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This undated photo provided by the San Jose Police Department shows Ezequiel Aaron Dureo-Carvajal. Police say Dureo-Carvajal who posed as a doctor was arrested on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman during an unlicensed examination. (San Jose Police Department via AP)
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Illustration on tax reform by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Illustration on immigration, assimilation and common sense by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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City of Chicago's Corporation Counsel, Ed Siskel, listens to a question during a news conference at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, in Chicago. Chicago has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Trump administration immigration stance. The 46-page lawsuit filed Monday says that "neither federal law nor the United States Constitution permits the Attorney General to force Chicago to abandon ... critical local policy" on immigrants. (AP Photo/G-Jun Yam) (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2017 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. As Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel took his fight against President Donald Trump's immigration policies to federal court, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, Sessions hit back at Chicago, saying the Trump administration "will not simply give away grant dollars to city governments that proudly violate the rule of law and protect criminal aliens at the expense of public safety." (AP Andrew Harnik File)
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FILE - This undated booking file photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff shows Sammantha Allen of Phoenix. Jurors sentenced Allen to death on Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 in the killing of a 10-year-old cousin who was locked in a small plastic storage box and left to die as punishment for stealing an ice pop. Allen, will become the 55th woman on death row in the U.S. after the jury reached its verdict. (Maricopa County Sheriff via AP,File)
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FILE – This May 12, 2017, file photo shows the Carson School, an elementary school in Cincinnati. A federal lawsuit says a "treacherous school environment" that allowed and covered up bullying led to the suicide of an 8-year-old Ohio boy.The wrongful death suit filed Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, by the parents of Gabriel Taye names officials at his elementary school and at the Cincinnati Public Schools district as defendants. (AP Photo/Lisa Cornwell, File)
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City of Chicago's Corporation Counsel, Ed Siskel, speaks during a news conference at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, in Chicago. Chicago has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Trump administration immigration stance. The 46-page lawsuit filed Monday says that "neither federal law nor the United States Constitution permits the Attorney General to force Chicago to abandon ... critical local policy" on immigrants. (AP Photo/G-Jun Yam)
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City of Chicago's Corporation Counsel, Ed Siskel, listens to a question during a news conference at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, in Chicago. Chicago has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Trump administration immigration stance. The 46-page lawsuit filed Monday says that "neither federal law nor the United States Constitution permits the Attorney General to force Chicago to abandon ... critical local policy" on immigrants. (AP Photo/G-Jun Yam)
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City of Chicago's Corporation Counsel, Ed Siskel, listens to a question during a news conference at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, in Chicago. Chicago has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Trump administration immigration stance. The 46-page lawsuit filed Monday says that "neither federal law nor the United States Constitution permits the Attorney General to force Chicago to abandon ... critical local policy" on immigrants. (AP Photo/G-Jun Yam)
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FILE - This Dec. 27, 2016, file photo provided by the Aiken County, S.C., Detention Center shows South Carolina Rep. Chris Corley. Attorneys for Corley have informed state prosecutors their client is planning to change his plea to guilty Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, to a domestic violence charge in an attack on his wife during a hearing in Aiken, according to Robert Kittle, spokesman for the state Attorney General’s Office. (Aiken County Detention Center via AP, File)
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FILE- In this Jan. 15, 2017, file photo Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks during a news conference in Chicago. Chicago will keep fighting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies with a federal lawsuit alleging it’s illegal for the federal government to withhold public safety grants from so-called sanctuary cities, Emanuel announced Sunday, Aug. 6. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)
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In this July 28, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government on Saturday, July 29, 2017, shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea said Monday, Aug. 7, it will launch "thousands-fold" revenge against the United States over the adoption of tough U.N. sanctions imposed after its intercontinental ballistic launches. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
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In this Wednesday, July 12, 2017 photo, Sandra Collins, executive director and founder of enGender, reads a book to campers at the Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp in El Cerrito, Calif. Collins says, “A lot of these kids have been bullied and had trauma at school. This is a world where none of that exists, and they're in the majority. That’s a new experience for kids who are used to hiding and feeling small.” (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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In this Tuesday, July 11, 2017 photo, a camper walks past a sign for an all gender bathroom at the Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp in El Cerrito, Calif. The camp caters to transgender and "gender fluid" children, aged 4-12, making it one of the only camps of its kind in the world open to preschoolers, experts say. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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In this Tuesday, July 11, 2017, photo, Molly Maxwell hugs her child Gracie at the Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp in El Cerrito, Calif. The camp caters to transgender and "gender fluid" children, aged 4-12, making it one of the only camps of its kind in the world open to preschoolers, experts say. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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In this Tuesday, July 11, 2017 photo, camp instructor Kris Gambardella watches as camper Wilson shoots baskets at the Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp in El Cerrito, Calif., Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Gender experts say Rainbow’s rapid growth reflects what they’re seeing in gender clinics around the country: an increasing number of kids coming out as transgender at young ages. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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In this Tuesday, July 11, 2017 photo, Sandra Collins, executive director and founder of enGender, hugs her child Scarlett at the Bay Area Rainbow Day Camp in El Cerrito, Calif. Gender experts say Rainbow’s rapid growth reflects what they’re seeing in gender clinics around the country: an increasing number of kids coming out as transgender at young ages. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Illustration on limiting health care by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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An anti-government demonstrator waves a large Venezuelan flag during a protest against the government of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. Months of protests are fueled by widespread anger over food shortages, triple-digit inflation and high crime. (AP Photo/Wil Riera)
