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This July 17, 2017, Dr. Ernest Marshall, owner of the EMW Women's Surgical Center in Louisville, is pictured at the door of the clinic in Louisville, KY. The clinic is the last in Kentucky offering abortion procedures and is facing a legal challenge from state officials and a major protest from a national anti-abortion group that wants it shut down. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)
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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez walks through a secure gate to access a new receiving center operated by social workers with the state Children, Youth and Families Department during a tour in Albuquerque, N.M., Friday, July 21, 2017. As a former prosecutor, the two-term Republican governor said children who are taken into state protective custody following trouble within their homes need a safe place where they can feel comfortable while social workers and other authorities sort out their cases or work to find foster families. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Secretary Monique Jacobson checks out one of the many backpacks available for children in protective custody at a new receiving center operated by the agency's social workers in Albuquerque, N.M., on Friday, July 21, 2017. State officials say children need a safe place where they can feel comfortable while social workers and other authorities sort out their cases or work to find foster families. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez holds up one of the many blankets made by a volunteer for children who will be coming through a new receiving center operated by social workers, during a tour with the state Children, Youth and Families Department in Albuquerque, N.M., Friday, July 21, 2017. As a former prosecutor, the two-term Republican governor said children who are taken into state protective custody following trouble within their homes need a safe place where they can feel comfortable while social workers and other authorities sort out their cases or work to find foster families. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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In this Nov. 20, 2004, photo, death-row inmate Erick Vela, one of three men sentenced to death for killing five people at a U.S. Bank branch in Norfolk, Neb., on Sept. 26, 2002, speaks during an interview at the Lincoln Correctional Center awaiting sentencing. The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday, July 21, 2017, rejected a postconviction appeal by Vela. (Eric Gregory/The Journal-Star via AP)
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In this Wednesday, July 19, 2017 photo, Norwalk resident Nury Chavarria straightens out her nine-year-old daughter Hayley Chavarria's pigtails as her oldest son, Elvin Martinez, 21 gets in on the fun before a press conference in New Haven, Conn. U.S. immigration officials said Friday, July 21, 2017, they consider Chavarria, who is trying to avoid deportation by seeking sanctuary in a Connecticut church, to be a fugitive, but acknowledge they have a policy that restricts them from entering a house of worship except in extraordinary circumstances. Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, said the attempt to deport the housekeeper and mother of four shows President Donald Trump's administration is not being truthful when it says its immigration policies are focused on "the bad guys." (Catherine Avalone/New Haven Register via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 20, 2017 photo, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy walks with nine-year-old Hayley Chavarria before speaking at a press conference at Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Church in New Haven where her mother Nury Chavarria, who was supposed to be deported Thursday to Guatemala, has taken sanctuary. Malloy, said the attempt to deport the housekeeper and mother of four shows President Donald Trump's administration is not being truthful when it says its immigration policies are focused on "the bad guys." (Catherine Avalone/New Haven Register via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2015, file photo, Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer rallies his players before the NCAA college football playoff championship game against Oregon in Arlington, Texas. The AP reported on July 21, 2017, that a story claiming Meyer had resigned from Ohio State is a hoax. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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In this Sept. 20, 2015, file photo, creator-showrunners David Benioff, left, and D.B. Weiss accept the award for outstanding writing for a drama series for "Game Of Thrones" at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. HBO’s announcement, Wednesday, July 19, 2017, that Benioff and Weiss will follow "Game of Thrones" with an HBO series in which slavery remains legal in the modern-day South drew fire on social media from those who fear that a pair of white producers are unfit to tell that story and that telling it will glorify racism. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE- In this file photo taken Thursday, May 5, 2016 Joaquin Carcaño is shown at his home in Carrboro, N.C. Carcano says that anxiety and uncertainty remain for transgender people even months after a law was passed in March to replace the state's so-called bathroom bill.(AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
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People march from the site of Justine Damond's shooting to Beard's Plaissance Park during the "Peace and Justice March for Justine," Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Minneapolis. Damond had called 911 on Saturday night to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. She was shot when she approached the police vehicle that was responding. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)
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The sun sets behind demonstrators at Beard's Plaissance Park during the "Peace and Justice March for Justine," Thursday, July 20, 2017, in Minneapolis. Damond had called 911 on Saturday night to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. She was shot when she approached the police vehicle that was responding. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)
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This Monday, July 17, 2017, image shows the statue honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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This Monday, July 17, 2017, image shows lightning streaking across the sky behind the statue honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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This Wednesday, July 19, 2017, photo shows the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that stands on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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This Tuesday June 27, 2017, photo shows the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that stands in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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This Tuesday, June 27, 2017, photo shows the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that stands in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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This Wednesday, June 28, 2017, photo shows statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**
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This Wednesday, June 28, 2017, shows the statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. As cities across the United States are removing Confederate statues and other symbols, dispensing with what some see as offensive artifacts of a shameful past marked by racism and slavery, Richmond is taking a go-slow approach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
