A prayer is held prior to the start of the Congressional Baseball Game at National Park in Washington, DC on June 15, 2017.
Sights and sounds from the congressional game
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The shooting at a congressional baseball practice reminds us of something we too often forget: We are one country, and we’re all in this together. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.

1. Congressional shooting

And that wasn’t the day’s only mass shooting in the US. Three people died in San Francisco when a UPS employee opened fire on his fellow workers.

The game at Nationals Park was a potpourri of good feelings. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi hung out together. One of the (hero) Capitol Police officers injured in the shooting threw out the first pitch. President Trump sent encouraging words via video.

Trump statement at congressional baseball game
Trump's message at congressional baseball game
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The game raised more than a $1 million for charity. The Democrats won 11-2, then turned right around and gave the trophy to the Republican team to put in Scalise’s office. As for Scalise, he’s still in critical condition, but he’s improving. He’s had a second surgery and will be in the hospital a while.

And 2017 has been a bad year for mass shootings, with at least one every month this year.

2. President Trump

The leader of ISIS may be dead. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been killed last month in a Russian airstrike in Syria. The Russian Defense Ministry is checking that out; a US official tells CNN the government can’t confirm this just yet. Keep in mind, there have been several false reports over the years of the death of Baghdadi, who US officials consider enemy No. 1 in the fight against the terror group. US authorities have offered a $25 million reward for information leading to his capture.

(FILES) This image grab taken from a propaganda video released on July 5, 2014 by al-Furqan Media allegedly shows the leader of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, aka Caliph Ibrahim, adressing Muslim worshippers at a mosque in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul. 
The Russian army on June 16, 2017 said it hit Islamic State leaders in an airstrike in Syria last month and was seeking to verify whether IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed. In a statement, the army said Sukhoi warplanes carried out a 10-minute night-time strike on May 28 at a location near Raqa, where IS leaders had gathered to plan a pullout by militants from the group's stronghold.
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Is this the world's most dangerous man? (2014)
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And here’s more bad news for Trump: Almost 200 Congressional Democrats are suing him, saying he’s violating the Constitution by taking foreign money through his various businesses.

3. London fire

Georgia inmates captured

4. Fed rate hike

Otto Warmbier, a student who has been imprisoned by North Korea, was set free
Unresponsive wakefulness explained
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5. Fried potatoes study

Former President Obama spent the last couple of years of his administration opening a door between the US and Cuba. Today President Trump will close it a little. The President travels to a Cuban neighborhood in Miami to announce he’s rolling back some of the changes Obama made in US-Cuban policy, saying Cuba hasn’t improved its human rights record. Trump will bring back the tough travel restrictions for non-Cuban Americans to the island nation. And he wants to make it harder for anyone to do business with Cuban companies controlled by the regime’s military. But the diplomatic relations that Obama reinstated in 2014 will remain unchanged, so embassies established in Havana and Washington will remain open.

MIAMI, FL - DECEMBER 20: A protester holds an American flag and a Cuban one as she joins with others opposed to U.S. President Barack Obama's announcement earlier in the week of  a change to the United States Cuba policy stand together at Jose Marti park on December 20, 2014 in Miami, Florida. President Obama announced a move toward normalizing the relationship with Cuba after a swap of prisoners took place.  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Cubans watch anxiously for Trump's next moves
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Today’s Quote

“The jury foreman has informed me that you are deadlocked”

Judge Steven O’Neill, as he instructed the jury in Bill Cosby’s trial to go back and try again to reach a unanimous verdict.

Breakfast Browse

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Valiant volunteer

He pulled an all-nighter helping the victims of the London apartment building fire, then went and took the biggest exams of his life.

Rory Walsh London fire volunteer

Religious respect

The Jews left Kolkata, India’s Jewish Girls School decades ago, but the Muslim students there are keeping the Jewish traditions alive.

Light it up

LA lit up the Bat-signal in a fitting good-bye to actor Adam West.

Bat signal Adam West tribute

Lame-o laundering

The feds say millions in stolen cash from Malaysia was used to make “Dumb and Dumber To.” If that’s true, that money was most definitely wasted.

Rock the vote

In Japan, pop stars aren’t born. They’re elected, in contests featuring stump speeches, handshakes and accusations of voting fraud.

Today’s Number

46%

That’s how much profits increased for health insurance companies in 2016, despite millions in losses from Obamacare

And finally …

Temper tantrum

Someone’s sleeping in his bed, and Dover the English bulldog is not having it. (Click to view)