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It's Wednesday, May 17th.

It smells like a negotiation, and some Democrats say that stinks.

We start here.

President Biden invites Republicans to the White House to talk about the debt ceiling.

Maybe this is what actually gets things moving and gets closer to the finish line.

But after weeks of holding firm has the haggling begun.

He says he stopped a shoplifter, while now a man is dead.

He told prosecutors he feared for his life, which is why he ultimately raised his gun and fired one shot.

A drugstore killing lays bare tensions in San Francisco.

And it's as if Dr. Frankenstein came to Congress asking to regulate his monster.

We understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live.

We are too.

If tech CEOs don't know how to reign in AI, how will senators?

From ABC News, this is Stark Here.

I'm Brad Milky.

When it comes to the debt ceiling, President Biden's negotiating position has been pretty clear for the last several months.

He's not negotiating.

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