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In this July 10, 2003, file photo, Martina Navratilova of the Philadelphia Freedoms reacts after a shot in her team tennis match against Hartford Fox-Force, in Radnor, Pa. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2015, file photo, Australian tennis great Margaret Court looks on during the official launch of the remodeled Margaret Court Arena at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. Martina Navratilova has written an open letter criticizing Margaret Court's comments about same-sex marriage and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and recommending that tennis officials rename the arena that bears the Australian great's name at Melbourne Park. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)
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FILE - In this April 21, 2017, file photo, Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Corey Kluber throws against the Chicago White Sox during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago. Kluber comes off the disabled list Thursday, June 1, to make his first major league start since May 2 when the Indians host Oakland. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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In this Wednesday, April 26, 2017 photo, Rohin Sarin, front row right, and his classmates listen to their math teacher inside a classroom in New Delhi, India. Rohin is one of a growing number of Indians with diabetes, with the disease increasingly afflicting children and adolescents in the fast-growing South Asian country. Nearly 30 percent of India’s teenagers are obese, nearly twice the number in 2010, according to health ministry statistics. (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal)
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In this photo taken Wednesday, April 26, 2017, Rohin Sarin injects insulin into his arm at his house in New Delhi, India. Rohin is one of a growing number of Indians with diabetes, with the disease increasingly afflicting children and adolescents in the fast-growing South Asian country. Nearly 30 percent of India’s teenagers are obese, nearly twice the number in 2010, according to health ministry statistics. (AP Photo /Tsering Topgyal)
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Gov. Kate Brown, seated, signs House Bill 2673 in Salem, Ore., Wednesday, May 31, 2017, making the process more private for transgender individuals to change their birth certificate records. The new law makes Oregon the second state with an alternative option for transgender people to update their birth records. (AP Photo/Kristena Hansen)
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In this photo taken May 30, 2016, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Zacnite Vargas and Fatima Vargas, 16, speak at a news conference Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn., urging the city council to adopt sanctuary city-like standards. Zacnite Vargas came to the United States from Mexico at age 3 with her mother and father. She is in the country under former President Barack Obama's order protecting children in her situation from deportation for two years, while letting them work. Fatima Vargas is a U.S. citizen. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Lower Southampton Police Department shows Lee Kaplan of Feasterville, Pa. The mother of six girls Kaplan is accused of assaulting, fathering two children by one, says she knew about the sexual activity but believed it “could be a good thing.” Fifty-two-year-old Kaplan is on trial in Bucks County on rape and sexual-assault charges. (Lower Southampton Police Department via AP, File)
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In this May 12, 2017, photo, Bobbie Jo Lowe holds a DVD with a photo of her daughter Alexis Kohlman, in her Port Clinton, Ohio, home. After Kohlman died in January from an infection caused by drug abuse, Lowe decided to open the first women's recovery home in Port Clinton. The home, called Alexis House, will help women struggling with addiction reintegrate into society. (Andy Morrison/The Blade via AP)
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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2017 file photo, then-Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate Dr. Ben Carson listens as President Donald Trump speaks after touring the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Carson was one of the biggest names to join Donald Trump’s Cabinet, but since taking office about 100 days ago, he’s kept a low public profile. That could change starting this week as he begins a series of appearances in Washington, giving him an opportunity to spell out a vision for the housing agency he leads and try to avoid the controversies that have stemmed from some of his early remarks. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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FILE - In this April 26, 2017 file photo, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson speaks with Michelle Heritage, director of a shelter program, inside a shelter in Columbus, Ohio. Carson was one of the biggest names to join Donald Trump’s Cabinet, but since taking office about 100 days ago, he’s kept a low public profile. That could change starting this week as he begins a series of appearances in Washington, giving him an opportunity to spell out a vision for the housing agency he leads and try to avoid the controversies that have stemmed from some of his early remarks. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)
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State Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, discusses his single-payer health care bill at a Capitol news conference, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Rep. Will Guzzardi, D-Chicago, is congratulated by Rep. Mary Flowers, D-Chicago, after Guzzardi's bill to raise the minimum wage passed the House Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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FILE - This is a Dec. 24, 2016, file photo showing Houston Texans' Keith Mumphery after an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals, in Houston. Police documents obtained by a newspaper say Houston Texans wide receiver Keith Mumphery was expelled from a Michigan State graduate studies program last year for a sexual misconduct violation. The Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday, May 31, 2017, that Mumphery was accused of sexually assaulting a student in a dormitory in March 2015. (AP Photo/Sam Craft, File)
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FILE - In this July 23, 2004 file photo John Gibson, right, and Capt. Jul Hull, left, walk past a prisoner sleeping on the floor of a cellblock at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. The Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice reform group, said in a study released Wednesday, May 31, 2017, Georgia and New Mexico, two states with some of the nation's largest percentages of minority residents, also had the country's highest jail incarceration rates in 2013. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2008 file photo instructor Kimberlee Hanson discusses an assignment with student inmates at the Gordon Bernell Charter School in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, N.M. The Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice reform group, said in a study released Wednesday, May 31, 2017, Georgia and New Mexico, two states with some of the nation's largest percentages of minority residents, also had the country's highest jail incarceration rates in 2013. (AP Photo/Heather Clark,File)
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In this May 4, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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CAPTION CORRECTS DATE A Syrian woman carries a girl at the refugee camp of Ritsona about 86 kilometers (53 miles) north of Athens, Monday, May 29, 2017. The International Organization for Migration says more than 60,000 migrants have reached the shores of Europe so far in 2017, a sizeable decrease compared to the same period last year. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Syrian women with their children speak, at the refugee camp of Ritsona about 86 kilometers (53 miles) north of Athens, Monday, May 29, 2017. The International Organization for Migration says more than 60,000 migrants have reached the shores of Europe so far in 2017, a sizeable decrease compared to the same period last year. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
