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In this Dec. 19, 2016 photo, Father Jim Sichko, left, talked with Imam Mahmoud Shalash, center, and Majeed Karati, right, while explaining at the Islamic Center of Lexington, in Lexington, Ky. Sichko paid out about $6,000 in holiday good will to a Starbucks counter crew, a Muslim refugee family, a Hispanic family with a desperately ill father and an LGBT man who needed help with groceries for himself and his mother. (Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)
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In this Dec. 19, 2016 photo, Father Jim Sichko is embraced by employee Victoria Lovejoy after giving her a $100 bill to at Starbucks in Lexington, Ky. Sichko paid out about $6,000 in holiday good will to a Starbucks counter crew, a Muslim refugee family, a Hispanic family with a desperately ill father and an LGBT man who needed help with groceries for himself and his mother. (Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)
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In this Dec. 19, 2016 photo, Father Jim Sichko takes a selfie with employees after giving them each a $100 bill at Starbucks, in Lexington, Ky. Sichko paid out about $6,000 in holiday good will to a Starbucks counter crew, a Muslim refugee family, a Hispanic family with a desperately ill father and an LGBT man who needed help with groceries for himself and his mother. (Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)
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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin speaks before the arrival of President-elect Donald Trump during the first stop of Trump's post-election tour in Cincinnati. With Republicans strengthening their grip on power in the November elections, Bevin said Republicans will pursue numerous “things that have been bottled up for years and need to at least have votes on them,” citing school choice measures and “reform” proposals for pension, tax and litigation laws, among others. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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FILE - In this July 31, 2016, file photo, New York Mets Asdrubal Cabrera is carried off the field by coaches and a trainer after he limped across the plate during a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, in New York. The rise in Major League Baseball’s average salary slowed this year as more players got hurt and wound up on the disabled list, leaving the increase at just under $14,000. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2009, file photo, a shopper looks over the milk aisle at the Hunger Mountain Co-op in Montpelier, Vt. U.S. Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, and other members of Congress are pushing in December 2016 for the Food and Drug Administration to enforce a definition of milk that would not include non-dairy products like soy or almonds. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2016 file photo, protesters demonstrate ahead of Pennsylvania's 58th Electoral College at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. After the election that saw the winner of the popular vote fall short of the U.S. presidency, legislators in states including Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Mexico said they plan to introduce legislation that would require their state's Electoral College voters cast ballots for the presidential candidate who earns the most votes nationwide, regardless of the statewide results. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - This Jan. 27, 2016, file photo provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, shows Ryan Bundy. On Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, the eldest son of jailed Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy is again asking to be released from federal custody pending trial in an armed standoff against federal agents near the family ranch in April 2014. (Multnomah County Sheriff via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2013 file photo, former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young speaks at the Let Freedom Ring ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. As the election of Donald Trump sets in, some dispirited black and Latino liberal activists are looking to veterans of the Civil Rights Movements on how to respond to strong disappointment amid uncertainty over voting rights, immigration reform and police shootings. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file)
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FILE - In this July 28, 2016 file photo, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta speaks during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. As the election of Donald Trump sets in, some dispirited black and Latino liberal activists are looking to veterans of the Civil Rights Movements on how to respond to strong disappointment amid uncertainty over voting rights, immigration reform and police shootings. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, file)
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Scott Root, whose sister Sarah was killed by an illegal immigrant, gave a hug to Donald Trump. Mother Michelle Wilson-Root says the president-elect "has a heart of gold," and she and Sarah's father, Scott Bernhardt, have since become Republicans (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and the ranking members of 16 Senate committees issued a joint statement demanding that before nominees advance in committee they clear FBI background checks, provide complete finance disclosures and signed ethics agreements and satisfy "reasonable requests for additional information." (Associated Press)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 24 - In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, Lt. Robert Dolby, right, of the Salvation Army helps James White to his position of ringing a bell outside of Quality Foods in Anderson, S.C. He's been out in the community to welcome Christmas shoppers every year since 1995, typically ringing the bell for 40 hours a week or more, (Ken Ruinard/The Independent-Mail via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 24 - In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, Salvation Army bell ringer James White rings his bell outside of Quality Foods in Anderson, S.C. He's been out in the community to welcome Christmas shoppers every year since 1995, typically ringing the bell for 40 hours a week or more, (Ken Ruinard/The Independent-Mail via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 24 - In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, Salvation Army bell ringer James White rings his bell outside of Quality Foods in Anderson, S.C. He's been out in the community to welcome Christmas shoppers every year since 1995, typically ringing the bell for 40 hours a week or more, (Ken Ruinard/The Independent-Mail via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 24 - In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, Lt. Robert Dolby, left, of the Salvation Army drops off bell ringer James White outside of Quality Foods in Anderson, S.C. He's been out in the community to welcome Christmas shoppers every year since 1995, typically ringing the bell for 40 hours a week or more, (Ken Ruinard/The Independent-Mail via AP)
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Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas, in this Dec. 6, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE FRIDAY, DEC. 23, 2016 AND THEREAFTER-In this July 2, 2016 photo provided by the Florida Highway Patrol, a school bus carrying dozens of mostly Haitian migrant farmworkers burns after being hit by a tractor-trailer in St. Marks, Fla. Police said the bus driver went through a flashing red light, killing four people, including a 4-year-old boy. (Cpl. George W. Bedingfield, Jr./Florida Highway Patrol via AP)
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The Dec. 21, 2016 photo shows a refugee shelter in Emmerich, western Germany, in which the suspect of the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin had been living. The shelter was searched by police on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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In this Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, Richard Spencer, who leads a movement that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism, speaks at the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
