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District deluged Days of heavy rain bring floods, sinkholes and even a tornado 4

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American bailout The Agriculture Department announces $12 billion in emergency aid for farmers hurt by Trump’s tariffs, the latest sign that trade tensions between the U.S. and other countries won’t end soon 15

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THINK PINK: A visitor to the interactive pop-up museum Sugar Republic in Melbourne, Australia, takes a selfie Tuesday as she reclines in a display of balls resembling lollipops.

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Turns out, ‘The world judges, we don’t,’ was just another cruel lie

Forget the lawsuit and give them a Nobel in passive aggression

Police in Ohio say two men on a motorcycle holding a large fish tank were arrested Monday after an officer passed them while responding to a pet store’s report of a stolen aquarium. Niles police say the passenger jumped off, breaking the aquarium, when the officer followed the motorcycle. Another officer found the bike and a “nervous-looking” man pruning a tree with his bare hands behind a home.

He was identified as the bike’s operator. (AP)

A man is facing charges after removing all his clothes to exercise at the Plaistow, N.H., Planet Fitness on Sunday. The New Hampshire Union Leader reports that Eric Stagno of Haverhill, Mass., was nude and in a “yoga-type pose” when police arrived at the gym. “The only comment he made was that he thought it was a judgment-free zone, apparently referencing their slogan,” Capt.

Brett Morgan told the Union Leader. (EXPRESS)

A dispute over a load of chicken manure that ruined a wedding has been settled, an attorney for Gerald Zarrella told WJAR on Monday. Zarrella had sued his Exeter, R.I., neighbors James and Diane Lynch, saying they dumped chicken manure near his estate hours before a wedding. He claimed the Lynches were angry he was hosting events.

Zarrella says hundreds of turkeys appeared near his property before the next wedding he hosted. (AP)

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Ofo un-docks from District TRANSPORTATION Chinese bike-sharing startup Ofo said it is scaling back its U.S. operations and pulling out of several cities, including the nation’s capital.

Of the seven operators in the District’s dockless pilot program, Ofo is the first to pull out, amid growing tension between the industry and city government.

The company, which operates millions of bikes in China, is closing out operations in the District after a nine-month run in a market where it struggled to get the city to ease regulations, chiefly to lift the restriction that capped its fleet at 400 bikes.

Dockless bike operators, including Ofo, have said D.C.’s restrictions on the number of vehicles they can operate have hindered their ability to effectively serve the entire city and make a profit.

The dockless bikes have been scattered on city sidewalks since the District launched a tryout in September; electric scooters followed this spring. The pilot was scheduled to end in April but was

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Company is the first dockless bikeshare to pull out of the market

Ofo representatives said D.C.’s cap on the number of bikes a company can operate in the city is one of the reasons it is leaving the market.

extended to the end of August.

In recent months, the District Department of Transportation has denied requests from the industry to change the regulation to allow more bikes on city streets. City transportation officials said they will make a determination about fleet size and other regulations for a permanent program after the pilot

ends next month.

Ofo spokesman Jordan Levine said Ofo was re-evaluating “markets that present obstacles” to “prioritize growth in viable markets,” and the District didn’t make the cut.

Ofo recently pulled out of Chicago, where the company cited regulatory hurdles. Company officials said Ofo will continue

operations in some U.S. markets, including San Diego and Seattle.

Ofo previously announced plans to pull out of Australia, Germany and Israel.

Levine said Monday that the company has been removing its bikes from city streets, working to recover vandalized and stolen bikes, and looking to donate the fleet and scrap the bikes that are unusable. Several U.S.-based staff are set to be laid off Friday.

The city’s experiment with dockless bike-sharing has so far received mixed reviews. Some bike enthusiasts have embraced the services as another commuting option at a time when biking is on the rise. But some residents have labeled the bikes “sidewalk litter” and complained about bikes blocking pedestrian traffic.

The companies also faced issues with theft and vandalism that cut down on their fleet availability in a competitive market.

Other dockless companies have also expressed concerns with regulations. The Mobike app this week showed no bikes available for rent in the city, and the company said it will make an announcement soon about its operations in the District.

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Rain unearths shark teeth in Maryland Recent heavy rains have not been heavy enough to re-create the sea that once covered southern Maryland — but they have been intense enough to uncover evidence of that sea. On Monday, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources posted on social media two photos of fossil teeth from prehistoric sharks.

The fossils were found in a creek in Huntingtown, Md., as a result of heavy rains last weekend. The dark color of the teeth suggests that they belonged to ancient (rather than present-day) sharks. (TWP)

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Police probe stabbing at Friendship Heights A Metro worker at the Friendship Heights station used a pocket knife to gravely wound a man who D.C. police said attacked her shortly after midnight Tuesday in an angry fit over late service, according to officials. Police said they were investigating the case as one of possible self-defense and had not filed criminal charges against either person involved in the altercation. The report said the man came into the manager’s kiosk and “attempted to attack” the female employee.

The man who was stabbed was not publicly identified. The Metro employee, who is 29, was taken to a hospital as a precaution. (TWP)

Days of torrential rain in the D.C. region bring flooding, sinkholes and even a tornado in Va.

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King Street near the City Marina in Alexandria flooded Tuesday after days of rain.

A lone man walks along the banks of the Potomac on Tuesday at East Potomac Park.

Rich Johnson of Northeast Washington sat outside the Metro Center station Tuesday, taking a break from his construction job at Freedom Plaza, and waxed philosophically on the weather.

“Without the rain, where would we be?” he said. “We’re alive, we are here today, we are outside, and it’s not too hot.”

For others, the excessive rainfall has created hardships.

John Long, an executive assistant from Northeast, said his dining room had sprung a leak after storms hit the area Saturday.

“I came downstairs to a whole puddle on my floor,” Long said.

July has been a month of extremes in Washington. A month

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that started off dry is likely to become the wettest July on record in Washington.

The Baltimore region and parts of Anne Arundel County bore the brunt of the region’s rain Tuesday, with high water closing areas near the Annapolis City Dock. By early afternoon Tuesday, Baltimore had recorded 2.3 inches of rain, pushing the city to 13.26 inches for the month — the city’s wettest July on record.

The D.C. region last saw a similar weather pattern 12 years ago.

During that system, a mudslide led to closures on the Beltway.

Authorities urged commuters to use caution as flooded roads and downed trees remain a threat.

Areas of heavy rain are likely again today, then chances back off Thursday and Friday with temperatures edging higher.

The weekend will be warm and humid — with scattered storms.

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REGION It’s been four days of the D.C. region feeling like Noah’s Ark. Soaking rain, sinkholes, fallen trees and lightning have socked the region since Saturday amid what forecasters say is an unusual weather pattern. It has left at least two people dead — a woman who died after a tree fell on her Virginia home and a firefighter as he battled a blaze at a Maryland home struck by lightning.

Added to that, a “small, brief circulation” in the clouds triggered a pre-sunrise tornado warning Tuesday that sent some Fairfax County residents scrambling.

Jason Samenow, The Washington Post’s chief meteorologist, said the last time the region saw a similar “stuck weather pattern” involving heavy rain was 2006. In the current setup, he said, a front is stalled over the area with a “conveyor belt of tropical moisture” that originated from the Bahamas, known as an “atmospheric river.”

“It’s like a water hose in the sky that’s pointed right at us,” he said.

On Tuesday, commuters faced rush-hour downpours, high water over major roads and downed trees that brought traffic to a standstill. Dozens of roads were closed, including part of busy Arlington Boulevard for nearly an hour during the morning rush.

Just before 6 a.m. Tuesday, the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning in effect for 21 minutes in Fairfax County.

The Weather Service later confirmed Tuesday that a tornado touched down at 5:55 a.m. near Thomas Jefferson High School.

No one was injured.

Residents had various ways of coping with the inundation.

Fairfax teacher accused of soliciting minor online A Fairfax County high school teacher has been charged after soliciting a detective posing as a minor teenager online, police said. Norman Achin, 50, of Woodbridge made contact with the detective through a social media app and solicited sexual contact, Fairfax police said. Achin also sent the detective a sexually explicit image, presumably of himself, police said. Achin has been charged with attempted indecent liberties and use of a communication device to solicit a minor. He is being held without bond. (TWP) VIRGINIA

Prosecutors: Candidate lied about $700K gift Federal prosecutors say a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia lied about donating more than $700,000 to her campaign.

Shaun Brown is set to stand trial this week on charges she stole at least $439,000 from a program established to feed needy children. Brown is a former Democratic candidate for Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District who’s now running as an independent. (AP)

Police: Woman and granddaughter, 5, struck by car, killed Monday morning in Baltimore County

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Police: Boys, ages 10 and 7, drive onto highway, crash

Police in Silver Spring say an officer shot a man who barricaded himself inside his ex-girlfriend’s home with a knife, entered their 3-year-old son’s bedroom and began writing on windows with what appeared to be blood on his fingers. Montgomery County police said Tuesday that John Carlos Natera-Perez, also known as Jean Perez, is in grave condition.

Police said officers tried to negotiate with Perez after the boy’s mother and her boyfriend escaped the home in Silver Spring on Monday night. Tactical team supervisors went inside for the child’s safety, and an officer saw Perez and shot him. The boy was not physically injured. (AP)

A recount Monday in the Democratic primary for Montgomery county executive slightly changed the vote totals but not the outcome: At-large council member Marc Elrich remains the Democratic nominee. The runnerup in the race, Potomac businessman David Blair, requested a partial recount after the certified election results showed Elrich ahead of him by just 79 votes. Monday’s recount, narrowed the margin to 77. Lawyer Robin Ficker is the Republican nominee for the top elected post in the largely liberal county. Longtime Democratic council member Nancy Floreen is running as an independent.

Police in Virginia say a 10-year-old boy and his 7-year-old passenger took a car and drove at least a dozen miles before crashing on an interstate. Fire and rescue crews report that no one involved was injured. Virginia State Police said the boys took the black Lexus for a spin around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in Fluvanna County, which is outside of Richmond. Police said the car was reportedly “all over” the roadway on Interstate 64. One person followed the boys and called police. The Lexus eventually struck the caller’s Nissan Rogue before crashing into a median near Goochland. State police are handling the crash investigation. (AP)

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THE DISTRICT The primary organizer of last summer’s deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville withdrew his request Tuesday for a court order allowing him to stage an event there marking its anniversary, but he vowed to press forward with plans for a similar event in Washington.

One of Jason Kessler’s lawyers announced his change of plans during a hearing in federal court.

After the hearing, Kessler tweeted that he will be “focusing exclusively” on his plans to hold a rally in D.C. on the anniversary of the bloodshed in Charlottesville. The National Park Service approved his application for an Aug. 12 “white civil rights” rally at Lafayette Square, near the White House, but hasn’t issued a permit for the event.

National Park Service spokesman Mike Litterst said Tuesday there hasn’t been any change in the status of Kessler’s application.

“When we have all the information we need to make sure that the public is safe and that park resources are protected, then we’ll issue the permit,” he said.

One of Kessler’s lawyers, James Kolenich, said he doesn’t know why Kessler abruptly

ZACK WAJSGRAS (THE DAILY PROGRESS VIA AP)

Focus shifts ahead of rally anniversary

Jason Kessler, the organizer of last year’s deadly rally in Charlottesville, is planning a similar event in D.C.

abandoned his efforts to get a permit in Charlottesville.

“He ordinarily has good reasons for what he does. I don’t know what it is right now,” he said.

The decision doesn’t necessarily mean that no event will take place in Charlottesville, activists and the city’s police chief said. The city requires permits only for events with more than 50 people expected, or those with street closures or park reservations.

Police Chief RaShall Brackney said that although Tuesday’s development was “a victory,” authorities would continue with public safety preparations ahead of the anniversary.

“We are going to be prepared for that weekend to come regardless,” she said. MICHAEL KUNZELMAN AND SARAH RANKIN (AP)

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federalworkforce JOE DAVIDSON | THE WASHINGTON POST

Unions vs. Trump: Stage set to fight executive orders the public interest.”

Another brief says Trump’s executive orders “upend Congress’s comprehensive statutory scheme governing the federal employment and labor-management relations.”

Trump, it concludes, “has far exceeded his authority” with his executive orders.

Nonetheless, their pain has already been inflicted on the unions.

Agencies have cut official time and evicted local labor leaders from union offices in federal buildings that they had long occupied rent-free.

The Social Security Administration is a prime example.

It “unilaterally implemented extensive changes to the contract that had previously been negotiated,” according to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE).

The agency also halted union “access to computers, phones, personnel files, and other tools that are vital to effective representation.”

In response to lawsuits filed

by AFGE and other unions, the Justice Department said the orders fall “well within the President’s authority. … Plaintiffs’ attempts to dress up their core assertions of ... Executive action as violations of the separation-of-powers doctrine … must be dismissed.”

Sorting this out will be Jackson’s job. In the many pages of legal arguments submitted to her by the unions, federal labor leaders neglected to include one document — a thank-you note.

Nowhere in the unions’

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The stage is set for a major battle involving President Trump’s aggressive attack on federal labor organizations that has already weakened their operations.

In courtroom 17 of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is scheduled to hear oral arguments today in the case of federal unions seeking judicial rejection of anti-union executive orders Trump issued in May. The litigation challenges Trump’s authority to restrict collective bargaining and the ability of labor leaders to represent not just their members but all employees in a bargaining unit, whether they pay dues or not.

Trump issued three executive orders that: Slash “official time,” which allows union leaders to represent employees, not just union members, in such areas as filing grievances and discussions of workplace conditions.

Direct agency officials to forge union contracts that restrict the power of labor organizations.

Seek to fire feds faster by, among other provisions, weakening grievance procedures.

Citing a 1983 case, a brief by the National Treasury Employees Union says, “Congress unquestionably intended to strengthen the position of federal unions and to make the collective bargaining process a more effective instrument of

President Trump issued three anti-union executive orders in May.

Who’s the judge?

U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will hear oral arguments today in the case of federal unions seeking rejection of anti-union executive orders. Following her nomination by former President Barack Obama, she took the bench in 2013. Obama considered her as a Supreme Court possibility three years later, after Justice Antonin Scalia died. Jackson is related by marriage to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who offered his “unequivocal” endorsement of her for the bench, ABC News reported in 2016. J.D.

attempt to have the court reject his anti-union orders is there any show of appreciation for the stimulus Trump

provides to some unions. His antagonistic labor relations and proposals to cut federal employee compensation have encouraged employees to become dues paying union members.

AFGE, the largest federal union for example, reports a membership increase of nearly 7,000 since Trump took office.

“I think people understand that the only way to fight back is to be bigger, better and stronger,” said AFGE President J. David Cox Sr. Trump’s actions are “making us stronger than ever. … Bad management always makes for stronger unions.”

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ECONOMY Job growth has softened in the District and suburban Maryland as some agencies are being drawn down. But in the outlying suburbs of Northern Virginia — where defense and intelligence contracts are a major source of business — the promise of new defense spending is breathing life into a once-stagnant job market.

“There’s a disproportionate federal stimulus to the benefit of Northern Virginia,” said Stephen S. Fuller, an economist with George Mason University.

“Suburban Maryland has so much of the domestic side of the federal government, but they don’t have the federal contractors that are going to benefit from this mix of federal spending.”

The D.C. metropolitan area added 51,500 jobs in the one-year period that ended in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, a 1.6 percent growth rate that narrowly exceeded that of the nation as a whole. Some of the strongest gains came in the job classification that includes federal contractors, according to an analysis by the Stephen S. Fuller Institute at George Mason.

Federal employment in the D.C. area has shrunk by about 7,000 jobs over the past year — the largest decline of any job category — as the Trump administration has drawn down certain civilian agencies. The District was hit hardest, with about 4,200 federal jobs lost in the past year. AARON GREGG (TWP)

Favorable views of the FBI have dropped 16 percentage points among Republicans since early 2017, according a Pew Research Center poll; Democrats’ views of FBI remained stable

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North Korea dismantles key parts of launch site

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NORTH KOREA North Korea appears to have started dismantling key facilities at its main satellite launch site in a step toward fulfilling a commitment made by leader Kim Jong Un at his summit with President Trump in June.

While Pyongyang could be trying to build trust with Washington as they engage in talks to resolve the nuclear standoff, analysts say dismantling a few facilities at the site alone wouldn’t realistically reduce North Korea’s military capability or represent a material step toward denuclearization.

And they expressed concern that the work is being done without verification.

The North Korea-focused 38 North website said commercial satellite images from July 20 to 22 indicate the North began dismantling key facilities at the Sohae launch site. The facilities being razed or disassembled include a rocket engine test stand used to develop liquidfuel engines for ballistic missiles and space-launch vehicles and a rail-mounted processing building where space-launch vehicles were assembled before being moved to the launch pad, according to the report.

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AIRBUS DEFENSE & SPACE/38 NORTH (VIA AP)

Analysts say move isn’t a material step toward denuclearization

A satellite image shows a dismantled engine test stand in North Korea.

believed to have played an important role in the development of technologies for the North’s intercontinental ballistic missile program, these efforts represent a significant confidence building measure on the part of North Korea,” analyst Joseph Bermudez wrote.

An official from South Korea’s presidential office said Tuesday that Seoul has also been detecting dismantlement activities at the Sohae launch site but did not specify what the North was supposedly taking apart.

Other analysts said North Korea is giving up little in dismantling the rocket engine test site when it’s clear the country

is satisfied with its current design of long-range weapons and could easily build other similar facilities if needed in the future.

Adam Mount, a senior defense analyst at the Federation of American Scientists, said it’s also troubling that the North has been apparently allowed to duck verification by unilaterally dismantling parts of its nuclear and missile facilities without the presence of inspectors.

Mount added that the military consequences of a broader dismantlement would be “marginal.”

The North has ensured its missiles can be fired from primitive locations and doesn’t require a site like Sohae, he said. KIM TONG-HYUNG (AP)

Filmmaker James Cameron, below, and Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard are backing a bid by a group of British museums to acquire a collection of 5,500 artifacts from the sunken vessel. The campaign, announced Tuesday, aims to raise $20 million to buy the items from a private American company that salvaged them from the wreck.

The director of the 1997 blockbuster “Titanic” said there are grave concerns that the collection will be broken up and sold privately. The objects include a section of the ship’s hull and a bronze cherub decoration from the ship’s grand staircase. (AP)

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Death toll rises as Japan suffers in heat wave JAPAN Less than two weeks after torrential rains wreaked destruction across Japan, the country is facing yet another weather-related crisis: a record-breaking heat wave that forecasters say could last until early August.

More than 30,000 people have been admitted to the hospital for heatstroke, and at least 77 deaths have been registered in the past two weeks.

“This heat is a threat to life,” a spokesman for Japan’s Meteorological Agency said in a news conference Monday. “We recognize it as a natural disaster.”

A spokesman for the agency told the BBC that many areas of the country have experienced “unprecedented levels of heat.” In the city of Kumagaya, temperatures rose to 106 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday — the highest recorded in Japan.

In Tokyo, home to more than 9 million people, temperatures topping 104 degrees were reported for the first time.

Air conditioning is relatively rare in Japan, where years of government-led environmental campaigns have encouraged residents and organizations to reduce their reliance on cooling technology. According to CNN, a 2017 government survey found fewer than 45 percent of state-run elementary and middle schools had air conditioning and most apartment buildings did not have centralized climate-control systems. REBECCA TAN (TWP)

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Israel shot down a Syrian fighter jet it said had breached its airspace on Tuesday. The Israeli military said it monitored the advance of the Syrian Sukhoi fighter jet and shot it down with a pair of Patriot missiles after it penetrated Israeli airspace by about 1.2 miles. Syria’s military, however, said one of its jets was targeted

by Israel over Syrian territory as it flew sorties against Islamic State militants. Also on Tuesday, Syrian government forces reached the border fence at the edge of the Israel-occupied Golan Heights.

It was the first time the Syrian government had managed to retake the area since 2011. (AP)

Police arrested John Cowell on a train Monday night about 12 miles from the Oakland station where investigators believe he killed Nia Wilson, an 18-year-old woman, and wounded her sister in an unprovoked knife attack Sunday night. Cowell, 27, is a recently paroled robber with a violent history. A motive for the attack remained unclear. Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Chief Carlos Rojas said Cowell hasn’t been connected to any radical or white supremacist groups, although Rojas added: “We are going to explore all options and all possibilities.” The victims were black and Cowell is white. Cowell will be arraigned today. (AP)

A supermarket worker was killed by a bullet fired by Los Angeles police — not the gunman they were trying to stop — the city’s police chief, Michel Moore, acknowledged Tuesday.

Moore defended the decision to use deadly force as an attempt to stop what officers feared could have become a mass shooting.

Two officers returned fire from the gunman, Gene Evin Atkins, just as the store’s assistant manager, Melyda Corado, 27, was walking out the door.

One of the rounds went through her arm and into her body. She died at the scene, Moore said. Atkins was charged Tuesday with murder, among dozens of other charges. (AP)

A Pennsylvania board recommended Bill Cosby be classified as a sexually violent predator, which would require the former TV star to attend at least monthly sex offender counseling — in prison and out — and police to post warning flyers throughout his neighborhood whenever he is freed. It is now up to a judge to decide whether to accept the finding by the Pennsylvania Sexual Offenders Assessment Board.

The district attorney’s office that prosecuted Cosby asked a judge Tuesday to schedule a hearing in the matter. No date was immediately set. (AP)

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Torched homes, cars and forests were left in the wake of raging wildfires near Athens, Greece, on Monday.

Wildfires kill at least 74 near Athens, Greece Fast-moving blazes destroy homes, force many to flee into sea RAFINA, GREECE The death toll from Greece’s deadliest wildfires in decades climbed to 74 Tuesday as rescue crews searched on land and sea for those who sought to escape the blazes that engulfed popular summer resort spots near Athens.

The number of victims appeared set to go even higher, with crews checking charred homes and vehicles and the coast guard scouring beaches and deeper waters. There was no definitive count of the missing.

Fueled by 50 mph winds that frequently changed direction, the fires — one to the west of Athens

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near the town of Kineta and another to the northeast near the port of Rafina — spread at speeds that surprised many, trapping hundreds on beaches and cutting off escape routes.

All the casualties appeared to be from the fire near Rafina, a popular seaside area that is a mix of permanent residences and vacation homes. The blaze broke out Monday afternoon during a hot, dry spell, but the cause was not immediately clear.

Twenty-six of the dead were found after dawn Tuesday, huddled in a compound near the sea in the community of Mati, the worst-hit area near Rafina, about 30 miles west of Athens.

Hundreds of homes and cars were believed to have been burned. Many vehicles were

found with the keys still in the ignition and doors open, a sign of the urgency with which their occupants sought to flee the flames.

The ferocity of the fire melted cars’ metal hubcaps.

Many ran to beaches, but even there the fire got so close that dozens swam out to sea despite the rough weather.

“It happened very fast. The fire was in the distance, then sparks from the fire reached us.

Then the fire was all around us,” said Nikos Stavrinidis.

Stavrinidis, his wife and four friends swam out to sea to escape the smoke, but they quickly became disoriented, losing sight of shore and being swept out farther by the wind and currents. Two of his group didn’t survive. DEREK

Yelp on Tuesday expanded a controversial program that pulls health inspection scores from government databases and places them directly on restaurants’ pages. Yelp launched the program in San Francisco in 2013; now, it has partnered with HDScores to scrape government websites for health inspection reports to add data to restaurants in New York, California, Texas, Illinois and Washington, D.C. In San Francisco, Yelp’s trial run faced serious resistance from the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, which complained that a poor score could remain online long after a restaurant had corrected any problems.

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The number of parents of migrant children who are no longer present in the U.S., the Trump administration said in a court filing Monday. While the report cautioned that the cases are “under review,” meaning it is not a definitive tally, the figure indicates that the number of parents potentially deported without their children during the “zero tolerance” border crackdown could be far larger than previously acknowledged.

A court-ordered 30-day deadline for federal officials to reunite as many separated families as possible expires Thursday. (TWP) Police ban Zimbabwe opposition party from holding election protest ahead of historic vote next week

Ivanka Trump shutters her fashion brand BUSINESS Ivanka Trump said she’s shutting down her namesake clothing brand to focus on her work in Washington — a rare move by a Trump family member to choose between politics and business.

The president’s daughter and senior adviser on Tuesday said her “focus for the foreseeable future will be the work I am doing here in Washington” and called the company’s closure “the only fair outcome for my team and partners.” Trump handed over day-to-day operations after her father won the election but continued to own the company.

The company, based in New York’s Trump Tower, had been dropped by retailers such as Nordstrom due to flagging sales.

Its dresses, shoes and handbags — all of which were made in foreign countries such as China and Indonesia — also conflicted with her push for more jobs in the United States.

Trump’s brand of affordable fashion for young, professional women became a polarizing political statement, bought in solidarity by Trump supporters and boycotted by opponents.

“Views on the brand have become highly polarized, and it has become a lightning rod for protests and boycotts,” said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail. “While the company is still viable, doing business has become far more challenging and these problems will only increase.” DREW HARWELL AND ABHA BHATTARAI (TWP)

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Trump unveils $12 billion in aid for farmers hurt by tariffs, sparking calls for an end to trade war AGRICULTURE The Trump administration announced Tuesday it will provide $12 billion in emergency relief to ease the pain of American farmers slammed by President Trump’s escalating trade disputes with China and other countries.

However, some farm-state Republicans quickly dismissed the plan, declaring that farmers want markets for their crops, not payoffs for lost sales and lower prices.

With congressional elections coming soon, the government action underscored administration concern about damage to U.S. farmers from Trump’s trade tariffs and the potential for losing House and Senate seats in the Midwest and elsewhere.

The administration said the program was just temporary.

“This is a short-term solution that will give President Trump and his administration the time to work on long-term trade deals,” said Agriculture Department Secretary Sonny Perdue.

But that provided little solace to rank-and-file Republicans, who said the tariffs are simply taxes and warned the action would open a Pandora’s box for other sectors of the economy.

“I want to know what we’re going to say to the automobile manufacturers and the petrochemical manufacturers and all the other people who are being hurt by tariffs,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. “You’ve got to treat everybody the same.”

The program is expected to start taking effect around Labor Day. Officials said the direct

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with farmers affected by the retaliatory tariffs.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who has been critical of the president, said the tariffs “are a massive tax increase on American consumers and businesses, and instead of offering welfare to farmers to solve a problem they themselves created, the administration should reverse course and end this incoherent policy.”

The Agriculture Department predicted before the trade fights that U.S. farm income would drop this year to $60 billion, half the $120 billion of five years ago.

Trump has placed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, saying they pose a threat to U.S. national security, an argument that allies such as the European Union and Canada reject. He has also threatened to slap tariffs on imported cars, trucks and auto parts, potentially targeting imports that last year totaled $335 billion. KEN THOMAS,

COURTS Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s years-old remarks questioning the unanimous ruling that forced President Richard Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes opened a new front in the battle over his confirmation, ensuring his views on executive power will square prominently in Senate hearings.

Included in the thousands of pages turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee this past weekend is a 1999 transcript of a panel discussion in which Kavanaugh opined whether the “tensions of the time led to an erroneous decision” in the case United States v. Nixon.

Although Kavanaugh has defended the 1974 ruling in other remarks, Democrats have seized on his skepticism from nearly two decades ago to build an argument against the nominee: that he won’t be a sufficient check on the president who appointed him.

“If Kavanaugh would’ve let Nixon off the hook, what is he willing to do for President Trump?” said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y. But Senate Republicans on Monday dismissed Democrats’ efforts to make Kavanaugh’s views on the Nixon case an issue.

Democrats have also focused on Kavanaugh’s rulings in favor of broad presidential power and his criticism of the independent counsel law to suggest that he would protect Trump from the special counsel’s probe. SEUNG

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President Trump told a crowd in Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday that relief for farmers hurt by tariffs was coming.

payments could help producers of soybeans — which have been hit hard by retaliation to the Trump tariffs — along with sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton and dairy, and farmers raising hogs.

During a speech to veterans in Kansas City, Trump asked for patience as he attempts to renegotiate trade agreements he says have hurt American workers.

“We’re making tremendous progress,” Trump told the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention. “We’re opening up markets. You watch what’s going to happen. Just be a little patient.”

Agriculture officials said they would not need congressional approval and the money would come through the Commodity Credit Corporation, which addresses agricultural prices.

The Trump administration has slapped tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese goods in a dispute over Beijing’s high-tech industrial policies. China has retaliated with duties on soybeans and pork,

Money distribution President Trump’s program will extend $12 billion through three mechanisms run by the Department of Agriculture. The funds will come through direct assistance, a food purchase and distribution program, and a trade promotion program.

The first two of those programs will target farmers who have been hit by Chinese tariffs on soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton and sorghum, as well as dairy and pork. Separately, the USDA will purchase surplus fruits, nuts, rice, beans, beef, pork and milk for distribution to food banks and other nutrition assistance programs. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

affecting farmers in a region of the country that supported the president in 2016.

Trump has threatened to place penalty taxes on up to $500 billion in products imported from China. The moves have been unsettling to lawmakers in districts

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Facebook plans to open a subsidiary in China TECHNOLOGY Facebook has obtained a license to set up an office in China — a first for the company, which has been shut out of China’s lucrative market for years despite many attempts to break in.

The $30 million subsidiary in the southern city of Hangzhou would be set up as a startup incubator, making minor investments and advising small businesses, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking and a Chinese business filing.

Facebook is currently blocked in China. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has made personal appeals to the Chinese Communist Party’s top brass, including learning Mandarin and taking a notorious “smog jog” through

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Facebook is currently blocked in China, where the company plans to open a startup incubator.

Tiananmen Square, braving toxic air pollution for a photo op in 2016.

“We are interested in setting up an innovation hub in Zhejiang to support Chinese developers, innovators and startups,” the

company said in a statement. “We have done this in several parts of the world — France, Brazil, India, Korea — and our efforts would be focused on training and workshops that help these developers and entrepreneurs to innovate and grow.”

Facebook quietly launched a photo-sharing app called “Colorful Balloons” for the Chinese market last year. It was released by a company called Youge Internet Technology. Facebook has a sales office in Hong Kong, and for years has sought to open an office in mainland China. But China has a robust economy of social media companies, and the government has favored local competitors. ELIZABETH DWOSKIN AND EMILY RAUHALA (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Every year, NFL teams that started with low expectations make unexpected postseason runs. With training camps opening this week, these three coaches are feeling pressure to win. (AP)

Starting pitcher and catcher are the most pressing needs for the struggling Nationals thinking say they are high on Rays right-hander Chris Archer but assume the asking price will be too high. Archer, 29, is 3-4 this year with a 4.30 ERA. Tampa Bay scouted the Nationals’ Class A Advanced Potomac team earlier this month, though at the time, that seemed likely to be tied to a potential deal for the now-injured catcher Wilson Ramos, who spent seven seasons with Washington.

Rays righty Nathan Eovaldi might be available for a tolerable price. The Nats and Rays have a long track record of deals, something that has often proved telling for Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo in the past.

The Tigers might make some of their starters available. The Blue Jays might sell veteran J.A. Happ. The Padres have veteran Tyson Ross, who is pitching well.

Starters are available, and the Nats could use help.

Stephen Strasburg allowed six runs in 42 /3 innings in his first start back from the disabled list. Gio Gonzalez walked five

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MLB The trade deadline looms just six days away. For the Nationals in recent years, this week has included speculation about back-end relievers. This season, as Washington lingers in the purgatory between contending and potentially sliding away, the plans seem less clear-cut.

The Nationals do not have much room to tinker with their roster. Their manager, Dave Martinez, is already juggling more first basemen and outfielders than he can play regularly.

When healthy, their bullpen is loaded with late-inning options.

If the Nationals are to upgrade, they seem most likely to do so at catcher or in the starting rotation. They have called teams to discuss both possibilities, monitoring both markets all season, according to multiple people familiar with their plans.

What is not clear, however, is who they do view as an upgrade — and how much they might be willing to pay to make one. People familiar with the Nationals’

MLB.com linked the Nationals to, clockwise from top left, Rangers starter Cole Hamels, Rays pitcher Chris Archer, Toronto’s J.A. Happ and the Rays’ Nathan Eovaldi. They could all become available before the July 31 deadline.

Hamels report denied MLB.com reported Monday night that the Nationals had discussed a deal for Rangers lefty Cole Hamels.

A person familiar with their plans denied the report, saying that the club hasn’t floated a trade to Texas.

A Nationals scout was at Hamels’ start in Texas on Monday, but that was said to be part of his usual predeadline rounds. The Nationals would owe Hamels $7 million this year and either a $6 million buyout or $20 million in salary in 2019. They have never taken on so much money midseason. Hamels, 34, allowed seven runs in five innings Monday, and his ERA is 4.72. Tanner Roark’s ERA, for reference, is 4.85. C.J.

in 52 /3 innings Monday night.

Tanner Roark has showed signs of revival but has not convinced anyone he is back in form.

The Nationals must decide how much they will pay for an upgrade to that rotation, and how much of an upgrade they can find for that price. If they do decide to add a starter, making room won’t be easy given Roark’s history with the club and Jeremy Hellickson’s recent success.

But those decisions are theoretical. The Nationals entered Tuesday six games back in the NL East. With six days before the deadline, they have plenty of other choices to make first.

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In a bit of comedic timing that seemed appropriate for a topsy-turvy season in Washington, shortstop Trea Turner was announced Tuesday as the Nationals’ winner for the 2018 Heart & Hustle awards, which are voted on by MLB players and alumni. The previous night in Milwaukee, Turner hit a bunt to the pitcher and threw his equipment in disgust instead of running to first. He was benched Tuesday night. (EXPRESS) D.C. United returns to Audi Field tonight vs. N.Y. Red Bulls (7:30, WJLA 24/7 News)

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Thompson ready to start camp NFL With Chris Thompson confirming that he’ll be ready to go for the start of training camp, Washington will have its entire backfield intact when practices begin Thursday in Richmond.

The sixth-year running back told SiriusXM NFL Radio on Monday that he’ll participate from the start and won’t be placed on the physically unable to perform list. Thompson went on injured reserve after 10 games last season due to a fractured fibula. He attended summer workouts but did not practice with the team.

“I’m feeling pretty good right now,” Thompson said. “I will start practicing with the guys from day one, but just taking it slowly. The focus is to really be ready by that first regular-season game.”

Thompson, 27, is expected to shine in Jay Gruden’s offense as a third-down back and in passing situations. Listed at 5 feet 8 and 195 pounds, he can catch the ball out of the backfield and is elusive in the open field.

He was having the best year of his career with 510 yards receiving, 294 yards rushing and six combined TDs before the injury.

“Chris Thompson is by far the

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Chris Thompson was the Redskins’ top pass-catching running back over the first 10 games last season.

guy that we need to be healthy to make this a great corps of running backs,” Doug Williams, senior vice president of player personnel, said back in April.

The Redskins were the No. 28 rushing team in the league in 2017 with 90.5 yards per game.

The team hopes to improve that with the addition of secondround pick Derrius Guice from LSU. Guice will compete with returning starter Rob Kelley, who suffered a season-ending MCL sprain last year.

Kelley was practicing during the summer. Tight end Jordan Reed (hamstring) and starting tackles Morgan Moses (ankle) and Trent Williams (knee) are expected back during camp.

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Cavaliers keep Love with 4-year, $120M deal All-Star forward Kevin Love signed a four-year, $120 million contract with Cleveland on Tuesday, helping the team begin anew following LeBron James’ departure. Love, 29, just played his fourth season with Cleveland, which was swept by Golden State in the NBA Finals.

That loss was followed by James leaving in free agency to sign with the Lakers. Love, who has often been mentioned in trade speculation, now becomes the centerpiece of the franchise.

He averaged 17.6 points and 9.3 rebounds last season when he made his fifth All-Star team. (AP)

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After being traded away in June, Brooks Orpik will help the Capitals defend their Stanley Cup title. The team announced Tuesday it had re-signed the defenseman, 37, to a one-year, $1 million contract that includes $500,000 in performance bonuses. Orpik was dealt to Colorado to clear cap space but took a buyout. He led the Caps with 168 blocked shots last season. (EXPRESS)

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Orpik to return on 1-year deal

BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON, FRANCE | Tour de France leader Geraint Thomas cleans his eyes of tear gas Tuesday that police used in an attempt to clear protesting farmers who tried to block the race route because they are upset with cuts to European Union funding. Bales of hay blocked the road 30 kilometers into the 218-kilometer stage from Carcassonne to Bagneres-de-Luchon. There was a 15-minute delay, and Thomas maintained his lead.

ESPN hires ex-UCLA coach Jim Mora to fill football analyst role vacated by new Bruins coach Chip Kelly

Todd Gurley agreed to a recordsetting, four-year extension through 2023 with the Los Angeles Rams on Tuesday.

Multiple reports put the value at $60 million, with $45 million guaranteed. That is the NFL’s largest annual average value for a running back, resetting the market for players such as Dallas’ Ezekiel Elliott, Arizona’s David Johnson and Pittsburgh’s Le’Veon Bell next year. Gurley was the NFL’s offensive player of the year last year after rushing for 1,305 yards and 13 touchdowns while catching 64 passes for 788 yards and six more TDs. (AP)

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teer a few magic words. Slosh-slosh-slosh. Blah-blah-blah. And … nope. But this is how her songwriting often begins — eavesdropping and people-watching while she runs her daily errands. Her exquisite new album, “The Tree,” directs that curiosity toward families — her family, other people’s families, imagined families.

“I’m not a truth-seeker. I’m not someone who wants to go around the world and find out why we exist,” McKenna says. “For me to get sick of writing about my neighbors?” She can’t imagine that.

‘Nashville called me’ McKenna got her start on the New England folk circuit back in the ’90s, but everything changed in 2004 when her fourth album, “Bittertown,” began to circulate in Nashville’s most exclusive corridors. Before long, a music publisher phoned to say that Faith Hill would like to hear every song McKenna had ever written.

“Literally, Nashville called me,” McKenna says. “Now, I know that never happens.”

More than a decade later, she has become formidable in country music, co-writing nearly 100 songs a year. Astonishingly, that qualifies as below average on Music Row, but the publishers don’t push. They know that this is the pace that helped McKenna co-write “Girl Crush,” a love-triangular waltz for Little Big Town.

She also penned “Humble and Kind,” a human decency anthem

that Tim McGraw carried to the top of the country charts in 2016.

McKenna occasionally includes her biggest songs on her own albums — “Humble and Kind” anchored 2015’s “The Bird and the Rifle” — but they usually only make the radio when someone else is singing them.

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“I know this sounds like bulls---, but I swear, I just want to write good songs and be proud of myself,” McKenna says.

She likes constraints McKenna has said that she feels a pressure to write airtight lyrics to compensate for her limited vocal range. “My style is completely formed by my deficiencies as a singer,” she says. “I’m not mad about it. I’ve played with people who can do anything, and I think that’s a harder road.

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you can play anything, there are too many things to use in a song.”

On her new album, which came out Friday, she’s at her most economical with “A Mother Never Rests,” a devastating song that honors maternal love with a bridge that reads like a Hallmark card signed in blood: “When you hurt, she hurts, that’s how it is.”

Songwriting’s life lessons McKenna and her husband, Gene, have raised five children.

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It all reminds her of something she heard Bruce Springsteen share during his current stint on Broadway. “I broke apart when he said you emulate the love you can’t have,” McKenna says. “I think about [my mother] all the time, even though I don’t know what I’m thinking of. … I can’t remember her.”

So maybe songwriting teaches a songwriter how to live. And that’s the fundamental generosity that radiates from McKenna.

Her songs render worlds that feel detailed enough for us to step into, yet ambiguous enough to make into our own — there’s just enough room to confirm what we know, and learn what we don’t.

The internet, as we know all too well by now, shrieks and howls and barks. The Internet, the L.A.-based soul and R&B band, practically whispers with its fourth studio album. On the 13-track “Hive Mind,” which was released Friday, many songs almost feel unfinished, like a series of grooves, drum loops and handclaps stitched together. “Beat Goes On” swirls along until halfway when, inexplicably, a different beat goes on. “Next Time/Humble Pie” does the same thing. The album ends with the sensual and steamy “Hold On,” but the taut electricity the band once exuded is largely gone in favor of aimless doodling. MARK KENNEDY (AP)

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You may want to engage in some experimentation today to see if your ideas really hold water. One thing you do attracts unexpected attention.

TODAY: Today should be the last day that we face a significant risk of heavy rainfall and flooding. By late in the day, it’s possible that the rain starts to taper off, but confidence is low as to exactly when. Highs are again near 80.

There’s a chance of lingering showers overnight, with lows from 70 to 75.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) It’s time to put your head together with someone else’s and work on a problem that has been plaguing you both, separately, for quite some time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The time has come for you to acknowledge one or two possibilities that you have not wanted to accept.

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1994: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein sign a declaration at the White House ending their countries’ 46-year-old formal state of war.

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Gospel of Pete: Real life is lit, internet is dark

If they have her Twitter password …

A rep for Sofia Vergara confirms that her Instagram was hacked, People reported. Suspicious posts on Vergara’s account advertised an iPhone X giveaway. On Tuesday, Vergara tweeted a warning to the hackers: “Dont ansewer those idiots. Dont send them any info.we r after them,” she wrote. By Tuesday afternoon, the suspicious Instagram posts had been taken down.

Pete Davidson used Instagram to explain why he wiped his Instagram account clean Monday, Us Magazine reported. Soon after deleting all his posts, sts, Davidson posted a note to his Instagram Stories.

“No there’s nothing wrong. No nothing happened.

No there’s nothing cryptic about anything,” he wrote. rote.

“I just don’t wanna be on Instagram anymore. Or on any social media platform. The internet is an evil place and it doesn’t make me feel good,” Davidson n explained. “Why should I spend any time on negative tive energy when my real life is f---ing lit.” Davidson ended the lengthy note reassuring fans that he’ll likely “be back at some point.” (EXPRESS)

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Demi Lovato was rushed from her home to a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday for an alleged heroin overdose, law enforcement sources told TMZ. People magazine reported later on Tuesday that Lovato was “stable.” The singer has been open about substance abuse in the past.

She recently released “Sober,” in which she sings, “I’m so sorry, I’m not sober anymore.” (EXPRESS)

Supermodel Karlie Kloss, 25, and Joshua Kushner, 33, are engaged after dating for six years, People reports. Kushner is the younger brother of President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Kloss confirmed the engagement in an Instagram post on Tuesday.

“Josh, you’re my best friend and my soulmate,” she wrote. “I can’t wait for forever together.” A source told People that Joshua proposed a few weeks ago in upstate New York. (EXPRESS)

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TMZ: Demi Lovato rushed to hospital for overdose

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TMZ reports that Cardi B is standing by her husband, rapper Offset, after he was arrested earlier this week on two felony gun charges. Sources close to Cardi B told TMZ that Offset does not own any firearms, and the guns were not his.

In addition, Offset’s lawyers told TMZ that the officer who arrested him did not perform a field sobriety test. (EXPRESS)

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