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At his Senate hearing, Barr says he wouldn’t fire Mueller if asked 8

Punishing winter Polar vortex may bring a harsh stretch of cold weather to the region 4

Shutdown snub Democrats unify as Trump tries to divide them with lunch 12

Theresa May’s Brexit plan suffers a humiliating defeat in Parliament, putting her leadership and the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU in doubt 13

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BRIDGE BURNING: The view from Tarrytown, N.Y., shows a section of the old Tappan Zee Bridge as it is brought down with explosives on Tuesday.

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A Phoenix man mistakenly invited to a stranger’s bachelor party in Vermont now plans to go, thanks to a successful GoFundMe, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Will Novak, 35, has never met groom Angelo, but after he received an invitation intended for Angelo’s friend of the same name, he jokingly offered to attend anyway. Angelo’s friends enthusiastically accepted, saying they’re sure Angelo will find it funny. (EXPRESS)

Two cats are living in a $1,500-a-month studio apartment their owner rents for them in Silicon Valley. The Mercury News reported that the cats, Tina and Louise, moved to the San Jose studio after their owner left for college. The student’s father, Troy Good, was unable to keep them and asked a friend to rent him the studio for the cats. The newspaper noted Good and his cats got a deal, as an average studio in San Jose rents for $1,951. (AP)

A rodeo cow named Betsy has evaded capture for six months as she wanders the trails of Anchorage, Alaska. The cow “busted out” of a pen at the Father’s Day Rodeo, owner Frank Koloski told the Anchorage Daily News. People began spotting Betsy on the trails across the Anchorage Hillside, posting about sightings on social media and giving her celebrity status. “I know deep down this cow doesn’t want to be caught,” Koloski said. (AP)

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Shutdown snarls exhibit teardowns

Spectators: The Art of Burning Man,” closing at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery on Jan. 21, also requires a team of specialized workers to move the works.

In normal times, such moves would occur without a hitch. But these are not normal times. When the federal government shut down Dec. 22, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian museums stayed open through December, using reserve funds to keep operating.

As the shutdown rolls toward

its second month, long-planned exhibition deadlines are being affected, both for shows closing and those being moved elsewhere, Smithsonian spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas said.

Furloughed workers have been allowed to work only because the shows must be taken down.

“They have to get ready for new things coming in,” St. Thomas said. “They want to be ready for action as soon as the shutdown ends.” PEGGY M C GLONE

Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Pence, will teach art part-time at a local Christian elementary school, her office announced Tuesday. Pence, a watercolor artist and longtime teacher, will lead students twice a week at the Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Va., where she taught while her husband served in the House.

“I am excited to be back in the classroom and doing what I love to do,” she said in a statement.

The second lady, who has made championing art therapy one of her causes, previously taught in public and private schools in Indianapolis. (TWP)

Giant Food Stores announced Monday that it will place a “Marty” — a large, googly-eyed robot — in each of the supermarket chain’s 172 stores across Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The robots can move around the store unassisted, scanning the floors for spills and trip hazards, which are reported to human workers, the company said. Giant expects to have the devices fully deployed in about six months. (TWP)

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MUSEUMS The Rachel Whiteread sculpture show at the National Gallery of Art ended its four-month run last weekend, but because of the partial government shutdown, no one had been able to see the major survey since Jan. 2.

Now the acclaimed show must be taken down, packed and shipped to the Saint Louis Art Museum, where it is scheduled to open in March. But the employees responsible for this routine yet painstaking work have been furloughed. There’s only a skeleton crew working without pay to ensure the exhibition makes the final stop on its international tour, according to a gallery spokeswoman.

The Whiteread show is the first in a series of closings of high-profile D.C. exhibitions affected by the government shutdown, now in its fourth week and with no end in sight. “No

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The first outpost of fast-casual chain Flower Child will open in D.C. next month, at 2112 Pennsylvania Ave. NW in Foggy Bottom, Eater DC reported.

Flower Child, by restaurateur Sam Fox, serves vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free salads, wraps and bowls. The healthy fast-casual chain is in the midst of a D.C.-area expansion, with a location in Rockville already open, and more locations planned for Bethesda and Tysons Corner. (EXPRESS)

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Robinson considers herself a social moderate. In 2013, she voted for the state’s first openly gay judge. But she has also supported legislation that could allow a private business owner with deeply held religious convictions — akin to the wedding cake baker who won a narrow victory at the U.S. Supreme Court last year — to turn away gay customers.

She said she intends to stick with her case-by-case evaluation of gay rights legislation even as she advocates for her housing bill.

“I don’t want people to put me in a box here,” she said. “I have a lot of friends who are in the LGBT community, and they just want to be living their lives. Just like someone who’s heterosexual, they just want to live their lives.”

The swirling winds tens of thousands of feet high in the sky above the Arctic — the dreaded polar vortex — broke into three parts at the start of 2019.

Now, the eastern half of the U.S. is about to feel the consequences. Weather models project the onset of a severe and punishing winter weather pattern in just over a week, with extreme cold. A blast of bitter Arctic air is forecast to plunge into the eastern U.S. late this week and this weekend, the coldest of the winter so far in some areas — another possible sign of the vortex disruption. By Sunday, temperatures are forecast to be 10 to 25 degrees colder than normal in parts of the eastern U.S.

Despite a GOP majority, Virginia is poised to pass LGBT protection bills.

Minimum pay bill OK’d A legislative committee passed a bill Monday to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in Virginia. SB 1200 would take effect July 1, raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour, then to $13 an hour in 2020 and $15 an hour in 2021. The bill, which passed the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee, will advance to the full Senate for a vote. Virginia’s minimum wage is currently $7.25 an hour. (AP)

already defunct ban on same-sex marriage went down in flames last week, on the opening day of the General Assembly. On Monday, legislation to expand the state’s hate crime law to include gay and transgender people died in a Senate committee.

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Md. looks to help furloughed workers

Maryland’s tax collector has announced help for federal workers affected by the partial federal government shutdown. Comptroller Peter Franchot, left, said Tuesday that federal contractors, furloughed employees and people working without pay who are now on payment plans with the state may be granted reduced or even suspended payments during the shutdown.

The aid will help federal workers with personal income liabilities and other outstanding tax obligations. (AP)

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Discrimination bill still easier sell than ending defunct marriage ban VIRGINIA A Republican lawmaker from the Richmond suburbs is sponsoring a bill to protect gay and transgender Virginians from discrimination in housing — legislation that appears to have support for the first time from some conservative Republicans.

“We don’t live in 1980 anymore, and it’s time for us to get past this and not discriminate against a community when most people don’t have a problem with this community,” said Del. Roxann L. Robinson, R-Chesterfield.

Advocates say their cause appears to be gaining support among some conservatives, particularly when they can be convinced that a particular bill will not infringe on anyone’s religious rights.

A Senate bill to outlaw discrimination in housing sailed out of committee Monday — with support from a pair of conservative Republicans who had never been on board before.

Some Republicans have come to see the issue as a matter of personal liberty — and perhaps political survival in an election year when the GOP is struggling to appeal to voters in oncefriendly suburbs.

Even so, LGBT rights remain a tough sell in this Southern capital. A bill to repeal the state’s

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Catholic leaders in Baltimore say they’ve delivered over 50,000 files to Maryland’s top law enforcement official amid an investigation into child sex abuse.

At an event Tuesday, Archbishop William Lori said Baltimore’s archdiocese is cooperating fully with Attorney General Brian Frosh’s ongoing probe. Lori said that credible allegations have long been sent to the attorney general’s office, “so there was already a lot on file from us.” Lori also said Baltimore’s archdiocese has launched a “third-party system” for reporting allegations against bishops. (AP) MARYLAND

New gun law applied in 5 cases involving schools A Maryland sheriff says a new law that allows courts to temporarily restrict firearms access for people at risk to themselves or others resulted in more than 300 protective orders, five of which were related to schools.

Montgomery County Sheriff Darren Popkin told lawmakers Tuesday that 302 orders were sought under the state’s “red flag” law in the first three months since the law took effect Oct. 1.

He says five of them related to schools, and four of those five “were significant threats.”

Confidentiality rules prevented him from going into details. (AP) VIRGINIA

Referee banned after singling out girl’s braids A referee has been banned from officiating children’s basketball games in Chesapeake, Va., after he singled out a girl who was wearing a typical African-American hairstyle. WAVY-TV reported Tuesday that the 10-year-old wore braids with blue weave during a basketball game over the weekend. Erica Guerrier, who coaches her daughter’s team, says the ref pointed to the girl’s hair and said, mistakenly, that hair weaves are against the rules. (AP)

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Judge rejects argument by unions that unpaid work violates labor laws WASHINGTON A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday refused to force the government to pay federal employees who have been working without compensation during the partial government shutdown, rejecting arguments from labor unions that unpaid work violates

labor laws and the Constitution.

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said it would be “profoundly irresponsible” for him to issue an order that would result in thousands of federal employees staying home from work and not doing their jobs.

“At best it would create chaos and confusion,” Leon said. “At worst it could be catastrophic. … I’m not going to put people’s lives at risk.”

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Ruling says no pay during shutdown Federal workers attend a rally on Capitol Hill last week to push for the end of the partial government shutdown that has dragged into its fourth week.

consolidated claim that the National Treasury Employees Union and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association filed against the government, alleging

Hundreds of Food and Drug Administration inspectors resume work without pay

that employees should not be forced to work without pay.

Leon’s ruling keeps the status quo, allowing the shutdown to continue with no end in sight. The

case, however, is far from over. He is scheduled to hear arguments regarding the unions’ separate request for a preliminary injunction against the government on Jan. 31.

A group of federal workers sued after the 2013 shutdown, which lasted 16 days. They argued that failure to pay federal workers on their regularly scheduled payday violated the Fair Labor Standards Act. A court agreed, ruling that the FLSA requires on-time payment of any minimum or overtime wages earned by employees falling within its coverage. It ordered the government to pay double the amount owed them.

Approximately 25,000 employees are still waiting to receive those damages. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

TSA reports national absence rate of 7.6 percent Monday, up from 3.2 percent last year

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WASHINGTON Vowing, “I will not be bullied,” President Trump’s nominee for attorney general asserted independence from the White House on Tuesday, saying he believed that Russia had tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, that the special counsel investigation shadowing Trump is not a witch hunt and that his predecessor, Jeff Sessions, was right to recuse himself from the probe.

The comments by William Barr at his Senate confirmation hearing pointedly departed from Trump’s own views and underscored Barr’s efforts to reassure Democrats that he will not be a loyalist to a president who has appeared to demand it.

Some Democrats are concerned he might disturb special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, citing a memo Barr wrote to the Justice Department before his nomination in which he criticized Mueller’s investigation for the way it was presumably looking into whether Trump had obstructed justice.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Barr the memo showed “a determined effort, I thought, to undermine Bob Mueller.” Barr

During his confirmation hearing, William Barr said it was in the public interest for special counsel Robert Mueller to finish his investigation.

told senators he was merely trying to advise Justice Department officials against “stretching the statute” to conclude that the president had obstructed justice.

Barr stated without hesitation that it was in the public interest for Mueller to finish his investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin to sway the election.

He said he would resist any order by Trump to fire Mueller without cause and called it “unimaginable” that Mueller would do anything to require his termination.

“I will not be bullied into doing anything that I think is wrong by anybody, whether it be editorial

boards or Congress or the president,” Barr told the hearing.

On other topics, Barr echoed in part the president’s hard-line immigration stance. He also would not rule out jailing reporters, saying he could envision circumstances where a journalist could be held in contempt “as a last resort.”

Barr’s confirmation is likely, given that Republicans control the Senate. Even some Democrats have been looking to move on from acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, who declined to remove himself from the Russia probe and has faced scrutiny over his private dealings.

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For the past 10 years, a male frog named Romeo, believed to be the last of his kind, has waited in isolation in a museum in Bolivia. That all changed when a recent expedition found five more Sehuencas water frogs just like him in a remote Bolivian forest, including a female that biologists have named Juliet. Romeo became an internationally known bachelor a year ago, and biologists created a match.com dating profile to raise awareness about his plight. The newly discovered frogs are being held in quarantine at the Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d’Orbigny in Cochabamba City, the BBC reported Tuesday.

Biologists hope to save the species from extinction by breeding the amphibians and reintroducing them to the wild. (EXPRESS)

An Iranian satellite-carrying rocket blasted off into space Tuesday, but scientists failed to put the device into orbit in a launch previously criticized by the U.S. as helping the Islamic Republic further develop its ballistic missile program. Iran, which has long said it does not seek nuclear weapons, maintains its satellite launches and rocket tests do not have a military component. (AP) SYRIA

Erdogan: Turkish troops to establish ‘safe zone’ Turkey’s president said Tuesday that his troops will establish a 20-mile-wide “safe zone” in northern Syria, adding that Turkey would seek logistical and financial assistance from the U.S. and allies to create it.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the zone would keep “terrorists out,” protect civilians and stem the flow of refugees. He and President Trump discussed the issue in a call late Monday. (AP) BRAZIL

Bolsonaro signs decree loosening gun laws President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a decree making it easier for many Brazilians to own firearms, the first of many expected changes to overhaul gun laws in the nation that leads the world in homicides. The decree established a wide range of categories for gun ownership qualification, and officials said it was crafted to cover just about any citizen wanting a firearm. (AP)

Correction EPA ENFORCEMENT HITS A LOW

The number of pollution cases the Environmental Protection Agency referred for criminal prosecution in fiscal 2018, the lowest number since 1988, according to Justice Department data.

“We’re reaching levels where the enforcement program is lacking a pulse,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which released the data Tuesday. Efforts to prosecute polluters have been decreasing since 1998, when the EPA made 592 criminal referrals. (AP) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., launches exploratory committee for a 2020 White House run

A review of the Netflix series “Sex Education” on page 17 of Tuesday’s paper incorrectly named the character played by Gillian Anderson. Her name is Jean Milburn.

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‘No time to count the dead’ Casualty total unclear after extremists launch deadly assault in Kenya

Judge blocks census question on citizenship

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NAIROBI, KENYA Extremists launched a deadly attack on a luxury hotel in Kenya’s capital Tuesday, sending people fleeing in panic as explosions and heavy gunfire reverberated through the complex.

Al-Shabab — the Somaliabased Islamic group that carried out the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi that left 67 people dead — claimed responsibility.

“It is terrible. What I have seen is terrible,” said Charles Njenga, who ran from a scene of blood, broken glass, burning vehicles and pillars of black smoke.

The coordinated assault began with an explosion targeting three vehicles outside a bank, and a suicide bombing in the hotel lobby that severely wounded a number of guests, said Kenya’s national police chief, Joseph Boinnet.

Survivors reported hearing a shattering blast and saw people mowed down by gunmen as they sat at a cafe. Victims were left lying on tables, bleeding.

“I heard a loud blast and people were screaming,” said Enoch Kibet, who works as a cleaner at the cafe and who crawled out a

Security personnel escort survivors from an upscale hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, after an extremist attack Tuesday.

basement gate. “I couldn’t believe I was alive. The blast was so loud and shook the whole complex.”

Authorities sent special forces into the hotel to flush out the gunmen believed holed up inside.

More than five hours after the attack began, Boinnet said the operation was still going on. A police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said that “there was no time to count the dead.”

A police officer said 15 bodies had been taken to the morgue. It

was not clear how many attackers laid siege to the complex, which includes the DusitD2 hotel, along with bars, restaurants, banks and offices, and is in a well-to-do neighborhood with large numbers of expatriates.

Like the attack at the luxury Westgate Mall, this one appeared aimed at wealthy Kenyans and foreigners living in the country.

It came a day after a magistrate ruled three men must stand trial in connection with the Westgate

Mall siege. A fourth suspect was freed for lack of evidence.

Al-Shabab has vowed retribution against Kenya for sending troops to Somalia since 2011. The al-Qaeda-linked group has killed hundreds of people in Kenya.

The latest carnage demonstrated al-Shabab’s continued ability to carry out spectacular acts of bloodshed despite a dramatic increase in U.S. airstrikes against it under President Trump. JOSEPH MWIHIA (AP)

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Court acquits Gbagbo, former Ivory Coast leader

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday formally launched a three-month national “grand debate” for the French to list their grievances. The debate, which will take place through local meetings and on the internet, is aimed at appeasing the yellow vest movement following weeks of antigovernment protests. It will focus on taxes, public services, climate change and democracy. (AP)

International Criminal Court judges on Tuesday acquitted former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and former youth minister Charles Ble Goude of responsibility for crimes committed following disputed elections in 2010. Judges ruled the prosecution failed to prove a case, before the defense’s lawyers even had to present theirs.

A judge ordered the two released immediately. (AP)

Irish fast-food chain Supermac’s persuaded the European Union Intellectual Property Office on Tuesday to cancel McDonald’s use of the “Big Mac” trademark, allowing Supermac’s to expand to continental Europe. McDonald’s argued that the similarity between Big Mac and Supermac’s would confuse customers, but the EUIPO overruled it, The Guardian reported. (EXPRESS)

Hundreds join new migrant caravan setting out from Honduras in hopes of reaching U.S.

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IMMIGRATION A federal judge blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from asking about citizenship status on the 2020 census, the first major ruling contending that officials ramrodded the question through to intentionally undercount immigrants.

Judge Jesse M. Furman ruled that such a question would be constitutional, but that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, above, added it arbitrarily and did not follow proper administrative procedures.

Among other things, the judge said, Ross didn’t follow a law requiring that he give Congress three years’ notice of any plan to add a question about citizenship to the census.

A key question in the lead-up to the trial was where the request for the question had originated. Ross testified before Congress that it came from the Justice Department, but documents released in the case indicated that he had asked the Justice Department to make the request after consulting with White House adviser Stephen Bannon and others.

Plaintiffs in the trial include 18 states, the District of Columbia and civil rights groups.

A trial on a separate suit on the same issue is underway in San Francisco. Another in Maryland is due to begin Jan. 22.

And the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to address the issue Feb. 19, meaning the legal issue is far from decided for good. (AP/TWP)

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that we’re under,” Trump said.

Behind the scenes, though, the administration — and its allies on Capitol Hill — are warily eyeing the next payday, hoping to reach a resolution before the Jan. 22 deadline to prepare the next round of paychecks for workers who have been seeing zeros on their pay slips.

“There is definitely a sense that there is a deadline approaching, which would be next Tuesday, to make sure that we’re able to solve this problem,” said Mercedes Schlapp, a White House spokeswoman.

Meanwhile, Trump, who a week ago seemed intent on declaring a national emergency to build the wall, has turned his attention back to Congress as polling shows he is taking much of the blame for the standoff.

IRS plans staff increase Tens of thousands of Internal Revenue Service workers will come back to work without pay for taxfiling season this month under an emergency plan the agency released Tuesday. But the IRS will remain unable to conduct audits or other key functions. The plan calls for keeping 46,000 IRS employees on the job, or close to 60 percent of the agency’s workforce, despite the lapse in the funding. Walk-in taxpayer assistance centers are set to remain closed, but the agency will conduct criminal investigations. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

The White House invited rankand-file lawmakers to lunch with Trump as part of a strategy to build support from centrist Democrats and freshmen, including

those from areas where the president is popular with voters.

But the White House quickly learned the limits of that approach. Pelosi gave her blessing for lawmakers to attend, but none took Trump up on the offer.

Trump lunched with a handful of House Republicans. The White House will try again this week.

A short time later, a group of House Democrats made their way to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office demanding that he consider Housepassed bills to fund the government. McConnell, R-Ky., was not in his office, so the Democrats left a note.

Hopes of side deals seemed unlikely, as did the prospect of senators meeting privately to forge a compromise. LISA MASCARO, CATHERINE LUCEY AND JILL COLVIN (AP)

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Seeds sprout aboard China’s Moon spacecraft Cotton seeds taken up to the moon by China’s Chang’e-4 mission have sprouted buds, the BBC reported Tuesday. Though plants have been grown on the International Space Station, the sprouts are the first biological matter to be grown on the Moon. The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party, confirmed the growth in a tweeted image of the sprouts. Chang’e-4 landed on the Moon’s far side on Jan. 3. A sealed container onboard holds soil with cotton and potato seeds, yeast and fruit fly eggs. (EXPRESS)

Shutdown has led to cancellation of nearly 43,000 immigration hearings

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President Trump invited Democrats to lunch, and despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s blessing, none came.

POLITICS The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to condemn white nationalism and white supremacy, a measure prompted by the comments of Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, who openly questioned why those terms had become offensive.

Having been stripped of his committee assignments Monday and facing further reproach, King went to the House floor Tuesday to say he would support the resolution, while continuing to protest that a New York Times article misquoted him.

“There is no tape for this interview I did. There’s no way to go back and listen,” he said. “That ideology never showed up in my head. I don’t know how it would have come out of my mouth.”

The resolution, introduced

by House Minority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., the highestranking black congressional leader, mentions King’s remarks but does not directly rebuke King.

It passed 424-1, with Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ga., voting no because he favors a censure of King.

“When elected representatives give cover and comfort to those who spread racial divisiveness, we embolden those on the fringes on our society, and we have seen some of the results,” Clyburn said in floor remarks Tuesday, calling white nationalism and white supremacy “clear and present dangers to our great republic.”

LONDON British lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal with the European Union on Tuesday, plunging the Brexit process into chaos and triggering a no-confidence vote that could topple her government.

The defeat was widely expected, but the scale of the House of Commons’ vote — 432 votes against the government and 202 in support — was devastating for May’s fragile leadership.

It followed more than two years of political upheaval in which May has staked her political reputation on getting a Brexit deal, and was the biggest defeat for a government in the House of Commons in modern history.

Moments after the result was announced — with Speaker John Bercow bellowing, “The noes have it” — May said it was only right to test whether the government still had lawmakers’ support to carry on. Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn quickly obliged, saying May’s government had lost the confidence of Parliament.

Lawmakers will vote today on his motion of no-confidence. If the government loses, it will have 14 days to overturn the result or face a national election.

Although May lacks an overall majority in Parliament, she looks likely to survive the vote unless lawmakers from her Conservative party rebel. Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, which props up May’s government, said it would support her.

“The House has spoken and the government will listen,” May said after the vote, which leaves her Brexit plan on life support just 10 weeks before the country is due to leave the EU on March 29.

Supporters of Britain’s ties to the EU celebrate Tuesday in London after Parliament resoundingly rejected the government’s Brexit deal.

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WASHINGTON Staring down the next deadline to pay federal workers, the White House shifted tactics Tuesday, trying to bypass House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to negotiate with rank-and-file lawmakers even as President Trump dug in for a prolonged shutdown.

The House and Senate announced they would stay in session, canceling an upcoming recess week at home if the shutdown continued, which seemed likely. On the shutdown’s 25th day, Trump did not move off his demand to have Congress provide $5.7 billion to build his promised border wall with Mexico. Democrats say they will discuss border security once the government has reopened, but Pelosi is refusing money for a wall they view as ineffective and immoral.

The president, on a conference call with supporters, showed no signs of backing down. “We’re going to stay out for a long time, if we have to,” Trump said.

With some 800,000 federal employees furloughed or working without pay, Trump suggested the partial shutdown that has clogged airport security lines and shuttered federal agencies was going smoothly.

“People are very impressed with how well government is working with the circumstances

Parliament rejects deal, leaving May’s government to face a no-confidence vote

Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, right, called for a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Theresa May’s government. The vote will be held today.

May promised to consult lawmakers on future moves, but gave little indication of what she plans to do next. Parliament has given the government until Monday to come up with a new proposal.

She faces a stark choice: Steer the country toward an abrupt “no-deal” break with the EU or try to nudge it toward a softer

departure. Meanwhile, lawmakers from both government and opposition parties are trying to wrest control of the Brexit process, so that lawmakers by majority vote can specify a new plan for Britain’s EU exit.

But with no clear majority in Parliament for any single alternate course, there is a growing

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Britain’s Brexit deal was doomed by deep opposition from both sides of the divide over the U.K.’s place in the EU. Pro-Brexit lawmakers said the deal would leave Britain bound indefinitely to EU rules, while pro-EU politicians favor an even closer economic relationship with Europe. The most contentious section of the deal was an insurance policy known as the “backstop,” designed to prevent the reintroduction of border controls between the U.K.’s Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland. Assurances from EU leaders that the backstop is intended as a temporary measure of last resort completely failed to win over many British skeptics, and the EU is adamant that it will not renegotiate the 585-page withdrawal agreement. (AP)

chance that Britain may seek to postpone its departure date while politicians work on a new plan — or even hand the decision back to voters in a new referendum.

May had argued that rejecting the deal would lead either to a reversal of Brexit — overturning voters’ decision in the 2016 referendum — or to Britain leaving the bloc without a deal.

Economists warn that an abrupt break from the EU could batter the British economy and bring chaotic scenes at borders, ports and airports.

European Council President Donald Tusk highlighted the quagmire the U.K. had sunk into, and hinted that the best solution might be for Britain not to leave.

“If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?” he said. JILL LAWLESS, GREGORY KATZ AND RAF CASERT (AP)

Facebook will give $300M to back local news SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook said Tuesday it will commit $300 million to journalism projects to help local outlets strengthen their news-gathering operations and build their readership and subscription models.

“We’re going to continue fighting fake news, misinformation, and low quality news on Facebook,” said Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of news partnerships, in a company blog post. “But we also have an opportunity, and a responsibility, to help local news organizations grow and thrive.”

Among the funded initiatives are: a $20 million investment to help local outlets design and execute subscription and membership models; a $5 million endowment to create a grant program with the Pulitzer Center for local multimedia reporting projects; and a $2 million investment in Report for America, an initiative to recruit and fund journalists to cover under-covered topics.

Facebook’s commitment comes a year after Google pledged the same dollar amount, over the same timeline, with a focus on boosting subscriptions to local news outlets.

The two companies command about 58 percent of the digital ad market, which has hastened a decline in American newsrooms.

They have also come under fire for their role in the spread of disinformation around the 2016 election. HAMZA SHABAN (TWP)

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Who’ll be Redskins QB? A Super Bowl champion, Heisman Trophy winner, free agent castoff, career backup or crippled incumbent — those are the Redskins’ options for quarterback this fall. Washington certainly has a wide range of possibilities, although the best candidates are long shots and the most likely option isn’t very enticing. Fans have no faith in the team being able to draft the right QB after repeated first-round busts, and the Redskins have other needs to address. But doesn’t

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everything revolve around the QB? Here are five possible QB options and their odds of happening.

Colt McCoy

First-rounder

Nick Foles

Free agent

Alex Smith

Coach Jay Gruden has always loved McCoy, but the backup passer gets hurt whenever he’s called upon. In his second start of the season, he suffered a broken leg. And he wasn’t that impressive in his limited time in 2018.

McCoy lacks arm strength, so the Redskins play on a short field when he’s under center. Then again, they don’t have any deep targets, either. McCoy would be a stopgap starter in what may become a “Tank for Tua” attempt to draft Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa in 2020.

If McCoy stays healthy, maybe the Redskins can just run Derrius Guice a lot to stay competitive.

Odds: 5-2

Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray, above, joining the NFL draft suddenly gives the Redskins a QB option with their 15th overall selection.

The Heisman Trophy winner could be available or he could be the reason one of the other top-rated QBs falls. Either way, Murray being in the draft gives the Redskins a better chance of picking a QB. If they wait until the second round, West Virginia’s Will Grier or N.C. State’s Ryan Finley might be available.

No QB in this class looks ready to immediately start, so the pick would likely sit behind Colt McCoy until October, when the front office would pressure coach Jay Gruden to start him.

Odds: 7-2

The hero of the Eagles’ past two postseason runs will likely be too expensive. The Redskins have about $20 million in salary cap room and that’s what Foles will demand. But Washington has always found a way to get creative with deals.

He would be worth it for ticket sales alone after FedEx Field looked pretty empty last season. Owner Dan Snyder lives for marketing quarterbacks and needs something new and shiny to fool a broken fan base into giving him one more chance to win. It would be a perfect payback should Philly sign Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper.

Odds: 10-1

Teddy Bridgewater, above, Tyrod Taylor and Ryan Fitzpatrick — oh my!

Really, this is just one sad option next to Nick Foles.

Overpaying the cream of the crud just seems wrong. Yet, Washington might compete with Jacksonville, Miami, Oakland and maybe Denver and the New York Giants for the top free agents and draft picks to fill QB voids. Maybe the Redskins should start Colt McCoy, keep Josh Johnson as the backup and hope an offseason with coach Jay Gruden fixes some of Johnson’s flaws that were exposed over the final two games in 2018. It’s really a no-win situation.

Odds: 30-1

There will be plenty of optimism over the offseason for bringing back Smith as the starter because it doesn’t cost the Redskins any additional money. They’re already on the hook in 2019 for a $20 million cap hit for the injured quarterback. But let’s be real — Smith just wants to walk without a limp for the rest of his life.

Asking him to return from a devastating broken leg that was complicated by a serious infection at age 35 is too much. The Redskins won’t be able to legally get out of paying Smith, and it’s a real long shot that he will play again, much less in Week 1 of the 2019 season.

Odds: 99-1

Capitals’ game vs. Predators ended after Express’ deadline

Duke loses PG Tre Jones indefinitely to shoulder injury

It’s about seven months before the Eagles open their 2019 season, but coach Doug Pederson is already naming his starting quarterback.

“Yes, Carson Wentz is the quarterback going forward,” Pederson told reporters Tuesday.

“And in Nick [Foles’] case, listen, we’d love to have everybody back throughout the roster, but as I’ve said many, many times, it’s not about one guy, it’s about the team, and we’re going to do what’s best for the team.” Foles, the reigning Super Bowl MVP, will become a free agent this offseason unless the Eagles decide to use their franchise tag on him. Philadelphia was just 5-6 with Wentz as its starting QB this season. But Foles was 5-2 as a starter, including a playoff p y win. (EXPRESS)

Tottenham striker Harry Kane (ankle) out until March

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Terps keep finding ways to win COLLEGE BASKETBALL The most intriguing aspect of Maryland’s unexpected ascent into the top 25 is that the Terrapins have won in so many ways — in spite of their youth.

In a six-game winning streak that’s lifted Maryland into third place in the Big Ten, the 19thranked Terps (15-3, 6-1) have rallied from behind, blown big leads and prevailed even when their best players were held in check.

Last week, highly touted freshman Jalen Smith didn’t make a basket, yet Maryland overcame a 14-point deficit to beat Indiana.

The Terrapins squandered a

21-point, second-half lead Monday before squeezing past Wisconsin 64-60.

Five of Maryland’s next six games will be played away from home, so this season’s rollercoaster ride could easily continue. Coach Mark Turgeon can only hope that his freshmanladen team can appreciate what it’s accomplished thus far and continue to grow.

“We are the fifth-youngest team in Division I basketball,” Turgeon said after the Wisconsin game. “It’s the best league in the country, and just to get another [win] is terrific for us.”

Maryland is 5-1 when trailing at halftime, including 4-0 in the Big Ten. During their current winning streak, the Terps trailed Radford, Minnesota and Indiana before rallying.

MLB

Ex-pitcher Wetteland charged in child sex case Former pitcher John Wetteland, 52, was arrested Monday in Texas and charged with continuous sex abuse of a child under age 14. Authorities have not released details of the investigation into Wetteland, who was freed on a $25,000 bond. Neither Wetteland nor his attorney could be contacted for comment. Wetteland was the MVP of the 1996 World Series with the Yankees. (AP) COLLEGE FOOTBALL

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“I never said this by the way.

I don’t know where it came from.

However the trip to the White House was awesome!”

A late 3-pointer by Anthony Cowan Jr., right, sealed Maryland’s win over Wisconsin.

PATRICK SEMANSKY (AP)

No. 19 Maryland rides 6-game streak through late rallies, blown leads

The script was flipped against Wisconsin, when Maryland gave away a 33-15 halftime lead.

The Terps were cruising until 6-foot-10 sophomore Bruno Fernando picked up his fourth foul.

Within five minutes, a 51-36 lead

became 57-54. Then Anthony Cowan Jr. came to the rescue with the game-winning shot from beyond the arc in the closing seconds.

“Everybody is saying you have to start games better, but I would

rather finish them better, right?”

Turgeon said. “So now everybody is going to be saying we need to finish the games better.”

Sophomore Darryl Morsell, and freshmen Smith, Eric Ayala, Aaron Wiggins and Ricky Lindo Jr. have performed well as the supporting cast for Cowan, the team’s leading scorer, and Fernando, a force in the middle who could be headed to the NBA after this season.

Turgeon said in October that this would be a team that improved as the season wore on.

“We have a huge upside. We talk about it in the locker room all of the time,” Turgeon said.

“I’d like to think how far we’ve come since Dec. 27, where can we be on Feb. 1 and where can we be on Feb. 15. We’ll see, because it’s a willing team.” DAVID GINSBURG (AP)

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Background music can be a particularly noxious branch of the art of sound. The tinny elevator Muzak. The synthesized Christmas carols that fill drugstores for weeks. The buzzy sound at the bus station.

They’re all supposedly there to calm us and improve our frame of mind, and yet they all have the bright, inauthentic, chemical tang of an artificial sweetener. Indeed, background music is sometimes used as an active repellent, piped out of stores onto the sidewalk to discourage loitering.

I can’t say the IRS’ hold music was exactly a masterpiece of the genre. But it had some of the effect of a Spielberg movie: I know I was being manipulated, but I was willing to go along without resentment.

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forgotten, made the best of trying to pass the time.

Given that the average wait time on hold at the IRS is somewhere between 45 and 70 minutes (sources vary on this point), and that tens of millions of people call the agency every year, its hold music has a fair claim to being one of the mostheard pieces of music in the world. What an opportunity. Or what a waste.

If you think that hold music represents a great opportunity for an enterprising composer, think again. Royalty-free music, or RFM, is a multimilliondollar business because companies are hardly likely to use any music that you have to pay royalties on for a piece that undergoes so many iterations.

This music is a form of “content” — like the texts and images on a website, a commodity that’s more and more in demand, but is seldom credited to a composer. Websites and “toll-free environments,” as the IRS styles its hold apparatus, need words and pictures and sounds, but don’t want them to be too distinctive.

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Not that taxing: IRS hold music is oddly soothing

And yet the audience, moving through this generic world, is still primed to find in it nuggets of human experience, to identify with content on more than a simply functional level. As much as people love to hate hold music, a variant of Stockholm syndrome is not uncommon. The music used by Cisco communication systems, called “Opus No. 1,” achieved an odd notoriety in 2014 after an NPR reporter documented her father-in-law’s search for the piece that he kept hearing hour after hour while on hold across his health care network.

The IRS, too, receives its share of customer accolades, which public affairs specialist Cecilia Barreda passed on. “I have spent untold hours singing and whistling harmony and counterpoint to this beautiful music,” one customer enthused. Another wrote: “This is the only music that calms my German shepherd. I need ease. a 10-hour loop of this, p please.

If you need to bill me,, you can evy I am just add it to the tax levy paying on.”

The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that Alicia Keys will host the Grammy Awards on Feb. 10. The ceremony will air live on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

“I’m so excited to be the master of ceremonies on the biggest night in music and celebrate the creativity, power and magic,” Keys, who has won 15 Grammys, said in a statement.

She added that she is “especially excited for all the incredible women nominated this year.” Kendrick Lamar and Drake are the top Grammy contenders, with eight and seven nominations, respectively. Brandi Carlile is up for six awards, while Lady Gaga, Cardi B, Maren Morris and H.E.R. earned ned five nods each.

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Netflix is raising its U.S. prices by 13 percent ent to 18 percent, its biggest increase since the company launched its video streaming service 12 years ago. Its most popular plan will see the largest hike, to $13 per month from $11. The extra cash will help to pay for Netflix’s huge investment in original shows and films and finance the company’s heavy debt. Walll Street cheered the decision, sending shares up more than 6 percent in midday trading. (AP) Christopher McQuarrie to write, direct two more “Mission: Impossible” sequels

NBC to launch streaming service in 2020

The Blast: Drake signs on for Las Vegas residency

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Fox’s vampire drama delivers an amusing, if contrived, narrative TV REVIEW “The Passage,” a hokey but mildly entertaining drama about an illfated scientific attempt to harness the immunity of rabid vampires, premiered Monday on Fox. It’s based on the 2010 horror-dystopia novel by Justin Cronin, and a willing viewer can find something

to like in “The Passage’s” basic appeal. It’s got a pulse and you can sharpen a fang to it.

It’s also got an invitingly heroic premise, as a former FBI agent and war hero, Brad Wolgast (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), doubts the intentions behind his security job at a secret Colorado science lab that ends up turning patients into bloodsucking creatures.

When a new avian flu in China threatens to become a global pandemic, the decision is made

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to infect a child with the vampire virus, believing that a younger immune system will replicate the vampires’ resistance to disease, without the nasty side effects.

Wolgast is sent to retrieve Amy Bellafonte (Saniyya Sidney), a 10-year-old girl living in foster care. But she takes off running and it isn’t long before Wolgast

Variety: Corey Stoll cast in “Sopranos” prequel movie

has joined her, troubled by the idea that he was asked to deliver a child for testing purposes.

Alas, “The Passage” turns its attention to far too much mythology establishment, all so viewers will understand the full threat if the monsters escape. That ultimate unleashing seems all but assured, thanks to plenty of blunt foreshadowing.

Where Amy and Brad wind up in all that panic remains to be seen. But there’s a simpler pleasure to the first two episodes, when they’re just two fugitives in a stolen car, learning to trust the surrogate parent-child instincts that are telling them to get as far away as they can.

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Can we all stop saying ‘happy new year’ now?

The tree didn’t deserve that …

Katy Perry revealed on Instagram over the weekend that she was once suspended from school for making sexual motions toward a tree and pretending it was Tom Cruise, E! News reported.

The singer posted an Instagram story where she shared a 1996 suspension report from Santa Barbara Christian School. The report noted that Perry was suspended for three days due to the incident, citing “inappropriate behavior.” (EXPRESS)

Selena Gomez returned to Instagram on Monday to write her first post since last September. “It’s been awhile since you have heard from me, but I wanted to wish everyone a happy new year and to thank you for your love and support,” Gomez wrote to her followers. “Last year was definitely a year of self-reflection, challenges and growth. It’s always those challenges which show you who you are and what you are capable of overcoming.” In October, E! News confirmed that Gomez had entered a mental health facility to treat her anxiety and depression.

She announced a month later on Instagram that she would be taking a break from social media. (EXPRESS)

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“Jersey Shore” cast member Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino reported to Otisville Federal Correctional Institution in upstate New York on Tuesday to serve an eight-month sentence for tax fraud.

Sorrentino and his brother, Marc, pleaded guilty last January to similar charges. They were charged in 2014 with tax offenses related to nearly $9 million in income. (AP)

Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West are expecting their fourth child via a surrogate, the reality star confirmed on Monday on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.”

Kardashian West said the boy will arrive “sometime soon,” and admitted that she got drunk on Christmas Eve and told some people about the baby. Daughter North is 5, son Saint is 3 and daughter Chicago turned 1 on Tuesday. (AP)

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