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President Obama, accompanied by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and others, meets Thursday with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, accompanied by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and others, meets Thursday with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, accompanied by Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and others, meets Thursday with police officers and first responders at the First Precinct before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)

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Scott Carpenter, one of two surviving Mercury Seven astronauts, speaks during a dedication ceremony of the Mercury Project/Messenger Mission stamp that was unveiled on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/Florida Today, Michael R. Brown)

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President Obama and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (right) meet Thursday with firefighters and first responders at Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 before visiting the National Sept. 11 Memorial at Ground Zero in New York. (Associated Press)

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This April 10 image taken by T-Hawk drone aircraft and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co., shows the damaged reactor building of Unit 1 of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan's nuclear safety agency said workers entered the reactor building of Unit 1 at the nuclear complex for the first time Thursday after the March 11 earthquake. (Associated Press/Tokyo Electric Power Co.)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin dives for the puck in front of the Lightning's Teddy Purcell during the second period of Game 4. The Lightning won 5-3 to sweep the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

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Second-year nursing student Deborah Brown of Bryans Road, Md., checks the blood glucose level of another nursing student during class at Everett. All students taking medical professional classes wear scrubs to prepare them for their professional careers.

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DREW ANGERER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES A pile of splintered wood and debris is all that remains of a home on Ashley Drive in Rockville that was destroyed by a natural gas explosion. The tenants, who recently moved into the house, survived but were in serious condition after being blasted into the yard.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Homes along the Mississippi River in Paducah, Ky., are inundated as a result of record flooding. Residents downstream of Missouri's Birds Point levee were evacuated after the Army Corps of Engineers ordered the breach of a levee.

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Actor Charlie Sheen (left) purchases flashlights with University of Alabama student David Harris at a local store in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Monday. Sheen toured a neighborhood leveled by tornadoes and said Monday he wants to organize a relief event for victims in the state. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Residents of Abbottabad, Pakistan, gather Tuesday outside the house where where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed two days earlier. They showed off small parts of what appeared to be parts from U.S. helicopter that Washington said malfunctioned and was disabled by the American commando strike team as they retreated.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Buildings are surrounded by floodwater Tuesday in Mississippi County, Mo., after the Army Corps of Engineers blew a two-mile hole into the Birds Point levee, flooding 130,000 acres of farmland in an effort to protect nearby Cairo, Ill.

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Prince William, a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot, is stationed at the Royal Air Force Valley base on the island of Anglesey in western Wales. The prince and his bride, the former Kate Middleton, who are now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have returned to their rented whitewashed farmhouse on the island after their royal wedding on Friday, April 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)

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Residents affected by the tornado come to receive help at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) disaster recovery center at the Ashley Furniture Store in Fultondale, Ala. on Monday. The center is one of six set up in four Alabama counties. (Associated Press/The Birmingham News, Michelle Campbell)

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On Sept. 11, 2001, the twin towers of the World Trade Center burn and later collapse after hijacked planes deliberately crashed into them in New York City. A multimillion-dollar reward was offered for now-dead terrorist Osama bin Laden after the attacks.

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** FILE ** Mail carrier Kenjiro Ishimori rides a motorcycle after delivering mails at an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, April 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

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CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Debris sit atop what's left of a three-story building surrounded by rubble in the obliterated city of Minami-Sanriku, Japan. Reconstruction officials are calling for settlements to be built on high ground.

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Richmond American Homes is building 45 single-family homes on quarter-acre sites at Hope Hill Crossing in Woodbridge. The homes have 2,333 to 2,736 finished square feet, with base prices from $429,990 to $449,990.