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Inside Cleveland's Quicken Loans arena, souvenir stalls sell plain red or gray T-shirts that don't quite match the fevered pitch of Donald Trump's raucous rallies. (Associated Press)

RNC merchandise mirrors Republican divide

One of the best-sellers at Johnny Moore's souvenir stand outside the Republican National Convention features an American flag logo that, oddly enough, isn't even being used by Donald Trump's campaign anymore.

July 20, 2016
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan speaks during the second day of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday in Cleveland. (Associated Press)

Paul Ryan: Donald Trump offers alternative to ‘third Obama term’

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, hoping to unite a clearly divided GOP, offered a full-throated defense of his party's ideas late Tuesday, saying the only way to fight poverty, repeal Obamacare and offer a "better way" to America is to banish a "third Obama term" by dismissing Hillary Clinton and linking arms with Donald Trump.

July 19, 2016
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaks during the second day of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday in Cleveland. (Associated Press)

Mitch McConnell launches all-out assault on Hillary Clinton

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell launched an all-out assault on presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton late Tuesday and said the only way to repeal Obamacare, realign the Supreme Court and defund Planned Parenthood is to elect Donald Trump, even as members of his own caucus steer clear of the nominating festivities.

July 19, 2016
Donald Trump crossed the 1,237 threshold after GOP leaders and the Trump campaign combined to snuff out a final effort by disgruntled delegates to try to deny the billionaire businessman the nod, and instead select Sen. Ted Cruz. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump could end Pennsylvania’s GOP losing streak

From hard-scrabble Scranton to coal country near Johnstown, voters in Pennsylvania are fired up about Donald Trump, giving GOP delegates from the Keystone State a palpable belief they can notch their first home-state win in a presidential race since 1988.

July 19, 2016
FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2016, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, left, and Donald Trump, right, speak to reporters after a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by ABC News at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. Donald Trump’s top campaign adviser accused Ohio Gov. John Kasich of “embarrassing” his home state by avoiding the Republican convention, opening the gathering with a stark display of party disunity. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

John Kasich not appearing with Donald Trump in Cleveland

Ohio Gov. John Kasich is a man about town in and around Cleveland this week, making the rounds of the delegations to the Republican National Convention, but he's deliberately shied away from the man of the hour -- Donald Trump.

July 18, 2016
FILE - This January 2016 microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the Zika virus. On Friday, July 15, 2016, the CDC said a New York City woman infected her male partner with Zika virus through sex, the first time female-to-male transmission of the germ has been documented. (Cynthia Goldsmith/CDC via AP)

CDC: In a first, woman passed Zika to man through sex

A New York City woman infected a man with Zika through sex, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, adding a new layer to what scientists know about the latest public health scare.

July 15, 2016
In this May 11, 2016 photo, University of Massachusetts Medical School nursing student Morgan Brescia, right, and others attend a simulation of treatment for a patient coping with addiction during class at the medical school in Worcester, Mass. Many U.S. medical schools are expanding their training to help students fight opioid abuse. New training programs at many schools teach students to prescribe opioid painkillers only as a last resort, and to evaluate all patients for signs of drug abuse. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Senate advances bill to tackle opioid addiction

A long-awaited bill to combat the prescription painkiller and heroin epidemic breezed through a Senate test vote Wednesday, clearing the way for final passage and President Obama's signature.

July 13, 2016
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, leaves the House Chamber at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Steny Hoyer: Federal government can play positive role

Partisan paralysis in Congress is poisoning the other branches of government and quashing the voice of everyday Americans, Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer said Monday in a speech that argued secret donors, voter restrictions and craftily drawn House districts have cast a dark cloud over Washington.

July 11, 2016
In this Friday, Feb. 12, 2016, file photo, a naloxone nasal injector is demonstrated during a news conference at the Oakley Kroger Marketplace store, in Cincinnati, to announce the supermarket chain's decision to offer the opioid overdose reversal medicine without a prescription. It is becoming easier for friends and family of heroin users or patients abusing strong prescription painkillers to get access to naloxone, a powerful, life-saving antidote, as state lawmakers loosen restrictions on the medicine to fight a growing epidemic. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

House easily passes anti-opioids package

The House easily passed a bill to combat the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic Friday after Democrats who'd demanded more funding beat a retreat, saying they would fight for money another day.

July 8, 2016