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Josh Matthews keeps watch of the machinery as a well is drilled at a home, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, in Hampton Falls, N.H. Many private wells have gone dry amid this summer's prolonged drought and dry weather in the Northeastern U.S.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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This photo provided by Terry Costigan of @TMCNEWS shows an emergency worker holding a baby boy as other emergency workers revive a suspected overdose victim Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, at a gas station in Elyria, Ohio. Police say Debra Hyde of Elyria, Ohio, has been charged with child endangering after she was found unresponsive in a pickup truck with her grandson in the backseat, and emergency workers had to break a window before reviving her with the overdose antidote naloxone. (Terry Costigan/@TMCNEWS via AP)
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In this frame from video provided by WBTV, a police vehicle is damaged after protests broke out Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, in Charlotte, N.C., following a fatal shooting of a black man by police. (WBTV via AP)
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Illustration on union leveraging against employers through safety inspections by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 file photo, students ride on a boat on their way to school while haze from wildfires blanket the Musi River in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. Indonesian forest fires that choked a swath of Southeast Asia with a smoky haze for weeks in 2015 may have caused more than 100,000 premature deaths, according to new research that will add to pressure on Indonesia's government to tackle the annual crisis. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)
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Investigators speak outside the Fort Pierce Islamic Center Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, after a fire burned the center earlier that morning. Investigators believe an arsonist started the fire after reviewing surveillance video from the center and seeing a man approach the center, then take off just as the fire starts, at the Fort Pierce Islamic Center in Fort Pierce, Fla., after an apparent arsonist started a fire at the back of the center earlier that morning. (Adam Sacasa/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
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U.S. and Iraqi officials cast Ramadi as proof that coalition training efforts have paid off and the Iraqi military has improved since its catastrophic collapse in the summer of 2014. But some analysts say the fight that wrested the city from the Islamic State group highlights the military's lingering shortcomings and isn't a model for trying to retake Mosul. (Associated Press)
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David Key looks at the back yard of his flooded home in Prairieville, La., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. Key, an insurance adjuster, fled his home as the flood water was rising with his wife and three children and returned today to assess the damage. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
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Hillary Clinton said she stands by the 2011 decision to take action in Libya and that America suffered no casualties. (Associated Press)
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The D.C. Metro on Tuesday said it will temporarily halt service to multiple Red Line stations in December to undergo safety and other renovations. (Associated Press, File)
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In this July 20, 1986, file photo, Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury performs, in Germany. Queen guitarist Brian May says an asteroid in Jupiter's orbit has been named after the band's late frontman Freddie Mercury on what would have been his 70th birthday, it was reported on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Marco Arndt, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 2, 1988, file photo, a forest fire blazes out of control near West Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park, Mont. Fire managers in Yellowstone National Park are curious to find out why wildfires are burning so actively in the summer of 2016, in areas that burned back in 1988. The park has called in a special federal team that studies fire behavior. (AP Photo/Tannen Maury, File)
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian security forces, emergency services and residents look at the remains of burned vehicles at the site of a bombing in Tartus, Syria, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. Syrian state media reported that multiple bomb blasts have struck government and military targets around the country. (SANA via AP)
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Residents evacuate the Elfers Parkway area of Pasco County, Fla., flooded by the overflowing Anclote River, in Elfers, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. The Anclote River northwest of Tampa was forecast to go well into major flood stage on Sunday afternoon. Emergency managers issued mandatory evacuations for some low-lying mobile home parks and apartment buildings. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)
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Screen capture of map depicting earthquake zone from the 5.6-magnitude earthquake outside of Pawnee, Oklahoma on the morning of Saturday, Sept. 3. Via the U.S. Geological Survey website. [http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006jxs#map?ShakeMap%20Stations=true&shakemapSource=us&shakemapCode=us10006jxs]
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Residents of the Lake Hills neighborhood in El Dorado Hills, California, are working to overturn a policy outlined in their community agreement that states only white people are allowed to own homes there. (Fox 40)
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Screen captured from an Aug. 30, 2016, Wall Street Journal video about the pilot program Waze is launching for carpooling in San Francisco.
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Drivers move in the rain on Interstate 95 in Miami Tuesday. Expected to move north to Tampa, a tropical storm pushed the Redskins-Buccaneers game to Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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Drivers make their way in the rain along Interstate 95, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, in Miami. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico could hit northern Florida as a tropical storm later in the week and possibly head toward the Atlantic coast. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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People survey the damage of the Aug. 10 explosion at the Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland, that injured dozens and left seven people dead, including two children. (associated Press)
