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Failed aquarium heist was not exactly ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ material

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Two men have confessed to snatching a small shark from a Texas aquarium’s interactive touch tank, then whisking it away, wrapping it in a blanket and concealing it in a baby stroller, police say. Miss Helen, the 16-inch gray horn shark, was returned to the San Antonio Aquarium on Monday night, two days after the heist was captured on surveillance video. “Sharknapping: Unsuccessful!” the aquarium posted on Facebook afterward. (AP)

An Englishman visiting a seaside resort town put out a fire on a popular pier by urinating on it, BBC News reported. Thomas Watson was visiting Southend Pier in Southend-on-Sea on Friday with his partner and child when he saw flames on the wooden planks. He unzipped to address the issue while his partner called the fire service. Watson and his family have been invited to return for free, provided he stays zipped this time. (EXPRESS)

A judge known for unique sentences has ordered a man who knocked over a port-a-potty and other objects at a park to clean animal pens at a fairgrounds in Painesville, Ohio. Judge Michael Cicconetti suspended most of a 120-day sentence for Bayley Toth, who was convicted of criminal mischief, in favor of cleaning animal waste at Lake County fairgrounds. The judge said, “You act like an animal, you’re going to take care of animals.” (AP)

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ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF ARLINGTON

ANIMALS Poor Smoke. The 10-year-old hound dog has terminal cancer, so the caregivers at Arlington’s animal shelter and humane society made him a bucket list.

No. 1: Find a new home.

Shelter officials described him in a July 26 post on Facebook as a “ridiculously handsome hound” who has been at the facility for about a month. But they recently got bad news about his health.

“We don’t know how long Smoke has left with us — it could be six months, or it could be just a few weeks,” they wrote.

“What we do know is that Smoke deserves to live the rest of the time he has left in a home, with a family that loves him.”

They posted his bucket list, which includes activities such as going on a hike, eating a cheeseburger, meeting Santa, appearing on TV and riding in a convertible.

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Supporters are following Smoke with the hashtag #SmokesBucketList.

Some of his wishes have come true. A supporter of the animal group bought him a cheeseburger. And the Arlington County Fire Department took him on a ride. Like any good hound dog, he looked out the window and let his ears flap in the wind.

Smoke even has his own Twitter following, with the hashtag #SmokesBucketList and #FindSmokeAHome.

Over the weekend, shelter officials said Smoke visited with potential adopters. Officials said

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they had received “so many offers to take him on outings” that they were working on a sign-up schedule.

One woman offered to make a prayer blanket for him. Another said she knew someone who would probably do a photo shoot.

Katie Walker wrote on Facebook that when she met Smoke, he was “such a vocal and sweet boy.”

“I hope he finds a home to live out the rest of his days peacefully,” she wrote. DANA HEDGPETH (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Obama, Biden grab lunch, chat with vets Barack Obama and Joe Biden met up for lunch at Dog Tag Bakery in Georgetown on Monday.

The nonprofit bakery teaches veterans, military spouses and caregivers about business. Meghan Ogilvie, the bakery’s chief executive, said the former president and vice president met with each of the nonprofit’s fellows.

“They shook every fellow’s hand, hugged them and listened to their stories.

It was just a phenomenal scene,” she said. They ate a lunch of sandwiches, cake and coffee. “Joe’s paying,” Obama joked. (TWP)

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A week after two dockless bikeshare companies abandoned operations in the nation’s capital, citing restrictions on the number of bikes they could operate in the city, advocacy groups are calling on officials to allow 20,000 shared bikes. The groups sent a petition addressed to Mayor Muriel Bowser, D, and District Department of Transportation Director Jeff Marootian, asking for 20,000 shared bikes, and enough bike racks and protected lanes. (TWP)

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Valor the bald eagle falls from its nest, is OK The roughly 3-month-old bald eagle Valor recently fell from its nest, about 80 feet up in a tree, on the grounds of the U.S. National Arboretum in Northeast D.C., animal experts said. Valor was later found by animal control on a sidewalk about six blocks away.

The bird has no obvious injuries, just some ruffled feathers.

Officials say he likely tried to fledge too soon, and failed. (TWP)

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A debate over democracy

THE DISTRICT At an Irish pub on H Street, a room full of restaurant workers and owners lobbied Charles Allen.

They wanted the D.C. Council member to support a repeal of Initiative 77, a ballot measure voters approved in June that raises the minimum wage for servers, bartenders and others who earn tips.

Allen, D-Ward 6, agreed that Initiative 77 is bad policy. But the idea of overturning the will of the voters gives him pause.

“I don’t rush headlong into saying, ‘Voters just voted, now let’s overturn it,’ ” Allen said last month. “I want to respect the fact that there was a ballot initiative.

There was an outcome.”

A majority of the D.C. Council — seven of 13 members — shows no such hesitation and has backed a bill to nullify Initiative 77. A public hearing is set for Sept. 17.

If the voters’ decision is reversed, the D.C. Council would join a growing number of legislative bodies nationwide that have moved to overrule their constituents’ decisions at the ballot box.

In the last two years, lawmakers filed more than 100 bills to overturn voter initiatives in 24 states, according to Chris Melody Fields Figueredo, executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, a progressive group.

“It’s a power grab,” he said.

“It’s an attempt to take that

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D.C. Council may join trend of lawmakers undoing voter initiatives

D.C. Council member Charles Allen speaks to restaurant owners and workers last month on H Street about overturning a tipped-wage initiative.

power away from the people. It is counter to why we have democracy in the first place.”

In D.C., where ballot measures date to the late 1970s, the Council has overruled at least four.

The tug-of-war over Initiative 77 has spurred the new debate about whether lawmakers should invalidate the results of a ballot measure.

The District and 11 states have no restrictions on legislative alteration (which ballot measure proponents call “legislative tampering”). But in California and Arizona, any changes to or repeals of initiatives must first go back to the voters.

“If somebody wants that, they

Growing popularity In 26 states and D.C., the public can bypass elected officials and create laws on their own simply by voting on a single question. Proponents say the process is democracy at its purest and best; skeptics say ballot measures can have unintended consequences. In any case, they are growing more common; 2016 saw just over 1,000 initiatives filed and 76 placed on ballots around the country, decade-high numbers. (TWP)

should put it in place here,” said Jack Evans, D-Ward 2, one of the sponsors leading the repeal of Initiative 77. “That’s not the way

our system is set up. Our job on this council is, if a law goes into place and this council decides to change that, that’s our perspective and our right to do.”

Evans and other opponents, including the city’s burgeoning restaurant industry, have argued that Initiative 77 will raise labor costs and force some restaurants to cut jobs or close.

Advocates decided to go the route of the ballot initiative after the D.C. Council approved a 2016 minimum wage hike but did not eliminate the tipped wage, which allows employers to pay some workers $3.89 per hour as long as tips make up the difference between that and the city’s current $13.25 minimum wage. Initiative 77 will gradually increase the hourly pay for tipped workers to $15 by 2025, so that there is a standard wage for all workers.

Council members say overturning initiatives happens on a case-by-case basis and is about the particular law, not the ballot measure process.

Paul Jacob, president of the nonpartisan organization Citizens in Charge, doesn’t think Initiative 77 is a good law. But most voters supported it, and the council should respect that, he said.

“Voters are the boss, the legislators are not. It’s as plain as the nose on your face,” Jacob said.

“There has to be some level of respect for the people the legislators purport to be serving, and if there’s no respect then we don’t have representative government.”

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Stewart aide under fire for online posts

A campaign consultant helping Virginia GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart faced fresh scrutiny Monday after several social media posts showed him calling majority-black cities “s---holes,” while at least one more post bemoaned the South’s loss of the Civil War. Rick Shaftan has posted disparaging comments about African-Americans on social media in past years. He also said that the NAACP is “more violent” than the KKK. Shaftan declined comment. Stewart, left, declined to say whether he would keep working with Shaftan. (TWP/AP)

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Teacher in child porn case had images of students A Charlottesville teacher who pleaded guilty to a federal child pornography charge had more than 100 “up-skirt” images of his students. The Daily Progress reports police presented evidence of those images of Charlottesville High School students at Richard Wellbeloved-Stone’s sentencing Monday. Wellbeloved-Stone, 57, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for photos involving a prepubescent girl. (AP) CHARLOTTESVILLE

U-Va. historians resign over hiring of Trump aide Two historians have resigned from a University of Virginia affiliate over its decision to hire a departing member of President Trump’s administration as a senior fellow. Melvyn Leffler and William Hitchcock notified the Miller Center’s director of their resignations Monday. They said the think tank that studies presidencies didn’t adequately consult with faculty before hiring Trump’s former legislative affairs director, Marc Short. (AP)

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Court OKs Metro’s religious ad ban Judges say agency’s issue-based rejections are not discriminatory TRANSPORTATION A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Metro’s policy barring issue-oriented advertisements on buses, trains and transit stations and said the transit agency could exclude all religious messages.

The ruling in Metro’s favor from the U.S. Court of Appeals came in response to a lawsuit from the Archdiocese of Washington, which said the agency’s policy

The Archdiocese of Washington sued after Metro rejected its Christmas ad.

had gone too far in rejecting its religious-themed ad campaign.

The Archdiocese’s “claim of discriminatory treatment is based on hypothesis,” wrote Judge Judith Rogers. “Were the Archdiocese to prevail, WMATA (and other transit systems) would have to accept all types

of advertisements to maintain viewpoint neutrality, including ads criticizing and disparaging religion and religious tenets or practices.”

Rogers was joined by Judge Robert Wilkins.

A third judge, Brett Kavanaugh, in March referred to Metro’s

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ban as “pure discrimination.” But Kavanaugh, who is now President Trump’s Supreme Court pick, did not participate in the decision Tuesday, presumably because of his pending nomination.

The Archdiocese sued Metro in November, asking a lower-court judge to immediately require the transit agency to display its Christmas-themed ads. The planned ads featured a biblical Christmas scene and a link to a website that encouraged people to attend Mass or donate to a Catholic charitable group.

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VA whistleblowers: New report reveals retaliatory culture where managers investigated themselves for misconduct, presenting a conflict of interest.”

VA has a policy against such a clearly flawed practice but does not have appropriate oversight measures to ensure the policy is enforced.

Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., who requested the report along with two other House members, has urged the Justice Department to appoint a federal monitor to examine the misconductadjudication process.

“The findings from this nearly three-year investigation are beyond disturbing and reflect complaints from VA employees, veterans and their loved ones that I have received for years,” she said.

“The investigation describes an agency in crisis that has failed to protect whistleblowers and hold senior VA officials accountable for misconduct, jeopardizing veteran health and well-being.

The investigation also uncovered that VA allowed several individuals to investigate their own accusations, which is a glaring conflict of interest and completely unacceptable for the adjudication process.”

Whistleblower advocate Tom Devine, legal director of the nongovernmental Government Accountability Project, is no fan of in-house whistleblower projects like the VA’s office. He said they too often “are a trap” for employees who are subjected to an investigation because they exposed waste, fraud or abuse.

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Figures behind turnover rates in federal jobs Q. Is it true that hardly any federal employees are fired or leave until they can retire?

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While the Department of Veterans Affairs prides itself on running the nation’s largest integrated health system, the agency suffers from a chronic disease of its own making — whistleblower retaliation.

Each year, 9 million veterans get good care at VA’s 1,243 health care facilities, but they would be better served if the ingrained culture of retribution were remedied. It was whistleblowers who exposed the scandal in 2014 involving the cover-up of long patient wait times. That led to ongoing efforts, with some success, to fix the system.

For whistleblowers facing management revenge, it’s not fixed yet.

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report reveals serious problems related to holding employees accountable, particularly when it comes to whistleblowing.

Correcting that should be a top item on the agenda of Robert Wilkie, who was sworn in Monday as the new VA secretary. As my colleague Lisa Rein has reported, he is taking over a department that has become highly politicized under President Trump.

One sentence leaps from the GAO’s findings: “Whistleblowers were 10 times more likely than their peers to receive disciplinary action within a year of reporting misconduct.”

Another disturbing finding — the GAO “found instances

Robert Wilkie was sworn in Monday as the next secretary of Veterans Affairs. Wilkie was confirmed by an 86-9 vote in the Senate last week.

VA blames Obama The first instinct of VA’s current public affairs office is to blame the Obama administration. Much of the new GAO report covers the 20092015 period. “Everyone recognizes that in the Obama-era, VA struggled to hold employees accountable when they violated the public trust and to protect whistleblowers from retaliation. That’s why last year President Trump signed an executive order establishing VA’s Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP),” Curt Cashour, VA’s press secretary, said by email. (TWP)

Devine praised some VA whistleblower office efforts, while expressing frustration with others. Calling the office “schizophrenic,” he said, “the jury is out on whether this

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is going to be a Trojan horse or a breakthrough in the government’s most repressive agency.”

Most repressive agency?

Consider this: VA had 18 percent of the federal workforce but accounted for 31 percent of cases submitted in 2016 to the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower complaints across the government.

“The GAO report confirms what every whistleblower knows. If you raise a concern, you will be subjected to retaliation,” said Stephen M. Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblower Center. “The VA has a ‘shoot the messenger’ culture that is alive and well.”

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A. That depends on your definition of “hardly any,” but the Merit Systems Protection Board recently reported that “history demonstrates that once an individual is hired into the federal government, that person tends to remain in federal service for a long time.”

Ten percent of new employees voluntarily resign in their first year. The rate falls to 4 percent in the second year and then down to 1 percent in the eighth year, where it remains through the 17th year, then goes down to 0.2 percent in the 20th year.

There’s a similar pattern with firing, although at lower levels: 1.7 percent in the first year, dropping to 0.3 percent in the second and remaining at 0.3 to 0.2 percent until dropping to 0.1 percent at 20 years.

Said the MSPB: “Federal agencies can remove most new hires in their first year of employment fairly easily if the new hire is serving a probationary period and does not perform to expectations.

Once employees complete the probationary period, they obtain due process and appeal rights that make it more time consuming to separate them involuntarily.” ERIC YODER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Facebook foils political plot

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TECHNOLOGY Facebook has shut down a sophisticated disinformation operation on its platform that engaged in divisive messaging ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, the company said Tuesday, an escalation of what a top executive described as an “arms race” to manipulate the public using its tools.

Facebook said it discovered 32 false pages and profiles that operated from March 2017 until this May. They lured 290,000 people with ads, events and regular posts on topics such as race and feminism — and sought to stir opposition to President Trump.

The company deleted the profiles and notified law enforcement and lawmakers of the activity, as well the real Facebook users who were swept up in the operation.

The pages had links to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), the Kremlin-backed organization of Russian operatives that flooded Facebook with disinformation around the 2016 election, Facebook said. Yet the operators of the newly banned pages, who Facebook said it was not in a position to identify, were more clever about covering their tracks. Lawmakers and experts attributed the activity to Russia, and Facebook itself found that some of the pages had connections to IRA. The disclosure is a sign that manipulation continues to be an active problem for Facebook and

Facebook said it uncovered a disinformation operation likely linked to Russia.

its billions of users, even after the company has spent heavily to prevent it.

Facebook, which detected the most recent pages through manual investigations, artificial intelligence and leads from law enforcement, has taken a more aggressive approach to rooting out and disclosing political abuse.

The deceptive accounts have also modified their tactics. They used third parties to buy ads on their behalf and didn’t use Russian internet protocol addresses or pay with rubles, according to Facebook. And they relied heavily on promoting events, which Facebook doesn’t scrutinize as closely as ads. One such event was organized to counter-protest a far-right rally planned Aug. 10

Linked to D.C. event One of the pages Facebook shut down, called “reSisters,” described itself as a feminist group. It promoted an event called “No Unite the Right 2 DC, slated for Aug. 10-12. The event, intended as a counter-protest to a far-right rally organized by supporters of the Charlottesville rally last summer, had 2,600 people who said they were interested and 600 who said they would attend. (TWP)

to 12 in Washington.

“We’re sharing this today because of the timing of the event that was planned for Washington,” said Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who described the fight against

MATT ROURKE (AP)

Social network detects coordinated efforts to disrupt 2018 midterms

disinformation as an “arms race” on Tuesday.

The new revelations could worsen Facebook’s political headaches in Washington, where the Senate Intelligence Committee is set to hold a hearing today on efforts to spread political discord on social media ahead of the 2018 midterms.

Two clues tied the IRA to the 32 new accounts. Facebook found that one of the most popular pages, “Resisters,” had a coadministrator that was a known IRA account. Another known IRA account shared an event associated with the same page.

Some of the Facebook pages existed as far back as March 2017, suggesting that Facebook had missed some accounts in its initial sweep in early 2017 and through the fall.

In total, the operatives put out 9,500 posts. Other most-followed pages were “Aztlan Warriors,” “Black Elevation” and “Mindful Being.” The most popular page had 18,000 followers — and the least popular, 16 followers. The 32 accounts ran 150 ads, which cost $11,000 and were paid for in U.S. and Canadian dollars.

They promoted 30 events. The largest of the events, which Facebook hasn’t yet identified, had 4,700 accounts interested in attending, and 1,400 people registered to attend, Facebook said.

The “Black Elevation” page also offered to hire people to promote its events, according to files released by Facebook on Tuesday.

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Twin red panda cubs born at N.Y. zoo

Officials at an upstate New York zoo have announced the birth of twin red pandas, an endangered species found in Asia.

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney announced Tuesday that the male cubs were born at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, in Syracuse, on June 21. Zookeepers have named them Loofah and Doofah after characters in “The Land Before Time,” an animated dinosaur film series. (AP)

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Did airline favor straight couple over gay pair?

Alaska Airlines is under fire after a man said he and his boyfriend were told to sit apart on a California-bound plane so a straight couple could sit together.

David Cooley, owner of a popular Los Angeles gay bar, said he and his partner were in their assigned premium seats aboard Flight 1407 at John F. Kennedy International Airport when a flight attendant approached them. His partner, Cooley said, was asked to relinquish his seat and move to economy class so another couple could sit next to each other.

Cooley told the attendant that they, too, are a couple and they wanted to sit together. But still, he said, his partner was given a choice: Move to coach or get off.

“We could not bear the feeling of humiliation for an entire cross-country flight and left the plane,” Cooley said in a Sunday Facebook post recounting the incident.

Alaska Airlines has since apologized. “This unfortunate incident was caused by a seating error, compounded by a full flight and a crew seeking an on-time departure and nothing more than that,” the airline said. “Alaska Airlines has a zero-tolerance policy for discrimination of any kind.”

In his Facebook post, which had been shared about 1,600 times as of Tuesday, Cooley said he and his boyfriend flew home to Los Angeles aboard a Delta Air Lines flight. KRISTINE PHILLIPS

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POLITICS John Kelly plans to remain as White House chief of staff through President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, a White House official confirmed Tuesday, quieting speculation that Kelly was nearing the exits because of tensions with the president.

Kelly, who on Monday celebrated his first anniversary as chief of staff, told West Wing staff Monday that he will be staying in his post at Trump’s request through the remainder of the president’s first term.

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Kelly, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, has had a rocky tenure in the West Wing and was expected to leave his job this summer. But his announcement ends the chatter.

Trump had openly weighed replacing Kelly in recent months, consulting friends and advisers about Kelly’s performance and soliciting feedback on potential successors — including Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, and Nick Ayers, Vice President Pence’s chief of staff.

But Trump has decided to stick with Kelly — for now, at least. As with all personnel matters in the Trump White House, circumstances could change, and Kelly may not end up staying in his job through the 2020

John Kelly celebrated his first anniversary as White House chief of staff on Monday.

election, considering he serves at the pleasure of a president who often acts on impulse and whim.

Kelly was appointed last July

A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday to stop the release of blueprints to make untraceable and undetectable 3D-printed plastic guns, saying they could end up in the wrong hands.

The company behind the plans, Texas-based Defense Distributed, had reached a settlement with the government that allowed it to make the plans for the guns available for download today. (AP)

to succeed Reince Priebus, Trump’s first chief of staff, after serving for the first six months of the administration as secretary of homeland security.

Kelly sought to bring rigid order and discipline to the West Wing, but Trump chafed under his restrictions, and Kelly found it impossible to contain the chaos that often is created by this president. Kelly now is more of an operational chief and has given up somewhat on policing access to the president.

Trump and Kelly have privately argued at times and complained about one another to confidants. But their relationship appears to have stabilized somewhat in recent months.

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Former congressman Ron Dellums dies at 82 Ron Dellums, a fiery anti-war activist who championed social justice as Northern California’s first black congressman, died Monday from cancer, according to a longtime adviser. Dellums died at his home in D.C., at age 82.

Dellums led the drive to sanction South Africa during apartheid, challenged U.S. entry into wars, opposed increased military spending and helped start the Congressional Black Caucus. (AP)

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Crews report progress in fight against twin California fires

“[The policy] shows the extremes this administration will go to to punish families fleeing horrific … violence.”

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Assault on compound, roadside bomb kill 26 A coordinated assault on a government compound in the eastern city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, killed at least 15 people. A roadside bomb in the western Farah province also killed 11 on Tuesday, Afghan officials said. The Taliban and the Islamic State carry out near-daily attacks in Nangarhar province, of which Jalalabad is the capital. (AP) JOSH EDELSON (AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

RICHARD DURBIN, D-ILL., on Tuesday calling for Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to resign over the Trump administration policy of separating migrant children from their detained parents

UPPER LAKE, CALIF. | Firefighters watch the Mendocino fire burn Tuesday in Northern California. Firefighters reported progress Tuesday in their battle against the wildfires that have ravaged the state, including twin blazes straddling Mendocino and Lake counties that were threatening some 10,000 homes. Crews were able to slow the spread of one of the blazes into populated areas; instead, the flames pushed into Mendocino National Forest.

Powerful bomb in van kills at least 11 in south Philippines, reigniting terrorism fears

TAJIKISTAN

ISIS claims attack that killed 4 foreign cyclists The Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a car-and-knife attack Sunday on Western tourists cycling in Tajikistan that killed two Americans and two Europeans.

Officials in the Central Asian nation blamed the attack on a banned local Islamist group. (AP)

Indonesian court outlaws ISIS-linked group Jemaah Anshorut Daulah after series of attacks

Trump’s tricky balance While his policies have benefited the wealthy, he has kept his base by stoking culture fights ANALYSIS After signing legislation slashing taxes last December, President Trump headed to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays. In the dining room at his exclusive club, he turned to club members at a nearby table.

“You all just got a lot richer,” Trump told them, no doubt to an enthusiastic reaction.

That casual aside from Trump was the flip side to his excoriation of Charles and David Koch on Tuesday. After the Kochs announced that they wouldn’t support Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s, DN.D., challenger for the time being, Trump lashed out on Twitter.

“The globalist Koch Brothers, who have become a total joke in real Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade. I never sought their support because I don’t need their money or bad ideas. They love my Tax & Regulation Cuts, Judicial picks & more,” Trump wrote.

“I made them richer,” he continued. “Their network is highly overrated, I have beaten them at every turn. They want to protect their companies outside the U.S. from being taxed, I’m for America First & the American Worker — a puppet for no one.”

There’s a lot going on there, as there often is. But Trump’s pitch is twofold: I have conservative judicial picks, and I cut their taxes and made them richer. How on earth could the Kochs take issue with Trump when he made them richer? It defies understanding.

Thanks to a combination of hyperpartisanship, Trump’s willingness to say things that others wouldn’t and a stronger economy, his tenure as president has been an explicit manifestation of what

President Trump on Tuesday attacked the Koch brothers for failing to support a Republican candidate.

Manafort trial: Defense targets Gates’ integrity

be the biggest beneficiary” of his policies, he insisted. “Just be a little patient,” he added.

Meanwhile, the administration is reportedly considering a unilateral adjustment of capital gains taxes that would cut the taxes of the wealthiest Americans by tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

Trump’s base has been more than willing to be patient. His support among Republicans generally continues to best any prior Republican president except George W. Bush in the aftermath of 9/11.

This is all part of Trump’s political gambit. He’s a blue-collar guy who lives in a gold-plated penthouse. He is the embodiment of the political pitch he makes: obsessed with cultural issues as the policies he passes benefit his enormous wealth. Neither his wealthy nor his poor supporters seem to care about the inherent tension in that duality — any more than Trump does.

ALEXANDRIA Paul Manafort orchestrated a multimillion-dollar conspiracy to evade U.S. tax and banking laws, leaving behind a trail of lies as he lived a lavish lifestyle, prosecutors said Tuesday as they laid out their case against the former Trump campaign chairman.

During his opening statement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Uzo Asonye told the jury that Manafort considered himself above the law as he funneled tens of millions of dollars through offshore accounts. That “secret income” was used to pay for personal expenses such as a $21,000 watch, a $15,000 jacket made of ostrich and more than $6 million worth of real estate paid for in cash, Asonye said.

It’s the first trial arising from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into potential ties between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia.

Defense attorney Thomas Zehnle said in his opening statement that Manafort trusted others to keep track of the millions of dollars he was earning from his Ukrainian political work.

He made clear that undermining the credibility of Rick Gates, his former business associate and the government’s star witness, is central to the defense strategy. Zehnle warned jurors that Gates could not be trusted and was the type of witness who would say anything to save himself. The trial is expected to last several weeks.

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once was a tricky balance. For years, many Republicans have worked to effect sweeping cuts and benefits for the wealthiest Americans while maintaining a non-wealthy voting base by engaging in robust cultural fights.

Trump has nearly perfected it.

He will argue, of course, that his economic policies have been an unalloyed good for the American worker. He did so in that tweet disparaging the Koch brothers. But his track record doesn’t quite match that rhetoric.

Where the cuts have been effective is where critics suggested they would be. Corporate executives are getting massive payouts from companies that are flush with cash that once would have gone to pay taxes.

At the same time, Trump’s other economic moves are introducing other uncertainties for lower-wage Americans. The tariffs imposed by his administration have had the desired effect of destabilizing international trade

Revisiting tax-cut pitch The tax cuts were pitched as “rocket fuel” for the economy, spiking job creation and wage growth. Neither has happened. Real earnings — wage increases relative to inflation — are flat over the past year. Job growth is squarely in line with where it had been for months. Trump’s frequent assertions that people would have scoffed during the campaign had he announced that we’d hit the number of jobs that have been added under his presidency is false. We’re right where the existing trend suggested we’d be. (TWP)

agreements, but the effect for a lot of U.S. companies is increased costs and, in some cases, layoffs.

When other countries imposed retaliatory tariffs on U.S. agricultural products (prompting a GDPboosting surge in some exports), Trump announced a plan to bail out farmers with a $12 billion injection of funding. Farmers “will

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Record-breaking temperatures have dried out the riverbanks of the Elbe in Magdeburg in eastern Germany.

Heat wave in Europe taking a toll on nature Some German rivers are so warm that fish are starting to die off EUROPE The heat wave gripping large stretches of Europe has already been blamed for deadly forest fires and crop failures. Now, freshwater fish could be its next victims.

Some regions in Germany sweltered as the mercury hit 102 degrees Tuesday. Rivers like the Rhine and the Elbe have soaked up so much heat that fish are beginning to suffocate.

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Meanwhile, Germany’s Farmer’s Association is asking the government for 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) in financial aid to help cover losses from this year’s poor harvest. Association president Joachim Rukwied said German farmers expect the grain harvest to be 20 percent smaller than last year, as it has

barely rained during the past 12 weeks, dpa reported.

The oceans, too, have been affected. Authorities in Poland last week banned swimming at more than 50 beaches along its Baltic Sea coast, after hot weather led to the growth of toxic bacteria in the unusually warm sea.

Swiss authorities have canceled fireworks displays in some areas during today’s national holiday celebrations, citing the high risk of forest fires. On July 23, at least 91 people died in a wildfire in Greece — the deadliest in Europe for decades.

Temperatures of up to 113 degrees are forecast for Spain and Portugal today, and authorities are preparing for the mercury to climb even higher through Sunday. KIRSTEN GRIESHABER (AP)

Archaeologists say a third-century sarcophagus found in what is now western Germany contained the remains of a young Roman woman who was buried along with perfume bottles, a makeup palette and a silver hand mirror.

The Landesmuseum in Bonn said Monday that the massive stone coffin contained an unusual wealth of beauty products, jewelry, pins and a folding knife with a handle in the shape of a Hercules figure. The 4.5-ton sarcophagus was discovered along the route of an ancient highway connecting the Roman empire settlements of Trevorum and Colonia Claudia dia Ara Agrippinensium.. (AP)

PENGUIN POPULATION DECLINE

The percentage by which the world’s largest colony of king penguins has declined in three decades, The Guardian reported. A study published in Antarctic Science found that the population of king penguins on France’s Ile aux Cochons, a remote island between the tip of Africa and Antarctica, has fallen from nearly 2 million in the 1980s to only around 200,000, as seen in recent satellite images.

Researchers say climate change and the weather event El Nino, along with overcrowding, may have played a role. (EXPRESS) More than 300 people died in July from weather-related disasters in Japan

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To be happier, stop scheduling your free time Your social calendar might be sucking the joy out of activities that are supposed to be fun, according to an upcoming paper co-written by a professor who studies time management.

The paper argues that when a leisure activity is planned rather than spontaneous, we enjoy it less. That’s because we tend to mentally lump all our scheduled activities in the same bucket — whether it’s a dentist appointment or grabbing coffee with a friend. And that makes the pleasurable activities more of a chore. “It becomes a part of our to-do list,” Selin A. Malkoc, one of tthe study’s authors, wrote in an email. “As an outcome, they become less enjoyable.” be The paper, to be published in tthe journal Current Opinion in Psychology in April, notes that there are many things grabbing at our free time. We schedule activities back-to-back for fear of not accomplishing them all. So we do more and enjoy less.

“When scheduled, leisure tasks feel less free-flowing and more forced — which is what robs them of their utility,” Malkoc said in her email.

The answer, she said, is “rough scheduling,” meaning meeting for lunch or an after-work drink but not assigning it a time. “As trivial as the change might seem, it has an important effect on human psychology: It reintroduces the flexibility to the leisure tasks,” she wrote. ALLISON KLEIN

Mexican officials: 37 injured but no deaths in crash after takeoff of Aeromexico plane in Durango

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Bryce Harper will play the rest of the season knowing the Nats listened to offers for him.

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MLB’s best get better At Tuesday’s 4 p.m. trade deadline, the Red Sox had the most wins in the majors, and the Yankees were tied for second. The AL East rivals made an aggressive push to add talent. (EXPRESS)

GM Mike Rizzo declares early on deadline day that All-Star will play out his deal in D.C. MLB Monday evening, with Tuesday’s 4 p.m. nonwaiver trade deadline looming, Bryce Harper mania seized the baseball world.

Word spread that the Nationals were listening to offers for the six-time All-Star who becomes a free agent after the season.

Late Monday, people familiar with the Nationals’ plans said the club hadn’t ruled out trading Harper. But, after what he said was a sleepless night, Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo texted The Washington Post.

“Bryce is not going anywhere,” he wrote. “I believe in this team.”

The Nationals never seemed likely to be big sellers. The club had also received interest in high-priced relievers such as

Kelvin Herrera and Shawn Kelley, but deals weren’t pursued.

According to people familiar with the talks between the Nationals and the Marlins, Miami rejected an upgraded offer for catcher J.T. Realmuto.

The Nationals were in touch with multiple teams Monday about Harper, according to people familiar with their plans. One team got the sense the Nationals got cold feet late Monday night, and that they would not give up Harper. Rizzo always said they would have to be blown away, and apparently they were not.

Harper said before Tuesday’s game against the Mets that Rizzo told him that he wouldn’t be traded, and that made him “very happy.”

Kintzler dealt to Cubs The Nationals traded reliever Brandon Kintzler to the Cubs on Tuesday, exactly a year after the right-hander arrived from Minnesota in another deadline deal.

Chicago sent minor league pitcher Jhon Romero in the deal that came at the trade deadline. Kintzler, who turns 34 today, had a 3.59 ERA this season. Romero, 23. had nine saves in 11 chances in Class A. (AP)

Rizzo has been an outspoken defender of Harper. The Lerner family, which owns the team, has gushed over Harper like one of

its own, and Harper himself got emotional when speaking about his time in Washington after his victory in the Home Run Derby at Nationals Park.

While the Nationals did not want anyone to know they would be listening to offers for Harper, they cannot deny it now. Harper is already a potential distraction in a clubhouse of a vastly underachieving team, a combination that could prove volatile.

Entering Tuesday night’s game against the Mets, which ended after Express’ deadline, the Nats were be 51/2 games back in the NL East, a deficit they could still eclipse.

Apparently, they will try to do so with Harper. CHELSEA JANES

Red Sox additions Dustin Pedroia (knee) has played only three games this year, so Boston acquired a replacement at second base, Ian Kinsler, from the Angels on Monday for two pitching prospects. Nathan Eovaldi, formerly of the Rays, threw seven scoreless innings Sunday in his Red Sox debut.

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The Buffalo won’t return to Washington after all. Prior to the All-Star Game, reports of Tampa Bay scouting Nationals minor lea league games prompted speculation that the Nats would try to acquire catcher Wilson Ramos, who pla played for the Nats from 2010 to 2016. Instead, the Rays sent Ramos, an All-Star this season who hit .29 .297 before a hamstring injury sidelined him, to Philadelphia for cash or a player to be named. (EXPRESS) Braves get starter Kevin Gausman, reliever Darren O’Day from Orioles for 4 prospects

On Monday, New York got Twins righty Lance Lynn — who has been uneven this year but posted a 2.83 ERA in June — for utility man Tyler Austin and a pitching prospect. Ex-Blue Jays lefty J.A. Happ allowed one run in his Yankees debut Sunday.

Pirates get starter Chris Archer from Rays for OF Austin Meadows, reliever Tyler Glasnow

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“So we’re all doing the thing where we scream toward the camera, right? OK, good. Here we go!”

The winds of change Hard rock band Halestorm looked to push boundaries with new album ‘Vicious’ MUSIC When the four-piece hard rock band Halestorm went back into the studio to work on its fourth album, the group had already thrown out a bunch of tracks it felt sounded too much like songs it had recorded before.

Halestorm has been dealing with critics for years saying the group leaned too pop. But the band just wanted to evolve on new album “Vicious,” which came out Friday, leading Halestorm to make a record that captured a live sound as much as possible.

“We’re on our fourth record on a major label and we won a Grammy Award, and there’s this misconception that you’ve had the success and therefore it gets easier,” frontwoman Lzzy Hale says. “It really doesn’t

because you’ve put so much out in the world and you’re like, ‘OK, what’s next?’ ” In an interview, Hale and guitarist Joe Hottinger spoke about dealing with those critics and finding new inspiration.

What was it like in the studio this time?

Hottinger: We were really like, “How do we push this band forward? How do we do something interesting that’s hard rock these days?” Because it seems like it’s really hard to find good rock music and something that is pushing the boundaries a little bit.

Is there a democratic process to making decisions?

Hale: We’ve been a four-piece for over 15 years now and it’s

At the forefront Halestorm kicked off the second leg of a tour Friday with all femalefronted rock bands, including In This Moment and New Years Day. “You look at the crowd and there’s these girls that are embracing these traditionally masculine moments,” guitarist Joe Hottinger says. “You realize these are just rock ‘n’ roll moments and there’s no gender.” (AP)

Hale: We pay attention to critics and reviews, but we’ve never paid any mind to what people think of us. … We always said once people started hating on us, then we’ve got it.

Hottinger: You can’t make everyone happy and we’re not going to. I think it’s great actually when you get some of the good, creative criticism.

MARK HUMPHREY (AP)

Mother-son duo works in harmony Sure, the idea of a mother-and-son musical duo is adorable. But what’s even better? The music from Ruth Ward and her son, Madisen, is good. Like, really good. “The Radio Winners,” an EP from Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear that came out Friday, is a six-song set featuring beautiful storytelling woven into folk, rock, roots and acoustic sounds. Madisen’s vocals are striking, with Ruth coming in at the perfect moments — especially on “Hell and Back” and “Family Treason.” What they’ve crafted here puts tthem in contention ention for album alb of the year. MESFIN FEK FEKADU

That feels like a theme me throughout the album. um. interesting how you settle into your roles. Everybody has a tremendous amount of respect to what everybody brings to the table. And not everybody has to be interested in the same thing.

Do you pay attention to critics and reviews?

Hale: I was trying to figure out how to be OK with not ot being the person that makes everybody happy. And writing an album and moving this band nd forward specifically for myself elf and my bandmates and not for or anybody else. So it came through gh very honestly in the lyrics. KRISTIN IN M. HALL (AP)

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MoviePass announced Tuesday the service is raising its monthly fee to $15 and barring viewings of most major releases during the first two weeks. MoviePass has grown from about 20,000 subscribers to 3 million since e it slashed monthly rates nearly a year ago to $10, but the service’s financial sustainability has as come into question. Last week, its parent company took out a $6 million emergency loan. (AP) AP)

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‘Making It’ crafts us a lifeboat TV REVIEW “Making It,” a crafting competition show that premiered Tuesday on NBC, is so genuinely good-hearted and adorably inventive that it’s darn near impossible to criticize. But let’s at least try.

Sooner or later, American culture will need to have a strong talk with itself about adult-onset cutesiness, which started about 20 years ago, then gained hold as a comforting response to frayed 9/11 nerves and never stopped. But now is obviously not an ideal time to reckon with our addiction to all this flowers-andbirdies sweetness and clever, hipster-hacked smarm, because

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The reality competition provides an escape from modern times

Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman aren’t back for a “Parks and Recreation” revival just yet, but “Making It” should tide us over in the meantime.

the world is just getting worse around us.

In a barn at some idyllic countryside farm, eight contestants assemble for “Making It,” a craft-off with the same structure and tone as the soothing “Great British

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Baking Show.” Overseeing this are Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman, who, as the former stars of “Parks and Recreation,” need no introduction in Cutesyville. She’s a sharply funny idol to young women everywhere, perfectly

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Contestants on “Making It” win scout-like patches for individual rounds — a “fast craft” opens each competition, followed by a more complicated assignment that seems to take up most of the day. After six episodes, the ultimate winner will get $100,000.

The show’s considerable charm rests in an essential recognition of the value in human endeavor, even the frivolous kind. The cutesiness epidemic rages on, but Poehler and Offerman aren’t faking it — there really is something beautiful and heartbreaking in the things we create on our own time.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Someone gives you some information before anyone else, and what you do with it can ensure that you remain in the lead for quite some time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You may find yourself embroiled in a situation for which you were not prepared. You can learn quickly, however.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You receive a promise today that reassures you on the one hand and raises certain doubts on the other. There’s more here than meets the eye.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Putting yourself first is only natural, but today may demand you focus on someone else’s needs rather than yours.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Everyone knows what you are capable of, and yet you feel compelled to prove yourself — to yourself, most of all.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You may find yourself drifting between extremes today; be sure that you can contain a situation that threatens to blow up on you.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your take on a familiar situation has everyone around you buzzing about the new potential it carries with it.

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1981: The music video channel MTV makes its debut, airing “Video Killed the Radio Star,” by The Buggles.

2013: Defying the U.S., Russia grants Edward Snowden temporary asylum, allowing the National Security Agency leaker to slip out of the Moscow airport where he had been holed up for weeks.

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31 Old French spendable

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ROMANCE

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“I ain’t trying to destroy this girl.

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TIFFANY HADDISH, telling Glamour that she never said Sanaa Lathan was the actress who bit Beyonce. Haddish seemingly confirmed Lathan as the culprit in a June interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

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