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A bank robbery suspect in Revere, Mass., attempted to make his escape via public bus, NBC Boston reported. David Hattersley allegedly robbed the Bank of America location with a gun shortly after 1:30 p.m. Monday, then escaped with the money. In lieu of a getaway car, he simply hopped on an MBTA bus. He was located after disembarking in the Broadway area and was taken into police custody. (EXPRESS)

Officials in Derry, N.H., are trying to figure out why a recently opened time capsule from 50 years ago has nothing in it. Library director Cara Potter told WMUR-TV that the safe has been on a shelf with the combination on its back since she started five years ago. No one has a list of what was originally put inside. Officials say they have no idea who could’ve opened it and taken the items. They even speculate nothing was in it in the first place. (AP)

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Xanthoparmelia scabrosa, which grows in New Zealand and the Pacific, contains a chemical similar to ED drugs. It is also toxic and, for obvious reasons, should not be eaten off the sidewalk. Supplements that claim to contain it are shown in testing to be Viagra mixed with grass clippings. (EXPRESS)

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A Boy Scout honors the past ALEXANDRIA Griffin Burchard first spotted Douglass Memorial Cemetery — named for orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass — while on a service trip in Alexandria with his Boy Scout troop about three years ago. The Scouts were supposed to be removing faded wreaths from pristine rows of graves inside Alexandria National Cemetery.

But Burchard’s eyes were drawn to the run-down plot just down the street.

“I noticed that, unlike all the other cemeteries in the complex, it was not being kept up,” Burchard, 16, said. “There were fallen leaves, signs of flooding, and trees with limbs hanging so far over you couldn’t even read the sign that says, ‘Douglass.’ ” Last Thursday, Burchard stood in that same cemetery, now swept clean of debris, and smiled as he watched a fellow Boy Scout whip away a black cloth to reveal a brand-new sign for the plot. It was the culmination of a months-long restoration project

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Virginia teen worked to restore a historic black cemetery in disrepair

Griffin Burchard, right, worked for months to restore a historic cemetery.

Burchard undertook to earn Eagle Scout status — and it was timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of enslaved Africans’ arrival in Virginia.

Donald Fest, the pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Alexandria, called Burchard’s work “an act of graciousness and honor” at the unveiling.

Douglass Memorial Cemetery contains about 600 headstones, though records show at least 1,900 people, all African American, were buried there between

“This project has made me want to be a great citizen.”

GRIFFIN BURCHARD, a 16-year-old student at St. Anselm’s Abbey high school who worked to restore Douglass Memorial Cemetery in Old Town Alexandria. “[Frederick Douglass] was a great example of a citizen who impacted his community . . . our nation and our world through his lifelong and tireless work,” Burchard said.

the 1890s and 1975, said City of Alexandria archaeologist Benjamin Skolnik. Some were likely enslaved, and many were almost certainly descendants of slaves.

Burchard worked with several members of his Boy Scout Troop — as well a few Girl Scouts — to rake and clear the land. His parents also chipped in, helping him trim the trees that frame the cemetery. Burchard paid for the sign, which cost about $200, by recycling extra copper and aluminum siding taken from his house.

His restoration work has spurred the city to take action as well. City officials recently obtained a roughly $10,000 grant from the state of Virginia to survey the plot and determine how many people are buried there.

Skolnik said the city plans to honor the unnamed dead with markers, and install a better drainage system to reduce flooding.

“We were aware of some of the issues with the cemetery already,” Skolnik said. “But having Griffin available and willing to do this project is what enabled us to get going and produce something.” HANNAH NATANSON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Mahi-mahi catch bests recent record The Maryland fishing record for mahi-mahi had been set only three weeks earlier, but it was broken Friday by a Pasadena, Md., woman who was taking part in a tournament in Ocean City, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.

Kristy Frashure’s catch of a 74.5-pound mahi-mahi broke the record of 72.8 pounds set in late July by Jeff Wright, of Cambridge, Md. Before that, the record had stood for 34 years. It was not clear why two such large fish were hooked within such a relatively short interval. (TWP)

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VIRGINIA The city of Norfolk, which wants to remove a Confederate monument from its downtown business district, filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a Virginia law that city officials say is blocking their plan to relocate the statue to a cemetery.

The law, enacted in 1904 and amended several times, bars the removal or alteration of public war memorials in the state. In Charlottesville, Confederate-heritage enthusiasts have relied on the preservation law in litigation that has stopped officials from taking down two Confederate statues.

The efforts in Norfolk, Charlottesville and elsewhere are part of a broad push in recent years to banish Confederate imagery from public spaces. Critics argue that other iconography honoring Old Dixie is symbolic of institutionalized white supremacism.

In 2017, the Norfolk City Council passed a resolution saying it intended to move a city-owned Confederate monument from a downtown intersection to Elmwood Cemetery. But the resolution said no action would be taken while the preservation law remained, because violating it could lead to financial penalties.

The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Norfolk

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City objects to state law requiring preservation of public war memorials

Leaders in Norfolk want to remove a Confederate statue from downtown.

alleges that the preservation law unconstitutionally hinders Norfolk’s right to free expression.

“Because the Monument is the City’s speech, the City has a constitutional right to alter that speech” by moving the statue to a less conspicuous location, the complaint said.

After the Charlottesville City Council voted to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, statue defenders sued the city in March 2017, citing the preservation law.

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hate that weekend, the Charlottesville council voted to also remove a public statue of rebel Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.

This year, a judge in Charlottesville Circuit Court decided that the preservation law applies to the Charlottesville statues. The next step for the city is an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court.

The Norfolk City Council reacted to the 2017 Charlottesville violence by resolving to remove the 112-year-old statue from downtown. Two activists sued the city in state court, trying to force action on the resolution, even with the preservation law. That lawsuit was dismissed last month.

A billboard in Baltimore, supported by the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), draws a comparison between the president’s son-in-law and a rat, playing off President Trump’s recent comments in which he called the Maryland city a “rat and rodent infested mess.” The billboard went up Monday at North Gay and East Saratoga streets, near City Hall and other municipal buildings.

It shows a cartoon of Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who owns rodent-infested apartment buildings in the Baltimore area. On the billboard, Kushner is called a “rich pest” as he sits on a money pile on the billboard; across from him is a cartoon rat holding cheese. The billboard calls it a “poor guy just trying to survive.” (TWP)

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The amount the state of Maryland is making available for efforts to bring reliable and affordable internet service to residents of rural communities. Gov. Larry Hogan said in a statement Monday that the funding will be the first installment of a five-year, $100 million initiative expected to benefit 225,000 Maryland residents. He says his administration is working to provide high-speed internet to every county in the state — particularly in areas underserved by broadband. (AP)

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Arlington man, 27, charged in death of woman early Tuesday in Crystal City hotel

Northam warns of economic slowdown in Va. POLITICS Gov. Ralph Northam painted a sunny picture of Virginia state finances to legislative committees Tuesday, but he warned of a coming economic slowdown because of the trade war with China and other uncertainties.

Northam said state finances are “in a good place.” Virginia ended its last fiscal year with a surplus of $797 million.

Unemployment has held steady at 2.9%, and Northam took credit for landing more than $20 billion in business investment.

“This is a record,” he said.

Northam said his budget would “prioritize initiatives that level the playing field for small, women- and minorityowned businesses, reduce the unacceptable racial disparity in Virginia’s maternal mortality rate, and ensure equal access to a world-class education.” He said he wants increased spending on early childhood education and workforce development.

He cautioned that while the state’s economy is in its 12th year of expansion, there are signs of a slowdown. Tariffs on agricultural products sold to China have “hurt our farmers in Virginia,” Northam said.

Northam said the growing federal debt also will be a drag on consumers. And he noted that the cost of Medicaid — which Virginia expanded last year — will continue to grow because of rising health care costs. GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Ripple effects: Metro shutdown squeezes buses them to be let on the bus,” only to be left behind, she said.

The number of riders on the route increased by more than 80% in June and July over typical numbers, Metro spokesman Ian Jannetta said.

Anticipating more riders during the shutdown, Metro nearly quadrupled the number of scheduled trips on the route each weekday, from a total in both directions of 14 to 52. But some of those trips haven’t run as scheduled, he acknowledged.

In the early weeks of the shutdown, Metro’s shuttle buses between the closed stations were overwhelmed. To help, Metro pulled longer articulated buses from their regular 11Y route, Metro’s bus planning and scheduling director, Jim Hamre, told WMATA’s Riders Advisory Committee, according to a recording of the July 10 meeting shared with DC Rider

by Stephen Repetski of Greater Greater Washington.

Metro had anticipated that 18,000 riders would take the shuttles daily, but the numbers surged to about 30,000.

“We were pulling buses left and right off of regular service and out of the garages and mobilizing drivers. We just kept putting buses in, and the line [of people] kept coming,” Hamre told the committee.

Within a few weeks, shuttle ridership decreased. Charter bus companies offered additional shuttles starting July 1.

Around then, the longer buses that had been reassigned as shuttles were returned to the 11Y route, but Hamre said not enough drivers signed up

A man crashed an electric dockless moped in D.C. just one day after the company Revel began offering them on the city’s streets, according to a Fox 5 report. The man crashed and the vehicle fell on top of him in the Logan Circle neighborhood Sunday after he hit a pothole, he told Fox 5. The man went to the hospital and was treated for a broken collarbone. (EXPRESS) THE DISTRICT

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At a stop on the 11Y Metrobus route last Thursday afternoon, riders laid odds as if they were Vegas bookmakers.

“Fifty-fifty,” said a woman at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW in downtown D.C., weighing the chance the next 11Y bus would have room to take her home to Alexandria.

“Seventy-thirty,” said another woman waiting nearby.

Told that was more optimistic than the first woman, she said, “I was thinking fifty-fifty.

But I decided to be nice because Metro is up against a lot.”

Metro spokeswoman Sherri Ly said last week that the massive platform replacement project that closed six Yellow and Blue Line stations south of Reagan National Airport beginning May 25 is on track to be finished in time for the stations to reopen Sept. 9 as scheduled.

That day can’t come fast enough for riders on the 11Y route between Potomac Park and either Mount Vernon or Hunting Point, who have seen crowds swell with riders displaced from the closed stations.

Metro has struggled to run as many additional 11Y buses as planned during the shutdown.

“The bus has just been jampacked, just completely full,” said Lauren Lobrano, who has posted several complaints on Twitter. Lobrano takes the 11Y from one of the last stops in Alexandria to and from her job at a nonprofit near Farragut North.

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Riders on the 11Y Metrobus route to and from Alexandria have seen massive crowds this summer.

Impact of shutdown on buses and shuttles Metro riders dealt with this summer’s closure of six stations by flocking to special shuttle buses and the 11Y Metrobus. Metro ran the 11Y more frequently, but had to pull vehicles from the route to meet shuttle demand. (EXPRESS) Approximate number of riders on Metro shuttles daily: Actual during shutdown 30K Anticipated 18K

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The approximate percentage increase in ridership on the 11Y Metrobus route in June and July over typical numbers.

to drive them. Under Metro’s contract with its largest union, ATU Local 689, Metro notifies bus drivers of additional trips but can’t force anyone to drive them, Jannetta said.

Jannetta said only one scheduled 11Y bus last Monday and Tuesday didn’t run. And the women laying odds at the bus stop did get on the next bus.

Metro plans to go back to the regular number of buses on the route when the shutdown ends.

The woman who’d laid even odds of getting on is hoping

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Number of scheduled 11Y bus route trips each weekday: During shutdown 52 Typical weekday 14

conditions will improve. But problems have lingered. One morning she showed up for work 15 minutes late due to full buses, said the woman, who didn’t want her name printed because of what happened next.

“No,” she said, when asked if her boss had been understanding.

She had 15 minutes docked from her vacation time.

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As of today, Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House is closed for seven months for construction of a new security fence, the National Park Service announced Tuesday. The agency said the area in front of the White House’s north portico will be closed. The 6-foot-6-inch fence is being replaced by one approximately 13 feet tall. (TWP) THE DISTRICT

Arts commission head resigns after 9 months The acting director of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities has resigned effective Sept. 30, according to a Washington City Paper report. Mayor Muriel Bowser appointed Terrie Rouse-Rosario in December to bring the commission under executive control. Many artists protested proposed changes to the loan and grant process. (EXPRESS) THE DISTRICT

D.C. government blocks planned migrant shelter The administration of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D, has enacted emergency regulations that would stop a planned federal shelter for 200 unaccompanied migrant children in Northwest D.C.’s Takoma neighborhood.

The emergency rules prohibit the city’s child welfare agency from licensing facilities housing more than 15 residents. (TWP)

Former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan to move from Wisconsin to D.C.

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Italian PM resigns amid instability ROME Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte resigned Tuesday, blaming the collapse of his 14-month-old populist government on his rebellious and politically ambitious deputy prime minister, who triggered a political crisis in a gambit to force early elections that could bring the right-wing, anti-migrant leader to power.

Addressing the Senate, Conte scathingly quoted Matteo Salvini’s own recent demands for an early election so he could gain “full powers” by grabbing the premiership. He blasted Salvini for putting Italy at risk of a “dizzying spiral of political and financial instability” by creating an unnecessary crisis that ends a working government.

Salvini, who sat next to Conte, smirking at times, began the

Senate debate by saying, defiantly, “I’d do it all again.”

Pressing for elections as soon as possible, Salvini, who as interior minister has led a crackdown on migrants, said: “I don’t fear Italians’ judgment.”

Conte handed his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella at the presidential palace Tuesday night. Mattarella requested that Conte and the rest of the government stay on in a caretaker role, while he determines whether to call new elections. Mattarella will first see if another viable coalition can be cobbled together.

In the European Parliament election three months ago in Italy, as well as in current opinion polls, Salvini’s right-wing League party has soared in popularity to become the No. 1 political force among Italians. FRANCES D’EMILIO (AP)

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Religious right hails Trump POLITICS When Donald Trump assumed the presidency, conservative religious leaders drew up “wish lists” of steps they hoped he’d take to oppose abortion and rein in the LGBTQ-rights movement. With a flurry of recent actions, Trump’s administration is now winning their praise for aggressively fulfilling many of their goals.

Mat Staver, president of the legal advocacy organization Liberty Counsel, said Trump has fulfilled about 90% of the goals on a list that Staver and other conservative leaders compiled.

“In the first two years of his administration, he’s achieved more than all of the presidents combined since Ronald Reagan,” Staver said. “He’s been the most pro-religious freedom and prolife president in modern history.”

One of the most dramatic steps — hailed by conservatives and decried by liberals — came this week, when the Department of Health and Human Services implemented a new rule for the federal family planning program known as Title X. Planned Parenthood, long a target of religious

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Conservative leaders praise agenda opposing abortion, LGBTQ rights

Actions aimed at curtailing abortion rights and LGBTQ rights have helped many conservative Christians overlook other aspects of Trump’s presidency.

conservatives because of its role as the leading U.S. abortion provider, quit the program — walking away from tens of millions of dollars in grants — rather than comply with a new rule prohibiting clinics from referring women for abortions.

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Two prominent board members have stepped down from the National Rifle Association this week, deepening the upheaval at the longtime gun rights powerhouse, which has lost seven directors since May. NRA officials confirmed Tuesday that country music singer Craig Morgan has left the board, along with Richard Childress, a wellknown NASCAR team owner based in North Carolina. (TWP)

The British foreign ministry said it is “extremely concerned” about an employee of its consulate in Hong Kong who is missing after a business trip to mainland China. A statement from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it is seeking information about the fate of the employee, who was detained while crossing from the city of Shenzhen back into Hong Kong, reportedly on Aug. 8. (AP)

complaints regarding hiring and firing decisions motivated by religious beliefs. Critics say the rule, if implemented, would enable employers to discriminate against LGBTQ people.

On Friday, the Justice Department filed a brief telling the Supreme Court that federal law allows firing workers for being transgender. The brief is related to three cases that the high court

will hear in its upcoming term related to LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace.

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services issued a waiver allowing a state-contracted foster care agency in South Carolina to deny services to same-sex and non-Christian families. HHS also moved to revoke newly won health care discrimination protections for transgender people.

These and other actions aimed at curtailing abortion rights and LGBTQ rights have helped many conservative Christians overlook other aspects of Trump’s presidency, such as his often-divisive rhetoric on Twitter and at rallies.

The Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the Southern Baptist megachurch First Baptist Dallas and a frequent guest at the White House, predicted Trump would win more evangelical votes in 2020 than he did in 2016, when they helped provide his margin of victory.

“When he ran in 2016 and promised pro-life, pro-religious freedom policies, most evangelicals who voted for him didn’t know whether he would or could fulfill those promises,” Jeffress said. “When they look back now, they see he checked off all of those goals. … He’ll win by an even larger margin on the basis of promises kept.” DAVID CRARY (AP)

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Trump confirms he’s considering a payroll tax cut POLITICS President Trump on Tuesday confirmed that he’s considering whether to push for a temporary payroll tax cut amid mounting concerns about an economic slowdown, rebutting numerous White House officials who had insisted that such an idea was not under review.

Trump’s remarks came one day after The Washington Post reported that several senior White House officials had begun discussing such a move.

“Payroll tax is something that we think about, and a lot of people would like to see that, and that very much affects the workers of our country,” Trump said Tuesday at the White House.

Passing a payroll tax cut could be unpopular with lawmakers from both parties. Democrats traditionally support payroll tax cuts, because they tend to benefit middle-class Americans.

But Democrats could be reticent to back another tax cut less than two years after Republicans pushed through a $1.5 trillion tax cut package that has had mixed effects on the economy.

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A boat navigates at night next to large icebergs near the town of Kulusuk, in eastern Greenland.

has not quite passed the extreme summer of 2012 — Greenland’s worst year in modern history for melting, scientists report.

“If you look at climate model projections, we can expect to see larger areas of the ice sheet experiencing melt for longer durations of the year and greater mass loss going forward,” said University of Georgia ice scientist Tom Mote. “There’s every reason to believe that years that look like this will become more common.”

Nearly all of the 28 Greenland glaciers that Danish climate scientist Ruth Mottram measured are retreating, especially Helheim.

Holland, like Willis, suspects that warm, salty water that comes in part from the Gulf Stream in North America is playing a bigger role than previously thought in melting Greenland’s ice. And if that’s the case, that’s probably bad news for the planet, because it means faster and more

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The total number of hours during two occasions that Summit Station, a research camp nearly 2 miles high and far north on Greenland, has warmed to above freezing this year.

Before this year, that station was above freezing for only 6.5 hours in 2012, once in 1889 and also in the Middle Ages. (AP)

melting and higher sea level rise.

Willis said that by the year 2100, Greenland alone could cause 3 or 4 feet of sea level rise.

So it’s crucial to know how much of a role the air above and the water below play.

“What we want for this is an ice sheet forecast,” Holland said.

In this remote landscape, sound travels easily for miles.

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Every several minutes there’s a faint rumbling that sounds like thunder, but it’s not. It’s ice cracking.

In Kulusuk, one of the closest towns to Helheim, Mugu Utuaq says the winter that used to last as much as 10 months when he was a boy can now be as short as five months. That matters to him because as the fourth-ranked dog-sledder in Greenland, he has 23 dogs and needs to race them.

Yes, the melting glaciers, less ice and warmer weather are noticeable and much different from his childhood, said Kulusuk Mayor Justus Paulsen, 58.

But he added: “We like it because we like to have a summer.”

Holland, though, looks out at Helheim glacier from his base camp and sees the bigger picture.

And it’s not good, he said. Not for here. Not for Earth as a whole.

“It’s kind of nice to have a planet with glaciers around,” Holland said. SETH BORENSTEIN (AP)

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CLIMATE CHANGE Greenland is where Earth’s refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise.

New York University air and ocean scientist David Holland, who is tracking what’s happening in Greenland from both above and below, calls it “the end of the planet.” He is referring to geography more than the future.

Yet in many ways this place is where the planet’s warmer and watery future is being written.

Summer this year is hitting Greenland hard, with recordshattering heat and extreme melt. By the end of the summer, about 440 billion tons of ice — maybe more — will have melted or calved off Greenland’s giant ice sheet, scientists estimate.

That’s enough water to flood Pennsylvania or the country of Greece about a foot deep.

Between just July 31 and Aug. 3, more than 58 billion tons melted from the surface. That’s over 40 billion tons more than the average for this time of year. And that 58 billion tons doesn’t even count the huge calving events or the warm water eating away at the glaciers from below, which may be a huge factor.

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Facebook is launching a longpromised tool that lets you limit what it can gather about you on outside websites and apps.

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Formerly known as “clear history,” the tool will now go by “off-Facebook activity.”

The feature launched in South Korea, Ireland and Spain on Tuesday. The company did not give a timeline for when it might expand it to the U.S. and other countries, only that it will be in the “coming months.”

Blocking the tracking could mean fewer ads that seem familiar — for example, a pair of shoes you decided not to buy, or a nonprofit you donated money to. But it won’t change the actual number of ads that you’ll see.

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But Sean Doolittle didn’t budge.

He stayed at the end of a leather couch in the visitors clubhouse at Pittsburgh’s PNC Park on Monday. His left hand held a pen instead of a baseball. He stared into a printed-out crossword puzzle, rubbed his temples, then walked to his locker. That was it.

This is Doolittle’s reality, at least for now, until he feels good enough to get back on the mound.

The closer was placed on the 10day injured list on Sunday with right knee tendinitis. The diagnosis could have been arm fatigue.

Doolittle has never pitched this much, or been healthy this much in one season, and that finally resulted in a sixth blown save and need for rest. He did two workouts Monday to strengthen the area around his knee. He’s

expected to resume throwing, starting with a light catch, in the coming days. And he’ll otherwise wait, and think, and hope that time off will set him straight for the pennant race.

Going into Tuesday night’s game, the Nationals had won seven of eight and sat atop the NL wild-card standings. But they have relied on Doolittle all season and it’s hard to like their chances if he doesn’t turn it around. Doolittle has a 7.36 ERA in 15 appearances since the All-Star break. He has allowed 10 home runs this season, four more than his previous career-high, and still leads the league with 49 games finished. Manager Dave Martinez has already repeatedly stated that Doolittle will again be his closer upon returning.

Doolittle, always introspective, feels the situation is more nuanced than that.

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that vote of confidence from your manager. But I have to pitch better if I want to stay in that role,” Doolittle said Monday. “I appreciate him saying that, but the mentality that I’m taking back is we have some really good arms in the back end of this bullpen, and there are a few guys that could slide into that role.”

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and Hunter Strickland, both acquired at the trade deadline, and 42-year-old righty Fernando Rodney. All three have closed at points in their careers. And even if Martinez wants Doolittle back in the ninth inning, where he’s been for the Nationals for parts of three seasons, his recent appearances don’t quite justify that.

The final straw was giving up three home runs in a span of four batters on Saturday. That blew a three-run save and the Nationals eventually lost, 15-14, in 14 innings to the Brewers.

“Guys have rounds of batting practice that won’t go that well,” Doolittle said of his performance against the Brewers on Saturday. “You know … homer, double, homer, homer, deep flyball. That’s a good round of five. That’s not me.

The team deserves better, and I have to get myself right.”

The second round of your fantasy football draft is when the tough calls begin, and optimism can hurt you. Here are four players who are going higher than their stats justify. (TWP) WR Christian Kirk: Arizona figures to spread the field and throw early and often, but with pass-catchers such as Larry Fitzgerald, David Johnson and Charles Clay, opportunities might be tough to come by.

TE Eric Ebron: With Jack Doyle back from a hip injury for the Colts, and with 6-foot-4, 225-pound Devin Funchess signed to hopefully be a red zone target, Ebron’s TDs are likely to decrease.

QB Drew Brees: There is one reason to be skeptical of Brees’ fantasy value in 2019: passing volume, where the Saints have ranked 19th (2017) and 23rd (2018).

RB Kerryon Johnson: The worst-case scenario for Johnson, below, is splitting carries with new Lions back C.J. Anderson the way he did with LeGarrette Blount last season and losing shortyardage touchdown chances to Mark Thompson.

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REDSKINS Paul Richardson Jr. burst off the line, and for a second the Redskins’ high-priced wide receiver looked like himself — a rarity after a disappointing, injury-riddled season.

Quarterback Case Keenum flicked a pass toward the middle of the field. Richardson snagged it and turned upfield toward the end zone. Coach Jay Gruden called it Richardson’s “best day, as far as seeing him run,” and suggested Richardson needed to remind not just himself but his teammates of the player he can be.

“It’s important for him to get

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Paul Richardson Jr. fought through a shoulder injury all of last season.

that on tape so that the quarterback can say, ‘Holy cow, this guy can run; we’ve got to give him more of a look,’ ” Gruden said.

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Now his challenge is developing rapport with the quarterbacks.

Upon hearing Gruden’s assessment, Richardson grinned.

“I don’t think the speed goes anywhere,” he said. “It looks better when you’re running fast and the ball’s in the air.”

“I don’t think there was any progression.

Mentally, it was always a different challenge.

What happened in China makes me more hungry.”

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Whether you were watching from a couch, a dorm, a bar or Radio City Music Hall, where the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards were taking place, it was the rare moment where everyone had the same reaction: Did that just happen? One minute, a 19-year-old Taylor Swift was accepting the prize for female video of the year.

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West’s apology on his blog (“I’m sooooo … i’m in the wrong for going on stage and taking away from her moment!”) did little to stem the outrage. But there was an uncomfortable undercurrent to much of the reaction, which hip-hop journalist Tracii McGregor says seemed to cast West as the angry black man going after the demure young white woman.

“It looked really bad,” she says. A rare appeal for perspective came from JAYZ, Beyoncé’s husband and West’s longtime collaborator.

Sure, West’s interruption was “inappropriate,” he told a radio interviewer, but West “didn’t kill anybody. No one got harmed.”

Kanye spirals

It would be years before West opened up about his mental health struggles, as he was hospitalized in 2016 under a psychiatric hold after erratic behavior, and, two years later, revealed his bipolar diagnosis on his album “Ye.” Back then, people just wanted to rationalize how he could go after a teenager on live TV. During an appearance the night after the VMAs on NBC’s “The Jay Leno Show,” West issued another apology, then dropped out of sight for months. The VMAs moment has since cast a shadow on him, practically freezing him into a persona he has seemed determined to live up to. His behavior has included tweeting “BILL COSBY INNOCENT !!!!!!!!!!”; describing slavery as a “choice”; and endorsing President Trump — a move he acknowledged horrified liberal allies in the music business.

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Taylor rises

As Swift rose to become one of the biggest stars on the planet, she, at times, seemed to cling to the role of the damsel with the microphone ripped from her hand, awash in public sympathy and affirmation.

“Taylor knows exactly how to manipulate a message,” says Lainey Gossip’s Elaine Lui. In interviews after the 2009 VMAs, Swift insisted that she had accepted West’s apology. But the next year, she appeared back at the show to introduce a new ballad called “Innocent.”

The lyrics were steeped in faux-forgiveness and condescension: “It’s okay, life is a tough crowd/ Thirty-two and still growin’ up now/ Who you are is not what you did.” West closed the show by performing the bombastic “Runaway.” What was it like having both stars in attendance that night?

“Awkward,” was all Toffler would say.

It’s not over

Everything seemed to come full circle at the 2015 VMAs, as Swift presented West with a lifetime-achievement award. But in 2016, West invoked Swift in his song “Famous” with the lyric: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/ Why? I made that b---- famous.” Swift decried it as “revenge porn.”

Kim Kardashian West, Kanye West’s wife, then released a recording of a phone call that seemed to show West giving Swift a heads-up — though he apparently said nothing about calling her a “b----.” It was a reminder that Swift and West’s careers would continue to be entangled.

“I don’t think that they have washed their hands of each other,” Lui says, as the 10-year anniversary of the 2009 VMAs approaches.

“It wouldn’t surprise me to talk again in 10 years and have eight more chapters to unpack.” EMILY YAHR

In the 2000s, The Hold Steady nearly perfected a literary arena rock of which only Bruce Springsteen has ever matched the combined lyrical density and musical grandeur. But in 2010, keyboardist Franz Nicolay quit the band.

He’s back now, and so is the vigor. On “Thrashing Thru the Passion,” the band’s album released Friday, The Hold Steady is more streamlined than ever. And frontman Craig Finn hasn’t been so funny in years.

“Tequila takeoff, Tecate landing/ Sorry about the centerpiece, thanks for understanding,” he sings on “Entitlement Crew.”

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TELEVISION The piano is remarkable for its ability to act as a chameleon, composer Nicholas Britell muses, noting that it can produce light, poetic sound as easily as it can transform into a more intense, powerful instrument. Tenderness can emanate one moment, passionate anger in the next.

Such melodies are present throughout “Succession,� the HBO drama that last year marked Britell’s first foray into television scoring and that, last month, earned the two-time Oscar nominee his first Emmy nod. Before recording the nominated main title theme, Britell de-tuned the piano to “make it a little stranger.� “You can draw any symbolism from that,� he jokes. “But I actually prefer listening to music that isn’t perfectly in tune.

When things are perfect, they lose a little bit of their humanness. What I love most about hearing musicians play music is that they’re real people with individual sounds and a set of emotions. When things are too perfect, you lose that.�

Britell layered the title theme’s piano melody over a hip-hop beat,

Brian Cox stars as the head of a family-owned media conglomerate in HBO’s “Succession.�

abandoning the tinkering tune for roaring strings about 15 seconds into the 90-second track. The results Britell are dissonant but radiate gravitas — fitting for a sometimes absurdist show, which launched its second season earlier this month and was renewed for Season 3 on Tuesday.

The scheming members of the Roy family consistently snipe at one another, as do the piano keys, but all of that gives way to loud, sweeping drama from time to time.

The “Succession� score almost serves as a secondary character, adding weight to the narrative.

In collaboration with creator Jesse Armstrong and executive producer Adam McKay, Britell aimed to juxtapose the “seriousnessâ€? of wealth and power being so concentrated with the “crazy moments and absurdities of the story.â€? “The show has this very complex set of tones,â€? Britell says. “There’s this darkness but there’s also this humor. The hope was that the music would capture both of those, and wouldn’t step on either one of them too much. ‌ I found that whenever something was funny, if I made the music even more serious, it helped the humor. That was an interesting artistic discovery.â€?

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O’Brien as a driver of the medium’s popularity. Variety calls O’Brien the “darling of the podcasting world” and dubs podcasts a “brave new world.” Baffled Twitter users noted podcasts were around for a decade before “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” launched last November.

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“James Bond is a world-class procrastinator.” @THE_SHIZNIT, joking about the 25th James Bond movie, officially titled “No Time to Die.” Tuesday’s announcement satisfied fans who’d simply been calling it “Bond 25,” and inspired a number of time- and agerelated jokes. The above tweeter noted that “die” also appears in the title for Bond movies “Tomorrow Never Dies” and “Die Another Day.”

“‘Can we survive extreme heat?’ asks Rolling Stone, pairing it with the presumed announcement of Harry Styles’ second album.

Obviously not.” @SZECHUAN, discussing Harry Styles’

cover for the September issue of Rolling Stone. The cover has fans speculating that the singer’s second album is imminent, since he dropped his first album after gracing Rolling Stone’s cover in 2017.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Showing others what you’re up to today can serve a rather selfish purpose, but it may blunt the overall impact of your efforts.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Reaching out to another may be misinterpreted or misunderstood if the timing isn’t just right. Don’t be too much in a hurry.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Time is on your side today, but that doesn’t mean it’s a commodity that you can fritter away, certainly. Be efficient in all your dealings.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You may have to find a substitute today when someone playing a key role in a personal drama proves unavailable.

This marks a shift.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) External forces, including the weather perhaps, are likely to influence you more than usual today. Travel may have to be restricted.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Share the wealth today and others will gladly give you what they can when you ask for it. It’s a certain kind of assistance you’ll need.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Putting yourself in another’s shoes today will give you an unusual look at a situation you thought you understood. That’s all changed.

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Your admiration for another’s accomplishments is undiminished at this time, despite the fact that your relationship is strained.

TODAY: It will be partly sunny in the morning and mostly cloudy in the afternoon — with muggy, hot weather continuing. Highs will be in the lower- to mid-90s, and moderate to high humidity (dew points in the 70s) will make it feel like 100 at times. Expect scattered showers and thunderstorms this evening.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You have a certain picture in your mind of what you’ll see when you get where you’re going. Where is that?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) A discussion of what is right and wrong is likely to lead you down the rabbit hole today. You’ll have to make sense of the senseless.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) An unexpected development puts you at odds with someone on your own team. In the end, a simple discussion can put to rest any conflict.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Even your most unusual ideas can be of use today. What begins as an unpopular notion is likely to take others by storm by day’s end.

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1831: Nat Turner launches a violent slave rebellion in Virginia resulting in the deaths of at least 55 whites.

(Turner was later executed.)

1911: Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (The painting was recovered two years later in Italy.)

1992: An 11-day siege begins at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as officials try to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal guns; on the first day, Weaver’s teenage son, Samuel, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan are killed.

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Six-year mark is officially the new seven-year itch Sam Claflin and wife Laura Haddock have separated after six years of marriage, E! News reported Tuesday. “We will move forward with nothing but love, friendship and a deep respect for one another,” the actor reportedly wrote Monday in a since-deleted Instagram post. The couple has a 3-year-old son, Pip, and 18-monthold daughter, Margot. (EXPRESS)

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