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A Michigan summer arts camp and boarding school where Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of meeting at least two of his victims will tear down a lodge that once bore his name.

Epstein attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts as a teenager in 1967 and donated more than $400,000 to the school.

Weather forecasters say the European heat wave is unprecedented in its intensity and early arrival.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports temperatures are breaking records.

Senators are introducing a bipartisan bill to regulate payments to college sports players, limit them to one free transfer over their careers, and restrict coach movement during the season.

Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Maria Cantwell are trying to overcome more than a year of inaction in Congress since a lawsuit settlement started allowing players to be paid.

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President Trump's trade war with China has shown the world's two biggest economies can hurt each other.

U.S.

firms are looking for suppliers outside of China, and China has cut back on purchases of U.S.

soybeans and deprived U.S.

manufacturers of crucial minerals and metals.

On the eve of Trump's state visit to Beijing this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Fox News that the U.S.

wants to reshape its trading relationship with China.

Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping momentarily.

The Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California and is threatening to suspend more unless states show they're prosecuting Medicaid fraud.

NPR's Jacqueline Diaz has more.

Debate continues on Capitol Hill about the origins of the COVID virus.