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GREAT 8 AT HIS GREATEST? The Capitals’ superstar and Stanley Cup champion is on one of the hottest streaks of his 14-year career 14

In her own league Director and actress Penny Marshall died Monday at age 75 19

Rodent royalty The National Zoo’s naked mole-rats have chosen their queen 3

Sports bets OK’d D.C. is set to be first in the region to allow gambling on games 4

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Police in Florida say a man went through a McDonald’s drive-thru and tried to pay for his order with a bag of marijuana. Port St. Lucie, Fla., police say the fast-food worker denied the trade and Anthony Andrew Gallagher drove off, only to return a short time later. Police arrested him Sunday on charges of marijuana possession and driving under the influence. It’s unclear if Gallagher attempted to pay for his order with drugs the second time. (AP)

A hefty hog was captured near a school bus stop in Palm Bay, Fla. Florida Today reported the nearly 400-pound hog was captured by a team of dogs and trappers. Wildlife trapper James Dean got a call reporting “a very large boar hog” tearing up sod by a playground. Police blocked traffic Saturday while Dean, four hunting dogs and four men converged on the scene. Dean said the canines zeroed in on the colossal hog within minutes. (AP)

Two Oregon inmates are serving longer sentences after an escape attempt that a circuit court judge called “one of the dumbest things I’ve seen in a while.” The two stole an ATV while on a work detail at Deschutes County’s horse rescue ranch in November. They led police on a chase before crashing in a field. A prosecutor said both were intoxicated and had been drinking hand sanitizer.

One had been just a week away from release. (AP)

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A D.C. queen is crowned ANIMALS She is small and many would not find her particularly attractive or intelligent. But among her breed, she has just been confirmed as a queen.

The Smithsonian National Zoo announced Monday that after “months of anticipation,” the queen of the naked mole-rat colony has been determined.

In its announcement, the zoo noted that by the laws of biology and zoology, the only breeding female in a naked mole-rat colony is the queen. Thus, through giving birth Monday morning to three offspring, the queen revealed herself.

The naked mole-rat is one of only two species of mammals that live in a large colony. In a naked mole-rat colony, any member that is not the queen is designated a worker.

Naked mole-rats are considered to be among the “most prolific mammal breeders in the world,” according to the zoo.

They queen has a 70-day gestation period and can have more

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Zoo’s naked mole-rat secures her status by giving birth to 3 pups

Three naked mole-rat pups were born Monday at the Smithsonian National Zoo. Their mother is the queen of the mole-rat colony.

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After giving birth, the queen takes care of her offspring, known as pups, while the other naked mole-rats bring her food so she doesn’t have to move, zoo

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The pups also eat the feces of other workers in the colony. It “inoculates their digestive systems with beneficial gut fauna,” according to zoo officials.

The zoo’s colony of 17 of the rodents arrived just this year from the San Diego Zoo. When the burrowing animals got here, they had not yet chosen a queen.

One female, the zoo said, was the largest member of the colony, and was likely to wear the crown.

Mole-rats are usually about 3 inches long, and weigh no more than 2 ounces, although a queen can weigh a little more.

On Monday, the likely candidate did indeed turn out to be the queen. The offspring are about the size of a jelly bean. It was not clear who was their father. So far, the zoo said, they are doing well.

But bringing up baby mole-rats is not an easy process.

“Keepers are hopeful, but extremely cautious that the colony will continue to care for the pups and that they will thrive,” the zoo said.

The last naked mole-rats to be born and survive were delivered in 1996, said the zoo statement.

Those wishing to visit the naked mole-rat colony will find its members at home at the Small Mammal House from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The colony is also broadcast live on a 24-hour naked mole-rat cam. MARTIN WEIL (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Social media speculation over the rat’s identity and motives ensued. People wondered: Was it looking for a job? (TWP)

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D.C. Council approves legal sports betting

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THE DISTRICT The D.C. Council gave final approval to legal sports betting Tuesday, making it the first in the region to allow residents and visitors to wager money on professional sports teams and contests.

The bill easily passed on an 11-2 vote. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D, supports the legislation.

In May, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law outlawing sports betting outside of Nevada. The ruling mobilized lawmakers across the nation looking for new sources of revenue, and an industry looking to expand rapidly.

D.C. joins eight other jurisdictions outside of Nevada that allow sports gambling: New Jersey, Delaware, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, West Virginia, New Mexico and parts of North Dakota. Arkansas and New York are positioned to join next year.

Lawmakers in Virginia and Maryland have yet to act, while a casino in West Virginia is the closest place for Washingtonians to place a legal wager.

Proponents of legal sports betting say people are already gambling on the outcome of games, so governments should tax and regulate the practice. But critics say promises of revenue are

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D.C. is set to join eight other jurisdictions outside of Nevada to allow sports betting. West Virginia is currently the closest place to make a legal wager.

often overblown and that betting carries the risk of social ills, including gambling addiction.

The D.C. Lottery would oversee sports betting under the bill authored by Council member Jack Evans, D-Ward 2.

“We’re entering into new territory with sports gaming,” he said before the vote.

The program is expected to raise $92 million for the city over the next four years, according to projections by the Office of the Chief Financial Officer. Most of the money would go to the general fund, but the bill earmarks about $1 million annually to violence prevention and early childhood care as well as $200,000 for gambling addiction treatment.

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The legislation is to take effect next year, but lawmakers were considering an emergency bill that would make it viable as soon as it is signed by Bowser.

D.C. has no casinos, but the bill creates three ways to place a wager: at sports venues such as Capital One Arena and Nationals Park; at private establishments such as restaurants and liquor stores; or from anywhere in the city using a mobile application.

The app is expected to be the most popular method to place a bet. But the D.C. Lottery would have the exclusive ability to operate an app, closing off a potentially lucrative market to private businesses.

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Winter got off to a fast start last month. Waves of cold gripped the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. and several winter storms tracked across the region.

Conditions have since eased, but the heart of winter lies ahead. Will cold and snowy conditions return and turn more harsh? The polar vortex, the roaring river of air winding around the North Pole, holds the cards.

Judah Cohen, a climate researcher, monitors the condition of the vortex.

He is concerned about what some models are projecting at the end of this month or early January.

Last week, he tweeted: “Confidence is growing in a significant #PolarVortex disruption in the coming weeks.” That means we could see similar deep cold patterns into March, like earlier this year. (TWP)

PROPOSED VIRGINIA BUDGET INCREASE

The amount of increased spending Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam told state lawmakers Tuesday that he wants in the two-year state budget. Northam, feeling flush from surging state tax receipts and a potential windfall from the federal tax overhaul, said the state’s good fortune gives it a rare opportunity to boost pay for teachers and state employees, accelerate Chesapeake Bay cleanup, expand broadband access, offer more college financial aid, and beef up the state’s financial reserves. (TWP)

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A Fairfax County jury sentenced a Springfield man to 357 years in prison Tuesday for a brutal 1995 sexual assault targeting four roommates in Reston, a prosecutor said. Jude Lovchik, 50, was convicted of 17 counts of abduction, sodomy and other charges Monday. The crime went unsolved for over two decades, before Lovchik’s ex-wife went to police in 2016 and told them he had confessed to sexually assaulting about 20 women. (TWP) PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY

Man climbing upward on down escalator dies in fall Authorities said a man who was found dead at a Prince George’s County train station walked the wrong way on an escalator.

Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly Woods said surveillance video showed the man walking up the down escalator at New Carrollton early Tuesday. Woods said the video shows the man falling backward and striking his head after reaching the top of the escalator. The man was found by a commuter in the Amtrak section of the station, which is also used by Metro and MARC. The man’s identity had not been released, pending notification of next of kin. (AP) BALTIMORE

Ex-police commissioner pleads guilty in tax case Baltimore’s former police commissioner has pleaded guilty to federal tax charges. Darryl De Sousa pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of failing to file individual federal tax returns and admitted to falsely inflating deductions. He has previously portrayed his failure to file taxes in 2013, 2014 and 2015 as an oversight. Prosecutors say he owed $67,587 and has paid about $7,000 of that. De Sousa faces up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine for each count at sentencing in March.

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A leadership fail?

Official disputes Best Places report Sitting across a conference table in Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House grounds, Weichert was peeved: “Throwing something out saying this is a leadership problem — without data that empirically shows me that, and most especially because the leaders who are most impactful to that question are career civil servants who are hard-working supervisors — it frankly is discouraging. That kind of generalization and oversimplification might actually hurt the very people that they ostensibly are trying to help: the employees.”

Does Best Places put too much emphasis on the relationship of leadership to engagement without data demonstrating that correlation?

“Our answer is no,” Stier said. “Of the 10 workplace categories that we measure, effective leadership has been found to have the largest influence on employee engagement since the rankings were first launched in 2003. And to better understand effective leadership, we broke it into four subcategories — senior leaders, empowerment, fairness and supervisors. In our past analysis of the data, we’ve consistently seen that senior leaders are the most important component of effective leadership.”

The report is based on OPM’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. The nonprofit, nonpartisan Partnership has annually issued the influential Best Places report to great anticipation from across government. Agency heads sing their praises when

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Margaret Weichert was particularly animated at the 2018 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government launch just after she said, “There is so much to celebrate here. … Engagement is rising in the federal workforce.”

She paused, looked at her audience last Wednesday at the breakfast launch in the Ronald Reagan Building, and said, “That probably didn’t jump out at you, right? But it’s risen in the last two years.”

That didn’t jump out at the assembled federal employees and good-government advocates because the data presented by the report from the Partnership for Public Service and the Boston Consulting Group tell a different story of federal morale under President Trump.

The headline on the Partnership’s news release is clear: “2018 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government Rankings Show a Decline in Employee Engagement Across Majority of Federal Agencies.”

Weichert begs to differ.

Trump’s deputy director for management in the Office of Management and Budget and acting director of the Office of Personnel Management seemed particularly bothered by this news release comment from Max Stier, the Partnership for Public Service’s president and chief executive: “Our government is handicapped by a lack of leadership that has led to static or declining employee engagement.”

Margaret Weichert speaks last Wednesday at the 2018 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government program. She disputed some of the conclusions.

Government-wide score Margaret Weichert took issue with the government-wide score of the 2018 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government, implying the employee engagement score actually rose from 61.5 last year to 62.2 this year. But this year’s score is more complicated because the Department of Veterans Affairs conducted its own canvass instead of participating in the all-agency viewpoint survey. So the VA was removed when the Partnership compared 2018 and 2017 scores, showing a 0.6-point decline. (TWP)

their organizations do well and solemnly promise to do better when they don’t.

Never in my decade of covering the report have I heard any administration official question its methodology.

But now comes Weichert.

While Trump casts feds as

swamp-dwellers and seeks to freeze their pay, cut their retirement and disembowel their labor organizations, she speaks with pride, energy and enthusiasm about the federal workforce. But talk isn’t policy, and make no mistake who is the boss.

While Weichert suggested Stier appears partisan, an appearance he studiously avoids, he pointed out that “we’ve seen … bigger drops in the Obama administration.”

“At the end of the day,” Stier said, he believes Weichert and the Partnership are aligned in seeking “how to create environments in the government that allows mission-driven people to better achieve that mission. And that’s when you get more and more engaged employees.”

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The federal government has trouble attracting people to cybersecurity jobs and keeping those it does hire.

Demand, meet supply.

The government early in 2019 will launch the Federal Cyber Reskilling Academy, a training program for federal employees who do not work in information technology-related positions.

The program is intended to prepare workers to move into that high-demand field. The initial phase will involve only 25 employees, but the administration considers it “just a first step,” Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent said.

While the salaries the government can offer are commonly blamed for its recruitment troubles, its slower and more complex hiring process can also put it at a disadvantage against the private sector. The Office of Personnel Management recently allowed agencies to use shortcut hiring procedures in many cyber fields, but moving existing employees into those jobs “lets us take people who have gone through the process and in a short time get them ready for a different type of contribution, a contribution that we need,” Kent said.

The training program, which will be free to employees, started accepting applications Nov. 30 and will continue to accept them through Jan. 11.

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Trump to dissolve charity POLITICS President Trump has agreed to shut down his embattled personal charity and to give away its remaining money amid allegations that he used the foundation for his personal and political benefit, New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced Tuesday.

She said that the Donald J. Trump Foundation is dissolving as her office pursues its lawsuit against the charity, Trump and his three eldest children.

The suit, filed in June, alleged “persistently illegal conduct” at the foundation, which Trump began in 1987. Underwood is continuing to seek more than $2.8 million in restitution and has asked a judge to ban the Trumps temporarily from serving on the boards of other New York nonprofit organizations.

Underwood said Tuesday that her investigation found “a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation — including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more.”

“This is an important victory for the rule of law, making clear that there is one set of rules for everyone,” she added in a statement.

Trump denied that the organization had done anything wrong.

In late 2016, he said he wanted

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N.Y. attorney general says foundation has a ‘pattern of illegality’

Trump presents a Trump Foundation check to a veterans’ charity in 2016.

to close the foundation before he became president to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest. But the New York attorney general blocked that move while the investigation continued.

In a court filing in New York, Underwood said that the foundation’s remaining $1.75 million will be distributed to other charities approved by her office and a state judge.

Alan Futerfas, an attorney for the Trump Foundation, issued a statement criticizing Underwood for “politicizing” the agreement.

Futerfas said that, over its life, the foundation had given away about $19 million, including $8.25 million donated by Trump himself. The rest of the money came from other donors, notably

Questionable practices Largest gift: The largest donation in the charity’s history, a $264,231 gift to the Central Park Conservancy in 1989, paid to restore a fountain outside Trump’s Plaza Hotel.

Smallest gift: A $7 foundation gift to the Boy Scouts, also in 1989, matched the amount required to enroll a boy in the Scouts the year that Donald Trump Jr. turned 11.

Board meetings: Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump — all listed as officers of the charity — had never held a board meeting. The board hadn’t met since 1999. The charity’s official treasurer, Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg, told investigators that he wasn’t aware that he was on the board. (TWP)

pro-wrestling moguls Vince and Linda McMahon, who gave $5 million. Trump later chose Linda McMahon to head the Small Business Administration.

As part of its agreement with the attorney general’s office, the foundation will be required to sell its remaining assets and donate the proceeds.

That includes a Denver Broncos football helmet signed by former quarterback Tim Tebow, which Trump bought at a charity auction in 2012 with $12,000 in Trump Foundation money.

The charity also owns two large portraits of Trump, for which Trump paid a combined $30,000 in foundation money.

Trump now values the three items — for which he spent $42,000 in charity money — at a combined $975, according to a recent IRS filing.

The attorney general’s suit alleges that Trump used his charity’s money to help his presidential campaign. Trump gave away oversize checks from the foundation at campaign events in the key early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, pausing his campaign rallies to donate to local veterans’ groups.

Federal law prohibits charities from participating in political campaigns. As president, Trump has called repeatedly for that law to be repealed.

Underwood has asked the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission to investigate whether the Trump charity broke tax laws. DAVID FAHRENTHOLD (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Saturn’s beautiful rings are rapidly disappearing — well, rapidly when compared to the planet’s age of more than 4 billion years. They could be gone in as little as 100 million years, according to NASA research published this week. Measurements made m by the Cassini spacecraft confirm that “ring rain” made up mostly of ice is being pulled into the th planet by gravity at a faster rate that earlier calculations had suggested, NASA reported. (EXPRESS) Belgian PM submits resignation after his support for migration plan tears government

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Officers likely didn’t see train that killed them Two Chicago police officers may not have seen or heard the commuter train that fatally struck them because they were focused on another train coming from the opposite direction, a department spokesman said Tuesday. Officers Eduardo Marmolejo and Conrad Gary had run onto an elevated area of the tracks Monday night on the city’s far South Side to investigate gunfire in the area. (AP) POLITICS

Trump orders creation of Space Command President Trump launched the Pentagon’s new Space Command on Tuesday, an effort to better organize and advance the military’s vast operations in space that could cost as much as $800 million over the next five years. The new order is separate from the president’s goal of creating a “Space Force” as an armed service branch. (AP) HODEIDA, YEMEN

Cease-fire takes effect, halts months of fighting A cease-fire on Tuesday halted months of heavy fighting in Yemen’s port city of Hodeida, raising hopes that the latest U.N.-led peace efforts can end the civil war. The truce agreement calls on both the Saudi-backed government and the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels to withdraw from the city and its outskirts. (AP) ARIZONA

Martha McSally will fill McCain’s Senate seat Arizona’s governor on Tuesday appointed U.S. Rep. Martha McSally to replace Sen. Jon Kyl in the seat that belonged to the late John McCain. Republican McSally lost to Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema in November.

McSally will serve until 2020, when voters will elect someone to serve the final two years of McCain’s term. (AP)

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Accountability on agenda at Vatican abuse summit

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THE VATICAN The Vatican on Tuesday released the first details of Pope Francis’ upcoming high-stakes sex abuse prevention summit, making clear that bishops attending the gathering must reach out to victims before they get to Rome and that accountability is very much on the agenda.

Organizers of the Feb. 21-24 summit warned participants in a letter that failure to address the scandal now threatens the very credibility of the Catholic Church around the world.

As a first step, they urged the estimated 130 presidents of national bishops’ conferences attending the summit to meet with survivors in their home countries “to learn firsthand the suffering that they have endured.”

Francis invited the church leaders to the meeting to develop a comprehensive response to what has become the gravest threat to his papacy, as the abuse and cover-up scandal erupted anew in the U.S., Chile and elsewhere this year.

Survivors have been dubious about what the meeting can accomplish, given the limited time, the varied experiences and needs of national churches and the fact that the problem has already been known for years.

Noting that the U.S. scandal

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Pope Francis leaves after celebrating Mass at the Vatican last week. Details of his upcoming sex abuse prevention summit were released Tuesday.

first emerged in 2001, Barbara Dorris, a survivor of abuse who has been a longtime outspoken advocate for victims, said: “It’s been 17 years. If you haven’t met with survivors in 17 years, I think that says a lot right there.”

In revealing the first details of the meeting, the Vatican said it would focus on three main areas: responsibility, accountability and transparency. The reference to accountability suggests that church leaders will confront not only the crimes of priests who rape and molest minors, but the cover-up by their superiors as well.

Abuse victims and their advocates have long blasted the Vatican for failing to discipline and remove bishops who fail to

protect their flocks, and until recently, Francis appeared unwilling to significantly change course.

He appointed four key clerics to prepare the meeting: Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, a Francis appointee and supporter; Mumbai Cardinal Oswald Gracias, a member of the pope’s informal cabinet; and the Vatican’s leading abuse experts, Maltese Archbishop Charles Scicluna and the Rev. Hans Zollner.

“Each of us needs to own this challenge, coming together in solidarity, humility and penitence to repair the damage done, sharing a common commitment to transparency and holding everyone in the church accountable,” they said in a letter. NICOLE WINFIELD (AP)

A 1974 New York state ban on nunchucks that was put into place over fears that youths inspired by martial arts movies would cause mayhem is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, a federal court ruled Friday.

Plaintiff James Maloney, a professor at the State University of New York’s Maritime College, began his legal quest after being charged with possession of nunchucks in his home in 2000. The ruling said the ban “arose out of a concern that ’various circles of the state’s youth,’ ” inspired by kung fu dramas, were “ ‘widely’ using nunchaku to cause ‘many serious injuries.’ ” (AP)

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The percentage of the world’s plastic waste that has never been recycled. This finding, in a study published in Science Advances in July 2017, was named international statistic of the year Monday

by Britain’s Royal Statistical Society. The study found that as of 2015, only about 9.5 percent of the world’s plastic had been recycled; roughly 12 percent had been incinerated, and 79 percent had accumulated in landfills or the environment. Study author Roland Geyer said he hopes the accolade draws attention to the issue of plastic pollution. (AP) Nikki Haley signals to U.N. that Trump’s plan for Middle East peace may not include Palestinian state

Administration moves to ban bump stocks NATIONAL SECURITY The Trump administration will ban bump-stock devices like the kind used in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, a decision that gun rights groups pledged to fight in court before the ban goes into full effect in about three months.

Justice Department officials said Tuesday that any weapons modified with a bump stock — a device that attaches to the butt of a rifle and uses the energy of the gun’s recoil to automatically fire another round — will be classified as machine guns, meaning only law enforcement agencies can use them.

Once the new regulations are published by the government on Friday, owners of the devices will have 90 days to destroy them or turn them in to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Justice Department officials said they will publish in the public register in coming days their finding that bump-stocktype weapons are machine guns, “because such devices allow a shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger.”

The move led three gun rights groups and a bump-stock owner to quickly announce they were suing the government.

RW Arms, which sells bump stocks, and the National Rifle Association did not respond to requests for comment. DEVLIN BARRETT (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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The stunning development means that special counsel Robert Mueller’s engagement with Flynn will continue for some months, leaving Flynn to wonder whether he will lose his freedom.

Flynn’s attorney requested the delay after the judge’s opinion became apparent, hoping further cooperation with law enforcement could earn the court’s mercy.

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan made clear he was infuriated by Flynn’s conduct — both in lying to the FBI while in the White House, and working to advance the interests of the Turkish government while he was a part of Trump’s campaign.

The judge seemed to take umbrage at the suggestion made by Flynn and his supporters, just days before the sentencing, that he was duped by the FBI. Early in the hearing, Sullivan forced Flynn to admit that he knew lying to the bureau was illegal, and that he was guilty of a crime. Later, the judge pointed to an American flag as he berated the former threestar general for his misdeeds.

“Arguably, that undermines everything this flag over here stands for,” the judge said. “Arguably, you sold your country out.”

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with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. and that he misrepresented in Justice Department documents his work to advance the interests of the Turkish government. He has since been assisting with at least three investigations — including Mueller’s — and his attorneys and the special counsel argued he should get no prison time for his offense based on his cooperation. That is now far from certain.

Flynn’s supporters have advanced the notion in recent months that the FBI should have approached Flynn more formally, and that he should have been warned in advance that lying to federal agents would be considered a crime.

Even after the hearing, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, “The FBI broke standard protocol in the way that they came in and ambushed General Flynn.”

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Contentious courtroom New charges? If Michael Flynn had tried to withdraw his guilty plea, the special counsel’s office might have been able to bring new charges.

‘Unregistered agent’: Judge Sullivan accused Flynn of acting as “an unregistered agent of a foreign country” while serving as national security adviser. Sullivan walked back the allegation because Flynn was merely on the Trump campaign then.

The ‘T’ word: Sullivan also asked a prosecutor whether Flynn could be charged with treason, although he cautioned that spectators shouldn’t read too much into the remark. (TWP)

had earlier rejected the allegation. “Nothing about the way the interview was arranged or conducted caused the defendant to make false statements to the FBI,” prosecutors wrote. Sullivan seemed to take up their case.

The judge reminded Flynn he

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could get into “more trouble” if he were to lie in court, then asked, “Were you not aware that lying to FBI investigators was a crime?”

“I was aware,” Flynn said.

Sullivan asked if Flynn wanted to postpone the sentencing, or reconsider his plea.

“I would like to proceed, your honor,” Flynn said.

“Because you are guilty of this offense?” Sullivan responded.

“Yes, your honor,” Flynn said.

That Flynn would want to proceed is no surprise. A day earlier, the special counsel’s office had filed with Sullivan FBI notes of the interview with Flynn — which reinforced the notion he lied.

“I’m not hiding my disgust, my disdain for this criminal offense,” Sullivan said.

Hours after the hearing ended, the judge restricted Flynn’s travel to within 50 miles of Washington unless he gets special permission.

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POLITICS President Trump on Tuesday retreated from his demand for $5 billion to build a border wall, as congressional Republicans maneuvered to avoid a partial government shutdown before funding expires on Friday.

But Democrats immediately rejected Republicans’ follow-up offer, leaving the two sides still at impasse as hundreds of thousands of federal workers await word on whether they will be sent home without pay just before Christmas.

The new offer from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., calls on Congress to pass a $1.6 billion homeland security spending bill that was crafted earlier this year in a bipartisan Senate compromise. Congress would also reprogram $1 billion in unspent funds that Trump could spend on other border security measures.

Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told McConnell on Tuesday that Democrats would not accept the deal, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., criticized the plan to reprogram the funds.

Several Republican lawmakers predicted the most likely outcome would be a short-term budget extension to push back the deadline for a partial shutdown, leaving the larger questions of wall funding unresolved. It would also mean the next round of negotiations would happen with the House under Democratic control. (TWP)

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Ovechkin has been the catalyst with a career-high 14-game point streak, racking up 17 goals and 23 points in that span.

“Of course you want to have as many points as you can,” said Ovechkin, who was named the NHL’s First Star of the Week on Monday. “But you can’t score every game and make points every night. It’s hard.”

For much of this season, Ovechkin has made it look easy.

The 33-year-old has a leaguehigh 29 goals in 32 games — five clear of his nearest pursuer in the NHL’s goal-scoring race entering Tuesday. Among the highlights were Ovechkin’s back-toback hat tricks last week in wins against Detroit and Carolina.

“It’s incredible,” winger T.J. Oshie said. “He’s a special talent.

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It feels like, to me, a once-in-alifetime goal scorer. It’s a pleasure to watch and to be part of.”

Ovechkin picked up where he left off in June, when the team won an elusive Stanley Cup. Teammates said he looked lighter than ever in training camp, and the playoff MVP has shown no signs of fatigue from last spring’s run or the short offseason that followed.

“His overall game is as good as it’s ever been,” said general manager Brian MacLellan.

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Plus-minus rating, which would rank as his fifth-best mark for a full season. He’s had a better plus-minus only once (2015-16) in his past eight seasons.

In his 14th season and with more than 1,000 games under his belt, Ovechkin is taking on a greater workload. He is playing more than 21 minutes per game this season — his highest total since 2009-10 — with more ice time coming in late-game situations when the Capitals may be protecting a one-goal lead.

He may have been a defensive liability earlier in his career, but coach Todd Reirden trusts him in those critical moments.

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growth with a guy that’s had the career that he’s had, that he can still find ways to improve,” Reirden said of Ovechkin, who has led the league in goals in seven seasons and won the Hart Memorial Trophy for MVP three times.

The increased responsibility hasn’t come at the expense of goal scoring. Ovechkin enters tonight’s contest (8, NBCSN) with goals in six consecutive games, one shy of his personal best. “ ‘O’ is clicking like he can and the rest of us are just following suit,” Oshie said. “He leads the charge, for sure, and the rest of us just try to do our part.”

The Capitals have scored three or more goals in 14 consecutive games for the first time since 2010. And they’ll have their full complement of forwards tonight, unlike in the teams’ first two meetings of the season, which the Capitals and Penguins split.

“With our most recent playoff win, it’s definitely heightened the intensity of the matchup,” Reirden said. “It’s always a good challenge.” BEN RABY (FOR EXPRESS)

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Nicholson charged in assault Redskins defensive back Montae Nicholson was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor assault after a drunken fight in Ashburn, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s office said. Nicholson, 23, and a female companion, Sydney A. Maggiore, 24, pulled up in a car and honked the horn at a man and woman at around 2 a.m., the sheriff’s office said.

Nicholson is accused of assaulting the man, and Maggiore of striking the woman with a bottle and assaulting the man.

They were arrested when they returned to the scene to look for Maggiore’s lost keys.

A court appearance has not yet been scheduled. The assault charge carries up to a 12-month jail sentence.

Nicholson lost his starting job in October.

(THE WASHINGTON POST)

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WOMEN’S TENNIS Serena Williams returned to the pro tour eight months after a complicated childbirth to find her world ranking had plunged from No. 1 to No. 451.

Moreover, the body-hugging compression suit she debuted at the French Open to guard against life-threatening blood clots got an icy reception.

The Women’s Tennis Association this week revised its rules regarding players who return to the tour from pregnancy.

The adjustments came largely in response to the debate over the hurdles that Williams and former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka faced following childbirth.

Under the changes, players who return to the tour can use a special ranking for up to three years following the birth of a child. An additional rule change extends a slightly more limited accommodation to players who return from an injury that has sidelined them for a year or more. They’ll be able to use a special ranking in 12 tournaments.

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Hall of Fame inductee Martina Navratilova called the changes “a step in the right direction.� “For me, it’s about fairness,�

Navratilova said. “If you have a baby or you have a knee surgery, you can be just as good as you were; you just haven’t played for 12 or 18 months.�

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The ouster came two days after a 3-1 loss at fierce rival Liverpool.

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Charting a new course midstream STREAMING In what feels like an attempt to give every last atom of himself to everybody who might want a piece, Bruce Springsteen crashlanded on Broadway last year, eager to tell his life story in hollered prose and knowing balladry.

Then, after 236 engagements, he wrapped it up Sunday by releasing a film on Netflix compiled from two July performances. And look, here he is in the palm of your hand, describing the intimacies of his extraordinary life — in one stunning moment, through tears.

What compels a guy who has already dumped so much blood, sweat and saline into the ancient river of rock-and-roll to seek out new ways to expose himself?

Springsteen never says it outright here, but he clearly knows k

that time is a cruel and unstoppable force. The 69-year-old knows he’ll run out of time someday, but until then, he’s determined not to run out of himself.

That makes him something of a renewable resource and a realdeal folk hero to his flock — and when this whole thing kicked off inside Manhattan’s Walter Kerr Theatre in October 2017, audiences couldn’t get over how larger-than-life he appeared up on that cozy stage. Every word that tumbles out of his mouth practically glows with an aura of profundity.

Too bad, then, that he conspicuously reads his monologues — about childhood, parenthood, God and war — from ankle-high teleprompters, his head frequently bowed, as if his footwear is about

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Bruce Springsteen has taken to Netflix and Broadway to further bare his soul A human touch To director Thom Zimny, the key element in his filmed version of Bruce Springsteen’s Broadway show was in the star’s eyes. “I wanted to capture Bruce’s eyes in a way that you don’t get from being in the theater,” Zimny says of filming the Netflix special. “It’s another sense of intimacy, another sense of the performance.” DAVID BAUDER (AP)

to reveal the meaning of life. As for articulating the grand mysteries of music, he gets close. Early on, he explains how rock-and-roll taught an entire generation that “fun was your birthright.” When it comes to describing the second half of the 20th century in four words, that’s pretty good.

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Even on a tiny screen, the Netflix-ed version of “Springsteen on Broadway” feels a lot like Sunday Mass. Solemn talking, solemn singing, solemn talking, solemn singing. It actually ends with the protagonist reciting the Lord’s Prayer, then peeling into “Born to Run.” Listening is important to Springsteen. He recounts the sounds of his childhood vividly — the clang of church bells, the ring-a-ding of the ice cream man, the exhausted hush of his mother’s office at 5:02 p.m. These remembrances become the most important sounds in the entire performance — public sounds that synchronize our lives, even when we can only hear them as memories in our minds.

There’s a reference to shape-shifting tucked into the track “When I’m Over You” from “Heart to Mouth,” LP’s album released earlier this month, and it didn’t get there by accident.

The singer works in enough different styles to draw comparisons to some of the greats, but she doesn’t sound quite like any of them. On “Dreamcatcher,” close your eyes and hear Stevie Nicks. The ballad “Recovery,” meanwhile, suggests Adele at her pour-it-on best.

It all works because of LP’s heart-baring vulnerability, which makes this album a candidate for bestof-2018 consideration.

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The gross earned by Ed Sheeran’s “Divide” tour in 2018, according a Pollstar report released Monday.

That total set the record for the highest one-year gross in Pollstar’s 30-year history. Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” tour finished second with $345.1 million in 2018, while Beyonce and JAY-Z’s “On the Run II” tour earned $254.1 million. (EXPRESS) Netflix orders 16 more episodes of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”

Deadline: CBS to end “Elementary” after upcoming Season 7

SyFy renews “Van Helsing” for Season 4

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Marshall blazed a trail for women in film 1943-2018 Penny Marshall, who starred in the long-running sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” and parlayed her fame into a career directing crowd-pleasing movies such as “Big” and “A League of Their Own” — making her the first woman to helm movies that earned more than $100 million — died Monday at her home in Hollywood Hills. She was 75.

A spokeswoman for Marshall’s family said the cause was complications from diabetes.

During a career spanning four decades, Marshall rose through the ranks with help from her older brother, Garry Marshall, an established TV and film writer, producer and director. He worked her into featured parts in his sitcoms, including “Happy Days,” in which her deadpan comic style and nasal Bronx accent made her a recognizable TV performer.

Her recurring role on “Happy Days” as Laverne DeFazio led to the Garry Marshall-produced spinoff “Laverne & Shirley,” which aired on ABC from 1976 to 1983 and was one of the most popular shows of the era.

Marshall’s first film as a

Revamped “Conan” to premiere Jan. 22 on TBS

Penny Marshall was the first woman to direct movies that grossed more than $100 million.

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The sitcom star and pioneering director died Monday at 75

Hollywood director was the comic spy romp “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1986), starring Whoopi Goldberg.

With “Big” (1988), a comic fantasy starring Tom Hanks, Marshall became the first woman to direct

a movie grossing more than $100 million (it reportedly made $115 million domestically).

In 1992, Marshall directed Madonna, Geena Davis and Hanks in “A League of Their Own,”

“Veep’s” Timothy Simons to write, star in HBO comedy series “Exit Plans”

about women who played professional baseball during World War II. The film earned nearly $108 million. Her other directing credits included “Renaissance Man” (1994), “The Preacher’s Wife” (1996) and “Riding in Cars With Boys” (2001).

Marshall said she was not especially proud of the films she directed after “A League of Their Own” because more demands were put on her in making and marketing the productions. She said she had been much happier as a TV actress, telling one interviewer, “No matter how many movies I direct, I’ll always be Laverne.”

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Those who know you best have a warning for you, but they don’t know how you are going to take it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You must be willing to analyze situations on a deeper level than usual today — especially those that involve personal interactions.

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TODAY: This still looks like the nicest day of this workweek, as mostly sunny skies help lift temperatures to around 50 degrees with lighter breezes (about 5 mph by afternoon).

Clouds start to move in overnight and temperatures do not get as cold, with lows ranging from the 30s to low 40s.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) What you do

today is likely to be long remembered by those who have been following your progress — and indeed, you can do something remarkable.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You may sense that something big is just around the corner. But are you ready for it? That’s a question only you can answer.

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AVG. HIGH: 46 RECORD HIGH: 74 AVG. LOW: 31 RECORD LOW: 6 SUNRISE: 7:21 a.m. SUNSET: 4:49 p.m.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You’ll realize that getting a certain something done won’t require the about-face that you assumed it would. You can stay the course.

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1777: During the American Revolutionary War, Gen. George Washington leads his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pa., to camp for the winter.

1998: President Bill Clinton is impeached by the Republican-controlled House for perjury and obstruction of justice (he was subsequently acquitted by the Senate).

2001: The fires that had burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City for the previous three months are declared extinguished except for a few scattered hot spots.

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

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T.I. puts his money into a legally binding swear jar T.I. is paying a $300 fine after pleading no contest to violating a Georgia law that prohibits public cursing. The charge stemmed from a May incident in suburban Atlanta, when T.I. confronted a guard at his gated community after losing his key and being refused entry. Police were called and T.I. was arrested and released on bond. (AP)

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