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Merced and Mariposa County Sheriff's Office members attend a briefing during a wildfire in Mariposa County, Calif., Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Tall grass from a deluge of winter rains is fueling wildfires throughout the Western U.S., damaging more than a dozen homes in Nevada and threatening hundreds more structures in California. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection on Tuesday ordered evacuations for some residents living southwest of Yosemite National Park. (Merced County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said the parliamentarian's guidance is not a ruling. (Associated Press/File)
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Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle gives a news conference on the opioid-related death of 10-year-old Alton Banks in Miami, Fla. The fifth grader from a drug-ridden Miami neighborhood apparently died of a fentanyl overdose in June, becoming one of Florida’s younges victims of the opioid crisis, authorities said Tuesday. But how he came into contact with the powerful painkiller is a mystery. (AP Photo/Mario Houben)
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Assistant Miami Fire Chief Pete Gomez points to a location in front of the department during an interview on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Gomez said he has seen a spike in overdoses in Overtown, a poor, high-crime neighborhood, in the past year and where needles sometimes litter the streets. (AP Photo/Mario Houben)
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FILE - In this June 29, 2011, file photo, Betty Dukes testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine the factors at issue in the recent Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Supreme Court ruling. The Walmart greeter who took the retail giant all the way to the U.S. Supreme court in the largest gender bias class-action lawsuit in U.S. history has died. Betty Dukes died July 10, 2017 at her home in Antioch, Calif., said her niece Rita Roland. She was 67. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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FILE - In this March 29, 2011 file photo, the five plaintiffs in a case of women employees against Wal-Mart, from left, Stephanie Odle, of Norman, Okla., Betty Dukes, of Pittsburg, Calif., Deborah Gunter, of Palm Springs, Calif., Christine Kwapnoski, of Bay Point, Calif., and Edith Arena, of Duarte, Calif. pose for a photograph outside the Supreme Court in Washington. Dukes, a Walmart greeter who took the retail giant all the way to the U.S. Supreme court in the largest gender bias class-action lawsuit in U.S. history, died July 10. 2017, at her home in Antioch, Calif., said her niece Rita Roland. she was 67. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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CORRECTS MONTH TO JULY NOT JUNE- FILE - This Oct. 13, 2016, file photo shows the exterior of the police station in the town of Nederland, Colo. David Michael Ansberry pleaded guilty Tuesday, July 18, 2017, to planting a backpack bomb outside the police station in Nederland. Ansberry acknowledged his motive stemmed from the 1971 killing of his friend and fellow hippie by the town marshal. (AP Photo/Sadie Gurman, File)
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President Donald Trump pauses while having lunch with services members in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2016 file photo, Doris Payne poses for a photo in Atlanta. Police near Atlanta say a notorious jewel thief with an illicit career spanning six decades has been caught stealing again, but she wasn’t after sparkly gems this time. A report from Chamblee police says 86-year-old Payne was arrested at a Walmart store around 5 p.m. Monday, July 17, 2017, and charged with misdemeanor theft by shoplifting. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
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FILE - In this March 9, 2016, file photo, Arizona House Speaker David Gowan speaks to visitors in his office at the Capitol in Phoenix. The Arizona Attorney General's Office says it won't prosecute former state House speaker Gowan following a fraud investigation into expense reimbursements. The office says it found numerous accountability shortcomings in House of Representatives procedures but a lack of clear-cut violations involving criminal intent by Gowan, a Sierra Vista Republican. (AP Photo/Bob Christie, File)
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In this May 2016 image provided by the City of Minneapolis, police Officer Mohamed Noor poses for a photo at a community event welcoming him to the Minneapolis police force. Noor, a Somali-American, has been identified by his attorney as the officer who fatally shot Justine Damond, of Australia, late Saturday, July 15, 2017, after she called 911 to report what she believed to be an active sexual assault. Authorities have released no details about what led to the shooting of Damond. (City of Minneapolis via AP)
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A protestor prays outside the offices of Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters following a news conference Tuesday, July 18, 2017, where Deters announced his decision to not pursue a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing on murder charges for the death of motorist Sam DuBose, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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A family member of Sam DuBose is aided by a medical crew after fainting under the midday heat outside Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters offices, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Cincinnati. During a news conference Deters announced his decision to not pursue a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for murder in the death of Sam DuBose. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Terina Allen, sister of Samuel DuBose, center right, is hugged by a supporter after Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters announced during a news conference his decision to not pursue a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for murder, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters pauses as he speaks during a news conference to announce his decision to not pursue a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for murder, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters speaks during a news conference to announce his decision to not pursue a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for murder, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters speaks during a news conference to announce his decision to not pursue a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for murder, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters pauses as he speaks during a news conference to announce his decision to not pursue a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for murder, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Terina Allen, sister of Samuel DuBose, speaks to the media after Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters announced during a news conference his decision to not pursue a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing for murder in the death of DuBose, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, April 11, 2017 file photo, Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn talks with the media in Norman, Okla. Mashburn is appealing a judge's order to return items confiscated during 2015 raids at a now-closed pipe shop in Norman. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
