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This Feb. 2, 2017 photo shows Maracana stadium's dry playing field in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The stadium was renovated for the 2014 World Cup at a cost of about $500 million, and largely abandoned after the Olympics and Paralympics, then hit by vandals who ripped out thousands of seats and stole televisions. (AP Photo/Mario Lobao) (AP)

An Olympic ghost town

Stephen Wade
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-635707p1.html'>Eduardo Ramirez Sanchez</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Private prisons like trump

Jonathan Mattise
FILE - This Dec. 4, 2015 file photo shows DJ and producer Zedd at 106.1 KISS FM's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball in Los Angeles. Zedd, a Russian-born immigrant whose real name is Anton Zaslavski, has organized a concert called, "Welcome!", on April 3, 2017, to benefit the American Civil Liberties Union. The organization has been fighting President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration, which included a temporary travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File) (Rich Fury/invision/ap)

Mark Kennedy
In this Feb. 8, 2017, photo, a Google Chromebook displays Candy Crush Saga in New York. Google Chromebook laptops are impractical for many people because they’re little more than expensive paperweights when they’re out of range of an internet connection. Yet they’ve defied expectations and made tremendous inroads in one of the least likely places: U.S. schools. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP)

Anick Jesdanun
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AP Staff
FILE - In this Wednesday, June 24, 2015, file photo, pedestrians pass in front of a Whole Foods Market store in Union Square in New York. Whole Foods said Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, that sales fell 2.4 percent at established locations, marking the sixth straight quarter of declines as it faces competitive pressures. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) (AP)

Candice Choi
President Donald Trump waves as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, after returning from a weekend trip to Florida. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Solitary white house for trump

Julie Pace, Jonathan Lemire
Trump Tower in New York (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Dominican deal tests Trump

Jeff Horwitz
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Tribes file to stall DAPL

James MacPherson, Blake Nicholson - The Associated Press
(AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

"Made in France" plan

Elaine Ganley - The Associated Press
FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2016 file photo, Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. smiles on Capitol Hill in Washington. Propelled by populist energy, President-elect Donald Trump’s candidacy broke long-standing conventions and his incoming Cabinet embodies a sharp turn from the outgoing Obama administration. () (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

jeff sessions confirmed for AG

Andrew Taylor, Alan Fram - The Associated Press
In this photo taken Nov. 18, 2015, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Warren labeled Donald Trump a loser, a bully and a threat on Monday, March 21, 2016, continuing a fierce war of words between the liberal icon and the front-running Republican presidential candidate that has played out on social media and The New York Times. () (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Fistfight gave rise to Rule 19

Matthew Daly - The Associated Press
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FILE - This Jan. 3, 2017 file photo shows Ezra Edelman at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards in New York. Edelman is nominated for an Oscar for best documentary feature for "O.J.: Made in America." (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) (Evan Agostini/invision/ap)

best docs to watch

Jake Coyle
(Justin Normand via AP)

Nonprofit rejects Trump money

Tami Abdollah
Former President Jimmy Carter, right, and his wife Rosalynn arrive for a ribbon cutting ceremony for a solar panel project on farmland he owns in their hometown of Plains, Ga., Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. Carter leased the land to Atlanta-based SolAmerica Energy, which owns, operates, and sells power generated from solar cells. The company estimates the project will provide more than half of the power needed in this town of 755 people. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP)

Renewable energy and jobs

Alex Sanz
FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, file photo, Charlie Rose participates in the "CBS This Morning" panel at the CBS 2016 Winter TCA in Pasadena, Calif. The CBS News morning host said that he's undergoing heart surgery to replace a heart valve that was installed in 2005. The newsman's surgery is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, and he said Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, he plans to return to work in March. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) (Richard Shotwell/invision/ap)

AP Staff
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Sudhin Thanawala
This Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017 photo shows an 85-foot infinity swimming pool at a $250 million mansion in the Bel-Air area of Los Angeles. At $250 million, the new mansion in the exclusive Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles is the most expensive home listed in the U.S. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (AP)

Amanda Lee Myers
FILE- In this Oct. 30, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stands during a service at the International Church of Las Vegas in Las Vegas. President Trump’s pledge to scrap limits on church political activity could have sweeping effects that extend beyond his conservative supporters to more liberal congregations, including the black evangelical church that has long helped anchor the Democratic Party’s electoral machinery. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (AP)

Bill Barrow
Supporters cheer as an Iranian citizen with a valid U.S. visa arrives at Los Angeles International Airport. (AP)

DOJ files travel ban brief

Eric Tucker
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Sub-Saharan migrants wait their turn to leave the Golfo Azzurro rescue vessel after arriving at the port of Pozzallo, south of Sicily, Italy, with more than 220 migrants aboard, rescued by members of Proactive Open Arms NGO, on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. Rescuers from different aid organizations pulled more than 1000 people in waters off the Libyan coast on Friday, and all of them were transferred to the Italian authorities. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) (AP)

The Associated Press
FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, Barron Trump arrives on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, for the inauguration ceremony of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States. Think it’s tough to be a kid? Try being a “first kid” - the child of an American president. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP, File) (AP)

The ire of being the first kid

Darlene Superville
FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 26, 2016 file photo, Governor of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi pauses during a session of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee at the European Parliament in Brussels. Investors will sift European Central Bank head Mario Draghi’s remarks on Thursday, Oct. 20. 2016 for clues about a possible extension of its 1.74 trillion euro ($1.91 trillion) bond-buying stimulus program. ) ((AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Trump could create crisis

David McHugh - The Associated Press
Neil Gorsuch (AP/David Zalubowski)

Gorsuch courts dems

Mary Clare Jalonick
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