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FILE- In this Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, a small flow of water goes down Oroville Dam's crippled spillway in Oroville, Calif. California is asking the federal government to pay for 75 percent of the hundreds of millions of dollars in repairs to the badly damaged spillways at the nation's tallest dam, a state water agency spokeswoman said Monday, May 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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North Korea Target Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Alaska state Rep. David Eastman, standing, speaks on the floor of the Alaska House on Friday, May 5, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska. Eastman, a Republican from Wasilla, has come under pressure from fellow House members to apologize for comments he recently made about abortion. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
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Parts of Arch Canyon within Bears Ears National Monument reveal the vast landscape of the 1.35 million acres in southeastern Utah protected by President Barack Obama on Dec. 28, 2016. Utah Republicans in Congress are advocating for Trump to jettison Utah's national monument designation. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources shows graffiti within a protected area on one of Hawaii's most revered mountains in the Mauna Kea Ice Age Reserve. The department said the graffiti was found on April 28, 2017, and authorities are asking for the public's help in finding out who painted the graffiti. (Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources via AP)
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Elbe River reunion April 25, 1945
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Firefighters take a break Monday, May 8, 2017, outside a church in St. George, Ga., where officials have issued a mandatory evacuation as a vast wildfire burns at the town's edge. The fire started April 6, 2017, in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near the Georgia-Florida state line and has since burned roughly 210 square miles. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)
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A fire truck passes as a plume of smoke rising from a wildfire burning, Monday, May 8, 2017, just outside the town of St. George, Ga. Officials placed the town under a mandatory evacuation after winds pushed the fire out of the neighboring Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, where a lightning strike started the blaze a month earlier. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)
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Gov. Dennis Daugaard, left, and Tourism Secretary Jim Hagen, right, hold a tourism event in Sioux Falls, S.D., Monday, May 8, 2017. Officials say they're hopeful for a strong summer tourism season even without major anniversaries that have been a big draw for visitors in recent years. (AP Photo/James Nord)
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Bill Dennison, vice president for science application at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, talks about the health of the Chesapeake Bay during the release of a report card on the bay's health after a news conference in Baltimore on Monday, May 8, 2017. Dennison said a few years ago, the bay was in "critical condition," but it's been moved from the critical list to "stable condition," and is showing signs of improvement. The report card gave the nation's largest estuary a "C" grade for overall health. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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In this Saturday, April 29, 2017 photo, landscaping consisting of real Earth plant species mixed with sculpted Pandora flora surrounds a pond at the Pandora-World of Avatar land attraction in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The 12-acre land, inspired by the “Avatar” movie, opens in Florida at the end of May at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. It cost a half-billion dollars. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this Saturday, April 29, 2017 photo, landscaping consisting of real Earth plant species mixed with sculpted Pandora artificial flora is surrounded by ponds and gentle waterfalls at the Pandora-World of Avatar land attraction in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The 12-acre land, inspired by the “Avatar” movie, opens in Florida at the end of May at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. It cost a half-billion dollars. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this Saturday, April 29, 2017 photo, landscaping consisting of real Earth plant species mixed with sculpted Pandora artificial flora is surrounded by ponds and gentle waterfalls at the Pandora-World of Avatar land attraction in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The 12-acre land, inspired by the “Avatar” movie, opens in Florida at the end of May at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. It cost a half-billion dollars. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this Saturday, April 29, 2017 photo, landscaping consisting of real Earth plant species mixed with sculpted Pandora artificial flora is surrounded by ponds and gentle waterfalls at the Pandora-World of Avatar land attraction in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The 12-acre land, inspired by the “Avatar” movie, opens in Florida at the end of May at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. It cost a half-billion dollars. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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In this undated photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese H-6K bomber patrols the islands and reefs in the South China Sea. China’s state broadcaster showed on Sunday, May 7, 2017, navy fighter bombers taking part in exercises over the South China Sea, including one involving the detection and expulsion of foreign military surveillance aircraft such as those deployed regularly in the area by the U.S. and others. The video shown on CCTV’s military channel shows a squadron of two-seater Xian JH-7 Flying Leopards flying in formation and dropping bombs on targets in the ocean below. (Liu Rui/Xinhua via AP, File)
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In this Saturday, May 6, 2017 photo provided by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge smoke rises from a wildfire east of Fargo, Ga. Firefighters were battling Sunday to prevent the fire from spreading, authorities said. (Ben Palm/Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge via AP)
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In this Tuesday May 2, 2017 photo, Todd Alexander poses at his mobile home in Milton, Vt., that he heats with the help of the Low Income Heating Home Energy Assistance Program. Alexander, who is disabled and living on disability, said the assistance has helped him meet his energy needs and still have money left over to live. Congress overruled a request by President Donald Trump to eliminate the heating assistance program. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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In this photo taken March 28, 2017, Bill Fairgrieve, a fisheries research biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, checks on a tank housing sablefish at a research facility in Manchester, Wash. Scientists are studying sablefish genetics and investigating ways to make it easier and more efficient to commercially grow and farm the fish as part of a larger effort by NOAA to support marine aquaculture as a possible solution to feed a growing demand worldwide for seafood. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this photo taken March 28, 2017, Rick Goetz, a program manager with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, checks on sablefish larvae growing in tanks where they feed on green algae at a research facility in Manchester, Wash. Scientists are studying sablefish genetics and investigating ways to make it easier and more efficient to commercially grow and farm the fish. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
