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Los Angeles Angels relief pitcher JC Ramirez throws against the Oakland Athletics during the first inning of a baseball game in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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Illustration on the Boeing/Iran airbus deal by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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File - In this undated file photo, provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, the wreckage of a sightseeing plane that crashed in remote, mountainous terrain about 25 miles from Ketchikan in southeast Alaska on Thursday, June 25, 2015, killing the pilot and eight passengers. The NTSB on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, said the pilot's decision to fly using visual flight rules when conditions called for instrument rules was a cause of a fatal crash of the sightseeing flight. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP, File)

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FILE - In this undated photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, investigators work near the wreckage of a sightseeing plane that crashed, Thursday, June 25, 2015, in remote, mountainous terrain near Ketchikan in southeast Alaska, killing the pilot and eight passengers. The NTSB on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, said the pilot's decision to fly using visual flight rules when conditions called for instrument rules was a cause of a fatal crash of the sightseeing flight. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP, File)

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The freeway is closed and traffic is diverted to an offramp after a fiery collision of two big trucks and several smaller vehicles killed one person and injured others while triggering a massive traffic jam on Interstate 5 just north of downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Investigators view the wreckage after a fiery collision of two big trucks and several smaller vehicles killed one person and injured several others while triggering a massive traffic jam on Interstate 5 just north of downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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A California Highway Parol officer walks past a car wedged under the wreckage of a big rig after a fiery collision of two big trucks and several smaller vehicles killed one person and injured several others while triggering a massive traffic jam on Interstate 5 just north of downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Investigators view the wreckage after a fiery collision of two big trucks and several smaller vehicles killed one person and injured several others while triggering a massive traffic jam on Interstate 5 just north of downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Investigators view a body amid the wreckage after a fiery collision of two big trucks and several smaller vehicles killed one person and injured several others while triggering a massive traffic jam on Interstate 5 just north of downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Investigators view the wreckage after a fiery collision of two big trucks and several smaller vehicles killed one person and injured several others while triggering a massive traffic jam on Interstate 5 just north of downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne, of Finland, plays against the Colorado Avalanche during the first period of an NHL hockey game, in Nashville, Tenn. No goaltender has played better this postseason than Rinne for Predators, though Jake Allen of the St. Louis Blues came closest. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, an algae bloom covers Lake Erie near the City of Toledo water intake crib about 2.5 miles off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Several environmental groups in Ohio and Michigan are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying the agency isn't doing enough to protect Lake Erie from toxic algae. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, April 25, 2017, said the EPA needs to step in and take action under the Clean Water Act. Algae blooms in the shallowest of the Great Lakes have fouled drinking water in recent years and are a threat to wildlife and water quality. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

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State Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber, right, questions Bill Croyle, acting director of the Department of Water Resources, about the damage to the spillway of the Oroville Dam, during a hearing of the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee, Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Croyle and Natural Resources Secretary John Laird, updated lawmakers on the actions taken to repair the damaged spillway that caused the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream of the Oroville Dam in February. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Natural Resources Secretary John Laird, right, discusses the damaged spillway on the Oroville Dam during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water, Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Laird, and Bill Croyle, left, the acting director of the Department of Water Resources, updated lawmakers on the actions taken to repair the damaged spillway that caused the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream of the Oroville Dam in February. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Bill Croyle, left, the acting director of the Department of Water Resources, discusses the damaged spillway on the Oroville Dam during a hearing of the Senate of the Natural Resources and Water Committee, Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Croyle and Natural Resources Secretary John Laird, right, updated lawmakers on the actions taken to repair the damaged spillway that caused the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream of the Oroville Dam in February. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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A man takes pictures along a flooded neighborhood in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Storms have dumped several inches of rain on North Carolina's capital, prompting firefighters to rescue people from their vehicles and delaying school bus schedules. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Jamesha Merritt exits a flooded vehicle in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Storms have dumped several inches of rain on North Carolina's capital, prompting firefighters to rescue people from their vehicles and delaying school bus schedules. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Jamesha Merritt clings onto a flooded vehicle in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Storms have dumped several inches of rain on North Carolina's capital, prompting firefighters to rescue people from their vehicles and delaying school bus schedules. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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Police block a flooded Creedmoor Road in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Storms have dumped several inches of rain on North Carolina's capital, prompting firefighters to rescue people from their vehicles and delaying school bus schedules. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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A car is submerged in floodwater along Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Storms have dumped several inches of rain on North Carolina's capital, prompting firefighters to rescue people from their vehicles and delaying school bus schedules. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)