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The $430M deal Angels give Trout an extension that dwarfs Harper’s contract 13

Pushed out Report: D.C. has the highest gentrification ‘intensity’ in the U.S. 4

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Authorities say two men snatched a statue of Al Capone from outside the Ohio Club in Hot Springs, Ark., early Saturday. Club owner Mike Pettey said the men dropped it and he chased them down and got it back. He said the statue’s fedora brim, arm and leg were broken — about $3,500 in damage. The men were charged with public intoxication and criminal mischief. Hot Springs was once a popular destination for gangsters, including Capone. (AP)

Animal control officers are caring for a french frymunching ferret left outside City Hall in Banning, Calif. Officials said the brown-and-white creature was found in a crate with a pile of fries last week. City workers wrapped the animal in a towel and brought it inside despite its pungent odor. Video from the Department of Animal Services shows the ferret happily munching fries, which spokesman John Welsh said are its favorite treat. (AP)

A Fair Lawn, N.J., man returned an overdue library book — 53 years late. Harry Krame got “The Family Book of Verse” from his school library when he was 13 and Lyndon Johnson was president. Krame found the book while cleaning his basement and felt guilty about keeping it for all those years. Memorial Middle School Vice Principal Dominick Tarquinio said a late fee at today’s rate would be about $2,000, but the district will let it slide. (AP)

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The Wizdom dance troupe has performed at three Wizards games so far this season.

Dancers show off their ‘Wizdom’ 50-and-older team thrills Wizards fans with slick routines THE DISTRICT Vivian Lewis was captain of her high school’s cheerleading squad in 1966, but she stopped cheering when she went to college and got married. Three daughters, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren later, she’s back to performing — but now she’s doing scream-making,

sweat-dripping, hip-shaking hip-hop — in front of thousands of people. Lewis, 71, is part of Wizdom, the Washington Wizards’ new dance troupe — with members who are all 50 and older — that was created to whip up fans at Capital One Arena. It seems to be working. “The first performance that they did, you would have thought that we won the game,” said Derric Whitfield, Wizdom’s director. Wizdom’s 20 members, ages 50

to 76, sport red and blue jumpsuits and white sneakers as they take the court to show off their choreography. They mostly dance during timeouts. Like the kids’ team Wiz Kids, the Wizdom dancers perform only at select games. The dancers learn and practice their minutelong routines for two hours on most Sundays. The squad has preformed three times this season. At least a dozen other NBA teams, including the Chicago Bulls and the Golden State Warriors, also have dance teams for older adults. Whitfield, who selected the Wizdom dancers from a pool of 50 people in a process documented on the YouTube series “Road to Wizdom,” produced

by AARP, said he’s breaking barriers and stereotypes with the team. “What I want to prove with this team is, everyone can dance,” Whitfield said to the cameras. “Dance is for people of all ages.” But make no mistake, he said: Wizdom dancers are not secondrate performers. Their moves are precise, and they pop with energy. “The fans really get behind them, and it’s an instant support that they get because they’re older,” Whitfield said. “But when they come out and they’re performing these moves and executing them as great as they are, the shock value is another thing, as well, that gets the crowd.” MARISA ITAI (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Caps to visit White House Monday to celebrate Cup The Capitals will join President Trump at the White House on Monday to celebrate their 2018 Stanley Cup victory, according to a team spokesman. The visit will come nearly 10 months after the team won its first championship in franchise history. Plans are still being finalized. Visits to the White House have be mixed with controversy during Trump’s presidency. In the week after they won the Stanley Cup, most Capitals players said they would want to visit the White House, including Alex Ovechkin. Brett Connolly and Devante SmithPelly, who are both Canadian, previously said they would skip a White House visit. (TWP)

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Suit against Turkey over 2017 attack may proceed

THE DISTRICT About 40 percent of the District’s lower-income neighborhoods experienced gentrification between 2000 and 2013, giving the city the greatest “intensity of gentrification” of any in the country, according to a study released Tuesday by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. The District also had the most African-American residents — more than 20,000 — displaced from their neighborhoods during that time, mostly by affluent, white newcomers, researchers said. D.C. and Philadelphia were most “notable” for displacements of black residents, while Denver and Austin had the most Hispanic residents move. Nationwide, nearly 111,000 African-Americans and more than 24,000 Hispanics moved out of gentrifying neighborhoods, the study found. In sheer numbers, 62 lowerincome census tracts in the District gentrified between 2000 and 2013. The District ranked first in “intensity of gentrification” based on the percentage of lower-income neighborhoods that experienced gentrification. Because of the District’s intensity ranking, “You feel it and you see it,” said Jesse Van Tol, chief executive of NCRC, a research and advocacy coalition of 600 community groups that promote economic and racial justice. The study defined gentrification as when “an influx of investment and changes to the built environment lead to rising home values, family incomes and educational levels of residents.” It defined “cultural displacement” as instances when “minority areas see a rapid decline in their numbers as affluent, white gentrifiers replace the incumbent residents.” Researchers examined U.S. census tracts that, in 2000, were

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The District has the highest ‘intensity’ of gentrification of any U.S. city, a new study says

Brookland is one of the many neighborhoods in the District that have undergone rapid change since 2000.

in the lower 40th percentile for median home values and household incomes in their areas. Van Tol said gentrification has followed a national move back to cities, particularly among affluent workers. D.C. drew many during the Great Recession, when the city’s economy and job markets were more stable than others. Meanwhile, the amount of affordable housing has lagged, even amid new residential development. Many residents can rattle off the D.C. neighborhoods that have undergone rapid economic change, including Petworth, Mount Pleasant, Brookland, and the U and 14th Street corridors. Gentrification can benefit areas because it signals economic investment, Van Tol said. The problem comes, he said, when longtime residents are pushed out as rents and property taxes rise, leaving them unable to benefit from the improvements. Activists also are concerned about the culture that can leave with a neighborhood’s

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The number of lower-income census tracts in the District that gentrified between 2000 and 2013, putting the city third behind New York and Los Angeles for the most neighborhoods that have been transformed

longtime residents. “I think the loss of these cultural institutions has really changed the identity of neighborhoods in a way that might be unwelcome by the people who have lived there,” Van Tol said. Nationally, the study found, nearly half of all gentrified neighborhoods were in seven cities: the District, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Diego and Chicago.

Police: 2 killed in bus crash Tuesday in Prince George County, Va.; charges pending for driver

In an essay accompanying the study, Sabiyha Prince of Empower DC said the city “rolled out the proverbial red carpet” for tens of thousands of new residents in the past five years. But the new dog parks, bike lanes, condominiums and pricey restaurants that followed, she said, aren’t viewed as improvements by long-term residents, who can feel isolated from losing neighbors, social networks and local businesses. Prince, an anthropologist, said longtime Washingtonians tell stories of “alienation and vulnerability in the nation’s capital.” “The hopes, dreams and needs of low-income and working-class residents — which include truly affordable housing, safe and reliable child care, food justice, the ability to attend houses of worship and the unencumbered use of public spaces — do not diligently appear on the local legislative body’s list of pending priorities,” Prince wrote. KATHERINE SHAVER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

A federal judge ruled that portions of a lawsuit may proceed against three men for their alleged involvement in the beatings of protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in 2017. In a ruling Monday, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the suit filed by 15 mostly proKurdish demonstrators, nearly all U.S. citizens and residents, may continue to seek damages for injuries they contend they suffered when guards for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked their group. The judge’s ruling allows financial claims to continue against the Republic of Turkey, Turkish security forces and five civilians on accusations they committed assault, battery and hate crimes under D.C. law. (TWP) BALTIMORE COUNTY

Police: Unicorn-dressed robbery suspect caught The robbery suspect wore a unicorn costume, and police in Baltimore County say he has been unmasked. Police say Jacob William Rogge, 28, donned a pink-and-white unicorn costume and smashed a convenience store register with a crowbar Saturday. Police say Joseph Philip Svezzese, 27, drove Rogge, who fled with cash and cigarettes. The pair’s car then crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed. Svezzese was treated and released, but Rogge remains hospitalized in serious condition. (AP) VIRGINIA

McAuliffe says decision coming soon on 2020 run Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said he’ll soon decide whether to join the sprawling field of candidates seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. During a stop Tuesday in Columbia, S.C., McAuliffe said he’ll make that call “in the next couple of weeks.” McAuliffe says he has “a lot of strength” in the state, which hosts the first primary in the South. (AP)

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local Lawmaker under fire for soliciting business from lobby firms in D.C. THE DISTRICT The D.C. Council on Tuesday reprimanded its longest-serving member, Jack Evans, D-Ward 2, and announced plans to dilute the power of his committee after he repeatedly used his government staff and email to solicit business from law firms that lobby the city, offering to tap his influence and connections to help their clients. The unanimous vote comes as

the veteran lawmaker is the target of a federal investigation into his business dealings and faces the threat of a recall election. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I brought embarrassment to this council, to myself and my family,â&#x20AC;? a subdued Evans said from the council dais on Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going forward, I will work tirelessly to restore the trust of my constituents, of my colleagues here on the council and of the residents of the District of Columbia.â&#x20AC;? Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, D, said he would reduce the responsibilities that Evans holds as chairman of the finance

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Council votes to reprimand Evans

D.C. Council member Jack Evans is the target of a federal investigation into his business dealings.

Bill to increase renewable energy use in Maryland advances in state Senate

and revenue committee, shifting oversight of tax abatement tax increment financing, the Washington Convention and Sports Authority/Events D.C. and Commission on the Arts and Humanities to committees led by other lawmakers. Mendelson made the move after pressure from several groups, activists and some lawmakers who said a reprimand was not enough. A reprimand vote is an expression of disapproval, but is not considered discipline and does not carry any consequences. FENIT NIRAPPIL (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Teresa Hodge is an advocate for prohibiting federal employers from requesting criminal history at the first stages of the application process.

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Criminal history: Bill restricts what employers can ask Teresa Hodge went to federal prison following years as a human resource professional. After serving almost five years for a nonviolent, white-collar crime in West Virginia and spending time in a halfway house in the District, Hodge was eager to return to pre-prison life. But with her experience in personnel management, she said she “was fully aware of how challenging it was going to be to overcome the stigmatization wrought by my conviction when attempting to find work.” That awareness turned to stark reality as she filled out an online application for a part-time job that paid just

above the minimum wage. “And then the question appeared,” Hodge recalled last week in congressional testimony, “the dreaded question that those of us with an arrest or conviction fear most: ‘Have you ever been convicted of a crime?’ I took a deep breath, checked ‘yes,’ and hit enter. “What happened next was devastating. The screen went completely black. Then a message appeared. It said, ‘Something you answered disqualified you for this job.’ Well, I knew it was not my name. I knew it was not my address. The answer was glaring: I was disqualified for a job without even having an opportunity to enter my qualifications. … “For the millions of people who have satisfied their

sentences, that dark screen is a regular occurrence that dims the light on people’s attempts to reenter society, feed their families, and clothe their children.” At the hearing, Hodge represented JustLeadershipUSA, an organization dedicated to lowering the incarceration population. Her experience was an example of what the Fair Chance Act hopes to remedy in federal employment with “ban the box” legislation now being considered. It would prohibit federal agencies and contractors from requesting that an applicant disclose their criminal history record before receiving a conditional offer. Agency and contractor managers could still ask about convictions, but not at the first stages of the application process. The Obama administration instituted similar rules for federal agencies. This bill would codify those regulations and extend them to federal contractors. The legislation has generated strong levels of bipartisan support that would have been unheard-of not too many years ago. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has approved a companion bill he cosponsored. “The Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act recognizes the crucial role employment plays in transforming lives,” he told a House panel. “Just because some have temporarily lost their freedom because they committed a crime, does not mean they have also lost their right to pursue happiness.” While some concerns were expressed by Republicans at a hearing last week, it was clear, as Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., predicted, that “this is going to be passed by both chambers, will be signed into law.” Follow Joe Davidson on Twitter @joedavidsonWP

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‘Maybe it’s a sign from God’ Some farmers consider quitting the business after floods in Midwest

Record highs being set twice as often as lows

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NEBRASKA Anthony Ruzicka, a fifth-generation Nebraska rancher, got the call at 6 a.m.: The nearby 90-year-old Spencer Dam was failing under pressure of a river swollen with snowmelt and rain. He got out with moments to spare — but the wall of water swallowed up many calves and all his bulls, along with his farmhouse, outbuildings and feed bins, and the original log cabin built when his family came from Czechoslovakia to homestead in the 1860s. Ruzicka was luckier than most caught in the historic floods across the Midwest. On Friday, the day before the dam broke, he and his neighbors in Verdigre, in the northeast corner of Nebraska, had chased most of his herd of 300 cattle a half-mile to higher ground, just in case. He doesn’t yet know his total fatalities, but on Saturday alone he saw 15 carcasses. “I’m 39 years old; I don’t have children. The cows are my children, and my farm is completely destroyed. Maybe it’s a sign from God to go and do something else,” Ruzicka said. Even before the “bomb cyclone” and last week’s floods, the farm economy has been terrible, Ruzicka said. Most ranchers he knows are doing their best to break even, working 100-hour weeks and getting up every two hours to check the cows.

The city of Valley, Neb., was inundated with floodwaters on Sunday. Hundreds were evacuated from their homes.

Nebraska Farm Bureau President Steve Nelson said it’s too early to provide a definitive estimate of the damage, but some early estimates put ranching losses in the state at $500 million, and row crops — in Nebraska, that is largely corn, soy and, to a lesser degree, wheat — at another $400 million. For livestock, the loss is a combination of animal deaths and the loss of quality feed sources. For row crops, Nelson said, farmers are very close to planting season, and fear they won’t have enough time to clean up the land. Estimated losses include cleanup costs as well as late planting, Nelson said. John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said that as big a threat as all that river water is, it’s also what’s in the water that is concerning. “The water is chock-full of

Disaster declared A disaster declaration has been issued for nearly 70 percent of the state of Nebraska. The state’s Emergency Management Agency said in a news release Tuesday that 65 of its 93 counties are under state-issued emergency declarations. Gov. Pete Ricketts said there have been disasters with greater loss of life, but he doesn’t think “there’s ever been a disaster this widespread in Nebraska.” (AP)

stuff,” he said. “This is a toxic brew that is going down the river — the water took out gas stations and farm shops and fuel barrels.” Ice caused some of the worst damage, Hansen said, causing choke points at bridges and temporary dams that forced the melting water over river banks and onto the roads, stranding farmers,

ranchers and their livestock. Nebraska’s National Guard has been airlifting hay and animal feed to marooned ranchers and farmers, and state authorities have set up a livestock shelter at a fairgrounds in Lincoln. But Amy Dickerson, managing director of the Lancaster Event Center, said many farmers couldn’t get their animals to shelter because so many roads and bridges were out. Dickerson said the center has been swarmed with volunteers and has been serving as a clearinghouse, connecting people who have animal feed with those who need it. The offer of feed doesn’t do much, though, once floodwaters have ravaged a ranch. “People are absolutely losing their herds,” Dickerson said. “You can see floating black dots in pictures on Facebook.” LAURA REILEY (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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A British scientist and American pilot made an emergency ascent from 328 feet beneath the surface of the Indian Ocean on Tuesday after smoke filled the cockpit of their submersible. The pair with the Nekton Mission investigating climate change off the Seychelles was safe and an electrical fire was being investigated. “It’s the greatest fear: fire inside the cockpit,” pilot Robert Carmichael said. A team member said it took 23 minutes to reach the surface. (AP)

Vice President Pence visits Omaha, Neb., to tour areas ravaged by flooding

ENVIRONMENT Over the past 20 years, Americans have been twice as likely to sweat through recordbreaking heat rather than shiver through record-setting cold, a new Associated Press data analysis show. The AP looked at 424 weather stations throughout the Lower 48 states that had consistent temperature records since 1920 and counted how many times daily hot temperature records were tied or broken and how many daily cold records were set. In a stable climate, the numbers should be roughly equal. Since 1999, the ratio has been two warm records set or broken for every cold one. In 16 of the last 20 years, there have been more daily high temperature records than low. The AP shared the data analysis with several climate and data scientists, who all said the conclusion was correct, consistent with scientific peerreviewed literature and showed a clear sign of human-caused climate change. No place has seen the trend more clearly than the Southern California city of Pasadena, where 7,203 days (more than 19 years) went by between cold records being broken. On Feb. 23, Pasadena set a low temperature record, its first since June 5, 1999. In between the two cold record days, Pasadena set 145 hot records. That includes an alltime high of 113 degrees last year. JILL LAWLESS AND LORNE COOK (AP)

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President to step down after 30 years in power

Cyclone leaves hundreds dead in southern Africa

May to formally ask EU for delay on Brexit deal

President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the only leader that independent Kazakhstan has ever known, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday after three decades in power, raising uncertainty over the future course of the Central Asian country. In a televised address, the 78-year-old Nazarbayev said he has made the â&#x20AC;&#x153;difficultâ&#x20AC;? decision to terminate his authority as president, effective today. He did not give a specific reason for the surprise move, but noted that he would have marked 30 years on the job later this year and added that he sees his mission as securing a smooth transition of power. (AP)

Aid workers rushed to rescue victims clinging to trees and crammed on rooftops Tuesday after a cyclone unleashed devastating floods in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. More than 350 people were confirmed dead, hundreds were missing and thousands more were at risk. In Mozambique, the rapidly rising floodwaters created â&#x20AC;&#x153;an inland ocean,â&#x20AC;? aid workers said as they scrambled to rescue survivors and airdrop food, water and blankets. Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi said Tuesday that more than 200 people had been confirmed dead in his country. Earlier he said the death toll could reach 1,000. (AP)

Prime Minister Theresa Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brexit plan has been derailed in Parliament. Now she is at the mercy of an exasperated European Union. May was preparing Tuesday to ask the EU for a delay of at least several months to Brexit after the speaker of the House of Commons ruled that she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep asking lawmakers to vote on the same divorce deal that they have already rejected twice. Chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said the bloc wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t automatically grant the request. He said a long extension â&#x20AC;&#x153;must be linked to something new, a new event or a new political process.â&#x20AC;? (AP)

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Response to New Zealand fits a pattern for Trump

Facebook halts ad targeting in settlement

POLITICS After a gunman killed 50 people in an anti-Muslim massacre at two mosques in New Zealand, President Trump did not condemn the white supremacy extolled by the alleged shooter, nor did he express explicit sympathy with Muslims around the globe. Instead, Trump spent the days that followed on the offensive — averaging just over a tweet per hour through the weekend as he decried various subjects, from unflattering television coverage to the late Republican Sen. John McCain. One of his few public defenders, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, took to the airwaves with an unusual declaration that “the president is not a white supremacist.” By Monday morning, Trump still had not heeded the plea of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern — whom he spoke with w t o on tthe ep phone o e Friday day — to

offer his nation’s “sympathy and love for all Muslim communities.” But the president had contorted himself into a victim of the tragedy, griping on Twitter: “The Fake News Media is working overtime to blame me for the horrible attack in New Zealand.” Trump’s tepid response to the New Zealand massacre has highlighted the president’s fraught and combative relationship with Islam and Muslims, which dates back at least to his campaign. Throughout his presidential bid and his presidency, Trump has made statements and enacted policies that many Muslim Americans and others find offensive and upsetting at best — and dangerous and Islamophobic at worst. In a lengthy manifesto, the admitted shooter, a white man from Australia, described Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose” a d see and seemed to echo some of the

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President’s muted reaction highlights his often combative relationship with Muslims U.S. president’s hard-line rhetoric on immigration, describing immigrants as “invaders within our lands.” In response to a reporter’s question Friday, Trump said he did not view white nationalism as a rising threat around the world — despite evidence to the contrary. “I don’t really,” he said. “I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems, I guess.” The White House was quick to dismiss any suggestion that Trump should be connected to the massacre or the alleged attacker. Yet the president has a long history of disparaging Muslims and other minorities, while simultaneously refusing to forcefully condemn white supremacy and violent nationalism. After a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017 left a woman dead, for instance, Trump held a freewheeling news

conference in which he said “both sides” were to blame. Trump’s handling of the New Zealand terrorist attack, critics say, follows a familiar pattern: The president has often seemed eager to highlight attacks and hate crimes perpetrated by Muslims but has frequently been slower and less forceful when Muslims are the victims. The thinking behind Trump’s comments and silences around the topic of Islam is opaque. Unlike previous presidents, Trump has shuttered much of the official faith-based infrastructure that allowed a wide range of religious leaders to advise the White House. Major U.S. Muslim organizations say the administration has essentially shut down dialogue and that there is no regular contact between the White House and American Muslim leaders. A S H L E Y PA R K E R A N D J O S H D AW S E Y (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Pope Francis declines to accept resignation of French cardinal who failed to report predator priest to police

TECHNOLOGY Facebook will overhaul its ad-targeting systems to prevent discrimination in housing, credit and employment ads as part of a legal settlement. For the social network, that’s one major legal problem down, several to go, including government investigations in the U.S. and Europe over its data and privacy practices. The changes to Facebook’s advertising methods — which generate most of the company’s enormous profits — are unprecedented. The social network says it will no longer allow housing, employment or credit ads that target people by age, gender or zip code. Facebook will also limit other targeting options so these ads don’t exclude people on the basis of race, ethnicity and other legally protected categories in the U.S., including national origin and sexual orientation. The social media company is also paying about $5 million to cover plaintiffs’ legal fees and other costs. Facebook and the plaintiffs — a group including the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Fair Housing Alliance and others — called the settlement “historic.” It took 18 months to hammer out. The company still faces an administrative complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in August over the housing ads issue. BARBARA ORTUTAY (AP)

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Coast states that make up the 9th Circuit. While 29 setbacks have come from 9th Circuit judges, the trend is national, with 34 originating elsewhere, particularly in the District of Columbia Circuit, according to a count by The Washington Post. On major issues on which multiple judges have ruled, there has been little disagreement among them, no matter where the judges are located or who appointed them. Every administration loses cases because of APA violations. Obama’s most notable defeat came in 2015, when a Texas judge blocked his plan to protect from deportation illegal immigrants whose children are Americans or lawful permanent residents. Still, administrations of both parties have historically won most of these cases, in part because judges tend to defer to the federal government, legal experts said — making Trump’s record of failure virtually unprecedented. FRED BARBASH AND DEANNA PAUL

POLITICS Special counsel Robert Mueller began investigating President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for fraud in his personal business dealings and for potentially acting as an unregistered foreign agent at least nine months before FBI agents in New York raided his home and office last April, according to documents released Tuesday. The series of heavily redacted search warrant applications and other documents revealed new details about the timing and depth of the probe into Cohen, who pleaded guilty to tax fraud, bank fraud, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress. The records show the inquiry into Cohen had been going on since July 2017 — far longer than previously known— and that a big part of its focus was Cohen’s taxi businesses and misrepresentations he made to banks as part of a scheme to relieve himself of some $22 million in debt he owed on taxi medallion loans. Prosecutors were also interested in money in Cohen’s bank accounts from consulting contracts he’d signed after Trump won office. Some of those payments were from companies with strong foreign ties, including Columbus Nova, an investment management firm affiliated with Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg. Cohen was ultimately not charged with failing to register as a foreign agent. JIM MUSTIAN

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COURTS Federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration at least 63 times over the past two years, an extraordinary record of legal defeat that has stymied large parts of the president’s agenda on the environment, immigration and other matters. In case after case, judges have rebuked Trump officials for failing to follow the most basic rules of governance, including providing legitimate explanations for shifts in policy, supported by facts and, where required, public input. Many of the cases are in early stages and subject to reversal. For example, the U.S. Supreme Court permitted a version of President Trump’s ban on travelers from certain predominantly Muslim nations to take effect after lower court judges blocked the travel ban as discriminatory. But whether or not the administration ultimately prevails, the rulings so far paint a remarkable portrait of a government rushing to implement sweeping changes in policy without regard for longstanding rules against arbitrary and capricious behavior. “What they have consistently been doing is short-circuiting the process,” said Georgetown Law School’s William Buzbee, an expert on administrative law who has studied Trump’s record. In the regulatory cases, Buzbee said, “They don’t even come close” to explaining their actions, “making it very easy for the courts to reject them because they’re not doing their homework.” Two-thirds of the cases accuse the Trump administration of violating the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), a 73-yearold law that forms the primary bulwark against arbitrary rule. The normal “win rate” for the government in such cases is

The 9th U.S. Circuit rejected the president’s travel ban, but the Supreme Court later permitted a version.

about 70 percent, according to analysts and studies. But as of mid-January, a database maintained by the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law shows Trump’s win rate at about 6 percent. Seth Jaffe, a Boston-based environmental lawyer who represents corporations and had been looking forward to deregulation under Trump, said he has been frustrated by the administration’s failure to deliver. Some errors are so basic that Jaffe said he has to wonder whether agency officials are more interested in announcing policy shifts than in actually implementing them. Contributing to the losing record has been Trump himself. His reported comments about “shithole countries,” for example, helped convince U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco that the administration’s decision to end “temporary protected status” for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from

Courts nationwide rule against administration 9th Circuit, 29 rulings (Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington)

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4th Circuit, 8 2nd Circuit, 7 7th Circuit, 2 3rd Circuit, 1 1st Circuit, 1 Source: Washington Post analysis of court records

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from the force were starting to celebrate anyway. “I’m happy it’s over. Now I know my people are safe,” said a fighter who identified himself as Walid Raqqawi, who fought in the camp Monday night. Comrades from his unit sang and danced in celebration at an outpost in Baghouz, all saying they were looking forward to going home. The complete fall of Baghouz would mark the end of the Islamic State group’s self-declared territorial “caliphate,” which at its height stretched across much of Syria and Iraq. For the past four years, U.S.-led forces have waged a campaign to tear down the “caliphate.” But even after Baghouz’s fall, ISIS maintains a scattered presence and sleeper cells that threaten a continuing insurgency. PHILIP ISSA (AP)

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Trout upstages Bryce Angels star’s $430M extension surpasses Harper for biggest deal in American sports MLB Within days of signing his record-setting 13-year, $330 million contract with the Phillies last month, outfielder Bryce Harper openly talked about recruiting Angels outfielder Mike Trout to the City of Brotherly Love when the New Jersey native’s contract expired after the 2020 season. So much for that. T he A ngels a re fi na li zing a 12-year contract extension for Trout worth roughly $430 million, which would surpass Harper’s deal as the largest in North American sports history by $100 million. It was widely assumed that landing baseball’s biggest contract was one of Harper’s objectives in free agency; he held the record for less than three weeks before news broke of Trout’s

pending extension. Early in their respective careers with the Angels and Nationals, there was debate about whether Trout or Harper was the better young superstar, but Trout, a seven-time All-Star and two-time American League MVP, put the debate to rest in recent years. At his current trajectory Trout, 27, could eventually rank as the best of all time. According to FanGraphs, no hitter in history has amassed more wins above replacement through his age-26 season than Trout, at 64.9 WAR. The rest of the top five are Ty Cobb (63.5), Mickey Mantle (61.3), Rogers Hornsby (57.5) and Jimmy Foxx (56.1). The theoretical availability of Trout as a free agent after 2020 was already shaping long-range

Coincidence or trolling? The $430 million value of Mike Trout’s contract extension dwarfs the $330 million value of the recently signed deal by Bryce Harper, above. Whether that gap of exactly $100 million is a coincidence or an expert-level trolling job wasn’t known Tuesday. Before this winter, Giancarlo Stanton’s $325 million extension with the Marlins in 2014 was the record in North American team sports. Manny Machado signed a $300 million contract with the Padres recently. (TWP/EXPRESS)

strategies at the top of baseball’s talent marketplace, possibly helping to explain, for example, the relative absence of the Yankees and Dodgers from this winter’s high-end market. The Phillies, with a geographical and emotional advantage, likely would also have made a major play for his services. But those possibilities disappeared Tuesday. The Angels — who have made just one playoff appearance in Trout’s eight seasons — negotiated quietly with their star, as word of those discussions failed to leak until Tuesday’s blast that a deal was near. For the Angels to retain Trout, it cost owner Arte Moreno more than twice as much as the $184 million he paid for the entire franchise in 2003.

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Aside from three relief appearances as a rookie in 2015, righty Joe Ross has been a starter for the Nationals. But this spring he didn’t make his first start until Monday, in part because he still is strengthening his arm after Tommy John surgery in July 2017. He looked to be on track in his comeback last September, when he started three games and averaged 83 pitches. He likely will begin this season as a starter at Class AAA Fresno. While manager Dave Martinez hasn’t ruled out trying him in the bullpen, the Nationals think Ross is most valuable as a starter. That could be in Washington — or possibly with another club looking for a soon-to-be 26-year-old whose contract is under team control through the 2021 season. (TWP)

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Prosecutors in Palm Beach County, Fla., have offered a plea deal to Patriots owner Robert Kraft and 24 others charged with paying for illicit sex at a massage parlor. The diversion program for first-time offenders requires conceding they would be found guilty and performing 100 hours of community service. ESPN reported that if Kraft accepts the deal, video evidence from hidden cameras at the massage parlor likely would be kept from public view. (AP/EXPRESS)

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Although upsets are a staple of March Madness, the teams on the top lines of the 2019 men’s NCAA Tournament bracket seem especially formidable this season. So while our official guess is that most or all of the No. 1s, 2s and 3s will play to seed, if any are to fall early, it’s likely to be one or

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It’s hard to forget that the Cavaliers a year ago were the first No. 1 team ever to lose to a No. 16 seed, falling to UMBC by 20 points. The problem with Virginia is its pace: The Cavaliers under coach Tony Bennett are the slowesttempo team in the nation, meaning their games see very few total possessions. That lets luck play a larger role. And when an underdog shoots uncharacteristically well and the favorite shoots uncharacteristically poorly, we see stunning results like we did last season. Wisconsin, rated as the best No. 5 seed in the field, could be an especially challenging opponent for Virginia because the Badgers, a phenomenal defensive outfit, have a similar level of talent and play at an equally plodding pace.

Coach Rick Barnes’ 22-23 tournament record aside, the red flag here is a traditional one as it pertains to the types of top seeds that fall early. Underdogs seize on opportunities to create — and cash in on — extra possessions. One way to do that is through offensive rebounds. Tennessee struggles to close out possessions, ranking 266th in the nation in defensive rebounding percentage. That could be a big issue against a seventh-seeded Cincinnati team whose offense stalls occasionally but is consistently excellent on the offensive glass. Another statistic of note: The Vols’ opponents have shot extremely poorly from the foul line this season. That could indicate Tennessee has been a little lucky in compiling its impressive 29-5 record.

According to the Pomeroy College Basketball Ratings, the Tigers play more like a No. 5 seed than a No. 3 based on their overall efficiency. And there’s the matter of suspended coach Will Wade, who is being replaced by assistant Tony Benford. Like their SEC brethren in Tennessee, the Tigers fail to clean the glass, ranking 268th in defensive rebounding percentage. They also do not shoot well from 3-point range (275th in the nation). Both of those stats could be an issue against No. 6 Maryland, which ranks 26th in terms of offensive rebounding percentage and 17th in terms of defense inside the arc. If Maryland can survive the Temple-Belmont winner — a game that ended after Express’ deadline Tuesday — the Terps are well positioned for an upset.

When the Giants drafted Ereck Flowers ninth overall in 2015, they thought he’d be their left tackle for years. But he was released last October, finishing the season with the Jaguars. When Flowers left the Giants, Pro Football Focus said he had allowed 180 pressures since 2015, the most in the NFL. But now the Redskins think he can help a line battered by injuries the past two seasons. This week, the Redskins signed him for one year at $4 million. After his struggles in New York, they are looking at him as a guard, with the chance to earn a starting job at a position at which the Redskins are thin. (TWP)

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Leader to resign in face of probe over Tokyo bid OLYMPICS Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda announced Tuesday that he would step down at the end of his term in June in the face of corruption allegations that have cast a shadow over the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. French prosecutors placed Takeda under investigation in December over suspicions that he paid a bribe to help secure Tokyo’s bid to be host. Takeda denied breaking the law but said he also would resign from the International Olympic Committee. French investigators have spent years investigating corruption in athletics as well as in the bidding and voting process surrounding the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro and the Tokyo 2020 Games. They have questioned Takeda over a payment of 230 million yen ($2.1 million) to Black Tidings, a Singapore company they suspect was part of an effort to win support from African countries for Tokyo’s bid. In January, Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper said authorities should try to regain a positive image for the Games by exhaustively investigating and explaining the charges. Takeda’s departure and denials — he said the money was for consulting — probably won’t be enough. Said media consultant Mitsushige Tsuruno: “We’ve been left in the dark and still remain so.” SIMON DENYER (TWP)

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The ballad of Jenny Lewis MUSIC Jenny Lewis has one of those faces. If you were to run into her in her natural habitat — a vintage clothing store or Whole Foods — you might recognize her, even if you’re not sure from where. Lewis has spent almost her entire life lingering at the edges of everyone’s collective consciousness, first as a child actor, then in Rilo Kiley and as a solo artist, one of indie pop’s mid-’00s queens. “People think they know me personally, or we’re related, or from commercials that I was in as a child,” she says. “I just have a familiar face, because I’m weirdly Zelig-y.” A few years back, Lewis and her longtime boyfriend, fellow singer-songwriter Johnathan Rice, broke up. It had been the formative, defining relationship of her life so far and its dissolution forced her to look at the world in a new way, and

to reassess the way the world looked at her. “Can you imagine being 40 years old and thrust upon the digital dating scene after a 12year relationship that started before cellphones?” Lewis asks. She’s 43 now, just starting to find her footing, to figure out what she wants in a partner, and what the rest of her life might look like. The breakup and its painful, hopeful, way-too-weird aftermath are among the main subjects of Lewis’ new album “On the Line,” out Friday, her best work since her 2006 solo debut, “Rabbit Fur Coat.” “It’s kind of like a play,” Lewis says. “It begins with the breakup, and it’s rebound, rediscovery, rebirth, death, autonomy.” “On the Line” is slower and more muted than Lewis’ past albums; there are gently swinging retro-country ballads, mostly

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After a breakup, the indie pop queen bounced back with ‘On the Line,’ her best album in years The Adams effect “On the Line” was made in stages, and features early production work by Ryan Adams, who has since been accused of emotionally abusing female musicians. “After five or six days in the studio, we stopped working together,” Lewis says. “I took the record and finished those songs without him, and then went in the studio with Beck to record.” A.S.

sad, with an emphasis on pianos and organs, the latter provided by Benmont Tench, former keyboardist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Petty died during a break in the sessions, followed weeks later by the death of Lewis’ mother. Lewis had a complicated relationship with her mother, who struggled with heroin addiction and mental illness, and from whom she had been semi-estranged.

Weeks after her mother died, Lewis recorded the album standout “Little White Dove,” a bottom-heavy ballad about her final days. “I’m still afraid of a lot of things, but I don’t know if I’m afraid of dying,” she says. “Having been through that with my mother, that’s not as scary to me as it once was, which I think is a really liberating thing to go through.” Lewis has always felt that her songs are prophetic somehow, like they knew things that would happen to her before she did. She is still struck by the naivete of many of her early songs, but she wonders if she was setting intentions she didn’t know about. “I’m always surprised by my songs, at either how irrelevant or relevant they feel,” she says. “There’s hidden messages to myself in there. It’s like I’m singng ing to my future and past self.” f.”

Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O teams up with producer-to-the-stars Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) on “Lux Prima,” a balanced collaboration that brings out the best from both, enriched by O’s diverse vocals and Burton’s orchestral talents. The nineminute title track, which translates to “first light,” opens the album with a four-part composition. Daniele Luppi conducts the violin-heavy string section, adding an elegant clarity to “Reveries,” where O and her acoustic guitar sound as if they are seeping through a transistor radio in need of fine-tuning. “Nox Lumina” (“night light”) bids the album goodbye with a short set of lyrics that goes around and around, intermittently, hazily fading away. PABLO GORONDI ORONDI (AP)

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Eggers’ new parable offers bleak lessons BOOK REVIEW Dave Eggers has spent much of his life figuring out how to help people. He gained widespread attention in 2000 with “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” a memoir about dropping out of college to raise his little brother after their parents died. His other books have brought attention to the plight of teachers, wrongfully convicted prisoners and the Lost Boys of Sudan. So what are we to make of his slight new novel, “The Parade,” a tale of Western assistance in the developing world? The story opens in an unnamed country that has recently emerged from civil war. To reunify this broken land, an international company has been hired to build a highway connecting the rural south to the urban north. In two weeks, the president will hold a parade. All that remains is to pave and paint this 150-mile road. That job will be accomplished by a single gargantuan machine driven by one man, assisted by another man who drives ahead to keep the path clear. For security reasons, the two workers don’t give their names, identifying themselves only

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it’s also a persistent reminder of how much life Four is missing. Which brings us to what this novel is missing. Eggers has pared his clever style down to a series of flat, declarative sentences. The characters have been crunched into types. The details of this place have been sandblasted away. But what’s truly disappointing is the novel’s final paragraph, which lands like a Molotov cocktail of toxic cynicism. If this parable offers any lessons, it’s that Nine’s delight was foolish, that efforts to help economic development are wasted and that political reform will never work in those places that President Trump calls “shithole countries.”

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“Eat whatever you want, just don’t claim to be something you’re not.” @J7ROD29, criticizing vegan YouTuber Rawvana for promoting vegan products when she no longer follows the diet. After fans caught her apparently eating fish in another YouTuber’s video last week, Rawvana said she’d recently begun eating fish and eggs due to health issues. Angry fans began spamming her social media with fish emoji.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) It may be time to take responsibility for something that is only partially your fault, in order to protect someone else. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Whether you ultimately say yes or no, you must be prepared for a long process of deliberation. This is not an easy decision. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) A fast start today gets you in the lead, but you mustn’t do anything to slow the pace. If others start to gain on you, it is a very real threat. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) A friend is ready to unveil something and invites you to be a part of it, but not in the way you had expected. CANCER (June 21-July 22) You don’t want to assert anything in absolute terms today, for there are always variables that could change the way you have to do things.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You can showcase certain accomplishments in a new way today, and the result propels you in a rewarding manner, at least professionally. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You are tired of having to step in and keep the same two people from fighting the same fight again and again.

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TODAY: A sunny start with temperatures lifting toward afternoon highs in the mid-50s. Some clouds arrive during the afternoon and we could turn partly to mostly cloudy by evening. Light winds start to come from the south by the afternoon, too. Mostly cloudy tonight with an increasing chance of showers.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Someone keeps trying to change your methods without talking to you about it face-to-face. Put your foot down. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) There is more in store for you today than meets the eye. You’ll realize that something new is having an effect.

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1942: U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, having evacuated the Philippines at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, tells reporters in Terowie, Australia: “I came out of Bataan, and I shall return.”

1995: In Tokyo, 12 people are killed and more than 5,500 others are sickened when packages containing the deadly chemical sarin are leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members.

2004: Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide rally against the U.S.-led war in Iraq on the first anniversary of the start of the conflict.

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