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Mark Holsapple, right, and Steve Tate view and photograph a pair of bald eagles Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Milpitas, Calif. The pair has nested on a tree top at an elementary school in Milpitas. Long endangered bald eagles are making a comeback in the San Francisco Bay Area. The local and national eagle boom is the pay-off for decades of environmental investment. Fifty years ago, the bird seemed destined to become a memory until official protection and pesticide restrictions were issued. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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An bald eagle is perched is atop a redwood tree Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Milpitas, Calif. A pair has nested on a tree top at an elementary school in Milpitas. Long endangered bald eagles are making a comeback in the San Francisco Bay Area. The local and national eagle boom is the pay-off for decades of environmental investment. Fifty years ago, the bird seemed destined to become a memory until official protection and pesticide restrictions were issued. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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An bald eagle takes flight Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Milpitas, Calif. A pair has nested on a tree top at an elementary school in Milpitas. Long endangered bald eagles are making a comeback in the San Francisco Bay Area. The local and national eagle boom is the pay-off for decades of environmental investment. Fifty years ago, the bird seemed destined to become a memory until official protection and pesticide restrictions were issued. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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A bald eagle takes flight Wednesday, April 5, 2017, in Milpitas, Calif. A pair has nested on a tree top at an elementary school in Milpitas. Long endangered bald eagles are making a comeback in the San Francisco Bay Area. The local and national eagle boom is the pay-off for decades of environmental investment. Fifty years ago, the bird seemed destined to become a memory until official protection and pesticide restrictions were issued. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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FILE - In this June 27, 2012, file photo, a Chinook salmon, second from the bottom, swims in the Columbia River with sockeye salmon at the Bonneville Dam fish-counting window near North Bonneville, Wash. Juvenile salmon and steelhead migrating out of the Columbia River Basin in high flows are facing a potential lethal problem at spillway dams where increased nitrogen in the water can give fish what divers call the bends. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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This Monday, April 3, 2017 photo from video by KMOV shows damage to the roof of a laundry business in St. Louis after a boiler exploded at a nearby box company and flew before crashing through the roof. Authorities said several people were killed as a result of the explosion. (KMOV via AP)
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This image released by Amazon Prime shows Ed Pilkington as Hugh Hefner in “American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story,” premiering on Amazon Prime on Friday. (Rodelio Astudillo/Amazon Prime via AP)
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This image released by Amazon Prime shows Shara Connolly as barbi Benton, left, and Matt Whelan as a young Hugh Hefner in “American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story,” premiering on Amazon Prime on Friday. (Rodelio Astudillo/Amazon Prime via AP)
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This image released by Amazon Prime shows Matt Whelan as a young Hugh Hefner in “American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story,” premiering on Amazon Prime on Friday. (Geoffrey Short/Amazon Prime via AP)
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This image released by Amazon Prime shows Matt Whelan as a young Hugh Hefner in “American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story,” premiering on Amazon Prime on Friday. (Matt Klitschert/Amazon Prime via AP)
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Carolina Hurricanes' Bryan Bickell warms up before the team's NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in St. Paul, Minn. Bickell has rejoined the Hurricanes for the last few games of the regular season, five months after his diagnosis of multiple sclerosis forced a hiatus from the team and raised questions about his future in the sport. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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Carolina Hurricanes' Bryan Bickell takes a short break before the team's NHL hockey game against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in St. Paul, Minn. Bickell has rejoined the Hurricanes for the last few games of the regular season, five months after his diagnosis of multiple sclerosis forced a hiatus from the team and raised questions about his future in the sport. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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A North Korean flag, center, is displayed during 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Division II Group A game at Kwandong Hockey Center in Gangneung, South Korea, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the waters off its east coast on Wednesday, U.S. and South Korean officials said, amid worries that the North might soon conduct banned nuclear or long-range rocket tests. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Illustration on China and Taiwan by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Raymond Cruz of Simi Valley, California, preaching to 350 former prisoners.
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This undated rendering provided by Gleason Partners LLC shows shows sections South Side (Mexico) connected like a snake along the border. Solar panels would cover sections of the wall proposed by Las Vegas-based Gleason Partners LLC so it could generate power. The wall's solar panel system would generate 2.0 megawatts of electricity per hour, according to the company's proposal. (Gleason Partners via AP)
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Workers watch and take photos as a massive tunneling machine finishes breaking through a five-foot wide concrete wall to complete boring for the State Route 99 highway, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, under Seattle. After tunneling more than 9,000 feet and building an outer tunnel wall as it moved forward, the boring machine finished digging what will be a two-mile, double-decker traffic tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way viaduct, damaged in an earthquake in 2001. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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A pair of workers climb out between cutting blades near the top of a massive tunneling machine after it broke through a five-foot wide concrete wall to complete boring for the State Route 99 highway, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, under Seattle. After tunneling more than 9,000 feet and building an outer tunnel wall as it moved forward, the boring machine finished digging what will be a two-mile, double-decker traffic tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way viaduct, damaged in an earthquake in 2001. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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A worker pumps his fists as he stands between the cutting blades of a massive tunneling machine after it broke through a five-foot wide concrete wall to complete boring for the State Route 99 highway, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, under Seattle. After tunneling more than 9,000 feet and building an outer tunnel wall as it moved forward, the boring machine finished digging what will be a two-mile, double-decker traffic tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way viaduct, damaged in an earthquake in 2001. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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A massive tunneling machine breaks through a five-foot wide concrete wall as it completes boring for the State Route 99 highway, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, under Seattle. After tunneling more than 9,000 feet and building an outer tunnel wall as it moved forward, the boring machine finished digging what will be a two-mile, double-decker traffic tunnel to replace the Alaskan Way viaduct, damaged in an earthquake in 2001. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
