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Fealty to President Trump — even at the expense of conservative principles — is the defining feature of the GOP as the 2020 campaign begins to kick into gear 9

Life after Harper Soto and the Nationals will be just fine without the six-time All-Star 11

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Devastating ‘Leaving Neverland’ will forever alter how you see Michael Jackson 16

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A British tourist visiting Boston captured video of a hungry seagull devouring a dead rat in a single gulp and posted it on social media last week. The video shows the gull pecking tentatively at the rodent before picking it up in its beak and swallowing the entire animal. The bird then flies atop a parked car — the rat’s tail hanging from the gull’s mouth. The unidentified Brit can be heard exclaiming: “Oh, my God, it just swallowed it whole ... Ratatouille?” (AP)

A cat named Stormy who’s spent more than six years in a remote Alaska general store has to leave.

Officials notified the owners that the cat violates food safety standards. The Fritz Creek General Store near Homer has been home for Stormy since 2012, The Homer News reported Thursday. The Food Safety and Sanitation Program received a complaint about Stormy, and an officer saw her in the store, a spokesman for the agency said. (AP)

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What’s in a (new) name?

Now that Harper plays for the Phillies, some local pets are getting new tags

many people are going to change the names of their pets.”

While some fans may have grappled with that decision in the wake of Harper’s departure, at least one Nationals-loving family didn’t waste any time taking the plunge with their 5-year-old Goldendoodle named after the 2015 National League MVP. Virginia Tech sophomore Taylor Caskey, who graduated from Robinson High in Fairfax, immediately texted her parents when she saw the Harper news on Twitter.

“Barf. Loser. [Our] dog needs a new name ASAP,” her mom, Jenny Caskey, replied.

It wasn’t the first time a name change had been broached by the Caskey family.

“We kept saying, if he gets traded to the Phillies, we are changing his name,” Taylor said. “We didn’t care if it was the Dodgers or someone else,

Empty nest no more: Eagle couple returns The mock baby announcement the Caskey family made to share that their dog, Harper, had been renamed Max.

JENNY CASKEY

CULTURE Marlene Koenig broke the news to her 4-year-old orange tabby Thursday evening: Bryce Harper, the former Washington Nationals player for whom the feline was named, had signed a 13-year contract with the rival Philadelphia Phillies.

“I sat him down and told him: You are now named for Harper Lee, the great writer,” said Koenig, an original Nationals season ticket holder.

The cat, who is no doubt an admirer of at least the title of Lee’s most famous novel and occasionally dons a tiny Nationals cap, apparently took the news in stride. Koenig, the inspiration for the Cat-urday promotion that debuted at Nationals Park last year, said she never considered calling Harper by any other name.

“I was an English major and a librarian, so this works fine,” she said. “In reality, I can’t imagine

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but the fact that it was the Phillies just felt like a betrayal. Dogs are supposed to be loyal, and Bryce Harper was not loyal to the Nationals.”

On Thursday, Taylor suggested the name Max, as in Scherzer, the Nationals’ ace.

“Sorry, his name is Robles,” her dad replied. “Or Juansoto — I’m fine with either.”

Max eventually won out, and when Taylor checked her phone after lacrosse practice, she had another text from her mom — a

mock baby announcement featuring Harper’s new name: Max Theodore Caskey.

Taylor acknowledged that calling Harper by his new name when she returns from school will take some getting used to, but she isn’t concerned about Max adapting to his new name.

“We’ve agreed that our dog isn’t the smartest dog and will pretty much respond to anything if we say it in a high enough pitch,” Taylor said. SCOTT ALLEN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Chime the bells. The love birds Liberty and Justice — two bald eagles that have nested in a tree on the D.C. Police Academy property in Southwest D.C. — are back together.

On Friday, experts said Liberty and Justice had been seen together at the nest that morning and on Thursday afternoon.

Justice had been gone for about three weeks; it’s not clear where he was during that time. Experts say it’s unlikely the pair will have any eaglets this year. The eggs Liberty laid earlier this season are likely not viable, and her fertility window has passed. (TWP)

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THE DISTRICT More than two months after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D, released a far-reaching plan to cut opioid overdose deaths in half by late 2020, key programs described in the plan have not yet been launched, according to city officials and service providers.

The anti-opioid initiatives include a dramatic expansion of the availability of the overdose antidote naloxone and new treatment programs catering to overdose survivors in hospital emergency rooms. They were laid out by the mayor in response to one of the nation’s most severe increases in fatal overdoses over the last several years, most caused by heroin laced with the lethal synthetic opioid fentanyl.

But both the naloxone expansion and hospital programs remain in the planning stages, city officials and others involved with the efforts acknowledged last week. Meanwhile, the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health — the District’s lead agency in combating the opioid epidemic — remains without a permanent director, approximately three months after the removal of former director Tanya Royster.

City officials said Friday that the mayor’s plans for reducing overdose deaths are on track.

Within two weeks, the Bowser administration will be issuing a revised, more detailed plan that lays out specific goals and timelines, said Department of Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt.

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Months after D.C. proposed key anti-opioid programs, most haven’t been launched

Between 2014 and 2017, the District’s rate of fatal drug overdoses rose by 209.9 percent, according to CDC data. Critics say the city and Mayor Muriel Bowser, top, haven’t acted fast enough to combat opioid deaths.

“The city has been acting with a sense of urgency for quite some time,” said Nesbitt, who is now serving as interim director of the Department of Behavioral Health in addition to her role leading the health department.

But the pace troubles some critics, who say the city has already

wasted years in its response to rising heroin and fentanyl deaths.

“Every month that goes by . . . you still have overdoses and folks dying,” said Edwin Chapman, a longtime addiction medicine doctor who practices in Northeast.

Chapman said that the initiatives the city plans have been

widely adopted elsewhere and should not be hard to get up and running. “This is not rocket science,” he said.

D.C. Council Member Vincent Gray, chairman of the council’s health committee, said he did not see much progress.

“I don’t think anybody can truthfully tell you that a lot has occurred,” Gray said.

However, he said he would reserve judgment until he receives and reviews the new, more detailed plan Nesbitt has promised.

In December, The Washington Post published a series on widespread shortcomings in the District’s response to surging opioid overdoses.

Between 2014 and 2017, the city’s rate of fatal drug overdoses rose by 209.9 percent — an increase higher than that in any state and the ninth-highest among all U.S. counties, CDC data show.

Wayne Turnage, acting deputy mayor for health and human services, said Friday that the Bowser administration has begun interviewing candidates to lead the Department of Behavioral Health. Turnage said the mayor wants to hire a new director “as soon as possible,” but was taking time to find a candidate with the right qualifications, including experience in public health efforts to address the opioid epidemic.

“We don’t want to rush and end up with a candidate who is not a good fit,” Turnage said, “so that process is ongoing.” PETER JAMISON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Trump course accused of illegal tree-cutting

Loudoun County officials are investigating whether the Trump National Golf Club illegally cut down a dozen trees on the Potomac River shoreline and dumped them in the river. Officials said Friday that removing trees from the flood plain requires a permit, and the county is investigating whether the local ordinance was broken. The golf club faced criticism in 2010 after it cleared hundreds of trees to improve members’ view of the river. (AP)

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Police: Husband, not beggar, killed woman Baltimore police say a man who reported his wife was killed by a panhandler last year was actually the one who killed her. Police announced murder charges Sunday against Keith Smith, 52, and his daughter, Valeria Smith, 28. Both were arrested in Texas.

Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the two were preparing to leave the country.

Jacquelyn Smith was stabbed to death late last year in Baltimore.

Her husband said she rolled down her car window to give money to a woman who was panhandling and was stabbed when a man reached in to rob her. (AP) FAIRFAX COUNTY

3 dead in Va. home; police suspect murder-suicide Police believe a Fairfax County man shot and killed himself after fatally shooting his wife and another man. Police say they were called to the home in Springfield at about 11:45 p.m.

Saturday. Police say as many as 10 people were in the home at the time of the shooting, including several children. Police say they believe Santos Vladimir Ralda, 45, of Springfield shot his wife, Floridalma Youlanda Perez Diaz, 40, and Nathanael Owen Cooper, 20 of Culloden, W.Va., after an argument. (AP) MARYLAND

Harford Democrats call for Lisanti’s resignation Harford County Democrats are calling on one of their own to resign from Maryland’s House of Delegates after she admitted using a racial slur. The Baltimore Sun reports that the county’s Democratic Central Committee voted Saturday to call for Del. Mary Ann Lisanti’s resignation.

Lisanti, a Harford County Democrat, was censured by the House on Thursday after she admitted using the N-word to describe work she conducted in Prince George’s County. Lisanti has said she will not resign. (AP)

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Allies end drills on peninsula U.S., South Korea say move is meant to boost talks with Pyongyang SOUTH KOREA South Korea and the U.S. are eliminating their massive springtime military drills and replacing them with smaller exercises in what they call an effort to support diplomacy aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis.

The decision announced by both countries Sunday came after President Trump complained about the cost of joint drills even as his high-stakes second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un collapsed last week.

The drills’ cancellation is an olive branch to North Korea,

which has viewed them as an invasion rehearsal. But some experts say it will likely weaken the allies’ military readiness amid worries that tensions may erupt again in the wake of the failed nuclear summit in Vietnam.

The Pentagon said in a release that the U.S. and South Korean defense chiefs decided to conclude the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle series of exercises. It said the allies agreed to maintain firm military readiness through newly designed command post exercises and revised field training programs.

Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan and South Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo “made clear that the alliance decision to adapt

‘Very provocative’ Following his first summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore last June, President Trump caught many in the United States and South Korea by surprise by suspending the allies’ summertime military drills. He called joint drills “very provocative” and “massively expensive.” The United States and South Korea also have since suspended a few other smaller joint drills. (AP)

our training program reflected our desire to reduce tension and support our diplomatic efforts to achieve complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in a final, fully verified manner,” the statement said.

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Seoul’s Defense Ministry released a similar statement.

Jeong expressed his regrets at the lack of agreement at the Trump-Kim summit but still hopes that Washington and Pyongyang will continue negotiations, the South Korean statement said.

The new training, dubbed “Dong Maeng,” which means “alliance” in English, starts today and runs through March 12. U.S. officials said it will be done in smaller drills, tabletop exercises and simulations, and will involve smaller units such as battalions and companies rather than massive formations involving thousands of troops, as they had in the past. HYUNG-JIN KIM

Watchdog finds chlorine used in Douma attack The global chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it found “reasonable grounds” that chlorine was used as a weapon in a deadly attack on the Syrian town of Douma on April 7, 2018. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons visited Douma, analyzed samples taken from the scene and from people affected, studied toxicological and ballistics analyses and more. The mission’s mandate does not include laying blame, but the U.S., Britain and France have blamed Syrian government forces. (AP) SAUDI ARABIA

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Hamza bin Laden’s citizenship is revoked Saudi Arabia announced Friday it had revoked the citizenship of Hamza bin Laden, who is the son of the late al-Qaeda leader and has become increasingly prominent in the terror network.

No reason was given for why the decree stripping his citizenship, signed in November, just became public. But the announcement came after the U.S. government on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture. (AP)

Arctic blast puts spring on hold for much of U.S.

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Rare fish washes ashore in Calif.

COLTER PETERSON (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH VIA AP)

A 7-foot sea creature that washed ashore in Southern California has been identified as a rare hoodwinker sunfish, a recently identified species thought to live in the Southern Hemisphere. The University of California, Santa Barbara, said an intern found the stranded fish last month.

The Australian biologist who named the species in 2017 was able to identify it based on photos. (AP)

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ST. LOUIS | A woman walks her dog Sunday in the snow under the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, where up to 4 inches was expected. A brutally cold Arctic air mass punched into the nation’s midsection this weekend and will deliver shockingly low temperatures to a vast section of the country east of the Rockies for the next few days. The National Weather Service said temperatures between Montana and Kansas could be 50 degrees below normal.

Gazans resume the Islamic pilgrimage, umrah, to Saudi Arabia after 5 years of Egyptian ban

Eight killed in fighting amid increased tensions Pakistan on Friday returned the Indian pilot who was detained last week when his fighter jet was shot down. But fighting between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan in disputed Kashmir resumed overnight Friday. Indian and Pakistani soldiers targeted each other’s posts and villages over the weekend. At least six civilians and two Pakistani troops were killed in the fighting, officials said Saturday. (AP)

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Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert on Saturday declined to charge the officers who fatally shot Stephon Clark in 2018.

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SACRAMENTO, CALIF. Two Sacramento police officers won’t face criminal charges for the fatal shooting of a black man following a chase that ended in his grandparents’ yard and started a series of angry protests that roiled California’s capital city, the county’s top prosecutor announced Saturday following a nearly yearlong investigation.

Officers Terrance Mercadal and Jared Robinet acted within the law when they shot 22-yearold Stephon Clark seven times last March, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert concluded, noting that the evidence supported their account that Clark was moving toward them when they fired.

Schubert said the evidence, including their reactions captured on body cameras, supported the officers’ statements that they thought Clark was pointing a gun.

It turned out Clark was holding only a cellphone. His family and their supporters expressed anger and disappointment, and accused Schubert of unnecessarily revealing grim details of

Salena Manni, Stephon Clark’s fiancee, cries Saturday as she discusses the decision to not file charges against the two officers involved.

Clark’s personal life.

Schubert said the decision not to file charges “does not diminish in any way the tragedy.”

Schubert repeatedly apologized for raising the personal

details during her presentation.

She revealed Clark was facing possible jail time after a domestic violence complaint two days earlier from Salena Manni, the mother of his two children.

He also had researched suicide websites including those that suggested using a tranquilizer, which was found in his system.

The disclosures brought additional outcries from protest leaders and Clark’s relatives, including Manni, who said they weren’t relevant to whether the officers acted properly.

Clark’s mother, SeQuette, held out the hope that her son’s death would result in systemic change.

“This is just the beginning.

The fight for justice has just begun,” she said outside the home where her son was killed.

Clark’s family, including his two sons, his parents and his grandparents, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in January seeking over $20 million from the city and officers, alleging that they used excessive force and that he was a victim of racial profiling.

Schubert also said for the first time that physical evidence showed Clark was the man who broke three vehicle windows and an elderly man’s sliding glass patio door. Previously, police had not said definitively that he was the vandal they were chasing.

The Sacramento Police Officers Association and the police department did not respond to requests for comment on behalf of the two officers. DON THOMPSON (AP)

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U.S.-built capsule carrying dummy docks at ISS

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is calling for nationwide protests today to coincide with his planned return to Venezuela from Ecuador, in a challenge expected to escalate his power struggle with President Nicolas Maduro.

Guaido on Sunday tweeted that Venezuelans should monitor his official announcements and that he would provide details about meeting points for supporters. (AP)

A driver suspected of killing two people and injuring seven others, most of them on bikes, as large crowds gathered in New Orleans for Mardi Gras told police after the deadly crash, “I have a drinking problem,” according to a police report. New Orleans police said Tashonty Toney, 32, was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide after crashing his car Saturday in a busy area. (AP)

A new American-built capsule with just a test dummy aboard docked smoothly with the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing the U.S. a step closer to getting back to launching astronauts into space.

The Crew Dragon capsule, developed

by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company under contract for NASA, linked up to the station without the help of the robotic arm normally used to guide spacecraft into position. (AP)

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Opposition leader urges supporters to protest

The SpaceX Crew Dragon is seen approaching the International Space Station on Sunday.

Family claims dual Saudi-U.S. citizen imprisoned for more than a year was subjected to routine torture

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No charges in fatal shooting Black activist’s ploy could halt neo-Nazi group MORENO VALLEY, CALIF. A black activist said he has taken the helm of what has been billed as one of the nation’s largest neoNazi groups to shut it down.

Corporate records show James Stern, above, of Moreno Valley, Calif., is now president of the National Socialist Movement.

He replaces previous longtime leader Jeff Schoep.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Stern said he established a years-long dialogue with Schoep and persuaded the former leader to transfer the organization to him when Schoep said he planned to disband it.

Schoep’s resignation comes as he and the group are among a slew of defendants in a civil lawsuit filed by survivors of a violent 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.

In a phone interview, Schoep said Stern essentially tricked him into transferring leadership. “He has that piece of paper, but he is absolutely not recognized as the leader of the National Socialist Movement,” Schoep said of Stern.

Stern, though, says he can speak for the NSM, and filed his own motion Thursday in the Charlottesville case, saying the group now admits its liability in the lawsuit. It’s unclear whether the judge will accept Stern’s status to speak for the organization.

Stern’s actions invited comparisons to the recent Spike Lee movie “BlacKkKlansman,” in which a black police officer infiltrates a branch of the Ku Klux Klan. (AP)

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POLITICS When President Trump’s longtime fixer Michael Cohen testified last week that his former boss was a “racist” and “con man” who routinely skirts the law, Republicans showed little interest in following up on his claims.

They shrugged when Trump called murderous dictator Kim Jong Un a “real leader” and once again elevated him on the world stage.

And faced with a vote on Trump’s legally contested declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border, just 13 of 197 House Republicans opposed him.

Acquiescence to Trump is now the defining trait of the Republican Party more than two years into his presidency — overwhelming and at times erasing principles that conservatives viewed as the foundation of the party for more than a half century.

Trump’s ownership of the GOP was on vivid display again Saturday, when he appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, an annual gathering that has transformed into a raucous celebration of Trump, featuring propaganda-style art and a speaker who declared that the president was “chosen by God.” Standing before a crowd chanting “Trump!” and “U-S-A,” Trump spent two hours railing against the “failed ruling class,” calling the special counsel’s Russia investigation “bullshit” and portraying his election as a major moment in global history.

In interviews over the past week, Republicans on Capitol Hill offered an array of reasons for their unflinching loyalty to Trump as the 2020 campaign begins to take shape: a deep-seated fear of his pull with their supporters in primary races; a fraying consensus about conservatism

President Trump spoke to raucous supporters Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

as nationalism takes hold of the party; and shared partisan disdain for Trump’s perceived enemies in the news media and the Democratic Party.

Republicans say Trump’s overhaul of the federal judiciary and the confirmation of two Supreme Court justices, along with the passage of the GOP’s sweeping tax law, have helped bind the party together through bouts of political turbulence — from the loss of their House majority to the longest government shutdown in history to the torrent of developments related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.

All of it has left Trump firmly in control. Most potential 2020 primary challengers sit on the sidelines as the GOP establishment rallies around Trump’s re-election.

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it’s tribal,” said Mike Murphy, a veteran GOP strategist and Trump critic. “It’s us versus them, we’re right and they’re evil, and it’s created this Trump cult that dominates the party.”

Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, publicly acknowledged what many Republicans say privately: The GOP is eagerly accepting behavior and policies from Trump

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that would spark outrage from a Democratic president.

“It’d be a little different,” Simpson said with a chuckle.

“If President Obama had done the national emergency, Republicans would have gone crazy.”

Any high-profile voices in the party objecting to Trump are increasingly scattered or silent, while the “Never Trump” faction from the 2016 campaign has all but fallen into obscurity.

But Cohen, who served as a top Republican National Committee official after Trump’s 2016 victory, offered words of caution for the president’s defenders during his House testimony last week.

“I did the same thing that you’re doing now,” Cohen said, addressing Republicans. “And I can only warn people, the more people who follow Mr. Trump as I did, blindly, are going to suffer the same consequences that I’m suffering.” ROBERT COSTA (THE WASHINGTON POST)

WASHINGTON President Trump announced Saturday that he would soon sign an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal resources.

Trump is highlighting concerns from some conservatives that their voices were being censored, whether on social media or at the nation’s universities. He did not go into more detail about what the order would say, but his comments immediately drew scrutiny from those who noted that public research universities already have a constitutional obligation to protect free speech.

“An executive order is unnecessary, as public research universities are already bound by the First Amendment, which they deeply respect and honor,” said Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. “It is core to their academic mission.”

Trump invited Hayden Williams, above, to join him Saturday while he addressed activists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference. Williams was captured on video being punched Feb. 19 while on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. He was recruiting for the conservative group Talking Points USA. Trump offered no details about what the executive order might say about what has become a thorny issue on college campuses. KEVIN FREKING (AP)

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Last month, chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., announced a broad new investigation looking not only at Russian interference but also at Trump’s foreign financial interests. The committee interviewed Michael Cohen in private on Thursday and will finish the interview this Wednesday.

Oversight and Reform Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said he wanted to call in several people Cohen mentioned during his testimony Wednesday.

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The committee announced Sunday it will request documents today from more than 60 people from Trump’s administration, family and business. Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said he also plans to question former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker in the coming weeks.

Chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., is expected eventually to try to obtain Trump’s tax returns, which the president has refused to release. Last month, experts discussed in a hearing the authority under current law for Neal to make a request for any tax returns to the treasury secretary.

The committee’s head, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has focused on Deutsche Bank, the German asset management firm that has loaned Trump’s real estate organization millions of dollars over the years. She said this past week that the bank is cooperating with requests for documents.

The committee will hold hearings “on the mysteries swirling around Trump’s bizarre relationship with Putin and his cronies, and how those dark dealings affect our national security,” chairman Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., said.

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As Harper was agreeing to a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Phillies on Thursday, the Nationals were playing a spring training game with 20-year-old Juan Soto in left field and 21-yearold Victor Robles in center. They will be two major components to an outfield that, without Harper, also includes veteran right fielder Adam Eaton, Michael A. Taylor and 35-year-old Howie Kendrick, who can play the corner spots.

None of the above players will be expected to replace Harper’s production and presence on their own. The Nationals will fill the Harper void by committee.

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was even better than Harper’s, important considering how often the two will be compared.

Harper played 139 games at age 19, and Soto appeared in 116; they had the same number of home runs (22); and Soto had a better batting average (.292 to .270), a better on-base percentage (.406 to .340), a better slugging percentage (.517 to .477), more RBIs (70 to 59), more walks (79 to 56) and fewer strikeouts (99 to 120).

Soto is the biggest reason to believe the Nationals’ outfield could thrive without Harper.

Eaton will be the full-time starter in right field and bat first or second in the order. He has struggled to stay healthy in his two seasons with Washington but has proved to be consistently productive when on the field.

The team’s situation in center field is not as clear cut. Manager Dave Martinez reiterated last week that Robles and Taylor are competing for the spot. Either will be a defensive upgrade over Harper, who occasionally struggled in center field and was not painted kindly by advanced fielding metrics.

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Nats react to Harper Here’s how the Nationals responded to Bryce Harper signing with the NL East rival Phillies. (TWP) Manager Dave Martinez: “He deserves it. … I’m glad I got to spend a year with him. We’ll always be close. He makes our division a little bit tougher, but I wish him all the best — I really do.”

Pitcher Max Scherzer: “Obviously a 13-year deal, that’s good for the game. … Teams are flush with money, and it’s good to see teams spend it.” He added that “it’ll be fun” to face Harper 19 times a season.

Outfielder Juan Soto: “He helped me a lot. The first day I get here he was the first person to go to me and give me a hug and say: ‘Hey, whatever you need I am going to be here. Just let me know.’ ”

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“Here’s the deal with both of those guys: As we move along, we need them both,” Martinez said. “They’re both going to play.”

Martinez wouldn’t say whether Robles would start the season in Class AAA if he isn’t the full-time starter. Robles has two months of major league service time but has flashed the potential to be a fivetool player. He is still considered Washington’s top prospect and, if that translates, they’ll have a dynamic pair in him and Soto.

If Robles needs more time to develop, especially after missing most of last year with an elbow injury, Taylor provides Gold Glove-caliber defense and is working on a shorter, simplified swing after slumping for the final months of 2018.

Does this all mean the Nationals’ outfield is better off without Harper? It’s hard to improve after losing a six-time All-Star.

But this is not an outfield that will hinder Washington’s quest to edge Harper and the Phillies — as well as the Braves and Mets — in the NL East. It is an outfield that could aid that effort considerably.

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3 Injury to Clemson DT Dexter Lawrence, a Clemson defensive tackle, reportedly suffered a hamstring injury while running the 40-yard dash Sunday. The 6-foot-4, 342-pounder is projected to be a mid-first round pick.

2 A record 40-yard dash Montez Sweat on Sunday ran a 4.41-second 40-yard dash, a record for a defensive lineman. The Mississippi State defensive end is 6-foot6 and weighs 260 pounds.

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Washington extends win streak to 4 games with shootout oddity CAPITALS 3, RANGERS 2 Alex Ovechkin scored in the fourth round of a shootout without putting the puck in the net, and the Capitals extended their win streak to four games with a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers on Sunday.

Ovechkin was skating to his right when Rangers goalie Alexandar Georgiev threw his stick at the puck, knocking it away from

the winger. Ovechkin was credited with the goal after a review.

“It’s a crazy way to win,” said forward T.J. Oshie, who also scored in the shootout. “But if he doesn’t throw it, you’ve got to imagine a guy like ‘O’ is putting that in the back of the net.”

Washington (38-21-7, 83 points) is in a tight race with the Islanders (37-21-7, 81 points) for first place in the Metropolitan Division. With a difficult schedule to end the season, including three games against the league-best Lightning, Sunday’s matinee represented an opportunity to collect

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points against a Rangers club that is well out of the playoff race.

“It’s obviously big for us to start playing the right way,” said goaltender Braden Holtby, who finished with 22 saves. “Obviously, we do have to be realistic with the teams that we’ve played in that stretch and the teams that we have coming up here, that it’s going to be a lot different. But we have confidence from this little stretch and we know we’re going to have to be better playing against some really high-powered offenses, and it’ll be a fun test.”

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Jaguars expected to sign former Eagles QB Foles Nick Foles reportedly will wind up in Jacksonville when NFL free agency opens. With the Philadelphia Eagles naming Carson Wentz their quarterback of the future, Foles, the Super Bowl LII MVP, will hit the market March 13, and the Jaguars are expected to quickly sign Foles, Philly.com’s Les Bowen reported Sunday. (TWP)

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The premiere of this comedy series from executive producer Steven Soderbergh introduces Ulysses (Avan Jogia), a Los Angeles millennial who has increasingly foreboding visions of the apocalypse.

2 ‘The Case Against Adnan Syed’ 9 p.m. Sunday on HBO

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TV REVIEW It’s remarkable what happens when you take Michael Jackson out of the latest Michael Jackson scandal. Remove the usual “King of Pop” soundtrack and all that glitters, and things get so much clearer. The details are still appalling, but what we see and hear in “Leaving Neverland,” Dan Reed’s riveting and sharply convincing four-hour documentary, supplies the viewer with an unexpected measure of calm.

Even the outrage feels at last like the real deal, instead of the manufactured byproduct of tabloids and TMZ. “Leaving Neverland,” a twopart HBO film that began Sunday before concluding tonight, is the story of two men: Wade Robson, 36, and James “Jimmy” Safechuck, 41. They each tell us, with the resolute certainty that they lacked as younger witnesses deposed and questioned in other

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‘Leaving Neverland’ is a devastating look at allegations of abuse

cases, that Jackson sexually molested them when they were boys, starting in the late 1980s and early 1990s and continuing into their teenage years.

What they are talking about is not just the creepy affection, playful roughhousing and tender hand-holding we were once told was the innocent expression of love between a man (Jackson), who sacrificed his own childhood to bring joy to millions, and the star-struck boys he was thus entitled to enjoy as special pals. What we get this time are disturbing, graphic and wholly consistent accounts of the predation, grooming and rape of two children.

To say that we’ve all been here before and that many suspected this all along is an understatement; we simply have not been told this story in quite this way, at this level of frank detail. The biggest difference now, of course, is that Jackson is dead.

The Jacksons object to “Leaving Neverland” as yet another opportunistic grab for Jackson’s considerable fortunes. There’s a

‘Now Apocalypse’

Dan Reed, center, filmed the stories of James Safechuck, right, and Wade Robson, shown also at top.

familiar echo in the Jackson family’s protest. In Michael’s world, his enemies live to make up terrible lies so that they can steal his money and ruin his name.

In that fragile falsetto that became his public speaking voice, Michael decried his haters long before it was cool to have haters, playing his charitable side to an advantage. How could I harm a child, he complained, when I love them so much?

None of that self-pitying, saccharine logic stands up to the astonishing and empathetic discipline of “Leaving Neverland,” which remains focused all four hours on listening to Robson and Safechuck, along with their mothers, family members and spouses. Here, at last, is the Michael Jackson documentary that has little to no use for the routine adulation of Michael Jackson.

Oscar winner Amy Berg is the director of this four-part documentary series that further explores the 1999 Baltimore County murder brought to prominence by the podcast “Serial.”

3 ‘After Life’ Friday on Netflix

In a new series created by and starring Ricky Gervais, a local newspaper writer decides to take on a crusty personality as an unconventional means of coping with his wife’s death.

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Spielberg takes aim at streamers

Steven Spielberg will push for a rule change that would make films from streaming services ineligible for Academy Awards, according to IndieWire.

“The Board will likely consider the topic at the April meeting,” the Academy acknowledged in a statement. This year, “Roma” became the first Netflix film to land an Oscar nomination for best picture.

Spielberg previously said that he thinks streaming films should compete for Emmys, not Oscars. (EXPRESS) Seth Rogen to appear in Jordan Peele’s “Twilight Zone” reboot

Deadline: “Edge of Tomorrow” sequel in the works

Ryan Adams tour canceled amid misconduct allegations

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Things are not going better for Sam Fox. She’s a single mom to three daughters on “Better Things,” the FX series now back for Season 3 (10 p.m.

Thursdays). It was created by Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K. (with whom she severed ties after his sexual misconduct scandal) but is now 100 percent her show. Or more like 300

percent. In addition to portraying Fox, she writes and directs.

Adlon calls “Better Things” an exaggerated version of her life. Like Sam, she is a mother of three and an actor trying to stay employed in a business with a reputation for tossing aside women of a certain age.

There are sharp and funny moments in each 30-minute episode. But this is not your standard sitcom — it’s more of a family dramedy. Mini-crisis

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Pamela Adlon, right, and Mikey Madison film a mother-daughter moment on FX’s “Better Things.” Or maybe it’s a staring contest? We’re not sure.

flows into mini-crisis. You know, just like real life. Nothing turns out exactly as planned. And parents screw up.

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Max (Mikey Madison) calls home from college, saying she’s allergic to the vinyl in her dorm. Middle child Frankie (Hannah Alligood) hasn’t

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“How did David Beckham get a statue before Landon Donovan??!”

“Get this man a doctorate and a Nobel Peace Prize.” @MAGIC_RANGER_, praising Twitter user @ItsRockkky’s “Nails at First Sight” survival guide. The booklet is designed to help men avoid heartbreak based on the color, size and shape of a woman’s nails. @ItsRockkky cautions fellow men to “stay away” from women with yellow or sharply shaped nails. Men and women alike commended @ItsRockkky for his analysis of the relationship between women and their nails.

@SIZE12_PLEASE, reacting after the LA Galaxy on Saturday unveiled a statue of former player David Beckham outside the team’s stadium. Though soccer fans around the world were delighted to see the midfielder celebrated, others took issue with the Brit being honored with the first soccer statue in the U.S. Some soccer fans wondered why Landon Donovan, another former Galaxy member and one of the most accomplished U.S. players, hasn’t received the same honor.

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slip-up during his introductory news conference with the Philadelphia Phillies. The former Nats outfielder said he wanted to “bring a title back to D.C.” Washington fans commented on how the quote would age if the Nationals won their first World Series without him.

that was displayed in West Virginia’s Capitol on Friday, falsely connecting Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is Muslim, to the 9/11 terror attacks. Though it is unclear exactly who put up the sign during “WVGOP Day,” West Virginia Republicans later condemned it.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Certainty may elude you today, but even though you harbor certain doubts you can make headway where others cannot. Try something new.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) A certain decision is difficult to make today, but with a friend’s input you can weigh the pros and cons with much more confidence.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You are eager for some advice, but not everyone understands the curious position you’re currently in.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You can afford to be a little more generous with certain people today. In little time, what you offer them will be offered in return.

TODAY: It’s feeling freshly wintry with clearing, brighter skies.

Those sunnier skies may be accompanied by northwesterly breezes. Temperatures might only top out in the 30s, with wind chills subtracting 10 degrees or so off that. Get ready to bundle up — perhaps for much of the week — as arctic air returns for a stay.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You feel as though you can cope with anything that transpires today, except that one thing you are still doing your best to avoid.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Changes you make to a well-laid plan serve to strengthen the foundation upon which you are building something very impressive.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a good day to try something you’ve been putting off for a while. You don’t have to advertise the fact, but you can get it done.

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1987: President Ronald Reagan addresses the nation on the Iran-Contra affair, acknowledging that his overtures to Iran had “deteriorated” into an arms-for-hostages deal.

1998: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sexual harassment at work can be illegal even when the offender and victim are of the same gender.

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Khloe decides to let off Jordyn on a technicality Khloe Kardashian has blamed Tristan Thompson, not Jordyn Woods, for breaking up her family. Kardashian split with Thompson, the father of their daughter, True, after he allegedly cheated on her with Woods.

“Jordyn is not to be blamed for the breakup of my family,” Kardashian tweeted Saturday.

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Johnny Depp has accused ex-wife Amber Heard of beginning an affair with Elon Musk “no later than one month” into their marriage, according to People. The claim is outlined in a $50 million defamation lawsuit filed by Depp against Heard after the actress wrote a December column for The Washington Post in which she characterized herself as a domestic abuse victim. Depp’s lawsuit reportedly says Heard received “late night” visits from Musk in 2015 while Depp was out of the country and refers to her allegations against Depp as an “elaborate hoax.” (EXPRESS)

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