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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)
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ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND OF JULY 29-31 AND THEREAFTER - In a July 19, 2017 photo, horse trainer Morganne Reinboldt saddles 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)
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In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017, photo, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is surrounded by reporters as she arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a test vote on the Republican health care bill. Collins, who was one of three Republican senators voting against the GOP health bill on Friday, July 28, said she's troubled by Trump's suggestions that the insurance payments are a "bailout." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, July 20, 2017, file photo, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney gestures as he speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington. The White House is stepping up demands that the Senate resume efforts to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law. Asked if no other legislative business should be taken up until the Senate acts again on health care, Mulvaney on Sunday, July 30, responded "yes" and suggested the Senate continue working through August if necessary. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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In this Friday, July 21, 2017 photo, Sharon Martin sits on a guest bed in her home in Clawson, Mich. Martin is waiting to host a 17-year-old couple originally from the Asian country of Myanmar and the baby they had together in a refugee camp, after fleeing attacks on their Rohingya religious minority in Myanmar. An array of new refugee bans and travel limits that the Trump administration says will block terrorists also have halted a three-decade-old U.S. program for so-called unaccompanied refugee minors. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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In this Friday, July 21, 2017 photo, Sharon Martin sits on a guest bed in her home in Clawson, Mich. Martin is waiting to host a 17-year-old couple originally from the Asian country of Myanmar and the baby they had together in a refugee camp, after fleeing attacks on their Rohingya religious minority in Myanmar. An array of new refugee bans and travel limits that the Trump administration says will block terrorists also have halted a three-decade-old U.S. program for so-called unaccompanied refugee minors. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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In this Friday, July 21, 2017 photo, Sharon Martin sits on a couch in a guest living area at her home in Clawson, Mich. Martin is waiting to host a 17-year-old couple originally from the Asian country of Myanmar and the baby they had together in a refugee camp, after fleeing attacks on their Rohingya religious minority in Myanmar. An array of new refugee bans and travel limits that the Trump administration says will block terrorists also have halted a three-decade-old U.S. program for so-called unaccompanied refugee minors. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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In this July 14, 2017 photo, Mike Gougherty and Julie Rajagopal, walking left and right, walk with their 16-year-old foster child from Eritrea at Dolores Park in San Francisco. When their 16-year-old foster child landed in March, he was among the last refugee foster children to make it into the U.S. Trump administration travel bans declared to block terrorists also are halting a small, three-decade-old program bringing orphan refugee children to waiting foster families in the United States. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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In this July 14, 2017, file photo, Mike Gougherty, center, and Julie Rajagopal, right, pose for photos with their 16-year-old foster child from Eritrea at Dolores Park in San Francisco. When their 16-year-old foster child landed in March, he was among the last refugee foster children to make it into the U.S. Trump administration travel bans declared to block terrorists also are halting a small, three-decade-old program bringing orphan refugee children to waiting foster families in the United States. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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In this July 14, 2017 photo, Julie Rajagopal, facing, hugs her 16-year-old foster child from Eritrea after posing for photos at Dolores Park in San Francisco. When he landed in March, he was among the last refugee foster children to make it into the U.S. Trump administration travel bans declared to block terrorists also are halting a small, three-decade-old program bringing orphan refugee children to waiting foster families in the United States. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Anti-government demonstrators use debris to make a barricade to protest against President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, July 29, 2017. Despite four months of deadly protests and the threat of U.S. sanctions, Venezuela on Saturday found itself 24 hours away from a consolidation of government power that appeared certain to drag the OPEC nation deeper into a crisis that has entire neighborhoods battling police and paramilitaries while the poor root for scraps in piles of trash. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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Residents of Petare neighborhood walk near a barricade made by anti-government demonstrators to protest against President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, July 29, 2017. Despite four months of deadly protests and the threat of U.S. sanctions, Venezuela on Saturday found itself 24 hours away from a consolidation of government power that appeared certain to drag the OPEC nation deeper into a crisis that has entire neighborhoods battling police and paramilitaries while the poor root for scraps in piles of trash. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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A man who is a resident of Petare neighborhood crosses through a barricade set up by demonstrators to protest against President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, July 29, 2017. Despite four months of deadly protests and the threat of U.S. sanctions, Venezuela on Saturday found itself 24 hours away from a consolidation of government power that appeared certain to drag the OPEC nation deeper into a crisis that has entire neighborhoods battling police and paramilitaries while the poor root for scraps in piles of trash. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
