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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The AP reported on July 14, 2017, that a series of stories circulating online regarding a drug bust involving Pelosi's daughters is a hoax. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. is considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all time, undefeated as a professional, and a five-division world champion, Mayweather has won fifteen world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes. On Decemeber 21, 2012, Mayweather was sentenced to six months of jail time after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery domestic violence and harassment charges stemming from a 2010 incident with the mother of his children.
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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2015, file photo, state Rep. Eric Schleien poses in Manchester N.H. Schleien has been accused of sexually and physically assaulting a 16-year-old girl last year under the guise of discussing her interest in politics. Rockingham County Attorney Patricia Conway said Friday, July 14, 2017, that Schleien has been charged with a misdemeanor charge of sexual assault and two misdemeanor counts of simple assault. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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The number of black homicide victims has jumped by nearly 900 per year since the Black Lives Matter movement took root in 2014, even as the number of blacks killed by police declines. (Associated Press/File)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017 This June 25, 2017 photo shows the Metropolitan Community Church of the Lehigh Valley in Bethlehem, Pa. The church was founded in California in 1968 with the explicit purpose of serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and came to the Lehigh Valley in 1984. (Erin Gallagher/The Express-Times via AP)
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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2017, file photo shows Pablo Sandoval of the Boston Red Sox baseball team. On Friday, July 14, 2017, the Red Sox announced that Sandoval had been designated for assignment after being activated from the 10-day disabled list. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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FILE - In this June 1, 2017, file photo, Boston Red Sox's Pablo Sandoval prepares to bat during a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore. On Friday, July 14, 2017, the Red Sox announced that Sandoval had been designated for assignment after being activated from the 10-day disabled list. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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FILE - In this April 11, 2017, file photo, Boston Red Sox's Pablo Sandoval swings during the second inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park in Boston. On Friday, July 14, 2017, the Red Sox announced that Sandoval had been designated for assignment after being activated from the 10-day disabled list. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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FILE - In this April 11, 2017, file photo, Boston Red Sox's Pablo Sandoval plays third base during the second inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park in Boston. On Friday, July 14, 2017, the Red Sox announced that Sandoval had been designated for assignment after being activated from the 10-day disabled list. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2014, file photo, then-Boston Red Sox free agent third baseman Pablo Sandoval, nicknamed Kung Fu Panda, converses with a person dressed as a panda bear wearing a Red Sox jersey, overlooking a tarp-covered Fenway Park field in Boston. On Friday, July 14, 2017, the Red Sox announced that Sandoval had been designated for assignment after being activated from the 10-day disabled list. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)
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FILE - In this Saturday, March 2, 2013 file photo, demonstrators hold posters reading "There is no place for juvenile justice in Russia," "I want all children be happy" during a rally in Moscow to support the ban on U.S. adoptions of Russian children. More than four years after it was imposed, Russia's ban on adoptions by Americans is back in the news, rekindling frustration and sadness among some of those affected by it. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined at left by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, holds a news conference on Russian meddling in the U.S. election and other issues, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 29, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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A chart shows how to perform a breast examination on oneself at the Clinique des Mamelles in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, July 13, 2017. The word cancer is rarely spoken in Senegal, synonymous with death in a country where many are only diagnosed in the later stages of disease and radiation therapy can be difficult to access. Cancer has become an emerging public health problem in West Africa, and the lack of strong prevention, good screening and treatment often leaves outcomes grim. (AP Photo/Jane Hahn)
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Dr. Abdoul Aziz Kasse sits at his desk at the Clinique des Mamelles in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, July 13, 2017. The word cancer is rarely spoken in Senegal, synonymous with death in a country where many are only diagnosed in the later stages of disease and radiation therapy can be difficult to access. Cancer has become an emerging public health problem in West Africa, and the lack of strong prevention, good screening and treatment often leaves outcomes grim. (AP Photo/Jane Hahn)
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Dr. Abdoul Aziz Kasse looks at a mammogram that shows signs of cancer in his office at the Clinique des Mamelles in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, July 13, 2017. The word cancer is rarely spoken in Senegal, synonymous with death in a country where many are only diagnosed in the later stages of disease and radiation therapy can be difficult to access. Cancer has become an emerging public health problem in West Africa, and the lack of strong prevention, good screening and treatment often leaves outcomes grim. (AP Photo/Jane Hahn)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, after announcing the revised version of the Republican health care bill. The bill has been in jeopardy because of opposition from within the GOP ranks. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this June 14, 2017, file photo, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens addresses the crowd during an anti-abortion rally in the Statehouse in Jefferson City, Mo. Missouri lawmakers are considering a lengthy abortion bill to add more regulations to the procedure and target a St. Louis ordinance banning discrimination based on reproductive health decisions. Greitens said he called lawmakers back to the Capitol in part because of the local ordinance. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)
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FILE- In this April 1, 2017, file photo, defendant Ely Serna sits with attorney Dennis Lieberman in Judge Lori Reisinger's courtroom in Champaign County Juvenile Court in Urbana, Ohio for a motion hearing to close Serna's upcoming competency hearing. Serna, a teen charged as an adult in an Ohio school shooting that wounded two students, has been moved from a detention center to a mental health hospital. (Jonathan Quilter/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File)
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In this July 11, 2017 photo, Pemex security employees inspect an illegal tap into a state-owned pipeline in the middle cornfields in San Bartolome Hueyapan, Tepeaca, Mexico. Mexico's government estimates fuel theft costs Mexico about $1 billion a year. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
