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Irene Sewell, a former professional ballroom dancer, had an odd goal: to be the fastest person to run a marathon in high heels. Guinness World Records said she would qualify if she ran the 26.2 miles in less than 7½ hours while wearing heels of at least 2.75 inches. It hasn’t been certified yet, but she apparently set the record Sunday in a marathon in Chattanooga, Tenn., UPI reported. “I’m still in shock,” she said on Instagram. (EXPRESS)

An Ohio defendant who vowed he was penniless and couldn’t pay a fine now faces a big one after deputies escorting him from court found he was carrying $4,060. Lawrence Knox, 36, pleaded guilty to a drug charge Oct. 5 in Franklin County court. Deputies found the cash while taking him to be processed for his six-year sentence. When the judge was told of the money, he fined Knox the most allowed — $20,000 — plus court costs. (AP)

The attorney for a 72-year-old man convicted in a tax scheme cited obesity to try to limit his client’s time in prison. The lawyer wrote in a court filing Monday in Tampa, Fla., that Stephen Donaldson Sr. has a below-average life expectancy because he is 5-foot-9 and 273 pounds. For that reason, the lawyer wrote, it’s not right to make him serve six years in prison. Donaldson helped sell an offshore tax shelter that cost the IRS some $10 million. (AP)

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What portrait picks reveal CULTURE Like their choice of architects for the Obama Presidential library, the former president and first lady have turned to two painters who are working comfortably in a safely contemporary space. The National Portrait Gallery announced late last week that the former president’s portrait would be painted by Kehinde Wiley and the former first lady would be limned by Amy Sherald. Both artists are AfricanAmerican, both have demonstrated a high comfort level with realistic portraiture, and yet both have given basic figure painting a decidedly stylish twist. Wiley is the more famous of the two, especially for his largeformat, meticulously designed images of contemporary AfricanAmerican men rendered in the heroic stance and sometimes the trappings of older painting styles. He has posed young men dressed in hip-hop style into detailed and richly colored backgrounds reminiscent of Dutch masters, or painters such as

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Left: “Two Heroic Sisters of the Grassland” by Kehinde Wiley, who will paint Barack Obama. Right: “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)” by Amy Sherald, who will paint Michelle Obama.

Velazquez, Holbein, Manet and Titian. His work, which is pro duced by a large Wiley studio of painters, is highly sought after, widely collected and frequently exhibited, including at a solo exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts last year. More likely to make waves in the art world is the choice of Sherald to paint Mrs. Obama’s portrait. Sherald, a Baltimore-based

artist, won the $2 5,0 0 0 2 016 Outwin Boochever Portrait C ompetition, hosted by the Sherald National Portrait Gallery, last year. The triennial competition helped bring Sherald’s work to a larger audience, and her winning work, “Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance),” shown above, dominated an exhibition of finalists and other winners. Both artists have earned (or

are earning) plaudits from audiences who expect artists working today to bring something distinctively contemporary and original to their work. If there’s a safe center to the cutting edge, the Obamas seem sure to find it. The paintings are almost certain to look a lot tailored and just a little trendy, without crossing any lines that might discomfit popular expectations. The portraits are still in the works and will be unveiled early next year. PHILIP KENNICOTT (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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No D.C. spot earns a third Michelin star This year’s Michelin guide announcement did not elevate any of D.C.’s restaurants to the top designation of three stars, but two new restaurants — Komi, above, and Metier — joined the onestar ranks. No restaurants slipped down in the rankings. The Inn at Little Washington, Minibar and Pineapple and Pearls kept their designation of two stars for a second year. Last year was the first year for the D.C. Michelin guide, and it was hailed as a sign that Washington had finally become a serious food city. (TWP)

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Fatal U-Md. stabbing labeled a hate crime COLLEGE PARK, MD. The fatal stabbing of a black student on a college campus in Maryland will be prosecuted as a hate crime. A Prince George’s County grand jury Tuesday handed up the hate crime charge against Sean Urbanski, who was previously charged with one count of murder in the slaying of Richard Collins III. Urba nski, who is white, stabbed Collins while he was at a bus stop with friends at U-Md. on May 20 in a “totally unprovoked” attack, police said. Urbanski was a student at U-Md. Collins had been attending Bowie State University. Collins’ slaying sparked a national outcry after law enforcement announced it was investigating Urbanski’s connection to a Facebook page called Alt Reich: Nation. University of Maryland Police Chief David B. Mitchell

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has said the content from the page was full of racist and inflammatory material. Since then, inUrbanski vestigators have been sifting through Urbanski’s digital devices to determine whether he targeted Collins because of his race. Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks said her office plans to seek the maximum sentence of life

in prison without parole if Urbanski is convicted of murder. The hate crime charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Urbanski, 22, of Severna Park, Md., is scheduled to go to trial in January. Collins, 23, had recently been commissioned into the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant. He was killed just days before he was set to graduate from Bowie State. The incident further heightened racial tensions at the University of Maryland, which had reported several race-based incidents throughout the campus in previous months. The university launched several new initiatives aimed at reviewing and improving how it investigates hate-based incidents. Recently, a man was charged in connection with swastika graffiti found on a garbage can on campus. And campus police last week said they were investigating three incidents of haterelated graffiti found in the stall of a men’s restroom in a dining hall. LYNH BUI (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Northam has cash lead in governor race Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam maintained his commanding financial lead over Republican Ed Gillespie through September, new campaign finance filings show. Northam, the current lieutenant governor, ended the month with $5.7 million on hand after raising $7.2 million in September, according to data compiled Tuesday by the nonpartisan Virginia Public Access Project. Republican contender Ed Gillespie had $2.5 million as of Sept. 30 after raising $4.4 million. (TWP)

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A federal judge has ruled that a northern Virginia sheriff was within his rights to fire a highranking deputy who supported an opposing candidate. Deputy Mark McCaffrey sued Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman after he opted not to reappoint McCaffrey when Chapman won re-election in 2015. McCaffrey was fired after supporting Chapman’s opponent in the GOP primary, Eric Noble. Judge Anthony Trenga said that sheriffs can fire deputies who choose to support other candidates when the deputy holds a senior “policymaking” position. McCaffrey has appealed the judge’s ruling. (AP)

Authorities investigating a report of an active shooter at Howard University found no evidence of an attacker or shots being fired Tuesday and lifted a lockdown on campus, D.C. police said. The “all clear” announcement came more than two hours after police, many carrying rifles, swarmed the Northwest Washington campus and evacuated three buildings. The incident began to unfold around noon at the college, which is located off Georgia and Michigan avenues. In a Twitter message, Howard University said it had received an anonymous report of a “potential shooter on campus.”

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would raise annuitant premiums by about 2 percent a year more than they would otherwise rise,” said Walton Francis, a health care economist. “After 10 years, that would be about a 20 percent increase in costs to annuitants.” Jacqueline Simon, policy director of the American Federation of Government Employees, predicted that the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan would be “vastly more expensive for retirees” under the House plan. The government now pays about 70 percent of federal health insurance premiums, while enrollees pay 30 percent. Under the House plan, that could flip, Simon said, with employees and retirees paying 80 percent of their health insurance costs after 20 years. She added, “This proposal imposes substantial financial harm.” The retirees know it. Linda Kurz, 77, who worked at the Veterans Health Service for 37 years, said the House plan “will probably at least double or triple my premium for standard individual coverage.” Joanne Pedersen, who worked at the Navy Department for 30-plus years, said she “was promised health care for life. It would create a great hardship

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Together with President Trump’s earlier budget plan, which would slice and dice federal retirement, Capitol Hill and the White House have mounted a multifront assault on federal worker compensation. If a House Budget Resolution proposal becomes law, federal retiree health insurance premiums could rise significantly over time because growth in the government’s subsidy would be limited to the increase in inflation. “Federal retirees earned their retiree health benefits through years of hard work for this country. Shifting more of the cost of the premiums onto their backs now — when they have already entered retirement — fails to honor the commitments and promises made to them in exchange for their service,” said Richard Thissen, president of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. Linking the government’s subsidy to inflation sounds reasonable, until you realize that health care costs rise much faster than the general inflation rate. “As a rough estimate, it

Experts say federal retiree health insurance premiums would increase significantly over time if a House Budget Resolution proposal becomes law.

should my premiums increase.” Federal employees also were promised a good retirement program. But Trump’s proposal would undercut it by increasing out-of-pocket employee payments and decreasing retirement benefits. The House plan would further deteriorate federal employee compensation by, in the words of the proposal, “basing Federal employee retirees’ health benefits on length of service.” With the inflation and length of service provisions, “these two reforms would bring health benefits for Federal retirees more in line with those offered in the private sector.”

House Republicans think that’s a good thing. Yes, federal benefits are better than many in the private sector, but that comes with Uncle Sam’s desire to be a model employer. Under the House plan, Sam wouldn’t be much better than the bottom feeders. If they can’t afford to buy insurance to supplement Medicare, one possible result of a decline in retiree health benefits is a decline in health care for seniors who need it the most. Is that what Uncle Sam wants for his annuitants? Follow Joe Davidson on Twitter @joedavidsonWP

POSITIVE VIEW OF WORKING FOR UNCLE SAM

The number of questions in an 84-question government-wide employee survey that got more positive responses this year than in 2016, continuing a trend of improvement in federal employees’ views of working for the government. Results of a survey conducted in May and June were released by the Office of Personnel Management on Thursday. More than nine-tenths of federal employees believe their work is important and are willing to put in extra effort. But 47 percent disagreed that pay raises depend on how well employees perform their jobs. (TWP)

Q. I’m trying to decide on a retirement date. Should I go out before the end of the year to capture the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA)? A. There always is a surge of federal employee retirements around the turn of the year. Often this is for personal reasons — starting both retirement and a new year together — but there can be financial advantages, too. One of them is that the value of unused annual leave (vacation) is paid as if the individual were still employed, including a boost for time after a January raise is paid. And the general 30-day limit on carrying such leave forward doesn’t apply to cashing it out in a retirement before the end of a leave year (Jan. 6, in this case). However, “capturing” an upcoming cost-of-living adjustment is not a reason to retire before year’s end. While most federal retirees will receive a 2 percent COLA in January, it is prorated by how many months they have been retired, if less than a full year. And if you’re retiring under the Federal Employees Retirement System under age 62, you won’t get any COLA unless you were in an occupation that requires earlier retirement, or were disabled. ERIC YODER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Most federal retirees will see their annuity benefits increase by 2 percent in January for a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) — the largest inflation-based increase since 2012

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Nominee for drug czar withdraws after report First choice by Trump helped implement law that weakened DEA

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“I think I’ve called every family of someone who’s died. As far as other representatives, I don’t know. You could ask General Kelly, did he get a call from Obama?”

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POLITICS President Trump on Tuesday said his nominee to be the nation’s drug czar is withdrawing from consideration for the job — a move that comes in the wake of a Washington Post/“60 Minutes” investigation detailing how the lawmaker helped steer legislation through Congress that weakened the Drug Enforcement Administration’s ability to go after drug distributors, even as opioid-related deaths continue to rise. On Monday, following the report, Democrats called on Trump to quickly drop Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa., who was nominated in September to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy. “Rep. Tom Marino has informed me that he is withdrawing his name from consideration as drug czar,” Trump said in a Tuesday morning tweet. “Tom is a fine man and a great Congressman!” Trump on Monday defended Marino as “a very early supporter of mine” and “a great guy” and said that his administration would “be looking into” the report. Many Democrats and at least one Republican have called for modification or outright repeal of the law the investigation showed was the result of a

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targeted lobbying campaign by the drug distribution industry. Marino, 65, represents Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District, a solidly Republican, mostly rural area of the state that voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Democrats welcomed the news Tuesday. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who said Monday that she would introduce legislation that would repeal the law, said in a statement, “I look forward to the Administration nominating a leader that can aggressively bring to bear every tool the government has to confront what is unquestionably a national public health crisis.” The law passed in 2016 after a

handful of members of Congress, allied with the nation’s major drug distributors, prevailed upon the DEA and the Justice Department to agree to the more industry-friendly legislation, undermining efforts to stanch the flow of pain pills, according to The Post/“60 Minutes” investigation. The DEA had opposed the effort for years. The chief advocate of the law that hobbled the DEA was Marino, who spent years trying to move it through Congress. It passed after Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, negotiated a final version with the DEA. ANNE GEARAN,

suggesting Tuesday that President Obama did not call John Kelly, a retired Marine general who is now White House chief of staff, when his son was killed in Afghanistan in 2010. Many people Monday criticized Trump for suggesting incorrectly that Obama had not called the families of slain troops.

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The proportion of Americans who say they feel sexual harassment in the workplace is a “serious problem,” according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, a significant rise from 47 percent in 2011. Nearly two-thirds of Americans also said that men who sexually harass female co-workers usually get away with it. The new poll was conducted in the days after a sexual abuse controversy surrounding Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein made headlines. More than 20 women have publicly accused Weinstein of abuse. (THE WASHINGTON POST) Texas truck driver pleads guilty in immigrant smuggling case that left 10 dead in San Antonio

Trump promises to ‘fight back’ against McCain POLITICS President Trump on Tuesday warned Sen. John McCain that “I fight back” after McCain questioned “half-baked, spurious nationalism” in America’s foreign policy. McCain, a former Navy pilot who spent 5½ years in a Vietnam prisoner of war camp and is battling brain cancer, offered a simple response to Trump: “I have faced tougher adversaries.” Trump said in a radio interview with WMAL in Washington, “I’m being very, very nice but at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty.” Trump also bemoaned McCain’s decisive vote this summer in opposition to a Republican bill to dismantle Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. In Philadelphia on Monday night, the six-term Republican senator from Arizona received the Liberty Medal. In addition to recalling his military service, McCain took a moment to go a step further. “To abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems,” he said, “is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.” KEN THOMAS (AP)

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After a months-long offensive, the terrorist group is driven out of its former capital A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces holds their flag at Al-Naim Square in Raqqa on Tuesday.

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RAQQA, SYRIA U.S.-backed forces in Syria claimed Tuesday that they had full control of the Islamic State’s onetime capital of Raqqa, heralding an end to the militants’ presence in their most symbolically important stronghold and raising new questions about the United States’ future role in Syria. Mustafa Abdi, a spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, said that military operations had halted and that members of the joint Kurdish-Arab force were clearing the city of explosive devices and hunting for sleeper cells. The U.S. military said a formal victory announcement will come after SDF forces are sure that no pockets of ISIS resistance remain in the city, but the SDF portrayed the battle for Raqqa as over. “There is an air of jubilation in the city,” Abdi said. “People are overjoyed that they are finally rid of this scourge.” Kurdish and Arab fighters took to the streets to celebrate the end of the battle they have fought for four months, climbing onto vehicles and parading around the deserted, destroyed city, according to photographs posted on social media. One showed the offensive’s commander, Rojda Felat, waving a large yellow-and-red SDF flag in Al-Naim Square, where ISIS carried out its beheadings. By the time the battle was over, Raqqa had lost all strategic significance to the group, which once had used the city to showcase its brutality. The fall of the Iraqi city of Mosul in July and the loss of large areas of territory in eastern Syria to Syrian government forces leave the militants in control of only one sizable stretch of territory, spanning

the Iraqi-Syrian border. But the capture of Raqqa by the SDF, backed by U.S. airstrikes and American advisers on the ground, nonetheless marks a milestone in the U.S.-led war against ISIS. In a briefing to reporters in Washington, a U.S. military spokesman, Col. Ryan Dillon, called it “momentous.” He said that ISIS has now lost 87 percent of the territory it once controlled and that 6,500 fighters remain, out of tens of thousands at the peak of its prowess. The victory also intensifies questions about what comes next. The remaining ISIS strongholds in Syria lie to the south in the province of Deir Ezzor, where the Syrian government and its Iranian-backed and Russian allies are making fast progress. The U.S. military will leave it up to the SDF to decide whether it wants to continue to advance into the area, Dillon said. The Trump administration has not yet indicated whether it

A heavy toll The offensive to capture Raqqa, Syria, began in June, with the SDF advancing on the ground as U.S.-led coalition airstrikes pummeled the militants. As was the case in Mosul, victory over the Islamic State has come at a tremendous price. Much of the city now lies in ruins, its residents scattered in displacement camps across the country. At least 1,000 civilians are said to have died, according to estimates by monitoring groups. More than 270,000 people fled their homes during the battle, according to the United Nations, and many will find they do not have homes to go back to. (TWP)

is prepared to stay on in northeastern Syria to provide protection for the fledgling ministate being forged by Syria’s Kurds. The experience over the past two days of the Kurds in neighboring Iraq may embolden the Syrian government to challenge

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the Syrian Kurdish enclave once ISIS is vanquished, just as the Iraqi government has moved to dislodge Kurdish forces from the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and other areas they controlled. Syrian officials have spoken on several occasions about their determination to regain control over all of the territory they lost to the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, including the area controlled by the Kurds. A civilian council comprising Arabs and Kurds is waiting in the wings to take over governance of Raqqa, under the auspices of the Kurdish-led administration running northeastern Syria. But the international community has not committed funds for reconstruction of the devastated city, and the absence of a clear U.S. policy for northeastern Syria risks undermining the gains, cautioned Hassan Hassan of the Washington-based Tahrir Institute. LOUISA LOVELUCK AND LIZ SLY (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Storm Ophelia battered Scotland and northern England on Tuesday after leaving three people dead and hundreds of thousands without power in Ireland. The former Atlantic hurricane downed trees and power lines, sent waves surging and disrupted transport Tuesday, a day after making landfall on Ireland. Some 330,000 homes were still without power. (AP) ENTERTAINMENT

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New fires break out in Calif. as others dim CALIFORNIA As crews gained on the wildfires in California wine country, new blazes broke out in other parts of the state, including a fire in the mountains above Los Angeles that threatened a historic observatory Tuesday and more flames in the Santa Cruz mountains. A dozen aircraft dropped water and fire retardant as crews worked in steep terrain Tuesday to battle a blaze near the Mount Wilson Observatory northeast of Los Angeles. The observatory, which was evacuated, opened in 1917 and houses the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, one of the most advanced telescopes of the first half of the 20th century. Farther north, a fire that sprang up late Monday in the mountains of the southern Bay Area blackened at least 150 acres and threatened 150 homes, which prompted evacuation orders. Smoke descended into the coastal beach town of Santa Cruz. Winds remained light, but conditions were also dry. Crews dropped water on the blaze, which started as a structure fire of some kind. “The idea is to hit it pretty

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Fire crews build a containment line Tuesday as they battle a wildfire near Boulder Creek, Calif. Fires continue to burn this week all across California.

hard with aircraft and hit it with ground resources at the same time,” said Rob Sherman, a division chief at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Five firefighters suffered minor injuries, including one who slipped down a ravine. In the state’s winemaking region, tens of thousands of people began drifting back to their neighborhoods. Some returned to find their homes gone. The deadliest wildfires in California history have been burning for more than a week, killing at least 41 people and destroying nearly 6,000 homes. About 34,000 people remained

under evacuation Tuesday, down from 40,000 on Monday. “It’s never going to be the same,” said Rob Brown, a supervisor in Mendocino County, where all 8,000 evacuees were cleared to go home Monday. “You’re going to have to seek a new normal.” The thousands of calls coming from concerned residents in neighboring Sonoma County “have shifted from questions about evacuation to questions about coping,” Sonoma County Supervisor Shirlee Zane said. “Many people who call are sad and worried. The shock has worn off,” and depression is setting in.

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Kurdish forces pulled out of disputed areas across northern and eastern Iraq on Tuesday, a day after handing over the vital oil-rich city of Kirkuk to federal forces amid a tense standoff following last month’s vote for independence. The vastly outnumbered Kurdish forces appear to have bowed to demands from the central government that they hand over the so-called disputed territories outside the Kurds’ autonomous region, including areas seized from ISIS in recent years. (AP)

A federal judge in Hawaii blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from enforcing its latest travel ban, just hours before it was set to take effect. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson granted Hawaii’s request to temporarily block the policy that was to be implemented starting today. He found that Trump’s executive order “suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor.” Justice Department spokesman Ian Prior said it will appeal the ruling “in an expeditious manner.” (AP)

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POLITICS Key senators reached a breakthrough deal Tuesday to resume federal payments to health insurers, which President Trump blocked last week. Insurers had warned that unless the money is restored, premiums will go up. At the White House, the

president spoke favorably about the bipartisan compromise, which is still likely to face opposition in Congress. The agreement would involve a two-year extension of federal payments to insurers, said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. Unless the money is quickly restored, insurers and others say that will result in higher premiums for people buying individual policies and in some carriers leaving unprofitable

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Alexander said, “Sen. Murray and I have an agreement,” and added that Trump has encouraged them and the “president likes this idea.” While the agreement is a breakthrough, they still need to secure the support of fellow Republicans and Democrats. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was noncommittal, while Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., welcomed the agreement as a step forward that will provide stability for insurance markets in the short term. Murray hailed the bipartisan effort, saying, “When Republicans and Democrats take the time … we can truly get things done” for the American people. ALAN FRAM (AP)

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nation+world AFGHANISTAN The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday, targeting police compounds and government facilities with suicide bombers in the country’s south, east and west, and killing at least 74 people, officials said. Scores of others were wounded. Afghanistan’s deputy interior minister, Murad Ali Murad, called the onslaught the “biggest terrorist attack this year.” Murad told a news conference in Kabul that attacks in Ghazni and Paktia provinces killed 71.

Three police officers died in an attack in Shibkho district. In Paktia province, 41 people — 21 police and 20 civilians — were killed when the Taliban used two suicide car bombs against a police compound in the provincial capital of Gardez. Among the wounded were 48 policemen, including the provincial police chief, and 110 civilians. Officials said that after the bombs went off, five attackers with suicide belts tried to storm the compound but were killed by Afghan security forces. A lawmaker from Paktia,

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Mujeeb Rahman Chamkani, said several of his staff were killed. In Ghazni province, insurgents stormed a security compound in Andar district, using a suicide car bomb and killing 25 police and five civilians, Murad said. At least 15 people were wounded. A spokesman for Ghazni’s provincial governor said the attack lasted nine hours. When it was over, he said, 13 bodies of Taliban fighters were on the ground. Later Tuesday, an Afghan official said drone strikes killed 35 Taliban fighters near the border with Pakistan. AMIR SHAH (AP)

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The Redskins’ passing game has gone topsyturvy and sideways, and the funny thing about it is that it’s working. Entering the season, marquee free agent pickup Terrelle Pryor Sr. and 2016 first-round pick Josh Doctson were expected to be the team’s top receivers. But they’ve been outplayed by a third-down running back and a former fifth-round pick. Quarterback Kirk Cousins has relied on a group effort. Nine players caught passes against San Francisco on Sunday. None were targeted more than five times. Translation: The Redskins don’t have a goto wide receiver anymore. A diverse cast of receivers looks good compared to the team’s mostly plodding running attack. Despite coach Jay Gruden’s surprisingly dogged determination to make the running game work, Washington averaged just 2.8 yards per carry Sunday, and Cousins

was the team’s second-leading runner. Running back Chris Thompson leads the club in yards receiving (340) and is tied with Jordan Reed — who has only 142 yards this year — for the team lead in receptions (18). Ryan Grant, a 2014 fifth-round pick who caught just nine passes last season, has become a reliable target in crunch time and has 13 catches and two TDs. Meanwhile, slot specialist Jamison Crowder was expected to be a leading target this year, but he has just 17 receptions and seems to go through stretches when he’s invisible to Cousins. Pryor has 16 catches, but his role remains small. Doctson has only four receptions so far. Cousins is on track to pass 4,000 yards passing for a third straight season, but he’s doing it by going deep through his progressions. Gruden describes Cousins as “efficient,” which is the only way he’ll put up big numbers with this cast. Gruden is still retooling this offense to account for the

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Running back Chris Thompson, top, has a team-high 340 yards receiving. Jamison Crowder, above left, and Terrelle Pryor Sr. have combined for 330.

reality that Pryor and Doctson aren’t going to dominate. Spreading the ball around to nine players shows the Redskins have adopted a receiverby-committee approach. “I think it’s an indication of people doing their jobs, No. 1,” Gruden said. “I think any time we have a route combination, I think [Cousins] trusts everybody involved in the pattern and he’s seeing things pretty clearly, getting to his right reads and right progressions.” The best part of Gruden’s reinvented offense is defenses have to account for everyone.

There might be single coverage on two of his targets per snap. The downside is the lack of a go-to playmaker. Last year the Redskins could force the ball to Pierre Garcon when they needed a first down. Grant or Reed may emerge as the first choice on third-down throws. Coaches love to say it takes the whole roster to win. That’s not always true, but it certainly is when it comes to Washington’s passing game.

In Sunday’s 26-24 win over the 49ers, secondyear receiver Josh Doctson played only 19 of Washington’s 74 snaps on offense, just more than 25 percent of the unit’s plays. Coach Jay Gruden addressed that deficiency Monday, saying his staff will look to “actively expand” Doctson’s role. “He didn’t get as many reps as I would like,” Gruden said. Doctson, 24, again flashed his potential in a reserve role Sunday. He scored his second career touchdown with an 11-yard reception on the team’s opening drive for his only catch in the game. Two of Doctson’s four catches this season have resulted in touchdowns. That ties him with Ryan Grant and Chris Thompson for the team lead in scoring grabs. (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Washington on Tuesday placed kicker Dustin Hopkins, left, on short-term injured reserve because of a hip injury he sustained during a 26-24 win over the 49ers on Sunday. In a corresponding move, the Redskins signed Nick Rose, who was signed and cut by the Falcons in 2016 and the 49ers this season. Rose, 23, has no NFL kicks. He appeared in 51 college games at Texas, where he made 27 of 38 field goal attempts and converted 71 of 74 extra points. (TWP/EXPRESS)

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SEASON PREVIEW On the night before the Wizards’ preseason finale last week, point guard John Wall decided to forgo the New York City nightlife so he could watch Game 5 of the National League Division Series. On the morning after the Cubs eliminated the Nationals, Wall — devoted to his adopted hometown more than the average NBA superstar — used the pronoun “we” to express his disappointment. The local baseball team has not advanced past the NLDS despite making it four times in the last six years. Wall could empathize. “I’ve been through that,” he said. “We’ve been to the second round three times, so that’s my motivation to get over that hump. I definitely want to break that.” For the Wizards, the opportunity to break through starts tonight with an opener at home against the 76ers (7, ESPN). Washington has three max contract players who represent the heart of what could be the franchise’s best team in decades — and at $123 million, its most

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From left, Marcin Gortat, Bradley Beal and John Wall will start against the 76ers while Markieff Morris, right, recovers from sports hernia surgery.

expensive. Wall, Bradley Beal and Otto Porter Jr. are entering their fifth year together. Add in stalwarts Marcin Gortat and Markieff Morris, as well as coach Scott Brooks starting his second year with the team, and continuity is a distinct strength in a shifting Eastern Conference landscape. But questions remain over how much the Wizards will evolve. The young core has banged against the second-round ceiling.

Partially due to being limited financially in free agency after matching Porter’s max offer sheet, Washington has added nothing substantial to help unseat the conference darlings in the Cavaliers and Celtics. But stability doesn’t have to lead to stagnancy. Wall still believes there is room to grow; specifically, for this core to snap the city’s so-called curse and advance to the conference finals. No team in Washington’s

The Wizards never assembled a trustworthy bench last year, so John Wall had to play the entire second half of their final contest, a Game 7 loss to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Wall wore out, making just 2 of 13 shots after halftime. While the front office addressed the bench with budgetfriendly veterans Tim Frazier, Jodie Meeks and Mike Scott, Wall trained to carry another heavy load and soar into the MVP conversation. After Game 7, Wall rested for one week before signing up for spin class and boxing lessons. The day after the news conference celebrating his four-year, $170 million contract extension, Wall was back at work, training at the team practice facility. When he finally took a break in the Bahamas later in the summer, he still rode his bicycle in paradise. C.B.

four major sports has reached a conference final or championship series since 1998. The keys to doing so will be health — Washington will have to do without Morris while he

20 of 21 experts at ESPN pick Wizards to win Southeast Division; none have Wizards making conference finals

recovers from sports hernia surgery — and chemistry. An Oct. 8 exhibition, only the second game in which the four healthy starters had played in the preseason, illustrates the damage this team can do. In less than eight minutes together on the floor, the starting unit fueled a 38-point first quarter against the Cavaliers. “If we play together, I mean, we will destroy anybody,” said Gortat, the big man who sets screens at just the right angle for his teammates. “Our chemistry is just too good right now. … We understand each other. There’s nothing we’ve got to talk about.” Outsiders see this harmony, and place the Wizards as high as a top-three team in the East. With Wall at 27 and Beal still only 24, some have even higher expectations for the maturing core. Dennis Scott, an “NBA on TNT” reporter and NBA TV analyst, has become a believer. He boldly predicted the Wizards will be the East representative in the NBA Finals — if Wall has an MVP-worthy season. Scott even backed up Beal’s statement from May that the Cavs didn’t want to face Washington in the playoffs. And for the first time in many years, Wall experienced the benefits of good health last season, leading to his “career year.” Wall has dubbed this his “#Wolfseason” — potentially the best chance in his career to advance past the second round. After the Nationals’ ouster, Wall came across a graphic on social media highlighting Washington’s sports futility. His image was included on the ignominious Mount Rushmore, alongside Bryce Harper, Kirk Cousins and Alex Ovechkin, the other current leaders of the local franchises. Wall clicked “like” — his way of announcing his intention of shattering the city’s curse, and the Wizards’ second-round ceiling. “It’s just more pressure on me, which I love,” Wall said. “It’s just more motivation for me. I’m fine with that. I want to break it.” CANDACE BUCKNER (THE WASHINGTON POST)

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Wizards will rely on stars — and hope bench improves The Wizards enter the 2017-18 season with high expectations after going 49-33 last season for their best record since 1979. These numbers show what makes Washington a contender in the East, and what it needs to improve. GABE HIATT (EXPRESS)

25.6% +5.6 The portion of John Wall’s points scored on fast breaks last year, which was the highest fast break percentage of any starting guard who played in at least 40 games. Few point guards finish at the rim like Wall. His 3-point percentage was just 32.7 last year; 62 qualified guards were better.

The net rating for the Wizards last season when Bradley Beal was on the floor. In other words, when Beal was playing, Washington outscored opponents by 5.6 points per 100 possessions. Led by Stephen Curry (17.2), only eight starting guards who played in at least 60 games had better ratings.

60.8% -3.4 The effective field goal percentage for Otto Porter Jr. last season, which was the fifth-highest of all NBA starters who played in at least 60 games, and the best of any small forward in that group. Effective field goal percentage adds weight for 3-pointers, and Porter made 43.4 percent of his 3s last season.

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The net rating for the Wizards bench last year, meaning Washington reserves were outscored by 3.4 points per 100 possessions. Only seven teams were worse. Backup point guard was a rough spot: Brandon Jennings shot a career-low 27.4 percent from the field in 23 games with Washington.

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The combined career points per game for new Wizards reserve guards Tim Frazier (6.2) and Jodie Meeks (9.8). Washington dealt the No. 52 pick in the draft this year to get Frazier, 26, from New Orleans. Meeks, 30, was signed after shooting 40.9 percent from 3-point range with Orlando last year.

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Low-key start can be huge for Fultz NBA Markelle Fultz’s professional career will begin just a short drive from Prince George’s County, where doubt seemed to always follow him, and where his dream of one day being an NBA player — scratch that: an NBA star — was first hatched.

Fultz was once cut from DeMatha Catholic’s varsity team as a sophomore. He was late to show up on the radar of top college recruiters. He was ridiculed for leading Washington to just nine wins as a freshman last season. He’ll make his NBA debut tonight as the league’s most recent No. 1 pick, but he’s being treated as anything but. The 19-year-old is expected to come off the bench when his 76ers tip off tonight in the District.

ESPN: Richard Jefferson, 37, agrees to 1-year, $2.3M deal with Nuggets

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No. 1 pick carries lighter burden of expectations next to star teammates

Markelle Fultz isn’t expected to start for the 76ers tonight after injuries slowed his preseason.

In a preseason survey of NBA general managers, Fultz did not receive a single vote to win rookie of the year. Lonzo Ball, picked one spot behind Fultz, received 19. Ben Simmons, who

was selected first overall by the 76ers in 2016 and is also debuting after missing all of last season with a foot injury, received seven. Now Fultz, who was sidelined by an ankle injury during

summer league and bothered by shoulder and knee soreness in recent weeks, starts his career in a low-pressure spot as a sidekick to Simmons and center Joel Embiid. Unlike former Philly flameouts Nerlens Noel and Michael Carter-Williams, Fultz isn’t supposed to be a savior. While most No. 1 picks join barren rosters, he joins Embiid, Simmons, secondyear forward Dario Saric, sharpshooter J.J. Redick and journeyman guard Jerryd Bayless, who is expected to start today. Fultz can wade into the spotlight as an off-bench scorer, surrounded by young talent on a team that is done rebuilding but still permitted growing pains. JESSE DOUGHERTY (THE WASHINGTON POST)

Packers sign rookie QB Jerod Evans to practice squad after losing Aaron Rodgers with broken collarbone

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“I’m going to be in D.C. a whole lot more now,” rapper Q-Tip says.

Q-Tip is in the building The rapper is ready to become the Kennedy Center’s ‘provocateur in residence’ MUSIC At long last, Q-Tip has arrived. The A Tribe Called Quest rapper and producer was recently perched behind turntables and a MacBook and drum machine at the opening event for the Kennedy Center’s inaugural hip-hop culture season. Along with composer Jason Moran, he shared music trivia and made boogie-down beats rain from the speakers. As Q-Tip made the rounds backstage later, Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter stopped him in the hallways behind the Terrace Theater. “This is the coolest thing in the whole world!” she told him. It was precisely the kickoff she’d imagined for the Kennedy Center’s first artistic director for hip-hop culture.

If Moran was the “instigator,” the force that brought him into the Kennedy Center fold, Q-Tip said afterward, “I think I’m going to be the provocateur.” He smiled a Cheshire cat grin. “The provocateur in residence.” The artistic director job, announced early last year, was a grand gesture that acknowledged hip-hop’s place in the realm of high art. It was Q-Tip’s appointment that assured fans the music would be safeguarded by one of the genre’s all-time greatest. But D.C. had to wait 18 months for face time with the rapper. In the meantime, A Tribe Called Quest reunited and recorded an album called “We Got It From Here: Thank You 4 Your Service,” their first in 18 years.

The group (minus Phife Dawg, who died of complications from diabetes after recording his verses) performed at the Grammys and played all the cool music festivals. When he arrived Friday, Q-Tip assured the audience that, going forward, his presence here would be significant: “I’m going to be in D.C. a whole lot more now.” Later, after the concert, Q-Tip spoke about the discussions he’d like to have within the walls of the Kennedy Center. Social issues, he said, should be just as much a part of the discourse around hip-hop as the music itself. His new role is an opportunity to address a time rife with misogyny and racism, subjects that have permeated modern rap music. “We should be alarmed,” he

said of young rappers who refer to women in demeaning terms. “But it’s crazy, because that bangs in the clubs, and we turn it up. Women . . . you turn it up all the same. That’s why we gotta talk about it. It’s not rappers. It’s society.” But he argued that hip-hop’s paradoxes shouldn’t keep the culture from earning recognition from vaunted institutions such as the Kennedy Center. “Misogynistic acts have been going on since the beginning of time. We can’t be holier than thou,” he said. “You have to call it for what it is, but there’s things in these walls and these institutions by way of art that have not been pretty, either.” LAVANYA RAMANATHAN

KYLE GUSTAFSON (FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

P!nk lets it all out on a new album P!nk’s seventh album, “Beautiful Trauma,” out now, puts her confessional tone at the forefront, but throws in plenty of twists to keep people guessing. The biggest is Eminem’s arrival on “Revenge,” which adopts a groove similar to “My Name Is” at the beginning that P!nk raps and sings over. On “I Am Here,” she quickly goes from Lumineers alt-country to gospel hoedown, creating something both wild and spiritual. Her take on cherishing simpler times,“Barbies,” is another example of how underrated P!nk (who wrote or co-wrote each track) is as a songwriter. Things may get repetitive over the album’s course, but her unique take on pop makes the whole uplifting, painful trip worthwhile. GLENN GAMBOA (NEWSDAY VIA AP)

(THE WASHINGTON POST)

AWARDS

Solange leads Soul Train Awards nominations

Solange is the most nominated artist for this year’s edition of BET’s Soul Train Awards, nabbing seven nominations, including best R&B/soul female artist, and video and song of the year for her single “Cranes in the Sky.” Bruno Mars trails just behind Solange with six nods, including song of the year for “That’s What I Like” and album/mixtape of the year for “24K Magic.” The ceremony will air Nov. 26 on BET. (AP)

Riz Ahmed in talks to star in Netflix’s modern-day retelling of “Hamlet”

Cher joins cast of “Mamma Mia!” sequel, out in 2018

Elton John to end Las Vegas residency in May

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‘Simply Complicated’ is one part commercial, one part confessional FILM REVIEW In Demi Lovato’s new YouTubeexclusive documentary, the pop singer is often shown in flattering light, in slow motion with perfect hair and makeup. But there’s also a lot of ugly stuff, too. “Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated,” now available on the

streaming site, is a combination of a Barbara Walters special and a promo for Lovato’s new album. It’s a weird, often uncomfortable, 78-minute fusion of artificiality and honesty, but Lovato’s charisma ultimately pulls it off. Structured chronologically, “Simply Complicated” uses old footage and photos to examine Lovato’s rise from a bullied girl who was fascinated with death to a Disney princess on “Camp Rock” struggling with her

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Lovato’s doc tries to keep it real

“I’ve learned that secrets make you sick,” Demi Lovato says in a new YouTube documentary.

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squeaky-clean image, to her life today, as a sober music superstar. “I’ve learned that secrets make you sick,” she says. She reflects on that road to sobriety, sharing about a cocaine bender that ended with her in a psych ward, faking drug tests and drinking so much one night that she threw up on the way to a performance for “American Idol.” “It’s embarrassing to look back at the person that I was,” Lovato says in the film, directed by Hannah Lux Davis, who is known for helming music videos and makes her full-length debut here. In one of the more poignant moments, Lovato says she might not be over Wilmer Valderrama, whom she dated for six years.

“I think my heart’s always with Wilmer. I think it was with Wilmer, I think that it is with Wilmer and I think it will be,” she says with a refreshing honesty. “I do have moments where it’s late at night and I’m lonely and I wonder if I made the right decision.” For every bit of raw truthfulness in this film, there’s just as much promotion for “Tell Me You Love Me,” the album Lovato just released. Of the 12 songs featured in the documentary, seven come off the new record, including “Sexy Dirty Love” and “Sorry Not Sorry.” This medley of marketing and contrition doesn’t always work. But hey, it’s complicated. Like Lovato. MARK KENNEDY (AP)

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RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR CALMNESS STUDY Doctors at the National Institutes of Health are looking for individuals who drink heavily and/or had a stressful childhood to participate in a study looking at the eﬀect of alcohol abuse and early life stress on the ability to feel calm. Compensation may be provided.

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trending “There are better ways to commemorate Anne Frank. This is not one. We should not trivialize her memory as a costume.” me.” @CARLOSGEADL, the regional director for the Anti-Defamation League ue in Arizona, reacting on Twitter to a Halloween costume of Anne Frank.. In advertising the costume, halloweencostumes.com described Frank ass “a World War II hero.” After an online backlash, a company representative, ve, @RossWalkerSmith, wrote on Twitter that the costume could be used for “school projects and plays.” The site chose to remove the outfit, but the he costume was still available from other online sellers.

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project The Scaramucci Post after it put out a poll on Twitter asking, “How many Jews were killed in the holocaust?” The poll was removed after being widely criticized online. Callum Borchers of The Washington Post noted: “Even the ‘correct’ answer, ‘more than 5 million,’ could be viewed as understating the actual death toll, which was 6 million.”

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You’ll receive word of something that impacts you only indirectly right now — but, later, you’ll feel it more acutely. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) That which is original to you must not be shared with others just yet. That time will come. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You can organize the efforts of a large group, so that everyone is much more effective at helping to get an assigned task completed. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You may be asked to join forces with someone whose creative energies are focused on the achievement of a goal you have long had in common. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You can shed light on a key issue today, and keep others from falling into a panic because of misinformation or misinterpretation.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) No matter how you dress it up, a certain something is still going to be unappealing to you today. Face it: It may be time to throw it away. ARIES (March 21-April 19) You may have to do something the hard way today simply because you did not anticipate the need soon enough.

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70 | 47

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) You may not be able to trust what you hear today, but further investigation will quickly clear up any inconsistencies.

TODAY: The morning chill is shortlived under a bright blue sky. Highs reach the upper 60s to lower 70s, which should feel just fine given the lack of a breeze. Calm winds make evening readings in the 60s pleasant. Clear skies offer good stargazing for those away from the city glare. Lows range through the 40s.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You may want to review your performance over the past few days to determine whether your critics are right or wrong. CANCER (June 21-July 22) How you put two and two together will impact not only you and your family, but also many others indirectly. Do you come up with four?

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humor will get you noticed today — but is it for the right reason? That may not matter, so long as you’re noticed. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Take care that your confidence doesn’t become overconfidence, and that you don’t wield your authority in any way that is inappropriate.

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1767: The Mason-Dixon line, the boundary between colonial Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, is set as astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey.

1892: The first long-distance telephone line between New York and Chicago is officially opened (it could handle only one call at a time).

1977: West German commandos storm a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner on the ground in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing three of the four hijackers.

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On “The Graham Norton Show” this week, Nicole Kidman explained why she kissed her “Big Little Lies” co-star Alexander Skarsgard as he accepted his Emmy last month. “You’ve got to understand, I did everything with Alex,” Kidman said. “I gave Alex a congratulatory kiss — he’s like a mannequin.” (EXPRESS)

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Man whines about being held to actresses’ usual standard, for once Taylor Kitsch shared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” this week that he lost 30 pounds for his upcoming miniseries “Waco.” “It sucks,” he said. “I’d get 500 calories at breakfast, then I’d go from like veggies in the midafternoon to chicken broth after 4 p.m. Then you go run. And that’s what you get.” (EXPRESS)

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In a new interview with Allure magazine, Kerry Washington said that it’s impossible to copy the look of her “Scandal” character, Olivia Pope. “There’s someone who follows me around all day long [on the set] … to make sure there’s not a single hair out of place,” she said. “This is somebody’s full-time job. Then someone follows me around to add powder so that I never look shinier than I’m supposed to.” (EXPRESS)

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge say their third child is due in April. The royal couple had already revealed that they were having a child, but didn’t previously say which month the child was due. The statement released Tuesday by Kensington Palace offered no further details. The former Kate Middleton had announced she was pregnant in September. As with her other two pregnancies, she is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, or acute morning sickness. William and Kate are parents to Prince George, 4, and Princess Charlotte, 2. (AP)

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