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The real crime is letting all that potential tuna salad go to waste

A woman in Houston went to an abandoned house Monday to smoke marijuana. Inside the garage, she found a tiger in a cage, said police spokesman Kese Smith. The woman called 311, but officials were skeptical. “We questioned them as to whether they were under the effects of the drugs or they actually saw a tiger,” Sgt. Jason Alderete told KTRK-TV. Police are investigating who owns the tiger and who left it in the garage, Smith said. (TWP)

A large quantity of cash found in a donated book has been returned to its owner, KPNX-TV reported.

Cathy McAllister was sorting books for a charity sale in Phoenix last weekend and found $4,000 inside “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

McAllister said the owner’s daughter asked him whether he’d done the same with other books.

She said she suspects the family went home and opened up every other book in the bookcase. (AP)

A man authorities say caught a tuna out of season and then dumped the headless 400pound carcass in the woods has been placed on probation. The Salem News reported Harold Wentworth, of Gloucester, Mass., pleaded guilty on Monday and was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.

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she gives away free.

Since she began her “I Support the Girls” nonprofit in July 2015, the 42-year-old business executive and mother of two sons from Silver Spring said she has distributed more than 500,000 bras and 2.5 million personal hygiene products to women in need.

Underwire bras, push-up bras, sports bras, maternity bras and racerback bras arrive at her house by the boxload in every hue and pattern imaginable. Most of them are gently used.

“They stand up straighter, knowing they no longer have to choose between buying groceries or a new bra and a box of tampons.”

DANA MARLOWE, of Silver Spring, who runs a nonprofit called “I Support the Girls” to give gently used bras to women in need

What started as a local project to help give a few homeless women some intimate wear has turned into an organization with an army of volunteers collecting and distributing bras, tampons and pads in 50 U.S. cities and five other countries — Australia, Canada, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand.

Recently, that help has been extended to federal workers and their families who took a financial hit during the recent federal government shutdown.

Marlowe has already helped about 100 women who work for federal agencies, she said, many of whom are single mothers who did not receive a paycheck for a month. Some were not able to collect back pay.

And she has plenty of bras and sanitary products in stock in case the government shuts down again — in addition to keeping stock for others in need.

In almost any situation, she said, a new bra can signify a fresh start.

“A bra is one of many small luxuries that most women take for granted,” Marlowe says, “and if you don’t have these things, you think about them all the time.”

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Trump will break a long tradition of presidential pet ownership if he remains without a pet. (AP)

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SILVER SPRING About two weeks into last month’s government shutdown, Dana Marlowe, aka “The Accidental Bra Fairy,” put out a Facebook post in which she offered to help female federal employees who had no money for bras or feminine hygiene products.

Within hours, nearly 100 messages poured in.

“My husband and I have to go to work and are not getting paid,” wrote a woman from Florida.

“It’s getting stressful because my husband’s car broke down.

We have three teenage girls, so of course we use a lot of feminine hygiene products. Can you help us?”

“I had a baby and just stopped nursing before the shutdown happened,” wrote a woman in Virginia. “I’m in need of new bras since my size has changed, but I don’t have money to buy them since I haven’t been paid.”

Marlowe was better equipped than most to offer her support: She has a basement filled with bras and sanitary products that

Dana Marlowe has distributed more than 500,000 bras to women in need through her nonprofit.

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Hundreds demonstrate to support immigrants Rain-soaked protesters demand residency for refugees who fled war

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THE DISTRICT Hundreds of immigrants and their families representing more than a dozen countries and several states gathered Tuesday in Washington to demand that permanent residency be made available to thousands of immigrants who came to the United States fleeing war and disaster.

They danced to the beat of drums and the thrum of vuvuzelas, the airy notes of a conch shell and the shake of maracas, hoisting flags and signs into the air as they chanted in English, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole and Nepali.

Through the cold and rain, they sang and marched down Pennsylvania Avenue.

“What do we want?” they called. “Residency!” “When do we want it?” “Now!” The protest, which began in front of the White House, was part of a series of events organized this week to draw lawmakers’ attention to the plight of immigrants granted temporary protected status. Organizers said they wanted Republican and Democratic legislators to meet families that remain in limbo as courts review Trump administration efforts to curtail the program.

“I came to this country as an immigrant,” said Jose Aleman,

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Hundreds of immigrants and supporters rally Tuesday in D.C. against the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policies and proposed crackdowns.

a Spanish teacher from Massachusetts who was born in El Salvador and has legally lived in the U.S. since 1996. “Now, I am so much more than that. I am a public school teacher. I am a father, a husband. … We cannot live our lives hoping that in 18 months we will be allowed to stay in our homes, with our children, working at our jobs.”

They were joined by allies and lawmakers, including freshmen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., who told those in the crowd they support their efforts to stay in the country where they have built their lives — some for decades.

“We are a nation that turns peril into promise,” OcasioCortez said. “We are a nation that builds from many, and we have to protect our basic character as a nation to be that. That is what this is all about. We are here to make sure that all TPS recipients become permanent members of the United States of America.”

Marchers stopped for a second rally in the mud of a park outside the Russell Senate Office Building. Several speakers took to megaphones to share their stories. Some Senate staff members hung makeshift messages of support in their office windows: “We’re with you,” read one.

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President Trump may get his parade after all. Just don’t call it a parade. Trump said Tuesday he’s exploring the idea of holding a parade called “Salute to America” around July 4.

The Lincoln Memorial is under consideration for the event, which he said would be more like “a gathering.”

He’d also like the event to become a tradition.

“It will be a — really, a gathering, as opposed to a parade, I’d guess you’d have to say,” Trump said at the White House. Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt was put in charge of planning what Trump said “could be a very exciting day.” Trump wanted a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Veterans Day last year, but senior administration officials halted planning after seeing the estimated $92 million price tag. (AP)

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The proportion of Americans who say blackface is “always” or “sometimes” acceptable as part of a Halloween costume, according to a survey Pew Research released Monday. The survey was done over a two-week period almost entirely before the blackface scandal involving Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam was first reported. A slight majority — 53 percent of Americans — said they thought it was generally unacceptable for a white person to darken their skin with makeup to appear to be a different race for a Halloween costume, Pew reported. (TWP)

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A disgraced Baltimore police detective who led a double life as a drug gang collaborator has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for his role on an out-of-control unit of city officers who resold looted narcotics, conducted brazen robberies and falsified evidence. Momodu Gondo was sentenced Tuesday in a federal courtroom after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors on charges of racketeering and conspiracy to distribute heroin.

Gondo was the seventh member of the disbanded police unit called the Gun Trace Task Force to be sentenced. (AP) MARYLAND

State Senate OKs letting localities set school start The Maryland Senate voted Tuesday to enable local school boards to decide whether school begins before or after Labor Day. The measure now goes to the House, where Democrats hold a supermajority. The issue has prompted a battle with Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who signed an executive order in 2016 requiring schools to start after Labor Day. Supporters of the governor say the longer summer breaks give families more time together and help tourism, but critics say they shortchange education. (AP) TRANSPORTATION

Chinese firm’s interest in Metro causes concern China’s state-owned rail car manufacturer has shown interest in building the next generation of rail cars for Metro, and federal officials are worried about possible cybersecurity risks.

China Railway Rolling Stock Corp. was one of the companies that visited the area last month on a Metro-sponsored trip for possible bidders. Officials and experts say the cars could be equipped with surveillance cameras or equipment vulnerable to hacking. (AP)

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Shutdown, Part 2: Workers preparing to endure the worst If it’s true that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, folks like Johnny Zuagar must be feeling pretty muscular.

The 39-year-old retail sales analyst at the Census Bureau’s headquarters in Suitland, Md., surfaced from the recent 35day partial government shutdown feeling energized to take on whatever President Trump throws at the federal workforce. That includes the possibility of another shutdown if a tentative congressional budget deal falls through.

Zuagar, speaking as president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) council representing census workers nationally,

said the “financial aspect was very difficult” during the last shutdown. Married and the father of three young boys, he delayed payments for day care, mortgage and utilities.

Yet, he now can say: “I’m stronger. … I survived 35 days.”

Zuagar is among those attending the union’s annual legislative conference on Capitol Hill this week. They were fired up when AFGE President J. David Cox Sr. told the gathering: “We won in the court of public opinion. And sisters and brothers, we didn’t just win.

We kicked their asses.”

They also took tough blows.

Zuagar and 800,000 federal colleagues were either locked out of work or forced to work temporarily without pay. They have now received back wages, or should soon.

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Zuagar and others are ready to carry on the fight. The government could shut again after Friday if no agreement is finalized.

“I’m prepared to be back out there [demonstrating],” he said. “Mentally, emotionally, everything, I’m pretty strong.

You know the people that we have working here are pretty strong people. You know, they’ll get through it.”

Whether there is another shutdown or the emergence of federal sanity is uncertain. A tentative bipartisan agreement to avoid another closure was reached Monday evening.

But Trump dumped on the deal, without declaring it dead. “I’m not happy,” he said Tuesday, adding, “it’s not going to do the trick.” But he said he could make additions and avoid another shutdown.

Shamefully and incongruously for the president of the United States, Trump again expressed pride in shutting the government he heads in the name of his pet project, the border wall: “I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished because people learned during that shutdown all about the problems coming in from the southern border.”

Yet he said, “I don’t think you’re going to see a shutdown” at the end of this week.

Randy Erwin, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, is pleased with the tentative agreement, but is proceeding as if there were none.

“There is too much that could go wrong to consider this a done deal,” he said. “We are preparing for another shutdown. Until I see this spending bill signed by the president, we will continue those preparations.

“Federal workers have been burned too badly to proceed any differently.”

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A new bipartisan public lands bill would add three national park units and expand eight others.

Bipartisan bill would create more than 1.3 million acres of wilderness ENVIRONMENT The Senate on Tuesday passed the most sweeping conservation legislation in a decade, protecting millions of acres of land and hundreds of miles of wild rivers across the country and establishing four new national monuments honoring heroes from Civil War soldiers to a civil rights icon.

The 662-page measure, which passed 92 to 8, represented an old-fashioned approach to dealmaking that has largely disappeared on Capitol Hill. Senators celebrated home-state gains and congratulated each other for bridging the partisan divide.

“It touches every state, features the input of a wide coalition of our colleagues and has earned the support of a broad, diverse coalition of many advocates for public lands, economic development and conservation,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch

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McConnell, R-Ky. It’s a paradoxical win for conservation at a time when President Trump has promoted development on public lands and scaled back safeguards established by his predecessors.

The bill, which the Congressional Budget Office projects would save taxpayers $9 million, enjoys broad support in the House. The lower chamber is poised to take it up after the mid-February recess, and White House officials have indicated that Trump will sign it.

The measure protects 1.3 million acres as wilderness, the nation’s most stringent protection, which prohibits even roads and motorized vehicles. It permanently withdraws more than 370,000 acres of land from mining around two national parks, including Yellowstone, and permanently authorizes a program to spend offshore drilling revenue

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The package is crammed full of provisions for nearly every senator. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., lauded the fact that it will create 273,000 acres of wilderness in his state, most of it within the boundaries of two national monuments that Trump threatened to shrink.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who co-authored it, inserted a provision that allows native Alaskans who served in Vietnam to apply for a land allotment.

Sen. M i ke L ee, R-Uta h , emerged as the legislation’s most vocal opponent, decrying the restrictions that accompany any new wilderness and the possibility that the bill will make it easier for the federal government to acquire private land. JULIET EILPERIN AND DINO GRANDONI

The climate in New York City in 60 years could feel like Arkansas does now. Chicago could seem like Kansas City, and San Francisco could get a Southern California climate if global warming pollution continues at the current pace, a new study finds.

In 2080, North Carolina’s capital, Raleigh, could feel more like Florida’s capital, Tallahassee, while D.C. will have a climate more akin to just north of the Mississippi Delta if current trends continue. That’s according to a study Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications that tries to put climate change in an understandable context. (AP)

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JOB OPENINGS SURGE

The number of jobs U.S. employers posted in December, the most open jobs in the nearly two decades that records have been kept — evidence that the job market is strong despite several challenges facing the economy. It’s the most job openings since records began in December 2000. It is also far greater than the number of unemployed, which stood at 6.3 million that month. The surge in available jobs indicates that businesses expect demand to remain healthy and that they will need more employees to meet it. (AP) Belgium cancels all flights for 24 hours amid nationwide transit strike

Despite boom, 7M are behind on car payments ECONOMY A record 7 million Americans are 90 days or more behind on their auto loan payments, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported Tuesday — even more than during the wake of the financial crisis.

Economists warn that this is a red flag. Despite the strong economy and low unemployment rate, many Americans are struggling to pay their bills.

“The substantial and growing number of distressed borrowers suggests that not all Americans have benefited from the strong labor market,” Fed economists wrote in a blog post.

A car loan is typically the first payment people make because a vehicle is critical to getting to work, and someone can live in a car if all else fails. When car loan delinquencies rise, it is usually a sign of significant duress among low-income and working-class Americans.

The New York Fed said there were over 1 million more “troubled borrowers” at the end of 2018 than there were in 2010, when unemployment hit 10 percent and the auto loan delinquency rate peaked. Today, unemployment is 4 percent and job openings are at an all-time high.

Most of the people who are behind on their bills have low credit scores and are under age 30, suggesting young people are having difficulty paying for their cars and student loans at the same time. HEATHER LONG (TWP)

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Case is seen as ‘most important’ since Spain returned to democracy

MADRID Twelve Catalan separatists went on trial Tuesday in the Spanish capital for staging a failed 2017 independence referendum that triggered a constitutional crisis and exposed rifts in a nation’s identity.

The trial is unprecedented in the history of modern Spain.

Carlos Lesmes, the president of Spain’s Supreme Court, characterized it as the “most important” case since the country returned to democracy in 1975.

It will be a test for the impartiality of Spain’s judiciary. And as it plays out on live television and saturates news headlines, reviving debates about democratic rights and political control, it will be a test of whether Spain’s governing minority coalition can hold together.

As what is expected to be a three-month trial got underway, pro- and anti-separatist demonstrators shouted at each other outside the court, surrounded by hundreds of police.

The 12 separatists — including Catalonia’s former vice president

and other regional officials — stand accused of rebellion, sedition and the misuse of public funds. If convicted, they could face up to 25 years in prison.

They deny the charges.

In October 2017, they staged an independence referendum in open defiance of the government in Madrid and the Spanish courts.

According to their results, 90 percent of voters supported secession — which Catalonia’s regional Parliament used as the basis for declaring independence. But only about 43 percent of Catalans participated, with most of those who supported the national government’s position boycotting the exercise. Opinion polls at the time suggested Catalans were evenly split on the secession question.

Spain received the support of other European Union member states in its position that the referendum was illegitimate and illegal.

The separatists are now pushing the idea that the trial is further evidence of Spain’s democracy deficit, and they have appealed to the European Union for clemency for the arrested officials. JENNIFER GREEN AND JAMES MC AULEY (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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NEW DELHI | Flames rise from a hotel Tuesday morning in New Delhi.

At least 17 people died and four others were hurt in the fire that engulfed the budget hotel. Most of the deaths were due to suffocation, officials said. The hotel developer had a permit from the fire department to build up to four stories — the standard height in central Delhi. But the building appeared to have six floors, including a kitchen on top of the roof.

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An American man has reportedly paid $110,000 to hunt and kill a rare mountain goat known as an Astore markhor in Pakistan. A photo of Texan Bryan Kinsel Harlan posing with the magnificent animal was published in Pakistani newspapers last week, drawing outrage. Local officials, however, say money from such hunts goes to people who live in the region to dissuade them from poaching, ultimately helping to preserve the species. (TWP)

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HARTFORD, CONN. Three women who attend Yale University sued the school and nine all-male fraternities Tuesday, seeking to force the social organizations to admit women in response to alleged sexual assault, harassment and discrimination.

The class-action lawsuit, filed in federal court in Connecticut, calls for an order banning fraternities from considering gender in admission decisions; fully integrating women in fraternity governance and alumni networks; and requiring Yale to prohibit student organizations from engaging in discrimination and harassment.

The three students also say women are being shut out of the social and economic benefits offered by all-male fraternities, including access to vast alumni networks that can help land coveted jobs. While there are sororities, their power and influence pales in comparison with fraternities, the lawsuit says.

“It’s not only breeding a very toxic sexual culture but also is giving undue economic and professional benefits to the male fraternity members,” said one of the plaintiffs, Ry Walker, a 20-year-old junior.

The women’s lawyers say they believe this is the first-ever lawsuit by students against a university seeking to “gender integrate” frats. An attorney for the fraternities, Joan Gilbride, said the students’ accusations are baseless. DAVE COLLINS (AP)

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In these courtroom drawings, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, exchange “thumbs-up” gestures after his conviction.

‘El Chapo’ found guilty Notorious Mexican drug lord, convicted on all counts, could face life in prison NEW YORK Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encrusted guns and a naked escape with his mistress through a tunnel.

Guzman listened to a drumbeat of guilty verdicts on drug and conspiracy charges that could put the 61-year-old escape artist behind bars for decades in a maximum-security U.S. prison selected to thwart another one of the breakouts that made him a folk hero in his native country.

A jury whose members’ identities were kept secret as a security measure reached a verdict after deliberating six days in the expansive case. They sorted through what authorities called an “avalanche” of evidence gathered since the late 1980s that Guzman and his murderous Sinaloa drug cartel made

billions in profits by smuggling tons of cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana into the U.S. Guzman As the judge read the verdict, Guzman stared at the jury, and his wife watched the scene, both with resignation in their faces. When the jurors were discharged and Guzman stood to leave the courtroom, the couple traded a thumbs-ups.

U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan lauded the jury’s meticulous attention to detail and the “remarkable” approach it took toward deliberations. Cogan said it made him “very proud to be an American.”

Evidence showed dr ugs poured into the U.S. through secret tunnels or hidden in tanker trucks, concealed in the undercarriage of passenger cars and packed in rail cars passing through legitimate points of entry — suggesting that a border wall wouldn’t be much of a worry.

The prosecution’s case against Guzman, a roughly 5½-foot

figure whose nickname translates to “Shorty,” included the testimony of several turncoats and other witnesses. Among them were Guzman’s former Sinaloa lieutenants, a computer encryption expert and a Colombian cocaine supplier who underwent extreme plastic surgery to disguise his appearance.

One Sinaloa insider described Mexican workers getting contact highs while packing cocaine into thousands of jalapeno cans — shipments that totaled 25 to 30 tons of cocaine worth $500 million each year. Another testified how Guzman sometimes acted as his own sicario, or hit

Naked getaway One of the trial’s most memorable tales came from girlfriend Lucero Guadalupe Sanchez Lopez, who testified she was in bed in a safe house with an on-the-run Guzman in 2014 when Mexican marines started breaking down his door. She said Guzman led her to a trapdoor beneath a bathtub that opened to a tunnel that allowed them to escape.

Asked what he was wearing, she replied: “He was naked. He took off running. He left us behind.” (AP)

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man, punishing a Sinaloan who dared to work for another cartel by kidnapping him, beating and shooting him and having his men bury the victim while he was still alive, gasping for air.

The defense case lasted just half an hour. Guzman’s lawyers did not deny his crimes as much as argue he was a fall guy for government witnesses who were more evil than he was.

In closing arguments, defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman urged the jury not to believe government witnesses who “lie, steal, cheat, deal drugs and kill people.”

U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue called the conviction “a victory for the American people who suffered so much” while the defendant poured poison over the borders. He expected Guzman to get life without parole.

“It is a sentence from which there is no escape and no return,” Donoghue told a news conference outside the courthouse, through snow and sleet.

Lichtman said the defense “fought like complete savages” and will appeal the case. “No matter who the defendant is, you still have to fight to the death.”

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Retired astronaut Mark Kelly announced Tuesday he will run to finish John McCain’s last term in the U.S. Senate. If he wins the Democratic nomination, Kelly would face Republican Martha McSally in 2020. Kelly is a prominent gun control advocate.

His wife, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was shot in a failed assassination attempt in 2011. (AP) VENEZUELA

Maduro challenger plans caravans for aid Opposition leader Juan Guaido pushed back plans to get badly needed food and medicine into Venezuela by nearly two weeks, a timeline that threatens to deflate momentum toward unseating entrenched President Nicolas Maduro. Guaido set Feb. 23 as the date for bringing in the badly needed U.S. assistance that has been warehoused on the Colombian border since last week, but provided few details. (AP) EUROPE

Balkan nation renamed as North Macedonia The small Balkan country of Macedonia officially changed its name Tuesday to the Republic of North Macedonia. The name change ended a decades-old dispute with neighboring Greece and secured its entry into NATO. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said the country had achieved a “historic goal.” (AP) ATLANTA

Lawyer: 21 Savage has been granted bond Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage was granted bond for release Tuesday, his lawyer said.

The rapper, whose given name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on Feb. 3. Authorities said Abraham-Joseph is a British citizen who has overstayed his visa. He is expected to be released today. (AP)

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But he signals he may still sign agreement that falls short of wall funding demands WASHINGTON Under mounting pressure from his own party, President Trump appeared to be grudgingly leaning toward accepting an agreement Tuesday that would head off a threatened second government shutdown but provide just a fraction of the money he’s been demanding for his Mexican border wall.

Trump said he would need more time to study the plan, but he also declared he was not expecting another shutdown this weekend, when funding for parts of the government would run out. He strongly signaled he planned to scrounge up additional dollars for the wall by raiding other federal coffers to deliver on the signature promise of his presidential campaign.

“I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled,” Trump said of the proposed deal. “But the wall is getting built, regardless.

It doesn’t matter because we’re doing other things beyond what we’re talking about here.”

Accepting the deal, worked out by congressional negotiators from both parties, would be a disappointment for a president who has repeatedly insisted he needs $5.7 billion for a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the project is paramount for national security. Trump turned down a similar deal in December, forcing the 35-day

partial shutdown that left hundreds of thousands of federal workers without paychecks and Republicans reeling. Washington has little appetite for a repeat.

Lawmakers tentatively agreed Monday night to a deal that would provide nearly $1.4 billion for border barriers and keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30.

The agreement would allow 55 miles of new fencing — constructed using existing designs such as metal slats — but far less than the 215 miles the White House demanded in December.

The fencing would be built in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.

“I hope he signs the bill,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who joined other GOP leaders in selling it as a necessary compromise that represented a major concession from Democrats.

A presidential rejection of the deal could plunge Congress into a new crisis, as lawmakers have no clear Plan B. They need to pass some kind of funding bill to avoid another shutdown at midnight Friday and have worked to avoid turning to another short-term bill that would only prolong the border debate.

Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, Trump said of a possible shutdown: “I don’t think it’s going to happen.”

percentage of that money — to build the wall, which we desperately need,” he said.

That could be more difficult than he made it sound, facing challenges in Congress or federal courts or both.

The White House has long been laying the groundwork for Trump to use executive action to bypass Congress and divert money into wall construction. He could declare a national emergency or invoke other executive authority to tap funds including money set aside for military construction, disaster relief and anti-drug efforts.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer urged Trump to accept the package to avert another shutdown, calling the tentative accord “welcome news.”

Despite the unpredictable events that lead to police shootings, in each of the past four years police nationwide have shot and killed almost the same number of people — nearly 1,000.

Last year, police shot and killed 998 people, 11 more than the 987 they fatally shot in 2017.

In 2016, police killed 963 people, and 995 in 2015.

The Washington Post began tracking the shootings after Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, was killed in 2014 by police in Ferguson, Mo. A Post investigation found that the FBI’s tracking system undercounted fatal police shootings by about half, because of the fact that reporting by police departments is voluntary and many departments fail to do so.

The ongoing Post project relies on news accounts, social media postings and police reports.

The Post’s reporting shows that both the annual number and circumstances of fatal shootings and the overall demographics of the victims have remained constant. The dead: 45 percent white men; 23 percent black men; and 16 percent Hispanic men. Women have accounted for about 5 percent of those killed, and people in mental distress for about 25 percent of all shootings.

About 54 percent of those killed have been armed with guns, and 4 percent unarmed.

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President Trump on Tuesday suggested he would transfer resources from less important government areas to get full funding for his border wall.

Butterfly effect The nonprofit National Butterfly Center has asked a federal judge to stop border wall activity on its property as the Trump administration gears up to build new walls and fencing in south Texas.

The butterfly center asked in its motion to ban government agents from “taking any action” on center property. Government lawyers filed paperwork saying they would respond by Feb. 22. (AP)

Still, he made clear that, if he does sign on to the deal, he is strongly considering supplementing it by moving money from what he described as less important areas of government.

“We have a lot of money in this country and we’re using some of that money — a small

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Where little laugh riots go SUMMER CAMPS Ever hear the one about the kids who turned summer camp into a total joke?

Around the Washington area, budding comedians can finesse their skills this summer at an array of camps that promise big laughs. “There are a lot of kids out there who are really genuinely very funny and who enjoy learning the specific skills that go along with comedy,” says Sara Strehle Duke, executive director of Encore Stage & Studio. “People think that you’re either born with

it or you’re not, but at camp, these kids get the opportunity to hone their skills and practice.”

Encore, located in Arlington, offers dozens of summer camps for kids as young as 3. A couple will appeal to young jokesters in particular, like the improva-thon for tweens ages 8 to 12 (Aug. 19-23, $350). During the weeklong program, attendees might, for example, be given a location or relationship they need to create a story around, which is an exercise in situational comedy. Imagine one kid is a

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Smithsonian Associates offers a summer camp for kids eager to learn the ins and outs of sketch comedy, and another that digs into comedy history.

teacher and another is a student, and they’re on the moon — what would happen? “They get to use their imagination and try out funny characters,” Duke says.

“Kids are infinitely imaginative.”

In Encore’s Tragedy vs. Comedy camp (July 22-Aug. 2, $665) — also designed for the 8-to-12 set — participants explore both comedic and dramatic acting styles, plus the skills required for each. Last year, attendees were tasked with transforming “Peter Pan,” culminating in a performance for friends and family. “One group took the dramatic version, and it got kind of dark,” Duke says. “They took out the magical element and

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made it much more serious, and then the other team heightened the magic and the comedy and made a comedic version. So they got to explore how one story can be crafted differently just by the plot you choose, making it a completely different experience.”

Sheila Wenz, a D.C.-based professional comedian who offers stand-up and sketch comedy classes to kids and adults at Stand-Up Studios DC, says studying comedy helps boost confidence and public speaking skills. “I help [kids] get to the point and present their unique ideas in a humorous way,” she says. “It’s not, ‘Let me hear a joke about the chicken who crossed the road.’ It’s more, ‘Who are you and how do you see the world?’”

Wenz will teach three summer camps through Montgomery College Youth Programs: stand-up comedy (July 22-26 for students who will be in grades nine to 12 in the fall; July 27-Aug. 2 for grades six to eight) and funny girls (Aug. 12-16, for girls in grades eight to 12). Each camp costs $210 and will be held at Montgomery College’s Rockville campus. “I enjoy teaching the kids more than the adults because they’re just naturally funny,” Wenz says. “And they

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Encore’s Tragedy vs. Comedy camp gives kids a foundation in both comedic and dramatic acting skills. The program ends with campers interpreting a work as they see fit in a performance for their parents and peers.

The director of Stand-Up Studios DC says the studio’s comedy summer camps help boost kids’ self-confidence and public speaking skills.

take it very seriously.”

At Smithsonian Summer Camp, held at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, future comedians can study the history of their craft.

There are two options: sketch comedy, open to kids in grades seven through nine (June 17-21), and American comedy, geared toward third- to fifth-graders (Aug. 5-9). Each is $460, or $395 for members of Smithsonian Associates, which organizes the camps.

Brigitte Blachere, program manager for Smithsonian Associates, is succinct when describing this summer’s comedic offerings: “Fun!” In the sketch comedy program, teens play theater games and learn to develop unique characters and unusual situations via a series of skits that they write, design and perform.

They’ll discover how to best present comedy, whether it’s on the stage, big screen or YouTube,

Blachere says.

Young comedians enrolled in the American Comedy program will visit the American History Museum, National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture, where they’ll examine stand-up comic Phyllis Diller’s gag file and the frilly shirt Jerry Seinfeld agreed to wear during an appearance on “The Today Show.” “It’s a unique opportunity that allows kids to not only have a great time, but to be part of a camp on the Mall, at the Smithsonian, and to get to see things they might not otherwise get to see,” Blachere says.

Traveling Players Ensemble, a nonprofit professional theater company, offers a range of summer acting programs for students in grades three to 12.

Introductory programs last a week; more intensive, advanced training is five to seven weeks.

During the Middle School Ensemble program (June 24-July 19, July 22-Aug. 16, $2,350), current fifth- to eighth-graders will perfect physical comedy techniques and perform a farce by the French playwright Moliere.

During the five-week Commedia Troupe program, 13 high school students — admitted via audition — will study commedia dell’arte, a style of improvised theatre credited with introducing slapstick comedy and other popular theatrical conventions.

The program, which lasts from July 22 to Aug. 23, costs $3,800.

“Essentially, they didn’t have cartoons in the 17th century — they had this,” says Toby Mulford, Traveling Players’ associate artistic director, and the founder and director of the Commedia Troupe. Summer program participants “learn really big, broad physical characterizations and other aspects of this style, and they get to experience building a play through improvisation with each other.” Students spend the final nine days of camp on tour, performing an original commedia play at places like the Lime Kiln Amphitheater in Lexington, Va. It’s never too early, after all, for a budding comedian’s grand debut. ANGELA HAUPT (FOR EXPRESS)

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The new camps on the block When it comes to summer camp, your kids may feel like they’ve been there, done that. That’s why we’ve rounded up a list of new summer camps in the D.C. area for 2019. From brand-new programs to new themes at longtime favorites, there are fresh

For young ones Georgetown Day School is introducing a new Little Hoppers Camp ($475) for rising pre-K and kindergarten students. The oneweek program, offered throughout the summer, will be structured like a typical school day to help prepare little ones for the fall, and gives young kids a summer activity. “We had many parents last summer who were looking for opportunities for their 4-year-old children, as well as an opportunity to expose them to new situations with new people and new places before they started pre-K or kindergarten,” says Natalie Clinton, director of summer studies and break camps at Georgetown Day School. “We are hoping that campers will be exposed to a wide range of new experiences and begin to understand what it means to follow directions, work with other children, explore, create and learn.”

For kids wanting to learn survival skills Got a middle schooler who needs to learn some independence?

Check out the life skills boot camp ($500) at BASIS Independent School in McLean, Va. Running from June 24-28 for sixth- through eighth-graders, the camp will cover such topics as cooking a simple meal, doing laundry and managing finances. Meanwhile, the Fairfax County Park Authority is offering a new orienteering and leadership camp (June 17-21, $495) for 11- to 15-year-olds that teaches them how to navigate with maps and compasses, complete ropes courses, and develop leadership skills through team-building activities. It’s also running a new survival camp at Burke Lake Park (June 24-28 and Aug. 19-23, $510) for the same age group, where kids learn how to fish, build a fire and construct a shelter.

For video gamers Lavner Camps will be rolling out new esports camps at its locations around the country, which include George Washington University’s Mount Vernon campus locally. Weeklong camps focused on “Fortnite,” “League of Legends” and “Overwatch” (multiple sessions, $609) will offer 13- to 15-year-olds tips on game-playing strategy, combined with instruction on how to use technology in a healthy way that includes time management skills, sensitivity training and stretches they can do during long gaming sessions.

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For pop culture buffs Got a Harry or Hermione fan at home? Sign them up for Smithsonian Summer Camp’s new two-week camp Hogwarts at the Smithsonian: OWLs and NEWTs ($635 member/$735 non-members). Offered June 24 through July 3 for fifth- through seventh-graders, it takes a deep dive into the mythology, history and science behind the “Harry Potter” books and films through visits to sites like the National Portrait Gallery and National Zoo. It even culminates in its own version of the Triwizard Tournament. The Fairfax County Park Authority similarly wanted to tap into kids’ interests when planning camps for summer 2019. That’s why it’s offering new camp experiences like ACTion! JAM-ILTON (multiple sessions, $280) — where kids can make like Lin-Manuel Miranda and write their own American Revolution–themed songs and scenes — and camps inspired by popular Food Network shows like “Chopped” and “Cupcake Wars” (multiple sessions, $379). “We want children to be excited about the camp that they’re going to,” says Ellen Werthmann, youth services section manager for the park authority. “So we looked at incorporating the terms and components that they’re into every day and are familiar with.”

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Do your kids think they could take on the Salmon Ladder or Warped Wall?

Then sign them up for the new Ninja Warrior Parkour camp (July 29-Aug. 2 and Aug. 12-16, $395) offered by Montgomery County Recreation.

They’ll learn tumbling, rope climbing, balance and other obstacle courseconquering skills. Montgomery County is also offering a new flag football camp ($350) in partnership with the Washington Redskins.

Kids ages 7-14 will develop skills and sportsmanship during the camp (July 15-19). Meanwhile, at the new St. James sports and entertainment complex in Springfield, Va., kids can sign up for the Ultimate Sports Camp (starting at $310), offered all summer. Young athletes can compete in different sports at the complex’s FIFA-regulation soccer pitch, NBA-regulation basketball courts, NHL-regulation hockey rinks and Olympic-size swimming pool. For fans more interested in delving into stats, check out Georgetown Day School’s new Sports of DC camp ($505).

Offered July 29-Aug. 2 for grades four to six, it examines the history of local sports teams, analyzes their coaches and players and tours area stadiums.

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For 2019, Headfirst Summer Camps, which offers camps at four D.C.area locations, is unveiling its new Innovators Inc. camp experience ($479-$499). Developed by a former elementary educator, the program for rising second- through sixth-graders (ages vary by location) features a different theme-based challenge each week. On a given day, campers might time travel to learn about important inventions from the past or work as city planners to develop solutions to environmental and traffic problems. “What I saw in the classroom were a lot of missed opportunities for exploratory hands-on learning,” says Sarah Rae, associate of content and curriculum for summer camps at Headfirst.

“The learning is fun, purposeful and meaningful and sprinkled in there in a way that doesn’t feel like school.”

Georgetown Day School is offering an array of new STEM camps ($490$510) this summer where kids can make tabletop pinball machines, learn about 3D printing and coding or try their hand at robotics. “We have not had anything like this in the past, and we know these will be very popular,” says Clinton.

The Red Bandana, a gluten-free bakery in Bethesda, will be offering summer camps for the first time this year, with sessions Aug. 5-9 for ages 9 to 13 and Aug. 12-16 for ages 5 to 8 ($300/week for half-day). Participants will explore food science, the food system and culinary history while baking and decorating healthy goodies that are gluten-free and often vegan, dairy-free and/or low in fat and sugar. At Sidwell Summer’s Bethesda program, the Handwork Studio will offer new Sweets, Treats and Eats camps ($275) where participants can spend a week learning all about how dessert, including cake pops, cookies, to make a certain fun dessert kies, cupcakes and candy.

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For the past decade, the Handwork Studio has been running arts-related camps for Sidwell Summer’s program. This year, it’s introducing a new woodworking camp ($575) where kids in grades four through 10 get to measure, saw and hammer all the pieces for their own projects. “We know that kids have the answer to everything in their hands, but they’re going to need to learn in a different way to be successful,” says Laura Kelly, owner of the Handwork Studio. “They’re going to need to be able to physically understand how to construct things, to think critically and to analyze.” The one-week woodworking camp is offered throughout the summer. The Handwork Studio is also offering a new costume design camp (July 8-12 and Aug. 5-9, $575), where kids create a theatrical costume for characters of their choosing, and a new quilt-making camp (July 22-26, $575), where they design and machine sew a quilt made from favorite T-shirts. Smithsonian Summer Camp’s new camp Music of Note ($635 member/$735 non-members) for fourth- through sixth-graders explores the evolution of African-American music.

Running June 24-July 3, the camp includes visits to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where campers learn how songs are connected to historical and cultural changes.

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Where everyone’s welcome SUMMER CAMPS Inclusion is a core value shared by many summer camps, and in recent years there’s been a lot of discussion in the camp community about how to help transgender and gender-nonconforming youth succeed.

Tom Rosenberg, president and chief executive officer of the American Camp Association, says the group is doing more every year to support camps that want to be more welcoming to kids of all identities. “Our goal is to offer expert educational support for camps that wish to welcome transgender kids, and also to really learn more and develop the culture of their camp to be more inclusive,” he says.

Andy Shlensky, director of North Star Camp for Boys in Hayward, Wis., also says that at conferences over the past several years, camp directors have had positive talks about ways to be as supportive as possible.

While change is happening at some camps faster than others, it does seem to be happening — from updated policies to increased staff training to more sweeping changes like those made at Camp Bob Waldorf, in Glendale, Calif. According to director Zach Lasker, the camp changed the names of its Girl’s and Boy’s Camps to Lower Camp and Upper Camp, added genderneutral bathrooms, and provided staff training on social and emotional safety for trans and gender-nonconforming campers.

Rosenberg says that around the country, camps working toward inclusivity are at different places along their journey.

So how can parents of trans and gender-nonconforming youth know if a camp will be a safe and fun place for their child?

Jessica Weissbuch, co-founder of LGBTQ leadership camp Camp Brave Trails in Southern California, says parents should

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Across the country, directors are implementing ways to help transgender kids succeed at summer camp

Camp Brave Trails is among a rising number of camps implementing policies to support transgender campers.

“We really let them tell us what they want to do, because we want for them to feel safe and to help be their advocate.”

MORGAN SANTIESTEBAN, saying the camp she directs allows campers to decide how they come out

The LGBTQ leadership-focused Camp Brave Trails welcomes transgender and gender-nonconforming youth at its facility in Southern California.

look for a camp to have a clear and strong nondiscrimination policy. “If you’re going to support trans and gender-nonconforming youth, you need to 100 percent wholeheartedly do it,” she says.

“There’s no halfway to do it in my opinion. You need to really protect those campers in a big way.”

The language on a camp’s application is also a good indicator of its level of inclusivity,

Weissbuch says. For example, are there more than two gender options?

Policies, however, can only get you so far. “You also have to consider the individual needs of each camper,” Rosenberg says.

Directors encourage parents to be open and honest with camps when they apply.

“In that conversation, they can create a plan and an agreement

so the camper understands what their experience is going to be like,” says Morgan Santiesteban, director of Camp Sugar Pine, a camp of the Girl Scouts of Northern California. “If a camp is not going to be the best place for them, the director can help find a location that can offer them support and offer them resources that would be better.”

Weissbuch agrees, and says

parents should be “as assertive and protective and aggressive as they possibly can.” If the child is comfortable being outed, Weissbuch says, parents should be as transparent as possible. “Say, ‘This is who we are. I want to know if there’s a place for my kid here.’”

Sometimes, campers don’t come out until they get to camp, and many directors are also focused on training their staff to support campers of all gender identities. Santiesteban says that over the past three years, she has been working with staff on how to help campers who are already out or who come out while they are at camp — as well as how to talk to other campers about it.

At Sugar Pine, the camper who comes out is free to determine whether other campers are told, and who tells them. “We really let them tell us what they want to do because we want for them to feel safe and to help be their advocate,” Santiesteban says.

Many directors working toward an inclusive environment agree that the best way to support trans or gender-nonconforming campers is to let them and their families make the decisions about coming out, or which gender of camp or cabin is best.

Shari Sigoloff, owner of Camp Thunderbird for Girls and Camp Thunderbird for Boys in Bemidji, Minn., says it’s typically not difficult for other campers to accept their trans and gendernonconforming peers as campmates or cabinmates. “Kids are way more flexible and resilient than adults,” she says.

Shlensky agrees. “Camps are really safe and nurturing places, and they really strive to give every camper the opportunity to be their best self,” says Shlensky. “And what better place would there be for a kid to gain confidence in their own skin?”

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So hold back on the frequency, and think about the following guidelines. KATIE WORKMAN (AP)

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Broadbridge explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have life-threatening allergies, and woodland creatures who love to come into cabins to hunt for food.â&#x20AC;?

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Broadbridge recommends sending things that kids can play with friends and cabinmates, such as Frisbees and other outdoor games, joke books or playing cards. If you send the whole cabin a gift, make sure you know how many kids are in it (and send one extra, just in case!). Ideas for group gifts include fun sunglasses, flashlights, glow sticks or necklaces, or funny socks.

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Isaac Baumfeld, camp director of French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in Hancock, N.Y., suggests items like a camp journal, small plush animals, a collapsible water bottle, yo-yo, a slinky or a small fan.

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Only the Wizards: Four decades with no 50-win seasons leg injuries. (It’s only happened two consecutive times.)

It’s not like they have the NBA’s worst overall record over those 40 seasons. (With a winning percentage of .429, they’re actually 26th of 30 NBA franchises in that span.)

And it’s not like this has been one unchanging stagnant slog; the franchise has switched names, colors (twice), uniforms (more than twice), arenas, owners and municipalities.

But 50 wins has remained out of reach, even as the team annually anoints that number as a worthy goal, a sign of progress, a nice round mark of hope.

“The last three years, if everybody’s healthy, we would have been near 50 wins each season,” GM Bob Ferry said in 1987.

“I think we should be out front that we want to win 50 games this season,” Chris Webber said in 1997.

“To me, anything less than 50 wins would be a disappointment,” Antawn Jamison said in 2006.

“Our ultimate go is to try to get 50,” John Wall said in 2015.

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The number of head coaches — including interims — Washington has had since Dick Motta, who in 1978-79 was the last one to lead the franchise to a 50-win season. Current coach Scott Brooks, above, came the closest over that span, leading the team to a 49-33 record in 2016-17. (EXPRESS)

People complain about the Redskins not winning 11 games since 1991, and justifiably so. But a 10-6 NFL season actually represents a better winning percentage than 4933, the best the Wizards have managed in 40 years. And the Redskins have been 10-6 three times under Dan Snyder alone!

There have been good times over the past five years, fun moments, playoff near-misses.

If the Wizards won 50 games and then lost in the first or second round of the playoffs, their critics wouldn’t actually feel that much better.

But the team keeps talking about it. And the team keeps falling short, often disturbingly so.

“After that [first win],” Randy Foye said in 2010, “we looked at each other and said, ‘Yeah, what everybody is predicting about us might be right.’ Fifty-win season and things like that.”

The Wizards won 26 games that season. They’re already at 24 this season. So I guess things could be worse.

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This Wizards season ceased to be fun several eons ago, but Monday night offered a spiritual touchstone with the official news that the Wizards would not reach 50 wins. For, yes, that’s right, the 40th straight season.

Every other NBA franchise has won 50 games at least once since then, according to The Post’s Jake Russell. More than half the teams have won 50 games at least nine times since then. The Spurs have done it 26 times. That means the Wizards could win 50 games every single season for the next 25 years and the Spurs could lose every single game between now and then, and San Antonio would still have more 50-win seasons than Washington over a 65-year stretch.

Look, some of this is overwrought for dramatic purposes. It’s not like the Wizards have had three consecutive transcendent franchise point guards brought low at the peak of their careers by repeated

Spring training begins for the Nationals in West Palm Beach, Fla., this week and the team has a long to-do list to work through before Opening Day. Here are the top position battles to figure out. (TWP)

This was a one-on-one matchup between Joe Ross and Erick Fedde before veteran Jeremy Hellickson signed a one-year deal and became the front-runner.

2 Final bullpen spots

Sammy Solis, Justin Miller, Vidal Nuno and Wander Suero, a 27-year-old righty who impressed the Nats after debuting last season, are in the mix for the last two spots.

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Is this a real battle or just an attempt to motivate Michael A. Taylor? Victor Robles, below, 21, has been a top prospect for years now and seems ready to take on a bigger role.

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Refs defend noncall that went viral Re

The Wizards had a rough Monday — and so did d the refs in Washington’s 121-112 loss to the Pistons. Twitter users quickly ripped the crew for missing a tra traveling call on Bradley Beal in which he appeared to take four steps. Even Beal responded to a clip of tthe play, tweeting: “Look clean to me,” with laughing emojis. But on Tuesday the National Basketball Ref Referees Association defended the noncall, citing the “fumble” rule and claiming it was legal. (EXPRESS) Mets ace Jacob deGrom sets Opening Day deadline for contract talks

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A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press the perennial Pro Bowler has formally asked the Steelers for a trade, the latest move in a game of brinksmanship by the 30-year-old designed to force Pittsburgh to move him by the start of training camp.

Brown appeared to make his decision official in a social media post released on Instagram on Tuesday. The video includes highlights from Brown’s career with the Steelers while lyrics from “Do What I Want” by rapper Lil Uzi Vert plays.

“SteelerNation thank you for nine big years!!!” Brown wrote.

Antonio Brown had 104 catches for 1,297 yards and 15 TDs last season.

“Time to move on and move forward.”

The post came shortly after Brown was found guilty in absence on a charge of reckless driving in a suburban Pittsburgh court on Tuesday morning.

Brown still has three years remaining on the $72 million contract he signed in the spring of 2017, and remains one of the most dynamic performers in the league. WILL GRAVES (AP)

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ABC will prewent a two-hour special on March 2 from Indianapolis that will feature drills by QBs and receivers. The workouts run March 1-4 and willl also be on NFL Network. (AP)

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MUSIC You can never really guess what will happen at the Grammy Awards, but many figured this year’s album of the year honor would go to a superstar such as Drake, or the critically lauded Brandi Carlile, or even the soundtrack to “Black Panther.”

Then, in the closing moments of the nearly four-hour ceremony, host Alicia Keys announced album of the year: “ ‘Golden Hour,’ Kacey Musgraves!”

Musgraves, 30, walked away with four trophies overall, tied with Childish Gambino for the most of any artist that night.

So how did she break out of the country music bubble to capture enough mainstream attention for the Grammys’ biggest award?

Since the Texas-born Musgraves released her first single in 2012, she has stood out in Nashville. When so many singers were embracing the pop- and

The path to her ‘Golden Hour’ Grammy-winning country star Kacey Musgraves transcends genre rock-leaning songs that commercial radio programmers craved, Musgraves’ first effort, “Merry Go Round,” was pure country.

Yet it earned enough acclaim that people outside the genre took notice. The label “country singer for people who don’t like country music” has stuck with Musgraves for years. Her debut album, “Same Trailer Different

Park,” was also a hit, and her third single, “Follow Your Arrow,” became an instant classic among her fan base.

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The album was a risk, sonically, as Musgraves worked with new producers and mixed everything from pop to disco into country.

In a critical mainstream boost, her music caught the attention of Harry Styles. She opened for him in arenas across the United States last year and discovered a new set of fans. It all led to Sunday night, when she won the music industry’s biggest prize.

“I love country music with everything that I am,” she told the Grammy audience. “And I’m very proud to be able to get to share my version of that with the world.” EMILY YAHR (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Beck, Patti Smith, DJ Shadow, Billie Eilish and several international artists are part of a diverse group performing cover songs and original works for “Music Inspired by the Film Roma,” a record that complements the Alfonso Cuaron’s movie about a maid living in 1970s Mexico City. Released Friday, the album has plenty of good music but few direct links to the film. Some of the standout songs include Beck’s orchestrated “Tarantula” — an early 1980s U.K. pearl by Colourbox — on which he sounds like Robert Plant doing a Bryan Ferry impression. After Laura Marling’s stately take on “Those Were the Days,” the final track on the record — T Bone Burnett’s “Roma” — feels like someone ripping off your earphones while you were daydreaming.

The dream is over but life has to go on.

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Despite everything working against the film — from Singer’s surprise firing mid-production to the negative reviews — it seemed to have come out of the fires unscathed. The $50 million production became a box office phenomenon, grossing over $844 million globally. It developed into a top awards contender too, winning best drama and best actor for Rami Malek at the Golden Globes, while also receiving five Oscar nominations, including best actor and best picture.

But then on Jan. 23, a month before the Oscars and one day after the nominations, The Atlantic published an article in which four men claim they were abused by Singer while underage. Singer has denied the allegations.

“Everybody has heard these whispers and these stories,” says Glenn Whipp, the awards columnist for the Los Angeles Times. “It’s just a movie that people really enjoy and they’re not going to let anyone get in the way of their enjoyment.”

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“Bohemian Rhapsody” director Bryan Singer faces numerous allegations of sexual misconduct.

Those involved with the movie have, in general, opted not to talk about Singer. He was kept far away from the publicity tour but retained his directing credit and could stand to make $40 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Producer Graham King became the public face of the production along with Malek.

And their messaging stayed laserfocused on Freddie Mercury and doing right by him and the band.

Malek, on the day of his Oscar nomination, said that he was “not aware” of previous allegations

against Singer. He’s since presented a more informed stance and said that his “heart goes out to anyone who has to live through anything like what I’ve heard and what is out there.”

With just a few weeks to go before the Academy Awards, hardly anyone is predicting a “Bohemian Rhapsody” bestpicture win. But the general sentiment is that a loss won’t be because of Singer. Malek, on the other hand, seems to be a lock for best actor in spite of everything.

“There’s a real divide between what academy members seem to think about the movie and what they think about Rami Malek and his work in the movie,” Whipp says. “People are overlooking the film’s flaws and still voting for Malek. And they’re able to separate any qualms about Bryan Singer and this latest investigation from his work. It’s complete compartmentalization.”

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You and a rival may quibble over the meaning of one of the rules — but you know there are two ways of interpreting it.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Mind your manners today and don’t let an unfortunate incident keep you from enjoying what someone else provides.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) A domestic situation mustn’t be allowed to get out of control today. Be ready to put your foot down if necessary.

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2016: Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the U.S. Supreme Court, is found dead at a private residence in West Texas; he was 79.

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Chris Pratt responded to Ellen Page’s claim that he belongs to a church that is “infamously anti-LGBTQ,” saying that “nothing could be further from the truth” and arguing that “no church defines me or my life.”

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“Jersey Shore” star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro told Us Weekly that he recently did a stint at a Florida rehab center. “I decided to go to treatment because I wanted to be a better person, a better father for my daughter,” OrtizMagro said in the story published Tuesday, noting he pursued treatment for depression and alcohol abuse. The 33-year-old checked out of the center Friday. (EXPRESS)

Katy Perry’s fashion line pulled two types of shoes after some people compared them to blackface. The Ora Face Block Heel and Rue Face Slip-On Loafers were released last summer in nine different colors, including black. They featured protruding eyes, a nose and red lips. In a statement Tuesday, Perry said she was saddened when she learned they were being compared to blackface and had them removed. (AP)

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