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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, fireworks explore next to China's new domestically-built 10,000-ton Type 055 destroyer during a launching ceremony at Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, China, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. China's increasingly powerful navy launched its most advanced domestically produced destroyer on Wednesday, at a time of rising competition with other naval powers such as the United States, Japan and India. (Wang Donghai/Xinhua via AP)
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In this March 23, 2016, file photo, a worker checks the radiation level on barrels in a storage of nuclear waste taken from the 4th unit destroyed by the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Chernobyl, Ukraine. A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software — apparently sown in Ukraine — caused disruption across the world Tuesday, June 27, 2017. The virus hit the radiation-monitoring at Ukraine's shuttered Chernobyl power plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident, forcing it into manual operation. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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This photo taken June 13, 2017, shows a chile field in northern Mexico being irrigated. Mexican Mennonite farmer Pedro Suderman has increased his red and green chile production as U.S. demand has grown and New Mexico's harvest has decreased. (Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
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In this June 7, 2017 photo, vehicles drive through Hopkinsville, Ky. This town is considered the epicenter of the first total solar eclipse to sweep across the United States in 99 years on Aug. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)
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This June 7, 2017 photo shows part of Hopkinsville, Ky. This town is considered the epicenter of the first total solar eclipse to sweep across the United States in 99 years on Aug. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates, right top, delivers opening remarks as he is flanked by Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori, left top, during the IOC Coordination Commission opening plenary for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Tokyo Wednesday, June 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates, right top, delivers opening remarks during the IOC Coordination Commission opening plenary for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Tokyo Wednesday, June 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates, right, and Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori, center, shake hands prior to the IOC Coordination Commission opening plenary for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Tokyo Wednesday, June 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Illustration on the coming need to move to the cities in order to prosper by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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In some spots near the U.S.-Mexico border there are enough natural barriers that there's no need to build a wall, said Customs and Border Protection's acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello. (Associated Press)
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Clouds hover over the Lake Champlain waterfront in Burlington, Vt., on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Gov. Peter Shumlin on Tuesday signed into law the Vermont Clean Water Act, designed to clean up the lake by reducing pollutants that run into it. Shumlin said the law is an effort to correct a problem that has been centuries in the making. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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A broken wind turbine in Nextera Energy's Tuscola Bay Wind Farm sits idle in a farm field near the intersection of North Gera and Hack Roads in Blumfield Township in the northeast corner of Saginaw County on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. According to Nextera, the turbine broke Monday, June 26 and they are going to repair the damage. (Jeff Schrier/The Saginaw News via AP)
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A broken wind turbine, right, in Nextera Energy's Tuscola Bay Wind Farm sits idle in a farm field near the intersection of North Gera and Hack Roads in Blumfield Township in the northeast corner of Saginaw County on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. According to Nextera, the turbine broke Monday, June 26 and they are going to repair the damage. (Jeff Schrier/The Saginaw News via AP)
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A broken wind turbine, right, in Nextera Energy's Tuscola Bay Wind Farm sits idle in a farm field near the intersection of North Gera and Hack Roads in Blumfield Township in the northeast corner of Saginaw County on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. According to Nextera, the turbine broke Monday, June 26 and they are going to repair the damage. (Jeff Schrier/The Saginaw News via AP)
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A broken wind turbine, center, in Nextera Energy's Tuscola Bay Wind Farm sits idle in a farm field near the intersection of North Gera and Hack Roads in Blumfield Township in the northeast corner of Saginaw County on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. According to Nextera, the turbine broke Monday, June 26 and they are going to repair the damage. (Jeff Schrier/The Saginaw News via AP)
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A man looks on a pile of trash as he walks behind a flower pot in Kaminia neighborhood of Piraeus, near Athens Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Striking garbage collectors are on the 11-day of protest that left huge piles of trash around Athens. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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FILE- In this May 7, 2015 file photo, crews perform dredging work along the upper Hudson River in Waterford, N.Y. Dredging crews left the Hudson River two years ago, but criticism of the $1.7 billion cleanup is bubbling up again. Advocates who want the Environmental Protection Agency to order crews back on the river are expected in Poughkeepsie on Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The EPA is holding a public hearing on its five-year review of the Superfund project. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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Fire crews from more than 20 stations worked to contain and extinguish a fire at a mulch plant south of Mottville, Mich. on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Officials say a fire at a mulch manufacturing facility in southwestern Michigan has been contained and could take a week to burn itself out. (Jake Green/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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Fire crews from more than 20 stations worked to contain and extinguish a fire at a mulch plant south of Mottville, Mich. on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Officials say a fire at a mulch manufacturing facility in southwestern Michigan has been contained and could take a week to burn itself out. (Jake Green/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)
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In this Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, photo, containers of Roundup, left, a weed killer is seen on a shelf with other products for sale at a hardware store in Los Angeles. California regulators are taking a pivotal step toward requiring the popular weed killer Roundup to come with a warning label. The state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment announced Monday, June 26, 2017, that the weed killer's main ingredient, glyphosate, will be listed in July as a chemical known to cause cancer. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
