possession allowed the Chiefs to put the game away.

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold has a “very unique, soft tissue” glute injury with no set timeline for his return, the team announced.

The injury is believed to be short term and his hip joint was unaffected, the team said. He has not been placed on injured reserve.

It appears unlikely that Darnold will be able to play Sunday at the Arizona Cardinals. He did not practice on Monday.

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SAMUEL D. Hunter's "Grangeville" has been extended at Ruskin Group Theatre, and his "A Case for the Existence of God" opened at the Matrix Theater this month.

Need for political cinema grows

Voices MATT BRENNAN

To dismiss ideological fare is to overlook the season's most urgent, important films.

VENICE, Italy — As I settled in recently for Danny Boyle's "Ink," the opening night selection of the 2026 Venice Film Festival, a full-page pull quote in one of the dailies that circulate on the Lido caught my eye from across the aisle: "Art that feeds on politics will eventually die of malnutrition."

The work of Lamborghini Chief Executive-turned-contemporary artist Patrick Mimran, whose Billboard Project brought 42 such aphorisms to the city at the start of the Biennale in May, this bumper-sticker provocation registered, 6,000 miles from Hollywood, like a message in a bottle from the American entertainment industry. Especially since the 2024 presidential election, as executives curry favor with statesmen and filmmakers attempt to stay above the fray, contemporary political cinema has come under fire, displaced by the savvier business of “comfort viewing” and dismissed as a pitiable remnant of “Woke 1.0.”

Trust me, I get it. I came of age in the shadow of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, an era that produced [See Cinema, E2]

GAEL García Bernal directs and stars in "Hombre Al Agua."
Venice Film Festival

MAESTRO OF THE HUMAN DRAMA

Samuel D. Hunter, who has two plays running concurrently in L.A., insists his starkest stories still favor endurance

CHARLES MCNULTY

THEATER CRITIC

Samuel D. Hunter writes compact human dramas that pack a maximal punch. Both "Grangeville," Los Angeles' most acclaimed theatrical offering of the summer (extended at Ruskin Group Theatre through Sept. 21), and "A Case for the Existence of God," which opened earlier this month in a Rogue Machine production at the Matrix Theater's Henry Murray Stage, are virtuoso two-handers.

Although modest in scale, no one would describe these plays as small. Both take in the wider world as they drill down into the behavioral dynamics that constitute the dramatic core of his work.

The bard of Idaho, where he was raised but no longer lives, Hunter is keenly aware that no one exists in a psychological vacuum. Politics, economics, religion and geography shape the inner world of his characters every bit as much as childhood trauma.

Sitting opposite Hunter at a luncheonette he frequents on Manhattan's Upper West Side, I can't help feeling like I've been cast in one of his plays. I had scribbled a few questions in advance but felt no compulsion to stick to any script, preferring that our own character dynamics might determine the plot of our interview.

Drama in Hunter's hands is built around an encounter. He doesn't force his characters to jump through hoops. He listens to them, as they navigate their complicated feelings, closely tracking the way their intersecting paths lead them toward incremental revelation.

Hunter, who lives in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood with his husband and daughter, hails from Moscow, Idaho — the state where most of his plays are set. He moved to New York at 18 to study playwriting at NYU, but he's been remarkably faithful to the world he left behind.

"I've seen extreme ends of the spectrum, from being enrolled in a fundamentalist Christian school in a small town in Idaho to being a gay playwright living in New York City," he said. [See Hunter, E3]

Review ROBERT LLOYD TELEVISION CRITIC

Where funny meets nightmarish

Jordan Mendoza's new sketch show based on his dreams both disturbs and delights.

Having premiered Sunday at midnight on Adult Swim, a most appropriate and maybe the only possible space, “The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza” is, as its creator describes it in a prologue, “a ‘Twilight Zone’ sketch show,” which is just what I would have said after watching eight of its 13 11-minute episodes, had he not said it first. Emphasizing its Asian bonafides — Mendoza is Filipino American — he adds, “It would be almost racist if you didn’t do it.”

Mendoza, who stars in, directs and, with David [See Mendoza, E3]

"THE TERRORS of Jordan Mendoza," which premiered Sunday, stars Mendoza.
Adult Swim

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AN ICON The American designer garnered nine Emmys in his distinguished career, all for costume design.

BOB MACKIE, 1939 – 2026

Costume designer to the stars

He dressed Carol Burnett, Beyoncé, Cher and many others in his sparkling gowns.

BY ALEXANDRA DEL ROSARIO

Wearing a Bob Mackie garment, as de-

scribed by "Charlie's Angels" star Cheryl Ladd, was a "serene experience."

"There are some bones and things holding it up and underneath there are weights to keep it down." Ladd described to The Times in 1985. On the inner waistband, she said, are "before dinner, during dinner and after dinner hooks." Ladd, one of the numerous pop culture icons who stunned in Mackie's gowns and ensembles since he began his career in the 1960s, spoke to the consideration and character that were hallmarks of the prolific costume designer's erosions.

Flowing plissé wings he created for Tina Turner accentuated the pop-star's dynamic stage presence and energy. Classy evening gowns and out-of-the-box [See Mackie, E2]

Political films under fire, yet needed more than ever

[Cinema, from E1] more than its fair share of wooden misfires (such as "World Trade Center," "Lions for Lambs," "Rendition" and "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close") and remarkably few masterpieces (among them "25th Hour" and, yes, "Zero Dark Thirty"). Then the advent of social media, and its evolution from town square to news ticker to outrage mill, created an incentive for obsessive fans and craven commentators to demand more of art than it can bear. Skepticism of expressly political pop culture, particularly in the U.S. context, hasn't come out of nowhere.

An urgent crisis

The problem, as I see it, stems from both the urgency of the crisis we're in and the misplacement of the skepticism. Whether the issue is climate change, authoritarianism, income inequality or one of countless others, our troubles are more acute now than they were 10, 20, 30 years ago, yet cases of absurd overreach — say, the recent X.com user who disavowed “The Godfather” over its “primarily male fanbase” — continue to be turned into a cudgel against those of us who see the ideological content of movies as eminently fair game for analysis.

At the risk of being labeled a complainer, score-settler or scold, I find the lamentation about an underwhelming Cannes and the lack of major awards contenders at Venice, where political films dominated the official selections, tacitly censorious in its own right. Art is no more worthwhile because it is amoral than because it is moral, and the brush-off regularly given to the subgenre by categorizing it alongside “educational television” or “cancel culture” seems to me a useful fiction, particularly for those who wish to frame trauma-plot flashbacks and dimestore psychoanalysis as nuanced by comparison.

As in “A Liberdade” (Freedom), the black-and-white melodrama Camilo (Gael García Bernal) watches in his downtime in “Hombre Al Agua,” this perspective imagines on-screen politics as studded with ideological proclamations and quotations from Karl Marx. So perhaps it’s karma that Bernal’s third feature as director, in which his Cuban lifeguard is plucked from obsecurity to marry into the family (business) of a Mexican millionaire, squanders a pair of promising subplots — about the magnate's Trumpian foray into Yucatán politics, and his factory workers' effort to make a documentary about his abuses — to focus on a domestic farce about Camilo's spoiled wife making her own biopic.

THE 2026 FILMS “All of a Sudden,” from left, “Musk” and “Possible Love” take on the thorniest issues of our time, including healthcare, capitalism, technology and tensions between the upper and working classes.

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Although “Hombre Al Agua’s” blithe spirit conceives a handful of hilarious images, such as Camilo’s wealthy father-in-law struggling to kayak for a campaign ad, its comedy of manners comes off as shallow as the glorified mud puddle he’s paddling through. Florian Zeller’s “Bunker” at least implicates its characters in the politics it professes. Starring Javier Bardem as Miguel, a successful architect offered a commission to build a tech baron an underground bunker, the film recognizes that the bunker mentality of the upper middle classes — literally and figuratively walling themselves off from their neighbors — reinforces at scale a similar separation between mere privilege and actual obscenity. “Bunker’s” issue isn’t its politics so much as how to present them: In unwieldily combining satire, family drama and finally thriller, it ill serves all three.

At least they're trying. In a culture of aggregation and AI summaries, the stiffest original thinking still feels as supple as a tone poem, and genuine intellectual ambition akin to a secular miracle. To wit, the best film I've seen so far this year, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's luminous examination of modern sickness, aging and death, "All of a Sudden," has at its center a bravura lecture on political economy, whiteboard and all, that I found myself defending to several people who found it pretentious, if not absurd. As Mari (Tao Okamoto) diagrams capitalism and its consequences for Marie-Lou (Virginie Efira) over wee-hours coffee, the passage's sustained attention to ideology gathers the propulsive force of a dorm-room argument or a shared cigarette outside the bar. It's alive with the act of thinking politically in motion, where our principles meet the messiness of everyday life.

“Success” for political cinema might thus be defined as not having to toggle between personal foreground and ideological backdrop at all. Lee Chang-dong's superb "Possible Love," for instance, generates its explosively intimate finale by first investing us in the saga of strikers reeling from a government crackdown. Seen through the prism of the slippery, electric chemistry between a documentarian (Cho Yeo-jeong) and her working-class subject (Jeon Do-yeon), labor relations shape the pair's connection, conflict and ultimate break until it's hard to know where personal begins and political ends.

But even at its most explicit, in documentaries, political cinema acts as an antidote to the culture's wearying vogue for escapism. Alex Gibney's polemic "Musk," the most comprehensive dismantling of Elon Musk's mythos to date, portrays the world's richest man as the product not of genius but of mendacity and dumb luck, failing upward from Silicon Valley startup culture to the right hand of the president. The film amasses so much evidence, in such strenuous detail, that it practically forces the viewer not to look away. No matter how pathetic his yearning for approval or preposterous his self-promotion, "Musk" posits, we must consider the South African magnate, above all, as extremely dangerous.

The film is also so up-to-date as to read like a warning from the not-so-distant future. A passing glimpse of Musk speaking via video feed to the far-right Alternative for Germany party in 2025 becomes highly foreboding, for example, when seen just days after the group's triumph in parliamentary elections in the eastern part of the country. Similarly, many of the revelations in "NAZA," from "No Other Land" Oscar winners Yuval Abraham and Rachel

Szor, were reported in producer the Guardian in the course of filming. But political cinema is capable of conjuring visual ideas that textual journalism and spoken rhetoric cannot. Plunging its sources into the darkness of Tel Aviv rooftops at night to protect their identities, "NAZA," named after an Israeli military euphemism for civilian deaths, is one of the most striking-looking investigative documentaries in recent memory.

Drawing a contrast between Israelis framed in their lamp-lighted windows, going about their lives, and evidence from testimonies, hand-drawn diagrams and archival footage of their government's war crimes against Palestinians, the film establishes that the psychic distance between Tel Aviv and Gaza is far greater than the 60 kilometers marked on the map. More radically, though, it paints a populace anesthetized by propaganda as culpable in those crimes: The most frequent activity we see through the neighbors' windows in "NAZA" is watching patriotic news coverage, right-wing commentators and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on TV.

Next to the suggestion that art that feeds on politics will eventually die of malnutrition, such images are a potent reminder that we are, in fact, already starving. In the American context, after all, Oscar season is just about the last place for broad, sustained attention to challenging studio fare, bold independents, international features and documentaries. With any luck we'll be chewing over a number of the films discussed here, along with Mike Leigh's delicate slice of the lives of social workers, "Tender Loving Care," and Palme d'Or winner "Fjord," about the Kafkaesque rituals of Norway's family court, for months to come, but it's hard not to see this compartmentalization as depressing, if not dangerous. Against the risks of didacticism — or, God forbid, "preachiness" — I'll take the productive tension of the occasional cliché or bald statement of purpose. When evangelists of evil are in the ascendance, haven't the just earned a sermon of their own?

Making 'Friends'

The question comes up directly in “Exile,” the second part of Julia Loktev’s 11-hour magnum opus “My Undesirable Friends,” in which Novaya Gazeta investigative correspondent Elena Kostyuchenko — who will later be poisoned for her efforts to report on the war in Ukraine and Russia’s authoritarian regime — rails against the “bull—” notion that journalists cannot, or should not, be activists.

As fellow subject Irina Dolinina explained last year in Part I, “Last Air in Moscow,” the desire to remain objective — amoral — can easily bleed into apathy: “It’s very popular to say, ‘We’re not interested in politics.’ It’s a veiled way to say, ‘We aren’t interested in the world around us. I’m only interested in myself, what I’ll do tonight, what movie [I’ll see].’”

This time around, Dolinina and the other subjects of Loktev's riveting group portrait are thrown to the four winds by Vladimir Putin's attacks on the press. In the process, "Exile" drives home the fact that the most mundane acts are political — not just attending a protest or reporting a story, but checking into a hotel, opening a bank account, selling an apartment. Yet for all its hard truths about life under fascism, for all its subjects' suffering as they flit from Istanbul to Tbilisi, Riga to Amsterdam, when the ninth of

10 chapters in “My Undesirable Friends” turned, I found myself, almost unbelievably, not wanting it to end. Loktev’s friends had become mine too — their personalities, politics and future prospects as important to my understanding of the world as if they worked in the next cubicle or lived on the next block.

The connection I made to "My Undesirable Friends" runs deeper than mere identification, though. In conversation with other Venice premieres like "Musk," a portrait of Russian-style oligarchy right here at home; "Possible Love," a response to the rapacious brand of capitalism we've exported abroad; and "NAZA," an indictment of the Israeli government knowingly killing Palestinian civilians, enabled by successive U.S. presidential administrations, "Exile" seemed to me to sound a warning for viewers back in Hollywood much like Dolinina's complaint about her sleepwalking countrymen. We may not be interested in politics, but politics are sure as hell interested in us.

This capacity for solidarity-building is the true transformative power of political cinema, which needn't persuade us that we are all alike so much as show us that in our differences we remain connected. After all, the coming fight — scratch that, the current one — is greater than any nation or art form, and in it I would suggest that even the bluntest weapons are best left on the table. To paraphrase that adage about climate change one now finds recirculating on social media during any fire or flood, the politics of the foreseeable future will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through footage that gets closer and closer to where you live.

Until you're the one filming it.

Fashion and costume designer dressed a galaxy of stars

JAY L. CLENDENIN Los Angeles Times
THE KING OF CAMP
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Renowned costume and fashion designer Bob Mackie, pictured in 2019, was best known for his elaborate, sparkling and fringed creations. Among his many famous collaborations was that with singer-actress Cher, right, posing in a Mackie number in 1978.

[Mackie, from E1] costumes fashioned for “The Carol Burnett” show mirrored the versatility and comedy of its namesake, who would become a long-time collaborator. A leather jacket paired with a revealing mesh bodysuit — then considered controversial — reaffirmed Cher’s status as a timeless risk-taker and trendsetter. The memorable costumes, codified in fashion history halls including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and their influence on modern fashion are the unmistakable legacy of Mackie, who died at age 87.

The prolific costume designer and Southern California native died Monday, according to a tribute posted to the designer's official Instagram page. He died in Palm Springs from pneumonia, his publicist confirmed to the Associated Press.

“He lived his 87 years to the fullest, fulfilling his dream of being a Fashion and Costume Designer, which is all he ever wanted to do,” the statement said. “His genius and extraordinary designs will live on forever.”

Internationally renowned as the King of Camp, Mackie was best known for his elaborate, sparkling and fringed creations worn by superstars including Diana Ross, Dolly Parton, Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus. He began his career in television and film in the 1960s and, over his decades-long career, collected nine Emmy Awards, three Acad my Award nominations — including a nod for Barbra Streisand's "Funny Lady" — and a Tony Award. He crafted garments for "The Carol Burnett Show" for its entire run of 11 seasons and worked closely with Cher for memorable looks across "The Cher Show," her music videos and concert tours.

"There are fashion designers who don't do costumes and there are costume designers who don't do fashion. Bob did it all," Burnett said in a tribute shared to Instagram. "There was no one like him."

Mackie, born Robert Gordon Mackie on March 24, 1939, in Monterey Park, first broke through in the mid-'60s when entertainer Mitzi Gaynor, seeking a fashion refresh, commissioned the designer to create costumes for her. That led to his "Carol Burnett Show" tenure and collaborations with "Cher."

His career also included theatrical work, designing for Broadway productions “On the Town” with

Bernadette Peters, “Minnelli On Minnelli” with Liza Minnelli and “Moon Over Buffalo” and “Putting It Together” with Burnett. He also created gowns worn by Diana Ross and the Supremes and looks worn by Joan Rivers, Madonna and Elton John. Mackie also sketched the infamous white gown Marilyn Monroe wore when she performed her breathy rendition of “Happy Birthday” to President Kennedy at a 1962 fundraiser.

Mackie attended Pasadena City College to study advertising and illustration, then studied costume design at Chouinard Art Institute. He worked under costume designer Edith Head before his time on "The Carol Burnett Show." In addition to his glitzy looks for celebrities and public figures, he also tried his hand at retail in the '80s, launching lines of lingerie, fine jewelry and fragrances. He also created Barbie dolls for Mattel.

He was inducted into the

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame in 2002 and was the subject of the 2024 documentary "Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion."

Mackie was married to showgirl Lulu Porter from 1960 until 1963; their son, makeup artist Robert Gordon Mackie Jr., died from AIDS at age 35. Costume designer Ray Aghayan, his longtime partner, died in 2011.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Pushing through a bleak world

STEPHANIE DIANI For The Times

[Hunter, from E1]

‘The lion’s share of our income come[s] from screenwriting. But the irony is that most of my time is spent making theater. The things I’ve been paid the most to write are things that have never seen the light of day. That’s the funny thing about screenwriting.’

— SAMUEL D. HUNTER, playwright and screenwriter "Those are two very different lives. I value both, but it took me well into my 30s to understand that I was still wrestling with different aspects of myself."

JOHN PERRIN FLYNN
JEFF LORCH
JEFF LeBEAU, left, and Tim Cummings offer up an acting master class in Hunter's play "Grangeville."
CARLO MANCASOLA, left, and Nicholas Anthony Reid perform in “A Case for the Existence of God.”

He included his relationship with religion as one source of tension, but the more enduring conflict for him may be the rural-urban divide.

"I'm married with a kid and two dogs," he said. "We own an apartment here in New York City. I guess I'm very much a New Yorker at this point. But I still feel when I go into certain spaces, like the Tony Awards, or even high-end restaurants, a little uneasy. I think that's maybe why I continue to write plays set in Idaho and put them on stages in New York City, because I'm trying to broker something both for myself and for other people."

The dismissive attitude toward “flyover country,” perfectly caricatured in Saul Steinberg’s famous 1976 New Yorker cover in which the map of America is reduced to Manhattan and the West Coast, is personal to him.

“Recently, there was all this coverage of my hometown, because of the Idaho murders,” he said. “And I think the people who live there felt attacked. All this coastal media was descending on this small town and characterizing it in terms of this one really bad thing. And now that’s forever going to be the sort of ear tag, like on a cow, of my hometown, which has been around since my great-great-grandfather was the first postmaster there.”

Hunter is best known for his play "The Whale," which was adapted into the 2022 Darren Aronofsky film that earned Brendan Fraser an Oscar for his performance as the reclusive, morbidly obese writing instructor trying to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter before his faltering body gives out. It was a heady time for a playwright thrust into the red carpet spotlight.

"I can't believe people can do this more than once," he said. "It just felt so insane. I was constantly on a plane. It was a lot of fun, but very stressful at the same time. I wrote that play when I was 27. And look, I love that play and always will, but it feels like a play I wrote when I was 27. And revisiting it in my 40s was a crazy experience. But it was great. I was on set the whole time. I worked very closely with Darren and Brendan, and Brendan remains a dear friend."

"The Whale" is subtler on stage than it is on screen; its metaphors work better in the theater's buoyant atmosphere for which they were conceived. Hunter understood that the play would have to change from one medium to the next. What caught him by surprise was the conversation around fatophobia that accompanied the film's release.

"It was difficult because when I was in my 20s, I was much heavier," he said. "I was eating my emotions. Eating as a form of depression. I wrote the play partly to process all that stuff and the shame I felt. I was trying to do something positive with it, so to be shamed on the other end was difficult because it was so far from my intentions."

Hunter's work might seem to transfer readily to film or TV. On a superficial level, his plays, built around the emotional lives of his characters, can come off as a throwback to traditional realism. But the writing is less straightforward than it appears. The shifts that occur, not just in time but in physical space, are linked to the tectonic movement in the play's emotional ground.

"I'd love to paint myself as a saint, who just loves people and is concerned with empathy," he said on the subject of his craft. "While I am concerned with empathy, I think it's an aesthetic approach more than a sanctimonious act of charity toward my fellow human beings. The reason I'm interested in playwriting is because there's not a single point of view being expressed. It's this broader heath of understanding, and all of my favorite plays come out of that. What's beautiful about them is that there's no authorial voice."

Early encounters with Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" and Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" inspired him to pursue his economically precarious calling. Edward Albee's "The Play About the Baby," which he saw when he was a freshman at NYU, was another work that showed him just how elastic and encompassing drama can be.

"I don't know if I had grown up in New York City that I would be a playwright today, because I think I would have been way too intimidated," he said. "I just randomly figured out when I was 16 or 17 that I wanted to write plays, because I loved the form, not because I had encountered a bunch of new writing for the American theater. 'Angels in America' is really the only newish play that I knew."

Another upside to not being raised in New York's theatrical hothouse was the welcome he received as a young artist. "When I was 17, after I wrote my first play, I went to the local community theater and they gave me 300 bucks and we staged it with a group of very gracious local actors," he said. "In New York City, they would have been like, 'Hold your horses, Sam. Go do this 10-minute play workshop, then do 90 drafts of it, and then we'll do a reading. Whereas I wrote an almost three-hour play when I was 16, and actors just went and did it."

After NYU, Hunter pursued his MFA at the University of Iowa's Playwrights Workshop. He then returned to New York to study further at Juilliard, where, under the influence of playwright Marsha Norman (““Night, Mother”), he reconciled the different approaches to dramatic structure that he had been absorbing.

“Marsha got me back in line, because her big thing is that we're storytellers,” he said. “Everybody's out hunting and gathering all day long, and our job is to make sense of that at the end of the day. She reminded me that it's not just about my own whimsy. That there's a contract with the people who are sitting in the dark for two hours. I found the middle ground between the hard dramaturgy of NYU and the more experimental direction I went in at Iowa.”

Last fall, Hunter made his Broadway debut as a playwright with “Little Bear Ridge Road,” which the New York Drama Critics’ Circle named best play of the 2025-26 season. Joe Mantello’s production, which originated at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, starred Laurie Metcalf. Hunter said he’d happily write plays for her the rest of his career if she’d let him.

In terms of critical reception and production opportunities, Hunter is one of the most successful playwrights of his generation. Yet theater isn't how he makes ends meet.

"Our health insurance and the lion's share of our income come from screenwriting," he said. "But the irony is that most of my time is spent making theater. The things I've been paid the most to write are things that have never seen the light of day. That's the funny thing about screenwriting. Whereas I still couldn't make a living on the plays that have been performed around the world at this point. If we didn't have a kid and didn't live in New York City, then we could probably get by. We wouldn't have health insurance. I only get health insurance because of the Writers Guild of America."

Is there any work in his already extensive oeuvre that he would hold above the others?

"I would say 'A Case for the Existence of God,' not that it's my favorite but it's the one that I feel deeply attached to," he said. "Partly because it's connected to me becoming a dad and partly because it was the first play that I had coming out of the pandemic. That was a period when I didn't write a new play, and it was scary."

“Case” unfolds in the sterile office of a mortgage broker in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Keith (Nicholas Anthony Reid), a gay Black man who's fostering a toddler, is trying to help Ryan (Carlo Mancasola), a divorced man with a young daughter, secure a loan so he can eventually build a house on a piece of land that long ago belonged to his family.

Hunter knows that the title might seem “absurdly grand” for a play in which two single dads sit around a cubicle talking at length about loan paperwork and interest rates. But his intention is to “put audiences on the hunt for what this play is really up to” as the men come to recognize “the specific kind of sadness” they share.

"I've seen too many plays where money isn't real," he said. "Where people just live in brownstones, and that has just not been my experience of the world. Increasingly, we live in a culture that assigns our personal worth to our bank accounts. My dad was an emergency room physician in a town called Lewiston his entire career, and his whole thing is that there are so many people who are one minor injury or car problem away from total ruin."

This is the fifth play by Hunter that John Perrin Flynn, Rogue Machine's founding artistic director, has directed. "A Bright New Boise," the first for Rogue Machine, was followed by "A Permanent Image" and "Pocatello." "Grangeville," which Flynn directed for Ruskin Group Theatre, features an acting master class from Tim Cummings and Jeff LeBeau that should not be missed.

Flynn, whom Hunter called the “guardian of his plays in Los Angeles,” also appeared in the cast of Rogue Machine’s production of “A Great Wilderness,” directed by Elina De Santos. What keeps drawing him back?

“Sam tells stories about quietly despairing people seeking to survive in our bleak world,” Flynn responded via email. “The characters he creates are nuanced, lovely and flawed, and the stories he tells evolve from their interactions with each other. His plays are very funny but the humor comes from something true about what it takes to keep going. There are big issues in his plays, but they are deeply rooted in story. The plays are not about the issues. The issues are just there, as they are in our own lives. Most importantly, in this mirror Sam holds up to show us how we live now, there is always hope.”

Since becoming a dad, Hunter said he just doesn't have the luxury of being cynical.

"I bristle sometimes with the attitude that like, 'Wow, we're all going to hell, ha ha ha!' he said. "That kind of cynicism is cheap and facile and masquerades as intelligence and erudition. It's just irresponsible to surrender to the idea of the world blowing up.

“Because the world is still going to be around when my daughter is 50, 60 or 70 years old,” he continued. “I don’t know what that world is going to look like, but people in 1926 didn’t know what 2026 was going to look like. And we don’t know what 2126 is going to look like. And it’s going to be beautiful and awful and horrifying and sacred. I’m not offering unfettered optimism. But I think this is what ‘A Case for the Existence of God’ is about: that there is continuance. And that is what I have faith in, whatever continuance looks like.”

'The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza' ventures in funny, creepy zones

[Mendoza, from E1] Machajewski, writes the show, has said that some of the ideas come from actual dreams — the “terrors” in the titles are nightmares — though if my own dream life is anything to go by, the jokes are more clever and the narratives at once weirder and more cohesive. At various times it recalls the eeriness of David Lynch or the non sequitur logic of Luis Buñuel, and it has something of the flavor of “The Vince Staples Show,” which also went to some strange places in its too-short life.

Sketches, of varying lengths, build a central idea out in every direction, and a little farther than you might expect. We meet a therapist obsessed with Wendy's. Batman, convinced that he has adult ADHD because an online quiz told him so ("I know a lot of people claim they have ADHD," he tells Alfred, "but in my case I think I really do ... I'm creative but easily overwhelmed, organized but at the same time not"). A dying man (Steve Buscemi) is obsessed with getting his last words right; a prisoner is sentenced to "15 hugs and kisses" from the "nearest judge." A bank robber holding hostages demands to be "a famous snake ... and if you can't get on board with that, then everyone in here is going to die." In a horror movie pastiche, Mendoza is dogged by middle-aged white men compelled to tell him that their wife is Asian, which does sound like something from personal experience.

Wherever the comedy goes, it's played straight and with intensity, as is the terror. The show can be genuinely disturbing and genuinely funny. (Two things can be true at once.) There's also a scene in which Mendoza, playing a character convinced he's a Harry Potter wizard, runs into a brick wall he thinks he'll pass through, and, there's nothing more liable to make me laugh than that, unless it's someone hitting their head on a low door frame or suddenly falling over for any number of non-fatal reasons.

Mendoza, who is in his mid-30s, has a string of writing and acting credits, including writing for “Dave,” Dave Burd’s comedy about a suburban Jew from Philadelphia who believes himself destined for rap greatness, and parts in Julio Torres’ “Problemista” and “Fantasmas,” which are located in the same hemisphere of alternative comedy. He has the Rolodex of a well-connected person; the guest list is impressively loaded for someone making his first show.

The great Martha Kelly (from “Baskets”) plays a masseuse who exteriorizes her client’s pain, and in another sketch, she's a woman sitting in on a confirmation class in order to learn where Jesus might be "lodging" when he returns. (She has a plan.) Kate Berlant invites Mendoza to what turns out to be a one-woman poetry slam, held in secret to avoid the Slammers Union ("They're like the Sopranos, only violent"). Chris Parnell,

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MENDOZA, above, co-writes the horror-comedy show with David Machajewski.

Randall Park, Wanda Sykes, Thomas Lennon, Clea DuVall, Lake Bell, Toby Huss, Mark Maron, Fred Armisen and Gregg Turkington (from the world of “On Cinema at the Cinema”) all muck in.

You should know from the above whether this might be your sort of thing. (It won't be everyone's, but it's definitely up my dark, crooked alley.) But, really, it's even better than these descriptions might lead you to guess, elevated by the first-class production, assured performances (Mendoza is himself very good) and everyone's commitment to whatever bit is up at the time. The devilishness is in the details.

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By Holiday Mathis

Aries (March 21-April 19): A The analog living you do today will reward your attention instead of competing for it.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): Avoid spending any time at all noticing or lingering in the sorrow of unpossessed talents while your potentiality waits for attention.

Gemini (May 21-June 21): You've spent enough time in your head lately, so it will be great to get a win you can feel in your body or see in the physical world.

Cancer (June 22-July 22): You're reminded how life is always rolling along, yet each little change creates a different degree of depth, distance or temperature.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): You're so open to the muses, not just for yourself and your own work, but for those you're sure to inspire along the way.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don't be overly concerned with making everything easy for others today.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Believe in your powers of consecration. You can imbue a subject with a sacred energy, which exists as much in you as it does in any.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): The fact is that you're unfailingly kind and never take them for granted, and they show up for you again today.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There's no need for postgame analysis because today's cosmic gift is the undeniable move that all can comprehend immediately.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may feel the strong need to surround yourself with things that reflect who you are because it's extremely important now that you put your whole self into what you're creating.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You'll solve a long-standing problem with one elegant move. The answer may be so simple that you'll laugh at the elaborate plans in the recycling bin.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): Adults manage to communicate with grace inside the realization that everyone is, to some degree, holding back.

Today's birthday (Sept. 15): In your Year of the Gentle Rain, your wild heart is nourished by all that you need to thrive, and it seems to come straight from heaven in measures that are so easy to absorb. More highlights: Education is immediately applied to better relationships and lucrative work. Peace, pride and production as you build together with chosen family. Hot tickets and fun. Pisces and Aries adore you. Lucky numbers: 30, 10, 12, 9 and 15.

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Cy the Cynic observes that the wages of sin wouldn't be as desirable if they were paid immediately. At least that's the case in my club's daily penny games: You lose, you settle up when the game ends.

Cy was today's North, and when he jumped to four spades, South boldly bid six. West was Ed, my club's best player, and he led the queen of hearts. South took the ace, drew the missing trump with dummy's king and next led a diamond: jack, queen, king. Ed returned a diamond, and East got a diamond trick at the end. Down one.

"You booted it," Cy growled at his partner. "Ruff a heart at Trick Two, lead a

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Dear Eric: My friend, “Jac” had a very public “meltdown” and was ordered to inpatient rehabilitation for his 20-years-long drug addiction. One year after his treatment, he has not changed and continues to hurt others and blame others for his many shortcomings. This is called being a “dry drunk,” when a sober person still behaves like someone in active addiction.

It's fine for you to set a boundary with Jac by telling him that you are proud of him for getting clean but that there are still issues between you that you need to

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My friend thinks everyone should be very proud of him for “getting clean,” but he is still the same person he has always been. How can his friends tell Jac that he needs to make major changes before we will “re-friend” him? He is working a 12-step program.

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PATIENTLY WAITING FOR STEPS 8 AND 9

Dear Patiently: After 20 years of active addiction, it may take more than a year for Jac to put his life back together or to look at his behavior and his circumstances with true clarity. Sobriety is a journey that happens one day at a time, and it seems that he's still working through some of the old behaviors that have caused him and others pain in the past.

trump to dummy and ruff the last heart. Then lead a trump to dummy, return the nine of clubs and follow with your ten. When West wins, anything he returns gives you a 12th trick.”

When the game ended, Ed was the big winner, as usual, and Cy had to pay off.

"The wages of sin probably go unreported," the Cynic grumbled. At least I reported this in my column.

You hold: ♠ K 9 8 5 3 2 ♥ A 7 3 ♦ 6 5 2 ♣ 9. Your partner opens 1NT. The next player passes. What do you say?

Answer: I can't imagine how players handled this hand before the advent of "transfer" responses; presumably, they bid four spades (an overbid) or two spades (an underbid). Bid two hearts, a transfer. When partner bids two spades,

work out before you can fully come back into his life. But it's not your or your other friends' responsibility to hold a friend-tervention of sorts. Jac needs to work on these challenges and shortcomings with his sponsor.

Dear Eric: When I was a younger woman, I was in an abusive relationship. Out of it came one son, who is now over 50.

It was right of you to ask your son not to call you. A boundary like the one you put in place can often help to preserve the relationship, at a healthy distance. He now has the responsibility to address his abusive tendencies and then to make amends to

He is abusive, also. In his younger days, while still living at home, he attempted to hit me. Now that he is grown up, he says abusive things to me on our phone calls. The last time he expressed this behavior, I asked him not to call me.

He annoys me. I don't miss the phone calls. However, I do wish him well. Did I do the right thing? Please advise.

Dear No Calls: I'm sorry you experienced abusive mistreatment from your son and his father. It can be so hard to remove oneself from these situations, especially because abusers don't respect boundaries.

No Calls

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Dear Eric: I can identify with the letter writer who is unhappy after 40 years of marriage ("On the Cusp"). I have been married 62 years and though I love my spouse, retirement has brought out some negatives that were easier to overlook when we were both out of the house.

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We have found that joining groups with different activities, volunteering and even working part time has helped us better prioritize our time and leaves less time for negativity.

The friendships we have developed over the years would truly be a huge loss if we were to separate and if On the Cusp finds some outside interests to involve both of them they can keep this marriage going through the rough patch.

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