Manager McCarthy will be hoping a good result at the Lokomotiv Stadium will help push the ongoing Roy Keane saga into the background for a while.

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Mr. Baker said that at Thursday's meeting, he suggested the administration work on ways to push states to submit mental-health records into the background-check system, an emerging area of consensus in response to Newtown.

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