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Rebutting Trump Democrats tap rising star Stacey Abrams for their SOTU response 13

Over. Not over it.

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Shutdown could have a lasting psychological impact on workers 10

Guaido targeted Prosecutor takes aim at Venezuela’s popular opposition leader 14

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LEVELING UP: French urban climber Alain Robert, popularly known as “Spiderman,” waves to crowds Tuesday as he climbs the 47-story GT Tower Building in the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila, Philippines.

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A park official is grateful for a “mystery person” who cleaned the bathrooms at Petroglyph National Monument during the federal government shutdown and stocked them with toilet paper.

Dennis Vasquez, the superintendent for the Albuquerque, N.M., monument, told KOB-TV on Monday that most visitors during the 35-day shutdown were respectful of it. Elsewhere, there were reports of federal sites being trashed. (AP)

A police dispatcher in Indiana knew what to do when a boy called 911 for homework help. Lafayette Police dispatcher Antonia Bundy answered the call from the boy, who said he had “a bad day at school” and “tons of homework.” Bundy learned he was having trouble with fractions. A recording of the call shows how she helped him solve the equation: three-fourths plus one-fourth. The boy thanked Bundy and apologized for calling 911. (AP)

A 19-year-old Arkansas man has pleaded guilty to trying to steal a commercial plane so he could fly to Chicago to attend a rap concert. The Texarkana Gazette reported Zemarcuis Scott was sentenced Thursday to five years’ probation. Scott was found July 4 in the cockpit of an American Eagle jet at Texarkana Regional Airport. He has no training as a pilot, but said he thought flying would involve little more than pushing buttons and pulling levers. (AP)

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A happy return to normal

Zoo employee Pamela Baker-Masson, left, gets a hug from Melanie Alnwick during the opening of the National Zoo after the government shutdown.

into their favorite exhibits. They “oohed” and “ahed” as the pandas swung down tree branches and munched on bamboo. Several took photos and videos as the animals clambered around.

“It’s great to be back and have our zoo open,” said Helen Gonzales, 72, of Columbia Heights, who visits about three times a week. “It’s been hard, not only because we don’t get to see the animals, but for us regulars, we don’t really get to see each other, either.”

“Mainly, I worry about our staff, who love what they do, and just wanted to get back to work.”

ZOO DIRECTOR STEVEN MONFORT,

saying he’s nervous about the prospect of another shutdown if President Trump and congressional Democrats can’t reach a compromise that allows for the passage of a longterm budget by Feb. 15

On the Mall, about 80 people were waiting in the cold outside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Nick Lautman, an actor from London, was first in line an hour before it opened, intent on visiting the Smithsonian’s newest museum. He’d arrived Jan. 22 for a vacation that he had booked before the shutdown began. When he learned that the shutdown would come to a close, he extended his trip until today.

“From the British perspective, it seems mad to shut down the government,” he said.

Stacy Tolar, 43, who was visiting D.C. from Louisiana with her family, said she’s been to several zoos where the elephants hardly seem to notice people are there.

But on Tuesday, as she walked up to the elephant enclosure at the National Zoo, the animals took notice right away. The elephants raised their heads and craned their necks to get a better look at their visitors. One ambled over as if to greet her.

“It’s a little weird seeing animals respond to us like that,” Tolar said. “I guess they do notice when people come around — and when they don’t.” MARISSA J. LANG AND PEGGY McGLONE (THE WASHINGTON POST)

LIFE FINDS A WAY

Closure can’t hold back Mother Nature Even during the shutdown, life must go on — and, indeed, it did. Several babies were born at the National Zoo, including a kiwi chick, three otter pups and a kudu calf. A baby golden lion tamarin was named Carolina after veterinarians confirmed she’s a girl. The naked mole rat queen appears to be pregnant again as her three pups continue to grow. Born last month, the pups (one is pictured) were the size of jelly beans when the shutdown began. Now they’re about the size of baby carrots, zookeepers said. (TWP) HEALTH AND WELLNESS STUDY Complete a one-time research survey!

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THE DISTRICT There was no line of people waiting to rush the gates at the National Zoo on Tuesday, the institution’s first day back open after a partial government shutdown left it shuttered for nearly four weeks.

But the regulars were back, and staff said the animals were happy to have them.

Though nearly 200 employees worked without pay throughout the shutdown, the animals seemed to miss their human visitors, said Brandie Smith, the zoo’s associate director of animal care. The unlocking of the zoo grounds and opening of Smithsonian museums kicked off a day that brought a return to normalcy after the longest government shutdown in history.

“You realize how much they appreciate having us there as entertainment,” Smith said. “We had zoo staff go by just to say ‘hi’ so they would have some attention from people.”

On Tuesday, animal lovers wandered through the gates and

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Smithsonian museums, National Zoo welcome visitors after shutdown

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TRANSPORTATION Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Tuesday that the state has signed an agreement with Transurban to extend the 495 Express Lanes to the American Legion Bridge, a project that will add nearly 3 miles to Virginia’s system of high-occupancy toll lanes and provide a critical link to the region’s growing toll network.

The state also is expanding the Interstate 95 toll lanes to Fredericksburg and adding a ramp and auxiliary lane in the Woodbridge area as part of new agreements with Transurban, Northam said. The Northern Virginia projects amount to more than $1 billion in investments in transportation over the next five years, the governor said.

“These four significant projects on I-495 and I-95 will reduce congestion, improve safety and will be catalysts for economic growth,” Northam said at a morning news conference. “My administration is committed to creating opportunity for Virginia families and businesses in every corner of the Commonwealth, and that requires having a safe, reliable transportation network.”

Northam said the deals come after months of negotiations with Transurban, which funds and operates the 95 and 495 Express

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Virginia announced Tuesday a $1 billion expansion to its D.C.-area toll lanes.

Lanes. The Australian company is also overseeing construction and operation of the 395 Express Lanes, converting an 8-mile stretch of I-395 high-occupancy vehicle lanes into toll lanes.

As part of the deal, Transurban will spend more than $550 million to complete the 2.5-mile extension of the 495 Express Lanes north to the American Legion Bridge, a project that officials say will reduce congestion in that stretch of the roadway known to be one of the biggest bottlenecks in the region, and help lessen cut-through traffic in nearby neighborhoods.

The highway widening will complete the last leg of a tolling system on Northern Virginia’s

portion of the Capital Beltway and connect to Maryland’s proposed toll lanes on its side of the Beltway, Interstate 270 and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.

Environmental studies are underway for some of the project, including the 495 extension design plans. Construction could begin as early as 2020, officials said.

The projects will deliver the next major milestone in the state’s vision to create a network of more than 90 miles of high-occupancy toll lanes in Northern Virginia by 2022. In the I-95/395 corridor alone, there will be 50 miles of toll lanes from the D.C. line to Fredericksburg.

LUZ LAZO (THE WASHINGTON POST)

A sinkhole in D.C. is impacting traffic in the city’s downtown area and complicated commutes for federal employees heading back to work Monday and Tuesday, WTOP-FM reported. It opened last week and caused massive traffic backups even before the partial government shutdown ended Friday.

The sinkhole at 17th and D streets NW closed roads and even slowed feeder routes from Virginia and other areas. D.C. Water said last week that falling concrete from the sinkhole damaged a sewer line, which now needs repair.

The repairs will take several days and are complicated by nearby power lines, which escaped harm. Work on the sinkhole will begin once the sewer line is fixed and power is restored to the nearby lines. (AP)

DRUG- AND ALCOHOL-RELATED ROAD DEATHS

The proportion of all traffic deaths in the D.C. region in 2017 where drugs or alcohol were cited as the leading cause. Of the region’s 271 roadway fatalities in 2017 — the most recent data available — 86 were related to drugs and/or alcohol, according to a new report by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the Washington Regional Alcohol Program. That number was up from 59 fatalities the previous year.

Arlington, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties saw their alcohol-impaired traffic fatalities double during that period. (TWP)

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A private school in Annapolis on Monday confirmed that several teachers sexually abused students from the 1970s through the early 1990s, and that the school failed to protect students.

The Key School released the report Monday after an investigation that began in April.

The school’s administration and board of trustees took steps after becoming aware of social media posts discussing inappropriate interactions between former faculty members and students in the 1970s. Other adults in the school community were aware of the abuse “and chose not to intervene,” the report concluded. (AP) RADFORD, VA.

Bobbitt lawyer to defend student in fatal stabbing The Virginia college student accused of stabbing her classmate has hired the attorney who defended Lorena Bobbitt at trial after she cut off her husband’s penis. Monday’s arraignment of Luisa Ines Tudela Harris Cutting, 21, was canceled after the court was notified that she will be represented by Blair Howard. Cutting is charged with second-degree murder in the Thursday death of her friend, Alexa Cannon, 20. Bobbitt was acquitted by reason of insanity in the 1993 attack on her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt. (AP) VIRGINIA

House approves $550M in Amazon incentives After nine minutes of debate, the Virginia House sent a bill providing more than a half-billion dollars in incentives for Amazon to Gov. Ralph Northam for his signature. The House voted 83-16 on Monday in favor of the measure, which would create $550 million in “postperformance” incentives for the technology giant, based on job creation. Northam has said he will sign the bill. (AP)

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Transit agency may face penalties if extended service is brought back TRANSPORTATION The Federal Transit Administration has warned Metro it could face financial hardship if the transit agency yields to pressure from the District and restores late-night service, saying doing so would risk safety by reducing time for maintenance.

In a letter sent earlier this month, the FTA said it may have to postpone certifying a new Metro safety oversight agency if late-night service is extended.

That would further delay the lifting of FTA sanctions that have held up millions in federal transportation funds to the District, Maryland and Virginia.

The FTA’s warning adds to pressure on Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans to drop their insistence on

KATHERINE FREY (THE WASHINGTON POST)

FTA warns Metro on late-night hours The FTA is pushing back against D.C.’s push to extend Metro’s night hours.

extending service hours, especially on weekends. The District says restoring late-night service is vital to support the city’s restaurants, clubs and other nightlife.

Critics contend the shorter

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hours also hurt late-night workers, many of whom are lowerincome residents who have few transportation options.

Bowser shows no signs of relenting. At a meeting Tuesday

with Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld and the D.C. Council, she urged Metro to come up with proposals that would both restore late-night service and leave adequate time for maintenance.

“I think we know when an agency doesn’t want to do something, they present the worst possible scenarios,” Bowser said. “So my challenge with Metro is to go back and do some more work.”

Bowser said Metro should be more responsive after the city supported last year’s historic agreement with Virginia and Maryland to provide the agency with an additional $500 million a year in dedicated funding for its capital needs. ROBERT McCARTNEY (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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local City’s top attorney says she won’t prosecute regardless of quantity BALTIMORE The state’s attorney in Baltimore will no longer prosecute any marijuana possession cases, regardless of the quantity of the drug or an individual’s prior criminal record, authorities said Tuesday.

Marilyn Mosby, the city’s top prosecutor, said pot possession cases have no public safety value, erode public trust in law enforcement, and intensify existing

racial disparities in the criminal justice system since arrests disproportionately occur in communities of color.

Mosby’s office will still go after dealers and traffickers by prosecuting marijuana distribution cases. But officials said the money and energy prosecuting any type of simple possession case could now be redirected to address more significant crimes in a U.S. city grappling with chronically high violent crime rates and no shortage of dangerous drug syndicates.

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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby says her office will no longer prosecute pot possession cases.

First public hearing on nomination of Lewis D. Ferebee as D.C. schools chancellor scheduled for today

that spending resources to jail people for marijuana use is a smart way to use our limited time and money,” she said.

Meanwhile, her office will seek to vacate some 5,000 marijuana possession convictions stretching back to 2011. She described jailing people for marijuana possession as a “vast and ongoing moral failure.”

When asked what she would do if police presented her with a pot possession arrest in coming days, Mosby didn’t mince words: “We will release them without charges.” DAVID McFADDEN (AP)

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Ex-officer pleads guilty to child sex trafficking A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he paid two teenage girls for sex while he was employed as a police officer in D.C. Court records show Chukwuemeka Ekwonna, 29, pleaded guilty in Baltimore on Tuesday to two counts of sex trafficking of a minor. The former officer faces a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of 20 years in prison under his plea agreement with prosecutors. Ekwonna exchanged more than 250 texts and social media messages with two girls, ages 14 and 15, and paid both for sex. (AP)

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Shutdown’s toll: Feds lose ‘more than just money’ to believe anything but that it has and will continue to have a substantial impact on morale for a lengthy period of time,” said Max Stier, president and chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service. “And we’re not done yet.”

Baranik was the lead researcher for a study published last year in the Journal of Career Development based on 850 surveys following the 16-day shutdown in 2013, less than half the length of the most recent one. The research found that the forced work stoppage resulted in “decreased life satisfaction and increased work-family conflict and physical, cognitive, and emotional burnout 5 weeks after the shutdown ended.”

For Steve Reaves, a Federal Emergency Management Agency safety official in Fort Worth, Texas, the stress from the shutdown reminded him of combat.

“Me and the family argued more; I was moody and short tempered. Luckily for me, I am a retired soldier and they have dealt with that level of work anxiousness before. It was real similar to my combat deployments,” Reaves said.

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No guarantee of back pay for janitors, cooks

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There’s been lots of talk about the back pay due to the 800,000 federal employees locked out of work by the partial government shutdown and the fact that many federal contractors won’t see any pay at all.

But there hasn’t been much talk about the emotional and psychological problems generated by the 35-day shutdown.

“Employees lose more than just money during a furlough,” Lisa Baranik, a University of Albany researcher and psychologist, said as employees went back to work on Monday.

“In addition to financial losses, furloughed employees lose supportive work relationships, feelings of success and a sense of control. So even after employees have been given back pay, negative reactions to the furlough can continue. Once trust is violated, it is difficult to gain it back.”

While agencies have reopened, shutdown stress continues, exacerbated by President Trump’s threat to close agencies again if he doesn’t get his wall funding.

“This disruption is profound, and I don’t think it’s possible

Activists welcome Environmental Protection Agency employees back to work Monday outside the Federal Triangle Metro station in the District.

32-year Internal Revenue Service employee who acknowledged crying and no longer feeling valued because of shutdown stress, said he went to a therapist this week.

“I’ve lost the dignity of public service,” he said. “I’ve lost the honor.”

According to the research, shutdowns weaken personal resources — the individual characteristics that help people deal with stress. “Feelings of hope and optimism ... are harder to restore since employees may have lingering negative feelings and thoughts about being furloughed well

after the furlough has ended,” the article said.

What can employees do?

David Ballard, of the American Psychological Association, said: “Despite the challenges, recharging requires carving out some time when they’re not working, or even thinking about work, actively doing things to relax and unwind, keeping up with hobbies or non-work interests, getting enough good-quality sleep and maintaining supportive interpersonal relationships.”

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“I’d be open to anything that we could agree on … that would make them pretty hard to occur again.”

SENATE MAJORITY LEADER MITCH M CCONNELL, R-Ky., telling reporters that he hopes shutdowns can be

avoided in the future and that he would consider a bipartisan plan to prevent them from occurring

ECONOMY Unlike the 800,000 career public servants who are slated to receive full back pay over the next week or so, the contractors who clean, guard, cook and shoulder other jobs at federal workplaces aren’t legally guaranteed a single penny.

They’re also among the lowest-paid laborers in the government economy, generally earning between $450 and $650 weekly, union leaders say.

After the 16-day shutdown in 2013, approximately 850,000 federal workers collected compensation. About 1,200 cleaners, security guards and food-service workers in the Washington area, however, received no makeup pay.

A group of Democratic senators introduced a bill last month that would change that by repaying contractors up to $965 per week with public money and restoring sick days used during the shutdown. But it’s unclear whether it will advance.

Julia Quintanilla, 55, who has worked for the past 27 years as a janitor at federal agencies, said she lost about $1,000 in savings during the shutdown.

To keep some income flowing, Quintanilla, above, said she cashed in the last of her sick days. Now she’s worried she won’t be able to care for her mother, who has dementia, without risking her job security.

“Her mental abilities are failing,” she said. “She needs my help.” DANIELLE PAQUETTE (TWP)

Maryland lawmakers pursue legislation that would allow federal employees who must work during a government shutdown without pay to collect unemployment insurance

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Intel chiefs say Russia, China a growing threat

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WASHINGTON China and Russia are competing more intensely with the United States in “a race for technological and military superiority,” the nation’s top intelligence official told a Senate panel Tuesday during a hearing that underscored the distance between the U.S. intelligence community and President Trump on several critical fronts.

The two U.S. adversaries “are more aligned than at any point since the mid-1950s,” Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said in his prepared remarks before the Senate Intelligence Committee, seemingly invoking the Cold War of the 20th century to warn lawmakers about the strategic risk posed by China and Russia.

CIA Director Gina Haspel, FBI Director Christopher Wray and other top officials joined Coats in a discussion that covered an array of national security challenges, including cyberattacks that will aim to disrupt the 2020 presidential election and the continued threat posed by the Islamic State and other terrorist groups.

Coats said that North Korea was “unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities,” which the

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Panel briefing shows divide between Trump, advisers on key issues

From left, FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA chief Gina Haspel and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testify to a Senate panel Tuesday.

Differing views Intel officials on Tuesday made several other assessments at odds with those of President Trump. (TWP) Iran: Officials said Tehran is not trying to build a nuclear weapon, despite the Trump administration’s claims that Iran has been violating an international nuclear agreement.

Russia: Officials warned of Russia’s intention to interfere in U.S. politics via “information warfare” waged largely on social media. Trump continues to equivocate on whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election on his behalf.

country’s leaders consider “critical to the regime’s survival.”

That assessment threw cold water on the White House’s more

optimistic view that the U.S. and North Korea will achieve a lasting peace and that the regime will give up its nuclear weapons.

It was not the first time that U.S. intelligence has determined North Korea is not on the path to surrendering its weapons.

The assessment on North Korea drew extra attention coming ahead of a planned summit meeting next month between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Their summit last year ended with a vague agreement.

Last week, Coats emphasized in a strategy document that U.S. spy agencies were turning their focus away from fighting global terrorist networks toward countering Russia and other adversaries seen as geopolitical threats.

Apple is scrambling to fix a major FaceTime privacy glitch that allows users to hear, and in some cases see, the person they’re calling — even if they don’t pick up. Apple disabled its Group FaceTime feature in iPhones after multiple reports that users could initiate a FaceTime call and begin listening in on a recipient’s audio without them picking up the call or knowing they were being listened to.

Bloomberg News reported that video of a caller could be secretly transmitted as well if the recipient pressed the power button or the volume controls on their device. Users can disable FaceTime by tapping settings, scrolling down to the FaceTime app and toggling it off. (AP)

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EL CHAPO’S DEFENSE RESTS

The number of minutes that the defense took to make its case in the U.S. trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Tuesday, after a prosecution that spanned 11 weeks and had its share of bombshells.

Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman called one witness and entered one document into evidence before resting the defense’s case. The jury was sent home for the day, with closing arguments set to begin today. Guzman could face life in prison if convicted of drug and murder conspiracy charges that his lawyers say are fabricated. (AP) Former landscaper pleads guilty to 8 murders of men he met in Toronto’s Gay Village district

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Panel delays confirmation vote for Barr A planned Senate Judiciary Committee vote on William Barr’s nomination to serve as attorney general on Tuesday was delayed for a week, as Democrats continue to raise concerns about whether Barr would allow special counsel Robert Mueller to finish his probe and publicize the results unimpeded.

The delay, which is customary for high-profile nominations, is not expected to impede Barr’s chances of being confirmed by the full Senate. But it is the latest reflection of the deep partisan tension surrounding Barr’s nomination, most of which centers on Democrats’ desire to protect Mueller’s probe from being unduly constrained.

Barr has repeatedly refused to give senators any firm guarantee that he will release Mueller’s report free of redactions. In similar fashion, he has only promised to ask for, but not necessarily heed, the advice of the Justice Department’s ethics counsel on the matter of whether he should recuse himself from oversight of the probe. That has frustrated Democrats, and his written answers have sparked bipartisan concerns, as well.

But Barr doesn’t need any Democratic support to be confirmed. Only a simple majority of senators’ votes is needed to confirm a Cabinet nominee. KAROUN DEMIRJIAN

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A polar vortex invasion Scientists: Arctic blasts — like the one chilling the U.S. — are becoming more common Extreme cold slams swath of Midwest Arctic air dropped temperatures in the Dakotas and Minnesota to as low as minus 27 degrees on Tuesday, with forecasters warning that the frigid weather in the Midwest will get worse and could be life-threatening. One forecaster told CNN that more than 83 million Americans — about 25 percent of the U.S. population — will suffer subzero temperatures sometime between today and Monday.

The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where student Daniel Dylla is shown during a morning jog, is one of several large universities that are closed into Thursday. (AP/EXPRESS)

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with added wind chill, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director of Weather Underground.

When warm air invades the polar region, it can split the vortex or displace it, usually toward Siberia, Cohen said. Recently, there have been more splits, which increase the odds of other places getting ultra-cold, he said. Pieces of the polar vortex have chilled Europe, Siberia and North America this time. (It’s not right to call the frigid center of cold air the polar vortex because it is just a piece or a lobe, not the entire vortex, said University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Jason Furtado.)

When the forces penning the polar vortex in the Arctic are weak, it wanders, more often to Siberia than Michigan. And has happened more frequently in the last couple decades, Furtado said.

When the polar vortex pieces wander, warmth invades the Arctic, Alaska, Greenland and Canada, Masters said. While

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the Midwest chills, Australia has been broiling to recordbreaking heat. The world as a whole on Monday was 0.7 degrees warmer than the 1979-2000 average, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer.

Some scientists — but by no means most — see a connection between human-caused climate change and difference in atmospheric pressure that causes slower-moving waves in the air.

“It’s a complicated story that involves a hefty dose of chaos and an interplay among multiple influences, so extracting a clear signal of the Arctic’s role is challenging,” said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center.

Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini said there’s “a growing body of literature” to support the climate connection. But he said more evidence is needed.

POLITICS Stacey Abrams, the rising political star who marshaled the power of black women voters but narrowly lost the Georgia governor’s race, will give the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union address, congressional Democrats said Tuesday.

The choice elevates Abrams in Democratic politics ahead of the 2020 elections and sets up an implicit contrast with Trump, who has a history of questioning the intellect and integrity of politicians of color.

“She is just a great spokesperson. She is an incredible leader. She has led the charge for voting rights, which is at the root of just about everything else,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is urging Abrams to challenge Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue, an outspoken Trump ally on Capitol Hill.

Abrams said in a statement that she intends to “deliver a vision for prosperity and equality, where everyone in our nation has a voice and where each of those voices is heard.”

Abrams narrowly lost the governor’s race to Republican Brian Kemp after a protracted challenge over blocked votes. A group backed by Abrams filed a federal lawsuit this month saying Georgia deprived many lowincome people and minorities of their voting rights with Kemp, then secretary of state, overseeing the 2018 election.

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WEATHER It might seem counterintuitive, but the dreaded polar vortex is bringing its icy grip to parts of the U.S. thanks to a sudden blast of warm air in the Arctic.

Get used to it. The polar vortex has been wandering more often in recent years.

It all started with misplaced Moroccan heat. Last month, the normally super chilly air temperatures 20 miles above the North Pole rapidly rose by about 125 degrees, thanks to air flowing in from the south. It’s called “sudden stratospheric warming.”

That warmth split the polar vortex, leaving the pieces to wander, said Judah Cohen, a winter storm expert for Atmospheric Environmental Research.

“Where the polar vortex goes, so goes the cold air,” Cohen said.

By this morning, one of those pieces will be over the Lower 48 states for the first time in years.

The forecast calls for a low of minus 21 degrees in Chicago and wind chills flirting with minus 65 degrees in parts of Minnesota, according to the National Weather Service. The unusual cold could stick around another eight weeks, Cohen said.

“The impacts from this split, we have a ways to go. It’s not the end of the movie yet,” Cohen said. “I think at a minimum, we’re looking at mid-February, possibly through mid-March.”

Americans were introduced to the polar vortex five years ago. It was in early January 2014 when temperatures dropped to minus 16 degrees in Chicago and meteorologists, who have used the term for decades, started talking about it on social media.

This outbreak may snap some daily records for cold and is likely to be even more brutal than five years ago, especially

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Venezuela targets Guaido

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CARACAS, VENEZUELA Venezuela’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday asked the country’s top court to ban opposition leader Juan Guaido from leaving the country, launching a criminal probe into his anti-government activities while international pressure builds against President Nicolas Maduro.

Attorney General Tarek William Saab made his request to the government-stacked Supreme Court, and also asked it to block Guaido’s financial accounts.

Saab didn’t specify what crimes Guaido is being investigated for, but said the probe is tied to unrest sparked by his decision to declare himself interim president last week in a direct challenge to Maduro’s authority.

Guaido — the congressional leader who has declared himself interim president — said outside the National Assembly building that he’s aware of personal risks.

But he added, “Venezuela is set on change, and the world is clearly conscious of what’s happening.”

While rights monitors say hundreds of demonstrators have

Venezuela has opened a criminal probe into Juan Guaido, who has declared himself the country’s interim president.

been arrested in recent days, Guaido has so far avoided arrest, while making occasional brief public appearances. U.S. national security adviser John Bolton has warned that any harm to Guaido or the National Assembly he presides over would be considered a “grave assault” and be met with a “significant response,” without specifying.

The case against Guaido comes as international pressure mounts against Maduro’s government from the United States, which earlier Tuesday handed control over Venezuela’s U.S. bank accounts to Guaido.

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The Defense Department has not received orders to send troops to Colombia amid escalating tensions with Venezuela, Pentagon officials said, after national security adviser John Bolton was photographed Monday holding a yellow notepad with the words “5,000 troops to Colombia” written on it. (TWP)

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo certified that Guaido has authority to take control of bank accounts that Venezuela’s government has in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or any other U.S.-insured banks.

On Monday, the U.S. hit Venezuela’s state-owned oil company with sanctions aimed at increasing pressure on Maduro to leave office. Maduro accuses the U.S. of leading an open coup to oust him and exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves, the largest in the world.

Guaido has been recognized as the nation’s rightful leader by two dozen nations that contend the re-election of socialist Maduro was a sham, in part because his strongest opponents were barred from running.

Violent street demonstrations erupted last week when Guaido, during a massive opposition rally in Caracas, declared that he had assumed presidential powers and planned to hold fresh elections, ending Maduro’s “dictatorship.”

Inside Venezuela, Maduro holds the reins of power, with the armed forces still loyal despite an opposition push to lure their support by proposing amnesty for anybody who supports Guaido’s transitional government.

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More than 130 migrants were thought to be missing after two boats capsized Tuesday off the tiny East African nation of Djibouti, the U.N. migration agency said. Local police had found five bodies and search efforts were underway, the U.N. statement said. Witnesses said the boats were overloaded and large waves caused them to tip over about a half-hour after departing. (AP)

A 73-year-old French sailor on Tuesday won an unusual aroundthe-world yacht race after 212 days alone at sea, navigating with a sextant and paper maps, and communicating only via shortwave radio. Jean-Luc Van Den Heede reached France, becoming the first to finish the 30,000-mile Golden Globe race. Of the 19 sailors who started out in July, five were still in the race Tuesday. (AP)

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U.K. Parliament backs changes to Brexit deal LONDON British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday won a few weeks to salvage a Brexit deal but was headed toward a clash with the European Union by promising to overhaul the divorce agreement she spent a year and a half negotiating.

Trying to break the U.K.’s Brexit deadlock, May got Parliament’s backing for a bid to rework an Irish border guarantee in the withdrawal deal — a provision May and the EU both approved, and which the bloc insists cannot be changed.

“It is now clear that there is a route that can secure a substantial and sustainable majority in this House for leaving the EU with a deal,” she said, promising to “obtain legally binding changes.”

The EU immediately ruled that out, insisting that the current deal with the U.K. remained the “best and only way” to achieve an orderly Brexit. French President Emmanuel Macron said the agreement “is the best accord possible. It is not renegotiable.” Guy Verhofstadt, the top Brexit official at the European Parliament, said there was “no majority to reopen or dilute” the deal.

It was the latest chapter in a Brexit process that has grown increasingly surreal since Parliament rejected May’s divorce deal two weeks ago, leaving Britain lurching toward a no-deal departure from the bloc on March 29. JILL LAWLESS (AP)

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Feud with Beijing deepens U.S. criminally charges Chinese telecom giant, complicating trade war BEIJING U.S. criminal charges against Chinese electronics giant Huawei have sparked a fresh round of trans-Pacific recriminations, with Beijing demanding Tuesday that Washington back off what it called an “unreasonable crackdown” on the maker of smartphones and telecom gear.

China’s Foreign Ministry said it would defend the “lawful rights and interests of Chinese companies,” but gave no details. Huawei is the No. 2 smartphone maker and an essential player in global communications networks.

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A day earlier, U.S. prosecutors charged Huawei and several of its officials for allegedly stealing technology secrets and violating Iran sanctions. That followed the detention in Canada of the Huawei founder’s daughter — a company official who was named in one of the indictments, and who is now awaiting possible extradition to the U.S. Huawei has denied wrongdoing.

All that has further complicated U.S.-China relations amid attempts to defuse a trade war instigated by President Trump and clashes over alleged Chinese theft of trade secrets and other intellectual property from U.S. firms. A new round of trade talks is planned for today in Washington.

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The U.S. has reportedly waged a campaign to discourage other nations from using Huawei telecommunications equipment, based on concerns that the gear might compromise national security. On Tuesday, Australia’s TPG Telecom said it abandoned plans to build what would have been the country’s fourth mobile network because of a government ban on Huawei over security concerns. (AP)

The nearly two dozen charges unsealed Monday by the Justice Department accuse Huawei of trying to spirit a robot arm and other technology out of a TMobile smartphone testing lab.

They also allege that Huawei, two subsidiaries and a top executive misled banks.

Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed Dec. 1 to put off further sanctions against each other’s exports while they negotiated a new trade pact. If they don’t reach a deal by March 1, U.S. tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese products are set to rise from 10 percent to 25 percent. That prospect has rattled markets for months.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders denied that the charges were part of a carrotand-stick approach to the trade talks. “Those two things are not linked,” she said. “They are a totally separate process.”

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An attempt to serve a search warrant at a suspected drug house turned into a gunbattle that killed two suspects and injured five undercover narcotics officers, including four who were shot, Houston’s police chief said. Chief Art Acevedo said the officers “immediately came under fire” upon entering the home Monday afternoon. The officers’ names are not being released because they work undercover. (AP) LAS VEGAS

The FBI said Tuesday it found no “single or clear motivating factor” to explain why Stephen Paddock fired on a crowd of country music fans on Oct. 1, 2017, from his Las Vegas hotel room, killing 58. The finding was included in a report by the FBI’s Behavior Analysis Unit, which spent months examining factors that may have led to the rampage. (AP)

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WASHINGTON | Roger Stone, a longtime adviser and confidant of President Trump, smiles and waves outside the Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington on Tuesday. Stone, 66, pleaded not guilty to felony charges in the Russia investigation alleging he lied to lawmakers and engaged in witness tampering. He made no public statements and departed the courthouse amid dueling chants of “Lock Him Up” and “We Love Roger.”

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CALIFORNIA Faced with potentially ruinous lawsuits over California’s recent wildfires, Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in a move that could lead to higher bills and reduce the size of any payouts to fire victims.

The Chapter 11 filing allows PG&E to continue operating while it puts its books in order.

But it was seen as a glimpse of the financial toll that could lie ahead for the industry because of climate change, which scientists say is leading to fiercer, more destructive blazes and longer fire seasons.

PG&E, which supplies natural gas and electricity to 16 million people in northern and central California, cited hundreds of lawsuits from victims of fires in 2017 and 2018 and tens of billions of dollars in potential liability when it announced earlier this month that it planned to file for bankruptcy.

The blazes include a deadly wildfire in November that killed at least 86 people and destroyed 15,000 homes in Paradise and surrounding communities. The cause is still under investigation, but suspicion fell on PG&E after it reported power line problems nearby around the time the fire broke out.

The lawsuits accuse PG&E of inadequate maintenance, including failing to shut off power when a fire risk is high.

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The New England Patriots and L.A. Rams each head into Sunday’s Super Bowl with an assistant coach who’s expected to be taking a job as head coach with another franchise next season. (TWP)

NFL Bob Slowik can remember the kid coming to his office to ask the sorts of questions that you normally didn’t hear from a coaching colleague in the NFL. “He’d come in and say, ‘Look at this play. What are they doing on defense?’ … There aren’t a lot of guys who are going to do that,” Slowik said. “Guys are afraid: ‘Someone is going to think I don’t know what I’m doing.’ He wasn’t that way.”

That inquisitive kid was a 24-year-old assistant tight ends coach, as close to entry level as it gets in the coaching business.

Little did Slowik or anyone else at Redskins Park know back then that Sean McVay would one day be coaching’s next big thing.

“He didn’t speak up as much,” former Redskins wide receiver Aldrick Robinson said. “So you couldn’t tell what a mastermind he was.”

McVay is a football lifer, the grandson of former 49ers front office executive John McVay. He was a high school quarterback good enough to be named

Georgia’s offensive player of the year, ahead of Calvin Johnson, and played wide receiver at Miami University in Ohio. He landed with Tampa Bay in 2008 as an assistant wide receivers coach for Jon Gruden.

Two years later, Mike Shanahan hired him to begin a Redskins tenure that included stints as an assistant tight ends coach, tight ends coach and, later, offensive coordinator under Shanahan’s successor, Jay Gruden.

“He wanted to learn,” Shanahan said. “He wanted to know how the whole offense fit together.

He wanted to know everything.”

Shanahan assembled a remarkably gifted young set of assistants on offense that included his son Kyle as offensive coordinator and Matt LaFleur as quarterbacks coach. Kyle Shanahan is now the head coach of the 49ers and LaFleur was just hired as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers.

“I knew these guys were young but I knew they were really sharp,” Mike Shanahan said.

McVay’s appetite for the work was clear. Mike Shanahan said

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Rams head coach Sean McVay was with the Redskins for seven seasons. He was an assistant tight ends coach in 2010, bottom left, tight ends coach from 2011 to 2013, bottom right, and offensive coordinator from 2014 to 2016.

if he showed up at 5 a.m. for an early workout, McVay was already there. But if there were head coaching ambitions back then, they weren’t stated.

“It’s not like we’d sit there and talk about it,” LaFleur said Tuesday. “It’s about plugging away and doing the best job you can at the job you’re in.”

There was no specific method for proving to players that they were qualified.

“It’s about being the best ball coach you can be,” LaFleur said. “[Players] know what’s real.”

“We were about the same age, and Chris Cooley was older than

him,” said former Redskins tight end Logan Paulsen. “But Sean showed his mastery of the offense. Sean had the answer to any question Chris could ask him.”

Those who worked with McVay during his Redskins days don’t claim to have known he would be this successful, this soon.

“As the pieces of his career began to fall into place, you could tell,” Paulsen said. “But as much talent as anyone has, you always need an opportunity.”

Slowik said: “If anyone says they knew … back then, they wouldn’t be telling the truth.”

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ROSTER TURNOVER

The proportion of turnover on the past seven Super Bowl-winning rosters from the title game to Week 1 of the following season, according to an AP analysis. That’s an average of 20.4 new players on each 53-man roster. New players also had 1.8 fewer years of experience than those they replaced, the analysis found. “Teams will try to find a younger, cheaper option,” said Seahawks offensive lineman Duane Brown. “If they’re not as productive but a little cheaper, they’re willing to sacrifice it.” (AP) Pelicans’ Anthony Davis fined $50K for trade demand

Redskins promote Kevin O’Connell to offensive coordinator

Brian Flores Pats defensive coordinator

The son of Honduran immigrants, Flores, 37, is expected to take the Miami Dolphins head coaching job. He’d be the only minority head coach hired in an offseason that saw five of the NFL’s eight nonwhite coaches dismissed. He has coached with the Patriots since 2008 and played linebacker in college.

Zac Taylor Rams offensive coordinator

The Cincinnati Bengals are expected to hire Taylor, 35, in an attempt to find their own version of Rams coach Sean McVay. Taylor, a former offensive coordinator for the Dolphins, played quarterback at Nebraska and is the son-in-law of former NFL coach Mike Sherman.

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Moreno keeps eye on Venezuela D.C. United midfielder holds out hope for change in his homeland MLS As Junior Moreno enters his second year as a starting defensive midfielder for D.C. United, he is also thinking about his countrymen in Venezuela.

Debilitated by meteoric inflation, food shortages and social unrest, the country is engulfed in a power struggle between the embattled president, Nicolas Maduro, and the self-declared interim president, Juan Guaido.

Moreno is not deeply political, but “what I can s ay a nd wh at I ca n support is, the country Moreno needs to change,” he said through an interpreter after Tuesday’s practice. “What has been happening lately gives me a good feeling of hope, that there will be changes for the better.”

Moreno, 25, said his extended family in San Cristobal, 500 miles southwest of Caracas, is fine. Since the holidays, his parents have been visiting relatives in Argentina — his

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soccer-coaching father was born there — and have yet to return.

Moreno said he is in regular communication with family, including brothers Carlos and Marcelo, who play professional soccer in Venezuela.

“People are scared, worried, nervous — all of those emotions,” he said. “But even more than that, there is hope that the situation will be resolved and the country can go back to the way it used to be. ... It’s pretty difficult to watch.”

D.C. United opens its season March 3 against Atlanta.

“Think about the runs we had — Jordan winning six [titles], us winning five.

We dominated a whole decade. The Warriors haven’t done that yet.”

MAGIC JOHNSON, who said Golden State is “in the discussion” of the greatest NBA teams of all time, but still has work to do.

The Warriors have been to the past four NBA Finals. Johnson’s Lakers went to nine.

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UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, above right, was fined $500,000 and suspended for nine months for an Oct. 6 brawl inside and outside the octagon after defeating Conor McGregor. McGregor, above left, was fined $50,000 and suspended for six months.

Nurmagomedov’s suspension can be reduced by three months if he participates in an anti-bullying public service announcement, according to a settlement approved Tuesday.

The suspensions for both fighters are retroactive to the fight date. (AP)

Texans QB Deshaun Watson is giving back to his mother by renovating the Gainesville, Ga., home in which he grew up. The family received a home from Habitat For Humanity when Watson was 11. His mother, a throat cancer survivor, still lives there. “She deserves it,” Watson said. “[But the] living room, kitchen and dining area, those areas need a little touch up. Everything she went through, this is really the smallest thing I can do for her.” Watson chronicled the makeover on the online show “My Houzz.” (AP)

It wasn’t easy to get New England tight end Rob Gronkowski to talk seriously Monday about his future.

“You’re just trying to get some answers over here, baby, but like I said I don’t know,” he said. “About two weeks after [the season], then I’ll know.” Gronkowski will turn 30 in May, has had a number of surgeries, and had 400 fewer receiving yards this season than last. But when a reporter dared start a question, “as your career is winding down …,” Gronkowski interjected, “It is?

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A million reasons: Gaga, Vegas are a perfect match It’s Saturday night here in Las Vegas, and Lady Gaga is doing that cataleptic-invictory thing — an applausebathing pose in which the singer sponges up the hot rumble of 10,000 clapping hands while her cold eyes shoot death beams into the middle distance.

Who’s she staring at? For starters: Elvis Presley, Wayne Newton, Cher, Celine Dion, Barry Manilow, Lola Falana, Tom Jones, Charo and the entire Rat Pack. The only way for Gaga to honor them is to waste them all.

So it goes when you’re trying to reclaim your spot as the biggest entertainer drawing breath. At 32, she’s just a kid out here, but Gaga knows how to be more famous in more ways than anyone in the lot.

Despite her radical posture, she remains pop’s ace student, a virtuoso competitor and a relentless pleaser who spent the first decade of her career seeking head pats from the music industry, high fashion, the art world, Hollywood, Bud Light, Netflix, Tony Bennett and the NFL. Now she’s planting her flag in the Nevada dirt with two separate concert residencies: a future-kitsch pop show called “Enigma,” performed in

sci-fi riot gear, and a standards revue called “Jazz and Piano,” sung in ballgowns made from pulverized starlight.

Maybe you came here to play, but Gaga did not. Instead of treating Las Vegas as a retirement bunker where fading talents go to half-sing to the least skeptical audiences on the planet, she’s out here at the peak of her stardom, hitting all the big notes with every atom of her being. For a controlfreaky overachiever, it must feel something like paradise.

Whether she’s singing bighearted affirmations or petty nya-nyas, she’s almost always out in front of the beat — and it’s the whatnextwhatnextwhatnext restlessness of her vocal phrasing that makes the songs go zoom. It’s hard to imagine it sounding any better than it does in Las Vegas, where anxious anticipation charges every cubic inch of communal airspace, where all those glittery games of chance echo the repetitive tension and release that we crave in pop songs.

As for the bigger anxieties

currently coursing through our republic, Gaga speaks to them slowly, loudly, clearly.

She chastens President Trump for his government shutdown, and then eviscerates Vice President Pence for defending his wife’s decision to work at a school that openly discriminates against the LGBT community. This is the realest Lady Gaga.

“In case you forgot,” she announces at the close of the show in a burst of mock-gusto and genuine pride, “my name is Lady Gaga, and I’m here to stay!” Here would be a very fine place for Gaga to stay. She clearly wants to live forever, and this is a city that stops time. Las Vegas will improve her vision and her vision is already improving Las Vegas.

It’s a match.

She’s locked in for two years with MGM — or, as she bragged onstage, “Three, if I want.” Wink-wink. She wants.

This is her town now.

Singer-songwriters Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers have been navigating the dark corners of their own minds, but now come together as Better Oblivion Community Center.

On the duo’s self-titled debut album, released Thursday, Bridgers and Oberst commit to bringing burning imagery and salient pain into their writing.

The album opens with “Didn’t Know What I Was in For,” relying on the distinctive vocals to carry the weight.

A synthesizer creates an ethereal layer on “Chesapeake,” and “Forest Lawn” has a folk quality to the style and writing. Beautiful in their melancholy, Bridgers and Oberst work as a grand duo on this powerful record.

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Robin Thede to star in HBO sketch show

Robin Thede will write and star in the Issa Rae-produced HBO comedy series “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” the network announced Monday. The show marks Thede’s return to television after BET canceled the talk show “The Rundown With Robin Thede” in July after one season. “The Rundown’s” Lauren Ashley Smith will serve as head writer on the new HBO show, which has been given a straight-to-series order. (EXPRESS) Variety: Oscar Isaac in talks to join “Dune” reboot

John Malkovich to play Harvey Weinstein-like figure in London play

NBC orders pilot for Kal Penn immigration comedy

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Chicago police open hate crime probe after attack against Smollett

CRIME Jussie Smollett, a black, openly gay actor best known for his work in Fox’s “Empire,” was assaulted in Chicago by two people carrying a noose and an unidentified “chemical substance” in what police are calling a “possible racially charged assault and battery.”

Smollett, 35, was walking around 2 a.m. local time Tuesday “when two unknown offenders approached him and gained his attention by yelling out racial and homophobic slurs towards him,” the Chicago Police Department said in a statement. “The offenders began to batter the victim with their hands about the face and poured an unknown chemical substance on the victim.”

The police could not confirm the gender of the offenders or identify the chemical substance.

“At some point during the incident, one of the offenders wrapped a rope around the victim’s neck,” the statement said.

Eventually, the offenders fled,

and Smollett transported himself to Northwestern Hospital, where he was reported to be in good condition. TMZ reported that Smollett was discharged Tuesday morning.

“Given the severity of the allegations, we are taking this investigation very seriously and treating it as a possible hate crime,” police said.

Fox released a statement Tuesday in support of the actor. “We send our love to Jussie, who is resilient and strong, and we will work with law enforcement to bring these perpetrators to justice,” the network said. “The entire studio, network and production stands united in the face of any despicable act of violence and hate — and especially against one of our own.”

As news of the attack spread Tuesday, Smollett received statements of support from LGBT advocacy organizations he has worked with over the years.

“Jussie is a true champion for LGBTQ people and is beloved by the community and allies around the world,” GLAAD said in a statement. TRAVIS M. ANDREWS AND BETHONIE BUTLER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Variety: Rosario Dawson cast in “Zombieland 2”

A ponderous toast to A Tribe Called Quest BOOK REVIEW There are two general models for musical histories: the deeply reported biography (think Peter Guralnick) and the impressionistic takes found in the wildly uneven 33 1/3 series and Rob Sheffield’s stellar “Dreaming the Beatles.”

In “Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest,” which hits shelves Friday, Hanif Abdurraqib opens Door No. 3. He keeps to the chronology enough to allow the uninitiated in, charting the birth of Tribe, the parallel and sideways movements that emerged and the group’s fizzle, collapse and reemergence.

But Abdurraqib also slips out of the timeline to deliver vivid, memoiristic splashes.

A Tribe Called Quest was formed in the mid-’80s, a collaboration between two kids from Queens we would come to know as Q-Tip and Phife Dawg.

After breaking up in 1998, the group returned to release its final album, “We Got It From Here …

Thank You 4 Your Service,” in November 2016 — eight months after Phife died following a battle with diabetes. He was 45.

The beauty of being both a true fan and a professional is that you can embrace even the low points and yet analyze when your heroes have fallen short. And as you search for the perfect ending, you’ll realize there seldom is one.

Abdurraqib writes: “At least now, I think, we can lay them to rest.” GEOFF EDGERS (TWP)

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“Anyone attracted to Ted Bundy needs to go for a walk outside.” @BTSNEBULAE, reacting after Netflix tweeted: “There are literally THOUSANDS of hot men on [Netflix] ... [who] are not convicted serial murderers.” The tweet came after some viewers confessed to being attracted to Bundy after watching Netflix’s new docuseries “Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.”

“An ASL version of 7 Rings starring Nyle DiMarco is quite possibly ... the best thing that has happened as of late ... ” @MARVMANALOJR, commenting

on the deaf model and activist’s latest project. DiMarco and director Jake Wilson remade Ariana Grande’s latest music video with a male cast and DiMarco signing the lyrics.

Hearing-impaired fans and Grande herself have praised the video.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) It’s too early, perhaps, to expect payment for a job recently completed. You mustn’t let this slide for too long, however.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) An issue proves more difficult to resolve than expected. Focus on doing for others what you wish would be done for you.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) How you react to another’s surprise contribution to a group effort says more about you than anything else.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You are quite used to doing something that others, so far, cannot. Today, however, you may not want to do it.

TODAY: Variable sky conditions provide some sunny and cloudy periods with some snow showers midday or afternoon (dusting possible). Highs will only get up to about the freezing mark, but it’ll feel like 20s or even teens at times. Cold air settles in further tonight with gusty winds amplifying the impact.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You’re spending a great deal of time worrying about something out of your control.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Someone you know well may surprise you today by doing something you never expected him or her to do.

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1948: Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, is shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

(Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.)

1962: Two members of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance at the State Fair Coliseum in Detroit.

1972: Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers are shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”

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Kehlani’s first child with Javie Young White will be named Adaya Nomi, the singer revealed Monday. Kehlani made the announcement as part of a series of photos from her baby shower posted to Instagram. In one picture, the baby’s name can be seen written on a cake. Guests at the Los Angeles shower included SZA, Zendaya and Ty Dolla $ign.

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Michael B. Jordan and Kiki Layne were spotted “canoodling to the max” last week at the Sundance Film Festival, according to Page Six. The “Creed II” star and “If Beale Street Could Talk” actress reportedly arrived within 10 minutes of each other Friday at a pop-up club in Park City, Utah. “They were put at separate VIP tables, but Kiki quickly made her way over to Michael’s table,” a source said. “They seriously never left each other’s side.

Canoodling to the max.” The source added that “it was clear to everyone in the room that they were together.” (EXPRESS)

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Rachel Brosnahan has quietly been married to actor Jason Ralph “for years,” the “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star revealed Sunday. “We’ve been married for years and been together for even longer,” Brosnahan told People. “We had a good laugh when the news came out that we had just got married, like, ‘Happy six-month anniversary, honey!’ ” It was previously reported that they got married in early 2018. (EXPRESS)

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