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Displaced Iraqis warm themselves by a fire before being transferred to a camp near Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Hundreds of Iraqis were waiting to undergo a screening by the military outside Mosul on Monday before getting sent to displaced-people’s camps. The civilians, who had just arrived from Mosul, had their identity documents checked against a military database before loaded onto waiting trucks and sent to IDP camps east of the city. Thousands of people try to leave the city each day and the number of displaced now tops 120,000, according to the Iraqi ministry of migration and displacement.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
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Protesters against President-elect Donald Trump hold signs outside the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. Six electors of the Electoral College will cast their votes inside the Senate chambers. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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In this Dec. 16, 2016 photo, Esperanza Villalobos, a "community navigator," works at her office at The Resurrection Project in Chicago. Villalobos helps immigrants who might need legal services to avoid deportation or learn about their legal rights. The organization she works for plans to hire more individuals like her after the city approved $1.3 million for a legal services fund for immigrants. Chicago is among several entities nationwide working to beef up legal services for immigrants. (AP Photo by Sophia Tareen)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, photo, Scarlett Wilgis, bottom, is held by her brother Joey McKinley, 17, while her father Herman Wilgis observes them in St. Augustine, Fla. Because of her cerebral palsy, 4-year-old Scarlett has trouble opening her hands and can't get around without help. Her parents have scoured store shelves and websites looking for toys for her, but have mostly been disappointed. Scarlett and her family are part of the Adaptive Toy Program at the University of North Florida, which assigns engineering and physical therapy students to convert drivable toy cars from store shelves into custom-made fun for disabled children. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, photo, University of North Florida students, Garrett Baumann, right, Chris Martin, center, and Jason Pavichall, work to customize a toy car so that it can be used by a girl with cerebral palsy at the university in Jacksonville, Fla. At the university, engineering and physical therapy students are converting drivable toy cars from store shelves into custom-made fun for disabled children. The Adaptive Toy program is now in its third year, has received a 5-year grant from the National Institutes of Health and is helping families with disabled children while giving the students a dose of community service that will stick with them long after graduation. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen)
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FILE - In this July 30, 2015 file photo, a sign supporting Medicare is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. A government report says Medicare beneficiaries can end up with higher hospital bills for some medical services as outpatients than as inpatients. In the topsy-turvy world of Medicare billing, you may pay more for outpatient care. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott peeks out of a large Salvation Army kettle after jumping into it celebrating a touchdown he scored on a running play in the first half of an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Roger Steinman)
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In this Dec. 16, 2016 photo, Puerto Rico resident Michelle Flandez holds her two-month-old son Inti Perez, diagnosed with microcephaly linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Experts estimate it can cost several million dollars to care for a baby with Zika-related birth defects, and one of the biggest concerns is babies like Inti could develop other disabilities as they grow, burdening Puerto Rico's already strained health system breaking under an exodus of doctors fleeing for the U.S. mainland. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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In this Dec. 16, 2016, photo, Puerto Rico resident Michelle Flandez covers with a blanket her 2-month-old son Inti Perez, diagnosed with microcephaly linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. Experts estimate it can cost several million dollars to care for a baby with Zika-related birth defects, and one of the biggest concerns is babies like Inti could develop other disabilities as they grow, burdening Puerto Rico's already strained health system breaking under an exodus of doctors fleeing for the U.S. mainland. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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Illustration on Federal worker salaries in 1917 by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Lauren Wetzsteon, a journalism student at the University of Minnesota, participates in a rally to support the victim of an alleged sexual assault that led to the suspension of 10 football players, outside TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016. The team had threatened a boycott of the upcoming Holiday Bowl to protest the suspension of their teammates who were allegedly involved in the September encounter with the woman. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)
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In this Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015 photo, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaks during a rally to mark the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Farrakhan said black men and women should forsake foul language and violence against each other and that if things don't change in the black community, participating in the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March is just "vanity." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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This Nov. 10, 2016 photo released by the Nevada Department of Corrections shows the viewing room looking toward the newly completed execution chamber at Ely State Prison in Ely, Nev. Nevada hasn't carried out an execution since 2006, and two state lawmakers have proposed abolishing capital punishment altogether. (Nevada Department of Corrections via AP)
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This Nov. 10, 2016 photo released by the Nevada Department of Corrections shows the newly completed execution chamber at Ely State Prison in Ely, Nev. Nevada hasn't carried out an execution since 2006, and two state lawmakers have proposed abolishing capital punishment altogether. (Nevada Department of Corrections via AP)
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FILE - This Sept. 11, 2014, file photo shows Nevada Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, speaking on the Senate floor during the second day of a special session at the Nevada Legislature, in Carson City, Nev. As the state is unable to find execution drugs and a new death chamber remains unused, Segerblom and assemblyman James Ohrenschall are proposing Nevada repeal capital punishment. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File)
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In this Dec. 8, 2016 photo, Somali refugee Ibrahim Hassan talks about moving his family to Owensboro, Ky., as his daughter, Hafsa Ibrahim Ahmed, 2, right, looks around at their apartment. The family, including his wife Sahara Nekow, moved here two months ago from a refugee camp in northeast Kenya. He had moved from his native Somalia to that camp with his father and grandmother in 1994 and his wife, also Somali, moved there with her parents since 1992.(Alan Warren/The Messenger-Inquirer via AP)
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In this Dec. 8, 2016 photo, Somali refugees, Ibrahim Hassan, right, with his children, daughter, Hafsa Ibrahim Ahmed, 2, left, and son, Hamza Ibrahim Ahmed, 4, middle, pose at their apartment in Owensboro, Ky. The family, including his wife Sahara Nekow, moved here two months ago from a refugee camp in northeast Kenya. He had moved from his native Somalia to that camp with his father and grandmother in 1994 and his wife, also Somali, moved there with her parents since 1992.(Alan Warren/The Messenger-Inquirer via AP)
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FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2016, file photo, Michael Slager, right, walks from the Charleston County Courthouse under the protection from the Charleston County Sheriff's Department after a mistrial was declared for his trial in Charleston, S.C. When nine black churchgoers in Charleston were massacred by Dylann Roof, a white man with Confederate sympathies, the city stayed calm and the victims’ families offered examples of grace and forgiveness. Roof’s guilty verdict came less than two weeks after a jury deadlocked in the case of Slager, a white ex-police officer charged with fatally shooting Walter Scott, a black man, as Scott tried to flee an April 2015 traffic stop. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)
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FILE - In this June 18, 2015 file photo, Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C. When nine black churchgoers in Charleston were massacred by Roof, a white man with Confederate sympathies, the city stayed calm and the victims' families offered examples of grace and forgiveness. Now that church shooting suspect Roof has been convicted in a federal death penalty trial, some say the parade of killings of black people feels at odds with the call to forgive. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
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University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler speaks to members of the media Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, after players announced the end of their boycott of the Holiday Bowl in Minneapolis. The team will play in the Holiday Bowl, reversing a threat to boycott the game because of the suspension of 10 players accused of sexual assault. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)
