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FILE - In this July 17, 2016 file photo, an East Baton Rouge Sheriff's officer enters the B-Quick convenience store at the shooting scene in Baton Rouge, La., where several law enforcement officers were either shot or killed. Gavin Long fatally shot two police officers and a sheriff's deputy and wounded three other officers before a SWAT officer killed Long outside the Baton Rouge convenience store. East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III scheduled a news conference Friday, June 30, 2017, to release the report and videos related to the investigation of the July 17 shooting. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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Tsunehisa Katsumata, right, former chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), arrives at Tokyo District Court for a trial in Tokyo Friday, June 30, 2017. Three former executives of TEPCO, including Katsumata, are going on trial for alleged negligence in the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The trial is the first to consider whether the utility can be held criminally responsible. (Shigeyuki Inakuma/Kyodo News via AP)
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Attorney Saira Hussain, left, and her client, Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, answer questions about a settlement with the city of San Francisco on Thursday, June 29 , 2017, in San Francisco. Figueroa-Zarceno, a native from El Salvador in the U.S. illegally, sued San Francisco after police turned him over to immigration authorities in violation of the citys sanctuary law and is set to be awarded $190,000 according to Hussain. (AP Photo/Olga Rodriguez)
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In this Tuesday, June 27, 2017 file photo, a semi-automatic hand gun is displayed with a 10 shot magazine, left, and a 15 shot magazine, right, at a gun store in Elk Grove, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) **FILE**
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In this June 27, 2017 photo, a semi-automatic rifle is displayed with a 25 shot magazine, left, and a 10 shot magazine, right, at a gun store in Elk Grove, Calif. A federal judge is blocking a California law set to go into effect Saturday, July 1, that would have barred gun owners from possessing high-capacity ammunition magazines. San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez said in ruling Thursday, June 29, that the law banning possession of magazines containing more than 10 bullets would have made criminals of thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens who now own the magazines. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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D.C. United went 2-4-1 when midfielder Patrick Nyarko missed seven matches this spring with a hamstring injury. (Associated Press)
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In this Dec. 18, 2003 photo, inmates head to lunch at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, in El Dorado, Kan. The Kansas Department of Corrections said some inmates on Thursday, June 29, 2017, refused to return to their cells at the state's maximum-security prison, but that no violence or injuries have been reported. (Fernando Salazar/The Wichita Eagle via AP)
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This Oct. 3, 2013 file photo shows a custom-made semi-automatic hunting rifle with a high-capacity detachable magazine is displayed at a gun store in Rockin, Calif. On April 22, 2019, the Colorado Supreme Court announced it will hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the state's ban on large-capacity magazines. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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St. Louis Cardinals' Randal Grichuk rounds the bases after hitting a three-run home run as Arizona Diamondbacks Jake Lamb looks on during the seventh inning of a baseball game, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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In this still frame from video provided by WQOW, a vehicle is seen on the lawn of a home near Martell, Wis., in Pierce County on Thursday, June 29, 2017, after a tornado touched down in western Wisconsin on Wednesday. (WQOW via AP)
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In this still frame from video provided by WQOW, a woman searches through debris with a vehicle on the lawn of a home near Martell, Wis., in Pierce County on Thursday, June 29, 2017, after a tornado touched down in western Wisconsin on Wednesday. (WQOW via AP)
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FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2015, file photo, Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng, center, leaves federal court with his attorney Benjamin Brafman, right, after he was released on bail in connection with a United Nations bribery scheme in New York. Prosecutor Douglas Zolkind said Thursday, June 29, 2017, during opening statements in Ng's trial that Ng corrupted two U.N. ambassadors so he could build a legacy by constructing a U.N. conference center in China. Defense attorney Tai Park countered in Manhattan federal court that Ng was a philanthropist who was betrayed by one of the ambassadors who demanded contributions from him. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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FILE - In this March 4, 2004 file photo Tyler Edmonds appears in Starkville, Miss. Edmonds was convicted and later cleared after falsely confessing to murder at 13. Edmonds, now 28 and living in Florida, says he is grateful that the Mississippi Supreme Court has revived his request for compensation in Mississippi. The request will be sent back to a trial court for consideration by a jury. Edmonds was convicted of murder in 2004 in the 2003 killing of his half sister's husband. (Kelly Tippett /The Commercial Dispatch via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2016, file photo, former North Carolina football player Allen Artis, left, and attorney Kerry Sutton take questions from the media in Durham, N.C. Charges of misdemeanor sexual battery and assault on a female student against Artis have been dismissed. Orange County district attorney Jim Woodall signed a document Thursday, June 29, 2017, allowing for the dismissal of the charges because "the matter has been resolved to the satisfaction of the parties." (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2016, file photo, former North Carolina football player Allen Artis takes questions from the media in Durham, N.C. Charges of misdemeanor sexual battery and assault on a female student against Artis have been dismissed. Orange County district attorney Jim Woodall signed a document Thursday, June 29, 2017, allowing for the dismissal of the charges because "the matter has been resolved to the satisfaction of the parties." (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
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President Donald Trump speaks at the Department of Energy in Washington, Thursday, June 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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FILE - In this Thursday, June 22, 2017, file photo, Lincoln Rutledge, center, appears with his attorneys Mitch Williams, left, and Jefferson Liston, right shortly before the verdict in Columbus, Ohio. A jury on Thursday, June 29, recommended life in prison without parole for Rutledge, convicted of fatally shooting an Ohio SWAT officer during a standoff. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File)
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FILE - In a Monday, May 8, 2017 file photo, Bampumim Teixeira lies in a hospital bed at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. Teixeira, suspected of killing two engaged doctors in their Boston luxury condominium in May, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The Suffolk County district attorney’s office says Teixeira was indicted on charges including murder, kidnapping and robbery.(David L Ryan/The Boston Globe, Pool)
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FILE - In this June 27, 2017 file photo, inmates in the custody of the New Jersey Department of Corrections move furniture from the New Jersey State House in Trenton, N.J. New Jersey’s corrections department said Thursday, June 29 that one of its officers was wrong when he demanded that an Associated Press reporter delete the photograph of inmates working at the statehouse. Spokesman Matt Schuman said that the department will remind its staffers of the proper policy, which requires that inmates inside corrections facilities sign release forms but does not govern photos taken in public. (AP Photo/Michael Catalini, File)
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FILE- In this June 21, 2017, file photo, a sign on the Mynt Cannabis Dispensary across the street from Harrah's hotel-casino in downtown Reno, Nev., is shown. Recreational marijuana becomes legal to buy Saturday, July 1, in Nevada and officers say they have been preparing for months to enforce the law passed by voters in November. They will focus on keeping stoned drivers off the road but also will crack down on those illegally using pot in public, which carries a $600 fine for a first offense. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)
