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FILE - In this Thursday, May 4, 2017 file photo, demonstrators hold signs during a healthcare rally in Salt Lake City. Utah's all-Republican House delegation voted Thursday in favor of a health care overhaul that could impact people with pre-existing conditions, triggering serious worries from people who fit that category. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Femen activists lower a banner protesting against Marine Le Pen's FN party in Henin-beaumont, northern France, Sunday, May 7, 2017. The banner reads "Marine in Power, Marianne in Despair", referring to the national symbol of the French Republic. Voters across France are choosing a new president in an unusually tense and important election that could decide Europe's future, making a stark choice between pro-business progressive candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND USE MAY 6, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this April 23, 2017, photo, Oxford House residents gather for their monthly chapter meeting in Port Angeles, Wash. The program offers recovering drug addicts housing, structure and support from other recovering addicts. (Jesse Major/The Peninsula Daily News via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND USE MAY 6, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this April 23, 2017, photo, Jeffrey Haley, an Oxford House resident, front, listens during a monthly chapter meeting in Port Angeles, Wash. The program offers recovering drug addicts housing, structure and support from other recovering addicts. (Jesse Major/The Peninsula Daily News via AP)
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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin gestures to a chart of budget shortfalls during a news conference in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Fallin said that she wants to see revenue-raising bills from the state legislature to address the $878 million budget hole. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin gestures to a chart of budget shortfalls during a news conference in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Fallin is urging state lawmakers to act on revenue-raising legislation and says she will veto next year's state budget if it does not include additional revenue to fund state services. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2011 file photo, Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells who led a crusade against lynching during the early 20th century, holds a portrait of Wells in her home in Chicago's South Side. Historically, black women have been no strangers to the quest for social change. But historians say they have often been overshadowed, first by white women during the suffragette movement and then by the black men who were lionized during the civil rights movement. A new generation of black women is now moving to take and keep a place at the forefront of the fight against racial bias. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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FILE - In this June, 27, 2015 file photo, Bree Newsome of Charlotte, N.C., right, is taken into custody after she removed the Confederate flag from a monument in front of the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C., in the aftermath of the attack at a Charleston church where a white supremacist shot nine parishioners to death during a Bible study. Black women have not been strangers to past protests. But historians say they have often been overshadowed, first by white women during the suffragette movement and then by the black men who were lionized during the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)
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FILE - In this June, 27, 2015 file photo, Bree Newsome, of Charlotte, N.C., removes the Confederate flag from a Confederate monument at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Newsome was taken into custody when she came down. A new generation of black women is moving to take and keep a place at the forefront of the fight against racial bias. Black women have not been strangers to past protests. But historians say they have often been overshadowed, first by white women during the suffragette movement and then by the black men who were lionized during the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)
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President Donald Trump, accompanied by House GOP members, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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A Pakistani border security guard stands alert at Pakistan-Afghanistan border post, Chaman in Pakistan, Friday, May 5, 2017. Backed by artillery, Afghan security forces fired across the border on Pakistani census workers and troops escorting them on Friday, killing many people and drawing a response from the military, Pakistan said. On the Afghan side, officials reported that scores of people killed in the incident, a significant escalation of hostilities between the two neighbours. (AP Photo/Matiullah Achakzai)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Washington County Sheriff's office shows Colt Lyerla, a former Oregon Ducks football player,. who has been sentenced to six months in jail after admittedly using fake bills at a 7-Eleven and a deli. Lyerla has escaped from Washington County custody, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest, officials said Friday, May 5, 2017. (Washington County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2014, file photo, Oregon tight end Colt Lyerla runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Ind. Lyerla, who had been sentenced to six months in jail after admittedly using fake bills at a 7-Eleven and a deli, has escaped from Washington County custody, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest, officials said Friday, May 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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FILE + In this April 26, 2017, file photo, Seattle Mariners pitcher James Paxton throws against the Detroit Tigers in the first inning of a baseball game in Detroit. The Mariners will be without Paxton for at least a couple of starts after he was placed on the 10-day disabled list with a left forearm strain. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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FILE - In this April 28, 2017, file photo, New York Mets' Travis d'Arnaud watches his three-run home run during the fourth inning of the team's baseball game against the Washington Nationals in Washington. Mets' d'Arnaud has been placed on the 10-day disabled list with a bruised right wrist, the latest setback for a New York team beset by several key injuries already this season. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2014, file photo, Edward Crawford Jr. throws a container of tear gas back at police officers during a protest against police in Ferguson, Mo., four days after a white police officer fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. The photo was part of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo coverage of the protests. Police said Thursday, May 4, 2017, that Crawford has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP, File)
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FILE - In this March 13, 2017, file photo, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder speaks during a news conference in Detroit. Republican lawmakers' renewed push to do away with pensions for newly hired teachers will become a reality only if they can persuade a skeptical Snyder, the accountant-turned-governor whose number crunching has left him hesitant about the upfront cost of transitioning to 401(k) plans for future school employees. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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FILE - In this Sunday, April 30, 2017. file photo, Referee Daniele Minelli shows the yellow card to Pescara's Sulley Muntari, second from right, during a Serie A soccer match between Pescara and Cagliari, at the Cagliari Sant'Elia stadium, Italy. The Italian soccer federation has rescinded Sulley Muntari’s one-match ban for walking off field in response to racist abuse during a Serie A game. The Pescara player received a yellow card at Cagliari for protesting about the abuse and was booked again for leaving the field without following procedures. (Fabio Murru/ANSA via AP)
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FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, AC Milan's Sulley Muntari during the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Chievo at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy. It is announced Friday May 5, 2017, the Italian soccer federation has rescinded Pescara player Sulley Muntari’s one-match ban for walking off the field in protest to racist abuse during a Serie A game. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, FILE)
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Prosecutor John McCarthy speaks in Rockville, Md., Friday, May 5, 2017, after charges were dropped against two Hispanic teens accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in a Maryland high school restroom. The case that drew national attention after the White House cited it as an example of why the president wants to crack down on illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat)
