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Dossier testimony Fusion GPS founder claimed the FBI had its own intel on Trump 9

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A shoplifting suspect in Minot, N.D., made two crucial errors last week. First, he didn’t consider the weather. When Dustin Johnson, 22, allegedly pushed a cart with $4,000 in stolen merchandise out of a Hobby Lobby store, he didn’t account for the snow in the parking lot. His cart flipped, so he ran off. But that’s when he allegedly made his second mistake, leaving behind his wallet and ID. Police found him and charged him with theft. (AP)

In the Goodwin household in Randolph, Mass., winning a million bucks is becoming old hat.

Robert Goodwin won a $1 million state lottery prize less than five months after his wife, Jane, won the same amount in the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes, UPI reported Tuesday. The Goodwins plan to use their winnings in part to move into an over-55 community. “No more shoveling,” Robert said. (EXPRESS)

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THE DISTRICT In a city that is home to many high achievers and their fastpaced lifestyles, at least one longtime resident was content to move at the slow speed for which her family is celebrated.

She was a sloth, a long-lived two-toed sloth named Ms. Chips, and she died last week at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo. A Washington native, Ms. Chips was 45 years old at the time of her death.

Keepers knew her as a sweet and gentle creature who, the zoo said, preferred her own company to that of the other animals she lived with. Her residence at the zoo for most of her life was the Small Mammal House, where she appeared alongside other sloths, as well as tamarins and armadillos.

Most recently, she was housed with a coppery titi monkey named Mo and a screaming hairy armadillo named Dylan.

CRIME OF PASSION

Ms. Chimp, a long-lived, two-toed sloth, died just before turning 46.

Two-toed sloths spend their time hanging from trees. Nature has not endowed them with the ability to walk, so they rely on hand-over-hand maneuvering to get around. It is slow going.

No cause of death was given in the announcement the zoo made Friday about Ms. Chips.

However, it did appear that she had far exceeded the life span of many of her species. Under

human care, the zoo said, the median life expectancy for female two-toed sloths is 15 years.

Ms. Chips was about two months short of her 46th birthday. She was born at the zoo on March 2, 1972.

Merely to provide historical perspective, that was more than three months before the Watergate break-in. MARTIN WEIL (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Chipotle thief feasts on $60 worth of beef A man sat at the counter of a downtown D.C. Chipotle and ate $60 worth of barbecue beef.

The problem was, it was after 3 a.m. and the restaurant at Capital One Arena was closed. Police said the man forced open the front doors on F Street Northwest, destroyed a burglar alarm and “consumed the food.”

He was still sitting on a stool when the general manager arrived at 6:10 a.m. on New Year’s Day. Authorities said the man fled into a nearby McDonald’s and then disappeared. (TWP)

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D.C. police ask: Who misplaced 9 lbs. of weed?

D.C. police posed a question Monday on Twitter: “Anyone misplace 9 lbs of weed over the weekend?” But they already had their answer: Suspect Jacob Greenbaum of Leesburg, Va., was in custody. Police say he mailed the package of marijuana to Blind Whino, a nonprofit to which he had no connection.

Blind Whino alerted police, and Greenbaum was arrested when he went to pick it up. (TWP)

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Discovery to sell Md. offices Longtime Silver Spring company plans move to New York in 2019

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MONTGOMERY COUNTY Discovery Communications, the $7.4 billion company behind Shark Week and popular cable channels including TLC and Animal Planet, is moving its headquarters from Silver Spring to New York City.

The company — which has 1,300 employees in Silver Spring, down from 2,500 a decade ago — said that it plans to sell its current headquarters and move into a new building in New York in the second half of 2019.

“To compete, survive and grow, Discovery must continue to change as well,” David Zaslav, the company’s chief executive, said in an email to employees Tuesday morning.

Discovery is in the process of buying Scripps Networks Interactives, the owner of HGTV, Food Network and the Travel Channel, in an $11.9 billion deal that is expected to be finalized in the coming months.

Once the deal is complete, Discovery plans to house its backend operations at Scripps’ current headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn. It will keep some departments — government relations, for example — in Maryland, although not necessarily in Silver Spring, and plans to expand its technology hub in Sterling, Va. “It became clear that, pending closure of the Scripps

Discovery Communications is one of Montgomery County’s largest employers, with 1,300 workers in Silver Spring.

transaction, we could not operate three large facilities in the U.S.,” Zaslav said in the email.

The company’s stock price was down about 3 percent on the news, closing Tuesday at $21.65 a share.

The company, founded in 1982

by John Hendricks, is one of Montgomery County’s largest employers and has been instrumental in the county’s efforts to revitalize downtown Silver Spring.

County and state officials said they had offered Discovery financial incentives to stay. Last year, Discovery received a $375,000 grant from Montgomery County and the promise of a $625,000 loan from the state to help fund a $10 million renovation of its Silver Spring headquarters. The loan, which a state spokeswoman

said was never disbursed, required the retention of 1,200 employees at the site.

Bob Buchanan, chair of the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation, said Tuesday that the county had little chance of retaining the headquarters after the merger.

Montgomery hoped to persuade Discovery to keep several hundred back-office jobs in place, but it lost them to Tennessee, where costs were lower.

“Once the merger happened, it was obvious that the headquarters was focused on moving to New York City,” he said.

The departure quickly became a political issue that could surface in both the Maryland governor’s race and the Montgomery

County executive’s race this fall. The Maryland Democratic Party, which is hoping to unseat Larry Hogan, R, slammed him for “being the first Maryland Governor to lose a Fortune 500 company to a rival state since at least 1996.” But the party did not blame the all-Democratic Montgomery County government for Discovery’s decision to leave.

Hogan said the decision largely boiled down to the Discovery’s acquisition of Scripps and the company’s consolidation.

“Discovery has been a good company in the state of Maryland,” Hogan said. “We’re disappointed, but the CEO assured me that it didn’t matter what incentives we tried to provide.”

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The number of calls the Montgomery County fire department received from Monday evening to midmorning Tuesday, up from about 350 during a typical day. Most involved falls, broken pipes or traffic accidents, said fire department spokesman Pete Piringer. All over the region, hospitals saw increases in weather-related injuries, including broken bones and cuts and bruises. George Washington University Hospital reported seeing 51 ice-related injuries. At MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, 11 people came in Monday night and early Tuesday with injuries related to icy conditions, a hospital spokeswoman said. (TWP)

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REGION Pepco, Washington Gas and other utilities say they plan to pass on to customers the money they’ll save in paying lower corporate income taxes under the new federal tax law that took effect Jan. 1.

The Republican-sponsored legislation signed by President Trump on Dec. 22 cut the federal corporate income tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent.

Customers will probably see smaller than anticipated increases in gas and electric rates or credits on their bills, utility and state officials said.

The tax cuts only affect private utility companies.

Government-operated utilities, such as D.C. Water and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, don’t pay federal corporate income taxes.

Washington Gas officials say they plan to pass on an estimated annual $34 million in tax savings by lowering rates for 1.1 million customers in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. The lower rates would kick in starting early this year, the company said.

Dominion Energy, Virginia’s largest utility, is still evaluating the impact of the tax cut.

But consumer advocates say utilities across the U.S. must pass the tax savings to their customers because taxes are part of the “cost of service” that utilities are permitted to offset in the rates state regulators approve. If those costs drop, consumer advocates said, so too must customers’ bills.

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Virginia governor-elect wants to put focus on Medicaid, gun control

VIRGINIA Democratic Gov.-elect Ralph Northam said Tuesday that expanding Medicaid and implementing universal background checks for gun buyers will be two of his top legislative priorities after he takes office this weekend.

Northam spoke with outgoing

Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday, one day before the start of this year’s General Assembly session.

The two Democrats laid out a joint legislative package they said they had worked on together.

“It is nonpartisan. It is common sense,” Northam said of the package of bills. “It is something that I think … will have support from both sides of the aisle.”

McAuliffe has pushed unsuccessfully to expand Medicaid, a

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Northam lays out priorities for 2018 Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, right, and Gov.-elect Ralph Northam speak Tuesday about the 2018 legislative package they worked on together.

key component of former President Barack Obama’s health care law. The GOP-controlled General Assembly has opposed it, calling it fiscally irresponsible.

Under the Affordable Care

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Act, the federal government picks up almost all of the cost, gradually phasing down to a 90 percent share.

Democrats in the legislature have also previously pushed

unsuccessfully for universal background checks, including mandatory checks at gun shows.

Northam campaigned heavily on gun control and Medicaid expansion. The election results show Virginians support the proposals outlined Tuesday, he said.

The 60-day legislative session begins today. Lawmakers will be tasked with passing the biennial state budget in additional to other issues.

Republicans hold a slim majority in the Senate and, unless Democratic challenges in two very close races result in a change, they’ll also control the House. It remains to be seen what level of GOP support the measures will have. SARAH RANKIN (AP)

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Officer won’t be charged in wounding of SUV driver

City set to vote on changing Confederate school names

Police said a Maryland teenager found dead of alcohol poisoning in a frigid stream had two fake driver’s licenses that indicated he was old enough to buy alcohol. Navid Sepehri of Bethesda died after a party last month. Montgomery County police also said Monday that a bottle of vodka was found in his pocket. Sepehri’s father found his son’s body Dec. 10. The family has raised questions about where he got alcohol and whether police could have done more when they talked with him outside the party. Police had said that Sepehri, 17, appeared to be drunk but wasn’t taken into custody. (AP/THE WASHINGTON POST)

Investigators said a police officer in Montgomery County who shot and wounded an SUV driver in November won’t be charged with a crime. The unidentified SUV driver was shot after police responded to a driver who said an SUV was ramming his car. Investigators said Tuesday that body-worn camera footage shows Officer Todd Archer’s gun fired when he used it to try to break the driver’s window of the SUV. The Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office, which handled the case, said it appears the shooting was accidental and that Archer’s actions “do not rise to the level of recklessness” needed for criminal charges. (AP)

School officials in a Virginia city plan to vote next month on whether to rename three elementary schools now named after Confederate leaders. Petersburg school officials are considering changing the names of A.P. Hill, J.E.B. Stuart and Robert E. Lee elementary schools. The school board’s vote is scheduled for Feb. 7. Other schools in Richmond and surrounding districts also have schools named to honor Civil War-era leaders. In Hanover, a group is calling on the school board to change the names of Lee-Davis High School and Stonewall Jackson Middle School, while a petition has circulated in support of the Lee-Davis name. (AP)

Pedestrian dies Sunday after being struck by a vehicle in Northeast Washington on New Year’s Eve

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The value of a stash of counterfeit Air Jordan shoes seized by customs officers at Dulles International Airport. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday that 400 pairs of the counterfeit Nikes arrived at the airport last month, destined for an address in Alexandria. Officers suspected the shoes, which arrived from China and mimicked assorted models of the shoe, were fakes. The shoes retail for well over $100 and have been popular since the ‘80s. (AP)

Montgomery County school lunch aide charged Friday in child porn case

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Dossier testimony released

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NATIONAL SECURITY The head of the research firm behind a dossier of allegations against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump told congressional investigators that someone inside Trump’s network had also provided the FBI with information during the 2016 campaign, according to a newly released transcript, a claim quickly disputed by people close to the investigation into Russian interference in the election.

Glenn Simpson, a founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, spoke to investigators with the Senate Judiciary Committee for 10 hours in August. As the partisan fight over Russian interference in the 2016 election has intensified, Simpson has urged that his testimony be released, and a copy of the transcript was made public Tuesday.

It was released by the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Calif. That decision marks the most serious break yet in the cooperative relationship she has had with the Republican chairman of the committee, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.

A spokesman for Grassley called Feinstein’s move “totally confounding” and done without consultation. “Her action undermines the integrity of the committee’s oversight work and

PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS (AP)

Head of research firm: FBI had Trump source during 2016 campaign

Glenn Simpson, above, of Fusion GPS, told the Senate in August about his research on Trump. Sen. Dianne Feinstein released the transcript Tuesday.

jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony relating to the independent recollection of future witnesses,’’ said the spokesman, Taylor Foy. Feinstein said she released the transcript to set the record straight. “The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the

transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice,’’ she said.

A representative for Fusion GPS did not immediately comment.

Fusion GPS was hired in mid2016 by a lawyer for Hillary

Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee to dig into Trump’s background. Earlier that year, the firm had been probing Trump for a conservative website funded by a GOP donor, but that client stopped paying for the work after it became clear Trump would win the GOP nomination, according to people familiar with the matter.

After Democrats began paying for the research, Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former senior officer with Britain’s intelligence service, MI6, to gather intelligence about any ties between the Kremlin and Trump and his associates. Steele’s reports were eventually compiled into a dossier alleging the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin — a claim the president has repeatedly denied.

Steele first reached out to the FBI with his concerns in July 2016, according to people familiar with the matter. When they reinterviewed him in early October, agents made it clear, according to Simpson’s testimony released Tuesday, that they believed some of what Steele had told them.

“My understanding was that they believed Chris at this point — that they believed Chris might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization,” Simpson said. DEVLIN BARRETT AND

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John Dickerson replaces Charlie Rose at CBS News CBS News has selected “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson as Charlie Rose’s replacement on the “CBS This Morning” program, pairing him with current anchors Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

Rose was fired in late November following allegations of sexual misconduct. With this change, Dickerson will no longer host his Washington-based Sunday morning political show. (AP) IRAN

3,700 people arrested in widespread protests Iranian security forces arrested some 3,700 people during widespread protests and unrest over the past two weeks, lawmaker Mahmoud Sadeghi said Tuesday. This estimate was a far higher number than authorities had previously released. At least 21 people were killed in clashes, which began Dec. 28 over economic grievances. (AP) EUROPE

Italy and Germany nab 160 alleged mobsters Police in Italy and Germany seized $60 million in mafia assets Tuesday and arrested more than 160 people, accusing them of running a huge mob-controlled commercial and political empire.

Prosecutors in southern Italy said the targeted clan had its hand in just about every commercial enterprise in the Calabrian town of Ciro and nearby area, from bread and wine sales to funeral services and migrant housing. (AP)

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Coast Guard ends search for Oklahoma pilot in Gulf of Mexico; plane believed to be lost in water

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First comes ‘bill of love’

Trump proposes handling DACA in part one of a two-phase immigration solution

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Mortality rate for U.S. infants outstrips peers

could then pursue a comprehensive immigration overhaul in a second phase of talks.

House Republicans said they planned to soon introduce legislation to address border security and the young immigrants.

Trump said, “It should be a bill of love.”

Conservatives sounded alarms about a process that would lead to a comprehensive agreement on immigration. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., leader of the hardright House Freedom Caucus, said in a text message after the meeting that he was “generally” opposed to a two-step process “because history would indicate the second step never happens.”

The president appeared to acknowledge the potential political pitfalls, telling the lawmakers, “I’ll take all the heat you want.

But you are not that far away from comprehensive immigration reform.”

Lawmakers are set to resu me negot i at ions tod ay.

American babies are 76 percent more likely to die before they turn a year old than babies in other rich countries, and U.S. children who survive infancy are 57 percent more likely to die before adulthood, according to a sobering new study published in the journal Health Affairs.

Comparing the U.S. to 19 other wealthy democracies in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the study found that if the U.S. had just kept pace with average childhood mortality rates in those countries, 600,000 young lives could have been saved between 1961 and 2010.

Among infants, that shift was driven primarily by changes in America’s premature birthrate (babies born before full gestational age), which is the highest in the developed world.

The U.S. rate of “extreme” prematurity — babies born before 25 weeks — is three times higher than the OECD average.

Among older children, the U.S. stands out for its rate of deaths by injury. In particular, U.S. teens 15 to 19 are 82 times more likely than teens in other rich countries to die of a gun homicide.

“Persistently high poverty rates, poor educational outcomes, and a relatively weak social safety net have made the U.S. the most dangerous of wealthy nations for a child to be born into,” the study concludes.

KEN THOMAS AND ALAN FRAM (AP)

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CHIP SOMODEVILLA (GETTY IMAGES)

POLITICS Seeking a bipartisan compromise to avoid a government shutdown, President Trump suggested Tuesday that an immigration deal could be reached in two phases — first by addressing young immigrants and border security with what he called a “bill of love,” then by making comprehensive changes that have long eluded Congress.

Trump presided over a lengthy meeting with about two dozen Republican and Democratic lawmakers seeking a solution for hundreds of thousands of young people who were brought to the U.S. as children and living here illegally. Trump last year ended the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shielded more than 700,000 people from deportation and gave them the right to work legally. He gave Congress until March to find a fix.

The president, congressional Republicans and Democrats expressed optimism for a deal just 10 days before a government shutdown deadline.

“I think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with,” Trump said.

A group of journalists observed the meandering meeting for an extraordinary length of time — about 55 minutes — that involved Trump seeking input from Democrats and Republicans alike.

The White House said after the meeting that lawmakers had agreed to narrow the scope of the negotiations to four areas: border security, family-based “chain migration,” the visa lottery and the DACA policy, winning nods from Democrats.

“It’s encouraging that the president seems open to a narrow deal protecting the Dreamers,” said Senate Democratic leader

President Trump presided over a lengthy meeting with lawmakers from both parties seeking solutions on DACA.

Chuck Schumer of New York.

The unusually public meeting laid bare a back-and-forth between the parties more typically confined to closed-door negotiations. At one point, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat, asked Trump if he would support a “clean” DACA bill now with a commitment to pursue a comprehensive immigration overhaul later.

Trump responded, “I would like it. … I think a lot of people would like to see that but I think we have to do DACA first.” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., interjected, saying, “Mr. President, you need to be clear, though,” that legislation involving the so-called Dreamers would need to include border security.

Trump also suggested bringing back “earmarks,” or money for pet projects, as a way to bridge the divide between the two parties. Conservative groups responded that any resumption of earmarks ran the risk of

What is ‘the wall’?

After the meeting with Trump, lawmakers from both parties were divided over the definition of the president’s demand for a border wall.

Democrats: “It was clear in the meeting that the wall did not mean some structure,” said Democratic House Whip Steny Hoyer, Md., who also noted that the president mentioned fencing and cameras.

Republicans: GOP lawmakers were adamant that the wall is a physical structure. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said that the number of miles of a constructed wall the president would need to sign an immigration bill is subject to negotiation. (AP)

special interests playing a bigger role in government, a notion at odds with Trump’s “drain the swamp” campaign mantra.

The president said he would insist on construction of a border security wall as part of a DACA agreement, but he said Congress

Interior Department adopts screening process for discretionary grants so awardees promote Trump priorities

Democrats add Harris, Booker to Senate Judiciary Committee

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nation+world Heavy rain sends muck and boulders down hills stripped bare by fires SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA At least 13 people were killed and homes were swept from their foundations Tuesday as heavy rain sent mud and boulders sliding down hills stripped of vegetation by a gigantic wildfire that raged in Southern California last month.

Rescue crews used helicopters to lift people to safety because of blocked roads.

In one dramatic rescue, firefighters slogged through waisthigh mud to pull a muck-covered 14-year-old girl out of the ruins of a home in Montecito, northwest

of Los Angeles, where she had been trapped for hours.

“I thought I was dead for a minute there,” the girl could be heard saying on video posted by KNBC-TV before she was taken away on a stretcher.

Santa Barbara County officials said most deaths were believed to have been in Montecito, a wealthy enclave that is home to stars including Oprah Winfrey.

Several houses were destroyed, and residents were unaccounted for in neighborhoods hard to reach because of downed trees and power lines, Santa Barbara County Fire Department spokesman Dave Zaniboni said. The mud was reported to be 5 feet deep in places.

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rescues. There will be more,” Zaniboni said, adding that some of those brought to safety had been buried in mud.

Sally Brooks said a “boulder slide” occurred outside her home in nearby Carpinteria in the dead of night. “We were laying in bed

listening to the rain, and out of nowhere our bed just started shaking, and we could hear just this, like, thunder,” she told KTLA-TV. Photos posted on social media showed upside-down cars along debris-clogged roads and mud waist-deep in living rooms.

Forecasters said the worst of the rainfall occurred in a 15-minute span starting at 3:30 a.m. near the Montecito, Summerland and Carpinteria areas of Santa Barbara County. Montecito got a half-inch in five minutes.

The towns are on foothills below the burn scar of a wildfire that erupted Dec. 4 and became the largest recorded in the state.

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MEDIA Stephen Bannon stepped down as executive chairman of Breitbart News Network on Tuesday, bringing an end to his relationship with the far-right website that he helped become widely influential and which in turn abetted his rise as a political adviser and would-be kingmaker.

Bannon’s departure was a humbling denouement for a figure who had reached the

uppermost levels of power only a year ago. It leaves him with no evident platform to promote his views and no financial basis for his preferred candidates.

Bannon left Breitbart in August 2016 to join Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and later served as President Trump’s chief White House strategist.

He was fired by Trump almost exactly a year after formally signing up with him.

Bannon maintained his visibility by rejoining Breitbart in August and directing it to serve his political ends as the insurgent voice of the “anti-establishment”

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Stephen Bannon had lost the confidence of Rebekah Mercer, a major investor in Breitbart News.

wing of the Republican Party, a faction that many critics saw as a socially intolerant and racist fringe of white nationalism.

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His departure from Breitbart followed what appears to have been a vote of no confidence from a key supporter and investor in the website, Rebekah Mercer, a wealthy political donor, people at the company said. Mercer and her father, hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, own a minority share of Breitbart and are influential voices in its operation.

Bannon provoked Rebekah Mercer’s ire by making critical comments about Trump and his family to author Michael Wolff in a book, “Fire and Fury,” published just last week. Bannon is quoted in the book as saying that Trump’s son Donald Jr. and sonin-law, Jared Kushner, engaged in “treasonous” behavior by secretly meeting with Russian representatives during the campaign.

Trump replied to Bannon’s comments with a statement savaging his former confidant.

“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency.

When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” the president said.

Mercer weighed in with a rare statement of her own Thursday that distanced her from Bannon.

“I support President Trump and the platform upon which he was elected,” she wrote. “My family and I have not communicated with Steve Bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements.”

Although Bannon continued to chair Breitbart’s editorial meetings and host its satelliteradio program, Mercer’s comments appeared to signal his end, people at the media company said. Breitbart’s readers seemed to side with Trump in the spat.

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“President Trump needs my help in the Senate,” Arpaio, 85, said in an email to supporters seeking funds for the race.

Arpaio, who served 24 years as metro Phoenix’s sheriff before suffering a crushing 2016 defeat

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Arizona’s Joe Arpaio says he’ll run in the GOP primary for Senate.

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over the $141 million that Maricopa County taxpayers spent to defend him in lawsuits over his contentious immigration policies, deaths of inmates in his jails and a child sex abuse case that was botched by his department.

Arpaio was found guilty last year of criminal contempt of court for intentionally disobeying a federal judge’s 2011 order to stop his traffic patrols that targeted immigrants.

Arpaio, who was pardoned in August, had endorsed Trump in his presidential run and appeared alongside him at 2016 presidential campaign appearances.

Arpaio flirted with running for governor five times while he was sheriff but never did so.

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Nearby Northern Italy was affected as well: One avalanche reportedly burst through windows in the converted Olympic Village near Turin. (AP)

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Trump will travel to Davos to address business elites

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FBI Director Christopher A. Wray on Tuesday renewed a call for tech companies to help law enforcement officials gain access to encrypted smartphones, describing it as a “major public safety issue.” Wray said the bureau was unable to gain access to the content of 7,775 devices in fiscal 2017 — more than half of all the smartphones it tried to crack in that time period — despite having a warrant from a judge. Wray said the bureau is not interested in the millions of devices that belong to“everyday citizens,” but those “that have been used to plan or execute terrorist or criminal activities.” (THE WASHINGTON POST)

President Trump will address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this month, the White House said Tuesday, a startling decision that will bring the unorthodox U.S. leader face to face with global elites who have been his fierce critics. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump will use the forum to talk about his “America First” worldview.

Trump would be the first U.S. leader since President Bill Clinton to attend the Davos meeting. The summit is seen as a posh opportunity for leaders to interact with the world’s economic elite. The forum will be Jan. 23-26. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

White nationalist Richard Spencer’s campus tour organizer is suing the University of Cincinnati’s president, saying the school wouldn’t rent space for Spencer to speak on campus unless a nearly $11,000 security fee was paid. Spencer’s attorney said requiring such payment because a speaker is controversial or prompts hostile reaction is discriminatory and unconstitutional. U.C. calls the fee “a mere fraction” of its anticipated security costs. In comparison, authorities estimated that the security costs for Spencer’s Oct. 19 appearance at the University of Florida were $600,000. (AP)

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Saban turns Tide’s focus to repeating COLLEGE FOOTBALL Nick Saban wins one title and moves on to figuring out how to get the next.

It’s part of his famed Process.

But Saban’s sixth national title — and fifth in nine years with Alabama — was different, and not just because it put him in a tie with Bear Bryant for the most by any major college football coach.

This time one quarterback, Jalen Hurts, led the Tide into the championship game, and another, freshman Tua Tagovailoa, directed the comeback in a 26-23 overtime win over Georgia on Monday night.

A quarterback battle seems inevitable. But Saban has months to figure out which passer gives Alabama (13-1) the best chance for a repeat. The coach allows himself far less time to celebrate actually winning titles, even ones

as dramatic as this one.

Trailing 13-0 at halftime, Saban turned to Tagovailoa. The five-star lefty from Hawaii delivered, threading a fourth-down pass to Calvin Ridley for a tying TD late and then leading a drive for a potential winning field goal. Andy Pappanastos missed a 36-yarder to extend the game.

After the Bulldogs (13-2) settled for a field goal, Tagovailoa was sacked. He responded with a 41-yard touchdown pass to fellow freshman DeVonta Smith to touch off the latest confetti-dripping celebration for Alabama.

It set the stage for a QB competition between Tagovailoa and Hurts, who is 26-2 as a starter and has helped Alabama make two title game appearances, including a loss to Clemson last year.

At Tuesday’s morning-after news conference, Saban sounded ready to get back to pursuing another title. He said he spoke to seven players who might leave early to enter the NFL draft.

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QB switch in title game sets stage for intriguing offseason for Alabama

After the Crimson Tide won a fifth national title under coach Nick Saban, The Washington Post compiled an early look at the top 25 teams for 2018. Here are the three that ranked right behind Alabama. (TWP)

Alabama coach Nick Saban, top, won a record-tying sixth national title after he decided to bench sophomore QB Jalen Hurts, above left, and put in freshman Tua Tagovailoa, above right, who is a better passer.

All-America safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, tailback Damien Harris, and nose tackle Da’Ron Payne.

This season’s team won despite losing four first-round draft picks and seven defensive players who were picked within the first four rounds. Alabama will lose quite a few key players again.

If Fitzpatrick and safety Ronnie Harrison turn pro, the entire starting secondary will be gone.

Two senior leaders, All-America linebacker Rashaan Evans and center Bradley Bozeman, are leaving, and defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt will depart as Tennessee’s new head coach.

Final AP Top 10 Alabama finished the season atop the AP poll for the 11th time, three more than any other school. It received 57 of 61 first-place votes, with undefeated Central Florida claiming the other four. (AP) RANK

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2 Wisconsin Trips to Iowa, Michigan and Penn State make for a tough slate, but a strong defense and rising sophomore runner Jonathan Taylor could push them into the playoff.

1 Clemson The Tigers have piled up seven straight 10-win seasons with the past three ACC titles and will have QB Kelly Bryant back to pursue a fourth straight playoff berth.

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Even before his first training camp practice as a rookie with the Wizards in 2013, the swingman had hip problems. After

claiming the full-time starting job in 2015-16, Porter missed four games that January because of a hip injury. Last year, he played through soreness in what turned out to be a breakout season.

On Monday, the Wizards and Porter returned to pain management. Porter, who missed Saturday’s game while dealing with hip pain and back tightness, participated in half the practice but sat out the five-on-five scrimmage.

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Wizards manage Porter’s hip pain Otto Porter Jr. has had hip and back problems since he was a rookie in 2013.

Although his status for tonight’s home game against the Jazz was questionable then, coach Scott Brooks said Tuesday that Porter was “good to go.”

The Wizards have long looked for small ways to alleviate

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Porter’s pain.

“There’s no question with Otto, we’re always working on his flexibility and his core so he can play like last year [when] he played most of the season,” Brooks said.

Last season, Porter missed

only two games but needed a practice off early in the season while dealing with hip soreness.

Last January, he began riding a stationary bike during games every time he was not on the floor.

The chronic issue did not scare the Wizards from matching the max contract offer Porter received in free agency last summer. It took 36 games into this season for him to feel the double whammy of hip and back soreness that was painful enough to force him to miss a matchup.

Porter entered Tuesday tied with Cleveland’s Kyle Korver for seventh in the league in 3-point accuracy (44.8 percent) and has posted seven double-doubles.

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Rarely seen abroad, Ryon and Kim have given away few personal details, other than that they train in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. At the world championships, Kim said he was keen to take part in “a big competition” when asked about the Olympics.

North Korea boycotted the only other Olympics hosted in South Korea, the Seoul Games of 1988, and has often skipped the Winter Olympics. The nation hasn’t won a winter medal since 1992. Its last team in 2010 consisted of just one figure skater and one speed skater. North Korea is more competitive in the summer games. It won seven medals across weightlifting, gymnastics, shooting and table tennis in 2016.

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Emi Ferguson strikes a killer pose in her music video for “Amour Cruel.”

MUSIC Emi Ferguson is a Juilliardtrained flutist — a career that requires many hours and years of practice. But her most recent album, “Amour Cruel,” is vocal music, and when she recorded it, she had never sung in public.

It’s based on 400-year-old French songs, adapted from manuscripts Ferguson stumbled across in the Juilliard library. And as a classical crossover album it landed her on the Billboard charts.

Classical music is particular about its categories. Any classical purist will say that the teen singer Jackie Evancho or the pop-opera group Il Divo are not “real” classical artists. Hence the designation “classical crossover,” which for the past 25 years has striven to ensure that the Billboard classical charts are not sullied with the offerings of me mere “Britain’s

Got Talent” winners and movie soundtrack composers. Classical crossover projects, you see, lack the high seriousness of sanctified classical music tradition. They also sell more copies. (Ferguson charted at No. 17 on the classical crossover chart and No. 10 on the traditional one.)

Many younger artists are, like Ferguson, seeking more agency and autonomy than they can find by focusing exclusively on the great works of the past.

“It’s part of where my whole psyche has been,” Ferguson says, “trying to reinvent and bring the music I love to audiences in ways that will stick.”

“Amour Cruel” is a kind of baroque pop, music about love and heartache presented with a direct, melodious, earthy vibe — Lana Del Rey channeling Louis XIV’s court. The backing

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band, with its funky rhythms, comprises other classical artists on early instruments. On first listen, you might not recognize these songs as archaic, although you’ll notice that they’re sung in French. Ferguson compares herself to “a chef that takes your traditional French dish and reinvents it in this crazy way, so it feels like a new dish but has that essence of the old one.”

Though there’s nothing new about contemporary versions of baroque music, it’s striking Ferguson deliberately embraced the crossover format from the start.

“What I’ve learned through this process,” she says, “is our training as classical musicians is about preserving tradition and the canonized repertoire. You can put your own stamp on it to an extent. But what has been so exciting about this is to have complete ownership of the material.”

When Ferguson finally performed the material in public, it was at Juilliard — and it got a positive reaction.

“This is starting slowly to get into conservatory culture,” she says, “encouraging students to find their individual voice.”

Hopefully, she adds, it’s “taking the art form in a new direction.”

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In Justin Timberlake’s video for “Filthy,” the first single off his next album, “Man of the Woods,” we are all expected to believe Justin Timberlake invented a human-like robot that can not only lift boxes and walk down stairs, but can also moonwalk and sashay and pirouette like it’s some sort of “La La Land” extra. “Haters gonna say it’s fake,” he sings, and that is 100 percent true. B.C.

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It’s an enduring question, which is why Dick’s pulp work endures too. So the makers of the new TV show “Electric Dreams,” an anthology series in the tradition of “The Twilight Zone” and “Black Mirror,” are just taking further advantage of a reliable resource.

Its first season, which debuts Friday on Amazon, is based on 10 stories that Dick published between 1953 and 1955. The companion book collecting those stories isn’t his best work, but they entertainingly reveal how Dick’s key obsessions — the ideological and commercial forces that shape and threaten identity — were in place from the start.

What we’re skeptical about now, Dick was skeptical about then. In “Sales Pitch,” for example, a man is psychologically bombarded by robotic ads and door-to-door salesmen in ways that’ll resonate with anybody who’s had to disable their smartphone notifications: “Robots and visual-audio ads,” he laments to his wife. “They dig right into a man’s brain. They follow people around until they die.”

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) You may discover that you are not really enjoying that which you thought would be the “be-all and end-all” for you. Can you make a change?

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1863: The London Underground has its beginnings as the Metropolitan, the world’s first underground passenger railway, opens to the public with service between Paddington and Farringdon Street.

1946: The first man-made contact with the moon is accomplished as radar signals transmitted by the U.S. Army Signal Corps are bounced off the lunar surface.

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Her company, Behind Her Shades, filed trademark applications in regards to sex products (vibrators, massage appliances and other sex toys) and entertainment services, according to United States Patent and Trademark Office records obtained by Page Six. A launch date is unknown. (EXPRESS)

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“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum Yolanda Hadid revealed she’s found a new boyfriend since splitting from David Foster in 2015.

“I’m very blessed to have found a beautiful love,” she said Monday on “Entertainment Tonight.” “I’m excited and it’s all good. I’m off the market.” She would not reveal the identity of her beau, saying he’s “a very private person.” (EXPRESS)

Cardi B took to Twitter to address the state of her relationship with her fiance, Migos rapper Offset, who was rumored last week to have engaged in sexual activity with another woman on videotape. “I’m going to make a decision in my own times with my heart and mind,” Cardi B wrote Monday in a series of since-deleted tweets. “I don’t need to be rushed or be told what to do. Its my life! I belong to me not to the world.” (EXPRESS)

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