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President Obama released the "encore" edition of his summer vacation playlist on Thursday. (AP Photo)

Obama releases ‘encore’ edition of summer playlist

Maria Biery · August 11, 2016 4:39 pm

In September 2013, 300 TVs were bought by the John D. Dingell Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, but 282 of them were never installed because they were "the wrong type," according to the report. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Watchdog: Detroit veterans hospital drops $300K on TVs but never uses them

Maria Biery · August 10, 2016 5:05 pm

President George W. Bush plays volleyball with Misty May-Treanor as he visits the practice of the U.S. beach volleyball team at the 2008 Summer Olympic games in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

PHOTOS: Presidents at the Olympics

Maria Biery · August 5, 2016 7:53 pm

President Reagan holds the Olympic torch, while gymnast Kurt Thomas attempts to start another torch at the White House, May 14, 1984. The Olympic Torch Relay came through Washington on the road to Los Angeles for the 1984 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Lana Harris)

Who was the first U.S. president to attend the Olympics?

Maria Biery · August 5, 2016 5:48 pm

Hendricks stated that there were several "brothers" located in Texas and Mexico. (AP Photo/WSVN-TV)

Man arrested for trying to recruit people for terrorist attack

Maria Biery · August 4, 2016 4:55 pm

People throw water balloons at ‘Hillary’ float

Maria Biery · August 3, 2016 6:17 pm

The report found that in the 41 states are at risk of the two types of Aedes mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus, fewer than one-third use "highly effective" forms of birth control such as intrauterine devices or a contraceptive shot. (iStock photo)

CDC calls for lower birth control costs with outbreak of Zika

Maria Biery · August 2, 2016 5:18 pm

Federal health officials are giving a Seattle company $5.1 million to develop a test that could speed up detection of the rapidly spreading Zika virus. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Feds award $5.1 million to speed up Zika detection

Maria Biery · August 1, 2016 7:34 pm

Some of the changes include an end to militarized police presence at protests and the retroactive decriminalization and immediate release of people convicted of drug offenses, sex work-related offenses and youth offenses. (Bryan Bennett/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)

Black Lives Matter groups list their demands

Maria Biery · August 1, 2016 4:28 pm

Dianne Feinstein believes that since the hack may have been "a state-sponsored attempt to manipulate our presidential election," it should be met with a "heightened measure of transparency." (AP Photo)

National Security

Dems demand release of intelligence gathered on DNC hack

Maria Biery · July 27, 2016 9:28 pm

Shooting deaths of police officers are up 78 percent so far this year compared to 2015, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund's mid-year report. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Shooting deaths of police officers up 78 percent

Maria Biery · July 27, 2016 4:36 pm

John Hinckley Jr., seen here in 2003, attempted to assassinate President Reagan in 1981. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Reagan’s would-be assassin to be released after 35 years

Maria Biery · July 27, 2016 2:05 pm