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HONG KONG (AP) — China's stock market continues to be volatile this week. For the second time in days, stock trading was temporarily halted when "circuit breakers" kicked in following a steep plunge. Trading on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges was frozen for the day after shares tumbled more than 7 percent.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In their first major vote of the year, Republican leaders have pushed through the 62nd attempt to repeal President Barack Obama's signature health care legislation. But the measure, which headed to the White House, will be vetoed. According to government figures more than 16 million Americans have gained health coverage since the law was enacted.
BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The leader of an American Indian tribe that regards an Oregon nature preserve as sacred says a group of armed, anti-government activists should leave the property. The Burns Paiute tribe is the latest group to speak out against the men, who have taken several buildings at the preserve to protest policies governing the use of federal land in the West. They've been there since the weekend.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The threat from mudslides has prompted authorities to evacuate 10 mobile homes in an area northwest of Los Angeles that burned in a summer fire. An emergency official says some of those removed from homes in Newhall are elderly or disabled. The Red Cross has opened a shelter.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that a macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs cannot be declared the copyright owner of the photos. The lawsuit filed last year by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The group sought a court order allowing PETA to administer all proceeds from the photos for the benefit of the monkey. The photos by a British nature photographer during a 2011 trip to Indonesia.
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