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HO-HUM: A cat named James, wearing a collar and tie, yawns Tuesday by the window of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up for more than five years.

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Alabama is known for its unusual memorials and statues, and the city of Eufaula is adding to the list with a monument to a fish. Officials in the lakeside town have unveiled a 12-foot-tall replica of a largemouth bass to celebrate its claim as the “Big Bass Capital of the World.” Bass fishing draws thousands of people to Lake Eufaula each year.

The state’s tourism agency awarded a grant to build the monument. It was unveiled Tuesday. (AP)

A Kittery, Maine, woman who prepared a salad using lettuce from a Shaw’s supermarket says she realized after a couple of bites that her fork was stuck in a 3-inch lizard. After vomiting and getting over her shock, Michelle Carr said she feared she could have ingested harmful bacteria. A biologist friend believes Carr found a blue-bellied lizard from California. A Shaw’s spokeswoman said the store had notified its supplier. (AP)

Authorities say a man took a sledgehammer to about a dozen squad cars in a Dallas police station parking lot, causing about $4,900 in damage. Police say Gregory Simpson, 58, walked into the Dallas Central Patrol parking lot at the marshal’s office detention center before dawn Sunday and started hitting the cars. Simpson was arrested and charged with criminal mischief.

His motive is unknown. (AP)

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One of the two snowy owls roosting in the courtyards of the USDA building in Southwest D.C. The pair has been described as fat and happy.

about the USDA owls from eBird, an online database where Lord has been reporting his regular office-window sightings. Some birders have taken to staking out the USDA building at dusk, hoping to spot the creatures as they head out for their evening hunt.

Scott Stafford, 39, a freelance computer programmer, rounded up his wife and kids on Jan. 26 and drove from their home in Friendship Heights to Southwest D.C. in hopes of seeing the birds.

They walked around in the cold

for about an hour, craning their necks and squinting at rooftops.

“We were just about to leave and go eat when I saw a flash of white in the sky,” Stafford says.

“It was just a fleeting glimpse, but I got so excited I was jumping around.”

Unfortunately, Stafford’s kids didn’t get to see the owl.

If they decide to try again, they’ll have to act fast: Rauch says the owls will probably return to the Arctic this month.

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ANIMALS Two snowy owls have taken up residence in the courtyards of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building near the Mall, much to the delight of the people who work there.

“I call them Thelma and Louise,” says USDA economist Teresa McKeivier, who spotted one of the Arctic birds for the first time on Jan. 8 while looking out a window of colleague Ronald Lord’s office.

“I remembered the snowy owl from four years ago, so I knew what they looked like,” McKeivier says, referring to the avian celebrity that wintered in D.C. in 2014.

That snowy owl was part of an irruption, a temporary influx of a species into a region it doesn’t normally inhabit. Snowy owl

irruptions tend to occur every four or five years, when the birds migrate farther south than usual after a population boom.

That appears to be happening again this winter, with snowy owls turning up in Texas and North Carolina.

The snowy owl that visited D.C. in 2014 was hit by a bus, rehabilitated and then hit by another vehicle. Thelma and Louise, in comparison, seem to have more street smarts, says Dan Rauch, a wildlife biologist with D.C.’s Department of Energy and Environment. The birds — probably juvenile females — appear fat and happy, and they’ve found a safe, quiet place to roost, he says.

“Unfortunately, they’re in an area where there’s not public access, but the people who work there get to see an amazing animal that no one else can see,” Rauch says.

That’s frustrating for D.C. bird-watchers who have learned

Liberty and Justice, the pair of bald eagles nested at the Metropolitan Police Academy in Southeast, are expecting eggs.

WTOP reports that Liberty, the female, is expected to lay eggs any moment. The pair has laid at least one egg together every year since 2004. Last year, their offspring was named Spirit.

There is a livestream of the pair at eaglecam.org. (EXPRESS)

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D.C. bald eagle Liberty to lay egg very soon

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First lady sets April 2 date for Easter Egg Roll The White House is holding its annual Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 2, Melania Trump announced Tuesday. Tickets are free to the public and can be requested through an online lottery scheduled to open on Friday and run through Feb. 15.

Winners will be notified by email

by March 5. The White House Easter Egg Roll is a tradition that dates to 1878. (AP)

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THE DISTRICT Student leaders at George Washington University this week called for administrators to remove a sorority chapter from campus, following a racially charged photo that surfaced on Snapchat.

The university’s Student Association Senate unanimously passed a resolution Monday night that supported banishing the Alpha Phi sorority from campus and urged George Washington to embrace sweeping diversity and inclusion initiatives.

“We recommend that tonight should not be the start or end of these conversations, and our discussion of how we can address racism on campus,” said Sydney Nelson, the organization’s executive vice president. “As a Student Association, we’ll continue to provide the space, and we’ll continue to approach the university and the administration and ourselves to do better and be better because it’s a lot of work we need to do and that starts tonight.”

School officials said Tuesday they have not determined sanctions against the sorority.

Hundreds of students packed a cavernous lecture hall to support the resolution and to share emotional stories about institutional racism and their concerns with

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students on the matter.

“There are a lot of affected students who are expressing hurt, and wanting to know if they are welcome at GW,” he said. “We are trying to make clear that they are welcome at GW.” Maltzman said “a broad consensus of disappointment” has emerged about the incident, with a promise to take “action to do better.”

Keiko Tsuboi, a senior who attended the meeting, said she is skeptical administrators will act, but hopes to be proven wrong.

“We gave you some feasible goals that will make students of color more comfortable at this school and these aren’t just suggestions, they’re demands to make life livable for us,” she said.

Though Metro’s budget staff had offered a grim outlook on the potential return of full service to Glenmont and Shady Grove stations, a new letter from General Manager Paul Wiedefeld to the Montgomery County Council delivers a more optimistic message.

In a letter delivered Monday, Wiedefeld said he is planning to start a conversation about what it would take to end the practice of reversing some rush-hour trains at Grosvenor-Strathmore and Silver Spring stations — a practice that started years ago to deal with a shortage of trains and to preserve frequency of service in the downtown core. The soonest the Red Line turn-backs might conclude, Wiedefeld projected: December.

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Students at George Washington University in D.C. called for a sorority to be removed after a racially charged photo was posted on social media.

campus culture. The gathering came days after a sorority member’s Snapchat post — showing two young women, a banana and a caption that referenced race — sparked an outcry on campus.

The sorority identified the two women in the image as members.

Alpha Phi International officials did not immediately return a telephone message and email seeking comment Tuesday. The university’s chapter of Alpha Phi also could not be reached Tuesday.

Student Senator Imani Ross, who sponsored the resolution, said it is “an open invitation to all administrators to collaborate.”

George Washington’s provost, Forrest Maltzman, said in an interview Tuesday that university officials have been meeting with

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The number of tickets issued by speed cameras to drivers in Maryland during a 12-month period ending June 30, according to an analysis released Tuesday by AAA Mid-Atlantic. The tickets generated more than $62 million in fines. AAA Mid-Atlantic found that three-fourths of the tickets were issued in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. The study found that speed camera violations have held steady in recent years, raising questions about whether cameras provide the deterrent effect touted by supporters. (AP)

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D.C. Mormon leader James Richard Baird, 61, died last week of carbon monoxide exposure

A 17-year-old student was shot in the parking lot of a Prince George’s County high school Monday evening, police said. An Oxon Hill High School student went outside to the parking lot to meet other individuals inside a vehicle, Prince George’s County police Cpl. Lamar Robinson said, and was shot in the upper body during the meeting. The student, an 11th-grader who was not named by police, is expected to survive, according to Robinson.

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Ariz. man pleads guilty in $500K magazine scam An Arizona man has pleaded guilty to scamming consumers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by operating a fake magazine-subscription company.

Raheem Oliver, 38, of Phoenix pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Alexandria to fraud conspiracy charges. Court documents say two elderly consumers in Virginia were each scammed out of more than $50,000 when they were told they owed fines and legal fees for unpaid subscription renewals.

Prosecutors estimate the fraud totaled nearly $500,000. Oliver faces up to 20 years in prison. (AP) THE DISTRICT

Suspect, 34, is charged in series of 15 burglaries Police made an arrest Monday in a series of 15 burglaries of homes and shops around D.C. Theodrick Joseph Jones,34, was arrested Monday and charged in all 15 cases. The break-ins moved through neighborhoods in waves — Shaw, Mount Pleasant, Logan Circle, then the popular corridors along H Street in Northeast and U Street in Northwest. In all, D.C. police tallied 15 burglaries from just after Thanksgiving through the end of January. Jones made an initial appearance in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday. (TWP)

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Lawyer for ex-student says accomplice was ‘motivated’ to kill girl, 13 BLACKSBURG, VA. The accomplice of a former Virginia Tech student charged in the stabbing death of a 13-year-old girl had a fascination with knives and was “deeply motivated” to kill the teen, a defense attorney said Tuesday.

At the opening of David Eisenhauer’s murder trial, his attorney John Lichtenstein tried to shift the jury’s focus to his alleged accomplice, Natalie Keepers, who will go on trial in September.

Eisenhauer is accused of making a “secret date” with Nicole Lovell after meeting the teen through an instant messaging app. Nicole, a middle school student from Blacksburg, sneaked out of her bedroom to meet Eisenhauer, who was then a student at the nearby campus. On Jan. 27, 2016, Eisenhauer stabbed Nicole 14 times and cut her throat because he was worried his relationship with the underage girl would be exposed, prosecutors said.

“He has a problem and his problem is Nicole Lovell,” Commonwealth’s Attorney Mary Pettitt said.

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of his car, the prosecutor said.

Eisenhauer’s attorney sought to blame Keepers, who has been charged as an accessory. Keepers has told police she was not present for the killing. She faces charges of being an accessory before the fact and concealing a body.

“The evidence in the case will be that the presence of someone else at that scene and the presence of someone else who was deeply motivated to commit that murder will leave you with that reasonable doubt,” Lichtenstein said.

Keepers told police Eisenhauer claimed he met Lovell at a party and may have had sex with her, but could not remember because he blacked out.

Keepers told police Eisenhauer feared the girl could be pregnant.

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Leadership failure: Missing pay angers health care officers the employees might not get their full pay for months.

“Officers may receive temporary reductions in monthly compensation over the next 3-4 months while we transition from the Legacy Pay system to the HPSP [Health Professionals Special Pay],” Adams wrote on Jan. 31. “However, we anticipate special pay will be authorized retroactively from January 28, 2018.”

Adams didn’t apologize and was vague on the reasons for the special pay interruption, citing only “a number of unanticipated events.” Repeated requests for more information from PHS were denied.

Starting 10 years ago, PHS formed workgroups that made recommendations and proposed options, yet the agency didn’t get the job done.

“A policy was drafted and is under review for approval and will be finalized in the next few weeks,” Adams said.

Meanwhile, the officers will suffer. They are upset.

“I can tell you that some officers are decremented as much as $1,700 per month, an amount which is large enough to play havoc with even the most carefully crafted budget,” said Jim Currie, executive director of the Commissioned Officers

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The U.S. Public Health Service had 10 years to follow congressional direction and adopt a new pay system for members of its Commissioned Corps.

It failed.

Now, thousands of health professionals who work for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), but wear uniforms and insignia like the Navy, must go without “special pay” because their leadership screwed up.

These professionals provide care in some of the most remote, deprived and disadvantaged areas of the nation, as well as during disasters.

Their uniforms are an outward manifestation of their pride and commitment to service.

But PHS is not responding in kind — not just by messing with the officers’ money, but also through a lack of communication, explanation and apology.

The special pay is designed to make the corps, whose positions include physicians, dentists and pharmacists, more competitive with the private sector. In a letter to the Commissioned Corps, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said

Surgeon General Jerome Adams was vague on the reasons the special pay was interrupted.

Association of the U.S. Public Health Service. “Many officers are outraged by this event as the Public Health Service leadership has known for 10 years that this would occur on January 28.”

The association polled its members this week and found that “the HHS failure is rattling the confidence USPHS officers have in their uniformed service leadership and HHS,” said John E. McElligott, the Commissioned Officers Association’s deputy executive director.

That online survey revealed the officers’ anger, frustration

and disgust with the incompetence and poor communication of PHS leadership.

“I’ve lost trust in this system,” one person wrote. “I was recently deployed for Harvey, Irma and Maria hurricanes and still haven’t been paid from that yet.”

A statement from HHS said, “For those officers who cannot wait for the special pay to be retroactively restored, we are prepared to assist with banks, creditors and other financial institutions as necessary.”

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House overhauls sexual harassment policy for its members The House voted Tuesday to prohibit sexual relationships between lawmakers and their employees, a rules change that brings the institution in line with the military and private sector. The prohibition took immediate effect as Congress moves toward changing the system for reporting and adjudicating employees’ claims of sexual harassment. A separate bill that makes it easier to make complaints and requires lawmakers to reimburse taxpayers for workplace settlements now heads to the Senate. (TWP) Girl Scouts lobby to get founder’s name affixed to Savannah, Ga., bridge that currently honors a white segregationist

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Agencies can pay them when they otherwise would have trouble filling a position, or keeping a current employee, because the government salary is not competitive with pay elsewhere. They most commonly are paid in occupations including information technology, health care, engineering and law enforcement.

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Congress close to budget deal Trump: ‘I’d love to see a shutdown’ if demands on immigration not met

Syrian airstrikes leave at least 55 civilians dead

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POLITICS Buoyed by the sudden likelihood of a budget pact, lawmakers are on track to avoid a repeat of last month’s government shutdown — although President Trump unexpectedly raised the possibility of closing things down again if he can’t have his way on immigration.

“I’d love to see a shutdown if we can’t get this stuff taken care of,” Trump declared Tuesday.

Trump’s comments were strikingly disconnected from the progress on Capitol Hill, where the House passed a short-term spending measure Tuesday night and Senate leaders were closing in on a larger, long-term pact ahead of a Thursday night deadline.

The broader agreement would award whopping spending increases to both the Pentagon and domestic federal programs. It also would approve overdue disaster relief money and, perhaps, crucial legislation to increase the government’s borrowing limit to avoid possible default.

Democratic leaders have dropped their strategy of using the funding fight to extract concessions on immigration.

Instead, the Democrats prepared to cut a deal that would reap tens of billions of dollars for other priorities — including combatting opioids — while

Budget negotiations led by Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, have recently intensified.

taking their chances on solving the immigration impasse later.

Tuesday night’s 245-182 House vote, mostly along party lines, passed a six-week stopgap spending bill that contains increases for the military that long have been demanded by Trump and his GOP allies. But the measure appears increasingly likely to be rewritten by the Senate to include legislation implementing the brewing broader budget pact.

The budget negotiations, conducted chiefly by the Senate’s top leaders, Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York, have intensified in recent days — and the looming government shutdown at midnight Thursday added urgency.

Kelly’s words on DACA Some immigrants may have been “too afraid” or “too lazy” to sign up for the Obama-era program that offers protection from deportation, White House chief of staff John Kelly said Tuesday as he defended President Trump’s proposal on the divisive issue. Kelly discounted the possibility that Trump would announce a temporary extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program beyond March 5, when its protections could expire.

Kelly spoke as lawmakers have deadlocked in an effort to reach an immigration compromise. The Senate is expected to begin debating the issue next week. Immigration policies are not included in the current budget accord. (AP)

GOP defense hawks were prevailing over the party’s deficit hawks, championing new spending on military programs. Democrats, meanwhile, leveraged their influence to increase spending for domestic priorities. The result could be the return of trillion-dollar deficits for the first time since Obama’s first term.

The stopgap spending bill would keep the government open through March 23 to allow time to write and pass detailed followup “omnibus” legislation to fund the government through the Sept.

30 end of the fiscal year.

The prospective longer-term budget agreement would give both the Pentagon and domestic agencies relief from a budget freeze. ANDREW TAYLOR (AP)

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“I sswore an oath to defend ... the Constitution ... not to mindlessly ... clap when [Trump] demands I clap.” m SEN. TAMM TAMMY DUCKWORTH, D-ILL., an Iraq War vet, responding to President Trump calling Democrats “treasonous” for not applauding applaud during the State of the Union. A White House spokesman said Trump’s comment was “tongue-in-cheek.”

Trump has end-of-week deadline to decide on releasing House Democrats’ memo on Russia probe

SYRIA Russian and Syrian government forces launched a new wave of airstrikes and shelling Tuesday, plunging the besieged area just outside of Syria’s capital of Damascus into a spiral of violence and despair.

At least 55 civilians were killed, while many more were trapped under destroyed buildings in what activists described as one of the deadliest days in the eastern Ghouta region in more than a month. Ten towns, home to nearly 400,000 people trapped by the violence and a tightening siege, were bombed or shelled.

The United Nations called for an immediate, month-long cease-fire in order to deliver critical humanitarian aid and medical care to civilians across the country.

Nearly 200 people were wounded, and rescuers said many of them probably will not survive because of a lack of medical supplies.

“Minute after minute, the number of casualties rises,” a rescuer from the Syrian White Helmets said. “No area at all in Ghouta is safe.”

It was the second day of an intensified assault on the region.

On Monday, at least 28 people were killed, while on Sunday, a suspected chlorine attack left a dozen people suffering. The U.N.-mandated Commission of Inquiry on Syria said it was looking into reports of the use of weaponized chlorine in the area.

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Falcon Heavy lifts off

SpaceX launches world’s most powerful rocket, sending a Tesla Roadster to Mars

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The SpaceX Falcon Heavy takes off Tuesday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a test mission.

Two recycled booster rockets from Falcon Heavy return for a synchronized landing at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Cameras fed stunning live video of the convertible floating high above the ocean with its driver, a space-suited dummy, named “Starman” after the David Bowie song. A sign on the dashboard read: “Don’t panic!”

Bowie’s “Life on Mars?” played in the background.

Musk is intent on establishing a city on the red planet, with hordes of Earthlings and building materials flying there on a new SpaceX rocket that is still in development.

On the eve of the flight, Musk said the company had done all it could to maximize success and he was at peace with whatever happens: success, “one big boom”

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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. SpaceX’s big new rocket blasted off Tuesday afternoon on its first test flight, carrying a cherry red sports car aiming for an endless road trip past Mars.

The Falcon Heavy rose from the same launch pad used by NASA nearly 50 years ago to send men to the moon. With liftoff, the Heavy became the most powerful rocket in use today, doubling the liftoff punch of its closest competitor.

The three boosters and 27 engines roared to life at Kennedy Space Center as thousands watched from surrounding beaches, bridges and roads, jamming the highways in scenes unmatched since NASA’s last space shuttle flight. At SpaceX Mission Control in Southern California, employees screamed, whistled and raised pumped fists into the air as the launch commentators called off each milestone.

Two of the boosters — both recycled from previous launches — returned minutes later for simultaneous, side-by-side touchdowns at Cape Canaveral. Sonic booms rumbled across the region with the vertical landings. There was no immediate word on whether the third booster, a brand-new one, made it onto the ocean platform 300 miles offshore.

SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk owns the rocketing Tesla Roadster, which is shooting for a solar orbit that will reach all the way to Mars. As head of the electric carmaker Tesla, he combined his passions to add a dramatic flair to the Heavy’s long-awaited inaugural flight.

Typical ballast — heavy material placed in a rocket to improve its stability — for a rocket debut is concrete or steel slabs, or experiments. In this case, it was a red Tesla car.

This image from a SpaceX video shows “Starman,” a space-suited dummy, in Elon Musk’s Tesla sports car.

or some other calamity.

The Falcon Heavy is a combination of three Falcon 9s, the rocket that the company uses to ship supplies to the International Space Station and lift satellites.

SpaceX is reusing first-stage boosters to save on launch costs.

Most other rocket makers discard their spent boosters in the ocean.

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The Heavy already is rattling the launch market. Its sticker price is $90 million, less than one-tenth the estimated cost of

Lululemon CEO Laurent Potdevin resigns over what company calls a “standards of conduct” issue

NASA’s Space Launch System megarocket in development for moon and Mars expeditions.

The car faces considerable speed bumps before settling into its intended orbit around the sun, an oval circle stretching from the orbit of Earth on one end to the orbit of Mars on the other. It has to endure a cosmic bombardment during several hours of cruising through the highly charged Van Allen radiation belts encircling Earth. Finally, a thruster has to fire to put the car on the right orbital course.

If it weathers all this, the Roadster will reach the vicinity of Mars in six months, Musk said. MARCIA DUNN (AP)

WASHINGTON President Trump’s vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand military parade later this year showcasing the might of America’s armed forces.

Trump has long mused about wanting such a parade, but a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in the Pentagon’s “tank” — a room used for topsecret discussions — marked a tipping point, according to two officials briefed on the planning.

In the company of the military’s highest-ranking officials, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joe Dunford, Trump’s desire for a parade was heard as a presidential directive, officials said. “The marching orders were: I want a parade like the one in France,” said a military official.

“This is being worked at the highest levels of the military.”

The cost of shipping tanks and hardware to Washington could run in the millions, and military officials said it was unclear how they would pay for it. An official called the talks “brainstorming” and said nothing is settled.

The inspiration for Trump’s push is last year’s Bastille Day celebration in Paris, which the president attended as a guest of French President Emmanuel Macron. GREG JAFFE AND PHILIP RUCKER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Kenyan opposition politician Raila Odinga charged over mock inauguration

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A British judge on Tuesday upheld a U.K. arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, leaving him still a wanted man in the country where he has spent more than five years inside the Ecuadorean Embassy. Judge Emma Arbuthnot rejected a call from Assange’s lawyers for the warrant to be revoked because he is no longer wanted for questioning in Sweden over alleged sex crimes.

It was issued in 2012 for jumping bail. However, the judge allowed Assange’s lawyer to make a new set of arguments challenging whether it is in the public interest to continue the case against Assange. (AP)

Poland’s president on Tuesday signed legislation that outlaws blaming Poland as a nation for Holocaust crimes committed by Nazi Germany, defying both criticism from Israel and a warning from the U.S. But President Andrzej Duda said he would also ask Poland’s constitutional court to evaluate the bill — leaving open the possibility it would be amended. As currently written, the legislation calls for prison terms of up to three years for falsely attributing the crimes of Nazi Germany to Poland. The law takes effect 14 days after it’s officially published, but it wasn’t immediately clear when that will be. (AP)

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Tuesday near the coast of Taiwan, killing two hotel employees and injuring more than 200 other people, officials said. The Central News Agency reported that the ground floor of the Marshal Hotel in Hualien county had caved in, causing the deaths of the two employees. Other buildings were shifted on foundations and rescuers used ladders, ropes and cranes to get residents to safety. The quake came exactly two years after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck southern Taiwan, causing the collapse of an apartment complex and the deaths of 115 people. (AP)

Salah Abdeslam, sole surviving suspect in 2015 Paris attacks, refuses to reappear in court

Day after historic drop, Dow gains 567 points NEVER MIND!

App users get false tsunami alert Users of the AccuWeather app throughout the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean woke up to a false alert about an incoming tsunami early Tuesday. AccuWeather blamed the National Weather Service, which it says “miscoded” a test message as an official warning. The notification was corrected within the hour and users realized it was a test after pressing the alert for details. The National Weather Service is looking into what caused the mix-up. (AP)

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Final-hour trading helps recovery from record single-day market dip MARKETS U.S. stocks bounced back in the final hour of trading Tuesday after a rocky morning that saw the Dow Jones industrial average dip into correction territory.

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“Volatility is back,” said Jamie Cox of Harris Financial Group.

“It’s not back in a big way, but it’s not going to be dormant like it was in 2017. That’s the real story.”

While navigating volatile trading, money managers urged investors to keep calm and noted that the U.S. and global economies remain strong.

Veteran traders and stock strategists say the slide in stock prices over the past week is a natural dip. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard told reporters after a speech in Lexington, Ky., that “this is the most predicted sell-off of all time because the markets have been up so much and they have had so many days in a row without meaningful down days,’’ Bloomberg News reported.

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After Monday’s 1,175-point drop, the Dow closed up 2.3 percent Tuesday.

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“I think you’ve seen a normal market correction, although large,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, adding that computer trading algorithms “had an impact on market moves.”

Asked whether the administration would take responsibility for downturns as well as increases, Mnuchin said, “We’ll still claim credit that it’s up over 30 percent

since the election.”

Traders were left trying to assess whether this was just a roller-coaster moment in an overall climbing market or a pivot point that could end a historic upward run.

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The estimated number of gallons of mercury, or the equivalent of 50 Olympic swimming pools, trapped in Arctic permafrost, according to a study published Monday. It was already known that the thawing of the Arctic’s frozen soil would release powerful greenhouse gases, but U.S. government scientists revealed Monday it could also release massive amounts of mercury — a potent neurotoxin and serious threat to human health. Mercury is a toxic element humans have already been pumping into the air by burning coal. (TWP) Ivanka Trump to lead U.S. delegation at Olympic closing ceremony

$560M winner fights to remain anonymous NEW HAMPSHIRE As the winner of last month’s $560 million Powerball, a New Hampshire woman would soon be the world’s newest owner of a nine-digit bank account.

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“She is a longtime resident of New Hampshire and is an engaged community member,” the woman’s attorney, Steven Gordon, wrote in court documents obtained by newhampshire.com. “She wishes to continue this work and the freedom to walk into a grocery store or attend public events without being known or targeted as the winner of a halfbillion dollars.”

Aside from the issue of being in the public eye, there are many examples of people who’ve tried to swindle lottery winners out of their newly acquired cash — or take the money by force.

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Allen’s awful idea: Tagging Cousins won’t help anyone The Redskins are reportedly considering whether to place the franchise tag on quarterback Kirk Cousins.

The hope would be to trade Cousins, allowing the team to get back some of what they agreed to give up to acquire Alex Smith from the Chiefs.

What a stupid idea.

It’s not good business — it’s petty, a sucker punch to the passer whom they’ve already unofficially replaced. Cousins outmaneuvered Washington over the past two years, getting a combined $44 million

after being tagged twice. The Redskins can’t stand to watch Cousins go without extracting something in return.

If Washington goes through with this absurd move, which team president Bruce Allen supposedly floated with several league officials last week, only bad things will happen.

Allen would be outsmarting himself again. Think back to 2012, when the team was penalized $36 million in cap space because Allen had tried to take advantage of a nocap season in 2010, when he moved massive chunks of salary for Albert Haynesworth and DeAngelo Hall to that

year’s payroll.

Using an unprecedented third straight tag on Cousins would cost $34.5 million against the salary cap regardless of whether he signs the deal. Cousins could start a stalemate by refusing to sign, giving the Redskins no money to sign free agents in the interim. That gives the quarterback the power to choke the team into submission.

Other teams know the Redskins can’t hold onto Cousins long before rescinding the offer. Those teams would just wait it out. After all, teams don’t want a ridiculous $34.5 million deal for a one-year rental without any guarantees that he’ll sign a long-term deal.

The Redskins would be in line to receive a third-round compensatory pick in 2019 if Cousins leaves as a free agent.

If they tag him and have to rescind the tag, they lose the right to that compensation.

So for the tag to be worth it, Washington would have to get a second-round pick or better

for a trade to be worthwhile.

Applying the cheaper, $28 million transition tag gives Cousins the right to field deals from other teams that Washington could match. But the Redskins would get no compensation if they lost Cousins, and signing him would only give them the right to choose his destination in a trade.

If the Redskins try this move, they’ll get a black eye around the league.

Free agents used to come to Washington despite the front office’s bad reputation because the team consistently overpaid. That practice has disappeared under Allen, whose pettiness in dealing with Cousins would only deter future free agents.

The Redskins should just let Cousins go when free agency starts March 14. Allen needs ghs last to learn that he who laughs st. doesn’t always laugh best.

Report: McDaniels spurns Colts On Tuesday night, after the Colts had already announced that Josh McDaniels agreed to terms to become their next head coach, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Patriots offensive coordinator had backed out of the job and decided to remain in New England.

Indianapolis had already scheduled a news conference to introduce McDaniels today.

According to Schefter, Patriots owner Robert Kraft began talking to McDaniels in the days following the Patriots’ Super Bowl loss to the Eagles and “wound up sweetening his contract.” McDaniels, 41, has spent nine years as a coordinator for coach Bill Belichick. He went 11-17 in his only stint as a head coach for the Broncos from 2009 to 2010. (EXPRESS)

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Men’s basketball: No. 2 Virginia visits Florida State tonight (7, NBCSWA)

Winter Olympics: South Korean officials deploy military to cover for security depleted by norovirus

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Report: Wizards shopping Gortat ESPN’s Brian Windhorst reported Tuesday that the Wizards are discussing trades involving center Marcin Gortat, and that several teams have shown interest ahead of Thursday’s trade deadline.

According to Zach Lowe at ESPN, Washington is interested in Clippers center DeAndre Jordan, who stands to make $24 million in 2018-19 but has an option to enter free agency this summer.

Gortat, 33, is under contract through next season, when he’s set to make $13.6 million. Entering Tuesday’s game at Philadelphia, Gortat was averaging 8.9 points, 8.0 rebounds and 26.3 minutes. He never averaged fewer than 10 points in four previous seasons with the Wizards, who entered Tuesday as the East’s fourth seed. (EXPRESS)

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Union: Rebuilding teams making mockery of game

Former U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics coach John Geddert is facing a criminal investigation after complaints were filed following the sentencing of disgraced ex-sports doctor Larry Nassar, who molested girls at Geddert’s elite gymnastics club in Michigan. The Eaton County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that people recently came forward with complaints against Geddert.

The office declined to elaborate on the complaints. During Nassar’s hearing, some victims complained that Geddert was physically abusive and indifferent to injuries.

One said Geddert knew in the late 1990s of Nassar’s abuse. (AP)

MLB players’ union head Tony Clark said in a statement that the number of unsigned free agents in a historically slow market threatens baseball’s integrity. On Tuesday, eight days before the beginning of spring training workouts, Clark said rebuilding teams “are engaged in a race to the bottom” and risking relationships with fans during a time of record revenues. Just 53 of 166 free agents had announced agreements entering Tuesday, down from 99 of 158 at a similar time last year. MLB attributed the number of unsigned players to a misreading of the marketplace by players and agents. (AP)

Mets agree with third baseman Todd Frazier on 2-year, $17M deal; he hit 27 homers for Yankees, White Sox last year

Giants to retire Barry Bonds’ No. 25 on Aug. 11 vs. Pirates

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Justin Timberlake is a man who sounds lost in the woods on his latest album MUSIC REVIEW We’ve arrived at a point where Justin Timberlake has failed us.

The superstar pop singer produced epic solo albums with “Justified” in 2002, “FutureSex/ LoveSounds” in 2006 and the two-part “The 20/20 Experience” in 2013. Though he tripped over his own disco ball on the second half of “20/20,” released six months after the first, he rebounded with “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” — a 2016 hit that can put anyone in a good mood.

Unfortunately, though, Timberlake not only missteps on his newest album, “Man of the Woods,” he crashes and burns.

He’s He s a singer s ge lost in i the woods.

While some of the 16 songs are enjoyable, some feel like leftover effor ts fr om “FutureSex” “Man of or “20/20,” in- the Woods” cluding “Mid- Justin Timberlake night Summer Jam” and “Breeze off the Pond.”

It’s almost like he rushed to put out an album to peg to his Super Bowl halftime show — probably the best platform to help push new music for an artist, with more than 100 million viewers watching closely.

Listening to the disappointing project is a hard pill to swallow

since Timberlake was once an idol on the level of Beyonce, launching hit after hit and working the stage like a passionate veteran, all while expanding and growing his overall sound.

But there’s no way to justify “Man of the Woods.” The title track is unbearable, while “Flannel” is almost as bad, coming off like an awful lullaby.

Timberlake recruited producing duo The Neptunes, made up of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, for most of the project, but clearly Williams was too focused on producing movies and film scores, because he doesn’t bring the right heat. Timbaland is also part of the album, as with

Timberlake’s last three, finding success on some of songs. But he’s not always on point: The first single, “Filthy,” which Timbaland co-produced, is a mess.

Timberlake can thank country superstar Chris Stapleton for the album’s most redeeming songs.

The Grammy-winning singersongwriter co-wrote the Alicia Keys-featured “Morning Light,” as well as “Say Something,” where Stapleton also provides vocals.

Timberlake’s issue on “Man of the Woods” is he’s trying to craft a rootsy sound, like Stapleton’s, while also keeping you on the dance floor. But instead of rocking your body, you’ll want to cry yourself a river. MESFIN FEKADU (AP)

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Matt Smith will portray Charles Manson Ma

“The Crown” star and former “Doctor “Doc Who” lead Matt Smith has been tapped to portray real-life serial killer Charles Manson in “Charlie “Cha Says,” a new movie from “American Psycho” director Mary Harron set around Manson’s murders. murd According to The Hollywood Reporter, Suki Waterhouse (“The Bad Batch”), Carla Gugino (“Sin City”) and Emmy winner Merritt Wever (“Nurse Jackie”) have also been cast in the film. (EXPRESS) Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in “Outrider,” a Western series for Amazon

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Liam Payne and Rita Ora

Since we don’t get much of a story in the video for “For You,” a tune off the “Fifty Shades Freed” soundtrack, here’s a recap of what we do get: a sprawling mansion setting, a la Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”; Rita Ora in a bed of roses, a la “American Beauty” (minus the nudity); moody looks from Liam Payne; and floating bodies!

Yes, Rita and Liam literally suspend themselves in thin air. Ah, supernatural twists.

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There’s a scene in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1” where Ron must defeat an evil thing called a Horcrux and the Horcrux conjures this silvery, alluring apparition of Harry and Hermione kissing to spook Ron. That obviously doesn’t happen in Shakira’s video, but she and Colombian singer Maluma totally have the silvery ghost thing going on here. Except sexier. B.C.

Christopher Lloyd signs on to “Guess Who Died,” new NBC comedy based on Norman Lear’s life

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Like past ‘Cloverfield’ movies, ‘Paradox’ relies on a clever ad gimmick PERSPECTIVE The biggest surprise during the Super Bowl wasn’t Philadelphia defeating New England despite Tom Brady throwing for more than 500 yards. No, the biggest shock was the surprise debut of the trailer for “The Cloverfield Paradox” — and the revelation that it was going to be available on Netflix right after the game.

Here was Netflix’s model of disruption in full flower. But

let’s not forget: The “Cloverfield” franchise has long trafficked in marketing gimmicks designed to paper over flaws in the product.

2008’s “Cloverfield” burrowed its way into the public’s brain with a sly campaign that showed very little. The first trailer didn’t even reveal the name of the movie, which mounted more excitement as people clamored for information. An “alternate reality game” was also paired with it as part of the film’s promotion.

It paid off for distributor Paramount Pictures: “Cloverfield” grossed more than $40 million its opening weekend on a $25 million

NETFLIX

It’s just another Hollywood ploy Sharp marketing disguised the bad cliches in “The Cloverfield Paradox.”

budget. But the innovative ad campaign disguised the fact that the film was, at best, mediocre.

Sure enough, a trailer for a sequel, “10 Cloverfield Lane,” popped up unannounced in January 2016 and hit theaters two months later. “10 Cloverfield

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Lane” might be the franchise’s best, but it only got made because the studio could slap the “Cloverfield” name on it. The screenplay was written on spec years before production began; it was given a tweak to set it “in the Cloverfield universe,” which generated buzz.

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Something similar happened with “The Cloverfield Paradox,” originally titled “God Particle.”

The screenwriter revealed it had been written before “10 Cloverfield Lane” and that they had gone into rewrites during production.

The result was a bad hodgepodge of sci-fi-horror cliches that makes little sense. Knowing they had a stinker on their hands, the studio shelved the movie.

Along came Netflix, with its endless appetite for content. They kept the movie a secret and acted like it was genius to drop it out of the blue. Except this was a clever way of doing something studios have always done: releasing unmarketable garbage straight to video instead of wasting money on a theatrical campaign.

Turns out, the real Cloverfield monster is really just the latest in Hollywood marketing.

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her baby daughter — who was born Feb. 1 after a pregnancy that Jenner kept a secret — is named Stormi. People were confused by the name choice, which is close to the name of Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who allegedly had an affair with President Trump. There were other critiques as well: “Are the Kardashians actually creating a weather forecast of kids? ‘It’s going to be stormi, with a chance of rain, in the north of Chicago’?”s @SamToogood_ asked, referencing the names of two of Kim Kardashian’s kids.

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“Best Buy is not going to sell CDs anymore and I’m feeling age and irrelevancy creeping up on me.” @CINEFILE_24, tweeting about the news that Best Buy will pull compact discs from its stores come July 1. The company, however, will still sell an even older musical medium — vinyl records. Best Buy’s change may hasten the demise of CDs, which retailers continue to sell online.

“Is it possible that The Rock has extra large lats and they act like a fixed-winged-flyingsquirrel get-up that lets him glide between elevations?” @ICYWARM, wondering how Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson could land the jump on the movie poster for “Skyscraper.” @ChristianBedwel tweeted that he calculated The Rock would have had to have left the platform at 28.4 mph to make it.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You’re seeking something that may not mean all that much to others, but that doesn’t mean that no one is going to stand in your way. Be ready.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You must sort through information with great care today as you try to come up with an explanation for something that baffles many others.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) First impressions may be wildly misleading today. Do some digging and you’ll uncover some disconcerting facts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Despite what others are telling you, you know what must be done today. It’s time to do what you know is right.

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1971: Women in Switzerland gain the right to vote through a national referendum, 12 years after a previous attempt failed.

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He left before police arrived. (EXPRESS)

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Oprah shares opinion on cable news with all dads Former talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she doesn’t watch cable news. “All these commentators are on, and they’re just yakety-yaking,” she told The Wall Street Journal, according to E! News. “Everybody is talking to themselves. Nobody is listening to anybody. … We’re actually getting nowhere. So I turn it off.” (EXPRESS)

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Katy to give up fun altogether by age 40 In a profile for Glamour magazine, Katy Perry discussed how her routine has changed as she’s gotten older. “I’m constantly eating,” said Perry, 33. “I have this really amazing chef who does a no-sugar and no-dairy diet.” She added, “In my 20s I used to be able to do shows hung over after eating an In-N-Out burger. I can’t do that anymore.” (EXPRESS)

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Sarah Silverman and Michael Sheen have ended their nearly four-year relationship. Silverman shared the news Monday in a tweet. “The great @michaelsheen & I consciously uncoupled over Christmas,” she wrote. “I mean, not ‘over Christmas’ — like that wasn’t the fight that ended it. No fight. We just live in different countries & it got hard. Felt we should just tell y’all so u stop askin’, ‘How’s Michael/How’s Sarah?’” Early Tuesday she followed it up with: “I just realized I posted our breakup tweet on his actual birthday and I can’t believe what a d--- I am.” (EXPRESS)

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