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Destruction of the Coal Industry Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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A lone pickup truck heads down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 as a severe spring storm packing high winds and heavy, wet snow sweeps over the intermountain West Saturday, April 16, 2016, near Evergreen, Colo. While the storm is starting later than predicted, forecasters are expecting driving snow to pummel the region Saturday night into Sunday, which has already forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights out of Denver's airport. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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A United Airlines representative, right, helps stranded travelers at Denver International Airport as a severe spring storm packing high winds and heavy, wet snow sweeps over the intermountain West forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights, Saturday, April 16, 2016, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) ** FILE **

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Houses are seen destroyed after an earthquake in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan Saturday, April 16, 2016. A powerful earthquake struck southern Japan early Saturday, barely 24 hours after a smaller quake hit the same region. (Ryosuke Uematsu/Kyodo News via AP)

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This aerial view shows damaged houses in Mashiki town, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan on April 15, 2016, a day after a magnitude-6.5 earthquake. More than 100 aftershocks from the first earthquake continued to rattle the region as businesses and residents got a fuller look at the widespread damage from the unusually strong quake, which also injured about 800 people. (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP)

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Sailors aboard the USS Stockdale were among the U.S.-deployed assets taking part in the Multilateral Naval Exercise Komodo, initiated in 2014 by the U.S. and Indonesia. (U.S. Navy)

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Stranded people gather outside a town hall of Mashiki, after an earthquake in Kumamoto, southern Japan, Thursday, April 14, 2016. A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 has struck southern Japan, collapsing walls and a number of houses. (Kyodo News via AP)

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In this March 16, 2016 file photo, a man walks past a closed McPherson Square Metro Station in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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Coffee County of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency Deputy Director James Brown speaks to media in Enterprise, Ala., Saturday, March 26, 2014. Brown said four people were killed in an ambulance helicopter crash in southeast Alabama. (Jay Hare/Dothan Eagle via AP) ** FILE **

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Paramedics with New Orleans EMS transport Racquel Smith, wife of former New Orleans Saints' Will Smith, following a shooting in New Orleans late Saturday, April 9, 2016. The former New Orleans Saints player was fatally shot after a traffic accident. (Michael DeMocker/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; USA TODAY OUT; THE BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE OUT; THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

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lead inL Texas Department of Safety Troopers patrol on the Rio Grande along the U.S.-Mexico border, Thursday, July 24, 2014, in Mission, Texas. Texas is spending $1.3 million a week for a bigger DPS presence along the border. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool) (creit)

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Heavy clouds and rain pass over downtown Los Angeles on Friday, April 8, 2016. The first of two weather systems has brought showers to Southern California but rainfall has been scattered and mostly light. The National Weather Service says radar shows showers running across the region early Friday but not much of the rain is reaching the ground. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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Seal of Los Angeles County, California

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San Francisco Giants' Hunter Pence hits a grand slam off Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Pedro Baez in the eighth inning of a baseball game Thursday, April 7, 2016, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Storm Entertainment has just published a new comic book based on the life of Sen. Elizabeth Warren. (Storm Entertainment)

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The Moscow memorial, created by Russian sculptor Alexander Burganov, depicts lines of U.S. and Russian soldiers in bas-relief inside an open frame. (Edward Lozansky)

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The U.S. Postal Service logo.

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What is the average price a pound of ground coffee?

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FILE - In this March 5, 2004 file photo, a man walks along a path lined with elm trees in Princeton, N.J.. The recent spring-like weather has a big downside for allergy sufferers: Tree buds, the first being elms and maples, have begun releasing pollen ahead of the normal time. A report issued Monday, April 4, 2016, by the Obama Administration listed how global warming will make the air dirtier, water more contaminated and food more tainted. It warned of diseases, such as those spread by ticks and mosquitoes, longer allergy seasons, and thousands of heat wave deaths. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer, File)