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‘A COMPLETE MELTDOWN OF HUMANITY’ As a surrender deal appears to end fighting in eastern Aleppo, the U.N. reports that pro-government forces in the Syrian city killed scores of civilians trying to flee 8

Energy pick Rick Perry is tapped to lead DOE, an agency he vowed to close 13

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Intimate return On his low-key new album, J. Cole focuses on the fragility of life 24

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On a mission Prosecutors: Pizzeria gunman expected a ‘violent encounter’ 4 am

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‘Bubble bath? Dolly Parton CD? Isn’t that how this happened?’

Their holiday cards read: ‘We wish you a merry … whatever’

Scores of ones and zeroes stolen from addresses mounted on homes in Philadelphia have been returned. A trash bag containing 83 metal address markers was left Monday at an east Kensington home. The resident earlier released surveillance video from September of a man and woman ripping zeroes and ones off homes in the area. Residents don’t know why the numbers were taken but suspect it was for an art installation. (AP)

The Cameron Park Zoo in Waco, Texas, has set up a gift registry — complete with bubble bath and a Dolly Parton CD — for an expectant orangutan couple. The Target registry for Mei and KJ also includes stuffed animals and the movie “Zootopia.” “When Mei first got here ... she loved the movie ‘Jungle Book,’ ” curator Terri Cox said. “That was the one thing that would bring her up to the front until she got used to her surroundings.” (AP)

A family in suburban Detroit is conceding that it can’t match the neighbors’ holiday display, which includes reindeer and a large snow globe and, on the roof, a huge bear. Jami Kelly, 34, of Westland, said her family started doing its own light display but realized that “nothing measures up.” So she used plywood and a few strings of white lights to form the word “Ditto” with an arrow pointing toward the home next door. (AP)

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TUTU CUTE: Katherine Free of the Birmingham Ballet dances with Pig, a disabled dog, during last week’s “Mutt-cracker,” a takeoff on the holiday classic. The Alabama ballet company has staged the event five years in a row to benefit the local humane society.

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The National Museum of African American History and Culture will be open 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Dec. 26 through Dec. 30 to accommodate demand.

crowds and wait times, they have not been fully used during the week, said Beverly MorganWelch, the museum’s associate director for external affairs. About 40 percent of advance passes issued for weekdays are being used; on weekends it’s 60 percent. Officials say they wouldn’t want 100 percent usage, since early estimates for how many visitors could be accommodated were too high and did not predict the long length of stays. Weekday attendance averages

about 6,300, while weekends are closer to 8,500, according to the museum. Perhaps the most important change is for group admissions. Starting Monday, noncommercial groups of 10 or more guests can request passes up to a year in advance directly through the museum’s website. Colder weather prompted the museum to shift the in-person line for same-day tickets to a virtual queue, Morgan-Welch said. PEGGY McGLONE (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Trump critics plan protest ‘UnNaugural’ A progressive state senator from Maryland is organizing a concert on Inauguration Day to raise money for liberal causes she thinks will be threatened by Presidentelect Donald Trump. The “UnNaugural Concert” organized by Sen. Cheryl Kagan will take place the night of Jan. 20 at Montgomery College’s Cultural Arts Center in Rockville. Proceeds will go to five national advocacy groups that promote abortion rights, civil liberties, environmental protections, LGBT rights and gun control. (TWP)

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THE DISTRICT Starting Monday, the National Museum of African American History and Culture will make free, same-day passes available online rather than requiring visitors to line up in person. The museum is also allowing a limited number of walk-up visitors after 1 p.m. on weekdays, crowds permitting. The museum announced that advance timed passes for April will be distributed online and by phone beginning Jan. 4, while passes for May will be available starting Feb. 1. The passes are available by visiting nmaahc .si.edu or calling 866-297-4020. Passes obtained online may be printed or displayed on smartphones. The changes to the visitor policies come after some 600,000 guests have visited the museum since it opened Sept. 24. Although the timed passes have successfully controlled

The potential low later this week, as a polar vortex blast may unleash the coldest December weather in Washington since 2004. Thanks to winds gusting to 30 mph, wind chills early Thursday and Friday will be near 10 degrees around the Beltway, and in the single digits to near zero north of town. (TWP)

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Trump portrait on display ahead of inauguration The Smithsonian says the National Portrait Gallery will put up a photo portrait of President-elect Donald Trump a week before the inauguration. The Smithsonian said in a statement that the portrait will go on display Jan. 13. The portrait of Trump was taken in 1989 by photographer Michael O’Brien and shows him wearing a suit and tossing an apple with his right hand. (AP)

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Feds: Comet suspect anticipated violence N.C. man tried to get two co-conspirators, court filings allege

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If snow days pile up next school year, Montgomery County students could lose some of their spring break in 2018 under a new academic calendar that puts snow make-up days during the annual vacation period. The county school board approved a final academic calendar Tuesday that sets the opening of school on Sept. 5, 2017, and the last day on June 14, 2018, complying with a mandate from Gov. Larry Hogan to extend the summer through Labor Day and end the year by June 15. But Montgomery school officials said that compressing the school year meant trade-offs elsewhere. They cut Montgomery’s typical 184-day school year back to 182 days, meaning that just two make-up days for bad weather are built in.

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THE DISTRICT The man accused of commandeering a D.C. pizza restaurant with an assault-style rifle anticipated that his efforts could end in violence as he investigated false rumors of a child sex ring, according to court documents made public Tuesday. New details, including allegations that Edgar Maddison Welch tried to recruit two co-conspirators, add a chilling twist to the case. Friends and family members had earlier said they thought the 28-year-old North Carolina man was on a mission to save children, not to hurt anybody. Prosecutors wrote in a criminal complaint that “it appears Welch had been contemplating a violent confrontation at the restaurant.” They outlined various text messages he sent in the days before the Dec. 4 incident at Comet Ping Pong, the subject of viral fake stories about child trafficking. “Raiding a pedo ring, possible [sic] sacrificing the lives of a few for the lives of many,” federal prosecutors say Welch texted a friend two days before he drove to D.C. in a Toyota Prius. The text continued: “Standing up against a corrupt system that kidnaps, tortures and rapes babies and

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Edgar Maddison Welch was arrested Dec. 4 after police say he fired an assault-style rifle inside a D.C. pizzeria that was the subject of fake news.

children in our own backyard.” In the end, Welch did not shoot anyone and surrendered after he found no evidence of hidden rooms or sex trafficking, police said. The documents state that adults and children were in the restaurant that Sunday afternoon and fled when the gunman walked inside with a .38 caliber Colt revolver and a Colt AR-15 rifle — loaded with 23 bullets — strapped across his chest. Police said that Welch fired his assault-style weapon two or three times inside the restaurant. They said he also pointed the rifle in the direction of an employee who had emerged from the back with pizza dough after everyone else had fled. The information detailing Welch’s apparent planning is contained in court documents filed

Tuesday as Welch’s criminal case was moved from D.C. Superior Court to U.S. District Court, in the federal system. At a brief federal court hearing Tuesday afternoon, Welch appeared in an orange jail jumpsuit with a trimmed goatee beard and close-cropped blonde hair, apparently cut since his arrest. He said little other than to request a federal public defender. U.S. Magistrate G. Michael Harvey set a hearing for Friday to decide whether Welch should remain in jail, at which time he could enter a plea. Welch is charged with carrying a firearm across state lines with intent to commit a crime, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

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Boeing moving some execs to D.C.

Boeing Co. will move the headquarters for its defense unit from St. Louis to the D.C. area. The move, announced Tuesday, affects about a dozen top executives and some support staff. A Boeing spokesman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the move reflects the company’s desire to be closer to those in power in Washington, and is unrelated to recent criticism from President-elect Donald Trump over the potential cost of the Air Force One presidential jet program. (AP)

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A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a Virginia law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, rejecting a challenge from Democrats who argued that it suppresses voting by minorities and young people. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the law does not violate the Voting Rights Act or impose an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote. Virginians can obtain free photo IDs at voter registrar offices, but Democrats argued that few people know of that option. (AP) FAIRFAX COUNTY

Police chief sustains minor injuries in crash A Virginia woman has been charged with drunken driving after police say she struck a police chief in his unmarked cruiser. Fairfax County Col. Edwin Roessler suffered minor injuries in Monday’s crash, county police said in a statement. The driver of the car, 40-year-old Christie Edgar, was arrested at the scene and charged with driving while intoxicated. She was released from custody Tuesday. “If I wasn’t buckled in, I don’t think I’d be here,” Roessler said. (AP) THE DISTRICT

Man who had BB gun at Capitol pleads guilty A man who pulled a weapon at a security checkpoint while entering the Capitol Visitor Center in March has pleaded guilty to a federal offense stemming from the confrontation in which he was shot by an officer. Prosecutors said Larry Russell Dawson, 67, of Antioch, Tenn., pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to a charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers while using a deadly or dangerous weapon. He had a BB gun that looked like a handgun. Sentencing guidelines indicate he could get a prison term of eight to 14 months. (AP)

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Liquor board chair resigns after arrest Hogan appointee was charged with DUI after MGM casino opening PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY The chairman of the Prince George’s County liquor board, who was arrested on drunken driving and other charges after leaving the MGM National Harbor casino on opening night, has stepped down from his position. The resignation of Charles W. Caldwell III comes the same day authorities released a police report indicating he attempted to leverage his position on the commission to get out of his arrest, asking officers while he was detained on Thursday, “Is there any way we can make this go away?” Caldwell, who has publicly denied he was impaired, was charged with DUI, reckless driving and related traffic offenses after police said he was involved in a collision with two other vehicles outside the newly opened casino last week. G ov. L a r r y Hoga n, who Doug Ferreira’s previous job? Four tours commanding Marine Corps infantry in the Middle East. Decisions under ﬁre happened fast. Evacuating injured Marines. Navigating uncertain terrain. Finding a way forward—a way through—the chaos. It takes guts.

appointed Caldwell to chair the Prince George’s Board of License Commissioners last year, asked Caldwell to step down from the post. “The governor is very concerned and disappointed in this situation and has asked Mr. Caldwell to step down from his role as chairman, which he has agreed to do,” Shareese DeLeaver-Churchill, a spokeswoman for Hogan, said Tuesday. The current vice chair of the board, which oversees more than 600 stores, restaurants and other entities that sell liquor in the county, will lead the board until a new chair is selected. Caldwell, 72, has said that he took a breath test at the collision scene, that the results were inconclusive and that his age made him unsteady on his feet. The police report indicates he refused to keep his head still during the breath test, preventing officers from completing the procedure to obtain a reading of his blood alcohol concentration. LYNH BUI (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Brutal endgame in Aleppo Rebels to evacuate city in a surrender deal as fighting is finally over

Social media carries farewells from Aleppo

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he had received “credible reports” of civilians killed by bombing and summary executions by progovernment forces. U.N. spokesman Rupert Colville said the reports described pro-government forces entering homes and killing civilians “on the spot.” U.N. spokesman Jens Laerke described the situation as “a complete meltdown of humanity in Aleppo.” “It’s hell,” he added. The Syrian military denied the claim, saying such allegations were “a desperate attempt” to gain international sympathy. The U.N. children’s agency also said that it had received a report of more than 100 unaccompanied children trapped in a building under fire in eastern Aleppo. A government win in Aleppo would strengthen Assad’s hand but does not end the conflict — significant parts of Syria are still outside government control. More than a quarter of a million people have been killed since the conflict began in 2011 with peaceful protests against the Assad family’s four-decade rule.

SYRIA In widely circulated messages on social media, Aleppo residents posted emotional goodbyes, having their final say as fighting in Syria’s six-year civil war comes to an end in its largest city. “There is a problem with this planet,” said Monther Etaky, a 28-year old graphic designer. “This planet doesn’t want people to live as free or to live as humans.” The world’s view of the Syria conflict has been driven by YouTube, Twitter and Facebook — making it one of the world’s most documented wars through amateur videos and coverage. Those in Aleppo have complained the world has been looking the other way. “Why is this silence? People are being eliminated,” tweeted Abdulkafi Alhamdo, an English teacher who’s been a vocal critic of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Then, he wrote: “The last [message]. Thanks for Everything. We shared many moments. ... Farewell #Aleppo.” Bana Alabed, the little girl who, along with her mother, has been heard worldwide for her tweets about living in the war zone, tweeted Monday that her father was injured and she was surprised that she was alive. “My name is Bana, I’m 7 years old. I am talking to the world now live from East #Aleppo,” she wrote in the most recent tweet, sent Monday. “This is my last moment to either live or die.”

A group of Syrian residents flee violence in the restive Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood in Aleppo on Tuesday.

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ALEPPO, SYRIA Syrian rebels reached a ceasefire deal to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in an effective surrender Tuesday, as Russia declared that all military action had stopped and the Syrian government had assumed control of the former rebel enclave. The dramatic developments, which appeared to restore the remainder of what was once Syria’s largest city to President Bashar al-Assad’s forces after months of heavy fighting and a crippling siege, followed reports of mass killings by government forces closing in on the final few blocks still held by the rebels. Damascus confirmed the evacuation deal and the U.N. envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, called for immediate access to the former rebel enclave to confirm the end of military operations and to oversee the safe departure of tens of thousands of civilians and opposition fighters. He was at the Security Council, where an emergency meeting for Aleppo was underway. Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, took to the floor near the end of the session at the U.N. Security Council to announce that fighting had ended. “According to the latest information that we received ... military actions in eastern Aleppo are over,” Churkin said. “The Syrian government has re-established control over eastern Aleppo.” Minutes earlier, he had announced that “all militants” and members of their families, as well as those wounded in the fighting, were being evacuated through “agreed corridors in directions that they have chosen voluntarily,” including to the rebel stronghold of Idlib province.

Members of Syria’s government forces stand near a tank in the old city of Aleppo on Tuesday, after they recaptured the area from rebels.

As word spread of the deal, celebrations broke out in the government-controlled western sector of Aleppo, with convoys of cars driving around honking and waving Syrian flags from the windows. Retaking Aleppo, which has been split between rebel and government control since 2012, would be Assad’s biggest victory yet in the civil war. The country’s former commercial powerhouse, Aleppo has long been regarded as a major gateway between Turkey and Syria and the biggest prize

in the conflict. The agreement Tuesday came after world leaders and aid agencies issued appeals on behalf of trapped residents, and the U.N. human rights office said that pro-government forces killed 82 civilians, including 11 women and 13 children, as they closed in on remaining rebel areas. That, and other reports of mass killings, reinforced fears of atrocities in the final hours of the battle for the city. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon told the emergency meeting

Turkey detains 568 people over alleged links to outlawed Kurdish rebels after stadium attack

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GOP isn’t all-in on Tillerson POLITICS Donald Trump is inviting a clash in a narrowly divided Senate by selecting oil executive Rex Tillerson for secretary of state despite well-publicized concerns from several Republican senators over his ties to Russia. The likely confirmation fight could be an early test of Trump’s sway over Congress, and demonstrate how much appetite there is among Republicans to stand up to their president. For now, three Republican senators have publicly voiced concerns about the Tillerson nomination: John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida. All have cited the Exxon Mobil executive’s history of making deals in Russia and his close ties with Vladimir Putin, which include opposing sanctions sought by the U.S. and Europe against Russia after it invaded Crimea. However, none of the three has said he will oppose Tillerson. Only Rubio sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which will hold a hearing in early January to consider the nomination. “While Rex Tillerson is a respected businessman, I have serious concerns about his nomination. The next secretary of state must be someone who views the world with moral clarity, is free of potential conflicts of interest, has a clear sense of America’s

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Trump’s pick for State will test party’s support of incoming president

At an economic forum in Russia in June 2012, President Vladimir Putin, left, gives his nation’s Order of Friendship to Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson.

interests, and will be a forceful advocate for America’s foreign policy goals,” Rubio said. “I will do my part to ensure he receives a full and fair but also thorough hearing.” The committee currently has 10 Republican and nine Democratic members, meaning Tillerson needs support from every Republican to get a successful committee vote, presuming Democrats all oppose him. Yet even if the panel rejects him, there is precedent for the full Senate to take up his nomination. The Senate will be divided 52-48 next year in favor of the Republicans, meaning Tillerson could lose only two Republicans if all Democrats voted “No.” That

“I don’t see how anybody could be a friend of this old-time KGB agent.” SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-ARIZ.,

commenting on CNN about Rex Tillerson’s close relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin

scenario would produce a 50-50 split and require a tie-breaking vote from Mike Pence, who by then will be vice president. It’s also possible, though, that Tillerson could garner support from one or more of the moderate

Democrats. The last time the Senate rejected a presidential Cabinet pick was in 1989, when it voted down John Tower as George H.W. Bush’s defense secretary after Tower had already been rejected by the Armed Services committee. More frequently, nominees have withdrawn from consideration when opposition built, as happened in 2009 with Tom Daschle, President Barack Obama’s first pick for Health and Human Services secretary. It was unclear T uesday whether the fight over Tillerson would turn into a major brawl in the Senate or just a minor skirmish. One question is how hard Democrats, who have made clear they want to focus on economic issues, will fight. Several issued statements Tuesday angrily denouncing the nomination, but the Democrats’ incoming leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, was more measured, calling for a thorough and lengthy confirmation hearing “given these serious concerns.” Tillerson immediately got support from the top Senate Republicans, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas. The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker of Tennessee, who was himself passed over for the job at State, also issued a favorable statement, though without saying how he planned to vote. ERICA WERNER (AP)

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West Virginia official to be reinstated

Pamela Taylor, who on Facebook called Michelle Obama an “ape in heels,” will return to her job Dec. 23 as head of a governmentfunded nonprofit group in West Virginia. Taylor was removed as executive director of the Clay County Development Corp. after her comments gained national attention and prompted the mayor of Clay to resign. The nonprofit has been asked to guarantee that its employees do not discriminate. (TWP)

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny announces presidential bid for 2018 election

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Kasich vetoes heartbeat bill, signs 20-week ban Republican Gov. John Kasich signed a bill Tuesday banning abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy while vetoing stricter provisions in a separate measure, dubbed the heartbeat bill. That bill would have barred the procedure at the first detectable fetal heartbeat — as early as six weeks into pregnancy or before many women know they are pregnant. The 20-week measure is based on the assertion that fetuses can feel pain then. (AP) CAIRO

ISIS claims responsibility for Coptic church blast The Islamic State claimed responsibility Tuesday for a suicide bombing at a Cairo church two days earlier that killed 25. In a statement online, ISIS said the bomber had killed and injured 80 people, vowing “to continue war against apostates.” The bomber was identified by Egypt as Mahmoud Shafiq Mohammed Mustafa. ISIS named him by what appeared to be a nom de guerre, Abu Abdullah al-Masri. (AP) ITALY

2 convicted in shipwreck that claimed 700 lives A judge in Sicily on Tuesday convicted a Tunisian ship captain and his Syrian mate in the 2015 sinking off Libya that left 700 dead. The defendants were sentenced to 18 and five years. Prosecutors had accused the captain of inadvertently ramming his boat into a cargo ship that had come to its rescue. (AP) ICELAND

Pirate Party fails attempt to form new government Iceland’s anti-authoritarian Pirate Party said Tuesday it has struck out in attempts to form a center-left government — the third failed round of coalition talks since an election six weeks ago. The Pirates, who seek direct democracy and digital freedom, came in third in the election. (AP)

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nation+world Under U.S. plan, autos would communicate wirelessly, and be safer TRANSPORTATION The Obama administration proposed a rule Tuesday that would require all new cars to be able to communicate with other cars wirelessly, a move that advocates say could save lives, but that also raises privacy and hacking concerns among opponents. Federal officials, as well as many researchers and industry executives, say widespread installation of “vehicle-to-vehicle,” or V2V, technology could provide significant safety advantages. The wireless box could, for instance, tell a car to brake when

another vehicle is about to run a red light. The U.S. Department of Transportation said the rule would be the first mandate of the technology worldwide. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said it could prevent “hundreds of thousands of crashes” and “spare thousands of families ... the pain of losing a loved one” in a collision. He projected that up to 80 percent of crashes not involving alcohol or drugs could be eliminated or made less severe. Last year, 35,092 people were killed on U.S. roads. Foxx estimated that the public comment period and finalizing the rule would take about a year. After that, automakers would have two years to put the technology in half of their new cars and

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Cars may ‘talk’ to each other

Federal transportation officials say vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technology would save many lives.

another two years to put them in all new vehicles. It is unclear how President-elect Donald Trump’s administration

will view the proposal. He has said he opposes many existing and recently announced regulations. Some researchers say V2V technology would help selfdriving cars perform better, though not all engineers agree. The technology could have significant privacy implications, depending on how the systems are designed and implemented. The cars would send signals telling each other where they are. Transportation officials counter that there would be no exchange of personal information. “This is a safety tool, not a data-gathering tool,” said Mark Rosekind, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. MICHAEL LARIS AND

Oklahoma’s abortion laws at center stage

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Two scientific researchers who discovered a new species of spider in the Indian state of Karnataka have brought their love of “Harry Potter” full circle. After concluding that the tiny arachnid looked like the Sorting Hat in the novels, they named it Eriovixia gryffindori — after Godric Gryffindor, the fictional original owner of the hat. “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling even tweeted the pair her congratulations. (TWP)

JAKARTA, INDONESIA | The sunglasses worn by a woman outside a courthouse Tuesday reflect demonstrators on hand to support Jakarta Gov. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as “Ahok.” He is on trial after being accused of blasphemy. Basuki, the first Christian to govern Jakarta in 50 years, had remarked that a passage in the Quran could be interpreted as prohibiting Muslims from accepting non-Muslims as leaders.

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HEALTH The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a law requiring abortion clinics to have doctors who have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of their facility. The court ruled that measure, which requires doctors with admitting privileges to be present for abortions, violates both the U.S. and Oklahoma constitutions. Republican Gov. Mary Fallin signed it into law in 2014, but courts had blocked it from going into effect. “It creates an undue burden on a woman’s access to abortion, violating protected rights under our federal Constitution,” wrote Oklahoma Justice Joseph Watt. Meanwhile, the state plans to force hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants and public schools to post signs inside public restrooms directing pregnant women where to receive services as part of an effort to reduce abortions in the state. The State Board of Health on Tuesday approved regulations for the signs. Businesses and other organizations will have to pay an estimated $2.3 million to put up the signs because the Legislature didn’t approve any money for them. The provision for the signs was part of tucked into a law passed this year that requires the state to develop informational material “for the purpose of achieving an abortion-free society.” The signs must be posted by January 2018. KEN MILLER, SEAN MURPHY (AP)

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From ‘oops’ to DOE boss Nomination of Perry to lead agency he once vowed to abolish brings 2011 gaffe back to light

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POLITICS President-elect Donald Trump has picked Rick Perry to head the Energy Department, said two people familiar with the decision, seeking to put the former Texas governor in control of an agency whose name he forgot during a presidential debate even as he vowed to abolish it. Perry, who ran for president in the past two election cycles, is likely to shift the department away from renewable energy and toward fossil fuels, whose production he championed while serving as governor for 14 years. The Energy Department was central to the 2011 gaffe that helped end Perry’s first presidential bid. Declaring that he wanted to eliminate three federal agencies during a primary debate in Michigan, Perry then froze after mentioning the Commerce and Education departments. “The third one, I can’t. Sorry. Oops.” Later during the debate, Perry offered: “By the way, that was the Department of Energy I was reaching for a while ago.” Despite its name, most of the Energy Department’s budget is devoted to maintaining the nation’s stockpile of nuclear warheads and to cleaning up nuclear waste at sites left by military weapons programs. The department runs the nation’s national laboratories, sets appliance standards and hands out grants and loan guarantees for basic research, solar cells, capturing carbon dioxide from coal combustion and more. Four years after his first Oval Office bid, the former governor sought it once again in the big Republican field that included Trump. At one point, he

Rick Perry is likely to shift the focus of the Energy Department from renewable energy toward fossil fuels.

dismissed Trump’s campaign as a “barking carnival act.” Salo Zelermyer, who served as a senior counsel in the Energy Department’s general counsel’s office under President George W. Bush and is now a partner at the Bracewell law firm, said Perry has proven “it is indeed possible to successfully balance appropriate environmental regulations with domestic energy production and use.” But environmentalists take a dim view of Perry. The former governor has repeatedly questioned scientific findings that human activity is helping drive climate change. During his 2012 presidential campaign, Perry said, “There are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects.” In fact, the top 10 hottest years on record have all been since 1998, and 2016 is expected to be the hottest year since formal

Department of Interior President-elect Donald Trump has tapped GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke, who has represented Montana’s at-large congressional seat for one term, to serve as secretary of the Department of the Interior, according to a source. Zinke, 55, has defended public access to federal lands even though he frequently votes against environmentalists. He recently criticized an Interior Department rule aimed at curbing inadvertent releases of methane from oil and gas operations on federal land as “duplicative and unnecessary.” (TWP)

record-keeping began in 1880. “There is no doubt that Rick Perry is completely unfit to run an agency he sought to eliminate — and couldn’t even name. Perry is a climate change denier,

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opposes renewable energy even as it has boomed in Texas, and doesn’t even believe CO2 is a pollutant,” League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski said in a statement. If confirmed, Perry would walk into an agency where many career civil servants are likely to be wary of him, not only because of his past pledge to abolish the department. Employees there are already on edge, given the fact that Trump’s transition team gave a questionnaire to DOE officials asking that they identify which employees have worked on either international climate negotiations or domestic initiatives to cut carbon. Current DOE leaders have declined to provide any individual names of employees to Trump transition team members. An Energy Department spokesman said some of the questions asked by Trump’s team left DOE workers “unsettled.” JULIET EILPERIN AND STEVEN MUFSON (THE WASHINGTON POST)

ENVIRONMENT Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun attempts to copy government data onto independent servers in hopes of safeguarding it from any political interference. The efforts include a “guerrilla archiving” event in Toronto, where experts will copy irreplaceable public data; meetings at the University of Pennsylvania focused on how to download as much federal data as possible in the coming weeks; and a collaboration of scientists and database experts who are compiling an online site to harbor scientific information. In recent weeks, Presidentelect Donald Trump has nominated a growing list of Cabinet members who have questioned the scientific consensus around global warming. “Something that seemed a little paranoid to me before all of a sudden seems potentially realistic,” said Nick Santos, an environmental researcher at the University of California at Davis, who over the weekend began copying government climate data onto a nongovernment server. Neither Trump nor his transition team have said the new administration plans to manipulate or curtail publicly available data. But some scientists aren’t taking any chances. BRADY DENNIS (TWP)

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Offensive growth spurt Slovakian big Michal Cekovsky has developed into Maryland’s fourth-leading scorer COLLEGE BASKETBALL In the summer of 2015, Terps forward Michal Cekovsky added some serious muscle mass. This past summer, Cekovsky, a 7-foot-1, 250-pound junior from Kosice, Slovakia, focused on adding a jump shot. “I’m trying to add something more to my game,” he said. “I think it is going to help. … It will be more difficult to guard me.” That offseason dedication could be a difference maker for Maryland, which moved to 11-1 after beating Jacksonville State 92-66 on Monday in College Park. The Terps face Charlotte next Tuesday in Baltimore and will look for Cekovsky to continue his offensive development when the team opens Big Ten play Dec. 27 at home against

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Illinois. The junior averaged just 2.6 points per game as a freshman and 2.3 last season. But in eight outings this year, he is averaging 10.0 points and 3.5 rebounds in nearly 17 minutes per contest. Most of the time, Cekovsky’s baskets are dunks or shots in the post. But against Jacksonville State, he sank a 15-foot jumper near the foul line. In just his third start of the year, Cekovsky scored 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting and had four rebounds and a blocked shot. He’s tallied multiple blocks in three games this season, including three against Howard, and is averaging 1.3 swats per game. Cekovsky’s recent surge in production has coincided with the absence of 6-11 forward

“I coach him harder than anybody I have on the team. ... He probably hears my voice in his sleep. But there’s a lot of potential there.” TERPS COACH MARK TURGEON,

telling reporters this month how hard he works to get the most out of 7-foot-1 forward Michal Cekovsky.

Damonte Dodd, who missed his third game in a row Monday because of a left knee injury. Maryland hopes Dodd can return when conference play begins.

Cekovsky has dealt with his own injury problems. An achy hamstring hindered him before the season, and then he missed the first four games with a right foot sprain. He played in his first game Nov. 22, contributing 11 points over 16 minutes in a win over Stony Brook. Four days later, he scored 16 points with a team-high eight boards in a 69-68 win over Kansas State. Against Pitt, he put up 10 points and was perfect on four shots from the field in the team’s lone loss. “I am just trying to improve every day,” he said. “I’m also trying to bring the energy to the court. I want to grab rebounds, protect the rim and make hustle plays every game.” DAVID DRIVER

PATRICK SEMANKSY (AP)

Rumored Rams’ heads Since the Rams fired Jeff Fisher on Monday, several splashy options have been mentioned as possible candidates to coach the new team in Los Angeles, the country’s secondlargest market. (TWP)

3 Jon Gruden He’s spent seven years on “Monday Night Football,” but the L.A. Times reported that sources close to Gruden said the ex-coach would listen to a pitch from the Rams.

2 Pete Carroll According to Yahoo reporter Charles Robinson, the Rams love the former Southern Cal coach but would have to swing a huge trade with NFC West rival Seattle to get him.

1 Jim Harbaugh Fox Sports personality Colin Cowherd said MMQB reporter Albert Breer told him the rumor that Harbaugh could leave Michigan for the Rams “is a very real thing.”

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The percent chance the Redskins (7-5-1) have of making the playoffs if they go 3-0 in their final inal games against the Panthers, Bears and Giants. According to the NFL playoff simulator created ted by The Upshot of The New York Times, Washington would have a 75 percent chance of getting ting the fifth seed and a 24 percent for the sixth seed if the team finishes 10-5-1. If the Redskins finish 9-6-1, their chances vary depending on who beats them. Their chances dwindle to 54 percent with two wins and a loss to New York. (THE WASHINGTON POST) NFL adds Skills Showdown, including dodgeball, to Pro Bowl week

Bengals release Mike Nugent, who missed six field goals and six extra points, claim Randy Bullock off waivers

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Four EPL clubs in London part of sex abuse probe The Metropolitan Police are investigating individuals at four London-based Premier League teams as part of the child sexabuse scandal among multiple tiers of British soccer clubs. The teams were not named, but the league has five located in London — Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, West Ham and Crystal Palace. (AP)

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Emmanuel Burriss played baseball at Wilson High before breaking into the majors with the Giants in 2008.

Nationals extend invite to hometown infielder Speedy switch hitter Burriss will try to earn a spot at spring training MLB Washington signed infielder Emmanuel Burriss to a minor league deal Monday and invited him to spring training, adding to the latest list of nonroster invitees from which they seem to pluck key pieces of their club each season. Burriss, 31, will always be a sentimental favorite in Washington. He played at Wilson High in Northwest D.C. and stuck with the Giants early in his career before struggling to find consistent big-league opportunities. Burriss spent all of 2014 and most of 2015 at Class AAA Syracuse before finally getting a

five-game shot with the Nationals in 2015. He played in 39 games for the Phillies last season, and it wouldn’t be out of the question for him to get a chance in the majors with the Nationals in 2017. Right now, Washington needs versatile bench pieces like Burriss, a switch-hitter with speed who can play all over the infield. He has a .237 average and .565 OPS in 326 major-league games, and after hitting .300 for Syracuse in 2014, has hit .279 and .263 in Class AAA the last two seasons. The Nationals generally do not add players like Burriss just to add them. They give players a real look in spring training, willing to find bullpen and bench depth from nonroster choices. Clint Robinson was an

unheralded nonroster invite in 2015, when Dan Uggla was a more prominent one. Matt Belisle and Chris Heisey were nonroster invites in 2016, and Brendan Ryan probably would have made the opening day roster if not for an injury. So far, Washington has invited Burriss, former Yankees prospect Corban Joseph, and another local, Brandon Snyder, to spring training as potential bench or Triple-A depth options. They will almost certainly invite more. With Danny Espinosa traded to the Angels and Stephen Drew’s free agent future unclear, Washington lacks infield depth. As it stands, the Nationals’ main backup infielder is Wilmer Difo, who does not have the experience Drew or others could bring there. CHELSEA JANES (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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of playing Dec. 24 against the Packers. That would be his first game since having surgery to repair a torn meniscus.

Ex-Ravens tight end Konrad Reuland, 29, dies after brain aneurysm

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Florida DC Geoff Collins named coach at Temple

New hazing rule to keep rookies out of hot pants MLB That baseball hazing ritual of dressing up rookies as Wonder Woman, Hooters Girls and NFL cheerleaders is now banned. Major League Baseball created an Anti-Hazing and Anti-Bullying Policy that prohibits the practice. As part of the sport’s new labor deal, which was to be ratified by both sides Tuesday, the players’ union agreed not to contest it. The policy, obtained by AP, prohibits “requiring, coercing or encouraging” players to dress up as women or wear costumes “that may be offensive to individuals based on their race, sex, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or other characteristic.” MLB Vice President Paul Mifsud said Monday that the new rules resulted partly “in light of social media, which in our view sort of unfortunately publicized a lot of the dressing up of the players ... those kind of things which in our view were insensitive and potentially offensive to a number of groups.” Not all outfits are banned — superheroes such as Batman and Spider-Man are OK. Some common rookie rituals, such as forcing newcomers to provide coffee or snacks, are permitted. But requiring players “to consume alcoholic beverages or any other kind of drug, or requiring the ingestion of an undesirable or unwanted substance (food, drink, concoction)” is banned. RONALD BLUM (AP)

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Chris Vigilante roasts a batch of beans in his shop, Vigilante Coffee Company.

Time for a cup upgrade Calling all coffee snobs: These three local shops are offering limited-edition brews BEVERAGES ’Tis the season of giving. And stressing. And partying. And staying up late to finish to-do lists. Thank goodness several new caffeinated products are here to help you get through another holiday season.

Qualia Coffee’s Baby Rye Rye Micro-roaster Qualia Coffee (3917 Georgia Ave. NW) is bringing back its Baby Rye Rye, a small cache of single-origin Colombian beans that have absorbed some of the sweet, alcoholic aromas of a rye whiskey barrel. The new process, which roaster and owner Joel Finkelstein says has been refined since last year, starts with an oak barrel that’s been dried out and

soaked with a liter of rye whiskey. Green Colombian beans are then placed in the barrel for four to seven days. This year’s batch tastes of butterscotch, with just enough rye essence to ignite a small fire around the edges of the coffee. Qualia’s 30 bags of Baby Rye Rye will go on sale today at the shop ($15 for 8 ounces). The beans will also be available for coffee by the cup ($4). Local 3 Stars Brewing is also using the beans in a limited-edition Illuminati imperial stout, which is set for release Dec. 16.

co-founders Michael Haft and Harrison Suarez have rolled out their third annual Holiday Blend. This year’s blend combines beans from Nicaragua, El Salvador and Sumatra, which are roasted fairly dark. The beans produce a full-bodied, roasty cup. The Holiday Blend is available by the cup at Compass cafes. Drip prices range from $1.95 to $3.10, while the Holiday Blend on French press or pour-over will run you $4.25. Take home a 12-ounce tin for $13.99.

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Chris Vigilante is ordering 100 pounds of green beans from Greenwell Farms for his “extra fancy” — that’s a Hawaiian

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grading classification — Kona coffee. The owner of Vigilante Coffee Company (4327 Gallatin St., Hyattsville, Md.) anticipates it’ll be ready for release next week. Vigilante says he paid $22 per pound for these Hawaiian beans, which is nearly four times more than he would pay for some Colombian beans. Vigilante expects to sell bags of the Kona for $40 or $42 per 12-ounce bag. For that price, you’ll get a smooth, fruity cup of coffee. The fruit characteristics, in fact, seem to change as the coffee cools to a more drinkable temperature: It first tastes like a sweet summer peach, then cools into flavors resembling passion fruit or pineapple. TIM CARMAN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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While pasta is on the menu at Fabio and Maria Trabocchi’s three existing restaurants — Fiola, Fiola Mare and Casa Luca — Fabio decided he would focus on “the craft of pasta making” in his new Van Ness establishment. The restaurant’s name itself acknowledges that. In Italian, “sfoglia” are large sheets of pasta; a “sfoglina” is the woman — often a respected matriarch with years of experience — who makes them. Half of the pasta selections on the menu ($20 to $24) are under the header of “classics,” with such dishes as pappardelle with roasted tomato sauce and carbonara-style spaghetti chitarra. The other half focuses on seasonal preparations, including mafalde with pancetta and black truffles, and squid ink linguine with lump crab and clams. Pastas can be ordered as individual entrees or family-style for sharing (three for $36 or six for $65). BECKY KRYSTAL (THE WASHINGTON POST)

The G.O.A.T. Sports Bar to open in former Hard Times Cafe space in Clarendon next summer

Northside 10 neighborhood restaurant in Alexandria announces Jan. 3 opening

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J. Cole will spare no details His new record takes a plunge into the rapper’s inner frustrations

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J. Cole gets personal and political with his fourth album, “4 Your Eyez Only.”

about Cole beari ng his disappointment over a fallen hero. He’s over fakeness, and if sincerity and storytelling matter more than sensationalism, then fans will find “4 Your Eyez Only” to be a solid follow-up to 2014’s “Forest Hills Drive.” The album opens ominously, with Cole facing his own mortality on “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” “Tired of feeling low even when

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Chris Evans is Hollywood’s most cost-effective actor

B.J. Novak is putting out another children’s book

Chris Evans, best known for playing Captain America in Marvel’s films, has topped Forbes’ “Best Actor for the Buck” list for the second year in a row. “His movies returned an average $135.80 at the box office for every $1 he was paid,” according to Forbes. Chris Pratt ranked No. 2 with a $125.40 return for every $1 paid, and Scarlett Johansson ranked took third, returning $88.60 for every $1 paid. (EXPRESS)

Actor and author B.J. Novak is following up his first children’s book, “The Book With No Pictures,” with “The Alphabet Book With No Pictures,” Penguin Young Readers confirmed Tuesday. The new work is scheduled for publication next September. In a statement issued through his publisher, Novak said he wanted young people to think of words as “funny, exciting and powerful.” (AP)

I’m high/ Ain’t no way to live, do I wanna die?” he sings. He is constantly drawing parallels between himself and the guys still grinding. It’s a struggle he can’t shake — even with fame and fortune — as illustrated on the powerful “Neighbors,” where Cole raps that any black man can be “a candidate/ For a Trayvon [Martin] kinda fate/ Even when your crib sit on a lake.” But for all the looming dangers, Cole has hope and he’s moving in a beautiful direction. He’s

Patrick Wilson cast as supervillain Ocean Master in DC Comics’ “Aquaman,” out Oct. 5, 2018

unguarded and in love on the delicate “She’s Mine, Pt. 1” and “She’s Mine, Pt. 2.” He even turns the act of doing laundry into a grand romantic gesture on the omgthat’s-so-sweet “Foldin Clothes.” The album’s title track is the last of the bunch and Cole relays a heartfelt and frank message from McMillan to his daughter. The meandering, jazztinged track is tragic, touching, wise and a little bit sleepy — everything that Cole’s album is. MELANIE SIMS (AP)

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“If you thought 2016 w was bad — I’m releasing an album in 2017.” JAMES BLUNT, revealing in a joke on Twitter that he’s planning to release a new album next year. Additional information, such as a release date or title, has yet to be disclosed.

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ALBUM REVIEW J. Cole’s latest album, “4 Your Eyez Only,” is an intimate one. It unfolds like an old journal that’s been unearthed and shared with an audience of one — that is, an audience of you, or, more important, the daughter of a friend whose shooting death ties the rapper’s latest set together. “Bloodshed that turned the city to a battlefield/ I call it poison, you call it real,” Cole raps on “Change,” before narrating the final moments in the life of James McMillan Jr., whose life was cut short at 22. The fragility of life — particularly that of young black men who too often are felled by violence — shapes the frustration and desperation that permeates the album. Low on frills (production or otherwise) and rich with introspection, Cole’s fourth studio set may not immediately resonate with listeners anticipating an album to match the buzz surrounding Cole’s alleged digs at Kanye West on his track “False Prophets.” What’s clear now is that “False Prophets” was less about throwing rocks at the throne and more

TV What would have happened if the Axis had triumphed in World War II? It’s a question that fascinated writer Philip K. Dick. That exploration turned into his award-winning 1962 novel, “The Man in the High Castle.” And Amazon Prime has transformed the book into one of the most popular streaming series, with Season 2 arriving Friday. The show isn’t just fantasy; it relates to what’s happening today, says Joel de la Fuente, who plays Inspector Kido. “When you take a look at what’s happening in the world of this show, it seems at first a stark difference, but then you start seeing how people are behaving, it resonates very heavily with how we’re behaving today, ” he says. Rufus Sewell, who plays Nazi official Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith, says he pored over Nazi history because he wanted “the perspective of people who went through it” and was “interested in how people justify things to themselves.” “People always like to assume if they were in Germany, for example, that they would not have gone that way,” he says. “And it’s very comforting to think that you wouldn’t. But the truth would suggest otherwise. An entire country went that way. So, for me, it was just about trying to keep him a human being, and resist all my urges to do a slightly more dramatic, stock ‘Nazi’ kind of thing.” LUAINE LEE (TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE VIA AP)

Nelly Furtado’s “The Ride,” her first album in five years, comes out March 31

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Glen Pannell, who dresses as “Mike Hot-Pence” while raising money for charitable causes. Photographer Howard Sherman found him in Times Square and interviewed him. Pannell, who is gay, said the Indiana governor first caught his attention during the controversy around the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, seen as a threat to LGBT rights. “Mike Hot-Pence” wears short shorts when he collects donations for charities he thinks may be vulnerable during a Trump-Pence administration. Those include Planned Parenthood, the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Trevor Project and the International Refugee Assistance Project.

“Hey @AppleSupport how about you stop focusing on giving me an avocado emoji and start focusing on giving me a battery that doesn’t die at 70%.” Twitter users who tweeted that Apple could have used its time on something other than emojis for its latest iPhone update. On Monday, the company began rolling out iOS 10.2, which comes with hundreds of new emojis, including a Harambelike gorilla and yes, an avocado.

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MICHAEL DITMORE, in a Facebook comment praising “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah for his Monday interview with President Obama. Obama talked about being near the end of his term, and the two discussed their experiences as men of mixed-race backgrounds.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Your ability to see ahead of yourself with unmatched clarity will serve you and a loved one well. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Even though you will likely be tending to many routine issues, there is something out of the ordinary going on as well. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Focus on what you have said in the past as you craft just the right thing to say in the present. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You’ll find it difficult to keep your opinions to yourself. As soon as you are invited to speak up, you’ll express yourself clearly. TUESDAY’S SOLUTION

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You can smooth the way for yourself and others by bending one or two rules just a little. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You may feel, at first, that you are ill-suited for the role you must play, but this is an error that will soon be made plain to you. CANCER (June 21-July 22) How

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TODAY: Partly cloudy with marginally colder temperatures (highs in the 40s) and more breezy weather. Winds from the north at 5-10 mph, but at least we have a better chance for a few breaks of sunshine. Temperatures fall only to the 30s most of the night before dropping through the 20s by dawn.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) One at a time, in quick succession, you should be able to vanquish all foes, whether real or imagined. Today is a good day. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You’re being asked to do something that doesn’t come easily to you, but you know how necessary it is.

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you see yourself makes a difference. You’ll want to embrace and promote an image that is positive, strong and affable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You and a loved one have come to an impasse of sorts, and only your generosity and flexibility will allow things to become unstuck.

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

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1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team become the first men to reach the South Pole, beating a British expedition led by Robert F. Scott.

1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt 1986: The experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by and Eugene Cernan conclude their third Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, takes off from Edwards and final moonwalk and blast off for their Air Force Base in California on the first nonstop, nonrendezvous with the command module. refueled flight around the world.

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Former basketball star Lamar Odom has checked himself into a rehab facility in San Diego, E! News reported. The move comes more than a year after an overdose that left Odom hospitalized for several months. “It was his own decision. He wanted to work on his mental and physical health for the next chapter of his life,” a source said. (EXPRESS)

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First comes love, then come bench presses Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman and free agent tight end Colton Underwood made their debut as a couple at the Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year Ceremony on Monday, People magazine reported. Underwood asked Raisman out in a Yahoo! Sports video in August, which she accepted. They said they’ve been dating since. (EXPRESS)

Two giant planets collided yesterday Kanye West, who has kept a very low profile since he canceled his tour following onstage rants and hospitalization for stress and exhaustion, appeared at Trump Tower on Tuesday to meet with the president-elect. Donald Trump arrived to take pictures with the rapper and told reporters, “He’s a good friend. ... We’ve been friends for a long time,” adding that the two discussed “life.” West praised Trump following the election, declaring onstage in San Jose that he would have voted for him — had he voted at all. His wife, Kim Kardashian West, supported Hillary Clinton. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Those shoes really had it coming, didn’t they? Nicki Minaj sparked rumors Sunday that she and rapper Meek Mill had broken up, with an Instagram photo of a pair of sandals that she said were a gift. “Thank God u blew it. Thank God I dodged the bullet. I’m so over u. Baby good lookin out,” she captioned the photo, quoting Beyonce’s “Best Thing I Never Had.” Mill has apparently deleted his Instagram account. (EXPRESS)

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