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Gianna Constand, left and her daughter Andrea Constand walk from the courtroom during jury deliberations in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. Cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Constand at his home outside Philadelphia in 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)
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Bill Cosby, center, enters the Montgomery County Courthouse for his sexual assault trial during the second day of jurors deliberations with Andrew Wyatt in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)
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Bill Cosby's lawyers Brian McMonagle, left, and Angela Agrusa, right, take the elevator to the courtroom during Cosby's sexual assault trial during the second day of jurors deliberations in the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)
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Bill Cosby walks from the courtroom during jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)
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Bill Cosby walks from the courtroom during jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)
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Bill Cosby walks from the Montgomery County Courthouse during jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial at in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Bill Cosby yells out, "Hey, hey, hey," as he leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Bill Cosby walks from the courtroom during jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)
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Bill Cosby leaves at the end of a day of jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. The jury will reconvene for deliberations Wednesday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Bill Cosby, left, walks alongside spokesman Andrew Wyatt at the end of a day of jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. The jury will reconvene for deliberations Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial, Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa.. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Bill Cosby exits the Montgomery County Courthouse with Andrew Wyatt, right, during Cosby's sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)
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Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa.. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial, Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. The jury has wrapped up a second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Bill Cosby leaves the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial, Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Republican Shelley Moore Capito is looking for a $45 billion commitment to ensure treatment for opioid addicts in her hard-hit state of West Virginia. (Associated Press)
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In this Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013 file photo, Alan Leafman, center, president of Health Insurance Express, Inc., helps Raquel Bernal, right, and her husband John Bernal, left, both of Apache Junction, Ariz., navigate the nation's new health care insurance system online at the Health Insurance Express store in Mesa, Ariz. Two insurance companies offering individual health plans on federal exchanges in Arizona have filed paperwork to continue selling coverage in 2018, a move which will likely prevent a repeat of last year's crisis that saw one county briefly without a provider. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, right, House Speaker Tom Leonard, center, and Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, left, speak to reporters after announcing a budget and pension deal on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich. The Republicans had been at odds over trying to close the pension system to new hires, and the impasse had prolonged budget work. (AP Photo/David Eggert)
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FILE – In this March 28, 2012, file photo, Brad Hartzell, left, of Somers Point, N.J., sells lottery tickets to Lisa Lysinger, of Ocean City, N.J., at the A Few Bucks store in Somers Point, N.J. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is hoping the New Jersey Lottery is the ticket to shoring up the state's ever-growing pension obligations for public employees, with legislation introduced in June 2017 as part of the Republican governor's push to implement his plan to make the lottery property of the pension system for 30 years. (Dale Gerhard/The Press of Atlantic City via AP, File)
