Washington Nationals release reliever Jeremy Jeffress
Jesse Dougherty, The Washington Post
March 7, 2021
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Jeremy Jeffress.Washington Post photo by Toni L. Sandys
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The Washington Nationals have released reliever Jeremy Jeffress, the team announced Sunday. The veteran right-hander was signed to a minor league deal in February and expected to compete for a spot in the Opening Day bullpen. Instead the Nationals cut him after 13 days, raising questions about why this decision was made with three weeks left in spring training.
When asked to explain the move Sunday morning, General Manager Mike Rizzo said in a statement: He was released for personnel reasons. A team spokeswoman said the Nationals could not expand on that. When reached by text message Sunday afternoon, Jeffress did not divulge how the team explained its decision to him. He did say the reason the team gave him was not true - without clarifying what that reason was - and ex
Biden struggles with school reopenings
Ashley Parker, Laura Meckler, Fenit Nirappil and Annie Linskey, The Washington Post
March 7, 2021
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Preschooler Korey Hill works on an alphabet puzzle at Patterson Elementary School in Washington on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021.Photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein
WASHINGTON - The promise was clear and hopeful: With strong public health measures, President-elect Joe Biden declared in early December, the majority of our schools can be open by the end of my first 100 days.
The reality has been far more complicated.
First came the clarification on Biden s first full day as president, when the administration released a 200-page coronavirus response plan that explained that the schools reopening schedule included only K-8 schools - not high schools - in those first 100 days.
After a Black officer died by suicide, leaving anguished videos, another officer recognizes his pain
Hannah Knowles and Lateshia Beachum, The Washington Post
March 7, 2021
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1of8St. Louis County Police Officer Shanette Hall says she recognized much of the pain in the parting messages of Clyde Kerr III, a sheriff s deputy in Louisiana who died by suicide.Photo for The Washington Post by Joe MartinezShow MoreShow Less
2of8Lafayette Sheriff s Deputy Clyde Kerr III was working as a school resource officer when he died Feb. 1. Kerr was an Army veteran who joined the sheriff s office in 2015.Lafayette Parish Sheriff s OfficeShow MoreShow Less
Book World: Vera bears witness to the lives ruined by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post
March 8, 2021
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- - - For fifteen years I d been waiting for a catastrophe greater than my birth, says the eponymous protagonist of Carol Edgarian s new novel Vera. The quake gave it to me. By the quake Vera means the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Vera, at 15, feels like most things revolve around her experience, including this disaster. She has a flair for the dramatic. Brought up by Swedish widow Morie (a diminutive for mor, or mother) alongside her stepsister Pie (for Piper), Vera has always known that her biological mother is notorious brothelkeeper Madame Rose, with whom she has intermittent contact.