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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Medicaid recipients are entitled to care, but cannot dictate to the states where they get that care. Legal experts say the ruling is a major setback for Planned Parenthood. (Associated Press)

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President Trump on Friday granted the first pardon of his term to Joe Arpaio, a former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who was tough on immigration enforcement. Critics say the move sends a wrong message. (Associated Press/File)

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In this April 20, 2017, photo, cigarettes overflow from an ashtray inside the home of suspected child webcam cybersex operator, David Timothy Deakin, from Peoria, Ill., during a raid in Mabalacat, Philippines. Children's underwear, toddler shoes, cameras, bondage cuffs, fetish ropes, meth pipes, stacks of hard drives and photo albums cluttered the stuffy, two-bedroom townhouse. In his computer files, there were videos and images of children engaged in sex acts. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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This Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows an agent holding a male tiger cub that was confiscated at the U.S. border crossing at Otay Mesa southeast of downtown San Diego early Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. CBP said in a news release Thursday that the cub was found during a routine inspection of the car, crossing from Mexico into the U.S. Officials say the 18-year-old driver is a U.S. citizen and has been arrested. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)

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This Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a male tiger cub that was confiscated at the U.S. border crossing at Otay Mesa southeast of downtown San Diego early Wednesday. CBP said in a news release Thursday that the cub was found during a routine inspection of the car, crossing from Mexico into the U.S. Officials say the 18-year-old driver is a U.S. citizen and has been arrested. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)

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This Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows an agent holding a male tiger cub that was confiscated at the U.S. border crossing at Otay Mesa southeast of downtown San Diego early Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. CBP said in a news release Thursday that the cub was found during a routine inspection of the car, crossing from Mexico into the U.S. Officials say the 18-year-old driver is a U.S. citizen and has been arrested. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)

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FILE – In this May 22, 2004 file photo, former York, Pa., Mayor Charles "Charlie" Robertson sets a nameplate from his time as mayor on a table before signing copies of "Murder Is the Charge," a book by his defense attorney William C. Costopoulos and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporter Brad Bumsted about Robertson's 2002 acquittal in the 1969 murder of black woman Lillie Belle Allen during a race riot in York, at a bookstore on the outskirts of York, Pa. Robertson, who resigned as mayor in 2002 before he was acquitted, died Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, at age 83, according to his son. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower, File)

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FILE – In this June 25, 2001 file photo, York, Pa., Mayor Charles "Charlie" Robertson arrives for a preliminary hearing at the York County Courthouse in York, Pa. Robertson, who resigned as mayor in 2002 before he was acquitted that year in the 1969 murder of black woman Lillie Belle Allen during a race riot in York when Robertson was a police officer, died Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, at age 83, according to his son. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)

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FILE – In this Oct. 1, 2002, file photo, former York, Pa., Mayor Charles "Charlie" Robertson exits through a back door on the opening day of his murder trial at the York County Courthouse in York, Pa. Robertson, who resigned as mayor in 2002 before he was acquitted that year in the 1969 murder of black woman Lillie Belle Allen during a race riot in York when Robertson was a police officer, died Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, at age 83, according to his son. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower, File)

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CORRECTS EXECUTION DATE TO AUG. 24 - This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Mark Asay. If his final appeals are denied, Asay is to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. Asay was convicted by a jury of two racially motivated, premeditated murders in Jacksonville in 1987. (Florida Department of Corrections via AP)

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This photo March 22, 2013, file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Reince Priebus White House chief of staff (resigned)- 189 Days. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus walks to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, July 28, 2017, to travel with President Donald Trump to Brentwood, N.Y. for a speech to law enforcement officials on the gang MS-13. Trump tweeted that he is replacing Priebus as Chief of Staff with John Kelly, currently Secretary of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Washington Redskins cornerback Deshazor Everett (22) during an NFL football game against Philadelphia Eagles Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ** FILE **

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FILE - In this May 17, 2017, file photo, Betty Shelby leaves the courtroom with her husband, Dave Shelby, right, after the jury in her case began deliberations in Tulsa, Okla. Shelby, a former Tulsa police officer who resigned after being acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, is going to work for the sheriff's office in neighboring Rogers County. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Park County, Wyo., Sheriff's Office shows Jesus Deniz Mendoza. Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to send Mendoza to prison for life after he pleaded guilty to killing a couple and wounding their daughter when the family stopped to help him on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation. (Park County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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Dani Kuta, a 17-year-old from Denver, smiles as she heads back to wait in a public line to view the afternoon session of the third day of a civil trial to determine whether a radio host groped pop singer Taylor Swift in a case in federal court Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Johnny Hultzapple, front, of Denver, waits in a public line to view the afternoon session of the third day of a civil trial to determine whether a radio host groped pop singer Taylor Swift in a case in federal court Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Hannah Gu, left, and Shantel Bartolme, both of Denver, emerge from the federal courthouse after attending the morning session of the third day of a civil trial to determine whether a Denver radio host groped pop singer Taylor Swift in a case in federal court Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Lawyers for pop singer Taylor Swift head into the federal courthouse for the third day of a civil trial to determine whether a radio host groped the pop singer in a case in federal court Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in Denver. Former DJ David Mueller, sued Swift after she said he touched her backside before a concert in Denver in 2013. He's seeking at least $3 million. Swift countersued for sexual assault and is seeking $1. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)