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New England Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount holds the AFC championship trophy surrounded by fans after the AFC championship NFL football game, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots defeated the the Pittsburgh Steelers 36-17 to advance to the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell watches from the sideline as he waits for the end of the AFC championship NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots won 36-17 to advance to the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le'Veon Bell watches from the sideline as he waits for the end of the AFC championship NFL football game against the New England Patriots, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots won 36-17 to advance to the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady talks during a news conference after the AFC championship NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots defeated the the Steelers 36-17 to advance to the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Capable manpower appears to be the biggest hurdle to President Trump's goals for a strong military. Only 17 percent of all military-age Americans would be deemed physically "qualified military available" for service, according to an assessment. (Associated Press)
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Indonesia's prisons are ripe for recruitment by the Islamic State, says a report by the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict. "Prisoners depend on outside donations for decent food. And the convicted terrorists have a well-organized support network." (Associated Press)
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Police repel animal defense activists with tear gas before the start of a bullfight, the first such events in four years, outside the Santamaria bullring in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Bogota's previous mayor banned bullfighting in 2012. But Colombia's constitutional court later overturned the ban, ruling that it was part of Colombia's cultural heritage and couldn't be blocked. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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Police officers scuffle with animal defense activists before a bullfight, the first of such events in four years, outside the Santamaria bullring in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Bogota's previous mayor banned bullfighting in 2012. But Colombia's constitutional court later overturned the ban, ruling that it was part of Colombia's cultural heritage and couldn't be blocked. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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A protester charges a police officer with a gas canister before the start of a bullfight, the first such events in four years, outside the Santamaria bullring in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Bogota's previous mayor banned bullfighting in 2012. But Colombia's constitutional court later overturned the ban, ruling that it was part of Colombia's cultural heritage and couldn't be blocked. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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A woman aids a man injured during clashes between animal rights activists and police ahead of a bullfight, the first such events in four years, outside the Santamaria bullring in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Bogota's previous mayor banned bullfighting in 2012. But Colombia's constitutional court later overturned the ban, ruling that it was part of Colombia's cultural heritage and couldn't be blocked. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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In this Jan. 18, 2017 photo, Sulome Anderson, journalist and daughter of former American hostage Terry Anderson pauses with while looking through memorabilia, at her home in New York. The elder Anderson was chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press when he was kidnapped by Shiite militants in Beirut in 1985. Sulome, who met her father for the first time when she was six, has written a book, "The Hostage's Daughter," that is both a memoir of her relationship to her father and an investigation into his captivity. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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A ferry bringing back people who fled arrives at the port in Banjul, Gambia, as it reopens Saturday Jan. 21, 2017. life slowly returns to the Gambian capital as Gambia's defeated leader Yahya Jammeh announced early Saturday he has decided to relinquish power, after hours of last-ditch talks with regional leaders and the threat by a regional military force to make him leave. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Gambia's defeated leader Yahya Jammeh waves to supporters as he departs at Banjul airport Saturday Jan. 21, 2017. Jammeh announced early Saturday he has decided to relinquish power, after hours of last-ditch talks with regional leaders and the threat by a regional military force to make him leave. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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A ferry bringing back people who fled arrives at the port in Banjul, Gambia as it reopens Saturday Jan. 21, 2017. life slowly returns to the Gambian capital as Gambia's defeated leader Yahya Jammeh announced early Saturday he has decided to relinquish power, after hours of last-ditch talks with regional leaders and the threat by a regional military force to make him leave.AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Gambia's defeated leader Yahya Jammeh departs at Banjul airport Saturday Jan. 21, 2017. Jammeh announced early Saturday he has decided to relinquish power, after hours of last-ditch talks with regional leaders and the threat by a regional military force to make him leave. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Mounds of rubble used to be high-rise apartment buildings in the once rebel-held Ansari neighborhood in eastern Aleppo, Syria. Residents have been evacuated and are now refugees. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2009 file photo, journalist and author George Krimsky is interviewed by The Associated Press at his home in Washington, Conn. Krimsky, who covered Charles Manson's arrest, the Lebanese civil war and dissident activity in the Soviet Union and later co-founded a center for international journalists, has died at age 75. Krimsky, who lived in Washington with his wife of 46 years, died Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, after a yearlong battle with lung cancer, his family said Saturday. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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Police officers enter the Alcacuz prison amid tension between rival gangs in Nisia Floresta, near Natal, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Military police took control of the prison in northeastern Brazil after fighting between rival gangs left 26 inmates dead, the latest in a spate of violence in the country's penitentiaries. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Special Operations Battalion Police officers enter the Alcacuz prison amid tension between rival gangs in Nisia Floresta, near Natal, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017.Military police took control of the prison in northeastern Brazil after fighting between rival gangs left 26 inmates dead, the latest in a spate of violence in the country's penitentiaries. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Residents walk through the destruction of the once rebel-held Salaheddine neighborhood in eastern Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Last month, government forces captured all parts of eastern Aleppo, brining Syria's largest city to full control of Syrian authorities for the first time since July 2012. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
