When Senate Republicans unveiled their health care bill a little more than a week ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it would be voted on this week -- before Congress' July 4 recess. But, on Tuesday of this week, McConnell, realizing he didn't have the 50 votes needed to pass the bill, pulled the plug on the vote. What's next for the bill that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, would result in 23 million more people without health insurance in the next decade? Also this week, the President's Travel Ban is back, in part. The Supreme Court announced that it will hear arguments next fall regarding lower court decisions that stayed the President's executive order: And that parts of President Trump's revised travel ban could be enforced. The Trump administration made further claims about fake news this week. We'll take on these stories and others this week on the Midday News Wrap: Tom is joined in the studio by AP White House correspondent Julie Bykowicz and, on

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The members of Insingizi , a Zimbabwean musical trio, join Tom in Studio A. They specialize in performing inspiring concerts full of harmonious singing, call-and-response chanting, hand percussion and energetic choreography. The ensemble is stopping in the Baltimore area for the free Patterson Park Summer Series, at which they will perform this Sunday at 6:30 p.m., as well as in Washington, D.C. for Serenade: A JFK 100 Celebration , before making their way to Germany later in July. Today, they join Tom in studio to offer a little preview of what's to come this weekend. Members Dumisani ----Rama---- Moyo and ----Blessings---- Nqo Nkomo are here with de facto leader of the ensemble, Vusa Mkhaya . Their performance today features ----Boom Boom Jeys---- (working translation: ----It is important to know who we are and where we come from, so that we know where we are going----), and the South African hymn ----Siyahamba---- (Zulu for ----We Are Marching----), which closes out the show.

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Thursdays are for theater here at Midday, and theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck is here as always to review a local production. This week, she's discussing "Finding Neverland" at the Hippodrome Theatre . Directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus , "Finding Neverland" delves into the life of J.M. Barrie, the creator of one of the world's most beloved stories, Peter Pan . Barrie's relentless battle to find inspiration for a new play leads him to a single mother and her four children, whose imaginative spirits shape Barrie's stories and awaken his inner child. "Finding Neverland" runs at the Hippodrome through July 2, 2017.

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It's the Midday News Wrap , with guest host Nathan Sterner sitting in for Tom Hall. Among the stories Nathan spotlights in this week's review: the drama of competing healthcare bills, the wrangling and chaos within the Republican Party, and the still-unfolding puzzle of possible Russian ties to President Trump's inner circle. Early in the week, Senate Republicans lacked the votes for their latest proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act. By Tuesday, President Trump announced, “We’ll let

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Senior Producer Rob Sivak in the studio today with her review of the musical Spring Awakening , produced by the Spotlighters Theatre . It tells the story of a group of 19th century German teenagers trying to discover more about one another and themselves, under the intense scrutiny and repressive control of the adults in their lives.

Roughly a fifth of the US population – and a third of the under-30 crowd – say they have become disaffected with traditional religious institutions and they’re telling pollsters that they don’t identify with any particular church or religious faith. They‘re called "nones" -- as in "none of the above," but most say they still believe in God. So why are growing numbers of Americans turning away from the traditional church, synagogue, and mosque? And what are they looking for? Senior Producer Rob

The Emmy nominations are in. Saturday Night Live and HBO’s Westworld racked up 22 nominations a piece, while other popular newcomers like HBO’s Insecure were left off the list. With so many high quality options for viewers on television and on streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, are we entering a golden age of television? The Emmy awards will air in September, today Bridget Armstrong , sitting in for Tom Hall, dishes about the television hits and misses of the season with her TV-talking

We have seen the videos from cell phones, surveillance footage and police cameras. In the moments before and sometimes after police shootings of black people, it sounds like the police and the black people are speaking from completely different social realities. The shootings are the horrific tip of an iceberg. According to a GenForward survey done by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago, two-thirds of African-Americans under the age of 30 say they or someone they know has

Today, we examine the realities of being an immigrant in Baltimore in the Trump Era. President Trump has called for the immediate deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants, commonly known as illegal aliens. Mr. Trump and his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, have made immigration enforcement a priority. Plans continue for a wall of unprecedented scale all along the U.S.-Mexico border. And the Department of Justice has threatened to withhold federal funds from so-called "sanctuary cities"

Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Tom in Studio A with her review of the six plays being presented this year at the annual Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF), now underway on the campus of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The plays' settings range widely - from Amish Country to Nazi Germany - but their stories share common and emotionally powerful themes.