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This Dec. 1, 2016 photo taken at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretative Center in Baker City, shows the fold out map inside the John C. Fremont book displayed there. Through a partnership between the Library of Congress and the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the 170-year-old, seven-section topographical map of the Oregon Trail that is bound into the book, has been secured for display at the Center. (S. John Collins /Baker City Herald via AP)
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Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. restaurants have regularly been criticized by activists groups over ads with scantily clad models eating hamburgers. (Facebook, Carl's Jr.)
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In this May 24, 2015 photo, US tourists walks outside the Bodeguita del Medio Bar frequented by the late American novelist Ernest Hemingway in Old Havana, Cuba. One airline's cutback in flights to Cuba may be a sign that demand for travel to the island is slowing down amid uncertainty about Donald Trump's Cuba policies along with a near-doubling of Havana hotel prices and concerns over Zika. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)
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Lennard Otto, Chief Executive Officer of IMG Worlds of Adventure speaks during a press conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. The Dubai developer that recently opened the world's largest indoor theme park now plans an even bigger attraction next door. The Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group said Tuesday that its planned IMG Worlds of Legends park will spread across more than 2 million square feet (186,000 square meters) near the existing IMG Worlds of Adventure, which opened at the end of August. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
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People stand outside a hotel on fire in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016. A massive fire swept through a four-star hotel in the southern port city of Karachi on Monday, officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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FILE - Int his July 27, 1948, file photo, Sammy Lee, member of the U.S. Olympic diving team, dives from the top of the diving tower during training at the London Olumpics at the Empire Pool in Wembley, England. Lee, a two-time Olympic gold medal-winning diver who later mentored four-time Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, died Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, of pneumonia in Newport Beach, Calif., the University of Southern California said Saturday, Dec. 3. He was 96. (AP Photo/Laurence Harris, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 3 - FILE - In this July 9, 2013, file photo, Kristen Hill and Michele Walker Richardson take photos from Mount St. Helens' crater rim in Washington state on with Mount Adams is the background. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore Mount St. Helens in a variety of ways throughout 2017, thanks to programs offered by the Mount St. Helens Institute. (Craig Hill/The News Tribune via AP, File)
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In this Nov. 20, 2016, Frank Cantone, aka the Rooster Man, from the St. Louis Chicken Rescue, searches through a shed in Pittsburgh's Hill District for the Wylie Avenue Rooster. (Nate Guidry/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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In this 2008 photo, chef Peng Chang-kuei poses for a photo as he is seated at a table in his restaurant Peng's Garden in Taipei, Tawain. The chef, who has been credited with inventing General Tso's chicken, a world-famous Chinese food staple that is not served in China, has died in Taiwan. He was 98. (Chiang-Zhong Su/United Daily News/World Journal via AP )
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In this photo taken on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016, Soviet-era Christmas decorations are on display in the Christmas decorations museum in Klin, about 85 kilometers (53 miles) northwest of Moscow. The production of glass Christmas decorations in the region dates back to the 19th century. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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FILE - In this March 5, 2015, file photo, Davidson's Jack Gibbs (12) looks to score against Virginia Commonwealth's Terry Larrier (22) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Davidson, N.C. He may not be Stephen Curry, but another top notch shooter has emerged at Davidson in Jack Gibbs. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone, File)
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File - In this Monday, Oct. 5, 2015, file photo, a black-footed ferret looks out of a crate used to take it to a site to be let loose during a release of 30 of the animals by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo. Dozens of slinky, ferocious and rare ferrets are settling in and making babies at a wildlife refuge outside Denver one year after they were released there. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney arrives to talk with reporters after eating dinner with President-elect Donald Trump at Jean-Georges restaurant, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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A sculpture of a Bison on the state Capitol grounds in Bismarck was covered in snow Tuesday, the second day of a winter storm in central North Dakota. (Associated Press)
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Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, left, and Director of the Arizona State Parks Sue Black, right, unveil a trailhead sign during a dedication ceremony for the new Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park as a tribute to the 19 firefighters killed during a 2013 wildfire Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in Yarnell, Ariz. Ducey said the 3-mile trail and memorial would serve as a lasting tribute to the fallen firefighters' heroism.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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A family member is overcome as she watches a missing man formation of fire fighting planes as they fly over during a dedication ceremony for the new Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park as a tribute to the 19 firefighters killed during a 2013 wildfire Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in Yarnell, Ariz. Gov. Doug Ducey said the 3-mile trail and memorial would serve as a lasting tribute to the fallen firefighters' heroism.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 28 2016 photo. Steve Wright, general manager at Jay Peak Resort, points out at new snowmaking guns blowing snow onto a lower trail of the resort in Jay, Vt. Seven months after the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Jay Peak's owner of misappropriating millions of dollars in foreign investors' money, the resort is expected to officially open for the ski season on Saturday. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
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In this Nov. 17, 2016 photo, Ashley Koletta, 23, of Mt. Washington, and Olivia Kluiter, 24, of Greensburg, play roulette at Rivers Casino on the North Shore, in Pittsburgh. (Nate Smallwood /Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)
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John Warren, chairman of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, speaks during a press conference on Tuesday Nov. 29, 2016, announcing the federal government placing nearly 166 acres of land in South Bend, Ind., into trust for a tribal village and a casino that is expected to be the largest in Indiana. (Santiago Flores/South Bend Tribune via AP)
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In this photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, dancers perform at the International Festival of Contemporary Choreography in the town of Vitebsk, Belarus. At the end of November Vitebsk hosted the International Festival of Contemporary Choreography, which dates back to the 1987 festival of Soviet counterculture, with thirty dance companies and individual dancers from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Moldova and China presented cutting-edge dance shows. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)