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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's attorney general says his state will join Washington state's lawsuit against President Donald Trump's travel ban. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a statement calls the executive order "a Muslim ban by another name." Legal challenges to the ban are mounting. Yesterday Hawaii filed its own lawsuit against Trump's revised travel ban, saying the order will harm its Muslim population, tourism and foreign students. Washington state won an initial effort to block Trump's first travel ban and is asking a judge to block the revised ban. (V2776)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have already scored victories in the two House committees considering legislation that would do away with much of President Barack Obama's health care law. The committees approved measures that would reshape the way millions of Americans pay for medical care. The tax penalty that Obama's statute imposes on people who don't buy insurance would be abolished. (f0149)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A conflict could be brewing between Silicon Valley companies and the CIA. WikiLeaks -- which this week published thousands of pages from what it said were CIA files about its hacking methods -- says it will share that information with the companies that might be targeted by those techniques. The head of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, says some companies are asking for more details. The files describe in various levels of detail how the CIA bypasses anti-viruses, hacks into smartphones and even hijacks smart TVs. (APL3446)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Donald Trump has scheduled another campaign-style rally, this time in Nashville, Tennessee. The president's campaign website is advertising the event next Wednesday at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. It will be the president's second such rally since his inauguration. He held his first last month in Florida. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has said the president intends to hit the road to sell the American public on the Republican health care plan that he supports. It's unclear whether the Tennessee rally is part of that tour. (RT5164)
NEW YORK (AP) — Wave goodbye to the bull market. Stock indexes barely changed today, eight years to the day since the market bottomed out in the depths of the financial crisis. Industrial companies fell as heavy machinery maker Caterpillar continued to slide. Real estate companies also slid. The Standard & Poor's 500 index edged up 1 point to 2,364. The Dow Jones industrial average was little changed at 20,858. The Nasdaq composite edged up a point to 5,838.
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