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Too little, too late? Hong Kong’s leader fully

withdrew an extradition bill that led to recent

unrest, but protesters aren’t satisfied. A

Google fined The firm will pay $170 million to

settle accusations it violated kids’ YouTube

privacy, but critics say that’s lenient. A

STYLE

Post writer Helena

Andrews-Dyer needed a

break from the bad news

about black motherhood.

She found it in District

Motherhued’s events for

moms of color. C

LOCAL LIVING

Middle school can be a

tough time for tweens. A

school counselor offers a

number of ways parents

can make it easier.

In the News

THE NATION

USC officials cata­

logued in detail the

fundraising possibilities

associated with certain

applicants, court records

tied to the “Varsity

Blues” case show. A

The Pentagon is taking

money from Puerto Rico

and European projects

to fund President

Trump’s wall, new de­

tails show. A

A onetime speechwriter

for former defense secre­

tary Jim Mattis is

warned by the Pentagon

over his forthcoming

book, memos show. A

Rep. F. James Sensen­

brenner Jr. won’t seek

reelection, joining more

than a dozen Republi­

cans calling it quits. A

A top Interior official

who pushed to expand

drilling in Alaska is set to

join an oil firm increas­

ing operations there. A 18

THE WORLD

Yemeni government

forces and southern sep­

aratists are fighting what

is increasingly seen as a

civil war within a civil

war. A

The Trump administra­

tion unveiled new sanc­

tions to choke Iran’s oil

exports, and Iran said it

would step further away

from restraints on its nu­

clear program. A

THE ECONOMY

Uber has struggled

to revive its reputation

after scandals despite a

big marketing effort. A

Newsroom staffers

at one of Gannett’s larg­

est papers, the Arizona

Republic, launched a

unionization effort

ahead of the planned ac­

quisition of the company

by GateHouse. A

Thieves used AI voice­

mimicking software to

imitate an executive’s

speech and dupe his sub­

ordinate into wiring

hundreds of thousands

of dollars. A

THE REGION

A Maryland board that

could pay millions to the

wrongly convicted is

split over whether to. B

Ahead of his departure

to China, giant panda

Bei Bei received a thor­

ough checkup at the Na­

tional Zoo’s hospital. B

After a fatal house fire,

D.C. public safety agen­

cies will adopt policies to

ensure that life­threat­

ening building code vio­

lations are addressed

promptly. B

A D.C. judge ruled that

prosecutors had suffi­

cient evidence to hold

until trial a suspect in

the shooting death of an

11­year­old boy. B

A police lieutenant

in Prince George’s Coun­

ty was indicted on a sex

offense. B

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CONTENT © 2019

The Washington Post / Year 142, No. 274

BY KEVIN SULLIVAN

AND KARLA ADAM

london — Prime Minister Boris
Johnson, who has staked his job
on his ability to deliver Brexit,
suffered two major losses in Par-
liament on Wednesday, leaving
his governing authority in doubt
and the terms of Britain’s pend-
ing divorce from the European
Union unclear.
The resounding votes against
Johnson capped a dramatic week
in which protesters marched
across t he country and legislators
switched loyalty or were excom-
municated from their party. Brit-
ons of every ideology have been
left angry, frustrated and often
overwhelmed by a national emer-
gency that won’t seem to end.
At the center of the storm
stands Johnson, a bombastic and
polysyllabic former journalist,
who is seen as a crusading hero
for British independence by his
fans and an untrustworthy, un-
democratic charlatan by his en-
emies.
After just six weeks on the job,
Johnson has lost his governing
majority, exiled some of his par-
ty’s most honored members and
been slapped down by lawmakers
SEE BREXIT ON A

BY ANTHONY FAIOLA

green turtle cay, bahamas

— The New Plymouth Hardware

store has been smashed to kin-

dling. More important, Curry’s

Grocery Store, too. Some of the

boats at Donny’s Marina have

been broken to matchsticks. Oth-

ers lie on their sides in the

middle of the street.

This barrier island off Great

Abaco in the northern Bahamas

was already a community apart.

When Hurricane Dorian struck

on Sunday, it was completely

isolated.

“We didn’t leave because we’d

been through other storms,” said

Craig Curry, 55. “But not this.

This was nothing like we’ve ever

seen.”

Curry spent two days battling

Hurricane Dorian in his home.

When howling winds blew the

first window out, he nailed his

dining room table to the hole.

Two more windows exploded,

and then his door. He took shel-

ter in his basement.

“We fought that storm for two

days,” he said. “Now we’re home-

less. There’s nothing left.”

Green Turtle Cay is a tightknit

community of about 500 people.

Everyone here is family — either

because they’re related, or be-

cause they’ve lived here together

for so long.

Now their island paradise has

turned to hell. Islanders are

struggling without power, with-

out water, without a steady sup-

ply of food.

The Coast Guard staged res-

cues earlier Wednesday. Chef

José Andrés and his World Cen-

tral Kitchen nonprofit group

dropped off boxes of chicken and

rice. The government sounded

the all-clear, lifting storm warn-

SEE BAHAMAS ON A

‘There’s nothing left’: Storm turns

paradise into a miserable heap

As Johnson

flounders,

Brexit left

in limbo

Parliamentary defeats

cap a stormy 6 weeks

for new prime minister

BY SPENCER S. HSU AND

ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN

A federal jury found Gregory B.
Craig not guilty of lying to the
Justice Department, acquitting
the Democratic former White
House counsel on Wednesday of
concealing media contacts in
2012 related to his work for the
Ukrainian government.
Jurors deliberated less than
five hours before vindicating
Craig, 74, a former top legal
adviser to both President Barack
Obama and President Bill Clin-
ton. Craig thanked jurors after
the verdict.
His defense team, which said
the U.S. attorney’s office in Man-
hattan had declined to pursue
Craig, called the Trump Justice
Department’s decision to move
ahead with a prosecution in
Washington “a disgrace.”
“The question you need to ask
isn’t why this jury acquitted
Craig, but why the Department of
Justice brought this case against
an innocent man in the first
place,” Craig attorney William
SEE CRAIG ON A

Ex-Obama

counsel is

acquitted

of lying

BY PAUL DUGGAN

Javed Bhutto, a caregiver to

mentally disabled adults, got

home from work about 11 that

morning with bags of groceries

in his To yota Corolla. After his

overnight shift at a residential

facility, he had stopped in a

supermarket w ith a list from his

wife. In the parking lot of the

small condo complex where the

couple lived, he stepped out of

his car in the chill March air,

opened the trunk and reached

for his bundles.

A man identified by D.C.

police as Hilman Jordan — who

had killed before for no sane

reason and was locked in psy-

chiatric wards for 17 years —

walked up behind Bhutto, pull-

ing a 9mm semiautomatic from

a pocket of his coat. Spreading

his feet in a combat stance, he

aimed the weapon with a two-

handed grip at close range.

Bhutto, leaning into the trunk,

didn’t see him coming.

Although they were neigh-

bors in City View Condos, in

Southeast Washington, the two

were barely acquainted. Bhutto,

a few days shy of his 64th

birthday, was a former philoso-

phy professor in Pakistan who

found a new career in his adop-

tive country, working in group

homes. Jordan, 45, acquitted by

reason of insanity in an unpro-

voked fatal shooting in 1998,

had been released from St. Eliz-

abeths Hospital and was rent-

ing a condo largely at taxpayer

expense.

The first slug whizzed past

Bhutto, striking the To yota, and

he spun around aghast, holding

up his hands. The attacker tried

to squeeze off another round,

but the Smith & Wesson

jammed. He racked the slide

again and again, ejecting un-

spent cartridges onto the pave-

ment, as Bhutto ran, arms flail-

ing, toward the parking lot gate.

The gunman caught him there,

pistol-whipped him until he

fell, kicked him twice in the

head and fired a bullet into his

heart.

Now the victim’s widow,

Nafisa Hoodbhoy, 63, angrily

SEE PLEA ON A

An insanity plea spared him. Police say he’s killed again.

Widow of a slain caregiver wants to know why a D.C. agency released a man with a homicidal history

FAMILY PHOTO

Javed Bhutto was shot and

killed in March in Washington.

His alleged killer was a St.

Elizabeths Hospital outpatient.

Trump’s view: “Boris knows how
to win. Don’t worry about him.” A

Storm science: Dorian is a record hurricane, but it also fits a trend. A

Resiliency: N.C. shifts approach after three storms in three years. A

Fly away: Fla. aeronautical school sends its pricey fleet out of state. A

Storm chart: Did the White House try to justify a Tr ump tweet on Ala.? A

BY ANTHONY FAIOLA,

MARIA SACCHETTI,

TIM CRAIG

AND JOEL ACHENBACH

nassau, bahamas — A massive

search-and-rescue operation

scoured t he islands o f Great Abaco

and Grand Bahama amid a grow-

ing awareness that Hurricane

Dorian unleashed a catastrophe

unlike anything seen i n this p art of

the w orld.

The death toll late Wednesday

was 20, according to Minister of

Health D uane Sands, a nd i t is l ike-

ly to rise further as emergency

responders work their way

through t he debris and rubble a nd

the drowned neighborhoods. Res-

cue workers are racing through

flooded terrain looking for survi-

vors and the bodies o f victims.

The U.S. Coast Guard has dis-

patched nine cutters from Key

West and has been deploying heli-

copters, pre-staged in the Baha-

mas as Dorian approached, to

transport the injured to medical

facilities in Nassau — the capital,

on the island o f New Providence —

south of the d evastation. The Brit-

ish Royal Navy, numerous aid

groups, and first responders from

Fairfax County, Va., and L os Ange-

les have joined, or are in the proc-

ess of joining, the Bahamians’ res-

cue and relief efforts.

Dorian weakened for much of

Wednesday, but the eye became

more organized as the day wore

on, and the top winds bumped up

again. By late evening, Dorian

strengthened to a Category 3 hur-

ricane, with 115 mph sustained

winds in i ts e yewall.

The hurricane continued to

edge dangerously close to shore as

it traced an improbable arc paral-

lel to the southeastern coast o f the

United S tates. The National Hurri-

cane Center warned that Dorian

could make landfall in the Caroli-

nas on Thursday before spinning

away i nto the N orth Atlantic. Even

if the core of the storm stays off-

shore, it could unleash “destruc-

tive winds, flooding r ains, and l ife-

threatening storm surges,” ac-

cording to the Hurricane Center.

The most likely p lace for D orian

to crash ashore, g iven the shape of

the coastline, would be North

Carolina’s fragile Outer Banks. In

the meantime, the storm surge

will be considerable in coastal cit-

SEE DORIAN ON A

SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES

Hurricane Dorian’s devastation is vast on Great Abaco. The rescue effort includes locals on water scooters, U.S. Coast Guard cutters, the

British Royal Navy and American first responders. By late Wednesday, Dorian was a Category 3 hurricane, with 115 mph sustained winds.

A race to rescue survivors in Dorian’s wreckage

DEATH TOLL AT 20,

LIKELY TO RISE

Gaining power, hurricane

threatens Carolinas

CAROLYN VAN HOUTEN/THE WASHINGTON POST

A loved one tries to comfort Catherine Russel, right, after she

arrived in Nassau with other Abaco Islands survivors Wednesday.

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