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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined by, from left, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., speaks about the health overhaul following a closed-door strategy session at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Republicans will have a "discussion draft" of a GOP-only bill scuttling former President Barack Obama's health care law by Thursday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
AP sources: Senate GOP health bill would reshape Obama lawCongressional aides and lobbyists say Senate Republicans would cut Medicaid, end penalties for people not buying insurance and erase a raft of tax increases as part of their long-awaited health care bill
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Michigan State Police talk outside Bishop International Airport, Wednesday morning, June 21, 2017, in Flint, Mich. Officials evacuated the airport Wednesday, where a witness said he saw an officer bleeding from his neck and a knife nearby on the ground. On Twitter, Michigan State Police say the officer is in critical condition and the FBI was leading the investigation. (Shannon Millard/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
FBI: No 'wider plot' suspected in Michigan airport stabbingA Canadian man from Tunisia who's charged with stabbing a police officer in the neck at a Michigan airport allegedly asked another officer who subdued him why the officer didn't kill him
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Study links legalized pot with increase in car crash claimsA study by the Highway Loss Data Institute found a 2.7 percent increase crash claims in the first three states to legalize marijuana for recreational use -- Colorado, Oregon and Washington -- when compared with neighboring states
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Jonas Cheramie, left, and his sister Lainey Cheramie, watch storm clouds from Tropical Storm Cindy, as they babysit A.J. Aaron, 5, in Lafitte, La., Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Tropical Storm Cindy comes ashore in southwest LouisianaWeather forecasters are expecting a third day of rough weather for Gulf Coast states as Tropical Storm Cindy comes ashore
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Judge hears update on Ferguson, Justice Department agreementA federal judge in St. Louis will hear an update on Ferguson, Missouri's progress in its agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice
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FILE - In this May 4, 2016, file photo, Duncan Wallace drives a golf cart from his house to his golf club as a group of landscape workers take a break in Vista, Calif. The United States is growing older and more ethnically diverse, a trend that is could put strains on government programs from Medicare to education, the Census Bureau reported Thursday, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
Census: US growing older and more racially diverseThe U.S. Census Bureau says the nation is aging and becoming more ethnically diverse
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Mahmoud Hassanen Aboras, father of Nabra Hassanen, right, gets a hug from Virginia congressman Gerry Connolly, D-Va, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Reston, Va., prior to the start of a vigil in honor of Nabar, who was killed over the weekend. Islamic leaders are questioning Virginia detectives' insistence that the beating death of Nabar appears to have been a case of road rage, saying the attack looks all too much like a hate crime. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Funeral, vigil reveal depth of sorrow at Muslim girl's deathThe depth of community sorrow at the death of a 17-year-old Muslim girl attacked as she walked to her mosque has been made clear after thousands attended her funeral and a subsequent community vigil
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FILE - In this March 4, 2010, file photo, a deer runs across the road in Pittsburg, N.H. In Oregon, under a road kill bill passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature and signed by the governor, motorists who crash into the animals can now harvest the meat for human consumption. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
Oregon joins states where roadkill can be harvested for foodUnder an Oregon roadkill bill passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature and signed last week by the governor, motorists who crash into the animals can now harvest the meat
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This Saturday, April 15, 2017, photograph shows the entrance to the GEO Group's immigrant detention facility in Aurora, Colo. People once held in a privately run Colorado immigration detention center are challenging the system used to keep it clean and maintained, arguing it borders on slavery. They have won the right to sue GEO Group on behalf of an estimated 60,000 people held at its detention center near Denver over a decade. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Former immigration detainees challenge labor practicesPeople once held in a privately run Colorado immigration detention center are challenging the system used to keep it clean and maintained, arguing it borders on modern-day slavery
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This image provided by Roche, and manipulated by blurring the center of the image by the source, to illustrate how vision is affected by the so-called “dry” form of age-related macular degeneration. An experimental drug is showing promise against an eye disease that blinds older adults. Age-related macular degeneration gradually erodes seniors' central vision, making it difficult to read or see faces. (Roche via AP)
Drug shows promise against vision-robbing disease in seniorsAn experimental drug is showing promise against an untreatable eye disease that blinds older adults _ and intriguingly, it seems to work in patients who carry a particular gene flaw that fuels the damage to their vision
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FILE - In this May 13, 2013, file photo, interim police chief Sean Whent smiles as he talks with reporters about taking over the Oakland Police Department in Oakland, Calif. In a court filing Wednesday, June 21, 2017, a court-appointed California investigator Ed Swanson has blamed Oakland's mayor and the city's former police chief for mishandling and downplaying a sexual misconduct scandal in the city's police department. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Lacy Atkins, File)
Oakland officials renew pledge to improve police departmentOakland city leaders renewed their pledges to straighten out the troubled police department after a court-appointed investigator concluded they mishandled a teenager's allegations that she was sexually exploited by officers
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FILE- In this June 13, 2017, file photo, a crying woman exits a transport plane carrying Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student who was imprisoned in North Korea in March 2016, as he is transferred from his transport aircraft to an ambulance at Lunken regional airport in Cincinnati. Warmbier, an American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma last week after almost a year and a half in captivity, died Monday, June 19, his family said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Final farewell for US student detained by North KoreaThe life of a 22-year-old college student who died this week after being detained for nearly a year and a half in North Korea will be celebrated in an Ohio hometown still stunned by his loss
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AP Online Top Business Short HeadlinesAP sources: Senate GOP would halt Obamacare penalties, taxesDemocratic senators hold a hearing hosted by Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., center, and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., about how they say the GOP health care bill could hurt rural Americans, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was expected to push for a vote next week on the legislation, which would eliminate much of Obama's 2010 overhaul and leave government with a diminished role in providing coverage and helping people afford it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
AP Entertainment HeadlinesJuror: 2 holdouts blocked conviction in Bill Cosby trialFILE - In this Saturday, June 17, 2017, file photo, Bill Cosby exits the Montgomery County Courthouse after a mistrial was declared in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa. Judge Steven O'Neill who presided over Cosby's sexual assault trial is weighing whether to make public the identities of the jurors who deadlocked in the case. He said he would rule by Wednesday, June 21. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
AP Online - International NewsCanadian charged in US airport attack investigated as terrorPolice stand guard in front of an apartment building in Montreal, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, after a Canadian man who shouted in Arabic stabbed a police officer in the neck at a Michigan airport. Amor Ftouhi, of Montreal, was immediately taken into custody. Police in Canada were searching the Montreal apartment where Ftouhi is believed to have lived. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP)
AP Online Top Political Short HeadlinesGOP Medicaid cuts would hit states fighting opioid epidemicPaul Wright shows a picture of himself in the hospital after a near fatal overdose in 2015, Thursday, June 15, 2017, at the Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic in Youngstown, Ohio. Republican efforts to roll back “Obamacare” are colliding with the opioid epidemic. Cutbacks would hit hard in states that are deeply affected by the addiction crisis and struggling to turn the corner. The issue is Medicaid, expanded under former President Barack Obama. Data show that Medicaid expansion is paying for a large share of treatment costs in hard hit states. (AP Photo/David Dermer)
AP Online National NewsFBI: Gunman who shot congressman had no target in mindFederal Bureau of Investigation Washington Field Office, Special Agent in Charge, Timothy Slater, with Alexandria Police Department Chief Michael Brown, from left, and United States Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa, speaks to reporters outside the FBI Washington Field Office, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, during a news conference about the investigative findings to date in the shooting that occurred at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, Va. on Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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