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The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. Orbital ATK's sixth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station is delivering over 5,100 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

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In this Oct. 17, 1966 photo, Fire Department of New York firefighters stand at attention as the caskets of fallen firefighters are brought to a New York church for funeral services after a blaze that began on Oct. 17, 1966 in the basement of a business on Manhattan's East 23rd St. killed 12 firefighters. The blaze fifty years ago remained the deadliest day in FDNY's history, until the department lost 343 members on Sept. 11, 2001. (Fire Department of New York via AP)

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley talks about Hurricane Matthew recovery on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, in West Columbia, S.C. SCANA Corp. donated to the One SC Fund for hurricane relief. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, left, delivers a speech as director Fisher Stevens looks on as they attend the french premiere of the film 'Before the Flood' in Paris, Monday Oct. 17, 2016. (Christophe Archambault/Pool photo via AP)

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Freddie Mercury born Farrokh Bulsara, September 5, 1946 – November 24,1991. (AP Photo)

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Doctors Without Borders has managed to get aid to a camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria, but as many as 75,000 children will die in the next year as families seeking refuge from Boko Haram find famine-like conditions. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on the dangers of TPP by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Los Angeles police investigators work the scene of a fatal shooting in the Crenshaw District neighborhood of Los Angeles, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. According to police an early morning argument at a restaurant triggered gunfire. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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CORRECTS LOCATION OF FIRE SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIFORNIA - Hand crews finish up work on the Emerald Fire along Highway 89, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 on the southwest shores of Lake Tahoe. The blaze that burned about 200 acres northwest of South Lake Tahoe, California was one of three wind-whipped wildfires burning along the Sierra Nevada. The largest one destroyed more than 20 homes in a rural valley between Carson City and Reno, Nevada. (Randall Benton/The Sacramento Bee via AP)

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FILE - In this Sept. 20, 1992, file photo, New York Jets defensive end Dennis Byrd puts pressure on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young during an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J. Byrd, the former NFL defensive lineman whose career was ended by neck injury, was killed Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in a car crash in Oklahoma. He was 50. (AP Photo/Bob Strong, File)

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CORRECTS AGE TO 50 - FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, file photo, former New York Jets player Dennis Byrd speaks during a halftime ceremony to retire his number during the second half of an NFL football game between the Jets and the Miami Dolphins, in East Rutherford, N.J. Byrd, the former NFL defensive lineman whose career was ended by neck injury, was killed Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in a car accident. He was 50. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Byrd, a former college player at Tulsa, was killed in a two-vehicle collision on Oklahoma 88, north of Claremore. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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FILE - In this Sept. 20, 1992, file photo, New York Jets defensive end Dennis Byrd puts pressure on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young during an NFL football game in East Rutherford, N.J. Byrd, the former NFL defensive lineman whose career was ended by neck injury, was killed Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in a car crash in Oklahoma. He was 51. (AP Photo/Bob Strong, File)

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FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, file photo, former New York Jets player Dennis Byrd speaks during a halftime ceremony to retire his number during the second half of an NFL football game between the Jets and the Miami Dolphins, in East Rutherford, N.J. Byrd, the former NFL defensive lineman whose career was ended by neck injury, was killed Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in a car accident. He was 51. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Byrd, a former college player at Tulsa, was killed in a two-vehicle collision on Oklahoma 88, north of Claremore. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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In this Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 photo, an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft is raised into the vertical position on launch Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 scheduled cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station would be the company’s first Antares launch since an explosion seconds after liftoff in 2014, which destroyed the rocket and space station supply ship, and damaged the launch complex. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

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West Virginia's Skyler Howard (3) runs the ball down field to score a touchdown against Texas Tech during an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in Lubbock, Texas. (Brad Tollefson/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)

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Police survey the wreckage of a Mazda Miata that was split in half after a collision with a Mercedes-Benz in Rockville Centre, on New York's Long Island, Friday Oct. 14, 2016. Police said nobody suffered life-threatening injuries. The driver of the Mazda suffered internal injuries. The driver of the Mercedes-Benz and his 25-year-old female passenger had to be extricated from their vehicle. (Paul Mazza/Newsday via AP

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Screen capture from an NBC Philadelphia story about a fatal car crash after a man ran a red light en route to the hospital to visit his father. [http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Deadly-Roosevelt-Boulevard-Crash-397063781.html]

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FILE - Jan. 17, 2013 file photo, hatchery manager Ken Gillette checks the holding pools at the White River National Fish Hatchery in Bethel, Vt. The hatchery sustained damage from flooding by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. A federal investigation completed on July 28, 2016, and released to The Associated Press after a Freedom of Information Act request, found an employee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was punished by his supervisor for refusing to inflate damage estimates at the hatchery as it was being assessed for repairs after the storm. The names of the employees were removed from the report. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

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Janet Meier makes her way out of the floodwaters associated with Hurricane Matthew surrounding her home after retrieving a warm blanket and her laptop computer from her home on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, in Lumberton, N.C. About 1,200 Lumberton residents had to be evacuated by boat and plucked from their roofs by helicopters as the river crested. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)