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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2015, file photo, enrollment counselor Vue Yang, left, goes over some of the plans available through the state health insurance exchange with Laura San Nicolas, center, accompanied by her daughter, Geena, while enrolling for health insurance at Sacramento Covered in Sacramento, Calif. Allowing insurers to market health care policies across state lines is one of President Donald Trump's main ideas for bringing down costs. While supporters of the idea cast it as a way to make insurance policies more competitive, critics say it's unlikely to result in more affordable plans and could undermine stronger consumer protections in states such as California and Hawaii. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2016, file photo, Colorado state Sen. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, makes a point about a public records bill that he co-sponsored during testimony on the measure before a state Senate committee in Denver. This bill died in the GOP-led Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. A new bill, sponsored by Kefalas, to bring Colorado's Open Records Act into the 21st century gets a Senate committee hearing Wednesday, March 1, 2017, after months of efforts, led by the secretary of state’s office, to show how public documents can be released by government agencies in digital formats without jeopardizing individuals’ privacy. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017 filer photo, work continues on a taller fence in the Mexico-US border area separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park, New Mexico. President Donald Trump is spotlighting violence committed by immigrants, announcing the creation of a national office that can assist American victims of such crimes. He said during his address Tuesday night that the Homeland Security Department's Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement office will provide a voice for people ignored by the media and "silenced by special interests." (AP Photo/Christian Torres, File)
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Daniela Vargas, whose father and brother were picked up during a recent immigration raid of undocumented immigrants listens as speakers discuss the series of raids that also picked up other undocumented immigrants across the state during a news conference at the Jackson, Miss., city hall, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Vargas was detained by ICE agents following the news conference. A college student, Vargas hopes to continue her education but fears for the fate of other undocumented immigrant families. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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FILE - In this May 26, 2016, file photo, an empty school reader board stands in front of the only school building in Dietrich, Idaho. The small community is struggling with the national attention brought by reports that a disabled black football player was raped by his white high school teammates. The allegations of racist taunts and physical abuse suffered by the teen were revealed this month when the family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Dietrich School District. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi, File)
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Sen. Michael Connelly, R-Naperville, left, Sen. Dale Righter, R-Mattoon and Sen. Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, discuss a piece of the budget deal in the Illinois Senate Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. The Senate voted on pieces of the package but plan to take up big issues like tax hikes and workers comp Wednesday. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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Sweden's Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate Isabella Lovin talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Brussel, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Organizers say some 50 countries signed up at short notice to attend Thursday's global family planning conference specifically called to see how nations can make up for a funding gap of about half a billion dollars left by President Donald Trump's ban on U.S. funding to organizations linked to legal abortion. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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Belgian Vice Prime Minister Alexander De Croo talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Brussel, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Organizers say some 50 countries signed up at short notice to attend Thursday's global family planning conference specifically called to see how nations can make up for a funding gap of about half a billion dollars left by President Donald Trump's ban on U.S. funding to organizations linked to legal abortion. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 5 AND THEREAFTER - In a Feb. 19, 2017 photo, congregants join in the worship during Sunday morning services at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Orange, Texas. In honor of Black History Month, part of Rev. C.W. Crawford's message to the congregation was on the role the church has played within the community as the first established Black church in Orange, and the part it continues to play in bettering the lives of those within the community. (Kim Brent/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 5 AND THEREAFTER - In a Feb. 19, 2017 photo, the youth choir sings during Sunday morning services at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Orange, Texas. In honor of Black History Month, part of Rev. C.W. Crawford's message to the congregation was on the role the church has played within the community as the first established Black church in Orange, and the part it continues to play in bettering the lives of those within the community. (Kim Brent/The Beaumont Enterprise via AP)
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FILE - In this May 3, 2014 file photo, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, right, and Marie Collins attend a press conference at the Vatican. Collins, an Irish woman who was sexually abused by clergy, has quit in frustration her post on a Vatican commission advising Pope Francis about how to fight abuse of minors, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
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This Nov. 4, 2013, file photo shows the sign outside of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Twitter announced Wednesday, March 1, 2017, it is adding more new tools to curb abuse, part of an ongoing effort to protect its users from hate and harassment. It the second time in three weeks the company has released new features aimed at rooting out abusive content, signaling that its getting more serious about the issue after being criticized for not doing enough in the decade since its founding. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) **FILE**
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In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, a South Sudanese refugee woman sits with her child at a refugee collection center in Palorinya, Uganda. More than 100,000 people have fled a single county in South Sudan in just three months as civil war continues amid warnings of genocide, and the surge of more than half a million South Sudanese refugees into Uganda since July has created Africa's largest refugee crisis. (AP Photo/Justin Lynch)
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In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, young South Sudanese refugee boys stand inside a shelter at a refugee collection center in Palorinya, Uganda. More than 100,000 people have fled a single county in South Sudan in just three months as civil war continues amid warnings of genocide, and the surge of more than half a million South Sudanese refugees into Uganda since July has created Africa's largest refugee crisis. (AP Photo/Justin Lynch)
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In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, two South Sudanese refugee boys carrying their belongings arrive at a refugee collection center in Palorinya, Uganda. More than 100,000 people have fled a single county in South Sudan in just three months as civil war continues amid warnings of genocide, and the surge of more than half a million South Sudanese refugees into Uganda since July has created Africa's largest refugee crisis. (AP Photo/Justin Lynch)
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This image provided by Facebook shows a demonstration of live reporter support, an example of one of the company's suicide prevention tools. Facebook is beefing up its suicide prevention tools, adding ways for crisis workers to reach out to people through Messenger. It’s also adding options for people to report if someone might harm themselves while broadcasting on Facebook Live and is streamlining the process to report posts about suicide or self-injury. Facebook has had suicide prevention tools for more than a decade. (Facebook via AP)
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This image provided by Facebook shows a demonstration of live broadcaster support, an example of one of the company's suicide prevention tools. Facebook is beefing up its suicide prevention tools, adding ways for crisis workers to reach out to people through Messenger. It’s also adding options for people to report if someone might harm themselves while broadcasting on Facebook Live and is streamlining the process to report posts about suicide or self-injury. Facebook has had suicide prevention tools for more than a decade. (Facebook via AP)
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In this Feb. 16, 2017 photo, Japanese film director Shinya Tsukamoto speaks during an interview in Tokyo. Violence pulsates in Tsukamoto’s early films, driving stories into nightmarish fantasies like in 1989’s “Tetsuo,” which ridicules middle-class conformity with a man-becomes-machine metamorphosis. The nature of violence changed in his more recent films, from whimsical “cyberpunk” horror to horrifying reality. In the interview, he says that’s why he identified so closely with Martin Scorsese’s “Silence,” in which he plays a Christian martyr in samurai-era Japan. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)
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In this Feb. 16, 2017 photo, Japanese film director Shinya Tsukamoto speaks during an interview in Tokyo. Violence pulsates in Tsukamoto’s early films, driving stories into nightmarish fantasies like in 1989’s “Tetsuo,” which ridicules middle-class conformity with a man-becomes-machine metamorphosis. The nature of violence changed in his more recent films, from whimsical “cyberpunk” horror to horrifying reality. In an interview, he says that’s why he identified so closely with Martin Scorsese’s “Silence,” in which he plays a Christian martyr in samurai-era Japan. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)
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In this Dec. 25, 2016, photo, recovering drug addicts rest at a state run rehabilitation center in Kabul, Afghanistan. A small group of former addicts is trying to help drug users in Afghanistan, a country with one of the highest rates of addiction in the world. Thousands can be found in the streets of the capital, Kabul, sleeping under bridges, as the government struggles to provide services and rein in cultivation of poppies that produce opium and heroin. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
