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Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera is released from home confinement after 36 years in federal custody, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Lopez was considered a top leader of Puerto Rican militant group that said it was responsible for more than 100 bombings in several U.S. cities and Puerto Rico during the 1970s and early 1980s. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera is released from home confinement after 36 years in federal custody, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Lopez was considered a top leader of Puerto Rican militant group that said it was responsible for more than 100 bombings in several U.S. cities and Puerto Rico during the 1970s and early 1980s. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera is released from home confinement after 36 years in federal custody, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Lopez was considered a top leader of Puerto Rican militant group that said it was responsible for more than 100 bombings in several U.S. cities and Puerto Rico during the 1970s and early 1980s. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera greets well wishers as he is released from home confinement after 36 years in federal custody, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Lopez was considered a top leader of Puerto Rican militant group that said it was responsible for more than 100 bombings in several U.S. cities and Puerto Rico during the 1970s and early 1980s. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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Supporters of Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera gesture as Rivera is released from home confinement after 36 years in federal custody, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Lopez was considered a top leader of Puerto Rican militant group that said it was responsible for more than 100 bombings in several U.S. cities and Puerto Rico during the 1970s and early 1980s. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera gestures as he is released from home confinement after 36 years in federal custody, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Lopez was considered a top leader of Puerto Rican militant group that said it was responsible for more than 100 bombings in several U.S. cities and Puerto Rico during the 1970s and early 1980s. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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Somali soldiers look at the destroyed houses amidst the wreckage of a car bomb blast in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Three bomb disposal experts were killed as they were trying to dismantle the car laden with explosives, according to police. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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There are an estimated 7,000 overall U.S. military personnel in Iraq, including several hundred Special Forces fighters advising the Iraqi army in the siege of Mosul. (Associated Press)
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allies: U.S. military advisers are assisting Iraqi forces in their campaign to rid Mosul of the brutal Islamic State group. Once the city is liberated and the terrorists are defeated, Americans and Iraqis will have to negotiate a status of forces agreement. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, file photo, writer and political activist, Gloria Steinem speaks to the crowd during the women's march rally, in Washington. At 83, Steinem is a living reminder of the decades that have passed since the U.S. fought a revolution for women's rights, rights that many Americans now feel are under siege. Steinem and three generations of women from an Ohio family who have been active in Planned Parenthood speak to The Associated Press ahead of Steinem's appearance at the state chapter's 100th anniversary celebration on Tuesday, May 16. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army, then-Pfc. Chelsea Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick. Manning, the transgender soldier convicted in 2013 of illegally disclosing classified government information, will remain on active duty in a special status after her scheduled release from prison Wednesday, May 17, 2017. (U.S. Army via AP, File)
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CORRECTS FIRST NAME FROM JOSE TO OSCAR - FILE- In this Jan. 24, 1975, file photo, a New York City police officer calls for help as he kneels near a victim of a bombing at the annex of Fraunces Tavern in New York. The leftist group Armed Forces of National Liberation, also known as FALN, claimed responsibility for the bombing that killed four people and injured more than 60. Puerto Rico nationalist and FALN leader, Oscar Lopez Rivera, will be freed on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, after serving the longest prison time of any member of the violent separatist group that sought independence for the U.S. territory. (The Daily News via AP, File)
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In this May 10, 2017, photo, former NYPD detective Anthony Senft poses for a picture at his home in Bohemia, N.Y. Senft was blinded in one eye in 1982 by a bomb planted by the leftist group Armed Forces of National Liberation, also known as FALN, near police headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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In this Jan 24, 1975, file photo, police respond to the scene of an explosion at Fraunces Tavern Annex in New York City. Four persons were killed and dozens injured in the blast. The leftist group Armed Forces of National Liberation, also known as FALN, claimed responsibility for the bombing. To the cheers of his supporters and the dismay of the victims of FALN violence, Puerto Rico nationalist and FALN leader, Jose Lopez Rivera, will be freed on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, after serving the longest prison time of any member of the violent separatist group that sought independence for the U.S. territory. (AP Photo/Ed Bailey, File)
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FILE- In this Jan. 24, 1975, file photo, a New York City police officer calls for help as he kneels near a victim of a bombing at the annex of Fraunces Tavern in New York. The leftist group Armed Forces of National Liberation, also known as FALN, claimed responsibility for the bombing that killed four people and injured more than 60. Puerto Rico nationalist and FALN leader, Jose Lopez Rivera, will be freed on Wednesday, May 17, 2017, after serving the longest prison time of any member of the violent separatist group that sought independence for the U.S. territory. (The Daily News via AP, File)
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This handout photo released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, shows President Donald Trump meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (Russian Foreign Ministry via AP) ** FILE **
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Brett McGurk, second right, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition against the Islamic State group, sits inside a military helicopter south of Mosul on Monday, May 15, 2017. The senior U.S. official says the fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group is approaching its "final stages." (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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An Iraqi special forces soldier photographs the body of a suspected Islamic State militant sniper, in western Mosul, Iraq, Monday, May 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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An Iraqi special forces soldier peers at Islamic State militant positions, in western Mosul, Iraq, Monday, May 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Iraqi civilians walk through rubble as they flee fighting between Iraqi special forces and Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq, Monday, May 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)