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FILE - This Nov. 14, 2016 file photo shows Miami Heat forward Willie Reed (35) taking a practice shot before the start of an NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio. Reed has been jailed in Miami on a battery charge, with officials saying it stemmed from a domestic violence incident. Reed spent last season with the Heat and had been working out in Miami in recent days. The 27-year-old center finalized a $1.5 million, one-year contract with the Los Angeles Clippers last week, despite his hopes for a longer-term, more lucrative contract in free agency. He was booked Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Cortes, file)
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters, right, and husband Sid Williams attend the Black Girls Rock! Awards at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, in Newark, N.J. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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A masked anti-government demonstrator walks past next to a burning barricade during a protest against the installation of a constitutional assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Defying criticism from Washington to the Vatican, Venezuela's ruling party on Friday installed a new super assembly that supporters promise will pacify the country and critics fear will be a tool for imposing dictatorship. (AP Photo/Wil Riera)
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Masked anti-government demonstrators stend to a burning barricade during a protest against the installation of a constitutional assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Defying criticism from Washington to the Vatican, Venezuela's ruling party on Friday installed a new super assembly that supporters promise will pacify the country and critics fear will be a tool for imposing dictatorship. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Anti-government demonstrators prepare homemade petrol bombs that will be used against Venezuelan Bolivarian National Police, during a protest against the installation of a constitutional assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Defying criticism from Washington to the Vatican, Venezuela's ruling party on Friday installed a new super assembly that supporters promise will pacify the country and critics fear will be a tool for imposing dictatorship. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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An anti-government demonstrator whacks a a wall to release pieces of concrete to throw at Venezuelan Bolivarian National Police, during a protest against the installation of a constitutional assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Defying criticism from Washington to the Vatican, Venezuela's ruling party on Friday installed a new super assembly that supporters promise will pacify the country and critics fear will be a tool for imposing dictatorship. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Secretary of Veterans Affairs David J. Shulkin takes notes during a visit to the Veterans Administration Medical Center in, Manchester, N.H., Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Shulkin earlier met privately with doctors at the center, who have alleged substandard care at New Hampshire's only hospital for veterans. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., right, and U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., center, listen to Secretary of Veterans Affairs David J. Shulkin, left, during a visit to the Veterans Administration Medical Center in, Manchester, N.H., Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. Shulkin earlier met privately with doctors at the center, who have alleged substandard care at New Hampshire's only hospital for veterans. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, March 25, 2017, a man fishes in the river near to a cross in memory of a migrant who died trying to cross to the U.S., on the bank of the Rio Grande river in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, across the border from Laredo, Texas. The U.N.'s migration agency said Friday Aug. 4, 2017, the number of deaths among migrants trying to cross from Mexico to the United States has increased by 17-percent this year compared to a year ago, with 50 bodies found in July alone. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, FILE)
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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, left, is back by New Mexico State Rep. Monica Youngblood as she speaks at a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M. Recent child killings, attacks on officers and a rise in crime has some conservative New Mexico lawmakers calling for the state to reinstate the death penalty. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017, file photo, a memorial is set up in a neighborhood where Nashville Officer Josh Lippert shot Jocques Scott Clemmons in Nashville, Tenn. Federal officials on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, agreed with a state decision not to prosecute Lipper, a white Tennessee police officer, who fatally shot Clemmons, a black man, after a traffic stop. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise, File)
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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 file photo, anti-abortion demonstrators arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington during the March for Life, marking the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. The current Congress is almost monolithic when it comes to abortion. Only a small handful of Republicans vote to protect abortion rights; a similarly small number of Democrats support restrictions on abortion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this May 27, 2011, file photo, singer Taylor Swift performs her song "Story of Us", as she kicks off her Speak Now North American tour in Omaha, Neb. David Mueller, a former radio host, claims in a lawsuit that he lost his job because Swift falsely accused him of groping her. Swift has countersued, alleging she's the victim of sexual assault. Mueller is seeking up to $3 million in damages at the trial that begins Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, in federal court in Denver. Both sides say no settlement is in the works. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2103 file photo, Taylor Swift appears at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn. David Mueller, a former radio host, claims in a lawsuit that he lost his job because Swift falsely accused him of groping her. Swift has countersued, alleging she's the victim of sexual assault. Mueller is seeking up to $3 million in damages at the trial that begins Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, in federal court in Denver. Both sides say no settlement is in the works. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
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In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017, photo, Walt Rowen poses for a photo at his decorative glass company, the Susquehanna Glass Co., in Columbia, Pa. With premiums on the federal health insurance exchange rising, Rowen began offering employer-provided group health insurance to his employees. If you are like roughly half of Americans who get their health insurance through an employer, relax. The turmoil around “Obamacare” all but guarantees you’ll still be able to do that. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
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FILE - In this July 31, 2013 file photo, Pardeep Kaleka, left, and Arno Michaelis talk at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wis. Five years ago on Aug. 5, 2017, a white supremacist shot and killed six temple members, including Kaleka's father, Satwant Singh Kaleka. Michaelis founded a gang of skinheads and sang in a hate-metal band but had renounced the racist movement he was a part of before the shootings. In the years since the shootings those affected by the tragedy have remained united by a mission to push back against hatred. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
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Obama Constituents at State Department Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on economic lethargy by Mark Weber/Tribune Content Agency
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Libertarians have entered the health care fray, vowing to "repeal and deregulate" to create a system better than Trumpcare or Obamacare. (Libertarian Party)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017 Dolores Jones gets a visit from Miracle, a golden retriever who surprised vets by overcoming a disability, on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, at St. Elizabeth Nursing Home in Janesville, Wis. (Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP)
