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Numbers game This season’s MLB home run projections are totally bonkers 15

Secret searches FBI, ICE are using DMV databases to scan faces without any consent 12

Tensions abound Va. lawmakers prepare to debate gun control in a special session 6

Cataclysmic commute

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Record-setting deluge dumps a month’s worth of rain in a single hour, stranding drivers as roads turn to rivers in the middle of Monday’s morning rush 8

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Lingering legacy of colonialism takes undignified toll on seabird

Yodeling festival attendees get more than they bargained for

Is a little felony grand theft worth ruining that waiter’s lucky day?

A vibrant orange bird found by the side of a highway in England turned out to be a seagull covered in curry, CNN reported Monday.

Rescuers at Tiggywinkles Animal Hospital in Buckinghamshire gave the fragrant bird a bath and nicknamed him Vinny, as in vindaloo. “This is one of the strangest casualty circumstances we have seen in a while!” Tiggywinkles staff wrote on Facebook. Vinny will be released soon. (EXPRESS)

The Swiss air force’s aerial display team flew over the wrong area Saturday after getting distracted by an unauthorized helicopter. People in Langenbruck expected the squadron to swoop by, but it flew over nearby Mümliswil instead. The Defense Ministry said the formation hadn’t practiced the maneuver, and the leader saw what he thought was a tent for the Langenbruck celebration that turned out to be for a yodeling festival in Mümliswil. (AP)

Police say a $5,000 tip a woman left on a $55 cafe bill wasn’t generosity. The woman is accused of using her boyfriend’s credit card to leave the tip as revenge. Clearwater, Fla., police say Serina Wolfe was upset her boyfriend wouldn’t buy her a plane ticket home to Buffalo, N.Y. Wolfe left the tip at a restaurant in Clearwater’s tourist district.

The boyfriend notified his credit card company, and Wolfe was arrested last week. (AP)

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A whirlwind tour of faith EDUCATION School was out — and it was time for the teachers to be quizzed.

More than two dozen Montgomery County public educators furrowed their brows as the questions flashed on the screen. “What was the religion of Maimonides?” Ten guessed that the sage was Buddhist; seven guessed he was Mormon. Six got the correct answer: Jewish.

“When does the Jewish Sabbath begin?” popped up. Again, wrong answers — many of the teachers guessed Saturday. (It’s Friday night.)

“See?” one teacher muttered.

“This is why I’m taking this class.”

In Montgomery County, these teachers said, the religious diversity of their students often astounds them. Students ask for days off for Diwali and share stories with classmates about celebrating Eid. To educators who aren’t familiar with religion, the multitude of traditions can be overwhelming.

That’s where this summer

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Teachers take a course in religion by visiting area congregations

Christopher Murray, left, watches as a priest at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in D.C. speaks to Montgomery County teachers about Catholicism.

course comes in. Over a six-day program that ended last week, Montgomery teachers of all grade levels toured some of the Washington area’s religious institutions, from a Muslim mosque to a Sikh gurdwara to a Jewish synagogue. They met with experts who taught them about the difference between Catholic and Protestant, Sunni and Shiite, atheist and agnostic.

The course was led by Christopher Murray, a fellow teacher.

It was the 10th time he’d taught

a teachers’ course on religion, whether as a summer intensive or a 15-week night course during the school year.

Murray is simply a religion nerd. On visiting the many houses of worship throughout the week, he says: “It’s kind of my Disney World.”

When Murray asks the teachers questions about how they can legally teach religion in their schools, most say the subject is murky to them. Several say they believe it’s illegal to teach

a class on religion, although it’s not — about half of Montgomery County’s high schools offer such an elective, according to Murray.

W hen Murray said pub lic school teachers can’t lead prayers, according to the Supreme Court, several were surprised. “Oops,” said one teacher, admitting she has previously led students who share her Muslim faith in prayer at school.

For Joanna Fellows, a theater and film teacher at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, Md., who is not religious, the whirlwind tour of Washington-area congregations was deeply informative.

Her theater class is often a refuge for students struggling with their sexuality, she said.

When she talks to parents, they sometimes say their religious beliefs lead them to condemn homosexuality.

Now, Fellows is rehearsing an answer steeped in what she has learned.

“In Sikhism, they say the creator and the creation are one,” she said. “In the Torah, we have this idea that God made us in His image. In Buddhism, you have a central concept that there is beauty and there is value in all life.”

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D.C. listed among most walkable U.S. cities The District is the fourth mostwalkable city in the United States, according to the Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis at George Washington University. The June 2019 report, “Foot Traffic Ahead,” compared walkable urban spaces among the 30 largest metro areas. D.C. placed fourth, after New York City, Denver and Boston. Area suburbs with urban features like Arlington and Silver Spring contributed to D.C.’s high ranking. (EXPRESS) POLITICS

Gallup polls nation on D.C. statehood issue Gallup is rolling out its firstever poll on the issue of D.C. statehood, Washingtonian reported. The company surveyed 1,018 people from all 50 states and D.C.; results will be available on July 15. Gallup also surveyed Americans on the issue of Puerto Rican statehood, but the company has polled on that issue in the past. (EXPRESS)

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Evans’ longtime allies defect

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Lead economic official to depart for Fairfax role One of the lead officials behind Amazon’s move to Northern Virginia is leaving Arlington to head economic development efforts in Fairfax County, officials announced Monday. Victor Hoskins, who directed Arlington County’s economic development authority for nearly five years, will succeed Gerald L. Gordon as head of Fairfax’s economic development authority, starting Aug. 5, per a news release. (AP)

D.C. Council member’s colleagues, donors balk amid ongoing probes

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Longtime donors to Jack Evans’ reelection campaigns say they’re now hesitant to support him.

In the short term, I don’t see any solutions,” said Ron Lester, a pollster whose clients have included former Mayor Marion Barry.

Evans did not return calls for comment.

The extent to which Evans’ fortunes have changed came into focus last Tuesday at a D.C. Council session at which he tried — by all appearances, without success — to persuade fellow lawmakers not to strip him of his prized committee chairmanship and not to investigate his conduct.

Council member Elissa Silverman, I-At Large, said the session had gone “horribly” for Evans.

“I don’t think Jack persuaded anyone,” she said.

Some campaign donors said

Evans’ woes continue On Monday, D.C. Council member David Grosso, I-At-Large, became the first council member to call for Jack Evans to resign his Ward 2 seat. Meanwhile, council chair Phil Mendelson revealed Monday that Evans will not make his traditional annual trip to New York City to meet with bond ratings agencies.

Mendelson will instead join D.C.’s mayor and finance chief. (EXPRESS)

they worried about Evans’ political future.

“I would not at this point give him money,” said Morton Funger, a prominent developer and reliable Evans contributor. He said

Evans’ political fortunes seem tenuous enough that he would not continue to support him “unless I find out that whatever they’re trying to accuse him of is not correct.”

Chris Donatelli, another developer who has contributed money to Evans’ campaigns, said he was “still standing by Jack because he has done a lot for D.C.” But he also said he is waiting to hear Evans explain emerging facts before he commits to supporting his future campaigns.

“I’m rooting for Jack,” Donatelli said, “but to be honest, I feel like I’m pulling for an underdog at this point.”

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POLITICS The political isolation of Jack Evans has never been greater.

Evans, D, who has represented Ward 2 on the D.C. Council for 28 years, had largely deflected politicians’ concerns about his ties to lobbyists and developers — questions at the center of an ongoing criminal investigation and multiple ethics probes.

But his defenses have crumbled in recent weeks, as the findings of an ethics investigation commissioned by the Metro board became public and FBI agents stepped up pressure on the council member with a dawn search of his Georgetown home.

Now colleagues who in the past have either defended Evans or refrained from attacking him are abandoning him. On Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D — who counts Evans as one of her strongest allies and has pointedly refrained from commenting on his problems — called on him to step down as chairman of the council’s finance committee, as lawmakers plan to investigate Evans’ alleged conflicts of interest.

Some campaign donors who have fueled his seeming invincibility say Evans, 65, can no longer count on their support.

He faces multiple challengers in his reelection effort next year, as well as a recall campaign.

“He’s on a very slippery slope.

Trump plans to repeat lavish July 4 festivities President Trump says he’s planning a repeat of the July 4 festivities that included a speech by him at the Lincoln Memorial.

Trump says it was “a wonderful day for all Americans” and that, “based on its tremendous successes,” his team has “made the decision to do it again next year and maybe we can say for the foreseeable future.” (AP) TRANSPORTATION

D.C. to designate curbs for commercial users The D.C. Department of Transportation will next month launch a 12-week experiment in creating special curbside zones for commercial deliveries and loading, according to a report in Curbed. The program will remove street parking at nine locations across the city to analyze how commercial operators use the space. (TWP) THE DISTRICT

Fireworks noise causes panic at Union Station Loud noises that sounded like gunshots in Union Station on Sunday afternoon sent panicked crowds running, shouting and diving for cover, officials and witnesses said. It appeared that the noises “were fireworks,” not an active shooter, Kevin Donahue, D.C.’s deputy mayor for public safety, said in a tweet.

No one was injured. (TWP)

Virginia court to decide whether Confederate battle flag can fly on private property near highway

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A guide to Va. gun control talks What Democrats want

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Northam is proposing a ban on silencers and high-capacity magazines. He also wants mandatory, universal background checks before gun purchases; a monthly limit of one handgun purchase; and a law that would allow authorities to seize weapons from people deemed a threat.

Democrats are looking to pin down lawmakers with recorded votes.

Republicans said they want to instead focus on criminal penalties directly or indirectly related to gun crimes. That includes enacting new mandatory minimum penalties for certain repeat domestic abusers, which Republicans said would reduce the number of gun-related homicides. Northam has said he will no longer approve imposing new mandatory minimum penalties.

All 140 legislative seats are up for grabs this November, and Virginia is the only state whose legislature has a reasonable chance of flipping partisan control this year. Republicans currently have narrow majorities in both chambers.

Advocacy groups on both sides have spent heavily and mobilized their members in past state elections, and they are likely to do so this year too.

At the special session, Republicans are also pushing for a bipartisan hearing on sexual assault allegations two women have made against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, D. Democratic leaders have called the idea a political stunt, but the caucus is divided. Two women who publicly accused Fairfax of sexual assault said they would testify before the legislature only if both political parties participate.

Former GOP Rep. Scott Taylor announces he’ll challenge Mark Warner for Va. Senate seat in 2020

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Virginia lawmakers will assemble today for what will likely be a contentious legislative session on gun laws. Gov. Ralph Northam, D, called the special session last month shortly after a Virginia Beach city employee opened fire on his co-workers at a municipal building on May 31, killing 12 people. Northam, faced with a gun-friendly, Republican-controlled General Assembly in the middle of a legislative election year, is urging action on several gun control measures. Here’s a look at some of the fault lines. ALAN SUDERMAN (AP)

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam wants to tighten the state’s gun laws.

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Flooding rain engulfs region

Harry Tun walks through debris from a widespread flash flood Monday morning on a closed Canal Road NW in D.C.

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Motorists on Canal Road NW were stranded as roads flooded rapidly.

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WEATHER A month’s worth of rain deluged the immediate D.C. area early Monday, resulting in one of its most extreme flooding events in years. The record-setting cloudburst unleashed 4 inches of water in a single hour, way too much for a paved-over, heavily populated urban area to cope with at the height of the morning rush.

Water gushed into the press workspace in the basement near the White House’s West Wing.

Government employees worked to drain puddles of standing water with wet vacs.

Flooding led to electrical outages that closed the National Archives Building and Museum, according to a statement from the National Archives, which said the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were safe and not in any danger.

National Weather Service meteorologist Cody Ledbetter said the storm dumped about 6.3 inches of rain near Frederick, Md., about 4.5 inches near Arlington, and about 3.4 inches at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in a two-hour period.

“The storm was not moving very quickly,” Ledbetter said.

Water levels at Cameron Run in Alexandria, a flood-prone area along the Capital Beltway, rose more than 7 feet over 30 minutes after 9 a.m., according to the weather service. Four Mile Run, which runs through Arlington and Alexandria, saw a similar increase.

Pete Piringer, a spokesman for the fire department in Montgomery County, said emergency workers responded to dozens of rescue calls and used boats to pluck people from flooded cars. “ E ver y where I t u r ne d , there was traffic and roads

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Dozens of commuters seek rescue on obstructed roads as a month’s worth of precipitation falls in an hour

The White House briefing room was among many areas that saw flooding.

D.C. removes newly installed bike lane from Alabama Avenue SE after residents decry losing parking

If your car was one of the many trapped by floodwaters on or below street level Monday, you should resist the urge to start it up once the waters recede. “Have it towed out of the garage,” said John Townsend, director of public affairs for AAA Mid-Atlantic. “You don’t want to drive it because the electrical system could short out — maybe not today, but down the road and in traffic.” The best option, Townsend said, is to tow the vehicle to a reputable mechanic who can certify whether there is any damage to the many electronic components in modern cars and trucks. (TWP)

closed,” he said.

Piringer said he didn’t immediately receive any reports of storm-related injuries.

In Northern Virginia, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue said it responded to more than 30 calls for swift-water rescues throughout the county. Authorities advised people to avoid

driving if possible. Neighboring Arlington County also reported numerous rescues.

Gretchen Eisenberg’s morning 4-mile commute usually lasts 10 minutes. It took her nearly an hour to drive to work from her Frederick home. She stopped to shoot eye-popping video of a Frederick park inundated with raging floodwaters.

“I tried to take my normal route, but I had to turn around and take a different way in because of the flooding,” she said.

The torrential rain made commuting a nightmare for thousands, leading to some flooding and single-tracking and a waterfall situation at Virginia Square Metro station. Metro said it would honor its rush-hour promise to issue a credit to riders who were delayed by more than 10 minutes.

“We know it was a difficult AM commute as torrential rainfall impacted service,” especially on the Red, Orange and Silver lines, Metro said in a tweet just before noon Monday. “If your trip was delayed 10+ min using a registered SmarTrip card, expect a Rush Hour Promise ride credit.”

By early afternoon, thousands remained without power.

Utility officials said crews had restored power to thousands of homes, but by 1 p.m., 1,300 Pepco customers and 2,000 Dominion customers were without power, down from at least 10,000 in the region since the storms started.

In some areas, utility crews encountered water levels so high, they couldn’t access affected locations. Dominion spokesman Jeremy Slayton said the hardesthit areas include Alexandria, Springfield and Herndon, where the utility had problems with downed trees. At its peak, 7,000 customers were without power, he said. (AP/THE WASHINGTON POST)

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New York law targets Trump’s state taxes

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Iran breaches key limit in uranium enrichment

Legislation allows Congress to access elected officials’ returns

Suit: Woman gave birth to wrong babies

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NEW YORK President Trump’s New York tax returns could be given to Congress under a new law in his home state that was signed Monday by the Democratic governor and dismissed by Republicans as a partisan game that wouldn’t stand up in court.

The measure signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo directs state tax officials to share state returns of certain elected and appointed officials upon written request from the chairpersons of one of three committees: House Ways and Means, Senate Finance or Joint Committee on Taxation.

Designed to give Congress a way around the Republican president’s refusal to release his returns, the new law is expected to face legal challenges. And it’s unclear whether Congress will request access to Trump’s state returns, which tax experts say would include many of the same details as his federal return.

All sides expect legal challenges and requests for injunctions, meaning it could be many months before any state tax returns are handed over.

Trump has long filed taxes in New York as a resident of the state. He is the first president since Watergate to decline to make his returns public.

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President Trump has not weighed in on the New York law signed Monday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which could allow the state to share his tax returns.

The president has not weighed in on the new law but has repeatedly accused New York Democrats of using their positions to harass him and his allies.

Republicans in New York say that while the law was written to target Trump, it could be used to go after any other official who pays taxes in the state.

“This is purely political,” state Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy told reporters. He predicted the law “will never stand up in the courts.”

To address concerns about the tax privacy of everyday New Yorkers, state lawmakers narrowed the measure so it applies only to the state income tax returns of elected officials, party leaders and top public

officials, like judges — as well as any businesses or legal entities they control.

Top lawmakers in Washington have differed on whether congressional committees should make use of the new law.

U.S. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, has touted the bill as “a workaround to a White House that continues to obstruct and stonewall the legitimate oversight work of Congress.”

Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., however, has signaled that he may not be interested. Neal is already pursuing Trump’s federal returns and has threatened to go to court in order to get the administration to comply. DAVID KLEPPER (AP)

A couple who welcomed twin boys in March through in vitro fertilization is suing the Los Angeles-based clinic where the pair sought treatment, claiming a mix-up led the woman to give birth to the wrong babies. Alarms were raised early when the woman was told she would give birth to two boys even though two female embryos were to have been used. After the woman gave birth, the couple quickly realized the babies did not share their Asian ethnicity. So they relinquished custody of the newborns, who are identified only as Baby A and Baby B in a federal lawsuit alleging that their embryos were swapped or misplaced, forcing the woman to carry other people’s babies to term in a successful fertilization that still went terribly awry. (TWP)

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Disney revives drawing class D

Walt Disney World is reviving an animation class that th teaches people how to draw their favorite characters. The class was discontinued four years ago, but the th Orlando Sentinel reported Monday it will be coming back starting this week. The classes will be held at Animal Kingdom in honor of the “Lion King” reboot being released later this month. Eight animation artists a will teach visitors how to draw characters from the movie, such as Simba and Pumbaa. (AP) President Trump says U.S. will “no longer deal” with U.K. envoy who called his administration “dysfunctional”

Iran on Monday began enriching uranium to 4.5%, just breaking the 3.67% limit set by its nuclear deal with world powers, while it is still seeking a way for Europe to help it bypass U.S. sanctions amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington. Experts warn that higher enrichment could begin to narrow the oneyear window Iran would need to have enough material for an atomic weapon. (AP) SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

Young child dies in fall from cruise ship balcony A 1-year-old girl apparently slipped from her grandfather’s hands and fell to her death from the 11th story of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico, police said Monday. Police Sgt. Nelson Sotelo said that the family of the child will remain in the U.S. territory until the investigation is complete. (AP) SUDAN

Military council to be dissolved in peace deal Sudan’s top general says the military council that assumed power after the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April will be dissolved with the implementation of a powersharing deal reached with protesters last week. The military and a pro-democracy coalition agreed on a joint council that will rule for a little over three years while elections are organized. (AP) BUSINESS

British Airways faces $229M fine over breach British Airways is facing a $229 million fine over a breach that compromised information on half a million customers — the biggest penalty to date under new regulations. Britain’s Information Commissioner proposed the fine Monday. The scam saw customers diverted to a fake website where credit card details were harvested by the attackers. (AP)

Vatican lifts French archbishop’s immunity in groping probe

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Surveillance gold mine TECHNOLOGY Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver’s license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.

Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years, obtained through publicrecords requests by researchers with Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology and provided to The Washington Post, reveal that federal investigators have turned state departments of motor vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure.

Police have long had access to fingerprints, DNA and other “biometric data” taken from criminal suspects. But the DMV records contain the photos of a vast majority of a state’s residents, most of whom have never been charged with a crime.

Neither Congress nor state legislatures have authorized the development of such a system, and growing numbers of Democratic and Republican lawmakers are criticizing the technology as a dangerous, pervasive and error-prone surveillance tool.

“Law enforcement’s access of state databases,” particularly DMV databases, is “often done in the shadows with no consent,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., told The Post.

The records show the technology already is tightly woven into the fabric of modern law enforcement. They detail the regular use of facial recognition to track down suspects in lowlevel crimes, including cashing

JHAAN ELKER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Records show FBI and ICE use driver’s license photos for facial-recognition searches

A sheriff’s office in Oregon is using facial recognition to help track down criminal suspects. Critics see this as a dangerous precedent against privacy.

By the numbers

390K 641M 21 The number of FBI facial-recognition searches of federal and local databases, including state DMV databases, since 2011, the Government Accountability Office said last month. The records show that federal investigators have forged daily working relationships with DMV officials.

The number of photos the FBI’s facialrecognition search has access to on local, state and federal databases, a GAO director said last month. But the agency provides little information about when the searches are used, who is targeted and how often searches return false matches.

a stolen check and petty theft.

And searches are often executed with nothing more formal than an email from a federal agent to a local contact, the records show.

“It’s really a surveillance-first,

The number of states, including Texas and Pennsylvania, plus the District of Columbia, that allow federal agencies such as the FBI to scan driver’s license photos, GAO records show. The agreements stipulate some rules for the searches, including that each must be relevant to a criminal investigation. (TWP)

ask-permission-later system,” said Jake Laperruque, a senior counsel at the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight. “People think this is something coming way off in the

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future, but these [facial-recognition] searches are happening very frequently today.”

The records also underscore the conflicts between the laws of some states and the federal push to find and deport undocumented immigrants. More than a dozen states, as well as the District of Columbia, allow undocumented immigrants to drive legally with full licenses or driving privilege cards, as long as they submit proof of in-state residency and pass the states’ driving proficiency tests.

“The state has told [undocumented immigrants], has encouraged them, to submit that information. To me, it’s an insane breach of trust to then turn around and allow ICE access to that,” said Clare Garvie, a senior associate with the Georgetown Law center who led the research.

Civil rights advocates have said the inaccuracies of facial recognition pose a heightened danger of misidentification and false arrests. The software’s precision is highly dependent on a number of factors, including the lighting of a subject’s face and the quality of the image, and research has shown that the technology performs less accurately on people with darker skin.

“The public doesn’t have a way of controlling what information the government has on them,” said Jacinta González, a senior organizer for the advocacy group Mijente who was particularly concerned about how ICE and other agencies could use the scans to track down immigrants.

“And now there’s this rapidly advancing technology, with very few guidelines and protections for people, putting all of this information at their fingertips in a very scary way.” DREW HARWELL

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS The International Criminal Court on Monday convicted a notorious rebel commander known as “The Terminator” on 18 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes including murder, rape and sexual slavery for his role in atrocities in a bloody ethnic conflict in a mineral-rich region of Congo in 2002 to 2003.

Bosco Ntaganda, who maintained his innocence during his trial, faces a maximum life sentence following his convictions at the global court.

A hearing will be scheduled to determine his sentence.

Ntaganda was first indicted in 2006 and became a symbol of impunity in Africa, even serving as a general in Congo’s army before turning himself in in 2013 as his power base crumbled.

Presiding Judge Robert Fremr said that Ntaganda was guilty as a direct perpetrator or a co-perpetrator of a string of crimes including murders, rapes, a massacre in a banana field behind a building called the Paradiso and of enlisting and using child soldiers.

Congolese activists praised the conviction.

“We welcome the decision of the ICC. We believe that the victims will be relieved,” said Jean-Claude Katende, president of the African Association of Human Rights in Congo. “We want the sentence to be fixed proportionate to his crimes.”

(THE WASHINGTON POST)

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ICC convicts Congolese rebel of war crimes

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White House launches review of human rights

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WASHINGTON The Trump administration said Monday that it will review the role of human rights in American foreign policy, appointing a commission expected to elevate concerns about religious freedom and abortion.

Human rights groups accused the administration of politicizing foreign policy in a way that could undermine protections for marginalized populations, including the gay, lesbian and transgender community. Democratic senators have raised concerns about the panel’s intent and composition, fearing it would consist of members who “hold views hostile to women’s rights” and blow away existing human rights treaties.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the creation of the Commission on Unalienable Rights, saying the country must be “vigilant that human rights discourse not be corrupted or hijacked or used for dubious or malignant purposes.”

As human rights claims have “proliferated,” he said, nations have become confused about what constitutes a human right and which rights should be respected and treated as valid.

He said he expects the most comprehensive review of the subject since the 1948 Universal

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Critics fear new panel will erode protections for marginalized groups

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, announced Monday the Commission on Unalienable Rights, to be led by Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon.

Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations and laid out global rights and freedoms.

The commission will be chaired by Harvard Law School professor Mary Ann Glendon, a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. A conservative scholar and author, Glendon turned down an honor from Notre Dame the year President Barack Obama was scheduled to deliver a commencement address there over his support for abortion rights.

Amnesty International USA said there was no reason for such a review given the decades-old protections in place.

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senators said in a letter last month that they were dismayed that the commission was being assembled without congressional oversight. Several of the people reported to be on it, they charged, support discriminatory policies against gays and lesbians, “hold views hostile to women’s rights, and/or ... support positions at odds with U.S. treaty obligations.”

Glendon, who attended the announcement, said she was honored to do the job at a time when “basic human rights are being misunderstood by many, manipulated by many and ignored by the world’s worst human rights violators.” ERIC TUCKER (AP)

A Titanic survivor’s cane, featuring an electric light she used to signal for help, will be up for sale this month at Guernsey’s auction house in Rhode Island. In Walter Lord’s book about the Titanic and in investigative hearings after the sinking, it’s documented that Ella White appointed herself as a signalman for lifeboat 8, waving her walking stick about. Brad Williams said his grandmother was White’s niece and cared for her affairs before she died in 1942. The cane was passed on to Williams’ mother, then to him. The pre-auction estimate for the black enameled stick with battery-illuminated crown is up to $500,000. Williams said it still lights up. (AP)

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A free climber in London has scaled the Shard, one of Europe’s tallest buildings. The man who climbed the 1,017-foot glass tower early Monday was spoken to by police afterward but hasn’t been arrested. London police were called to the scene after receiving reports that someone was climbing the building without a harness. It’s not the first time the building has been scaled. Six women were arrested after climbing it in 2013 to protest Arctic oil drilling. (AP)

U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., ends presidential bid, will run for reelection to congressional seat

AG to try new path in census question fight WASHINGTON Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he sees a legal path to adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, despite a Supreme Court ruling that blocked its inclusion, at least temporarily.

Barr said the Trump administration will take action in the coming days that he believes will allow the government to ask the controversial question.

Barr would not detail the plans, though a senior official said President Trump is expected to issue a presidential memorandum to the Commerce Department instructing it to include the question.

“I agree with [Trump] that the Supreme Court decision was wrong,” Barr said, adding he believes there’s “an opportunity … to cure the lack of clarity that was the problem and we might as well take a shot at doing that.” ’ The U.S. Census Bureau’s experts have said a question asking about citizenship would discourage immigrants from participating in the survey and result in a less accurate census.

That in turn would redistribute money and political power away from Democratic-led cities where immigrants tend to cluster and to whiter, rural areas where Republicans do well.

As the administration grapples for a way around the Supreme Court’s ruling, the Justice Department has shaken up its legal team handling the matter.

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nation+world Wealthy NY financier accused of molesting dozens of young girls NEW YORK Eleven years after letting Jeffrey Epstein off lightly with a secret deal, federal prosecutors made another run at putting the billionaire financier behind bars on sex allegations, charging him Monday of abusing dozens of underage girls as young as 14.

The 66-year-old hedge fund manager who once socialized with some of the world’s most

powerful peo ple — including President Trump and former President Bill Clinton — was charged in Epstein a newly unsealed indictment with sex trafficking and conspiracy and could get up to 45 years in prison.

Prosecutors said the evidence included a “vast trove” of hundreds or even thousands of lewd photographs of young women or girls, discovered in a search of his New York mansion.

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This has been the summer of swat so far

League and franchise home run records are on pace to be crushed

BASEBALL In 2018, Major League Baseball released the results of an independent study conducted by a committee of scientists “on the causes of the increased home run rate in the game since 2015.” The panel found the surge in home run hitting over that span was due, at least in part, “to a change in the aerodynamic properties of the baseball.”

More specifically, the experts found the ball used in games over the past few years created less drag as it moved through the air, causing it to travel further It appears to remain a problem.

The Nationals hit back-toback-to-back-to-back home runs against the Padres in June, becoming the first team in the history of the league to hit four consecutive home runs on more than one occasion. A few days later, the Diamondbacks and Phillies put on an impromptu home run derby, smashing a record 13 home runs combined in one game. Christian Yelich (Brewers), Cody Bellinger (Dodgers) and Pete Alonso (Mets) each have a chance at reaching 60 home runs by the end of the season.

T h er e h ave b e e n 3 , 6 9 1 home runs hit so far in 2019, a

historically ally high rate of 1.37 per game. We can expect the current home me run record (6,105), set in 2017, 017, to be obliterated by year’s end.

A whopping 58 players are on pace to hit 30 or more home runs this season. Yelich, Bellinger and Alonso reached that mark before the All-Star break.

Seven other players are tabbed for 29 home runs this year, so that record is also in jeopardy.

Sixteen players are on pace to hit 40 or more home runs in 2019, with Yelich leading all hitters with a projected 55 homers by season’s end.

With numbers like that, team home run records are poised to fall.

The 2018 Yankees set the record for most home runs in a season with 267. They are on pace to hit 274 in 2019 — and with some of their biggest sluggers getting healthy, that number could rise. Three other teams — the Twins, Mariners and Brewers — are also on pace to break the Yankees’ record. And the Twins are on pace to shatter it, with 302 home runs this season — 14% more than the record.

Major League Baseball itself is on pace for a total of 6,668 home runs this season, smashing the previous record. That’s a sharp rise from 2014, when MLB tallied just 4,186 homers.

(THE WASHINGTON POST/EXPRESS)

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At tonight’s All-Star Game (7:30, Fox) in Cleveland, fans might witness something they’ve never seen before: automatic runners. Already employed in the minors, the rule is meant to keep games short: Every extra inning in All-Star play begins with a free runner at second base.

The last two All-Star Games both went to extras — Robinson Cano hit a leadoff homer in the 10th in 2017, Alex Bregman did the same last year. Plus, there was the 15-inning affair in 2008 and the dreaded 2002 game that was declared a very unpopular tie after the 11th. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, below, says there are no plans to put free runners on base in the regular season. (AP)

14 16 55 The number of teams on pace to break franchise records for home runs hit in a single season. The MLB record (267) set in 2018 is also in jeopardy: the Twins, Mariners, Brewers and Yankees are all on pace eclipse it. (EXPRESS)

The number of players on pace to hit 40 or more home runs this season. Nationals AllStar Anthony Rendon, who leads the team with 20 homers and is projected to hit 36 this year, could reach 40 with a second-half surge. (EXPRESS)

The number of home runs reigning National League MVP Christian Yelich is on pace to hit this season. But his trajectory could change if the back injury that caused him to pull out of the Home Run Derby affects his hitting. (EXPRESS)

Nationals All-Stars Anthony Rendon (hamstring, quad issues), Max Scherzer (back stiffness) to miss tonight’s All-Star Game

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Party’s over for 15-year-old phenom Ex-No. 1 Halep curtails Gauff’s improbable run on way to quarterfinals

SOCCER In the wake of the Americans’ record-setting fourth World Cup title Sunday, the hard part still remains: the weekly work of boosting the National Women’s Soccer League.

“On the men’s side in MLS, they have owners with extremely deep pockets,” defender Crystal Dunn said. “If the women’s game is going to grow, it’s going to come down to us not kind of pennypinching on things and really putting a lot of resources in.”

NWSL has a management contract with the U.S. Soccer Federation, which pays the salaries of 22 allocated national team players. The league’s listed minimum salary is $16,538 and the maximum is $46,200.

Washington Spirit midfielder Rose Lavelle, above, who scored in the World Cup final, said that while national team players have higher pay, some of her club teammates take side jobs to make ends meet.

“We need kind of sustainable income so that people can feel like this is their full-time job,” she said.

Houston, Orlando, Portland and Utah have shared owners with the MLS teams in their cities, and North Carolina has the same owner as the local secondtier men’s team. Joint ownership has succeeded in Europe. Lyon has won four straight European Women’s Champions League titles. Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Chelsea reached the semifinals. RONALD BLUM (AP)

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Women’s game doesn’t stop at the World Cup

WIMBLEDON Coco Gauff’s remarkable run at Wimbledon is over.

The 15-year-old American, who became the youngest player to qualify for Wimbledon’s main draw in the professional era, lost to former No. 1 Simona Halep 6-3, 6-3 in the fourth round on Monday.

“I learned a lot,” said Gauff, who is younger than many of the players in the junior competition at Wimbledon. “I learned how to play in front of a big crowd.

I learned what it was like to be under pressure. I learned a lot and I’m really thankful for this experience.”

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Coco Gauff, left, shakes hands with Simona Halep after losing 6-3, 6-3.

champion Venus Williams in the first round, then saved two match points in the third round to reach the second week of a Grand Slam tournament in her debut.

Playing on the All England Club’s second-largest court, Gauff had plenty of support from the crowd. But Halep, the 2018 French Open champion, had the

better shots. She broke Gauff five times and took advantage of 29 unforced errors.

Gauff did manage to save two more match points when serving at 5-2, but Halep won the next game to reach the quarterfinals, where she faces Zhang Shuai of China at 8 a.m. today.

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Two-time winner Rafael Nadal defeated Joao Sousa 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 and faces 65th-ranked American Sam Querrey in the men’s quarterfinal Wednesday.

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Your pet’s health may tell you something about your own HEALTH Recent studies have supported the idea that pets are good for our health. Pets can lower blood pressure, improve mood and help us live longer. Which raises a related question: Does a pet’s health reflect that of its owner?

“As veterinarians, we often see pets who have the same health issues as their human companions or who are sentinels for a human health problem,” says Joseph Bartges, professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Georgia.

He notes that the increase in conditions related to diet and lifestyle — such as diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disease and cancer — has occurred in pets as well as humans.

Researchers in the Netherlands studied found that overweight dogs were more likely to have overweight owners. Data suggest that less time spent on walks was the greatest predictor of whether the pair would be overweight. Another study from Germany suggested we tend to impose our snacking patterns and attitudes about portion size and processed foods on our pets.

“I see [pet-owner] connections all the time in the office,” says Janet Foley, who runs the Sonoma County Mobile Veterinary Hospital in California. “But you have to be careful about how you raise these touchy issues.”

Foley focuses on giving lifestyle advice for the pet. “But then I see a lightbulb go off [for the owner]. They are thinking, ‘I should do that, too.’ ” Our pets can offer other insights into our health issues.

Take allergies, for example. A recent study from Finland showed urban living, small family size, and disconnection from nature and other animals was linked to a higher risk for allergy in humans and dogs. Dogs and owners who lived on a farm or in a household with many animals and children were protected from allergies.

Many immunologists believe microbes play a key role. From birth onward (and possibly in utero), the microbes found in rural and natural environments seem to train the immune systems of puppies and kids.

Foley mentions another way pet allergies might give us a new perspective on our personal health.

“The trend of processed foods and everything that occurs with industrialization is making us both sick.”

JOSEPH BARTGES, professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Georgia

Feline asthma, she explains, is often triggered by tobacco smoke.

“Sometimes a wheezy cat can offer someone the insight they need to see that smoking is bad for their own health,” she says.

Companion animals also provide insight into our mental wellbeing and social interactions.

“There are some indications of dogs being able to understand the mental state and emotions of their caregiver,” says Therese Rehn, a small-animal researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. One of her studies found that people with an avoidant attachment style often have

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dogs who separate from their owner when faced with a social stressor. “They don’t regard their owner as a safe haven,” she says.

A recent study in Nature suggests that a pet’s emotional state can mirror its owner’s. Researchers measured hair cortisol levels (an indicator of chronic stress) in doghuman pairs and found a strong degree of synchronization. This “emotional contagion” seemed to flow from humans to their dogs.

Bartges says feline idiopathic cystitis is an animal health issue that can give us insight into our own psychology. Cats with idiopathic cystitis have blood in the urine, frequently use the litter box and urinate around the house.

“Idiopathic cystitis is brought on by stress in the household, and owners of cats with idiopathic cystitis are usually stressed about having cats with idiopathic cystitis and it just feeds on itself,” Bartges says. His research indicates treating the owner’s anxiety by giving them a sense they are being heard can make the cat’s symptoms disappear. “Here is a case where treating the owner is just as important as treating the pet.”

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Come a bit early to lounge in hammocks and wiggle your toes in the (artificial) turf before the museum opens. Get your vinyasa on, then stick around after class to check out exhibitions on the Manhattan Project, Baltimore’s historic movie theaters and more. Sundays, 10-11 a.m. (except Aug. 4). For more info: nbm.org. SHARONE

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Q. I am in my late 60s,

Q. My older sister was terrible to me growing up and in

early adulthood. She excluded and mocked me whenever possible and was the classic “mean girl.� She never showed any interest in my life or my special occasions or otherwise made it seem like she cared. We are in our early 40s now and my husband and I have just purchased a second home at the beach. Of course my sister is contacting me all the time now, expecting to use it whenever she wants, even speculating that she’ll invite people there. I want to say “no� outright.

Or even charge her rent! But I don’t want to be as mean as she’s been.

It’s certainly not “mean� to protect yourself against being used, or to decline to grant a free beach vacation to someone who’s treated you poorly for decades. The question, to me, is not what she deserves

(easy: a polite “Unfortunately, it’s not available for that�), but rather what chances you want to give your relationship in the future. If she were ready to change — whether due to maturity and reflection

(yay!) or as an act, in order to get some time on the sand (boo!), would you want to give that new person a chance? If so, that’s admirable. But I’d urge you to give your feelings some air time first and get her to at least reckon with the position she’s put you in. (“I’m surprised you’re expecting that. We haven’t been close, and to be honest, I haven’t felt this level of interest from you before.�)

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married for 45 years, and the companionship is worth something to me. But my husband has always been inconsiderate and belittling.

I’ve thought about leaving, but there was always a reason to put it off. As I find myself considering whether to walk away, it seems misguided to be alone through older age.

I’m not sure I’d be happier.

There’s no crystal ball. You could leave and be lonely enough that you feel nostalgic for the belittling (ugh). Or you could stay and feel more and more trapped, with the sting of the freedom you gave up getting almost unbearable. Or you could leave and be happier than

you’ve been in half a century.

The only thing close to certainty is that you aren’t happy in your marriage now, and (at least in my book) a partnership lacking basic consideration is not a status quo to accept, no matter how long it’s become ingrained. Does he know what’s at stake? Would that make him try to change? Have you ever tried counseling together?

Risk tolerance varies among individuals, but in my world, to not try to change things up and see what it leads to would lead to regret. As scary as the unknown is, not trying for a better arrangement seems scarier.

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Meet Marvel’s clandestine superhero

FILM Sarah Finn had no idea what the meeting would set into motion.

It was 2006, and Finn had been called upon to interview for the Marvel movie “Iron Man.” That’s how she wound up holding a list of qualities director Jon Favreau wanted to see in his Tony Stark.

“I still have them on a piece of paper somewhere,” Finn says, before naming a few: charisma, quick wit, immense intelligence.

They chose Robert Downey Jr., though the announcement was met with raised eyebrows from the public. Downey’s relatively recent struggles with substance abuse had affected his mainstream career, but the risk paid off. Downey’s performance as the morally torn superhero anchored the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Infinity Saga, which began with 2008’s “Iron Man” and concluded 21 films later with April’s box office behemoth, “Avengers: Endgame.”

It’s difficult to imagine anyone but him in that role — a statement that could extend to any of the heroes, really.

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who has taken on the gargantuan task of casting every actor who appears in the MCU (aside from those in “The Incredible Hulk,” released a month after “Iron Man”). That amounts to more than a thousand roles overall, she says, ranging from characters as high-profile as Captain America to those as minor as his background dancers. The job — which Finn held for the first five MCU films alongside Randi Hiller — calls for a certain prescience, the ability to predict what sort of traits an actor would one day be asked to exhibit in films that have yet to be written.

Finn hadn’t been aware of that responsibility early on: “It wasn’t until we got into ‘Captain America’ and ‘Thor’ that Kevin Feige even mentioned the ‘Avengers’ films,” she says of the Marvel Studios president, who consults on casting decisions along with fellow executives and the directors of each film. Finn quickly learned that the interconnected nature of the MCU meant she’d have to find actors who were ready to pop up in any scene.

When they cast Paul Bettany as the voice of Tony Stark’s operating system J.A.R.V.I.S., for example, Finn says she had no clue J.A.R.V.I.S. would later be injected into a synthetic body

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named Vision, a physical role Bettany also took on.

Casting directors are often brought on between 12 to 16 weeks before a film starts shooting, Finn says, but with all the extra considerations that accompany a Marvel movie, she has sometimes started the search up to a year or two in advance.

Scheduling is its own beast.

Aligning the A-listers’ schedules for the past two “Avengers” movies was “a tremendous feat that probably hasn’t been done ever,” she says.

Finn also worked on the latest MCU film, last week’s “SpiderMan: Far From Home,” and she is currently tied to three future

Marvel movies: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Black Widow” and “The Eternals,” none of which she will comment on beyond stating that “there is a real desire and movement toward greater diversity across all of the films, in front of and behind the scenes.”

Finn laughs when asked whether she’ll continue to work on all the Marvel projects recently announced in Disney and Fox’s theatrical release schedule, which runs through 2027.

“Hopefully they’ll have me,” she says. “I try to have an idea of what’s coming up, but I don’t think I know what’s coming up until 2027. I’d never sleep if I did.” SONIA RAO (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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“Girls Trip” co-writer Tracy Oliver will create, wr write and executive produce a half-hour comedy series for Amazon Studios, the production company ann announced Monday. The show, which has been ordered for 10 episodes, will focus on four black women, with Amy Poehler attached as an executive producer. “I can’t wait to … share the story of these four women navigating naviga the complexities of adulthood through their unbreakable friendship,” Oliver said. (EXPRESS) Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren join next “Fast & Furious” film

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TELEVISION Michelle Carter sent her suicidal boyfriend countless text messages encouraging him to follow through on his plan to take his own life until he actually did.

Two years after Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, the director of a new documentary wants viewers to decide for themselves whether her actions were criminal. The two-part film, debuting at 8 p.m. tonight on HBO, explores a different side to the young Massachusetts woman portrayed by prosecutors as a manipulator who coaxed Conrad Roy III into killing himself.

“There was this very simple story put forth that Michelle Carter was this good-looking ice queen that set about to kill a young man to become popular,” says Erin Lee Carr, the director of “I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter.” “I knew that that wasn’t going to be correct.”

Carter opted for a bench trial, which meant that a judge decided her fate. The judge found then-17-year-old Carter caused 18-year-old Roy’s death when she told him in a phone call to get back in his carbon monoxide-filled truck in 2014.

Carter began serving her 15-month sentence in February.

Carr says she wants the film to act as the jury trial Carter, now 22, didn’t get, saying, “We really wanted to present the case in a way that you became her jury.”

ALANNA DURKIN RICHER (AP)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You have a certain advantage over the competition today, but you mustn’t take it for granted or squander it in any way.

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