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This Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2017, photo taken by Tim Roide, Incident Commander, shows an aerial view of burnout area around Yankee Meadow, in southern Utah. In Utah, firefighters hope Wednesday, June 28, 2017, to douse areas with intense blazes at the Utah fire's southern end so residents can return to homes in the town of Brian Head. Homes there have been evacuated since June 17 since authorities said the fire was started by someone using a torch tool to burn weeds on private land. (Tim Roide/Great Basin Incident Management Type 2 Team, Team 4, via AP)
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This Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2017, photo taken by Tim Roide, Incident Commander, shows an aerial view of burnout area around Yankee Meadow, in southern Utah. In Utah, firefighters hope Wednesday, June 28, 2017, to douse areas with intense blazes at the Utah fire's southern end so residents can return to homes in the town of Brian Head. Homes there have been evacuated since June 17 since authorities said the fire was started by someone using a torch tool to burn weeds on private land. (Tim Roide/Great Basin Incident Management Type 2 Team, Team 4, via AP)
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  • This Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2017, photo taken by Tim Roide, Incident Commander, shows an aerial view of burnout area around Yankee Meadow, in southern Utah. In Utah, firefighters hope Wednesday, June 28, 2017, to douse areas with intense blazes at the Utah fire's southern end so residents can return to homes in the town of Brian Head. Homes there have been evacuated since June 17 since authorities said the fire was started by someone using a torch tool to burn weeds on private land. (Tim Roide/Great Basin Incident Management Type 2 Team, Team 4, via AP)
  • FILE - In this May 1, 2011 file photo, Cardinal George Pell, left, reads a bible during the blessing of a statue of John Paul ll at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia. Australian police say they are charging Pell with historical sexual assault offenses. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)
  • In this photo provided by Jill Baker, a forest fire burns through a rugged section of Arizona on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, near the town of Mayer, Ariz. The wildfire burning through a dense Arizona forest has forced thousands of people from their homes, closed a major road and created a huge plume of smoke over the same area devastated by a blaze that killed 19 firefighters four years ago. (Jill Baker via AP)
  • FILE - This Jan. 7, 2016 file photo released by the Waller County Sheriff's Office in Hempstead, Texas, shows former Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia, after his arrest on a perjury charge. The misdemeanor perjury charge has been dismissed against the fired Texas state trooper in a case arising from his 2015 arrest of Sandra Bland, a black woman who was later found dead in a county jail. (Waller County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
  • Protesters chant as spectators arrive outside Nippert Stadium before a soccer game during a demonstration on the University of Cincinnati campus demanding that a white former police officer be tried a third time in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black motorist, Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Cincinnati. A mistrial was declared twice in the murder and voluntary manslaughter case of Ray Tensing, a former University of Cincinnati police officer, who shot Sam DuBose during a 2015 traffic stop. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
  • Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson, right, speaks during a press conference as U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Billy J. Williams stands behind him in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, June 28, 2017, after the indictment of an FBI agent. FBI special agent W. Joseph Astarita pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied about shooting at a key figure in last year's armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge just before the man was killed by Oregon police. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
  • FILE - This undated Clark County Detention Center photo shows Shane Allen Schindler. Schindler, facing eight to 20 years in a Nevada state prison after pleading guilty to trying to kill a mannequin posed as a sleeping homeless person, will avoid charges in three similar downtown Las Vegas attacks. Schindler admitted Tuesday, June 27, 2017 that he thought he was attacking a human when he used a heavy hammer to whack the blanket-covered head of the dummy early Feb. 22. The arrest followed the Nov. 30 injury of a sleeping man and fatal attacks Jan. 4 and Feb. 3. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2017, file photo, people carry posters during a rally against President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations, in New York's Times Square. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers will be key players in putting President Donald Trump's revised travel ban into effect on Thursday, June 29, affecting visitors from six mostly Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
  • FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Gary Otte, convicted of shooting two people to death in back-to-back robberies in February 1992. Ohio moved a step closer to resuming executions as the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled in the state's favor Wednesday, June 28, 2017, reversing a judge's order that delayed three executions after he declared the state's lethal injection process unconstitutional. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections via AP, File)
  • This photo released by the Northwest Regional Corrections Center shows Monalisa Perez. Perez, of Halstad, was charged Wednesday, June 28, 2017, with second-degree manslaughter in the death of Pedro Ruiz III. According to a criminal complaint, the 19-year-old Perez told authorities Ruiz wanted to make a YouTube video of her shooting a bullet into a book he was holding against his chest. She says she fired from about a foot (0.3 meters) away. (Northwest Regional Corrections Center via AP)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2014, file photo, the damaged remains of a Ten Commandments monument lie on the state Capitol grounds in Oklahoma City after driver, Michael Tate Reed of Van Buren, Ark., crashed into the statue. Tate was admitted to a hospital for mental treatment. Formal charges were never filed. On Wednesday, June 28, 2017, Reed was booked into jail in Little Rock on preliminary charges in connection with driving a vehicle into the newly installed Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the state Capitol in Little Rock. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy, File)
  • A motorist drives through a Walmart parking lot in west Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The company was hosting hundreds of potential vendors at its Bentonville headquarters on Wednesday, searching for products to someday stock on store shelves. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)
  • FILE - In this June 20, 2017, file photo, Flint, Mich. Mayor Karen Weaver listens to a question during a closed news conference discussing the water source recommendation made for Flint at City Hall. The state of Michigan sued Flint on Wednesday, June 28, 2017, alleging that the city council's refusal to approve a broadly backed deal to buy water long term from a Detroit-area system is endangering public health in the wake of a man-made crisis that left the supply contaminated with lead. The Department of Environmental Quality had threatened legal action if the council did not approve Weaver's recommendation or propose a reasonable alternative by Monday.(Shannon Millard/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this file photo provided by the Philadelphia Zoo a newly born western lowland gorilla rests on its mother Kira in Philadelphia. The baby gorilla finally has a name and his mother picked it out. The zoo says keepers decorated boxes with three name choices and filled them with treats. Whichever box mom Kira went to first would be the baby's name. Kira headed straight for the box labeled "Ajabu." (Philadelphia Zoo via AP, File)
  • This undated photo released by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows Michael Darnell Harris. Harris is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in the 1981 killing of Ula Curdy, of Lansing, Mich. Harris effort to reverse his murder and sexual assault convictions from the early 1980s ended Tuesday, June 27, 2017 during a hearing in Ingham County Circuit Court. (Michigan Department of Corrections via AP)
  • Huntsville Police officers block an entrance to Redstone Arsenal, Tuesday, June 27, 2017 in Huntsville, Ala. Authorities locked down the Alabama military post on Tuesday amid reports of possible active shooter, and workers were advised to "run hide fight." Redstone Arsenal spokesman Christopher Colster told WAFF-TV that the base near Huntsville received reports of a person possibly armed with a weapon at a building. (AP Photo/Eric Schultz)
  • In this photo provided by the Transport Workers Union, Local 100, workers from the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority examine damaged train tracks, at the scene of a subway derailment, Tuesday, June 27, 2017, in New York. A subway train derailed near a station in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, frightening passengers and resulting in minor injuries as hundreds of people were evacuated from trains along the subway line. (Transport Workers Union, Local 100 via AP)
  • This photo provided by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office in Little Rock, Ark., shows Michael Tate Reed, of Van Buren, Ark., who was booked into the jail Wednesday morning, June 28, 2017, on preliminary charges of defacing objects of public interest, criminal trespass and first-degree criminal mischief. He is accused driving a vehicle into Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument on the state Capitol grounds in Little Rock. (Pulaski County Sheriff's Office via AP)
  • Daniel Herbert, attorney for Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke, charged in the shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald, questions his client in court during a hearing in front of Judge Vincent Gaughan Wednesday, June 28, 2017, at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago. (Nancy Stone /Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool)
  • State Attorney Aramis Ayala, center, listens as her lawyer Roy Austin, right, talks to reporter after Austin asked the Florida Supreme Court to return 24 murders cases Gov. Rick Scott reassigned to another prosecutor because Ayala won't seek the death penalty. The court heard arguments Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2016 file photo, Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, center, a rancher from Arizona, talks to reporters at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore. An FBI agent has been indicted on accusations that he lied about firing at Finicum in 2016 when officers arrested leaders of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon. Sources familiar with the case say the agent will face allegations of making a false statement with intent to obstruct justice, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Tuesday, June 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
  • Col. Thomas Holliday, the garrison commander at the Redstone Arsenal installation near Huntsville, Ala., holds a press conference on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Holliday said authorities locked down an Alabama military post on Tuesday after two 911 calls were made about a potential active shooter, but no shots were fired. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
  • FILE - In this March 22, 2017 file photo, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams arrives for his arraignment on bribery and extortion charges at the federal courthouse in Philadelphia. A campaign finance manager for Philadelphia's top prosecutor has testified the prosecutor spent campaign funds on ritzy social clubs, facials and massages and a $2,600 birthday party for his girlfriend. Williams is also charged with taking gifts from wealthy friends in exchange for help with their legal problems. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2006 file photo Sergio Rodriguez of Medellin, Colombia visits the Holocaust Memorial in Boston on the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. One of Boston's Holocaust Memorial's glass panels was shattered with a rock Wednesday, June 28, 2017. James Isaac, suspected of throwing the rock, is mentally ill, his lawyer said Wednesday, as elected officials and religious groups came together to condemn the vandalism. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file)
  • FILE- In this July 3, 2016, file photo, a injured man is carried to an ambulance in Central Park in New York after an explosion in the park. The New York Police Department and federal officials are offering up to $40,000 in reward money for information that leads to an arrest in the explosion last summer at the park, which injured a tourist. Officials said Wednesday, June 28, 2017, that they're still looking for leads. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2006 file photo Sergio Rodriguez of Medellin, Colombia visits the Holocaust Memorial in Boston on the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. One of Boston's Holocaust Memorial's glass panels was shattered with a rock Wednesday, June 28, 2017. James Isaac, suspected of throwing the rock, is mentally ill, his lawyer said Wednesday, as elected officials and religious groups came together to condemn the vandalism. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file)
  • After getting the signature of Gov. Tom Wolf, left, Pennsylvania's animal cruelty bill gets a paw print by Libre, a Boston terrier puppy who was emaciated and diseased when he was rescued last year by a delivery truck driver from an animal breeder in Lancaster County, Wednesday, June 28, 2017 in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)
  • Shimon, left, and Yocheved (behind) Nussbaum are arrested Monday, June 26, 2017, in connection with a public-assistance fraud scheme, in Lakewood, N.J. Their arrest was part of a larger operation, led by federal and state authorities, that netted the arrests of six others. (Peter Ackerman/The Asbury Park Press via AP)
  • FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016 file photo, a Mississippi state flag is unfurled by Sons of Confederate Veterans and other groups on the grounds of the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., in support of keeping the Confederate battle emblem on the state flag. A black Mississippi citizen is taking his case against the state’s Confederate-themed flag to the U.S. Supreme Court. In papers filed Wednesday, June 28, 2017, attorneys for Carlos Moore said lower courts were wrong to reject his argument that the flag is a symbol of white supremacy that harms him and his young daughter by violating the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection to all citizens. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
  • FILE - This May 8, 2017, file photo shows an aerial view of Arch Canyon within Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. Native American tribes and environmental groups preparing a legal battle to stop President Donald Trump from dismantling Utah's new national monument will face a tougher challenge than anticipated. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
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