By DAVID KOENIG (AP Airlines Writer)

Lawmakers are considering rolling back an Obama-era rule that requires airlines to show the total price of a ticket upfront in advertising, while also tweaking training requirements for airline pilots and making other changes in a massive bill covering the Federal Aviation Administration.

On Friday, Republicans and Democrats on the House Transportation Committee released a 773-page proposal to reauthorize FAA programs for the next five years.

Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., described the proposal as a compromise and said many issues could still be fought out when congressional committees begin considering changes in the legislation next week.

The FAA is under fire for a shortage of air traffic controllers, aging technology and close calls between planes. The agency has a new acting administrator with no aviation experience. It has lacked a Senate-confirmed leader for more than a year, since the last one resigned halfway through his term.

One provision of the House bill would let airlines advertise the “base airfare” — excluding taxes and fees — as long as they include a link to the all-in price or disclose it some other way. That would weaken an Obama administration rule that airlines have long fought to kill, and consumer advocates are unhappy about the House move.

“These protections were hard fought and took years to enact,” said William McGee, an aviation expert at the American Economic Liberties Project. “Any consumer can tell you that online airline bookings are confusing enough. The last thing we need is to roll back an existing protection that provides effective transparency.”

The House committee leaders also propose to let people become airline pilots with less time in the cockpit. The bill would not change the requirement for 1,500 hours of training, but it would allow 250 hours — up from the current 100 hours — to occur in simulators rather than flying a plane.

Airlines, particularly the smaller ones that operate regional flights, have long fought against the 1,500-hour rule, which already has exemptions that let military pilots and graduates of some aviation schools qualify with fewer hours. The rule was put in after a 2009 crash that killed 50 people.

Garth Thompson, head of the Air Line Pilots Association unit at United Airlines, said it is “a horrible idea” to weaken the rule.

“That rule, like so many federal aviation regulations, is written in blood, literally,” Thompson said. “That regulation came about because of the Colgan Air crash and other crashes that involved experience issues.”

Asked about changes in airfare advertising and pilot training, Larsen said, “It’s something we can live with.” The change in pilot training rules, he said, is a priority of the Transportation Committee’s Republican chairman, Sam Graves of Missouri, and both sides had to compromise during drafting of the bill.

Elsewhere in the bill, Larsen said, Democrats were able to include provisions they wanted, such as those covering wheelchair accessibility.

The bill also includes provisions aimed at improving airport infrastructure and the supply of sustainable aviation fuel. It would require airline planes to be outfitted with better cockpit voice recorders and, for the first time, cockpit video recorders to improve accident investigations. Pilots have opposed the video recorders.

Some other contentious topics were left out, including raising the mandatory retirement age of 65 for pilots and easing restrictions on flights from Reagan Washington National Airport in northern Virginia.

LOCAL BASEBALL

The Peninsula Pilots finally can relax. They’re no longer winless.

Friday night at Shepherd Stadium in Colonial Heights, they squandered a seven-run lead but recovered for a 9-8 Coastal Plain League victory over the Tri-City Chili Peppers (7-2) before 1,366 fans.

VMI player Justin Starke’s two-run homer in the eighth erased an 8-7 deficit the Pilots (1-5) had incurred after being ahead 7-0.

Starke was 3 for 4 with two runs and three RBIs, Mason Dunaway was 3 for 4 with a run and an RBI, Hunter Cole was 2 for 4 with a run and an RBI, and Christopher Martinez drove in two runs for Peninsula.

With the Pilots starved for pitching, their starter and final reliever were effective. Jay Scheuler gave up just one run and two hits in four innings, and Michael Caldon yielded no hits or runs in the final two innings, striking out three and stranding two runners to end the game.

For Tri-City, Cole Garrett and Dalton Hurst hit home runs, and Brandon Eike was 3 for 4 with a run and an RBI.The Pilots will return to Hampton’s War Memorial Stadium at 7 Saturday night to meet the Wilson Tobs.

PRO BASKETBALL

O’Quinn to play for HBCUnited in TBT

Former Norfolk State star and ex-NBA player Kyle O’Quinn announced he will play in July in The Basketball Tournament for HBCUnited.

O’Quinn, 33, led the 15th-seeded Spartans to an upset of No. 2 seed Missouri in 2012 and has been in pro ball most of the time since. He has averaged 5.4 points and 4.6 rebounds in 472 NBA games with New York, Orlando, Indiana and Philadelphia.

His next stop will be in the $1 million winner-take-all event. Norfolk State coach Robert Jones guided HBCUnited last season.

COLLEGE WOMEN’S SOCCER

Nansemond River grad transferring to JMU

James Madison announced the addition of Nansemond River High graduate Riley Goss, a midfielder who went to Louisville as a freshman in 2022 but saw her season’s hopes derailed by an injury.

COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

JMU’s O’Regan gains contract extension

James Madison athletic director Jeff Bourne announced a three-year contract extension for coach Sean O’Regan through the 2027-28 season.

The Dukes went 26-8 and took the Sun Belt Tournament title in their first season in the conference. O’Regan’s teams have gone 156-62 in the seven years since he was promoted from assistant to head coach when Kenny Brooks left for Virginia Tech.

COLLEGE MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Area players honored for academics

Freshman Phillip Van Essendelft, a Hickory High graduate, was one of six Randolph-Macon players to earn Continental Volleyball Conference Academic All-Conference awards.Roanoke’s Davin Stevenson, a homeschooled freshman from Virginia Beach, also gained a CVC academic award.

COLLEGE MEN’S TENNIS

ODU third, W&M ninth in region rankings

NCAA champion Virginia was the obvious No. 1 pick in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s final Atlantic Region men’s rankings.

Old Dominion was third and William & Mary ninth.

Individually, ODU’s Francois Le Tallec was 11th, while the Monarchs’ Younes Lalami and Brandon Perez were sixth in doubles.

W&M’s George Davis and Bill Duo was ranked No. 10 in the doubles standings.

In the women’s Atlantic Region rankings, UVA was first, Sun Belt champion Old Dominion second andColonial Athletic Association champion William & Mary 10th.

In singles, Tatsiana Sasnouskaya was ranked first in her final season with the Monarchs before going to Texas as a graduate transfer. Also for ODU, Sofia Johnson was ninth and Shahar Biran 12th.

In doubles, Sasnouskaya and Johnson were second, while teammates Alexandra Viktorovitch and Allison Isaacs were sixth.

The Tribe’s Hedda Gurholt was 15th in singles, and Sofiya Kuzina and Ine Stange were 10th in doubles.

NN native gains ITA honor

Denver assistant coach Maureen Slattery, who grew up in Newport News, was named the ITA Mountain Region Assistant Coach of the Year.

Pioneers head coach Paul Wardlaw, the region’s Coach of the Year, and Slattery, a Hampton Roads Academy graduate combined to lead Denver to its ninth straight NCAA Tournament appearance after winning the Summit League title for the ninth year in a row.

For the 15th time since transitioning to Division I in 1998-99, Denver was ranked at the end of the season, holding the No. 53 spot this year. In 2017, Slattery became Denver’s first women’s tennis All-American, taking that honor in doubles as a senior.

With five home runs and Grayson Rodriguez’s 10 strikeouts, the Norfolk Tides beat Scranton/Wilkes-Barre 8-4 Friday before 5,256 on a fireworks night in Pennsylvania.

Already renowned for offense this year, the International League-leading Tides (42-17) set their season record for homers in a game.

After a 27-minute rain delay, Rodriguez (2-0) won for the second consecutive time since being sent down for refinement by Baltimore. He gave up seven hits but just one walk in six innings, throwing 98 pitches.

Terrin Vavra, also recently demoted from the Orioles, slugged a two-run homer in the third inning off eventual losing pitcher Jhony Brito (1-1). Catcher Jose Godoy added a two-run homer in the fourth against a team for which he played earlier this season, and Connor Norby slugged a solo shot in the fifth.

José Godoy checking with a TATER!🥔🥔

His first home run as a Tide comes against his former team and Norfolk now leads by five!#RisingTide pic.twitter.com/UhDa0vCgb0

— Norfolk Tides (@NorfolkTides) June 10, 2023

The most memorable home run of the night came in the seventh. With the Tides ahead 6-3 in the fifth, Heston Kjerstad — in his second game for Norfolk — hit a fly deep in the outfield.

Center fielder Estevan Florial lost track of it, and it bounced around the warning track. Kjerstad circled the bases for his first Triple-A homer, an inside-the-parker without a throw to the plate.

Off to the races! @hestonkjerstad hits his first Triple-A home run and it’s an inside-the-parker!💨💨💨#RisingTide pic.twitter.com/NfYLAofEc3

— Norfolk Tides (@NorfolkTides) June 10, 2023

Jordan Westburg notched Norfolk’s last home run in the ninth. Godoy scored twice and drew three walks without making an out.

Franchy Cordero homered off Rodriguez and drove in three runs for Scranton, the New York Yankees’ highest farm club.

The series will continue with a 4:05 p.m. doubleheader Saturday.

Boys soccer

Class 5

Cox 2, Riverside 1: Opportunities were scarce for both teams in a taut semifinal, but the Falcons took advantage of the last one to earn a return trip to the state championship game.

Robbie Reynolds scored on a header, assisted by Alex Mausser, in the 70th minute and Cox held on for a victory on Riverside’s field in Leesburg. The Falcons (16-3-2) will try to repeat as champs when they play Beach District rival Princess Anne at 10 a.m. Saturday at Riverside.

Beach teams have not played each other for a boys soccer title since Kempsville defeated Cox 2-1 in 1997.

“We had two chances, two goals — that’s it, but that’s all it takes,” Reynolds said. “I saw that coming from a mile away. The centerback kind of got dragged over, focused on the ball too much, and I was wide open. I thought I could get up over the keeper, and that’s what happened.”

Dax Booth scored a first-half goal for Cox, which has split two meetings against Princess Anne this season, but won the latest matchup in the Region A championship game.

— Jami Frankenberry

Class 4

Smithfield 0, Loudoun County 0 (Smithfield wins 4-3 on PKs): The Packers ensured it will be an All-Bay Rivers District state championship game, winning a penalty kick shootout 4-3 after the teams played a scoreless tie through regulation and four five-minute overtimes.

The Packers (16-6-1), who won their first state title in 2021, will play Jamestown for the title at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday at Spotsylvania.

Onesime Muepu, his brother Andy Muepu, Jayden Marble and Luke Skinner found the net as the Packers were 4 for 4 on their PKs. Packers coach Jason Henderson inserted freshman Jackson Stanley in goal specifically for the shootout, and he came through with a save.

Loudoun County fell behind in the second round when its player hit the post. Loudoun County’s fifth kicker shot over the bar, clinching Smithfield’s second spot in the state final in the past three seasons.

Jamestown 2, Jefferson Forest 0: The Eagles are back in a boys soccer state championship game for the first time since 2015 and, to the surprise of no one, Max Cooper led the way.

Cooper, a sophomore, scored two goals in the first five minutes to increase his total for the season to 44. Cooper scored his first goal on a pass from Sam Forrester and his second on an assist from Patrick Buckley.

The Eagles (20-4) created several good chances after that, but the Cavaliers (18-2) stopped them. When the Eagles moved into defensive mode to blunt the Cavaliers’ free kicks and penalty kicks, defenders Hunter House, Nick Lauber, Jake Davis and goalkeeper Caleb Nixon were up to the task.

“It’s great to be in the state championship game,” Eagles coach Phil Geyer said. “With our seniors and our experience from last year, we felt from the start of the season we deserved to be here.

“We still do.”

Class 3

Charlottesville 3, Tabb 1: Michael Hackworth, who scored the winning goal in the state championship game a year ago, scored the lone goal for the Tigers (12-6-2) in their semifinal. The Tigers were in a 3-0 hole by then, however, and could not rally despite controlling the run of play for much of the second half.

“We surged at the end, but it wasn’t enough,” Tabb coach Scott Kuhnle said. “Considering the talent, size and strength we lost from last year, we did great to make the final four.”

Hackworth, scoring leader Austin Robertson (22 goals), defensive standout Noah Martin and goalkeeper Carlos Butros — who saved a penalty kick in the state semis — all graduate.

Class 2

Glenvar 5, Poquoson 1: The Islanders enjoyed one of the best boys soccer seasons in school history, winning a first-ever region title and winning a state tournament game to reach the state semifinals for the first time.

The ending was difficult, though, as the Islanders fell in Roanoke. RB Brown, the Region A Player of the Year, scored the only goal for the Islanders, but by then they were in a 4-0 hole.

Poquoson coach Charles Sneddon complimented the play on Friday of goalkeeper Francesco Bianco, a foreign exchange student who made several difficult saves. He also cited the strong play all season of Brown, Ian MacArthur (21 goals) and all-region forward Lucas Markley.

“They were a really talented squad with a lot of speed on the outside to make scoring opportunities,” Sneddon said. “We lost a lot of seniors last year, but our guys responded well this season and did great job.

“We feel this is good experience to build up for next year.”

Girls soccer

Class 5

Independence 4, First Colonial 3: Viviana Pope’s hat trick foiled the Patriots’ bid to return to a third consecutive state championship game.

First Colonial, the state champion in 2021 and a runner-up last season, finished this season 16-3.

Ava Bourne scored twice for the Patriots, and Sydney Miller added a goal.

In the other Class 5 semifinal, Deep Run built a 4-0 halftime lead and blanked Princess Anne 6-0.

Class 4

Western Albemarle 2, Great Bridge 0: The Wildcats’ season ended in the semifinals, but coach Micah Moyer was satisfied that his players left all they had on the field.

“We lost to a very organized and talented (team),” Moyer said. “My girls committed to a game plan, played with their minds and hearts, and I can’t ask for more than that.

“Western Albemarle did not display any weaknesses or have any letdowns, so I tip my hat to them.”

Tuscarora 2, Smithfield 0: The Packers’ season ended at the same stage, and to the same team, for the second consecutive season.

Packers coach Nathan Jones complimented the play Friday of Packers Kaitlyn Worrell, Katie Lutz, Emma Forbes and, especially, goalkeeper Sydney Schwarz, who will play next season on scholarship for South Florida.

“We went 37-6 over the past two years and won the district and region championships,” Jones said. “I can’t say enough about these girls. They’ve left a tremendous legacy at Smithfield High.”

Class 2

Wise County Central 2, Bruton 0: Sophia Stallard’s rebound goal of a shot off the crossbar gave the Warriors the lead, and Olivia Webb added a goal in the final minutes.

That ended an unexpected run to the state semifinals for a Bruton team (10-10) that was 0-9 in the tough Bay Rivers District, but won every other game. Kaylah Smith finished the season as the Region A Player of the Year, with 23 goals, and was joined on the All-Region team by teammates Mariah Gonzales and Chloe McLain.

Baseball

Class 4

Smithfield 1, Tuscarora 0: The surprising Packers’ fifth consecutive victory in postseason play — after entering postseason below .500 — sends Smithfield (14-10) to a state championship game for the first time in program history. They’ll play defending state champ Hanover for the title at 11 a.m. Saturday at Spotsylvania.

Maddax Brown pitched the first five innings of the shutout on Friday before Ty Hedgepeth pitched two shutout innings to secure the victory. They were so effective they made the Packers’ one run, scored in the second inning, all that was needed.

Brown walked to start the second before he was replaced by courtesy runner Jayden Upton-Hall. Hedgepeth bunted Upton-Hall to second base before Evan Brobst singled him home.

“Maddax didn’t have his best stuff, but he battled, nibbled the corners and never gave into adversity,” Smithfield coach Nolan Christopher said. “Hedgepeth battled, hit his spots and didn’t walk anybody.

“Playing for the state championship is an outstanding opportunity for Smithfield baseball, Smithfield High School and the town. A Smithfield baseball team has never won a region crown and advanced to states, let alone to the state final.”

Softball

Class 3

York 12, Cave Spring 9: Amy Hunter pitched York into a softball state semifinal 28 years ago. Her daughter made sure her mom would go one better as the Falcons’ coach by hitting them into a state championship game.

Morgan Hunter, a senior, had four hits and five RBIs on Friday to lead the Falcons to a semifinal win at Riverbend High. Her two-run homer in the top of the fourth inning was the big blast as the Falcons scored six runs to break a 5-all tie.

Having beaten one team from Roanoke, the Falcons (18-7) will play another. They’ll face Northside — a 1-0 winner over defending state champion New Kent in the other semifinal — for the state title at 11 a.m. Saturday at Riverbend.

Brianna Petrolia had three hits and scored three runs, while Kenlee Washington and Ashtyn Howe each had two hits as part of the 17-hit York attack. Cave Spring touched York starter Sarah Witt for 14 hits, but Witt got out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh without giving up a run to secure the victory.

“Sarah showed phenomenal composure and got the job done when she needed to,” Coach Hunter said. “We knew they were hard-hitting and we’d give up some hits, so we knew we’d have to come back with some big innings at the plate as well.

“Making it to the state championship game is the goal of every team. We’re unconventional because our biggest goal has just been to have fun, and we just want to go out relaxed and have more fun Saturday.”

Class 6

McLean 4, Kellam 3: The Highlanders trailed 3-0 after six innings, but Riley Staats’ two-run home run in the seventh inning capped a rally to tie it and force extra innings.

McLean won it by scoring a run in the top of the ninth.

Norfolk State head football coach Dawson Odums now has an empty spot to fill on his staff.

Cornerbacks coach and recruiting coordinator Dwayne Taylor tweeted out a message Friday thanking Odums and athletic director Melody Webb for his time at NSU but didn’t explicitly say he was leaving.

A Norfolk State Athletics spokesperson confirmed that Taylor has in fact left the program.

“Thank you to Coach Odums, Ms. Webb, and support staff for all you have done for me during my tenure at NSU,” Taylor’s tweet read. “I am thankful for the relationship that I have built with each of you.”

Taylor was hired in 2021 and was part of Odums’ first staff as head coach for the Spartans. The 2023 season would have been Taylor’s third full season as a coach at Norfolk State. He has not yet announced where his next coaching stop will be.

In his statement on Twitter, Taylor said leaving the players he’s coached over the last few years made the decision to leave bittersweet.

“To the players, you guys made this even harder,” Taylor said. “You have made me the coach I am today. I will be forever thankful to Norfolk State!”

Taylor helped coach five All-MEAC defensive backs while at Norfolk State.

In 2021, Brandon Savage was named to the first team, Justin Toler was named to the second team and Stuart Anderson was named to the third team. In 2022, RJ Coles was named to the second team and Joseph White to the third team.

Taylor came to Norfolk State after spending a year at Holmes Community College in Mississippi and also has coaching experience at the NAIA and JUCO level.

Thank You Norfolk State University!#BEHOLD🔰 pic.twitter.com/gVCgBUy9hH

— Coach Dwayne Taylor Jr (@Taylor_DwayneJr) June 9, 2023

By ERIC TUCKER, JILL COLVIN, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST (Associated Press)

MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump improperly stored in his Florida estate sensitive documents on nuclear capabilities, repeatedly enlisted aides and lawyers to help him hide records demanded by investigators and cavalierly showed off a Pentagon “plan of attack” and classified map, according to a sweeping felony indictment that paints a damning portrait of the former president’s treatment of national security information.

The conduct alleged in the historic indictment — the first federal case against a former president — cuts to the heart of any president’s responsibility to safeguard the government’s most valuable secrets. Prosecutors say the documents he stowed, refused to return and in some cases showed to visitors risked jeopardizing not only relations with foreign nations but also the safety of troops and confidential sources.

“Our laws that protect national defense information are critical to the safety and security of the United States and they must be enforced,” Jack Smith, the Justice Department special counsel who filed the case, said in his first public statements. “Violations of those laws put our country at risk.”

Trump, currently the leading contender for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is due to make his first court appearance Tuesday afternoon in Miami. In a rare bit of welcome news for the former president, the judge initially assigned to the case is someone he appointed and who drew criticism for rulings in his favor during a dispute last year over a special master assigned to review the seized classified documents. Meanwhile, two lawyers who worked the case for months announced Friday that they had resigned from Trump’s legal team.

All told, Trump faces 37 felony counts — 31 pertaining to the willful retention of national defense information, the balance relating to alleged conspiracy, obstruction and false statements — that could result in a substantial prison sentence in the event of a conviction. A Trump aide who prosecutors said moved dozens of boxes at his Florida estate at his direction, and then lied to investigators about it, was charged in the same indictment with conspiracy and other crimes.

Trump responded to the indictment Friday by falsely conflating his case with a separate classified documents investigation concerning President Joe Biden. Though classified records were found in a Biden home and office, there has been no indication that the president, unlike Trump, sought to conceal them or knew they were there.

“Nobody said I wasn’t allowed to look at the personal records that I brought with me from the White House. There’s nothing wrong with that,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

The case adds to deepening legal jeopardy for Trump, who has already been indicted in New York and faces additional investigations in Washington and Atlanta that also could lead to criminal charges. But among the various investigations he has faced, legal experts — as well as Trump’s own aides — had long seen the Mar-a-Lago probe as the most perilous threat and the one most ripe for prosecution. Campaign aides had been bracing for the fallout since Trump’s attorneys were notified that he was the target of the investigation, assuming it was not a matter of if charges would be brought, but when.

The indictment arrives at a time when Trump is continuing to dominate the Republican presidential primary. A Trump campaign official described the former president’s mood as “defiant” and he is expected to deliver a full-throated rebuke of the filing during a speech before Republican Party officials in Georgia Saturday afternoon and will also speak in North Carolina in the evening

Aides were notably more reserved after the indictment’s unsealing as they reckoned with the gravity of the legal charges and the threat they pose to Trump beyond the potential short-term political gain.

The document’s startling scope and breadth of allegations, including a reliance on surveillance video and an audio recording, will almost certainly make it harder for Republicans to rail against than an earlier New York criminal case that many legal analysts had derided as weak.

The documents case is a milestone for a Justice Department that had investigated Trump for years — as president and private citizen — but had never before charged him with a crime. The most notable investigation was an earlier special counsel probe into ties between his 2016 campaign and Russia, but prosecutors in that probe cited Justice Department policy against indicting a sitting president. Once he left office, though, he lost that protection.

The inquiry took a major step forward last November when Attorney General Merrick Garland, a soft-spoken former federal judge who has long stated that no person should be regarded as above the law, appointed Smith, a war crimes prosecutor with an aggressive, hard-charging reputation, to lead both the documents probe as well as a separate investigation into efforts to subvert the 2020 election. That investigation remains pending.

The 49-page indictment centers on hundreds of classified documents that Trump took with him from the White House to Mar-a-Lago upon leaving office in January 2021. Even as “tens of thousands of members and guests” visited Mar-a-Lago between the end of Trump’s presidency and August 2022, when the FBI obtained a search warrant, documents were recklessly stored in spaces including a “ballroom, a bathroom and shower, and office space, his bedroom, and a storage room.”

The indictment claims that, for a two-month period between January and March 15, some of Trump’s boxes were stored in one of Mar-a-Lago’s gilded ballrooms. A picture included in the indictment shows boxes stacked in rows on the ballroom’s stage.

Prosecutors allege that Trump, who claimed without evidence that he had declassified all the documents before leaving office, understood his duty to care for classified information but shirked it anyway. It details a July 2021 meeting in Bedminster in which he boasted about having held onto a classified document prepared by the military about a potential attack on another country.

“Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” the indictment quotes him as saying, citing an audio recording. He also said he could have declassified the document but “Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret,” according to the indictment.

Using Trump’s own words and actions, as recounted to prosecutors by lawyers, aides and other witnesses, the indictment alleges both a refusal to return the documents despite more than a year’s worth of government demands but also steps that he encouraged others around him to take to conceal the records.

For instance, prosecutors say, after the Justice Department issued a subpoena for the records in May 2022, Trump asked his own lawyers if he could defy the request and said words to the effect of, “I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes.”

“Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?” one of his lawyers described him as saying.

But before his own lawyer searched the property for classified records, the indictment says, Trump directed aides to remove from the Mar-a-Lago storage room boxes of documents so that they would not be found during the search and therefore handed over to the government.

Weeks later, when Justice Department officials arrived at Mar-a-Lago to collect the records, they were handed a folder with only 38 documents and an untrue letter attesting that all documents responsive to the subpoena had been turned over. That day, even as Trump assured investigators that he was “an open book,” aides loaded several of Trump’s boxes onto a plane bound for Bedminster, the indictment alleges.

But suspecting that many more remained inside, the FBI obtained a search warrant and returned in August to recover more than 100 additional documents. The Justice Department says Trump held onto more than 300 classified documents, including some at the top secret level.

Walt Nauta, one of the personal aides alleged to have transported the boxes around the complex, lied to the FBI about the movement of the boxes and faces charges that he conspired to hide them, according to the indictment. His lawyer declined to comment.

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Associated Press writers Bill Barrow in Atlanta, Michael R. Sisak in New York, Meg Kinnard in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Gary Fields and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report. Tucker and Whithurst reported from Washington. Colvin reported from Greensboro, North Carolina.

June is graduation season, and Friday was no different.

Seven graduates participated in a ceremony Friday morning at Sentara Careplex Hospital in Hampton. The graduates had just completed their yearlong Project SEARCH program, which teaches work skills and other job-readiness mentoring to students with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

The program began in Cincinnati more than 20 years ago, and now has sites all over the world. In Hampton Roads, that includes three Sentara hospitals.

The program is a partnership between a host business — in this case, Sentara — and school divisions, state agencies and others who prepare students for the workforce.

Savannah Daniels, 21, was one of the graduates Friday. The Newport News student said she enjoyed spending time with her friends during the program, and said she learned important skills, including the importance of being on time and following directions. Her father, Robert Daniels, said the program helped his daughter grow and become more social.

“It’s really opened her up,” Daniels said.

He said his daughter had been largely non-verbal for years, but “now she initiates conversations with us.”

Tammy Williams Hart’s daughter, 22-year-old Taylor Williams, is a Hampton student and a participant in Project SEARCH. Hart said parents of children with disabilities often hear from doctors, teachers and others that their children “cannot excel.”

“This particular program really pushed Taylor to do all the things we thought she couldn’t,” Hart said.

Students spend the year on-site at Sentara, attending about an hour of class with instructors who provide training in various skills, from how to wear a tie to how to ace a job interview. Then, the remainder of the day is spent working in one of Sentara’s departments. Among the departments where interns are placed are food services, supply chain, health information management, imaging and others. They do everything from washing dishes in the cafeteria to restocking gloves and gowns to greeting patients. Students spend 10-week cycles in three different departments.

Steven Bond, Sentara’s business liaison for the program, said part of the hospital’s role is to provide the job site and the opportunity for students to learn traditional labor skills, such as clocking in and out, transitioning between tasks and calling in sick when they have to miss a day.

“It’s kind of like a habitual learning experience,” Bond said.

Additionally, the program teaches participants social skills that are needed in the workplace, such as how to operate as a member of a team.

In addition to the seven students who graduated Friday, 14 students graduated from the program at two other Sentara sites on Thursday. At Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, 10 students went through the program this year. Four participated at Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center.

The partnership began in 2008, with Sentara’s Hampton site being the first to participate. In addition to the school divisions, the Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services is also involved with the program. The department contracts with The Choice Group, an employment agency that helps the program participants find work after graduation.

Ali Dodd, a vocational counselor with The Choice Group, said part of her role is helping select students for the program and then conducting assessments to determine their best placement within the hospital.

Then, once a program participant finds a job after graduation, Dodd helps them learn their duties and figure out ways to problem solve. Additionally, she advocates on their behalf if they are having trouble with a manager or coworker.

Dodd noted that two of the program alumni who spoke during the graduation ceremony had been employed with Sentara for four years.

“They’ve found longevity, they’ve found careers.”

Nour Habib, [email protected]

MIAMI (AP) — Follow along for live updates on former President Donald Trump, who has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate. The indictment marks the first time in U.S. history that a former president faces criminal charges by the federal government he once oversaw. Trump faces the possibility of prison if convicted.

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SECRET SERVICE PREPARES FOR TRUMP COURT APPEARANCE

The U.S. Secret Service is preparing for Trump’s appearance at a federal court in Miami on Tuesday after a grand jury indicted him on 37 felony counts related to his handling of classified documents.

Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the agency “will not seek any special accommodations outside of what would be required to ensure the former Presidents continued safety” in connection with Trump’s appearance.

He added: “As with any site visited by a protectee, the Secret Service is in constant coordination with the necessary entities to ensure protective requirements are met. We have the utmost confidence in the professionalism and commitment to security shared by our law enforcement partners in Florida.”

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LAWS APPLY TO ‘EVERYONE’ TRUMP SPECIAL COUNSEL SAYS

The Justice Department special counsel who filed charges against Trump says in his first public statement that the country has “one set of laws and they apply to everyone” while he outlined the charges against the former president.

Jack Smith spoke to reporters briefly in Washington on Friday but did not take questions.

“Adherence to the rule of law is a bedrock principle of the Department of Justice and our nation’s commitment to the rule of law sets an example for the world,” Smith said.

He said prosecutors would seek a speedy trial and “very much look forward” to presenting their case.

Trump is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday in South Florida.

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What to know:

— Trump faces a string of inquiries in various states and venues as he campaigns for a return to the White House

— Trump’s case differs from those of other politicians known to have been in possession of classified documents

— Who is Jack Smith, the special counsel probing Trump’s role in the retention of classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 election?

— In spite of legal woes and a crowded GOP field, Trump has remained Republicans’ frontrunner for 2024

— Does the indictment stand to damage Trump’s standing with voters?

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TRUMP KEPT CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IN BATHROOM, SHOWER OF CLUB, INDICTMENT SAYS

The indictment alleges Trump kept classified documents in the bathroom and shower at his Florida estate, as well as various other locations that included a ballroom, storeroom, office and bedroom.

Prosecutors noted that “tens of thousands of members and guests” visited the “active social club” of Mar-a-Lago between the end of Trump’s presidency in January 2021 through the August 2022 search. They argued that “nonetheless” Trump stored documents “in a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, and office space, his bedroom, and a storage room.”

The indictment claims that, for a two-month period, some of Trump’s boxes were stored in one of Mar-a-Lago’s gilded ballroom. A picture included in the indictment shows boxes stacked in rows on the ballroom’s stage.

The indictment also shows photographs of boxes that spilled over in the storage room, including a document marked SECRET/REL TO USA, FVEY” which means information releasable only to members of the intelligence alliance of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. In the photo the classified document is redacted.

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LAWYER SAID TRUMP SUGGESTED HE REMOVE DAMAGING DOCUMENTS

The indictment unsealed Friday also says that, unaware of any records being moved, Trump’s attorney on June 2, 2022, identified 38 documents with “classified” markings and placed them in a folder, which he sealed with clear duct tape handed to him by Trump valet Walt Nauta. The valet then took the attorney to see the former president.

“Did you find anything? Is it bad? … Is it good?” the lawyer said Trump asked.

The attorney told federal authorities that he discussed the folder of classified material with Trump and how the material should be handled. The attorney told authorities that as they discussed the attorney taking the materials with him, Trump gestured in a way that suggested he wanted the attorney to identify “anything really bad” and “you know, pluck it out.” The lawyer clarified that Trump did not articulate such instructions beyond making that “plucking motion.”

The attorney told authorities that he did not take anything out of the folder and that he instead immediately contacted the FBI and another Trump attorney. On June 3, according to the indictment, the second Trump attorney acted as the official custodian of records on Trump’s behalf and turned the material to the FBI.

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INDICTMENT ALLEGES VALET MOVED BOXES AT TRUMP’S DIRECTION

The indictment alleges that Nauta acted “at Trump’s direction” to move move “approximately 64 boxes” of documents from the Mar-a-Lago storage room to the former president’s residence. Nauta’s actions occurred between May 23, 2022, and June 2, 2022, according to the indictment.

That total includes “approximately 30 boxes” Nauta allegedly moved on June 2, the same day Trump’s legal team was expected to examine the cache. Nauta’s actions that day came hours after he talked briefly via phone with Trump, prosecutors allege. Neither Trump nor Nauta, according to the indictment, disclosed to the former president’s attorneys that Nauta had moved any of the storage room contents.

According to prosecutors’ timeline, Trump met later that day with one of his attorneys and Nauta escorted the attorney to the storage room for his review of the documents.

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INDICTMENT ALLEGES TRUMP SHOWED DOCUMENTS TO OTHERS

The indictment unsealed Friday outlined two circumstances in which Trump allegedly showed the documents to others.

One occurred in a meeting with a writer at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he described federal officials’ “plan of attack” against him and purportedly acknowledging that he knew the information “is still a secret.”

In a later meeting with a representative from his political action committee, Trump displayed “a classified map related to a military operation,” acknowledging he “should not be showing it to the representative and that the representative should not get too close,” prosecutors said.

In the next paragraph, prosecutors note how Trump, at a press conference while president in 2017, addressed media leaks and said that leaking classified information is “an illegal process” and that people involved “should be ashamed of themselves.”

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TRUMP FACES 37 FELONY CHARGES

Trump is facing 37 felony charges related to the mishandling of classified documents.

An indictment unsealed Friday also alleges that he described a Pentagon “plan of attack” and shared a classified map related to a military operation.

The document marks the Justice Department’s first official confirmation of a criminal case against Trump arising from the retention of hundreds of documents at his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.

Charged alongside with Trump was Walt Nauta, a Trump aide who was seen on surveillance camera removing boxes at Mar-a-Lago.

The indictment accuses Trump of having improperly removed scores of boxes from the White House to take them to Mar-a-Lago, many of them containing classified information.

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INDICTMENT ALLEGES TRUMP SHARED PENTAGON ‘PLAN OF ATTACK,’ SHARED CLASSIFIED MAP

Trump described a Pentagon “plan of attack” and shared classified map related to a military operation, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.

The document marks the Justice Department’s first official confirmation of a criminal case against Trump arising from the retention of hundreds of documents at his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.

Trump disclosed the existence of the indictment in a Truth Social post Thursday night as well as in a video he recorded.

The indictment accuses Trump of having improperly removed scores of boxes from the White House to take them to Mar-a-Lago, many of them containing classified information.

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INDICTMENT AGAINST TRUMP MADE PUBLIC

An indictment charging former President Donald Trump with mishandling classified documents has been unsealed.

The document released Friday marks the Justice Department’s first official confirmation of a criminal case against Trump arising from the retention of hundreds of documents at his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.

Trump disclosed the existence of the indictment in a Truth Social post Thursday night as well as in a video he recorded.

People familiar with the matter have told The Associated Press that the indictment includes seven separate charges.

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BIDEN STAYS MUM ON TRUMP INDICTMENT; PENCE THINKS TRUMP SHOULD STAY IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE

President Joe Biden is steadfastly refusing to comment on Trump’s indictment and says he has not spoken to attorney general Merrick Garland about it, as the White House continues to shy away from the political implications of the case.

Traveling in North Carolina on Friday, Biden said of Garland shortly after the indictment against Trump was unsealed and released to the public, “I have not spoken to him at all. I’m not gonna speak to him.”

The president added, “I have no comment on what happened” and repeated similar replies when pressed.

Trump is the early front-runner in the Republican presidential primary for the right to challenge Biden, who is seeking reelection. At least one of Trump’s rivals, meanwhile, doesn’t think the case should prompt the former president to bow out of the primary race.

Mike Pence, who was Trump’s vice president, was asked by a reporter while campaigning at a diner in Derry, New Hampshire, if Trump should suspend his campaign and replied, “No.”

“I think any consideration of that is premature,” Pence said. “Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in America. I think the former president has a right to make his defense.”

By AAMER MADHANI (Associated Press)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran is providing Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant east of Moscow as the Kremlin looks to lock in a steady supply of weaponry for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, according to a U.S. intelligence finding released by the White House on Friday.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said U.S. intelligence officials believe a plant in Russia’s Alabuga special economic zone could be operational early next year. The White House also released satellite imagery taken in April of the industrial location, several hundred miles east of Moscow, where it believes the plant “will probably be built.”

President Joe Biden’s administration publicly stated in December that it believed Tehran and Moscow were considering standing up a drone assembly line in Russia for the Ukraine war. The new intelligence suggests that the project, in the Yelabuga region of Tatarstan, has moved beyond conception.

Iran has said it provided drones to Russia before the start of the war but not since.

Kirby said that U.S. officials also have determined that Iran continues to supply the Russian military with one-way attack drones made in Iran: The drones are shipped via the Caspian Sea, from Amirabad in Iran to Makhachkala, Russia, and then are used by Russian forces against Ukraine.

As of May, Russia had received hundreds of one-way attack drones, as well as drone production-related equipment, from Iran, according to the White House.

“This is a full-scale defense partnership that is harmful to Ukraine, to Iran’s neighbors, and to the international community,” Kirby said. “We are continuing to use all the tools at our disposal to expose and disrupt these activities including by sharing this with the public — and we are prepared to do more.”

The Biden administration on Friday issued an advisory meant to help businesses and other governments put in place measures to ensure they are not inadvertently contributing to Iran’s drone program.

The notice from the departments of Commerce, State, Justice and Treasury said it was “critical that private industry be aware of its legal obligations” to abide by U.S. export controls and sanctions.

The United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom in recent months all have issued rules designed to cut off the flow of drone components to Russia and Iran.

The Biden administration has repeatedly publicized intelligence findings that detail how Iran is assisting the Russian invasion.

The persistent drip of intelligence findings from the administration is intended to detail what U.S. officials say is a deepening defense partnership between Russia and Iran. It’s also part of a broader administration effort to spotlight Moscow’s prosecution of its war in Ukraine in hopes of further promoting global isolation of Russia.

The White House last month said Russia was looking to buy additional advanced attack drones from Iran after using up most of the 400 drones it had previously purchased from Tehran.

The Biden administration last year first publicized satellite imagery and intelligence findings that it said indicated Iran sold hundreds of attack drones to Russia. For months, officials have said the United States believed Iran was considering selling hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia, but White House officials have said they do not have evidence a deal was consummated.

The White House has noted that Iran also has weapons flowing its way from Russia.

Iran is seeking to purchase additional military equipment from Russia, including attack helicopters, radars and YAK-130 combat trainer aircraft, according to the White House. In April, Iran announced that it had finalized a deal to buy Su-35 fighter jets from Russia.

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Follow the AP’s coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine.