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The Houston Public Library has apologized after failing to run a background check on a drag queen and child sex offender who participated in Drag Queen Storytime last year. (ABC 13)

Drag Queen Story Time organizers in Houston call it quits amid 'death threats and national scorn'

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee on FY'20 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Treasury Department expands penalty relief for tax underpayments

Chairman Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Budget Committee on the "Budget and Economic Outlook for FY2019-2029," on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi unveils 2020 budget blueprint

President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order requiring colleges to certify that their policies support free speech as a condition of receiving federal research grants, Thursday March 21, 2019, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump says Federal Reserve prevented 4 percent GDP

In this Aug. 29, 2018, file photo, Jared Kushner, White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law, waves as he arrives at the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Mexican president talks U.S. investment with Jared Kushner

The Yang Ming shipping line container ship Ym Utmost is unloaded at the Port of Oakland on Monday, July 2, 2018, in Oakland, Calif. The Trump administration on Friday, July 6, 2018, will start imposing tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese imports. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

SPECIAL REPORT: Trump's trade war puts China's once vaunted economy in real peril

In this Feb. 27, 2019, photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens to questioning of Michael Cohen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ocasio-Cortez and several of her allies were accused this week by a conservative group of improperly masking political spending during the 2018 campaign. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Liberals pushing Green New Deal have no idea what it would cost

California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers his first state of the state address to a joint session of the legislature at the Capitol in Sacramento, California, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) ** FILE **

California governor won over by Trump's 'Opportunity Zones' program

Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, answers questions during the U.S. Senate debate Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, Pool) ** FILE **

Sen. Sherrod Brown blames GOP tax cuts for GM plant closing

Pentagon lays out $6.8 billion of projects to cut for Trump border wall

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan goes before the Senate Armed Services Committee to discuss the Department of Defense budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pentagon misses deadline to produce list of project cuts to fund border wall construction

This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. A Trump administration plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census has prompted legal challenges from many Democratic-led states. But not a single Republican attorney general has sued _ not even from states with large immigrant populations. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith)

Census Bureau's first-ever online headcount designed to reach millennials likely to miss mark

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee on FY'20 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Mnuchin endorses raising debt ceiling whenever Congress approves new spending

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on tax policy with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Steven Mnuchin: 'I will follow the law' on any request for presidential tax returns

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, attends a news conference with House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Pentagon's special off-the-books 'contingency fund' tapped to cover Trump's border wall

President Trump says he is convinced that Americans, with his leadership, can defy the prognosticators and produce economic growth at an average of about 3 percent each year over the next decade. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Can 'MAGAnomics' solve the nation's gaping debt?

This Feb. 3, 2012, file photo shows FBI headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump puts $3.3 billion FBI headquarters proposal on hold

President Donald Trump waves as he walks on the South Lawn after stepping off Marine One at the White House, Sunday, March 10, 2019, in Washington. Trump is returning from a trip to Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump 2020 budget plan includes funding boost for military and border wall, cuts elsewhere

President Trump has often expressed his opinion that English is an important component of assimilation for immigrants. (Associated Press/File)

'Press 2 for Spanish': Trump can save billions by ending Clinton translation program with order

Trump's 2020 budget request to seek $8.6 billion for border wall

In this Thursday, March 7, 2019, photo visitors to the Pittsburgh veterans job fair meet with recruiters at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

U.S. adds just 20K jobs; unemployment dips to 3.8 percent

Marine One, with President Donald Trump on board, flies past the Statue of Liberty, as it heads to the Liberty Park landing zone in Jersey City, N.J., Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. Trump is heading to attend the Presidents Cup golf tournament at the Jersey City Golf Course. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

New Yorkers frustrated with Democratic dominance push bill to slice up state

President Trump led Congress into a record-shattering government shutdown to ring in 2019, and now confronts a series of tests at home and abroad, testing alliances and his powers of persuasion. (Associated Press)

Trump finds governing harder than it looks: 'As a businessman, he could negotiate'

This undated handout photo provided by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shows National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson. The nation's tax law is so thick and complicated that businesses and individuals spend more than 6 billion hours a year complying with filing requirements. (AP Photo/Christopher Germano, IRS) **FILE**

IRS 'level of service' on the phone below 50 percent, average hold times up: Taxpayer Advocate

In this June 20, 2014, file photo, lobsters are processed at the Sea Hag Seafood plant in St. George, Maine. A set of retaliatory tariffs released by China includes a plan to tax American lobster exports, potentially jeopardizing one of the biggest markets for the premium seafood. Chinese officials announced the planned lobster tariff, Friday, June 15, 2018, along with hundreds of others amid the country's escalating trade fight with the United States. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Feds splurge on lobster, pianos, golf carts in race to spend 'use it or lose it' budget

A hot U.S. job market is coaxing people in from the sidelines

This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. The Supreme Court will decide whether the 2020 census can include a question about citizenship that could affect the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and the distribution of billions of dollars in federal money. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith, File)

Judge calls citizenship question on census a threat to democracy

President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for an executive order on a "National Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End Veteran Suicide," in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Soaring U.S. trade deficit undermines Trump's 'America First' agenda

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., asks a question during a Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing on international mail and the opioid crisis, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Russian wine study, mariachi program top Lankford's 'Federal Fumbles' spending report

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the El Paso County Coliseum, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Trump welcomes fight against his 2020 Democratic opponent, socialism

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