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Stanford head coach Tara Vanderveer, top center, works with her players during practice for the women's NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Stanford players take part in practice for the women's NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Stanford players stretch during practice for the women's NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EDT.- Nancy Hoover, vicar at Grace Lutheran Church in the West End section of Johnstown, Pa., is shown outside the church, Wed., March 22, 2017. She is doing her part to battle the region's heroin epidemic. Hoover said she was stunned three years ago when she was asked by a young woman to speak at a funeral service for her brother, who had died of a heroin overdose. "They were from a good, middle-class family," Hoover said. (Todd Berkey/Tribune-Democrat via AP)
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In this March 23, 2017 photo, Jim Johnson talks about his life and goals for New Jersey during a meeting in Collingswood, N.J. Johnson, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate wants state election officials to punish the race’s wealthy Democratic front-runner over political groups he set up before officially entering the race. Johnson, a former treasury official in President Bill Clinton’s administration, requested Thursday, March 30 that the Election Law Enforcement Commission investigate Phil Murphy, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany in President Barack Obama’s administration. (Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
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FILE – In this Nov. 10, 2014, file photo, Philip Murphy, right, former U.S. ambassador to Germany in President Barack Obama's administration, listens as rock musician Jon Bon Jovi, left, speaks during an event to launch New Start New Jersey, a group seeking to influence policy in support of New Jersey's middle class, in Newark, N.J. Jim Johnson, a former treasury official in President Bill Clinton's administration, requested Thursday, March 30, 2017, that the Election Law Enforcement Commission investigate Murphy, a Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor and former Goldman Sachs executive. Johnson's campaign alleges two groups Murphy set up before officially entering the governor's race, New Start New Jersey and New Way for New Jersey, constituted exploratory committees. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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Rep. Mandi L. Ballinger, R - Canton, House sponsor of HB 280 and Rep. Rick Jasperse, R - Jasper, a supporter of the bill, watch the debate of the "Campus Carry" bill in the senate. State Sen. Bill Heath, R-Bremen, presented House Bill 280 in the Senate Tuesday, March 28, 2017. The legislation allows guns onto any campus in Georgia's public college and university system. It passed the Georgia Senate. The 39th legislative day of the 2017 General Assembly. (Bob Andres /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
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Dejohn Lee, accused of raping at least nine women, starting when he was 16, is escorted by police to an arraignment hearing in Media, Pa., Thursday, March 30, 2017. Delaware County District Attorney Jack Whelan on Monday said Lee has been in custody since early January, when one of his accusers saw him in a grocery store and called police. (Mari Schaefer/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
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Connecticut players workout during a practice session for the women's NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Dallas. UConn will play Mississippi State on Friday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Connecticut forward Katie Lou Samuelson shoots during a practice session for the women's NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Dallas. Connecticut will play Mississippi State on Friday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Mississippi State head coach Vic Schaefer, center, works with his team during a practice session for the women's NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Dallas. Mississippi State will play Connecticut on Friday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Eric as Evas Nelson, from Sandwich, Mass., and parents of a transgender child, wait for Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to arrive to raise a flag supporting the transgender community at City Hall, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Boston. The flag-raising event was organized after the "Free Speech Bus," painted with the words "boys are boys" and "girls are girls," parked outside City Hall earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)
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Kansas state Rep. Kent Thompson, R-LaHarpe, watches one of the House's electronic voting boards as the chamber discusses Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's veto of a bill expanding the state's Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act, Thursday, March 30, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The House has postponed a vote on overriding the veto, and sitting behind Thompson is Rep. Jim Karleskint, R-Tonganoxie, another supporter of the proposed expansion. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo, Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Prosecutors hoping to use Bill Cosby's explosive deposition testimony about getting quaaludes to give women in his sexual-assault trial also want to use references he made about trying to slip women the aphrodisiac Spanish fly. In a court filing Thursday, March 30, 2017, they quote Cosby making Spanish fly references in his 1991 book "Childhood" and in an interview that year with Larry King. They say the comments show his familiarity with date rape drugs. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER - In this Feb. 17, 2017 photo, Nick Moore, right, who started an internship at Hanson Professional Services in 2014 while studying engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, poses with his mentor Matt Heyen, left, a Hanson transportation engineer. The internship through the Grow Our Own Minority Participation Program led to a job for Moor. After graduating in May, Moore was hired by Hanson. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, takes a phone call as he returns from doing the manual snow survey at Phillips Station, Thursday, March 30, 2017, near Echo Summit, Calif. The survey found the snowpack's water content at 183 at percent of normal for this location at this time of year. Overall, the state's electronic snow monitors show the Sierra Nevada snowpack at 164 percent of normal. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Frank Gehrke, right, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, places the snow survey tube on a scale held by Nic Enstice, of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy while doing the manual snow survey at Phillips Station, Thursday, March 30, 2017, near Echo Summit, Calif. The survey found the snowpack's water content at 183 at percent of normal for this location at this time of year. Overall, the state's electronic snow monitors show the Sierra Nevada snowpack at 164 percent of normal. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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FILE - In this March 1, 2017 file photo, Frank Gehrke, right, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, plunges the survey tube into the snowpack as he conducts the third manual snow survey of the season at Phillips Station near Echo Summit, Calif. Surveyors will crunch across the deepest mountain snowdrifts California has seen in years on Thursday, March 30, 2017, to take the first snow measurement of the spring, a time when the snow begins to melt and flow downhill. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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Rep. Sarah Stevens, R- Surry listens from the floor of the state House during debate prior to a vote on HB 142 on Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina lawmakers voted Thursday to roll back North Carolina's "bathroom bill" in a bid to end the backlash over transgender rights that has cost the state dearly in business projects, conventions and basketball tournaments. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)
