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THE WASHINGTON POST

Trump cancels secret Camp David meeting with Taliban leaders 8

Abrupt change

USDA workers who didn’t want to relocate adjust to a new reality 4

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YOUNG LIVES LOST:

Thousands of school backpacks are laid out in an installation on the North Lawn of the United Nations on Sunday. The installation, created by UNICEF, illustrates the scale of child deaths in conflict zones in 2018.

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Forget the pot — the police’s puns are a far more egregious offense

A Washington motorist who used a black marker to try to make the vehicle-tab sticker on a license plate appear current got an A for effort and a $228 ticket. The Seattle Times reports Washington State Patrol spokeswoman Heather Axtman tweeted a photo of the doctored tabs Thursday, noting the “coloring skills are kind of on point.”

She told the paper that it was an “A for effort” and one of the more creative ones she’s seen. (AP)

A Utah woman has been sentenced to jail time after calling 911 to report a possible drunk driver while she was intoxicated. Court documents show Breanna Dawn Hernandez, 32, called police Aug. 16 to report a possible drunk driver in Woods Cross.

When police pressed her for more information, the woman gave her own license plate and started laughing on the phone. Officers found an almost empty bottle of Fireball whiskey in her car. (AP)

A man confused about Ohio drug laws called a police department demanding that officers return the marijuana they “stole” from him. WXIX-TV reports the man told a Sharonville dispatcher in an expletive-laced call Tuesday that it’s legal to possess 100 grams, and he had just 4 grams. Police posted a recording of the call on Facebook, writing: “People may be a bit in the weeds, so we would like to take this opportunity to clear the haze.” (AP)

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A more perfect (Va.) union?

VIRGINIA When they applied for a marriage license in Rockbridge County, Va., Brandyn Churchill and Sophie Rogers were told they could not have one unless they each chose a race, from a list that included “Aryan” and “Octoroon.”

The Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage over half a century ago. Yet the mechanism by which that prohibition was enforced remains on the books: a requirement that all would-be newlyweds identify by race. To fill out the form falsely is a felony.

So, weeks away from their planned Oct. 19 wedding in Fincastle, Va., the couple is challenging the law in Virginia federal court. Joined by two other engaged couples, they argue the law is a racist holdover that has no place in modern marriage.

The suit is part of both efforts to scrape away vestiges of segregation in Virginia and to move away from institutional categorization in race and gender.

“I am not proposing we stop

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Couples challenge a state law requiring racial labels to marry

Brandyn Churchill and Sophie Rogers are challenging a Virginia law.

talking about race altogether,” Rogers, 22, said. “Not only does this type of law not promote or further this important conversation, it doesn’t seek to.”

Forms for marriage licenses in Virginia vary by county, but most offer about five options, generally echoing federal guidelines used by the U.S. Census Bureau: white; black or African American; American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. Many offer choices of

“We don’t want to put ‘other’ because we’re not ‘other.’ We are human beings.”

ASHLEY RAMKISHUN, of Arlington,

who was told she would have to choose “other” if she didn’t want to identify a race on her marriage license. “Most of the time I’m kind of forced to stick myself in a box I don’t necessarily fit in,” she said.

“other” or “mixed.”

Similar racial requirements are enshrined in code by only a handful of other states, although in many cases, county forms demand a racial identity without any law to back up the query.

In a letter, their attorney, Victor Glasberg, asked Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam to “get on the right side of history” and decline to defend “tainted categories reflecting Virginia’s historical repression of non-white persons.”

In Arlington, where plaintiffs Ashley Ramkishun and Samuel Sarfo tried to apply for a marriage license, a clerk told them if they didn’t want to identify by race, they would have to choose “other.”

“We don’t want to put ‘other’ because we’re not ‘other. ’ We are human beings,” said Ramkishun, 26, who is of Asian Indian and Guyanese descent.

Sarfo, 32, is from Ghana and also avoids racial categorization. He doesn’t understand why Virginia doesn’t change the law.

“If you’re really saying you’ve come that far, why not use common sense?” Sarfo said. “Just get rid of the question or make it optional, knowing exactly why it was put on there in the first place.”

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USDA employees adapt after resisting relocation

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced in June that it will partially relocate to Kansas City, Mo., in September, causing immediate disruption for hundreds. The move, which the USDA estimates will save $300 million over 15 years, affects 550 people at the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Two-thirds of affected employees decided to leave

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their jobs, the department said. Here are some of their stories. HANNAH NATANSON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Randi Johnson, 62

Rachel Melnick, 38

She held up a picture of her dead son’s football team. “What am I supposed to do with this?” she asked. “And these are videos of his mission trip to Mexico.”

Johnson feels the same about her son’s baseball caps and is running out of time to decide. She did not want to quit her job. A tree lover since childhood, she spent her days helping forest scientists find funding. Going to Kansas City would have meant moving far from her daughter, who recently gave birth to Johnson’s first grandchild. And she worried the Midwest might be less than welcoming to a 62-year-old transgender woman. But, after going zero-for-six on job applications in the D.C. area, she’s crating or tossing pieces of her life and moving to Bethany Beach, Del., where she’ll retire early. She’ll be within driving distance of her daughter, but her composure frays when she thinks about weekly gatherings with friends on Fridays. “It’s just the thought of sitting in that house alone, at night … ” she said. “I don’t do alone well.”

For a while, she entertained the idea of moving to Kansas City. She loved her work at the National Institute of Food and Agriculture: allocating money for research projects to help farmers adapt to climate change.

Nine years ago, Melnick turned down “a great job” in the agricultural industry because she thought government work would be more stable, she said. In August 2018, about a month after closing on a house in Virginia, Melnick had pulled out her phone to send a picture of her newborn son to co-workers.

Instead, she saw the email saying her agency would be moving out. It didn’t say where — just that Melnick should be ready to relocate far from D.C. Kansas City, Melnick later decided, is too far for her parents to drive, so she left her job and started a new position a few weeks ago.

“People think we have something against Kansas City, and that’s not true,” Melnick said. “It was the way this move was done. ... Everything’s been so uncertain.”

Jonathan McFadden, 33 He accepted a position at the Economic Research Service right after earning a Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State University. He viewed the job as tiding him over until he found a university job. But he grew so engrossed that he started coming into the office on weekends. McFadden, who grew up in rural Oklahoma, had felt apprehensive about moving to Washington, but eventually he was enchanted — the son of a music professor reveled in visiting the Kennedy Center. When he found out about the USDA relocation, he sought several jobs in the area but received no offers in the District. He started teaching economics at the University of Oklahoma last week. Though he calls the job an “exciting opportunity,” he misses his work at the USDA, his new girlfriend in the D.C. area and the city itself. “It’s tough, but I’m managing,” he said. He clarified: “I’m trying to manage.”

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Virginia curbs shellfish harvesting to avoid contaminants possibly stirred up by hurricane

Due to a contractor mix-up, the font on signs at six Metro stations in Virginia reopening today after being closed since May is inconsistent with signs elsewhere in the transit system, ABC 7’s Tom Roussey reported last week. The signs at the affected stations use Helvetica Black font, rather than the Metro standard Helvetica Bold, according to a DCist report. The contractor plans to correct the issue later this year, Metro spokesman Ian Jannetta told DCist, but “this wasn’t an item that we were pushing to get done by the time stations open.”

The out-of-place font is on display for a limited time at Braddock Road, King Street, Eisenhower Avenue, Huntington, Van Dorn Street and FranconiaSpringfield. (EXPRESS)

Prosecutors ask to cut jail time for drug kingpin THE DISTRICT Federal prosecutors in D.C. late Friday asked a judge to nullify the life sentence of 1980s drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III and instead resentence him to 40 years in prison.

Edmond, arrested in 1989, has been incarcerated for three decades. It was not immediately clear how much more time he would have to serve on the D.C. sentence if the petition is granted. Lawyers said that could depend on how sentencing rules might affect his case.

In February, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia filed a motion requesting that Edmond’s life sentence be reduced. Edmond had cooperated with authorities over nearly two decades, prosecutors said.

The final say on Edmond’s fate will rest with U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan.

Rayful Edmond III, 54, oversaw an operation that brought up to 1,700 pounds of cocaine a month into the District in the mid-1980s.

At a hearing in October, witnesses on Edmond’s behalf are expected to testify.

The judge’s decision in the D.C. case will not directly affect the 30-year sentence Edmond has yet to serve for a separate conviction in Pennsylvania for dealing drugs from a prison there. Prosecutors there have not indicated whether they also plan to request a reduction.

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local GOP abandons attacks as Democratic governor regains political stature VIRGINIA No one mentioned resignation when Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam recently hobnobbed at Rep. Robert “Bobby” Scott’s annual Labor Day picnic in Newport News. No students protested when Northam attended a seminar at historically black Virginia Union University last month. And when Northam spoke about the legacy of slavery at Fort Monroe late last month, there were no boos, only standing ovations.

Northam is still wounded by a blackface scandal that almost cost him his job in February. But with campaign season in full swing during a crucial election

year, he is far from the pariah that most people expected. Instead, Northam is making big donations to a few campaigns, attending fundraisers throughout the state and rallying fellow Democrats on issues such as health care and gun control.

Republicans have even eased up on the “Gov. Blackface” attacks that were common earlier in the spring and summer. GOP campaigns are now more likely to warn about Democrats pushing socialism than to call Northam a racist. Two Republicans involved with campaigns said internal polling shows attacking Northam was not helping them woo voters.

Northam will probably never escape the cloud from February, when a photo surfaced from his 1984 medical school yearbook page showing one person in

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Northam overcomes blackface scandal

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam resisted calls from his party for him to resign.

blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan robes. Northam initially took responsibility for the photo and was poised to resign over the backlash. Then, he said he wasn’t in the photo, promised to stay in office and admitted to

darkening his face in a dance contest that same year.

Northam’s fundraising ability evaporated overnight. Virtually all state Democrats called on him to resign.

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speaking on the condition of anonymity, said their internal polling now shows Northam is solid, if not beloved. Job approval has been steady, “and voters care more about that and less about personal image,” a strategist said.

A measure of the change came when Northam attended a symposium at Virginia Union University in Richmond last month. In February, Northam canceled an appearance there after students protested.

This time, students a nd faculty members welcomed Northam to a discussion about historically black colleges and universities. After a few words of thanks, Northam spent the hour-plus event as a spectator. GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Parents in Md. and Va. sued over residency fraud The D.C. attorney general is seeking more than $2.9 million from 16 Maryland and Virginia parents for allegedly lying about their residency to slip their children into D.C. schools, according to a statement last week. A D.C. police officer and five former or current government employees are among the lawsuit’s defendants. (TWP) THE DISTRICT

City knew of school safety problems but didn’t act Top D.C. education officials knew for months about safety issues plaguing Monument Academy Public Charter School but did not force changes, according to public records and interviews with school employees. The school serves some of the city’s most vulnerable children. Issues included students fighting during the school day, destroying school property and leaving school unsupervised. (TWP)

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Trump calls off meeting with Taliban after attack POLITICS President Trump said Saturday he canceled a secret weekend meeting at Camp David with Taliban and Afghan leaders after a bombing last week in Kabul that killed 12 people, including an American soldier, and that he has called off peace negotiations with the insurgent group.

Trump’s tweet was surprising because it would mean that the president was ready to host members of the Taliban at the presidential retreat in Maryland just days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

More than 2,400 U.S. troops have been killed since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to go after the Taliban, who were harboring al-Qaeda leaders responsible for 9/11.

Canceling the talks also goes against Trump’s pledge to withdraw the remaining 13,000 to 14,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan and close U.S. involvement in the conflict, which is closing in on 18 years.

Zalmay Khalilzad, the Trump administration’s diplomat talking to the Taliban leaders for months, has said recently that he was on the “threshold” of an agreement with the Taliban aimed at ending America’s longest war. The president, however, has been

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Critics slam secret plan for Camp David talks during week of Sept. 11

President Trump tweeted Saturday that he had called off plans to meet with Taliban leaders at Camp David.

under pressure from the Afghan government and some lawmakers who mistrust the Taliban and think it’s too early to withdraw American forces.

“Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday,” Trump tweeted Saturday evening.

“They were coming to the United States tonight. Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers, and 11 other people. I immediately cancelled the meeting and called

off peace negotiations,” he wrote.

On Thursday, a Taliban car bomb exploded and killed an American soldier, a Romanian service member and 10 civilians in a busy diplomatic area near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

The bombing was one of many attacks by the Taliban in recent days during U.S.-Taliban talks.

The Defense Department says Sgt. 1st Class Elis A. Barreto Ortiz, 34, from Morovis, Puerto Rico, was killed in action when the explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was the fourth U.S. service member killed in the past two weeks in Afghanistan.

Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 Republican in the House, is among those who have sharply criticized Trump over the move to invite the Taliban to Camp David.

“Camp David is where America’s leaders met to plan our response after al-Qaeda, supported by the Taliban, killed 3000 Americans on 9/11,” Cheney said Sunday morning on Twitter. “No member of the Taliban should set foot there. Ever.”

It remains unclear if the U.S.-Taliban talks are over or only paused. Trump said he called off the peace negotiations after the bombing, but Khalilzad was meeting with leaders of the insurgent group in Doha, Qatar, on both Thursday and Friday. JONATHAN LEMIRE AND

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The proportion of fulltime college students in 2018 who said they used some form of marijuana at least once in the past year, up from 38% in 2017, a University of Michigan survey released Thursday found. About 25% said they did so in the previous month, up from 21% a year earlier. The latest figures are the highest levels seen in the annual survey since 1983. College-age adults are bigger users of marijuana than any other age group. Use among high school students has been flat for a few years.

The findings are based on responses from about 1,400 adults ages 19 to 22, including 900 who were full-time college students and about 500 who were not. (AP)

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Typhoon Lingling hits Korean Peninsula, killing 3 people in South Korea and 5 in North Korea

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MIT Media Lab director resigns over Epstein ties The director of a prestigious research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology resigned Saturday amid an uproar over the lab’s ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Joi Ito’s resignation comes after The New Yorker reported that the Media Lab had more extensive fundraising ties with Epstein than it previously acknowledged. (AP) FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Russia, Ukraine conduct major prisoner exchange Russia and Ukraine conducted a major prisoner exchange Saturday that freed 35 people detained in each country, a deal that could help advance RussiaUkraine relations. The prisoners released by Ukraine included Volodymyr Tsemakh, who commanded a separatist rebel air defense unit in the area where a Malaysian airliner was shot down in 2014, killing all 298 aboard. (AP) SAN FRANCISCO

Calif. warehouse fire trial limps on after hung jury An emotionally taxing criminal case over the deaths of 36 people trapped inside a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse nearly three years ago will stretch on after a jury acquitted one defendant and deadlocked on the other. Jurors acquitted Max Harris on Thursday of involuntary manslaughter but said they could not agree on whether to convict or acquit Derick Almena. (AP)

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After Dorian, island rebuilds

Silence, devastation mark Bahamian town, but some are staying

Mugabe leaves Zimbabwe with mixed legacy BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

MARSH HARBOUR, BAHAMAS The streets are filled with smashed cars, snapped power cables, shattered trees and deep silence.

At the airport and dock, hundreds of people clamor for seats on airplanes and berths on ships arriving with aid and departing with people who lost their homes when deadly Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas.

Nearly a week after disaster roared in from the sea, the rest of Marsh Harbour on Abaco island felt empty Saturday. A hot wind whistled through stands of decapitated pine trees and homes that collapsed during the most powerful hurricane in the recorded history of the northwestern Bahamas.

Rescue teams were still trying to reach some Bahamian communities isolated by floodwaters and debris after the disaster that killed at least 44 people, most of them on Abaco island.

The U.S. Coast Guard said it has rescued a total of 290 people in the northern Bahamas following the hurricane. Six MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters and nine cutters are helping in the aid effort, the Coast Guard said.

With so much air traffic, Bahamaian officials banned nonaid flights over Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands. The National Emergency Management

Marsh Harbour was devastated by Hurricane Dorian, which killed at least 44 people in the Bahamas.

agency also threatened to revoke flight permission from any pilots charging fees to evacuate people.

Meanwhile, the United Nations said 8 tons of food supplies were on the way by ship. Some 14,700 meals, as well as logistical and telecommunications equipment, are being delivered, said Herve Verhoosel, spokesman for the U.N. World Food Program.

“The needs remain enormous,” Verhoosel said.

No official figures were available, but much of the population of Marsh Harbour, home to most of the roughly 20,000 residents of the Abaco Islands, seemed to have already left. Many were staying with relatives in the capital, Nassau, others with family in Florida and some in other parts of the U.S. In Marsh Harbour’s Murphy

Dorian batters Canada The storm that has already walloped the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and North Carolina brought hurricaneforce winds to far-eastern Canada on Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the post-tropical cyclone was centered about 40 miles east of Chevery, Quebec, on Sunday afternoon. Top sustained winds had slipped to 75 mph, just above the threshold of hurricane force. (AP)

Town neighborhood, on a hill overlooking the azure sea, Jackson Blatch and his son-in-law were already rebuilding. In a blazing midday sun, they stripped damaged shingles from Blatch’s roof and tossed them

into his truck, parked below the eaves of a home he built by hand.

Like a few other Abaco residents, Blatch is staying on an island pulverized by nature.

“Everybody says, ‘Leave.’

Leave and go where?” Blatch asked. “My plan is to rebuild this island. I have a lot to offer.”

Others were more stuck than determined.

Sterling McKenzie, a 67-yearold retired equipment operator, is living in his sister’s house with other relatives whose homes were destroyed. They are surviving on water and food donated

by Bahamian officials and aid workers who pass by daily. “ We might as wel l stay here and battle it out,” he said. “I ain’t got no choice.”

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Man uses banjo in attack on famous N.Y. statue Police say a Texas man bashed New York’s Charging Bull statue with a metal object that looked like a banjo, leaving a hole in its right horn. Tevon Varlack, 42, was arrested Saturday on charges of criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly attacking the bronze beast. The 7,100-pound bull was created by Italian-born artist Arturo Di Modica in 1989 and installed in lower Manhattan as a work of guerrilla art. (AP)

Turkish and U.S. troops conduct first joint patrol of “safe zone” in northeastern Syria

1924-2019 Robert Mugabe took a country shining with promise and left it economically shattered and in the grip of repression — and yet Zimbabwe continued to crumble so badly after his downfall that some of its people began missing his nearly four-decade rule.

Mugabe died in Singapore on Friday. He was 95.

The newly christened Zimbabwe was the pride of southern Africa at its independence in 1980. Mugabe was a liberation leader who reassured some by making gestures of reconciliation toward the country’s white residents.

It didn’t take long, however, for serious problems to emerge.

A power struggle led to a ghastly military operation against the Ndebele ethnic minority, with thousands of people killed.

Accountability never followed.

It is Zimbabwe’s shattered economy, in fact, that now shows how painfully far the country continues to fall.

Even residents of the capital, Harare, have been stunned to find themselves in some of the worst conditions of their lives, with long lines to draw water or buy bread at sky-high prices.

“Life was not that good, but it was never this bad,” Harare resident Silas Marongo said Friday, as the country reeled from the death of a 95-year-old man who some had thought would never release his grip on the country, much less life itself.

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Analysis shows increase in women who left home state to terminate a pregnancy HEALTH At a routine ultrasound when she was five months pregnant, Hevan Lunsford began to panic when the technician told her she would need to see a specialist.

The next day, a doctor gave Lunsford, a nurse in Alabama, and her husband the heartwrenching news: The baby boy they decided to name Sebastian was severely underdeveloped and had only half a heart. If he survived, he would need care to ease his pain and several surgeries. He might not live long. Lunsford, devastated, asked the doctor about ending the pregnancy.

“I felt the only way to guarantee that he would not have any suffering was to go through with the abortion,” she said of that painful decision nearly three years ago.

But the doctor said Alabama law prohibits abortions after five months. He handed Lunsford information for a clinic in Atlanta, a roughly 180-mile drive east.

Lunsford is one of thousands of women in the U.S. who have crossed state lines for an abortion in recent years as states have passed stricter laws and as the number of clinics has declined.

Although abortion opponents say the laws are intended to reduce abortions and not send people to other states, at least 276,000 women terminated their pregnancies outside their home state between 2012 and 2017, according to an Associated Press analysis of data collected from state reports and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In New Mexico, the number of women from out of state who had abortions more than doubled in that period, while Missouri women represented nearly half the abortions performed in neighboring Kansas.

Abortion access by state NUMBER OF INDEPENDENT ABORTION CLINICS More than 40 10-39 5-9 Less than 5

D.C.

RATE OF ABORTIONS PER 100,000 WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE Experts have said better contraception, fewer unintended pregnancies and state restrictions may have played a role in the decline in abortions in recent years.

More than 1,000 750-1,000 500-749 Less than 500 Data omitted* D.C.

WOMEN RECEIVING ABORTIONS AWAY FROM THEIR HOME STATE PER 100,000 WOMEN OF CHILDBEARING AGE More than 200 101-200 51-100 25-50 Less than 25 Data omitted* D.C.

*Maps show data for 2017. Data for Calif., D.C., Fla., Md., N.H., N.Y., R.I., Texas, Vt. and Wyo. either were not reported or not collected.

Sources: Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2018, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

While abortions across the U.S. are down, the share of women who had abortions out of state rose slightly, by half a percentage point, and certain states

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had notable increases over the six-year period, according to AP’s analysis.

In pockets of the Midwest, South and Mountain West, the

number of women terminating a pregnancy in another state rose considerably, particularly where a lack of clinics means the closest provider is in another state or where less restrictive policies in a neighboring state make it easier and quicker to terminate a pregnancy there.

“In many places, the right to abortion exists on paper, but the ability to access it is almost impossible,” said Amy Hagstrom Miller, CEO of Whole Women’s Health, which operates seven abortion clinics in Maryland, Indiana, Texas, Virginia and Minnesota. “We see people’s access to care depend on their ZIP code.”

Nationwide, women who traveled from another state received at least 44,860 abortions in 2017, the most recent year available, according to the AP analysis of data from 41 states.

That’s about 10% of all reported procedures that year, but counts from nine states, including highly populated California and Florida, and the District of Columbia, were not included either because they were not collected or reported across the full six years.

Between 2011 and May 31 of this year, 33 states passed 480 laws restricting abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights. In 2019 alone, lawmakers approved 58 restrictions primarily in the Midwest, Plains and South — almost half of which would ban all, most or some abortions, the group said.

Quita Tinsley, deputy director of Access Reproductive Care Southeast, said: “The intent of these lawmakers is to completely outlaw abortion and force people not to have abortions. But in reality, it pushes people farther and wider to access the care they want and need.” CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY (AP)

NOAA assailed for defending Trump’s claim WEATHER Former top officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are assailing the agency for undermining its weather forecasters as it defends President Trump’s statement from days ago that Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama.

They say NOAA’s action risks the credibility of the nation’s weather and science agency and may even risk lives.

Dismay came from those who served under Republican and Democratic presidents alike, as leaders in meteorology and disaster response sized up a sustained effort by Trump and his aides to justify his warning that Alabama, among other states, was “most likely” to be hit hard

by Dorian, contrary to forecasts showing Alabama was clear.

That effort led NOAA to repudiate a tweet from the National Weather Service the previous weekend assuring Alabamans — accurately — that they had nothing to fear from the hurricane. The weather service is part of NOAA and the tweet came from its Birmingham, Ala., office.

“This rewriting history to satisfy an ego diminishes NOAA,” Elbert “Joe” Friday, former Republicanappointed director of the National Weather Service, said on Facebook. He said Saturday: “We don’t want to get the point where science is determined by politics rather than science and facts.

And I’m afraid this is an example where this is beginning to occur.”

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HONG KONG | Protesters making five key demands hold up five fingers Sunday at a march to the U.S. Consulate. They chanted “Resist Beijing, Liberate Hong Kong” and urged Washington to pass a bill sanctioning Hong Kong and Chinese officials found to suppress human rights.

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Ex-S.C. Gov. Sanford joins GOP race against Trump

Authorities served search warrants Sunday at the Southern California company that owned the scuba diving boat that caught fire and killed 34 people last week. Agents with the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other agencies searched Truth Aquatics’ offices in Santa Barbara and the company’s two remaining boats, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Lt. Erik Raney said.

The search warrants are “a pretty standard” part of the ongoing investigation to determine whether any crimes were committed, he said. The bodies of all but one victim have been recovered. (AP)

Rescuers were searching Sunday for four crew members of a cargo ship that overturned and caught fire near the Port of Brunswick on the Georgia coast, but the efforts ran into trouble amid the flames and instability of the ship, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Golden Ray cargo ship’s problems began in the early morning, when it listed heavily and rolled on its side in St. Simons Sound with 23 crew members and one pilot on board. Coast Guard Capt. John Reed said 20 were safely evacuated from the ship before rescuers determined the situation was too risky to go further inside the vessel, as smoke and flames appeared. (AP)

Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman, joined the Republican race Sanford against President Trump on Sunday. Sanford told “Fox News Sunday”: “I think we need to have a conversation on what it means to be a Republican. I think that as the Republican Party, we have lost our way.” Sanford joins Joe Walsh, a former tea party-backed, one-term congressman from Illinois, and Bill Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, as primary challengers to Trump. (AP)

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Is an MBA worth the leap?

The business master’s degree serves some, but others don’t need it GRADUATE SCHOOL Hillary Berman works in a different world from a lot of MBA holders. Instead of climbing the corporate ladder or making waves at a big-name consulting firm, she uses her master of business administration degree as owner of the Friendship Heightsbased firm Popcorn & Ice Cream to help small businesses create effective marketing campaigns.

“It gave me a broader perspective that has been incredibly valuable in working with smaller businesses and startups, where everything is so closely intertwined,” says Berman, who got her MBA from the University of Maryland in 2003 and started her company in 2011. “So when I start an engagement with a client, I know to ask, ‘How are you bringing this new product

to market?’ and ‘What is your production cycle?’ Then I’m timing a marketing campaign to that — not just ‘Oh, we want to launch on February 1.’ ” A lot of people kick around the idea of getting an MBA at some point in their careers. A recent study by Olivet Nazarene University that analyzed Google search trends found that an MBA was the most searched master’s degree in the United States from July 2018 to July 2019. But while it can help catapult some grads to the next level, it won’t necessarily pay off for everyone.

The first step is figuring out your career goals and researching whether reaching them requires an MBA. In some fields, like consulting, or in some large companies, an MBA is a necessity for advancement.

“What I hear from students over and over again is that to move to the next level in their organizations, they need to be credentialed,” says James Bailey,

“What I hear from students over and over again is that to move to the next level in their organizations, they need to be credentialed.”

JAMES BAILEY, professor of leadership at the George Washington University School of Business

professor of leadership at the George Washington University School of Business.

It can also be the optimal degree for students who want to transition from specialized roles into administrative or managerial positions. “Say you’ve been working in manufacturing and were in charge of engineering quality control, but you want to

move to a more administrative role,” says P.K. Kannan, dean’s chair in marketing science at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. “A general management degree like an MBA will really provide that overview of how a firm functions and how different roles come together.”

That was Mangesh Wadegaonkar’s objective when he got his MBA from Cornell University. “I’d gotten a master’s in computer science and started working for big telecoms,” he says. “But I was at a point in my career about six years after that where I realized it was hard for me to move into business types of roles, which I really enjoyed doing. I hit a brick wall.”

He found that both the network he accessed through his program and the skills he gained helped him apply his tech background to corporate marketing and leadership roles.

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The U.S. Department of Education is accepting requests from cancer patients to have their student loan payments postponed while they undergo treatment. The request form will make it easier for patients to have payments suspended without interest accruing on their loans for the duration of treatment and for six months after it ends.

There is no time limit, so a borrower whose cancer returns years after treatment would be eligible to seek another deferment. Other options have three-year limits. Borrowers must submit a letter from a doctor certifying they are or were receiving cancer treatment and the dates of care. The benefit applies to federal loans made on or after Sept. 28, 2018, and to loans borrowers were repaying on that date.

The Department of Education estimates that more than 5,000 federal student loan borrowers will be eligible.

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“The tool kits you come out with help you structure your thinking in a different way than a nonMBA would,” says Wadegaonkar, 43, who’s doing some consulting for BIA Advisory Services in the D.C. area as he mulls his next career move. “You might achieve the same results, but the person with the MBA will do it more efficiently and faster.”

But the price and time required to get an MBA may not be worth it for someone more interested in the startup space. Learning about strategies related to organizational management or solving complex business problems may not immediately pay off for someone who needs to devote their time and funds to

things like writing a business plan or securing office space for a new venture. “I’m not sure making the investment that may in fact cost $100,000 or more to get the degree would be worth it for an entrepreneur,” says Barron Harvey, dean of the Howard University School of Business.

While Berman, 42, has gotten value from her MBA, it didn’t really help her launch her company. Her curriculum had a strong focus on theories, models and other higher-level business concepts that didn’t readily apply to launching a new company.

“My MBA didn’t cover the nuts and bolts of starting a brand-new business,” she says.

Those interested in more specialized business realms, like data analytics or finance, may benefit more from a focused

“I’m not sure making the investment that may in fact cost $100,000 or more to get the degree would be worth it for an entrepreneur.”

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advanced degree than a generalized MBA. Local universities have tailored options to that approach, such as the master’s in quantitative finance at the University of Maryland and the

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master’s in business analytics at George Washington University, as well as dual degree programs that combine MBAs with specialized master’s degrees.

National data reflect that trend. According to the Graduate Management Admission Council’s 2018 Application Trends Survey, 70% of U.S. full-time MBA programs and more than half of U.S. part-time MBA programs surveyed reported declines in application volumes. “MBAs are not as in demand as they were 20 years ago,” says Kannan. “The pace of innovation has changed, and companies aren’t hiring as many general managers as before.”

For those who do opt to pursue an MBA, it’s best to have several years of work experience first, Bailey says. “I find that students

who have gone straight from an undergraduate degree into an MBA program are not the most interesting students to have in class,” he says. “They don’t have any background by which to absorb what it is you’re teaching, and they can’t participate in a discussion the way other people can.”

When Berman hires for positions at her company, résumés for candidates who went straight from undergrad to an MBA don’t get a lot of consideration.

“To me it says they couldn’t get a job, or they didn’t know what to do so they kept going to school,” she says. “I would not pursue an MBA if you’re just looking to check a box on your résumé.

If that’s your approach, I don’t think you’re going to get value out of it.” BETH LUBERECKI (FOR EXPRESS)

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Name: Maria Bastasch, 33 Position: Wine director

Maria Bastasch serves as wine director at the D.C. restaurants Compass Rose and Maydan.

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What she does Maria Bastasch still remembers sipping her first glass of wine — when she was a child.

Her parents hosted dinners for their family in the backyard of their Southern California home.

Bastasch had her first sip of wine during one of these parties, at around 10 years old.

“They weren’t so focused on the type of wine — they were more focused on the fact that it was a family dinner and we were coming together as a family to celebrate,” Bastasch says.

As wine director of the D.C. restaurants Compass Rose and Maydan, Bastasch’s job goes beyond recommending wines to customers.

She sources and orders wines from all over the world, getting to know winemakers’ backstories and gauge availability. At both restaurants, Bastasch devises the wine lists and educates her staff about them during weekly, hourlong wine classes.

Compass Rose carries roughly 30 wines, while Maydan offers more than 50.

At Compass Rose, you’ll only find two wines each from Italy and Spain and none from France.

Those three countries are widely known as the three traditional pillars of “good wine,” Bastasch says. Instead, she spotlights wine from places like Mexico, Tunisia, Armenia, Lebanon, Slovenia and, soon, Pantelleria, an island between Sicily and Tunisia.

“You can get amazing French wine at any restaurant on 14th

Street,” Bastasch says. “We want to be a beacon for wines that you can’t get on 14th Street.”

Since landing the wine director gig, Bastasch has visited Georgia, Lebanon, Turkey and Mexico to find new wines.

She has to ensure each wine complements the cuisine. Compass Rose specializes in international street food from more than a dozen countries. Someone could order shrimp and tofu from Malaysia, khachapuri bread from Georgia and a beef kebab from Pakistan — all at once.

“I’m constantly thinking of wines that can dance with all of those flavors,” Bastasch says.

If someone asks for a cabernet or sauvignon blanc, Bastasch explains the restaurant doesn’t carry those and recommends something similar from other countries. She gets a kick out of connecting flavors that don’t seem like they’d go together.

“When people are surprised by something, they don’t forget that experience,” Bastasch says.

How she got the job When Bastasch moved to D.C. nearly six years ago, she planned on working in the nonprofit public health sector, but soon realized those jobs wouldn’t help her pay rent. She was also going through a divorce.

A few weeks after Compass Rose opened in 2014, one of Bastasch’s friends started working there as a server, so Bastasch walked in and introduced herself to the owner, Rose Previte. They instantly bonded over being older sisters in large Catholic families.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a lot of familiarity even though we had just met,â&#x20AC;?

Bastasch says.

Previte hired Bastasch as a server and bartender at Compass Rose. She quickly decided to make her career there, and Previte promoted her to general manager within six months.

With P rev iteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suppor t, Bastasch started studying wine and secured her sommelier certification through the Court of Master Sommeliers and the Wine & Spirit Education Trust.

She began tasting wine with distributors to learn more about the business. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While I had always had an interest in wine, it was Rose that really supported me â&#x20AC;Ś studying wine seriously,â&#x20AC;? Bastasch says.

Previte hired Bastasch as Compass Roseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wine director in 2015. She also continued as general manager until 2016, when she transitioned to consulting for that role.

In 2017, Bastasch also helped Previte open Maydan, an acclaimed Middle Eastern restaurant known for its giant hearth.

Bastaschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consulting duties there involved training servers and helping organize the events system. Later that year, Previte promoted her to wine director at Maydan as well.

Bastaschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent certifications didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t represent her introduction to studying wine, though. At 21, she started attending weekly tastings of French, German and Californian wines. Those experiences set Bastasch toward learning about other wines.

Who would want this job You have to love to multitask and accept not sleeping a lot, Bastasch says. She says she works between 50 and 60 hours a week.

Being hungry to break convention helps. Bastasch says she gained knowledge by questioning norms â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like, why pick wine from a catalog instead of importing from all over the world?

Doing this job involves wearing many hats. Bastaschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gig involves event planning, teaching and accounting for wine costs.

Strong skills in communication, creative problem-solving and empathy are also important, and a healthy appreciation for wine ties everything else together, she says.

Possessing a background in wine helps, but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hesitant to say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s required. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to temper that term â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wine expertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever want someone to feel like they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a part of this,â&#x20AC;?

Bastasch says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anyone can do this â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they just have to work really hard and study.â&#x20AC;?

How you can get the job Even after you secure certification, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough to be a wine director.

Bastaschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s self-education continues daily by scouring outlets like Bon AppĂŠtit, Food & Wine magazine, Wine Enthusiast magazine, the BBC and Al Jazeera for industry trends, news about countries where she sources her wine, and ideas for wine producers to showcase. Smaller winemakers pop up on Instagram.

She also turns to VinePair, a booze news site, and importersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; blogs, academic studies and journal entries.

One study she found showed that wine from Bolivia has 10 times more of the antioxidant resveratrol than conventional wines. For Bastasch, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another selling point for customers, who care about where wine comes from.

Without a background in wine, hospitality or culinary courses to learn the basics might help, she says. Beverage management experience is useful to understanding laying out costs, training staff and tracking inventory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than just knowing about the wine,â&#x20AC;? Bastasch says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to be able to do the accounting and communicate the information. And you have to know all of the wines on your menus inside and out.â&#x20AC;?

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Redskins quarterback Case Keenum went 30 for 44 for 380 yards and three touchdowns.

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EAGLES 32, REDSKINS 27 Case Keenum looked like the guy who almost led the Vikings to the Super Bowl until the Eagles stopped him cold in the NFC title game two years ago.

Keenum had his way for a half this time, but Philadelphia’s defense toughened up and got the best of the journeyman QB on Sunday. Starting his first game for the Redskins, Keenum was efficient early, made big plays and helped the team build a 17-0 lead, only to see the defense let it crumble in a 32-27 loss.

“We made some mistakes, shot ourselves in the foot, had a couple penalties,” Keenum said.

“Against this defense, just how tough they are, you can’t go backward. I had a few plays I want back. We had a few guys running open. Whatever it was, we can’t put that pressure on our defense.

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They’re going to score points. ... We have to put something together and squash it.”

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Tight end Vernon Davis, center, leaps over Eagles defenders before scoring for a touchdown Sunday. Davis, who found out Saturday night that the grandfather who raised him had died, was emotional after the score.

catch-and-run touchdown pass to Vernon Davis for Washington’s first TD on a season-opening drive since 2004. He hit Terry McLaurin perfectly in stride on a deep pass for a 70-yard TD to give the Redskins a 17-0 lead early in the second quarter.

But the Redskins went threeand-out on four of their next five possessions until the last drive after the score was out of

hand. They managed just 120 total yards in the second half, including 91 on the final drive.

“Not executing,” left tackle Donald Penn said. “We kind of beat ourselves. ... But what we did, the future is bright. I am pretty excited about it and I can take that away.”

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receiver DeSean Jackson, who had eight catches for 154 yards in his first game back in Philadelphia since being cut by the team in 2013. The Eagles racked up 436 total yards.

“We were able to get him in some mismatches and hit those two home runs,” Wentz said of Jackson. “With him being out there and the other weapons we have, we’re going to keep teams on their toes.”

Keenum’s success — 30 for 44 for 380 yards and three TDs — was the bright spot on a day Washington missed a huge chance at an upset.

“It’s about winning so we are disappointed,” Keenum said.

“There are some positives that we are going to learn from the film, but we have to win. Up 17-0, we have to win, especially division games.”

Keenum had the best season of his career in 2017, leading the Vikings to a 13-3 record before the Eagles beat them 38-7 in the conference championship game.

Adrian Peterson led the Redskins with 1,042 yards rushing last season, and his teammates named him offensive MVP. But on Sunday, Washington coach Jay Gruden benched Peterson in favor of Derrius Guice, Chris Thompson and Wendell Smallwood, who was signed last week after Philadelphia released him. The 34-year-old Peterson did not hide the fact that he didn’t enjoy being held out. “Of course it’s not a role I want,” he said. “I’m 13 years in, and I’ve still got it. I’ve shown that, of course. I can play the game. So when they call me up, they call me up. I’ll be ready to play.” Right tackle Morgan Moses also did not hide his displeasure with the decision. “You don’t have too many walking Hall of Famers on your football team,” Moses said. (TWP)

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Dallas’ Dak Prescott tied his career high with four touchdown passes while throwing for 405 yards, and the Cowboys rolled up 494 yards at home under new play-caller Kellen Moore. Ezekiel Elliott, who skipped most of training camp, rushed 13 times for 53 yards. The Giants’ revamped defense gave up TD drives of 75, 93, 83, 75 and 89 yards on five consecutive possessions from the first through third quarters. (AP)

Mark Ingram (two rushing TDs) and Lamar Jackson (five TD passes) celebrate after a score Sunday at Miami.

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Lamar Jackson tied a franchise record with five TD passes Sunday to help the Ravens roll at Miami.

The Ravens set a franchise record for points in the first half (42) and an NFL record for points in the first half of an opener. Baltimore gained 49 yards on the first play — a run by newcomer Mark Ingram — and didn’t slow down: Jackson’s first nine passes, all completions, went for 204 yards and four TDs. That included scores of 47 and 83 yards to rookie Marquise Brown. (AP)

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The Titans’ Marcus Mariota threw three TD passes and the Browns fell flat in Cleveland. The Browns’ Baker Mayfield (25-of-38 for 285 yards with one TD) was intercepted three times, all in the fourth period.

Cameron Wake sacked Mayfield in the end zone for a safety in the first half, and the Titans had five sacks overall. Odell Beckham Jr. had seven catches for 71 yards in his debut with the Browns, who are 1-19-1 in openers since 1999. (AP)

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Dalvin Cook (111 yards for two TDs) carried a revived running attack for the host Vikings as their new scheme relied less on quarterback Kirk Cousins. He threw just 10 passes, completing eight for 98 yards and one score. Last season he averaged 38 attempts for Minnesota. The Vikings’ Eric Wilson blocked a punt and scored on the Falcons’ first possession as Minnesota turned all four Atlanta turnovers into touchdowns. (AP)

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Jared Goff threw for 186 yards and a TD, Malcolm Brown ran for two scores, and the defending NFC champion Rams held on to win in Charlotte. The Rams’ Todd Gurley started and ran for 97 yards on 14 carries after being limited to 8 yards on five carries in the first half.

Christian McCaffrey led the Panthers with 209 yards from scrimmage and two TDs. Carolina’s Cam Newton (25-of-38, 239 yards) had no TD passes and rarely threw deep. (AP)

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The Jaguars lost the opener at home and lost QB Nick Foles to a broken clavicle. Chris Jones hit Foles as he released a 35-yard TD pass to DJ Chark in the first quarter. Jones landed on top of Foles but drew no flag. He will have surgery today and is out indefinitely. Despite losing receiver Tyreek Hill early, K.C.’s Patrick Mahomes threw for 378 yards and three TDs. Hill (collarbone) is expected to miss a few weeks but not need surgery, ESPN tweeted. (AP)

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Austin Ekeler scored three TDs, including the game-winner on a 7-yard run with 5:01 remaining in overtime, to lead the Chargers to a home win over the Colts. Ekeler, Los Angeles’ lead back with Melvin Gordon holding out, had 154 allpurpose yards. The Colts’ Jacoby Brissett, who has succeeded Andrew Luck at QB, completed 21 of 27 passes for 190 yards with two TDs. (AP)

OTHER GAMES Bills 17, Jets 16 49ers 31, Buccaneers 17 Seahawks 21, Bengals 20 Packers 10, Bears 3 (Thursday) Lions at Cardinals (late) Steelers at Patriots (late) Texans at Saints (tonight) Broncos at Raiders (tonight)

Moss says he’s sick of Brown’s off-field drama NFL In one of the most stunning moves since the tuck rule, the Patriots pulled another one on the Raiders, quickly signing star receiver Antonio Brown after Oakland released him Saturday.

By heading back east, Brown, above, joins a team that, like the Steelers, is bigger than he is, an organization that follows its own code and pity the player who gets in the way, especially one who has been shown the door by two NFL teams in a matter of months.

Brown and the Patriots hope it will work out as well as it did with Randy Moss, who engineered his own departure from Oakland in 2007 when the Raiders ended up trading him to New England. He went on to catch 98 passes for 1,493 yards and 23 TDs in the regular season.

Now an ESPN analyst, Moss spoke for a weary nation Sunday and advised Brown to “put up or shut up” with the Patriots.

“Every time in the last month or two that Antonio Brown has showed up on your phone or any server, it has nothing to do with football. The next time I see Antonio Brown showing up on my phone, it’s gotta be a touchdown,” Moss said on “NFL Countdown,” throwing his pen for emphasis. “That’s all I want to hear from here on out. Football, football, football!”

Former NFL coach Rex Ryan, also a panelist on the show, said “I’ll coach anybody, but I don’t want to coach this dude.”

(THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Time marches on: 20 years in, Serena facing hard truths Her career was older, at 20 years, than her opponent across the net.

That wasn’t an excuse; it was just a fact, and it was possibly an explanation for why Serena Williams one more time fell a match short in a Grand Slam. She was just a little dull in the U.S. Open final, missing a vital something against the flatiron strokes of the fearless new ascendant, 19-year-old Bianca Andreescu.

For these past two decades, the most dominant shot in tennis has been the first serve of Williams, a 110 mph jolt that shortened matches and disheartened all comers. Sometimes she used it as a bludgeon and sometimes a crutch while winning 23 major titles. But it

was not the biggest shot on the court Saturday at Arthur Ashe Stadium — that was the chainflail forehand of Andreescu in a 6-3, 7-5 victory. Williams’ serve, disconcertingly, was not a weapon; it was a liability, an exasperating, net-slapping illustration that her 37-year-old body would not cooperate.

“I believe I could have just been more Serena today,” Williams said. “I honestly don’t think Serena showed up.”

What became apparent, even as Williams fought with guttural screams not to go down by 6-1 in the second set, was that her comeback the past two years after a difficult childbirth has been harder and more complicated than anyone realized, including her. In four Grand Slam finals now, Williams has gone down in eight

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straight sets against a variety of elastic-limbed younger opponents, unable to summon a crucial measure of voltage.

Take nothing away from Andreescu, who is 8-0 against the top 10 this season, but the final was patently Williams’ worst performance of the tournament. “I can play better. That’s the only solace I can take,” Williams said.

A Grand Slam demands seven peak-condition matches over two weeks — and the U.S. Open demands something more. It requires dealing with flashing stage lights in a succession of late-night matches, and fending off the whine of jets, the jabber of baby moguls drinking their Grey Goose and jeering of sirens, the constant ambient noise that leaches into the stadium and can wear out the nervous system.

With a 2-year-old on her hip, tweaky knees, a spasming back and a 38th birthday coming up in a matter of weeks, Williams must now examine what she has to do to be better physically in a Grand Slam final.

Elena Delle Donne scored 25 points Sunday, making WNBA history along the way, and the regular-season champion Mystics raced past the Chicago Sky 100-86 in Washington. She became the first WNBA player to shoot over 50% from the field (220 of 427), 40% from 3-point range (52 of 121) and 90% from the foul line (114 of 117). Her free throw percentage (97.4) is a record for a player with at least 100 tries. The Mystics (26-8), who lost to Seattle in the finals last year, have a double-bye into the semifinals and home court advantage throughout the playoffs. The Sky (20-14) are the fifth seed and open against No. 8 Phoenix. (AP)

NATIONALS 9, BRAVES 4

Scherzer sharp as Nats end their four-game skid Max Scherzer won for the first time in two months, Juan Soto, above, homered and the Nationals beat the host Braves 9-4 on Sunday to stop the NL East leaders’ nine-game winning streak, their longest in five years.

Yan Gomes homered twice, and Adam Eaton and Asdrúbal Cabrera each had three RBIs to help Washington end a fourgame skid. The Nationals are nine games behind the Braves with three weeks left. Scherzer (10-5) had not gotten a decision in four starts since beating Kansas City on July 6, a span that included nearly a month on the injured list. The three-time Cy Young Award winner allowed one run and two hits in six innings with nine strikeouts and two walks. (AP) NBA

Sister of Kawhi Leonard arrested in murder case

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TERPS’ OFFENSIVE EXPLOSION

The number of points Maryland scored in its first two games of the season — the most points any Big Ten team has scored through the first two games since Ohio State in 1996, according to Maryland Athletics.

Josh Jackson, left, had three touchdown passes in Saturday’s 63-20 dismantling of then-No. 21 Syracuse and four TD passes in the season opener against Howard. The Terps are now ranked No. 21, their first appearance in the AP Top 25 since 2013. Maryland visits Temple on Saturday. (EXPRESS) AP college football rankings: 1. Clemson; 2. Alabama; 3. Georgia; 4. LSU; 5. Oklahoma; Virginia enters at No. 25

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The sister of reigning NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard is one of two women charged with the robbery and murder of an 84-year-old woman at a casino.

Kimesha Williams, 35, and another woman are accused in the death of Afaf Anis Assad of Long Beach, Calif., according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

On Aug. 31, Assad was found unconscious in a restroom at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, Calif., and died Sept.

4 of injuries sustained in the incident. Candace Townsel, 39, also was arrested on suspicion of murder and robbery, officials said, adding that both women followed Assad into a bathroom and stole her purse, fracturing her skull in the process. (TWP)

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1 ‘The Deuce’

“Titans” shines a light on figures typically relegated to being superhero sidekicks.

Still playing second fiddle The sidekick team-up ‘Titans’ isn’t the best superhero series, but it’s worth watching TV REVIEW “Titans” is back, having launched its second season Friday on the DC Universe service. For now, the show can enjoy some breathing room: It’s coming out well after the debut of the best not-suitablefor-work superhero show (Amazon’s “The Boys”) and before the launch of the Disney+ streaming service, in all its Marvel glory.

Is “Titans” the best superhero stream out now? No, again, see “The Boys.” It’s not even the best original show on the service (that would be the surprisingly amazing “Doom Patrol”).

But “Titans” hits all the right fanboy emotions in its Season 2 premiere. You’re not subscribing to DC’s streaming service unless you already love its characters

anyway. And if the classic ’80s “Teen Titans” tales — which made DC’s kid sidekicks one of the best comic book teams of that decade — are your thing, you’ll enjoy this modernized, mature take on that mythos.

“Titans” gets right to what it spent the show’s first season dancing around: a showdown with Deathstroke, the supervillain most tied to Titans comic book lore. Played very smoothly

by Esai Morales, Deathstroke is here to kill them once he realizes they’ve banded back together after he gave them enough psychological damage to justify a breakup.

Dick Grayson ( Brenton Thwaites), the former Robin, takes on a leadership role as he

$91M

A new child wonder The Season 2 premiere of the DC Universe series “Titans” features the debut of Superboy, played

by Joshua Orpin. This take on the character is the emotional, black T-shirt-wearing Superboy, not the much cooler, early ’90s version who deserves some live-action love.

But at least his superdog Krypto is there as well. D.B.

puts together a new team of Titans, featuring Teagan Croft’s Raven, Ryan Potter’s Beast Boy and the current Robin, Curran Walters’ Jason Todd. Hawk (Alan Ritchson) and Dove (Minka Kelly) are still around as damaged lovebirds who can provide

veteran mentoring to the younger Titans, and Starfire (Anna Diop) is less Titan at the moment and more an alien trying to find her way far from home.

Conor Leslie, meanwhile, remains a pleasant surprise as Wonder Woman’s kid sister Donna Troy/Wonder Girl. The biggest Season 2 surprise in “Titans” is how well “Game of Thrones” alumnus Iain Glen works as an older, sophisticated Bruce Wayne.

And don’t forget, these Titans curse. There are just as many fbombs as batarangs here, in case you were thinking of transitioning your kids to this show from the cartoon “Teen Titans Go!” It’s safe to say these sidekicks are all grown up. DAVID BETANCOURT

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James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal star in this drama series about the Golden Age of Porn. The show jumps from the ‘70s to the mid-’80s for the premiere of its third and final season, which is set against the backdrop of Times Square’s revitalization.

2 ‘Undone’ Friday on Amazon Prime

This genre-blending animated series features Rosa Salazar as a woman who wakes up after a car accident with visions of her dead father (Bob Odenkirk) and questions about the nature of her reality.

3 ‘Unbelievable’ Friday on Netflix

An adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning ProPublica exposé, this miniseries stars Kaitlyn Dever, below, as the unceremoniously dismissed victim of a serial rapist and Toni Collette and Merritt Wever as the detectives who track the culprit. (EXPRESS)

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BOX OFFICE HAUL

The domestic box office take for “It Chapter Two” this past weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. That total helped the horror sequel easily finish at No. 1, but it fell short of the $123.4 million posted by the first “It” movie in September 2017. “You don’t get lightning in a bottle twice,” Warner Bros. executive Jeff Goldstein said. “You get close, though.” “Angel Has Fallen” took a distant second with $6 million, and “Good Boys” placed third with $5.4 million. (AP) “Project Runway” alumnus Chris March died Thursday at 56

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MTV’s new series “Ghosted: Love Gone Missing” (9 p.m. Tuesdays) sounds like a cousin to “Catfish.” The premise is that someone got ghosted by a friend, who vanished from the person’s life without a trace. And the left-behind person wants to know why. The appeal is evident: It’s hard not to be curious about relationships

that ended mysteriously.

Each episode tackles one ghosting case, with advice and guidance from the show’s cohosts: attorney Rachel Lindsay, the first African American “Bachelorette,” and music star Travis Mills. In Tuesday’s premiere, a young man in Aurora, Ill., named Resee tells how he was ghosted. Struggling with his sexual identity, Resee was in a “dark, dark, dark space” and found a sympathetic ear

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Dead on arrival? Let’s give ‘Ghosted’ a chance Travis Mills and Rachel Lindsay co-host “Ghosted: Love Gone Missing.”

in co-worker Brendan. They became best buds. Then, one day in 2015, Brendan quit his job and flew to San Francisco to be with girlfriend Maggie.

Their methodology is straight from the “Catfish” playbook: grill the ghostee, track down people who knew

the two guys, pump them for info and create a timeline. But I must say that, for an attorney, Rachel puts a lot of faith in evidence that Judge Judy would characterize as “hearsay.”

When they all fly to San Fran in the hope of meeting up with Brendan, Resee wants

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to call it off. Rachel, who is a likeable TV personality, gets tough, telling Resee, “I swear you will regret it” if he leaves San Francisco without meeting Brendan. Which does not strike me as a therapeutic approach.

So I was prepared to write this show off — but then something quite amazing happened in the final segment. The setup was cheesy: The hosts ask the ghoster and ghosted to decide whether they want to “make up or ghost” and give their answer via text. The denouement is so deeply moving that I decided not to ghost “Ghosted.”

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@YABUTALEB7, tweeting about Eric Trump’s attempt to expose Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold. Trump on Friday posted an email Fahrenthold sent to a Trump Organization employee. Twitter users noted that Trump shared the writer’s contact info to potential new sources.

Gillian Anderson, left, will play former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, right, in season four of “The Crown.”

Though many fans were excited to see Anderson take on a “villain” role, others were troubled by Anderson saying she was “falling in love with the icon,” considering the right-wing leader’s policies were detrimental to Britain’s working class.

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PAR SCORE 145-155, BEST SCORE 225

Sudoku

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Something old-fashioned pleases you like nothing else today. Share with a friend and maximize your enjoyment.

A late offer is irresistible.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You are eager to know that others are in your court today when it comes to a contest with someone whose ideas are outdated and even dangerous.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You find yourself in a situation that is demanding much more of you than expected. You may not be able to stick with it for much longer.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You are unaware of an approaching danger until it’s close enough to see or hear — so be sure that you are ready to dodge it when it comes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You can bid farewell to one thing as you welcome another. This brief transition is more significant than you suppose.

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FRIDAY’S SOLUTION

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) No situation is so complex that you can’t get a handle on it by day’s end. You’re feeling confident and capable.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Think about what you want to say before you say it today; there’s a chance you’ll be misunderstood if you don’t choose your words with care.

FOUR RACK TOTAL Make a 2-7-letter word from the letters in each row. Add points of each word using scoring directions at right. Seven-letter words get a 50-point bonus. Blank tiles used as any letter have no point value. Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro in the U.S. and Canada.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You’ll

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TODAY: Easterly flow coming in off the Atlantic means two things.

First, it’s likely to be a cloudy day.

Second, increased moisture means we’ll start to notice the humidity creep higher. A few isolated showers may pop up, but they’re probably more the exception than the rule. A few showers may linger into the evening.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Your behavior at this time may have others shaking their heads in disbelief, but there is a method to your madness.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) It’s a good day for opening doors — once you close a few others. You don’t want to have any past responsibilities hanging over you just now.

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AVG. HIGH: 81 RECORD HIGH: 98 AVG. LOW: 64 RECORD LOW: 48 SUNRISE: 6:44 a.m. SUNSET: 7:26 p.m.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) A new situation has you excited about what might be just around the corner.

A loved one comes to you with an unusual proposal.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You may fear that you will soon run out of fuel, but if you take the right path today, you should have some to spare when all is said and done.

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1942: During World War II, a Japanese plane launched from a submarine off the Oregon coast drops a pair of incendiary bombs in a failed attempt to ignite a massive forest fire; it was the first aerial bombing of the U.S. mainland by a foreign power.

1971: Prisoners seize control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, N.Y., beginning a siege that ended up claiming 43 lives.

1997: Sinn Fein, the IRA’s political ally, formally renounces violence as it takes its place in talks on Northern Ireland’s future.

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FRIDAY

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52 Detest 53 Bovine team members 54 Trumpet muffler 55 They may interfere with team play 58 Opposite of trans

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56 “I don’t like that!”

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Susan seizes chance to show off poetry skills “This Is Us” star Susan Kelechi Watson is engaged to fellow actor Jaime Lincoln Smith.

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It’ll take more than that to keep Kevin down Kevin Hart is walking again but suffering from “excruciating pain,” according to TMZ, after the comedian suffered major back injuries in a car accident Sept. 1. Hart, who was a passenger in a car that plunged down an embankment in Southern California, underwent surgery and has already started a rehabilitation regimen. (EXPRESS)

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Actor Zooey Deschanel and her husband, film producer Jacob Pechenik, have broken up after four years of marriage. “After much discussion and a long period of contemplation we have decided we are better off as friends, business partners and co-parents rather than life partners,” the couple told E! News in a statement published Friday. “We remain committed to our business, our values and most of all our children.” Deschanel and Pechenik, who got married in June 2015, have a 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son together. (EXPRESS)

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Nicki Minaj apologized to her fans after abruptly tweeting Thursday that she was retiring from music so that she could start a family. “I’m still right here. Still madly in love with you guys & you know that,” the rapper tweeted Friday. “The tweet was abrupt & insensitive, I apologize.”

Minaj, 36, also tweeted that she plans to discuss her decision in more depth on an episode of her Apple Music show, “Queen Radio.” (EXPRESS)

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