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This photo provided by NASA shows Hurricane Florence from the International Space Station on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, as it threatens the U.S. East Coast. Forecasters said Florence could become an extremely dangerous major hurricane sometime Monday and remain that way for days. (NASA via AP)
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In this image take from video provided by WCVB in Boston, flames consume a home in Lawrence, Mass, a suburb of Boston, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Emergency crews are responding to what they believe is a series of gas explosions that have damaged homes across three communities north of Boston. (WCVB via AP)
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In this image take from video provided by WCVB in Boston, flames rise from a house in Lawrence, Mass, a suburb of Boston, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Emergency crews are responding to what they believe is a series of gas explosions that have damaged homes across three communities north of Boston. (WCVB via AP)
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Sand bags surround homes on North Topsail Beach, North Carolina, on Wednesday as Hurricane Florence threatens the coast. As much as 35 inches of rain is expected. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A massive new IPSOS poll surveyed people in 31 nations to reveal some surprising loneliness. (Courtesy of NASA)
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Hurricane Florence is in the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to hit the Southeast coast by late Thursday night or early Friday. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Serious business: President Trump, FEMA Administrator Brock Long and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen discuss incoming Hurricane Florence. The media is already labeling it "Trump's Katrina." (Associated Press)
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Screen capture from Sept. 11, 2018, from the website for Sheppard Air Force Base. On Sept. 11, 2018, a U.S. Air Force pilot and a German Luftwaffe officer were injured in an incident involving a T-38 Talon aircraft.
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Organizers behind the protests during Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings have declared that the situation is now "an emergency." (Women's March)
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Kim-Barbosa after 122. Bc6-b7.
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A 2009 prescribed burn clears out debris on the Fort Apache reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona. Photo courtesy the White Mountain Apache Tribe and Fort Apache Agency. By White Mountain Apache Tribe.
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A 2009 prescribed burn clears out debris on the Fort Apache reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona. Photo courtesy the White Mountain Apache Tribe and Fort Apache Agency. By White Mountain Apache Tribe.
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The head of Russia's National Defense Control Center, Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev, speaks to the media during an inter-agency coordination headquarters meeting and video call between Moscow and Syria in Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018. (Balashova Olga, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) **FILE**
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In this photo taken on Sunday, May 13, 2018, health care workers wear virus protective gear at a treatment center in Bikoro Democratic Republic of Congo. Congo's latest Ebola outbreak has spread to a city of more than 1 million people, a worrying shift as the deadly virus risks traveling more easily in densely populated areas. Two suspected cases of hemorrhagic fever were reported in the Wangata health zones that include Mbandaka, the capital of northwestern Equateur province. The city is about 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Bikoro, the rural area where the outbreak was announced last week, said Congo's Health Minister Oly Ilunga. (AP Photo/John Bompengo)
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A poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa. Tibbetts was reported missing from her hometown in the eastern Iowa city of Brooklyn in July 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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This undated photo provided by the Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Cristhian Bahena Rivera. Authorities said on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, that they have charged a man living in the U.S. illegally with murder in the death of Iowa college student, Mollie Tibbetts, who disappeared a month ago while jogging in a rural area. Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Rick Rahn said that Rivera, 24, was charged with murder in the death of Tibbetts. (Iowa Department of Public Safety via AP)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 file photo, police surround the "Silent Sam" Confederate monument during a protest to remove the statue at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. In North Carolina, officials are trying to determine whether this and other Confederate memorials have become public safety hazards _ a determination that opponents believe could fulfill an exception to a 2015 law preventing their permanent removal. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
