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The "Gift" from North Korea Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE - This Sept. 1, 2015 file photo shows volcanic gas rising from the lava lake in Kilauea's Halemaumau Crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii's Big Island. A 38-year-old man has died on Kilauea volcano. Park spokeswoman Jessica Ferracane said Monday, July 10, 2017 that the man was found on the caldera floor about 250 feet below Crater Rim Trail. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
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The FBI and local law enforcement conduct a search of a property located in Union Township north of Chesapeake, W.V., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The search began after officials responded to Facebook posts that the body of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, a 2002 murder victim whose body has never been found, was buried behind a mobile home along Township Road 1465. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
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The FBI and local law enforcement complete a search of a property located in Union Township north of Chesapeake, W.V., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The search began after officials responded to Facebook posts that the body of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, a 2002 murder victim whose body has never been found, was buried behind a mobile home along Township Road 1465. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
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The FBI and local law enforcement searched a property located in Union Township north of Chesapeake, W.V., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The search began after officials responded to Facebook posts that the body of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, a 2002 murder victim whose body has never been found, was buried behind a mobile home along Township Road 1465. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
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The FBI and local law enforcement searched a property located in Union Township north of Chesapeake, W.V., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The search began after officials responded to Facebook posts that the body of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, a 2002 murder victim whose body has never been found, was buried behind a mobile home along Township Road 1465. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
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The FBI and local law enforcement searched a property located in Union Township north of Chesapeake, W.V., on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The search began after officials responded to Facebook posts that the body of Marshall University student Samantha Burns, a 2002 murder victim whose body has never been found, was buried behind a mobile home along Township Road 1465. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
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In this Thursday, July 6, 2017, file photo, security officer John Christiansen, right, stands on duty as nursing assistant Jared McCullough, left, and clinical nurse leader Nicole McWhorter, center, discuss a patient in the psychiatric hall of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center emergency department in Lebanon, N.H. The emergency department has one security officer assigned to the waiting area, and another assigned to the psychiatric hall with its three patient rooms and a fourth "quiet room." (James M. Patterson/The Valley News via AP)
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Helicopters fly above a military aircraft on the tarmac at the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y., Tuesday July 11, 2017. Officials said a Marine Corps refueling plane that crashed and burned on Monday in the Mississippi Delta, killing all 16 military members aboard, was based at the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh. The victims' identities were not immediately released. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In a June 30, 2017 photo, Skagit County Treasurer Katie Jungquist, back to camera, speaks during a public auction Friday, June 30, 2017, for the sale of the Concrete Food Bank building in Concrete, Wash. Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, fourth from left, reimbursed the Concrete Food Bank the $11,500 it paid at auction for the building it occupies in Concrete, Wash. Food bank volunteers were worried when the county put the building up for sale, because the organization didn’t have money to buy one and there aren’t any other food banks within about 20 miles. (Scott Terrell/Skagit Valley Herald via AP)
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Midnight Rider star actor William Hurt waits outside a courtroom before being called as a witness during a civil trial at the Chatham County Court House in Savannah, Ga, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. The civil trial is against railroad CSX Transportation in the 2014 death of a Midnight Rider movie crew member struck by a train while filming on a railroad bridge in Georgia. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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This July, 10, 2017 photo taken by the North Dakota Highway Patrol show the Magpie Fire in the Little Missouri National Grassland of western North Dakota. The fire is 8 square miles. No homes or people are threatened, but the blaze did shut down two public campgrounds and a long stretch of a hiking, biking and horseback riding trail that draws thousands of people from around the U.S., Canada and Europe. (North Dakota Highway Patrol via AP)
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In this Monday, July 10, 2017 frame from video, smoke and flames rise from a military plane that crashed in a farm field, in Itta Bena, Miss., killing several. (WLBT-TV via AP)
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Flames from a wildfire consume a residence near Oroville, Calif., on Sunday, July 9, 2017. Evening winds drove the fire through several neighborhoods leveling homes in its path. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Chuck Wilsey returns to his home east of Oroville, Calif., after evacuation orders were lifted as the Wall fire threatened the Sierra foothill town Monday, July 10, 2017. When Wilsey was ordered to flee his ranch home over the weekend, he was ready. He started keeping his truck and camper loaded with supplies back in February, when some of the heaviest winter rains on record in Northern California nearly caused catastrophic flooding at the nation's tallest dam. "Fire and flood so close together," he marveled on Monday at a Red Cross shelter. "We just try to stay prepared." (APnPhoto/Don Thompson)
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Smoke from wildfires burning in central B.C. shrouds the north shore of Kamloops, British Columbia, on Monday July 10, 2017. More than 200 wildfires are burning in the province and an estimated 14,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
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A helicopter lands while battling a wildfire burning on the top of a mountain near Ashcroft, British Columbia, Monday, July 10, 2017. Across the border in Canada, crews contended with more than 200 wildfires in British Columbia that have forced thousands to flee and destroyed dozens of buildings, including several homes and two airport hangars. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Smoke rises from trees burned by wildfire on a mountain near Ashcroft, British Columbia, Monday, July 10, 2017. Across the border in Canada, crews contended with more than 200 wildfires in British Columbia that have forced thousands to flee and destroyed dozens of buildings, including several homes and two airport hangars. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
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A helicopter is used to battle a wildfire burning on the top of a mountain near Ashcroft, British Columbia, Monday, July 10, 2017. Across the border in Canada, crews contended with more than 200 wildfires in British Columbia that have forced thousands to flee and destroyed dozens of buildings, including several homes and two airport hangars. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
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This photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department shows the Rancho Alegre Outdoor School camp. which suffered extensive damage from the Whittier Fire near Santa Barbara, Calif., Monday, July 7, 2017. In Southern California, thousands of people remained out of their homes as a pair of fires raged at different ends of Santa Barbara County. The fires broke out amid a blistering weekend heat wave that toppled temperature records. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP)
