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This Dec. 23, 2016 photo shows an arch welcoming visitors to Molcaxac, Puebla state, Mexico. Folks here say so many working-age residents have migrated to the U.S., the town is mostly populated by the elderly and the very young. The first wave of migration started in 1942 with the bracero program, which allowed Mexicans to temporarily, and legally, work in the United States. After the program ended in 1964, people continued to go north illegally. (AP Photo/Peter Orsi)
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A man points as the parents and friends of a missing 18-year-old woman look at what they believe to be their daughter's submerged car in Alameda Creek on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, near Fremont, Calif. The unidentified woman's car plunged into rushing waters after colliding with another vehicle on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, and she is suspected of being in the submerged vehicle. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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In this Jan. 22, 2009, file photo, a man walks on the Microsoft headquarters campus in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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FILE - This April 12, 2016 file photo shows the Microsoft logo in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris, France. The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by Microsoft that seeks to quash a law allowing the government to demand customer data stored electronically while prohibiting Microsoft from exposing the requests. A justice department lawyer told a federal judge Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, that the government has an interest in keeping criminal investigations confidential. He said Microsoft doesn't have the standing to argue for the Fourth Amendment rights for its customers. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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Chief Assistant Prosecutor Stacey Graffenreid meets with Hamilton County Judge Leslie Ghiz concerning the retrial of a former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing in the shooting death of motorist Sam DuBose, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Cincinnati. Ghiz met with attorneys Monday in the Ray Tensing case and told reporters afterward that she wants to make sure that a jury can be seated in Hamilton County. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Hamilton County Judge Leslie Ghiz meets with attorneys concerning the retrial of a former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing in the shooting death of motorist Sam DuBose, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Cincinnati. Ghiz told reporters afterward that she wants to make sure that a jury can be seated in Hamilton County. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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From left, Chief Assistant Prosecutors Seth Tieger, Stacey Graffenreid, and defense attorney Gwen Callender meet with Hamilton County Judge Leslie Ghiz concerning the retrial of a former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing in the shooting death of motorist Sam DuBose, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Cincinnati. Ghiz met with attorneys Monday in the Ray Tensing case and told reporters afterward that she wants to make sure that a jury can be seated in Hamilton County. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Chief Assistant Prosecutors Seth Tieger and Stacey Graffenreid meet with Hamilton County Judge Leslie Ghiz concerning the retrial of a former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing in the shooting death of motorist Sam DuBose, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Cincinnati. Ghiz met with attorneys Monday in the Ray Tensing case and told reporters afterward that she wants to make sure that a jury can be seated in Hamilton County. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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A few of the advertisements to sell marijuana online are seen on a Denver Craigslist page, on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Legal marijuana is widely for sale in Colorado, but a bill moving through the state Legislature aims to crack down on those who sell weed illegally using online ads such as Craigslist. A bill approved unanimously by the state Senate on Monday, Jan. 23, would make it a crime to advertise pot if the person doesn't have a license to sell the drug. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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FILE - This Aug. 8, 2011, file photo, shows the entrance to the Humana building, in Louisville, Ky. A federal judge has rejected health insurer Aetna’s plan to buy rival Humana for about $34 billion and become a major player in the market for Medicare Advantage coverage. U.S. District Judge John Bates said in an opinion filed Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, that he largely agrees with federal regulators who contended that such a combination would hurt competition. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)
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FILE - This Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, file photo, shows signage in front of Aetna Inc.'s headquarters in Hartford, Conn. A federal judge has rejected health insurer Aetna’s plan to buy rival Humana for about $34 billion and become a major player in the market for Medicare Advantage coverage. U.S. District Judge John Bates said in an opinion filed Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, that he largely agrees with federal regulators who contended that such a combination would hurt competition. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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CORRECTS DATE OF INCIDENT TO SUNDAY NOT MONDAY AND JAN. 23 PHOTO TO UNDATED PHOTO - This undated photo provided by the city of Pittsburgh's Department of Public Safety shows Juan Brian Jetter-Clark. Authorities say Jetter-Clark was arrested and charged with criminal trespass after police officers responding to a Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017 burglary call fatally shot Larimer homeowner Christopher Thompkins. (Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety via AP)
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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2012, file photo, packages of synthetic drugs are displayed in the North Dakota attorney general's office in the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. As drug enforcement authorities continue to sound alarms over the effects and accessibility of synthetic drugs, courts are struggling for consistency in dealing with substances whose popularity have outpaced the legal framework around them. The result is a sentencing process that’s often bogged down by complex science and can yield uneven results in different courtrooms around the country. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel, File)
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The patrol car of slain Florida police officer Lt. Debra Clayton was targeted by vandals over the weekend in front of the Orlando Police Department headquarters, where the car has been parked since her Jan. 9 death. (Twitter/@OrlandoPolice)
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FILE - In a Nov. 29, 2016 file photo, former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager testifies during his murder trial at the Charleston County court in Charleston, S.C. A judge on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, is asking lawyers defending Slager awaiting a retrial on a murder charge in a traffic stop shooting to talk to prosecutors about when to start his next trial. Slager’s attorneys want to delay the scheduled March 1 retrial. Media outlets report that Circuit Judge Clifton Newman will decide Tuesday whether to grant that request. Slager is charged with murder in the shooting death last year of Walter Scott. (Grace Beahm/Post and Courier via AP, Pool)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2013, file photo, Jonathan Turley, attorney for Kody Brown and his four wives, the stars of the reality show "Sister Wives," leaves the Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse, in Salt Lake City. The Supreme Court said Monday, Jan 23, 2017, it won't hear an appeal from the family on TV's "Sister Wives" challenging Utah's law banning polygamy. The decision ends the family's long legal fight to overturn a seldom used and unique provision of Utah's law that the Browns and other polygamous families contend has a chilling effect by sending law-abiding plural families into hiding because of fear of prosecution. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this July 10, 2013, file photo, Kody Brown poses with his wives at one of their homes in Las Vegas. The Supreme Court said Monday, Jan 24, 2017, it won't hear an appeal from the family on TV's "Sister Wives" challenging Utah's law banning polygamy. The decision ends the family's long legal fight to overturn a seldom used and unique provision of Utah's law that the Browns and other polygamous families contend has a chilling effect by sending law-abiding plural families into hiding because of fear of prosecution. (Jerry Henkel/Las Vegas Review-Journal, via AP, File)
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Chair of IAAF Inspection Team Rune Andersen speaks to press after his talks with the president of the All-Russia Athletic Federation Dmitry Shlyakhtin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Andersen is in Moscow for two days of meetings with Russian sports bosses, as well as a law enforcement body which has been investigating various doping-related issues.(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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FILE - This Sept. 1, 2013 file photo shows Soulja Boy performing at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, Calif. he rapper was charged Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, with felony weapon possession after police found an assault weapon and handgun that had been stolen from a police vehicle during a search of his Los Angeles home in December. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP, File)