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This Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 photo shows a statue in Garfield Park that commemorates Confederate soldiers who died in Indiana POW camps. The 35-foot granite tower was moved to Garfield Park in 1928 from its original site marking the mass grave of those who died while held at Camp Morton. While there are no statues, it does have plaques listing the names of 1,616 prisoners. City-County Council President Maggie Lewis said while the monument may be less offensive than others, its location merits a conversation. (Robert Scheer /The Indianapolis Star via AP)
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Indianapolis might move Confederate monument from city park
This Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 photo shows a statue in Garfield Park that commemorates Confederate soldiers who died in Indiana POW camps. The 35-foot granite tower was moved to Garfield Park in 1928 from its original site marking the mass grave of those who died while held at Camp Morton. While there are no statues, it does have plaques listing the names of 1,616 prisoners. City-County Council President Maggie Lewis said while the monument may be less offensive than others, its location merits a conversation. (Robert Scheer /The Indianapolis Star via AP)
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  • This Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 photo shows a statue in Garfield Park that commemorates Confederate soldiers who died in Indiana POW camps. The 35-foot granite tower was moved to Garfield Park in 1928 from its original site marking the mass grave of those who died while held at Camp Morton. While there are no statues, it does have plaques listing the names of 1,616 prisoners. City-County Council President Maggie Lewis said while the monument may be less offensive than others, its location merits a conversation. (Robert Scheer /The Indianapolis Star via AP)
  • In this Monday, Aug. 14, 2017 photo, a giant American flags hangs on the wall of Potter's Lane, an apartment complex made out of recycled shipping containers just for homeless veterans, as Iraq war veteran Vernon Poling, 44, carries a bucket filled with water in the courtyard in Midway City, Calif. The apartments could easily belong to San Francisco tech workers or hipsters in Los Angeles' trendy Arts District. Each of the 15 furnished units are made of three shipping containers pieced together and spiffed up with faux wood flooring, drywall and floor-to-ceiling windows on two of four walls. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
  • Protesters take to the the street in response to rumors of a white supremacist march on Friday, Aug. 18, 2017 in Durham, N.C. The sheriff had issued a statement that he was investigating the rumors, but no gathering of white supremacists was apparent by midafternoon. However, officers blocked streets and businesses closed. (Bernard Thomas/The Herald-Sun via AP)
  • FILE - In this July 5, 2017 file photo, Judge Thomas M. Goethals listens to the testimony of Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens during an evidentiary hearing for convicted murderer Scott Dekraai at the Santa Ana Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, Calif. Goethals is weighing whether Dekraai should be spared the death penalty due to a long-running scandal over authorities' use of jailhouse informants. Goethals is expected to rule Friday, Aug. 18 on whether Dekraai should remain eligible for the death penalty or sentenced to life without parole for killing eight people in a 2011 shooting rampage at an Orange County hair salon. (Nick Agro /The Orange County Register via AP, File)
  • From left, Jayme Harper gathers her triplets, Lauren, Regan and Addison as they arrive for their first day of kindergarten on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017 at Jefferson Elementary in Joplin, Mo. The Triplets born just five days before a deadly tornado slammed Joplin in 2011 have started school. (Laurie Sisk/The Joplin Globe via AP)
  • FILE – In this Feb. 25, 2015, file photo, Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, front left, speaks with his attorney Sam Shamansky, right, during a hearing to set bond in Columbus, Ohio. Mohamud pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in 2015 and is asking for leniency at his scheduled sentencing Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, saying he abandoned his plan to kill military members in the U.S., Shamansky said in a Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, court filing. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins, File)
  • FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2016 file photo, the morning sun illuminates the Grand Tetons in Grand Teton National Park, north of Jackson Hole, Wyo. Grand Teton National Park, normally in the shadow of the neighboring and world-renowned Yellowstone National Park in northwest Wyoming, is set to get its day in the sun with next week's total solar eclipse passing directly over the park. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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  • A sample of Confederate flags is shown at Confederate Memorial Park Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2016 file photo, fall foliage colors a line of mountains in Chatham, N. H. New England's 2017 fall foliage forecast is very favorable for leaf peeping. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
  • FILE - -In this Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016 file photo, construction of a timeshare resort goes on around the townhouse of Julieta Corredor in Orlando, Fla. Corredor, an 81-year-old widow refused to sell her unit to one of the nations largest timeshare companies. The timeshare company needs the Corredor’s signature in order to get a county permit that would allow tenants to move into the timeshare units, and she’s not giving it. That has prompted the parent company of Westgate Resorts to sue Orange County, Florida, demanding that it issue the occupancy permit anyway. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
  • Staci Hadley, right, and boyfriend Deric Hensler rearrange their personal items out of their car which they are living out of in Aberdeen, Wash., Wednesday June 14, 2017. The couple had gotten clean on a methadone program, moved into a nice apartment and started building a better life. Then Hensler lost his job, his insurance and couldn't get methadone anymore. Now they're back on drugs and living in their car and they're trying to figure out a safe place to park and sleep for the night. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
  • FILE - In this Monday, May 24, 2004, file photo, Bishop Francis Xavier DiLorenzo applauds as he is installed as the 12th Bishop of the Richmond Diocese at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond, Va., replacing Rev. Walter Francis Sullivan. DiLorenzo, who served as bishop of the Diocese of Richmond for 13 years and made a return to conservative values his top priority, died Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. He was 75 years old. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
  • Workers strap down the monument dedicated to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney on a flatbed truck after it was removed from outside the Maryland State House, in Annapolis, Md., early Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Maryland workers hauled several monuments away, days after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., turned deadly. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
  • FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016, file photo, people walk near a statue of late Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, who also served as the city's police commissioner, on Thomas Paine Plaza outside the Municipal Services Building in Philadelphia. Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney said Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, that the city should discuss the future of the Rizzo statue after reports of possible vandalism and a call for its removal from a city councilwoman. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2016 file photo, fall foliage colors a line of mountains in Chatham, N. H. New England's 2017 fall foliage forecast is very favorable for leaf peeping. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
  • FILE - Int his July 5, 2017 file photo, Assistant public defender Scott Sanders questions Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens about the use of jailhouse informants during an evidentiary hearing for convicted murderer Scott Dekraai, left, at the Santa Ana Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, Calif. Judge Thomas Goethals is weighing whether Dekraai should be spared the death penalty due to a long-running scandal over authorities' use of jailhouse informants. Goethals is expected to rule Friday, Aug. 18 on whether Dekraai should remain eligible for the death penalty or sentenced to life without parole for killing eight people in a 2011 shooting rampage at an Orange County hair salon. Sanders began asking questions about the use of jailhouse informants after noticing the same snitch had chattered up Dekraai and another one of his clients. (Nick Agro /The Orange County Register via AP, File)
  • Sen. Tim Kaine visits a makeshift memorial Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, where Heather Heyer was killed Saturday when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Rendleman)
  • FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office in Delaware, Ohio, shows Tommy Thompson, jailed on contempt-of-court charges since December 2015 for violating terms of a plea deal by refusing to respond to questions about the location of 500 missing gold coins. The ex-treasure hunter is ready to argue before an Ohio judge why his imprisonment should be ended. Federal Judge Algenon Marbley has scheduled a hearing for Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, in Columbus. (Delaware County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
  • In this photo provided by Pennsylvania's Department of Aging, Delphine Gibson, right, is visited by Aging Secretary Teresa Osborne, at AristaCare Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, in Huntingdon Park, Pa. Gibson, the oldest known living person in the United States celebrated her 114th birthday on Thursday in Pennsylvania. (Drew Wilburne/Pennsylvania Department of Aging via AP)
  • These undated still photos from trial deposition video, accepted as evidence in court and provided by the American Civil Liberties Union, shows psychologists James Mitchell, left, and John Jessen, defendants in a landmark lawsuit that the ACLU filed against the creators of the CIA's harsh interrogation program used in the war on terror. A settlement was reached Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. (Trial Evidence/ACLU via AP)
  • This Aug. 16, 2017 photo from the U.S. Coast Guard shows the cutter Walnut, a 225-foot buoy tender, during an overnight search for a downed Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter off Ka'ena Point, Oahu in Hawaii. Rescuers on Thursday continued searching for five soldiers missing since their helicopter went down during nighttime training. A second Black Hawk lost visual and radio contact with the missing helicopter while they were flying. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)
  • This undated photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Corrections shows Jack Greene. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge asked Gov. Asa Hutchinson to schedule an execution for Greene, who was convicted in the 1991 killing of Sidney Jethro Burnett after Burnett and his wife accused Greene of arson. Rutledge said Greene has exhausted his appeals and there's no stay of execution in place. (Arkansas Department of Corrections via AP)
  • FILE - In this March 22, 2017, file photo, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the Starbucks annual shareholders meeting in Seattle. Schultz has told employees at an employee following the violence at the Aug. 12, 2017, white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that bigotry, hatred and senseless acts of violence against “people who are not white” cannot stand. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
  • FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2012, file photo. Jewish-American scholar and activist Noam Chomsky stands during a press conference to support the Gaza-bound flotilla in the port of Gaza City. Chomsky is joining the faculty of the University of Arizona this month and will start teaching part-time in 2018. The 88-year-old professor has been a regular guest speaker and has taught at the school for the past five years. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa, File)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2013 file photo, a police officer and medical examiner personnel carry a body out of the Times Square subway station in New York after witnesses told police that the man who died jumped into the path of an oncoming train. It's a largely overlooked but gory reality of the New York City subway system: When someone kills themselves by jumping in front of a train, police need to find a place to put the mutilated body until a medical examiner truck arrives. Sometimes, transit workers say, that place is their break room or bathrooms, and some say they have been traumatized by unexpectedly coming upon a stowed body.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, FIle)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, Missouri state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal speaks on the Senate floor in Jefferson City, Mo. Chappelle-Nadal says she posted and then deleted a comment on Facebook that said she hoped for President Donald Trump's assassination. The Democratic Senator says she didn't mean what she posted Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, but was frustrated with the president's reaction to the violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Va.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
  • A monument memorializing the resting place of Confederate soldiers of the Civil War stands in the Confederate Rest section of Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wis., Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Madison Mayor Paul Soglin ordered the removal of the monument, as well as another at the site. Soglin said Thursday that the monuments to confederate soldiers are being removed because the Civil War was "a defense of the deplorable practice of slavery." (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
  • The defaced Gen. Robert E. Lee statue, center, stands at the Duke Chapel on Thursday, Aug. 17 2017, in Durham, N.C. Duke President Vincent E. Price said in a statement that he had already been meeting with members of the Duke community to discuss how to deal with strong reactions to the statue. But he says it’s wrong for an individual to vandalize a house of worship. (Bernard Thomas/The Herald-Sun via AP)
  • Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, right, answers questions along with Corrections Secretary Joe Norwood on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, after announcing pay increases for the state's correctional officers at the El Dorado Correctional Facility in El Dorado, Kan. (Bo Rader/The Wichita Eagle via AP)
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