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This Feb. 25, 2015 file photo shows filmmaker Roman Polanski during a break in a hearing concerning a U.S. request for his extradition over 1977 charges of sex with a minor, in Krakow, Poland. A Los Angeles judge has set a hearing for Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, to address a request by Polanksi's lawyer to unseal testimony from a former prosecutor who handled the fugitive director's 1977 sexual assault case. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)
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Brandeli Rojas of Beechview listens to one of the speakers during a rally in Pittsburgh's Beechview neighborhood, Thursday Feb. 16, 2017, protesting the recent crackdowns on immigrants ordered by President Donald Trump. Several dozen area residents marched down Broadway Avenue, Thursday Feb. 16, 2017, in one of the "Day Without Immigrants" protests being held across the United States. (Nate Guidry/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Allison Perez, 9, holds a sign as she marches with others during a protest outside the Grayson County courthouse in downtown Sherman, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. In an action called "A Day Without Immigrants," immigrants across the country are expected to stay home from school, work and close businesses to show how critical they are to the U.S. economy and way of life. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Several dozen area residents marched down Broadway Avenue in Pittsburgh's Beechview Ave. Thursday Feb. 16, 2017, protesting the recent crackdowns on immigrants ordered by President Donald Trump. "Day Without Immigrants" protests are being held across the United States. (Nate Guidry/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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Immigrant supporters marches with others during a protest outside the Grayson County courthouse in downtown Sherman, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. In an action called "A Day Without Immigrants," immigrants across the country are expected to stay home from school, work and close businesses to show how critical they are to the U.S. economy and way of life. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Protesters chant outside the Grayson County courthouse in downtown Sherman, Texas, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. In an action called "A Day Without Immigrants," immigrants across the country are expected to stay home from school, work and close businesses to show how critical they are to the U.S. economy and way of life. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Workers International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 3 protest outside the State House in advance of voting on right to work legislation in Concord, N.H., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. House lawmakers have killed the union-targeting legislation after a Republican-on-Republican debate. The outcome marks a defeat for Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who called right to work a top priority and had urged members of his party to get in line. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Workers International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 3 protest outside the House Chamber at the State House in advance of voting on right to work legislation in Concord, N.H., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. House lawmakers have killed the union-targeting legislation after a Republican-on-Republican debate. The outcome marks a defeat for Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who called right to work a top priority and had urged members of his party to get in line. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Three suspects were arrested in Florida Tuesday for attacking Gary Blough, a disabled Navy veteran who tried to stop them from torturing a turtle, police said. (FOX 35)
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FILE - This Jan. 8, 2017 file image released by NBC shows Meryl Streep accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Streep gave an impassioned speech at the Golden Globes criticizing President-elect Donald Trump for mocking a disabled reporter and calling for the defense of a free press. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP, File)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Former Vice President Al Gore, the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, opens the Climate & Health Meeting at The Carter Center in Atlanta on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. The conference, which was organized after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention canceled its own conference on climate change and health, brought together scientists, public health officials and health care providers. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)
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Former Vice President Al Gore, the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, opens the Climate & Health Meeting at The Carter Center in Atlanta on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz) ** FILE **
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Former Vice President Al Gore, the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, opens the Climate & Health Meeting at The Carter Center in Atlanta on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. The conference, which was organized after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention canceled its own conference on climate change and health, brought together scientists, public health officials and health care providers. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)
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FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2017 file photo, Budget Director-designate Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee. The Republican-controlled Senate is poised to confirm Mulvaney on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Budget Director-designate Rep. Mick Mulvaney, South Carolina Republican, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Budget Committee on Jan. 24, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE- In this Monday, Sept. 21, 2015 file photo, Victims receive treatment at a hospital, after an explosion in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's nearly month-long medical leave in London is reminding his country's taxpayers that while they finance their leaders' health care abroad, they often are stuck with decrepit, ill-staffed government health facilities at home. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola File)
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FILE- In this Monday, Sept. 21, 2015 file photo, Victims receive treatment at a hospital, after an explosion in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's nearly month-long medical leave in London is reminding his country's taxpayers that while they finance their leaders' health care abroad, they often are stuck with decrepit, ill-staffed government health facilities at home. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola File)
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In this Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 photo, Michael Boone poses for a portrait in his Gary Ind., home. Seema Verma, the businesswoman selected by President Donald Trump to oversee Medicaid, the health insurance program for 74 million low-income Americans, has said the program is structurally flawed by policies that burden states and foster dependency in the poor. Verma's solutions to the flaws she sees in Medicaid can be seen most dramatically in Indiana where enrollees pay fees and a missed payment means a six-month lockout from the program. Boone says the coverage he gained from the Indiana Medicaid expansion has been "a godsend." (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, Seema Verma, left, then President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, gets on an elevator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Verma, the businesswoman selected by President Donald Trump to oversee Medicaid, the health care program for 74 million low-income Americans, has said the program is structurally flawed at its core by policies that burden states and foster dependency in the poor. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci File)
