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Unhappy ending?

Redskins’ impasse with Cousins may well hurt them on the field 14

Roem gains steam Transgender candidate in Va. race far outraises her GOP rival in June 4

TRUMP ON OBAMACARE:

Woman’s death affirms Australians’ view of a gun-crazy America 13

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With the GOP’s repeal efforts in tatters — and with no clear way forward — the president says lawmakers should let the Affordable Care Act market collapse to force Democrats to negotiate 10

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Let it fail

U.S. ‘nightmare’

The stage is set PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS (AP)

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SYNC OR SWIM: Team China competes in the women’s team technical final during the synchronized swimming competition at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on Tuesday.

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All those years of retrieving that tennis ball finally paid off

Nothing’s going to eclipse this couple’s wedding ceremony

A resident director at Illinois’ Greenville University has taught his dog to bark in a whisper. Brian Gertler, who lives in an apartment in a freshmen dorm with his wife and their dog Dudley, found that Dudley’s barking when they played together was waking up students. After noticing that Dudley got too winded to bark loudly during a game of fetch, Gertler slowly trained him to bark in a whisper. Now they can play at night without waking anyone. (AP)

A dog that saw a baby deer in danger of drowning in Long Island Sound on Sunday jumped in and dragged it to shore. The daring rescue was caught on video by his owner, Mark Freeley. It shows Storm retrieving the fawn, then lying next to it on shore and nudging it with his nose. Freeley says animal rescuers soon arrived and the deer ran back into the water. They used a rope to pull it back in.

It’s now recovering at an animal rescue center. (AP)

An astronomy buff and her fiance want to make sure nothing eclipses their Missouri wedding ceremony. Samantha Adams says her longtime fascination with the stars prompted her to schedule the ceremony for 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 21 — during an extremely rare total solar eclipse. ”I couldn’t think of a more dreamlike wedding for myself,” said Adams, 28, who has a tattoo of the space probe Voyager on her left arm. (AP)

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ARLINGTON The dark mass spreading from the boarded-up, second-story window of an old supply building caught the attention of David Mueller as he was driving by.

Mueller, a part-time beekeeper who lived nearby in Arlington’s Nauck neighborhood, knew what he was seeing: bees, perhaps 70,000 of them, builders of an enormous hive that had grown around the window in the three months since the building had been vacant.

“It was 6 or 7 inches deep and 48 inches long at its longest point,” Mueller said Monday.

“But walking by, if not paying attention, you wouldn’t notice it.”

The building was purchased last year by Arlington County, which intends to demolish it.

That meant the beehive was in serious danger.

Mueller called Chikwe Njoku, one of the county’s neighborhood

DAVID MUELLER

Couple helps relocate a massive hive from a lead-tainted building

Beekeepers David Mueller and his wife, Emily, removed this massive hive from an Arlington building.

revitalization program coordinators, and got the go-ahead to relocate the hive. On a scorching July 1, he and his wife, Emily, both members of the Northern Virginia Beekeepers Association, donned full protective attire and approached the brick structure.

“The biggest issue was the heat,” Mueller said, describing the hive as the largest he and his wife have ever moved. “At 95 degrees, the wax is very, very soft and the

honey is very, very heavy.”

They were almost finished when they spotted the queen bee walking on the plywood that had boarded up the window. They plucked her up and put her on the hive with as many of the other bees as they could capture.

The bees, who appear to have moved in after the building closed in March, “weren’t happy,” Mueller said.

Honeybees can build “a very large hive in a very short time,” Mueller said, especially when the honey-making season of summer is approaching.

The couple harvested armloads of honey, which Mueller said is not fit for human consumption because the building windows contained lead paint and unsanitary surroundings.

They plan to strain it and return it to the hive, which they have moved to a community garden at 10th and Barton streets, for the bees to consume as they continue their work.

“The bees will need it to get through the winter,” Mueller said.

PATRICIA SULLIVAN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Doesn’t matter.

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It’s fine.

Not a big deal.”

REDSKINS QB KIRK COUSINS,

speaking Tuesday to 106.7 The Fan after team president Bruce Allen appeared to call him “Kurt” at least six times in a video released Monday. A team spokesman later told espn.com that it sounded that way because Allen’ss accent. of Allen

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VOLUNTEERS

Hundreds spruce up Arlington cemetery Hundreds of volunteers helped beautify Arlington National Cemetery at an event organized by a landscaping association.

The National Association of Landscape Professionals held its 21st annual volunteer day Monday. More than 400 landscapers participated, working to keep the more than 150-yearold cemetery looking good. (AP)

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Va. trans candidate outraises GOP rival

THE DISTRICT

D.C. police: Arrest made in shooting of 1-year-old

Danica Roem is running against incumbent with strong anti-LGBT record

Va. Chipotle closes after illness report STEVE HELBER (AP)

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA. Democrat Danica Roem, the transgender ex-journalist who is challenging Del. Robert G. Marshall in Prince William County, far outpaced the conservative Republican in fundraising last month, an early indication that her campaign is drawing significant interest from inside and outside Virginia.

Roem, 32, raised $85,637 between June 2 and 30, according to campaign disclosures released Monday by the Virginia Elections Department. Marshall, 73, collected $4,585 during the same period.

The two candidates offer stark differences to voters in the changing 13th District, with Roem pushing to be the first openly transgender person elected in Virginia, and Marshall, a longtime foil to the LGBT community, reflecting a conservative streak that remains in the area he has represented since 1992.

Marshall sponsored Virginia’s constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage — which stood until the U.S. Supreme Court declared such prohibitions unconstitutional — and this year proposed a “bathroom bill” that would have kept transgender people from using public

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Danica Roem, the Democratic nominee for the House of Delegates’ 13th District seat in Virginia, talks with voters last month in Manassas.

restrooms designated for the sex with which they identify.

Roem has highlighted the bathroom bill in her campaign and accuses Marshall of doing too little to address traffic congestion and other problems in the district, which includes Gainesville and portions of Manassas.

In her effort to unseat an incumbent seeking his 14th term in office, the former reporter has launched an aggressive campaign since she prevailed in the Democratic primary last month, knocking on voters’ doors each week in search of support this November.

“We’re building a campaign that can win, and we don’t have to sell out our values to do it,” Roem said. “I’ll be able to demonstrate through governing that a tra transgender person who has

in-depth knowledge about the public policy issues affecting her district and has long-standing ties to her community can succeed in politics and government.”

Roem received a mixture of large donations from people outside Virginia and amounts of as little as $25 from people in Virginia.

Marshall’s report shows that he has so far relied mostly on donors from in and around the district. He argued that the outside money going to Roem’s campaign shows that she does not have the support she needs from voters.

“Am I talking to voters all the time? Yes,” Marshall said.

“It’s just not the going-door-todoor stuff. But I’m not going to be in cruise-control mode very much longer.” ANTONIO OLIVO (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Chipotle said it temporarily closed a restaurant in Sterling, Va., after reports that customers had become ill, a possible setback in the chain’s efforts to recover from past food scares.

The company says it shut down the location Monday after becoming aware of a “small number” of reported illnesses. It said it is working with health authorities to understand the cause, but the reported symptoms are consistent with norovirus.

Chipotle said it planned to reopen the restaurant Tuesday after a “complete sanitization.” Chipotle Mexican Grill’s shares fell more than 4 percent Tuesday, after Business Insider reported the closure in Virginia. The Denverbased company noted that norovirus does not come from its food supply and said it is safe to eat at its restaurants. (AP)

ROCKEYMOORE FOR GOVERNOR? ROCKEY

Cummings’ wife mulls Md. gubernatorial run Cumm

Maya Rockeymoore, a policy consultant co and the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is weighing a run for Maryland governor in 2018, aaccording to sources. Rockeymoore, 46, recently told a Baltimore elected official that she might en enter the race and has considered commissioning a poll to gauge her chances of success. She would be the first woman to join what is shaping up to be a crowded Democratic primary field. (TWP)

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Montgomery County Council votes to oppose new Potomac River crossing

One man has been arrested and police say they’re looking for a second after a 1-year-old boy was injured in an exchange of gunfire.

Police Chief Peter Newsham said Derrick Watson, 39, was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon in the July 10 shooting.

Police say the boy was hit more than once. He was later released from the hospital. Newsham says police are looking for 27 year-old Saheed Sulu, who is also wanted in the shooting, and they’re trying to identify a third man. (AP) ALEXANDRIA

School principal charged with assaulting student A former principal at an Alexandria school has been charged with assault and battery over allegations that he spanked a 12-year-old student after she was asked to pick something up off the cafeteria floor and refused.

Terrence Yarborough, 53, of Woodbridge had been principal of Carl Sandburg Middle School until he was placed on leave and then resigned after the April 4 incident. At the time, Fairfax County Public Schools declined to discuss why Yarborough had been placed on leave. (AP/TWP) TRANSPORTATION

Metro safety commission gets approval in House The House approved legislation Monday giving the go-ahead for a new safety watchdog for Metro. After a series of critical lapses, the Obama administration directed the Federal Transit Administration in late 2015 to oversee safety for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. The legislation is the final piece in creating the commission.

However, the federal transit agency will continue to oversee safety until it determines that the new entity is capable of meeting its responsibilities. (AP)

Man fatally shoots himself Monday in front of Manassas, Va., police headquarters

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‘System is broken’: Report urges more power for agencies system.”

Rank-and-file union leaders rebut the notion of a broken system, while calling for better-trained managers.

In the current environment, the civil service discussion has largely focused on efforts to fire feds faster. NAPA, which takes a structural approach to civil service reform, rejects that accountability just means dismissals. Under NAPA’s design, agencies would have substantial latitude in developing personnel systems specific to their individual missions.

“This includes flexibilities for staffing, pay, promotion, employee engagement, employee assessment, career paths and motivation for high fliers, and strategies for dealing with poor performers,” according to the report.

Under a federated system, NAPA envisions that agencies would “compete effectively to hire, motivate, and retain the mission-specific talent they need.” With this decentralization, the role of the Office of Personnel Management likely would diminish.

Putting the mission first does not mean agencies could abandon the merit principles that are at the core of the civil service system, but the report

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In the boiling debate over the federal civil service system, a congressionally chartered think tank offers this stark assessment: “The federal civil service system is broken. This breakdown undermines the federal government’s ability to meet the needs of its citizens.”

The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) rejects moderate fixes and recommends a fundamentally new approach — a federated personnel system giving each agency more power. The report released Tuesday says its title, “No Time to Wait,” was chosen to reflect a “sense of urgency.”

NAPA looked at the big picture and found it is not pretty.

Bill Valdez, president of the Senior Executives Association, agreed with the report’s findings. “The civil service system is badly in need of updating, as might be expected of any personnel system that is nearing 40 years of age,” he said.

“Today’s system is a cumbersome patchwork that more resembles a Frankenstein monster than a well-thoughtout 21st-century workforce

The Office of Personnel Management’s role would likely diminish if NAPA’s recommended fixes to the federal civil service system were adopted.

says that “agencies should be able to tailor these principles to their missions.”

That sounds OK in theory, but in practice it would result in one boss, Uncle Sam, having many different systems for his employees. At some point, if NAPA’s recommendations were adopted, some reformer surely would say we need a centralized system with greater coordination. Inevitably, some agencies would have better systems than others, meaning that employees, and ultimately taxpayers, would be

treated inconsistently because the quality of agency personnel systems would differ.

“The Civil Service system is not broken; it remains a vital and necessary American institution,” said Lee Stone, a vice president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers. “It is the people’s last line of defense against the corrosive influence of politics in the delivery of government goods and services.”

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In the latest episode, we delve into Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer and his subsequent release of emails that led to said meeting. Jens David Ohlin, vice dean at Cornell Law School, explains the legal boundaries, and political consultant Tracy Sefl takes us into the world of opposition research. Subscribe to “Can He Do That?” on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you get podcasts.

A. First, remember that these are only proposals. Two would affect both future and current retirees, meaning your retirement date would not matter.

One would reduce inflation adjustments for Civil Service Retirement System retirees; the other would end them for Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) retirees — although their Social Security benefits would remain inflation-protected.

Others would apply only to those retiring in the future. One would base benefits on the highest five years of salary rather than three. Another would end a supplement paid to those who retire under FERS before age 62 until they can draw Social Security upon turning 62. You could avoid those changes by retiring ahead of them, if you are eligible. Similarly, you could avoid a proposed increase in what most employees pay toward retirement.

Trump’s plan called for the changes to take effect Oct. 1 (in practice, changes to inflation adjustments would not apply until the next payout, in January).

However, they are now in the congressional budget process, which could continue well beyond then. If — a big if — Congress accepts them, it would set effective dates. Keep watching.

ERIC YODER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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House budget plan key to Trump’s tax agenda

MEDIA FRENZY

Expect all eyes on O.J.’s parole hearing

POLITICS Despite opposition from Republican moderates and conservatives, House leaders are pressing ahead with a budget plan whose success is critical to the party’s hopes to deliver on one of President Trump’s top priorities — a GOP-only effort to overhaul the tax code.

The importance of the measure has been magnified by the cratering in the Senate of the Trump-backed effort to repeal former President Obama’s health care law, leaving a rewrite of the tax code as the best chance for Trump to score a major legislative win this year. The measure would require about $200 billion in cuts to benefit programs and other so-called mandatory spending coupled with the tax plan.

The budget plan unveiled Tuesday is crucial because its passage would pave the way to pass a tax overhaul this fall without the fear of a filibuster

by Senate Democrats.

But it also proposes trillions of dollars in cuts to the social safety net and other domestic programs and puts congressional Republicans at odds with Trump over cutting Medicare. It also would sharply boost military spending.

Unclear is whether GOP leaders can get the budget measure

CHIP SOMODEVILLA (GETTY IMAGES)

Blueprint would slash programs for the poor, boost military spending

House Speaker Paul Ryan will try to sell a GOP budget heavy on major cuts.

Medicare cuts?

Medicare is the second largest mandatory program after Social Security, and the House GOP budget proposes to turn Medicare into a voucher-like program in which future retirees would receive a fixed benefit to purchase health insurance on the open market. President Trump opposes the idea. (AP)

through the House. Conservatives want a larger package of spending cuts to accompany this fall’s tax overhaul bill, while moderates are concerned cuts to programs such as food stamps could go too far.

Budget Committee Chairman Diane Black, R-Tenn., announced a committee vote for today, but action could be delayed by the

quarrel between GOP factions.

The plan calls for turning this year’s projected $700 billion deficit into a $9 billion surplus by 2027. It would do so by slashing $5.4 trillion over the next decade, including about $500 billion from Medicare and $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, as well as cuts to benefits such as federal employee pensions, food stamps and tax credits for the poor.

In the immediate future, the GOP measure would add almost $30 billion to Trump’s $668 billion request for national defense. It would cut non-defense agencies by $5 billion. Of the $4 trillion in promised savings from mandatory programs, the plan assumes just $203 billion would pass this year. ANDREW TAYLOR (AP)

O.J. Simpson, the former football and movie star, TV pitchman and current Nevada prison inmate No. 1027820, is up for parole Thursday — and the media are ready. After the success of “O.J.: Made in America,” and “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” media outlets are convinced of the public’s appetite for more O.J. news. ESPN will air a 90-minute special on Thursday with live coverage of Simpson’s hearing in Carson City, Nev., and USA Today reported that more than 240 media credentials have been approved.

Simpson, 70, who is in prison for an ill-fated robbery to retrieve sports memorabilia, is believed to have a good chance at parole. (AP/EXPRESS)

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Bodies, likely of missing couple, found in glacier

Police say the bodies of what appear to be two people killed in an accident decades ago have been recovered from a glacier in Switzerland. The bodies were found on the Tsanfleuron glacier Friday at an altitude of 8,580 feet. Swiss daily Le Matin on Tuesday quoted the suspected victims’ daughter, 79-year-old Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, as saying that her parents had set off on foot on Aug. 15, 1942, to feed their livestock but never returned. (AP)

Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Yemen kills at least 11 civilians

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Trump, Putin had second meeting at G-20 summit President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a previously undisclosed hourlong meeting at the Group of 20 summit in Germany. The second meeting took place at a dinner for G-20 leaders, an official said.

Halfway through the meal, Trump left his seat to occupy a chair next to Putin. (THE WASHINGTON POST) NATIONAL SECURITY

U.S. sanctions target Iran’s non-nuclear arms The Trump administration slapped 18 individuals and groups with sanctions Tuesday for aiding Iran’s non-nuclear weapons programs, in an effort to show the president is staying tough on Iran despite his moves to let the nuclear deal stay in place. The sanctions freeze any assets in the U.S. and prevent Americans from doing business with them. (AP) MINNESOTA

Former Speaker Hastert released from prison Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was released from prison Monday in Minnesota and sent to a Chicago re-entry facility, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The nation’s longestserving GOP House speaker was sentenced to 15 months in prison in April 2016 in a banking violations case that revealed accusations he had sexually abused teenagers while coaching high school wrestling. (AP) CINCINNATI

Prosecutor: Officer won’t face third murder trial A white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist during a Cincinnati traffic stop won’t face a third murder trial, a prosecutor announced Tuesday.

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said he was dropping the case against Ray Tensing, 27, in the death two years ago of Sam DuBose, 43. Two previous juries could not reach a unanimous decision in the case. (AP)

2nd Australian senator quits Parliament after discovering she is a dual national, making her ineligible for job

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No clear path for GOP

Trump says ‘let Obamacare fail,’ as McConnell pushes repeal without replacement

Sen. Mitch McConnell said there will be a vote on repealing the ACA soon.

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POLITICS As divisions between the two main ideological camps within the GOP widened Tuesday, Republicans were scrambling to contain the political fallout from the collapse of a months-long effort to rewrite former President Barack Obama’s signature domestic accomplishment.

President Trump predicted Tuesday that Republicans would wait for the federal insurance market to collapse and then work to broker a deal to rewrite the nation’s landmark health care law, while Senate leaders pressed ahead with a plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act with no immediate replacement.

But it became quickly apparent that GOP leaders, who were caught off guard by defections of their members Monday night, lacked the votes to abolish parts of the 2010 law outright. Three centrist Republican senators — Susan Collins, Maine; Shelley Moore Capito, W.Va.; and Lisa Murkowski, Alaska — said they would oppose any vote to proceed with an immediate repeal.

“I did not come to Washington to hurt people,” Capito tweeted.

She added, “I will only vote to proceed to repeal legislation if I am confident there is a replacement plan that addresses my concerns.”

Collins said in a statement that she urged Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., to hold hearings in an attempt to fashion a new legislative fix for the ACA, while leaving it in place in the meantime.

“We can’t just hope that we will pass a replacement within the next two years,” she said. “Repealing without a replacement would create great uncertainty

Senators Susan Collins, from left, Shelley Moore Capito and Lisa Murkowski said they would oppose any vote to proceed with an immediate repeal.

for individuals who rely on the ACA and cause further turmoil in the insurance markets.”

A handful of other senators, along with 11 GOP and Democratic governors, also called on congressional leaders to launch a bipartisan process to revamp the nation’s health care system.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said Tuesday that lawmakers need to get a more detailed analysis of what has caused consumers’ premiums to rise and what could make insurance more affordable.

“It’s an insane process,” Johnson said, noting that senators

A partial repeal of ACA Abolishing several of Obamacare’s central pillars could wreak havoc in the insurance market. “For insurers, the worst possible outcome in this debate has always been a partial repeal with no replacement, which is exactly what Congress is about to take up,” said Larry Levitt, senior vice president for special initiatives at the Kaiser Family Foundation, in an email. “Insurance companies would be on the hook for covering people with pre-existing conditions, but with no individual mandate or premium subsidies to get healthy people to sign up as well.” (TWP)

Senate Judiciary Committee wants to hold public hearing for Trump Jr., Paul Manafort

didn’t even have an up-to-date budget analysis of the latest health care proposal. “If you don’t have information, how can you even have a legitimate discussion and debate?”

The 11 governors said they “stand ready to work with lawmakers in an open, bipartisan way to provide better insurance for all Americans.”

But these appeals did little to sway Trump, who blamed the demise of a plan to rewrite the ACA in a tweet on Democrats “and a few Republicans.”

Speaking to reporters in the Roosevelt Room on Tuesday, Trump said he was “disappointed” in the demise of the Senate bill and viewed the cratering of the nation’s individual insurance market as the best way to advance his goals.

Now his plan is to “let Obamacare fail; it will be a lot easier,” he said. “And I think we’re probably in that position where we’ll just let Obamacare fail.

“We’re not going to own it. I’m not going to own it,” Trump said.

“I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We’ll let Obamacare fail, and then the Democrats are going to come to us.”

Trump’s latest comments intensified the current political uncertainty on Capitol Hill, where GOP leaders were debating what to do next. After a weekly Senate GOP policy lunch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters there would be a vote on repealing the ACA, with a two-year delay, “some time in the near future.”

Asked whether he would eventually be open to working with Democrats on something, McConnell said, “we’ll have to see what happens” with the repealfirst effort. JULIET EILPERIN AND SEAN

POLITICS A U.S.-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr., bringing the number of known participants at the session to eight.

Ike Kaveladze’s presence was confirmed by Scott Balber, an attorney for Emin and Aras Agalarov, the Russian developers who hosted the Trump-owned Miss Universe pageant in 2013.

Balber said Kaveladze works for the Agalarovs’ company and attended as their representative.

Balber said Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller asked him if Kaveladze would agree to be interviewed. Balber said his client would cooperate.

The request is the first public indication that Mueller’s team is investigating the meeting.

Balber said that Aras Agalarov requested that Kaveladze attend the meeting on his behalf.

Kaveladze is a U.S. citizen and has lived in this country for many years, according to Balber, who said he is representing the man.

Balber said Kaveladze believed he would act as a translator, but the Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, had brought her own translator, a former State Department employee named Anatoli Samochornov. Balber said he believes the list of participants known to the public is now complete. ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN

SULLIVAN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

AND TOM HAMBURGER (TWP)

Eighth person is identified in Russia meeting

Tribunal: Russia must pay $6.2M in damages to Netherlands for seizing protest ship

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nation+world Australians baffled by fatal police shooting slam U.S. gun policies SYDNEY Following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Australian woman in Minnesota, the story of Justine Damond’s death led news sites back home, where friends demanded a federal investigation, and relatives were left searching for answers — and justice.

“We thought yesterday was our worst nightmare, but we awoke to the ugly truth and it hurt even more,” Damond’s father, John Ruszczyk, said Tuesday, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “Justine was a beacon to all of us; we only ask

that the light of justice shine down on the circumstances of her death.”

Damond moved from Sydney to Minneapolis several years ago and was planning to marry her fiance, Don Damond, in the coming weeks. But the 40-yearold bride-to-be, who had already taken her fiance’s last name, was fatally shot Saturday night after she reportedly called 911 about a possible assault in the alley behind her home on the city’s southwest side.

Nearly 9,000 miles away, in Australia — where lawmakers have passed some of the world’s most restrictive gun control laws — people were struggling to make sense of Damond’s death.

“Why on Earth did U.S. cops

ELIZABETH FLORES (STAR TRIBUNE VIA AP)

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Don Damond is comforted after making a statement to the press Monday in Minneapolis.

kill Aussie who called for help,” the Courier-Mail, an Australian tabloid, asked on its cover.

“AMERICAN NIGHTMARE,”

blared a headline on the front page of The Daily Telegraph, a Sydney newspaper.

That headline, The Associated Press noted, “summarized Australia’s reaction in blunt terms.”

“The country is infested with possibly more guns than people,” said Philip Alpers, a gun policy analyst with the University of Sydney, told the AP. “We see America as a very risky place in terms of gun violence — and so does the rest of the world.”

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has not provided details on what precipitated the shooting. Neither the responding officers’ body cameras nor the patrol car’s dash cam captured the incident.

Saudi woman arrested for wearing a skirt

LINDSEY BEVER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Protests continue to roil Venezuela after referendum

THE VATICAN

Pope Francis hasn’t lost his sense of humor despite a few weeks of negative headlines.

A photo was published last week of a sign he hung on the door of his hotel suite reading: “No Whining.”

In smaller print the sign continues: “Transgressors are subject to a syndrome of victimization and the ensuing reduction of a sense of humor and capacity to resolve problems.” (AP)

JUAN BARRETO (AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Pope: Thou shalt not whine

CARACAS, VENEZUELA | A truck set ablaze by opposition activists blocks an avenue during a protest Tuesday.

The Venezuelan opposition on Monday called for a 24-hour nationwide strike Thursday to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to drop plans to rewrite the constitution after achieving a massive vote of rejection in a symbolic plebiscite. President Trump threatened “economic actions” against Venezuela if it ignores the will of voters.

Turkish court jails 6 human rights activists pending trial, including a German and a Swede

SAUDI ARABIA A Saudi woman has been arrested for defying the kingdom’s strict dress code by walking around in a miniskirt and crop top in a video that sparked public outrage.

The woman, whose name was not given, was detained by police in the capital, Riyadh, for wearing “immodest clothes” that contradicted the country’s conservative Islamic dress code, state media reported Tuesday. Police referred her case to the public prosecutor, according to the official Twitter account of state-run TV channel al-Ekhbariya.

In the video, which has gone viral since first emerging on Snapchat over the weekend, the woman is filmed walking around a historic fort in a miniskirt with no one else around. The short video, shot in a village in the desert region of Najd, where many of Saudi Arabia’s most conservative tribes and families are from, is followed by other shots of her sitting in the desert.

The video sparked a Twitter hashtag that called for her arrest, with many saying she flagrantly disobeyed Saudi rules, which require all women living in the kingdom, including foreigners, to wear long, loose robes known as abayas in public. Most Saudi women also wear a headscarf and veil that covers the face.

Others offered their support for the woman, suggesting her behavior was brave.

The fate of the woman remains unclear. AYA BATRAWY (AP)

Philippine president Duterte asks Congress to keep martial law until end of year

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In the worst case: Contract drama could poison year In the worst-case scenario, two winning seasons would give way to the type of ugly collapse that’s become a trademark of owner Dan Snyder’s 18-year tenure.

If Cousins and the Redskins start poorly, the season will unravel fast. Maybe fans don’t blame Cousins for seeking the most money possible, but every interception will make them more willing to move on.

A rough early schedule won’t help. The opener against the Eagles should be a toss-up.

The Rams are beatable in Los Angeles the next week, but funny things happen after cross-country flights. The Raiders, a legitimate Super Bowl contender, then visit. And the Chiefs, with one of the loudest home fields in the league, host the Redskins in Week 4.

Washington will be lucky to reach the Oct. 8 bye at 2-2. And if it’s worse, the drums will surely beat for change, sparking two weeks of discussions about trading Cousins to San Francisco before the 49ers come to FedEx on Oct. 15. Then Washington faces Philadelphia, Dallas, Seattle, Minnesota and New Orleans before New York arrives for Thanksgiving.

Snyder will be seething if his team is embarrassed on national TV. Coach Jay Gruden’s contract was extended through 2020 over the offseason, but that doesn’t mean his job

3 His faith will guide him Cousins said his situation is like when he was drafted with little chance to play, saying he’s where he’s supposed to be and will stay here “until the Lord tells me otherwise.”

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Picture this: It’s a lateseason game at FedEx Field, and Giants fans fill the stands while a national TV audience stuffed with turkey and gravy watches the Redskins struggle in prime time behind quarterback Colt McCoy. Happy Thanksgiving.

In light of Monday’s developments between the Redskins and incumbent starter Kirk Cousins, that scenario might not be so far-fetched.

After failing to reach an extension with Cousins by the NFL’s deadline Monday, the team tried to blame the QB. President Bruce Allen, who rarely discusses contracts, shared the club’s offer to Cousins, thereby portraying the player as a mercenary ready to depart after another season under the franchise tag.

This relationship is going to end badly, and it might end sooner than expected.

Washington will have another chance to negotiate with Cousins after the season, but if the team falls out of contention, it could start exploring options for life after Cousins, who will be expensive to retain.

That could mean benching Cousins to get a look at McCoy, a journeyman backup, or Nate Sudfeld, who’s never thrown a pass in an NFL game.

Because of his contract with 106.7 The Fan, Kirk Cousins went on the radio Tuesday to make his first comments since the deadline to sign a long-term deal passed. Here are three takeaways. (EXPRESS)

Schefter: Redskins should trade Cousins On Tuesday, the day after the deadline passed for the Redskins to sign Kirk Cousins to a long-term deal, reporter Adam Schefter said on ESPN 980 that he thinks the team should trade the quarterback right now. “I don’t believe they will do this, but the best thing the Redskins could do would be trade him,” he said, arguing that the team could recoup value rather than losing him for nothing or being forced to pay more than it wants. (EXPRESS)

Tonight’s CONCACAF Gold Cup quarters: Costa Rica vs. Panama (6, FS1); U.S. vs. El Salvador (9, FS1)

is secure. If the Redskins’ playoff chances are dim before the holiday, Gruden could feel pressure from above to try McCoy against New York. oach Mike ShaFormer coach nching of Robert nahan’s benching Griffin III over the final three 13 could be echoed weeks in 2013 with Cousins.. If the season ping point, look reaches a tipping for McCoy or Sudfeld to play.

He’s not mad at Bruce Cousins said he wasn’t surprised by team president Bruce Allen’s statement, which seemed blame the QB for the lack of a deal, and he respected Allen’s approach.

1 He stressed patience Cousins said the main reason his camp didn’t present a counteroffer was he needed time to see how the team would change “so I can make a more decision.” re informed decision.

Rick Snider has covered sports ce 1978. Follow in Washington since nide_Remarks him on Twitter @Snide_Remarks

Astros All-Star SS Carlos Correa to miss 6-8 weeks with a thumb injury

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Nationals’ Rendon named NL player of the week After being denied his first All-Star nod, Nationals third baseman Anthony Rendon was named the NL player of the week Monday. Because of the All-Star break, only Friday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s games were considered. In three wins over the Reds, Rendon, 27, hit .636 with a .714 on-base percentage and a 1.545 slugging percentage. He hit three homers and a double with nine RBIs and three walks. Two of his homers came Saturday, his third multi-homer game of the season. Entering Tuesday’s game at the Angels that ended after Express’ deadline, Rendon was hitting .318 for the year. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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United returns from break with match at Sounders

Nike uniforms move away from road, home jerseys

D.C. United returns from a twoweek break at Seattle tonight (10:30, NewsChannel8) hoping to end a three-game losing streak in league play and four overall, including the U.S. Open Cup. Coach Ben Olsen’s squad is last in the Eastern Conference and tied with expansion Minnesota for fewest overall points. The Sounders, 2016 MLS Cup champions, are 1-0-2 in their past three league matches.

CONCACAF Gold Cup call-ups have taken a toll on both lineups. United lost top goalkeeper Bill Hamid to the U.S. team, and the Sounders are without top forwards Clint Dempsey and Jordan Morris. (TWP)

NBA teams are making a wardrobe change, with the traditional home and road uniforms going back in the closet. The league said Tuesday it is eliminating the old apparel designations starting this year, when Nike becomes the official outfitter.

There will be four primary uniforms for each team. The host team will pick which of its uniforms will be worn for each game, and the visitors will select one of the contrasting ones from their collection.

Previously, white uniforms were the default for home teams. Nike, which replaces Adidas, said its uniforms are the NBA’s lightest ever and absorb sweat faster. (AP)

Chris Froome finishes Tuesday with 18-second lead over Fabio Aru in final week of Tour de France

U.S. OPEN PRIZES

$3.7M The prize money allotted to the singles winners of this year’s U.S. Open, which starts Aug. 28 in New York. The total player compensation will be $50.4 million, topping the $50 million mark for the first time, the U.S. Tennis Association announced Tuesday. Last year, singles winners Stan Wawrinka and Angelique Kerber each received $3.5 million. (AP)

Police arrest Spanish soccer federation president, son in anti-corruption case

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In the noisy jungle of pop music, many artists speak their truth by pretending to be somebody else. Singing from the perspective of an

The video for “Hard for Me,” a single by soul songstress Leela James off her album “Did It for Love,” is set in a secluded cabin in the woods that’s so beautiful, it’s house porn for the rustic type. As James croons lyrics like “why you push me so far away?”

— while the camera pans to a sweeping view of green hills, then to a grandiose marble bathtub, then to a glittering crystal chandelier — you too will be wondering why.

alter ego is standard practice for the likes of Lana Del Rey, The Weeknd and Lady Gaga, but the possibilities multiply for fictional musi-

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cians — that is, when the musicians don’t exist in real life, but their music does. While fictional artists are common in pop culture, we rarely pay mind to the way their music leaks out of an imaginary space and becomes a part of reality. So how do we measure their work?

Here, we chose five fictional acts to assess their novelty, artfulness, familiarity and strangeness. CHRIS RICHARDS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

The Archies

The Chipmunks

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Penned and performed by a team of session musicians, the Archies’ bubble-gummy rock songs weren’t strange, but the group’s success certainly was. When the fictional cartoon teens hit No. 1 with “Sugar, Sugar” in 1969, a garage band that only existed in two dimensions was suddenly vibrating the three-dimensional air from the top of the charts.

Before the Chipmunks were cartoons, they were a sound. In 1958, songwriter Ross Bagdasarian recorded his vocals at half-speed and played them back an octave higher, earning his hit “Witch Doctor.” That same year, he lent that vocalization to a trio of fictitious rodents via “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late),” and it grew to a franchise that still exists.

With characters sketched by comic book artist Jamie Hewlett and songs by Damon Albarn of Blur, Gorillaz is one of the most successful “virtual bands.” But after five well-regarded albums (with this year’s “Humanz”), the project seems to exist as a platform for Albarn to scratch his collaborative itches. Why does that require him to pretend he’s a cartoon?

For a glimpse into the future, gaze into the saucer-shaped eyes of Hatsune Miku, an animated character made by Japanese software company Crypton Future Media. A synthesizer application lets users to compose music for Miku to “sing,” and in Japan, the character has become a new kind of virtual celebrity, performing concerts as a 3-D projection.

Imagine if, say, a Batman actor left Hollywood to give vigilante justice a try. In the case of the Monkees, the pretend rock band actually did join reality. Back in the ’60s, once the Monkees’ music became more popular than their TV show (about the misadventures of an unsuccessful rock band, funny enough), there was no turning back.

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IHeartRadio Fest nabs the usual suspects IHea

Harry Styles, Pink, Coldplay, The Weeknd, Wee DJ Khaled, Lorde and Miley Cyrus will all perform at the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Ve Vegas on Sept. 22 to 23. Ryan Seacrest will host the fest, which will also feature performances by Kings of Leon, Big Sean, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Niall Horan and Thomas Rhett. The CW will livestream both nig nights of the event on its website and app, and will air a two-night TV special on Oct. 4 and 5. (AP) Starz working on a Mariah Carey-produced series based on her early life as a star

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Just as he dropped his new album “Jungle Rules” on Friday, French Montana and his fur jackets emerged in a new video for “A Lie.” In it, Montana and hook singer The Weeknd embark on obligatory rap video escapades like rapping on a yacht, rapping in a club and rapping in a flashy car. Also, A$AP Rocky and Nav are there. Why? It’s unclear. B.C.

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John Mayer is ready to step up his game Q&A Unlike his peers, John Mayer has never relied on lighting and pyrotechnics during his live shows.

But the musician, whose second leg of his “Search for Everything” world tour kicked off this week (with a just-announced dive bar show in Los Angeles and a stop next month at Jiffy Lube Live), wants to take some more risks.

“I want to be in the world

where people are creating bigger and better shows,” Mayer says. “I think there’s a healthy competition involved in it.”

Here, Mayer discusses that new staging concept, while also riffing on his new album, collaborations and a recently wrapped tour playing with members of the Grateful Dead.

The production level for your shows has really changed.

What’s that process been like?

We have an L.E.D. wall and a L.E.D. floor. In a way it’s really minimal … but from there you

can go anywhere you want to go.

I want to be modern-day and I want to play by modern-day rules and excite people, but I also want to do it the way I would do it.

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The singer is beefing up his tour and exploring new collaborative ideas

Here’s the face of a guy who has a few new tricks up his sleeve.

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“The Search for Everything” is your first album in four years.

Why the wait?

“The Search for Everything” would have come out in 2015, but then this beautiful opportunity of Dead & Company showed up at my doorstep. And I’ve never pressed pause on a solo career before, but I knew that this was worth pressing pause for.

What about future collaborations?

My next collaboration, I think, is going to be more on the producer side than on the artist side. I also like the idea of the ensemble record. The (DJ) Khaled record, the Calvin Harris record — that’s like a life hack that’s taking place before our eyes. And it’s a thoughtful, artistic response to the industry going the way it’s going. So I see that working … where I’m a little less the singer and the upfront guy, and more the guy making tracks and saying, “I really can hear this voice here.”

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