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This April 28, 2017 photo shows a sign that says "We're hiring" outside a Panasonic "maquiladora" in an industrial park in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas. A long-time factory worker said he worried that if maquila jobs decrease, the unemployed would fill the ranks of a drug cartels that control Mexican border towns. (AP Photo/Christopher Sherman)
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Surrounded by a group of visiting school children from Lakewood, N.J., New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a news conference in his offices in Trenton, N.J., Monday, May 22, 2017. Christie is touting the state's 4.1 percent unemployment rate as he urged voters in this year's race for governor not to vote for candidates who will reverse his policies. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a news conference in his offices in Trenton, N.J., Monday, May 22, 2017. Christie is touting the state's 4.1 percent unemployment rate as he urged voters in this year's race for governor not to vote for candidates who will reverse his policies. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a news conference in his offices in Trenton, N.J., Monday, May 22, 2017. Christie is touting the state's 4.1 percent unemployment rate as he urged voters in this year's race for governor not to vote for candidates who will reverse his policies. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Surrounded by a group of visiting school children from Lakewood, N.J., New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a news conference in his offices in Trenton, N.J., Monday, May 22, 2017. Christie is touting the state's 4.1 percent unemployment rate as he urged voters in this year's race for governor not to vote for candidates who will reverse his policies. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a news conference in his offices in Trenton, N.J., Monday, May 22, 2017. Christie is touting the state's 4.1 percent unemployment rate as he urged voters in this year's race for governor not to vote for candidates who will reverse his policies. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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School children from Lakewood, N.J. watch as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a news conference in his offices in Trenton, N.J., Monday, May 22, 2017. Christie is touting the state's 4.1 percent unemployment rate as he urged voters in this year's race for governor not to vote for candidates who will reverse his policies. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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FILE – In this April 8, 2014, file photo, construction workers listen to a safety talk by a manager in front of Union Station, undergoing renovation and expansion, in Denver. Rollout of the Government Accounting Standards Board's reporting rules for economic development tax breaks has not been without hiccups, with the nonprofit board issuing an April 2017 clarification about tax increment financing, or TIF, districts. The mechanism was used to develop Union Station and other projects nationwide. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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Workers prepare to take down the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Lee Circle in New Orleans, Friday, May 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Workers prepare to take down the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Lee Circle in New Orleans, Friday, May 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Workers prepare to take down the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Lee Circle in New Orleans, Friday, May 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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CORRECTS TITLE FROM PRESIDENT TO GENERAL Workers prepare to take down the statue of Robert E. Lee, former general of the Confederacy, which stands in Lee Circle in New Orleans, Friday, May 19, 2017. The city is completing the Southern city's removal of four Confederate-related statues that some called divisive. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Job seeker Dalvin Jones, 22, left, chats with Valmira Haxhimusa during the Opportunity Fair and Forum employment event in Dallas, Friday, May 19, 2017. (AP Photo/LM Otero) ** FILE **
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FILE - In this Friday, March 10, 2017, file photo, jobseeker Kiana Cupit works on her resume during a resumes writing class at the Texas Workforce Solutions office in Dallas. On Friday, May 19, 2017, the Labor Department reports on state unemployment rates for April. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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The global WannaCry 2.0 ransomware cyberattack highlights just one example of foreign intelligence threats.
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2017, AT 1:05 A.M. CDT.- Gladewater Fire Department's first female firefighter Allie McDonald participates in training drills focused on removing an injured person from a wreck, on Monday May 1, 2017, at an auto salvage yard in Gladewater. McDonald is the first woman to be hired by the Gladewater Fire Department since it was founded in 1952. She started working for the department as a full-time firefighter in April. (Michael Cavazos/The News-Journal via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2017, AT 1:05 A.M. CDT.- Gladewater Fire Department's first female firefighter Allie McDonald participates in training drills focused on removing an injured person from a wreck, on Monday May 1, 2017, at an auto salvage yard in Gladewater. McDonald is the first woman to be hired by the Gladewater Fire Department since it was founded in 1952. She started working for the department as a full-time firefighter in April. (Michael Cavazos/The News-Journal via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2017, AT 1:05 A.M. CDT.-Gladewater Fire Department's first female firefighter Allie McDonald participates in training drills focused on removing an injured person from a wreck, on Monday May 1, 2017, at an auto salvage yard in Gladewater. McDonald is the first woman to be hired by the Gladewater Fire Department since it was founded in 1952. She started working for the department as a full-time firefighter in April. (Michael Cavazos/The News-Journal via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2017, AT 1:05 A.M. CDT.- Gladewater Fire Department's first female firefighter Allie McDonald participates in training drills focused on removing an injured person from a wreck, on Monday May 1, 2017, at an auto salvage yard in Gladewater. McDonald is the first woman to be hired by the Gladewater Fire Department since it was founded in 1952. She started working for the department as a full-time firefighter in April. (Michael Cavazos/The News-Journal via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2017, AT 1:05 A.M. CDT.- Gladewater Fire Department's first female firefighter Allie McDonald on Monday May 1, 2017. McDonald is the first woman to be hired by the Gladewater Fire Department since it was founded in 1952. She started working for the department as a full-time firefighter in April. (Michael Cavazos/The News-Journal via AP)
