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Demonstrators chant slogans during a protest against the amendment of the higher education law that could force a Budapest university founded by billionaire American philanthropist George Soros to close, in front of the Ministry of Human Resources, in Budapest, Sunday, April 9, 2017. Hungarian President Janos Ader said Monday April 10, 2017, in a statement that he has signed the bill setting new conditions for foreign universities in Hungary in line with the Constitution, and called on the government to “immediately” begin talks with the affected institutions to secure compliance with the new rules.(Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)
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A demonstrator chants slogans during a protest against the amendment of the higher education law that could force a Budapest university founded by billionaire American philanthropist George Soros to close , in front of the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 9, 2017. Hungarian President Janos Ader said Monday April 10, 2017, in a statement that he has signed the bill setting new conditions for foreign universities in Hungary which is in line with the Constitution, and called on the government to “immediately” begin talks with the affected institutions to secure compliance with the new rules. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)
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In this Aug. 11, 2016 photo, Lovely Harasme 26, sits in front of her mother's house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She says she was one of several women who worked as prostitutes for Sri Lankan peacekeepers with the U.N. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo a man detained at the Otay Mesa immigration detention center looks out from a room in San Diego. An advocacy group said Tuesday, April 11, 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog fielded more than 1,000 complaints of sexual assault or abuse from people in custody at immigration detention centers. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo men sit in the sun in a room for mental health patients in the health ward at the Otay Mesa immigration detention center in San Diego. An advocacy group said Tuesday, April 11, 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog fielded more than 1,000 complaints of sexual assault or abuse from people in custody at immigration detention centers. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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Illustration on tax time by Paul Tong/Tribune Content Agency
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Illustration on stopping anti-Semitism by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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In this April 22, 2015, file photo, a member of the Baltimore Police Department stands guard outside of the department's Western District police station as men hold their hands up in protest during a march for Freddie Gray in Baltimore. In a city that became emblematic of police abuse, excessive force and callous treatment of young black men, Baltimore's mayor and commissioner say they are eager and ready to change not only the culture of law enforcement, but the practice. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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FILE - In this May 10, 2014, file photo, Ryan Bundy, son of the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, rides an ATV into Recapture Canyon north of Blanding, Utah, in a protest against what demonstrators call the federal government's overreaching control of public lands. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has lifted a ban on motorized vehicles in some parts of a southeastern Utah canyon that was the setting of a 2014 ATV protest ride that was a flashpoint in the Western struggle over government land management. Zinke said in a news release Monday, April 10, 2017, in that providing recreation access on public lands is important and that disabled people can't get around without motorized vehicles. (The Salt Lake Tribune, Trent Nelson via AP, File)
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This undated Nevada Department of Corrections photo shows Dipak Kantilal Desai, a once-prominent Las Vegas-area endoscopy clinic owner who was convicted of murder and 26 other charges in a 2007 hepatitis outbreak. Prison officials said Tuesday, April 11, 2017, that Desai died late Monday, April 10, 2017, at a Reno hospital in prison custody. He was 67. (Nevada Department of Corrections via AP) (Clark County Detention Center via AP)
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FILE - In this May 17, 2016 file photo, Oklahoma state Sen. Ervin Yen, R-Oklahoma City, is pictured on the Senate floor in Oklahoma City. Yen, the only medical doctor in the state Senate, described himself as a "pro-life" Catholic, but said he elected not to hear a House bill authored by state Rep. George Faught, R-Muskogee in his Health and Human Services committee, which would prohibit doctors from performing an abortion if they know it is being sought because the unborn child has been diagnosed with Down syndrome or a genetic abnormality. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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This photo provided by Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. shows the label on a bottle of the drug Ingrezza. On Tuesday, April 11, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved Ingrezza, the first drug for treating a neurological syndrome that causes uncontrollable body movements that can also interfere with speech, swallowing and breathing. (Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. via AP)
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions tours the U.S.-Mexico border with border officials, Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Nogales, Ariz. Sessions announced making immigration enforcement a key Justice Department priority, saying he will speed up deportations of immigrants in the country illegally who were convicted of federal crimes. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Protesters gather outside of a news conference where Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke after he toured the U.S.-Mexico border with border officials, Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Nogales, Ariz. Sessions announced making immigration enforcement a key Justice Department priority, saying he will speed up deportations of immigrants in the country illegally who were convicted of federal crimes. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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The House attempt to punish Planned Parenthood remains a sticking point for Sen. Susan M. Collins, Maine Republican, who said Sunday that it would be a mistake to defund the abortion provider. (Associated Press/File)
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Nuns on the Bus, The Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center (IJPC) and other community members protest Monday, April 10, 2017, in Cincinnati against the deportation of Maribel Trujillo Diaz. The planned deportation of the Mexican mother of four U.S.-born children was on hold Tuesday, April 11, 2017, as attorneys asked a federal appeals court to intervene amid widening political support for her. They filed an emergency request Monday with the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals for Trujillo Diaz. Immigration officials contend Trujillo Diaz entered the United States illegally in 2002 and has exhausted her appeals. (Cara Owsley /The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)
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Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., in this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 7, 2017, file photo, Gov. Rick Scott makes the state of the state address to the joint session of the legislature in Tallahassee, Fla. State Attorney Aramis Ayala has fired a double-barreled response to Scott’s efforts to take away almost two-dozen cases after she said her office would no longer seek the death penalty. Ayala on Tuesday, April 11, 2017, filed lawsuits in state and federal courts, challenging Scott’s ability to remove her from death-penalty cases. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)
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FILE - In this Thursday, March 16, 2017, file photo, Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala, during a news conference on the steps of the Orange County Courthouse, announces that her office will no longer pursue the death penalty as a sentence in any case brought before the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida. Ayala on Tuesday, April 11, 2017, filed lawsuits in state and federal courts, challenging Gov. Rick Scott’s ability to remove her from death-penalty cases. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrives for a news conference after touring the U.S.-Mexico border with border officials, Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in Nogales, Ariz. Sessions announced making immigration enforcement a key Justice Department priority, saying he will speed up deportations of immigrants in the country illegally who were convicted of federal crimes. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
