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National Edition News cover for December 27, 2014 - 10 years after tsunami, Indonesia has iffy peace: A woman offers prayers on a tiled memorial wall displaying names of victims from the Asian tsunami, in Phang Nga, Ban Nam Khem province, Thailand, Friday, Dec. 26, 2014. December 26 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, that left more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and caused about $10 billion in damage. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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Hundreds of National Guard recruiters were accused of defrauding the government of millions of dollars in the National Guard Recruiting Assistance Program, but critics say the Army's investigation is the fraud. (Associated Press/File)
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Danwon High School students hold papers with messages such as "come back," "miss you," "love you" and "don't loose your hope" for their friends who are missing after Wednesday's ferry disaster at the school yard in Ansan, South Korea, Thursday, April 17, 2014. Strong currents, rain and bad visibility hampered an increasingly anxious search Thursday for 287 passengers, many thought to be high school students, still missing more than a day after their ferry flipped onto its side and sank in cold waters off the southern coast of South Korea. (AP Photo/Woohae Cho)
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In this Oct. 3, 2014 file photo, hazardous material cleaners prepare to hang black plastic outside the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed, in Dallas. Duncan's fiancé, Louise Troh, who lived in the residence, is grieving Duncan's fatal bout with Ebola and trying to help her family refocus on the future. Neither has been easy. So far, finding a landlord willing to take them in has been elusive. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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A Palestinian family looks from a window to the rubble of the collapsed 15-story Basha Tower following early morning Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Israel bombed two Gaza City high-rises with dozens of homes and shops Tuesday, collapsing the 15-story Basha Tower and severely damaging the Italian Complex in a further escalation in seven weeks of cross-border fighting with Hamas. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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The shadow of a visitor taking a picture is cast on a board with messages wishing safe return of missing passengers aboard the sunken ferry Sewol at a port in Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 22, 2014. One by one, coast guard officers carried the newly arrived bodies covered in white sheets from a boat to a tent on the dock of this island, the first step in identifying a sharply rising number of corpses from a South Korean ferry that sank nearly a week ago. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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In this March 10, 2014 file photo, a woman looks at Malaysian planes next to a sign made and written by the public, wishing for safe return of passengers aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 plane at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia. Relatives of five people on board the missing Malaysian jetliner are trying to crowd source a $5 million reward for information about what happened to the plane. The group says it "wants to provide a substantial incentive for anyone who knows the truth to come forward." The Boeing 777 disappeared on March 8 while carrying 239 people from Malaysia to Beijing. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan, File)
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A man reads messages showing signs of hope for the safe return of passengers of the sunken Sewol ferry in Ansan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Students in the city hit hardest by the South Korean ferry disaster returned to classes Thursday, their school campus a tragic landscape of yellow ribbons, chrysanthemums and photos of classmates and teachers who make up the vast majority of the more than 300 people feared dead. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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A woman offers prayers on a tiled memorial wall displaying names of victims from the Asian tsunami, in Phang Nga, Ban Nam Khem province, Thailand, Friday, Dec. 26, 2014. December 26 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, that left more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and caused about $10 billion in damage. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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A fishing boat came to rest nearly two miles inland in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, after by the devastating tsunami that hit the country on Dec. 26, 2004. Banda Aceh was the most devastated area of the nation, suffering more than 100,000 local deaths. (Associated Press)
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Acehnese women visit the Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, the worst-hit region of the 2004 tsunami. (Associated Press)
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This Thursday, March 6, 2014 file photo The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the nation's only underground nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad, N.M., remains idle. Operations at the site were halted following a truck fire and a release of radiation nine days later. Operations were put on hold at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository in early February when a work truck caught fire. Nine days later, a container of waste that had been packed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and placed into one of the storage rooms at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad ruptured. The radiation leak contaminated more than 20 workers and forced the indefinite closure of the facility, leaving the federal government without a place to dispose of tons of Cold War-era waste from locations around the country. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan,File)
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In this on March 6, 2014, file photo, Empty nuclear waste shipping containers sit in front of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. Operations were put on hold at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository in early February when a work truck caught fire. Nine days later, a container of waste that had been packed at Los Alamos National Laboratory and placed into one of the storage rooms at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad ruptured. The radiation leak contaminated more than 20 workers and forced the indefinite closure of the facility, leaving the federal government without a place to dispose of tons of Cold War-era waste from locations around the country. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown denounced the "cowardly attacks on our brave first responders" after firefighters were reportedly targeted Tuesday night in a drive-by shooting. (WJAX-TV)
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Chris Marvin (left) was an Army helicopter pilot before suffering numerous injuries in a 2004 crash on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Never one to go down without a fight, Mr. Marvin spent years recuperating and became managing director of Got Your 6, a nonprofit that works to inspire and assist other combat veterans like himself.
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Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm demonstrates bullet trajectory at news conference Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, in Milwaukee. Chisholm announced that there would be no charges against former police office Christopher Manney in the fatal shooting of Dontre Hamilton. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
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Tarpon Springs Officer Charles "Charlie K" Kondek, 45, was fatally shot early Sunday morning in Tarpon Springs, just hours after two NYPD officers were killed in Brooklyn. (Bay News 9)
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Bystanders assist first responders at the scene at SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, where 2 people died and dozens more were injured after a hit and run. Amos Guiora, a law professor at the University of Utah is leading a push to impose a duty on bystanders to take affirmative action to assist those they see in peril. (AP Photo/Colin Kerrigan, File)
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Secret Service respond on the North Lawn of the White House after a man jumped the White House fence, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, in Washington. The Secret Service apprehended the man who jumped over the White House fence. This latest incident comes about a month after a previous White House fence jumper sprinted across the lawn, past armed uniformed agents and entered the mansion. (Associated Press)
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South Dakota is pulling the public safety campaign "Don't Drive and Jerk," because officials fear the intentional double entendre could distract from its importance. (South Dakota Department of Public Safety via Argus Leader)
