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Cromwell High School freshman Andraya Yearwood, 15, identifies as a girl and now runs on the female track team. (Image: Hartford Courant website screenshot)
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FILE - In this April 5, 2017 file photo, FC Barcelona's Luis Suarez reacts in front of a TV camera after scoring during the Spanish La Liga soccer match against Sevilla at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. La Liga is sending a clear message that it will not allow piracy to get in the way of its fight with the Premier League as it needs every possible source of income to try to compete financially with the powerful English league. It resorts to a proprietary tool to monitor the internet and uses a group of "online guards" to denounce illegal broadcasts of games. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2017 file photo, a TV camera operator films Sevilla players celebrating at the end of the match during La Liga soccer match against Real Madrid at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium, in Seville, Spain. La Liga is sending a clear message that it will not allow piracy to get in the way of its fight with the Premier League as it needs every possible source of income to try to compete financially with the powerful English league. It resorts to a proprietary tool to monitor the internet and uses a group of "online guards" to denounce illegal broadcasts of games. (AP Photo/Angel Fernandez, File)
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Minnesota Wild center Ryan White, right, throws a punch at Colorado Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson as the pair fight in the second period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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A message from James Madison ... (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)
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This May 6, 2009, photo provided by the Nature Conservancy shows scientist Maurice Hall on the Amargosa River in Death Valley National Park, Calif. Scientists will fan out across a California desert valley to take an inventory of everything that lives there, including birds, bats, toads, crickets, coyotes and native plants. (Bill Christian/The Nature Conservancy via AP)
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FILE - In this June 11, 2014, file photo, a man walks past a Facebook sign in an office on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook announced Thursday, April 6, 2017, it is launching a tool to help users spot false news articles on the site. The tool, similar to others around privacy and security, will be available to users in 14 countries, including the U.S. Users will see it for a few days when they open Facebook. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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Activists protest against digital policy and dataveillance at the G20 Digital Ministers meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany, Thursday, April 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) ** FILE **
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This March 29, 2017, photo shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. Comcast will start selling cellphone plans called Xfinity Mobile in the coming months, using a network it’s leasing from Verizon. Many subscribers will save money, especially if they don’t use a lot of data. The catch: Only Comcast internet customers can sign up. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Harvard University professor Jay Winsten, who introduced Americans to the "designated driver" to help deter alcohol-infused crashes, stands for a photograph, Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Boston. Winsten is tackling another deadly epidemic on U.S. roadways: motorists whose attention is diverted by cellphones and other modern electronic devices. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Harvard University professor Jay Winsten, who introduced Americans to the "designated driver" to help deter alcohol-infused crashes, stands for a photograph, Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Boston. Winsten is tackling another deadly epidemic on U.S. roadways: motorists whose attention is diverted by cellphones and other modern electronic devices. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten (82) is tackled by Minnesota Vikings free safety Harrison Smith (22) after making a reception during the second half of an NFL football game, in Minneapolis. The game was one of the NFL games that was streamed live on Twitter during the season. Amazon will stream 10 NFL games during the 2017 season in a deal with the league, replacing Twitter. Games will be available to members of its Prime loyalty program. As more people turn to streaming services for entertainment, demand for live sports streaming has been growing. (AP Photo/Andy Clayton-King, File)
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This photo provided by Netflix shows a demonstration of the service's new thumbs-up and thumbs-down rating system. Netflix’s video-streaming service is scrapping its familiar star-rating system and hoping to get a thumbs-up, the new way that its 94 million subscribers will be asked to signal whether they liked a movie or TV show. The change, unveiled Wednesday, April 5, 2017, is being driven by Netflix’s dissatisfaction with the amount of viewer feedback its computers have been getting to help customize recommendations about what else to watch on the service. (Netflix via AP)
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This undated rendering provided by Gleason Partners LLC shows shows sections South Side (Mexico) connected like a snake along the border. Solar panels would cover sections of the wall proposed by Las Vegas-based Gleason Partners LLC so it could generate power. The wall's solar panel system would generate 2.0 megawatts of electricity per hour, according to the company's proposal. (Gleason Partners via AP)
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The National Bible Bee Gameshow, hosted by Kirk Cameron, premieres April 4 on Facebook Live.
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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, speaks during a news conference in Los Angeles. More than a million Facebook users “like” the idea of hosting the 2024 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Mayors from Paris and LA have just flown in to Denmark for an Olympics conference starting Tuesday, April 4, 2017, the first of only three set-piece events between now and September, when the International Olympic Committee is scheduled to pick one city over the other. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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Will Payne demonstrates how to use interactive digital iWall that will eventually be featured in the iEXCEL (Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning) visualization hub in the future Dr. Edwin & Dorthy Balbach Davis Global Center for Advanced interprofessional Learning Monday, April 3, 2017, in Omaha, Neb. (Brendan Sullivan/Omaha World-Herald via AP)
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This image made available by NASA in March 2017 shows Pluto illuminated from behind by the sun as the New Horizons spacecraft travels away from it at a distance of about 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers). On Friday, April 7, 2017, the spacecraft will reach a halfway between Pluto and its next much, much smaller stop, the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP)
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In this Sunday, March 19, 2017 photo, a worker fixes a bicycle's tyre at the repair station for the bike-sharing company Ofo in Beijing, China. As many as 2.2 million of these two-wheelers have been deployed, which are available for rent for as little as U.S. 7 cents for half an hour, in the latest symbol of heavy spending in China's internet sector where startups are in a race to attract more users to their services. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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In this Thursday, March 16, 2017 photo, a man the bike-sharing application on his smartphone to unlock the bicycle from bike-sharing company Ofo parked on the sidewalk in Beijing, China. As many as 2.2 million of these two-wheelers have been deployed, which are available for rent for as little as U.S. 7 cents for half an hour, in the latest symbol of heavy spending in China's internet sector where startups are in a race to attract more users to their services. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
