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The Department of Health and Human Services is issuing new rules on what type of care hospitals may provide.

The new rules ban Medicaid reimbursements to doctors and medical facilities providing gender-affirming care to minors.

HHS says hospitals would lose all government funding if they perform those type of procedures.

Pope Leo XVI has appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks as the next Archbishop of New York.

Hicks will replace Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who led New York's 2.8 million Catholics for over 16 years.

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The Labor Department says consumer prices rose 2.7 percent last month.

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A suspect wanted for killing two people and injuring nine others at Brown University in Rhode Island has been found dead in Salem, New Hampshire.

He's been identified as 48-year-old Claudio Neves Valente, a naturalized citizen from Portugal and former Brown student.

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Attorney Leah Foley explains how Valente likely avoided being captured.

Foley says Valente is also suspected in the murder of an MIT professor in Massachusetts on Monday.

She says Valente then returned to New Hampshire, where he apparently took his own life.