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Today in Black History: Educator and civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, was born in 1875
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The New York Times

National

Trump Jr. Met Russian for Dirt on Clinton

Trump Jr. Gave 2 Different Explanations for Meeting

The Scholar Who Will Help Trump’s Regulatory Assault

Lawmakers Push to Ease Gun Laws After Virginia Shooting


News Outlets to Seek Right to Bargain With Web Giants

At Private Dinners, Pence Quietly Courts Big Donors and Corporate Executives

Why Obamacare’s Loudest Critics Aren’t as Loud Anymore

G.O.P. Support of Senate Health Repeal Erodes During Break


Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri



Local


Bill Would Give Green Cards to Undocumented 9/11 Volunteers


Lawmakers Question Trump’s Stake in Subsidized Housing Complex


Penn Station Derailment Gives Stark Proof of Tracks’ Disrepair
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Philly.com


Black homeowners struggle as US housing market recovers

Hundreds of properties in Philadelphia are 'unfit for human habitation'

Road rage, an alarming trend, takes a deadly turn

Another year, another budget-deadline quandary for Wolf

Why James Baldwin still inspires 30 years after his death



The Detroit Free Press


Detroit district may rethink authorizing charter schools

U.S. Rep. Dingell: My colleagues need to understand fear across nation over health care

Detroit forum seeks justice for victims of tax foreclosures


16 Detroit schools to serve as recreation centers this summer



The Star-Ledger


Monument remembers those who died in the Newark riots | Carter

These 39 doctors pocketed at least $200K from drug companies last year

Dozens rally against violence after 6-year-old shot in Newark


Newark police investigating 3 separate Saturday shootings



The Chicago Tribune


15 shot in Chicago over 6 hours, including 3 at beach


3 officers in court today on charges of cover-up in Laquan McDonald death

How an ambitious pharmacy safety effort became a bill to set up a task force


EDITORIALS: Sabotaging Illinois: Legislators' tax-hike budget won't stanch the exodus of jobs and people


How to put your financial life back together after defaulting on student loans



The Los Angeles Times


Judge approves $142-million class-action settlement in Wells Fargo sham accounts scandal

How do you prosecute a murder without a body? California has been doing it for more than a century.

AT&T and Verizon want free rein to put new wireless transmitters in your neighborhood. Here's why that's a bad idea



The Cleveland Plain Dealer

Where Ohio ranks for taxes, and other trends identified in new study


Health care, tutoring, legal help built into Say Yes schools

Eric Brewer, Robert Kilo and Tony Madalone qualify for CLE mayoral ballot, raising total to nine candidates

Mary Taylor announces run for Ohio governor in 2018


Hospital officials in Jefferson County say GOP health care plan would force them to cut jobs: Ohio Matters



The Washington Post


Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer who promised ‘helpful’ intel for campaign

The Fix: The most stunning part of Trump Jr.’s admission

Trump hails G-20 ‘success.’ Others see political chaos and American decline.


U.S. apologizes to Beijing for flub that conflated China with Taiwan

‘Permanently disabled’ Baton Rouge officer sues Black Lives Matter for 2016 ambush shooting

Senate Republicans head back to work with deepening disagreements on health care


GOP’s health-care bill would leave millions of disabled children at risk for cuts

‘He was just starting his life’: Friends, family mourn American tourist killed in Greece bar fight

Trump changes higher ed with rollback of Obama-era consumer protections

Towns sell their public water systems — and come to regret it


USA Today


The state of hate in America


Massive Antarctica iceberg hanging on by a 3-mile thread to Larsen C shelf

Fried chicken restaurant is dishing out second chances











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