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Passengers from a United Airlines flight wait on the tarmac at Washington Dulles International Airport after the flight to San Francisco was grounded Wednesday. The captain ordered the evacuation of Flight 586 after smoke appeared out of an engine. The 179 passengers, including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and six crew members got off safely. (Associated Press)
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A bill in Congress would cut rates for earthquake insurance so more homeowners can afford it, but critics say it's just a bailout for California, which bears the brunt of quake activity in the U.S. The 6.7 magnitude Northridge quake (pictured) in 1994 caused an estimated $20 billion in damage. (Associated Press)
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A passenger train hit a bus, the driver of which had driven around barriers in an attempt to beat the train, and then crashed head-on into another train at a station in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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** FILE ** Kentucky State Police officers investigate an accident involving a tractor-trailer and a van on Interstate 65, four miles north of Horse Cave, Ky., on March 26, 2010. The crash killed 11 people, including the truck driver, who the National Transportation Safety Board says was using his cellphone at the time. (AP Photo/Daily News, Joe Imel)
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A wounded passenger is carried out of a train after it crashed in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. At least seven people were killed and 162 injured in the rush-hour crash, which involved two passenger trains and the bus, the driver of which drove around barriers in an attempt to beat the trains, Argentine authorities said. (AP Photo/Rodolfo Pezzoni, DyN)
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Smoke and dust rises from a building, unseen in distance, which is occupied by Taliban insurgents during a coordinated assault in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday while suicide bombers struck police buildings. The U.S. Embassy and NATO reported no casualties. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Redsklns safety Reed Doughty had a team-high 10 tackles against the Giants in Sunday's win, but he was caught out of position a couple of times. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Abdul Lawson (on ramp) and Ricky Layfield move crates of government files from the flooded Prince George's County Administration Building into a truck to be temporarily stored. The building is expected to reopen Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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A worker walks along large dehumidifying tubes (top) that were pulling the moisture out of the flooded Prince George's County Administration Building. The building is expected to reopen Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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An office on the lower level of the closed Prince George's County Administration Building shows items in disarray after last week's storms caused water damage from flooding. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Townspeople watch as rescue workers tend to the injured and dead in flattened homes after a gasoline pipeline exploded Monday in Nairobi, Kenya. At least 75 people were dead and the toll was expected to rise; more than 100 suffered severe burns. (Associated Press)
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A bell is rung during the reading of the names of passengers and crew who died on Flight 93 during memorial services near the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11, 2011. (Associated Press/Gene J. Puskar)
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A mourner bows at the coffin of Swedish professional ice hockey player Stefan Liv in the Arena in Yaroslavl, Russia, northeast of Moscow, on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, during a funeral service for the victims of Wednesday's plane crash. The sign on the coffin reads "Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv." (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk to the crash site of Flight 93 during their visit to the Flight 93 National Memorial Sunday, Sept., 11, 2011, in Shanksville, Pa., on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama lay a wreath at the Wall of Names at phase 1 of the permanent Flight 93 National Memorial near the crash site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa. Sunday Sept. 11, 2011, on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A person searches for anyone who may be occupying a building last month as raging floodwaters from Tropical Storm Irene cross Route 100, closing the main road to traffic in Waitsfield, Vt. As the soggy Northeast tries to dry out from flooding and Texas prays for rain that doesn't come, it seems like an ideal match of oversupply and unquenchable demand. It isn't.
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A flag hangs from the frame above the front door of a home on Medina River Way in Steiner Ranch in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. Texas is in the midst of one of its worst wildfire outbreaks in state history.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A truck passes a cornfield near an intersection Thursday in Palmyra, Iowa. Tall stalks obstructing drivers' views are an increasing fall hazard in the Corn Belt as farmers expand their fields closer to the edges of roads.
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A bell is rung during the reading of the names of passengers and crew who died aboard Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001. Memorial services were held near the crash site in Shanksville, Pa., on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk to the crash site of Flight 93 during their visit to the Flight 93 National Memorial on Sunday, Sept., 11, 2011, in Shanksville, Pa., on the 10th anniversary the attacks. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
