Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Mourners from West Catholic Preparatory High School embrace during a vigil in memory of the victims of the Orlando, Fla., mass shooting, including their former classmate Akyra Murray, Monday, June 13, 2016, at City Hall in Philadelphia. A gunman opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday, before dying in a gunfight…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this June 2, 2016 photo, Brock Turner, 20, right, makes his way into the Santa Clara Superior Courthouse in Palo Alto, Calif. The six-month jail term given to Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman after both attended a fraternity party, is being decried as a token…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Muhammad Ali, world heavyweight champion, wears a uniform of the Black Muslim organization as he attends their convention, February 26, 1966, in Chicago. He is talking with Sisters of Islam, female members of the group who wear the habit of their order. The newspaper held by Ali carries photo of Elijah Muhammad, head…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  The family of Michelle Gregg and Deonne Dickerson (Photo credit: Facebook Michelle Gregg) By Dan Sewell Associated press CINCINNATI — A prosecutor said Monday that he isn’t seeking charges against the mother of a 3-year-old boy who got into the Cincinnati Zoo’s gorilla exhibit, resulting in the shooting of an endangered gorilla to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Verizon workers picket outside one of the company’s facilities last April, in Philadelphia. Verizon employees will be returning to work Wednesday after reaching a tentative contract agreement.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) By Jennifer Peltz ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Nearly 40,000 striking Verizon employees returned to work on Wednesday after reaching a tentative contract…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Prince  (Shutterstock) By Carla K. Johnson Music superstar Prince’s death from an opioid overdose is a stunning example of a national epidemic of overdose deaths driven by prescription opioid painkillers. Prescription opioid overdoses reached nearly 19,000 in 2014, the highest number on record. Total opioid overdoses surpassed 29,000 that year when combined with…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  President Barack Obama is presented a framed gift from Villanova basketball players Ryan Arcidiacono, left, and Daniel Ochefu, center, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 31, 2016, to honor the NCAA Champion Villanova Wildcats men’s basketball team.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) By Kevin Freking…

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associated press PITTSBURGH — Uber is asking Pennsylvania utility regulators to reconsider the $11.4 million fine they issued against the ride-hailing company. The Public Utility Commission fined San Francisco-based Uber in April for operating in the state for six months in 2014 without the required approval. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Uber’s appeal says the fine…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com By Steve Peoples and Emily Swanson associated press WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats feel a massive disconnect with their political parties and helpless about the presidential election. That’s according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which helps explain the rise of outsider candidates…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Catholic priest Nguyen Van Ly, center, is welcomed back by Archbishop Tadeo, left, and a senior colleague to his parish in Hue, Ha Nam province, Vietnam. Vietnam granted early release from prison to Ly who is one of its most prominent dissidents, in this Friday May 20, 2016 photo released by the Catholic…

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