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Dozens of instruments were charred, burned, melted — including cellos, violas and a $6,000 clarinet. They belonged to some of the region’s most accomplished musicians.

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Sylvia Garcia, a Northwestern High School student in Prince George’s County’s high school honors jazz band, performed last Friday night.

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She’s the quiet, reserved one in class. “And then you get her on stage,” Townes said, “and it’s like she has a cape! Sax Girl!”

And her baby, a Yamaha Custom Z? It made it. And this fall, it’s going to Berklee College of Music in Boston with her.

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THE DISTRICT The city official who organized an event on the steps of the District government building where a speaker directed anti-Semitic slurs against a Jewish lawmaker resigned Tuesday, just hours after a volatile council meeting where members debated how to respond to the incident.

Joshua Lopez, whom Mayor Muriel Bowser paid as a consultant in her 2014 campaign and appointed to the board of the public housing authority, faced scathing criticism over a “unity rally” he organized last week to defend D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr., D-Ward 8.

White has been at the center of controversy for the past month after it was reported that he repeated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on his Facebook page and in a council meeting.

White had also donated $500 from a fund meant for his constituents to a Chicago event for the Nation of Islam, where leader Louis Farrakhan said Jews were his enemy. He had also visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a way to try to repair relations but left the tour early, sparking further criticism.

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Joshua Lopez, left, stands next to Abdul Khadir Muhammad during a rally last week in which Muhammad called a D.C. Council member a “fake Jew.”

and said he was done apologizing.

The event organized by Lopez sparked an uproar after a representative of the Nation of Islam called D.C. Council member Elissa Silverman a “fake Jew” for criticizing Farrakhan.

Silverman and four other lawmakers called on the mayor to dismiss Lopez, who held the megaphone for the speaker.

Bowser had said Lopez needed to apologize, but she did not move to fire him from his post, which carries a $4,000 annual stipend.

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asked him to stay positive.

That wasn’t enough to quell the controversy, as several Jewish community leaders as well as the Downtown Cluster of Congregations called for Lopez to leave public office.

“It became clear that this issue was becoming highly politicized and people were using it as an opportunity to attack my family and people I care about,” Lopez said in a statement on Tuesday.

He later told The Washington Post, “I’m now a private citizen and can return to my political activism without having it unfairly associated with anyone else.” The mayor never asked him to resign, he said. FENIT NIRAPPIL (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Spring has proved painfully slow in the D.C. area this year. Most of March and stretches of April more closely resembled winter.

Flowers were delayed in blooming, opportunities to break out warm-weather attire were few and there were even snow flurries.

The average temperature of 54.9 was 1.9 degrees cooler than normal, the first cool April since 2007, and the second-coolest of the 2000s. It also marked the first instance since 1999 when a cool April followed a colder-thannormal March (which was colder than February).

That chilly weather pattern changed quickly this week.

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The proportion of full-time faculty that officials at Catholic University want to cut through attrition, buyouts and possibly layoffs, a cost-saving proposal that has rattled professors at the school known for its close ties to the Vatican. Under the proposal, 35 positions would be eliminated from a roster that this school year includes 381 faculty members. Twenty-five of the departures would be “voluntary” and 10 “involuntary,” according to the proposal. University officials said they hope to keep the number of layoffs of tenured faculty as low as possible. (TWP)

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A Maryland man has been charged in a crash that killed an FBI agent and a deputy state fire marshal. Maryland State Police said Tuesday that Roberto Garza Palacios, of Germantown, was charged with negligent driving in the Dec. 8 crash. The charge carries a $280 fine, but no jail time. The events began when FBI Special Agent Carlos Wolff reached for his cellphone and crashed on I-270. Deputy Chief State Fire Marshal Sander Cohen stopped to help. Both men were struck by a car driven by Garza Palacios as they stood on the road’s shoulder. (AP/TWP) THE DISTRICT

Teen fatally stabbed near NoMa station, police say A teenage boy was fatally stabbed Tuesday afternoon near the NoMa-Gallaudet Metro station in Northeast, according to D.C. police. The boy, 16, died at a hospital, D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said. The attack occurred about 4:35 p.m. in the 1300 block of Second Street NE, near a hotel entrance and several restaurants. “There was a large group of kids,” Newsham said, adding that after the stabbing, “they scattered.” He said no weapon was recovered. Police had few other details of the incident. (TWP) FAIRFAX COUNTY

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His departure was first reported by NBC4. When he will leave was not immediately clear.

Baker has stood by Maxwell through rocky times and repeatedly spotlighted improvements that Maxwell has made in the school system just outside Washington. But the number of allegations and scandals has been growing. In recent weeks, questionable pay raises sparked three separate controversies, and the FBI joined an investigation into a hidden camera discovered in a school office for reasons that remain unclear.

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Reformer-in-chief: Pon seeks diversity in the Trump era The passion new Office of Personnel Management Director Jeff T.H. Pon has for civil service reform makes the Trump administration’s lack of enthusiasm for federal workplace diversity and inclusion all the more stark.

“We want to be bold and aggressive, and we want to make sure that not only is it good for America but it’s also good for our civil service,” Pon said about reform Tuesday.

Talk of overhauling the federal civil service has been around for decades. No matter how needed aspects of reform might be, federal employees can be excused if they view this administration’s push for civil service reform with trepidation, given the hiring

freeze Trump implemented shortly after taking office and the pay freeze and compensation cuts the administration has proposed.

Yet Pon is determined to have a proposal done by the midterm elections, an ambitious goal. Unfortunately, his passion for changing the way federal employees are managed — hired, compensated, promoted, fired and retired — far exceeds the administration’s diluted desire to have the workforce look like the public it serves.

While the administration’s retreat from diversity as a top priority can’t be pinned on Pon, he seems happy to represent an administration that gives diversity and inclusion advocates good reason to shudder.

In response to Sen. Kamala

D. Harris, D-Calif., during his October nomination hearing, Pon said he had not read Barack Obama’s executive order to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce.

In written responses submitted after the hearing, Pon said that agencies “should actively recruit from all segments of society” and promised “to build upon the goals identified” in Obama’s order.

“It is my understanding, based on the last data OPM posted to its website, that minorities as a whole are no longer under-represented across the Federal workforce,” his written response said, “although their representation lags somewhat in SES positions.”

“Somewhat” is an understatement for women, who make up 35.3 percent of the Senior Executive Service.

On the surface, it seems the data belie his understanding in another area.

The federal workforce was 8.4 percent Hispanic, according to an OPM report for fiscal 2014, which was the document available in October. The fiscal 2016 report issued this February shows a slight increase, to 8.6 percent. In both fiscal years, the percentage of Hispanics in the civilian labor force was about 15 percent, making it seem that they are vastly underrepresented.

But on this point Pon was not far off.

The civilian labor force includes non-citizens. But citizenship is required for most federal jobs. Hispanic citizens are only about 10 percent of the civilian labor force, meaning their representation in the federal workforce is low, but not as low as it initially appears.

Nonetheless, the lack of energy for diversity exhibited by the Trump administration will still worry proponents.

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New details on EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s December trip to Morocco show lobbyist Richard Smotkin arranged the visit, which cost over $100,000.

Top EPA aides resign Pasquale Perrota, the EPA’s security chief, and Albert Kelly, who ran the EPA’s Superfund program, have resigned days after Scott Pruitt blamed federal ethics investigations on his subordinates. Perrota was expected to appear today for a transcribed interview by staffers of the House Oversight Committee.

His resignation was not expected to derail his appearance. (AP)

general counsel at the Campaign Legal Center said Tuesday that the lobbyist’s involvement raises issues about whether Pruitt went to Morocco partly to bolster

Smotkin’s standing within the kingdom.

“It shows, at the very least, a tremendous amount of sloppiness, and it raises ethical issues about the relationship between Smotkin and Pruitt,” the center’s Larry Noble said.

Top Moroccan government officials were unwilling to discuss their dealings with Pruitt.

On a visit last week to Rabat by a Washington Post reporter, several officials who met with him would not even acknowledge doing so — despite photos the EPA itself published from some of those sessions.

The Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday that liquid nicotine products that look like juice boxes, candies and other kids’ snacks pose a danger to children. The FDA — working with the Federal Trade Commission, which polices deceptive advertising — said the illegal packaging could lead to poisoning if children mistakenly drink the liquids, which are to be used with e-cigarettes and vaping devices. Even small amounts of nicotine can cause seizures, comas and fatal heart problems in children. Some of the packages targeted by regulators look like fruit juices, Warheads candy and Nilla Wafers. (AP)

A pair of explosions killed at least 28 worshippers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria and wounded at least 56 others, with many of the victims caught in the second blast while trying to flee, police said Tuesday. The attack in Mubi town came a day after President Muhammadu Buhari met with President Trump at the White House and discussed the threat from the Boko Haram extremist group. Its fighters were quickly blamed for Tuesday’s blasts. (AP) ARMENIA

Parliament votes against Pashinian as new leader Armenia’s parliament rejected making opposition leader Nikol Pashinian, who last month led weeks of anti-government rallies, the country’s new prime minister on Tuesday. After a nine-hour session, the National Assembly of Armenia voted 55-45 against appointing Pashinian. The Armenian Constitution dictates that parliament will convene next week for another vote. (AP) BEIJING

China forges relations with former Taiwan ally The Dominican Republic established diplomatic relations with China on Tuesday, breaking ties with Beijing’s rival Taiwan in the latest blow to the self-ruled island democracy that China has been trying to isolate on the global stage.

Taiwan criticized what it called China’s “dollar diplomacy” and announced it would terminate ties with the Dominican Republic immediately. (AP)

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The world’s oldest known spider — a trapdoor spider named Number 16 — has died, The Guardian reports. She was 43. Number 16 had been monitored in the wild as part of a long-term study of trapdoor spider populations in Western Australia that started in 1974. Number 16 didn’t die of old age, but was killed by a wasp sting. Even so, she greatly outlived the next longest-lived spider on record — a 28-year-old tarantula in Mexico. (EXPRESS)

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Gas prices rising as drivers plan summer trips The population of the deer tick, which transmits Lyme disease, has increased along with the deer population.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes spread the Zika virus, along with dengue and chikungunya.

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The increase in cases of disease caused by the bite of an infected mosquito, tick or flea is the result of many factors.

Mosquitoes and ticks and the germs they spread are increasing in number and moving into new areas, putting more people at risk for infection.

Overseas travel and commerce are also increasingly common, and someone infected with a mosquito-borne virus such as Zika in one country can unknowingly transport it home.

Climate change, which experts say can exacerbate many public health threats, also plays an important role, allowing mosquitoes and ticks to thrive in warmer temperatures, said Lyle Petersen, director of the CDC’s division of vector-borne diseases, which produced the report.

Warmer temperatures tend to make mosquitoes get infected

The American dog tick spreads Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia.

The Culex pipiens mosquito transmits West Nile virus, which is the major mosquito-borne disease in the U.S.

More deer mean more cases of Lyme disease The number of Lyme disease cases has increased rapidly because the population of deer — and deer ticks — has skyrocketed. “In New England 100 years ago, there were hardly any trees because they were all cut down for farmland, and the deer had been hunted to extinction,” said Lyle Peterson, director of CDC’s division of vector-borne diseases.

“All those forests have grown back, the deer population exploded, and the tick populations have also exploded, bringing more disease.”

(THE WASHINGTON POST)

faster and also makes them more infectious, he said in an interview.

For ticks, the higher temperatures have allowed them to spread into new areas, allowing them to live farther north, and that puts more people at risk,

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Petersen said. And when the tick season is longer, people are exposed over longer periods.

Most of the pathogens are transmitted to humans from animals, such as rodents or birds, “making them difficult or impossible to eliminate,” the report said.

Tick-borne diseases account for more than 75 percent of the reports and occur throughout the continental United States, but they are predominantly in the eastern part of the country and in areas along the Pacific Coast.

Diseases spread by mosquitoes, such as dengue fever, chikungunya and Zika, were almost exclusively transmitted in Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

West Nile virus, also spread by mosquitoes, is widespread across the continental United States, where it is the major mosquito-borne disease. LENA H. SUN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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HEALTH The warmer weather of spring and summer means the start of tick and mosquito season and the diseases they transmit, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, West Nile and Zika.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that illnesses from mosquito, tick and flea bites more than tripled in the United States from 2004 to 2016.

The report, released Tuesday, shows that the number of reported cases of these diseases jumped from 27,388 cases in 2004 to more than 96,000 cases in 2016. The data include illnesses reported in U.S. states and territories. During that period, more than 640,000 cases of these diseases were reported to the CDC. Officials say the actual number of people who have become sick is much higher, in part because many infections are not reported or recognized. Some patients may experience mild symptoms and not seek medical attention, and not all diseases were reported for the full 13year analysis period.

For example, recent data from clinical and laboratory diagnoses estimate that Lyme disease infects about 300,000 Americans every year, which is eight to 10 times more than the number reported in the CDC analysis.

In 2016, the number of Lyme disease incidents reported for the United States was 36,429.

As a group, these diseases are notable for their wide geographical distribution in the United States and resistance to control. Only one of the diseases, yellow fever, has a vaccine

TRANSPORTATION Get ready for a little bit more pain at the pump this summer.

Crude oil prices are at the highest level in more than three years and are expected to keep climbing, pushing up gasoline prices along the way.

The daily U.S. average for regular gasoline is now $2.81 per gallon. That’s up from about $2.38 a year ago, according to the Oil Price Information Service.

And across the U.S., 16 percent of gas stations are charging more than $3 per gallon, according to AAA. “This will be the most expensive driving season since 2014,” said Tom Kloza, of the Oil Price Information Service.

The price of U.S. crude oil has been on a mostly steady incline since last June, last week hitting $68.64, the highest since December 2014.

Oil prices near $70 per barrel shouldn’t put the brakes on economic growth, however.

The energy sector and related industries have more money to spend on equipment and workers. But higher oil prices are certainly inconvenient for drivers, especially those with lower incomes.

“The good news is, both at the global level and the U.S. level, this is occurring at a time when growth is fairly robust,” said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Markit. “But consumers as a whole will be hurt ... because gasoline prices are going up.” ALEX VEIGA (AP)

Morocco cuts ties with Iran, accusing it of backing Western Sahara independence fighters

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, on Tuesday officially denied charges of sexual abuse spanning decades, after his lawyers failed to persuade a court to dismiss them.

Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic will appear for the first time today in the County Court of Victoria, where he has been ordered to stand trial at a date to be set.

Lawyers for Pell, Pope Francis’ finance minister, have been

fighting the allegations since before he was charged in June with alleged sexual abuse against multiple people in Victoria. They date from the time he was a priest in his hometown of Ballarat until decades later, when he was archbishop of Melbourne.

Magistrate Belinda Wallington on Tuesday dismissed about half the charges that had been reviewed in a four-week preliminary hearing in Melbourne, but decided the prosecution’s case was strong enough for the remainder to warrant a trial by jury.

The charges the jury will hear include these: that Pell groped two boys’ genitals at a swimming pool in Ballarat in the 1970s, and that he assaulted two choristers at Melbourne’s St. Patrick’s

Australian Cardinal George Pell, 76, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of sexual abuse.

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W hen the magistrate on Tuesday asked Pell, 76, how he pleaded, he said in a firm voice,

“Not guilty.” Wallington gave him permission not to stand.

When the magistrate left the room at the end of the hearing, many people in the packed public gallery broke into applause.

Vatican spokesman Greg Burke issued a statement saying: “The Holy See has taken note of the decision issued by judicial authorities in Australia regarding His Eminence Cardinal George Pell. Last year, the Holy Father granted Cardinal Pell a leave of absence so he could defend himself from the accusations.”

The cardinal’s legal team found some solace in the outcome Tuesday, with attorney Robert Richter telling the magistrate “the most vile of the allegations” had been dismissed. (AP/THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Pasta diet could hasten menopause Sorry to break this to you, but eating extra pasta could come at a price. Women who ate an additional portion of refined white pasta or rice daily entered menopause about a year and a half earlier than average, a study released Monday in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health found. On the other hand, a diet high in oily fish was linked to a delay in menopause of more than three years. It’s unclear if the diets directly affect menopause or reflect a hidden factor, New Scientist reported. (EXPRESS)

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Illnesses spread by ticks, mosquitoes and fleas have more than tripled in the U.S. since 2004

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SAO PAULO | Smoke rises as firefighters work in the rubble of a derelict high-rise building that caught fire Tuesday and collapsed two hours later. One person was reported dead and several were missing. Squatters had occupied the downtown building, which was at least 20 stories high and once was a headquarters for federal police. Many downtown buildings have been occupied by fair-housing groups that are fighting for ownership.

U.S. starts processing some Central American asylum-seekers from caravan slammed by Trump

ENVIRONMENT Seventeen states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over its push to “reconsider” greenhouse gas emission rules for the nation’s cars, launching a legal battle over one of former President Barack Obama’s efforts to address climate change.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said in April that he would revisit the Obama-era rules, which aim to raise efficiency requirements to about 50 miles per gallon by 2025. The EPA said that the standards “may be too stringent.”

In the lawsuit, the states contend the EPA acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” in changing course.

Those suing are led by California and include New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, among others. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, comes amid a larger struggle over climate policy regarding U.S. cars and light trucks.

The Trump administration has drafted a proposal that would freeze the federal standards at 2021 levels, leaving them well below levels targeted under Obama.

The Auto Alliance, an industry consortium, has said it backs the EPA’s move, but executives at major automakers, including Ford and Honda, have balked at the plans. CHRIS MOONEY (TWP)

2 Koreas dismantle loudspeakers used to blare propaganda across tense border

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POLITICS President Trump said Tuesday that it’s “disgraceful” that a list of proposed questions from special counsel Robert Mueller was “leaked” to the news media.

The New York Times late Monday published the 49 questions compiled by Trump’s lawyers during negotiations with Mueller’s investigators earlier this year over the prospect of a presidential interview. Mueller is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, whether Trump’s campaign was involved and if the president obstructed justice after the campaign.

The Times report said a list of the questions was “provided to The Times by a person outside Mr. Trump’s legal team.”

The questions range from Trump’s motivations for firing FBI Director James Comey to contacts Trump’s campaign had with Russians. Although Mueller’s team has indicated to Trump’s lawyers that he’s not considered a target, investigators remain interested in whether the president’s actions constitute obstruction of justice and want to interview him about several episodes in office.

They have not yet made a decision about an interview.

In his tweet, Trump said there were “no questions on Collusion” and called Mueller’s investigation a “Russian witch hunt.” He said collusion with the Russians

President Trump on Tuesday again called special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry a “witch hunt.”

“never existed.” The questions do appear to indicate that Mueller is looking into possible collusion.

In one question, Mueller asks what Trump knew about campaign staff, including his ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, reaching out to Moscow. Mueller has already charged Manafort with money laundering and bank fraud. A court filing this month revealed that Mueller had sought authorization to expand his probe into allegations that Manafort “committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials,” The Washington Post reported.

One question asks what discussions Trump may have had regarding “any meeting with Mr. Putin,” referring to Russian

Comey weighs in President Trump’s political attacks on the FBI make America less safe because they undermine public confidence that the bureau is an “honest, competent and independent” institution, fired FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday.

He also said it was logical that special counsel Robert Mueller would seek to interview Trump as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. (AP)

President Vladimir Putin. Another question asks what the president may have known about a possible attempt by his son-inlaw, Jared Kushner, to set up a back channel with Russia before

Trump’s inauguration.

Many of the questions center on the obstruction issue, including his reaction to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ recusal from the Russia probe, a decision Trump has angrily criticized.

Additional questions focus on Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations about sanctions against Russia with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn is now cooperating with Mueller. “What did you know about phone calls that Mr. Flynn made with the Russian ambassador, Sergey I. Kislyak, in late December 2016?” reads one question. DARLENE SUPERVILLE AND MARY CLARE JALONICK (AP)

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Facebook’s getting into the dating game

Facebook plans to introduce a dating tool, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday at the social networking platform’s annual developers conference. Zuckerberg told a story of being stopped on the street by married couples who had met through Facebook, and said he wanted to make a more deliberate effort to bring couples together. So many people are single, he said, “so clearly there’s something to do here!” (TWP) Airstrikes kill at least 23 civilians in one of last pockets of ISIS territory in Syria

If a Russian state-owned company has its way, remote regions of the world will soon see giant, floating nuclear reactors pumping power to port cities and drilling platforms.

The reactor in question is called Akademik Lomonosov.

Once the barge is wired into the electrical grid in the Arctic town of Pevek in 2019, it will be the world’s northernmost nuclear reactor, capable of powering a town of 100,000 people (almost the population of Green Bay, Wis.) with what its manufacturer, Rosatom, calls “a great margin of safety” that is “invincible for tsunamis and natural disaster.”

But environmental groups have other names for the barge: “Nuclear Titanic” is one. Another is “Floating Chernobyl.”

Critics say that pretty much the worst thing you can do to a nuclear reactor is expose it to the high waves and fierce winds of the Arctic Ocean. Jan Haverkamp, a nuclear expert for Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe, called it a “shockingly obvious threat to a fragile environment.”

The world will see who is right sometime next year.

Lomonosov, which is named after an 18th-century Russian scientist and poet, was towed out of the St. Petersburg shipyard on Saturday for its meandering year-long journey, The Associated Press reported.

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Size matters up front ‘Big boys’ drafted to bolster run defense but can have domino effect on pass rush REDSKINS The primary concern surrounding Da’Ron Payne, the No. 13 overall pick in the NFL draft, is his ability to rush the passer.

But the Redskins know they didn’t select the nose tackle out of Alabama to collect sacks.

The philosophy behind Washington’s base 3-4 scheme is for bigger defensive linemen to tie up offensive linemen and allow linebackers to run free and clean.

The linemen may not get to the quarterback, but the linebackers should be able to as the big boys up front occupy blockers and push the pocket inward.

“What can help those guys is what these guys — a healthy Jonathan Allen and a healthy Payne y and [Matt] [ ] Ioannidis and

[Stacy] McGee — can do,” said Doug William, the Redskins’ senior vice president of player personnel.

“I think what we’ve done to stabilize the middle of that defensive line is going to give those guys a little opportunity. That’s why I say we like our football team as a whole.”

Payne is 6 feet 3 and brings 311 pounds of pure strength to the middle of the line, but he had just three sacks in three seasons with the Crimson Tide. He will line up next to former Alabama teammate Allen (6-3, 288 pounds). Phil Taylor re-signed and brings back 343 pounds of mass. Ioannidis checks in at 6-3 and 305 pounds.

McGee is 6-3 and weighs 341.

The Redskins added another

Jets will come to camp Washington’s pass rushers will be the first opposing players to get a crack at sacking No. 3 overall pick Sam Darnold. The Jets will visit Richmond to practice with the Redskins from Aug. 12-14, Washington announced Tuesday. New York dealt three second-round picks to the Colts to move up three spots and nab the USC quarterback. (EXPRESS)

big body on Day 3 of the draft when Virginia Tech defensive lineman Tim Settle (6-3, 329 pounds) slid to the fifth round.

“He was highly ranked on our board and he was still there,” coach Jay Gruden said. “He’s another big body who can rush

the passer a little bit and he’s really good against a run. … I’ve said it before, you can never have too many big bodies.”

The Redskins posted 42 sacks last season, tied for seventh-most in the league with the Bears, Patriots and Saints. Linebackers Ryan Kerrigan (13) and Preston Smith (eight) accounted for half of those. The team addressed the nose tackle position to aid a run defense that ranked last in the league last season, but the front office believes the pass rush will improve, too.

“I’m a firm believer whether or not it’s offensive line, whether or not it’s defensive line, the big boys make the little boys better,” Williams said. KAREEM COPELAND

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‘Relevant’ skill set Redskins draft pick Trey Quinn, a receiver, told his hometown NBC affiliate that he may be the “most relevant” Mr. Irrelevant — the last pick in the draft — ever.

Here are a few facts about him. (EXPRESS)

3 Multi-sport talent He threw a no-hitter for South Lake Charles, La., in the Little League World Series.

His high school baseball team won a state title, and he was a state finalist at 100 meters.

2 Record-setter At Barbe High, Quinn set a national high school record for career receiving yards (6,566). He caught 70 touchdown passes and was a Parade All-American.

1 Star transfer Although he started nine games in two seasons at LSU, he caught only 22 passes.

Last season at SMU, the transfer led the nation with 114 receptions in 13 games.

(THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Pederson memoir out in August Pede

Eagles coach Doug Pederson, who led the Eagles to a dram dramatic Super Bowl win over the Patriots in his second year on the job, is working on a memoir for Hachett Hachette Books. The publisher said Tuesday that the book is called “Fearless” and will come out Aug. 28.

Accordin According to Hachette, Pederson will reflect on his career as an NFL backup quarterback, notably to Brett Favre, an and his rise as a coach. Pederson, 50, said he has always considered himself an underdog. (AP) Capitals-Penguins Game 3 ended after Express’ deadline Tuesday

Colts cut former Redskins running back Matt Jones

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Wall’s prescription tough to fill ANALYSIS John Wall spent more than 15 minutes Saturday dissecting the Wizards’ roster flaws. He is, after all, emboldened by the organization to be the leader, vocal and otherwise. And as Wall capitalized on his platform, he spared no feelings.

“There’s a lot that we can use,” Wall said, calling for the team to revamp its approach at the center position and add depth at small forward.

Those changes, however, won’t come as easily as a 15-minute interview might suggest.

Shepherded by team president Ernie Grunfeld, the Wizards are in a mess of their own doing. As they try to clean it up, they face significant practical hurdles with a changing climate in the NBA. Wall said he supports signing an “athletic big.” But Washington is already committed to three traditional centers: Marcin Gortat and Ian Mahinmi — who don’t fit into the modern NBA game — and Jason Smith, who can’t get off the bench.

Wall also said he wants more wing help to back up Otto Porter Jr. But the money tied up in centers, coupled with Porter’s maximum contract, will hinder the team’s offseason spending.

Several clubs are waiting out their own bad contracts, and teams with cap space prefer not to take in players with multiyear deals, meaning an ideal trade could be hard to execute. The

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John Wall, top, wants the Wizards to sign “athletic bigs,” but pricey deals for Ian Mahinmi, right, and Marcin Gortat could limit the team’s spending.

Wizards could still try to trade, but they would likely have to package an asset like the young and economical Kelly Oubre Jr. or a first-round pick. The team could use the stretch-and-waive option — which allows teams to spread out over multiple seasons the money they owe players they let go — but that’s a short-term fix.

It’s possible that through astute scouting, Washington could find

an unpolished or underappreciated player. But while Wall has a wish list, a roster overhaul seems more like a pipe dream.

“John Wall isn’t that far off from what they need,” said Eric Pincus, a salary cap expert for NBA TV and Basketball Insiders. “[But] they have lower flexibility.

They don’t have as much spending power, and when they do spend, they have tax on it.”

In 2016, a year of big contracts around the league, Washington overspent on Mahinmi, who came off an impressive season with the Pacers and was rewarded with a four-year, $64 million contract.

But the team already had a traditional big man with several years remaining on his contract.

“When you already have Gortat, it didn’t make a lot of sense,” Pincus said.

Mahinmi, 31, has battled injuries for two seasons. He averaged 4.8 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.0 fouls this year. Gortat was often benched in fourth quarters as the team elected to go small.

He excels in setting screens and rolling to the basket but refuses to add a 3-point shot to his skill set. Together, the old-school duo will take up more than $29 million next season.

Throw in last summer’s investment with Porter, who is set to make $26 million in 2018-19, and Washington heads into the summer already beyond the luxury tax threshold.

The salary cap for next season is projected at $101 million, and the luxury tax threshold at $123 million, Pincus said. The Wizards have eight players signed for next year, and Smith and Jodie Meeks can exercise player options to return. If both players opt in, the Wizards’ 2018-19 roster salary will rise to $124 million with just 10 players, while at least four would still need to be signed.

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Eight women’s sports leagues, including the WNBA, U.S. Tennis Association, Women’s Pro Fastpitch League and Canadian Women’s Hockey, will try to help each other increase resources, viewership and attendance with a new social media initiative called SheIS. The first public service announcement for it was released Tuesday.

Each commissioner has pledged to attend one another’s events. “Women have to support women before you ask other people to support you,” WNBA president Lisa Borders, left, said. (AP) Mariners and Athletics will open 2019 season with two-game series in Tokyo

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Real Madrid into final for third straight season Real Madrid conceded early but held on to draw 2-2 against visiting Bayern Munich on Tuesday and reach its third straight Champions League final 4-3 on aggregate.

Joshua Kimmich scored for Bayern in the third minute, but the hosts reacted quickly. Karim Benzema equalized early in the first half and scored again just after halftime. Madrid will face Liverpool or Roma, which play today (2:45 p.m., FS1) in Italy.

Liverpool won the first leg 5-2. (AP) HORSE RACING

Justify favored to win Ky. Derby with 3-1 odds Justify was made the early 3-1 favorite in the Kentucky Derby draw on Tuesday in Louisville, Ky. Europe-based Mendelssohn (5-1) was second in a full field of 20. Four-time Derby winner Bob Baffert trains Justify, who drew the No. 7 post for Saturday’s 1¼-mile race. Six winners have started in No. 7, most recently Street Sense in 2007. (AP)

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The amount that the men’s and women’s singles champions will win at Wimbledon this summer, according to the All England Club. That’s $68,000 more than the prize for last year’s winners — Garbine Muguruza and Roger Federer, above. First-round losers can make as much as $53,000. (AP)

Russ Brandon resigns as president of Buffalo Bills and Sabres; Terry and Kim Pegula own both teams

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For Twin Shadow, a messy mix

Pop-funk star explores her sexual identity in ‘Dirty Computer’ film MUSIC A decade has passed since Janelle Monae entered the public eye as Cindi Mayweather, a messianic android who falls in love with a human in her “Metropolis” album series. The alter ego represents “the other,” Monae has said in interviews, and serves as an indirect way for the artist to address certain aspects of her identity: “being a black woman right now,” as she recently told The New York Times, and “being a part of the LGBTQ community.”

Monae came out as pansexual in a Rolling Stone interview published this past Thursday, a day before the release of her latest studio album and its accompanying short film, “Dirty Computer” (streaming on YouTube).

The funky pop jams reveal her struggles while also celebrating

her sexual liberation, and she brings these sentiments to the “emotion picture” by ditching her android persona. Finally, Monae gets to be unabashedly human. She gets to be herself.

But that human life comes with its own obstacles. The 48-minute dystopian film begins with Monae’s character, Jane 57821, in a memory-clearing facility run by a totalitarian government.

“Dirty Computer” has attracted comparisons to the 2004 film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” in its structure, as the facility’s technicians replay Jane’s memories before clearing them. One such memory is Jane’s romance with Zen (Tessa Thompson), who shows up to guide Jane through the cleaning process with seemingly little recollection of their shared past.

The album’s third single, “Django Jane,” includes Monae rapping about being a black woman — a theme present throughout “Dirty Computer.”

It’s an anthem on the intersection

JANELLE MONAE VIA YOUTUBE

Monae gives a voice to the marginalized

Janelle Monae’s 48-minute “emotion picture” — also starring Tessa Thompson, middle right — serves as a companion piece to her new album.

of gender and race, and one driven largely by anger.

In a February interview with The Guardian, Monae called the song “a response to me feeling the sting of the threats being made to my rights as a woman. … Black women and those who have been the ‘other,’ and the marginalized in society — that’s who I wanted to support, and that was more important than my discomfort about speaking out.”

And bold statements are what “Dirty Computer” does best.

Monae told Rolling Stone that she wants “young girls, young boys, nonbinary, gay, straight, queer people who are having a hard time dealing with their sexuality, dealing with feeling ostracized or bullied for just being their unique selves, to know that I see you.”

She is proud to be a dirty computer, and she’d like you to be, too.

For someone who was a child when the 1980s ended, the artist known as Twin Shadow seems to have been powerfully affected by that decade’s sonic landscape. Those influences got away from him on 2015’s “Eclipse,” but he’s toned it down on “Caer,” which came out Friday.

“Brace,” a standout, is a perfect collision of his influences. “18 Years” fails, sounding like a cut that didn’t make the “Say Anything” soundtrack. The album’s cover is apt, showing someone covering their face as if acknowledging that they’ve wasted a chance. “I’m too mixed up,” Twin Shadow warns us on “Too Many Colors” s — and you believe him.

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Brothers Osborne go their own way MUSIC For proof that Brothers Osborne do things differently than most country stars, look no further than the music video for last year’s hit single, “It Ain’t My Fault,” which features robbers wearing presidential masks. The one in the Donald Trump mask tries to steal from a collection plate, and the one who looks like Bill Clinton ogles a woman.

Touching on politics is something most Nashville singers try to avoid. But John and T.J. Osborne, the affable sibling duo raised near the Chesapeake Bay in Deale, Md., don’t mind addressing controversial topics.

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Their sophomore album, “Port Saint Joe,” landed April 20. That record features the standout track “While You Still Can,” a quiet yet urgent song about appreciating time with loved ones.

The duo performed it on Bobby Bones’ syndicated radio show in October after the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, during which 58 concertgoers were killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Midway through the song, John started crying and couldn’t finish.

It was another moment that set Brothers Osborne apart, as they were one of the few country acts to discuss gun control after the tragedy.

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@MORNINGGLORIA, sharing a savage take after Facebook announced Tuesday that it is launching a foray into online dating. Suffice it to say, some seemed skeptical. “If you haven’t gotten laid via Facebook by now, you’re not getting laid via Facebook ever,” @stefapie tweeted. And @clearlytiredd joked: “Can’t wait to marry the Russian bot I’ve always dreamed of.”

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You may find yourself immersed in a new situation that requires you to think about familiar things in unfamiliar ways.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You may have trouble seeing everything in a positive light today, as something transpires that has you going to your dark place.

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Very light breezes blow from the southwest. Lows drop only into the 60s in most areas tonight under mostly clear skies.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) It’s a good day for testing the waters; you’ll have to make a decision soon, but for now you can experiment with what suits you best.

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1908: The original version of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” with music by Albert Von Tilzer and lyrics by Jack Norworth, is published by Von Tilzer’s York Music Co.

1957: Crime boss Frank Costello narrowly survives an attempt on his life in New York; the alleged gunman, Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, was acquitted at trial after Costello refused to identify him as the shooter.

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Meryl avoids g going home to New Jersey Meryl Streep won’t be there when she’s inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame Sunday. The Summit, N.J., native has a lastminute production conflict as part of her role in HBO’s “Big Little Lies” and won’t attend the ceremony in Asbury Park. Streep is part of a class that includes Blondie singer Debbie Harry, disco queen Gloria Gaynor, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt. (AP)

On Monday, Blake Lively deleted all her photos from Instagram and unfollowed almost everyone, including husband Ryan Reynolds. Her last post, People reports, was a photo of a finished game of hangman, which spelled out “What happened to Emily?” as the answer. That question is also her new ew Instagram bio. Lively is now only following people e with the name Emily Nelson on the service. Fans on Twitter and several media outlets speculated that the change is a social media marketing ploy for Blake’s new movie, “A Simple Favor,” about the e mysterious disappearance of a woman, played by Lively, who is named Emily Nelson. (EXPRESS)

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Kanye West appeared Tuesday on “TMZ Live” and in a lengthy YouTube interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God. “I think I’m in a stronger place than I ever was,” West told Charlamagne. On “TMZ Live,” West said, “When you hear about slavery for 400 years — for 400 years? That sounds like a choice. Like, you were there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all?” (EXPRESS)

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