Week In Review

ABOVE PHOTO:  Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star Tribune   By Alan Fram Associated Press WASHINGTON — Congress is still trying to send President Donald Trump his first unqualified legislative triumph, nearly six months after Republicans grabbed full control of Washington. Now, lawmakers are returning from their July 4 recess with an added objective – averting…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Marian Kamensky, Austria   By Adam Schreck and Maggie Hyde Associated Press DOHA, Qatar — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sealed a deal Tuesday to intensify Qatar’s counterterrorism efforts, tackling a central issue in the spat pitting the besieged Gulf nation against four other American allies lined up against it. Tillerson outlined…

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Milt Priggee   Associated Press BEIJING — China on Tuesday said it shouldn’t be held responsible alone for solving the North Korean nuclear standoff, and accused other countries of shirking their responsibilities in the effort to reduce tensions. The complaints, made in unusually strident language, follow a phone conversation between President Xi Jinping…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Officer Miosotis Familia   By Colleen Long Associated Press NEW YORK — A police officer was shot to death early Wednesday, ambushed inside her command post RV by an ex-convict who once ranted online about his treatment in prison and about police getting away with killing people, authorities said. He was later killed…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  David Desper, 28, (l) turned himself in to police early Sunday, after a road-rage confrontation with 18-year old Bianca Roberson (r) that ended with the high school graduate shot once in the head. He was charged with first- and third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, and reckless endangering in Roberson’s death….

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ABOVE CARTOON:  Milt Priggee, (www.miltpriggee.com)   By Adam Kealoha and Holly Ramer Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — President Donald Trump is upset that all states aren’t fully cooperating with his voting commission’s request for detailed information about every voter in the United States. Some of the most populous ones, including California and New York, are…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Police officers with the Forensics Unit leave Bronx Lebanon Hospital after a gunman opened fire and then took his own life there, Friday, June 30, 2017, in New York. The gunman, identified as Dr. Henry Bello who used to work at the hospital, returned with a rifle hidden under his white lab coat,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this photo distributed by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from right, inspects the preparation of the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea’s northwest Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo….

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ABOVE PHOTO:  An external view of Mosul’s main hospital complex shows damage after it was retaken by Iraqi forces during fighting against Islamic State militants, in Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)   Associated Press MOSUL, Iraq — Some 300 Islamic State fighters remain in the small patch of territory still controlled…

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By Amy Forliti Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — The mother of Philando Castile, a Black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer last year, has reached a nearly $3 million settlement in his death, according to an announcement Monday by her attorneys and the Minneapolis suburb that employed the officer. The settlement to be paid to…

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