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Boeing Bucks. Why did Hillary help Boeing get a contract in Russia? Could it have been the big donation her husband got? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks while visiting Boeing's design center in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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Emergency services personnel attend to victims of a stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia during the annual hajj pilgrimage, in this Sept. 24, 2015, file photo. A new tally shows last month’s crush and stampede at the Saudi hajj was the deadliest event to ever strike the annual pilgrimage. The Associated Press count on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015, shows at least 1,453 people died Sept. 24 in Mina. Saudi officials have said their official figure of 769 killed and 934 injured in the disaster remains accurate. (AP Photo, File)
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T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, vice chairman for the National Transportation Safety Board, answers questions about the search and investigation as Capt. Mark Fedor, chief of response, U. S. Coast Guard 7th District and Capt. Jason Neubauer, chief for Office of Investigations and Casualty Analysis, U. S. Coast Guard held a news conference aboard Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville in regards to the then-missing Jacksonville-based cargo ship El Faro on Wednesday Oct. 7, 2015. (Bob Mack/The Florida Times-Union via AP) ** FILE **
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Rep. Michael Capuano, Massachusetts Democrat, urged the FAA to issues drone safety rules before a crash occurs. (Associated press)
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Washington Capitals right wing T.J. Oshie (77)and left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) at the Verizon Center, Oct. 2, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)
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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) at the Verizon Center, Oct. 2, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)
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Washington Capitals right wing Miles Koules (15) at the Verizon Center, Oct. 2, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)
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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) and right wing T.J. Oshie (77) at the Verizon Center, Oct. 2, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)
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Washington Capitals right wing T.J. Oshie (77) and left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) at the Verizon Center, Oct. 2, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)
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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) at the Verizon Center, Oct. 2, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)
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Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) at the Verizon Center, Oct. 2, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)
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Washington Capitals right wing Justin Williams (14) at the Verizon Center, Oct. 2, 2015, in Washington, D.C. (Preston Keres/Special to The Washington Times)
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In this photo made available by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, damage is visible inside a penthouse boiler room of a high-rise residence in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., Friday Oct. 2, 2015. Fire officials say the explosion in the 33-story under-construction building was caused by a gas leak. (Miami-Dade Fire Rescue via AP)
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Soldiers and first responders from the South Carolina National Guard perform flood rescue operations during the statewide flood response. More than 1300 South Carolina National Guard members were activated in response to the floods. Video courtesy of South Carolina Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team
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In this undated photo provided by TOTE Maritime shows the cargo ship, El Faro. The El Faro departed Jacksonville, Fla., on Sept. 29, 2015 when Joaquin was still a tropical storm. The ship had 33 crew members, and it was headed to Puerto Rico when it encountered heavy seas when Joaquin became a hurricane. The U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday, Oct. 5, 2015 that the El Faro has been lost. They are still searching for survivors. (TOTE Maritime via AP)
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Floodwaters close in on homes on a small piece of land on Lake Katherine in Columbia, S.C., Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. After a week of steady rain, the showers tapered off Monday and an inundated South Carolina turned to surveying a road system shredded by historic flooding. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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Government Bureaucracy Predicting the Weather Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times