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Police Sgt. Jason Nielsen, center, speaks with reporters following a fatal shooting Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Sandy, Utah. A man opened fire on a woman and children inside a car in the street of a Salt Lake City suburb Tuesday afternoon, leaving the woman, a boy and the man dead and two other children injured, police said. The shooting outside a home in a middle-class neighborhood in Sandy was reported to police as a domestic dispute, said Nielsen. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Jodie Ferguson leaves flowers at a small memorial for the victims of a fatal shooting Wednesday, June 7, 2017, in Sandy, Utah. Utah investigators and stunned residents of a middle-class Salt Lake City suburb are trying to understand what led a man to open fire on a woman and children inside a car, leaving the woman, a boy and the man himself dead and two other children injured. Police went out to the area in Sandy, Utah, after getting a 911 call Tuesday afternoon about a domestic disturbance, said police Sgt. Jason Nielsen. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Crime scene investigators begin their work as Sandy police investigate a fatal shooting in a Salt Lake City suburb that left several people dead with another two injured, Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Sandy, Utah. The shooting in a middle-class neighborhood in Sandy was reported to police as a domestic dispute, said Police Sgt. Jason Nielsen. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP)
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Michigan state Sen. John Proos, left, R-St. Joseph, speaks in support of a $2 billion corrections budget that won approval from a House-Senate conference committee on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at the Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Panel member Rep. Dave Pagel, R-Berrien Springs,is at right. Majority Republicans are approving individual budgets without the blessing of Gov. Rick Snyder due to an impasse over teacher pensions. (AP Photo/David Eggert)
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Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele arrives for Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)
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Defense lawyer Brian McMonagle laughs outside the courtroom at Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)
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Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, Ricardo Negron, a survivor of the Pulse Nightclub shooting reflects at his office in Orlando, Fla. A year after the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the city's gay Latinos are trying to build up their community by forming support groups, seeking seats at the tables of power and creating a foundation to champion gays and Latinos. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, Ricardo Negron, a survivor of the Pulse Nightclub shooting, poses for a photo at his office in Orlando, Fla. A year after the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the city's gay Latinos are trying to build up their community by forming support groups, seeking seats at the tables of power and creating a foundation to champion gays and Latinos. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, Christopher Cuevas, founder of the support group QLatinx, spends time at Lake Eola park in downtown Orlando, Fla. A year after the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the city's gay Latinos are trying to build up their community by forming support groups, seeking seats at the tables of power and creating a foundation to champion gays and Latinos. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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A DHS photo of a classroom at the Berks Family Residential Center, a facility for housing illegal-immigrant families. A June 2 audit by the DHS's office of inspector general found the facilities to be clean and well-run. (oig.dhs.gov)[https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2017/OIG-17-65-Jun17.pdf]
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Kansas state Reps. Troy Waymaster, left, R-Bunker Hill, and Russ Jennings, R-Lakin, confer before the House's debate on overriding Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's veto of a bill increasing income taxes to fix the state budget, Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Topeka, Kan. Both Jennings and Waymaster, the House Appropriations Committee chairman, voted to override. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Andrea Constand arrives during Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Constand at his home outside Philadelphia in 2004 (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)
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Andrea Constand arrives during Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Constand at his home outside Philadelphia in 2004 (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **
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Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, Marco Quiroga, who works to support LGBTQ and social-justice causes in central Florida, reflects in front of one of the memorials at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Fla. A year after the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the city's gay Latinos are trying to build up their community by forming support groups, seeking seats at the tables of power and creating a foundation to champion gays and Latinos. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this Tuesday, May 30, 2017 photo, Marco Quiroga, who works to support LGBTQ and social-justice causes in central Florida, reflects in front of one of the memorials at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Fla. A year after the Pulse Nightclub shooting, the city's gay Latinos are trying to build up their community by forming support groups, seeking seats at the tables of power and creating a foundation to champion gays and Latinos. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Bill Cosby, second from right, and Defense attorney Brian McMonagle exit the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Pool Photo via AP)
