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A Wagoner County, Okla., man was arrested Saturday after his dog showed officers where he was hiding, KTUL-TV reported. James L. Ayer, wanted on charges involving firearms and methamphetamine, was located in a routine traffic stop but jumped out of his car and ran into a nearby field. Deputies searching the field spotted a dog, which led them straight to Ayer, whom they arrested. The dog was Ayer’s own pet. (EXPRESS)

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MUSEUMS On a gloomy October morning, Smithsonian staff members at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden woke up one of their employees from an office and headed to the third floor. Soon after, visitors were welcomed with a surprise.

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Visitors were intrigued. That’s because the greeting didn’t come from a typical Smithsonian staffer. It came from Pepper, a 4-foot-tall humanoid robot with wheels for legs.

Smithsonian visitors were a little nervous to see Pepper’s head and eyes follow them as they walked away or toward the wideeyed robot. Its arm and finger movements are almost lifelike.

Mila Zaragoza, 9, from California, reacted with a big smile when she heard Pepper’s friendly, high-pitched voice say hello. Mila asked Pepper to do

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something fun, and they busted out a few moves together.

Pepper’s full-time job is to greet and provide information to people visiting Smithsonian museums in Washington. At the Hirshhorn, a tablet on Pepper’s chest shares stories when visitors ask the robot about the museum’s modern art exhibits and the inspiration behind them.

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At the end of the long workday, one of Pepper’s handlers, known as “parents,” took the robot to get some sleep. The parent placed a hand on Pepper’s head, and its body tilted down into a resting position. Pepper spent the night getting charged to go on another robotic adventure. DARA ELASFAR (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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TRANSPORTATION More than a year after ditching plans to bring back automatic train operation — the self-driving train technology that launched when Metro did in 1976 — the agency’s leaders have changed course, citing the need to provide a better customer experience.

Metro is now aiming to restore computer-driven trains in the second half of 2019. The decision comes on the heels of a $1 million consultant’s study that recommended running fully automated operations during rushhour periods, when the presence of track workers is minimal. For riders, that could mean smoother rides and a more efficient journey — and perhaps a few seconds shaved off their commutes. (Metro’s plans to return to ATO have fallen through in recent years, so it remains to be seen whether the agency will follow through.)

The agency says its goal is to run rush-hour trains in ATO beginning in the latter half of next year, after it has time to train its staff on the system that was disabled in the wake of the fatal 2009 Red Line crash at the Fort Totten station. ATO was not at fault in the crash, which happened after a signal failed to detect the presence of a stopped train as another barreled toward it at 49 mph. The train operator and eight passengers died in

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Metro’s return to automatic train operation could mean smoother rides and more efficient journeys for riders.

what was the deadliest calamity in Metro’s history.

ATO was partially restored to the Red Line in 2015, but the return was short-lived; Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld sidelined plans to restore ATO, citing the system’s critical safety needs upon his arrival that November, and Metro halted a potential return in spring 2017.

Now, Wiedefeld told Metro’s 1,700 managers in a promotional video Monday, the landscape has changed.

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ATO’s restoration is part of a suite of initiatives Wiedefeld plans to introduce for the coming year — including mobile payment through a dedicated app and SmarTrip ride credits for anyone whose trip is 10 minutes later than Metro estimates.

In 2017, Metro declared in a quality-control report that the return to ATO was not an engineering problem but a personnel one. Leaders, however, feared that potential overreliance on automated operations would endanger track workers as the system underwent near-constant

rebuilding and maintenance work.

The return to ATO will require a two-pronged approach to address leaders’ concerns, according to agency officials: a proactive control system that would remotely disable ATO features outside of rush hour; and training on the system, which the majority of Metro’s operators are unfamiliar with, according to the agency.

But the benefits for riders will be substantial, the agency said.

“Just looking at system performance, the system is designed to operate in ATO and it runs better in ATO,” Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said. FAIZ SIDDIQUI (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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A Prince George’s County police officer is accused of raping a woman in her car during a traffic stop. Officer Ryan Macklin was arrested Monday on charges including first-degree rape.

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The council on Tuesday gave final approval to legislation

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The initiative would have ended a system that allows employers to pay tipped workers a few dollars an hour as long as customer gratuities add up to the standard minimum wage.

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The Council again voted 8-5 to repeal the initiative, the same

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margin as the first vote earlier in the month. Mayor Muriel Bowser plans to sign the bill.

The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington hailed the repeal as good news for the city’s thriving dining scene and for workers who feared their bosses would cut hours.

Restaurant Opportunities Center United, which sponsored Initiative 77 as part of a national campaign to change conditions in the restaurant industry, said it would keep fighting for a standard minimum wage for all workers.

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Chairman Phil Mendelson agreed to postpone a final vote until Nov. 13, after objections were raised.

The council unanimously gave preliminary approval to the bill two weeks ago. The proposal would prevent D.C. property owners from renting out second homes on a short-term basis and put limits on those who rent out spare rooms or basements in their primary residences. (TWP)

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It was sponsored by council member Marc Elrich, D-At Large, who is running to succeed Leggett, and council member Tom Hucker, D-Silver Spring. The lone vote against the bill came from council member Nancy Floreen, I-At Large, who along with Republican Robin Ficker also is seeking the county executive’s seat.

The legislation allows county officials to require trash-hauling contracts to include “labor peace agreements” — pacts to resolve labor disputes through arbitration, not strikes or lockouts that could disrupt service, which happened in Montgomery, Maryland’s most populous jurisdiction, in 2013 and

2014. It also requires the county to increase pay for trash, recycling and yard waste contractors up to the increase unionized county service workers receive.

The council approved three amendments to the bill proposed by council member George L. Leventhal. One amendment says wage increases are guaranteed for all trash and recycling contracts, regardless of whether there is a labor peace agreement in place. The others require the county to consider the effect on competition before requiring a labor peace agreement, and contractors to pass on the wage increase to their workers.

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Shipping drugs: Dealers prefer the Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service likes to boast that it is the nation’s most trusted government agency. It certainly has the trust of dope dealers.

A report by the Postal Service Office of Inspector General demonstrates just how valuable the mail is as a marketing tool for drug pushers: “For example, a cocaine

trafficker claimed to have used the Postal Service to successfully distribute nearly 4,000 shipments, stating that they had a 100 percent delivery success rate.”

Inspector general staffers found that out of 104 illicit drug websites that identified a shipper, 92 percent indicated they use the Postal Service.

The report found several reasons they prefer using the Postal Service, including that

it “is generally prohibited from opening international and domestic mail” and that there is no “distinct penalty” for shipping illegal drugs.

Using the Postal Service also is convenient.

“Drug traffickers … can send their packages like any other customer — dropping them in a blue collection box, or presenting them at a post office or through a third-party approved shipper,” the report noted.

The Postal Service defended its anti-drug action.

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A report found that 92 percent of illicit drug websites that identified a shipper use the Postal Service.

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“The presence of packages containing illicit drugs … puts Postal Service employees in harm’s way and jeopardizes its brand,” the report said.

“Every story about drugs being shipped through the postal network erodes the public’s trust in the postal system.”

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Death toll from Michael doubles to 16 in Florida Cell service returns, offering possible line to those still missing PANAMA CITY, FLA. Hurricane Michael killed at least 16 people in Florida, most of them in the coastal county that took a direct hit from the storm, state emergency authorities said Tuesday. That’s in addition to at least 10 deaths elsewhere across the South.

The scope of the storm’s fury became clearer after nearly a week of missing-persons reports and desperate searches of the Florida Panhandle neighborhoods devastated by the most powerful hurricane to hit the continental U.S. in nearly 50 years.

The count of 16 dead was twice the number previously tallied.

Emergency authorities said 12 of the deaths were in Bay County, where the storm slammed ashore with 155 mph winds and towering storm surge last Wednesday.

Bay County includes Mexico Beach, the ground-zero town of 1,000 people that was nearly obliterated.

The tally also includes 10 deaths in Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina.

Mexico Beach Mayor Al Cathey said two deaths were confirmed in his town.

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A glimmer of hope emerged when cellphone service began to return to the stricken zone.

Verizon service also resumed in Panama City, where residents haven’t been able to contact loved ones or call for help. Verizon later announced it would give a three-month credit to all of its customers in Bay and Gulf counties. JAY REEVES (AP)

Female gorillas may prefer to mate with males who bond with young gorillas, new research published Monday in Nature Scientific Reports suggests. The study, reported in Newsweek, looked at mountain gorillas in Rwanda. It found that male gorillas who spent the most time with gorilla children (regardless of their paternity) fathered five times as many children as those who spent less time with the children. Lead author Stacy Rosenbaum, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, said the results may point to how fatherhood behaviors developed in humans. (EXPRESS)

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U.S. airstrike kills about 60 al-Shabab fighters The U.S. military on Tuesday announced its deadliest airstrike against the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia in nearly a year, killing about 60 fighters. The U.S. Africa Command said Friday’s airstrike occurred near the al-Shabab-controlled community of Harardere in Mudug province in the central part of the country.

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Idaho wildlife official resigns over photo of him with baboon family he killed on a hunting trip to Africa

Literary and human rights organization PEN American Center is suing President Trump, alleging that he is stifling free speech. In a suit filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, the center, also known as PEN America, alleges that “official acts” by Trump have “violated the First Amendment and his oath to uphold the Constitution.” (AP)

President Trump threatened Tuesday to cut aid to Honduras if it doesn’t stop a caravan of some 2,000 migrants, even as they resumed their northward trek through Guatemala on Tuesday with hopes of reaching the U.S. border. The group’s numbers have grown since about 160 migrants departed Friday. A Guatemalan priest said more than 2,000 had been fed at Catholic shelters. (AP)

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Dennis Hof, the Nevada brothel owner and GOP candidate for state Assembly, died Tuesday, his campaign manager said. He was 72. Hof died in the hours after a birthday party that featured pornography star Ron Jeremy, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and anti-tax activist Grover Norquist. Hof died in his sleep, his manager said. (TWP)

Alaska lieutenant governor resigns over “inappropriate comments”

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ISTANBUL Police searching the Saudi Consulate found evidence that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed there, a high-level Turkish official said Tuesday, and authorities appeared ready to also search the nearby residence of the consul general after the diplomat left the country.

The comment by the Turkish official intensified pressure on Saudi Arabia to explain what happened to Khashoggi, who vanished Oct. 2 while visiting the consulate to pick up paperwork he needed to get married.

President Trump said Tuesday after a phone call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that he “totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their Turkish Consulate.”

The crown prince “told me that he has already started, and will rapidly expand, a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming shortly,” Trump said in a tweet.

The president later appeared to take a stronger stance, criticizing the global condemnation against the kingdom and comparing it to the allegations of sexual assault leveled against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“Here we go again with you’re guilty until proven innocent,” Trump said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Saudi Arabia to talk to King Salman and the 33-year-old crown prince about the fate of the journalist, who wrote critically about the Saudis for The Washington Post.

Pompeo thanked King Salman “for accepting my visit on behalf of President Trump” before the two went into a closed-door meeting. Pompeo then met Prince Mohammed, the heir apparent

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday.

to the throne.

“We are strong and old allies,” the prince told Pompeo. “We face our challenges together — the past, the day of, tomorrow.”

Pompeo later said that Saudi Arabia had made a “serious commitment” to hold senior leaders and officials accountable in the case, and said the crown prince again denied any knowledge of what happened to Khashoggi.

Pompeo is expected to fly to Turkey today.

Saudi officials have called Turkish allegations that a team of 15 Saudi agents killed Khashoggi “baseless,” but media reports have suggested that the kingdom may acknowledge the writer was killed at the consulate, perhaps as part of a botched interrogation.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said “serious evaluation” was being given to whether U.S. law enforcement officials would aid in the investigation of Khashoggi’s disappearance. He declined to comment further.

Reactions Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan: The Saudi government “owes the Khashoggi family and the world a full and honest explanation of everything that happened to him,” Ryan said, noting that Tuesday marked two weeks since the disappearance of the 59-year-old journalist.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “has got to go,” Graham said on Fox News on Tuesday. He also said he believes Salman “murdered” Jamal Khashoggi.

U.N. Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet: The “inviolability or immunity” of people or premises granted under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations “should be waived immediately.” That convention covers the idea that embassies and consulates sit on foreign soil in their host countries. “The onus is on the Saudi authorities to reveal what happened to [Khashoggi].” (AP)

ISIS-linked extremists kill another abducted health worker in Nigeria

The Turkish official said police found “certain evidence” of Khashoggi’s slaying at the consulate, without elaborating.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that police sought traces of “toxic” materials and suggested parts of the consulate had been recently painted, without elaborating.

Police planned a second search at the Saudi consul general’s home, as well as some of the country’s diplomatic vehicles, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. Leaked surveillance video shows diplomatic cars traveled to the consul general’s home shortly after Khashoggi went into the consulate.

Consul General Mohammed al-Otaibi left Turkey on Tuesday, state media reported, just as police began putting up barricades around his official residence.

Saudi Arabia did not acknowledge he had left or offer a reason for his departure. FAY ABUELGASIM, SUZAN FRASER AND JON GAMBRELL (AP)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s release of a DNA test that suggested a lineage to a distant Native American ancestor has roiled the Cherokee Nation and others in indigenous communities frustrated about claims of cultural and social ties for political maneuvering.

The Massachusetts Democrat, a likely presidential contender in 2020, released the test Monday in an attempt to neutralize attacks from President Trump and other Republicans. She has previously cited family stories to claim Cherokee and Delaware Indian heritage.

“It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens,” Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said in a statement. He added that the tests can’t even reliably determine lineage among North or South American tribal groups.

Trump seized on the Cherokee Nation’s criticism Tuesday. “Thank you to the Cherokee Nation for revealing that Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, is a complete and total Fraud!” he tweeted.

Warren has defended herself, but she appeared to concede a main line of criticism from Native American leaders — that sovereign tribal groups, not DNA tests such as the one she took, determine tribal citizenship and cultural lineage. ALEX HORTON

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HEALTH U.S. health officials on Tuesday reported a jump in cases of a rare paralyzing illness in children, and said it seems to be following an every-other-year pattern.

At least 62 cases have been confirmed in 22 states this year, and at least 65 additional illnesses in those states are being investigated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Similar waves of the same illness occurred in 2014 and 2016.

CDC officials say they haven’t found the cause. Some possible suspects, such as polio and West Nile virus, have been ruled out.

Another kind of virus is suspected, but it’s been found in only some of the cases.

“This is a mystery so far,” Dr. Nancy Messonnier of the CDC said in a call Tuesday with reporters.

More than 90 percent of the confirmed cases have been in children 18 and younger, with the average age being 4 years old.

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Lacking an established cause, health officials confirm cases through a review of brain scans and symptoms.

About 120 confirmed cases were reported in 2014. Another 149 were reported in 2016. In 2015 and 2017, the counts of reported illnesses were far lower.

The cases this year seem to be spread across much of the country, as were the earlier two waves.

But, mysteriously, no other country has reported the emerging every-two-years pattern seen in the U.S., Messonnier said.

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nation+world Official: Internment pushes minority groups toward a ‘modern life’ BEIJING China on Tuesday characterized its mass internment of Muslims as a push to bring into the “modern, civilized” world a destitute people who are easily led astray — a depiction that analysts said bore troubling colonial overtones.

The report is the ruling Communist Party’s latest effort to defend its extrajudicial detention of Central Asian Muslim minorities against mounting criticism.

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About 1 million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities have been arbitrarily detained in mass internment camps in China’s far west Xinjiang region, according to estimates by a U.N. panel. Former detainees say they were forced to disavow their Islamic beliefs in the camps, while children of detainees are being placed in dozens of orphanages across the region.

The report by the official Xinhua News Agency indicated that key to the party’s vision is the assimilation of the indigenous Central Asian ethnic minorities into Han Chinese society — and in turn, a “modern” lifestyle.

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China defends Muslim camps

Xinjiang Gov. Shohrat Zakir said authorities were giving Muslims in camps lessons on Chinese history.

Xinjiang Gov. Shohrat Zakir said the authorities were providing people with lessons on Mandarin, Chinese history and laws.

Such training would steer them away from extremism and onto the path toward a “modern life” in which they would feel “confident about the future,” he said.

“It’s become a general trend for them to expect and pursue a modern, civilized life,” Zakir said, referring to the trainees.

Despite alarm from the U.S. and the U.N., China has maintained that Xinjiang’s vast dragnet of police surveillance is necessary for countering latent extremism and preserving stability.

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The founder of a legal-services app says his product now allows users to sue someone with their smartphones and claim awards from class-action lawsuits the same way they’d select a match on Tinder — with a quick “swipe right to sue.”

Since those new services launched last Wednesday, the app, known as DoNotPay, has been downloaded more than 10,000 times, according to its founder, Joshua Browder, a 21-year-old senior at Stanford University who has been labeled the “Robin Hood of the Internet.”

As an 18-year-old, Browder created a bot that helped people fight parking tickets in New York, London and Seattle, and he later created another bot to help people sue Equifax after a data breach left 143 million American consumers vulnerable to identity theft last year.

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What if the Redskins didn’t pick the right quarterback?

What if Washington went all in on Alex Smith and he was the wrong choice?

It has been only five games, but that’s nearly one-third of the season — enough time to see whether it was wise to let Kirk Cousins walk and trade a starting corner for Smith.

So far, the results have been underwhelming. It has been a steady diet of “Good Alex/Bad Alex,” which shouldn’t be surprising given that’s his career résumé.

The top overall pick in 2005 is not on his third franchise without reason. The 49ers and Chiefs saw enough to know that Smith, now 34, wasn’t their long-term solution. He arrived in Washington with questions despite having a breakout 2017 season on a solid team in Kansas City.

In Washington, Smith is working with broken and replacement parts. The talent at

receiver and running back has been decimated by injuries.

The Redskins’ best scheme may be the double tight end set, and Jordan Reed always seems a breath away from the injury report. The offensive line has been simply average.

Smith seems like someone who knows he’s smart enough to solve a problem but for some reason can’t. He doesn’t trust the line to give him that extra second, so he throws to a check-down receiver rather than one downfield, or he staggers in the pocket and gets hit.

No one is clamoring for the days of predecessor Kirk Cousins. That storyline wore itself out. But there are modest calls to play backup Colt McCoy, whose last meaningful pass was in 2014.

Put that aside: The Redskins are stuck with Smith for four years via a $94 million contract.

It’s time for coach Jay Gruden to make the offense a better fit for Smith rather than force the passer to do things he’s can’t.

Smith’s stint so far is reminiscent of quarterback Mark

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QB’s limitations: Redskins must learn to make do

Alex Smith was the first overall pick in the 2005 draft, but he still hasn’t proved himself to be a team’s long-term answer at quarterback.

Brunell’s arrival in 2004, when the former Jacksonville star was winding down a threetime Pro Bowl career and could no longer carry a team.

Instead, running back Clinton Portis became the focus, but the Redskins struggled in the era of Joe Gibbs 2.0.

If Adrian Peterson can muster one more great year from his battered body before heading to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Redskins would be grateful.

In each of three victories this season, Peterson has rushed for at least 96 yards. In

the two losses, he had 26 yards rushing combined.

Peterson averaged 5.6 yards in his 17 carries Sunday in the victory over Carolina. But he has knee problems, and because of a painful shoulder injury, he needed help just to take off his pads. He might not last much longer, and there’s no proven runner behind him.

This is Smith’s team. The e question is whether he’ll prove to be the right choice.

Aaron Rodgers did several amazing things Monday night while leading the Packers to a comeback win over the 49ers. But he definitely did not pull “another rabbit out of his head.”

That was the comment from ESPN’s Jason Witten, who is in his first season in the “Monday Night Football” booth and has had a rocky start. The former Cowboys tight end also has incorrectly identified plays and repeatedly stated the obvious. And he drew fire for saying of the new roughing-the-passer rule: “It seems like we went a little bit to the left wing.” Late Monday, he tried to laugh off his latest malaprop with a self-deprecating tweet laced with emojis for a head smack, a shrug and, of course, a bunny.

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The Wizards on Tuesday named d Mystics M guard Kristi Toliver, 31, to their coaching staff, making her the franchise’s first woman to hold h a coaching position and the fourth in NBA history. Toliver, who was an assistant on the Wizards’ ds’ summer s league team, will have responsibilities for player development. “I’m blessed to be in the position p I am,” she said. “As an active player and now an active assistant coach, it’s an honor.” (TWP) Redskins releasing DL Ziggy Hood, 31, who has played little in his third season with the team

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DSP aims to regain his scoring touch Journeyman right wing Devante Smith-Pelly broke out with seven goals in the postseason last spring. Now, the Capitals could use that offense again. Their bottom-six forwards have just two goals in the first five games, and both came in the opener, a 7-0 win over Boston.

Smith-Pelly, playing on the fourth line alongside newcomers Nic Dowd and Dmitrij Jaskin, is still searching for his first goal. “It is important that he provides the energy he can and the ability he has to score big goals and also do a good job on the penalty kill,� said coach Todd Reirden, whose club hosts the New York Rangers tonight (7 p.m., NBCSN). “He is a real committed shot-blocker and he brings things other than just scoring.� (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Ohio State defensive end Nick Bosa, who has been recovering from surgery to repair a core muscle, has withdrawn from school to focus on preparing for the 2019 NFL draft. Bosa, a junior who had surgery Sept. 20 and hasn’t been cleared to play, is the younger brother of Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa, who also starred at Ohio State and was the third overall pick in 2016.

Nick Bosa is the top prospect on ESPN’s Big Board, and his injury is unlikely to diminish his value. The Columbus Dispatch reported that Nick Bosa told coach Urban Meyer of his decision Sunday. (TWP)

Mary Bono’s tenure as the interim president of USA Gymnastics is over four days after it began, the New York Daily News reported.

Bono, who was appointed to the job Friday, resigned Tuesday after a weekend of criticism. Shortly after the announcement that Bono would replace Kerry Perry, who resigned as part of the Larry Nassar scandal, Olympian Simone Biles criticized an earlier tweet by Bono that showed her drawing over a Nike logo on her golf shoe to protest Colin Kaepernick’s work with Nike. Bono also was criticized for having worked for a law firm that represented Nassar. (EXPRESS)

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A healthy Howard offers new threat Wizards have big man who can provide points out of the pick-and-roll WIZARDS Dwight Howard is finally healthy, so the Wizards have a lineup with its most talented big man in the John Wall-Bradley Beal era.

Now the challenge is to build chemistry with Howard, who participated in his first team practice Monday since he signed in July.

He missed almost all of the team’s preseason work: The Wizards open the season at home Thursday against the Heat (8 p.m., NBCSWA).

“I thought we looked good together [Monday]; we made some plays off each other that were really good,” Howard said of his first on-court experience with Wall. “Me and him and Bradley are going to have an unbelievable time in the pick-and-roll.”

But Howard, who missed the preseason games because of an injured buttocks muscle, said he is “still learning a lot of plays.”

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That often could mean setting a screen and diving to the basket.

Last season, the Wizards averaged a paltry 0.98 points per possession on scoring plays involving the screener in pick-and-rolls.

Though previous center Marcin Gortat was an expert screen setter, the Wizards did not rely on him for scoring.

In practice Monday, Howard used the pick-and-roll to start developing a bond with teammates.

“The guy, he’s smart. He has a high IQ,” coach Scott Brooks said. “He sets great screens, and he rolls and he finishes around the rim. He’s as athletic as anybody in the league. I thought he had good chemistry with all of our guys.”

That should translate into more points from the Wizards’ center. Gortat averaged just 8.4 points last season; Howard averaged 16.6 with Charlotte, in line with his career average of 17.4 points per game.

Howard said he should be able to fit in before too long.

“I know me not being on the court for the summer, for the preseason, is going to be tough,” he said. “But these guys are great. So we should be fine.”

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Costello brings joy to misery

D.C. rapper Shy Glizzy brings authority to his understated approach ALBUM REVIEW When Shy Glizzy raps in that muted trumpet of a voice, you get to hear two things at once: emotion leaking out and emotion being withheld. It’s an artfully pressurized style of mouth-music that keeps you listening close, with every syllable prompting a balancing act in your brain.

What’s being expressed? What isn’t? What needs to be said?

What can never be?

Shy once described his pinched tone as something he couldn’t “escape.” It seemed existential at the time, but the 25-year-old D.C. native has since figured out how to soften that sneer. On “Fully Loaded,” his album released Friday, he sounds exceedingly comfortable for someone rapping about the lethal borderline that separates the street life from the good life.

Just three bars into the proceedings, he’s meditating on his fame, his family and his future in beautiful bleats. “Damn, look at me. I blowed up, I done had a … son,” Shy marvels. “He’s a trust fund baby, he ain’t gotta hold a gun.”

And right away, here’s an opportunity to squint at the scales of your mind. When a father defines good fortune as being able to protect his child from an unjust, weaponized world, what do you hear? Relief or regret?

Exaltation or exhaustion?

Meantime, Shy is mastering his own balancing act, infusing tough words with light melodies.

That unhurried steadiness — it’s a D.C. thing. You can hear it in last year’s “Crew,” an odd-couple duet between GoldLink and Shy that felt frictionless enough to go platinum. It’s in Wale’s sauntering contribution to “No Hands,” a guest verse from 2010 that became that rapper’s trademark.

You can hear it in the go-go music that perpetually pitter-pats out of

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Speak softly and carry a big rhyme Shy Glizzy followed up 2017’s “Quiet Storm” with the new album “Fully Loaded,” in which he balances his tough words with soft melodies.

Living up to the hype The most gravity-defying songs on Shy Glizzy’s new album, “Fully Loaded” — the tracks “Diamonds” and “I Need Mo” — might be the most tuneful of his career, and at times, his sonority floats in perfect parallel to his lyrics. Listen to how he ties a neat bow on the first verse of “Live Up to the Hype” with a brag of self-awareness: “I’m so elegant.” C.R.

open car windows at nearly every stoplight in the city. And you can trace it back to the mid-’70s, when a DJ named Melvin Lindsey began

spinning blocks of silky R&B on D.C.’s WHUR-FM and dubbed the format “The Quiet Storm.”

Of course, Shy titled his 2017 album “Quiet Storm,” and despite its menacing title, “Fully Loaded” feels like an even quieter storm. This music ic flows — perhaps in a circle.. “I ain’t famous,” Shy raps, refusing sing to let his celebrity eclipse his s humanity. “Just came from my y cousin’s house, still eating ramens.” ens.” And somehow, he bends “ramens” mens” to rhyme with “famous.” The he words are more malleable than han ever, but the song remains the he same.

The characters in “Look Now,” Elvis Costello’s sumptuous new album with The Imposters released Friday, are each unhappy in their own way. We meet a woman who laments her deteriorated marriage (“Stripping Paper”), a dilapidated music-hall singer (“Under Lime”), a daughter pondering her dad’s infidelity (“Photographs Can Lie”) and so on. Costello’s elegant melodies and arrangements are what make it easy to be sympathetic. The songs’ moods may be mostly miserable, but “Look Now” will make its listeners very happy indeed. PABLO GORONDI (AP) (

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“When I saw ‘Wonder Woman,’ I knew I could stand up and have a voice like she did.”

BROOKLYNN PRINCE, the 8-year-old star of the 2017 film “The Florida Project,” in an interview with Vulture

published Tuesday. “I knew that women could do anything, really, the same as men,” she added.

Variety: The Flash film set for 2021 release after delay

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Netflix’s ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ collapses after a promising start TV REVIEW Put simply, scary times mean scarier movies and TV shows.

Any attempt to increase the adrenaline flow is plenty welcome, so long as you sustain the fear all the way through and resist the urge for a tidy and even sickeningly soft ending.

In this spirit, there is good and not-so-good news about Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House,” creator Mike Flanagan’s 10episode chiller now streaming that’s very loosely inspired by Shirley Jackson’s acclaimed 1959 gothic horror novel of the same name. For eight and even nine episodes, the series does everything right as both a compelling, fractured-family drama and a dive-under-the-couch-cushions creepshow. That 10th episode,

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NETFLIX

This horror series meets a tragic end The Crain family discusses how it really should fire the real estate agent.

however? The less said, the better.

Michiel Huisman stars as Steve Crain, the oldest of five siblings who once lived in the Hill House, an extremely unwelcoming, rundown estate out in the boonies that

revealed itself to be both a money pit and a hellhole. Also, there were ghosts. Also, Mom (Carla Gugino) didn’t make it out alive.

Years go by before the kids’ father (played in his later years

FX developing feminist anthology series “Her Body and Other Parties”

by Timothy Hutton), calls with urgent and terrible news: One of the Crain kids has returned to Hill House and committed suicide.

Flanagan and his writers use the episodic series format to achieve the slow build that most 100-minute horror movies so desperately need. More impressively, the show takes itself seriously as a drama about a family coping with all kinds of grief. Now, alas, it’s time to address its tragically dumb final episode, in the which the Crains make their inexorable return to Hill House for a forcibly sentimental ending.

Things were going so well.

Now here we are, out back in the cold of night, burying it.

HANK STUEVER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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“Agreed, Lindsey Graham.

It would have been terrible if someone who is as racist as you are, were Iranian.” @AMIRALIMOHAJER, blasting the South Carolina senator after he joked on Fox News about taking a DNA test: “I’ll probably be Iranian. That’d be, like, terrible.” Graham’s comment was panned as xenophobic on Twitter, with Iranians and IranianAmericans demanding he apologize.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) That which began casually only a short time ago is likely to have become quite serious by now — and you may not know what to do about it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You can treat a certain someone with a little more kindness, and you’ll surely get more out of the shared dynamic than you have been.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Seeking a way out of a difficult situation may not be the answer today. Instead, why not try to deal with it aggressively?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You’re likely to learn an important lesson today, and your teacher is one who takes you by surprise.

TUESDAY’S SOLUTION

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

There is much wisdom in the littlest of actions today, and you can prove you know just what is required when called upon to act decisively.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You’re after a certain answer today, and a simple “yes” or “no” may not suffice.

Make clear what is at stake, and what you have to lose.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You can get much more work done today than you had planned simply by making use of extra time you didn’t know you had.

TUESDAY’S SOLUTION

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Forecast

By Capital Weather Gang

POOCH CAFE | PAUL GILLIGAN

62 | 42

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You

may not understand what someone is trying to tell you, because he or she is beating around the bush.

TODAY: Mostly sunny skies and slightly warmer weather catapults today to one of our nicer days of the week. Look for highs in the lower to middle 60s, but the winds pick up a bit at 10-15 mph from the west, with higher gusts at times.

Mostly clear, slightly breezy tonight with lows ranging from the upper 30s to the lower 40s in the city.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You mustn’t jump to conclusions today, nor must you leap at the first opportunity.

Take a measured approach.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You can get the better of someone who thinks he or she has the advantage over you.

The day’s events are likely to favor you.

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE | STEPHAN PASTIS

AVG. HIGH: 67 RECORD HIGH: 86 AVG. LOW: 49 RECORD LOW: 33 SUNRISE: 7:19 a.m. SUNSET: 6:26 p.m.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You can show

someone just what you’re made of today, without risking any negative response. Just do what comes naturally.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You can move ahead of the pack today and get a clear view of where you’re going.

Once you do that, you’ll understand what you have to gain.

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1931: Mobster Al Capone is convicted in Chicago of income tax evasion. (Sentenced to 11 years in prison, Capone was released in 1939.)

1973: Arab oil-producing nations announce they would begin cutting back oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result is a total embargo that lasted until March 1974.

2017: Just hours before President Trump’s latest travel ban was due to take effect, a federal judge in Hawaii blocks most of the ban, saying it suffered from the same flaws as the previous version.

Get more news and forecasts at washingtonpost.com/weather or follow @capitalweather on Twitter.

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Charlamagne Tha God said Monday via Instagram that he’s cancelled his TimesTalk with Kanye West about mental health issues that was scheduled for Wednesday. “Unfortunately I think to have that conversation with him right now would not be productive …,” he wrote in a post about The New York Timesorganized discussion. (EXPRESS)

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This baby is going to have some seriously nice hand-me-downs Pippa Middleton has given birth to a baby boy. A spokeswoman for Middleton and her husband, James Matthews, said Tuesday that their first child had been born Monday, the same day Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they are expecting their first baby next spring. (AP)

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Tara Reid was kicked off a Delta flight Monday for causing a disturbance onboard, according to TMZ. The “Sharknado” actress was boarding a plane in Los Angeles, where she allegedly complained loudly about not getting a window seat and pillow.

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After months of speculation, Lady Gaga has confirmed that she is engaged to her boyfriend, talent agent Christian an Carino, according to People. The “A Star Is Born” actress s revealed the news while giving a speech Monday at Elle’s s 25th Annual Women in Hollywood Celebration, where she e thanked “my fiance Christian.” Rumors began circulating ng that Gaga, 32, and Carino, 49, were engaged in late 2017, when she started wearing a pink diamond ring. The couple ple started dating in February 2017, after Gaga and Taylor Kinney called off their engagement. (EXPRESS)

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In an interview on HBO’s “The Shop,” Drake admitted that he wanted to start a family with Rihanna.

“As life takes shape and teaches you your own lessons, I end up in this situation where I don’t have the fairy tale, like, ‘Oh, Drake started a family with Rihanna and this is like so perfect,’ ” he said. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Drake had a son, Adonis, with former adult-film star Sophie Brussaux. (EXPRESS)

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