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In a Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017 photo, from left, From left, Ryan Ocasio, Christian Maldonado, Kevin Polite and Eddie Patton look through their renovation project, a home in the 300 block of Laurel Street, Lancaster, Pa. Polite, who was paroled from state prison in 2014, is part of a job-training program to give individuals with a criminal record a second chance at employment. Since November, Polite has been a Community Action Partnership employee in the nonprofit's new, four-man remodeling crew. (Dan Marschka/LNP via AP)
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In a Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017 photo, from left, Kevin Polite, Christian Maldonado, Ryan Ocasio and Eddie Patton look through their renovation project, a home in the 300 block of Laurel Street, Lancaster, Pa. Polite, who was paroled from state prison in 2014, is part of a job-training program to give individuals with a criminal record a second chance at employment. Since November, Polite has been a Community Action Partnership employee in the nonprofit's new, four-man remodeling crew. (Dan Marschka/LNP via AP)
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In a Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017 photo, from left, Ryan Ocasio, Kevin Polite, Christian Maldonado and Eddie Patton look through their renovation project, a home in the 300 block of Laurel Street, in Lancaster, Pa. Polite, who was paroled from state prison in 2014, is part of a job-training program to give individuals with a criminal record a second chance at employment. Since November, Polite has been a Community Action Partnership employee in the nonprofit's new, four-man remodeling crew. (Dan Marschka/LNP via AP)
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In a Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017 photo, from left, Kevin Polite, Ryan Ocasio, Christian Maldonado and Eddie Patton gather in the kitchen of their next renovation project, a home in the 300 block of Laurel Street, in Lancaster, Pa. Polite, who was paroled from state prison in 2014, is part of a job-training program to give individuals with a criminal record a second chance at employment. Since November, Polite has been a Community Action Partnership employee in the nonprofit's new, four-man remodeling crew. (Dan Marschka/LNP via AP)
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FILE - In this July 10, 2013 file photo, Mark Leonard walks to a hearing in Indianapolis. Leonard, who is serving two life sentences in a deadly 2012 Indianapolis house explosion, was convicted Tuesday night, Jan. 31, 2017, of a murder-for-hire charge. Prosecutors say Leonard tried to hire a hit man to kill a key witness in the house explosion case while he was in jail. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
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FILE- This June 20, 2014, file photo, Chief U.S. District judge Gerald Rosen shows after Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation to provide state funding for Detroit municipal pensions as part of city's bankruptcy process in Detroit. Rosen is retiring from the federal bench Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, and opening a Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services branch in Detroit on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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Sami Jamaleddine, left, signs up for health insurance offered under the Affordable Care Act with insurance agent Michael Khoury, right, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Miami. The enrollment period for the federal health care law known as "Obamacare" ends at the end of the day Tuesday. The Republican-lead Senate has passed a measure to take the first step forward on dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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This screen image shows the website of HealthCare.gov. Overnight Tuesday, Jan. 31, is the deadline to sign up for coverage under the federal health care law. Even if the ultimate fate of “Obamacare” is uncertain, there’s been no change for this year. About 11.5 million people had enrolled as of Dec. 24. (AP Photo)
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Demonstrators chant outside Tom Bradley International Terminal during a protest by airport service workers from United Service Workers West union Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at Los Angeles International Airport. The vigil in support of travelers affected by the executive order restricting travel from seven primarily Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Demonstrators chant outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal during a protest by airport service workers from United Service Workers West union, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017 at Los Angeles International Airport. The vigil in support of travelers affected by the executive order restricting travel from seven primarily Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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A supporter, foreground, of President Donald Trump yells as demonstrators chant outside Tom Bradley International Terminal during a protest by airport service workers from United Service Workers West union Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at Los Angeles International Airport. The vigil in support of travelers affected by the executive order restricting travel from seven primarily Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Demonstrators chant outside Tom Bradley International Terminal during a protest by airport service workers from United Service Workers West union Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at Los Angeles International Airport. The vigil in support of travelers affected by the executive order restricting travel from seven primarily Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Demonstrators chant outside Tom Bradley International Terminal during a protest by airport service workers from United Service Workers West union Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at Los Angeles International Airport. The vigil is in support of travelers affected by the executive order restricting travel from seven primarily Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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FILE- In this Dec. 7, 2016, file photo, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz speaks during the Starbucks 2016 Investor Day meeting in New York. Starbucks says it will hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years, a response to President Donald Trump's indefinite suspension of Syrian refugees and temporary travel bans that apply to six other Muslim-majority nations. Schultz said in a letter to employees Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, that the hiring would apply to stores worldwide. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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The HealthCare.gov website is still up and running, days after congressional Republicans imposed a deadline to begin their promised Obamacare repeal. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer Sr., of the Service Employees International Union, talks to demonstrators opposed to President Donald Trump's executive order barring entry to the U.S. by Muslims from certain countries at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Flowers, images and a jersey are among the items at the front of the room where Kansas City Royals' Yordano Ventura was remembered by members and employees of the team in Kansas City, Mo. Ventura died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP)
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A wreath stands outside a room where Kansas City Royals' Yordano Ventura was remembered by members and employees of the baseball team in Kansas City, Mo. Ventura died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, JAN. 29 WITH CAPITOL FOCUS- Talent Investment Agency Director Wanda Stokes is interviewed Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 in Lansing, Mich. Stokes is conducting a wide-ranging review of Michigan's embattled Unemployment Insurance Agency. She apologized to thousands of people who were wrongly accused of fraud while collecting unemployment benefits and said lawmakers should consider reducing high fraud penalties. (AP Photo/David Eggert)
