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Residents of Petare neighborhood walks 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)
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An anti-government demonstrator pushes a old refrigerator 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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Pallbearers carry out a bright red casket at the funeral for Jamel Dunn, 31, at the Zion Orthodox Primitive Baptist Church Saturday, July 29, 2017, in Cocoa, Fla. Some attendees wore traditional dark clothing, while many others wore red at the request of the family. Florida prosecutors will decide whether to file charges against five teenagers who laughed and recorded video as the disabled man drowned on July 9. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP)
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Boston Red Sox starting pitcher David Price sits in the dugout in the seventh inning during a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park, Friday, July 28, 2017, in Boston. The Red Sox announced that Price was added to the 10-day disabled list prior to the game. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017, after the Republican-controlled Senate was unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017, after the Republican-controlled Senate was unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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Boston Red Sox starting pitcher David Price, left, congratulates Hanley Ramirez who made the catch on the final out in the fourth inning during a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park, Friday, July 28, 2017, in Boston. The Red Sox announced that Price was added to the 10-day disabled list prior to the game. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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FILE--In this March 15, 2017, file photo, Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin speak at a press conference outside the federal courthouse 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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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**
