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Dr. Larry Nassar flips through documents as his defense attorneys Shannon Smith, left, and Matt Newburg chat during the second portion of his preliminary hearing on sexual assault charges Friday, May 26, 2017 at the 55th District Court in Mason. Mich. A gymnast testified Friday that Nassar, a Michigan sports doctor accused of sexual assaulting dozens of women and girls asked her father to leave the room before he molested her during a 2012 appointment for a heel injury. (Julia Nagy/Lansing State Journal via AP)
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Defense attorney Shannon Smith talks to her client Dr. Larry Nassar during the second portion of his preliminary hearing on sexual assault charges Friday, May 26, 2017 at the 55th District Court in Mason. Mich. A gymnast testified Friday that Nassar, a Michigan sports doctor accused of sexual assaulting dozens of women and girls asked her father to leave the room before he molested her during a 2012 appointment for a heel injury. (Julia Nagy/Lansing State Journal via AP)
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Angela Povilaitis, assistant attorney general and lead prosecutor, appears during the second portion of Dr. Larry Nassar's preliminary hearing on sexual assault charges Friday, May 26, 2017 at the 55th District Court in Mason. Mich. A gymnast testified Friday that Nassar, a Michigan sports doctor accused of sexual assaulting dozens of women and girls asked her father to leave the room before he molested her during a 2012 appointment for a heel injury. (Julia Nagy/Lansing State Journal via AP)
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs into law Senate Bill 16, legislation lowering the license to carry fee, at the newly opened The Range in South Austin Friday, May 26, 2017. He is joined by lawmakers from left, Rep. DeWayne Burns, Sen. Robert Nichols, sponsor of the bill, Rep. Phil King, and Rep. Kyle Kacal. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
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This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Genene Jones. Authorities said Friday, May 26, 2017, that Jones, a Texas nurse who is in prison for the 1984 killing of a toddler and who faces new charges in the 1981 death of an infant is suspected of killing as many as 60 young children who were in her care around that time. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice. via AP)
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FILE - In this July 7, 2016 file photo, Dallas police detain a driver after five police officers were shot in downtown Dallas. More than a dozen states this year have passed “Blue Lives Matter” laws that come down even harder on crimes against law enforcement officers. The new laws came in reaction to a spike in deadly attacks on police last year. Some civil rights activists fear the measures could set back police-community relations. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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FILE - In this March 12, 2015, file photo, police shine a light on a helmet as they investigate the scene where two police officers were shot outside the Ferguson Police Department in Ferguson, Mo. More than a dozen states this year have passed “Blue Lives Matter” laws that come down even harder on crimes against law enforcement officers. The new laws came in reaction to a spike in deadly attacks on police last year. Some civil rights activists fear the measures could set back police-community relations. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
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FILE - In this July 12 2016 file photo, a member of the Dallas Police Choir passes the portraits of five fallen officers prior to a memorial service at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. More than a dozen states this year have passed “Blue Lives Matter” laws that come down even harder on crimes against law enforcement officers. The new laws came in reaction to a spike in deadly attacks on police last year. Some civil rights activists fear the measures could set back police-community relations. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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In this May 23, 2017 photo, Bruno Abate, a chef/owner of a restaurant in Chicago, teaches inmates about cooking and nutrition at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. Inmates in the jail's medium-security Division 11 are now allowed to order pizzas made by inmates who are participating in the jail's "Recipe for Change" program while they wait for trial. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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In this 2013 photo provided by Kraig Moss, Moss, left, poses with son, Rob, in their Owego, N.Y. home. In a hall packed with Iowa voters, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looked Moss in the eye and vowed to fight the opioid crisis that killed his only son Rob two years earlier. But Trump released a federal budget proposal Tuesday, May 23, 2017, that would cut insurance coverage for addiction treatment and funding for research and prevention. (Moss Family Photo via AP)
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FILE - In this March 1, 2016 file photo, Kraig Moss plays a song for attendees as they wait in line before the arrival of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ahead of a campaign stop at the Signature Flight Hangar at Port-Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio. "He promised me, in honor of my son, that he was going to combat the ongoing heroin epidemic," Moss said of a January 2016 presidential campaign interaction with Trump. Trump's budget proposal released Tuesday, May 23, 2017, weakens insurance coverage for drug addiction treatment and cuts back funding for research and prevention programs. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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Illustration on tax reform by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE - This March 9, 2017, file photo, Republican Sen. Daniel Thatcher speaks on the phone on the Senate floor at the Utah state Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Utah lawmakers say they hope a new, unique law cuts down on the expanding and increasingly troubling forms of cyber harassment by giving authorities the ability to send the online bullies to jail. Thatcher, who sponsored the 2017 legislation, said there's a chance that he may look to make a minor change to the law in order to better clarify its meaning, but doesn't expect a significant adjustment. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - This Feb. 3, 2015, file photo, Eagle Mountain Republican Rep. David Lifferth appears on the house floor at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Utah lawmakers say they hope a new, unique law cuts down on the expanding and increasingly troubling forms of cyber harassment by giving authorities the ability to send the online bullies to jail. Last year, Utah legislators considered a similar bill, but stripped out the personally identifiable information portion because some committee members were concerned with how broad some terms in that section were, said than Republican Rep. Lifferth, who sponsored the 2016 bill. Lifferth's bill was never passed because lawmakers say they ran out of time. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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In this Wednesday, May 24, 2017 photo, a man stands in Evergreen Home Cemetery in Beatrice, Neb. For about 20 years, staff and residents from the state center for developmentally disabled people have been visiting the nearby Beatrice cemetery to ensure that no one who'd lived and died at the center goes unremembered. (Samuel Craig /Beatrice Daily Sun via AP)
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FILE - In this June 25, 2015 file photo, participants take part in a health care rally outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. A growing number of Americans age 40 and older think Medicare should cover the costs of long-term care for older adults, according to a poll conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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FILE- In the Jan 8, 2017 file photo, the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York is shown. Three male federal prison guards have been arrested on charges they sexually abused female prisoners at the facility. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a ceremony where he signed SB7, a bill to address inappropriate teacher-student relationships, at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Austin. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Gov. Greg Abbott, center, shakes hands with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick after he signed SB7, a bill to address inappropriate teacher-student relationships, after he signed it during a ceremony at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Austin. Standing behind Abbott, from left, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath, Rep. Gary VanDeaver, Sen. Paul Bettencourt and Rep. Tony Dale. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
