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In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017, photo, the container ship ACX Crystal with its left bow dented and scraped after colliding with the USS Fitzgerald in the waters off the Izu Peninsula on Saturday, June 17, is berthed at the Yokohama port near Tokyo. Japanese authorities said Thursday, June 22, they have obtained a data recording device from a container ship to help determine why it collided with a U.S. destroyer, killing seven American sailors. Japanese transport safety officials said they obtained the voyage data recorder, similar to an airplane's "black box," from the Philippine-flagged container ship, which is currently docked in Yokohama. (Haruna Usui/Kyodo News via AP)
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FILE- In this May 14, 2010 file photo, a Qatari woman walks in front of the city skyline in Doha, Qatar. An investigation into why a British man fell to his death on a Qatar World Cup site has raised concerns about stadium roof safety. World Cup organizers on Thursday, June 22, 2017 released partial findings of the assessment of the accident at the Khalifa International Stadium, but said the full report cannot be released while local authorities continue their own investigation (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
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FILE - In this file photo taken during a government organized media tour, workers walk back to the Al-Wakra Stadium worksite being built for the 2022 World Cup, in Doha, Qatar. An investigation into why a British man fell to his death on a Qatar World Cup site has raised concerns about stadium roof safety. World Cup organizers on Thursday, June 22, 2017 released partial findings of the assessment of the accident at the Khalifa International Stadium, but said the full report cannot be released while local authorities continue their own investigation. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2014 file photo, construction work is under way at the Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar. An investigation into why a British man fell to his death on a Qatar World Cup site has raised concerns about stadium roof safety. World Cup organizers on Thursday, June 22, 2017 released partial findings of the assessment of the accident at the Khalifa International Stadium, but said the full report cannot be released while local authorities continue their own investigation. (AP Photo/Rob Harris, File)
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Los Angeles Dodgers' Yasmani Grandal watches his solo home run off New York Mets relief pitcher Neil Ramirez watches during the eighth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal, left, and relief pitcher Luis Avilan congratulate each other after the Dodgers defeated the New York Mets 8-2 in a baseball game, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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This photo provided by Ann Alden shows the Encino Fire in Sonoita, Ariz., Tuesday, June 20, 2017. An extreme heat wave in the Southwest U.S. made the fight against a series of wildfires more difficult . (Ann Alden via AP)
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In this Tuesday, June 20, 2017, photo, provided by Ann Alden shows a wildfire, locally called the Encino Fire, in Sonoita, Ariz. An extreme heat wave in the Southwest U.S. made the fight against a series of wildfires more difficult Wednesday. (Ann Alden via AP)
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FILE - In this Saturday, June 17, 2017, file photo, the damaged USS Fitzgerald is seen off Shimoda in Izu Peninsula, southwest of Tokyo, after the U.S. Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ship in nearby waters earlier in the day, killing seven U.S. sailors. The site of a fatal collision between the two vessels off Japan’s coast is notorious for congested sea traffic, particularly during the night when merchant ships are trying to reach Tokyo’s port by daybreak. The USS Fitzgerald collided with the ACX Crystal about 12 nautical miles (14 miles, 22 kilometers) off the southern tip of Izu Peninsula in the early hours of Saturday just as two the ships were to merge into heavy traffic. (Iori Sagisawa/Kyodo News via AP, File)
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In this Saturday, June 17, 2017, photo, the damaged Philippine-registered container ship ACX Crystal, right, cruises past another container ship off Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, after colliding with the USS Fitzgerald off Japan earlier in the day, that killed seven U.S. sailors. The site of a fatal collision between the two vessels off Japan’s coast is notorious for congested sea traffic, particularly during the night when merchant ships are trying to reach Tokyo’s port by daybreak. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Illustration of American consul Raymond Geist The Washington Times
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Supporters of Nabra Hassanen, who was killed over the weekend in a road rage incident, hand out flowers prior to the start of a vigil in honor of Nabar Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Reston, Va. About 5,000 mourners attended Wednesday's funeral of Nabre, a Muslim girl whose beating death, blamed by police on a motorist's road rage, has some people in her community fearing for their safety. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Supporters of Nabra Hassanen, who was killed over the weekend in a road rage incident, kneel and pray with a rosary prior to the start of a vigil in honor of Nabar on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, in Reston, Va. About 5,000 mourners attended Wednesday's funeral of Nabre, a Muslim girl whose beating death, blamed by police on a motorist's road rage, has some people in her community fearing for their safety. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Don Noel carries his daughter Alexis, 8, with his wife Lauren, right as they walk through a flooded roadway to check on their boat in the West End section of New Orleans, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Tropical Storm Cindy formed Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico, hovering south of Louisiana as it churned tides and spun bands of heavy, potentially flooding rain onto the central and eastern Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Esther Martens walk through a flooded roadway to get to her car in the West End section of New Orleans, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Tropical Storm Cindy formed Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico, hovering south of Louisiana as it churned tides and spun bands of heavy, potentially flooding rain onto the central and eastern Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Waves crash against the Okaloosa Island Pier near Fort Walton Beach, Fla, Wednesday, June 21, 2017, as heavy surf brought on by Tropical Storm Cindy kept the waters closed to swimmers. (Michael Snyder/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2016, file photo, Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi plays against the Minnesota Lynx in the first quarter of a WNBA playoff semifinal basketball game, in St. Paul, Minn. Still thriving at 35, a case could be made that the Phoenix Mercury guard is the greatest player in women's basketball history. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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FILE - In this May 31, 2016, file photo, Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi (3) celebrates late in the second half of a WNBA basketball game against the Connecticut Sun, in Phoenix. Still thriving at 35, a case could be made that the Phoenix Mercury guard is the greatest player in women's basketball history. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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FILE - In this May 9, 2016, file photo, Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi smiles as she speaks during a news conference at the team's basketball media day, in Phoenix. Still thriving at 35, a case could be made that the Phoenix Mercury guard is the greatest player in women's basketball history. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
