News of the Day From Across the Nation

Police tore down an encampment early Thursday outside a Minneapolis precinct where demonstrators had gathered for more than two weeks to protest the fatal shooting of a black man by police.

Officers, including some wearing helmets with visors, told about 50 chanting demonstrators camped outside the Fourth Precinct to disperse about 4 a.m., and they began removing tents about 15 minutes later.

An Arkansas judge struck down a portion of the state’s law that keeps secret details about the drugs used in executions, saying Thursday that drug suppliers do not have a constitutional right to be free from criticism.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen sided with death row inmates who challenged a law passed by lawmakers this year that prevents disclosure about the drugs that are used in executions.

The two crew members were flying a two-seat AH-64D Apache during a routine training mission when the helicopter went down Wednesday, according to the Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

The helicopter was found in a river bottom and was on fire when first responders arrived, said Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency Director Jerry Buchanan.

If you’re a low-income woman, you’re more likely to get screened for breast cancer if you live in a state that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act than in a state that didn’t.

According to new research, low-income women who lived in a handful of early-adopter states that implemented Medicaid expansion by 2011 were 25 percent more likely to be screened for breast cancer in 2012 than women in non-expansion states.