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IT’S A TOSS-UP: Circus artists perform a stunt Tuesday opposite the Houses of Parliament to announce the official launch of Circus250 in London.

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Is your commute bugging you?

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Washington state troopers might not encounter this emergency again: A semi-trailer on Interstate 5 in the Tacoma area started to lose its load of bread dough Monday when the heat and yeast caused the dough to rise. A photo tweeted by a trooper showed the rising dough spilling out through the top and back of the trailer, UPI reported. Tacoma was warm Monday, but not unseasonably so, with a high of 81. (EXPRESS)

A 926-pound mako shark caught off New Jersey’s coast won’t be a state record because more than one angler helped catch it. The 12-foot shark caught 100 miles offshore Saturday beats an 880-pound tiger shark caught in 1988. But six anglers helped catch the mako. The state says anyone seeking certification of a record must swear the fish was caught without anyone’s help. Still, “it’s a record for us,” said Mark Miccio, one of the six fishermen. (AP)

The Philadelphia area’s transit system has a spider problem. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority is cleaning light fixtures and has hired an exterminator to battle the bugs, which keep dropping onto riders at its Northern Liberties station. Despite the efforts, the spiders are still “really bad,” said rider Adrian Hattaway, adding that if you’re “sitting here not paying attention, they’ll be in your face before you know it.” (AP)

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Smiles served to more folks WISE, VA. Larry Bays has seen his share of hard times, but on this day he was blessed.

The 71-year-old goat farmer from Gate City, Va., had come to the annual free medical clinic held over the weekend in Wise, Va., so his wife, Joyce, could have her asthma and arthritis checked.

When her doctor realized she had no teeth, he sent the couple to a trailer operated by the Mission of Mercy dental team.

Ordinarily, dentures are one of the most coveted treatments at the clinic, which is operated by Remote Area Medical to provide care to people in Appalachia who have no other options.

In the past four years, a group of Virginia dentists has come up with a new denture-making process that lets them serve nearly 10 times as many people in the weekend clinic. Where they used to supply maybe eight sets of dentures a year to patients at the Wise event, now they can create 50 full and about 30 partial sets.

They are working through a

MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Va. dentists have found a quicker way to make dentures at a free clinic

Larry Bays, 71, a farmer who lost his teeth in an accident about 20 years ago, tries on his new dentures, which volunteer dentists made for him.

waiting list of about 800 needy people that had piled up over the years. But when Joyce Bays showed up Friday without an appointment, they happened to have the time to work her in.

And when they met her husband, they decided on the spot to give him a set, too. Larry Bays hasn’t had teeth in nearly 20 years, ever since surviving a horrific workplace accident.

“When I started, we were doing dentures in the conventional way,” said Scott Miller, a dentist

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The number of dental volunteers — including dentists, hygienists and others — who came out to help roughly 1,100 patients over the weekend in Wise, Va. They performed everything from root canals to — most commonly — tooth extractions. Some patients drove hours and slept overnight in cars for the free annual health clinic. (TWP)

from Bristol, Va., who has volunteered for years.

He and several partners set out to find a better system. They came up with a thermoplastic acrylic that holds its shape after being heated. Now they have premade dentures in six sizes, large to small, that they can mold to a patient’s mouth in just over a day.

“It’s the only way we can put a dent in that list of 800 people,” he said.

In their trailer Saturday, Bays was in the chair getting ready for the set they had made for him after taking impressions the day before.

Dental assistant Diana Fuller seemed as excited as Bays.

“They’re the lucky lottery winners,” Fuller said.

With his new set in place, Bays looked up with a huge smile as his wife came up beside him.

The dental staff members egged them on to a big kiss. Would they go dancing tonight?

“Nope, I’m too old, son,” Bays said. “I’m gonna get some rest, milk my goats and go to bed. I been up four days — been camping in our car.”

Joyce corrected him. “I’m the one that milks ’em.” GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Dead shark washes up on Maryland’s shore A 6-foot-long dead shark has washed ashore at a Maryland beach. Ocean City town officials told media outlets that the shark appeared Monday on the 120th Street beach. Lifeguards pulled it from the water in front of a crowd of beachgoers. It’s unclear what type of shark it was. No other information was immediately available. (AP)

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Head of city transportation to step down

A federal appeals court blocked a D.C. law that makes it difficult for gun owners to get concealed carry permits.

Court blocks D.C.’s strict concealed carry law Appeals panel rules the city’s ‘good reason’ rule is unconstitutional THE DISTRICT A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked a D.C. law that makes it difficult for gun owners to get concealed carry permits by requiring them to show they have a good reason to carry a weapon.

A divided three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said the law requiring people to show “good reason to fear injury” or another “proper reason” to carry a weapon infringes on Second Amendment rights.

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City law now requires residents to register guns kept at their homes or businesses. Anyone who wants to carry a weapon outside the home needs a separate concealed carry license.

The judges ordered a lower court to enjoin the city from enforcing the “good reason” law, but it remains in effect while D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine decides whether to ask for a full appellate review. If he does and the judges refuse to rehear the case, the order blocking the law would take effect shortly after, although Racine’s office could also appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Racine said Tuesday that his office is committed to working

with the mayor and city council “to continue fighting for common-sense gun reforms.”

“The District of Columbia’s ‘good reason’ requirement for concealed-carry permits is a common-sense gun regulation, and four federal appeals courts have rejected challenges to similar laws in other states,” Racine said in a statement.

Under the law, reasons to get a permit might include a personal threat, or a job that requires a person to carry or protect cash or valuables. The police department has approved 126 concealed carry licenses and denied 400 other applications since July 2008, police said this month.

Leif Dormsjo, the director of the District Department of Transportation, will resign from his post, effective Aug. 11. In a letter to his staff sent Tuesday, Dormsjo said that “it has been an honor to serve Mayor Muriel Bowser and the citizens of the District of Columbia.”

He did not provide a reason for his departure.

Dormsjo will also resign from his spot as an alternate member of the Metro board of directors — the third vacancy to be announced in a week. Dormsjo was selected to serve on the 16-person board in March 2015, shortly after he was appointed by Bowser to head the department.

“DDOT team members are intensely proud to serve the public. I have been lucky to work alongside such good and dedicated people,” Dormsjo said. “I will miss you greatly.” (TWP)

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METRO FIRES

The number of fires reported on Metro tracks from January through June this year, a 39 percent reduction compared with the same six-month period last year, according to Metro’s latest safety report. Metro has logged 34 arcing insulator fires, 15 non-electrical fires and one cable fire so far this year. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Police: Woman charged after boy, 2, was left alone in mall in Woodbridge, Va.

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Man guilty of murder in roommates’ deaths A D.C. man has been found guilty in the slayings of his roommates, whose bodies were found at their home three years ago. Jeffrey Neal, 24, was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder while armed with aggravating circumstances and related offenses in the deaths of Delano Wingfield and Leon Young. Both Wingfield and Young were beaten with a hammer. Young’s body was found in the attic and Wingfield’s was found four days later in a shallow grave in the backyard. (AP) BALTIMORE

Lawmakers water down gun-penalty proposal Baltimore lawmakers are watering down a proposal to impose mandatory one-year jail terms for carrying illegal handguns. A city council committee adopted an amendment Tuesday that would exempt first-time offenders unless they are committing other crimes too. Mayor Catherine Pugh introduced the bill that would impose a one-year sentence for illegally possessing a gun within 300 feet of a school, park, public building or church. State law already provides a minimum oneyear term on a second offense.

The council bill imposes a $1,000 fine. (AP) RICHMOND

Police: Officers kill man carrying knife and ax Officers fatally shot a man who was making threats as he walked around Richmond on Tuesday morning with an ax and a long knife, wearing nothing but a kilt and combat-style boots, police and witnesses said. Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham said they tried to get the man, whom police did not immediately identify, to drop his weapons, using “de-escalation techniques” and deploying a Taser, but he wouldn’t comply. The police chief said his officers then shot the man, who was pronounced dead at a hospital. (AP)

Police: Man shot, wounded after firing at security guard in Northeast D.C.

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local Change will allow some recreational use while Trump is at golf course VIRGINIA Kayakers, paddleboarders and other active groups can continue to use the Potomac River near a Virginia golf course owned

by President Trump, the commandant of the Coast Guard said Tuesday.

The Coast Guard has been closing a 2-mile section of the river when Trump is at his golf course, prompting protests from

boaters and other groups. Two Democratic lawmakers questioned the need to close the river to accommodate Trump.

Adm. Paul Zukunft said he and other officials listened to the complaints, “and we are making accommodations for the public.”

As long as river enthusiasts stay on the Maryland side of the river, they can continue to use canoes, kayaks and other watercraft, Zukunft told lawmakers at a House hearing Tuesday.

Zukunft said he flew over the area near the Sterling, Va., golf course last weekend after

TONI L. SANDYS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Coast Guard softens Potomac policy

Officials said paddlers can use the Maryland side of the river when the president visits Trump National.

Three teens arrested in fatal shooting earlier this month of 17-year-old in Laurel, Md.

receiving complaints about the river closures.

“We can make an accommodation here,” he told lawmakers.

Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., called Zukunft’s announcement “welcome news.”

DeFazio and Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., had complained that a new security zone was unfair to river users. DeFazio is the senior Democrat on the House Transportation Committee, while Garamendi is the senior Democrat on a Coast Guard and maritime transportation subcommittee.

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Officials: Wild horse dies after eating dog food Officials said a wild horse had been found dead after eating dog food that someone improperly stored at Assateague Island National Seashore. The National Park Service said in a statement that the body of the 7-year-old mare called Chama Wingapo was found in a campground Thursday. The statement said an investigation found that the horse had ingested a “large quantity” of dog food days earlier on July 17. A necropsy determined the dog food caused a blockage and resulted in a ruptured intestine, causing death. (AP)

D.C. police arrest second suspect in nonfatal shooting of 1-year-old boy; third still sought

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federalworkforce JOE DAVIDSON | THE WASHINGTON POST

Political pressure: At work, scientists start feeling heat government.

Making it “more difficult for government scientists to speak publicly about their work,” including restrictions on terms like “climate change.”

“Revoking science-based safeguards” through “an unprecedented 13 congressional resolutions rolling back science-based protections, including safe drinking water standards and safeguards to prevent worker exposure to harmful chemicals.”

“Creating a hostile environment for scientific staff. …

A culture of fear is increasing at government agencies, undermining scientific research and communication.”

Trump officials at three agencies, including the White House, ignored requests for comment on the report.

The hostile environment was demonstrated by the recent transfer of Joel Clement, the outspoken Interior Department scientist. In a Washington Post opinion piece last week, he said his forced reassignment, one of about 50 affecting senior-level staffers, was the administration’s retribution “for speaking out publicly about the dangers that climate change poses to Alaska Native communities.

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Is the Trump administration trying to “delegitimize science”? Are administration officials “creating a hostile environment for federal agency scientists”? Yes. That’s the upshot of a Union of Concerned Scientists report that was released last week — coincidentally, the day after an Interior Department scientist published a Washington Post op-ed about Trump administration retaliation against him.

The report notes that “political interference in science is not new,” but under President Trump, “these threats to the federal scientific enterprise have escalated markedly.”

Kenneth Kimmell, the union’s president, said the interference now is worse “in the breadth of the attack on science … and the intensity of it … is unique,” adding it goes “way beyond a policy dispute.”

The report documents tactics employed by Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress that “diminish the role of science in our democracy,” including: Weakening federal advisory committees charged with giving scientific advice to the

Scientists and supporters around the world on April 22 participated in a March for Science that was fueled by opposition to President Trump.

… It is clear to me that the administration was so uncomfortable with this work … that I was reassigned with the intent to coerce me into leaving the federal government.”

Interior spokeswoman Heather Swift cited an earlier department statement that said members of the Senior Executive Service (SES), such as Clement, “signed up for the SES knowing that they could be called upon to work in different positions at any time.”

But Clement said his transfer is a “is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars,” because it

moved him from his area of scientific expertise to an accounting position, adding, “I am not an accountant.”

Although there was no coordination between Clement and the Union of Concerned Scientists, the organization’s report speaks to his situation.

“We should ensure that our country’s scientists work in environments where they thrive,” the report said, “not one in which they cannot do their jobs effectively.”

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U.S. stock indexes return to record heights as corporate profits continue to exceed analysts’ expectations

A. Not exactly. Recently proposed rules would clarify — and actually in some ways narrow — when an agency may grant paid time off without reducing the employee’s available vacation time or other paid leave.

That “administrative leave” has been somewhat informal, and policies vary among agencies.

Some have kept employees away from work but still paid for long periods as they consider taking disciplinary actions or during appeals. The rules would carry out a 2016 law to end that practice and create new forms of leave to replace administrative leave in some situations.

These would be “investigative leave,” while discipline is being considered, and “notice leave,” after discipline is ordered but before it takes effect. The rules would limit when agencies could keep employees in paid status without working and for how long.

The rules also would create paid “weather and safety leave” for severe weather or other hazardous conditions. In addition, they would spell out the remaining allowable uses of administrative leave, such as to participate in agency-sponsored volunteer events or blood drives.

The planned changes won’t be final for a number of months, though. ERIC YODER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

House rejects effort to move money around to fund VA program

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House passes sanctions on Russia in 419-3 vote Bill would limit ability of the president to give Moscow concessions

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The White House did not say if President Trump would sign or veto the bill if it reaches his desk.

Manafort submits notes Before appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, Paul Manafort, a top campaign aide to President Trump, submitted notes that he took at a meeting with a Russian lawyer he and other aides attended during the presidential campaign. The notes could provide a key contemporaneous account of a meeting that has become a focus of investigations into Russia’s interference in the campaign. (TWP)

toward Russia has emerged as one of the few areas where congressional Republicans have been willing to openly buck the White House’s wishes.

The House voted hours after one of Trump’s advisers, son-inlaw Jared Kushner, visited the

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“You’re either going to stop leaking or you’re going to get fired.”

President Trump told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that he is “very disappointed” in Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

He told the newspaper he is “looking” at the possibility of firing Sessions. Trump also downplayed the importance of Sessions being an early backer of his candidacy, saying that “it’s not like a great loyal thing.” (AP)

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POLITICS The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to advance new financial sanctions against certain U.S. adversaries and deliver a foreign policy brushback to President Trump by limiting his ability to waive many of them.

Included in the package, which passed 419 to 3, are new measures targeting some Russian officials in retaliation for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election, as well as sanctions against Iran and North Korea in response to those nations’ weapons programs.

The measure now heads to the Senate for action. The bill could be sent to Trump before Congress begins its August recess.

Some in the Trump administration, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, have resisted the congressional push — especially a provision attached to the Russian measures that would require Congress to sign off on any move to relieve those sanctions.

The legislation was revised last week to address a concern about its potential effect on overseas oil and gas projects that include Russian partners.

But the bill passed Tuesday retains the congressional review requirement.

The administration’s posture

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A ‘disappointed’ Trump ponders firing Sessions

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to give testimony on possible Russian involvement in Trump’s president campaign. Also Tuesday, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence interviewed former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who had close ties with Ukraine’s government when it was aligned with Moscow.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to say Monday whether Trump would sign or veto the bill if it passes the Senate.

“He has no intention of getting rid of [the sanctions], but he wants to make sure we get the best deal for the American people possible,” Sanders said.

“Congress does not have the best record on that.” MIKE DEBONIS AND

President Trump’s new White House communications director, on how he plans to stop the information leaks that have plagued the administration. He said Tuesday that he is prepared to clean house and “fire everybody” if necessary. The president has criticized the leaks and urged authorities to prosecute those responsible. Scaramucci, a longtime Wall Street financier, takes over the role of crafting the president’s message at a time when Trump faces declining approval ratings.

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WORKING FROM HOME?

The number of days EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt spent in his home state of Oklahoma during the 92 days from March through May, according to The New York Times. The newspaper cited a report by the nonprofit group the Environmental Integrity Project, which obtained EPA records through a Freedom of Information Act request. The report noted that $12,000 in airfares for Pruitt were paid by the federal government, although in some instances he paid some of his travel costs. An EPA spokeswoman told The Times that all of his travel was related to agency business. (EXPRESS) Morocco-bound Turkish Airlines plane makes emergency landing in Algeria after false bomb alert

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Thousands of Muslims join protest over shrine Thousands of Palestinian Muslims prayed in the streets Tuesday near Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque complex, a contested holy site. Clergy had called for Muslims to not enter the shrine despite Israel’s removal of controversial metal detectors. Some Muslim officials alleged that Israel installed new security cameras in the complex this past week while Muslims were protesting. (AP) SYRIA

Former Marine killed while fighting ISIS Former Florida resident David Taylor, 25, was killed this month while fighting the Islamic State with a Kurdish militia group, a U.S. consular official told his family. The former Marine secretly traveled to Syria to fight ISIS. The Kurdish militia group released a video saying Taylor was “martyred fighting ISIS’ barbarism” on July 16. (AP) NATIONAL SECURITY

U.S. fires warning shot near Iranian ship in Gulf A U.S. Navy patrol boat fired warning shots Tuesday near an Iranian vessel that American sailors said came dangerously close to them during a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf, the first such incident during the Trump presidency. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard later blamed the American ship for provoking the situation. (AP)

Two rival Libyan leaders agree in France to a cease-fire and elections

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nation+world U.S. reviews regime’s nuclear program; ICBM could be ready in 2018 NATIONAL SECURITY North Korea will be able to field a reliable, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile as early as next year, U.S. officials have concluded in a confidential assessment that dramatically shrinks the timeline for when Pyongyang could strike U.S. cities with atomic weapons.

The new assessment by the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which shaves a full two years off the consensus forecast for North Korea’s ICBM program, was prompted by recent missile tests showing

surprising technical advances by the country’s weapons scientists, at a pace beyond which many analysts believed was possible for the isolated regime.

The U.S. projection closely mirrors revised predictions by South Korean intelligence officials, who also have watched with growing alarm as North Korea has appeared to master key technologies.

The finding further increases the pressure on U.S. and Asian leaders to halt North Korea’s progress.

One of the few remaining technical hurdles is the challenge of atmospheric “re-entry” — the ability to design a missile that can pass through the upper atmosphere without damage to

AP

N. Korea missiles in fast lane

North Korea has been moving forward with missile tests, like this one from early this month.

the warhead. Long regarded as a formidable technological barrier for impoverished North Korea, that milestone could be

reached, beginning with new tests expected to take place within days, U.S. analysts said.

U.S. officials have detected signs that North Korea is making final preparations for testing a new reentry vehicle, perhaps as early as Thursday, a North Korean national holiday marking the end of the Korean War. North Korea also has not yet demonstrated an ability to build a miniaturized nuclear warhead that could be carried by one of its missiles. Regime officials last year displayed a sphere-shaped device they described as a miniaturized warhead, but there as been no public confirmation that this milestone has been reached.

Money can buy happiness — if it saves you time

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Monsoon rains lash western India, killing 16

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The last killer whale born in captivity under SeaWorld’s former orca-breeding program died Monday at the company’s San Antonio park, SeaWorld said. Veterinarians were treating 3-month-old Kyara for an infection last weekend, but her health continued to decline.

SeaWorld announced the end of its breeding program in March 2016, after years of pressure from animal welfare activists. (AP)

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Last whale born at SeaWorld dies

ALLAHABAD, INDIA | A man on a stranded bus watches as an Indian rickshaw puller has to haul his vehicle and rider through deep water Tuesday. At least 16 people have been killed this week after monsoon rains lashed western India. The rains have even affected the desert state of Rajasthan, where more than 24,000 villagers had to evacuate to higher ground. The monsoon season in India runs from June to September.

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HEALTH People who dole out cash to save time on things such as housekeeping, delivery services and taxis are a little bit happier than those who don’t, new research finds.

Researchers surveyed more than 6,000 people in four countries and also ran an experiment, giving people $40 for two weeks. One week, they had to buy something material, like a shirt. The next week, they paid to save themselves time.

People said they felt happier after saving time rather than buying stuff.

“Money can buy happiness if you spend it right,” said University of British Columbia psychology professor Elizabeth Dunn, co-author of a study in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The right way is paying someone to do time-consuming drudge work, said study lead author Ashley Whillans of the Harvard Business School. When people do that, they report greater life satisfaction in general and feeling happier that day. But when they buy material objects, it tends not to bring people the happiness they expect, she said.

The survey was done in the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands and Denmark. Earlier research found that using money to help others or to have good experiences, like a spa day or travel, also makes people happier than buying things, Dunn and Whillans said.

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For 80 years, U.S. presidents have been speaking to the National Scout Jamboree, a gathering of tens of thousands of youngsters from around the world eager to absorb the ideas of service, citizenship and global diplomacy.

In keeping with the Scouts’ traditions, the speakers have stayed far, far away from partisan politics. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke about good citizenship. Harry S. Truman extolled fellowship. George H.W. Bush spoke of “serving others.”

For a brief moment at this year’s jamboree in Glen Jean, W.Va., President Donald Trump indicated that he would follow that tradition — sort of.

“Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts?” he said.

Then, for the most of the next 35 minutes, he bragged to the 40,000 before him about the “record” crowd size, bashed President Obama, criticized the “fake media” and trashed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. He threatened to fire HHS Secretary Tom Price if he couldn’t persuade Congress to vote for the GOP health care bill.

It was yet another example of Trump ignoring the customs that past presidents have observed in such public ceremonies.

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Sen. John McCain speaks on the Senate floor Tuesday in his first appearance since his diagnosis with brain cancer.

“We’ve tried to [amend the Affordable Care Act] by coming up with a proposal behind closed doors in consultation with the administration, then springing it on skeptical members, trying to convince them it’s better than nothing, asking us to swallow our doubts and force it past a unified opposition. I don’t think that’s going to work in the end, and it probably shouldn’t,” McCain said.

“Let’s trust each other. Let’s return to regular order. We’ve been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. That’s an approach that’s been employed by both sides, mandating legislation from the top down, without any support from the other side, with all the parliamentary maneuvers that requires.”

McCain’s condition had become the latest reminder of the

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What will GOP do now?

While the vote in favor of beginning a debate on health care legislation put Republicans one step closer to repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, it remained unclear how much they could modify the law, given the deep policy schism in the GOP. Republican leaders now see a scaled-down version of the bill that would repeal the ACA’s mandates that both individuals buy plans and that employers with 50 or more employees provide coverage as perhaps their best chance of winning final passage. (TWP)

delicate GOP health care effort, with questions swirling over the last 11 days about whether his absence would imperil future votes.

The senator, 80, was in Phoenix recovering from blood clot removal surgery and considering

options for treatment when he announced he would come back to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, a sign to Republican leaders they might actually be able to make progress on health care this week.

The diagnosis also raised some uncomfortable questions for Republican senators about their health care proposals, some of which would make dramatic cuts to Medicaid and result in fewer people overall with health insurance. Despite the hyperpartisan nature of the legislation, McCain provided a cathartic moment for the chamber.

“Anyone who thought that he had lost any integrity, all they had to do was listen to that speech,” Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., told reporters. “I could have written the same speech — I just would have voted the other way.”

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POLITICS John McCain, maverick of the Senate, did not return to Capitol Hill and suddenly stop the progress of the Republican health care effort. But the Arizona Republican, now battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, did use his moment in the spotlight Tuesday to deliver a sobering message to colleagues.

The Senate might be known as the world’s greatest deliberative body, McCain said, but it’s not clear it deserves that reputation today. The partisanship, the gridlock and the political subterfuge have dragged down the institution, he said.

Senators’ work is “more partisan, more tribal more of the time than any other time I remember,” McCain told a rapt audience on the Senate floor. “Our deliberations can still be important and useful, but I think we’d all agree they haven’t been overburdened by greatness lately. And right now, they aren’t producing much for the American people.”

McCain, who received a rousing ovation from senators when he entered, delivered his speech after casting a vote in favor of beginning debate on the Republican health care bill. But while his vote was critical to the success of that motion — Tuesday’s vote split the Senate 50-50, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie in favor of starting debate — McCain criticized Republican leaders for their lack of transparency and suggested the health care effort might not ultimately succeed.

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An ‘overwhelming’ link Researchers find traumatic brain disease in 99 percent of NFL players they studied FOOTBALL Scientists studying the link between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy found that 99 percent of the brains donated by families of former NFL players showed signs of the neurodegenerative disease, according to a new study published Tuesday.

In all, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and the VA Boston Healthcare System examined 202 brains of men who played football.

The highest percentage of players with CTE was found at the highest level; all but one of the 111 brains belonging to exNFL players were diagnosed post-mortem with CTE. “Obviously, this doesn’t represent the prevalence in the general population, but the fact that we’ve been able to gather this high a number of cases in such a short period of time says that this disease is not uncommon,” said neuropathologist Ann McKee, who thinks CTE is “much more common than we currently realize.”

McKee cautioned that the study has limitations and doesn’t

attempt to pinpoint a CTE rate.

The brains studied were mostly donated by concerned families, and they don’t necessarily represent all football players. “[The study] skews for accidental deaths, suicide and individuals with disabling or discomforting symptoms,” McKee said.

While the study isn’t focused on causality, McKee said it provides “overwhelming circumstantial evidence that CTE is linked to football.”

The NFL pledged $100 million for concussion-related research last September — $60 million for technological development, with an emphasis on improving helmets, and $40 million for medical research.

“The medical and scientific communities will benefit from this publication and the NFL will continue to work with a wide range of experts to improve the health of current and former NFL athletes,” spokesman Brian McCarthy said. “As noted by the authors, there are still many unanswered questions relating to the cause, incidence and

CTE in football players The latest CTE study examined brains of men who played football at various levels, from youth leagues to professionally in the NFL or CFL. (TWP) Of the 202 brains studied from former football players, 177 showed signs of CTE (88 percent).

Of the 111 brains donated by former NFL players, 110 showed signs of CTE (99 percent).

Of the 53 brains donated by former college football players, 48 showed signs of CTE (91 percent).

Of the 14 brains donated by former high school players, three showed signs of CTE (21 percent).

prevalence of long-term effects of head trauma such as CTE.” The researchers distinguished between mild and severe cases of CTE, finding the majority of former college (56 percent), semipro (56 percent) and professional (86 percent) players to have exhibited severe pathology.

“To me, it’s very concerning that we have college-level players

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who have severe CTE who did not go on to play professionally,” McKee said. “That means they most likely retired before the age of 25 and we still are seeing in some of those individuals very severe repercussions.”

In addition to examining the brains, researchers interviewed loved ones of the former players and found that behavioral and mood symptoms were common with those who suffered from CTE, including impulsivity, signs of depression, anxiety, hopelessness and violent tendencies.

While the disease can currently only be diagnosed postmortem, the researchers urge a wide-ranging longitudinal study to better understand the impact of head trauma in football.

In the meantime, the brain bank established by the Boston researchers and Concussion Legacy Foundation has about 425 donated brains at its disposal, including those from men and women who played a variety of sports, as well as military veterans, with many more pledged.

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Frightening examples Former NFL tight end Frank Wainright, who died of a heart attack at 48, was one of the new cases in the latest CTE study. Before Tuesday, we knew the disease had afflicted these players. (EXPRESS)

3 Mike Webster NFL center, 1974-90

He played 15 years for the Steelers and died at 50 after dementia left him homeless.

Dr. Bennet Omalu found CTE in Webster, discovering it to be in an issue in football.

2 Dave Duerson NFL safety, 1983-93

A starter on the ‘85 Bears and a successful entrepreneur, he shot himself in the chest at age 50 and instructed his brain be donated. Scientists confirmed in 2011 he had CTE.

1 Junior Seau NFL linebacker, 1990-2009

A Chargers icon and NFL star for 20 years, Seau was 43 when he shot himself in 2012 — a year after Duerson. The high-profile case forced the NFL to acknowledge CTE.

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Free agent Derrick Rose signed Tuesday with the Cavaliers, a team that has blocked his path to a title before and one that needs him now more than ever. The point guard will get a one-year, $2.1 million deal — the veteran’s minimum, and all Cleveland could afford. Starting point guard Kyrie Irving has demanded a trade.

Rose, 28, was the NBA’s MVP with the Bulls in 2010-11. He averaged 18 points per game and made $21.3 million last season with the Knicks. (AP) SWIMMING

Ledecky’s 12th gold sets a career record at worlds Katie Ledecky scored another ho-hum victory Tuesday at the world championships in Budapest, winning the 1,500meter freestyle by a tidy 19 seconds over Spain’s Mireia Belmonte. And while her time of 15:31.82 was more than six seconds off her own worldrecord pace, the title did break new ground: It was the 12th world championship gold medal of Ledecky’s career, breaking her tie with Missy Franklin for the most in women’s swimming history. Michael Phelps holds the men’s record with 26 world championships. Less than an hour after her distance win, Ledecky won her 200 freestyle semifinal heat. (TWP) NFL

Police: Whitehead was a victim of identity thief Prince William County police in Virginia are working to clear Lucky Whitehead, the wide receiver who was cut by the Cowboys after being mistakenly charged with petit larceny and becoming the subject of an arrest warrant for failure to appear in court. At least for now, that comes too late to save his job. Dallas cut him when the warrant was issued. Police said the suspect they arrested gave them a name, date of birth and Social Security number that matched Whitehead’s. (TWP)

Nats optimistic about Strasburg MLB The Nationals didn’t provide much clarity Tuesday on Stephen Strasburg’s right arm injury.

Dusty Baker said the starting pitcher was checked out by a doctor, but the manager didn’t provide the exact diagnosis for fear of butchering it.

“The doctor said he’s doing fine,” Baker said, “and we’re hoping he can progress enough to make his next start. We’ll have to see.”

Asked for clarification, a team public relations representative first deferred to Baker’s statement, then later said Strasburg had “a nerve impingement” that has been alleviated.

The Nationals said Stephen Strasburg had a “nerve impingement” that has been alleviated.

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Strasburg was not available to discuss the injury before a game against the Brewers, which ended after Express’ deadline.

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laborious (but scoreless) innings Sunday at Arizona, but left after that. He described the problem as “achiness” —nothing acutely localized or worrisome.

“I’m having a tough time to really get loose out there, and I think it’s just the All-Star break kind of messed it up for me throwing-wise and treatmentwise,” he said at the time.

He did not have an MRI but underwent an ultrasound test, according to a person familiar with his situation. He was healthy enough for his usual betweenstarts throwing session Tuesday.

If he is OK, he would start Saturday at home against Colorado.

CHELSEA JANES (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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“He is on another franchise tag.

He is OK. Like, people, let’s get real. He is OK.”

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Fresh digs Finding a newly constructed condo can make the buying process easier — and harder HOMEBUYING The Washington condo market is red-hot, and there are no signs that it’s cooling anytime soon.

Consistently high demand coupled with a lack of compelling resale supply — particularly in the District’s sought-after neighborhoods, such as Logan Circle and Shaw — have ushered in a new norm of deadlines, multiple offers and bidding wars.

While sellers have, understandably, embraced the current market dynamic, it has left a lot of buyers scrambling and demoralized. These are buyers who have gone through several iterations of offer submissions.

They’ve stripped their offers of contingencies: financing, appraisal and even home inspection. They’ve included escalation clauses at $10K, $20K, $50K or more above asking price.

They’ve done all of this in hopes of submitting the most competitive offer possible, yet they still find themselves outbid and outmaneuvered. For those who’ve been shut out of the condo resale market, new construction may be the solution.

New construction removes the urgency of having to make snap purchase decisions that

sometimes compel buyers to pay well above list prices and waive protections such as home inspections. The typical condo resale experience in our current market goes something like this: Property goes live on Thursday; open house is on Sunday; deadline for offers is on Tuesday; offer rejection comes on Wednesday.

A newly constructed condo unit won’t generate the feeding frenzy over one unit that an older building might. New construction condo projects usually consist of multiple units with similar floor plans and features. If you lose out on one unit, then there’s probably another comparable unit elsewhere in the building.

And because buyers aren’t competing for a single unit, bidding wars and multiple offers are rare in new construction. In fact, there are usually more opportunities for price negotiations and incentives in new construction than in resales.

That doesn’t mean new construction is without risk. For starters, new construction is notorious for delays. Any number of variables can affect a project’s delivery date: weather, contractors, city bureaucracy

The do’s and don’ts of buying a new condo DO familiarize yourself with the developer, the architect and the construction company collaborating on the project.

DO request a hard-hat tour and make visits to the building. Consider it a red flag if there is resistance to this request from the developer.

DON’T rely on floor plans alone for measurements —they’re for illustrative purposes only. The final approved architectural plans that have been submitted to the city are the definitive source for measurements and layouts.

DO research the third party that’s hired to construct the building.

You can even visit examples of past projects to get a better sense of the style and quality of work.

and agency backlogs. Buyers of new construction often find themselves planning and then readjusting their lives around tentative delivery dates, but it’s important to understand that delivery dates are often moving targets, so have a contingency plan. For those who do have timing flexibility and value price

certainty, new construction is a good alternative.

There’s also a fear factor in purchasing something that doesn’t exist yet. While it’s easy to be drawn to the “new” in new construction and the opportunities for customization that it can sometimes afford (selection of finishes, moving or eliminating walls, etc.), new construction can be unnerving.

As any owner will attest, homeownership — new or resale — is a leap of faith. But having the luxury of time to conduct due diligence without the pressures of the deadlines, competing offers, bidding wars and risky concessions that are commonplace in today’s resale market can be reassuring.

In the District, buyers have the added benefit of a legally mandatory 15-day cancellation period when they go under contract for a new construction purchase compared to the three-day period for condo resales. This can make buying off floor plans while a project is under construction less daunting.

Timur Loynab is a vice president with McWilliams Ballard in Washington.

Portals V The Portals project, which has transformed a former industrial area into a massive mixeduse development in Southwest Washington, is entering its final phase with the beginning of construction of the $220 million Portals V residential building.

The building is located near where the 14th Street bridge over the Potomac River enters the District.

Portals V will include 373 apartments ranging from 500 to 3,400 square feet, many with balconies and terraces. WDG is executive architect of the building, in association with Robert A.M. Stern Architects.

Planned building amenities include a glass-enclosed terrace level, an infinity edge swimming pool, fire pits and barbecue stations and indoor and outdoor seating areas. The building is expected to be completed in summer 2019. Monthly rents are anticipated to range from the low $2,000s to the mid$6,000s. MICHELE LERNER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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On ‘Lust for Life,’ Lana Del Rey airs how blurry real life can be in a post-truth world ALBUM REVIEW Many say Lana Del Rey’s new album, “Lust for Life,” is the one where she finally makes contact with reality from inside her perfumed dream-silo, but it may be the other way around. With our government making each day of 2017 feel less believable than the last, American reality seems to be merging with the singer’s vision.

That’s still to say “Lust for Life” is a gratifying pivot from Del Ray’s old stuff, which only made her sound like she was dream-journaling on Xanax. Her smart articulation now makes the dreaminess of her new work feel more tangible than tenuous.

When listened to in n sequence, the album m is a linear journey out of dreamspace into our consensus

reality. Early on, in the album’s title song, she sings herself a lullaby: “ T h er e ’s n o more night, blue skies forever.”

She’s not leaving this dream. In the song’s video, she actually kicks off a pair of ruby slippers.

Before long, the outside world encroaches. In “Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind,” she’s freaked out by North Korea’s latest missile test, but can only envision world peace through the memory of a concert she never attended.

“Maybe my contribution could be as small as hoping,” she shrugs.

Later, seated behind a piano on “Change,” she confesses to “thinking that it’s just someone else’s in

Recycling the hits In “Lust for Life,” Lana Del Rey builds atmospheric ballads out of past pop tropes. She assigns new melodies to classic lyrics: “Time after time” (Cyndi Lauper), “Stairway to heaven” (Led Zeppelin), “Tiny dancer” (Elton John).

This device isn’t new to her, but now it’s evident that her recycling begins to resemble a spiritual exercise — a belief in the eternal return. C.R.

job to care.” It’s building toward a realization. She can’t change the world from inside a dream.

The tracklist drifts toward wakefulness. When she reaches the grand finale, “Get Free,” she’s standing on the brink of enlightenment. It takes a wild turn into

the theme song of “Twin Peaks” — a series set on the fault line between reality and dreams. She makes her plea, turning a famous Neil Young lyric inside out: “I wanna move out of the black, into the blue.” As the music dissolves, she shouts in a rise-and-shine staccato: “Out of the black! Into the blue!” Night becomes day.

Dorothy opens her eyes.

It probably insults the mystery of this album to pry a neat story out of it, but that’s what we do with our dreams — we parse them, separating what’s real from what’s not. As imaginative beings, exercising that literacy is one of life’s great pleasures. As citizens, it’s suddenly become one of our greatest responsibilities.

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Evans is in a family kind of mood on her eighth studio album, inviting her 14-year-old daughter to sing on “Marquee Sign” and her three siblings on “Night Light.” But she did pick some songs that show off a wild side, like the intensely lusty “I Don’t Trust Myself.” Evans also breathes plenty of light into the title track, a delicate slip of a song, and shows off stunning vocal control on “All the Love You Left Me.” Even an acoustic version of her 2011 hit “A Little Bit Stronger,” co-written by Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott, might be better than the original. This is an artist in full musical flight. MARK KENNEDY (AP)

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‘Simpsons’ creator nabs Netflix series Netflix has ordered an adult animated comedy from “The Simpsons” mastermind Matt Groening, right, the streaming g service announced Tuesday. “Disenchantment” will take place in the he crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland, which is populated lated by hard-drinking princess Bean, her elf companion Elfo and d her personal demon Luci. The series will feature the voice talents nts of Abbi Jacobson of “Broad City,” Nat Faxon of “Friends From om College” and Eric Andre of “The Eric Andre Show.” Netflix x has ordered 20 episodes of the new series, which will premiere iere next year. Groening says “Disenchantment” will focus on “how how to keep laughing in a world full of suffering and idiots.” (AP)

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Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski’s company said Tuesday that he will direct a Hollywood biopic about J.R.R. Tolkien, the British author of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” The film, scripted by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford, will be about the formative years of Tolkien’s life. The award-winning Karukoski, one of Finland’s best-known film makers, has directed eight feature films, many of them highly regarded. He’s perhaps best known for “Tom of Finland,” a film about the 20th-century gay artist who created homoerotic pictures under that pseudonym. (AP)

Kendrick Lamar is the leader among nominees for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, with eight nods. Lamar and his hit song, “Humble,” are nominated for video of the year, best hip-hop video and other prizes. Katy Perry and The Weeknd are behind Lamar with five nominations, while Bruno Mars is up for four Moonmen.

Lamar will also compete for artist of the year, along with Mars, Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, Lorde and The Weeknd. MTV has eliminated gender categories like best male and female video and opted for an artist of the year prize. The 2017 VMAs will air live Aug. 27. (AP)

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“Are we supposed to think of that emoji in servitude, being raped and forced to have babies?” @SEANASIMPSON, reacting after “The Emoji Movie” parodied “The Handmaid’s Tale” in a Twitter image, left. People called out the film’s marketing team for the tonedeaf joke comparing a kid-friendly film to a dystopian show about women being treated as sex slaves.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Preparation is the key to success. If you’re prepared, you can do all that you are required to do; if not, you will surely fall short.

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2016: Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

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Chrissy Teigen shared with her 6.4 million Twititter followers Tuesday that President Trump had ad blocked her on the social media platform. After r Trump tweeted his disappointment in his colleagues Sunday — “It’s very sad that Republicans, ns, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their president” — Teigen fired off a quick reply: “Lolllllll no one likes you.” Teigen, a longtime outspoken critic of the current president, tweeted a screen grab of the message saying she was blocked, adding, “After 9 years of hating Donald J. Trump, telling him ‘lol no one likes you’ was the straw.” (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Drake appears to jump gun on BFF tattoo again TMZ reported this week that Drake has gotten a tattoo of fellow rapper Lil Wayne. The site published photos of the new ink on Drake’s left tricep, which appears to be a bust of Wayne. Drake has several faces inked already, including those of singers Aaliyah and Sade, and his parents. TMZ noted that Drake and Wayne are longtime friends who share a label. (EXPRESS)

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Ciara got criticism from fans after sharing a video of herself riding a toboggan with her 3-month-old daughter in a carrier on her chest. Many users commented on the Instagram post, questioning her decision to bring the infant on the ride while on vacation in China. “Isn’t this too dangerous for a newborn?” one fan wrote, according to the New York Post. But as another noted, “She’s holding the baby, it’s not like it’s going to fall.” (EXPRESS)

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