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Bryan Moles, left, leaves court with attorney Eugene Ohm on Thursday, June 1, 2017, in Washington. Moles was arrested at Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington on Wednesday and faces charges of unlawful possession and transportation of a firearm. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko)
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FILE- In this Sept. 2, 2015 file photo, Sgt. Cecilia Luckie, left, talks actress Erin Shields, off a ledge during a Crisis Intervention Training class at the New York Police Department Police Academy, in New York. Even before an October 2016 encounter between a schizophrenic woman and a police sergeant left her dead and him now facing a murder charge, NYPD officials realized the need for officers to better understand how to manage mental illness, and created a specialized training. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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FILE- In this Sept. 2, 2015 file photo, New York City Police Officer Lamont Edwards talks to actor Nathan Purdee during a Crisis Intervention Training class at the New York Police Department Police Academy, in New York. Even before an encounter between a schizophrenic woman and a police sergeant in October 2016 left her dead and him now facing a murder charge, NYPD officials realized the need for officers to better understand how to manage mental illness, and created a specialized training. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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FILE – This file photo combination shows former Penn State vice president Gary Schultz, left, former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley, right, and former Penn State President Graham Spanier, center, in Harrisburg, Pa. Schultz, Curley and Spanier are scheduled to be sentenced for child endangerment Friday, June 2, 2017, in Harrisburg, Pa., for failing to report now-convicted sexual predator Jerry Sandusky to authorities in 2001. (AP Photos, File)
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Defendant Raabbi Ismail, 33, of Bloomfield, Conn., leaves court after a Tuesday, May 30, 2017, hearing on charges he raised animals for dog fighting. Connecticut last year became the first in the nation to create a legal animal advocate position to represent the interests of animals in abuse cases. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)
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In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, University of Connecticut law professor Jessica Rubin, left, and UConn law student Taylor Hansen present arguments as animal advocates in a dog fighting case in Superior Court in Hartford, Conn. Connecticut last year became the first state to allow court-appointed advocates to represent animals in cruelty and abuse cases. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)
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University of Connecticut law professor Jessica Rubin, left, and law student Taylor Hansen prepare to present arguments as animal advocates in a dog fighting case on May 30, 2017, in Superior Court in Hartford, Conn. Connecticut last year became the first in the nation to create a legal animal advocate position to represent the interests of animals in abuse cases. ( (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)
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This undated photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Desmond, a dog that was beaten, starved and strangled in Connecticut in 2012 by his owner, Alex Wullaert, who admitted to the violence but avoided jail time under a probation program for first-time offenders. Animal rights advocates, who strongly objected to the ruling, used this photo on T-shirts and posters as they pushed for better legal advocacy for abused animals. With the passage of "Desmond's Law" in 2016, Connecticut became the first state to allow court-appointed lawyers and law students to advocate for animals in cruelty and abuse cases. (AP Photo)
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In this May 24, 2017 photo, former General Electric employee Roger Fowler looks over documents related to his heath compensation claim, which was denied, at his home in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Fowler, 71, was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 45 and has had numerous surgeries. He blames the cancer on asbestos, but the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board denied him because they found he didn't have enough exposure. "It physically ruined me," he said. (AP Photo/Rob Gillies)
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In this Feb. 13, 2016, file photo, people stand on the steps of the Supreme Court at sunset in Washington. The Trump administration made a plea to the Supreme Court on June 1, 2017, to let the travel ban take effect. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, file)
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In this Wednesday, June 1, 2017 photo released by the Tucson Police Department shows suspect Joshua Lelevier. He was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree murder and abandoning or concealing a body. The Tucson-area man remains jailed following an initial court appearance in the killing of his teenage stepdaughter. A judge on Thursday set bond of $500,000 for 37-year-old Lelevier to be released pending trial in the asphyxiation death of the 13-year-old girl. (Tucson Police Department via AP)
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FILE - In this file photo taken June 15, 2010, inmates return to their cells at the Idaho State Correctional Institution in Boise, Idaho. Attorneys for the Idaho Department of Correction say inmates exaggerated problems with the prison medical care system and waited too long to complain, and as a result prison officials shouldn't be held in contempt of court for violating a settlement in a decades-old class action lawsuit. The court documents were filed late last week in federal court. They mark the latest twist in a lawsuit first brought by inmates in 1981 that contends unconstitutionally poor medical care was provided to prisoners at the Idaho State Correctional Institution. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)
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FILE - In this June 15, 2010 file photo, inmates walk to the dinning hall from their cell block at the Idaho State Correctional Institution outside Boise, Idaho. Attorneys for the Idaho Department of Correction say inmates exaggerated problems with the prison medical care system and waited too long to complain, and as a result prison officials shouldn't be held in contempt of court for violating a settlement in a decades-old class action lawsuit. The court documents were filed late last week in federal court. They mark the latest twist in a lawsuit first brought by inmates in 1981 that contends unconstitutionally poor medical care was provided to prisoners at the Idaho State Correctional Institution. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)
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In this undated photo released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows a what appears to be a BB gun that officials say Darius Smith, 15, used during the robbery of an off-duty federal law enforcement officer. Surveillance video corroborates the officer's account that he was being robbed when he killed Smith and wounded another teen last week, authorities said Thursday, June 1, 2017. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department via AP)
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Police show confiscated automatic rifles during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 1, 2017. Brazilian police say they confiscated 60 automatic rifles found in a cargo shipment at Rio de Janeiro's international airport. The weapons were found Thursday in a container with pool heaters in a shipment from Miami, and four people have been arrested. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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Police show confiscated automatic rifles during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 1, 2017. Brazilian police say they confiscated 60 automatic rifles found in a cargo shipment at Rio de Janeiro's international airport. The weapons were found Thursday in a container with pool heaters in a shipment from Miami, and four people have been arrested. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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Police sit by confiscated automatic rifles and pool heaters as they give a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 1, 2017. Brazilian police say they confiscated 60 automatic rifles found in a cargo shipment at Rio de Janeiro's international airport. The weapons were found Thursday in a container with pool heaters in a shipment from Miami, and four people have been arrested. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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Police show confiscated automatic rifles during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 1, 2017. Brazilian police say they confiscated 60 automatic rifles found in a cargo shipment at Rio de Janeiro's international airport. The weapons were found Thursday in a container with pool heaters in a shipment from Miami, and four people have been arrested. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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Police show 60 confiscated automatic rifles during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, June 1, 2017. Brazilian police have confiscated 60 automatic rifles found in a cargo shipment at Rio de Janeiro's international airport. The weapons were found Thursday in a container with pool heaters in a shipment from Miami. Four people have been arrested. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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J. Edgar Hoover was FBI director from 1935 until his death in 1972. (Associated Press)