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Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade Center buildings in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left gaping holes in the 110-story buildings. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

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Subcommittee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks as Federal Aviation Administration Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt, and Department of Transportation Inspector General Calvin Scovel appear before a Senate Transportation subcommittee hearing on commercial airline safety, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

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Fire Bucket Choice Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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"We are acting because of the urgent need to respond to the daily toll of gun violence in our communities, whether they are mass shooting or not, and whether or not they make national headlines," Rep. Jerrold Nadler said. (Associated Press)

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Aerial view of the Pentagon Building located in Washington, District of Columbia (DC), showing emergency crews responding to the destruction caused when a high-jacked commercial jetliner crashed into the southwest corner of the building, during the 9/11 terrorists attacks.

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Montgomery County Council's Public Safety Committee met Sept. 9 to iron out the details of a new Policing Advisory Commission, which will aim to improve relations between the community and the county police department. (Sophie Kaplan/The Washington Times)

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Aerial photo showed heavy equiptment working at palm oil plantation owned by PT Papua Alam Lestari.

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Beautiful airplane. Landscape with big white passenger airplane is flying in the blue sky with clouds over green grass field in summer. Passenger airplane is landing. Commercial plane. Aircraft

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12. Nick Foles, Jacksonville Jaguars, 6’6”

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5. Tyrod Taylor , Los Angeles Chargers, 6'1"

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10. Philip Rivers, Los Angeles Chargers, 6'5"

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John "Sully" Sullivan, an American diplomat, died Sept. 2, 2019, after collapsing while visiting family in Worcester. The cause was unclear. He had overcome cancer years ago. He was 37 years old.

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Oil Vulture Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas earlier this week. At least seven people have died because of the storm. The prime minister expected that number to climb higher. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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The National Hurricane Center downgraded Dorian to a Category 2 storm after losing some fury as it slowly approaches Florida. (Nasa Via Associated Press)

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Singer and actor Kris Kristofferson joined the U.S. Army in 1960 where he trained to be a helicopter pilot

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The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether e-cigarettes are linked to seizures and other neurlogical issues such as fainting or tremors. The agency received 127 reports from 2010 to 2019 of people who said they had seizures, tremors or fainted. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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This Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018, file satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Michael, center, in the Gulf of Mexico. (NOAA via AP) ** FILE **

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Workers drill a hole in the desert floor of the Nevada National Security Site to prepare for an underground explosion as part of a major U.S. government experiment studying earthquakes and underground nuclear blasts. (Photos courtesy of Nevada National Security Site)