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Before the deadly terrorist attack in Berlin on Monday, U.S. intelligence agencies had issued warnings to their counterparts in Europe and Asia about Islamic State threats to launch Christmas-related killing sprees. (Associated Press)
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In this Dec. 7, 2016 photo, U.S. Forest Service District Ranger Dave Halemeier describes plans for part of the Malheur National Forest in John Day, Ore. The armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters caused a sensation and global headlines, but a quieter and perhaps more important struggle is being waged by those trying to use the levers of power, and not firearms.(AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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In this Dec. 7, 2016 photo, a cow stands on a ranch outside the Malheur National Forest near John Day, Ore. The armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters caused a sensation and global headlines, but a quieter and perhaps more important struggle is being waged by those trying to use the levers of power, and not firearms.(AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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This Dec. 7, 2016 photo, shows the entrance to the Malheur National Forest near John Day, Ore. The armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters caused a sensation and global headlines, but a quieter and perhaps more important struggle is being waged by those trying to use the levers of power, and not firearms. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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In this Dec. 7, 2016 photo, Jim Sproul, a member of the dissolved Grant County Public Forest Commission, gestures while visiting Malheur National Forest near John Day, Ore. The armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters caused a sensation and global headlines, but a quieter and perhaps more important struggle is being waged by those trying to use the levers of power, and not firearms. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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A pen that the A.T. Cross Co. says is made partly from melted-down assault rifles is on display as employees watch an opening ceremony for a new flagship A.T. Cross Co. store, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, in Providence, R.I. The 170-year-old pen maker says sales of the pen will help fund the destruction of weapons in Africa. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien)
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The wanted photo issued by German federal police on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, shows 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri who is suspected of being involved in the fatal attack on the Christmas market in Berlin on Dec. 19, 2016. German authorities are offering a reward of up to 100,000 euros ($105,000) for the arrest of the Tunisian. (German police via AP)
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An officer gestures toward curious onlookers as he guards at a residential neighborhood where police conducted a raid on a house used by suspected militants in Tangerang, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Three suspected militants who were planning a holiday season suicide bombing were killed in the raid Wednesday on the outskirts of Jakarta in the second imminent attack to be foiled in less than two weeks. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
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Police officers stand guard at a residential neighborhood where police conducted a raid on a house used by suspected militants, in Tangerang, Indonesia Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Indonesian police said three suspected militants who were planning a holiday season suicide bombing were killed in the raid Wednesday on the outskirts of Jakarta in the second imminent attack to be foiled in less than two weeks. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
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Police officers stand guard at a residential neighborhood where police conducted a raid on a house used by suspected militants, in Tangerang, Indonesia Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Indonesian police said three suspected militants who were planning a holiday season suicide bombing were killed in the raid Wednesday on the outskirts of Jakarta in the second imminent attack to be foiled in less than two weeks. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
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This undated official portrait released by the Boston Police Department shows policer officer Dennis Simmonds, who died on April 10, 2014. Simmonds was among the officers at the scene in Watertown, Mass., in the early hours of April 19, 2013, when the Boston Marathon bombers were engaged in a shootout with police. His death was linked to head injuries he sustained at that time when an explosive thrown by one of the Tsarnaev brothers detonated near him. (Boston Police Department via AP)
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In this Monday, Nov. 28, 2016 photo, a Nepali migrant worker Krishna Bahadur Tamang, 32, carries his son before departing for Qatar at Tribhuwan Internation airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. In total, over 5,000 workers from this small country have died working abroad since 2008, more than the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Monday, Nov. 29, 2016 photo, a red coffin that brought home the body of Nepali migrant worker from Saudi Arabia, lies on the ground empty after cremation rituals were completed at Swayambhunath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. In total, over 5,000 workers from this small country have died working abroad since 2008, more than the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016 photo, Saro Kumari Mandal, 26, whose husband died in his sleep as a migrant worker in Qatar, walks dressed in a white sari inside her home in Belhi village, Saptari district of Nepal. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. In total, over 5,000 workers from this small country have died working abroad since 2008, more than the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War. Saro isn't allowed to remarry and will probably live on the edges of society, earning nothing more than some food to eat and a place to sleep. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016 photo, family members rinse out the red tikka powder, which is only allowed for married women, from the forehead of Saro Kumari Mandal, 26, after the death of her husband Balkisun Mandal Khatwe, 26, at Belhi village, in Saptari district, Nepal. Balkisun died in his sleep in Qatar, where he was working for Habtoor Leighton Group, loading trucks to build new highways. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. In total, over 5,000 workers from this small country have died working abroad since 2008, more than the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Nov. 23, 2016 photo, relatives and villagers carry the coffin of Balkisun Mandal Khatwe at Belhi village, Saptari district of Nepal. Balkisun, who had been working for Habtoor Leighton Group in Qatar for less than a month, died in his sleep. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. In total, over 5,000 workers from this small country have died working abroad since 2008, more than the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this Nov. 23, 2016 photo, a truck carrying the coffin of Balkisun Mandal Khatwe travels on a badly rutted road towards his village of Belhi, Saptari district of Nepal. Balkisun, who had been working for Habtoor Leighton Group in Qatar for less than a month, died in his sleep. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. In total, over 5,000 workers from this small country have died working abroad since 2008, more than the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this photo Nov 30, 2016 photo, a Nepalese woman carries her grandchild, whose father is working abroad as an unskilled laborer, in front of their home in Belhi village, in Saptari district, Nepal. The number of Nepali workers going abroad has more than doubled since the country began promoting foreign labor in recent years: from about 220,000 in 2008 to about 500,000 in 2015. Yet the number of deaths among those workers has risen much faster in the same period. In total, over 5,000 workers from this small country have died working abroad since 2008, more than the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq War. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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The Georgia bench led by Georgia forward Kenny Paul Geno (25), center, reacts after a Georgia basket in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against the Georgia Tech Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, in Atlanta. Georgia won 60-43. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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FILE - In a July 14, 1955 file photo, Zsa Zsa Gabor arrives at London Airport from Paris, in a Crimson dress and a straw hat. Gabor died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, of a heart attack at her Bel-Air home, her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, said. She was 99. (AP Photo)
