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In this Jan. 5, 2017, photo, a painting by David Pulphus hangs in a hallway displaying paintings by high school students selected by their member of congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., has removed a painting that showed a pig in a police uniform, one of hundreds of artworks on display at the Capitol and sponsored by a member of Congress. Joe Kasper, a spokesman forHunter, says the lawmaker unscrewed the artwork from the display and returned it to the office of Missouri Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)
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Eric Grant takes his three-year-old daughter Makayla to preschool in Philadelphia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Thousands of Philadelphia toddlers are starting 2017 in a city pre-kindergarten program, launched this week alongside a new sugary beverage tax created to fund it. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Teacher Patty Cronin helps three-year-old Makayla Grant open her package of cereal during preschool in Philadelphia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Thousands of Philadelphia toddlers are starting 2017 in a city pre-kindergarten program, launched this week alongside a new sugary beverage tax created to fund it. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Eric Grant takes his three-year-old daughter Makayla to preschool in Philadelphia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. Thousands of Philadelphia toddlers are starting 2017 in a city pre-kindergarten program, launched this week alongside a new sugary beverage tax created to fund it. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Luke Eubanks enjoys a day off from school while sledding at Hyrum Gibbons Park in Logan, Utah, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Schools in Cache Valley were closed for the day after a snow storm. (Eli Lucero/The Herald Journal via AP)
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Snow falls in Bowling Green, Ky., Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. School districts in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia either closed or called off classes as early as snow began falling there Thursday and more cancellations were planned Friday, including by school systems in central Alabama amid the threat of up to 3 inches of snow and sleet. (Austin Anthony/Daily News via AP)
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Lucinda Anderson, of Bowling Green, Ky., left, and her daughter Shaye Rabold, of Lexington, Ky., walk through Fountain Square Park to get to their car in Bowling Green on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. School districts in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia either closed or called off classes as early as snow began falling there Thursday and more cancellations were planned Friday, including by school systems in central Alabama amid the threat of up to 3 inches of snow and sleet. (Austin Anthony/Daily News via AP)
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Gov. Doug Burgum opens North Dakota's 65th legislative assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in front of a joint session of the legislature where he delivered the State of the State address, in Bismarck, N.D. Burgum touched on a number of topics in the address but a continuing theme was lifelong education. "Learning begins with humility. Everyone has something to teach us," he said. (Tom Stromme /The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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This Oct. 13, 2016 booking image released by the Hardin County Detention Center, shows Stephen Kyle Goodlett, the former principal of LaRue County,Ky. High School. Goodlett, of Elizabethtown, Ky., was indicted Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Louisville on federal charges of possessing and transporting child pornography, news outlets reported. He admitted to seizing students’ phones so that he could steal pornographic images from them and trade them online, investigators said. He was fired after his arrest in October. (Hardin County Detention Center via AP)
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In this photo taken Dec. 6, 2016, the Wilcox County High School in Camden, Ala.. where Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., attended, graduating in 1965. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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In this photo taken Dec. 6, 2016, Les Johnson, 69, of Camden, Ala.,, a family friend of Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. holds up a 1965 year book of Sessions graduating year as the Wilcox County High School's "Senior High Who's Who, Mr. Wilcox County High," as appearing on the left page, an honor of the high school according to Alford in Camden, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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President-elect Donald Trump
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America's Home Sweet Home Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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University of Minnesota students listen to a speaker at a "U of M stands with Survivors Rally," or forum at the Coffman Memorial Union Theater, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Minneapolis, Minn. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)
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University of Minnesota students listen to a speaker at a "U of M stands with Survivors Rally," or forum at the Coffman Memorial Union Theater, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Minneapolis, Minn. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)
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Nebraska's Tai Webster,(0), Jeah Horne, (32), Jordy Tshimanga, (2) celebrate their victory over Maryland in an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Oklahoma state Rep. Bobby Cleveland, R-Slaughterville, left, talks with Rep. Harold Wright, R-Weatherford, right, Speaker Pro Tempore, during an Education budget meeting on the House floor in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Oklahoma's Department of Education says it needs $221 million more in funding for the next school year just to keep pace with student growth. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Oklahoma state school Superintendent Joy Hofmeister gestures as she speaks during an Education budget meeting on the floor of the Oklahoma House in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Oklahoma's Department of Education says it needs $221 million more in funding for the next school year just to keep pace with student growth. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Oklahoma state Rep. Scott Martin, R-Norman, left, talks with Rep. Leslie Osborn, R-Mustang, right, during an Education budget meeting on the House floor in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Oklahoma's Department of Education says it needs $221 million more in funding for the next school year just to keep pace with student growth. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
