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Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’ shows a star stuck in her teen dreamland 16

Travel options A Maryland study recommends adding another bay bridge 4

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Hoping to pare down an unwieldy field, the DNC raised the bar for participating in upcoming debates, leaving some White House hopefuls racing against time — and spending big money — to make the cut 11

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Can someone really be convicted for stealing ice cream in July?

If you’re creative enough to don a beard, why not switch it up?

Police in suburban Houston are looking for a woman who used a power tool to break into a Botox clinic and steal anti-aging products. Sugar Land police say the burglary was Friday night at the Botox RN MD Spa. Video shows a woman attempting to open the locked door of the spa. She then retrieves a grinding saw from a Mercedes SUV and uses it to cut into the clinic. The woman stole a number of products before driving away. (AP)

A Las Vegas, N.M., man faces charges after he was accused of committing a cold crime on a hot day: an ice cream heist. The Las Vegas Optic reports Paul Trujillo, 31, was arrested last week after he allegedly was one of two men who entered a walkin freezer at a Dairy Queen store and stole 22 boxes of Dilly Bars. Police say the July 29 footage shows Trujillo walking up to the freezer after a stakeout.

The second man has not been identified. (AP)

An Albuquerque, N.M., woman is facing charges after authorities say she robbed stores while wearing a fake beard. Tamala Cole was arrested Thursday following heists at the Nothing Bundt Cake store and a Boba Tea cafe. In each case, police say Cole demanded money while holding a gun and wearing a “black beanie style hat” and a fake brown beard. Cole also is suspected of robbing a Subway and the religious goods store FaithWorks. (AP)

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Bingo! Girl saves vets’ game.

THE DISTRICT Life hasn’t been the same for Van Hayes since he stopped calling bingo games. Hayes, a 73-yearold Army veteran who lives in the Armed Forces Retirement Home in D.C., began calling games for other residents about four years ago, a job that suited his booming voice and big personality.

But in 2018, the decades-old bingo machine broke and stopped illuminating numbers on its display board.

“Oh, I do miss it,” he said.

Residents have tried to keep playing with workaround solutions like a computerized version of the game, but it’s not the same.

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16-year-old raises most of the funds necessary for new display board

Van Hayes, a resident of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in D.C., standing in front of the bingo machine that went haywire last year.

It’s a problem 16-year-old Sarah Barclay Kershner Nordlinger is determined to fix.

Nordlinger is raising money to replace the veterans’ bingo machine, a funding drive she launched in late June. On a

In 2018, D.C. reached new tourism record Destination DC, a nonprofit funded by the city’s hotel occupancy tax, reported Tuesday that in 2018, D.C. set a record for its number of visitors — for the ninth consecutive year. (TWP)

GoFundMe page, she has raised more than $6,000 toward an $8,000 goal, which would cover a new machine and buy residents soil and tools for their gardens.

Nordlinger, an Arlington resident and president of District of

Columbia Children of the American Revolution, said she wants to help the retirement home because her family members are veterans. She got the idea to help after touring the facility in early June and observing the residents’ sense of community.

“Almost everyone has a connection to a veteran in some kind of way; our freedom is because of them,” Nordlinger said. “It’s a way of thanking those who have put so much into helping us.”

Hayes said he plans to start calling games again as soon as the new bingo machine arrives — which everyone hopes will happen in October.

“I enjoy it, I enjoy the people,” Hayes said. “We have a lot of fun when we’re in the right mood in there.” HANNAH NATANSON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

23.8M $7.8B $2.8K 2M The number of people who visited D.C. in 2018, an increase of 1 million over 2017.

The number of visitors to D.C. has increased annually since 2011.

The amount those tourists spent in the city. Tourists also paid $851 million in local taxes and supported more than 76,000 jobs.

The amount by which each D.C. household’s taxes would have to increase to maintain the current level of tax receipts if there were no tourists.

The number of foreign travelers in 2018, a decrease of more than 5% from a year earlier.

Of those visitors, 226,000 came from China.

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New species of leech found in Maryland A newly discovered bloodsucking, olive-green leech with three jaws and as many as 59 teeth has been found in the swamps of southern Maryland’s Charles County. The new species, Macrobdella mimicus, is named after the Greek word for “imitator” or “actor,” because it looks very similar to the well-known M. decora species. Scientists did not previously realize that it was its own species. This is the first time since 1975 that a new leech species has been found in North America. (TWP)

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Md. mulls adding bay bridge New adjacent span identified as top option to relieve congestion EDUCATION

Back-to-school brings changes in D.C. and Va.

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MARYLAND Maryland transportation officials have determined that building a bridge adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge would relieve traffic backups better than an additional crossing much farther to the north or south, according to state findings released Tuesday.

Three alignments — one adjacent to the bridge, one just north of it and another just south — will be studied in more detail, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority, which owns and operates the Bay Bridge. That narrows the possible alignments from 14 initially considered.

However, state officials said, the study already has found that building an additional bridge along the same alignment as the existing one would reduce crossbay traffic backups the most, both on summer weekends and non-summer weekdays. The Bay Bridge connects U.S. routes 50 and 301 between Crofton in Anne Arundel County on the western shore with the same road in Queenstown in Queen Anne’s County on the eastern side.

The search for where to build an additional crossing has ignited concerns in communities along both sides of the Chesapeake Bay. Residents say another crossing would bring more traffic to local roads that are already clogged, particularly

Maryland officials are considering three locations to potentially add a new bridge spanning the Chesapeake Bay.

with summer beach traffic. The bridge also is a key commuter route between the Eastern Shore and job centers in the BaltimoreWashington region.

One of the other two alignments under consideration would be just north of the Bay Bridge, between Pasadena in Anne Arundel, Rock Hall in Kent County and Centreville in Queen Anne’s.

The other would be to the south, between Crofton in Anne Arundel and Easton in Talbot County.

Officials in Easton and St. Michael’s, two historic Eastern Shore towns that attract weekend shoppers and tourists, say their communities can’t absorb any additional traffic from a new bridge.

“We are inundated with traffic now just about every day of

the week, all through the year,” said Easton Mayor Robert Willey. “Right now, it seems to run more traffic through the central Eastern Shore would just be a bottleneck that we’d have trouble dealing with.”

The state also is considering a no-build option.

The Maryland Transportation Authority has been conducting the $5 million study since 2016 to determine, as required by federal law, how potential bridge alignments would affect the environment and local communities.

State officials say an additional crossing would also make the Bay Bridge more reliable and safer and would provide another way to cross the bay when a collision closes part of the Bay Bridge.

Without an additional crossing, the study has found, there would be 12 hours of eastbound traffic congestion at the Bay Bridge on summer weekends in 2040 — two hours more than in 2017. If another bridge is built nearby, the study found, the Bay Bridge would have no backups, both on summer weekends and on non-summer weekdays.

State officials haven’t said when a new crossing would be built, how much it would cost or how the state would pay for it.

However, the study notes that an alignment adjacent to the current bridge would be the shortest, at 22 miles, which likely also would make it the least expensive of those under consideration.

Students in D.C. and Fairfax and Prince William counties in Virginia returned to school on Monday. Here’s what’s new this year for parents and students in the region.

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New schools and names D.C. opened Bard High School Early College in Southeast, above, offering students a chance to pursue a high school diploma and a two-year associate degree. Arlington’s Washington-Lee High School will reopen as Washington-Liberty High, to avoid Confederate associations.

An early start for some Several Virginia school systems, including Fairfax and Prince William, secured a waiver from Virginia’s education department to open before Labor Day, currently prohibited under a law designed to protect tourism money. Systems exempt from that law are required to close this Friday, before the holiday.

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The percentage of Maryland students who reached proficiency in English in grades three to eight last school year, according to new data. That number represents a gain of more than 2 percentage points. Math was a different story, with statewide declines for grades five to eight and in Algebra 1. As with English, more than half of students statewide did not pass key math exams. Montgomery County outperformed the state, with more than half of students reaching the passing benchmark on English exams. (TWP)

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Every high school student in Fairfax County now gets a school-issued laptop as part of a plan to give devices to all of the system’s students by 2023.

The Fairfax system has also introduced a mobile app for parents and students to track the location of school buses.

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Brazil spurns Amazon aid BRAZIL Brazil insisted on Tuesday that it would set conditions for accepting any aid from the world’s richest nations to help fight Amazon fires, saying France couldn’t protect the Notre Dame Cathedral from fire devastation and should focus on its own problems.

The increasingly personal feud between Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and French leader Emmanuel Macron threatened to derail a pledge of tens of millions of dollars by the Group of Seven nations for the Amazon region.

Brazil has bristled over what it views as neocolonial interference by Europe on matters of sovereignty and economic development. The acrimony appears to be undercutting hopes of united action to protect the Amazon rainforest, a major absorber of carbon dioxide that is described as a critical defense against climate change.

Bolsonaro said the French president had called him a liar, and he accused Macron of questioning Brazil’s sovereignty amid tensions over the fires.

Macron has to retract those

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Bolsonaro won’t accept $20M pledge without apology from Macron

The acrimony between Jair Bolsonaro and Emmanuel Macron appears to be undercutting hopes of united action to protect the Amazon’s rainforests.

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comments “and then we can speak,” Bolsonaro said.

Bolsonaro met Tuesday with governors of states in the Amazon region, some of whom criticized laws that protect the environment and the rights of

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Judge temporarily blocks eight-week abortion ban

Syrian Kurds withdrawing from Turkish border area

A new Missouri ban on abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy won’t take effect today after a federal judge temporarily blocked it from being implemented. U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs put a pause on the law as a legal challenge against it plays out in court. Sachs’ ruling says allowing the eight-week abortion ban to be enforced would have blocked about half of reported abortions in Missouri. (AP)

The main U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia has begun withdrawing its fighters from two towns near Turkey’s border, part of a deal for a so-called safe zone involving the U.S. and Turkey, the Kurdish-led regional administration in northern Syria said Tuesday. Turkey wants to control — in coordination with the U.S. — a 19- to 25-mile-deep zone within civil war-ravaged Syria. (AP)

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indigenous people that they said limited opportunities for economic development.

Marcos Jose Rocha dos Santos, the governor of Rondonia, which has been at the center of the current fires, questioned the

intentions of international aid.

“International resources are welcome as long as who uses those resources is us,” Rocha dos Santos said. “We will determine where the money will be applied; it’s useless if those resources get here and go to international NGOs,” he said, arguing that the fires were nothing out of the ordinary.

At a summit in France on Monday, the G-7 nations pledged $20 million to help fight the flames in the Amazon and protect the rainforest, in addition to a separate $12 million from Britain and $11 million from Canada.

Onyx Lorenzoni, the Brazilian president’s chief of staff, sharpened the criticism, saying Europe should use the funds for its own reforestation. Then he referred to Notre Dame, the medieval monument in Paris that was ravaged by fire in April, shocking the world.

Meanwhile, President Trump complimented Bolsonaro, saying he knows the Brazilian president well and that the U.S. supports him. “He is working very hard on the Amazon fires and in all respects doing a great job for the people of Brazil — Not easy,” Trump tweeted Tuesday. LUIS ANDRES HENAO AND CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA (AP)

verbatim “Officials could state explicitly that the central bank won’t bail out an administration that keeps making bad choices on trade policy.”

WILLIAM DUDLEY, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, saying the Federal Reserve should stop trying to offset the economic costs of President Trump’s trade war

Russian aircraft leasing company sues Boeing, accusing company of hiding Max jet defects

Rouhani: Lift Iran sanctions, then let’s talk TEHRAN Iran’s president backpedaled Tuesday on possible talks with Donald Trump, saying the U.S. president must first lift sanctions imposed on Tehran, otherwise a meeting between the two would be a mere photo op.

Hassan Rouhani’s change of heart came a day after Trump said Monday that there’s a “really good chance” the two could meet about their nuclear impasse after a surprise intervention by French President Emmanuel Macron during the G-7 summit to try to bring Washington and Tehran together after decades of conflict.

“Without the [United States’] withdrawal from sanctions, we will not witness any positive development,” Rouhani said in a televised speech on Tuesday, adding that Washington “holds the key” to what happens next.

“If someone intends to make it as just a photo op with Rouhani, that is not possible,” he said.

On Monday, Rouhani expressed readiness to negotiate a way out of the crisis that has followed America’s pullout from the nuclear deal.

“If I knew that going to a meeting and visiting a person would help my country’s development and resolve the problems of the people, I would not miss it,” he had said. “Even if the odds of success are not 90% but are 20% or 10%, we must move ahead with it. We should not miss opportunities.”

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Gambia’s first democratically elected president, Dawda Jawara, dies at 95

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into Teala Davies, right, an alleged victim of deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, speaks to the press outside court Tuesday with her attorney, Gloria Allred.

Epstein accusers speak out in court 16 women vent anger after being denied the chance to testify at trial NEW YORK CITY One by one, 16 of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers stood before a judge and poured out their anger toward the financier Tuesday, taking advantage of an extraordinary opportunity to be heard in court after his jailhouse suicide denied them to chance to testify against him at his sex trafficking trial.

“He robbed me of my dreams, of my chance to pursue a career I adored,” said Jennifer Araoz, who has accused Epstein of raping her in his New York mansion when she was a 15-year-old aspiring actress.

“The fact I will never have a chance to face my predator in court eats away at me,” she added. “They let this man kill himself and kill the chance for justice for so many others.”

The hearing was convened

by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, who presided over the case after federal prosecutors had Epstein arrested last month.

The question before the judge was whether to throw out the

indictment because of the defendant’s death, a usually pro forma step undertaken without a hearing. But the judge offered Epstein’s accusers their say in court.

Repeatedly, the women described themselves as survivors and said they hoped coming forward publicly would encourage other women to heal. They lashed out at Epstein for his alleged crimes and his suicide in his cell Aug. 10.

Virginia Giuffre, who has said she was a 15-year-old working at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club when she was recruited to perform sex acts on Epstein, said: “My hopes were quickly dashed and my dreams were stolen.”

At his death, Epstein was being held without bail, accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls in the early 2000s in New York and Palm Beach, Fla. Teala Davies, taking breaths to steady her voice, said she was 17 when she was victimized. She said she thought Epstein was the most powerful person in the world.

“But the end is here, and here I stand, feeling more powerful than he will ever be,” she said.

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Puerto Rico braces itself as Dorian churns closer Heavy rains, flooding are expected today on the storm-weary island SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO A hurricane watch has been issued for Puerto Rico, where conditions are forecast to begin deteriorating as early as this morning as Tropical Storm Dorian closes in. The island already was under a tropical storm warning, with the threat of heavy rainfall and potential flash flooding and mudslides constituting the biggest concerns for the storm-weary island of 3.2 million.

“Our greatest concern is for the rain,” said Matthew Brewer, a meteorologist at the National

Weather Service in San Juan.

“We’re expecting between 2 and 6 inches, with local 8-inch amounts. We have some tight topography gradients, so flash flooding could be a problem.”

The island could see strong winds, too, although the winds will be only 10% to 20% of what the island experienced during Hurricane Maria, the Category 4 hurricane that devastated the island in 2017.

“The southwest part of the island will experience tropical storm-force sustained winds,” Brewer said. “The metro, where most people live, will only see those winds as gusts.” Tropical storm-force winds fall in the range of 39 to 73 mph. These

winds will accompany squally weather that was expected to start overnight Tuesday.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Tropical Storm Dorian was centered about 350 miles southeast of Ponce, Puerto Rico, after moving directly over the island of St. Lucia. The system continued to fight dry air that is surrounding the storm, prompting the National Hurricane Center to lower the estimated intensity of the storm’s sustained winds to 50 mph.

In Puerto Rico, communities are still recovering from Hurricane Maria, and the infrastructure on the island is still vulnerable, particularly the power grid. MATTHEW CAPPUCCI (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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As next debate nears, Democratic candidates spend big to draw small-dollar backers College Board tosses its SAT adversity score EDUCATION The company that administers the SAT college admissions test is replacing the so-called adversity score with a tool that will no longer reduce an applicant’s background to a single number, an idea the College Board’s chief executive now says was a mistake.

The College Board introduced its Environmental Context Dashboard about two years ago to provide context for a student’s performance and to help schools identify those who have done more with less.

The version used by about 50 institutions in a pilot program involved a formula that combined school and neighborhood factors — like advanced course offerings and the crime rate — to produce a single number. Critics called it an overreach for the College Board to score adversity the way it does academics.

“The idea of a single score was wrong,” said David Coleman, the College Board’s chief executive.

“It was confusing and created the misperception that the indicators are specific to an individual student.”

On Tuesday, the College Board announced a revised tool called “Landscape,” which will provide data points such as whether the student’s school is rural, suburban or urban; and the percentage of students eligible for free- and reduced-price lunch.

Admissions officers also will see a range of test scores at the school.

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U.N.: 40 migrants are missing and presumed drowned after boat capsizes off Libya; 65 were rescued

POLITICS Montana Gov. Steve Bullock was told how he could qualify for the next presidential debate, but it didn’t make much sense: Spend $60. Attract a $1 donor. And repeat, maybe thousands of times.

“You spend $60 on Facebook right now to get a $1 donor,” Bullock said last week while campaigning in Iowa, referring to the 130,000-donor threshold that is one of the requirements to reach the debate stage in Houston next month. “I don’t know if I’ll make the threshold.”

He’s not alone. Facing today’s deadline, a handful of Democratic White House hopefuls are racing against time — and odds — to qualify, trying desperately to meet the donor targets as well as reaching 2% in four approved public opinion polls.

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is pumping millions into online and TV advertising. Billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer, a late entry to the race, has spent $3.8 million on Facebook ads trying to boost his name recognition and rapidly add donors.

Others have simply given up — or dropped out.

In a still-crowded Democratic field, with time increasingly running out to break into the top tier of candidates, not qualifying for the debate could doom several candidacies. Still, many have vowed to forge on, hoping they can reach the requirements before the following debate in October.

Though earlier debates had lower floors, the Democratic National Committee upped the stakes for the coming two. As of now, 10 candidates have reached the qualifying thresholds on donors and polling. If that holds, the September debate will be

the first of the cycle to be held on a single night.

The DNC designed the requirements to bring order to an unwieldy field of more than 20 White House hopefuls, while elevating the role of online grassroots donors who are among the party’s most fervent supporters. And in some ways they’ve succeeded. But for those candidates who have fallen short, there is an emerging sense of bitterness.

“It forces campaigns to [hand] over millions of dollars to Facebook — the same platform that let the Russians interfere in 2016,” said Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who won’t make the September stage and plans to

A boon for consultants Though the rules for qualifying for upcoming debates have helped deplete some candidates’ campaign accounts, they’ve yielded massive paydays for consultants. About two dozen firms have collected at least $25 million in payments for online and digital-related services, according to an analysis of campaign finance data that tracked payments made between January and the end of June, when the last fundraising quarter ended. (AP)

campaign in early voting states instead. “If we wanted to be the party that excluded people, we’d be Republicans.”

Detroit convention centers replaces name of ex-mayor with racist past

Other than Steyer, no one has spent more than Gillibrand to qualify. She’s struggled since entering the race to gain traction and is keeping her campaign afloat with a $9.6 million transfer from her Senate campaign fund.

During the last fundraising quarter, she spent almost twice what she raised, records show.

Now she’s plunging even more money into advertising, including a $1.6 million TV ad buy in Iowa and New Hampshire aimed at boosting her polling. She’s also spent roughly $2.1 million on Facebook ads aimed at getting new donors over the last 90 days, making her the No. 3 political spender on the platform, behind only President Trump and Steyer during that time, spending data shows.

“I want to be on the next presidential debate stage, but I don’t have enough supporters,” Gillibrand says in one recent ad.

“Please go to KirstenGillibrand .com. You just have to give $1.”

Last week, her campaign announced it had reached the 115,000-donor mark. They are holding out hope that the three needed polls will be released before today’s deadline.

“We expect more polls to be released ... and that Kirsten will qualify for the third debate,” said spokeswoman Meredith Kelly.

“Kirsten is working hard, traveling and investing on television to be on the stage, so that her voice can be heard.”

Tara McGowan, the founder and CEO of ACRONYM, a progressive group that specializes in digital campaigns, said some campaigns need to just take a hint.

“You just hope people gain some sense and don’t want to be on this slog,” she said.

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Scores of countries have agreed to limit the controversial sale of wild elephants caught in Zimbabwe and Botswana, to the delight of conservationists but the dismay of some of the African countries involved. Wildlife experts said the vote Tuesday at a conference in Geneva on trade in endangered species known as CITES is a “momentous win” for elephants because it puts limits on their sale to zoos.

The resolution means zoos will no longer be able to import wild-caught African elephants to the U.S., China and many other countries beyond the elephants’ natural habitat. The U.S. voted against it. (AP)

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Jorge Ortiz ties down his roof Tuesday as he prepares for the arrival of Tropical Storm Dorian in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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Agreement will limit sale of elephants

Drone breaks its orbit record, but purpose unclear SPACE The X-37B — the Air Force’s ultra-secretive, astronaut-free spacecraft that looks like a miniaturized space shuttle — just broke its own flight record of 719 days in continuous orbit.

What, exactly, the experimental spacecraft has been doing for almost two years straight has puzzled analysts who can only speculate about the Pentagon’s ambitions over the low-orbit vehicle.

The Air Force has said, “The primary objectives of the X-37B are twofold: reusable spacecraft technologies for America’s future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth.”

Its playground is an important one, and may provide clues to its true mission and what payload it may carry. Low Earth orbit is where many military and commercial satellites are situated.

Scaling down big, unwieldy satellites to smaller, equally capable satellites to get lower in orbit makes a lot of sense when you need higher-resolution images of, say, missile launch sites in North Korea.

Lower orbit requires more maneuverability, which means more fuel, Air and Space magazine reported. And the X-37B is using thrusters that use an electric field to accelerate xenon propellant, which means movements can be done without relying on a lot of fuel on board.

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Blood clots may sideline Pats’ center

From left, linebacker Montez Sweat, running back Derrius Guice and quarterback Dwayne Haskins could all supplant veteran starters before the year is over.

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Help’s on the way: Youth movement near for Redskins Quarterback Dwayne Haskins isn’t the only future starter awaiting a chance.

By midseason, the Redskins could look greatly different.

Coach Jay Gruden is trending toward veterans when the Redskins open the regular season against the Eagles on Sept. 8. Left tackle Donald Penn, left guard Ereck Flowers, running back Adrian Peterson, receivers Josh Doctson and Paul Richardson and linebacker Ryan Anderson are probable starters whose futures could be week to week

if they perform poorly.

Two straight successful drafts have a youth movement looming. Haskins is clearly the heir apparent to Case Keenum, a stopgap who’s starting for his third team in three years. Penn awaits the end of Trent Williams’ holdout or the emergence of backup tackle Geron Christian.

Flowers’ inconsistent summer has rookie Wes Martin on the brink. Derrius Guice is ready to supplant Peterson. Doctson and Richardson could give way to Cam Sims and rookie Terry McLaurin. Anderson will rotate with rookie Montez Sweat, with the latter on the cusp of

playing with the first unit.

Maybe a first-year coach with the luxury of time would play more youngsters. But Gruden is in an unofficial playoffs-or-bust situation. He’d rather stake his job on known quantities than newcomers.

Indeed, Gruden cited Keenum’s experience as “something that you really lean upon.”

But everything could change after the first five games against the Eagles, Cowboys, Bears, Giants and Patriots — especially the Patriots.

Anything less than a third straight start of 3-2 will bring doubt. If New England crushes the Redskins before a FedEx crowd loaded with Patriots fans, anything can happen.

The good news in perhaps another long, playoff-free season is that help is coming.

Present needs will give way to future hopes unless the Redskins get off to a surprisingly good start.

Thanks to rotating players, Sweat will get the most time among reserves. A strong

preseason shows he simply needs snaps to start competing with Ryan Kerrigan for most sacks. Guice will get 10 or so carries per game even if Peterson runs even more than last season. Sims and McLaurin will see increasing snaps.

Haskins, Martin and Christian will work the scout team until an opportunity arises.

But after 27 starting quarterbacks since Mark Rypien ended the Redskins’ golden era in 1993, it’s easy to expect Haskins to play whether he’s ready or not. “[Haskins has] to continue to prepare and get better,” Gruden said. “That’s every quarterback, that’s every position on the field, whether you’re a starter or not you have to prepare like you’re a starter.

When your number is called, you’ve got to be ready to go.”

The second wave looks ready to go.

Patriots starting center David Andrews was hospitalized this weekend with blood clots in his lungs.

Andrews, 27, was reportedly released from the hospital Monday night. The team didn’t release a statement on his situation and coach Bill Belichick was not available to the media Tuesday. Andrews, a fifth-year veteran who joined the Patriots as an undrafted free agent out of Georgia, has started 57 of the 60 games he has played.

Last month, Bengals left guard Clint Boling, an eight-year veteran, retired because of a blood clot in his leg that led to a pulmonary embolism. In 2017, Pats offensive lineman Antonio Garcia missed his rookie season because of blood clots in his lungs. (AP/TWP)

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“I was not in a good place. Football was bringing me down, and I didn’t like it. I was losing that joy in life.”

ROB GRONKOWSKI, former Pats tight end, explaining that injuries and pain led him to retire in March. He said he’s physically — but not mentally — able to play. Gronk, 30, urged that players be able to use CBD products for pain relief.

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D.C. United coach Ben Olsen led a closed-door meeting on Tuesday.

four against teams in the playoff hunt.

M L S e x t e n d e d Wa y n e Rooney’s red-card suspension, so he will miss Saturday’s game in Montreal.

Before they began working on

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specific deficiencies Tuesday, Olsen and the players had a closeddoor, locker-room meeting.

Olsen declined to go into detail, but he said: “You know how these moments in the season are. It’s emotional and it’s good sometimes to get some things off your chest and let the players speak and let the head coach speak.

Throw it on the table, man.”

Defender Steve Birnbaum said the meeting “is what we need right now, that open dialogue.

Obviously there is going to be a little downtick in morale after three losses. That’s in the past.”

STEVEN GOFF (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Video of Carli Lloyd kicking a 55-yard field goal at Eagles practice went viral last week.

Now serious speculation is growing about whether the 37-year-old two-time World Cup champion could really kick in the NFL. “Today, she got another call from another NFL team,” Lloyd’s trainer James Galanis told Fox Sports. “The one that called today, I don’t want to say who it is, was willing to put her on the roster for their next [game].” (TWP)

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D.C. UNITED Spirits were high and the mood light as D.C. United wrapped up Tuesday’s training session, belying the perils of a tumbling team entering the final stretch of a season gone wrong.

“If today is any indication,” coach Ben Olsen said, “maybe we are moving out of it.”

Olsen’s optimism is in spite of these facts: United (10-10-9, 39 points) lost three games in eight days, dropping to fifth place in the Eastern Conference and five points above the threshold for the playoffs.

Five matches remain, the first

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Taylor Swift’s teen drama is getting old The pop star is stuck in adolescence on her latest record, ‘Lover’ ALBUM REVIEW Every few years, a new Taylor Swift album comes blazing over the kingdom of popular song like some celestial event, perfectly punctual and blindingly bright.

But this time around, Swift is sprinkling her comet dust on a very different topography. A black, gay, make-believe cowboy named Lil Nas X just spent his summer at the top of the charts with a song about horsies, until only recently, when a teenage ASMR freak named Billie Eilish took his place. Our most popular pop has become delightfully outlandish and impossible to predict — two things Taylor Swift has never been.

It really brings her entire proposal into focus. Swift is dependable. She’s composed. She’s precise. She’s prolific. And she’s determined to keep giving us what (she thinks) we want, forever and always — which makes her stardom feel so antithetical to the wild-minded pop rebels of yesteryear and right now. Instead of widening the boundaries of her vision, Swift keeps drilling deeper into the center of it.

What happens once you reach the middle of the middle? Does

everything just stop?

The middle of the middle iddle is exactly where “Lover,” Swift’s album released Friday, stands.

It’s as satisfying or as bland a listening experience as s you’re inclined to have. Spontaneity eity and ambiguity remain her mortal enemies. Every melody sounds expertly prim, every lyric ric feels completely literal. You u know what you’re in for, which h seems to be the entire point.

Above all, “Lover” follows the trajectory of her only big career pivot — something that happened back in 2014, when Swift formally announced that she was expatriating from country music for the greener valleys of pop.

Before that, she was beyond her years, singing about her teenage dreams with adult wisdom. But with “1989,” a switch seemed to flip: Swift, now 29, has been describing her adulthood in the language of teen drama ever since.

Throughout “Lover,” it can feel as if Swift is singing entirely to her younger self: Your romances will be torrid and cathartic (“Cruel Summer” and “I Forgot That You Existed”), and others will be just like in the rom-coms (“Paper Rings” and “London Boy”). But no matter how hard things get, don’t freak out because happily-ever-after is your birthright (the album’s title track).

Singer-songwriter Neal Casal died Monday at 50

The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards aired live from the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on Monday night. Here are three performances worth remembering from the ceremony.

EMILY YAHR (TWP)

Missy Elliott’s medley Elliott performed a wildly entertaining medley with backup dancers and aerialists, then accepted the Video Vanguard Award. “I want to dedicate this award to the dance community all around the world,” she said.

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Seizing her platform Taylor Swift tied with Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish for a ceremony-high three wins Monday at the MTV Video Music Awards — including video of the year for “You Need to Calm Down,” which champions LGBTQ rights. “You voting for this video means that you want a world where we’re all treated equally under the law,” Swift said. (TWP)

Even Swift’s recently unveiled political views get played out in the context of a high school hallway. During “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince,” she dims her voice into a softer timbre, signaling her disenchantment with the state of our union.

“Waving homecoming queens, marching band playing, I’m lost in the lights,” she sings. “American glory faded before me.” It

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feels weird to hear our country’s current dysfunction played out on the set of a teen movie, but more than that, it feels sad.

The saddest moment on “Lover” goes fathoms deeper, though. It’s a gripping ballad about her mother’s cancer treatment called “Soon You’ll Get Better.” Surrounded by supporting vocal harmonies from the reunited Dixie Chicks, Swift sounds as if she’s holding her acoustic guitar more tightly than ever er before. By the time she reaches es nd the refrain, she’s trying to bend fate with hope: “You’ll get better er soon … because you have to.” e, Swift is at her very best here, stepping outside of time, using ng a clean melody to consecrate te a universal human truth: No matter how this world changes, es, at no point in life do we ever er stop being our parents’ children. n.

Spanish pop-flamenco star Rosalía introduced herself to the VMAs audience with a medley featuring Puerto Rican singer Ozuna. “Thank you for letting me perform tonight, for allowing me to perform tonight singing in Spanish,” Rosalía said.

Lizzo’s mashup Lizzo brought down the house with a performance of “Truth Hurts” and “Good As Hell,” stopping at one point to give a rousing speech. “I want to take this opportunity right now to just feel good as hell, cause you deserve to feel good as hell,” hell, she said.

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Author David Lagercrantz took over the Millennium series following Stieg Larsson’s death.

Lisbeth Salander plays second fiddle ‘The Girl Who Lived Twice’ sells short its iconic title character BOOK REVIEW Somebody very droll got into Stieg Larsson’s Wikipedia page.

Recently, an entry on his Millennium crime series described Lisbeth Salander, the series’ dragon tattoo-sporting hero, simply as “a woman in her twenties with a photographic memory and poor social skills.” That’s putting it mildly. Salander’s antisocial behaviors include tossing a Molotov cocktail at her murderous Russian spy father and watching him burn in the front seat of his Mercedes.

In the latest novel, “The Girl Who Lived Twice,” written by David Lagercrantz (Larsson died in 2004), Salander irons an abusive husband’s dress shirt with him in it. Abused by her father and, later, by a sadistic child psychiatrist, the superhacker devotes her life to revenge against powerful cruel people, most of them men. But Salander is less physically present this time — and that’s too bad, because she’s fascinating.

Most of the new novel, which came out last week, instead follows Mikael Blomkvist, the

investigative reporter at Millennium magazi ne who is Salander’s good pal and somet i m e fe l l o w crime fighter.

Blomkvist comes to learn his phone number has turned up in the pocket of a strange dwarfish beggar found dead in a wooded area of Stockholm.

The corpse, with its disfigured face and several missing fingers and toes, is soon identified as a Nepalese Sherpa. The minister of defense Blomkvist is investigating, meanwhile, once survived a notorious Mount Everest climbing expedition in which others died. Could there be a connection between the dead mountain guide and the official?

Blomkvist perks up.

Unfortunately, “The Girl Who Lived Twice” meanders annoyingly, with Salander appearing only intermittently to lend Blomkvist mainly technical support as he interviews cops, diplomats, a forensic pathologist and the head of a psychiatric institution. All of this unfolds with prose that is borderline stilted, and with major and minor plot turns that make little sense. RICHARD LIPEZ (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

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during Missy Elliott’s VMAs performance. Stoner gained fame at 9 years old when she starred in the music video for Elliott’s 2002 hit single “Work It.” On Monday, Stoner returned to her roots, dancing to the song’s first chorus during Elliott’s medley as part of the rapper’s recognition as the 2019 Video Vanguard awardee.

“Goodnight, sleep tight, don’t let the Bret Stephens bite.”

“Extremely here for the ‘Blue’s Clues’ Cinematic Universe.”

@JESSICAVALENTI, joking about

@READANDACT_, tweeting about the first episode of “Blue’s Clues & You!,” which featured an appearance from previous hosts Steve Burns and Donovan Patton, who are the “cousins” of new host Joshua Dela Cruz. Fans of the show were excited to see the two — especially Burns, who appeared as a detective, his dream job as host.

conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, above.

After George Washington University professor David Karpf wrote a tweet likening Stephens to the bedbugs in the Times newsroom, Stephens sent Karpf and GWU’s provost an angry email. Critics noted that journalists have been called worse by readers.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Others are making deals that hold them in good stead. What’s holding you back?

You may be under the misconception that you aren’t being heard.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Someone may try to stand in your way today, but that’s all part of the current scenario.

You expect it, and can deal with it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Your momentum shouldn’t diminish today even as you deal with an unexpected issue. You may have to give someone a dose of his or her own medicine.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You may not be thrilled with any of the ideas being put forth by those around you, but you must give at least one of them a try.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) It may be time for you to take a stand against something that has rubbed you the wrong way for quite some time.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You may find yourself grappling with facts and figures today when, in fact, you would be wise to look at the bigger, broader picture.

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84 | 70

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You may

choose to take a more philosophical approach than usual to a problem that, in the past, has required an aggressive, hands-on approach.

TODAY: Much warmer and more humid with mostly cloudy skies as afternoon highs rise into the midto upper 80s. Watch for scattered showers and thunderstorms ahead of a cold front in the afternoon and evening. Mainly evening scattered showers and storms, with partial clearing overnight and decreasing humidity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Others are eager to see what you have in the works, but you’re not ready to put anything on display. You can tease them with some P.R. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You will have to wait your turn today, like it or not, and you’ll surely be required to follow other rules as well.

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AVG. HIGH: 84 RECORD HIGH: 99 AVG. LOW: 67 RECORD LOW: 50 SUNRISE: 6:33 a.m. SUNSET: 7:44 p.m.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You’ve been taking someone for granted of late, and today you’ll realize that you’re coming perilously close to destroying the relationship.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You’ve been confident about a certain endeavor, but upon waking today you may realize that you’re not yet in the position you had hoped for.

today in histor y

1955: Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally slain three days later.

1963: More than 200,000 people listen as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

2005: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin orders everyone in the city to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina grew into a monster storm.

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

83 | 68

87 | 68

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

85 | 71

82 | 69

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19 20 21 22 24 26

28 30 31 32 34 38

Mosey along Silicon Valley industry, briefly Rabbit’s feet Where one’s do is done Trendy berry Activewear brand *Great writer who movingly captured the American dream in “Goodbye, Columbus” Tirade Greed or pride Elephant org.

Infamous New York prison Sty *Legendary five-time NBA championship coach Fabric that originated in India Up and about Bit of gel Lyft rival Old-style “Yikes!”

Word before “entry” or “point”

SPINNERS 39 Some image polishers, or a hint to the starred clues and their answers’ initials 41 Apt herding dog name 42 Correct a text 44 Number two 45 In the pink 46 Comes down to earth 48 Like some energy 50 *Reds superstar who came clean from his rocky past 53 Dog who visited Oz 54 O, on the periodic table 55 Not many 56 Classic British sports cars 59 Landlord’s employee, informally 60 *Patriotic silversmith whose daring ride shaped American history 64 First family’s residence 65 “Live!” co-host Kelly

66 Operating system with a penguin logo 67 Spend time on Time 68 Leave off 69 Did nothing

DOWN 1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 18 23 25 26

Venomous snakes Half a Hawaiian fish Romantic setup Texter’s chuckle Puzzler Rain delay cover “Friendly” starter Manx, for one Drum kit parts Final cross words Be of help to Grimace Thai appetizer on a stick Suddenly appears Balancing yoga pose Subject of a Snopes investigation Logical assumption

27 28 29 33 35 36 37 40 43 47

Ran on TV Created Driver of “Girls” Thin fasteners When the lightbulb turns on Place to get a schmear Blueprint detail, briefly Like Felix, visa-vis Oscar Truth’s counterpart College player, e.g.

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Cassie Ventura is engaged to boyfriend Alex FIne, according to Fine’s Instagram posts on Tuesday. In June, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child, a daughter, after less than a year together. Previously, Ventura was in a long-term relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs before they split last fall. (EXPRESS)

Harry wants you to know that he’s not a squeaky-clean boy band singer.

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It seems as if Miley is taking this breakup well Miley Cyrus debuted a tattoo Monday at the Video Music Awards that seems to make reference to her split with Liam Hemsworth. Her arm tattoo reads, “My head was feeling scared, but my heart was feeling free,” which are lyrics from the Pixies song “The Thing.” Cyrus also performed her new breakup song at the show. (EXPRESS)

Album turns into an anti-drug PSA

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Rapper Meek Mill pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge Tuesday in a deal that resolves a 2007 arrest that has kept him on probation or in prison for most of his adult life. The negotiated plea comes after an appeals court threw out his conviction last month over doubts about the arresting officer’s credibility. The rapper is now free of a criminal justice system he hopes to reform. (AP)

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