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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan
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Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Jharel Cotton delivers to a Kansas City Royals batter during the first inning of a baseball game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, April 10, 2017. Cotton picked up the win. The Athletics defeated the Royals 2-0. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Jharel Cotton delivers to a Kansas City Royals batter during the first inning of a baseball game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, April 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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A male sage grouse gets its first look at its new home Monday, April 10, 2017, after being trapped in Wyoming, flown to North Dakota and released in a State Game and Fish Department project to try to save the bird from completely disappearing from some of its native ground. (Lauren Donovan/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this April 2, 2017, file photo, Carolina Hurricanes goalie Eddie Lack lies on his back in the goal as Pittsburgh Penguins' Scott Wilson (23) celebrates with Josh Archibald (45) and Carter Rowney (37) after scoring in the second period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh. The longest active playoff drought in the NHL now belongs to the Hurricanes, at eight years and counting. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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FILE - In this March 3, 2017, file photo, Carolina Hurricanes coach Bill Peters directs his team during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the Arizona Coyotes, in Raleigh, N.C. The longest active playoff drought in the NHL now belongs to the Hurricanes, at eight years and counting. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
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In this April 9, 2017 photo, road closed signs sit in standing water in Kalamazoo, Mich. Flooding in southwestern Michigan has closed several roadways and swamped the home of the Kalamazoo Growlers baseball team while severe thunderstorms caused damage in the Upper Peninsula. (Jake Green/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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In this Sunday, April 9, 2017 photo, flood water forms a large pond behind Homer Stryker Field in Kalamazoo, Mich. Flooding in southwestern Michigan has closed several roadways and swamped the home of the Kalamazoo Growlers baseball team while severe thunderstorms caused damage in the Upper Peninsula. (Jake Green/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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In this Monday, April 3, 2017, photo, a black Labrador named Cash, one of two specially trained wildlife canine officers in a Colorado Parks and Wildlife pilot program, sits in the back of a truck used by Brock McArdle, wildlife manager for the north-central district of the state department, near Wellington, Colo. The dog is being used to sniff out poachers and find evidence as a canine cop of sorts, joining the ranks of dogs in more than two dozen other states being employed in the same capacity. (Pamela Johnson /Loveland Reporter-Herald via AP)
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In this Monday, April 3, 2017, photo, Colorado Parks and Wildlife District Wildlife Manager Brock McArdle plays with his canine partner, a black Labrador named Cash, at Wellington State Wildlife Area near Wellington, Colo. Cash is one of only two dogs in the state trained to help wildlife officers with their investigations. He recently began working in Larimer County as part of a grant and donation funded pilot program. (Pamela Johnson /Loveland Reporter-Herald via AP)
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NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, left, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, center, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos sit in chairs outside the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft a few moments after they landed in a remote area near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Monday, April 10, 2017. Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, and Borisenko returned from the International Space Station. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)
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In this Friday, April 7, 2017, photo, a prototype of the Ford Fusion police hybrid car sits along 11th Avenue in New York. Ford Motor Co., which sells more police cars in the U.S. than any other automaker, says it will offer a police pursuit version of the hybrid Fusion midsize sedan, in response to requests from cities nationwide. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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In this Friday, April 7, 2017, photo, an interior view of the Ford Fusion police hybrid car shows room for departments to add their own electronics and accessories in New York. Ford Motor Co., which sells more police cars in the U.S. than any other automaker, says it will offer a police pursuit version of the hybrid Fusion midsize sedan, in response to requests from cities nationwide. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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In this Friday, April 7, 2017, photo, an interior view of the Ford Fusion police hybrid car shows room for departments to add their own electronics and accessories in New York. Ford Motor Co., which sells more police cars in the U.S. than any other automaker, says it will offer a police pursuit version of the hybrid Fusion midsize sedan, in response to requests from cities nationwide. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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In this Friday, April 7, 2017, photo, a prototype of the Ford Fusion police hybrid car sits along 11th Avenue in New York. Ford Motor Co., which sells more police cars in the U.S. than any other automaker, says it will offer a police pursuit version of the hybrid Fusion midsize sedan, in response to requests from cities nationwide. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Illustration on government policies that keep the poor poor by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Gary Taylor, an employee of Brodd's Small Engine Repair in Lincoln, Nebraska, works on a lawn mower. Tim Brodd, the shop's owner, prefers fuel without ethanol if it's available. (Associated Press)
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FILE – In this April 4, 2017, file photo, plumes of steam drift from the cooling tower of FirstEnergy Corp.'s Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio. Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.'s customers in Ohio would pay higher rates under a proposed bailout for the state's two nuclear plants, the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio. The aging plants provide jobs and make 14 percent of Ohio's electricity, but face stiff competition from cheaper natural gas plants. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane, File)
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In this May 20, 2005, file photo, plumes of steam drift from a cooling tower of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant along Lake Erie in North Perry, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
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FILE – In this April 12, 2005, file photo, operator Kevin Holko monitors the control room during a scheduled refueling shutdown at the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in North Perry, Ohio. Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp.'s customers in Ohio would pay higher rates under a proposed bailout for the state's two nuclear plants, the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Perry, Ohio. The aging plants provide jobs and make 14 percent of Ohio's electricity, but face stiff competition from cheaper natural gas plants. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
