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In this Thursday, March 30, 2017 photo, Joao Leite, a representative in the state of Minas Gerais, speaks during an interview in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Leite says the Word of Faith Fellowship is “a dangerous sect” and pushed for his legislature’s human rights commission to hold hearings. One of the country's two branches of the North Carolina-based sect is in his state. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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FILE - In this 2012 photo provided by a former member of the church, Word of Faith Fellowship leader Jane Whaley, center left, holds a member's infant daughter, accompanied by her husband, Sam, right, and others during a ceremony in the church's compound in Spindale, N.C. In July 2017, Brazilian federal police told AP the justice department has asked for 2012 inquiry to be reopened into complaints that Word of Faith Fellowship’s two churches in the country were illegally sending minors to the United States. (AP Photo)
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Demonstrators displayed "equality" flags on Capitol Hill during an event held by Rep. Joe Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, in support of transgender members of the military, in response to President Trump's declaration Wednesday that he wants transgender people barred from service. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., speaks in support of transgender members of the military, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington, after President Donald Trump said he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military "in any capacity," citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., center, shakes hands with an 11-year-old transgender girl who goes by the name Blue, whose parent is an airman at Ramstein Air Base, after Blue and her mother Jess Girven, left, attended Kennedy's event in support of transgender members of the military, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military "in any capacity," citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017, file photo, Israeli border police officers stand guard as Palestinian women pray outside the Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City. Thousands of Palestinian Muslims have been praying in the streets of Jerusalem every evening — creating a new, surprisingly effective form of protest in their long conflict with Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
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Israeli police officers walk outside the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Israel has begun dismantling metal detectors it installed a week earlier at the gates of a contested Jerusalem shrine, amid widespread Muslim protests. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Israeli police officers dismantle metal detectors outside the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, early Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Israel's security cabinet has decided to remove metal detectors set up at the entrance to a Jerusalem holy site which had angered Muslims. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Palestinian women pray at the Lion's Gate following an appeal from clerics to pray in the streets instead of the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Dozens of Muslims have prayed in the street outside a major Jerusalem shrine, heeding a call by clerics not to enter the site until a dispute with Israel over security arrangements is settled. This comes after Israel removed metal detectors earlier on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Israeli police officers walk outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Israel has begun dismantling metal detectors it installed a week earlier at the gates of a contested Jerusalem shrine, amid widespread Muslim protests. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A Palestinian youth sells bagels outside Jerusalem's Old City, overlooking the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. Israel has begun dismantling metal detectors it installed a week earlier at the gates of a contested Jerusalem shrine, amid widespread Muslim protests. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Ammar Shahin, imam of the Islamic Center of Davis, California, said Friday at a press conference: "To the Jewish community here in Davis and beyond, I say this deeply: I am deeply sorry for the pain I have caused." (YouTube)
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Seattle Mariners' Guillermo Heredia (5) is greeted at the plate as Boston Red Sox catcher Christian Vazquez watches after Heredia hit a three-run home run during the second inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Miami Marlins' Christian Yelich, front, steps on the plate after hitting a three-run home run against the Texas Rangers during the fifth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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The caskets of family members who were killed in a flash flood are loaded into hearses outside St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Hearses carrying family members who were killed in a flash flood leave St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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The caskets of family members who were killed in a flash flood are loaded into hearses outside St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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The caskets of family members who were killed in a flash flood are loaded into hearses outside St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Hearses carrying family members who were killed in a flash flood leave St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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The caskets of family members who were killed in a flash flood are loaded into hearses outside St. Patrick Catholic Church, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ten members of an extended Arizona family were killed earlier this month in flash flood while they celebrated a birthday. (AP Photo/Matt York)
