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This photo released by Pennsylvania State Police, shows Oscar Hernandez. Police say a missing 6-year-old Connecticut girl has been found in Pennsylvania after a high-speed chase and crash involving a car driven by her father, Oscar Hernandez, who's suspected in her mother's killing. Pennsylvania state police say Aylin Sofia Hernandez suffered minor injuries in the crash Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Federal immigration officials say her father is a citizen of El Salvador who was deported in 2013 and he's in custody.
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Mack Beggs, top, a transgender wrestler from Euless Trinity High School, competes in a quarterfinal match against Mya Engert, of Amarillo Tascosa, during the State Wrestling Tournament, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Cypress, Texas. Beggs was born a girl and is transitioning to male but wrestles in the girls division. ( Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Mack Beggs, right, a transgender wrestler from Euless Trinity, is shown during a quarterfinal against Mya Engert of Amarillo Tascosa during the state wrestling tournament Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Cypress, Texas. Beggs was born a female and is transitioning to male but wrestles in the girls division. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Mack Beggs, right, a transgender wrestler from Euless Trinity competes in a quarterfinal against Mya Engert of Amarillo Tascosa during the state wrestling tournament Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Cypress, Texas. Beggs was born a female and is transitioning to male but wrestles in the girls division. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Mack Beggs, top, a transgender wrestler from Euless Trinity competes in a quarterfinal against Mya Engert of Amarillo Tascosa during the state wrestling tournament Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Cypress, Texas. Beggs was born a female and is transitioning to male but wrestles in the girls division. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Texas guard Lashann Higgs (10) shoots against Iowa State during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Texas guard Ariel Atkins (23) is pressured by Iowa State guard Seanna Johnson (12) as she looks to shoot during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Texas guard Brianna Taylor (20) shoots over Iowa State guard Bridget Carleton (21) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Texas guard Ariel Atkins (23) pulls down a rebound during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against Iowa State, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Texas guard Brooke McCarty (11) passes the ball away from Iowa State forward Heather Bowe (4) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Iowa State guard Bridget Carleton, left, fouls Texas guard Brianna Taylor (20) as she moves the ball up court during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Iowa State forward Heather Bowe (4) celebrates a score during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against Texas, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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This Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, photo, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes looks on during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Reyes is highlighting his work targeting human trafficking and child sexual exploitation cases, but he's declining to provide details about recent cases. The Deseret News reports that Reyes and officials from 25 agencies held the news conference to announce 16 arrests have been made since Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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This Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, photo, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes looks on during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Reyes is highlighting his work targeting human trafficking and child sexual exploitation cases, but he's declining to provide details about recent cases. The Deseret News reports that Reyes and officials from 25 agencies held the news conference to announce 16 arrests have been made since Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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This Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, photo, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes speaks during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Reyes is highlighting his work targeting human trafficking and child sexual exploitation cases, but he's declining to provide details about recent cases. The Deseret News reports that Reyes and officials from 25 agencies held the news conference to announce 16 arrests have been made since Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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This Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, photo, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes speaks during a news conference at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Reyes is highlighting his work targeting human trafficking and child sexual exploitation cases, but he's declining to provide details about recent cases. The Deseret News reports that Reyes and officials from 25 agencies held the news conference to announce 16 arrests have been made since Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 photo, El Paso County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal, left, answers a question in El Paso, Texas, as County Judge Veronica Escobar and Center Against Sexual and Family Violence Executive Director Stephanie Karr listen as the three take questions from local media concerning the arrest of Irvin Gonzalez. The arrest by federal authorities in El Paso of the transgender woman who was seeking protection from an abusive boyfriend has led to questions about what lengths authorities will go to apprehend people under newly stepped-up immigration policies. (Mark Lambie /The El Paso Times via AP)
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In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 photo, El Paso County Attorney Jo Anne Bernal, from left, County Judge Veronica Escobar, District Attorney Jaime Esparza and Stephanie Karr, executive director of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence, hold a teleconference in El Paso, Texas, with national and local media concerning Irvin Gonzalez, a transgender woman who was seeking protection from an abusive boyfriend, who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The video on the screen shows ICE officers holding Gonzalez's arm as they escort her from the El Paso County Courthouse. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)
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Republican Gov. Bill Haslam discusses his proposal to boost transportation funding in Tennessee in Algood, Tenn., on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. There is a growing call among lawmakers from both parties that the governor's plan to should include more middle-class tax breaks to offset the plan to raise the state's gas tax for the first time since 1989. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
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FILE - This Oct. 14, 2016 file booking photo provided by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office in Wichita, Kan., shows Patrick Stein, the alleged leader of a militia group accused of plotting to bomb a apartment complex in western Kansas where Somali refugees lived. At a detention hearing Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, Klein's attorney said his client believed then President Barack Obama would declare martial law and not recognize the validity of the election if Donald Trump won - forcing militias to step in. (Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
