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Huge tunes From Lana Del Rey to Cardi B, these are the year’s finest listens 18

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The National Institutes of Health is working with musicians, music therapists and neuroscientists to figure out how music can be used not just to comfort, but to help cure the sick 8

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Two Hawaiians who grew up as best friends have learned they are brothers. Alan Robinson and Walter Macfarlane have been friends for 60 years. Born 15 months apart, they met in sixth grade and played football together at a Honolulu prep school. Macfarlane never knew his father, and Robinson was adopted. Separately, they traced their ancestry through DNA sites. Said Robinson: “This is the best Christmas present I could ever imagine.” (AP)

Police in Stuart, Fla., said on their Facebook page that a man who “didn’t know when to clam up” was cited for misuse of 911 after he called twice to complain about his seafood order. Police said Nelson Agosto, 51, called 911 from a restaurant twice after he ordered and ate a steamed clam dinner. He said he didn’t want to pay because the order was “too small,” UPI reported Tuesday. Police responded — to cite Agosto. (EXPRESS)

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“We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong.” MARY HOROMANSKI, of Erie, Pa., on getting an electric bill this month for $28.4 billion. A spokesman for power provider Penelec said the bill likely had a misplaced decimal point.

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Chen, a 13-year-old performing sea lion, writes the Chinese character for “dog” — the animal symbol for the Chinese year that begins Feb. 16 — during a press preview Tuesday at a marine amusement park in Yokohama, Japan.

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THE DISTRICT Fresh lumber lines the ceiling of Rik Freeman’s Northeast D.C. studio. New track lighting brightens the space, while plywood panels have replaced the original doors of the carriage house that a fire damaged. The renovations signify much more than design improvements. The revitalized space in the Deanwood neighborhood means a fresh start for Freeman, whose career, along with that of fellow artist and friend Rafiki Morris, was upended by arson in the spring. The March 25 blaze not only destroyed a structure, but damaged some of Freeman’s work and severely tested his health. Flames ravaged several paintings by Morris, who had stored his work there for more than a decade, and forced him to start anew. Still, both men finally have good news as a tumultuous year closes. One just completed a mural commissioned by the D.C. government, and the other is waiting for the return of 25 pieces that were stolen while he lived abroad

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Medical woes, theft and arson: A rough year is finally looking up

Rik Freeman’s carriage-house studio in the Deanwood neighborhood of Northeast D.C. burned after someone torched a car in an alley in March.

in Trinidad and Tobago. The early-morning fire ignited when someone torched a stolen car in the alley next to the carriage house behind the Olive Street home Freeman shares with his wife, Margarita Contreras. Smoke damaged about a half dozen of Freeman’s canvas creations, and he had to delay his work on a large mural for the city. Morris lost about a dozen works: Several disappeared into ash, while others were singed, smoked and waterlogged.

“It’s been a rough thing, with the whole Trinidad theft and the fire. That physical loss of them was very hard. That was like losing children.” RAFIKI MORRIS, an artist who lost many of his works this year, some in a fire and some in an overseas theft

“The fire set everything back. I didn’t have a place to paint the mural,” Freeman said. “But it’s kind of like life: Lots of things set you back.” The fire damage was just part of a turbulent period for both men. Freeman nearly died of a heart attack six months before, and the sight of the fire almost caused another, he said. It took months to rebuild the studio and deal with insurance claims. And his German shepherd, Vee, died this summer. But now the good news. Freeman started painting again in earnest in August when he began work on two 5- by 8-foot mural panels for the Kenilworth-Parkside Recreation Center. The mural panels were installed outside the center’s gymnasium this month, Freeman said. Morris said things also are looking up for him. His stolen paintings were recovered and are en route. Early next year, he plans to exhibit those pieces and some of the fire-damaged work in D.C. and Baltimore, he said. “ I a m actua l ly pai nti ng again. I am excited about that,” Morris said. CLARENCE WILLIAMS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Contest to choose name for lion nets $3,500-plus A zoo has raised more than $3,500 for a lion conservation group through a contest to name its newest lion cub. The Virginia Zoo in Norfolk said in a Facebook post Monday that the cub has been named “Emery.” The zoo held a contest in which members of the public could submit names, with each dollar donated counting as one vote for the submission. (AP) GREEN CHRISTMAS

$100 bills handed out in Md. for holiday giving An anonymous donor in Maryland put her fellow congregants to work spreading Christmas cheer — with $100 bills. The donor arranged for her pastor at Severna Park United Methodist Church to distribute a $100 bill to each of 100 congregants as the holiday season began. Some congregants used the money to tip waitresses. One took a cancer patient on a mini shopping spree. Another held a pizza party for a group of homeless people. (AP)

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VIRGINIA Lawyers for a Democrat locked in a tied Virginia House of Delegates race were preparing a court challenge Tuesday, hoping to head off a name-drawing scheduled for today that would decide not only that race, but also which party controls the chamber. In her legal motion, Democratic challenger Shelly Simonds will ask the Newport News Circuit Court to reverse its decision following a recount last week to count a disputed ballot for Republican incumbent David Yancey. Simonds’ lawyers provided copies of the motion to reconsider but could not file it Tuesday because the court was closed. Yancey appeared to beat Simonds by 10 votes on Election Day, but the Dec. 19 recount left Simonds ahead by a single vote. The next day, a three-judge panel decided that a ballot that had been declared ineligible during the recount should count for Yancey, tying the race at 11,608 votes apiece. The ballot in question contained a mark for Simonds as well as a mark for Yancey, and an extra mark by Simonds’ name that the court ruled was an effort to strike out

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the mark in her favor. If Simonds wins the seat, the House chamber would be split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, forcing the parties into a rare power-sharing arrangement. If Yancey wins, the Republicans would retain their majority by the slimmest possible margin. The Democrat’s motion asserts that the panel made a “clear legal error … [that] ran contrary to Virginia law” by counting the disputed ballot. A spokesman for House Republicans did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The ballot The ballot in question included a mark for Democrat Shelly Simonds as well as a mark for incumbent David Yancey, and an extra mark by Simonds’ name the court ruled was an effort to strike out the mark in her favor. (TWP)

A rarely invoked Virginia law requires tied elections to be settled by “lot.” Members of the state election board are scheduled to gather in Richmond at 11 a.m. today to draw the name of either Yancey or Simonds to represent the 94th House District, which encompasses part of the city of Newport News. Their names, written on paper and tucked inside two film canisters, are to be plucked from a 180-year-old turquoise pitcher that was excavated from under long-buried stables in Richmond’s Capitol Square. LAURA VOZZELLA (THE WASHINGTON POST)

D.C. taxi drivers, struggling to hang on in an industry in decline, are getting a boost from the city in the form of subsidized fares. The drivers are ferrying foster children to school, taking cancer patients to treatment and helping veterans get to job interviews. Most of those fares result from Transport DC, a program the city launched two years ago to use taxis as an alternative option to the costly MetroAccess program. But recently the city has expanded on the success of Transport DC to issue new contracts to extend free or reduced-price rides to veterans, foster children and fixed-income cancer patients. “Without these fares I would probably be out of business,” said David Turner, who has been driving a cab in D.C. for 15 years. (TWP)

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Pole in windshield doesn’t stop driver

Police in Montgomery County say a driver who was operating under the influence early Friday on the Intercounty Connector north of Rockville hit a wooden sign post, which lodged in his car’s windshield, then continued driving while authorities tried to stop him. The driver, Omar Rasharn Thompson, 42, eventually did stop after taking an exit, the post still sticking out of his car. He was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. (AP/TWP)

Police: 18-year-old man found dead Sunday night in Silver Spring from apparent gunshot wound

A teenager has been charged with fatally shooting a couple in their Virginia home. Police said the 17-year-old shot himself after shooting the couple and was hospitalized in life-threatening condition. Police in Fairfax County said Saturday that they filed charges against the teen. His name wasn’t released because of his age. Scott Fricker, 48, and his wife, Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, were shot Friday in their home in Reston. The suspect had been dating their daughter, but the family had recently persuaded her to break up with him because he espoused neo-Nazi views. (AP/TWP)

MONTGOMERY COUNTY

County OKs bill allowing property tax prepayment The Montgomery County Council broke its winter recess Tuesday to pass an expedited bill allowing residents to prepay their 2018 property taxes. Last week, the council went back and forth over whether it would rush to make the option available to Montgomery property owners before a new federal cap on tax deductions takes effect Jan. 1. The legislation, which passed 7-1, will go into effect as soon as it is signed by County Executive Isiah Leggett. Council member Craig Rice was the lone vote against the bill. (TWP) LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA.

Man, 39, apprehended in shooting of 2 deputies Two sheriff’s deputies shot and wounded in Sterling on Christmas Eve were reported in stable condition Monday. One of the deputies was shot in the leg; the other was shot in an arm and both legs. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said 39-year-old Douglas Johnson Jr. was arrested Sunday night after a domestic incident. Police allege that Johnson grabbed his own gun and shot the deputies. Johnson was charged with two counts of attempted capital murder. (AP)

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Study: Older adults don’t need bone supplements HEALTH One of the most contentious questions in nutrition has been whether older adults should be taking supplemental vitamin D and calcium. As the world’s population ages and broken bones become a public health concern, researchers have been trying to make sense of conflicting studies on the association between supplements and fracture risk. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Tuesday took a look at this issue by analyzing 33 randomized clinical trials involving

more than 50,000 adults over the age of 50. Each of these previous research papers involved comparing calcium, vitamin D or both with a placebo or no treatment. The analysis, conducted by JiaGuo Zhao of Tianjin Hospital in China, was focused on older adults who live in the general community and did not include those in nursing homes or hospitals. The conclusion: Vitamin D and calcium supplements do not seem to prevent bone breaks or hip fractures in those adults regardless of dose, gender, history of fractures or calcium in diets.

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Report: Fish gives kids an IQ, sleep boost Children who eat fish once a week tend to sleep better and improve their IQ scores, a study published in Scientific Reports has found, the New York Daily News reports. University of Pennsylvania researchers collected information on fish consumption among 541 Chinese boys and girls ages 9 to 11. Parents reported sleep habits, and at age 12, the children took an IQ test. Kids who ate fish at least once a week slept better and had an IQ score 4.8 points higher than those who rarely ate fish. Those who “sometimes” ate fish scored 3.3 points higher than the “rarely” camp. Fish contains omega-3 fatty acids — linked to better sleep and smarts. (EXPRESS)

Daniel Fabricant, president of the Natural Products Association, said the study draws its conclusions with “too broad of a brush.” He said it focuses on the healthiest segment of the population by looking at people who live at home. Both calcium and vitamin D are important to bone maintenance, and the best way to get them are by eating dairy products (calcium) and getting sun exposure (vitamin D). Many Americans don’t get enough of either, which is why the supplements debate has become important. ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Erie, Pa., buried under more than 4 feet of snow

ERIE, PA. | A woman digs out Tuesday after a record two-day snowfall in the city on Lake Erie. With lake-effect snow falling at a rate of up to three inches per hour, the National Weather Service reported that Erie had 56.5 inches of snow since the storm began Christmas Eve, including 34 inches on Christmas Day.

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The amount in cuts the U.S. said it negotiated in the United Nations’ 2018-2019 budget, in addition to reductions in support functions. The move comes after the U.N. rejected President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. (AP)

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FBI’s deputy director to retire early next year Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s deputy director who has been the target of Republican critics for more than a year, plans to retire in a few months when he becomes fully eligible for pension benefits in March, according to people familiar with the matter. McCabe, 49, was former director James B. Comey’s right-hand man, a position that involved him in most of the FBI’s actions that vex President Trump and in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state. (TWP) ENTERTAINMENT

Miss America leaders step down amid scandal The top leaders of the Miss America Organization resigned Saturday after emails published Friday by HuffPost revealed that previous pageant winners were disparaged and called crude names in internal messages. Sam Haskell stepped down as chief executive, and board chairman Lynn Weidner submitted her resignation, according to the organization, which puts on the pageant. President Josh Randle and board member Tammy Haddad also resigned. (TWP) LOS ANGELES

Person leaves package of manure for Mnuchin The U.S. Secret Service said it has interviewed someone claiming responsibility for delivering a gift-wrapped package of horse manure addressed to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. The box was found Saturday at the home of Mnuchin’s neighbor in the Bel Air neighborhood in Los Angeles. The LAPD bomb squad responded to the package, which police said was marked as being from “the American people.” (AP)

Police: Man arrested in Christmas slaying of ex-wife, 2 kids before shootout with Phoenix officers

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Music’s healing power NIH taps the brain to find out how music can do more than just comfort the sick WASHINGTONPOST.COM THE SWITCH

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HEALTH Like a friendly Pied Piper, the violinist keeps up a toe-tapping beat as dancers weave through busy hospital hallways and into the chemotherapy unit, patients looking up in surprised delight. Music increasingly is becoming a part of patient care — although it’s still pretty unusual to see roving performers captivating entire wards, like at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital one fall morning. “It takes them away for just a few minutes to some other place where they don’t have to think about what’s going on,” said cellist Martha Vance after playing for a patient isolated to avoid spreading infection. The challenge: harnessing music to do more than comfort the sick. Now, the National Institutes of Health is bringing together musicians, music therapists and neuroscientists to tap into the brain’s circuitry and figure out how. “The brain is able to compensate for other deficits sometimes by using music to communicate,” said NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, a geneticist who also plays a mean guitar. To turn that ability into a successful therapy, “it would be a really good thing to know which parts of the brain are still intact to be called into action. To know the circuits well enough to know the backup plan,” Collins added. Scientists aren’t starting from scratch. Learning to play an instrument, for example, sharpens how the brain processes sound and can improve children’s reading and other school skills. Stroke survivors who can’t speak sometimes can sing, and music therapy can help them retrain brain pathways to communicate. Similarly, Parkinson’s patients sometimes

Cellist Martha Vance plays for a patient this fall at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

walk better to the right beat. But what’s missing is rigorous science to better understand how either listening to or creating music might improve health in a range of other ways — research into how the brain processes music that NIH is beginning to fund. Opera star Renee Fleming partnered with Collins to start the Sound Health initiative. She spent two hours in an MRI machine at the NIH campus to help researchers tease out what brain activity is key for singing. First Fleming spoke the lyrics. Then she sang them. Finally, she imagined singing them. “We’re trying to understand the brain not just so we can address mental disorders or diseases or injuries, but also so we can understand what happens when a brain’s working right and what happens when it’s performing at a really high level,” said NIH researcher David Jangraw, who shared the MRI data with

Does dance help? A neuroscientist and a dance professor in North Carolina are starting an improvisational dance class for Alzheimer’s patients to see if music and movement enhance a diseased brain’s neural networks. Before memory loss becomes severe, Alzheimer’s patients can experience apathy, depression, and gait and balance problems. The NIH-funded study will randomly assign such patients to the improvisation class or to other interventions. The test: If quality-of-life symptoms improve, will MRI scans show strengthening of the neural networks that govern gait or social engagement? (AP)

The Associated Press. To Jangraw’s surprise, several brain regions were more active when Fleming imagined singing than when she actually sang, including the brain’s emotion center and areas involved with

motion and vision. One theory: it took more mental effort to keep track of where she was in the song, and to maintain its emotion, without auditory feedback. Fleming put it more simply: “I’m skilled at singing so I didn’t have to think about it quite so much,” she said. Unlike music therapy, which works one-on-one toward individual outcomes, the arts and humanities program at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center lets musicians-inresidence play throughout the hospital. Palliative care nurses often seek Vance, the cellist, for patients anxious or in pain. Julia Langley, who directs Georgetown’s program, wants research into the type and dose of music for different health situations: “If we can study the arts in the same way that science studies medication and other therapeutics, I think we will be doing so much good.” LAURAN NEERGAARD (AP)

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Less than a month after Tesla unveiled a new backup power system in South Australia, the world’s largest lithium-ion battery is already being put to the test. In the past three weeks alone, the Hornsdale Power Reserve has smoothed out at least two major energy outages, responding even more quickly than the coal-fired backups that were supposed to provide emergency power. Tesla’s battery last week kicked in just 0.14 seconds after one of Australia’s biggest plants, the Loy Yang facility in Victoria, suffered a sudden, unexplained drop in output, according to the International Business Times. And the week before that, another failure at Loy Yang prompted the Hornsdale battery to respond in as little as four seconds. State officials have called the response time “a record,” according to local media. The effectiveness of Tesla’s battery is being closely watched in a region that is in the grips of an energy crisis. The price of electricity is soaring in South Australia, where a 2016 outage led 1.7 million residents to lose power in a blackout. Fed by wind turbines at the nearby Hornsdale wind farm, the battery stores excess energy that is produced when the demand for electricity isn’t peaking. It can power up to 30,000 homes, though only for short periods. BRIAN FUNG

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PHILANTHROPY Many charities are worried that the tax overhaul bill President Trump signed last week could spur a landmark shift in philanthropy, speeding the decline of middle-class donors and transforming charitable giving into a pursuit largely left to the wealthy. The source of concern is how the law is expected to sharply reduce the number of taxpayers who qualify for the charitable tax deduction — a big driver of gifts to nonprofits. One study predicts that donations will fall next year by at least $13 billion, or 4.5 percent. That decline is expected to be concentrated among gifts from the middle of the income scale. The richest Americans will mostly keep their ability to take the tax break. That could create new winners and losers in philanthropy. Nonprofits have long seen that the wealthy are more likely to donate to museums and universities, while smaller donors tend to give to social-service agencies and religious organizations. “The tax code is now poised

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to de-incentivize the heart of civic action in America,” said Dan Cardinali, president of Independent Sector, a public-policy group for charities, foundations and corporate giving programs. At the United Way, there is concern because middle-class donors are the charity’s “bread and butter,” said Steve Taylor,

vice president for public policy at United Way Worldwide. The charity’s average annual gift is $379, mostly from people who pledge during workplace campaigns to have $5 to $10 a week deducted from their paychecks. The tax code has encouraged individual giving since the charitable deduction was created in

1917. The average charitable deduction has been around $4,400 the past few years, according to Internal Revenue Service data. The deduction allows taxpayers to avoid paying federal income tax on the amount of the donation if they itemize their taxes. But the number of people who qualify for the charitable deduction is projected to plummet next year from about 30 percent of tax filers to as low as 5 percent. That’s because the new tax bill nearly doubles the standard deduction and limits the value of other deductions, such as for state and local taxes. The biggest change is expected to be among households earning $75,000 to $200,000 a year — a bracket in which more than half of filers itemized their taxes under the old code. Last summer, several philanthropic leaders pleaded their case to Rep. Kevin Brady, RTexas, the main tax bill writer in the House. The nonprofits pushed to make donations a universal deduction — available to anyone, regardless of whether they itemize their taxes. This would have been a major expansion, and a way to preserve the deduction’s power. That change, however, survived neither the House nor the Senate. TODD C. FRANKEL (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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New York City, San Francisco and Philadelphia filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Defense, arguing that many service members who are disqualified from gun ownership weren’t reported to the national background check system. The lawsuit seeks judicial oversight to ensure compliance with the department’s obligation to submit records. The department has acknowledged past errors. (AP)

Syrian rebels and opposition groups rejected Russia’s proposed peace talks, accusing Moscow of failing to pressure its ally, President Bashar al-Assad, to end the conflict. Rebel groups said Tuesday that the talks expected next month would “circumvent” the U.N.-led process, which has been stalled for years. The rebel groups said Moscow has asked them to drop their demand that Assad step down. (AP)

’Tis the season for returning unwanted gifts: 40 percent of holiday-season returns will be made by Sunday, CNBC reports. FedEx and UPS compete hard for this business but would rather not go to your home for pickups. So FedEx has added drop-off points at grocers, drugstores and other retail outlets. And UPS operates the Access Point network, which has drop sites in dry cleaners and hardware stories, for example. (EXPRESS)

British woman sentenced in Egypt to three years in jail for smuggling painkillers

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Trump relishes state dinners — but not as a host POLITICS President Trump couldn’t stop talking about the red carpets, military parades and fancy dinners that were lavished upon him during his recent tour of Asia. “Magnificent,” he declared at one point. But he has yet to reciprocate, making him the first president in almost a century to close his first year in office without welcoming a visiting counterpart to the U.S. with similar trappings. Such visits are an important diplomatic tool that includes a showy arrival ceremony and an elaborate White House dinner. Trump panned state dinners as a candidate, criticizing President Obama’s decision to welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping with a 2015 state visit. “I would not be throwing [Xi] a dinner,” Trump said in 2015. “I would get him a McDonald’s hamburger and say we’ve got to get down to work.” Last month it was Xi’s turn to literally roll out the red carpet. He poured on the pageantry for Trump in Beijing on what was billed as a “state visit, plus.” Trump also made state visits to South Korea and Vietnam. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said there is no “singular reason” why Trump hasn’t extended a state visit invitation yet, but added that the administration hopes to schedule a visit early in 2018. Sanders didn’t hint at who might be the first leader invited. DARLENE SUPERVILLE (AP)

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Resolution follows win on Christmas NBA If only Christmas came every day. Following the Wizards’ biggest win of the season, a Monday takeover inside TD Garden Arena, players relished the 111-103 triumph over the Celtics. Washington hasn’t shown consistent energy and effort this season, especially against teams with losing records, but the Christmas Day win could catapult the team from its doldrums. “I wish we could play a [national] TV game every time,” said center Marcin Gortat, who recorded a double-double. “We gave 110 percent effort and unbelievable energy, focus, and we didn’t get distracted and we didn’t drop our heads down after a turnover or missed shot. We just continued to play hard.” After the high in Boston, the

Wizards (19-15) return tonight to a regional broadcast against the worst team in the Eastern Conference, the Hawks (8-25). Often, this would cause the Wizards to snooze and — to borrow Gortat’s words — not show up in a game that could easily turn into another bad loss. With the Wizards’ bad habits in mind, John Wall believes the Christmas road win will amount to nothing if his team comes up empty in Atlanta. “If we back this up with a win on Wednesday, I think it give us momentum going into Friday against Houston and going into the new year,” Wall said. “But if we don’t back it up, I think it’s just doing the same thing back over and over again.” If nothing else, the win in Boston sparked nostalgia for the Wizards, who closed the game with their effective small-ball lineup from last season — Markieff Morris at center with forwards Otto Porter Jr. and Kelly Oubre Jr. Washington typically elects

3 Titans (8-7) Bradley Beal said it’s time for the Wizards to “take off” and play every game like they did in Boston.

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to get back on defense to stop transition plays instead of sending bodies to the offensive glass, but Oubre and Porter stayed active in rebounding and created three extra possessions in the final three minutes.

Overall, Washington scored 18 second-chance points and outplayed Boston in the paint for a 60-44 advantage. Inside the locker room, Wall relived the most painful moments of his 21-point, 14-assist performance, smiling while telling Morris about getting poked in the eye during one play. Bradley Beal (25 points) did not overly celebrate the Christmas win, but like many of his teammates, recognized its potential to define the rest of the season. “We got to realize it’s time for us to take off,” Beal said. “We got to start making some noise e and really showing our identity y each and every game.” CANDACE BUCKNER UCKNER

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The NFL has moved five games from 1 p.m. Sunday to 4:25 p.m. so every wild-card hopeful plays at the same time. New Year’s Eve plans could cause some fans of these home teams to skip the games. (EXPRESS)

They’ll clinch by beating the Jaguars. Otherwise, they’ll need the Bills and Chargers to each lose. Fans in Nashville might rather spend their day honky-tonk hopping.

2 Falcons (9-6) If they lose to the Panthers, the Seahawks can take the last NFC wild-card spot by beating the Cardinals. Carolina would clinch the NFC South with a win.

1 Ravens (9-6) Coach John Harbaugh said fans who won’t show should give their tickets to those who will. Baltimore clinches with a win over the Bengals or losses by the Bills or Titans.

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Three days after the Steelers cut James Harrison, PIttsburgh’s franchise sack leader posed for a picture with Tom Brady in the Patriots’ locker room. “Finally ... A teammate that’s older than me!” Harrison wrote on an Instagram post of the image. ESPN reported Tuesday that Harrison was signed by New England after clearing waivers. He had one ne sack and three tackles while appearing in five games this year. Harrison is 39. Brady is 40. (EXPRESS)

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Caps’ agreement with top prospect muddles future of backup goalie NHL Brian MacLellan, the general manager of the Capitals, recently traveled to Russia to have dinner with top goaltending prospect Ilya Samsonov, a 2015 first-round pick. The purpose of the trip was twofold: to show Samsonov how valued he is by

the organization and to come to an agreement that, once his Kontinental Hockey League contract expires in April, Samsonov will sign with Washington and play in North America next season. According to a source, MacLellan was successful on both fronts. With Samsonov’s pending arrival, it’s looking more likely that this could be Philipp Grubauer’s last season with the Capitals. Washington signed Grubauer, Braden Holtby’s steady backup,

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Grubauer may be gone next season Philipp Grubauer, 26, will be a restricted free agent again after this season.

to a one-year, $1.5 million deal in the offseason. But the team exposed him to Vegas’ expansion draft before that, and he will be a restricted free agent again this summer.

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For now, the Capitals are in no rush to deal Grubauer. Quality backup goaltending is hard to find, and the trade return for goalies is typically a mixed bag. For his career, Grubauer, 26,

is 30-26-10 with a .919 save percentage and a 2.37 goals against average. His subpar statistics this season — 2-5-2 with an .898 save percentage and a 2.98 goals against average — have mostly come when the team struggles in the second game of back-to-back sets, when Grubauer typically starts. The Caps visit the Rangers tonight (8, NBCSN) and host the Bruins on Thursday. With Holtby under contract through 2019-20, Grubauer’s opportunity to be a top option will likely have to come elsewhere. “I’m happy to stay here for another year,” he said. “But the whole game starts again this summer.” ISABELLE KHURSHUDYAN (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Panthers lose No. 2 receiver Byrd for postseason run

Broncos turn back to Lynch for season finale vs. Chiefs

Washington will be without defensive lineman Ziggy Hood for Sunday’s regular-season finale at the Giants, coach Jay Gruden confirmed Tuesday. Hood, who appeared in all 15 games this season, broke his elbow in the first half Sunday in a 27-11 win over Denver. Gruden also quashed speculation that he might rest QB Kirk Cousins on Sunday to keep him healthy and to evaluate backup Colt McCoy heading into the offseason. Cousins is just 65 yards shy of a third consecutive 4,000yard season. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Panthers coach Ron Rivera said Tuesday that starting wide receiver Damiere Byrd will go on injured reserve and miss the remainder of the season with a lower leg injury. Byrd was injured Sunday in a 22-19 win over Tampa Bay that clinched a playoff berth for the Panthers (11-5). Byrd had a 103-yard kickoff return earlier in the game. Carolina is looking for another No. 2 receiver now. Devin Funchess took over the No. 1 role after Kelvin Benjamin was traded to Buffalo. Rookie Curtis Samuel broke his ankle in November. (AP)

Denver will start Paxton Lynch at quarterback against Kansas City, coach Vance Joseph said Tuesday. The Chiefs (9-6) clinched the AFC West for the second straight season and could treat Sunday’s game at Denver (5-10) like a bye. Lynch, a 2016 first-round pick, has only three NFL starts. He sprained his left ankle in his only start this year, on Nov. 26 at Oakland. The team wanted Lynch to play three days ago at Washington but he was deemed unready, so Brock Osweiler started in Denver’s loss to the Redskins. (AP)

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HOUSING TRENDS Matthew Horn and his wife, Ana Bilbao Horn, both 32, love their neighborhood near Union Market, even though their one-bedroom apartment feels tight now that their 6-month-old daughter sleeps in a crib just off the living room. But now, they’re ready to buy. Rowhouses with at least two bedrooms are either “extreme fixer-uppers” or out of their price range. Horn, an architect, says being able to buy a home in a safe neighborhood and with a small yard for his daughter feels impossible. “I’m having to come to terms with having to move out of the city,” he says. “I’m realizing the things I want to provide for her, we won’t be able to afford in D.C.” D.C. is one of many cities seeing a troubling trend: The millennials who rejuvenated their downtowns over the past decade are growing older and beginning to leave. Meanwhile, the sleek high-rise apartment buildings built for them as single young professionals are no longer practical or affordable as they seek to buy homes with more space and privacy. In an effort to retain these residents, some urban planners,

developers and architects are reviving the kinds of homes that might be more familiar to millennials’ great-grandparents: duplexes, triplexes, bungalows, rowhouses with multiple units, and small buildings with four to six apartments or condos. Planners and architects refer to it as the “missing middle.” It hits the middle in scale — larger than a typical detached single-family home but smaller than a mid- or high-rise — and typically serves people with middle-class incomes. “I think urban areas in general have to make tough choices between maximizing land capacity and maintaining this housing supply,” says Art Rodgers, senior housing planner for the D.C. Office of Planning. Cities across the country are turning to the missing middle as a way to try to hold on to millennials as they age. Some local governments are trying to encourage developers to build more missing-middle housing by rewriting zoning laws. Other cities have rezoned their single-family neighborhoods to allow duplexes, triplexes and other multiunit structures, particularly in areas near transit lines. To allow more homes per lot, still more cities are

The Haven D.C. needs to construct affordable duplexes, triplexes and small condo buildings to keep older millennials from moving to the suburbs, planners say

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considering relaxing requirements on yard sizes and setbacks, the distance required between properties. Some are beginning to allow bungalows clustered around courtyards by changing long-standing requirements that front entrances be on a street. M. Leanne Lachman, a real estate consultant who conducted a 2015 study of “Millennials Inside the Beltway” for the Urban Land Institute of Washington, says some of the angst is overblown. Only about one-third of millennials live in cities, she says, compared to the two-thirds in suburbs and rural areas. “You always need more affordable housing in metropolitan areas,” Lachman says. “But I don’t think it’s required specifically

for millennials.” Experts say it’s too early to know how many urban millennials will try to stay versus follow the well-worn path to the suburbs once they have school-age children. The ULI Washington study found nearly two-thirds of those 30 and older said they planned to continue living inside the Beltway in the next three years. But nearly half of that age group also didn’t have children and didn’t expect to in that time. The survey also found 58 percent of millennial renters believed they would need to move outside the Beltway to buy a home. Gwen Wright, planning director for Montgomery County, says more homes in the missing middle would serve as a transition needed between the highrises of growing downtowns like Bethesda and surrounding neighborhoods of single-family houses. Home buyers of all ages need more options in a county where a starter home can command up to $900,000, she says. “My sense is millennials are looking for more than that halfacre,” Wright says. “They’re looking for community and walkability. They’ve gotten used to those.” KATHERINE SHAVER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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‘Hey Hey Hey’ Katy Perry

“Hey Hey Hey” has all the usual ingredients of a Katy Perry music video: theatrical costumes, slapstick gags, a political theme and a Candy Land-like setting. She plays a Marie Antoinette type who’s beheaded after standing up to a vile man pursuing her (he lets her know he’s “DTF” at one point), but justice is served when a rebel (Perry again) picks up the detached head and charges at the man with a sword. Touche. BRYANNA CAPPADONA (EXPRESS)

political pop dominated our sound waves. But when it comes to the best-of-the-best music that 2017 produced, many of the artists and tracks reached well beyond the mainstream. Here are the year’s finest listens. CHRIS RICHARDS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Best albums 1 Midland, “On the Rocks”: It’s uncommon to feel astonished by the familiar — and that might be as close as we get to understanding why the Texas trio’s flawless neohonky-tonk album felt so perfect for this inside-out year. 2 Migos, “Culture”: The Atlanta trio raps in mesmerizing staccato triplets, blasting new life into an old idea that’s been attributed to Mozart, Debussy and Miles: Music is the space between the words. 3 Lana Del Rey, “Lust for Life”: It took the tenacious pop auteur four half-cooked albums to finally achieve her grand vision, and now her soft-focus odes to America feel right on time. From sea to shining sea, consensus reality

Best songs is evaporating. This is what it sounds like. 4 Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, “Ruler Rebel,” “Diaspora,” “The Emancipation Procrastination”: Adjuah’s new trilogy finds him blowing perfumed fog from his trumpet — the kind that obscures the lines separating jazz, trap and techno. 5 Institute, “Subordination”:

Perhaps the least pressing question in our rotten republic: Will Donald Trump’s America generate a new class of punk bands? They’ve already arrived, and here’s the best one going — a disgusted quartet from Texas whose rough touch sounds something like finesse.

The next five: 6. Hieroglyphic Being, “A.R.E. Project” 7. Kelela, “Take Me Apart” 8. Exit Order, “Seed of Hysteria” 9. Kamaiyah, “Before I Wake” 10. Young Dolph, “Gelato,” “Bulletproof,” “Thinking Out Loud”

1 Cardi B, “Bodak Yellow”: It’s amazing that Cardi’s beautiful bundle of trash talk made it all the way to No. 1 without a traditional hook — until you realize that every phrase she blurts has its own ticklish melody, its own whiplash rhythm. She doesn’t need a hook. She’s pure musicality. 2 Kendrick Lamar, “DNA.”:

Like Tupac before him, Kendrick is more of a singles artist than an album artist — a virtuoso who shines brightest in tight spaces. Here, he decodes the American rap genome in roughly three minutes. 3 Lee Ann Womack, “The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone”: Why do we keep turning to old country songs for solace when

the 21st century keeps inventing new ways to kill us? Womack tiptoes through this riddle with care: “I don’t know why no one sings about drowning in pitchers and half-price wings, and trying to wish back everything they’ve lost.” 4 GoldLink, feat. Brent Faiyaz and Shy Glizzy, “Crew”: The currents of rap music still flow fast and hot, which made this song’s slow-motion bloom from local anthem to platinum-selling hit feel every bit as cool as its refrain. 5 Selena Gomez, “Bad Liar”: It starts off as a minimalist nod to Prince, and then blasts off with the sexiest metaphysical pickup line on the radio: “Ooh, baby, let’s make reality!”

The next five: 6. Sam Hunt, “Body Like a Back Road” 7. Playboi Carti, “Magnolia” 8. Dreamcast, “Liquid Deep” 9. Lorde, “Green Light” 10. Chelsea Wolfe, “The Culling”

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‘LOVE.’ Kendrick Lamar feat. Zacari

Since prestige TV is a thing now, it’s time to create a music video equivalent reserved for Kendrick Lamar only. “HUMBLE.” directors Dave Meyers and The Little Homies return with an understated, graceful love story — but let’s take a moment to marvel at the real piece of art here, which is the metallic hoodie Lamar wears throughout. B.C.

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Even concerts are political in Israel Lorde is latest artist to scrap Tel Aviv show amid calls for boycott MUSIC For international superstars, deciding whether or not to perform a concert in Israel often sends a political message. Over the weekend, Lorde became the latest musician to cancel a show in Tel Aviv after fans pressured her to do so. Last week, two New Zealand fans — one Jewish, the other Palestinian — published an open letter to the singer, asking her to cancel a June 5 performance. It cited “the Israeli government’s policies of oppression.” The letter did not mention the boycott, divestment and sanctions — or BDS — movement, but the views expressed within it are in line with that Palestinian-led campaign. Since 2005, the BDS movement has urged institutions, companies, musicians and others to avoid visiting Israel and buying its products with the goal of getting Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and allow Palestinians to return to places they left or were forced out of when Israel was created in 1948.

“I’ve received an overwhelming number of messages and letters and have had a lot of discussions with people holding many views, and I think the right decision at this time is to cancel the show,” Lorde said in a statement Sunday. Several artists in recent years have canceled tour dates in Israel, either for political reasons or because of ongoing violence. For example, in 2014, when Israel was in a 50-day war with the Hamas-governed Gaza, several artists, including Lana Del Rey, Neil Young and Backstreet Boys, postponed or canceled shows. There are also artists who face criticism and still press on with their tour dates. Since the BDS effort started, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jethro Tull and the Red Hot Chili Peppers all kept concert dates in Israel despite public pressure to cancel them. Other megastars use their microphones. During a 2012 performance in Tel Aviv, Madonna wrapped herself in an Israeli flag and made a plea to rise above ego, religion and national allegiance to forge peace. “You can’t be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world,” she said. LISA BONOS (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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“The Tomi Lahren festivus picture is fake but it says so much about her that people thought it was real.” @JESSICAHUSEMAN on the meme of conservative pundit Tomi Lahren that circulated over Christmas. A “Seinfeld” parody account altered a photo of Lahren on Fox News to say: “Tomi: Obama created Festivus to destroy Christmas.” Festivus is a fictional “Seinfeld” holiday. Lahren called the photo “fake news.”

“How can you not love JuJu Smith-Schuster?” @ATHLETESWAG on Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster’s touchdown celebration on Christmas Day. Smith-Schuster caught a touchdown pass against the Texans on Monday, then proceeded to celebrate by recreating the snowball fight scene from the Christmas movie “Elf.” He later tweeted GIFs of the scene and his celebration.

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1927: The musical play “Show Boat,” with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opens at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York, beginning a run of 572 performances.

1985: American naturalist Dian Fossey, 53, who had studied gorillas in the wild in Rwanda, is found hacked to death.

1995: Israeli jeeps speed out of the West Bank town of Ramallah, capping a seven-week pullout giving Yasser Arafat control over 90 percent of the West Bank’s one million Palestinian residents and one-third of its land.

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Queen Elizabeth II and members of the royal family — plus Meghan Markle, Prince Harry’s fiancee — drew a crowd of locals while attending a Christmas Day church service in Sandringham, England. Markle gave a wave in her first public appearance with the queen. The crowd was larger than in past years, perhaps because of curiosity about Markle. (AP)

Meghan Trainor is marrying “Spy Kids” actor Daryl Sabara, now a spy adult.

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Luann de Lesseps arrested in Florida “Real Housewives of New York City” star Luann de Lesseps apologized Sunday after her arrest in Florida, saying her visit to Palm Beach evoked “long-buried emotions.” The 52-year-old was booked on charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, disorderly intoxication and corruption by threat. She was released on her own recognizance. (AP)

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Spy Kid gets first and last headline Pop singer Meghan Trainor and actor Daryl Sabara of “Spy Kids” fame are engaged. “I SAID YESSSS!!!!” Trainor wrote in a caption of an Instagram video showing Sabara’s proposal. “For my 24th birthday, the love of my life @darylsabara made all of my dreams come true. He proposed to me under a tunnel of beautiful Christmas lights and surprised me with my family and friends. I’m still in shock. I’ve never been this happy!” She also shared on Instagram a series of photos of the two together. Sabara, 25, and Trainor have been dating since October 2016. (EXPRESS)

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