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Republican Rep. Kim Coleman votes on the House floor at the Utah State Capitol on Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Utah lawmakers on Thursday were expected to consider a bill requiring college counselors to keep sexual abuse reports confidential, almost one year after Mormon-owned Brigham Young University faced major backlash when it was revealed it shared assault victim information with its honor code office. Earlier this week, lawmakers rejected a bill that would have allowed colleges to send some reports of sex assault to law enforcement without victims' consent. The proposal by Coleman appeared dead after a tight vote in the House of Representatives amid concern that it would take control out of the hands of the victims and result in fewer students coming forward. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Los Angeles Sheriff's Det. Sgt. Marvin Jaramilla announces Thursday, March 2, 2017, that a California college football player convicted of sexual assault as a teenager has been arrested on suspicion of raping his physical therapist. Jaramilla said Kishawn Holmes is suspected of sexually assaulting the 19-year-old victim. He said the victim is a fellow student at Cerritos College. (AP Photo/Michael Balsamo)
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This undated booking photo provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows Kishawn Holmes. Los Angeles Sheriff's Det. Sgt. Marvin Jaramilla said Thursday, March 2, 2017, that Holmes, a Cerritos College football player once convicted of sexual assault as a teenager, has been arrested on suspicion of raping his physical therapist. Jaramilla said Holmes is suspected of sexually assaulting the 19-year-old victim, a fellow Cerritos student. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department via AP)
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KPMG employee volunteers and officials from First Book doled out free books to more than 450 children Thursday at the "Read to Succeed" book fair, which aims to boost childhood literacy. (Julia Brouillette/The Washington Times)
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FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2017 file photo, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton speaks in St. Paul, Minn. Minnesota officials are bracing for billions of dollars in additional health care expenses if congressional Republicans enact a plan they're discussing to replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a draft document obtained by The Associated Press. Dayton said this week that he wants to wait and see how the federal government proceeds on health care. (AP Photo/Jim Mone File)
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Sharona Durry watches as the Jewish Federation holds a 'Stand Against Hate' rally at Independence Hall, to protest the recent vandalism of Jewish cemeteries as well as hate crimes, Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Philadelphia. (David Swanson /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
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Gov. Tom Wolf wears a yarmulke after speaking at the Jewish Federation as they hold a 'Stand Against Hate' rally at Independence Hall to protest the recent vandalism of Jewish cemeteries as well as hate crimes, Thursday March 2, 2017. (David Swanson /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
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Rev. Ruth Santana-Grace, center, stands with other religious leaders as the Jewish Federation holds a 'Stand Against Hate' rally at Independence Hall, to protest the recent vandalism of Jewish cemeteries as well as hate crimes, Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Philadelphia. (David Swanson /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY MARCH 4 AND THEREAFTER - Seen in a Feb. 20, 2017 photo, the former Veil Maternity Hospital for unmarried women on East Main Street in Corry, Pa., is now an apartment complex. Veil hospitals offered the babies born there for adoption. (Dave Munch/Erie Times-News via AP)
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Dallas immigration attorney Fatma Marouf holds up a bond order in front of the federal building after leaving immigration court in Dallas, Thursday, March 2, 2017, from a federal immigration judge for Sara Beltran Hernandez, a Salvadoran woman seeking asylum. An immigration judge has granted bond to Hernandez so she can leave a detention facility to seek treatment for a brain tumor. (AP Photo/Claudia Lauer)
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, walks to a room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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FILE - In this July 29, 2015 file photo, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during a hearing in Austin, Texas. A federal judge on Thursday, March 2, 2017, dismissed the U.S. government's securities fraud lawsuit against Paxton, though the Republican still faces criminal charges of duping wealthy investors. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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In this photo provided by the Interior Department shows Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke arriving for his first day of work at the Interior Department in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017, aboard Tonto, an 17-year-old Irish sport horse. (Interior Department via AP)
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In this photo provided by the Interior Department shows Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke arriving for his first day of work at the Interior Department in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017, aboard Tonto, an 17-year-old Irish sport horse. (Interior Department via AP)
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Convicts build the fence of the second defence line behind the first protective fence on the border between Hungary and Serbia near Kelebia, 178 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. The Hungarian government decided to construct a second fence along the border with Serbia to prevent migrants' illegal entry into Hungary last Thursday, Febr. 23. (Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP)
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Convicts with the help of a ward, left, build the fence of the second defence line behind the first protective fence on the border between Hungary and Serbia near Kelebia, 178 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. The Hungarian government decided to construct a second fence along the border with Serbia to prevent migrants' illegal entry into Hungary last Thursday, Febr. 23. (Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP)
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Convicts build the fence of the second defence line behind the first protective fence on the border between Hungary and Serbia near Kelebia, 178 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. The Hungarian government decided to construct a second fence along the border with Serbia to prevent migrants' illegal entry into Hungary last Thursday, Febr. 23. (Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP)
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Australia's Ambassador for Women and Girls for the Department of Foreign Trade and Affairs, Sharman Stone, left, speaks with Afghanistan's Minister for Women's Affairs Alhaj Delbar Nazari, center, as they attend the conference, She Decides, at the Egmont Palace in Brussels on Thursday, March 2, 2017. Nations are pledging tens of millions of dollars at an international family planning conference in Brussels aimed at making up for the gap left by President Donald Trump's ban on U.S. funding to groups linked to abortion. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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Activists demonstrate in front of EU headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, March 2, 2017. At an international conference taking place in Brussels called 'She Decides', nations are pledging tens of millions of dollars aimed at making up for the gap left by President Donald Trump's ban on U.S. funding to groups linked to abortion. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
