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Today in Black History: Wheatley Provident Hospital, the first medical facility to serve the Black community in Kansas City, Missouri, is opened in 1920.


The New York Times

National

The Immense, Eternal Footprint Humanity Leaves on Earth: Plastics


Video Appears to Show Baltimore Police Officer Planting Drugs

McCain Has Brain Cancer; Tumor Was Found in Surgery


Citing Recusal, Trump Says He Wouldn’t Have Hired Sessions


Excerpts From The Times’s Interview With Trump

Trump on Sessions’s Recusal From Russia Investigation: ‘Very Unfair’

Trump Loans From Deutsche Bank Face Regulatory Scrutiny


Manafort Owed About $17 Million to Pro-Russia Interests


Trump Struggles to Sell Health Bill to Balky Senators

Trump’s Health Reform Pitch Includes Several Falsehoods



Local


A New Brooklyn Clinic for Hotel Workers Who Enjoy No-Cost Care


City Expands Services as More Become Homeless, Even With a Job


New York Schools Faulted Again for Failing to Keep Track of Computers


New York Farmworkers to Argue in State Supreme Court for Right to Organize



Philly.com


Did a U.S. Surgeon General come up with the idea of the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment?


Ex-TV news producer who ranted at Philly cop pleads no contest

Philly EPA region could take major hit in buyout plan

Pa. legislator says Philly's Brian Sims called me an 'ignorant, racist bigot'


The Detroit Free Press

Detroit '67: 1966 student walkout at Northern a sign of things to come

Live-Tweeting Detroit's summer of '67, 50 years later

Dallas hires Detroit's deputy police chief U. Renee Hall as its first female police chief



The Star-Ledger


Why a casket-bearing crowd blocked busy Newark streets for hours Wednesday

Rutgers hikes tuition for 2017-18 school year

Health insurance rates in N.J. are going up under Obamacare. You can blame Trump.

This new source of campaign cash now flowing to Frelinghuysen challenger | The Auditor

Jersey City mayoral hopeful in hospital after heart episode


The Chicago Tribune


Ex-prosecutor alleges collusion with police in wrongful conviction of Englewood Four

New details emerge of former DCFS head's controversial contracts, hires

Preckwinkle says timing of property tax review not attempt to help out ally Berrios

Latest accusations against R. Kelly difficult for South Side Chicagoans to ignore


The Los Angeles Times


Democratic senator questions independence of FCC nominee who worked for the agency's chairman

How an ex-FBI profiler helped put an innocent man behind bars

Historically hidden in plain sight, black women in comedy are breaking out

Alleged white nationalist to face charges in statehouse brawl that left seven stabbed last year


The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Audit estimates 32 million more uninsured from GOP bill erasing but not replacing Obamacare


AP-NORC poll: Negotiate on 'Obamacare,' don't just kill it

Local Ohio National Guard units demolish houses in Youngstown (photos, video)

Racinos fuel Ohio's gambling growth while revenue slips in Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia


Shooting wounds 14-year-old male on Cleveland's East Side


The Washington Post


Fact Checker: Trump has made 836 false or misleading claims since January

Pro-Trump TV pundit’s firm took undisclosed payments from Trump’s reelection campaign


Body camera captures Baltimore police officer hiding, then ‘finding’ drugs

McCain diagnosed with brain cancer, sending a jolt through Congress

‘Give it hell’: Obama, lawmakers react to McCain’s diagnosis


5 questions about McCain’s brain cancer

Trump blasts Sessions over recusal from Russia probe


President shows disdain for rule of law with new attacks on Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller

Jared Kushner to appear before Senate intelligence panel

Trump halts covert arming of Syria rebels, a move likely to please Russia

An aging Muslim community worries about its future


Nearly one-third of dementia cases could be prevented by a healthier lifestyle, report says

Reporter breaks White House rules by streaming live audio of off-camera briefing

Court ruling paves way for Purple Line construction to begin

Maryland counties expand needle exchange programs to protect public health


USA Today


Trump: If I'd known Sessions would recuse himself on Russia I wouldn't have picked him


At six month mark, here are six of Donald Trump's most controversial tweets






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