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The Hartford Whalers left Connecticut 20 years ago, but their beloved logo will now appear on vehicles across the state. The Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday unveiled a new commemorative license plate that bears the former professional hockey team’s insignia. Fortyfive dollars from the sale of each plate will benefit a new infusion and dialysis center at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford. (AP)

A Missouri State University student who feared he swiped a potential sweetheart out of his life with a dating app mishap emailed all 22 Claudias on campus to find her. The freshman meant to swipe right on a Claudia’s Tinder profile — a sign that he wanted to meet her. Instead he swiped left, rejecting her. His email outreach worked.

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DINING Four decades after Patrick O’Connell served the Inn at Little Washington’s maiden dinner for $4.95, the venue has grown from an auto garage to occupy 21 buildings in the hamlet. It has won five James Beard awards and earned two Michelin stars. The inn has also fed a host of luminaries, including “three queens and a king,” O’Connell says.

Leave it to the over-the-top dining destination to toast its 40th anniversary with four celebrations, starting Jan. 28 with a “friends and family” dinner to which anyone is welcome who can pony up $375. The event will start with horse-drawn carriage rides around town and Dom Perignon and Petrossian caviar.

On June 16, O’Connell will hold a fundraiser for his new charity on the lawn at Mount Vernon, the co-beneficiary of proceeds from a garden party that will re-create

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Patrick O’Connell is throwing four parties for his restaurant’s 40th birthday.

the experience of dining at the table of George Washington.

Historians are helping curate the dinner for 350 attendees, who will dine inside antique-looking tents and enjoy some of the produce of Mount Vernon’s gardens.

Tables for 10 cost $18,750.

Next, a “family reunion” involving former employees of the inn is planned for Sept. 2, when O’Connell will host Innstock, a play on Woodstock, which the chef attended in 1969. The streets surrounding the inn will

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The chef is saving the most extravagant and exclusive celebration for last: a candlelit dinner party Sept. 30 at a 17th-century chateau outside Paris and the site of a party for Louis XIV in 1661. There, 150 guests will dine on a menu based on what Louis XIV might have eaten. The tab per person: $3,000. TOM SIETSEMA (THE WASHINGTON POST)

A couple said “I do” in front of family, friends and former President Obama last weekend.

Washingtonian reports that Obama officiated the wedding of D.C. couple Dana Remus, general counsel for the Obama Foundation and Obama’s personal office, and Brett Holmgren, who also worked with Obama at the White House. The wedding took place at District Winery this past Sunday.

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Civil rights leader Wyatt Tee Walker dies The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, who helped assemble the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” from notes the incarcerated King wrote on paper scraps and newspaper margins, has died. Family records indicate he was either 88 or 89, said his daughter, Patrice Walker Powell. Walker led a “Pilgrimage of Prayer” in Richmond against school segregation on New Year’s Day 1959. (AP) ANIMALS

Injured bobcat will soon be released into the wild The bobcat that was hit by a car and took a 50-mile ride in the car’s grille on Thanksgiving will soon be released back into the wild. WTOP reports that the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro, which has been caring for the injured cat, said that the bobcat’s jaw fracture has fully healed and it is ready to eat whole prey again. (EXPRESS)

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Health officials report a spike in hospital visits among all age groups HEALTH A vicious strain of the flu is battering the region, mirroring a wave of debilitating illness that in recent weeks has seized the entire U.S., health officials say.

With the number of cases across the country still rising, health officials in D.C., Maryland and Virginia are reporting a surge in patients at doctor’s offices and emergency rooms suffering from fever, severe headaches, muscle aches and nausea.

The spike is touching all ages, though young children and the elderly appear to be most vulnerable, and forcing hospitals and nursing homes to restrict visitors.

“Looking at this season and the past five seasons, this is the worst one we’ve seen,” said

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Dr. Preetha Iyengar, supervisory epidemiologist at the District’s Department of Health.

The increase in the District reflects what health officials are reporting from coast to coast. Since the start of the flu season in October, nearly 9,000 people have been hospitalized nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. A total of 30 children have died, including 10 during the week that ended Jan. 13. “There’s a lot of flu out there right now — that’s the simple way to put it,” said Kristen Nordlund, a CDC spokesperson.

In Montgomery County, where nine public schools have reported upticks in absences that are due to illness, officials Tuesday issued a warning about “widespread” cases of the flu and urged people to take precautions and get vaccinated.

The county’s six hospitals on Tuesday announced they would

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Flu season takes its toll on region Since October, 9,000 people have been hospitalized with the flu nationwide.

SPIKE IN FLU CASES

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The number of new flu cases District health officials counted during the first two weeks of January — more than half of the 624 reported in the city since the influenza season began in October. The spike mirrors a trend observed by officials across the United States. (TWP)

bar from their facilities all children younger than 12 and visitors experiencing symptoms that include fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose and muscle aches.

Across Maryland, a total of 208 people tested positive for the flu during the second week of January — the highest week of flu activity this season — the state’s Department of Health said.

In Fairfax County, a quarter of all patients visiting emergency rooms in recent days have suffered from flu-like symptoms, said Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, the county’s director of epidemiology and population health.

“Every flu season is different, but this season is tracking pretty similarly with a couple of recent seasons that have been bad,” Schwartz said.

Across Virginia, there were close to 160 confirmed flu cases during the second week of January, the highest number of cases

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this season, according to the Virginia Department of Health.

The East Mennonite School in Harrisonburg, Va., closed for two days last week because so many students were out sick with the flu. School staff spent the time sterilizing handrails, tabletops and other surfaces.

Paul Leaman, the head of the East Mennonite School, said in his 31 years as an educator he has not seen as severe an outbreak.

“It seemed extraordinarily contagious,” he said.

In the District, Mai Abdo, 50, said she was bedridden for five days even though she had gotten her flu shot before her diagnosis.

Her symptoms included a 102º fever, a sore throat and a severe headache that lasted four days.

“I felt the worst I’ve ever felt in my entire life,” she said.

Her husband, Jim Abdo, a prominent developer, ordered her quarantined to their bedroom to keep him and their two teenage children from getting sick.

At one point, he fled to Florida to play golf with his son only to come down with a severe cold himself.

“Having the flu is like heartbreak,” Mai said, laughing. “No one loves you. No one wants to be around you. You’re shunned.”

As of Monday, she was feeling better. And so was Mr. Abdo.

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Lee Boyd Malvo was 17 when he and his mentor, John Allen Muhammad, then 41, shot people in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. as

they went about their everyday business during a three-week period in 2002.

Muhammad was sentenced to death and was executed in Virginia in 2009.

A jury convicted Malvo of capital murder for killing FBI analyst Linda Franklin, who was shot in the head outside a Home Depot store, but spared him the death penalty. Malvo later struck plea deals in other cases in Virginia and Maryland. He ultimately received four life sentences in Virginia and six in Maryland.

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Lee Boyd Malvo was 17 when he helped terrorize the area in 2002.

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U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found mandatory life-withoutparole sentences for juveniles unconstitutional.

After the hearing, Cooley told reporters that Malvo is simply asking for the opportunity to argue for a new sentence. He noted that Malvo still faces life sentences in Maryland, where a judge ruled last year that he will not get new sentencing hearings.

“In the end, it doesn’t mean that he’s walking out of prison,” Cooley said.

The court did not indicate when it will rule. DENISE LAVOIE (AP)

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Workers prepare for deja vu As shutdown eases, employees anticipate another in a few weeks Q+A

There are rules to who can and can’t telework Q. How does the government decide who gets to telework and when? It seems so random.

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POLITICS The swift steps ending a messy and expensive government shutdown set the stage for hundreds of thousands of federal workers to return Tuesday, but some say they fear they could find themselves in limbo again in a few more weeks.

Congress sped toward moving to reopen government after Democrats reluctantly voted to temporarily pay for resumed operations on Monday afternoon.

The House approved the measure shortly thereafter, sending the spending bill to President Trump, who quickly signed it.

The short-term bill funds the government through Feb. 8.

Ali Niaz, a Department of Labor employee who was sent home Monday, took advantage of the partial three-day federal paralysis to tap into shutdown discounts offered by a tavern in the nation’s capital.

He asked the bartender if the same deals would be “offered next month when the government shuts down again” — already pointing to when a temporary spending measure ends in early February.

For days, the shutdown effectively cleaved the federal workforce in half as hundreds of thousands of workers were sent home while others, declared essential employees, stayed on the job.

With another deadline looming, federal workers brace for more drama and the prospect of another shutdown.

Felicia Sharp, a lab tech with the Defense Department at Fort Belvoir in Northern Virginia, was deemed essential and reported to work Monday. She said the whiplash that occurs when employees are furloughed makes it hard to plan upon returning to work.

Sharp, who also serves as a local president for the American Federation of Government Employees, said the deal that keeps the government open for a few weeks “only just postpones the inevitable for a while.”

When the next deadline approaches, she predicted, “it will be the same situation all over again.”

During the 2013 shutdown, which lasted more than two

Employees furloughed in shutdown to be paid Federal employees who were put on unpaid furloughs during the partial government shutdown will be paid for that time under the legislation signed late Monday ending the shutdown. That follows the practice of past shutdowns in which all employees were paid, regardless of whether they continued working or were furloughed. Though all employees will be paid in full, it may not happen on their regular schedule. One of the largest federal payroll processors, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, said Tuesday that it will post information about the impact “as soon as possible.” (THE WASHINGTON POST)

weeks, Sharp took on two parttime jobs to make sure her bills were paid.

J. David Cox, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers, said his members have been exasperated with the inability of Congress and Trump to negotiate a budget.

“We can’t be the ball for the pingpong game,” Cox said, after Senate Democrats dropped their objections Monday to a temporary funding bill in return for assurances from Republican leaders that they will soon take up immigration and other hotbutton issues. MATTHEW BARAKAT (AP)

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A. It’s not supposed to be.

A 2010 law set standards for telework eligibility, with a presumption that employees are eligible unless they fall into one of its exceptions. Those exceptions mostly apply to public-facing jobs, or those involved in patient care, law enforcement, security and other duties that require presence at the workplace.

However, it’s up to each agency to decide, so there are variations among them — and in many cases employees deemed ineligible think their jobs are suitable for it.

A recently issued report shows that in fiscal year 2016, about 42 percent of federal employees were designated as eligible to telework, up from 33 percent in 2011. But of those, only about half — 22 percent of the entire workforce — actually teleworked during the year.

Also making telework look random is that the most common form is what the government calls “situational,” allowing it, for example, when employees are working on certain projects (situational telework also happens during weather-related closings).

Another tenth of teleworkers do it no more than once a month, although a third do it three or more days per two weeks. ERIC YODER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Two dead, 17 injured in Ky. school shooting BENTON, KY. A 15-year-old student killed two classmates and hit a dozen others with gunfire Tuesday, methodically firing a handgun inside a crowded atrium at his rural Kentucky high school.

“He was determined. He knew what he was doing,” said Alexandria Caporali, who grabbed a friend and ran into a classroom as their classmates hit the floor.

“It was one right after another,” she added. “You could see his arm jerking as he was pulling the trigger.”

He kept firing, she said, until

he ran out of ammunition and took off running, trying to get away. Police arrested their suspect moments later, leading him away in handcuffs to be charged with murder and attempted murder. Authorities did not identify the gunman responsible for the nation’s first fatal school shooting of 2018, nor did they release any details about a motive.

Seventeen students were injured, 12 of them hit with bullets and five others hurt in the scramble as hundreds of students fled for their lives from Marshall County High School.

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I can’t believe it took until 2018. It says something about the inequality of representation that exists in our country.”

Many jumped into cars, or ran across fields and along the highway, some not stopping until they reached a McDonald’s restaurant more than a mile away. Parents left their cars on both sides of an adjacent road, desperately trying to find their teenagers.

“No one screamed. It was almost completely silent as people just ran,” said Caporali, 16.

She said most students knew what to do because they are drilled throughout the year on how to respond to an active shooter at school. KRISTIN M. HALL AND

SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH,

D-Ill., telling the Chicago Tribune how it will feel to be the first woman to give birth while serving in the U.S. Senate.

Duckworth, who had her first child while serving in the U.S. House, announced Tuesday her second child is due in April.

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Philippine volcano spews fountains of lava

Quake sparks warnings, but no tsunamis appear A magnitude 7.9 earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska sent Alaskans scrambling in the early hours Tuesday after an alert warned a tsunami could hit along the state’s southern coast and parts of British Columbia. The waves never materialized, but it was several hours before the all-clear was given. No injuries or damages were reported. (AP) KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

U.S. citizens among dead after Taliban hotel siege Multiple American citizens were among the dead and wounded in the Taliban’s 13-hour siege of a hotel over the weekend that left 22 dead, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday. No exact figures were immediately available for either the U.S. fatalities or injuries. The dead included 14 foreigners, Afghan officials said. The siege at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel ended Sunday. (AP) ISRAEL

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LEGAZPI, PHILIPPINES | Lava pours down the slopes and ash clouds rise from the crater of Mount Mayon on Tuesday in the Philippines’ Albay province. More than 56,000 residents have been evacuated — and no deaths or injuries have been reported — since the volcano started acting up more than a week ago, officials said.

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Vice President Pence prayed at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday. He was wrapping up a four-day trip to the Middle East that ended with Palestinians still angry over the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. (AP) POLITICS

Facebook, Twitter urged to check Russian trolls Congressional Democrats on Tuesday called on Facebook and Twitter to examine the role of Russian bots and trolls in a growing online campaign to release a classified memo about allegations that the FBI mishandled a surveillance request. Hashtags such as “#ReleaseTheMemo” have been trending, and accounts affiliated with Russian efforts have been tied to it, officials said. (TWP)

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nation+world 11 nations left in TPP commit to partnership after Trump signs tariffs DAVOS, SWITZERLAND Just hours after President Trump approved new tariffs on imports, the leaders of Canada and India came out forcefully Tuesday against a drift toward protectionism in the global economy.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country and the 10 other remaining members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have revised their trade deal in

the wake of the U.S. withdrawal.

Though without its biggest member, the U.S., the remaining members of the TPP are committing to a deal. Trudeau told business leaders in Davos, Switzerland, that a revised agreement had been signed in Tokyo after two days of high-level talks.

In addition, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said new barriers to trade could pose a danger on a par with climate change and extremist attacks.

“Forces of protectionism are raising their heads against globalization,” Modi said in his

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India, Canada defend free trade

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

France, U.S. urge Turkey to exercise restraint in offensive against Kurdish-held enclave in Syria

opening address at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “It feels like the opposite of globalization is happening.”

Modi’s message came after Trump’s signing off on new tariffs on imported solar energy components and large washing machines in a move he hopes will help U.S. manufacturers.

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Mueller’s interest in the events that led Trump to push out Flynn and Comey indicates that his investigation is further focusing on possible efforts by the president or others to obstruct the special counsel’s probe. Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed for several hours

by Mueller’s investigators, the Justice Department confirmed.

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Flynn resigned last February after The Washington Post reported that he misled Vice President Pence and others about his communications with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. He later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Trump fired Comey in May. Comey later testified that the president had asked him whether he could see a way of “letting Flynn go.”

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Robert Mueller is guiding his Russia investigation toward obtaining firsthand testimony from Trump.

Mueller also expressed interest in Trump’s efforts to remove Jeff Sessions as attorney general or pressure him into quitting, according to a person familiar with the probe who said the special counsel was seeking to determine whether there was a “pattern” of behavior by the president.

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Sam’s Club in Little Rock, Ark., once or twice a month. It used to be a family affair, she said, with her four kids scanning the toy aisle or reading books on couch displays while she shopped.

But now that her children, ages 11 to 17, have phones, they’re no longer interested in the store.

They do their shopping online.

“When I go to Sam’s Club, I look around, and it’s all people in their 50s, 60s and 70s,” said Schulz, 50.

With nearly two-thirds of U.S. households paying yearly for Amazon Prime, according to data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, analysts say more families may be inclined to rethink paying for additional memberships at wholesale clubs.

“There’s a lot of overlap, and people are shopping on Amazon for other reasons as well,” said Mulpuru, the analyst at Forrester. “As consumers shop more at one company, they’ll shop less at another.”

FINANCE The Senate on Tuesday approved President Trump’s selection of Jerome Powell to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve beginning next month. Senators voted 85-12 to confirm Powell to lead the nation’s central bank, a post that is considered the most powerful economic position in government.

Powell will succeed Janet Yellen, the first woman to lead the Fed, when her term ends Feb. 3. Trump decided against offering Yellen a second four-year term as chair despite widespread praise for her.

Powell, 64, has served for 5½ years on the Fed’s board.

A lawyer and investment manager by training, he will be the first Fed leader in 40 years without an advanced degree in economics. Many expect him to follow Yellen’s cautious approach to interest rates.

Powell, viewed as a centrist, enjoyed support from both Republicans and Democrats.

Trump has been critical of the role the Fed played in implementing the Dodd-Frank Act, the 2010 law that tightened banking regulations after the 2008 financial crisis. Powell has signaled that he favors ways to make bank regulations less onerous, especially for smaller community banks.

Including Powell, Trump has the ability to fill six vacancies on the seven-member Fed board with his own choices. MARTIN

ABHA BHATTARAI (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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BUSINESS There’s a Costco to one side of Gwendolyn Hammer’s house and a Sam’s Club to the other.

But when the 28-year-old needs 12-packs of paper towels, or 36 rolls of toilet paper, she heads online instead.

Once a month, she uses her smartphone to place a bulk order on boxed.com, a website founded five years ago as a millennialfriendly alternative to warehouse wholesalers. There is no membership fee, and most orders arrive within two days. Other times, she stocks up using Amazon Prime.

“I’ve never had a Costco membership, even though I knew shopping there would likely end up saving me money,” said Hammer, who lives in Utah Valley, Utah, and grew up shopping at Costco with her parents.

Warehouse clubs such as Costco, Sam’s Club and BJ’s Wholesale Club have for decades been an American staple: a place where families can stock up on bulk items, try free samples and spend the better part of a weekend morning meandering through aisles filled with 26-packs of canned salmon and king-size mattresses. But as more of Americans’ buying shifts online, some retail analysts say warehouse clubs may largely be left behind.

“The core club customer is older: It’s generally someone with a family and a house,” said Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst at the research firm Forrester.

“Costco has been one of the least digitally forward companies out there.”

There are signs that the sector is falling behind: Warehouse clubs and supercenters cut an average of 2,500 jobs each month in 2017, reversing a longtime trend of steady growth, according to a Post analysis of Labor

At wholesale clubs like Costco and Sam’s Club, baby boomers and seniors make up the majority of members.

Department data. Between 2009 and 2016, warehouse stores had added an average of 3,000 workers each month.

The sector received more bad news this month, when Walmart a n nounced it would close 63 Sam’s Club stores, affecting an estimated 10,000 workers.

“Today’s adults are not spending a lot of time shopping like my parents’ generation did,” said Kim Whitler, a marketing professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. “Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z, they’re all time-starved and want to order groceries while they’re riding a bus to work.”

Chieh Huang founded Boxed in 2013 with a simple idea: Deliver bulk goods to shoppers who don’t live near a wholesale club or have a car to get to one.

What he quickly found, though, was a different sort of demand.

“We actually found a bigger problem to solve, which is that folks didn’t have the time or

New efforts by clubs Wholesale stores have made some efforts to appeal to younger, timestrapped shoppers. Sam’s Club offers in-store pickup for online orders and the option to pay for items using an app. Costco, meanwhile, has added more organic produce and meat and has an expansive wine selection. It is also rolling out grocery delivery services that will bring fresh produce, packaged goods and other items to customers’ doorsteps. (TWP)

patience to go,” even if they lived near a Costco or Sam’s Club, Huang said recently at the National Retail Federation’s annual conference in New York.

More than 60 percent of Boxed shoppers are ages 25 to 44, he said. At traditional wholesale clubs, the demographic skews the other way, with baby boomers and seniors making up the majority of members.

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Mayfield madness: QB shouldn’t be top priority in D.C. quarter Sunday, but the Patriots’ defense sealed the victory.

The Redskins need to revamp a defense that has been miserable in recent years — they ranked 27th in average points allowed last year. Rather than focusing on a quarterback right away, the Redskins need to use their first-round pick on a nose tackle who can play alongside last year’s top selection, defensive end Jonathan Allen.

That player should be Washington tackle Vita Vea, who is 6 feet 5, weighs 340 pounds and can collapse the pocket from the middle. By occupying multiple blockers, Vea can set up single matchups for Allen and Matt Ioannidis. The defensive front needs to better contain opponents in the middle to keep guards and centers from reaching inside linebackers.

The Redskins have signed playmakers in the past two years in cornerback Josh Norman, safety D.J. Swearinger and linebacker Zach Brown.

But the defense suffered after Allen’s season-ending foot

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Redskins fans are already abuzz over Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield. Kirk Cousins hasn’t been allowed to enter free agency yet — and he might even stay — but fans are already talking about his replacement.

Unless Cousins signs a longterm deal before the draft, the Redskins will be quarterback shopping. But taking Mayfield with the 13th overall pick in April would be a mistake.

New England and Philadelphia just showed us that Super Bowl teams are built with equal parts smothering defense and quarterback play. Nick Foles, who was brought back to Philadelphia as a backup, had the game of his life with 352 yards and three touchdowns in the NFC championship, but a defensive touchdown was the catalyst for Philadelphia’s blowout win.

Tom Brady, who was a sixthround pick back in 2000, threw two TD passes in the fourth

Big triple threats

Redskins fans may view quarterback Baker Mayfield, top, as the successor to Kirk Cousins, but nose tackle Vita Vea, above, may be a safer draft pick.

injury in the fifth game. Put Vea in the middle, and suddenly Washington’s defense looks a lot stronger.

Mayfield would surely sell jerseys and tickets and maybe even turn dormant days at training camp into daily pep rallies. But he’s still a project.

Mayfield’s footwork could be better. His throwing motion could be more compact. Those flaws can be polished up in a season or two, but Mayfield may need two or three years to fully develop. Washington would be closer to contending right away if it continues to

invest in the defensive line.

The defense should improve regardless, but Vea could make an immediate impact.

The Redskins must decide if they want to re-sign Brown, but they should get Allen, safety Montae Nicholson and linebackers Mason Foster and Trent Murphy back from injuries.

Simply put, Vea would help the defense more than Mayfield could improve the offense.

Rick Snider has covered sports in Washington since 1978. Follow him on Twitter @Snide_Remarks

3 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9 traditional triple-doubles

The NBA’s all-time leading scorer played 20 seasons but posted all of his traditional triple-doubles between 1973 and 1976.

2 Russell, Adams (tied) 12 traditional triple-doubles

Boston legend Bill Russell had at least 23 rebounds in eleven of these games.

Phoenix’s Alvan Adams had five such games during the 1975-76 season, when he was rookie of the year.

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Left-handed reliever Bryan Harper,left, the older brother of star right fielder Bryce, has been invited to Washington’s spring training for the first time in his career, according to people familiar with the situation. Bryan, 28, was re-signed to a minor league deal this offseason. He pitched to a 2.95 ERA in 20 games with Class AAA Syracuse in 2016 before tearing an ulnar collateral ligament. Bryce enters the final year of his contract this season. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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DeMarcus Cousins, above, had 44 points, 24 rebounds and 10 assists on Monday for the Pelicans. His eight traditional tripledoubles (no blocks) are tied for fourth-most among centers. These are the leaders. (EXPRESS)

Blue Jays sign OF Curtis Granderson for 1 year, $5M

69 traditional triple-doubles

Playing for the 76ers against his future team, the Lakers, Chamberlain scored 53 points with 32 rebounds and 14 assists on March 18, 1968.

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Guard joins John Wall as a reserve, will shoot in the 3-point contest WIZARDS Bradley Beal’s career season has reached another peak.

The Wizards’ shooting guard learned Tuesday afternoon that he has been selected as a first-time All-Star by Eastern Conference head coaches. Beal, who shoots 36.8 percent from the arc, will also compete in the 3-point contest Feb. 17, the night before the All-Star Game in Los Angeles.

In his sixth season, Beal has rewritten his reputation as an injury-plagued player by appearing in all 47 games. He leads Washington (26-21) in scoring with a 23.6 points per game.

When point guard John Wall missed 11 games, Beal filled the alpha role in the offense. Although he initially struggled to set up teammates while creating shots for himself, Beal broke out in a major way on Dec. 5.

One day after a 47-point loss at Utah, Beal led a rebound win with a career-high 51 points against the Trail Blazers.

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Beal named to first All-Star team

Bradley Beal leads the Wizards with 23.6 points per game and broke out with 51 points on Dec. 5.

Wall was also selected as an All-Star after averaging 19.3 points and 9.2 assists in 36 games. It’s the fifth straight season he has drawn the honor.

According to the Wizards, this marks the first time since 2008 (Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison) that the team has two All-Stars.

The reserves from the East include guards Kyle Lowry (Toronto) and Victor Oladipo (Indiana) and forwards Kristaps Porzingis (New York), Kevin Love (Cleveland) and Al Horford (Boston).

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Too many people getting injured.”

RAFAEL NADAL, who quit during

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Nadal’s opponent Marin Cilic faces Kyle Edmund in the semis.

West All-Star reserves: Westbrook (OKC); Lillard (POR); Green, Thompson (GS); Butler, Towns (MIN); Aldridge (SA)

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REAL ESTATE When Arlington resident Jesse Shapiro wanted to invest in real estate, he knew right away that he didn’t want to buy a place in the Washington area.

“Housing costs in this region are prohibitive, and I didn’t want to risk buying something that’s 10 times the median price of a home in other parts of the country,” Shapiro says. So he and his wife purchased a single-family house in a suburb of Raleigh, N.C., in January.

The decision to buy locally or long-distance is one of many to make if you want to join the world of real estate investing.

“If you want to invest in real estate, you need to know your strategy,” says Rick Sharga, chief marketing officer of Ten-X, an online real estate marketplace based in Irvine, Calif. “If you plan to become a landlord, then price is less of an issue. In that case, cash flow is most important, and you

want to buy something that will be ready to rent quickly and for more than your costs.”

Invest locally or long-distance Sometimes buying property close to home isn’t a good investment, says Greg Rand, chief executive of OwnAmerica, a Charlotte, N.C.based brokerage for investors of single-family rental homes.

“If the property prices are too high or the rent isn’t high enough, you can’t get a good return,” Rand says.

It’s essential to understand the characteristics of any market before you invest, such as the trends for job growth and population growth, Rand says.

“Historically, 70 percent of people buy an investment property within an hour of their home,” says Gary Beasley, chief executive of Roofstock, an online real estate investment platform.

“That’s fine if you live in a market with good rental demand,

and there’s no danger of a recession. But it makes more sense to diversify with an investment in another market, just in case job growth declines and rental demand drops at some point.”

Dave Hawkins, managing broker of McEnearney Associates in Alexandria, purchased two townhouses as an investment when he was in his 30s to pay for college tuition for his children.

“We bought places where we could drive, so I could handle the property management,” Hawkins says. “It’s important to talk to a realtor who can give you advice about the neighborhood and what could impact it, such as

“If you want to invest in real estate, you need to know your strategy.”

RICK SHARGA, chief marketing officer of Ten-X, explaining that potential landlords must know what they want out of an investment before they make a purchase

businesses moving in or out and plans for public transportation.”

Crunching the numbers Beasley says the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.

(Freddie Mac) guidelines require a 20 percent down payment for an investment loan. Typically, the interest rate is slightly higher on investment loans.

Rand says investors must do a cost-benefit analysis, starting with an estimate of the annual rent, minus 5 percent for anticipated vacancies. Then subtract all expenses, such as taxes, insurance, homeowners association dues, property management fees and maintenance costs — or about 10 percent of the gross rent — to generate your net operating income.

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then your return on your investment is 6 percent. If your property goes up in value, then your return on your investment is even higher.

Hawkins says that your financial evaluation should also include the property’s condition and an estimate of when you may need to replace appliances, heating or plumbing systems or the roof.

Property management If you’re a local landlord, you can manage your property yourself if you have the time and the skills to maintain it. However, you also then need to screen your own tenants and handle their rent payments.

“You need to have the right attitude to be a landlord,” Hawkins says. “It can be a hassle and inconvenient, so if you want to avoid that, you should hire a

property management company.”

Most long-distance investors need a property management company to handle tenant issues and maintenance. Typically, property management companies charge about 8 percent of the rent, Rand says.

Insuring your property Rental properties require a landlord insurance policy, which is typically a little costlier than a traditional homeowners insurance policy, says Laura Adams, a senior insurance analyst for insurancequotes.com in Austin.

“Insurance data shows that rental properties have more claims and higher dollar claims than primary residences,” Adams says.

A typical landlord policy covers physical damage to the property for a covered disaster, such as a fire or a hailstorm, along with personal property belonging to the owner, such as a lawn

Potential expenses to consider when investing It’s tempting to do a quick estimate of how much it costs to buy a property and how much you can charge for rent. But here are other expenses to include in your calculation: Financing costs including a down payment, closing costs, and mortgage principal and interest

Homeowners association dues

Landlord insurance

Periods of vacancies

Property taxes

Ongoing maintenance

Legal and tax issues

Repairs Property management fees

Avoid these landlord traps Although real estate investing can be profitable, there are a few main pitfalls potential investors and landlords should avoid. M.L. Being over-leveraged: If your mortgage is too high and the rent barely covers your expenses, you could lose money if your tenant doesn’t pay one month. Greg Rand of OwnAmerica recommends keeping 10 percent of the gross annual rent in a separate account for maintenance and reserves.

“Don’t spend your last dollar on a real estate investment,” he says.

Frequent vacancies: Turnover is the fastest way to fail, Rand says.

Landlords need to screen their tenants to make sure they have the means to pay the rent and good credit. “One of the biggest risks is in the length of time your rental stays vacant,” Ten-X’s Rick Sharga says.

Chasing too-high returns: Rand says you should expect returns in the midsingle digits. “This is a get-rich-slowly proposition,” he says. “Buy a quality home in an area with good schools where people will stay longer.”

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Landlords can require tenants to buy renters insurance to cover the tenant’s personal property and to provide their own liability protection.

Whether you are investing in property long-distance or locally, it’s important to make sure you are complying with local laws and with the rules of a homeowners association.

In the Washington area, Virginia is considered to have more landlord-friendly laws, whereas the District and Maryland have more tenant-friendly laws. For example, Hawkins points out that all tenants in the District have the first right of refusal if you want to sell your property, which could delay a sale.

“Your safest bet is to talk to a local real estate attorney,” Sh a rga says. MI CHELE LER NER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Oscars’ turning point?

Academy Award nominees present an industry on the cusp of a transformation FILM Every crop of Oscar nominees tells a story. This year, the films selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate at its 90th Academy Awards ceremony March 4 reflect an industry and art form in the midst of change, even while clinging to their most hidebound tastes.

In many ways, the nine bestpicture nominees demonstrate the divide: The list includes such conventional Oscar-bait dramas as “Darkest Hour” and “The Post” (the latter produced and directed

by Steven Spielberg, Hollywood’s reigning master of traditional entertainment values). But it

also includes edgier fare with “Get Out” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” both of which engage, with wildly differing degrees of authenticity, issues of white supremacy, liberal hypocrisy and our current climate of anxiety and rage.

Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” earned the most nominations — 13 in all — which feels appropriate for the moment: An affectionate homage to the B-movies and creature features of 1950s Hollywood, del Toro’s visionary love story between a mute cleaning woman and Amazonian fish-man is also an allegory for inclusion, tolerance and civility.

In a telling instance of symmetry, “Get Out’s” Jordan Peele and “Lady Bird’s” Greta Gerwig became the fifth person of color and fifth woman, respectively, to be nominated for best director; meanwhile, erstwhile shoo-in Spielberg came away empty-handed.

Although Dee Rees was overlooked for her direction of “Mudbound,” and it didn’t make the cut for best picture, the World War II-era drama earned four nods, including for supporting actress Mary J. Blige, who became the first actor in a Netflix film to be nominated for an Oscar. “Mudbound” also boasts another first: Cinematographer Rachel Morrison is the first woman ever to be nominated in that category.

In large part, the industry

seems sensitive to the criticisms sparked by #OscarsSoWhite and #TimesUp, but also mired in a you-can-have-one mindset: You can have Greta, but not Greta and Dee — or, heaven forfend, Greta and Dee and Patty. (As in Patty Jenkins, whose movie “Wonder Woman” didn’t earn any nominations.) Still, the fact that “Logan” became the first superhero film to receive an adapted screenplay nod, along with the love for the genre-bending “Get Out,” indicate that the academy’s push for younger, more diverse members is yielding open-minded results.

If this year’s Oscars tell a story, it’s one of ferment and inexorable forward movement, despite a pace that can be glacial one moment and warp-speed the next.

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TOP OSCAR NOMINEES BEST PICTURE “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” “The Post” “The Shape of Water” “Dunkirk” “Lady Bird” “Get Out” “Call Me by Your Name” “Phantom Thread” “Darkest Hour”

LEAD ACTRESS Frances McDormand “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Saoirse Ronan “Lady Bird” Sally Hawkins “The Shape of Water” Margot Robbie “I, Tonya” Meryl Streep “The Post”

LEAD ACTOR Gary Oldman “Darkest Hour” Timothee Chalamet “Call Me by Your Name” Daniel Day-Lewis “Phantom Thread” Daniel Kaluuya “Get Out” Denzel Washington “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS Allison Janney “I, Tonya” Laurie Metcalf “Lady Bird” Octavia Spencer “The Shape of Water” Mary J. Blige “Mudbound” Lesley Manville “Phantom Thread”

SUPPORTING ACTOR Sam Rockwell “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” Willem Dafoe “The Florida Project” Richard Jenkins “The Shape of Water” Christopher Plummer “All the Money in the World” Woody Harrelson “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”

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And the gramophone trophies will go to …

The Recording Academy is unpredictable. After Beyonce lost the Grammys’ top prize to Adele in 2017, the academy seems to have course-corrected with this year’s nominations: JAY-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars, Luis Fonsi and Childish Gambino dominate the top categories, where rap, R&B and Latin artists almost never win. But who will actually score when the awards are handed out Sunday?

Associated Press music writers Mesfin Fekadu and Nekesa Mumbi Moody have some predictions. (AP)

Album of the year “Awaken, My Love!,” Childish Gambino; “4:44,” JAY-Z; “DAMN.,” Kendrick Lamar; “Melodrama,” Lorde; “24K Magic,” Bruno Mars

Fekadu: With no rock or country nominees here, it makes you wonder where people from those genres will send their votes, and I think that’s to Lamar or Mars. Tom Coyne, the epic master engineer who died last year, worked on Mars’ album, giving him a boost. Plus, Mars plays multiple instruments [and] has written and produced all of his own songs as well as several hits for others, earning him appreciation from the music community at large.

I think with all of that support, along with JAY-Z and Lamar splitting some of the votes, Mars will be dripping in finesse with “24K Magic.”

Moody: This is definitely the “let’s correct that Adele win” batch of nominees, and Lamar would be a heavy favorite to win it all, making it the first true rap album to take the top trophy. But JAY-Z and Lamar

will likely split the rap vote, and while Childish Gambino and Lorde are critical favorites, they are also underdogs. Grammy voters will be charmed by an act with huge commercial appeal, an amazing live act, top-notch songwriting capabilities, a multi-instrumentalist — who hails from Hawaii. This is Mars’ for the taking.

Record of the year “Redbone,” Childish Gambino; “Despacito,” Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber; “The Story of O.J.,” JAY-Z; “HUMBLE.,” Kendrick Lamar; “24K Magic,” Bruno Mars

Moody: Even though “Despacito” was the biggest hit of the year compared with its competitors, Grammy voters often ignore the most popular for the “artistic” choice. Here that would seem to be Lamar’s “HUMBLE.,” but I think overall, the record and artist that moved voters most was probably Mars over everyone else.

Best new artist Alessia Cara, Khalid, Lil Uzi Vert, Julia Michaels, SZA

Moody: SZA is the most nominated woman of this year’s Grammys and had crossover success, but something tells me voters may have an easier time gelling with the PG-rated verses of some of her counterparts than her raw lyrics. And between Cara, Khalid and Michaels, I say Michaels has the edge, particularly because the “Issues” singer has written plenty of hits for others, and voters may want to reward her for that as well.

Fekadu: Alessia Cara — who some thought would be a best new artist nominee last year — had hits and success with her 2015 debut album and co-starred on more hits with Zedd and Logic last year (and even those songs are nominated for Grammys this year). Despite their success, the other nominees haven’t had the most outstanding debut years like past breakthrough acts have. So to voters, Cara is the one they’re most familiar with, and that’s why she’ll win.

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@DESIJED, sharing a screenshot of Dylan Farrow’s takedown of Justin Timberlake. On Tuesday morning, Timberlake asked Twitter to explain the phrase “have your cake and eat it too.” Farrow, who has long accused her adoptive father, Woody Allen, of molesting her when she was a child, went all in. She compared the phrase to how Timberlake wants to both support the #TimesUp movement and to work with alleged abusers. Timberlake starred in Woody Allen’s 2017 film “Wonder Wheel” alongside Kate Winslet and Juno Temple. Farrow was applauded on social media for dunking on Timberlake. “That was nice piping hot cup of morning tea,” @nikkinikxo tweeted.

@KAILEEDAVIS, tweeting about the aspect of the USA Olympic team’s outfit that has generated the most buzz — the fringe gloves. “WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOSE,” @bailsofhemp tweeted. Like the rest of the outfit, the gloves were designed by Ralph Lauren.

Twitter account @NativeApprops pointed out that, like much of Ralph Lauren’s fashion empire, these gloves appropriate aspects of Native American culture and design.

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“Change the title to ‘Area teens add benefits to friendship’ and you’ve got yourself an Onion article.” @JAMIETRE, making fun of a 1993 article that Bradley Cooper wrote for The Philadelphia Daily News about dating his friend when he was an intern there at age 18. Philadelphia Inquirer reporter @tommyrowan found the old article. “Can best friends who are of the opposite sex hook up with each other without destroying their friendship? In my case, yes ... so far,” Cooper wrote.

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According to Britain’s The Sun, singer Dua Lipa has broken up with her boyfriend of five months, musician Paul Klein, and reconnected with a previous partner, celebrity chef and model Isaac Carew. Lipa is best known for her 2017 pop song “New Rules,” in which she advises against reconnecting with ex-lovers. (EXPRESS)

In a series of Instagram posts this week, comedian Mo’Nique called for a boycott of Netflix over alleged wage discrimination. Mo’Nique said she was offered $500,000 from Netflix for a comedy special, and claimed Amy Schumer, Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock were offered millions for their specials. In another video on Monday, she stood in front of a wall of her awards with husband, Sidney Hicks, and addressed her bankability. They noted that while Schumer’s movie “Snatched” made $45 million on a $42 million budget, Mo’Nique’s 2016 movie “Almost Christmas” made about the same amount on a $17 million budget.

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Sophie Turner has asked her “Game of Thrones” co-star Maisie Williams to be a bridesmaid for her wedding to singer Joe Jonas. According to Us Weekly, Williams was asked during an interview with Britain’s Radio Times whether she was “bidding” for the bridesmaid gig. “I’ve already got it,” she said, adding that the wedding would likely take place after “Thrones” wraps its final season.

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Busy wins for best friend in a supportive role Busy Philipps on Monday documented her trip to visit her close friend, fellow actress Michelle Williams, on the 10th anniversary of the death of Heath Ledger, Williams’ former partner. On Instagram, Philipps shared photos of the view from a plane window, followed by a shot of Williams leaning on her shoulder with the words “It’s OK.” (EXPRESS)

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