Disaster_Accident

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A Kashmiri man sits in the compound of a hospital which resumed its services after the floods hit Srinagar, India, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014. About 200 people have died in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where floodwaters have receded, enabling people to return to their homes. Medical teams in Srinagar, the main city in Indian-held Kashmir, were stepping up efforts to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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Cab driver Martin Salami looks down as he talks about new ordinances facing drivers at a depot near the airport Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, in San Diego. Airport inspectors are judging how taxi drivers smell, a practice that some drivers say may lead to discrimination against immigrants. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, smoke billows from World Trade Center Tower 1 and flames explode from Tower 2 as it is struck by United Airlines Flight 175, in New York. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong, File)

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Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner (42) walks to the bench after getting a cut above her eye during the first half of Game 2 of the WNBA basketball finals against the Chicago Sky, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, right, introduces NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell at a football safety clinic for mothers, Thursday, May 29, 2014 at the team's facilities in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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National Edition Opinion cover for September 11, 2014 - What Obama’s response to Sept. 11 reveals (Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times)

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We The People

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A fire burns on Wiseman Island in Jefferson, Oregon. Firefighters in Marion County say the state-owned island in the Santiam River is expected to burn for several days. Because firefighters cannot reach the site, the state Fish and Wildlife Department let it burn. (jefferson fire district via associated press)

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Rich Guse of the College Place, Washington, Fire Department works a wildfire site. (associated press/walla walla union-bulletin)

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Melissa Rivers and her son Cooper Endicott look out the window of a car as they leave the funeral service for comedian Joan Rivers at Temple Emanu-El in New York Sunday. Rivers died Thursday at 81. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent peers out of the open door of a helicopter during a patrol flight near the Texas-Mexico border. (AP Photo)

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Texas Department of Safety Troopers patrol on the Rio Grande along the U.S.-Mexico border, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, in Mission, Texas. Since illegal immigration spiked in the Rio Grande Valley this summer, the Border Patrol has dispatched more agents, the Texas Department of Public Safety has sent more troopers and Texas Gov. Rick Perry deployed as many as 1,000 guardsmen to the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Dr. Robert Sewell, above, writes of his son's life-threatening bout with the rare hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS).

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"No one ever became a revered historical figure by accident," writes Armstrong Williams, above, posing beside a sculpture of Nelson Mandela.

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FILE- In this June 4, 2010 file photo, a worker picks up blobs of oil with absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, in New Orleans, La., that BP acted recklessly and bears most of the responsibility for the oil spill. The ruling exposes BP to about $18 million in civil fines under the Clean Water Act. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)