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Rep. Cummings decries ‘open defiance’ by the Trump White House 11

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Forget Santa; the Easter Bunny knows if you’ve been bad or good

Intractable equine corralled after making a bold bid for freedom

Extremely good boy suffers both insult and injury in the line of duty

An Easter incident in Orlando, Fla., saw the Easter Bunny get involved in a fight, WKMG-TV reported. Antoine McDonald said he and a friend took turns wearing a bunny suit while bar-hopping Easter Sunday. McDonald had it on when he saw a man and woman get into a fight. When the man began spitting on the woman, McDonald joined the fray. Video shows a man-sized bunny trying to pull the two still-brawling combatants apart. (EXPRESS)

A sheriff’s officer was surprised to spot a donkey meandering along Interstate 90 near Chicago last week. Body camera footage shows the bewildered Cook County officer radioing: “There’s a donkey in the middle of I-90.” The officer ordered the donkey to “come here, sweetie.” She asked a motorist to stand with the donkey while she figured out what to do. The donkey, named Dusty, was eventually returned to its owner. (AP)

A police K-9 in Oregon is recovering after encountering a porcupine and getting stuck with over 200 quills. The Coos County Sheriff’s Office said Odin was called to the scene to track a suspect on Saturday when the dog crossed paths with the porcupine. Photos showed several quills in Odin’s mouth and two near his eye. He was taken to an animal hospital, where he was treated for over two hours. Police are still seeking the suspect. (AP)

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A garden club’s quiet demise CULTURE Chris Keller is sitting at a table in the living room of his leafy Garrett Park, Md., home. Outside, a gale is whipping the dogwood and maple branches back and forth.

Keller, 75, seems oblivious to the windstorm; he is sipping an iced tea and thinking about the quiet demise of a Washington institution that began as the Men’s Garden Club of Montgomery County in 1946.

The club was created by a handful of men in the BethesdaChevy Chase area at a time when the sexes were less socially integrated and most garden clubs were for women. The founders were serious gardeners and tilled Victory Gardens during the war.

Many were from the ranks of government, including the Departments of State and Justice, and journalists with major news organizations.

It once had close to 200 members. But now with a dwindling membership, it is like an ancient and barely surviving oak, hollow and mostly branchless.

DOUG KAPUSTIN (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

Once robust, a local social organization has withered over time

Chris Keller is the last president of the Metropolitan Washington Garden Club, founded in 1946 as the Men’s Garden Club of Montgomery County.

Such a specimen might be spared the ax for the sake of posterity, but there is no such reprieve for the garden club, which was re-formed in 2006 as the co-ed Metropolitan Washington Garden Club. The last meeting was held months ago.

It has fallen to Keller, as the club’s president, to disburse its remaining funds and turn out the lights. “Being the last officer standing, I have something akin to survivor’s guilt,” he said.

T he demise of t he club marks the end of an era in the

metropolis — a small, unnoticed thing, perhaps, except its passing seems to signal the end, too, of a fading social fabric that came to define life in Washington after World War II. The reasons for the club’s decline are complicated. Keller notes that Washington’s highpriced housing market requires double-income earners. The demands of contemporary childrearing and the pressures of the modern workplace make club membership tough.

Some members were in it for the annual spring bulb program and had planted enough. Exploding populations of deer have made gardening almost impossible in parts of suburban Maryland, not to mention the rabbits.

“I think the whole nature of gardening is being affected by a lot of things,” Keller said.

Keller was drawn to the club by the arrival of an unsolicited invitation to join AARP when he turned 50. “It said, ‘Welcome to your golden years,’ or something like that, which just depressed me immensely. My wife said, ‘Why don’t you go to the club,’ and when I arrived I was welcomed as the gardening kid.”

ADRIAN HIGGINS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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SILVER SPRING A gas company’s faulty equipment is the most likely cause of an explosion at a Montgomery County apartment complex that killed seven people in 2016, according to federal report issued Tuesday.

The explosion and fire at the Flower Branch apartments in Silver Spring caused a partial building collapse and sent 68 people, including three firefighters, to the hospital.

The National Transportation Safety Board has been investigating the cause of the explosion for nearly three years, and officials there called it one of their most difficult investigations because so much evidence was destroyed in the building collapse and fire.

At a meeting Tuesday, the board unanimously adopted the findings of its investigators, who determined that a faulty regulator left unconnected to a vent pipe inside a basement meter room most likely caused the explosion.

Washington Gas, the company responsible for maintaining the equipment the NTSB blames for the explosion, has disputed the board’s findings.

Washington Gas President and CEO Adrian Chapman issued a statement Tuesday saying the utility remains saddened by the tragedy and committed to safety.

“However, we disagree with their findings as we don’t believe the evidence indicates failure of our equipment that night,” Chapman said.

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Federal board finds faulty equipment responsible for 2016 explosion in Silver Spring

An explosion in 2016 at Flower Branch apartments in Silver Spring left seven people dead and dozens more injured.

The board’s findings do not just point a finger at Washington Gas. The board also found multiple communication gaps and missed opportunities to correct the leak that might have prevented the explosion.

NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said people around the complex smelled natural gas six different times in the weeks and months before the explosion, but nobody ever called the gas company to report a possible leak.

Most glaringly, a complex resident called 911 to report the smell of natural gas on July 25 that year, about two weeks before

the explosion. Firefighters responded to the scene and could not detect natural gas. But they were thwarted from conducting a thorough investigation because they couldn’t gain access to the meter room from which the leak likely emanated. The locks had recently been changed and firefighters didn’t have access to the correct key, even though county code requires that firefighters have such access.

Because no leak was detected, firefighters did not call Washington Gas. Neither did the 911 dispatcher.

The NTSB is recommending

that 911 dispatchers automatically call the gas company any time a person calls to report the smell of natural gas, rather than relying on the public to make the call.

Patrick Regan, a lawyer representing about 70 survivors and family members of those killed in the explosion, said the NTSB’s findings will be helpful in their case against both the utility and the company that manages the apartment complex. That lawsuit has been held in abeyance as the NTSB conducted its investigation.

“There’s plenty of blame to go around,” Regan said.

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MARYLAND GOV. LARRY HOGAN, criticizing other Republicans at a breakfast Tuesday in New Hampshire for staying silent

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All occupants accounted for after apartment fire early Tuesday in Pr. George’s County

The driver in a crash that killed six — including five young children, some her own — was indicted on six counts of vehicular manslaughter and six counts of vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol, prosecutors said. A Prince George’s County grand jury handed out the charges against Dominique R. Taylor, 32, on Tuesday. Taylor had a bloodalcohol reading of .169 at the time of the Feb. 2 crash, more than twice the legal limit for driving, prosecutors said. Taylor was the sole survivor of the crash that left two of her children and their three cousins dead, along with an adult passenger. (THE WASHINGTON POST) MONTGOMERY COUNTY

Officer who was shot in 2003 traffic stop dies Kyle Olinger, a Montgomery County police officer who was shot during a traffic stop in 2003, died last week from complications of his wound. Olinger, 53, had served for almost two years on the force when he was shot and left paralyzed below the chest, according to police officials. The assailant — Terrence Green, who was then 19 — was convicted and sentenced in January 2005 to life in prison plus 20 years. Officials are awaiting autopsy results before determining whether to file new charges in the case. (TWP) VIRGINIA

Amid scandal, Fairfax gets $50,000 donation On the day Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax filed a campaign finance report showing he hadn’t raised a cent since two women accused him of sexual assault, the Democrat got a quick infusion of $50,000 from a friend. The hefty donation from Andrew Rosen, dated April 15 and made public Monday through the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project, came as the state’s three top Democrats try to move past separate scandals that erupted in February. (TWP)

Va. funeral home owner pleads guilty to forging death records in Md.

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Safety bills floated after road fatality THE DISTRICT D.C. lawmakers introduced emergency legislation Tuesday that would expedite pedestrian and bike improvements on a longtroubled road where a cycling activist was struck and killed last week by a man driving a stolen van twice over the speed limit.

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Legislation will speed upgrades on D.C. street where cyclist was killed

The bill, introduced by Council member Charles Allen, D-Ward 6, aims to expedite plans to redesign Florida Avenue NE into a safer space for pedestrians and bicyclists following the death Friday of David Salovesh, 54, of Northeast Washington.

Police had attempted to stop a van when its driver sped away, hit a vehicle at 12th Street and Florida Avenue NE and then struck Salovesh, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

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The bill was one of two introduced Tuesday. A second bill would require the District to build protected bike lanes on roads being repaired or rebuilt.

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No injuries reported after ice cream truck catches fire Monday afternoon on National Mall

be named after Salovesh.

Last year D.C. logged 36 traffic deaths, up from 31 in 2017, and the highest in a decade, according to records. As of Tuesday, seven people had been killed in traffic crashes in D.C. this year. LUZ LAZO (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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The number of rape kits police in Baltimore County destroyed over a six-year period. The Baltimore Sun reported that police said in 2016 that 231 rape kits were destroyed from 2010 to 2015, but recently obtained records show that more than twice that many were destroyed. The county executive’s office says a task force will investigate the discrepancy. (AP)

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Tension builds in Sri Lanka

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37 people, mostly Shiites, beheaded for terrorism Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded 37 Saudi citizens, most of them minority Shiites, in a mass execution across the country for alleged terrorismrelated crimes. It also publicly pinned the executed body and severed head of a convicted Sunni extremist to a pole as a warning to others. Amnesty International said the citizens were convicted “after sham trials” that relied on confessions extracted through torture. (AP)

ISIS claims bombings; officials say intelligence failed to take action

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COLOMBO, SRI LANKA As the death toll from the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka rose to 321 on Tuesday, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility and released images that purported to show the attackers.

Meanwhile, the country’s prime minister warned that several suspects armed with explosives are still at large.

Another top government official said the suicide bombings at the churches, hotels and other sites were carried out by Islamic fundamentalists in apparent retaliation for the New Zealand mosque massacres last month that a white supremacist has been charged with carrying out.

The Islamic State group, which has lost all the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria, has made a series of unsupported claims of responsibility.

Sri Lankan authorities have blamed the attacks on National Thowheed Jamath, a little-known Islamic extremist group in the island nation. Its leader, alternately known as Mohammed Zahran or Zahran Hashmi, became known to Muslim leaders three years ago for his incendiary speeches online. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that investigators were still determining the extent of the bombers’ foreign links.

ISIS’ Aamaq news agency released an image purporting

Sri Lanka held a national day of mourning Tuesday after coordinated bombings that killed 321 on Easter Sunday.

to show the leader of the attackers, standing amid seven others whose faces are covered. The group did not provide any other evidence for its claim.

Meanwhile, in an address to Parliament, Ruwan Wijewardene, the state minister of defense, said “weakness” within Sri Lanka’s security apparatus led to the failure to prevent the nine bombings.

“Intelligence units were aware of this attack and a group of responsible people were informed about the impending attack,” Wijewardene said. “However, this information has been circulated among only a few officials.”

Wijewardene also said the government had evidence that the bombings were carried out

“by an Islamic fundamentalist group” in retaliation for the March 15 mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 50 people.

The office of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern issued a statement responding to the Christchurch claim that described Sri Lanka’s investigation as “in its early stages,” saying New Zealand has not seen any evidence that would back up such a claim.

In a live address to the nation late Tuesday, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said he also was kept in the dark on the intelligence about the planned attacks and vowed to “take stern action” against the officials who failed to share the

information. He also pledged “a complete restructuring” of the security forces.

As Sri Lanka’s leaders wrangled over the apparent intelligence failure, security was out in force for a national day of mourning Tuesday.

In the city of Negombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo, held a funeral service in the courtyard of St. Sebastian Church, where 110 people were killed in one of the bombings. The service lasted several hours, with caskets brought in three and four at a time, accompanied by sobbing relatives. The coffins were then taken to a mass burial site and covered by three earth movers.

EMILY SCHMALL AND KRISHAN FRANCIS (AP)

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The Northern Ireland Police Service said Tuesday that it has arrested a woman under the Terrorism Act in connection with the slaying of journalist Lyra McKee. The arrest came as an Irish Republican Army splinter group admitted that one of its “volunteers” shot McKee, who was reporting on rioting in Londonderry. The New IRA offered “full and sincere” apologies to McKee’s family. (AP) WASHINGTON

Mnuchin to make call on Trump returns by May 6 Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday said he would decide whether to release President Trump’s tax returns by May 6. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., has twice formally requested the tax returns. The latest deadline was Tuesday at 5 p.m. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Correction A People item about Gavin DeGraw on page 25 of Tuesday’s edition had the wrong photo. This is DeGraw.

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nation+world Rep. Cummings decries ‘open defiance’ as Kline fails to testify at hearing WASHINGTON The chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee says the White House is in “open defiance” of his panel after lawyers advised a former official to ignore a subpoena related to the committee’s investigation of White House security clearances.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said he is consulting other lawmakers about scheduling a vote

to hold former White House personnel security director Carl Kline in contempt of Congress after Kline did not show up on Tuesday for a scheduled deposition. The committee subpoenaed Kline after one of his former subordinates told the panel that dozens of people in Trump’s administration were granted security clearances despite “disqualifying issues” in their backgrounds.

The fight over Kline’s appearance comes as the White House has stonewalled the panel in several investigations. On Monday,

Trump and his business organization sued Cummings to block a subpoena that seeks years of the president’s financial records. The complaint said a subpoena from Cummings “has no legitimate legislative purpose” and accuses Democrats of harassing Trump.

Cummings said in a statement that “it appears that the president believes that the Constitution does not apply to his White House, that he may order officials at will to violate their legal obligations, and that he may obstruct attempts by Congress to conduct oversight.”

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PORAC, PHILIPPINES | Rescuers carry a survivor pulled from the rubble of a building in Porac following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines on Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties. A previous earthquake on Monday left at least 16 dead.

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How’s tech ruining us now?

Recent reports say technology is responsible for making us lazy, stealing our personal health information, invading our homes and spying on us while we shop. And with research firm Gartner predicting that 20 billion internet-connected things will be online by next year, expect more stories about boundaries being tested. (THE WASHINGTON POST/AP/EXPRESS)

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Justices weigh census question on citizenship

Computers are to blame for our never leaving our seats

Health apps are selling our personal information

Nest is effectively letting hackers into our houses

Cameras at supermarkets are guessing our age, mood

Americans are becoming increasingly sedentary, spending almost a third of their waking hours sitting down, and computer use is partly to blame, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Over almost a decade, average daily sitting time increased by roughly an hour, to about eight hours for U.S. teens and almost 6 ½ hours for adults, according to the researchers.

That includes school and work hours, but leisure-time computer use among all ages increased too.

By 2016, at least half of American kids and adults spent an hour or more of leisure time daily using computers. The researchers analyzed U.S. government health surveys from almost 52,000 Americans, starting at age 5, from 2001 to 2016. Studies have shown that prolonged periods of sitting can increase risks for obesity, diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. Only about 1 in 4 U.S. adults and 1 in 5 teens get the government’s recommended amounts of daily physical activity.

Many health apps designed for people who are battling depression or want to quit smoking track a user’s progress. According to a study published Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open, many of those apps are sharing the personal details they collect with third parties, like Google and Facebook, without consent.

Researchers say the findings are especially important in mental health, given the risks of having sensitive information shared unknowingly. And because many health apps aren’t subject to government regulation, researchers say, consumers and clinicians must contend with what information is being entered into these apps — and who else can access it. Earlier this month, The Washington Post reported that data compiled by popular periodand pregnancy-tracking apps often is not confined to users. Rather, the apps give employers and health insurers a lens into users’ personal information about pregnancy and childbirth — often under the umbrella of corporate wellness.

There has been a string of reports recently of Nest devices being hacked: One family was told via their Nest Cam that there was an imminent missile attack from North Korea. Another found pornography playing on their Nest Cam with their almost-3-year-old nearby. Software designed to help people break into websites and devices has gotten easy to use, and many companies, including Nest, have effectively chosen to let some hackers slip through the cracks rather than impose an array of inconvenient countermeasures that could detract from their users’ experience. The result is that anyone with an internet connection and rudimentary skills has the ability to virtually break into homes through devices designed to keep physical intruders out.

Nest could make it more difficult for hackers to break into cameras, for instance, by making the log-in process more cumbersome. But doing so would introduce what Silicon Valley calls “friction” — anything that can stand in the way of someone using a product.

New technology is being trotted out at supermarket retailers where cameras try to guess your age, gender or mood as you walk by. The intent is to use the information to show you targeted, real-time ads on in-store video screens. Companies are pitching retailers to bring the technology into their physical stores as a way to better compete with online rivals like Amazon that are already armed with troves of information on their customers and their buying habits. With store cameras, you may not even realize you’re being watched unless you happen to notice the penny-sized lenses. And that has raised concerns over privacy. At the National Retail Federation trade show in New York earlier this year, a smart shelf on display by Mood Media tried to detect “happiness” or “fear” as people stood in front it — information a store could use to gauge reaction to a product on the shelf or an ad on a screen.

Cameras are in just a handful of stores around the country … for now. (THE WASHINGTON POST/AP)

Vladimir Putin will meet with Kim Jong Un in Russia’s Far East on Thursday

COURTS Despite evidence that millions of Hispanics and immigrants could go uncounted, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to uphold the Trump administration’s plan to inquire about U.S. citizenship on the 2020 census in a case that could affect American elections for the next decade.

There appeared to be a clear divide between the court’s liberal and conservative justices in arguments in a case that could affect how many seats states have in the House and their share of federal dollars over the next 10 years. States with a large number of immigrants tend to vote Democratic.

Three lower courts have so far blocked the plan to ask every U.S. resident about citizenship in the census, finding that the question would discourage many immigrants from being counted.

Two of the three judges also ruled that asking if people are citizens would violate the provision of the Constitution that calls for a count of the population, regardless of citizenship status, every 10 years.

Three conservative justices, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, had expressed skepticism about the challenge to the question in earlier stages of the case, but Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh had been silent. A decision is expected by late June, in time to print census forms for the April 2020 population count.

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Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, earlier this month shared with their colleagues the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting,

one of journalism’s highest honors. The reporters were arrested in December 2017 and sentenced last September after being accused of illegally possessing official documents, a violation of a colonial-era law.

The court did not give a reason for its decision, which was quickly decried by rights advocates.

Myanmar’s military launched a brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the western state of Rakhine in 2017, driving more than 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority to

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Ovechkin, Backstrom are carrying the Caps as they enter their 12th Game 7 together STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS A few long-standing traditions mercifully ended once Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom finally raised the Stanley Cup last June. The weight of having never won was lifted and the same old questions about whether they’d ever get it done came to a screeching halt. But Stanley Cup champs or not, there is one rite of spring they can’t seem to dodge.

When the Capitals host the Hurricanes tonight, Ovechkin and Backstrom will be skating in their 12th career Game 7 together — the most by any two teammates in NHL history. “There’s pressure on both teams,� Ovechkin said, “but it’s a good chance for us to beat them at home.�

The way Ovechkin and Backstrom are producing this spring, the Capitals would be missing a tremendous opportunity if they don’t pull this off. “They’ve carried us for the most part,� coach Todd Reirden

said Tuesday.

While the Capitals need more from 20-goal scorers Evgeny Kuznetsov and Jakub Vrana — neither has scored this series — Ovechkin and Backstrom have arguably been playing some of the best playoff hockey of their careers.

Sure, there was more at stake last May and June, but as far as an individual series, Round 1 against Carolina has been vintage Ovechkin and Backstrom. “We wouldn’t be in this situation without them,� goaltender Braden Holtby said. “In terms of play, Ovi’s right at the top right now in every area. He’s playing hard, and it’s on us to follow him now and play our best game.�

Ovechkin has four goals and eight points in six games, but he’s also set the tone with speed and physicality. In Washington’s 6-0 Game 5 win, Ovechkin had a goal, two primary assists and a game-high 11 hits — his highest hit total in a postseason game decided in regulation.

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Not a lucky number Capitals fans have reason to hate the words “Game 7.� Washington has played a league-high 16 Game 7s since 1987, but has a modest 5-11 record. Their Game 7 winning percentage (.313) is the worst in NHL history (minimum 10 games).

Capitals forward Carl Hagelin is 8-1 in career Game 7s, but three of those wins came against Washington.

Meanwhile, Carolina captain Justin Williams, nicknamed Mr. Game 7, is the leading Game 7 scorer in NHL history with seven goals and 14 points in eight games. B.R.

“He’s the best goal scorer maybe in the entire history of the game and for him to play physical like that, he affects guys,� center Nic Dowd said. “You saw it in Game 5. It’s his play away from the puck as well as the ability to score big-time goals that makes him such an elite player.�

It’s easy to forget that Ovechkin, 33, is a 14-year veteran with

more than 1,000 games on his NHL odometer. Seemingly, at some point, he will slow down.

This spring isn’t that point, and with veteran T.J. Oshie out indefinitely, both Ovechkin and Backstrom are doing much of the heavy lifting.

Backstrom, 31, has already matched his personal best with five goals in a single series — a mark he previously reached in 2010. “They’re superstars in the league doing superstar stuff,� forward Devante Smith-Pelly said.

To make another deep postseason run this year, the Capitals will need more from down the depth chart. But if that opportunity does come up in the weeks ahead, it will be thanks largely to Ovechkin and Backstrom’s first-round contributions. “They’ve been outstanding,�

Holtby said. “They’ve been the consistency to our group, and that’s why they’re our leaders.�

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Home team undefeated this series After Monday’s Game 6 loss in Raleigh, the Capitals were deflated but eager to return home for Game 7.

Between Washington and Carolina, the home team is 6-0 in this series. The Hurricanes have fed off their crowd at PNC Arena, where postseason hockey has returned for the first time in 10 years. The Capitals have jumped out to early leads and never trailed in any of their three home games in the series.

Washington’s power play is 5-for-12 at home, and 1-for-9 on the road. “We’ve played well in front of our home crowd and we use them,� Caps forward Nic Dowd said. “We work our [butts] off all year to get home-ice advantage and we’ve earned it for this exact moment.� B.R.

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New Sacramento Kings coach Luke Walton has been accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit by a former sports reporter. Kelli Tennant filed the suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday, contending Walton assaulted her in a hotel room in Santa Monica while he was an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors. She said Walton continued to harass her after he became coach of the Lakers and she was working as a broadcaster in Los Angeles for Spectrum SportsNet and SportsNet LA. Walton and the Lakers parted ways this month, and the Kings hired him last week. (AP)

Big deals for Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and others that included large signing bonuses masked an otherwise flat market for the second straight offseason that caused Major League Baseball’s openingday payrolls to drop by $43 million for 2019. However, payrolls rose by $131 million when using the averages of multiyear contracts. Since the end of last season, teams agreed to a record $4.195 billion in guarantees beyond 2019, breaking the previous mark for out-year commitments of $3.414 billion set after the 2013 season, according to figures compiled by the commissioner’s office. (AP)

Two more people charged in a sweeping college admissions scandal have agreed to plead guilty.

Authorities said Tuesday that former USC assistant women’s soccer coach Laura Janke will plead guilty to racketeering conspiracy and cooperate with federal authorities.

Toby MacFarlane, a former senior executive at a title insurance company, will also plead guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud.

Authorities say Janke helped create bogus athletic profiles to make MacFarlane’s children look like star athletes. MacFarlane was among 33 prominent parents charged. (AP)

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Chiefs trade Seattle No. 29 pick for DE The Chiefs are acquiring defensive end Frank Clark, left, from the Seahawks in exchange for a first-round draft pick this year and a second-round pick in 2020. After word leaked of the trade Tuesday, Clark and the Chiefs worked quickly to reach agreement on a five-year contract worth up to $105 million. Clark, 25, had 14 sacks last season.

Seattle landed the No. 29 overall pick to go along with the No. 21 pick the Seahawks already had. (AP) RB Jonathan Stewart signs 1-day contract to retire with Panthers

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Research by Trulia indicates that the median appreciation on condos from 2012 to 2017 in the 100 largest metro areas in the United States was 38.4 percent, as compared with 27.9 percent for single-family dwellings.

Don Canada, who works for a government contractor, resides in Westlight, one of the most expensive condominium buildings in Washington. Before that, he lived at 3303 Water St. NW — another pricey address — and before that, at Market Square East in Penn Quarter. He’s come out ahead with each jump by employing a simple and compact strategy.

“I typically buy the smallest unit in the nicest building,” Canada, 57, says. “You have to start small and be patient. You can’t flip a condo every five years and expect to make a hefty profit on it.”

His first unit at Market Square was 578 square feet, for which he paid $150,000 in 1992. He lived there 10 years and sold it for $300,000.

Next came Water Street. “I wanted to live in Georgetown,” he says, “but I could only afford a 950-square-foot unit. I think I paid $450,000 for it, then sold it for $950,000, but it took 13 years.”

In 2008, he had a contract on 22 West, another high-end building in the West End, but the contract fell through just before the market crashed. He stayed put until 2017, when he bought

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a two-bedroom, 1,700-squarefoot condo for $1,806,250 in the Westlight complex in the West End, which includes apartments and condos.

Canada says he was specifically interested in the building because he’s a fan of Anthony Lanier, one of D.C.’s most prolific

developers. “His personality comes through in his buildings,” Canada says. “He’s a great asset to the city because there’s not a lot of adventurous design — although I think it’s been changing a lot in the last five years.”

Unlike Lanier’s earlier projects, Westlight’s units were

offered as-is with no options for picking flooring, fixtures, appliances or finishes. Undeterred, Canada sold his place on Water Street and lived in the new place for three months before deciding he needed to customize things.

He called in Vincent Sagart, principal of Poliform | sagartstudio in Georgetown, who had built Canada’s closets in the Water Street unit. A discussion about closet improvements in his new condo quickly accelerated into other areas of the space.

“He loved the space but there were things he couldn’t figure out,” Sagart says. “He knew what we could do in terms of wardrobes and dressing rooms but he had uneasiness about the rest of the space. It’s a beautiful volume architecturally, but almost too stark and very monochromatic.”

Canada estimates he invested about $150,000 to get his as-is condo totally customized.

After nearly doubling his space, Canada purchased more furniture at Contemporaria. He can take the furniture with him, but the built-ins will stay if he decides to move — which is a distinct possibility.

The homeowner is a bit lonesome for Georgetown and adjusting to the somewhat undiscovered charms of the West End. “I didn’t want to leave Georgetown, but this is the only new construction building that’s close to Georgetown,” Canada says.

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Canada can also walk to a grocery store from his new pad and says he believes he’s once again made the correct, long-term real estate decision. SCOTT SOWERS (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Painted cabinets, including the base of a center island, are brightening more kitchens today, as are appliances with bright exteriors. “Colorful cabinets or pops of color are very much in for kitchen design,” says Allie Mann, a senior designer with Case Design/ Remodeling in Falls Church.

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The top tech innovations anticipated to dominate kitchens over the next three years include mobile-device accommodations, such as the ability to control appliances with your smartphone; voice-enabled home automation platforms; and safety technology.

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While hardwood flooring is popular throughout the house, in a 2019 survey by the Houzz website, just 24 percent of homeowners chose it for the kitchen.

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Finding their freedom Cage the Elephant explores new ground with the confident, consistent ‘Social Cues’ ALBUM REVIEW The new Cage the Elephant album begins with a spacey, otherworldly hum that’s interrupted by throbbing, insistent knocking.

That leads to some machinegun drumming and, as if a door has been opened, an infectious, high-tempo post-punk glam tune comes on.

After taking a detour into fuzzy guitars, tambourines and a ’60s vibe with 2015’s “Tell Me I’m Pretty,” the Kentucky alternative rockers have put out arguably their best collection of songs with “Social Cues,” which was released Friday.

The band’s sound seems more genuine. Singer Matt Shultz

punctuates the opening song, “Broken Boy,” with the occasional slurry, cocky “Yeah!”

C o n f i d e n c e ‘Social Cues’ Cage the Elephant runs throughout this assured album, as if the band has finally found a hardfought consistency.

Cage the Elephant’s last album was produced by Dan Auerbach, who seemed to make the band bend toward his sound. “Social Cues” is produced by John Hill, who has let the band explore and play and really just breathe.

The music is bouncy and filled with swagger, even as the lyrics

reveal trauma.

Broken love is a prominent theme, the product of Shultz’s marriage cracking. The superb first single, “Ready to Let Go,” brings us into a raw moment when a vacation between lovers breaks apart and the singer is “trying to hide this damage done.” Shultz isn’t angry as much as sorry in the gloomy “What I’m Becoming,” singing, “I’m so sorry, honey / For what I’m becoming.”

But the album isn’t completely devoid of hope. “Let the love light guide me home,” Shultz sings on the melancholy “Skin and Bones.” There’s fatigue in “The War Is Over,” but he acknowledges there was “love was on

both sides.”

The band does veer over the cliff with the overindulgent “Love’s the Only Way.” But a team-up with Beck results in the truly terrific, driving “Night Running.” The superb title track also is a raw picture of insecurity: “Hide me in the back room / Telll me when it’s over / Don’t know iff I can play this part much longer.” ” The album ends with “Good-bye,” one of the saddest and d most tender breakup songs ever r recorded: “I won’t cry / Lord d knows how hard we tried,” Shultz z sings. His heart may be broken,, but thanks to this new album,, you’ll fall in love all over again.

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Kimbrough strums in the South Given the opportunity to showboat, a masterful guitarist might be expected to let ‘er rip. Not Will Kimbrough. He’s a composer too, and on the fan-funded “I Like It Down Here,” which came out Friday, his songs are the stars and the South is the subject.

The snappy 10-tune set seamlessly mixes country, rock and soul in a way that sounds both rootsy and fresh.

The spotlight fixates on the characters populating his songs, including the whistling homeless man in “Anything Helps” and the spiritually liberated convicted murderer in “Buddha Blues.”

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MUSIC

Beyonce takes ‘Lemonade’ to the masses

Beyonce’s “Lemonade” was made available Tuesday on all major streaming services, including Spotify and Apple Music, three years to the day after the album was released. The record had previously been exclusive to Tidal, the streaming platform owned by her husband, JAY-Z. As part of Tuesday’s rollout, Beyonce also released the minimalist original demo of the “Lemonade” track “Sorry.” (EXPRESS)

“Nailed It” returns for third season May 17 on Netflix

Zachary Levi to host MTV Movie & TV Awards on June 17

CBS All Access renews “The Good Fight” for fourth season

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‘Roar’ ups volume for female voices BOOK REVIEW The tag line of Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern’s “Roar,” her collection that hit shelves last week, is “Thirty Stories, One Roar.” It’s an on-the-nose message that, while every woman’s story is different, women’s collective rage is uniform — and powerful.

Ahern’s previous works, including “PS, I Love You” and “The Gift,” are funny, light and often wise. But they didn’t entirely presage “Roar,” which is funny, wise and weighty — in a very good way. After all, when you write 30 stories about the dilemmas of people who hold up half the world’s sky, things are bound to get heavy. The women in these

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Women’s tales are both funny and weighty in this collection of fables

Cecelia Ahern’s book “Roar” gives readers 30 femalecentric stories to choose from.

fables cope with discrimination, loneliness and abandonment.

Some of the women have tragic outcomes. Witness “The Woman Who Blew Away,” a cautionary tale concerning a Kylie

Jenner-ish young woman whose immense success and vacuous life untether her from reality.

But many more have HEAs (“happily ever afters,” in romance parlance), with the

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protagonists discovering reserves of strength. And one of the funniest stories concerns a woman who farts during an important presentation — only to find herself swallowed up by a black hole populated with other women in similar states of humiliation and shame.

There’s a caveat: It’s best to read just one or two fables at a time. That way you can truly appreciate their wit, pathos and imagination. Ahern includes Helen Reddy’s famous lyric “I am woman, hear me roar” as an epigraph, but she might just as easily have echoed Whitney Houston by writing, “I’m every woman.

It’s all in me.” BETHANNE PATRICK (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

Owen Wilson joins Jennifer Lopez in rom-com “Marry Me”

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“I’ll just make it clear now that if I Mercy someone and they whoop my a-- because of it, I wholeheartedly accept the defeat I saved them from.” @THEBOOPGOD, joking about the news that “Mortal Kombat 11,” released Tuesday, includes Mercy, a move that originated in 1995’s “Mortal Kombat 3” and its arcade version “Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.” Unlike the game franchise’s graphic Fatality finishing moves, Mercy allows winning players to restore some of their opponent’s health, and thus grant them another chance to win.

“Will Cain really up here on ‘First Take’ saying a woman being racist is OK because it happened in the 1930s.

Y’all need to do better.” @WEBELIEVEING, slamming the ESPN contributor after he

said Monday that the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Flyers were on a “fool’s errand” by refusing to play the late Kate Smith’s version of “God Bless America.” On Sunday, the Flyers also announced the removal of a statue of Smith from outside their arena. The moves came after it was revealed that Smith recorded racist songs, including “That’s Why Darkies Were Born” in 1931 and “Pickaninny Heaven” in 1933. Cain insinuated the songs should be forgiven since they are over 80 years old.

“You know ‘deviled’ is the technique and has nothing to do with ‘the devil,’ right?

They’re homonyms.”

AN INSTAGRAM COMMENTER, reacting

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“CHRIS EVANS AND [CHRIS] HEMSWORTH CRIED SIX TIMES WATCHING ‘ENDGAME’ ... WHAT ABOUT US PEASANTS HUH?? Y’ALL EXPECT US TO SURVIVE??” @CITYOFSTARES, commenting after the “Avengers: Endgame” actors shared their reactions after Monday night’s premiere of the highly anticipated film. Evans, right, who plays Captain America, revealed onstage after the viewing that he cried six times during the three-hour movie. Hemsworth, left, who plays Thor, said he cried more than six times. “Endgame” comes out Friday.

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MEDIUM

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Someone you know is ready to bust loose in some way, and you must not impede his or her efforts. You can answer a few important questions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) How do you know that what another tells you is really the truth? Today, you can — and must — catch up on news that you recently missed.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) The history of your family not only proves a central fascination to you today, but it allows you to unlock a mystery.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) What someone else usually provides is unavailable to you today, and you must be willing to try something new.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) It’s good that you’ve made yourself learn a thing or two about a topic that is likely to become all-important today.

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TUESDAY’S SOLUTION

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You have been resisting someone else for quite some time, and your resolve is running out. Today you may choose to give in.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You can make an important contribution to a group effort. Focus on something that has you moving in a new direction.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You will wake refreshed and ready to take on the day, but something may happen early on that threatens to derail your efforts.

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POOCH CAFE | PAUL GILLIGAN

74 | 61 TODAY: Some clouds linger around the area in the morning, with mostly sunny skies developing by the afternoon. Temperatures won’t be quite as warm as Tuesday, with highs in the mid-70s. There will be northwest winds at 10-15 mph, with some isolated higher gusts during the afternoon. It will be mostly clear and cooler tonight.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Someone you know well is eager to involve you in something that may seem, on the outset, to be ill-advised.

You need more info right away.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You are ready to step out of your comfort zone and try something unusual — at least for you. A friend has your back.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You’re nearing the end of an important phase; what you’ve discovered about yourself recently can be applied to a new effort almost immediately.

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE | STEPHAN PASTIS

AVG. HIGH: 69 RECORD HIGH: 94 AVG. LOW: 48 RECORD LOW: 34 SUNRISE: 6:17 a.m. SUNSET: 7:54 p.m.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You cannot afford to do a thing merely because someone else tells you to do it; you must be sure that there is something for you to gain.

DAILY CODE

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1915: In what’s considered the start of the Armenian genocide, the Ottoman Empire begins rounding up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople.

1967: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft smashes into the Earth after his parachutes fails to deploy properly during re-entry; he is the first human spaceflight fatality.

1980: The United States launches an unsuccessful attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that results in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.

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Maybe it’s time that we leave Britney alone

‘Big Little Lies’ men suddenly feel left out In Vanity Fair’s May issue, Nicole Kidman revealed that she has a group chat with “Big Little Lies” costars Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz, Shailene Woodley and Meryl Streep. “Look at the ‘Friends’ cast, they spent all that time together — they’re different because there are no men in our equation,” she said. “I mean, there are, but they’re not on the group chat.” (EXPRESS)

Britney Spears fans held a protest Monday in Los Angeles demanding that the singer be released from a local mental health treatment facility, Billboard reported. The protest was in response to rumors that Spears was being held against her will.

The pop star entered a 30-day treatment program last month following her father’s deteriorating health issues. On Sunday, Spears was granted a one-day leave from the program to celebrate Easter with her family, marking her first public sighting since entering treatment. Protestors gathered outside West Hollywood City Hall with signs reading “Free Britney” and “Truth Will Set Her Free.” (EXPRESS)

BABIES

Let’s hope Louis doesn’t inherit his dad’s hairline

Mark Ruffalo told Entertainment Tonight on Monday that he was given a “dummy script” of “Avengers: Endgame” to prevent any spoilers.

“There were scenes in there that I thought we were shooting that nobody ever shot,” he said. In a 2017 “Good Morning America” interview, Ruffalo almost let slip who died in “Avengers: Infinity War” before its release date. (EXPRESS)

Prince William and Kate Middleton have released new photos of their youngest child, Prince Louis, to celebrate his first birthday on Tuesday. The photos show him playing in the garden of the family’s home in Norfolk, on England’s eastern coast.

Louis, a great-grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, is fifth in line to the throne, behind his grandfather, Prince Charles; his father, Prince William; Prince George; and his sister, Princess Charlotte. (AP)

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Prince Philip, 97, was seen driving on Thursday, the first time since he surrendered his license after flipping his car in January, People reported. The Duke of Edinburgh was seen driving around Windsor Castle in a Land Rover. According to People, the palace had previously said Philip was allowed to drive without a license as long as he was on the grounds of his estate. (EXPRESS)

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Louis sports a pristine comb-over that William could only dream of.

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I put the Q in LGBTQ.”

ROSEANNE BARR, sharing in a

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