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Five-time shuttle astronaut Robert "Hoot"; Gibson stands near a candle honoring fallen astronauts during a remembrance ceremony honoring astronauts killed in three accidents plus 40 others who were part of the astronaut corps and have died, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

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FILE - In this Monday, May 12, 2008 file photo, the "Painted Ladies," a row of historical Victorian homes, underscore the San Francisco skyline in a view from Alamo Square. San Francisco officials have banned tour buses in the neighborhood that is a major tourist draw for a set of Victorian homes featured in the opening credits to the television show "Full House."(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Israeli soldiers secure the Israel-Lebanon border, Wednesday. Hezbollah claims the attack destroyed a number of Israeli vehicles and caused casualties among "enemy ranks." Israel later fired at least 35 artillery shells into Lebanon. (Associated Press)

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A small drone flying onto the White House grounds Monday, triggering an emergency response and raising fresh questions about security.

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At least they're responding to the measles outbreak. (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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Jack Requa, Metro's interim general manager, addresses reporters after the transit agency's Jan. 22 safety board meeting in D.C. (Andrea Noble/The Washington Times)

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Acting National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart gestures as he speaks about the recent Metro subway fire earlier this month in D.C., during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. One woman was killed and more than 80 were sent to hospitals with smoke inhalation after a subway train filled with smoke inside a tunnel near the busy L’Enfant Plaza station in downtown Washington. Authorities have said an electrical malfunction caused the smoke, and it took 44 minutes for Metro to shut off power to the affected section of rail.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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YouTube, Verizon and American Apparel were named Wednesday on the "dirty dozen" list of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.

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"Students love it," Florida State University Police Chief David Perry said of his department's new Humvee in an interview with The Washington Times. "They like to see the tools. We've used it during severe weather. In the event of a crisis [or] in the event of an emergency. It's also a community-building tool to help educate people about what we do." (Associated Press)

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Firefighters battle a four-alarm fire at a home on Childs Point Road, early Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in Annapolis, Md. Six died in the fire. (AP Photo/Capital Gazette, Glenn A. Miller) ** FILE **

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Firefighters battle a four-alarm fire at a home on Childs Point Road, early Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in Annapolis, Md. The occupants of the home were unaccounted for and fire officials were investigating. (AP Photo/Capital Gazette, Glenn A. Miller)

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The NTSB is investigating the incident of a subway train that spilled smoke near the L'Enfant Metro Station in Washington. One woman was killed and dozens others were sent to the hospital. District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser has promised a full report on the incident with 48 hours. (Associated Press)

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A firefighter attends people on a bus to assess triage needs after people were evacuated from a smoke filled Metro subway tunnel in Washington. Passengers on a smoke-filled subway train in the nation's capital were still asking when help would arrive 27 minutes after the smoke was first reported, District of Columbia officials said Thursday. One woman died and dozens more were sickened when the train filled with smoke Monday afternoon near a busy station in downtown Washington. The cause of the electrical malfunction that led to the smoke remains under investigation. (AP Photo)

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Officials investigate the scene of a prison transport bus crash in Penwell, Texas, on Jan. 14, 2015. Law enforcement officials said the bus carrying prisoners and corrections officers fell from an overpass in West Texas and crashed onto train tracks below, killing an unspecified number of people. (Associated Press/The Odessa American, Mark Sterkel)

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A passenger is seen riding a subway train as it leaves the L'Enfant Metro Station in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, part of the public mass transit network for Washington. The transit network in the nation's capital, remains hobbled after an electrical malfunction that filled a L'Enfant Metro subway station with smoke, killing one woman and sending dozens of people to hospitals. The NTSB is investigating the incident, which happened at the beginning of the Monday afternoon rush hour. It led to the first fatality on Washington's Metro system since a 2009 crash that killed eight passengers and a train operator. NTSB investigator Michael Flanigon told reporters that an electrical "arcing" involving the high-voltage third rail led a train to stop in a tunnel and filled the tunnel with smoke. An arcing occurs when electricity from the third rail comes into contact with another substance that conducts electricity, such as water. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)