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FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2016, file photo, Proposition 61 backers attend a rally supporting the proposition in downtown Los Angeles. Campaign committees raised a record $466 million to influence proposals on the 2016 ballot in California from legalizing marijuana to limiting prescription drug prices, according to an Associated Press analysis of campaign finance documents. Pharmaceutical companies spent more than $109 million in a successful effort to defeat the prescription drug pricing measure Proposition 61. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, sits backstage as she waits to take part in a rehearsal during Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. To model for Lakme Fashion Week, one of the highlights of India's fashion calendar, is Lama's big moment. It's a dream that was years in the making and often seemed far beyond the reach of Lama now being touted as the first transgender woman to model for the high fashion event sponsored by a top Indian cosmetics brand. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, center, a transgender model from Nepal, interacts with other models after walking the ramp during Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. To model for Lakme Fashion Week, one of the highlights of India's fashion calendar, is Lama's big moment. It's a dream that was years in the making and often seemed far beyond the reach of Lama now being touted as the first transgender woman to model for the high fashion event sponsored by a top Indian cosmetics brand. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a makeup artist applies eye-shadow on Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, during Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, right, a transgender model from Nepal, waits backstage for her turn to walk the ramp during Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. To model for Lakme Fashion Week, one of the highlights of India's fashion calendar, is Lama's big moment. It's a dream that was years in the making and often seemed far beyond the reach of Lama now being touted as the first transgender woman to model for the high fashion event sponsored by a top Indian cosmetics brand. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Jan 30, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, speaks with another model during a trial event for Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, looks at her mobile phone backstage during Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. To model for Lakme Fashion Week, one of the highlights of India's fashion calendar, is Lama's big moment. It's a dream that was years in the making and often seemed far beyond the reach of Lama now being touted as the first transgender woman to model for the high fashion event sponsored by a top Indian cosmetics brand. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 2, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, walks the ramp at the Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 2, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, stands backstage at the Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, displays a creation by designer Gen Next during Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. To model for Lakme Fashion Week, one of the highlights of India's fashion calendar, is Lama's big moment. It's a dream that was years in the making and often seemed far beyond the reach of Lama now being touted as the first transgender woman to model for the high fashion event sponsored by a top Indian cosmetics brand. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 2, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, left, a transgender model from Nepal arrives to take part in Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, clasps her hands as she sits on stage during rehearsal for Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, waits backstage for rehearsals during Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, holds a scarf up with another model as they wait to walk the ramp during Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Jan 30, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, looks out of a window of a hotel during a trial event for Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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In this Jan. 17, 2017, file photo, Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, crosses a snow covered meadow after conducting the second manual snow survey of the season at at Phillips Station Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, near Echo Summit, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Frank Gehrke, right, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, carries the snowpack measuring tube as he crosses a snow covered meadow while conducting the second manual snow survey of the season at Phillips Station Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, in Echo Summit, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Springfield resident Lexi Amos asks Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens a question about MedicAid block grants and school vouchers following his delivery of an outline of the his state budget for fiscal year 2018 during an address at Nixa's Early Childhood Center inNixa, Mo., Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. (Guillermo Hernandez Martinez /The Springfield News-Leader via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2017 file photo, sub-Saharan migrants raise their hands to grab a life jacket as they are rescued by members of the Proactive Open Arms NGO, in the Mediterranean Sea north of Zumarah, Libya. European Union President Donald Tusk said on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, that a summit on migration on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, is poised to take a big step in closing off the illegal migration route through the central Mediterranean where thousands have died over the past several years trying to reach the EU from Libya. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
