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Michigan's governor signed into law a $617 million bailout package for Detroit Public Schools. There are many critics of his plan.

According to The Hill, Tyler's campaign website offers other billboard options such as, "Fight federal tyranny / Stop the Muslim invasion," and "Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be miscegenators."

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The Court failed to reach a decision on United States v. Texas, No. 15-674, likely due to the empty Supreme Court seat.

The plaintiff, Abigail Noel Fisher, charged the ruling was unfair and that she was a victim of racial discrimination.

Several Democratic lawmakers are prepared to wait out the night, possibly into the next few days.

If members do not leave the floor and no compromise is reached, it is largely up to Speaker Paul Ryan to decide whether to use the authority of the House to seek to clear the floor and/or sanction members, or to keep the House in recess and wait out the issue.

The charged rhetoric comes a day after Clinton delivered a scorching speech about Trump's business competence.

During a rally in Ohio, Clinton laid out Trump's entire business record and said, "We can't let him bankrupt America like we are one of his failed casinos."

St. Louis Schools plan to draw down its long-running school desegregation program. Observers say the program achieved integration, but mixed academic results.

An estimated 6,000 protesters are scheduled to greet Republican delegates and Donald Trump, the party's presumptive presidential nominee, in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 18, including Black Lives Matter and the Workers World Party.

A Los Angeles Federal Court judge dismissed the lawsuit last month where the woman had no legal representation.

The 11-term lawmaker immediately relinquished his post as the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department after his indictment last July.