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The next chapter New owners rescue a local bookstore that was facing extinction 3

In the year since they opened, bringing tolls as high as $47.50 with them, the I-66 Express Lanes have changed travel patterns in Northern Virginia — including in ways officials did not anticipate 8

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A man suspected of stealing a computer from a church was arrested after he demanded that a surveillance photo of him be removed from social media. Eric Martin Carnero was arrested last week over a theft at Calvary Chapel Three Crosses in Las Cruces, N.M. Police say Carnero stole a backpack with a laptop. The backpack’s owner posted images of the suspect on social media. Carnero responded and asked that his image be removed. (AP)

A man repeatedly screamed “there’s no Santa Claus” at a holiday festival in Florida. A woman shared footage of the man yelling Saturday night at the Cape Coral Festival of Lights. Police said they couldn’t stop him due to freedom of speech, though they could have if he’d used a megaphone or started a riot. Cindy Menkes of Cape Coral said it’s about decency and she’s sad “the magic of this time of year” was taken away from children. (AP)

An Irish woman has announced her split from her husband, the 300-year-old ghost of a Haitian pirate, the Irish Mirror reported Saturday.

Amanda Sparrow Large, 46, a Jack Sparrow impersonator, married her pirate ghost husband on a boat off the Irish coast early this year. “I will explain all in due course but for now all I want to say is be VERY careful when dabbling in spirituality,” Sparrow Large said. (EXPRESS)

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A bookstore’s next chapter THE DISTRICT When he opened his used-book shop 37 years ago in Washington’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, Jacques Morgan vowed to remain in business forever, a promise he kept until he died of cancer in 2012.

His widow, Val Morgan, has kept Idle Time Books open since then, even as she has freely acknowledged a more tenuous commitment to an eternal life of selling well-thumbed copies of “The Great Gatsby.”

Yet, even as she has longed for retirement, Morgan, who is turning 68 this month, has insisted that she would only sell her four-story building to someone promising to keep selling books.

“I wasn’t going to be the one to close it down for my own selfish reasons,” Morgan said in her native New Zealand accent last week. “I didn’t want to rip the heart out of the neighborhood.”

In November, after years of rejecting potential buyers who preferred her real estate to her first-edition copies of Jack Kerouac novels, Morgan found a man whom she refers to as “the bookstore savior.”

His name is Scott Spector, a real estate executive who, by his button-down appearance, does not possess the playfully contrarian ethos embraced by the shop’s founders, who delighted in banning the use of cellphones in their store. Spector will purchase Morgan’s 40,000-title collection and commit to maintaining the bookstore in a neighborhood rife with bars, pizza joints and a burgeoning number of high-priced restaurants.

Spector, in a telephone interview, said he’s contemplating myriad changes, including selling new books along with the used and creating space for readings and lectures.

Spector and Morgan will settle their deal in early January, a few weeks after which Morgan says she will retire to New Zealand.

Her friends have expressed

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Nationals seek new Racing Presidents SALWAN GEORGES (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Idle Time Books in Adams Morgan is getting a new owner

Val Morgan is selling Idle Time Books, which she operated with her husband.

skepticism that the new owner will maintain the bookstore.

An unrepentant cynic herself, Morgan has decided to try her hand at optimism on this subject.

“Why the hell would he buy all these books unless he was going to keep the store?” she asked.

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agreed that the new owner will eventually change the shop’s name. Morgan wanted it that way because “Idle Time won’t be Idle Time if Jacques and I aren’t running it.”

“I can’t wait to find out what it’s going to be,” she said. PAUL SCHWARTZMAN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Ready to run for office? The Nationals have openings for the Racing Presidents, the big-headed team mascots who race during the fourth inning of Nats home games. According to the job application posted at teamworkonline.com, applicants must be able to run 200 yards while wearing a 50-pound costume, and take on the persona of the Racing President they embody.

Mascot experience is preferred, but not required. Applications to try out are due Saturday, and tryouts will be held on Jan. 6. (EXPRESS)

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Susan Bro, Heather Heyer’s mother, says her daughter was “full of love.”

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CHARLOTTESVILLE Jurors considering the punishment for a man who drove his car into counter-protesters during a white nationalist rally heard emotional testimony Monday from a mother who described the pain caused by her daughter’s death and a psychologist who described the man’s long history of mental health problems.

James Alex Fields Jr. faces up to life in prison for the death of Heather Heyer and injuries he caused to dozens of other counter-protesters.

Jurors deliberated on a sentencing recommendation for just under two hours Monday before adjourning. Deliberations will resume this morning.

Fields’ lawyers argued that he acted in self-defense and out of fear when he rammed his car into a crowd in Charlottesville during a “Unite the Right” rally on Aug. 12, 2017.

Prosecutors called Heyer’s mother and several people who were severely injured to testify about the impact his crimes had on them. Heyer, 32, was a paralegal and civil rights activist.

“She was full of love, she was full of justice, she was full of fairness, and Mr. Fields tried to silence that with his car, but I refuse to allow that,” said Susan Bro, Heyer’s mother.

Jurors on Friday convicted Fields of first-degree murder

CALLA KESSLER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Charlottesville victims share their stories as killer awaits sentence

James Fields was found guilty of murder for driving into counter-protesters.

and other charges. Judge Richard Moore will formally sentence Fields. Judges in Virginia often impose the sentence recommended by juries.

Under the law, the jury can recommend from 20 years to life in prison on the first-degree murder charge and each of five charges of aggravated malicious

wou nd i ng. He also faces five to 20 years on three counts of malicious wounding, and up to 10 years Fields on one count of leaving the scene of an accident.

Bro said her daughter’s death has been like “an explosion in

our family.”

“We are forever scarred by the pain,” she said.

Jeanne “Star” Peterson said her life has been “a living nightmare” since she was hit by Fields’ car.

Her right leg was shattered, and she’s had five surgeries to try to repair it. She also suffered a broken spine and hasn’t been able to return to work.

“I will be dealing with the aftermath of Fields’ choices for the rest of my life,” Peterson said.

Wednesday Bowie, a counter-protester who got caught on Fields’ car when he backed up and was then slammed into a truck and thrown to the ground, told the jury that in addition to a broken pelvis and other physical injuries, she has been hospitalized three times for post-traumatic stress disorder over the past year.

She told the jury: “Please know that the world is not a safe place with Mr. Fields in it.”

Testifying for the defense, University of Virginia School of Medicine professor and psychologist Daniel Murrie told the jury that while Fields was not legally insane at the time, he has a long history of mental health issues.

Murrie said Fields was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 6 and later with schizoid personality disorder. He said Fields went off his psychiatric medication at 18 and built an isolated “lifestyle centered around being alone.”

Fields is eligible for the death penalty if convicted of separate federal hate crime charges. No trial has been scheduled yet.

DENISE LAVOIE (AP)

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Invasive species spreads to region

In the year since the Asian longhorned tick was officially spotted in New Jersey, it has expanded to eight more states, including Virginia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the full public health and agricultural impact of the tick is yet unknown, but it can transmit diseases and cause massive infestations. The tick has also been spotted in Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. (AP)

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Man stabbed woman Saturday evening just blocks from Rosslyn Metro station, police say

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City to settle suit alleging ‘invasive’ police probe D.C. is settling a lawsuit with a black man who accused a Metro police officer of repeatedly probing his anal cavity during a weapons search. The ACLU said last week the city admits no wrongdoing and will pay an undisclosed amount to M.B. Cottingham. The ACLU and the 40-year-old Cottingham sued police in July over the September 2017 search by Officer Sean Lojacono, who denies inappropriately touching Cottingham. Video shows Lojacono repeatedly searching Cottingham’s groin area. No weapons were found. (AP) ANNAPOLIS

Naval Academy chapel renovations set to start Renovations of the United States Naval Academy’s iconic chapel dome will begin this winter. The Capital reports that the chapel will remain operational for services, funerals and weddings during the $8.9 million project.

Academy Chief of Staff Capt.

George Lang wrote in a memo to faculty and staff that new skylights will be installed on the dome, but it will retain its green patina and the same “iconic view that you see today.” Parts of the chapel will feature scaffolding through at least fall 2019. (AP) MARYLAND

Panel approves ban on most cannabis ads The panel governing medical cannabis in Maryland has imposed strict regulations that effectively ban advertising by marijuana companies. The new rules include bans on billboard, radio and TV advertising. Any internet ads must feature age-verification pages, and only print publications that can prove 85 percent of readers are above 18 can run ads. Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission spokeswoman Jennifer White said the new regulations mirror tobacco advertising restrictions. (AP)

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local The city-focused visit will instead take place at the White House BALTIMORE President Trump was supposed to travel to Baltimore on Wednesday for an event focused on redevelopment of urban areas.

But a White House official said Monday that the event will take place at the White House instead.

The pastor who invited the president, the Rev. Donte L. Hickman Sr., said he received a call Monday morning from

Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, informing him of the change in plans.

Hickman, pastor of Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore, said Trump was planning to sign an executive order addressing “opportunity zones” in cities.

Hickman said he was told “they wanted to stay closer to home for the rollout of the executive order” because of recent changes in the administration, including Trump’s announcement this weekend that chief of staff John Kelly would depart by year’s end.

The visit would have been

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Trump cancels first Baltimore trip

President Trump planned to make his first visit to Baltimore this week for an “opportunity zones” event.

Chief medical officer of the University of Maryland Medical System resigns after seven months on job

Trump’s first to Baltimore, an overwhelmingly Democratic city about 47 miles from the White House that the president has cited when talking about rising crime.

Hickman said he expected the event to include business leaders, community leaders and pastors.

But a spokesman for Mayor Catherine Pugh, D, said Monday that she did not have the meeting on her calendar. Gov. Larry Hogan — a Republican who has distanced himself from Trump — was not planning to attend, his spokeswoman said Monday.

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Police: Young girl told to steal package by door A girl, estimated to be no older than 8, went to the front door of a house and stole a package as someone standing by instructed her, police in Harford County said. The alleged theft on Nov. 30 was caught on a home surveillance video and posted on Facebook by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office. It is unclear who the person watching her was, police said. In the Facebook post, the sheriff’s office wrote, “We always warn you about package Grinches this time of year, but it’s hard to believe that a Grinch decided to use Cindy Lou Who this year to steal packages!” (TWP)

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The toll of Virginia toll lanes TRANSPORTATION When the 66 Express Lanes opened a year ago, officials promised the tolls would mean a smoother ride on an interstate infamous for its congestion.

The state’s promise — less congestion and faster travel times during rush hour — has been fulfilled for many commuters able to pay or carpool, but the new toll system has had an adverse effect for many of the remaining road users.

For some commuters, the rushhour period has simply shifted later — outside the toll hours — and dumped them onto an interstate just as gridlocked as before. Some alternative routes have experienced more congestion from bailout traffic from motorists seeking to avoid the toll, and other commuters have longer trips into the city on Metro or have abandoned efforts to use transit because of inadequate facilities, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from state and local governments and transit agencies and interviews with commuters.

The new toll lanes have prompted motorists to alter their commute times and routes, data show, while yielding tolls as high as $47.50 — some of the highest per mile in the country.

“Would most people in the corridor say their commutes have improved? I don’t think so,” said Loudoun County Supervisor Ron Meyer, R-Broad Run. “This tolling system has just made driving impossible and not affordable.”

The expanded rush hours introduced with the toll system mean commuters who used to take I-66 during non-HOV hours before the toll system now have less leeway to wait for the restrictions to lift and still make it to work on time.

The thousands of hybrid-vehicle

DAYNA SMITH (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

Year-old I-66 Express has caused shifts for many commuters, but not necessarily in ways officials hoped

Commuters wait in morning rush-hour traffic Friday on I-66 inside the Beltway.

By the numbers After opening a year ago, the 66 Express Lanes have brought major changes for Virginia commuters. Here are some numbers behind the tolls. (TWP)

$13.09 $35.50 $25.3M The average Express Lane round-trip price.

Fewer than 1 percent of users have paid tolls of $40 or higher, according to VDOT.

The average toll paid during the peak of the rush at 8:30 a.m. The toll fluctuates based on traffic and has been as high as $47.50.

The amount the Express Lanes are projected to generate in fiscal year 2019, according to VDOT’s budget.

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The average Express Lane speed, in mph, during morning rush hour since the tolls took effect. That’s up from 43.8 mph before the tolls.

The drop in the number of vehicles entering the roadway at 5 a.m.

It fluctuates, but that’s about 12,000 fewer vehicles each month during the workweek.

owners who were allowed to use the HOV-2 lanes free, even if solo, can no longer do so unless they want to pay the tolls. Commuters willing to pay to use the lanes have been shocked by the high tolls, which average $35.50

The increase since January in the number of vehicles carrying two or more people on I-66 inside the Beltway during tolling hours.

during the peak of the rush at 8:30 a.m., data show.

“It is ridiculous,” Krishna Komaragiri of Ashburn said one recent morning as he sat in his car parked on the shoulder of the Dulles Access Road waiting for

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the toll period to expire. “Who is going to pay that?”

The system is designed so tolls fluctuate to maintain a minimum average speed of 55 mph. As traffic increases, the toll rises to help manage the number of vehicles entering the roadway. There is no cap on the tolls, which change every six minutes. (As Komaragiri sat waiting, the toll to Washington at 9 a.m. was $20.) Motorcycles and vehicles carrying two or more people use the lanes free.

Komaragiri tries to time his commute strategically to make it to I-66 at 9:30 a.m., when the morning toll hours end. If he is a few minutes early, he waits on the shoulder, risking a $30 fine plus $66 in court costs and three points on his driver’s license.

The Virginia State Police says it’s a risk too many commuters are taking.

The 10 miles of rush-hour, peak-direction toll lanes between the Capital Beltway and the District line are thought to be the only such system in the country.

State officials said the goal was to move more people and enhance mobility through the corridor.

As part of the program, rushhour periods were extended 90 minutes. The tolls are in effect from 5:30 to 9:30 a.m. eastbound and 3 to 7 p.m. westbound, Monday through Friday — an expansion of the toll window with an earlier start and a later end.

State transportation officials say there are indications the tolls are doing exactly what they were designed to do.

More commuters are carpooling, which has taken some vehicles off the road, they say.

The number of vehicles traveling with two or more people on I-66 inside the Beltway during tolling hours has increased 25 percent since January, to about 15,000 from about 12,000, according to the VDOT report. However, the majority of road users are still solo drivers who are paying tolls.

In addition, Metro ridership is up at some stations in or near the corridor and on some buses that travel through it.

A month after the tolls began, data showed, the total number of riders taking Metro in the morning increased slightly. By June, ridership at the West Falls Church and East Falls Church stations was up an average of 200 riders, or 5 percent, according to data from Metro. The increase represents the highest average ridership at the stations — both along I-66 — in at least two years, though it’s unclear whether it can be tied directly to the tolls.

“All of the arrows are headed in the right direction,” Fairfax County Transportation Director Tom Biesiadny said. “There are people who are now paying and people who are turning to transit or ride-sharing. The institution of the tolls has resulted in people changing their travel patterns.” LUZ LAZO AND JOHN D. HARDEN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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FRANCE President Emmanuel Macron broke his silence Monday on the exceptional protests shaking France and his presidency, promising broad tax relief for struggling workers and pensioners — and acknowledging his own responsibility in fueling the nation’s anger.

Macron pleaded during a brief televised address for a return to calm after almost four weeks of protests that started in neglected provinces to oppose fuel tax increases and progressed to rioting in Paris.

“We are at a historic moment for our country,” the French leader said. “We will not resume the normal course of our lives” after all that has happened.

Protesters spent days demanding that Macron speak publicly about their concerns, but it’s unclear whether the responses he offered will be enough to quell the dissatisfaction. Some protest representatives have said more demonstrations will be held Saturday, following the ones in Paris that turned violent during the previous two weekends.

Macron declared an “economic and social state of emergency,” ordering the government and parliament to take immediate steps to change tax rules and

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President Macron tells TV viewers that France is at a “historic moment.”

other policies that hit the wallets of working-class French people.

He responded to several of the protesters’ demands, promising measures that included a government-funded 100-euro monthly increase in the minimum wage starting at the beginning of the new year and the abolition of taxes on overtime pay in 2019.

Macron also asked that profitmaking companies give workers tax-free year-end bonuses “I take my share of responsibility” for the anger gripping France, Macron said. “I might have hurt people with my words.”

Macron denounced the protestassociated violence that led to hundreds of injuries, more than

1,000 arrests and the ransacking of stores in some of Paris’ richest neighborhoods. Authorities will show “no indulgence” to those behind the vandalism and rioting, he said.

Before his TV speech, Macron met with local and national politicians and with union and business leaders to hear their concerns — but with no representatives of the scattered, leaderless protest movement.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned that fallout from the protests so far could cost France 0.1 percent of gross domestic product in the last quarter of the year. SYLVIE CORBET AND ANGELA CHARLTON (AP)

Panama’s tungara frogs take advantage of a relative absence of predators in cities, belting out mating calls faster, more frequently and with more embellishments than their forest-dwelling counterparts, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. The fancy urban love songs are three times more likely to attract females, scientists learned by playing recordings of city and forest frog calls to females in the lab. City and forest frogs both preferred fast-paced, complex crooning that combines high and low tones that likely stimulate the inner and outer ear chambers of female frogs in a pleasurable way. But in the forest, those flourishes may attract trouble from frog-eating bats and parasitic midges. (AP)

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The share of millennials who ranked being able to retire as a top priority, according to Bank of America’s 2018 Fall Homebuyer Insights Report. The study found that 72 percent said homeownership was important to them, with marriage and children as priorities for only 50 percent and 44 percent, respectively. The high cost of renting and increasing mortgage interest rates are motivating millennials to jump into the market as single home-buyers, rather than waiting to buy a home with a partner or spouse. (THE WASHINGTON POST) Florida officials say 6,670 ballots were not counted in the midterms because they were mailed too late

A Chinese tech executive facing U.S. fraud charges related to alleged violations of Meng Iran sanctions requested bail Monday in Vancouver, citing health issues.

Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Huawei Technologies, contended that she should be released because she is in poor health and was unlikely to flee due to close ties to the city. The judge didn’t rule Monday. (TWP) POLITICS

Democrats to offer $1.3B to fund a border fence Democratic leaders plan to offer President Trump $1.3 billion in funding for a border fence when they meet today at the White House, a bid far short of the $5 billion Trump is demanding to fund a border wall. Democrats, Republicans and the White House have until Dec. 21 to reach a budget deal and avert a partial government shutdown. (TWP) ARMENIA

New prime minister’s bloc wins majority A bloc led by Armenia’s relatively new prime minister trounced its political foes and won an overwhelming parliamentary majority, according to results released Monday. Nikol Pashinian’s My Step bloc won over 70 percent of the vote in Sunday’s early election. (AP) BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

39 babies have superbug at maternity hospital The number of babies diagnosed with drug-resistant superbug Staphylococcus aureus at a maternity hospital in Romania’s capital has risen to 39, authorities said Monday.

Health Minister Sorina Pintea said she will decide later this week whether to keep Giulesti Maternity hospital closed. (AP)

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Iraq marks victory over ISIS A year after defeating terrorist group, country grapples with its legacy

Groups protest at U.S. event to tout fossil fuels MOHAMMED SAWAF (AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

IRAQ Iraq began removing cement walls from areas surrounding the capital’s most fortified enclave Monday, opening parts of the so-called Green Zone to traffic in a symbolic move coinciding with nationwide celebrations marking the anniversary of the country’s costly victory over the Islamic State group.

The partial reopening of parts of the high-security area is meant to portray increased confidence in the country’s overall security situation and is also being billed as an act of transparency following protests against corruption and poor public services.

The partial reopening of some side streets had been repeatedly delayed and then timed to coincide with the one-year anniversary of Iraq’s victory over ISIS. The group has lost virtually all the territory it once held but still carries out sporadic attacks to hang on to its last enclave in Syria near the Iraqi border.

The government declared victory last December after a grueling three-year war in which tens of thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Entire towns and neighborhoods were reduced to

Iraqi paramilitary forces parade Monday in Karbala to mark the one-year anniversary of the victory over ISIS.

rubble in the fighting.

The government declared Monday a national holiday, and a moment of silence was held at midday. Checkpoints in the capital were decorated with Iraqi flags and balloons, as security forces patrolled the streets playing patriotic music.

“That victory and the relative stability in security is a golden opportunity for the government to rebuild the country and to meet the needs of its people,” said Sameer al-Obaidi, who led an initiative in the capital’s Sunni-dominated northern Azamiyah neighborhood to distribute flowers to security forces at checkpoints.

The celebrations came as political infighting has hindered the formation of the government and setting next year’s budget, amid a deteriorating economic situation as the country grapples with the legacy of the extremist group’s brutal rule.

More than 1.8 million Iraqis remain displaced across the country, and 8 million require some form of humanitarian aid, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council. Those with suspected links to ISIS have been rejected by their communities, while thousands of children fathered by ISIS militants — including those born to enslaved Yazidi women — are

still unrecognized by the state.

Nearly two-thirds of displaced people say they are unwilling or unable to return home in the next year, with more than half saying their homes were damaged or destroyed, according to the aid group.

“If this is what ‘victory’ looks like, then there is little to celebrate for millions of Iraqis still haunted by the crimes of the [ISIS] and the long war to eliminate it,” said Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland.

“They have largely been forgotten by their own government and the international community.” SINAN SALAHEDDIN (AP)

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The chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus told Politico that “serving as chief of staff would be an incredible honor.” Meadows, R-N.C., is one of Trump’s closest allies on Capitol Hill.

A person familiar with the Treasury secretary’s thinking said he was happy with his work and had not sought the job.

Even so, CNBC reported that some of Trump’s family members are pushing for Mnuchin for chief of staff.

The budget director is in the mix, but a person close to him who spoke on the condition of anonymity said Mulvaney would be more interested in becoming Commerce or Treasury secretary if that would be helpful to Trump.

A White House official said that, while the Trump likes the U.S. Trade Representative, he is reluctant to move him from his current post because of ongoing highstakes trade negotiations.

President Trump is considering at least four people for his next chief of staff after frontrunner Nick Ayers declined an offer to replace John Kelly. (AP)

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KATOWICE, POLAND Protesters disrupted a U.S. event at the United Nations climate talks Monday, criticizing the Trump administration’s policy of backing the extraction of fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.

About 100 people from groups representing indigenous peoples and youth stood up and chanted, “Keep it in the ground!” near the beginning of the presentation. Some of the protesters explained how the extraction of coal, oil and natural gas affects their communities.

The U.S. event, titled “U.S. Innovative Technologies Spur Economic Dynamism,” took place on the sidelines of the ongoing U.N. meeting in Katowice. After several minutes, the activists left the room chanting, “Shame on you!”

Wells Griffith, a Trump administration adviser at the Department of Energy, said after the interruption that the United States would continue extracting fossil fuels, including through hydraulic fracking. Speaking at the event, Griffith warned against “alarmism” over climate change, adding that “all energy sources are important, and they will be utilized unapologetically.”

The panel’s premise — that fossil fuels can be made “clean” through innovation — stands at odds with recommendations from scientists who say countries should transition to renewable energy sources or risk catastrophic levels of global warming. FRANK JORDANS (AP)

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nation+world Prime minister says she will go back to EU to seek changes to deal LONDON Facing almost certain defeat, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday postponed a vote in Parliament on her Brexit deal, saying she would go back to European Union leaders to seek changes to the divorce agreement.

With EU officials adamant the withdrawal deal is not up for renegotiation, May’s move threw Britain’s Brexit plans into disarray, battered the pound and intensified the country’s political crisis.

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with departure just over three months away on March 29, the country does not know on what terms it will leave — and whether May will still be Britain’s leader when it does.

In an emergency statement to the House of Commons, May accepted that the divorce deal she struck last month with EU leaders was likely to be rejected “by a significant margin” if the vote were held today as planned.

May said she would defer the vote so she could seek “assurances” from the EU and bring the deal back to Parliament. She did not set a new date for the vote.

Lawmakers from the opposition — and from May’s Conservative Party — were incredulous.

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control of events and is in complete disarray,” said opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, a leading

pro-Brexit Conservative, expressed despair.

“It’s not really governing,” he said. “It’s just an awful muddle.”

Monday’s turmoil sent the pound to a 20-month low against the dollar of $1.2550.

It was a new blow for May, who became prime minister after Britain’s 2016 referendum decision to leave the EU. She insisted the agreement hammered out with the EU after a year and a half of negotiations was “the best deal that is negotiable.” But it has been scorned by lawmakers on all sides of Britain’s debate about Europe.

Derisive laughter erupted in the House of Commons when May claimed there was “broad support” for many aspects of the deal. JILL LAWLESS AND DANICA KIRKA (AP)

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RALEIGH, N.C. | Vehicles pass a stranded car Monday in the median of U.S. 1. A mix of ice and rain is expected to keep many roads slick today in parts of North Carolina, where at least three people have died and nearly 122,000 households remained without power as of Monday afternoon. Seven inches of snow fell in Raleigh on Sunday, and more than 670 collisions have been reported since the storm began, the Highway Patrol said.

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COURTS The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a high-profile case by rejecting appeals from Kansas and Louisiana in their effort to strip Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood, over the dissenting votes of three justices.

The court’s order reflected a split among its conservative justices and an accusation from Justice Clarence Thomas that his colleagues were ducking the case for political reasons. New Justice Brett Kavanaugh was among the justices who opted not to hear the case.

The two states were appealing lower court rulings that blocked them from withholding money that is used for health services for lowincome women. The money is not used for abortions. Abortion opponents have said Planned Parenthood should not receive any government money, and they seized on heavily edited videos that claimed to show the organization profiting from sales of fetal tissue for research.

The issue is who has the right to challenge a state’s Medicaid funding decisions — private individuals or only the federal government. The states say that the Medicaid program makes clear that only the Secretary of Health and Human Services can intervene. Most lower federal courts have found that private parties can challenge Medicaid funding decisions in court.

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Fires give rise to ‘Angels’ Group helps people connect with family and friends displaced by deadly Calif. blaze

Diana Sauer holds a photo of herself as a baby with her father and his best friend Russell Anderson, left, who was displaced by the wildfire.

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CALIFORNIA They have become known as the Angels of Paradise. But there is nothing ethereal about them.

They are online sleuths who know how to find people, and they have been putting their skills to use in the aftermath of California’s catastrophic wildfire.

In the dark days that followed the Nov. 8 inferno, the deadliest in California history, social media filled with posts from people trying to contact loved ones from the Paradise area.

Panic spread as the magnitude of destruction came into focus: At least 85 dead. Nearly 14,000 homes destroyed. From across the U.S., people posted names of distant relatives and long-lost friends and asked, “Does anyone know if they are safe?”

Nancy Collins knew she could help. A mother of two and a 911 dispatcher, Collins volunteers as a “search angel,” someone who helps adoptees find their biological parents. She offered her services to the administrator of a newly created Facebook page, “Camp Fire Missing Persons, Paradise CA,” after noticing panicked posts were piling up.

“I said, ‘I have a bunch of genealogy friends, and we can help,’ ” said Collins, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and formed a team of eight “angels” who volunteer with a group called Search Squad. “The rest was history.”

In the four weeks since the fire started, the search angels have connected nearly 250 people with the relatives and friends they were searching for. They are one of several missing persons groups that sprung up on Facebook with the intention of helping strangers in a time of need.

Delisa Gaeta, 55, was concerned about her foster father, whom she hadn’t seen in years.

Dawn Kosmakos, left, and Nancy Collins volunteer as “search angels” to help people locate the family members and friends they are looking for.

“I threw a lifeline out there, and they grabbed hold of it and reeled it in,” she said.

At first, Gaeta didn’t know if her foster father, Dale Wingett, had made it out of his Paradise home alive. Then she saw his picture in a local newspaper at a Thanksgiving dinner for survivors in the Northern California

city of Redding. Gaeta desperately wanted to speak to Wingett and see if he needed help.

“It became a group project,” said Dawn Kosmakos, a search angel from Martinez, Calif. “It was like, ‘OK, girls. Let’s find him!’ ” They found out Wingett had left Redding and was heading about 80 miles south to Willows.

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“We called every hotel in Willows and said, ‘If he checks in, can you give him this message?’” said Collins, and that’s how they found him. Wingett got the message, called them back, got Gaeta’s number and called her.

“We have had really moving talks,” Wingett said. “She told me that even though I was her foster father, to her I was her father.

That hit me pretty strongly.”

Gaeta said the search angels “gave me the best Christmas gift.”

Diana Sauer, 39, feels a similar sense of gratitude to the angels.

“I owe them everything,” said Sauer, who was worried about her father’s best friend, Russell Anderson. “I don’t think I would have found him without them.”

Anderson is 70 and lived simply, she said, with no cellphone or internet. Sauer knew Anderson had no children but was close with his ex-wife’s daughter, Charmaine. She did not know Charmaine’s last name, but the angels found her.

“They ended up finding Charmaine’s marriage record, then they found birth records showing she had children,” she said. “They found her children on Facebook and asked, ‘Do you know Russell, and is he with you?’”

The answer was yes. Sauer spoke to Anderson on the phone for 40 minutes, and caught him up on her life. They hadn’t spoken in 15 years.

She said: “It was a very sweet conversation between two people that love each other and haven’t seen each other in a long time.”

Several people that Collins’ group tracked down appeared on the official list of people unaccounted for after the fire.

That list, managed by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, is down to six names from a high of 1,300 last month. JOCELYN GECKER (AP)

Alleged Russian agent poised to plead guilty COURTS Maria Butina, a Russian gun rights activist, is poised to plead guilty in a case involving accusations that she was working as an agent for the Kremlin in the United States, according to a new court filing.

Federal prosecutors and attorneys for Butina jointly requested in court documents Monday that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan set a time for Butina to withdraw her previous plea of not guilty.

“The parties have resolved this matter,” Butina’s attorneys and D.C.-based prosecutors wrote in their joint filing.

Chutkan said she would hear the matter Wednesday.

A plea is not final until it is entered in court and accepted by a judge. Butina, 30, was accused of working to push the Kremlin’s agenda by forming bonds with National Rifle Association officials and other conservative leaders and conducting outreach to 2016 presidential candidates.

Prosecutors said that her goal was to advance the foreign policy aims of the Kremlin and that she was acting at the direction of a Russian government official, Alexander Torshin, a former senator who until last month served as deputy director of the Russian central bank. The U.S. government imposed sanctions on Torshin earlier this year.

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Coach Jay Gruden’s club has been beset by injuries but also showed little fight Sunday.

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Mass exits likely: Redskins assure offseason exodus

Now hear it from us.

The Redskins surrendered their season, stadium and stability. A final push for the playoffs quickly vanished.

Now, the only push will be of coaches and players out the door at season’s end.

Washington was clearly outmanned in losing its fourth straight game Sunday. A 6-3 start and two-game lead in the NFC East that made the playoffs seem like a given were erased in the past month.

But even worse, a 34-0 halftime deficit in Sunday’s 40-16 loss to the terrible Giants (5-8)

sent thousands of Redskins fans to the parking lots.

There were maybe 30,000 fans on hand at kickoff. Most of those remaining in the stands for the second half formed a sea of blue chanting for the visitors.

The franchise is broken.

If players don’t care how embarrassing they’ve looked the past four weeks, fans are no longer coming to FedEx Field to remind them. Few boos taunted the Redskins.

That would require people who cared. Washington’s two late scores brought only mock cheers.

It was supposed to be a game

of second chances. Mark Sanchez was given an opportunity to resurrect his career after the Redskins lost their top two passers in a 16-day span.

Instead, Sanchez was soon replaced by Josh Johnson, who arrived only days earlier.

Johnson, throwing his first pass since 2011, actually connected on a 12-yarder and, soon after, a career-best 79yard TD. Johnson will become the Redskins’ 28th starting quarterback since 1993, and a team-record fourth this season.

After an offseason in which the Redskins didn’t re-sign Kirk Cousins — who started 49 of 49 games in three years — the team has played four passers in four weeks.

And yet coach Jay Gruden, who admitted, “My job is in jeopardy every week,” talks up good practices despite reports of players whining about working in full pads.

Gruden defended the team’s preparation, saying good practices don’t always lead to good

play. When pressed Sunday, he showed a rare moment of mild anger, complaining about injuries that have left no one on the offense unscathed.

Everything smelled of desperation. The players knew beating New York was a must.

They did so easily, 20-13, on Oct. 28. But those were the good old days that didn’t survive midseason. The players showed the same lifelessness of past late-season games.

“Guys were excited coming off a disappointing game against Philadelphia,” linebacker Ryan Kerrigan said.

“We knew if we won this one, we’d be right back in it. But we didn’t.”

Not by a long shot. The Redskins simply showed that the last three games, beginning Sunday in Jacksonville, will be a funeral march. A farewell tour for many.

Goodbye and good riddance.

Agent Scott Boras, below, is seeking a blockbuster deal for free agent Bryce Harper at the winter meetings that began Monday. USA Today spoke with Boras about some highlights of his strategy. (EXPRESS)

3 LeBron comparisons Boras markets Harper as a LeBron James-like icon who can turbo-charge the value of a franchise. Boras notes that each was a rookie of the year and MVP before age 25.

2 Queries go both ways Some teams already have made a pitch, and the meetings can last up to 10 hours. Club execs say Harper is pushing teams to convince him they are ready to win.

1 The book on Bryce To help his case, Boras gives teams a 118-page, stat-laden handbook. For example, it says Harper has out-homered Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth at the same age.

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Baines has bonds with Hall voters Harold Baines, who was surprisingly voted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday by the 16-member Today’s Game Era Committee, has close bonds with at least two of the voters. Baines, a DH and outfielder who notched 2,866 hits but got meager support in previous voting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, spent his first 10 of 22 seasons with the White Sox and now is an ambassador for the club.

The committee included Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf and Baines’ first MLB manager, Tony La Russa. Sabermetrics advocate Rob Neyer tweeted that the election of Baines and reliever Lee Smith on Sunday and Jack Morris last year was “fully intended by voters to troll everyone who believes in objective analysis.” (AP/EXPRESS)

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Defense spurred the Maryland men’s soccer team to its fourth NCAA title Sunday night with a 1-0 win over Akron in Santa Barbara, Calif. Senior midfielder Amar Sejdic gave the Terps their margin of victory when he converted a penalty in the 57th minute after Johannes Bergmann was unintentionally kicked in the face. Junior goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair came up with a big save for the Terps in the 35th minute, and chippy play got the best of the Zips in the second half. The title is Maryland’s third under coach Sasho Cirovski and the first since 2008. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

The U.S. Olympic Committee fired chief of sport performance Alan Ashley in the wake of an independent report released Monday that said neither he nor former CEO Scott Blackmun elevated concerns about the Larry Nassar sexual abuse allegations when they were first reported to them by USA Gymnastics. The report says the USOC took no action between hearing of the claims in July 2015 and September 2016, when the Indianapolis Star published an account of Nassar’s sex abuse. The report says the lack of action allowed Nassar to abuse dozens more girls. (AP)

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Forward T.J. Oshie, out since Nov. 14 with a concussion, practiced Monday and could return to the lineup tonight against the Red Wings.

“I’ve been hoping to play for a week,” said Oshie, who skated last week with strength and conditioning coach Mark Nemish while the Caps were on the road.

Oshie has missed 11 games since being thrown to the ice

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“It’s frustrating,” said Oshie, who has nine goals and 14 points in 18 games this season. “I feel like each time it gets more and more frustrating. But I stuck with it. I had some good workouts and skates.”

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6 ways to avoid germs The holidays are upon us, and with them all sorts of celebrations that involve food and drinks. Unfortunately, a number of seemingly innocuous food-related habits — such as looking at a menu, sharing a bite with a friend or double-dipping that carrot stick — can spread disease, as we learned through the many germ-laden experiments we conducted for our new book, “Did You Just Eat That?”

Cherish your friends over the holidays

Other than wearing gloves and masks wherever you venture, what’s a partygoer to do? If you want to stay healthy over the holidays, here are six situations to avoid. PAUL DAWSON AND BRIAN SHELDON (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

Using hand air dryers

Requesting ice and lemons

Will any of your holiday celebrations coincide with someone’s birthday? If so, you might want to politely decline a slice of cake: Our studies showed that blowing out birthday candles can transfer oral bacteria to the cake surface. In our experiments, nearly 3,000 more bacteria — and as many as 37,000 bacteria — were recovered from the surface of birthday cakes after the candles were blown out, compared with control cakes where candles remained lit.

If you’re in a public restroom, try to avoid the hand air dryers, which blow bacteria around along with the hot air (it is for this reason that they are not recommended for medical facilities by several organizations, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America). In our study, we found an average of more than 18,000 bacteria on restroom air dryers in grocery stores, and more than 2,000 in gas stations and on a college campus. Hand towels are your best option.

It’s rare for ice to be contaminated before freezing, but it can happen. What’s more likely is that bacteria and viruses will be transferred from hands touching your ice and lemon before they are plopped into your drink. We inoculated our test subjects’ hands with E. coli bacteria and then had them touch wet lemons or cubes of ice. The result? More than 6,000 E. coli bacteria were transferred to 100 percent of the wet lemons or ice cubes touched by test subjects’ hands.

Sharing food

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Psychologists have found that sharing food increases intimacy, but you are also sharing your oral microbes. We found that 70,000 more bacteria per milliliter were transferred to a bowl of broth from a spoon placed in the mouth than from a spoon not placed in the mouth.

The transfer population to rice via the mouth/ spoon route was 800,000 bacteria per gram of rice; more than 2 million bacteria per gram were transferred when using hands alone.

George Costanza of “Seinfeld” was wrong and Timmy was right! Double-dipping is like putting your whole mouth right in the dip. We found that on average, between 100 and 1,000 bacteria were transferred from the mouth to the dip by double-dipping a cracker. And, as you might expect, the thinner the dip, the more bacteria transferred from the mouth to the dip, because a greater volume of the thinner dip drops from the cracker back into the bowl.

Bacteria and other microorganisms are on nearly every surface around you, particularly menus, which are touched many times by staffers and customers with unknown hygiene habits. In our study, we detected more than 2,000 bacteria on 6-inch-square samplings of 108 randomly sampled restaurant menus. In another study, we found from 1 to 32 percent of the E. coli bacteria that we had inoculated on menus were transferred to our participants’ hands.

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For many of us, especially those without family nearby, spending time with friends can be a meaningful way to celebrate the holidays.

As fewer people opt for marriage, friendships have become more than social relationships: Friends are proxy families, and they may be better than the real ones. Researchers have found that these connections may be more beneficial to one’s health and well-being than family. And at a time when loneliness has become a public health crisis, with young adults saying they feel lonelier than older generations, investing in friendships pays off.

The Mayo Clinic says these bonds can help reduce stress, increase happiness and bolster confidence. With hectic schedules, finding time to nurture friendships can be challenging. But the holidays provide opportunities to renew these relationships.

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Fifteen years together and I am looking at apartments.

It’s of course true that she is an adult and can do what she wants. Including poisoning her marriage. Now, sloppiness that is a change from the norm is often indicative of depression or anxiety. So might it be useful to frame this as a different conversation altogether? Not “Put your godforsaken cottagecheese-encrusted bowl in the darn sink for once” but “What’s really going on here? You don’t

seem to care about the things you used to.” The latter is especially appropriate given that she is lashing out at you (or so it appears). Right now, you’re not communicating effectively with each other, no matter where she throws her socks.

So, does she want to work on improving the situation? And is she willing to consider couples counseling, to keep you from considering your own place?

sounding board for my friend “Kathy” and her horrible work environment. Over the past few months, I have gotten to know her co-worker “Sarah,” who has made it clear that Kathy is biased, and that the supposedly toxic boss is not toxic at all. I’m frustrated that I was so sympathetic, but I don’t want to betray Sarah by telling Kathy what she’s said.

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Let God Share His Christmas Presence with You! Well, we don’t know whether Sarah is the biased yin to Kathy’s biased yang. It’s likely that neither has a completely objective lens (who does?), so let’s redefine your role. You are neither the Judge Mathis of workplace grievances nor the fixer of Kathy’s problems; your role as a friend is to listen and offer support. And part of that support can be as a gentle devil’s advocate — which was your right regardless of Sarah.

So, the next time Kathy brings up something that sounds potentially distorted, you need not be armed with evidence from Sarah in order to offer an alternative viewpoint. Just do it. “Might there be an alternative explanation for that?” “It seems this has been a problem for a long time — are there new ways of approaching it that we should be thinking about?”

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This year’s Grammy nominations, which the Recording Academy announced Friday, are the usual mix of predictable and confounding. While some revolutionary artists (e.g., Kendrick Lamar) were recognized in several categories, other record-smashing performers (e.g., Taylor Swift) didn’t fare so well. The show will air Feb. 10 on CBS. For those who would rather not scroll through a list of 84

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‘Shallow’ is braced for a big season

‘Black Panther’ swept the major categories

Taylor Swift only got one nomination

Mac Miller earned a posthumous nod

At least the ‘APES---’ video got some love

We just keep wanting to take another look at “Shallow,” the show-stopping song featured in “A Star Is Born.” On Thursday, the song — co-written by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga — received a Golden Globe nomination for best original song. It’s also up for both record and song of the year at the Grammys, in addition to landing in the best pop duo/group performance category. It’s a safe bet that the song will clinch an Oscar nomination for best original song as well.

“Black Panther” earned nominations in the Grammys’ most prestigious categories: album of the year, song of the year and record of the year. “All the Stars,” the album’s lead single featuring Lamar and SZA, is up for song and record of the year, in addition to being among the nominees for best rap/ sung performance.

“King’s Dead,” which features Lamar, Jay Rock, Future and James Blake, received a nod in the best rap song and best rap performance categories.

Swift has twice won album of the year and usually does quite well at the Grammys, but “Reputation,” arguably her most divisive album yet, received a single nomination: best pop vocal album. Fans had expected the album, or even the single “Delicate,” to land nominations in the main categories. But Swift will be just fine. For all the criticism it received, “Reputation” sold 1.2 million copies in its first week in the United States and went on to become the best-selling album of 2017.

The rapper, who died in September at age 26, got his first-ever Grammy nomination. His album, “Swimming,” released in August, landed in the category for best rap album, alongside projects from Cardi B, Nipsey Hussle, Pusha T and Travis Scott. Chris Cornell, the late Soundgarden frontman, also received a posthumous nomination — in the best rock performance category — for “When Bad Does Good,” a song that was released by his estate in September.

One could argue that both JAY-Z and Beyonce were snubbed this year in the lead musical categories (“Everything Is Love” was nominated for best urban contemporary album, and the Carters also got a nod in the R&B performance category), but they did land in the running for music video of the year with “APES---,” their stunning tour of the Louvre. Of course, they’ll face steep competition from Childish Gambino, whose video for “This Is America,” not surprisingly, also landed a nomination.

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Deadline: Jodie Foster to direct, star in thriller “Woman at War”

BOOK REVIEW Anuradha Roy’s debut novel, “An Atlas of Impossible Longing,” established her as one of India’s most celebrated fiction writers.

That story, about the pains of family life, determined the center of the novels she has gone on to publish, including “The Folded Earth” and “Sleeping on Jupiter.”

“All the Lives We Never Lived,” her novel released Nov. 27, is once again filled with impossible longing. Her narrator, nicknamed Myshkin, confesses to a life sapped by his mother’s disappearance. He has avoided friends and lovers, and he still lives in the house where he was unhappily raised.

The story develops along two intermingled paths. On one, Myshkin re-creates his childhood in the early 1930s in India under British rule. There’s also the contemporary story of Myshkin as an old man, learning to realize the limits of his understanding.

“All the Lives We Never Lived” begins in such intimate, private pain, but as Myshkin’s sympathies expand, so does the novel’s scope. “The roots of trees go deep,” Myshkin writes, “and take many directions, we cannot foresee their subterranean spread any more than we can predict how a child will grow.”

That metaphor is an apt description of Roy’s work, too.

Even more captivating than the turns of this plot is the way she reaches into the depths of melancholy but never sinks into despair. RON CHARLES (TWP)

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) Someone may look to you for moral guidance today; if you give it, you’ll want to be sure that it’s based on something more than a whim.

TODAY: After a cold start in the 20s, sunshine helps most areas moderate to 40 to 45 degrees during the afternoon. There’s not much wind, so if you dress in warm layers, it should feel pretty nice out there. A second straight cold and clear night is expected as lows again range in the 20s across the region.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Your good ideas enable others to develop their own good ideas today. As one thing leads to another, you will want to remain in the top spot.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) What you know now is a good jumping off point, but you must be ready to learn more as you pursue a major personal goal.

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AVG. HIGH: 48 RECORD HIGH: 68 AVG. LOW: 33 RECORD LOW: 12 SUNRISE: 7:16 a.m. SUNSET: 4:46 p.m.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Those who need you are likely to make several demands on you today — but you are not in a position to help everyone.

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

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41 | 31

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) The

more you try to deny what is plain to everyone, the more likely you will be to lose credibility. Tell the truth today.

DAILY CODE

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1910: French inventor Georges Claude publicly displays his first neon lamp, consisting of two 38-foot-long tubes, at the Paris Expo.

1936: Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicates the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson; his brother, Prince Albert, became King George VI.

1972: Apollo 17’s lunar module lands on the moon with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt aboard; they become the last two men to date to step onto the lunar surface.

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ACROSS

41 All males

DOWN

1

Apex Treat horrifically

42 Overnight stopover

1

5

Kentucky sports legend

10 State of irritation

43 Security for a debt

2

Airplane’s wake

14 Take a gander

45 Blade sharpener

3

Not excessive

38 More than just voted for

15 Wicker furniture weaver

48 Secretive contracts, briefly

4

___ out a victory (barely won)

39 Military help from up high

16 Two-color cookie

50 Hope unit

5

Club over a king

40 One-page ads

17 Waterway since 7/4/1776?

51 Hills with only one scarp

6

Modified handkerchief

44 Gotham letters

20 “Bill and ___ Bogus Journey”

54 Kind of bran

7

Reverse an action

8

Crystal-ballers

46 Noisy disturbance

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Painter Max

47 Second viewing

21 Anatomical backs

55 Ozone layer depleter, briefly

22 “___ you being helped?”

56 Baseball offic.

10 Farming tool

57 More sick

11 Polished and suave

24 Aromatherapy setting

59 Hero’s next status 61 Rio Grande seafood entrees make it a ...?

28 Sheep sound

65 Pare or peel

29 Kenyan river

19 Made occur

66 Busy German city

31 Some bye earners

23 Tide’s weak action

32 Quick nosh

67 Presidential option

34 Tie-___ (promos)

68 Eye inflammation

35 Do a tailor’s task

69 Drops, as poundage 70 Old start with “while”

37 Tank type

52 Common balm ingredients

45 Ballroom floor marks

53 Kind of secret fund 58 Old World language 60 Half gainer, e.g.

62 Drain-opening liquid 63 Bonnet center?

64 Decay

MONDAY’S SOLUTION

12 Viewed as terrifying

26 Shocking bombshell

36 Boat salesperson’s cornball come-on?

49 Not quite puree

13 Lobbies 18 Sibilant “Ahem”

25 Water vessels 27 Circular staircase part 30 Invite through the door 33 Group’s tenets

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35 Largest city of Yemen

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people NEW ROMANCE?

Demi spotted with subject of next song

Why even bother with a wedding now?

Beyonce performed at a pre-wedding party for the daughter of India’s richest mogul. She sang “Crazy in Love” and Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” during the event Sunday in Udaipur, India.

Guests included Hillary Clinton and a host of Bollywood stars. Mukesh Ambani’s daughter, Isha, is marrying Anand Piramal on Wednesday.

Beyonce posted a photo on Instagram of one of her outfits. (AP)

Demi Lovato and clothing designer Henry Levy were photographed on Saturday by E! News kissing outside a restaurant in Malibu. The pair were then seen holding hands as they walked to their car. The two have yet to confirm their relationship, although a source told E! News two weeks ago that they were just friends and Levy was “serving as her sober companion.” “They spend a huge amount of time together but Demi is not focused on dating,” the source said. “Demi is very focused on her health.”

Lovato and Levy were first seen together last month outside a Beverly Hills restaurant, shortly after the singer completed her rehab treatment. (EXPRESS)

She’s not like a regular mom, she’s a cool mom

One less Christmas gift Meghan needs to buy

In an interview published Sunday in British outlet The Sun, Miley Cyrus admitted that her mother, Tish Cyrus, is the reason why she’s begun smoking marijuana again. “My mom got me back on it,” she told the tabloid. “When I’m just working, I don’t think I function at my highest, most intelligent, most being-ableto-be-as-aware-and-as-present.”

For the second time since Meghan Markle’s wedding to Prince Harry in May, a key palace aide has quit their position, the Sunday Times reported over the weekend. The couple’s interim private secretary, Samantha “The Panther” Cohen, declined an offer to make her job permanent at the Kensington Palace. Cohen “has let it be known that she intends to leave after Meghan’s baby is born next spring,” the Times reported. (EXPRESS)

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