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Pope
Francis
meets
with
President
Donald
Trump on
the
occasion
of their
private
audience,
at the
Vatican,
Wednesday,
May 24,
2017.
(AP
Photo/Alessandra
Tarantino,
Pool)
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10
Things
to Know
for
Today
ap.org
Your
daily
look at
late-breaking
news,
upcoming
events
and the
stories
that
will be
talked
about
today:
1.
BRITAIN
STEPS UP
MILITARY
PATROLS;
PROBES
ATTACKER'S
LIBYA
TIES
British
authorities
work to
piece
together
the
allegiances
of the
Manchester
suicide
bomber
and foil
any new
potential
threats.
2.
HAVING
PREVIOUSLY
CLASHED,
TRUMP
AND POPE
MEET
The U.S.
president
meets
with
Francis,
concluding
his tour
of the
ancestral
homes of
the
world's
three
largest
monotheistic
religions.
3. WHAT
NATO IS
DOING IN
ADVANCE
OF TRUMP
ARRIVAL
The
28-nation
military
alliance
is going
to great
lengths
to show
the U.S.
leader
that
they're
ramping
up
defense
spending
and
doing
more to
fight
terrorism.
4.
TRUMP'S
HEALTH
CARE
BUDGET
MEANS
DEEP
CUTS FOR
SAFETY
NET
The
Republican's
first
full
budget
calls
for deep
cuts to
popular
insurance
programs
- and it
omits
any
proposal
for
negotiating
prescription
drug
prices.
5. WHO'S
TO BLAME
WHEN
KIDS GET
SHOT
Children
die from
gun
accidents
in the
U.S.
with
alarming
frequency,
and the
decision
of
whether
to
prosecute
vary
widely
from
state to
state,
an
investigation
by the
USA
TODAY
Network
and the
AP find.
6.
HOSTAGES
TAKEN IN
PHILIPPINES;
DUTERTE
DECLARES
MARTIAL
LAW
Muslim
extremists
abduct a
Catholic
priest
and more
than a
dozen
churchgoers
while
laying
siege to
the
southern
city of
Marawi.
7.
ALASKA
HOSTS
PLATE
TECTONICS
RESEARCH
EFFORT
A
federal
agency
is
installing
instruments
that
record
seismic
waves as
part of
its
quest to
map the
Earth's
upper
crust
beneath
North
America.
8.
ADVOCATES:
FEDS
CRUCIAL
TO
PRESERVING
WATERWAYS
Cleaning
up the
Great
Lakes,
Chesapeake
Bay and
Puget
Sound is
a team
effort,
with
government,
nonprofit
groups
and
universities
pitching
in,
proponents
say.
9. IN
LIGHT OF
PASSENGER
DRAGGING,
RULES
COME TO
LIGHT
United
and
other
major
carriers
have
policies
in place
that
prohibit
filming
or
photographing
other
customers
or
airline
employees
without
their
consent.
10. JUST
HOSTING
OLYMPICS
TOOK
EVERYTHING
OUT OF
RIO
Those
struggles
show
that for
all but
the
wealthiest
cities,
the
smart
thing is
to say
no to
the
Olympics,
AP's Tim
Dahlberg
says.
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