Evening Edition: Senate GOP votes to open health-care debate

McCain greeted with emotional applause in return to Senate after cancer diagnosis; Manafort testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, submits Trump Tower meeting notes; Trump renews attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions; North Korea advances rapidly in its ability to strike U.S., experts warn; Study of brains of 111 former NFL players found only one that didn't have CTE; House prepares to pass sanctions bill — and set up veto dilemma for Trump; 'We are shot! We are shot!' An ICE agent's final moments resound in U.S. court.; EPA chief says agency will create 'top 10' list for Superfund cleanup; Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg's understanding of AI threat 'is limited'; 19-year-old who died on truck in San Antonio grew up in N.Va., had been deported; Trump’s Boy Scouts speech broke with 80 years of presidential tradition;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   Senate GOP votes to open health-care debate Senate Republican leaders secured the votes they needed Tuesday afternoon to begin debate, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for their beleaguered health-care effort. Still, it is unclear whether this puts them any closer to actually repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. By By Sean Sullivan, Juliet Eilperin, Ed O'Keefe and Kelsey Snell  •  Read more » McCain greeted with emotional applause in return to Senate after cancer diagnosis The ultimate fate of the Republican health-care effort might still be up in the air, but there's one thing the entire Senate could agree on Tuesday afternoon: It was good to see John McCain. By Elise Viebeck  •  Read more »   Manafort testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, submits Trump Tower meeting notes Before his testimony, Paul Manafort submitted to the committee notes that he took at a meeting with a Russian lawyer he and other campaign aides attended during the presidential campaign, a person familiar with the investigation said. By Rosalind S. Helderman and Karoun Demirjian  •  Read more »   Trump renews attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions President Trump lashed out at Sessions again this morning, accusing him on Twitter of taking "a VERY weak position" on alleged "crimes" by Hillary Clinton and intelligence leakers. By Jenna Johnson and William Branigin  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   North Korea advances rapidly in its ability to strike U.S., experts warn The U.S. projection closely mirrors revised predictions by South Korea, which also have watched with growing alarm as North Korea has appeared to master key technologies needed to loft a warhead toward targets thousands of miles away. By Ellen Nakashima, Anna Fifield and Joby Warrick  •  Read more »   Study of brains of 111 former NFL players found only one that didn't have CTE The brains used in the study were mostly donated by concerned families, which means they weren't random and not necessarily representative of all men who have played football. By Rick Maese  •  Read more »   House prepares to pass sanctions bill — and set up veto dilemma for Trump The legislation would impose new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea, and prevent President Trump from easing some of them without congressional approval. By Mike DeBonis and Karoun Demirjian  •  Read more »   'We are shot! We are shot!' An ICE agent's final moments resound in U.S. court. The 2011 death of the first U.S. law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty in Mexico since 1985 drew widespread attention, but only now, in a federal courtroom, are the agonizing details emerging. By Spencer S. Hsu  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   EPA chief says agency will create 'top 10' list for Superfund cleanup Scott Pruitt said he will follow a special task force's report designed to help him cut through red tape and lead to faster decontamination of sites nationwide where nearby residents are in harm's way. By Darryl Fears  •  Read more »   Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg's understanding of AI threat 'is limited' The tech billionaires continue to spar over the threat posed by artificial intelligence and whether it will lead to a robot apocalypse. By Peter Holley  •  Read more »   19-year-old who died on truck in San Antonio grew up in N.Va., had been deported Frank G. Fuentes was among the 39 undocumented immigrants, including 10 dead, found in a stifling tractor-trailer in a Walmart parking lot in Texas over the weekend. By Maria Sacchetti, Moriah Balingit and Fenit Nirappil  •  Read more »   Trump’s Boy Scouts speech broke with 80 years of presidential tradition Most presidents have spoken to the Scouts about unity or citizenship or coming together. Donald Trump talked about crowd size, "fake news" and Hillary Clinton. By Katie Mettler and Derek Hawkins  •  Read more »           Share Evening Edition:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. 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