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A helmet-cam video posted on YouTube shows a driver yelling out of his truck's passenger-side window at a cyclist as he rides down Rhode Island Avenue Northeast before the cyclist tumbles to the road.
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The USS Yorktown lists heavily to port after being struck by Japanese bombers and torpedo planes in the Battle of Midway on June 6, 1942, during World War II. A destroyer stands by at right to assist as a salvage crew on the flight deck tries to right the stricken aircraft carrier. A few hours later, the Yorktown was hit with Japanese torpedoes and sank. (Associated Press/U.S. Navy)
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Flying dangerously close, a U.S. Navy photographer got this spectacular aerial view of a heavy Japanese cruiser of the Mogima class, demolished by Navy bombs, in the battle off Midway on June 21, 1942. Armor plate, steel decks and superstructure are a tumbled mass. The Navy damaged or sank 17 enemy vessels in the historic engagement. (Associated Press)
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Two U.S. dive bombers fly over a burning Japanese ship during the battle of Midway on June 7, 1942. Under the incessant pounding of American fliers, 20 ships of the enemy armada of 80 were sunk or damaged and the others put to flight. (Associated Press)
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Black smoke rises from a burning U.S oil tank, set afire during a Japanese air raid on Midway Atoll on June 4, 1942. (Associated Press)
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Smoke rises from the USS Yorktown after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near the Midway Islands in June 1942 during World War II. Bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air. (Associated Press/U.S. Navy)
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Two U.S. dive bombers fly over a burning Japanese ship on June 7, 1942, during the battle of Midway. Under the incessant pounding of American fliers, 20 ships of the enemy armada of 80 were sunk or damaged and the others put to flight. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this March 12, 2011 photo, Emergency personnel investigate the scene of a bus crash on Interstate-95 in the Bronx borough of New York. Twenty-six bus operations that operated between New York and Florida have been closed for safety violations. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)
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Miller & Smith is building 36 town homes in the Magic Collection at Victory Lakes in Bristow. The homes have 2,463 to 2,686 finished square feet, with base prices from $309,990 to $324,990.
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Indonesian National Transportation Safety Board chief Tatang Kurniadi (left), with the flight data recorder of the crashed Sukhoi Superjet 100, speaks May 31, 2012, during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia. Authorities found the flight data recorder of the Russian plane that slammed into a jungle-clad cliff atop an Indonesian volcano during a May 9 demonstration flight for potential buyers. (Associated Press)
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Wanting food, of which there is none, 2-year-old Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses in tears in the Senegal village of Goudoude Diobe.
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** FILE ** A plume of smoke rises from the Whitewater fire in the Gila National Forest east of Glenwood, N.M., on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. (AP Photo/David Thornburg)
