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Who’s a good dog? The American Kennel Club says there are now a million. It announced last week that Fiona, a Bernese mountain dog, is its 1 millionth “canine good citizen.” Owner Nora Pavone had a reason to pursue the mark of canine comportment: Fiona’s job is comforting people at the Pavone family’s Brooklyn, N.Y., funeral home. “We wanted her to have proper manners when she’s meeting with so many different people,” Pavone said. (AP)

A Sturgis, S.D., woman who had triplets didn’t know she was pregnant until she went to the hospital with what she thought were kidney stones. KOTATV reports Dannette Giltz gave birth to healthy triplets on Aug. 10. Giltz says despite having two other children, she didn’t realize she was 34 weeks pregnant. She assumed her pains were kidney stones, which she’s had before. Doctors told her she was actually in labor — with three babies. (AP)

A piglet born last week at the Iowa State Fair was touched by royalty. The 2019 pork queen for the Iowa Pork Producers Association, Gracie Greiner, kept her tiara on as she reached inside a laboring sow and removed the piglet at the Animal Learning Center. Greiner, 18, lives near Washington, Iowa, where her family breeds pigs. She told The Des Moines Register that “helping pull pigs has come to be one of my favorite parts of the process.” (AP)

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‘An opportunity to grow’ THE DISTRICT The daily countdown to the start of school has reached single digits — and Digital Pioneers Academy is in shambles. Desks are buried in soot. Newly installed floors have been ripped up. A stench of smoke and cleaning chemicals lingers in hallways from a fire that erupted last Tuesday.

The first day of school — Aug. 26 — was supposed to mark a second beginning for public charter middle school Digital Pioneers.

The D.C. school, which opened last year with a sixth-grade class and operated out of the classrooms of a church in Southeast, was set to start the new year in a building near Capitol Hill.

A team had spent the summer renovating the building. On Aug. 8, teachers excitedly moved desks and classroom materials into the building.

But days later, on Aug. 13, a fire broke out on the top story, incinerating a classroom. No one was in the building, and city fire officials do not suspect arson.

“It’s a lot,” said Digital

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Workers are pulling long shifts to prepare a Capitol Hill-area building for Digital Pioneers Academy after a fire destroyed a classroom last week.

Pioneers’ founder, Mashea Ashton. “I thought, ‘It was one classroom. We can get this fixed, mop up and keep going.’ But there’s water damage and smoke damage.”

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Ashton said she was informed that the damage could exceed $250,000. She has insurance but is unsure of what it will cover. Dozens of workers are pulling long

shifts, cleaning soot off walls, draining water and rebuilding the damaged classroom and roof.

Ashton suspects the school will have to remain for the first few days at its old location at East Washington Heights Baptist Church. But that brings challenges of its own, because the school is expected to double in size — it will now have sixth- and seventh-graders — and there is not enough room at the church for all the students to sit at desks.

Ashton said she will plan team building for the first days of school. Then, there will be a second first day of school on the new campus after Labor Day. The routine stresses of the first day of school have been compounded by the fire, but Ashton said she is drawing from the lessons she instills in her students. Community members have showered the school with offers of help.

“Whenever there’s a challenge or problem, we tell our scholars to think about our values,” Ashton said. “One of our values is growth, which is that failure and difficulty is just feedback. And this is definitely difficulty — an opportunity to grow.” PERRY STEIN

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Red panda triplets born at Virginia Zoo The Virginia Zoo in Norfolk announced Monday that red panda triplets were born two months ago and are thriving in a climate-controlled den that’s out of sight from the public. Zoo veterinarian Colleen Clabbers said red panda triplets are a “unique situation” for the endangered species from Asia.

But she said the mother is “doing a great job.” The zoo is auctioning naming rights in support of red panda conservation. (AP) REGION

Hundreds of animals adopted over weekend More than 815 animals were adopted in the D.C. area on Saturday through Clear the Shelters, NBC 4 reported. Clear the Shelters is an annual day when shelters, partnering with NBC and Telemundo stations, waive or reduce adoption fees. The Humane Rescue Alliance tweeted Monday that more than 150 pets were adopted Saturday in D.C. thanks to the event. (EXPRESS)

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Third family sues school over alleged sex abuses Victims say employees Administrators fired Latin American Montessori failed to shield students The Bilingual Public Charter School’s from harm by teacher principal, executive director and a student psychologist lost their jobs after the school’s board of directors commissioned an outside investigation into the handling of concerns about teacher Manuel Garcia Fernandez. In a letter sent to parents in November 2017, the board said “administrators in charge failed to respond appropriately.” (TWP)

last week in D.C., does not say if the student involved with the most recent lawsuit was among those Fernandez was convicted of sexually assaulting.

The school’s attorney, John McGavin, said Friday only that the case has been “resolved.”

School employees had “the authority and ability to investigate and take meaningful corrective action to end or prevent the sexual assaults, exploitation, discrimination and harassment, but failed to do so,” per the lawsuit.

In the lawsuit, the student and the student’s mother said put his

D.C. TEST RESULTS

The percentage of students passing the English standardized exam in the District is gradually growing, according to results released Monday, but progress in math proved more modest. The results for the 2018-19 academic year underscore the challenges administrators and teachers face in efforts to bridge the city’s achievement gap between white students and students of color. City leaders celebrated the progress while acknowledging that improvements are needed, particularly in the approach to math. (TWP)

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Temperature ties D.C. record as heat persists A record high was tied in D.C. on Monday afternoon as the temperature reached at least 98 degrees, tying the mark from 2002. That also makes it the second-hottest day of the year. It’s the first record high in the city since Sept. 4 last year, when it hit 95 degrees. This is the first record high in June, July or August in D.C. since June 2017. D.C. has had 47 days this year with temperatures above 90 degrees, compared with a year-todate average of 30 and a yearly average of 36. This year’s number of 90-degree days has surpassed 2018, which had 45. (TWP)

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hands down the child’s pants and also touched the student’s genitals over their pants.

The lawsuit accuses the school of failing to properly investigate and fire Fernandez after other teachers at the school reported concerns about the educator’s interactions with students and “his failure to observe appropriate boundaries.”

One teacher reported that Fernandez had students sit on his lap, according to the lawsuit.

The school, according to court documents, created a climate “that tolerated sexual assault, exploitation, abuse” and disregarded reports of sexual misconduct.

The student and the mother said in the lawsuit the school did not notify parents when Fernandez was investigated by police in 2015, and they also cite the school’s alleged failure to ask parents to hand over their children’s cellphones as evidence.

The 2015 investigation did not result in charges, and Fernandez remained as the child’s teacher until the end of that school year.

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THE DISTRICT The family of a third student has filed a $30 million lawsuit against a respected D.C. charter school in federal court, alleging school employees failed to protect the child from a teacher who sexually abused students.

Manuel Garcia Fernandez is accused in the lawsuit of sexually abusing the student while the child was in fourth and fifth grades at Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School, from 2013 until 2015.

Two other families earlier sued the school — widely known by the acronym LAMB — alleging not enough was done to protect their children from Fernandez; they reached a settlement out of court, legal records show.

Fernandez was criminally charged, convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting six of his students on campus from 2015 to 2017. The civil lawsuit, filed

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Lawyers for a Maryland man whose murder conviction was chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial” are asking the Supreme Court to step into the case.

Lawyers for defendant Adnan Syed say in court papers Monday that the justices should order a new trial and reverse a court ruling against him. Syed claims his trial lawyer violated his constitutional right to competent representation because she failed to investigate an alibi witness. (AP) BALTIMORE COUNTY

Lawmakers resign seats for county executive jobs Two Maryland lawmakers are leaving the House of Delegates to join the staff of Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski. The county executive announced Monday that Del. Steve Lafferty and Del. Eric Bromwell are taking posts in his administration. Lafferty, a Democratic delegate since 2007, will serve as chief sustainability officer. Bromwell, a Democratic delegate since 2003, will work on opioid strategy. (AP)

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The number of native mussels that will be introduced to the Anacostia River as part of a new conservation initiative from the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment, according to a Curbed report. The initiative is the result of a $400,000 grant to the Anacostia Watershed Society, which aims to energize restoration of mussels and educate the public about their importance to the ecosystem.

The agency says the mussels help clean rivers and allow other species to thrive. (EXPRESS)

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A medical examiner has ruled that the death of a woman found in the Potomac River behind the wheel of her SUV was accidental. Barbara Bushkin, 72, of Fairfax County was found dead in early May after her vehicle left the Theodore Roosevelt Island parking lot and entered the river, authorities said. It is not known how or why the vehicle went into the river, authorities said. D.C. police said they had no additional details to offer. “This was a tragic accident,” Arthur Bushkin, Barbara’s husband, said of the findings, which were released earlier this month. “It’s an outcome that I would prefer never occurred.” (TWP)

A funding stalemate between Maryland and West Virginia could lead to reduced MARC train service on the Brunswick line, according to a report in Maryland Matters.

Maryland’s transportation agency intends to hold hearings next month on plans to cut four of six scheduled trains from D.C. to and from West Virginia. Maryland observers are concerned about parking and traffic challenges if West Virginia commuters travel by car to Maryland to catch trains to D.C. Maryland says it needs $3.4 million from West Virginia to maintain existing service, but West Virginia has yet to budge. (EXPRESS)

The Gloucester County School Board said Friday it intends to appeal a recent federal court decision that sided with former student Gavin Grimm on the issue of his school’s policy on transgender bathroom use. The announcement follows an Aug. 9 ruling by U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen that said the board’s bathroom policy violated Grimm’s constitutional rights and other federal protections. The policy required transgender students to use private restrooms or bathrooms that correspond with their biological gender. The board said it was meant to protect students’ privacy. (AP)

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Hero moment: Batman superfan springs to action superhero would do. He leapt into action — or actually, limped; he has a bad leg.

The woman had collapsed near a passenger who not only has superhero aspirations, but knows what it’s like to be in medical trouble.

“My first stroke was in South Bend, Ind.,” Chay said. He was 30, attending a business meeting at a hotel when he felt dizzy and had a hard time understanding what people were saying. “It wasn’t so much that I couldn’t understand each word. I had an inability to comprehend the words together,” he said.

The next morning, he went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with a congenital clotting disorder that can momentarily cut off the supply of blood to the brain.

He’d mostly recovered when, six years later, he had another stroke that left him with the limp. The fingers of his right hand are curled, but he can use them to hold his phone while he taps it with his left.

When the woman fell, Chay said, “I was really concerned. I know that if you have a stroke, time is of the essence. I’ve been in a situation like that — stricken, disoriented and unable to physically support myself. “‘I asked if she needed help and she said, ‘Yes, I think I need some help. I feel weak and lightheaded.’”

A passenger said to pull the emergency cord, but by the time Chay limped over, the train had pulled into Bethesda.

Chay told the conductor over

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KERY MURAKAMI (EXPRESS)

On a Red Line train headed downtown from Shady Grove around 7 a.m. one day last month, a woman suddenly slumped forward in her seat.

And then she fell to the floor.

At first, no one got up to help.

But on Metro, fortune can bring random lives together in just the right way.

The woman, who was in her 40s and wore what appeared to be a government ID badge, had been seated facing the back of the train. Across the aisle, also facing backward, was Eugene Chay, a 47-year-old attorney who’s so fascinated with superheroes that a Captain America shield hangs in his dining room. Batman has always been a favorite, he said, because, like Chay, Batman has no superpowers.

As it happened, that morning he was tapping a novel he’s writing into his smartphone with his good hand, as he usually does on the half-hour ride from Twinbrook to Farragut North. It’s a story about a teen’s strained relationship with his parents, but “fantastic mental powers come into play,” Chay said.

He was writing about superpowers when, from the corner of his eye, he saw the woman fall. “I looked over and her eyes were open on the ground,” he said. “No one else went over to attend to her.”

He thinks others initially didn’t get up because they figured somebody else would help. But that’s not what a

Eugene Chay types a superhero novel on his smartphone on the Metro.

“I’ve been in a situation like that — stricken, disoriented and unable to physically support myself.”

EUGENE CHAY, a Metro rider who sprung into action in July when a woman collapsed in front of him

the intercom that somebody had collapsed. He and two other passengers helped the woman off and to a bench on the platform, where she had to lie down. She didn’t have diabetes, she said. But when the station manager gave her some Skittles she said she felt a little better.

After the paramedics arrived, the woman thanked Chay. She said he should get to work.

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He hopes all she needed was some food. But he doesn’t know what happened.

“I’ve been hoping to see her,” he said. He hasn’t.

No, he said, he doesn’t feel like a superhero, though he joked on Twitter that those who know him would say his jumping in is an expression of “my inner desire to be a superhero.”

Something else stuck out to Chay about that day: He was dressed for the part. It was casual Friday and he was wearing a T-shirt his wife, Elisabeth, saw online and thought he had to have.

The shirt shows a bowl of ramen. Slurping from it, with long strings of noodles hanging from his mouth, is Batman.

As in, Batman and Ramen.

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THE DISTRICT A proposal for a new pedestrian and bike bridge over the Anacostia River has pitted area rowers against the region’s bikers and pedestrians.

The new $13.1 million crossing to be built in Northeast D.C. will connect Kenilworth Park and neighborhoods east of the river to the National Arboretum, which attracts about 500,000 visitors each year.

The project is designed to facilitate bike commuting across the Anacostia River, particularly for residents east of the river, where there is little bike or pedestrian infrastructure.

Cyclists and their advocates support the bridge as a key piece of the 28-mile Anacostia River Trail, which will connect users to areas including Nationals Park and the Washington Navy Yard.

But a vocal group of rowers say the proposed structure will create hazards on the water. The bridge will add obstructions the rowers say will challenge novice rowers and make it difficult for boats to overtake other vessels.

The Washington Rowing School is lobbying the city and the National Park Service, which own the land, to hold off on construction or make significant design changes.

Design is expected to wrap up next year, officials said.

Construction is expected to begin in 2021 and will take between 12 and 18 months, according to DDOT. LUZ LAZO (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Pentagon tests missile that used to be banned MILITARY The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Pentagon said.

The test off the coast of California on Sunday marked the resumption of an arms competition that some analysts worry could increase U.S.-Russian tensions.

The Trump administration has said it remains interested in useful arms control but questions Moscow’s willingness to adhere to its treaty commitments.

The Pentagon said it tested a modified ground-launched version of a Navy Tomahawk cruise missile, which was launched from San Nicolas Island and accurately struck its target after flying more than 310 miles. The missile was armed with a conventional, not nuclear, warhead.

Defense officials had said last March that this missile likely would have a range of about 620 miles and that it might be ready for deployment within 18 months.

The missile would have violated the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987, which banned all types of missiles with ranges between 310 miles and 3,410 miles. The U.S. and Russia withdrew from

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Launch comes after U.S., Russia abandoned 1987 weapons treaty

The Pentagon launched a version of the Tomahawk missile on Sunday.

the treaty on Aug. 2, prompted by what the administration said was Russia’s unwillingness to stop violating the treaty’s terms.

The newly tested cruise missile recalls a nuclear-armed U.S. weapon that was deployed in several European NATO countries in the 1980s, along with Pershing 2 ground-based ballistic missiles, in response to a buildup of Soviet SS-20 missiles targeting Western Europe. With the signing of the treaty, those missiles were withdrawn and destroyed.

In addition to the land-variant of the Tomahawk missile, the Pentagon has said it also intends to begin testing, probably before the end of this year, an INF-range

ballistic missile with a range of roughly 1,864 miles to 2,485 miles.

Both are to be non-nuclear.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said this month that he hopes the Pentagon can develop and deploy INF-range missiles “sooner rather than later,” but no specific timeline has been announced.

He disputed the notion that abandoning the INF treaty will spark an arms race.

“I don’t see an arms race happening here,” he told reporters on the day Washington and Moscow withdrew from the treaty.

“Russia has been racing, if anybody, to develop these systems in violation of the treaty, not us.”

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Lethal disease is ravaging Florida palms Florida’s iconic palm trees are under attack from a fatal disease that turns them to dried crisps in months, with no chance for recovery once they become ill. Spread by a rice-sized, plant-hopping insect, lethal bronzing has gone from a small infestation on Florida’s Gulf Coast to a nearly statewide problem in just over a decade. Lethal bronzing is transmitted solely through the saliva of the Haplaxius crudus, a tiny winged insect sometimes called a treehopper. As an infected tree dies, its fronds and central spear leaf transform from green to bronze as it succumbs in about six months. (AP)

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One-legged man finishes 9,000-mile trek

A Venezuelan man who lost his left leg in a traffic accident has walked 9,000 miles to the bottom tip of South America to inspire his daughter and others to pursue their dreams despite challenges. Yeslie Aranda, 57, left his Venezuelan hometown last year with a backpack, an aluminum prosthesis and $30. On Saturday, he braved freezing temperatures and marched into Ushuaia, Argentina, which is known as the world’s southernmost city. (AP) Airstrikes target Turkish army convoy inside Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, killing 3 civilians

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by U.S. heads to Greece An Iranian supertanker with $130 million worth of light crude oil that the U.S. suspects is tied to a sanctioned organization left Gibraltar and was heading east into the Mediterranean Sea on Monday. The Adrian Darya 1 set course for Kalamata, Greece, with an estimated arrival on Aug. 25. The vessel left Gibraltar late Sunday after having been detained for a month in the British overseas territory for allegedly attempting to breach EU sanctions on Syria. (AP) TRADE

U.S. extends reprieve of tech sales to Huawei The Trump administration has extended a limited reprieve on U.S. technology sales to Huawei.

The U.S. government blacklisted the Chinese technology giant in May, deeming it a national security risk. At the time, the U.S. exempted a narrow list of products and services. That exemption would have expired Monday, but the Commerce Department extended it for 90 days to give smaller U.S. internet and wireless companies that rely on Huawei more time to transition from its products. (AP)

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The percentage of business economists who predict the U.S. economy will enter a recession by the end of 2021, according to a survey released Monday by the National Association for Business Economics. This is a slight decrease from the 77% of economists who believed the same in a February survey. In addition, 62% of the economists surveyed believe current monetary policy is “about right,” down from 74% in February. (AP)

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CEOs demote shareholders U.S. business leaders say maximizing profits is no longer top priority BUSINESS “The shareholder comes first” has for years been the mantra of the Business Roundtable, a group that represents the most powerful CEOs in America.

But new principles on the role of a corporation released Monday imply a foundational shift, putting shareholders on more equal footing with others who have an interest in a corporation to some degree — a group that includes workers, suppliers, customers and, essentially, society at large.

“We know that many Americans are struggling. Too often

hard work is not rewarded, and not enough is being done for workers to adjust to the rapid pace of change in the economy.

If companies fail to recognize that the success of our system is dependent on inclusive longterm growth, many will raise legitimate questions about the role of large employers in our society,” the statement reads.

It’s an implicit recognition that corporations have a larger responsibility than a return on investment and also that more Americans are living under duress today. Wage gains have been nonexistent to moderate for years.

Economic research as well as government data point to an era in which Americans do more for less.

“The American dream is alive,

“Americans deserve an economy that allows each person to succeed through hard work and creativity and to lead a life of meaning and dignity.”

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but fraying,” Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan who also chairs the Business Roundtable, said in a statement.

A Federal Reserve Bank of

St. Louis analysis found corporate profits have far outpaced employee compensation since the early 2000s.

“This new statement better reflects the way corporations can and should operate today,” said Alex Gorsky, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson.

The Business Roundtable’s principle of purpose has historically been rooted in the words of economist Milton Friedman, who argued the sole purpose of a corporation was to maximize shareholder value.

The group in the past has fought antitrust legislation, backed favorable tax cuts and successfully lobbied to dilute restrictions on executive compensation. MICHELLE CHAPMAN (AP)

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Thousands flee ‘monster’ wildfire in Canary Islands

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The value of nearly 4 tons of marijuana that was found last week in a shipment of jalapenos at a cargo facility in San Diego. A Customs and Border Protection K-9 unit alerted officers to the shipment of peppers Thursday. Authorities seized more than 10,600 pounds of marijuana in a shipment of plastic auto parts at the port earlier in the week. (AP)

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GRAN CANARIA | A helicopter operates over a major wildfire Monday in Spain’s Canary Islands. The out-ofcontrol fire threw flames 160 feet into the air on Monday, forcing emergency workers to evacuate more than 9,000 people, authorities said. The blaze — described by officials as “a monster” — was racing across parched woodlands into Tamadaba Natural Park, regarded as one of the jewels of Gran Canaria.

Turkey removes three elected, pro-Kurdish mayors from office, replacing them with government appointees

Doctors suspect vaping behind lung illnesses HEALTH As many as 50 people in at least six states have come down with breathing illnesses that may be linked to e-cigarettes or other vaping products.

No deaths have been reported, but a few have come close.

Some patients have likened onset of the illness to a heart attack, and others to the flu.

Symptoms have included shortness of breath, fatigue, chest pain and vomiting. Doctors say the illnesses resemble an inhalation injury, with the body apparently reacting to a caustic substance that someone breathed in.

Dr. Melodi Pirzada, a pediatric lung specialist at NYU Winthrop Hospital, said she’s seen two cases this summer — one of them an 18-year-old who almost died.

“We’re all baffled,” Pirzada said.

The only common factor was they had been vaping, she said.

Wisconsin health officials said they’ve seen 15 confirmed cases, with another 15 illnesses under investigation. New York state officials are investigating 10, Illinois has seen at least six, and Minnesota doctors last week said they have four more. California and Indiana have also been looking into reported illnesses.

Health officials have only been counting certain lung illnesses in which the person had vaped within three months.

Most are teens, but some adult cases have also been reported.

No single vaping device or liquid is associated with the illnesses.

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Egyptian court sentences six to death on terrorism charges

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Next target: Magazines As mass shootings rise, experts say high-capacity devices should be the focus POLITICS It took a shooter all of 32 seconds to spray 41 rounds outside a popular bar in Dayton, Ohio, this month, an attack that killed nine people and injured 27. A lightning-fast response from nearby officers prevented a far higher toll: When police shot him dead, the killer still had dozens of bullets to go in his double-drum, 100-round magazine.

The use of such high-capacity magazines was banned in Ohio up until 2015, when a littlenoticed change in state law legalized the devices, part of an overall rollback in gun control measures that has been mirrored in states nationwide.

With the pace of mass shootings accelerating — and their tolls dramatically increasing — criminologists and reform advocates are more intently focused on limiting access to such accessories as one of the most potent ways to curb the epidemic.

Restrictions on the capacity of bullet magazines will not stop mass shootings, but they could make the attacks less deadly, giving potential targets precious seconds to escape or fight back while the shooter reloads,

experts say.

“The high-capacity magazine is what takes it to a whole other level of carnage,” said David Chipman, who served 25 years as a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “It’s the primary driver for why we’re seeing more mass shootings more regularly.”

Chipman said banning the devices “does seem like a logical policy choice if you’re trying to stop a killer from turning into a killing machine.”

The odds that Congress or state legislatures will act still appear relatively remote. Powerful gun rights lobbying groups, including the National Rifle Association, vigorously oppose high-capacity magazine bans or limits, arguing that criminals will find a way to obtain the devices regardless of the law, just as they do with weapons.

A man in Philadelphia held police at bay for seven hours last Wednesday with an arsenal of weapons and ammunition that, as a felon, he should not have been able to have at all. He shot and injured six police officers before surrendering, and authorities have said it was a “miracle”

Three attacks, 101 dead High-capacity magazines have little utility in hunting, law enforcement or self-defense. The devices, which are readily available online and in stores, have been used in more than half of all mass shootings in recent years, including especially deadly attacks in Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Texas, and Parkland, Fla. Taken together, those three attacks from October 2017 to February 2018 claimed 101 lives and injured 459 people at an outdoor concert, in a church and inside a high school. (TWP)

that no one died in the shootout.

Still, a growing body of evidence suggests that past federal and current state-level restrictions on magazine capacity have been effective. Magazines with a capacity of more than 10 bullets were prohibited from 1994 to 2004 under federal law that included a prohibition on assault weapons. But since the law lapsed, gun crimes involving high-capacity semiautomatic weapons have increased markedly, research conducted

by George Mason University criminologist Christopher S.

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Boston University professor Michael Siegel has found that states limiting the size of magazines are less likely to experience a mass shooting. Nine states and the District of Columbia have such bans on the books, with most limiting magazines to 10 bullets.

President Trump has expressed a willingness to work with Democrats on background checks. But he has said there is not sufficient “political appetite” for any bans — despite the fact that polls show a large majority of the public in favor.

Democrats on the presidential campaign trail have said they would prioritize the magazine issue if elected.

“Who in God’s name needs a weapon that has 100 rounds?” former vice president and Democratic poll leader Joe Biden asked in Iowa. “For God’s sake.”

Whether anyone needs them, many people evidently want them. The NRA estimates that more than 250 million magazines with a capacity of 11 rounds or greater are in circulation. Of those, 100 million have a capacity of at least 30 rounds. GRIFF WITTE

HONG KONG Twitter said Monday it was suspending nearly a thousand Chinese accounts and banning advertising from state-owned media companies, citing a “significant state-backed information operation” related to protests in Hong Kong.

The accounts were part of a larger network of roughly 200,000 accounts that were proactively deleted before they were substantially active, Twitter said in a blog. That’s despite Twitter being blocked in China, the company added.

“Overall, these accounts were deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong,” Twitter said.

Separately, Facebook said Monday it was removing five Facebook accounts, seven pages and three groups after being tipped off by Twitter. Facebook said about 15,500 accounts followed one or more of those pages, while 2,200 accounts joined at least one of the groups.

This is the first time the company has taken action against China for coordinated inauthentic behavior, it said.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters have been demonstrating for an autonomous Hong Kong over the past two months. Hong Kong police have deployed unprecedented force, including in residential neighborhoods, and made more than 700 arrests to discourage further unrest. MARIE C. BACA AND

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The Trump administration is extending a ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea for another year. A State Department notice released Monday says the ban will remain in place until Aug. 31, 2020, unless it is revoked. The ban was imposed in September 2017 after the death in North Korea of American student Otto Warmbier. (AP)

Attorney General William Barr announced Monday that he is replacing the head of the Bureau of Prisons. The move comes after the death of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in federal custody. Hugh Hurwitz, the agency’s acting head, will be replaced by Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, who served as its director from 1992 to 2003.

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After 5 years, officer fired in Garner death NYPD: Pantaleo used chokehold in killing that fueled movement NEW YORK After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of the black man whose dying cries of “I can’t breathe” fueled a national debate over race and police use of force.

Police Commissioner James O’Neill said he fired Daniel Pantaleo, who is white, based on a recent recommendation of a department disciplinary judge. He said it was clear Pantaleo “can no longer effectively serve as a New York City police officer.”

“None of us can take back our decisions,” O’Neill said, “especially when they lead to the death of another human being.”

Asked whether Mayor Bill de Blasio forced his hand, O’Neill said the dismissal was his choice.

“This is the decision that the police commissioner makes,” he said, calling Eric Garner’s death an “irreversible tragedy” that “must have a consequence.”

The president of the police union, Patrick Lynch, accused O’Neill of choosing “politics and his own self-interest over the police officers he claims to lead.”

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Daniel Pantaleo was fired from the NYPD over the 2014 death of Eric Garner.

Lynch urged police officers to “proceed with the utmost caution in this new reality, in which they may be deemed ‘reckless’ just for doing their job.”

Video of the confrontation led to years of protests and calls by black activists and liberal politicians for Pantaleo to lose his job.

City officials had long insisted they could not take action until criminal investigations were over.

A state grand jury declined to indict Pantaleo in 2014. But federal authorities kept a civil rights investigation open for five years before announcing last month they would not bring charges.

Pantaleo’s lawyer has insisted the officer used a reasonable amount of force and did not mean

to hurt Garner.

O’Neill said Pantaleo initially placed Garner in a chokehold as the two men stumbled backward.

That, he said, was understandable, given the struggle.

But after the officers got Garner on the ground, Pantaleo did not relax his grip but “kept his hands clasped and maintained the chokehold.” O’Neill said that was the mistake that cost Pantaleo his job.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said Garner’s family was “relieved but not celebratory.”

“Pantaleo will go home a terminated man, but this family had to go to a funeral,” Sharpton said at a news conference.

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It took only two games for Redskins quarterback Case Keenum to realize that coach Jay Gruden treats the preseason with indifference.

For the sixth straight year, the coach hasn’t tried to gain any momentum in August.

And boy, will this team need to find momentum in Thursday’s game against the Falcons. But based on Keenum’s mindset entering the dress rehearsal for the regular season — given the preseason finale versus Baltimore on Aug. 29 is a pure throwaway — Washington will again be exposed come September.

“We don’t want to be at our best right now,” said Keenum, who will try to win the starting job with his performance at Atlanta. “Going into games, I want to be perfect and I want to make all the right checks and all the right reads and all the throws and go score touchdowns every time, but this is a process. That’s what training

camp is about, it’s about learning. … I feel like we haven’t even tapped into even a portion of our potential that we have as an offense.”

No team wants to peak in the preseason, but the Redskins usually don’t seem to even be awake when games start to count. Washington lost its first four season-openers under Gruden before it waxed hapless Arizona in Week 1 of last year. The Redskins too often look confused at the start of the season because many starters play so little in August. And it’s happening again.

Certainly, injuries and holdout Trent Williams are somewhat to blame for the 0-2 preseason record. The left side of the offensive line is uncertain. Three receivers are nursing injuries, and tight end Jordan Reed and running back Derrius Guice, who’s not yet medically cleared after a torn ACL last year, haven’t played yet. Quarterback Colt McCoy’s bid to start is now a non-starter as his recovery from a broken leg suffered last season is

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Redskins coach Jay Gruden lost his first four regular-season openers before finally beating a weak Cardinals team in last year’s debut.

taking longer than he’d hoped.

Those are all reasonable explanations for why the offense has stalled outside of a few big plays. But even the healthy starters saw limited action, with many skipping the opener and barely playing into the second quarter of the second game. The starters will likely get one half versus Atlanta and then skip the Baltimore game.

That’s less than one-fourth of preseason snaps.

“I think a few plays that we were close to kind of getting in a rhythm,” Keenum said. “You get to that point where you’re

almost there and then you’re out of the game, so it’s tough.

You kind of get left wanting more, but I’m excited.”

Fortunately, Gruden hasn’t let poor showings in Week 1 snowball. While the coach has a 1-4 record in regular-season openers, he’s 8-6 in Weeks 2-4.

This season, they will need to show resiliency with a schedule that features four 2018 playoff teams in the first five games.

Hopefully, they’ll be ready.

Warriors guard Stephen Curry was in Washington on Monday to announce the creation of men’s and women’s golf teams at Howard, the first competitive golf at the university in decades.

The idea came from a January visit to campus, when Howard student Otis Ferguson asked Curry, an avid golfer, to hit the links with him.

Curry declined, but their chat stuck with him.

“To hear somebody as passionate about the game as I was, all the while still pursuing their education at Howard … impacted me,” Curry said. Curry’s team did not reveal the exact amount but said he would make a sevenfigure donation paid out over the next six years to fund the program.

On Monday, Ferguson also finally got in that round with Curry. (TWP)

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RAIDERS GENERAL MANAGER MIKE MAYOCK, far left, issuing a public ultimatum Sunday to wide receiver Antonio Brown, who skipped that day’s practice because of his ongoing struggle to find a helmet that meets the NFL’s safety standards. Brown reportedly showed up on Monday and met with team officials.

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Holding off Tide, Tigers land the program’s first preseason No. 1 ranking COLLEGE FOOTBALL For the first time, the defending national champion Tigers are No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 after winning the program’s second national title in three seasons behind freshman quarterback Trevor Lawrence in January.

Alabama, coming off a 4416 loss to Clemson in the title game, is No. 2. Georgia is No. 3, followed by No. 4 Oklahoma and No. 5 Ohio State.

Clemson’s rise under coach Dabo Swinney has been uncommon in college football. The school won the national championship in 1980, but mostly it had resided on a tier well below the traditional national powers.

The Tigers enter 2019 with a 15-game winning streak and eight straight double-digit victory seasons. Since 2015, when they lost the national championship game to Alabama, the Tigers are 55-4.

Nick Saban’s Alabama dynasty, with five national titles in a 10-year span, has finally met its match. The Tide is also 55-4 in the past four seasons.

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Last year’s Clemson team was highlighted by a defensive line that had three starters selected in the first round of the NFL draft, and a fourth taken in round four.

This year, Lawrence and the offense will be the headliner. The first freshman quarterback in more than three decades to lead a team to a national championship, Lawrence will be joined by star receivers Tee Higgins (12 touchdowns) and Justyn Ross (nine touchdowns) and gamebreaking running back Travis Etienne (8.1 yards per carry).

Alabama returns quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, the Heisman Trophy runner-up, and an array of weapons, too. RALPH D. RUSSO (AP)

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Scherzer returns soon Nationals manager Dave Martinez said Sunday that ace Max Scherzer was “probable” to return from a back strain Thursday at the Pirates. The righthander hasn’t pitched since July 25.

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like to change,” Bruning says.

She suggests thinking of fruits and veggies, grains, beans and and fish you like, then finding a few recipes that use Nordic principles. For example, the Nordic plate is one-half vegetables, onequarter high-fiber carbs and onequarter quality protein. “Don’t let the name stop you. … Eating fewer processed foods and more whole and locally produced foods are things many people can do within their means,” she says.

With that in mind, Lieberman notes that an active lifestyle is essential. “People of the Nordic region bicycle as a means of transportation even during the freezing-cold winter months, use public transportation, walk everywhere — even in the rain — and enjoy skiing and other sports,” she says. “Besides being physically active, they are … environmentally minded and make daily choices with health and sustainability in mind.” CARRIE DENNETT

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The Nordic diet is similar to the Mediterranean diet but draws from a different region NUTRITION The traditional Mediterranean diet has a substantial body of research behind it, but there’s a new contender: the Nordic diet. It was designed by scientists, nutritionists and chefs to improve public health and bolster the appeal of seasonal Nordic ingredients.

Though it differs from the Mediterranean diet in ingredients, it is similar in principle.

“The Nordic diet, much like the Mediterranean diet, promotes lifestyle habits that focus on choosing fresh and local ingredients that are sustainably sourced,” says dietitian Layne Lieberman.

The diet is based on whole and minimally processed foods: highfiber vegetables, whole grains, fruit, dense breads (pumpernickel or real sourdough), fish, low-fat dairy, lean meat of all types, beans and lentils, tofu and skinless poultry. Fermented foods also play a role, as do herbs and spices.

The Nordic diet derives 50% of calories from carbs, 25% from

protein and 25% from fat. Claims that it can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes are plausible given components like high-quality, high-fiber carbs and omega-3 fat.

But there’s much less research on the diet’s health outcomes.

Lieberman recommends limiting one Nordic diet staple — cured fish — as it’s high in salt, sugar and typically nitrates. She also recommends extra-virgin olive oil instead of the canola oil that plays a central role in Nordic cuisine.

How to interpret ‘local’ Jennifer Bruning, a spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, says that while both the Nordic and Mediterranean diets are based on food availability in a certain area, their principles can be applied to any location.

Lieberman says the Nordic diet is more practical for those living in northern climates, while

the Mediterranean diet may work best in southern climates.

Affordability is also a factor.

Though the Nordic diet is touted as budget-friendly, largely because of inexpensive staples like cabbage and canned fish, there are caveats. Lieberman says that though breads made from whole rye and spelt flour are increasingly popular in the U.S., and fish such as sardines, mackerel and tuna are available everywhere, the Nordic diet is also rich in local berries that are difficult to export. She suggests choosing berries that are local to us.

“Besides being more nutritious, delicious and economical, fresh food supports local farming and food systems, which is good for the economy and environment,” she says.

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Sorry to your friend, but she can’t just outsource “bouncer at my wedding” to the ex of the person being problematic.

Especially when that ex doesn’t want the gig. I’m sure she has much on her plate and is assuming you and Ex are in contact anyway (are you?). But it is a simple logistical issue for her to address, whereas

for you to address it, it goes beyond logistics. The time for her to intervene was immediately after the “updating” (by what means did he do this?

Stealing the little embossed card and resending it?), but late is better than never.

“Sorry, but the caterer already had the final count” sounds good to me.

increasing as she gets older.

She was always critical and somewhat cold, but now she has nothing positive to say, ever. I know she’s depressed about recent health problems (she is in her mid-80s and getting frail), but I am having a super hard time striking a balance between letting it bounce off me versus telling her that it is not OK to act that way, which will only escalate further.

You may not be able to change her behavior, but you can remove yourself from the situations where it gets to be too much for you — a line that you alone get to decide. Whether it means ending the phone call, leaving the room or even leaving her home, it is not reasonable to force yourself to endure repeated cruelty. So that’s where the balance is — neither expecting yourself to be emotional Teflon nor escalating it nor giving her the chance to keep testing you. “I don’t feel that that’s kind, Mom.” “Let’s change the subject, please.”

“That’s hard for me to listen to.

If you keep talking that way, I’m going to need to end this phone call/my visit.”

You should also, of course, try to help her get some support — health problems, decreased mobility and isolation are mentally grueling, even for those folks who started off chipper — but you need to protect yourself whether she takes it or not.

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Spoiler culture: Pre-judgment is a menace to movies In our ongoing conversations about movies, it seems the only thing missing is the movies themselves.

By now everyone knows that Universal has canceled the release of “The Hunt,” in which a group of “deplorables” is hunted and killed by deranged elites. After the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the studio stopped marketing the film, whose trailer featured wellheeled travelers embarking on a human safari. Then Fox News and President Trump glommed on to the gathering storm, accusing “The Hunt” of fomenting violence and partisan hatred — presumably unaware that the film was far more likely to skewer liberal pieties than the sensibilities of their MAGA supporters.

From the misreading of “The Hunt’s” politics to Universal’s cave, the entire episode played like a colossal, collective self-own. It also played a bit like déjà vu. Barely a year ago, another Universal film, “First Man,” was being dragged by Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and other right-wing critics upset that the film, about the Apollo 11 space mission, didn’t feature a shot of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planting the U.S. flag on the moon. Never mind that “First Man” wound up being full of images of the flag, or that it presented the kind of stirring, patriotic story of ingenuity and courage that conservative viewers might have adored: Sight unseen, the reviews were in.

Make those “pre-views.”

Today, the forces of entertainment marketing, social media and grievance culture

are increasingly colliding, with the casualty being the movies themselves. The studios often play their own selfdefeating role in the cycle: Desperate to build viral awareness, they eagerly recruit movie audiences online and at fan gatherings such as ComicCon, releasing trailers earlier and earlier to lock in eyeballs and excitement.

But harnessing social media, fan service and buzzy, hotbutton controversy is a lot like riding a tiger — and as anyone can tell you who’s gone viral one moment only to be canceled the next, sometimes the beast bites back.

Gone are the days when people would decide to see a movie (or not), then discuss. We now discuss whether people have a right to see a movie in the first place. Heaven forfend we should be confronted with the art itself: Film has been dematerialized, reduced to a thousand points of metadata that we can argue about in the safe, self-righteous abstract.

Culture has always been weaponized, of course, and it should cause discomfort, even anger. But we’ve reached a state of constant pre-outrage and hair-trigger offense, ready to strangle perceived

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offenders in the crib before they can succeed or fail on their own merits.

In a Washington Post column last week, Margaret Sullivan called for a “slow journalism” movement, whereby consumers of news make the self-disciplined decision to ignore hot-button trending topics and other algorithmic manipulations in favor of waiting to get a fuller, more completely reported story.

Or a fully completed, actual movie. What if fans, critics and marketers agreed on a “slow movies” movement, making a vow to stop feeding the content beast with the kind of rank speculation they thrive on? What if we observed the simple, common-sense rule of reserving commentary on a thing until we’ve actually seen it firsthand? What if we reframed film, not as disposable content or comment fodder but as entertainment or — call me madcap — an art form?

Of course, not all films are art, or even entertaining.

Viewers will always be the final arbiters of those distinctions. At least if pre-viewers give them a chance.

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Created by Marc Cherry (“Desperate Housewives”), this series focuses on three women on the verge of murdering their cheating husbands — each in a different decade, but occurring in the same Southern California manse.

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The three stories track along efficiently yet predictably. While the show exhibits a degree of Cherry’s colorful and quietly campy command of that fine line that separates a soap opera from a serious drama, the women in the show feel sketched rather than fully drawn. Preoccupied with why they kill, the show forgets to stop and show us who they are. HANK STUEVER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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