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A South Carolina woman isn’t happy a grocery store censored her son’s graduation cake, which was supposed to include the Latin phrase “Summa Cum Laude.” Cara Koscinski of Charleston told The Washington Post that the cake she ordered online from Publix ended up reading, “Congrats Jacob! Summa --- Laude class of 2018.” She says the store gave her a refund and a gift card when she complained. (AP)

A Syracuse, N.Y., judge on Tuesday ordered a 30-year-old man to move out of his parents’ house after they went to court to have him ejected. Mark and Christina Rotondo brought the case after their eviction letters offering money and other help were ignored. Michael Rotondo told the judge he knows his parents want him out. But he argued that as a family member, he’s entitled to six more months. He told reporters he’ll appeal. (AP)

Residents of a Florida city who received alerts about a power outage were also warned about zombies. The Palm Beach Post reported that Lake Worth residents got the message during a power outage Sunday. The alert said more than 7,000 customers lost power “due to extreme zombie activity.” A city spokesman later wrote on Facebook that he wanted to “reiterate that Lake Worth does not have any zombie activity currently.” (AP)

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It’s a girl! Bowser is a mom.

THE DISTRICT The baby that set Washington buzzing Monday night, when D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser made a surprise announcement that she had adopted a child, is a girl named Miranda Elizabeth Bowser, city officials said.

The mayor’s office has not made an official announcement of the baby’s name, age and sex.

But mayoral aides told a handful of D.C. officials about the baby as they gathered in Las Vegas on Monday night for a retail convention, according to city officials who were present for the announcement.

The mayor, who is 45, is the first single mother to run the city. Bowser told WUSA Channel 9 that it was the right time for her to start a family.

“I decided to start the adoption journey, just knowing that it was a great time in my life and I had so much to share with a baby,” she said. “When you sit in the seat that I’m in, you’re used to being able to make things happen, and babies have a way of letting you

credible competition in the June 19 Democratic primary or the general election.

Bowser, who has never married or had other children, is extremely private about her personal life. And her handling of the baby announcement was in character. She also did not introduce her child on camera in her interview, and asked for privacy in a Monday evening statement.

Bowser joins a small number of single parents holding public office, even though they lead about a quarter of U.S. families.

In her television interview, she did not address how she would handle child care. The District is one of the most expensive cities in the United States when it comes to child care, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

The mayor said becoming a parent will give her a new perspective on public policy.

“It certainly gives me another point of view. I have, we have been very focused on families in this administration, making sure that we do everything for schools and child care and great play spaces and safe neighborhoods,” Bowser told WUSA.

Mayor Bowser did not introduce her child on camera in an interview with WUSA.

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know that they’re in control.”

While Bowser started the adoption process late last year, she said notification that a baby was available came “much sooner than I expected,” and she brought the infant to her Colonial Village home over the weekend. She canceled a previously scheduled campaign rally and other appearances Saturday.

The baby arrived as Bowser is on track to become the first D.C. mayor elected to a second term since 2002. She faces no

“As any new mother would feel — I am thrilled, nervous and looking forward to each and every stage.”

D.C. MAYOR MURIEL BOWSER, in a written statement that she shared on Twitter on Monday. Bowser told WUSA Channel 9 in an interview that she started the adoption process late last year.

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White House lawn gets that sinking feeling For all the concern over leaks at the White House, a more pressing problem might be the sinkhole on the North Lawn that appears to be growing by the day. The literal pit in the ground appears to have opened just outside the press briefing room and the office of deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley.

Steve Herman, a reporter with Voice of America, tweeted that he first spotted the sinkhole last week. It has since grown, and another sinkhole has opened up next to it. It’s not clear what caused the sinkholes to emerge. (TWP)

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Gavin Grimm, a transgender teen, was at the center of a national debate on bathroom rights.

“I came to understand a very long time ago that this was not going to affect me in a way that positively impacted my ability to function in school . . . the issue is for all the kids out there who were waiting for something like this,” said Grimm, who said being forced to use a separate, unisex bathroom contributed to his feelings of alienation at the high school. “The tears were because there was a vindication of what

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VIRGINIA A federal judge in Virginia sided Tuesday with a transgender teenager who spent most of his high school years fighting to use the boys’ bathroom, ruling that school officials violated his constitutional rights in a case that symbolized the national fight for transgender student rights.

Gavin Grimm sued the Gloucester County School Board after it barred him from the boys’ bathroom. The case made Grimm, now a 19-year-old activist in Berkeley, Calif., the face of the fight for transgender student rights and ascended to the Supreme Court.

The decision comes nearly a year after Grimm graduated from Gloucester High, too late for him to use the boys’ bathroom. But it could provide leverage for other transgender students seeking to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity. It’s unclear whether the Gloucester school board will keep the bathroom restrictions on the books. Neither school board members nor their attorney, David Corrigan, responded to requests for comment.

Grimm said he broke down in tears when he received a text message alerting him to the ruling, feeling vindicated — and saddened that it came too late to help him.

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The decision comes as lawmakers, courts, and school principals grapple with how to accommodate students whose gender identity conflicts with the sex on their birth certificate. In recent years, federal judges have delivered a mix of opinions on whether transgender students have the right to use bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity.

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It’s unanimous: Washington is in for another hot summer, forecasters say. Outlooks from five separate groups, which include the National Weather Service and four companies from the private sector, all lean toward steamier-thannormal conditions. While forecasters say it will be a toasty summer, they are generally not calling for a record-setter. All of the forecasters are calling for 35 to 42 days with highs at or above 90 degrees (including the four to date), which is close to the average of 36 or slightly above. A hotter-thannormal summer would be nothing new. Incredibly, the last eight summers (2010 to 2017) have been hotter than the 1981 to 2010 average and include four of the five hottest on record. (TWP)

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The amount Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan raised from April 10 through May 15, amassing more money in 35 days than some of his Democratic challengers have since launching their campaigns last year. Hogan’s campaign chairman said the Republican and Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford, who do not have primary opponents, have more than $9 million cash on hand for their reelection bid. Hogan is seeking to become the first Republican governor to win re-election in Maryland since 1954. (TWP/AP)

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Officials in Charlottesville have given final approval to hiring the city’s first African-American female police chief, following the previous chief’s departure in the aftermath of a violent white nationalist rally. The Daily Progress reports the City Council approved a resolution Monday endorsing the city manager’s recommendation to hire RaShall M. Brackney, 55. She is a former George Washington University police chief. She will succeed Al Thomas, who was the city’s first African-American police chief.

Brackney’s effective start date is June 18. (AP) CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.

3rd man guilty in beating of black man at Va. rally A third man has been found guilty in the beating of a black man who was left severely injured the day of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.

Daniel Borden, 19, of Ohio entered an Alford plea Monday to a charge of malicious wounding in the attack on DeAndre Harris. The plea means Borden did not admit guilt but acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him. Borden’s plea follows the conviction of two other men. A fourth man is awaiting trial. (AP) BURTONSVILLE, MD.

Pizza delivery driver dead after shooting A pizza delivery driver was fatally shot late Monday in Burtonsville, officials said.

The driver was identified by police as Francesco Michael Digiovanni, 45, of Rockville.

The incident unfolded a little after 11 p.m. Monday. Officers found a man with “trauma to his body” inside a vehicle on Ballinger Drive at Autumn Glen Circle. Rescuers tried to provide aid to Digiovanni, who died at the scene, police said. Police said they were investigating the incident as a homicide. (TWP)

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Suspect in custody after officer killed BALTIMORE COUNTY A 16-year-old who was supposed to be under house arrest was charged Tuesday with firstdegree murder in the death of a Maryland police officer.

After hearing about Dawnta Anthony Harris’ numerous runins with the law recently, a judge called him a “one-man crime wave” and ordered him held without bail.

More than 20 police officers were in the courtroom when

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Harris made his first court appearance by video. He has been charged as an adult in the killing Monday of Baltimore County Officer Amy Caprio, who was responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle that authorities say was involved in a burglary.

Investigators have reviewed Caprio’s body camera footage, prosecutor William Bickel said at the hearing. He said it clearly

A roadblock was set up Monday near where a Baltimore County officer died.

shows Harris accelerating a stolen Jeep at Caprio after she tried to apprehend him on a suburban cul-de-sac in the Perry Hall community northeast of Baltimore.

“She fired her weapon. He ran over her,” Bickel said. Harris was apprehended shortly after abandoning the Jeep, which was stolen May 18 in Baltimore, Bickel said.

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Judge Sally Chester ordered the ninth-grader be held at Baltimore County Detention Center, an adult lockup.

According to a probable cause statement filed Tuesday, Harris

told a detective he had been waiting in the driver’s seat of the vehicle as “associates” were committing a burglary.

He tried to flee in the Jeep when he saw Caprio arrive on the block, but she followed him and ordered him out of the vehicle, the statement said. Harris told the detective that he “drove at the officer,” according to the statement.

Police have said three other teenagers suspected in area burglaries were in custody Tuesday in connection with the incident.

Caprio, 29, won an “Officer of the Month” award for the Parkville precinct in December.

Police said at the time that her investigation led to the identification and arrest of two suspects in numerous package thefts.

She would have been on the force four years in July, police said. DAVID McFADDEN AND SARAH RANKIN (AP)

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Attacking opioids: Staffing shortages hinder the fight The opioid crisis, which kills 115 Americans a day, knows no bounds.

A Senate hearing will explore growing opioid abuse among seniors, and a recent report pointed to border staffing shortages that facilitate drug smuggling.

“In 2016, one in three people with Medicare Part D [which covers prescription drugs] — 14.4 million beneficiaries — received an opioid prescription, 500,000 received high amounts of opioids, and 90,000 were at ‘serious risk’ of misuse or overdose, according to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General,” said a Senate Aging Committee statement announcing today’s hearing.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chairwoman of the Aging Committee, said it’s a mistake to “perceive the face of opioid addiction as young. … Nearly half of older Americans suffer from chronic pain, and the incidence increases with age.”

Many of the opioids fueling the epidemic are smuggled in through ports of entry where understaffing is an issue. The striking increase in smuggled fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, was raised in a recent report

by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Democrats.

“Port Officers are, in the majority of cases, the last line of defense in preventing illicit opioids from entering the United States,” the report said.

But there are holes in the defensive line.

“In a single year, the amount of fentanyl seized by CBP [Customs and Border Protection] more than doubled, from 564 pounds in 2016 to 1,370 pounds in 2017,” said the report, released by Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee. The report said, “85 percent of all CBP fentanyl seizures took place at ports of entry.”

The seizures demonstrate the magnitude of the opioid smuggling and the vigilance of the CBP officers. But looming problems posed by agency staffing shortages are described in two key points from the report: “Staffing shortages at ports of entry may be compromising interdiction efforts.

Ports of entry across the U.S. have 4,000 Port Officers less than the number needed to staff all ports of entry.”

“The opioid epidemic places disproportionate demands on Port Officers relative to other border security law enforcement officers. In its proposed FY 2019 budget, the Administration proposes to dramatically increase staffing at Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but add no additional officers at ports of entry.”

In response to the report, a CBP statement said staffing has increased at the six main international mail facilities by 20 percent over the last six months. The agency said, “CBP has made significant investments and improvements in our drug detection, identification, and targeting capabilities.”

The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents about 25,000 CBP officers, agriculture specialists and trade enforcement staffers, said the report “provides further evidence that the staffing crisis is harmful to our nation’s safety and security.”

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POLITICS Conservative House Republicans unveiled a resolution Tuesday insisting on the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate their growing list of grievances with the Justice Department and the FBI. “There is a ton of evidence of real misconduct,” said Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., a member of the Freedom Caucus and the resolution’s author.

Zeldin and other conservatives have been at odds with federal law enforcement for much of the past year, accusing senior officials — including former FBI Director James Comey, special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller’s work — of bias and mismanagement in the politically volatile investigations of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state.

Tuesday’s announcement, and a demand that the matter be brought to the House floor for a vote, comes as House Republicans have accused the FBI of planting “at least one person into the Trump campaign” to spy on its activities, Zeldin said.

The Justice Department said Monday that its inspector general would expand an ongoing internal probe to include the

Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., contends that there is a “ton of evidence” of misconduct by federal law enforcement.

new spying allegations. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., also have been invited to a meeting to review classified documents conservative lawmakers believe will substantiate their claims.

But the gesture has not satisfied President Trump’s allies in Congress, who doubt the law enforcement agencies will be forthcoming.

“We’ve been here before,” said Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C. “Another meeting without evidence and without actually seeing the documents is worthless.”

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FBI’s secret source Stefan A. Halper, the FBI source who assisted the Russia investigation and is at the center of a standoff between congressional Republicans and the Justice Department, is a wellconnected veteran of past Republican administrations who convened senior intelligence officials for seminars at the University of Cambridge in England. President Trump has seized on reports about Halper’s role, suggesting the FBI improperly spied on his campaign. There is no evidence to suggest Halper was inserted into the campaign, but he did seek out and meet with Trump advisers. (TWP)

at Tuesday’s news conference, calling on the president to orchestrate Mueller’s termination.

“Nobody needs firing more

than Robert Mueller,” Gohmert said.

Not all Republicans are on board with conservative House members’ calls for a second special counsel — or with the allegations that Trump’s campaign was the target of a spying operation.

Rep. Thomas Rooney, R-Fla., a senior member of the Intelligence Committee, said he believed Nunes and Gowdy’s meeting with senior Justice Department officials would help put to rest some of the circulating concerns and return lawmakers’ focus to the matter of election security.

“The questions that are out there will hopefully be satisfied, and we can move on to that basic underlying question of what do we need to do to protect the sanctity of our ballots,” Rooney said.

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The amount an Oregon judge has ordered a teenager to pay in restitution for starting last year’s Eagle Creek fire, which ravaged 48,000 acres of land in Oregon’s scenic Columbia River Gorge and burned for more than two months. The teen, who was 15 at the time, admitted to starting the fire by throwing fireworks into the woods. The judge defended the amount as “clearly proportionate to the offense.” The teen will be put on a payment plan and may be able to stop paying after 10 years if he meets certain conditions. (TWP) Poland breaks with European Union, sympathizes with U.S. stance on Iran nuclear deal

African-American children are taking their lives at roughly twice the rate of their white counterparts, according to a new study that shows a widening gap between the two groups.

The 2001-2015 data, published Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, confirm a pattern first identified years ago when researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio found the suicide rate for black children ages 5 to 12 exceeded that of young whites.

Although suicide is rare among young children, the latest findings reinforce the need for better research into the racial disparities, lead author Jeffrey Bridge said Monday.

“Most of the previous research has largely concerned white suicide. So we don’t even know if the same risk and protective factors apply to black youth,” said Bridge, director of the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at the Columbus hospital.

Historically, suicide rates have been higher for whites than blacks across all age groups.

That remains the case for adolescents, ages 13 to 17.

From 1999 through 2015, more than 1,300 children ages 5 to 12 took their own lives in America, an average of one child under 12 dying by suicide every five days, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. AMY ELLIS NUTT

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Maduro expels U.S. diplomats FOREIGN AFFAIRS President Nicolas Maduro expelled the top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela and his deputy Tuesday for allegedly conspiring against the socialist government and trying to sabotage last weekend’s presidential election.

“The empire doesn’t dominate us here,” Maduro said in a televised address, giving charge d’affaires Todd Robinson and his deputy, Brian Naranjo, 48 hours to leave the country. “We’ve had enough of your conspiring.”

Tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela have mounted

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Venezuelan president says the White House tampered with election Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, left, expelled a U.S. diplomat in Venezuela, Todd Robinson, center, and his deputy, Brian Naranjo.

following Maduro’s victory in the presidential election Sunday, a vote that the White House and others have branded a “sham.”

Maduro said in his speech that Robinson and Naranjo, whom he referred to as the head of the CIA in Venezuela, both personally pressured several antigovernment presidential aspirants not to compete in the race.

Despite widespread discontent

over Venezuela’s economic collapse, most opposition parties decided to boycott the election after officials blocked their most popular leaders from competing against Maduro.

Maduro also accused the Trump administration, which toughened financial sanctions on his government Monday, of seeking to escalate “aggressions” against the Venezuelan

people. U.S. officials have also said the administration might consider imposing oil sanctions on Venezuela.

Robinson was traveling in Venezuela’s western state of Merida when he learned through social media of Maduro’s order, according to a local radio broadcast of him speaking at an event.

Robinson said he and his deputy “strongly reject the accusations.”

“This is my first visit but it won’t be my last visit to Merida or to Venezuela,” he said.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert in Washington echoed Robinson’s words during a briefing with reporters, saying that U.S. officials consider them “false allegations.”

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The New York Stock Exchange for the first time in its 226-year history will be led by a woman. Stacey Cunningham, who started as a floor clerk on the NYSE trading floor, will become the 67th president of the Big Board on Friday. That means that two of the world’s most well-known exchanges will be led by women. Adena Friedman became CEO of Nasdaq in early 2017. (AP)

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND | Martin Hibbertt, who suffered life-changing injuries in the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack, reads messages left on a “Tree of Hope” in St Ann’s Square in Manchester, England.

A memorial service was held at Manchester Cathedral on Tuesday to mark one year since the May 22 attack.

Twenty-two people were killed when a man blew himself up as fans were leaving an Ariana Grande concert.

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Amazon has been essentially giving away facial recognition tools to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando, according to documents obtained

by American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, paving the way for a rollout of technology that is causing concern among civil rights groups.

Amazon is providing the technology, known as Rekognition, as well as consulting services, according to the documents, which the ACLU obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

A coalition of civil rights groups, in a letter released Tuesday, called on Amazon to stop selling the program to law enforcement because it could lead to the expansion of surveillance of vulnerable communities. (Amazon founder Jeffrey P. Bezos owns Express.)

An Amazon spokeswoman did not directly address the concerns of civil rights groups, but said the technology has many useful purposes, including finding abducted people.

Privacy advocates note that in an era in which everyone has a camera on their phone, cities have put cameras at traffic lights and other public infrastructure, and police are wearing body cameras, the opportunity to have one’s photograph taken, identified and stored in perpetuity has grown immensely.

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An Australian archbishop on Tuesday became the most senior Roman Catholic cleric convicted of covering up child sex abuse in a test case that holds to account church hierarchy that kept silent in the face of pedophilia. Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson, 67, had pleaded not guilty to concealing a serious crime committed by another person — the sexual abuse of children by pedophile priest James Fletcher in the 1970s. The conviction is another step toward holding the church accountable for global abuse that has also engulfed Pope Francis’ financial minister, Australian Cardinal George Pell. (AP)

Two national advocacy groups have alleged sexual harassment against McDonald’s on behalf of 10 women who have worked at the fast food giant. The workers alleged groping, propositions for sex, indecent exposure and lewd comments by supervisors. The legal effort was organized by Fight for $15, which campaigns to raise pay for low-wage workers. The legal costs are covered by the TIMES UP Legal Defense Fund, which provides attorneys for women who cannot afford to bring cases. McDonald’s spokeswoman Terri Hickey said there is “no place for harassment and discrimination of any kind” at the company. (AP)

Accusing Israel of systematic crimes, including apartheid in the occupied territories, Palestinians on Tuesday urged the International Criminal Court to open an investigation that could ultimately lead to charges against Israeli leaders.

Israel immediately slammed the Palestinian move as “legally invalid.”

The referral seeks an investigation into Israeli policies in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip since Palestinians accepted the ICC’s jurisdiction in 2014, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki told reporters. Although Israel is not an ICC member, its citizens can be charged by the court. (AP)

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Small-town tragedies Nine of 10 deadliest school shootings were in towns with fewer than 75K residents At least 10 dead in India from rare Nipah virus

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SCHOOL SAFETY If you want to know where mass school shootings are most likely to occur, look no farther than smalltown and suburban America.

The massacre that killed 10 people at a high school in Texas last week was just the latest to happen in a small or suburban city. Of the 10 deadliest school shootings in the U.S., all but one took place in a town with fewer than 75,000 residents, and the vast majority of them were in cities with fewer than 50,000 people.

These are seemingly idyllic places to grow up: low crime rates, good schools and a sense of community where everyone seems to know your name. And it’s exactly those attributes, experts say, that are why small rural and suburban towns are a breeding ground for the next school shooter.

“Ironically, it’s people in small towns and suburbia who think it can’t happen here. And that is exactly the type of place where it does happen,” said Peter Langman, a psychologist who has been studying school shootings for years. “People tend to think of violence associated with cities, not violence associated with small-town America, but this type of violence is the one associated with small-town America.”

Experts say the phenomenon is due to a variety of factors that include easy access to guns and the copycat effect of disturbed suburban and small-town teenagers emulating each other. It’s also blamed on the pressures of living in small towns that make it harder for disgruntled teenagers to adjust.

“In small-town America, it’s said everybody knows everybody, and that’s well and good except when you don’t want everybody to know what’s going on with you,” said James Alan

Mourners pray Tuesday at a memorial in front of Santa Fe High School in Texas, where 10 people were killed Friday.

Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who has been studying mass shootings for decades.

“If things are going downhill for you, you did something wrong or someone did something wrong to you and some girl dumps you, everybody knows. So it’s much harder to get away from it.”

Parkland, Fla., where authorities say a former student in February gunned down 17 people, had just recently been voted the safest town in Florida. Newtown, Conn., where a shooting in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School took the lives of 20 children and six adults, is a classic New England town, seemingly a world away from the crime and problems of nearby Bridgeport, one of that state’s largest cities.

The site of the Columbine High School tragedy was a Denver suburb; the Virginia Tech massacre happened in a college town of about 40,000 people. The shooting last week took place in

‘Catch them early’ Some school security and psychology experts say school designs and talk of arming teachers is a simplistic approach that doesn’t get at the heart of preventing shootings. While students often have a sense that a classmate might be planning an attack or know that someone is troubled, they might be more hesitant in smaller towns to tell anyone about it, said Peter Langman, director of schoolshooters.info. “The best prevention is to catch them early before they show up with a gun rather than trying to make it hard for them once they’re already at the building with a gun,” he said. (AP)

a town of 13,000 people about 40 minutes southeast of Houston.

The prevalence of these mass shootings in smaller cities stands in contrast to the situation in big cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. They have strict gun

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laws and their own problems with street gun violence, but it’s rare that a mass shooting has been carried out in one of their schools.

In the 1980s and ’90s, urban districts sought to make schools safer from drug- and gang-related violence, taking such steps as installing metal detectors at entrances.

That is exactly what pro-gun Republicans and the National Rifle Association have been proposing in the wake of recent massacres.

Fox also said it’s hard to overlook the issue of copycats — and how much that can determine the types of locations where school shootings occur.

Fox said, “They’re all white male teenagers in small towns or rural areas because they identify the other white male teenagers in small towns or rural areas.

Whereas a black kid in the Bronx or the streets of Chicago, that’s not his world. He’s got totally different issues he’s dealing with.”

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HEALTH The nurse, with two young children and a husband working overseas, scrawled the words in blue pen as she lay dying in an Indian hospital isolation ward, sick with a rare and deadly virus.

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“Take care of our children,” wrote Puthusheri, who was infected with Nipah virus while caring for sick patients.

She died Monday.

At least 10 people have died of Nipah since an outbreak began earlier this month in Kerala, health officials say, and two more people are in critical condition. There is no vaccine for the virus, which can cause raging fevers, convulsions and vomiting, and kills up to 75 percent of people who come down with it. The only treatment is supportive care to keep patients comfortable.

At least eight people who have had contact with the sick are being kept in isolation in their homes so their conditions can be monitored, officials say.

Nipah can be spread by fruit bats, pigs and through humanto-human contact. Officials suspect the Kerala outbreak may have begun with bats. Nipah was first identified during a late 1990s outbreak in Malaysia.

Later outbreaks have occurred in Bangladesh and India. (AP)

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Trump hints at delaying summit POLITICS President Trump suggested Tuesday that a planned historic meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un could be delayed. He said, “There’s a very substantial chance that it won’t work out” for June 12.

Trump raised the possibility that the meeting could be pushed back during a White House meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in aimed at coordinating strategy as concerns mounted over ensuring a successful outcome for the North Korea summit.

In comments reflecting recent setbacks in efforts to bring about

EVAN VUCCI (AP)

President: ‘Substantial chance’ meeting with Kim will be postponed

South Korean President Moon Jae-in discussed a planned North KoreaU.S. summit with President Trump on Tuesday at the White House.

reconciliation between the two Koreas, Trump told reporters: “If it doesn’t happen, maybe it happens later.” The North pulled out of planned peace talks with the South last week, objecting to long-scheduled joint military exercises between U.S. and Republic of Korea forces. And the North threatened to abandon the planned Trump-Kim meeting

over U.S. insistence on denuclearizing the peninsula, issuing a harshly worded missive that the White House dismissed as a negotiating ploy.

“There are certain conditions that we want,” Trump said Tuesday. He added if they aren’t met, “we won’t have the meeting.” He declined to elaborate on those conditions.

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A win tonight would grant Alex Ovechkin, left, his first Stanley Cup Final appearance.

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In postseason full of breakthroughs and setbacks, Caps savor opportunity in Game 7 NHL PLAYOFFS For Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals will be both familiar and foreign territory.

When the Capitals face the Lightning tonight, Ovechkin and Backstrom will be skating in their 11th career Game 7 together — the most by any two teammates in NHL history.

But in their first 10 winnertake-all matchups, a berth in the Stanley Cup Final was never at stake. That changes tonight. “[This] is the biggest probably game in my life and in this team, this organization,” Ovechkin said Tuesday.

Game 7s have not always been kind to the Capitals, who are 3-7 with Ovechkin and Backstrom in the lineup. But in a playoff run in which Washington has rebuffed adversity and exorcised some demons already, it’s fitting that a Game 7 decides the team’s fate.

The Capitals have maintained throughout the season that they

are a more resilient bunch than in years past. They overcame the loss of six regulars from last year’s Presidents’ Trophy- winning lineup to capture a third consecutive division title.

“For being a division winner, we had to claw our way most of the season,” defenseman John Carlson said. “I think we can draw from that.”

The Capitals overcame a 2-0 series deficit in the first round against Columbus. They then eliminated the Penguins in Game 6 in Pittsburgh despite having to use five rookies because Backstrom and Andre Burakovsky were injured and Tom Wilson was suspended.

“We’re pretty comfortable in the uncomfortable situations, which is a great characteristic of our group,” said goaltender Braden Holtby, who is 2-4 in Game 7s. “Now is when you use all that past adversity and past challenges of overcoming it to your advantage.”

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Washington’s 3-0 win in Game 6 on Monday was another example. Facing elimination on home ice, the Capitals brought energy and physicality from the start.

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Monday with bone-crunching hits on Yanni Gourde and Braydon Coburn. In his 100th game of the season, Ovechkin was flying.

“He had a huge game,” forward Devante Smith-Pelly said. “Guys on the bench definitely were feeding off the way he was playing.”

The Capitals finished Game 6 with 39 hits to Tampa Bay’s 19.

“That’s probably one area where we have an edge is the size and physical play,” said defenseman Brooks Orpik, who had a game-high six hits. “Over the course of a seven-game series, it’s something we talked about.

When we get opportunities, don’t run out of position, but try to wear them down when you can.”

The Capitals are confident that a gradual investment in physical play throughout the series will have a cumulative impact.

“That’s definitely the goal,” said Orpik, the only Stanley Cup champion on the Capitals’ roster. “You hope that it wears them down.” BEN RABY (FOR EXPRESS)

JONATHAN NEWTON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Confident in Game 7 One game stands between the Capitals and their first Stanley Cup Final appearance in 20 years. The playoff performance of these three players should give them a confidence boost. GABE HIATT (EXPRESS)

3 Brooks Orpik The 37-year-old defenseman leads all players in the postseason in plus-minus (plus-14) and has three assists, nearly a third of his regular-season total.

2 Braden Holtby The goalie’s save percentage dipped to .844 as he allowed 10 goals in three losses to Tampa Bay, but he snared 24 saves Monday for his first shutout since April 2017.

1 Evgeny Kuznetsov The Russian is poised to grab the scoring torch from Alex Ovechkin — Kuznetsov boasts the most points in the playoffs (23) and is tied with Ovi for the Caps’ goal lead (11).

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Graybeards key as Cavs rally from 2-game hole

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NBA PLAYOFFS After making yet another record-setting night look routine, LeBron James baby-talked with his 3-year-old on FaceTime.

“You’re having noodles again?”

James cooed into his phone.

The thought of pasta for dinner could not have been more exciting than a home win Monday in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals, when James surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA’s all-time postseason leader in field goals. But, as dads do, James raised his baritone a few octaves and talked noodles.

As James — who scored 44 points in Cleveland’s 111-102 win over Boston — spoke with his daughter, Kyle Korver shared the secret to blocking shots against a player 16 years his junior.

Nearby, George Hill pulled on his sweats — not a designer suit — because at his age, comfort is a high priority.

Once down 2-0 in their series with the young Celtics, the Cavaliers have brandished experience as their best asset to tie the series heading into Game 5 tonight.

Though Boston finished plusseven in the last three quarters, the Cavaliers opened the game strong and built a 19-point lead by the second quarter. The veterans

TONY DEJAK (AP)

Vets support LeBron to tie Eastern finals with two home wins

Kevin Love, left, is part of an experienced core stepping up for Cleveland.

never let the lead crumble.

Korver, 37, is two years older than Cleveland’s general manager, yet he scored 14 points off the bench and blocked 21-yearold Jaylen Brown. Twice.

Kevin Love, who turns 30 in September and has gray sprinkled in his dark hair, grabbed 11 rebounds and put on a clinic on outlet passes.

Hill, a recent college grad at 32, was cunning over 38 minutes, finishing with 13 points, three assists and two steals.

And of course, there was James, 33, still physically and mentally dominant in his 15th season.

Cleveland started the season as the oldest team in the NBA with an average age of 30. By the trade deadline, the team brought in 20-somethings Jordan Clarkson, Rodney Hood and Larry Nance Jr., along with Hill.

The three younger players played a combined 14 minutes Monday.

To advance to the NBA Finals, the Cavaliers will need to beat the Celtics in Boston at least once and potentially twice. Boston is 9-0 at home in these playoffs. But with an experienced group led

by James, Cleveland has given itself a chance. CANDACE BUCKNER

Rookie running back Derrius Guice had some time to kill Monday, a day before the Redskins were to begin a short week of organized team activities, so he decided to connect at the movies with his growing legion of fans.

Guice wrote on Twitter and Instagram that he was headed to the 8 p.m. showing of “Avengers: Infinity War” at Alamo Drafthouse in Ashburn.

He bought 50 tickets and encouraged fans to meet him there. Redskins fan Matthew Ryan reported that Guice posed for photos, signed autographs and paid for everyone’s concessions. (TWP)

(THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Favre: I went to rehab three times

Retired quarterback Brett Favre told Sports Illustrated in a Peter King column published this week that he made three trips to rehabilitation centers during his Hall of Fame career to fight his dependence on painkillers and alcohol. It had been reported previously that Favre entered a facility in 1996 after abusing Vicodin during his MVP season in 1995. He told SI he had gone once before that for pills, and once in 1998 “strictly for drinking.” (AP) NFL owners unanimously approve $2.2B sale of Panthers to David Tepper

Cheerleaders accuse Texans of mistreatment NFL Three former Houston Texans cheerleaders filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against the team and its director of cheerleading, alleging officials forced them to work extra hours without pay, exposed them to abusive, shaming behavior by the director and failed to protect them from physical abuse from fans.

Twitter direct messages show examples of cheerleaders being pressured to lose weight, the suit said. The women were paid $7.25 per hour — minimum wage — but were required to work off the clock to keep their spots on the team, according to the suit.

Amy Palcic, the Texans’ vice president of communications, said: “We are proud of the cheerleader program and have had hundreds of women participate and enjoy their experience while making a positive impact in the local community. We are constantly evaluating our procedures and will continue to make adjustments as needed to make the program enjoyable for everyone.”

The Texans are the latest NFL team in recent months to face a controversy over treatment of cheerleaders, joining New Orleans, Miami and Washington.

The Houston cheerleaders say they were “physically assaulted by fans” when they were sent into the stands during games without security. The team added security after the women complained, a source familiar with the Texans’ response said. (TWP)

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CONDO SPOTLIGHT

Updated laws in D.C. and Md. mean upfront insurance costs aren’t a ‘common expense’ REAL ESTATE Many condominium projects in the Washington area are old, having been converted from previous rental apartment buildings. Pipes periodically break or leak, often causing thousands of dollars in damage. Who pays, the unit owner or the association?

Every condominium association has insurance coverage, typically called the “master policy.” This is in addition to the policy every owner in this area must carry for their own unit, called an HO-6 policy.

When damage occurs, the master policy usually covers certain repair costs. But every insurance policy has a deductible — an amount that must be paid upfront or deducted from the insurance proceeds. This can range from $5,000 to $25,000 or more. And until recently, the bylaws of many associations stated that the deductible is a “common expense.” In other words, it has

to be paid by the association.

Association boards do not like to pay the deductible every time there is a problem; such expenditures are typically not plugged into the annual budget, and often at the end of the year an association may have to significantly increase the monthly assessments to make up for any shortfall.

A few years ago, the Maryland legislature gave every association a significant break. It enacted what is called “strict liability.” If the cause of any damage to the condominium started from within a unit, regardless of whether there was negligence, that owner must pay the deductible up to $5,000. And the law is not limited to plumbing problems; any incident that occurs in the unit that triggers payment by the master policy is covered under that law.

Maryland lawmakers then did something highly unusual. Almost all bylaws then in existence

merely stated that “owners may want to get their own insurance coverage.” Typically, to amend association bylaws, a supermajority vote (two-thirds or even three-quarters) of all owners is required. However, since the strict liability provision would financially affect Maryland residents, a law was passed allowing associations, with only a simple majority, to amend their bylaws to require every owner to obtain the HO-6 policy. Why? Because that insurance would pay up to $4,500 of the $5,000 deductible.

Condominiums in the District were facing the same problem.

So all District associations — acting through the Community Associations Institute — supported an amendment to the D.C. condo act that essentially is identical to the one in Maryland.

In Maryland, for the association to legally collect the $5,000, the board must — on an annual basis — inform all owners of the amount of the deductible and their obligation under the law should a problem occur within their unit.

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BlocBoy JB

Making the most of their time For Playboi Carti and nd BlocBoy JB, mortality lity breeds inspiration MUSIC Like the universe itself, rap albums are expanding, only instead nstead of a Big Bang, God appeared eared over the Bronx in A.D. 1973 73 and whispered, “Get money.”

Now we’re living in the Spotify era, as rappers get paid by the stream — which means more songs, more money, more problems. Drake, Future, Migos and others have capitalized on this shift without much imagination, filling bigger containers with more scoops, making their albums feel stuffed and samey.

But here’s the good news: Rap is an art form where the tyros refuse to follow in the missteps of their heroes. And to prove it, two of the year’s best rap albums — “Die Lit” by Playboi Carti and “Simi” by BlocBoy JB, both released earlier this month — earn their length lengtth h in i thoughtful, houghtful art artful tful

and mysterious ways. These two know that making music isn’t about filling space. It’s about manipulating time.

BlocBoy JB emerges from a tradition of Memphis loudmouths.

His most exuberant rhymes always seem to fall on the wrong beat, and by heaving his curvy Tennessee drawl into such asymmetrical couplets, he sounds like he’s pounding round pegs into square holes. It’s fantastic.

BlocBoy has dreamed up a few dozen ways of killing you softly, threatening to “blow you like a flute” or “spray ’em like Febreze,” leaving enemies “six feet in some sand now.” Obviously, he’s aware of his own mortality. “Hold up, let me catch my breath,” he gasps in the middle of a beautifully jumbled verse, begging our pardon when he knows he doesn’t have to. When a rapper sounds this present, this alert, this hungry for the next moment, who wouldn’t be happy to wait?

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Each time Carti fixates on a phrase, or a word, or even a little onomatopoeic hiccup, he’s denying us the comfort of forward motion, the familiarity of crescendo, the rush of catharsis and the satisfaction of resolution.

And so his vocalizations become

like a kind of wallpaper that you can’t stop staring into.

Carti is an editor, all the way down to the ad-libs he uses to decorate the blank spaces in his music. Many of these incessant background blurts sound like “pew, pew, pew” or “whoosh, whoosh” — whispered evocations of gunfire. But with the “bang” edited out, we only hear the bullet slicing the air, the micro-moment between life and death.

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“S “Sparkle Hard,” the new album from ne Stephen Malkmus and St the Jicks, which was th released last week, is re a tight, tasteful set of asymmetrical jams. as “Cast Off” sets the “C tone, with Malkmus to sauntering in and sa ad admitting, “I need some at attention,” before a ca cascade of guitar haze en envelops the scene.

“K “Kite” is mostly a guitar co conversation, with Malkmus breaking M off on a celestial solo of for the ages. But the fo poignant “Middle America” is the best song here, a languid ramble with hooks to spare. Malkmus declares, “I will not be one of the watchers/ I will not disappear.”

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entertainment The Scottish trio colors its ominous lyrics with synth-pop rhythms ALBUM REVIEW In one of those divine twists, two very different artists are offering songs titled “God’s Plan” this year. You probably know the one

by Drake. But there’s also one by the Scottish synth-pop group CHVRCHES. It may not top the Billboard Hot 100, but it’s still a hypnotic gem.

“God’s Plan” is part of the sonically bright but thematically still

gloriously dark “Love Is Dead,” the trio’s third album that comes out Friday. Those suffocating blankets of synth from 2013’s “The Bones of What You Believe” have been hacked away, offering a lighter and, yes, more commercial sound than even their 2015 breakthrough “Every Open Eye.” But CHVRCHES have always deceived, offering 1980sinfluenced pop with depth. Lyrically, the band is at its best here, exploring man’s inhumanity to man while still making highenergy songs.

Nowhere is that more evident

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than on “Graves,” with the punchin-the-gut lyrics: “They’re leaving bodies in stairwells and washing up on the shore/ You can look away, while they’re dancing on our graves.”

The best song is the single “Miracle.” It begins with Lauren Mayberry’s airy, angelic voice before gradually taking the listener into heavier, distorted terrain.

The album ends with “Wonderland,” a crisp, poppy delight with whiplash lyrics. “We live in a wonderland,” Mayberry sings, before adding: “Like blood isn’t on our hands.” MARK KENNEDY (AP)

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Delays are inevitable, but it’s how you use them that makes the difference — and using them well depends on your ability to think outside the box.

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TUESDAY’S SOLUTION

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your emotions are near the surface today, and you may not be able to control yourself if something happens to make you angry. Use care.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You will want to steer clear of any situation you suspect has been promoted by someone who isn’t in your inner circle.

TODAY: It’s looking partly sunny and warmer with highs in the low to middle 80s. There also is the chance of an isolated shower or thundershower, especially for western to southern sections.

Moderate humidity in the morning to midday starts to dry out later in the afternoon. Partly cloudy and cooler tonight.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You’ve concocted quite a plan, and not everyone is willing to back it wholeheartedly. You may have some persuading to do.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) What works for you won’t work for everyone — but is that really a key issue? The fact is that you can do much today entirely yourself.

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1939: The Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks during a test dive off the New England coast. Thirty-two crew members and one civilian are rescued, but 26 die; the sub was later salvaged and re-commissioned as the USS Sailfish.

1984: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issues a report saying there was “very solid” evidence linking cigarette smoke to lung disease in non-smokers.

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Avril Lavigne is dating Phillip Sarofim, whom E! News identified as “the son of Texas billionaire Fayez Sarofim.” A source told the site that the singer met her new boyfriend at a dinner party, and that the two have been dating for two or three months. Lavigne was most recently in a relationship with Canadian music producer J.R. Rotem, whom she started dating last year. (EXPRESS)

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Patrick thought we’d all see it as ‘clapping back’ “Suits” star Patrick J. Adams apologized for posting an unflattering Instagram photo of a woman who told him he looked “chunky” at the royal wedding.

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