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An oil container, a bucket and a bag of trash litter a gully near Highway 85, a key route for truckers in North Dakota's oil country. Some of the industrial rubbish blows from unsecured truckloads, but the most frustrating trash is discarded urine. (Associated Press)
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Investigators sift through debris of a house in Charleston, W.Va., where nine people were killed in a fire early Saturday. Charleston Assistant Fire Chief Bob Sharp said the fire appears to have started in the middle of the home's main level. (Associated Press)
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In this photo provided by Jerry Waters, Charleston, W.Va., firefighters and city officials look over the scene of a house fire on Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Charleston. Authorities say a fire broke out at the two-story wood frame home, killing six children and two adults. (AP Photo/Jerry Waters)
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**FILE** Tugboats pull the crippled tanker Exxon Valdez towards Naked Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on April 5, 1989, after the ship was pulled from Bligh Reef. (Associated Press)
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Buddhist nun Palden Choetso set herself on fire on a street in Tawu, in China's Sichuan Province, in November to protest China's rule of Tibet
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EYA is building 112 town homes at the Townhomes at Mosaic District in Fairfax. The homes have 1,848 to 2,566 finished square feet, with base prices from $597,400 to the $800,000s.
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Workers and residents gather at the Angel de la Independencia Square after evacuating buildings following a long, strong earthquake in Mexico City on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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** FILE ** Airline passengers go through the Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on Aug. 3, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Bryce Harper, 19, is expected to patrol center field in Washington for perhaps the next decade once the Nationals summon him from Triple-A Syracuse. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows a damaged building after an explosion ripped through a residential neighborhood in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on March 18, 2012. The state news agency said it was a "terrorist bombing." (Associated Press/SANA)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian security forces gather in front of a damaged building near the aviation intelligence department, which was attacked by one of two explosions, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday, March 17, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Iranian aid supplies are seen unloaded from a plane at a Damascus airport in Syria on March 15, 2012. (Associated Press/SANA)
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Wreckage from a crashed Turkish helicopter is loaded March 16, 2012, into a truck at the crash site on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing several Turkish soldiers on board and young girls on the ground, Turkish and Afghan officials said. (Associated Press)
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A house is missing part of its roof on Noble Drive in Huron Farms neighborhood of Dexter, Mich., on March 15, 2012, after a tornado hit the neighborhood. The slow-moving storm was part of a system packing large hail, heavy rain and high winds. (Associated Press/AnnAbor.Com)
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Palestinians inspect a warehouse which caught fire March 14, 2012, after an Israeli air strike nearby in Gaza City. (Associated Press)
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Lennar is building up to 32 single-family homes on sites of one-fifth acre at Portfield Crossing in Waldorf. The Thurmont II model, with 3,372 square feet, is priced from $375,990.
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A police officer works at the wreckage of a tourist bus from Belgium at the accident site in a tunnel of the A9 highway near Sierre, western Switzerland, early Wednesday, March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
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Rescuers search for victims of a ferry accident March 13, 2012, on the Meghna River in Munshiganj district, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of Dhaka, India. The ferry, packed with about 200 people, capsized in the river in southern Bangladesh, killing 31 people and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said. (Associated Press)
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"Hispanics disproportionately lack either a driver's license or a personal identification card issued by [the state's Department of Public Safety]," Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez said in a letter. (Associated Press)
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Boeing's popular 787 Dreamliner has been nicknamed the "Subsidy-liner" and the "7-aid-7" by European rival Airbus because of funding provided to Boeing by the U.S. government. The World Trade Organization ruled Monday that the U.S. has provided billions in illegal subsidies to Boeing. (Associated Press)
