What to watch: The Red Raiders return several girls from last year’s team, which ended with a No. 3 ranking in The Press 11. O.C. has only two seniors this year, Avery Panico, from the 2018 varsity eight, and Rebecca Dubbs, who was in last year’s lightweight eight. Ocean City had three Press All-Star boats last spring — the second eight, lightweight eight and freshman eight. O.C. has several juniors and freshman. The Red Raiders will start off by running a varsity eight and freshman eight.

– Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has two messages for Congress this morning: Central bank independence is critical, and an interest-rate cut is likely at the end of July. Heather Long got a first look at his prepared testimony before the House Financial Services Committee: “Since [June], it appears that uncertainties around trade tensions and concerns about the strength of the global economy continue to weigh on the U.S. economic outlook. Inflation pressures remain muted,” Powell will say. The U.S. economy is doing “reasonably well,” Powell will add, but he notes that business investment has “slowed notably,” probably because of the uncertainty around trade and global growth. He will also stress that the economic gains have not been shared evenly by everyone. Hispanics, African Americans and people in rural communities are continuing to have a harder time finding jobs that pay well.

Looking at the gloomy tangle of idealizations and idealizers that comprise the 2020 Democratic field, I wonder whether the pluralist Democratic Party is gone for good. This was a party that believed in the fundamental reality that human goods were multiple, and so were human values, and any solution to human problems that didn’t take this reality into account was destined to make the problems worse. Their replacements pay lip service to “diversity” while they move to put a single value, equality, in its place. It is something of an accomplishment for a party consecrated to diversity to make an enemy of pluralism. But this is not the first time that the progressive ideal of inclusion has shown itself to be highly selective.

Details of riot and closing.” The tension mounted until a group of about 80 locals broke into the refugee compound and attacked the detainees on February 17, 2014 and Reza Barati, The Gentle Giant, was murdered by locals.

– Trump summoned Republican lawmakers, political strategists and social media stars to the White House to discuss the “opportunities” of the Web in a summit that critics said could empower online provocateurs. Tony Romm, Michael Scherer and Amy B Wang report: “The high-profile gathering follows months of attacks from Trump claiming that Facebook, Google and Twitter … secretly censor right-leaning users, websites and other content online, a charge of political bias that the tech giants strongly deny.. … But Trump hasn’t invited any of the major tech companies, people familiar with the White House plans say, opting instead to grant a powerful stage to people who have a track record of sending inflammatory tweets and videos and posting other troubling content that social media sites increasingly are under pressure to remove. Among the expected attendees are James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas, which has released secretly recorded videos of subjects, including a Google executive, in an attempt to paint them as politically biased. Another invitee, Ben Garrison, has published cartoons that have drawn sharp rebukes from the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center for including hateful text and imagery.”

– MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred denied yesterday that the league has knowingly “juiced” baseballs to increase the number of home runs this season, despite mounting complaints from pitchers. Manfred attributed the spike in homers to naturally occurring variances in manufacturing baseballs and vowed transparency as officials move to correct the problem, per Sheinin.

We compiled stories about some unsung heroes who helped out in the aftermath of the recent flooding. 

Seven people were taken to the hospital apparently suffering from hypothermia, at least one in critical condition, according to 911 dispatch reports. 

Bugatti made headlines earlier this year when it promised to have the world’s first 3D printed brake caliper ready for testing. Now, the company recently debuted that caliper, showcasing exactly how well it works in a new video on Volkswagen’s channel.

Passengers board subway trains at the Naval Yard-Ballpark Metro Station, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, part of the public transit network for Washington.

If you’re planning on shifting all of the spoil to your local rubbish dump, then make sure you have some plastic sheeting ready to either go in the back of your car or to tie everything together on your roof rack.

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