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A woman places her purse at her feet as she prepares to vote at a polling place, Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in Silver Spring, Md. Former NAACP President Ben Jealous and Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker lead a crowded Democratic gubernatorial primary field to win a nomination to face popular Republican Gov. Larry Hogan in the fall. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Latest: In Oklahoma, Republicans ousted over teacher pay

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U.S. Rep. Daniel Donovan arrives to his polling site in the Staten Island borough of New York, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. New York City's only Republican congressman, Donovan, will try to hold off a fierce challenge in the state's primary election Tuesday from former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, who is trying to make a political comeback after serving prison time for tax fraud. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Trump-backed Donovan fends off felon Grimm in GOP primary

By MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

This cover image released by Crown shows &quot;Lady Be Good,&quot; a novel by Amber Brock. (Crown via AP)

Historical fiction author explores world of a NY socialite

By LINCEE RAY - Associated Press

Former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm talks to reporters in front of his polling site in the Staten Island borough of New York, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. New York City's only Republican congressman, U.S. Rep. Daniel Donovan, will try to hold off a fierce challenge in the state's primary election Tuesday from former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, who is trying to make a political comeback after serving prison time for tax fraud. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Dan Donovan beats Michael Grimm in New York Republican primary

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FILE - This March 9, 2010, file photo shows a tanker truck passing the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, Calif. A U.S. judge who held a hearing about climate change that received widespread attention has thrown out the underlying lawsuits that sought to hold big oil companies liable for the role of fossil fuels in the Earth's warming environment. Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said Monday, June 25, 2018, that Congress and the president, not a federal judge, were best suited to address fossil fuels' contribution to global warming. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Cities claiming damage from climate change want cash but differ on legal strategy

By Horace Cooper

NY doctor charged in patient’s opioid death

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FILE - In this May 14, 2018 file photo, director Debra Granik poses for portrait photographs for the film &quot;Leave No Trace,&quot; at the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France. The film, starring Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie, opens Friday. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

In ‘Leave No Trace,’ Debra Granik stays off the beaten path

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

Brutal GOP fight is main event in NY congressional primaries

By DAVID KLEPPER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 13, 2018 file photo, Democratic candidate for governor Cynthia Nixon looks at the crowd as she introduced during a campaign event at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York. Nixon has announced that her 21-year-old son Seph Mozes has come out as transgender. The former Sex and the City star posted the announcement on her Instagram account on Friday, June 22 to mark the 14th annual Trans Day of Action. Nixon is challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New Yorks Democratic primary for governor. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Cynthia Nixon says child Samuel Joseph Mozes, originally Samantha, has come out as transgender

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Actress Cynthia Nixon says son has come out as transgender

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Traffic spirals up and down a section of Route 495 to the Lincoln Tunnel, Thursday, June 21, 2018, in Weehauken, N.J. An estimated two-and-a-half-year rehabilitation project on a separate section of 495 will create &quot;severe congestion&quot; according to the state's Department of Transportation. The New York City skyline is in the background. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Major New York-area traffic bottleneck about to get worse

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

Actress and New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon delivers her remarks at the St. Paul & St. Andrew Methodist Church in New York, Thursday, June 21, 2018. New Sanctuary Coalition held a news conference to announce that Deborah Berenice Vasquez-Barrios, an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and the younger of her two children, will take sanctuary in the church on the Upper West Side of New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Cynthia Nixon, a N.Y. gubernatorial candidate, calls ICE ‘a terrorist organization’

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

GOP candidate vows to reform state’s economic development

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FILE - In this May 13, 2004, file photo, designer Kate Spade sits during an interview in New York. Spade is being buried in Kansas City, where she was born, and services are planned for 3 p.m. Thursday, June 21, 2018, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Redemptorist Church. Spade was found dead by suicide on June 5 in her New York City home. She was 55 and had a 13-year-old daughter. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Hundreds attend funeral for fashion designer Kate Spade

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State legislature session: Missed opportunities, gridlock

By DAVID KLEPPER - Associated Press

Editorials from around New York

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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2015 file photo, Pope Francis reaches out to hug Cardinal Archbishop emeritus Theodore McCarrick after the Midday Prayer of the Divine with more than 300 U.S. Bishops at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. The retired archbishop of Washington, D.C. has been removed from public ministry over allegations he sexually abused a teenager while a priest in New York more than 40 years ago. (Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post via AP, Pool, File)

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick punished over abuse finding

By MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

Retired Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick poses for a portrait after speaking about his trip to the Central African Republic during an interview at the Redemptoris Mater Seminary, Hyattsville, Md., Tuesday, April 15, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Theodore McCarrick, former D.C. archbishop, removed from ministry over ‘credible’ sex abuse claim

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Artist Christo attends the unveiling of his first UK outdoor exhibit, The London Mastaba, on the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, central London, Monday June 18, 2018. The sculpture consists of 7,506 horizontally stacked barrels on a floating platform in the lake. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

Roll out the barrels: Christo artwork floats on London lake

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Health department to call for marijuana legalization

By DAVID KLEPPER - Associated Press