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Fe Baron of Boulder, Colo., holds up a sign during a protest against the polices of President Donald Trump Saturday, June 3, 2017, in downtown Denver. The anti-Trump rally featured speakers calling for resistance to the administration. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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FILE – In this Nov. 7, 2016, file photo, nurses express support for a ballot proposition to limit what California state agencies pay for prescription drugs, during a rally with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in downtown Los Angeles. Pharmaceutical companies provided more than $109 million to oppose the measure before California voters rejected it, but a similar citizen-initiated statute is headed to Ohio's Nov. 7, 2017, ballot, titled the Ohio Drug Price Relief Act. It seeks to bar state agencies from buying drugs at prices higher than those paid by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which receives deep discounts. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this May 26, 2017 photo, Ronnie Rosenberg laughs while trying to pose for a photo with Tuco, a dog who she helped adopt out in Fairbanks, Alaska. Shelter animals that are old, sick, disabled or have behavioral problems may never find a home. They often go overlooked during visits, invisible to prospective adopters, but not to Ronnie Rosenberg. (Eric Engman/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)
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FILE- In this Dec. 31, 2015, file photo, Andrea Constand walks her dogs in Toronto. Bill Cosby goes on trial Monday, June 5, 2017, in suburban Philadelphia in a sexual assault case that will largely rest on the testimony of Constand. (Marta Iwanek/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
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FILE- In this Aug. 1, 1987 file photo, Andrea Constand poses for a photo in Toronto. Bill Cosby goes on trial Monday, June 5, 2017, in suburban Philadelphia in a sexual assault case that will largely rest on the testimony of Constand. (Ron Bull/The Toronto Star/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's office shows George Tschaggeny. Portland police say Tschaggeny stole a wedding ring and backpack from one of the men who was killed while responding to a racist tirade on a light-rail train in Portland, Ore., on May 26, 2017. (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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National Economic Director Gary Cohn speaks in the briefing room of the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2017. President Donald Trump is proposing dramatically reducing the taxes paid by corporations big and small in an overhaul his administration says will spur economic growth and bring jobs and prosperity to the middle class. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2014 file photo, Democrat Jorge Elorza celebrates his win over Independent Vincent Cianci, Jr. in the Providence mayoral race, in Providence, R.I. Rhode Island's largest city, Providence, has approved Thursday, June 1, 2017, final passage of a police accountability measure proponents say could be a national model to prevent discriminatory profiling based on race, gender identity and immigration status. Elorza has said he'll sign the legislation into law. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)
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In this Wednesday, May 24, 2017, photo, after weeks of brewing racial tension on campus, hundreds of students at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., protest against the college administration and demanded change. (Lisa Pemberton/The Olympian via AP) ** FILE **
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John and Annette Grunseth, whose adult daughter is transgender, speak at a news conference on Thursday, June 1, 2017, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. The couple joined Democratic lawmakers who introduced a proposal to protect transgender people from discrimination. John Grunseth says he worries his daughter will be fired from a job simply for being herself. (AP Photo/Cara Lombardo)
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FILE - In this file photo taken June 15, 2010, inmates return to their cells at the Idaho State Correctional Institution in Boise, Idaho. Attorneys for the Idaho Department of Correction say inmates exaggerated problems with the prison medical care system and waited too long to complain, and as a result prison officials shouldn't be held in contempt of court for violating a settlement in a decades-old class action lawsuit. The court documents were filed late last week in federal court. They mark the latest twist in a lawsuit first brought by inmates in 1981 that contends unconstitutionally poor medical care was provided to prisoners at the Idaho State Correctional Institution. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2017 file photo Linda Sarsour, co-chair of the Women's March on Washington, speaks during an interview in New York. The Muslim-American activist was scheduled to speak at a college commencement ceremony in New York City on Thursday, June 1, 2017, despite protests from critics who don't like her views on Israel. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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In this May 25, 2017, photo, Different printings of a statistics textbook authored by Penn State Behrend psychology professor Eric Corty sit amid other books in Corty's office in Erie, Pa. Corty has worked as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, conducted research on methadone, and studied human sexuality, among other things. Now, at 62, Corty has been named director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Behrend. (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP)
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In this May 25, 2017, photo, Penn State Behrend psychology professor Eric Corty poses for a photo on campus in Erie, Pa. Corty has worked as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, conducted research on methadone, and studied human sexuality, among other things. Now, at 62, Corty has been named director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Behrend. (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP)
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In this May 25, 2017, photo, Penn State Behrend psychology professor Eric Corty speaks during an interview in office in Erie, Pa. Corty has worked as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, conducted research on methadone, and studied human sexuality, among other things. Now, at 62, Corty has been named director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Behrend. (Greg Wohlford/Erie Times-News via AP)
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Senators discuss budget details ahead of the Senate Finance Committee's vote on its version of next year's $29 billion state operating budget, on Thursday, June 1, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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In this Sunday, July 24, 2016 photo provided by Niels Alpert, Betsy Davis poses for a photo with her longtime friend Susan Delmonico during her "Right To Die Party" in Ojai, Calif. At the end of the party, the 41-year-old woman diagnosed with ALS took a cocktail of lethal drugs and died, becoming one of the first California residents to take life-ending drugs under a new law that gave such an option to the terminally ill. At least 504 terminally ill Californians have requested a prescription for life-ending drugs since a state law allowing physician-assisted deaths went into effect in June 2016. (Niels Alpert via AP)
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In this Sunday, July 24, 2016 photo provided by Niels Alpert, Betsy Davis, smiles during her "Right To Die Party" in Ojai, Calif. At the end of the party, the 41-year-old woman diagnosed with ALS took a cocktail of lethal drugs and died, becoming one of the first California residents to take life-ending drugs under a new law that gave such an option to the terminally ill. At least 504 terminally ill Californians have requested a prescription for life-ending drugs since a state law allowing physician-assisted deaths went into effect in June 2016. (Niels Alpert via AP)
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a Princeton University instructor who called President Trump a racist, sexist "megalomaniac" during a recent commencement address, has canceled two public talks this week, claiming a Fox News report on her speech led to death threats. (YouTube/@Hampshire College TV)
