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N. KOREA REACHES AN OMINOUS MILESTONE

Uneasy listening

JAY-Z doesn’t hold back on his emotional new album, ‘4:44’ 20

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D.C. residents mainly blame high home costs on rich newcomers newcomer erss 4

In a direct challenge to the Trump administration, Pyongyang test-fires an intercontinental ballistic missile, putting it closer to being able to strike the U.S. mainland with nuclear weapons 8

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A performer dressed as Uncle Sam walks on tall stilts along Constitution Avenue during the National Independence Day Parade in D.C. on Tuesday.

New, cheesy spot to get hitched in Vegas: A marijuana grow house

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A groom put a marijuana bud in his pocket as he and his bride wed in a Las Vegas facility growing the drug that’s newly legal to buy there. Anna Balfe-Taylor said she hesitated but said OK when Mark Balfe-Taylor suggested they marry in the grow house. Both said they’ll abstain from pot — Mark’s dad served prison time for a marijuana offense — even though Nevada began recreational pot sales on Saturday, their wedding day. (AP)

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Baraboo, Wis., is the home of the Circus World Museum and the former headquarters of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, so an elephant wandering the streets might not be such a surprise there. But still, a full-grown pachyderm taking a stroll on its own was cause for alarm. A trainer last week was summoned to retrieve Kelly, who got loose when fellow elephant Isla used her trunk to disengage a restraint. (AP)

It was bad enough last week when hurricanestrength winds sent pedestrians in Moscow running for cover near Red Square, UPI reported.

The scene became downright bizarre, video showed, when they also had to dodge onrushing portable toilets being pushed by the wind at high speed along streets and sidewalks near landmarks like the Moscow Museum of Archaeology. (EXPRESS)

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Camp heats up girls’ firefighting interest

THE DISTRICT

City’s historical society will relocate temporarily

Bald eagle found injured in the District

ARLINGTON COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT

ARLINGTON COUNTY There aren’t many female firefighters across the country, or in the Arlington County Fire Department.

But one female firefighter, Marcia “Tia” Reed, is trying to change that by getting more girls interested in the emergencyrescue field. She helps operate an annual girls-only summer camp that introduces teens to the maledominated career of firefighting.

“Women don’t dream about coming to this field. They have no concept they can do this job,” said Reed, who has worked for 10 years as a firefighter in Arlington.

“We wanted to bring more women into our department. Showing them in our camp what it’s about helps us — hopefully — do that.”

The Arlington County Fire Department’s summer camp, called “Camp Heat,” runs four days and offers girls free room and board.

The camp this year runs from

TO THE RESCUE

An injured bald eagle in D.C. — likely Liberty or Justice, who have made their home at the D.C. police academy in Southwest for more than a decade — was treated at City Wildlife on Monday after being found Saturday following a thunderstorm.

It is not possible to definitively determine the injured bird’s identity because neither eagle is tagged. It will be taken to a center in Delaware for further examination and a full X-ray and returned to the District once it has been cleared, an official said. (TWP)

At Camp Heat, girls 15 to 18 participate in hands-on fire rescue training.

Thursday to Sunday.

About two dozen girls, ranging in age from 15 to 18, are selected from across the country based on a written essay. Girls who live in Arlington are usually given preference, Reed said.

The county foots the annual bill of about $30,000 for the camp.

Priyanka Bose, 17, an Arlington resident who will be a senior at Yorktown High, went to Camp Heat last summer and said it encouraged her to take an EMS course at a career center. This year, she’s serving as a mentor

to campers.

She said the camp “made me absolutely sure” that she wants to be an emergency responder.

“It opens doors for girls, which is so necessary today because now, more and more females are entering male-dominated workplaces,” Priyanka said. “ Even the girls who de cided not to pursue careers in the field left with a much higher self-esteem and the belief that they can do anything they choose.” DANA HEDGPETH (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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A large part of D.C.’s history will soon be on the move. The Historical Society of Washington will close its doors in the Carnegie Library on Friday and plans to reopen in the early fall in a temporary home in the Newseum. The historical society and its Kiplinger Research Library have to leave the Carnegie Library while the historic 1903 building is transformed to host an Apple emporium. (TWP)

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Poll: Housing a rising concern in D.C. Wealthy newcomers get most of the blame for higher home costs THE DISTRICT A surprising constituency agrees with critics of D.C.’s gentrification that wealthy newcomers are driving housing prices through the roof: wealthy newcomers.

A new Washington Post poll finds that 78 percent of people who moved to Washington in the past 15 years with incomes of at least $150,000 per year say that new high-income residents are

a major reason for the shortage of affordable housing in the city.

Concern is widespread across racial and income groups, as well as those who have both lost and benefited amid the city’s rapid development in the past few decades.

Nearly 1 in 5 D.C. residents named housing as the biggest problem facing the city, outpacing crime, education and even the oft-lamented Metrorail system.

While Mayor Muriel Bowser earns a 67 percent overall approval rating, 55 percent of respondents say she has done a “not so good” or “poor” job

Affordable housing The percentage of residents who say each is a “major reason” for D.C.’s shortage of affordable housing. (TWP) New high-income residents

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30% Source: June 15-18 Washington Post poll of 901 D.C. residents, +/- 4 percentage point error margin

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creating and maintaining affordable housing.

Beyond wealthy newcomers, majorities of D.C. residents blame the city government for not spending enough to create and maintain affordable housing, failing to ensure benefits go to residents who need it most and catering too much to the needs of developers.

The rise in D.C. housing costs has been stark, with the median home value tripling from $136,200 in 2000 to $484,000 last year, and rents rising correspondingly. SCOTT CLEMENT AND RACHEL CHASON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Estranged wife charged in killing of ex-FBI agent Authorities have arrested the estranged wife of a former FBI agent months after his body was discovered beneath a woodpile and plastic tarp outside his Maryland home, police announced Monday. Scott Alan Horn, 63, of Laurel, was found unresponsive and bleeding from his face at the entrance of an outdoor shed March 16. Anne Allen, 62, has been charged with murder in her husband’s killing, accused of enlisting a man with whom she had a romantic relationship as her “muscleman,” charging papers written by Laurel police state. (TWP)

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GOP candidate for governor wants fewer fireworks rules

Residents in a D.C. neighborhood are upset over flyers that claim the so-called “pizzagate” conspiracy theory is real. NBC4 Washington reported Sunday that the flyers showed up in Tenleytown, where a man fired a gun inside a pizza restaurant last year. Edgar M. Welch said he wanted to investigate wild online claims of a child sex ring at Comet Ping Pong. The North Carolina man was sentenced to four years in prison. The flyers were placed on fences and doors and called for the conspiracy theory to be investigated again. The flyers turned up between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. (AP)

A Netflix documentary series has prompted calls for the Baltimore Archdiocese to release a dead priest’s files. The Baltimore Sun reported Saturday that the show about the priest’s alleged abuse led to more than 11,000 signatures on an online petition. Archdiocese spokesman Sean Caine said state law bars the release of much of the confidential information. “The Keepers” focuses on the unsolved death of a Catholic nun and abuse at then-Archbishop Keough High School. The priest at the center of the program is A. Joseph Maskell. He denied abuse allegations and was never charged before his 2001 death. (AP)

Virginia’s Republican candidate for governor says ordinary citizens should be free to shoot off bottle rockets and Roman candles. Ed Gillespie pledged Sunday to try to legalize higher-grade fireworks if elected. They’re allowed in neighboring West Virginia and Tennessee. He made the vow ahead of July Fourth and two weeks after his narrower-than-expected primary win. Gillespie said the state is missing out on an opportunity to create jobs, revenue and fun. Democrats used the fireworks pledge to needle Gillespie over his reluctance to take a firm stand on Republican health care bills in Congress. (AP)

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GOP gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie wants bottle rockets and Roman candles legalized in Virginia.

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Kim’s missile tests Trump NATIONAL SECURITY North Korea’s test launch Tuesday of an intercontinental ballistic missile marks a direct challenge to President Trump, whose tough talk has yet to yield any change in Pyongyang’s behavior as the regime continues efforts to build a nuclear weapon capable of striking the mainland United States.

The latest missile flew higher and remained in the air longer than previous attempts — enough to reach all of Alaska, experts said, in a major milestone for North Korea’s weapons program.

The test comes just before Trump will see key Asian leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin this week for the Group of 20 economic summit. It adds urgency to a widening U.S. campaign aimed at further isolating North Korea.

Trump responded to the test by applying rhetorical pressure on China, North Korea’s ally and economic lifeline, and by mocking North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Twitter. “ No r t h K o r e a h a s ju s t launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?” Trump asked.

“Hard to believe that South Korea and Japan will put up with this much longer,” Trump continued.

“Perhaps China will put a heavy move on North Korea and end this nonsense once and for all!”

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North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un — seen here in an image from the stateowned KRT news service — watches the latest test launch of a missile.

The missile launch follows a salvo of missiles last month from Pyongyang and three tests in May alone. Kim has now launched more missiles in one year than his father and predecessor in the family dynasty did in 17 years in power.

The number and variety of tests worry experts, who see each step as part of a march toward a missile capable of striking America’s West Coast.

The missile tests violate existing United Nations and other

sanctions, which North Korea has found ways to evade. Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have declared that the “era of strategic patience” with North Korea is over, but the new U.S. administration has not spelled out what that means.

Tillerson has said the United States might eventually negotiate with North Korea under the right circumstances, but he has suggested that possibility is remote.

The United States will act alone if it must, he warned.

The Trump administration has recently leaned on China to rein in North Korea and curb illicit trade with the country, which is largely cut off from the global financial system.

Given that Japan and South Korea are within range of existing North Korean missiles, Trump has also sought to unite leaders of both nations behind a strongly worded U.S. position that it will no longer tolerate North Korean provocations.

Leaders of all three Asian nations will be present at the G-20 summit in Germany.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to work closely with the United States and South Korea, but called on China and Russia to do more.

“I’d like to strongly urge international society’s cooperation on the North Korea issue and urge China’s chairman, Xi Jinping, and Russia’s President Putin to take more constructive measures,” Abe said.

Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, condemned the test but countered that Beijing had “spared no effort” in its fight.

On Tuesday, Russia and China jointly proposed that North Korea put further nuclear and missile tests on hold while the United States and ally South Korea refrain from large-scale military exercises. Both nations oppose North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and the U.S. antimissile system being installed in South Korea. ANNE GEARAN AND EMILY RAUHALA (THE WASHINGTON POST)

DECLINING U.S. BIRTHRATE

The number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44 in the U.S. last year, a decline of 1 percent from 2015 and a historic low, according to provisional 2016 population data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The trend is being driven by a decline in birthrates for women in their teens and 20s. The birthrate for women in their 30s and 40s rose, but not enough to make up for the lower numbers among younger women. If the birthrate is too low, the U.S. ultimately might not be able to replace an aging workforce. (THE WASHINGTON POST) Some Canadians criticize government’s $8 million settlement and apology to former Gitmo prisoner Omar Khadr

Trump’s return to Europe to be a balancing act FOREIGN POLICY President Trump will learn this week whether he gets a second chance to make a first impression as he returns to Europe and has his first encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump’s first visit to Europe in May stirred anxieties among European allies when he declined to explicitly endorse NATO’s common-defense treaty and scolded world leaders for not spending more on their armed forces. This time, Trump will use stops in Poland and Germany to try to pull off the tricky balancing act of improving ties with Moscow at a time of particularly fraught relations while also presenting the U.S. as a check against Russian aggression.

White House officials said Trump would reiterate the U.S. commitment to NATO’s Article 5, which says an attack on one member is an attack on all — something he didn’t do at NATO headquarters in Brussels, but eventually endorsed last month.

Trump is leaving Washington for Europe today. The president will meet Putin on Friday on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Every aspect of the bilateral meeting between the two leaders is sure to be closely scrutinized as investigations press on into alleged Moscow meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign. KEN THOMAS (AP)

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Allied forces penetrate wall in Raqqa’s Old City Troops backed by U.S. make a crucial advance in long fight against ISIS

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SYRIA U.S.-backed forces in Syria have breached the wall around Raqqa’s Old City, the U.S. military said Tuesday, marking a major advance in the weeks-old battle to drive Islamic State militants from their self-declared capital.

The U.S. Central Command said the coalition struck two “small portions” of the Rafiqah Wall, allowing the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces “to advance into the most heavily fortified portion” of the city, bypassing booby traps and snipers. It said the strikes left most of the 2,500-meter wall intact.

The head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdurrahman, said the breaching of the wall was the most important development to date in the battle for Raqqa. He said three SDF units advanced toward the wall under air cover, breaking through the ISIS defenses, and that heavy clashes were underway.

Footage provided by the SDF showed their fighters roaming Qasr al-Banat, a historic quarter inside Raqqa’s Old City. Another

A frame grab from video released Tuesday and provided by a Syrian Kurdish activist-run media group shows SDF fighters in eastern Raqqa.

unit entered through the socalled Baghdad Gate, opening a second front inside the Old City.

Brett McGurk, the top U.S. envoy for the international coalition against the Islamic State group, hailed the breach, saying it was a “key milestone” in the campaign to seize the enemy stronghold.

The U.S. military said ISIS fighters were using the historic wall as a fighting position, and had planted explosives at several openings. It said coalition forces were making every effort to protect civilians and preserve

historical sites.

The SDF launched a multipronged assault on Raqqa in early June, after securing the surrounding countryside. On Sunday, the U.S.-backed fighters crossed the Euphrates River on the southern edge of the city, completing its encirclement.

U.N. officials say 50,000 to 100,000 civilians remain in the city amid dire conditions. Those who try to escape risk being attacked by militants or forcibly recruited as human shields.

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AZTEC TOWER OF SKULLS

Find raises questions, not answers Archaeologists in Mexico City recently found a tower of hundreds of skulls that had been described by Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century. The Europeans assumed the skulls were of enemy warriors and used to frighten off other enemies, but the researchers also discovered skulls from women and children, casting doubt on that explanation. The Aztecs were known to practice human sacrifice on a massive scale. (THE WASHINGTON POST) Sri Lanka’s worst-ever dengue outbreak has killed 225 this year

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Court blocks EPA’s plan to suspend new rules

Doctor kills woman, self in shooting at hospital

An appeals court Monday struck down the Environmental Protection Agency’s 90-day suspension of new emission standards on oil and gas wells.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the EPA has the right to reconsider the rule, but could not delay the effective date while it sought to rewrite the regulation. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

A doctor forced from a New York hospital because of sexual harassment accusations returned Friday with an assault rifle hidden under a lab coat and shot seven people, killing a female doctor and leaving several other doctors fighting for their lives, authorities said. The gunman, 45-year-old Henry Bello, fatally shot himself after trying to set himself on fire at Bronx Lebanon Hospital. (AP)

POLITICS

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Most states defy request to provide data on voters

Gang rivalry suspected in club shooting; 28 hurt

Most states are refusing to comply with the expansive request of the Trump administration’s election integrity commission for names, dates of birth, voting histories and party identifications of voters. The information was requested for an investigation into suspected voter fraud. CNN reported that 44 states have refused to provide certain types of voter information to the commission. (EXPRESS)

Police said 28 people were shot when a suspected gang rivalry erupted inside a packed club in Little Rock early Saturday. Several others were injured attempting to escape, with reports that some jumped from second-story windows at the Power Ultra Lounge. Mayor Mark Stodola told reporters that the club would be shut down for unspecified violations. (TWP)

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Six-month delay granted on transgender recruits

China objects to warship, vows to increase patrols

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday delayed a plan approved by the Obama administration a year ago to begin allowing transgender recruits to join the U.S. military.

Mattis gave the Joint Chiefs of Staff the six-month reprieve that they requested. The services can now delay processing transgender recruits until Jan. 1, following another review, Mattis said. (TWP)

China’s military vowed Monday to step up air and sea patrols after an American warship sailed near a disputed island in the South China Sea in what Beijing called a “serious political and military provocation.” A U.S. defense official said that Sunday, the USS Stethem, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island, a small isle controlled by China. (TWP)

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For many, a last straw

A movement to eliminate the plastic pollutants is sucking in thousands of converts

Chicago policy will force grads to have a plan

patrons not to use them.

“Humans didn’t really evolve around straws. It’s not like we have to consume fluids with this appendage,” said Catherine Greener, vice president of sustainability for the company.

It’s a convenience people seem to use arbitrarily. Millions drink soda with a straw, but hardly any suck beer through one. Coffee drinkers gulp hot coffee directly from cups but stick straws in iced coffee. Bar hoppers drink highballs from a glass, but mixed cocktails come with a straw.

At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, Melissa and Brian Charon, parents visiting from Boston, shrugged when told the museum doesn’t offer straws.

“It’s fine with me. I don’t really miss it,” Melissa said. Then Brian added: “I look in the drawer in our kitchen every day and say, ‘Why do we have so many straws?’ ”

EDUCATION To graduate from a public high school in Chicago, students will soon have to meet a new and unusual requirement: They must show they’ve secured a job or received a letter of acceptance to college, a trade apprenticeship, a gap year program or the military.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he wants to show that the nation’s third-largest school system is not just responsible for shepherding teens through their senior year, but also for setting them on a path to a productive future.

“We are going to help kids have a plan, because they’re going to need it to succeed,” he said. “You cannot have kids think that 12th grade is done.”

Experts say Chicago Public Schools is the first big-city system to make post-graduation plans a graduation requirement. The question is whether the district can provide enough mentoring and counseling to help its neediest students succeed when the rule takes effect in 2020.

Critics say Emanuel’s idea does nothing to address the fact that many teenagers are graduating in impoverished, violence-racked neighborhoods with few jobs, or that the most readily accessible community colleges are ill-prepared to meet the needs of first-generation students from low-income families. They also point out that the 381,000-student district laid off more than 1,000 teachers and staff members in 2016.

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ENVIRONMENT It started so innocently. A kid ordered a soda in a restaurant.

“It came with a plastic straw in it,” Milo Cress recalled. “It seemed like such a waste.”

Not only did he yank the plastic from his drink, but he also launched a campaign, “Be Straw Free,” targeting all straws as needless pollution. He went to restaurants in Burlington, Vt., where he lived at the time, and asked managers not to offer straws unless patrons asked. He was 9 years old.

Today Cress, 15, is one of the faces of a growing movement to eliminate plastic straws.

Straws are among the most common plastic items volunteers clean from beaches, along with bottles, bags and cups, conservationists say. Americans use half a billion straws every day, at least according to an estimate by Be Straw Free, based on information from straw manufacturers. That many straws could wrap around the Earth 2½ times.

Nearly every chain restaurant and coffee shop offers straws.

They’re in just about every movie theater and sit-down restaurant.

Theme parks and corner stores and ice cream shops and school cafeterias freely hand them out.

But they are starting to disappear because of the awareness campaign Cress and dozens of conservation groups are waging. Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom bans them, as do the food concession areas of Smithsonian Institution museums.

The movement was growing at a slow, steady pace when Cress joined it six years ago, but it exploded after a YouTube video of a sea turtle with a straw stuck in its nose went viral in 2015.

The cringe-inducing effort to

Plastic straws, which can harm wildlife, are among the most common items that volunteers clean from beaches.

pull the plastic out of a bloody nostril outraged viewers — 11.8 million so far.

Cress has launched a website on the issue, and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, cited Cress’ activism in a 2013 proclamation that made July 11 a straw-free day in the state.

Manhattan Beach outside Los Angeles banned all disposable plastics, including straws. Berkeley, Calif., is considering a ban.

Restaurants in New York, Miami, San Diego, London, British Columbia, Huntington Beach, Calif., Asbury Park, N.J., and Bradenton, Fla., have pledged to ban straws or withhold them unless patrons ask for them.

The Plastic Pollution Coalition estimates that 1,800 “restaurants, organizations, institutions and schools worldwide have gotten rid of plastic straws or implemented a serve-strawsupon-request policy,” said Jackie Nunez, founder of a group called

The birth of the straw The prevailing notion says flexible straws were invented in the late 19th century by Marvin Stone, a D.C. man who didn’t like how the traditional ryegrass straw used for drinking would disintegrate and leave gritty residue in his mint juleps. Stone wrapped strips of paper around a pencil, glued the strips together and test-marketed the contraption, and in 1888, the disposable straw was born, according to the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. (TWP)

the Last Plastic Straw.

Xanterra Parks & Resorts, a concessions company that partners with the National Park Service to provide food and lodging at Rocky Mountain National Park, the Grand Canyon and other national parks, offers straws at dispensers but posts fliers asking

Some “buffalo-style chicken salad” sold at Whole Foods is recalled; it’s actually tuna salad

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Fireworks in reserve Nats pile up runs, reach 1,000-win mark with just two opening day starters in lineup NATIONALS 11, METS 4 The 1,000th regular-season victory in Nationals history came in a game that began at 11:06 a.m.

Tuesday, with a lineup that included two of their starters from opening day. It was, nevertheless, as fitting a day for such a victory as any in their history.

One thousand wins into their D.C. existence, these Nationals have holiday traditions, like the early start. They have so many stars, they can rest two and still have two of the best hitters in baseball in the middle of the lineup. And they have an increasingly legitimate rival in the visiting Mets, whom they beat 11-4 to earn their 50th win.

The brightest star in the Nats’ short history, Bryce Harper, had

three hits and scored three runs.

Arguably the best pure hitter in that history, Daniel Murphy, went 4-for-5 with five RBIs. It is a testament to the progress of this franchise over its first 1,000 wins that those two hitters, as prolific as they are, do not constitute anything near the extent of the team’s firepower.

The Nationals entered the day as the league’s leading offense and left with 11 runs compiled mostly by reserves, without Ryan Zimmerman, Anthony Rendon, or Matt Wieters — all resting.

Jayson Werth (foot) and Trea Turner (broken wrist) were out with injuries. Adam Eaton is out for the season with a torn ACL. In their first season in D.C. in 2005, the Nats scored at least 10

Nats boast five All-Stars First baseman Ryan Zimmerman, second baseman Daniel Murphy and outfielder Bryce Harper were selected by fans as starters for the NL All-Star team, which was announced Sunday. Pitchers Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg were also named to the team for the game July 11 in Miami. Third baseman Anthony Rendon is a candidate to land a roster spot from fans in the annual “Final Vote” competition. (EXPRESS)

runs five times. Through the first 84 games of 2017, these Nats have scored at least 10 runs 14 times.

Joe Ross was 12 when the Nationals recorded their first

win. Tuesday, he threw the most pitches in his three-year big league career, 114, over seven innings of two-run ball.

Early on, Ross seemed to wrestle himself as much as the Mets, allowing a leadoff homer to Jose Reyes in the first and throwing 55 pitches in the first three innings. Harper and Murphy drove in runs to give the Nats the lead in the third, but Ross surrendered it immediately on a first-pitch homer by Rene Rivera in the fourth.

Fortunately for Ross, the Nationals’ margin for error is wide.

A four-run, five-hit fifth by Washshington gave him room to breathe, and he exited after seven n strong innings with a seven-run un lead.

Max Scherzer, who began his July with 12 strikeouts over seven shutout innings Sunday night, was named the NL pitcher of the month for June, MLB announced Monday.

During the month, the Nationals’ ace led the majors in ERA (0.99) and WHIP (0.55) and opponents’ batting average (.114), on-base percentage (.187) and slugging percentage (.195). He recorded at least 10 strikeouts and reached the seventh inning in four of his five outings. Scherzer (10-5, 1.94 ERA) was named an All-Star for the fifth straight season Sunday and is the leading candidate to start for the NL because Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw will pitch Sunday, two days before the All-Star Game will be played in Miami. (TWP)

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Ump sues MLB, claims discrimination

Angel Hernandez, a big league umpire pire for nearly 25 years, sued MLB on Monday alleging race discrimination. Hernandez, 55, was born in Cubaa and lives in Florida. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, he alleges that MLB chief baseball eball officer Joe Torre “has a history of animosity” towards him that has contributed to a lack of recent World d Series assignments and a decline in positive evaluations of his performance since Torre began his job. (AP)

Mets minor leaguer goes on DL with concussion after being attacked with tire iron in attempted robbery

Angels’ Mike Trout will miss All-Star Game as he rehabs injured thumb

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Even before the start of NBA free agency Saturday, the short offseason had been defined by moves that alter the present and future makeup of the league. On Friday, the Jazz acquired point guard Ricky Rubio from the Timberwolves, who replaced Rubio with free agent Jeff Teague to pad a young core they had already bolstered by landing Jimmy Butler from the Bulls. Players continued to get snatched up through the holiday weekend. Here are some of the biggest names involved so far. (EXPRESS/THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Oklahoma City hit a grand slam by getting Pacers forward Paul George in exchange for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis in a trade reported Friday night. No, it doesn’t mean Russell Westbrook is going to sign an extension with the Thunder. What it does mean is that Thunder GM Sam Presti landed one of the top 15 players in the league to pair with the reigning MVP, and did so for about 25 cents on the dollar. Both Westbrook and George can be free agents a year from now, meaning both could commit to re-sign, or both could leave for nothing. Perhaps they’ll even choose to go play for the Lakers — George’s g known preferred destination — together.

Kevin Durant, the NBA Finals MVP and crown jewel of last year’s free agent class, agreed Monday to re-sign with the Warriors at a discount rate of $53 million over two years. Knowing they would have that flexibility helped the Warriors assure the return of defensive stalwart Andre Iguodala (three years, $48 million) and backup point guard Shaun Livingston (three years, $24 million). Shortly after free agency opened Saturday, Stephen Curry — the two-time league MVP synonymous with Golden State’s rise — cashed in by agreeing to a five-year, $201 million deal under the veteran “super max” designation.

The Raptors are in a fascinating situation. They’re in the middle of their best stretch in franchise history but still haven’t been good enough to contend for a title. By keeping Kyle Lowry ($100 million) and Serge Ibaka ($65 million) on three-year deals, Toronto can stay competitive and also have the chance to do a full reset in 2020.

Lowry is 31, and the deal could be ugly by the end, but a shorter-term deal is a win. Now it remains to be seen whether Toronto can shed salary (Jonas Valanciunas?) to save on luxury tax payments. While they kept their point guard and power forward, the Raptors lost free agent P.J. Tucker to Houston on a four-year, $32 million deal.

Four-time All-Star Paul Millsap agreed to a three-year, $90 million contract Sunday. According to AP, Denver engaged with the forward early in the process, outlasting bidders including the Suns and Hawks. Millsap’s new contract has some risks for the Nuggets — he’ll be 35 when it’s up and is undersized at his position. But he’s also still an excellent player and seems to be a perfect match with center Nikola Jokic and coach Michael Malone. Millsap averaged a career-high 18.1 points for Atlanta last season with 7.7 rebounds and 0.9 blocks per game. For a Denver team trying to make the playoffs, this was a necessary move in the Western Conference arms race.

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Kings o out of Porter sweepstakes

After submitting a maximum contract offer sheet to forward for Otto Porter Jr. on Sunday, the Kings made two moves Tuesday that will keep them from affording afford the Wizards’ restricted free agent. According to multiple reports, Sacramento agreed to deals wit with Zach Randolph (two years, $24 million) and George Hill (three years, $57 million). The Washington Post reported that the Wizards plan to match max offers in order to retain Porter. (EXPRESS) Free agency: Tuesday reports link Gordon Hayward to Celtics; agent says decision wasn’t made

NHL The Capitals re-signed forward Andre Burakovsky to a twoyear, $6 million deal Tuesday, leaving the team just one more restricted free agent, backup goaltender Philipp Grubauer, to extend this summer.

Burakovsky, 22, will carry a cap hit of $3 million a season and be a restricted free agent at its completion. With Burakovsky’s deal now done, the Capitals have $5,589,893 in salary cap space, according to CapFriendly.com, and that should be enough to re-sign Grubauer to a bridge deal and accommodate the five other player contracts Washington will have to fill out a 22-man roster.

The team cleared some cap room Sunday night when it traded forward Marcus Johansson, 26, and his $4.582 million cap hit to the Devils. With Johansson no longer in the lineup, the Capitals expect Burakovsky to play in the top-six forward corps next season. The Caps were encouraged by how Burakovsky looked in the second round of the playoffs when he was moved to a line with center Nicklas Backstrom and winger T.J. Oshie.

On Sunday, the Capitals gave restricted free agent center Evgeny Kuznetsov an eight-year, $62.4 million extension. With an average value of $7.8 million per year, Kuznetsov is now the second-highest-paid player on the team behind Alex Ovechkin.

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Horowitz, who led fight vs. ESPN, ousted during inquiry into harassment MEDIA Jamie Horowitz, the controversial TV executive charged with leading Fox Sports into its highprofile ratings battle with ESPN, was dismissed in surprising and abrupt fashion Monday, reportedly in the wake of a sexual harassment investigation.

Fox Sports President Eric Shanks announced Horowitz’s departure in an email to staff

that said all employees “should act with respect and adhere to professional conduct at all times.”

The Los Angeles Times, citing an unnamed source, reported Monday that parent company 21st Century Fox launched an investigation last week into allegations of sexual harassment, and that several women at Fox Sports have been interviewed.

An attorney for Horowitz, who is credited for the rise of personality-focused programming at both ESPN and Fox Sports 1, said her client had been treated

in an “appalling” manner by Fox. “Jamie was hired by Fox to do a job, a job that until today he has performed in an exemplary fashion,” Patricia Glaser said in a statement. “Any slanderous accusations to the contrary will be vigorously defended.”

Fox has been embroiled in sexual harassment scandals for the past year that resulted in the ouster of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly — who reportedly got help from the network to pay $13 million in settlements — and Fox News head Roger Ailes.

RICK MAESE (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Wimbledon: Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic advance in matches shortened by opponents’ injuries

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World champ disqualified for wrecking rival

VITTEL, FRANCE | Peter Sagan, left, sprints ahead as Britain’s Mark Cavendish falls to the pavement during the fourth stage of the Tour de France. Sagan, the world champion from Slovakia, was disqualified from the race Tuesday for elbowing Cavendish and causing the crash.

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A wave of emotions Here are the five stages of listening to ‘4:44,’ JAY-Z’s contemplative new album

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Irritation

Last Friday, JAY-Z, rap’s pre-eminent captain of industry, released his new album, “4:44,” exclusively through Tidal, the streaming platform that he co-owns.

The flaming hoop: If you hadn’t signed up for Tidal days in advance, you were required to ink a new mobile contract with Sprint. For those addicted to convenience, this was incredibly annoying. For listeners who still believe in music as a sacred event, it was insulting.

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Rubbernecking

Oh man, so he did cheat on Beyonce, and Solange did rough him up in that elevator over it, and he is miffed at Kanye. Plus he sees a therapist, and his mom is gay, and for a few hours on Friday, there were not enough species of emoji to express the cumulative jolt of these disclosures.

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Relief

Once you finish gasping, breathe easy. This is the first cogent JAY-Z album in nearly

a decade — partially because all of the beats come from the sympathetic producer No I.D., and partially because he has finally entered the confessional mode of the era. Yes, Kanye West and Drake made vulnerability a standard posture in rap music countless moons ago, but Jay’s late arrival isn’t merely a capitulation to the style. He has significant things to atone for — most notably, his infidelity to a singer who turned their marital strife into “Lemonade,” one of the most commanding pop albums of the 21st century.

Now it’s JAY-Z’s turn to spill, and his album’s title track makes for an extraordinary act of contrition. The words “I apologize” appear seven times, and if his throat sounds lumpy, it’s because he sees his shame billowing out into the future: “If my children knew, I don’t even know what to do. ... My heart breaks for the day I have to explain my mistakes.”

Elsewhere, the social injustices that have always been targeted on JAY-Z’s lyric sheet are cast in sharper-than-usual relief. It’d be

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It’s Bey’s world Listeners might be surprised to learn that Beyonce — who, on 2016’s “Lemonade,” outed JAY-Z’s past infidelities while married to her — had a big role in “4:44’s” creation. “I always call Bey our de facto A&R,” No I.D., the album’s producer, told The New York Times. “Every song has to get past her ears, in my eyes.

She came by a lot and played a good part in helping us get over hurdles on certain records. Of course she’s genius-level with that.” (EXPRESS)

useless to paraphrase “The Story of O.J.” here — you need to hear every syllable fall from the rapper’s mouth as he recounts the devastation of American racism in his most conversational voice.

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Second-guessing

The intimacy of “4:44” is startling, and while it’s your invitation to listen closely, go ahead and zone out when Jay describes his decision against buying real estate in Dumbo as “dumbo.” Or when he goes out of

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his way to cite “Hamlet.” Or on “Moonlight,” when Jay accuses today’s rappers of becoming so interchangeable: “I don’t know who is who.” That’s disappointing. Rap has never been more hospitable to a wider spectrum of styles, tones, moods or modes than it is right now, and the maestro’s inability to hear it works against the empowerment he’s always preaching.

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Bargaining

In a digital age that never forgets, maybe bargaining is the new acceptance. JAY-Z is giving us new things on “4:44.”

But it’s new only for him, and his slow progress toward selfexposure still feels at odds with the maniac velocity of rap writ large — a speed that allows the music to swing moods and metabolize styles faster than any other American art form.

He’s a leader, and he’s lagging, just not as badly as before. Hiphop hooray? Our pleasure can feel so confusing when one of the greats simply does good.

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Nick Jonas is continuing his endless quest to become a Not Jonas Brother by putting out a music video of himself partying with pals who aren’t Joe or Kevin. This clip takes place in an empty room, later filled with beautiful humans, as well as packing peanuts, a shopping cart and a scooter.

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Harris masters the star-studded mix signals Harris is pushing beyond previous club hits like l a s t y e a r ’s “This Is What You Came For,” with Rihanna.

In addition to Ocean and Migos, Future, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Big Sean, John Legend, Khalid, Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Lil Yachty, Young Thug, Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams all appear. An album with so many

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ALBUM REVIEW A photo of a sun-kissed, empty beach is on the front of DJ/producer Calvin Harris’ latest work — an appropriate choice for what is a strong contender for album of the summer. The 10-track “Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1” is a slick triumph for Harris, who recruited 21 of his superstar friends.

It kicks off with his single, “Slide,” featuring a moody Frank Ocean and the hip-hop trio Migos. The gorgeously layered song

Calvin Harris, with help from his famous friends, makes magic happen on “Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1.”

guests would presumably topple over, but Harris weaves all the voices, styles and grooves into a coherent, breezy hip-hop and EDM tapestry. It recalls Moby’s 1999 hit-collection “Play”

— another insular techno artist who became a bona fide pop star.

“Heatstroke,” with Grande turning her angel voice up to 11, is pure shimmering pop. “Rollin,” combining Khalid’s soulfulness

and Future’s unique rap style, makes for a hypnotic slow jam.

Minaj goes Caribbean flirty in “Skrt on Me,” and Jessie Reyez turns in a great “Hard to Love.”

Perry’s appearance on “Feels” seems destined to continue the Great Feud of Our Age, namely the beef between her and Taylor Swift. Harris is an ex-boyfriend of Swift’s, and the reggae-flavored song seems to throw shade on a pill-popping, emotionless bed jumper. One line goes: “Goddamn, I know you love to make an entrance/ Do you like getting paid or getting paid attention?”

Sure, the collection has a curious title. But at least it offers some hope — that there’s a Vol. 2.

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