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In this April 18, 2017 photo provided by the Mental Disability Advocacy Center MDAC on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 shows a patient tied to his bead at an institution in the city of God, near Budapest, where some 220 people reside. MDAC said in a report Wednesday that it found signs of ill-treatment and malnutrition. (MDAC via AP)
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The April 18, 2017 photo provided by the Mental Disability Advocacy Center MDAC on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 shows a patient lies on his bed at an institution in the city of God, near Budapest, where some 220 people reside. MDAC said in a report Wednesday that it found signs of ill-treatment and malnutrition. (MDAC via AP)
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In this April 28, 2017, photo, William Keiser, a sophomore German studies major at Princeton University, dances with other cast members at a rehearsal for the 1923 Cole Porter ballet, "Within the Quota". A group of Princeton University students are remixing the ballet to protest President Donald Trump's immigration policies. The ballet was Porter's response to the immigration restrictions of 1921 which criticized America’s hostile stance toward immigrants. The updated version features caricatures including a wealthy heiress, environmentalist, the press, and Black Lives Matter. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Michael and Heather Martin, the "DaddyOFive" YouTube parents who sparked viral outrage for videos of "pranks" played on their children, have lost custody of two kids who have been returned to their biological mother. (YouTube/@DaddyOFive)
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FILE - In this Monday, June 4, 2012, file photo, a girl looks at Facebook on her computer in Palo Alto, Calif. In a blog post Wednesday, May 3, 2017, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will hire another 3,000 people to review videos of crime and suicides following murders shown live. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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In this April 12, 2016, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco. In a blog post Wednesday, May 3, 2017, Zuckerberg said that Facebook will hire another 3,000 people to review videos of crime and suicides following murders shown live. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., joined by, from left Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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In this booking photo provided by Salt Lake County, Utah, Derrick La Marr Jones, 35, of Catonsville, Md., who was arrested by Loudoun County, Va. for using social media to meet underage girls for sexual activity. Police are trying determine whether other girls may have been victimized. (Salt Lake County, Utah via AP)
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In this booking photo provided by Salt Lake County, Utah, Derrick La Marr Jones, 35, of Catonsville, Md., who was arrested by Loudoun County, Va. for using social media to meet underage girls for sexual activity. Police are trying determine whether other girls may have been victimized. (Salt Lake County, Utah via AP)
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In this March 15, 2017 file photograph, Rep. Sonya Williams-Barnes, D-Gulfport, speaks at a news conference on the gender pay gap at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. As the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus chairwoman, Williams-Barnes said Tuesday, May 2, 2017, a number of the state's black legislators say they are boycotting a regional meeting that their own state is hosting this summer, to protest the rebel emblem on the state flag. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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In this March 7, 2017 photo, images of celebrities who abused drugs line the waiting room at Private Clinic North, a methadone clinic, in Rossville, Ga. In the northwest corner of Georgia, where cows and crops vastly outnumber people, a small cluster of privately owned treatment centers have sprung up in recent years for heroin and prescription painkiller addicts. (AP Photo/Kevin D. Liles)
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In this March 8, 2017 photo, Ashley Gardner, 34, drives the 100 miles from her home in Maryville, Tenn., to Counseling Solutions of Chatsworth Ga., which she does three times a week to receive her methadone doses. Gardner said her addiction started in the seventh grade when she wanted to numb the pain after she was sexually assaulted. She was assaulted another time, and saw both fathers of her two of her children die from an opioid overdose. (AP Photo/Kevin D. Liles)
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In this March 8, 2017 photo, Ashley Gardner, 34, takes a dose of methadone at Counseling Solutions of Chatsworth, Ga. Gardner, 34-year-old woman said her addiction started in the seventh grade when she wanted to numb the pain after she was sexually assaulted. She was assaulted another time, and saw both fathers of her two of her children die from an opioid overdose. (AP Photo/Kevin D. Liles)
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In this April 26, 2017, photo, Mike Hunter, Oklahoma Attorney General, speaks during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Hunter said the state is moving forward with new protocols for executing death row inmates, despite a unanimous recommendation from a bipartisan study group that a death penalty moratorium remain in place. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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In this April 26, 2017, photo, Mike Hunter, Oklahoma Attorney General, speaks during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Hunter said the state is moving forward with new protocols for executing death row inmates, despite a unanimous recommendation from a bipartisan study group that a death penalty moratorium remain in place. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, April 25, 2017, file photo, former Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry, right, gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Henry, one of the co-chairs of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission, announced the findings of a report that says the state should extend its moratorium on capital punishment. At left is Andy Lester, also a co-chair. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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FILE - This Oct. 9, 2014 file photo shows the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. Oklahoma has had one of the busiest death chambers in the country for decades, executing more people per capita than any other state since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that death sentences could resume. But after a botched lethal injection in 2014 and drug mix-ups in two scheduled executions in 2015, the state is taking a close look at whether executions should resume at all (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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FILE - In this April 19, 2017, file photo, New York Yankees' Greg Bird watches a double during the second inning of the team's baseball game against the Chicago White Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York. Bird was placed on the 10-day disabled list by the Yankees on Tuesday, May 2, because of a bruised right ankle. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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Hawaii House Finance Chairwoman Sylvia Luke, right, talks to reporters as Rep. Henry Aquino, left, looks on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in Honolulu. Lawmakers approved a $28 billion spending bill that approves more money for homelessness programs than last year. But housing advocates say the amount of money set aside for affordable housing development is not enough. (AP Photo/Cathy Bussewitz)
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In this Jan. 17, 2017, photo Alaska state Rep. David Eastman applauds in the House chamber in Juneau, Alaska. Eastman, a conservative lawmaker, has successfully tacked an anti-abortion message onto an otherwise innocuous resolution in the Alaska House aimed at raising awareness about sexual assault and child abuse, calling abortion "the ultimate form of child abuse." The measure's fate is unclear; bills typically only go to the full body if they have enough votes to pass. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
