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Gortat’s tough screens help his teammates and give the Raptors fits 21

‘Puppy mill’ bill Md. bans the sale of puppies and kittens in retail pet stores 6

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In town for the first state visit of Trump’s presidency, France’s Emmanuel Macron tries to leverage their kinship to preserve an Iran nuclear deal the president despises 17

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ON ICE: A canoe lies on the frozen sea Monday near holes made by fishermen in Bjoerkoe, Raippaluoto Island, in western Finland.

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A Maine apple orchard employee’s attempt Saturday to smoke a woodchuck out from a hole in the ground in Monmouth started a fire that burned almost 2 acres, the Kennebec Journal reported. “He was out pruning in the orchard and he saw [the] woodchuck, and decided he was going to smoke him out of that hole,” said Monmouth assistant fire chief Ed Pollard. He described the effort as “not the way to get rid of a woodchuck.” (AP/EXPRESS)

The Minnesota State Patrol said a baffled trooper detained a goat and dog found strolling down a highway together on Saturday, UPI reported. Lt. Gordon Shank, who responded to a call about the stray animals, stayed with them until animal control arrived. The State Patrol tweeted Monday that the two had been returned to their owner, and quoted animal control as saying, “They were quite the pair — very attached to one another.” (EXPRESS)

A century-old outdoor recreation club must refrain from going outside because it is too dangerous, according to officials at Penn State University. The Penn State Outing Club announced last week that the university will no longer allow it to organize student-led outdoor trips. The hiking, camping and other activities the student-led club has long engaged in are too risky, the offices of Student Affairs and Risk Management determined. (AP)

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These teens changed the law VIRGINIA Lucas Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rĂŠsumĂŠ is characteristic of any high-achieving high school senior. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the raft of Advanced Placement classes, a dozen during his four years at Monticello High School in Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Albemarle County. There are the extracurriculars â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tutoring and Model United Nations and student council and cross-country. During his junior year, there was the stress that accompanied all of it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; stress that, at times, made him ask: â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is the point of all of this?â&#x20AC;? The 18-year-old witnessed distress among his peers, too â&#x20AC;&#x201D; troubling Facebook and Instagram posts, bullying that went unaddressed, students without a place to turn. So Johnson and two other Albemarle County students, Alexander Moreno and Choetsow Tenzin, sought to fix that. They lobbied for more mental health resources in their schools before setting their aim higher: a law requiring mental health instruction for Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ninth- and

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10th-graders. The legislation sailed through the House and Senate and was signed into law by Gov. Ralph Northam, D, last month. National statistics align with the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience: Up to 1 in 5 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 live with a mental health disorder, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A study published in the March issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child

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& Adolescent Psychiatry found that half of U.S. children who receive mental health services get them at school. In the fall, their school district will introduce a freshman seminar intended to help students navigate issues that may arise during high school â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a seminar shaped with input from the three students. It will be up to Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board of Education to determine how the state mental health mandate is carried out, but, under the law, the board must consult with mental health experts and update state standards. The Albemarle teens hope to reduce the stigma they said surrounds seeking help for mental health. They also want to better equip students with skills and resources to cope with mental health struggles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know how private and how difficult it can be to deal with a mental illness, and we know that people are not going to always want to talk about what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going through,â&#x20AC;? Moreno said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we do want to make it okay for people who are going through something . . . to go and seek out resources.â&#x20AC;? DEBBIE TRUONG (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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The former treasurer of a PTA group in Maryland’s largest school system has been sentenced to a nine-month jail term for stealing funds. Montgomery County officials said Tuesday that Lisa Betts was also ordered to pay about $70,000 in restitution. Betts reached a plea agreement last year following an investigation into the embezzlement of PTA funds. Betts was treasurer of the Montgomery County Council of PTAs, which represents more than 190 local parent-teacher associations. Police launched an investigation after an internal audit found that money was taken improperly between July 2016 and March 2017. (AP)

A former Maryland senator has given up his right to vote to remove his name from the June Democratic primary ballot. Nathaniel Oaks pleaded guilty to fraud charges in a federal bribery case last month. A judge refused to remove Oaks’ name from the ballot last week as he’s still eligible for office until his July sentencing. Attorney H. Mark Stichel told Oaks on Sunday that the cancellation would make him ineligible immediately. The Baltimore Sun wrote Oaks doesn’t want voters to pick him in case he’s in prison in November. Stichel filed a copy of the canceled registration Monday with the Baltimore Board of Elections. (AP)

The new agency formed to oversee safety at Metro has picked a chief executive: David L. Mayer, a transportation expert who has been chief safety officer of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the largest mass transit agency in the country, since 2014. The Metrorail Safety Commission, which is in its third month of existence, announced its new executive director at a meeting Tuesday at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government headquarters in downtown D.C. Mayer, who will earn $230,000 per year, is expected to start work June 4. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Md. law cracks down on ‘puppy mill’ sales By 2020, all pet shops will be banned from selling puppies, kittens MARYLAND Maryland is set to become the second state — after California — to ban retail pet stores from selling puppies and kittens, which animal rights advocates say will help reduce demand for dogs born in “puppy mills.” Gov. Larry Hogan, R, signed the legislation into law Tuesday despite pushback from the owners of the state’s seven affected pet stores, who lobbied unsuccessfully to convince the governor to veto the bill. The owners say they use responsible breeders that lawmakers and advocates have inaccurately characterized as “puppy mills.” By 2020, when the law will fully take effect, the owners say Marylanders will have fewer options for finding purebred puppies and could turn to the internet, where sales are difficult to regulate and fake websites abound. “We couldn’t have been in this business for 20 years if the breeders weren’t caring for the dogs,” said Jeanea Thomson, who with her husband owns Just Puppies, a pet-store business with locations in Rockville and Towson. Although Thomson acknowledged there are “bad players out there,” she said her business is not among them. She said she

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and her husband regularly visit their approximately 50 breeders — most of them in Missouri and Iowa — so they can personally vouch for their conditions. “We don’t want puppy-mill puppies,” she said, sitting at the cash register in her Rockville location, which sold more than 1,000 young dogs last year. “Most of these puppies are being bred on farms.” But Del. Benjamin F. Kramer, D-Montgomery, the legislation’s sponsor and a longtime owner of adopted Doberman pinschers, called the commercial breeders that supply the stores “abominations” that lack “room for puppies to roam and for breeding dogs to play.” Hogan, who also owns dogs, appeared outside the statehouse Tuesday morning with several

rescues who are looking for new homes. He brushed off questions about whether the legislation would harm small business owners in Maryland, saying the law is really about “the puppy mills.” “There are about seven pet stores in Maryland that might be affected, but there are thousands of puppies,” he said, cradling one of the rescue dogs and asking it, “What do you think?” No retail pet stores sell puppies in the District, although they are legal, said Amy Jesse, a public policy director for the Humane Society. There are some in Virginia, which has passed a law requiring stores to reveal their breeders. Jesse said she hopes Virginia’s legislature will “revisit this issue next year.” RACHEL CHASON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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The number of cyber operations majors in the U.S. Naval Academy’s freshman class. That is nearly 10 percent, up from just 22 such majors in the class of 2018. The academy’s Board of Visitors got an update Monday on construction of the academy’s $106 million cybersecurity building. Vice Adm. Ted Carter, the superintendent, said classes could begin in Hopper Hall in 2020. (AP) Former Prince George’s County police officer sentenced to six months in jail for lying on her timesheets

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Defining the federal ‘pay gap’ ECONOMY Federal employee salaries on average lag behind those of similar private-sector workers by just under 32 percent, a pay advisory council said this month, while also deciding to reassess how it annually reaches similar conclusions, which are at odds with the findings of other pay comparisons. The Federal Salary Council reported that what is commonly called the “pay gap” is 31.86 percent, slightly below previous figures in the 34-35 percent range. The report also again showed that federal employees are furthest behind in the San Francisco area, with the second-widest gap in the Washington-Baltimore area. The council, consisting of unions representing federal employees and nongovernmental pay experts, oversees the pay system for most white-collar employees below the executive level, the General Schedule. Under a 1990 law, its findings are passed to a higher-level body of administration officials, who in turn make recommendations to the White House for specific raises for 44 city zones and a single figure for all areas outside those zones. While the process focuses on GS employees, the resulting localized raises commonly are extended to those under other pay systems.

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The law envisioned virtually closing the pay gaps through those targeted raises, but that has not happened because of the potential cost — which the White House last year said would be $26 billion — and disagreements over how to compare salaries between the two sectors, including whether benefits should be taken into account. Federal employee organizations consider the Salary Council figures as the authoritative numbers, but some conservative and libertarian organizations cite their own reports showing an advantage for federal workers of about the same magnitude or more. Last year, the Congressional

Budget Office concluded that federal employees overall earn 3 percent more on average but that there are large differences by educational level: from a 34 percent advantage for federal workers with a high school education or less to a 24 percent shortfall for those with a professional degree or doctorate. Council members agreed to a review at the suggestion of the recently appointed chairman, Ronald Sanders, a longtime federal personnel official and consultant. “If the goal [of the 1990 law] is to assure that the government can recruit and retain the best talent, what’s the best methodology to attain that goal?” he asked.

He said that should start with a better understanding of the current method, which uses several sets of Bureau of Labor Statistics data to compare nearly 100 occupations at various levels in 250 geographic areas. “The math behind that is very, very complex,” Sanders said. “While I’m sure it’s all consistent with data science principles, it’s hard to know what that number reveals and what it masks. … It’s not clear to me that it truly represents what the pay gap is.” Sanders said he hopes the council can finish its review in time for decisions to be effective in January. In addition to reporting on the local pay gaps, the council also can recommend creating new localities and redrawing boundary lines. Rules are being drafted to add at least four, and potentially six, new localities and to expand two existing zones starting next year. The work could have little immediate effect, however, since President Trump has recommended that federal salary rates be frozen in 2019, while creating a $1 billion fund to reward top performers. National Treasury Employees Union President Tony Reardon, a council member, said: “We can talk about the methodology, but the underlying concern is that there is a discussion of a pay freeze. A lot of these agencies are having trouble recruiting people, retaining people, and at the heart of it is salaries.” ERIC YODER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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TECHNOLOGY Among the most challenging issues for Facebook is its role as the policeman for the free expression of its 2 billion users. Now the social network is opening up about its decision-making over which posts it decides to take down. On Tuesday, the company for the first time published the 27-page guidelines, called Community Standards, that it gives to its workforce of thousands of human censors. The set of guidelines encompasses dozens of topics including hate speech, violent imagery, misrepresentation, terrorist propaganda and disinformation. Facebook said it would offer users the opportunity to appeal Facebook’s decisions. The move adds a new degree of transparency to a process that users, the public and advocates have criticized as arbitrary and opaque. The newly released guidelines offer suggestions on topics including how to determine the difference between humor, sarcasm and hate speech. “We want people to know our standards, and we want to give people clarity,” Monika Bickert, Facebook’s head of global policy management, said in an interview. She added that she hoped publishing the guidelines would spark dialogue. “We are trying

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Social network shares its guidelines, pledges changes to process

Facebook’s content policies, first spelled out in earnest in 2005, have ballooned from a single page in 2008 to 27 pages today.

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to strike the line between safety and giving people the ability to really express themselves.” Activists and users have been

particularly frustrated by the absence of an appeals process when their posts are taken down. Currently, people who have their posts taken down receive a generic message that says that they have violated Facebook’s community standards. After Tuesday’s announcement, people will be told whether their posts violated guidelines on nudity, hate speech and graphic violence. “We do want to provide more details and information for why content has been removed,” said Ellen Silver, Facebook’s vice president of operations. “We have more work to do there, and we are committed to making those improvements.” ELIZABETH DWOSKIN

Construction workers in Iran may have unearthed the mummified remains of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the father of the country’s last monarch, nearly four decades after the Islamic Revolution toppled the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. His tomb was destroyed after the revolution and his family lives in exile. Reza Shah’s grandson, the U.S.-based exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, said he believes the remains are his grandfather’s, even as Iran waits for forensic experts to determine whose body was found. Workers discovered the mummified remains at the Shiite shrine of Abdul Azim, near the site where Reza Shah’s mausoleum once stood. (AP)

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The Food and Drug Ad Administration on Tuesday issued warnings to 40 retail and online stores as part of an operation against illegal sa sales of e-cigarette brand Juul to children. FDA regulators asked the manufacturer to turn over documents ab about the marketing of its product to see if the company is specifically targeting young people. Juul re resembles a small computer flash drive, making it popular with teenagers as a discreet way to vape. (AP) Audi recalls over 1.2 million cars and SUVs due to overheating coolant pumps

Penis, scrotum transplant seen as medical first HEALTH An Afghanistan war veteran whose genitals were blown off by a roadside bomb is the recipient of a donated penis and scrotum that doctors hope will restore his ability to function normally. Doctors said the transplant, made in a 14-hour surgery in March, is a medical first. The veteran, who asked to remain anonymous for privacy reasons, received the tissue transplant from a team of 11 doctors — nine plastic surgeons and two urological surgeons — at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The procedure was the result of years of research, studies and cadaver work, giving doctors hope that if it proves successful, it could be used for injured veterans and other men with severe injuries to their genital regions. Doctors said they hoped that the patient, who is expected to be released from the hospital this week, would regain “nearnormal” urinary and sexual functions as he recovers and his nerves heal. The transplant included an entire penis, scrotum and partial abdominal wall from a donor, which made it distinct from four previous penis transplants, which only included the organ. The procedure, which was not covered by the patient’s insurance, was estimated to have cost between $300,000 to $400,000, the majority of which was covered by the hospital. ELI ROSENBERG (TWP)

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FDA: Source of tainted lettuce still a mystery Eight sick prisoners in Nome, Alaska, have provided a clue to authorities about the origin of a nationwide outbreak of dangerous E. coli infections from romaine lettuce, but U.S. officials said Monday they still havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pinpointed the source of the contamination. Instead, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are sticking with a broad warning to consumers, telling them to throw away romaine, in any form, that comes from the Yuma, Ariz., growing region, and to avoid eating romaine of unknown origin. Most of the romaine sold in the United States during the winter is grown in the Yuma region. This is a dangerous strain of E. coli, known as 0157:H7. It produces a Shiga toxin that can enter a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bloodstream and wreak havoc on kidney function. Symptoms of infection include vomiting, painful cramps and diarrhea that is often bloody. The Nome case, revealed late last week, could potentially be a break in the investigation, because all the prisoners ate lettuce that came from a single supplier in Yuma. But FDA spokesman Peter Cassell said that although the Alaska information has been helpful, it has not solved the mystery. No single farm has been identified as the location of the contamination, he said.

TORONTO The suspect in the deadly van attack in Toronto posted a chilling Facebook message just minutes before plowing into a crowded city sidewalk, authorities said Tuesday, raising the possibility that he may have nursed grudges against women. The 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the deaths of 10 pedestrians he mowed down in the rented van he sent careening along the busy walkway. Fourteen others were injured. Toronto Police Services Det. Sgt. Graham Gibson said those killed and injured were

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The Trumps and Macrons stand together on the Truman Balcony during a state arrival ceremony on Tuesday.

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WASHINGTON With exaggerated handshakes and a pair of kisses, President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron professed a sunny, best-friends relationship Tuesday, even as the two allies strained to bridge differences over the Iran nuclear agreement, Syria and more. Hosting Macron for the first state visit of his administration, culminating in a lavish dinner Tuesday night, Trump remained firm in his criticism of past and enduring American undertakings in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East. But he appeared open to the French president’s pleas to maintain U.S. involvement in Syria — and expressed openness to negotiating a new agreement with Iran. As Trump weighs withdrawing the U.S. from the Iran nuclear accord, he issued a warning to Iran against restarting its nuclear program, saying, “They will have bigger problems than they’ve ever had before.” At a joint White House news conference, he appeared to be more in line with Macron’s push for a longer-term U.S. presence in Syria. Trump, who announced weeks ago that he would withdraw American troops, said Macron reinforced the idea of a potential Iranian takeover of territory liberated from the Islamic State group. “We’ll be coming home,” Trump said, “but we want to leave a strong and lasting footprint.” Macron told Trump that together the U.S. and France would defeat terrorism, curtail weapons of mass destruction in North Korea and Iran and act together on behalf of the planet. That last was a reference to Macron’s work to revive a U.S. role in the Paris climate accord to fight global warming, another international

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President and Macron make a show as best buds, but tussle over Iran deal and U.S. involvement in Syria

President Trump brushes what he says is “dandruff” off French President Emmanuel Macron’s shoulder Tuesday.

agreement Trump has spurned. Differences aside, Trump and Macron lavished praise — and even a pair of kisses — on each another Tuesday. “It’s an honor to call you my friend,” Trump said, after predicting Macron would be a historic leader of France. In one light moment, Trump sought to demonstrate some of the personal chemistry he

French President Emmanuel Macron, who calls President Trump often, has emerged as something of a “Trump whisperer” at a time when Trump’s relationships with other European leaders are more strained. Trump, who attaches great importance to the optics of pageantry and ceremony, chose to honor Macron with the first state visit of his administration as he woos the French president. Trump ended his first year in office without receiving a foreign leader on a state visit, the first president in nearly 100 years to fail to do so. He was Macron’s guest last July at the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris. Macron and his wife, Brigitte, also took Trump and his wife on a tour of Napoleon’s tomb and whisked them up in the Eiffel Tower for dinner overlooking the City of Light. (AP)

claimed. The U.S. president brushed something off Macron’s suit jacket, saying, “We have a very special relationship; in fact I’ll get that little piece of dandruff off. We have to make him perfect — he is perfect.” The meetings followed a pompfilled welcome ceremony on the South Lawn. Highlights included a 21-gun salute. Trump said before an audience of U.S. soldiers

and members of his Cabinet that the relationship he forged with Macron at the start of his presidency was a testament to the “enduring friendship that binds our two nations.” He thanked the French leader for his “steadfast partnership” in the recent missile strike in response to the chemical attack in Syria. Macron said, “History is calling us. It is urging our people to

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find the fortitude that has guided us in the most difficult of times. France and with it, Europe, and the United States have an appointment with history.” One of Macron’s main objectives during his three-day visit to Washington is to persuade Trump to stay in the Iran accord, which is aimed at restricting Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. Trump is skeptical of the pact’s effectiveness — “it’s insane, it’s ridiculous,” he said Tuesday — but he declined to say whether he would withdraw the U.S. by the May 12 deadline he has set. He reminded his French counterpart of what he sees as flaws in the agreement, which he said fails to address ballistic missiles or Iran’s activities in Yemen or Syria. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned that pulling out would undermine America’s upcoming nuclear talks with North Korea by proving the U.S. reneges on its promises. He told The Associated Press in an interview in New York that if Trump withdraws, Iran would “most likely” abandon the deal as well and would no longer be bound by its international obligations. That would free Iran to resume enrichment activity beyond the limits imposed by the 2015 accord. Macron told reporters that he and Trump would look at the Iran deal “in a wider regional context,” taking into account the situation in Syria. Trump suggested he was open to “doing something” beyond the current Iran agreement as long as it was done “strongly.” On North Korea, Trump told Macron that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wanted to meet “as soon as possible.” The president said Kim has been “very open” and “very honorable” so far. DARLENE SUPERVILLE AND ZEKE MILLER (AP)

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Navy’s Medical Inspector General found a lack of trust in the leadership and low morale among staff members, who described the working environment as “being caught between parents going through a bitter divorce.” “There is a severe and pervasive lack of trust in the leadership that has deteriorated to the point that staff walk on ‘eggshells,’ ” the report found. Trump suggested Tuesday that Jackson, his pick for VA secretary, might want to withdraw. Jackson has been hurt by the emergence of allegations about inappropriate workplace behavior, including over-prescribing prescription drugs and drinking on the job. The inspector general report

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Trump’s VA pick under fire

A watchdog report ordered in 2012 found a lack of trust in the leadership of Dr. Ronny Jackson.

includes no references to improper prescribing or the use of alcohol. According to the report,

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George H.W. Bush recovering in hospital Former President George H.W. Bush was “responding and recovering” to treatment at a Houston hospital Tuesday after an infection spread to his blood, according to family spokesman Jim McGrath. Bush was hospitalized Sunday, a day after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara. (AP)

Jackson admitted he had failed to shield the White House medical unit from the leadership drama. He is quoted as saying he was willing to do what was necessary to straighten out the command, even if it “meant finding a new position in Navy Medicine.” Trump said he would stand behind Jackson, calling the White House doctor “one of the finest people that I have met.” But he questioned why Jackson would want to put up with the scrutiny. “I wouldn’t do it,” Trump said. “What do you need this for? To be abused by a bunch of politicians that aren’t thinking nicely about our country?” Trump said Jackson would make a decision soon. ZEKE MILLER AND

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Closing statements made in retrial of Bill Cosby The jury in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial in Norristown, Pa., is expected to begin deliberating today. He faces three counts of aggravated indecent assault. Prosecutors portrayed the former TV star as a serial predator who drugged and molested a woman 14 years ago. The defense called his accuser a “pathological liar.” The jury at Cosby’s trial last year deliberated for more than six days without reaching a verdict. (AP)

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ISTANBUL | People hold portraits of Armenian intellectuals who were detained and deported in 1915, as part of a commemoration in Turkey on Tuesday. Rallies were held across the globe to mark the 103rd anniversary of the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks, which Armenians and many historians consider genocide. Turkey, the successor to the Ottoman Empire, insists the deaths were caused by civil strife during World War I.

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Three Mexican film students whose disappearance last month sparked large-scale protests in Guadalajara were beaten and killed, their bodies dissolved in acid, Mexican authorities said Monday. Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Jalisco said the three were abducted by a cartel because they were filming a school project at a house used by a rival gang. (AP)

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Through four games, Gortat leads all players in the postseason with an average of 6.8 screen assists per game, a statistic that measures how often picks create points for teammates. “That’s how I made my living in this league,” the center said. The Raptors, however, are trying to curb his go-to move. Before the series, Raptors coach Dwane Casey highlighted Gortat’s screens — likely as a way to subtly put officials on alert for offensive fouls. As Toronto returns home tonight locked in a 2-2 tie, Casey has again called for closer scrutiny of those plays. “We’re getting hit at the rim, but we’ve gotta go ahead and finish those no matter what happens,” Casey told reporters Monday, singling out Gortat’s ability as a “clamping” screener. “We’ve gotta get off his body and not let our arms get tied up with his arms,” Casey said. During his 11-year NBA career, Gortat hasn’t gotten into shoving

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Center hurts Raptors with effective screens, quick feet in the lane

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Center Marcin Gortat reacts after scoring and drawing a foul in Game 4. He is matched against bigger center Jonas Valanciunas of Toronto.

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2 OLB Brian Orakpo To the Redskins in 2009

The Texas standout has started 119 games over nine years, making four Pro Bowls. His 64.5 career sacks rank 16th among active players.

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The interior force from Pitt is a three-time All-Pro. He’s the reigning defensive player of the year and was the 2014 defensive rookie of the year.

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The number of points the Rockets scored in the third quarter of their Game 4 win Monday night at Minnesota, one point shy of the NBA record d set by the 1962 Lakers for highest total in a quarter in the playoffs. Jamess Harden, left, had a franchise-record 22 points in the period after an 0-for-7 start. He finished with 36 as the Rockets took a 3-1 series lead. Game 5 is tonight (9:30, TNT) in Houston. (EXPRESS) SS)

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NHL PLAYOFFS Most of the conversation between the coach and the goaltender has remained private, but Barry Trotz revealed one exchange with Braden Holtby that left an impression. After Trotz informed Holtby that he had decided to go with Philipp Grubauer to start the postseason for the Capitals, Holtby responded with conviction. “If I get a chance to come back in the net, I’ll stop the puck,” Holtby said, according to Trotz. The coach’s decision wasn’t a surprise — Grubauer had comfortably outplayed Holtby over the second half of the season — but it was still a startling fall for a player who won the Vezina Trophy in 2016, was a finalist for the award again in 2017 and was named an All-Star this season. Along with losing his starting job, Holtby could have lost his confidence. That would have lost the Capitals their first-round series, because Trotz had to put Holtby back in goal when the team lost its first two games to Columbus. But Holtby thrived, posting a .932 save percentage and a 1.92 goals against average while Washington won four straight.

TONI L. SANDYS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Bruins host Maple Leafs for Game 7 tonight (7:30, NBCSN); Winner will play top-seeded Tampa Bay

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Nationals trade Cole to Yankees The Nationals announced Monday night that they traded righthander A.J. Cole to the Yankees for cash considerations, officially ending Cole’s second stint with the organization after he was designated for assignment Friday. A former premier pitching prospect, Cole made his MLB debut with Washington in 2015. He allowed nine runs in two innings in his first appearance, and didn’t make an opening day roster until this season. Cole, 26, broke camp as the team’s fifth starter but allowed 10 runs in 32/3 innings against the Braves in his season debut. He was moved to the bullpen to make room for Jeremy Hellickson last week. Cole gave up three runs in 11/3 innings as a reliever. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Orioles claim infielder Jace Peterson, 27, off waivers from Yankees

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The college basketball commission headed by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will present proposed reforms for the sport this morning to university and NCAA officials in Indianapolis. The commission has been conducting research amid an ongoing federal corruption probe into recruiting. It was charged with finding ways to modernize rules, including looking at the NCAA’s relationship with the NBA, youth leagues, apparel companies and agents. It was also set to review an enforcement process that frequently takes years to resolve complicated cases of major rules violations. (AP)

Mohamed Salah produced two world-class goals and added assists to Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino to lead Liverpool to a 5-2 win over visiting Roma on Tuesday, leaving the English team in sight of the Champions League final. Liverpool scored all of its goals over 33 minutes. Roma, Salah’s former club, lost 4-1 to Barcelona in the first leg of the quarterfinals. Consolation goals from Edin Dzeko and Diego Perotti in the final nine minutes Tuesday gave them a similar deficit to overcome. In his first season with Liverpool, Salah has scored 43 goals across all competitions. (AP)

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When comparing condos, you will need to evaluate your budget and determine how much you can afford to pay. Next, you will need to determine whether a low or high condo fee is justified by the condo’s condition and amenities. A low fee may look good to you, but if it covers very little and is an older condo with deferred maintenance, you can expect to pay a higher fee or even a special assessment in the future. A high fee may seem unappealing, but if it pays for a lot of amenities and/or your utilities, it may be more worthwhile than you think. Condo buyers have a review period between the time they make an offer and the time the contract goes into effect when they can read all condo documents. The documents can clue you in on the financial health of the association as well as whether large capital improvements will need to be made soon. Jon Coile, chairman of Rockville-based multiplelisting service Bright MLS and president of Champion Realty in Annapolis, Md., writes occasional commentary on the D.C.-area housing market.

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Points in Washington, the developer of Chapman Stables. “We had this vision of bringing life and pedestrian activity to all sides of the building, not just N Street.” A restaurant to be named Republic Cantina will be at one end of the building, with a glass wall and a patio. Across the front of the building, the sidewalk will be extended from the rowhouses on either side of the condo building. “We took clues from Blagden Alley in Shaw and realized that Hanover Place is wide enough to become an active pedestrian area,” Sunter says. “We’re extending the sidewalk and planting trees on the street along Hanover Place.” Residents are less than a mile from the NoMa/Gallaudet Metro

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“We think our customers will appreciate living in an urban environment and will spend more time in the city than at home,” Sunter says. “We designed some larger units, too, though.” About 25 percent of the condos have been sold, even as the building is still under construction. MICHELE LERNER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Where is rapSwitzerland, and how much are the flights? Asking for a friend, and really for all of our friends, because J. Cole just dropped a new album Friday, which means it’s time for everyone with ears and a Twitter handle to pick a side in the year’s hottest fight over the year’s lukewarmest rap music. At the center of this war zone stands a man alone, tripling down on his mythology as a rapper-producer who doesn’t need anybody’s help. After his self-produced, guest-free 2014 album “2014 Forest Hills Drive” moved a million units, Cole’s most devout vassals blasted their rally cry across social media — “J. Cole went platinum with no features” — until it became scripture. Now the superfans’ meme is the rapper’s mantra, and on his new album’s title track, “KOD,” Cole is quick to remind

us that other rappers “ain’t worthy” of appearing next to him in song. It’s starting to feel a tiny bit sociopathic. Plus, if your music is the pure, unadulterated expression of your own beautiful mind, you better have some wild hieroglyphs up on your chalkboard. Instead, Cole’s pontifications on “KOD” continue to fulfill the world’s most conservative expectations of what virtuous rapping should sound like. He praises women who are “sexy, but never show too much.” He knows that money is overvalued because you “can’t take it when you die.” Instead of plugging the empty spaces between his lines with ad-libs, he graciously provides moments of silence for the listener to say, “Whoa, that’s deep.” Deep thinkers should give us the bends, but Cole only ever gives us clarity, telegraphing his rhymes. To his flock, that certitude must feel reliable, comforting, centering. To those who can’t stand him, it

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feels inflexible, corny and pedantic. But maybe we can at least agree on why we all love or ‘KOD’ J. Cole hate J. Cole: His songs mean what they say, and nothing more. Too often, those words seem to drip down from some bogus moral high road. That drip turns to a fire-hosing when the album reaches its coda, “1985 (Intro to ‘The Fall Off’),” during which Cole calls all of the boisterous young rappers blowing out speakers on SoundCloud into the principal’s office. “I ain’t judging you,” Cole raps

at one point, and then, “I hope for your sake you ain’t dumb as you look,” the next. He ultimately sounds afraid — just like JAY-Z did in 2009 with “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune).” So if you’re into anxious rap superstars who make music out of their condescension to another generation’s youthful hypervision, here’s another track for r your funky little playlist. For einthe rest of us, “1985” only reinw: forces what we already knew: An unimaginative rapper is primarily an unimaginative listener.

The fact that Sting and Shaggy teamed up on an album does, admittedly, sound like a gimmick. But put the skepticism aside and enjoy “44/876,” which was released Friday, as a warm bromance between the Jamaican dancehall king and the cool, intellectual Englishman, both of whom co-wrote every song on the album. The first single, “Don’t Make Me Wait,” a sway-inducing pop song with a reggae sheen, turns out to be a fitting taste of what these men can bring, their vocal and musical styles melding into something as delicious as a plate of jerk chicken washed down with a cold beer. MARK KENNEDY (AP)

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Stan Lee sued by massage therapist for sexual misconduct

Hollywood Reporter: “Saturday Night Live’s” Aidy Bryant to star in Hulu adaptation of Lindy West’s memoir, “Shrill”

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Rapper Meek Mill freed from prison MUSIC Rapper Meek Mill walked out of prison Tuesday after Pennsylvania’s highest court ordered him freed while he appeals decadeold gun and drug convictions. Following a five-month campaign by his supporters to get him out, the state Supreme Court directed a Philadelphia judge who had jailed him to immediately issue an order releasing him on unsecured bail. Mill was sentenced in November to two to four years in prison for probation violations. Television coverage showed him being taken from the prison by helicopter. Earlier, scores of people gathered outside the prison near Philadelphia in hopes of seeing him walk free. A team of lawyers and public relations consultants had

waged an all-out battle to get him freed, leveling fierce criticism at the judge as a stream of highpowered figures and celebrities visited him in jail, including actor Kevin Hart just hours before the Supreme Court ruling. Mill issued a statement saying the past months had been “a nightmare,” and thanked his many supporters and visitors, who included Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. “Although I’m blessed to have the resources to fight this unjust situation, I understand that many people of color across the country don’t have that luxury and I plan to use my platform to shine a light on those issues,” Mill said. He said he would now focus his attention on music and getting his convictions overturned. (AP)

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1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is deployed in orbit from the space shuttle Discovery. (It was later found that the telescope’s primary mirror was flawed, requiring the installation of corrective components.)

1993: Hundreds of thousands of gay rights activists and their supporters march in D.C., demanding equal rights and freedom from discrimination.

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Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost made their red carpet debut as a couple at the Monday premiere of her film “Avengers: Infinity War” in Los Angeles. The actress and the “Saturday Night Live” writer and performer have been dating for about a year, according to Vanity Fair. “Their eyes lit up when they looked at each other,” a source told Us Weekly of their red-carpet appearance. (EXPRESS)

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