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Angel Salvatory, 17, who has skin cancer, with her half-brother Ezekiel and mother Bestida, who she had not seen in the four years she has lived away from home, after her own father led a group of men to attack her, seen at Kabanga Protectorate Center, in Kabanga, Tanzania, Aug. 29, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Patents awarded to Myriad Genetics Inc., a Utah firm that isolated the location and sequence of what's known as the BRCA gene, were thrown out Thursday when the Supreme Court ruled that human genes are "a product of nature." (Associated Press)

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Evangelist Pat Robertson gives the opening prayer at a memorial service for evangelist Oral Roberts on the campus of Oral Roberts University on Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. Roberts died Dec. 15 at the age of 91. (AP Photo/David Crenshaw)

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe appears with lieutenant governor candidate state Sen. Ralph Northam (right) and attorney general candidate Sen. Mark Herring (left) at a breakfast campaign event in Richmond on Wednesday, a day after the party’s primary. (Associated Press)

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Ross Ohlendorf tossed six innings of one-run baseball against the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night in the Washington Nationals' 5-1 victory. (Associated Press photo)