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Thousands of motorcycles are flooding into Washington D.C. on the twelfth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (credit: Prince George's Police Department)
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A visitor kisses a name on the wall containing the 40 names of the crew and passengers of Flight 93 at the Flight 93 National Memorial during a candlelight remembrance on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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** FILE ** This video frame grab provided by Alex Sheen of becauseisaidiwould.com shows Matthew Cordle, who has confessed in a video posted online that he is to blame for a wrong-way car crash stemming from a night of heavy drinking that killed another man. In the video, he says he is willing to take "full responsibility." (AP Photo/becauseisaidiwould.com)
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**FILE** Japanese Coast Guard members sail alongside activists' fishing boat on Aug. 18, 2013, warning the activists away from a group of disputed islands called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku by Japan. Nearly two dozen Japanese nationalist activists and fishermen have sailed to a small group of islands at the center of a territorial dispute with China. They were closely monitored by Japan’s Coast Guard, but there were no Chinese patrols in the area and no incidents were reported. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, photo, the skeletons of trees burned in the Yellowstone fires of 1988 tower above their offspring seeded by the very flames that destroyed their elders, in a forested area between Norris and Canyon junctions in Yellowstone National Park. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News&Guide, Bradly J. Boner)
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A Thai Airways passenger plane takes off over a damaged Thai Airways Airbus A330-300 at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Several children were injured when a festival attraction that swings riders into the air lost power at a community fair in Norwalk, Conn, on Sunday Sept. 8, 2013, but none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, authorities said. (AP Photo/The Hour Miguel Cruz)
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FEMA Administrator W. Craig Fugate told the Arizona governor his agency had provided a Fire Management Assistance Grant in June, but that he had to reject a request for aid under a program for individuals and households.
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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, in pressing for more federal assistance, said at least 17 homeowners proved that they are underinsured, and that "this number certainly will increase" as homeowners realize their insurance policies do not cover their losses from fire. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)
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The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer aboard a Minotaur V rocket appears after a rollout at NASA's Wallops Island test flight facility in Wallops Island, Va., Thursday Sept. 5, 2013. The LADEE spacecraft is set to launch from Wallops Island Friday evening. (AP Photo/NASA, Patrick Black)
