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The political version of ‘We’re not angry — just disappointed’

Kansas election officials are putting the brakes on a dog’s campaign for governor. Terran Woolley, of Hutchinson, decided to file the paperwork over the weekend for his pooch, Angus, after reading stories about six teenage candidates. He described Angus as a “caring, nurturing individual who cares about the best for … all creatures other than squirrels.” For some reason, the state says Angus is not capable of fulfilling the responsibilities of governor. (AP)

Police in Florida have recovered a van that was stolen from a cremation business with a body still inside. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says someone spotted the abandoned van on Tuesday, a day after it was stolen from Affordable Cremation Solutions while the driver was busy dropping off paperwork. The body of a man who had died at a Jacksonville hospital was still strapped to a cot in the back. No arrests have been reported. (AP)

The parents of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson have donated the maximum amount — $2,700 — to their son’s Democratic rival, Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Nicholson is in a primary battle against Wisconsin state Sen. Leah Vukmir, with the winner advancing to take on Baldwin in the fall. “My parents have a different worldview than I do,” Nicholson said, adding that he’s a conservative by choice, “not because I was born one.” (AP)

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Four areas in Maryland make most diverse list A study conducted by WalletHub ranked Gaithersburg, Md., as the second-most diverse city in the country, followed by Germantown, Md., and Silver Spring in third and fourth places, respectively. Rockville ranked ninth. WalletHub looked at more than 500 of the largest cities in the United States, comparing indicators including ethnicity and race, language and birthplace to determine a cultural diversity score for each city. Jersey City, N.J., took the No. 1 spot, but the Maryland cities filled out the rest of the top four. (TWP)

Four figure skating coaches agree: The Caps’ Kuznetsov could have a future in their sport

SPORTS The judges sat four across, gripping Starbucks cups, and squinted through the glass as the Capitals circled the ice below.

Their objective was simple in concept, if difficult in practice.

“We’re trying to see which of the Capitals players would make the best figure skater,” said Shira Selis, one of the judges. “So far, there’s not much.”

As the world turns its attention to figure skating at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, four figure skating coaches were asked to fix their eyes on the Capitals during an hour-long practice last Thursday. The core techniques of skating are the same across hockey and figure skating.

After watching a full practice of drills and scrimmaging, and pointing out the Capitals’ inconsistencies in their skating as they moved about the ice, the judges all agreed that one player could lace up figure skates and maybe pull off a decent program after a few years of practice — center Evgeny Kuznetsov.

In the opening minutes, he

played keep-away inside the right faceoff circle, gracefully skated himself into open space and dished a pass to John Carlson for a goal.

Later in the first period, he flew out of the penalty box, used every bit of his off-leg extension to pick up speed along the left wing and knocked in a bouncing puck for a buzzer-beating goal.

The coaches, while noting that some Capitals could use a refresher on skating fundamentals, found a redeeming quality in a small handful of players. Forward Jakub Vrana, for example, has nice crossovers; forward T.J. Oshie’s footwork piqued their interest as well.

As for Kuznetsov, he has not considered a career in figure skating after hockey. Not yet, at least.

“No, no, no,” Kuznetsov said, laughing, when he was told that four figure skating coaches were impressed with his technique and elegance. “My grandmother had figure skates and I wore them a few times. Never again. Hockey skates are so much more comfortable.” ESSE DOUGHERTY (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Evengy Kuznetsov said he learned his technique by skating five to six hours a day as a kid. Now he works with a powerskating coach for three to four weeks every summer, and uses video of himself to analyze his tendencies. (TWP)

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$46.50 The price of the toll on Interstate 66 inside the Capital Beltway for a solo driver during the Tuesday morning rush. It reached its peak about 8:30 a.m. The $46.50 toll was just below a record of $47.25 set last month. The I-66 tolls, which are meant to encourage drivers to carpool or use public transportation inside the Beltway, have been the subject of criticism from drivers. (TWP)

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Mayor launches group to prepare the city for autonomous vehicles

With summer comes Metro disruptions GENE J. PUSKAR (AP)

THE DISTRICT D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday sent a message to companies developing and testing driverless technology: The city is opening its doors to them.

Bowser said she is creating a work group and directing it to “proactively prepare the District” for autonomous vehicle technologies. The group, with members from agencies focused on transportation, disability rights, environment and public safety, will be tasked with exploring the benefits of the technology to the District, its residents and visitors, Bowser said.

As part of the effort, the city and the Southwest Business Improvement District are soliciting innovative ideas from the selfdriving car industry for a pilot program to be launched near L’Enfant Plaza.

“We will keep the District on the cutting edge of autonomous vehicles and do so in a way that benefits our residents,” Bowser said in a news release.

“Washington, D.C., is a creative, tech-savvy city, and as we grow, we will always be exploring and investing in innovation and finding ways to make it more inclusive.”

The District’s embrace of

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Self-driving cars are prepped for a test drive in Pittsburgh in 2016. Similar autonomous vehicles could soon be navigating the streets of D.C.

autonomous vehicles is touted as a continuation of the city’s commitment to innovation. Last year the District Department of Transportation allowed Starship Technologies to experiment making food deliveries to residents in Logan Circle and around the 14th Street corridor via robots.

The robots roll autonomously through the nation’s capital using proprietary digital maps and sophisticated software to bring takeout food from restaurants to hungry customers at home.

Business and city leaders say they want to launch a pilot to test first- and last-mile transportation with autonomous vehicles along 10th Street SW. The Southwest Business Improvement District and other businesses offer a

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shuttle service in the area, to connect visitors to destinations including museums on the Mall and the new development, the Wharf. Officials say 10th Street is an ideal place to test autonomous cars because traffic there is manageable — with a daily volume of 4,300 vehicles.

“Our hope is that AVs will enhance this conduit, act as catalyst for innovative mobility solutions across the District, and ultimately create an interconnected, sustainable community,” said Steve Moore, executive director of Southwest BID. “This RFI is just the first step in what we hope will ultimately become a successful — and historic — pilot project.”

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Metro will conduct several maintenance projects this summer — including one that will shut down two Red Line stations for 45 days, the transit agency said Tuesday. Starting July 21 and lasting through Labor Day, Metro will shutter Rhode Island Ave. and Brookland stations on the Red Line. Buses will provide shuttle service from Fort Totten to NoMa, as there will be no train travel between those stations. Workers will use the shutdown to tackle long-term structural issues on the platform at Rhode Island Ave. station. There also will be disruptions in the downtown core, with 16 days of “significantly reduced service” between McPherson Square and Smithsonian stations. That project is scheduled to start Aug. 11 and continue through Aug. 26. (TWP)

D.C.’S BOOMING JEWISH POPULATION

The population of the Jewish community in the D.C. region, according to a new study of the region’s Jews. The number of Jews in the District and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs has grown by 37 percent since 2003, according to the report by Brandeis University researchers. The report shows that the Jewish community in the region is the third-largest in the U.S. — in a rough tie with Chicago, but far behind the New York area’s roughly 1.2 million Jews and more than 500,000 around Los Angeles. (TWP)

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Republican leaders in Virginia are seeking the resignation of a member of the party’s state central committee after he suggested he would not vote for a Jewish candidate. Virginia GOP Chairman John Whitbeck said committee member Fredy Burgos should resign. In a Facebook post, Burgos posted a quote from John Jay, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, that calls on Christians “to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” Burgos was supporting a candidate for a Fairfax County party post who is running against a Jewish candidate. (AP) PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA.

Driver charged after his passenger dies in crash A Virginia driver who police say ran off and left one of his passengers to die after crashing an SUV has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Vicente Vides Vasquez, 21, of Warrenton has also been charged with hit-and-run causing death and driving without a license.

Prince William County Police say the crash occurred before 3 a.m.

Monday on U.S. 15 in Gainesville.

A backseat passenger, 38-yearold Jose Romero Maldanado, was thrown from the vehicle when the SUV rolled and was pronounced dead at the scene. (AP) POLITICS

Reps slam Park Police for canceling meeting Two Democratic representatives say the chief of the U.S. Park Police is refusing to meet with them to talk about police procedures following the fatal shooting of a Virginia man. U.S. Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton of the D.C. said Chief Robert MacLean canceled their scheduled meeting Tuesday at the last minute over his concern it would violate antilobbying laws. Beyer and Norton called MacLean’s reasoning “erroneous.” (AP)

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local MARYLAND Women who become pregnant in Maryland as a result of sexual assault can now sue to terminate the parental rights of their attackers, a change that advocates called a major victory and that failed nine times in the legislature before being approved this month.

“This is an important day for the state of Maryland,” said Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, who signed the emergency bill Tuesday surrounded by a host of advocates and female lawmakers and with Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., D-Calvert, and House Speaker Michael E. Busch, D-Anne Arundel, by his side.

“I know it’s a long time coming.”

Only five other states had no laws on the books regarding parental rights and sexual assault, said Lisae C. Jordan, executive

BRIAN WITTE (AP)

Md. ends parental rights of rapists

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan signs an emergency bill Tuesday ending the parental rights of rapists. The bill took effect immediately.

director of the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

In past years, the bill failed in Annapolis mainly because of a protracted debate over men’s rights, the appropriate burden of proof and whether men whose parental rights are terminated should still be required to pay

child support. Miller said Tuesday that those issues still concern him, and that he hopes to see future legislation that would require child support from assailants.

The new law, which takes effect immediately, is “a big first step, and we’ll move forward until we get this thing right,” Miller said.

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Mary E. Shine, a Montgomery County social worker who has pushed for the bill for years, was moved to tears after watching Hogan sign it.

Shine contacted her state delegate in 2006 after becoming involved in a case where a 12-year-old girl was raped and impregnated by her stepfather.

Years after the baby was born, a judge ruled that the stepfather had the right to weigh in on decisions involving the child, and that his rights could not be terminated under state law.

“It’s been a really long battle; it just seemed like it didn’t have to be a battle,” Shine said.

Jordan said her organization will go to court today to file a termination request on behalf of a 16-year-old who was raped.

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New plan doesn’t fortify workforce

Compensation cut No. 1: Freeze federal pay in 2019.

Justifying the administration’s call for a pay freeze, the budget document says “across the board pay increases have long-term fixed costs, yet fail to address existing pay disparities, or target mission critical recruitment and retention goals.”

It’s true that pay raises cost money. Yet freezing pay comes with other costs, including lower morale and increased hardship for employees. And how does no raise for anybody address pay disparities?

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helps — recruitment and retention. As other costs rise, frozen pay is a reduction in the real wages of federal workers.

Compensation cut No. 2: Slow the frequency of “tenurebased ‘step-increase’ promotions that white-collar workers receive on a fixed, periodic schedule,” while increasing pay-for-performance.

Pay-for-performance riles federal union leaders who recall the troubled system the Defense Department employed during the George W. Bush administration. It was repealed by Congress, following a flood of complaints, including charges of racial discrimination in pay in favor of white employees.

Compensation cut No. 3: Have the government pay less and federal employees pay more toward their retirement.

Trump and Mulvaney would do this in four ways: Decrease the government’s share and increase employees’ payments toward the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) that covers most feds by 1 percent per year, effectively cutting their pay by 6 percent.

Reduce or eliminate costof-living increases for current and future retirees.

Base annuity calculations on the highest five salary years instead of the “high three.”

Eliminate the special supplement for FERS annuitants who retire before their Social Security eligibility.

Q. Congress passed a law last year giving federal employees more ways to take money from their Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) accounts. Can I use them now?

President Trump’s 2019 budget plan calls for a pay freeze for federal workers.

Compensation cut No. 4: Reduce federal employee sick days and vacation time.

Trump and Mulvaney say federal sick time and vacation days are “disproportionate to the private sector.”

Under the guise of giving federal employees “maximum flexibility,” the administration wants to combine “all leave into one paid-time-off category.”

The budget acknowledges “this would reduce total leave days,” which is another way to cut compensation.

Compensation cut No. 5: Reduce the interest rate on the “G Fund,” a popular investment vehicle in the 401(k)-like Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for federal employees.

Ironically, or dastardly, in the same paragraph outlining the plan to gut the defined-contribution G Fund, the budget

EVAN VUCCI (AP)

President Trump and his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, must have been in a jocular mood Monday when they issued their fiscal 2019 budget appendix titled “Strengthening the Federal Workforce.”

It could have just as easily been called “Picking the Pockets of Federal Employees.”

The section begins benignly enough, noting many important services feds provide.

Improved hiring procedures, as the administration wants, would strengthen the workforce. But the central thought in Trump’s plan to improve an “increasingly incomprehensible and unmanageable civil service system” is firing feds faster.

While his civil service reform ideas are vague, Trump’s plan on federal compensation is clear — cut it.

document says the administration will study adopting a defined-contribution-only annuity benefit for new federal workers. Trump and Mulvaney think killing pensions and providing only a diluted TSP might have a “recruitment benefit.”

Federal employees rallied against the administration’s proposals, as the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) held its legislative conference when the budget plan was released.

AFGE President J. David Cox Sr. accused the administration of “trying to suck the life blood” out of federal workers.

“To that, we don’t say, ‘no’; we say, ‘hell, no!’” he shouted to cheers, as he promised to give the administration “a jar of whupass.”

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A. The additional options under that law are not effective yet, as the 401(k)-style TSP works to issue rules and make other changes needed to carry them out.

When TSP account holders leave the government, they may choose one or more of three withdrawal options: an annuity, a lump sum or “substantially equal” payments.

Under the latter two, money can be transferred into an IRA, within limits. One partial withdrawal is allowed under current law.

The new law allows multiple partial withdrawals and more ways to tailor regular payments.

Also, more than one “in-service” withdrawal without a tax penalty after age 59½ will be allowed.

The law gave the TSP two years to carry out the changes.

“We intend to have the changes in place before the twoyear deadline but don’t yet have a specific date to announce,” the agency said last week.

It added that the new options will be available to those who already have taken withdrawals when the changes take effect.

ERIC YODER (THE WASHINGONT POST)

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos seeks to cut $3.6 billion — about 5 percent — from Department of Education to support private school vouchers and other school choice plans

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Israeli police advocate Netanyahu indictment

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ISRAEL Israeli police on Tuesday recommended that Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted on bribery and breach of trust charges in a pair of corruption cases, dealing an embarrassing blow to the embattled prime minister that is likely to fuel calls for him to step down.

Netanyahu angrily rejected the accusations, which included accepting nearly $300,000 in gifts from a pair of billionaires.

He accused police of being on a witch hunt and vowed to remain in office and seek re-election.

“I am sure that the truth will come to light. And I am sure that also in the next election that will take place on time I will win your trust again, with God’s help,” said an ashen-faced Netanyahu in a televised address Tuesday.

The recommendations marked a dramatic ending to a more than year-long investigation into allegations that Netanyahu accepted gifts from Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer, and suspicions that he offered to give preferential treatment to a newspaper publisher in exchange for favorable coverage.

The recommendations now go to Attorney General Avihai Mendelblit, who will review the

Benjamin Netanyahu rejected accusations that he accepted bribes.

material before deciding whether to file charges. Netanyahu can remain in office during that process, which is expected to drag on for months.

In the immediate aftermath of the police announcement, reactions quickly fell along partisan lines. Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a bitter rival of Netanyahu, called on him to suspend himself and for the coalition to appoint a replacement on Wednesday morning.

“The depth of corruption is horrifying,” Barak said. “This does not look like nothing. This looks like bribery.”

But key members of Netanyahu’s Likud Party rallied behind

him. Cabinet Minister Miri Regev said she was “not excited” by the police recommendations and urged patience while the attorney general reviews the case.

Netanyahu is one of President Trump’s biggest supporters on the global stage, and the police recommendations threaten to weaken Netanyahu as the White House works to prepare a Mideast peace proposal.

In his TV address, Netanyahu acknowledged aiding Milchan with his visa issues, but said Milchan had done much for Israel.

Netanyahu said past scandals had all “ended with nothing” and “this time as well they will end with nothing.” JOSEF FEDERMAN (AP)

When an iceberg the size of Delaware calved off of Antarctica in July, it exposed a marine ecosystem that had been covered for more than 100,000 years. Now scientists are racing to study the area before any significant changes occur to the plants and animals that had been sheltered from sunlight by the ice sheet, Gizmodo reported this week. The British Antarctic Survey will lead an international team on a three-week mission to collect samples and gauge changes that are taking place, such as new plants or animals moving into the environment. The mission could be treacherous.

The team will have to rely on satellite imagery to dodge the many icebergs breaking off the main ice sheet. (EXPRESS)

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The number of tiny worms that were removed from the left eye of a 26-year-old Oregon woman in August 2016. Scientists reported Monday that this is the first known human case of a parasitic infection spread by flies. The eye worms, Thelazia gulosa, are typically seen in cattle in the northern United States and southern Canada. The woman had been horseback riding and fishing in Gold Beach, Oregon, a coastal, cattle-farming area. The worms were translucent and each less than a half-inch long. (AP)

Prosecutors: Uzbek man who carried out a deadly attack on Stockholm last year swore allegiance to ISIS

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Friend of ex-president sentenced for bribery Choi Soon-sil, a confidante accused of collaborating with South Korea’s former president Park Geun-hye for personal gain, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for bribery and other crimes. The political scandal triggered the country’s first presidential impeachment and the conviction of an heir to the Samsung empire. The Seoul Central District Court also sentenced Shin Dong-bin, chairman of the conglomerate Lotte Group, to 2 ½ years in prison for bribery in the same case. (AP)

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Prime minister could face bribery charges in two corruption cases

Human error may be to blame for the Russian plane crash that killed 71 people, Russian investigators said Tuesday. After studying the An-148’s flight data recorder, they noted that the plane’s pilots failed to turn on the heating unit for the plane’s pressure measurement equipment prior to takeoff, resulting in flawed speed data because of ice blocking the sensors. (AP)

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Bomber gets life in prison for N.Y. and N.J. attacks A New Jersey man who set off small bombs in two states — a pressure cooker device that blasted shrapnel across a New York City block and a small pipe bomb that exploded along a Marine Corps road race in Seaside Heights, N.J. — was sentenced Tuesday to multiple terms of life in prison by a judge who repeatedly called it a miracle nobody was killed. Ahmad Khan Rahimi is a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Afghanistan. (AP)

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nation+world Wray: White House got word on aide’s status earlier than it claims POLITICS FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday contradicted the White House’s account of when the bureau informed officials about the status of a senior aide’s security clearance investigation.

White House officials said that they were first contacted in the summer by the FBI about senior aide Rob Porter’s clearance.

They also said that the investigation was never completed and that they did not know the extent of the allegations against Porter.

He stepped down last week after accusations of spousal abuse by

his two ex-wives.

But Wray, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the FBI submitted a partial report on his clearance in March and that the investigation was completed in July. Soon after, he said, the FBI received a request for a follow-up, which the bureau completed and provided in November. The FBI closed the file in January and then earlier this month, Wray said, the bureau received additional information and “we passed that on as well.”

“I am quite confident that in this instance, the FBI followed established” protocols, he said, speaking at the committee’s annual hearing on worldwide threats.

His remarks come as the White

ANDREW HARNIK (AP)

FBI counters Porter timeline

FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies at a Senate hearing Tuesday on security threats.

House has sought to deflect criticism over Porter’s clearance.

Wray’s comments stand in stark contrast to how the White

House has in recent days portrayed the status of the background check and when senior officials knew about the allegations of abuse against Porter.

At the White House briefing Tuesday, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stood by the White House’s previous explanation, saying the White House was still reviewing Porter’s case when the aide resigned last week.

Sanders said that while the “FBI portion was closed, the White House personnel security office, which is the one to make the recommendation for adjudication, was not finished [with] their process; therefore, they did not make a recommendation to the White House.” ELLEN NAKASHIMA

Israel initiates closed trial for Palestinian teen

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WEST BANK Palestinian protester Ahed Tamimi went on trial in an Israeli military court Tuesday for slapping and punching two Israeli soldiers in December — the opening of a high-profile case against the teen seen by some as a Joan of Arc-like heroine and by others as a troublemaker or even a terrorist.

Israel’s hard-charging prosecution of Tamimi has drawn international criticism.

Underlying the case are clashing narratives about Israel’s halfcentury of occupation and the extent of permissible Palestinian resistance to it.

Tamimi, who turned 17 in prison, was led into a courtroom packed with journalists, European diplomats and her family members. After a few minutes, the judge suddenly ordered all spectators except family members to leave, announcing the proceedings would continue behind closed doors. Defense lawyer Gaby Lasky protested, saying the family wanted an open trial.

The court read a 12-count indictment against Tamimi, including charges of assault and incitement. Lasky described the court as an organ of “illegal occupation” and said the charges must be thrown out. She said later that she is still waiting to receive case material from the prosecutor, that her client did not enter a plea and that the next hearing would be March 11.

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Takeaways from budget plan Many of Trump’s ideas contradict promises he made as candidate

Giving up on balancing Last year, Trump laid out a plan to balance the budget in 10 years.

Trump now accepts annual deficits that will run over $1 trillion as the new normal.

The president also promised on the campaign trail that he’d get rid of the national debt altogether by the end of his second term. But his White House now projects that the national debt, which is already over $20 trillion, will grow more than $2 trillion over the next two years and by at least $7 trillion over the next decade.

ANALYSIS Many of the proposals from President Trump’s budget that were unveiled Monday are dead on arrival in Congress, but the blueprint nonetheless speaks volumes about the president’s values — and contradicts many promises he made as a candidate.

“This is a messaging document,” Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at the White House.

Here are messages the White House sends with its wish list: ALEX WONG (GETTY IMAGES)

Relying on fuzzy math

Slashing entitlements As a candidate, Trump repeatedly said he would never cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. Now, he proposes cutting Medicare by $554 billion and Medicaid by around $250 billion over the next decade.

His plan includes new perperson limits on the amount of health care each Medicaid enrollee can use and a dramatic shift toward block grants, which would allow states to tighten eligibility requirements and institute work requirements that would kick some off public assistance.

Trump’s budget plan unveiled Monday is facing backlash in Congress.

Cutting safety nets Trump promised to bring back manufacturing jobs, but his budget calls for cutting funding for National Dislocated Worker Grants, which provide support to those who lose their jobs because of factory closures or natural disasters, from $219.5 million in

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The Trump administration’s appeal for unity fell short Tuesday, with Turkey enraged by a U.S. proposal to send new assistance to Syrian opposition forces that include Kurdish rebels. The disagreement overshadowed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s plea at a meeting in Kuwait for nations fighting ISIS to overcome rivalries and focus on eradicating the group. Turkey has been attacking the Kurds in Syria for three weeks. (AP)

South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, on Tuesday disowned President Jacob Zuma after sticking with him through years of scandals, ordering him to resign in an attempt to resolve a leadership crisis. The ANC said it expected Zuma to reply to the directive today. The party wants Zuma to be replaced by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, the party leader. (AP)

2017 to $51 million in 2019.

Also at the Labor Department, the president wants to slash support for the Adult Employment and Training Activities initiative, which serves high school dropouts and veterans, from $810 million last year to $490 million in 2019.

The White House makes the unrealistic assumption that the economy will grow by more than 3 percent every year between now and 2024, which makes its projections for revenue growth rosier than they should be. No serious economist thinks that level of growth can be sustained.

Senate Democrats also noted that Trump’s plan would actually result in a net decrease in spending on infrastructure. Chuck Schumer’s office identified more than $240 billion in proposed cuts over the coming decade to existing programs, which is higher than the $200 billion Trump proposed in new spending.

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Canned goods would replace some food aid The Trump administration wants to slash food aid to low-income families and make up the difference with a box of canned goods — a change Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney described in a Monday briefing as a “Blue Apron-type program.”

“What we do is propose that for folks who are on food stamps, part — not all, part — of their benefits come in ... a Blue Apron-type program where you actually receive the food instead of receive the cash,” Mulvaney said. A Blue Apron spokeswoman could not be reached for comment.

On Monday, the Trump administration proposed cutting food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, by $17 billion in 2019 in its new budget plan. Under the plan, dubbed “America’s Harvest Box” by the Agriculture Department, households receiving more than $90 per month in benefits — 81 percent of SNAP households — would begin receiving about half their benefits in the form of government-purchased food.

On Monday, the Food Marketing Institute, a grocery store trade association, condemned the Harvest Box proposal as expensive, inefficient and unlikely to generate any long-term government savings.

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run. Over six months, the authors visited 34 state and county offices and ran simulations to help local officials improve their “threat awareness.”

The team’s findings highlight resource-strapped election systems that can’t secure their own operations, vulnerable votingequipment vendors and the threat posed by insiders and people looking for political advantage.

The Harvard team recommends a variety of election safeguards, such as background checks for everyone with access to sensitive election systems, universal use of voting machines that produce a paper trail, and routine, rigorous audits of election results.

The team also urges local officials to quickly acknowledge any election threats and immediately explain to the public what they’re doing about them — two things that don’t come naturally to them.

The value of bitcoin may have stumbled in recent months, but in Iceland it has known only one direction so far: upward. But the success of cryptocurrencies around the globe has had an unexpected repercussion on the island of 340,000 people: It could soon result in an energy shortage.

As Iceland has become one of the world’s prime locations for energy-hungry cryptocurrency servers — something analysts describe as a 21st-century goldrush equivalent — the industry’s electricity demands have skyrocketed. For the first time, they now exceed Icelanders’ own private energy consumption, and energy producers fear they won’t be able to keep up with rising demand. Companies have flooded Iceland with requests to open new data centers to “mine” cryptocurrencies in recent months.

The bitcoin rush may have come as a surprise to locals in sleepy Icelandic towns suddenly bustling with cryptocurrency technicians, but there’s a simple explanation. Located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and famous for its hot springs and mighty rivers, Iceland produces about 80 percent of its energy in hydroelectric power stations.

That and the cold climate make it a perfect location for new data-mining centers filled with servers in danger of overheating.

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2018 ELECTIONS With the first primaries of the 2018 elections less than a month away, you might expect federal officials to be wrapping up efforts to safeguard the vote against expected Russian interference. You’d be wrong.

Federal efforts to help states button down elections systems have crawled, hamstrung in part by wariness of federal meddling.

Just 14 states and three local election agencies have so far asked for detailed vulnerability assessments offered by the Department of Homeland Security — and only five of the two-week examinations are complete.

Illinois, for instance — one of two states where voter registration databases were breached in 2016 — requested an assessment in January and is still waiting.

Primary voters go to the polls there March 20. DHS says the assessments should be finished by mid-April.

Meanwhile, fewer than half of the estimated 50 senior state elections officials who requested federal security clearances have received them, DHS says. That can hinder information sharing designed to help states deal with election disruptions.

And Congress is still sitting on three bipartisan bills that address election integrity issues, including funding to upgrade antiquated equipment.

Overall, experts say far too little has been done to shore up a vulnerable mishmash of 10,000 U.S. voting jurisdictions that mostly run on obsolete and imperfectly secured technology.

Russian agents targeted elections systems in 21 states ahead of the 2016 general election, DHS says, and separately launched a social media blitz aimed at inflaming social tensions and

A technician works to prepare voting machines in Philadelphia prior to the 2016 presidential election.

sowing confusion.

The CIA director and two other top U.S. intelligence officials told the Senate on Tuesday they’ve seen indications Russian agents are preparing a new round of election subterfuge.

Texas will hold the first primary of 2018 on March 6; Illinois follows two weeks later.

That makes local election officials “the front lines of the information age,” said Eric Rosenbach, co-director of Harvard’s Belfer Center and a former Defense Department chief of staff in the Obama administration.

Since July, a bipartisan team at Harvard has been trying to shore up that local line. The group, which calls itself the Defending Digital Democracy initiative, has just drafted its latest protect-the-vote election “playbooks” to prepare state and local officials for the worst.

“It’s not a question of whether somebody is going to try to breach

“We have seen Russian activity and intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle.”

CIA DIRECTOR MIKE POMPEO, telling the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday that the U.S. has seen signs of meddling in the upcoming midterm elections. National intelligence director Dan Coats and Adm. Mike Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, agreed.

the system,” said Robby Mook, manager of the 2016 Clinton campaign, which was stung by multiple email thefts later traced to Russian agents. “The question is: ‘How resilient are we and what are we doing to protect ourselves?’ ” Mook helps run the effort with Matt Rhoades, who managed Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential

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CAMPS Hey, parents: Are your kids better slime makers than bed makers? Are their Minecraft rooms way cleaner and neater than their actual rooms?

You’re not alone. Many elementary schoolers, tweens and teens

sewing and typing to map reading and leadership — practical skills they can use throughout their lives — and that they’d have so much fun along the way, they might not even realize they’re learning how to be functioning human beings capable of one

are lacking in basic life skills — sometimes because they haven’t learned them yet, and sometimes because they’re just too lazy or disinterested.

So what if we told you there were summer camps where kids can learn everything from

day taking care of themselves?

For a crash course in things like budgeting, cooking and doing laundry, check out Actual Life Skills 4 Teens. Taught out of co-teacher Amanda AdamsBarney’s Germantown, Md., home, the program walks middle

and high schoolers through some of these everyday tasks.

Classes are offered throughout the year, plus a one-week summer session June 25-29 ($345 for half-days, $485 for full days).

Each day, kids will discuss budgeting (like how much that car they want will really cost them) and learn versatile cooking basics. For example, “If you can brown meat you can make spaghetti sauce, you can make tacos, all kinds of different things,” Adams-Barney says.

Other class time covers skills like ironing, cleaning and etiquette. “Our motto is ‘Skills plus experience equals knowledge,’ ” Adams-Barney says. “These are basics that will take you far.”

Kids can delve deeper into money matters at financial literacy camps held at the Potomac School in McLean, Va., and put on by the Spark Business Academy.

Sessions are held throughout the summer for rising first- through

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ninth-graders ($495 per week).

Themes explored include concepts like entrepreneurship, investing and Bitcoin.

Today’s tech-savvy kids are experts at swiping and tapping.

But typing on a computer may still be slightly out of reach. For about 10 years, Georgetown Day School has been offering touchtyping camps to help get kids up to speed.

“We’ve noticed that students younger and younger are being asked to do homework or research assignments using the computer, and they don’t know how to type,” says Vinita Ahuja, director of extended learning and auxiliary programs at Georgetown Day School. “We want to make sure students can be efficient and not focused on just finding the letters.”

Touch-typing sessions will be offered Aug. 13-17 and Aug. 20-24 for rising third- through 10thgraders ($235 per session). Instructors use drills and software

to help students learn things like posture and hand placement to increase their typing accuracy.

Typing’s not the only skill kids aren’t learning these days thanks to those cellphones they grew up using: With GPS, they no longer have to be able to read a map to know where they’re going. But the Lowell School in Northwest D.C. teaches middle schoolers old-school navigation techniques at its “Amazing Race” camp, held June 18-22 and June 25-29 ($430 per week).

Kids are given clues that lead to them to interesting but littleknown places around D.C. Once they’ve figured out their destinations, they head to Metro’s website to map bus and train routes to get them there. Getting lost is part of the learning experience.

“Counselors let [the kids] lead the way and only step in if they are grossly or dangerously offcourse,” says Dawn Smith, director of auxiliary programs and service learning at the Lowell

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School. “But by the end of the week, they know how to figure out Metro routes and navigate public transportation.”

Got a kid who’s constantly asking for new clothes? Help them think outside the mall with Sidwell Summer Camp’s machine sewing camp. Ten one-week sessions will be offered June 11-Aug. 17 at the D.C. campus of Sidwell Friends School for rising fourththrough 10th-graders ($560 per week). Participants can choose from more than 20 different patterns and fabrics to create their own fashions.

If your little one is ready to grab life by the handlebars but hasn’t quite figured out how to yet, consider American Inline’s “Learn to Ride a Bike” camps.

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kids transition from training wheels to pedaling on their own, teaching them about balance, braking and other biking basics.

American Inline also offers camps for more experienced bike riders and for beginner skateboarders and rollerbladers.

Other area camps teach kids life skills that help them not only survive in the world but also thrive in it. Maryland Leadership Workshops offers summer programs for middle and high schoolers where they develop the communication, decisionmaking and management skills necessary to be a good leader.

Attendees stay on campus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County during the five peer-led, week-long camps

“Our motto is ‘Skills plus experience equals knowledge.’

These are basics that will take you far.”

AMANDA ADAMS-BARNEY, head of Actual Life Skills 4 Teens, which preps kids for adulthood with lessons on cooking, cleaning and more

($895 to $995 per session), so they also get a taste of living on their own.

As our world becomes more interconnected, the ability to speak a foreign language will help kids go farther (literally and figuratively). The French Academy offers language immersion camps for children ages 5 through 12. Six week-long

sessions take place during the summer in Chevy Chase, Md. ($400 for full days, $290 for half days; half-day sessions are also offered in Alexandria during some of those weeks for $280).

Each week has a different theme, and all relevant games, crafts and activities are done in French.

Attendees are a mix of total beginners and more experienced French speakers.

“The more exposed to different languages you are, the easier it is for you to learn phonetics [in general],” says Natacha Manet, director and senior teacher at the French Academy. “That’s not just important for learning French, it’s important for learning any other language. And kids who are bilingual or trilingual do better in school because it generally helps the brain to remember things.” BETH LUBERECKI (FOR EXPRESS)

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“We’re seeing such an increase in test anxiety,” says Vinita Ahuja, director of extended learning and auxiliary programs at Georgetown Day School. “This is teaching kids to self-advocate, to say, ‘Here’s what I need to do to be successful.’ ” T he P otom ac S cho ol i n McLean, Va., offers a variety of summer programs that help both its own students and teens from other local schools prepare for the rigors of high school and college. Its analytical writing skills program for rising ninthgraders ($395) is offered Aug. 20-24 so they can kick off the new school year on the right foot.

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High schoolers can get a head start on their college prep with these camps EDUCATION When school’s out for summer, many teens may be holding down a summer job or heading off on vacation with their families. But summer’s also a great time for teenagers to gain some skills that will help them succeed in high school, college and beyond. And there are lots of summer camps and programs in the D.C. area to assist them with just that.

T a k e G e o r g e t ow n D a y School’s high school organizational and study skills camp.

Offered July 30-Aug. 10 for rising ninth- through 12th-graders, the afternoon-only program ($630) features three units that strengthen participants’ English, math and project skills. Students learn study and test-taking strategies such as annotating

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read something and be able to translate it into a viable paragraph,” says Mimsy Stirn, director of auxiliary programs at

the Potomac School. “It’s very popular with our student body and students from outside it.”

The Potomac School also offers

a study skills camp for rising seventh- and eighth-graders ($395) that same week. Students learn how to use binders, planners and other tools to get organized, manage their time and study effectively.

“They’re bombarded with so many things during the day that I think it’s wonderful for them to get some time to focus on how you organize yourself,” Stirn says. “For those kids who want to get ready and get themselves focused on what’s going to happen in the school year, it’s a wonderful way to center themselves and get ready to go.”

The Atlantic Seaboard Dyslexia Education Center in Rockville tackles similar topics in its summer programs designed for middle and high schoolers diagnosed with dyslexia or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or who otherwise benefit from multisensory learning methods. Its middle and high school writing and study skills camp ($1,100) takes place July 9-20. In a small group setting, students receive guidance on topics like note taking, test prep, grammar and essay writing.

For students already looking beyond high school, plenty of colleges and universities in the D.C. area offer summer camps and programs that help students prepare to apply to college, get a taste of college life or explore different career paths. George Mason University, for example, offers a nursing camp July 9-13 ($300) that teaches high schoolers basic nursing skills (treating wounds, infection control, etc.) and introduces them to different career opportunities in the nursing field.

Georgetown University offers a college prep program July 22-Aug. 10 ($6,199 for tuition, housing and meals; commuter options are available). High school participants get tips for studying for the SAT and ACT, work with instructors on writing personal statements for college applications, beef up their math skills and connect with admissions advisors during tours of D.C.-area colleges.

Schools like Georgetown and

George Washington University also offer high schoolers the opportunity to earn college credits through their pre-college summer programs.

With campuses in Rockville, Germantown and Takoma Park, Md., Montgomery College offers a variety of programs over the summer that help kids with their pre- and post-college plans. That includes its career development program ($225) for high school students who will be entering 10th through 12th grade, which takes place July 9-13. Participants learn how to write a résumé, develop a career plan and practice interview skills.

Camps focusing on architecture (June 25-29, $220) and interior design (June 18-22, price TBD) help high schoolers learn more about specific careers and the training needed for them.

Montgomery College also offers study skills camps and summer courses to help with SAT and ACT test preparation and the

“They’re bombarded with so many things during the day that I think it’s wonderful for them to get some time to focus on how you organize yourself.”

MIMSY STIRN, explaining how the Potomac School’s study skills summer camp gives students a jump on the back-to-school season

college admission process.

“We’ve deliberately expanded as much of this stuff as we can,” says Dorothy Umans, dean of community education and extended learning at Montgomery College. “Because we recognize that this is what parents are looking for.” BETH LUBERECKI (FOR EXPRESS)

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Swim instructors at Camp Belknap and other camps administer swim tests for safety.

Pass that summer swim test If your child wants to find their sea legs, be ready to put in work

TESTS Camp swim tests go something like this: Kids jump in the water and swim a set distance. No dogpaddling allowed. They typically must also tread water and float on their backs, while camp staff and possibly other campers look on. And all this usually on the first day or two of camp.

It can be stressful. Kids who aren’t strong swimmers sometimes feel nervous and might not swim their best, says Tom Wraight, co-waterfront director at Camp Belknap in Mirror Lake, N.H. Pool swimmers can be thrown by a lake’s choppy, chilly water, cloudy bottom or lurking critters.

“Swimming in a lake is potentially just mentally scarier,” he says.

Wraight usually hears from

a parent or two who received a disappointed letter home about swim test results. Kids who are restricted to shallow water or are deemed non-swimmers can feel embarrassed, though Wraight says they typically recover quickly.

“There’s always a few tears, which is always unfortunate,” he says. “We remind them that everyone was there at some point.”

He and other experts say there are steps parents can take to prepare children and to relieve swim test anxiety.

For one thing, remember that swimming is only one part of camp.

“I would tell parents who are maybe dreading the fact that their kid might not pass the swim test: It’s not the end of the world because there are just so many other activities,” says parent Laura Gogia. Last summer, her daughter Lindsay, 10, placed in the lowest swim group at a camp near their home in Richmond. So

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Here are some other pointers from experts for parents preparing children for a camp swim check. R.S. Tell your child in detail what to expect. Kids who aren’t prepared have a harder time.

Find out the policy for retaking the test or advancing through lessons.

Co-waterfront director Tom Wraight says Camp Belknap encourages kids to take lessons during camp to try to progress through swim levels.

If you can, enroll your kid in swimming lessons — private or group — in the winter or spring, and let the instructor know about swim test goals.

Consider refresher lessons for kids who swim consistently only in summer.

Check around for reduced-rate or free instruction or pool membership, which the Y offers. Or take your children swimming for fun and ask a lifeguard for skills to practice on your own.

Don’t rule out camp just because your child hasn’t taken swim lessons.

Many kids find their motivation to learn to swim while at camp.

Lindsay opted for other activities, such as joining kids making friendship bracelets by the lake.

As one of the oldest kids in the shallow area, she eventually got bored — which motivated her to give swimming lessons another try over the winter. She clicked

with a gentle-mannered instructor who tailored lessons to the swim test.

Camps administer swim checks to prevent water injuries and deaths, says Lindsay Mondick, the Minneapolis-based senior manager of aquatics for

the national Y. The Y updated its swimming lesson curriculum in 2016 to increase the emphasis on drowning prevention.

Overall, requirements vary somewhat among camps. Generally, swimming without stopping for a predetermined length — 50 yards or more is common for deep-water competency — shows endurance to reach safety. Test givers don’t expect competitionlevel strokes, but kids should stay at the top of the water, lift their faces out to breathe, kick steadily and keep moving forward.

One skill, called “swim, float, swim,” has a goal similar to that of many camp swim tests: that children orient their bodies and swim toward shore or a ladder, flipping over to float on their backs for a break to avoid tiring out and then starting up again.

“If a child feels they have more control of their body, they will be more willing and achieve strokes faster,” Mondick says.

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Bradley Beal lost to Marco Belinelli in the finals of the 3-point contest at All-Star Weekend in 2014.

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C Spencer Kieboom ROB CARR (GETTY IMAGES)

WIZARDS In 2014, Bradley Beal had never competed in an NBA All-Star Weekend 3-point contest, so he didn’t know the rules.

He ascended from the group of shooters to represent the Eastern Conference in the finals against Marco Belinelli, then with the Spurs and playing for the West.

Belinelli went first. Then Beal, alone on the big stage in New Orleans and working his way around the five racks, found his rhythm near the end to tie the score and force overtime.

Although viewers at home knew what would happen next — TNT displayed a graphic explaining the next round — Beal had no such prompt.

“I think the overtime buzzed me because I thought it was only 30 seconds,” Beal recalled this week. “I got kind of winded. I didn’t know I’d have to go the

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whole full round again. That was my fault on that. I’m more knowledgeable of the rules now.”

Consider it a rookie mistake.

Beal, who is set to participate in his second 3-point contest this weekend as a first-time All-Star, now knows that if he advances to the finals and forces overtime, then he must shoot for 60 seconds.

The experience four years ago taught Beal other things, too: He plans to practice shooting off the rack more; he’ll need to come up with a new strategy for money balls; and he must remind himself not to waste time watching the ball swish through the net.

The other lesson? Shoot for the trophy.

“Well, I want to win,” Beal said. “I think the first time around I wanted to win but it was more like getting the experience and feel for it.”

Beal enters the shooting showcase with the lowest 3-point percentage of his six-year career. Ahead of tonight’s game at the Knicks, he was shooting 36.6 percent from beyond the arc.

Pitchers and catchers report to Nationals spring training today.

Of the 21 non-roster invitees announced Tuesday, 16 will arrive for the early workouts.

Here are three to keep an eye on. (EXPRESS)

Report: Lawson in play While the Wizards have reportedly looked at Derrick Rose and Ramon Sessions as potential additions that can improve their depth at point guard, another veteran player has entered the mix. According to ESPN, Ty Lawson, above, has emerged as a serious candidate for the role.

Lawson, who had several alcoholrelated arrests during eight NBA seasons, has played well this year in the Chinese league. (EXPRESS)

The eight-man field in Saturday’s contest features previous winners including Rockets guard Eric Gordon (2017) and Warriors star Klay Thompson (2016), as well as Thunder wing Paul George, who entered Wednesday shooting a career-best 42.8 percent from deep. But strategy, not so much percentage, factors significantly in a contest like this.

Shooters go around the arc, hoisting five balls at each rack — including a multicolored “money” ball that’s worth two points. One special rack consists of just money balls.

This year, Beal may place the money balls in the fourth or fifth h spot, giving him time to heat up.

The big brother of the Nats’ No. 2 prospect — SS Carter Kieboom — rose to Class AAA last year, his sixth with the organization. He hit .275 in 47 games with Syracuse.

2 LHP Bryan Harper The reliever heads to his first major league spring training after recovering from a 2016 Tommy John procedure. All of baseball is familiar with his little brother Bryce.

1 RHP Edwin Jackson He’ll compete to be the Nats’ fifth starter after performing well when he got signed last season, his 15th in the bigs.

Jackson, 34, went 5-6 over 13 starts for Washington.

CANDACE BUCKNER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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ACL repair successful for Knicks’ Porzingis

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Gausman gets $5.6M deal to pitch for Orioles this year

D.C. United has officially acquired Yamil Asad, an Argentine midfielder who starred for Atlanta last season.

He is likely to debut Saturday in a preseason match against Philadelphia in St. Petersburg, Fla. Asad, 23, arrived at training camp in Clearwater, Fla., last Wednesday, but his paperwork wasn’t finished until this week. Completing the deal required D.C. to reach agreements with Atlanta, which gets at least $500,000 from D.C. over the next two years; with the Argentine club that owns his contract and will loan him for one year; and with Asad, who had seven goals and 13 assists last year. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Harris County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a $105 million redevelopment of the Houston Astrodome that includes raising the ground level two floors to create about 1,400 parking spaces. Plans call for the bottom floor of the county-owned venue adjacent to NRG Stadium to be raised for parking so that it can be used for festivals, conferences and commercial uses across more than 550,000 square feet of space.

Parking revenue, hotel occupancy taxes and county general funds will cover the cost. Opened in 1965, the Astrodome has been closed to all events since 2009. (AP)

Baltimore avoided an arbitration hearing with starter Kevin Gausman, agreeing to a $5.6 million, one-year contract. Gausman had asked for $6,225,000, and the Orioles submitted $5.3 million, making the settlement $162,500 below the midpoint. He earned $3.45 million last year in his first of four arbitration-eligible seasons. His deal includes bonuses of $50,000 each for 25, 30 and 33 starts; $50,000 if he makes the All-Star team; and $50,000 if he earns a Gold Glove.

Gausman, 27, went 11-12 with a 4.68 ERA last season, making a careerhigh 34 starts with a personal-best 179 strikeouts. (AP)

Free agent reliever Sergio Romo finalizes 1-year, $2.5M deal with Rays

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Kevin Gausman posted a 4.68 ERA with a career-high 179 strikeouts in 34 starts for the Orioles last year.

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Sky spent nearly $5 billion for four packages to show 128 games per season from 2019 to 2022, while BT paid more than $1 billion for one package of 32 games. That leaves 40 of the 200 matches per season that are still up for sale. (AP)

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Coronation comes at 17

Kim stomps competition in Olympic debut, launching the career of a surefire star

Chloe Kim, 17, has an easy-going personality to go with an undeniable athletic charisma.

Austrian champ puts ‘Question’ to rest with gold

GREGORY BULL (AP) MARTIN BUREAU (AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

SNOWBOARDING The gold medal had been secured, the desire to eat a breakfast sandwich had been conveyed to the world and the starburst had been completed. Chloe Kim stood at the top at PyeongChang Halfpipe and had only one thing left to do, the thing she loved most, the most peaceful thing in a 17-year-old life about to be upended. She had to perform.

For competitive purposes, Kim’s final run meant nothing.

For artistic and athletic value, it carried historic weight. It stamped her, even at the start of her career, as a groundbreaker, one of the most talented snowboarders in the sport’s history.

It begged other girls all over the world to join her: Look at what you can do when you strap a hightech plank to your feet.

The coronation of a new Olympic darling occurred late Tuesday morning in Bongpyeong, South Korea. Kim entered as the overwhelming favorite in women’s halfpipe, with many snowboard fans convinced she could’ve won gold four years ago, at age 13, had she not been too young to compete. But the expectation could not diminish the thrill of watching Kim twirl and spin and take the sport to new places.

Kim’s first run scored a 93.75, guaranteeing her gold. On her third run, she executed three spins on the left side of the halfpipe, whooshed up the other wall and pulled off the same trick on that side. She had become the first woman to land consecutive 1080s in the halfpipe at the Olympics. The run scored 98.25, more than eight points clear of Chinese silver medalist Liu Jiayu.

“I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn’t going

Kim is the first woman in Olympic history to land back-to-back 1080s.

to be very satisfied,” Kim said.

Kim is destined to become a bigger star than she already is. She became a prodigy under the eye of her South Korean-born father, Jong Jin, who used to drive her from La Palma, Calif., to Mammoth Mountain, 51/2 hours away.

On the podium, Kim received a quick glimpse into a coming

NBC: After 5 days of Olympics, viewership is higher than projected

Men’s halfpipe final American Shaun White had the best score in men’s halfpipe qualifying with a 98.5 to edge Australian rival Scotty James for the prime spot in the three-run final. The medal round Wednesday morning — or Tuesday night Eastern Time — ended after Express’ deadline. (EXPRESS)

whirlwind. Handlers whisked her to an interview. Reporters trailed Jong Jin like ducklings.

Photographers clicked cameras.

“I’m actually feeling a little anxious right now,” Kim said.

“I’m a little overwhelmed.”

Despite the admission, Kim carried herself with an easygoing personality and acted very much like the Californian teenager she is. She tweeted about jonesing for ice cream Monday between qualification rounds.

Between finals runs, she told the world she wished she had finished her breakfast sandwich, and she was now “hangry.”

But it’s athletic charisma and jaw-dropping talent that make Kim most appealing. She achieves more amplitude on her jumps, packs in more spins and flips and lands her board back on the ground like a feather.

There is so much Chloe Kim will have to navigate in coming years, but the joy of getting to perform will never grow old.

ADAM KILGORE (THE WASHINGTON POST)

ALPINE SKIING Eventually, The Question began to bother Marcel Hirscher.

It wasn’t so much the actual inquiry, which was always some variation of: “Do you need an Olympic gold medal to validate your otherwise-perfect skiing career?” He was certain he knew the answer: “No.” It was more the incessant echo of it.

How often did Hirscher, who won one silver in two previous Olympics, hear The Question?

“Ev-e-ry day,” he said. This was offered with a smile Tuesday, because that line of inquiry will never again arise. As of the combined event, Hirscher, 28, is finally an Olympic champion.

The Austrian used a sublime slalom run on an icy course to rise from 12th after the opening downhill in the tworun competition and added that Winter Games triumph to a substantial collection of accolades. He already owned a record six consecutive overall World Cup titles and four individual world championships.

“I’m super happy because now this stupid question has gone away,” Hirscher said. “Now The Question is Zzzztt. Deleted.”

There could be more to come: Hirscher will be favored in the slalom and giant slalom.

Hirscher finished in 2 minutes, 6.52 seconds, which made him 0.23 seconds faster than silver medalist Alexis Pinturault of France. American Ted Ligety, a two-time Olympic champ, was fifth. HOWARD FENDRICH (AP)

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Controversies converge in U.S. rout of Russians

CURLING

Canadians strike gold in first mixed doubles

Americans move to 2-0 after 5-0 win that put focus on 2018 oddities

Reston’s Biney gets bumped in 500 meters

FRANK FRANKLIN II (AP)

WOMEN’S HOCKEY The clash Tuesday night between Russia and the United States was lopsided on the ice, convivial in the stands and never really happened in the eyes of the International Olympic Committee.

The hockey was breathtaking, especially when the puck found American forward Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson.

The mixed zone was awkward, especially when the name Sergey Lavrov surfaced. U.S. goaltender Nicole Hensley had a shutout, but everyone wanted to know about the images on her goalie mask.

The PyeongChang Olympics can be confusing, and the factors outside the games hovered over the hockey. The Americans bulldozed the Olympic Athletes from Russia 5-0, moving to 2-0 in the tournament before their showdown against rival Canada (10:10 tonight, NBCSN). Lamoureux-Davidson assisted on Team USA’s first goal and later scored the next two over just six seconds, the shortest span between goals by one player in Olympic history.

The OAR team boasts 23 of the 168 Russian athletes the IOC allowed in after Russia was busted for running a sophisticated, state-sponsored doping program at the 2014 Sochi Games. The IOC gave lifetime bans to six s

SPEEDSKATING

Hannah Brandt, top, celebrates after scoring one of five U.S. goals in a blowout that set up a game against Canada that could preview the final.

Russian women’s hockey players. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has labeled the IOC’s evidence as fabricated, part of a conspiracy driven by the U.S to prevent Russian dominance.

When asked to comment after the game, Russian coach Alexei Chistyakov said his team is only worried about sport.

Hours before the game, a report surfaced that the IOC and Team USA were discussing whether Hensley would be allowed to wear a goalie mask with the Statue of Liberty painted on

it, or if that would count as a political statement. It was labeled a misunderstanding, and Hensley wore her usual mask.

The Olympics plead for athletes and spectators to place geopolitical conflicts and concerns to the side. Among Tuesday night’s participants, one country was investigating whether the other played a role in influencing and/ or sabotaging its elections. That tends to muddy the waters, even if those waters are frozen and smoothed over by a Zamboni.

ADAM KILGORE (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Incidental contact early in Tuesday’s 500-meter race bumped back Maame Biney’s Olympic dreams by four years as the 18-year-old from Reston, Va., finished fourth in her four-person quarterfinal heat with a time of 44.77 seconds, 1.28 seconds away from advancing into the semifinals. Biney, the first African-American woman to represent U.S. speedskating at the Olympics, will compete in the 1,500 beginning Saturday, but the 500 was likely her best chance to find the podium. Italy’s Arianna Fontana went on to win gold in the 500 final, edging out South Korea’s Choi Min-jeong in a photo finish. Fontana tied a short-track record with her sixth Olympic medal, and first gold, over four games. (TWP/AP)

OLYMPIC DOPING

Japanese reserve first to be flagged

Short-track speedskater Kei Saito tested positive for the banned diuretic Acetalozamide in the first doping case of the PyeongChang Games. Saito, 21, is a reserve on Japan’s 5,000-meter relay team. He said in a statement that he was “extremely shocked” by the results and has “never used anabolic steroids.” He did not race in any event before the test result from a precompetition sample was confirmed. (AP)

Speedskating: U.S. men miss 1,500m podium; 3rd-ranked Joey Mantia finishes 8th, Shani Davis 19th

The Canadian pair of John Morris and Kaitlyn Lawes won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in curling mixed doubles, beating Switzerland 10-3 on Tuesday. The win over the defending world champions marked a historic moment for mixed doubles, which made its Olympic debut at the PyeongChang Games. The Swiss conceded with two ends (like innings in baseball) left. (AP) LUGE

U.S. women struggle while Germany triumphs Germany again dominated the world of luge Tuesday, with Natalie Geisenberger defending her Olympic gold and teammate Dajana Eitberger taking silver in singles. American flag-bearer Erin Hamlin placed sixth in her final race. Teammate Emily Sweeney was taken to a hospital for evaluation after crashing. (AP)

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6:30 a.m., NBCSN

Speedskating: World champion Heather Bergsma goes for 1,000-meter gold. 8 p.m., NBC

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Apple Music finally bites back The tech giant is tailing on Spotify — and could possibly mute its future

STREAMING Apple is turning up the volume on Apple Music, the streaming subscription that comes loaded on its devices, including the new HomePod smart speaker.

But that could mute the potential of Spotify, the independent music subscription service that aims to go public this year. Since launching nearly three years ago, Apple Music has tried to make inroads against Spotify.

The Swedish company, founded in 2008, entered the U.S. market in 2011 and quickly accumulated subscribers with its tantalizing offer of millions of songs.

As of late 2017, Spotify had 18.2 million subscribers in the U.S. compared to Apple Music’s 15 million, according to Billboard.

Both charge $9.99 monthly for their primary service.

But Apple is gaining on Spotify. According to The Wall Street

Journal, Apple currently has a 5 percent monthly growth rate in U.S. subscribers, compared to 2 percent for its chief competitor.

If that holds, Apple will surpass the Swedish firm by summer.

On Apple’s end, the company is bidding for a music-streaming edge by locking users into its universe of products. Apple Music works far more easily on HomePod, which debuted Friday, than other music streamers.

“Let’s be candid — a lot of people are compelled to go to Apple because they’re in the Apple ecosystem; without those restrictions they wouldn’t choose to go there,” says Peter Fader, a Wharton School of Business professor who has studied consumer behavior and the music industry.

Apple also has “a strategic reason to have a robust streaming-music business,” adds Larry Miller, a professor of music business at New York University’s Steinhardt School. “They have some very powerful strategic assets, like cash, to deploy and win the streaming-music arms race.”

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You need an iPhone and a $10-permonth subscription to Apple Music, the only music service it lets you control with your voice. (You can’t use it as a Bluetooth speaker.)

HomePod’s Siri struggles on assistant tasks. It mishears dictation.

It also can’t place phone calls, read your calendar or hail an Uber.

The HomePod can control lights, thermostats and locks. But Apple’s HomeKit is only compatible with certain devices.

There’s no physical button to turn off the HomePod microphone.

Beware — when you call out to Siri on the HomePod, sometimes your Apple Watch or iPhone answers.

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That money, he says, could be used to increase the marketing of — and tech bells and whistles on — the service, which would attract and retain more subscribers. Such a move could allow a powerful Apple Music to hold more sway over record labels or even raise prices to customers.

To stay competitive, Spotify needs capital of its own, which is where the IPO comes in. But Spotify may already hold an advantage. Wharton’s Fader notes that Spotify knows its users better and can cater to them in both design and technology.

With the number of streaming subscribers in the U.S. currently estimated at lower than 50 million, many new customers are still up for grabs. Data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners shows that no more than 13 percent of iPhone users subscribe to any single service.

That means Apple still is far from winning. But it also means there’s an opportunity for Spotify to fall further behind.

It’s been more than eight years since the last Dashboard Confessional album, but “Crooked Shadows” erases that gap quickly, as singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba catches us up like an old friend.

He stretches musically, revving up the energy with the pop-rocker “Catch You” and adding swagger to the title track — though most land in the sweet spot of emotional, well-crafted ballads like “About Us” and “Just What to Say.” The album puts Dashboard into the mainstream, showing how much both Carrabba and pop music have changed for the better. GLENN GAMBOA (NEWSDAY VIA AP)

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Stern and Feldman, both of whom are deaf, nurtured their series idea from a Kickstarterfunded campaign to webisodes to a 2017 Sundance Film Festival entry whose potential impressed Jan Diedrichsen, general manager for streaming channel Sundance Now. In “This Close,” which debuts today, Stern plays Kate, a publicist whose career is frustratingly stalled, while Feldman’s Michael has been dumped by the man he was to marry.

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just born as is. So the deaf experience will come into the story, but it doesn’t need to be the central piece of the story.

through. That’s something I really wanted for our show. So we said, why don’t we go for it and make both the characters deaf?

You had considered making just one of the lead pair deaf. Why the change?

JF: We thought that if we made both of them deaf, then suddenly the audience would be in their world. But if it was one hearing and one deaf character, we’d probably make people feel like they were standing out and alienated from the world we wanted to create.

Shoshannah Stern: When you commit to tell an authentic story, you can suddenly feel that come

In episode 1, we see an airline bring your characters wheelchairs to help them board.

That’s really happened to you?

JF: Everything you see has either happened to us personally or we have a friend it’s happened to. Everything. My hope is we put it on TV as a laugh line and then it will not happen to deaf people in their life anymore.

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“If the Olympics were held at P.F. Chang’s, I would be a gold medalist.”

“The possibility for young black kids to see themselves represented as powerful, intelligent and dynamic characters capable of anything.”

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tweeting with the hashtag #WhatBlackPantherMeansToMe, which was started by Kayla Marie Sutton of the website Black Girl Nerds ahead of the film’s Friday release.

Olympic-sized misspelling. A graphic in a Saturday morning news report at ABC affiliate WLS-TV said the Olympics are being held at P.F. Chang’s (the restaurant chain) instead of in the South Korean city of PyeongChang. Spokesperson Jayme Nicholas told the Chicago Tribune that the graphic was created for a segment encouraging viewers to make up their own Olympic events, but was accidently put in a serious news report.

“You wanna make me cry?

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“#BlackPanther this week, the Obamas got their own self portrait, and now Danielle Herrington graces the cover of Sports Illustrated.” @DARLENE26811165, tweeting about the significance of 24-year-old model Danielle Herrington landing the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. Herrington is the third black woman to grace the cover.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You may receive assistance from someone who is new to your inner circle. Some clarifications will be necessary.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You benefited from a second chance, and today you have the opportunity to extend the courtesy to someone else.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) A certain situation proves far more complicated than you had anticipated. Do you have the ability to reverse course?

CANCER (June 21-July 22) The personal and the professional are likely to conflict at some point today, and you know which must get the most attention, don’t you?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You can smooth the way for someone else today, but only after you tend to certain issues at home. You mustn’t do things out of order.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Any dangers that you anticipate are likely to remain hidden today — except for one that comes at you in a most unusual manner.

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1849: President James K. Polk becomes the first U.S. chief executive to be photographed while in office as he poses for Matthew Brady in New York City.

1918: Russia converts from the Old Style Julian calendar to the New Style Gregorian calendar, “losing” 13 days in the process (for Russians, the day before was Jan. 31).

1962: First lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts a televised tour of the White House in a videotaped special that is broadcast on CBS and NBC (and several nights later on ABC).

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According to The Cut, attendees received either a clear or black crystal with an instruction card. The clear quartz was said to ensure “universal harmony,” while the black stone “works in reducing fear and increasing focus.” focus.

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Reese bullied by tiny troll to jump into water Reese Witherspoon discussed bravery in the new issue of Marie Claire. “I see [fear] as this little creature that lives in my life all the time, and I can either pay it attention and not get anything done or I can march ahead and ignore it,” she said. “Sometimes I just have to jump two feet into a cold pool and go, ‘OK, I believe in myself enough.’ ” (EXPRESS)

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