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A tribute to Father Stanley Rother is displayed inside Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Okarche, Okla, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Holy Trinity was the childhood church of Stanley Rother, an American priest killed during Guatemala's civil war, who is on the path to possible sainthood. A ceremony for Rother's Beatification is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Guatemalans travel to Oklahoma to honor 1st US martyrOklahoma-born priest killed during Guatemala's civil war is set to be beatified, on the path to possible sainthood

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FILE - This Oct. 14, 2016 file photo shows Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's names printed on a ballot on a voting machine to be used in the upcoming election, in Philadelphia. The federal government on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems before last year's presidential election. The notification came roughly a year after U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials first said states were targeted by hacking efforts possibly connected to Russia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Federal government notifies 21 states of election hackingThe U.S. government has told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems last year, although in most cases the systems were not breached

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FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2017 file photo, a man is treated after being pepper sprayed as police tried to clear a violent crowd in University City, Mo. The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri is suing the city of St. Louis over what it calls "unlawful and unconstitutional action" during demonstrations that followed the acquittal of a former police officer in the killing of a black man. The suit filed Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, accuses police of misconduct by using chemical weapons, interfering with video of police activity and violating due process. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

ACLU sues St. Louis over treatment of protestersAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Missouri sues the city of St. Louis over what it calls 'unlawful and unconstitutional action' during demonstrations that followed a former police officer's acquittal in killing

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U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos arrives at the dedication ceremony of Michigan State University's new Grand Rapids Medical Research Center on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (Cory Morse /The Grand Rapids Press via AP)

Obama-era guidance on campus sexual assault gets scrappedThe Trump administration is scrapping Obama-era guidance on investigating campus sexual assault, replacing it with new interim instructions for universities

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Dead horses lie on the side of the road after the passing of Hurricane Maria, in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, Friday, September 22, 2017. Because of the heavy rains brought by Maria, thousands of people were evacuated from Toa Baja after the municipal government opened the gates of the Rio La Plata Dam. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Dam failing as scope of Puerto Rico's disaster becomes clearPuerto Rican officials rushed to evacuate tens of thousands of people downstream of a failing dam and said they could not reach more than half the towns in the U.S. territory

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Paul Wilson, the husband of Christy Wilson, a manicurist killed at Salon Meritage hair salon in 2011, points as he speaks to Scott Dekraai during a victim impact statement in Superior Court Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, in Santa Ana, Calif. Dekraai, a 47-year-old former tugboat operator, received eight consecutive life terms for the murders of his hairstylist ex-wife, her co-workers and others in the tight-knit seaside community of Seal Beach. (Mark Rightmire/The Orange County Register via AP)

'Face of evil': Man gets life for killing 8 at hair salonA California man who killed eight people at a hair salon in 2011 has been sentenced to life without parole in a courtroom packed with sobbing victims' relatives

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Sister Marita Rother, left, and Guatemalan Bishop Julio Edgar Cabrera, right, pose for a photo in the Rother Family home in Okarche, Okla, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Sister Marita, born Elizabeth Mary Rother, is the sister of Stanley Rother, an American priest killed during Guatemala's civil war, who is on the path to possible sainthood. A ceremony for Rother's Beatification is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Guatemalans travel to Oklahoma to honor 1st US martyrOklahoma-born priest killed during Guatemala's civil war is set to be beatified, on the path to possible sainthood

The Associated Press9 hours ago

People move in to take a closer look at the "Comfort Women" monument after it was unveiled Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, in San Francisco. The monument was dedicated to the young women victims of Japanese military sexual slavery from 1932 until the end of World War II in 1945. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

San Francisco unveils memorial to WWII "comfort women"One of the few "comfort women" still alive attended the dedication in San Francisco Friday to her and thousands of other Asian women forced into brothels for Japanese soldiers in the 1930s and 1940s

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FILE - In this Wednesday, June 15, 2016 file photo, Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty speaks during a news conference in Oklahoma City. 2016. Citty says he plans to meet with advocates for the hearing and speech-impaired following the fatal shooting of a deaf man. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Deaf man's family calls for Oklahoma City officer's arrestFamily of deaf man killed by Oklahoma City police officer calls for officer's arrest and independent investigations into shooting

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A demonstrator carries a sign during a march outside federal court in New Orleans, Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. With immigrants and their advocates chanting and beating drums outside, a federal appeals court heard arguments Friday on whether it should allow a Texas law aimed at combatting "sanctuary cities" to immediately take effect. (AP Photo/Stacey Plaisance Jenkins)

Texas asks court to allow its ban on 'sanctuary cities'Attorneys for Texas have asked a federal appeals court in New Orleans to let the state's law banning "sanctuary cities" take effect

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017 file photo, a woman is transported from The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills as patients are evacuated after a loss of air conditioning due to Hurricane Irma in Hollywood, Fla. After 11 nursing home residents died in the sweltering heat of hurricane-induced power outages, Florida's nursing home industry is now on a collision course with Gov. Rick Scott. Days after Hurricane Irma ravaged the state, Scott used his emergency powers to put in place new rules that require nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have generators capable of providing backup power for four days. The Republican governor, who normally brags about eliminating regulations on businesses, gave nursing homes 60 days to comply. Nursing home officials say they can't. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, File)

Elderly deaths: Call for generators in Florida nursing homesAfter nursing home deaths in Irma's wake, Florida regulators say they will enforce new rules requiring nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have generators

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CORRECTS NAME TO TERRENCE ROBERTS, MELBA PATTILLO, CARLOTTA WALLS AND GLORIA RAY-This combination of file photos shows the nine black teenagers who had to be escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and through the doors of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Sept. 25, 1957. Top row from left are Minnie Brown, Elizabeth Eckford and Ernest Green; middle row, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, and Gloria Ray; bottom row, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls. (AP Photo)

'Little Rock Nine' members mark school's 1957 desegregation'Little Rock Nine' member: Images of white supremacist rally in Virginia last month echo mobs she and other black students faced 60 years ago

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