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Former mixed martial arts fighter Jonathan Koppenhaver, aka War Machine, enters the courtroom at the Regional Justice Center on Monday, June 5, 2017, in Las Vegas. Koppenhaver is ordered to serve 36 years to life behind bars after being convicted of more than two dozen charges, including sexual assault and first-degree kidnapping. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
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Christine Mackinday, right, ex-girlfriend of former mixed martial arts fighter Jonathan Koppenhaver, aka War Machine, comforted by prosecutor Jacqueline Bluth after delivering her victim-impact statement at the Regional Justice Center on Monday, June 5, 2017, in Las Vegas. Koppenhaver is ordered to serve 36 years to life behind bars after being convicted of more than two dozen charges, including sexual assault and first-degree kidnapping of Mackinday. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
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Former mixed martial arts fighter Jonathan Koppenhaver, aka War Machine, addresses the court before his sentencing at the Regional Justice Center on Monday, June 5, 2017, in Las Vegas. Koppenhaver is ordered to serve 36 years to life behind bars after being convicted of more than two dozen charges, including sexual assault and first-degree kidnapping. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
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Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, background, listens to Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, speak on budget bills at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Monday, June 5, 2017. The Legislature is in the midst of a special session called by the governor that will focus on state appropriations and practices to maintain a balanced budget and healthy finances. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson, asks how the new proposed appropriations bills take care of budget needs outlined in the Legislative Budget Report, Monday, June 5, 2017, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. The Legislature is in the midst of a special session called by the governor that will focus on state appropriations and practices to maintain a balanced budget and healthy finances. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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This undated photo provided by Clark County Detention Center shows Las Vegas police officer Kenneth Lopera. Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Lopera was suspended without pay and arrested Monday, June 5, 2017, on felony involuntary manslaughter and oppression under color of office charges in the May 14, 2017, in-custody death of Tashii S. Brown, 40, of Las Vegas. Brown also used the name Tashii Farmer. (Clark County Detention Center via AP)
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Arizona state Rep. Reginald Bolding Jr. calls on Gov. Doug Ducey to remove six confederate monuments in Arizona during a news conference by the NAACP and Black Lives Matter in Phoenix on Monday, June 5, 2017. Black leaders in Arizona are pushing Ducey to remove the monuments on public land that they say are offensive and glorify the country's racist past. The push comes as communities along the South wrestle with whether to keep longstanding symbols of the Confederacy. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)
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Roy Tatem, president of the East Valley NAACP, calls on Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to remove six confederate monuments in Arizona during a news conference by the NAACP and Black Lives Matter in Phoenix on Monday, June 5, 2017. Black leaders in Arizona are pushing Ducey to remove the monuments on public land that they say are offensive and glorify the country's racist past. The push comes as communities along the South wrestle with whether to keep longstanding symbols of the Confederacy. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)
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A monument to Arizona Confederate soldiers stands amid other memorials at Wesley Bonin Memorial Plaza on the grounds of the Capitol complex in Phoenix Monday, June 5, 2017, presented by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1961. Black leaders in Arizona are pushing Republican Gov. Doug Ducey to remove the monuments on public land that they say are offensive and glorify the country's racist past. The push comes as communities along the South wrestle with whether to keep longstanding symbols of the Confederacy. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)
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FILE - In this May 10, 2017, file photo, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate GOP leaders plan to vote as soon as this month on major health care legislation even though they remain uncertain, for now, whether their still-unwritten bill will pass, lawmakers said June 5. “We’ve been talking about this for seven years, so now is the time to start coming up with some tangible alternatives and building consensus,” Cornyn said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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FILE - In a Aug. 29, 2012 file photo, Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, talks during a press conference at Sedona Hotel, in Yangon, Myanmar. The United Nations Population Fund population agency announced Monday, June 5, 2017 the sudden death of Osotimehin, who had led the agency since 2011. The 68-year-old Nigerian doctor and public health expert died at his home. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, File)
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Lead defense lawyer Brian McMonagle arrives for Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse on Monday, June 5, 2017, in Norristown, Pa. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Pool Photo via AP)
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Actress Keshia Knight Pulliam, right, walks out of the courtroom with Bill Cosby, center, inside the Montgomery County Courthouse during his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Monday, June 5, 2017. Pulliam played Cosby’s youngest daughter, Rudy Huxtable, on "The Cosby Show." (David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)
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Bill Cosby, center, returns to the courtroom after a break in his sexual assault trial inside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Monday, June 5, 2017. (David Maialetti/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)
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FILE - In this Friday, May 6, 2016 file photo, Democratic state Sen. Steve Farley, D-Tucson, right, confers with Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Katie Hobbs, D-Phoenix, during a session in the Senate at the Capitol in Phoenix. Farley is expected to announce Monday, June 5, 2017 that he is formally entering the 2018 race to run against Republican Gov. Doug Ducey next year, at a scheduled Monday afternoon event in his hometown of Tucson. (AP Photo/Bob Christie, File)
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Michigan budget director Al Pscholka, left, defends the state's Medicaid expansion program, Monday, June 5, 2017, during a briefing with reporters at the Care Free Medical and Dental Clinic in Lansing, Mich. Next to Pscholka are the clinic's CEO and medical director, Dr. Farhan Bhatti and Michigan Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon, right. The Medicaid program would undergo significant changes if a U.S.-House passed bill is enacted. (AP Photo/David Eggert)
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Michigan Health and Human Services Department Director Nick Lyon, second from left, defends the state's Medicaid expansion program, Monday, June 4, 2017, at the Care Free Medical and Dental Clinic in Lansing, Mich. At left is Dr. Farhan Bhatti, the clinic's CEO and medical director. Debra McGuire, CEO of the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians and Gilda Jacobs, president and CEO of the Michigan League for Public Policy, right, also touted the program, which would see cuts under a U.S. House-passed bill. (AP Photo/David Eggert)
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Dr. Farhan Bhatti, CEO and medical director of the Care Free Medical and Dental Clinic, talks about the benefits of Michigan's Medicaid expansion program, Monday, June 5, 2017, at the clinic in Lansing, Mich. At right is Michigan Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon, who also touted expanded Medicaid at a time Congress is considering cuts. (AP Photo/David Eggert)
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Michigan budget director Al Pscholka defends the state's Medicaid expansion program, Monday, June 5, 2017, during a briefing with reporters at the Care Free Medical and Dental Clinic in Lansing, Mich. At right is the clinic's CEO and medical director, Dr. Farhan Bhatti. Medicaid would undergo significant changes if a U.S. House-passed bill is enacted. (AP Photo/David Eggert)
