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A moose wandered into a hospital building in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday and munched on plants in the lobby as workers watched in awe. The moose got inside through doors that were stuck open due to extreme cold, and was likely drawn in by the lobby’s plants, Alaska Regional Hospital spokeswoman Kjerstin Lastufka said. The moose caused no problems other than the snacking. “It was a pretty calm visit,” Lastufka said. (AP)
A cat who went missing from suburban Detroit turned up two months later more than 1,000 miles away in Florida. Dearborn resident Judy Sanborn was shocked when she received a call in December from BluePearl pet hospital in Tampa, The Detroit Free Press reported. Staff told her they had her tabby, Bandit. A local resident found the cat, who was identified by his microchip. Bandit is set to catch a return flight to Michigan this week. (AP)
A small black pig wandering the streets of Newcastle, England, on Tuesday morning was corralled by staff members at a local elementary school, BBC News reported. Northumbria Police tweeted a statement praising the school’s staff for their efforts and urging the pig’s owner to contact the local city council. Meanwhile, they said, the “real-life Babe” is content in an enclosure at the school. Truly a crisis averted. (EXPRESS)
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TRANSPORTATION The winning prizes in the Olney, Md., fantasy football league that goes by the name “Corned Beef King Is Innocent� are nothing too extravagant: First place gets $180, and the second-place winner gets his $20 buy-in back. It’s the last-place “prize� that caused the league to get creative. “Somebody suggested that the loser retake the SAT,� said Eric Mendelson, 24. The 10 members of the league all graduated from Sherwood High in 2012. Someone suggested the loser shave his head or fly to “a random city in Iowa.� But these and other ideas were deemed either too extreme or too expensive. (“It’s like 300 bucks to take the SAT,� Mendelson said.) Victor Francis had the solution. “Why not have something unique to our area?� he said. “What’s more D.C. than the Metro? What’s a grueling punishment that wouldn’t put too much of a dent in our lives? Riding the entire Metro in one day.� But Francis, the one who
Victor Francis says he passed through all 91 Metro stations in a delay-free day.
imagined the punishment, was also the one to suffer it. He found himself at the Glenmont Metro station just as it was opening on the morning of Friday, Dec. 28, clutching a Metro pocket guide. Like a modern Magellan, Francis was headed into the unknown. He had 91 stations to pass through before the day was done. “Today is going to be an adventure,� he remembered thinking. “I’m an optimist. I just like to think of the glass as half full. I decided, I’m going to smile
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Let the wedding bells ring again in the District: The D.C. Council on Tuesday unanimously approved emergency legislation allowing the city to grant marriage licenses during a federal government shutdown. The Marriage Bureau at the federally funded D.C. Superior Court is among the “nonessential� services that have been halted since the shutdown began Dec. 22. Mayor Muriel Bowser plans to sign the Let Our Vows Endure (LOVE) Act — on Thursday. It would take effect immediately. (TWP)
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TRANSPORTATION The warnings sound like the plot of a Hollywood spy thriller: The Chinese hide malware in a Metro rail car’s security camera system that allows surveillance of Pentagon or White House officials as they ride the Blue Line — sending images back to Beijing. Or sensors on the train secretly record the officials’ conversations. Or a flaw in the software that controls the train — inserted during the manufacturing process — allows it to be hacked by foreign agents or terrorists to cause a crash. Congress, the Pentagon and industry experts have taken the warnings seriously, and now Metro will do the same. The transit agency recently decided to add cybersecurity safeguards to specifications for a contract it will award this year for its next-generation rail cars following warnings that China’s stateowned rail car manufacturer could win the deal by undercutting other bidders. Metro’s move to modify its bid specifications after they had been issued comes amid China’s push to dominate the multibillion-dollar U.S. transit rail car market. The state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corp., or CRRC, has used bargain prices to win four of five large U.S. transit rail car contracts awarded since 2014. The company is expected to be a strong contender for a Metro contract likely to exceed $1 billion for between 256 and 800 of the agency’s newest series of rail cars. CRRC’s success has raised concerns about national security and China’s growing footprint in the U.S. industrial supply chain and infrastructure. “This is part of a larger conversation about this country and China, and domination of
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industries,” said Robert J. Puentes, president of the Eno Center for Transportation. “We don’t want to get trapped into a xenophobic conversation … but we also don’t want to be naive.” No U.S. company makes subway cars, so China competes in that market against companies from Asia, Europe and Canada. But U.S. companies build freight rail cars, such as boxcars and tank cars, and they fear China will target them next. That could cost U.S. manufacturing jobs. It also could increase the risk of a cyberattack that cripples domestic rail transportation in a military confrontation or other national emergency. Both the U.S. Senate and House have sought to block further Chinese penetration of the transit vehicle market. Each chamber has inserted language in annual transportation appropriations bills to impose a one-year ban on new purchases of mass transit
New requirements In choosing the winner of the contract to build its next generation of rail cars, Metro is legally required to follow guidelines it set in a lengthy request for proposals, or RFP, which it issued in September and will now revise to include cybersecurity safeguards. The changes are expected to require the winning bidder to get its hardware and software certified as safe by a third-party vendor cleared by the federal government. (TWP)
rail cars or buses from Chineseowned companies if the procurement uses federal funding. The ban is not yet law, as final action has been put off until this year. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, sponsored the Senate ban. His spokeswoman said it reflected his “concern over China’s market distorting practices and their whole government effort … to
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dominate industries sensitive to our national security.” Bids for the Metro contract are due April 4. The original deadline was extended because Metro received more than 300 questions from potential bidders. A ban on purchases from China could penalize financially pressed transit systems such as Metro, which may want to take advantage of CRRC’s low prices. Critics have said the company is able to underbid competitors because of state subsidies. CRRC did not respond to emails requesting comment. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said Metro should be willing to pay extra if necessary. “Saving a buck isn’t worth compromising security in the nation’s capital,” Connolly said. “If there are valid security concerns about sourcing rail cars from a Chinese state-owned company, then find another option.” ROBERT MCCARTNEY AND FAIZ SIDDIQUI (THE WASHINGTON POST)
The Catholic organization Opus Dei paid $977,000 in 2005 to settle a sexual misconduct complaint against a D.C.area priest. In a statement Monday, Vicar Monsignor Thomas Bohlin said Opus Dei received a complaint of sexual misconduct against the Rev. C. John McCloskey in 2002 from a woman who was receiving counseling in D.C. McCloskey was removed from his job in 2003 following an investigation. Bohlin said a possible complaint against McCloskey from another woman is being investigated. (AP) CHARLOTTESVILLE
Ohio man gets 4 years in nationalist rally beating An Ohio man was sentenced Monday to just under four years in prison for his role in the beating of a black man on the day of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Daniel Borden was sentenced to 20 years, but most of that sentence was suspended. His active sentence amounts to three years and 10 months. Borden, of Huber Heights, Ohio, was one of four men charged in the Aug. 12, 2017, beating of DeAndre Harris. During his sentencing hearing Monday, Borden told the judge he is not a bigot and is remorseful. (AP) VIRGINIA
Supreme Court rejects delay in redistricting case The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request from Virginia Republicans to block a federal court from approving new legislative district boundaries. The order was issued Tuesday, two days ahead of a scheduled lower court hearing on proposed new state legislative maps. A federal panel has ordered a new map after ruling that lawmakers racially gerrymandered 11 state House districts. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of the case this year. (AP)
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decree similar to Baltimore’s. Harrison, a New Orleans native who has helped his hometown’s once scandal-plagued force implement ongoing reforms since becoming the top cop in 2014, would be Baltimore’s fourth police commissioner during Pugh’s roughly two-year administration. “He will bring not only significant and relevant experience to addressing the challenges of Baltimore, but the insight and sensitivity needed to re-establish essential trust and confidence of citizens in their police officers,” Pugh said Tuesday. Harrison will certainly recognize the tough terrain in Baltimore, which has recently led all big American cities in violent crime statistics and where gritty
realities have helped make it the setting for hard-boiled crime shows. Since 2014, he’s led a depleted department working to beef up manpower and reverse decades of scandal that included the fatal shootings of unarmed civilians after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. New Orleans remains under a federal consent decree entered into in 2012 after agreeing to changes governing hiring, training, discipline, procedures for use of violence and other elements of police work. The city saw its lowest homicide rate in decades last year under Harrison, who was already a 24-year police veteran in New Orleans and a district commander when he took over leadership. DAVID McFADDEN (AP)
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‘It’s discouraging’: Furloughed feds wait in frustration No matter how the 800,000 affected federal employees — who are shut out of work or required to work with no guarantee of the next payday — are spending their time, they are united in the disgust and anxiety generated by the shutdown. “It’s very discouraging,” said Jill Aksamit, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission statistician who joined the federal service in September. “I just never expected something like this to happen.” She was among more than 400 federal employees who participated in American’s program of skills and management training. An indication of her sense of mission, a commitment shared by federal employees generally, is her misplaced sense of guilt. Misplaced because the guilt belongs to Trump and his congressional supporters. “I feel guilty that I’m not working,” Aksamit said. “There are people out there that need help and I could be helping them.” While she was sharpening her skills, some Bureau of Prisons correctional officers decided Trump’s shutdown makes them ill. “Many of them are refusing to come to work,” said Eric Young, president of the
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How do you cope with President Trump’s partial government shutdown? A number of federal correctional officers, working without knowing when they will get paid, have called in sick — as in sick of the 19-day shutdown over a budget dispute. More than 400 people used their time off Tuesday to attend a series of classes American University offered free to furloughed feds. Courses included workplace mindfulness, effective presentations and starting a podcast. The particularly relevant “Getting to Yes/Negotiations” should be required for Trump, who proudly shut down a major segment of the government in a tantrum over the Democrats’ refusal to provide more than $5 billion for his border wall. Democrats could use that course, too. But it is Trump, aided by Senate Republicans, who will not accept clearly reasonable legislation that would fund parts of the government not directly related to the wall through the end of the fiscal year, while providing the Department of Homeland Security funds for a month, during which talks could continue.
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American Federation of Government Employees Council of Prison Locals. “We’re in a real bad situation.” Transportation security officers at some airports also have experienced similar ailments. For Aksamit, the day at American University was an opportunity to recharge during a depressing period. “It helps me get my brain out of kind of a funk and focusing on what can I do,” she said. “I’m ready to get back to work ... using some of the things they taught us.”
Unfortunately for the federal government, the shutdown taught Aksamit other lessons. The shutdown “put me off federal employment,” she said. “There’s some kind of trust I feel that is gone for me now. “I thought that public employment is always going to be a stable place to be, a safe place to be. … Now I just feel like all bets are off.” If Uncle Sam loses the faith of people like Aksamit, we all lose. Follow Joe Davidson on Twitter @joedavidsonWP
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President Trump’s program to send billions of dollars to farmers hurt by his trade war with China has been stalled by the partial government gove shutdown, as the Agriculture Department office responsible for administering the payouts is closed clo for lack of funding. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, left, said Tuesday that the application window wind that was slated to close Jan. 15 will be extended until weeks after the shutdown ends. (TWP) Joshua Tree National Park in California to close temporarily due to shutdown
Two days after Christmas, Julie Burr, a single mom in Kansas City, Mo., created a GoFundMe campaign. She said she’s a contracted government worker who’s losing pay every day the shutdown continues. “I’ve taken on extra shifts at my 2nd job but it isn’t going to pay rent and all my bills,” she wrote. “Being a single mom, I’m in panic mode right now.” Burr has updated the page, thanking those who have donated (she has raised more than $9,600) and wishing each day will be the day the government reopens so she can “get back to work.” Search “government shutdown” on GoFundMe and you’ll find dozens of campaigns for federal workers and contractors who are seeking help from strangers to pay their bills. There’s Tyler Fralia of Ogden, Utah, a federal employee who is seeking money to buy diapers and food for his 5-month-old baby while his wife is on unpaid maternity leave. There are the 14and 12-year-old sons who created a page for their mom, who they say is stressed about paying for medicine, gas, rent and groceries. “My mom has given her life to the country and has worked for the government for the last 10 years,” they wrote. In the past, federal workers eventually have received back pay. But contractors such as Burr have no guarantee of receiving lost wages. COLBY ITKOWITZ
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The U.S. cancer death rate has hit a milestone: It’s been falling for at least 25 years, according to a new report. Lower smoking rates are translating into fewer deaths. Advances in early detection and treatment are also having a positive impact, experts say. But it’s not all good news. Obesityrelated cancer deaths are rising, and prostate cancer deaths are no longer dropping, said Rebecca Siegel, lead author of the American Cancer Society report published Tuesday. Cancer also remains the nation’s No. 2 killer. Here is a breakdown of the report’s findings. MIKE STOBBE (AP) Lung cancer less lethal
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There’s been a lot of bad news recently regarding U.S. death rates. In 2017, increases were seen in fatalities from seven of the 10 leading causes of death, according to recently released government data. But cancer has been something of a bright spot. The nation’s cancer death rate was increasing until the early 1990s. It has been dropping since, falling 27 percent between 1991 and 2016, the American Cancer Society reported. Lung cancer is the main reason. Among cancers, it has long killed the most people, especially men. But the lung cancer death rate dropped by nearly 50 percent among men since 1991. It was a delayed effect from a decline in smoking that began g in the 1960s,, Siegel g said.
The report has mixed news about prostate cancer, the secondleading cause of cancer death in men. The prostate cancer death rate fell by half over two decades, but experts have been wondering whether the trend changed after a 2011 decision by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to stop recommending routine testing of men using the PSA blood test. That decision was prompted by concerns that the test was leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment. The prostate cancer death rate flattened from 2013 to 2016. So while the PSA testing may have surfaced cases that didn’t actually need treatment, it may also have prevented some cancer deaths, the report suggests.
Of the most common types of cancer in the U.S., all the ones with increasing death rates are linked to obesity, including cancers of the pancreas, uterus and liver. Liver cancer deaths have been increasing since the 1970s, and initially most of the increase was tied to hepatitis C infections spread among people who abused drugs. But now obesity accounts for a third of liver cancer deaths, and is more of a factor than hepatitis, Siegel said. The nation’s growing obesity epidemic was first identified as a problem in the 1990s. It can take decades to see how a risk factor influences cancer rates, “so we may just be seeing the tip of the iceberg in terms of the effect of the obesity epidemic on cancer,” Siegel said.
There’s been a decline in the historic racial gap in cancer death rates, but an economic gap is growing — especially when it comes to deaths that could be prevented by early screening and treatment, better eating and less smoking. In the early 1970s, colon cancer death rates in the poorest counties were 20 percent lower than those in affluent counties; now they’re 30 percent higher. Cervical cancer deaths are twice as high for women in poor counties compared with women in affluent counties. And lung and liver cancer death rates are 40 percent higher for men in poor counties. Dr. Darrell Gray, deputy director of Ohio State University’s Center for Cancer Health Equity, called the findings “important but not surprising.”
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A Russian lawyer who President Trump’s son believed was peddling dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign worked with a Russian official to deceive a U.S. court in an unrelated civil case, prosecutors in New York said Tuesday. Natalia Veselnitskaya, the key participant in a 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr., was indicted on one count of obstruction of justice in a civil proceeding involving a Russian tax refund fraud scheme. (AP) BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Activists urge protests over rescinded award Black activists on Monday called for leadership changes and protests at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama after it rescinded a human rights award for political activist Angela Davis. The museum also canceled a gala set for next month. Davis, 74, has been a critic of Israeli policies. Mayor Randall Woodfin said he was “dismayed” by the decision, which he said followed protests from the local Jewish community and its allies. (AP) GERMANY
Far-right lawmaker attacked, police say Far-right German lawmaker Frank Magnitz, 66, was seriously injured by three men in what police said Tuesday may have been a politically motivated assault. Magnitz’s beating in Bremen drew condemnation across the political spectrum. Magnitz was hospitalized, and he told a news agency that doctors want him to remain there until the weekend. (AP)
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Tensions with Turkey soar ANKARA, TURKEY Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the U.S. national security adviser of making “a very serious mistake” Tuesday by demanding that Ankara guarantee the safety of Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria before the U.S. withdraws its troops from the war-torn country. A strained morning of negotiation in Turkey ended without assurances of protection for forces that fought alongside U.S. troops against the Islamic State group, and indeed brought them fresh new threats from Turkey. The
diplomatic setback raised questions about how the U.S. would protect its allies in the fight against ISIS and about the pace of the drawdown of U.S. forces in Syria. “John Bolton has made a very serious mistake. We cannot make any concessions in this regard,” Erdogan said Tuesday, before Bolton left the country with tensions between the NATO allies at new highs. In the high-stakes session between Bolton and senior Turkish officials, Bolton rebuked Erdogan’s column in The New York Times, in which the Turkish leader restated his position that the Syrian Defense Forces were members of terrorist groups and criticized the U.S. air campaign
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against the Islamic State. In the meeting, Bolton outlined five U.S. principles for the Syria drawdown, including that “the United States opposes any mistreatment of opposition forces who fought with us against ISIS.” An official at the meeting said presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin stated that Erdogan committed that Turkey would not take offensive action while U.S. forces were there. Bolton had insisted that Turkey refrain from conducting any
operation unless it was approved by and coordinated with the U.S. Turkey’s presidential spokesman fired back publicly that Turkey would not seek permission from its allies to conduct a military offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters, but was willing to coordinate operations. A senior administration official said Erdogan’s comments did not reflect President Trump’s understanding of his Dec. 23 conversation with the Turkish leader, days after the U.S. president announced his intent to withdraw American troops from northeastern Syria. Bolton departed Turkey without meeting with Erdogan in an apparent snub by the Turks.
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RAMSAU AM DACHSTEIN, AUSTRIA | A snowplow clears a path in central Austria on Tuesday after severe winter weather dumped up to 5 feet of snow across the region. Homeowners were advised to clear off their roofs after several buildings collapsed. At least 13 people have been killed in weather-related accidents in Europe over the last week, most of them from avalanches, and hundreds more have been trapped in Alpine regions.
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The United States has never had more women in Congress than it does now. As of last week, when the 116th Congress was sworn in, 23.7 percent of the 535 members of Congress are women — roughly a quarter of the Senate and 23.4 percent of the House of Representatives. While that’s an all-time high for the U.S., it’s still far from representative: The U.S. Census Bureau says that 51.6 percent of voting-age Americans are women. And many countries have much higher proportions of female lawmakers. According to recent data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Rwanda has the highest percentage of female lawmakers. Its lower house of parliament is 61.3 percent female. The U.S. also lags behind most other major Western democracies, including France (where 39.6 percent of lawmakers are women) and Britain (32 percent). It comes 74th in the IPU rankings, between Bulgaria and Cabo Verde. Of course, these countries all have different political systems. But America’s gains look meager compared to those in other nations over the past 15 years. Some countries even mandate female representation: Rwanda, for example, implemented a constitution in 2003 that called for a 30 percent female quota in its legislative bodies. ADAM TAYLOR
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LONDON Britain’s Parliament narrowly approved financial roadblocks that are designed to make it more difficult for the country to leave the European Union without a Brexit deal, giving a defeat to Prime Minister Theresa May’s government Tuesday. Lawmakers voted 303-296 to back a Finance Bill amendment that would prohibit government spending on “no-deal” Brexit preparations that Parliament didn’t authorize. The vote in the House of Commons illustrated the substantial opposition to the real possibility of Britain withdrawing from the EU on March 29 without a divorce agreement in place on the terms of its relationship with the remaining members. Business leaders and some economists have predicted disruption in the lives of U.K. residents and financial damage if that happens. Without a trade deal in place, Britain could see tariffs slapped on its exports to the EU and possible food and medicine shortages. But Britain has been headed in
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that direction because May has so far been unable to persuade a majority in Parliament to back her government’s divorce deal. Concerns about the risks of a “no-deal” scenario have prompted talk of postponing Brexit day and even calling another referendum on Britain’s EU membership. Earlier Tuesday, Brexit minister Martin Callanan ruled out Britain seeking an extension to its March 29 date for leaving the EU, despite calls from some
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The trial of 28 people accused of roles in the assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey opened Tuesday in Ankara. Among several being tried in absentia is Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric whom Turkey blames for a failed coup the same year. An off-duty police officer fatally shot Ambassador Andrei Karlov at a photo exhibition in Ankara in 2016. Police killed the gunman. (AP)
The former chairman of Japan’s Nissan Motor Co., Carlos Ghosn, denied any wrongdoing and proclaimed his loyalty to the company at a court hearing in Tokyo on Tuesday. It was Ghosn’s first public appearance since he was arrested Nov. 19 and charged with false financial reporting in underreporting his income by about $44 million over five years, through 2015. (AP)
British politicians for a brake on the chaotic and uncertain Brexit process. The date was based on the two-year breakup period that started when May gave official notice Britain was pulling out. Britain can request an extension to the Brexit procedure, but the agreement of the other 27 EU countries would be needed, and the bloc’s leaders said last month that they would need good reasons to prolong it.
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May continued to seek further concessions from the EU on Tuesday ahead of lawmakers voting on the unpopular withdrawal deal next week. The prime minister has pushed for fresh guarantees to ease its passage. France insisted Tuesday that the EU can only offer political reassurances — not legally binding changes to the agreement — to help May persuade reluctant lawmakers to endorse the deal. GREGORY KATZ AND LORNE COOK (AP)
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place a lower court order requiring an unnamed foreignowned corporation to comply with a subpoena said to be part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. The court dissolved a temporary stay and, in a short order, didn’t give a reason for the decision, nor note any dissents. The subject of the cloaked legal battle, known in court papers simply as a “Corporation” from “Country A,” is a foreign financial institution that was issued a subpoena by a grand jury hearing evidence in the special counsel investigation, two people familiar with the case said. It is thought to be the first time that an aspect of Mueller’s probe has reached the Supreme Court. A federal court in Washington last year ordered the corporation to pay a daily fine until it complied with the subpoena, according to court records. An appeals court panel upheld that decision last month, prompting the company’s lawyers to appeal to the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts put the order and the fines on hold last month until the justices could consider the case, which has prompted a Washington guessing-game about the information that Mueller is pursuing. ROBERT BARNES, DEVLIN BARRETT AND CAROL D. LEONNIG
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Honduran migrants approach the U.S.-Mexico border fence Sunday in Tijuana, Mexico.
A border reality check
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Changing demographics make for challenges One of the biggest challenges isn’t just stopping people from crossing the border, but figuring out what to do with those who have already crossed illegally. Border Patrol agents are apprehending far fewer people than they once were — a sign that the number of people crossing illegally has plummeted since 2000.
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But while most of those crossing illegally used to be Mexican men looking for work, now nearly half are families and unaccompanied children from Central America. They can’t be immediately returned — the government must coordinate flights to their home countries and secure travel documents, which takes time, plus many make claims for asylum. Customs and Border Protection officials have long said their stations are not equipped to manage the growing influx of children and families. As a result, border crossers are stuck in short-term holding cells for days and there has been a spike in sick migrant children, including two who died in custody. Officials referred 451 cases, more than half children, to medical providers from Dec. 22 to Dec. 30. The administration on Sunday asked for $800 million in funding for medical support,
Wall prototypes are shown last month in San Diego. Citing what he calls a security crisis, President Trump is demanding money for a border wall.
transportation, supplies and temporary facilities for processing and short-term custody of “this vulnerable population.”
Asylum claims More families and children traveling alone are surrendering to authorities to seek asylum — instead of trying to elude capture, as most did just a few years ago. The number of asylum-seekers jumped nearly 70 percent from budget year 2017 to 2018. Nearly 93,000 people cited a credible fear of being targeted because of their race, religion, nationality,
Mexico pledges to put guards at 370 illegal crossing points on Guatemala border
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political opinions or social group, the first step in winning asylum. That is up from nearly 56,000 migrants who asked for asylum the previous year because they feared returning home, the data show. Only 10 percent of cases
Visa overstays The border wall wouldn’t address the problem of people overstaying their visas. About 40 percent of people in the country illegally came with visas that later expired. U.S. authorities say there were nearly 740,000 overstays during a recent 12-month period.
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Many of the challenges facing the U.S. on immigration won’t be solved by a wall ANALYSIS President Trump says there is a security crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border that can be addressed only by spending $5.7 billion on a wall. Democrats have flatly refused to agree to the funding. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the wall an “immorality.” The debate raging in Washington largely overlooks the reality on the border — where issues like the following are not easily solved by a barrier.
are actually granted. Officials along the border are “metering,” a policy that limits the number of people who can apply for asylum in a single day. In Southern California, for example, at San Ysidro, the nation’s busiest port, up to 100 asylum claims per day are being processed. A migrant caravan of more than 5,000 people is marooned on the other side of the border in Tijuana. Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse found that the immigration court backlog has more than doubled to 1.1 million cases since shortly before Trump took office.
Border Patrol leaders have struggled to say with any degree of precision how well fences work, in part because it’s unknown how many people get away. A wall built in the Yuma sector in the mid-2000s saw a decrease in border apprehensions by 90 percent, and arrests dropped after the wall in San Diego was completed in the 1990s. Walls and fencing currently cover about one-third of the 1,954-mile-long border. Most were built under President George W. Bush. Trump wants to extend and fortify them. But contracting, designing and building new wall systems complete with updated technology could take years. The billions requested would fund construction of about 234 miles. In 2017, the Government Accountability Office said the U.S. didn’t have a good way to measure how well fencing worked to deter illegal crossers. The report found that the government spent $2.3 billion from 2007 to 2015 to extend fences to 654 miles and more to repair them. COLLEEN LONG (AP)
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The encore awaits: Think what’s next for freshman duo — on Jan. 1, 1986. (Alabama’s then-freshman Tua Tagovailoa came on in the second half of last year’s title game in relief of starter Jalen Hurts.) “Trevor’s always been a special talent in my mind,” said, of all people, Alabama coach Nick Saban. Indeed, after four games — four victories — to start this season, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney benched senior Kelly Bryant for Lawrence, who was still 18. “After four games,” Swinney said, “he was the best player.” Ross, who caught six passes for 153 yards in the title game, was recruited as the best player in Alabama — and blew off his flagship state university with the stated goal of beating said school. “That was a big selling point that we told Ross,” said Jeff Scott, one of Clemson’s co-offensive coordinators. “We said, ‘Hey, you can help us beat Bama, because we need a big receiver like you to make … plays.’ ” Ross’ 74-yard catch-and-run changed Monday’s game. But
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Trevor Lawrence turned 19 in October, and Justyn Ross followed in December. So two years from now, should they win another national championship at Clemson, they would finally be able to celebrate with a legal drink. After the Tigers’ jarring 44-16 beatdown of Alabama on Monday in the final of the College Football Playoff, the takeaway may be that these two have more college football ahead of them than behind. They have played one season together: 15 games. There are NFL teams that would line up to draft either of them tomorrow. But they can’t. The rules stipulate that the ACC and, in all likelihood, the CFP will have to deal with Lawrence and Ross for at least two more years. Lawrence, who threw for 347 yards and three TDs Monday, is the first true freshman quarterback to steer his team to the national title since Oklahoma’s Jamelle Holieway
Clemson and Alabama can expect to continue their college football dominance next season. But there will be challengers. Here are three teams that just might upstage or upset them in 2019-20. (TWP)
Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence, top, and wide receiver Justyn Ross entered this season as teens, yet their performances Monday made them stars.
the prospect of beating the Crimson Tide wasn’t the only hook for Ross. Lawrence’s commitment to Clemson “played a big part in me coming here,” Ross said. Lawrence was known to every college coach who had made his way to Cartersville, Ga., and returned to campus gushing about the consensus top player in the nation. What the Clemson coaches have learned since he arrived on campus: That status didn’t matter to him. “He has his priorities in the right order,” said Tony Elliott,
Scott’s co-coordinator. Now, imagine what those two can do going forward. Before he had played a game at Clemson, Ross was something of a sensation because of the one-handed catches he tended to make in practice. “The catches you saw him make tonight, those are routine for him,” Swinney said. While most players their age are waiting their turn, Lawrence and Ross are fully formed, accomplished stars.
Not fancy but effective. The running game will thrive. The defense will make stops. And the season will be judged by how it ends.
2 Oklahoma Sooners 2018-19 final AP ranking: 4
The offense might not put up 48.4 points per game, but who expected that from Kyler Murray when he replaced Baker Mayfield?
1 Ohio State Buckeyes 2018-19 final AP ranking: 3
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Viewers can compete to predict stats, plays during Wizards games MEDIA NBC Sports Washington will give viewers a preview of how in-game sports betting might one day be integrated in broadcasts when the Wizards host the Bucks on Friday. While the traditional game broadcast will be available on NBC Sports Washington, NBC
Sports Washington Plus will air an augmented broadcast featuring real-time statistics, sports betting information and a “Predict the Game” contest that will prompt viewers to make predictions about the on-court action for the chance to win $500. The “Predict the Game” contest will feature approximately 30 questions — such as, “Will Trevor Ariza score 10-plus points in the first half?” or “Will the Wizards score at least 20 points
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in the second quarter?” — that appear on the screen throughout the game. Fans will be invited to submit their predictions on NBC Sports Washington’s site. The
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by how do you make the television viewing experience better,” said Damon Phillips, NBC Sports Washington’s general manager. “This is a combination of being able to take what people do offline and integrating it into a television broadcast.” Phillips likened the experience to making a bet at the bar with a friend, but the only investment required, for now, is the time spent watching a Wizards game. It’s the first step toward being able to wager real money via mobile devices as to whether, for example, Bradley Beal will make a 3-pointer on a specific possession, said Tom Rogers, WinView’s executive chairman. SCOTT ALLEN AND BEN STRAUSS (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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The Latin trap phenom’s debut album, ‘X 100PRE,’ is a wholly idiosyncratic offering ALBUM REVIEW As opposed to that well-liked boy band from Liverpool, Bad Bunny of San Juan is not bigger than Baby Jesus of Nazareth. Not yet, at least. So when the 24-year-old Latin trap phenom finally dropped his interminably awaited debut album on Christmas Eve, the gesture itself felt like a mischievous flex. Here was an artist who made his name by taking unpredictable left turns with supreme confidence. Now he was trying to upstage the birth of Christ. The new year is a good time for gazing into the future, and if you squint hard enough at “X 100PRE,” you’ll 100PRE, you ll hear an album
that’s going to change things. After issuing a few su m mers’ worth of motley hits — including ‘X 100PRE’ “I Like It,” his Bad Bunny massive neoboogaloo brainchild with Cardi B — Bad Bunny is giving important new lessons in genre erosion. He still sounds most comfortable coasting over trap beats, those languorous, flickering rhythms that most Atlanta rappers tend to chew like Juicy Fruit. But “X 100PRE” also features smoggy puffs of reggaeton (“Cuando Perriabas”),
delectable pinpricks of bachata (“La Romana”), bully punches of dembow (“La Romana” again), even a surprise power-pop song that could probably be traced back to Ric Ocasek’s 23andMe kit (“Tenemos Que Hablar”). And through it all, Bad Bunny never sounds like some pseudosyncretist showing off how many styles he can juggle. Everything here simply sounds like a Bad Bunny song. It’s the risky wild styles that set Bad Bunny apart from his closest cousin in pop, Drake. The two work in the same melodic neighborhood, but to hear how different they are, cue up “MIA,” the album-closing duet
in which Drake lilts along in Spanish while Bad Bunny enters his default state of effortless locomotion. The song doesn’t come off like an airplay bid, or a synergy exercise, or any kind of torch passing. Instead, it feels like another mischief flex — a contrast between one rapper who aspires to sound like everyone else and another who can only sound like himself. Because unlike Drake, Bad Bunny isn’t one of those careerist chameleons, changing his moods or his manicures to match the nearest accent wall. He’s got a much cooler thing going. The world changes color around him.
Imagine Dragons headlined the halftime show at Monday’s college football national championship and, for 10 difficult minutes, played almost all of the songs you forgot you had ever forgotten. There was that one that goes, “Thunder, thunder, thun-thunder” (“Thunder”). And the one that goes, “Believer, believer!” (“Believer”). Alas, the band didn’t play the one that goes, “Radioactive! Radioactive!” (“Radioactive”). We used to mock music that felt this airless by saying it sounded focus-grouped. Now, we taunt it by calling it algorithmic. Same thing. This is music that aims only to fulfill the expectations of an audience that doesn’t know what it should expect anymore. C.R.
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Childish Gambino, Cardi B to play Bonnaroo Chi The 2019 2 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival will feature Childish Gambino, Post Malone, Cardi B, The Lumineers and multiple sets from Phish, organizers announced Tuesday. The annual outdoor music festival will be held June 13-16 in Manchester, Tenn. Other notable annua acts include in Solange, a special edition of the Grand Ole Opry, The Avett Brothers, Hozier, Kacey Musgraves, Brandi Carlile, Brockhampton, GRiZ, RL Grime, Odesza and Illenium. (AP) Directors Guild nominates “A Star Is Born,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “Green Book,” “Roma,” “Vice” for top prize
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Viewers must soon choose from a glut of subscription services TELEVISION Streaming TV may never again be as simple, or as affordable, as it is now. Disney and WarnerMedia are each launching their own streaming services in 2019 in a challenge to Netflix’s dominance. Netflix viewers will no longer be able to watch hit movies such as “Black Panther” or “Moana,” which will soon reside on Disney’s subscription service. WarnerMedia, a unit
of AT&T, will also soon have its own service to showcase its library of blockbuster films and HBO series. Families will have to decide between paying more each month or losing access to some of their favorite dramas, comedies, musicals and action flicks. “There’s definitely a lot of change coming,” says Paul Verna at eMarketer, a digital research company. “People will have more choices of what to stream, but at the same time the market is already fragmented and intimidating.” Media companies are seeking to capitalize on the popularity
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and profitability of streaming. But by fragmenting the market, they’re also narrowing the once wide selection that fueled the rise of internet-based video. About 55 percent of U.S. households now subscribe to paid streaming video services, up from just 10 percent in 2009, according to
research firm Deloitte. Just as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime tempted people to “cut the cord” by canceling traditional cable TV packages, the newer services are looking to dismember those more-inclusive options. Disney+ is set to launch later
Variety: “Venom” writer Kelly Marcel developing sequel
this year with new Marvel and “Star Wars” programming, along with its library of animated and live-action movies and shows. AT&T plans a three-tier offering from WarnerMedia, with a slate of new and library content centered around the existing HBO streaming app. Individual channels, such as Fox, ESPN, CBS and Showtime, are also getting into the act. Research group TDG predicts that every major TV network will launch a direct-to-consumer streaming service in the next five years. How should consumers deal with all the coming change? “Be patient,” TDG president Michael Greeson says. “We’re in a time of dramatic change for the TV and video business. There’ll be great benefits, and question marks and consequences.” MAE ANDERSON (AP)
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the latest “Overwatch” short story, which confirms that fan-favorite character Soldier: 76 is gay. In “Bastet,” 76 reveals a long-standing relationship with a man named Vincent. 76 is the game’s second LGBT character, alongside Tracer.
“Snoop Dogg ain’t never bit his tongue a a day in his life.” @AMBERSVOICE, praising rapper
Snoop Dogg for speaking out about the government shutdown. a Addressing the “honest, blue-collar, A hard-working” federal employees h not getting paid, Snoop encouraged no them not to vote for President Trump if he runs in 2020. The eexpletive-laden rant also included Snoop calling Trump a “punk.”
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