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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, file photo, tourists from Taiwan carry shopping bags as they walk along Lincoln Road Mall, a pedestrian area featuring retail shops and restaurants in Miami Beach, Fla. President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries could slow the U.S. economy by hampering two of the nation’s top export industries: Tourism and higher education. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2015, file photo, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons presents the Vanguard Award on stage at the 46th NAACP Image Awards in Pasadena, Calif. On Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it has ordered Simmons' company RushCard to pay $13 million in fines and restitution related to a 2015 outage that cut off its customers from their money. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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This Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, photo shows Chevrolet cars on a dealer lot in Pittsburgh. Automakers release vehicle sales for January, on Wednesday, Feb. 1. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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FILE- In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, military veterans walk onto a closed bridge to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline across from police protecting the site in Cannon Ball, N.D. North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, that the Acting Secretary of the Army has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with an easement necessary to complete the Dakota Access pipeline. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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FILE- In this Dec. 3, 2016, file photo, law enforcement vehicles line a road leading to a blocked bridge next to the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D. North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, that the Acting Secretary of the Army has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with an easement necessary to complete the Dakota Access pipeline. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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In this Dec. 3, 2016, file photo, law enforcement vehicles line a road leading to a blocked bridge next to the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D. North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, that the Acting Secretary of the Army has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with an easement necessary to complete the Dakota Access pipeline. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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Illustration on the need for Congress and the President to govern together by M. Ryder/Tribune Content Agency
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Illustration on saving small business in the U.S. by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says it is prepared to pay the maximum fine of $3 million after a jury convicted the company of deliberately violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators looking into the blast. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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FILE - In this Friday, May 13, 2016, file photo, a man uses his mobile phone near an Apple store in Beijing, China. Apple Inc. reports financial results Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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FILE - In this May 23, 2016 file photo, Johnny Depp arrives at the premiere of "Alice Through the Looking Glass" at the El Capitan Theatre, in Los Angeles. Depp's former business managers countersued the actor on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, stating that they frequently advised him that his spending was out of control. Depp sued his former business managers earlier this month alleging they mismanaged his money. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2016, file photo, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, talks about the pricing on the new iPhone 7 during an event to announce new products, in San Francisco. Eliminating the headphone jack doesn't seem to have hurt sales of the iPhone 7, which appears poised to reverse Apple's recent sales slide. Though not by much, which leaves a question that's shadowed the company for nearly a year: What's its next act? (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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This photo, dated Dec. 2016, shows the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt, a hotel in the Austrian Alps at Turracher Hoehe. The hotel’s management says it is ditching its electronic room cards for the old-fashioned locks and keys after being repeatedly targeted by hackers. One recent intrusion resulted in new guests being briefly unable to access their rooms. (Seehotel Jaegerwirt via AP)
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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with pharmaceutical industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. From left are, PhRMA president Stephen Ubl, Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier, Trump, Celgene CEO Robert Hugin, and Amgen CEO Robert Bradway (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Celgene CEO Bob Hugin during a meeting with pharmaceutical industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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In this Jan. 11, 2017, photo, the COLSA Corporation building is photographed in Huntsville, Ala. The military contractor helps run U.S. Central Command’s WebOps program that counters Islamic State online propaganda. An AP investigation found the program is plagued by incompetence and skewed data. (Bob Gathany /AL.com via AP)
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This document, photographed in Washington, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, set the government’s requirements for a $500 million contract to expand the military’s psychological operations campaign against the Islamic State and other extremist groups. Contractors allege that changes in the requirements aided the bid of the eventual winner, defense giant Northrop Grumman. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick
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This document, photographed in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, details the announcement of a five-year, $500 million contract awarded to Northrop Grumman on Sept. 30, 2016. The contract, for an expanded psychological operations campaign against the Islamic State and other extremist groups, is one of the largest such efforts to date. Contractors with some of Northrop Grumman’s competitors allege that a close relationship between one of the defense giant’s subcontractors and officers at Central Command gave the company an inside track on the bid. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
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FILE - This Sept. 9, 2016 photo shows Harkness Tower on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn. A study of 800 colleges found that the average endowment return was a 2 percent loss, the worst performance since the economic recession in 2009. The largest endowments were among those hit hardest, including Harvard’s, which posted a 5 percent loss but remained the biggest at $34 billion. Yale’s remained No. 2 with $25 billion. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. A study of 800 colleges found that the average endowment return was a 2 percent loss, the worst performance since the economic recession in 2009. The largest endowments were among those hit hardest, including Harvard’s, which posted a 5 percent loss but remained the biggest at $34 billion. Yale’s remained No. 2 with $25 billion. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
