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Jimmy Carter seems to have gotten the perfect drug to treat his cancer. But scientists need to understand a lot more about tumors before personalized cancer treatments are available for everyone.

In one of several courtroom outbursts, Robert Lewis Dear, who is accused of killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, said he was guilty and won't go to trial.

The 2014 police shooting of Laquan McDonald "happened on my watch," Emanuel said in an emotional speech. He promised to address issues of supervision and leadership within the police department.

Some companies have bought the patents for old drugs, then abruptly upped the prices — from $13 per pill to $750 in one case. Irate senators call it price gouging.

The first of six Baltimore police officers on trial for the death of Freddie Gray took the stand Wednesday in his own defense. William Porter, who's been on the force just two years, is charged with manslaughter. Prosecutors say Porter failed to seek medical attention for Gray when he asked for it, and he is also responsible for Gray's fatal injury by not securing him with a seat belt during his transport in a police van.

The National Park Service is weighing a Texas company's proposal to do seismic oil testing in the Big Cypress National Preserve. But some worry it will open the door for fracking in the Everglades.