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Virginia officials say they don’t want a new migrant shelter 4

Flights canceled Protesters shut down Hong Kong’s airport as China raises alarms 10

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As part of the Trump administration’s sweeping changes to the enforcement of the Endangered Species Act, the government will now be allowed to assess the economic cost of saving a species — a move critics contend could speed extinction for some struggling plants and animals 11

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Two white lion cubs, named Nala and Simba, sit in their basket Sunday at the “Caresse de tigre” association at La Mailleraye-sur-Seine in northwestern France.

The cubs were born at the end of July.

Breaking IN is the easy part. It’s breaking OUT that takes real skill.

On the bright side, this fugitive has a future in slapstick comedy

Thief steals ketchup bottle — and apparently Heinz’s heart

A black bear broke into a Colorado house over the weekend and left by breaking through a wall “like the Kool-Aid Man.” Estes Park police said the break-in occurred Friday night and that the animal was likely attracted to trash. A Facebook post by the police department said: “Upon officer’s arrival, said bear forcibly breached a hole in the wall like the ‘Kool-Aid Man’ and made its escape.”

No one was injured. (AP)

A fugitive in Germany has been nabbed thanks to angry wasps. Oldenburg police said the unusual bust took place Monday after officers tried to arrest a 32-year-old man to serve an outstanding custodial sentence. The suspect fled and jumped from a balcony straight into a wasps’ nest. The irate insects attacked him, prompting him to run onto the street before jumping into an inflatable pool. Police arrested him there. (AP)

Heinz is offering to help a person who fears that the theft of a bottle of ketchup led to bad luck. The thief took a bottle from a New Jersey restaurant.

But after a car accident and other misfortunes, he or she returned two bottles, with a note of apology.

It said the theft was the worst thing the person had ever done, but he or she wanted to do something “risky.” Heinz has offered to pay for the car damage if the person contacts the company. (AP)

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Fairfax leaning in to laptops EDUCATION At the end of some classes, Kimberly Scott directs her students at Chantilly High School to open Google Docs or Google Forms on their school-issued laptops and share two insights and one conundrum they took away from the day’s lesson.

The 10 th-grade English teacher in the Northern Virginia suburbs exports the students’ responses to a spreadsheet, which she saves and from which she aggregates. Scott, who has taught for nearly 25 years, used to collect the answers on paper slips.

Providing laptops to all of her students has forced the veteran teacher to think about new ways of teaching.

“I have to keep myself trying new things,” she said. “Last year was a hugely revolutionary year for me. I almost went paperless.”

Fairfax County Public Schools rolled out the laptops at Chantilly in 2016, as well as the eight middle and elementary schools that send students to the high school. Students at six other

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Va.’s largest district is giving all high schoolers a computer this year

By 2023, all Fairfax County students in third grade and up will have a laptop.

high schools were issued laptops through a state grant.

Now the program will be expanded to schoolchildren throughout the Fairfax system, which educates about 188,000 students on 198 campuses. All high school students will receive laptops for the school year that starts at the end of August, and plans are in place to put the devices in the hands of all students in the third grade and beyond by 2023.

The five-year rollout of Dell Latitude 3300 laptops is expected

“I have to keep myself trying new things. Last year was a hugely revolutionary year for me.”

KIMBERLY SCOTT, a teacher at Chantilly High School, on how every student having a laptop changed her teaching. Scott allows students to message her questions during class, which helps shy teens participate.

to cost $30 million.

The Fairfax system, the largest in Virginia and among the biggest in the nation, commissioned Johns Hopkins University to study the effects of laptops in schools that have already received computers.

In the second year of the study, which looked at the 20172018 school year, teachers and students said they thought the laptops helped keep students more engaged. But some parents expressed concern about the quality of digital instruction and distractions from computers.

School systems elsewhere in the Washington area already have adopted programs that provide laptops to all students, or they have built up laptop supplies. Arlington Public Schools provides every student with an iPad Air or a MacBook Air starting in third grade.

At Robert E. Lee High School, social studies teacher Elizabeth Evans said the school-issued laptops are the only computers many students’ families have at home.

“Every kid having a laptop does not make education equitable, but it is an important step in that direction,” she said.

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Himitsu chef Kevin Tien to leave for new venture Kevin Tien, co-owner and executive chef of Himitsu, is leaving the restaurant this month to focus on opening his new endeavor, Emilie’s, according to a news release published by PoPville. Himitsu co-owner Carlie Steiner will continue to operate the restaurant. Amanda Moll, the former executive sous-chef of Doi Moi, has been named Himitsu’s new executive chef.

Emilie’s is set to open in Capitol Hill in September. (EXPRESS) SHOPPING

Annual sales tax holiday in Maryland this week Maryland has its annual sales tax holiday through Saturday of this week. Clothing and shoes sold for $100 or less per item are exempt from the state sales tax, according to the state government. Backpacks up to $40 are also exempt. Virginia’s tax holiday was earlier this month. (EXPRESS)

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Shelter plan draws rebukes

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National Philharmonic confirms it will stay open The board of the National Philharmonic, the regional orchestra based in Montgomery County, on Saturday afternoon voted unanimously for a transition plan that will allow it to complete its 2019-20 season and stay open for the coming years, per a news release. The plan calls for the exit of the orchestra’s top leadership and comes after the board crowdsourced $210,000 in donations. (TWP)

Several Virginia officials say migrant facility is counter to local values

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VIRGINIA Top Democrats in increasingly blue Northern Virginia are telling the Trump administration they’re against plans to open a shelter for unaccompanied minors in the region, and saying their jurisdictions should be compensated for potential impacts on local schools or hospitals.

In a part of the state that is home to a large Latino immigrant community, elected officials say they disapprove of the way the federal government has handled migration at the southern border, where children have been separated from their families and placed in squalid conditions.

“I am extremely concerned about your administration’s policy of separating children from their families when they cross the border into the U.S.,” Sharon Bulova, D, chair of Fairfax County’s Board of Supervisors, said in a letter sent Monday to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees care for unaccompanied minors.

“Fairfax County wants no part in this heartless practice.”

Last week, Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson, D, sent a similar letter, while Phyllis Randall, D, chair of Loudoun County’s Board of Supervisors, said in a WAMU interview that such a facility “is not good for children.”

HHS officials did not immediately respond Monday.

A new shelter in Virginia would supplement the existing Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center in Staunton, Va.

How much control local jurisdictions would have in the federal government’s effort to lease enough space to house up to 440 unaccompanied minors would depend on where the land is located and how it is zoned.

HHS wants to build a “Virginia Residential Child Care Facility” that would have 147 staffers and include classrooms, sleeping areas and 2 acres of outdoor space for recreation, according to a formal solicitation by the General Services Administration.

The agency previously said the facility would be among three new permanent shelters in communities with large numbers of immigrants from Central America, where most minors who recently came to the country came from.

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Broader effort planned The Trump administration is proposing new permanent shelters for immigrant children in Virginia, Los Angeles and central Florida.

Nationwide, HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement funds about 170 shelters in 23 states, holding 8,700 unaccompanied minors.

Visitors to some existing shelters have described seeing unbathed children in snot-caked clothes. (TWP)

The effort is meant to house youths close to where they may have relatives, and ease crowds inside Border Patrol facilities.

In Virginia, about 130 unaccompanied minors are being held at privately run shelters.

Both Bulova and Corey Stewart, the Republican chair of Prince William’s Board of Supervisors, said they want to know whether the Trump administration will reimburse jurisdictions for any local tax dollars.

Stewart, an ardent Trump supporter, said the administration has so far offered only vague details. He said that he wants to know whether HHS would deal with any discipline or disease problems inside the facility.

“Presumably, our board would have to approve the location,” Stewart said, citing the potential need to rezone land. “The federal government can’t just build wherever it wants in Prince William County.” ANTONIO OLIVO (THE WASHINGTON POST)

FIRE STATION RESPONSES

The approximate number of runs Fire Station 30 in Northeast D.C. went on last year, according to the 2018 National Run Survey, as reported in WTOP. The survey ranked Fire Station 30, near the Benning Road Metro station, as the fourth-busiest fire station in the country, behind stations in Los Angeles, Baltimore and Nashville, Tenn. On a separate list in the survey, Ambulance 6 in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood ranked fifth in the nation for medical calls, with 6,896 runs. (EXPRESS)

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Md. research commission on lynchings in the state holds first meeting

Researchers at the University of Richmond believed they’ve found evidence ofa slave burial ground beneath the campus, according to reports in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Collegian. According to a librarian, the site served as a plantation before 1865. More research is underway. (EXPRESS) THE DISTRICT

Missing Australian man is located by police Police on Monday found a man visiting D.C. from Australia who was last seen in January, according to an NBC 4 report.

The man traveled to the U.S. to visit a Georgetown University professor, according to NBC 4.

The man’s family reported him missing after not hearing from him and seeing no activity on his credit cards. Police said he was found safe and healthy. (EXPRESS) BALTIMORE

Cummings’ wife seeks help identifying intruder Maya Cummings, chair of the Maryland Democratic Party and wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on Saturday posted online surveillance photos from a July 27 break-in at the couple’s Baltimore home, per a WTOP report. The intruder attempted to enter the house hours prior to President Trump’s Twitter attacks on Baltimore. (EXPRESS)

Police: Man who said he sought lost dog arrested in assault of woman in College Park

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local Using polarizing tactics, detectives seek clues in gruesome rape case FAIRFAX COUNTY When Fairfax County police arrested a man last month in connection with the brutal sexual assault in May of a 15-year-old girl with developmental delays, they seized a piece of evidence that might hold crucial evidence of the crime: the suspect’s iPhone.

The phone’s GPS might have placed Kevin Caldwell at the scene, contained texts between him and his alleged accomplice or even video of an incident, but authorities quickly realized they could not access any of it.

The phone required Caldwell’s

fingerprint to unlock it.

A detective resorted to a controversial approach: She went to a magistrate and got an order to have Caldwell provide his fingerprints to gain access.

In an age of increasing encryption, law enforcement officials say compelling a person to cooperate is sometimes the only way to retrieve make-orbreak evidence. They have asked magistrates and judges to order suspects to give up their fingerprints or passwords to unlock phones. Courts have also been asked to allow face scans.

The trend has touched off heated legal battles in some state and federal courts over the constitutionality of such searches.

Defendants often argue that

such searches violate their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

Fairfax police said the incident involving the teenage girl occurred May 16. She told detectives she left a family event at Mount Vernon County Club and ended up walking into a Wingstop restaurant, according to the search warrant. She asked Caldwell for a ride, saying she was lost. He declined, the warrant states.

Caldwell and a second man, Andrew Collins, who was an employee at the restaurant, followed the teen into the bathroom and blocked the door, she told detectives, according to allegations in the warrant. The girl was taken to another location where both

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Andrew Crocker, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said courts have held that the Fifth Amendment bars law enforcement from forcing testimony revealing the contents of people’s minds.

The judge ruled that the state could compel the man to produce a fingerprint but not a passcode.

The Fairfax public defender’s office, which is representing Caldwell, objected to the police’s quest for his fingerprints. “It is a violation of the 5th amendment to compel someone’s fingerprint,” Dawn Butorac, a public defender, said in an email. But Fairfax police Capt. Eli Cory said the searches were lawful.

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Montgomery board members favor Smith’s return to lead district MONTGOMERY COUNTY Most Montgomery County school board members are expressing support for renewing the contract of Superintendent Jack Smith, saying they would like him to lead Maryland’s largest school system for four more years.

Smith, 61, took the helm in July 2016 and recently began the final year of his contract, sparking questions about the depth of his support from the school board.

Smith said in a statement that he has not decided whether to ask for a new contract but enjoys the work, adding that he feels committed to ensuring all students can “unlock their full potential.”

Six of the school board’s eight members said they support Smith’s reappointment.

Board members Jeanette Dixon and Karla Silvestre did not weigh in. Dixon noted Smith had not yet asked to stay on and Silvestre said she was not ready to weigh in.

Under state law, Smith must notify the school system by Feb. 1 if he is seeking another term.

Support for Smith follows a year marked by concerns about grade inflation, student absenteeism, the possibility of school boundary changes and

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Support for school chief appears high

Superintendent Jack Smith has until Feb. 1 to decide whether he wants to apply for another term.

the handling of sexual assault allegations.

Smith’s supporters laud the schools chief as data-minded and focused on improving the success of the high-performing system’s most vulnerable students, including its growing number of students in poverty and English-language learners.

Fred Azcarate, a father of three in Takoma Park, said he was “a little disappointed” to hear school board members may have made up their minds. The board should examine Smith’s tenure while querying teachers, parents, students, administrators and community members, Azcarate said.

“It’s worth taking another look to ask, ‘Are we doing the best we can for our kids?’ ” he said.

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The number of people who were without electricity at the height of a power outage across Alexandria on Monday. A tractortrailer crash on the Beltway in the early morning took down wires and led to the temporary closure of several lanes. The outage deprived some Alexandria City Public School buildings of electricity. By a little after 10 a.m., about 4,000 customers remained without power. (TWP) Staffer for Ward 1 D.C. Council member charged with firing weapon

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Four-hour slog: Md.-based intern treks daily to D.C. day in train fares and parking fees — on an intern’s salary.

She was named Serenity, said her mother, Charlene Wolf, because the girl’s father, Joe Wolf, is a truck driver with a poetic streak. He’d remembered reading a poem in high school “about a pond or something that was serene and calm,” Charlene said.

“My dad still tells me I’m the calm in his life,” Serenity said.

On the ride to Glenmont last Thursday, Wolf, who was sitting in the aisle seat, asked the woman on the window side where she would be getting off. As the train approached the woman’s station, Takoma, Wolf stood, unprompted, to let her pass.

It was noted to her that the gesture was particularly considerate among the man- and women-spreaders.

“I know it’s awkward when I have to ask somebody to get by,” she said.

One recent morning tested her serenity. The train was single-tracking. People were pushing onto the crowded car, until a woman standing over Serenity was being pressed nearly onto her lap. Serenity yanked off her headphones.

“Why don’t you wait for the next train?” she yelled at the crowd. “There’s one right behind us!”

To understand why she endures all this, consider that Taneytown has a population of approximately 6,800, according to census data. There are two grocery stores, a McDonald’s and a Subway. There’s not much to do other than hang out

D.C. expands free taxi rides to grocery stores

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During last Thursday’s afternoon commute, a 20-year-old woman with a faux pearl necklace was in the crowd of commuters boarding a Red Line train to Glenmont.

“It’s usually around Rhode Island Avenue when I get tired of being on the Metro,” Serenity Wolf said. Indeed, when the train passed that station six stops later, she moaned, “I wish I was home.” But she was still two hours away.

It’s a common thought on Metro: “I wish I was home already.” But next time that’s on your mind, think of Wolf and her pursuit of a better life.

Wolf, an intern for the National Education Association, isn’t among D.C.’s privileged summer interns whose parents rent them short-term luxury apartments. She doesn’t have, in her words, a “silver spoon.”

That morning, at 6:15, when the skies are just brightening, Wolf got into her car at her parents’ home in rural Taneytown, Md., about 20 miles from Gettysburg, Pa. Five days a week, she pulls out of her neighborhood at that time, sometimes stopping for coffee. That Thursday morning, she’d of course hit the red at the town’s lone traffic light.

Ninety minutes of driving later, she’s just getting on the train at Glenmont, the far end of the Red Line, for what’s typically a sleepy half-hour ride to Farragut North. Then, after work, she does the whole trip in reverse. She spends $15 a

Serenity Wolf leaves her home in Taneytown, Md., at 6:15 a.m. to catch a Red Line train to her summer internship at the National Education Association.

a gas station.

“Most people in town are considered middle-class to upper middle-class,” Charlene said. “We don’t fit into that category. ... We live paycheck to paycheck and sometimes we go to the church to get groceries.”

Some from her town go on to college. Others work at area manufacturing companies.

There’s not much around that feeds Wolf’s interest in improving education for diverse kids. She hopes to eventually write curricula or become an education reform advocate. She thought a summer at a teacher’s union could give her a leg up.

Metro says six closed Virginia stations will reopen as scheduled Sept. 9, barring severe storms

“I’ve seen my parents struggle,” she said. “I am doing all I can in this competitive world to make something out of myself.”

When she got off the train at Glenmont at 6 p.m. last Thursday, most riders around her were minutes from drinks or dinner. Heels were about to be kicked off, ties untied.

Wolf walked to her car in the parking garage, and began her drive home. An hour and a half later, she’d eat dinner, and lay out her work clothes for the next day.

Reach Kery Murakami at kery.murakami@washpost.com.

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TRANSPORTATION D.C. is offering free 3-mile taxi rides for residents and visitors to buy groceries at Safeway, Giant, Harris Teeter, Whole Foods and a Martha’s Table food pantry in Wards 7 and 8, as well as across the Anacostia River in Ward 6.

Libraries, pools and recreation centers in Wards 7 and 8 are also part of the expanded pilot program for subsidized taxi rides set to run through the end of September.

Before last Thursday’s policy shift, the city’s “Taxi-to-Rail” pilot was limited to trips to or from eight Metro stations east of the Anacostia in D.C. and Maryland. The city added two Metro station stops — Navy Yard and Potomac Avenue.

But program backers say the bigger change is the inclusion of grocery stores and public facilities, intended to spur an effort that has lagged since its launch in May. The city will pay the first $10 of the taxi fare, which covers about 3.5 to 4 miles, and officials have budgeted $65,000 for the pilot. So far, just over 100 rides have been taken in the pilot, D.C. and taxi officials said.

The program has no income or residency requirements.

Those using the service must be going to or from a listed store location, public facility or Metro station, city officials said. Rides can be booked via Taxi2Rail.com, the ezRidr app, or by calling 202727-3827. MICHAEL LARIS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Barr angry over lapses in Epstein’s death in jail AG rips the failure of prison officials to keep wealthy financier alive

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NEW YORK Attorney General William Barr said Monday that there were “serious irregularities” at the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein took his own life as he awaited trial on charges he sexually abused underage girls.

The 66-year-old financier was found Saturday morning in his cell at the chronically short-staffed Metropolitan Correctional Center, in a unit known for holding notorious prisoners under extremely tight security.

“I was appalled, and indeed the whole department was, and frankly angry to learn of the MCC’s failure to adequately secure this prisoner,” Barr said at a police conference in New Orleans. “We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation. The FBI and the office of inspector general are doing just that.”

He added: “We will get to the bottom of what happened and there will be accountability.”

The manner in which Epstein killed himself has not been announced. An autopsy was performed Sunday, but New York City Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson said investigators were awaiting further info.

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AG William Barr demanded an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s death.

Where the case stands Attorney General William Barr vowed Monday that the case against Jeffrey Epstein will go on. “Any co-conspirators should not rest easy. The victims deserve justice and they will get it,” he said.

In a court filing Monday, Epstein’s accusers said a 2008 agreement he negotiated with Florida federal prosecutors to grant immunity to accomplices should be tossed. (AP)

Dr. Michael Baden observed the autopsy at the request of Epstein’s lawyers. Baden was the city’s chief medical examiner in the 1970s and has been an expert witness in high-profile cases.

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suicide watch after he was found in his cell a little over two weeks ago with bruises on his neck, a person familiar with the jail’s operations told The Associated Press. But he had been taken off the suicide watch at the end of July, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

After being returned to the jail’s special housing unit, Epstein was supposed to have been checked on by a guard every 30 minutes, but that was not done the night before his death, the person said.

A defense attorney for Epstein, Marc Fernich, also faulted jail officials, saying they “recklessly put Mr. Epstein in harm’s way.” JIM MUSTIAN, MICHAEL R. SISAK AND MICHAEL BALSAMO (AP)

Olive Garden to offer diners pasta for life There’s a twist with Olive Garden’s new Never Ending Pasta Pass: The chain will also sell 50 Lifetime Pasta Passes.

The regular Pasta Pass entitles 24,000 diners to unlimited pasta from Sept.

23 to Nov. 24 for $100.

However, according to Business Insider, the first 50 customers who buy a Never Ending Pasta Pass will be given the option to upgrade to the Lifetime Pass — for $500 plus tax.

The Lifetime Pasta Pass gives holders unlimited pasta, soup and salad at Olive Garden for life.

The passes, on sale online at 2 p.m. Thursday, will be available for 30 minutes or until they’re sold out. (EXPRESS)

NEW ZEALAND BUYS BACK FIREARMS

The number of firearms collected in New Zealand in a buyback program launched in mid-July, The Guardian reported Sunday. After the March 15 Christchurch mosque shootings, in which 51 people were killed at two mosques, New Zealand passed a ban on most automatic and semi-automatic weapons. The buyback program lets owners hand in now-banned weapons.

Another 1,269 firearms were collected without payment under amnesty, with no questions about licensing or ownership. (EXPRESS) Notre Dame cathedral cleanup to resume Aug. 19 with new equipment, stricter safety measures

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO Puerto Rico’s political turmoil seemed to be at least temporarily easing Monday with attention shifting from protests to policy following the replacement governor’s move to suspend a hurricane recovery contract.

In one of her first moves as governor, Wanda Vázquez said Sunday she was scrutinizing a pending $450,000 contract that is part of a program to rebuild and strengthen the island’s power grid, which was destroyed by Hurricane Maria nearly two years ago.

“There is no room in this administration for unreasonable expenses,” said Vázquez, who on Wednesday became Puerto Rico’s third governor in a week after massive protests that resulted in political turmoil.

Immediate pressure on the new governor appeared to be easing somewhat. There have been no large protests since she was sworn in and none appeared to be on the horizon.

On Monday, Vázquez asked people to give her an opportunity.

“The people of Puerto Rico know I’m here because the constitution dictated it,” she said, adding that she has spent 32 years in public service.

“Throughout my trajectory, I was able to see the need, the poverty, the desperation, the helplessness and also the will of the people to keep moving forward. … I want to keep using those experiences for the benefit of the people.”

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9 sick migrants evacuated from rescue ship in Mediterranean; 400 still at sea

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Protesters shut down airport Move in Hong Kong comes after weeks of pro-democracy rallies

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Trade war leads to free food for school lunches

Thousands of protesters fill the Hong Kong airport Monday, closing down one of the world’s busiest travel hubs.

as clowns, criminals and traitors intent on overthrowing Chinese rule in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong International Airport said in a statement that the demonstration “seriously disrupted” airport operations.

Only flights that had already started boarding or those cleared for landing were allowed to use runways at the airport.

“All other flights have been canceled for the rest of today,” the airport statement said. It later

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Latest U.S., Taliban talks end without a peace deal

Giammattei wins election amid low voter turnout

The latest round of talks between the Taliban and the U.S. ended early Monday without any sign a peace deal for Afghanistan had been reached. Both sides said they would consult with their leaders on the next steps. The sides have been discussing an agreement under which U.S. forces would withdraw from Afghanistan and the Taliban would guarantee the country would not revert to being a launch pad for terrorist attacks. (AP)

Guatemalans on Sunday elected Alejandro Giammattei as their next president. Giammattei, of the right-wing Vamos party, defeated former first lady Sandra Torres for the four-year term. With more than 99% of votes counted, he held nearly a 16-point lead in the runoff election. Only 42% of the country’s 8.15 million registered voters participated, far less than the 56% in the 2015 presidential runoff election. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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said flights would resume soon.

The demonstrations that have drawn more than 1 million people at times call for democratic reforms and an independent inquiry into police conduct, with both protesters and police adopting ever more extreme tactics.

In Beijing, the Cabinet’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office issued a statement saying the situation in Hong Kong was “beginning to show the sprouts of terrorism” and constituted

an “existential threat” to the population.

“One must take resolute action toward this violent criminality, showing no leniency or mercy,” said the statement, attributed to spokesman Yang Guang.

“Hong Kong has reached an inflection point where all those who are concerned about Hong Kong’s future must say ‘no,’ to law breakers and ‘no’ to those engaged in violence.” YANAN WANG AND CHRISTOPHER BODEEN (AP)

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HONG KONG One of the world’s busiest airports canceled all flights after thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators crowded into Hong Kong’s main terminal Monday, while the central Chinese government in Beijing issued an ominous characterization of the protest movement as something approaching “terrorism.”

The extreme action by the largely leaderless movement seemed calculated to prompt a stern response from Beijing, and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s administration responded within hours.

No new violence was reported, although the city remained on edge after more than two months of near-daily and increasingly bloody confrontations between protesters and police.

Beijing tends toward a broad definition of terrorism, including in it nonviolent protests of government policies on the environment or in minority regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet. Such a designation adds to the regime’s descriptions of these protesters

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Mural tells story of deported A new mural on the Mexican side of a wall on the 1,954-mile southern U.S. border shows faces of people deported from the U.S. with barcodes that activate first-person narratives.

Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana’s project blends Mexico’s rich history of muralists with interactive art on the border. (AP)

EDUCATION School lunch menus already have Meatless Mondays and Taco Tuesdays. Now some may get Trade Mitigation Thursdays.

This fall, some U.S. school cafeterias are expecting shipments of free food, one little-known consequence of President Trump’s trade disputes. The products are coming from the Department of Agriculture, which is giving away the $1.2 billion in foods it’s buying to help farmers hurt by trade negotiations.

Montgomery County in Maryland is awaiting a truckload of canned kidney beans — one of several “trade mitigation” items schools were offered.

“We make our own chili soup, so we knew we had a use for that,” said Barbara Harral, a nutrition official for Montgomery County Public Schools.

All told, she said, the district is getting $70,000 worth of free products for the fall, including apples and oranges.

The USDA has long purchased and distributed agricultural products to help farmers, who can face swings in supply and demand in any given year. But the agency is buying even more as a result of Trump’s trade fight, which has led other countries to take retaliatory actions that curb imports of farm products.

That’s resulting in an unusual bounty for the groups that get government foods, showing one way federal policies influence what people eat. CANDICE CHOI (AP)

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nation+world The Endangered Species Act is credited with helping to save the bald eagle.

Green card rule will limit legal immigration

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A cost to save a species?

Trump weakens wildlife protections as critics fear rollbacks could speed extinction ENVIRONMENT The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the landmark Endangered Species Act, allowing the government to put an economic cost on saving a species and other changes critics contend could speed extinction for some struggling plants and animals.

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and other administration officials say the changes improve efficiency of oversight, while protecting rare species.

“The best way to uphold the Endangered Species Act is to do everything we can to ensure it remains effective in achieving its ultimate goal — recovery of our rarest species,” Bernhardt said in a statement. “An effectively administered Act ensures more resources can go where they will do the most good: on-the-ground conservation.”

Democratic lawmakers, several state attorneys general and conservation groups said the overhaul would hamper protections for endangered and threatened species.

The Endangered Species Act is credited with helping to save

the bald eagle, California condor and scores of other animals and plants from extinction since President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1973. The Endangered Species Act currently protects more than 1,600 species in the United States and its territories.

The changes include allowing economic costs to be taken into account as the federal government weighs protecting a struggling species, although Congress has stipulated that economic costs not be a factor in deciding whether to protect a species.

That prohibition was meant to ensure that the logging industry, for example, would not be able to push to block protections for a forest-dwelling animal on economic grounds.

Gary Frazer, an assistant director at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, told reporters that the government would adhere to that by disclosing the costs to the public, without being a factor for the officials considering the protections.

But Brett Hartl, a government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity conservation group, contended any such price tag would be inflated, and

Groups protest changes At least 10 attorneys general joined conservation groups in protesting an early draft of the changes to the Endangered Species Act, saying they put more wildlife at greater risk of extinction. “This effort to gut protections for endangered and threatened species has the same two features of most Trump administration actions: It’s a gift to industry, and it’s illegal. We’ll see the Trump administration in court about it,” said Drew Caputo, a vice president of litigation for the conservation advocacy group Earthjustice. (AP)

“an invitation for political interference” in the federal government’s decision whether to save a species.

“You have to be really naive and cynical and disingenuous to pretend” otherwise, Hartl said. “That’s the reason that Congress way back … prohibited the Service from doing that. It’s a science question: Is a species going extinct, yes or no?”

Other changes include ending blanket protections for species newly listed as threatened and a revision that conservation groups

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say could block officials from considering the impact on wildlife from climate change, a major and growing threat to many species.

A United Nations report warned in May that more than 1 million plants and animals globally face extinction, some within decades, because of human development, climate change and other threats. The report called the rate of species loss a record.

While the nearly half-centuryold act has been overwhelmingly successful in saving animals and plants that are listed as endangered, battles over some of the listings have been years long and legend, putting northern spotted owls, snail darters and other creatures and their protectors in court and political fights with industries, local opponents and others.

The changes “take a wrecking ball to one of our oldest and most effective environmental laws, the Endangered Species Act,” Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said in a statement. “As we have seen time and time again, no environmental protection — no matter how effective or popular — is safe from this administration.”

WASHINGTON The Trump administration announced Monday it is moving forward with one of its most aggressive steps yet to restrict legal immigration: denying green cards to many migrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance.

Federal law requires those seeking to become permanent residents or gain legal status to prove they won’t be a burden to the U.S., but the new rules detail a broader range of programs that could disqualify them.

The rules target those who entered the U.S. legally and are seeking permanent status.

Under the new rules, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will now weigh whether applicants have received public assistance, along with other factors such as education, income and health to determine whether to grant legal status.

The rules will take effect in mid-October. Ken Cuccinelli, above, acting director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the rule change will ensure those who come to the country don’t become a burden, though they pay taxes.

The Los Angeles-based National Immigration Law Center said it would file a lawsuit, calling the new rules an attempt to redefine the legal immigration system “in order to disenfranchise communities of color and favor the wealthy.”

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Friend of Dayton shooter helped attacker, filing says

Early study results suggest two Ebola treatments work

Markets fall after leader takes hit in primary vote

A friend of the gunman who killed nine people outside a Dayton, Ohio, bar last week told authorities he bought body armor and equipment for the attacker and helped him assemble the weapon used in the rampage, according to a court filing unsealed Monday. These details were included in a criminal complaint charging the friend — Ethan Kollie, 24 — with two counts relating to his purchase and possession of firearms. Benjamin Glassman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, stressed that the charges do not suggest that Kollie knowingly played a role in plotting the attack.

Two of four experimental Ebola drugs being tested in Congo seem to be saving lives, international health authorities announced Monday. The preliminary findings prompted an early halt to a major study on the drugs and a decision to prioritize their use in the African country, where a yearlong outbreak has killed more than 1,800 people.

The two drugs are antibodies that work by blocking the virus. In the study, significantly fewer people died among those given the new drugs than those who received ZMapp, which was used during the West Africa Ebola epidemic several years ago. (AP)

Argentine stocks and currency plummeted on Monday after President Mauricio Macri was snubbed by voters who appeared to hand a resounding primary victory to a populist ticket with his predecessor, Cristina Fernández.

The preliminary results from Sunday’s voting suggest the conservative Macri will face an uphill battle going into general elections in October. About a third of the Argentine companies that trade in U.S. markets lost half of their value Monday, but losses were extreme across the board, with the Merval index dropping by 35% in mid-afternoon trading. (AP)

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The newest National had, not long before, delivered the two most important batted balls in Sunday’s 7-4 victory over the Mets. The veteran admitted it hurt when the Mets expressed interest yet didn’t re-sign him last offseason, but he waved off the thought of any extra motivation in facing a former team.

“I’m just going out there to do my job,” Cabrera said. “I’m just

here to help the team to win.”

The infielder struggled earlier this season, hitting .235 in 93 games, and the Rangers designated him for assignment in early August. The Nationals, whom Cabrera played for in 2014, called.

They upgraded their backup utility infielder spot from Adrián Sanchez, a light-hitting career minor leaguer with no home runs, to Cabrera, a .267 career hitter with pop (12 homers this year).

Now, the Nationals have supplemental power with Howie

Kendrick on the injured list with a hamstring strain. The switchhitter also allows manager Dave Martinez to play matchups, which he did against the Mets’ elite righthanded starters, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom. Martinez also wanted to give starting second baseman Brian Dozier time off while his wife, Renee, is expecting a child soon. And the rest for an eightyear veteran doesn’t hurt.

Still, Martinez said, there’s no timeshare developing.

“Dozier’s been great all year, he’s our second baseman,” the manager said. “I just know that, right now, I wanted to give him a couple days off.”

When the Rangers cut Cabrera, the Mets were reportedly the first team to call. The 33-year-old instead opted to sign with one of the Mets’ most formidable obstacles to making the playoffs. In his first series at Citi Field since, Cabrera nearly single-handedly prevented the sweep on Sunday.

With the bases loaded and two outs in the first, Cabrera hit a sharp groundball to first base.

New York’s Pete Alonso made a diving stop and came up firing to deGrom, the starter running over to cover the base. The throw sailed away and, after another poor throw, Cabrera ended up on third with the Little League triple.

It was the exact style of baseball Martinez had praised the Mets for earlier in the series: put the ball in play and see what happens.

Cabrera won’t be asked to give the Nationals everyday at-bats or the pop Kendrick provided, but if he can be a plug-and-play option, and a versatile bat off the bench, he’ll be a piece the Nationals have needed all year, especially in a tight wild-card race. Like many players, he believes the key is by thinking about the present.

“Every game’s really important for us,” Cabrera said. “[To] go back home with a win is really good for the team.” SAM FORTIER

The Wizards released their 2019-20 schedule on Monday. Their newlook lineup surrounding All-Star guard Bradley Beal, below, while John Wall recovers from injury, may only be on national TV once. Here are the highlights. (TWP) Oct. 30 vs. Houston Washington starts its season on the road, but their home opener will be a big one as 2017 MVP Russell Westbrook joins 2018 MVP James Harden in the Rockets’ lineup.

Nov. 8 vs. Cleveland The Wizards finished 32-50 last season and did not make a splashy summer move.

Although things can change as the season develops, this game on ESPN is the only national exposure on the schedule for now.

April 1 vs. New Orleans No joke, the No. 1 pick Zion Williamson will finally come to town with the Pelicans. By then we’ll all have a better feel for how the unprecedented college player fits in at the professional level — and how the Pelicans look without Anthony Davis.

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Fans prepare for life after Rooney D.C. UNITED When he immigrated to the U.S. from Guatemala in 2002, Israel Lopez got a job in Washington and became a D.C. United fan.

His note to self: watch United on TV and attend matches, whether the club was sliding or surging.

He doesn’t wear a jersey with a player’s name because he doesn’t want to root merely for one player. He wants to cheer the whole team. That won’t change, he said, when star Wayne Rooney departs after this season. He had been signed through 2021.

“No matter what, I will come here and enjoy myself,” said Lopez on Sunday night, wearing a United cap and polo. “I am all

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D.C. United’s ticket sales are up nearly 400% since 2017, the team says.

about D.C.” Rooney’s arrival last summer sent fans scurrying to buy tickets. His impending departure for English club Derby County has them disappointed, many fans said Sunday at United’s 2-1 win over the L.A. Galaxy. But the No. 9 Rooney jerseys still dotted the stands at Audi Field.

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Ticket sales are up nearly 400% since 2017, said Andy Bush, United’s chief revenue officer. He attributed the bump to a number of factors, including Rooney’s arrival, the team’s postseason run late last year and the longawaited opening of Audi Field.

“For us, it’s simple: make Audi Field the best experience we

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Markgraf will become GM for women’s national team A person with knowledge of the hiring said former defender Kate Markgraf has been named general manager of the U.S. women’s national team. Markgraf will oversee the search for a new coach after Jill Ellis’ planned departure in October.

Markgraf, 42, played club soccer for the Boston Breakers of the WUSA and the Chicago Red Stars of the WPS. She joins Earnie Stewart in a general manager role under U.S. Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro.

Stewart was named GM of the men’s national team last year. (AP)

can,” Bush said. “That’s the environment. Wayne didn’t play [Sunday night], and the energy in the building was incredible.

We had the biggest Sunday we’ve ever had.”

Indeed, Sunday’s crowd of 20,006 was United’s second sellout of the season; the other was for LAFC’s visit in April.

Season-ticket holders Heather and Rick Gaona said they do not believe Rooney leaving will have a profound effect on the team’s identity. If anything, Heather Gaona said, she thinks Rooney’s departure will open the door for a younger prospect or two.

“He reinvigorated the team and the fan base,” she said.

Then Rick chimed in. “It’s sad, the departure, but it won’t affect us,” he said. “One man doesn’t make a team.” MATTHEW GUTIERREZ

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NCAA quickly walks back unpopular ‘Rich Paul Rule’ A week after introducing them, the NCAA is backtracking on new certification standards requiring agents representing studentathletes to have bachelor’s degrees.

The widely criticized requirement was dubbed the “Rich Paul Rule” in reference to LeBron James’ agent, who does not have a college degree.

The NCAA said Monday it would amend the standards for agents currently certified with the NBA players’ association. (AP)

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Juice is OK, but only in small doses

Can a diet hack your hormones?

PERSPECTIVE Search for “hormone diet” and there are more than 30 recent books on the topic. The authors allege that the reason people over 35 struggle to lose weight doesn’t have to do with eating too much or not exercising enough. They say it’s your hormones working against you.

According to these books, you can “trick your metabolism” and “feed your thyroid.” They claim that all you need to do is eat the right foods and take the right supplements, and you’ll unlock the secret to lasting weight loss.

But is there any evidence these diets work?

Some hormone diets are sold at weight-loss centers, created by self-proclaimed wellness experts who have no recognized credentials. They claim to promote rapid weight loss by affecting hormones such as insulin, which moves sugar from your blood into your cells; cortisol, the so-called stress hormone; sex hormones such as testosterone and estrogen; and thyroid hormones.

Some of these diets ban the usual suspects: sugar and

sweetened foods and beverages, grains, potatoes, beans, milk and most fruit. But do hormone diets lead to quick and easy weight loss?

“I don’t know of any diet that will change hormone levels in a way that these hormone changes will be instrumental in promoting weight loss,” Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, a professor of medicine at Tulane University’s medical school, said in an email.

Why is the hormone story such a complicated one? Hormones are chemical messengers that coordinate or control processes throughout your body. There are at least 60 different hormones in humans, and we’re only beginning to understand how what we eat affects them.

That means that diets that claim to help you “hack your hormones” for weight loss don’t have the evidence to back it up.

Plus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a healthy rate of weight loss is 1 to 2 pounds per week, which would be 4 to 8 pounds per month.

Diets that promise faster

How to promote hormonal wellness We know certain ways of eating help keep our hormones in balance. Here are a few tips. C.B. Maintain a healthy weight: Being at a healthy weight is key to balancing levels of several hormones, but a complicated diet isn’t the answer.

Focus on diet quality: Reach for whole foods that are rich in fiber, vitamins and minerals, and stay away from fried foods, fatty meats and highly processed foods.

Add in good fats: Healthy fats like in olive oil, nuts and oily fish trigger the release of hormones that help you feel satiated.

Have protein-rich foods: Eating foods high in protein lowers levels of ghrelin, a hormone that makes you feel hungry. Aim to get 20 to 30 grams of protein at each meal.

Keep moving: Exercise and resistance training have been shown to positively affect insulin levels and balance testosterone levels.

Get plenty of sleep: Getting eight hours of sleep can positively impact cortisol, leptin and insulin levels.

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Programs promising rapid weight loss don’t have the evidence to back that up

weight loss aren’t promoting healthy, sustainable changes, and often lead to weight regain.

And yo-yo dieting is hard on your heart — and self-esteem.

(An important note: Hormone diets are promoted for weight loss and are different from the approach used to manage hormone levels in individuals who have a true hormonal imbalance.

If you think your hormones may be off, it’s important to see an endocrinologist. Hormone imbalances are medical conditions that often require medications.)

The bottom line is that hormone diets are a repackaging of other weight-loss diets that don’t have enough evidence to support their claims.

“When it comes to weight loss, there isn’t just one piece of the puzzle to focus on,” says Suneil Koliwad, an associate professor of endocrinology at the University of California at San Francisco Diabetes Center. “Just because we can measure hormone levels doesn’t mean we can adjust them in a desired direction.” CHRISTY BRISSETTE

There are reasons to be concerned about how juice operates as a sugar-conveyance system. An 8-ounce serving of juice and cola both contain about 30 grams of sugar on average — that’s almost 8 teaspoons. Plus, most commercial juice eliminates wholesome fruit parts, such as skin and pulp. And goodbye, fiber. Smoothie blends made from whole fruit may have a gram or two of fiber, but just as much sugar as any other juice. It’s better to eat whole fruit instead — to get more fiber and cut down on sugar. But there is one bright spot: Fruit juice does offer some nutrients. Studies show that drinking no more than 5 ounces a day is linked to a lower risk of heart disease and stroke. So a small amount of fruit juice seems to be OK. (TWP)

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Is he like this with other big decisions? If so, what typically works as a fire starter?

If this is out of character for him, it’s likely that he really just doesn’t want to move. Whether you are able to push through that resistance depends entirely on what his reasons for it are, and how much wiggle room there is between each of your cost-benefit analyses. Some marriages are fine with (or even grateful for) one spouse starting a big process solo,

to make the road more clear and less intimidating for the other: talking to a Realtor, researching neighborhoods, going to open houses. Whereas in other marriages, that would be considered a foul, if both partners aren’t equally ready to take the plunge together from step one. It’s time for you to get real with him. Is he on board in reality or just in theory? And what would it take for him to get going right now — roof shenanigans be darned?

Do you have any sense of where he is with things? That seems the most important question. We can hypothesize for months about what others would think, wax poetic about the perils of the “rebound” or calculate odds on the friendship tanking — but we don’t yet know what is actually a possibility at this point. That matters not just because there is no “dating” if it is just you (otherwise, it’s called “eating tapas and chatting with the waitstaff”) but also because the most important factor to determine what others would think — whether it is just a rebound, whether your relationship is framed as a betrayal of his past marriage, and whether the friendship would be in jeopardy — is him.

You’re grown-ups; I promise you can talk about this stuff.

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Equal opportunity: ‘Sketch Show’ has a full range of gags A new HBO series has a deceptively simple title.

Really, just a label: “A Black Lady Sketch Show.”

Yet those few bland words are a reminder of the radical nature of this program. In the history of television comedy, black women are often invisible women. “Saturday Night Live” had only four black women in its cast from 1975 to 2013. In our multicultural

world, the idea of a show written by and performed by African American women shouldn’t be groundbreaking.

But it is.

“A Black Lady Sketch Show” (11 p.m. on Fridays) was created, of course, by a black lady: Robin Thede (one of the rare African American women in the late-night talk show club, though her BET show was canceled last year). Along with Thede, the main writerperformers are Ashley Nicole Black, a former correspondent

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Thede and her crew must have felt pressure to prove that black ladies can do a sketch show as clever, if not better, than the many “White Man Sketch Shows” out there. Only if they were feeling stressed, you’d never know it. The ladies, who clearly are all BFFs, are effortlessly, amazingly funny. They poke fun at issues specific to black women, like the care and maintenance of hair (“unnecessary pain is an important point of being a black woman”). They also

take sharp aim at racial issues: When the four black ladies find out they’re the last people alive on earth, Dennis rejoices, “We don’t have any mediocre white people getting promoted over us.”

But their humor transcends gender and race. As a sideburned groom in oversize sneakers, Thede has trouble saying, “I do.” It comes out: “Don’t I?” Then the character raps to the tune of the wedding march: “Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah — damn, we good.”

And those black lady writers know how to end a skit with a great twist. The bride has her own vow issues. The phrase “for better or for worse” prompts her to wonder: “I mean, does anyone pick worse?”

Read Marc’s previous columns at washingtonpost.com/muse.

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BOOK REVIEW Gymnastics is an exercise in cognitive dissonance, with a linebacker’s grit packaged in a sparkly, spangly leotard.

For decades in U.S. gymnastics, there was a more secret vile contradiction: the Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor who treated thousands of young athletes but was, in fact, “the most prolific sex criminal in American sports history.”

This is how Abigail Pesta, author of “The Girls: An AllAmerican Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down,” introduces Larry Nassar.

At his sentencing hearing, more than 150 survivors directly addressed Nassar, who was given 40 to 175 years in prison for his battery of sex crimes.

The Nassar case has made headlines for years, and Pesta’s book, which came out last week, aims to disclose what is not already known about the scandal through interviews with 25 survivors. In this effort, she is only partly successful.

Although Pesta’s reporting gives a damning portrait of the culture that aided and abetted Nassar, she rarely steps back to put the story in a broader context. In some ways, her writing mirrors the cloistered space in which these women were groomed and abused, where there is no world beyond the walls of the gym. JESSICA M. GOLDSTEIN (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

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2008: A man barges into the Arkansas Democratic headquarters in Little Rock and opens fire, killing state party chairman Bill Gwatney before speeding off in a pickup. (Police later shot and killed the gunman, Timothy Dale Johnson.)

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“Bachelor in Paradise” alumni Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon got married Sunday at a church in Rhode Island, according to People.

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Our experienced and compassionate team will also support your overall health goals by streamlining your access to additional Doctors Community Health System programs: breast health, digestive disease care, orthopedic services, surgical services, diabetes care and many others.

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Schedule an appointment today. Also, visit us at DCHweb.org.