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North Carolina state House members speak in the back of the House floor 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)
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Rep. Michael Speciale, R- Craven, debates on the floor of the the North Carolina State House 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)
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Eric and 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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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, left, watches his deputy director of scheduling Alex Zafris, who is transgender, crank the handle 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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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, left, hugs his deputy director of scheduling Alex Zafris, who is transgender, before they raised a flag, right, 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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Rep. Jeff Collins speaks against HB 142 as it is debated on the House floor in the General Assembly in Raleigh, NC on Thursday, March 30, 2017. It is a bill to replace the controversial HB2. The bill passed the Senate, and then went to the House, where it also passed. (Chris Seward/The News & Observer via AP)
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Stanford head coach Tara Vanderveer, right, works with her players during practice at the women's NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament, Thursday, March 30, 2017, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A visitor looks at a screen during a press visit of a prescient exhibit exploring the psychology behind racism at Paris' Museum of Mankind, Thursday, March 30, 2017. The exhibit comes during a presidential campaign in France that's been littered with anti-Islam rhetoric, and comes the same week in which violence on the streets of Paris has exposed deep racial tensions affecting France's large Asian community. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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A visitor adjusts her escarpin during a press visit of a prescient exhibit exploring the psychology behind racism at Paris' Museum of Mankind, Thursday, March 30, 2017. The exhibit comes during a presidential campaign in France that's been littered with anti-Islam rhetoric, and comes the same week in which violence on the streets of Paris has exposed deep racial tensions affecting France's large Asian community. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Visitors looks at a video screen during a press visit of a prescient exhibit exploring the psychology behind racism at Paris' Museum of Mankind, Thursday, March 30, 2017. The exhibit comes during a presidential campaign in France that's been littered with anti-Islam rhetoric, and comes the same week in which violence on the streets of Paris has exposed deep racial tensions affecting France's large Asian community. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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A visitor, at right, looks on during a press visit of a prescient exhibit exploring the psychology behind racism at Paris' Museum of Mankind, Thursday, March 30, 2017. The exhibit comes during a presidential campaign in France that's been littered with anti-Islam rhetoric, and comes the same week in which violence on the streets of Paris has exposed deep racial tensions affecting France's large Asian community. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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A giant screen displays a video during a press visit of a prescient exhibit exploring the psychology behind racism at Paris' Museum of Mankind, Thursday, March 30, 2017. The exhibit comes during a presidential campaign in France that's been littered with anti-Islam rhetoric, and comes the same week in which violence on the streets of Paris has exposed deep racial tensions affecting France's large Asian community. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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A visitors takes a photo with his phone during a press visit of a prescient exhibit exploring the psychology behind racism at Paris' Museum of Mankind, Thursday, March 30, 2017. The exhibit comes during a presidential campaign in France that's been littered with anti-Islam rhetoric, and comes the same week in which violence on the streets of Paris has exposed deep racial tensions affecting France's large Asian community. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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A visitors looks on during a press visit of a prescient exhibit exploring the psychology behind racism at Paris' Museum of Mankind, Thursday, March 30, 2017. The exhibit comes during a presidential campaign in France that's been littered with anti-Islam rhetoric, and comes the same week in which violence on the streets of Paris has exposed deep racial tensions affecting France's large Asian community. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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A visitors is silhouetted front of a video screen during a press visit of a prescient exhibit exploring the psychology behind racism at Paris' Museum of Mankind, Thursday, March 30, 2017. The exhibit comes during a presidential campaign in France that's been littered with anti-Islam rhetoric, and comes the same week in which violence on the streets of Paris has exposed deep racial tensions affecting France's large Asian community. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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Twitter sued the Trump administration last week in response to its previously unreported attempt to learn about @ALT_USCIS, an account purportedly run by a current employee of Citizenship and Immigration Services. The social-media giant dropped its case a day later after the federal government withdrew its request, Twitter said in a court filing. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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Daniel Ramirez Medina, center, briefly talks to reporters as he walks with his attorney, Luis Cortes, right, after Ramirez was freed from custody at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Ramirez had spent more than six weeks in immigration detention despite his participation in a program designed to prevent the deportation of those brought to the U.S. illegally as children. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) ** FILE **
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Daniel Ramirez Medina, center, walks out of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., with his attorney, Luis Cortes, right, and his brother, left, who has not been identified by name, after Ramirez was released from federal custody, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Ramirez had spent more than six weeks in immigration detention despite his participation in a program designed to prevent the deportation of those brought to the U.S. illegally as children. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, speaks with reporters about Democratic objections to the GOP agenda on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 30, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015 file photo, migrants whose boat stalled at sea while crossing from Turkey to Greece swim to approach the shore of the island of Lesbos, Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
