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FILE - In this May 4, 2016, file photo, visitors walk by a Takata Corp. desk at an automaker's showroom in Tokyo. The Justice Department is planning to announce a criminal penalty against the Japanese air bag maker as part of its investigation into the company's defective air bag inflators. The department has scheduled a news conference Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 in Detroit to make the announcement. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

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Radio host Charlies Sykes, shown here from an appearance on MSNBC. On Jan. 13, 2017, WNYC radio announced Mr. Sykes would be co-hosting a new program on New York public-radio station titled "Indivisible." (MSNBC screen capture via RightWisconsin.com) [http://mediaassets.rightwisconsin.com/photo/2016/03/30/Charlie%20Sykes%20Hardball_1459343701842_35113481_ver1.0_640_480.jpg]

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In this Dec. 4, 1969 file photo, Chicago police remove the body of Fred Hampton, leader of the Illinois Black Panther party, who was slain in a gun battle with police on Chicago's west side. The U.S. Justice Department on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, is scheduled to release the findings of an investigation of the Chicago Police Department, and a law enforcement official says the report will show a pattern of civil rights violations. The probe was launched after a video showed a white officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times. (Chicago Daily News courtesy of Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

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FILE - This Dec. 21, 2016, file booking photo provided by the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Des Moines, Iowa, shows Susan Ackerman, a former administrative law judge for Iowa Workforce Development. A court ruling issued Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, upheld the firing of Ackerman who helped expose improper political pressure in Gov. Terry Branstad's administration, saying she lied to get her adult daughter state-funded health insurance. (Polk County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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Patricia McDonald, and New York City Police Dept. Sgt. Conor McDonald, the widow and son of NYPD Det. Steven McDonald, arrive for his funeral St. Patrick's Cathedral, in New York, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. McDonald died on Tuesday, 30 years after a robbery suspect shot him in Central Park. The officer publicly forgave his assailant and went on to become an international voice for peace. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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NYPD Detective Steven McDonald 's casket arrives at St. Patrick's Cathedral for his funeral, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, in New York. McDonald died on Tuesday, 30 years after a robbery suspect shot him in Central Park. The officer publicly forgave his assailant and went on to become an international voice for peace. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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In this June 22, 2016 photo, a Border Patrol agent walks along a border structure in San Diego. Only about one of every three applicants passes CBP's polygraph, which is barely half the pass rate among law enforcement agencies that provided data to The Associated Press under open-records law requests. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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Police officers fill New York's Fifth Avenue prior to the funeral for Steven McDonald at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. McDonald died on Tuesday, 30 years after a robbery suspect shot him in Central Park. The officer publicly forgave his assailant and went on to become an international voice for peace. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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FILE - The Nov. 16 1982 file photo shows former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa with two of his eight children, including Przemyslaw, far right. On Friday the Walesa family buried Przemyslaw, who was found dead last Sunday in his home at the age of 43. Investigators ruled out foul play or suicide. Though the exact cause of death was not given, Przemyslaw had struggled with alcoholism. (AP Photo)

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In this Dec. 21, 2016, photo, James Tomsheck, the former head of Customs and Border Patrol internal affairs, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Washington. Tomsheck says that when he was CBP’s chief of internal affairs from 2006 to 2014, about 30 applicants admitted during the lie detector test that they were sent by drug cartels; one said he killed his infant son. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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FILE - In this June 28, 2010 file photo, former Chicago police Lt. John Burge enters the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago. Burge, who was convicted of lying about the torture of suspects by officers under his command was sentenced to 4 1/2 - years in prison. The Department of Justice is poised to release its report detailing the extent of civil rights violations committed by the Chicago Police Department. The next stage after the Friday Jan. 13, 2017, release will be negotiations between the DOJ and the city. (Rich Hein/Sun-Times via AP, File)

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FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2016 file photo, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke appears at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago. Van Dyke's case involves the shooting Laquan McDonald. The Department of Justice is poised to release its report detailing the extent of civil rights violations committed by the Chicago Police Department. The next stage after the Friday Jan. 13, 2017 release will be negotiations between the DOJ and the city. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2014 frame from dash-cam video provided by the Chicago Police Department, Laquan McDonald, right, walks down the street moments before being fatally shot by CPD officer Jason Van Dyke sixteen times in Chicago. The Department of Justice is poised to release its report detailing the extent of civil rights violations committed by the Chicago Police Department. The next stage after the Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, release will be negotiations between the DOJ and the city. (Chicago Police Department via AP File)

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Dallas Mavericks Dirk Nowitzki tries to shoot over Phoenix Suns Tyson Chandler in the first half of their regular-season NBA basketball game in Mexico City, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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A Dallas Mavericks fan wears a basketball net on his head during the half time of a regular-season NBA basketball game with the Phoenix Suns in Mexico City, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2015, file photo, Brittany Pilkington, right, and her attorney, Marc Triplett, listen as a judge sets a bond in Bellefontaine, Ohio. An Ohio judge has delayed the trial of Pilkington, a woman accused of suffocating her three young sons out of jealousy at the attention her husband gave them. The judge granted the extension on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, and ordered all motions to be filed by March 17. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins, File)

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Arizona State head coach Bobby Hurley helps Arizona guard Kobi Simmons (2) from falling during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, in Tucson, Ariz. Arizona defeated Arizona State 91-75. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

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Vancouver Canucks' Henrik Sedin (33) and Philadelphia Flyers' Andrew MacDonald (47) collide during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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Protesters dressed as Ku Klux Klan members disrupt the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing for Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions on Tuesday. (Associated Press)