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FILE - In a May 30, 2019 file photo, Ahmad Fawzi Issa, right, sits in Hamilton County Court in Cincinnati. Issa, who spent two decades on Ohio’s death row could soon find out whether he is going home. Hamilton County judge J. Patrick Foley III will hear Thursday, July 18, 2019 whether an agreement has been reached in the case of Issa. Issa was sentenced to death in the 1997 contract slaying of a Cincinnati convenience store owner. But the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out his conviction last year. (AP Photo/Dan Sewell, File)

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Officers from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources prepare to arrest protesters, many of them elderly, who are blocking a road to prevent construction of a giant telescope on land that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred, on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Police were taking away about 30 elders, who were prepared to be arrested. Protest leader Kealoha Pisciotta says hundreds of protesters moved aside to allow the elders to be taken away. (Cindy Ellen Russell/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP)

Hawaii expands power to block telescope protestersThousands of protesters have joined a swelling effort to stop construction of a telescope they've spent years trying to keep off a mountain sacred to some Native Hawaiians

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Au pairs could soon learn whether they will get paymentsLow paid childcare workers from around the world could soon learn whether they will be getting payments from a proposed $65.5 million class action settlement

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Smoke billows from a three-story building of Kyoto Animation in a fire in Kyoto, western Japan, Thursday, July 18, 2019. Kyoto prefectural police said the fire broke out Thursday morning after a man burst into it and spread unidentified liquid and put fire. (Kyodo News via AP)

Suspected arson in Japan animation studio kills 1, 35 hurtJapanese authorities say a man burst into a famous animation production studio in Kyoto and started a fire, leaving at least one dead and 35 others injured, some critically

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FILE - This file photo provided by the Macon County Sheriff's Office in Decatur, Ill., shows Brendt Christensen. Andrea Christensen, the sister of former University of Illinois student Brendt Christensen who is convicted of killing a Chinese scholar, told a jury, Monday, July 15, 2019, deciding whether he should be executed that he was a "very gentle person" who never raised his voice. (Macon County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Jury deliberates for 2nd day on penalty in scholar's slayingJurors are set to resume deliberations on whether a former University of Illinois doctoral student deserves the death penalty for slaying a 26-year-old scholar from China

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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 1981, file photo Bruce Laingen steps from the first of four planes carrying the freed Iranian hostages from West Point, N.Y., to their official welcome in Washington. Laingen, the top American diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when it was overrun by Iranian protesters in 1979 and one of 52 Americans held hostage for more than a year, has died at age 96. He died July 15, 2019, according to his son. (AP Photo)

L. Bruce Laingen, top US diplomat held in Iran, dies at 96L. Bruce Laingen, the top American diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when it was overrun by Iranian protesters in 1979, dies at 96

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Hawaii Gov. David Ige speaks at a news conference in Honolulu on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, about issuing an emergency proclamation in response to protesters blocking a road to prevent the construction of a giant telescope. Thousands of protesters joined a swelling effort to stop construction of a telescope they have long tried to keep off a mountain considered sacred to some Native Hawaiians, blocking a road to Hawaii's highest peak and prompting the arrest of a group of elderly demonstrators. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Hawaii protesters press on to stop telescope, face arrestThousands of protesters have joined a swelling effort to stop construction of a telescope they've spent years trying to keep off a mountain sacred to some Native Hawaiians