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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)
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FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2016, file photo, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., center, leaves Trump Tower in New York. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Mulvaney as his budget director, naming a tough-on-spending conservative and an advocate of balancing the federal budget to the important post. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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This undated law enforcement booking photo provided by the Garden Grove, Calif., Police Department shows Minh Quang Hong, known as Minh Beo, a popular Vietnamese comedian. Minh Beo has been sentenced to 18 months in state prison for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy in California. Orange County prosecutors said Friday, Dec. 16, 2016, the 38-year-old must also register as a sex offender. (Garden Grove Police Department via AP, File)
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FILE - In this July 15, 2008, file photo, Dr. Larry Nassar works on the computer after seeing a patient in Michigan. Nassar, a doctor who formerly worked for USA Gymnastics and is facing sexual assault charges has been indicted on child pornography charges. The child pornography indictment against Dr. Larry Nassar was unsealed Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 in federal court in Grand Rapids, Mich. (Becky Shink/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)
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Sean Brune, assistant deputy commissioner at the Social Security Administration’s budget office, said they’re trying to become more aware of the problems and looking for new tools to fight back, but said he couldn’t guess at how bad the problem is. “I do not have a dollar amount of the general amount of fraud,” Mr. Brune told the House Ways and Means Committee. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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Mary Hoffmeyer, of Taos, Mo., holds a sign as she and other anti-abortion advocates sing Christmas carols after attending a news conference accusing Planned Parenthood facilities of being unsafe outside the Planned Parenthood Columbia Health Center on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016 in Columbia, Mo. The news conference was one of five held simultaneously outside Planned Parenthood locations across the state in which anti-abortion advocates argued that the number of ambulance calls to the St. Louis clinic since 2009 was cause for concern. (Timothy Tai/Columbia Daily Tribune via AP)
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Volunteers walk dogs through a makeshift animal shelter operated by the Sevier County Humane Society in Sevierville, Tenn., Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. Officials hope to reunite scores of pets separated from their owners during wildfires that did heavy damage to the area the previous week. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
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A law enforcement officer speaks to a protester against the Dakota Access Pipeline through a wall of razor wire on the Backwater Bridge over Cantapeta Creek on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 8, 2016. Protesters have been trespassing at the site and cutting wire in attempts to gain access to the pipeline work area in southern Morton County. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, smiles as Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., poses her for a photograph during a ceremony to unveil a portrait of Reid, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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FILE - This is a 2016 file photo showing Nikita Whitlock of the New York Giants NFL football team. Police are investigating a break-in and racist graffiti scrawled on the wall at the New Jersey home of an injured New York Giants player. Moonachie police Sgt. Richard Behrens tells The Record police are investigating the break-in at Nikita Whitlock's home as a hate crime. Whitlock, who's black, showed the graffiti to reporters, including "KKK" and a swastika. The name "Trump" was also written on the wall in marker. (AP Photo/File)
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House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. talks with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **
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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, DEC. 11, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Nov. 15, 2016 photo, students at Warren Township High School's junior-senior Almond Road campus in Gurnee, Ill., from left, Kathryn Haynes, Jaylen Davis and Amanda Middleton were among those who wrote positive messages on sticky notes and posted them on all 2,500 lockers in response to racist graffiti that was found on bathroom stalls at Warren's two campuses the previous week. (Bob Susnjara/Daily Herald, via AP)
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Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. restaurants have regularly been criticized by activists groups over ads with scantily clad models eating hamburgers. (Facebook, Carl's Jr.)
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In this Dec. 6, 2016 photo, Abdesselam Baddaoui studies in his class at the police station, where he is one of the newest members of the department, in Manchester, N.H. Baddaoui came to the U.S. as a refugee, born in Algeria and lived in Syria and Lebanon before moving to Manchester. Manchester joins a handful of cities nationwide, mostly much larger, where police departments are specifically recruiting refugees amid a political climate in which some quarters accuse them of taking jobs or, in the case of Muslims, posing a potential security threat. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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In this Dec. 6, 2016, photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally in Fayetteville, N.C. Trump’s promise to “work something out” for immigrants brought here illegally as kids is dividing fellow Republicans, underscoring how difficult it will be for Congress to take any action on immigration, whether it’s building a wall or dealing with immigrant youths. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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In this Feb. 4, 2014, photo, U.S. Surgeon General appointee Vivek Murthy appears on Capitol Hill in Washington. The U.S. surgeon general is calling e-cigarettes an emerging public health threat to the nation's youth. In a report being released Thursday, Murthy acknowledges a need for more research into the health effects of "vaping," but says e-cigarettes aren't harmless and too many teens are using them. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Albert Leslie Love Jr. Texas' highest criminal court has thrown out the conviction of Love, sent to death row for the ambush slayings of two men outside a Waco apartment complex in March 2011. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled 6-3 Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, that 29-year-old Love should get a new trial because cellphone text messages that prosecutors used to tie him to the slayings and were admitted into evidence at his trial improperly were obtained by authorities without the use of a search warrant. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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FILE - This Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, shows the HealthCare.gov 2017 website home page on display, in Washington. Health insurance experts say the decision to buy 2017 coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s public exchanges shouldn’t boil down to a gamble over the survival of the law, which requires most people to have insurance. Instead, customers should focus on whether they can handle the financial risk that comes with remaining uninsured while they wait for Trump’s health care plan to crystallize. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Britain's Prince Harry, right, attends an ICAP Charity Trading Day in support of Sentebale - a charity supporting orphans and vulnerable children, in London, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016. (Geoff Pugh/Pool Photo via AP)
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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls blows a kiss to the audience after announcing his candidacy for the Socialist primary next month, in Evry, outside Paris, Monday Dec. 5, 2016. Valls hopes to unite the Socialists under his banner and give the left a chance to stay at the Elysee, in the most ambitious challenge of his political life after president Francois Hollande decided not to run for re-election next year. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
