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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during his final presidential news conference, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. A spokesman for Obama says the former president "fundamentally disagrees" with discrimination that targets people based on their religion. The statement alluded to but did not specifically mention President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees from several Muslim-majority countries. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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FILE - in this March 10, 2003 file photo, Bill Medley, one half of the famed Righteous Brothers singing duo, poses for photographers after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York. Officials are expected to release additional information on Monday, Jan. 30, about how they solved the 1976 rape and killing of Medley's ex-wife Karen Klaas. Klaas was sexually assaulted and strangled with pantyhose. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2013, file photo, Kal Penn arrives at CBS's 1st National TV Dinner Night at the CBS Radford Studios in Los Angeles. Penn raised more than $500,000 for Syrian refugees after launching an online fundraiser on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. (Photo by Matt Sayles /Invision/AP, File)
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Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in ‘The Theory of Everything’ - Best Actor (2014)
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Demonstrators hold banners as they take part in a protest against U.S President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban on refugees and people from seven mainly-Muslim countries, outside Downing Street in London, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. On Friday President Trump signed an executive order halting the US refugee programme for 120 days, indefinitely banning all Syrian refugees and suspended issuing visas for people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria or Yemen for at least 90 days. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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FILE - In this May, 12, 2015, file photo, Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee speaks to reporters while leaving the Subordinate Courts after being released on bail in Singapore. Yee, who is seeking seeking asylum after online posts mocking his government landed him jail, appeared in a Chicago immigration court Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, via video from an Illinois jail where he's been held since immigration authorities took him into custody at O'Hare International Airport in December 2016. Yee's attorneys submitted his asylum application Monday. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2010 file photo, an apple, stuffed animals, and flowers are among the items placed at a growing memorial to slain teacher Jennifer Paulson across the street from Birney Elementary School in Tacoma, Wash. When the economy tanks, school shootings rise, unlike other violent crime, a new study finds. A multi-disciplinary team of researchers at Northwestern University analyzed data from 379 shootings in schools, not just mass shootings or gang involved ones, between 1990 and 2013 and found an interesting correlation between changes in national and local unemployment rates and how frequent the shootings happen. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Muslim men line up in prayer after a protest against President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations, at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, in Detroit on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. (Virginia Lozano/Detroit News via AP)
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A crowd protests against President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations, at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, in Detroit on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. (Virginia Lozano/Detroit News via AP)
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Demonstrators hold signs and chant during a protest against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the United States by citizens of several countries Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. (Jeffrey M. Smith/The Times Herald via AP)
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Demonstrators hold signs and chant in the baggage claim area during a protest against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the United States by citizens of several countries Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. (Jeffrey M. Smith/The Times Herald via AP)
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Demonstrators gather during a protest against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the United States by citizens of several countries Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. (Jeffrey M. Smith/The Times Herald via AP)
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People gather during a protest against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the United States by citizens of several countries Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. (Jeffrey M. Smith/The Times Herald via AP)
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People march back to their cars during a protest against an executive order on immigration from President Trump at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. Hundreds of people gathered to voice their opposition to President Trump's recent executive order barring citizens of several majority Muslim countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days. (Neil Blake/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
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Bruce Springsteen used a break between songs Monday night to criticize President Trump's executive order restricting immigration from several predominantly Muslim nations. (YouTube/@Bruce Springsteen)
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A Syrian family waits to register at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees headquarters, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. By executive order, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 90-day ban, Friday, that affects travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen and puts an indefinite hold on a program resettling Syrian refugees. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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People chant slogans at the Indianapolis International Airport, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, during a protest against President Donald Trump's executive order temporarily suspending all immigration for citizens of seven majority Muslim countries for 90 days. (Kelly Wilkinson/The Indianapolis Star via AP)
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Demonstrators block an escalator at the international terminal as protests against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries continue at San Francisco International Airport, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Olga Rodriguez)
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Demonstrators stage a sit-in at the international terminal while police stand and watch the protest against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the U.S. by citizens of several countries at San Francisco International Airport, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017 (AP Photo/Olga Rodriguez)
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Demonstrators block the way for flight crew members, two at left and one at center right, from proceeding at the international terminal as people protest against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel to the U.S. by citizens of several countries at San Francisco International Airport, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Olga Rodriguez)
