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With an offense filled with inexperience and uncertainty, Washington will rely on new safety Landon Collins and an up-and-coming defense to lead the way this year 14-17

Bye, bouncy seats D.C. plans to tear down the dilapidated RFK Stadium by 2021 4

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Urbanites find rural life louder, smellier than it seems in movies

Another day, another suspect who just might’ve been drinking

A scientist who collected DNA from Scotland’s Loch Ness suggests the lake’s fabled monster might be a giant eel. Neil Gemmell of the University of Otago in New Zealand says the project found a surprisingly high amount of eel DNA in the water. He cautioned that it’s not clear whether that indicates a gigantic eel or just a lot of little ones. But he said at a news conference in Scotland on Thursday that the idea of a giant eel is at least plausible. (AP)

Maurice the rooster can keep crowing, a French court ruled Thursday, rejecting a complaint from neighbors who sued over the noise. Maurice’s owner can keep the rooster on the island of Oleron.

Maurice’s dawn crowing exasperates the neighbors, a retired couple who moved there two years ago.

The case and others against cow bells, cicadas and the smells from farms have prompted a national debate over how to protect rural culture. (AP)

Authorities say a burglar broke into a Safety Harbor, Fla., home, cooked a meal and told the resident to “go back to sleep.” The occupant said he awoke to find the man cooking and eating around 4 a.m.

Tuesday. Deputies tracked down the suspect in woods behind the home. They said Gavin Crim, a 19-year-old Marine, allegedly entered through an unlocked rear door. An arrest report said Crim may have been under the influence of alcohol. (AP)

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TRANSPORTATION After four long, hot years, Metro riders passing through the Dupont Circle and Farragut North Metro stations will find their commutes just a bit cooler thanks to a repaired chiller system.

Metro announced over the weekend that the long-broken system, which pumps chilled air into stations and across station platforms to reduce temperatures, had been fixed. Metro stations are not air-conditioned, but the chiller systems can reduce the temperature by about six degrees.

Metro spokeswoman Sherri Ly confirmed the system was fully operational Wednesday — when temperatures topped 90 degrees.

Some riders who regularly use the two stations said they didn’t notice a change in temperature until asked about it while heading home from work or school Tuesday.

“Huh, it’s on?” asked Fahad

‘NOXIOUS’ ODOR

The chiller systems at Dupont Circle, above, and Farragut North are fixed.

Mirza, 24, a student at American University, who uses the Dupont Circle station twice per week.

Steve Agoussi, a 52-year-old accountant who has traveled the same route to work through Dupont Circle for roughly two decades, said he “didn’t feel it — but as you’re talking about it, sure.”

Kristen Reussi, meanwhile, said she thought Metro had simply added a few extra fans.

Reussi, 50, who works as a nursery school teacher, stopped coming to Dupont Circle about

four years ago, partly because of the heat, she said. She shuddered at the memory of temperatures that “felt like hell down there.”

A job change last month forced Reussi to start using the station again. News of the repaired chiller system boosted her mood.

“I try to remain Zen as I board the train, but my expectations are just very low at this point,” she said. “If the train doesn’t stop and strand me in a tunnel, that’s a victory.” HANNAH NATANSON AND TEDDY AMENABAR (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Cheverly, Md., asks: What’s that smell?

A new, strange odor is assaulting the noses of the residents of Cheverly, Md., a town in Prince George’s County. Officials said in a statement on the town’s website Wednesday that odors have caused residents to wake up from a deep sleep, gag, and experience a burning feeling in the back of the throat. It’s not clear where the stench is coming from. Officials said they are working to identify the source and have reported the conditions to the Maryland Department of the Environment. (TWP)

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Some riders, however, didn’t notice much of a reprieve from the heat

A new reality show about young professionals in the D.C. area filmed at Texas Jack’s in Arlington last month, Arlnow.com reports.

Remzi Yilmaz, the barbecue restaurant’s director of operations, told the news outlet that a cast member picked the restaurant.

Yilmaz was not allowed to share the show’s name. It is supposed to air in January, but its network is not known. (EXPRESS)

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Hungry Subway thief makes himself sandwich Police are looking for a man who broke into a Subway near George Washington University and made himself a sandwich. In a surveillance video released this week, a thief is seen grabbing a bag of chips, then hopping over the counter and making a sandwich. According to a police report, it was an $8.49 chicken sandwich. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Aug. 2 at a Subway on G Street NW. (TWP)

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D.C. will raze RFK Stadium Officials say they have no plans in the works to add a football arena

D.C. adds policy for reporting code violations JONATHAN NEWTON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

THE DISTRICT The District plans to tear down the dilapidated RFK stadium by 2021, a move officials say is driven by a need to save money and not to advance any plans for a new football stadium there.

The decision announced Thursday will end the life of the 58-year-old stadium best known for hosting the Redskins during the team’s glory years in the 1980s and early 1990s when it won three Super Bowls.

RFK, located on the Anacostia River two miles east of the U.S. Capitol, also was home for a time to both the Nationals and Senators baseball teams, as well as the D.C. United soccer team. It also hosted concerts, including performances by The Beatles, Madonna and Foo Fighters.

Events DC, the District agency that manages the stadium, is seeking bids by Oct. 25 from contractors to demolish the facility. Since D.C. United left in 2017, RFK has attracted few events and is costing the city $2 million a year for maintenance, landscaping, pest control, security and other services. Utility bills add another $1.5 million a year.

“We don’t want to throw money after a resource that’s exceeded its useful life,” Events DC President Gregory O’Dell said.

The demolition also will make it easier for the District to move

The city is planning to demolish the 58-year-old RFK stadium to avoid the steep cost of maintenance and utilities.

ahead with plans over the next five to seven years to build a $500 million recreational and event space, O’Dell said.

He and other officials pushed back against speculation that the city was paving a path for the Redskins to replace it with a new stadium. John Falcicchio, chief of staff to Mayor Muriel Bowser, D, said D.C. has had “no substantive conversations” in 13 months with the team about a stadium.

Both Bowser and team owner Daniel Snyder have expressed hope that the team might return to D.C., which it left in 1996 to play at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. Snyder would like to recreate the electric atmosphere at RFK, where 47,000 fans famously

stomped feet so hard that the stadium shivered. Bowser would like the team to anchor a complex with retail, restaurants and affordable housing.

But D.C. would first need to get control of the land, which it leases from the federal government. At present, the lease allows the site to be used only for sports and recreation.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D, the city’s nonvoting member of Congress, has filed a bill to sell the entire 190-acre RFK site to D.C., but the bill has not progressed.

A return by the Redskins would be controversial; some members of Congress and the D.C. Council object to the team’s name, while others are

concerned by the prospect of tax dollars helping fund the project.

O’Dell said a new professional football stadium was one of three possible long term uses — along with an indoor sports arena or green space — but the city is not looking at those alternatives.

“We are not working on any of those long-term options right now, nor have we talked to the Redskins about that or any of this demolition effort,” O’Dell said.

The agency has not yet decided whether it will auction off seats or other parts of the stadium.

“At an appropriate time, we’re going to celebrate this building and honor its legacy,” O’Dell said. ROBERT MCCARTNEY (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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“Should we deny 700,000 people … representation in Congress because people think we are too liberal?”

D.C. MAYOR MURIEL BOWSER, D, arguing for D.C. statehood during a talk on Wednesday at Georgetown University

Law Center. Bowser said some statehood critics are wary of the possibility of two black senators from D.C.

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D.C. mayor signs order urging city to prioritize Wards 7 and 8 for city agencies’ office space

THE DISTRICT D.C. public safety agencies this week will adopt policies to ensure that life-threatening building code violations are promptly addressed, an effort to prevent the missteps that preceded a deadly fire last month, officials said Wednesday.

The policies dictate that D.C. police officers report potential fire code violations to a supervisor, who will relay the complaint to the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department. A fire chief will immediately go to the site for an inspection, Fire Chief Gregory Dean said.

“The goal is that we would try to get there within 30 minutes,” Dean said. “The idea behind this is that the [police] officer may not know if it’s a building- or a fire-code violation,” he said, adding that it’s easier for the fire department to go out there.

The protocols stand in contrast to the handling of a police officer’s report about the Kennedy Street NW rowhouse that burned last two month, killing two. An investigator from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs visited multiple times but closed the case without action when he could not get inside, DCRA Director Ernest Chrappah said.

Mayor Muriel Bowser, D, has commissioned an independent study and called for a criminal investigation into the fire.

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First segment of rail laid for Metro’s Purple Line

Overnight transit: Late-shift workers need new options in an interview.

Metro in the D.C. area stays open until 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday and no later than 11:30 p.m. the rest of the week.

Metro’s current hours have been criticized by unions representing late-night and earlymorning workers, and by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. But Metro’s board in March opted against restoring later hours, arguing the change would interfere with maintenance.

Transit agencies nationally are struggling to serve lateshift workers, according to an American Public Transportation Association study released Wednesday. One solution the report offers is for transit agencies to mimic Minneapolis — ask the businesses that would benefit from late-night service to pay for it.

By offering reduced hours or no service after midnight, transit agencies fail to serve those who most need public transit, APTA President and CEO Paul Skoutelas told reporters on Wednesday.

At least 17% of workers in U.S. metropolitan areas work late shifts, the report says. A disproportionate number of those workers are minorities and don’t earn much money.

“While people of color represent 39 percent of the U.S.’ daytime workforce, they account for 45 percent of evening and early-morning workers and 52 percent of late-night workers,” the report says.

The $30,000 annual median wage for late-shift workers is $5,000 lower than that of daytime workers, the report says.

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Two years ago, the regional body that runs public transit around the Minneapolis area had a problem that might sound familiar to D.C.-area Metro riders.

Restaurant and cafe workers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport were struggling to get to work in time for their 4 a.m. shifts. Buses and light rail trains to the airport don’t run that early.

The unconventional partnership that followed could be a model for Metro and other transit agencies facing the same problem. The Metropolitan Council, the government agency that runs transit in the Twin Cities region, created a program for employers at the airport to voluntarily chip in for more bus service.

Under the program, Transit Link, a Metropolitan Council van service that during the day reaches areas of the region underserved by transit, now takes airport workers to and from home and work. It’s similar to “microtransit” programs D.C. is piloting in areas that lack frequent bus service.

Employees using Transit Link pay a $3.50 fare. Eight of the airport’s employers pay the other $3.50 fare for each trip their workers take. The Metropolitan Council budgeted $300,000 for the rest of the cost.

“It’s a win-win for employers and employees,” Nick Thompson, the Minneapolis agency’s director of Metropolitan Transportation Services, said

Construction of the first segment of rail for Metro’s Purple Line began on Thursday, according to a WTOP report. Maryland officials including Gov. Larry Hogan attended a ceremony and touted the $5.6 billion project’s value for already having led to more than $2 billion of construction projects along its route, WTOP reported The line from New Carrollton to Bethesda is slated to open in 2022. (EXPRESS)

But with few public transportation options, those workers have little choice but to own cars, which on average cost 30% of their annual earnings.

As a result, the report says, “high transportation costs lead to greater financial stress on late-shift workers or exclude potential workers from taking advantage of late-shift jobs.”

Employers also have a stake, the report says. Areas where public transportation is available late have less employee turnover. Workers with access to public transportation are also less likely to miss work.

It’s unclear if D.C.-area businesses with late-night workers would be willing to pick up part of the tab.

“We’d have to look at it,” Laura Abshire, the National Restaurant Association’s director of food and sustainability policy, said during the press call. A spokeswoman for

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the association’s D.C. chapter declined comment.

The Hotel Association of Washington and the DC Chamber of Commerce did not return requests for comment.

The report also called for agencies to explore partnering with rideshare companies.

Metro has already taken that step with a pilot program to subsidize $3 for Lyft trips latenight workers take to or from work. Metro spokeswoman Sherri Ly said 175 people have signed up for the program since July 1.

“At this point, it is too early to draw conclusions with only two months of data,” Metro spokesman Ian Jannetta said.

“However, the program continues to add new participants each month.”

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Officials sign up region for global Car Free Day Officials in the D.C. region are planning to encourage participation in a worldwide Car Free Day on Sept. 22, according to a Curbed report. The event draws attention to the negative environmental effects of car usage and encourages area residents to pursue greener forms of transit. (EXPRESS) MARYLAND

Firm Kushner owned rejects state settlement A real estate company once run by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has rejected a settlement offer from Maryland’s attorney general in a long-running investigation into the treatment of tenants, the president of the company said Wednesday. Kushner still has an ownership stake in the subsidiary responsible for the apartments. (AP) VIRGINIA

Charlottesville victim’s mother sues murderer The mother of a woman killed when a man rammed his car through a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is suing the convicted murderer for wrongful death. Susan Bro filed a $12 million lawsuit Aug. 30 against 22-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., who is now serving life sentences in prison. (AP)

D.C. Council member says he plans to schedule hearing on hate crime prosecutions

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Vegan shrimp are heading to menus soon

A Taliban car bombing Thursday in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed 12 people, including a U.S. service member.

Blast kills 12 in Kabul with peace deal close Violence rises as envoy for U.S. briefs Afghan’s leaders on Taliban talks KABUL, AFGHANISTAN A Taliban car bomb exploded and killed U.S. and Romanian service members and 10 civilians in a busy diplomatic area near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday, yet another attack this week as the Afghan government warned that a U.S.-Taliban deal on ending America’s longest war was moving at dangerous speed.

A nother 4 2 people were wounded, Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said.

The Taliban has said its attacks are meant to strengthen its

position in talks with the U.S. and that civilians should stay away from potential targets linked to the Afghan government or foreign “invaders.”

The explosion followed a Taliban attack against a foreign compound late Monday that killed at least 16 people and wounded more than 100, almost all of them local civilians. The violence continued hours later when the Taliban claimed a bombing outside an Afghan military base, with local officials saying four civilians were killed and 11 wounded.

The especially violent week comes as U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is in Kabul briefing Afghan leaders on the U.S.-Taliban deal to end nearly 18 years of

fighting that he says needs only President Trump’s approval to become a reality. The Afghan government has raised grave concerns about the deal.

“Peace with a group that is still killing innocent people is meaningless,” President Ashraf Ghani, whose government has been shut out of the U.S.-Taliban talks, said in a statement.

The Taliban have refused to negotiate with the government, calling it a U.S. puppet.

And yet the United States hopes its deal with the Taliban will bring the militant group to the table for intra-Afghan talks to begin ahead of Afghanistan’s presidential election Sept. 28.

Tyson Foods, the world’s second-largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork, announced Thursday it’s expanding in a new direction: plantbased shellfish. Tyson has invested in New Wave Foods, a San Franciscobased startup that will debut plant-based shrimp in restaurants next year.

The biggest challenge for the faux shrimp, which is made from seaweed extract and a plant protein augmented by two proprietary ingredients, was getting the right texture, says Michelle Wolf, New Wave’s cofounder. The company intends to follow with plant-based crab and lobster. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Facebook gets into the dating game

Facebook is tackling a new frontier: love.

Facebook Dating, its matchmaking service already available in Brazil, Canada and 17 other countries, arrived in the U.S. on Thursday. The mobile-only service, which is free to use and free of ads, is part of Facebook’s ongoing attempt to reach into all aspects of human existence. The company insists it won’t use information gleaned from users’ dating profiles for advertising, but many users are skeptical. (AP) Sears laying off 250 employees at its headquarters outside Chicago

Michigan State fined $4.5M in Nassar case EAST LANSING, MICH. The U.S. government on Thursday ordered Michigan State University to pay a $4.5 million fine after determining that it failed to adequately respond to sexual assault complaints against Larry Nassar, a former campus sports doctor who molested elite gymnasts and other female athletes.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced the penalty after the conclusion of two federal investigations. She said Nassar’s actions were “disgusting and unimaginable” and that the university’s response fit the same description.

“Too many people in power knew about the behaviors and the complaints and yet the predators continued on the payroll and abused even more students,” DeVos said. “This must not happen again ...”

A medical school dean also faced harassment allegations.

The fine is the largest ever levied under the Clery Act, a federal law that requires colleges to collect data on campus crime and notify students of threats.

The previous largest fine, $2.4 million, was imposed in 2016 against Penn State over its handling of sexual misconduct involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Nassar was sentenced to decades in prison for sexually assaulting athletes at Michigan State and a Lansing-area gymnastics club. COLLIN BINKLEY AND CAROLE FELDMAN (AP)

Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort say state fraud charges are double jeopardy

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Johnson undeterred in U.K. Parliament is nearing final approval of a bill that would bar a no-deal Brexit without lawmakers’ approval. That legislation also seeks a three-month delay in Brexit if no terms can be reached before the Oct. 31 deadline. The House of Lords, after debating well into the night Wednesday, cleared the way for the bill to go through by Friday.

Many analysts predict that a no-deal Brexit would lead to food and medicine shortages and chaos at borders. The European Union has set aside $858 million in disaster relief funds to help its member countries harmed by a no-deal Brexit.

Still, Boris Johnson has argued all week that he has been making “great progress” in negotiations with European officials.

In Brussels, frustration with the British drama was running high. Negotiators have all but given up on talks with Johnson’s team, seeing little point in making plans with a group that could soon be swept out by elections.

“There’s been no concrete proposals yet. It’s all smokescreen,” said a senior EU diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive — if apparently lacking in substance — talks. KEVIN SULLIVAN AND

LONDON Despite a string of stinging defeats in Parliament this week, and the resignation of his own brother Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson continued his passionate push for an early general election that he hopes would help him deliver Brexit

by Oct. 31.

“I’d rather be dead in a ditch” than ask the European Union for another Brexit extension, Johnson said Thursday. He said his political opponents have sought to “scupper negotiations.”

Johnson’s government plans to introduce new legislation Monday again seeking an early election, despite Parliament’s rejection of such a plan Wednesday night, officials said.

Johnson also suffered a personal blow Thursday when his younger brother, Jo Johnson, resigned as a member of Parliament and government minister.

Jo Johnson voted against Brexit in a 2016 referendum, and his ideological disagreements with his brother are well known, but this underscored the depth of the country’s divisions

DANNY LAWSON (WPA POOL/GETTY IMAGES)

Despite setbacks, PM seeks elections to seal Brexit before deadline

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told police cadets Thursday he would “rather be dead in a ditch” than ask the EU for another Brexit extension.

over Brexit and the prime minister’s political problems.

Asked why people should trust him to act in the national interest when his brother doesn’t, Johnson said: “People disagree about the EU. But the way to unite the country, I’m afraid, is to get this thing done.”

The question of when — rather than if — to hold a general

election for the 650 seats in the House of Commons appears to be the latest Brexit battleground.

After just six weeks on the job, Johnson leads a government in turmoil. The prime minister lost his governing majority this week through defections from party members and his decision to expel from the party any lawmakers who voted against him.

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S. Africa shuts embassies in Nigeria amid violence

City board designates NRA a ‘domestic terrorist’ group

U.S. and Chinese envoys will meet in early October for more talks aimed at ending a tariff war that threatens global economic growth.

Stock markets rose on Thursday’s announcement but there has been no sign of progress since Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping agreed in June to resume deadlocked negotiations.

The U.S. and China have raised tariffs on billions of dollars of each other’s imports. (AP)

South Africa has closed its diplomatic missions in Nigeria, underscoring the growing strain between Africa’s two largest economies after the latest wave of xenophobic violence in South Africa, officials said Thursday. On Sunday, violent mobs began looting and setting fire to foreign-owned businesses in several areas of Johannesburg and the South African capital, Pretoria. (AP)

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Tuesday declaring the National Rifle Association a “domestic terrorist organization” and urging the city to examine its financial relationships with companies that do business with the group. The resolution, adopted unanimously, noted the country’s gun homicide rate is “25 times higher than any other highincome country in the world.” (TWP)

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U.S., China envoys to meet in October for tariff talks

A mob runs through Katlehong township, South Africa, Thursday during a wave of violence.

French judges drop case against Air France for deadly 2009 flight from Brazil that killed all 228 aboard

Contaminant eyed as cause of vaping illness HEALTH Officials investigating lung illnesses linked to vaping have found the same chemical in samples of marijuana products used by people sickened across the country in recent weeks.

The chemical is an oil derived from vitamin E. Investigators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found the oil in cannabis products in samples collected from patients who fell ill across the U.S. That same chemical was found in nearly all cannabis samples from patients who fell ill in New York, a state health department spokeswoman said.

Many of those who have fallen ill said they had vaped products containing pot, but others said they used traditional nicotine e-cigarettes. Many reported using both. Authorities said they are not ruling out adulterants in nicotine vaping products.

Vitamin E is found naturally in certain foods, such as olive oil.

The oil derived from the vitamin, known as vitamin E acetate, is available as a nutritional supplement and is used in topical skin treatments.

It is not known to cause harm when ingested as a supplement or applied to the skin. Experts say its molecular structure could make it hazardous when inhaled.

Its oil-like properties could be associated with symptoms that many patients have reported: cough, shortness of breath and chest pain, officials said.

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Dorian grazes Carolinas Storm causes tornadoes and flooding in Southeast before aiming for Outer Banks

TOM COPELAND (AP)

In the Bahamas, survivors return home to ruins

Emerald Isle town employees work to clear the road Thursday after a tornado hit the North Carolina island town.

Residents of the Boardwalk RV Park, in Emerald Isle, N.C., on Thursday assess the damage from a tornado.

with flash-flooding likely.

In Charleston, a historic port city on a peninsula that is prone to flooding even from ordinary storms, Dorian toppled some 150 trees, swamped roads and brought down power lines, officials said, but the flooding and wind weren’t nearly as bad as feared.

Walking along Charleston’s stone battery, college student Zachary Johnson sounded almost disappointed that Dorian hadn’t

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CHARLESTON, S.C. Hurricane Dorian sideswiped the Carolinas with shrieking winds, tornadoes and sideways rain Thursday as it closed in for a possible direct hit on the dangerously exposed Outer Banks. At least four deaths in the Southeast were blamed on the storm.

Twisters spun off by Dorian peeled away roofs and flipped trailers, and more than 250,000 homes and businesses were left without power as the hurricane pushed north along the coastline, its winds weakening to 105 mph by evening. Trees and power lines littered flooded streets in Charleston’s historic downtown.

The damage from the same storm that mauled the Bahamas was mercifully light in many parts of South Carolina and Georgia as well, and by midafternoon many of the 1.5 million people who had been forced to evacuate in three states were allowed to return.

Still, forecasters warned that Dorian could run straight over North Carolina’s Outer Banks late Thursday or early Friday.

To the north, Virginia was also in harm’s way, and a round of evacuations was ordered there.

After leaving at least 20 people dead when it slammed the Bahamas with 185 mph winds, Dorian swept past Florida at a relatively safe distance, grazed Georgia, and then hugged the South Carolina-North Carolina coastline.

“I think we’re in for a great big mess,” said 61-year-old Leslie Lanier, who decided to stay behind and boarded up her home and bookstore on Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks, making sure to move the volumes 5 to 6 feet off the ground.

The National Hurricane Center forecast as much as 15 inches of rain for the coastal Carolinas,

A man walks in floodwaters down a flooded street on Thursday in historic downtown Charleston, S.C.

done more.

“I mean, it’d be terrible if it did, don’t get me wrong. I don’t know — I’m just waiting for something crazy to happen, I guess,” said Johnson, 24.

Dorian apparently spawned at least one tornado in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., damaging several homes, and another twister touched down in the beach town of Emerald Isle, N.C., mangling and overturning several trailer

AP-NORC Poll: 72% in U.S. think catastrophic weather is more severe; most blame global warming

homes in a jumble of sheet metal.

No immediate injuries were reported.

As it closed in on the Eastern Seaboard, Navy ships were ordered to ride out the storm at sea, and military aircraft were moved inland. More than 700 airline flights scheduled for Thursday and Friday were canceled. And hundreds of shelter animals were airlifted from coastal South Carolina to Delaware. MEG KINNARD (AP)

ABACO, BAHAMAS Lugging empty suitcases, plastic buckets and backpacks, dazed survivors of Hurricane Dorian made their way back to the shantytown where they used to live, hoping to gather up some of their soggy belongings.

The community was known as The Mudd, and it was built by thousands of Haitian migrants over decades. It was razed in a matter of hours by Dorian, which reduced it to piles of splintered plywood and two-by-fours 4 and 5 feet deep, spread over an area equal to several football fields.

A helicopter buzzed overhead Thursday as people picked through the debris, avoiding a body that lay tangled underneath a tree branch next to twisted sheets of corrugated metal. It was one of at least nine bodies that people said they had seen in the area.

“Ain’t nobody come to get them,” said Cardot Ked, a 43-year-old carpenter from Haiti who has lived 25 years in Abaco.

“If we could get to the next island, that’s the best thing we can do.”

The official death toll from the government stood at 20 and was certain to climb. The United Nations announced the purchase of eight tons of ready-to-eat meals and said it will provide satellite communications equipment and airlift storage units, generators and prefab offices to set up logistics hubs for helping the estimated 76,000 people who will need food and other relief.

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3 MUST-SEE GAMES

1 No. 6 LSU at No. 9 Texas

New Maryland coach Michael Locksley, center, starts five seniors and two grad students on defense.

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Defense’s turn to shine After its first shutout since 2013, Maryland will face a much bigger challenge vs. ’Cuse

MARYLAND Maryland’s defense can expect to play a far bigger role Saturday against No. 21 Syracuse after spending the season opener in the background of a recordsetting offense.

The focus of the Terrapins’ 79-0 rout of Howard last weekend was Josh Jackson throwing four touchdown passes in his debut, the Terrapins breaking the school mark for points in a half with 56 and an attack that garnered 623 yards in its first game under coach Michael Locksley.

All that obscured a defense that rang up eight sacks, allowed only 1 yard rushing and never permitted the Bison to

cross midfield in the Terps’ first shutout since 2013.

Hired at Maryland after a successful run as Alabama’s offensive coordinator, Locksley loved seeing the Terrapins score 11 touchdowns. But he can also appreciate the value of a stout defensive effort.

“No matter the opponent, anytime you pitch a shutout, those are tough to do in this day and age,” Locksley said Tuesday.

Syracuse did the same in its opener, 24-0 over Liberty.

“Defense has the well-deserved reputation of being a strength for those guys,” said Locksley, who hopes the same thing can soon apply to Maryland.

The potential is there. The secondary features three seniors, most notably safety Antoine Brooks and cornerback Tino Ellis.

Transfer Shaq Smith, who played for national champion Clemson last year, heads a solid group of linebackers.

The starting 11 includes five seniors and two grad students — Smith and linebacker Keandre Jones, formerly of Ohio State.

“We have a little more leadership, more experience on that side of the football,” Locksley said.

In his first game with Maryland, Smith had three tackles and a sack. Moving to the outside after playing middle linebacker for Clemson, the 6-foot-2, 250-pound Smith is counted on to jam tight ends, shrug off offensive tackles and seal the corner from runners looking to get outside.

“It’s not necessarily a glamorous position,” Locksley conceded. “Because of his size and strength, he’s able to do those type of things. But the thing I was really pleased with was his third-down pass rush. We were able to get some hits on the quarterback, able to get some sacks.”

Defensive coordinator Jon Hoke confused Howard with multiple coverages and disguised blitzes. The plan is more of the same against Syracuse in a game that could go a long way toward enabling the Terps to establish themselves as a team — and a defense — to be reckoned with.

“The chemistry we have on defense and the guys we have, we have a chance to be very special, one of the best,” Smith said. “It all depends on us.”

JULIO CORTEZ (AP)

7:30 p.m. Saturday, ABC

Two traditional football powers will meet for the first time since 2003 in the season’s first top-10 matchup. Longhorn QB Sam Ehlinger, below, has a chance to show he’s a serious Heisman contender against the Tigers’ talented defense.

2 No. 12 Texas A&M at No. 1 Clemson 3:30 p.m. Saturday, ABC

Defending national champion Clemson and Heisman front-runner Trevor Lawrence narrowly escaped College Station, Texas, last season with a 28-26 win.

This year, the Tigers are 17½-point favorites at home.

3 Cincinnati at No. 5 Ohio State Noon Saturday, ABC

The Bearcats looked solid in their season opening win vs.

UCLA, while the Buckeyes put forth an uninspiring effort against FAU. Ohio State will need to play better to avoid being embarrassed at home. SARAH KELLY (EXPRESS)

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SEEKING REDEMPTION

Hokies face ODU a year after stunning upset

Virginia Tech’s shocking 49-35 loss to Old Dominion, a program in only its fourth FBS season, was the start of a miserable 2018.

The Hokies, who entered that game ranked No. 13, finished with their first losing record since 1992.

Including last week’s loss at Boston College, coach Justin Fuente and Virginia Tech have lost 8 of 12 since falling to the Monarchs. They’ll try to exorcise that demon Saturday (noon, ESPNU) in a rematch. (TWP)

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Seahawks WR Tyler Lockett Vs. Bengals, 4:05 p.m. Sunday

No defense allowed more yards than the Bengals’ last season. This should be a great way for Seattle’s new No. 1 receiver to get off to a fast start and build on his 120-yard performance in the 24-22 playoff loss to the Cowboys.

TALL TASK

Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger At Patriots, 8:20 p.m. Sunday, NBC

Antonio Brown is out of Pittsburgh and the newlook Steelers’ offense gets to open the season on the road against the Super Bowl champs. The last time Roethlisberger played in Foxborough, the Steelers lost 36-17 in the AFC title game in 2017.

WILD CARD

Bills RB Devin Singletary At Jets, 1 p.m. Sunday

Buffalo cutting LeSean McCoy opens the door for the Bills’ third-round pick out of Florida Atlantic. The rookie will split carries with veterans Frank Gore and T.J. Yeldon, but is Singletary ready to be the feature back now?

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Raiders’ AB in more trouble Brown misses practice while rumors swirl over confrontation with GM

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NFL Week 1 preview

NFL Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown may be in more hot water after an incident this week between him and Mike Mayock, the team’s general manager.

Brown and Mayock had a heated confrontation Wednesday after Brown posted on social media a photo of a fine letter from the team, according to a person familiar with the situation. The Raiders may take further disciplinary action, the person said.

According to a report by ESPN, the team plans to suspend Brown. The league-owned NFL Network reported that Brown threatened to punch

Teammates reportedly had to restrain Antonio Brown during Wednesday’s altercation.

Mayock in the face during the confrontation, which did not become physical, and then punted a football and told Mayock to fine him for that. The Athletic reported that teammates had to restrain Brown.

Brown did not participate in

the Raiders’ practice Thursday.

Mayock, who is in his first year as GM, spoke to reporters briefly at the Raiders’ facility but did not address specifics or take questions from the media.

“Antonio Brown is not in the building today,” Mayock said.

“He won’t be practicing. I don’t have any more information for you right now. And when I have some and it becomes appropriate, you guys will all get it. I promise you. But that’s it for today.”

Under the collective bargaining agreement between the league and the NFL Players Association, a club can suspend a player for as many as four games without pay for conduct detrimental to the team. The player, through the NFLPA, could appeal any disciplinary action. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Expect surprise in Week 1 battle with the Eagles

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SEASON PREVIEW | ANALYSIS

Numbers show the way There are not a lot of Redskins believers out there. None of the six Pro Football Talk prognosticators picked Washington to make the playoffs. ESPN’s power rankings have the Redskins at No. 29 — ahead of only the Cardinals, Giants and Dolphins. And two of seven experts at CBSSports.com predicted Washington would be the last team in the league to win a game. But if the Redskins reach these eight realistically attainable goals, they will prove all the doubters wrong and punch their ticket to the playoffs. JEFFREY TOMIK (EXPRESS)

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Allow fewer than 110 rushing yards per game: The Redskins used firstround picks in 2017 and 2018 on defensive linemen Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne, and now is the time for them to start dominating in the trenches. Last season, nine teams held their opponents to fewer than 110 rushing yards per game, and eight of them made the playoffs.

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Keep Case Keenum’s interception percentage under 2%: When the journeyman led the Vikings to the NFC title game in 2017, he threw just seven interceptions in 481 passing attempts (1.5% of his throws). Last year with the Broncos, he set a career high in passing yards (3,890), but he threw 15 picks and his interception rate rose to 2.6%. As a result, Denver went 6-10.

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Rack up at least 50 sacks: In this pass-happy league, an effective pass rush is essential. Four defenses had at least 50 sacks last season, and those teams went a combined 41-21-2 (.656 winning percentage). The Redskins, who had 46 sacks last year, feature a stout defensive line and two talented edge rushers in Ryan Kerrigan and rookie Montez Sweat.

Run the ball more than 30 times per game: To control the clock, Washington needs to have success on the ground and be committed to the run. In 2018, the Redskins were 5-1 when they had at least 30 rushes.

And they were 0-6 when they failed to reach 100 yards rushing.

Their versatile backfield of Derrius Guice, Adrian Peterson and Chris Thompson should be a strength.

Average more than 30 minutes per game in time of possession: For the Redskins to be successful, they will need to replicate a run-oriented, ball-control style that worked for parts of last season. In 2018, they were 5-3 when they won the time of possession battle (more than 30 minutes), and just 2-6 when they lost it. Controlling the clock will keep their talented defense fresh.

Get Tress Way’s net punting average higher than 42 yards: As much as fans — and some coaches — hate to admit it, special teams matter. Last year, six punters had a net average higher than 42 yards and five of them were on a playoff team. Way, who had a 41.5 net average last year, is an elite punter and is capable of influencing a game by flipping field position.

Redskins TE Jordan Reed (concussion) takes part in some workouts but status for Sunday’s game uncertain

Find a 1,000-yard receiver: In 2018, Jordan Reed led the team with just 558 yards receiving. The Redskins didn’t really add any playmakers this offseason, but if Reed and Paul Richardson are healthy, they are capable of reaching the 1,000-yard mark. In 2018, all but four of 12 playoff teams had a player with 1,000 yards receiving, and the Rams and Chiefs each had two.

Rank in the top 10 in the league in turnover ratio: High-scoring offenses can at times overcome turnovers, but the Redskins are not a team that’s talented enough to make up for mistakes. Over the past 20 years, Washington has ranked in the top 10 in the NFL in turnover ratio five times, including in 2018, and it made the playoffs in three of those seasons.

PERSPECTIVE The Redskins are 10-point underdogs in their opener Sunday at the Eagles (1 p.m., Fox), and most analysts predict Washington will win only three to six games this season.

So what am I missing?

There have been plenty of bad Redskins teams the past few decades, but this isn’t one of them. And they’ll show it Sunday by beating the Eagles 17-14.

In fact, Washington has a puncher’s chance of making the playoffs if it stays healthy and its young receivers produce.

Has anyone watched this defense? The line manned by two first-round picks is one of the NFL’s best. Landon Collins has energized a secondary that even has cornerback Josh Norman, above, playing to his potential. At linebacker, Ryan Kerrigan is looking to eclipse Dexter Manley’s team record for career sacks, and Montez Sweat is looming as the next big thing.

Washington won’t reach 24 points too often this season because the offense is, well, who knows? The QB is on his fourth team in four years, which says a lot. But running back Derrius Guice is special. He can make this makeshift offense work.

The Redskins are overlooked, afterthoughts before even the first kickoff.

Ten points? Look for a surprise Sunday that really shouldn’t be a shocker. The Redskins won’t be walked over this season.

RICK SNIDER (FOR EXPRESS)

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Expect a lackluster ’19 offense The Redskins will look much like 2018 with a lackluster offense likely condemning them to a third straight 7-9 season. The only hope is that the defense doesn’t repeat last year’s late collapse and the club scratches out a couple of unexpected, low-scoring wins.

Big years from backs Adrian Peterson and Derrius Guice will offset a lack of a deep passing attack. Here are five keys to the season as Washington opens at Philadelphia on Sunday.

Ground game

Short passes

Defensive hole?

Williams’ holdout

Gruden’s fate

The Redskins have two potential 1,000-yard backs in Adrian Peterson and Derrius Guice, above. That is, if the left side of the line blocks better than expected and the defense prevents blowouts that force Washington to pass 40 times per game. Peterson was expected to be the prime back, but coach Jay Gruden said Monday that Guice will get more carries. Both need 15 carries per game for maximum effect. Without a prime receiver, Gruden will lighten the passing game if the Redskins can manage four yards on first-down runs.

After declaring “potential gets you beat” last week, Gruden will rely heavily on inexperienced and injury-prone receivers.

Tight end Jordan Reed, above, suffered a preseason concussion so his reliability is suspect, too. Throw in a new QB and it’s not clear how the Redskins will keep opponents from stuffing the box. Who will push defenses back, Paul Richardson?

Maybe, if he can stay healthy. Tight ends Vernon Davis and Reed may end up as the top pass catchers.

Better hope rookies Terry McLaurin and Kelvin Harmon come through.

Jonathan Allen, above, Daron Payne and Matt Ioannidis make up one of the NFL’s top five defensive lines. They’re strong against the run and each can pressure quarterbacks.

This is Washington’s greatest overall strength.

Can outside linebackers Ryan Kerrigan and Montez Sweat sweep in for 20-plus combined sacks? If the line holds, opponents will have to throw often and the Redskins will need to cover the middle better than last year. The secondary can handle itself downfield, but there’s still an opening in the middle to fill.

How do the Redskins compensate for the loss of holdout left tackle Trent Williams, above, who’ll probably miss the season? They’ll start with veteran Donald Penn, 36, but the long season might eventually require second-year lineman Geron Christian. Williams was a top blind-side protector and he opened downfield running lanes. Either the Redskins run more to the right this season or they’ll need to go young on the left side with Christian and guard Wes Martin. Gruden plays Penn and left guard Ereck Flowers now, but change will come.

With a young roster, much of 2019 is really about 2020. But without a winning season, coach Jay Gruden, above, is just readying the team for his successor. So, does he stay with veterans longer than warranted or let youth gain some experience once the season is lost? It’s a tough situation for the coaching staff, but after five seasons it’s time for them to win or leave. If veteran quarterbacks Case Keenum and Colt McCoy get injured or fail, then playing rookie Dwayne Haskins is the white flag to start off 2020.

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“Nothing has ever been given to me.

I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

REDSKINS QB CASE KEENUM,

who’s playing with his fourth team in four seasons. He led Minnesota to within one game of the Super Bowl in 2017 before being traded to Denver, where he went 6-10 as the starter. Shortly after he was traded to Washington, the Redskins drafted their quarterback of the future in Dwayne Haskins, leaving Keenum to battle the rookie and veteran Colt McCoy throughout the offseason for the starting role. On Sunday in Philadelphia, he’ll start in a seasonopening game for the third time in four years.

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The Eagles have QB Carson Wentz back healthy and have boosted their backfield with former Bears standout Jordan Howard and rookie Miles Sanders.

1 p.m. Sept. 15, Fox

The Cowboys had the No. 6 scoring defense in 2018. Their young linebackers will challenge the Redskins up front.

WEEK 3

vs. Bears 8:15 p.m. Sept. 23, ESPN

Washington is 6-25 in Monday night games since 1993.

WEEK 4

@ Giants 1 p.m. Sept. 29, Fox

If things go badly for Case Keenum at QB, this could be Dwayne Haskins’ first game.

WEEK 5

vs. Patriots 1 p.m. Oct. 6, CBS

Tom Brady. Bill Belichick. Nine Super Bowl appearances. Let’s just say the Redskins will be the underdog in this one.

WEEK 6

@ Dolphins

A new heavy hitter Hurricane Katrina forced Landon Collins to be a leader at a young age. Now the kid who grew up idolizing Sean Taylor is ready to lead the Redskins’ defense.

TONI L. SANDYS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

WEEK 2

vs. Cowboys

1 p.m. Oct. 13, Fox

The Dolphins have a chance to be the worst team in the league in 2019. Can the Redskins capitalize on that?

WEEK 7

vs. 49ers 1 p.m. Oct. 20, Fox

Jimmy Garoppolo will be back from a torn ACL. He went 5-0 as the 49ers starter in 2017.

WEEK 8

@ Vikings 8:20 p.m. Oct. 24, Fox

It’s the Kirk Cousins revenge game! Minnesota signed Cousins to an $84 million deal last year after things ended on a sour note in Washington.

DEFENSE Landon Collins was 11 years old when he learned to drive.

This was in September 2005, just weeks after Hurricane Katrina had roared through New Orleans, ripping his father’s house in half and flooding the streets around his mother’s. His mother, April Justin, had packed him and his younger brother and sister into a Nissan Altima the day before the storm and driven them several hours north to her brother-in-law’s house in Sicily Island, La., where seven adults and 13 children filled a threebedroom, one-bathroom house.

It would be almost three months before the water would recede and they could return. In the meantime, Justin needed her oldest child to be something more than a little boy with a football dream.

“He had to take a role of being my sidekick,” she says.

Another hurricane was coming, and nothing seemed certain anymore. So she put Landon behind the wheel at a circle at the end of her brother-in-law’s subdivision.

If something bad happened, she said, he was to take his brother and sister and drive them away.

She showed him the ignition, the pedals and the gears. He seemed

brave, she thought, always the little man, older than his age.

Years later, Collins, now 25 and a star safety for the Redskins, quietly shakes his head.

“I would not have been made to be an adult like that without Katrina,” he says. “But that storm happened, and everything changed in my life, and we had to figure stuff out.”

When Washington’s players talk about why this year will be different, how their defense is stronger and closer and more cohesive, the biggest reason, they say, is Collins. Many around the NFL were surprised when

the Redskins signed him to a sixyear, $84 million contract on the first day of free agency, wondering whether it was too much for a safety, despite the fact he had been to three Pro Bowls in four seasons with the Giants. But in Washington’s locker room, Collins is the unifier, the player who grew up in Louisiana wanting nothing more than to play for the team of his favorite player, Sean Taylor.

“He makes a difference,” Redskins cornerback Josh Norman recently said about Collins. “Everybody says it. He makes a difference.”

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coaches and executives had told Collins, the way he had always seemed the strongest and wisest one on his college team at Alabama and then for those years with the Giants.

But to Collins, leadership is not yelling at teammates in the locker room or screaming in pregame huddles. It’s earned through quiet conversations and bringing divergent groups of teammates together. It’s not something invented. It’s learned. And for Collins, it was learned in Sicily Island and in the months and years after they all came home in the Altima.

Leadership comes from the

broken moments when an 11-yearold boy learns to drive a car — just in case — and has to make it all seem as if it’s something normal.

“A lot of times I had to take over for my sister and my brother,” Collins says. “At that age, I was a man.”

Deep down, Justin always had hoped Collins would grow up to become a movie star. She worked as a costumer on movie and television sets, and Collins and his brother and sister would run around the dressing rooms, wrestling in the actors’ trailers.

One day, she confided her hopes for her son in actor Jason Lee as the two stood in a downtown New Orleans alley made up to look like a murder scene for the series “Memphis Beat.” Collins, who had dropped by the set, walked up to say hello, his arms already rippling through his T-shirt. Lee glanced at Collins and predicted a different career path.

“I think he’s going to play in the NFL,” Lee said.

Justin remembers looking at her oldest child that day and realizing that Lee might just be right.

By then Collins already had a dream and a favorite player, and he knew exactly who he wanted to be.

When he was in middle school, Collins sat at his mother’s kitchen counter one day, watching on her laptop video clips of the player he loved most at the time: Redskins running back Clinton Portis. That’s when he became transfixed by one of Portis’ teammates. He had never heard of Taylor, nor had he ever seen someone hit so hard.

Collins sat for four hours that day, hunting for videos of Taylor.

Collins’ high school teammate and best friend, Shaquille Lewis, remembers Collins taping his fingers before games just like Taylor, who never wore gloves on the field. Collins taped his helmet, too, copying the way Taylor taped his. He even cut his towel to match Taylor’s.

And when Taylor was shot in his South Florida home in 2007 and died a day later, Collins

WEEK 9

@ Bills 1 p.m. Nov. 3, Fox

The Bills still might be a sub.500 team, and the Redskins have a reasonable chance to win.

WEEK 11

vs. Jets 1 p.m. Nov. 17, CBS

The Jets added running back Le’Veon Bell and former Redskins wide receiver Jamison Crowder in free agency.

JOHN McDONNELL (THE WASHINGTON POST)

WEEK 1

@ Eagles

Washington signed Landon Collins to a six-year, $84 million deal this year.

WEEK 12

vs. Lions 1 p.m. Nov. 24, Fox

Detroit has renewed its dedication to the running game under new offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.

WEEK 13

@ Panthers 1 p.m. Dec. 1, Fox

“I would not have been made to be an adult like that without Katrina. But that storm happened, and everything changed in my life.”

REDSKINS SAFETY LANDON COLLINS, who was 11 when the storm hit his home in Louisiana

wept. Later, he would say it was the first time he had cried for someone who wasn’t family.

“As a kid you are so emotional, like you don’t know how to control it,” Collins says. “You don’t know how to understand it because even though I had never met him, I [thought] he’s my friend. I think he’s someone close to me. It touched me in that way that my favorite player had died.”

He dreamed of playing for the Redskins, imagining himself wearing the same helmet and uniform as Taylor, launching himself like a human rocket into unsuspecting ballcarriers,

knocking them to the ground.

When the Redskins called his agent in March and said Collins was their top free agent target, Collins was elated.

“Let’s make it work,” he told his agent.

A few days later, he met the team’s owner, Daniel Snyder, who presented him with a gameworn Taylor jersey that Taylor had signed.

“I talked Sean Taylor from middle school to college to now,” Collins says. “I still say he’s the best safety, even though he only played four or five years. So when you talk about Ed Reed, you talk about [Troy] Polamalu, Bob Sanders … I don’t care.”

He claps his hands loudly.

“Sean Taylor is the best safety to play the game!”

He claps his hands again.

“There is nobody like him.

Nobody can do what he did in the way he did it,” he says. “I really appreciate the guy for who he was on and off the field, and I love and appreciate that he was a good guy. He is a good guy.”

He stops and smiles. “ I ’m t a l k i ng about h i m as if he’s still alive,” he says.

This could be a winnable game for the Redskins, depending on how Cam Newton looks.

LES CARPENTER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Note: Week 10 is a bye

Sunday afternoon: Colts at Chargers; Bengals at Seahawks (4:05 p.m.); 49ers at Buccaneers; Lions at Cardinals; Giants at Cowboys (4:25 p.m., Fox)

WEEK 14

@ Packers 1 p.m. Dec. 8, Fox

Green Bay still has two-time MVP Aaron Rodgers, who makes any game a challenge for opponents.

WEEK 15

vs. Eagles 1 p.m. Dec. 15, Fox

Philadelphia has beaten Washington by double digits in four straight meetings over the past two seasons.

WEEK 16

vs. Giants 1 p.m. Dec. 22, Fox

New York has gone 8-24 over the past two seasons and has even less talent on its roster this year.

WEEK 17

@ Cowboys 1 p.m. Dec. 29, Fox

If the Redskins can keep themselves alive through Week 17, this could be a fun, hard-fought matchup. (TWP)

Sunday night: Steelers at Patriots (8:20 p.m., NBC)

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Still clowning around The ‘It’ heroes have grown up, but the horror sequel relies on the same tired tricks FILM REVIEW “It Chapter Two,” the sequel to the 2017 horror blockbuster, features the same group of talented young actors as the original film, and also adds versions of those characters who are in their 40s. Director Andy Muschietti attempts to honor everyone involved, including Stephen King, author of the 1986 novel “It,” so the movie is like a game of musical chairs that runs too long. And since Muschietti has few scare tactics at his disposal, the film loses its capacity to frighten.

You will recall that the first film had the so-called Losers Club defeat It (Bill Skarsgård), a demonic spirit that can take many forms but prefers that of

a demented clown named Pennywise. Twenty-seven years pass — this film is set in 2016 — and only Mike (Isaiah Mustafa) remembers what happened. Like a bad nightmare, the rest of them barely recall that period in their young lives. Now that Pennywise is on the prowl again, Mike contacts the rest of the Losers and asks them to return to Derry, Maine.

At first, Muschietti successfully taps into the novelty of older actors — including James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain — playing adult versions of the characters. (Bill Hader leaves a particularly strong impression as Richie, the comic relief whose need to tell jokes is almost

‘It Chapter Two’ (R, 169 min.)

DIRECTOR: Andy Muschietti STARS: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgård IN A NUTSHELL: The Losers Club reunites — 27 years after being terrorized as children — so they can defeat the demon It once and for all.

a crutch.) For a film that’s nearly three hours long, however, a need to resolve every subplot creates a gnawing sense of impatience.

Monsters and clowns are not the only thing that make the film disturbing. “Chapter Two” opens with a violent hate crime, and

adult Beverly (Chastain) deals with brutal domestic abuse. But Muschietti does not deal with their ramifications in a sensitive or dramatically consistent way.

The first “It” was such a success because it was essentially a coming-of-age film with some scary bits thrown in. Now that the characters are older, there are fewer lessons for them to learn, so “Chapter Two” regresses them into a childlike state. Romantic subplots are indelicate, and shared grief arrives with less trauma. The cumulative effect is downright maudlin, which is not what you might expect from a film with gallons of blood and other bodily fluids. ALAN ZILBERMAN (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

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‘Before You Know It’ “It Chapter Two” ramps up the frights by exploring the truest horror: middle age.

Unrated, 98 min.

“Before You Know It” follows adult sisters Rachel (Hannah Pearl Utt) and Jackie (Jen Tullock) who, when their actor-playwright father (Mandy Patinkin) dies, are shocked to discover another name on the deed to his theater: their mother (Judith Light), a woman they thought was dead. This isn’t a deep movie, or a hilarious one.

But it is, in its undemanding, almost effortless way, warm and wise and watchable.

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‘Vita & Virginia’ Unrated, 110 min.

“Vita & Virginia,” about the love affair between writers Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton) and Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) and based on 20 years of their written correspondence, hardly makes for scintillating cinema. Even a subplot addressing Virginia’s psychological breakdowns, probably because of bipolar disorder, plays out with an air of clinical detachment. M.O.

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‘Asians’ writer exits, alleges pay disparity

Britain’s Official Secrets Act. “It doesn’t fit a traditional structure,” Hood says, “but I hope I’ll be forgiven for that because that is true to what happened.”

“Official Secrets” probes myriad issues that remain resonant a decade and a half later, including government overreach and accountability, the toxicity of anti-Muslim sentiment, and the merits of an intrepid free press.

But Gun’s personal story proves to be the prism through which the film investigates such sprawling topics. When Bright saw the movie for the first time, he was struck by how Gun was the figure on screen he most identified with. (“And I’m a character in the film!” he says.) By positioning Gun as an everywoman, “Official Secrets” asks its audience to ponder the moral dilemma at its core.

“I didn’t set out to be a whistleblower,” Gun says. “Hopefully people will see it and come away with the thought, ‘What would I do if I was in a similar situation?’ ”

Film A female screenwriter for the popular film “Crazy Rich Asians” has left the Warner Bros. sequel over what she alleges was a pay disparity with a white male counterpart.

Adele Lim, a veteran TV writer who helped to bring author Kevin Kwan’s book to the screen last year, said in a Hollywood Reporter story Tuesday that she was offered significantly less than co-screenwriter Peter Chiarelli to work on “China Rich Girlfriend,” the sequel to the hit “Crazy Rich Asians.” She later confirmed to The Washington Post that the pay disparity was why she left the project.

The screenwriter declined to provide exact numbers, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, her starting offer was $110,000, in contrast to the $800,000 to $1 million offered to Chiarelli.

Lim said she believes women and people of color tend to be brought onto projects as “soy sauce,” tasked and credited with adding cultural texture but not with the heavy work of storytelling.

“Being evaluated that way can’t help but make you feel that is how they view my contributions,” Lim said.

Chiarelli, whose other film writing credits include “Now You See Me 2” and “The Proposal,” reportedly offered to split his fee with Lim, but she declined the gesture. Rebecca Tan

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Film Katharine Gun and Martin Bright could be forgiven for fielding Hollywood’s overtures with a degree of skepticism.

Ever since their story was documented in Marcia and Thomas Mitchell’s 2008 book “The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War,” Gun, the British whistleblower who attempted to prevent the Iraq War, and Bright, an investigative journalist who broke the leak, had sat down with many a filmmaker interested in translating their tale.

One by one, each iteration fell by the wayside. So when veteran South African director Gavin Hood (“Tsotsi,” “Ender’s Game”) expressed interest, Gun and Bright took the development with a grain of salt.

“We’d been through many ups and downs with the project,” Bright says. “We were slightly suspicious that this was yet another person promising to tell our story.”

When Gun met with Hood, however, she was struck by his engagement. They ended up talking for five hours, pledging to pick up where they left off the next day. And again the day after.

“He was taking handwritten notes in this vast, leather-bound notebook of his that just grew and grew and grew,” Gun says of those meetings, which went on for five days. “I could tell it was something that he took seriously.”

The end result, “Official Secrets,” opens locally today with Keira Knightley playing Gun and Matt Smith as Bright. The movie depicts the decision Gun made in 2003, while working for British intelligence agency GCHQ, to leak a secret memo exposing

Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley) discovers things she can’t keep hidden in the espionage thriller “Official Secrets.”

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plans by the American government to blackmail members of the U.N. Security Council into supporting the Iraq War. Directed and co-written by Hood, “Official Secrets” generates tension by dramatizing reallife events. But the methodical espionage thriller avoids taking substantial liberties with the true story. While a previous version of the script consolidated two of Bright’s key colleagues at The Observer newspaper into one composite character, Hood’s film honors their contributions by restoring Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy as individual characters (played by Matthew Goode and Rhys Ifans, respectively).

“I thought the credibility of the movie would suffer if I took license with significant people

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Stars: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes Quick Take: “Official Secrets” succumbs to cliches of the genre and doesn’t exemplify scintillating filmmaking, but what it lacks in style it makes up for in the kind of dogged integrity that Katharine Gun comes to stand for. Ann Hornaday (TWP)

and events,” Hood says. “It’s not like we’re doing something from 500 years ago. These people are alive, and they’ll say, ‘Not so.’ ” Loyalty to the actual events also meant embracing an unconventional plot. The storyline involving Bright and his journalistic cohorts, for example, takes a back seat in the final act. At that point, the narrative shifts to the defense crafted by Gun’s lawyer, Ben Emmerson (Ralph Fiennes), after she is charged with breaking

Deadline: Will Poulter to star in Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” series

Eddie Murphy says he plans to resume stand-up in 2020

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EXPECTED RELEASE: Oct. 18

SUMMARY: Our first look at the third installment of the “Bad Boys” saga might as well be a tutorial labeled “How to Make a Trailer for an Overdue Franchise Film in 2019.” A remix of the original theme song? Check. A gag about how old the characters are now? Check. A line where the heroes look at each other and say, “One last time”? Check and check. THOMAS FLOYD (EXPRESS)

SUMMARY: Following the smashing success of “Thor: Ragnarok,” filmmaker Taika Waititi took the natural next step: directing a World War II comedy, and casting himself in the role of Adolf Hitler. This self-declared “anti-hate satire,” about a German child who begins to doubt the Nazi cause, looks like a warm-hearted riot. T.F.

Local movie times DISTRICT

AMC Georgetown 14 3111 K Street N.W.

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Angel Has Fallen (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 11:00-4:45-7:45-10:45 The Lion King (PG) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 It Chapter Two (R) CC;DV;Dolby Cinema at AMC Prime;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 11:00-2:45-6:30-10:15 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 3:00-6:3510:00 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:30-7:30-10:30 Good Boys (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:00-2:15-4:30-6:45-9:00 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark (PG-13) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 10:4510:00 Ready or Not (R) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:20-3:40-5:558:20-10:40 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:35-4:20-7:10 Don't Let Go (R) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 10:45-9:25 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 11:40-2:10-4:40-7:05 It Chapter Two: The IMAX 2D Experience (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:45-3:307:15-11:00 Spider-Man: Far From Home - Extended Cut (PG-13) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:00 Ne Zha (NR) AMC Independent;English Subtitles;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 11:30-2:155:00-7:45-10:30 Angel Has Fallen (R) OC;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:45 It Chapter Two (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:30-1:15-2:00-4:15-5:00-5:458:00-8:45-9:30 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) OC;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 4:30

AMC Mazza Gallerie 5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW

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Angel Has Fallen (R) CC;DV: 4:50-7:50-10:40 Where'd You Go, Bernadette (PG-13) AMC Independent;CC;DV: 1:50-4:40-7:10-11:00 It Chapter Two (R) CC;DV: 1:20-2:40-4:00-7:30-9:40-10:10-10:45 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) CC;DV: 1:30-5:00-7:40 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) CC;DV: 1:10-3:50-7:15-10:00 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC;DV: 1:00-4:20-7:20-10:05 Angel Has Fallen (R) OC: 2:00 It Chapter Two (R) OC: 6:20

AMC Uptown 1

3426 Connecticut Avenue N.W.

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It Chapter Two (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 12:00-3:30-7:15-11:00

Avalon Theatre

5612 Connecticut Avenue

www.theavalon.org

Landmark Atlantic Plumbing Cinema www.landmarktheatres.com/

Ready or Not (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!) 1:50-3:50-7:30-10:30 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!) 2:004:40-7:40-10:05 It Chapter Two (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!) 12:00-12:30-3:304:15-6:30-7:00-7:20-9:30-9:50-10:15 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!)

12:10-1:00-3:15-4:00-7:10-10:20

Landmark E Street Cinema 555 11th Street NW

www.landmarktheatres.com/

The Farewell (PG) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Partially Subtitled: (!)

1:00-5:30-7:45 Vita & Virginia CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!) 2:10-4:40-7:10-9:40 Cold Case Hammarskjöld CC;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Partially Subtitled: (!)

1:30-4:20-7:00 The Farewell (PG) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;SUBTITLED;Subtitled: (!) 3:15-9:55 Before You Know It CC;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!) 2:20-4:50-7:20-9:50 Brittany Runs A Marathon (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!) 1:153:30-4:15-7:15-9:15-9:45 Official Secrets (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!) 1:00-1:45-4:306:45-7:30-9:30-10:00 Luce (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!) 1:35-4:35-7:35-10:00

Landmark West End Cinema 2301 M Street NW

701 Seventh Street NW

www.landmarktheatres.com/

Jay Myself Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!) 1:30-3:30-5:30-7:30-9:30 The Last Black Man in San Francisco (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing: (!) 1:40-4:20-9:30 American Factory CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Partially Subtitled: (!)

2:00-7:00 One Child Nation (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Partially Subtitled: (!)

4:45-7:15-9:45

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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;ReservedSelected;Stadium: 12:30-3:50-7:10-10:10 Spider-Man: Far From Home - Extended Cut (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;ReservedSelected;Stadium: 10:30AM The Lion King (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 12:40-6:45-9:45 It Chapter Two (R) 2D;4DX;CC;DV;No Passes;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 12:15-4:007:45-11:25 Ready or Not (R) 2D;CC;DV;OC;Open Cap/Eng Sub;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 8:00 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 10:30AM Ready or Not (R) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 12:20-3:00-5:30-10:30 Don't Let Go (R) 2D;CC;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 12:25-3:10-5:40-8:10-10:40 It Chapter Two (R) 2D;CC;DV;No Passes;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 10:3011:00-11:30-11:50-1:00-1:30-2:15-2:45-3:15-3:40-4:40-5:20-6:00-6:30-7:00-7:20-8:309:10-9:40-10:15-10:45-11:10 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) 2D;CC;DV;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 11:102:40-6:15-10:00 Good Boys (R) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30-9:50 Angel Has Fallen (R) 2D;CC;DV;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 10:50-1:50-4:50-7:55-10:50 The Lion King (PG) 2D;DV;No Passes;OC;Open Cap/Eng Sub;Recliner;ReservedSelected;Stadium: 3:45

Smithsonian - Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater 601 Independence Avenue SW

www.si.edu/imax

D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (NR) 1:20 Aircraft Carrier: Guardians of the Seas 3D (2018) (NR) 10:20-12:45 Journey to Space: The IMAX 3D Experience (NR) 10:50-3:05-5:00 Apollo 11: The IMAX 2D Experience 11:55-2:10-4:05 Secrets of the Universe (NR) 11:25-3:35

MARYLAND

AFI Silver Theatre Cultural Center 8633 Colesville Road

www.afi.com/silver

The Farewell (PG) CC;Accessibility devices available: 11:00-7:20 Moonraker (PG) 7:15 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) 1:00-4:10 Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 11:30-2:00-4:20-6:45-9:10 Taxi Driver (1976) (R) 9:45 Midsommar: The Directors Cut (NR) 9:25 Annie Hall (1977) (PG) 12:00 Raging Bull (R) 2:00 The Spy Who Loved Me (PG) 4:45

AMC Center Park 8

Regal Hyattsville Royale 6505 America Blvd.

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Angel Has Fallen (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:20-3:25-6:30-9:40 Ready or Not (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:10-1:40-4:20-6:45-9:15 The Lion King (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:55-3:55-6:55-9:55 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:15AM Good Boys (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:15-2:45-5:15-7:45-10:15 It Chapter Two (R) 2D;CC;DV;No Passes;Stadium: 11:20-12:40-1:00-1:50-2:15-2:50-3:104:10-4:30-4:50-5:40-6:20-6:40-7:00-8:00-8:20-8:40-9:30-10:00-10:30-10:55 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:00-1:35 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 1:05-4:15-7:30-10:45 Overcomer (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:50-3:50-6:50-9:50 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:10 Don't Let Go (R) 2D;CC;Stadium: 11:20-2:05-4:55-7:35-10:20

Regal Majestic & IMAX 900 Ellsworth Drive

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It Chapter Two (R) 2D;CC;DV;No Passes;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 12:15-1:001:45-4:00-4:45-5:30-7:45-8:30-9:15-11:35-12:20 It Chapter Two: The IMAX 2D Experience (R) 2D;CC;DV;IMAX;No Passes;ReservedSelected;Stadium: 11:30-3:15-7:00-10:50

Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14 7710 Matapeake Business Dr

www.xscapetheatres.com

The Lion King (PG) AD;CC;Reserved Seating;Stadium Seating: 10:50-2:10-6:00-8:50 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC;Reserved Seating;Stadium Seating: (!) 11:20-2:20 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) CC;OC;Reserved Seating;Stadium Seating: (!) 10:40-1:30-4:30-7:20-10:10 Good Boys (R) CC;Reserved Seating;Stadium Seating: (!) 11:50-2:50-5:30-8:10-10:50 Overcomer (PG) CC;Reserved Seating;Stadium Seating: (!) 9:50-12:50-3:40-6:30-9:20 Ready or Not (R) AD;CC;Reserved Seating;Stadium Seating: (!) 11:30-2:30-5:10-7:50-10:20 Don't Let Go (R) AD;CC;Reserved Seating;Stadium Seating: (!) 9:40-12:30-3:30-6:10-8:40 Angel Has Fallen (R) AD;CC;Reserved Seating;Stadium Seating: (!) 10:10-1:00-4:107:10-10:30 It Chapter Two (R) CC;Reserved Seating;Stadium Seating: (!) 10:00-11:00-11:40-12:1012:40-1:40-2:40-3:20-3:50-4:20-4:50-5:20-6:20-7:00-7:30-8:00-8:30-9:00-10:00-10:40-11:10 Spider-Man: Far From Home - Extended Cut (PG-13) AD;CC;Reserved Seating;Stadium Seating: 11:10-3:10-6:40-9:40

VIRGINIA

AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 2150 Clarendon Blvd.

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Angel Has Fallen (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:00-3:30-7:00-10:00 The Lion King (PG) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:00-3:45-7:45-9:45 Angel Has Fallen (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 10:45-1:40-4:30-7:20-10:20 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:30 The Lion King (PG) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 10:15-1:35-4:35-7:50-10:50 It Chapter Two (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:30-3:15-4:00-5:00-6:00-7:15It Chapter Two (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 10:00-10:30-11:00-12:35-1:00-2:00- 8:45-9:30-10:30-11:00 3:15-4:15-5:00-6:35-7:15-9:00-10:30 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 3:00-6:30 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: Good Boys (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 1:15-3:45-6:30-9:45 10:20-1:20-4:20-7:30-10:30 Ready or Not (R) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 12:45-4:15Good Boys (R) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 10:00-12:30-5:35-6:50-8:15-10:40 6:45-9:00 Don't Let Go (R) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 10:10-2:35-4:10Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC;DV;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 2:00 8:35-10:10

4001 Powder Mill Rd.

Give Me Liberty 12:00-2:30-5:00-8:00

807 V Street NW

Regal Gallery Place

Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: (!) 1:30-4:40-7:10-9:50 Official Secrets (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: (!)

1:00-3:40-4:30-7:05-9:40

www.amctheatres.com/

AMC Magic Johnson Capital Center 12 800 Shoppers Way

www.amctheatres.com/

The Little Mermaid (1989) (G) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 6:00 Angel Has Fallen (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 4:35-7:30-10:20 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 3:25 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 4:05-7:1010:15 It Chapter Two (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 4:00-4:40-5:20-7:40-8:20-9:00-9:30-10:00 Good Boys (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 3:40-5:55-8:10-10:25 Overcomer (PG) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 3:35-6:20-9:10 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark (PG-13) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 4:45-7:20 Ready or Not (R) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 3:30-5:50-8:30-10:45 Don't Let Go (R) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 3:00-5:30-8:00-10:30 It Chapter Two: The IMAX 2D Experience (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 3:20-7:00-10:40

Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema 7235 Woodmont Avenue

www.landmarktheatres.com/

Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: (!) 12:50-3:30-6:40-9:15 The Farewell (PG) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Partially Subtitled;Reserved Seating: (!) 1:10-4:10-7:00-10:00 Brittany Runs A Marathon (R) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: (!) 2:00-4:00-4:50-7:20-9:45 Tel Aviv On Fire (NR) Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating;Subtitled: (!)

1:40-4:15-7:30-9:55 Where'd You Go, Bernadette (PG-13) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: (!) 1:50-7:25-9:55 After the Wedding (PG-13) CC;DVS;Handicap Accessible;Hard of Hearing;Reserved Seating: (!) 1:20-6:50-9:30

(!) No Pass/No Discount Ticket Angelika Film Center Mosaic 2911 District Ave

www.angelikafilmcenter.com/

Angel Has Fallen (R) Alcohol Available;CC;DA;Reserved Seating: 11:30-2:20-5:10-8:0010:50 Official Secrets (R) Alcohol Available;Reserved Seating: 9:50-12:20-3:00-5:40-8:20-11:00 It Chapter Two (R) Alcohol Available;CC;DA;Reserved Seating: 9:55-11:40-1:40-3:20-5:207:00-9:00-10:40 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) Alcohol Available;CC;DA;Reserved Seating: 10:55-1:454:30-7:15 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) Alcohol Available;CC;DA;Reserved Seating: 10:004:00-7:30-10:55 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) Alcohol Available;CC;DA;Reserved Seating: 10:0512:25-2:50-5:15-7:40-10:10 Brittany Runs A Marathon (R) Alcohol Available;CC;DA;Reserved Seating: 10:10-12:401:30-3:10-5:35-8:10-9:55-10:40

Regal Ballston Quarter 671 North Glebe Road

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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;ReservedSelected;Stadium: 12:10-3:35-7:15-10:20 Toy Story 4 (G) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 1:00 Angel Has Fallen (R) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 12:30-3:50-7:0510:05 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 11:30-3:05-6:50-10:25 It Chapter Two (R) 2D;CC;DV;No Passes;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 11:00-1:001:40-2:50-3:35-4:50-5:30-6:05-6:40-7:25-8:40-9:20-9:50-10:30 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 11:10-12:00-2:40-5:20-7:55-10:45 Good Boys (R) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 11:40-2:10-4:40-7:10-9:40 Chhichhore (NR) 2D;Hindi;No Pass/SS;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium;Sub-Titled: 11:15-2:35-6:00-9:25 Ready or Not (R) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 11:55-5:25-10:40 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 2:30-7:50 Spider-Man: Far From Home - Extended Cut (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Recliner;ReservedSelected;Stadium: 11:45-3:00

Regal Kingstowne & RPX 5910 Kingstowne Towne Ctr

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Angel Has Fallen (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:15-2:05-5:00-7:55-10:45 The Lion King (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:05-2:00-4:55-7:40-10:30 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 10:50AM It Chapter Two (R) 2D;CC;DV;No Passes;RPX;Recliner;Reserved-Selected;Stadium: 11:00-2:50-6:40-10:30 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:05-2:40-5:20-8:00-10:35 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 10:50-1:45-4:457:45-10:50 Good Boys (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:10-2:30-4:50-7:10-10:40 Chhichhore (NR) 2D;Hindi;No Pass/SS;Stadium;Sub-Titled: 11:15-2:35-6:00-9:20 Ready or Not (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:50-3:20-5:45-8:10 The Art of Racing in the Rain (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:25-2:25-5:15-7:50-10:25 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:15-2:45-5:30-8:05-10:55 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 10:55AM Spider-Man: Far From Home - Extended Cut (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:45-3:006:05-9:15 It Chapter Two (R) 2D;CC;DV;No Passes;ScreenX;Stadium: 11:40-3:30-7:20-11:10; 11:2012:30-1:20-2:20-3:10-4:10-5:10-6:10-7:00-8:00-9:10-9:30-9:50-10:50

AMC Hoffman Center 22

Regal Potomac Yard

The Little Mermaid (1989) (G) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 2:00-6:00 Angel Has Fallen (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:00-12:00-3:00-6:00-9:00-10:30 The Lion King (PG) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:00-2:00-5:00-8:00-11:00 It Chapter Two (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:30-12:30-1:00-1:30-2:00-2:30-3:30-4:305:00-5:30-6:00-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:00-9:30-10:00-10:30 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:00-4:45 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:45-3:15-6:45-10:15 Spider-Man: Far From Home - Extended Cut (PG-13) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 2:00-7:30 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:30-5:00-7:45-10:30 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 1:30-4:157:15-10:30 It Chapter Two (R) CC;DV;Dolby Cinema at AMC Prime;Recliners;Reserved Seating: 11:00-3:00-7:00-11:00 Good Boys (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:45-5:00-8:00-10:30 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark (PG-13) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 12:00-2:45-5:308:15-11:00 Overcomer (PG) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:15-4:15-7:00-10:00 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:30-1:45 Ready or Not (R) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:45-2:15-4:45-7:15-9:45 After the Wedding (PG-13) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:15-4:30-9:45 Luce (R) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 2:00-4:00-7:00-9:45 Don't Let Go (R) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 11:15-1:45-7:30-10:00 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 5:00 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) AMC Independent;CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 2:00-7:15 It Chapter Two: The IMAX 2D Experience (R) CC;DV;Reserved Seating: 12:00-4:00-8:00 Just a Stranger AMC Independent;English Subtitles;Reserved Seating: 11:45-12:30-3:158:15-11:00

Toy Story 4 (G) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:10AM Angel Has Fallen (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:30-3:40-6:50-10:05 The Lion King (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:25-3:15-6:25-9:25 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:00-3:256:40-9:50 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:05-3:35-7:05-10:40 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:40-2:10-4:40-7:15 Spider-Man: Far From Home - Extended Cut (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:55-3:306:55-10:10 The Kitchen (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:20 Good Boys (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:35-3:05-5:25-7:55-10:20 Overcomer (PG) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:20-2:25-5:15-8:05-10:55 It Chapter Two (R) 2D;CC;DV;No Passes;Stadium: 11:00-11:40-12:45-1:45-2:20-2:50-3:203:30-4:45-5:30-6:00-6:30-7:00-7:20-8:30-9:30-10:00-10:30-11:00 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 9:45 Ready or Not (R) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 12:10-2:45-5:35-8:00-10:35 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 2D;CC;DV;Stadium: 11:15AM Don't Let Go (R) 2D;CC;Stadium: 11:30-2:15-5:00-7:40-10:15

206 Swamp Fox Rd.

www.amctheatres.com/

3575 Potomac Avenue

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Smithsonian - Airbus IMAX Theater 14390 Air & Space Museum Pkwy

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King drank from the fountain, not the bowl.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You may enjoy a rather relaxing day, but there are certain events that threaten to upset you — and they might, if you let them. Stay aloof.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Working from a distance can provide you with the peace you need to get certain things done, but other tasks require a closer location.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) What you remember today may not be all that helpful — at first — to someone who’s trying to determine what really happened recently.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You’re facing long odds at this time.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You are in need of a lift, and only one certain someone is likely to give it to you. You must be willing to share some private info, however.

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1995: Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken breaks Lou Gehrig’s record by playing his 2,131st consecutive game.

2002: Meeting outside Washington, D.C., for only the second time since 1800, Congress convenes in New York to pay homage to the victims and heroes of September 11.

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The “R” of RBG Canal, lake and city name Like some nuns

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Fill in each column, row and 3x3 box with the digits 1 through 9 without repeating any. The twist in Samurai Sudoku is that the digits that appear in the overlapping boxes must work for both puzzles.

A piece of advice to get you started: Don’t focus on completing one grid at a time. Keep the whole puzzle in mind as you go, because filling in a number in one grid could give you clues to another.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

AVG. HIGH: 82 RECORD HIGH: 98 AVG. LOW: 65 RECORD LOW: 47 SUNRISE: 6:41 a.m. SUNSET: 7:30 p.m.

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FRIDAY: Winds increase during the day from the north, gusting over 20 mph. For a tropically influenced day, humidity is moderate (low to mid-60s dew points). A few bands of light showers may zip through, especially east and southeast of Washington.

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Jeremy learns the internet is The Bad Place

‘Idol’ really missed out Maren Morris recounted getting rejected by “American Idol” when she was 17 on Wednesday’s episode of “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” The country singer, 29, said she was cut in an early round after singing for just a few seconds. “I had to … find my mom’s car and just cry on the way home with her,” she said. But Morris added that now, people sing her songs while auditioning, so — “I just get the check in the mail,” she said. (EXPRESS)

Jeremy Renner has shut down his self-titled app, Vulture reported. On Wednesday, Renner posted a note on the app that read: “The app has jumped the shark. Literally.” He wrote that he had asked for the app to be shut down, citing “clever individuals who were able to manipulate ways to impersonate me and others.” Trolls, some who posed as Casey Anthony and Jeffrey Epstein, had taken over the app, according to Vulture. The 48-year-old actor launched the app in 2017. “What was supposed to be a place for fans to connect with each other has turned into a place that is everything I detest and can’t or won’t condone,” Renner wrote. (EXPRESS)

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson left his honeymoon early to appear on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” to fill in for Kevin Hart, who was recently in a car accident, Us Weekly reported.

On Wednesday, Johnson tweeted: “When my son [Kevin Hart] goes down with an injury, his big daddy steps in. I did leave my honeymoon early,” adding that his wife, Lauren Hashian, approved. (EXPRESS)

Britain’s Princess Charlotte was accompanied by older brother Prince George and her parents, Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, to her first day of school on Thursday. Charlotte, 4, is attending Thomas’s Battersea in London. Her brother George, 6, has already been at the school for two years. William told one of the head teachers on Thursday: “First day. She’s very excited.” (AP)

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Kaitlynn Carter celebrated her 31st birthday with Miley Cyrus, as seen in a series of Instagram Stories on Wednesday, Us Weekly reported. The two have been linked since last month, around the time it was confirmed that Cyrus and her husband, Liam Hemsworth, had split. Also on Wednesday, Cyrus’ sister Brandi Cyrus shared a birthday message for Carter via Instagram. (EXPRESS)

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