Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Evening Edition: Senate GOP votes to open health-care debate

McCain greeted with emotional applause in return to Senate after cancer diagnosis; Manafort testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, submits Trump Tower meeting notes; Trump renews attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions; North Korea advances rapidly in its ability to strike U.S., experts warn; Study of brains of 111 former NFL players found only one that didn't have CTE; House prepares to pass sanctions bill — and set up veto dilemma for Trump; 'We are shot! We are shot!' An ICE agent's final moments resound in U.S. court.; EPA chief says agency will create 'top 10' list for Superfund cleanup; Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg's understanding of AI threat 'is limited'; 19-year-old who died on truck in San Antonio grew up in N.Va., had been deported; Trump’s Boy Scouts speech broke with 80 years of presidential tradition;
 
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Senate GOP votes to open health-care debate
Senate Republican leaders secured the votes they needed Tuesday afternoon to begin debate, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for their beleaguered health-care effort. Still, it is unclear whether this puts them any closer to actually repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.
McCain greeted with emotional applause in return to Senate after cancer diagnosis
The ultimate fate of the Republican health-care effort might still be up in the air, but there's one thing the entire Senate could agree on Tuesday afternoon: It was good to see John McCain.
 
Manafort testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, submits Trump Tower meeting notes
Before his testimony, Paul Manafort submitted to the committee notes that he took at a meeting with a Russian lawyer he and other campaign aides attended during the presidential campaign, a person familiar with the investigation said.
 
Trump renews attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions
President Trump lashed out at Sessions again this morning, accusing him on Twitter of taking "a VERY weak position" on alleged "crimes" by Hillary Clinton and intelligence leakers.
 
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North Korea advances rapidly in its ability to strike U.S., experts warn
The U.S. projection closely mirrors revised predictions by South Korea, which also have watched with growing alarm as North Korea has appeared to master key technologies needed to loft a warhead toward targets thousands of miles away.
 
Study of brains of 111 former NFL players found only one that didn't have CTE
The brains used in the study were mostly donated by concerned families, which means they weren't random and not necessarily representative of all men who have played football.
 
House prepares to pass sanctions bill — and set up veto dilemma for Trump
The legislation would impose new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea, and prevent President Trump from easing some of them without congressional approval.
 
'We are shot! We are shot!' An ICE agent's final moments resound in U.S. court.
The 2011 death of the first U.S. law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty in Mexico since 1985 drew widespread attention, but only now, in a federal courtroom, are the agonizing details emerging.
 
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EPA chief says agency will create 'top 10' list for Superfund cleanup
Scott Pruitt said he will follow a special task force's report designed to help him cut through red tape and lead to faster decontamination of sites nationwide where nearby residents are in harm's way.
 
Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg's understanding of AI threat 'is limited'
The tech billionaires continue to spar over the threat posed by artificial intelligence and whether it will lead to a robot apocalypse.
 
19-year-old who died on truck in San Antonio grew up in N.Va., had been deported
Frank G. Fuentes was among the 39 undocumented immigrants, including 10 dead, found in a stifling tractor-trailer in a Walmart parking lot in Texas over the weekend.
 
Trump’s Boy Scouts speech broke with 80 years of presidential tradition
Most presidents have spoken to the Scouts about unity or citizenship or coming together. Donald Trump talked about crowd size, "fake news" and Hillary Clinton.
 
 
     
 
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