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WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Tom Price says he firmly believes that "nobody will be worse off financially" under the health care overhaul the Trump administration and congressional Republicans envision replacing President Barack Obama's law. Price tells NBC's "Meet the Press" that people will have choices as they select the kind of coverage they want as opposed to what the government forces them to buy. Price says success would mean more people covered and at an average lower cost than now.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump comes out with his proposed budget this week. It will test Republicans' ability to keep long-standing promises to bolster the military through politically painful cuts to popular domestic programs. Trump will ask Congress to cut domestic agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of Education and Housing and Urban Development. Also on the chopping block are grants to state and local governments and community development projects.

WASHINGTON (AP) — WikiLeaks' release of nearly 8,000 documents that purportedly reveal secrets about the CIA's tools for breaking into computers, cellphones and even smart TVs has given rise to multiple theories about who did it and why. Investigators aren't yet saying if they know whether it was an employee who felt jilted, a foreign country out to embarrass U.S. intelligence, or someone else. The anti-secrecy group says the source shared the material to spark an urgent public debate about whether the CIA's hacking capabilities exceed its mandated powers.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has prayed for the 39 girls killed and those who were injured in a fire at a Guatemalan youth shelter. He also prayed that God will console the victims' families. Francis asked those gathered today in St. Peter's Square to pray also for "all the girls and boys who are victims of violence, maltreatment, exploitation and war" in the world.

MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi archaeologists think that tunnels dug by militants under a destroyed shrine in Mosul have revealed the palace of an ancient Assyrian king who ruled some 2,700 years ago. Islamic State fighters blew up the shrine of the biblical Jonah's tomb in 2014 after taking control of the city. They started digging tunnels into the side of the hill under the shrine, leading to the discovery. Ancient inscriptions and winged bulls and lions were found deep in the tunnels.

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