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In a televised Oval Office clash, Trump tells Pelosi and Schumer to fund a wall along the Mexican border or he’ll shut down the government 11

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Police in Monmouth, N.J., have given $3 to the person who found it 14 years ago. Paige Woodie was 12 when she and a friend discovered the cash and turned it in to police in 2004. Sgt. Jeff Godwin told the Asbury Park Press that people who turn in money are able to claim it within a reasonable amount of time if no one comes forward. The cash turned up during an audit and police “thought it had been long enough.� (AP)

An Arizona family is gaining attention for building a Christmas tree made of dead cactuses. The Arizona Republic reported that the Lancasters, in Mesa, recently completed their four-year quest to create a “Phoenix Christmas tree� made entirely from cholla cactus skeletons. Jeff Lancaster said he got the cactus pieces to build the tree from friends who work in construction. Cactus skeletons aren’t protected under the Arizona native plant law. (AP)

A man who’s been bowling for more than 90 years says he’s still trying to improve as he turns 105.

Tom Pisano bowls in the Monday and Wednesday leagues at AMF Empire Lanes in Webster, N.Y. League organizer Brad Larson says Pisano also stops by a couple other times a week. Larson says Pisano averages around 135 per game, but always talks about improving his scores. Pisano‘s birthday is today; he celebrated with his league friends. (AP)

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page three National Gallery names its first female director MUSEUMS For the first time in its 77-year history, the National Gallery of Art has chosen a woman as its next director.

Kaywin Feldman, director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, will succeed Earl “Rusty�

Powell III, who is retiring after 26 years in the post. He will stay on until she begins March 11.

Feldman, 52, has been the director and president of the Minneapolis Institute of Art since 2008. She is credited with doubling attendance at the museum, improving its digital reach and connecting to the community through initiatives on equity and social justice. Before Minneapolis, Feldman was director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee for eight years.

Feldman, who will be the

museum’s fifth director, said she is honored to be the first woman to lead the national institution. “I do believe it is indicative of a sea change, nationally and internationally,� Feldman said in an interview. “The trustees early on articulated their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. It’s something I care about.�

Feldman is inheriting an institution facing major challenges.

Although generously funded by the federal government, the National Gallery is plagued by management troubles that have resulted in high turnover and low staff morale. Its digital strategy trails those of its peers, attendance is stagnant and employees have alleged sexual harassment, retaliation and favoritism.

Feldman said she will spend her first months on the job meeting with staff, the community, trustees and others to “understand the values of the institution.�

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president of the National Gallery and co-chairman of the search committee, said Feldman’s track record of increasing visitors, both at the museum and online, appealed to the search committee.

In Minneapolis, Feldman launched a contemporary department and helped to expand the museum’s collection, including acquisitions by such acclaimed artists as Kehinde Wiley, Ai Weiwei and Georgia O’Keeffe.

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The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture announced Tuesday that starting in January, some form of walk-up entry will be available year-round.

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run consecutively, but that jurors could recommend concurrent sentences if they chose to.

They did not.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Joseph Platania spoke of the need to reject violence and hate.

He thanked the survivors of the attack for testifying about the pain and psychological trauma caused by the car attack.

“We are unable to heal their physical injuries or bring Heather back, but we are hopeful that they are able to take some measure of comfort and solace from these convictions and sentences,” Platania said.

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

Metro board members who represent D.C. will move this week to restore latenight service beginning in July, bringing back 3 a.m. closings for the first time in three years. Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans and board member Corbett A. Price said Tuesday they will use their jurisdictional veto Thursday to block a proposal from the transit agency seeking reauthorization of the early closings that were instituted to give more time to perform preventive maintenance. Without the reauthorization, Metro’s hours are set to automatically revert on July 1 to the system’s old schedule: 5 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday; 5 a.m. to 3 a.m.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE Jurors told a judge Tuesday that life in prison is appropriate for a man who rammed his car into counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally, capping a trial laced with the emotional testimony of survivors and troubling details of the self-proclaimed Hitler admirer’s long history of mental illness.

James Alex Fields Jr., 21, stood stoically with his hands folded in front of him as a court clerk read the verdict, which now must be taken under advisement by the judge, who will issue the final sentence. Judge Richard Moore scheduled a sentencing hearing for March 29.

The jury recommended a sentence of life for first-degree murder in the killing of Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal and activist, and also recommended a total of 419 years for his convictions on nine counts involving injuries Fields caused to others and for leaving the scene of the crash in Charlottesville last year.

Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, said she was satisfied with the jury’s recommendation, although she said her family and the survivors of the car attack will never be the same.

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Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, speaks Tuesday in Charlottesville after a jury recommended life plus 419 years for James Alex Fields Jr.

has him where he needs to be,” Bro said.

“My daughter is still not here and the other surFields vivors still have their wounds to deal with, so we’ve all been damaged permanently, but we do survive, we do move forward, we don’t stay in that dark place.”

Judges in Virginia often impose the sentence recommended by juries. Under state law, they can impose lower sentences than what the jury recommends, but cannot increase them.

Before issuing its recommendation, the jury asked Moore if the sentences would run consecutively or concurrently. He replied that sentences usually

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The amount Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said the state will spend on school construction over the next five years. Much of the money will be available as the result of a constitutional amendment Maryland voters approved last month. It requires the state’s portion of casino revenue set aside for education to be used to enhance spending on schools above current state funding formulas. Hogan estimated the proposal would create about 27,000 new construction jobs over the next five years. (AP)

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The University of Maryland’s journalism school has dedicated a memorial to the five Capital Gazette employees who were killed in an attack on the Annapolis newspaper’s office. Dozens of people gathered Tuesday for a ceremony dedicating the Capital Gazette Memorial Seminar Room at the university’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. A memorial on the wall includes photos of the five killed in the June 28 shooting: Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters. (AP) COLLEGE PARK, MD.

U-Md. to step up cleaning as adenovirus spreads A total of 30 cases of adenovirus have been confirmed at the University of Maryland, and university officials announced plans to intensify the dormitory cleaning program during winter break to help prevent additional infections. Of the 30 confirmed cases, eight of the students have been hospitalized. Officials said four cases have been confirmed of adenovirus 7, a particularly virulent strain of the virus. One Maryland student has died of what were reported to be adenovirus-related causes. (TWP) MARYLAND

Lawsuit filed over fatal Army helicopter crash The wife of an Army specialist killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Maryland last year and two other soldiers who were critically injured sued Sikorsky Aircraft on Monday, alleging the tail rotor system was defective. The wrongful death and product liability lawsuit was filed in Connecticut by Spc. Jeremy Tomlin’s wife, Jessica; Capt. Terikazu Onoda; and Chief Warrant Officer Christopher Nicholas. The suit seeks unspecified monetary damages.

The Black Hawk crashed in Leonardtown, Md., April 17, 2017, while on a training mission. (AP)

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President Trump said Tuesday he would shut down the government if he doesn’t get funding for the border wall.

Moving to freeze employee pay, slashing retirement benefits, sapping labor organizations and upsetting workplace missions is a disastrous recipe for employee morale. Mix those ingredients with nonstop revelations about an amoral boss, and it’s little wonder that the 2018 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government report shows a steep decline in federal employee engagement.

The report, released today by the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service and the Boston Consulting Group management consulting firm, shows engagement dropped at almost 60 percent of federal agencies.

“This represents a stark contrast to the previous three years when more than 70 percent of federal organizations experienced gains in how employees viewed their jobs

and workplace related issues,” according to the Partnership.

It began compiling the ratings in 2003. The 2018 report covers the first full year under the Trump administration and is a sharp reproach of its management at most agencies.

“We have a phenomenally mission-oriented workforce and it’s a workforce that is not getting the leadership that it needs to perform at its best,” said Max Stier, the Partnership’s president and chief executive.

That points directly at President Trump, who on Tuesday threatened a government shutdown “if we don’t get what we want” regarding funding for a border wall he promised Mexico would pay for.

“I am proud to shut down the government for border security,” he said.

What kind of leader is that?

The Office of Personnel Management at first issued a defensive statement in reaction to the report to reject

Stier’s comment about many agencies being “handicapped by a lack of leadership.”

But OPM later changed its response to this: “While it’s disappointing to see these results, we must redouble our efforts to engage and work collectively to solve problems and improve. The American people deserve a dedicated workforce that is focused on its mission, excellent customer service, and steadfast stewardship.”

Calling the Best Places report “the only report card we have on the executive branch and how it’s performing,” Stier urged Congress to have a hearing to examine agencies showing substantial declines.

One of those agencies is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which suffered a 25.2-point fall to 26th of 27 midsize agencies. It was tied for seventh last year.

“Best-in-class private-sector organizations understand that increased employee engagement leads to better performance and outcomes, and federal leaders need to follow suit,” Stier said. “Building a highly motivated and engaged workforce should be a top priority not only for the Trump administration but also the new Congress.”

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CLIMATE Over the past three decades of global warming, the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has declined by a stunning 95 percent, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card.

The finding suggests that the sea at the top of the world has already morphed into a new and very different state, with major implications not only for creatures such as walruses and polar bears, but in the long term, perhaps, for the pace of global warming itself.

The oldest ice can be thought of as a kind of glue that holds the Arctic together and that, through its relative permanence, helps keep the Arctic cold even in long summers.

If the Arctic begins to experience entirely ice-free summers, scientists say, the planet will warm even more, as the dark ocean water absorbs large amounts of solar heating that used to be deflected by the cover of ice.

The new findings point to a less noticed aspect of the dramatic changes occurring there. When it comes to the icy cap atop the Arctic Ocean, we tend to talk most often about its surface area — how much total ocean is covered by ice. That’s easily

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Scientists warn the Arctic trend toward younger ice could speed up the effects of climate change.

visible and the area is, indeed, in clear decline.

But the loss of old and thick ice, and the simultaneous decline in the total ice volume, are arguably a much bigger deal. Young and thin ice can regrow relatively quickly once the dark and cold winter sets in. But it may not add much stability or permanence to the Arctic sea ice system.

This process of reverse-aging of the Arctic’s ice, scientists say, is all headed to a crucial moment — when all of the ice in the Arctic will be thin and a year old or less. When that happens, we will be on the verge of a much feared milestone: an entirely ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer.

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That extra warming, explained Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a climate expert at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, could trigger other cascading effects, such as increasing losses of carbon from northern permafrost soil, or major damage to the Amazon rain forest. The additional heat would also melt snow cover over land in the Arctic, further driving up global temperatures as the darker land surface absorbs more incoming radiation.

A recent survey says Americans today are more likely to get news from social media sites than print newspapers. The Pew Research Center said Monday that 20 percent of Americans cited social media as a frequent news source, compared to 16 percent who credited newspapers. It’s the first time since 1991 — when it been asking about news consumption — that Pew has found sites like Facebook and Twitter outpacing newspapers.

The survey also found that 81 percent of people age 65 and over often get news from television, compared with only 16 percent of people aged 18 to 29 who do. (AP)

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The wage gap between Elizabeth Rowe, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s principal flute player, and John Ferrillo, the orchestra’s principal oboist. In July, Rowe filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the BSO seeking $200,000 in back pay. The BSO, in a statement, defended its pay structure, saying that the flute and oboe are not comparable.

This week, Rowe will enter mediation with the BSO aimed at resolving the conflict before it goes to court. (THE WASHINGTON POST) Russia: Putin says he only heard of Maria Butina, accused of spying for Moscow in the U.S., until after her arrest

Journalists get Time’s highest honors for 2018 MEDIA Time magazine named four journalists and a newspaper on Tuesday as its 2018 Person of the Year for what it said was standing up for the truth in the face of persecution and violence.

The group, which Time called “the guardians,” consists of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi; the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, above, where five staff members were shot to death at the newspaper’s offices in June; Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, who has been arrested; and Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who have been detained in Myanmar for nearly a year.

“They are representative of a broader fight by countless others around the world — as of Dec. 10, at least 52 journalists have been murdered in 2018 — who risk all to tell the story of our time,” editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal wrote in an essay.

Since 1927, Time has selected individuals or groups to appear on its cover for the end-of-theyear feature. This was the first time someone named was no longer alive. Those chosen this year will appear in four different cover photos.

President Trump, who was chosen Person of the Year in 2016, was runner-up.

“His ultimate impact may be determined as much by the resistance he engenders as by the goals he pursues,” the magazine said. SHAWN MARSH (AP)

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including hate speech only stand to intensify as lawmakers increasingly focus on how Silicon Valley operates.

GOP House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who helped orchestrate the hearing, opened

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A man opened fire in a cathedral in southern Brazil after Mass on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding four more before taking a bullet in the ribs in a firefight with police and then shooting himself in the head, authorities said. The shooting happened right after the midday service had ended at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Campinas, a city about 60 miles north of Sao Paulo. (AP)

The U.S. military said Tuesday that five missing crew members have been declared dead after a Marine KC-130 Hercules aircraft collided with an F/A-18 Hornet last week off Japan’s southern coast, and that search and recovery operations have ended after finding only one survivor. The pilot of the jet was also found but died. The cause of the crash is still under investigation, the Marines said. (AP)

with a rhetorical question: “Are America’s technology companies serving as instruments of freedom — or instruments of control?”

In response, frustrated Democrats led by Rep. Jerry Nadler called the premise of the hearing

part of a “right-wing conspiracy.”

Nadler said lawmakers should have focused on the ways the internet has become a “new tool for those seeking to stoke racial and ethnic hatred.”

Among Republicans, fears have grown that Google unevenly and unfairly applies its rules on what content to allow, and what to remove, especially on sites including YouTube. Other lawmakers — and Trump himself — have further alleged that Google rigs search results to display negative stories about them.

Lawmakers at times asked basic questions about how Google’s search engine works, and the ways in which the company’s Android smartphone operating system collects and takes advantage of a device owner’s location information.

Those lingering questions set the stage for further oversight as Democrats prepare to take over control of the House in 2019. Repeatedly, party lawmakers teased hearings on privacy, antitrust and online hate speech still to come.

“I look forward next year to working with you on some of the very serious questions we face,” said Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren. TONY ROMM AND CRAIG TIMBERG (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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WASHINGTON Google chief executive Sundar Pichai asserted in his first-ever testimony to Congress that the tech giant operates “without political bias.” But the hearing Tuesday devolved into a partisan struggle reflecting two differing viewpoints on how Silicon Valley has overstepped its power.

The hearing at the House Judiciary Committee caps a yearlong inquiry by the panel into allegations that Google and its tech peers stifle conservatives online.

Democrats had objected to the inquiry from the beginning, arguing that their Republican colleagues were playing politics.

But the two parties still appeared to share broad suspicions about Google’s algorithms — and its business practices.

Pichai is the third tech CEO — following Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey — to submit to a grilling on Capitol Hill this year after years of avoiding the congressional spotlight. The questions about Google’s privacy practices, its next big tech bets and its ability to confront ills

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is the third tech CEO to face a grilling from lawmakers this year.

State, federal authorities estimate at least $3B cost to clear debris after California wildfires

The world’s tallest active geyser, Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, set a record Saturday with its 30th blast this year — the most eruptions for the geyser since 1964. Steamboat can reach as high as 400 feet, which is more than three times the average height of the park’s famous Old Faithful. (AP)

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A split House targets Google At least 4 dead in shooting at holiday market STRASBOURG, FRANCE A shooting in the French city of Strasbourg killed four people and wounded 11 others, officials said, sparking a broad lockdown and major security operation around a world-famous Christmas market. Authorities said the shooter remained at large as of late Tuesday.

French prosecutors said a terrorism investigation was opened into the shooting, though authorities haven’t announced a motive. It’s unclear if the market — which was the nucleus of an al-Qaeda plot in 2000 — was targeted. The city is also home to the European Parliament, which was locked down after the shooting.

The gunman has been identified, according to Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.

The gunman had been flagged as a suspected extremist, an official said.

Local authorities tweeted for the public to “avoid the area of the police station,” which is close to the city’s Christmas market. Strasbourg’s well-known market is set up around the city’s cathedral during the Christmas period and becomes a major gathering place.

The attack came as France has been wracked by four weeks of protests against President Emmanuel Macron, and police forces have been stretched by fighting rioting and other protest-related unrest. SYLVIE CORBET, LORI HINNANT AND ELAINE GANLEY (AP)

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With Vice President Pence looking on, Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer argue with President Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

‘The wall will get built’ Sparring with Democrats, Trump threatens a government shutdown over border fight WASHINGTON Bickering in public with Democratic leaders, President Trump threatened repeatedly on Tuesday to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t provide the money he says is needed to build a wall at the Mexican border.

Trump’s comments came as he opened a contentious meeting with Democratic Senate and House leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, with a partial shutdown looming on Dec. 21 when funding for some agencies will expire. The president and Pelosi tangled over whether the House or the Senate was holding up his proposal. Trump and Schumer jabbed at each other over the import of the midterm elections — and who will be blamed if a shutdown occurs.

“If we don’t get what we want, one way or the other, whether it’s through you, through military, through anything you want to call, I will shut down the government,” Trump declared.

If Democrats refuse to support the wall, the military will build the remaining sections, Trump said. “The wall will get built,” he insisted.

The televised discussion was Trump’s first encounter with the newly empowered Democrats since their midterm victories in the House. It offered a remarkable public preview of how divided government might work — or break down — over the next two years as the 2020 presidential election nears.

Pelosi, who is seeking to become House speaker when the new Congress convenes in January, said she and many other Democrats consider the wall “immoral, ineffective and expensive.”

She later called the confrontation with Trump “wild” and boasted that she and Schumer goaded the president to “fully own that the shutdown was his.”

“It’s like a manhood thing for him,” Pelosi told Democratic

Limited progress Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan acknowledged Tuesday that the GOP-led House has yet to pass legislation that includes the $5 billion in border wall funds that President Trump has been requesting. Ryan likely lacks sufficient votes from Republicans, who will lose their majority at the end of the month. Trump is seeking far more for his long-stalled border wall than the $1.6 billion the Senate has agreed to for border security, including physical barriers and technology along the southern U.S. border. (AP)

lawmakers back at the Capitol.

“As if manhood could ever be associated with him. This wall thing.” Pelosi’s comments were described by an aide who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Schumer, meanwhile, told reporters that “this Trump shutdown, this temper tantrum that he seems to throw, will not get him his wall and will hurt a lot of people.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch

Judge orders Stormy Daniels to pay Trump $293K in attorneys’ fees for rejected defamation lawsuit

McConnell said he hasn’t given up hope that a shutdown can be averted. The Kentucky Republican said “magic” sometimes happens in Congress ahead of Christmas, when lawmakers are eager to leave Washington.

Schumer and other Democrats supported a 2006 law that authorized hundreds of miles of fencing along the southern border, McConnell said, urging Democrats to again back physical barriers — by whatever name — along the border.

Pelosi and Schumer have urged Trump to support a measure that includes a half-dozen government funding bills largely agreed upon by lawmakers, along with a separate measure that funds the Department of Homeland Security at current levels through Sept. 30. The homeland bill includes about $1.3 billion for fencing and other security measures at the border.

If Trump rejects that, Democrats are urging a continuing resolution that would fund all the remaining appropriations bills at current levels through Sept. 30.

MATTHEW DALY AND CATHERINE LUCEY (AP)

Both sides in Yemen’s civil war agreed to exchange more than 15,000 prisoners by Jan. 20, a member of the rebel delegation said Tuesday. The swap could be the first major breakthrough in the 4-year-old conflict between the Yemeni government and the Iran-backed Shiite rebels that has killed thousands of people and left millions more facing hunger. The prisoner lists will be reviewed over four weeks, ahead of a final swap to be facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross. (AP) COURTS

Jailed Huawei executive granted bail in Canada Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou of Huawei, who faces U.S. charges related to alleged sanctions violations, was granted bail by a Canadian court Tuesday.

Meng will await her extradition hearing in Vancouver. China sees the case as a bid to secure leverage in the ongoing U.S.China trade war and threatened “severe consequences” if Meng was not released. The release came just hours after former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig was detained in Beijing, although it was unclear whether his case was related to China’s threats. (THE WASHINGTON POST) COURTS

Manafort may not argue that he broke plea deal A federal judge said Tuesday that prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller must offer more details about the lies they claim former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has told them, even as defense attorneys for Manafort said they might not contest that he broke his plea deal. One defense attorney said a breach might not impact prosecutors’ sentencing recommendation.

They have previously said Manafort believes he has been truthful. (TWP)

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nation+world Beyond reach of solar wind, probe can study deep space cosmic rays SPACE Ever since leaving Earth 41 years ago, the Voyager 2 spacecraft has sailed across the solar system on a stream of energetic particles from the sun.

But on Nov. 5, the whistling of the solar wind abruptly stopped.

The current of charged particles dissipated. There was a period of turbulence, and then the probe found a strange new quality to the environment around it, the way the air smells of salt when you get close to the sea.

Voyager had crossed the heliopause, where the river of solar

particles meets the vast ocean of interstellar space. It is now beyond the bubble of our sun’s influence, NASA announced Monday.

For the second time in history, a human-made object has ventured into the void between the stars. Its companion probe, Voyager 1, crossed that threshold in 2012. But Voyager 2 has a scientific leg up on its predecessor: It still possesses a working plasma instrument. This allows the spacecraft to sense a different kind of charged particle, called galactic cosmic rays.

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that it takes signals traveling at the speed of light 16.5 hours to reach mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. That’s more than twice as far as Pluto and 37 times further than the journey from Earth to Mars.

Scientists have to get beyond the sun’s protective bubble if they want to study cosmic rays, made up of highly energetic particles that blow through space’s dark expanse like a strange cosmic breeze.

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THREE POINTERS

Positions of concern

ANALYSIS

Did Redskins avoid a costly QB mistake?

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The Redskins can’t just blame the QB for their struggles this year.

Using the help of Pro Football Focus grades and statistics, here are the position groups that have been the biggest weaknesses. (TWP)

After signing $84M deal, Cousins has failed to make Vikings a Super Bowl contender REDSKINS Remember when the Minnesota Vikings were going to be a Super Bowl team after signing quarterback Kirk Cousins to that huge free agent contract?

It seemed like a good idea at the time, right?

Now, not so much.

Nearly one-third of the way into Cousins’ fully guaranteed three-year, $84 million deal, it isn’t working. The Vikings are a .500 team, still in position to make the playoffs thanks to the forgiving NFC wild-card race, but nowhere near a contender.

Cousins shrunk from the moment in a prime-time game Monday night in Seattle. The Vikings went nowhere on offense and lost 21-7 to the Seahawks.

“The biggest knock on Kirk Cousins in D.C. [was] in the

15%

biggest moments, in the moments where his team needed him the most, he came up small,” former NFL defensive lineman Booger McFarland said on ESPN’s postgame coverage.

Cousins’ departure from the Redskins after three straight 4,000-yard passing seasons isn’t working out for anyone.

The Redskins traded for Alex Smith to replace Cousins, even before Cousins officially exited. Smith’s season ended with a devastating leg injury and his return to football has been complicated by an infection, according to people familiar with the situation. The Redskins’ season has unraveled as they’ve gone through Colt McCoy, Mark Sanchez and now Josh Johnson as their starting quarterback.

The Vikings, after reaching

Vikings fire DeFilippo John DeFilippo’s tenure as offensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings ended after 13 games as quarterbacks coach Kevin Stefanski was named the new OC on Tuesday.

The Vikings have been held to under 300 total yards in four of their past five games, and they have scored an average of 12.8 points in those four games. (AP)

last season’s NFC title game with Case Keenum under center, signed Cousins to be the final piece of a Super Bowl puzzle.

Instead, they’re 6-6-1. That’s the very definition of mediocrity.

The Vikings remain in position to secure the NFC’s second wild card, and Cousins isn’t abandoning hope that something can be salvaged from this season.

“If we can put it all together,” he said after the game Monday, “it could be special.”

Cousins must shoulder his share of the blame. He didn’t make many throws down the field Monday and it took him too long to get his wide receivers involved in the offense. He didn’t avoid the Seahawks’ pass rush with any degree of deftness.

To whom much is paid, much is expected. The Vikings have a record of 1-4 in prime-time games this season. Cousins’ teams are winless in his seven career “Monday Night Football” starts. Minnesota is 0-5-1 against teams that entered the game with a record of .500 or better.

It’s certainly not the way ay h. this was scripted in March.

3 Interior offensive line Guard Shawn Lauvao, below, surrendered more pressure (15 combined sacks, hits and hurries) in about four games than the Browns’ Joel Bitonio has all season (10).

2 Cornerback The only Redskins corner not to allow a passer rating over 100 when targeted this season is Adonis Alexander, who has seen two targets on all of 10 snaps.

1 Wide receiver As a group, they rank in the bottom five in explosive plays (61) and yards after the catch per reception (5.1). No wideout has broken more than five tackles this season.

MARK MASKE (THE WASHINGTON POST)

REDSKINS’ PLAYOFF CHANCES

The likelihood that the Redskins will make the postseason, according to the New York Times’ playoff simulator. Despite falling to the No. 9 seed in the NFC after four straight losses, Washington (6-7) isn’t mathematically eliminated from the playoffs yet. The Redskins lose tiebreakers to both the Panthers and Eagles, who are also 6-7. The Vikings (6-6-1) currently hold the final wild-card spot. A loss Sunday against the Jaguars (4-9) still wouldn’t eliminate Washington, as the NFC is looking like an eight-win team could secure the final wild-card spot. (TWP) Chargers running back Melvin Gordon (sprained knee) will be game-time decision Thursday against the Chiefs

Wizards (11-16) host Boston (16-10) tonight (7 p.m., NBCSWA)

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Harper’s agent unhappy with Lerner’s comments

MLB

verbatim

“I would strike Babe Ruth out every time. …

I’m not trying to disrespect him. … But it was a different game.

I mean, the guy ate hot dogs and drank beer.”

NATIONALS Agent Scott Boras was not happy when he saw the comments Nationals managing principal owner Mark Lerner made about Bryce Harper on Friday.

As a general industry rule, team and player representatives aren’t supposed to talk publicly about offers, at least not as frankly as Lerner did when he said he expected Harper to end up elsewhere. In fairness to Boras, even those within the Nationals’ organization were a little surprised to see their new controlling owner speak with such candor.

But Boras has raised concerns with the Nationals about Lerner’s comments violating a more specific rule, one etched in the latest collective bargaining agreement.

Attachment 49 states that clubs, players or player representatives may not “disclose to the media the substance of contract discussions between a player and a Club … until after terms on the contract have been confirmed by the Office of the Commissioner and the Players Association.”

As Boras sees it, Lerner violated that provision when he said in a radio interview on 106.7 The Fan that the Nationals did “the best we could do” by offering Harper $300 million over 10 years in September.

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Nationals owner said Sept. offer to superstar was ‘best we can do’

Agent Scott Boras, right, raised concerns that Nats owner Mark Lerner’s comments on Bryce Harper violated the collective bargaining agreement.

But the agreement provides some leeway. A team, representative or player may “respond to a media inquiry” about an offer — i.e., verify its existence or terms if asked directly. It also states that the interviewee may not follow up on those answers with additional information.

The Nationals do not believe Lerner’s comments violate any of those rules. Indeed, Lerner did not volunteer the terms of an offer but explained the context in which the Nationals made theirs.

“When we met with them and we gave them the offer, we told them, ‘This is the best we can do.’ We said, ‘If this is of interest to you, please come back to us and we’ll see whether we can

finish it up,’ ” Lerner said in that interview.

Lerner also speculated Boras and his team will be able to get more money elsewhere, and that they will take it. He did not state, at any point, that the Nationals would not listen if Boras circled back to them. He said he didn’t expect them to do so.

General manager Mike Rizzo, meanwhile, downplayed the comments and insisted the Nationals are not giving up on Harper.

“I didn’t make much of it,” he told reporters at baseball’s winter meetings Monday.

“Nothing has changed since the end of the season. We’re not closing the door on anybody.”

ADAM OTTAVINO, saying on MLB’s Statcast podcast that Babe Ruth wouldn’t be able to keep up in today’s game. The 33-year-old free agent relief pitcher recalled an argument he had with a coach in Triple-A in which he projected Ruth would hit .140 with eight homers today.

CHELSEA JANES (THE WASHINGTON POST)

KEEPING A LOW PROFILE?

NBA card featuring killers goes viral

Between the Aug. 20, 1989, murder of their parents in Beverly Hills and their March 1990 arrest, it appears Lyle and Erik Menendez, left, watched Mark Jackson and the Knicks from courtside seats in New York. Two men in the background of the photo on Jackson’s 1990-91 Hoops trading card, taken during the previous season, bear a striking resemblance to the brothers. The card has since gone viral with a lot of 30 of them going for $344 on eBay. (TWP)

McCutchen and Phillies reach 3-year, $50M deal Outfielder Andrew McCutchen and the Philadelphia Phillies have agreed to a three-year, $50 million contract, a person close to negotiations told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The five-time All-Star and 2013 NL MVP hit .255 last season with 20 home runs and 65 RBIs for the San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees. McCutchen, 32, spent his first nine seasons with the Pirates. (AP) MLB

Jays release Tulowitzki, still owe him $38 million The Toronto Blue Jays released shortstop Troy Tulowitzki on Tuesday and owe him $38 million for the remaining two years of his contract. A hamstring and right ankle injury has kept the five-time All-Star off the diamond since July 2017. Surgery on the ankle forced him to miss all of last season. (AP) SOCCER

Manchester City signs ex-Terps goalkeeper The Premier League’s Manchester City agreed to a four-year contract Tuesday with Columbus Crew goalkeeper and former Terrapin Zack Steffen. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Crew estimated the transfer fee to be at least $7 million, an MLS record. Steffen will remain in the MLS until July. (TWP) NBA

Cavs’ Thompson could miss month with sprain Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson could be sidelined for a month with a sprained left foot. Thompson, who is averaging 12 points and 11.6 rebounds per game, left the floor Monday after landing on Milwaukee Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon’s foot during a 108-92 loss. Larry Nance Jr. will likely start tonight against the Knicks in Thompson’s place. (AP)

Borussia Dortmund, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur, Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool, FC Porto and Schalke 04 advance to UEFA Champions League round of 16

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Serpentwithfeet has emerged as a wholly unique breed of singer MUSIC The music that Josiah Wise is currently making under the alias Serpentwithfeet is probably the most astonishing balladry we could reasonably hope to hear in these unreasonable, hyperbolic times.

When the 30-year-old Baltimore native’s debut album “Soil” materialized in June, it felt like a fresh reconciliation between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Here was a self-described “post-church boy” using the ornate language of Christianity to discuss an array of human desires in mysterious ways.

He grew up singing in the Maryland State Boychoir. His home life was strict — no radio, no MTV — but pop songs still found their way to his ears. What Wise wasn’t learning in choir rehearsals or from forbidden airwaves, he was learning in church.

“II grew up in what you would

call a megachurch,” he says, declining to identify which one.

“So everything had to be excellent all the time, which I loved.

Everything was just so big.”

As fondly as he savored that weekly pageantry, Wise decided to spend his first Sunday morning at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia sleeping in. He never went back to church. And although he says he’s “not a Christian anymore,” the path he ended up following didn’t feel like a renunciation, either.

“I could have gone cold-turkey, but I don’t think it would have been very true to who I am,” Wise says. “I’m drenched in this language, and I don’t necessarily want to dry off. I think it’s fun being a post-church boy, the same way I think it’s fun being gay. I would never want to convert, and I would never want to be straight.”

After college, Wise says the biggest lesson he still had to learn was how to accept the sound of his own voice. His instructors had always told him that his vibrato was faster than that of most leggero tenors, and by the time he g

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A heavenly voice that’s one of a kind Baltimore native Josiah Wise uses his religious upbringing to inform his music, which he performs under the stage name Serpentwithfeet.

The stench of sadness Josiah Wise isn’t one to hide his emotions. “When I’m sad, I want to look sad, I want to smell sad,” he says. “I make my own essential oil blends, and [after a breakup] I’d make really pungent smells. I went home to Baltimore, and my mom said, ‘What is that you’re wearing?’

And I said, ‘It’s my grief perfume.’

She said, ‘It’s giving me grief!’ ” C.R.

began working on the songs that would eventually be released as Serpentwithfeet, he had stopped trying to slow it down. Figuring out what he could really do with

those brisk vocal trills opened him up to who he could be — as an artist and as a human being.

Reflecting on what’s next, he recalls a conversation he had with mutual admirer and occasional collaborator Bjork.

“One thing I like about Bjork’s career is that she gave herself permission to be a very full person,” Wise says. “You expect her to be whoever she wants to be that day. I give myself that same permission. … She even said to me, ‘It’s a healthy thing to let the pendulum swing.

You want to get tired of yourself and do the next thing.’ ”

The first thing longtime listeners to Van Morrison will notice in “The Prophet Speaks,” his album released Friday, is the lack of angst. The next and most remarkable aspect is the relaxed, easy groove that permeates through the record, which finds Morrison relishing his relatively recent incarnation as a jazz singer. There are a few straightforward covers of old favorites, such as John Lee Hooker’s “Dimples.”

The half-dozen new songs — including “Spirit Will Provide” and the title track — conjure up Morrison’s more mystical approach to lyrics and arrangement.

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The Golden Globe Awards will introduce introd a new TV special achievement trophy at next month’s telecast and name it after its first recipient: recipi comedic icon Carol Burnett. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Tuesday the Carol Burnett Award — the small-screen version of the group’s film counterpart, the Cecil B. DeMille Award — will annually honor someone “who has made outstanding contributions to television.” (AP) Kathie Lee Gifford to leave the “Today” show in April

Comedy Central cancels “Detroiters” after two seasons

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Surfing doc rides into rough waters TV REVIEW HBO’s “Momentum Generation,” a revealing documentary about a tightknit group of professional surfers who achieved fame in the 1990s, begins with a litany of painful childhoods. Almost to a man, these legendary wave-riders describe growing up in one sort of broken home or another, often with an alcoholic or drug-addicted parent, where they suffered a range of abuse and neglect.

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While they were changing the sport, it was changing them.

Predictable animosities form within the group, and friendships begin to fracture. “Momentum Generation” offers the men, now nearing their 50s, a reason to reunite and discover that the old hurts are far less important than the relief of letting go. “My friends helped me realize surfing doesn’t define you as a person,” Knox says. “There’s what you do and there’s who you are.”

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You may have to look more closely at what those on the other side are doing today in order to determine your best course of action.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Overcomplicating things at this juncture will only serve to set you back, and you may not be able to make up the time. Keep it simple today.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your intentions are pure, but your methods may be suspect; they’re likely to be subject to scrutiny by one who has followed your progress.

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2000: George W. Bush becomes presidentelect as a divided U.S. Supreme Court reverses a state court decision for recounts in Florida’s contested election.

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