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Dark storm clouds are seen over the White House in Washington on Oct. 15, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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As environmentalists and government regulators have pushed for "clean" coal and alternate energy sources to take over for America's dependence on coal, vocal opponents say that thousands of jobs would be lost. (Associated Press)

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Members of the media touch and photograph Triple Crown winner American Pharoah at Belmont Park on Sunday. The colt will rest, race again and have an avalanche of publicity and money-making opportunities. (Associated Press)

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National Edition News cover for June 6, 2015 - Golden Hammer: Federal government gives $10 million to 200 dead people (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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National Edition News cover for June 5, 2015 - EPA backs up water safety from fracking: The oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, mobilizes thousands around the country both for and against the process, industry and some environmental. Hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil and natural gas has not caused widespread harm to drinking water in the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday in a draft report. (AP Photo)

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Medical workers, in white, stand as rescuers work on the capsized ship, center, on the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei province Thursday, June 4, 2015. Rescuers cut into the upside-down hull of the river cruise ship and pulled out drowned passengers early Thursday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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Rescuers work on the capsized ship, center, on the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province, Wednesday, June 3, 2015. The capsizing late Monday of the Eastern Star in the Yangtze River in southern China is on track to become the country's deadliest maritime disaster in seven decades. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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A Russian Su-24 aircraft zooms by the destroyer USS Ross in the Black Sea. The jet was 1,640 feet from the ship at an altitude of 600 feet. (Image: U.S. Navy) ** FILE **

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Last month's fatal Amtrak wreck in Philadelphia sparked the usual knee-jerk demands for more federal spending. (AP Photo)

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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers save a survivor, center, from the overturned passenger ship in the Jianli section of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Rescuers pulled several survivors to safety after hearing cries for help Tuesday from inside a capsized cruise ship that went down overnight in a storm on China's Yangtze River, state broadcaster CCTV said. (Cheng Min/Xinhua via AP)

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Rescue workers stand on the ship that capsized on the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei province Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Baltimore erupted in violent face-offs with police during rioting this spring. The city is hoping federal taxpayers will help cover the costs of police, firefighters and other first responders, and the damage to city-owned property, which is estimated at $20 million. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 24, 2015, travelers walk toward the baggage drop area for Delta airlines at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. This summer travel season, Delta plans to preload carry-on bags above passengers’ seats on some flights. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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In this Nov. 13, 2014, file photo, Southwest Airlines passengers board an early morning originator flight for departure from a gate at Love Field in Dallas. Southwest Airlines wants to reduce complaints that families can’t find seats together because flights are so crowded. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

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FILE - In a Nov. 28, 2012 file photo, David Rainey, center,a former BP vice president during the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, leaves Federal Court after being arraigned on obstruction of a federal investigation in New Orleans. Jury selection in a federal trial is set to begin Monday, June 1, 2015, in New Orleans for Rainey, who is accused of obstructing a congressional investigation into the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Rainey has pleaded not guilty to charges. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

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Rescue personnel search for victims as they traverse the flooded city of New Orleans after the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina in this Aug. 30, 2005, file photo. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

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Nepalese students wait for their school bus in front of a collapsed house as thousands of schools across the districts worst hit by two major earthquakes in Nepal reopened Sunday, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 31, 2015. With most school buildings damaged or unsafe, the Education Ministry ordered that classes be held in temporary classrooms. According to a UNICEF statement, 32,000 classrooms were destroyed and 15,352 classrooms were damaged after the two major earthquakes in Nepal. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) ** FILE **

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An Anheuser-Busch plant in northwest Georgia has temporarily halted its production of beer in order to supply thousands of cans of drinking water to flood-ravaged Texas and Oklahoma. (Anheuser-Busch)