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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmate Jason McGehee. A judge on Thursday, April 6, 2017, blocked the execution of McGehee, one of the eight inmates Arkansas was planning to put to death this month. The ruling came a day after the Arkansas Parole Board recommended Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson grant McGehee clemency. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP, File)
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FILE - In this July 7, 2015, file photo, Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight sits for a hearing in his murder case in Superior Court in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles judge on Thursday, April 6, 2017, ordered Knight's trial on murder and attempted murder charges to begin in January 2018, telling the Death Row Records co-founder that there would be no further delays and the date was set "in stone." (Patrick T. Fallon/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, said the latest health care proposal "brings us closer to the final agreement that we all want to achieve."
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Activists protest against digital policy and dataveillance at the G20 Digital Ministers meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) ** FILE **
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In this Wednesday, March 22, 2017 photo, Spencer Worley of Castle Rock, Colo., joins other protesters against the failed Republican-proposed health care act in a demonstration outside the office of U.S. Rep. Ken Buck in Castle Rock, Colo. The vociferous opposition that greeted President Donald Trump on Inauguration weekend and has dogged him since has tended to come from the left. But continuing disapproval from many conservatives raises the question of how much the politically split anti-Trump factions can or should join forces. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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In this Wednesday, March 22, 2017 photo, an unidentified protester wears a baseball cap with President Donald Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again", written in Russian Cyrillic as he joins other protesters against the failed Republican-proposed health care act in a demonstration outside the office of U.S. Rep. Ken Buck in Castle Rock, Colo. The vociferous opposition that greeted the GOP president on Inauguration weekend and has dogged him since has tended to come from the left. But continuing disapproval from many conservatives raises the question of how much the politically split anti-Trump factions can or should join forces. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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In this Wednesday, March 22, 2017 photo, Carolyn Williamson waves a placard in support of Planned Parenthood as she joins other protesters against the failed Republican health care act in a demonstration outside the office of U.S. Rep. Ken Buck in Castle Rock, Colo. A Republican until the past presidential election, Williamson has joined a conservative group against the policies of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Illustration on concealed carry for women at risk for gender violence by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Sen. Jeff Merkley, Oregon Democrat, called the "nuclear option" a victory for democracy four years ago. Now, with his party in the minority, he is fighting to save the Senate power of the filibuster. (Associated Press)
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, appears at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb, left, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is greeted by Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., as he arrives for his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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The Capitol is seen at sunrise in Washington, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. The Trump administration and Republican lawmakers plan to continue their uphill effort to exhume the House GOP's health care bill, but remain adrift and divided over how to reshape it to attract enough votes to muscle it through the chamber. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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This combination of undated photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmates Jack Harold Jones Jr., left, and Marcel Williams. Both men are scheduled for execution on April 24, 2017. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP)
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FILE - This combination of file photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmates Bruce Earl Ward, left, and Don William Davis. Both men are scheduled for execution April 17, 2017. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP, File)
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of New York takes a question during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. to discuss US-China trade issues ahead of Chinese President Xi's upcoming meeting with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Former Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador salutes as he leaves in between supporters after speaking about immigration and against U.S. President Donald Trump's policies during a meeting with Mexican migrants at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in New York, Monday, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
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A house of parents of a suicide bomber who was behind Monday's blast on the St. Petersburg, Russia, subway, in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Russian investigators on Tuesday said the bomb on the St. Petersburg subway was set off by a suicide bomber and identified him as Kyrgyz-born Russian citizen Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, who turned 22 two days before the attack. (AP Photo)
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This Sept. 30, 2015 photo provided by Lambda Legal shows Kimberly Hively at the federal courthouse in Chicago. A federal appeals court ruled for the first time Tuesday, April 4, 2017, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBT employees from workplace discrimination, setting up a likely battle before the Supreme Court as gay rights advocates push to broaden the scope of the 53-year-old law. The case stems from a lawsuit by Indiana teacher Hively alleging that the Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend didn't hire her full time because she is a lesbian. (Lambda Legal via AP)
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Tania Venegas, left, and her lawyer Clare Hanusz, right, walk into a U.S. immigration office in Honolulu on Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Venegas, who fears returning to Mexico because of an abusive ex-boyfriend there, turned herself in for deportation but was later released after posting a $5,000 bond while U.S. immigration officials consider her asylum case. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
