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In this photo released by dog owner Crystal Lamirande, Santa Monica Firefighter Andrew Klein holds Nalu in Santa Monica, Calif., on Thursday, March 23, 2017. Klein spent several minutes giving mouth-to-snout resuscitation to the dog, who was pulled from a burning apartment in Santa Monica. (Crystal Lamirande via AP)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 22, 2016, Sacramento Kings guard Ty Lawson and his attorney Harvey Steinberg, right, leave a hearing in Denver District Court in Denver. Lawson has denied that he violated his probation in a Colorado drunken driving case by drinking and failing to complete community service. Lawson and his attorney Harvey Steinberg made the assertion Thursday, March 23, 2017, during a brief appearance in a Denver courtroom. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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Acting U.S. Attorney for Alaska Bryan Schroder announces federal murder charges against John Pearl Smith II Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Anchorage, Alaska. An indictment says Smith killed Ben Gross and Crystal Denardi in June 2016 and wounded a third person while attempting to rob them near Wasilla, Alaska. Schroder says federal prosecutors may seek the death penalty in the case. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)
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Acting U.S. Attorney for Alaska Bryan Schroder announces federal murder charges against John Pearl Smith II Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Anchorage, Alaska. An indictment says Smith killed Ben Gross and Crystal Denardi in June 2016 and wounded a third person while attempting to rob them near Wasilla, Alaska. Schroder says federal prosecutors may seek the death penalty in the case. (AP Photo/Dan Joling)
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Witness Alexander Bradley, left, is questioned by defense attorney Jose Baez, right, while testifying during the double murder trial for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in Suffolk Superior Court, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Boston. Hernandez is on trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL football player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)
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Sacramento City Police officer Tyler Curtis stretches crime scene tape across the road leading to the home where four people were found dead, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. A suspect is being held in San Francisco. Police are not saying how the four were killed and are not identifying the victims, including their genders and ages. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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A Sacramento City Police officer walks to the home where four people were found dead, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. A suspect is being held in San Francisco. Police are not saying how the four were killed and are not identifying the victims, including their genders and ages. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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A barricade stretches across the road leading to the home where four people were found dead, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. A suspect is being held in San Francisco. Police are not saying how the four were killed and are not identifying the victims, including their genders and ages. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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A Sacramento City Police officer walks to the home where four people were found dead, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. A suspect is being held in San Francisco. Police are not saying how the four were killed and are not identifying the victims, including their genders and ages. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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A Sacramento City Police officer, center, carries a bag that was brought from the home where four people were found dead, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. A suspect is being held in San Francisco. Police are not saying how the four were killed and are not identifying the victims, including their genders and ages. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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FILE - In this March, 1, 2017 file photo, former Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu leaves the 10th Court of Appeals following arguments in Waco, Texas. An appeals court has overturned the conviction of the former Baylor football player whose case helped give rise to the sexual assault scandal that engulfed the nation's largest Baptist school. The Texas 10th Court of Appeals said in a ruling Wednesday, March, 22, 2017, that text messages should not have been excluded from the testimony in Sam Ukwuachu's 2015 trial. (Jerry Larson/Waco Tribune Herald via AP, File)
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In this March 22, 2017 photo provided by the Nassau County Police Department, Tommy Vladim Alvarado-Ventura, of Hempstead, N.Y. is shown. Police say Alvarado-Ventura, a member of the MS-13 street gang who had been deported from the U.S. four times, stabbed two women and sexually assaulted a 2-year-old girl in a New York City suburb. (Nassau County Police Department via AP)
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In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, Russian singer Yulia Samoylova who was chosen to represent Russia in the May 11-13 Eurovision Song Contest being held in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, poses while sitting in a wheelchair at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia. Ukraine's security service has banned Russia's 27-year old contestant Samoylova who has been wheelchair-bound since childhood, from this year's Eurovision song contest. (AP Photo/Maria Antipina)
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In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, Russian singer Yulia Samoylova who was chosen to represent Russia in the May 11-13 Eurovision Song Contest being held in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, poses while sitting in a wheelchair at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia. Ukraine's security service has banned Russia's 27-year old contestant Samoylova who has been wheelchair-bound since childhood, from this year's Eurovision song contest. (AP Photo/Maria Antipina)
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In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, Russian singer Yulia Samoylova who was chosen to represent Russia in the May 11-13 Eurovision Song Contest being held in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, poses while sitting in a wheelchair at Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia. Ukraine's security service has banned Russia's 27-year old contestant Samoylova who has been wheelchair-bound since childhood, from this year's Eurovision song contest.(AP Photo/Maria Antipina)
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A candlelight vigil was held Thursday for the victims of Wednesday's attack at Trafalgar Square in London. (Associated Press)
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Tourists view parliament from across the River Thames, with Westminster Bridge, right, in London, Thursday March 23, 2017, the scene of an attack. On Wednesday a knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage, first driving a car into pedestrians then stabbing a police officer to death before being fatally shot by police within Parliament's grounds in London. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
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FILE - In this April 7, 2011 file photo, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Justice Department is investigating Hunter for possible campaign violations. The House Ethics panel has been investigating allegations that Hunter improperly used campaign funds to pay for tens of thousands of dollars in personal expenses, such as trips to Hawaii and Italy and tuition for Hunter's school-age children. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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This undated photo provided by Lane County Corrections shows Vyacheslav Stefanskiy. Stefanskiy, a homeless man with a lengthy criminal record, has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a Eugene, Ore., woman. (Lane County Corrections via AP)
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City of Chicago Attorney Lisette Mojica, second from right, answers questions from Judge Vincent Gaughan while standing with defense attorney Dan Herbert, left and defendant former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building Thursday, March 23, 2017 in Chicago. A grand jury has added 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm to the first-degree murder charges against Van Dyke accused in the 2014 fatal shooting of a black 17-year-old. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool)