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Asking you to join a discrimination campaign sounds outrageous. Yet, the United States Conference of Catholics Bishops has led an annual Fortnight for Freedom campaign for five years to do just that: discriminate. Under the guise of “religious liberty,” they might now get a blank check from President Trump to discriminate against people and deny them basic care.

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Burglars on Monday climbed a barbed wire fence, rappelled into the Franklin (N.J.) Mineral Museum and smashed display cabinets to steal $30,000 in emeralds, diamonds and other stones, leaving bloodstains throughout the building, police said. Something about northern New Jersey must attract daring thieves: In 2011, more than $400,000 in gold was stolen from the nearby Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Ogdensburg. (AP)

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Busted? Nope, but hide your valuables.

Mayor Muriel Bowser, with Officer Christopher Kinney, looks into cars Monday along Emerson Street NW.

which he leads, is down this year, as it is across the District. But theft from autos, while declining, remains stubbornly high.

“It’s the one thing driving our crime now, thefts and thefts from autos,” Manlapaz said. “Don’t leave anything in your car, even if it is something you don’t think is valuable.”

Police say there have been

4,893 thefts from autos across D.C. this year, many accompanied by broken locks or shattered side windows. There were 5,305 recorded at this time last year, which ended with a count of 12,175. That was up from 2015.

Bowser said the best way to prevent car break-ins “is to make sure we’re locking vehicles.”

But one longtime resident of Emerson Street, Vernelle Fitzgerald, had another idea.

She pointedly asked the mayor for more streetlights, which she contended could deter more than thefts from vehicles.

Fitzgerald said some elderly residents have been attacked at night at the bus stop at Emerson Street and Kansas Avenue.

“The lighting is horrible around here,” said Fitzgerald, who has lived on Emerson Street since 1965. “It’s mostly elderly around here, and they’re scared to get off the bus.”

Bowser looked up a the tall light poles and agreed there weren’t enough of them. She promised a study to assess the needs.

PETER HERMANN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Watergate to redo room that has a past The Watergate Hotel’s Room 214 will soon reflect its place in the eponymous scandal, which marked its 45th anniversary Saturday, WTOP reported Monday.

The hotel said it has hired costume designer Lyn Paolo of ABC’s “Scandal” to give the room a fitting makeover.

In 1972, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy kept contact via radio from Room 214 with burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office building next door. (AP)

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One Maryland county is getting a spelling lesson. The Frederick News-Post reports that two signs with the words “Fredrick High School” — without the second E — carved in stone were installed near the entrance to the new $114 million school building. Images made the rounds on social media over the weekend and by Monday the signs were gone. Board of Education president Brad Young says it was the stonemason’s error and is being corrected at no extra cost. (AP)

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THE DISTRICT The District’s mayor peered into the window of a white pickup truck and did not like what she saw: a bag on the front seat.

“Looks expensive,” she said.

Trailing her, D.C. Officer Christopher Kinney tore off a pink ticket labeled “WARNING!” and placed it under the windshield wipers. It was not an infraction, but a reminder to the owner not to leave valuables, even bags, in plain sight in parked cars.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and Kinney walked both sides of Emerson Street NW just off Kansas Avenue, which splits the neighborhoods of Petworth and Brightwood Park, to highlight a troublesome crime in the District and elsewhere — theft from autos.

D.C. police Cmdr. Wilfredo Manlapaz told residents at an outdoor news conference that crime in the Fourth District,

PETER HERMANN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

D.C. police issue ‘tickets’ to remind car owners about vehicle break-ins

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Zoo seeks help naming ‘happy surprise’ giraffe The Virginia Zoo in Norfolk needs help naming a new baby giraffe. The Virginian-Pilot reports that the zoo is taking suggestions for names that start with the letter “I’’ for the calf, born June 4. The calf’s mother is a Masai giraffe named Imara.

A zoo spokeswoman called the calf’s birth “a happy surprise,” because zookeepers had suspicions Imara was pregnant but weren’t certain. (AP)

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Road rage or an act of hate?

FAIRFAX COUNTY Islamic leaders are questioning Virginia detectives’ insistence that the beating death of a teenage Muslim girl appears to have been a case of road rage, saying the attack looks all too much like a hate crime.

Nabra Hassanen, 17, was bludgeoned with a baseball bat early Sunday by a motorist who drove up to about 15 Muslim teenagers as they walked or bicycled along a road, Fairfax County police said. A Hassanen family spokesman said all the girls in the group were wearing Muslim headscarves and robes.

Darwin Martinez Torres, a 22-year-old from El Salvador suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, was jailed without bail on a murder charge after the girl’s body was pulled from a pond near his apartment.

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations, said there is a strong possibility the crime wouldn’t have happened if the teenagers weren’t Muslim.

“You can’t just say ‘Oh, he didn’t say anything against Islam, so no hate crime,’ ” Hooper said.

Fairfax police, in their account of the attack, said that Martinez Torres and one of the boys in the group got into an argument, and that the motorist chased the group down and got out swinging the

JAHI CHIKWENDIU (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Local Muslims dispute police assessment of Va. teen’s beating death

The body of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen of Reston, Va., was found Sunday about 2 miles away from the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, where she had attended overnight Ramadan prayers. A funeral is planned for today.

bat. Police said Martinez Torres beat Hassanen as her friends scattered, then put her in his car, asHassanen saulted her again and dumped her body.

“No evidence has been uncovered that shows this murder was motivated by race or religion,” police said in a statement Monday night. “It appears the suspect became so enraged over the traffic dispute it escalated into deadly violence.”

But after a string of attacks on Muslims around the world, most recently in London and Portland, Ore., some are deeply skeptical.

Rabia Chaudry, a lawyer and Muslim activist who lives in the Washington suburbs, ridiculed

the notion it was road rage, saying on Twitter: “If you think for a minute that her appearance had nothing to do with this crime, you’re lying to yourself.”

Chaudry said that when a Muslim commits a crime, officials are quick to treat it as an act of terror, but when the perpetrator is not Muslim, police seem to approach it differently.

“I just feel like there is more hesitation and a lot of other factors are taken into account,” such as whether the person was drunk or suffering mental problems, Chaudry said in an interview.

The public defender’s office, which was appointed to represent Martinez Torres, declined to comment.

Meanwhile, Muslim groups planned vigils around the country

Tuesday to honor Hassanen. And her mosque, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, announced plans for her funeral today and encouraged people to come together and “respond to bad with good.”

The mosque expressed optimism that law enforcement will determine the motive for the crime and added: “We request the community to not speculate on the motives and jump to conclusions.”

CAIR called on Muslim communities to increase security during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which concludes Saturday, in light of Hassanen’s slaying and other recent crimes.

The attack on Hassanen came as she was on her way to a mosque for Ramadan. ALANNA DURKIN RICHER AND SARAH RANKIN (AP)

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A small tornado touched down Monday in Montgomery County as severe thunderstorms barreled through the region. The National Weather Service confirmed that the EF-0 twister hit Silver Spring, but it was so small, short-lived and difficult to detect that no tornado warning was issued. The tornado tracked through a residential neighborhood for about 1,000 feet along a path as wide as 100 feet. Peak winds reached 70 mph. While some homes were “rendered uninhabitable” according to an NWS report, there were no injuries. (AP/TWP)

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Council mulls upgraded titles THE DISTRICT If perception is reality, then D.C. Council member David Grosso has an idea to jump-start the District’s stalled campaign to become the 51st state.

Grosso, above, wants to upgrade the names of the city’s elected leaders to their state equivalents. The mayor would become “governor.” The D.C. Council would become the “legislative assembly.” The council members would be “representatives.”

The city would still be called Washington, D.C., but instead of District of Columbia, the abbreviation would be short for Douglass Commonwealth, in honor of Frederick Douglass.

Grosso rolled out legislation Tuesday to legally change those names as a way to make it easier for the nation to embrace the idea of D.C. as a state.

“It is very symbolic, but it also reflects the real work we are doing in the government,” Grosso said. “One of the arguments against us becoming a state is we are just a city and a city shouldn’t be able to jump right to a state level. People don’t realize we do the functions of a state, county and city; this will change people’s perceptions of us.”

D.C. has nearly 700,000 residents — more than Vermont and Wyoming — and they pay more in federal income taxes than their counterparts in 22 states.

But D.C. has no vote in Congress, which can interfere with its laws and spending. FENIT NIRAPPIL (TWP)

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With both the Rockville and Shady Grove stations closed by the surge, Morton had to be dropped off at a 7-Eleven on Rockville Pike, followed by a 10-minute walk to the Twinbrook

Station, where the western end Red Line begins service for the duration of the surge.

“I’m not a happy camper,” Morton, 75, said from the crowded platform before jumping on an arriving train.

The 16th and final SafeTrack surge began Saturday and concludes Sunday. The project involves work on a 5-mile stretch of track between Shady Grove and Twinbook; Shady Grove and Rockville stations are closed.

While this is the last surge of the yearlong SafeTrack program, much work remains. Earlier

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Commuters at the Twinbrook station board a shuttle bus Monday to Rockville and Shady Grove.

Police: Pedestrian dies after being struck by vehicle Tuesday morning in Germantown, Md.

this month, Metro announced that over the next year, parts of the Green, Red and Yellow lines will close for projects similar to the SafeTrack surges.

But on Monday, riders who might have otherwise celebrated the end of SafeTrack looked to the future work with resentment.

Even before a reporter could ask about how additional repairs to the Red Line would affect her commute, Lori Nugent, 55, interrupted, “It sucks.”

“They’re going fix this, and what’s going to be next?” she said.

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Baker to run for governor MARYLAND Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III plans to announce today that he is running for governor, with a video message to news outlets and supporters that explains why he believes he can emerge from a crowded field of Democrats to challenge the bid of popular Republican Larry Hogan for a second term.

Baker, 58, is midway through

his seventh year as leader of the state’s secondla rgest juris diction. He has focused on elimiBaker nating the corruption that used to be a hallmark of the county’s government and stimulating economic growth.

A former state lawmaker with a law degree from Howard University, Baker is vying to become Maryland’s first African-American governor and the first county executive to serve in the role since Parris Glendening, also of Prince

George’s, did from 1995 to 2003.

“Being county executive gives me a good vantage point to look at Maryland as a whole, because we are urban, suburban and rural,” Baker says in the video message.

Former NAACP leader Benjamin Jealous and Baltimore tech entrepreneur Alec Ross have also launched campaigns for the June 2018 Democratic primary, and state Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. says he will run as well. U.S. Rep. John Delaney and former state attorney general Doug Gansler are also considering the race.

LINDA DAVIDSON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Firing process: Will VA’s changes be just the start? jected to a disciplinary process that concentrates power in the VA secretary, currently David Shulkin. Under the legislation, he would be responsible for accusing workers of misconduct or poor performance, imposing punishment on them and ruling on appeals of the sentences he determines.

“I need, as secretary, if I’m going to change this organization, the ability to remove employees that clearly no longer in my view should have the privilege of serving our veterans,” Shulkin said.

Rather than making the VA, which already has nearly 50,000 vacancies, less attractive to workers because of cuts to workplace protections, Shulkin thinks the legislation will “dramatically improve morale” and enhance recruitment, because “there is nothing more demoralizing” than working alongside dead wood.

More than once, Shulkin indicated he wants “to run this organization the way that the private sector runs organizations.”

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Veterans have been on the vanguard protecting the nation — waging war and securing the peace.

Now, those who assist them are on the forefront, serving as guinea pigs testing major changes in civil service procedures that protect federal employees and taxpayers.

Coupled with earlier revisions in the Defense Department layoff process, new legislation portends significant and across-the-board civil service reforms for the federal workforce.

The latest transformations are in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act that President Trump will sign soon, perhaps this week.

While it weakens civil service protections for all VA staffers, the legislation reserves its sharpest blows for senior executives. They would no longer be able to appeal adverse actions like firings, suspensions and demotions to the independent U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), a process available to most other feds.

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workers generally can be fired on a boss’s whim. Civil service procedures are designed to protect public employees and the public against just that.

The safeguards ensure that political appointees will not act against staffers — and ultimately taxpayers — who do not toe the party line.

When laying off civilian employees, the Pentagon now considers performance first, ahead of factors such as seniority.

Jeff Neal, a former chief human capital officer in the

Defense Logistics Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, described the Pentagon change on his blog, chiefhro.com, as “the biggest shakeup in RIF [reduction in force] in decades.”

If that and the VA’s new disciplinary procedures prove effective, he added by phone, “I would be very surprised if there is not an effort to expand them to the entire government.”

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Report finds nearly 1.3M people sought care in 2014 alone HEALTH The coast-to-coast opioid epidemic is swamping hospitals, with government data published Tuesday showing 1.27 million emergency room visits or inpatient stays for opioid-related issues in a single year.

The 2014 numbers, the latest available for every state and the District of Columbia, reflect a 64 percent increase for inpatient care and a 99 percent jump for emergency room treatment compared with figures from 2005. Their trajectory likely will keep climbing if the epidemic continues unabated.

The report, released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), puts Maryland at the very top of the national list for inpatient care.

The state, already struggling with overdoses from heroin and prescription opioids, has seen the spread of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, which can be mixed with heroin or cocaine and is extraordinarily powerful.

The new government numbers showing Maryland’s surge in hospital visits was not surprising, according to Leana Wen, Baltimore city’s health commissioner, who noted that many people who show up seeking treatment for addiction cannot

Opioid-related hospital visits have surged dramatically since 2005.

receive it immediately.

“We are not anywhere close to getting everyone treatment at the time that they are requesting for help,” she said.

Trailing Maryland for opioidrelated hospitalizations is Massachusetts, followed by the District of Columbia. The AHRQ’s datadriven report does not reveal how many patients have been treated multiple times in a given calendar year. It also does not speculate on why some states have such high rates of hospital admissions. It suggests that people in the most urban places are more likely to be treated in a hospital than those in rural areas — which would indicate that lack of access to medical care is a factor in the uptick in death

rates seen in less-urban parts of the country in recent years.

The sharpest increase in hospitalization and emergency room treatment for opioids was among people ages 25 to 44 — seen in every racial and ethnic group other than Asian-Americans. Opioid overdoses are a major driver of this mortality spike.

The states with the highest rate of opioid-related hospital admissions in 2014 were, in addition to Maryland and Massachusetts: Rhode Island, New York, West Virginia, Connecticut, Washington, Oregon, Illinois and Maine. Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Texas, Kansas, Georgia, and South Dakota had some of the lowest rates. JOEL ACHENBACH

Uber is enabling passengers to tip its U.S. drivers within its ride-hailing app for the first time, part of a push to recast itself as a company with a conscience. The tip option, long available in the app of rival Lyft, is now available in Seattle, Houston and Minneapolis.

Uber plans to make it a staple in all U.S. cities by the end of July. The attempt to smooth over its relationship with drivers is part of a broader effort to reverse damage done to Uber’s reputation by revelations of sexual harassment. Riders will also be charged if they keep drivers waiting for more than two minutes and if they cancel a ride more than two minutes after summoning a driver. (AP)

AND DAN KEATING (THE WASHINGTON POST)

INTERNATIONAL FRAUD CASE

Endangered lizards’ penises sold as lucky charms

Wildlife investigators from India and Britain said Tuesday they have uncovered an international fraud in which dried penises of endangered monitor lizards are being sold online as the “hatha jodi” root, which is believed to ward off evil in religious rituals. World Animal Protection said that wildlife authorities conducted raids in five Indian states last month and that raids are continuing. (AP) Air Force: 135 may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis at Qatar base clinic over 8 years

Warmbier’s fate a cautionary tale

Uber adds in-app option to tip drivers

NATIONAL SECURITY

Dashcam video shows officer shooting Castile MINNEAPOLIS Video that shows a Minnesota police officer shooting seven rapid shots at Philando Castile during a traffic stop last July was made public Tuesday, just days after the officer was acquitted on all counts in the case.

The video was captured by a camera in the squad car of Officer Jeronimo Yanez, who was found not guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Castile, a black motorist. The shooting gained widespread attention because Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, livestreamed the aftermath on Facebook. Yanez’s acquittal sparked protests.

Unlike Reynolds’ video, the squad car video shows the traffic stop’s quick escalation and the shooting itself. It was played for jurors at trial but was not released publicly until Tuesday.

In the video, with the camera pointed toward the back of Castile’s car, Castile can be seen giving proof of insurance to Yanez through the driver’s side window, and is heard saying, “Sir, I have to tell you, I do have a firearm on me.” Castile, a 32-year-old school cafeteria worker, had a permit to carry the weapon.

Before Castile finishes that sentence, Yanez is pulling his own out of the holster. Yanez says, “OK. Don’t reach for it then.” “I’m not pulling it out,” Castile responds. There is shouting, and Yanez screams, “Don’t pull it out!” before he fires seven shots into the car. AMY FORLITI AND STEVE KARNOWSKI (AP)

At least 15 killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, by suicide car bomber posing as driver of milk van

Russian jet was a few feet from Air Force plane

The travel company that took Otto Warmbier to North Korea says it will no longer take Americans to the “Hermit Kingdom.”

A Russian fighter jet came “within several feet” of an Air Force RC-135 reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea, U.S. military officials said.

The Pentagon considered the incident Monday, known as an “intercept,” unsafe because of the “high rate of closure speed” and the “poor control of the aircraft” that the Russian pilot had. (TWP) XIAOLU CHU (GETTY IMAGES)

Hospitals being flooded by opioid-related visits

DAMAGE CONTROL

U.S. tourism to N. Korea comes under scrutiny after student’s death NORTH KOREA For some intrepid travelers, North Korea is the holy grail.

There’s hardly a place that’s more off the beaten path.

About 1,000 American tourists visit North Korea each year, looking for an adventure and a glimpse at the “Hermit Kingdom.” But the death of Otto Warmbier, the American student who had been imprisoned in the country for 17 months, has focused a new light on tourism to North Korea, which the regime has been trying to promote.

Warmbier’s father, Fred, said after his son was sent home in a coma last week that companies promoting tourism to North Korea are providing “fodder” for the regime. Rep. Edward R. Royce, R-Calif., the chairman of the

House Foreign Affairs Committee, agreed. “Otto’s father is right: Travel propaganda lures far too many people to North Korea.”

The U.S. should ban tourist travel to North Korea, Royce said after Warmbier’s parents announced their 22-year-old son’s death on Monday.

Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, was curious about the world and wanted to explore it, his father said in an interview in April. So, at the end of 2015, the young man joined the “New Year’s Party Tour” run by Young Pioneer Tours, a company that boasts “budget tours to destinations your mother wants you to stay away from!”

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a goal of attracting a million tourists a year to the Communist-ruled county. Critics have said tourism is a significant source of foreign currency for the regime.

The State Department has steadily ratcheted up its travel

advisory for North Korea and strongly warns Americans against traveling to the country because of the risk of arbitrary detention. Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in prison for allegedly stealing a propaganda sign.

A bill is already before the House to limit travel to North Korea for American citizens, and Warmbier’s death could prompt the Senate to consider the same.

Three other Americans are still being detained in North Korea, but they were all working there — two at a private KoreanAmerican-run university and one at a hotel in a northern special economic zone.

Particular attention is now falling on Young Pioneer Tours, a travel company that takes its name from the youth leagues in Communist countries.

“The devastating loss of Otto Warmbier’s life has led us to reconsider our position on accepting American tourists,” the

company said in a statement Tuesday. Young Pioneer Tours will no longer be taking U.S. citizens to North Korea, it said.

Five people who witnessed Young Pioneer Tours in North Korea said they saw reckless behavior, with customers drinking heavily, not being respectful and denigrating their local tour guides. Three of the five people interviewed work in North Korea and the other two were on tours.

“Frankly, this company is run by some hard-drinking dudes and the culture of their tours is infused with that,” said one of the people, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he still works in North Korea.

Troy Collings, one of the partners in the company, said: “People are quick to embellish their stories when the media are interested. We have taken over 8,000 people to North Korea with only one incident.”

ANNA FIFIELD (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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“If people are that stupid that they still want to go to [North Korea], then at least they assume the responsibility.”

[N SEN. JOHN McCAIN, saying Tuesday that Americans who still want to travel to North Korea should be required

to sign a waiver absolving the U.S. government of any blame should they be harmed while there.

Coroner in Hamilton County, Ohio, seeking cause of death for Otto Warmbier, U.S. student held by N. Korea

MILITARY

Criminal charges filed in ‘Fat Leonard’ scandal The Navy has filed criminal charges against an officer in the “Fat Leonard” scandal, setting the stage for the first military trial in the corruption investigation. The active-duty commander allegedly accepted prostitutes, travel and other gifts. Navy officials said the commander’s name would be made public at a preliminary hearing next week. (TWP) CONGO

Report: 3,300 have died in conflict in Kasai region More than 3,300 people have been killed in central Congo’s volatile Kasai districts since August, according to a document released Tuesday by the Catholic church. The United Nations is also calling for an international investigation after accounts of babies with machete wounds and pregnant women sliced open. (AP) BRAZIL

Police: Evidence shows president was bribed Brazil’s federal police force says it has found evidence that embattled President Michel Temer received bribes to help businesses. Investigators said in a preliminary report published Tuesday by Brazil’s top court that Temer deserves to be investigated for corruption.

Temer has denied any wrongdoing. (AP)

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A covert White House

Government leaders are hiding policy details and refusing to answer questions

Spicer has few answers Embattled press secretary Sean Spicer spoke for 30 minutes Tuesday and didn’t answer a number of basic questions, including whether the president believes Russia interfered in the 2016 election and whether Trump had seen the hotly debated Senate health care bill. White House press briefings have been shrinking both in length and content. Through the end of April, Spicer’s briefings averaged 48 minutes, according to an NBC analysis. And Trump hasn’t held a full news conference since February or participated in interviews since the end of April. (AP)

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POLITICS The Senate bill to scale back the health care law known as Obamacare is being written in secret by a small team led by Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Officials at numerous agencies of the Trump administration have stonewalled friendly Republicans in Congress — not to mention Democrats — by declining to share internal documents on sensitive matters or refusing to answer questions.

President Trump, meanwhile, is still forbidding the release of his tax returns, his aides have stopped releasing logs of visitors to the White House and his media aides have started banning cameras at otherwise routine news briefings, as happened Monday.

Trump even refuses to acknowledge to the public that he plays golf during his frequent weekend visits to his private golf courses.

More and more in the Trump era, business in Washington is happening behind closed doors.

The federal government’s leaders are hiding from public scrutiny — and their penchant for secrecy represents a stark departure from the campaign promises of Trump and his fellow Republicans to usher in newfound transparency.

“I was very frustrated the Obama administration held things so close to the vest … but I quite frankly haven’t seen any change with the Trump administration. In some ways I find it worse,” said outgoing Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who chaired the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform before announcing his retirement this spring.

On Capitol Hill, Democrats are furious with federal agencies and White House offices that have

President Trump hasn’t held a full news conference since February.

not answered their requests for information on a wide range of subjects — from the role of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, to specific policy changes being considered by the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and other federal agencies.

By early June, House and Senate Democratic aides had compiled lists of more than 400 written requests that they said had been ignored by the White House or federal agencies.

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M.,

described “an overall pattern of fear of any level of transparency.”

“If they can’t control the message or have it come directly from the president via his Twitter account, I think they’re very fearful of any level of sharing basic facts and how they come to their conclusions and decisions what policy should be,” Heinrich said.

Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist, said there’s always been a tendency in politics to be secretive, but “this administration has taken it to extremes the likes of which I have never seen.”

Attorney General Sessions retains private lawyer Chuck Cooper as Russia probe expands

White House officials strongly rejected the notion that they have been overly evasive during Trump’s first six months in office.

“I disagree, at least from a White House perspective, that things are happening in secrecy,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the principal deputy White House press secretary. She said reporters walk in and out of her office freely asking questions, noting that a reporter from The Washington Post was “the eighth one in the last 10 minutes” to visit her on Monday afternoon.

While White House press secretary Sean Spicer held a televised news briefing Tuesday, “offcamera gaggles” with no video or audio footage are becoming more common in recent weeks, frustrating some journalists.

Jim Acosta, a senior White House correspondent at CNN, said: “It just feels like we’re sort of slowly but surely being dragged into what is a new normal in this country where the president of the United States is allowed to insulate himself from answering hard questions.” PHILIP RUCKER AND ED O’KEEFE (THE WASHINGTON POST)

GOP seeking vote next week on health care POLITICS Senate Republicans steered toward a potential showdown vote on their long-awaited health care bill next week, despite indications that they’ve yet to solidify the 50 GOP votes they’ll need to avert a defeat.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he expected to have a draft of the bill ready Thursday. The measure would peel away much of President Obama’s health care overhaul and leave government with a more limited role in providing coverage and helping people afford it.

The bill would be rejected in the Senate if just three of the 52 GOP senators voted no.

McConnell’s ability to assess and line up votes is considered masterful, but senators from both ends of his party’s spectrum were grumbling about the bill’s expected contents and the clandestine way it’s being crafted.

“It’s apparently being written by a small handful of staffers for members of the Republican leadership,” said conservative Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. Lee said he’s not seen the bill and “wholeheartedly” shares the frustration of constituents unhappy over the secrecy. He said senators should have seen the measure “weeks ago” if the chamber is voting next week.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the plan does “not yet” do enough to reduce premiums, a key GOP goal. ALAN FRAM (AP)

Probe: Driver who died in Tesla crash using Autopilot ignored at least 7 safety warnings

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U.S. downs ‘pro-regime’ drone in southern Syria SYRIA The U.S. military said it shot down an Iranian-made armed drone in southern Syria on Tuesday, marking the third time this month that the U.S. has downed aircraft affiliated with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

The U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group said a U.S. jet downed the drone “after it displayed hostile intent” while approaching a military camp near the Syria-Jordan border. A similar drone was downed in the same place after it dropped munitions near coalition forces June 8.

The repeated incidents in the vicinity of the Tanf camp, where U.S. forces train and advise local ground forces in the fight against ISIS, add to regional tensions just as the fight against the extremists enters a crucial phase, with U.S.-backed forces pushing into the Syrian city of Raqqa.

The U.S. on Sunday shot down a Syrian jet near Raqqa after it dropped bombs near the U.S.allied Syrian Democratic Forces.

The U.S. Central Command said the drone shot down Tuesday was a Shaheed 129 and appeared to have been operated by

EVIL ARTIFACTS

Trove of Nazi loot found in Argentina In a hidden room in a house near the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country’s history, including a bust relief of Adolf Hitler, a Nazi hourglass and magnifying glasses inside boxes marked with swastikas. About 75 objects were found in a collector’s home in the suburb of Beccar, and authorities suspect they are originals that belonged to highranking Nazis during World War II, after which Argentina became a refuge for fleeing war criminals. Police say one of the most compelling pieces of evidence is a photo negative of Hitler holding a magnifying glass similar to those found in the boxes. (AP)

“pro-regime” forces, a term U.S. officials previously have used to describe Hezbollah elements.

There are concerns that further confrontations could lead to a breakout of hostilities that would hinder the battle against ISIS. Australia on Tuesday suspended its airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria as a precaution, after Russia announced it was suspending a de-escalation hotline and warned the U.S.-led coalition not to fly over Syrian army positions west of the Euphrates River. ZEINA KARAM AND ROBERT BURNS (AP)

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Suspect shot after explosion at train station in Belgium

BRUSSELS | Belgian Army soldiers and police patrol the area outside Central Station in the heart of Brussels on Tuesday after soldiers shot and “neutralized” a person they believe set off a small explosion there. A bomb squad performed a controlled explosion of a bomb belt the suspect had. The incident is being investigated as terrorism.

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TOLL OF U.S. SHOOTINGS ON CHILDREN

The number of children who are killed or injured every day in shootings, according to a 2002-14 analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with boys, teenagers and blacks most at risk, the report found. Nearly 1,300 children under 18 die each year from gunshot wounds — most of them intentional. (AP)

Egypt kills 12 “highly dangerous” Islamist militants in Sinai airstrike; 3 more killed in Alexandria raid

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How wildebeest massacres feed an ecosystem Time after time, year after year, giant herds of African wildebeests creep to the edge of the Mara River in Kenya and start to drink. Time after time, year after year, they get hacked to death by crocodiles in the river.

It sounds awful, but a new report led by researchers at Yale University says the yearly massacre of 6,000 wildebeests on the Serengeti is good for the Mara River watershed.

The creatures’ carcasses feed more than a bunch of fat crocodiles. They nourish an entire ecosystem — river fish, plants, microorganisms, hyenas and birds. Amanda Subalusky, a postdoctoral scientist at Yale who now works at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in New York, said team members even observed hippos snacking on the dead bodies of wildebeests.

“It’s like you’re dropping a lot of steaks in the water,” said Subalusky, who lived in Kenya for monthly stretches between 2008 and 2010 to observe the wildebeests and the river for the study. “The river comes alive.”

The study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could change how the sciences view the contributions of big herds, alive and dead, to their landscapes. “It’s … one of the ways a large migration can influence an ecosystem that hasn’t been thought about,” Subalusky said. DARRYL FEARS

French video journalist and Iraqi colleague killed in Mosul mine blast

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D.C. United makes deal to add scorer

LeBron’s tipping point?

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Jerry West

David Griffin

Casting away GM David Griffin could push James to leave Cleveland for sunny L.A. ANALYSIS On opposite sides of the country Monday, two seemingly unrelated events could have set in motion a massive change for LeBron James and the entire NBA. In Los Angeles, Jerry West sat on a stage smiling as he was introduced as the newest addition to the Clippers. And in the East, Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and general manager David Griffin released separate statements explaining how Griffin’s threeyear tenure — one that included three straight trips to the NBA Finals and a championship — was over. James’ contract, which ends a year from now, loomed over both events.

If James decides to leave Cleveland for a second time, Monday will be the day we

identify as the moment when his potential departure began to take shape.

Griffin’s front office built most of the roster that helped James win the city of Cleveland’s first pro sports championship in more than 50 years. It was Griffin who managed to clear the cap space to sign James in 2014, engineer a trade for Kevin Love and pick up supporting players including J.R. Smith, Timofey Mozgov, Iman Shumpert, Channing Frye and Kyle Korver.

That résumé should have led to a contract extension for Griffin — which is what James publicly lobbied for earlier this year. He reminded the world of that in a tweet Monday night: “If no one appreciated you Griff I did, and hopefully all the people of

Report: Cavs like Billups Adrian Wojnarowksi of The Vertical reported late Monday that Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert was targeting Chauncey Billups as president of basketball operations. In this role Billups, 40, would run the personnel department and hire an experienced general manager, The Vertical reported. Billups, the MVP of the 2004 NBA Finals, has been an NBA analyst for ESPN since he retired in 2014 after a 17-year playing career. (TWP)

Cleveland! Thanks for what u did for the team for 3 yrs!”

In the more than 12 years Gilbert has owned the Cavaliers, he has never given a general manager a second contract.

Meanwhile, there’s that whole Los Angeles situation. James and West — who was introduced Monday as a Clippers consultant after six years with the Warriors — formed a friendship when James sought advice about handling losses in the finals.

James has a home and business interests in L.A. He’s been linked to the Lakers, but the Clippers are closer to contending with Chris Paul (assuming he re-signs) and DeAndre Jordan in the fold. West also gives the Clippers the kind of closer that Miami had in Pat Riley when it recruited James seven years ago.

It is, at minimum, an intriguing possibility. And between now and next July, it’s a possibility that’s only going to gain traction.

Goal-starved D.C. United acquired Jamaican forward Deshorn Brown from the second-division Tampa Bay Rowdies on Tuesday. In order to land Brown with the top spot in Allocation Ranking, D.C. sent the Houston Dynamo its number nine position, $100,000 in general allocation money, $75,000 in targeted allocation money and a 2018 international roster spot. Brown, 26, scored 10 goals for the Colorado Rapids in both 2013 and 2014 before playing one year for Norwegian club Valerenga and one for Chinese side Shenzhen.

He joined the Rowdies this year, posting three goals in 14 appearances.

Brown is eligible to play against Atlanta tonight (7:30, NewsChannel8) at RFK Stadium. ((TWP))

TIM BONTEMPS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

REVISED ANTI-DOPING POLICY

PGA Tour adds blood testing

The PGA Tour is beefing up its anti-doping policy by adding blood testing and bringing its list of banned substances in line with that of the World AntiDoping Agency. The revised policy takes effect at the start of next season in October. Blood testing detects the use of human growth hormone (HGH), which is banned by the tour but can’t be flagged in urine. The tour will also start announcing suspensions stemming from recreational drug use. (AP) College World Series: TCU knocks out Texas A&M with 4-1 win

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Scherzer surpassing Kershaw Nationals ace Max Scherzer (8-4, 2.26 ERA) heads into his start at Miami today (12:10 p.m., MASN) with numbers befitting a defending Cy Young winner. In fact, Scherzer is unseating Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw (10-2, 2.61 ERA) for the title of best pitcher in the big leagues. These advanced statistics show the case for Washington’s right-hander. NEIL GREENBERG ERG Adjusted ERA (FIP)

Swing-strike percentage

Game Score

Field Independent Pitching (FIP) shows performance independent of defense by adjusting a player’s ERA to account for league average results on balls in play and league average timing. Through Scherzer’s first 14 starts (99 ⅔ innings pitched) his FIP is an NL-best 2.88. In 15 starts (103 ⅓ innings), Kershaw’s FIP is 3.53.

Scherzer is getting batters to swing and miss 15.4 percent of the time. As of Tuesday morning, only Boston’s Chris Sale (16.1 percent) was better.

Kershaw has seen his swing-strike percentage drop from 15.3 percent in 2016 to 12.5 percent this season.

Scherzer gets to an 0-2 count in 37.2 percent of matchups, compared to just 28.3 percent for Kershaw.

This rating created by Bill James mes evaluates how good a pitcher’s er’s start was based on outs recorded, orded, innings pitched, strikeouts, walks and runs (both earned and unearned). As of Tuesday morning, orning, Scherzer’s average game score ore of 68.9 led the majors, followed d by Dallas Keuchel of Houston (66.9), 66.9), Sale (65.8) and Kershaw (64.0). .0).

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ROARK’S RECENT ERA

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The ERA for Nats righty Tanner Roark in his past four starts. Roark, who lasted a career-low 2⅔ innings Monday in an 8-7 loss at Miami, has allowed 19 runs and 31 hits in his past 21⅓ innings. He is 1-3 in that time. “I felt great.

I still feel great,” Roark said after allowing six runs (including a grand slam) on 69 pitches Monday.

“Just [ticked] off.” (TWP)

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Pop music’s outsider is growing up ALBUM REVIEW When Lorde appeared four years ago, the idea that drove the young New Zealander’s music was a prideful alienation from the supposedly hollow pageantry of pop culture. In “Royals,” she sang about not relating to the type of bling she’d glimpsed only in the movies; in “Team,” she said she was “over getting told to throw my hands up in the air.”

At a moment when social media was beginning to rearrange the way fans relate to their idols, Lorde’s proposition was an effective one — so much so that pop culture welcomed her in spite of her disdain. “Royals” topped Billboard’s Hot 100 and won a Grammy Award for song of the year, while “Pure Heroine,” her 2013 debut, went triple platinum.

Suddenly, sparkly things were a fact of Lorde’s life.

Yet the outsider remains a

powerful archetype, which is why even superstars like Taylor Swift — who quickly struck up a friendship with Lorde — try to present themselves that way. So on her follow-up album, “Melodrama,” Lorde, 20, still wants us to think of her as someone in a state of opposition.

“I hate the headlines and the weather,” she sings in “Perfect Places.” In “Liability,” she recounts being rejected by someone, then zooms out to declare that “I’m a little much for everyone.”

The experience of pop stardom? “Hated hearing my name on the lips of a crowd,” she insists in “Writer in the Dark.”

None of this is that believable.

What made “Royals” work wasn’t the awkwardness that Lorde was describing but the strength with which she described it.

It’s not that Lorde can’t sell this storyline. She’s a remarkable singer with a range of vocal tones and dramatic approaches,

Jaden Smith

Lorde has only become more of a musical force since “Pure Heroine’s” release in 2013.

Brand-new sounds Lorde recently discussed her producing process and the challenge of finding new pop sounds with New Zealand’s The Spinoff. “I always want to run toward the thing that feels challenging and scary and exciting, and that didn’t feel like a drumbeat and a vocal anymore,” she said. “I was like, there has to be a different way to express how I’m feeling.” (EXPRESS)

including the gorgeously tender croon she sets against the stripped-down piano of “Liability.” It’s that “Melodrama” is so much more potent when Lorde is owning her newfound authority,

as in the album’s dizzying opening track, “Green Light,” in which she urges a lover to follow her “wherever I go” over a surging house groove that keeps escalating in intensity.

She’s equally convincing in “Supercut,” a fizzy electro-pop jam about a relationship that was “wild and fluorescent.” Lorde says she’ll “be your violent overnight rush, make you crazy over my touch,” then reveals that she’s merely looking back at memories of a broken romance.

What you hear are a winner’s regrets. But victory suits her.

She should embrace it. MIKAEL WOOD (THE LOS ANGELES TIMES VIA AP)

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Daniel Day-Lewis is giving up acting Da

Daniel Day-Lewis, the three-time Oscar Osc winner and one of today’s most lauded actors, revealed Tuesday that he is retiring from acting.

His spokeswoman confirmed the news to Variety, saying it was a “private decision.” Day-Lewis, 60, whose wh career has spanned four decades and included roles ranging from past U.S. presidents to gang leaders, lead has a final film due out Dec. 25, a yet-to-be-titled project about high fashion. (EXPRESS) Jack Black, Eli Roth join horror movie “The House With a Clock in Its Walls”

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On ‘Melodrama,’ Lorde is her strongest when she owns her success

‘Batman’ Who is Jaden Smith if not a devoted Batman fanboy? He’s dressed as the Caped Crusader many times, like at his prom and Kimye’s wedding, and he’s back in costume for his track “Batman” (which sounds like an iteration of Drake and Future’s “Jumpman”). Clad in an all-white Batsuit, Smith sets out to fight crime — aka take on other costumed superheroes on Hollywood Boulevard — just as Bruce Wayne does.

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‘Wild Thoughts’ DJ Khaled ft. Rihanna and Bryson Tiller

Summer (n.): a yearly season reserved specifically for bops

by Rihanna. ”Wild Thoughts,” built around a guitar sample from Santana’s “Maria Maria,” is the latest. The video, shot in Miami’s hot and sweaty Little Haiti, features a supersultry Riri, rapper Bryson Tiller and evident background dancer DJ Khaled, who serves as the video’s unofficial armwaver. B.C.

Dave Chappelle to host the Diamond Ball, Rihanna’s annual charity event, on Sept. 14 in New York

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He was hospitalized recently for sickle cell anemia complications 1974-2017 The rapper Prodigy, a member of the New York hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, has died. He was 42.

The rapper’s publicist said in a statement Tuesday that Prodigy was hospitalized a few days ago in Las Vegas “for complications caused by a sickle cell anemia

crisis.” Prodigy had battled sickle cell since birth and was in Las Vegas for a performance.

The exact cause of death was not clear, the representative said.

“It is with extreme sadness and disbelief that we confirm the death of our dear friend Albert Johnson, better known to millions of fans as Prodigy of legendary NY rap duo Mobb Deep,” the statement read.

Prodigy was born in New York and found success in the ’90s

Both as a solo artist and in Mobb Deep, Prodigy released some of rap’s most acclaimed music.

with fellow rapper Havoc in Mobb Deep. The duo’s hits included “Quiet Storm” with Lil’ Kim, “Shook Ones (Part II)” and “Hey Luv (Anything).”

Foo Fighters announce fall tour and ninth album, “Concrete and Gold,” out Sept. 15

Mobb Deep earned a platinum plaque for the 1999 album “Murda Muzik.” The duo also reached gold status with the albums “Infamy,” “Hell on Earth”

MARK LENNIHAN (AP)

Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy dies at 42

and “The Infamous.”

Prodigy also released several solo albums, including the goldselling “H.N.I.C.” in 2000. He also put out a cookbook of prison recipes last year, “Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook.” Prodigy served most of a 3½-year sentence in a medium-security dorm at Mid-State Correctional Facility near Utica, N.Y., after a plea deal on a weapons possession charge in 2007.

He said bei ng i n prison changed him. “It made me realize the gravity, the reality of having everything taken from you,” he told The Associated Press in an interview last year.

“My career, my family, my freedom.” MESFIN FEKADU (AP)

Forthcoming “Avatar” sequels add “Game of Thrones” actress Oona Chaplin to cast

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You may be faced with a choice that is anything but the no-brainer someone thinks it is. You must consider all eventualities.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You know that your words will make a difference, but you also know that to say them at the wrong time may undermine your purpose.

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TUESDAY’S SOLUTION

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You can push others forward so that they can reach important goals under their own steam before the day is out.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) When taken out of context, someone’s words may rub you the wrong way.

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DAILY CODE

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1954: The American Cancer Society presents a study to the American Medical Association meeting in San Francisco that found that men who regularly smoked cigarettes died at a considerably higher rate than nonsmokers.

1982: A jury in Washington, D.C., finds John Hinckley Jr. not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.

1989: A sharply divided Supreme Court rules that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.

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