Merrick Garland Battle Moves to Home Front as Senate Recesses and other top stories.

• Merrick Garland Battle Moves to Home Front as Senate Recesses

  “The American people may well elect a president who decides to renominate Judge Garland,” Mr. McConnell said. “The next president may also nominate someone very different.” The Senate will then look at the candidate he wrote, declaring: “That’s a fair approach. That’s a reasonable compromise. That’s the best way forward for our country now”Aides said Mr. McConnell would appear on four of the five major Sunday news shows to argue his position.In response, Democrats have opened a nationwide campa..

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• Texas Women Travel Farther, Pay More for Abortion

  

  Women seeking abortions in Texas face lengthy travel, exorbitant costs, and unfair wait times.The Supreme Court is currently deciding whether or not Texas legislation imposes an “undue burden” on women seeking abortion. Now, that burden can be measured.House Bill 2 (HB 2), the law currently under review in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, requires abortion providers to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers and to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. Since..

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• Medical students learn where they will train during Match Day

  

  Their fates were sealed in envelopes that were opened with much fanfare at medical schools and other venues across the country Friday.More than 300 students from the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University — and thousands more at other medical schools around the country and world — learned where they would train to become doctors. The Maryland students gathered at the Hippodrome Theatre; Hopkins students assembled at a medical campus building. It's called Match Day and it's how Jess..

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• ​Indiana man gets 2 life sentences in deadly house blast

  

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• Video released in case of girl missing after father slain

  

  HOUSTON -- Authorities on Thursday asked for the public's help in identifying a person of interest in the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl whose father was fatally shot and dumped in a ditch in a rural area north of Houston. Adiana Coronado CBS affiliate KHOU Authorities are still actively looking for Adriana Coronado, who was last seen on Saturday in the Houston suburb of Katy, where she lives, said Walker ..

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