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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)
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Supporters of "Moms Clean Air Force" raise their fists in defiance of proposed EPA budget cuts by the Trump administration during a rally on the Upper Senate Park grounds on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (Photographs by Emma Ayers/The Washington Times)
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FILE - In this June 26, 2017 file photo Kadhim Al-bumohammed, center, an Iraqi refugee in the U.S., listens to speakers at an Albuquerque, N.M., rally in his honor. Al-bumohammed an Iraqi Muslim refugee who trained U.S. troops going to Iraq and is now facing deportation is seeking sanctuary inside an Albuquerque church. Al-bumohammed decided to skip his immigration hearing Thursday, July 13, where he was expected to be detained. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the University of Maryland Police Department, Sean Urbanski. Urbanski, arrested in a fatal stabbing at the University of Maryland that has been under investigation as a possible hate crime has been indicted on a murder charge. (University of Maryland Police Department via AP, File)
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India’s telecoms regulator has essentially banned a Facebook program that sought to connect with low-income residents by offering free access to a limited version of the social network and other internet services, as part of a ruling in favor of net neutrality. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - This Feb. 26, 2016 file photo shows the entrance to St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is launching a criminal investigation into allegations of sexual assault and misconduct at the elite prep school. The investigation into the school follows the release of a report in May 2017 detailing sexual assaults by teachers on their students, earlier information about student sexual conquest rituals and allegations of a similar ritual reported in June. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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Fortunato Perri, a defense attorney for Cosmo DiNardo, walks to the Bucks County Courthouse in, Doylestown, Pa., Thursday, July 13, 2017. DiNardo admitted killing the four men who went missing last week and told authorities the location of the bodies. Prosecutors agreed to take the death penalty off the table in return for DiNardo's cooperation. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Cosmo DiNardo is escorted to a vehicle while in police custody Thursday, July 13, 2017, in Doylestown, Pa. Lawyer Paul Lang, a defense attorney for DiNardo, said Thursday that his client has admitted killing the four men who went missing last week and told authorities the location of the bodies. Lang says prosecutors agreed to take the death penalty off the table in return for DiNardo's cooperation. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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This photo provided by Janssen Biotech, Inc. shows the drug Tremfya. On Thursday, July 13, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved the new drug Tremfya, from Johnson & Johnson, for people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. (Janssen Biotech, Inc. via AP)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017. Schumer warned that moves by House Republicans to make a down payment on the Mexico wall and cut domestic programs is a “dangerous, irresponsible path” that “can only lead to a government shutdown.”“They’re steering us towards a train wreck,” he said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Activists, many members of the clergy, are arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, after protesting against the Republican health care bill outside the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and other lawmakers head to the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 13, 2017, for a meeting on the revised Republican health care bill which has been under attack from within the party. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
