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FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2013, file photo, a sign for the Livestrong Foundation is seen at the charity's headquarters in Austin, Texas. The Livestrong cancer charity continued its fundraising and contributions nosedive in 2015 for a third straight year after founder Lance Armstrong's performance-enhancing drug scandal, but foundation officials insist a rebound has already started. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017, file photo, University of California, Berkeley police guard the building where Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was to speak in Berkeley, Calif. UC Berkeley police took a hands-off approach to protesters on the campus when violent rioters overtook a largely peaceful protest against a controversial speaker. After a series of protests around the country, some institutions are rethinking their security and tactics in an age of growing political polarization. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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FILE - In this April 3, 2017, file photo, Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Evin Cosby writes in an opinion piece for the National Newspaper Publishers Association published Wednesday, April 26, 2017, that her father “is not abusive, violent or a rapist.” (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - In this April 27, 2016, file photo, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert who is is serving a 15-month prison term in a sexual abuse case departs the federal courthouse in Chicago. State officials are poised to consider the status of the pension Hastert receives for the time he served in the Illinois General Assembly Wednesday April 27, 2017 in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois General Assembly Retirement System's board of trustees are scheduled to consider Hastert's $28,000 annual pension. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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A protester holding a rainbow flag, approaches South Korea's presidential candidate Moon Jae-in from the Democratic Party, left, at National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 26, 2017. South Korean presidential front-runner Moon Jae-in has outraged persecuted sexual minority groups by saying during a television debate that he opposes homosexuality. (Ahn Jung-won/Yonhap via AP)
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In this March 6, 2017, file photo, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson speaks to HUD employees in Washington. Columbus, Ohio, is the fourth stop on Carson’s national listening tour. President Donald Trump’s housing secretary has been traveling the country gathering input from agency field staff, local leaders and residents of public housing developments. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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The Death of Obamacare Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this March 6, 2017, file photo, Ohio State defensive back Gareon Conley runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis. An attorney for the former Ohio State star says the player denies an accusation made in a police report released Tuesday, April 25, 2017, that he sexually assaulted a woman. No charges have been filed and the incident is still being investigated by police. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signs a measure to make it easier for victims of sex trafficking to vacate prostitution convictions, Tuesday, April 25, 2017 in Olympia, Wash. Current law doesn't allow victims to vacate prostitution convictions if other crimes exist on their criminal record. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signs a measure to make it easier for victims of sex trafficking to vacate prostitution convictions, on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 in Olympia, Wash. Current law doesn't allow victims to vacate prostitution convictions if other crimes exist on their criminal record. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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This undated file photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmate Kenneth Williams, who was scheduled for execution on Thursday, April 27, 2017. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP)
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Pro-death penalty supporters Dalton Campbell, left, Zia Authier and Donald Laundreaux, protest outside the Varner Unit on Monday, April 24, 2017 near Varner, Ark. Jack Jones and Marcel Williams received lethal injections on the same gurney Monday night, just about three hours apart. It was the first double execution in the United States since 2000. (Stephen B. Thornton/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)
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Former Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry answers a question during a news conference in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. 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. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Former Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. 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. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Rasmea Odeh, stands outside federal court Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in Detroit. Odeh, a Chicago Palestinian activist who didn't disclose her time in an Israeli prison when she got U.S. citizenship, agreed to plead guilty to failing to tell U.S. immigration officials in 2004 that she was convicted and imprisoned in Israel for bombings in the late 1960s. (AP Photo/Ed White)
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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MAY 1 AND THEREAFTER - In a Thursday, March 23, 2017 photo, Kenneth Hanna outlines details of a new group to help black boys at Lion Youth & Community Services LLC in St. Cloud, Minn. He formed the Adolescent Healing and Socialization of African-American Males group, or AHSAAM. It's a new group set to start in May that focuses on the mental health of 15- to-18-year-old black males by developing life skills. (Dave Schwarz/The St. Cloud Times via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MAY 1 AND THEREAFTER - In a Thursday, March 23, 2017 photo, Kenneth Hanna outlines details of a new group to help black boys at Lion Youth & Community Services LLC in St. Cloud, Minn. He formed the Adolescent Healing and Socialization of African-American Males group, or AHSAAM. It's a new group set to start in May that focuses on the mental health of 15- to-18-year-old black males by developing life skills. (Dave Schwarz/The St. Cloud Times via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, MAY 1 AND THEREAFTER - In this Thursday, March 23, 2017 photo, guidelines developed by Kenneth Hanna at Lion Youth & Community Services LLC are shown in St. Cloud, Minn. Hanna formed the Adolescent Healing and Socialization of African-American Males group, or AHSAAM. It's a new group set to start in May that focuses on the mental health of 15- to-18-year-old black males by developing life skills. (Dave Schwarz/The St. Cloud Times via AP)
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y. points to a reporter during a media availability after a policy luncheon, Tuesday, April 25, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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FILE - In this April 23, 2016 file photo, a man walks during a protest at Stone Mountain Park, in Stone Mountain, Ga. Extremist groups are joining together with a shared goal for whites. A new Ku Klux Klan alliance formed in March 2017 has united chapters from around the country, and a consortium of organizations composed of white nationalists and white separatists is marking its first anniversary. Watchdog groups say white extremists typically can’t work together because of jealousy and infighting. But leaders say they’re united as never before. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
