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W-I-N at any cost?

National Bee’s new normal: $200-an-hour teen spelling coaches 3

‘Skinhead City’ Stabbings in Portland bring unease to city with a racist a historyy 9

THE RACE FOR MISSILE DEFENSE

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Amid rising worries about North Korea, the U.S. takes a ‘$244 million baby step’ by successfully shooting down a mock ICBM over the Pacific 11

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Greek choreographer and dancer Katerina Soldatou performs above the Corinth Canal as part of the Greece Has Soul project in Corinth on Tuesday.

No doubt, this Aussie fisherman is going to need a bigger boat

Driver takes a wrong turn, ends up in hackneyed sitcom plot

Police are oddly not suspicious of man carrying $10,000 in a sack

An Australian fisherman said he caught a far bigger fish than he expected when a 9-foot great white shark leaped into his 15-foot boat, knocking him off his feet. Terry Selwood, 73, suffered a badly bruised arm Saturday when the airborne shark caught him with a fin. When the 440-pounder started to thrash on the deck, Selwood scrambled out of range, moving as fast as he could. “Flash Gordon wouldn’t have caught me,” he said. (AP)

A 19-year-old driver in Lincoln, Neb., took an unfortunate turn last week and got stuck in newly poured concrete in the middle of the road.

Police said he won’t be ticketed because there was a 24-foot gap in traffic cones and it wasn’t obvious that the concrete was still wet. But the city said the driver will be responsible for repairs.

The estimated cost of removing the car and fixing and repouring the concrete? $10,000. (AP)

German police said a businessman on a motorcycle lost a plastic bag stuffed with his day’s earnings while driving along the Bavarian Autobahn, sending a shower of cash across the roadway. The man was carrying about 9,000 euros ($10,000) in small bills Saturday night when he lost the bag. Police shut down a stretch of the A9 highway to help him collect the money, but some 1,500 euros were gone with the wind. (AP)

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For some, no spelling q-u-i-t PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY In the world of competitive spellers, Sylvie Lamontagne is known as a juggernaut. She placed fourth in last year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee, and ninth in 2015.

Last summer, she traveled to California and won the Spelling Bee of China’s North America Spelling Champion Challenge, a contest for kids in the U.S. and China.

Now that the 14-year-old from Denver is no longer eligible to compete in this week’s National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort in Maryland — which is televised by ESPN and often turns kids like Sylvie into momentary celebrities — she’s focusing on a new vocation: spelling bee coach.

Sylvie’s rate? $200 an hour.

Hiring coaches isn’t new. But bee aficionados say a recent surge in competition, and a tightening of rules meant to limit co-champions, has spawned a demand for younger coaches such as Sylvie: high schoolers or college kids, months or just a few years into their bee retirement, who can pass along fresh intelligence on

ANDREW HARNIK (AP)

Former competitors in Scripps spelling bee come back as coaches

Sylvie Lamontagne, competing in 2015 at age 12, now charges up to $200 an hour to coach competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

words to memorize, and how to decode bizarre words based on their language of origin.

“As the spelling bee gets more and more difficult, there are people working harder and harder every year,” Sylvie said.

“There are definitely people in the last couple years who are using coaches to get to the finals.”

Earlier this year, Brainsy, a Washington, D.C.-based software company, launched a website offering the coaching services of several recent spelling stars.

The parents of Kelly Mills, 13, a seventh-grader from West

TOUGH WORDS

‘Ninety’ The most common “How to spell” search on Google by D.C. residents, according to the search engine. Google released a list of the top ”How to spell” searches by state in honor of spelling bee week. In Virginia, it was “delicious” and in Maryland it was “special.”

For Wisconsinites, the most common “How to spell” search was “Wisconsin.” (EXPRESS)

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Virginia competing at this year’s bee, spent $110 for a half-hour session with Lamontagne.

“Originally, I thought it was kind of expensive, but for all the advice she gave, it was well worth it,” Kelly said. “She gave me a few good tips on how to spell words you’ve never heard of before based on language patterns and root words.”

So far, the service has attracted a small handful of clients, including Edith Fuller, the 6-year-old, home-schooled student from Oklahoma who is competing in this year’s bee as the youngestever contestant. She actually qualified for the bee earlier this year when she was only 5, but has since celebrated a birthday.

Paige Kimble, the National Spelling Bee’s executive director, was coached by her parents and one of her teachers — for free.

“The idea of someone going to a platform, selecting a coach and a rate, that is new,” said Kimble, the 1980 runner-up and 1981 champion. “There are people who say, ‘I’ve reached the upper echelons of this pursuit, I’ve got some disposable income … and, then there are the entrepreneurs who know it, see it and are racing to meet that need.”

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3,500-pound shark tracked off Atlantic A 16-foot-long great white shark was tracked over the holiday weekend off the Delaware coast, experts said, and has been seen recently in the waters off Virginia and Maryland.

Ocearch.org, a shark research organization, tracked the shark — which has been named Mary Lee — on Sunday within 2 miles of Cape Henlopen State Park in Lewes, Del. Mary Lee, who weighs about 3,500 pounds, was also later spotted along the Cape May, N.J., shore.

And like any popular shark these days, y , she has her own Twitter handle. (TWP)

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local Ex-Metro driver went to Iraq to join terrorist organization, feds say

ALEXANDRIA To the Kurdish peshmerga forces patrolling northern Iraq in March 2016, Mohamad Khweis looked for all the world like an Islamic State suicide bomber.

They certainly didn’t peg him as a bus driver from the wealthy suburbs of Washington, D.C. They were surprised to find out he was an American, carrying a Virginia driver’s license.

U.S. officials were surprised as well — they had no idea Khweis had left Virginia to travel to Islamic State territory.

Khweis now is on trial in federal court in Alexandria, accused

of providing material support to a terrorist organization.

Khweis, 27, is among a small number of Americans who actually made it to the Islamic State, and then fled after realizing they had made a mistake.

Khweis told Kurdish television that life in Mosul was difficult and “I found it very, very hard to live there.” He noted that there were compulsory religion classes and there was no smoking.

Khweis grew up in Northern Virginia and graduated from Edison High School in Fairfax County in 2007. According to court records, he served as a bus driver for the region’s Metro system.

In 2015, he left the U.S. for Europe. He eventually arrived in Turkey, and Islamic State

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Va. man on trial for ISIS ties

Mohamad Khweis was captured in northern Iraq in March 2016 by Kurdish peshmerga forces.

facilitators smuggled him across the Syrian border, prosecutors say.

In Raqqa, the Islamic State’s capital, prosecutors say Khweis went through a formal intake

process, in which he indicated his willingness to serve as a suicide bomber. He was then sent to live in Mosul, where he spent several weeks taking lengthy classes in Islamic law.

He spent three months in the Islamic State, and Khweis’ lawyers say he tried several times to escape. Finally, he was able to escape after an all-night hike from the Iraqi town of Tal Afar. He walked for miles before reaching a Kurdish military checkpoint.

The Kurdish captain who arrested Khweis testified at a pretrial hearing about the arrest.

“We thought he might be a suicide bomber,” the peshmerga official testified through an interpreter. “Anyone before who approached us would blow themselves up.” MATTHEW BARAKAT (AP)

Virginia rushes to meet feds’ Real ID rules

Veterans for Peace rally in D.C.

THE DISTRICT

On Friday evening, you’ll have the opportunity to see a few of our neighboring planets through the lens of 20 expensive telescopes.

That’s because D.C.-area astronomers are willing to share, as they do every year at the Astronomy Night on the Mall. The event is free Friday from 6 to 11 p.m. All you have to do is show up northeast of the Washington Monument. (TWP)

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THE DISTRICT | About 30 members of Veterans for Peace rally Tuesday in front of the Lincoln Memorial in opposition to President Donald Trump’s military policies. After the rally, the protesters marched to the White House, where they called for reductions in the military budget and an end to war.

Two charged in death of man attacked Sunday outside his Silver Spring hotel

VIRGINIA The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles will begin issuing a new driver’s license late next year to bring the state in compliance with a sweeping federal law that tightens security requirements for stateissued identification.

Virginia is one of several states scrambling to comply with the controversial 2005 domestic security program known as the Real ID Act, which was designed to help prevent terrorist attacks and reduce the number of licenses granted to undocumented immigrants.

The Department of Homeland Security has given Virginia until June 6 to comply with the act.

But Virginia officials say the state has been granted an extension through October and anticipate the federal government will give them extra time to fully implement the needed changes.

“We don’t expect this to have any impact on Virginians because we are working toward compliance and in October of 2018, they will be able to get the Real ID compliance ID,” DMV spokeswoman Brandy Brubaker said.

Under the federal law, states are required to issue moresecure licenses by requiring applicants to provide proof of identity and legal U.S. residency.

States also must use counterfeitresistant security features on the IDs. Maryland and the District are already in compliance.

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Woman sentenced after luring man to his murder

Medical examiner: Officer died of gunshot to head

Judge dismisses most of suit against Purple Line

A woman who lured a man to a Maryland park where he was fatally stabbed has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. A Montgomery County judge Tuesday sentenced Vanesa Alvarado, 20, to life with all but 40 years suspended in the slaying of Cristian VillagranMorales, 18, at a Gaithersburg park last year. Prosecutors say Alvarado promised Villagran-Morales sex, but instead she led him to MS-13 gang members. Four others were charged in the murder. (AP)

A Virginia State Police special agent who was shot at a public housing complex died of a gunshot wound to the head, the state medical examiner said Tuesday. Travis Ball of Richmond faces malicious wounding and firearm charges in connection with Friday night’s shooting of Special Agent Michael Walter, who died Saturday. Ball, 27, was denied bond Tuesday and appointed a public defender, who can request a bond hearing at a later date. (AP)

A federal judge Tuesday dismissed most of a lawsuit seeking to block construction of a light-rail Purple Line in Maryland, saying the project’s environmental review did not violate federal protections on endangered species and migratory birds. The Maryland Attorney General’s office said Tuesday the state plans to appeal one issue remaining from the lawsuit — a court-ordered redo of the Purple Line’s ridership projections to account for Metro’s decline. (TWP)

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NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY PENNSYLVANIA AND POTOMAC AVENUES SE INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT RELEASED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), with the National Park Service (NPS) and the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) as cooperating agencies, have released for public comment the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Pennsylvania Avenue SE and Potomac Avenue SE Intersection Improvement Project.

The EA was prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, for the reconstruction of the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Potomac Avenue SE and 14th Street SE. The EA evaluates the proposed improvements and documents alternatives considered, their potential impacts and costs, and strategies to mitigate them.

The complete EA is available for public download (www.anacostiawaterfront.org/Penn-Potomac) and for public review at: District Department of Transportation 55 M Street, SE 4th Floor Washington, DC 20003

Anacostia Library 1800 Good Hope Road SE Washington, DC 20020

Southeast Library 403 7th Street SE Washington, DC 20003

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The Silver Spring Transit Center opened in 2015 — 5 years behind schedule.

County settles transit center suit Silver Spring hub was completed 5 years late, $50 million over budget

MONTGOMERY COUNTY Montgomery County announced a settlement Tuesday in its lawsuit against builders and designers of the Silver Spring Transit Center, which in 2015 opened five years late and $50 million over budget.

The case had reached the midpoint of a scheduled 30-day jury trial Tuesday afternoon when the county announced that it had settled the matter for $25 million.

“I am pleased that the County has settled the lawsuit we brought to recover taxpayer costs associated with the repair and remediation of the Silver Spring Transit Center,” County Executive Isiah Leggett said in a statement. “This is very much in the public interest. The $25 million payment to the County will cover 90 percent of the hard costs we incurred to

deliver a safe and durable Silver Spring Transit Center.”

The $25 million is considerably short of the $67 million ($47 million for costs and $20 million in damages) the county sought from designer Parsons Brinckerhoff, general contractor Foulger-Pratt and inspection firm Robert Balter. The county contended that a faulty design led to cracks in concrete and other deficiencies in the three-story transportation hub and that the companies failed to properly supervise construction and inspection.

Leggett repeatedly promised that he intended to recover all extra costs incurred by taxpayers in building the hub. In an interview Tuesday, he acknowledged that it was less than the county wanted, but that it brought an end to costly litigation that would likely have been tied up in appeals for years.

“Despite what I said earlier, I thought this was the most reasonable avenue,” Leggett said.

BILL TURQUE (THE WASHINGTON POST)

A public meeting will be held Thursday, June 1 (6:30 pm - 8:30 pm; Hill Center, Abraham Lincoln Hall, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20003).

The public comment period will remain open through Friday, June 30.

All comments can be submitted to DDOT via email (ddot.awi@dc.gov), the project website (www.anacostiawaterfront.org/Penn-Potomac), or post mail: Mr. Ravindra Ganvir, P.E. Deputy Chief Engineer District Department of Transportation Infrastructure Project Management Division 55 M Street, SE, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20003 Phone: (202) 671-4689 If you need special accommodations for the public meeting, please contact Cesar Barreto at (202) 671-2829 or Cesar.Barreto@dc.gov five days in advance of the meeting. If you need language assistance services (translation or interpretation), please contact Karen Randolph at (202) 671-2620 or Karen.Randolph@dc.gov five days in advance of the meeting. These services will be provided free of charge.

UNEMPLOYMENT IN LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA.

3.2%

The unemployment rate in Loudoun County, Va., according to Board of Supervisors Chair Phyllis J. Randall, D-at large, in her annual State of the County presentation. She also said Loudoun’s economic development push has resulted in more than $3 billion in commercial investment from more than 80 companies, and the addition or retention of 2,500 jobs. (TWP) Three shootings reported in 3-hour span on Memorial Day in D.C.

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Unease about racism grows after stabbings

MIDDLETOWN, PA.

Three Mile Island owner threatens to close plant Three Mile Island’s owner, Exelon Corp., said Tuesday that the plant that was the site of a terrifying partial nuclear meltdown in 1979 will close in 2019 unless the state of Pennsylvania comes to its financial rescue. The plant, along with other U.S. nuclear power installations, has struggled to compete in an electricity market booming with cheap gas. (AP)

Two killings in Portland add to city’s history of white supremacy TRANSPARENT SKIN

You can tell these frogs have heart

June 10 that targets Sharia law.

The tumult caps a series of unsettling events in recent months in and around Portland.

An Iranian refugee found his home painted with racist graffiti and death threats, and prosecutors charged a man with a hate crime after police said he chased down a black teen with his car and fatally struck him.

For years, Portland was the home base for Volksfront, a nowdefunct white separatist organization, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“There have been skinheads in that region forever,” a spokeswoman for the center said. “Portland police have a robust unit against white supremacists.”

Scientists in the Amazon region of Ecuador have discovered a new species of glass frog whose transparent skin on its chest and belly completely exposes its heart as well as other organs. In other previously known glass frog species that are also found in the neotropics, the heart isn’t fully visible.

The discovery of the new species is described in the journal ZooKeys, the American Association for the Advancement of Science announced Monday. The new species (Hyalinobatrachium yaku) also is distinguishable by the large, dark green spots on its head and body. But these frogs still are hard to spot in the wild, as they measure less than an inch.

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PORTLAND, ORE. Unease about white supremacist activity in Portland deepened after the fatal stabbings of two men who tried to shield young women from an anti-Muslim tirade, and some people worry that the famously tolerant community could see a resurgence of the hostilities that once earned it the nickname “Skinhead City.”

The attack aboard a light-rail train happened Friday, the first day of Ramadan, the holiest time of the year for Muslims. Authorities say Jeremy Joseph Christian started verbally abusing two young women, including one wearing a hijab. When three other men on the train intervened, police say, Christian attacked them, killing two and wounding one.

Christian, 35, was arraigned in court Tuesday on two counts of aggravated murder and other charges. He made repeated outbursts in his first court appearance, shouting, “You call it terrorism. I call it patriotism.”

The deaths stunned the city, but also underscored nervousness about recent events, including a series of hate crimes and contentious public rallies.

The Pacific Northwest has a history of white supremacy and other racist activities. Many of the early settlers to Oregon were

A wreath covered with messages hangs at a memorial in Portland, Ore.

from Southern states and brought with them negative attitudes about blacks, said Karen Gibson, a professor of urban studies at Portland State University. “The idea that Portland is so liberal supersedes this dark, hidden secret about racism,” she added.

Only about 6 percent of the Portland population is black, while more than 70 percent is nonHispanic white, statistics show.

O n Mond ay, M ayor Ted Wheeler asked the federal government to revoke a permit it issued for a June 4 “Trump Free Speech Rally” in Portland’s downtown, saying he fears it could further inflame tensions. Several counter-protests are planned.

Wheeler has also asked the federal government to cancel a rally

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Americans take a little more vacation

Americans seem to finally be using a little more vacation time. A report by Project: Time Off, which surveyed 7,331 workers this winter, found that average vacation use in 2016 climbed to 16.8 days per worker, compared to 16.2 in 2015. The half-day increase was the most seen since vacation usage began a rapid decline in 2000, the report said. U.S. workers are still rolling over or forfeiting lots of vacation time; the average time accrued rose by almost a day, to 22.6. (EXPRESS) N.J. town to pay Muslim group $3.25M to settle lawsuit over its denial of a mosque permit

MARAWI, PHILIPPINES

Priest says he and 200 others are held hostage A Catholic priest who was taken hostage by militants linked to the Islamic State said he’s being held alongside 200 other captives, including children, in a besieged Philippine city. In a video taken under duress by militants, Father Teresito Suganob said his captors wanted the military to withdraw its forces from Marawi, where the militants still hold some territory after a week of gunbattles. (AP) TECHNOLOGY

Uber fires star engineer at center of legal fight Uber has fired the star engineer at the center of its high-stakes legal fight over driverless cars.

Anthony Levandowski, 37, was given notice on Friday after he failed to comply with a judge’s request that he turn over thousands of documents that he is accused of stealing from Google’s parent company, where he had worked as an engineer.

Google is also working on driverless cars. (TWP) SRI LANKA

Tens of thousands still marooned by flooding Some 80,000 people marooned by severe flooding and mudslides in Sri Lanka remained in relief camps Tuesday, as aid teams bolstered by Indian navy divers and doctors pushed forward with rescue efforts. At least 194 people have been killed and nearly 100 are missing following rains that began Friday. (AP)

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Reductions in civil rights protections POLITICS The Trump administration is planning to disband the Labor Department division that has policed discrimination among federal contractors for four decades, according to the White House’s newly proposed budget, part of wider efforts to rein in government programs that promote civil rights.

As outlined in Labor’s fiscal 2018 plan, the move would fold the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, now home to 600 employees, into another government agency in the name of cost-cutting.

The proposal comes at a time when the Trump administration is reducing the role of the federal government in fighting discrimination by cutting budgets, dissolving programs and appointing officials unsympathetic to previous practices.

The new leadership at the Environmental Protection Agency, for instance, has proposed eliminating its environmental justice program, which addresses pollution that poses health threats

specifically concentrated in minority communities.

Under the president’s proposed budget, the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights — which has investigated thousands of complaints of discrimination in school districts and set new standards for how colleges should respond to allegations of sexual assault and harassment — would also see significant staffing cuts.

Administration officials acknowledge in budget documents that the civil rights office will have to scale back the number of investigations it conducts.

And the administration has reversed several steps taken under former President Obama to address LGBT concerns. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has revoked the guidance to implement a rule ensuring that transgender people can stay at sex-segregated shelters of their choice.

The efforts to reduce the federal profile on civil rights reflects the consensus view within the Trump administration that Obama officials exceeded their authority in policing discrimination on the state and local level.

Administration officials made clear in the initial weeks

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Ex-Panamanian dictator Noriega dies in prison SEAN GALLUP (GETTY IMAGES)

Trump administration uses budget to blunt Obama-era initiatives

The Trump administration has taken its own approach to civil rights.

“They can call it a course correction, but ... it’s a rollback of civil rights across the board.”

VANITA GUPTA, who was the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division for part of the Obama administration

of Trump’s presidency that they would break with the civil rights policies of Obama. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a review of agreements to reform police departments, and the Justice Department stopped challenging a controversial Texas voter identification law. The Education Department withdrew federal guidance allowing transgender students to use school bathrooms corresponding to

their gender identity.

Administration officials said civil rights remain a priority.

“The Trump administration has an unwavering commitment to the civil rights of all Americans,” White House spokeswoman Kelly Love said.

The Labor Department budget proposal says that folding its compliance office into the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will reduce operational redundancies.

However, unlike like the EEOC, which investigates complaints it receives, the compliance office audits contractors systematically and verifies that they promote equal opportunity. Under Obama, officials in the compliance office often conducted full-scale audits of companies, rather than carrying out more limited reviews.

J U L I E T EI L P ER I N, EM M A B R O W N A N D DARRYL FEARS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

AMAZON MARKET VALUE

The approximate market value of internet giant Amazon after its stock price surpassed the $1,000 mark for the first time Tuesday. Its new value is double that of the world’s biggest traditional retailer, Wal-Mart, and more than 15 times the size of Target. A $1,000 investment on Amazon’s first day of trading in 1997 would be worth more than $500,000 today. Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’ 17 percent stake in Amazon was worth about $80.3 billion Tuesday, TheStreet reported. (Bezos also owns Express.) (AP) Ex-national security adviser Flynn to provide some documents under subpoena to Senate intel panel

1934-2017 Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, a onetime U.S. ally who was ousted by an American invasion in 1989, died in prison late Monday at 83.

Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela wrote on his Twitter account that “the death of Manuel A. Noriega closes a chapter in our history.” Ezra Angel, a lawyer for Noriega, said Tuesday there was no official word on what caused his death.

Noriega ruled with an iron fist, ordering the deaths of those who opposed him and maintaining a murky, close and conflictive relationship with the U.S. After his downfall, Noriega served a 17-year drug sentence in the U.S., and then was sent to face charges in France.

He spent all but the last few months of his final years in a Panamanian prison for murder of political opponents during his 1983-89 regime.

Noriega was once considered a valued CIA asset and was paid millions of dollars for assistance to the U.S. throughout Latin America, including acting as a liaison to Cuba’s Fidel Castro.

Washington ultimately soured on him, especially after a top political opponent was killed in 1985 and Noriega appeared to join forces with drug traffickers.

The beginning of his downfall came in 1988, when federal grand juries in Miami and Tampa, Fla., indicted Noriega on drug-trafficking charges. JUAN ZAMORANO AND KATHIA MARTINEZ (AP)

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Success for defense test NATIONAL SECURITY The Pentagon scored an important success Tuesday in a test of its oft-criticized missile defense program, destroying a mock warhead over the Pacific Ocean with an interceptor that is key to protecting U.S. territory from a North Korean attack.

Vice Adm. Jim Syring, director of the Pentagon agency in charge of developing the missile defense system, called the test result “an incredible accomplishment” and a critical milestone for a program hampered by setbacks.

“This test demonstrates that we have a capable, credible deterrent against a very real threat,” Syring said in a statement.

Despite the success, the $244 million test didn’t confirm that under wartime conditions the U.S. could intercept an intercontinental-range missile fired

by North Korea. Pyongyang is understood to be moving closer to the capability of putting a nuclear warhead on such an ICBM and could develop decoys sophisticated enough to trick an interceptor into missing the real warhead.

Syring’s agency sounded a note of caution.

“Initial indications are that the test met its primary objective, but program officials will continue to evaluate system performance based upon telemetry and other data obtained during the test,” his statement said.

Philip E. Coyle, a former head of the Pentagon’s test and evaluation office and a senior fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said Tuesday’s outcome was a significant success for a test that was three

Spectators in Lompoc, Calif., watch an interceptor missile launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

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U.S. makes progress on system meant to intercept nuclear attack

Missile test The U.S. military attempted to intercept an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile in a test meant to simulate a North Korean attack against the U.S. 1. Ballistic missile fired from test site in the Marshall Islands.

2. Interceptor launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California.

3. Interceptor released a “kill vehicle” that steered toward the missile, obliterating the target by sheer force of impact.

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years in preparation, but he noted that it was only the second success in the past five intercept attempts since 2010.

“In several ways, this test was a $244 million baby step, a

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baby step that took three years,” Coyle said.

The most recent intercept test, in June 2014, was successful, but the longer track record is spotty.

Since the system was declared

ready for potential combat use in 2004, only four of nine intercept attempts have been successful.

The Pentagon is still incorporating engineering upgrades to its missile interceptor, which has yet to be fully tested in realistic conditions.

North Korea’s accelerating missile development has complicated Pentagon calculations, most recently by incorporating solid-fuel technology into its rockets. The step would mean even less launch warning time for the United States. Liquid fuel is less stable and rockets using it have to be fueled in the field, a process that takes longer and can be detected by satellites.

On Monday, North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile that landed in Japan’s maritime economic zone.

The target in Tuesday’s test was a custom-made missile meant to simulate an ICBM, meaning it flew faster than missiles used in previous intercept tests, according to Christopher Johnson, the Missile Defense Agency’s spokesman. But it was not a mock-up of an actual North Korean ICBM, and details of its exact capabilities weren’t made public.

The process used in Tuesday’s test is officially known as the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system. The Pentagon likens the defensive tactic to hitting a bullet with a bullet.

With congressional support, the Pentagon is increasing by the end of this year the number of deployed interceptors, based in California and Alaska, to 44 from the current total of 36.

While Tuesday’s test wasn’t designed with the expectation of an imminent North Korean missile threat, the military wants progress toward the stated goal of being able to shoot down a small number of ICBMs targeting the United States. ROBERT BURNS (AP)

White House communications director resigns POLITICS Mike Dubke has resigned as White House communications director, in the first of what could be a series of changes to President Trump’s senior staff amid the growing Russia scandal.

Dubke, who served in the post for three months, tendered his resignation May 18. He offered to stay on to help manage communications in Washington during Trump’s foreign trip, and the president accepted. Dubke’s last day on the job was not known as of Express’ deadline.

In an email to friends and associates Tuesday, Dubke wrote: “It has been my great honor to serve President Trump and this administration. It has also been my distinct pleasure to work side-by-side, day-by-day with the staff of the communications and press departments.”

Dubke, 47, who has worked closely with White House press secretary Sean Spicer, served as a behind-the-scenes player helping to manage communications strategy and responses to crises such as the firing of James Comey as FBI director, as well as rollout plans for policy and other initiatives.

The communications operation — and Dubke and Spicer specifically — have come under sharp criticism from Trump and many senior officials in the West Wing, who believe the president has been poorly served by his staff, in particular in the aftermath of the Comey firing. PHILIP RUCKER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Officer who shot Rice fired CLEVELAND The police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice was fired Tuesday for failing to disclose that he had been forced out of another department before Cleveland hired him, while his partner was suspended for driving too close to the 12-year-old seconds before the boy was killed.

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams announced the

discipline against officers Timothy Loehmann, who shot Rice, and Frank Garmback, who was driving the cruiser.

Rice, who was black, was shot outside a recreation center in November 2014 as he held a pellet gun that the white officers mistook for a real firearm. The killing became part of a national outcry about police violence against black boys and men. The officers weren’t charged criminally, but Rice’s mother settled a federal civil rights lawsuit with the city for $6 million.

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announced in December 2015 that Loehmann and Garmback wouldn’t be indicted. After that, Williams ordered a committee to determine whether the officers violated department rules.

Stephen Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolman’s Association, called Loehmann’s firing a “joke,” saying that officers haven’t been fired in the past over job applications.

Rice’s mother, Samaria Rice, said she was relieved Loehmann was fired, but that Garmback also should have been fired for driving so close to her son. DAKE KANG (AP)

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Harper gets 4-game ban Nationals star hit with suspension after charging the mound in San Francisco brawl MLB Major League Baseball on Tuesday suspended Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper four games and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in the fight that marred Monday afternoon’s 3-0 win in San Francisco.

Giants reliever Hunter Strickland, who hit him with a pitch to set off the brawl, will be suspended for six games.

Both players will appeal the decision, meaning both were active for Tuesday night’s game, which ended after Express’ deadline.

The four games Harper was suspended, assuming they stand on appeal, represent a moderate punishment relative to those doled out for similar fighting incidents.

According to Yahoo, the longest suspension given for fighting since 2000 is 10 games (Michael Barrett, 2006). Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor received an eight-game suspension after he landed a punch against Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista last season.

In other words, MLB did not come down particularly harshly on Harper, though it did not take it easy, either.

That Strickland got more games than Harper will please the Nationals, who were outspoken and adamant that Strickland should receive a harsher penalty.

Strickland’s long-held grudge stemming from two booming home runs Harper hit off him in the 2014 postseason were thought to spark the conflict, although

Bryce tops All-Star votes MLB on Tuesday released its first update for All-Star fan voting results in the NL, and two Nationals players led the pack. Outfielder Bryce Harper is the most popular player with 900,079 votes. Second baseman Daniel Murphy has the second-most votes with 669,643.

First baseman Ryan Zimmerman (359,055) is second to the Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo (452,620). Third baseman Anthony Rendon (fifth), shortstop Trea Turner (fifth) and catcher Matt Wieters (fourth) are also in the top five at their positions. (TWP)

Strickland maintained after the game that he was not intentionally trying to hit Harper.

When one considers Strickland’s normal workload — at most, he probably would pitch in three or four of those six games — compared to Harper’s, the relative severity flips.

The Giants will lose a reliever for about three innings of work.

The Nationals will lose their No. 3 hitter and MVP candidate for about 36 innings, should the suspension stand on appeal.

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days, meaning Harper likely will be able to play through the duration of this week’s series against the Giants, and perhaps through this weekend’s series against the Athletics, too.

After the incident Monday, Nationals manager Dusty Baker seemed to defend Harper.

“We’re not here to brawl. We’re here to win the game,” Baker said. “But we’re not here to take any stuff either. Like I said, most teams I’ve had we don’t start anything, but we don’t take nothing.”

Harper seemed flabbergasted that something from the 2014 NL Division Series, won by the Giants on their road to a World Series title, could stay with Strickland for so long.

“It’s so in the past that it’s not even relevant anymore,” Harper said.

The nature of Strickland’s three-year grudge is one reason that SiriusXM radio host and former Nationals general manager Jim Bowden passionately defended Harper’s decision to charge the mound on Tuesday.

“Bryce Harper should not be suspended for a single game,” Bowden said. “And what he did was absolutely appropriate.”

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Caps will stand pat After delaying his traditional sitdown with reporters at the end of the season, Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan spoke Tuesday about his plans to keep the team mostly intact. (TWP)

3 Players to retain The priority is re-signing restricted free agents Evgeny Kuznetsov, Dmitry Orlov, Andre Burakovsky, Nate Schmidt, Philipp Grubauer and Brett Connolly.

2 Trotz will be back After weeks of speculation, MacLellan said coach Barry Trotz will be back for the final year of his four-year contract, but no extension has been discussed yet.

1 Ovi trade unlikely The GM said star winger Alex Ovechkin will have to evolve to a faster-paced NHL, but he won’t be stripped of the captaincy and a trade isn’t in the team’s immediate plans.

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REDSKINS In his first group interview since joining Washington as a free agent, Terrelle Pryor bristled at a suggestion that he still needed time to develop as an NFL wide receiver after just one full season at the position since converting from quarterback.

“Develop?” Pryor asked during full-team workouts last week.

“I’m not trying to toot my horn, but I’m past that stage. It’s time to take it to the next level and hold myself very accountable of being a top receiver.”

That confidence is what the Redskins got for signing Pryor, whom they see as key to replacing the 2,000 receiving yards

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Pryor said he was also drawn by the chance to play with Kirk Cousins, whom he called “a great quarterback.” Cousins acknowledged that it will take time to adjust to Pryor’s extended catch radius, something they could work on as offseason workouts resumed Tuesday.

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Player harasses reporter on TV After losing in straight sets to Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas in the first round of the French Open on Monday, French player Maxime Hamou, below, tried to plant kisses on TV reporter Maly Thomas and grabbed her when she backed away. On Tuesday, organizers banned Hamou, 21, from returning to Roland Garros during this year’s tournament. “If I hadn’t been live on air, I would have punched him,” Thomas told Huffington Post France. (TWP)

Police: Tiger asleep at wheel, wasn’t drinking GOLF Police found Tiger Woods asleep at the wheel on the side of a six-lane Florida road in the dark of morning, the engine running and his right blinker flashing. His speech was slow and slurred, although there was no alcohol in his system and he didn’t know how far he was from home.

The details in a police affidavit released Tuesday didn’t clear up Woods’ whereabouts before his arrest at 3 a.m. Memorial Day but confirmed his statement that he had not been drinking before being charged with suspicion of DUI. Police described Woods as “cooperative as much as possible,” saying he had trouble keeping his eyes open. He was stopped about 15 minutes from his Jupiter Island home.

In a statement Monday, Woods said he had an “unexpected reaction” to prescription medicine but said he takes “full responsibility” for his actions. The affidavit listed four medications, including Vicodin, that Woods reported taking.

He has not competed in four months, and had fusion surgery mont his lower back — his fourth on hi back surgery since April 2014 — on April Ap 20 that will keep him out the rest of the season. for th The Th affidavit said Woods failed roadside sobriety test because a roa keep his balance or he couldn’t co follow instructions. Breath tests showed no alcohol in his system. show Police said he agreed to a urine test. DOUG FERGUSON (AP)

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Lil Yachty bends rap in his direction

A magnetic new record upholds his image as rap’s brightest optimist

ALBUM REVIEW The miracle of rap music is that it metabolizes wild-styles faster than any other American art form. Remember when Lil Yachty dropped his debut mixtape last spring? And it sounded like sleepy braggadocio rendered in Pixar rainbows? And it was radiant enough to freak the squares, mobilize the scolds and lure the rest of us into a beautiful hallucination that 2016 wasn’t all that bad? Here’s the weird part: Fourteen months later, Lil Yachty doesn’t sound like a brat, or a heretic, or even that much of a freak. Instead, today’s rap music sounds a little more like him.

Yachty accelerated his ascent by repeatedly goading the old guard. Last year, he bragged about his inability to name five Notorious B.I.G. songs. While Yachty was obviously bviously trolling his bv h

elders, he was also reminding us that history is heavy, and that young visionaries have every right to brush it off their shoulders when they’re trying to build something new. That’s the image Yachty has upheld ever since. He’s a seize-the-day optimist preaching positivity and possibility. One might call it his “brand.”

But if you listen closely to the 19-year-old’s new album, “Teenage Emotions,” you’ll be reminded that Yachty is a sound more than an image. He wouldn’t be here if not for his strange, yawning delivery — a loosey-goosey approach where vowels get stuck on the roof of his mouth, then spill onto the rhythm, messy and sweet.

Old heads balk at his singsong rhymes, his cheery idealism and his Atomic Fireball hairdo, but it’s clearly the sound of Yachty’s voice alone that has rankled the establishment most.

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Now he’s stretching out, expanding what that voice can do. The most saturated line on “Teenage Emotions” is casually tucked into the center of “Say My Name,” a colorful rags-toriches tale set to a barely there beat. “My brother used to sleep in a Hyundai,” Yachty yelps.

“Now he spend about a hundred Gs on a fun day — Wow!” Even more beguiling is how he packs a spectrum of emotions into those 24 syllables, and you don’t have to be a teenager to hear them all blurring together like watercolor.

As for his darker feelings, he telegraphs them deeper in the track list. “No More” is a fatiguing slog through his disinterest

in fame, while “Made of Glass,” about an unrequited love, comes garnished with a lovelorn sigh: “You don’t even see me.” Here, things start to feel disingenuous.

Yachty contains multitudes, but it’s hard to imagine someone who exudes this much life force ever feeling bored or invisible.

Still, we should feel encouraged by a pouty Yachty — at least in theory. If he was shrewd enough to construct a persona this magnetic, he’s smart enough to know that he’ll need to keep up.

He may have bent rap in his direction, but he can’t slow it down.

If he doesn’t invent tomorrow’s wild-style, someone else will.

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Justin Bieber, Coldplay, K Katy Perry and others will join Ariana Grande at a charity concert on Sunday in Manchester, England.

G Grande announced Tuesday that the “One Love Manchester” show will be held at the city’s Old T Trafford cricket ground nearly two weeks after a bomber killed 22 people and injured dozens at the p pop singer’s concert. Pharrell Williams, Miley Cyrus, Usher and Niall Horan will also perform. (AP) Olivia Newton-John reveals breast cancer diagnosis, postpones her June concert dates

Now you’re really old because Hanson’s kids are starring in the band’s music videos. The (mostly) blackand-white clip for “I Was Born” — a track that salutes the brothers’ 25th anniversary as a band — features all but one of Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson’s collective 12 youngsters lip-syncing for the camera. It all fits the song, which has a Wilco-esque folk pop beat and an unabashedly optimistic message.

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Only Elton John could make us wait 45 years for a music video. But the clip — part of a competition to create videos for three of his biggest hits — was well worth the wait, since the concept proves just how timeless “Tiny Dancer” is. In it, dozens of different people — a vaping grandma, a group of teens, a literal Marilyn Manson — shamelessly belt out the song, just like we all do. B.C.

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You oughta know about this musical A new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s multi-platinumselling record “Jagged Little Pill” will come to the stage next year, ar, unleashing a powerful wave of nostalgia for aging ’90s kids. The jukebox musical, inspired by the Canadian-American rocker’s Grammy-winning 1995 album, will debut in May 2018 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. Screenwriter Diablo Cody (who won an Oscar for “Juno”) and Tony-winning director Diane Paulus have signed on to the production. “The chemistry between all of us is crackling and I feel honored to be diving into these songs again, surrounded by all of this searing talent,” Morissette said in a statement. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Lebanon is seeking to ban the new “Wonder Woman” movie because its lead actress, Gal Gadot, is an Israeli — a reflection of how the decades-old animosity between the two neighbors is also infused in the cultural scene. A security official said a formal request for a ban has not yet been received. Lebanon is officially at war with Israel, and the two countries have been through a number of wars. On Facebook, Gadot had praised Israel’s military during the 2014 Gaza-Israel war. A premiere of “Wonder Woman” is scheduled for today in at least one cinema in Beirut. (AP)

George Strait, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson and Shel Silverstein are among the honorees for the Academy of Country Music’s special awards this year. The 11th annual ACM Honors will be held in Nashville on Aug. 23 and then broadcast at a later date on CBS. Strait will receive the Cliffie Stone Icon Award and Parton will take home the Gary Haber Lifting Lives Award. Three writers — Keith, Nelson and Silverstein — will be honored with this year’s Poet’s Award. The TV show “Nashville” will also be recognized with the Tex Ritter Film Award. (AP)

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Very huge news from the year 2008 In an interview with the New York Times, Robert Pattinson said that he was nearly fired from the first “Twilight” film, which helped launch him to stardom. The actor, who played vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen, said his rebellious attitude made his agents fly in to help deal with his issues.

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Fatih Akin, director of “In The Fade,” which just debuted at Cannes Film Festival, told The Hollywood Reporter that he bet his lead actress, Diane Kruger, that their film would make it into the festival. If it did, Kruger would have to get an anchor tattoo. Not only did “In The Fade” make it to Cannes, but Kruger also took home the award for best actress. (EXPRESS)

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