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High stakes What to expect today when Mueller testifies before Congress 11

Violent trend Shootings in D.C. have claimed nine lives in less than a week 4

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Brash Brexit booster Johnson will be U.K.’s new prime minister, but can he pull off the orderly EU exit that Theresa May failed to deliver? 9

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Visitors pose for photos Tuesday at “Swimming Pool,” part of an exhibition by Argentine artist Leandro Erlich titled “The Confines of the Great Void” at the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing.

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Coddled modern swine have no respect for ancestral traditions

Massive syrup spill likely tamest event on any given night in Nola

A tiki bar cook tried to flee authorities in Lake Lure, N.C., by swimming away in a river, but was caught by officers downstream. Jesse Lee Boyd, 38, was wanted on warrants accusing him of forgery or counterfeiting in Iowa. Investigators planned to arrest him at the Geneva Riverside Tiki Bar. But Boyd was warned and fled on foot before dashing into the Rocky Broad River. Officers waited on the banks, and Boyd eventually gave himself up. (AP)

Watermelons are set to replace piglets in an annual event at a Santa Rosa, Calif., fair. The Press Democrat reported Saturday that the Sonoma County Fair has eliminated the “pig scramble” due to public concern over animal welfare. In the longrunning event, kids chased and tried to capture piglets. This year’s event on Aug. 4 will instead have children carry watermelons slicked with vegetable oil around an obstacle course in a timed race. (AP)

Crews spent Monday night cleaning syrup from one block of a four-lane street along New Orleans’ French Quarter. Police say a container truck spilled about 1,000 gallons of syrup Monday evening after a rubber shipping bladder broke. Both eastbound lanes of Rampart Street reopened Tuesday and police tweeted a #SYRUPDATE that began, “We’re not waffling.” Police said one lane would close again to ensure streetcar tracks are syrup-free. (AP)

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An officer’s act of kindness THE DISTRICT Taylor Pomilla had just picked up her 4-year-old son, Andrew, from school Friday and they were heading home on the Metro when Andrew decided he wanted to run around inside the car while it was moving.

Pomilla told him that wasn’t safe, but Andrew, who has autism, insisted. Soon, Andrew became agitated and started a tantrum. It was rush hour.

“His regular toddler tantrum turned into a meltdown, or what I call, the point of no return for him,” Pomilla wrote in a nowviral Facebook post.

Andrew rolled on the floor, he screamed, he flung his shoe across the train, she said. Pomilla, a 24-year-old single mom who moved to Ballston, Va., from Texas six months ago, was desperately trying to calm him down.

They exited the car at Gallery Place. It was one stop before Metro Center, where they usually change trains. She thought Andrew would calm down, but things got worse.

TAYLOR POMILLA

Policeman provided a helping hand to a mom and her autistic son

Andrew, age 4, walks with Metro Transit Police Officer Dominic Case.

“Now we’re rolling around on the dirty station floor. He is covered in black dirt,” she wrote.

Then a Metro Transit Police officer approached them. Andrew froze.

“She definitely looked like she needed a little help,” said the officer, Dominic Case. He asked whether she needed a hand. Pomilla explained what was going on, and that they needed to get to Ballston, about 30 minutes away.

“Without hesitation he said, ‘I’ll come on the train,’ ” she wrote.

Case, who has a 4-year-old son

“He didn’t have to do this, it wasn’t in his job description.”

TAYLOR POMILLA, recounting the kindness of a Metro police officer who helped her autistic son

of his own, crouched down to Andrew’s eye level and started chatting with him, showing the boy his police gear. Pretty quickly,

Andrew stopped crying.

Case then took off his adhesive police badge from his vest and asked Andrew: “Can you be a policeman with me and help me do police work on the train?”

Pomilla said.

Andrew said yes, and as they walked toward the escalator, Andrew put his hand in Case’s and held tight. Case, 27, said he felt honored that Andrew grabbed his hand because in training classes he learned that people with autism often don’t like to be touched.

“It seemed like a calming thing at the time,” he said. “It seemed the right thing to do.”

Case rode the Metro the entire way home with them.

At the Ballston stop, Pomilla tried to give Case back his badge, but he insisted Andrew keep it.

Andrew, who will be 5 in a few weeks, was thrilled.

Pomilla thanked Case profusely, for his “immeasurable amount of kindness,” she wrote.

Case said he was just glad his approach worked out.

“I really didn’t mind riding with them,” he said. “Her son seemed to be really happy I w a s t h e r e .” A L L I S O N K L EI N (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Raise a glass to Mueller Local bars are getting festive today for former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before two congressional panels.

Here are a few of the places to grab a drink and tune in.

The first hearing begins at 8:30 a.m. (EXPRESS) Duffy’s Irish Pub (1016 H St. NE) is hosting a “Mueller Time Watch Party.” Alcohol sales start at 8 a.m. A Facebook event even encouraged “creative attire.”

Shaw’s Tavern (520 Florida Ave. NW) will open at 8 a.m. to show the hearings, according to the bar’s website. Bar service starts at 11 a.m.

Union Pub (201 Massachusetts Ave. NE) tweeted that it will open at 9 a.m. with a full bar and kitchen and drink specials.

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Behavioral therapist pleads guilty to rape A former employee of a Fairfax County program for the mentally disabled pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping two clients, crimes that resulted in both women becoming pregnant and giving birth. Bernard Betts King, 61, who was a behavioral technician at MVLE in Springfield, Va., faces life in prison for the incidents, which occurred in 2017 and 2018, a prosecutor said. (TWP)

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THE DISTRICT At least 19 people were found shot in D.C. in five days, including 11-year-old Karon Brown, killed Thursday, and six people whose bodies turned up over the weekend, among them a father and his teenage son, police said.

From last Wednesday afternoon through Sunday evening, the city recorded eight homicides.

Police also reported a fatal shooting Monday night in the 1300 block of Saratoga Avenue NE, according to Officer Sean Hickman, a police spokesman.

The killings raised D.C.’s 2019 homicide tally to 94, compared with 85 at this time last year.

In addition to the eight homicide victims, at least 11 people were wounded in nonfatal shootings, according to police.

At a briefing Monday, Police Chief Peter Newsham attributed the violence to illegal firearms.

He said people charged with gun possession don’t get tough enough treatment in the justice system.

In February, officials announced that more gun possession cases would be prosecuted in U.S. District Court, which could mean longer prison terms for some offenders.

Newsham said tips to detectives led to an arrest in Karon’s killing. “It shouldn’t take the death of an 11-year-old for people to come forward,” he said. “ Every single time that

D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham on Monday called for residents to offer tips more regularly for homicide probes.

somebody dies in our city, people should come forward with that same passion,” the chief said.

As of Tuesday afternoon, no arrests had been made in the eight other most recent slayings.

Shortly before 4:30 p.m. last Wednesday, Mondell Valentine, 28, was shot in the 3800 block of Second Street SE. Then came Karon’s death, about 7 p.m.

Thursday, also in Southeast.

Shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, Hugh Washington, 57, and Ahkii Washington-Scruggs, 17, were found fatally shot in a home in the 1000 block of Queen Street NE. Newsham described the victims as father and son.

The next victim, Eric Byrd, 34, of Southeast, was found about 2:42 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of

“It’s better to be arrested for having a gun than for murdering a child.”

D.C. MAYOR MURIEL BOWSER, urging residents during a Monday press conference to report whenever they see a gun or something out of place that could lead to a crime

U Street NW, shot several times.

Later, Delwaun Lyons, 23, was found with gunshot wounds in the 3000 block of 30th Street SE. He later died at a hospital.

About 10:30 p.m. Saturday, police were called to the 2600 block of Sherman Avenue NW.

They learned that a victim had gone to a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, Newsham said. The man died Sunday at the hospital.

At 7:41 p.m. Sunday, Jamal Bandy, 27, was found in the 1300 block of Congress Street SE, in an alley, shot several times. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Gun penalties need to be tougher, Newsham said.

“In a large majority of cases, you have suspects that are involved in the criminal justice system pretty intensely,” he said. “… We need to do a better job of holding those folks accountable the first time. Because once someone is killed, they’re dead forever.” PAUL DUGGAN AND DANA HEDGPETH (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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The amount Exelon, parent company of the electrical utilities Pepco and Constellation, announced Tuesday it will give toward the proposed 11th Street Bridge Park in Southeast D.C. The project is estimated to cost $139 million, The Washington Post reported. The 1.45-mile stretch would be D.C.’s first elevated public park, boasting an amphitheater, a public plaza and a hammock grove, per a DCist report. Exelon’s donation follows one by JPMorgan Chase, which kicked in $5 million in 2017, DCist reported. (EXPRESS)

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D.C. contractor gets six months in prison for illegal campaign contributions

Council unanimously OKs looser zoning regulation The Montgomery County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to pass a zoning amendment that would loosen regulations for auxiliary dwelling units. The decision, following months of heated discussion, will allow thousands more residents to transform garages, basements or detached structures into separate residences. (TWP) VIRGINIA

Ex-governor contests misconduct finding Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder posted a rebuttal Tuesday on his website to an investigation commissioned by Virginia Commonwealth University that concluded that Wilder, who teaches there, kissed a 20-yearold student without her consent.

Wilder said the investigation ignored key evidence and suggested he was the victim of a potential extortion attempt. (AP) THE DISTRICT

Avowed neo-Nazi pleads guilty to one gun charge A self-proclaimed neo-Nazi who lives in D.C. pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal gun charge, HuffPost reported. The plea means he could be released from custody after his September sentencing, according to HuffPost. The defendant was arrested last fall after he praised a man who killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. (EXPRESS)

Second Republican announces bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Wexton in Va.

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local Officials investigate 40 reports of intestinal trouble at 2 employers HEALTH Virginia health officials are investigating an increase in cases of a foodborne intestinal illness and dozens of suspected cases involving two large employers.

The state’s Department of Health reported Tuesday on a recent increase of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness caused by the foodborne parasite Cyclospora, since mid-June in

Northern Virginia. No source has been identified.

Fifteen cases of the illness, typically found in tropical and subtropical areas, have been confirmed in Northern Virginia, up from eight at this time in 2018.

In addition, more than 40 people from “two large businesses” reported an intestinal illness, under investigation for suspected cyclosporiasis. Officials didn’t identify the businesses.

Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties, and the city of Alexandria are involved in the investigation.

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Virginia investigates illness outbreak

Past outbreaks of the intestinal illness cyclosporiasis have been linked to imported fresh produce.

Ex-sailor from Virginia gets five months in prison for stealing $140,000 from federal government

Past outbreaks have been linked to imported fresh produce.

Flulike symptoms include diarrhea, loss of appetite, nausea and fatigue. The illness can last from a few days to more than a month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Residents are asked to wash produce thoroughly and wash their hands before and after preparing it. Cut, peeled or cooked produce should be refrigerated within two hours, officials said.

Anyone who suspects infection should visit a health care provider.

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Data released Sunday shows the number of visits to emergency departments or urgent-care for heatrelated illnesses is up from just under 600 during the same three-week period last summer. (AP)

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Senate votes to extend fund for 9/11 victims

‘TRIUMPH FOR CATS’

N.Y. is first state to ban declawing

POLITICS The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to add billions of dollars to a fast-dwindling compensation fund for 9/11 workers who are now sick or dying — capping an emotional political debate over ongoing deaths linked to the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The legislation, which was championed by gravely ill first responders and former “Daily Show” comedian Jon Stewart, will extend the compensation program until 2092, at an estimated cost of $10.2 billion for the first decade.

It passed 97 to 2, drawing cheers and applause from first responders and their families in the Senate gallery.

The measure has already passed in the House, so it will now head to the White House for the president’s signature.

After the vote, Stewart got a bear hug from John Feal, a former construction worker who has lobbied for 9/11 health care programs after being injured while working at Ground Zero.

Stewart said Feal and the other advocates “lifted this 9/11 community on their shoulders, and they carried them home. …

There have been too many funerals, too many hospices. These families deserve better.”

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Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and comedian Jon Stewart celebrate the Senate’s passage of the 9/11 victims bill with first responder John Feal, right.

Prolonging the program became urgent earlier this year, when the special counsel overseeing the fund warned that future payouts would be cut by as much as 70% due to a growing number of death and cancer claims.

Last month, Ground Zero workers and their families testified in an emotional hearing featuring former NYPD detective Luis Alvarez, who urged Congress not to close the door on others who would become sick after him. Alvarez died weeks later, and lawmakers decided to add his name to the legislation.

Stewart had attacked Senate Majority Leader Mitch

McConnell, R-Ky., for what he said was a long record of slowwalking legislation for 9/11 health issues. McConnell denied that he opposed the bill and issued a statement Tuesday morning in support of the measure.

GOP Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Rand Paul of Kentucky voted against the bill’s final passage.

To date, the fund has paid about $5 billion to approximately 21,000 sick or dying claimants.

Officials have warned that at some point in the near future, the number of deaths caused by Ground Zero-linked illnesses will surpass the nearly 3,000 people killed on 9/11. DEVLIN BARRETT AND

New York became the first U.S. state to ban the declawing of cats Monday, joining most of Europe, several Canadian provinces and a growing list of American cities that already prohibit a procedure animal advocates call cruel and unnecessary. Supporters of the new law, which took effect immediately, predict it will lead to similar proposals across the country. “This is a real triumph for cats and the people who love them,” said Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, D-Manhattan. Declawing a cat involves slicing through bone to amputate the first segment of a cat’s toes. (AP)

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ARRESTS DURING IMMIGRATION ROUNDUP

The number of arrests made during an immigration enforcement operation that President Trump said was part of an effort to deport “millions” of people from the U.S., officials said Tuesday. Trump billed the operation targeting families as a major show of force as the number of Central American families crossing the southern border has skyrocketed. There are about 1 million people in the U.S. with final deportation orders; the operation targeted 2,100. None of the 35 arrests resulted in the separation of families, officials said. (AP) Power restored to parts of Venezuela, including capital Caracas, after 9-hour blackout

POLITICS

Senate confirms Esper as defense secretary The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to confirm Mark Esper as defense secretary, ending a months-long vacancy created when Jim Mattis resigned last year over policy disagreements with President Trump. The 90-to-8 vote reflected broad bipartisan support for Esper, who has spent most of his career in the military and in government. Esper was sworn in later Tuesday. (TWP) KHABAROVSK REGION, RUSSIA

4 children dead after fire breaks out at tent camp Russian authorities say four children have died in a fire at a tent camp in the Khabarovsk region. The cause of the fire that broke out early Tuesday has not been determined. The camp’s owner and director were detained and the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case that could result in negligence charges. (AP) 1928-2019

Li Peng, Chinese premier during Tiananmen, dies Li Peng, a former hard-line Chinese premier best known for announcing martial law during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests that ended with a bloody crackdown by troops, has died. He was 90.

China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Li died Monday of an unspecified illness. (AP) KOSOVO

Former prime minister heads to war crimes court Ramush Haradinaj, who resigned a week ago as prime minister of Kosovo, left Tuesday for The Hague to be questioned by a special court investigating alleged war crimes against ethnic Serbs by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army two decades ago. At the time of Kosovo’s 1998-99 war, it was a Serbian province and Haradinaj was a top commander for the Kosovo Liberation Army. (AP)

Police: Indonesian couple carried out Philippine bombing that killed over 20 in January

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Johnson to lead U.K. into Brexit

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Ex-London mayor who campaigned on leaving EU tapped as prime minister

“I say to all the doubters: ‘Dude, we are going to energize the country, we are going to get Brexit done,’ ” said Johnson, a former London mayor and British foreign secretary.

Hunt, a stolid politician compared to the flamboyant Johnson, said he was sure his rival would “do a great job.”

“He’s got optimism, enthusiasm, he puts a smile on people’s face and he has total, unshakable confidence in our amazing country,” said Hunt, who is likely to be removed as foreign secretary by the new prime minister.

Johnson wooed Conservatives by promising to succeed where May had failed and lead the U.K. out of the EU — with or without a divorce deal.

Johnson insists he can get the EU to renegotiate, something the bloc insists it won’t do. If not, he says Britain must leave the EU by the Oct. 31 deadline, “come what may.”

The EU is adamant that the deal with May will stand, saying Britain has to take it or leave it.

Michel Barnier, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator, said he looked forward “to working constructively” with the new Conservative leader “to facilitate the ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement.”

Economists warn that a nodeal Brexit would disrupt trade and plunge the U.K. into recession. Fears that Britain is inching

of the Confederation of British Industry, said businesses needed a withdrawal agreement with the EU to restore confidence that has been badly shaken by uncertainty about the terms of Brexit.

“On Brexit, the new prime minister must not underestimate the benefits of a good deal,” she said.

Johnson faces a host of other challenges, from dealing with Iran’s seizure of a Britishflagged oil tanker to forging a relationship with U.S. President Trump, but Brexit is his overriding problem.

Trump was scathing about May’s inability to achieve a Brexit deal and has said Johnson will do a better job.

On Tuesday, he said Johnson “is going to do a good job” and “will get it done.”

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THEBAULT (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Boris Johnson, Britain’s blustering Brexit booster, has been chosen as the U.K.’s next prime minister.

What’s with the hair?

It’s true that the U.S. president and Britain’s next prime minister both have very prominent blond hair, but there the similarity ends.

President Trump’s hair is very carefully styled before he appears in public, while Boris Johnson’s is precisely the opposite. From the start of his political career, Johnson has sported what could only be called the “slept-on” look, declining to style his locks in any way so they have a natural, spontaneous, even unpredictable quality. (AP)

closer to crashing out of the bloc weighed on the pound once again Tuesday. The currency was down another 0.3% at $1.2450, nearly a two-year low.

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LONDON Boris Johnson, Britain’s blustering Brexit campaigner, was chosen Tuesday as the U.K.’s next prime minister, with a resounding mandate from the Conservative Party but conflicting demands from a politically divided country.

Johnson is set to become prime minister today after winning an election to lead the governing Conservatives. He will have just over three months to make good on his promise to lead the U.K. out of the European Union

by Oct. 31.

Famed for his bravado, quips in Latin and blond mop of hair, Johnson easily defeated Conservative rival Jeremy Hunt, winning two-thirds of the votes of about 160,000 party members across the U.K. He will become prime minister once Queen Elizabeth II formally asks him to form a government, replacing Theresa May. The embattled May announced her resignation last month after Parliament repeatedly rejected the withdrawal agreement she struck with the 28-nation bloc, leaving Britain stranded in Brexit limbo. The U.K.’s departure from the EU was delayed from its longscheduled exit in March.

Johnson radiated optimism in a brief victory speech to hundreds of party members and lawmakers, pledging to “deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn,” leader of the opposition Labour Party.

SCIENCE In 1982, when just 22 California condors — North America’s largest flying bird — were left in the world, scientists captured the remaining population to breed the scavenger birds in captivity. Nearly four decades later, a consortium of government agencies and nonprofit groups announced this month a miraculous milestone: 1,000 California condor chicks have hatched since the rescue program began.

Experts have monitored the condors intensively, trying to determine what exactly leads to their demise. Scientists have found that the leading cause of California condor mortality is lead poisoning.

The birds often feast on the carrion of animals shot and left behind by hunters, and they sometimes swallow lead pellets, fragments or whole bullets.

That was some of the research that prompted California’s ban on lead ammunition, which took effect this month and prohibits lead ammunition when shooting wildlife anywhere in the state.

Chris Parish, director of conservation at the Peregrine Fund, pointed to a pilot program in northern Arizona, where nearly 9 in 10 deer hunters have either switched to non-lead ammunition or agreed to haul away remains of shot animals. It’s programs like that, he said, that must be expanded to continue the condor’s success story. REIS

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Trump’s talk startles Afghans FOREIGN AFFAIRS Afghans were startled to hear President Trump’s remarks that he could end the war in Afghanistan “in a week” but it would cause the deaths of millions of people.

The office of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday immediately asked for “clarification” about Trump’s statement “via diplomatic means and channels.”

“If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth,” Trump said Monday. “It would be over in literally, in 10 days.” He did not elaborate on how it would be done.

Trump made the comments

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President comments on wiping country ‘off the face of the earth’

President Trump speaks Monday during a meeting with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Oval Office of the White House.

during a White House meeting with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in which the two discussed a number of bilateral issues, including ending the war in Afghanistan.

“We’re working with Pakistan and others to extricate ourselves.

Nor do we want to be policemen, because basically we’re policemen right now. And we’re not supposed to be policemen,” Trump said.

The statement from Ghani’s office said that while it “supports the U.S. efforts for ensuring peace in Afghanistan, the government underscores that foreign heads of state cannot determine Afghanistan’s fate.”

The United States has been at war in Afghanistan since 2001, when it launched airstrikes after the 9/11 attacks to help Afghan resistance forces drive the Taliban from power. It has become the longest war in U.S. history.

The Taliban issued a statement welcoming Trump’s remarks that the U.S. should not play the role of a police officer in Afghanistan. But they said his claim that he could wipe out the country is “irresponsible and we condemn it in the strongest terms.”

Kraft, 1st NASA flight director, dies at age 95

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Portugal fires under control

SEEDS HAD BEEN TO SPACE

Five trees planted in New Mexico from seeds taken to the moon during the Apollo 14 mission have all died or been forgotten, officials say.

Officials at New Mexico sites where the trees were planted decades ago admit that their agencies have since lost track of the trees and some of them likely died with little notice.

Moon trees were grown from 500 seeds taken into orbit during the 1971 mission. (AP)

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N.M. ‘moon trees’ are all but gone

CARDIGOS, PORTUGAL | A partially burned electric pole is seen Tuesday after a fire in central Portugal.

Emergency services in Portugal have brought under control a huge wildfire that raged for four days and injured 39 people. Civil Protection Agency commander Luis Belo Costa said around 1,000 firefighters are still watching out for smoldering hot spots amid gusting winds and temperatures over 100 degrees.

Ohio officials shut down Lake Erie beach after second swimmer goes missing in less than a month

1924-2019 Behind America’s late leap into orbit and triumphant small step on the moon were the agile mind and guts-of-steel of Chris Kraft, making split-second decisions that propelled the nation to once unimaginable heights.

Kraft, the creator and longtime leader of NASA’s Mission Control, died Monday in Houston, just two days after the 50th anniversary of what was his and NASA’s crowning achievement: Apollo 11’s moon landing. He was 95.

Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. never flew in space, but “held the success or failure of American human spaceflight in his hands,” Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, told The Associated Press in 2011.

Kraft founded Mission Control and created the job of flight director — later comparing it to an orchestra conductor — and established how flights would be run as the space race between the U.S. and Soviets heated up.

The legendary engineer served as flight director for all of the one-man Mercury flights and seven of the two-man Gemini flights; helped design the Apollo missions that took 12 Americans to the moon from 1969 to 1972; and later served as director of the Johnson Space Center until 1982, overseeing the beginning of the era of the space shuttle.

Armstrong once called him “the man who was the ‘Control’ in Mission Control.”

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Agreement affirms transgender restroom rights in many N.C. public buildings

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Mueller takes center stage Former special counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify before two separate congressional panels today, when he will publicly address questions for the first time about his investigation of President Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election. He will appear before the House Judiciary Committee at 8:30 a.m. and the House Intelligence Committee at noon. MATT ZAPOTOSKY (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Will he say anything new?

Mueller is going to try not to make any news, and he will be a reluctant witness, at best. At a May news conference to announce that the special counsel’s office was closing, Mueller said that he hoped his public remarks then would be his last and that, if pressed to testify, he would not stray beyond his report. “We chose those words carefully, and the work speaks for itself,” he said. Jim Popkin, a spokesman for Mueller, reiterated Monday that Mueller intends to limit his testimony to what is in his report. He said Mueller will submit the publicly released version of the document as his official statement for the record, though he will also read a separate opening statement.

The Justice Department told Mueller in a letter that his testimony “must remain within the boundaries of your public report” and noted that some aspects of his work were covered by executive privilege.

What are Democrats most likely to ask about?

What are Republicans most likely to ask about?

Where will lawmakers turn their attention next?

Democrats have signaled they will focus on the episodes outlined in the report in which Trump sought to impede the investigation. While the report lays them out in detail, some believe the public hasn’t yet been exposed to them, and having a respected former prosecutor rehash them on national TV is worthwhile in its own right. Mueller almost certainly will not answer Democrats’ biggest question: Does he believe there’s enough evidence to bring an obstruction-of-justice case against Trump, were he not president? That’s because Mueller’s team decided it could not make a determination on that topic even privately, because of Justice Department policy preventing the indictment of a sitting president, combined with concerns about the unfairness of making a claim against someone who would not have a chance to defend himself at a trial.

Trump’s allies are likely to question the former special counsel about what they perceive as bias on his team. They are likely to refer repeatedly to anti-Trump text messages exchanged by two FBI officials who worked for Mueller: agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page. Mueller removed Strzok from the case when he was alerted to the messages, and Page already had left his team. Page and Strzok have insisted their private views did not influence their work. But Trump has used them to attack Mueller’s probe. Republicans also are likely to press Mueller on the origins of the probe before his appointment and the propriety of investigative tactics the FBI used in dealing with the Trump campaign. Mueller could feel compelled to defend his team or the FBI, particularly in light of Trump’s repeated claim that his campaign was inappropriately spied on.

Mueller is a pivotal witness in the committees’ ongoing investigations of the Trump administration and Russian interference in the 2016 election, but he is hardly the only one. When he’s finished, lawmakers might intensify their efforts to speak with members of his team.

They also might refocus on those who were witnesses for Mueller and can describe possible firsthand obstructive conduct by the president. Trump so far has largely stymied House Democrats on that front, citing executive privilege and other concerns to block witnesses from testifying. Lawmakers have been unable to get former White House counsel Donald McGahn to speak with them, and former White House communications adviser Hope Hicks has repeatedly declined to discuss her time inside the administration, though she did talk about her time on the campaign.

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Proposal would cut food stamp benefits for 3M POLITICS About 3.1 million people would lose food stamp benefits under the Trump administration’s proposal to tighten automatic eligibility requirements for the food stamp program.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, above, said Tuesday that the rule would close “a loophole” that enables people receiving only minimal benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to be eligible automatically for food stamps without undergoing further checks on their income or assets.

The proposal is the latest effort by the administration to cut back on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, the official name of the food stamp program.

It also has proposed to tighten work requirements for those who receive federal food assistance.

The USDA estimates 1.7 million households — 3.1 million people — “will not otherwise meet SNAP’s income and asset eligibility prerequisites under the proposed rule,” resulting in a net savings of about $9.4 billion over five years.

Under the proposal, to qualify for automatic eligibility, people would have to get at least $50 a month in benefits from TANF for a minimum of six months.

Ellen Vollinger, legal director of the Food Research & Action Center, said the government should “put attention on how to help more people, not undercut supports for them and make their struggle against hunger even harder.” CAROLE FELDMAN (AP)

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Fans react to Nats extending safety nets following a sting of injuries at MLB ballparks NATIONALS Dan Wright had two pressing questions for the man from whom he was buying Nationals tickets the other day: “Are you scamming me?” he asked the Craigslist seller. His second question: “Will the seats be protected by netting?”

Wright, the father of a 2-yearold, wanted to sit near the field at Nationals Park, beside the visitors’ dugout. But he also wanted to ensure he and his family would be safe.

“With the nets there,” Wright said, “I think it will be more relaxing and enjoyable to watch.”

As players and safety advocates urge Major League Baseball to do more to protect fans from foul balls, the Nationals and White Sox this week became the first two teams to extend netting nearly all the way down each foul line.

The Nationals installed more than 300 feet of new netting in time for Monday’s scheduled game against the Rockies, which was postponed postpone

because of weather.

A majority of fans surveyed informally at Nationals Park on Monday said they were in favor of extended protective netting.

Most fans said they want clubs to prioritize safety in an age when pitchers are throwing harder and batters are hitting balls with higher exit velocities. Some said they refuse to buy tickets if the seats aren’t protected by a net.

Fans who oppose the idea of protective netting beyond the dugouts said they prefer to absorb the risk. Those fans said they would buy tickets near the field only if the area were open, with no net in the way. Some said the net would minimize their interactions with players.

“It definitely provides extra security and peace of mind, though I don’t feel the net needs to be there,” said Jennifer Latham, who came to the ballpark Monday with her 6-year-old daughter.

“It takes away from the game — the tradition of waiting and

Nats add pitcher Blazek The Nationals on Monday selected the contract of 30-year-old reliever Michael Blazek, who hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2017.

To accommodate him, Justin Miller was placed on the 60-day injured list with a right rotator cuff strain.

The Nats optioned pitcher Kyle McGowin to Class AA Harrisburg to keep the bullpen at eight arms. (TWP)

watching for balls. It’s one of the few sports where that happens.”

Recent incidents have sparked increased conversation about protective netting. Beyond the Nationals and White Sox, five other teams have committed to extending the netting close to each foul pole. Other clubs have extended netting farther away from home plate in recent years.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has not issued a leaguewide mandate, instead choosing to let individual teams decide.

Meanwhile, fans at two more ballparks reported injuries last weekend. On Friday night, a fan was injured at a Rays game after Joey Wendle lined a fastball into the seats down the left field line.

The ball deflected off a barrier and struck a woman on the side of her forehead. At an Indians game Sunday, a 3-year-old boy was hospitalized after Francisco Lindor hit a line drive into the seats.

The Nationals were moved to take action after a 4-year-old girl was severely injured by a foul ball at an Astros game May 29.

Houston resident Alexander Elias, who was at Nationals Park on Monday as part of a nationwide ballpark tour with his 7-year-old son, said they attended that Astros game.

“The rate kids are getting hit — it’s very concerning. It’s terrifying,” Elias said. “Some balls have come close to me.

I call myself lucky when they don’t hit us.” MATTHEW GUTIERREZ (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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His absence was linked to concerns about the team’s medical staff. (TWP)

3-year starter Foster cut day before camp The Redskins released middle linebacker Mason Foster, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction, cutting a threeyear starter and 2018 team captain a day before the start of training camp. The team had already lost inside linebacker Reuben Foster to injury. The Redskins get a salary cap savings of $4 million and will spend only $250,000 in dead money on his contract. (TWP)

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How high are prices? The median list price for a single-family home in the 22202 ZIP code was $1.599 million in June, a 99.9% year-over-year increase.

That spike in listing prices was evident immediately after the Amazon HQ2 announcement, with the median list price jumping from $780,000 for a single-family home in that ZIP code in November to $1.37 million in December — a 75.5% increase.

Development plans for the area so far primarily include apartments and some condos rather than single-family homes, another factor in the price spike there. MICHELE LERNER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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The lack of new pending sales can be tied to the quick decrease in homes for sale, probably

because homeowners wanted to wait for the official opening of HQ2, according to Chris Finnegan, vice president of marketing and communications for Bright MLS. Inventory dropped 85.3% from October to November and has yet to come back. In June, yearover-year listings in the National Landing ZIP code fell 70.2%.

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Q. Is it legal to require adult supervision at the condo swimming pool? Our pool management company is demanding that lifeguards require adult supervision of children. Their proposed contract states, “XYZ company reserves the right to restrict children under 12 years old unless accompanied by an adult over 18 years old.” This is inconsistent with our community rules. Is there exposure to our condo board?

A. You are right to be concerned about any service provider refusing to follow the community association’s rules or policies. That calls into question the legitimacy or enforceability of the rule, as well as the association’s ability to oversee its service providers.

Although the pool company is an independent contractor, the community association would be responsible for the actions

it takes. If those actions are contrary to the association’s governing documents or law, the association is exposed to liability.

Community associations typically have swimming pool rules and regulations to control nuisances, crowds, health and safety. The rules are generally written to ensure safety and prevent injury rather than with the intent to discriminate.

Do rules requiring adult supervision of children at condo pools violate the Fair Housing Act?

Nevertheless, fair housing laws protect against rules that have a discretionary effect, regardless of their intent. A pool rule or policy that has the effect of discriminating when applied to a protected class will be carefully scrutinized under the Fair Housing Act. The concern here is that the pool management company intends to enforce a policy that not only differs from the

association rule but may violate fair housing laws.

Communities should be wary of any rule that limits conduct to a particular age group. Rules should not target someone based on age, gender or familial status. Any rule or policy targeting children is likely to trigger a discrimination accusation or a fair housing inquiry.

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While the familial status protections of the FHA preclude any rules that discriminate against families with children, the act does not preclude housing providers from implementing reasonable health and safety rules.

Before proceeding with the rule, the condo association board should obtain a legal opinion. Given the FHA’s protection of familial status, coupled with courts requiring a “compelling business necessity” or, in this case, a legitimate health and safety or community interest, the statement that children under the age of 12 are incapable of looking out for their own health and safety may be legally unsupportable and therefore not serve as a legitimate basis for the age restriction on swimming pool use.

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Thom Yorke’s “Anima” is a fulfilling listen if you’re in the mood for some existential dread.

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Beneath the glitz, Yorke gets gloomy ALBUM REVIEW Being embraced by the show business establishment hasn’t made Thom Yorke feel all warm and fuzzy.

Last year, the famously gloomy Radiohead frontman made the preliminary shortlist for the Academy Awards’ original song category with his haunting title theme from Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria.” And, in March, he was inducted along with the rest of Radiohead into that backslappiest of institutions, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Yet nothing about “Anima,” Yorke’s solo album released digitally last month and physically Friday, suggests that this 50-year-old is looking forward to getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “Who are these people?” he wails to open “Not the News,” while “Dawn Chorus” ru r us offers a typically typicall llly fraught

confession: “I think I miss something, but I’m not sure what.”

Could he be longing for the days when Radiohead was known as an iconoclastic guitar band? No. Built mostly from buzzing synth squiggles and twitchy rhythmic loops, “Anima” has little to do (beyond Yorke’s strangled moan) with the sound of Radiohead’s hand-played efforts. And the album comes with its own Hollywood connection in the form of an accompanying short film directed

by Paul Thomas Anderson.

In other words, Yorke may not be happy in this newly rarefied air, but that’s no reason to leave — especially when he knows he probably wouldn’t be happy anywhere else. Indeed, the sense of dread on “Anima” feels tied to Yorke’s vague, if deeply held, conviction that politics and technology have combined to create a global menace from which there’s no hiding. In “Last I Heard (… He Was Circling the Drain),” he describes being “swallowed up by the city.” “I Am a Very Rude Person” has him insisting, “I

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“Anima” is slightly more songful than Yorke’s most recent solo record, 2014’s “Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes.” “I Am a Very Rude Person” and “Impossible Knots” both ride funk grooves that recall Atoms for Peace, his short-lived side project with Flea.

And “Dawn Chorus,” with Yorke’s low, breathy vocals over a halting keyboard pattern, is one of the prettiest things he’s ever written — a strangely tender ballad delivered from “the middle of the vortex,” as he puts it, where “soot from the chimney pot” forms “spiral patterns of you, my love.”

The song features prominently

in Anderson’s movie, which follows Yorke through a bleakly futuristic cityscape as he tries to return a missing bag to its owner. The film, now streaming on Netflix, has no dialogue but tells its story through intricate choreography by Damien Jalet, who also worked on “Suspiria.”

Although serious Radio head fans will know “Anima” doesn’t mark Yorke’s screen debut as a dancer — who could forget the endlessly memed “Lotus Flower” video? — it’s striking to see this often-glum little dude throw his body into the project with such abandon.

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Janelle Monáe joins Season 2 of Amazon’s “Homecoming”

The new album from The Flaming Lips is a head trip — literally.

The alt-rockers have upped their game with a concept album that takes us into a giant head. Weird? Yes. Thrilling? Of course.

“King’s Mouth: Music and Songs,” released Friday, is a beautifully crafted psychedelic album. It traces the life of a giant king, growing in complexity through its 12 tracks. The king dies heroically, and the townsfolk honor him by cutting off his head, dipping it in steel and spending time in it. Naturally, none of the songs are predictable. “The Sparrow” morphs from an industrial lullaby to a funky dance tune, while other standouts include the childhoodevoking “How Many Times” and the funky “Feedaloodum Beedle Dot.” Finding yourself inside someone’s head turns out to be a nice vacation in these tough times. MARK KENNEDY (AP)

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The Pop TV series “Florida Girls” stars a foursome of, well, Florida girls.

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‘Florida’ heat: Pop TV series relishes taboos For a minute, I thought the new Pop TV series “Florida Girls” was a reality show.

I guess I had it confused with the actual reality show “Floribama Shore” on MTV. There are so many similarities! On “Floribama Shore,” a character says, “I wasn’t just blacked out. I was blacked the hell out.” On “Florida Girls,” one girl says to another, “You can’t blame alcohol for being a bad rollerblader.”

So art imitates life and life imitates art when it comes to Florida stereotypes. But the fictional version is a lot funnier — and way more insightful. “Florida Girls” (which airs new episodes back-to-back, at 10 and 10:30 p.m., on Wednesdays) is about five girls who met at age 5, started drinking at 12 and dropped out of high school at 16. Then one of them gets her GED, lands a job and abandons the girls’ hometown of Clearwater for the greener pastures of … Ohio.

The remaining foursome, now in their 20s, wonder if it’s time to “like, change or something,” as Shelby (show creator Laura Chinn, who grew up in the Sunshine State) puts it.

She’s the bad rollerblader with her arm in a cast.

Be forewarned: This is not a show for people who resent depictions of Floridians as boneheaded vulgarians. There are jokes about flashers and meth cookers. Kaitlin (Melanie Field) is too broke to finish up her chest tattoo “Florida Fore... .” Unrepentant klepto Erica (Patty Guggenheim) steals Amazon packages from doorsteps. “If mean, if I don’t take it, someone else will,” she says.

But there’s more to the series than making fun of Floridians. Even though the four titular girls are mired in inertia and low self-esteem, they’re delightfully complicated characters. They can be naively sweet, fiercely protective of each other and totally fearless in the face of adversity — except when it comes to the thought of pursuing a GED. And really, how can you resist a show that is itself unafraid of taboos? When Jayla (Laci Mosley) gets all dolled up in a white pantsuit for a date (with her — oh dear — 57-year-old boyfriend), she crows, “I look like a black Melania Trump!”

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1998: A gunman bursts into the U.S. Capitol, killing two police officers before being shot and captured. (The shooter, Russell Eugene Weston Jr., is being held in a federal mental facility.)

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Ashley Benson on Monday revealed a new tattoo on Instagram that may be of her girlfriend Cara Delevingne’s initials. The actress announced her new collection of sunglasses by posting a photo of herself with the letters “CD” tattooed under her left breast. Shortly after the photo was posted, Twitter users pointed out that Delevingne has an “A” tattoo inked in the same spot as Benson’s “CD” tattoo. Delevingne confirmed their relationship last month to E! News, saying, “It’s been just about our one-year anniversary so, why not?” (EXPRESS)

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