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FILE – In this June 16, 2017, file photo, Bill Cosby's lawyer Brian McMonagle arrives for Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. McMonagle, the lead defense lawyer in Cosby's sex assault trial that ended with a deadlocked jury on June 17, 2017, wants off the case before a retrial, according to documents the Philadelphia attorney filed Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, seeking to withdraw as Cosby's counsel. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Charles County Sheriff’s Department shows Carlos Deangelo Bell. A teachers' aide and track coach described as a "predator" by a county prosecutor now faces more than 100 felony counts of child sex abuse and other offenses. Local media reported on Monday, July 31, 2017, that the counts against Bell include infecting or trying to infect three schoolboys with HIV, filming them in sex acts, giving them marijuana and other crimes from May 2015 to June 2017. (Charles County Sheriff’s Department via AP)
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Black Lives Matter protesters shouted down former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell during a children's event Monday, saying "no politician will be safe" until justice is served in the fatal police-involved shooting of an armed black man. (ABC 6)
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FILE- In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, an Indian farmer works in his paddy field in Roja Mayong village, east of Gauhati, India. Researchers report a link between crop-damaging temperatures and suicide rates in India, where more than 130,000 farmers end their lives every year. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)
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FILE- In this Dec. 11, 2016 file photo, Indian farmer women walk carrying straw on their heads at Basi village on the outskirts of Allahabad, India. Researchers report a link between crop-damaging temperatures and suicide rates in India, where more than 130,000 farmers end their lives every year. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)
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FILE- In this March 7, 2017 file photo, Indian women farmers work in their farm on the eve of International Women's Day on the outskirts of New Delhi, India. Researchers report a link between crop-damaging temperatures and suicide rates in India, where more than 130,000 farmers end their lives every year. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)
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FILE- In this May 11, 2016 file photo, Indian farmer Anant More inspects his destroyed crop of sugarcane due to drought in Marathwada region, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Researchers report a link between crop-damaging temperatures and suicide rates in India, where more than 130,000 farmers end their lives every year. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
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FILE- In this July 22, 2017 file photo, an Indian farmer uses a pair of bulls to plough a vegetable field on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India. Researchers report a link between crop-damaging temperatures and suicide rates in India, where more than 130,000 farmers end their lives every year. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A, file)
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FILE- In this Aug. 4, 2011, file photo, Lyle Jeffs, brother of polygamous religious leader Warren Jeffs, arrives carrying a box of defense materials in the sexual assault trial against Warren at the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas. A pair of pawn shop workers who provided a key tip that helped authorities capture Lyle Jeffs will split a $50,000 reward from the FBI, the agency revealed Monday, July 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
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In this July 19, 2017, photo, Martha Hays, left, works with nurse Sandy Miller, right, during a balance evaluation at the Hays home in Columbus, Ohio. U.S. Census estimates show the number of elderly people in the country is expected to more than double by 2050 to nearly 89 million, creating a growing need for more care workers. Geriatric care management has become a growing field. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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In this July 19, 2017, photo, nurse Sandy Miller, right, chats with patient Martha Hays, left, at the Hays home in Columbus, Ohio. U.S. Census estimates show the number of elderly people in the country is expected to more than double by 2050 to nearly 89 million, creating a growing need for more care workers. Geriatric care management has become a growing field. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Delaware Department of Justice shows Michael Jones, who was indicted in 2001 on three counts of first-degree murder committed in 1999, when he was 17, but he was not tried until 2005, when he was 22. The jury recommended the death penalty, but before Jones could be sentenced, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was unconstitutional for juvenile offenders. Jones was resentenced in 2014 to life without parole for the drug-related killings of Cedric Reinford and Maneeka Plant, the granddaughter of two former state representatives. At the time of the killings, Jones was the subject of a separate murder warrant in Connecticut. (Delaware Department of Justice via AP)
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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2016 file photo, Amal Clooney, left, and George Clooney arrive at the world premiere of "Hail, Caesar!" in Los Angeles. Clooney’s foundation is planning to open seven public schools for Syrian refugee children. The Clooney Foundation for Justice announced a new partnership Monday, July 31, 2017, with Google, HP and UNICEF to provide education for more than 3,000 refugee children in Lebanon. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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In this July 29, 2017 photo transgender U.S. Army Capt. Jennifer Sims sits on a balcony after an interview with The Associated Press in Beratzhausen near Regensburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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This undated photo released by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows convicted murderer Steven McGilberry. McGilberry was originally sentenced to death in the 1994 bludgeoning deaths of four relatives in their home in the coastal town of St. Martin when he was 16. His sentence was changed to life without parole after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty for juveniles. After a hearing in 2016, a judge again sentenced McGilberry to life without parole, and that decision is on appeal to the state Supreme Court. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP)
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Alaina Kupec, right, and her wife Kathy Brennan work on putting bombs on a model F18 jet after pulling it out from a moving box in the home they just moved in to, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in Orange, N.J. Kupec, a transgender woman who worked with pilots who flew F18 jets while serving as a Navy intelligence officer from 1992 until 1995, said she felt "heartbreak" after she heard about Trump's Twitter pronouncement banning transgender people from military service. The 48-year-old publicly transitioned to life as a woman in 2013. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND OF JULY 29-31 AND THEREAFTER - In a July 19, 2017 photo, Morganne Reinboldt a horse trainer from Lisbon works with Radin, a 15-year-old Pinto rescue horse at a hobby farm, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The nonprofit has challenged nine trainers to groom neglected horses for adoption. (Matthew Putney/The Courier via AP)
