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Dane County, Wis., Sheriff David Mahoney looks through a small window in a solitary confinement cell at the county jail in Madison. Mahoney says he has no separate housing for inmates with certain behavioral, medical or mental health problems, so he has to put them in these cells even though he says it's "inhumane. But we're forced into a situation to keep these people alive." (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Dane County, Wis., Sheriff David Mahoney looks through a small window in a solitary confinement cell at the county jail in Madison. Mahoney says he has no separate housing for inmates with certain behavioral, medical or mental health problems, so he has to put them in these cells even though he says it's "inhumane. But we're forced into a situation to keep these people alive." (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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  • Dane County, Wis., Sheriff David Mahoney looks through a small window in a solitary confinement cell at the county jail in Madison. Mahoney says he has no separate housing for inmates with certain behavioral, medical or mental health problems, so he has to put them in these cells even though he says it's "inhumane. But we're forced into a situation to keep these people alive." (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
  • Packs of Canadian pork are displayed for sale at a supermarket in Beijing, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. China will halt imports from a Canadian company after food safety issues were detected in one batch of pork, the Xinhua state news agency reported Tuesday, a move likely to fuel further speculation that China is retaliating against Canada after it arrested a Chinese tech executive. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
  • Burning River Pepper Jam is displayed on a shelf at the Great Lakes Brewing Company gift shop, Monday, June 17, 2019, in Cleveland. The "burning river" in the jam's name is inspired by the Cuyahoga River’s most famous fire. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
  • In this Monday, June 17, 2019, photo, Jacky Chan, 23, takes a vaping break from his job at a smoke shop in San Francisco. San Francisco supervisors are considering whether to move the city toward becoming the first in the United States to ban all sales of electronic cigarettes in an effort to crack down on youth vaping. The plan would ban the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes, as well as prohibit e-cigarette manufacturing on city property. (AP Photo/Samantha Maldonado)
  • A clock at top counts down intervals between checks on inmates in the booking area holding cells at the Lake County Jail in Lakeport, Calif., on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Major reforms were put in place at the jail following the 2015 suicide of a woman with a history of mental health problems who had repeatedly begged for help. Her son’s lawsuit resulted in $2 million wrongful death settlement. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
  • In this photo taken Friday, June 14, 2019, volunteers including 67-year-old consultant John Miller pick up food packages to deliver to homebound families and dependent children in Santa Fe, N.M., at the headquarters for Kitchen Angels. An annual report on childhood well-being from the Annie E. Casey Foundation ranks New Mexico last among 50 states that includes measures of poverty, health care, education and family support. The number of children living in poverty has swelled over the past three decades in fast-growing, ethnically diverse states such as Texas, Arizona and Nevada as the nation's population center shifts south and west. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
  • A woman and her children wait to receive Ebola vaccinations, in the village of Mabalako, in eastern Congo Monday, June 17, 2019. Health officials in eastern Congo have begun offering vaccinations to all residents in the hotspot of Mabalako whereas previous efforts had only targeted known contacts or those considered to be at high risk. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)
  • FILE - This Dec. 4, 2017, file photo shows the Pfizer company logo at the company's headquarters in New York. Pfizer is buying the cancer treatment company Array BioPharma in a deal worth $11.4 billion. Array has a combination therapy for BRAF-mutant metastatic melanoma, along with a pipeline of targeted cancer medicines in development and a portfolio of other medicines that are expected to generate significant royalties over time. (AP Photo/Richard Drewm Fuke, File)
  • In this Monday, June 10, 2019 photo, Andrew Dunham harvests Hakurei turnips on his 80-acre organic farm, in Grinnell, Iowa. Like farmers throughout the Midwest, torrential spring rains turned Dunham's land into sticky muck that wouldn't let him plant crops this spring. But unlike other farmers, Dunham won't get a piece of a $16 billion aid package to offset his losses, and he can't fall back on federally subsidized crop insurance because Dunham grows herbs, flowers and dozens of vegetable varieties but not the region's dominant crops of corn and soybeans. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
  • FILE- In this March 9, 2016, file photo, a bottle of maple syrup are displayed at the Merrifield Farm and Sugar Shack in Gorham, Maine. U.S. production of maple syrup increased slightly in 2019, even though the season was shorter than last year’s. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that the country produced 4.2 million gallons (16 million liters) of the pancake topper, up 1% from 2018. Leading producer Vermont made more than 2 million gallons, an increase over 2018. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
  • FILE - In this June 17, 2018, file photo, provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who have been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. Advocates were shocked to find an underage mom and her tiny, premature newborn daughter huddled in a Border Patrol facility this week in what they say was another example of the poor treatment immigrant families receive after crossing the border. The mother is a Guatemalan teen who crossed the border without a parent and was held at a facility in McAllen, Texas. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP, File)
  • In this Jan. 22, 2017, photo, the Guam Catholic Pro-Life Committee holds its annual "Chain for Life" protest against abortion at the Guam International Trade Center intersection in Tamuning, Guam. The first female governor of Guam says she's concerned that a lack of abortion access in the U.S. territory means women will be forced to seek illegal or dangerous alternatives. (Frank San Nicolas/The Pacific Daily via AP)
  • In this May 30, 2019 photo provided by the Ross Township Fire Department firefighters assemble a tube around farmer Jay Butterfield during the process of rescuing him from a soybean bin on his farm in Ross Township, Ohio. He became buried up to his neck while trying to break up clumps of soybeans in the bin. (Ross Township Fire Department via AP)
  • Rita Rockett, left, and Jaime King attend the U.S. premiere of the documentary Film "5B" during the opening night of LA Pride Festival on Friday, June 7, 2019, in West Hollywood, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
  • FILE - In this April 19, 2018, file photo, a man displays hemp seeds being prepared for sale to industrial hemp farmers at his facility in Monmouth, Ore. A global hemp research lab announced Thursday, June 13, 2019, in Oregon, is part of a larger movement to bring the standardization to hemp that traditional crops like corn and cotton enjoy. (AP Photos/Gillian Flaccus, File)
  • A Parson Russell terrier, one of many terriers confiscated from a home in Kingwood, N.J., sits in a kennel at St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center after being treated, Friday, June 14, 2019, in Madison, N.J. Law enforcement officers and animal welfare groups went to the Kingwood home Tuesday to remove the dogs, which were mostly Russell terriers. Officials said the animals seemed to have had limited human contact and minimal to no veterinary care. No charges have been filed, but officials say they're continuing to investigate. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
  • FILE - In this June 28, 2018, file photo, Dr. Robert Redfield Jr., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, poses at the agency's headquarters in Atlanta. As the federal government prepares to launch an ambitious initiative to end the HIV epidemic, the director of the Centers for Disease Control on Friday, June 14, 2019, applauded an Alabama HIV clinic's commitment to providing health services to rural communities. (AP Photo/David Goldman. File)
  • A Parson Russell terrier, one of many terriers confiscated from a home in Kingwood, N.J., sits in a kennel at St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center after being treated, Friday, June 14, 2019, in Madison, N.J. Law enforcement officers and animal welfare groups went to the Kingwood home Tuesday to remove the dogs, which were mostly Russell terriers. Officials said the animals seemed to have had limited human contact and minimal to no veterinary care. No charges have been filed, but officials say they're continuing to investigate. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
  • Charlie Winter describes how he grabbed his daughter Paige, 17, by her upper body to get her loose from a shark's grip during a press conference, Friday, June 14, 2019 in Greenville, N.C. (Julia Wall/The News & Observer via AP)
  • FILE - In this Monday, June 10, 2019 file photo, Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant (35) walks off the court after sustaining an injury as he is accompanied by Toronto Raptors center Serge Ibaka (9) and Warriors forward Andre Iguodala (9) and guard Kyle Lowry (7) during first-half basketball action in Game 5 of the NBA Finals in Toronto. On Friday, June 14, 2019, The Associated Press found that a video circulating on the internet that appeared to show fans in a Toronto bar cheering as Durant’s injury is shown on a large TV screen was deceptively altered, with the Durant injury image inserted into unrelated footage of cheering soccer fans. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
  • People coming from Congo have their temperature measured to screen for symptoms of Ebola, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda Friday, June 14, 2019. In Uganda, health workers had long prepared in case the Ebola virus got past the screening conducted at border posts with Congo and earlier this week it did, when a family exposed to Ebola while visiting Congo returned home on an unguarded footpath. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)
  • FILE - In this Monday, June 3, 2019 file photo, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra discusses the lawsuit his office has filed to Purdue Pharma for its painkiller Oxycontin, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. The suit, filed against Purdue and its former president, Dr. Richard Sackler, alleges it falsely promoted the drug as not addictive even as it emerged as among of the most widely abused in the United States. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
  • This undated photo provided by the National Institutes of Health in June 2019 shows an "ultra-processed" lunch including brand name macaroni and cheese, chicken tenders, canned green beans and diet lemonade. Researchers found people ate an average of 500 extra calories a day when fed mostly processed foods, compared with when the same people were fed minimally processed foods. That’s even though researchers tried to match the meals for nutrients like fat, fiber and sugar. (Paule Joseph, Shavonne Pocock/NIH via AP)
  • FILE - In this March 27, 2019 file photo, a woman receives a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y., north of New York City. On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, federal health officials updated the U.S. measles case count, saying 1,001 illnesses have been reported since the beginning of the year. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
  • A medical worker carries a bunch of protective rubber gloves used to prevent infection, at the hospital where the first cross-border Ebola victim was isolated in the town of Bwera, near the border with Congo, in western Uganda, Thursday, June 13, 2019. The Congolese pastor who is thought to have caused the Ebola outbreak's spread into Uganda was unknown to health officials before he died of the disease, the World Health Organization's emergencies chief said Thursday, underlining the problems in tracking the virus. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)
  • Workers wearing protective clothing prepare to bury Agnes Mbambu who died of Ebola, the 50-year-old grandmother of the 5-year-old boy who became Ebola's first cross-border victim, in the village of Karambi, near the border with Congo, in western Uganda Thursday, June 13, 2019. The two were part of a larger Congolese-Ugandan family who crossed to Congo when one of their elders there, a pastor, became sick with Ebola and they crossed back into Uganda on June 9 via a footpath not patrolled by border authorities. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, heavy equipment is used at an ash storage site at Gallatin Fossil Plant in Gallatin, Tenn. The nation’s largest public utility has agreed to dig up and remove about 12 million cubic yards of coal ash from unlined pits at Gallatin Fossil Plant. In a Thursday, June 13, 2019 settlement, the Tennessee Valley Authority says it will excavate a majority of coal ash at its Gallatin Fossil Plant. .(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
  • FILE - In this March 21, 2016 file photo, the Flint Water Plant water tower is seen in Flint, Mich. Prosecutors dropped all criminal charges Thursday, June 13, 2019, against eight people in the Flint water scandal and pledged to start the investigation from scratch. The defendants include Michigan's former health director, Nick Lyon, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter. He was accused of failing to timely alert the public about an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that occurred in 2014-15 when Flint was drawing improperly treated water from the Flint River. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2013, file photo, an exercise rider takes a horse for a workout at Santa Anita Park with palm trees and the San Gabriel Mountains as a backdrop in Arcadia, Calif. A second horse in two days and 29th overall died at Santa Anita, Sunday, June 9, 2019, where management has chosen to continue racing for the rest of the current meet. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
  • FILE - In this April 25, 2017 file photo, Jessica Biel attends the screening of "The Sinner," during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, at SVA Theatre in New York. Biel says she’s not opposed to vaccinations, but she does not support a bill in California that would limit medical exemptions. The actress has drawn criticism after appearing this week in Sacramento with vaccination skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to voice concerns about the measure. Biel posted on Instagram that she supports children getting vaccinated and she also supports families having the “right to make educated medical decisions for their children alongside their physicians.” (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
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