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Graphic allegations of child sexual abuse in the HBO documentary ‘Leaving Neverland’ put the King of Pop’s cultural legacy — and a $2 billion empire — in jeopardy 18

$195K in stays As its merger heated up, so did T-Mobile’s Trump hotel spending 9

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A woman is accused of smashing a mirror upon seeing her reflection at a Wilmington, N.C., nightclub, then posing as an officer. A police spokeswoman said Christa Anstett was dancing early Sunday when she bumped into a mirror and “began punching it when she saw her reflection.” Anstett showed police a badge from Coastal Carolina University’s public safety department, which they found she wasn’t supposed to have. (AP)

A Florida man is accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at his impounded car. The New York Post reported Ayub Mule Abdulrahman arrived at Almake Auto Shop on Saturday and paid the nearly $300 towing fee for his Nissan Altima. The car lot owner told the paper he was getting Abdulrahman’s keys when the man went out and started firebombing his car, a scene caught on surveillance video. No one was injured. (EXPRESS)

Police in New Jersey say footprints in the snow led them from a crashed stolen car to the man suspected of stealing it. Hackensack Police Capt. Peter Busciglio said the suspect was arrested Saturday. Northjersey.com reported the victim told police he’d left his car running. The victim got into a company car and pursued the suspect until he crashed and fled on foot. Officers tracked him down by following his footprints in the snow. (AP)

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Home Rule’s reign is over

Home Rule’s owners announced Monday the store will close on March 31.

different directions. “We need to let go,” he said. Countless customers, like Alexander, went to the store’s Facebook page Monday to pay tribute to Home Rule, which has been voted Washington City Paper’s Best Home Goods Store many times. “The store was a true pioneer for 14th Street,” Alexander said. W hen L i nk bought the boarded-up building in 1998, there were only a few other stores on the street. He said the previous owners didn’t tell

The annual holiday gingerbread window display at Home Rule.

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him the front window had been smashed during the 1968 riots — and that the broken glass was still there. Link took the glass and turned it into a mosaic countertop to connect customers with an important part of D.C. history. “I plan on having that countertop the rest of my life,” he said. Over the past 20 years, Link said, he has seen the 14th Street corridor grow from an area full of parking lots to the thriving neighborhood it is today. In 2000, Home Rule began the sidewalk sale Dog Days, which became an annual tradition marking the beginning of August. Link said he was inspired to start the event after attending a winter celebration in Montreal, where residents celebrated the most miserable time of their year. In the District, that meant a midsummer festivity. Link hopes whoever occupies the space next embraces Home Rule’s traditions. “I’d love to see more window [displays],” he said. “Do you want to sell? Do you want to talk to people? You have to enjoy selling. I want to see that same energy with someone in the shop.” CHELSEA CIRRUZZO (FOR EXPRESS)

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Asian food hall The Block plans to expand into D.C. The Block, a popular Asian food hall in Annandale, Va., announced Tuesday via Instagram that it will open a location in D.C. According to the post, the new location will open this spring on Vermont Ave NW, near the Farragut North Metro stop. The Virginia location has a variety of food options, including Taiwanese shaved ice from SnoCream and Asian comfort food from Balo Kitchen. (EXPRESS)

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THE DISTRICT For longtime D.C. resident Tom Alexander, visiting Home Rule wasn’t just about perusing the colorful store for home goods. “It had the best holiday window displays,” he said. Since its opening in 1999, the blue-bricked store in Northwest has drawn in customers with elaborate window decorations of turkeys in November and gingerbread houses in December, owner Greg Link said. “Retail is retail,” he said. “One way we’ve made it more meaningful is through the windows.” Link and co-owners Grace Procter-Allison and Rod Glover announced Monday that Home Rule will be closing March 31. “For 20 years, our customers have supported and delighted us, and we are grateful for your loyalty and the many friendships we have made over the years,” the owners wrote in an online announcement. Link said the store still has a great customer base, but the owners are ready to move in

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D.C. Council chair moves to reprimand Jack Evans

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THE DISTRICT D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, D, on Tuesday introduced a resolution to reprimand member Jack Evans for using government email to solicit business from District lobbying firms — offering his influence and connections amassed as the city’s longest-serving lawmaker. “This reprimand will send a clear message that Mr. Evans’ actions are not only unacceptable but are inconsistent with the Council’s ethical standards,” Mendelson said in a statement released at the start of a regularly scheduled council breakfast, where Evans sat at the head of the table looking grim. “I believe that a reprimand at this point, which is a very, very unusual action, is appropriate,” Mendelson said. “To my way of thinking, the issue is quite clear, and it doesn’t require an investigation, and that is using council resources to seek private gain is a violation of our code of conduct.” Evans, a Ward 2 Democrat, offered a brief public apology Tuesday but declined to answer questions. “I just like to say in retrospect I would have done a lot of things differently,” he told reporters. Evans is facing growing scrutiny after The Washington Post

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Longtime member under fire for soliciting work from lobby firms

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, left, introduced a resolution to reprimand member Jack Evans, right, for soliciting work from lobby firms.

reported last week that he sent solicitations via government email to law firms that lobby the D.C. government, offering his contacts and sway as a lawmaker and chair of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Mendelson said a request by three other council members — David Grosso, Elissa Silverman and Brianne Nadeau — to create a special council committee to investigate Evans is not necessary. Mendelson noted the city’s Board of Ethics and Government Accountability has already been looking into Evans’ actions and that a federal grand jury investigation is also underway. But Grosso hit back, saying

Mendelson’s proposed reprimand was “merely a slap on the wrist, allowing the council to check a box and move on.” “It stops short of any real accountability as Councilmember Evans will remain at the helm off the powerful Finance and Revenue Committee from which he peddled his influence using the prestige of his office,” Grosso said in a statement released during the breakfast meeting. “Based on media reports over the past year, this does not appear to be an isolated incident, but rather a pattern of behavior,” Grosso’s statement said.

Maryland’s Senate has voted to make the state the first in the nation to ban foam containers for food and drink to fight pollution. The Senate voted 34-13 on Tuesday for the measure. It now goes to the House of Delegates. Sen. Cheryl Kagan, a Democrat who’s sponsoring the bill, says more than half of the state’s residents already live in places where foam containers are banned for food and drink containers. She says a statewide ban would be a step forward in fighting pollution and helping to clean the Chesapeake Bay. But opponents say the bill only covers a small amount of foam material, and will hurt small businesses. (AP)

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Ex-police officer charged with planting pellet gun A former Baltimore police sergeant has been indicted on charges that he planted a pellet gun at the scene of an arrest and told another officer to lie about the incident to federal investigators. The former sergeant, 51-year-old Keith Allen Gladstone, of New Park, Pa., pleaded not guilty to the charges at his arraignment Tuesday. Officials said Gladstone dropped a BB gun near a pickup truck where an injured man was on the ground after another officer deliberately struck him with his police vehicle in 2014. He faces conspiracy and witness tampering charges. (AP) VIRGINIA

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“I feel like I know you as well, Mr. President.” D.C. ATTORNEY GENERAL KARL RACINE, responding to President Trump during a bizarre exchange Monday at a D.C gathering of the National Association of Attorneys General. Trump said, “I feel like you’re — like I know you,” during a gathe speech at the White House. Racine just last week subpoenaed documents from the president’s inaugural committee.

Jury recommends 30 years for Chesapeake, Va., guard who killed “Pokémon Go” player

Lewis D. Ferebee was confirmed Tuesday as chancellor of the District’s public schools, receiving a vote of support from each of the 13 D.C. Council members. The vote arrived three months after Mayor Muriel Bowser nominated the former Indianapolis schools superintendent to lead the District’s 49,000-student system. Ferebee, who is 44 and will earn a base salary of $280,000, is the city’s sixth permanent school leader since 2000. He arrives at a fraught moment in the history of D.C. schools, with the system emerging from more than a year marked by controversy. (TWP)

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Two longtime Republican state lawmakers have announced their retirement. Del. Steve Landes and Sen. Bill Carrico both announced Tuesday they are not planning to seek re-election later this year. Both represent heavily Republican districts. Carrico and Landes join several other lawmakers who have announced retirement. All 140 legislative seats are up for election this year. (AP)

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Mark Robbins was the lone active member on the Merit Systems Protection Board until his term ended last week.

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Missing in action: Vacancies cripple labor protections Two agencies charged with protecting the federal workforce have been serially neglected since President Trump took office. The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) and the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) are largely dysfunctional because of vacant politically appointed positions. FLRA employees are frustrated because Trump hasn’t nominated anyone as the agency’s general counsel, and the associate general counsel’s office has been empty for more than a year. Does he care at all about the tiny but important agency that boasts of its “labor-management relations program for 2.1 million non-Postal federal employees worldwide”? At the Merit Systems Protection Board, there are no board members as of last week, and it

was only slightly better before then. From just before Trump took office until days ago, there was just one person on the three-member board. Without a quorum, it was not fully functional for more than two years. Now it can’t function at all. It doesn’t have to be this way. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has advanced two nominees, but the Senate Republican leadership refuses, with Democratic acquiescence, to allow a final vote on them until a third is ready for confirmation. Trump nominated a third, but he withdrew. MSPB is an independent, quasi-judicial agency that protects a nonpartisan, meritbased workplace. It hears appeals of employees who have been disciplined and investigates charges of prohibited personnel practices. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said: “Federal employees deserve to have their appeals

heard by the board.” Connolly said that at the hearing about the vacancies on Thursday — the last day of the last MSPB board member, Mark Robbins. His term is done, and for the first time in its 40 years, so is the board, at least for now. Among those hit hard by MSPB’s sad state are feds who fight management retaliation against them for reporting government waste, fraud and abuse. Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project, said the lack of a functioning at MSPB “is disastrous for whistleblowers.” Trump is also sending a loud signal to the federal workforce by not nominating — for more than two years — anyone to the FLRA’s general counsel’s seat. Because that position is vacant, the agency cannot rule on unfair labor practices. That hurts labor more than management because more complaints are filed by unions representing employees than agencies. Ernest W. DuBester, the Democrat on the threemember bipartisan authority, said the president’s lack of a nominee “suggests to federal employees that the mission of the agency is not important.” Follow Joe Davidson on Twitter @joedavidsonWP

Newsweek: Fed workers to see 1.9 percent pay increase for GS employees between March 22 and April 5

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States scramble to fix old voting machines

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Report: Legislators lack funds to replace equipment by 2020

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POLITICS Time and money are running short for states to replace aging or inadequate voting machines before the 2020 presidential primaries, according to a report released Tuesday. State and local election officials in 31 states say they want to replace their voting equipment before the elections, but the vast majority said they don’t have enough money to do so, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU’s School of Law. “We basically have this year and then it’s too late,” said Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the center’s Democracy Program. It can take months to decide on replacement machines, secure the funding, develop security protocols, train workers and test the equipment. States received $380 million in election security grants from Congress last year, but experts have said that’s merely a down payment on what is needed. Pennsylvania received $13.5 million from the federal government, but that’s just a quarter of what it would cost to switch to voting machines that use paper ballots, said J. Alex Halderman, director of the Center for Computer Security and Society. “Without further federal

Experts advise states to use voting machines that print a paper record.

assistance, we risk that new equipment and other critical improvements won’t be in place for many years,” Halderman said in congressional testimony last month. “With the 2020 election on the horizon, the next major target for foreign cyberattacks, we need to act before it’s too late.” In 2016, Russian hackers are believed to have targeted the nation’s voting systems, searching for vulnerabilities. The nation’s intelligence community warns of the continuing danger posed by foreign governments interested in undermining U.S. elections. The most urgent concern centers on 12 states that use electronic machines that do not produce a paper record so voters

can verify their choices. Experts say these machines are vulnerable; hackers can manipulate the outcome without detection. Delaware has set aside money to buy replacement machines, while lawmakers in Georgia and South Carolina are considering proposals to do the same. Louisiana’s plan to replace machines was delayed amid a dispute. Officials in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Kansas and Kentucky have called for new machines, but efforts to secure the money has stalled. Indiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas do not appear to be taking major steps at this point to replace their paperless machines by 2020, the report said. CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY (AP)

Serbs looking for meal ideas are increasingly turning to the Balkan country’s 69-year-old hit chef Granny Jela, who has put her lifelong experience to good use and launched an online cooking tutorial. Her real name is Jelena Petrovic and her YouTube channel and blog, dubbed Bakina Kuhinja (“Granny’s Kitchen”), have had more than 50 million views and have nearly 150,000 subscribers who check in daily for a new recipe. It started about a decade ago, when Petrovic launched an online forum to share her recipes. The list of followers grew and Petrovic started a blog and began posting videos, made initially with her cellphone. Now, with the help of her husband, Milan, Petrovic’s channel is a full-time preoccupation. (AP)

FEW SENIORS GET ROUTINE MEMORY CHECKUPS

The proportion of seniors who get regular cognitive assessments, according to a report from the Alzheimer’s Association released Tuesday. Medicare pays for an annual “wellness visit” that is supposed to include a cognitive assessment — a brief check for some early warning signs of dementia. But doctors aren’t required to conduct a specific test, and there’s little data on how often they perform these cognitive snapshots. Less than a third of seniors say they’ve ever been assessed for possible cognitive problems. (AP) HUD Secretary Ben Carson plans to leave post at end of Trump’s term

The FBI is stepping up its efforts to crack down on money laundering and bribes to overseas governments with a new squad of agents based in Miami. The squad will focus its efforts not only on Miami but also in South America. The unit aims to identify violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. law that makes it illegal to bribe foreign officials. The office will comprise six agents, a supervisor and a forensic accountant. (AP) POLITICS

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb resigns Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who used his post to tackle public health issues like youth vaping and opioid addiction, resigned Tuesday, effective in about a month. The 46-year-old physician, former venture capitalist and drug consultant said he wants to spend more time with his family. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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44 militants arrested over attack in Kashmir Pakistan’s Interior Ministry said Tuesday that authorities arrested 44 suspects in the wake of last month’s suicide bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 40 Indian troops. Among those arrested was Mufti Abdul Rauf, the brother of the leader of the outlawed Jaish-eMohammad militant group. (AP) HUMBOLDT COUNTY, CALIF.

‘Happy thoughts’ helped lost girls survive ordeal Two sisters who were lost in a dense Northern California forest for nearly two days said they survived the frigid nights by thinking “happy thoughts” and reflecting on survival movies and their 4-H club training. The 8-year-old and 5-year-old were found on Sunday in a wooded area about 1½ miles from their home in Benbow, Calif. (AP)

Swedish Academy to announce 2 Nobel literature prizes in October, after not awarding prize in 2018

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$195K in Trump hotel stays T-Mobile acknowledges patronage spiked after merger bid announced

Omar’s latest Israel remarks draw criticism ASTRID RIECKEN (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

WASHINGTON T-Mobile’s patronage of President Trump’s Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with Sprint last April, with executives spending about $195,000 at the property since then, the company told congressional Democrats in a letter last month. Before news of the megadeal between rival companies broke on April 29, 2018, the company said, only two top officials from T-Mobile had ever stayed at Trump’s hotel, with one overnight stay each in August 2017. But the day after the merger’s announcement, nine of TMobile’s top executives were scheduled to check in, The Washington Post reported in January. The Post, relying on internal Trump hotel documents, found that T-Mobile executives had reserved at least 52 nights at the hotel since the announcement. In a Feb. 21 letter responding to questions from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., the company for the first time disclosed its total spending at the Trump hotel during that period. The roughly $195,000 paid for “meeting space, catering, business center services, audio/ visual equipment rental [and] lodging” at Trump’s hotel near the White House, according to the letter from Anthony Russo,

T-Mobile executives have stayed at least 52 nights at the Trump hotel since a merger with Sprint was announced.

T-Mobile USA’s vice president of federal legislative affairs. Russo said the Trump hotel received about 14 percent of T-Mobile’s $1.4 million in total corporate spending on D.C.area hotels during the 10-month period. About half of that was spent at Hilton hotels, he noted. The company’s boost in spending at the president’s hotel as its megamerger is being considered by the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission has drawn criticism from Democratic lawmakers, who say it shows that Trump is profiting from his office. Warren and Jayapal had sent written questions to T-Mobile after The Post revealed the extent of the company’s patronage of the Trump hotel. A T-Mobile

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“The American people deserve better than an administration that appears to be for sale to businesses eager to line the President’s pockets.” SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN AND REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL, in a joint statement on T-Mobile’s patronage of the Trump hotel in Washington

spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a letter earlier last month to Warren and Jayapal, T-Mobile CEO John Legere said the stays

at the Trump hotel were not intended to shift Trump administration policy. The T-Mobile executives were very visible during their stays at the Trump hotel, wearing clothes featuring the bright-magenta T-Mobile logo. At one point, Legere walked around the hotel lobby posing for photos. Trump has handed day-today control of his businesses to his sons Don Jr. and Eric and to longtime executive Allen Weisselberg. Eric Trump has rejected the idea that T-Mobile was staying at the hotel to curry favor. “It should come as no surprise that a CEO … would want to stay with us,” he said in January, noting the hotel’s reputation for luxury. DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD AND JONATHAN O’CONNELL (THE WASHINGTON POST)

DONATIONS FOR TREE OF LIFE VICTIMS

The amount raised for the Victims of Terror Fund, established after the Oct. 27 attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 and wounded seven. The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh announced Tuesday that most of the money, about $4.4 million, will be given to those most directly affected by the attack, including victims’ families and two seriously injured congregants. The fund took in more than 8,500 donations from people in 48 states and at least eight countries. (AP) Tokyo court approves release of Nissan ex-Chairman Carlos Ghosn on bail for 1 billion yen, or $8.9 million

POLITICS President Trump tweeted Monday that Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s newest remarks about Israel mark a “dark day” for the Jewish state. His comment came as House Democrats prepared a resolution declaring that the House opposes anti-Semitism and bigotry. Some Republicans and Jewish groups are pressuring Democrats for stronger action, including removing Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. It was the latest chapter in a series of clashes between Omar and American supporters of Israel in Washington. Last month, Omar ignited a bipartisan uproar when she suggested on Twitter that members of Congress are paid by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee to support Israel. AIPAC is a nonprofit organization that works to influence U.S. policy. She apologized for that remark. For a few weeks, the matter quieted. But last week, Omar said at a Washington bookstore that she worries that everything she says about Israel would be construed as anti-Semitic. She used language that, to many ears, evoked a longtime trope about American Jews having divided loyalties. Israel’s supporters, she suggested, are pushing members of Congress to pledge “allegiance to a foreign country.” Prominent Democrats demanded another apology from Omar and began over the weekend to write the resolution, which the House could vote on today. (AP)

Heavy rains, floods kill more than 32 people across Afghanistan

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nation+world Stem cell transplant therapy appears to rid London man of virus HEALTH A London man appears to be free of the AIDS virus after a stem cell transplant — the second such success, doctors reported. The therapy had an early success with Timothy Ray Brown, a U.S. man treated in Germany who is 12 years post-transplant and still free of HIV. Until now, Brown is the only person thought to have been cured of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Such transplants are dangerous and have failed in other patients. They’re also impractical

for large-scale use. The latest case “shows the cure of Timothy Brown was not a fluke and can be recreated,” said Dr. Keith Jerome of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, who had no role. He added that it could lead to a simpler approach that could be used more widely. The case was published online Monday by the journal Nature. The patient has not been identified. He was diagnosed with HIV in 2003 and started taking drugs to control the infection in 2012. He developed Hodgkin lymphoma that year and agreed to a stem cell transplant to treat the cancer in 2016. With the right donor, his doctors figured, the London patient

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Second person cured of HIV

Timothy Ray Brown was the first person to be cured of HIV.

might get a bonus beyond treating his cancer: a possible HIV cure. Doctors found a donor with a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to HIV. About

1 percent of people descended from Northern Europeans have inherited the mutation from both parents and are immune to most HIV. The donor had this double copy of the mutation. The transplant changed the London patient’s immune system, giving him the donor’s mutation and HIV resistance. The patient voluntarily stopped taking HIV drugs to see if the virus would come back. Usually, HIV patients expect to stay on daily pills for life to suppress the virus. When drugs are stopped, the virus roars back, usually within weeks. That didn’t happen with the London patient. There is still no trace of the virus after 18 months off the drugs. CARLA K. JOHNSON (AP)

Global glut of Benjamins makes no cents

Hundreds of Algerian students protest president

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Mexican archaeologists said Monday they have found a cave at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza with about 200 ceramic vessels in nearly untouched condition. They appear to date back to A.D. 1000 and contain bone fragments and burnt offerings. Exploration of the cave began in 2018. It had been discovered, but not fully explored, by locals about 50 years earlier. (AP)

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Bones, ceramics found in cave

ALGIERS, ALGERIA | Algerian police forces block a tunnel Tuesday where hundreds of students were protesting Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s decision to seek a fifth term. The students called for a general strike if Bouteflika doesn’t meet their demands this week. Bouteflika released a statement Sunday that if he wins the April election, he will hold a referendum on a new constitution and call an early election in which he won’t run.

Both Hillary Clinton and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg rule out 2020 presidential runs

ECONOMY A puzzling surge in the number of $100 bills in circulation and the planned demise of the 500euro bank note have resurrected debate on the need for three-digit currency at all — given their favor with criminals around the globe. A decade ago, the number of $100 bills lagged well behind $1 notes. But the tally has doubled since the end of the financial crisis, according to data from the Federal Reserve; by 2017, the $100 note had eclipsed the $1 to become the most widely distributed U.S. currency. Output is still climbing, and experts are perplexed. Some of the growth is likely a result of the dollar supplanting local currencies in unstable economies. Another possibility is an increase in global corruption and criminal activity. A 2016 paper published by Harvard’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government found high-denomination notes are favored by criminals for the “anonymity and lack of transaction record they offer, and the relative ease with which they can be transported.” Still, the $100 bill isn’t very popular for day-to-day transactions. In fact, a December study from the Pew Research Center found about 30 percent of Americans use no cash at all on a weekly basis, suggesting that, in the digital age, cash is going out of style altogether. TAYLOR TELFORD AND JEANNE WHALEN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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In November, when the Los Angeles Rams outscored Kansas City 54-51 on “Monday Night Football,” the NFL looked like a defense-

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People sift through debris and retrieve personal items after a tornado destroyed their home in Beauregard, Ala.

On Sunday, 23 people, including four children, were killed in the deadliest U.S. tornado in almost six years.

than 60 years, had died, along with their son Emmanuel, 53. Those three deaths meant cousins Cordarrly and Demetria Jones lost their grandparents and an uncle. They said seven others killed were their cousins by blood or marriage. The tornado was an EF4 with winds estimated at 170 mph and carved a path of destruction up to nine-tenths of a mile wide in Alabama, scraping up the earth in a phenomenon known as “ground rowing,” the National Weather

Residents pass by debris left by a deadly tornado on property near the rural community of Beauregard, Ala.

Service said. Ninety people were injured in the Beauregard area, authorities said. Most have been released from the hospital. President Trump said he will visit Alabama on Friday. Along the two-lane country road where some of the victims died, firefighters used heavy machinery to overturn pieces of houses that were blown into a gully. A car sat atop the remains of one house. A red-brick foundation was all that was left at

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another lot. The search took its toll around Beauregard. Church chaplain Ike Mathews walked down a road lined with broken trees and debris as he went to check on members of his congregation and emergency workers. “Yesterday I talked to some team members who had found bodies,” Mathews said. “They’re hurting. The community is torn up. They started crying talking about it.” KIM CHANDLER AND JAY REEVES (AP)

WEST POINT, N.Y. The parents of a 21-year-old West Point cadet fatally injured in a skiing accident raced the clock to get a judge’s permission to retrieve his sperm for “the possibility of preserving some piece of our child that might live on.” U.S. Military Academy Cadet Peter Zhu was declared braindead Wednesday, four days after the California resident was involved in a skiing accident at West Point that fractured his spine and cut off oxygen to his brain. “That afternoon, our entire world collapsed around us,” Monica and Yongmin Zhu of Concord, Calif., said in a court petition. But they saw a brief window to fulfill at least part of Peter’s oft-stated desire to one day raise five children. The parents asked a state court judge Friday for permission to retrieve his sperm before his organs were removed for donation later that day at Westchester Medical Center. They argued the procedure needed to be done that day. The parents told the court that Peter is the only male child of the Zhu family and that if they don’t obtain the genetic material, “it will be impossible to carry on our family’s lineage, and our family name will die.” The judge directed the medical center to retrieve the sperm and ordered it stored pending a court hearing March 21 regarding the next steps. (AP)

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free league. But New England’s 13-3 victory over the Rams in the Super Bowl and the impressive performances of defensive players in the NFL Scouting Combine that concluded Monday signal an expected emphasis on defense in the draft April 25-27. That’s one of the key storylines in the NFL heading into the start of free agency March 13. JOHN CLAYTON (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

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BEAUREGARD, ALA. The youngest victim was 6, the oldest 89. Relatives said one extended family lost 10 members. The 23 people killed in the nation’s deadliest tornado in nearly six years came into focus Tuesday with the release of their names by the coroner. They included 6-year-old Armando Hernandez Jr., known as “AJ,” torn from his father’s arms two days after singing in his first-grade class musical; 10-year-old Taylor Thornton, who loved horses and was visiting a friend’s home when the twister struck; and Jimmy Lee Jones, 89, who perished along with his wife of six decades, Mary Louise, and one of their sons. The search for victims, pets and belongings in and around the devastated rural community of Beauregard continued amid the din of beeping heavy machinery and whining chain saws. Four children were killed, ages 6, 8, 9 and 10. The youngest, AJ, had taken shelter in a closet with his father and older brother when the tornado hit, said Jack Crisp, the boy’s uncle. The punishing winds tore the family’s home apart, Crisp said, and pulled both boys from their father’s arms. “He had them squeezed tight, and he said when it came through, it just took them,” Crisp said. The boy’s father and brother both survived. AJ did not. Jackie Jones said she and her siblings rushed to her parents’ house after the storm passed and nobody answered the phone. The siblings found the home reduced to its foundation. One of their two brothers who lived at the house survived and was taken to a hospital. But Jimmy Lee and Mary Louise Jones, married for more

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Murray won the combine by measuring 5-foot-10

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The wide receiver group was a pleasant surprise

One of the stats NFL executives value most for edge rushers is the 10-yard split in the 40-yard dash; Pro Bowl edge rushers since 2003 have averaged 1.67 seconds. This year, Ohio State’s Nick Bosa, above, Florida State’s Brian Burns, Michigan’s Rashan Gary and Mississippi State’s Montez Sweat all beat that time. Alabama DT Quinnen Williams (6-foot-3, 303 pounds) all but locked up the No. 2 prospect spot behind Bosa by running a 4.83 in the 40. Kentucky edge rusher Josh Allen is firmly in the top-five mix after recording a 4.64. LSU linebacker Devin White ran a 4.42, and Michigan LB Devin Bush a 4.43.

Kyler Murray measured 5-10 ⅛ and weighed 207 pounds, and looked a little thick from adding weight recently. Some members of the teams that talked to him indicated he didn’t give great interviews. It didn’t matter. Since he wasn’t shorter than expected, he has moved toward the top of the draft, and could go as early as No. 1. Murray’s ability and the success of quarterbacks such as Russell Wilson (under 5-11) and more recently Baker Mayfield (under 6-1) have lessened the bias against shorter passers. Arizona, picking No. 1, might take him, and Oakland (No. 4) might deal Derek Carr and trade up to select Murray.

Quarterbacks Derek Carr (Oakland), Ryan Tannehill, above, (Miami), Blake Bortles (Jacksonville) and Case Keenum (Denver) all could be traded or cut. Fellow QBs Nick Foles, Teddy Bridgewater, Tyrod Taylor and Ryan Fitzpatrick all are free agents. But outside of Jacksonville — which is expected to sign Foles — the market for quarterbacks is small. The Redskins need one but have little room under the salary cap. With four quarterbacks likely to be drafted in the top 15, some veteran quarterbacks are going to have to take serious pay reductions just to find backup jobs elsewhere.

Entering the combine, most scouts considered this a deep but not starstudded draft for wide receivers. Only three — Mississippi’s D.K. Metcalf, above, Oklahoma’s Marquise Brown and Arizona State’s N’Keal Harry — were getting first-round buzz. There still might not be many first-rounders, given the amount of defensive talent, but it was clear at the combine that this is a dynamic group. Eighteen receivers posted sub-4.5 times in the 40, while 19 were at least 6-2. And Metcalf (6-3, 228) was the freakiest athlete on hand: He ran a 4.33 and his 27 bench presses at 225 pounds topped 30 offensive linemen.

Barring a miracle, the Lakers’ LeBron James, who made the NBA Finals in each of the past eight seasons, will miss the playoffs for the first time since 2004-05, his second season. The team he joined to revive this season is on track to miss the playoffs for the sixth straight time, the longest drought in the franchise’s 71 years. Talk of a playoff push, all the rage as recently as 10 days ago, evaporated Monday night with a 113-105 loss to the Clippers. The Lakers (30-34) fell 5 ½ games out of the eighth seed with 18 games to play. James cited injuries to players such as Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram and Lonzo Ball, and added, “You keep playing to the end and see what happens.” (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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The Mets on Tuesday hired Jessica M Mendoza, an ESPN baseball analyst and ex-Olympic softball player, as a baseball operations adviser. S She’ll keep her TV job, joining an increasing number of commentators who also work for teams. Scores o of women work in MLB front offices, but the majority don’t evaluate players, which will be one of M Mendoza’s duties. The Mets hired former pitcher Al Leiter of MLB Network for a similar job. (AP/EXPRESS) Champions League round of 16: Tottenham Hotspur 1, Borussia Dortmund 0; Ajax Amsterdam 4, Real Madrid 1

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if his son attended Louisville. Gatto also was convicted of wire fraud for arranging similar deals to steer recruits to Kansas and North Carolina State. In delivering the sentences, which were less severe than what prosecutors sought but more than the probation requested by defense attorneys, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan explained he felt the need to send a “great big warning light to the basketball world,” deterring others involved in similar payments. All three men were released pending their appeals, which could take years. The trial in October included evidence that suggested coaches at Louisville, Kansas and N.C. State were aware Adidas officials were providing illicit recruiting help, and also included discussions between Adidas officials of rival bids for players by their counterparts at Nike and Under Armour. The case cost coach Rick Pitino his job at Louisville. WILL HOBSON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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A legacy unravels MUSIC When Michael Jackson died in 2009, the singer had hit a low point, dogged by personal scandals and diminishing star power. But the decade since his death has seen a rehabilitation of his image, returning the King of Pop to prominence as both a cultural icon and financial powerhouse. Now, a documentary detailing graphic allegations of child sexual abuse has created a new wave of public outrage against Jackson, imperiling his legacy as a music superstar — and the business that his estate has rebuilt into an empire. The entertainer’s estate, once roiled by hundreds of millions of dollars of debt, has flourished remarkably since his death from an overdose, pulling in a reported $2 billion through posthumous deals, including the forthcoming Broadway musical “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough,” a Cirque du Soleil tribute spectacle performed five nights a week in Las Vegas, and the $287.5 million Sony paid for Jackson’s share of EMI Music Publishing. In the two-part documentary “Leaving Neverland,” which aired Sunday and Monday on HBO, former child actor James Safechuck, 41, and choreographer Wade Robson, 36, revive the child abuse claims that have

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Michael Jackson, pictured here with a young Wade Robson, is accused of sexual abuse in the two-part HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland.”

followed Jackson since the early 1990s. They accuse Jackson of plying them with gifts and attention when they were boys, then sexually abusing them for years. For a legion of die-hard Jackson fans, the allegations rang false. On social media, they co-opted the hashtag #LeavingNeverland as their own, posting their criticisms of the film. Jackson’s estate offered its own counterprogramming during the documentary’s premiere, promoting new concert footage. But the accusers also have high-profile defenders. Oprah Winfrey entered the fray Monday, with her network and HBO airing an interview with Safechuck, Robson and the film’s director, Dan Reed. “ For me, th is moment

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The fallout begins Three Montreal radio stations stopped playing Michael Jackson songs Monday because of abuse allegations against the late pop star that aired in the HBO film “Leaving Neverland.” A representative for Cogeco, the owner of stations CKOI, Rythme and The Beat, says the action is a response to listener reactions to the documentary. (AP)

transcends Michael Jackson,” Winfrey said. “This is a moment in time that allows us to see this societal corruption.” Jackson designated his mother, Katherine, and his three children as beneficiaries of his estate, which vigorously tried and failed to stop the film from airing,

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filing a $100 million lawsuit last month in Los Angeles Superior Court accusing HBO of violating a 1992 contract promising not to disparage the singer. The value of the Jackson brand has been the subject of vast disagreement. The estate has argued that, at his death, the accusations and Jackson’s peculiar behaviors so dramatically affected his image and name that they could be valued at only $2,105. The IRS has put the figure closer to $160 million. In life, Jackson vehemently denied wrongdoing. A sensational, months-long trial in 2005 forced allegations against Jackson into the spotlight before he was acquitted on all 10 counts. For years after, Jackson’s pop star persona was cleaved in two — music fans continued to enjoy the art of Jackson while grappling uncomfortably with the allegations. The new documentary could shift those attitudes once more. And some fans say they won’t support him anymore. “I’m very sorry for anyone who loves Michael,” tweeted former Ebony editor in chief Kierna Mayo. “Very sorry. Myself included. Your cognitive dissonance is about to be violently disrupted. The love affair is over.” LAVANYA RAMANATHAN AND

Weezer’s recent covers record, dubbed the “Teal Album,” was notable for the band’s facility for sticking to versions of hits that hardly strayed from the originals, but still sounded very much like Weezer. The group’s effort released Friday, a self-titled record known as the “Black Album,” is also easily identifiable as a Weezer creation, especially through Rivers Cuomo’s singing — even if the backing is occasionally more toy guitar than power chord. Top tracks include “High as a Kite” and the paranoid “Living in L.A.” “Too Many Thoughts in My Head” diagnoses modern dysfunctions, and though it doesn’t offer remedies, more of that Weezer humor could alleviate the symptoms. PABLO GORONDI (AP)

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Hozier mines gems from a ‘Wasteland’ ALBUM REVIEW For proof that Irish singer-songwriter Hozier has hit the big time, look no further than who he’s singing with these days: Mavis Staples and Booker T. Jones. Their soaring song — “Nina Cried Power” — is a fitting opening to the Grammy-nominated

artist’s second full-length album, “Wasteland, Baby!” Released Friday, the record is a stunning 14-track collection that proves Hozier has suffered no sophomore slump. It’s assured, unrushed, complex, soulful and passionate, with his specific Irish stew of R&B, rock, gospel and folk. Hozier emerged in 2013 with his anthem against religious hypocrisy “Take Me to Church” and an excellent self-titled debut album that mixed confessional

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The singer-songwriter delivers a soulful blend on his second record

Hozier’s sophomore album, “Wasteland, Baby!,” probably deserves a more confident title.

lyrics and progressive politics. The new album kicks off in a similar vein, with Hozier, Jones and Staples paying tribute to such activist-artists as Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, James Brown,

Marvin Gaye, John Lennon and Staples herself. “It’s not the waking, it’s the rising,” Hozier sings. Then it’s on to his valentine to music itself with “Almost (Sweet Music),” which cleverly

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name-drops song titles from the likes of Duke Ellington and Chet Baker. Later, Hozier delivers a pure songwriting master class with “Shrike.” Although a few of the later, weaker songs might have been culled, there are many more joys to discover, including “Be,” a gospel-flecked call to stem environmental disaster. Every song but one was written exclusively by Hozier, and he plays guitar, organ, synth and electric piano. He also supplies bells, snaps, claps, beatbox, tambourine, shaker and, on a few songs, he’s playfully credited as “Sex Weasel.” After delivering on this album, Hozier can call himself whatever he likes. MARK KENNEDY (AP)

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“Next season, Chris Harrison is making that fence electric.” @ANEEELA_, joking about “Bachelor” Colton Underwood

effortlessly jumping over a fence during Monday night’s episode, a scene fans had been waiting for all season. Underwood’s passionate leap followed final-three contestant Cassie Randolph — long considered the front-runner — telling him she wasn’t ready to get engaged and leaving. As Randolph is driven away, Underwood emerges from his hotel suite, saying he’s “done with this” before leaping over a nearby fence. The episode ended with host Chris Harrison and producers frantically looking for an AWOL Underwood.

“I’ll see your Vans and raise you Crocs.” @RIDICULOUSDAK, beginning the Crocs

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that Will Smith has been cast to portray Richard Williams, the father of tennis greats Venus and Serena, in an upcoming biopic. The news angered some fans, who disliked the idea of Williams being played by a lighterskinned black actor instead of an actor with dark skin, such as Mahershala Ali or Courtney B. Vance.

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