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Turning to Washington, the House has approved a long-delayed measure to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security.
It funds the Coast Guard, FEMA, and TSA.
And the bill now goes to President Trump for his signature.
You may have noticed that absent from that list of agencies is ICE.
Republicans are going to try to get legislation funding ICE and Border Patrol separately.
President Trump is withdrawing his nomination of doctor and health food advocate Casey Means to serve as U.S.
She didn't have enough support in the Senate to get confirmed.
The president said today that he would instead nominate Nicole Sapphire for the role.
She's the director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Monmouth and a Fox News contributor.
And turning to Maine, which is crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate, Janet Mills, the state's Democratic governor, today dropped out of the Senate race.
She said she didn't have the financial resources to keep going.
Her exit all but secures the Democratic nomination for progressive Graham Plattner, an oyster farmer and Marine veteran.
He'll face off against Republican Senator Susan Collins, who has held the seat since 1997.
The business of Affordable Care Act health insurance has been hit hard by the loss of some federal subsidies.
Plans have gotten more expensive and people are dropping them.
And today, Cigna says it's not going to offer those plans anymore starting next year.
That's after Aetna dropped out of the market at the start of this year.
Cigna's not a very big player in the ACA market, with about 369,000 people enrolled in its plans.