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FILE - In this March 9, 2017, file photo, Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin speaks at a news conference in Honolulu. The top legal officers in 18 states and the District of Columbia have asked Congress to pass legislation prohibiting discrimination against transgender service members with Chin sending the letter dated Thursday, July 27, 2017, in response to President Donald Trump's announcement, via Twitter a day earlier, that he would ban transgender people in the military. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)
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Former Omaha police officer Scotty Payne makes his first appearance in court Friday, July 28, 2017, in Omaha, Neb. Payne faces charges of second-degree assault related to the custody death of Zachary Bearheels. (Sarah Hoffman/The World-Herald via AP)
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Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks in Washington in this June 23, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt hasn't said one way or the other whether he plans to pursue the endangerment finding, which provided the legal underpinning for much of the Obama administration's agenda inside the agency. (Associated Press/File)
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Mario Henderson leads chants of "save Medicaid," as other social service activists, Medicaid recipients and their supporters stage a protest outside the building that houses the offices of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. Soaring prices and fewer choices may greet customers when they return to the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces in the fall of 2017, in part because insurers are facing deep uncertainty about whether the Trump administration will continue to make key subsidy payments and enforce other parts of the existing law that help control prices. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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A crowd opposing President Donald Trump's policies gathers outside Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, N.Y., Friday, July 28, 2017. Trump was set to speak on illegal immigration and violent crime at a venue not far from where the ultra-violent street gang MS-13 has committed a string of gruesome murders. (AP Photo/Sara-Megan Valverde) ** FILE **
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A man holds a sign supporting President Donald Trump while joining a group of pro-Trump demonstrators outside Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, N.Y., Friday, July 28, 2017. Trump is set to speak on illegal immigration and violent crime at a venue not far from where the ultra-violent street gang MS-13 has committed a string of gruesome murders. (AP Photo/Sara-Megan Valverde)
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Women hold signs opposing President Donald Trump's policies while joining a group of anti-Trump demonstrators outside Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, N.Y., Friday, July 28, 2017. Trump is set to speak on illegal immigration and violent crime at a venue not far from where the ultra-violent street gang MS-13 has committed a string of gruesome murders. (AP Photo/Sara-Megan Valverde)
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A man holds a sign supporting President Donald Trump while joining a group of pro-Trump demonstrators outside Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, N.Y., Friday, July 28, 2017. Trump is set to speak on illegal immigration and violent crime at a venue not far from where the ultra-violent street gang MS-13 has committed a string of gruesome murders. (AP Photo/Sara-Megan Valverde)
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A golfer uses a driver to hit a golf ball from one of the tee boxes perched on a hillside at the Bully Pulpit Golf Course overlooking the Badlands and the Little Missouri River valley in the background earlier this month south of Medora. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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In this March 12, 2015, photo, Tim Sieleman, a retired Iowa State Patrol trooper from Des Moines who moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1999, poses for a photo in Council Bluffs. Sieleman, who was granted an early retirement after an on-duty shooting in 2013, continues to collect disability benefits while working as a security guard for Des Moines Public Schools. (Joe Shearer/The Daily Nonpareil via AP)
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A protester is arrested on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. According to the press release from Alliance for Citizenship, many people were "protesting inside the Capitol Hill offices of Republican 2016 hopefuls, leadership, and outspoken anti-immigrant leaders." (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE - In this June 24, 2017 file photo, Boston Red Sox's David Price pauses during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels in Boston. The Red Sox placed Price on the 10-day disabled list on Friday, July 28, 2017, retroactive to July 25, with left elbow inflammation. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
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In this photo provided by Fairfax County Police Department shows Rev. Gervase Cain of Loretto, Pa. Fairfax County police announced Thursday, July 27, 2017, that Cain is charged with taking indecent liberties with a child by a person in a custodial or supervisory relationship. Police say Cain touched the 15-year-old girl at her home in Fairfax in 2003. A complaint filed in 2004 was withdrawn, then reopened this May. A warrant was issued last week. (Fairfax County Police Department via AP)
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Marston Hefner and his dad Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner. Marston faced domestic violence charges for beating his girlfriend, playmate Claire Sinclair. He was sentenced to a 52 week domestic violence program
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Weston Cage and his dad Nicolas Cage. Weston was arrested for domestic violence on two different occasions while married to his first wife Nikki Williams. He was also arrested for DUI and two counts of hit and run while fleeing cops.
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Actor Martin Sheen and actor Charlie Sheen. Charlie Sheen’s troubles have been well documented for decades, including charges of assault, drug abuse and mutiple stints in rehab.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., walks past the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 27, 2017, as the Republican majority in Congress remains stymied by their inability to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare." (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Illustration no the possible firing of Jeff Sessions by Nancy Ohanian/Tribune Content Agency
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Two women bow before the casket of slain Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Jaime Zapata during a funeral mass at the Brownsville Special Events Center in Brownsville Texas Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Zapata, 32, was run off the road and gunned down in San Luis Potosi state in Mexico on Feb. 15. (AP Photo/Brad Doherty, Pool)
