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said that when a jar is sealed, the
dimple on the top of the lid will
be convex. The dimple should be
flat and the lid should be
concave when sealing is
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NASA’s new Mars rover blasts off

A $2.7 billion NASA rover, Perseverance, blasted off into clear skies over Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Thursday atop an Atlas V rocket, the start of a nearly seven-month journey to Mars. If all goes as planned, the vehicle will deposit the rover in a crater on Mars on Feb. 18. The mission, officially known as Mars 2020, is designed to search for signs of ancient Martian life. washingtonpost.com/national

Twitter penalizes Donald Trump Jr.

Twitter on Tuesday penalized Donald Trump Jr. for posting misinformation about hydroxychloroquine. The social media giant s aid it ordered the president’s son to delete the misleading tweet. washingtonpost.com/business

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Top Trump adviser

tests positive for virus

Robert C. O’Brien, President
Trump’s national security adviser,
has tested positive for the novel
coronavirus, the White House
said Monday. O’Brien is the
highest-ranking Trump
administration official known to
have tested positive for the virus.
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Herman Cain dies

of covid-

Herman Cain, the former pizza
chain executive who sought the
2012 Republican presidential
nomination, has died weeks after
testing positive for the
coronavirus. Cain, who was 7 4,
was among thousands of people,
most of whom did not wear
masks, who attended a Trump
campaign rally in Tulsa on June
20.
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BY RACHAEL BADE AND FELICIA SONMEZ

The House on Friday voted unanimously to reprimand Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), who has admitted to 11 ethics violations related to improper spending and other financial rulebreaking and has agreed to a $50, fine. Lawmakers agreed on the sanc- tion by voice vote, dealing a major blow to the reelection campaign of Schweikert, who represents a competitive district and has been under investigation since June

The congressman, who was
elected in the 2010 tea party class,
had previously blamed some of the
alleged violations on an unintend-
ed “clerical screw-up,” but his cam-
paign later shifted course and said
Schweikert’s trust in his former
chief of staff, whose finances had
also come under investigation,
had been “grossly misplaced.”
The chief of staff, Richard “Oli-
ver” Schwab, left his position last
year.
Schweikert did not speak on the
floor before the vote, but members
of the House Ethics Committee
said it was imperative that they
maintain a standard for lawmak-
ers.
“There is no joy in reprimand-
ing one of our colleagues,” said
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), a
panel member who helped lead
the House Ethics Committee in-
vestigative subcommittee on the
matter. “A transgression by one of
us is a stain on all of us.... We are
duty bound to hold ourselves to
the highest standard of conduct,

and serve as role models.” Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Tex.), the ranking member of the panel, agreed and encouraged all members to vote to reprimand Sch- weikert. “It is essential to maintain the public’s trust of our chamber,” Marchant said, noting that the investigative subcommittee met 22 times during this Congress and four times in the previous one, reviewed over 200,000 pages of documents and conducted 18 wit- ness interviews. In its report released Thursday, the investigative subcommittee found that between July 2010 and December 2017, Schweikert “erro- neously disclosed or failed to disclose” at least $305,000 in loans or loan repayments. During that time, Schweikert’s campaign also failed to disclose at least $25,0 00 in spending and more than $140,000 in donations, and falsely reported $100,000 in expendi- tures, the panel said. Additionally, Schwab was found to have spent $270,000 on Schweikert’s campaign, an alleged violation of federal law. And Sch- weikert also spent official funds on unofficial and campaign purposes and used campaign funds to reimburse his congressional staff- ers for personal items, “including food and babysitting services,” over the course of seven years, the ethics report said. “Accordingly Rep. Schweikert did not act in a manner that re- flected creditably on the House,” the panel said in its report. In a statement, Schweikert’s office did not address any of the

alleged violations but said the congressman is eager to move on from the matter. “We are pleased the Committee has issued their report and we can move forward from this chapter,” Schweikert’s office said. “As noted in the review, all issues have been resolved and Congressman Sch- weikert will continue working hard for Arizona’s 6th District.” No further action is planned against the congressman. The vote Friday marked the first time the House had reprimanded a member for an ethics-related violation since August 2012, when it sanctioned then-Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Calif.), who paid a $10,000 fine for forcing her congressional staff to work on her 2010 campaign. Democrats see a political opportunity in Schweikert’s reprimand three months before the election. P olitical handicappers view Schweikert’s seat as a possible pickup opportunity for Demo- crats as they go on offense in long- held GOP districts, though his Re- publican-leaning district backed Donald Trump over Hillary Clin- ton by 10 percentage points in 2016. In early July, the University of Virginia Center for Politics moved his race from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican.” Schweikert is running unop- posed in next week’s Republican primary in Arizona’s 6th District. Four candidates are seeking the Democratic nomination to face him in November; among them, Hiral Tipirneni had a $1 million

cash-on-hand advantage over Sch- weikert as of mid-July, according to the Arizona Republic. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which is backing Tipirneni, called on GOP leaders to strip Schweik- ert of his committee assignments, describing him as “a man without remorse, who is willing to betray his constituents and American taxpayers for his own gain.” “The House Ethics Committee’s unanimous findings and the fine imposed on Schweikert are a black mark that will stay on his record until Arizonans summarily kick him out of office in November and instead elect the responsible and transparent Dr. Hiral Tipirneni,” DCCC spokeswoman Sarah Guggenheimer said in a statement. In its report, the House Ethics Committee said that its investigative subcommittee had unanimously concluded that there was “substantial reason to believe” Schweikert had “violated House Rules, the Code of Ethics for Gov- ernment Service, federal laws and other applicable standards.” The panel added that Schweik- ert’s alleged rulebreaking was connected to “campaign finance violations and reporting errors by his authorized campaign commit- tees; the misuse of his Members’ Representational Allowance for unofficial purposes; pressuring official staff to perform campaign work; and his lack of candor and due diligence during the investigation.” [email protected] [email protected]

Congressman reprimanded, hit with $50,000 fine

BY DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD AND JOSHUA PARTLOW

An undocumented immigrant who worked for President Trump’s private company — and then spoke publicly about Trump’s longtime reliance on undocumented workers — is facing deportation proceedings, her attorney said Thursday. Victorina Morales, 47, had asked U.S. Citizenship and Immi- gration Services to grant her asylum because of violence in her home country of Guatemala. But the agency rejected her re- quest, saying Morales had waited too long to apply, according to a letter from the agency. Applica- tions for asylum must be filed within a year of arrival in the United States. Morales did not file hers until she had been in the country for 19 years. She argued for an excep- tion to the one-year rule, on the grounds that circumstances had changed: Violence in Guatemala had worsened, and now she was more of a target because of her public profile. The agency rejected that argu- ment. Instead, it said, “Your application for asylum has been re- ferred to an immigration judge for adjudication in removal proceedings,” according to the letter. It was signed by the director of the agency’s Newark asylum office. If the judge rejects Morales’s application, she could be deport- ed, according to her attorney, Ani- bal Romero. “The immigration machine has started, to get her out of the country,” Romero said. Morales was given a court date

on Aug. 26 but is unlikely to face deportation then, Romero said. Immigration proceedings can take a year or more. U.S. Citizenship and Immigra- tion Services did not respond to questions about Morales’s application. Morales declined to comment through her lawyer. Morales, who entered the Unit- ed States illegally in 1999, worked for five years as a housekeeper at Trump’s golf resort in Bedminster, N.J., cleaning the villas used by Trump and his family. She was

close enough to see family argu- ments and to learn Trump’s personal habits: Irish Spring soap in the shower, two and a half con- tainers of Tic Tacs on the bureau, and Bronx Colors face makeup at the ready, The Washington Post reported last year. The job required Morales to be present but nearly invisible. In late 2018, however, Morales and a former Trump employee, Sandra Diaz, decided to make themselves visible — and reveal that Trump had employed undocumented

workers. Morales told The Post last year that she was motivated to come forward by Trump’s harsh comments about undocumented immigrants. “This is bad. This is not normal,” Morales recalled thinking. “He is acting this way knowing that we are working for him inside.” Morales and Diaz told their sto- ry to the New York Times. After- ward, The Post identified dozens of undocumented immigrants who had worked for Trump properties over a period of more than a decade. After Morales and Diaz went public, however, the Trump Orga- nization started firing its undocumented workers: The Post identified at least 18 workers who were fired from at least five Trump properties. The Trump Organization said that it had been deceived by its workers and that it fired them as soon as it was aware of their undocumented status. “Our employ- ees are like family, but when pre- sented with fake documents, an employer has little choice,” Eric Trump, who runs his father’s business day-to-day, told The Post last year. Morales quit her job at Bedmin- ster after going public. Last year, she spoke at several political events, including a protest outside one of Trump’s campaign rallies. “We are here to show our faces, not just for ourselves, but for the 11 million [undocumented] immigrants who are here in the country,” Morales said at a news confer- ence that day. [email protected] j [email protected]

Undocumented Trump worker faces deportation

BEBETO MATTHEWS/ASSOCIATED PRESS Victorina Morales, left, seen with attorney Anibal Romero and Sandra Diaz in 2018, worked for five years as a housekeeper at President Trump’s golf resort in Bedminster, N.J. She spoke up about hiring practices there after the president’s harsh comments on undocumented immigrants began to grate on her.

BY MARIA SACCHETTI AND MARK BERMAN

A federal appeals court has set
aside the death penalty for the
man convicted of planting a pair of
bombs that killed three people
and maimed or injured dozens of
others at the 2013 Boston Mara-
thon.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the First Circuit found that a lower
court judge did not adequately
explore the impact of the exten-
sive pretrial publicity on the jurors
who recommended the death sen-
tence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The
case will go back to the lower court
for additional hearings, but the
court’s overturning of the death
sentences does not mean Tsarnaev
will have an opportunity to get out
of prison.
“Just to be crystal clear,” the
court wrote, “Dzhokhar will re-
main confined to prison for the
rest of his life, with the only ques-
tion remaining being whether the
government will end his life by
executing him.”
Jurors found that Tsarnaev and
his older brother Tamerlan — who
died after a firefight with police in
the bombing’s aftermath — car-
ried out the bombings at the mara-
thon’s finish line, turning one of
Boston’s most celebrated annual
events into the worst domestic

terrorist attack since Sept. 11,

The First Circuit judges
wrote that the brothers were “rad-
ical jihadists bent on killing Amer-
icans” and said “the duo caused
battlefield-like carnage.”
Tsarnaev’s
federal defend-
ers said in a
statement Fri-
day that they
were “grateful
for the Court’s
straightfor-
ward and fair
decision.”
“If the gov-
ernment wishes to put someone to
death, it must make its case to a
fairly selected jury that is provided
all relevant information. The
court rightly acknowledges, as do
we, the extraordinary harm done
to the victims of the bombing. It is
now up to the government to de-
termine whether to put the vic-
tims and Boston through a second
trial, or to allow closure to this
terrible tragedy by permitting a
sentence of life without the possi-
bility of release,” the lawyers said.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. at-
torney’s office in Boston said the
office is reviewing the opinion and
declined further comment.
The explosions of the home-
made bombs sent shrapnel flying
into the crowd, killing 8-year-old

Martin Richard; graduate student Lingzi Lu, 23; and Krystle Camp- bell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager. M any others were griev- ously wounded, including several who lost limbs. The brothers later ambushed and fatally shot an MIT police officer, Sean Collier.

Tsarnaev, who was 19 at the time of the bombing and is now 27 and imprisoned in Colorado, was convicted and sentenced to death in 2015 for his role in the bombing. When he was formally sentenced, Tsarnaev broke his extend- ed silence by apologizing to vic-

tims and survivors of the attack, saying: “I am sorry for the lives I have taken and suffering I have caused you and the damage I have done.” Before he spoke, relatives of victims killed in the attack and its aftermath assailed him as a re-

morseless coward. Tsarnaev’s attorneys in the case, seeking to avoid a death sentence, argued that his older brother, Ta- merlan, orchestrated the attack and guided his younger sibling. Prosecutors instead described the brothers as partners who worked together to carry out a “cruel” attack. Jurors found Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts, then came back and agreed he should be sentenced to death. Federal death sentences are a rarity and executions are even less common. The federal death penalty statute was reinstated in 1988 and expanded in 1994, and until this year, the government had carried out three executions. Most executions are carried out by states, and the number of executions has been declining. The Trump administration has recently pushed back against that trend, scheduling and carrying out federal executions again as part of a push to restart federal capital punishment. In mid-July, the Justice Depart- ment carried out three federal executions in four days, matching the total carried out by the United States government during the previous three decades. [email protected] [email protected]

Federal appeals court revokes death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber

Tsarnaev

MATTHEW CAVANAUGH FOR THE WASHINGTON POST People kneel at a memorial for the Boston Marathon bombing victims in 2013. An appeals court on Friday s aid the convicted bomber will stay in prison “for the rest of his life,” despite the ruling.

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