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A rift for all to see While President Trump called this year’s G-7 summit ‘very unified,’ the widening gulf between the U.S. and the other economic powers on issues ranging from climate change to trade was on full display 11

Growing pains ‘David Makes Man’ is a harsh but powerful coming-of-age tale 17

Opioid milestone

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Johnson & Johnson is ordered to pay $572M for its role in the crisis 9

Speedy sales Amazon’s arrival in Virginia has kicked off a real estate frenzy 4

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HA Schult’s “Trash People” sculptures are seen Sunday at the art installation “Go Matera.

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UNEXPECTED HAZARDS: COBRA

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Someone is going to be a real pariah at the next HOA meeting

If that 2:30 a.m. Taco Bell craving hits, you do what you must

Authorities in Tulsa, Okla., said a gas station security guard shot and wounded a man who was swinging an Australian musical instrument at him. Police said the shooting happened late Saturday at a QuikTrip convenience store. The guard said he fired after the man “swung a large wooden club at him” that was found to be a didgeridoo. Witnesses said the man may have had a knife. The man was shot in the groin area but is expected to recover. (AP)

A cobra is on the loose in western Germany, and authorities are trying to figure out how far it has slithered. Authorities in Herne said the venomous snake was spotted Sunday morning in the hallway of a house where snakes were kept and may have left the building. Four houses were evacuated, and those within 500 yards were advised to leave doors and windows closed. Police said Monday the cobra’s whereabouts were unknown. (AP)

Authorities in Cromwell, Conn., are looking for two men they say robbed a Taco Bell armed with a machete and a crowbar. Police say the suspects entered the restaurant at around 2:30 a.m.

Monday. Police say they had employees empty a safe and their pockets. The men allegedly then took the staff outside and had them wait there while they fled in a tan Honda. Police responded and tried to stop the vehicle. (AP)

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TECHNOLOGY Native Americans aren’t often depicted as equals in art throughout the U.S. Capitol, a building that is at the heart of representative democracy and the notion that all Americans share the same rights.

But developers of a new app are hoping to change that narrative. The Guide to Indigenous DC app, which now has had more than 600 downloads, takes users on a 9-mile self-guided tour of 17 city sites connected to Native American history.

Created by George Washington University’s AT&T Center for Indigenous Politics and Policy, it’s designed for visitors to Washington, in addition to serving as an educational tool for teachers across the country.

“We hear about Founding Fathers, construction of the White House and all of these institutions that we call American,” says Elizabeth Rule, assistant

director of the center. “And oftentimes native people are left out of that narrative. So I hope that the app and the information there will re-center native people.”

The tour starts at the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial and discusses Ira Hayes, a Pima Native American who helped in the iconic raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima.

The 16 other stops include the Kicking Bear and Buffalo sculptures on the Dumbarton Bridge, and the National Museum of the American Indian.

The tribal delegates buried in the Congressional Cemetery and the Liberty and Freedom Lummi totem poles — dedicated by the Lummi Nation after the 9/11 attacks — wrap up the tour.

Rule, an enrolled citizen in the Chickasaw Nation, said the idea for the app came after conversations with high school and college students learning about native history.

She consulted with tribal community members on the app as she researched potential places and wrote the site descriptions.

The app took about a year and

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Tour app tells stories of indigenous people through area landmarks

The Guide to Indigenous DC app features these totem poles presented to the Pentagon by the Lummi Nation after 9/11.

The buffalo sculptures on the Dumbarton Bridge are included in the Guide to Indigenous DC app.

The grave site of Chief Pushmataha at the Congressional Cemetery is one of 17 sites profiled in the app.

a half to create. Rule says she’s looking forward to expanding it by adding new tours and exploring partnerships with tribes and other organizations.

“I really wanted our students to know that when they come

here ... they’re following in the steps of their ancestors, by coming here, working on behalf of indigenous people, being representative of their people in the federal government,” Rule says.

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STRATEGY SHIFT

Spin to dock its dockless D.C. scooters Scooter company Spin is placing docking stations for its scooters at locations across the District and Northern Virginia, where users can pick up and return the rented equipment. Spin said the charging stations, on private property, will bring some order to sidewalks, where the devices are often left lying around. Over the next two weeks, 40 batterypowered docking stations will be placed in D.C., Arlington and Alexandria.

There are plans to transition to solar power in the fall. (TWP)

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Virginia sees housing frenzy REAL ESTATE The first Amazon employees have barely arrived in Northern Virginia, but the housing market close to the company’s new headquarters in Arlington County is behaving as if all 25,000 workers are moving in next week, real estate agents and analysts say.

The lightning speed of sales, shortage of homes on the market and elevated prices for available stock are all being driven by those who already call the region home, real estate agents say. Nearly all of the buyers who are being locked out are existing residents as well, they say.

The latest evidence that the impending arrival of Amazon’s second North American headquarters has ignited a frenzy came last week when the real estate brokerage Redfin calculated that the two areas bracketing Crystal City, the new home for Amazon, are the most competitive housing markets in the U.S. “Most competitive” in this context means that nearly half the homes in the 22202 ZIP code sold faster than both the D.C. metro region or the national rate.

“Over half of all homes for

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Democrats see strong results in Virginia poll Pivotal elections in the Virginia state legislature are slightly more than two months away. A new Roanoke College poll Monday previewed races. (EXPRESS)

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Current local residents, not Amazon staffers, drive booming market

Area residents in Northern Virginia are ramping up home purchases and sales in anticipation of a surge of Amazon employees coming to the area.

sale (57%) in both Arlington and Alexandria went off the market in two weeks or less,” according to the Redfin study of July data.

The homes also sold for more than their listing price, with multiple buyers who routinely waived the contingency clauses that protect them from unseen structural defects. In addition, fewer than half as many homes

are for sale now as a year ago.

Many buyers are investors who plan to rent properties.

Others, many of whom are local residents who have been renting and planning to buy soon, are also rushing to purchase before the Amazon employees, with average salaries of $150,000, arrive in force over the next few years.

(Amazon said it plans to hire 400

this year, and 1,000 to 1,500 in each of the subsequent years.)

“I don’t have anybody who is a client working for Amazon or anybody relocating to work for Amazon,” said Redfin agent Mara Gemond. “All of them are locals, often first-time home buyers … who are accelerating their plans to buy.”

Shortly after Amazon announced its move, the area saw its monthly supply of homes on the market approach its lowest levels since at least 2006. Alexandria and Arlington have had fewer than a month’s worth of homes on the market this year.

New home buyers simply cannot compete, especially when investors make all-cash offers, with a willingness to close within the week, said Christine Richardson, president of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors.

Homeowners ready to downsize or relocate are putting plans on hold for a couple years, when stronger demand could fetch them higher prices, Richardson said.

What’s happening is a result of the housing affordability and availability crisis, said Terry Clower, director of George Mason University’s Center for Regional Analysis.

“We just haven’t been building enough units,” Clower said.

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27% 37% 36% 30% President Trump’s approval rating among potential Virginia voters — a new low for Trump in the Roanoke poll, down from a peak of 38%.

Slightly more than half of potential voters said they disapprove of Trump’s performance.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s approval rating, versus 29% disapproval among potential voters.

Northam, D, faced a scandal earlier this year after a racist photo on his medical school yearbook page came to light.

The percentage of potential voters who want to see Democrats gain control of the state Senate, compared with 31% who said they prefer Republican control.

Democrats currently hold 19 Senate seats, while Republicans hold 20.

D.C. man, 22, among three dead after shooting at New Mexico house party

The percentage of potential voters who want Republicans to keep control of the House of Delegates, where they currently hold 51 seats and Democrats hold 48.

Thirty-eight percent of potential voters want Democrats in control.

Stores file suit to sell pets bred commercially MARYLAND Pet stores are suing to block a Maryland law that will bar them from selling commercially bred dogs and cats, a measure billed as a check against unlicensed and substandard “puppy mills.”

The stores’ federal lawsuit, filed Friday, challenges a ban set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2020.

Maryland is the second state, after California, to pass such restrictions on the sale of dogs and cats.

The pet stores fear the ban will put them out of business.

Their suit says animal welfare organizations have made unfounded claims that pet stores fuel the growth of puppy mills.

The lawsuit also claims the ban effectively will shift the sale of puppies from regulated retailers to unregulated sources, such as sellers placing ads on the internet or in newspapers.

The first law of this kind took effect in January in California, prohibiting pet stores from selling a dog, cat or rabbit unless it came from an animal shelter or rescue group. Maryland has already enacted a similar measure.

Maryland’s law encourages animal welfare organizations to collaborate with retail pet stores to showcase pets for adoption or purchase from “local breeders.”

The pet stores’ lawsuit claims the ban is unconstitutional. The legislation’s intent to facilitate sales from local breeders discriminates against out-ofstate breeders and brokers, the suit says. MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (AP)

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9:30 Club owner on leave after solicitation arrest

Post office named in honor of victim in mass shooting

Utility starts investigation of blast at shopping center

Seth Hurwitz, whose company owns 9:30 Club and The Anthem, is “stepping aside” from his leadership role after getting arrested last week on a charge of soliciting prostitution, according to a Billboard report. “As anyone who knows our concert and venue businesses well is aware, I don’t have much to do with actually running them these days, but to eliminate distraction, I’m stepping aside for the time being until the matter is resolved,” Hurwitz, 60, wrote Saturday in a letter to his employees. In addition to owning 9:30 and The Anthem, Hurwitz’s company, IMP, books events at Merriweather Post Pavilion. (EXPRESS)

President Trump has signed a bill into law naming a Virginia post office in honor of a mass shooting victim who died saving others. A release last week from the office of Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., said Trump named the Virginia Beach building the Ryan Keith Cox Post Office. In May, 12 people were killed when a Virginia Beach employee opened fire in a municipal building before being shot and killed by police.

Survivors have told stories of Cox’s heroic actions, saying he led a group to an office and barricaded them inside. Survivor Christi Dewar has said Cox headed toward gunshot sounds to try to save others. (AP)

A Baltimore Gas and Electric official said Monday that the utility company had not yet determined the cause of the natural gas leak suspected of triggering the explosion and fire that destroyed a shopping center in Columbia, Md. BGE spokesman Aaron Koos said the utility has launched an investigation into what was behind Sunday’s “extremely dangerous event.”

The explosion, which could be felt several miles away, occurred shortly before 8 a.m. at 8865 Stanford Blvd., in a building that houses several small businesses and offices in a popular commercial district of Columbia. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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DC RIDER | KERY MURAKAMI

Al-Qaabil said.

One day a couple of months ago, his dispatcher called saying he’d sent three drivers to pick someone up, but none could find the address.

“You know where this is?” the dispatcher asked him.

Al-Qaabil said, “Sure,” and went to get the passenger.

“The address is in an alley.

You wouldn’t know unless you knew,” he said. “It’s just experience from being out here.”

He started driving a cab in D.C. in 1973, carrying a map and the Yellow Pages in his vehicle, and accumulating knowledge from there.

At 66, he now mostly works in the Yellow Cab office in Northeast D.C. as a dispatcher.

But he still drives a couple hours a day, six days a week — to get extra cash to retire.

“I’ve got a little more debt to pay off first,” he said.

The work of dispatching taxis has changed, too. Dispatchers used to radio cabs in the area of a call when someone called for a ride. Then, one by one, cabbies nearby would radio their locations, and the dispatcher would send the closest one.

“The computer does all that now in seconds,” Al-Qaabil said.

But there’s still a place for an old hand who knows the

KERY MURAKAMI (EXPRESS)

Muhammad Al-Qaabil has been driving a cab in D.C. for 46 years, so he knows something about picking up passengers — like, when you pick someone up, it’s best to go where they actually are.

So he laughed last Tuesday when a passenger in his DC Yellow Cab shared a story of woe. He had called one afternoon for a Lyft ride from 101 Constitution Avenue NW. Not seeing the car after a while, the man called the driver, who said he was there, waiting — on Second Street NW. “This is where the GPS sent me,” the driver told him.

Where would you go to pick up someone at 101 Constitution, the passenger asked Al-Qaabil.

“101 Constitution,” he said.

At a time when many ride-share and cab drivers mindlessly go where the GPS says, Al-Qaabil is a throwback to a time when cabbies knew their way around, down to the precise address.

Technology has, as rideshare company executives would say, disrupted the work of picking people up and taking them places — but some veteran drivers still rely on the GPS that’s in their own heads,

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GPS of the mind: Driver knows D.C. down to a science

Muhammad Al-Qaabil started driving D.C. cabs in 1973. He still drives passengers six days a week.

city. Last Tuesday, while AlQaabil was dispatching, a call came in for a cab. Whoever took the call entered the 4500 block of C Street NW into the system, “which doesn’t exist,” Al-Qaabil said.

This confused the computer, he said, “so the job was just sitting there.” He knew of the 4500 block on C Street SW, so he overrode the computer and sent the cab there.

“There’s still a need for dispatchers,” he said. “Computers haven’t learned everything.”

He uses other tricks too.

“On Georgia Avenue, I know that around Randolph [Street NW], the streets have two syllables. Then you go up a couple of blocks you get three-syllable names like Buchanan,” he said.

And indeed, according to an

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explanation by the civic group Greater Greater Washington, once D.C.’s lettered streets run through “W,” the subsequent streets’ names run in alphabetical order and have two syllables. After the alphabet is exhausted again, threesyllable names start.

Al-Qaabil does use GPS at times.

“There are so many new streets and new developments that don’t follow the policy anymore,” he said. “They put in a one-syllable word in with the three-syllable words.”

Technology can he helpful, but it can also make things less colorful. Al-Qaabil says he once knew a cab driver who spent time in prison for robbing a bank. When he got out, he visited a cemetery and borrowed the name of someone born around the same time.

“All the information he needed to get a birth certificate was on the death certificate,” Al-Qaabil said. “He drove a cab for 25 years on a dead man’s name.”

Asked if that could happen today, he scoffed, “Nah. I don’t think that would happen now with the technology, man.”

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Bowser insists D.C. Circulator should be free TRANSPORTATION Mayor Muriel Bowser has not given up on making DC Circulator rides free permanently.

Bowser, D, announced in March that the city would permanently eliminate the Circulator’s $1 fare. Critics said the plan disproportionately benefited tourists and those in affluent neighborhoods.

The service primarily serves downtown and the Mall.

In May, the council denied Bowser’s request for $3.1 million in the fiscal 2020 budget to keep rides free. Fares are set to resume Oct. 1.

To sway the council, Bowser has been using social media to encourage residents to lobby council members. Her tweets include videos of riders praising her for the fare break.

“It is true: for some, the $1 fare is nominal,” Bowser tweeted recently. “For many others, though — especially for our most vulnerable neighbors — it is prohibitive.”

Council members, so far, appear unswayed.

“She can keep tweeting, but … the budget is done. It’s not going to happen,” said council member Mary Cheh, D-Ward 3.

Cheh said Bowser failed to prove free rides benefit low-income residents. Council members also had concerns about the effect of free service on other transit options and said there was no evidence that free service would reduce traffic.

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Report: D.C. ranks third-highest among nation’s metropolitan areas in traffic delays

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Judge: Drug company responsible for crisis

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HEALTH A judge Monday found Johnson & Johnson responsible for fueling Oklahoma’s opioid crisis, ordering the health care company to pay $572 million to remedy the devastation wrought by the epidemic on the state and its residents.

Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman’s landmark decision is the first to hold a drugmaker culpable for the fallout of years of liberal opioid dispensing that began in the late 1990s, sparking a nationwide epidemic of overdose deaths and addiction. More than 400,000 people have died of overdoses from painkillers, heroin and illegal fentanyl since 1999.

“The opioid crisis has ravaged the state of Oklahoma and must be abated immediately,” Balkman said, reading part of his decision aloud from the bench Monday afternoon.

With more than 40 states lined up to pursue similar claims against the pharmaceutical industry, the ruling in the first state case to go to trial could influence both sides’ strategies in the months and years to come.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys were hopeful it would serve as a bellwether for an enormous federal lawsuit brought by nearly 2,000 cities,

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Okla. court rules that Johnson & Johnson fueled opioid epidemic

District Judge Thad Balkman on Monday ordered drugmaker Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million for its role in fueling Oklahoma’s opioid crisis.

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The average number of opioid prescriptions that pharmacies in Oklahoma dispensed every hour in 2017. More than 6,000 Oklahomans have died of painkiller overdoses since 2000, the state charged in court papers. (TWP)

counties, Native American tribes and others, which is scheduled to begin in October.

“As a matter of law, I find that defendants’ actions caused harm, and those harms are the kinds recognized by [state law]

because those actions annoyed, injured or endangered the comfort, repose, health or safety of Oklahomans,” Balkman wrote.

Johnson & Johnson, which has denied any wrongdoing, said it would appeal the decision.

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter brought suit in 2017 against three major drug companies, accusing them of creating “a public nuisance” by showering the state with opioids, while downplaying the drugs’ addictive potential and persuading physicians to use them even for minor aches and pains. Before the late 1990s, physicians reserved the powerful drugs primarily for cancer and post-surgical pain and end-of-life care.

It’s finger-lickin’ fake chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken plans to test plantbased chicken nuggets and boneless wings today at one of its restaurants in Atlanta. Depending on customer feedback, the chain could expand the test to other markets. KFC is partnering with Beyond Meat to develop the new product. Beyond Meat also sells plant-based burgers and sausages at grocery stores and some fast-food chains such as Carl’s Jr. and Del Taco. Restaurants are responding to a surge in consumer demand for plant-based meats. U.S. sales of meat substitutes are expected to jump 78% to $2.5 billion between 2018 and 2023, according to Euromonitor. (AP)

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Vikings guard Danish crosswalks

It’s safe to cross when the green Viking is walking, but stop when the red one is standing. That’s the message to pedestrians in Aarhus as it unveils new crossing signals to celebrate the history of Denmark’s second-largest city. The city, which Vikings founded in the eighth century, on Monday unveiled the first of 17 traffic signals featuring Vikings holding axes and shields, but no horned helmets — there is no evidence that Viking helmets really did have horns. (AP) Iran: 2.1 million barrels of oil aboard tanker pursued by U.S. sold to unnamed buyer

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Ex-sheriff Arpaio, 87, runs for his old job Nearly three years after he was voted out of office, former metro Phoenix sheriff Joe Arpaio, 87, is going after his old job. The Republican announced his 2020 campaign for Maricopa County sheriff Sunday on the anniversary of his 2017 pardon from President Trump. Arpaio had been convicted of disobeying a judge’s order that barred traffic patrols targeting immigrants. Arpaio spent 24 years as sheriff. (AP) NEW YORK

Weinstein trial delayed after he pleads not guilty Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to a new indictment Monday that includes revised charges of predatory sexual assault. The development led the judge to delay the trial from Sept. 9 until Jan. 6.

Weinstein, 67, who is free on $1 million bail, denies all accusations of non-consensual sex. (AP) MIDDLE EAST

Fears of war intensify as Israel strikes Lebanon Lebanese and Iraqi politicians denounced Israeli strikes on their territory as a “declaration of war” Monday as a suspected Israeli aircraft struck another target in Lebanon. The attack on a Palestinian facility in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley was the fourth in a little over a day to hit locations tied to Iranian-backed groups in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. (THE WASHINGTON POST) WEATHER

Tropical Storm Dorian increases in strength Forecasters said Tropical Storm Dorian was gathering strength Monday while approaching islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea, and could strike Puerto Rico and its neighbors as a minimal hurricane today. The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued tropical storm warnings for Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. (AP)

19 states sue Trump administration over rollback of protections for immigrant children

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Outrage over Amazon grows G-7 countries pledge $31M, threaten Brazil as the rainforest burns

Chocolate can throw off tests of pot potency

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ENVIRONMENT The Group of Seven nations on Monday pledged tens of millions of dollars to help Amazon countries fight raging wildfires, even as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro accused rich countries of treating the region like a “colony.”

The pledge included $20 million from the G-7, the group of leading industrial nations, and a separate $11 million from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canada has also offered to send firefighting planes to Brazil.

The funds were widely seen as a relatively small amount for dealing with an environmental crisis of such scale, and it was unclear how the money would be administered. Brazil’s environment minister, Ricardo Salles, said the aid was welcome and that Brazil should decide how the resources are used.

The international pledges came despite tensions between European countries and the Brazilian president, who suggested the West was angling to exploit Brazil’s natural resources.

“Look, does anyone help anyone … without something in return? What have they wanted there for so long?” he told journalists at the presidential palace.

Bolsonaro has insulted adversaries and allies, disparaged women and black and gay people,

The effects of the recent fires and smoke in the rainforest have disrupted life for many in the Amazon region.

and even praised his country’s 1964-1985 dictatorship. But nothing has rallied more anger at home and criticism from abroad than his response to the fires raging in parts of the Amazon region.

The populist Brazilian leader initially questioned whether activist groups might have started the fires in an effort to damage the credibility of his government.

Bolsonaro has called for looser environmental regulations in the world’s largest rainforest to spur development.

In response, European leaders threatened to block a major trade deal with Brazil that would benefit the very agricultural interests accused of

driving deforestation.

The impact of the fires and smoke has disrupted life for many in the Amazon region.

The airport in Porto Velho, the capital of Rondonia state, was closed for more than an hour Monday because of poor visibility. On Sunday, a soccer match of a lower-tier national league was briefly suspended because of smoke in Rio Branco, capital of Acre state, as fire burned in a field outside the stadium.

Thousands of people have demonstrated in cities across Brazil and outside Brazilian embassies around the world. #PrayforAmazonia has become a worldwide trending topic.

Bolsonaro has announced he

would send 44,000 soldiers to help battle the blazes, which mostly seem to be charring land deforested, perhaps illegally, for farming and ranching rather than burning through stands of trees.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday continued his feud with Bolsonaro, who has endorsed a Facebook post insulting Macron’s wife. Macron accused the Brazilian leader of skipping a scheduled meeting with the French foreign minister in favor of a barber appointment and reiterated that Bolsonaro had lied to him. “ It ’s sad . F i rst for h i m and for the Brazilians,” Macron said. LUIS ANDRES HENAO AND MARCELO DE SOUZA (AP)

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REPUBLICAN REP. SEAN DUFFY, announcing Monday that he will resign from his Wisconsin congressional seat, citing health

issues with his ninth child, who is due in October. Duffy, 47, has been a staunch supporter of President Trump.

Tim Bell, PR expert credited with helping former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher win, dies at 77

HEALTH How much marijuana is really in that pot brownie? Chocolate can throw off potency tests, so labels aren’t always accurate. Scientists are trying to figure out why.

In states where marijuana is legal, pot comes in cookies, mints, gummies — even pretzels.

These commercial products are labeled with the amount of high-inducing THC. That helps medical marijuana patients get the desired dose and other consumers fine-tune their buzz.

But something about chocolate, chemists say, seems to interfere with potency testing. A chocolate labeled as 10 milligrams of THC could have far more and could send someone to the hospital with hallucinations.

The latest research on chocolate is one example of chemistry’s growing role in the pot industry. Besides studying chocolate’s quirks, chemists are working on extending shelf life, mimicking marijuana’s earthy aroma and making products safer.

The chocolate research will be on the agenda this week at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego.

The conference includes 20 presentations about marijuana’s technical challenges, said Markus Roggen, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based chemist organizing the program. That’s a big change, he said, from a few years ago, when presenters didn’t get much beyond the basics, such as: “This is THC. This is CBD.” CARLA K. JOHNSON (AP)

Greek police: 6 migrants killed, 10 hurt after smuggling jeep crashes

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Trump touts his Florida resort as next G-7 host President Trump called the G-7 summit, which ended Monday, “very unified.”

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At G-7, U.S. stands apart A global summit between President Trump and other leaders ended Monday in Biarritz, France, without significant progress on any of the world’s most pressing issues, laying bare the widening gulf between the United States and other nations on trade imbalances, climate change and Iran, among other things. While Trump called it a “very unified two-and-a-half days,” this year’s G-7 summit highlighted some of the biggest differences between the U.S. and the six other economic powers. (THE WASHINGTON POST/AP)

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After several days of whiplash statements about China, Trump on Monday said trade negotiations are set to resume once more. “We’ve gotten two calls and very, very good calls,” Trump said. “They want to be able to make a deal.” Other administration officials were more circumspect, and it wasn’t clear how substantive any interaction had been.

G-7 leaders were unable to persuade Trump to quickly resolve his trade fight and instead urged him to wrap it up as quickly as possible.

“What’s bad for the world economy is uncertainty, and the quicker an agreement is arrived at, the quicker uncertainty will dissipate,” French President Emmanuel Macron said.

But Trump was unapologetic amid concerns that his shifts in rhetoric and policies are hurting the global economy. “Sorry — it’s the way I negotiate,” Trump said. “It’s done very well for me over the years.”

Trump skipped a discussion on climate with other world leaders at the G-7 summit — then claimed to “know more about the environment than anyone.” Trump left an empty chair as global power brokers debated Monday how to help the fire-stricken Amazon and reduce carbon emissions. “I’m an environmentalist,” Trump told reporters, even as he celebrated America’s oil and gas wealth.

Macron shrugged off the absence, noting that Trump’s aides were there instead. Trump is a climate change skeptic who once had claimed it’s a hoax that was invented by the Chinese. His decision to withdraw the U.S. from the 2015 Paris climate accord has severely damaged global efforts to reduce emissions.

Environmental activists declared the summit a failure, demanding tougher global emissions rules and more aid for the Amazon.

Trump said Monday there’s a “really good chance” he could meet with Iran’s leader to address their nuclear impasse, after a surprise intervention by the French president to try to bring Washington and Tehran together after decades of conflict. Macron orchestrated a high-stakes gamble to invite the Iranian foreign minister to the summit. Macron said he hoped Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani could meet within weeks in hopes of saving the 2015 nuclear deal that Tehran struck with world powers, but which the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from last year.

Trump was less definitive about a time frame for such a meeting with Rouhani. “If the circumstances were correct or right, I would certainly agree to that. But in the meantime, they have to be good players. You understand what that means,” Trump said of the Iranians.

Trump said Monday it’s better to have Russia “in the tent” rather than “outside the tent” of the group of advanced industrialized economies.

He said he’s inclined to invite Russia to next year’s summit in the U.S. and that it’s being discussed. Russia was kicked out of the group after it annexed Crimea in 2014. European officials said Trump’s proposal is premature. The EU wants progress on peace accords for Ukraine first.

Macron said the G-7 leaders could not agree on whether to invite Russia back into the grouping. At the summit, Trump attacked former President Barack Obama’s intellect while defending Russian President Vladimir Putin for annexing part of Crimea. To many world leaders, Putin’s move was illegal, having nothing to do with Obama. “President Putin outsmarted President Obama,” Trump said, calling it “very embarrassing” for Obama.

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POLITICS President Trump said Monday that he was likely to hold next year’s Group of Seven summit at his resort in Doral, Fla., meaning he could personally profit from the prestigious gathering of foreign leaders.

In a news conference, Trump said that his staff had scoured the country and determined that — of all America’s resorts and resort towns — Trump’s club was the best situated to host the international meeting.

“It’s not about me,” he said. “It’s about getting the right location.”

The Doral club is in an inland area of Miami-Dade County, situated among industrial parks far from the Atlantic Ocean. But Trump cited the resort’s ample parking and its proximity to the Miami airport.

Trump said he had lost more than $3 billion from being president — a figure he’s never detailed or backed up with documentation. He said the Doral event, which would bring hundreds of people to a resort his company has said is severely underperforming, was not intended to make himself money.

The Constitution prohibits presidents from taking emoluments, or payments, from foreign states. Trump has continued to do business with foreign governments at his hotels — saying the Founders meant to ban outright bribes, not business transactions. JOSH DAWSEY AND DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD (TWP)

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Transition to the island of Borneo comes amid overcrowding, pollution JAKARTA Indonesia’s president announced Monday that the country’s capital will move from overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta to a site in sparsely populated East Kalimantan province on Borneo island, known for its rainforests and orangutans.

President Joko Widodo said intense studies over the past three years had resulted in the choice of the location on the eastern side of Borneo island.

The new capital city, which has not yet been named and will be built from scratch, will be in the middle of the vast archipelago nation and already has relatively complete infrastructure because it is near the cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda, Widodo said.

He said the burden has been become too heavy on Jakarta on Java island as the center of government, finance, business, trade and services, as well as the location of the country’s largest airport and seaport.

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“We couldn’t continue to allow the burden on Jakarta and Java island to increase in terms of population density,” Widodo said at a news conference in Jakarta’s presidential palace. “Economic disparities between Java and elsewhere would also increase.”

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‘You have to be present’ NATIONALS Aníbal Sánchez walked through the Wrigley Field concourse Sunday evening, empty aside from him and his teammates. They were all headed for the Nationals’ charter plane, which was soon headed east for a day off.

But Sánchez wasn’t taking that flight. He had to get on another, a nonstop flight from Chicago to Miami, to spend Monday with his children. It’s a routine he’s repeated many times this season. If the Nationals are off, and Sánchez isn’t pitching the next day, he heads home to his family.

“You have to be present for your kids,” Sánchez, a 35-yearold starter, said last week. “It can be so hard with baseball, and how our schedules are, but you want them to grow up knowing who you are.”

Sánchez is one of many fathers on the Nationals, and across the league, juggling parenting and baseball. Reliever Hunter Strickland flew to Georgia on Sunday with his wife expecting their second baby girl. Reliever Daniel Hudson has two young daughters

in Phoenix, and FaceTimes with them every morning and before every game. He has bounced around a lot in the last few seasons and wants his family to have a set base. That’s a common decision for players without long-term contracts. Sánchez, on a two-year deal with Washington, has been with three clubs in three seasons.

His daughter, Anabella, is almost 7 years old. His son, also named Aníbal, was born 20 months ago. The kids and his wife, Ana, were with him all summer, living in Washington, traveling city to city. But since Anabella is in first grade now, and Sánchez doesn’t want her missing school, he is apart from his family in the spring and fall.

“I tell all my guys the same thing: Family first, baseball second,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. “Aníbal came to me earlier this season saying he wanted to visit his kids and his wife on off days. I told him that was a great idea, and just be ready to pitch every fifth day.”

Much of Sánchez’s outlook — on baseball, on fatherhood, on

Aníbal Sánchez’s family spends the school year in Miami, where his daughter attends first grade.

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life — is rooted in tragedy. His first son, Alan, was born in 2006.

But when he and his first wife brought Alan to his native Venezuela, during the 2007 offseason, the 1-year-old contracted dengue fever and died.

Sánchez learned, in the hardest way possible, that every second with a child is “worth the world.”

“If I can help it, if I can make the late-night flight or the long drive, I never want to miss a thing with my kids,” Sánchez said. “There is really nothing more important to me.”

A regular day is him taking Anabella to school before playing with baby Aníbal. He picks Anabella up and helps her tackle homework. Later, he puts the kids to bed and spends time with Ana. Then he wakes up the next morning, takes Anabella to school again, plays with his son for a few more hours and, before efore noon, is flying back to Washinghington. He’s in the Nationals Park clubhouse by 2 p.m. JESSE DOUGHERTY HERTY

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Throughout the nonstop baseball season, Sánchez prioritizes family and fatherhood

MLS has suspended Wayne Rooney an additional match for a red card last week, meaning D.C. United’s captain will miss a critical trip to Montreal on Saturday.

He served a mandatory one-game suspension last weekend at Philadelphia, but because his expulsion against the New York Red Bulls on Wednesday involved a blow to the head, the league extended the penalty. With this absence, Rooney will have missed four of eight matches. After Saturday, only four regular-season games remain as United tries to recover from a summer slide that has dropped it from second to fifth in the Eastern Conference. D.C. (1010-9) has lost three straight and is 3-7-7 since mid-May. (TWP)

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‘Very functional’ veteran fills void while Williams’ holdout drags into fall REDSKINS The Redskins training staff tried to give Donald Penn time off a few days ago. He rejected the idea even though he was hurting. He wanted to recapture his rhythm, and drills like the ones he was doing Monday at Redskins Park were instrumental for a veteran who has “been out of football for a while.”

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me,” the 36-year-old Penn said.

“I’m not where I want to be at.

Good thing is, I’m going to make sure I’m ready by Philly.”

Coach Jay Gruden announced Monday that Penn is the Redskins’ left tackle, meaning he’ll likely start in the Sept. 8 season opener at the Eagles. The Redskins signed Penn in the first week of training camp in case franchise left tackle Trent Williams’ holdout continued into the season. Williams hasn’t returned, but Gruden said Monday he believed “very strongly” the team would not trade its disgruntled star.

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New research shows that visiting outdoor public spaces can increase happiness, particularly large parks with lots of vegetation.

The perks of the park A new study shows visiting a public green space can provide a major mood boost WELL-BEING Here’s the best piece of advice you’ll get all day: Go to the park.

According to a new study by researchers at the University of Vermont, city dwellers can not only overcome crankiness by spending time at a public park, but they can also be rewarded with a happiness boost akin to that of Christmas morning.

What’s more, they found, people’s moods started to improve just from the anticipation of a park outing, and the increased happiness lasted several hours afterward. They also found that while any outdoor public space boosted happiness, large parks with lots of vegetation seemed to provide the most benefit.

The study relies on a tool called the Hedonometer, which measures the sentiment of tweets based on the words they contain.

Words like “laughter” and “love” have a strong positive association, while “murder” and “cancer” clearly do not. Others, such as “indicate” and “me,” don’t carry an innate emotional valence.

It’s not a perfect tool. It doesn’t attempt to understand contextual clues that can change the interpretation of a word or indicate when it’s being used sarcastically.

But research has shown it does a good job of measuring the sentiment of a large corpus of text.

The researchers collected all geotagged Twitter posts originating in San Francisco between May and August of 2016. This allowed them to determine whether a tweet was sent from within a city park. They then measured the collective sentiment of those tweets, as well as tweets sent before and after park visits.

On a scale of 1 to 9, tweets sent from parks had a sentiment of about 6.43, an increase of about 0.229 points over those sent from someplace else. That’s equivalent to the happiness increase the Hedonometer finds among Twitter users on Christmas — the happiest day of the year by its calculations.

T he r e s e a rcher s fou nd words like “beautiful,” “sun” and “happy” were much more

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common in park tweets. Posters were less likely to use negative words such as “not” and “don’t” or first-person pronouns like “I” or “me.”

Twitter, of course, isn’t representative of the entire U.S. population. Still, as a tool for measuring the real-time thoughts and actions of millions of people, it is essentially unparalleled.

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mental frame, potentially leading to prosocial behavior,” the authors write. Research published in 2014, for instance, found that people exposed to beautiful natural organisms or environments were more likely to exhibit generous or trusting tendencies, and to be more agreeable and empathetic.

Research has shown that people who live in cities tend to be less happy than those elsewhere, and that rates of mental illness are higher in cities as well. The University of Vermont study suggests that urban green spaces can help counteract these trends, and that they confer a benefit that goes beyond dollars and cents.

“A big focus in conservation has been on monetary benefits, like, ‘How many dollars of flood damage did we avoid by restoring a wetland?’ ” says co-author Taylor Ricketts. “But this study is part of a new wave of research that expands beyond monetary benefits to quantify the direct health benefits of nature.” CHRISTOPHER INGRAHAM (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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I understand this, for sure. But if you go into the conversation with the agenda of absolutely barring his sister from having this role, it’s going to be difficult to get him to hear your point of view. This has to be a more nuanced discussion, with alternative options presented (both in terms of who else would be godparent and also how to frame the decision to her when she learns of it), a calm expression of your specific concerns and feelings

about why she wouldn’t be the best choice, and — perhaps most important — a willingness to listen to his point of view. Being a godparent can look very different across different families, and it’s possible that the two of you aren’t imagining it in the same way.

A more thorough reality check could make it more palatable for you — or, on the other hand, help him to see your side. The sooner you have this talk, the better.

First, can you be certain that this wasn’t a big misunderstanding? (All right, all right.

I didn’t think so either.) Pick a private time that won’t feel like an ambush, and bring this latest discrepancy up in a polite, “curious” and “puzzled” way. Be aware that no matter how kind you are, she might go on the defensive — especially if she feels like she’s been found out and had never imagined her fabrications would ever be a problem. Say that something strange happened when you were chatting with X, and you are confused, and want to get her take on it. But since you already suspect that her lying is a chronic issue, you have to figure out what you are looking for out of this conversation: her side of the story? An explanation of why she does it? Her awareness that you are onto her? Her chance to make things right?

Her being put on notice that if it keeps up, you are jumping ship from the friendship? Be prepared if this starts a fire.

Send questions to Dr. Andrea Bonior at baggage@wpost .com. Andrea is a licensed clinical psychologist and hosts a live chat Tuesdays at 1 p.m. at washingtonpost.com. Your questions may be used in the chats.

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entertainment Nathaniel Logan McIntyre, left, and Akili McDowell are at odds in the new series “David Makes Man.”

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Truly spellbinding: ‘David’ is a study in magical realism “David Makes Man” is the story of an African American middle school student in South Florida, living in poverty with his single mom and little brother. He is brimming with intellectual potential and surrounded by the quicksand of drug-dealing and crime. The new series (10 p.m. Wednesdays on OWN) is a variant on the well-worn high school drama, but far transcends its genre.

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Alvin McCraney, the Oscarwinning co-screenwriter of “Moonlight.” And Episode 1, though only an hour, feels like a movie in its own right, with its deep themes and gorgeous cinematography. David’s mom (Alana Arenas) is a shift worker at a truck stop, often absent from the scene as she tries to earn enough money to get the family out of the run-down pink motel-turnedapartment where they live.

David must get his younger brother (Cayden Williams) up and off to one school, then dash for the school bus to the

magnet program he attends, only to miss it every day and board a public bus.

On one ride, he converses with a man who seems familiar to him and yet somehow mysterious. From behind his sunglasses, the man dispenses advice: “People need to see your eyes.” Is he real … or a ghost from David’s past?

Magical realism is as much a part of the series as the grit of poverty. In one scene, David and a classmate (Nathaniel Logan McIntyre) sit in the antiseptic school hallway, waiting the principal’s decision on how to discipline them after they’ve brawled in class. The youngsters express their anger via scribbled text that appears on-screen. Are they really talking or just thinking to themselves? The show leaves it up to the viewer.

Their enmity is rooted in race — a topic that the show considers with remarkable

candor. David believes his lighter-skinned, biracial classmate is embracing an African American legacy that is not truly his. David’s teacher explains to the principal that, in this diverse but mainly white class for gifted students, David’s dark skin means that “he’s the only one that looks like him.”

The teacher is portrayed by the biggest name in the cast, Phylicia Rashad. But it is young actor Akili McDowell who is the shining star of “David Makes Man.” The man on the bus is right. You do need to see his eyes, which show us David’s dreams and fears, his anger and innocence. They reveal how the journey from childhood to manhood can be both harsh and exhilarating in one of the most original and riveting TV shows this year.

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

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The percentage of movies featuring Latino leads among the 1,200 top-grossing films from 2007 to 2018, according to a study released Monday by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. The study found that 4.5% of speaking or named characters were Latino, despite Latinos making up 24% of frequent moviegoers. (AP)

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TV REVIEW “The Affair” — do you still care?

Some of us remain deeply enmeshed in Sarah Treem and Hagai Levi’s intricately structured and satisfyingly grown-up Showtime drama about the endless aftershocks of what transpired between a married high school English teacher and a married Montauk waitress all those summers ago.

The show returned for its fifth and final season Sunday, with Helen Solloway (Maura Tierney) enduring the funeral for her second husband, Vik Ullah (Omar Metwally), while also accepting the fact that their next-door neighbor, Sierra (Emily Browning), has just given birth to Vik’s son, the result of yet another affair.

Noah Solloway (Dominic West), meanwhile, just grows more pathetic as the story moves on. He’s on yet another ego trip, serving as the on-set writer/consultant to a movie adaptation of his semiautobiographical novel, which recounts the affair that ruined his marriage to Helen.

“The Affair” is accommodating to the notion that we all struggle as monogamous beings — animals caged in confining moral codes. This show was never just about one affair, or even a singular kind of cheating. At its most tantalizing, “The Affair” was about sex, but at its most consistent points, it was about emotional deceit. HANK STUEVER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You don’t need to have everyone clamoring for you or your ideas today; you’ll have just enough support from your usual friends and allies.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Listen up. You’ll be a party to something that is quite instructive today, and you’ll be able to use the information almost immediately.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) All eyes are on you today, and many people are expecting things to go wrong for you — but you have an ace up your sleeve and should do well.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You may be surprised by the very thing that has caught you off guard once or twice already. Why can’t you learn from what’s gone before?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You have readied yourself for what lies in store today, but luck may still be a major factor. You have to be ready to react on the spot.

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1949: A violent white mob prevents an outdoor concert headlined by Paul Robeson from taking place near Peekskill, N.Y. (The concert was held eight days later.)

1975: Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia’s 3,000-year-old monarchy, dies in Addis Ababa at age 83 almost a year after being overthrown.

1979: British war hero Lord Louis Mountbatten and three other people, including his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas, are killed off the coast of Ireland in a boat explosion claimed by the Irish Republican Army.

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Earth Alliance was created last month by DiCaprio and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth. Brazilian federal experts have reported a record number of wildfires across the country this year, up 84% over the same period in 2018. (AP)

“Good Morning America” host Lara Spencer apologized Monday for her “insensitive” comments s about Prince George taking ballet lessons. Spencer r discussed the backlash against her comments, saying she has learned the “bravery it takes for a young boy to pursue a career in dance.” She was heavily criticized last week when she heard George e loved ballet and commented, “We’ll see how long that lasts.” Spencer on Monday interviewed dancers rs Robbie Fairchild, Travis Wall and Fabrice Calmels,, who told stories about the stigma they faced.

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