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Residents of the rural Connecticut town of Scotland — which celebrates being settled by a Scotsman in 1700 — are becoming Lords and Ladies in the old country. Scotland’s Highland Titles said Tuesday it’s gifting all 1,694 residents 1 square foot of land on its nature reserve in Glencoe Wood, Scotland. They will also get a courtesy title of Lord or Lady of Glencoe, along with instructions on how to visit their plot. (AP)

Jaireme Barrow of Tacoma, Wash., was infuriated by people swiping packages off his porch. He said police wouldn’t act, so he invented TheBlankBox, which he sells online for $60. The decoy package contains a 12-gauge shotgun blank that goes off when the box is lifted. Barrow uses surveillance video to capture the reaction of would-be thieves. “One girl, she screamed so loud — it was instant karma,” he said. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Camping out for the court THE DISTRICT Earlier this month — once again — folks had to sleep on the sidewalk for days to see or hear the Supreme Court at work.

Some of those in line for Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the case of the Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, waited for four days. In the end, about 50 or so got a golden ticket, according to those in line. Some who waited were turned away.

This is becoming the norm when the court takes up big issues. Cases with lesser profiles can also be cause for all-nighters.

The first people seeking admission to recent oral arguments in New Jersey’s bid for legalized sports betting got in line at midnight for a 10 a.m. argument.

Some of those who care about the court are disturbed by the scenes of paid line-sitters.

Kannon Shanmugam, a lawyer who frequently argues before the court, says there must be a better way.

JACQUELYN MARTIN (AP)

People sleep outside to see SCOTUS at work.

Is there a better way?

People slept outside the Supreme Court ahead of the Dec. 5 arguments.

In a tweet, he said: “Paid line-sitting at #SCOTUS is unseemly. But more generally, people shouldn’t have to line up in the cold for days to get into a public court hearing.”

Cameras are not allowed in the Supreme Court, and years of calls from Congress, the media and the public to open up the proceedings have left the justices unmoved.

Not one of the nine favors televising the court’s arguments.

No live audio, either, or even the same-day release of a tape.

“I don’t think this is exactly what democracy looks like.”

MARTIN NAUNOV, who slept outside the Supreme Court ahead of the Masterpiece case. When he first saw the line, Naunov thought, “OK, this is what democracy looks like.”

But that view changed when he learned many of those in front of him were professional line-sitters.

Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court, a group that seeks greater Supreme Court transparency, suggests some sort of lottery as an improvement over the current situation.

It was line-standers who started the rush in Masterpiece.

At noon the Friday before the Tuesday argument, 18 people began the queue, holding spots for members of Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative legal organization representing Jack Phillips, the baker in the case.

Martin Naunov, who wrote his college dissertation on the Masterpiece case, was on the bus from New York when he learned the line had already started. He had meant to stay with a friend for a day or so. But he went straight from Union Station to the court and got in line with nothing but his bag.

The professionals became mentors. They held his spot — he was No. 25 — and sent him to the Walmart on H Street NW to buy an umbrella, tarp, sleeping bag and blanket. He found the oral arguments “excellent” and loved the experience. But he is 23 years old and, as he noted, able to take off work to be able to do it.

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A new home for Children’s Museum The National Children’s Museum will re-emerge in 2019 in a specially designed space in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, officials announced Tuesday.

The 33,000-squarefoot space will house interactive exhibitions with a focus on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) subjects. The museum will have its own entrance from the Woodrow Wilson Plaza, a cafe and gift shop.

Officials hope to open it in March 2019. (TWP)

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Federal judge apologizes to falsely convicted men A federal judge has personally apologized to two men who were convicted after a police officer charged with corruption allegedly planted drugs on them.

The Baltimore Sun reports that U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett on Monday vacated the convictions of Umar Burley and Brent Matthews. The two spent years in prison based on police work done by a Gun Trace Task Force. Bennett, who had previously accepted Burley and Matthews’ plea deals, stepped down from the bench and shook both men’s hands Monday while saying he was apologizing on behalf of the government. (AP)

VIRGINIA The balance of power in Virginia’s legislature turned on a single vote in a recount Tuesday that flipped a seat in the House of Delegates from Republican to Democrat, leaving control of the lower chamber evenly split.

The outcome, which reverberated across Virginia, ends 17 years of GOP control of the House and forces Republicans into a rare episode of power sharing with Democrats that will refashion the political landscape in Richmond.

It was the culmination of last month’s Democratic wave that had already diminished Republican power in purple Virginia.

Democrat Shelly Simonds emerged from the recount as the apparent winner in the 94th House district, seizing the seat from Republican incumbent David Yancey. A three-judge panel still must certify the results, an event scheduled for today.

Of the 23,215 votes cast in the district on Election Day, Yancey held a tenuous lead of just 10 votes going into Tuesday’s recount.

But five tedious hours later, after painstaking counting overseen by local elections officials and the clerk of court, Yancey’s lead narrowed before it gradually disappeared and then reversed.

The final tally: 11,608 for Simonds to 11,607 for Yancey.

“I knew it was going to be a roller-coaster ride and the

BEN FINLEY (AP)

With Democrat’s win in recount, House of Delegates is now split

Election officials in Newport News, Va., examine ballots Tuesday during a recount for a House of Delegates race.

counts were going to change and votes were going to shift around.

But I had faith in the system and fiSimonds nal outcome,” said Simonds, who stayed off Twitter to avoid anxiety. “This is part of a huge wave election in Virginia where voters came out in record numbers to force a change in Virginia, and I’m really proud to be part of that change.”

Power sharing in the House of Delegates is an awkward exercise; the last such arrangement was in 1998. Committee chairs have to be negotiated, as does the person who will serve as Speaker.

With the parties split 50-50, there is no mechanism to break ties

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Republicans hold a slight 21-19 edge in the state Senate, but with a Democratic lieutenant governor to break ties, and a Democratic governor with veto power, Republicans may be forced to advance a more bipartisan agenda.

It’s a dramatic shift that caught even top Democrats by surprise. Republicans controlled the 100-seat House since 2000; even outgoing Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a big cheerleader for his party, had thought the Republican edge was insurmountable.

But Democrats fired up by the election of Donald Trump turned out in big numbers on Election Day and ran as candidates in districts that hadn’t seen

Democratic challengers in years.

That wave hit a new high mark with Tuesday’s recount.

“I don’t even live in the district but I am so excited, I can’t believe it,” said Susan Mariner, a Democrat who had come over from Virginia Beach just to see the recount.

Even election officials who had spent the day keeping order seemed rattled by the fact that such a momentous race could be settled in such dramatic fashion.

The old adage about how every vote counts is true, said Newport News Electoral Board Chairman Sean Devlin as he announced the official result. “Please make sure to stress that,” he told the gathered reporters. GREGORY S. SCHNEIDER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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The amount Gov. Larry Hogan has announced in new traffic relief initiatives for the Baltimore region. Hogan said Tuesday it includes adding lanes to 27 miles of highway on the Baltimore Beltway and I-95. The plan includes $151 million for congestion relief on both the inner and outer loops of I-695 from I-70 to Route 43. Part of the plan also includes $210 million to extend the northbound I-95 Express Toll Lanes for nearly eight miles from north of Route 43 in Baltimore County to Route 24. (AP)

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Purple Line construction to continue after ruling A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Maryland’s Purple Line project does not require further environmental review, allowing construction to continue on the 16-mile light-rail line. The ruling by a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ends a three-year legal battle over the project, unless its opponents try to appeal to the Supreme Court. The ruling reversed a 2016 order that had required officials to hold off on building the line until it updated its environmental study. (TWP) MARYLAND

State gives Indian status to Accohannock Tribe Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has signed an executive order granting the Accohannock Tribe Indian status. Hogan’s office said Tuesday that the designation means the tribe qualifies for federal, state and nonprofit assistance to tribal members and for cultural education. The Accohannock Tribe mostly lives on the Eastern Shore. Maryland Indian Status has also been granted to the Piscataway-Canoy Tribe and the Piscataway Indian Nation. (AP)

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The attorney who has led Charlottesville’s legal response to lawsuits over a white nationalist rally and the city’s efforts to remove two Confederate monuments is stepping down. The city announced in a statement Tuesday that City Attorney Craig Brown will leave his position at the end of January to pursue an undisclosed opportunity.

The statement said Brown was promoted to city attorney in 2001.

The news came a day after the city announced the abrupt retirement of Police Chief Al Thomas. The statement said Charlottesville will begin a search for its next city attorney immediately. (AP)

A firefighter and five residents of an apartment building were injured Tuesday in a fire in Prince George’s County, authorities said. At about 7:15 a.m., firefighters responded to a fire at a two-story apartment building in Hillcrest Heights. Five residents of the building who were rescued were injured, authorities said. The firefighter suffered a minor injury and returned to duty.

Of the injured residents, two were transported for treatment of injuries. Most of the residents in the two buildings damaged by the fire were likely to be displaced, authorities said.

The Alexandria pastor told his parishioners they could benefit themselves while doing good if they invested in his Christian-based company lending small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Instead, a jury agreed that Terry Millender and his wife, Brenda Millender, who together ran Victorious Life Church, defrauded their friends and flock out of millions of dollars. At the trial, the pastor argued that he was guilty only of financial mismanagement, not fraud. The Millenders, who were convicted Monday, each face up to 20 years in prison when they are sentenced in March. (TWP)

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Most residents of two buildings hit by fire in Hillcrest Heights, Md., are expected to be displaced.

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Bowser’s measure also requires 1,500 supervisors to complete advanced training and modernizes guidelines.

Sexting and sending suggestive messages on “self-destructive messaging apps” — such as Snapchat — are now included in the list of prohibited behaviors. ( THE WASHINGTON POST)

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A White House labor adviser is co-author of a 2016 report on reforming pay for federal workers.

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Workers’ wallets: Labor adviser has plans to slash pay The Trump administration’s consideration of a wage freeze for federal employees is one piece of a renewed multi-front Republican push to shrink those workers’ pay, benefits and workforce.

That effort has been around for years, but it now has an intellectual champion in the White House, and I don’t mean President Trump.

James Sherk joined Trump’s team as a labor adviser early this year after working for the conservative Heritage Foundation. His co-authored report, “Why It Is Time to Reform Compensation for Federal Employees,” was published by Heritage days after the 2016 Republican National Convention nominated Trump. The bottom line: Feds would get less pay and benefits for more work.

“Our paper was intended to serve as a framework for any … elected official who wants to improve the way the federal

government operates,” Rachel Greszler, a Heritage economist who wrote the report with Sherk, said by email.

“Reform” really does not convey the serious bite of their proposals. The central thesis is that federal workers are overcompensated compared with those in the private sector. The authors outlined a plan to cut those costs — a blueprint that Sherk can now follow from a position of influence in the White House.

Rather than making the government a model employer, the proposals would unite Uncle Sam with employee-regressive business practices designed to maximize profits. But Sam is in the business of service, not propelling profits.

Sherk and Greszler want to: Restrict within-grade increases, also known as step increases. These pay hikes are based largely on tenure, rather than performance. “Limiting the size of step increases would, over time, lower pay for all federal employees.”

Extend the probationary period to three years, giving managers more time to fire workers at will.

Speed the firing process by limiting the opportunity to appeal terminations and lowering the proof needed to give workers the boot from “a preponderance of evidence” to “substantial evidence.”

Cut paid time off, including vacation and sick time. The authors noted that few private employers provide paid time off for every federal holiday, implying that federal employers also should not provide it.

“These policies would boost federal employees’ productivity by increasing the number of days they work,” Greszler and Sherk wrote, “and thus could reduce the number of federal employees needed to carry out government functions.”

Although Sherk has a longstanding interest in federal compensation, none of several federal employee organizations contacted said he had spoken with them since he joined the White House.

“We don’t know him,” said Steve Lenkart, executive director of the National Federation of Federal Employees. “He doesn’t represent the values that working people share, nor does he understand the complexities of the federal workforce.”

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U.S. lifts pause on research of risky pathogens

J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE (AP)

POLITICS Republicans are on the verge of passing a massive tax overhaul plan this week.

They appeared to have the votes they needed to pass the measure through the Senate, after holdout Republicans Marco Rubio of Florida and Bob Corker of Tennessee said last week they’d support it.

“Congress is standing at the doorstep of a historic opportunity,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday.

“Here’s what we set out to do: Take money out of Washington’s pockets and put it back in the pockets of middle-class Americans.”

House Republicans thought they had finished their tax work after they passed a version of the bill Tuesday. The measure passed 227 to 203, with all except 12 Republicans voting for the bill. Zero Democrats supported it.

But the plan hit a snag when the Senate parliamentarian ruled that three of its provisions violated the chamber’s Byrd Rule — guidelines on what types of legislation can pass with 50 votes.

Senate Republicans still aimed to pass the measure Tuesday night with a series of minor changes.

None of the changes were expected to cost the plan any GOP support, but it will require the House to vote again, as identical versions of the bill must pass the

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., called the tax plan on Tuesday one of the most important bills in decades.

House and Senate before the president can sign it into law. House GOP leaders asked members to be ready to vote by 10 a.m. today.

The parliamentarian took issue with a provision allowing for taxincentivized accounts for homeschooling expenses, as well as one dealing with exempting certain universities’ endowments from a new excise tax. The third had to do with the abbreviated name of the legislation. Democrats raised the provisions with the parliamentarian in a bid to delay the bill, but they lack the votes to prevent it from becoming law.

Despite the delay, Republicans celebrated the anticipated passage of their tax plan, which would be their first major legislative victory since taking control of government in January.

“This is one of the most important pieces of legislation Congress has passed in decades. …

For all those millions of Americans struggling paycheck to paycheck, help is on the way,” House Speaker Paul Ryan, RWis., said after the House vote.

President Trump has for months pushed Congress to send him a tax plan by Christmas. The core of the plan is a big, permanent cut to the corporate tax rate, lowering it from 35 percent to 21.

The plan would also cut individual rates for all income tax levels. The largest cuts would go to the wealthy, but in 2018 nearly all Americans will see their income taxes drop, according to a nonpartisan analysis of the plan released Monday. Families earning less than $25,000 a year

would receive an average tax cut of $60; those earning more that $733,000 would see an average cut of $51,000, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

Many of the individual tax breaks are set to expire in coming years. Republicans set those expiration dates to comply with limits on how much their bill could add to the nation’s deficit. They say a future Congress will extend them or make them permanent.

Democrats spoke out against the tax bill. “It’s an all-out looting of America, a wholesale robbery of the middle class,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said. “The GOP tax scam will go down, again, as one of the worst, most scandalous acts of plutocracy in our history.” JEFF STEIN AND DAMIAN PALETTA (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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‘FAKE NEWS’ IS RUNNER-UP

‘Whatever’ tops list of annoying words

The annual Marist College poll of the most annoying words and phrases found “whatever” topping the list for the ninth straight year. It was the pick of one-third of 1,074 poll respondents, who were given five choices. The recent addition “fake news” was slightly ahead of “no offense, but” for second place, at 23 percent to 20 percent. About 1 in 10 found “literally” to be most grating, as did a similar number for “you know what I mean.” (AP)

Amid outrage, EPA ends $120K “media tracking” contract with conservative opposition-research firm

HEALTH The government lifted a threeyear moratorium Tuesday on funding for research into ways that certain viruses can be made more virulent and transmissible, announcing a new plan for assessing applications to study these and other pathogens.

The new policy for pathogens capable of creating a pandemic will allow researchers who want to study them to apply for funding through the new process outlined by the Department of Health and Human Services.

The end of the moratorium applies to research on SARS (pictured above), MERS, influenza and other dangerous viruses that researchers might want to investigate, such as Ebola. The 2014 pause was put in place after a series of lab incidents.

Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, estimated that only a “handful” of facilities with the “highest level of containment” would qualify to conduct this kind of research, which is aimed at developing vaccines and understanding how viruses mutate. He said 10 of the 21 research efforts that had been stopped obtained waivers to resume their work.

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House Republicans are proposing to direct $81 billion in taxpayer funds to respond to this year’s hurricanes and wildfires, in what would be the single largest emergency spending bill since 2009’s supplemental funding for the war on terrorism.

A bill filed Monday by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., includes $28 billion for Federal Emergency Management Agency programs, $26 billion in disaster recovery block grants and $12 billion for infrastructure repairs, as well as billions for agriculture, education and smallbusiness loans.

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On Tuesday, major differences remained between the House and Senate on the funding, not to mention between Republicans and Democrats.

As the cryptocurrency grows, so does its drain on the world’s electricity resources ENVIRONMENT The exploding price of the cryptocurrency bitcoin in recent months has triggered doubts not only about the financial sustainability of the rally, but also about the environmental sustainability of the currency itself.

One alarmist article in Newsweek said that bitcoin computer operations could consume “all of the world’s energy by 2020.” The website Digiconomist claims that bitcoin operations use as much energy as Denmark, or enough to power 3,071,823 U.S. households.

Other analysts say the true figure is smaller, albeit hard to measure because it is spread around the world, generated by an unclear mix of machines and co-mingled with other sources of electricity demand. But several experts told The Washington Post that bitcoin probably uses as much as 1 to 4 gigawatts, or billion watts, of electricity, roughly the output of one to three nuclear reactors.

That would amount to less than 1 percent of U.S. electricity alone and no more than 0.14 percent of global electricity generation.

That won’t devour the world’s entire electricity resources, but it’s a significant drain — and it’s

growing fast. Moreover, some of the electricity used, in China in particular, may come from burning coal — a fossil fuel that contributes most heavily to climate change.

The reason bitcoin uses a lot of energy is rooted in the way the bitcoin network operates. A digital currency, bitcoin is not controlled by any central bank or commercial clearinghouse but by a network of users who expend large amounts of computing power, and thus energy, building a so-called “blockchain” of bitcoin payment transactions.

To compile this comprehensive record, the bitcoin network relies on “miners.” Bitcoin miners have to perform a phenomenally large number of computer calculations to track and verify transactions and solve complex puzzles to obtain bitcoin rewards.

As bitcoins become more popular and valuable, the puzzles miners face grow more difficult, and therefore the demand for highpowered computer processing grows as well. That means more energy usage.

“If the price of bitcoin continues to rise, it will continue to use more energy,” said Mike

Can bitcoin cut back?

Ethereum, the second most widely used cryptocurrency, is changing its protocol to reduce energy use, said Claire Henly, a manager at the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit energy research and consulting group. She said that bitcoin, unlike many other digital currencies using blockchains, is difficult to change because it is decentralized. However, she added, “There are definitely changes that can be made that would reduce energy use and not make this a fatal flaw for bitcoin.” (TWP)

Reed, director of the Blockchain Program Office for Intel Corp.

The reason, he said, is that the price represents “an economic incentive to add more mining equipment to the network … and that incentive is built in.”

And that price is soaring, driven by everything from a craze in South Korea to the international CME Group electronic exchange, which started trading bitcoin futures Monday.

“At the moment, the value of bitcoin is crazily high; a lot of people want to get into the mining game,” explained David Malone,

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a lecturer at Maynooth University in Ireland who co-authored a paper in 2014 finding that at that time, the bitcoin network was using up about as much electricity as his entire country.

Malone thinks the usage has gone up a lot more since his 2014 report, estimating that 1.2 gigawatts is now probably the lowest the number can be — and that assumes everyone is using the most efficient computing hardware, which they certainly are not.

That’s roughly comparable to the electricity generated steadily by one of the larger utility-scale nuclear reactors in the U.S. (There are 99 U.S. nuclear reactors in total, which provide about 20 percent of the nation’s electricity.)

Harald Vranken, a professor in the Netherlands, thinks that with the bitcoin explosion this year, energy usage has increased to between 1 and 4 gigawatts.

“It will only go up if things increase like they have been doing in the last four months,” Vranken said. “So at some point in time, I think, this situation cannot hold. I think that is clear.”

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The Trump administration blamed North Korea on Tuesday for a ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May and crippled parts of Britain’s National Health Service. Homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said North Korea was directly responsible for the WannaCry ransomware attack and that Pyongyang will be held accountable for it. He said the U.S. finding of responsibility is based on evidence and confirmed by private companies and foreign governments. He said Microsoft traced the attack to cyber affiliates of the North Korean government. (AP)

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shiite rebels said it intercepted a missile fired Tuesday over southern Riyadh. The rebels, known as the Houthis, said the missile targeted a “top leadership” meeting at the royal palace in the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh. It was the second time in two months that a rebel projectile had reached as far inside the kingdom as Riyadh.

Saudi state TV said the intercepted missile caused no damage Tuesday.

In a televised address, rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said the range of missiles in the Houthi arsenal is growing. The U.S. has backed Saudi Arabia in its war in Yemen. (AP)

The FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were still trying to determine what caused a fire that knocked out power to the Atlanta airport, but they said Tuesday there was no sign of terrorism. The fire took out the airport’s power supply and also its backup electricity for about 11 hours Sunday. Airlines at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport hoped to return to normal service Tuesday.

But stranded passengers were still sleeping Tuesday in the atrium area that is often used for events aimed at showcasing the world’s busiest airport. (AP)

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The approval signals a new era for gene therapy, a field that struggled to overcome setbacks but is pushing forward in an effort to develop treatments for genetic diseases. Yet the products, should they reach patients, are likely to carry stratospheric prices.

Philadelphia-based Spark Therapeutics, which makes the childhood-blindness treatment, said it will not announce the price until January. Analysts speculate it could be as much as $1 million.

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The eye remedy cleared Tuesday would directly treat disorders that are caused by a faulty gene.

The patients in the study have a defective gene called RPE65, which is responsible for making light receptors work in the eye.

The new treatment, Luxturna, is injected into the eye and uses a benign virus to deliver healthy copies of the gene to the retina.

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At least 12 people died when a bus carrying cruise ship passengers to Mayan ruins in eastern Mexico flipped over on a highway early Tuesday, officials said. Seven Americans were among the injured.

Quintana Roo state authorities said they hadn’t yet established the nationalities of the dead.

Royal Caribbean Cruises said that passengers from two of its ships were involved in the crash. (AP)

A man convicted of leading an Islamic State-inspired plot to behead a conservative blogger who upset Muslims when she organized a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 28 years in prison. David Wright, age 28, was found guilty two months ago of conspiring with two others to kill blogger Pamela Geller on behalf of the terror group. The plot was not carried out. (AP)

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Selling Panthers amid scandal attracts suitors who might move team NFL The stunning news of the rare opportunity to purchase an NFL team has quickly garnered the attention of sports figures, business investors and politicians alike.

Amid reports of sexual and racial harassment by Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, he announced he is selling the NFL franchise he founded in Charlotte, N.C., after this season.

The team promoted Tina Becker to COO on Monday, giving her full control of day-to-day operations while Richardson shifts his focus to the sale of the team — which will come with a multibillion-dollar price tag.

His decision to walk away after nearly 25 years as owner has left more questions than answers about the franchise’s future — most notably, who will buy it and will they try to move the team.

Mayor Vi Lyles said she is

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“The City of Charlotte values its long-running relationship with the Panthers after more than 22 seasons of NFL football,” Lyles said in a statement. “The Panthers are part of Charlotte’s fabric. ... We understand transitions are inevitable, and we look forward to working with current and future ownership.”

The chance to purchase an NFL team has potential suitors emerging.

Rapper and actor Diddy indicated his interest in purchasing the Panthers on Twitter right after Richardson’s announcement.

Two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry, a Charlotte native, chimed in with “I want in!” Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick also expressed interest.

Local businesspeople may have better prospects.

Speedway Motorsports chairman Bruton Smith and his son, CEO Marcus Smith, have previously expressed interest in purchasing the Panthers.

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Richardson’s move raises big questions After the NFL launched an investigation into Jerry Richardson’s conduct, the Panthers owner announced he’ll sell his team once the season is over.

Team can leave in 2019 The next buyer of the Panthers may want to relocate the team, but the club is tethered to Charlotte through the 2018 season because of a 2013 agreement between the city and the team that provided $87.5 million in public funding for renovations at Bank of America Stadium. Those renovations are nearly finished. (AP)

And the franchise is loaded with minority owners including real estate magnate “Smoky” Bissell, Family Dollar founder Leon Levine and members of the Belk family. Developer Johnny Harris, who was instrumental in

luring the Wells Fargo Championship and the PGA Championship to Charlotte, could also try to increase his ownership stake.

Let’s not forget Michael Jordan. The six-time NBA champion owns the Hornets. However, Jordan’s interest level is unknown, and his representative Estee Portnoy said she had no comment on the Panthers sale.

More names will surely emerge over the next several weeks, but they need to be ready to write a big check. Forbes recently estimated the Panthers’ worth at $2.3 billion.

Before any sale can be finalized, it will need the approval of 24 of 32 NFL owners. STEVE REED (AP)

World 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin, below, fired coach Dennis Mitchell after an investigation in a British newspaper that appeared to link the sprinter to people offering to supply performance-enhancing drugs. The IAAF’s Athletics Integrity Unit said it is investigating the allegations with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. The Telegraph reported Tuesday that Mitchell and track agent Robert Wagner offered to supply and administer testosterone and human growth hormone to reporters posing as representatives for an actor training for a film. They allegedly offered those services for $250,000. Mitchell and Wagner said PEDs in track were widespread, the report p said. (AP)

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Future Nicole Mitchell

Kodak Black Bjork

The year of the flute

Bjork, Future and jazz’s brightest minds use the instrument to say what they can’t

MUSIC Someone recently asked Bjork about the ideas that animate her new album, and the visionary singer gave a visionary answer. She said she wanted to conjure a “post-Trump” world where listeners could “escape to an island, and there’s a lot of women there with children, and everybody’s playing flutes, and everybody’s naked, and there’s all these plants you’ve never seen before and all these birds you’ve never heard before, and orchids, and it has that feeling of pioneering into a new world.”

Click on the title track of Bjork’s “Utopia,” and you’ll hear what she sees. Or at least all the flutes. This year’s brightest jazz recordings featured some astonishing flute work, while various

flute samples wafted through the year’s hottest rap hits, most notably Future’s “Mask Off,” the highest-charting hit of his career. So the sound is all around us — up on the bandstands, out on the airwaves, high on the pop charts, deep in our dreamtime.

Take Nicole Mitchell, a flutist, jazz composer and the leader of Black Earth Ensemble. Her commanding new album “Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds” aims to reconcile dreams of a Bjork-adjacent paradise with the global miasma we’re living in.

“I’m curious about discovering what happens if we unify duality by smashing together two worlds: a dystopic world and utopic world,” Mitchell writes in the album’s liner notes. “Can human consciousness be transformed by c

embracing fears and establishing balance?”

Musically, Mitchell asks that question most directly during a piece called “Listening Embrace,” in which the musician breathes heavy into a fragile melody, as if trying to speed up the song’s stubborn drumbeat.

The friction feels heroic.

Other rappers have pointed their flutes — some of them synthetic — in different directions. On Kodak Black’s “Tunnel Vision,” the flute sits high in the mix, twisting like steam. On “Get Right Witcha” by Migos, it moves differently, like a steady breeze. On Tay-K’s “The Race,” a thrill ride of a hit about the life of a teenage fugitive, the flute sounds bright and urgent — like an alarm that can’t be shut off.

If there’s a commonality here, it’s this: Instead of evoking fantasy worlds, these flute lines seem to be engaging rappers in sonic conversation.

There’s an idea in country music that the keening sounds of the steel guitar help to convey the sorrow that unflappable singers won’t allow themselves to express. In this year’s rap music — and perhaps in Bjork’s and Mitchell’s new music, too — these potent flute sounds appear be doing something similar.

Spending our lives in the dehumanizing airlessness of digital space has made it easier than ever to absorb the heaviness of an ugly world, but there’s still a lightness to be felt on our every breath.

Stars shine on G-Eazy’s latest album G-Eazy’s fifth album, “The Beautiful & Damned,” has so much star power that its breakout status was guaranteed — though he overcompensates. The hard-hitting first single “No Limit,” featuring A$AP Rocky and Cardi B, has already crashed the Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100, while the pop-leaning “Him & I,” with Halsey, seems set to surpass it on the strength of her haunting chorus. With so much strong material, including “Charles Brown,” featuring E-40 and Jay Ant, and the jazzy “Summer in December,” there’s no need for throwaway songs like “That’s a Lot” or lines like “To the beach, I don’t bring sand” in “The Plan.”

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Lady Gaga announces Las Vegas residency Lad

Lady Gaga will join the list of o superstars with regularly scheduled shows in Las Vegas in 2018, when she kicks off a two-year residency resid next December. Gaga said in a statement Tuesday that it has been her “life-long dream” to perform perfo in Las Vegas. MGM Resorts International did not immediately announce performance dates at Pa Park Theater, its 5,300-seat venue located at the Park MGM casino-resort. (AP) Comedy Central cancels T.J. Miller’s “Gorburger Show” amid sexual misconduct claims against comic

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Welcome to the real Eminem show Even with his famous collaborators, the MC is center stage on ‘Revival’ MUSIC REVIEW With in-demand collaborators such as Beyonce, Ed Sheeran, P!nk and Alicia Keys, Eminem’s new album just screams “I want a radio hit.” It wouldn’t be hard to believe, especially since his last big tracks have relied heavily on Rihanna, from “Love the Way You Lie” to “The Monster.” But on “Revival,” Eminem returns as the star of his show.

Beyonce sounds heavenly on opener “Walk on Water,” but Em’s words are even better, as he delivers honest lyrics that sound, and feel, true to him: “Every album song I was spazzin’ the f--- out on/ And now I’m gettin’ clowned and frowned on.”

Eminem is no longer hip-hop’s most prized wordsmith, but on “Revival,” his ninth studio album, he remains relevant with his smart rhymes, which is refreshing in the age of “mumble rap.” The album artwork is of the American flag, with race and President Donald Trump

Issa Rae developing two more shows, a comedy and a drama, as part of HBO producing deal

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recurring topics throughout the 19 tracks.

“Just keep m a r ch i n’, til we reach Congress/ But ‘Revival’ they’re gonna Eminem say you’re tryin’ to take an irrational stance/ If you try to slander the flag/ But somebody has to be the sacrificial lamb/ So they call it a Kaepernick tantrum/ If you don’t stand for the national anthem,” he raps on the six-minute “Untouchable.”

Eminem co-produced some of

the songs, also getting help from Rick Rubin, Dr. Dre, Alex da Kid, Mr. Porter and Skylar Grey, the singer, songwriter and originator of “Love the Way You Lie.” Overall, “Revival” isn’t his best album, but it’s solid and does showcase some growth.

“All in all, it’s said and done/ And at the end of my run I just rewind clocks, forever young/ Make time stop, will I ever fall off? That day will never come,” he raps on “Nowhere Fast,” later adding: “I’m better than I ever was.”

Self-confidence is more important than critics. MESFIN FEKADU (AP)

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news that Mariah Carey’s Christmas classic just cracked Billboard’s Top 10 for the first time since its release in 1994. It hit No. 9 on the chart dated Dec. 30.

“Instead of excoriating Ta-Nehisi, folks need to interrogate the system that propped him up as a lone, singular Black voice.” @FREEBLACKGIRL, on influential black author Ta-Nehisi

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BOBBY FINGER, at jezebel.com, after The New York Times report on the Pentagon’s former UFO program seemed to give credence to theories long spouted by former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge.

“Nothing but respect for MY Robot Jon Voight President.” @LONS, tweeting about the President Trump robot that was introduced into Walt Disney World’s Hall of Presidents on Tuesday. More than a few people on Twitter thought that the robot looked more like actor Jon Voight than Trump.

“This is just a Jon Voight robot with a different hairpiece,” @jfruh tweeted.

So far, Trump has not tweeted any reaction to his robot likeness.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You may have to do something that you’ve long suspected would fall to you eventually — and today is the day.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You’re not in a position that will let you step outside your comfort zone with much confidence today — but there is still much to be done.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You’ll want to get advice from someone who has been in your shoes before — but that person may be hard to find today.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Synchronicity

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You’re eager to spend some time alone, but that luxury isn’t likely to be afforded to you today as others ask for your time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Go after what you want, but don’t tie your success to someone else’s failure. You must continue to wish the best for others, even the competition.

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AVG. HIGH: 46 RECORD HIGH: 66 AVG. LOW: 31 RECORD LOW: 5 SUNRISE: 7:22 a.m. SUNSET: 4:49 p.m.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Any kind of overreaction today is likely to make matters worse, so you’ll want to keep your emotions in check no matter how bad things get.

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1812: German authors Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm publish the first volume of the first edition of their collection of folk stories, “Children’s and Household Tales.”

1860: South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union as all 169 delegates to a special convention in Charleston vote in favor of separation.

1946: The Frank Capra film “It’s A Wonderful Life,” starring James Stewart and Donna Reed, has a preview showing for charity in New York, a day before its official world premiere.

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