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People protest with the Trump International hotel in the background, Tuesday, June 27, 2017, in Las Vegas. Union officials in Nevada, community members and others gathered Tuesday at a pedestrian bridge over the Las Vegas Strip to urge Republican U.S. Sen. Dean Heller to continue to oppose the current GOP health care bill. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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European Union Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said Google "denied other companies the chance to compete on the merits and to innovate. Most importantly, it denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefits of innovation." (Associated Press)
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An employee works on a frame during a press talk on the preparations of an exhibition of exemplary works from the Gurlitt found, an art collection of Cornelius Gurlitt discovered in 2012, in November in Bonn, Germany, Tuesday June, 27, 2017. (Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)
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In this photo taken Friday, March 24, 2017, a former Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin, right, stands behind Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, in Belgrade, Serbia. Serbia's future first woman and openly gay prime minister Ana Brnabic has proposed the staunchly pro-Russian official, and former Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin as the defense minister, damping hopes in the west that her nomination signals the country's shift away from Moscow's influence. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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FILE - In this June 21, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs, center, appears on the House floor on the first day of a special session in Springfield, Ill. Durkin said Monday, June 26, 2017, that his team is negotiating with Democrats over changes to workers' compensation, money-saving changes to pension benefits and a four-year property tax freeze to go with a four-year income tax increase. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP, File)
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Frank De Boer smiles during a press conference at Beckenham Training Ground, Kent, Monday June 26, 2017. Former Netherlands defender Frank de Boer has been hired as manager of Crystal Palace, taking his first coaching job in English soccer seven months after getting fired by Inter Milan. (Steven Paston/PA via AP)
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FILE - In this June 22, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump is not known for plunging into the details of complex policy issues, and health care is no exception. Since his campaign days, Trump has addressed health care in broad, aspirational strokes. Nonetheless he made some clear promises along the way. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Frank De Boer speaks during a press conference at Beckenham Training Ground, Kent, Monday June 26, 2017. Former Netherlands defender Frank de Boer has been hired as manager of Crystal Palace, taking his first coaching job in English soccer seven months after getting fired by Inter Milan. (Steven Paston/PA via AP)
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Unidentified Crown Resorts employees wearing face masks are escorted by securities as they leave the Baoshan District People's Court after attending her trial in Shanghai, China, Monday, June 26, 2017. Australian and Chinese employees of a casino company on Monday pleaded guilty to charges relating to gambling and the three Australians were sentenced to nine or 10 months' imprisonment, an Australian official said. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Top Democrats are campaigning hard against the American Healthcare Act and they're following a strategic and emotional script. (Associated Press)
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In this June 15, 2017, file photo, Ivanka Trump listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, during an event on Apprenticeship and Workforce of Tomorrow initiatives. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Melody Vaughn, one of two Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services social workers, speaks with reporters about their actions which saved the life of a Madison County child earlier this year, and earned them the first ever Governor's Award for Outstanding Service in Child Protection and Well-Being, following a statewide meeting of MDCPS social workers in Jackson, Miss., Friday, June 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Tausha Rawls, right, and Melody Vaughn, two Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services social workers, speak with reporters about their actions which saved the life of a Madison County child earlier this year, and earned them the first ever Governor's Award for Outstanding Service in Child Protection and Well-Being during a statewide meeting of MDCPS social workers in Jackson, Miss., Friday, June 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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In this Tuesday, May 23, 2017, photo, Tyler Wegmeyer, owner of Wegmeyer Farms, picks strawberries in the pick-your-own strawberry patch at Wegmeyer Farms in Hamilton, Va. Hiring summer workers is one of Wegmeyer's biggest problems. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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In this Tuesday, May 23, 2017, photo, Tyler Wegmeyer, owner of Wegmeyer Farms, picks strawberries in the pick-your-own strawberry patch at Wegmeyer Farms in Hamilton, Va. Hiring summer workers is one of Wegmeyer's biggest problems. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., third from left, accompanied by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., second from left, Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., right, and healthcare leaders, discuss the effects of the proposed Republican healthcare legislation on families at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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National Edition News cover for April 18, 2015 - Obamacare fails to deliver on free birth control as some insurers charge fees: FILE - This May 28, 1999, file photo shows a new birth control pill container designed to look like a woman's makeup compact for Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc., of Raritan, N.J., displayed at the manufacturer's assembly line. More than half of privately insured women are getting free birth control due to President Barack Obama’s health care law, part of a big shift that’s likely to continue despite the Supreme Court allowing some employers with religious objections to opt out. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, file photo, Alan Leafman, center, president of Health Insurance Express, Inc., helps Raquel Bernal, right, and her husband John Bernal, both of Apache Junction, Ariz., navigate the nation's health care insurance system online at the Health Insurance Express store in Mesa, Ariz. Enough insurers are planning to sell coverage through the Affordable Care Act in 2018 to keep the market place working, if only barely, in most parts of the country. However competition in many markets has dwindled to one insurer, or none in some cases, and another round of steep price hikes is expected to squeeze consumers who don’t receive big income-based tax credits to help pay their bill. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to release a discussion draft of a secret Republican health care bill on Thursday. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this June 2, 2014, file photo, a sign that reads "15 Good Work Seattle" is displayed below Seattle City Hall, right, and the Columbia Center building, left, after the Seattle City Council passed a $15 minimum wage measure. A new study says Seattle's $15-an-hour minimum wage law has boosted pay for restaurant industry workers without costing jobs. The report, from the University of California at Berkeley, is certain to add to the debate as activists around the country push for increases in local, state and federal minimum wages. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
