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  • New York Knicks guard Dennis Smith Jr. (5) defends against Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Sarah Stier)
  • The report issued by the Department of Justice inspector general is photographed in Washington, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. The report on the origins of the Russia probe found no evidence of political bias, despite performance failures. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
  • Afghan women sit on a road divider as they seek alms from pedestrians outside a camp for internally displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Tens of thousands of internally displaced Afghans live in camps, which lack basic facilities, across Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
  • Democratic presidential candidate and Mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg speaks during a campaign stop at the Danceland Ballroom Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, in Davenport. (Meg McLaughlin/The Dispatch - The Rock Island Argus via AP)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2019, file photo, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma testifies before the House Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Capitol Hill in Washington. The government is defending Verma who sought a reimbursement from taxpayers of $47,000, reportedly including a $5,900 Ivanka Trump-brand pendant, for items stolen during a work-related trip. HHS says it does not cover the costs of stolen jewelry and only $2,852.40 was reimbursed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
  • Democratic presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, middle, and Augusta, Ga., Mayor Hardie Davis, left, chat with a woman at the New Moon Cafe in Augusta, Ga., Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)
  • FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2018, file photo snow covers the perimeter of the General Motors' Lordstown plant in Lordstown, Ohio. General Motors is selling the Ohio assembly plant it closed in March to a new company that plans to begin making electric trucks in late 2020. The company called Lordstown Motors Corp. said Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, that it initially intends to hire 400 production workers but still needs more money from investors. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
  • FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in Washington. Wray says the problems found by the Justice Department watchdog examining the origins of the Russia probe are “unacceptable." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2019, file photo people holding photos of those lost in Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610 wait for the start of a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
  • Light shines on the U.S. Capitol dome early Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The White House endorsed an emerging bipartisan agreement Monday on legislation aimed at curbing rising health care costs, including taking steps to limit “surprise” medical bills that can plague patients treated in emergency rooms. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
  • Brazilian Roberto Azevedo, Director General of the World Trade Organization, WTO, waits the opening of the General Council at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization, WTO, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
  • FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2019, file photo Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell, center, and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, left, listen during a round table discussion during a visit to Silver Lane Elementary School, in East Hartford, Conn. On Wednesday, Dec. 11, the Federal Reserve issues a statement and economic projections, followed by a news conference with Powell. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
  • FILE - This April 29, 2019 file photo provided by the United States Geological Survey shows a grizzly bear and a cub along the Gibbon River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. According to court documents filed Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, U.S. officials will review whether grizzly bears have enough protections across the Lower 48 states after advocates sued the government in a bid to restore the animals to more areas of the U.S. (Frank van Manen/The United States Geological Survey via AP, File)
  • House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., joined at right by Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., the ranking member, convenes the panel to hear investigative findings in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
  • FILE - In this April 30, 2019 file photo, troops loyal to Venezuela's opposition leader and self proclaimed President Juan Guaido, stand outside La Carlota air base in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
  • FILE - This undated file photo provided by the University of Maryland Police Department shows Sean Urbanski. A trial is scheduled to begin this week for Urbanski, charged with a hate crime in the 2017 fatal stabbing of a black college student on the University of Maryland's campus. (University of Maryland Police Department via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009 file photo, former United States President George H. W. Bush, right, leaves the field with the help of Pierce Bush, left, his grandson, before the Texas Bowl NCAA college football game in Houston. Pierce Bush announced Monday, Dec. 9, 2019 that he'll run in the Republican primary for a congressional seat near Houston. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel, File)
  • Vice President Mike Pence listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable on school choice in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
  • FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2019, file photo people stand in the lobby for Amazon offices in New York. Amazon says President Donald Trump's “improper pressure" and behind-the-scenes attacks harmed its chances of winning a $10 billion Pentagon contract. Amazon argues in a lawsuit unsealed Monday, Dec. 9, that the decision should be revisited because of “substantial and pervasive errors" and Trump's interference. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
  • FILE - In this May 1, 2019 file photo, Juice WRLD accepts the award for top new artist at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The Chicago-area rapper, whose real name is Jarad A. Higgins, was pronounced dead Sunday, Dec. 8 after a "medical emergency'' at Chicago's Midway International Airport, according to authorities. Chicago police said they're conducting a death investigation. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
  • CORRECTS ONE OF THE DUPLICATIONS OF WALTERS TO WATSON - An Air Force carry team pays respect after moving a transfer cases containing the remains of Ensign Cameron Joshua Kaleb Watson, Seaman Mohammed Sameh Haitham and Seaman Apprentice Cameron Scott Walters, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. A Saudi gunman killed the three people in a shooting Friday at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington, at sunset. The Supreme Court has left in place a Kentucky law requiring doctors to perform ultrasounds and show fetal images to patients before abortions. The justices did not comment on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, in refusing to review an appeals court ruling that upheld the law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
  • FILE - In this July 21, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama greets Paul Volcker, Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, after Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection financial reform bill at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman died on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, according to his office, He was 92. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
  • Democratic presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a press conference at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum in Augusta, Ga., Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. (Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP)
  • Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, centre, poses for a photo in a warehouse with CEO Alan Ferguson, right, and Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Washington and Sunderland West Valerie Allen, during a General Election campaign visit to Fergusons Transport in Washington, England, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. (Ben Stansall/Pool Photo via AP)
  • Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy smiles during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday Dec. 9, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met for the first time Monday at a summit in Paris to try to end five years of war between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed separatists. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)
  • FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2014 file photo, the Russian national flag, right, flies after next to the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The World Anti-Doping Agency banned Russia on Monday Dec. 9, 2019 from the Olympics and other major sporting events for four years, though many athletes will likely be allowed to compete as neutral athletes. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
  • In this Nov. 21, 2019 photo, real estate agent Patrick Flanders discusses impeachment and Minnesota's 7th District congressional race at his office in Paynesville, Minn. Flanders describes himself as one of the rare Democrats in Paynesville. He said he supports impeachment, but he understands why Democratic U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson was one of only two Democrats to vote against the impeachment inquiry. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)
  • FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2018, file photo, people vote at a polling place in Las Vegas. Nevada, the third state to vote on the presidential primary next year, is supposed to offer Democrats something different. It's more diverse than largely white Iowa and New Hampshire. Its population is working class, urbanized and increasingly blue. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
  • House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., left, gives his closing statement as ranking member Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., listens during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019 (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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