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Hawkish security adviser is forced out over diverging views 11

Too much bark Controversial dog park in Md. will be changed over noise complaints 4

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Anthony Rendon’s torrid summer has catapulted him into the discussion for National League MVP — and he’s just one of several Nationals players in contention to bring home some of baseball’s highest honors this year 13

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A Florida school district says a bearded dragon was found in a middle school student’s backpack. Bay County School District officials said on Facebook they found the reptile Monday. It was put in a box until an adult could take it home. The student said they brought the lizard, named Jango, to school because they didn’t want him to be sad home alone all day. Parents were reminded to check children’s backpacks before sending them out the door. (AP)

A Massachusetts man has posted a video online that appears to show the driver of a Tesla sleeping as the car speeds along a highway. Teslas have an autopilot function, but the company says drivers are expected to remain alert. Dakota Randall took a video Sunday that shows the driver’s head down. In the passenger seat, another person appears to be sleeping. The video was shot on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Newton. (AP)

A former personal injury attorney in Chicago who created a cape-wearing character to drum up business was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for a scheme in which he hid from clients settlements he’d reached and pocketed the money.

To advertise his services, Jordan Margolis donned a shiny blue bodysuit, orange skullcap and bandit mask. He called himself “Excuseman” and joked about people who “mess up and don’t fess up.” (AP)

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‘Those dark days are gone’ TRANSPORTATION Four-year-old Arshiya Naoaj was up early Monday, her dad said, excited to get back to the morning routine she’d missed all summer: riding Metro.

“She woke up early to celebrate,” Shah Naoaj, 32, said at the Van Dorn station at about 8 a.m. “It’s really exciting. We’re glad those dark days are gone.”

He was referring to the summer-long shutdown of six Blue and Yellow line stations south of Reagan National Airport. The stations, closed since late May for a massive platform reconstruction project, reopened Monday, on time.

Arshiya and her father were among roughly 17,000 commuters whose regular routes — through either the Braddock Road, King Street-Old Town, Eisenhower Avenue, Huntington, Van Dorn or FranconiaSpringfield stations — were disrupted or derailed for much of the summer.

For the Naoajes, that meant their morning commute from

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Metro riders rejoice as the summer shutdown finally comes to an end

The King Street station is one of six Metro stops that reopened Monday.

Alexandria to downtown Washington — he to his job as an economist, she to child care — ballooned from a 40-minute ride to a two-hour slog that required multiple bus switches.

On Monday at Braddock Road, Metro board Chairman Paul Smedberg was one of several top officials Metro deployed to greet returning riders. Smedberg marveled at the new LED lights illuminating the station. Other smaller-scale fixes included nicer platform and bus shelters, larger screens to display train

“It was at exactly the wrong time for me.”

BRIANNA WATKINS, of Alexandria, who said the Metro shutdown added an extra two hours to her commute — just as she was getting back to work after having a child

schedules, an improved audio system for station announcements and USB ports in every shelter.

Mary Chris Chapman, 65, who has commuted to work via Metro for about 13 years, said the station “smells like a new car” and looks like one, too — “clean and beautiful.”

Rider Chris McLennon, 49, called the station’s “changed ambiance . . . futuristic.”

Others focused on the floor.

Light rain began to fall about 9 a.m., prompting travelers at the Braddock Road and Van Dorn stations to test out the new, slipresistant platform tiles. Larger and more porous than their predecessors, the tiles are supposed to provide better drainage, minimizing the chance of puddles.

Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld said so far, the few complaints he has received are nearly all about the same thing.

The contractor used the wrong font in signage at at least two of the rebuilt stations: Helvetica Black, instead of Helvetica Bold.

Metro plans to fix the typeface, Wiedefeld said, though he is unsure when that will happen.

“I saw a conspiracy theory that this was the first step in changing all the fonts,” Wiedefeld said, laughing. “C’mon, people, we’re not that sophisticated!”

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Dog park that divided Chevy Chase to be axed

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CHEVY CHASE VILLAGE, MD. More than 100 people packed into a public hearing in Chevy Chase Village on Monday to debate what one board member called “the most contentious and emotionally charged issue” in the community’s history: the barking of dogs.

The village board voted 5 to 2 in favor of disestablishing the dog park that has divided the Maryland suburb for months.

The gate of the fence enclosing the area will be removed, turning it into a park where dogs are welcome but must be leashed.

“The size and location of this off-leash area is not meeting standards,” board chairwoman Elissa Leonard said before a chorus of boos from dozens of dog lovers.

“You should be ashamed of yourselves!” someone from the crowd yelled before leading a mass exodus from the meeting.

The decision put an end to months of howling from the humans in this wealthy enclave just outside D.C. What began as a plan to turn a patch of land frequented by local pups into a formal dog park became a breeding ground for animal animus.

Neighbors who live directly beside the park complained that they found their lives disrupted by the barking dogs, the carelessness of their companions and

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Board votes to remove fenced off-leash area after noise complaints

Chevy Chase Village residents said an area dog park brought too much noise.

the nuisance of outsiders’ cars parked in front of their homes.

The tension escalated when The Washington Post published a story about the divisions, chronicling the powerful players embroiled in the debate.

By the time the board convened to make its decision about the park’s fate, it had received more than 110 pages of letters filled with extensive lists, references to research journals and analyses of canine bowel movements.

“My friends and I will leave no stone, I mean tennis ball unturned in our dogged opposition to the proposal to close the park,” declared a “press releash” sent by one resident, Patty Martin, in the

voice of her French bulldog Louie.

After the vote, Leonard tried to reassure the park’s fans that the village manager had spoken with Montgomery County officials, who are planning to build additional dog parks in the area soon. But the dog lovers were already storming out of the town hall. They surrounded Martin, who was devastated.

“I don’t know how I am going to break this to Louie,” she said.

But inside, the board’s decision seemed final.

“We have to move on to the next item on our agenda,” Leonard told the remaining crowd. “The noise of gas-powered leaf blowers.”

A Maryland agency is proposing a 30% reduction in the quantity of oysters that can be harvested in the next season. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources presented the recommendations at an Oyster Advisory Commission meeting Monday night, followed by public comment. The proposal would delay next month’s start of the commercial season by 10 days. It also would shave 10 days from the end of the season in March. Watermen in attendance criticized the plan. They say cutting that deep into the days of harvest will cause them to lose markets. But environmentalists say oysters are at historic lows in the Chesapeake Bay and play an important role in filtering the bay’s waters.

The agency plans to issue regulations by Monday. (AP)

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2-year-old is seriously injured in 11-story fall Authorities in Takoma Park say a 2-year-old boy was severely injured Monday afternoon after falling from a window on the 11th floor of an apartment building. A police spokesman said the toddler is in intensive care. Emergency responders think the child fell into an area with bushes, inches away from the concrete sidewalk. (AP) THE DISTRICT

Fare evasion stop leads to drug and gun charges Police in D.C. say they found drugs and guns when they stopped and searched a man suspected of fare evasion at the Pentagon City Metro station. Metro Transit police say officers stopped Malike Razon Brittain, 24, on Thursday and he refused to provide his ID. They say his refusal led to a search that uncovered an assault rifle-pistol, a revolver, cocaine and prescription drugs. (AP) WALLOPS ISLAND, VA.

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Naval Academy opens investigation into reports of a noose found on campus last month

The man convicted of ramming his car into a crowd protesting a white nationalist Fields rally in 2017 in Charlottesville has been ordered to pay about $75,000 to some of his victims. The restitution agreement for James Fields says four victims of the attack are to receive amounts ranging from $3,500 to about $60,000. (AP)

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The proportion of people stopped by D.C. police in a recent one-month period who were black, according to a report released Monday. The report, which provides data on 11,000 stops from July 22 to Aug. 18, is the first, long-delayed response to a 2016 D.C. law requiring the collection of detailed demographic information about people stopped by police. The report found 15% of people in all stops were white. As of July 2018, the District’s population was 46.4% African American and 45.6% white, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. (TWP)

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NASA has announced plans to launch a rocket from Virginia to the International Space Station next month. Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft will take off from Wallops Island as early as the afternoon of Oct. 21. NASA says the goal is to deliver science investigations, supplies and equipment. (AP)

Health officials confirm first case of West Nile virus this year in Md.

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Republicans want a deeper investigation amid Metro scandal TRANSPORTATION House Republicans are pressing for a deeper investigation of D.C. Council member Jack Evans’ “ethically compromised” behavior when he was Metro board chairman, including whether he and an ally tried to obstruct the inquiry that led to his resignation

from the panel in June.

Two top GOP congressmen on the House Oversight Committee wrote to their Democratic counterparts on the panel Tuesday, calling for the committee staff to conduct “transcribed interviews” with Evans and four current and former Metro officials.

Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said further investigation is warranted, partly because Metro documents suggest Evans, D, and former

JAHI CHIKWENDIU (THE WASHINGTON POST)

House GOP seeks new Evans probe D.C. Council member Jack Evans resigned in June from the Metro board.

board member Corbett A. Price sought to block the board’s ethics committee investigation of Evans and conceal its results.

The scandal led both Evans and Price to resign from

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the board.

The initiative appeared designed in part to highlight the scandal over Evans, a longtime D.C. Council member, as a way to undercut support for District

statehood and to tighten federal oversight of Metro.

A congressional hearing on D.C. statehood is scheduled for Sept. 19. Opponents of statehood have often cited corruption in District politics as a reason to oppose it.

“The information produced to the Committee to date suggests that Evans attempted to exploit his position on the [Metro] Board for his personal financial benefit,” the letter said.

“This investigation has a direct bearing on matters currently before the Committee, including the announced hearings on statehood for the District of Columbia and [Metro] oversight.”

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U.S. disputes account of spy NATIONAL SECURITY The Trump administration on Tuesday disputed reports of a Russian official who was recruited as a spy for the CIA and then evacuated to the United States after revealing information about the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 election.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley and the CIA challenged reports that appeared in The New York Times, CNN and elsewhere about a Russian official with high-level access who provided the U.S. with valuable intelligence for years until he was abruptly pulled from the country.

“The reporting there is factually wrong,” Pompeo said Tuesday, without specifying what he was disputing. Pompeo was head of the CIA at the start of the Trump administration, soon after the spy reportedly was brought to the United States.

The CIA singled out CNN in a statement that disputed the network’s reporting about what prompted the evacuation. CNN cited an unnamed source as telling them that the informant

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Reports say agent was extracted from Russia to protect his safety

The Trump administration and a spokesman for Putin’s government dismissed reports of a highly placed U.S. spy being extracted from Russia.

was removed in part because of concerns about the Trump administration’s mishandling of classified information and the possibility that the Russian official could be exposed.

“CNN’s narrative that the Central Intelligence Agency

makes life-or-death decisions based on anything other than objective analysis and sound collection is simply false,” said CIA Director of Public Affairs Brittany Bramell. “Misguided speculation that the president’s handling of our nation’s most

sensitive intelligence, which he has access to each and every day, drove an alleged exfiltration operation is inaccurate.”

The Times said the official was recruited decades ago, advanced through the ranks of the government and was able to confirm that President Vladimir Putin personally ordered and orchestrated the campaign to influence the American political campaign to favor Trump.

The paper said the official was one of the CIA’s “most important — and highly protected — assets” until the end of the Obama administration, when the Americans began to worry about his safety because news media coverage of the election interference risked exposing him.

It said the informant at first refused to be evacuated, or extracted, citing family concerns, which prompted fear at the CIA about whether the person was trustworthy. But months later, he agreed and was taken to the U.S. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was dismissive of the reports and the influence of an official he identified by name.

He said the person was fired several years ago and did not have a high-ranking position.

Peskov called U.S. media reports “pulp fiction.” (AP)

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Netanyahu vows to annex West Bank settlements

An Iranian woman detained for dressing as a man to sneak into a soccer stadium to watch a match has died after setting herself on fire upon learning she could spend six months in prison, semiofficial news outlets reported Tuesday. The selfimmolation death of Sahar Khodayari, 29, has shocked Iranian officials and the public, becoming an immediate hashtag trend across social media in the Islamic Republic. (AP)

Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, who helped launch China’s online retailing boom, stepped down as chairman of the world’s biggest e-commerce company Tuesday at a time when China’s industry faces uncertainty amid a U.S.-Chinese tariff war.

Ma, one of China’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, gave up his post as part of a succession announced a year ago. He will stay on as a member of the Alibaba Partnership. (AP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reaffirming his pledge to impose Israeli sovereignty on West Bank settlements. Netanyahu made a similar pledge to begin annexing part of the Israelioccupied West Bank on the eve of April elections this year but did not act on it. With just over two weeks to go to repeat elections, Netanyahu looks to be seeking to shore up his right-wing base again. (AP)

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At ground zero, a memorial to first responders NEW YORK When the names of nearly 3,000 Sept. 11 victims are read aloud today at the World Trade Center, a half-dozen stacks of stone will quietly salute an untold number of people who aren’t on the list.

The granite slabs were installed on the memorial plaza this spring. They recognize an initially unseen toll of the 2001 terrorist attacks: firefighters, police and others who died or fell ill after exposure to toxins unleashed in the wreckage.

The unusual addition reflects a memorial that is evolving as the aftermath of 9/11 does. And for families like Joanna Reisman’s, the new 9/11 Memorial Glade gives their loved ones a place in the landscape of remembrance at ground zero.

Reisman’s husband, Lt. Steven Reisman, searched through the World Trade Center debris for remains, and then died in 2014 of brain cancer. He was 54.

Unlike the plaza’s massive waterfall pools memorializing people killed on 9/11, the boulders are not inscribed with the names of those they honor.

There is no finite list of them.

Instead, nearby signs dedicate the glade “to those whose actions in our time of need led to their injury, sickness, and death,” including first responders, recovery workers, survivors and community members at the attack sites at the trade center, Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pa. JENNIFER PELTZ (AP)

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31 Iraqi pilgrims die in stampede KARBALA, IRAQ A walkway collapsed and set off a stampede in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala on Tuesday as thousands of Shiite Muslims marked one of the most solemn holy days of the year. At least 31 people were killed and about 100 were injured, officials said.

It was the deadliest stampede in recent history during Ashoura commemorations. Hundreds of thousands of people converge on the city for the occasion every year.

The stampede happened toward the end of the Ashoura procession, causing a panicked rush among worshippers near the gold-domed Imam Hussein shrine, according to two officials who spoke to The Associated Press from Karbala.

The somber day of Ashoura

commemorates the killing of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, the Imam Hussein, by a rival Muslim faction in A.D. 680.

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Bolton out in abrupt, messy split

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POLITICS President Trump on Tuesday abruptly forced out John Bolton, his hawkish national security adviser with whom he had strong disagreements on Iran, Afghanistan and a cascade of other global challenges.

The sudden shake-up marked the latest departure of a prominent voice of dissent from the president’s inner circle, as Trump has grown less accepting of advice contrary to his instincts. It also comes at a trying moment for Trump on the world stage, weeks ahead of the United Nations General Assembly meeting and as the president faces pressing decisions on difficult foreign policy issues.

Tensions between Bolton, Trump’s third national security adviser, and other officials have flared in recent months over influence in the president’s orbit and how to manage his desire to negotiate with some of the world’s most unsavory actors.

Since joining the administration in the spring of last year, Bolton

has espoused skepticism about the president’s whirlwind rapprochement with North Korea, and recently has become a vocal internal critic of potential talks between Trump and leaders of Iran and Afghanistan’s Taliban.

Bolton also broke with Trump over his vocal condemnation of Russia’s global aggressions, and last year he masterminded a quiet campaign inside the administration and with allies abroad to persuade Trump to keep U.S. forces in Syria to counter the remnants of ISIS and Iranian influence in the region.

On Twitter on Tuesday, Trump and Bolton offered opposing accounts on the adviser’s departure, final shots in what had been a fractious relationship almost from the start.

Trump tweeted that he told Bolton on Monday night his services were no longer needed at the White House and that Bolton submitted his resignation Tuesday morning. Bolton responded in a tweet of his own that he offered to resign Monday “and

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National security adviser John Bolton tweeted Tuesday he tried to resign Monday but was told by President Trump, “Let’s talk about it tomorrow.”

President Trump said, ‘Let’s talk about it tomorrow.’”

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who had been traveling with Trump on Monday, said a report on Bolton’s opposition to a now-scrapped weekend meeting with the Taliban at Camp David was a “bridge too far” for Trump.

And one Republican familiar with the disagreements between Trump and Bolton said the adviser’s opposition to a possible meeting between Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was a precipitating factor.

The Iranian government hailed Bolton’s departure, and spokesman Ali Rabiei said it might pave the way for warmer relations. “By dismissal of the

biggest supporter of war and economic terrorism, the White House will face less barrier to understand realities of Iran,” he said in a tweet. Tehran calls the U.S. sanctions on Iran “economic terrorism.”

White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said Charles Kupperman, the deputy national security adviser and a former Reagan administration official and defense contracting executive, would fill Bolton’s role on an acting basis. Trump said he would name a replacement for Bolton next week.

Bolton was named to the post in March 2018 after the departure of Army Gen. H.R. McMaster.

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POLITICS President Trump has ordered White House officials to conduct a sweeping crackdown on homelessness in California, citing the state’s growing crisis, according to four government officials aware of the effort.

The planning has intensified in recent weeks. Administration officials have discussed using the federal government to get homeless people off the streets of Los Angeles and other cities and into new government-backed facilities, according to two officials briefed on the planning.

But it is unclear how they could accomplish this and what legal authority they would use. It is also unclear whether the state’s Democratic politicians would cooperate with Trump, who has sought to embarrass them over the homelessness crisis.

Trump’s directive is part of his broader effort to target California and a number of major U.S. cities in recent months, including Baltimore and Chicago. He has complained about what he says are years of failed Democratic leadership that have led to sustained poverty and crime.

Top officials representing the White House and Department of Housing and Urban Development arrived in California this week for meetings. Among the ideas under consideration are razing tent camps for the homeless, creating new temporary facilities, and refurbishing government facilities, two officials said.

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Census: Share of uninsured in U.S. rises Rate of people without health coverage grows for first time in a decade

ECONOMY The proportion of Americans without health insurance grew significantly last year for the first time this decade, according to new federal data that show the number of uninsured rose to 27.5 million in 2018.

The findings released Tuesday, based on a large U.S. Census Bureau survey, reverse the trend that began when the Affordable

Care Act expanded opportunities for poor and some middle-income people to get affordable coverage.

Taken together with other reported measures of Americans’ well-being, the Census Bureau report paints a portrait of an economy pulled in different directions, with a falling poverty rate but also high inequality and a growing cadre of people at financial risk because they do not have health coverage.

The data show that a strong economy pushed the poverty rate last year to its lowest level since 2001 as more Americans

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23%

The proportion of total U.S. household income that went to the richest 5% of the U.S. population in 2018, according to the Census Bureau annual report released Tuesday. (AP)

found jobs. The median U.S. income — the point at which half of U.S. families earn less than this amount, and half earn more

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— topped $63,000 for the first time, although that is roughly the same as middle-class income in 1999 after adjusting for inflation.

“Median household income today is right where it was in 1999.

Two decades with no progress for the middle class,” said University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers.

The data also reinforced how economic gains are not being felt evenly across the nation: Incomes rose substantially in big cities but declined in small ones last year.

And poverty rose for adults over 25 without high school diplomas.

The fresh evidence that insurance is slipping further out of Americans’ reach will likely escalate partisan warring about access to affordable coverage. The new figures for 2018 show that the uninsured rate increased to 8.5% of the population, from 7.9% the year before. In contrast, some 9 million gained coverage between 2013 and 2014, the year that Medicaid expanded in many states and ACA insurance marketplaces opened for individuals and families unable to get affordable health plans through work. AMY GOLDSTEIN AND HEATHER LONG (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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The Nationals had the best record in baseball in August, and that resurgence helped boost the award résumés for their biggest

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The case for him: Entering Tuesday, the Nats’ third baseman led the majors in batting average (.337) and was second in RBIs (114) — two behind the Braves’ Freddie Freeman.

And no one in the NL has been hotter since the All-Star break. Rendon has a 1.116 OPS in the second half — significantly better than his top MVP challengers: the Brewers’ Christian Yelich (1.039) and the Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger (.927).

The case for Scherzer: The three-time Cy Young winner is second in the NL in ERA (2.45) and WHIP (1.00). And despite missing a handful of starts after the All-Star break, he still has the third-most strikeouts (216) — only Strasburg (222) and the Mets’ Jacob deGrom (231) have more. Scherzer’s rate of 12.57 strikeouts per nine innings is by far the best in the majors.

The case for him: In a normal year, a guy who hits 17 homers, drives in 58 runs, ranks sixth in the majors in stolen bases (24) and plays a Gold Glove-caliber center field would be handed the Rookie of the Year award. But this isn’t a normal year. Defensively, Robles, 22, is the best rookie in the NL. His 2.1 defensive WAR is better than any other center fielder in the majors.

The case for Strasburg: He’ll need to lower his 3.50 ERA to catch the front-runners, but he’s tied for the league lead in wins (16) and his strikeout rate (10.78 K/9) is among the best.

The other contenders: The ROY frontrunners are also long shots to win the MVP and Cy Young. The Mets’ Pete Alonso, 24, has already set the NL rookie record with 47 homers and has 109 RBIs to go with it. The Braves’ Soroka, 22, is fourth in the majors in ERA (2.67) and second in home runs allowed per 9 innings (0.737).

The other contenders: With the Dodgers atop the NL, Bellinger will get the best player on the best team vote. He and Yelich were among those tied for second in the NL with 44 homers — 12 more than Rendon. Yelich led the league in slugging (.672) and on-base percentage (.430).

Likely outcome: According to BaseballReference.com, Bellinger had a big advantage in WAR (8.2) over Yelich (7.1) and Rendon (6.1).

Since WAR has become voters’ favorite stat, it’s Bellinger g with the slight g edge — for now.

The other contenders: The Dodgers’ Hyun-Jin Ryu leads the NL in ERA (2.45) but has almost 100 fewer strikeouts than deGrom, who has a 2.70 ERA. The Braves’ Mike Soroka (11-4, 2.67 ERA) is also in contention.

Likely outcome: Scherzer’s missed starts will hurt in a tight race led by the past two winners: deGrom (2018) and Scherzer (2017 and 2016).

Likely outcome: It will be hard not to give this to a player with 50 home runs, so this is Alonso’s award to lose. Soroka will be second. The Pirates’ ates’ Bryan Reynolds, the Padres’ Fernando Tatís Jr. r. and Robles will have to fight over third.

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Severity of knee injury still unclear Redskins running back Derrius Guice is dealing with a knee injury, and while it remains unclear how long he will be out, it appears unlikely he’ll be able to play in Sunday’s home opener against Dallas. One person with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the injury is to the meniscus in Guice’s right knee, and that the secondyear back could return to the team as early as next week. Another person said the injury could keep him off the field for as many as three or four games.

Guice’s absence would add another layer to the team’s complicated running back situation, which was in the spotlight after Adrian Peterson, Washington’s leading rusher last season, was held out as a healthy scratch Sunday. (TWP)

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The tight end duo’s performance so far (Okonkwo has five catches for 54 yards and a touchdown, Mabry five catches for 46 yards and two scores) has provided an early indication of how new coach Michael Locksley’s offense will use the position group. He has already begun reversing the recent trend of tight ends being nearly nonexistent in Maryland’s passing game.

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Through the first two games, the team’s tight ends have accounted for close to 17% of all receiving yards, which would be the highest mark in the past decade if it holds up for the entire season.

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3 questions facing defensemen Capitals defensemen will be dealing with some turnover this season with Brooks Orpik and Matt Niskanen no longer in the fold.

C With the first on-ice day of training camp Friday, here are some big questions facing that group. SAMANTHA PELL (THE WASHINGTON POST) W

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M Michal Kempny, who is still recovering from tthe torn left hamstring he suffered in March, will not be skating with the team when training w ccamp opens. But the 29-year-old is on track with his recovery with no setbacks so far. w Kempny has been on the ice at the Capitals’ K practice facility during informal skates, and the p tteam will continue to evaluate his progress.

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It’s possible Orlov’s partner will change throughout the season as the coaches work to find the right fit to help him return to the level he played at during the 2018 Stanley Cup run.

But if the Capitals have their full defensive unit healthy, Nick Jensen or Radko Gudas, whom the Capitals acquired in the Niskanen trade, could move into a top-four role.

How will the Capitals manage Siegenthaler and Djoos?

There will be a battle in camp to fill the left spot on the third pair opposite Radko Gudas, at least for now. Jonas Siegenthaler and Christian Djoos are expected to fight for the role, with top prospect Alex Alexeyev a viable option as the season goes on. Djoos, who missed two months last season with compartment syndrome in his thigh, will return to camp healthy and look to regain his lineup spot.

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A subpar stand: Modern protest music lacks heart These are wild and anxious times for our wild and anxious planet.

So why do the most visible protest songs of the Trump era feel so inert?

From the numb thud of “This Is America” to the woke winks on the new Taylor Swift album, contemporary protest pop feels increasingly prominent, deeply unimaginative and embarrassingly insufficient.

As it stands, the two most widely applauded protest ans pre thems of Trump Trump’s presidency

are “Love It If We Made It,” by the British band The 1975, and “This Is America,” by Childish Gambino. What are these songs trying to achieve? Both offer hypertopical verses, flanked by titular refrains that radiate heroic despair — and by setting those feelings of total powerlessness to such patently urgent music, the effect becomes strangely self-canceling. You feel seen, but you also feel small.

The most acclaimed protest album to arrive during George W. Bush’s presidency came from Green Day, a rock band

that chose to confront the war on terror by pretending to be The Clash.

Yes, a great protest song needs a flash of familiarity for listeners to rally around, but no song can change the future by simply strip-mining the past.

Nor can any pop song be expected to dismantle the capitalist system that allowed everyone to hear it in the first place.

Along with nearly every contemporary protest song, “Love It If We Made It” behaves the same way. When 1975 frontman Matthew Healy sings, “Modernity has failed us,” what he really means is that capitalism has failed us. But Healy can’t say that. Capitalism is what amplifies his voice.

The convulsions of the 21st century have produced at least two great protest songs, though, both of which arrived before Donald Trump’s election. One was “FDT,” a 2016 denunciation of then-candidate Trump by rappers YG and the

late Nipsey Hussle that balanced brash insults with a lucid warning.

The other great protest song of the century is Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright,” an anthem from 2015 that asserts that (black) people must first survive this world in order to change it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists sang its astonishing refrain in the streets.

That’s how every protest song should be measured — by its empathy, its imagination and its utility. It has to be compassionate enough to get inside your head, visionary enough to help you dream up what’s possible, powerful enough to shake the public airspace. It can’t just turn the tides inside your mind. It has to get your body out onto the street.

Songs don’t change the world. Listeners do.

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Highwomen try to right past wrongs Throughout history, certain narratives have been silenced — those of women, queer people and people of color. There is some justice in telling those stories, and that is the intention throughout The Highwomen’s self-titled debut album, which was released Friday. The supergroup, comprised of Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Natalie Hemby and Amanda Shires, has taken back the country music genre to shed light on perspectives that were missed in songs past. The track “If She Ever Leaves Me,” for one, gives voice to the gay perspective.

The groundbreaking album pays homage to the best parts of classic country music, displaying expert instrumentation, tight harmonies and ringing vocals. Yet, it is unafraid to challenge the genre’s norms and shortcomings in a nonabrasive way.

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center of the narrative. King quickly introduces us to the town and its denizens, chief among them Tim Jamieson, a roving former policeman. The action then shifts to Minneapolis and to the home of the novel’s protagonist, 12-year-old Luke Ellis. Luke is a bona fide, off-the-charts genius who possesses a minor talent for telekinesis. The story begins in earnest when a trio of thugs invade Luke’s home, kill his parents and carry him off to the dark destination of the novel’s title.

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Maine woods, existing to study, enhance and exploit the paranormal talents of its youthful prisoners. The ensuing narrative invites us to ponder the image of children separated from their parents and forced to live in brutal circumstances, all to serve the purposes of powerful men.

Few writers have King’s ability to create credible young people whose nascent qualities prefigure the adults they will (with

luck) become. And even fewer have the imaginative resources that King brings to bear on his portrait of life at the Institute, a life filled with large and small cruelties, and with a chilling indifference to the effect those cruelties have on the most vulnerable among us.

The Institute, King tells us, not only destroys its chosen victims.

It also destroys the “moral compass” of those who work there too long. Once again, the real world peers out from behind the curtain of King’s fiction. WILLIAM SHEEHAN (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

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“Flash forward to Trump and Bolton throwing wine at each other on the reunion show.”

“Does the game still end when someone flips over the board?”

“Dear ESPN, Literally any — ANY — color other than yellow is cool for down and distance.”

@PATTYMO, reacting to the discrepancy

@IAMSCOTTENGLISH, tweeting about Ms. Monopoly,

@RICKYHENNE, discussing ESPN’s new

Hasbro’s new version of its classic board game, which pays women more than men. Women receive $1,900 initially and collect $240 after passing go, compared to $1,500 and $200 for men.

Real estate properties are replaced with inventions by women, such as bulletproof vests and Wi-Fi. The reimagining has been hailed for bringing attention to the wage gap, but also received some backlash for being “sexist.”

and short-lived down-and-distance graphic. The new graphic debuted Monday, but its greenish-yellow color confused viewers, as yellow is used to indicate a flag has been thrown by the referees. Due to the backlash, ESPN changed the down-and-distance graphic to black after halftime.

@SNCRLY_ECCNTRC, joking about

The Weeknd’s new look, which he debuted Monday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The singer walked the red carpet for his film “Uncut Gems” sporting slight stubble and a thin mustache.

His hair, usually in dreadlocks or a high-top afro with shaved sides, was instead grown out. Fans compared him to Lionel Richie and a cartel leader, dubbing him “El Fin de Semana,” Spanish for “weekend.”

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But Bolton tweeted Tuesday: “I offered to resign last night and President Trump said, ‘Let’s talk about it tomorrow.’ ”

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your memories are chock-full of imagery that can mean much to you once you have brought them into sharper focus.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today’s success borrows much from the efforts of yesterday. Seek a more direct route to your destination.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You may have overlooked something yesterday that you can pay attention to today.

Someone may take offense, but you’ll do what is right.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) It’s time for you to reach out on your own toward something that holds value only for you — but a conflict with a friend may result.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Take care that you do not overthink a current problem, or it will seem much greater than it really is. Focus on the central issue.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Your attempt to get to the heart of the matter may backfire today as you reveal certain elements that increase a situation’s emotional impact.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You want to do the right thing, but today you may not hear the signals that tell you how that can be done.

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POOCH CAFE | PAUL GILLIGAN

92 | 70

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You’re trying to do something in a new way, but not everyone will respond as you might hope. You meet resistance from an old friend.

TODAY: Sunny skies and light southwest winds team up with relatively high humidity (dew points in the low 70s) to make for a sweaty day. Highs top out in the upper 80s to low 90s, with Reagan National Airport likely to notch yet another 90-degree day.

There is the risk of a few evening thunderstorms.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You can avoid conflict by going about your business in a manner that attracts little or no attention. Do your best to avoid setting off alarms.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You discover something about yourself that you may not like very much — at first. A friend gives you perspective, and your judgment shifts.

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AVG. HIGH: 81 RECORD HIGH: 98 AVG. LOW: 64 RECORD LOW: 40 SUNRISE: 6:46 a.m. SUNSET: 7:22 p.m.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Someone with whom you are at odds changes the conditions of the playing field on which you are battling. This may give you the advantage.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You can do much with little today. Take care that you do not squander what resources you have at your disposal. A message arrives from afar.

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Find another puzzle in the Comics section of The Post every Sunday and in the Style section Monday through Saturday.

1936: Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation as President Franklin D. Roosevelt presses a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator.

1970: Ford Motor Co. introduces the Pinto, a compact that would become caught up in controversy over the safety of its gas tank.

(The Pinto was discontinued in 1980.)

2012: A mob armed with guns and grenades launches a fiery nightlong attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost and a CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

92 | 75

78 | 72

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SUNDAY

85 | 69

86 | 72

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Joaquin still living in character as the Joker Joaquin Phoenix called partner Rooney Mara a “filthy dragon” while accepting an award Monday at the Toronto International Film Festival. “Somewhere here … is a filthy dragon, and I want to rip its wings off and fasten a blanket and sleep with it forever,” Phoenix said. The couple reportedly got engaged earlier this year. (EXPRESS)

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Romantic gesture occurs in France

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