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Iraqi municipality workers clean the scene of a suicide attack in Baghdad's western Eskan neighborhood, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016. A suicide bomber killed several people who were setting up tents on Sunday ahead of a major Shiite religious observance next month, officials said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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In this Saturday, Sept 17, 2016 photo, the Eagle Stars, in yellow, and Lone Stars, in white, face off in a semifinal game of the Utah Refugee Soccer Tournament in Salt Lake City. The soccer league started for refugees living in Salt Lake City is designed to help youth and young adults stay off the streets and get on the right path toward a successful life in the United States. (Spenser Heaps/The Deseret News via AP)
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Yee Xiong, 24, sits for a photo at her attorney's office in Sacramento, Calif., on Aug. 12, 2016. As she prepared to leave the sentencing hearing for Lang Her, who she said sexually assaulted her when they were students, she felt ready to finally put the case behind her after four years. Then, she was handed a $4 million defamation lawsuit. (AP Photo/Darcy Costello)
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The University of North Carolina at Wilmington has affirmed its commitment to free speech after an English professor boasted on social media about erasing students' pro-Donald Trump chalkings. (uncw.edu)
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President Obama vetoed a bill that would have allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - In this May 24, 2012, file photo, United States Olympic Committee Secretary General Scott Blackmun discusses with the media an agreement between the IOC and the USOC at the SportAccord conference in Quebec City. The U.S. Olympic Committee and the sports it oversees are behind the curve when it comes to placing women and minorities in key coaching and leadership positions, according to a set of ``scorecards'' the federation has compiled over the past three years. (Francis Vachon/The Canadian Press via AP)
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U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce spokesman Pablo Manriquez, left, and New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas talk on Facebook Live during a Facebook workshop for New Mexico Hispanic small businesses in Albuquerque Friday, Sept. 23, 2016, days after the social media giant announced it is building a new data center in the state. Facebook and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce are hosting seminars across the country during Hispanic Heritage Month to show Latino businesses how to have a better presence on Facebook. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Veronica Welsh, a world language teacher at Smithtown High School West in Long Island, New York, is being disciplined after she branded pro-Donald Trump students as racists. (News 12 Long Island)
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Brian May, guitarist of British rock group Queen, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
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Federal Land Grab Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Federal Land Grab Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on the barely growing Obama economy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Donald Trump embarrassed himself by going to Mexico. (Illustration by David Horsey of the Los Angeles Times)
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The body of 15-year-old Demetrius Griffin, Jr. was found burned near a garage in Chicago's Austin neighborhood early Saturday morning, with the family pleading with Black Lives Matter activists not to "turn" their backs and fight for real change. (WLS)
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Women from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi participate in the world march of woman in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. The women marched to protest against early marriage, sexual harassment, Female Genital Mutilation and all forms of violence and inequality against women. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
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FILE - In tis June 21,2016 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., accompanied by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas, listen to a question during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats are criticizing the latest Republican version of legislation that's needed to avoid a government shutdown next weekend. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada told reporters that McConnell will unveil the stopgap spending bill and a long-delayed bill to combat the Zika virus on Thursday, Sept, 22, 2016, but that Democrats haven't signed on to the measure. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Democrats in that chamber won't back the measure, either. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, says he doesn’t trust Republican promises of addressing the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, later. (Associated Press/File)
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A woman holds up an hourglass during a protest in front of the Italian Health Ministry during the launch of a 'Fertility Day' campaign, in Rome, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. Italy's efforts to combat infertility and reverse one of Europe's lowest birthrates have stumbled with an ad campaign denounced as sexist, racist and ignorant of the economic reasons why Italians aren't having babies. Earlier ads were criticized as sexist for featuring a woman holding an hourglass with the words "Beauty doesn't have an age. Fertility does." Writing on poster in the background reads "Yes kindergartens and jobs!" (Giuseppe Lami/ANSA via AP)
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People gather to protest Tuesday's deadly police shooting of a black man at Marshall Park in uptown Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday night, Sept. 21, 2016. Keith Lamont Scott, 43, was shot and killed in the parking lot of his condominium complex. Violent protesters rampaged through parts of downtown Charlotte as anger continued to build over the deadly police shooting of a black man and the wildly different stories about what happened from authorities and the victim's family and neighbors. (Jeff Siner/The Charlotte Observer via AP)
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A protester, center, is taken into custody by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016. Authorities in Charlotte tried to quell public anger Wednesday after a police officer shot a black man, but a dusk prayer vigil turned into a second night of violence, with police firing tear gas at angry protesters and a man being critically wounded by gunfire. North Carolina's governor declared a state of emergency in the city. (Jeff Siner/The Charlotte Observer via AP)
