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Russian President Vladimir Putin sits on board a bathyscaphe Tuesday as it plunges into the Black Sea along the coast of Sevastopol, Crimea. He was going to see wreckage of a sunken ancient merchant ship that was found in May.
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Police in Germany are looking for thieves who broke into a store selling alcohol and stole the caps off 1,200 bottles of beer — presumably to collect points for a prize contest — yet left the suds themselves untouched. The thieves struck overnight Sunday and stole the caps from Koenig Pilsner bottles. They kept those with points toward prizes, left dozens of “good luck try again” caps on the ground and didn’t drink a single beer. So far police have no suspects. (AP)
Mansfield, Mass., police said that despite warnings against the practice, many fans at a Jimmy Buffett concert Saturday at the Xfinity Center brought homemade, portable toilets for the party in the parking lot. The most common model is a 5-gallon bucket with its rim lined with a foam pool noodle for a seat, stashed inside a tent. Police estimated that 75 to 100 people were instructed to take down makeshift outhouses, but officers found seven to 10 left behind. (AP)
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“I guess I’m stuck with an iPhone for the rest of my life. I owe them that.” SAM RAY, a Tennessee teenager who was saved by Siri after a jack collapsed, pinning him under his truck. As he struggled, he heard Siri activate and told it to call 911. Siri complied, and Ray was rescued after about 40 minutes under the truck. (AP)
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A strong El Nino may mean huge snow for D.C. … or almost none THE DISTRICT The significant and strengthening El Nino event in the tropical Pacific is on the cusp of attaining a rating of “strong,” which has happened only five times since 1950. The National Weather Service says this event is almost certain to last through the winter. So what exactly does the strong El Nino mean for D.C. this winter? During the five strongest El Ninos since 1950, winters either featured some of the most paralyzing snowstorms in D.C. history or hardly any snow at all. Why such variation? El Ninos tend to have two primary effects on U.S. weather that play out in complicated ways over the MidAtlantic: 1) They push the average position of polar jet stream north, which favors warmer than normal air over the region. 2) They intensify the moisture supply along the southern jet stream, increasing
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basically no snow fell in the other two. A sample size of five is an impossibly small sample size to project what will happen this winter with a strong El Nino likely. All we can say is that we’ll have elevated chances of getting hit by a really big snowstorm given the likelihood of an intensified southern jet stream, but that’s only if El Nino doesn’t keep the cold air locked up well to our north. It should be a very interesting winter. JASON SAMENOW
Part of the National Zoo’s indoor panda exhibit has been closed to public view because the female giant panda Mei Xiang is showing some behaviors consistent with pregnancy or “pseudo-pregnancy,” zoo officials said Tuesday. For example, she is becoming very sensitive to noise, acting restless and moving around. If she is pregnant, zoo officials said, she could give birth in 30 to 50 days. Her hormones began to rise in late July — a possible sign that she is carrying a cub.
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In three of the five big El Nino winters, two were among the strongest.
the potential storminess. The combination of these effects sometimes means D.C. gets flooded with mild air throughout the winter, favoring rain rather than snow when moisture-laden storms come along. But, at other times, just enough cold air hangs around for it to get hammered by a crippling snowstorm. In three of the five big El Nino winters, blockbuster snowstorms (3 of the top 15, and 2 of the top 10 biggest on record) brought the D.C. area to a standstill while
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National Cathedral dean will resign in December financial and programmatic changes, changes requiring a good 10-year commitment from a leader. The Episcopal Church requires clergy to step down at age 72 and Hall is 66. Mariann Budde, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, will serve as interim dean, the cathedral’s governing board voted Tuesday. While Hall had been at the cathedral for only three years, he elevated the profile of the financially strapped church at lightning speed through his
outspoken activism on topics such as gay rights and gun control. The attention the patrician-looking Californian drew prompted debate about how political clergy should be, particularly at a unique house of worship often seen as “America’s church” because it hosts presidents’ funerals and communal spiritual services for national events like Sept. 11. Some also questioned whether the institution was becoming too New Agey, narrowing its scope. MICHELLE BOORSTEIN (THE WASHINGTON POST)
MARYLAND A former federal police officer was charged with trying to make methamphetamine in a federal laboratory that exploded last month, injuring the ex-officer. Christopher Bartley was charged Monday in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., with a single count of attempting to manufacture methamphetamine. The explosion occurred July 18 on the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. Bartley was a lieutenant and supervisor with the institute’s police force, said institute spokeswoman Gail Porter. He resigned his position a day after the explosion, Porter said. He was treated for injuries he suffered in the blast. No one else was hurt. Authorities found pseudoephedrine, Epsom salt and other materials associated with the manufacture of meth. (AP)
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THE DISTRICT A tall and skinny former comedy writer and fierce progressive, Gary Hall made news almost as soon as he showed up in Washington three years ago to take the helm of the Washington National Cathedral, calling the massive church “stodgy,” and opening it to same-sex weddings, a Muslim prayer service and yoga. Hall made news again Tuesday by announcing he will step down as dean Dec. 31 — two years early — saying the prominent Episcopal cathedral needs major
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Man fatally shot near church on East Capitol A man was fatally shot near a church on the 4900 block of East Capitol Street on Tuesday afternoon. Police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump confirmed that the man had died and the case was being investigated as a homicide. Investigators set up crime scene tape in front of St. Luke Roman Catholic Church. Police spokesman Sean Hickman said officers are looking for three men who drove away in a blue minivan. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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D.C. students will be riding Metro for free
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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday boarded a Metro train with a group of D.C. public school students to kick off
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an initiative that will allow them to ride free. The $7 million initiative expands a 2013 measure passed by the D.C. Council that allowed the city’s schoolchildren to ride Metro buses for free; now they’ll have access to Metrorail, too. “We’re not like the suburban jurisdictions where we have a free bus system where all the kids walk outside and get on the school bus,” Bowser said Monday at a small news conference. “Our school bus is, in fact, the Metro system.” (THE WASHINGTON POST)
Mayor Muriel Bowser launched the D.C. Kids Ride Free program Monday by riding Metro with students.
Police say a woman and two boys have been shot at an apartment in southeast Washington following a confrontation between the two boys. Police Chief Cathy Lanier told reporters that a 17-year-old boy was in a dispute with his 12-year-old neighbor when he went to the younger boy’s apartment with a gun on Tuesday afternoon. Lanier says shots were fired and both boys were wounded, along with the 12-yearold’s mother. Lanier says all three were hospitalized and the mother’s wounds were the most serious. (AP) VIRGINIA
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Bible Museum to display artifacts from Holy Land The Museum of the Bible being built in D.C. will feature ancient artifacts from the Holy Land under a new deal that ensures Israel’s leading archaeological organization will have an outpost in the U.S. capital. An agreement between the museum and the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday will bring a selection of artifacts excavated in Israel for long-term display in a top-floor gallery at the new Bible museum. The $400 million, eightstory museum is set to open near the National Mall in 2017. (AP)
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Thais light candles Tuesday near the Erawan Shrine at Rajprasong intersection for the victims the day after an explosion in Bangkok.
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BANGKOK In the grainy security video, a man in a yellow shirt sits on a bench at the crowded Erawan Shrine, removes a backpack he is wearing, and leaves it behind when he walks away. For police hunting who was responsible for Monday’s deadly bombing in Bangkok, there was no doubt about the man with youthful shaggy dark hair and glasses. “The yellow shirt guy is not just the suspect. He is the bomber,” police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri said Tuesday. Prime Minister Prayuth Chanocha called the shrine bombing near a busy intersection that killed 20 and wounded more than 100 “the worst incident that has ever happened in Thailand.” Bangkok was rattled again Tuesday when another pipe bomb blew up at the Sathorn Pier, which is used by tourists, although no one was hurt. Prawut released several photos of the man, with and without the backpack, on social media. The images were apparently taken from closed-circuit video at the shrine before the bomb exploded. Without elaborating, the prime minister said, “Today we have seen the closed-circuit footage, we
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Thai police released this image from surveillance video that they say is the suspect of the blast.
saw some suspects, but it wasn’t clear. We have to find them first.” Prayuth said the government will expedite “all investigative efforts to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.”
The bomb, which police say was made from a pipe and weighed more than 6 pounds, went off about 7 p.m. in an upscale area filled with tourists, office workers and shoppers. No one has claimed responsibility. Prawut said Tuesday’s blast at the Sathorn Pier frequented by tourist boats also was caused by a pipe bomb and could be related to the shrine attack. Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said authorities had no idea an attack had been planned. “We didn’t know about this ahead of time. We had no intelligence on this attack,” he said.
Russian police said Tuesday they have busted an international ring involved in producing contraband cheese worth about $30 million, arresting six people. The arrests are part of a government campaign to enforce a ban on imports of Western cheese and other agricultural products imposed a year ago in retaliation for U.S. and European Union sanctions on Russia. During the investigation, police raided 17 homes, warehouses and offices in the Moscow region, where they found 470 tons of the product and documents confirming the illegal activity, the police statement said. (AP)
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Former president Jimmy Carter will discuss his cancer diagnosis at 10 a.m. Thursday
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White House hires first transgender official The Obama administration Tuesday announced the appointment of the first openly transgender official to serve in the White House. Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, 28, will be an outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the Office of Personnel. She previously was a policy adviser for the National Center for Transgender Equality’s racial and economic justice initiative. Advocates hailed the move as a major step for the LGBT community and for ensuring that the government includes the voices of all Americans. (AP)
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Famous Mississippians call for change to flag Musician Jimmy Buffett, actor Morgan Freeman, football great Archie Manning and author John Grisham are among those whose names were listed on a full-page newspaper advertisement calling for a change to Mississippi’s state flag. The state flag of Mississippi (pictured above) includes the Confederate emblem, a symbol that has drawn renewed scrutiny after the June massacre at a historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C. The advocates argue it is not fair for black Mississippians to live with a flag that glorifies the controversial emblem. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
Rescuers in Indonesia find “black box” but no survivors in crash of jet with 54 aboard
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Two N.M. police officers to stand trial for murder since 2010. On Monday, a former Fairfax police officer was charged with second-degree murder in the 2013 shooting death of an unarmed Virginia man In the New Mexico ruling, the judge threw out an involuntary manslaughter option. Special prosecutor Randi McGinnn accused the officers of approaching the campsite with the intent of confronting the homeless man with a “paramilitary response” that created a dangerous situation. Lawyers for Sandy and Perez argued that Boyd put the officers in danger, and that their response was appropriate.
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BODRUM, TURKEY | A capsized motorboat floats Tuesday in the Aegean sea, near Bodrum, Turkey. Six Syrian migrants, including an infant, drowned off the Turkish coast early Tuesday as they tried to reach the popular migrant refuge and Greek island of Kos. Three migrants survived by breathing air trapped in a pocket.
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Just before dawn on Thursday, Vietnam veteran Larry Yepez, 66, locked eyes with a 200-pound black bear outside his home in Midpines, Calif. Within seconds, the animal was on him, crushing his hand in its teeth and ripping his face and abdomen with its claws. There were no witnesses but Yepez said he hit the bear with a plastic flower pot and his fists before his 10-pound Yorkshire terrier, Benji, began nipping at the bear from behind, distracting it long enough to let them run into the house. Yepez drove himself to the hospital, where he was treated for gashes to his face, chest and arm. Authorities say that, if caught, the animal will likely be euthanized. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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The maximum amount Target reportedly has agreed to pay issuers of Visa cards to settle claims related to a 2013 data breach that resulted in the theft of 40 million debit and credit card numbers. As many as 70 million people were put at risk of identity theft. (AP)
FAA: New software to blame for Saturday airline debacle that delayed or cancelled nearly 1,000 flights
The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed cutting methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas production by nearly half over the next decade, part of an ongoing push by President Barack Obama to curb climate change. The administration’s target is to cut methane from oil and gas drilling by 40 to 45 percent by 2025, compared to 2012 levels. The administration issued a rule cutting emissions from new and modified oil and natural gas wells, along with updated standards for drilling to reduce leakage from wells on public lands. (AP)
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A New Mexico judge ruled Tuesday that two New Mexico police officers must stand trial on murder charges in the on-duty shooting of a homeless man that sparked angry protests in Albuquerque and helped lead police to overhaul use of force policies. Pro Tem Judge Neil Candelaria said after a nearly twoweek preliminary hearing that there was probable cause for the murder case against Officer
Dominique Perez and former Detective Keith Sandy to go to trial. Prosecutors filed the charges against the two officers in the killing of 38-year-old James Boyd, who authorities say had schizophrenia. He was shot in the back during an hourslong standoff in 2014 in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains, where police accused him of camping illegally. He died at a hospital after his arm was amputated. Video of the shooting showed Boyd appearing to surrender before he was shot. Seven police officers around the country have faced murder charges for on-duty incidents
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Scott Walker reveals his health care plan Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker on Tuesday offered an alternative to President Barack Obama’s health care law that would provide tax credits and restructure Medicaid. Walker’s proposal calls for repealing the law immediately and replacing it with a plan that gives states more power to operate Medicaid and ties refundable tax credits to age rather than income. (AP) JOHANNESBURG
Mandela’s grandson charged with rape A man identified as one of Nelson Mandela’s grandsons has been charged with raping a 15-year-old girl, South African police said on Tuesday. Mbuso Mandela, 24, will appear in a Johannesburg magistrates court on Friday for a bail hearing, said police spokeswoman Brig. Mashadi Selepe. The rape allegedly took place at a restaurant in a Johannesburg suburb on Aug. 7, Selepe said. (AP)
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Earning a right to fight As two women pass the Ranger test, more front-line military jobs may be opening to all
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MILITARY Two women have now passed the Army’s grueling Ranger test, and even tougher and more dangerous jobs could lie ahead. The military services are poised to allow women to serve in most front-line combat jobs, including special operations forces, senior officials told The Associated Press. Based on early talks, officials say the Army, Navy and Air Force likely will not seek exceptions that close any jobs to women. Marine Corps leaders, they say, have expressed concerns about allowing women to serve in infantry jobs and may seek an exception. The services are wrapping up reviews and must make recommendations to Defense Secretary Ash Carter this fall. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the internal debate. Even if Marine leaders object, they are likely to meet resistance from senior Navy and Defense Department officials who want the military to be united on this issue. Undercutting the Marines’ reservations is that Special Operations Command is likely to allow women to compete for the most demanding military commando jobs — including the Navy SEALs and the Army’s Delta Force — though with the knowledge that it may be years before women even try to enter those fields. Women have been steadily moving into previously all-male jobs across the military, including serving in the Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, on Navy submarines and in Army artillery units. Friday will mark another milestone as the two women graduate
A female Army Ranger candidate stands with her unit on Aug. 4 during Ranger School at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
at Fort Benning, Ga., from the Ranger school, a physically and mentally demanding two-month combat leadership course. Completing the course lets the two women wear the coveted Ranger black-and-gold tab, but it does not let them become members of the Ranger regiment. Neither woman has been publicly identified by the military. The uncertainty of the Marine decision underscores the wrenching debates going on within the military over the changing role of women, and it reflects the individual identities of the services. Only a handful of jobs in the Navy and Air Force are currently closed to women. The Army and Marine Corps, however, have thousands of infantry, artillery and armor jobs that are currently closed to women. There has been a lot of debate over whether to open those positions, because they often involve fighting in small units on the front lines, doing physically punishing tasks. The Marine Corps set up a
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“If you can meet the standards that we’ve established, then you should be able to perform in that (position).” GEN. RAY ODIERNO, who retired last week as Army chief of staff
task force this year to determine whether incorporating women into small squads affected combat readiness. Companies made up of all men and mixes of men and women spent up to three months in California performing a broad range of tasks. Senior leaders are reviewing the results. Army leaders did similar analysis. Meanwhile, the Army began to slowly open some combat positions, like artillery jobs, to women. In recent days, officials familiar with the discussions said they believe the Army will allow
women to seek infantry and armor jobs as well. In January 2013 then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey signed an order wiping away generations of limits on women fighting for their country, ordering a quarter-million positions open regardless of gender. They called for sweeping reviews of the physical requirements for combat jobs and gave the military services until January 2016 to argue if any positions should remain closed to women. All the services have made it clear they will not reduce any standards to allow women to qualify for the most demanding jobs. Dempsey told reporters during that 2013 news conference that he did not rule out women serving as members of special operations forces, although it might be years before they actually qualified. “I think we all believe that there will be women who can meet those standards,” he said. LOLITA C. BALDOR (AP)
HEALTH The little pink pill has finally arrived. Some 17 years after the appearance of Viagra, the little blue pill that boosts male sexual function, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the world’s first drug designed to stir a woman’s waning desire for sex, a condition that affects an estimated 1 in 10 U.S. women. But safety restrictions on the daily pill mean it will probably never achieve the blockbuster sales of Viagra, which has generated billions of dollars, The Associated Press reported. The controversial drug, flibanserin, will be marketed as Addyi and available by prescription for pre-menopausal women diagnosed with chronic and distressingly low sexual desire as soon as Oct. 17, said manufacturer Sprout Pharmaceuticals. The company will refrain from advertising directly to consumers for 18 months, to avoid creating a clamor for the new drug. Supporters of the drug hailed the decision as an end to what they called “gender bias” at the FDA that will give women more choice and control over their sexual lives. Critics, however, said the approval of what some call a “mediocre aphrodisiac” with dangerous side effects has now turned the normal range of women’s low sexual desire into a disease, with pharmaceutical companies only too eager to cash in on. BRIGID SCHULTE
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The NFL’s top QB? Brash comments isolate RGIII more likely meant that he tries to maintain self-confidence. Every athlete believes he is a winner. Self-doubters don’t last long in pro sports. But everyone else keeps that inner voice to himself. Griffin once more aired it for everyone to react. For that alone, it was a dumb comment. The harsh truth is Griffin is starting because the team wants to give him one last chance to prove that trading three first-round picks and a second-rounder for his rights wasn’t a bust. Otherwise, Kirk Cousins would be starting. Griffin arrived in D.C. as perhaps the most heralded draft pick in team history, and he’s never learned the PR game. The instant buzz around him was unparalleled. Immediately delivering an NFC East title made him the town’s hottest athlete. And then Griffin was injured in the playoffs, and he’s never been the same player since. Nobody believes Griffin is the league’s best quarterback. Several offseason polls rated him among the worst. At best, he’s in the middle. Fan reaction isn’t as big of a deal as the impact those comments might have on fellow Redskins quarterbacks Colt McCoy and Cousins. The backups are pretty selfless people and have a good relationship
(THE WASHINGTON POST)
3 DeMarco Murray Philadelphia Eagles
Last year’s leading rusher also carried the ball a league-high 392 times — and that could hurt his future production.
2 DAVID RICHARD (AP)
Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III still doesn’t get it. The passer is right to believe in himself, but expecting others to do so after two bad seasons makes him look clueless. And his telling WJLA that he’s the NFL’s best quarterback is simply bewildering. “I know I’m the best quarterback on this team. I feel like I’m the best quarterback in the league and I have to go out and show that,” Griffin said this week. “Any athlete at any level, if they concede to someone else, they’re not a top competitor, they’re not trying to be the best that they can be. “There’s guys in this league that have done way more than me. But I still view myself as the best because that’s what I work toward every single day.” Twitter haters instantly seized upon Griffin’s comments, which showed arrogance from someone who has spent the past two years producing more slogans than success. After a standout 2012 rookie season, Griffin had a 5-15 record as a starter over the past two years. He’s battled injuries and was benched twice. Griffin, who’s made similar comments over the years,
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In nine games last season, Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III threw for 1,694 yards, four touchdowns and six interceptions.
Griffin not apologizing Robert Griffin III didn’t back down despite the firestorm he sparked when he said during a recent interview that he feels he is the best quarterback in the NFL. On Tuesday evening, Griffin maintained his stance and criticized the media for using his words for click bait. “So, addressing what happened yesterday with the firestorm that took off with what I said, I know what I meant,” Griffin said. “I think everyone in this circle knows what I meant. And it’s unfortunate that my name keeps getting used for headlines, for people to click on stories. I know what I want to be and I know what I strive to be. I’m not going to make any apologies for that. That’s all I’ve got to say.” (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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with Griffin, who’s not a bad guy. But nobody likes such in-your-face comments. It further isolates Griffin from his teammates, which has always been a problem. It was an innocent comment, but one a fourth-year player should never make. It shows Griffin’s mindset still isn’t right. He’s not a team leader and could be gone after this season. It’s put-up-or-shut-up time for Griffin if he hopes to stay in Washington. Maybe it should be put-up-and-shut-up time.
Frank Gore Indianapolis Colts
Gore rushed for 69.1 yards a game in 2014, his lowest production since he was a rookie, and has seen his total yards decline for three seasons in a row.
1 Jonathan Stewart Carolina Panthers
The former first-round pick in 2008 has never started more than eight games and was last healthy for a full schedule back in 2011.
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Little League controversy Softball team accused of deliberately losing gets beat in tiebreaker LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL An Iowa team advanced to the Little League Softball World Series semifinals Tuesday by beating an opponent forced into the tiebreaker after it was accused of deliberately losing a game. The Central Iowa team beat South Snohomish Washington 3-2 in a rematch ordered by the tournament after it said it received reports that some teams “did not
play with the effort and spirit appropriate” for Little League play. “I wouldn’t say vindicated. I would say that the two teams should have been playing for this spot played, and the better team won,” said Chris Chadd, the president of Central Iowa Little League. “It’s just an ecstatic feeling.” The dispute arose after the Washington team was no-hit Monday by a team from Salisbury, N.C. The loss created a three-way tie for the Pool B title, meaning that Washington and North Carolina would advance to the semifinals and the Polk
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City, Iowa, team would not. Chadd, who was back in Iowa on Monday, said he was hearing from Iowa coach Charlie Husak that some of Washington’s top hitters were bunting rather than swinging away, and that the Washington squad wasn’t using its top pitcher to start the game. Believing that Washington was deliberately trying to avoid a rematch with Iowa in the semifinals, Husak filed a protest with the tournament director. The protest was upheld, forcing Snohomish to face the Iowans in Tuesday’s tiebreaker. (AP)
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Local hoops open season in spotlight On Tuesday, ESPN announced its lineup for the Tip-Off Marathon — which kicks off the college basketball season and features two intriguing local matchups. On the first night, Nov. 16, Tony Bennett, left, and Virginia heads to Foggy Bottom to take on George Washington. This is arguably the biggest game at the Smith Center in a decade. The next night brings the resumption of the Georgetown-Maryland series, which promises to be a doozy as well. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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Struggling right-hander working on his delivery to improve his fastball NATIONALS After allowing six runs and getting knocked out of Friday’s start in San Francisco, Max Scherzer dissected footage of his delivery. For the first three-plus months of the season, Scherzer was one of the best pitchers in baseball, possessing a 1.82 ERA. But since July 7, he has a 5.05 ERA over eight starts. After his latest rough outing, he searched for the issue. Scherzer found that his shoulder was dropping in his threequarters delivery and his best
pitch, his fastball, was flattening out. Opponents are slugging .732 against his fastball this month compared to .388 or less in each of the previous four months. “It’s not a body mechanical thing,” he said after Friday’s game. “My legs and limbs are working in sync. It’s my arm action. It’s a small thing within my arm action where I’m not quite getting my fingers on top of the ball and it’s causing me to flatten everything out.” Scherzer said he has had this issue before and that there are several drills he can use to get his arm in the right location. “It’s going to take some work,” said Scherzer, whose next start is
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COMING SOON
The future looks tasty
Summer brought a slew of new restaurants, which only whet our appetite for the blockbuster fall season ahead. Though Shaw will dominate the landscape in terms of openings (see sidebar at right), we couldn’t be more excited for these other D.C.-born projects to get off the ground. HOLLEY SIMMONS (EXPRESS)
Shaw explosion There are nearly 20 new bars and restaurants slated to open in the Shaw neighborhood within the next few months. We’re most looking forward to the following.
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From left: Katsuya Fukushima, Yama Jewayni and Daisuke Utagawa make up the Bantam King team. Chaia tacos, right, are made with hand-pressed tortillas.
Bantam King 700 Fifth St. NW
Line too long at the Daikaya ramen shop? No problem. Soon you’ll be able to stroll around the corner and check the wait at Bantam King, a noodle bar from the same ownership team and chef. With a concentration on ramen made with chicken broth as well as fried chicken, Bantam King will be housed in a 1,700-square-foot restaurant that formerly held Burger King. There’s even a small takeout window, which the team is considering keeping for orders on-the-go. EXPECTED OPENING: Fall
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Inspired by his travels through Southeast Asia, Alex McCoy is opening an international restaurant in Petworth that caters to well-heeled diners. The former chef at Duke’s Grocery will serve regional classics from lesser-known parts of Thailand as well as Australian hamburgers. He promises the concept makes sense. “A lot of Aussies live in Thailand,” McCoy says. “They have burger shops where they flip burgers and serve them with grilled pineapple and beetroot.” EXPECTED OPENING: Oct.
This Japanese noodle restaurant will be chef Jonah Kim’s first foray into the D.C. market. (He most recently cooked at Pabu in the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore.) Earlier this year, Kim hosted pop-ups at Mike Isabella’s G sandwich shop, previewing what’s to come at Yona. Dishes like fresh tofu with dashi, Asian pear, mushrooms and scallions suggest Kim will rely heavily on traditional Japanese ingredients and preparations. EXPECTED OPENING: Fall
Crane & Turtle in Petworth to host sake class Monday
Following the success of Chaia’s farmers market stand, the plant-based taco company will open a brick-andmortar restaurant in Georgetown. Expect the same nourishing taco combinations (like garlicky greens with goat cheese and pickled red onion) served on Chaia’s handmade corn tortillas. Yes, making tortillas from scratch is a laborious process and adds seconds to your wait time, but Chaia’s committed to wowing you with freshness. EXPECTED OPENING: Sept.
American restaurant Scarlet Oak opens in Navy Yard
Jamie Leeds, the founder of Hank’s Oyster Bar, has plans to open an Italian restaurant in Old Town Alexandria. Nicolas Flores, a Hank’s Oyster Bar alum, will serve as executive chef. In place of bivalves, Leeds’ new restaurant will focus on handmade pastas, traditional red sauce Italian dishes as well as meats cured in-house. Additionally, the 100-seat space will have a small patio nearby, as well as a predominantly Italian wine list. EXPECTED OPENING: Nov.
BUTTERCREAM BAKESHOP, ABOVE: Tiffany MacIsaac
will serve desserts at her shop on the first level of The Colonel apartment complex. FREEHAND: This Asianmeets-French bistro comes from chef Tim Ma, formerly of Maple Ave Restaurant in Vienna. CONVIVIAL: From the same team behind Mintwood Place in Adams Morgan comes this French-leaning bistro at City Market at O. THE SHAW BIJOU: This Ninth Street addition will serve modern American food from a former chef at New York’s Eleven Madison Park. ALL PURPOSE: The teams behind The Red Hen and Boundary Stone in Bloomingdale will open a pizza joint, also in The Colonel. THE DABNEY: Chef Jeremiah Langhorne (formerly of McCrady’s in Charleston, S.C.) will serve Mid-Atlantic cuisine in Blagden Alley.
Peruvian restaurant Nazca Mochica to open in Dupont this fall
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In ‘Purity,’ the future is as dark as we made it to be Jonathan Franzen pens an Internet age draped in anxiety in latest novel
MARK WAHLBERG, admitting
Jonathan Franzen is best known for his novels “The Corrections” and “Freedom.”
Sunlight Project, on the other hand, is led by a German activist named Andreas Wolf. “Wolf is still reasonably pure. In fact, that’s his whole brand now: purity.” Obviously purity is the theme of this novel, and — spoiler alert! — it turns out that nobody is as pure as he or she claims to be. If that revelation gets a bit too much emphasis in these pages, at least it’s smartly considered and reconsidered in the seven distinct but connected sections that make up the book. These side stories and many others aren’t so much detours as day trips, full-blown immersion
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BOOK REVIEW “It sucks to be well-known,” says a character in the new novel by well-known author Jonathan Franzen. But if there’s an autobiographical impulse behind his new novel, “Purity,” out Sept. 1, it’s subsumed by the story’s globespanning scope. As he did in “The Corrections” (2001) and “Freedom” (2010), Franzen once again begins with a family, but his ravenous intellect strides the globe, drawing us through cleverly connected plots infused with Major Issues of the Day. When we meet the poor, fatherless child Pip — short for Purity — she is buried beneath $130,000 of student debt in Oakland. Soon, though, “Purity” pivots to a contemporary issue: the relationship between secrecy and power in the Internet age. At least partially to escape her mother’s neediness, Pip accepts an internship with the Sunlight Project, a rogue website that exposes the nasty secrets of corporations and nations. Its disruptive posts emanate from a shadowy station in the jungles of Bolivia. The Sunlight Project competes with Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks, “but Wiki was dirty,” Pip’s roommate explains. “People died because of Wiki.” The
to The Hollywood Reporter that he was initially hesitant to appear in the A&E series “The Wahlbergers,” which debuted last year and wraps its fourth season at 10 p.m. tonight. The show is also up for an Emmy award for best unstructured reality program.
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O’Donnell’s daughter found after search Rosie O’Donnell tweeted Tuesday that her 17-year-old daughter Chelsea, was found after a three-day search. “Chelsea has been found and is safe in police custody,” O’Donnell wrote. “thank u all for the help and light.” Chelsea had not been seen since leaving the family’s home in Nyack, N.Y., last Tuesday. She left the house with a therapy dog and had not been taking her medication, O’Donnell’s rep said. Police in Rockland County, N.Y., had been searching for her since Sunday. O’Donnell speculated that she may have gone to New York City. (AP/EXPRESS)
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The New York Daily News reported that Terrence Howard divorced his third wife on Monday, as he is in the midst of a court battle to overturn his 2012 divorce settlement with his second wife. The site says Mira Pak, Howard’s third wife, filed for divorce in March. Howard is also embattled with Michelle Ghent, his second wife, for alleged blackmail. (EXPRESS) ACTUALLY, NO
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What else is under the #defamation hashtag? Rihanna clarified this week that she and Memphis Grizzlies forward Matt Barnes are not dating. Barnes told TMZ on Sunday that they “just passed the crush stage.” Rihanna posted to Instagram a screengrab of the interview, captioned, #bishwhere … #shesneverevenmetyou #thisactuallyhurtmyfeelings #defamationofcharacter. (EXPRESS)
Let’s see Trump try walking in wings
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Zayn Malik and Calvin Harris got into a Twitter spat on Monday, after Malik shared a meme poking fun at Taylor Swift’s recent war with Apple. Harris, Swift’s boyfriend, wrote back, “You’ve made your money? Cool…f--- the 99% of musicians who depend on these services to survive right?” Malik, below left, responded, “I suggest you calm your knickers before them dentures fall out.” Harris wrote, “All good. … Best of luck, genuinely. You’ve got a great voice.” (EXPRESS)
Heidi Klum on Monday posted a video to Twitter poking fun at Donald Trump’s recent assessment that she’s not as pretty as she used to be. “Sadly, she’s no longer a 10,” Trump told The New York Times in Sunday’s issue. Klum’s short video shows her posing for the camera with a “10” sign on her shirt, when a man in a Trump mask snatches it away, revealing a “9.99” sign in its place. Klum shrugs it off. She captioned the photo, “#TrumpHasSpoken #sadly #9.99 #NoLongerA10 #IHadAGoodRun #HeidiTrumps Trump #BeautyIsInTheEyeOfTheBeheld.” (EXPRESS)
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D.C., we’ve finally found our Tom and Giselle Julianne Hough and Washington Capitals forward Brooks Laich say they are planning to get married. Laich and Hough each tweeted a link to a photo of the couple with the same message Tuesday: “We are overwhelmed with joy and excitement to share with you our recent engagement! #fiance #love.” The couple have been together since winter 2014. (AP)
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