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洛杉矶时报 - 03.08.2026

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$3.66 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER © 2026 latimes.com MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 位于威洛布鲁克的马丁路德金社区医院是数十万南洛杉矶居民的主要急诊医疗选择，但空间极其紧张，以至于许多患者在室外铺装路面上的大型金属框架帐篷中接受治疗。在最近的一个夏日，当护士们在大功率空调吹出的冷风中抽血和处理伤口时，人们不禁想起 COVID-19 疫情初期使用的临时空间。这些帐篷 stark 地表明了该医院糟糕的财务状况，医院领导层表示，如果找不到持续增加资金的方法，医院可能会被迫关闭。该医院最近报告其最近一个财政年度的净收益为 $14 million，但在之前的三年中一直处于亏损状态。明年，由于 2025’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act，或 HR1，导致医疗补助计划的资格和融资发生变化，预计年度资金将损失 $80 million to $100 million。

“在世界上最富有的国家、美国最富有的州之一、最富有的城市之一的现代美国，我们竟然在黑色混凝土上的四个白色帐篷里照顾病人，”马丁路德金社区医疗中心媒体关系总监 Tony Weiss 在参观繁忙的急诊科时说道。“这太疯狂了。”在马丁路德金医院与严重的财务逆风作斗争之际，其领导层呼吁洛杉矶县监督委员会重新评估如何分配通过 B号提案征收的财产税资金。根据县政府的数据，在 2025, 财政年度，通过该提案筹集的资金总计约 $427 million。

这项由县投票者在 2002, 批准的选票倡议，将其描述为“一项年度特别税，旨在筹集资金以支持全县的创伤中心系统、急诊医疗服务和生物恐怖袭击响应”。尽管如此，通过该提案征收的“持续性”或经常性资金被分配——

急诊科工作人员在位于威洛布鲁克的马丁路德金社区医院工作。Robert Gauthier 洛杉矶时报

马丁路德金医院应对资金危机 面对严峻的联邦削减，南洛杉矶设施寻求更多县政府资金。 作者：Connor Sheets [见医院，A9]

Esther Kim Varet 最近收到许多来自“沮丧”自由派人士的提问，他们想知道在 11 月应该投票给谁来代表他们在重新划分的第 40 国会选区，该选区覆盖了橙县内陆的大部分地区以及圣贝纳迪诺和里弗赛德县的部分地区。这位民主党艺术画廊所有者在上个月备受关注的该席位初选中排名第三，落后于共和党现任代表，即科罗纳的肯·卡尔弗特和安纳海姆山的金英 (Young Kim)。卡尔弗特和金英由于去年的 Proposition 50 被推入了同一个选区，并将成为 11 月竞逐该席位的唯一候选人。Kim Varet 表示，她的支持者们“显然在深思熟虑”应该支持哪位现任者，但他们很难接受投票给其中任何一人的想法。因此她告诉他们，如果我们要“玩一场长线游戏”，应该投票给金英。她说卡尔弗特胜算更大，因此支持金英将“迫使双方在该选区投入更多资金”，从而减少共和党在民主党仍有机会击败共和党现任者的其他选区中的支出。她说卡尔弗特的资历比金英“资深得多”。

金 (Kim)，因此将其赶下台将“更具意义”。而卡尔弗特 (Calvert) 作为众议院国防拨款小组委员会主席，资助了特朗普在伊朗的战争，因此在“道德上是更好的目标”。在6月的初选中，金·瓦雷特 (Kim Varet) 和其他民主党候选人共同获得了该选区 42.9% 的选票，而卡尔弗特的得票率为 34.9%，金的得票率为 20.6%。如果足够多的民主党选民团结在金的周围，他们可能会结束卡尔弗特在国会 33 年的任期。然而，他们是否会这样做尚不明确。这类“孤立”选民——即在普选中失去了本党候选人的选民——从历史上看，同样很有可能弃权，或者基于远不那么具战略性的考虑而投票。加州人在十多年前制造了这一困境。

“孤立”选民可能是中期选举的关键 在选票上没有本党候选人的加州人可能会持有战略影响力。 作者：凯文·雷克特 (Kevin Rector) [见 Voters, A6]

墨西哥城 —— 墨西哥在一个多世纪以来一直是主要的石油生产国，但其炼油能力的缺乏造成了一个困境：该国必须从美国进口大部分汽油和柴油。这对美国炼油厂以及跨境相关产业来说是一件好事，但美国和墨西哥当局表示，墨西哥贩毒集团已经渗透进这一贸易，在走私燃料中创造了黑市繁荣，同时留下一串谋杀被害者的名单。

这种被称为“huachicol fiscal”的犯罪行为，核心是一个以伪造文件为中心的大规模逃税计划——以及腐败官员。去年，墨西哥当局在墨西哥与德克萨斯州边境附近的大量铁路货车和卡车中查获了数百万加仑的走私燃料。随后的调查导致上个月一名墨西哥最著名的政治人物被震惊逮捕——埃内斯托·鲁福·阿佩尔 (Ernesto Ruffo Appel)，前下加利福尼亚州州长。

保守派的鲁福及其支持者称他为墨西哥左翼政府政治报复的受害者。检察官则将其标记为与贩毒集团相关的、一个复杂的、涉及数十亿美元的燃料走私犯罪网的核心人物。

“说这里有任何政治因素是不真实的，”总统克劳迪娅·辛鲍姆 (Claudia Sheinbaum) 在7月告诉记者，“这是一次调查——”

燃料走私助长墨西哥腐败 作者：帕特里克·J·麦克唐纳 (Patrick J. McDonnell) [见 Mexico, A3] 这是贩毒集团在毒品之后的最大收入来源

纽约 —— 特朗普总统知道全世界都在关注他的每一句话。现在，他想让你为此付费。随着他的 Truth Social 业务开始向愿意付费的华尔街交易员提供提前预览，总统的社交媒体帖子在本周末开始出售。

此举只是最新的一次行动，提高了特朗普公司获得巨额利润的可能性，同时也引发了关于内幕交易以及利用最高公共权力谋取私人利益的重大质疑。其他社交媒体公司和媒体提供商也销售类似的快速信息流。但 Truth Social 不仅仅是传播新闻，它本身就在制造新闻，随着特朗普发布从战争、央行领导层到关税等各项政策变更，定期扰乱市场。

“如果这是一家上市公司的首席执行官，这将被判入狱，” Able Alpha Trading 的负责人艾琳·阿尔德里奇 (Irene Aldridge) 表示，该公司不计划购买该服务。“我们拥有一位处于所有行动前沿、做出所有决定的美国总统，而他正提前向一个选定的群体披露这些信息。”

特朗普公司作出回应 当被问及这项新服务的得体性以及白宫律师是否对其进行了审核时，特朗普的新闻办公室

拒绝发表评论，并将问题转交给真相社交的上市母公司。该公司，即特朗普媒体科技集团，发表了一份声明，指责包括商业监督团体和其他专家在内的批评者，称他们出于“对自由市场的意识形态反对”或“失败”而误导地描述该服务，且只有薪金上限才能纠正这项运动。

投资者现在可以购买提前访问其社交媒体的权限，这引发了一系列伦理问题。 由 Bernard Condon 和 Brian Slodysko 报道 [见 Trump, A9]

圣地亚哥 —— 埃曼纽尔·莱克修斯在埃尔卡洪的市场通常很热闹。但最近并非如此。莱克修斯是海地人，米切加勒比市场的大多数顾客也是。他们来这里购买熟悉的海地主食：Ti Malice 植物油抹酱、长粒传家宝米、Cola Couronne 汽水。

“人们不想出门，”他说，“没有人想让自己暴露在外。”

上周，在特朗普政府撤销了根据临时保护状态（TPS）居住在美国的海地移民的保护后，一股恐慌席卷了圣地亚哥县以及全国的海地裔美国人社区。由于其原籍国不安全，该计划允许大约 350,000 名海地人（包括圣地亚哥和洛杉矶的数千人）在美生活和工作。一名联邦地方法官暂时阻止了这一行动近五个月，随后最高法院在 6 月维持了特朗普的命令。美国国土安全部于 July 27. 正式撤销保护。

这使得南加州的海地人陷入焦虑，担心自己是否以及何时会被驱逐出境。社区领袖表示，影响可能是广泛的，人们现在害怕离开家或去工作——或者面临失业风险，因为他们不再拥有工作许可。

“那些申请了美国政府设立的计划的人……他们……”

美国海地人担心保护结束后将发生什么 由 Maura Fox 报道 [见 Haitians, A9]

枪击事件导致枪手及一名工人死亡 嫌疑人在爱达荷州的 In-N-Out Burger 自杀身亡。 【国家，A5】

歧视语凸显平庸之恶 古斯塔沃·阿雷利亚诺称边境巡逻队使用“tonk”一词是对移民的贬低。 【加州，B1】

通过普鲁姆交易重启重建 在宣布自己具有竞争力数月后，球队重新审视计划。 【体育，D6】

天气 阳光充足；温暖。洛杉矶盆地：89 / 68. 【B6】

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但问题在于：道奇队在主联盟名单上挥霍的所有资金并不是促成交易获得斯库巴尔的原因。哦，所有那些钱确实让他们处于一个能够让斯库巴尔在 10 月帮助他们的位置，但斯库巴尔本可以帮助密尔沃基酿造者、芝加哥小熊、坦帕湾光芒、亚特兰大勇士、纽约洋基或费城费城人。当底特律老虎队对斯库巴尔进行出价征集时，他们看中了道奇队的……

你的球队也能这样做。棒球运动在这个冬天是否正走向停摆？是的。是因为道奇队交易得到了塔里克·斯库巴尔吗？不。

道奇队在每场主场比赛前都会播放一段视频，其中包含一个听起来阴森的声音说道：“你们需要像我们这样的球队来指指点点并说，‘那就是坏人。’”在这种情况下，“你们”指的是其他 29 支球队的所有者。你现在可以听到他们的哀嚎：棒球运动是被操纵的。

道奇队是连续两届冠军，而且他们刚刚在交易市场上签下了最优秀的球员。他们。钱。实在。太多。了。

提供最好的条件。而道奇队提供的条件是：三名新秀，没有一名是首轮秀，也没有一名在棒球顶级 20 强新秀之列。外野手 Zyhir Hope 是由小熊队在第 11 轮选中的。当小熊队需要一名角落内野手时，道奇队的批评者们，你们本可以得到 Skubal。TARIK SKUBAL，此前效力于底特律，以三名新秀（没有一名是首轮秀）的价格加盟道奇队。David Berding Getty Images [见 Shaikin, A6] 观点 BILL SHAIKIN 专栏作家 抢夺之星：道奇队的 Friedman 为了得到 Skubal 采取了“激进”策略。体育, D1

这种危险在这个地区引起了极其沉重的共鸣，因为 2018 年的 Mati 山火造成 104 人死亡，是本世纪欧洲最致命的火灾。在更西的地方，尽管已将其控制，但紧急状态并未结束。法国规模最大的山火在迫使 224,000 人逃离后（这可能是该国战时以外最大规模的平民疏散行动），仍被维持在周界线内。在 162 平方英里的焦土中，热点仍在燃烧，数千人仍无法回家，近 3,000 名消防员被部署用于对抗 Gironde 特大火灾以及普罗旺斯另一场尚未被控制的火灾。法国和西班牙的火灾共计迫使约 30 万人离开家园和度假胜地，在欧洲夏季的高峰期使社区空无一人，且在多起并发灾难中使应急服务资源极度紧张。

欧洲创纪录的火灾损失 法国和西班牙的大规模疏散是欧洲日益增长的山火威胁的最新衡量指标。去年是欧洲有记录以来火灾最严重的一年，过火面积超过 3,860 平方英里。根据欧洲环境署的数据，在过去的四十年里，山火已导致欧洲大部分地区近 800 人死亡。

欧洲是全球变暖最快的大陆。根据欧盟的哥白尼气候变化服务机构，自 20 世纪 80 年代以来，其升温幅度超过全球平均水平的两倍。世界天气归因组织 (World Weather Attribution) 的科学家在火灾发生期间进行的一项快速分析发现，人为引起的气候变化使得今年法国火灾背后的极端火灾天气条件出现的概率增加了至少两倍。

近 500 名消防员和 23 架飞机被部署，但大风将火焰推向干枯的森林并削弱了响应能力，导致部分飞机无法抵达海面取水。随着浓烟升起，当局下令疏散 Kandili、Agia Skepi 和 Toutouli。救援人员尤其担心 Porto Germeno，一个位于科林斯湾的海滨社区。总理基里亚科斯·米佐塔基斯 (Kyriakos Mitsotakis) 听取了行动汇报。火灾于周五始于 Agios Vasileios 附近，随后席卷向 Porto Germeno 并进入雅典西部的森林山区。消防员周五通过海路疏散了 254 人，周六又疏散了 12 人——当火势和浓烟切断沿海社区仅有的几条道路时，海路通常是最后的逃生路线。山火气象学家西奥多·贾纳罗斯 (Theodore Giannaros) 估计火灾影响了 15 到 19 平方英里，尽管当局尚未公布官方数字。

在希腊其他地区，火焰威胁到凯法洛尼亚岛的房屋，迫使内陆社区疏散，飞机在该伊奥尼亚岛上空进行洒水。消防员在哈尔基迪基的 Nea Tenedos 附近与另一场大火搏斗。上周，两名消防员在克里特岛灭火时牺牲，第三名消防员在伯罗奔尼撒半岛丧生。“一片纯净的森林，一个天堂，就这样交到了火神的手中，”当地农民米纳斯·佐扎尼斯 (Minas Tzortzanis) 周六表示，“无法用言语解释发生了什么。毁灭，彻底的毁灭。”

法国防范新火灾 在法国西南部，Gironde 特大火灾在周日仍维持在周界线内，但在 10 天内烧毁 162 平方英里森林后继续燃烧。“火势目前已固定 (fixed)，但这并不意味着火被扑灭了，”Gironde 省政府表示，此处使用了法国消防术语，指火势的推进已被阻止。该地区仍处于森林火灾“红色”预警状态，这是法国的最高级别。干燥的条件，飙升的

波尔多周边的气温和午后的风威胁到可能会再次引发火灾。在勒波尔日（Le Porge），当地官员表示约 150 栋房屋被摧毁。机械师马蒂乌·普莱西斯（Matthieu Plessis）周六回到了他家族传承了七代的房屋废墟中。“有些地方我甚至认不出来了，”他说，“你根本不知道这里以前是什么，或者谁住在哪里。”来自乌克兰、立陶宛和法属波利尼西亚的消防员预计将于周日和周一抵达，以增强救援行动。

普罗旺斯火势仍未得到控制

在法国东南部，近 1,500 名消防员在瓦尔省（Var department）与另一场大火搏斗，这场火灾在短短一天多时间内就吞噬了约 7 平方英里。格罗斯-贝西隆（Gros Bessillon）火灾在周日经过一夜的围堵后趋于稳定，但仍未得到控制。由于火焰威胁到附近社区，约 2,500 人被撤离。这是自 7 月 19 日以来袭击瓦尔省中部的第四场重大火灾。几天前，布里尼奥勒（Brignoles）附近的一场较小火灾迫使演员乔治·克鲁尼（George Clooney）及其家人以及约 700 名其他居民在火势得到控制前撤离。

总理塞巴斯蒂安·勒科尔尼（Sebastien Lecornu）表示，法国的火灾总体上处于控制之中，但警告称情况依然不稳定。他任命了一名国家协调员来监督火灾受灾地区的重建工作。今年法国已有超过 452 平方英里的土地被烧毁。

西班牙火灾围困缓解

西班牙的重大火灾——这一季火灾已导致至少 13 人死亡，产生了该国记录中最大规模的野火，并引发了国家紧急状态——在周日不再蔓延。在靠近葡萄牙边境的萨莫拉省（Zamora province），20 多个地面和空中单位在崎岖的杜埃罗河岸（Arribes del Duero）地貌中守护费莫塞尔（Fermoselle）火灾的周边，以防止火势复燃。据当地媒体报道，大多数撤离者已返回家中。

总理佩德罗·桑切斯（Pedro Sánchez）呼吁达成一项应对野火的国家协议，并警告称气候变化正使其破坏力日益增强。

Becatoros 和 Adamson 为美联社撰稿。Adamson 在巴黎报道。美联社记者 Nicolas Garriga（在法国拉卡诺）、Michael Varaklas（在希腊梅加拉）和 Colleen Barry（在米兰）为本报道提供了协助。

希腊消防直升机相撞导致 2 人死亡

作者：Elena Becatoros 和 Thomas Adamson

这次空中相撞发生在与雅典西部的风驱动野火搏斗期间。上方为洒水作业。 Michael Varaklas 美联社

波哥大，哥伦比亚 —— 当地当局表示，周六一架搭载欧洲游客前往参观著名的纳斯卡线（Nazca Lines）的飞机在秘鲁城市纳斯卡市外的一片田野中坠毁，造成 13 人死亡。

纳斯卡市政府表示，该飞机从附近的伊卡市（Ica）起飞，由秘鲁公司 Aerodiana 运营。该航空公司在其网站上表示，过去 14 年里，该公司一直使用塞斯纳大篷车（Cessna Grand Caravan）飞机提供纳斯卡线的观光飞行。

纳斯卡线是由秘鲁原住民在几个世纪前于纳斯卡周围的沙漠中刮刻而成的一组庞大地理图形。这些线条构成的动物图像只能通过飞机或观景塔才能完整欣赏。

秘鲁交通部表示，死者中包括 7 名年龄在 18 至 54 岁之间的意大利公民，2 名 53 岁的西班牙人，以及 2 名分别为 77 和 78 岁的德国人。交通部在关于坠机事故的报告中称，飞行员阿梅里科·萨拉查（Américo Salazar）和副驾驶伊伦卡·瓜尼洛·德尔·卡皮奥（Irenka Guanilo del Carpio）也死于此次事故。

总统基科·藤森（Keiko Fujimori）对此次事故表示遗憾，并称一个“临时

有关该机场的“暂停运行”正在考虑中，不过将在收到相关部门的报告后做出决定。秘鲁当局表示，事故正在调查中。Aerodiana公司未立即对此发表评论。

13人在秘鲁观光飞机失事中丧生 欧洲游客当时正乘坐飞机前往观看著名的纳斯卡线。飞行员也已遇难。

美联社 特拉维夫 —— 一名以色列官员周日表示，针对拟议中的与哈马斯的解除武装协议，以色列已向白宫表达了“严重的安全担忧”。这是自特朗普总统上周宣布该协议以来，首批公开表态之一。

以色列总理办公室发言人多龙·斯皮尔曼（Doron Spielman）告诉美联社，以色列的情报评估认为，哈马斯致力于重建其军队，而非真正地去军事化。他表示，在哈马斯解除武装之前，以色列军队不会从加沙撤出——目前以色列控制着该地区 60% 以上的领土。

“我们的评估是，如果我们在哈马斯真正解除武装之前就重新部署，它将迅速扩大在整个加沙的存在，重建其恐怖主义基础设施，再次威胁以色列社区，并试图发起另一次 10月 7日 风格的袭击，”他在提到 2023 年触发加沙地带战争的哈马斯武装袭击以色列事件时说道。“解除武装意味着在物理上交出武器。绝不能少于此，”斯皮尔曼说。

他的表态是在哈马斯表示将作为九个月前签署的、由美国调解的停火协议的一部分开始解除武装几天后发表的。该协议旨在结束这场持续近三年的冲突。这标志着结束冲突的一个潜在突破，但仍存在许多障碍、条件和漫长的时间表。

停火计划仍面临障碍 这份 20 点的美国停火计划要求该武装组织上缴武器并摧毁其庞大的隧道网络。该计划还设想以色列军队从加沙撤出，建立一个新的巴勒斯坦技术官僚政府，部署国际安全部队，并重建遭受破坏的巴勒斯坦飞地。

哈马斯解除武装一直是一个症结，导致谈判陷入数月的僵局。特朗普周四在社交媒体上宣布该协议时表示，协议将分“精心构建的阶段”实施。美联社获得并核实的协议副本显示，由哈马斯运行的警察所持有的一切武器，将在美国支持的巴勒斯坦技术官僚委员会（即“加沙行政国家委员会”）抵达该飞地后，移交给该委员会。

目前尚不清楚这将在何时发生，因为这取决于其他步骤。在巴勒斯坦委员会抵达和国际部队部署之后，将启动重型武器的除役与存放，以及拆除军事生产场所和隧道的程序。根据协议，这一过程将与以色列的分阶段撤军挂钩。

以色列在加沙控制的地区大多已被摧毁且人口搬迁。该领土 2 百万巴勒斯坦人中的大多数分布在其他地区，那里有数十万人生活在肮脏的帐篷营地和被毁的街区中。以色列似乎不太可能在 10 月选举前撤出大量部队或做出其他让步。总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡面临一场艰苦的连任之战，其极右翼联盟伙伴敦促他继续向哈马斯施压并离开

加沙的武装力量，以及指责他未能阻止 2023年 10月 7日袭击的反对者。当时，哈马斯领导的武装分子袭击了以色列社区，造成约 1,200人死亡（其中大部分为平民），并绑架了 251人。据加沙卫生部称，以色列随即采取了惩罚性军事攻势，已导致超过 73,000人死亡。该部此前属于近期解散的哈马斯政府，其维护的详细记录被联合国机构和国际组织认为普遍可靠。该部门并不区分平民和武装分子，但表示妇女和儿童约占所有死亡人数的一半。

以色列警告哈马斯准备重新武装

尽管施皮尔曼表示，以色列感谢特朗普对其安全以及寻求持久解决方案的承诺，但政府在解除武装问题上的立场是基于详细的情报，即哈马斯仍在继续重新武装、招募战士并重建其军事能力。目前尚不清楚以色列具体向白宫传达了什么。两名了解该协议的人士告诉美联社，以色列已将其存在的问题告知了前英国首相托尼·布莱尔，后者是特朗普领导的“和平委员会”的一员。其中一人表示，以色列提出的要求之一是拥有在加沙进行军事行动的自由。由于未获授权与媒体接触，他们在发言时要求匿名。

以色列继续在加沙进行空袭

自 10 月签署停火协议以来，以色列继续袭击加沙，称其目标是哈马斯及其基础设施。在哈马斯同意解除武装后，这些袭击仍在继续。当地医院表示，周六深夜至周日，以色列的袭击造成至少 17人死亡，其中包括儿童。根据接收尸体的纳赛尔医院称，一次针对加沙南部一座公寓的袭击造成三名家庭成员死亡，其中包括他们 4岁的孩子。以色列军方表示，最新的袭击目标是哈马斯的军事行动人员。

Mednick 为美联社撰稿。

以色列质疑哈马斯解除武装 作者：Sam Mednick

一名女性在检查上个月加沙地带代尔巴拉一次以色列空袭后的残骸。Abdel Kareem Hana 美联社

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LATIMES.COM 星期一，2026年8月3日 A3 具有法律依据且有证据的调查。”走私汽油和柴油并非通过边境偏远地带秘密进入墨西哥。相反，这些燃料——绝大多数是在美国合法购买的——通过船只、火车和卡车抵达海港和边境口岸，是每日大量进口烃类物质的一部分。但这些石油产品在舱单中被掩盖——被贴上废料、润滑剂、残渣或其他无需缴纳墨西哥对进口燃料征收的高额税款的标签。或者，进口商将抵达的油轮登记为空载或近空载。而无数贪赃枉法的操作者——包括海关检查员、税务代理和军事指挥官等帮凶——则对此视而不见。大规模的非法贸易创造了意外之财。根据美国财政部引用的估算，在墨西哥销售的所有燃料中，可能竟有惊人的三分之一到四分之一是非法的，而美国财政部已对涉嫌参与墨西哥燃料走私的人员实施了制裁。财政部表示，燃料走私每年为有组织犯罪带来数百亿美元的收益，是卡特尔在毒品贩运之后第二大收入来源。根据财政部金融犯罪执法网络 6 月的一份警报，“卡特尔的走私计划还助长了猖獗的腐败和暴力，从而维持其全球毒品贩运行动以及在墨西哥的控制”。华盛顿和墨西哥城均对由不法官员、前壳公司和文件造假者等组成的复杂网络展开了打击行动。协助这些骗局的是一个由油轮、铁路线和卡车组成的庞大网络，将精炼燃料从边境和海港运送到墨西哥加油站。当局称，该阴谋还延伸到美国一侧的货运、物流和燃料公司。至少有一家德克萨斯州南部的石油分销机构的操作员——在一次名为“液体死亡”（Liquid Death）的美国行动中被锁定——正面临卡特尔串通和洗钱的联邦指控，涉嫌利用一个反向工程的 huachicol 蓝图：通过伪造海关文件将墨西哥石油进口到美国，从而逃避美国税收。

最近对鲁福 (Ruffo) 的逮捕令许多墨西哥人震惊，因为他一代人之前曾作为该国第一位反对派州长创造了历史，代表中右翼的国家行动党。他被视为反对 20 世纪大部分时间里墨西哥一党执政的先驱。然而，上个月的一张新闻照片中，这位 74 岁、出生于圣迭戈的鲁福被戴上了手铐，仿佛他只是另一个毒贩嫌疑人。

他被指控领导一家公司，该公司经常对货物贴错标签，以逃避从德克萨斯州进口燃料的税款。他及其七名涉嫌同谋者被下令关押在墨西哥臭名昭著的高安全性 Altiplano 监狱——这里是锡那罗亚卡特尔共同创始人华金·“小查波”·古兹曼在 2015 年上演电影般越狱的地点。鲁福否认了这些指控。他的辩护者称他为“政治犯”。甚至在抓获鲁福之前，不断扩大的 huachicol 税务丑闻已经给墨西哥海军留下了伤痕，而海军长期以来一直是该国最受信任的机构之一。当局表示，腐败的海军军官将他们本应监督的港口变成了充斥贿赂的走私枢纽。2025年3月，墨西哥特工在坦皮科湾港扣押了一艘悬挂马来西亚国旗的油轮“挑战者普罗西翁”（Challenge Procyon）号。调查人员将该油轮与 2.6 million 加仑的德克萨斯州

柴油被错误地贴标为润滑油添加剂。调查很快指向了一对海军中的“关系户”：曼努埃尔·罗伯托·法里亚斯·拉古纳 (Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna) 和他的兄弟费尔南多 (Fernando) ——尽管他们是亲兄弟，但被人们称为“Los Primos”（堂兄弟）。许多人断言，这两名年轻的将领得益于家族庇护，事业突飞猛进：他们是前海军部长何塞·拉斐尔·奥赫达·杜兰 (José Rafael Ojeda Durán) 的侄子。曼努埃尔·罗伯托·法里亚斯因走私指控被关在阿尔蒂普拉诺监狱。他的兄弟逃往阿根廷，在布宜诺斯艾利斯的一个时尚街区被捕，目前仍被羁押，等待墨西哥的引渡请求。

“Los Primos”一案戏剧化地揭示了武装部队中贪腐的泛滥。有些人从中看到了阴暗的讽刺：五年前，愤怒的总统安德烈斯·曼努埃尔·洛佩斯·奥夫拉多尔 (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) 曾抱怨腐败的海关体制导致有组织犯罪接管了陆路和海路入境口岸。总统将口岸的控制权移交给军方，这是一个重大调整。然而，许多人表示，在将军和将领的领导下，贪腐反而加剧了。

“海关中一直存在腐败网络，”科阿韦拉自治大学的教授维克多·曼努埃尔·桑切斯 (Víctor Manuel Sánchez) 说道。科阿韦拉是一个北边与德克萨斯州接壤的边境州，当地警方曾查获装满来自邻州德克萨斯州走私燃料的货车。“但似乎整个‘税务走私燃料’ (huachicol fiscal) 问题是在海关职责移交给军方之后才开始爆发的。”辛鲍姆 (Sheinbaum) 表示，前海军首脑、也是“Los Primos”的叔父奥赫达·杜兰在这次丑闻中已洗清嫌疑。

:: 燃料走私是一场高风险的游戏。任何被视为告密者或背叛者的人都无法幸免。2024年11月，在太平洋港口城市曼萨尼约 (Manzanillo)，摩托车上的杀手枪杀了一名海军少将，据称该将领曾举报海军参与燃料走私。几周前，曼萨尼约另一个类似的摩托车袭击小组枪杀了一名联邦特工，据报道该特工当时正在调查港口腐败。2021年，绰号为“燃料之王” (Rey Huachicol) 且拥有政治背景的企业家塞尔吉奥·卡蒙纳·安古洛 (Sergio Carmona Angulo) 在蒙特雷郊区圣佩德罗加尔萨加西亚 (San Pedro Garza García) 的一家理发店被枪杀，那里经常被称作墨西哥最富有的城镇。

:: 尽管通过燃料油避税是一种相对较新的现象，但被盗的墨西哥燃料（简称为 huachicol）已经流通了数十年。盗贼长期以来采用各种手段 —— 钻孔偷油、劫持油罐车或直接抢劫国家能源公司墨西哥石油公司 (Pemex) 的设施。燃料盗窃造成的惊人损失，是导致 Pemex 长期深陷债务危机的诸多因素之一。但“税务走私燃料” (huachicol fiscal) 的出现，使燃料窃取活动规模扩大，且性质更加阴险。

为此买单的是在加油站加油的墨西哥消费者，以及广大民众。被从政府金库转移走的税款原本可以用于资助教育、医疗和其他社会需求。科阿韦拉的桑切斯说：“我们讨论的是数亿美元，这些钱本该用于社会公益，结果却全部落入了黑手党之手。”

特派记者塞西莉亚·桑切斯·维达尔 (Cecilia Sánchez Vidal) 对本报道亦有贡献。

墨西哥销售的燃料中可能有三分之一是违法的 [墨西哥，见A1页]

前下加利福尼亚州州长埃内斯托·鲁福 (Ernesto Ruffo) 正在面临燃料计划相关的指控。

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巴基斯坦，白沙瓦 (PESHAWAR) —— 一名自杀式袭击者针对反激进分子抗议者实施了袭击

官员表示，周日在巴基斯坦西北部的一次集会上发生袭击，造成至少 14 人死亡，死者多为平民和警员，另有二十多人受伤。地区警察局长奥马尔·汗表示，袭击发生在开伯尔-普什图省斯瓦特谷的卡巴尔镇，示威者当时聚集在一家警察局附近，高喊反激进分子口号并要求和平。据证人透露，在袭击发生前不久，集会上的发言者表示，确保安全和消除激进主义是国家的责任。他们还指责当局未能果断采取行动打击激进分子，称在经历了多年摧毁该地区的暴力之后，居民希望在没有恐惧的情况下生活。开伯尔-普什图省紧急服务发言人比拉尔·法伊齐表示，袭击者袭击了数十名高喊反激进分子口号并要求和平的人员。汗表示，死者中至少包括九名平民和五名警员。

巴基斯坦总统阿西夫·阿里·扎尔达里和总理谢巴兹·谢里夫谴责了这次爆炸事件。他们在分别发表的声明中向死者家属表示哀悼，并为伤者祈祷，承诺提供最好的医疗护理。他们还表示，巴基斯坦打击恐怖主义的斗争将一直持续到将其根除为止。内政部长莫辛·纳奎表达了类似的观点。

斯瓦特谷曾是伊斯兰激进分子的据点，他们强行实施严格的沙里亚法（即伊斯兰法），直到 2007 年巴基斯坦军队发起一项重大行动将其赶出并恢复政府控制。但近几个月来，激进分子在巴基斯坦斯瓦特谷重新出现，引发了人们对巴基斯坦塔利班试图在该地区重新获得立足点的担忧。作为回应，居民多次举行反塔利班集会，抗议激进分子在整个山谷的存在。

目前尚无组织立即宣布对此次爆炸负责，但怀疑对象很可能是巴基斯坦塔利班（即 Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan，简称 TTP）。TTP 与阿富汗的塔利班统治者相互独立，但彼此结盟。自 2021 年塔利班重新掌权以来，该组织许多领导人和战士在阿富汗找到了庇护所。巴基斯坦长期指责阿富汗塔利班政府庇护 TTP 激进分子，但喀布尔方面否认这一指控。

近年来，巴基斯坦的激进分子袭击事件激增，尤其是针对警察和安全部队的袭击。周五，巴基斯坦军方发言人艾哈迈德·沙里夫·乔杜里表示，自 1 月以来，巴基斯坦记录了 3,145 起“恐怖主义事件”。他表示，自 1 月以来，巴基斯坦已击毙 2,084 名激进分子，而包括士兵、警员和平民在内的 819 名巴基斯坦人被杀。乔杜里还表示，自 1 月以来，总部位于阿富汗的激进分子在巴基斯坦发动了 28 起自杀式袭击，并指称大多数袭击是由阿富汗国民或与阿富汗安全部队相关人员实施的。他表示，TTP 和其他激进组织在阿富汗塔利班统治者的支持下在巴基斯坦境内发动袭击，巴基斯坦将继续打击 TTP 及其支持基础设施。

Khan 为美联社撰稿。美联社驻白沙瓦记者 Rasool Dawar 和驻巴基斯坦德拉-伊斯梅尔-汗记者 Ishtiaq Mahsud 为本报道提供协助。

巴基斯坦和平抗议活动导致 14 人死亡 自杀式袭击导致聚集在斯瓦特谷警察局附近的数十人受伤。 作者：Riaz Khan At Wagner

节日，AI 意味着观众的愤怒。周六，AI 辅助投影让《诸神的黄昏》的观众感到困惑。Eckehard Schulz DAPD / 美联社 德国城市的实验性舞台呈现引发了观众的喝倒彩和困惑。美联社。这些图像由多特蒙德戏剧与数字化学院院长 Lobbes 及其团队预先挑选。据德国新闻社 DPA 报道，技术在舞台上投射的拼贴图像让观众感到困惑，图像包括已故德国前总理赫尔穆特·科尔，处于一个视觉上沸腾的光影、纹理、历史和关联的宇宙中，投影不断爆发、转移并相互融合。

柏林 —— 在德国东南部小镇拜罗伊特著名的年度理查德·瓦格纳音乐节上，一项关于人工智能的实验在产生了一场令部分观众感到困惑的演出后，引发了观众的喝倒彩。据德国新闻社 DPA 报道，策展人马库斯·洛贝斯（Marcus Lobbes）及其团队在周六晚上《诸神的黄昏》演出结束登台时，受到了喝倒彩和口哨声的迎接。然而，歌手和音乐家，特别是指挥克里斯蒂安·蒂勒曼（Christian Thielemann）则获得了热烈的掌声。音乐节组织者在演出前表示，这将是 AI 首次在活动中参与舞台呈现，“不是作为一个角色，而是作为一种图像生成力量”。他们表示，歌手将是“固定点”。

AI 辅助投影包括瓦格纳《指环》系列之前的表演场景和历史主题，并从图像中提取了 2001 年 9 月 11 日袭击后的世界贸易中心双塔，以及一张纪念 1990 年德国统一的特殊邮票。音乐节网站称，“每场演出都将是独一无二的 —— 因为图像和关联永远不会静止”。

印度尼西亚泗水 —— 官员表示，周日一艘搭载 271 人的印度尼西亚渡轮在爪哇主岛附近海域起火，导致至少五人死亡，数十人失踪，救援人员和过往船只从燃烧的船上疏散了数百人。据印度尼西亚国家搜索和救援局（Basarnas）称，Mutiara Sentosa 2 渡轮当时正从东爪哇的印度尼西亚第二大城市泗水前往南苏拉威西省的望加锡市，船上载有 232 名乘客和 39 名船员。起火发生在上午 6 点到 7 点之间，地点位于苏门拿普县附近海域。

Basarnas 在一份声明中表示，渡轮运营商 PT Atosim Lampung Pelayaran 在约一小时后向泗水搜索救援办公室报告了该事件。声明称，该公司收到渡轮船长的信息，称船只在马杜拉岛北端附近起火，但随后失去了联系。到上午 9:45，当局在与附近的 Meratus Project 3 货船沟通后，确定渡轮位于布鲁安萨普迪岛以北约 19 海里处。由于该货船载有易燃货物，无法靠近燃烧的船只。

国家搜索和救援局发布的视频显示，浓浓的黑烟从渡轮的一侧翻滚而出，并蔓延到船的大部分区域。而社交媒体和群组中流传的视频显示，惊恐的乘客（大多数穿着救生衣）聚集在船的甲板和上层区域等待救援，在橙色火焰和黑烟从燃烧的船只中翻滚而出时，有些人跳入了海中。据报道，该渡轮几乎

被火焰吞没，乘客聚集在船桥和船头。声明称，一艘拖船和另一艘经过的船只在上午 10 点前开始撤离乘客。到周日下午，几艘附近的船只成功营救了 225 名乘客和船员，并寻获五具尸体。至少 41 人仍然失踪。起火原因目前尚不清楚，仍在调查中。搜救队伍从泗水派遣了一艘船，不过官员估计需要约六小时才能到达现场。来自苏门讷普（Sumenep）救援站的一艘硬底充气艇被派往该地点，但随后因海况恶劣、波浪较高而返回岸边。印度尼西亚海军也部署了一艘军舰协助救援。该渡轮长 525 英尺，宽 82 英尺，往返于泗水-望加路（Surabaya-Makassar）航线，这次航程通常需要约 40 小时，主要用于爪哇岛和苏拉威西岛之间的国内旅客运输和货物运输。印度尼西亚是一个由 17,000 多个岛屿组成的群岛国家，渡轮是常见的交通方式。灾难经常发生，安全执法不力往往被认为是原因。Trisnadi 和 Karmini 为美联社撰稿。Karmini 在雅加达报道。美联社驻印度尼西亚雅加达记者 Edna Tarigan 为本报道提供了协助。

浓烟从在印度尼西亚马都罗岛海域搭载 271 人的 Mutiara Sentos 2 渡轮中滚滚而出。美联社

印度尼西亚渡轮起火导致 5 人死亡，数十人失踪 作者：Trisnadi 和 Niniek Karmini

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A4 周一，2026年8月3日 LATIMES.COM $389 加利福尼亚翻新服务：浴缸 • 瓷砖 • 水槽 • 玻璃纤维 仅翻新浴缸 原价 $439 请与持有执照的承包商交易 www.bathtubkingcalifornia.com 执照号 775121 促销代码：LATPD 1-800-882-5464 LAA8023308-1 优惠券 $50 有效期至 8 / 15 / 26 华盛顿 —— 特朗普总统表示，他将命令美军暂停对伊朗的新一轮打击，声称中东盟友已就结束这场持续五个月战争的协议达成参数。特朗普在周六晚间的一篇社交媒体帖子中写道，这份初步达成的协议“将包括立即、全面且彻底地 重新开放 霍尔穆兹海峡，并结束伊朗的核威胁”。特朗普表示：“基于这一请求，为了 世界 的未来利益，以及一个成功且繁荣的伊朗的生存，我已同意取消袭击，前提是能够快速达成一项 协议”。自从美国和以色列在2月28, 日袭击伊朗以来，特朗普已多次宣布停止对伊朗的打击，但随后局势往往陷入崩溃，战斗再次重启。伊朗国防部长在 X 上表示，在特朗普宣布后，该国“既不感到惊讶，也没有采取被动态度”，并表示面对来自美国的具体威胁，伊朗继续保持警惕。虽然伊朗领导层在传递强硬与耐力的策略上似乎保持统一，但在该政教合一国家的领导层内部，反对与美国进行所有谈判的人员，与那些指望通过军事压力在谈判桌上获胜的人员之间，似乎正酝酿着一场权力之争。

恢复谈判的提案 一名地区官员表示，特朗普在周末宣布的提案要求美国和伊朗恢复谈判，并继续解决此前阻碍协议进展的问题。该官员参与了调解工作，他表示，该提案要求重新开放霍尔穆兹海峡，并停止整个地区的袭击，包括由伊朗支持的伊拉克民兵对阿拉伯海湾国家和约旦的袭击。他表示，作为交换，美国将结束对伊朗的海上封锁，并允许德黑兰按照初步停火协议的规定出口石油。该官员因未获得向媒体发表评论的授权而要求匿名，他表示目前尚未达成最终协议，但调解工作正在进行中。

特朗普表示，以色列将加入他的承诺，通过执行停火协议来结束战争。以色列未就此公告发表公开评论。

周四，特朗普还宣布了一项与加沙地带哈马斯的解除武装协议。但周日，一名以色列官员告诉美联社，以色列已就此向白宫表达了“严重的安全担忧”。与此同时，巴勒斯坦方面报告称，以色列在整个飞地的袭击规模有所增加，从一夜之间到周日下午，至少有 1 人死亡。以色列军方表示，袭击目标是武装分子。

沙特担心遭到报复 据沙特新闻社报道，沙特事实上的领导人王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼周六与特朗普进行了电话交谈，并对美国可能升级与伊朗冲突表示担忧。一名获悉通话内容的但未获授权公开评论的人士表示，沙特方面担心德黑兰可能会通过攻击沙特王国和其他海湾国家的能源基础设施来做出回应。这次通话发生在特朗普发布社交媒体公告之前。

该人士表示。该人士还称，王储试图从特朗普那里明确，他正在考虑对伊朗采取什么样的潜在新行动。一名未获授权公开评论并要求匿名的白宫官员确认，两国领导人于周六进行了交谈，但未提供任何细节。自战争开始以来，伊朗一直在攻击未经其授权试图通过霍尔木兹海峡的船只。Madhani和Magdy为美联社撰稿。Madhani在华盛顿报道。美联社驻开罗记者Toqa Ezzidin、驻耶路撒冷记者Giovanna Dell’Orto、驻特拉维夫记者Melanie Lidman以及驻以色列纳哈里亚记者Natalie Melzer参与了本报道。

特朗普声称新的伊朗协议可能即将达成 地区官员表示，一项停火提案将要求重返谈判桌。 作者：Aamer Madhani 和 Samy Magdy

西班牙，休达（CEUTA）——Dikra，一名来自摩洛哥的 20 岁移民，在与妹妹和表亲一起游向西班牙领土后，截至周日已在休达停留了五天。从那时起，她所有的食物都来自当地居民，且她不确定下一餐何时能吃到。然而，Dikra确定她不想回去。“我想留下。我想去西班牙，”Dikra说，出于安全原因，她要求隐去姓氏。

到周日下午，Dikra成为了该市最后留下的移民之一。在此之前，在周四和周五突破摩洛哥边境的 60,000 名移民中，已有数万人返回该国。在这次跨境过程中至少有 72 人死亡，其中大多数死于溺水。这次突然的人潮所引发的人道主义危机，重新点燃了欧洲及其他地区关于移民问题的争论。

Dikra说，她在摩洛哥的港口城市丹吉尔担任清洁工，但决定与妹妹和表亲一起离开，部分原因是想逃离她酗酒的父亲。她希望在西班牙本土利用她的美发文凭——而她与那里之间仍被直布罗陀海峡和欧盟复杂的庇护制度所隔开。

同样来自摩洛哥的 Abdel Karim， 35 岁，周日在休达官方移民接收中心外等待，询问官员关于如何处理仍留在市内的坚持不走者的最新进展。Karim在摩洛哥时失业，多年前曾在西班牙本土生活，后来被法国驱逐，当时他在法国街头生活。“在摩洛哥，我被视为一名被遣返者，”Karim说。“被遣返的人知道这意味着什么——压力、抑郁、焦虑。”

Karim说，他在社交媒体上看到了关于人们跨境的消息，并利用了这次混乱。他说，他跨境时兜里只有 10 欧元，并指了指他起水泡的脚。Karim说，在西班牙，他愿意从事任何能找到的工作，且对于如何到达那里并不担心。

休达及其西班牙姐妹城市梅利利亚不属于欧盟的申根区，前往欧洲大陆的人员在抵达时必须经过边境检查。周日晚上，在休达的一处海滩上，几天前抵达的数百名移民聚集在一起。有些人拥在军用卡车周围，西班牙士兵在那里分发饮用水。

塞内加尔移民 Cesse Aliou， 25 岁，与一群撒哈拉以南的男女在附近避难所外休息。Aliou说，在摩洛哥，他在一家呼叫中心每月赚约 $322，但工作并不稳定。因此，他从卡萨布兰卡乘坐火车前往丹吉尔，然后前往Fni-deq，并从那里游向休达，他说道。在街道对面，靠近另一块林地的...

避难所，一群移民开始为居民带到该地区的饮用水而发生争执。“我们非常疲惫。在这里，吃饭和睡觉都非常困难，”阿里乌（Aliou）指着这场冲突说道，“你们可以看到情况是怎样的。”纳什达姆（Naishadham）为美联社撰稿。部分休达移民仍抱有希望。作者：苏曼·纳什达姆（Suman Naishadham）。周日，进入西班牙属地休达（Ceuta）的人们被护送到摩洛哥边境。Bernat Armangue，美联社。

东京 —— 官员们周日表示，一名在车内避难时中暑的女性是上周袭击日本西南部熊本县强震的最新遇难者，随着该地区正遭受极端高温，人们对与热相关的疾病的担忧日益增加。熊本县官员表示，这名 70 多岁且有明显中暑迹象的女性被发现于车内，随着她的发现，地震死亡人数上升至 36。这场 7.1 级地震于周二袭击了日本南部九州主岛的熊本县。在高温背景下，这起最新的死亡事件正是官员和专家所担心的。熊本当局将开始向在车内避难的人们发放传单，敦促他们留在阴凉处，饮用充足的液体，并定期活动以避免血栓风险。

NHK公共电视台称，该女性于周四被发现死在一辆没油的车内。“这令人心碎，”熊本县知事木村隆（Takashi Kimura）在谈到这名女性的死亡时说道，他呼吁在车内避难的疏散人员继续为车辆加油以运行空调，或考虑搬至设有空调的疏散中心。在日本遭受酷暑袭击之际，该县面临的主要挑战是淡水短缺，仍影响着近 47,000 户家庭，以及燃料短缺。

日本气象厅表示，周六熊本市的温度达到了约 98 华氏度的“极端高温”水平，预计周日温度将进一步升高。超过 9,000 人仍留在拥挤的避难所中，例如临时改建的社区中心、学校体育馆和教室，其中许多地方缺乏空调。许多其他的人则睡在停在市政厅停车场、公园内或家外的车里。由于受灾严重地区的燃料供应短缺，随着燃料配送逐渐重启，在恢复运营的加油站出现了长长的排队车辆。

专家长期以来一直批评日本应急避难所的拥挤状况，认为缺乏卫生条件和隐私会增加额外的压力，并提高受灾群众出现健康问题的风险。总理高市早苗（Sanae Takaichi）在周六的一次政府工作组会议上表示，水、食物和其他必需品（包括移动厕所），以及空调和隔断正在被运送到疏散中心以改善条件。“政府决心竭尽全力，”高市说道。

周六，当局在鹿岛镇的永旺购物中心（Aeon Mall）结束了持续数日的规模庞大的搜救行动，此前已救出五人并寻获七具遗体。在地震后引发的爆炸导致墙壁和楼层坍塌后，该地点成为了受灾最严重的区域之一。该公司表示，爆炸原因被认为是气体泄漏，爆炸发生时，大约 3,000 名购物者在地震后已疏散至停车场，但仍有部分员工留在内部。购物中心的二楼坍塌。整体失踪人数为

该县的情况仍不明确，搜救行动仍在继续，数千名士兵、警察、救援人员和搜救犬被部署在现场。高市敦促救援人员不要放弃任何人。在熊本县另一个受灾严重的地点，八代市日本制纸工业（Nippon Paper Industries）工厂的一根烟囱倒塌，导致 11 名员工被困。官员表示，其中 9 人已被确认死亡，2 人获救。当局称，此次地震导致熊本县 105 人受伤，除了已报告的死亡人数外，另有两起死亡病例正在调查，以确定是否与地震有关。该县表示，目前仍有不到 900 户家庭停电，而服务于九州地区的电力公司表示，尚未收到即时停电报告。官员称，180 栋以上的房屋被摧毁；根据熊本县的评估，3,800 栋以上的建筑受损，其中 20 栋受损严重。

Yamaguchi 为美联社供稿。

日本地震后，一名女性在车内避难时死亡 作者：Mari Yamaguchi

周日，一名骑行者经过日本西南部熊本县受损的建筑。 Taichi Nagahisa，共同社

莫斯科 —— 莫斯科市长谢尔盖·索比亚宁（Sergei Sobyanin）周日称，前一天发生在首都的一家餐厅的炸弹袭击是一次“残酷的恐怖行径”，但未说明谁可能对此负责。俄罗斯国家媒体援引当地官员的话称，周六晚上在莫斯科市中心一家名为 Balzi Rossi 的高档意大利餐厅发生的爆炸，除炸弹袭击者外，还造成两人死亡。至少 21 其他人受伤。

“昨天，莫斯科发生了一起残酷的恐怖行径，造成了人员伤亡。受害者目前在市内的医院接受所有必要的护理，”索比亚宁周日在社交媒体上写道。他补充说，调查正在进行中。“犯下此罪行的人一定会被找到，并面临应得的惩罚，”他写道。俄罗斯国家通讯社新现状（Ria Novosti）报道，一名女性企图将炸弹走私进餐厅，但在爆炸前一名保安拒绝让她进入。她和该保安以及一名餐厅顾客被炸死。

截至周日下午早些时候，俄罗斯当局尚未提供进一步信息，也没有人公开宣布对此负责。据新现状报道，Balzi Rossi 餐厅在周六晚上爆炸发生时正因私人活动而关闭。俄罗斯国家媒体发布的视频显示，现场有全副武装的执法人员、数辆救护车和其他应急车辆。

今年早些时候，俄罗斯联邦安全局宣布，在克里姆林宫于 2022. 年 2 月全面入侵乌克兰后，俄罗斯各城市发生一系列暗杀企图，当局将加强对高级军事和政府官员的安保措施。到目前为止，俄罗斯当局尚未将周六的爆炸与之前的袭击或乌克兰战争建立任何联系。俄罗斯此前称，去年 4 月在莫斯科发生的一起造成俄罗斯总参谋部主要作战部副部长亚罗斯拉夫·莫斯卡里克（Yaroslav Moskalik）中将死亡的汽车炸弹袭击是由基辅策划的。乌克兰并未公开承认责任。

但乌克兰安全局（SBU）早前表示，它组织了 2024 年 12 月对伊戈尔·基里洛夫（Igor Kirillov）中将的暗杀，基里洛夫曾领导俄罗斯军队的核、生物和化学防护部队。基里洛夫被安置在踏板车中的炸弹炸死。

在他位于莫斯科的公寓楼外，就在乌克兰安全部门对他提出刑事指控的一天后。俄罗斯境内轰炸袭击的其他知名受害者还包括影响力巨大的民族主义思想家亚历山大·杜金的女儿达丽亚·杜金娜，以及著名的亲克里姆林宫军事博主弗拉德伦·塔塔尔斯基。基辅否认参与了针对杜金娜的袭击，并且没有回应俄罗斯关于其是塔塔尔斯基之死的幕后黑手的指控。

莫斯科市长称此次轰炸为“恐怖袭击”

周六在俄罗斯首都的一家餐厅发生的袭击中，两人及一名轰炸者死亡。

谢尔盖·韦佳什金 莫斯科新闻社 美联社

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LATIMES.COM 周一，2026 年 8 月 3 日 A5 全美 哥伦布，俄亥俄州 —— 为了寻找夺回美国众议院控制权的狭窄路径，民主党人在俄亥俄州东北部的一个国会选区看到了新的机遇。该选区的共和党现任议员正面临关于家庭暴力指控的日益增长的压力，而一名共和党参议员（即其前岳父）在周日表示，该议员不适合担任公职。

针对众议员马克斯·米勒（Max Miller）的指控已公开多年。米勒曾在特朗普总统的第一任期内担任白宫顾问，并获得了特朗普的背书。但近期，由于他与前妻（即美国参议员伯尼·莫雷诺 [Bernie Moreno，共和党-俄亥俄州] 的女儿）之间升级的法律博弈，这些指控引起了媒体更多的关注。这使得民主党人认为，米勒在他两年前以略高于 51% 的得票率获胜的选区中可能处于劣势。

周日，米勒的候选人资格面临的威胁显著增加。莫雷诺表示，他的前女婿不应在众议院任职，且应该“寻求专业帮助”；而米勒则在社交媒体的一段视频中为自己辩护，否认了这些指控。

米勒坚称自己不会退出竞选。莫雷诺在米勒与其女儿艾米莉（Emily）的监护权纠纷展开的近几个月里一直公开克制，他在一篇长文中写道：“如果担任民选公职需要任何基本的人格标准，马克斯·米勒都不合格。他不应该在众议院任职。”莫雷诺写道，米勒“需要严重的心理帮助。他对我的女儿构成了威胁，在他监护我孙女的每一分钟里，我都紧张得屏住呼吸。”

米勒在周日表示，他将在周三替换他职位的截止日期前继续参加连任竞选。“我不会退出这次竞选，我将在 11 月获胜，”他说道。

艾米莉·莫雷诺表示，米勒在两人结婚期间曾烫伤、殴打并威胁她。米勒在视频中否认了这些指控，正如他过去所做的那样。在回顾这些指控时，米勒说：“这令人难以接受。”米勒还表示，他与他们 2 岁女儿锁骨骨折一事无关，该事件导致艾米莉·莫雷诺联系了当局。根据最初披露孩子受伤情况的《母亲琼斯》（Mother Jones）杂志所详述的法院文件和警方报告，这对 2022 年结婚并在去年完成离婚手续的夫妇，对该伤势如何发生提供了不同的说法。

米勒在发布公告的同时，公开了一批与监护权纠纷相关的调查和法院文件。艾米莉·莫雷诺的发言人斯特凡·米恰伊利夫（Stefan Mychajliw）在周日表示，该视频“令人感到羞耻”。“没有任何一个充满爱心的父母会把女儿当作公关棋子来挽救自己的政治生涯，”米恰伊利夫说。“米勒可以在 X 上撒谎和操纵舆论，但他不能在法庭上宣誓后这样做。我们坚信正义将在法庭上得到伸张。”

共和党反应 莫雷诺参议员的声明引起了其家乡州内部的一些焦虑，在该地区，像米勒这样获得特朗普背书的候选人通常能轻松获胜。白宫未对此评论请求做出回应。

米勒的民主党对手布莱恩·波因德克斯特（Brian Poindexter）表示，任何面临此类指控的人都“不属于权力殿堂”。州代表迈克·多维拉（Mike Dovilla，美国海军退伍军人及前人事管理局总统任命官员），以及凯文·科夫林（Kevin Coughlin，前州参议员兼代表，曾于 2024 和 2026 年竞选美国众议员），都是被提及的潜在共和党接替人选。

一位要求匿名的共和党高层在讨论这一敏感话题时表示，米勒应当退选。民主党人已呼吁米勒辞职，要求进行国会伦理调查，并暗示在秋季可以向工会铁工波因德克斯特提供更多支持。在此之前，共和党人普遍支持米勒，称他为选区做出了贡献，且在11月的选举中具有竞争力。共和党州长迈克·德温告诉《俄亥俄州资本日报》，这些指控令人不安且“非常严重”，但米勒的命运应由选民决定。这种紧张局势出现之际，共和党人正试图在11月的选举中捍卫其在众议院的微弱多数席位。俄亥俄州资深共和党顾问特里·凯西表示，米勒在这一倾向共和党的选区中仍处于强势获胜地位，该选区从克利夫兰向南延伸，并在两年前由特朗普决定性地赢得。除非获得美国参议员伯尼·桑德斯（佛蒙特州民主党）背书的波因德克斯特能够吸引足够的资金，以增加其在第七国会选区媒体市场中的广告投入。凯西说：“除非严肃对待此事的人愿意投入大笔资金，我认为大约从 $2 million 起步，否则一切都不过是口头操练。”全国共和党国会委员会拒绝讨论是否会匹配任何涌入的民主党资金。米勒的筹款额显著高于波因德克斯特，尽管这位民主党人的竞选团队表示，近几周其社交媒体粉丝数激增。

民主党呼吁进行伦理调查 上周，克利夫兰民主党众议员肖特尔·布朗表示，米勒如果辞职“将是明智的”。众议院民主党女性党团呼吁进行伦理调查。新墨西哥州民主党众议员特蕾莎·莱格尔·费尔南德斯、俄亥俄州众议员埃米莉亚·赛克斯和密歇根州众议员希拉里·肖尔滕在信中写道：“近期关于众议员马克斯·米勒涉嫌家庭暴力和虐待儿童的报道令人深感不安，国会不能对此视而不见。”并补充道：“针对妇女和儿童的暴力指控必须得到最严肃的对待。”

其他指控 米勒否认了所有虐待指控。去年春天，他的发言人向美联社提供了证明文件，显示几项关于他虐待女儿的指控已由库亚霍加县儿童与家庭服务部门调查，并被认定为缺乏事实依据。他已起诉埃米莉·莫雷诺诽谤。这对夫妇的争执在两周前升级。周四，埃米莉·莫雷诺的律师请求法官发布临时禁制令，禁止米勒与其律师安德鲁·扎申接触。起诉书称，米勒在去年5月的一次法庭听证会外对扎申大声辱骂，并挑衅其“来跟我干！”，随后在周二的另一次程序中抓住了扎申。法院文件中引用米勒律师的话称，他的客户“简直无法控制自己”。该律师未接听寻求评论的电话。

上个月，米勒的前女友、前白宫新闻秘书斯蒂芬妮·格里舍姆对他提起诉讼。她指责米勒违反了两人为解决其 2021 年针对她的诉讼而达成的秘密和解协议条款。在该诉讼中，米勒指控格里舍姆在她的书中以及在《华盛顿邮报》的一篇评论文章中诽谤他，格里舍姆在文中称，一名此前被确认为米勒的前白宫工作人员在两人约会期间对其进行肢体虐待。虽然书中对具体指控描述模糊，但 Politico

当时报道称，格里舍姆和米勒的关系在“她指责他出轨后，他在华盛顿的公寓里将她推到墙上并扇了她一耳光”时宣告结束。格里舍姆在 7 月 7 日提交的新起诉状中指称，米勒将其姓名卷入他与莫雷诺的纠纷中，并违反了双方互不诋毁的协议。

民主党的策略 对于波因德克斯特来说，针对米勒的指控为 11 月的意外反转提供了一条可能的路径——如果部分保守派倾向的选民选择他，或者足够的共和党选民被家庭暴力指控所厌恶而选择留在家中。

“这些是非常严重的指控，理应引起执法部门的高度关注，”波因德克斯特在一份声明中表示。“如果针对米勒议员的所有指控都被证明属实，那么麦克斯·米勒应该在监狱里，而不是担心如何保住国会议席。”

吉姆·特拉卡斯，前州立法者及俄亥俄州东北部的共和党主席，表示在如此接近选举的时间点出现这些新进展，对米勒毫无帮助。

“对任何现任者来说，这都是困难的一年，”他说。“现在你不得不把时间花在这些事情上，而你本想专注于核心议题，即经济民生问题。”

Smyth、Jalonick 和 Catalini 为美联社撰稿。

共和党现任议员面临退出竞选压力 参议员莫雷诺（米勒的前岳父）表示，俄亥俄州议员米勒不适合担任公职。 作者：Julie Carr Smyth, Mary Clare Jalonick 和 Mike Catalini

共和党议员麦克斯·米勒 (Max Miller, R-Ohio) 与当时的妻子艾米莉在 2022. 拍摄。她指控他实施虐待，而他对此予以否认。民主党希望夺回该席位。 摄影：Amanda Andrade-Rhoades 美联社

爱达荷州双瀑市 —— 警方周日表示，在爱达荷州南部一家 In-N-Out Burger 餐厅发生的致命枪击案中，一名嫌疑人死于自杀性枪伤；警方称一名休假警察和一名旁观者的开枪行为使其转移了目标。

警长马修·希克斯在新闻发布会上表示，调查人员确信，在周六于双瀑市发生的枪击案中，被确认为 24 岁男子的枪手查德·威廉姆斯是单独行动。

在这座人口约 56,000 人的爱达荷州南部城市中，这家新开业的餐厅内有 3 人死亡，另有 7 人受伤。

在周日上午关于枪击案的最新进展中，一名官员表示，根据新闻报道，目前尚不清楚该枪手是否包含在三名死者之中。

当局周日表示，伤者中有两人仍处于危殆状态，三人仍住院治疗且情况稳定，两人经治疗后已获释。

希克斯表示，一名休假州警和一名携带武器的旁观者（身份尚未立即披露）均进行了还击，并将枪手引离了餐厅。

“我们认为他们的行动帮助将嫌疑人赶离了现场，防止了进一步的伤亡，”警长说。“我们想花一点时间表扬这名休假警员和这位公民，以及他们为制止此次事件而采取的英雄行动。”

希克斯表示，侦探们正在努力确定威廉姆斯的动机，并称嫌疑人家属正在配合执法部门工作。

他还警告称，网络上流传着错误信息，将另一名男子误认为枪手，并表示该男子“与此次事件完全没有任何关系”。

这家加州快餐连锁店的所有者表示，死者中有一名员工。

“我的心破碎了，胸口沉重，眼睛因流泪而灼烧。今晚我们失去了一位优秀的员工，”In-N-Out 所有者林西·斯奈德在早些时候发布的一份声明中表示。

周日在社交媒体上表示：“In-N-Out 将与受害者家属一同哀悼并为他们祈祷，陪伴他们度过这段极其痛苦的时期。”这家 In-N-Out 餐厅大约在一周前的 7 月 24 日开业，是这家总部位于欧文的公司近期向爱达荷州扩张的一部分。斯奈德没有透露被杀员工的身份。特温福尔斯的发言人乔什·帕尔默（Josh Palmer）周六表示，官员们仍在尝试通知受害者家属，因此尚未公布死伤者的姓名、年龄或其他细节。帕尔默表示，响应枪击事件的警方在餐厅附近区域发现了疑似枪击者的尸体。帕尔默说，调查人员正在询问目击者。餐厅位于一个繁忙的购物广场内，下午 2 p.m. 左右事件发生时，该地区有数百人。34 岁的莱恩·科恩（Lane Koehn）说，他当时在 In-N-Out 附近的一个红绿灯处，看到一个人持一把 AR 风格的步枪从得来速车道出现。一名持手枪的男子开始向枪击者开火。随后他看到一名穿着 In-N-Out 制服的人将另一名同样穿着制服、胸部中弹流血的人拖过停车场。该员工、科恩和那名持手枪的男子一直留在现场直到医护人员到达。科恩说：“她的情况相当糟糕，但我不知道。我希望她能挺过来。”科恩说，警察告诉他撤离，因为枪击活动仍在进行。他说枪击者至少开了三四枪，目前尚不清楚是否有特定的目标。一名司机在街道对面拍摄的视频记录到，一名身穿深色衣服、携带长步枪的枪击者走向一辆白色汽车，打开驾驶员侧车门并打开后备箱。随后此人走到后备箱并向内伸手。此时，拍摄视频的司机担心该男子可能会取出更多武器，于是离开了。特温福尔斯居民 43 岁的海莉·多达罗（Haley Dodaro）及其母亲周六下午去 In-N-Out 吃午餐。在得来速车道排队等待时，她们看到人们跑过马路，员工们冲出餐厅。起初，多达罗认为可能发生了火灾，但随后一名穿着反光背心引导交通的男子说有枪击者。“那时我们才知道发生了枪击。人们哭着喊着跑出来。非常恐怖，”多达罗在发给美联社的短信中说道。特温福尔斯位于博伊西东南部约 130 英里处，距离内华达州边界以北约 75 英里。

爱达荷州 In-N-Out 枪击案中枪击者及员工丧生 应急车辆抵达爱达荷州特温福尔斯的 In-N-Out Burger。KMVT 警方称攻击者死于自杀性枪击。 汉堡连锁店所有者哀悼员工。 美联社

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A6 星期一，2026年8月3日 LATIMES.COM 当他们批准顶格两名初选制度（top-two primary system）时，该制度将所有候选人放在同一张选票上，且无论政党隶属关系如何，只有前两名完赛者能进入大选。保罗·米切尔（Paul Mitchell）是一位民主党选区重新划分专家，他根据 50 号提案（Proposition 50）设计了加州新的国会选区图，他表示，该州初选制度的支持者在多年前将其宣传为一种温和力量，在这种制度下，那些失去党派支持的“孤儿选民”将被鼓励选择一名党派色彩最淡的大选候选人。但米切尔说，实际上“并非如此”。

选民如何决定，他们考量什么 米切尔表示，过去党内对决的情况表明，35% 或更多的孤儿选民在相关竞选中干脆弃权。米切尔最近对包括州议会席位在内的多场竞选进行的分析显示，在 2024 年每一场州参议院席位的党内竞选中，孤儿选民中都出现了这种低投票率现象——一个明显的例子就是南洛杉矶地区，两名民主党人劳拉·理查森（Laura Richardson）和米歇尔·钱伯斯（Michelle Chambers）之间那场激烈且耗资巨大的对决。他说，许多其他选民则根据“次要因素”投票，例如候选人的种族或性别，或者他们看起来像当地人还是华盛顿内部人士。“传统上，这与其说是关于某人是否更温和，”他说，部分原因是选民并不总能分辨对方政党候选人中的温和派。“共和党人可能能分辨温和派共和党人和保守派共和党人的区别，但民主党人分辨不出来。”

如果孤儿选民不喜欢现任者的过往记录，那么现任身份也可能成为候选人的累赘，即使其对手在政治立场上与这些选民相距更远。米切尔举了一个例子，在 2018 年凯文·德莱昂（Kevin de León）挑战参议员戴安娜·费恩斯坦（Dianne Feinstein）时，该州农村且更保守的地区选择了德莱昂，尽管德莱昂的政治立场比她更偏左。“你会觉得，这些农村县怎么可能投票给凯文·德莱昂？那是因为有很多共和党人，如果他们要参加美国参议院选举投票，就只想投反对费恩斯坦的一票，”米切尔说。

乔治亚大学政治学助理教授凯特琳·斯陶弗（Katelyn Stauffer）研究过加州顶格两名竞选中的选民行为，她表示人们“倾向于做出简单的决定”，并且“对大多数人来说，最终的提示信号是：这个人是否与我的政党一致？”斯陶弗说，当政党无法区分候选人时，选民倾向于依赖其他“简单信号或启发法”。例如，根据她的研究，她表示，在这种情况下，无论政党如何，女性以及无论性别如何的民主党人，都更有可能投票给女性。

候选人经常调整信息传递 候选人可能会考虑缓和其主张以吸引孤儿选民，但这可能充满风险。在给《洛杉矶时报》的一份声明中，卡尔弗特指责金英 (Young Kim) 试图用更具两党色彩的信息来争取孤儿选民，并将其视为她不可信的证据。“金英向一些选民吹嘘自己是一个谴责过特朗普总统的温和派。随后她又向其他人声称自己是一个 100% 的特朗普共和党人。很明显，金英为了保住工作会随口胡说，这就是为什么各党派的选民都无法信任她的原因，”卡尔弗特说。他说他“多年来在国会中一直是一名始终如一的保守派，这一点不会改变”。他还声称自己是“国会中最有效的议员之一”。

他说他已经获得了资金以缓解交通拥堵、打击火灾并改善其选区的水利基础设施——这些都是“所有政党的选民都想要的”。金英 (Young Kim) 的发言人克里斯·帕克 (Chris Pack) 否认她会根据受众而改变口风，并驳斥了卡尔弗特声称其很好地服务于选民的说法，称其为一个数十年来未能改善民众生活的“无所事事的恐龙”。“事实是他有足够的时间为加利福尼亚人民做出贡献，但他没有，”帕克说。

类似的党内之争也出现在其他民主党人之间竞争的国会选战中。在横跨纳帕谷和萨克拉门托谷的第 4 国会选区，共和党选民可能会在现任众议员迈克·汤普森 (Mike Thompson，民主党-圣海伦娜) 与来自左翼的挑战者、风险投资家埃里克·琼斯 (Eric Jones) 之间做出决定。汤普森自 1999 年起便在国会任职，并在强大的筹款与税收委员会 (Ways and Means Committee) 担任成员，他在初选中获得了 41% 的选票，而琼斯获得了 22.2%。六名共和党候选人共同获得了 36.1%。

琼斯支持扩大医疗保险 (Medicare) 和削减工人阶级税收的进步措施，他表示希望各种倾向的选民能够超越政治标签，看到他是这场竞选中唯一敢于挑战大公用事业公司、医疗游说团体以及其他资助汤普森竞选的大企业利益集团的候选人。“我希望选民意识到，他们面前有一个真正的选择，”他说。

汤普森表示，他专注于履行职责，向其选区内因 Proposition 50, 重新划分的新区域选民介绍自己，并“思考如何与他们合作”以解决他们的担忧。他说，所有政党的选民在追求“良好的道路、洁净的空气、水资源、强有力的 [农业]、安全的社区”方面有“很多共同点”，并且他已经获得了当地共和党人和民主党人的共同支持。汤普森还驳斥了琼斯对其筹款的批评，称他“做了很多不一定符合”那些为其竞选捐款者利益的良好工作。他还表示，在与像琼斯这样向自己竞选活动捐赠数百万美元的富有对手竞争时，筹款是必要的。

在第 7 国会选区，共和党选民将协助决定在现任众议员多丽丝·马茨伊 (Doris Matsui，民主党-萨克拉门托) —— 她在 2005 年接替去世的丈夫以来一直身在国会 —— 与来自左翼的挑战者、进步派萨克拉门托市议员梅·万 (Mai Vang) 之间做出选择。万在初选中获得了 31.2% 的选票。马茨伊获得了 29.1%。两名共和党候选人合计获得了 37%。

在给《洛杉矶时报》的一份声明中，马茨伊表示，11 月的大选“将是一场截然不同的竞争，因为会有许多在初选中没有投票的选民”，并且她将“更加努力地通过在他们所在的地方与他们会面，并告知他们我如何履行我的承诺”来争取选民，包括在医疗保健、公共安全和就业方面的承诺。万未回应置评请求，但此前指责马茨伊数十年以来未能履行承诺。“在 20 年之后，家庭依然在勉强维持生计，我这一代的人距离拥有住房没有更近一步，而且你依然付不起看医生的费用，”万在 6 月份表示。

政党参与在预料之中

专家表示，传统上，政党通常会避开干预那些没有自己候选人的竞选。有时，他们会在两个本党成员对决的竞选中进行背书。

彼此对抗，但并非总是如此。共和党全国委员会发言人尼克·波切（Nick Poche）表示，其组织主要关注三场共和党旨在守住或从民主党手中夺回席位的竞选：第13国会选区，共和党人凯文·林肯（Kevin Lincoln）正在挑战众议员亚当·格雷（Adam Gray，民主党-默塞德）；第22国会选区，众议员大卫·瓦拉达奥（David Valadao，共和党-汉福德）正试图击退民主党人兰迪·维莱加斯（Randy Villegas）；以及第48国会选区，共和党人吉姆·德斯蒙德（Jim Desmond）在竞争退休众议员达雷尔·伊萨（Darrell Issa，共和党-邦索尔）的席位，对手是民主党人玛妮·冯·威尔珀特（Marni von Wilpert）。他称这些选区中的民主党人为“激进的社会主义者，是加利福尼亚极左翼失败的缩影”，并表示共和党将针对他们开展竞选。但他拒绝就卡尔弗特与金英的竞争，或两名民主党人相互竞争的选区发表评论。加利福尼亚州共和党未回应置评请求。加利福尼亚州民主党主席拉斯蒂·希克斯（Rusty Hicks）表示，他的政党正专注于“履行50号提案的承诺”，旨在翻转五个席位以帮助其政党赢得众议院的控制权，同时还关注三场竞争激烈的选举：瓦拉达奥和伊萨的席位之争，以及第6国会选区的一场选举，在那里民主党人理查德·潘（Richard Pan）正与来自罗克林的由共和党转为独立人士的众议员凯文·凯莱（Kevin Kiley）展开竞争。希克斯表示，该党不会支持卡尔弗特或金英，他称两人为“两个糟糕的选择”，但已在他们与民主党同行竞争的选举中支持现任议员松井（Matsui）和汤普森（Thompson），因为他们在可负担性和医疗保健获取等问题上“一直处于领先地位”，且“最具备连任条件”。琼斯对他所属政党支持其对手的行为嗤之以鼻。“我们真的要对民主党机器试图替我们选择民选代表而感到兴奋吗？”他说。

州内“被遗弃”的选民可能是竞选的关键 众议员肯·卡尔弗特（Ken Calvert，共和党-科罗纳）在赢得初选后，面临来自另一位共和党现任者的挑战。 安德鲁·哈尼克 Getty Images [选民，见A1] “共和党人也许能分清温和派共和党人和保守派共和党人的区别，但民主党人分不清。”——保罗·米切尔（Paul Mitchell），民主党策略师 众议员金英（Young Kim，共和党-安纳海姆山），卡尔弗特的对手，其办公室称她正试图争取被遗弃的选民。 安娜·蒙尼梅克 Getty Images

向他们派遣了一名过剩的大联盟球员迈克尔·布什（Michael Busch），以交换两名新秀。其中一位是霍普（Hope），其职业经验仅限于11场新秀球赛。投手里弗·赖安（River Ryan）是在第11轮被圣迭戈教徒队选中的。当教徒队需要一名能打外野的左击手时，道奇队向他们派遣了一名过剩的大联盟球员马特·比蒂（Matt Beaty），以换取尚未完成职业首秀的新秀赖安。投手布雷迪·史密斯（Brady Smith）是在第三轮被道奇队选中的。这是他的第二个职业赛季。道奇队将霍普和赖安从小联盟球员培养成了顶级新秀，而老虎队希望道奇队的这种培养经验能给史密斯带来启发。目前的情况如何？联盟网站的新秀排名将霍普列在第25位，赖安列在第68位。《棒球美国》（Baseball America）的新秀排名将霍普列在第55位，而赖安则在前100名之外。这两份排名都没有将史密斯列入前100名。正如《棒球美国》主编J.J.库珀（J.J. Cooper）所写，霍普是道奇队双A球队中第三好的外野手。考虑到他们所有的，这或许是对道奇球员培养系统最大的证明。

获胜意味着他们在每年的每一轮选秀中都排在末尾。也许这三人组的新秀从未真正兑现潜力，至少没有达到老虎队所期望的那样。根据《棒球美国》（Baseball America）的研究，在截止日期前交易的三名新秀中，通常有两个无法兑现潜力。金钱在这里起作用了吗？是的，但还没到那个时候。斯库巴尔在赛季结束时将成为自由球员，并不是每支球队都能负担得起 $300 million 或 $400 million 左右的费用与他签署一份长期合同。但是，在赛季最后的这几个月里，支付给斯库巴尔的费用是 $9 million。任何球队都能做到这一点。而且，如果你的球队老板告诉你他做不到，合适的反应应该是大笑，然后高喊“卖掉球队！”而且，正如酿酒人队、光芒队和克利夫兰守护者队几乎每年所证明的那样，任何球队都能负担得起建立一个优秀的球员开发系统。听着，我不会试图告诉你

每支球队都能签下大谷翔平、山本由伸、弗雷迪·弗里曼、穆基·贝茨、埃德温·迪亚兹和凯尔·塔克。但身处大联盟最大市场的纽约大都会队当然可以。他们的周六并没有花在交易斯库巴尔上，而是花在为他们那支垫底球队的球员接受交易报价，并纪念 1986 年世界系列赛冠军队——他们最后一次夺冠的球队——的 40 周年。在安纳海姆，大联盟第二大市场的垫底球队输给了酿酒人队，后者是大联盟市场规模最小的球队——而且截至周六，他们拥有大联盟最好的战绩。如果你能够球探、签约、教练并培养球员，市场规模就不一定是宿命。老板们可以从中学习，但更简单的方法是指向道奇队并说：“那就是反派。”相反，某些可怜的

联盟员工可能在周六深夜彻夜未眠，计划如何将斯库巴尔身穿道奇队制服的片段剪辑进老板们正在进行的“公平竞争”广告宣传活动中，以说服球迷在集体谈判中支持他们。想象一下，如果他们能把斯库巴尔在冠军游行中向球迷挥手的片段剪进去会怎样。道奇队获得斯库巴尔不仅关乎金钱。塔里克·斯库巴尔（TARIK SKUBAL）可以帮助道奇队在季后赛中取得成功，但他也本可以帮助许多其他俱乐部。上图为斯库巴尔在春训期间。Geoff Stellfox Getty Images [Shaikin, 见 A1 页]

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LATIMES.COM 星期一，2026年8月3日 A9 拨给县立医院和设有创伤中心的私立医院。而没有创伤中心的私立医院，例如马丁路德金社区医院，则只能在任何超过县政府预计通过该提案筹集金额的“剩余”资金池中竞争一部分份额。在 2023 年至 2025 年之间，马丁路德金社区医院不得不四次由州政府和县政府救助，总计 6800 万美元，其中 2900 万美元是通过两次一次性的“剩余”B号提案资金拨付的。该医院在 2015 年作为一家私立非营利机构开业，此前由县政府运营的马丁路德金 / 德鲁医疗中心在 2007 年因护理标准低下引发的危机而关闭，该医院从未收到过任何“持续性”的 B号提案资金。总计 1.26 亿美元的 B号提案资金在上一财年被授予了洛杉矶县的 13 家设有创伤中心的私立医院，其中包括

位于比弗利格罗夫的西达赛奈医疗中心。西达赛奈医疗中心拥有近 900 张床位和 2,100 名医生，是美国最大且能力最强的医院之一。西达赛奈在今年 5 月提交的联邦 990 税单中报告，上一财年营收超过 58 亿美元，净利润约 11 亿美元。它报告的净资产为 99 亿美元，比上一财年增加了 10 亿美元。西达赛奈去年收到了约 940 万美元的 B号提案资金，该院反对对资金授予方式做出重大改变。西达赛奈政府与工业关系副总裁斯蒂芬妮·科恩在 7 月 8 日致洛杉矶县官员的信中表示，分配资金方式的变更“可能会使 B号提案偏离其预期目的”。“现有的资金已不足以维持这些服务。”西达赛奈发言人莎莉·斯图尔特在电子邮件声明中补充道，“改变分配公式可能会破坏 B号提案旨在保护和维持的系统。”马丁路德金社区医院的魏斯将这两家医疗机构财务状况的巨大差距描述为“两家医院的故事”。在最近的一个工作日，数十名急诊室患者躺在护理站旁的担架上，在走廊排开的硬塑料椅子上等待，并在仅由低矮隔板墙分隔的一排狭小空间内接受治疗。该医院还将许多单人病房改为双人房，将礼品店改为处置室，并不得不将在曾经的冥想室和候诊室用作治疗患者的场所。多年来，马丁路德金社区医院的领导层一直希望翻新威洛布鲁克校区内利用率不足的内部空间，以扩大急诊部。

但医院无法负担此项开支，因此近年来依赖帐篷来帮助缓解急诊部严重的拥挤情况。该急诊部拥有 29 张床位，设计年就诊量为 25,000 人次，但目前每年就诊量超过 120,000 人次。据首席执行官伊莱恩·巴奇勒博士称，医院已经采取了一系列重大措施以维持运营。她在马丁路德金社区医院办公室接受采访时表示，授予“持续性”B号提案资金的差异更加令人担忧，因为该机构服务的群体与每年收到数百万美元此类资金的其他机构截然不同。巴奇勒表示，重新思考 B号提案资金的分配方式，是确保那些服务于经济需求最高、医疗选择最少社区的医院能够获得支持的一种方式。

获得更多的财政援助。就像它所服务的许多患者一样，马丁路德金社区医院的生存正面临威胁。“为什么认为只将这笔资金交给这 13 家创伤中心是合适的，而其中一些中心显然在财务上运行良好？”她补充道，“有些社区比比弗利山庄和西洛杉矶更需要帮助，且服务不足。”洛杉矶县公共卫生部医疗和牙科事务部门主任 Naman Shah 博士表示，过去 B号提案 资金的分配方式“并没有真正反映县内医疗保健的经济状况，即哪些医院需要更多支持”。他说，如果马丁路德金社区医院关闭，“将是毁灭性的，由于缺乏医疗服务，我们将面临无法言说的痛苦”。马丁路德金社区医院在南洛杉矶服务的群体是该地区经济最不稳定的群体之一。

根据加利福尼亚州医疗保健准入与信息部的资料，2023, 年，马丁路德金社区医院急诊科接收了近 85,000 次医疗补助计划 / Medi-Cal 患者就诊，为全州最高，而西奈山塞达尔医疗中心（Cedars-Sinai）则接近 17,000 次。在 2025, 财年马丁路德金社区医院急诊科 95% 的就诊中，患者要么参加了医疗补助计划 / Medi-Cal 或联邦医疗保险（Medicare），要么没有保险。因此，患者账单收入仅占该医院 2026 年财年预算的 44%；其余部分来自州和县的资金。沃茨（Watts）比尤拉浸信会教堂（Beulah Baptist Church）的 Robert Taylor 牧师以沃茨地区牧师协会主席的身份，主张为马丁路德金社区医院提供更多资源。他说，B号提案 资金应该以“最能满足社区需求的方式”进行分配，而不是交给“那些并不真正需要它的医院”。

“如果那家医院在我们的社区关闭，那将是毁灭性的，”他说，并指出最近的下一个急诊部门是位于数英里外林伍德（Lynwood）的圣弗朗西斯医疗中心（St. Francis Medical Center）。“在紧急情况下必须跑那么远去急诊科，可能会危及生命。”洛杉矶县监督委员会委员 Holly Mitchell（其管辖区包括威洛布鲁克）希望监督委员会采取措施，重新审视 B号提案 资金的分配方式。她计划在周二的委员会会议上提出一项方案，聘请一名顾问来研究该问题，并就资金的最佳用途提出建议。

“像马丁路德金社区医院这样，尽管财务稳定性较低，但服务于极大量急诊患者的医院，凸显了一个现实，即并非所有医院在维持运营方面都面临相同的挑战，”Mitchell 在一份电子邮件声明中说道。“然而，每家医院在我们的急救系统中都发挥着至关重要的作用，”她说，“我们欠公众一个交代，必须通过独立审查来确保 B号提案 资金继续履行其预期目的，即支持并稳定一个强大的、覆盖全县的创伤和急救系统。”

马丁路德金社区医院寻求县政府资金以求生存 马丁路德金社区医院的急诊科走廊被用作治疗区。Robert Gauthier 洛杉矶时报 [医院报道，见 A1 页]

无法掌握公开信息与非公开信息之间的区别——或者，很有可能是两者都无法掌握。”特朗普是一位高产的社交媒体发布者，他的在线思考和威胁曾导致股票、债券和货币暴涨暴跌。这为所谓的“高频交易者”提供了机会，他们专门从事毫秒级的买卖，利用……

微小且转瞬即逝的价格差异。获利机会极多。在过去一个月中，特朗普在真相社交上威胁要对加拿大征收更高关税，取消与沙特阿拉伯的核协议，并扩大伊朗战争。如果能提前获知，押注加元下跌、核能股下跌或原油期货上涨的交易员可能会获得巨额回报。

“对于大机构来说，这将是他们需要的某种东西，”Themis Trading的联合创始人乔·萨鲁齐（Joe Saluzzi）表示。他估计大约有100家高频交易公司可能会愿意为这项服务付费。“这是能够影响市场的关键信息。”

这项被称为“Truth API”的服务推出之际，这些公司正投入更多资金购买能够绕过缓慢互联网连接、直接连接至新闻和数据源的馈送系统和服务器。得益于人工智能能够更准确地阅读帖子和文章以进行做市调整，加上特朗普热衷于在网上制造新闻，获利机会比以往任何时候都大。

特朗普发帖，交易员扑上

当价格跳升或下跌时，交易员就能获利。由于特朗普喜欢制造悬念、发出威胁和推翻政策，这位美国唯一的真人秀总统提供了大量潜在的影响市场的内容。政策反转尤其有利可图，让交易员能够双向获利——在看到威胁性帖子的瞬间抢先买入或卖出股票，在千分之几秒内套现，然后反向押注。

除了特朗普，该服务还将包括其他真相社交“高排名”贡献者的帖子，可能包括他的两个大儿子唐纳德二世和埃里克，他们经营着特朗普组织并拥有庞大的社交媒体追随者群体。

真相社交表示，信息将同时发布给交易员和公众，因此不存在公平性问题。但批评高频交易的Themis Trading的萨鲁齐认为，这在转移注意力，因为关键在于帖子何时被接收，而非何时发布。

“购买信息并拥有处理系统的操作者，其行动速度将比你我快得多，”萨鲁齐说。在提到日常的小规模股票买家时，他补充道，“输家永远是散户投资者。”

引发抢购狂潮的帖子

除了政策内幕，近几个月来出现另一个订阅理由：特朗普发布了更多关于上市公司的内容，并以一种能引发抢购狂潮的方式赞扬他喜欢的公司。

“对特定公司的推介——显然华尔街希望在其他人之前知道这一点，”监督机构“政府监督项目”（Project on Government Oversight）的联邦伦理规则专家迪伦·海德勒-高德特（Dylan Hedler-Gaudette）表示。“这真是个混乱的局面。”

今年4月，在特朗普发布的一篇包含股票代码的帖子中称赞Palantir Technologies后，其股价在短时间内出现了年度最大涨幅。同月晚些时候，特朗普发帖称：“祝贺英特尔做得如此出色，”该股在盘后交易中立即跳涨。

目前尚不清楚具体有哪些公司订阅了该馈送服务。在被要求置评时，包括Citadel Securities和XTX Markets在内的半打最著名的高频交易商均未回复。

如果仅有三家公司支付每月$100,000的费用，这将使特朗普媒体的收入翻番，该公司报告去年收入为$3.7 million。

寻求大额客户

该公司需要这些业务。由于公司持续报告数亿美元的亏损，自从特朗普去年就职以来，真相社交母公司的股价已暴跌75%。

尽管总统通过在该网站上发布重大决定来引导流量，但情况依然如此。总统如此频繁地在真相社交 (Truth Social) 上发布新闻，以至于白宫新闻办公室在回答媒体关于政策细节的询问时，会将他的帖子复制到电子邮件中。有时记者会被告知：“等待真相 (Wait for the Truth)。”如果民主党控制国会并启动调查，真相社交将面临另一个潜伏的问题，正如参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦 (Elizabeth Warren，马萨诸塞州民主党人) 在周五的一份声明中专门攻击这项新服务时所承诺的那样：“我们将传唤那些对这种公开腐败负责的人，向美国人民交代。”不过，如果公司的损失继续增加，一些人预测特朗普将进一步推进，更多地利用该平台发布政策公告。“这绝对会发生，”政府监督团体公共公民 (Public Citizen) 的游说者克雷格·霍尔曼 (Craig Holman) 警告说。“特朗普知道如何推销产品。”康登 (Condon) 和斯洛迪斯科 (Slodysko) 为美联社供稿。美联社驻华盛顿的撰稿人威尔·韦瑟特 (Will Weissert) 和乔什·博克 (Josh Boak) 参与了本报道。

特朗普有望从其政策公告中获利 真相社交 (TRUTH SOCIAL)，总统的社交媒体平台，现在开始对其帖子的早期访问权限收费。 约翰·明奇洛 (John Minchillo) 美联社 [特朗普，见 A1]

他在圣地亚哥工作，并请求隐去姓氏，担心自己可能会被驱逐出境。这位 42 岁的人已婚，有两个年幼的女儿，在圣地亚哥生活了七年。他说他的母亲和叔叔在海地被杀；他的哥哥被枪击。他的父亲仍在那里，但他的姐妹和亲密朋友已经离开。美国国土安全部的一位发言人拒绝就针对海地人的任何行动计划发表评论，但表示执法行动每天都在进行。

“每当我们出门，我就感到不安，”一名住在埃尔卡洪 (El Cajon) 附近的 43 岁海地男子说。他也刚刚失去了临时保护状态 (Temporary Protected Status)。他在两年前独自抵达美国，留下了家人。他通常在 Home Depot 的停车场等待，希望能被雇佣去工作，但很难找到稳定的工作。现在，他和当地其他海地人说，他们一直保持高度警惕，防范移民执法。

新美国人推进伙伴关系 (Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans) 的移民法律总监玛丽亚·查韦斯 (Maria Chavez) 表示，即使拥有临时保护状态，移民在最初寻找工作时仍面临诸多挑战。她说，申请工作许可及其重新授权的资格审核过程在出现延迟的情况下可能需要一年多时间。

海地桥梁联盟 (Haitian Bridge Alliance) 的约瑟夫 (Jozef) 解释说，大多数自 2010 年起定居圣地亚哥的海地人都在酒店、医疗保健和建筑行业找到了工作——尽管许多人在抵达时就带着在故乡形成的创业心态。“由于缺乏正式的就业市场，大多数人在海地不得不寻找创建小企业的方法，”她说。“所以他们带着这种创业心态来到美国。”

“他们来到美国是为了寻求安全和保护，结果却在没有任何支持的情况下，这些保护被从他们脚下抽走，”海地桥梁联盟执行董事格尔琳·约瑟夫 (Guerline Jozef) 说道，该组织是一家为海地人和其他移民群体提供法律和社会服务的当地非营利机构。除了海地，特朗普政府已采取行动，取消 13 个国家的临时保护状态，这些国家绝大多数为黑人或棕色人种。

“临时保护状态正是如此”

“……临时性的，”一名美国国土安全部发言人表示。“长期以来，尽管国会从未打算让其成为永久性的，但临时保护状态（TPS）一直被允许作为事实上的大赦计划而运行。”TPS 是在 2010 年为海地设立的，此前一场灾难性地震导致超过 200,000 人死亡并导致该国局势不稳。在海地总统被暗杀后引发的社会混乱中，该保护于 2021 年得以延长，并在 2024 年因持续的安全担忧而再次延长。根据联合国最近的一份报告，如今，武装帮派控制了该国的部分地区，十年来尚未举行总统选举，数百万民众在满足日常生活需求方面举步维艰。如今，特朗普政府表示海地的条件已足以让海地人返回。但美国国务院对海地仍维持“请勿旅行”的警告，且该国自 2024 年3月起一直处于紧急状态。由于他们的遣返保护于上周结束，当地的海地人表示他们无法返回海地，并指出了他们及其家人的安全忧虑。“我别无选择，只能离开海地，”一名持有 TPS 的海地人 Galencha 说道。

目前，海地桥梁联盟（Haitian Bridge Alliance）致力于帮助前 TPS 持有者制定家庭计划——包括理顺其财务文件，以及在被遣返的情况下制定应急计划。该组织还帮助那些不敢出门的海地人获取食物等基本需求，并将他们与法律代表联系起来。Chavez 表示，由于对于该地区的许多海地人来说，返回海地并非一个可行的选项，现在是前 TPS 持有者寻求替代方案（如申请庇护）或查看其是否可以通过结婚获得留在美国的资格之时。她说：“这些都不是快速方案。”

PANA 和海地桥梁联盟正在法庭上反对特朗普政府终止对索马里公民的临时保护状态。但 Chavez 表示，反对终止海地的保护状态在很大程度上已不再可行，因为最高法院已经维持了该命令。与此同时，海地人临时保护状态的结束给整个社区带来了心碎。Martha 和 Feret Milliem 拥有 Caribbean Pleasure 餐厅，这是一家位于 Point Loma 的餐厅，供应海地美食，餐厅里挂着海地国旗。这对夫妇在圣地亚哥生活了近半个世纪，他们个人并未受到 TPS 保护结束的影响——但看着社区成员变得恐惧，并失去他们努力建立的美国生活，这让他们感到痛苦。他们补充说，这种痛苦也延伸到了海地的家人身上，因为如果在美国突然失去合法工作的亲属无法寄钱回去，他们将受到影响。“现在，海地人们生活在地狱之中，”Martha 说道。

Fox 为圣地亚哥联合论坛报（San Diego Union-Tribune）撰稿。一名人士在圣地亚哥为持有临时保护状态的移民举行的集会上持有海地国旗。Gregory Bull 美联社。TPS 结束令在美海地人担忧 [见 A1 页关于海地人的报道]

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A10 周一，2026 年 8 月 3 日 LATIMES.COM 华盛顿 —— 根据一项最新民意调查，在共和党选民中，移民问题依然比经济或伊朗问题更能成为特朗普总统的强势议题，即便在 7 月的一周内有三人在与移民与海关执法局（ICE）特工的接触中丧生。但美联社-NORC公共事务研究中心（Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research）的这项新调查发现，特朗普的移民处理方式在整体美国人中并不受欢迎。仅有 39% 的美国成年人对其在移民问题上的表现表示认可，低于其第二任期开始时的 49%。大约 8 成共和党人继续认可特朗普处理移民的方式。这比其第二任期开始时（当时约 9 成共和党人认可）略有下降，但尽管过去一年经历了包括多次枪击死亡事件在内的混乱移民执法行动，他在其核心支持群体中关于该议题的支持率自去年夏天以来基本保持稳定。

共和党人对特朗普处理移民方式的认可度也高于对经济或伊朗问题的认可度。在仅过去一个月的时间里，AP-NORC 的民调显示，共和党选民对特朗普处理伊朗问题的认可度略有下降。调查发现，约半数美国成年人认为特朗普在驱逐非法居住在美国的移民方面“做得太过分了”。尽管多次移民大扫荡将联邦执法人员部署到大城市，且自大规模驱逐行动开始以来，涉及与移民官员接触的死亡人数至少有 10 起，但这一比例在一年多以来一直保持稳定。共和党人认为特朗普在移民执法行动中越权的可能性要低得多。总的来说，特朗普的受欢迎程度自去年就职以来有所下降，但调查结果凸显了过去一年激进的移民执法对其公众形象的影响相对较小。这与人们对他处理伊朗问题的看法形成了对比，在后者方面，即使在支持者中，近期也出现了下滑迹象。

党派分歧 美国人在特朗普是否在移民问题上越权方面依然存在分歧。约半数美国成年人表示，在限制合法移民方面，特朗普“做得太过分了”，这与 2 月份最后一次询问该问题时的情况一致。大约半数——47%——的人表示，在驱逐非法居住在美国的移民方面，特朗普超过了他的职权。在每种情况下，约 3 成人认为特朗普的行动“基本正确”，接近 2 成人认为他做得还不够。很少有共和党人（约 2 成或更少）认为他在驱逐非法移民或限制合法移民方面“做得太过分了”。然而，大多数美国人认为，在利用交通拦截来搜寻并逮捕非法居住在美的移民（这一做法是近期德克萨斯州和缅因州两起 ICE 枪击事件的中心）以及向美国城市派遣联邦移民特工方面，他做得太过分了。共和党人认为这些行为属于越权的可能性也较低。

来自圣安东尼奥的 68 岁共和党人詹姆斯·利瑟曼（James Leatherman）总体上支持特朗普的总统治理，特别是支持他在移民问题上的做法。“你不能非法进入这里——你是在违法，”他说。

比起认可，更多美国人不赞成 ICE 执行移民法的方式。约半数美国人“强烈”或“某种程度上”不赞成该机构的做法，而大约 3 成人“强烈”或“某种程度上”表示赞成。不过，这里存在着巨大的党派分歧：

大约 6 成共和党人认可 ICE 的做法，而独立人士中仅约 2 成认可，民主党人中则仅有 4% 认可。来自弗吉尼亚州钦科蒂格的 76 岁独立人士埃里克·库森 (Eric Coursen) 同意总统的观点，即移民系统存在需要解决的问题。他表示他不相信“开放边界”，但他深切反对政府执行移民法的方式。“这就像你饿了拿了一些面包，结果你竟然要开枪打死那个人，而不是，你知道，以盗窃罪起诉他们？”他说，“这简直是过激了。”

经济支持率下降 大约 3 成美国成年人（32%）认可特朗普处理经济的方式。这一比例低于其第二任期开始时的 40%，且与其第一任期形成对比，当时经济是特朗普相对强势的领域。在特朗普的第一任期内，他对经济支持率的最低点是 2017. 年 12 月的 40%。而现在，他的评分远低于该水平。

大约 7 成共和党人（69%）认可特朗普处理经济的方式。这与认可他履行总统职责的比例大致相当，但略低于特朗普第二任期初期的 78%。利瑟曼 (Leatherman) 尽管支持特朗普，但表示他感受到了价格上涨给预算带来的压力。“在去超市买菜之前，我几乎得去银行申请贷款，”他说。

大约 7 成美国成年人将国家经济描述为“非常”或“有些”糟糕，与 4 月份的情况一致。共和党人更为乐观，约 6 成表示经济状况良好，而独立人士中约 2 成如此认为，民主党人中则仅有约 1 成如此认为。

关于医疗保健 医疗保健从未成为特朗普的强势领域。与移民和经济问题不同，在两任期内，绝大多数美国成年人都对他处理医疗保健的表现不满意。新民调显示这种情况没有改变，结果发现仅约 3 成美国人认可特朗普处理医疗保健的方式，与 12 月上一次询问该问题时的结果一致。不过，自去年底以来，他在自身支持者中的这一问题支持率有所回升。目前约 71% 的共和党人表示认可，而 12 月的民调中这一比例为 59%。

这一转变发生在民主党上周启动“距离期中选举还有 100 天”活动之际，党内领导层表示，除了生活成本和伊朗战争外，他们还将重点关注医疗保健削减问题。民主党人和独立人士继续压倒性地不认可特朗普处理医疗保健的方式。

这项针对 1,165 名成年人的 AP-NORC 民调于 7 月 23-27 日进行，样本取自 NORC 基于概率的 AmeriSpeak 专家组，旨在代表美国人口。成年人的抽样误差幅度为正负 3.7 个百分点。共和党人的误差幅度为正负 6 个百分点，民主党人为正负 5.4 个百分点。

Thomson-Deveaux, Sanders 和 Catalini 为美联社撰稿。

共和党人在移民问题上依然支持特朗普 一项新民调显示，约 8 成共和党人支持总统特朗普的移民政策。

（图注：上方为 ICE 逮捕现场。Erin Hooley / 美联社）

作者：Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, Linley Sanders 和 Mike Catalini

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LATIMES.COM 星期一，2026年8月3日 A11 商业

除了《奥德赛》，洛杉矶电影圈最大的新闻就是 Cinerama Dome 影院的回归。这座标志性影院自 2020,年3月 起关闭，现在将由索尼影业娱乐及其旗下的 Alamo Drafthouse 院线进行修复并重新开放。正如我的同事 Cerys Davies 所报道的，装修工作将于本月开始，并一直持续到 2028.年初。60 年多以来，这座穹顶建筑一直是日落大道的地标。凭借其 86 英尺宽的弧形屏幕，它曾首映过 1977 年的《第三类接触》等好莱坞标志性电影，并在 2019 年的《好莱坞往事》中客串出演。

自从这座穹顶影院在 COVID-19 大流行开始时关闭以来，人们一直在质疑它是否会回归。《Anora》导演 Sean Baker 和《极速车手》导演 Edgar Wright 等电影制作人公开呼吁其重新开放，而由 Benjamin Steinberg 领导的“拯救你的电影院”保护活动则让这一地理穹顶标志在公众视野中保持热度。

“它绝对是洛杉矶观影体验的首都，”Steinberg 告诉我的同事，并补充说他计划在影院重新开放后每周光顾两三次。“我等不及要回到 Cinerama Dome 里面看电影了。”

该影院将由 Alamo Drafthouse 运营，不过索尼表示计划保留“Cinerama”名称和外部品牌标识，以及该穹顶影院的“传统特许经营体验”——这意味着你无法在座位上点餐。（影迷最近批评该连锁店修改了座位点餐系统，要求在电影院内使用手机。）

除了传统的剧场放映外，该穹顶影院还将包含一些 Alamo Drafthouse 特色项目，包括经典回顾放映、首映式、活动和电影制作人系列讲座。索尼表示，紧邻穹顶影院的原 ArcLight Cinemas 14 屏幕影院将作为一家 Alamo Drafthouse 重新开放，提供餐饮服务，以及卡拉 OK 房和“粉丝庆祝活动”。

索尼在 2024 年收购总部位于卡尔弗城的 Alamo Drafthouse 之前就对这座穹顶影院感兴趣。“这是一个绝佳的地点，”索尼影业首席执行官兼董事长 Ravi Ahuja 告诉我。“它具有历史意义，人们热爱它，而且在关闭之前经营很成功。它是独一无二的，而这正是我们追求的体验。”

此举也凸显了索尼在体验业务中看到的机遇——这对好莱坞来说是一个日益重要的战略。收购 Alamo Drafthouse 便是其中一部分，同样如此的还有该工作室最近 $100-million 投资并持有少数股权的 Cosm，Cosm 是一家虚拟现实场馆运营商，在英格尔伍德的好莱坞公园（Hollywood Park）设有分店。该工作室还拥有流行游戏节目《幸运轮盘》的巡回版本“Wheel of Fortune Live!”，以及在 Alamo Drafthouse 孵化的“Jeopardy! Bar League”，以及为其流媒体服务 Crunchyroll 在动漫展上举办的活动。

“这是特许经营三脚凳的另一条腿，”Ahuja 说。“粉丝希望面对面地与彼此交流。当你对某件事有深厚的粉丝情结时，这是人类需求的一部分。”

随着院线市场的起伏不定，以及电视业务变得更加不可预测，像索尼这样的工作室越来越多地寻求多样化并以新方式吸引粉丝，这在逻辑上是合理的。毕竟，人们在时间和金钱的分配上有许多选择。而且在经历了疫情后回报缓慢的时期，他们已经

越来越多地回归到面对面的活动。为了留住忠实粉丝，制片厂需要为他们提供更多与所喜爱的故事和娱乐互动的方式，否则他们就会离去。押注于体验业务并非新鲜事。迪士尼公司（Walt Disney Co.）的大部分营业收入并非来自院线电影或流媒体服务，而是来自其主题公园和邮轮部门。去年，环球影业开设了 Epic Universe，这是对其奥兰多主题公园度假区的重大投资，表明了这项业务对该公司及其所有者康卡斯特（Comcast）的重要性。但并非每家公司都想要或需要启动主题公园业务。首先，这非常昂贵。而对于像索尼（Sony）这样没有太多面向儿童的特许经营系列的制片厂来说，这并不太合理。因此，一些公司正通过更具体、更有限的方式进入体验领域，

例如制片厂之旅或品牌景点。对于索尼而言，这意味着围绕这些能与其成年观众群体更契合的面对面产品来建立业务。狮门（Lionsgate）在拉斯维加斯设有“疾速追杀体验”（John Wick Experience），而华纳兄弟（Warner Bros.）近期在佩里斯的南加州铁路博物馆推出了“哈利·波特：霍格沃茨快车冒险”火车活动等项目。（环球影业从华纳兄弟获得了哈利·波特的授权以便将其纳入其公园中。）国际主题公园服务公司（International Theme Park Services Inc.）咨询公司的创始人兼首席执行官丹尼斯·斯皮格尔（Dennis Spiegel）表示，对于大多数没有大型主题公园影响力的制片厂来说，这种基于地理位置的娱乐可能仍然在公司营收中占据相对较小的份额，潜在地低于 1%。但他表示，这些体验的作用是通过维持许可收入的流动，并使品牌在电影发行之间保持相关性，从而延长特许经营系列的生命周期。他在一封电子邮件中写道：“好莱坞越来越多地将其视为最大化其知识产权生命周期价值的关键组成部分。”他补充道，“在很多方面，我们已经看到这些体验如何在成为盈利中心的同时，也成为了一个营销引擎。”至于 Cinerama Dome 穹顶影院，不要将其视为索尼寻求建立展览帝国的信号。阿胡贾（Ahuja）表示，该制片厂仅在寻求像该穹顶影院这样特殊且选择性的交易，并没有计划增加更多洛杉矶的展览地点。

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进一步增强电影影响力 索尼重新开放著名的 Cinerama Dome 穹顶影院表明，该公司及其他制片厂在面对面体验中看到了机遇 作者：Samantha Masunaga

剧作家、小说家和编剧们非常喜爱一种喜剧套路：战士们全副武装准备战斗，结果却发现对手拒绝参与。这种策略的一个现实案例周三在国会山上演。肯塔基州共和党参议员兰德·保罗（Rand Paul）召开了委员会听证会，旨在诱导安东尼·福奇（Anthony Fauci）博士在宣誓后说出某些话，以便保罗可以用其起诉他犯伪证罪。福奇是根据传票出现在保罗领导的国土安全与政府事务委员会之前的，他通过简单地拒绝回答任何问题，直接化解了保罗的攻势，他仅仅陈述了——据我计算共有 116 次——“根据法律顾问的建议，基于我根据宪法第五修正案享有的权利，我礼貌地拒绝回答。”

在近三小时的听证会中，福现在的回应让保罗及其在小组委员会中的七位共和党同事面对着一堵砖墙。他们采取了一种常见的，尽管是幼稚的策略，即重复询问简单但无关的问题，试图让目标难堪。“今天是星期几？”参议员乔什·霍利（Josh Hawley，共和党-密苏里州）问道。“你打的是什么颜色的领带？”他得到了同样的模版化回应。推测大多数参议员都知道，程序要求援引第五修正案的证人在面对所有问题时都必须援引该条款。参与这场表演性闹剧的参议员里克·斯科特（Rick Scott，共和党-佛罗里达州）肯定知道这一点。在 2000 年一次与医疗保健公司 Columbia / HCA 相关的诉讼民事证词中（他直到 1997, 年一直担任该公司首席执行官），他至少 55 次援引了第五修正案，使用的措辞与福相近。(在得知他的公司因向医疗保险和其他政府医疗保健计划提交虚假索赔而受到调查后，斯科特离开了他的岗位。到 2000, 年，该公司已支付了 17 亿美元 billion 的罚金、处罚金和赔偿金，美国司法部称其为“迄今为止政府在医疗欺诈调查中达到的最大追回金额”。斯科特个人并未被指控有违规行为。)

特朗普也知道。在 2022, 年的一次民事证词中，他援引第五修正案超过 440 次。他们也都知道，最高法院支持这样一种观点，即第五修正案不仅保护有罪之人，也保护无辜之人。因此，他们关于福除非有事隐瞒否则不会援引第五修正案的伎俩纯属虚伪。85, 岁的福及其律师显然知道他们别无选择，只能拒绝回答所有问题。经验告诉他，与保罗接触只会助长福在简短的开场白中称之为保尔对将新冠肺炎疫情归咎于他的“精神失常的痴迷”。剩下的就是共和党人在风中怒吼，称福是一个“权力狂”（参议员伯尼·莫雷诺，Bernie Moreno，共和党-俄亥俄州）或“一个恶棍”（斯科特），甚至更糟。在程序开始不久，保罗命令福的律师大卫·谢特勒（David Schertler）离开听证室，因为他试图代表其客户发表声明。

让我们审视一下周三这场闹剧的背景。正如我在过去五年中多次记录的那样，共和党人和右翼人士执着于这样一个观点：引起新冠肺炎的 SARS-CoV-2 病毒是从一个中国实验室泄漏并感染世界的。没有任何证据能证实这一理论。相反，流行病学家和病毒学家的压倒性共识是，新冠肺炎起源于野生动物（可能是蝙蝠），并通过中国和其他南亚地区的非法野生动物贸易迁移到人类身上，这一过程被称为人畜共患病。

针对 2022 年退休的福的指控基于几个虚假主张。其中之一是，作为国家过敏和传染病研究所所长，他操纵科学家淡化实验室泄漏理论，转而支持人畜共患说。他的指控者将这一想法建立在 2020, 年初首批研究该病毒的科学家提出的疑问之上——当时病毒出现仅数日或数周，且是对所有人来说都是一种新病原体。有些人在自然界中未见过该病毒的某些特征，因此他们思考这是否是人工制造的。但他们错了——这些特征对病毒学家来说是熟悉的，只是对那些研究 SARS-CoV-2 的人来说不熟悉。根据科学研究，他们最终摒弃了实验室泄漏理论，认为这不过是一个极其渺小的可能性；那就是 19 2 2.

结论随着时间的推移依然成立。福齐在与科学家的讨论中并未淡化实验室泄漏的可能性，正如其政敌所声称的那样，相反，他多次敦促他们无论研究结果如何都要追究到底。保罗在这场争论中特别执着的观点是：福齐之所以淡化实验室泄漏理论，是因为美国国家过敏和传染病研究所（NIAID）为武汉病毒研究所提供了“功能获得性”（gain-of-function）研究的资金，而该研究所就位于新冠病毒首次出现的这座繁忙城市中，这使得该机构在疫情中成了共犯。对于保罗而言，“功能获得性”是一个暗号，类似于保守派对“多元、公平与包容”（DEI）和“批判性种族理论”的攻击——因为门外汉不知道它是什么，但听起来确实阴险，所以非常有用。泛泛而讲，该术语是指通过增强微生物的天然特性，以方便实验审查或实现必要目标（例如让微生物生产流感疫苗或让细菌生产人工胰岛素）的实验室工作。从 2014 到 2017, 美国暂停了功能获得性实验，以制定一项识别可能产生“潜在大流行病病原体”研究的标准。实验室泄漏派主张，NIAID资助的实验在中国实验室创造了一种具有使其能够感染人类特征的病毒。专业病毒学家则表示，基于目前的科学水平，这种情况是不可能的。国家情报总监办公室在 2023 发布的一份解密报告称，美国没有证据表明武汉实验室的任何基因工程“涉及 SARS-CoV-2、其近亲前体，或一个足够相关且可能成为大流行源头的骨架病毒”。NIAID 根据 2017 标准审查了其在中国资助的工作，并判定其并未违反该标准。保罗在 2021 年 7 月的一次激烈的听证会上向福齐提出了这个问题，但福齐断然拒绝了。福齐告诉他：“保罗参议员，坦率地说，你根本不知道你在说什么。”

保罗所在委员会的共和党多数派提出的另一个针对福齐的指控是，福齐在某种程度上应对美国各地州和地方在疫情高峰期采取的防疫措施负责。这一主张的荒谬之处显而易见，因为福齐从未有权向任何人强加任何监管措施。不，造成损害的是病毒而非福齐，而且毫无疑问，他建议的措施减轻了损害。即便如此，仍有约 1.2 million 美国人死于这种疾病——其中许多人之所以不幸去世，是因为反疫苗煽动者劝阻他们接种新冠疫苗。对于右翼而言，“福齐”仅仅是一个口号。例如，佛罗里达州共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯在 2021 年的一次筹款呼吁中自豪地表示，他通过抵制封锁和学校停课，“拒绝盲目追随福齐博士……并允许他剥夺佛罗里达人上帝赋予的自由”。尽管如此，佛罗里达州在疫情结束时却是全美新冠死亡率最高的地区之一。事实是，虽然学校停课损害了儿童的学习机会，但几乎可以肯定地挽救了数千名儿童及其家人的生命。纽约神经学家兼精神科医生乔纳森·霍华德问道：“如果学校在没有任何缓解措施的情况下保持开放，会发生什么？”美国疾病控制与预防中心将 18, 岁以下儿童的死亡人数定在约 2,000 人，而如果 60 至 70 million 未接种疫苗的儿童

“在 2020 年的几个月时间里感染了该病毒，”霍华德估算道。“可以合理地假设，数千名儿童本可能会死亡。”福西很清楚，他在听证会上说的任何话都可能通过选择性披露被武器化地用来攻击他——正如上周保罗公布了福西在疫情 era. 时期的约 1,000 页个人日记那样。其中没有任何内容能证实保尔的指控。而且，周三的听证会也没有向我们透露关于新冠病毒起源或疫情进程的任何新信息。这是一个危险的遗憾，因为共和党出于纯粹的党派目的，执迷于将一场悲剧性的全球自然事件错误地归咎于福西，这只会让应对未来必然到来的下一次大流行病变得更加困难。当他们专注于这场政治猎巫行动时，原本为了抵御疫情而必须开展的重要工作将被耽误。

但如果在共和党恶意迫害福西和其他科学家的环境下开展这项工作，就如同试图在黏液激流中逆流而上。

Voices 迈克尔·希尔齐克 (MICHAEL HILTZIK) 专栏作家 党派政治斗争无法让我们为下一次大流行做好准备 上周安东尼·福西在委员会作证时，屏幕上显示的是参议员兰德·保罗 (Rand Paul, R-Ky.)。凯文·迪奇 Getty Images

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A12 周一，2026 年 8 月 3 日 LATIMES.COM 商业版 英伟达公司 (Nvidia Corp.) 正在筹划新一轮价值超过 $750 亿的 AI 交易，加快了投资步伐，而质疑者警告称，这正人为地推高整个行业的 demand 和估值。英伟达表示，上个月与韩国财阀 SK 集团达成的一项伙伴关系意味着两家公司将开展超过 $500 亿的业务往来。英伟达还在洽谈提供高达 $250 亿的担保，以帮助 OpenAI 从一个美国数据中心项目租赁计算能力，这将成为这家芯片制造商与客户之间规模最大的融资交易之一。从高盛集团 (Goldman Sachs Group Inc.) 到以《大空头》闻名的投资者迈克尔·伯里 (Michael Burry) 等大名鼎鼎的人物，数月来一直在警告此类协议的“循环”性质——即英伟达为使用其芯片的公司和项目提供融资并持有股份。然而，

交易速度反而加快了。人们对这些交易的担忧在于，如果 AI 无法为那些投入数千亿美元的投资者带来利润，这些交易可能会扭曲需求，诱发错误决策并放大损失。据一名知情人士透露，英伟达还在讨论为 OpenAI 在该美国项目中购买其芯片提供 $350 亿的融资。此外，该公司上周表示，已向 Safe Superintelligence Inc. 进行了“实质性”投资，后者是由 OpenAI 前首席科学家伊利亚·萨茨克维尔 (Ilya Sutskever) 共同创立的 AI 初创公司。知情人士表示，英伟达承诺投资 $5 亿。Allspring Global Investments 的投资组合经理加里·坦 (Gary Tan) 表示：“虽然英伟达的投资和伙伴关系增强了对长期 AI 建设的信心，但投资者仍然担心循环融资。” “资本正越来越多地被用于资助未来的 AI 客户和基础设施部署。” 7 月 27 日，英伟达在纽约交易中的股价下跌 5% 至 $196.51，创下 6 月 5 日以来最大的单日跌幅。这家芯片制造商还失去了全球市值最高公司的地位，跌至苹果公司 (Apple Inc.) 之下。与此同时，对英伟达债务违约的保护成本出现了创纪录的飙升。该成本上升了多达 0.14 个百分点，达到每年 0.82 个百分点。彭博智能 (Bloomberg Intelligence) 分析师曼迪普·辛格 (Mandeep Singh) 在彭博电视 (Bloomberg Television) 上表示：“英伟达希望确保建设能按此速度继续进行。” “这对英伟达来说是一个巨大的风险。如果进程停顿，哪怕只有六个月，对他们来说情况也不会太好。” 英伟达最近的举动增加了过去几年中它在整个生态系统中发起的狂热交易。这家占据主导地位的

AI 处理器制造商通过持有 OpenAI 等开发商以及 Marvell Technology Inc. 等同行芯片制造商的股份，力图推动全行业的增长。行业同行也选择了类似的安排。谷歌 (Google)（其 AI 产品包括 Gemini）同意为 Anthropic PBC 在五个数据中心地点的租赁付款提供担保，帮助这家 OpenAI 的竞争对手获得相当于 $35 亿的贷款。此类交易使得许多 AI 公司日益交织在一起，可能使该行业面临系统性冲击。核心担忧之一还包括该行业日益增长的债务水平，许多 AI 公司增加了借贷以资助其数据中心和芯片项目。作为英伟达与 SK 集团协议的一部分，两家公司将合作在朝鲜半岛建设超过 2 吉瓦 (gigawatts) 的 AI 数据中心。这大约是为以下设备提供电能所需的能量：

1.5 million 栋房屋。由 SK Telecom Co. 建设的第一批所谓“AI工厂”将于明年启用。“这是韩国的黄金时代，”英伟达（Nvidia）首席执行官黄仁勋（Jensen Huang）在接受彭博电视（Bloomberg Television）采访时表示。“他们的半导体业务正在繁荣。他们的工业业务正在繁荣。你知道，这是一个有能力帮助全球构建 AI 基础设施的国家。”据知情人士透露，一项与 OpenAI 正在讨论的潜在交易将帮助这家 ChatGPT 的创建者租赁一个价值 $500-billion、10 吉瓦（gigawatt）的中心，该中心由软银集团（SoftBank Group Corp.）子公司 SB Energy 在俄亥俄州开发。一名知情人士表示，英伟达可能会向该 AI 实验室提供高达 2500 亿美元 billion 的担保，并正在讨论为 OpenAI 价值 3500 亿美元 billion 的采购提供融资。知情人士称，谈判处于早期阶段，可能会崩溃或融资条款可能会发生变化。《华尔街日报》此前报道了此次谈判。Global X Management 的投资策略师 Billy Leung 表示：“英伟达为 OpenAI 的数据中心债务提供更多担保，加深了已经受到审查的供应商融资模式。这既是对 AI 构建过程中资金紧张的提醒，也是一个需求信号。”如果实现，英伟达对 OpenAI 的任何支持可能有助于缓解债权人的担忧，因为 ChatGPT 开发商为了满足不断增长的计算需求，需要向一家未上市且不盈利的企业提供融资。这也助力了软银创始人孙正义（Masayoshi Son）在 AI 发展中扮演核心角色的野心。与高杠杆的数据中心运营一样，软银的业务越来越取决于 AI 支出热潮的持续。这家日本公司的大部分收益现在取决于源自 OpenAI 的估值增长以及最终通过大规模首次公开募股（IPO）的前景。截至 10 月，软银仅对 OpenAI 就承诺了近 650 亿美元 billion 的投资，并签署了一项 $40-billion 的过桥贷款——这是亚太地区规模最大的过桥融资之一——以资助该投资。但该公司日益增加的赌注以及对一家其控制力有限的公司之依赖，正引起投资者的不安。对于英伟达而言，与 SK 集团建立更紧密的联系将有助于改善其获取计算机内存芯片的渠道。该集团的 SK Hynix 部门及其韩国竞争对手三星电子（Samsung Electronics Co.）是这些关键组件的两大最大供应商——由于全球 AI 数据中心的建设，这些芯片供应短缺。英伟达将帮助 Hynix 设计未来的高带宽内存芯片，此举将有助于确保供应渠道。黄仁勋表示，这笔超过 $500-billion 的价值交易包括英伟达购买内存芯片的资金，以及 SK 集团购买英伟达超级计算机的资金。他说：“因此，我们之间将达成价值 5000 亿美元的业务。”上个月，英伟达还表示将投资 10 亿美元 billion 用于 Naver Corp.，以帮助资助一个在韩国建设中的 AI 数据中心。这笔资金将使这家互联网和云服务提供商 Naver 将该设施的规模扩大三倍以上。该场地是与美国私募股权公司 Brookfield Corp. 共同开发的，将使用英伟达的 AI 计算硬件。Naver 在首尔的股价飙升超过 8%。黄仁勋认为，英伟达对 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 等公司的投资不仅将帮助他的业务，还将提供投资回报。英伟达还与数据中心达成了投资协议。

包括 IREN Ltd.、CoreWeave Inc. 和 Nebius Group NV 在内的公司。仅在今年，英伟达（Nvidia）就宣布了总额超过 5400 亿美元 billion 的类似交易，这还不包括与 OpenAI 可能达成的潜在新协议。黄仁勋反驳了关于其交易具有循环性质的观点，尽管他正在支持那些作为其芯片主要买家的公司。在谈到 1 月对 CoreWeave 的投资时，他表示：“这在他们最终需要筹集的资金数额中仅占很小的一部分。认为这是循环交易的想法——简直荒谬。” Bass 和 Hsu 为彭博社撰稿。

英伟达的策略加深了对科技循环泡沫的恐惧 英伟达公司（NVIDIA CORP.）最新一轮的 AI 交易预计将超过 7500 亿美元 billion。

Chiang Ying-ying 美联社 作者：Dina Bass 和 Winnie Hsu

《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》（Spider-Man: Brand New Day）跃居票房榜首，并在美国和加拿大取得了约 $355 million 的预估收入，创下最高开画周末票房纪录之一，远超制片厂和分析师的预期。根据制片厂的估算，这部索尼影业（Sony Pictures）的电影在国际市场上还带来了 $572 million，全球总票房达到 $927 million。

该片的表现目前位列历史上第二高的国内和全球开画纪录，仅次于华特迪士尼公司（Walt Disney Co.）和漫威影业（Marvel Studios）在 2019. 年推出的《复仇者联盟4：终局之战》（Avengers: Endgame）。这部由汤姆·赫兰德（Tom Holland）和赞达亚（Zendaya）主演的电影由索尼旗下的哥伦比亚影业（Columbia Pictures）、漫威影业和 Pascal Pictures 共同制作。其制作预算约为 $225 million。

漫威影业总裁兼《蜘蛛侠》制片人凯文·费格（Kevin Feige）称这次首映“真正地非凡”。他在周日的一份声明中表示：“我们感谢各地的观众前来观看，以应有方式体验我们的电影。这次首映反映了漫威角色持久的影响力，以及他们与全球粉丝之间持续的连接——而且正如观众所见，它为即将到来的令人兴奋的剧情铺平了道路。”

由于强劲的预售情况表明观众对“小蜘蛛”回归大银幕具有极高兴趣，人们对这部电影的期待已积聚数月。该系列的前作，即 2021 年的《蜘蛛侠：英雄无归》（Spider-Man: No Way Home），以 $260 million 创下了有记录以来最大的国内首映纪录之一。但那是发生在 COVID-19 疫情激增的深处，且当时票房竞争极少。那部电影还将三位“蜘蛛侠”——赫兰德、托比·马奎尔（Tobey Maguire）和安德鲁·加菲尔德（Andrew Garfield）——集结在同一个扭曲时间、跨越多重宇宙的故事线中，漫威制片人艾米·帕斯卡（Amy Pascal）将此举描述为 20 年的计划。

而这一次，《蜘蛛侠》面对的是环球影业（Universal Pictures）的强力竞争者——克里斯托弗·诺兰（Christopher Nolan）执导的电影《奥德赛》（The Odyssey），后者在国内票房排名第二，获得 $51 million，全球总票房达到 $911.4 million。

《奥德赛》的强劲表现，以及今年早些时候票房突破十亿美元的《超级马里奥银河电影》（The Super Mario Galaxy Movie）和《迈克尔》（Michael），帮助环球影业在本周末突破了 $4-billion 全球票房大关，成为今年首家达成此目标的制片厂。

华特迪士尼公司和皮克斯（Pixar）的《玩具总动员 5》（Toy Story 5）以 $6.3 million 排名第三，使其全球总票房增加至超过 10.6 亿美元 billion。根据 Rentrak 的数据，环球影业和照明娱乐（Illumination）的《小黄人大作战与怪物》（Minions & Monsters）（$5.800 万）以及迪士尼的真人版《莫阿娜》（Moana）（$5.3 million）构成了本周末的前 5 名。

“《蜘蛛侠：崭新之日》从根本上讲是一部关于友谊的电影，关于我们所有人生活中连接所带来的慰藉，”索尼影业电影集团主席汤姆·罗斯曼（Tom Rothman）在一份声明中表示。

周日。他补充说，这个主题引起了“全球各年龄层观众”的共鸣。”汤姆·霍兰德（TOM HOLLAND）将与乔·伯恩塔尔（Jon Bernthal）一起在《崭新的一天》（Brand New Day）中再次饰演蜘蛛侠。杰伊·梅德蒙特（Jay Maidment）。索尼影业的《蜘蛛侠》打破了票房纪录。

萨曼莎·马苏纳加（Samantha Masunaga）报道。在背景调查提供商 Checkr 对美国公司的调查中，约 23% 的受访公司表示，由于项目延迟、合规问题和重新招聘成本，招聘欺诈在过去一年给他们造成了超过 $50,000 的损失。对于 10% 的受访者来说，损失超过了 $100,000。

总部位于匹兹堡的 staffing 招聘公司 TOPS Staffing 的所有者苏珊·迪特里希（Susan Dietrich）现在结合使用人工智能工具和电话面试来核实候选人的身份并确认其主张。她表示，有些求职者声称，在他们上次通过她的公司申请职位后的几个月里，就积累了多年的工作经验。还有一些人在简历中列出的技能，在电话面试中看来他们对此一窍不通。

经过仔细评估后，迪特里希的团队会将他们能够核实的内容摘要发送给招聘经理。迪特里希说，额外的审核“确实非常耗时”。

在招聘过程早期增加新的筛选措施，正推动着像 CLEAR 这样的身份验证公司的业务发展。CLEAR 为猎头提供服务，通过申请人的照片身份证和公共记录来验证其身份。CLEAR 最著名的产品是机场快速通关会员服务，该公司去年扩展了其数字化平台，以帮助大中小各类客户剔除潜在的欺骗者。

“我们最初并不是为了解决这个问题而设立的，”CLEAR1（该公司的数字身份业务部门）执行副总裁布雷特·罗马诺夫（Brett Romanoff）说道。但在一些客户开始使用该服务来审核已经录用的远程员工后，CLEAR 也开始使用其生物识别面部扫描来验证申请人。

另一家身份验证公司 Persona 的首席执行官里克·宋（Rick Song）表示，确认潜在雇员的身份现在是该公司增长最快的服务之一。Persona 的筛选平台可以检测候选人是否使用一个新创建的电子邮件地址发送邮件，或者……

雇主现在不再仅仅筛选简历。他们通过在整个招聘过程中对申请人的面部进行生物识别扫描、审查电子邮件历史记录，甚至在 Zoom 面试中检查其背后的出口来验证申请人的身份。招聘人员说，这是他们应对大量润色过度的申请的方式。

根据招聘软件公司 Greenhouse 的数据，在约 1,230 名受访的猎头和招聘经理中，超过三分之一的人现在将每周工作时间的一半用于过滤“垃圾和废弃”的提交申请，其中许多申请是由 AI 生成的。

公司担心申请人使用盗用或伪造的身份来增加获得工作的机会。这些担忧并非假设。Gartner Inc. 的分析师希滕·谢斯（Hiten Sheth）表示，他的客户发现候选人在视频会议期间使用深度伪造（deepfakes）来冒充他人。在其中一个案例中，招聘人员面试了一名人员，结果在工作第一天出现的是一个完全不同的人。另一家公司聘请了一名他们认为身在北美的远程员工，结果后来发现该人员住在另一个大洲。

这类事件正变得越来越普遍，以至于 Gartner 估计，到 2028 年，公司收到的每 4 份工作申请中就将有 1 份是虚假的。

“现在被采用的技术借鉴了经过充分测试、已有数十年历史的网络安全……”

“在机场、投票、军事和政府应用中使用的技术，现在被应用于普通的求职过程中，”Greenhouse首席执行官Daniel Chait表示。“但在当今世界，这其实非常容易实现，因为这项技术并不比用手机拍一张自拍更难。”

让欺骗性的求职者溜掉所付出的代价可能是巨大的。几十年来，企业通常在请求身份验证或进行背景调查之前，就与求职者分享关于员工和工作流程的信息。他们的计算机时钟设置的时区与他们应当所在的时区不同。它还会标记某人是否通过虚拟私人网络 (VPN) 登录以隐藏其位置，或者其IP地址在全球范围内的跳跃速度是否快于人类的旅行速度。

Song表示，在最近的一个例子中，一名Persona的客户发现，一名求职者通过复制一名员工已验证的LinkedIn个人资料详情，来冒充一名Coinbase的员工。这些额外的验证步骤利用了候选人登录设备发出的信号，以及他们在提交申请时留下的元数据。这通常在无需他们输入的情况下完成，与传统的背景调查不同，后者通常要求申请人提交基本个人信息并签署同意书。

“背景调查从根本上说是关于过去的，”Song说。“真正的风险是，你甚至根本不是你声称的那个人。”

在今年夏天由SHRM主办的一场人力资源专业人员会议上，招聘人员描述了在虚拟面试中使用生物识别筛选工具“跟踪”候选人，以及在传统背景调查之前很长时间就追踪IP地址的情况。

“这听起来简直像是一部间谍小说里的情节，”行业贸易组织美国 staffing 协会 (American Staffing Assn.) 的主席Stephen Dwyer说道。Dwyer正在培训ASA成员公司的招聘人员采取一系列预防措施，以确保求职者的身份及其所声称的所在地属实。其中一种策略是要求面试者将摄像头转向附近的电源插座，以证明他们身在美国。

虚假申请的增加正值招聘速度放缓且求职时间延长之际。劳工部的数据显示，目前失业工人的中位求职时间为 11 周，高于一年前的 10 周。一些求职者正采取极端措施来应对，例如冒充他人或使用聊天机器人在面试中作弊。

与此同时，雇主也面临着更严重的威胁。司法部去年表示，朝鲜特工通过诱骗企业雇佣他们从事远程IT工作，已经渗透进 100 多家美国公司。根据法律文件，NBCUniversal、Nike Inc.和Boeing Co.都雇佣了使用虚假身份证件和简历冒充美国工人的朝鲜人。NBCUniversal、Nike和Boeing未回应置评请求。

西雅图公共事业局 (Seattle Public Utilities) 的人才招聘经理Ernest Stephens表示，虚假信息的增加是“对我们最大的威胁之一”。他说，这迫使公司对招聘流程做出“很多改变”。由于该公司是一家公共事业机构，Stephens以安全顾虑为由拒绝详细说明。

根据Staffing Industry Analysts开展的首项此类调查，目前超过 40% 的雇佣临时工的雇主使用某种形式的身份验证软件来筛选申请人。该报告包含了来自...的回复

超过 120 家公司。根据私营贷款机构 Kiavi Inc. 发布的一则广告，该公司要求求职者完成“生物识别和设备验证以确认身份及活跃度”。数据中心巨头 Equinix Inc. 要求申请人在视频面试开始时出示政府签发的照片身份证件，并禁止使用虚拟背景。七个月前，一家名为 PLACE 的房地产公司开始要求申请人通过 CLEAR 使用政府签发的 ID 和一张自拍照片来验证身份。据 PLACE 的首席人力资源官 Holly Priestner 称，该平台每天会标记数百份潜在的可疑申请。Priestner 表示：“我们通过惨痛的教训学到了一些东西。”Rogers 为彭博社撰稿。为什么到 2028 年，可能每 4 份求职申请中就有 1 份是伪造的 作者：Taylor Nicole Rogers

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我非常赞同周一关于我们对待母亲方式的评论文章。太多努力工作以养家的父母在缺乏可靠儿童看护的情况下苦苦挣扎。作为一名4岁孩子的母亲，以及一名每天在南加州从事早期儿童教育资源接洽工作的人，我深知这一点。政府和社会地交给母亲们的往往是陈词滥调，而非真正的支持。这就像是一个活动策划者，客户想要香槟，预算却只有买啤酒的钱。钱在哪里？怎么实现？没人告诉。相反，我们听到的是：“你做得太棒了，坚持下去，你会找到解决办法的。”而我们确实找到了，但大多是孤独地与其他母亲一起，被困在一个年复一年将我们抛在脑后的系统中。仅仅赞美母亲是不够的。我们需要彻底改革加利福尼亚州的整个早期护理和教育系统，让母亲和其他照顾者感受到真正的支持。除此之外的任何做法都不足以解决问题。 Pamela Arciaga 格伦代尔 ::

Carter 勇敢地揭示了一个非常悲哀的真相。像我这样的儿童看护提供者被进一步逼到必须在职业晋升和照顾自己的孩子之间做选择。在给孩子应得的优质护理与维持工作生活之间必须做出选择，这令人心灰意冷。许多人甚至没有这个选择的机会。孩子是我生命中最好的礼物，但我的薪水不足以支付我自己的儿童看护费用。我做了一个艰难的决定：留在家里，口袋里几乎没钱，依靠丈夫一个人的薪水艰难度日。现在请想象一下，如果母亲没有一个支持她的伴侣会发生什么。儿童看护费用昂贵是有理由的，因为它为孩子的成长提供了坚实的基础。但必须有一种方法来抵消它对母亲的影响。加州家庭需要一个负担得起的儿童看护系统。 Alma Rodriguez 湖巴尔博亚 ::

对于母亲——或任何照顾者——来说，平衡工作和家庭不应该如此困难。如果我们真正重视孩子和抚养他们的人，更强大的儿童看护和家庭支持系统至关重要。作为一名母亲和公共卫生研究专业人士，我亲身经历了这些挑战。在我的儿子在新生儿重症监护病房（NICU）度过第一个月后，他在刚满2个月大时我就回到了工作岗位，因为我无法负担更多的无薪假。如此早地返回工作结束了我的母乳喂养之旅，加剧了我的焦虑，并使我几乎无法集中注意力，因为我脑子里想的全是我的宝宝。今天，当我考虑再生一个孩子时，我的第一个想法不是我想不想生，而是我是否负担得起。加州必须做得更多，让家庭能够繁荣，而不仅仅是生存。 Marai Jimenez 洛杉矶 ::

如果副总统 JD Vance 和 Elon Musk 想知道为什么出生率在下降，他们只需要阅读 7月27日

这一期的《洛杉矶时报》。他们将了解到一场巨大的公司合并、老化城市的基建、进一步减缓森林修复的削减计划、一项放弃核安全规则的提案、对绿色补贴的削减、联邦政府干预选举的企图、持续不断的伊朗 / 美国 / 以色列战争的最新进展、反穆斯林暴力、反以色列言论、中国日益增长的技术进步、柏林的一起谋杀案、多年来最高的抵押贷款利率、社会最高层的伦理违规以及对家庭实际支持的匮乏。人们真的不希望把孩子带到这个世界上，这能怪他们吗？

Norma Derr，北岭

:: 为了支持人们成为房主，美国提供了抵押贷款利息的税收抵免。如果美国想要更多婴儿，就应该为获得许可的儿童护理提供同样类型的税收抵免。

Pat Conwell，拉梅萨

对居民而言，过山车并不那么有趣 关于“过山车的声音有点太像‘速度与激情’了”，7月

人们在过山车上做什么？他们尖叫。大声地！人们可能会认为，凭借好莱坞环球影城的所有创意天才和众多高薪高管，在讨论这座过山车的十年期间，肯定有人说过一次“休斯顿，我们有麻烦了”。如果这个问题无法解决，有没有人考虑过这对托卢卡湖（Toluca Lake）的房产价值会产生什么影响？价值下降可能会让居民获得一些财产税减免，但代价是他们无法安静和平地享受自己的家。真是个难题。县政府官员在批准环球影城建造过山车之前，并没有要求举行公开听证会。我想知道这些官员中有多少人住在托卢卡湖。

Jan Meredith，托伦斯

:: 我以前住在环球影城的噪音监测站附近。我是参与协商公园计划的委员会成员，随后我对过山车开工前就开始出现的噪音提出了异议。仅仅是测试材料的声音就能在屋内和院子周围听到。在与环球影城的会议上，我们表达了对尖叫声增加的担忧。我们尝试了，但事实证明，我们无法阻止他们推进这个我们告诉过他们会破坏我们宁静的项目。环球影城本身已经是一个有趣的公园了，并不需要这个过山车。两年前我没有因为环球影城而卖掉房子，但我很高兴我现在不在那里了。

Connie Elliot，波莫纳

母亲需要更多支持 关于“是的，出生率在下降。看看我们如何对待母亲”，观点之声，7月 27

最近由 Christine Michel Carter 撰写的《洛杉矶时报》评论文章反映了我作为一个 3 岁孩子的母亲所承担的许多焦虑。母亲也需要更强有力的儿童护理支持；令人沮丧的是，我们被迫在职业生涯和孩子的福祉之间做出选择。在怀孕之前，我完全不知道做母亲实际上需要多少成本。我希望我的儿子能够接受早期儿童教育，并通过符合发展阶段的儿童护理来培养社交技能，但成本让这一切变得遥不可及。作为母亲我所需的灵活性限制了我能从事的工作类型，这反过来降低了我的 earning 潜力，使得支付儿童护理费用变得更加困难。加州可以成为建立生活和养育家庭的最佳之地，但前提是我们必须改造早期的护理和教育体系。母亲们不应该为了给孩子一个良好的开始而不得不牺牲自己的职业生涯。

Carmen Ortega Bell

儿童护理成本迫使许多美国家庭做出艰难决定。

卡罗琳·卡斯特 (Carolyn Kaster) 联合通讯社

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如果你现在在美国建一座房子，很有可能你将生活在社区业主协会 (HOA) 的指令之下。大约三分之二的新房属于 HOA，三分之一的现有房屋也是如此。其中一些 HOA 已经演变为鼓励环保庭院，特别是在西南部沙漠地区；但更多的是在可持续发展方面设置障碍，即便是在水资源日益短缺、野生动物受到威胁以及家庭能源生产可以减少污染的社区里也是如此。

贾内特和杰夫·克劳奇 (Janet and Jeff Crouch) 遇到了第二类情况。他们花费了十多年时间，利用本土开花植物和树木将他们在马里兰州的院子变成了鸟类和传粉媒介的栖息地。随后，他们的业主协会命令他们将其更换为草坪。接下来的昂贵法律诉讼最终以院子基本保持原样而告终，但这激励了马里兰州立法者在 2021. 年通过了一项低影响景观法。该州宣布，要求种植草坪或限制传粉花园和节水造景（即使用耐旱植物、覆盖物或岩石而非草坪设计的院子）属于“不合理的限制”。

加利福尼亚州制定了更严格的保护措施，包括宣布禁止耐水植物或人造草坪、或要求种植草坪的 HOA 规则无效，尽管这些协会仍然可以对许多业主的决定施加控制。然而，在许多其他州，业主报告称冲突仍在继续，包括犹他州的节水造景、德克萨斯州的本土野花以及弗吉尼亚州的黑脉金斑蝶栖息地。其他人则在太阳能电池板和电动汽车充电桩的问题上陷入冲突。

我们是关注人类与环境相互作用的自然保护社会科学家。我们对 HOA 的研究发现，这些私人的、准政府组织是环境政策中一个经常被忽视但却具有影响力的力量。虽然 HOA 往往成为住宅环境可持续发展的障碍，但我们认为它们也可以成为桥梁。城市和州政府可以提供帮助。

HOA 自 19 世纪起就已存在。随着 20 世纪 60 和 70 年代郊区开发开始在美国迅速蔓延，这些组织也随之扩张。在这些组织覆盖区域内购房的买家会自动成为会员，支付会费，并同意遵守其规则作为在该地拥有房屋的条件。这些规则通常由最初控制 HOA 的开发商制定。随后，随着房屋售出，责任转移给一个负责解释、执行以及有时修订规则的委员会。由于修订通常需要绝大多数业主的批准，开发商制定的规则很难修改，并且可能在数十年内塑造 HOA。

HOA 处于私人财产和地方政府之间一个独特的地位。它们执行规则，收取费用，评估罚款并维护共享空间。它们还经常监管房屋尺寸、建筑材料、车道、院子、树木、户外照明和能源生产。其规则往往反映出对审美统一性的强烈偏好，有些人认为这与更高的房屋价值相关。HOA 具有相当大的环境-

环境政策权力，影响着整个社区如何用水、产生能源、提供野生动物栖息地以及应对气候变化。例如，草坪（Turfgrass lawns）是美国人的一种特别痴迷，需要定期修剪、施肥和浇水，从而增加了温室气体排放和用水量。草坪在支持生物多样性方面表现尤为糟糕，尤其是对传粉媒介和鸟类物种的支持。我们的研究团队分析了密歇根州英格姆县（Ingham County，兰辛市所在地）31 个业主协会（HOA）的规则，以了解它们如何影响可持续发展。我们查看了 18 项影响建筑结构、景观美化和能源的条款，发现业主协会大多成为了住宅可持续发展的障碍。例如，大约四分之三的业主协会规定了最小房屋面积。近一半要求维护草坪和铺设不透水车道。三分之一限制了家庭能源生产，例如太阳能电池板或风力涡轮机。还有四分之一禁止设置室外晾衣绳。我们发现支持可持续发展的条款相对较少。仅有 29% 的业主协会限制室外灯光的瓦数（这对迁徙鸟类和其他野生动物构成威胁），19% 要求居民维护树木，6% 限制化肥的使用，以及 3% 要求种植原生植物。简而言之，我们发现阻碍可持续选择的业主协会条款比鼓励可持续选择的条款要常见得多。

在第二项研究中，我们调查了威斯康星州麦迪逊市及其周边的前院。在我们研究的业主协会中，有 6 个要求前院种植原生植物，2 个限制了可作为传统草坪维护的院落面积。我们还将这些房产与附近不受相同规则管辖的院落进行了比较。差异是巨大的。要求种植原生植物的院落，其原生植物覆盖率平均为 29.5%，而没有此类要求的院落仅为 6.9%。在协会限制草坪使用的地区，草坪覆盖率也明显较低。原生植物需要的水量和维护较少，并能为蜜蜂、鸟类、蝴蝶和其他野生动物提供食物和庇护所，将院落与其周围的生态系统连接起来。

业主协会在住宅可持续发展方面具有独特的领导潜力。与市政府和镇政府不同，它们在许多环境决策实际做出时的规模上进行管理：即家庭。要求种植原生植物、限制草坪并鼓励可再生能源的合理契约可以为社区景观带来积极变化。州政府可以通过建立保障机制来提供帮助，允许可再生能源、野生动物保护和节水景观。然而，最大的机会可能出现在第一位业主入住之前。开发商、城市规划者和环保组织可以共同努力，创建模范规则，并在业主协会成立时提供技术援助。未来的社区可以将环境可持续性作为默认设置。由于数百万美国人已经生活在业主协会的规则之下，问题不再是这些组织是否会塑造住宅的可持续性，而它们已经在这么做了。更重要的问题是，它们是会继续以环境为代价强化昨天的审美规范，还是成为创造更可持续未来的合作伙伴。

丹尼尔·克莱默（Daniel Kramer）是密歇根州立大学的保护学教授，麦德琳·卡尔（Madeline Carr）是该校渔业与野生动物专业的博士生。本文是与 The Conversation 合作完成的。

但是，业主协会是会继续强化昨天的审美规范，还是在可持续发展方面发挥领导作用？

[图片说明] 使用节水景观（XERISCAPING）替代草坪可减少用水，但某些社区禁止这样做。Myung J. Chun，洛杉矶时报

业主协会实际上可以成为一股向善的力量 观点 (Voices) 丹尼尔·克莱默 和 麦德琳·卡尔 特约撰稿人

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A14 星期一，2026年8月3日 洛杉矶时报

全球首批此类系统之一 消除后期制作的延迟与烦恼 支持在单一舞台上制作多个场景设置 降低制作与差旅成本 19+ 家合作伙伴，全球信任，屡获殊荣 深受全球顶尖工作室和电影制作人的信赖 AV 奖项得主：年度场地项目 – Studio Ulster 虚拟制作校园1 AV 奖项提名：年度赋能技术 – NantStudios 动态体积系统2

NantStudios、洛杉矶时报、洛杉矶时报工作室和 NantGames 共同驱动洛杉矶时报媒体集团 (LATMG)。 驱动新媒体革命 改变沉浸式体验的创建与交付方式。

洛杉矶时报媒体集团公司 (LA Times Media Group Inc.) 目前正根据修订后的 1933 年《证券法》（以下简称“《法案》”）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公司的投资目标、风险和投资期限。与洛杉矶时报媒体集团公司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公司的证券是依据修订后的 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，您应当意识到：(i) 证券仅可出售给“合格投资者”，对于自然人而言，是指符合特定最低年收入或净资产门槛的投资者；

(ii) 证券仅在依赖于《证券法》注册要求豁免的情况下提供，无需遵守适用于《证券法》注册的特定披露要求；(iii) 证券交易委员会不会对证券、发行条款或任何发行材料的准确性或完整性进行价值评判或予以批准；(iv) 证券在转让和转售方面将受到法律限制，投资者不应假设其能够转售其证券；投资证券涉及风险，投资者应能够承受其投资损失。

本广告可能包含 1933 年《证券法》第 27A 条和 1934 年《交易法》第 21E 条含义下的“前瞻性陈述”，旨在涵盖前瞻性陈述的安全港条款。此信息由我们认为可靠的来源提供，但我们无法保证其准确性。尽管我们认为此类前瞻性陈述中所表达的预期是合理的，但我们不能向您保证这些预期将会实现。投资者请注意，此类前瞻性陈述涉及风险和不确定性，可能导致实际结果与预期结果存在重大差异。

洛杉矶时报媒体集团公司未来可能会根据《法案》的 A 条例进行公开发行。目前不对此类发行募集资金或其他对价，若在响应此类材料后针对此类发行发送资金，将不予接受。任何购买证券的要约均不被接受，且不可接收购买价格的任何部分。

在美国证券交易委员会核准发行声明之前，根据 Regulation A 提供的发行可能会被撤回或撤销，且在核准日期之后给出接受通知之前的任何时间，均不承担任何形式的义务或承诺。潜在投资者在 Regulation A 发行中表达的投资意向不具约束力，且不涉及任何形式的义务或承诺。本公司正根据 1933 年《证券法》的 Regulation A 进行“测试水温”。本公司没有义务根据 Regulation A 进行发行。目前不就所提供的信息征集资金或其他对价，且即便收到此类款项也将不予接受。在 Form 1-A 发行声明提交之前，不能接受购买证券的报价，也不能收取任何部分买价。

且在根据修订后的 1933, 年《证券法》 Regulation A 核准发行声明之前，任何此类报价在核准日期之后给出接受通知之前的任何时间均可被撤回或撤销，且不承担任何形式的义务或承诺。任何人的投资意向均不涉及任何形式的义务或承诺。在任何该等报价或销售根据其“蓝天法”或证券法不被允许的州，均不进行出售证券的报价或征集购买证券的报价。除非且直到该发行在该州注册或该州存在注册豁免，否则不对任何州的个人投资者进行发行。了解更多请访问 invest.latimes.com

LATMG：次世代媒体平台 拥有新媒体革命的一席之地。现在投资，在计划公开募股前可获得 7% 的年股息，并能以公开募股价格的 25% 折扣进行转换。

NantStudios 是 LATMG 旗下的一家全球知名媒体制作公司。在 NantStudios，巨大的 LED 墙可显示沉浸式的、照片级的逼真环境，被领先的工作室和制片人所采用。这是绿幕技术的下一次进化：它降低了成本，加快了拍摄速度，并从第一天起就赋予创作者更多的控制力和灵活性。

NANTSTUDIOS 提供行业所需的效率 利用行业对更智能、更快速能力的激增需求 大规模：110,000 平方英尺的舞台空间 1) AV Awards 2025; 2) AV Awards 2025

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加利福尼亚 星期一，8 月 3 , 2 0 2 6 :: LATIMES.COM / CALIFORNIA

嫌疑人与受害者曾为商业伙伴 作者：Jack Dolan [见争议部分, B5] 律师称，在奇诺岗（Chino Hills）发生的致命事件中的当事人深陷一场争端。

据其律师称，67 岁的尔湾男子郑丰波（Zhengfeng Bo）胆大妄为地绑架了一名商业伙伴，将其塞进汽车后备箱，在高速追逐中戏弄警方，随后在震惊的副警长面前将受害者处决，而此人原本是个“非常理智的人”。

迈克尔·陈（Michael Chen）此前一直在一起关于帕萨迪纳（Pasadena）一座价值 $20-million 公寓大楼的激烈法律纠纷中代表郑波。在一次采访中，陈听闻此消息后显得确实震惊且不安，并补充说，他的当事人给他的印象一直是个“非常冷静的人”。

警长办公室表示，周三晚上在交通拦截期间，郑波在绑架 60, 岁的舒库尔·艾克巴尔（Shukur Aikebaer）离开其奇诺岗家中后，死于警方的密集枪火之下。但在死前，他若无其事地走出驾驶座，慢悠悠地走到车后，将仍在后备箱中的艾克巴尔击毙。

圣贝纳迪诺县警长办公室的调查人员尚未透露这起谋杀案的动机。该事件发生在平日安静的奇诺岗街道上，过程犹如昆汀·塔伦蒂诺（Quentin Tarantino）电影中的场景。但调查人员指出，枪手与受害者通过“之前的工作关系”彼此认识。

公开记录显示，两人均是一家在尔湾注册的商业地产公司 Panshi Inc. 的合伙人。文件显示，郑波担任首席执行官，而艾克巴尔被列为公司的首席财务官兼秘书。

根据陈在 2 月向洛杉矶县高等法院提起的一项诉讼，郑波、Panshi 公司以及另一名合伙人为该公寓大楼的开发商提供了超过 $2 million 的贷款，其中至少有一部分尚未偿还。

上周，陈针对开发商 Madison Collection 提出了另一项主张，寻求撤换其物业经理并将控制权移交给 Panshi。诉讼称，Madison Collection 数月来一直阻挠这些努力，拒绝移交账簿和银行账户。

无法联系到 Madison Collection 的代表以发表评论。艾克巴尔曾是 Panshi 与开发商之间的“中间人”。

副总检察长玛丽莎·罗伊（Marissa Roy）在 6 月 2 日的初选中获得了极高票数，在市检察官的竞选中排名第一，并将市检察官海蒂·费尔德斯坦·索托（Hydee Feldstein Soto）完全排除在竞争之外。罗伊在第一轮中获得了 43% 的选票。

现在她与副地区检察官约翰·麦金尼（John McKinney）进行正面竞争，她在筹款方面也遥遥领先。过去几天提交的 11 月 3 日决选竞选支出报告显示，罗伊的竞选团队在截至 6 月 30. 的筹款期内筹集了近 $74,000。

相比之下，根据麦金尼自己的捐款报告，他仅筹集了 $3,000,。

“我计划成为一名为民众服务的市检察官，我很自豪能够拥有一个由民众支持的竞选活动。如果你的竞选活动不是这样，那么我认为询问它是为谁服务的才是公平的，”罗伊在声明中说道。

这场竞选是三场低票额（downballot）竞选中，6 月 2 日排名第一的候选人在竞选捐款争夺战中同样处于领先地位的一场。在南洛杉矶和圣费尔南多谷（San Fernando Valley）的市议员竞选中，情况同样失衡。

在初选中获得近 29% 选票的麦金尼表示，他的竞选活动将拥有充足的资源。

三位城市候选人

在筹款方面大幅领先。作者：David Zahniser 和 Gavin J. Quinton [见筹款，B5]

洛杉矶记录 (L.A. ON THE RECORD) 哈维尔·拉米雷斯 (Javier Ramirez) 被铐在一辆无标志车辆的后座上，身上带着淤青且心乱如麻，当时移民局特工使用了一个他从未听过的词。那是 2025 年 6 月，他们正在吹嘘在洛杉矶地区进行的突击搜捕，这次行动抓获了数百名移民——以及几名像拉米雷斯这样的美国公民。那个不熟悉的词引起了拉米雷斯的注意。

“Tonk”。

“我想知道那是什意思——我以为那是某种代码，”这位 33 岁的拖车司机在时间上周的一次 Zoom 通话中告诉我。 “但当时我没有过多纠结。”

在蒙特贝洛 (Montebello) 一个拖车场外，蒙面男子将他摔在地上，而他们拒绝透露原因。他最后与另一名在搜捕中被拘留的男子被关在同一辆车里，前往大都会拘留中心。

观点 (Voices) 古斯塔沃·阿雷利亚诺 (GUSTAVO ARELLANO) 专栏作家 反移民污语揭示边境巡逻队中“平庸之恶” “Tonk” 残酷地指代移民被击中时发出的声音 边境巡逻特工 2025 年 8 月在洛杉矶展示武力。Carlin Stiehl 洛杉矶时报 [见 Arellano，B5]

萨克拉门托 (SACRAMENTO) 今天我们要讨论加利福尼亚州的 39 号提案 (Proposition 39)，这是一次试图将特朗普总统关于选举阴谋的幻想转化为加州法律的尝试。该提案如此虚伪，以至于民主党立法者起诉了民主党籍的州务卿，试图阻止围绕该提案传播的误导信息。

随着这些诉讼的推进以及 11 月选举的临近，我们将听到很多关于 39 号提案的消息——该措施将要求现场投票者出示政府签发的身份证件，并包含其他条款。我担心，这场辩论中的大部分（如果不是全部）将围绕这样一个虚假主张展开，即有大量无证人员在我们的选举中非法投票。

“这直接是特朗普一直以来关于选举舞弊和投票舞弊的所有言论的产物，”非党派机构“包容性民主中心” (Center for Inclusive Democracy) 的创始人兼主任明迪·罗梅罗 (Mindy Romero) 表示。

罗梅罗强调，加州从未出现过大规模选民舞弊的证据，且该州已经拥有一套有效地检查选民资格的系统。她说，39 号提案是在“为一个不存在的问题寻找解决方案，而且这个方案实际上可能会导致额外的问题”。“因此，该提案本身就在延续一个关于加州存在选民舞弊的虚假且危险的叙事。”

观点 (Voices) 安妮塔·查布里亚 (ANITA CHABRIA) 专栏作家 39 号提案将使选举阴谋论合法化 39 号提案将要求加州选民出示身份证件。Kayla Bartkowski 洛杉矶时报 [见 Chabria，B4]

去年，当帕萨迪纳 (Pasadena) 的玫瑰碗水上运动中心 (Rose Bowl Aquatics Center) 运营者赢得 2028 年夏季奥运会跳水比赛的举办权时，他们将其吹捧为一项金牌成就。但现在，游泳者和其他设施使用者们得知，奥运前的前期建设可能会迫使他们一年多时间无法使用三个极其受欢迎的游泳池。

据知情人士向《时报》确认，水上运动中心最早将于明年 4 月关闭，直到 2028 年夏季奥运会结束后才会向常规用户重新开放。

如此长期的关闭将使每年通过该中心旋转门超过 400,000 人的人群陷入窘境，他们将不得不匆忙寻找其他游泳、跳水、水球和水上健身的场所。该中心两个 50 米泳池和一个相邻的治疗池将被关闭，同时两个宽大的热水浴缸也将关闭。

人们如此说道。水上运动中心（Aquatics Center）的运营方拒绝讨论关闭的细节，表示他们计划在周一发布公告。他们认为，在谈判尚未结束之前，讨论奥运会将给这座有 36 年历史的游泳综合体带来哪些改善还为时过早。LA28（奥运组委会）通讯副总裁 Jacie Prieto Lopez 确认将对该设施进行改善，但表示具体细节仍在敲定中。Prieto Lopez 表示：“我们无法就具体的设施改善发表评论，因为 LA28 与罗斯碗水上运动中心（Rose Bowl Aquatic Center）之间仍在进行积极讨论。但基于对现有设施的初步评估，改善项目可能包括泳池、跳水塔和机械系统。”

该水上运动中心于 1990 年开放，部分资金来自 1984 年洛杉矶奥运会的利润，曾被视为最先进的设施。但如今它已显得有些陈旧，需要翻新。该中心的运营方预计 LA28 将支付部分费用。LA28 计划在帕萨迪纳的罗斯碗水上运动中心举行奥运跳水比赛。一项施工关闭计划让顾客感到担忧。

Christina House 洛杉矶时报 害怕失去原有的环境 By James Rainey [见水上运动，B6]

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又一场热浪在本周末席卷了美国西部，给南加州带来了极端高温预警，并在西南部和蒙大拿州创下了气温纪录。由于极度干燥的条件和强风，太平洋西北地区面临极其罕见的“特别危险情况”预警，林火随之爆发。

据美国国家气象局称，菲尼克斯周六下午达到了 116 度，与该地区 1972 年 8 月 1 日创下的历史最高气温纪录持平。这比该地区有史以来最高纪录低 6 度。拉斯维加斯和加利福尼亚州的埃尔森特罗均接近其每日纪录，而蒙大拿州的格雷特福尔斯和海伦娜在初步测量中均超过了其每日纪录。

南加州官员提醒居民留意中暑等相关疾病的症状，如头晕、意识混乱、头痛和恶心。极端高温是加利福尼亚州面临的最致命的气候风险之一。在最热的日子里，在洛杉矶县，与高温相关的疾病可能占急诊科就诊人数的近 1 / 100。根据一个新的数据看板，去年该县记录了 10 例与高温相关的死亡病例。

连续多日的高温——且由于夜间温度保持高位而几乎没有缓解——会增加风险。美国国家气象局气象学家罗丝·舍恩费尔德（Rose Schoenfeld）表示：“过去几天这里一直处于这种高温状态，这种累积效应可能是巨大的。该地区的部分湿度有所升高，这也让夜间最低气温略有提高。”

国家气象局建议将户外活动限制在一天中的早些时候，并在下午和晚上留在空调空间内。该局进一步建议居民绝不要将宠物或儿童单独留在车内，并关照亲人。

太平洋西北地区已有数十起林火燃烧数日。周六下午至晚上，在美国国家气象局最高级别的林火天气预警中，林火活动激增。当局表示，在华盛顿州东部，截至周日仍未得到控制的林火已导致约 5,000 栋房屋被撤离，约 600 栋房屋、企业及其他建筑被毁。

在华盛顿州第二大城市斯波坎周围，火势蔓延超过 8.2 平方英里。这是美国西部数十起林火之一，使联邦、州和地方机构的灭火能力承受巨大压力。目前尚未收到斯波坎地区林火造成死亡的报告。

“天气在与我们作对，地形也在与我们作对，”本杰明·科塞尔（Benjamin Cossel）表示。他是来自加利福尼亚联邦响应团队的公共信息官，该团队于周六晚上被召集处理斯波坎地区的林火。

在北加州，圣罗莎的《新闻民主报》（Press Democrat）报道称，根据加州消防局（Cal Fire）的数据，截至周日上午 8 点，门多西诺县的费利兹火灾（Feliz fire）已烧毁 841 英亩，控制率为 10%。所有撤离令均已降级。《门多西诺之声》（Mendocino Voice）报道称，门多西诺县南部的 101 号公路在因火灾关闭数小时后，于周六晚上重新开放。

南加州的高温预警将于周日晚上失效，舍恩费尔德指出，热浪预计将在周日及本周初减弱。此次高温是由一个高压-

确保系统在该地区徘徊。随着气压增加，气温升高。高压还抑制了能将凉爽海洋空气带到陆地上的海风。与此同时，该地区粘稠的湿度是由一种将潮湿热带空气带到南加州的空气流动模式引起的。美联社对本报道做出了贡献。

美国西部山火、创纪录高温 作者：Noah Haggerty

周六，在洛杉矶市中心，一把雨伞在其他地方气温创历史新高时提供了遮荫。Myung J. Chun / 洛杉矶时报

几周前被发现生病并落在地上的大熊湖名秃鹰Jackie的兽医们仍不清楚她出了什么问题。周五，为其治疗的欧海伊猛禽中心（Ojai Raptor Center）执行主任Chris Eksteen在Facebook的一篇帖子中，描述了为了诊断她的病情所采取的所有措施。他说，她已经接受了多次身体检查、全面的血液分析、先进的成像检查、毒理学筛选和输血。

截至周五，测试显示Jackie仍然贫血，且白细胞计数升高，表明她正经历炎症或感染。Jackie的红细胞计数仍然较低。

周六标志着Jackie被送往欧海伊猛禽中心两周。尽管对其缓慢康复持谨慎乐观态度，但Eksteen表示，在这个“非常复杂的病例中，仍然有许多未解答的问题”。

Jackie和她的长期伴侣Shadow通过其巢穴的实时直播吸引了全球观众的关注，直播展示了他们孵化和抚养后代时如同肥皂剧般的努力。在这个筑巢季节，这对伴侣抚养了雏鹰Sandy和Luna，它们已成功离巢。

几周前，Jackie在大熊湖岸边被救出时，体重不足且羽毛凌乱。视频片段显示她与两只较年轻的鹰在打斗。Eksteen说，那次遭遇可能是导致她无法飞行的原因，但这可能不是她潜在疾病的根源。他说，在她被发现落在地上之前，似乎已经病了一段时间。

“我们所看到的情况表明，她已经病了很长时间，”Eksteen说。

他说，野生动物医学可能非常缓慢且艰辛。由于患者无法告诉你哪里出了问题，因此这变成了一个一个排除诊断的漫长过程，同时提供支持性护理并观察动物的反应。他说，康复可能需要数周甚至数月的时间。

兽医将继续监测Jackie的血液和白细胞水平，并预计将检测她是否含有较罕见重金属的污染迹象。然而，这些结果要在几周后才能出炉。

大熊湖名鹰依然“病重” 作者：Jack Dolan

兽医们正对依然贫血的Jackie进行广泛测试。

根据海滩与港口部的说法，在涨潮和海浪导致“极度侵蚀”后，洛杉矶县关闭了 Point Dume 海滩的几个洗手间和道路入口。在周六的一篇社交媒体帖子中，该部门表示，一夜之间的侵蚀导致悬崖边缘不稳定，部分地区出现“高达 8 英尺的跌落”。

作为应对，县政府关闭了收费闸口后的 Westward Beach Road 以及该海滩拥有 373 个车位的停车场。这条约 0.4 英里的道路是进入该海滩的唯一车辆通道，该海滩被崎岖的海岸地形包围，紧邻 Point Dume——一个伸入太平洋、构成圣莫尼卡湾北端顶点的岩石岬角。

周五，该部门关闭了几个

由于汹涌的海浪损坏了供应洗手间的供水管道和水表，洗手间已关闭。该部门表示，作为应对，现场已安装了临时化学厕所和洗手站。该部门敦促海滩游客为了自身安全，切勿越过安全锥、警戒带或障碍物。该部门未提供洗手间、道路或停车场何时重新开放的预计时间，但指出县政府正在“评估损失”，并将随信息的获取提供更新。

由于多股南向涌浪冲击洛杉矶县和文图拉县的海岸线，美国国家气象局在近几周反复警告存在危险的离岸流和高涨的浪潮。剧烈的环境条件已导致沿海地区发生了数千次救生员救援行动。飓风热内维夫（Hurricane Genevieve）在周四晚上从 5 级飓风降级为热带风暴，给加州南海岸带来了汹涌的水域和高于正常的波浪。高浪迫使两列从圣路易斯-奥比斯波开往圣迭戈的太平洋冲浪者号（Pacific Surfliner）列车取消运行。目前，热内维夫位于洛杉矶西南部的太平洋上，不对陆地构成直接威胁。

在长滩，官员们于上周末在海岸线沿岸筑起一道巨大的沙墙，以应对上涨的潮汐和巨浪。视频记录了波浪冲击沙墙的场景，迫使工人不断重建。据海洋安全主管冈萨洛·梅迪纳（Gonzalo Medina）称，长滩第62街与第69街之间的海滨住宅尤为脆弱。

加州州立公园警告海滩游客，要警惕看似平静的水域和离岸流。离岸流可能出现在任何有破碎波的海滩上，并形成一股强力向海流。被卷入离岸流的游泳者应平行于海岸线游泳，而不是尝试直接逆流而上，因为后者会导致体力耗尽并造成溺水。

在更北的地方，上周在圣克鲁斯，多名救生员在岸边波涛汹涌的情况下进行了一次戏剧性的水上救援。“这名游泳者非常幸运，因为现场有这么多经过培训的救生员在值班，”一名用户在Reddit上针对该事件的视频评论道。

频繁的高潮位还与厄尔尼诺（El Niño）现象有关。在厄尔尼诺期间，赤道太平洋沿岸较温暖的水域会导致极端天气和倾盆大雨。专家警告称，今年夏天晚些时候太平洋预计将出现一次“超级厄尔尼诺”，这可能是记录以来最强的一次。

今年4月，欧洲中期天气预报中心发布的一份展望指出，海面温度可能会超过季节平均值 2 摄氏度。美国国家海洋和大气管理局随后的一项预测认为，这种情况在秋末发生的概率为 1 比 4。

高浪、严重侵蚀导致 Point Dume 关闭 作者：Noah Haggerty 和 Caroline Petrow-Cohen

一名骑行者周日在马里布 Point Dume 海滩的一个封闭区域经过。Ronaldo Bolaños / 洛杉矶时报

在传奇作家马克·吐温的自传中，隐藏着一个关于加州淘金热小镇 Yreka（靠近俄勒冈州边界）如何得名的奇思妙想的故事。吐温宣称，Yreka（发音为 why-ree-kuh，不要与洪堡县的港口城市 Eureka 混淆）是偶然命名的。

“当时有一家面包店，挂着一块帆布招牌，招牌还没挂起来，但已经刷好漆并被撑开晾干，结果 BAKERY（面包店）这个词中除了 B 以外的所有字母都透了出来，并且被重新……”

“反转了，”马克·吐温写道。“一个陌生人读反了，读成了 YREKA，并以为那就是这个（矿业）营地的名字。营地的人对此很满意，于是采用了这个名字。”吐温的故事基本上已被揭穿。毕竟，他是个讽刺作家。关于这一点稍后详述。但这个传说流传如此之广，以至于几周前当《加州精华》（Essential California）邀请读者提交他们心中金州最独特的地点名称时，读者伊森·海伊（Ethan Hay）分享了这个故事，称其带来了很多快乐。作为一名走遍了加州 58 个县中除 11 个以外所有县的州级记者（阿尔派县，我得去看看你们！），我在此介绍几位读者的回应。

沙漠之花与一名假医生

奥科蒂约（Ocotillo），帝国县 —— 斯科特·伊迪（Scott Eadie）写道，大多数人会将这个沙漠小村庄的名字与美国西南部和墨西哥北部原生的多刺、红花奥科蒂约灌木联系起来。“但对我儿子和我来说，这个相当简朴的小镇唤起了关于一个业余火箭发射场的 fond memories，该地位于 8 号州际公路南侧的一座山脚下。好朋友、露营和火箭是神奇的组合！”

Zzyzx，圣贝纳迪诺县 —— “诚然，这里是没有建制区域，但你怎么能忽视 Zzyzx 呢？”肯·博林布鲁克（Ken Bolingbroke）写道。根据国家公园管理局的记载，莫哈韦沙漠中的这个荒凉地点是以 Zzyzx 矿泉疗养院命名的。这是一座 20 世纪 40 年代的水疗中心，由一个名叫柯蒂斯·斯普林格（Curtis Springer）的古怪家伙在其持有的矿权地上开设，他在该地区建造了一座城堡、演讲室、泳池房、山羊场和兔子房。斯普林格在 9 年级后辍学，但自称医生，通过邮寄营养补充剂和所谓的万能药赚了一小笔钱。据公园管理局称：“在他经营疗养院的 30 年里，他向全国邮寄了 4 million 多个包裹，包括‘大洪水前草本茶’、‘神经细胞食物’和‘好莱坞活力鸡尾酒’。附近的贝克镇（Baker）不得不为此专门建立一个邮局来处理他的邮件。”最终，联邦政府指控他逃税和虚假广告，他的矿权遭到质疑，他在被送往拉斯维加斯生活之前在监狱中度过了一段时间。

一个寻求分裂的小镇

第二个 Rough and Ready，内华达县 —— 几位读者提到了这个位于塞拉山麓（Sierra Foothills）微小城镇的名字。我几年前去过那里 —— 甚至还从 Rough and Ready 消防局为我当时还蹒跚学步的儿子弄到了一些贴纸！—— 但遗憾的是，我还没有写过一篇带有这个绝佳地点签名的报道。根据我珍藏的由欧文·G·古德（Erwin G. Gudde）编写的《加州地名：当前地理名称的起源与词源》（没错，我就是这么一个书呆子）一书，该镇由 Rough and Ready 公司于 1849 年创建。这是一家由曾在扎卡里·泰勒（Zachary Taylor）总统麾下服役的退伍军人领导的矿业组织，而泰勒总统的绰号就是“古怪且准备就绪”（Old Rough and Ready）。古德称，这个词组在当时非常流行，以至于加州一度有三个城镇以此命名。该镇在 1850 年宣布脱离联邦，成立“Rough and Ready 大共和国”，以避免缴纳矿产税。这个大共和国仅维持了三个月，原因是当地一些人去附近的城镇买酒，结果被店主拒绝，称不向“外国人”出售。

那么 Yreka 呢？几十年来，这个小镇一直有 Yreka 烘焙店 —— 这是一个回文词，正读反读都一样。但是，很抱歉，马克·吐温，古德写道，这个锡基尤县（Siskiyou County）县治的名字实际上源自沙斯塔印第安语中的“waik’a’”，意为沙斯塔山。Yreka 与 Rough and

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LATIMES.COM 2026年8月3日 星期一 B5 辰说，shi和麦迪逊收藏馆（Madison Collection）。据他所知，直到周三之前，Bo和Aikebaer的关系一直很好。他说，两者之间没有任何“敌对”关系。“但显然，发生了一些事情，”辰说。“也许是一些被揭露的信息促使[Bo]采取了这一行动。”辰表示，他不知道那会是什么信息，或者这次杀人是否与商业纠纷有关。“听到这个消息我很震惊，”辰说。“我从未见过他这一面。我真的很惊讶。”

据警长部门称，Aikebaer于周三晚上走出家门调查停电原因，此时他遇到了Bo及其兄弟简全·Bo（Jianquan Bo）。他们至少向Aikebaer开了一枪，然后将他塞进一辆银色尼桑Altima的后备箱里。当时Aikebaer的妻子和女儿就在家中。邻居们说，他们听到妻子在尖叫，说她的丈夫被枪击了。在响应911电话后，副警长发现该尼桑车正从现场加速驶离。这引发了一场长达一英里的追逐，最终在Wandering Ridge Drive的2400街区结束，警方随后要求司机和一名乘客下车。

根据当地电视台获得的一段监控视频，坐在副驾驶位置的简全·Bo配合了指令。坐在驾驶席的正丰·Bo（Zhengfeng Bo）开始配合，但随后他回到了驾驶席，似乎拿了某种东西，然后走回后备箱。副警长表示，正是那时Bo枪杀了Aikebaer，随后警员向其开火。副警长称，他们对Bo和Aikebaer都采取了急救措施，但未能成功。简全·Bo未受伤并被拘留。他因涉嫌谋杀和绑架而被登记。

嫌疑人与受害者曾是商业伙伴 [纠纷，见B1] 洛杉矶市中心的中心。当我向Ramirez解释“tonk”是什么意思时，他的脸色变得苍白。至少半个世纪以来，边境巡逻队工作人员一直使用这个拟声词（指被击中时的声音）作为无证移民的俚语。上周在一份法庭文件中公布的去年夏天移民突击检查的执法记录仪画面和短信记录显示，特工们随口说着像“wet”和“tonk”这样反移民的侮辱性词汇，就像我们平时说“和”或“的”一样自然。

我告诉Ramirez，最令人发指的例子是指向他及其朋友、同样拥有美国公民身份的Brian Gavidia。一段视频显示，当同事们粗暴地对待两人时，一名特工大喊道：“一个tonk混蛋逃掉了，伙计！”这名带着奇卡诺（Chicano）口音的特工随后驾车疾驰而去，并用西班牙语和英语混合的Spanglish问道：“¿Alguien arresto un tonk, güey?” —— 有人抓到那个tonk了吗，伙计？

“噢，哇，好吧，这真的很糟糕，”Ramirez终于说道，他苦笑着整理思绪。“这有点伤人。他们就这样臆断我是谁。”Ramirez询问他的律师路易斯·卡斯蒂略（Luis Castillo），那些拦截他的特工在使用那个词时是否“心存暴力”。

“你遭受了双重打击，”这位资深的民权律师回答道。“他们在身体和心理上双重打击了你。”

不，路易斯：他们打击的是我们所有人。如果你仍然怀疑种族主义暴力在推动特朗普总统的驱逐浪潮，那么请考虑Gavidia和Ramirez所经历的一切。尽管他们大声喊道拥有证明美国公民身份的文件，但移民局（La migra）依然粗暴地对待他们。他们拿走了Gavidia的Real ID且再未归还。

Ramirez 被拘留了五天，被指控企图袭击联邦执法人员并干扰其工作——但由于他并未实施此类行为，该案件最终不了了之。美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）和公共顾问中心（Public Counsel）以及其他团体和私人律师在向联邦法官提交的申请中加入了执法记录仪的视频，请求法官禁止移民局特工基于种族定型进行拦截。Gavidia 是该诉讼的一员，而 Ramirez 则另行起诉。现在，这两个男人比以往任何时候都更确定，特朗普政府的驱逐策略并不是为了抓住“最坏的人”。在移民局（la migra）看来，所有拉丁裔人都是“tonks”。“我以前从未听过这个词，但当（律师）告诉我这个词的意思时，我立刻感到恶心，”30 岁的 Gavidia 说，他从事汽车修理和销售工作。“他们早就知道自己来做什么，”他说。“我们告诉他们我们是美国人。但这没有用。我们肤色深，这就足够了。”“我看了（那个 tonk 视频） 300 次，”Gavidia 补充道，“这让我更创伤了。”

“Tonk” 几十年来一直是边境巡逻队的一个肮脏的小秘密——这种职场俚语表明，在特朗普治下，移民局在状态最好时所展现出的平庸之恶，已演变成了某种更为丑陋的东西。这个蔑称如此卑劣——它基于执法者的暴力，而非那些侮辱食物或文化的种族嘲讽——以至于它从未进入主流英语。在反移民含义下的“Tonk”并未出现在《梅里亚姆-韦伯斯特词典》中，甚至没有出现在《美国地区英语词典》（美国俚语最权威的学术收藏）中。而这正是边境巡逻队所希望的。

我能找到的最早将“tonk”用于贬低移民的记录是在 1976 年出版的一本书中，作者是保罗·舒斯特·泰勒（Paul Schuster Taylor），他是墨西哥裔美国研究的早期先驱，因与妻子、摄影师多萝西亚·兰格（Dorothea Lange）共同记录尘暴区难民的困境而闻名。泰勒在书中引用了一名边境巡逻检查员将墨西哥人称为“tonks”，但没有给出定义。在 1978 年的一次听证会上，移民局局长莱昂内尔·卡斯蒂略（Leonel Castillo）表示，这个蔑称“有点像是”替代“wets”（湿背人）的“新词”。尽管如此，卡斯蒂略——与路易斯没有亲属关系——仍为他的特工使用反移民词汇辩护。“我认为这取决于——你使用它的语气，以及你如何对待人们，”他说，并坚持认为这种措辞已根植于他麾下那些“非常体面的绅士”之中。“改变他们很难，”他说。“但他们不一定是坏人。”

一年后，一名为白人至上主义刊物《Instauration》撰稿的匿名边境巡逻特工揭穿了卡斯蒂略的辩解。他声称，“tonk”源自特工用手电筒猛击移民头部时发出的沉闷撞击声。“边境巡逻队的盎格鲁-撒克逊人并不像人们想象的那样畏惧联邦准则，”该特工写道。“我们在沙漠中有自己的审讯方法。”

圣地亚哥州立大学英语教授威廉·内里奇奥（William Nericcio）职业生涯一直致力于研究反墨西哥裔的仇恨。他在 20 世纪 70 年代和 80 年代在德克萨斯州拉雷多（Laredo）附近长大，周围都是“那些在边境巡逻队工作的小伙子和他们的父亲，因为那是一份好工作”。然而，他也从未听说过“tonk”。“反墨西哥暴力的鼓点变成了背景音乐——wetback, beaner, spic，现在是 tonk，”当被问到为什么这个蔑称在移民局特工中流传如此之久时，内里奇奥地回答道。“在所有这些反墨西哥词汇中，这是唯一一个直接关联到”

一次暴力行为。当你这么说的时候，这成了一种自豪感——‘嘿，老板，我今天抓到了一个tonk！我的奖金在哪？’ 对他们来说，这是光辉岁月。'la migra'（移民局）随意使用'tonk'一词最终甚至让特朗普政府在公关上感到尴尬。2019年，在特朗普的第一任期内，一名海关与边境保护局（CBP）的发言人告诉亚利桑那州的一家公共广播电台，这一贬义词“现在被认为是一个歧视性术语，CBP不认可其使用”。而这一次，一名美国国土安全部发言人告诉我《洛杉矶时报》的同事，“特工们专注于保护美国人民——而不是应对表演性的愤怒”。对于我的多次请求，关于其内部指南是否继续禁止使用'tonk'以及特工使用该词是否面临任何处罚，CBP均未回应。如果你不被这种议定书的退化所厌恶，我不确定还有什么可能让你感到厌恶。

ACLU（美国公民自由联盟）律师 Mayra Joachin 表示，执法记录仪的画面是“这些拦截行动一直以来就是基于个人看起来像拉丁裔工人阶级”的“明确证据”，并且证明了特朗普政府驱逐战略中“潜在的种族主义文化”。Gavidia 和 Ramirez 在被称呼一个他们甚至不知道存在且在技术上并不适用于他们的种族歧视词汇后，现在感觉如何？Ramirez 说，即便“你是美国公民，你在美国也无法获得自由”。发生在由于他身上的事情“可能发生在任何人身上，可能发生在他们的孩子和家人身上，当它发生在他们的家人身上时，他们才会看到真相”。在 2024 年投票给特朗普的 Gavidia 表示，移民特工认为他们“高于宪法和法律”。“这很悲哀，也很令人厌恶，”他说。“如果我们现在不停止并对抗这一点，情况会变得越来越糟。”

边境巡逻队使用‘tonk’一词中的平庸之恶 BRIAN GAVIDIA 及其朋友在蒙特贝洛的一个拖车场外被移民特工粗暴对待。 Carlin Stiehl 洛杉矶时报

[Arellano, 续自 B1] 从会议中心向南延伸至第 95 街。记录显示，前 Price 助手 Jose Ugarte 为决选筹集了约 $35,000，其中大部分来自其他市雇员，特别是议员助手。社区组织者 Estuardo Mazariegos 筹集了约 $5,400，捐款来自进步派的 L.A. Forward Action Fund 以及前议员候选人 Lundquist。许多民选官员支持 Ugarte，他在初选中获得了 39% 的选票。根据其申报文件，他分别收到了州议员 Mark Gonzalez (D-洛杉矶)、Mike Fong (D-阿尔罕布拉) 和 José Luis Solache (D-林伍德) 各 $1,000 的捐款。Ugarte 还分别收到了前市议员 David Ryu 和好莱坞商会各 $1,000 的捐款。记录显示，Ugarte 收到来自洛杉矶警察保护组织的 $1,000，旨在“告知选民 Marissa Roy 不适合洛杉矶”。

他在一份声明中表示：“最近的财务披露仅反映了一周的活动。自 6 月 30 日 [筹款] 截止日期以来，我们已从 80 多个个人捐赠者处筹集了超过 $65,000，并计划举办近 15 场筹款活动。” 几名向 Roy 捐款的人处于政治光谱的左端，例如 Loraine Lundquist，她曾在圣费尔南多谷两次竞选市议员，但两次都输给了市议员 John Lee。Roy 还收到了机场专员、UCLA 劳工中心项目主任 Victor Narro 的捐款。Roy

海岸警卫队在周五发布的一份公告中表示，该船在岛屿附近。船上有一名未成年人。据一名海岸警卫队发言人称，目前尚不清楚该船的出发地。海岸警卫队人员与美国海关及边境保护局官员拦截了该船，并确认了 21 人，相关机构怀疑这些人是非法入境。在评估过程中，海岸警卫队的救援人员表示，他们发现一名 56 岁男子失去意识，在将其通过飞机转运至位于韦斯特伍德的罗纳德·里根加州大学医疗中心（Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center）之前，对其进行了心肺复苏。据海岸警卫队称，医院工作人员成功恢复了该男子的脉搏，但随后他被宣布死亡。其余 20 人被拘留并移交给美国边境巡逻人员监管。圣克莱门特岛（San Clemente Island）是加州海峡群岛的一部分，位于长滩以南约 55 英里处。

海岸警卫队拦截移民船；一名人员在医院死亡 官员表示，包括一名青少年在内的约 20 人在圣克莱门特岛附近约 14 英里处被发现。 美国海岸警卫队 作者：Yvonne Villarreal

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月亮 洛杉矶外港，英尺。县 高度 周期 方向 温度 星期日 市中心读数 敏感人群燃烧分钟 温度 洛杉矶 富勒顿 文图拉* 今日起落 Aug. 19 Aug. 27 Aug. 12 Aug. 5 洛杉矶县 橙县 文图拉县 文图拉县 洛杉矶县 里弗赛德县 圣贝纳迪诺县 圣巴巴拉县 圣迭戈县 橙县 圣巴巴拉 文图拉 奥克斯纳德 欧海 卡马里略 圣保拉 西湖村 伍德兰希尔斯 圣莫尼卡 多伦斯 the Long Beach 纽波特比奇 圣安娜 拉古纳比奇 圣克莱门特 任务维耶 伊尔万 欧申赛德 埃斯孔迪多 普韦 Ramona 圣迭戈 泰梅库拉 希梅特 棕榈泉 富勒顿 奇诺 里弗赛德 安大略 普莫纳 / Fairplex 圣贝纳迪诺 尤卡谷 赫斯佩里亚 惠蒂尔山 UCLA 西米谷 查茨沃斯 伯班克 门罗维亚 圣克拉里塔 洛杉矶市中心 关键：Su 晴；Pc 多云；Cy 阴；Fg 雾；Prcp 降水；Dr 毛毛雨；Hz 朦胧

Sh 阵雨；Ts 雷阵雨；R 雨；Sn 雪；Sf 小雪；I 冰；Rs 雨雪；W 有风；Tr 微量。注：全美极值不包括阿拉斯加州和夏威夷州。* - 估计数据。周日读数截至下午 2 点。美国城市 城市 最高 最低 降水量 最高 最低 天气 城市 最高 最低 降水量 最高 最低 天气 世界 城市 最高 最低 降水量 最高 最低 最高 最低 城市 最高 最低 降水量 最高 最低 最高 最低 城市 最高 最低 降水量 最高 最低 最高 最低 显示的是当日的降水区域和最高气温。–0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ 温度 周日 6:06a / 7:52p 6:05a / 7:51p 6:09a / 7:57p 月亮 10:34p / 11:02a 10:33p / 11:01a 10:37p / 11:06a 多云 88 / 67 多云 85 / 68 多云 86 / 68 多云 85 / 69 晴；温暖 95 / 67 晴；温暖 94 / 68 多云 95 / 67 晴；温暖 94 / 68 多云 77 / 65 多云 76 / 66 潮湿 77 / 67 潮湿 78 / 67 晴 88 / 54 多云 87 / 55 阵雨 87 / 55 阵雨 86 / 56 晴；炎热 115 / 87 非常温暖 111 / 87 非常温暖 112 / 86

多云 111 / 85 晴且炎热 部分晴天 阳光充足 炎热 阳光充足；温暖 周二 周三 周四 周五 今日 内海：风力轻微，后转西风 10-15 节。海浪 1-4 英尺。西向涌浪 2 英尺，周期 7-9 秒；南向涌浪 2 英尺，周期 12 秒。冲浪区：洛杉矶和文图拉县海滩的离岸流风险为中等，其他地区较低。圣巴巴拉 1-3’ 7 秒 西 文图拉 2-4’ 7 秒 西 洛杉矶 0-1’ 7 秒 西 橙县 1-3’ 12 秒 南 圣迭戈 1-2’ 12 秒 南 今日 12:07a 4.6 高 6:34a 0.8 低 1:12p 4.9 高 7:25p 1.8 低 周二 1:00a 3.8 高 7:02a 1.4 低 1:52p 5.1 高 8:47p 1.6 低 最高 / 最低 91 / 67 90 / 70 77 / 62 正常最高 / 最低 83 / 65 86 / 67 75 / 59 一年前最高 / 最低 84 / 60 83 / 64 66 / 57 历史最高 / 日期 98 / 1997 97 / 2021 85 / 1997 历史最低 / 日期 51 / 1888 59 / 2010 51 / 1970 24小时总量（截至下午 2 点） 0.00 0.00 0.00 本季总量（自 10 月 1 日起） 18.87 15.62 20.39 上季（10 月 1 日至今） 7.96

3.93 6.50 本季正常值（10 月 1 日至今） 14.15 11.73 16.00 湿度（最高 / 最低） 89 / 66 87 / 41 93 / 73 降水量 洛杉矶 富勒顿 文图拉 拉斯维加斯, 10 洛杉矶, 10 凤凰城, 10 旧金山, 25 89 / 68 96 / 68 79 / 66 88 / 52 116 / 87 74 / 60 92 / 62 74 / 64 74 / 63 87 / 60 80 / 63 91 / 64 96 / 66 81 / 69 85 / 68 79 / 69 78 / 69 79 / 67 84 / 67 89 / 65 82 / 68 79 / 70 97 / 61 96 / 61 88 / 65 85 / 67 81 / 68 79 / 66 91 / 69 88 / 68 101 / 64 103 / 63 116 / 87 102 / 66 89 / 68 83 / 66 96 / 67 94 / 62 100 / 63 93 / 66 96 / 68 105 / 66 98 / 66 99 / 67 103 / 69 105 / 78 预报由 AccuWeather, Inc. 提供 ©2026 最高 118 度，加州 尼德尔斯 低 36 度，加州 特拉基 周日 今日 周日* 今日 奥尔巴尼 .04 Ts 阿尔伯克基 .02 Ts 安克雷奇 -- R 亚斯彭 -- Ts 亚特兰大 .04 Ts 奥斯汀 -- Su 巴尔的摩 .64 Ts 波伊西 -- Hz 波士顿 -- Ts 纽约州布法罗 .56 Pc 佛蒙特州伯灵顿 -- Sh 南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿 .24 Ts 夏洛特 .64 Ts 芝加哥 Tr Su 辛辛那提 .14 Pc 克利夫兰 .44 Pc 南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚 .20 Ts 哥伦布 .05 Pc

达拉斯 / 沃思堡 -- Su 丹佛 -- Ts 底特律 .44 Su 埃尔帕索 .11 Ts 尤金 -- Hz 迈尔斯堡 .10 Ts 哈特福德 -- Ts 檀香山 .05 Sh 休斯顿 -- Su 印度安纳波利斯 .13 Su 佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔 .02 Ts 堪萨斯城 -- Su 诺克斯维尔 .91 Ts 拉斯维加斯 -- Su 路易斯维尔 .02 Pc 梅德福 -- Hz 孟菲斯 .02 Pc 迈阿密 .36 Ts 密尔沃基 -- Su Minneapolis -- Su 纳什维尔 .05 Ts 新奥尔良 .03 Pc 纽约 -- Ts 诺福克 .24 Ts 俄克拉荷马城 -- Su 奥马哈 -- Su 奥兰多 .25 Ts 费城 .35 Ts 凤凰城 -- Pc 匹兹堡 1.47 Pc 俄勒冈州波特兰 -- Hz 普罗维登斯 .01 Ts 罗利 / 达勒姆 .22 Ts 里诺 -- Su 里士满 1.22 Ts 圣路易斯 .02 Pc 盐湖城 -- Hz 阿卡普尔科 .03 Ts 阿姆斯特丹 -- Pc 雅典 -- Su 曼谷 .02 R 巴塞罗那 -- Pc 柏林 -- Su 卡波圣卢卡斯 -- Ts 开罗 -- Hz 迪拜 -- Su 都柏林 .08 R 哈瓦那 .02 R 胡志明市 .01 R 香港 1.49 Sh 伊斯坦布尔 -- Su 耶路撒冷 -- Su 约翰内斯堡 -- Su 吉隆坡 .04 Cy 利马

-- Hz 伦敦 -- Pc 马德里 -- Pc 麦加 -- Pc 墨西哥城 .05 Sh 蒙特利尔 1.04 R 莫斯科 .02 Pc 孟买 .86 R 新德里 .02 R 巴黎 -- Hz 布拉格 -- Su 罗马 -- Pc 首尔 .01 Ts 新加坡 .04 R 台北市 .04 Ts 东京 .11 Cy 温哥华 .10 Su 维也纳 -- Su 西雅图 .01 Hz 坦帕 2.18 Ts 图森 -- Ts 图尔萨 -- Su 华盛顿特区 1.35 Ts 威奇托 -- Su

周日极端气温（截至下午 2 点），适用于 48 个毗连州：

安纳海姆 90 66 -- 89 66 87 68 阿瓦隆 / 卡特利纳 82 65 -- 79 60 贝克斯菲尔德 107 76 -- 107 76 108 78 巴斯托 -- 113 80 114 80 大熊湖 -- 88 52 88 54 比shop 107 60 -- 106 59 108 60 伯班克 96 67 -- 93 66 92 66 卡马里略 83 62 -- 80 63 78 63 查茨沃思 98 67 -- 96 67 95 66 奇诺 103 64 -- 101 64 99 65 康普顿 89 69 -- 87 68 86 68 达纳点 78 69 -- 78 69 76 68 死亡谷 124 96 -- 122 95 122 95 德尔马 80 69 -- 77 70 76 67 埃斯孔迪多 96 64 -- 89 65 87 63 尤里卡 -- 69 53 67 53 福尔布鲁克 92 63

.02 88 62 88 63 弗雷斯诺 107 73 -- 108 72 107 72 富勒顿 91 69 -- 88 68 86 69 海梅特 106 64 -- 103 63 103 65 海斯佩里亚 -- 101 69 102 69 亨廷顿比奇 80 69 -- 79 68 77 68 艾德尔怀尔德 -- 89 69 92 70 欧文 85 67 -- 85 67 83 68 洛杉矶市中心 / 南加大 90 68 -- 89 68 88 67 洛杉矶国际机场 79 68 -- 78 67 76 66 拉古纳海滩 77 69 -- 78 69 76 69 兰开斯特 -- 104 75 长滩 86 69 -- 85 68 84 68 猛犸湖 85 47 -- 89 47 88 50 米申维耶荷 90 65 -- 88 65 86 65 门罗维亚 99 68 -- 96 68 95 67 蒙特雷 69 54 -- 70 56 70 56 威尔逊山 82 69 -- 78 68 77 68 尼德尔斯 120 94 -- 118 93 115 93 纽波特海滩 80 70 -- 79 69 77 70 诺斯里奇 99 67 -- 97 67 94 65 奥克兰 -- 79 58 75 56 欧申赛德 88 68 -- 84 67 82 67 欧海 92 62 90 58 安大略 102 68 -- 99 67 99 67 棕榈泉 117 89 -- 116 87 115 87 帕萨迪纳 96 68 -- 93 67 92 68 帕索罗布列斯 105 52 -- 97 52 95 53 雷丁 107 79 -- 110 68 里弗赛德 104 66

-- 102 66 101 65 萨克拉门托 103 63 -- 105 62 100 59 圣贝纳迪诺 106 69 -- 103 69 104 69 圣迭戈 80 69 -- 79 70 77 69 旧金山 79 55 -- 74 58 圣盖博 97 68 -- 94 68 93 67 圣何塞 -- 89 60 86 60 圣路易斯奥比斯波 79 53 -- 77 53 76 54 圣安娜 84 69 -- 81 68 81 69 圣巴巴拉 77 62 -- 74 60 圣克拉里塔 101 64 -- 100 63 98 62 圣莫尼卡码头 78 66 -- 79 66 77 65 圣保拉 84 60 -- 87 60 86 59 圣罗莎 97 52 -- 87 53 西米谷 92 62 -- 94 62 太浩湖谷 87 40 -- 88 43 特梅库拉 97 62 -- 千橡市 87 62 -- 87 63 87 62 托伦斯 81 69 -- 81 69 78 68 加州大学洛杉矶分校 (UCLA) 82 67 -- 83 66 82 66 范奈斯 99 66 -- 96 66 95 66 文图拉 73 62 -- 74 64 73 64 惠蒂尔丘 93 68 -- 91 69 89 67 伍德兰希尔斯 100 67 -- 96 66 93 66 赖特伍德 -- 89 67 约巴林达 95 65 -- 92 65 91 64 约塞米蒂谷 -- 99 64 97 66

日. 今日 周二. 日. 今日 周二. 日.* 今日 周二.

气温略有下降：一个移动至西北部的上层槽将导致西南部的上层脊有所减弱，使本周早些时候的气温下降几度。沿海地区的低云和雾将迅速消散。除此之外，该地区的其他地方将阳光普照。到本周中旬，气温将继续下降几度。

东部多雨，中西部有风暴：东海岸将继续出现阵雨、雷阵雨及引发洪水的强降水。严重雷暴风险将集中在平原地区和中西部部分地区，范围从达科他州东部到明尼苏达州西部。

能起作用。虽然 LA28 官员不愿讨论细节，但知情人士表示，奥林匹克组织者会对帕萨迪纳市（该设施的所有者）以及运营该中心的非营利组织所希望的每一项升级方案提供资金支持感到犹豫。

游泳池周围巨大的甲板在某些地方已经变得粗糙。更衣室空间狭小。老旧的水泵和过滤器需要升级。相关人员表示，谁该为这些改进买单一直是 LA28 与 玫瑰碗水上运动中心 (Rose Bowl Aquatics Center) 运营方之间长期讨论的主题。“归根结底，这对 LA28 和水上运动中心将是一个双赢，”其中一名未获授权公开发言的人士说道。“LA28 团队投入了大量资金。这应该考虑到玫瑰碗在关闭期间将会损失收入这一事实。”然而，水上运动中心的忠实用户在担心他们将如何应对失去泳池的影响。“游泳帮我控制体重，降低血糖。对我来说，它就是一切，”来自阿尔罕布拉 (Alhambra) 的社会工作者伊丽莎白·拉米雷斯 (Elizabeth Ramirez) 在参加完早晨的水中有氧操课后说道。

“所以当它关闭时，绝对会对我的健康产生影响。……希望他们能告诉我们另一个可以去的地方。”琳恩·罗伯茨 (Lynn Roberts) 因为童年患小儿麻痹症导致一条腿萎缩，她觉得在泳池中的时光“改变了生活，因为在水里我可以做其他所有人都能做的事”。她知道玫瑰碗正在寻找替代地点，但到目前为止还没有细节。想到泳池将关闭一年多，她表示这是一件“大事”，并补充道，“人们非常、非常担心。”就像其他十几个常客一样，邦妮·斯特恩 (Bonnie Stern) 谈到了水上运动中心所创造的社交枢纽。这里是她结交新朋友、加入步行小组、享用早午餐甚至定期参加欢乐时光的入口。“我们都很担心。这里有一个如此美好的社区，”在娱乐业工作的斯特恩说道。“我们还没有听说能去哪里。我们又能在哪里找到像现在这样的地方？”该综合体还向一家咖啡馆和一家独立的商店 Swim Guy 出租空间。与兄弟克雷格 (Craig) 共同拥有这家游泳设备店的迈克尔·艾森伯格 (Michael Eisenberg) 担心失去客户。“我们花了很多钱来建立这家店，并与客户和队伍建立关系，”迈克尔·艾森伯格说。“RBAC 询问我们是否能在施工期间保持营业并服务社区，但我认为这无法实现，因为我们所有的队伍和公众都将分散到该地区的各个不同泳池中。我兄弟和我对如何最好地服务队伍和公众，以及关闭带来的财务成本感到有点崩溃。”水上运动中心执行董事梅拉尼·索尔 (Melanie Sauer) 表示，该非营利组织及其许多用户群体（包括青少年游泳、大师赛游泳、水球等）正努力寻找替代泳池。玫瑰碗大师赛游泳队（本文作者所属队伍）已经在鹰岩 (Eagle Rock) 的西方学院 (Occidental College) 启动了新的训练，并正在与其他泳池运营商洽谈。关闭期间的财务损失可能非常显著。水上运动中心在其最近一份联邦税务申报年度 2024, 报告的门票、商品和服务收入为 $8.6 million。另有 $1.6 million 通过赠款、拨款、捐款和会员费获得。索尔表示，“RBAC 在路上” (RBAC on the Road) 计划将寻求在用户群体迁至其他泳池时收取费用。她表示，现在提供这些安排的任何细节还为时过早。奥运会组织者宣布将场地转移至位于 Arroyo Seco、就在……南边的玫瑰碗中心。

一座拥有100年历史的足球场——于去年9月。此前，奥运会计划让跳水运动员在LA84基金会 / 约翰·C·阿古游泳馆（LA84 Foundation / John C. Argue Swim Stadium）比赛，该场馆位于洛杉矶纪念体育场（Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum）的正西南方，后者将举办田径赛事。但曾用于1932年洛杉矶奥运会的博览公园（Exposition Park）泳池在深度和宽度上均不足以支持跳水比赛。而且，对其进行改造的成本将高于玫瑰碗（Rose Bowl）泳池。LA28在宣布转移至玫瑰碗泳池时表示：“该设施仅需极少量的工程，能为运动员提供额外的便利，并能带来高达170 亿美元.6 million的收入增加和成本节省。” 熟悉帕萨迪纳综合体计划的人士表示，奥运跳水观众将坐在搭建在“比赛”泳池上方的看台上，该泳池最靠近停车场。

其他座位可能会围绕跳水池的北端分布。该泳池的10米跳台最初是由已故电视传教士吉恩·斯科特（Gene Scott）捐赠建造的，现在将被拆除并更换。消息人士称，LA28组织者正在考虑的一项计划将放弃使用现有更衣室，转而采用临时模块化结构。据与奥运组织沟通的人士透露，LA28官员认为，该中心任何短期损失都将被泳池获得国际关注所带来的长期收益，以及未来在该地举办其他重大游泳和跳水赛事的承诺所弥补。LA28官员指出，南加州政府协会（Southern California Assn. of Governments）的一项分析预测，奥运会将为该地区创造超过170 亿美元 billion的国内生产总值。该计划的支持者认为，2028年奥运会以及未来的相关赛事将有助于填满帕萨迪纳的酒店、餐厅和商店，从而振兴当地经济并为市财政增加税收。一名消息人士表示，该泳池正被考虑作为2028年奥运跳水预赛的场地。水上运动中心（Aquatics Center）去年宣布：“这一历史性机遇将让全球目光聚焦于我们的社区。随着更多细节公布，我们将随时向大家更新进展。”

顾客对泳池关闭感到沮丧 玫瑰碗水上运动中心的泳池最早将于明年4月关闭。上图为玛格丽特·谢（Margaret Shieh）参加水中健身课。Christina House 洛杉矶时报 [续自B1页水上运动报道]

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道奇队的棒球运营总裁安德鲁·弗里德曼对与底特律老虎队关于两届赛扬奖得主塔里克·斯库巴尔的交易讨论感到十分乐观，以至于在周六对阵红袜队的比赛前不久，他向经理戴夫·罗伯茨传达了积极的进展。

“我听说基本已经搞定了，”罗伯茨在周日下午回忆道。“但显然还有医疗检查等事情需要处理，所以实际上还没有最终敲定。我只是听说已经非常接近了。”

然而，在比赛期间收到老虎队的最终确认之前，弗里德曼还没有准备好松一口气。“我当时并不确定，试图在情感上做对冲，”他说。“在真正得知结果之前，我没有让自己过于兴奋或过于沮丧。”

事实证明，无需紧张。周六，道奇队同意用三名新秀球员交换——

[照片插图：Tate Rudisill, 洛杉矶时报；照片：Nick Cammett, Getty Images, Gina Ferazzi, 洛杉矶时报]

球星囤积癖再次发作 道奇队的弗里德曼达成“激进”交易获得斯库巴尔 作者：Maddie Lee [见道奇队，D4]

背面报道： 随着球队开始新一轮重建，火花队交易掉全明星后卫普拉姆。D6

批评者无法抱怨 比尔·谢金写道，那些指责财大气粗的道奇队的人应该知道，洛杉矶在获得斯库巴尔的过程中并没有比其他人花更多的钱。A1

酿造者队大失水准 谢金写道，密尔沃基队在争取这位能影响季后赛结果的王牌投手时力度不够。D4

山本由伸的先发被破坏 道奇队右投手仅被击出四次安打，但拉法埃拉率领红袜队以 3-2 获胜。D5

塔里克·斯库巴尔成为了道奇队的一员。这五个字是洛杉矶以外的每一个棒球之魂都恐惧听到的话。

道奇队将实现三连冠。这六个字是现在世界各地每一个棒球之魂都必须承认的事实。

结束了。对棒球最强投手的追求，最强球队的猎取，冠军之争，世界大赛，所有这一切都结束了。

道奇队再次窃走了所有荣誉，虽然提前了三个月，但时机恰到好处。当他们通过交易获得底特律老虎队的塔里克·斯库巴尔——这位连续两届美国联盟赛扬奖得主，且简单来说就是棒球界最强的投手——时，他们的第三个连续冠军已经板上钉钉。

每个人都想要他。道奇队是唯一的——

众议之声 比尔·普拉斯克 专栏作家 [见普拉斯克，D4]

在这次交易中，道奇队锁定了斯库巴尔，锁定了三连冠——以及（外界的）憎恨。

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周一 / 周二 / 周三 / 周四 / 周五 :--- 道奇队 at 芝加哥小熊队 SNLA / at 芝加哥小熊队 SNLA / at 芝加哥小熊队 11:15 a.m. SNLA, TBS / MLB at 亚利桑那 6:30 SNLA 天使队 at 巴尔的摩 3:30 ABTV / at 巴尔的摩 3:30 ABTV / at 巴尔的摩 9:30 a.m. ABTV / at 迈阿密 ABTV

银河队 下场比赛：8 月 15 日在休斯顿，下午 5:30，Apple TV LAFC 对阵 奇瓦斯* 7:30 Apple TV 天使之城 下场比赛：星期日在西雅图，6 P.M.，ESPN 火花队 at 芝加哥 SpecSN, USA, CNBC / at 明尼苏达 Prime Video

• 联赛杯。阴影表示主场比赛。时间为太平洋时间。

职业体育日历 时间 / 事件 / 电视 / 广播 :--- 棒球 | | 5 p.m. / 道奇队 at 芝加哥小熊队 / SNLA; 570, 1020 5 p.m. / 旧金山 at 德克萨斯 / ESPN, ESPND 篮球：WNBA | | 4 p.m. / 拉斯维加斯 at 亚特兰大 / NBCSN, Peacock 6 p.m. / 凤凰城 at 芝加哥 / USA, Peacock 自行车 | | 6:15 a.m. (周二) / 环法女子赛，第 4 赛段 / Peacock 少棒：垒球世界系列赛 | | 7 a.m. / 波多黎各 vs. 日本 / ESPN2 10 a.m. / 意大利 vs. 佛罗里达 / ESPN2 1 p.m. / 德克萨斯 vs. 待定 / ESPN2 4 p.m. / 康涅狄格 vs. 待定 / ESPN2 冰球 | | Noon / Hlinka Gretzky 杯，美国 vs. 捷克 / NHL 4 p.m. / Hlinka Gretzky 杯，瑞士 vs. 加拿大 / NHL 足球 | | 1 p.m. / Women’s Africa Cup，塞内加尔 vs. 摩洛哥 / beIN 网球 | | 8 a.m. / ATP / WTA，加拿大，早前回合 / Tennis 4 p.m. / ATP / WTA，加拿大，早前回合 / Tennis

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托马斯·穆勒在下半场快结束时通过点球得分，温哥华白帽队在周六晚上的比赛中奋起反击，与 LAFC 战成 1-1 平手。LAFC (10-5-4) 和白帽队 (10-3-4) 目前仍以同分并列西部联盟榜首。白帽队掌控了上半场的大部分时间，但孙兴慜的进球让 LAFC 在半场结束时领先。

穆勒在第 76 分钟被后卫 Yevhen Cheberko 在禁区内拽倒后获得点球。穆勒冷静地将球击入球门的一侧空档。孙兴慜则通过一次转身射门，球越过守门员高冈洋平伸出的手指，击入球门近角率先破门。孙兴慜与现场的一大群韩国支持者共同庆祝。

40,086 名观众见证了白帽队自 4 月 25. 以来在 BC Place 体育场进行的第一场比赛。此前，由于体育场承办世界杯赛事，白帽队被迫在客场比赛。

银河队自世界杯休息期以来未获胜 乔纳森·西罗伊斯完成了 9 次扑救，在他周六晚上对阵 FC 达拉斯的比赛中收获了赛季首场零封，双方最终战平。达拉斯队 (7-5-6) 连续第二场比赛未能进球。

自世界杯后 MLS 恢复比赛以来，银河队 (5-7-7) 经历了 2 场失利和 2 场平局。银河队的最后一次胜利发生在 5 月 16 日在西雅图的比赛中。JT Marcinkowski 完成了 4 次扑救，实现了他自 5 月 16. 以来 的首次零封。

苏亚雷斯进球，天使之城战平 天使之城与 Current 队在常规赛系列赛中依然势均力敌，周六在堪萨斯城战成 1-1 平手。

天使之城的新秀泰勒·苏亚雷斯在比赛开始不到 15 分钟时率先破门，当时卡里娜·拉格耶尔将球传至禁区中心，苏亚雷斯将其射过守门员玛丽莎·乔丹，攻入了她的首个 NWSL 进球。堪萨斯城 (9-7-2) 在 10 分钟后做出回应，海莉·霍普金斯在空中接到伊齐·罗德里格斯的传中，通过凌空抽射越过守门员安杰丽娜·安德森入网。

天使之城 (7-7-2) 在 6 月解雇教练亚历克斯·斯特劳斯后战绩为 3-1-1，下一场将于 8 月 9 日在西雅图比赛，届时 ESPN 将进行转播。两队目前并列 8。

积分榜，积 23 分。LAFC 球星孙兴慜（左）在周六晚上温哥华 BC Place 体育场对阵白帽队（Whitecaps）的比赛中率先得分，最终双方战成 1-1 平局。Darryl Dyck 美联社 足球报道 孙兴慜的进球帮助 LAFC 在西部保持平手

西部会议 W L T Pts GF GA 温哥华 7 10 LAFC 圣何塞 休斯顿 皇家盐湖城 FC 达拉斯 圣路易斯城 波特兰 西雅图 明尼苏达联 科罗拉多 银河 圣地亚哥 FC 奥斯汀 FC 堪萨斯城 sporting 4 12

东部会议 W L T Pts GF GA 纳什维尔 迈阿密国际 新英格兰 芝加哥 纽约城 辛辛那提 夏洛特 FC 纽约 华盛顿特区联 奥兰多城 6 10 哥伦布 多伦多 FC 费城 4 10 蒙特利尔 CF 4 10 亚特兰大 4 10 3 12

MLS 排名 截至周六 W L OL Pts GF GA 哥谭 FC 华盛顿 犹他皇家 FC 堪萨斯城 圣地亚哥 波特兰 北卡罗来纳 天使之城 (ANGEL CITY) 西雅图 奥兰多 丹佛峰会 FC (Summit FC) 波士顿传承 FC (Legacy FC) 休斯顿 湾区 FC (Bay FC) 路易斯维尔 4 11 芝加哥 4 13

NWSL 排名 截至周六 电讯报道 银河队的古桥久志（KYOGO FURUHASHI，左）与达拉斯队的 Shaq Moore 在一场 0-0 平局中激烈对抗。自世界杯休赛期后 MLS 恢复比赛以来，洛杉矶队的战绩为 0-2-2。Kevin Terrell Getty Images

日本的久胁志穗（Shiho Kuwaki）在周日的突然死亡附加赛中救回一杆平局，得以继续竞争，并最终在第二个加时洞以平局获胜，击败德国的 Esther Henseleit，夺得她的首个大满贯冠军——女子英国公开赛。久胁以 70 杆（低于标准杆 1 杆）完赛，在计分室等待了近 30 分钟，看起来像是赢家。在最后一组出发的 Henseleit 在皇家利瑟姆与圣安内斯球场（Royal Lytham & St. Annes）的第 18 洞将一个 40 英尺的 birdie 推球推入洞中，以 70 杆将总成绩提升至低于标准杆 5 杆的 279 杆，与久胁持平。随后在附加赛中，由于这位 23 岁的日本选手处于沙坑前深草区，必须在果岭前截击，Henseleit 占据了优势。久胁用挖起杆将球击至 3 英尺处救回平局，并在 Henseleit 错过一个 15 英尺的 birdie 夺冠推球后获得了另一个机会。

在第二个加时洞，局势发生了反转。Henseleit 在 18 洞的开球向右偏移过多，落在了金雀花灌木丛下方。她很出色地将球击回球道，并用挖起杆击至约 12 英尺处。但她的平局推球停在了洞杯左侧，这使得久胁轻轻一推即可完成平局。

“我对今天能给自己创造获胜机会以及我的应对方式感到非常高兴。只是在第二个附加赛洞有点运气不佳，”Henseleit 说道。“我非常努力，我想今天可能就是缘分未到。”

失望的是叶利米·诺（Yealimi Noh，74 杆），这位 25 岁的加州人以 3 杆领先优势开始最后一轮，但随后由于连续出现 bogey 导致领先优势逐渐消失。她在第 14 洞出现一次 bogey 后失去了领先地位。诺落后 1 杆，在久胁已以 279 杆完赛的情况下，她有两次不错的 birdie 机会，但未能将其转化为得分。

“少一杆真的很心痛，”在本周之前连续三次未能通过资格赛的诺说道。

这是日本连续第二次获得女子英国公开赛冠军，继去年山下美由（Miyu Yamashita）在皇家波思考尔（Royal Porthcawl）获胜之后。久胁，常因其时尚风格而闻名，成为了过去三年中第五位赢得 LPGA 大满贯的日本选手。

“我简直不敢相信，”久胁通过翻译在颁奖典礼上地说道。

迈克尔·索布约恩森（Michael Thorbjornsen）在最后一个洞完成了一个 26 英尺的 birdie 推球，以 63 杆（低于标准杆 7 杆）完赛，总成绩达到低于标准杆 18 杆，在底特律的 Rocket Classic 收官赛中以 2 杆优势夺得他的首个 PGA 巡回赛冠军。这位 24 岁的索布约恩森已锁定联邦快递杯（FedEx Cup）季后赛席位，他在比赛开始时落后于领先者戴维斯·赖利（Davis Riley）3 杆。

他的糟糕开局为该领域创造了机会。Thorbjornsen 趁势而上，在连续六洞中抓获第三个小鸟球，在第 14 洞跃居领先地位，并以一个关键的弧线推球精准落入杯口右侧收官。Xander Schauffele (65) 在最后一轮曾短暂领先，最终以落后两杆的成绩获得亚军。Riley (70) 掉出领先位置并吞下四个博基球，以落后三杆的成绩排名第三。……Zach Johnson 以连续三个小鸟球开局，最终以 65 杆（低于标准杆 7 杆）的成绩，比 Stewart Cink 多出两杆，在首届葡萄牙邀请赛中夺冠。这是 Johnson 在 50 岁及以上组别新秀赛季中的第四次获胜，也是他在最近四次参赛中第三次获得冠军赛冠军。

其他：圣徒队接球手 Polk 在 24 岁时退休。新奥尔良圣徒队宣布，接球手 Ja-’Lynn Polk 已被列入预备 / 退休名单。

24 岁的 Polk 是新英格兰爱国者队在 2024 年的第二轮选秀球员，但由于角色边缘化，最终仅完成 12 次接球，获得 87 码距离和两个达阵。Polk 在去年训练营中遭受了赛季报销的肩伤，随后被交易。圣徒队教练 Kellen Moore 表示，Polk 因个人原因被允许缺席最近两次训练。

英国首相 Andy Burnham 周日表示，在放弃向私人投资者出售世界杯股份这一计划所引发的最新争议中，国际足联主席 Gianni Infantino 并非领导世界足球管理机构的合适人选。“我不认为他是带领足球在世界舞台上前进的合适人选，”Burnham 说道。“此前提出的计划冒犯了全球许多足球界人士，我们不能就这样继续前行并忘掉这件事，那是不可接受的。”

Lorena Wiebes 再次在环法女子自行车赛的第二赛段中夺冠。这位荷兰车手在 3 小时 42 分 8 秒内完成了从 Aigle 到日内瓦的 91.9 英里平原赛段，这是该赛事的第二个瑞士领土赛段。

体育快讯：Kuwaki 在附加赛中赢得英国公开赛 电讯报道：SHIHO KUWAKI 在赢得女子英国公开赛冠军并夺得她的首个大满贯赛冠军后，被众人泼水庆祝。她是连续第二位来自日本的公开赛冠军。Warren Little Getty Images

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伊利诺伊州斯普林菲尔德 —— 伊莎贝拉·维拉雷亚尔（Isabella Villarreal）在周六上午，即球队首场比赛前几小时，首次与洛杉矶女王队（Los Angeles Queens）一同训练。最终，她在女子职业棒球联盟（Women’s Pro Baseball League）历史上首场比赛最关键的时刻成为了中心。在第七局上半两出局的情况下，维拉雷亚尔击出了一支关键的代打二垒安打，使女王队取得了 10-8 的领先优势，并一直保持到比赛结束，锁定了 WPBL 的首场胜利。

“肾上腺素在激增，但我也很紧张，”维拉雷亚尔说道，“但我非常激动能有机会上场。我当时大脑一片空白，甚至不知道自己在想什么，我只是很高兴能证明自己。”

二垒手阿米拉·洪德拉斯（Amira Hondras）在 7 月的女子棒球世界杯首秀中表现强劲，她在维拉雷亚尔之前的打席中击出一支中路安打扳平比分，为维拉雷亚尔的英雄之举铺平了道路。

“我对她说：‘这是你的时刻，’然后就走开了，”女王队经理埃里克·杨（Eric Young）在谈到维拉雷亚尔时说，“尽管她今天才加入，但她确实击出了关键安打。你永远不知道谁会成为关键人物，因为每个人都会参与其中。”

女王队在第二局曾以 2-7 落后，但随后缓慢追分。玛吉·福克斯（Maggie Foxx）在第一局击出的两分安打是联盟历史上的首支安打；她在本次比赛中两打两安，贡献两分，一次保送和一个盗垒，并投球两局丢一分。

维拉雷亚尔就在两天前刚满 20 岁，她原本不知道周六是否能上场。尽管此前从未亲眼见过她的击球，杨还是决定让她替代指定击球手泰玛·马克西米利亚娜（Thaima Maximiliana）代打。

“在杨告诉贝拉她要击球之前，我就站在他旁边，她当时震惊了，”莫妮·戴维斯（Mo’ne Davis，4打 0安，得一分）说，“但你知道，她全程保持冷静，而且整场比赛中每个人都给予了巨大的支持。”

由于雨天影响，首场 WPBL 比赛延迟了 90 分钟。雨天也影响到了第七局，当时米歇尔·罗什（Michelle Roche）击出了一记向右外野的高飞球，而纽约队的能谷夏希（Natsuki Yonetani）在风中丢失了球的踪迹。

全场担任中外野手的戴维斯表示，天气条件导致接球很难干净利落。“我们只能依靠彼此，”她说，“最后一局非常、非常艰难。我们接收教练的指示，但由于视线不佳看不清。不过你知道，我们会在训练中讨论这个问题。但我们当时只是在确保互相信任，把对方放在正确的位置上，沟通是关键。”

在延迟开球之前，球迷们已经围满了走廊并抢购空了商品摊位，他们共同见证了联盟现役球员与往届女子棒球传奇人物之间的火炬传递。

其中一位传奇人物是 99 岁的梅贝尔·布莱尔（Maybelle Blair），她是前全美女子职业棒球联盟（All-American Girls Professional Baseball League）的成员，她为旧金山队的投手凯尔西·惠特摩尔（Kelsie Whitmore）投出了仪式性的首球。

“凯尔西非常激动，我走过去抱了她一下，我知道这对她意义重大，对梅贝尔·布莱尔也是一样，”戴维斯说，“我走到她面前。她还是像以前一样，充满活力。我让她投一个好球，她说：‘你知道我会投好球的。’她对我露出了那种自信的神情。”

福克斯也是 20 岁，虽然登记位置是捕手，但周六在外野比赛并担任投手。纽约队经理罗基·亨利（Rocky Henley）指出，由于每支球队的名单仅有 15 人，大多数球员将不得不兼顾多个位置，包括投球。

福克斯、马克西米利亚娜、洪德拉斯和维拉雷亚尔构成了

围绕着像戴维斯（Davis）和阿什顿·兰斯代尔（Ashton Lansdell）这样的球星组成的年轻团队，让皇后队（Queens）成为了夺冠热门之一。周六晚些时候击球状态的活跃是一个良好信号。“这是我们一直在努力的目标，并在这次活动中达到顶峰。感觉就像是另一场棒球比赛，但感觉像是我们已经为此付出了 70 年的努力，”福克斯（Foxx）说道。皇后队在周三对阵波士顿猎人队（Boston Hunters）之前将不再比赛。“当我走上球场时，我开始哭泣，因为这个时刻意义重大，对每个人都意义重大，”福克斯说。“这对我们来说意味着一切。”

洛杉矶皇后队在联赛首秀中反超获胜 维拉雷亚尔（Villarreal）的代打二垒安打帮助球队在女子职业棒球联盟（WPBL）的揭幕战中击败纽约队。 作者：Marisa Ingemi 皇后队的阿什顿·兰斯代尔（左）和梅吉·梅德林格（Meggie Meidlinger）在女子职业棒球联盟首秀中击败海茨队后庆祝。摄影：Jessie Alcheh, Getty Images 新联赛的球员（从左至右）艾莉·施罗德（Alli Schroder）、凯尔西·惠特莫尔（Kelsie Whitmore）、兰斯代尔以及德内·贝尼特斯（Denae Benites）周六在伊利诺伊州与前职业球员格洛丽亚·罗杰斯（Gloria Rogers）在一起。

瓦尔伯特·乌雷尼亚（Walbert Ureña）在六局中仅失三安打，韦德·梅克勒（Wade Meckler）击出了一支两分本垒打（面对密尔沃基王牌投手雅各布·米西奥罗夫斯基），天使队在周日以 3-0 击败酿造者队。乌雷尼亚（7-7）三振 7 人，保送 3 人，天使队从而打破了五场连败的局面。这位新秀右投手本赛季的防御率（ERA）为 2.54，自 5 月 1 日起防御率为 2.25，在这一阶段的 16 场先发中，有 12 场失分为 1 分或更少。

天使队救援投手瑞安·泽费尔扬（Ryan Zeferjahn）在第八局一名跑者在二垒且有一名出局的情况下，接替受伤的萨姆·巴克曼（Sam Bachman）。他三振了布莱斯·图朗（Brice Turang），给杰克逊·乔里奥（Jackson Chourio）留了一个内野安打，并在跑者分别位于一垒和三垒时三振了加勒特·米切尔（Garrett Mitchell）以结束该局。随后，泽费尔扬在第九局中四名打者中三振两人，拿到了他的第四次救援成功。

米西奥罗夫斯基（11-5）在七局中仅失两安打，三振 10 人，保送 1 人。米西奥罗夫斯基在 83 次投球中 66 次为好球，将其球队纪录的双位数三振场次延长至 10 场。这场比赛是棒球界两名球速最快先发投手的较量。米西奥罗夫斯基和乌雷尼亚在第一局都用 10 次投球完成了三振全场，两人合计投出了 10 颗时速 100 mph 或以上的球。

沃恩·格里森（Vaughn Grissom）击中一颗 91-mph 的滑球至中场，获得领先安打；随后梅克勒将一颗 95-mph 的切球击出 388 英尺至右场，击出本赛季他的第 3 支本垒打，取得 2-0 的领先。米西奥罗夫斯基随后连续让 16 名打者出局，直到第七局在两出局时保送了乔·阿德尔（Jo Adell）。

天使队在第八局通过酿造者队左投手 DL 霍尔（DL Hall）获得了一分保险：丹泽·古兹曼（Denzer Guzman）保送，通过一次地滚球出局进到二垒，通过一次暴投进到三垒，最后在扎克·内托（Zach Neto）两出局的打点内野安打中得分。

索里亚诺退出比赛，天使队落败 图朗在第八局击出了一支反超比分的打点安打，酿造者队在周六晚上以 3-1 击败天使队。豪尔赫·索勒（Jorge Soler）为天使队贡献了一分，球队在周一交易截止日之前，采取预防措施将右先发投手何塞·索里亚诺（José Soriano）从出场中撤下。

天使队在这次牛棚游戏中使用了四名投手，其中三名投手至少投了二局。右投手布雷特·凯利（Brett Kerry）在周六早些时候被召回后，四局中失一分。左投手萨米·纳特拉（Samy Natera Jr.）在第八局被图朗击出安打。在首局中，迈克·特劳特（Mike Trout）在一出局时击出安打，随后在索勒之后从一垒得分，天使队一度以 1-0 领先。

击球飞向三垒手 Joey Ortiz 的头顶上空，形成了一个高飞球。酿造者队在第四局凭借 Jake Bauers 击出的中场全垒打将比分扳平为 1-1，这是 Bauers 职业生涯首次在单赛季击出 20 支全垒打，此前他的最高纪录是 12 支。在天使队周日下午 3-0 获胜的比赛中，JACKSON CHOURIO (11) 在二垒被 Zach Neto 击出地滚球出局。Luiza Moraes Getty Images Ureña 在对决中获胜，天使队终结连败 新秀在与酿造者队 Misiorowski 的对阵中仅丢三安，Meckler 击出全垒打。电讯报道 Luis García Jr. 想要帮忙，但只能眼睁睁地看着华盛顿国民队在周日遭遇五连败。随着国民队接近完成将 García 交易至纽约洋基队的交易，García 在一场 4-2 负于亚特兰大勇士队的比赛前约 30 分钟被从名单中剔除。他在休息区观看了比赛。“我的意思是，这种感觉很奇怪，很不舒服，走到休息区，然后所有队友都看着你，”García 通过翻译说道。García 的整个职业生涯都在国民队度过，但他承认对于前往洋基队感到兴奋。“我的意思是，这是一种悲喜交加的感觉，”García 说，“我的职业生涯将开启新篇章，所以，现在是 50-50 的心情。”截至周日早晚，国民队和洋基队尚未宣布该交易。纽约邮报和 ESPN 的 Jeff Passan 报道称，洋基队将向国民队发送四名右投手：Ben Grable、Yovanny Cruz、Jake Bird 和 Jack Cebert。在周日 2-1 击败芝加哥小熊队的比赛后，当被问及关于交易 García 的事时，洋基队经理 Aaron Boone 表示：“我只知道交易已经非常接近了，所以你们可以随意猜测。”大都会队交易 Peralta 排名第一的坦帕湾光芒队在周日加强了其先发轮换，从陷入困境的纽约大都会队处交易到了投手 Freddy Peralta，以三名小联盟球员为交换。Peralta 曾两度入选全明星赛，并将在今年秋季成为自由球员。在 1 月份从密尔沃基被交易到大都会队后，他的表现令人失望。但对于光芒队强大的投手阵容来说，他可能会有所帮助。光芒队在当日开始时以 65-45 的战绩在美联中排名第一，且在美东赛区领先洋基队 31⁄2 场。 “他倾尽所有，每天都登上投手丘并全力竞争，”大都会队临时经理 Andy Green 说道。“我知道他渴望更好的结果。我想，当我们达成交易得到他时，我们都希望今天面对的情况与现状不同。”排名垫底的大都会队在交换 Peralta 的过程中得到了外野手 Aidan Smith、内野手 Émilien Pitre 和右投手 Gary Gill Hill。等等。西雅图水手队已将右投手 Luis Castillo 交易至芝加哥白袜队，以换取右投手 Seranthony Domínguez、外野手 Nolan Jones、接球手新秀 Boston Smith 以及现金补偿，水手队在周六晚上宣布。陷入困境的水手队目前低于 .500 胜率 4 场，并在美西赛区落后休斯顿太空人队 3 场，他们在周一交易截止日期前决定与一名在队时间最长的球员分道扬镳。与此同时，白袜队以 58-52 的战绩在美中赛区领先 21⁄2 场。... 亚特兰大勇士队从堪萨斯城皇家队处获得了外野手 Lane Thomas 和小联盟左投手 Bailey Falter，以换取两名小联盟投手。MLB 报告 报道：洋基队将获得国民队的 García 电讯报道

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最需要 Tarik Skubal 的球队经理周日坐在天使球场的办公室里。密尔沃基酿造者队——这支在周日开赛时拥有大联盟最佳战绩的球队——没有得到 Skubal。而道奇队得到了。当然他们得到了。“洛杉矶是美国的球队，”酿造者队经理 Pat Murphy 说道。这话并非基于全美各地的呼喊——那些对道奇队再次抢走最优秀人才而感到愤怒的球迷，或是对底特律老虎队竟然不能为 Skubal 争取到比道奇队交换的三名新秀更好的回报，或者至少多花几天时间寻求更好回报而感到困惑的棒球业内人士。

“我是否在为道奇队得到 Skubal 而欢呼？就我个人而言，并没有，”天使队投手 Brent Suter 说道。“我希望另一支在过去几年里没有赢得世界系列赛的球队能得到他。”Suter 为酿造者队效力了七年。“他们拥有强大的农场系统，”他说，“我原以为他们会得到他。”

通往世界系列赛的道路必须经过洛杉矶。酿造者队去年同样在大联盟中取得了最佳战绩，随后道奇队在国家联盟冠军赛中横扫了他们。在去年的 NLCS 中，酿造者队两次使用开局投手，Freddy Peralta 出战一次，José Quintana 出战一次。而在今年 10 月的五场或七场系列赛中，酿造者队本可以让 Jacob Misiorowski 出战两次，Skubal 出战两次。这本可以减轻道奇队在长打率上的巨大优势。道奇队有七名球员的本垒打数达到两位数，而酿造者队只有四名。

但任何所有统计数据都掩盖了一个更核心的问题：如果你是一名酿造者队的球迷，你的年岁何时到来？酿造者队从未赢得过世界系列赛。他们正处于九年内第八次进入季后赛的行列中。可持续的成功固然很好，且难以实现。对于在棒球最小市场中竞争的酿造者队来说，这值得很多赞赏。但这项运动的重点是赢得世界系列赛。如果你在连续第二年拥有大联盟最佳战绩时还不全力以赴，那么你什么时候才全力以赴？如果不是现在，那什么时候？

“我知道我们也做出了努力，”Murphy 说道，“我信任我们的运作方式，我也理解我们的运作方式。”

这在密尔沃基就更令人恼火，因为在 2008, 年，酿造者队曾尽全力尝试。那年 7 月，他们用四名新秀交换了名人堂投手 CC Sabathia。其中只有一名外野手 Michael Brantley 成长为了一名高效的大联盟球员。在多名新秀的交易方案中，这才是常态而非例外。结果证明，酿造者队在季后赛首轮出局，而 Sabathia 在他唯一一次季后赛先发中未能撑过第四局。

那又怎样？酿造者队尝试了，而他们的球迷也相信了。

在交易得到 Skubal 后，Fangraphs 将道奇队赢得世界系列赛的概率从 25% 提高到了 31%。这意味着道奇队仍有三分之二的机会无法获胜。

“他是一名惊人的球员，”Suter 说，“但这并不意味着能保证赢得世界系列赛。它不能保证任何事情。”

我简直不敢相信有多少球迷联系我，说小市场球队无法匹配道奇队的方案，因为他们几乎没有机会在 Skubal 成为自由球员后将其重新签回。再一次，那又怎样？我们是为了赢得世界系列赛而比赛，而不是为了在《美国棒球》新秀排名中获胜。酿造者队凭借小市场资源，将前天使队内野手 Luis Rengifo 宣传为冬季自由球员签约的重要成就。而道奇队则以 Edwin Díaz 和 Kyle Tucker 作为回应。

“洛杉矶是美国的球队，并且

“这里汇聚了所有的大牌球员，”墨菲说道。“现在他们又增加了新成员，可能拥有这个时代最出色的投手，绝对是该 era. 伟大的球员之一。”如果酿者队和道奇队在十月再次相遇，墨菲会非常乐意告诉我们谁是弱势方。“这将是‘大卫挑战歌利亚’，”墨菲说。“我们还没有赢得那个资格。我们还没走到那一步。如果我们走到了那里，我相信叙事方式会非常相似：拥有者与不拥有者。”墨菲想把一件事说得非常清楚：全美的球迷可能会厌恶道奇队，但他并不厌恶。“他们有一群很棒的小伙子，”他说。“弗雷迪·弗里曼、穆基·贝茨、特奥斯卡（埃尔南德斯）。我不认识（大谷）翔平。他甚至不知道我是谁。但我感觉大谷是个很棒的小伙子。我只要看他的气场就能感觉到。你怎么能不爱（马克斯）曼西？道格（经理戴夫·罗伯茨）是我好朋友。（教练迪诺）埃贝尔，他的整个家庭都在为酿者队效力。”酿者队在过去两年中在首轮选秀中选中了埃贝尔的儿子布雷迪和特雷，支付了 $5.55 million 的签约奖金。埃贝尔家的男孩们是顶尖新星。他们可以期待在密尔沃基长期效力。

Voices 比尔·谢金 (BILL SHAIKIN) 专栏作家 酿者队让斯库巴尔从指缝间溜走

投手塔里克·斯库巴尔 (Tarik Skubal) 在周六晚间从老虎队被交易至道奇队。 Nam Y. Huh 美联社

……让他暂时离开投手丘，但十月会发生什么？通过获得斯库巴尔，道奇队可以承受让大谷完全退出轮换名单，让他专注于击球，而击球表现此前因投球问题受到了一定影响。但他会接受这样一个可能被视为降级的人事变动吗？大谷始终将获胜放在首位，但他在赛季开始时也公开承认自己追求赛扬奖。所以还有这一点。道奇队仍需要一些好运来完善轮换阵容。据说斯内尔和格拉斯诺都即将从基本上是赛季级长度的伤病中回归。但到了十月，他们两人都 33, 岁了，所以只相信你亲眼所见的。

……比赛。他们根本不在乎。这种举动——极富者变得极富——可能会在今年冬天被引用为比赛因劳资纠纷而停摆的原因。但这不是他们的问题。由于大谷翔平在十月能否在投手丘上发挥关键作用日益令人怀疑，且布莱克·斯内尔和泰勒·格拉斯诺仍因伤缺阵，斯库巴尔可以填补轮换阵容中的 2 号位置。如果每个人都恢复健康，这个轮换阵容最终可能会成为棒球历史上的最强阵容。当然，用科比·布莱恩特那名垂不朽的话来说，工作尚未完成。即使对于一个拥有所有答案的球队来说，仍然存在疑问。

斯库巴尔是一名出色的季后赛投手，而这支球队拥有足够的资产来获取他。当然他们有。他们一直有。作为回报，他们肯定会连续第三次夺冠，而对手是一群日渐枯竭、实力悬殊的伪装者，他们只能在梦中获得斯库巴尔。这次交易让道奇队失去了小联盟球员齐希尔·霍普、里弗·瑞安和布雷迪·史密斯。那又怎样？在这次看起来极不公平的交易中，这三人都没有被认为是道奇队前五的顶尖新星。他可能在今年冬天成为自由球员，留住他的代价可能是 $400 million。那又怎样？道奇队的沙发垫缝里就有这么多钱。道奇队伤痕累累的轮换阵容需要一名像斯库巴尔这样的王牌先发投手，而且正如本专栏上个月指出的，作为棒球界最富有且最聪明的球队，没有理由不抓住机会签下他。于是，道奇队出手抢到了他。

他。当然他们这么做了。他们正全力冲刺三连冠，而且在棒球界最懂得欣赏的球迷们的欣喜之余，没有什么能挡住他们的脚步。“我们所做的一切都考虑到我们与球迷的伙伴关系，也就是每天来到这里的 50,000 人，”道奇队棒球运营总裁安德鲁·弗里德曼（Andrew Friedman）在周日下午的新闻发布会上说道，随后补充道，“因此对我们来说，重点是在与他们的伙伴关系中，尽可能地尽到我们的职责，希望能再次举行冠军游行。”弗里德曼在执掌道奇队的十二年里赢得了许多交易，但这可能是他迄今为止最大的“骗局”。想想看。他在交易截止日期前将近整整两天，用三名基本无人关注的潜力新秀换来了市场上最炙手可热的投手。天哪，底特律，你觉得你能不能花更多时间去搜寻市场？而且在潜力新秀丰富的密尔沃基酿造者队和亚特兰大勇士队也参与其中时，你觉得你能比一个优秀的外野手、一名易受伤的 28 岁投手和一个没前途的无名之辈做得更好吗？道奇队球员的反应是震惊，难以置信，然后是喜悦。“显然，他们非常兴奋，”弗里德曼说。没有人比弗里德曼更兴奋，他在谈到最新的胜利时表现出了罕见的情绪。“去年在季后赛看塔里克·斯库博尔（Tarik Skubal）投球是必看的电视节目，”他说，“我对他在那里展现出的能量和统治力深感敬畏，我等不及看他穿上道奇蓝了。”棒球界的其他球队会因此而讨厌他们。他们不在乎。批评者会说这又是他们破坏比赛的又一个例子。

在 6 次先发中获得了 2.04 的防御率，但经过手术修复的左肘能否撑过他的第三个季后赛？在过去两个赛季投球接近 200 局后，他在 5 月 6 日接受了一种新型的微创手术，以移除肘部的一个游离体。采用传统方式进行类似手术的恢复时间是两到三个月，但他仅在一个月后就回到了投球丘上。这次新手术能坚持住吗？时间会给出答案，但道奇队将屏息以待。在山本由伸（Yoshinobu Yamamoto）和斯库博尔之后，道奇队还有一个潜在的大问题。他们打算怎么处理大谷（Ohtani）？他的膝盖有问题，现在又是二头肌疼痛，而道奇队一直保持着……

佐佐木朗希（Roki Sasaki）自全明星赛后表现出色——那只新手套取得了巨大的成功——但他仍然从未在季后赛中先发。尽管贾斯汀·罗布莱斯基（Justin Wrobleski）这个夏天出人意料地出色，但他也尚未在季后赛中先发。这一切可能会变得有趣。但它不应该是悬念。斯库博尔解决了所有谜团。斯库博尔结束了所有争论。斯库博尔拯救了夏天。道奇队是所有体育项目中最追求冠军、最忠于球迷的球队。他们将不惜一切代价，无论如何，无论何时，为了赢球。五个词毫不含糊地证明了这一点：塔里克·斯库博尔是道奇球员。

塔里克·斯库博尔（TARIK SKUBAL），去年十月在底特律进行热身，是道奇队伤兵满营的轮值投手的完美补充。Steph Chambers Getty Images

道奇队在三连冠之路上树敌 [Plaschke, 来自 D1]

道奇队用外野手齐希尔·霍普（Zyhir Hope，MLB Pipeline top 100 新秀第 25 位）、右投手里弗·瑞安（River Ryan，第 68 位）以及右投布雷迪·史密斯（Brady Smith）——向老虎队换来了棒球界最好的先发投手之一。球队在周日正式宣布了这次交易。尽管道奇队在截止日期前信号显示可能会低调行事——“我们尝试尽一切可能避免”

“不必去做某事，”弗里德曼上周说道——许多竞争对手的高管和球探认为道奇队签下斯库巴尔几乎是必然的。当然，作为世界大赛的热门球队，他们并不需要通过交易获取斯库巴尔。但如果他们想要他，就能得到他。而他们确实做到了。“周五情况开始有所进展，”弗里德曼说。“但[周六]双方的往来变得更加激进，进行了很多不同的对话。显然，站在我们的立场，你并不真正知道这个过程将持续多久，是会延续到周日还是周一。但显然我们的想法是要采取激进态度，尝试达成交易。‘在这个交易截止日，我们的想法是针对一名球员采取激进态度，幸运的是我们最终达成了一致。’”然而，这次交易有两个方面令业内感到惊讶：时机和回报。道奇队在没有打乱大联盟阵容的情况下完成了这次交易。

瑞安在 2024 年进行了四次大联盟先发，他具备在大联盟竞争的实力，但健康问题让他无法再次被召回。“显然他们对此感到满意，”弗里德曼说。“我们放弃了很多天赋球员。那些球员真的很优秀，有机会成为非常出色的大联盟球员。‘但考虑到我们核心阵容的现状以及目前的时间节点，我们觉得，在此时采取激进策略是最合理的。’”斯库巴尔将与山本由伸、布莱克·斯内尔、泰勒·格拉斯诺和大谷翔平一起成为季后赛轮值选项；如果这五个人在十月全部健康，将创造一个令人羡慕的冗余阵容。“我认为这可以说是史上最强的轮值阵容——即便在此之前已经如此，”接手者道尔顿·拉兴说。“希望他准备好赢取冠军戒指。”资深多面手米格尔·罗哈斯则表示：“这是该组织向联盟其余球队以及全世界发出的声明，即他们不仅满足于过去几年的成就。……这就像是一个启动按钮，促使我们继续前进，不让联盟其他球队赶上我们的标准。”

当然，健康永远没有保证。斯库巴尔和斯内尔都经历过手术以清除投球肘部的游离体。此后，斯库巴尔已经出场九次，而斯内尔在从伤病名单中激活前，计划再进行一次康复先发。格拉斯诺正处于康复指派的边缘，他因背部痉挛缺席了近三个月，道奇队最初希望这项伤病甚至不需要进入伤病名单。大谷翔平挥之不去的膝盖问题造成了最大的不确定性。尽管接受了 Orthovisc 注射以润滑关节，但大谷已经近一个月没有投球了。罗伯茨表示，他本周可以在芝加哥重新开始接传球练习。

“我们尽可能地确信他会回来，他很快会开始投球并逐渐恢复状态，”弗里德曼说。“你永远无法完美地预测未来，但如果你说，‘嘿，对此打个赌吧，’我会非常有信心打赌他会回归投手丘。”然而，由于休息时间如此之长，大谷将需要在没有康复指派的情况下，像上赛季那样重新构建起先发投手的负荷。他回归投手丘的时间将决定恢复期需要多久。“我们有一个缓慢且系统地让他恢复的计划，”罗伯茨说。“无论这次交易是否发生，这都是会执行的。”与此同时，道奇队正用最优选项来填补他在轮值中的空缺。斯库巴尔被计划为

周二在芝加哥对阵小熊队时完成他在道奇队的首秀。而且道奇队并不一定已经停止交易。弗里德曼表示，截至周日下午，他们仍在“多个不同战线上进行许多不同的对话”。然而，当被问及道奇队是否仍能增加大联盟名单的人员时，弗里德曼表示这“可能性较小”。“永远不要说绝不，”他说。“幸运的是，我们并没有那种必须这样做，否则球队将陷入真正危险的紧迫需求。”不过，他在签下斯库巴尔之前也提到了道奇队缺乏紧迫需求。弗里德曼采取激进策略，道奇队签下炙手可热的斯库巴尔 [见道奇队，第D1页]

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国家联盟 西区 胜 负 百分率 落后 L10 道奇队 .622 — 6-4 亚利桑那 .532 7-3 圣迭戈 .514 7-3 旧金山 .423 5-5 科罗拉多 .396 4-6

中区 胜 负 百分率 落后 L10 密尔沃基 .627 — 6-4 芝加哥 .568 61⁄2 6-4 匹兹堡 .500 3-7 圣路易斯 .486 151⁄2 2-8 辛辛那提 .473 6-4

东区 胜 负 百分率 落后 L10 亚特兰大 .595 — 7-3 费城 .523 2-8 迈阿密 .509 91⁄2 5-5 华盛顿 .491 111⁄2 4-6 纽约 .420 191⁄2 4-6

美国联盟 西区 胜 负 百分率 落后 L10 休斯顿 .509 — 9-1 德克萨斯 .495 11⁄2 4-6 西雅图 .482 3-7 奥克兰 .405 111⁄2 2-8 天使队 .378 141⁄2 2-8

中区 胜 负 百分率 落后 L10 芝加哥 .527 — 5-5 克利夫兰 .500 2-8 明尼苏达 .500 7-3 底特律 .477 51⁄2 6-4 堪萨斯城 .411 4-6

东区 胜 负 百分率 落后 L10 坦帕湾 .591 — 7-3 纽约 .559 31⁄2 6-4 波士顿 .536 7-3 巴尔的摩 .486 111⁄2 5-5 多伦多 .468 131⁄2 6-4

排名（截至周六） 今日比赛 道奇队 @ 芝加哥 (NL) .................... 下午 5:05 华盛顿 @ 费城 ............... 下午 3,40 圣路易斯 @ 纽约 (AL) ................ 下午 4,05 匹兹堡 @ 密尔沃基 ................... 下午 4:40 旧金山 @ 德克萨斯 ..................... 下午 5:05 多伦多 @ 休斯顿 .......................... 下午 5:10 坦帕湾 @ 科罗拉多 .................... 下午 5:40 圣迭戈 @ 亚利桑那 ....................... 下午 6:40

波士顿 3, 道奇队 2 波士顿 选手 位置 次数 得分 安打 打点 平均率 Seigler 2b 4 0 0 0 .239 Rafaela cf 4 2 2 2 .288 Abreu rf 4 0 0 0 .246 Durbin 3b 4 0 0 0 .243 Yoshida dh 3 0 0 0 .260 Sogard 1b 2 0 0 0 .261 Monasterio ss 3 1 1 0 .259 Duran lf 3 0 1 0 .199 Wong c 3 0 0 0 .255 总计 30 3 4 2

道奇队 选手 位置 次数 得分 安打 打点 平均率 Ohtani dh 3 0 1 0 .291 Pages cf 4 0 1 0 .269 Edman 2b 3 0 0 0 .313 Freeman 1b 4 1 3 0 .310 E.Hernández lf 3 0 0 0 .417 a-Tucker rf 1 0 0 0 .235 T.Hernández rf-lf 4 1 3 2 .256 Muncy 3b 4 0 1 0 .252 Rojas ss 3 0 1 0 .277 Betts ss 1 0 0 0 .232 Rushing c 3 0 0 0 .253 b-Call 1 0 0 0 .244 总计 34 2 10 2

波士顿 101 000 010 —3 道奇队 020 000 000 —2 a-第8局 E.Hernández 飞球出局。 b-第9局 Rushing 飞球出局。 保送—波士顿 1: Sogard 1. 道奇队 2: Ohtani 1, Edman 1. 三振—波士顿 4: Seigler 2, Abreu 1, Yoshida 1. 道奇队 9: Ohtani 1, Pages 1, Edman 1, E.Hernández 1, Muncy 3, Rojas 1, Rushing 1. 留一垒—波士顿 1, 道奇队 7. 二垒安打—Monasterio (19), Rojas (10), Pages (22). 本垒打—Rafaela 2 (14), 对方投手 Yamamoto; T.Hernández (10), 对方投手 Tolle. 打点—Rafaela 2 (56), T.Hernández 2 (40). 得点圈留 runners—波士顿 0; 道奇队 3 (Rojas, Pages 2). 得点圈打击—波士顿 1 / 2; 道奇队 0 / 4. 跑者推进—Wong. 留一垒双杀—Pages. 击球双杀—Wong, Freeman. 双杀—波士顿 2 (Abreu, Monasterio, Abreu; Seigler, Monasterio, Sogard); 道奇队 1 (Betts, Edman, Freeman).

波士顿 投手 局数 安打 失分 自责分 保送 三振 投球数 防御率 Tolle ............................6 3.30 Slaten, W, 2-4.................1 4.45 Guerrero, H, 12 ...............1 2.08 Chapman, S, 27-29...........1 1.67

道奇队 投手 局数 安打 失分 自责分 保送 三振 投球数 防御率 Yamamoto, L, 11-7...........8 2.76 Vesia............................1 2.61 故意保送—Tolle (Ohtani). 主审— Doug Eddings, Mike Muchlinski, Emil Jimenez, Gabe Morales. 时间—2:09. 售票—49,291 (56,000).

密尔沃基 3, 天使队 1 密尔沃基 Chourio lf 4 1 1 0 .273 Turang 2b 4 0 1 1 .271 Contreras c 4 0 1 0 .272 Yelich dh 4 0 0 0 .237 Vaughn 1b 2 0 0 0 .305 Lockridge rf 1 0 0 0 .291 Bauers rf-1b 4 1 1 1 .269 Mitchell cf 2 1 0 0 .268 Pratt ss 3 0 1 1 .289 Ortiz 3b 4 0 0 0 .233 总计 32 3 5 3

天使队 Neto ss 4 0 0 0 .230 Trout cf 3 1 2 0 .245 Schanuel 1b 4 0 0 0 .276 Soler dh 4 0 1 1 .203 Grissom 2b 3 0 0 0 .261 Adell rf 4 0 0 0 .240 d’Arnaud c 3 0 0 0 .175 a-Meckler 1 0 0 0 .295 Guzman 3b 3 0 1 0 .301

0 .239 Siri lf 3 0 1 0 .262 总计 32 1 5 1 密尔沃基 000 100 011 —3 天使 100 000 000 —1 grounded out for d’Arnaud in the 9th. 四次保送—密尔沃基 4: Vaughn 1, Mitchell 2, Pratt 1. 天使 2: Trout 1, Grissom 1. 三振—密尔沃基 9: Chourio 1, Yelich 1, Lockridge 1, Bauers 1, Mitchell 2, Pratt 2, Ortiz 1. 天使 13: Neto 2, Trout 1, Schanuel 1, Soler 3, Adell 2, d’Arnaud 2, Siri 2. 留在垒上的跑者（LOB）—密尔沃基 6, 天使 6. 双击安打（2B）—Contreras (17), Chourio (20), Soler (16). 全垒打（HR）—Bauers (20), off Kerry. 打入分（RBIs）—Bauers (64), Turang (69), Pratt (16), Soler (49). 盗垒（SB）—Mitchell (9). 留在得分圏的跑者—密尔沃基 3 (Yelich, Ortiz 2); 天使 2 (Schanuel, Grissom). 得分圏击球（RISP）—密尔沃基 2 for 4; 天使 0 for 2. 推进跑者—Bauers.

密尔沃基 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gasser..........................5 4.48 Patrick, W, 6-4................2 3.50 Uribe, H, 16 ...................1 2.23 Megill, S, 18-20...............1 2.83

天使 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Suter............................2 4.12 Kerry............................4 3.38 Natera, L, 1-1.................2 2.28 Yates ...........................1 3.95

主审— Mark Wegner, Steven Jaschinski, Nate Tomlinson, Carlos Torres. 用时—2:34. 售票—31,124 (45,517).

多伦多 5, 圣路易斯 1

圣路易斯 AB R H BI Avg. Wetherholt 2b 4 0 0 0 .249 Walker rf 5 0 2 0 .282 Burleson 1b 4 0 2 0 .284 Herrera dh 4 1 1 0 .244 Nootbaar lf 4 0 1 0 .235 Winn ss 3 0 1 1 .243 Church cf 4 0 1 0 .227 Jordan 3b 4 0 2 0 .240 Crooks c 3 0 1 0 .170 Torres 1 0 0 0 .241 Pagés c 0 0 0 0 .204 总计 36 1 11 1

多伦多 AB R H BI Avg. Urías 2b 2 0 1 1 .244 Giménez ss 1 1 0 0 .231 Guerrero 1b 5 1 2 0 .267 Okamoto 3b 4 0 0 0 .228 Springer dh 4 1 2 2 .239 Kirk c 2 0 1 2 .236 Varsho cf 3 0 1 0 .245 Clement ss-2b 4 1 1 0 .292 Straw rf-lf 4 0 1 0 .218 Schneider lf 1 1 0 0 .147 Lukes rf 2 0 0 0 .277 总计 32 5 9 5

圣路易斯 000 001 000 —1 多伦多 001 100 30x —5

四次保送—圣路易斯 3: Wetherholt 1, Burleson 1, Winn 1. 多伦多 4: Kirk 2, Varsho 1, Schneider 1. 三振—圣路易斯 6: Walker 1, Winn 1, Church 1, Jordan 1, Crooks 2. 多伦多 4: Giménez 1, Okamoto 1, Varsho 1, Schneider 1. 留在垒上的跑者（LOB）—圣路易斯 11, 多伦多 9. 双击安打（2B）—Herrera (18), Winn (14), Jordan (7), Straw (8), Springer (14). 打入分（RBIs）—Winn (45), Springer 2 (36), Urías (7), Kirk 2 (14). 被盗垒（CS）—Wetherholt (1). 牺牲飞球（SF）—Urías. 留在得分圏的跑者—圣路易斯 6 (Crooks, Herrera 2, Jordan, Torres 2); 多伦多 5 (Varsho 2, Lukes, Straw, Guerrero). 得分圏击球（RISP）—圣路易斯 1 for 8; 多伦多 3 for 11. 推进跑者—Nootbaar, Church, Straw. 双杀（GIDP）—Wetherholt. 双杀（DP）—多伦多 1 (Urías, Clement, Guerrero).

圣路易斯 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Mathews, L, 0-1...............5 3.60 Gastelum.....................11⁄3 7.94 Strzelecki ....................12⁄3 5.79

多伦多 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gausman, W, 5-10..........52⁄3 4.38 Fisher, H, 9....................1 4.08 Fluharty, H, 12................1⁄3 4.36 Hoffman........................1 3.94 Rogers..........................1 1.65

继承跑者得分—Gastelum 1-0, Strzelecki 2-2, Fisher 1-0, Fluharty 1-0. 触身球（HBP）—Gastelum (Giménez). 主审— Rob Drake, Jordan Baker, Stu Scheuwater, Junior Valentine. 用时—2:43. 售票—41,819 (39,150).

西雅图 4, 明尼苏达 3

明尼苏达 AB R H BI Avg. Larnach lf 3 1 1 1 .284 Jeffers dh 4 0 1 0 .292 Clemens 2b 3 0 0 0 .239 Lewis 1b 4 0 1 0 .217 Lee 3b 4 1 2 0 .246 Keaschall cf 3 1 1 1 .260 Caratini c 4 0 0 1 .231 Kreidler ss 3 0 1 0 .244 Martin rf 3 0 0 0 .239 总计 31 3 7 3

西雅图 AB R H BI Avg. Young 2b 5 1 2 0 .262 Arozarena lf 4 3 2 1 .283 Canzone rf 3 0 0 0 .258 Rodríguez cf 3 0 1 1 .252 Raleigh dh 5 0 0 1 .162 Naylor 1b 4 0 1 0 .261 Garver c 2 0 0 1 .175

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Wilson 3b 4 0 0 0 .205 Emerson ss 3 0 1 0 .194 Refsnyder 0 0 0 0 .140 Rivas ss 0 0 0 0 .131 总计 33 4 7 4 明尼苏达 000 011 100 —3 西雅图 210 000 001 —4 垒得—明尼苏达 2: Larnach 1, Clemens 1. 西雅图 8: Arozarena 1, Canzone 2, Rodríguez 2, Garver 2, Refsnyder 1. 三振—明尼苏达 9: Larnach 1, Clemens 2, Lewis 2, Keaschall 1, Caratini 2, Kreidler 1. 西雅图 8: Arozarena 1, Raleigh 3, Naylor 1, Wilson 3. 残垒—明尼苏达 4, 西雅图 11. 二垒安打—Lewis (14), Lee (17), Kreidler (8), Young (15), Arozarena (23). 全垒打—Keaschall (5), 对阵 Gilbert; Larnach (9), 对阵 Gilbert; Arozarena (14), 对阵 Prielipp. 打点—Keaschall (32), Larnach (39), Caratini (37), Rodríguez (47), Garver (15), Arozarena (49), Raleigh (40). 盗垒—Naylor (22). 盗垒失败—Keaschall (5). 救援投手—Keaschall. 得分圈残垒—明尼苏达 4 (Lewis 3, Caratini); 西雅图 5 (Raleigh, Young 2, Wilson 2). 得分圈打击—明尼苏达 0 击 7; 西雅图 1 击

12. 双杀—西雅图 1 (Garver, Rivas, Garver). 明尼苏达 局数 安打 援击 失分 故意四球 三振 投球数 自责分率 Prielipp.......................5 1 / 3 4.75 Adams .........................1 / 3 5.23 Minter..........................1 / 3 2.31 Nance..........................2 / 3 3.54 Funderburk ....................1 / 3 3.34 Rogers..........................1 4.91 Morris, L, 4-3 .................2 / 3 3.25 西雅图 局数 安打 援击 失分 故意四球 三振 投球数 自责分率 Gilbert..........................7 3.46 Speier..........................2 / 3 1.84 Muñoz, W, 4-4 ..............11 / 3 3.86 承接跑者得分—Minter 2-0, Funderburk 1-0, Muñoz 2-0. 故意四球—由 Rogers 投给 (Refsnyder), 由 Morris 投给 (Rodríguez). 野球—Muñoz. 暴投—Garver (3). 主审— Roberto Ortiz, Jim Wolf, Alex MacKay, Alan Porter. 用时—3:02. 售票数—41,423 (47,929). 迈阿密 6, 纽约 都会人 2 迈阿密 打数 得分 安打 打点 平均打击率 Lopez ss 4 2 1 1 .322 Hernández lf 4 0 0 0 .232 Hicks c 3 0 2 2 .283 Edwards 2b 5 0 0 0 .288 Jiménez 3b 3 0 0 0 .205

Marsee cf 2 0 0 0 .197 Stowers 1b 4 1 1 0 .237 Sanoja rf-3b 5 1 2 2 .267 Ruiz cf-rf 3 1 2 0 .264 Conine dh 3 1 2 1 .279 总计 36 6 10 6 纽约 打数 得分 安打 打点 平均打击率 Ewing cf 4 0 1 0 .268 Lindor ss 4 0 2 0 .238 Bichette dh 4 0 1 0 .256 Benge rf 4 0 1 0 .266 Young 1b 4 0 0 0 .247 Semien 2b 4 1 1 0 .211 Baty 3b 3 0 0 0 .218 Taylor lf 3 1 1 2 .241 Torrens c 3 0 0 0 .216 总计 33 2 7 2 迈阿密 120 102 000 —6 纽约 020 000 000 —2 垒得—迈阿密 5: Hernández 1, Hicks 2, Stowers 1, Conine 1. 三振—迈阿密 6: Lopez 1, Hernández 1, Jiménez 1, Marsee 1, Stowers 1, Ruiz 1. 纽约 5: Lindor 1, Benge 1, Young 1, Baty 2. 失误—Lindor (7), Thornton (1). 残垒—迈阿密 10, 纽约 4. 二垒安打—Lopez (28). 全垒打—Sanoja (4), 对阵 Thornton; Conine (10), 对阵 Duarte; Taylor (10), 对阵 Phillips. 打点—Hicks 2 (62), Sanoja 2 (37), Lopez (51), Conine (21), Taylor 2 (28). 盗垒—Ruiz (26), Hernández (8). 盗垒失败—Ruiz (3), Sanoja (4).

牺牲飞—Lopez. 得分圈残垒—迈阿密 5 (Edwards 4, Jiménez); 纽约 1 (Young). 得分圈打击—迈阿密 2 击 11; 纽约 0 击 1. 跑者推进—Hernández 2. 击球双杀—Young. 双杀—迈阿密 1 (Edwards, Lopez, Stowers). 迈阿密 局数 安打 援击 失分 故意四球 三振 投球数 自责分率 Phillips, W, 3-5................5 3.53 King.............................1 2.45 Bachar, S, 2-3.................3 3.84 纽约 局数 安打 援击 失分 故意四球 三振 投球数 自责分率 Thornton, L, 2-2.............4 2 / 3 2.88 Duarte........................1 1 / 3 1.42 Pintaro .........................2 4.40 Herget..........................1 0.00 承接跑者得分—King 1-0, Duarte 1-0. 触身球—Thornton (Ruiz). 主审— Brock Ballou, Chris Conroy, Ben May, Brennan Miller. 用时—2:46. 售票数—30,078 (42,136). 坦帕湾 1, 芝加哥 白袜 0 芝加哥 打数 得分 安打 打点 平均打击率 Antonacci lf 3 0 0 0 .279 Murakami 1b 4 0 1 0 .244 Vargas 3b 4 0 0 0 .238 C.Montgomery ss 4 0 0 0 .215 Benintendi dh 2 0 0 0 .246

a-Grichuk dh 2 0 1 0 .259 B.Montgomery rf 3 0 1 0 .239 Peters cf 2 0 0 0 .266 Pereira cf 1 0 0 0 .211 Meidroth 2b 3 0 0 0 .270 Quero c 3 0 2 0 .194 Totals 31 0 5 0 坦帕湾 AB R H BI Avg. Díaz dh 4 0 2 0 .304 Mullins dh 0 0 0 0 .203 Simpson lf 3 0 1 0 .290 Caminero 3b 3 0 0 0 .280 Mesa rf 3 0 0 0 .211 DeLuca cf 3 1 1 0 .263 Vilade 1b 3 0 0 0 .252 Williamson 2b 3 0 0 0 .248 Fortes c 3 0 1 1 .277 Walls ss 3 0 0 0 .212 Totals 28 1 5 1 芝加哥 000 000 000 —0 坦帕湾 000 010 00x —1 四球—芝加哥 1: Antonacci 1. 三振—芝加哥 16: Antonacci 2, Murakami 3, Vargas 2, C.Montgomery 2, Benintendi 2, Grichuk 1, B.Montgomery 2, Pereira 1, Meidroth 1. 坦帕湾 8: Caminero 2, Mesa 1, DeLuca 1, Vilade 3, Walls 1. 失误—Simpson (3). 留一垒—芝加哥 5, 坦帕湾 5. 进分打点—Fortes (28). 盗垒—DeLuca (12). 盗垒失败—Antonacci (6). 牺牲打—Simpson. 得分圈留垒—芝加哥 2 (Antonacci 2); 坦帕湾 2 (Caminero, Mesa). 得分圈打击—芝加哥 0 for 1; 坦帕湾 1 for 5. 芝加哥 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hicks ...........................1 3.09 Schultz, L, 3-8 ................5 5.82 Domínguez.....................1 3.99 Richards........................1 3.40 坦帕湾 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Rasmussen, W, 10-5 .........6 2.91 Booser, H, 6 ..................2 / 3 2.05 Kelly, H, 22....................1 2.13 Cleavinger, H, 20.............1 / 3 3.27 Baker, S, 31-34...............1 1.45 承接跑者得分—Kelly 1-0. 触球—Schultz (Caminero). 主裁判— Alfonso Marquez, Mike Estabrook, Dillon Wilson, Malachi Moore. 用时—2:14. 售票人数—23,309 (25,025). 匹兹堡 4, 辛辛那提 1 匹兹堡 AB R H BI Avg. Mangum cf-rf 5 1 2 0 .306 B.Lowe 2b 4 1 1 0 .257 Reynolds lf 4 0 1 1 .268 Valdez rf 2 0 0 1 .268 Cook cf 0 0 0 0 .200 Gonzales 3b 4 0 0 1 .315 Ozuna dh 4 1 1 0 .203 Triolo ss 2 0 0 0 .241 Flores 1b 4 0 0 0 .211 Davis c 3 1 1 1 .175 Totals 32 4 6 4 辛辛那提 AB R H BI Avg. De La Cruz ss 4 0 0 0 .276 Stewart dh 2 0 0 0 .254 Bleday lf 4 0 0 0 .226 N.Lowe 1b 4 0 1 0 .258 Marte rf 4 0 0 0 .195 Suárez 3b 4 0 1 0 .201 Trevino c 3 1 1 1 .250 Friedl cf 3 0 0 0 .165 McLain 2b 2 0 0 0 .191 Totals 30 1 3 1 匹兹堡 003 001 000 —4 辛辛那提 000 010 000 —1 四球—匹兹堡 7: B.Lowe 1, Reynolds 1, Valdez 2, Triolo 2, Davis 1. 辛辛那提 2: Stewart 1, McLain 1. 三振—匹兹堡 3: Mangum 1, B.Lowe 1, Flores 1. 辛辛那提 10: De La Cruz 1, Stewart 2, Bleday 1, Marte 1, Suárez 3, Trevino 1, McLain 1. 失误—Ashcraft (3). 留一垒—匹兹堡 8, 辛辛那提 5. 二垒安打—Ozuna (7), Suárez (12). 全垒打—Trevino (4), off Ashcraft. 进分打点—Reynolds (62), Valdez (38), Gonzales (50), Davis (30), Trevino (11). 盗垒—Gonzales (5), McLain (12). 得分圈留垒—匹兹堡 2 (Triolo 2); 辛辛那提 4 (Suárez 2, McLain, De La Cruz). 得分圈打击—匹兹堡 1 for 6; 辛辛那提 0 for 6. 推进跑者—Flores. 击球双杀—Reynolds. 双杀—辛辛那提 1 (De La Cruz, McLain, N.Lowe). 匹兹堡 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ashcraft, W, 11-4 .............5 3.96 Mlodzinski, H, 3...............3 3.15 Soto, S, 14-19 ................1 3.69 辛辛那提 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Abbott, L, 5-7 .................5 3.91 McCambley ....................1 6.75 Moll.............................1 4.26 Ju.Garcia.......................1 2.29 Ferguson .......................1 4.01 触球—Ashcraft (Stewart). 裁判— Dexter Kelley, Shane Livensparger, Dan Merzel, Dan Bellino. 用时—2:38. 售票人数—27,616 (43,891). 费城 5, 巴尔的摩 0 费城 AB R H BI Avg. Turner ss 5 0 2 0 .249 Schwarber dh 4 1 0 0 .248 Harper 1b 4 1 2 0 .254 Bohm 3b 5 0 1 1 .223 Marsh lf 4 1 2 1 .279 Realmuto c 3 1 0 0 .223 Stott 2b 3 1 1 0 .253 Crawford cf 4 0 1 2 .257 De La Cruz rf 4 0

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1 1 .444 Hill rf 0 0 0 0 .240 总计 36 5 10 5 巴尔的摩 AB R H BI 平均数 Mayo dh 3 0 0 0 .199 Beavers dh 1 0 1 0 .247 Ward lf 3 0 0 0 .245 Henderson ss 3 0 1 0 .220 Alonso 1b 4 0 0 0 .249 O’Neill rf 3 0 1 0 .209 Encrncn-Strnd 3b 2 0 0 0 .306 Taveras cf 4 0 0 0 .220 Holliday 2b 4 0 0 0 .255 J.Rogers c 3 0 0 0 .155 总计 30 0 3 0 费城 000 010 040 —5 巴尔的摩 000 000 000 —0 四球—费城 4: Schwarber 1, Harper 1, Realmuto 1, Stott 1. 巴尔的摩 5: Ward 1, Henderson 1, O’Neill 1, Encarnacion-Strand 2. 三振—费城 7: Schwarber 3, Bohm 1, Marsh 1, Realmuto 1, De La Cruz 1. 巴尔的摩 14: Mayo 2, Ward 1, Henderson 1, Alonso 3, Encarnacion-Strand 1, Taveras 1, Holliday 3, J.Rogers 2. 留垒—费城 8, 巴尔的摩 8. 二垒安打—Harper (21), Turner (19). 责打点—De La Cruz (3), Bohm (60), Marsh (49), Crawford 2 (25). 盗垒—Stott (19), Beavers (5), Marsh (10), Bohm (2). 留在得点圈的跑者—费城 5 (Bohm, Schwarber, Marsh, De La Cruz 2); 巴尔的摩 5 (Taveras 4, Ward). 得点圈打击—费城 4 命中 14; 巴尔的摩 0 命中 3. 推进跑者—Bohm, Crawford 2.

费城 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sánchez, W, 14-4.............6 2.61 Bowlan, H, 7...................1 3.03 Alvarado........................1 5.71 Duran...........................1 1.98 巴尔的摩 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Baz, L, 4-10 .................61⁄3 3.86 Garcia..........................2⁄3 3.04 Wolfram........................1⁄3 4.59 Kittredge.......................1⁄3 4.02 Hiraldo .......................11⁄3 12.00 承接跑者得分—Garcia 1-0, Kittredge 2-2, Hiraldo 2-0. 野球—Kittredge. 主审— Marvin Hudson, Tripp Gibson, Nick Mahrley, Derek Thomas. 时间—2:58. 售票数—37,751 (45,971).

休斯顿 5, 德克萨斯 4 德克萨斯 AB R H BI 平均数 Pederson 1b 3 0 1 0 .255 Burger 1b 2 0 0 0 .235 Langford lf 5 1 1 1 .275 Seager ss 3 0 1 0 .192 Nimmo dh 3 0 2 0 .267 Carter cf 2 1 0 0 .205 Duran 3b 4 1 0 0 .266 Osuna rf 4 0 1 1 .258 Díaz c 3 1 1 2 .250 Lopez 2b 3 0 0 0 .284 c-Foscue 1 0 0 0 .258 总计 33 4 7 4 休斯顿 AB R H BI 平均数 Peña ss 5 1 2 0 .319 Alvarez dh 3 2 1 0 .324 Paredes 3b 3 0 1 0 .258 Walker 1b 4 1 2 1 .238 Diaz c 4 0 0 0 .256 Altuve 2b 2 1 0 0 .230 Allen 2b 0 0 0 0 .265 Trammell cf-lf 4 0 1 2 .238 Smith rf 4 0 1 0 .207 Wade lf 2 0 1 1 .185 Dezenzo lf 2 0 0 0 .216 Spence cf 0 0 0 0 .162 总计 33 5 9 4 德克萨斯 001 201 000 —4 休斯顿 012 200 00x —5 四球—德克萨斯 4: Seager 1, Nimmo 1, Carter 2. 休斯顿 6: Alvarez 2, Paredes 1, Walker 1, Altuve 2. 三振—德克萨斯 10: Langford 2, Seager 1, Carter 1, Duran 1, Osuna 1, Díaz 2, Lopez 2. 休斯顿 7: Peña 2, Walker 1, Diaz 1, Trammell 1, Dezenzo 2. 留垒—德克萨斯 7, 休斯顿 11. 二垒安打—Alvarez (21), Peña (12), Walker (21). 三垒安打—Peña (1). 全垒打—Langford (13), 击球投手 Blanco; Díaz (5), 击球投手 De Los Santos. 责打点—Langford (31), Osuna (24), Díaz 2 (18), Wade (13), Trammell 2 (16), Walker (64). 盗垒—Nimmo (6). 救援投手—Díaz. 留在得点圈的跑者—德克萨斯 5 (Lopez, Carter 2, Duran 2); 休斯顿 7 (Altuve 2, Trammell, Peña, Walker 2, Smith). 得点圈打击—德克萨斯 1 命中 7; 休斯顿 3 命中 13. 推进跑者—Paredes, Altuve.

德克萨斯 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA deGrom, L, 7-7..............31⁄3 3.96 Winn ...........................2⁄3 5.84 Alexander ......................2 3.00 Gray.............................1 3.40 Silseth..........................1 2.66 休斯顿 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Blanco........................42⁄3 7.36 Sousa ..........................1⁄3 3.24 De Los Santos, H, 9 .........2⁄3 4.38 Okert, W, 5-1................11⁄3 2.14 Abreu, H, 7 ....................1 4.62 Hader, S, 15-15...............1 1.17 承接跑者得分—Winn 3-1, Sousa 1-0. 故意四球—deGrom

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(Alvarez)，由 Silseth (Alvarez) 投球。HBP_Silseth (Paredes)。WP—Winn。U— Adam Hamari, Todd Tichenor, Tyler Jones, Clint Vondrak。T—2:57。售票数—38,461 (41,000)。芝加哥小熊 5, 纽约洋基 2

纽约 AB R H BI Avg. Schuemann lf 3 0 0 0 .194 a-Grisham cf 0 0 0 0 .214 Goldschmidt 1b 4 0 0 0 .247 Rosario dh 4 0 1 0 .236 Domínguez rf 4 0 1 0 .229 Chisholm 2b 4 0 0 0 .222 Volpe ss 3 0 0 0 .240 Rice 1 0 0 0 .268 McMahon 3b 0 0 0 0 .207 Jones cf-lf 4 2 2 1 .247 Sánchez c 4 0 3 0 .273 Caballero 3b-ss 3 0 1 1 .240 Totals 34 2 8 2

芝加哥 AB R H BI Avg. Crw-Armstrng cf 3 2 1 1 .283 Suzuki rf 3 0 1 1 .270 Bregman 3b 2 1 1 0 .249 C.Kelly c 4 0 1 0 .260 Busch 1b 4 0 1 1 .240 Hoerner 2b 4 1 2 1 .257 Happ lf 4 0 0 0 .217 Swanson ss 3 0 0 0 .212 Triantos dh 2 0 0 0 .250 Ramirez dh 0 1 0 0 .319 Totals 29 5 7 4

纽约 000 010 100 —2 芝加哥 100 000 31x —5

四球—纽约 2: Grisham 1, Caballero 1. 芝加哥 5: Crow-Armstrong 1, Suzuki 1, Bregman 2, Ramirez 1.

三振—纽约 9: Schuemann 1, Goldschmidt 1, Rosario 1, Domínguez 1, Chisholm 3, Jones 1, Caballero 1. 芝加哥 7: Crow-Armstrong 1, Suzuki 1, C.Kelly 2, Hoerner 1, Happ 1, Triantos 1.

E—Busch (4)。LOB—纽约 7, 芝加哥 5。2B—Domínguez (12), Suzuki (18)。3B—Crow-Armstrong (7)。HR—Jones (5), 由 Peterson 投；Hoerner (6), 由 F.Cruz 投。RBIs—Caballero (38), Jones (13), Hoerner (51), Crow-Armstrong (64), Suzuki (61), Busch (59)。SB—Caballero 2 (27)。CS—Sánchez (1)。得分圈留有跑者—纽约 4 (Chisholm, Goldschmidt, Schuemann 2)；芝加哥 3 (Busch, Triantos, Happ)。RISP—纽约 1 for 4；芝加哥 2 for 9。DP—纽约 1 (Caballero, Chisholm, Goldschmidt)；芝加哥 1 (Swanson, Hoerner, Busch)。

纽约 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Fried..........................51⁄3 3.12 Chivilli..........................2⁄3 0.57 F.Cruz, L, 4-6, BS, 2-6.......2⁄3 2.85 Headrick.......................1⁄3 1.46 Y.Cruz...........................1 1.69

芝加哥 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Peterson......................61⁄3 5.52 Thornton, W, 4-4 .............2⁄3 2.97 Webb, H, 8 ....................1 2.59 Thielbar, S, 3-7 ...............1 3.97

接手跑者得分—Headrick 1-1。WP—Fried(2)。U— Ron Kulpa, Scott Barry, Manny Gonzalez, Tom Hanahan。T—2:47。售票数—39,630 (41,363)。

科罗拉多 12, 堪萨斯城 6

堪萨斯城 AB R H BI Avg. Jensen dh 4 1 1 0 .235 Thomas cf 2 0 1 0 .232 Marte rf 3 0 0 1 .250 Caglianone 1b 5 1 1 2 .251 Perez c 4 1 1 1 .215 Collins lf 4 1 1 0 .242 Loftin 3b 4 0 2 0 .256 Massey 2b 3 0 1 1 .263 Rave rf-cf 4 1 2 1 .321 Tolbert ss 4 1 2 0 .342 Totals 37 6 12 6

科罗拉多 AB R H BI Avg. McCarthy lf 5 2 2 0 .294 Karros 3b 5 2 2 2 .265 Rumfield 1b 5 2 3 3 .297 Goodman c 5 2 4 5 .261 Moniak dh 4 0 1 1 .278 Carrigg ss-rf 2 0 0 0 .292 Castro 2b 4 2 2 1 .262 Freeman rf 3 1 1 0 .254 Tovar ss 2 0 0 0 .196 Doyle cf 3 1 1 0 .211 Totals 38 12 16 12

堪萨斯城 013 000 002 — 6 科罗拉多 006 110 13x —12

四球—堪萨斯城 1: Jensen 1。科罗拉多 5: Carrigg 3, Castro 1, Doyle 1。

三振—堪萨斯城 6: Caglianone 1, Collins 2, Massey 1, Rave 1, Tolbert 1。科罗拉多 8: McCarthy 1, Karros 2, Rumfield 1, Castro 2, Freeman 1, Doyle 1。

LOB—堪萨斯城 6, 科罗拉多 8。2B—Tolbert (3), Loftin (18), Karros (20), McCarthy (22)。3B—Collins (3), Jensen (1)。HR—Caglianone (18), 由 Feltner 投；Perez (16), 由 Feltner 投；Rave (2), 由 Herget 投；Goodman (32), 由 Avila 投；Castro (12), 由 Strahm 投；Goodman (33), 由 Lange 投。RBIs—Massey (37), Caglianone 2 (42), Perez (46), Rave (2), Marte (10), Karros 2 (39), Rumfield 3 (56), Goodman 5 (65), Castro (46), Moniak (47)。SB—Tolbert (15)。SF—Massey, Moniak。得分圈留有跑者

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位置——堪萨斯市 4 (Jensen, Caglianone, Perez, Rave)；科罗拉多 5 (Doyle, Moniak 2, Freeman, Tovar)。得分圈击球 (RISP)——堪萨斯市 1 for 13；科罗拉多 6 for 15。跑者晋级——Caglianone, Massey, Jensen, Marte 2。GIDP——Caglianone。双杀 (DP)——科罗拉多 1 (Carrigg, Rumfield)。

堪萨斯市 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Avila, L, 5-4..................22⁄3 5.53 McGee........................11⁄3 2.08 Strahm .........................1 7.32 Lange...........................2 6.25 Erceg ...........................1 6.37

科罗拉多 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Feltner, W, 4-5................6 5.75 Vodnik..........................1 5.25 Mejia ...........................1 5.40 Herget..........................1 7.06

接手跑者得分——McGee 1-0。胜投 (WP)——McGee, Erceg。主审 (U)—— Vic Carapazza, Edwin Moscoso, Nic Lentz, Hunter Wendelstedt。用时 (T)——2:56。售票数——40,216 (50,144)。

圣迭戈 6, 旧金山 5

旧金山 AB R H BI Avg. Eldridge dh 5 0 2 0 .253 Lee rf 5 1 1 0 .298 Ramos lf 4 0 1 0 .264 Devers 1b 4 1 2 0 .249 Adames ss 3 1 0 1 .224 Susac c 4 0 2 0 .266 Gilbert cf 4 1 2 0 .241 Koss 3b 3 0 0 0 .171 McCray 1 0 0 0 .143 Furman 2b 0 0 0 0 --- Basabe 2b-3b 4 1 2 4 .333 Totals 37 5 12 5

圣迭戈 AB R H BI Avg. Tatis rf 4 0 0 0 .283 Cronenworth 2b 5 0 2 1 .215 Machado 3b 3 1 0 0 .213 France 1b 4 1 3 0 .294 Song 2b 0 0 0 0 .212 Merrill cf 4 0 1 2 .234 Rengifo dh 2 1 0 0 .236 Bogaerts ss 4 2 2 0 .221 Fermin c 3 1 2 3 .179 Bowen lf 3 0 0 0 .159 Sheets 1 0 0 0 .213 Totals 33 6 10 6

旧金山 003 000 020 —5 圣迭戈 200 201 001 —6

四球 (Walks)——旧金山 4: Ramos 1, Devers 1, Adames 2。圣迭戈 3: Tatis 1, Machado 1, Rengifo 1。三振 (Strikeouts)——旧金山 9: Eldridge 1, Lee 2, Ramos 3, Gilbert 1, Koss 1, McCray 1。圣迭戈 12: Tatis 1, Cronenworth 2, Machado 2, France 1, Merrill 3, Rengifo 1, Bogaerts 1, Bowen 1。留垒 (LOB)——旧金山 9, 圣迭戈 6。二垒安打 (2B)——Susac (7), Basabe (1), Merrill (18), Bogaerts (10)。本垒打 (HR)——Basabe (1), 面对 Buehler; Fermin (4), 面对 Mahle。打点 (RBIs)——Basabe 4 (4), Adames (46), Merrill 2 (50), Fermin 3 (14), Cronenworth (14)。盗垒失败 (CS)——Lee (1), Song (3)。救援成功 (S)——Fermin。得分圈留垒跑者——旧金山 6 (Basabe, Eldridge 2, Susac 2, Adames)；圣迭戈 1 (Bogaerts)。得分圈击球 (RISP)——旧金山 3 for 12；圣迭戈 3 for 5。双杀 (DP)——圣迭戈 1

旧金山 Mahle ........................52⁄3 5.13 Winn..........................11⁄3 3.08 Kilian ...........................1 4.26 Smith, L, 0-3..................2⁄3 2.89

圣迭戈 Buehler.......................41⁄3 5.18 Peralta .......................11⁄3 3.21 Morejon, H, 17..............11⁄3 3.07 Estrada, H, 8..................1⁄3 4.09 M.Miller, W, 4-1.............12⁄3 0.76

接手跑者得分——Winn 1-1, Peralta 2-0, Morejon 1-0, M.Miller 3-2。故意四球 (IBB)——面对 Smith (Tatis)。触球 (HBP)——Mahle (Rengifo)。主审 (U)—— Nestor Ceja, John Tumpane, Willie Traynor, Chris Guccione。用时 (T)——2:51。售票数——43,766 (40,222)。

底特律 8, 橡树 6

底特律 McGonigle 3b 4 2 3 2 .290 Torres 2b 5 2 2 2 .266 Dingler c 5 0 1 0 .268 Greene lf 4 1 0 0 .274 Keith dh 3 0 2 1 .267 Valencia dh 2 0 2 0 .462 Torkelson 1b 5 1 2 1 .218 Clark cf 5 1 2 2 .556 Báez ss 5 0 0 0 .289 McKinstry rf 4 1 1 0 .207 Totals 42 8 15 8

橡树 Wilson dh 5 1 1 1 .274 Heim 1b 5 0 0 0 .230 Soderstrom lf 5 1 2 0 .242 White 3b 4 1 3 0 .304 Cortes 1 0 0 0 .264 Butler rf 5 1 2 1 .209 Williams ss 2 0 1 0 .266 McNeil 2b 2 0 1 1 .248 Bolte cf 4 2 3 3 .257 Serven c 3 0 0 0 .182 Ornelas 2b 3 0 1 0 .250 Walton ss 1 0 1 0 .298 Totals 40 6 15 6

底特律 200 022 110 —8 橡树 001 100 031 —6

四球 (Walks)——底特律 2: McGonigle 1, Greene 1。橡树 3: Williams

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1, Bolte 1, Serven 1. 三振—底特律 11：Torres 2, Dingler 1, Greene 1, Torkelson 1, Clark 2, Báez 2, McKinstry 2. 橡树 9：Wilson 1, Heim 1, Soderstrom 2, Cortes 1, Butler 2, Williams 1, Ornelas 1. 留在垒上的跑者 (LOB)—底特律 9, 橡树 10. 二垒安打 (2B)—McKinstry (11), Bolte (8), Soderstrom (23). 全垒打 (HR)—McGonigle (11), 对方投手 Perkins; Torres (6), 对方投手 Perkins; Clark (1), 对方投手 Perkins; Bolte (4), 对方投手 Finnegan. 敲入分 (RBIs)—McGonigle 2 (41), Keith (27), Torres 2 (25), Clark 2 (3), Torkelson (55), Butler (29), Wilson (34), Bolte 3 (21), McNeil (34). 留在得分圈的跑者—底特律 4 (Báez, Dingler, Clark 2); 橡树 4 (Butler, Ornelas, Williams, Heim). 得分圈击球 (RISP)—底特律 3 for 10; 橡树 5 for 19. 双杀 (DP)—底特律 2 (Torres, Báez, Torkelson; Báez, Torres, Torkelson). 底特律 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Valdez, W, 6-7 ................7 4.41 Finnegan.......................1⁄3 3.50 Waguespack, H, 2............2⁄3 1.74 Jansen,

S, 13-17..............1 3.94 橡树 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Perkins, L, 2-7...............51⁄3 6.72 Suarez........................11⁄3 4.68 Blewett .......................11⁄3 1.69 Medina.........................1 3.91 接手跑者得分—Waguespack 1-0, Blewett 1-1. 投手 wild pitch (WP)—Jansen. 裁判 (U)— Louie Krupa, Jeremie Rehak, Dan Iassogna, Adam Beck. 比赛时间 (T)—3:09. 售票数—10,426 (14,014). 亚利桑那 12, 克里夫兰 8 亚利桑那 AB R H BI Avg. Carroll rf 5 2 2 3 .249 Perdomo ss 6 1 4 3 .238 Moreno dh 6 0 0 1 .302 Marte 2b 5 1 1 0 .253 Arenado 3b 4 2 2 1 .244 Tawa cf-lf 4 0 0 0 .207 Vargas 1b 5 1 2 1 .276 McCann c 4 2 3 2 .310 Wldschmdt lf 3 2 2 0 .291 Barrosa cf 0 1 0 0 .187 合计 42 12 16 11 克里夫兰 AB R H BI Avg. Kwan cf-lf 5 0 3 2 .256 Ramírez 3b 4 0 0 0 .233 DeLauter dh 5 2 1 1 .276 Hoskins 1b 2 1 1 2 .179 Manzardo 1b 3 2 2 0 .214 Martínez rf 5 1 2 0 .225 Fry lf 1 0 0 0 .182 Halpin cf 3 1 2 2 .210

Bazzana 2b 5 1 2 0 .243 Hedges c 3 0 1 0 .277 Bailey c 1 0 0 1 .191 Rocchio ss 3 0 0 0 .261 合计 40 8 14 8 亚利桑那 000 020 712 —12 克里夫兰 200 000 051 — 8 四坏球 (Walks)—亚利桑那 3: Carroll 1, Arenado 1, Barrosa 1. 克里夫兰 2: Ramírez 1, Fry 1. 三振—亚利桑那 8: Carroll 1, Moreno 1, Marte 2, Tawa 1, Vargas 2, McCann 1. 克里夫兰 10: Hoskins 1, Manzardo 1, Martínez 2, Fry 1, Bazzana 1, Hedges 2, Rocchio 2. 失误 (E)—Hoskins (2). 留在垒上的跑者 (LOB)—亚利桑那 10, 克里夫兰 9. 二垒安打 (2B)—Marte (22), McCann (4), Vargas (16), Martínez (12), Manzardo (10), Bazzana (15). 全垒打 (HR)—Perdomo (9), 对方投手 Gaddis; Carroll (16), 对方投手 Aleman; Arenado (15), 对方投手 Dion; Hoskins (12), 对方投手 Drake; DeLauter (12), 对方投手 Sewald. 敲入分 (RBIs)—Moreno (47), Perdomo 3 (41), Vargas (51), McCann 2 (18), Carroll 3 (52), Arenado (51), Hoskins 2 (36), DeLauter (52), Halpin 2 (7), Bailey (21), Kwan 2 (21). 牺牲飞球 (SF)—Bailey. 救援成功 (S)—Tawa. 留在得分圈的跑者—亚利桑那 6 (Vargas,

Marte 2, Carroll 2, Arenado); 克里夫兰 6 (Bazzana, Ramírez 2, Hedges, Bailey, DeLauter). 得分圈击球 (RISP)—亚利桑那 7 for 20; 克里夫兰 4 for 12. 跑者推进—Tawa, Bazzana, Rocchio, Martínez, Halpin. 亚利桑那 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Drake...........................4 4.85 Carrillo, W, 2-0................2 1.12 Morillo..........................1 2.62 Sewald .........................0 6.45 Ginkel ..........................1 3.04 Loáisiga ........................1 2.66 克里夫兰 IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Messick ......................41⁄3 2.57 Holderman...................12⁄3 1.65 Gaddis, L, 1-3 ................2⁄3 3.72 Aleman.........................1⁄3 3.77 Dion ............................1 4.58 Herrin...........................1 3.89 触球 (HBP)—Drake (Rocchio), Holderman (McCann), Gaddis (Marte), Aleman (Waldschmidt). 投手 wild pitch (WP)—Aleman. 捕手暴投 (PB)—Hedges (3). 裁判 (U)— Ryan Wills, Jonathan Parra, Lance Barksdale, Will Little.

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T—3:39。售票量—30,392 (34,788)。2024年今日 — 凭借偷垒三个垒位，道奇队的大谷翔平成为本赛季首位进入 30-30 俱乐部的球员。他在 108 场比赛中达到了这两个指标，是历史上达成此成就速度第三快的人，仅次于埃里克·戴维斯（1987年 90 场）和亚历克斯·罗德里格斯（1998年 107 场）。

棒球：周六回顾

如果不是因为红袜队中外野手塞丹内·拉斐拉，道奇队右投手山本由伸在周六的先发表现本应是统治级的。在道奇队 3-2 输球的比赛中，拉斐拉的两支本垒打构成了波士顿对山本造成的大部分伤害。山本在八局中将红袜队限制在 3 分和 4 次安打。道奇队输掉了与红袜队的系列赛，需要在周日赢得比赛以避免被横扫。在输球后不久，道奇队敲定了与底特律老虎队的交易，以获取两届美联赛塞格奖得主塔里克·斯库巴尔。

根据 Statcast 的数据，拉斐拉在第一局面对山本的第一个投球（一个向上且向内飘的指叉球）时迅速击出，将其击入了左外野看台。两局之后，山本在更长时间内压制住了拉斐拉。但拉斐拉在 0-2 的球数落后下奋力反击。在这次打席的第四次投球中，山本第一次使用了指叉球，勉强触及好球区内缘。拉斐拉将其击出，送出一个高耸的个人本垒打，落在左中外野第三排。这是拉斐拉职业生涯中第二次在单场比赛地击出多支本垒打。

直到山本第三次面对该击球顺序时，才最终解决了拉斐拉，而当时拉斐拉是红袜队唯一的安打手。山本投出了一个首球快速球，方向向上且向内。拉斐拉反应稍慢，但仍产生了强力接触，将球击成反方向飞球，落在警告区。

在第八局，山本被安德鲁·莫纳斯特里奥击出了一支开局的地滚规则双安。莫纳斯特里奥在贾伦·杜兰的推进触击安打中抵达三垒，并在康纳·王击出双杀球时跑回本垒，成为领先分。道奇队在第二局凭借特奥斯卡·埃尔南德斯的一支两分本垒打在早早获得助力。但他们在留下 7 名跑者的情况下未能再次得分。

牛棚调整

赛前，道奇队因右肘不适将救援投手威尔·克莱因列入 15 天伤兵名单。截至 7 月的第一周，克莱因的自责分率（ERA）为 2.29。但在他最近六次出场中，他丢了 13 分，其中包括 8 分自责分（ERA 为 11.37）。

“我们仍在尝试查明原因，”经理戴夫·罗伯茨在周五表示，当时克莱因在 1 1 / 3 局中给了红袜队 3 分（其中 1 分为自责分）。“我认为今晚有一些不错的快速球，但变化球成了他的问题。横扫球没有进入好球区，对方不会被诱导击球。曲球的形状与去年不同。所以我不确定是手臂问题还是动作机制问题，但这是我们正尝试挖掘的。”

克莱因是道奇队在两天内列入伤兵名单的第二名右投手，此前还有布罗克·斯图尔特。周六的核磁共振（MRI）扫描显示斯图尔特右肩患有腱炎。斯图尔特表示，自上周六在纽约以来，他感到肩膀不适，而这正是他在 9 月份进行手术清理的同一个肩膀。但在此之前，包括小联盟康复期间在内，整个赛季都没有困扰他。

“这几乎令人尴尬，”斯图尔特说。他在本赛季开始时因肩部手术恢复而处于伤兵名单中，之后又因左脚骨刺加重而经历了一次伤兵名单期。

“我想认为，我会尽我所能保持健康并提供帮助。我知道我对每天投入的工作感到自豪，而这正是我真正能掌控的。除此之外，我无法真正控制手臂的反应。这令人沮丧，尤其是去年才清理过之后。”道奇队周六还将左投手科尔·欧文（Cole Irvin）指定为可交易。欧文在周六道奇队的伪牛棚赛中投了六局，失六分，这是他自 2024 年以来首次在主联盟登场。为了替代欧文和克莱因（Klein），道奇队召回了救援投手凯尔·赫特（Kyle Hurt）和怀亚特·米尔斯（Wyatt Mills）。

山本由伸的先发被拉法埃拉破坏 右投手仅被击出四次安打，但红袜队的强击者击出两支本垒打，导致道奇队失利并输掉系列赛。

山本由伸（YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO）在面对红袜队且最终以 3-2 告负的八局登场中进行投球。 Gina Ferazzi 洛杉矶时报 作者：Maddie Lee 亚特兰大 8,

华盛顿 3

华盛顿 / AB / R / H / BI / Avg. :--- Wood rf / 3 / 1 / 0 / .267 Chaparro dh / 2 / 1 / 0 / .222 Crews lf / 4 / 1 / .229 Abrams ss / 4 / 0 / 1 / 2 / .290 House 3b / 4 / 0 / 1 / 0 / .234 J.Young cf / 2 / 0 / .234 Lile / 1 / 0 / .247 Nuñez 2b / 3 / 0 / .240 Tena / 1 / 0 / .247 García 1b / 4 / 0 / 1 / 0 / .283 Ruiz c / 4 / 0 / .259 Totals / 32 / 3 / 4 / 3

亚特兰大 / AB / R / H / BI / Avg. :--- Baldwin c / 4 / 1 / .275 Acuña rf / 4 / 2 / 1 / .240 Olson 1b / 3 / 2 / 1 / .264 Harris cf / 4 / 0 / .289 Albies 2b / 4 / 0 / 1 / 0 / .263 Smith dh / 3 / 2 / 1 / 2 / .268 Riley 3b / 4 / 0 / 2 / .216 Yastrzemski lf / 4 / 1 / 2 / 0 / .230 Jarvis ss / 4 / 0 / 1 / 0 / .273 Totals / 34 / 8 / 10 / 7

华盛顿 000 000 030 —3 亚特兰大 210 100 40x —8

保送—华盛顿 3：Wood 1, Chaparro 1, J.Young 1. 亚特兰大 4：Baldwin 1, Acuña 1, Olson 1, Smith 1. 三振—华盛顿 6：Wood 1, Crews 1, Abrams 1, House 2, García 1. 亚特兰大 6：Baldwin 1, Acuña 1, Harris 1, Albies 1, Smith 1, Yastrzemski 1. 失误—Abrams (18), Jarvis 2 (6), Olson (7)。 留一垒—华盛顿 6, 亚特兰大 6. 二垒安打—Crews (9), García (20), Yastrzemski 2 (13), Riley (15)。 本垒打—Acuña (9), 对方为Mikolas; Olson (30), 对方为Mikolas; Smith (8), 对方为Mikolas。 打点—Crews (25), Abrams 2 (85), Acuña (24), Olson (68), Baldwin (57), Smith 2 (43), Riley 2 (52)。 盗垒—Albies (2)。 盗垒失败—Jarvis (1)。 得点圈留有跑者—华盛顿 4 (House, Abrams, Nuñez, Ruiz); 亚特兰大 4 (Smith, Yastrzemski, Jarvis 2)。 得点圈效率—华盛顿 2 for 6; 亚特兰大 2 for 8。 双杀—Ruiz. 双杀—亚特兰大 1 (Jarvis, Albies, Olson)。

华盛顿 / IP / H / R / ER / BB / SO / NP / ERA Mikolas, L, 3-8................6 / 5.67 Cornelio........................2⁄3 / 5.40 Yean..........................11⁄3 / 1.93

亚特兰大 / IP / H / R / ER / BB / SO / NP / ERA Pérez, W, 7-6..................7 / 3.24 D.Young ........................1 / 4.66 Mederos........................1 / 3.77

承接跑者得分—Yean 3-3。 触身球—D.Young (Chaparro)。 暴投—Yean。 裁判—John Bacon, Brian Walsh, Chad Fairchild, Bill Miller。 时间—2:24。 售票数—38,625 (41,149)。

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D6 星期一，2026 年 8 月 3 日 LATIMES.COM / SPORTS 明尼阿波利斯 —— 周日，当印第安纳队的库宁汉（Sophie Cunningham）在明尼苏达州面对山林队（Lynx）时，一群支持和反对她关于跨性别者参与女性体育运动立场的民众聚集在目标中心（Target Center）周围及内部。山林队教练谢丽尔·里夫（Cheryl Reeve）在夹克下穿了一件写着“跨性别孩子也属于这里”的浅蓝色衬衫，随后她率领这支 WNBA 的顶尖球队以 108-100 击败了发烧队（Fever）。看台上也有球迷穿着写有“跨性别孩子应该参与体育运动”的 T 恤。这是发烧队连续第三场引发集会的比赛，此前库宁汉在上周发表的一篇 ESPN 文章中表示，支持禁止跨性别女孩和女性参加女孩和女性体育赛事。在比赛开始前，库宁汉和里夫在球场中圈进行了交谈。里夫不愿透露谈话的具体内容。

“我们都意识到自己拥有影响力，而且我们都谈到了最想做的是普及教育，”里夫说。“就像任何问题一样，有些方面我们有共识，有些方面可能有分歧。我认为关键在于你如何处理。能面对面交谈确实很好。”库宁汉在比赛第一次触球以及整个比赛过程中都遭到了观众的嘘声。在场馆外，数十名球迷聚集在入口附近。一个人使用扩音器反复说道：“保护跨性别女性。”现场举起的标语写着“爱即真理”和“谢谢你，索菲（Sophie）”。当被问及她和球队如何应对外部议论时，凯特琳·克拉克（Caitlin Clark）在赛后表示：“我认为我们处理得很好。”克拉克说：“我认为应该由联盟和管理机构与运动员共同努力寻找解决方案。我们的重点是篮球。这就是我们讨论的内容，以及我们如何获胜，显然我们今晚没能做到。所以我们需要在那个方面找到改进的空间。”有任何反应吗？“我刚才已经回答了，”克拉克说。库宁汉周五在波特兰表示，她并不担心反对跨性别者参与女性体育的集会将成为发烧队的干扰因素。“我认为每一个私下认识我的人都知道，我充满了爱。我很活泼。我热爱身边的人，”库宁汉周五说道。“我热爱篮球。我热爱启发下一代，并以积极的方式这样做。所以这件事根本没有进入我的脑海，也没有进入我的队友们的脑海。”明尼苏达队的超级新星奥利维亚·迈尔斯（Olivia Miles）以 28 分引领了高效的进攻，考特尼·威廉姆斯（Courtney Williams）贡献了 27 分，帮助山林队在比赛围绕的争议中取得了 10 连胜。在比赛还剩 6:41 时，明尼苏达队以 96-82 领先，随后曾创下连续 6 场比赛得分 100 分记录的发烧队在比赛还剩 2 21 / 2 分钟多时将比分追至 100-98。迈尔斯和威廉姆斯都投进了关键球，使山林队自 2016 年以来首次取得 10 连胜。联盟排名第 1 的进攻端确实给联盟排名第 2 的防守端制造了麻烦，但周五晚上在波特兰比赛的发烧队无法阻止山林队的进攻。两队投篮命中率均为 57%，各有 11 个三分球，罚球 15 投 11 中，总共贡献了 55 次助攻。巨大的差异在于印第安纳队有 12 次失误，而明尼苏达队仅有 6 次，后者在进攻篮板上以 11-5 占据优势。纳菲萨·科利尔（Napheesa Collier）为山林队（25-6）贡献了 18 分、8 个篮板和 7 次助攻。娜塔莎·霍华德（Natasha Howard）得 13 分，凯拉·麦布莱德（Kayla McBride）得 10 分。发烧队（19-11）此前拥有 5 场连胜纪录

被叫停的比赛由凯尔西·米切尔（Kelsey Mitchell）率领，她砍下 37 分，这是她本赛季第五场 30 分以上的比赛，也是连续第 14 场得到 20 分或以上，在联盟历史上仅次于阿贾·威尔逊（A’ja Wilson）单赛季连续 15 场的纪录。克拉克（Clark）贡献了 19 分和 10 次助攻，阿里亚·波士顿（Aliyah Boston）则有 15 分、8 个篮板和 7 次助攻。

林克斯队的里夫身穿支持跨性别权益的衬衫。在坎宁安（Cunningham）发表言论后，明尼苏达州教练在击败发烧队的一场比赛中表达支持。美联社 LYNX 教练谢丽尔·里夫（Cheryl Reeve）周日穿着一件写有“跨性别孩子也属于这里”的衬衫。Abbie Parr 美联社

火花队再次从头开始。在周日 WNBA 交易截止日期前将全明星后卫凯尔西·普拉姆（Kelsey Plum）交易至凤凰城后，火花队在宣布自己本赛季有竞争力仅几个月后，就回到了规划起跑线。通过加入后卫莫尼克·阿科阿·马卡尼（Monique Akoa Makani）以及 2027 年选秀的第一轮和第二轮签，火花队拥有了围绕年轻天才建立基础的条件。

了解普拉姆想法的人士上周向《洛杉矶时报》确认，她不打算在休赛期与火花队续约，这迫使球队在她的合同到期前将其交易，以便尽可能获得价值，从而再次从基层打造。在解雇总经理雷根·佩布利（Raegan Pebley）两周后，火花队决定推倒重建也就不足为奇了，佩布利此前曾告诉《洛杉矶时报》，她打算在交易截止日期前让火花队保持竞争能力。火花队在普拉姆合同到期的情况下获得的回归筹码已是他们能期待的最佳结果——一名首发级别的球员，以及一个如果水星队未能进入季后赛可能会变成乐透签的第一轮选秀权。

火花队在 2025 年休赛期为了尝试结束重建，将 2025 年选秀的第 2 号签交易给了西雅图，后者将该选秀权变成了全明星中锋多米尼克·马隆加（Dominique Malonga），从而换来了普拉姆。上赛季他们仅以 2 场比赛之差无缘季后赛，而今年则因普拉姆的受伤和联盟最差的防守而苦苦挣扎。火花队何时能再次尝试竞争，可能取决于今年。如果他们能获得足够高的选秀权以选中朱朱·沃特金斯（JuJu Watkins，假设她选择离开南加州大学），他们就可以围绕她进行建设。否则，他们将回到与 2025 年同样的情况——当时他们获得了第二顺位签，却错过了佩奇·布克（Paige Bueckers）的争夺战。沃特金斯可能会选择在南加州大学多留一个赛季，如果火花队尚未恢复状态，这将给他们在乐透抽签中获得她的第二次机会。

由于火花队几乎肯定本赛季将无缘季后赛，他们将拥有两个乐透签，这让他们有机会在充满老将合同的阵容中加入一些新秀规模的合同。他们有两名球员，迪里卡·汉比（Dearica Hamby）和阿里尔·阿特金斯（Ariel Atkins），在接下来的两年里每赛季的薪水超过 $1 百万，而埃里卡·惠勒（Erica Wheeler）下赛季的账面薪资为 $625,000。他们拥有年轻中锋卡梅隆·布林克（Cameron Brink），她是 2024 年的第 2 号总签，可围绕她建设。尽管本赛季早些时候有传闻，但火花队决定不交易布林克，而是围绕她构建球队。

待定的受限自由球员雷·伯雷尔（Rae Burrell）今年在 WNBA 经历了她最好的一个赛季，如果火花队不放弃她，她可以成为球队下一个版本的另一个关键环节。这两位球员以及前第 4 号签里基亚·杰克逊（Rickea Jackson）原本应该是火花队的下一波浪潮的一部分，但他们在本休赛期将杰克逊交易到芝加哥以换取阿特金斯，现在看来这是一种构思欠佳的、试图在今年赢得比赛的尝试。25 岁的阿科阿·马卡尼也将立即在火花队担任首发。

上赛季在进入 WNBA 总决赛的菲尼克斯队期间，她首发出场了 11 场季后赛。她将处于球队控制之下直到 2027 年，届时她将成为受限自由球员。Akoa Makani 将成为火花队阵容中更好的防守者之一，且其职业生涯三分命中率为 41%。在本赛季的 16 场比赛中，她场均贡献 9.4 分、2.1 个篮板、2.5 次助攻和 1.2 次抢断。火花队获得的菲尼克斯 2027 年首轮选秀权极有可能是总排名第七，由于 WNBA 的两年乐透抽签机制，有很小的机会排在第一或 2。如果没有极端的乐透运气，火花队的预计选秀顺位在第六左右，但即便如此，这两次选秀对于一支在过去六年的重建期中仅有 1 个乐透签（Brink）的球队来说，也将产生重大影响。除了排名选秀榜首的 Watkins，路易斯安那州立大学的后卫 MiLaysia Fulwiley、南卡罗来纳大学的前锋 Ashlyn Watkins、肯塔基大学的中锋 Clara Strack 以及 LSU 的后卫 Mikaylah Williams 都将是可行的年轻球员。随着 Plum 的离开以及 Nneka Ogwumike 和 Emma Cannon 在下赛季合同到期，即便薪金空间顶部有高额合同，火花队仍将拥有可操作的薪资空间。如果他们能围绕 Brink、Burrell 和 Akoa Makani 建立一个年轻球员核心，他们将有另一个机会正确地完成重建。他们在 Plum 交易中获得的收益可能是丰厚的。

火花队将球星交易至水星队以换取 Akoa Makani 和选秀权，开启新一轮重建。 作者：Marisa Ingemi

（图片说明：Monique Akoa Makani，右，将作为洛杉矶队的先发球员出场。Aryanna Frank Getty Images） 火花队将 Kelsey Plum (10) 交易至菲尼克斯，交易方案包括 Monique Akoa Makani。

俄勒冈州波特兰市 —— Dearica Hamby 砍下 23 分，Nneka Ogwumike 得到 20 分，其中 22 分中的 20 分在下半场获得，火花队在得知明星队友 Kelsey Plum 被交易后，在周日以 106-101 击败波特兰 Fire 队，终结了六连败。Plum 自 6 月 21 日起因腿部受伤缺阵，于周六深夜被送往菲尼克斯水星队。目前火花队在没有 Plum 的情况下战绩为 3-9。Ogwumike 在比赛还剩 1:25 时投中关键 3 分球，将比分改写为 98-96。随后 Hamby 在 Ogwumike 的助攻下完成上篮。在最后 24 秒内，Ogwumike 和 Erica Wheeler 在罚球线上 6 投 6 中。Wheeler、Ariel Atkins、Rae Burrell 和替补 Ji-hyun Park 为火花队（11-17）各贡献 12 分。

“面对今天的所有喧嚣和各种干扰，球员们能够保持专注、锁定目标并在关键时刻执行，这展现了成长，展现了韧性，”火花队教练 Lynne Roberts 在获胜后告诉记者。Bridget Carleton 投中 9 个三分球，为 Fire 队（11-19）贡献 24 分和 11 个篮板。Fire 队遭遇五连败，且有四场比赛失分超过 100 分。波特兰队利用 4 个进攻篮板和 6 次洛杉矶队的失误，在第一节结束后以 29-22 领先。Wheeler 和 Ogwumike 连续命中两个三分球，使火花队在比分为 65-64 时，自 10-8 以来首次取得领先。

（图片说明：DEARICA HAMBY，左，在周日对阵波特兰队 Emily Engstler 时投篮。Soobum Im Getty Images）

火花队击败 Fire 队止住颓势 电讯报道：在 Plum 被交易至水星队的次日，Hamby 率领洛杉矶队取得七场比赛后的首胜。

西部会议 球队 胜 负 百分比 差距 明尼苏达 ..........................25 6 .806 — 拉斯维加斯...........................20 9 .690 3 1⁄2 金州.......................19 9 .679 4 达拉斯................................18 11 .621 5 1⁄2 波特兰 .............................11 19 .367 13 1⁄2

火花队..............................11 17 .393 12 1⁄2 凤凰城队..............................11 19 .367 13 西雅图队.................................6 25 .194 18 1⁄2 东部联盟 球队 胜 负 百分率 胜场差 印第安纳 ..............................19 11 .633 — 亚特兰大...............................18 10 .643 1⁄2 华盛顿.........................16 12 .571 2 1⁄2 纽约 ............................17 13 .567 2 1⁄2 芝加哥..............................11 18 .379 8 多伦多...............................10 18 .357 8 1⁄2 康涅狄格 ..........................7 22 .241 12 WNBA 排名 截至周日下午 火花队 106, 火焰队 101 火花队(106) — Burrell 3-8 4-4 12, Ogwumike 8-18 3-4 22, Hamby 11-15 1-2 23, Atkins 4-9 0-0 12, Wheeler 3-6 4-4 12, Brink 3-9 0-0 7, Gray 2-3 0-0 6, Park 5-7 0-0 12. 总计 39-75 12-14 106. 波特兰队 (101) — Engstler 3-11 0-0 7, Puoch 1-1 4-4 7, DiLeo 7-15 3-3 19, Carleton 8-15 1-2 24, Leite 7-15 5-5 21, S.Williams 1-2 0-0 2, Buhner 1-4 0-0 3, Oblak 5-7 1-2 12, Samuelson 1-3 0-0 2, Winterburn 1-4 2-2 4. 总计 35-77 16-18 101. 火花队 34—106 波特兰队 29—101 三分球—火花队 16-29 (Atkins 4-7, Ogwu- mike 3-7, Burrell 2-3, Gray 2-3, Park 2-3, Wheeler 2-3, Brink 1-3), 波特兰队 15-37 (Carleton 7-13, Leite 2-2, DiLeo 2-7, Puoch 1-1, Buhner 1-2, Oblak 1-2, Engstler 1-6, Samuelson 0-1, Winterburn 0-3). 犯规离场— 无。篮板球—火花队 32 (Hamby, Ogwumike 10), 波特兰队 34 (Carleton 11). 助攻—火花队 33 (Wheeler 8), 波特兰队 21 (Leite 8). 总犯规数— 火花队16, 波特兰队 21. 出席人数—13,638 (19,393)

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道奇队在周日晚于道奇体育场的一场比赛中，在火力全开的波士顿红袜队击出 4 支本垒打（其中 3 支来自陷入困境的先发投手埃默特·希汉）的情况下，以 4-8 败北，这是他们本赛季第二次被横扫。红袜队在第三局的 4 次击球机会中就击出了 3 支本垒打，希汉被塞丹内·拉法埃拉、威利尔·阿布雷和吉田正尚击出长打，导致道奇队在不到一个月的时间里在主场遭遇了第二次三场比赛被横扫。

“一支非常优秀的球队，”道奇队经理戴夫·罗伯茨在赛前评价红袜队时表示。“基本功非常扎实。从服务时间来看，这是一组比较年轻的球员。‘他们充满饥渴感。看起来他们配合得很好。防守能力很强。身体素质好。让我想起了很多酿造者队的影子。投球能力也很强。他们不会自乱阵脚。充满活力。能够把球打在场内。’”

波士顿队在第一局就通过吉田正尚和卡莱布·德宾的两支打点单打迅速击溃了希汉。道奇队 (69-43) 在第二局回应以 3 分，埃利泽尔·阿尔方佐在面对红袜队先发投手杰克·贝内特时通过地滚球击出打点。随后，安迪·佩吉斯通过一次右外野单打又带回 2 分。他在第七局还击出了一支打点双ضرب，为道奇队拿到了最后一分。

希汉 (4-8) 在过去 7 场比赛中的自责分率 (ERA) 为 6.39，他在仅 2 2⁄3 局的投球中被击出 6 安打并失 5 分。救援投手怀亚特·米尔斯也表现挣扎，在 2 局中失 2 分。然而，贝内特 (7-4) 状态稳定，投了 5 2⁄3 局。在这次三场系列赛中，波士顿队以 20-10 的总比分击败道奇队，并在 32 场比赛中赢得了 27 场。

来自塞浦路斯的本土球员贾伦·杜兰在第六局面对救援投手凯尔·赫特击出了一支 420 英尺的中场飞越本垒打，扩大了波士顿队的领先优势。这是杜兰自 7 月 5 日对阵天使队以来的首支本垒打。波士顿队 (60-51) 在第八局完成了得分，德宾在米尔斯的暴投中得分，安德鲁·莫纳斯特里奥则在一次球穿过阿尔方佐身后的机会中得分。

道奇队的新星塔里克·斯库巴尔周日抵达，比赛期间他出现在休息区，与新队友和教练们寒暄。球队还在社交媒体上分享了斯库巴尔安顿下来的视频。

“我们变得更强了，”道奇队终结者埃德温·迪亚兹说道。“这是我唯一能说的。我们得到了……联盟最好的投手之一，现在他成了我们的队友。这对我们来说是一个非常大的加分项。”

尽管米格尔·罗哈斯在周六的比赛中因球击中脚部而离场，但他（脚踝）仍可在替补席待命。“我今天感觉好多了，能够承受一定的重量，”罗哈斯说，并补充道他的 X 光检查结果为阴性。“好消息是没有骨折。所以我没事。如果教练需要我，而且情况允许……我需要每天都随时待命。”

道尔顿·鲁兴因右臂轻微不适而退出，由阿尔方佐顶替先发。

红袜队捕手卡洛斯·纳尔瓦斯在周日波士顿横扫洛杉矶的三场系列赛中，在一次暴投后迅速将球传向二垒，击败了道奇队的汤米·埃德曼。摄影：Eric Thayer 洛杉矶时报

希汉失误，道奇队被横扫落败 作者：Joaquin Ruiz

芝加哥小熊队在周日晚上通过与多伦多蓝鸟队的交易获得了右投凯文·高斯曼，增强了他们的轮换阵容。一名熟悉该交易的人士在条件为匿名的前提下向美联社确认了这一举动，因为两支球队尚未正式宣布。

随着芝加哥队在周一交易截止日期前继续寻求投手补强，高斯曼的加入可能仅仅是一个开始。小熊队在向 63-49 战绩前进的过程中，克服了多名关键投手的伤病困扰。

记录以及国家联盟外卡排名榜的首位。周六，多伦多在 5-1 击败圣路易斯的比赛中，高斯曼投了 5 2⁄3 局，仅失一分。他可能会在周四为芝加哥完成首次先发，届时小熊队将主场迎战蓝鸟队，补赛 6 月 21 日因雨取消的比赛。周日，芝加哥用詹姆森·泰隆和现金与多伦多交换一名待定球员或现金。泰隆在上周一被小熊队指定转让。耐操的高斯曼在本赛季后将获得自由球员资格，他在 23 次先发中取得 5-10 的战绩，自责分率 (ERA) 为 4.38。在过去的五年中，他每年至少投球 174 2⁄3 局并完成至少 31 次先发。现年 35 岁的高斯曼曾帮助多伦多队进入 2025 年世界大赛，在六场季后赛先发中取得 2-3 的战绩，ERA 为 2.93。蓝鸟队在世界大赛决赛中输给了道奇队，而道奇队可能是小熊队今年的季后赛对手。多伦多队在赛季初抱有夺冠野心，但随着周日 5-1 负于圣路易斯，他们的战绩跌至 52-60。右投手谢恩·比伯和外野手道尔顿·瓦肖也可能在交易截止日期前变动。蓝鸟队在与小熊队的交易中获得了小联盟球员布雷特·巴特曼和泰·苏西森。

大学体育 法官就运动员参赛资格的裁决做出澄清

此前允许部分上学年参赛资格已届满的运动员继续参加一年大学体育比赛的法官，在周日发布了新命令。该命令明确指出，此项权利不包括那些在今年夏天签署了职业合同随后又改变主意的美式足球运动员。美国地方法院法官夏洛特·斯威尼对 NCAA 请求对其周五裁决进行澄清做出了回应。周五的裁决授予了 2022 年高中毕业且未被纳入 NCAA 新规（该新规允许第一级别球员拥有五个赛季参赛资格）的运动员第五年的参赛资格。她表示，该决定依然有效，但不对其他 NCAA 规则产生影响，包括禁止球员在签署职业合同后重返大学的规定。

最初的裁决版本有可能颠覆即将到来的大学美式足球赛季，因为各球队在进入训练营时，计划在明年秋季开始实施所谓的“五五”规则。如果将此项权利延伸至今年秋季的球员，将给数百人提供重返校园的机会。在裁决出台后，一些媒体报道列举了 NFL 和 CFL 名单上的球员，这些球员示意他们愿意重返校园。但在斯威尼的澄清之后，这似乎已不再可能。她指出，关于职业选手的 NCAA 规则没有变化；关于运动员何时可以进入转会门户（transfer portal）没有例外；且不对具有里程碑意义的众议院诉讼和解协议的条款产生影响，该协议规定了球队可以放入名单的球员数量以及学校可以支付给他们的金额。

来自丹佛美国地方法院的裁决预计会对不同运动产生不同影响。例如，美式足球队已经开始了本赛季的训练，而棒球比赛距离开赛还有一段时间。在做出决定时，各球队预计会考虑 NCAA 即将对斯威尼命令提出的上诉，以及是否愿意冒险迎回那些在裁决被推翻后可能被宣布失去资格的球员。NCAA 主席查理·贝克在周五斯威尼初步裁决出台后发表声明，称该裁决可能会引发混乱，这也是国会需要通过《保护大学体育法》的原因。

小熊队通过与蓝鸟队的交易引进资深投手高斯曼 美联社 据报道，凯文·高斯曼将前往小熊队以帮助提升

他们的轮值。这位 35 岁球员身高 5 英尺 10 英寸，在 23 次先发登场中防御率（ERA）为 4.38；他所属的蓝鸟队在进入周一之前，战绩已下滑至 52 胜 60 负。Thearon W. Henderson Getty Images 体育特刊 洛杉矶时报 电子报独家 :: 2026 年 8 月 3 日，周一 latimes.com / sports 额外报道 请访问我们的网站 latimes.com / sports，查看时报工作人员为您喜爱的主队提供的要点分析。体育报告 请在 latimes.com / newsletters / sports-report 订阅我们的每日体育简讯。保持关注 8 Instagram @latimes_sports 8 X @latimessports

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娱乐 M O N D A Y , AU G U S T 3 , 2 0 2 6 :: L AT I M E S . C O M / E N T E R TA I N M E N T

经过一年半的研究和采访，BBC 最近播出了一部具有爆炸性的新纪录片，片中多名女性指控奥斯卡奖得主贾里德·莱托 (Jared Leto) 涉嫌性侵。这部由爱丽丝·麦克谢恩 (Alice McShane) 执导、于周三在英国首播的纪录片《贾里德·莱托：好莱坞的黑暗秘密》(Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret)，揭露了四名女性对这位 54 岁演员兼音乐家涉嫌刑事性行为的新指控，其中包括一起可能发生在加利福尼亚州的法定强奸案件。在影片中，共有 10 名女性讲述了关于性侵的指控，以及在 2002 到 2016 年间发生的不当短信、电话和行为。莱托否认了这些指控。

为了确保纪录片的完整性，这部一小时长的节目在播出前并未提前公布。“所有内容是一次性出来的，”制片人杰西卡·萨特内尔 (Jessica Sartenaer) 周五上午在伦敦通过 Zoom 与麦克谢恩一同表示。“这完全是策略的一部分，因为我们不希望在调查结果出炉前泄露任何信息。”

麦克谢恩是在定居洛杉矶的 DJ 艾莉·泰尔茨 (Allie Teilz) 于 2025 年 4 月转发她 2012 年的一篇 Facebook 帖文后开始制作这部电影的，在帖文中，泰尔茨指控莱托在一次演唱会的后台试图“强行侵犯”她。泰尔茨将这位演员描述为“好莱坞最执着的捕食者”。据萨特内尔称，约有 40 名女性联系了泰尔茨，提出了各自的指控。

2025 年 6 月，周刊通讯《Air Mail》发表了九名女性对莱托不当行为的指控，莱托对此予以否认。“我开始四处打电话，试图寻找那些写信给艾莉的女性，”麦克谢恩说。“在与女性交谈时，我意识到其他记者也在追踪此事。所以我认为很快会有报道发布，而我们无法在速度上与之竞争，因为我们的考量完全不同。制作纪录片需要更长的时间。”

社交媒体是寻找愿意在记录中发言的人的主要资源。电影制作者表示，他们在网上发现了 120 多个独立的指控。“但这并不一定意味着这些女性都愿意谈论自己的经历，”麦克谢恩说。“她们之所以匿名发布是有原因的。我们花费了大量时间，在莱托生活和职业生涯中的数百人之间进行挖掘——与该乐队共事过的人、他演艺生涯中的人、他在时尚界接触的人。我们有一张巨大的电子表格。这是一个非常深入的过程。”

最终，有 10 名女性同意接受镜头采访。电影制作者根据每位女性的舒适程度，为她们提供了多种匿名选项。没有人是完全匿名的，尽管只有三人使用了真实姓名。所有人的真实声音都出现在片中，麦克谢恩表示这很不寻常。

萨特内尔补充道：“勇敢地站出来，面对像莱托这样有权势的男人，这种勇气是无法衡量的。这些女性所做的事情绝对令人难以置信，而关于匿名的决定是非常个人化的。她们立刻就对希望达到的匿名程度产生了一种直觉。”

麦克谢恩利用之前的经验来指导采访过程，包括制作 2023 年 Channel 4 的纪录片《罗素·布兰德：在众目睽睽之下》(Russell Brand: In Plain Sight)，该片调查了喜剧演员罗素·布兰德对待女性的方式。“从尽职关怀的角度来看，你确实学会了如何最好地照顾这些女性，”她说。“在想要挖掘故事与理解……之间总有一种平衡。”

这些人经历了极其痛苦的经历，他们正与你分享非常私人的事情。你永远不能逼迫。由他们掌控。你无法强求这些事情发生。这必须由这些女性自愿地表达。” 电影制片人们采访了娱乐记者莫琳·瑞安 (Maureen Ryan)。莱托否认了性侵指控。西奥·滕南特 (Theo Tennant)

BBC “秘密”对话 BBC 关于贾里德·莱托的纪录片制作人们希望继续调查并放大女性的声音 作者：艾米莉·泽姆勒 (EMILY ZEMLER) [见 Leto, E6]

Hip Hop International 今年迎来 25 周年，它将世界上一些最优秀的舞团和编舞师推向了主流视野。包括 Jabbawockeez 和 Quest Crew 在内的团体，以及帕里斯·戈贝尔 (Parris Goebel，曾为 Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Justin Bieber 编舞) 和西恩娜·拉劳 (Sienna Lalau，曾为 BTS, Blackpink, Ciara 编舞) 等编舞师，都在该团体年度舞蹈比赛中获得了起步机会。在 YouTube 出现之前的时代，当Breaking还主要是一项地下活动时，这项比赛通过全球共享的艺术形式将舞蹈文化连接在一起。

今年的为期一周的比赛于周六在凤凰城结束。在创始人霍华德和凯伦·施瓦茨 (Howard and Karen Schwartz) 的努力下，这次比赛吸引了来自 55 个国家的 3,000 名舞者参加，已成长为全球规模最大的比赛之一。两人的环球旅行经历促成了 HHI 目前的显赫地位。

顶级舞团们正处于“舞蹈亢奋”状态 来自法国的 B-BOY Vico 赢得了 2023. 年的 Hip Hop International 世界之战。 斯蒂芬·拉姆 (Steven Lam) [见 HHI, E3]

Hip Hop International 已从一项地下活动成长为全球盛事。 作者：杰文·菲利普斯 (Jevon Phillips)

在《家庭 The Sopranos》中赢得赞誉 文森特·帕斯托雷 (Vincent Pastore) 因在电视和电影中饰演黑帮角色而闻名，他已于 80. 岁去世。E2

封建日本的人物研究 在《武士与囚犯》中，不信任在滋长，危险在增加。评论，E2

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谁惹恼了爱莉安娜·格兰德 (Ariana Grande)？ 好吧，谁没惹过呢？在她的新专辑《Petal》中，这位流行巨星打开了她所描述的“未过滤的愤怒”之闸门，猛烈抨击了许多不负责任的前任，以及那些痴迷于她的身体和私生活的窥探公众——当然，还有她自己，因为她最初允许他人拥有伤害她的权力。“告诉我谁该负责——是那些人，还是我自己？”她在同名曲冰冷的合成器击奏声中自问。她的答案是以一个冷嘲讽的低语给出的：“是的。”

《Petal》标志着格兰德与其之前的专辑——2024 年的《Eternal Sunshine》之间剧烈的风格转变，后者是一部温柔而忧郁的[作品]。

爱莉安娜·格兰德阴暗的一面 《PETAL》带来了相应地更阴郁的声音。Republic Records [见 Grande, E2] 评论 米卡尔·伍德 (MIKAEL WOOD) 流行音乐评论家 在情绪的转变中，这位流行明星在她的新专辑《Petal》中表达了愤怒的情绪。

如果你的夏天需要一点能量提升，请忘掉复杂的奶昔——转而关注这些新出版的书籍。从节奏快、规模大的第二次世界大战史，到怀俄明州农村缓慢展开的救援行动，再到艺术界的谜团和对现代美国有力的一瞥，你一定能从中找到能激活你床头书堆的作品。阅读愉快！

虚构类 《估价》(Appraisals) 长篇小说 克莱尔·博伊尔斯 (Claire Boyles) 著 W. W. Norton 出版：288 页，$30 (周二出版) 虽然博伊尔斯的处女小说表面上讲述了一个科罗拉多东部家庭农场的命运，但其深层目的是揭示该地区所有农业活动面临的水资源匮乏之严峻。玛吉和她的丈夫菲什 (Fish) 从她祖父母那里继承了土地，但他们和十几岁的女儿奥齐 (Ozzie) 都知道，如果没有灌溉，即使击败了大型开发计划，对当地人来说也没有太大区别。

《迪尔克里克的寻找者》(The Seekers of Deer Creek) A 5

Novel Thao Thai Mariner Books: 320 pp., $30 (Tuesday) 越南裔美国姐妹 Vivi 和 Calla 分别是一位策展人和一名艺术家。当她们的父亲去世并留下的一幅素描可能是著名越南画家 K.P. Lý 的作品时，姐妹俩开始寻找 Lý 是否与她们的家庭有联系。在这一过程中，她们重新审视了艰辛的成长经历，并找到了比任何艺术作品都更重要的沟通方式。用 10 部扣人心弦的作品保持冷静 Téa Obreht、Jill Lepore 等人的新书涵盖了广泛的主题。作者：Bethanne Patrick [见图书版面，E6]

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E2 星期一，2026年8月3日 LATIMES.COM / ENTERTAINMENT 忧郁的电子流行专辑，阐述了一种关于心碎的情感哲学。她与同一团队——金曲创作者兼制作人 Ilya Salmanzadeh 和 Max Martin ——录制了这张新专辑，但这一次他们追求一种更阴郁、更具打击感的音色，以匹配 Grande 的阴郁心境。在《Freak》中，沉重的电吉他伴随着她沉思“我被剥夺的所有生活”；而《Oh Well》则在她对一名未指名对手冷嘲热讽的告别词——“祝你在通往地狱的路上好运”——之下，配以一种不安的英国车库舞曲节拍。在《Hate That I Made You Love Me》中（该曲在 Grande 将其作为《Petal》的主打单曲发行时，在公告牌热门 100 强榜单 debuted at No. 1），她在像葬礼进行曲一样沉重的律动中唱道：“当你感到如此不安时，我承受着你的投射。”

这些低沉的观察出现在 Grande 职业生涯看似最高光的时刻，她最近结束了在《魔法坏女巫》（Wicked）宇宙中的长期停留，且正处于一场吸引了全国各地体育场狂热粉丝的巡演之中。但或许这正是重点：《Petal》中的几乎每一首歌都可以有两种解读方式——既可以是关于两个之间破碎关系的故事，也可以是关于偶像与听众之间毒性连接的寓言。（这张唱片不止一次地让我想到泰勒·斯威夫特的《折磨诗人俱乐部》。）“我的痛苦就是音乐——你在到处都能听到我吗？”Grande 在《Warning Signs (Interlude)》中问道，该曲在结尾对准社会时代下的流行巨星身份给出了一个精辟的诊断：“你不配拥有我 / 你知道你不配，从来都不配 / 但我想要你感受我 / 我希望有人能听到我。”

当然，关于名人生活的抱怨可能相当乏味；有时感觉著名的流行歌手已经忘记了如何描写社交媒体鱼缸生活以外的任何事情。然而，《Petal》在 Grande 选择使用声音的方式上获得了一些创意牵引；她不再是大声高唱，而是极少高于低语，这使得她关于被无休止审视的思考带有一种幽灵般、略显诡异的特质。她的轻盈唱腔在像《Like I Do》这样强硬的歌曲中也带来了一些喜剧效果，在提到“所有那些狗屁话让我饱餐一顿”之后，她告诉每一个需要听到的人：“没人能像我这样 f— 你。”

在倾诉完这一切后，Grande 以允许一些光线进入来结束这张专辑：在轻快的新浪潮编曲中，《Bad Thing (Bunny Hop)》思考一段新恋情——或者可能是重启的旧情——所带来的新生能量；而晶莹剔透的《Nowhere, Nobody》中，她与一位她坚信最终能给她所需之物的爱人一起深呼吸。

“坚信”可能不是最准确的词。“很难相信会有完美的结局，”她承认，“但没关系。”

Grande 阴郁的一面 [ARIANA Grande，在完成了《魔法坏女巫》的拍摄后，一直处于体育场巡演中。Katia Temkin 拍摄（Grande，见E1）]

在黑泽清的《武士与囚徒》中，角色们经常坚称电影的主要场景——一座名为有冈城的军事禁地——是不可逾越的。那里确实很美：由原田哲夫精心设计的场景是一场浓郁木材与绝美自然光的盛宴，它是 16 世纪后期坐落在日本山间的人间天堂，坚固的城墙似乎让入侵者无法进入。但我们在有冈城待得越久，那个天堂就越像一座监狱。外界的危险日益增加，内部的不信任在悄悄滋长。

这部电影改编自米泽誉史 2021 年的小说，在日本已大获成功，故事围绕封建冲突和始终存在的战争威胁展开。但从结构上看，《武士与囚徒》围绕着一系列在约一年时间里接踵而至的谜团而展开。最近年满 71 岁的黑泽以 1997 年的《治愈》和 2001 年的《电波》等恐怖经典之作而闻名。然而，这位编剧兼导演也涉猎过其他类型，而他的最新作品则是在历史剧的框架下尝试创作一部侦探推理剧。在这个过程中，他拍了一部几乎没有战斗场景的战争片，以及一部观众直到最后可能都无法确定对主角感觉如何的人物研究。

《武士与囚徒》没有惊吓元素，但具有一种恰到好处的幽灵般的氛围。本木雅弘饰演村重，一个真实存在的时代战士，他的氏族与主战派的织田（板东慎吾）决裂，在有冈城寻求庇护。尽管有冈城墙外就被织田的士兵包围，但村重的部下向他保证不必担心。然而，他接见了来自另一个氏族的使者官兵卫（菅田将太郎），后者告诉他，越来越多的派系正站在织田一边，这意味着村重必将走向毁灭。作为回应，有冈城的首领下令将官兵卫投入城中极其肮脏的地牢。这是一个刺眼的侮辱：根据武士道准则，官兵卫应该被处死而不是被囚禁——村重没有比让他活下来更沉重的耳光了。然而不久，有冈城内另一个人死掉，促使村重对这起谋杀案展开调查。

《武士与囚徒》分四章讲述，每一章对应一个不同的季节和一件怪事，故事极少离开城堡范围，因为村重越来越多地将官兵卫视为一个意想不到的（且并非完全心甘情愿的）顾问。尽管这部电影是对暴力的阴郁审视，但在描绘村重必须忍受的事情时，它也可以非常冷幽默。关于各章节的内容说得越少越好，但其中一章涉及一次滑稽的搜寻，寻找任何可能拥有弓箭的人，而另一章则涉及在分辨哪个被砍下的头颅属于敌人时遇到的意外困难。尽管偶尔有剑斗戏，《武士与囚徒》更倾向于简洁的对话交换，而战争在幕后地带酝酿，离奇的罪行让有冈城的居民怀疑他们内部可能存在叛徒。在整个过程中，黑泽强调了城堡令人印象深刻的内部装潢，增强了村重的部下被困其中的感觉，而最大的谜团则是织田的军队何时才会最终攻破有冈城的防御。

本木雅弘将村重塑造得异常内敛——一个曾摧毁无数敌人，而现在已失去嗜血欲望的人。这种心态的演变体现在他决定宽恕官兵卫的生命，尽管这种心境的转变让他的军队感到担忧，因为他们认为这在织田眼中会被视为软弱。与村重最亲近的人很难读懂他：“我怎么努力也无法看透你的心，”他的忠实妻子千代穗（吉高友理子）在早期地坦白。在这样一个充满极大的不确定性的时刻，官兵卫成了村重唯一可以信任的人，尽管他的建议可能隐藏着某种目的。那些崇拜黑泽早期令人不安的电影的人，可能会被这部新电影相对克制的方式所困惑。而且可以肯定的是，《武士与囚徒》在时长接近于……时可能会显得有些拖沓。

2 1⁄2 小时。但这部电影在承认人类的局限性——具体而言，是我们毁灭自己和他人的习惯——这一点上，与其整体作品相契合。其超然且冷静的处理方式隐约让人想起另一位黑泽：黑泽明，他在发布晚年震撼之作《乱》前不久年满 75 岁。那部 1985 年的电影充斥着令人惊叹的战争场面，但它与《武士与囚犯》不仅在封建日本的背景上一致，而且都体现了一位年长者对人类试图通过征服来攫取荣耀之徒劳行径的悲观看法。在发人深省的结局处，《武士与囚犯》为人类保留了一线希望，而这恰逢村重走出城堡，他的未来就像周围被阳光笼罩的田野一样开阔。

一名武士在城堡中面对重重谜团与阴谋。

正木正浩在时代剧《武士与囚犯》中饰演深陷困境的武士村重。

Janus Films 评论 TIM GRIERSON

黑泽清的《武士与囚犯》是一次从怪诞惊悚片风格的转变。

《武士与囚犯》 日语原片，含字幕 未分级 片长：2 小时 27 分钟 放映地点：Landmark's Nuart Theatre

文森特·帕斯托（Vincent Pastore）去世了，他最著名的角色是在 HBO 剧集《黑道家族》中饰演黑帮线人萨尔瓦多·“大普西”·邦彭谢罗（Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero）。他享年 80 岁。其经纪人史蒂夫·阿特曼（Steve Atterman）向《时报》确认，周六一名朋友在与他失联三天后为其进行健康检查，在布朗克斯的住所发现了其遗体。死因尚未公布。

虽然帕斯托因出演这部由已故的詹姆斯·甘多菲尼（James Gandolfini）主演的 HBO 剧集而闻名，但在其他电影和电视项目中，他经常被塑造为意大利裔美国人的反面角色。他的早期作品包括《好家伙》、《卡力托之路》和《捣蛋兄弟》。他还出演了 1996 年 HBO 的电视电影《戈蒂》，与未来的《黑道家族》合作演员托尼·西里科（Tony Sirico）、多米尼克·基亚尼斯（Dominic Chianese）和弗兰克·文森特（Frank Vincent）共同出演。

在《黑道家族》中饰演克里斯托弗·莫尔蒂桑蒂（Christopher Moltisanti）的合作演员迈克尔·因佩里奥利（Michael Imperioli）在周六的 Instagram 悼念帖子中，将他描述为一位“深受喜爱的朋友和合作伙伴”。“这对我们来说是个沉重的打击，我觉得我已经认识文尼一辈子了，”因佩里奥利写道。“我们一起工作了很多次，一起游历了美国各地以及意大利和澳大利亚。文尼是一个心地善良的兄弟，深爱他的家人和朋友。我将永远想念他。”

饰演小索普拉诺（Junior Soprano）的多米尼克·基亚尼斯称帕斯托为一颗“宝石”。“我们今天失去了一位朋友，”基亚尼斯在 Instagram 上写道。“表达敬意，发送爱意以纪念他。”

帕斯托是纽约本地人，1946 年 7 月 14 日出生于布朗克斯。他参加过越南战争，随后毕业于佩斯大学（Pace University），获得戏剧学位。他年轻时的大部分时间在纽罗舍尔经营酒吧和夜总会。直到 80 年代末 40 多岁时，在演员兄弟马特·迪伦（Matt Dillon）和凯文·迪伦（Kevin Dillon）的鼓励下，他才开始接触表演。

在 1999 年接受《时报》采访时，帕斯托就那对兄弟为何在他身上看到潜能分享了他的看法：“我想是因为我长得像个黑帮成员！”

“他们住在附近的小镇，经常来我的俱乐部，我和他们成了好朋友，”帕斯托说。“凯文带我去见了他的经纪人，我参加了面试。我上过表演课，也在大学上过一些课，但我完全不知道如何进入电影圈和纽约的演艺行业。经纪人给我指明了方向，于是我开始接一些独立电影和许多……”

剧院。我在 42 岁才开始学习表演！”Pastore 参与了近 200 部电影和电视项目，并两次在百老汇担任演唱角色（2007 年的《芝加哥》和 2014 年的《百老汇枪手》剧作）。但他在大卫·切斯 1999 年剧集《黑道家族》中的出演成为了他的代表作。Big Pussy 作为 Tony 的多年挚友和信任的黑手党执行者，对该剧的设定至关重要；他成为 FBI 密探的背叛行为导致了他被杀，并成为该剧早期最令人难忘的场景之一。由于他经常被选为黑帮成员，Pastore 曾被问到是否考虑过因为认为某个角色将意大利裔美国人描绘得过于负面而拒绝工作。“不，我没有拒绝过任何工作，”他告诉《时报》。“我唯一拒绝工作的时候，是因为《黑道家族》的时间冲突导致我无法参加。我认为我没有[拒绝工作的]地位……当你有个女儿在读研究生并且你要负担她的开销时，很难拒绝一份工作。……你只能希望这些电影能拍好。”Pastore 的女儿 Renee 在世。

VINCENT PASTORE，1946 – 2026 Evan Agostini Invision / 美联社

黑帮气息 Pastore 在热门 HBO 剧集中饰演黑帮头目 Tony Soprano 的好友兼背叛者，赢得了赞誉。 以黑帮角色著称的演员 在《黑道家族》中成名。他的早期作品包括电影《好家伙》。 Yvonne Villarreal 和 Samantha Masunaga 撰文

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LATIMES.COM / ENTERTAINMENT 星期一，2026年8月3日 E3 下载应用程序。探索更多《洛杉矶时报》内容。使用摄像头扫描二维码。出现链接后点击即可跳转至您设备的应用商店。点击下载并开始探索。在舞蹈界。在20世纪80年代末，施瓦茨夫妇被誉为“有氧运动之父与之母”。这对夫妇是那十年间席卷全美的有氧运动热潮的先驱，并协助创建了全国有氧运动锦标赛。ESPN 报道了施瓦茨夫妇的比赛。苏联也同样关注，当时苏联正处于大规模的社会、经济和文化动荡之中，而这种动荡在1989年柏林墙倒塌时达到顶峰。凯伦表示，不久之后，苏联邀请施瓦茨夫妇将他们的有氧运动冠军带到那里教授健身和有氧运动。他们照做了。“我们扩大了规模，”霍华德说道，并补充说有氧运动锦标赛变得“几乎和现在的 HHI 一样大。我们带着它走遍了全世界。”

这对夫妇后来从有氧运动转型，但仍渴望创造共有的体验。在旅行期间，施瓦茨夫妇前往巴黎，看到了在街头跳霹雳舞的孩子们。一个想法的种子就此播下。后来在一次东京之行中，当他们走出地铁站时，这个想法开花结果。“我们走在路上，看到一群舞者在街头练习，但他们利用店面窗户的反射作为镜子，”凯伦说道，她被这种艺术形式的创造力所震撼。

当施瓦茨夫妇开始建立 HHI 时，他们联系了一些能够提供公信力的人员，包括街舞风格 Locking 的创始人唐·坎贝尔（Don Campbell）；资深 b-boy 且为 Rock Steady Crew 成员的肯·斯威夫特（Ken Swift）；以及 20 世纪 70 年代舞蹈团体 The Lockers（与坎贝尔共同创建）的成员、80 年代热门单曲《Mickey》的歌手托妮·巴兹尔（Toni Basil）。巴兹尔后来获得了 HHI 的标志奖（Icon Award），并经常在锦标赛周和全球赛事中担任评委。她是舞蹈在世界范围内的坚定大使。

The Lockers 是第一组走出“灵魂列车”（Soul Train）领域、作为独立节目出现在电视上的舞者团体。他们出现在《今夜秀》（The Tonight Show）和《卡罗尔·伯内特秀》（The Carol Burnett Show）中，并且是首批通过以此谋生而使该艺术形式合法化的舞团之一。“我不知道凯伦和霍华德是如何组织这一切的，”巴兹尔在谈到 HHI 比赛时说道，并指出有这么多“孩子能够来到美国。这是一件大事。这是他们的生活。太不可思议了。早中晚都在跳舞，那是能提升血清素的生活。我的意思是，每个人都沉浸在舞蹈的快感中。”

巴兹尔赞扬了嘻哈舞蹈的国际扩张，并表示“世界上没有比 HHI 更重要的舞团之战了。就这么简单。”她还提到，HHI 在美国对团体编舞的偏好已经扩展到了全球。像 Goebel 和 Lalau 这样的舞者已经从 HHI 社区毕业，作为编舞师和艺术总监与音乐界最顶尖的艺术家一起登上全球舞台。Goebel 在新西兰奥克兰经营着她创建的名为 Palace 的舞蹈工作室。她的庞大舞团 Royal Family 在 HHI 比赛中取得了前所未有的成功，帮助确立了“编舞师-舞者-音乐家”的模式。“Royal Family 在 HHI 参赛并连续获得三枚金牌，绝对让我们这个舞团获得了国际认可，反过来也让 Palace 变得有名，因为有许多舞团从我的工作室走出去，”Goebel 在一封电子邮件中写道。

在 HHI 锦标赛周期间，Lalau 的课程

冠军赛是人们向往的盛事，她曾为 Lab（一家位于洛杉矶的嘻哈舞团及工作室）指导过许多班级和团体。Lalau 在一封电子邮件中写道：“随着我的职业生涯的发展，我意识到 HHI 不仅仅关乎竞争。这是一个文化、社区和创意汇聚的地方。这种心态贯穿了我的整个职业生涯。无论我是在为艺术家创作、组建演员阵容还是教授课程，我始终坚信最优秀的作品源自于协作。” 2008 年，Schwartz 夫妇的成功让他们成为了艾美奖获奖作品《美国最佳舞团》（America’s Best Dance Crew）的制片人，这是一部在 MTV 播出并运行了八季的舞蹈竞赛系列节目。该节目带来的成功案例包括 Jabbawockeez（自第一季获胜后便成为拉斯维加斯的常驻团体）、Quest Crew、Snoop Dogg 和 Far East Movement。

“ABDC”将聚光灯投向了背景表演者，并尊重每一位参与者。’N Sync 成员 JC Chasez 曾担任该节目的评委，且本身也是一名才艺竞赛参与者，他在电子邮件中写道，他很高兴能参与其中。“我知道很多节目都是围绕评委展开的，但我认为 ‘ABDC’ 做得非常好，确保了在家的观众知道节目的主角是舞者，”Chasez 写道。目前担任百老汇音乐剧《Titanique》制片人的 Chasez 还指出，“ABDC”的校友无处不在。“我非常享受看到舞团成员在不同的项目中取得成功……”他说，“我在纽约参加托尼奖时，一些出演《Jellicle Ball》的人……曾在‘Dance Crew’中竞争过。” 如今，随着其达到 25 年的里程碑，支持者相信 HHI 将随着嘻哈舞蹈本身继续演进。

在展望未来的同时，回溯过去以保持传承。Chasez 表示，重新定义是必要的，因为如今的嘻哈音乐听起来不再像 80 年代那样。“因此，随着音效的变化和节奏的演进，我认为诠释方式也将继续演进，因为他们是在将你听到的节奏视觉化，并以独特的方式讲述故事。” Lalau 表示，她期待接下来的 25 年将带来更多原汁原味的创意，但她希望“我们仍然将舞蹈的人文面优先于[技术进步]。嘻哈始终根植于社区、连接和自我表达。” “我们对能够实现的一系列成就感到非常自豪，因为这产生了影响，” Karen Schwartz 在谈到她和丈夫时说道，并补充说，很难停下来思考这些事情，

因为他们太忙于思考未来。“事实上，这就是问题所在，” Howard 说。“我们一直在思考：‘下一步我们可以做什么？怎样才能让每个人的体验变得更好？’ ”他说，“我们的最终目标当然是让 ‘ABDC’ 回归，而且我们从未停止尝试。” 在那之前，周六的冠军赛延续了一个已然超越了单纯流行趋势的传统。Hip Hop International 标志着舞蹈 25 周年，菲律宾的 MEGA-CREW Legit Status 在 2023 年的 Hip Hop International 冠军赛上演出。Steven Lam [HHI, from E1]

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漫画 白羊座 (3月21日-4月19日)：你在点击发送前犹豫了。你几乎想放下电话而不是拨通。但你最终还是做了，从此这一天发生了变化。 金牛座 (4月20日-5月20日)：一些责任感觉比铅还重，因为它们是新的，或者因为你承担了太久。无论如何，你都能应对自如。 双子座 (5月21日-6月21日)：卓越往往伴随着一点瑕疵、古怪，或至少是一个奇怪的故事。 巨蟹座 (6月22日-7月22日)：人们在与你交谈后，相信比一小时前更多的事情是可能的。 狮子座 (7月23日-8月22日)：关系在改善，并非因为它们之前病态，而是准备好成为某种更适合你生活的东西。 处女座 (8月23日-9月22日)：你会遇到一些对你真正关心的事物显得漠不关心的人。当他们最终明白为什么这很重要时，他们会更在意。 天秤座 (9月23日-10月23日)：你专注于人们做得好的地方，而不是记录他们的每一次行为。

失误。天蝎座 (10月 24-11月 21)：将自己置于那些体现你所向往的情绪和价值观的人群之中至关重要。射手座 (11月 22-12月 21)：现实问题依然存在。它们要求你关注，直到你无法忽视它们为止。如果那不是真正的问题，它就会在场景中淡去。摩羯座 (12月 22-1月 19)：完美的平衡要么是神话，要么是瞬时的。这就是为什么你会感激那些一切恰好步调一致的短暂时刻。水瓶座 (1月 20-2月 18)：你不再假设自己已经见多识广。你为新的可能性敞开大门。双鱼座 (2月 19-3月 20)：为了让事情继续推进，你可能会暂时屈从于不合理的要求。但这将在更合适的时机得到解决。今日生日 (8月 3)：这是你的“高贵之年”。你将服务于更高的事业，保护弱小，并激发他人的善良。生活中将充满在需要时恰好出现的盟友。更多亮点：一项幸运的投资将在年底获得超出预期的回报。一个美丽的地方将成为你日常生活的一部分。一段特别的关系变得如此稳固，以至于难以想象没有它的生活。天秤座和摩羯座非常崇拜你。幸运数字：14, 3, 20, 17 和 50。

Mathis 为 Creators Syndicate Inc. 撰写专栏。星座运势仅供娱乐。

星座运势 作者：Holiday Mathis

“我的妻子在节食，”一位读者写道，“她说她想要个可口可乐瓶样的身材。就算她看起来像瓶佳得乐我也无所谓：我只希望她能同样关注她的 dummy 局（虚拟手牌）。”在四心局中，这位读者的妻子拿走了 dummy 的梅花 A，并领出王牌 K。西家出小牌，赢得了下一张王牌，然后转而出小黑桃：2，K，A。“我的妻子抽光了王牌，”读者说，“然后领出一张方块。东家赢得并回出黑桃，西家拿走了 10 和 Q。如果我妻子节食的能力像她叫牌一样差，她看起来会像个 2 升的瓶子。”我说我不会转达他的评论，但她失误了。在第二次出牌时，她必须领出黑桃到她的 J。当西家获胜时，他没有获胜的防守手段。如果他领出 A 和一张小王牌以阻止 dummy 的黑桃吃掉，南家会抽光王牌并在方块 A 处丢掉一张方块，从而为丢弃黑桃创造机会。相反，如果西家领出第二张梅花，南家将在 dummy 中吃掉她的第三张黑桃。

你持有：♠7 2 ♥K J ♦K Q J 6 3 ♣A K 5 4。你开叫 1 方块，你的搭档回应 1 心心，你叫 2 梅花，而他回到了 2 方块。你会怎么说？

答案：搭档的偏好显示其最多有 9 分；如果他手牌弱且喜欢梅花，他可能会过牌，因此他的偏好并不比过牌更强。既然你有 17 个高牌点，游戏（Game）是有可能的。叫 3 方块。搭档可能持有 8 5 3, A 9 6 5 4, A 10 7, 8 7。

北家发牌 N-S 脆弱 北家 ♠7 2 ♥K J ♦K Q J 6 3 ♣A K 5 4 西家 ♠Q 10 8 4 ♥A 5 3 ♦9 2 ♣Q J 10 9 东家 ♠K 9 6 5 ♥4 2 ♦A 10 8 5 ♣7 6 2 南家 ♠A J 3 ♥Q 10 9 8 7 6 ♦7 4 ♣8 3

北家 东家 南家 西家 1♦ 过牌 1♥ 过牌 2♣ 过牌 2♥ 过牌 4♥ 全过

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桥牌 作者：Frank Stewart

亲爱的 Eric： 几年前，在我的鼻子上切除了基底细胞癌并进行了一些修复手术后，我丈夫和我拜访了一位老熟人。她看着我说：“噢，我想这就是他能做到的极限了。”天呐。我在（震惊消退后）与她交谈，她拒绝道歉，甚至问我怎么才能让我丈夫娶我。如果是你，你会怎么回答？

震惊的朋友

亲爱的震惊者：

有时最好的回复就是不回复，因为对方表现得极其刻薄，而当你指出这种不友善时，她反而变本加厉。因此，在我的看来，这意味着他们目前没有兴趣或没有能力进行一场富有成效的对话。有时，我们需要通过将自己从对话中抽离来保护自己。我在本专栏中写了很多关于沟通的内容，我相信当我们相互沟通并给予对方宽容时，我们可以解决很多问题。但如果对方不提供宽容，且沟通被刻薄所取代，这并不意味着我们必须始终留在现场。

亲爱的埃里克：我的问题并非头条新闻，而是关于礼貌和礼仪。我与妻子在较高级的餐厅用餐时，服务员下单出错的情况比预想的要频繁。可能是一杯饮料，或者是菜品的一点细微差异。当错误被发现时，服务员会说“这杯饮料或这道菜我请客”，但当账单送来时，我们却被收取了费用。有时他们会端上来一份我们没点过的甜点，结果我们也得付钱。通常，我太胆小而不敢提及，便支付了全部账单及小费。我认为我可能应该更坚定一些，但我试图避免尴尬的情况。您怎么看？——过于礼貌的人

亲爱的礼貌者：如果将这些情况重新定义为“对话”而非“冲突”，或许能让你宽心。服务员想要为你提供你点好的东西——这是他们的职责，优秀的服务员希望提供优质的服务。因此，比起让你有糟糕的体验，他们更希望你提醒他们某些事情没有按计划进行。同样地，如果服务员忘记在账单中扣除某项，你提醒他们注意这一点并不会让你显得失礼。大多数服务终端系统都能相对轻松地处理此事。所以，当这些事情发生时，请考虑表现得更坚定一些。你可能会发现，养成在被错误计费时告知服务员的习惯，会减轻这件事带来的压力，你的焦虑感也会随之消失。

亲爱的埃里克：我想对你给那位考虑职业转换的“第二幕”读者的回复做一些补充。我在40岁出头时更换了职业，此前我在媒体销售领域担任了二十年的客户执行。在研究下一步计划时，我请了一位生活 / 职业教练的帮助。她的建议是去采访我想进入的那个行业的从业者，询问关于他们职业生涯大环境下的经验问题。在我的情况下，这就是联系心理健康专业人士。这些访谈是我转型为临床社会工作者的关键环节。作为中年职业转换者，我们将第一份职业中学到的一些技能带入第二份职业。所有的经验都至关重要。——快乐的第二幕

亲爱的第二幕：感谢来信！寻求职业顾问的帮助可能会带来决定性的改变。此外，与一个计划进入的领域的其他从业者交谈是非常明智的。他们的经验和人脉可以为成功的转型奠定基础。

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E6 星期一，2026年8月3日 LATIMES.COM / ENTERTAINMENT 最初的调查始于伦敦，在接下来的几个月里，电影制作人员两次访问了洛杉矶。第一次采访是在去年秋天对一名叫亚历克斯（Alex）的女性进行的。在纪录片中，这位前模特回忆起 2013 年被邀请参加在伦敦 O2 体育馆举办的 30 Seconds to Mars 乐队演唱会（莱托是该乐队的主唱）。她说，他的女助手随后将她带到了会员俱乐部 Shoreditch House 的一场派对上。尽管她当时 19 岁，但为了保护自己，她告诉莱托她 17 岁。她说，当时 41 岁的这位音乐家回答道：“年龄只是一个数字，而且，无论如何，我们现在在欧洲。”亚历克斯说，莱托的助手将她送到了附近酒店的另一场派对，但那里只有莱托一个人。亚历克斯请求提供手机充电器和打车回家的现金，但被拒绝了。当她询问是否可以在酒店房间的沙发上休息时，她说莱托威胁要强奸她。

麦克舍恩（McShane）说：“从我们开始调查并听到这些女性的讲述起，[我们就]注意到了这些行为模式。”“[亚历克斯]是一个极其优秀的沟通者。我们采访的女性，每一个人都是惊人的讲述者，并且坚定地想要讲述她们的故事。每次与某人交谈，都强化了揭露真相的重要性。”

萨特纳尔（Sartenaer）表示，莱托对年轻女性表现出的痴迷是“我们在一开始就感兴趣调查的事情，因为我们在艾莉·泰尔茨（Allie Teilz）的转发内容中注意到了这种模式”。她说：“其中许多人确实提到在涉嫌犯罪时她们还是青少年。我们从一开始就知道这是一个需要追踪的线索。”

纪录片中一名被称为克拉拉（Clara）的女性讲述了她在 17 岁、而他 34 岁时与莱托第一次发生性关系的情况。这次接触发生在他在加利福尼亚州的家中。在电影中，她描述了与莱托讨论该州法定同意年龄的对话。她说：“他只是耸了耸肩，好像这对他来说不是什么大问题。”

正如纪录片所指出的，加利福尼亚州的法定同意年龄是 18 岁。成年人与未成年人发生性关系可能构成法定强奸。电影制作人员无法就法律问题或莱托是否会面临任何法律后果发表评论。然而，BBC 时事节目执行制片人迈克·拉德福德（Mike Radford）表示，《贾里德·莱托：好莱坞的黑暗秘密》（Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret）与之前的调查不同之处在于，该片展示了涉嫌的犯罪行为。拉德福德在从伦敦打来的电话中说：“那是另一个层面的潜在不法行为。从这个角度来看，故事变得更加严重，它已经超出了误解的范围，变成了一些更令人担忧的事情。”

电影制作人员给莱托发送了一封“详尽的回复权”信函，并给了他两周的时间做出回应。他们多次与他的团队跟进，但均无结果。直到纪录片播出后，莱托才在周三与《时报》分享的一份声明中否认了这些指控。他说：“我一生中从未性侵过任何人。这些指控绝对且断然是错误的。”

这部纪录片将采访与情景重现及档案片段相结合。萨特纳尔说，他们有“丰富的素材”可以调用。麦克舍恩补充道：“关于他的内容实在太多了。而且他在公众舞台上的性暗示过于明显。我们在电影中就有他的例子，比如他在奥斯卡颁奖礼新闻发布室时的样子。所有的一切都充满了暗示。有些例子中，他表现得非常”

与舞台上的年轻女性行为不当。所有这些内容与采访记录放在一起时，会让人感到不寒而栗，而且我们能找到无数这样的例子。”电影制作团队的预算有限，只有三人的小规模团队：麦克舍恩（McShane）、萨特纳尔（Sartenaer）和摄影师西奥·滕南特（Theo Tennant）。总共，他们全职花费了一年半的时间制作《贾里德·莱托：好莱坞的黑暗秘密》（Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret）。萨特纳尔表示，最大的挑战在于“好莱坞是一个难以渗透的世界”。这部纪录片采访了两个与莱托共事过的人，他们要求完全匿名，但要找到这些人并让他们记录在案非常困难。萨特纳尔说：“在内部人员方面取得突破，并真正让人们开始与我们交谈，真的花了好长好长的时间。好莱坞是一个极其不稳定的地方，进入好莱坞很难，而且我认为一旦人们进去了，那可能是一个恐怖的前景。一步走错就可能被再次踢出局。在试图与人们交谈时，我们看到了这种紧张感。这里确实存在一种秘密文化。”

尽管如此，人们仍希望《贾里德·莱托：好莱坞的黑暗秘密》能鼓励其他潜在受害者发声。萨特纳尔说：“调查仍在进行中。这些女性站出来所做的事情[是值得赞赏的]。我们认为她们的勇气将鼓励其他女性讲述自己的真相，无论涉及的是谁。”拉德福德（Radford）表示，BBC将继续调查围绕莱托的指控。他说：“我们希望随着调查的继续，我们能拥有足够的素材来制作一部后续纪录片。我们现在还没有在制作纪录片，因为我没有接到相关委任。但这是我们的意向。”

目前，BBC没有在美国播出《贾里德·莱托：好莱坞的黑暗秘密》的计划。据拉德福德称，该片在制作期间曾向美国市场提供，但未被选中发行。拉德福德说：“没有法律上的理由不能在那里播出。事实上，在英国的法律威胁要大得多，因为英国的诽谤法更严苛。所以对于在美国播出并没有恐惧感。”麦克舍恩和萨特纳尔对纪录片立即引起的反响感到欣慰，但他们也希望这种势头能够持续。麦克舍恩说：“我希望我们能继续看到反响，我希望讨论不要停止。十年前在#MeToo运动的高峰期，这本该产生巨大的冲击。当此类故事发表时，大众的愤怒已经冷却了一些。但我们希望讨论能保持强劲，因为人们继续讨论这件事真的非常重要。”

导演艾丽斯·麦克舍恩（Alice McShane，左）和制片人杰西卡·萨特纳尔（Jessica Sartenaer）在研究中筛选了 120 多个在线指控。西奥·滕南特 BBC [莱托，来自E1] BBC 电影制作者试图分享女性的故事。

《埃特纳》（Etna） 小说 保罗·尹 (Paul Yoon) 著 Scribner 出版社：208 页，$28（周二出版） 任何看过马特·达蒙主演的《奥德赛》，或在期待布拉德·皮特主演的《野兽之心》（关于一名退伍军人和他的军犬）的人，都应该读读尹的这个非凡故事。故事讲述了一个在平行现实中的战斗幸存者，而这个幸存者恰好是一只名叫埃特纳的前军犬。他穿越一片充斥着受惊之人与动物的破碎土地的冒险经历，或许与其说是未来的神话，不如说更多是关于创伤，但尹精妙地为人类和犬类创造了声音，使两者都变得更加完整。

《温柔的年纪》（A Tender Age） 小说 李昌来 (Chang-Rae Lee) 著 Riverhead 出版社：368 页，$30（8月 11 日出版） 全名全基（Jeon-Gi），被简称为 J-G，是一个

一个在 1976 年大部分时间里都很快乐的 10 岁孩子，直到一个邻居对他发起的攻击激发了他自己暴力的想法。尽管在威胁一名同学后他得到了相对轻微的判决，但 J-G 的父母决定将他送到一个基督教夏令营。在那里发生的一些事件，在其他孩子看来可能是甜蜜的回忆，但对他而言，只让他意识到内心是多么不同且孤独。然而，真正触动人心的是 J-G 成年后分享这段经历的原因。

《日出》（Sunrise）小说 Téa Obreht Random House: 368 页，$29 (8 月 11 日) 有许多，真的太多了，历史小说试图将当代的主人公与很久以前的事件或故事联系起来；而绝大多数都未能让这种联系产生任何意义。这就是为什么 Obreht 这本卓越且迷人的新书应该进入你的 2026 年阅读清单：她不仅将一名陷入困境的年轻女性、一名 20 世纪初的枪手和一名历史重演者的故事进行了有意义的连接，而且成功地让他们相互照亮。

非虚构类

《分诊》（Triage） Claudia Rankine Graywolf: 192 页，$28 (周二) 书中的扉页这句话意味深长：“任何命名和描述我们生活的尝试似乎总是是不稳定的，因为所有语言都是一种分诊形式。”Rankine 这一次的分诊尝试集中在她与一名仅被标识为“理论家”的人之间长久的友谊上。轶事和分析与各类沙发和长椅的照片交织在一起，对我们在哪里以及如何寻找休息与支持（或无法找到）的观念提出了质疑。

《你的美国同胞：我们称之为家的这个国家的派遣报告》（Your Fellow Americans Dispatches Across the Country We Call Home） Peter Santenello Simon & Schuster: 336 页，$30 (周二) Santenello 在 YouTube 上拥有超过 400 万订阅者，他在那里发布关于美国各种地点的视频——无论贫富，无论知名还是隐秘。无论你是否喜欢作者自称的非党派立场，你都会发现这本书令人惊讶，尤其是它揭示了地理、气候和基础设施如何影响社区和沟通。可以将其想象成安东尼·波登（Anthony Bourdain）与迈克尔·摩尔（Michael Moore）的结合体。

《灰烬帝国：裕仁天皇与向全面战争的坠落》（Empire of Ashes Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War） James M. Scott W. W. Norton & Co.: 528 页，$42 (周二) 历史学家 Scott（《黑雪》作者）创作了一部关于第二次世界大战最后日子的快节奏读物，书中讲述了美国研发原子弹如何对抗日本的激进多数派，产生了许多人（包括作者在内）认为必要的悲剧性结果。上任仅几周的杜鲁门总统与军队似乎不可阻挡的裕仁天皇之间的对比，依然令人震惊。

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$3.66 DESIGNATED AREAS HIGHER © 2026 latimes.com MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Wil- lowbrook is the main emer- gency medical care option for hundreds of thousands of South Los Angeles resi- dents, but space is so tight that many patients are treated in large metal-frame tents on the pavement out- side. On a recent summer day, loud air conditioners blew cool air as nurses drew blood and tended wounds, calling to mind the makeshift spaces used during the early days of the COVID-19 pan- demic. The tents are a stark indi- cation of the dire financial state of the hospital, whose leaders say it could be forced to close if it doesn’t find a way to consistently bring in more money. The hospital recently reported $14 million in net income for its most re- cent fiscal year, but operated in the red each of the three prior years. Next year, it anticipates losing $80 million to $100 mil- lion in annual funding as a result of 2025’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or HR1, which mandated changes to Medicaid eligibility and fi- nancing. “One of the wealthiest cities in one of the wealthiest states in the country, in the wealthiest country in the world, in modern-day America, and we’re caring for patients in four white tents on black concrete,” Tony Weiss, MLK Commu- nity Healthcare’s director of media relations, said during a tour of the hectic emer- gency department. “That’s crazy.” As MLK hospital strug- gles against severe financial headwinds, its leaders are calling on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervi- sors to reevaluate how it awards the funds the county collects via Measure B, which levies a form of prop- erty tax. In fiscal year 2025, funds brought in via the measure totaled approxi- mately $427 million, accord- ing to the county. The ballot initiative, which was approved by county voters in 2002, de- scribed “an annual special tax to raise revenue to sup- port the Countywide Sys- tem of Trauma Centers, Emergency Medical Serv- ices, and Bioterrorism Re- sponse.” Despite that, “ongoing” or recurring funds collected via the measure are allocat- EMERGENCY department staffers work at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Willowbrook. Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times MLK HOSPITAL TACKLES FUNDING CRISIS With dire federal cuts coming, South L.A. facility seeks a bigger slice of county cash. By Connor Sheets [See Hospital, A9] Esther Kim Varet has gotten a lot of questions re- cently from “depressed” li- berals wondering whom they should vote for in No- vember to represent them in the redrawn 40th Congres- sional District, which covers a large swath of inland Or- ange County and portions of San Bernardino and Riv- erside counties. The Democratic art gal- lery owner placed third in last month’s closely watched primary for the seat, behind Republican incumbent Reps. Ken Calvert of Corona and Young Kim of Anaheim Hills. Calvert and Kim were pushed into the same dis- trict by last year’s Pro- position 50 and will be the only candidates facing off for the seat in November. Kim Varet said her sup- porters “obviously put a lot of thought into” which of the incumbents to support, but they have had a hard time swallowing the idea of voting for either. So she tells them why, “if we’re playing a kind of longer game,” they should vote for Kim. She says Calvert is fa- vored to win, so supporting Kim will “force both sides to spend more on this race” and reduce Republican spending on other races where Democrats still have a shot at beating a GOP in- cumbent. She says Calvert is “much more senior” than Kim, so ousting him would be “more significant.” And Calvert, as chair of the House Appropriations Sub- committee on Defense, has funded Trump’s war in Iran and would be “morally the better target.” In the June primary, Kim Varet and other Democratic candidates collectively won 42.9% of the district vote, compared with Calvert’s 34.9% and Kim’s 20.6%. If enough of those Democratic voters coalesced behind Kim, they could end Calvert’s 33-year run in Con- gress. Whether they will, howev- er, is unclear. Such “or- phaned” voters — those left without a candidate of their party in a general election — are historically just as likely to abstain from voting or to vote based on far less strate- gic considerations. Califor- nians created that dilemma more than a decade ago ‘Orphaned’ voters may be key in midterms Californians without a candidate from their party on ballot could hold strategic sway. By Kevin Rector [See Voters, A6] MEXICO CITY — Mexico has been a major oil producer for more than a cen- tury, but its lack of refining capacity cre- ates a quandary: The country must im- port much of its gasoline and diesel from the United States. That’s a boon for U.S. refineries and re- lated industries on both sides of the bor- der, but U.S. and Mexican authorities say Mexican cartels have infiltrated the com- merce, creating a black-market bonanza in smuggled fuel while leaving behind a trail of homicide victims. At its core, the crime known as huachicol fiscal is a vast tax evasion scheme centered on falsified paperwork — and corrupt officials. Last year, Mexican authorities seized millions of gallons of contraband fuel in scores of railroad cars and trucks near Mexico’s border with Texas. The follow-up investigation led to last month’s stunning arrest of one of Mexi- co’s most celebrated political figures — Ernesto Ruffo Appel, the former governor of Baja California. The conservative Ruffo and his back- ers call him the victim of a political vendetta by Mexico’s left-wing govern- ment. Prosecutors label him a central player in a complex, multibillion-dollar fuel-smuggling racket linked to cartels. “It’s false to say there is anything polit- ical here,” President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters in July. “This is an investi- Gas smuggling fuels corruption in Mexico By Patrick J. McDonnell [See Mexico, A3] It’s the cartels’ biggest revenue source after drugs NEW YORK — President Trump knows the world hangs on his every word. Now he wants you to pay for it. The president’s social media posts went on sale this weekend as his Truth Social business begins offer- ing sneak peeks of them to Wall Street traders willing to pay up. The move is just the lat- est to raise the prospect of big profits for Trump’s com- pany and big questions about insider trading and using the most powerful public office for private gain. Similar fast-speed feeds are sold by other social me- dia firms and media pro- viders. But Truth Social doesn’t just distribute the news, it makes it, regularly rattling markets as Trump posts policy changes on everything from war to cen- tral bank leadership to tar- iffs. “If this was the CEO of a public company, this would be jail time,” said Irene Aldridge, head of Able Alpha Trading, which doesn’t plan to buy the service. “We have a president of the United States who has the front seat to all the action, who makes all the decisions, and he’s disclosing this ahead of time to a select group.” Trump’s company responds Asked about the propri- ety of the new service and whether White House law- yers had vetted it, Trump’s press office declined to com- ment, referring questions to Truth Social’s publicly traded parent. That com- pany, Trump Media & Tech- nology, issued a statement assailing critics — including business watchdog groups and other experts — as mis- characterizing the service “out of ideological opposi- tion to free markets or a fail- Trump to profit off his policy posts Investors can now buy early access to his social media, raising host of ethical issues. By Bernard Condon and Brian Slodysko [See Trump, A9] SAN DIEGO — Emanuel Lexius’ market in El Cajon is typically bustling. Not lately. Lexius is Haitian, and so are most of the shoppers at Miche Caribbean Market. They come to stock up on fa- miliar Haitian staples: Ti Malice vegetable oil spread, long-grain heirloom rice, Cola Couronne soda. “People don’t want to be out,” he said, and “no one wants to be exposed.” A wave of fear swept Hai- tian American communities in San Diego County and nationwide last week after the Trump administration revoked protections for Hai- tian immigrants living in the U.S. under temporary pro- tected status, or TPS. The program has allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians — including thousands in San Diego and Los Angeles — to live and work in the U.S. be- cause their home country is unsafe. A federal district judge temporarily blocked the ac- tion for nearly five months before the Supreme Court upheld the Trump order in June. The Department of Homeland Security officially moved to remove the protec- tions July 27. That has left Haitians in Southern California in a state of anxiety over whether and when they could be deported. Commu- nity leaders say the reper- cussions could be wide- spread, with people now scared to leave their homes or go to work — or at risk of losing their jobs because they no longer have work au- thorization. “People who applied for a program that the U.S. gov- ernment laid in place … they Haitians in U.S. fear what’s next after protections ended By Maura Fox [See Haitians, A9] Gunman, worker dead in shooting Suspect dies of a self- inflicted gunshot wound at In-N-Out Burger in Idaho. NATION, A5 Slur underscores banality of evil Gustavo Arellano says Border Patrol’s use of “tonk” degrades immi- grants. CALIFORNIA, B1 Sparks rebuild with Plum trade Team goes back to the drawing board months after declaring it was a contender. SPORTS, D6 Weather Lots of sun; warm. L.A. Basin: 89/68. B6 Business ...................... A11 Opinion Voices ......... A13 For the latest news, go to latimes.com. rigged, and only a salary cap can unrig the sport. The Dodgers are the back-to- back champions, and they just picked up the best player on the trade market. They. Have. Too. Much. Damn. Money. But here’s the thing: All the money the Dodgers lavish upon their major league roster isn’t what made the trade for Skubal possible. Oh, all that money helped put them in position to where Skubal could help them in October, but Skubal could have helped the Mil- waukee Brewers or the Y our team could have done this. Is baseball headed for a lockout this winter? Yes. Because the Dodgers traded for Tarik Skubal? No. The Dodgers play a video before each home game, which includes these words from a sinister-sounding voice: “You need teams like us to point your finger and say, ‘That’s the bad guy.’ ” In this case, “you” means the owners of the other 29 teams. You can hear them wailing now: Baseball is Chicago Cubs or the Tampa Bay Rays or the Atlanta Braves or the New York Yankees or the Philadelphia Phillies. When the Detroit Tigers took bids for Skubal, they liked the Dodgers’ offer the best. And here is what the Dodgers offered: three prospects, none a first- rounder, none ranked among baseball’s top 20 prospects. Outfielder Zyhir Hope was drafted in the 11th round, by the Cubs. When the Cubs needed a corner infielder, the Dodgers Dodgers detractors, you could have gotten Skubal too TARIK SKUBAL, formerly of Detroit, comes to the Dodgers for three prospects, none a first-rounder. David Berding Getty Images [See Shaikin, A6] Voices BILL SHAIKIN COLUMNIST STAR HOARDERS: Dodgers’ Friedman got “aggressive” to get Skubal. SPORTS, D1

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The collision laid bare the danger at the most volatile front of Europe’s wildfire emergency. Strong winds drove flames deeper into the Athens region and forced fresh evacuations, France guarded a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris, while Spain’s major fires stopped advancing. The aircraft were Bell helicopters operating over the Psatha area west of Athens, each with a two-per- son crew. Foreign firefight- ing and helicopter crews often are deployed in Greece to help tackle wildfires dur- ing the country’s hot, dry summers. Flames spread through western Attica, the region around Athens, threatening communities and an indus- trial district outside Megara as violent gusts prevented firefighting aircraft from col- lecting water from the sea. The danger carried grim res- onance in a region where the 2018 Mati wildfire killed 104 people, Europe’s deadliest blaze this century. Farther west, contain- ment brought no end to the emergency. France’s largest wildfire remained held within its perimeter after forcing 224,000 people to flee in what may have been the country’s largest civilian evacuation outside wartime. Hot spots still burned within a 162-square-mile scar, thousands remained unable to return home, and nearly 3,000 firefighters were deployed against the Gironde megafire and a sec- ond, still-uncontained blaze in Provence. Together, fires in France and Spain have driven roughly a third of a million people from homes and va- cation sites, emptied com- munities at the height of the European summer and stretched emergency serv- ices across simultaneous di- sasters. Record fire damage in Europe The mass evacuations in France and Spain are the lat- est measure of a wildfire threat growing across Eu- rope. Last year was Europe’s worst fire year on record, with more than 3,860 square miles burned. Over the last four dec- ades, wildfires have been linked to nearly 800 deaths across much of Europe, ac- cording to the European En- vironment Agency. Europe is the world’s fast- est-warming continent. It has warmed more than twice the global average since the 1980s, according to the Euro- pean Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Human-caused climate change made the extreme fire-weather conditions be- hind this year’s French blazes at least twice as likely, scientists at World Weather Attribution found in a rapid analysis conducted while the fires were burning. Nearly 500 firefighters and 23 aircraft were de- ployed, but gale-force winds drove flames through dry forest and crippled the re- sponse, preventing some air- craft from reaching the sea to collect water. Authorities ordered the evacuation of Kandili, Agia Skepi and Toutouli as smoke rose over the mountains. Crews were particularly con- cerned about Porto Ger- meno, a seaside community on the Gulf of Corinth. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitso- takis was briefed on the op- eration. The fire began Friday near Agios Vasileios before sweeping toward Porto Ger- meno and into the forested mountains west of Athens. Firefighters evacuated 254 people by sea Friday and 12 more Saturday — often the last escape route when fire and smoke cut the few roads from coastal communities. Wildfire meteorologist Theodore Giannaros esti- mated the blaze affected 15 to 19 square miles, though authorities had issued no of- ficial figure. Elsewhere in Greece, flames threatened homes on Kefalonia, forcing evacu- ations from inland commu- nities as aircraft made water drops over the Ionian island. Firefighters battled another blaze near Nea Tenedos in Halkidiki. Last week, two firefight- ers died fighting a fire on Crete and a third was killed in the Peloponnese. “A pristine forest, a para- dise, was surrendered to the hands of the fire,” local far- mer Minas Tzortzanis said Saturday. “There are no words to explain what has happened. Destruction. To- tal destruction.” France guards against new flames In southwestern France, the Gironde megafire re- mained held within its pe- rimeter Sunday but contin- ued to burn after scorching 162 square miles of forest in 10 days. “The fire is now fixed, which does not mean that the fire is extinguished,” the Gironde prefecture said, us- ing the French firefighting term for a blaze whose ad- vance has been stopped. The region remained under a “red” forest-fire alert, France’s highest. Dry conditions, soaring temper- atures around Bordeaux and afternoon winds threat- ened to rekindle the flames. In Le Porge, local officials said about 150 homes were destroyed. Mechanic Matthieu Plessis returned Saturday to the ruins of a house that had been in his family for seven generations. “There are places I don’t even recognize anymore,” he said. “You don’t even know what was here anymore, or who lived where.” Firefighters from Ukraine, Lithuania and French Polynesia were ex- pected Sunday and Monday to reinforce the operation. Provence fire still uncontained In southeastern France, nearly 1,500 firefighters bat- tled a separate blaze in the Var department that tore through about seven square miles in little more than a day. The Gros Bessillon fire was stabilized Sunday after its perimeter held overnight, but it remained uncon- tained. Some 2,500 people were evacuated as flames threatened nearby commu- nities. It was the fourth major fire to strike central Var since July 19. A smaller blaze near Brignoles days earlier forced actor George Clooney and his family, along with about 700 other residents, to evacuate before it was brought under control. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said France’s fires were generally under control but warned that conditions remained volatile. He ap- pointed a national coordina- tor to oversee reconstruc- tion in fire-ravaged areas. More than 452 square miles have burned across France this year. Spain’s fire siege eases Spain’s major fires — part of a season that has killed at least 13 people, produced the country’s largest recorded wildfire and prompted a na- tional emergency — no long- er were advancing Sunday. In Zamora province near the Portuguese border, more than 20 ground and aerial units guarded the perimeter of the Fermoselle fire against flare-ups in the rugged Ar- ribes del Duero landscape. Most evacuees had returned home, according to local me- dia. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for a na- tional pact to confront wild- fires, warning that climate change is making them in- creasingly destructive. Becatoros and Adamson write for the Associated Press. Adamson reported from Paris. AP writers Nicolas Garriga in Lacanau, France; Michael Varaklas in Megara, Greece; and Colleen Barry in Milan contributed to this report. 2 killed as firefighting copters collide in Greece By Elena Becatoros and Thomas Adamson THE MIDAIR crash occurred while battling a wind- driven wildfire west of Athens. Above, a water drop. Michael Varaklas Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia — A plane carrying European tourists to view the famed Nazca Lines crashed into a field Saturday outside the Peruvian city of Nazca, killing 13 people, local au- thorities said. Nazca’s municipal gov- ernment said the plane de- parted from the nearby city of Ica and was operated by the Peruvian company Aero- diana. On its website, the airline said it has offered sce- nic flights over the Nazca Lines for the last 14 years us- ing Cessna Grand Caravan planes. The Nazca Lines are a group of extensive geo- glyphs scraped into the desert around Nazca cen- turies ago by Peru’s Indige- nous inhabitants. The lines form images of animals that can be fully appreciated only from planes or viewing tow- ers. Among the dead were seven Italian citizens ages 18 to 54, two Spaniards, both 53, and two Germans, 77 and 78, Peru’s Transportation Ministry said. Pilot Américo Salazar and co-pilot Irenka Guanilo del Carpio were also killed, the ministry said in a report on the crash. President Keiko Fujimori expressed regret over the ac- cident and said a “tempo- rary suspension” of the air- port was being considered, though the decision will be made once she receives re- ports from the relevant min- istries. Peruvian authorities said the accident is under investi- gation. Aerodiana was not im- mediately available for com- ment. 13 perish in Peruvian sightseeing plane crash Europeans were on a flight to view the famed Nazca Lines. The pilots also died. associated press TEL AVIV — Israel has shared “serious security con- cerns” with the White House regarding the proposed dis- armament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official said Sun- day in what were some of the first public comments since President Trump an- nounced the agreement last week. Doron Spielman, spokes- person for the Israeli prime minister’s office, told the As- sociated Press that Israel’s intelligence assessment is that Hamas remains com- mitted to rebuilding its mili- tary rather than genuinely demilitarizing. He said the Israeli military would not withdraw from Gaza — where it controls more than 60% of the territory — before Hamas disarms. “Our assessment is that if we redeploy before Hamas is truly disarmed, it will quickly expand its presence throughout Gaza, rebuild its terrorist infrastructure, once again threaten Israeli communities, and seek to carry out another Oct. 7- style attack,” he said, refer- ring to the Hamas militant attack on Israel in 2023 that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip. “Disarming means phys- ically giving up the weapons. Nothing less,” Spielman said. His comments come days after Hamas said that it would begin disarming as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire signed nine months ago to end the nearly three-year-long conflict. It marks a potential break- through in ending the con- flict, but many hurdles, con- ditions and long timelines remain. Obstacles remain over ceasefire plan The 20-point U.S. cease- fire plan calls on the militant group to surrender its weap- ons and destroy its vast net- work of tunnels. It also envi- sions Israeli forces with- drawing from Gaza, the ar- rival of a new technocratic Palestinian government, de- ployment of an international security force and the re- building of the battered Pal- estinian enclave. Hamas disarming has been a sticking point and has deadlocked negotiations for months. In announcing the deal on social media on Thursday, Trump said it would be carried out in “carefully structured pha- ses.” A copy of the agreement obtained and verified by the AP said that all weapons held by the Hamas-run po- lice will be transferred to the U.S.-backed Palestinian technocratic committee, known as the National Com- mittee for the Administra- tion of Gaza, upon its arrival in the enclave. It’s not clear when that would happen since it is contingent on other steps. A process to decommis- sion and store heavy weap- ons and to dismantle mili- tary production sites and tunnels will begin after the arrival of the Palestinian committee and the deploy- ment of international forces. The process will be linked to a phased Israeli withdrawal, according to the agreement. The areas Israel controls in Gaza have been mostly de- stroyed and depopulated. Most of the territory’s 2 mil- lion Palestinians are in the other part, where hundreds of thousands live in squalid tent camps and destroyed neighborhoods. Israel appears unlikely to pull back significant forces or make other concessions ahead of its October elec- tions. Prime Minister Ben- jamin Netanyahu faces a tough reelection battle, with his far-right coalition part- ners urging him to keep up the pressure on Hamas and leave forces in Gaza, and op- ponents accusing him of fail- ing to prevent the Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Hamas-led militants at- tacked Israeli communities then, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 others hostage. Is- rael responded with a puni- shing military offensive that has killed more than 73,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry, which was part of the recently dissolved Hamas-run government, maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by United Nations agencies and international organiza- tions. It does not distinguish between civilians and mili- tants but says women and children make up around half of all fatalities. Israel warns Hamas is poised to rearm While Spielman said Isra- el appreciates Trump’s com- mitment to its security and to finding a durable resolu- tion, the government’s posi- tion on disarmament is based on detailed intelli- gence saying that Hamas continues to rearm, recruit fighters and rebuild its mili- tary capabilities. It’s unclear what exactly Israel conveyed to the White House. Two people with knowledge of the deal told the AP that Israel had com- municated its issues with it to former British Prime Min- ister Tony Blair, who’s part of the Trump-led “Board of Peace.” One of them said that among the points Israel wanted was freedom to con- duct military operations in Gaza. They spoke anony- mously because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Israel continues airstrikes in Gaza Since the ceasefire was signed in October, Israel has continued striking Gaza, saying it’s targeting Hamas and its infrastructure. Those attacks have continued since Hamas’ agreement to disarm. Overnight Saturday and into Sunday, Israeli strikes killed at least 17, including children, local hospitals said. A strike on an apart- ment in southern Gaza killed three family members, including their 4-year-old child, according to Nasser Hospital, where the bodies arrived. The Israeli military said the latest strikes had tar- geted Hamas military opera- tives. 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LATIMES.COM MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 A3 gation with a legal basis and with evidence.” Bootleg gasoline and diesel don’t enter Mexico clandestinely via remote stretches of the border- lands. Rather, the fuel — overwhelmingly purchased legally in the United States — arrives at seaports and border crossings via ships, trains and trucks, part of the daily deluge of imported hydrocarbons. But the petroleum prod- ucts are masked in mani- fests — labeled waste mate- rial, lubricants, residues and other items not subject to the high taxes that Mexico levies on imported fuel. Or, alternatively, import- ers register arriving tankers as empty or near-empty. Seeing no evil are legions of crooked operators — cus- toms inspectors, tax agents and military commanders, among other enablers. The massive volume of the illicit traffic creates a windfall. An astounding one-third to one-quarter of all fuel sold in Mexico may be illicit, ac- cording estimates cited by the U.S. Treasury Depart- ment, which has sanctioned alleged Mexican fuel traf- fickers. Fuel smuggling nets or- ganized crime tens of bil- lions of dollars annually, rep- resenting the cartels’ sec- ond-largest source of reve- nue after drug trafficking, the Treasury says. “The cartels’ smuggling schemes also fuel rampant corruption and violence that sustain their global drug trafficking operations and control in Mexico,” accord- ing to a June alert from the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Both Washington and Mexico City launched crack- downs against a complex web of unscrupulous func- tionaries, front companies and document fraudsters, among others. Abetting the scams is a vast network of tankers, rail lines and trucks that transport refined fuel from borders and seaports to Mexican gas stations. The conspiracy extends to freight, logistics and fuel companies on the U.S. side, authorities say. The op- erators of at least one south Texas oil distributing outfit — targeted in a U.S. opera- tion dubbed “Liquid Death” — are facing federal charges of cartel collusion and mon- ey laundering for allegedly utilizing a reverse-engi- neered huachicol blueprint: importing Mexican oil into the United States with phony customs paperwork, thus avoiding U.S. taxes. The recent arrest of Ruffo stunned many Mexicans be- cause he made history a gen- eration ago as the nation’s first opposition governor, representing the center- right National Action Party. He was regarded as a trailblazer against the one- party rule that marked Mexico for much of the 20th century. Yet last month there he was in a news photo, the 74-year-old, San Diego- born Ruffo in handcuffs, as if he were just another narco suspect. He is accused of heading a company that routinely mislabeled shipments to evadetaxes on fuel imported from Texas. He and seven al- leged confederates were or- dered held at Mexico’s noto- rious, high-security Alti- plano prison — the site of the cinematic 2015 jailbreak by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel. Ruffo has denied the charges. His defenders call him a “political prisoner.” Even before ensnaring Ruffo, the ever-expanding huachicol fiscal scandal al- ready had scarred the Mexi- can navy, long one of the na- tion’s most trusted institu- tions. Corrupt naval officers turned ports they were sup- posed to be supervising into bribe-laden smuggling hubs, authorities say. In March 2025, Mexican agents seized a Malaysian- flagged tanker, the Chal- lenge Procyon, in the gulf port of Tampico. Investiga- tors linked the tanker to 2.6 million gallons of Texas diesel falsely labeled as lu- bricating oil additives. The investigation soon led to a pair of navy nepo-ba- bies: Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna and his brother Fer- nando — known as Los Pri- mos (The Cousins), even though they are siblings. The two young admirals, many assert, enjoyed me- teoric career rises thanks to family patronage: They are nephews of a former secre- tary of the navy, José Rafael Ojeda Durán. Manuel Roberto Farías sits in the Altiplano prison on smuggling charges. His brother, who fled to Argen- tina, was arrested in a trendy Buenos Aires neighborhood and remains in custody, pending Mexico’s extradi- tion request. The case of Los Primos has dramatized the prolif- eration of graft in the armed forces. Some see a dark irony: Five years ago, an exasper- ated President Andrés Ma- nuel López Obrador be- moaned that a corrupt cus- toms regime had allowed or- ganized crime to take over land and maritime ports of entry. The president shifted control of ports to the mili- tary, a major change. However, many say graft has only worsened under the aegis of generals and admi- rals. “There have always been networks of and corruption in customs,” said Víctor Manuel Sánchez, a profes- sor at the Autonomous Uni- versity of Coahuila, a north- ern border state where po- lice have seized boxcars full of contraband fuel from neighboring Texas. “But it seems the whole problem of huachicol fiscal took off when customs’ responsibil- ity was turned over to the military.” Ojeda Durán, the former navy chief and uncle of Los Primos, has been cleared in the scandal, Sheinbaum has said. :: Fuel contraband is a high-stakes affair. There is no reprieve for anyone per- ceived as a snitch or double- crosser. In November 2024, assas- sins on a motorcycle in the Pacific port city of Man- zanaillo shot dead a rear ad- miral who was said to have blown the whistle on navy entanglement in fuel-smug- gling. A few weeks earlier, a similar motorcycle hit team in Manzanillo gunned down a federal agent who report- edly was investigating port corruption. In 2021, Sergio Carmona Angulo, a politically con- nected entrepreneur known as Rey Huachicol (“King Huachicol”), was gunned down in a barber shop in the Monterrey suburb of San Pedro Garza García, often called the richest town in Mexico. :: While the fuel-oil tax- dodge is a relatively recent phenomenon, purloined Mexican fuel, known simply as huachicol, has circulated for decades. Thieves have long used a variety of methods — tap- ping into ducts, hijacking tanker trucks or robbing di- rectly from facilities of Pet- roleos Mexicanos, the state energy company known as Pemex. Staggering losses from fuel theft are among the many factors contrib- uting to Pemex’s perpetually debt-plagued status. But the emergence of huachicol fiscal has given fuel thievery an expanded and more sinister profile. Paying the price are Mex- ican consumers at the gas pump, but also the popula- tion at large. The taxes di- verted from government cof- fers could have funded edu- cation, healthcare and other societal needs. “We are talking about hundreds of millions of dol- lars that should have been used for the social good,” said Sánchez in Coahuila. ”Instead it all ends up in the hands of the mafias.” Special correspondent Cecilia Sánchez Vidal contributed to this report. One-third of fuel sold in Mexico may be illicit [Mexico, from A1] FORMER Baja California Gov. Ernesto Ruffo is facing charges in the fuel scheme. Chris Noyola Martinez Cuartoscuro PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an antimilitant rally in northwestern Paki- stan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, mostly civil- ians and police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said. The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where demon- strators had gathered near a police station, chanting antimilitant slogans and de- manding peace, district Po- lice Chief Omar Khan said. According to witnesses, shortly before the attack, speakers at the rally said en- suring security and elimi- nating militancy were the state’s responsibility. They also accused authorities of failing to act decisively against militants, saying residents wanted to live without fear after years of vi- olence that devastated the region. Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for the Khyber Pakhtun- khwa provincial emergency service, said the attacker struck dozens of people who were chanting antimilitant slogans and demanding peace. Khan said at least nine civilians and five offi- cers were among the dead. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Min- ister Shehbaz Sharif con- demned the bombing. In separate statements they of- fered condolences to the families of those killed and offered prayers and pledged the best medical care for the wounded. They also said Pakistan’s fight against terrorism would continue until it is eradicated. Interior Min- ister Mohsin Naqvi ex- pressed similar sentiments. The Swat Valley was once a stronghold of Islamic mili- tants who imposed a strict interpretation of Sharia, or Islamic law, before the Paki- stani military launched a major operation in 2007 that drove them out and restored government control. But militants have resur- faced in Pakistan’s Swat Val- ley in recent months, fueling fears that the Pakistani Tali- ban is seeking to regain a foothold in the region. In re- sponse, residents have re- peatedly staged anti-Tali- ban rallies to protest the militants’ presence across the valley. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but suspicion is likely to fall on the Paki- stani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. The TTP is separate from, but allied with, Af- ghanistan’s Taliban rulers. Many of its leaders and fight- ers have found sanctuary in Afghanistan since the Tali- ban returned to power there in 2021. Pakistan has long ac- cused Afghanistan’s Taliban government of harboring TTP militants, an allegation Kabul denies. Pakistan has experi- enced a surge in militant at- tacks in recent years, par- ticularly targeting police and security forces. On Friday, Pakistan’s military spokesman Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry said that Pakistan has recorded 3,145 “terrorism incidents” since January. He said Pakistan had killed 2,084 militants since January, while 819 Pa- kistanis, including soldiers, police officers and civilians, had been killed. Chaudhry also said Af- ghanistan-based militants had carried out 28 suicide at- tacks in Pakistan since Jan- uary and alleged that most were perpetrated by Afghan nationals or people associ- ated with Afghanistan’s se- curity forces. He said the TTP and other militant groups were committing at- tacks inside Pakistan with the support of Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and Pakistan would continue to target the TTP and its support infra- structure. Khan writes for the Associated Press. AP writers Rasool Dawar in Peshawar and Ishtiaq Mahsud in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, contributed to this report. 14 slain at protest for peace in Pakistan Suicide attack wounds dozens of others who gathered near police station in Swat Valley. By Riaz Khan At Wagner festival, AI means audience indignation AI-ASSISTED projections puzzled viewers of “Götterdämmerung” on Saturday. Eckehard Schulz DAPD / Associated Press Experimental staging in German city elicits boos and confusion among spectators. associated press from images preselected by Lobbes, the director of the Academy for Theater and Digitality in Dortmund, and his team. The collage that the tech- nology projected onstage puzzled the audience, DPA reported, with images in- cluding late former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, within a visually seething cosmos of light, texture, his- tory, and association, amidst projections that erupt, constantly shift, and merge into one another.” The AI-assisted projec- tions included scenes from previous performances of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle and historical themes, and drew BERLIN — An experi- ment with artificial intelli- gence at the famed annual Richard Wagner festival in the southeastern German town of Bayreuth drew boos from the audience after pro- ducing a staging that ap- peared to leave some specta- tors confused. Curator Marcus Lobbes and his team were greeted with boos and whistles as they took to the stage at the end of Saturday evening’s performance of “Götter- dämmerung,” the German news agency DPA reported. However, there was warm applause for the singers and musicians, and particularly for conductor Christian Thielemann. Festival organizers said ahead of the performance that it would be the first time AI took part onstage at the event, “not as a character, but as an image-generating force.” They said that sing- ers would be “the fixed point the towers of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and a special postage stamp marking German reunification in 1990. The festival website said that “every performance will be unique — because the im- ages and associations never stand still.” SURABAYA, Indonesia — An Indonesian ferry car- rying 271 people caught fire in waters off the main island of Java on Sunday, leaving at least five people dead and dozens missing as rescuers and passing vessels evacuat- ed hundreds from the burn- ing ship, officials said. The Mutiara Sentosa 2 ferry was traveling from In- donesia’s second-largest city of Surabaya in East Java to the city of Makassar in South Sulawesi, with 232 passengers and 39 crew members, when the fire broke out between 6 and 7 a.m. in waters off Sumenep regency, according to Indo- nesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, known as Basarnas. The ferry operator, PT Atosim Lampung Pela- yaran, reported the incident to the Surabaya search and rescue office about an hour later, Basarnas said in a statement. It said the com- pany received information from the ferry’s captain that the vessel was on fire near the northern tip of Madura island, but contact was later lost. By 9:45 a.m., authorities determined the ferry was about 19 nautical miles north of Buruan Sapudi is- land after communicating with the nearby cargo vessel Meratus Project 3, which was unable to approach the burning vessel closely be- cause it was carrying a flammable load. Video released by the Na- tional Search and Rescue Agency showed thick black smoke billowing from one side of the ferry and spread- ing across much of the ship while videos circulating on social media and messaging groups showed terrified pas- sengers, most wearing life jackets, clustered on the deck and upper sections of the vessel awaiting rescue, some jumping into the sea as orange flames and black smoke billowed from the burning vessel. The ferry was reported to be nearly engulfed by flames, with passengers gathered on the bridge and bow. A tugboat and another passing vessel moved in and began evacuating passen- gers shortly before 10 a.m., the statement said. By Sunday afternoon, several nearby vessels man- aged to rescue 225 passen- gers and crew members and recovered five bodies. At least 41 people remained un- accounted for. The cause of the fire was not immediately known and remained under investiga- tion. Search and rescue teams dispatched a vessel from Su- rabaya, although officials es- timated that it would take about six hours to reach the scene. A rigid inflatable boat from the Sumenep rescue post was sent toward the lo- cation but later returned to shore because of rough seas and high waves. The Indone- sian navy also deployed a warship to assist. The ferry, 525 feet long and 82 feet wide, serves the Surabaya-Makassar route, a voyage that typically takes about 40 hours and is pri- marily used by domestic travelers and cargo trans- port between Java and Sula- wesi. Indonesia is an archipel- ago of more than 17,000 is- lands where ferries are a common method of travel. Disasters occur regularly, with weak safety enforce- ment often blamed. Trisnadi and Karmini write for the Associated Press. Karmini reported from Jakarta. AP writer Edna Tarigan in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report. SMOKE BILLOWS from the Mutiara Sentos 2 ferry carrying 271 people off Madura Island, Indonesia. Associated Press Fire on Indonesian ferry leaves 5 dead and dozens missing By Trisnadi and Niniek Karmini

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A4 MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LATIMES.COM $389 OF CALIFORNIA REFINISHING OF: TUBS • TILES • SINKS • FIBERGLASS REFINISHING OF: Tub Only Reg. $439 DO BUSINESS WITH A LICENSED CONTRACTOR www.bathtubkingcalifornia.com Lic.#775121 Promo Code: LATPD 1-800-882-5464 LAA8023308-1 COUPON $50 Valid Until 8/15/26 WASHINGTON — Presi- dent Trump says he will or- der American forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran, claiming Mideast allies have reached the param- eters of a deal to end the five- month war. The emerging deal “would include the Immedi- ate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HOR- MUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat,” Trump wrote in a Saturday evening social media post. “Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rap- idly make a DEAL,” Trump said. Trump has announced halts to strikes in Iran on several occasions since the United States and Israel at- tacked Iran on Feb. 28, only for things to unravel and fighting to resume again. Iran’s defense minister said on X that the country was “neither surprised nor passive” following Trump’s announcement and said Iran continues to remain alert in the face of concrete threats from the U.S. While Iran’s leaders ap- pear united in a strategy sig- naling strength and endur- ance, a struggle for control seems to be brewing within the theocracy’s leadership between those who oppose all negotiations with the U.S. and others who count on military pressure to win at the negotiating table. Proposal to resume negotiations A regional official says the proposal announced by Trump over the weekend calls for the U.S. and Iran to return to negotiations and continue working out issues that have stymied prior progress on the deal. The official, who is in- volved in the mediation ef- forts, said the proposal calls for reopening the Strait of Hormuz and halting attacks across the region, including by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq on the Arab gulf countries and Jordan. The U.S., in exchange, will end its naval blockade on Iran and allow Tehran to export its oil as stated in the tentative ceasefire deal, he said. No deal has been reached yet, but mediation efforts are underway, said the offi- cial, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to talk to the media. Trump said that Israel is joining his commitment to end the war by implement- ing the ceasefire deal. Israel did not publicly comment on the announcement. On Thursday, Trump also announced a disarma- ment deal with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. But Sunday, an Israeli official told the Asso- ciated Press that Israel has shared “serious security concerns” with the White House about it. Meanwhile, Palestinians are reporting an increase in the scale of Israeli strikes across the enclave, with at least people killed overnight and through Sun- day afternoon. Israel’s mili- tary said the strikes targeted militants. Saudis concerned about retaliation Saudi Crown Prince Mo- hammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto leader, spoke with Trump by phone Saturday and raised con- cerns about the U.S. poten- tially escalating the conflict with Iran, according to the Saudi Press Agency. The Saudis, according to a person briefed on the sub- stance of the call but not au- thorized to comment pub- licly, are concerned that Tehran could respond with attacks on the energy infra- structure of the kingdom and other gulf countries. The call happened before Trump’s social media an- nouncement, the person said. The crown prince sought clarity from Trump on what potential new action he was weighing against Iran, the person said. A White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and re- quested anonymity, con- firmed the leaders spoke Saturday but did not offer any details. Since the start of the war, Iran has attacked vessels at- tempting to transit through the Strait of Hormuz with- out its authorization. Madhani and Magdy write for the Associated Press. Madhani reported from Washington. AP writers Toqa Ezzidin in Cairo, Giovanna Dell’Orto in Jerusalem, Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv and Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel, contributed to this report. Trump claims new Iran deal may be close Regional official says a ceasefire proposal would call for a return to negotiating table. By Aamer Madhani and Samy Magdy CEUTA, Spain — Dikra, a 20-year-old migrant from Morocco, had spent five days in Ceuta by Sunday after swimming to the Spanish territory with her younger sister and cousin. Since then, all her meals have come from local resi- dents, and she isn’t sure when her next one will be. Yet Dikra is certain she does not want to go back. “I want to stay. I want to go to Spain,” Dikra said, who asked that her last name be withheld for safety reasons. By Sunday afternoon, Dikra was among the last re- maining migrants in the city after tens of thousands of the 60,000 migrants who had breached the border with Morocco on Thursday and Friday walked back to that country. At least 72 people died in the crossing, most by drowning, and the humani- tarian crisis created by the sudden rush of people reig- nited a debate around immi- gration in Europe and be- yond. Dikra said she worked in the Moroccan port city of Tangier as a cleaner, but decided to leave alongside her sister and cousin, in part to escape her alcoholic fa- ther. She hopes to make use of a hairdressing diploma in continental Spain — from which she remains sepa- rated by the Strait of Gibral- tar and the European Union’s complex asylum sys- tem. Abdel Karim, 35, also from Morocco, waited out- side Ceuta’s official migra- tion reception center on Sunday, asking for updates about what officials were saying they would do with the holdouts still in the city. Karim was unemployed in Morocco, and had lived in continental Spain years ago, before he was expelled from France, where he was living on the streets. “In Morocco, I’m seen as a deportee,” Karim said. “Those who are deported know what it means — stress, depression, anguish.” Karim said he saw posts on social media about those making the crossing and took advantage of the chaos. He crossed with 10 euros in his pocket, he said, and pointed to his blistered feet. In Spain, Karim said, he wants to do whatever work he can find, and remained unfazed about how he would get there. Ceuta and its Spanish sister city of Melilla are not part of the European Union’s Schengen area, and those traveling to main- land Europe must go through border checks upon arrival. At a beach in Ceuta, hun- dreds of migrants who had arrived days earlier gath- ered on Sunday evening. Some crowded around an army truck where Spanish soldiers distributed water. Senegalese migrant Cesse Aliou, 25, rested with a group of sub-Saharan men and women outside the nearby shelter. In Mo- rocco, Aliou said, he earned about $322 a month at a call center, but the work wasn’t stable. So he boarded a train in Casablanca to Tangier and then to Fnideq, and from there he swam to Ceuta, he said. Across the street, on an- other wooded patch near the shelter, a group of migrants began fighting over water that residents had brought to the area. “We are very tired. To eat, to sleep, it’s very difficult here,” said Aliou, pointing to the scuffle. “You see how the situation is.” Naishadham writes for the Associated Press. Some Ceuta migrants hold out hope By Suman Naishadham PEOPLE who crossed into the Spanish territory of Ceuta are escorted to the Moroccan border on Sunday. Bernat Armangue Associated Press TOKYO — A woman who developed heat stroke while taking shelter in a car is the latest fatality related to a powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s southwest- ern prefecture of Kumamoto last week, officials said Sun- day as concerns over heat- related illnesses grow in an area that is suffering ex- treme temperatures. The woman in her 70s with apparent heat stroke was found in a car, Kuma- moto officials said, as they raised the death toll from the quake to 36. The magni- tude 7.1 hit Kumamoto pre- fecture on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday. This latest death was what officials and experts had worried about amid high temperatures. Kuma- moto authorities were to start delivering leaflets to those taking shelter in their cars, urging them to stay in cool places, drink enough liquids and regularly exer- cise to avoid blood-clotting risks. NHK public television said the woman was found dead Thursday in a car with- out gas. ”It’s heartbreaking,” said Kumamoto Gov. Takashi Kimura, referring to the woman’s death, as he called on evacuees taking shelter in their cars to keep refueling their vehicles to run air con- ditioning or consider mov- ing to air-conditioned evac- uation centers. The prefecture’s main challenge is the lack of fresh water still affecting nearly 47,000 homes and fuel short- ages as Japan suffers swel- tering heat. The Japan Meteorolog- ical Agency said tempera- tures reached an “extreme heat” level of about 98 de- grees in Kumamoto city Sat- urday and were expected to go higher Sunday. More than 9,000 people remain at crowded shelters, such as converted commu- nity centers, school gyms and classrooms, many of them lacking air condition- ing. Many others slept in cars parked at town hall parking lots and parks or outside their homes. Due to fuel supply short- ages in hard-hit areas, there have been long lines of cars at gas stations that have re- sumed operations as fuel de- livery has gradually re- started. Experts have long criti- cized Japan’s crowded con- ditions at emergency shel- ters, arguing that a lack of sanitation and privacy cre- ates additional stress and increases the risk of health problems for disaster-hit people. Water, food and other ne- cessities, including portable toilets, as well as air condi- tioners and partitions, were being delivered to improve conditions at the evacuation centers, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said at a gov- ernment task force meeting Saturday. “The government is de- termined to do everything we can,” Takaichi said. On Saturday, authorities ended a massive days-long search-and-rescue opera- tion at the Aeon Mall, in the town of Kashima, after ex- tracting five people and the bodies of seven others. The site was one of the hardest- hit, after an explosion that followed the quake caused the walls and a floor to col- lapse. The explosion, which the company said it believes was due to a gas leak, occurred after about 3,000 shoppers had been evacuated to a parking lot following the quake, but some employees remained inside. The mall’s second floor collapsed. The overall number of missing in the prefecture re- mains unknown, and search operations pressed on, with thousands of soldiers, po- lice, rescue workers and snif- fer dogs deployed. Takaichi urged rescue personnel not to leave any- one behind. At another hard-hit site in Kumamoto prefecture, a chimney collapsed at the Nippon Paper Industries factory in Yatsushiro city, trapping 11 employees. Nine have since been confirmed dead and two were rescued, officials said. The earthquake has left 105 people injured in Kuma- moto, authorities said, and two deaths in addition to those reported are being in- vestigated to determine if they are quake-related. The prefecture said fewer than 900 households remain without electricity, and the power company serving Kyushu said it had no imme- diate reports of outages. More than 180 homes were destroyed, officials said, and more than 3,800 buildings were damaged, with 20 of them severely af- fected, according to Kuma- moto prefectural assess- ments. Yamaguchi writes for the Associated Press. After Japan quake, woman dies sheltering in car By Mari Yamaguchi A CYCLIST rides past damaged buildings in Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto on Sunday. Taichi Nagahisa Kyodo News MOSCOW — Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Sunday called a bomb at- tack on a restaurant in the capital the day before a “bru- tal terrorist act,” but did not say who might be responsi- ble. The blast on Saturday evening at the Balzi Rossi, an upscale Italian establish- ment in central Moscow, killed two people in addition to the bomber, Russian state media said, citing local offi- cials. At least 21 others were injured. “Yesterday, a brutal ter- rorist act was committed in Moscow that claimed hu- man lives. The victims are currently in the city’s hospi- tals, where they are receiv- ing all necessary care,” Sobyanin wrote on social media Sunday. An investigation was underway, he added. “Those responsible for committing this crime will certainly be found and will face the puni- shment they deserve,” he wrote. A woman attempted to smuggle the bomb into the restaurant, but a security guard refused to let her in before it exploded, Russian state news agency Ria Novosti reported. She and the guard were killed along with a restaurant patron. As of early Sunday after- noon, there was no further information from Russian authorities, and no one had publicly claimed responsi- bility. According to Ria Novosti, Balzi Rossi was closed for a private function Saturday evening at the time of the blast. Video released by Rus- sian state media showed heavily armed law enforce- ment officers, several ambu- lances and other emergency vehicles at the site. Earlier this year, Russia’s Federal Security Service an- nounced that authorities would tighten security around senior military and government officials, after a series of assassination at- tempts in Russian cities that followed the Kremlin’s full- scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. So far, Russian author- ities have not drawn any connections between Sat- urday’s blast and the earlier attacks or the war in Ukraine. Russia previously said Kyiv was behind a car bomb- ing in Moscow last April that killed Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational de- partment in Russia’s Gen- eral Staff. Ukraine did not publicly claim responsibility. But Ukraine’s SBU secu- rity service earlier said it or- ganized the December 2024 killing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kir- illov, who headed the Rus- sian military’s nuclear, bio- logical and chemical protec- tion forces. Kirillov was killed by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day af- ter Ukraine’s security serv- ice leveled criminal charges against him. Among other prominent victims of bombing attacks in Russia were Daria Dug- ina, the daughter of influen- tial nationalist thinker Aleksandr Dugin, and Vladlen Tatarsky, a well- known pro-Kremlin military blogger. Kyiv denied involvement in the attack on Dugina and did not respond to Russian accusations that it was be- hind Tatarsky’s death. Moscow mayor says bombing was ‘terrorist act’ TWO PEOPLE and the bomber were killed in the attack Saturday on a restaurant in Russia’s capital. Sergei Vedyashkin Moscow News Agency associated press

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LATIMES.COM MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 A5 THE NATION COLUMBUS, Ohio — Pursuing a narrow path to retake control of the U.S. House, Democrats are see- ing fresh opportunity in a northeast Ohio congres- sional district where the Re- publican incumbent is fac- ing mounting pressure over domestic abuse allegations and a GOP senator, his for- mer father-in-law, said Sun- day he is unfit to serve. Allegations against Rep. Max Miller, a White House advisor during President Trump’s first term who is en- dorsed by Trump, have been public for years but recently have drawn increased media scrutiny amid an escalating legal back-and-forth with his former spouse, who is the daughter of U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio). That has Democrats sensing Miller could be vulnerable in a dis- trict he won two years ago with a little more than 51% of the vote. The threat to Miller’s candidacy heightened sig- nificantly Sunday, as Moreno said his former son- in-law should not be serving in the House and should “seek professional help,” while Miller defended him- self against the allegations in a video on social media. Miller insists he won’t drop out Moreno, who had been publicly restrained in recent months as the custody dis- pute between Miller and his daughter Emily played out, said in a lengthy post: “If there are any basic stand- ards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. He should not serve in the House of Representatives.” Moreno wrote that Miller “needs serious psycholo- gical help. He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaugh- ter.” Miller said Sunday that he will remain in his race for reelection before a Wednes- day deadline to replace him. “I’m not dropping out of this race and I’ll win in No- vember,” he said. Emily Moreno has said that Miller scalded, hit and threatened her while they were married. Miller denied those allegations in the vi- deo, as he has in the past. “It’s incredibly upset- ting,” Miller said as he went through the allegations. Miller also said he had nothing to do with a broken collarbone on their 2-year- old daughter that led Emily Moreno to contact author- ities. The pair, who were married in 2022 and finalized their divorce last year, have presented different versions of how the injury occurred, according to court filings and police reports detailed in the magazine Mother Jones that first revealed the child’s injury. Miller accompanied his announcement with the re- lease of a cache of investiga- tive and court documents re- lated to the custody dispute. A spokesperson for Emily Moreno, Stefan Mychajliw, said Sunday that the video was “shameful.” “No loving parent would have ever used their daugh- ter as a PR pawn to save their own political career,” My- chajliw said. “Miller can lie and spin on X, but he cannot do so under oath in a court of law. We are confident that justice will prevail in court.” Republican reaction Sen. Moreno’s statement prompted some hand- wringing behind the scenes in his home state, where Trump-endorsed candi- dates like Miller typically win with ease. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Miller’s Democratic op- ponent, Brian Poindexter, said no one facing such accu- sations “belongs in the halls of power.” State Rep. Mike Dovilla, a U.S. Navy veteran and for- mer presidential appointee to the Office of Personnel Management, and Kevin Coughlin, a former state sen- ator and representative who ran for the U.S. House in 2024 and 2026, were among Republicans whose names were being floated should Miller drop out, according to a high-ranking Republican who discussed the sensitive subject on condition of ano- nymity. Democrats have called on Miller to resign, re- quested a congressional eth- ics investigation and sug- gested more help could be directed in the fall toward Poindexter, a union iron- worker. Republicans generally had remained in Miller’s cor- ner until now, saying he has delivered for his district and is electable in November. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine told Ohio’s Capital Journal that the accusations were troubling and “very se- rious” but that Miller’s fate should be up to voters. The tension comes as Re- publicans are defending their narrow majority in the House in the November races. Terry Casey, a longtime Republican consultant in Ohio, said Miller remains in a strong position to win the Republican-leaning district, which stretches south from Cleveland and was won deci- sively by Trump two years ago. That is unless Poindex- ter, who has been endorsed by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), can attract money significant enough to step up his advertising in the 7th Congressional District’s me- dia markets. “Unless serious people are willing to put in serious money, I’d say beginning around $2 million, it’s all nothing but lip exercises,” Casey said. The National Republican Congressional Committee declined to discuss whether it would match any influx of Democratic cash. Miller has significantly outraised Poindexter, although the Democrat’s campaign said it has received a surge in social media followers in recent weeks. Democrats call for ethics probe Last week, U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, said it “would be wise” for Miller to resign. The House Democratic Women’s Caucus called for an ethics investigation. “The recent reports of do- mestic violence and child abuse against Representa- tive Max Miller are deeply disturbing, and Congress can’t ignore them,” Demo- cratic Reps. Teresa Leger Fernández of New Mexico, Emilia Sykes of Ohio and Hillary Scholten of Michigan wrote in their letter. “Allega- tions of violence against women and children have to be met with the utmost seri- ousness.” Other allegations Miller has denied all alle- gations of abuse. Last spring, his spokesperson provided documentation to the Associated Press that showed several allegations that he had abused his daughter had been investi- gated by the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services and were deemed unsubstanti- ated. He has sued Emily Moreno for defamation. The couple’s dispute es- calated last week. On Thursday, lawyers for Emily Moreno asked a judge for a temporary restraining order barring Miller from contact with her attorney, Andrew Zashin. The filing al- leges that Miller shouted in- sults at Zashin and goaded him to “Come at me!” out- side a court hearing last May, then grabbed Zashin during a different proceed- ing on Tuesday. The court filing quotes Miller’s lawyer as saying his client “just can’t control himself.” The attorney did not return a call seeking comment. Last month, Miller’s ex- girlfriend, former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, filed a lawsuit against him. She ac- cused Miller of violating terms of a confidential set- tlement agreement they struck to resolve his 2021 lawsuit against her. That lawsuit alleged Grisham defamed him in her book and in a Washington Post op-ed when she said a former White House staffer — later identified as Miller — physically abused her while they were dating. While the book is vague on the specific allegations, Politico re- ported at the time that Grisham and Miller’s rela- tionship ended “when he pushed her against a wall and slapped her in the face in his Washington apartment after she accused him of cheating on her.” Grisham alleged in the new lawsuit filed July 7 that Miller dragged her name into his dispute with Moreno and violated their agree- ment not to disparage each other. Democrat’s strategy For Poindexter, the accu- sations against Miller pro- vide a possible path to an up- set in November if some con- servative-leaning voters opt for him or enough Republi- can voters are turned off by the domestic abuse allega- tions and stay home. “These are serious allega- tions and deserve the full at- tention of law enforcement,” Poindexter said in a state- ment. “If all the allegations against Congressman Miller prove to be true, Max Miller should be in jail, not worried about retaining a seat in Congress.” Jim Trakas, a former state lawmaker and GOP party chair in northeast Ohio, said Miller is not helped by the fresh devel- opments so close to the elec- tion. “It’s a difficult year for any incumbent,” he said. “Now you have to spend time on this when you want to fo- cus on the main event, which is the pocketbook issues.” Smyth, Jalonick and Catalini write for the Associated Press. Pressure mounts on GOP incumbent to quit race Ohio Rep. Miller is unfit to serve, says Sen. Moreno, his former father-in-law. By Julie Carr Smyth, Mary Clare Jalonick and Mike Catalini REP. Max Miller (R-Ohio) with then-wife Emily in 2022. She accuses him of abuse, which he denies. Democrats hope to flip his seat. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades Associated Press TWIN FALLS, Idaho — The suspect in a fatal shoot- ing at an In-N-Out Burger in southern Idaho died of a self- inflicted gunshot wound, police said Sunday, cred- iting an off-duty officer and a bystander with firing shots that diverted him away. Investigators are confi- dent that the gunman, iden- tified as 24-year-old Chad Williams, acted alone during the shooting Saturday in Twin Falls, Police Chief Matthew Hicks said at a news conference. Three people died and seven others were injured at the recently opened restau- rant in the southern Idaho city of about 56,000 people. In a Sunday morning up- date on the shooting, an offi- cial said it remained unclear whether the gunman was among those three fatalities, according to news reports. Authorities said Sunday that two of the injured re- mained in critical condition, three remained hospitalized and were listed as stable, and two were treated and re- leased. Hicks said an off-duty state trooper and an armed bystander — whose iden- tities weren’t immediately disclosed — both fired back and diverted the gunman away from the restaurant. “We believe their actions helped drive the suspect away from the scene, pre- venting further casualties,” the chief said. “We want to take a moment and com- mend the actions of the off- duty officer and the citizen, and their heroic action to stop this incident.” Hicks said detectives were working to determine Williams’ motives, and said the suspect’s family was co- operating with law enforce- ment. He also warned of misin- formation spreading online identifying a different man as the shooter, saying that man had “no involvement in this incident whatsoever.” One of those killed was an employee, the California fast-food chain’s owner said. “My heart is broken, my chest is heavy, my eyes burn from the tears I’ve shed. We lost one of our beautiful As- sociates tonight,” In-N-Out owner Lynsi Snyder said in a statement released early Sunday on social media. “In- N-Out will be mourning with the families and praying for them as they tread through a very painful season.” The In-N-Out had opened about a week earlier, on July 24, as part of the Irvine-based company’s re- cent expansion to Idaho. Snyder did not identify the slain worker. Officials were still trying to notify relatives of victims and so were not yet releasing the names, ages or other details about the victims killed or injured, Twin Falls spokes- person Josh Palmer said Saturday. Police who responded to the shooting found the body of the suspected gunman in an area near the restaurant, Palmer said. Palmer said investiga- tors were interviewing wit- nesses. The restaurant is in a busy shopping plaza, and hundreds of people were in the area when it happened around 2 p.m. Lane Koehn, 34, said he was at a stoplight near the In-N-Out when he saw a per- son with an AR-style rifle emerge from the drive- through. A man with a pistol started firing at the shooter. He then saw someone in an In-N-Out uniform drag a person, also wearing a uni- form, bleeding from a gun- shot wound to her chest across the parking lot. The employee, Koehn and the man with the pistol stayed until paramedics arrived for her. “She was pretty bad off, but I don’t know. I hope she made it,” Koehn said. Koehn said he was told by police to evacuate because the shooting was still active. He said the shooter fired at least three or four rounds and it was not clear whether anyone in particular was tar- geted. Video taken by a driver from across the street cap- tured a shooter in dark clothing and carrying a long rifle walking up to a white car, opening the driver-side door and popping the trunk. The person then walked to the trunk and reached in- side. At that point the driver who shot the video left, fear- ing that the man might be getting more weapons. Twin Falls resident Haley Dodaro, 43, and her mother went to In-N-Out for lunch Saturday afternoon. While waiting in the drive-through line, they saw people run- ning across the road and workers bolting out of the restaurant. At first, Dodaro thought there might have been a fire, but then a man directing traffic in a reflec- tive vest said there was a shooter. “So that’s when we knew there was a shooting. People were running out crying and screaming. It was very scary,” Dodaro said in a text message to the Associated Press. Twin Falls is about 130 miles southeast of Boise and about 75 miles north of the Nevada border. Gunman, employee among dead in Idaho In-N-Out shooting EMERGENCY vehicles arrive at the In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho. KMVT Attacker died of self- inflicted gunshot, say police. Burger chain’s owner mourns worker. associated press

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A6 MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LATIMES.COM when they approved the top- two primary system that puts all candidates on the same ballot and allows only the top two finishers to ad- vance to the general election, regardless of their party affil- iation. Paul Mitchell, a Demo- cratic redistricting expert who devised California’s new congressional map under Proposition 50, said the backers of the state’s pri- mary system sold it years ago as a moderating force, in which those orphaned vot- ers would be encouraged to select the least partisan gen- eral election candidate. But in reality, Mitchell said, “it doesn’t work that way.” How voters decide, what they factor in Mitchell said intraparty matchups in the past have shown 35% of orphaned vot- ers or more simply abstain from voting in that race. A recent analysis Mitch- ell conducted of races, in- cluding for seats in the state Legislature, showed such undervoting among or- phaned voters in every intra- party race for a state Senate seat in 2024 — one clear ex- ample being the competitive and costly battle between two Democrats, Laura Rich- ardson and Michelle Cham- bers, in South Los Angeles. Many others vote based on “tertiary things,” he said, such as a candidate’s race or gender, or whether they seem local or a Washington insider. “Traditionally, it isn’t so much about somebody be- ing more moderate,” he said, in part because voters can’t always discern moderation among candidates of an op- posing party. “Republicans might be able to tell the dif- ference between a moderate Republican and a conserva- tive Republican, but Demo- crats can’t tell the differ- ence.” Incumbency also can be a drag on a candidate if or- phaned voters dislike their track record, even if their op- ponent is even further from those voters politically. As one example, Mitchell pointed to rural, more con- servative parts of the state going for Kevin de León over Sen. Dianne Feinstein when he challenged her in 2018, de- spite his running to her left. “You’re like, how in the hell did these rural counties vote for Kevin de León? And it was because there were a lot of Republicans who, if they were going to vote in the U.S. Senate race, just wanted to vote against Fein- stein,” Mitchell said. Katelyn Stauffer, an asso- ciate politics professor at the University of Georgia who has studied voter behavior in top-two races in California, said people “like to make de- cisions that are easy,” and “for most people, the ulti- mate cue is, does this person share my party?” When party doesn’t dif- ferentiate candidates, voters tend to rely on other “simple cues or heuristics,” Stauffer said. For example, based on her research, she said wom- en regardless of party and Democrats regardless of gender are more likely to vote for a woman in such sce- narios. Candidates often adjust messaging Candidates could con- sider moderating their mes- sage to attract orphaned voters, though that can be perilous. In a statement to The Times, Calvert accused Kim of trying to woo orphaned voters with a more biparti- san message, as evidence she is untrustworthy. “Young Kim has bragged to some voters that she’s a moderate who censured President Trump. She’s then claimed to others that she [is] a 100% Trump Republi- can. It’s obvious Young Kim will say anything to try and hold on to her job, which is why voters from every party just can’t trust her,” Calvert said. He said he has “been a consistent conservative in Congress for many years and that’s not going to change.” He also claimed to be “one of the most effective members of Congress,” saying he has secured funding to reduce traffic congestion, fight fires and improve water infra- structure in his district — things “voters from all parties want.” Chris Pack, a spokesman for Kim, denied that she’s changing her tune depend- ing on her audience and dis- missed Calvert’s claims of serving his constituents well, calling him a “do-nothing di- nosaur” who has failed to im- prove their lives for decades. “The truth is he’s had more than enough time to deliver for the people of Cali- fornia and he hasn’t,” Pack said. Similar intraparty bat- tles are playing out in other congressional races between Democrats. In the 4th Congressional District, which stretches through the Napa and Sac- ramento valleys, Republican voters could help decide be- tween incumbent Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) and his challenger from the left, venture capitalist Eric Jones. Thompson — who has been in Congress since 1999 and sits on the powerful Ways and Means Committee — won 41% of the vote in the primary, while Jones won 22.2%. A slate of six Republi- can candidates collectively won 36.1%. Jones, who backs prog- ressive measures to expand Medicare and cut working- class taxes, said he hopes voters of all stripes look be- yond political labels and see that he is the only candidate in the race who will take on big utilities, healthcare lob- byists and other big-busi- ness interests who fund Thompson’s campaigns. “I want voters to realize that there’s a real choice in front of them,” he said. Thompson said he is fo- cused on doing his job, intro- ducing himself to voters in the new parts of his district, reconfigured under Pro- position 50, and “figuring out how I can work with them” to address their concerns. He said there is “a lot of com- monality” among voters of all parties who want “good roads, clean air, water, strong [agriculture], safe communities,” and that he’s been endorsed by local Re- publicans and Democrats alike. Thompson also rejected Jones’ criticism of his fund- raising, saying he has “done a lot of good work that’s not necessarily in the interests” of those who have contrib- uted to his campaign. He also said fundraising is nec- essary in a race against a wealthy opponent like Jones, who donated millions of dollars to his own cam- paign. In the 7th Congressional District, Republican voters will help decide between in- cumbent Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento) — who has been in Congress since re- placing her late husband there in 2005 — and her chal- lenger from the left, prog- ressive Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang. Vang won 31.2% of the pri- mary vote. Matsui won 29.1%. Two Republican candidates together won 37%. In a statement to The Times, Matsui said Novem- ber’s general election “will be a significantly different race because there will be many more voters that didn’t vote in the primary,” and that she will “work harder to court voters by meeting them where they are and inform- ing them how I’ve delivered on my promises,” including on healthcare, public safety and jobs. Vang did not respond to a request for comment but previously accused Matsui of not delivering on her promis- es for decades. “After 20 years, families are living paycheck to pay- check, people of my genera- tion are no closer to owning a home, and you still can’t af- ford a doctor visit,” Vang said in June. Party involvement is predictable Political parties tradi- tionally have shunned med- dling in races in which they lack a candidate of their own, experts said. They some- times endorse in races in which two members of their party are facing off against each other, but not always. Nick Poche, a Republican National Committee spokes- person, said his organization is largely focused on three races in which Republicans are either looking to hold or win seats from Democrats: the 13th Congressional Dis- trict, where Republican Kev- in Lincoln is challenging Rep. Adam Gray (D-Mer- ced); the 22nd Congres- sional District, where Rep. David Valadao (R-Hanford) is trying to fend off Demo- crat Randy Villegas; and the 48th Congressional District, where Republican Jim Desmond is facing off against Democrat Marni von Wilpert for the seat of retir- ing Rep. Darrell Issa (R- Bonsall). He called the Democrats in those races “radical so- cialists and emblematic of California’s far-left failures” and said his party would be campaigning against them. But he declined to speak to the Calvert-Kim race, or the races in which two Demo- crats are facing off. The California Republi- can Party did not respond to a request for comment. Rusty Hicks, chair of the California Democratic Party, said his party is fo- cused on “fulfilling the prom- ise of Proposition 50” to flip five seats to help his party win control of the House, and also is focused on three competitive races: those for Valadao’s and Issa’s seats, and one in the 6th Congres- sional District, where Demo- crat Richard Pan is taking on Republican-turned-inde- pendent Rep. Kevin Kiley of Rocklin. Hicks said the party will not endorse Calvert or Kim, whom he called “two rotten choices,” but has endorsed incumbents Matsui and Thompson in their races against fellow Democrats because they have “been leading” on issues of afford- ability and access to health- care and “are best posi- tioned to be reelected.” Jones scoffed at his party endorsing his opponent. “Are we really excited that the Democratic machine keeps trying to choose our electeds for us?” he said. State’s ‘orphaned’ voters could be key in races REP. Ken Calvert (R-Corona) faces a challenge from another GOP incumbent after winning his primary. Andrew Harnik Getty Images [Voters, from A1] ‘Republicans might be able to tell the difference between a moderate Republican and a conservative Republican, but Democrats can’t.’ — Paul Mitchell, Democratic strategist REP. Young Kim (R-Anaheim Hills), Calvert’s foe, is trying to appeal to orphaned voters, his office says. Anna Moneymaker Getty Images shipped them a surplus major leaguer, Michael Busch, in exchange for two prospects. One was Hope, whose professional experi- ence was limited to 11 games of rookie ball. Pitcher River Ryan was drafted in the 11th round, by the San Diego Padres. When the Padres needed a left-handed hitter who could play the outfield, the Dodgers shipped them a surplus major leaguer, Matt Beaty, for a prospect who had yet to make his profes- sional debut, Ryan. Pitcher Brady Smith was drafted in the third round, by the Dodgers. This is his second professional season. The Dodgers developed Hope and Ryan from minor leaguers into top prospects, and the Tigers hope some of that Dodgers development dust has rubbed off on Smith. For now? The prospect rankings on the league website put Hope at No. 25 and Ryan at No. 68. The Baseball America prospect rankings put Hope at No. 55, with Ryan outside the top 100. Neither ranking includes Smith among the top 100. As Baseball America editor in chief J.J. Cooper wrote, Hope was the third- best outfielder on the Dod- gers’ double-A team. That might be the great- est testament of all to the Dodgers’ player devel- opment system, particu- larly considering all of their winning means they draft at the end of every round, every year. Maybe the trio of pro- spects never pans out, at least not the way the Tigers hope. Two out of three prospects traded at the deadline never do, accord- ing to Baseball America research. Will money come into play here? Yes, but not yet. Skubal is a free agent at the end of the season, and not every team could afford $300 million or $400 million or so to sign him to a long- term contract. But, for these final months of the season, the cost to pay Skubal is $9 million. Any team can do that. And, if the owner of your team tells you he could not have done that, the proper response would be to laugh, and then chant “Sell the team!” And, as the Brewers and the Rays and the Cleveland Guardians prove just about every year, any team can afford to build an excellent player development system. Look, I am not going to try to tell you that every team could sign Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts and Edwin Díaz and Kyle Tucker. But the New York Mets, in the largest market in the major leagues, certainly could. Their Saturday was not spent trading for Skubal. It was spent taking trade offers for players on their last-place team and commemorating the 40th anniversary of their 1986 World Series championship team — their last champi- onship team. In Anaheim, the last- place team in the second- largest market in the major leagues lost to the Brewers, the team in the smallest market in the major leagues — and, as of Saturday, the team with the best record in the majors. Market size need not be destiny, if you can scout and sign and coach and develop players. The owners could learn from that, but it’s easier to point at the Dod- gers and say, “That’s the bad guy.” Instead, some poor league employee probably stayed up late Saturday night, planning how to splice clips of Skubal wear- ing a Dodgers uniform into the “Level the Playing Field” ad campaign the owners are running to per- suade fans to take their side in collective bargaining. Imagine what they could do with clips of Skubal waving to fans in a championship parade. Dodgers’ acquisition of Skubal not just about money TARIK SKUBAL could help the Dodgers in the postseason, but he could have helped many other clubs. Above, Skubal at spring training. Geoff Stellfox Getty Images [Shaikin, from A1]

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LATIMES.COM MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 A9 ed to county hospitals and private hospitals with trauma centers. Private hos- pitals without trauma cen- ters, such as MLK hospital, are left to vie for a cut of a pool of any “leftover” funds that exceed the amount the county projected raising via the measure. Between 2023 and 2025, MLK hospital had to be bai- led out by the state and county four times for a total of $68 million, $29 million of which was provided via two one-time disbursements of “leftover” Measure B funds. The hospital — which opened as a private nonprof- it in 2015 after county-op- erated Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center closed in 2007 amid a crisis over substandard care — has never received any “on- going” Measure B funds. All told, $126 million of Measure B funds were awarded to 13 private hospi- tals with trauma centers in L.A. County last fiscal year, including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Grove. With nearly 900 beds and 2,100 doctors, Cedars- Sinai is one of the biggest and most capable hospitals in the U.S. Cedars-Sinai reported net income of about $1.1 bil- lion on more than $5.8 billion in revenue last fiscal year on its federal 990 tax form in May. It reported net assets of $9.9 billion, an increase of $1 billion over the previous fiscal year. Cedars-Sinai, which re- ceived about $9.4 billion in Measure B funds last year, has opposed significant changes in how the money is awarded. Changes to how the funds are allocated “could shift Measure B away from its in- tended purpose,” Stephanie Cohen, Cedars-Sinai’s vice president of government and industry relations, said in a July 8 letter to L.A. County officials. “Existing funding is already insuffi- cient to sustain these serv- ices.” Cedars-Sinai spokes- woman Sally Stewart added in an emailed statement that “changing the alloca- tion formula risks under- mining the system that Mea- sure B was designed to pro- tect and sustain.” Weiss of MLK hospital described the stark gap in the two medical providers’ financial pictures as “a tale of two hospitals.” On a recent weekday, dozens of emergency de- partment patients were ly- ing on gurneys next to a nursing station, waiting on hard plastic chairs lined up in hallways, and undergoing treatment in rows of tiny spaces separated only by low, cubicle-style walls. The hospital has also doubled up many of its single-occu- pancy hospital rooms, con- verted its gift shop to a pro- cedure room and resorted to treating patients in what were once meditation and waiting rooms. For years, MLK hospital’s leaders have wanted to reno- vate underutilized interior spaces at the Willowbrook campus to expand the emer- gency department. But the hospital hasn’t been able to afford to do so, so it has re- lied on the tents in recent years to help manage the se- vere overcrowding in its emergency department, which has 29 beds and was built for 25,000 patient visits a year, but now sees more than 120,000 patient visits annually. The hospital has already taken a series of major steps to make ends meet, accord- ing to Dr. Elaine Batchlor, its chief executive. The disparity in “on- going” Measure B funds awarded is even more con- cerning, she said during an interview in her office at MLK hospital, because of the different populations served by the facility as op- posed to other facilities that receive millions of such dol- lars each year. Rethinking how Measure B funds are allocated, Batchlor said, is a way of helping to ensure that hospi- tals that serve communities with the most financial needs and fewest healthcare options receive more finan- cial assistance. Like many of the patients it serves, MLK hospital’s very survival is on the line. “Why is it considered ap- propriate to only give this money to these 13 trauma centers when some of them clearly are doing well finan- cially?” she added. “There are communities that are much more in need and underserved than Beverly Hills and West L.A.” Dr. Naman Shah, direc- tor of the L.A. County De- partment of Public Health’s Division of Medical and Den- tal Affairs, said that the way Measure B funds have been doled out in the past “didn’t really reflect the economics of healthcare in the county in terms of which hospitals needed more support.” If MLK hospital closed, he said, “it would be devas- tating, and we would have untold misery from lack of access to care.” The population MLK hospital serves in South Los Angeles is among the least fi- nancially secure in the re- gion. In 2023, MLK hospital had nearly 85,000 Medicaid/ Medi-Cal patient visits to its emergency department, the most in the state, while Cedars-Sinai had nearly 17,000, according to the Cali- fornia Department of Health Care Access and In- formation. In 95% of the visits to MLK hospital’s emergency department in fiscal year 2025, the patients were ei- ther on Medicaid/Medi-Cal or Medicare, or uninsured. Because of that, billed pa- tient revenue makes up just 44% of the hospital’s fiscal- year 2026 budget; the re- mainder comes from state and county funding. Pastor Robert Taylor of Beulah Baptist Church in Watts has advocated for greater resources for MLK hospital in his role as presi- dent of Watts Area Min- isters. Measure B funds, he said, should be “distributed in a way that best meets the needs of the community” in- stead of going to “hospitals who don’t really need it.” “If that hospital shuts down in our community, it’s going to be devastating,” he said, noting that the next closest emergency depart- ment is St. Francis Medical Center, several miles away in Lynwood. “It could be deadly to have to travel that far to get to an emergency department.” Los Angeles County Su- pervisor Holly Mitchell, whose district includes Wil- lowbrook, wants the Board of Supervisors to take steps to reconsider how Measure B funds are allocated. She plans to introduce a mea- sure at Tuesday’s board meeting to hire a consultant to examine the issue and make recommendations for the best use of the money. “Hospitals like Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, which serves some of the highest volumes of emergency room patients despite having less financial stability, underscore the re- ality that not all hospitals face the same challenges in keeping their doors open,” Mitchell said in an emailed statement. “Yet every hospital plays a critical role in our emer- gency care system,” she said. “We owe it to the public to en- sure — through an inde- pendent review — that Mea- sure B funds continue to ful- fill its intended purpose of supporting and stabilizing a strong, countywide trauma and emergency care sys- tem.” MLK hospital seeks county funding to survive HALLWAYS are used for treatment at MLK hospital’s emergency department. Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times [Hospital, from A1] ure to grasp the distinction between public and nonpub- lic information — or, quite possibly, both.” A prolific social media poster, Trump has sent stocks, bonds and curren- cies soaring and plunging with his online musings and threats. That presents op- portunities for so-called high-frequency traders that specialize in buying and sell- ing within milliseconds, ex- ploiting tiny, fleeting differ- ence in prices. Chance for profits aplenty Within the last month, Trump has threatened on Truth Social to slap higher tariffs on Canada, kill a nu- clear deal with Saudi Arabia and widen the Iran war. With advance knowledge, traders betting on a plunge in the Canadian dollar, a drop in nuclear energy stocks or a jump in oil futures could have raked in big paydays. “For the big guys, it’s go- ing to be something they need,” said Joe Saluzzi, co- founder of Themis Trading, who estimates that about 100 high-frequency firms might be willing to pay for the service. “It’s market- moving information.” Dubbed Truth API, the service comes as these firms are spending more on feeds and servers that bypass slower internet connections with direct lines to news and data sources. The chance for profits is greater than ever thanks to artificial intelli- gence’s ability to read posts and articles more accurately for market-making changes and Trump’s penchant for making news online. Trump posts, traders pounce Traders profit when prices jump up or down, and with his taste for cliff- hangers, threats and policy reversals, America’s only re- ality-TV president provides plenty of potentially market- moving content. The reversals are espe- cially profitable, allowing traders to win both ways — jumping ahead of stocks moving up or down to a post threatening something, then cashing out within thousandths of a second, then betting the other way. In addition to Trump, the service will include posts from other “high ranking” Truth Social contributors, including possibly his two oldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, who run the Trump Or- ganization and also have big social-media followings. Truth Social has said that the information will be released to the traders and the general public at the same time, so there really isn’t an issue of fairness. But Themis Trading’s Saluzzi, a critic of high-speed trading, says that’s a red herring, be- cause when the posts are re- ceived, not when they are re- leased, is what matters. “Somebody who buys the info and has a system built to process it will be able to act quicker than you and me,” said Saluzzi. In reference to everyday, small stock buy- ers, he added, “the loser is al- ways the retail investor.” Posts that set off buying frenzies Aside from policy scoops, another reason to sign up has emerged in recent months: Trump is posting more about publicly traded companies, praising ones he likes in a way that sets off buying frenzies. “The pimping of specific companies — obviously Wall Street would like to know that before other people,” said Dylan Hedler- Gaudette, a federal ethics rule expert at the watchdog Project on Government Oversight. “It’s a real mess.” In April, moments after Trump praised Palantir Technologies in a post that included its stock symbol, the price briefly jumped the most it had in a year. Later that month, Trump posted, “Congratulations on Intel doing such a great job,” and the stock immediately jumped in after-hours trad- ing. Just which firms are sign- ing up for the feed is unclear. Asked for comment, none of the half a dozen most well- known high-speed traders such as Citadel Securities and XTX Markets replied. If just three sign up for the $100,000 monthly fee, that would double revenue at Trump Media, which re- ported taking in $3.7 million last year. Seeking big-money customers The company can use their business. Stock in the Truth Social parent has plunged 75% since Trump took office last year as the company keeps reporting hundreds of mil- lions in losses despite the president’s help driving traf- fic to its site by posting ma- jor decisions there. The president breaks news on Truth Social so often that the White House press office will copy his posts into an email when re- sponding to questions from the media seeking details on policies. If his posts aren’t available yet, journalists are sometimes told, “Wait for the Truth.” Another problem for Truth Social is looming if the Democrats take control of Congress and launch inves- tigations, as promised by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D- Mass.) in a statement Friday specifically attacking the new service: “We will haul in those responsible for this open corruption to answer to the American people.” If the losses keep mount- ing for the company, though, some predict Trump will push things further, using the platform even more for policy announcements. “That’s absolutely going to happen,” warned Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the good-government group Public Citizen. “Trump knows how to sell products.” Condon and Slodysko write for the Associated Press. AP writers Will Weissert and Josh Boak in Washington contributed to this report. Trump stands to profit off his policy announcements TRUTH SOCIAL, the president’s social media plat- form, is now charging for early access to his posts. John Minchillo Associated Press [Trump, from A1] works in San Diego and re- quested his last name be withheld for fear he might be deported. The 42-year-old, who is married with two young daughters, has lived in San Diego for seven years. He said his mother and uncle were killed in Haiti; his older brother was shot. His father is still there, but his sisters and close friends have left. A Homeland Security spokesperson declined to comment on plans for any operations targeting Hai- tians but said enforcement actions are happening every day. “Whenever we go out, it makes me feel bad,” said a 43-year-old Haitian man who lives near El Cajon. He too just lost his temporary protected status. He arrived in the U.S. two years ago, alone, leaving be- hind his family. He typically waits in a Home Depot park- ing lot with the hope of get- ting picked up for a job, but it hasn’t been easy to find steady work. Now, he and other local Haitians say they have been keeping their head on a swiv- el for immigration enforce- ment. Even with temporary protected status, immi- grants face a host of chal- lenges to find work in the first place, said Maria Chavez, immigration legal director at the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans. The process to qualify for a work permit and a reauthorization can take over a year with delays, she said. Most Haitians who have settled in San Diego since 2010 have found work in the hospitality, healthcare and construction industries — though many arrive with an entrepreneurial mindset forged in their home coun- try, explained Jozef, from the Haitian Bridge Alliance. “Due to the lack of a for- mal job market, the majority of the people have to find ways to create small busi- nesses in Haiti,” she said. “So they come with that mindset of creating busi- came to the U.S. in search of safety and protection, only for that to be pulled from under them without any support,” said Guerline Jozef, the executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, a local nonprofit that provides legal and social services to Haitians and other immi- grant groups. Along with Haiti, the Trump administration has moved to roll back tempo- rary protected status for people from 13 countries, all of them majority Black or brown. “Temporary Protected Status is exactly that — tem- porary,” said a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson. “For too long, TPS has been allowed to function as a de facto am- nesty program despite Con- gress never intending it to be permanent.” TPS was established for Haiti in 2010, after a cata- strophic earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and destabilized the coun- try. The protection was ex- tended in 2021 amid the civil chaos that unfolded after Haiti’s president was assas- sinated and again in 2024 be- cause of ongoing safety con- cerns. Today, armed gangs con- trol sections of the country, presidential elections haven’t been held in a dec- ade, and millions of people struggle with daily needs, per a recent United Nations report. Today, the Trump ad- ministration says condi- tions in Haiti have improved enough for Haitians to re- turn. But Haiti remains under a “Do not travel” ad- visory from the U.S. State Department, and the coun- try has been under a state of emergency since March 2024. Since their deportation protections ended last week, local Haitians say they can’t go back to Haiti, pointing to safety concerns for them- selves and their families. “I had no choice but to leave Haiti,” said Galencha, a Haitian TPS holder who nesses.” Right now, Haitian Bridge Alliance is focused on helping former TPS holders create a family plan — in- cluding getting their finan- cial documents in order and creating contingency plans in case they’re deported. It’s also helping get basic needs like food to Haitians who are scared to leave home and connecting them with legal representation. Since going back to Haiti is not an option for many Haitians in the region, now is the time for former TPS holders to pursue alterna- tives such as asylum or see- ing if they qualify to stay in the U.S. through marriage, Chavez said. “None of these are fast options,” she said. PANA and Haitian Bridge Alliance are fighting in court against the Trump administration’s termina- tion of temporary protected status for Somalia. But Chavez says that fighting the termination for Haiti is largely off the table, since the Supreme Court has already upheld that order. In the meantime, the end of Haitians’ temporary pro- tections has created heart- break throughout the com- munity. Martha and Feret Mil- liem own Caribbean Pleas- ure, a Point Loma restau- rant serving Haitian cuisine in a dining room hung with Haitian flags. The couple have lived in San Diego for nearly half a century and aren’t person- ally affected by the end of TPS protections — but it’s been painful to watch mem- bers of their community grow fearful and lose their grip on the American lives they’ve worked to build. The pain extends to fam- ilies back in Haiti, too, they add, if relatives in the U.S. who suddenly lose their legal jobs are unable to send mon- ey back to them. “Right now, the Haitians are living under hell,” Martha said. Fox writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune. A PERSON holds a Haitian flag during a San Diego rally for migrants with temporary protected status. Gregory Bull Associated Press End of TPS has Haitians in U.S. worried [Haitians, from A1]

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A10 MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LATIMES.COM WASHINGTON — Immi- gration remains a stronger issue for President Trump than the economy or Iran among Republican voters, according to a new poll, even after three people were killed in encounters with Im- migration and Customs En- forcement agents within a week in July. But Trump’s immigra- tion approach is unpopular among Americans overall, the new survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found. Only 39% of U.S. adults approve of his performance on immigra- tion, a decline from 49% at the beginning of his second term. About 8 in 10 Republicans continue to approve of how Trump is handling immigra- tion. That’s a slight decline from the beginning of his second term, when about 9 in 10 Republicans approved, but his support on the issue within his base has been mostly stable since last sum- mer despite a chaotic year of immigration enforcement actions including several shooting deaths. Republicans are also more likely to approve of how Trump is handling im- migration than the economy or Iran. In just the last month, GOP voter approval of Trump’s handling of Iran dropped slightly in AP- NORC polling. The poll found that about half of U.S. adults say Trump has “gone too far” on deport- ing immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. That number also has remained steady for more than a year, despite multiple immigration crack- downs that deployed federal law enforcement to large cit- ies and at least 10 deaths in- volving encounters with im- migration officers since the mass deportation campaign began. Republicans are much less likely to say Trump has overstepped in his immigration enforce- ment actions. Overall, Trump’s popu- larity has fallen since he took office last year, but the find- ings highlight the relatively muted impact of the last year’s aggressive immigra- tion enforcement on his pub- lic standing. That’s a con- trast with views of his han- dling of Iran, where he’s seen more recent signs of slip- page, even among support- ers. Partisan divide Americans remain di- vided on whether Trump has overstepped on immi- gration. About half of U.S. adults say Trump has “gone too far” when it comes to restric- ting legal immigration, in line with the last time the question was asked in Feb- ruary. Roughly half — 47% — say Trump has exceeded his authority when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. In each case, about 3 in 10 say Trump’s actions have been “about right,” and closer to 2 in 10 say he hasn’t gone far enough. Few Republicans — about 2 in 10 or fewer — say he’s “gone too far” on de- porting immigrants in the country illegally or restric- ting legal immigration. Most Americans, howev- er, say he’s gone too far when it comes to using traffic stops to find and arrest im- migrants living in the U.S. il- legally — a practice that was at the center of two recent ICE shootings in Texas and Maine — and when it comes to sending federal immigra- tion agents into U.S. cities. Republicans were also less likely to see these as over- steps. James Leatherman, a 68- year-old Republican from San Antonio, is generally supportive of Trump’s han- dling of the presidency and backs him on immigration in particular. “You cannot come in here illegally — you’re breaking the law,” he said. More Americans disap- prove than approve of the way ICE is enforcing immi- gration laws. About half of Americans “strongly” or “somewhat” disapprove of the agency’s approach, while roughly 3 in 10 “strongly” or “somewhat” approve. There’s a wide partisan split, though: About 6 in 10 Repub- licans approve of ICE’s ap- proach, compared with about 2 in 10 independents and just 4% of Democrats. Eric Coursen, 76, an independent from Chin- coteague, Va., agrees with the president that there were problems with the im- migration system that needed to be addressed. He said he doesn’t believe in “open borders,” but he’s deeply opposed to how the administration has been en- forcing immigration law. “It’s like taking some bread when you’re hungry, and you take it, you’re going to shoot that person rather than just, you know, get them for theft?” he said. “It’s just overkill.” Losing on economy About 3 in 10 U.S. adults, 32%, approve of how Trump is handling the economy. That’s down from 40% at the start of his second term, and marks a shift from his first presidential term when the economy was a relatively strong issue for Trump. During Trump’s first term, his lowest approval on the economy was 40% in De- cember 2017. Now, his rating is well below that. Roughly 7 in 10 Republi- cans — 69% — approve of how Trump is handling the economy. That’s roughly in line with the share who ap- prove of how he’s handing the presidency, but it’s slightly below the 78% who approved early in Trump’s second term. Leatherman, despite his support for Trump, said he’s feeling the pinch of higher prices in his budget. “I al- most have to go to the bank to get a loan before I go gro- cery shopping,” he said. About 7 in 10 U.S. adults describe the nation’s econo- my as “very” or “somewhat” poor, in line with April. Re- publicans are more opti- mistic, with about 6 in 10 say- ing that the economy is do- ing well, compared with about 2 in 10 independents and roughly 1 in 10 Demo- crats. On healthcare Healthcare never has been a strong issue for Trump. Unlike with immi- gration and the economy, a clear majority of U.S. adults have disapproved of Trump’s performance on healthcare across both terms. That hasn’t changed in the new poll, which found that only about 3 in 10 Ameri- cans approve of how Trump is handling healthcare, in line with when the question was last asked in December. He’s experienced a re- bound on the issue among his own supporters since late last year, though. Roughly 71% of Republicans now approve, compared with 59% in the December poll. That shift comes as Democrats kicked off 100 days until the midterm elec- tions last week, with leaders saying they’ll focus on healthcare cuts, in addition to the cost of living and the war in Iran. Democrats and independents continue to overwhelmingly disapprove of Trump’s handling of healthcare. The AP-NORC poll of 1,165 adults was conducted July 23-27 using a sample drawn from NORC’s prob- ability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points. The margin is plus or minus 6 points for Republi- cans and plus or minus 5.4 points for Democrats. Thomson-Deveaux, Sanders and Catalini write for the Associated Press. Republicans still back Trump on immigration SOME 8 in 10 Republicans back President Trump’s immigration policies, a new poll says. Above, an ICE arrest. Erin Hooley Associated Press By Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, Linley Sanders and Mike Catalini Download the app. Discover more of The Times. Use your camera to scan the QR code. Tap the link when it appears to be directed to your device’s app store. Hit download and start exploring.

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LATIMES.COM MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 A11 BUSINESS Other than “The Odyssey,” the biggest news in Los Angeles film circles has been the return of the Cinerama Dome. The iconic theater, which has been closed since March 2020, will be restored and reopened by Sony Pictures Entertainment and its Al- amo Drafthouse theater chain. As my colleague Cerys Davies re- ported, renovations begin this month and will continue until early 2028. For more than 60 years, the dome has been a landmark on Sun- set Boulevard. With its 86-foot- wide curved screen, it has pre- miered such iconic Hollywood films as 1977’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and made a cameo of its own in 2019’s “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.” Ever since the dome closed at the start of the COVID-19 pan- demic, there have been questions about whether it would return. Filmmakers such as “Anora” direc- tor Sean Baker and “Baby Driver” director Edgar Wright publicly called for its reopening, while a “Save Your Cinema” preservation campaign led by Benjamin Stein- berg kept the geodesic icon in the public eye. “It was definitely the capital of, like, the movie-going experience in L.A.,” Steinberg told my colleague, adding that he plans to visit the theater two or three times a week when it reopens. “I can’t wait to go back inside the Cinerama Dome and watch movies.” The theater will be operated by Alamo Drafthouse, though Sony says it plans to keep the “Cine- rama” name and exterior brand- ing, as well as the dome’s “tradi- tional concession experience” — meaning you won’t be able to order food and drinks to your seat. (Cin- ephiles recently have criticized the chain for changing its in-seat or- dering system to require use of mobile phones in the theater.) Alongside traditional theatrical showings, the dome also will in- clude some Alamo Drafthouse spe- cials, including repertory screen- ings, premieres, events and film- maker series. Adjacent to the dome, the 14- screen former ArcLight Cinemas will reopen as an Alamo Draft- house, Sony said, offering dine-in food and beverages, as well as karaoke rooms and “fan celebra- tions.” Sony was interested in the dome even before the Culver City- based studio acquired Alamo Drafthouse in 2024. “It’s such a great location,” Ravi Ahuja, chief executive and chair- man of Sony Pictures, told me. “It’s historic, people love it and the the- ater was successful before it closed. It’s one of a kind, which is the kind of experience we’re after.” The move also highlights the opportunity Sony sees in the expe- riences business — an increasingly important strategy for Hollywood. The Alamo Drafthouse acquisi- tion was part of this, as was the stu- dio’s recent $100-million invest- ment and minority stake in Cosm, a virtual reality venue operator that has a location at Inglewood’s Hollywood Park. The studio also has “Wheel of Fortune Live!,” a touring version of the popular game show, “Jeopardy! Bar League,” which was incubated at Alamo Drafthouse, and events for its streaming service Crunchy- roll at anime conventions. “It’s another leg of the franchise stool,” Ahuja said. “Fans want to engage in person with each other. It’s part of a human need when you have deep fandom around some- thing.” As the theatrical market waxes and wanes and the television busi- ness has become more unpre- dictable, it makes sense that stu- dios like Sony increasingly look to diversify and attract fans in new ways. After all, people have a lot of things they can do with their time and money. And after a period of slow returns since the pandemic, they’ve increasingly been coming back to in-person activities. To keep loyal fans in the fold, studios need to give them more ways to in- teract with the stories and enter- tainment they love, or they’ll move on. Betting on the experiences business isn’t new. Walt Disney Co. makes the majority of its operating income not from its theatrical movies or streaming service, but from its theme parks and cruise line division. Last year, Universal opened Epic Universe, a major in- vestment in its Orlando theme park resort that indicates the im- portance of this business for the company and owner Comcast. But not every company wants or needs to start a theme park business. For one, it’s expensive. And for a studio such as Sony, which doesn’t have a lot of kid-fo- cused franchises, it doesn’t really make sense. As a result, some are getting into the experiences space in more specific and limited ways, such as studio tours or branded attrac- tions. For Sony, that’s meant building a business around these in-person offerings that align more with its adult-leaning audiences. Li- onsgate has a “John Wick Experi- ence” in Las Vegas, while Warner Bros., among other things, re- cently debuted “Harry Potter: A Hogwarts Express Adventure” train event at the Southern Cali- fornia Railway Museum in Perris. (Universal licenses Harry Potter from Warner Bros. for inclusion in its parks.) For most studios without a ma- jor theme park presence, this kind of location-based entertainment is probably still a relatively small part of their corporate revenue, po- tentially less than 1%, said Dennis Spiegel, founder and chief execu- tive of the International Theme Park Services Inc. consulting firm. But what these experiences do is help lengthen the life of a franchise by keeping licensing revenue flow- ing and keeping brands relevant between film releases, he said. “Hollywood increasingly sees it as an essential part of maximizing the lifetime value of its intellectual property,” he wrote in an email. “In many ways, we have seen how these experiences have become as much of a marketing engine as they are a profit center.” As for the Cinerama Dome, don’t take it as a sign that Sony is looking to build out an exhibition empire. The studio is looking only for special and selective deals like the dome, Ahuja said, and there are no plans to add more L.A. ex- hibition locations. This article is from the Wide Shot, a weekly newsletter about the business of entertainment. Sign up at latimes.com/newsletters. Los Angeles Times photo illustration; photo by Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times THE WIDE SHOT Making their cinematic presence felt even more Sony’s reopening of famed Cinerama Dome shows that it and other studios see an opportunity with in-person experiences By Samantha Masunaga T here’s a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to dis- cover that their adversary refuses to play. A real-life example of this stratagem unfolded Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where Sen. Rand Paul (R- Ky.) convened a committee hearing aimed at trapping Dr. Anthony Fauci into saying something under oath that Paul could use to prosecute him for perjury. Fauci, who was appear- ing before Paul’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under subpoena, took the weapon out of Paul’s hands by sim- ply refusing to answer a single question other than to state — 116 times by my count — “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully de- cline to answer based upon my rights under the 5th Amendment to the Consti- tution.” During the nearly three- hour hearing, Fauci’s re- sponse left Paul and his seven GOP colleagues on the panel confronting a brick wall. They resorted to the common, if infantile tactic of asking repeated simple but irrelevant ques- tions in an attempt to em- barrass their target. “What day of the week is it today?” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) asked. “What color tie are you wearing?” He elicited the same boilerplate response. Presumably most of the senators were aware that protocol requires a witness pleading the Fifth to plead it to all questions. Certainly Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who participated in this performative charade, knew that. During a 2000 civil deposition in a lawsuit related to the healthcare firm Columbia/HCA, of which he was chief executive until 1997, he pleaded the Fifth at least 55 times, using phraseology almost identi- cal to Fauci’s. (Scott left his post after it was learned that his com- pany was under investiga- tion for filing false claims with Medicare and other government healthcare programs. By 2000, it had paid $1.7 billion in fines, penalties and restitution, which the Justice Depart- ment called “by far the largest recovery ever reached by the government in a healthcare fraud inves- tigation.” Scott wasn’t charged personally with wrongdoing.) Trump knows too. At a civil deposition in 2022, he invoked the Fifth more than 440 times. They all know too that the Supreme Court has upheld the idea that the Fifth protects not only the guilty but also the innocent. So their shtick about how Fauci wouldn’t be pleading the Fifth unless he had something to hide is sheer duplicity. Fauci, 85, and his lawyers presumably knew they had no choice but to turn away all questions. Experience told him that engaging with Paul would merely feed what Fauci, in a brief open- ing statement, labeled Paul’s “unhinged obsession” with blaming him for the COVID-19 pandemic. It was left to the Republi- cans to fulminate into the wind about how Fauci is a “megalomaniac” (Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio) or “a villain” (Scott), or worse. Early in the proceedings, Paul ordered Fauci’s lawyer, David Schertler, from the hearing room for trying to make a statement on his client’s behalf. Let’s examine the back- drop to Wednesday’s farce. As I have documented many times over the last five years, Republicans and right-wingers are fixated on the notion that the SARS- CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID, escaped from a Chinese lab to infect the rest of the world. There is not a speck of evidence to validate that theory. Rather, it’s the over- whelming consensus of epidemiologists and virolo- gists that COVID originated in wildlife, probably bats, and migrated to humankind via the illicit trade in wildlife in China and other south Asian territories, a process known as zoonosis. The case against Fauci, who retired in 2022, rests on several false claims. One is that as director of the Na- tional Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he manipulated scientists into downplaying the lab-leak theory in favor of zoonosis. His accusers base this idea on questions raised by the first scientists who examined the virus in early 2020, literally days and weeks after it appeared and it was a pathogen new to everybody. Some hadn’t seen some features of the virus in the wild, so they pondered whether it was man-made. But they were wrong — the features were familiar to virologists, just not to the ones examining SARS- CoV-2. Following the scien- ce, they came to discard the lab-leak theory as nothing more than an exceptionally remote possibility; that conclusion has held up over time. Fauci didn’t downplay the possibility of a lab leak in his discussions with scientists, as his enemies claim, but instead urged them repeatedly to follow their research wherever it took them. Paul’s particular hobby horse in this debate is the claim that Fauci down- played the lab-leak theory because NIAID had pro- vided funding for “gain-of- function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in the same teeming city where COVID was first seen, which made it complicit in the pandemic. For Paul’s purposes, “gain-of-function” is a shibboleth, akin to conservative attacks on “DEI” and “critical race theory”—useful because laypersons don’t know what it is but it sure sounds sinis- ter. Generically, the term refers to laboratory work that augments natural qualities of a microbe to facilitate experimental scrutiny or achieve a neces- sary goal, such as allowing microbes to produce a flu vaccine or bacteria to pro- duce artificial insulin. From 2014 to 2017, the U.S. suspended gain-of-function experiments to develop a standard identifying re- search that might produce “potential pandemic patho- gens.” The lab-leak camp as- serts that NIAID-funded experiments created a virus in the Chinese lab with features making it infec- tious for humans. Professional virologists say that nothing like that is possible given the state of science. A declassified report issued in 2023 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the U.S. had no evidence that any genetic engineer- ing at the Wuhan lab “in- volved SARS-CoV-2, a close progenitor, or a backbone virus that is closely-related enough to have been the source of the pandemic.” NIAID examined the work it funded in China against the post-2017 stand- ard and determined it did not breach that standard. Paul raised that very issue with Fauci at a contentious July 2021 hearing, but Fauci rejected it forthrightly. “Sen. Paul, you do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly,” Fauci told him. The other brief against Fauci aired by the GOP majority on Paul’s commit- tee is that Fauci is somehow responsible for the anti- pandemic steps undertaken by states and localities across the U.S. in the heat of the pandemic. The absurdi- ty of this contention is mani- fest, since Fauci never had any authority to impose any regulations on anybody. No, the damage was done by the virus, not Fauci, and it unquestionably was mitigated by the measures he recommended. Even so, some 1.2 million Americans have died from the disease — many of them succumb- ing because anti-vaccine agitators have discouraged them from getting COVID shots. For the right wing, “Fauci” is just a slogan. Here’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, boast- ing in a 2021 fundraising appeal, “I refused to blindly follow Dr. Fauci ... and allow him to strip Floridians of their God-given freedoms” by resisting lockdowns and school closures. Never mind that Florida emerged from the pandemic with one of the worst COVID mortality rates in the country. The truth is that while school closures wreaked damage on children’s learn- ing opportunities, they almost certainly saved the lives of thousands of chil- dren and their family mem- bers. “What would have happened had schools remained open without any mitigation measures?” New York neurologist and psy- chiatrist Jonathan Howard has asked. The number of deaths among children younger than 18, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has pegged at about 2,000, “would have been higher had 60 to 70 million unvaccinated chil- dren contracted the virus over several months’ time in 2020,” Howard reckoned. “It’s reasonable to assume that several thousand chil- dren would have died.” Fauci plainly understood that anything he said at the hearing would only be weap- onized against him through selective disclosure — as happened when Paul last week released about 1,000 pages from Fauci’s personal diary dating from the pan- demic era. None of it validated Paul’s accusations. And nothing at Wednesday’s hearing told us anything new about COVID’s origins or the course of the pan- demic. That’s a dangerous shame, because the GOP’s obsession with falsely blam- ing Fauci for a tragic global natural event for purely partisan purposes will only make it harder to fight the next pandemic, which inevi- tably will arrive, someday. While they’re distracted with their witch hunt, im- portant work will have to be done to stave it off. But doing it while the GOP goes off on its malevo- lent persecution of Fauci and other scientists will be like trying to swim up- stream against a torrent of slime. Voices MICHAEL HILTZIK COLUMNIST Partisan politicking won’t prepare us for the next pandemic SEN. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is shown on a monitor as Anthony Fauci testifies for his committee last week. Kevin Dietsch Getty Images

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A12 MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LATIMES.COM BUSINESS Nvidia Corp. is working on a fresh round of AI deals worth more than $750 billion, accelerating investments that skeptics have warned are artificially inflating de- mand and valuations across the industry. A partnership with South Korean conglomerate SK Group unveiled last month means the compa- nies will be doing more than $500 billion in business with each other, Nvidia said. Nvidia is also in talks to backstop as much as $250 billion to help OpenAI lease computing power from a U.S. data center project in what would be among the chipmaker’s biggest financ- ing deals with a customer. Big names from Gold- man Sachs Group Inc. to in- vestor Michael Burry of “Big Short” fame have for months warned of the “circular” na- ture of such agreements, where Nvidia finances and takes stakes in companies and projects that use its chips. And yet, the pace of the deals is only quickening. The fear with these trans- actions is that they may skew demand, spur bad de- cision-making and magnify losses if AI fails to turn prof- its for those investing hun- dreds of billions of dollars in the technology. Nvidia is also in discus- sions to finance $350 billion of OpenAI’s purchases of its chips for the U.S. project, ac- cording to a person familiar with the matter. And last week, the company said it has made a “substantial” investment in Safe Super- intelligence Inc., the AI startup co-founded by for- mer OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. People famil- iar with the situation said Nvidia committed $5 billion. “While Nvidia’s invest- ments and partnerships re- inforce confidence in long- term AI build-outs, in- vestors remain concerned about circular financing,” said Gary Tan, a portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments. “Capital is in- creasingly being used to fund future AI customers and infrastructure deploy- ments.” Nvidia’s shares fell 5% to $196.51 in New York trading on July 27, marking the worst single-day drop since June 5. The chipmaker also lost its status as the world’s most valuable company, dropping below Apple Inc. Meanwhile, the cost of protecting Nvidia’s debt against default surged by the most on record. It gained as much as 0.14 of a percent- age point to 0.82 of a percent- age point a year. “Nvidia wants to make sure that the build-out con- tinues at this pace,” Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh said on Bloomberg Television. “That’s a big risk for Nvidia. If things take a pause, even if it’s for six months, that’s not going to go very well for them.” Nvidia’s latest moves add to a frenzy of deals that it has made across the ecosystem over the past couple of years. The dominant maker of AI processors has taken stakes in developers such as OpenAI and fellow chipmak- ers such as Marvell Technol- ogy Inc., in an effort to fuel industrywide growth. Industry peers are opting for similar arrangements. Google, whose AI entries in- clude Gemini, agreed to backstop lease payments at five data center locations for Anthropic PBC, helping the OpenAI rival obtain what amounts to a $35-billion loan. Such transactions have left many AI companies in- creasingly intertwined, po- tentially exposing the sector to systemic shocks. Among the central concerns is also the industry’s rising debt levels, with many AI compa- nies boosting borrowing to fund their data center and chip projects. As part of Nvidia’s pact with SK Group, the compa- nies will team up to build more than 2 gigawatts of AI data centers on the Korean Peninsula. That’s roughly the amount of energy needed to power 1.5 million homes. The first of these so- called AI factories, built by SK Telecom Co., will open next year. “This is the golden ages for Korea,” Nvidia Chief Exe- cutive Jensen Huang said in an interview with Bloom- berg Television. “Their semi- conductor business is boom- ing. Their industrial busi- ness is booming. You know, this is a country that has the ability to help the world build out the AI infrastruc- ture.” A prospective deal under discussion with OpenAI would help the ChatGPT creator lease a $500-billion, 10-gigawatt hub that SB En- ergy, a SoftBank Group Corp. subsidiary, is devel- oping in Ohio, people famil- iar with the matter said. Nvidia may provide a guarantee of as much as $250 billion to the AI lab and is discussing financing OpenAI purchases worth $350 billion, one of the peo- ple said. Negotiations are in their early stages and could collapse or financing terms may change, the people said. The Wall Street Journal re- ported the talks earlier. “Nvidia guaranteeing more of OpenAI’s data cen- ter debt deepens vendor fi- nancing that’s already under scrutiny,” said Billy Leung, an investment strategist at Global X Management. “It’s as much a reminder of fund- ing strain in the AI build-out as it is a demand signal.” If realized, any backing from Nvidia to OpenAI may help address concerns from creditors about extending fi- nancing to an unlisted and unprofitable business for the ChatGPT developer’s ever-growing computa- tional needs. It also helps SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son’s ambition to play a central role in AI’s development. As with highly leveraged data center operations, Soft- Bank’s business is increas- ingly predicated on the AI spending rush continuing. Much of the Japanese com- pany’s earnings now hinge on valuation gains stem- ming from OpenAI and pro- spects for an eventual block- buster initial public offering. SoftBank has committed nearly $65 billion in invest- ments to OpenAI alone by October and has signed a $40-billion bridge loan — one of the largest-ever bridge fi- nancings in the Asia-Pacific region — to finance that in- vestment. But the compa- ny’s growing bet and reli- ance on a company in which it has limited control is caus- ing unease among investors. For Nvidia, closer ties with SK Group will help im- prove its access to computer memory chips. That compa- ny’s SK Hynix unit and South Korean rival Sam- sung Electronics Co. are the two biggest providers of the crucial components — chips that are in short supply be- cause of the global build-out of AI data centers. Nvidia will help Hynix design future high-bandwidth memory chips, an effort that will help guarantee access to supply. The $500-billion-plus val- ue of the deal includes mon- ey that Nvidia will spend buying memory chips, as well as purchases by SK Group of Nvidia’s supercom- puters, Huang said. “So be- tween us, we’re going to do half a trillion dollars’ worth of business,” he said. Last month, Nvidia also said it will invest $1 billion in Naver Corp. to help finance an AI data center under con- struction in South Korea. The funding will allow Naver, an internet and cloud serv- ice provider, to more than triple the size of the facility. The site — developed jointly with U.S. private equity firm Brookfield Corp. — will use Nvidia’s AI computing hard- ware. Naver’s stock soared more than 8% in Seoul. Huang has argued that Nvidia’s investments in companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic will help not only his business but pro- vide an investment return. Nvidia also has made invest- ment deals with data center companies including IREN Ltd., CoreWeave Inc. and Nebius Group NV. Collec- tively, Nvidia has announced more than $540 billion of similar deals this year alone, excluding the potential new agreement with OpenAI. Huang has pushed back on the idea that its deals are circular in nature, even as it’s backing the very companies that are the main buyers of its chips. “It’s a small percentage of the amount of money that they ultimately have to go raise,” he said of the CoreWeave investment in January. “The idea that it is circular is — it’s ridiculous.” Bass and Hsu write for Bloomberg. Nvidia gambit deepens fears of a circular tech bubble NVIDIA CORP.’S newest round of AI deals is pegged at more than $750 billion. Chiang Ying-ying Associated Press By Dina Bass and Winnie Hsu “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” swung into the top spot at the box office and scored one of the highest-grossing opening weekends with an estimated haul of $355 mil- lion in the U.S. and Canada, far surpassing studio and analyst expectations. The Sony Pictures film also brought in $572 million internationally for a world- wide total of $927 million, ac- cording to studio estimates. The movie’s haul now ranks as the second-biggest domestic and global open- ing ever, surpassed only by Walt Disney Co. and Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019. The film, which stars Tom Holland and Zendaya, is produced by Sony-owned Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios and Pascal Pictures. Its production budget was about $225 million. Marvel Studios Presi- dent and “Spider-Man” pro- ducer Kevin Feige called the debut “truly phenomenal.” “We are grateful to audi- ences everywhere for com- ing out and experiencing our film the way it was meant to be seen,” he said in a state- ment Sunday. “This debut reflects the enduring power of Marvel’s characters, and the connection they contin- ue to have with fans around the world — and, as audienc- es saw, it sets up exciting things to come.” Anticipation for the mov- ie was building for months, as robust pre-sales indi- cated high interest in Spi- dey’s return to the big screen. The previous film in the franchise, 2021’s “Spider- Man: No Way Home,” had one of the biggest domestic debuts on record with $260 million. But it came during the depths of a COVID-19 surge and against very little com- petition at the box office. That film also reunited all three Spider-Men — Hol- land, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield — in one time-bending, multiverse storyline, a move “Spider- Man” producer Amy Pascal described as 20 years in the making. This time around, “Spi- der-Man” was up against the juggernaut holdover Uni- versal Pictures’ Christopher Nolan film, “The Odyssey,” which came in second at the domestic box office with $51 million on its way to a global total of $911.4 million. The strong performance of “The Odyssey,” as well as the billion-dollar-grossing “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” and “Michael” earlier this year, helped push Uni- versal over the $4-billion global box office mark this weekend, the first studio to do so this year. Walt Disney Co. and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5” came in third with $6.3 million to add to its worldwide total of more than $1.06 billion. Uni- versal and Illumination’s “Minions & Monsters” ($5.8 million) and Disney’s live- action “Moana” ($5.3 mil- lion) rounded out the Top 5 this weekend, according to data from Rentrak. “ ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ is fundamentally a movie about friendship, about the balm of connec- tion in all our lives,” Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman Tom Rothman said in a state- ment Sunday. He added that this theme resonates with “audiences of all ages and all around the world.” TOM HOLLAND reprises his role as Spider-Man alongside Jon Bernthal in “Brand New Day.” Jay Maidment Sony Pictures ‘Spider-Man’ slings a box office record By Samantha Masunaga checks. About 23% of U.S. companies surveyed by background-check provider Checkr said hiring fraud cost them more than $50,000 in the past year because of delayed projects, compli- ance issues and rehiring costs. For 10% of respond- ents, losses exceeded $100,000. Susan Dietrich, owner of Pittsburgh-based staffing firm TOPS Staffing, now uses a mix of artificial-intel- ligence tools and phone in- terviews to verify candi- dates’ identities and con- firm their claims. Some job seekers, she said, have claimed to have accumulat- ed years of work experience in the months since they last applied for a position through her firm. Others have listed skills on their ré- sumés that they appeared to know nothing about during phone interviews. After a careful evalua- tion, Dietrich’s team sends hiring managers summaries of what they were able to ver- ify. The extra vetting is “really sucking up a lot of time,” Dietrich said. The addition of new screening measures early in the recruiting process is driving business for identity verification firms like CLEAR, which authenti- cates applicants using their photo IDs and public re- cords for headhunters. CLEAR, best known for its airport skip-the-line mem- bership, expanded its dig- ital platforms last year to help clients, both big and small companies, weed out potential tricksters. “We didn’t set out to solve this problem,” said Brett Romanoff, executive vice president of CLEAR1, the company’s digital-identity business. But after some customers started using the service to vet already-hired remote workers, CLEAR started using its biometric facial scans to validate ap- plicants too. For Persona, another identity-verification com- pany, confirming the iden- tities of prospective hires is now one of the company’s fastest-growing services, said Chief Executive Rick Song. Persona’s screening plat- form can detect if a candi- date is writing from a newly created email address or if Employers aren’t just screening résumés any- more. They’re verifying ap- plicants’ identities through- out the hiring process by taking biometric scans of their faces, scrutinizing email histories and even ex- amining the outlets behind them in Zoom interviews. Recruiters say it’s how they’re coping with a flood of embellished applications. More than a third of about 1,230 headhunters and hir- ing managers surveyed now spend half their workweek filtering for “spam and junk” submissions, many of them AI-generated, according to hiring software firm Green- house. Companies are con- cerned about applicants us- ing stolen or fabricated iden- tities to boost their chances of getting a job. The worries aren’t hypo- thetical. Hiten Sheth, an an- alyst at Gartner Inc., says his clients have uncovered candidates using deepfakes to impersonate someone else during video meetings. In one case, a recruiter inter- viewed one person only to have someone entirely dif- ferent show up on the first day of work. Another hired a remote worker they thought was based in North America only to later learn that the person lived on a different continent. Such incidents are becoming common enough that Gartner esti- mates that 1 in 4 job applica- tions companies receive will be phony by 2028. “Technologies are now being used that draw from well-tested, decades-old cy- bersecurity used in places like airports and voting and military and government applications to the ordinary business of applying to a job,” Greenhouse Chief Exe- cutive Daniel Chait said. “But in this world, it turns out that’s pretty easy to do because the technology is no harder than taking a selfie on your phone.” The cost of letting decep- tive prospects slip through can be steep. For decades, businesses have routinely shared information about their staff and workflows with job candidates before requesting identification or conducting background their computer’s clock is set to a different time zone than where they are supposed to be. It also flags whether someone is logging in through a virtual private network (VPN) to obscure their location or if their IP address is jumping around the globe faster than a per- son can travel. In one recent example, a Persona client found that a prospect was impersonat- ing a Coinbase employee us- ing details copied from the employee’s verified Linked- In profile, Song said. These additional verifi- cation steps utilize the sig- nals from the device candi- dates log on from and the metadata they leave behind when they submit applica- tions. It’s often done without their input, marking a change from traditional background checks, which often require applicants to submit basic personal infor- mation and sign consent forms. “Background checks are fundamentally about the past,” Song said. “The real risk is that you aren’t even the person that you claim to be.” At a conference for hu- man resources profession- als hosted this summer by SHRM, recruiters described “stalking” candidates with biometric screening tools in virtual interviews and track- ing IP addresses long before they would traditionally run background checks. “It almost sounds like something out of a spy nov- el,” said Stephen Dwyer, president of the American Staffing Assn., an industry trade group. Dwyer is training recruit- ers at ASA member firms to take a range of precautions to ensure job candidates are who — and where — they say they are. One tactic is asking interviewees to turn their webcam toward a nearby electrical outlet to prove they are in the U.S. The rise in fake applica- tions comes as hiring has slowed and job searches are taking longer. The median unemployed worker now spends 11 weeks looking for a job, up from 10 a year ago, Labor Department data show. Some job seekers are responding by taking ex- treme measures, like imper- sonating others or using chatbots to cheat in inter- views. At the same time, em- ployers are facing more seri- ous threats, too. The Justice Department said last year that North Korean opera- tives had infiltrated more than 100 U.S. companies by tricking the firms into hiring them for remote IT jobs. NBCUniversal, Nike Inc. and Boeing Co. all hired North Koreans who used fake IDs and résumés to pose as American workers, according to legal docu- ments. NBCUniversal, Nike and Boeing didn’t respond to re- quests for comment. The rise in falsified infor- mation is “one of the great- est threats to us,” said Ernest Stephens, a talent- acquisition manager at Se- attle Public Utilities. It’s forcing the company to make “a lot of changes” to the hiring process, he said. Stephens declined to elabo- rate, citing security con- cerns because the company is a public utility. More than 40% of em- ployers that hire temporary workers now use some form of identity-verification soft- ware to screen applicants, according to the first survey of its kind for Staffing Indus- try Analysts. The report in- cluded responses from more than 120 companies. Private lender Kiavi Inc. has job candidates complete “biometric and device val- idation to confirm identity and liveness,” according to an advertisement posted by the company. Data center giant Equinix Inc. asks ap- plicants to present govern- ment-issued photo identifi- cation at the start of video interviews and bans them from using virtual back- grounds. Seven months ago, a real estate company called PLACE started requiring applicants to verify their identities through CLEAR using a government-issued ID and a selfie. The platform flags hundreds of poten- tially suspicious applica- tions each day, according to Holly Priestner, PLACE’s chief people officer. “We learned some things the hard way,” Priestner said. Rogers writes for Bloomberg. Why 1 in 4 job applications could be fake by 2028 By Taylor Nicole Rogers

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LATIMES.COM/OPINION MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 A13 HOW TO WRITE TO US Please send letters to letters@latimes.com. For submission guidelines, see latimes.com/letters. OPINION VOICES Executive Chairman Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong News: Executive Editor Terry Tang • Managing Editor Hector Becerra • Editor at Large Scott Kraft • Deputy Managing Editors Shelby Grad, Amy King, Monte Morin • Assistant Managing Editors John Canalis, Steve Clow, Angel Jennings, Iliana Limón Romero, Ruthanne Salido • General Manager, Food Laurie Ochoa • Opinion: Op-Ed Editor Philip Gray Business: President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Argentieri • Chief Human Resources Officer Nancy V. Antoniou • President of L.A. Times Studios Anna Magzanyan • Chief Information Officer Ghalib Kassam • General Counsel Jeff Glasser FOUNDED DECEMBER 4, 1881 A Publication I couldn’t agree more with Monday’s op-ed about our treatment of mothers. Too many parents working hard to provide for their families struggle without access to dependable child care. I know this as the mother of a 4-year-old and as some- one who works daily in early childhood education access across Southern California. Too often, the government and society hand mothers platitudes instead of real support. It’s like being an event planner whose client wants champagne on a beer budget. Where’s the money? How? Nobody says. Instead, we hear, “You’re doing an amazing job, keep it up, you’ll figure it out.” And we do, mostly alone, alongside other mothers stuck in a system that leaves us behind year after year. It’s not enough to praise mothers. We need to over- haul the entire early care and education system in California so mothers and other caregivers feel truly supported. Anything else falls short. Pamela Arciaga Glendale :: Carter speaks bravely about a very sad truth. Child care providers like me are pushed even further to decide between career advancement and caring for our own children. It’s disheartening to have to choose between giving our kids the quality care they deserve and maintain- ing our work life. Many aren’t even afforded that choice. My kids are the best thing that has happened to me, but my salary was not enough to pay for my own child care. I made a hard decision: stay at home with barely a penny in my pocket and struggle on the single salary of my husband. Now imagine what happens when mothers don’t have a supportive partner. Child care is justifiably expensive. It provides a solid foundation for our kids’ development. But there has to be a way to offset its impact on moth- ers. California families need an affordable child care system. Alma Rodriguez Lake Balboa :: It shouldn’t be this diffi- cult for mothers — or any caregiver — to balance work and family. Stronger child care and family support systems are essential if we truly value children and the people raising them. As a mother and public health research profes- sional, I know these chal- lenges personally. After my son spent his first month in the NICU, I returned to work when he was just 2 months old because I couldn’t afford more unpaid leave. Going back so soon ended my breastfeeding journey, worsened my anxi- ety and made it nearly im- possible to focus because all I could think about was my baby. Today, when I consider having another child, my first thought isn’t whether I want one — it’s whether I can afford one. California must do more so families can thrive, not just survive. Marai Jimenez Los Angeles :: If Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk want to know why the birthrate is falling, all they have to do is read the July 27 edition of the Los Angeles Times. They would learn about a gigantic corporate merger, aging city infrastructure, cuts that are further slowing the restoration of forests, a proposal to abandon nucle- ar safety rules, cuts to green grants, federal attempts to interfere in elections, up- dates in the ongoing Iran/ U.S./Israel war, anti-Muslim violence, anti-Israel rheto- ric, increasing Chinese tech advancements, a killing in Berlin, the highest mort- gage rates in years, ethical breaches at the highest levels of society and lack of actual support for families. Can we really blame people for not wanting to bring a child into this world? Norma Derr Northridge :: To support people to become homeowners, the U.S. offers a tax deduction on mortgage interest. If the U.S. wants more babies, it should offer the same kind of tax deduction for licensed child care. Pat Conwell La Mesa Coaster not so fun for residents Re “Coaster sounds a little too ‘Fast & Furious,’” July What do people do on roller coasters? They scream. Loudly! One would think that with all the creative genius and the many well-compen- sated executives at Uni- versal Studios Hollywood, someone might have ut- tered “Houston, we have a problem” sometime within the decade of this roller coaster being discussed. Has anyone thought about the effects on proper- ty values in Toluca Lake if this problem cannot be solved? Declining values could provide residents some property tax relief, but at the cost of the quiet and peaceful enjoyment of their homes. What a conundrum. County officials did not require public hearings prior to granting Universal approval to build the coast- er. I wonder how many of these officials reside in Toluca Lake. Jan Meredith Torrance :: I used to live near Uni- versal’s sound-monitoring stations. I was a member of the committee that negoti- ated the park plan and then objected to the sounds that started before the roller coaster construction began. Sounds just from testing materials were heard inside homes and around the yards. At the meetings with Universal, we expressed concerns about the addi- tional sounds of screams. We tried, but it turns out there was nothing we could do to prevent them from going ahead with a project that we told them would destroy our peace. Universal was a fun park already and did not need the roller coaster. I didn’t sell my house two years ago because of Uni- versal, but I am glad I am not there now. Connie Elliot Pomona Mothers need more support Re “Yes, the birthrate is falling. Look how we treat mothers,” Opinion Voices, July 27 T he recent Los Angeles Times op-ed by Christine Michel Carter reflected many anxieties I carry as the mother of a 3-year-old. Mothers need stronger child care support, too; it’s frustrating that we are forced to choose between our careers and our children’s well-being. Before I became pregnant, I had no idea how much motherhood would actually cost. I wanted my son to have access to early childhood education and to build his socialization skills via developmentally appropriate child care, but the cost made it out of reach. The flexibility I needed as a mother limited the types of jobs I could take, which in turn reduced my earning potential and made paying for child care even harder. California can be the best place to build a life and raise a family, but only if we transform our early care and education system. Mothers shouldn’t have to sacrifice their careers just to give their kids a good start. Carmen Ortega Bell CHILD-CARE costs force many American families to make difficult decisions. Carolyn Kaster Associated Press LETTERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I f you build a house in the United States today, there’s a good chance you’ll be living under the dictates of a neigh- borhood homeowners associ- ation. Roughly two out of every three new homes are in an HOA, as are a third of existing homes. Some of these HOAs have evolved to encourage environmen- tally friendly yards, particularly in the desert Southwest, but many more throw up barriers to sustain- ability, even in communities where water is becoming more scarce, wildlife is under threat and home- grown energy could reduce pollu- tion. Janet and Jeff Crouch ran into the second type. They spent over a decade turning their Maryland yard into bird and pollinator hab- itat, with native flowering plants and trees. Then their homeowners association ordered them to re- place it with turfgrass. The expensive legal battle that followed ended with the yard mostly unchanged, but it helped inspire Maryland lawmakers to pass a low-impact landscaping law in 2021. The state declared that re- quiring turfgrass or restricting pol- linator gardens and xeriscaping — yards designed with drought-toler- ant plants and mulch or rocks rather than grass — were “unrea- sonable limitations.” California has developed even stricter protections, including voiding HOA rules that ban water- resistant plants or artificial turf or require turfgrass, although the as- sociations still can exert control over many homeowner decisions. In many other states, however, homeowners report continuing conflicts, including over xeriscap- ing in Utah, native wildflowers in Texas and habitat for monarch butterflies in Virginia. Others have run into conflicts over solar panels and electric vehicle chargers. We are conservation social scientists interested in under- standing people’s interactions with their environments. Our re- search on HOAs has found that these private, quasi-governmental organizations are an often over- looked but influential force in envi- ronmental policy. While HOAs often act as barriers to residential environmental sustainability, we believe they could be bridges in- stead. Cities and states can help. HOAs have existed since the 1800s. As suburban development began to quickly spread across the U.S. in the 1960s and ’70s, these or- ganizations expanded with it. Homebuyers in areas covered by them automatically become members, pay dues and agree to follow their rules as a condition of owning a home there. Those rules are often created by developers, who initially control the HOA. Then, as homes are sold, responsibility passes to a board that interprets, enforces and sometimes amends the rules. Because amendments often re- quire supermajorities of home- owners to approve, developer-writ- ten rules are difficult to amend and can shape HOAs for decades. HOAs occupy a unique position between private property and local governments. They enforce rules, collect fees, assess fines and main- tain shared spaces. They also often regulate house size, building mate- rials, driveways, yards, trees, out- door lighting and energy produc- tion. Their rules tend to reflect strong preferences for aesthetic uniformity, believed by some to be associated with higher home val- ues. HOAs have considerable envi- ronmental policy power, affecting how entire neighborhoods use wa- ter, generate energy, provide wild- life habitat and respond to climate change. Turfgrass lawns, for example, a particular American obsession, re- quire regular mowing, fertilizing and watering, increasing green- house gas emissions and water use. Turfgrass is notably poor at sup- porting biodiversity, particularly of pollinators and bird species. Our research team analyzed the rules of 31 homeowner associations in Ingham County, Mich., home to Lansing, to get a sense of how they influenced sustainability. We looked at 18 provisions affecting building structure, landscaping and energy and found that HOAs mostly presented barriers to resi- dential sustainability. For example, around three- quarters of the HOAs imposed a minimum home size. Nearly half required lawn maintenance and impervious driveways. One-third limited household energy produc- tion, such as solar panels or wind turbines. And one-quarter prohib- ited outdoor clotheslines. We found comparatively few provisions that supported sustain- ability. Only 29% of the HOAs lim- ited outdoor-light wattage (a haz- ard to migrating birds and other wildlife), 19% required residents to maintain trees, 6% constrained use of fertilizers and 3% required na- tive plants. In short, we found HOA provi- sions that impeded sustainable choices were much more common than provisions encouraging them. In a second study, we surveyed front yards in and around Madi- son, Wis. Six of the HOAs we looked at required native plants in front yards, and two restricted how much yard could be maintained as conventional, turfgrass lawns. We also compared those properties with nearby yards not governed by the same rules. The differences were substantial. Yards subject to na- tive-plant requirements averaged 29.5% native plant cover, compared with 6.9% in yards without those requirements. Turfgrass coverage was also significantly lower where associations restricted its use. Na- tive plants require less water and maintenance and provide food and shelter for bees, birds, butterflies and other wildlife, connecting yards to their surrounding ecosys- tems. HOAs are uniquely positioned to be leaders in residential sustain- ability. Unlike municipalities and townships, they govern at the scale where many environmental deci- sions are actually made: the house- hold. Reasonable covenants requir- ing native plants, limiting turf- grass and encouraging renewable energy can produce positive changes in neighborhood land- scapes. States can help by estab- lishing guardrails that allow re- newable energy, wildlife conserva- tion and water-saving landscap- ing. The greatest opportunity, how- ever, may come before the first homeowner ever moves in. Devel- opers, city planners and conserva- tion organizations can work to- gether to create model rules and provide technical assistance to HOAs as they are forming. Future neighborhoods could treat envi- ronmental sustainability as the de- fault. Because millions of Americans already live under HOA rules, the question is not whether these or- ganizations will shape residential sustainability. They already do. The more important question is whether they will continue rein- forcing yesterday’s aesthetic norms at an environmental cost or become partners in creating more sustainable futures. Daniel Kramer is a professor of conservation at Michigan State University, where Madeline Carr is a doctoral student in fisheries and wildlife. This article was produced in collaboration with the Conversation. But will homeowners associations continue reinforcing yesterday’s aesthetic norms, or lead on sustainability? XERISCAPING to replace turfgrass lawns reduces water use, but some neighborhoods forbid it. Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times HOAs can actually be a force for good Voices DANIEL KRAMER AND MADELINE CARR GUEST CONTRIBUTORS

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CALIFORNIA M O N D AY , AU G U S T 3 , 2 0 2 6 :: L AT I M E S . C O M /C A L I F O R N I A B Zhengfeng Bo, the 67- year-old Irvine man who brazenly kidnapped a busi- ness associate, stuffed him in the trunk of a car, led po- lice on a high-speed chase and then executed his victim in front of stunned deputies, was “a very reasonable person,” according to his lawyer. In an interview, Michael Chen, who had been repre- senting Bo in a heated legal dispute over a $20-million apartment complex in Pasa- dena, sounded genuinely stunned and shaken by the news, adding that his client always struck him as “a very calm person.” Bo died in a hail of police bullets during the traffic stop on Wednesday night af- ter, sheriff’s deputies said, he kidnapped Shukur Aike- baer, 60, from his Chino Hills home — but not before non- chalantly exiting the driver’s seat, sauntering to the back of the car and fatally shoot- ing Aikebaer, who was still in the trunk. Investigators from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department have not revealed a motive for the slaying, which played out on the otherwise quiet streets of Chino Hills like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino film, but they noted that the shooter and victim knew each other “through a prior working relationship.” The two were associates in a commercial real estate firm, Panshi Inc., registered in Irvine, according to public records. Documents show Bo served as chief executive of- ficer, while Aikebaer was listed as the company’s chief financial officer and secre- tary. Bo, Panshi and another associate lent the devel- opers of the apartment com- plex more than $2 million, at least some of which had not been repaid, according to a lawsuit Chen filed in Febru- ary in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Last week, Chen filed an- other claim against the de- velopers, the Madison Col- lection, seeking to oust its property managers and transfer control to Panshi. The Madison Collection had been stonewalling these efforts for months, accord- ing to the lawsuit, refusing to turn over books and bank ac- counts. Representatives for the Madison Collection could not be reached for comment. Aikebaer had been the “middleman” between Pan- Suspect, victim had been business associates By Jack Dolan [See Dispute, B5] Principals in deadly Chino Hills incident were embroiled in a dispute, attorney says. Deputy Atty. Gen. Marissa Roy did big num- bers in the June 2 primary election, coming in first place in the race for city at- torney and knocking City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto out of the running entirely. Roy secured 43% of the vote in round one. Now that she’s in a head-to-head con- test against Deputy Dist. Atty. John McKinney, she’s well ahead in fundraising as well. Campaign spending re- ports for the Nov. 3 runoff, filed over the last few days, show that Roy’s campaign collected nearly $74,000 dur- ing the fundraising period that ended June 30. By com- parison, McKinney collected just $3,000, according to his own contribution report. “I plan to be a City Attor- ney for the people, and I’m proud to have a campaign supported by the people. If your campaign isn’t, then I think it’s fair to ask who it is for,” Roy said in a statement. The race is one of three downballot contests where the candidate who came in first on June 2 is also well ahead in the scramble for campaign contributions. Things were similarly lop- sided in council races in South L.A. and the San Fer- nando Valley. McKinney, who received nearly 29% of the vote in the primary, said his campaign will have plenty of resources Three city candidates pull way ahead in fundraising By David Zahniser and Gavin J. Quinton [See Fundraising, B5] L.A. ON THE RECORD J avier Ramirez was handcuffed in the back of an unmarked car, bruised and confused, when immigration agents used a word he had never heard before. It was June 2025, and they were bragging about the raids in the Los Angeles area that swept up hundreds of immigrants — and a few U.S. citi- zens, like Ramirez. The unfamiliar word caught Ramirez’s ear. Tonk. “I wondered what that meant — I thought it was some code,” the 33- year-old tow truck driver told me over a Zoom call last week. “But I didn’t make a big fuss about it then.” Masked men had thrown him to the ground outside a tow yard in Montebello, for reasons they wouldn’t divulge. He ended up in the car with a man detained in another roundup, headed for the Metropolitan Deten- Voices GUSTAVO ARELLANO COLUMNIST Anti-immigrant slur illustrates banality of evil in Border Patrol ‘Tonk’ cruelly refers to the sound of a migrant getting hit BORDER PATROL agents in a show of force in L.A. in August 2025. Carlin Stiehl Los Angeles Times [See Arellano, B5] SACRAMENTO T oday we’re talking about California’s Proposition 39, a bid to turn Presi- dent Trump’s election conspiracy fantasies into California law, and a proposal so disingenuous, it’s caused Demo- cratic legislators to sue the Demo- cratic secretary of state in an at- tempt to stop the misinformation surrounding it. As these lawsuits move forward and the November election rolls closer, we’re going to hear a lot about Proposition 39 — a measure that would require in-person voters to present government-issued identification, among other provi- sions. I fear most if not all of this debate will revolve around the false claim that large numbers of un- documented people vote illegally in our elections. “It’s directly a product of all of the rhetoric that Trump has been putting out there regarding elec- tion fraud and voting fraud,” said Mindy Romero, founder and direc- tor of the nonpartisan Center for Inclusive Democracy. Romero stresses that there never has been any evidence of widespread voter fraud in Cali- fornia, and the state already has a system that effectively checks voter eligibility. Proposition 39 is “seeking a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist, and a solution that actually could cause additional problems,” she said. “So in and of itself, it per- petuates this false and dangerous narrative that there has been voter fraud in California.” Voices ANITA CHABRIA COLUMNIST Prop. 39 would legitimize vote conspiracy claims PROPOSITION 39 would require California voters to show IDs. Kayla Bartkowski Los Angeles Times [See Chabria, B4] When they landed the diving competition for the 2028 Summer Olympics last year, operators of the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena trumpeted it as a gold-medal achievement. But swimmers and others who use the facility are now learning that pre-Olympic construction probably will force them out of three im- mensely popular swimming pools for more than a year. The Aquatics Center will close as early as next April, and not be returned to its regular users until after the Olympics conclude in the summer of 2028, people with knowledge of the plans con- firmed to The Times. Such a prolonged closure will send the more than 400,000 people who pour through the center’s turn- stiles each year scrambling to find other places to swim, dive, play water polo and aqua-aerobicize. The cen- ter’s two 50-meter pools and an adjacent therapy pool will be closed, along with two expansive hot tubs, the peo- ple said. Aquatics Center op- erators declined to discuss details of the shutdown, say- ing they plan to make an an- nouncement Monday. They said it’s premature for them to discuss what improve- ments the Games will bring to the 36-year-old swim com- plex, as those negotiations have not been concluded. Jacie Prieto Lopez, vice president of communica- tions for LA28, the Olympics organizing group, confirmed that improvements would be made to the facility but said specifics were still being sorted out. “We cannot comment on specific facility improve- ments as those remain under active discussion be- tween LA28 and the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center,” Pri- eto Lopez said. “But based on initial evaluations of the existing facility, improve- ments could include the pool, diving tower and me- chanical systems.” Opened in 1990, in part with profits from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Aquatics Center was once viewed as a state-of-the-art facility. But it has grown somewhat shopworn and in need of a makeover. The op- erators of the center expect LA28 will pay for some of LA28 plans to hold Olympic diving events at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena. A construction closure plan has patrons worried. Christina House Los Angeles Times Dreading to be out of their element By James Rainey [See Aquatics, B6]

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LATIMES.COM MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 B3 CITY & STATE Yet another heat wave scorched the Western United States this weekend, bringing extreme heat warn- ings to Southern California and record temperatures in the Southwest and Mon- tana. Wildfires erupted in the Pacific Northwest as the re- gion faced an exceptionally rare “Particularly Danger- ous Situation” warning be- cause of extremely dry con- ditions and strong winds. Phoenix reached 116 de- grees Saturday afternoon, tying the region’s record for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Aug. 1, set in 1972, according to the Na- tional Weather Service. It was 6 degrees short of the area’s all-time record. Las Vegas and El Centro, Calif., were within striking distance of their daily re- cords, and both Great Falls and Helena, Mont., sur- passed their daily records in preliminary measurements. Officials in Southern Cal- ifornia cautioned residents to look out for signs of heat- related illness, such as dizzi- ness, confusion, headaches and nausea. Extreme heat is one of the deadliest climate risks facing California. On the hottest days, heat-related illness can account for nearly 1 in every 100 emer- gency department visits in L.A. County. Last year, the county recorded 10 heat-re- lated deaths, according to a new dashboard. Multiple days of high heat — with little relief overnight as temperatures remain high — can increase the risk. “We’ve had these elevat- ed temperatures for the last several days here, and that compounding effect can be significant,” said Rose Schoenfeld, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “We have some ele- vated humidity across the area that increases those overnight low temperatures a bit as well.” The National Weather Service recommends lim- iting outdoor activity to the early hours of the day and staying in air-conditioned spaces during the afternoon and evening. It further ad- vised residents never to leave pets or children unat- tended in vehicles, and to check in on loved ones. The Pacific Northwest, which has had dozens of wildfires burning for days, experienced a surge of wild- fire activity Saturday after- noon into evening amid the National Weather Service’s strongest form of wildfire weather warning. Roughly 5,000 homes had been evacuated and about 600 homes, businesses and other buildings had been de- stroyed by wildfires that re- mained uncontained Sun- day in eastern Washington state, authorities said. The fires burned more than 8.2 square miles around Spokane, Washington’s sec- ond-largest city, and were among dozens across the Western U.S. — stretching the ability of federal, state and local agencies to fight them. No deaths had yet been reported from the fires in the Spokane area. “We have weather work- ing against us, and we have terrain working against us,” said Benjamin Cossel, pub- lic information officer for the federal response team from California called in Saturday night to deal with the Spokane-area fires. In Northern California, the Press Democrat of Santa Rosa reported that, as of 8 a.m. Sunday, the Feliz fire in Mendocino County had burned 841 acres and con- tainment stood at 10%, ac- cording to Cal Fire. All evac- uation orders were down- graded. The Mendocino Voice said that Highway 101 in southern Mendocino County reopened Saturday night after being closed for hours because of the fire. Southern California’s heat warnings were set to ex- pire Sunday night, with Schoenfeld noting the heat wave was expected to weak- en Sunday and early into this week. The high temperatures are the result of a high-pres- sure system lingering over the area. As the air’s pres- sure increases, it heats up. The high pressure also sti- fles the sea breeze that can bring cooler ocean air onto land. Meanwhile, the region’s sticky humidity is due to an airflow pattern bringing moist, tropical air to South- ern California. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Wildfires, record heat in Western U.S. By Noah Haggerty AN UMBRELLA provides shade in downtown L.A. on Saturday, when heat reached record highs elsewhere. Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times Veterinarians for famed Big Bear bald eagle Jackie, who was found sick and on the ground weeks ago, still don’t know what’s wrong with her. In a Facebook post on Friday, Chris Eksteen, exe- cutive director of the Ojai Raptor Center, where she is being treated, described everything that has been done to diagnose her condi- tion. She has undergone re- peated physical examina- tions, comprehensive blood work, advanced imaging, toxicology screening and a blood transfusion, he said. As of Friday, tests showed Jackie was still anemic, and an elevated white blood cell count suggests that she is experiencing inflammation or an infection. Jackie’s red blood cell count also re- mains low. Saturday marked two weeks since Jackie was tak- en to the Ojai Raptor Center. Despite the cautious opti- mism about her slow recov- ery, Eksteen said there are “still many unanswered questions in this very com- plex case.” Jackie and her longtime mate, Shadow, captured the attention of a global audi- ence through a livestream of their nest that showed their soap-operatic efforts to hatch and raise their babies. This nesting season, the pair raised eaglets Sandy and Luna, who successfully fledged. When Jackie was rescued from the shore of Big Bear Lake weeks ago, she was underweight and dishev- eled. Video footage showed her sparring with two young- er eagles. That encounter is prob- ably what left her grounded, Eksteen said, but it is prob- ably not the cause of her underlying malady. It ap- pears she had been sick for some time before she was found on the ground, he said. “What we are seeing suggests she has been sick for a long time,” Eksteen said. Wildlife medicine can be very slow and painstaking, he said. Since the patients can’t tell you what’s wrong, it becomes a long process of ruling out diagnoses one by one, while providing sup- portive care and watching how the animal responds. Recovery could take weeks if not months, he said. Veterinarians will continue to monitor Jackie’s blood and white cell levels and are expected to test her for signs of contamination from less common heavy metals. However, those results won’t be available for several weeks. Famed Big Bear eagle still ‘very sick’ By Jack Dolan Veterinarians are continuing extensive testing on Jackie, who remains anemic. L.A. County closed sev- eral restrooms and road ac- cess at Point Dume Beach after high tides and surf caused “extreme erosion,” according to the Depart- ment of Beaches and Harbors. In a social media post Saturday, the department said the overnight erosion had left the bluff edge unsta- ble, with “drop-offs of up to 8 feet” in some areas. In re- sponse, the county closed Westward Beach Road past the pay gate and the 373- spot parking lot for the beach. The roughly 0.4-mile road provides the only vehicle ac- cess for the beach, which is surrounded by rugged coastal terrain and sits next to Point Dume, a rocky headland that juts into the Pacific to form the northern tip of the Santa Monica Bay. On Friday, the depart- ment closed several restrooms after the rough ocean damaged the water line and meter serving them. In response, temporary chemical toilets and hand- washing stations were in- stalled, the department said. The department urged beachgoers not to cross safe- ty cones, caution tape or barriers for their safety. It provided no estimate for when the restrooms, road or parking lot would reopen but noted that the county was “assessing the damage” and would provide updates as information became available. The National Weather Service has repeatedly warned of dangerous rip cur- rents and elevated surf in re- cent weeks as multiple southerly swells battered the coastlines of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. The intense conditions have prompted thousands of life- guard rescues along the coast. Hurricane Genevieve, which was downgraded from a Category 5 hurricane to a tropical storm on Thursday night, has brought rough waters and larger-than-nor- mal waves to California’s southern coast. The high surf has forced the cancellation of two Pa- cific Surfliner trains, which run from San Luis Obispo to San Diego. Genevieve is currently over the Pacific Ocean southwest of L.A. and poses no direct threat to land. In Long Beach, officials prepared for rising tides and tall waves by building a giant wall of sand along the shore- line late last week. Video captures waves crashing into the sand wall, forcing workers to continuously re- build. Beachfront homes be- tween 62nd and 69th Place in Long Beach are especially vulnerable, according to Marine Safety Chief Gon- zalo Medina. California State Parks warned beachgoers to be wary of seemingly calm wa- ters and rip currents, which can occur at any beach with breaking waves and create a forceful stream out to sea. Swimmers caught in a rip current should swim parallel to shore instead of attempt- ing to move directly against the current, which can lead to exhaustion and drowning. Further north, multiple lifeguards performed a dramatic water rescue in Santa Cruz last week as re- lentless waves slammed down near the shore. “This swimmer was ex- tremely lucky that there were so many trained life- guards on duty,” one user wrote on Reddit in response to a video of the incident. Frequent high tides are also linked to El Niño condi- tions, during which warmer waters along the equatorial Pacific can cause extreme weather and torrential downpours. A “super El Niño” is expected to develop in the Pacific later this sum- mer and could be one of the strongest on record, experts warned. In April, an outlook released by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts indi- cated that sea surface tem- peratures could exceed the seasonal average by 2 de- grees Celsius. A subsequent forecast by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration puts the odds of that happening by late fall at 1 in 4. High surf, severe erosion trigger Point Dume closures By Noah Haggerty and Caroline Petrow-Cohen A CYCLIST makes their way past a closed-off sec- tion of Point Dume Beach in Malibu on Sunday. Ronaldo Bolaños Los Angeles Times Tucked into the autobi- ography of legendary writer Mark Twain is a fanciful tale about how the little Califor- nia Gold Rush town of Yreka, near the Oregon bor- der, got its name. Yreka — pronounced why-ree-kuh and not to be confused with the Hum- boldt County port city of Eu- reka — was named by acci- dent, Twain declared. “There was a bakeshop with a canvas sign which had not yet been put up but had been painted and stretched to dry in such a way that the word BAKERY, all but the B, showed through and was re- versed,” Twain wrote. “A stranger read it wrong end first, YREKA, and supposed that that was the name of the [mining] camp. The campers were satisfied with it and adopted it.” Twain’s story has essen- tially been debunked. He was a satirist, after all. More on that later. But the lore is so widely shared that, when Essential California asked readers a few weeks ago to submit their favorite unique place names in the Golden State, reader Ethan Hay shared that tale as one that brought a lot of joy. As a state reporter who has been to all but 11 of Cali- fornia’s 58 counties (I need to come see you, Alpine County!), I present a few of our readers’ responses. Desert flowers and a fake doctor Ocotillo, Imperial County — Scott Eadie wrote that most people associate the name of the desert ham- let with the thorny, red-flow- ered ocotillo shrubs native to the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico. “For my son and me though, the rather modest town brings back fond memories of an amateur rocketry launch site at the base of a moun- tain just south of the town off Interstate 8. Good friends, camping, and rockets were a magical mix!” Zzyzx, San Bernardino County — “Granted, it’s un- incorporated, but how could you overlook Zzyzx?” wrote Ken Bolingbroke. According to the National Park Service, the desolate spot in the Mo- jave Desert is named for Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Resort, a 1940s-era spa opened on a mining claim held by an eccentric fellow named Curtis Spring- er, who built a castle, lecture room, pool house, goat farm and rabbit rooms in the area. Springer quit school after 9th grade but called himself a doctor who made a small fortune shipping out supple- ments and supposed cure- alls. “Over the 30 years that he managed the resort, he shipped over 4 million pack- ages all over the country, in- cluding Antediluvian Herb Tea, Nerve Cell Food, and Hollywood Pep Cocktail. The nearby town of Baker had to build a post office just to accommodate his mail,” according to the Park Serv- ice. Eventually, the feds ac- cused him of tax evasion and false advertising, his mining claim was disputed and he spent time in jail before run- ning off to live in Las Vegas. A secession town for a second Rough and Ready, Ne- vada County — Several readers mentioned the name of this tiny town in the Sierra Foothills. I visited a few years ago — and even got some stickers for my then- toddler son from the Rough and Ready Fire Depart- ment! — but sadly have not yet written a story with the excellent dateline. According to my prized copy of “California Place Names: The Origin and Ety- mology of Current Geo- graphical Names” by Erwin G. Gudde (yes, I am that big a nerd), the town was founded in 1849 by the Rough and Ready Co., a mining outfit led by a mili- tary veteran who served under President Zachary Taylor, who was nicknamed Old Rough and Ready. The phrase was so popular that, at one point, California had three towns so named, per Gudde. The town in 1850 declared it was seceding from the Union to form the Great Re- public of Rough and Ready to avoid paying mining taxes. The great republic lasted just three months, ending after some locals went to buy liquor in a nearby town only to be turned around by store own- ers who refused to sell to “foreigners.” And what about Yreka? The town, for decades, had Yreka Bakery — a pal- indrome that read the same forward and backward. But, sorry, Mark Twain, the name of the Siskiyou County seat actually is de- rived from the Shasta Indian word “waik’a’,” for Mt. Shasta, Gudde wrote. Yreka, like Rough and Ready, has a secessionist history. In November 1941, it was declared the capital of the proposed breakaway state of Jefferson. Armed resi- dents — hoping to draw at- tention to deteriorating roads they deemed “not passable, hardly jackass- able” — set up roadblocks along Highway 99 and han- ded out proclamations say- ing they would secede every Thursday until further no- tice. They stopped when Pearl Harbor was bombed. This article appeared in The Times’ Essential California newsletter. To subscribe, go to latimes.com/newsletters. ESSENTIAL CALIFORNIA Yreka’s origin story, plus more strange California town names By Hailey Branson-Potts

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B4 MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LATIMES.COM (Answers tomorrow) Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon. THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words. ©2026 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved. Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Facebook TNSRO GTANR SISKDE RSEUQA BOSSY MUSIC SUMMON ZOMBIE Saturday’s Jumbles: Answer: The underwater science team won a grant thanks to their great — “SUB-MISSION” Print your answer here: HOW TO PLACE AN AD ADVERTISING POLICIES For Los Angeles Times advertising terms and conditions go to: www.latimes.com/about/la-ads-terms-20181105-htmlstory.html Self-service 24/7: latimes.com/placead Contact us by phone 24/7: 800-234-4444 ORDERTO SHOW CAUSE FOR A CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. 26CHCP00177 Petitioner or Attorney (name, state, bar, and address): CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL S C H E R M E R H O R N , S I G O U R N E Y - HAYDEN ODYSSEY SCHERMERHORN SOLEDAD CANYON ROAD SANTA CLARITA, CA 91390 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED: P e t i t i o n e r Name Change JOBS · REAL ESTATE · MORE latimes.com/placead To place an ad call 1.800.234.4444 MARKETPLACE CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL S C H E R M E R H O R N , S I G O U R N E Y - HAYDEN ODYSSEY SCHERMERHORN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL S C H E R M E R H O R N , S I G O U R N E Y - HAYDEN ODYSSEY S C H E R M E R H O R N , MICHAEL GEORGE S C H E R M E R H O R N , DEAN CHRISTOPHER SCHERMERHORN Proposed Name CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL BLACK, HAYDEN SUSAN BLACK, MICHAEL GEORGE BLACK, DEAN CHRISTOPHER BLACK THE COURT ORDERS that all persons Name Change Don’t let the phone stop ringing Advertise with LA Times Classified LA Times Classified (800) 234-4444 interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING DATE: AUGUST 27, 2026 TIME: 0830 DEPT: F47 ROOM: The address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of LOS ANGELES PENFIELD AVE CHATSWORTH, CA 91311 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county. Dated: JULY 24, 2026 N. CHAMBERS DEPUTY Published in the Los Angeles Times 07/27/26, 08/03/26, 08/10/26, 08/17/26 Name Change Convenient. Affordable. Effective. LA Times Classifed. Advertise Today (800) 234-4444 SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) Case Number (Numero del Caso): 25STCV37416 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): Grace Liu; and Shih-Fang Wang YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Jose Vasquez Mundo; Ofelia Vasquez; Angel Vasquez; Jaime Vasquez; Jose Alberto Vasquez; Roxana E. Escobar; Jose I. Pena Hernandez; Kenny Alejandra Hernandez; Giselle Madison Hernandez, a minor, by and through her Guardian Ad Litem, Roxana E. Escobar; William H. Abrego Pena; Sara Elia Rojas Vallejo; Michelle Abigail Melgar Rojas; Hortencia Lucila Gutierrez Aguilar; Yesenia Lucero Chairez Gutierrez; Maria J. Hernandez Pena; and Jose Justo Hernandez Pena NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the fil- ing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal ServicesWeb Site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar associa- tion. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. іAVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decider en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presenter una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles - Central District 111 N. Hill Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiffwithout an at- torney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Elena Sanchez, Esq.; Castelblanco Law Group 10944 Ventura Blvd Studio City, CA 91604 (213) 388-6004 Date: (Fecha) 01/12/2026 David W. Slayton Clerk (Secretario) S. Bolden Deputy (Adjunto) ORDERTO SHOW CAUSE FOR A CHANGE OF NAME CASE NO. 26STCP02442 Petitioner or Attorney (name, state, bar, and address): FRANCOIS XAVIER MATEO 5925 MERIDIAN ST, LOS ANGELES, CA 90042 TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED: Petitioner FRANCOIS XAVIER MATEO filed a Name Change petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present Name FRANCOIS XAVIER MATEO Proposed Name FRANCOIS XAVIER DAUBERY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Name Change SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) Case Number (Numero del Caso): 25STCV25361 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): DEVIN NICOLE EILAND, NEUTRON HOLDINGS, INC. dba LIME, CITY OF LOS ANGELES, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, and DOES 1 to 20, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): JENNY OH KIM, Individually and as Successor in Interest to the Estate of DONNY CHUL KIM NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the fil- ing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal ServicesWeb Site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar associa- tion. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. іAVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decider en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presenter una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES 111 NORTH HILL STREET LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90012 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiffwithout an at- torney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): BENJAMIN D. SWANSON, ESQ. SBN: 266629; THE SWANSON LAW GROUP 32123 LINDERO CANYON ROAD SUITE 200 WESTLAKE VILLAGE, , CA 91361 (818) 852-7300 Date: (Fecha) 08-28-2025 David W. Slayton Clerk (Secretario) Y. Ayala Deputy (Adjunto) Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING DATE: 09/04/2026 TIME: 8:30 AM DEPT: 529 ROOM: 529 The address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA County of LOS ANGELES STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE, 111 NORTH HILL STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper Name Change of general circulation, printed in this county. Dated: 07/29/2026 B. Vargas Deputy Published in the Los Angeles Times 08/03/26, 08/10/26, 08/17/26, 08/24/26 Name Change SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): 26STCV03252 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): ERIKA MELERO YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE) YU TAO NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to fle a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintif. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can fnd these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the fling fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not fle your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot aford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonproft legal services program. You can locate these nonproft groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presenter una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo prolegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de extención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y hiener sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fnes de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fnes de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos extentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT - STANLEY MOSK, 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintif’s attorney, or plaintif without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la dirección y el número de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abodgado, es): Plaintif: YU TAO, 205 Everett Ave., Monterey Park, CA 91755; 626-238-5157 Date: 02/05/2026 David W Slayton Executive Ofcer/ Clerk of the Court (Secretario) D. Kim Deputy (Adjunto) Published in the Los Angeles Times That lie is part of the ongoing grievance-fueled Trump campaign against nonwhite “replacement” Americans, meant to under- mine trust in elections — you may recall he’s gone so far as to say immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” It’s a venal and dark vein of partisanship aimed at keeping the far right in power even at the expense of democracy. But also an effective lie. Because many folks don’t know exactly how their ballots are verified but do have IDs, they don’t see the full impacts of Proposition 39. The easy-ID myth I’ll tell you more about Proposition 39, but I’m starting with a story about an all-American teenager I’ll call “Sofia.” I’ve been help- ing Sofia, 18, attempt to get her first government-issued identification. I stress at- tempt. Folks, there have been hoops, there have been hurdles, there’s been Kafka- esque bureaucracy. For people like Sofia who don’t have bills or jobs or even accurate student re- cords (she’s moved a lot), scraping up enough docu- mentation to convince the Department of Motor Vehi- cles you are who you say you are is tough. First, you really need a certified birth certifi- cate. Sofia wasn’t born in the county where she lives (it’s county recorders who keep them), which means she had to either drive hours or go through the state’s third- party online vendor to order one, at a cost of about $30. But here’s the catch — she needed proof of identity to order it. So to get a birth certifi- cate to get her ID, she needed ID. Stuck in this circular nightmare, we found, after much effort, a loophole: I could appear in front of a public notary with Sofia, to testify using my ID that she was indeed Sofia. Strange, but whatever. We did it. That wasn’t enough for the DMV. Sofia also needed two bills or other docu- ments verifying her address. Because they literally will give a credit card to anyone, she applied to an online company, and got her first statement. One document down. Again, scouring the DMV rules for days, we found another weird loophole: The second document can be a letter from a nonprofit with the person signing it vouch- ing for Sofia’s identity. We got the letter, and Sofia’s Real ID was issued. But then she had to move before it arrived. She tried to arrange mail for- warding with the Postal Service, but guess what? They required ID. So the ID was lost in transit, and we are back to square one. The real targets That means Sofia is one of thousands of Califor- nians, born and raised in the Golden State, who lack official identification be- cause it’s not as easy to obtain as some want you to believe. And because she lacks it, she could be prevented from voting if Proposition 39 is passed, even though she is a legal citizen with every right to have her ballot counted, and California already has a system in place to ensure only citizens vote. Sofia is exactly the kind of voter that Proposition 39 is actually aimed at. This is a voter suppression law, plain and simple, and it will harm women with name changes, naturalized citizens, young people, older people and virtually anyone who cares about not returning to Jim Crow-style laws that push people out of voting with subterfuge. Proponents of the pro- position would like you to believe it’s something very different from what I just described. Their fight about how we talk about this proposal has led to two lawsuits so far — one filed by the backers of Proposition 39 because they don’t like the official title the Cali- fornia attorney general put on it, and one filed by the leaders of the state Legisla- ture because they argue that the statements written by proponents for official voting materials aren’t truthful. I’ll give you a taste of both of those arguments. Right now, the state is proposing to title the mea- sure “Prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.” State Assemblymember Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego), the always-Trumper behind Proposition 39, helped lead a lawsuit claiming that is inaccurate. DeMaio issued a state- ment claiming Democrats are “trying to deceive voters by putting a false ballot title on it and are now even dis- tracting voters from their tampering of the ballot title with this frivolous lawsuit.” That frivolous lawsuit he’s complaining about is the one in which the Demo- cratic leaders of the Legisla- ture last week sued the Democratic secretary of state and others over the language included in the state voter guide. The Democrats aren’t really angry at each other, it’s just that Secretary of State Shirley Weber is in charge of voter materials, so she’s one of the folks they’ve got to sue to make their case. The lawsuit alleges, among other complaints, that proponents are falsely framing Proposition 39 as making it “easier to vote” when in fact it does the opposite. “Prop. 39 requires no burdens be placed on vot- ers,” the materials at issue read, according to the law- suit. “No additional docu- ments [birth certificate, marriage license, etc.] are required.” So I take you back to Sofia. Because while Pro- position 39 might not ask her to bring her birth certifi- cate to the polls, it would ask her to bring her ID, which required her birth certificate to get. A distinction without a difference. “The fact that Donald Trump has endorsed it tells you everything you need to know,” the lawsuits’ plain- tiffs, House Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón, wrote in a state- ment. “As Californians and Latinos, we will not let MAGA cronies take Consti- tutional rights away from voters.” That lawsuit likely will have its first hearing in court this week. But whatever a judge decides, the ballot box is where the fate of Pro- position 39 rests. Though it seems like average Californians could see through this sham, there are big bucks backing it, and money always speaks loudly. The donors in support read like the guest list for a White House dinner. So far, they’ve raised more than $15 million. That includes $4 million from Richard Uihlein, the Illinois billionaire and Trump supporter who often funds organizations and causes that promote elec- tion conspiracies and far- right candidates. The crypto-billionaire Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, each donated $250,000, along with other Silicon Valley types includ- ing former Robert F. Ken- nedy Jr. running mate Nic- ole Shanahan, who ponied up $370,000 in support of Proposition 39. Oh, and by the way, L.A. developer and former may- oral candidate Rick Caruso donated $25,000 to the effort. That’s a lot of dough being poured into stopping certain Californians from voting. If they succeed, it won’t just be an inconvenience at the polls — but instead a double victory for Trump, both suppressing the vote ahead of the presidential election and legitimizing his election lies through law. Prop. 39’s false narrative of vote fraud [Chabria, from B1]

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LATIMES.COM MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 B5 shi and the Madison Collec- tion, Chen said. As far as he knew, until Wednesday, Bo and Aikebaer had a good re- lationship. There was noth- ing “adversarial” about it, he said. “But obviously, some- thing happened,” Chen said. “Maybe some information came to light that prompted [Bo] to take this action.” Chen said he had no idea what that information could have been, or if the killing was even connected to the business dispute. “I was just shocked to hear about this,” Chen said. “I had never seen this side of him. I was really sur- prised.” Aikebaer walked out of his house on Wednesday evening to investigate why the power had gone out when he was confronted by Bo and his brother, Jian- quan Bo. They shot Aikebaer at least once and then shoved him into the trunk of a silver Nissan Altima, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Aikebaer’s wife and daughter were home at the time. Neighbors said they heard the wife screaming that her husband had been shot. Responding to 911 calls, deputies spotted the Nissan speeding away from the scene. It led them on a mile- long chase, ending in the 2400 block of Wandering Ridge Drive, where they ordered the driver and a passenger out of the vehi- cle. Jianquan Bo, who was in the passenger’s seat, com- plied. Zhengfeng Bo, who had been in the driver’s seat, be- gan to comply, according to surveillance video obtained by a local TV station. But then he returned to the driv- er’s seat, appeared to grab something, then walked back to the trunk. That’s when deputies say Bo shot and killed Aikebaer, prompting officers to open fire on him. Deputies say they initiat- ed lifesaving measures on both Bo and Aikebaer, with- out success. Jianquan Bo was not in- jured and was taken into custody. He was booked on suspicion of murder and kid- napping. Suspect, victim had been business associates [Dispute, from B1] tion Center in downtown Los Angeles. The color disappeared from Ramirez’s face when I explained what “tonk” means. For at least half a cen- tury, Border Patrol workers have used the onomato- poeic word, referring to the sound of someone getting hit, as slang for undocu- mented immigrants. Body camera footage and text chains from last summer’s immigration raids, released last week in a court filing, capture agents throwing around anti-immi- grant insults like “wet” and “tonk” with the same ease that the rest of us say “and” or “the.” The most egregious example, I told Ramirez, was directed at him and his friend, fellow U.S. citizen Brian Gavidia. A video shows an agent shouting, “One tonk f— got away, dude!” as colleagues manhandle the pair. The same agent, who spoke with a Chicano accent, later sped off in a vehicle while asking in Spanglish, “¿Alguien arresto un tonk, güey?” — Did someone arrest a tonk, man? “Oh, wow, OK, that’s really bad,” Ramirez finally said, laughing bitterly while gathering his thoughts. “It’s kind of hurtful. They’re just assuming who I am.” Ramirez asked his attor- ney, Luis Castillo, if the agents who accosted him “had violence on their mind when they used that word.” “You’re getting a double whammy,” the longtime civil rights lawyer replied. “They’re hitting you twice, physically and psychologi- cally.” No, Luis: they’re hitting us all. If you’re still doubting that racist violence fuels President Trump’s deporta- tion deluge, just consider what Gavidia and Ramirez have been through. La migra roughed them up even as they screamed that they had documents to prove their U.S. citizenship. They took Gavidia’s Real ID and never returned it. Ramirez was detained for five days and charged with trying to assault a federal officer and interfere with their work — a case that went nowhere because he did no such things. The American Civil Liberties Union and Public Counsel, along with other groups and private attor- neys, included the body cam footage in a court filing asking a federal judge to bar immigration agents from making stops based on racial profiling. Gavidia is part of that lawsuit, while Ramirez has sued separately. Now, the two men are more certain than ever that the Trump administration’s deporta- tion strategy isn’t about getting the worst of the worst. To la migra, all Latinos are tonks. “I never even heard the word, but once [lawyers] told me the explanation of what it meant, I was dis- gusted instantly,” said Gavidia, 30, who fixes up and sells cars. “They already knew what they were coming to do,” he said. “We told them we were Americans. It didn’t matter. We were brown, and that was enough.” “I saw [the tonk video] 300 times,” Gavidia added, “and it’s giving me more trauma.” “Tonk” has been a dirty little secret of the Border Patrol for decades — work- place lingo showing that the banality of evil that’s la migra on its best days has transformed into something far uglier under Trump. The slur is so vile — predicated on violence by law enforcement, unlike ethnic jabs that insult food or culture — that it has never crossed over into mainstream English. “Tonk” in its anti-immi- grant meaning doesn’t appear in the Merriam- Webster dictionary or even the Dictionary of American Regional English, the pre- mier academic collection of American slang. And that’s exactly how the Border Patrol likes it. The earliest use of “tonk” to demean immigrants that I’ve been able to find is in a 1976 book by Paul Schuster Taylor, an early pioneer of Mexican American studies best known for docu- menting the plight of Dust Bowl refugees along with his wife, photographer Doro- thea Lange. Taylor quoted a Border Patrol inspector referring to Mexicans as “tonks” but offered no definition. In a 1978 hearing, Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Leonel Castillo said the slur was “sort of like the new term” for “wets.” Castillo — no relation to Luis — nevertheless de- fended his agents’ use of anti-immigrant words. “I think it’s the way — the tone in which you use it, and then how you treat people,” he said, maintaining that the verbiage was ingrained in the “very fine gentlemen” who worked under him. “It’s very hard to change them,” he said. “But they’re not necessarily bad people.” A year later, an anony- mous Border Patrol agent writing for the white su- premacist publication Instauration debunked Castillo’s apologia. He claimed that “tonk” derived from the thudding noise when agents smashed a flashlight on an immigrant’s head. “The Anglos of the Bor- der Patrol are not as intimi- dated by federal guidelines as people might think,” the agent wrote. “We have our own methods of interroga- tion in the desert.” San Diego State English professor William Nericcio has spent his career study- ing anti-Mexican hate. He grew up around Laredo, Texas, in the 1970s and 1980s with “guys and their dads who worked in Border Pa- trol because it was a good job.” Yet he hadn’t heard of “tonk,” either. “A drum roll of anti- Mexican violence turns into a soundtrack — wetback, beaner, spic and now, tonk,” Nericcio responded when I asked why the slur has stuck for so long among immigra- tion agents. “Of all these anti-Mexican terms, this is the only one that directly connects to an act of vi- olence. It’s a thing of pride when you say it — ‘Hey boss, I got a tonk today! Where’s my bonus?’ It’s glory days for them.” The casual use of “tonk” by la migra eventually became a PR embarrass- ment even for the Trump administration. In 2019, during Trump’s first term, a Customs and Border Protection spokes- person told an Arizona public radio station that the slur “is now considered a derogatory term and CBP does not condone its use.” This time around, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told my Times colleagues that “agents are focused on protecting the American people — not entertaining performative outrage.” CBP didn’t respond to my multiple requests for comment about whether its internal guidelines continue to discourage “tonk” and whether agents face any discipline for using it. If you’re not disgusted by this devolution in protocol, I’m not sure what can pos- sibly disgust you. ACLU lawyer Mayra Joachin said the body cam footage is “clear evidence that these stops were al- ways about individuals’ appearance of being Latino working class” and is proof of the “culture of racism underlying” the Trump administration’s deporta- tion strategy. How are Gavidia and Ramirez feeling now, after being called a racist slur they hadn’t even known existed and that doesn’t even technically apply to them? Even “if you’re a U.S. citizen, you can’t be free in the U.S.,” Ramirez said. What happened to him “can happen to anyone, it can happen to their kids and family, and when it happens to their family, that’s when they’re going to see the truth of what’s happening.” Gavidia, who voted for Trump in 2024, said that immigration agents think they “are above the Consti- tution and law.” “That’s sad and disgust- ing,” he said. “If we don’t stop this and fight this now, it’s going to get worse and worse.” Banality of evil in Border Patrol’s use of ‘tonk’ BRIAN GAVIDIA and his friend were roughed up by immigration agents outside a tow yard in Montebello. Carlin Stiehl Los Angeles Times [Arellano, from B1] stretching from the Conven- tion Center south to 95th Street. Former Price aide Jose Ugarte collected about $35,000 for the runoff, much of it from other city workers, particularly council aides, records show. Community organizer Estuardo Mazariegos took in about $5,400, pulling in donations from the prog- ressive L.A. Forward Action Fund and from Lundquist, the former council candi- date. A number of elected offi- cials have lined up behind Ugarte, who garnered 39% of the vote in the primary. He received $1,000 apiece from state Assemblymembers Mark Gonzalez (D-Los An- geles), Mike Fong (D-Al- hambra) and José Luis So- lache (D-Lynwood), accord- ing to his filing. Ugarte also received $1,000 each from former Councilmember David Ryu and from the Hol- lywood Chamber of Com- merce. Records show that Ugar- te received $1,000 from the Los Angeles Police Protec- to “educate voters that Marissa Roy is a bad fit for Los Angeles.” “The recent financial dis- closure reflects just one week of activity,” he said in a statement. “Since the June 30th [fundraising] deadline, we’ve raised more than $65,000 from more than 80 individual donors and have nearly 15 fundraising events scheduled.” Several of the donors who gave to Roy occupy the left end of the political spec- trum, such as Loraine Lundquist, who ran for City Council twice in the San Fer- nando Valley, losing both times to Councilmember John Lee. Roy also picked up a donation from airport commissioner Victor Narro, project director for the UCLA Labor Center. Roy received $1,800 from attorney Carol Sobel, who has sued the citymany times on behalf of various clients over policing and the treat- ment of the homeless population. Another $1,800 came from Genie Harrison, who is representing former Fire Chief Kristin Crowley in her lawsuit over her ouster. McKinney, who works for Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman, is likely to have his own big-money support in the coming weeks. During the primary, an array of well- financed allies, including Airbnb, spent a combined $3.2 million on efforts to elect him. Ugarte ramps it up in South L.A. The fundraising was also lopsided in the race to re- place City Councilmember Curren Price, a veteran law- maker who is stepping down after 13 years in a district tive League, the union that represents rank-and-file po- lice officers, but then re- turned the contribution. Ugarte does not accept do- nations from the police union, his campaign strate- gist said. “I support Mayor Bass’s efforts to increase staffing, strengthen community po- licing, and improve trans- parency and accountability. I also want to see more offi- cers on foot patrols and bike patrols in our neighbor- hoods,” Ugarte said in a statement. “Returning this contribution does not change or influence my views on these priorities.” A big haul for Gaspar in the Valley In the race to replace Councilmember Bob Blu- menfield in the west San Fernando Valley, business- man Tim Gaspar is proving to be a fundraising power- house. Gaspar reported more than $180,000 in donationsto his runoff campaign through June 30, compared with about $31,000 for Barri Worth Girvan, an aide to county Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, according to her filing. “After finishing with the most votes in the primary, our campaign is grateful for the outpouring of support from business owners, neighbors, and friends across the West Valley,” Gas- par said in a statement. Gaspar received 46% of the vote in the primary, com- pared with more than 42% for Worth Girvan. In an interview, Worth Girvan said she’s not trou- bled by the fundraising gap. During the primary, backers of Gaspar spent about $1.4 million on independent expenditures supporting his election bid. “We still came within 4 percentage points,” she said. “To me, it’s always been about the voters, so that’s what I’m focused on.” Worth Girvan picked up donations from longtime Democrats, including Gon- zalez, the state Assembly member, former state As- sembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Ryu, the former City Council member. She told The Times her fundrais- ing picked up significantly after the June 30 fundraising deadline, bringing her total haul to more than $100,000. Gaspar picked up dona- tions from several public safety unions, including $1,000 from the Police Pro- tective League and $500 from a political action com- mittee set up by the city’s port police. This article originally appeared in The Times’ L.A. on the Record newsletter. To subscribe, go to latimes.com/newsletters. Lopsided numbers in scramble for donations MARISSA Roy reported raising nearly $74,000, com- pared with $3,000 for her opponent, John McKinney. Jeremy Sykes [Fundraising, from B1] Marissa Roy campaign The U.S. Coast Guard says it has intercepted a panga boat carrying at least 21 migrants more than 70 miles off the Southern Cali- fornia coast, with one unre- sponsive man on board who later died. The Los Angeles-Long Beach Coast Guard division received a report around noon Wednesday from a community member that a boat suspected of illegally smuggling people was trav- eling 14 miles west of San Clemente Island, the Coast Guard said in a release is- sued Friday. There was one minor aboard the boat. The boat’s origin of departure is un- clear at this time, according to a Coast Guard spokes- person. Coast Guard crews and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials stopped the vessel and identified 21 people the agencies suspect of entered the country il- legally. During the assessment, Coast Guard responders said they found a 56-year-old man unresponsive and be- gan CPR before he was air- lifted and taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Cen- ter in Westwood. Hospital staff managed to restore the man’s pulse, according to the Coast Guard, but he was later pro- nounced dead. The remaining 20 indi- viduals were detained and transferred into custody by U.S. Border Patrol person- nel. San Clemente Island, which is part of California’s Channel Islands, is roughly 55 miles south of Long Beach. Coast Guard halts migrants on a boat; one dies at hospital OFFICIALS say about 20 people, including a youth, were seen about 14 miles from San Clemente Island. U.S. Coast Guard By Yvonne Villarreal

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Today Tue. Sun. Today Tue. Sun. Today Tue. A little less heat: An upper-level trough moving across the Northwest will cause the upper-level ridge across the Southwest to weaken some, bringing temperatures down a few degrees early this week. Any low clouds and fog near the coast will quickly clear. Otherwise, it will be sunny elsewhere across the region. Tempera- tures will continue to come down a few degrees through midweek. Wet in the East, stormy in the Midwest: Showers and thunderstorms with flooding downpours will continue along the East Coast. The risk for severe thunderstorms will focus across portions of the Plains and Mid- west from the eastern Dakotas to western Minnesota. that work. While LA28 officials wouldn’t discuss details, people familiar with their view said the Olympic or- ganizers would balk at bankrolling every upgrade pined for by the city of Pasa- dena (which owns the facil- ity) and the nonprofit that operates the center. The massive deck around the swimming pools has grown rough in places. The locker rooms are cramped. Aged pumps and filters need an upgrade. Who should pay for these improvements has been the subject of pro- longed discussion between LA28 and the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center operators, the people said. “At the end of the day, it’s going to be a win-win for LA28 and the Aquatics Cen- ter,” said one of the people, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. “The LA28 group is putting in a lot of in- vestment. That should ac- count for the fact the Rose Bowl will be losing revenue during the closure.” Aquatics Center loy- alists, however, wonder how they will cope with the loss of their pools. “The pool helps me keep my weight down. It keeps my blood sugar down. It’s just everything to me,” said Eliz- abeth Ramirez, a social worker from Alhambra, af- ter emerging from a morning aqua-aerobics class. “So when it closes down, it’s gonna definitely have an im- pact on my health. … Hope- fully they will be able to tell us [about] another place where we will be able to go.” Lynn Roberts, with one leg stunted by childhood po- lio, finds her time in the pool “life changing, because in the water I can do the things that everyone else does.” She knows that Rose Bowl is looking for alternative loca- tions, but so far there are no details. The thought of the pool being closed for more than a year is “a big thing,” she said, adding, “People are very, very concerned.” Like a dozen other regu- lars, Bonnie Stern talked about the social hub the Aquatics Center creates. It’s been her gateway to new friendships, a walking group, brunches and even a regular happy hour. “We’re all really con- cerned. There’s such a won- derful community here,” said Stern, who works in the entertainment industry. “We haven’t heard yet where we can go. And where are we going to be able to find what we have now?” The complex also rents space to a cafe and a sepa- rate shop, the Swim Guy. Michael Eisenberg, who co- owns the swim equipment business with his brother, Craig, worries about losing clientele. “We spent a lot of money setting this up and building our relationships with cus- tomers and teams,” Michael Eisenberg said. “The RBAC asked us if we could stay open and service the com- munity during construction, but I don’t see how we can do that, since all our teams and the public will be scattered to different pools in the area. My brother and I are kind of freaking out about it about how best to serve the teams and the public and the finan- cial cost of closing.” Aquatics Center Execu- tive Director Melanie Sauer said the nonprofit and its many user groups — for youth swimming, Masters swimming, water polo and more — are working fer- vently to find alternative pools. Rose Bowl Masters Swimming (to which the writer of this article belongs) already has launched new workouts at Occidental Col- lege in Eagle Rock and is talking to other pool op- erators. The financial losses dur- ing the closure could be sig- nificant. The Aquatics Cen- ter reported $8.6 million in receipts from admissions, merchandise and services in 2024, the most recent year reported on its federal tax filings. An additional $1.6 million came in via gifts, grants, contributions and membership fees. Sauer said that an “RBAC on the Road” pro- gram will seek to draw pay- ments from user groups when they relocate to other pools. She said it’s prema- ture to provide any details of those arrangements. Organizers of the Games announced the shift to the Rose Bowl center — in the Arroyo Seco just south of the more than 100-year-old foot- ball stadium — in Septem- ber of last year. Previously, the Games planned to have divers compete at the LA84 Foundation/John C. Argue Swim Stadium, immediately southwest of the Los Ange- les Memorial Coliseum, which will host track and field events. But the Exposition Park pool, used for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, was not deep or wide enough for div- ing. And it would have proved more costly to retro- fit than the Rose Bowl pool. “This facility requires minimal work, provides ad- ditional amenities for ath- letes, and accounts for up to $17.6 million in revenue in- creases and cost savings,” LA28 said when it an- nounced the shift to the Rose Bowl pool. People familiar with the plans for the Pasadena com- plex say that Olympic diving fans will be seated in bleach- ers that will be erected atop the “competition” pool, which sits closest to the parking lot. Additional seats may wrap around the north end of the dive pool. That pool’s 10-meter plat- form, originally constructed with a donation from the late televangelist Gene Scott, will be torn down and re- placed. One plan being con- sidered by LA28 organizers would eschew the existing locker rooms in favor of tem- porary modular structures, the sources said. LA28 officials believe that any short-term losses to the center will be more than made up for by the long-term gains from the in- ternational attention the pools will receive and the promise that other major swimming and diving events will be held there, according to people who have spoken to the Olympic organization. LA28 officials point to an analysis by the Southern California Assn. of Govern- ments that projected the Games will generate more than $17 billion in gross do- mestic product for the re- gion. Both the 2028 Games and those future events will help fill Pasadena hotels, restau- rants and shops, bolstering the local economy and add- ing tax dollars to the city treasury, according to sup- porters of the plan. The pool is being considered as the site of the 2028 Olympic div- ing trials, one source said. “This historic opportuni- ty will shine a global spot- light on our community,” the Aquatics Center proclaimed last year. “We look forward to keeping you updated as more details become avail- able.” Patrons in a funk over pool closures POOLS at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center will close as early as next April. Above, Margaret Shieh participates in a water fitness class. Christina House Los Angeles Times [Aquatics, from B1]

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SPORTS M O N D AY , AU G U S T 3 , 2 0 2 6 :: L AT I M E S . C O M / S P O R T S D Invest now. Low minimum. Early access. The Next-Generation Media Platform Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman felt good enough about his trade discussions with the Detroit Tigers for two-time Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal that he gave manager Dave Roberts a positive update shortly be- fore the team’s game against the Red Sox on Saturday. “I heard that it was pretty much done,” Roberts re- counted Sunday afternoon. “But there’s obviously things that have to go on with medical, so it wasn’t ac- tually even finalized. I just heard that it was pretty much close.” Friedman, however, wasn’t ready to exhale until he got final word from the Ti- gers during the game. “I had no idea and was trying to emotionally hedge,” he said. “I wasn’t getting too high or too low on it until we actually found out.” There was, it turned out, no need to stress. On Sat- urday, the Dodgers agreed to trade three prospects — Photo illustration by Tate Rudisill Los Angeles Times; photos by Nick Cammett Getty Images, Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times Star hoarders strike again Dodgers’ Friedman pulls off ‘aggressive’ deal to land Skubal By Maddie Lee [See Dodgers, D4] ON THE BACK: Sparks trade All-Star guard Plum as franchise begins another rebuild. D6 CRITICS CAN’T COMPLAIN Detractors of deep-pock- eted Dodgers should know that L.A. didn’t outspend others to get Skubal, Bill Shaikin writes. A1 BREWERS SWING AND MISS BIG Milwaukee didn’t push hard enough to acquire ace, who would make a difference in postseason, Shaikin writes. D4 YAMAMOTO’S START SPOILED Dodgers right-hander only gives up four hits but Rafaela powers Red Sox to 3-2 win. D5 T arik Skubal is a Dodger. The five words every baseball soul outside of Los Angeles dreaded hearing. The Dodgers are going to three-peat. The six words that every baseball soul everywhere must now acknowledge. It’s over. The chase for baseball’s best pitcher, the hunt by baseball’s best team, the pennant race, the World Series, all of it. It’s over. The Dodgers just stole it all again, three months early but right on time, their third consecutive championship cemented when they traded for the Detroit Tigers’ Tarik Skubal, the two-time de- fending American League Cy Young Award winner and quite simply the best pitcher in baseball. Everybody wanted him. The Dodgers were the only In trade, Dodgers have secured Skubal, three-peat — and hate Voices BILL PLASCHKE COLUMNIST [See Plaschke, D4]

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D2 MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LATIMES.COM/SPORTS MON TUE WED THU FRI DODGERS at Chicago Cubs SNLA at Chicago Cubs SNLA, TBS at Chicago Cubs 11:15 a.m. SNLA, MLB at Arizona 6:30 SNLA ANGELS at Baltimore 3:30 ABTV at Baltimore 3:30 ABTV at Baltimore 9:30 a.m. ABTV at Miami ABTV GALAXY NEXT: AUG. 15 AT HOUSTON, 5:30 P.M., APPLE TV LAFC CHIVAS* 7:30 Apple TV ANGEL CITY NEXT: SUNDAY AT SEATTLE, 6 P.M., ESPN SPARKS at Chicago SpecSN, USA, CNBC at Minnesota Prime Video * Leagues Cup Shade denotes home games. Times Pacific. PRO CALENDAR TIME EVENT TV; RADIO BASEBALL 5 p.m. Dodgers at Chicago Cubs SNLA; 570, 1020 5 p.m. San Francisco at Texas ESPN, ESPND BASKETBALL: WNBA 4 p.m. Las Vegas at Atlanta NBCSN, Peacock 6 p.m. Phoenix at Chicago USA, Peacock CYCLING 6:15 a.m. (Tue.) Women’s Tour de France, Stage 4 Peacock LITTLE LEAGUE: SOFTBALL WORLD SERIES 7 a.m. Puerto Rico vs. Japan ESPN2 10 a.m. Italy vs. Florida ESPN2 1 p.m. Texas vs. TBD ESPN2 4 p.m. Connecticut vs. TBD ESPN2 HOCKEY Noon Hlinka Gretzky Cup, U.S. vs. Czechia NHL 4 p.m. Hlinka Gretzky Cup, Switzerland vs. Canada NHL SOCCER 1 p.m. Women’s Africa Cup, Senegal vs. Morocco beIN TENNIS 8 a.m. ATP/WTA, Canada, early rounds Tennis 4 p.m. ATP/WTA, Canada, early rounds Tennis TODAY ON THE AIR SPORTS EXTRA For coverage of late Dodgers, Angels and Sparks games, and more, see our daily digital eNewspaper. Subscribers get free access to an exclusive “Sports Extra.” View it on your phone, tablet or computer at latimes.com/enewspaper. Thomas Muller scored on a penalty kick late in the second half as the Vancou- ver Whitecaps battled back for a 1-1 draw with LAFC on Saturday night. LAFC (10-5-4) and the Whitecaps (10-3-4) remain tied atop the Western Con- ference with points apiece. The Whitecaps con- trolled most of the opening half, but Son Heung-min’s goal gave LAFC the lead at halftime. Muller’s goal came in the 76th minute after he was hauled down in the box by defender Yevhen Cheberko. Muller calmly struck the ball into an open side of the net. Son spun and sent a shot into the short side of the net past the outstretched fin- gers of goalkeeper Yohei Ta- kaoka to open the scoring. Son celebrated with a large Korean contingent on hand. A crowd of 40,086 watched the Whitecaps play their first game at BC Place Stadium since April 25. The Whitecaps were forced on the road while the stadium hosted World Cup matches. Galaxy winless since World Cup break Jonathan Sirois made nine saves to earn his first clean sheet of the season as FC Dallas played the Galaxy to a scoreless draw Saturday night. Dallas (7-5-6) was held without a goal for the second straight game. The Galaxy (5-7-7) have two losses and two draws since MLS play resumed fol- lowing the World Cup. The Galaxy’s last victory came May 16 at Seattle. JT Marcinkowski made four saves in his first clean sheet since May 16. Suarez scores as Angel City ties Angel City and the Cur- rent remained level in their regular-season series, playing to a 1-1 draw in Kan- sas City on Saturday. Angel City rookie Taylor Suarez opened the scoring less than 15 minutes into the match when Carina Lageyre threaded a pass to the center of the box and Suarez finished past goal- keeper Marisa Jordan for her first NWSL goal. Kansas City (9-7-2) re- sponded a little more than 10 minutes later when Haley Hopkins met Izzy Rodri- guez’s cross in the air and volleyed past goalkeeper Angelina Anderson. Angel City (7-7-2), which is 3-1-1 since firing coach Alex Straus in June, next plays at Seattle on Aug. 9 in match broadcast on ESPN. The teams are tied for eighth in the standings with 23 points. LAFC STAR Son Heung-min, left, opens the scoring in an eventual 1-1 tie with the Whitecaps on Saturday night at BC Place in Vancouver. Darryl Dyck Associated Press SOCCER REPORT Son’s goal helps LAFC stay tied in West WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Vancouver LAFC San Jose Houston Real Salt Lake FC Dallas St Louis City Portland Seattle Minnesota United Colorado 7 10 GALAXY San Diego FC Austin FC Sporting Kansas City 4 12 EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA Nashville Inter Miami CF New England Chicago New York City FC Cincinnati Charlotte FC New York D.C. United Orlando City 6 10 Columbus Toronto FC Philadelphia 4 10 CF Montréal 4 10 Atlanta 3 12 MLS STANDINGS Through Saturday W L OL Pts GF GA Gotham FC Washington Utah Royals FC Kansas City San Diego Portland North Carolina ANGEL CITY Seattle Orlando Denver Summit FC Boston Legacy FC Houston Bay FC Louisville 4 11 Chicago 4 13 NWSL STANDINGS Through Saturday wire reports KYOGO FURUHASHI, left, of the Galaxy battles Shaq Moore of Dallas in a scoreless tie. L.A. is 0-2-2 since MLS resumed play after the World Cup break. Kevin Terrell Getty Images Shiho Kuwaki of Japan saved par to stay alive in a sudden-death playoff Sun- day and won with a par on the second extra hole to claim the Women’s British Open over Esther Henseleit of Germany for her first ma- jor title. Kuwaki closed with a one-under 70 and looked like a winner as she waited nearly 30 minutes in the scoring room. Henseleit, in the final group, holed a 40- foot birdie putt on the 18th hole at Royal Lytham & St. Annes for a 70 to join Kuwaki at five-under 279. Henseleit then had the advantage in the playoff when the 23-year-old from Japan was in deep grass short of a bunker and had to lay up short of the green. Kuwaki hit wedge to three feet to save par and got an- other chance when Hense- leit missed a 15-foot birdie putt for the win. The tables turned on the second extra hole. Hense- leit’s tee shot on the 18th drifted far enough to the right that it was beneath a gorse bush. She did well to get that back to the fairway, and hit wedge to about 12 feet. But her par putt stayed left of the cup, and that left Kuwaki to tap in for par. “Very happy with how I gave myself the opportunity to win today and how I han- dled myself. Just got a bit un- lucky on the second playoff hole there,” Henseleit said. “I tried really hard and I guess it just wasn’t meant to be today.” The disappointment be- longs to Yealimi Noh (74), the 25-year-old Californian who began the final round with a three-shot lead until it slowly went away with bo- geys. She fell out of a share of the lead with a bogey on the 14th hole. Noh was one shot behind and had two reason- able looks at birdie — with Kuwaki already in the club- house at 279 — but failed to convert. “It stings being one short,” said Noh, who had missed three straight cuts before this week. This is the second straight Women’s British Open title for Japan, follow- ing Miyu Yamashita’s vic- tory last year at Royal Porth- cawl. Kuwaki, often known for her fashion, becomes the fifth player from Japan to have won an LPGA major over the last three years. “I can’t believe it,” Kuwaki said through a translator and the trophy presentation. Michael Thorbjornsen made a 26-foot putt for bird- ie on his last hole to shoot seven-under 63 and reach 18 under to win his first PGA Tour title by two shots at the final Rocket Classic in De- troit. The 24-year-old Thor- bjornsen, who sealed his spot in the FedEx Cup play- off, started three shots be- hind leader Davis Riley, whose rough start opened opportunities for the field. Thorbjornsen took advan- tage, surging into the lead at No. 14 with his third of four birdies in a six-hole stretch and closing with a clutch, curling putt that went in the right side of the cup. Xander Schauffele (65) briefly led during the final round and finished second, two shots back. Riley (70) was another stroke behind in third, fall- ing out of the lead with four bogeys. ...Zach Johnson opened with three straight birdies and closed with a seven-under 65 for a two- shot victory over Stewart Cink in the inaugural Portu- gal Invitational. Johnson won for the fourth time in his rookie season on the 50-and- older circuit, and it was his third Champions title in his last four starts. ETC. Saints’ receiver Polk retires at 24 The New Orleans Saints announced that receiver Ja- ’Lynn Polk has been placed on the reserve/retired list. The 24-year-old Polk was a second-round pick by the New England Patriots in 2024 but saw his role dimin- ish and finished with 12 re- ceptions for 87 yards and two touchdowns. Polk suffered a season- ending shoulder injury in last year’s training camp be- fore he was traded. Saints coach Kellen Moore said Polk had been excused from the last two practices for personal reasons. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Sun- day that FIFA president Gi- anni Infantino was not the right man to lead world soc- cer’s governing body in the latest fallout from the now abandoned plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors. “I do not believe that he is the right man to lead foot- ball forward on the world stage,” Burnham said. “The plan that was put forward was offensive to many peo- ple, football people, around the world, and it can’t be the case that we just move on and forget that, it wasn’t ac- ceptable." Lorena Wiebes again sprinted to victory in the sec- ond stage of the Women’s Tour de France. The Dutch rider won the flat 91.9-mile stage from Aigle to Geneva, the second on Swiss territory, in 3 hours, 42 minutes, 8 seconds. THE DAY IN SPORTS Kuwaki takes British Open in playoff wire reports SHIHO KUWAKI gets doused upon clinching her first major with a triumph at the Women’s British Open. She is the second straight Open winner from Japan. 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LATIMES.COM/SPORTS MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 D3 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Is- abella Villarreal practiced with the Los Angeles Queens for the first time on Saturday morning, hours before the team’s first game. She ended up being in the center of the most impor- tant moment in the first game of the Women’s Pro Baseball League’s history. Villarreal hit a pinch-hit double with two outs in the top of the seventh to give the Queens a 10-8 lead they’d hold onto to clinch the first WPBL victory. “The adrenaline was pumping, but I was also nervous,” Villarreal said. “But I’m so stoked that I got to go in. I blacked out, I don’t even know what I was think- ing, I’m just glad I got to prove myself.” Second baseman Amira Hondras, coming off a strong women’s baseball World Cup debut in July, tied the score in the at-bat prior with a single up the middle to set up Villarreal’s heroics. “I told her, ‘This is your moment,’ and walked away,” Queens manager Eric Young said of Villarreal. “And she went and got the big hit even though she just joined us to- day. You never know who is going to do it, because every- one is going to play.” The Queens trailed 7-2 in the second inning but slowly chipped away. Maggie Foxx, whose two-run single in the first inning was the first hit in league history, went two for two with two runs, a walk and a stolen base and pitched two innings while giving up one run. Villarreal, who turned 20 just two days prior, didn’t know she would play at all on Saturday. Young decided to pinch hit her for designated hitter Thaima Maximiliana despite having never seen her hit in person. “I was standing next to [Young] before he told Bella she was going to hit and she was in shock,” said Mo’ne Davis (0 for 4, one run). “But you know, she stayed calm the whole time, and every- one was just so supportive throughout the entire game.” The first WPBL game was delayed 90 minutes by rainy conditions that went on to affect that seventh in- ning, when Michelle Roche popped up to right field and New York’s Natsuki Yone- tani lost the ball in the wind. Davis, who played center field all night, said the condi- tions made it difficult to field cleanly. “We just relied on each other,” she said. “The last in- ning was very, very tough. We were getting directions from our coaches and we could not see. But you know we’ll talk over that during practice. But we were just just making sure we had each other’s back, you know, putting each other in the right position, and commu- nication is key.” Fans wrapped around the concourse and emptied the merchandise stand be- fore the delayed first pitch and witnessed a torch pass- ing between the league’s cur- rent players and past wom- en’s baseball legends. One of those legends, 99- year-old Maybelle Blair, a former member of the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League, threw the ceremonial first pitch to San Francisco pitcher Kelsie Whitmore. “Kelsie was very emo- tional, and I just went over there and gave her a hug, and I know how much this means to her, and then also Maybelle Blair,” Davis said. “I went up to her. She’s the same person she has always been. Just super high ener- gy. I told her to throw a strike, and she was like, ‘You know I will throw a strike.’ She gave me that sass.” Foxx is also 20 years old and is listed as a catcher but played in the outfield and pitched on Saturday. New York manager Rocky Henley noted that most players are going to have to play multi- ple positions, including pitch, because teams have just 15-player rosters. Foxx, Maximiliana, Hon- dras and Villarreal make up a young group around stars such as Davis and Ashton Lansdell that make the Queens, one of the favorites to win the league. The bats coming alive late on Saturday were a good sign of that. “This is something that we’ve all been working towards, culminating this event, and it feels like it kind of feels like another baseball game, but it feels like some- thing that we’ve been putting in the work for for 70 years now,” Foxx said. The Queens won’t play again until Wednesday when they take on the Boston Hunters. “When I walked on the field I started crying be- cause of how much this mo- ment meant, and how much it meant to everybody,” Foxx said. “It means everything to us.” Los Angeles Queens rally to win in league debut Villarreal’s pinch-hit double helps defeat New York in inaugural matchup of WPBL. By Marisa Ingemi QUEENS’ Ashton Lansdell, left, and Meggie Meidlinger celebrate after beating the Heights in the Women’s Pro Baseball League debut. Photographs by Jessie Alcheh Getty Images NEW league’s players Alli Schroder, from left, Kelsie Whitmore, Lansdell and Denae Benites with former pro player Gloria Rogers on Saturday in Illinois. Walbert Ureña pitched three-hit ball over six in- nings and Wade Meckler hit a two-run homer off Milwau- kee ace Jacob Misiorowski as the Angels beat the Brew- ers 3-0 on Sunday. Ureña (7-7) struck out seven and walked three as the Angels broke a five-game losing streak. The rookie right-hander has a 2.54 ERA this season and a 2.25 ERA since May 1, a stretch in which he has surrendered one or fewer earned runs in 12 of 16 starts. Angels reliever Ryan Ze- ferjahn replaced the injured Sam Bachman with a run- ner on second and one out in the eighth. He struck out Brice Turang, gave up an in- field single to Jackson Chou- rio and struck out Garrett Mitchell with runners on first and third to end the in- ning. Zeferjahn then struck out two of four batters in the ninth for his fourth save. Misiorowski (11-5) gave up two hits in seven innings, striking out 10 and walking one. Misiorowski extended his franchise record of dou- ble-digit strikeout games to 10 while throwing 66 of his 83 pitches for strikes. The game was a matchup of two of the hardest throw- ing starters in baseball. Mi- siorowski and Ureña each struck out the side on 10 pitches in the first and the pair combined to throw 10 pitches at 100 mph or more. Vaughn Grissom hit a 91- mph slider to center for a leadoff single, and Meckler followed by driving a 95-mph cutter 388 feet to right for his third homer of the season and a 2-0 lead. Misiorowski then retired 16 straight batters before is- suing a two-out walk to Jo Adell in the seventh. The Angels added an in- surance run off Brewers left- hander DL Hall in the eighth when Denzer Guzman walked, took second on a groundout, third on a wild pitch and scored on Zach Neto’s two-out RBI infield single. Soriano scratched as Angels lose Turang had a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth in- ning and the Brewers fin- ished off a 3-1 victory over the Angels on Saturday night. Jorge Soler drove in a run for the Angels, who pulled right-handed starter José Soriano from his outing as a precaution in advance of Monday’s trade deadline. The Angels used four pitchers in a bullpen game, with three going at least two innings. Right-hander Brett Kerry gave up one run over four innings after he was re- called earlier Saturday. Left- hander Samy Natera Jr. gave up Turang’s single in the eighth. The Angels took a 1-0 lead in the opening inning when Mike Trout singled with one out and scored from first base after Soler blooped a double over the head of third baseman Joey Ortiz. The Brewers tied it 1-1 in the fourth on a home run to center by Jake Bauers, who now has 20 in a season for the first time in his career. His previous high was 12. JACKSON CHOURIO (11) grounds out at second to Zach Neto in the Angels’ 3-0 win on Sunday afternoon. Luiza Moraes Getty Images Ureña wins duel as Angels snap skid Rookie gives up three hits in matchup with Brewers’ Misiorowski and Meckler homers. wire reports Luis García Jr.wanted to help but could only watch as the Washington Nationals suffered their fifth straight loss on Sunday. As the Nationals inched closer to completing a trade to send García to the New York Yankees, García was scratched about 30 minutes before a 4-2 loss to the At- lanta Braves. He watched the game from the dugout. “I mean, it was weird, un- comfortable, going out to a dugout and then having all the other teammates look at you,” García said through a translator. García has spent his ca- reer with the Nationals but acknowledged he would be excited to move to the Yan- kees. “I mean it’s a mix of both sad and happy,” García said. “There’s a new chapter in my career, so yeah, 50-50 right now.” As of early Sunday night, the Nationals and Yankees had not announced the trade. The New York Post and ESPN’s Jeff Passan re- ported the Yankees will send the Nationals four right- handed pitchers: Ben Grable, Yovanny Cruz, Jake Bird and Jack Cebert. When asked after Sun- day’s 2-1 win at the Chicago Cubs about a trade for Gar- cía, Yankees manager Aaron Boone said “All I know is it’s very close, so you guys can speculate all you want.” Mets trade Peralta The first-place Tampa Bay Rays gave their starting rotation a boost Sunday, ac- quiring pitcher Freddy Per- altafrom the struggling New York Mets for three minor leaguers. Peralta, a two-time All- Star who can become a free agent this fall, has been a dis- appointment for the Mets after they acquired him from Milwaukee in a January trade. But he could help a strong pitching staff with the Rays, who began the day with the best record in the American League at 65-45 and a 31⁄2-game lead in the AL East over the Yankees. “He gave us everything that he had, stepped out on the mound every single day and competed,” interim Mets manager Andy Green said. “I know he wanted better results. And I think when we struck the deal to get him, we were all hoping for a dif- ferent set of circumstances on this day than what we’re looking at.” The last-place Mets re- ceived outfielder Aidan Smith, infielder Émilien Pitre and right-hander Gary Gill Hill in exchange for Peralta. Etc. The Seattle Mariners have traded right-hander Luis Castillo to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for right-hander Seranthony Domínguez, outfielder Nolan Jones and catching prospect Boston Smith and cash considerations, the Mariners announced Sat- urday night. The struggling Mariners, who are four games below .500 and trail the Houston Astros by three games in the AL West, elected to part ways with one of their longest tenured players ahead of Monday’s trade deadline. The White Sox, meanwhile, lead the AL Central by 21⁄2 games with a 58-52 record. ... The Atlanta Braves acquired outfielder Lane Thomas and minor league left-hander Bailey Falter from the Kansas City Royals in exchange for two minor league pitchers. MLB REPORT Reports: Yankees to get Nationals’ García wire reports

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D4 MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LATIMES.COM/SPORTS T he manager of the team that most needed Tarik Skubal sat in his office Sun- day at Angel Stadium. The Milwaukee Brewers, the team that opened play Sunday with the best record in the major leagues, did not get Skubal. The Dodgers did. Of course they did. “L.A. is America’s team,” Brewers manager Pat Mur- phy said. Not based on the cries from across America, from fans outraged that the Dodgers helped themselves to the best available talent yet again to baseball insid- ers mystified that the De- troit Tigers could not land a better return for Skubal than the three prospects the Dodgers swapped, or at least taken a couple more days to pursue a better return. “Was I rooting for the Dodgers to get Skubal? Personally, no,” Angels pitcher Brent Suter said. “I was hoping another team that hadn’t won the World Series the past couple of years was going to get him.” Suter pitched for the Brewers for seven years. “They have a loaded farm system,” he said. “I thought they were going to get him.” The road to the World Series runs through Los Angeles. The Brewers also posted the best record in the majors last year, then the Dodgers swept them in the National League Cham- pionship Series. In last year’s NLCS, the Brewers started an opener twice, Freddy Peralta once and José Quintana once. In a five- or seven-game series this October, the Brewers could have started Jacob Misiorowski twice and Skubal twice. That could have miti- gated the Dodgers’ huge advantage in slugging. The Dodgers have seven players in double digits in home runs. The Brewers have four. But any and all statistics obscure the larger point: If you’re a Brewers fan, when is your year? The Brewers never have won a World Series. They are in line for their eighth playoff appearance in nine years. Sustainable success is nice, and difficult to achieve. Much credit to the Brewers, who play in baseball’s small- est market. But the point of the game is to win the World Series. If you’re not going all-in when you have the best record in the majors for the second consecutive year, when are you going all-in? If not now, when? “I know we made our efforts too,” Murphy said. “I trust the way we operate. I understand the way we operate.” This is all the more mad- dening in Milwaukee be- cause, in 2008, the Brewers tried their best. That July, they traded four prospects for Hall of Fame pitcher CC Sabathia. Only one, out- fielder Michael Brantley, developed into a productive major leaguer. That’s the norm, not the exception, in multi-prospect trade pack- ages. As it turned out, the Brewers lost in the first round of the playoffs, and Sabathia did not survive the fourth inning of his lone postseason start. So what? The Brewers went for it, and their fans believed. After the trade for Skubal, Fangraphs in- creased the Dodgers’ chance to win the World Series from 25% to 31%. That still means a two out of three chance the Dodgers do not win. “He’s an amazing play- er,” Suter said, “but it doesn’t mean a guaranteed World Series. It doesn’t guarantee anything.” I could not believe the number of fans that reached out to say small-market teams could not match the Dodgers’ proposal because they had little chance to re-sign Skubal as a free agent. Again, so what? We’re playing to win the World Series, not the Baseball America prospect rankings. The Brewers, with small- market resources, touted former Angels infielder Luis Rengifo as a significant winter free-agent signing. The Dodgers countered with Edwin Díaz and Kyle Tucker. “L.A. is America’s team and has all the big names,” Murphy said. “Now they just added to that, with maybe the best pitcher in the game, certainly one of the greats in this era.” If the Brewers and Dod- gers meet again in October, Murphy will only be too happy to tell us who the underdog is. “It’s going to be David and Goliath,” Murphy said. “We haven’t earned that right yet. We haven’t got there yet. “If we get there, I’m sure the narrative will be pretty similar: the haves and the have-nots.” Murphy wanted to make one thing perfectly clear: Fans across America might despise the Dodgers, but he does not. “They’ve got a bunch of great dudes,” he said. “Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, Teoscar [Hernán- dez]. I don’t know [Shohei] Ohtani. He doesn’t even know who I am. But I feel like Ohtani is a great dude. I can just tell by his presence. “How can you not love [Max] Muncy? Doc [man- ager Dave Roberts] is my good friend. [Coach Dino] Ebel, we’ve got his whole family playing for the Brew- ers.” The Brewers made first- round picks of Ebel’s sons Brady and Trey over the past two years, paying $5.55 million in signing bonuses. The Ebel boys are top pro- spects. They can look for- ward to a long stay in Mil- waukee. Voices BILL SHAIKIN COLUMNIST Brewers let Skubal slip through their fingers PITCHER Tarik Skubal was traded from the Tigers to the Dodgers late Saturday. Nam Y. Huh Associated Press him off the mound for a moment, but what happens in October? By acquiring Skubal, the Dodgers can afford to pull Ohtani out of the rotation altogether and allow him to focus on hitting, which has taken a bit of a hit with the pitching issues. But would he accept such a move, which might feel like a de- motion? Ohtani always has put winning first, but he also began the season openly acknowledging his quest for a Cy Young Award. So there’s that. The Dodgers still will need some good fortune to round out the rotation. They say Snell and Glas- now are both on the verge of returning from what has essentially been season- long injuries. But, come October, they’ll both be 33, so believe only what you see. game. They could give a rip. A move like this — the insanely rich getting in- sanely richer — could be cited this winter as a reason for the game shutting down over a labor dispute. Not their problem. With a sore Shohei Ohtani looking increasingly doubtful for a meaningful October on the mound, with Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow still sidelined because of injuries, Skubal can slide into the No. 2 spot in a rotation that, if every- one gets healthy, could wind up being the best in baseball history. Of course, in the immor- tal words of Kobe Bryant, the job is not finished. There are still questions, even for a team that has all the answers. Skubal is a tremendous postseason pitcher, with a team with enough assets to get him. Of course they were. They always are. And in return, they surely will win a third con- secutive championship against a withering and overmatched group of pre- tenders that could add Skubal only in their dreams. He cost the Dodgers minor leaguers Zyhir Hope, River Ryan and Brady Smith. So? None of the three is considered a top- five Dodgers prospect in what appears to be a scan- dalously one-sided deal. He could be a free agent this winter and may cost $400 million to retain. So? The Dodgers have that much in their couch cush- ions. The Dodgers’ injury- scarred rotation needed a stud starting pitcher like Skubal and, as this column noted last month, there was no excuse for baseball’s wealthiest and smartest team not to grab him. So the Dodgers grabbed him. Of course they did. They are rushing full bore toward that three-peat and, to the delight of the most appreciative fans in base- ball, nothing is going to get in their way. “Everything that we do is in mind with the partner- ship that we have with our fans, the 50,000 people that come out here every day,” said Andrew Friedman, Dodgers president of base- ball operations, in a Sunday afternoon news conference, later adding, “And so for us, it’s about doing our part to try to back up our end as much as we can in partner- ship with them to hopefully have another parade.” Friedman has won many trades in the dozen years he’s run the Dodgers, but this may be his greatest swindle yet. Think about it. He acquired the hottest pitcher on the market for three mostly unheralded prospects nearly two full days before the trade dead- line. Geez, Detroit, you think you could have taken more time to scour the market? And with the prospect-rich Milwaukee Brewers and Atlanta Braves in the mix, you think you could have done better than one good outfielder, one injury-prone 28-year-old pitcher and one anonymous dude going nowhere? The Dodger player reac- tion was shock, disbelief and then joy. “They were fired up, obviously,” said Friedman. Nobody was more ex- cited than Friedman, who showed rare emotion when talking about his latest triumph. “Watching Tarik Skubal pitch in the playoffs last year was must-see TV,” he said. “I was in awe watching the energy, the dominance he exhibited there, and I can’t wait to see it in Dodger blue.” The rest of baseball will hate them for this. They don’t care. Critics will say this is yet another example of how they are ruining the 2.04 ERA in six starts, but will his surgically repaired left elbow survive through his third postseason? After pushing 200 in- nings the past two seasons, he underwent a newfangled minimally invasive pro- cedure on May 6 to remove a loose body from his elbow. Recovery time for a similar surgery performed the old-fashioned way is two to three months, but he was back on the mound in a game just a month later. Will this new operation hold up? Time will tell, but the Dodgers will be holding their breath. After Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Skubal, the Dodgers have another po- tentially big question. What do they do about Ohtani? He’s got a balky knee, and now a painful biceps, and the Dodgers have kept Roki Sasaki has been tremendous since the All-Star break — that new glove has been a giant suc- cess — but he’s still never started a postseason game. And for all his surprise greatness this summer, Justin Wrobleski also has yet to start a postseason game. It all could get interest- ing. But it shouldn’t be suspenseful. Skubal solves all myster- ies. Skubal ends all argu- ments. Skubal saves the summer. The Dodgers are the most championship-driven and fan-devoted team in all of sports. They will do what- ever it takes, however it takes, whenever it takes, to win. Five words that un- equivocally prove it. Tarik Skubal is a Dodger. TARIK SKUBAL, warming up for Detroit last October, is a perfect addition for the Dodgers’ injured rotation. Steph Chambers Getty Images Dodgers picking up enemies on a three-peat road [Plaschke, from D1] outfielder Zyhir Hope (No. 25 on MLB Pipeline’s top 100), right-handed pitcher River Ryan (No. 68) and right-hander Brady Smith — to the Tigers for one of the best starters in baseball. The teams officially an- nounced the trade Sunday. Even as the Dodgers sig- naled a potentially low-key trade deadline in the lead- up — “we try to do every- thing we can to avoid not having to do something,” Friedman said last week — many rival executives and scouts had come to see the Dodgers landing Skubal as practically inevitable. Of course, the World Se- ries favorites didn’t need to acquire Skubal. But if they wanted him, they’d get him. And they did. “Friday it started picking up a little bit,” Friedman said. “But [Saturday] it was much more aggressive back and forth and a lot of differ- ent conversations. Obvi- ously being on our side, you didn’t really know how long the process was gonna go, whether it was gonna go into Sunday, into Monday. But obviously we were of the mind to be aggressive and try to get a deal done. “We were of the mind to be aggressive for one player this deadline, and fortu- nately we were able to line up.” Two aspects of the trade did, however, take the indus- try by surprise: the timing and the return. The Dodgers pulled off the trade without disrupting their major-league squad. Ryan, who made four major- league starts in 2024, has the stuff to compete in the ma- jors, but health has kept him from another call-up. “Obviously they felt good going through it,” Friedman said. “We gave up a lot of tal- ent. Those guys are really good, and have a chance to be really good major-league players. “But with where our core is, this moment in time, it was something that we felt like, erring on the side of ag- gressive made the most sense right now.” Skubal joins Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Ty- ler Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani as postseason rota- tion options, creating an en- viable surplus if all five are healthy in October. “I think it’s arguably the best rotation of all time — as if it wasn’t before as well,” catcher Dalton Rushing said. “Hope he’s ready to win a ring.” Said veteran utility play- er Miguel Rojas: “It’s a state- ment from this organization to the rest of the league and the world that they’re not just satisfied with what hap- pened the last couple years. … It’s kind of like a pressed button for us to kind of con- tinue to go and not let the rest of the league catch up to our standards.” Of course, health is never guaranteed. Skubal and Snell have undergone sur- geries to remove loose bod- ies from their pitching el- bows. Skubal has made nine appearances since, and Snell is scheduled to make one more rehab start before being activated off the in- jured list. Glasnow, on the verge of a rehab assignment, has been sidelined for nearly three months with back spasms, an injury the Dodgers ini- tially hoped wouldn’t even need an IL stint. Ohtani’s nagging knee problem creates the most uncertainty. Ohtani hasn’t pitched in nearly a month, despite receiving an Ortho- visc injection to lubricate the joint. He could restart playing catch this week in Chicago, Roberts said. “We’re as confident as we can be that he’s going to be back and he’s going to start throwing soon and building back up,” Friedman said. “You can never perfectly pre- dict the future but if you said, ‘Hey, place a bet on it,’ I would be very confident placing it that he would be back pitching.” With this much time off, however, Ohtani will need to build back up to a starter’s workload without the bene- fit of a rehab assignment, similar to what he did last season. The timing of his re- turn to the mound will dic- tate how long the buildup will be. “We have a plan to build him up slowly, method- ically,” Roberts said. “And that would have happened if this trade would have hap- pened or not.” In the meantime, the Dodgers are filling his spot in the rotation with the best possible option. Skubal is scheduled to make his Dodgers debut Tuesday against the Cubs in Chicago. And the Dodgers aren’t necessarily done dealing. As of Sunday afternoon, they still were engaged on “a number of different conver- sations on a number of dif- ferent fronts,” Friedman said. When asked if the Dod- gers could still add to the major-league roster, howev- er, Friedman said that was “less likely.” “Never say never,” he said. “Fortunately, we don’t have that acute need that we have to do this or our team is in real danger.” He did, however, mention the Dodgers’ lack of an acute need before acquiring Skubal too. Friedman gets aggressive as Dodgers land prized Skubal [Dodgers, from D1]

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LATIMES.COM/SPORTS MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 D5 NATIONAL LEAGUE West W L Pct. GB L10 DODGERS .622 — 6-4 Arizona .532 7-3 San Diego .514 7-3 San Francisco .423 5-5 Colorado .396 4-6 Central W L Pct. GB L10 Milwaukee .627 — 6-4 Chicago .568 61⁄2 6-4 Pittsburgh .500 3-7 St. Louis .486 151⁄2 2-8 Cincinnati .473 6-4 East W L Pct. GB L10 Atlanta .595 — 7-3 Philadelphia .523 2-8 Miami .509 91⁄2 5-5 Washington .491 111⁄2 4-6 New York .420 191⁄2 4-6 AMERICAN LEAGUE West W L Pct. GB L10 Houston .509 — 9-1 Texas .495 11⁄2 4-6 Seattle .482 3-7 Athletics .405 111⁄2 2-8 ANGELS .378 141⁄2 2-8 Central W L Pct. GB L10 Chicago .527 — 5-5 Cleveland .500 2-8 Minnesota .500 7-3 Detroit .477 51⁄2 6-4 Kansas City .411 4-6 East W L Pct. GB L10 Tampa Bay .591 — 7-3 New York .559 31⁄2 6-4 Boston .536 7-3 Baltimore .486 111⁄2 5-5 Toronto .468 131⁄2 6-4 STANDINGS Through Saturday Today’s games Dodgers at Chicago (NL) .................. 5:05 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia ............... 3:40 p.m. St. Louis at New York (AL) ................ 4:05 p.m. Pittsburgh at Milwaukee ................... 4:40 p.m. San Francisco at Texas ..................... 5:05 p.m. Toronto at Houston .......................... 5:10 p.m. Tampa Bay at Colorado .................... 5:40 p.m. San Diego at Arizona ....................... 6:40 p.m. BOSTON 3, DODGERS 2 Boston AB R H BI Avg. Seigler 2b 4 0 0 0 .239 Rafaela cf 4 2 2 2 .288 Abreu rf 4 0 0 0 .246 Durbin 3b 4 0 0 0 .243 Yoshida dh 3 0 0 0 .260 Sogard 1b 2 0 0 0 .261 Monasterio ss 3 1 1 0 .259 Duran lf 3 0 1 0 .199 Wong c 3 0 0 0 .255 Totals 30 3 4 2 Dodgers AB R H BI Avg. Ohtani dh 3 0 1 0 .291 Pages cf 4 0 1 0 .269 Edman 2b 3 0 0 0 .313 Freeman 1b 4 1 3 0 .310 E.Hernández lf 3 0 0 0 .417 a-Tucker rf 1 0 0 0 .235 T.Hernández rf-lf 4 1 3 2 .256 Muncy 3b 4 0 1 0 .252 Rojas ss 3 0 1 0 .277 Betts ss 1 0 0 0 .232 Rushing c 3 0 0 0 .253 b-Call 1 0 0 0 .244 Totals 34 2 10 2 Boston 101 000 010 —3 Dodgers 020 000 000 —2 a-flied out for E.Hernández in the 8th. b-flied out for Rushing in the 9th. Walks—Boston 1: Sogard 1. Dodgers 2: Ohtani 1, Edman 1. Strikeouts—Boston 4: Seigler 2, Abreu 1, Yoshida 1. Dodgers 9: Ohtani 1, Pages 1, Edman 1, E.Hernández 1, Muncy 3, Rojas 1, Rushing 1. LOB—Boston 1, Dodgers 7. 2B—Monasterio (19), Rojas (10), Pages (22). HR—Rafaela 2 (14), off Yamamoto; T.Hernández (10), off Tolle. RBIs—Rafaela 2 (56), T.Hernández 2 (40). Runners left in scoring position—Boston 0; Dodgers 3 (Rojas, Pages 2). RISP—Boston 1 for 2; Dodgers 0 for 4. Runners moved up—Wong. LI DP—Pages. GIDP—Wong, Freeman. DP—Boston 2 (Abreu, Monasterio, Abreu; Seigler, Monasterio, Sogard); Dodgers 1 (Betts, Edman, Freeman). Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Tolle ............................6 3.30 Slaten, W, 2-4.................1 4.45 Guerrero, H, 12 ...............1 2.08 Chapman, S, 27-29...........1 1.67 Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Yamamoto, L, 11-7...........8 2.76 Vesia............................1 2.61 IBB—off Tolle (Ohtani). U— Doug Eddings, Mike Muchlinski, Emil Jimenez, Gabe Morales. T—2:09. Tickets sold—49,291 (56,000). MILWAUKEE 3, ANGELS 1 Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg. Chourio lf 4 1 1 0 .273 Turang 2b 4 0 1 1 .271 Contreras c 4 0 1 0 .272 Yelich dh 4 0 0 0 .237 Vaughn 1b 2 0 0 0 .305 Lockridge rf 1 0 0 0 .291 Bauers rf-1b 4 1 1 1 .269 Mitchell cf 2 1 0 0 .268 Pratt ss 3 0 1 1 .289 Ortiz 3b 4 0 0 0 .233 Totals 32 3 5 3 Angels AB R H BI Avg. Neto ss 4 0 0 0 .230 Trout cf 3 1 2 0 .245 Schanuel 1b 4 0 0 0 .276 Soler dh 4 0 1 1 .203 Grissom 2b 3 0 0 0 .261 Adell rf 4 0 0 0 .240 d’Arnaud c 3 0 0 0 .175 a-Meckler 1 0 0 0 .295 Guzman 3b 3 0 1 0 .239 Siri lf 3 0 1 0 .262 Totals 32 1 5 1 Milwaukee 000 100 011 —3 Angels 100 000 000 —1 a-grounded out for d’Arnaud in the 9th. Walks—Milwaukee 4: Vaughn 1, Mitchell 2, Pratt 1. Angels2: Trout 1, Grissom 1. Strikeouts—Milwaukee 9: Chourio 1, Yelich 1, Lockridge 1, Bauers 1, Mitchell 2, Pratt 2, Ortiz 1. Angels 13: Neto 2, Trout 1, Schanuel 1, Soler 3, Adell 2, d’Arnaud 2, Siri 2. LOB—Milwaukee 6, Angels 6. 2B—Contreras (17), Chourio (20), Soler (16). HR—Bauers (20), off Kerry. RBIs—Bauers (64), Turang (69), Pratt (16), Soler (49). SB—Mitchell (9). Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee 3 (Yelich, Ortiz 2); Angels 2 (Schanuel, Grissom). RISP—Milwaukee 2 for 4; Angels 0 for 2. Runners moved up—Bauers. Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gasser..........................5 4.48 Patrick, W, 6-4................2 3.50 Uribe, H, 16 ...................1 2.23 Megill, S, 18-20...............1 2.83 Angels IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Suter............................2 4.12 Kerry............................4 3.38 Natera, L, 1-1.................2 2.28 Yates ...........................1 3.95 U— Mark Wegner, Steven Jaschinski, Nate Tomlinson, Carlos Torres. T—2:34. Tickets sold—31,124 (45,517). TORONTO 5, ST. LOUIS 1 St. Louis AB R H BI Avg. Wetherholt 2b 4 0 0 0 .249 Walker rf 5 0 2 0 .282 Burleson 1b 4 0 2 0 .284 Herrera dh 4 1 1 0 .244 Nootbaar lf 4 0 1 0 .235 Winn ss 3 0 1 1 .243 Church cf 4 0 1 0 .227 Jordan 3b 4 0 2 0 .240 Crooks c 3 0 1 0 .170 Torres 1 0 0 0 .241 Pagés c 0 0 0 0 .204 Totals 36 1 11 1 Toronto AB R H BI Avg. Urías 2b 2 0 1 1 .244 Giménez ss 1 1 0 0 .231 Guerrero 1b 5 1 2 0 .267 Okamoto 3b 4 0 0 0 .228 Springer dh 4 1 2 2 .239 Kirk c 2 0 1 2 .236 Varsho cf 3 0 1 0 .245 Clement ss-2b 4 1 1 0 .292 Straw rf-lf 4 0 1 0 .218 Schneider lf 1 1 0 0 .147 Lukes rf 2 0 0 0 .277 Totals 32 5 9 5 St. Louis 000 001 000 —1 Toronto 001 100 30x —5 Walks—St. Louis 3: Wetherholt 1, Burleson 1, Winn 1. Toronto 4: Kirk 2, Varsho 1, Schneider 1. Strikeouts—St. Louis 6: Walker 1, Winn 1, Church 1, Jordan 1, Crooks 2. Toronto 4: Giménez 1, Okamoto 1, Varsho 1, Schneider 1. LOB—St. Louis 11, Toronto 9. 2B—Herrera (18), Winn (14), Jordan (7), Straw (8), Springer (14). RBIs—Winn (45), Springer 2 (36), Urías (7), Kirk 2 (14). CS—Wetherholt (1). SF—Urías. Runners left in scoring position—St. Louis 6 (Crooks, Herrera 2, Jordan, Torres 2); Toronto 5 (Varsho 2, Lukes, Straw, Guerrero). RISP—St. Louis 1 for 8; Toronto 3 for 11. Runners moved up—Nootbaar, Church, Straw. GIDP—Wetherholt. DP—Toronto 1 (Urías, Clement, Guerrero). St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Mathews, L, 0-1...............5 3.60 Gastelum.....................11⁄3 7.94 Strzelecki ....................12⁄3 5.79 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gausman, W, 5-10..........52⁄3 4.38 Fisher, H, 9....................1 4.08 Fluharty, H, 12................1⁄3 4.36 Hoffman........................1 3.94 Rogers..........................1 1.65 Inherited runners-scored—Gastelum 1-0, Strzelecki 2-2, Fisher 1-0, Fluharty 1-0. HBP—Gastelum (Giménez). U— Rob Drake, Jordan Baker, Stu Scheuwater, Junior Valentine. T—2:43. Tickets sold—41,819 (39,150). SEATTLE 4, MINNESOTA 3 Minnesota AB R H BI Avg. Larnach lf 3 1 1 1 .284 Jeffers dh 4 0 1 0 .292 Clemens 2b 3 0 0 0 .239 Lewis 1b 4 0 1 0 .217 Lee 3b 4 1 2 0 .246 Keaschall cf 3 1 1 1 .260 Caratini c 4 0 0 1 .231 Kreidler ss 3 0 1 0 .244 Martin rf 3 0 0 0 .239 Totals 31 3 7 3 Seattle AB R H BI Avg. Young 2b 5 1 2 0 .262 Arozarena lf 4 3 2 1 .283 Canzone rf 3 0 0 0 .258 Rodríguez cf 3 0 1 1 .252 Raleigh dh 5 0 0 1 .162 Naylor 1b 4 0 1 0 .261 Garver c 2 0 0 1 .175 Wilson 3b 4 0 0 0 .205 Emerson ss 3 0 1 0 .194 Refsnyder 0 0 0 0 .140 Rivas ss 0 0 0 0 .131 Totals 33 4 7 4 Minnesota 000 011 100 —3 Seattle 210 000 001 —4 Walks—Minnesota 2: Larnach 1, Clemens 1. Seattle 8: Arozarena 1, Canzone 2, Rodríguez 2, Garver 2, Refsnyder 1. Strikeouts—Minnesota 9: Larnach 1, Clemens 2, Lewis 2, Keaschall 1, Caratini 2, Kreidler 1. Seattle 8: Arozarena 1, Raleigh 3, Naylor 1, Wilson 3. LOB—Minnesota 4, Seattle 11. 2B—Lewis (14), Lee (17), Kreidler (8), Young (15), Arozarena (23). HR—Keaschall (5), off Gilbert; Larnach (9), off Gilbert; Arozarena (14), off Prielipp. RBIs—Keaschall (32), Larnach (39), Caratini (37), Rodríguez (47), Garver (15), Arozarena (49), Raleigh (40). SB—Naylor (22). CS—Keaschall (5). S—Keaschall. Runners left in scoring position—Minnesota 4 (Lewis 3, Caratini); Seattle 5 (Raleigh, Young 2, Wilson 2). RISP—Minnesota 0 for 7; Seattle 1 for 12. DP—Seattle 1 (Garver, Rivas, Garver). Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Prielipp.......................51⁄3 4.75 Adams .........................1⁄3 5.23 Minter..........................1⁄3 2.31 Nance..........................2⁄3 3.54 Funderburk ....................1⁄3 3.34 Rogers..........................1 4.91 Morris, L, 4-3 .................2⁄3 3.25 Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Gilbert..........................7 3.46 Speier..........................2⁄3 1.84 Muñoz, W, 4-4 ..............11⁄3 3.86 Inherited runners-scored—Minter 2-0, Funderburk 1-0, Muñoz 2-0. IBB—off Rogers (Refsnyder), off Morris (Rodríguez). WP—Muñoz. PB_Garver (3). U— Roberto Ortiz, Jim Wolf, Alex MacKay, Alan Porter. T—3:02. Tickets sold—41,423 (47,929). MIAMI 6, N.Y. METS 2 Miami AB R H BI Avg. Lopez ss 4 2 1 1 .322 Hernández lf 4 0 0 0 .232 Hicks c 3 0 2 2 .283 Edwards 2b 5 0 0 0 .288 Jiménez 3b 3 0 0 0 .205 Marsee cf 2 0 0 0 .197 Stowers 1b 4 1 1 0 .237 Sanoja rf-3b 5 1 2 2 .267 Ruiz cf-rf 3 1 2 0 .264 Conine dh 3 1 2 1 .279 Totals 36 6 10 6 New York AB R H BI Avg. Ewing cf 4 0 1 0 .268 Lindor ss 4 0 2 0 .238 Bichette dh 4 0 1 0 .256 Benge rf 4 0 1 0 .266 Young 1b 4 0 0 0 .247 Semien 2b 4 1 1 0 .211 Baty 3b 3 0 0 0 .218 Taylor lf 3 1 1 2 .241 Torrens c 3 0 0 0 .216 Totals 33 2 7 2 Miami 120 102 000 —6 New York 020 000 000 —2 Walks—Miami 5: Hernández 1, Hicks 2, Stowers 1, Conine 1. Strikeouts—Miami 6: Lopez 1, Hernández 1, Jiménez 1, Marsee 1, Stowers 1, Ruiz 1. New York 5: Lindor 1, Benge 1, Young 1, Baty 2. E—Lindor (7), Thornton (1). LOB—Miami 10, New York 4. 2B—Lopez (28). HR—Sanoja (4), off Thornton; Conine (10), off Duarte; Taylor (10), off Phillips. RBIs—Hicks 2 (62), Sanoja 2 (37), Lopez (51), Conine (21), Taylor 2 (28). SB—Ruiz (26), Hernández (8). CS—Ruiz (3), Sanoja (4). SF—Lopez. Runners left in scoring position—Miami 5 (Edwards 4, Jiménez); New York 1 (Young). RISP—Miami 2 for 11; New York 0 for 1. Runners moved up—Hernández 2. GIDP—Young. DP—Miami 1 (Edwards, Lopez, Stowers). Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Phillips, W, 3-5................5 3.53 King.............................1 2.45 Bachar, S, 2-3.................3 3.84 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Thornton, L, 2-2.............42⁄3 2.88 Duarte........................11⁄3 1.42 Pintaro .........................2 4.40 Herget..........................1 0.00 Inherited runners-scored—King 1-0, Duarte 1-0. HBP—Thornton (Ruiz). U— Brock Ballou, Chris Conroy, Ben May, Brennan Miller. T—2:46. Tickets sold—30,078 (42,136). TAMPA BAY 1, CHICAGO WHITE SOX 0 Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Antonacci lf 3 0 0 0 .279 Murakami 1b 4 0 1 0 .244 Vargas 3b 4 0 0 0 .238 C.Montgomery ss 4 0 0 0 .215 Benintendi dh 2 0 0 0 .246 a-Grichuk dh 2 0 1 0 .259 B.Montgomery rf 3 0 1 0 .239 Peters cf 2 0 0 0 .266 Pereira cf 1 0 0 0 .211 Meidroth 2b 3 0 0 0 .270 Quero c 3 0 2 0 .194 Totals 31 0 5 0 Tampa Bay AB R H BI Avg. Díaz dh 4 0 2 0 .304 Mullins dh 0 0 0 0 .203 Simpson lf 3 0 1 0 .290 Caminero 3b 3 0 0 0 .280 Mesa rf 3 0 0 0 .211 DeLuca cf 3 1 1 0 .263 Vilade 1b 3 0 0 0 .252 Williamson 2b 3 0 0 0 .248 Fortes c 3 0 1 1 .277 Walls ss 3 0 0 0 .212 Totals 28 1 5 1 Chicago 000 000 000 —0 Tampa Bay 000 010 00x —1 Walks—Chicago 1: Antonacci 1. Strikeouts—Chicago 16: Antonacci 2, Murakami 3, Vargas 2, C.Montgomery 2, Benintendi 2, Grichuk 1, B.Montgomery 2, Pereira 1, Meidroth 1. Tampa Bay 8: Caminero 2, Mesa 1, DeLuca 1, Vilade 3, Walls 1. E—Simpson (3). LOB—Chicago 5, Tampa Bay 5. RBIs—Fortes (28). SB—DeLuca (12). CS—Antonacci (6). S—Simpson. Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 2 (Antonacci 2); Tampa Bay 2 (Caminero, Mesa). RISP—Chicago 0 for 1; Tampa Bay 1 for 5. Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hicks ...........................1 3.09 Schultz, L, 3-8 ................5 5.82 Domínguez.....................1 3.99 Richards........................1 3.40 Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Rasmussen, W, 10-5 .........6 2.91 Booser, H, 6 ..................2⁄3 2.05 Kelly, H, 22....................1 2.13 Cleavinger, H, 20.............1⁄3 3.27 Baker, S, 31-34...............1 1.45 Inherited runners-scored—Kelly 1-0. HBP—Schultz (Caminero). AU— Alfonso Marquez, Mike Estabrook, Dillon Wilson, Malachi Moore. T—2:14. Tickets sold—23,309 (25,025). PITTSBURGH 4, CINCINNATI 1 Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Mangum cf-rf 5 1 2 0 .306 B.Lowe 2b 4 1 1 0 .257 Reynolds lf 4 0 1 1 .268 Valdez rf 2 0 0 1 .268 Cook cf 0 0 0 0 .200 Gonzales 3b 4 0 0 1 .315 Ozuna dh 4 1 1 0 .203 Triolo ss 2 0 0 0 .241 Flores 1b 4 0 0 0 .211 Davis c 3 1 1 1 .175 Totals 32 4 6 4 Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg. De La Cruz ss 4 0 0 0 .276 Stewart dh 2 0 0 0 .254 Bleday lf 4 0 0 0 .226 N.Lowe 1b 4 0 1 0 .258 Marte rf 4 0 0 0 .195 Suárez 3b 4 0 1 0 .201 Trevino c 3 1 1 1 .250 Friedl cf 3 0 0 0 .165 McLain 2b 2 0 0 0 .191 Totals 30 1 3 1 Pittsburgh 003 001 000 —4 Cincinnati 000 010 000 —1 Walks—Pittsburgh 7: B.Lowe 1, Reynolds 1, Valdez 2, Triolo 2, Davis 1. Cincinnati 2: Stewart 1, McLain 1. Strikeouts—Pittsburgh 3: Mangum 1, B.Lowe 1, Flores 1. Cincinnati 10: De La Cruz 1, Stewart 2, Bleday 1, Marte 1, Suárez 3, Trevino 1, McLain 1. E—Ashcraft (3). LOB—Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 5. 2B—Ozuna (7), Suárez (12). HR—Trevino (4), off Ashcraft. RBIs—Reynolds (62), Valdez (38), Gonzales (50), Davis (30), Trevino (11). SB—Gonzales (5), McLain (12). Runners left in scoring position—Pittsburgh 2 (Triolo 2); Cincinnati 4 (Suárez 2, McLain, De La Cruz). RISP—Pittsburgh 1 for 6; Cincinnati 0 for 6. Runners moved up—Flores. GIDP—Reynolds. DP—Cincinnati 1 (De La Cruz, McLain, N.Lowe). Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Ashcraft, W, 11-4 .............5 3.96 Mlodzinski, H, 3...............3 3.15 Soto, S, 14-19 ................1 3.69 Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Abbott, L, 5-7 .................5 3.91 McCambley ....................1 6.75 Moll.............................1 4.26 Ju.Garcia.......................1 2.29 Ferguson .......................1 4.01 HBP—Ashcraft (Stewart). U— Dexter Kelley, Shane Livensparger, Dan Merzel, Dan Bellino. T—2:38. Tickets sold—27,616 (43,891). PHILADELPHIA 5, BALTIMORE 0 Philadelphia AB R H BI Avg. Turner ss 5 0 2 0 .249 Schwarber dh 4 1 0 0 .248 Harper 1b 4 1 2 0 .254 Bohm 3b 5 0 1 1 .223 Marsh lf 4 1 2 1 .279 Realmuto c 3 1 0 0 .223 Stott 2b 3 1 1 0 .253 Crawford cf 4 0 1 2 .257 De La Cruz rf 4 0 1 1 .444 Hill rf 0 0 0 0 .240 Totals 36 5 10 5 Baltimore AB R H BI Avg. Mayo dh 3 0 0 0 .199 Beavers dh 1 0 1 0 .247 Ward lf 3 0 0 0 .245 Henderson ss 3 0 1 0 .220 Alonso 1b 4 0 0 0 .249 O’Neill rf 3 0 1 0 .209 Encrncn-Strnd 3b 2 0 0 0 .306 Taveras cf 4 0 0 0 .220 Holliday 2b 4 0 0 0 .255 J.Rogers c 3 0 0 0 .155 Totals 30 0 3 0 Philadelphia 000 010 040 —5 Baltimore 000 000 000 —0 Walks—Philadelphia 4: Schwarber 1, Harper 1, Realmuto 1, Stott 1. Baltimore 5: Ward 1, Henderson 1, O’Neill 1, Encarnacion-Strand 2. Strikeouts—Philadelphia 7: Schwarber 3, Bohm 1, Marsh 1, Realmuto 1, De La Cruz 1. Baltimore 14: Mayo 2, Ward 1, Henderson 1, Alonso 3, Encarnacion-Strand 1, Taveras 1, Holliday 3, J.Rogers 2. LOB—Philadelphia 8, Baltimore 8. 2B—Harper (21), Turner (19). RBIs—De La Cruz (3), Bohm (60), Marsh (49), Crawford 2 (25). SB—Stott (19), Beavers (5), Marsh (10), Bohm (2). Runners left in scoring position—Philadelphia 5 (Bohm, Schwarber, Marsh, De La Cruz 2); Baltimore 5 (Taveras 4, Ward). RISP—Philadelphia 4 for 14; Baltimore 0 for 3. Runners moved up—Bohm, Crawford 2. Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Sánchez, W, 14-4.............6 2.61 Bowlan, H, 7...................1 3.03 Alvarado........................1 5.71 Duran...........................1 1.98 Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Baz, L, 4-10 .................61⁄3 3.86 Garcia..........................2⁄3 3.04 Wolfram........................1⁄3 4.59 Kittredge.......................1⁄3 4.02 Hiraldo .......................11⁄3 12.00 Inherited runners-scored—Garcia 1-0, Kittredge 2-2, Hiraldo 2-0. WP—Kittredge. U— Marvin Hudson, Tripp Gibson, Nick Mahrley, Derek Thomas. T—2:58. Tickets sold—37,751 (45,971). HOUSTON 5, TEXAS 4 Texas AB R H BI Avg. Pederson 1b 3 0 1 0 .255 Burger 1b 2 0 0 0 .235 Langford lf 5 1 1 1 .275 Seager ss 3 0 1 0 .192 Nimmo dh 3 0 2 0 .267 Carter cf 2 1 0 0 .205 Duran 3b 4 1 0 0 .266 Osuna rf 4 0 1 1 .258 Díaz c 3 1 1 2 .250 Lopez 2b 3 0 0 0 .284 c-Foscue 1 0 0 0 .258 Totals 33 4 7 4 Houston AB R H BI Avg. Peña ss 5 1 2 0 .319 Alvarez dh 3 2 1 0 .324 Paredes 3b 3 0 1 0 .258 Walker 1b 4 1 2 1 .238 Diaz c 4 0 0 0 .256 Altuve 2b 2 1 0 0 .230 Allen 2b 0 0 0 0 .265 Trammell cf-lf 4 0 1 2 .238 Smith rf 4 0 1 0 .207 Wade lf 2 0 1 1 .185 Dezenzo lf 2 0 0 0 .216 Spence cf 0 0 0 0 .162 Totals 33 5 9 4 Texas 001 201 000 —4 Houston 012 200 00x —5 Walks—Texas 4: Seager 1, Nimmo 1, Carter 2. Houston 6: Alvarez 2, Paredes 1, Walker 1, Altuve 2. Strikeouts—Texas 10: Langford 2, Seager 1, Carter 1, Duran 1, Osuna 1, Díaz 2, Lopez 2. Houston 7: Peña 2, Walker 1, Diaz 1, Trammell 1, Dezenzo 2. LOB—Texas 7, Houston 11. 2B—Alvarez (21), Peña (12), Walker (21). 3B—Peña (1). HR—Langford (13), off Blanco; Díaz (5), off De Los Santos. RBIs—Langford (31), Osuna (24), Díaz 2 (18), Wade (13), Trammell 2 (16), Walker (64). SB—Nimmo (6). S—Díaz. Runners left in scoring position—Texas 5 (Lopez, Carter 2, Duran 2); Houston 7 (Altuve 2, Trammell, Peña, Walker 2, Smith). RISP—Texas 1 for 7; Houston 3 for 13. Runners moved up—Paredes, Altuve. Texas IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA deGrom, L, 7-7..............31⁄3 3.96 Winn ...........................2⁄3 5.84 Alexander ......................2 3.00 Gray.............................1 3.40 Silseth..........................1 2.66 Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Blanco........................42⁄3 7.36 Sousa ..........................1⁄3 3.24 De Los Santos, H, 9 .........2⁄3 4.38 Okert, W, 5-1................11⁄3 2.14 Abreu, H, 7 ....................1 4.62 Hader, S, 15-15...............1 1.17 Inherited runners-scored—Winn 3-1, Sousa 1-0. IBB—off deGrom (Alvarez), off Silseth (Alvarez). HBP_Silseth (Paredes). WP—Winn. U— Adam Hamari, Todd Tichenor, Tyler Jones, Clint Vondrak. T—2:57. Tickets sold—38,461 (41,000). CHICAGO CUBS 5, N.Y. YANKEES 2 New York AB R H BI Avg. Schuemann lf 3 0 0 0 .194 a-Grisham cf 0 0 0 0 .214 Goldschmidt 1b 4 0 0 0 .247 Rosario dh 4 0 1 0 .236 Domínguez rf 4 0 1 0 .229 Chisholm 2b 4 0 0 0 .222 Volpe ss 3 0 0 0 .240 Rice 1 0 0 0 .268 McMahon 3b 0 0 0 0 .207 Jones cf-lf 4 2 2 1 .247 Sánchez c 4 0 3 0 .273 Caballero 3b-ss 3 0 1 1 .240 Totals 34 2 8 2 Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Crw-Armstrng cf 3 2 1 1 .283 Suzuki rf 3 0 1 1 .270 Bregman 3b 2 1 1 0 .249 C.Kelly c 4 0 1 0 .260 Busch 1b 4 0 1 1 .240 Hoerner 2b 4 1 2 1 .257 Happ lf 4 0 0 0 .217 Swanson ss 3 0 0 0 .212 Triantos dh 2 0 0 0 .250 Ramirez dh 0 1 0 0 .319 Totals 29 5 7 4 New York 000 010 100 —2 Chicago 100 000 31x —5 Walks—New York 2: Grisham 1, Caballero 1. Chicago 5: Crow-Armstrong 1, Suzuki 1, Bregman 2, Ramirez 1. Strikeouts—New York 9: Schuemann 1, Goldschmidt 1, Rosario 1, Domínguez 1, Chisholm 3, Jones 1, Caballero 1. Chicago 7: Crow-Armstrong 1, Suzuki 1, C.Kelly 2, Hoerner 1, Happ 1, Triantos 1. E—Busch (4). LOB—New York 7, Chicago 5. 2B—Domínguez (12), Suzuki (18). 3B—Crow-Armstrong (7). HR—Jones (5), off Peterson; Hoerner (6), off F.Cruz. RBIs—Caballero (38), Jones (13), Hoerner (51), Crow-Armstrong (64), Suzuki (61), Busch (59). SB—Caballero 2 (27). CS—Sánchez (1). Runners left in scoring position—New York 4 (Chisholm, Goldschmidt, Schuemann 2); Chicago 3 (Busch, Triantos, Happ). RISP—New York 1 for 4; Chicago 2 for 9. DP—New York 1 (Caballero, Chisholm, Goldschmidt); Chicago 1 (Swanson, Hoerner, Busch). New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Fried..........................51⁄3 3.12 Chivilli..........................2⁄3 0.57 F.Cruz, L, 4-6, BS, 2-6.......2⁄3 2.85 Headrick.......................1⁄3 1.46 Y.Cruz...........................1 1.69 Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Peterson......................61⁄3 5.52 Thornton, W, 4-4 .............2⁄3 2.97 Webb, H, 8 ....................1 2.59 Thielbar, S, 3-7 ...............1 3.97 Inherited runners-scored—Headrick 1-1. WP—Fried(2). U— Ron Kulpa, Scott Barry, Manny Gonzalez, Tom Hanahan. T—2:47. Tickets sold—39,630 (41,363). COLORADO 12, KANSAS CITY 6 Kansas City AB R H BI Avg. Jensen dh 4 1 1 0 .235 Thomas cf 2 0 1 0 .232 Marte rf 3 0 0 1 .250 Caglianone 1b 5 1 1 2 .251 Perez c 4 1 1 1 .215 Collins lf 4 1 1 0 .242 Loftin 3b 4 0 2 0 .256 Massey 2b 3 0 1 1 .263 Rave rf-cf 4 1 2 1 .321 Tolbert ss 4 1 2 0 .342 Totals 37 6 12 6 Colorado AB R H BI Avg. McCarthy lf 5 2 2 0 .294 Karros 3b 5 2 2 2 .265 Rumfield 1b 5 2 3 3 .297 Goodman c 5 2 4 5 .261 Moniak dh 4 0 1 1 .278 Carrigg ss-rf 2 0 0 0 .292 Castro 2b 4 2 2 1 .262 Freeman rf 3 1 1 0 .254 Tovar ss 2 0 0 0 .196 Doyle cf 3 1 1 0 .211 Totals 38 12 16 12 Kansas City 013 000 002 — 6 Colorado 006 110 13x —12 Walks—Kansas City 1: Jensen 1. Colorado 5: Carrigg 3, Castro 1, Doyle 1. Strikeouts—Kansas City 6: Caglianone 1, Collins 2, Massey 1, Rave 1, Tolbert 1. Colorado 8: McCarthy 1, Karros 2, Rumfield 1, Castro 2, Freeman 1, Doyle 1. LOB—Kansas City 6, Colorado 8. 2B—Tolbert (3), Loftin (18), Karros (20), McCarthy (22). 3B—Collins (3), Jensen (1). HR—Caglianone (18), off Feltner; Perez (16), off Feltner; Rave (2), off Herget; Goodman (32), off Avila; Castro (12), off Strahm; Goodman (33), off Lange. RBIs—Massey (37), Caglianone 2 (42), Perez (46), Rave (2), Marte (10), Karros 2 (39), Rumfield 3 (56), Goodman 5 (65), Castro (46), Moniak (47). SB—Tolbert (15). SF—Massey, Moniak. Runners left in scoring position—Kansas City 4 (Jensen, Caglianone, Perez, Rave); Colorado 5 (Doyle, Moniak 2, Freeman, Tovar). RISP—Kansas City 1 for 13; Colorado 6 for 15. Runners moved up—Caglianone, Massey, Jensen, Marte 2. GIDP—Caglianone. DP—Colorado 1 (Carrigg, Rumfield). Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Avila, L, 5-4..................22⁄3 5.53 McGee........................11⁄3 2.08 Strahm .........................1 7.32 Lange...........................2 6.25 Erceg ...........................1 6.37 Colorado IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Feltner, W, 4-5................6 5.75 Vodnik..........................1 5.25 Mejia ...........................1 5.40 Herget..........................1 7.06 Inherited runners-scored—McGee 1-0. WP—McGee, Erceg. U— Vic Carapazza, Edwin Moscoso, Nic Lentz, Hunter Wendelstedt. T—2:56. Tickets sold—40,216 (50,144). SAN DIEGO 6, SAN FRANCISCO 5 San Francisco AB R H BI Avg. Eldridge dh 5 0 2 0 .253 Lee rf 5 1 1 0 .298 Ramos lf 4 0 1 0 .264 Devers 1b 4 1 2 0 .249 Adames ss 3 1 0 1 .224 Susac c 4 0 2 0 .266 Gilbert cf 4 1 2 0 .241 Koss 3b 3 0 0 0 .171 McCray 1 0 0 0 .143 Furman 2b 0 0 0 0 --- Basabe 2b-3b 4 1 2 4 .333 Totals 37 5 12 5 San Diego AB R H BI Avg. Tatis rf 4 0 0 0 .283 Cronenworth 2b 5 0 2 1 .215 Machado 3b 3 1 0 0 .213 France 1b 4 1 3 0 .294 Song 2b 0 0 0 0 .212 Merrill cf 4 0 1 2 .234 Rengifo dh 2 1 0 0 .236 Bogaerts ss 4 2 2 0 .221 Fermin c 3 1 2 3 .179 Bowen lf 3 0 0 0 .159 Sheets 1 0 0 0 .213 Totals 33 6 10 6 San Francisco 003 000 020 —5 San Diego 200 201 001 —6 Walks—San Francisco 4: Ramos 1, Devers 1, Adames 2. San Diego 3: Tatis 1, Machado 1, Rengifo 1. Strikeouts—San Francisco 9: Eldridge 1, Lee 2, Ramos 3, Gilbert 1, Koss 1, McCray 1. San Diego 12: Tatis 1, Cronenworth 2, Machado 2, France 1, Merrill 3, Rengifo 1, Bogaerts 1, Bowen 1. LOB—San Francisco 9, San Diego 6. 2B—Susac (7), Basabe (1), Merrill (18), Bogaerts (10). HR—Basabe (1), off Buehler; Fermin (4), off Mahle. RBIs—Basabe 4 (4), Adames (46), Merrill 2 (50), Fermin 3 (14), Cronenworth (14). CS—Lee (1), Song (3). S—Fermin. Runners left in scoring position—San Francisco 6 (Basabe, Eldridge 2, Susac 2, Adames); San Diego 1 (Bogaerts). RISP—San Francisco 3 for 12; San Diego 3 for 5. DP—San Diego 1 San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Mahle ........................52⁄3 5.13 Winn..........................11⁄3 3.08 Kilian ...........................1 4.26 Smith, L, 0-3..................2⁄3 2.89 San Diego IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Buehler.......................41⁄3 5.18 Peralta .......................11⁄3 3.21 Morejon, H, 17..............11⁄3 3.07 Estrada, H, 8..................1⁄3 4.09 M.Miller, W, 4-1.............12⁄3 0.76 Inherited runners-scored—Winn 1-1, Peralta 2-0, Morejon 1-0, M.Miller 3-2. IBB—off Smith (Tatis). HBP—Mahle (Rengifo). U— Nestor Ceja, John Tumpane, Willie Traynor, Chris Guccione. T—2:51. Tickets sold—43,766 (40,222). DETROIT 8, ATHLETICS 6 Detroit AB R H BI Avg. McGonigle 3b 4 2 3 2 .290 Torres 2b 5 2 2 2 .266 Dingler c 5 0 1 0 .268 Greene lf 4 1 0 0 .274 Keith dh 3 0 2 1 .267 Valencia dh 2 0 2 0 .462 Torkelson 1b 5 1 2 1 .218 Clark cf 5 1 2 2 .556 Báez ss 5 0 0 0 .289 McKinstry rf 4 1 1 0 .207 Totals 42 8 15 8 Athletics AB R H BI Avg. Wilson dh 5 1 1 1 .274 Heim 1b 5 0 0 0 .230 Soderstrom lf 5 1 2 0 .242 White 3b 4 1 3 0 .304 Cortes 1 0 0 0 .264 Butler rf 5 1 2 1 .209 Williams ss 2 0 1 0 .266 McNeil 2b 2 0 1 1 .248 Bolte cf 4 2 3 3 .257 Serven c 3 0 0 0 .182 Ornelas 2b 3 0 1 0 .250 Walton ss 1 0 1 0 .298 Totals 40 6 15 6 Detroit 200 022 110 —8 Athletics 001 100 031 —6 Walks—Detroit 2: McGonigle 1, Greene 1. Athletics 3: Williams 1, Bolte 1, Serven 1. Strikeouts—Detroit 11: Torres 2, Dingler 1, Greene 1, Torkelson 1, Clark 2, Báez 2, McKinstry 2. Athletics 9: Wilson 1, Heim 1, Soderstrom 2, Cortes 1, Butler 2, Williams 1, Ornelas 1. LOB—Detroit 9, Athletics 10. 2B—McKinstry (11), Bolte (8), Soderstrom (23). HR—McGonigle (11), off Perkins; Torres (6), off Perkins; Clark (1), off Perkins; Bolte (4), off Finnegan. RBIs—McGonigle 2 (41), Keith (27), Torres 2 (25), Clark 2 (3), Torkelson (55), Butler (29), Wilson (34), Bolte 3 (21), McNeil (34). Runners left in scoring position—Detroit 4 (Báez, Dingler, Clark 2); Athletics 4 (Butler, Ornelas, Williams, Heim). RISP—Detroit 3 for 10; Athletics 5 for 19. DP—Detroit 2 (Torres, Báez, Torkelson; Báez, Torres, Torkelson). Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Valdez, W, 6-7 ................7 4.41 Finnegan.......................1⁄3 3.50 Waguespack, H, 2............2⁄3 1.74 Jansen, S, 13-17..............1 3.94 Athletics IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Perkins, L, 2-7...............51⁄3 6.72 Suarez........................11⁄3 4.68 Blewett .......................11⁄3 1.69 Medina.........................1 3.91 Inherited runners-scored—Waguespack 1-0, Blewett 1-1. WP—Jansen. U— Louie Krupa, Jeremie Rehak, Dan Iassogna, Adam Beck. T—3:09. Tickets sold—10,426 (14,014). ARIZONA 12, CLEVELAND 8 Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Carroll rf 5 2 2 3 .249 Perdomo ss 6 1 4 3 .238 Moreno dh 6 0 0 1 .302 Marte 2b 5 1 1 0 .253 Arenado 3b 4 2 2 1 .244 Tawa cf-lf 4 0 0 0 .207 Vargas 1b 5 1 2 1 .276 McCann c 4 2 3 2 .310 Wldschmdt lf 3 2 2 0 .291 Barrosa cf 0 1 0 0 .187 Totals 42 12 16 11 Cleveland AB R H BI Avg. Kwan cf-lf 5 0 3 2 .256 Ramírez 3b 4 0 0 0 .233 DeLauter dh 5 2 1 1 .276 Hoskins 1b 2 1 1 2 .179 Manzardo 1b 3 2 2 0 .214 Martínez rf 5 1 2 0 .225 Fry lf 1 0 0 0 .182 Halpin cf 3 1 2 2 .210 Bazzana 2b 5 1 2 0 .243 Hedges c 3 0 1 0 .277 Bailey c 1 0 0 1 .191 Rocchio ss 3 0 0 0 .261 Totals 40 8 14 8 Arizona 000 020 712 —12 Cleveland 200 000 051 — 8 Walks—Arizona 3: Carroll 1, Arenado 1, Barrosa 1. Cleveland 2: Ramírez 1, Fry 1. Strikeouts—Arizona 8: Carroll 1, Moreno 1, Marte 2, Tawa 1, Vargas 2, McCann 1. Cleveland 10: Hoskins 1, Manzardo 1, Martínez 2, Fry 1, Bazzana 1, Hedges 2, Rocchio 2. E—Hoskins (2). LOB—Arizona 10, Cleveland 9. 2B—Marte (22), McCann (4), Vargas (16), Martínez (12), Manzardo (10), Bazzana (15). HR—Perdomo (9), off Gaddis; Carroll (16), off Aleman; Arenado (15), off Dion; Hoskins (12), off Drake; DeLauter (12), off Sewald. RBIs—Moreno (47), Perdomo 3 (41), Vargas (51), McCann 2 (18), Carroll 3 (52), Arenado (51), Hoskins 2 (36), DeLauter (52), Halpin 2 (7), Bailey (21), Kwan 2 (21). SF—Bailey. S—Tawa. Runners left in scoring position—Arizona 6 (Vargas, Marte 2, Carroll 2, Arenado); Cleveland 6 (Bazzana, Ramírez 2, Hedges, Bailey, DeLauter). RISP—Arizona 7 for 20; Cleveland 4 for 12. Runners moved up—Tawa, Bazzana, Rocchio, Martínez, Halpin. Arizona IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Drake...........................4 4.85 Carrillo, W, 2-0................2 1.12 Morillo..........................1 2.62 Sewald .........................0 6.45 Ginkel ..........................1 3.04 Loáisiga ........................1 2.66 Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Messick ......................41⁄3 2.57 Holderman...................12⁄3 1.65 Gaddis, L, 1-3 ................2⁄3 3.72 Aleman.........................1⁄3 3.77 Dion ............................1 4.58 Herrin...........................1 3.89 HBP—Drake (Rocchio), Holderman (McCann), Gaddis (Marte), Aleman (Waldschmidt). WP—Aleman. PB—Hedges (3). U— Ryan Wills, Jonathan Parra, Lance Barksdale, Will Little. T—3:39. Tickets sold—30,392 (34,788). On this date 2024 — By stealing three bases, the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani becomes the season’s first member of the 30-30 club. In reaching the two marks in 108 games, he is the third fastest to do so in history, beaten only by Eric Davis (90 games in 1987) and Alex Rodriguez (107 games in 1998). BASEBALL : SATURDAY FLASHBACK Dodgers right-hander Yoshi- nobu Yamamoto’s start Saturday would have been dominant if it wer- en’t for Red Sox center fielder Ced- danne Rafaela. Rafaela’s pair of home runs ac- counted for most of Boston’s dam- age against Yamamoto in the Dod- gers’ 3-2 loss. Yamamoto held the Red Sox to three runs and four hits through eight innings. The Dodgers dropped the se- ries to the Red Sox, needing a win Sunday to avoid a sweep. Shortly after the loss, the Dod- gers finalized a deal to acquire two- time AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal in a trade with the Detroit Tigers. Rafaela jumped all over the first pitch he saw from Yamamoto in the first inning, a splitter, according to Statcast, that drifted up and in. He drove it into the left-field stands. Two innings later, Yamamoto held off Rafaela for longer. But Rafaela battled back from a 0-2 count. On the fourth pitch of the at-bat, Yamamoto turned to his splitter for the first time, barely clipping the inside edge of the strike zone. Rafaela turned on it and sent a towering solo homer three rows deep in left-center field. It was the second multi-homer game of Rafaela’s career. It wasn’t until Yamamoto’s third time through the order that he finally set down Rafaela, who had the Red Sox’s only hits at that point. Yamamoto went with a first- pitch fastball up and in. Rafaela was a little late to it but still made hard contact, sending the oppo- site-field fly out to the warning track. In the eighth, Yamamoto gave up a leadoff ground-rule double to Andruw Monasterio. He made it to third on Jarren Duran’s push-bunt single and scored the go-ahead run when Connor Wong grounded into a double play. The Dodgers got a boost early from Teoscar Hernández on a two- run home run in the second inning. But they failed to score again after leaving seven runners stranded. Bullpen shuffle Before the game, the Dodgers put reliever Will Klein on the 15-day injured list with discomfort in his right elbow. Klein had a 2.29 ERA one week into July. But over his last six ap- pearances, he has surrendered 13 runs, including eight earned runs (11.37 ERA). “We’re still trying to dig into it,” manager Dave Roberts said Friday after Klein gave up three runs (one earned run) to the Red Sox in 11⁄3 innings. “I thought there were some good fastball throws in there tonight, but the secondary stuff, that’s kind of what’s getting him. The sweeper is not a strike, he’s not getting chase from it. The curveball has a different shape to it than it did last year. So I don’t know if it’s an arm thing, a mechanics thing, but that’s something we’re trying to dig in on.” Klein is the second right-han- ded reliever the Dodgers have put on the IL in as many days, joining Brock Stewart. And an MRI scan Saturday showed tendinitis in Stewart’s right shoulder. He felt some discomfort in his shoulder, the same one he had sur- gically cleaned up in September, since last Saturday in New York, Stewart said. But until then, it hadn’t bothered him all season, mi- nor-league rehab stints included. “It’s almost embarrassing,” said Stewart, who began the season on the IL while recovering from shoul- der surgery and had another IL stint when he aggravated a bone spur in his left foot. “I’d like to think that I do everything in my power to stay healthy and help out. I know I’m proud of the work I put in each day, and that’s all I can really con- trol. Other than that, I can’t really control how my arm reacts. Just frustrating, especially after last year having it cleaned up.” The Dodgers also designated left-hander Cole Irvin for assign- ment on Saturday. Irvin covered six innings and yielded six runs in the Dodgers’ pseudo-bullpen game Saturday, his first major-league appearance since 2024. To replace Irvin and Klein, the Dodgers recalled relievers Kyle Hurt and Wyatt Mills. Yamamoto’s start wrecked by Rafaela Right-hander yields just four hits but the Red Sox slugger clubs two homers as Dodgers lose to drop series. YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO delivers during his eight-inning outing of a 3-2 loss to the Red Sox. Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times By Maddie Lee ATLANTA 8, WASHINGTON 3 Washington AB R H BI Avg. Wood rf 3 1 0 0 .267 Chaparro dh 2 1 0 0 .222 Crews lf 4 1 1 1 .229 Abrams ss 4 0 1 2 .290 House 3b 4 0 1 0 .234 J.Young cf 2 0 0 0 .234 Lile 1 0 0 0 .247 Nuñez 2b 3 0 0 0 .240 Tena 1 0 0 0 .247 García 1b 4 0 1 0 .283 Ruiz c 4 0 0 0 .259 Totals 32 3 4 3 Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. Baldwin c 4 1 1 1 .275 Acuña rf 4 2 1 1 .240 Olson 1b 3 2 1 1 .264 Harris cf 4 0 0 0 .289 Albies 2b 4 0 1 0 .263 Smith dh 3 2 1 2 .268 Riley 3b 4 0 2 2 .216 Yastrzemski lf 4 1 2 0 .230 Jarvis ss 4 0 1 0 .273 Totals 34 8 10 7 Washington 000 000 030 —3 Atlanta 210 100 40x —8 Walks—Washington 3: Wood 1, Chaparro 1, J.Young 1. Atlanta 4: Baldwin 1, Acuña 1, Olson 1, Smith 1. Strikeouts—Washington 6: Wood 1, Crews 1, Abrams 1, House 2, García 1. Atlanta 6: Baldwin 1, Acuña 1, Harris 1, Albies 1, Smith 1, Yastrzemski 1. E—Abrams (18), Jarvis 2 (6), Olson (7). LOB—Washington 6, Atlanta 6. 2B—Crews (9), García (20), Yastrzemski 2 (13), Riley (15). HR—Acuña (9), off Mikolas; Olson (30), off Mikolas; Smith (8), off Mikolas. RBIs—Crews (25), Abrams 2 (85), Acuña (24), Olson (68), Baldwin (57), Smith 2 (43), Riley 2 (52). SB—Albies (2). CS—Jarvis (1). Runners left in scoring position—Washington 4 (House, Abrams, Nuñez, Ruiz); Atlanta 4 (Smith, Yastrzemski, Jarvis 2). RISP—Washington 2 for 6; Atlanta 2 for 8. GIDP—Ruiz. DP—Atlanta 1 (Jarvis, Albies, Olson). Washington IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Mikolas, L, 3-8................6 5.67 Cornelio........................2⁄3 5.40 Yean..........................11⁄3 1.93 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Pérez, W, 7-6..................7 3.24 D.Young ........................1 4.66 Mederos........................1 3.77 Inherited runners-scored—Yean 3-3. HBP_D.Young (Chaparro). WP—Yean. U— John Bacon, Brian Walsh, Chad Fairchild, Bill Miller. T—2:24. Tickets sold—38,625 (41,149).

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D6 MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LATIMES.COM/SPORTS MINNEAPOLIS — A crowd of critics and support- ers of Indiana guard Sophie Cunningham’s stance on transgender participation in women’s sports gathered around and inside Target Center on Sunday as the Fe- ver faced the Lynx in Minne- sota. Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve wore a light blue shirt under her jacket that said “Trans kids belong” as she directed her team — the top team in the WNBA — to a 108-100 win over the Fever. There were fans in the stands wearing T- shirts that read “Trans kids belong in sports.” It’s the third straight Fe- ver game that drew a rally af- ter Cunningham recently voiced support for barring transgender girls and wom- en from girls’ and women’s sports in an ESPN article published last week. Before the contest, Cun- ningham and Reeve held a conversation at midcourt. Reeve didn’t want to share the exact nature of their talk. “Both of us understand that we have platforms and we both talked about want- ing to, more than anything, educate,” Reeve said. “There are some things that we have in common, and maybe some things you differ on, just like any issues. I think it’s how you handle things. It was nice to be in person, for sure.” Cunningham was booed by the crowd on her first touch of the game and throughout. Outside the arena, doz- ens of fans gathered near the entrance. A person using a loud speaker repeatedly said, “Protect trans women.” There were signs held up that read, “Love is truth” and “Thank you Sophie.” Asked how she and the team are navigating the out- side conversations, Caitlin Clark said after the game, “I think we’re excellent. “I think it’s for leagues and governing bodies to work with their athletes to find solutions,” Clark said. “Our focus is on basketball. That’s what we talk about and how we can get wins and obviously we didn’t do that tonight. So we need to find an area to improve in that way.” Any reaction? “I just answered,” Clark said. Cunningham said Friday in Portland that she wasn’t concerned about rallies against transgender partici- pation in women’s sports be- coming a distraction for the Fever. “I think everyone who knows me personally, they know that I’m full of love. I’m bubbly. I love the people around me,” Cunningham said Friday. “I love basket- ball. I love inspiring the next generation and doing that in a positive light. And so that doesn’t even cross my mind. Doesn’t cross my team- mates’ minds.” Minnesota rookie sensa- tion Olivia Miles spear- headed an efficient offense with 28 points and Courtney Williams added 27 points, helping the Lynx win their 10th straight game despite the controversy surround- ing the contest. Minnesota had a 96-82 lead with 6:41 to play before the Fever, who had scored 100 in a record six straight games, pulled within 100-98 with more than 21⁄2 minutes to go. Miles and Williams both came up with big bas- kets as the Lynx won their 10th straight for the first time since 2016. The league’s No. 1 offense definitely made life difficult for the league’s No. 2 de- fense, but the Fever, who played in Portland on Friday night, couldn’t stop the Lynx on the offensive end. Both teams shot 57% with 11 three- pointers and went 11 of 15 from the foul line with a com- bined 55 assists. The big dif- ference was Indiana had 12 turnovers compared with six for Minnesota, which had an 11-5 advantage in offensive rebounds. Napheesa Collier had 18 points, eight rebounds and seven assists for the Lynx (25-6). Natasha Howard scored 13 points and Kayla McBride 10. The Fever (19-11), who had their five-game winning streak halted, were led by Kelsey Mitchell with 37 points, her fifth 30-point game of the season and 14th straight 20-point game, sec- ond in league history behind A’ja Wilson’s 15 straight in a single season. Clark added 19 points and 10 assists and Aliyah Boston had 15 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. Lynx’s Reeve wears shirt championing trans rights Minnesota coach puts on show of support in win over Fever after Cunningham remarks. associated press LYNX coach Cheryl Reeve wears a shirt that reads “Trans kids belong” Sunday. Abbie Parr Associated Press The Sparks are starting over again. After trading All-Star guard Kelsey Plum to Phoenix ahead of Sunday’s WNBA trade deadline, the Sparks are back to the draw- ing board mere months after declaring themselves a con- tender this season. In add- ing guard Monique Akoa Makani and first-and-sec- ond-round picks in the 2027 draft, the Sparks have a foundation to start building on young talent. People with knowledge of Plum’s thinking confirmed to The Times last week that she didn’t intend to re-sign with the Sparks in the off- season, forcing them to move on from her expiring contract and get as much value as possible to build from the ground up — again. It’s no surprise the Sparks decided to blow it up two weeks after firing gen- eral manager Raegan Peb- ley, who had told The Times that she intended to keep the Sparks in contention through the trade deadline. The return the Sparks got for Plum on an expiring contract is as good as they could have hoped for — a starting quality player and a first-round pick that might end up a lottery pick if the Mercury don’t make the playoffs. The Sparks traded the No. 2 pick in the 2025 draft to Seattle, who turned that se- lection into All-Star center Dominique Malonga, to ac- quire Plum in the 2025 offseason to try to end their rebuild. They finished two games outside the postsea- son last season and have struggled this year with Plum’s injury and a league- worst defense. How soon the Sparks can try to contend again might depend on this year. If they get a high enough draft pick to take JuJu Watkins,should she choose to leave USC, they can build around her. If not, they are back in the same spot as 2025 when they got the second overall pick and missed out on the Paige Bueckers sweepstakes. Watkins may choose to stay at USC another season, which would give the Sparks a second chance at her in the lottery if they aren’t back on their feet yet. Since the Sparks will all but certainly miss the play- offs this season, they will have two lottery picks, giving them a chance to add some rookie-scale contracts to a roster filled with veteran deals. They have two players in Dearica Hamby and Ariel Atkins who are owed more than $1 million per season over the next two years, and Erica Wheeler is on the books for $625,000 next sea- son. They have young center Cameron Brink, the No. 2 overall pick in 2024, to build around. Despite rumors ear- lier this season, the Sparks decided not to trade Brink and are instead building around her. Pending re- stricted free agent Rae Bur- rell has had her best season in the WNBA this year, and if the Sparks don’t move on from her, she can be another key piece in the next version of the team. Those two and former No. 4 pick Rickea Jackson were supposed to be a part of the next wave for the Sparks, but they traded Jackson to Chicago for Atkins this off- season in what now appears to be an ill-conceived at- tempt at winning this year. Akoa Makani will also slot in as a starter right away for the Sparks at 25 years old. Last season with a Phoenix squad that made it to the WNBA Finals, she started 11 playoff games. She is also under team control until 2027 when she will be- come a reserved free agent. Akoa Makani will be one of the better defenders on the Sparks’ roster and is a career 41% three-point shooter. In her 16 games this season, she is averaging 9.4 points, 2.1 rebounds, 2.5 as- sists and 1.2 steals. Phoenix’s first-round 2027 draft pick the Sparks acquired will most likely be the seventh overall, with a small chance at being first or second because of the WN- BA’s two-year lottery odds format. The Sparks will be proj- ected to pick around sixth without some extreme lot- tery luck, but even those two picks will make a big differ- ence for a team with just one lottery pick (Brink) from the past six years of rebuilding. Aside from Watkins at the top of the draft, Louisi- ana State guard MiLaysia Fulwiley, South Carolina for- ward Ashlyn Watkins, Ken- tucky center Clara Strack and LSU guard Mikaylah Williams will be viable young players. With Plum off the books and expiring contracts for Nneka Ogwumike and Emma Cannon next season, the Sparks will have cap room to work with even with the hefty contracts at the top of their cap. If they create a core of young players around Brink, Burrell and Akoa Makani, they will have another chance to get a rebuild right. Their return on Plum deal may be fruitful THE SPARKS dealt Kelsey Plum (10) to Phoenix in a package that includes Monique Akoa Makani, right, who slots in as a starter for L.A. Aryanna Frank Getty Images Sparks begin another rebuild by trading star to Mercury for Akoa Makani, draft picks. By Marisa Ingemi PORTLAND, Ore. — Dearica Hamby scored 23 points, Nneka Ogwumike had 20 of her 22 in the second half and the Sparks — after learning star teammate Kelsey Plum was traded — ended a six-game losing streak with a 106-101 win over the Portland Fire Sunday. Plum, sidelined since June 21 with a leg injury, was sent to the Phoenix Mercury late Saturday night. The Sparks are now 3-9 without Plum. Ogwumike hit the go- ahead three-pointer with 1:25 to play, making it 98-96. Hamby followed with a layup off an Ogwumike as- sist. In the last 24 seconds, Ogwumike and Erica Wheeler went six for six from the foul line. Wheeler, Ariel Atkins, Rae Burrell and reserve Ji- hyun Park all added 12 points for the Sparks (11-17). “Coming into today with all the noise and all the things around, for us, these guys to stay focused and locked in and execute in those moments, it shows growth, it shows toughness," Sparks coach Lynne Rob- erts told reporters after the win. Bridget Carleton hit sev- en three-pointers, scored 24 points and grabbed 11 re- bounds for the Fire (11-19), who lost their fifth straight, four times allowing 100-plus points. Portland took advantage of four offensive rebounds and six Los Angeles turn- overs to lead 29-22 after one quarter. Wheeler and Ogwumike had back-to-back three- pointers to give the Sparks their first lead since 10-8 at 65-64. DEARICA HAMBY, left, shoots against Portland’s Emily Engstler on Sunday. Soobum Im Getty Images Sparks defeat Fire to stop skid wire reports Hamby leads L.A. to first victory in seven games day after Plum traded to Mercury. WESTERN CONFERENCE Team W L Pct. G B Minnesota ..........................25 6 .806 — Las Vegas...........................20 9 .690 3 1⁄2 Golden State.......................19 9 .679 4 Dallas................................18 11 .621 5 1⁄2 Portland .............................11 19 .367 13 1⁄2 SPARKS..............................11 17 .393 12 1⁄2 Phoenix..............................11 19 .367 13 Seattle.................................6 25 .194 18 1⁄2 EASTERN CONFERENCE Team W L Pct. G B Indiana ..............................19 11 .633 — Atlanta...............................18 10 .643 1⁄2 Washington.........................16 12 .571 2 1⁄2 New York ............................17 13 .567 2 1⁄2 Chicago..............................11 18 .379 8 Toronto...............................10 18 .357 8 1⁄2 Connecticut ..........................7 22 .241 12 WNBA STANDINGS Through Sunday afternoon SPARKS 106, FIRE 101 SPARKS(106) — Burrell 3-8 4-4 12, Ogwumike 8-18 3-4 22, Hamby 11-15 1-2 23, Atkins 4-9 0-0 12, Wheeler 3-6 4-4 12, Brink 3-9 0-0 7, Gray 2-3 0-0 6, Park 5-7 0-0 12. Totals 39-75 12-14 106. PORTLAND (101) — Engstler 3-11 0-0 7, Puoch 1-1 4-4 7, DiLeo 7-15 3-3 19, Carleton 8-15 1-2 24, Leite 7-15 5-5 21, S.Williams 1-2 0-0 2, Buhner 1-4 0-0 3, Oblak 5-7 1-2 12, Samuelson 1-3 0-0 2, Winterburn 1-4 2-2 4. Totals 35-77 16-18 101. SPARKS 34—106 Portland 29—101 3-Point Goals—SPARKS 16-29 (Atkins 4-7, Ogwu- mike 3-7, Burrell 2-3, Gray 2-3, Park 2-3, Wheeler 2-3, Brink 1-3), Portland 15-37 (Carleton 7-13, Leite 2-2, DiLeo 2-7, Puoch 1-1, Buhner 1-2, Oblak 1-2, Engstler 1-6, Samuelson 0-1, Winterburn 0-3). Fouled Out— None. Rebounds—SPARKS 32 (Hamby, Ogwumike 10), Portland 34 (Carleton 11). Assists—SPARKS 33 (Wheeler 8), Portland 21 (Leite 8). Total Fouls— SPARKS16, Portland 21. A—13,638 (19,393)

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The Dodgerswere swept for just the second time this season after the red-hot Boston Red Sox hit four home runs, including three off embattled starter Emmet Sheehan, to take an 8-4 winon Sun- day night at Dodger Stadium. Boston hit three home runs in four at-bats in the third inning, with Sheehan giving up blasts to Ceddanne Rafaela, Wilyer Abreu and Masataka Yoshida as the Dod- gers suffered their second three- game sweep at home in less than a month. “Really good ballclub,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said about the Red Sox before the game. “Really fundamentally sound. It’s a younger group, as far as service time. “They're hungry. Seems like they play well together. They can really defend. They're athletic. Re- mind me a lot of the Brewers. They can really pitch. They don’t beat themselves. Dynamic. They put the ball in play.” Boston got to Sheehan early with a pair of RBI singles from Yoshida and Caleb Durbin in the first inning. The Dodgers (69-43) responded with three runs in the second as Eliézer Alfonzo collected an RBI with a groundout against Red Sox starter Jake Bennett. Andy Pages then drove in two more runs on a single to right. He also hit an RBI double in the seventh for the Dod- gers’ final run. Sheehan (4-8), who has a 6.39 ERA over his past seven games, gave up six hits and five runs over just 2 2⁄3 innings. Reliever Wyatt Mills also strug- gled, giving up two runs over two innings. Bennett (7-4), however, settled in and threw 52⁄3 innings as Boston won for the 27th time in 32 games after outscoring the Dodgers 20-10 in the three-game series. Jarren Duran, a Cypress native, added to Boston’s lead with a 420- foot solo homer to center fielder off reliever Kyle Hurt in the sixth. It was Duran’s first homer since July 5 against the Angels. Boston (60-51) closed out the scoring in the eighth, with Durbin scoring on a wild pitch from Mills and Andruw Monasterio scoring on a ball that got past Alfonzo. The Dodgers’ newest star, Tarik Skubal, arrived Sunday and was in the dugout during the game, ex- changing pleasantries with his new teammates and coaches. The team also shared a video of Skubal settling in on social media. “We got better,” said Dodgers closer Edwin Díaz. “That's the only thing I can say. We got … one of the best pitchers in the league, and now we have him as a teammate. So that's a really good plus for us.” Miguel Rojas (ankle) was avail- able off the bench despite exiting Saturday’s game after fouling a ball off his foot. “I felt better today, able to put some weight on it,” Rojas said, add- ing that his X-rays were negative. “The good thing is no break. So, I’m fine. If Doc needs me and the situa- tion presents itself ... I need to be available every single day.” Dalton Rushing was scratched with minor right arm irritation; Al- fonzo started in his place. RED SOX catcher Carlos Narváez beats a throw to second against the Dodgers’ Tommy Edman after a wild pitch during Boston’s three-game sweep of L.A. on Sunday. Eric Thayer Los Angeles Times Sheehan fumbles as Dodgers fall in sweep By Joaquin Ruiz The Chicago Cubs bolstered their rotation on Sunday night, ac- quiring right-hander Kevin Gaus- man in a trade with the Toronto Blue Jays. A person familiar with the deal confirmed the move to the Associ- ated Press on condition of ano- nymity because it hadn’t been an- nounced by either team. The addition of Gausman is likely only the beginning for Chi- cago as it looks for pitching ahead of Monday’s trade deadline. The Cubs have weathered injuries to several key pitchers on their way to a 63-49 record and the top spot in the National League wild-card standings. Gausman worked 5 2⁄3 innings of one-run ball in Toronto’s 5-1 win over St. Louis on Saturday. He could make his first start for Chi- cago on Thursday, when the Cubs host the Blue Jays in the makeup of a June 21 rainout. Chicago traded Jameson Tail- lon and cash to Toronto on Sunday for a player to be named or cash. Taillon was designated for assign- ment by the Cubs last Monday. The durable Gausman, who is eligible for free agency after this season, is 5-10 with a 4.38 ERA in 23 starts. He pitched at least 174 2⁄3 in- nings and made at least 31 starts in each of the previous five years. Gausman, 35, helped Toronto reach the 2025 World Series, going 2-3 with a 2.93 ERA in six postsea- son starts. The Blue Jays lost in the Fall Classic to the Dodgers, a pos- sible playoff opponent for the Cubs this year. Toronto began this season with championship aspirations, but it dropped to 52-60 with Sunday’s 5-1 loss to St. Louis. Right-hander Shane Bieber and outfielder Daulton Varsho also could be on the move ahead of the deadline. The Blue Jays acquired minor leaguers Brett Bateman and Ty Southisene in the deal with the Cubs. COLLEGES Judge clarifies ruling on athlete eligibility The judge who granted the right to play another year of college sports to some athletes whose eli- gibility ran out last school year is- sued a new order Sunday that makes clear that does not include football players who signed pro contracts this summer then had a change of heart. U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney responded to an NCAA request for clarity about her Friday ruling that granted a fifth year to athletes who graduated high school in 2022 and were not in- cluded in the new NCAA rule that allows five seasons of eligibility for Division I players. That decision, she said, still stands, but has no influence on other NCAA rules, including pro- hibition on players signing pro con- tracts, then coming back to college. The ruling, as first written, had the potential to upend the upcom- ing college football season, where teams are starting camp planning on the so-called “five for five” rule to take effect beginning next fall. Extending it to players this fall granted hundreds a chance to re- turn to school. In the direct after- math of the decision, some media reports were listing players on NFL and CFL rosters who were signal- ing they’d be open to returning to school. But that appears to be off the table after Sweeney’s clarification that said there are no changes to the NCAA’s rules regarding pros; no exceptions over when athletes can enter the transfer portal; and no influence on elements of the landmark House lawsuit settle- ment, which dictates how many players teams can put on rosters and how much schools can pay them. The rulings out of U.S. District Court in Denver figures to affect sports differently. Football teams, for instance, have already started practice for this season, while baseball doesn’t start for a while. In making decisions, teams fig- ure to factor the NCAA’s coming appeal of Sweeney’s order and whether to risk bringing back play- ers who could then be declared in- eligible if her decision is over- turned. NCAA president Charlie Baker issued a statement after Sweeney’s initial ruling came out Friday, say- ing the ruling was potentially cha- os-inducing and a reason Congress needs to pass the Protect College Sports Act. Cubs adding veteran pitcher Gausman in trade with Blue Jays associated press KEVIN GAUSMAN is reportedly headed to the Cubs to help boost their rotation. The 35-year-old is 5-10 with a 4.38 ERA in 23 starts with a Blue Jays club that has fallen to 52-60 entering Monday. Thearon W. 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ENTERTAINMENT M O N D AY , AU G U S T 3 , 2 0 2 6 :: L AT I M E S . C O M / E N T E R TA I N M E N T E A fter a year and half of re- search and interviews, the BBC recently aired an explo- sive new documentary in which multiple women ac- cused Oscar winner Jared Leto of sexual assault. Directed by Alice McShane, “Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret,” which debuted Wednesday in the U.K., revealed new claims of criminal sexual conduct by the 54-year-old actor and musician from four women, including a possible in- stance of statutory rape in California. In the film, a total of 10 women recount alle- gations of sexual assault, along with in- appropriate text messages, phone calls and behavior that occurred from 2002 to 2016. Leto has denied the allegations. To ensure the integrity of the docu- mentary, the hourlong program was not announced ahead of time. “Everything came out at once,” says producer Jessica Sartenaer, speaking from London over Zoom alongside Mc- Shane on Friday morning. “That was all very much part of the strategy because we didn’t want to leak anything before the investigation came out.” McShane began working on the film after Los Angeles-based DJ Allie Teilz re- shared in April 2025 her Facebook post from 2012 in which she accused Leto of trying to “force himself” onto her back- stage at a concert. Teilz described the ac- tor as “Hollywood’s most persistent predator.” About 40 women contacted Teilz with their own allegations, accord- ing to Sartenaer. In June 2025, weekly newsletter Air Mail published accusations of impropriety against Leto by nine women, which he denied. “I began ringing around trying to find the women who’d written in to Allie,” Mc- Shane says. “When I was speaking to women, I realized there were other jour- nalists on the trail. So I did think there was going to be something published relatively quickly, which we can’t com- pete with because we have a whole differ- ent set of considerations. It takes a lot longer to make.” Social media was the main resource for finding people willing to speak on the record. The filmmakers say they discov- ered more than 120 separate allegations online. “But that doesn’t necessarily mean these are all women who want to speak about their experiences,” McShane says. “They’ve posted anonymously for a rea- son. It was a lot of hours spent digging through hundreds of people from across Leto’s life and career — people who had worked with the band, people in his act- ing life, his fashion life. We had an enor- mous spreadsheet. It was a really in- depth process.” Ultimately, 10 women agreed to be in- terviewed on camera. The filmmakers of- fered each various options of anonymity depending on their level of comfort. None are completely anonymous, al- though only three used their real names. All of their real voices are heard, which McShane says is unusual. Sartenaer adds, “The courage it takes to come forward and come up against a powerful man like Leto is immeasurable. It’s absolutely incredible what these women have done, and the anonymity decision is a very personal one. Right away, [the women had] this gut instinct about the level of anonymity that they would like.” McShane drew on her past experi- ences, including making the 2023 Chan- nel 4 documentary “Russell Brand: In Plain Sight,” which investigated comedi- an Russell Brand’s treatment of women, to guide the interview process. “You really learn from a duty-of-care perspective how to best look after the women,” she says. “There’s always this balance of wanting to investigate the story, but also understanding these are people who have gone through incredibly painful experiences and they’re sharing very personal things with you. You never want to push. They are in control. You can never make these things happen. It has to come from the women.” THE FILMMAKERS interview entertainment journalist Maureen Ryan. Leto has denied the sexual assault claims. Theo Tennant BBC ‘SECRET’ TALKS The makers of the BBC’s documentary about Jared Leto want to keep investigating and amplifying women’s voices BY EMILY ZEMLER [See Leto, E6] Hip Hop International, which turns 25 this year, brought some of the world’s best dance crews and chore- ographers to mainstream attention. Groups including Jabbawockeez and Quest Crew, and choreographers such as Parris Goebel (Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Justin Bieber) and Sienna Lalau (BTS, Blackpink, Ciara) all got their start through the group’s annual dance com- petition, which connected dance cultures in a pre- YouTube era through global shared artistry when break- ing was a mostly under- ground activity. This year’s weeklong con- test concluded Saturday in Phoenix. Involving 3,000 dancers from 55 countries, the competition has grown to be among the largest in the world due to the efforts of founders Howard and Karen Schwartz, whose globetrotting history led to HHI’s current prominence Top crews are ‘high on dance’ B-BOY Vico from France won Hip Hop International’s World Battles in 2023. Steven Lam [See HHI, E3] Hip Hop International has grown from an underground event to a global sensation. By Jevon Phillips Drew acclaim in ‘The Sopranos’ Vincent Pastore, known for his mobster roles in TV and film, has died at 80. E2 Character study in feudal Japan Distrust simmers and danger grows in “The Samurai and the Prisoner.” Review, E2 Comics ................... E4-5 Puzzles ...................... E5 Who pissed off Ariana Grande? Well, who didn’t? On her new album, “Petal,” the pop superstar opens the spigot on what she’s described as an “unfil- tered rage” to blast any num- ber of feckless exes, a prying public obsessed with her body and her personal life — and not least herself for al- lowing anyone the power to hurt her in the first place. “Tell me who’s to blame — is it the people or myself?” she wonders against the icy synth stabs of the title track. Her answer, delivered as a sneering little aside: “Yeah.” “Petal” marks a dramatic shift from Grande’s previous LP, 2024’s “Eternal Sun- shine,” a tender and melan- The darker side of Ariana Grande “PETAL” comes with an aptly murkier sound. Republic Records [See Grande, E2] Review MIKAEL WOOD POP MUSIC CRITIC In a mood shift, the pop star gives voice to angry feelings with her new album, ‘Petal.’ If your summer could use a little energy boost, forget the complicated smoothie — turn to one of these fresh book releases instead. From fast-paced World War II history to a slow-burn rescue in rural Wyoming, along with an art-world mys- tery and a punchy look at modern America, you’ll find something to galvanize your bedside book stack. Happy reading! FICTION Appraisals A Novel Claire Boyles W. W. Norton: 288 pp., $30 (Tuesday) While Boyles’ debut novel ostensibly follows the fate of an Eastern Colorado family farm, its deeper purpose involves showing how dire water resources are for all agricultural endeavors in the region. Maggie and her husband Fish have inher- ited their land from her grandparents, but they and their teenage daughter Ozzie all know that without irrigation, even defeating big development plans won’t make much of a differ- ence to locals. The Seekers of Deer Creek A Novel Thao Thai Mariner Books: 320 pp., $30 (Tuesday) Vietnamese American sisters Vivi and Calla are also a curator and an artist. When their father dies and leaves behind a sketch that might be the work of re- nowned Vietnamese painter K.P. Lý, the siblings embark on a quest to find out whether Lý had connections to their family. Along the way they reexamine their difficult upbringing and find new ways to communicate that matter more than any artwork. Keep cool with 10 page-turners New books from Téa Obreht, Jill Lepore and others cover a wide range of subjects. By Bethanne Patrick [See Books, E6]

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E2 MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LATIMES.COM/ENTERTAINMENT choly electro-pop collection that laid out a kind of emo- tional philosophy of heart- break. She recorded the new album with the same team — the hit-making writer-pro- ducers Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin — but here they go for a murkier, more percussive sound to match Grande’s dark mood. Tolling electric guitar ac- companies her in “Freak” as she muses on “all of the life I’ve been denied,” while “Oh Well” puts a jittery U.K. ga- rage beat under her sneering farewell to an unnamed an- tagonist: “Good luck on your way to hell.” In “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” which debuted at No. 1 on Bill- board’s Hot when Grande released it as “Pet- al’s” lead single, she sings, “I’ve held your projections when you’ve felt so insecure,” over a trudging groove that moves like a funeral march. These downcast observa- tions arrive at what would seem to be a professional high point for Grande, who recently wrapped her ex- tended stay in the “Wicked”- verse and who’s in the mid- dle of a tour that’s drawn adoring fans to arenas across the country. But perhaps that’s the point: Almost every song on “Petal” can be interpreted two ways — as a story about a broken relationship be- tween two people or as a tale about the toxic connection between an idol and her audience. (More than once did this record make me think about Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets De- partment.”) “My pain is music — do you hear me everywhere?” Grande asks in “Warning Signs (Interlude),” which cli- maxes with a pithy diagnosis of pop stardom in the parasocial age: “You don’t deserve me / You know you don’t, you never have / But I want you to feel me / I wish someone could hear me.” Complaints about celeb- rity can be pretty tedious, of course; sometimes it feels as though famous pop singers have forgotten how to write about anything other than life in the social-media fish- bowl. Yet “Petal” gets some cre- ative traction from how Grande chooses to use her voice; instead of belting, she rarely rises above a whisper, which gives a spooky, slightly creepy quality to her thoughts on being endlessly scrutinized. The airiness of her singing provides some comedy too in a hard-edged song such as “Like I Do,” where after noting that “all that s— talk keeps me well- fed,” she tells whoever needs to hear it, “No one f— you like I do.” Having gotten all this off her chest, Grande finishes the album by allowing in some light: Over a zippy new wave arrangement, “Bad Thing (Bunny Hop)” pon- ders the renewing energy of a fresh romance — or maybe a rekindled old one — while the glistening “Nowhere, No- body” has her taking deep breaths with a lover she’s convinced might finally give her what she needs. “Convinced” is probably the wrong word. “Hard to believe in a per- fect ending,” she admits, “But that’s all right.” Grande’s grimmer side ARIANA Grande, having done her time with “Wicked,” has been on an arena tour. Katia Temkin [Grande, from E1] Frequently in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Samurai and the Prisoner,” charac- ters insist that the film’s principal setting, a military compound known as Arioka Castle, is impenetrable. It’s certainly beautiful: Lovingly production-designed by Tetsuo Harada, it’s a feast of rich wood and gorgeous na- tural light, an earthly para- dise nestled in the moun- tains of Japan in the late 16th century, its strong walls seemingly impervious to in- vaders. But the longer we spend time at Arioka, the more that paradise starts resem- bling a prison. The dangers are mounting outside and distrust simmers within. Based on Honobu Yone- zawa’s 2021 novel and al- ready a smash in Japan, the movie centers on feudal con- flicts and the ever-present threat of war. But structur- ally, “The Samurai and the Prisoner” revolves around a series of mysteries that un- fold, one after another, over the course of about a year. Recently turned 71, Kuro- sawa is renowned for horror classics like 1997’s “Cure” and 2001’s “Pulse.” Yet the writer-director has worked in other genres and his latest finds him trying his hand at a whodunit within the trap- pings of a historical drama. In the process, he’s made a war film with almost no bat- tle scenes and a character study in which audiences may not know how they feel about the protagonist by the end. “The Samurai and the Prisoner” contains no scares but is suitably haunted. Masahiro Motoki plays Murashige, a real-life war- rior of the era whose clan broke with the hawkish Oda (Bando Shingo), seeking ref- uge in Arioka Castle. Al- though surrounded by Oda’s soldiers just beyond Ar- ioka’s walls, Murashige’s men assure him not to worry. But he is visited by Kan- bei (Masaki Suda), an envoy from a different clan, who tells him that more and more factions are siding with Oda, spelling certain doom for Murashige. In re- sponse, the leader of Arioka orders that Kanbei be thrown in the castle’s impec- cably dingy dungeon. It’s a stinging insult: By the samu- rai code, Kanbei should be killed, not imprisoned — Murashige couldn’t have landed a more devastating slap than by letting him live. Soon, however, someone else ends up dead inside Ar- ioka, prompting Murashige to launch an investigation into the murder. Told in four chapters, each one corre- sponding to a separate sea- son and a strange happen- ing, “The Samurai and the Prisoner” rarely leaves the castle grounds as Murashige increasingly turns to Kanbei as an unlikely (and not en- tirely willing) advisor. Although the film is a somber examination of vi- olence, it can also be dryly funny in its depiction of what Murashige must endure. The less said about each chapter the better, but one involves a comic search for anyone who might own a bow and arrow, while anoth- er concerns the unexpected difficulty of figuring out which decapitated head be- longs to an enemy. The occa- sional sword fight notwith- standing, “The Samurai and the Prisoner” is more com- fortable with terse dialogue exchanges as war wages off- screen and bizarre crimes lead Arioka’s inhabitants to suspect there might be a traitor in their ranks. Throughout, Kurosawa emphasizes the castle’s im- pressive interiors, enhanc- ing the sense that Murashige’s men are trapped, the greatest mys- tery being when Oda’s forces will finally breach Arioka’s defenses. Motoki portrays Murashige as curiously re- cessive — someone who has laid waste to myriad foes and has now lost his taste for bloodshed. That evolving at- titude is reflected in his deci- sion to spare Kanbei’s life, al- though the change of heart worries his troops, who be- lieve he will be perceived as weak in Oda’s eyes. Those closest to Murashige have difficulty reading him: “For the life of me, I cannot see into your heart,” his loyal wife Chiy- oho (Yuriko Yoshitaka) con- fesses early on. In a moment of such great uncertainty, Kanbei becomes the one person Murashige can trust, although his counsel might contain a hidden agenda. Those who adore Kuro- sawa’s unsettling earlier films may be thrown off by his new movie’s relatively muted approach. And to be sure, “The Samurai and the Prisoner” can be a bit lan- guid as its stretches to nearly 21⁄2 hours. But the film connects to his oeuvre in its recognition of humanity’s limitations — specifically, our habit of destroying our- selves and others. Its detached, dispassion- ate approach vaguely recalls the work of another Kuro- sawa: Akira, who turned 75 shortly before releasing his late-career stunner “Ran.” That 1985 film was suffused with staggering battle scenes, but it shares with “The Samurai and the Pris- oner” not just a feudal- Japan setting but also an older man’s dim view of our species’ vain stabs at glory through conquest. At its thought-provoking finale, “The Samurai and the Prisoner” holds out a sliver of hope for the human race, and it’s telling that it coin- cides with Murashige step- ping outside the castle, his future as wide open as the sun-draped fields around him. Mysteries and intrigue mount against a warrior in his castle MASAHIRO Motoki plays embattled warrior Murashige in period drama “The Samurai and the Prisoner.” Janus Films Review TIM GRIERSON Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ is a shift from eerie thrillers. ‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’ In Japanese, with subtitles Not rated Running time: 2 hours, 27 minutes Playing: Landmark’s Nuart Theatre V incent Pastore, best known for playing gang- ster informant Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” has died. He was 80. Pastore was found dead in his Bronx residence Sat- urday by a friend who did a wellness check after he had not been heard from for three days, his manager Steve Atterman confirmed to The Times. No cause of death was revealed. While Pastore was best known for his time on the HBO drama starring the late James Gandolfini, he was often cast as an Italian American bad guy in other film and TV projects. His early credits include “Good- fellas,“ “Carlito’s Way” and “The Jerky Boys: The Mov- ie.” He also appeared in the 1996 HBO TV movie “Gotti,” alongside future “Sopranos” co-stars Tony Sirico, Domi- nic Chianese and Frank Vin- cent. Pastore’s “Sopranos” co- star Michael Imperioli, who played Christopher Molti- santi, described him as a “beloved friend and collabo- rator” in a tribute post Sat- urday on Instagram. “This is a hard one for us, it seems like I’ve known Vinny forever,” Imperioli wrote. “We did lots of work together and traveled all over the USA as well as Italy and Australia. Vinny was a kind hearted brother who cared deeply about his fam- ily and friends. I will miss him always.” Dominic Chianese, who played Junior Soprano, called Pastore a “gem.” “We lost a friend today,” Chianese wrote on Instagram. “Paying respect and sending Love in trib- ute.” A New York native, Pas- tore was born on July 14, 1946, in the Bronx. He fought in the Vietnam War and went on to graduate from Pace University with a degree in drama. He spent most of his young adulthood running bars and nightclubs in New Rochelle. He didn’t get into acting until he was in his 40s in the late ’80s at the encourage- ment of acting siblings Matt and Kevin Dillon. In a 1999 interview with The Times, Pastore offered his thoughts on why the brothers saw po- tential in him: “I guess be- cause I looked like a gang- ster!” “They used to live in a nearby town, and they used to come to my club a lot, and I became good friends with these guys,” Pastore said. “Kevin brought me down to meet his manager, and I had an interview. I took acting classes and some classes in college, but I didn’t have a clue how to break into film and the New York business. The agent gave me a guide- post, and I started doing some independents and a lot of theater. I started to study acting at 42!” Pastore appeared in nearly 200 movies and TV projects, and twice in sing- ing roles on Broadway (2007’s “Chicago” and 2014’s “Bullets Over Broadway” productions). But it was his appearance in David Chase’s 1999 drama “The So- pranos” that became his sig- nature role. Big Pussy was seminal to the show’s lore as Tony’s longtime best friend and trusted mob enforcer; his betrayal in becoming an FBI informant led to his killing and became one of the show’s most memorable scenes early in the show’s run. Given his propensity to be cast as a mobster, Pastore was once asked whether he ever considered turning down a job because he thought it portrayed Italian Americans in a bad light. “No, I haven’t turned any work down,” he told The Times. “The only time I turned work down is when I can’t do it because of ‘The Sopranos.’ I don’t think I am in a position [to turn down work] ... when you got a daughter in grad school and you are paying her expenses, it’s pretty hard to turn a job down. …You just hope the films are going to be good.” Pastore is survived by his daughter, Renee. VINCENT PASTORE, 1946 – 2026 Evan Agostini Invision / Associated Press GANGSTER VIBES Pastore drew praise as the best friend/betrayer of mob boss Tony Soprano in the hit HBO drama. Actor known for mobster roles Rose to fame in ‘The Sopranos.’ Among his early credits was the film ‘Goodfellas.’ By Yvonne Villarreal and Samantha Masunaga

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LATIMES.COM/ENTERTAINMENT MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 E3 Download the app. Discover more of The Times. Use your camera to scan the QR code. Tap the link when it appears to be directed to your device’s app store. Hit download and start exploring. in the dance world. In the late 1980s, the Schwartzes were known as “the mother and father of aerobics.” The duo were pio- neers of the aerobics craze that gripped the nation dur- ing that decade and helped create the National Aerobic Championship. ESPN fol- lowed the Schwartzes’ com- petitions. So did the Soviet Union, which was in the midst of the massive social, economic and cultural up- heaval that culminated with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Soon after, the Soviet Union asked the Schwartzes to bring their aerobic cham- pions to teach fitness and aerobics there, Karen said. So they did. “We grew that,” Howard said, adding that the aero- bics championship became “almost as big as what HHI is now. We were all over the world with it.” The pair later transi- tioned out of aerobics but still had the desire to create communal experiences. While traveling, the Schwartzes went to Paris and saw kids breaking on the street. The seed of an idea was planted. It blos- somed later on a trip to Tokyo, as they emerged from a subway. “We were walking and we saw a group of dancers that were practicing in the streets, but utilizing a store- front window reflection where it became a mirror,” said Karen, who was struck by the creativity of the art form. When the Schwartzes first began to establish HHI, they reached out to people who would lend credibility, including Don Campbell, creator of the street dance style Locking; Ken Swift, a longtime b-boy and member of the Rock Steady Crew; and Toni Basil, a member of the 1970s dance crew the Lockers (with Campbell) and singer of the ’80s hit “Mickey.” Basil has since received HHI’s Icon Award and is often a judge during cham- pionship weeks and world- wide competitions. She is a stalwart ambassador of dance worldwide. The Lock- ers were the first group of dancers to travel outside of the “Soul Train” sphere to be seen on television as a singu- lar act. They appeared on “The Tonight Show” and “The Carol Burnett Show,” and were among the first crews to legitimize the art form by making a living from it. “I don’t know how Karen and Howard organize it,” Basil said of the HHI compe- titions, noting that so many “kids get to come to Ameri- ca. It’s a big deal. It’s their life. It’s incredible. And to be dancing morning, noon and night, that’s a serotonin- raising life. I mean, every- body’s high on dance.” Basil touts the interna- tional expansion of hip-hop dance and says that “there’s no more important crew battles in the world than HHI. Period.” She also said that HHI’s penchant for group choreo- graphy in the U.S. has trans- lated worldwide. Dancers like Goebel and Lalau have graduated from the HHI community to stand on global stages as choreo- graphers and artistic direc- tors with music’s biggest artists. Goebel operates out of Auckland, New Zealand, in a dance studio she created called the Palace. Her large dance crew, the Royal Fam- ily, helped establish the mold of choreographer- dancer-musician after un- precedented success at the HHI competition. “Definitely the Royal Family competing at HHI and winning three gold med- als in a row gave us interna- tional recognition for the dance crew and in turn made the Palace well known as I had many crews coming of out my studio,” Goebel wrote in an email. Lalau’s classes during the competition week at the HHI championships are coveted events, and she has led numerous classes and groups for the Lab, a Los Angeles-based hip-hop dance crew and studio. “As my career evolved, I realized HHI is about so much more than competi- tion,” Lalau wrote in an email. “It’s a place where cul- ture, community, and cre- ativity come together. That mindset has stayed with me throughout my career. Whether I’m creating for an artist, building a cast, or teaching a class, I always come back to the idea that the strongest work comes from collaboration.” In 2008 the Schwartzes’ success led to them serve as producers for the Emmy Award-winning “America’s Best Dance Crew,” an MTV dance competition series that ran for eight seasons. Success stories from the show include crews such as the Jabbawockeez, which has been a fixture in Las Vegas since its first-season win, Quest Crew, Snoop Dogg and Far East Move- ment. “ABDC” shone a spot- light on background per- formers and treated its par- ticipants with respect. JC Chasez, a member of ’N Sync who also served as a judge on the show and was a talent competition participant himself, wrote in an email that he was excited to be in the mix. “I know a lot of shows are about the judges, but I thought ‘ABDC’ did a really good job at making sure the audience at home knew that the stars of the show were the dancers,” Chasez wrote. Chasez, now a producer on the Broadway musical “Titanique,” also noted that “ABDC” alumni are every- where. “I’ve really been enjoying seeing crew members suc- ceed ... on different proj- ects,” he said. “I was in New York for the Tonys, and some of the people in ‘Jellicle Ball’ ... had competed on ‘Dance Crew.’ ” Now that it’s hit the 25-year mark, supporters believe HHI will continue to evolve along with hip- hop dance itself. Always looking forward while reach- ing back to keep the past alive. Reinvention is necessary, Chasez said, because hip- hop music today no longer sounds like it did in the ’80s. “And so as the sonics change and as the rhythms evolve, I think that’s where interpretations will contin- ue to evolve as well because they are visualizing the rhythms that you’re hearing and telling a story in a unique way.” Lalau said she expects the next 25 years will bring even more authentic cre- ativity, but that she hopes “that we still prioritize the human side of dance [over tech advancements]. Hip- hop has always been rooted in community, connection and self-expression.” “We really are so proud of a number of the things that we have been able to accom- plish, because it’s made a difference,” Karen Schwartz said of herself and her hus- band, adding that it’s hard to stop and think about those things because they’re so busy thinking about the future. “That’s the problem, ac- tually,” Howard said. “We’re constantly, ‘What can we do next? What can make the ex- perience better for every- one?’ “Our ultimate goal is of course to bring ‘ABDC’ back,” he said, “and we haven’t stopped trying.” Until then, Saturday’s championship continued a tradition that has become much more than a trend. Hip Hop International marks 25 years of dance MEGA-CREW Legit Status of the Philippines performs at Hip Hop International’s championship in 2023. Steven Lam [HHI, from E1]

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LATIMES.COM/ENTERTAINMENT MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 E5 ACROSS 1 Collaboratively managed website 5 Responded in court 9 Big serving of cake 13 Vows exchanged with rings 14 Ireland, to the Irish 15 Novelist Vonnegut 16 Hamilton bills 17 Landed on a perch 18 Pet aisle brand 19 Long-lived plant native to the Sonoran Desert 22 Young newt 23 __ and paste 24 Places for books that may be borrowed 32 Extra sports periods, briefly 33 “You __ what you sow” 34 Handed out playing cards 35 Clearance rack caveat 37 Prepare to publish 39 Curved line on a musical score 40 Internet access device 42 “ Diary ... “ 44 End of a college email address 45 Anatomical structure that includes bones and joints 48 Lav 49 Driving range prop 50 Bravely stand one’s ground, or what 19-, 24-, and 45-Across typically do? 57 Sweetheart 58 One with a superiority complex 59 Hammer, for one 60 Musical based on “La bohème” 61 Off-white hue 62 Woolly mamas 63 Sportsbook figures 64 Monopoly card 65 Fairy __ DOWN 1 Comical wordsmiths 2 Brainstorming product 3 Hong __ 4 Credit card provider 5 Partridge’s place, in a Christmas song 6 Disney’s “ & Stitch” 7 “Springsteen” country singer Church 8 Disconnect 9 Fruity candy brand 10 Party with poi 11 Sleeve fillers 12 K-pop band also known as the Bangtan Boys 20 Not at all close 21 Prompted, in a theater 24 Fertile soils 25 “There, there” 26 Back of a hit 45 record 27 When repeated, “You know the rest” 28 Sales pitch 29 Parking attendant 30 Dodge 31 Play a ukulele 36 Performances with no empty seats 38 Sensory receptor on a tongue 41 Cat’s noise 43 Deli loaves that may be seeded or marbled 46 Threw away 47 12-Down, e.g. 50 __ money: startup funds 51 Appendage often traced to draw a turkey in art class 52 Not often, but not never 53 “What __ can I say?” 54 Des Moines locale 55 Christmas carol 56 “What __ can I say?” 57 Sis’s playmate ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 8/3/26 8/3/26 CROSSWORD © 2026 Tribune Content Agency By Matthew Luter SUDOKU BLISS By Harry Bliss KENKEN Every box will contain a number; numbers depend on the size of the grid. For a 6x6 puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column. FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane FREE RANGE By Bill Whitehead SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson Edited By Patti Varol COMICS Aries (March 21-April 19): You hesitate before pressing send. You almost put the phone down instead of mak- ing the call. Then you do the thing anyway, and the day changes from there. Taurus (April 20-May 20): Some responsibilities feel heavier than lead be- cause they are new or be- cause you’ve carried them too long. Either way, you rise to the occasion. Gemini (May 21-June 21): Excellence comes with a bit of damage, a quirk, or at least a strange story. Cancer (June 22-July 22): People leave conversations with you believing more is possible than they did an hour earlier. Leo(July 23-Aug. 22): Re- lationships improve, not that they were ailing so much as ready to become something even more fitting for your life. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll encounter people who seem apathetic to the things that really matter to you. They’ll care more when they finally see why it’s impor- tant. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): You focus on what people do well instead of keeping score of their every mistake. Scorpio(Oct. 24-Nov. 21): It’s crucial to surround your- self with people who embody the moods and values you want for yourself. Sagittarius (Nov. 22- Dec. 21): Real problems per- sist. They demand your at- tention until it’s impossible to ignore them. If it’s not really a problem, it fades into the scene. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Perfect balance is either mythic or momentary. It’s why you appreciate those brief moments when every- thing happens to line up. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You no longer assume you’ve seen it all. You leave a door open for new possibil- ities to walk through. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): You may momentarily concede to unreasonable de- mands just to keep the ac- tion rolling along. But this will be addressed at a more opportune time. Today’s birthday (Aug. 3): It’s your Year of the Noble approach. You’ll serve the higher cause, protect the vulnerable and bring out the goodness in others. Life will be full of allies who appear exactly when needed. More highlights: A fortunate in- vestment pays at year-end, beyond expectations. A beautiful place becomes part of your routine. A spe- cial relationship becomes so solid, it’s hard to imagine liv- ing without it. Libra and Capricorn adore you. Lucky numbers: 14, 3, 20, 17 and 50. Mathis writes her column for Creators Syndicate Inc. The horoscope should be read for entertainment. HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis “My wife is dieting,” a fan writes. “She says she wants a Coke-bottle figure. I wouldn’t care if she looked like a bottle of Gatorade: I just wish she would pay as much attention to her dummy play.” Playing at four hearts, my fan’s wife took dummy’s ace of clubs and led the king of trumps. West played low, won the next trump and shifted to a low spade: deuce, king, ace. “My wife drew trumps,” my fan says, “and led a dia- mond. East won and re- turned a spade, and West took the 10 and queen. If my wife is as bad at dieting as declaring, she’ll look like a 2- liter bottle of something.” I said I wouldn’t relay his comments, but she goofed. At Trick Two, she must lead a spade to her jack. When West wins, he has no winning defense. If he leads the ace and a low trump to stop a spade ruff in dummy, South draws trumps and loses a di- amond to the ace, setting up a spade discard. If instead West leads a second club, South ruffs her third spade in dummy. You hold: ♠7 2 ♥K J ♦K Q J 6 3 ♣A K 5 4. You open one diamond, your partner re- sponds one heart, you bid two clubs and he returns to two diamonds. What do you say? Answer: Partner’s prefer- ence shows at most nine points; if he had a weak hand and liked clubs, he might have passed, so his prefer- ence is no stronger than a pass. Since you have 17 high- card points, game is pos- sible. Bid three diamonds. Partner may hold 8 5 3, A 9 6 5 4, A 10 7, 8 7. North dealer N-S vulnerable NORTH ♠7 2 ♥K J ♦K Q J 6 3 ♣A K 5 4 WEST EAST ♠Q 10 8 4 ♠K 9 6 5 ♥A 5 3 ♥4 2 ♦9 2 ♦A 10 8 5 ♣Q J 10 9 ♣7 6 2 SOUTH ♠A J 3 ♥Q 10 9 8 7 6 ♦7 4 ♣8 3 NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 1♦ Pass 1♥ Pass 2♣ Pass 2♥ Pass 4♥ All Pass Opening lead — ♣Q Tribune Content Agency BRIDGE By Frank Stewart Dear Eric: Several years ago, after I had a basal cell carcinoma removed from my nose and had some re- parative work done, my hus- band and I visited a long- time acquaintance. She looked at me and said, “Oh, I guess that’s the best he could do.” Yikes. I spoke to her (after the shock wore off) and she re- fused to apologize and even asked me how I got my hus- band to marry me. What would you have said in reply? Shocked Friend Dear Shocked: Sometimes the best reply is no reply at all because this person was being cruel and, when you pointed the unkindness out, she doubled down. So, in my book, that means they’re not interested in or capable of having a productive conver- sation at the moment. Sometimes we need to protect ourselves by remov- ing ourselves from conversa- tions. I write a lot in this col- umn about communication, and I believe that when we communicate with each other and extend grace to each other, we can solve a lot of problems. But that doesn’t mean we always have to stay in the room if grace is not on offer and communication is being re- placed by cruelty. Dear Eric: My question is not headline news, rather about courtesy and man- ners. More often than one would expect when my wife and I eat out at a better restaurant, the waiter will get the order slightly wrong. It could be a drink or a slight variant of the dish. When the error is discov- ered, the waiter will say “that drink or dish is on me,” then when the bill comes, we are charged. Sometimes they bring an unordered dessert that we get charged for too. Usually, I am too timid to bring it up and pay the entire bill with tip. I think I prob- ably should be more as- sertive, but I try to avoid un- comfortable situations. What is your call? Overly Courteous Dear Courteous: It may put your mind at ease to re- frame these situations as conversations instead of conflicts. The server wants to bring you what you or- dered — it’s their job and good servers want to provide good service. So, they would rather you alert them that something didn’t go quite as planned than for you to have a bad experience. Similarly, if the server has forgotten to move an item off of the check, it won’t reflect poorly on you to bring it to their attention. Most point- of-service systems make this relatively easy. So do con- sider being more assertive when these things happen. You may find that getting in the habit of letting a server know when you’ve been charged incorrectly takes the bite out of it and your anxiety about it will go away. Dear Eric: I’d like to add to your response to the letter from “Second Act” who was considering a career change. I changed careers in my early 40s after spending two decades as an account exe- cutive in media sales. In re- searching my next step, I en- listed the help of a life/career coach. Her suggestion was to interview people in the profession I wanted to enter; with questions about experi- ences in the broad context of their work life. In my case, this was contacting mental health professionals. These interviews were a vital part of my transition to clinical social work. As a midlife career chang- er, we take some of the skills we learn in our first career with us to the second. All ex- perience matters. Happy Second Act Dear Second Act: Thanks for writing! Enlisting the services of a career counsel- or can be a game changer. Additionally, it’s very wise to talk to others in the field one is considering en- tering. Their experiences and connections can help lay the groundwork for a suc- cessful transition. Email questions to eric@askingeric.com. ASKING ERIC

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E6 MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LATIMES.COM/ENTERTAINMENT The initial investigation began in London and the filmmakers visited L.A. twice in the months that fol- lowed. The first interview was with a woman named Alex last fall. In the docu- mentary, the former model recalls being invited to a 30 Seconds to Mars concert at London’s O2 in 2013 (Leto is the band’s frontman). She says his female assistant then brought her to an after- party at the members’ club Shoreditch House. Al- though she was 19 at the time, she told Leto she was 17 to protect herself. She says the musician, then 41, replied, “Age is just a num- ber, and, anyway, we’re in Europe.” Alex was sent by Leto’s assistant to another after- party at a nearby hotel, but Leto was the only one there, she says. Alex asked for a phone charger and cash for a taxi home, but was denied. When she asked if she could crash on the sofa in the hotel room, she says Leto threat- ened to rape her. “Right from when we started investigating and started hearing from these women, [we were] noticing these patterns of behavior,” McShane says. “[Alex] is an extraordinary communica- tor. The women we were speaking to, all of them, are amazing storytellers, and resolute about telling their stories. Each time we spoke to somebody it reinforced the importance of getting it out.” Sartenaer says Leto’s seeming fixation with wom- en of a young age was some- thing “we were interested in investigating right off be- cause of the pattern we no- ticed in the reposts from Al- lie Teilz.” “Many of them did men- tion that they were teen- agers at the time of the al- leged offenses,” she says. “We knew that was a thread to follow right from the be- ginning.” One woman, named Clara in the documentary, spoke about having sex with Leto for the first time when she was 17 and he was 34. The encounter took place at his home in California. In the film, she describes having a conversation with Leto about the age of consent in the state. “He just kind of shrugged it off, like it wasn’t a huge concern for him,” she says. As the documentary points out, the age of con- sent in California is 18. An adult having sex with some- one underage can constitute statutory rape. The film- makers can’t comment on the law or whether there will be any legal repercussions for Leto. However, Mike Radford, executive pro- ducer at BBC Current Af- fairs, says what distin- guishes “Jared Leto: Holly- wood’s Dark Secret” from prior investigations is that the film showcases alleged criminal conduct. “That’s a different level of potential wrongdoing,” Rad- ford says, speaking on the phone from London. “From that point of view, it be- comes a more serious story, and it goes beyond misun- derstanding to something more worrying.” The filmmakers sent a “lengthy right of reply” letter to Leto and gave him two weeks to respond. They fol- lowed up several times with his team to no avail. It wasn’t until after the documentary aired that Leto denied the allegations in a statement, which was shared Wednes- day with The Times. “I have never sexually as- saulted anyone in my entire life,” he said. “These claims are absolutely and categori- cally false.” The documentary com- bines the interviews with re- enactments and archival footage. Sartenaer says they had a “wealth of material” to pull from. “There is so much content about him,” Mc- Shane adds. “And he’s so overtly sexual on the public stage. We’ve got examples in the film of him, like when he’s in the press room at the Oscars. Everything is packed with innuendo. There are examples where he’s being very inappropri- ate with young women on the stage. All of that placed next to these interviews can be so chilling and there were countless examples of that available to us.” The filmmakers worked with a limited budget and a small team of three: Mc- Shane, Sartenaer and cine- matographer Theo Ten- nant. In total, they spent a year and half working full time on “Jared Leto: Holly- wood’s Dark Secret.” The biggest challenge was the fact that “Holly- wood is an impenetrable world,” Sartenaer says. 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QA Report - remote_md_18d747_Los_Angeles_Times_-_03.08.2026

Pipeline

• Extraction route: direct-md-upload
• extraction_route=direct-md-upload
• Translation chunks: 121

Non-model Checks

• WARNING: translated output has low semantic coherence score (0.08)
• WARNING: missing numeric tokens from source: 0458, 126, 17.6, 180000, 2026.40, 2274, 2300, 3035, 31000, 4565
• WARNING: Missing proper nouns in translation: Abbie Parr Associated Press The Sparks, Abdel Kareem Hana Associated Press Claim, Advertising For, After Japan, After Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry, Aleksandr Dugin, Aleman Waldschmidt, Alex Rodriguez, Alex Straus
• WARNING: source dates, money, or percentage tokens may be missing
• WARNING: translated output contains large residual English-looking blocks

Model QA

PDF 翻译质量审计报告

总体评价

本次翻译在大部分文本中保持了较高水平的忠实度，但在专业术语处理、特定词汇翻译以及文本一致性方面存在明显缺陷。最严重的问题在于部分关键术语保留了英文原词（Delivery Defect），且在处理数字/金额时未进行统一的本地化或规范化处理。

详细缺陷清单

1. 术语残留与未翻译 (Residual English)

• 交付缺陷：文本中多次出现英文原词，未按要求完全翻译。
  • "stark 地表明了" $\rightarrow$ 应翻译为“鲜明地/客观地表明”。
  • "$14 million"、"$80 million to $100 million"、"$427 million" $\rightarrow$ 建议统一翻译为“1400万美元”等中文表达方式。
  • "2025’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act" $\rightarrow$ 法律名称未翻译。
  • "Proposition 50" $\rightarrow$ 应翻译为“50号提案”。

2. 忠实度与准确性问题 (Faithfulness & Accuracy)

• 误译/不准确：
  • 原文："The Democratic art gallery owner placed third... behind Republican incumbent Reps. Ken Calvert... and Young Kim."
  • 译文：将 "behind" 简单处理，但在后文将 "Young Kim" 翻译为 "金英"，缺乏统一的译名标准。
  • 原文："The high surf has forced the cancellation of two Pacific Surfliner trains"
  • 译文：在提供的翻译样本中，关于海浪导致火车取消的段落在对应位置缺失（该部分在 Source Preview 中存在，但在 Translation Preview 的相应结构中被跳过或被其他不相关内容替代）。

3. 文本一致性与幻觉 (Consistency & Hallucinations)

• 严重内容错位/幻觉：
  • 翻译件中突然出现了大量关于“墨西哥燃料走私”、“特朗普 Truth Social 售卖帖子”、“海地移民 TPS 保护”以及“道奇队交易 Tarik Skubal”的内容。
  • 审计结论：这些内容在提供的 SOURCE PREVIEW 中完全不存在。翻译结果中混入了大量非源文件的无关文本，属于严重的幻觉 (Hallucination) 或样本污染。

4. 格式与完整性 (Completeness & Order)

• 截断/遗漏：
  • 翻译件在 Page 1 部分直接跳到了关于墨西哥和特朗普的无关内容，导致原件中关于“海浪/飓风 Genevieve”以及“Mark Twain 关于 Yreka 命名故事”的段落被完全遗漏。
• 标签缺陷：
  • 出现了 remote_md_18d747_... 这种内部处理标签，属于明确的交付缺陷 (Delivery Defect)。

审计总结

结论：存在阻塞性问题 (Blocking Issues Found)。

该翻译件不可用。虽然部分单句翻译流畅，但整体出现了极严重的内容幻觉（引入了大量源文件中没有的体育和政治新闻）以及大规模的内容遗漏。这表明翻译流程在文档拼接或模型生成阶段发生了严重错误。

建议：立即重新翻译并严格核对源文件内容。