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A coffin, bottom center, lies near an Italian Red Cross truck, in front of the Swedish Navy ship Bkv 002, in the Sicilian harbor of Catania, Italy, Saturday, July 1, 2017. The Swedish ship carried 650 migrants, rescued in various operations in the Mediterranean Sea, and the dead bodies of seven men and two women, authorities said. (Orietta Scardino/ANSA via AP)

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Migrants stand on the deck of the Swedish Navy ship Bkv 002, as they wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Catania, Italy, Saturday, July 1, 2017. The Swedish ship carried 650 migrants, rescued in various operations in the Mediterranean Sea, and the dead bodies of seven men and two women, authorities said. (Orietta Scardino/ANSA via AP)

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n this picture taken on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, members of the Tap Tap orchestra perform during a charity concert in Prague Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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In this picture taken on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, members of the Tap Tap orchestra perform during a theater performance in Tabor, Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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In this picture taken on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, Jana Augustinova, centre, of of the Tap Tap orchestra, prepares for a theater performance in Tabor, Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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In this picture taken on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, Jan Polak, of the Tap Tap orchestra, play a bass guitar during a charity concert in Prague Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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In this picture taken on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, Jitka Hroudova, right, and Jiri Holzmann, of the Tap Tap orchestra, prepare for a charity concert in Prague Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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In this picture taken on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, Jan Machacek, of the Tap Tap orchestra, sings during a charity concert in Prague Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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In this picture taken on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, Petr Hudec, keyboard player of the Tap Tap orchestra, during a rehearsal at their studio in Prague, Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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In this picture taken on Thursday, March 2, 2017, Simon Ornest, band leader of the Tap Tap orchestra, sits in his office in Prague, Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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In this picture taken on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, members of the Tap Tap orchestra wait for the start of their rehearsal in front of their studio in Prague, Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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In this picture taken on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, members of the Tap Tap orchestra rehearse at their studio in Prague, Czech Republic. What was created some 18 years ago in efforts to give kids some extracurricular activity at a renowned school for the disabled in Prague has become a major music act that has drawn millions of listeners and fans, first at home and gradually abroad. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

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FILE - In this July 31, 2014 file photo, gay rights campaigners act out electric shock treatment to protest outside a court when the first court case in China involving so-called conversion therapy is held in Beijing, China. A gay man in central China has successfully sued a mental hospital over forced conversion therapy on June 26, 2017, in what activists are hailing as the first such victory in the country where the LGBT rights movement is gradually emerging form the fringes. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

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In this June. 8, 2017 photo, podiatrist Serafin Barca poses for a photo with a patient in his clinic in Havana, Cuba. The 80-year-old podiatrist is one of the last private medical workers in communist Cuba, which prides itself on its free, universal state health care. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Suffragettes march for equal rights during a demonstration in Washington, D.C., in 1917. (AP Photo)

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Dreamers, who just weeks ago cheered the administration's announcement that it was maintaining DACA, were furious at the latest turn of events and called Texas' move racist. (Associated Press/File)

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Illustration on the "right" to health care and involuntary servitude by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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FILE -- In this May 3, 2017 file photo, California Attorney Gen. Xavier Becerra speaks in Sacramento, Calif. California's attorney general says the number of hate crimes increased about 11 percent last year, the second consecutive double-digit increase after years of decline. The report released Monday, July 3, 2017 shows 931 hate crimes statewide in 2016, nearly 100 more than in 2015. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, file)

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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, Tom Garing cleans up racist graffiti painted on the side of a mosque in what officials are calling an apparent hate crime in Roseville, Calif. California's attorney general says the number of hate crimes increased about 11 percent last year, the second consecutive double-digit increase after years of decline. The report released Monday, July 3, 2017, shows 931 hate crimes statewide in 2016, nearly 100 more than in 2015. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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FILE - In this May 21, 2017, file photo, cars are parked outside a Community Health Nursing clinic in Tonopah, Nev. Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval plans to begin requiring state agency administrators to voluntarily disclose all federal reviews after he and his staff were surprised to first learn in a report by The Associated Press of a critical assessment of the state's rural public health clinics. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found misused grant funds, sloppy record-keeping and undertrained staff at state-run reproductive health clinics in 2015.(AP Photo/Alison Noon,File)