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The Robot Olympics, held inside DAR's Constitution Hall, drew tech-minded high school students from almost 160 nations to the competition. Despite language barriers, rival teams interacted with and supported each other. (Photographs by Emma Ayers/The Washington Times)
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Professor Eric Canin is pictured in Long Beach, Calif., outside a meeting of the California State University Fullerton board of trustees on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Canin has been reinstated at the school after he faced being fired over a run-in with pro-Donald Trump student demonstrators in Feb. 2017. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Meyers)
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In a Sunday, July 16, 2017 photo, Park Ranger Lesley Gaunt, lead interpreter, discusses how emigrants traveled west to students from Afghanistan via the internet. Park Superintendent Dan Morford, lead interpreter Lesley Gaunt and Chief Ranger Justin Cawiezel were at the Scotts Bluff National Monument on Sunday to give more than 60 Afghan students a virtual tour through an iPad. (Irene North/The Star-Herald via AP)
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In a Sunday, July 16, 2017 photo, Justin Cawiezel, chief ranger at the Scotts Bluff National Monument, listens to questions from students in Afghanistan while Park Ranger Lesley Gaunt, lead interpreter, makes sure students and Cawiezel can see and hear each other. Park Superintendent Dan Morford, lead interpreter Lesley Gaunt and Chief Ranger Justin Cawiezel were at the Scotts Bluff National Monument on Sunday to give more than 60 Afghan students a virtual tour through an iPad. (Irene North/The Star-Herald via AP)
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IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR TEXAS INSTRUMENTS - Baltimore Ravens lineman and math scholar John Urschel, left, hands out ice cream to Chelsy Valerio, 14, of Baltimore, during a STEM lesson at Dundalk High School during the launch of Texas Instruments' STEM Behind Cool Careers series on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 in Baltimore. The fun, free activities show students how a solid understanding of STEM subjects is vital for any career, even careers students least expect. (Steve Ruark/AP Images for Texas Instruments)
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FILE - In this May 9, 2011, file photo, Carlos Galindo protests outside the Arizona Department of Education in Phoenix, along with other supporters of an ethnic studies program in the Tucson Unified School District. Arizona authorities are back in federal court in Tucson this week over a years-long legal battle against a 2010 state law targeting ethnic studies in public schools that resulted in the shuttering of a popular Mexican-American Studies program, launching tense student protests. (AP Photo/Matt York, file)
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FILE - In this Jan 3, 2011, file photo, outgoing Arizona schools chief Tom Horne announces in Phoenix, Ariz., that a major school district in Tucson is violating a new state law by continuing an ethnic studies program designed primarily for Hispanics. Arizona authorities are back in federal court in Tucson this week over a years-long legal battle against a 2010 state law targeting ethnic studies in public schools that resulted in the shuttering of a popular Mexican-American Studies program, launching tense student protests. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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FILE - In this Jan 3, 2011, file photo, outgoing Arizona schools chief Tom Horne announces in Phoenix, Ariz., that a major school district in Tucson is violating a new state law by continuing an ethnic studies program designed primarily for Hispanics. Arizona authorities are back in federal court in Tucson this week over a years-long legal battle against a 2010 state law targeting ethnic studies in public schools that resulted in the shuttering of a popular Mexican-American Studies program, launching tense student protests. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
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FILE - In this June 15, 2011, file photo, protesters gather to support the Tucson Unified School District as Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal announces that the Tucson Unified School District violates state law by teaching it's Mexican American Studies Department's ethic studies program at a news conference at the Arizona Department of Education in Phoenix, Ariz. Arizona authorities are back in federal court in Tucson this week over a years-long legal battle against a 2010 state law targeting ethnic studies in public schools that resulted in the shuttering of a popular Mexican-American Studies program, launching tense student protests. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
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This photo shows the classroom in the Sunnyside School, a rural school depicting school life from the late 19th century. The deteriorating log cabin at the “Little House on the Prairie” site in Kansas is expected to soon get a makeover. The current cabin was re-created and built near Independence in 1977 at the television series’ peak of popularity. The show is based off Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books centered on her childhood in the country’s Midwest region.. (Beccy Tanner/The Wichita Eagle via AP)
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FILE - In this Thursday, May 15, 2014 file photo, Illinois Rep. William Davis, D-Homewood speaks on the House floor at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Lawmakers in July 2017 enacted an overall spending plan for the state that includes money for education. Gov. Bruce Rauner has suggested he will veto that newly devised school funding method, which could leave the state with no plan to allocate the general state education aid, which includes a $350 million increase for schools. Davis is the legislation's House sponsor. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman,, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2014, file photo, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the Moon, speaks on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. Aldrin is hosting a gala for his nonprofit space education foundation, ShareSpace Foundation, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday, July 15, 2017. The event will raise money and commemorate the 48th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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Sandbags are filled and ready to go in the Warren Township High School parking lot, Friday, July 14, 2017 in Gurnee, Ill. Illinois officials said Friday some 6,800 buildings have been affected by "unprecedented" flooding north of Chicago, and the damage is expected to worsen this weekend as water flows down rivers into the state from Wisconsin. (Paul Valade/Daily Herald via AP)
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Recent high school graduates Abbigail Deason and Grace Branscum, both 18, of Oklahoma City relax inside Meow Wolf's mazelike exhibition space in Santa Fe, N.M., on Friday, July 14, 2017. The startup company behind the popular art installation is seeking out small-scale Internet investors as it lays the groundwork for expansion to major metropolitan markets.
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Maurice Clarett played running back for the Ohio State Buckeyes. During his freshman year at Ohio State University in 2002, he helped lead the Buckeyes to a national championship. He is well known for unsuccessfully challenging the NFL's draft eligibility rules requiring a player to be three years removed from high school and for his tumultuous life outside of football, including his dismissal from Ohio State, several arrests, and imprisonment. He sentenced to 7 1/2 years after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery and carrying a concealed weapon
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the University of Maryland Police Department, Sean Urbanski. Urbanski, arrested in a fatal stabbing at the University of Maryland that has been under investigation as a possible hate crime has been indicted on a murder charge. (University of Maryland Police Department via AP, File)
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FILE - This Feb. 26, 2016 file photo shows the entrance to St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is launching a criminal investigation into allegations of sexual assault and misconduct at the elite prep school. The investigation into the school follows the release of a report in May 2017 detailing sexual assaults by teachers on their students, earlier information about student sexual conquest rituals and allegations of a similar ritual reported in June. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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Friends and classmates of student Abigail Bastien pray together at St. Mary's Catholic Church Thursday evening, July 13, 2017, in Sandusky, Ohio. Johns Hopkins University officials say Bastien found dead Thursday morning near the Maryland campus was a rising sophomore and member of the track and field team. Police say they are investigating, but there were no obvious signs of foul play at the scene. (Jilly Burns/The Sandusky Register via AP)
