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Wildfires continue to burn north of Hutchinson, Kan., Tuesday, March 7, 2017. A National Guard Blackhawk helicopter approaches the fire north of Hutchinson as water air drops continue Tuesday. Crews grappling with vexing wildfires that have charred hundreds of square miles of land in four states and killed multiple people soon may get a bit of a break: Winds are forecast to ease from the gusts that whipped the flames. (Travis Morisse/The Hutchinson News via AP)

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Wildfires continue to burn north of Hutchinson, Kan. Tuesday, March 7, 2017. A National Guard Blackhawk helicopter approaches the fire north of Hutchinson as water air drops continue Tuesday. (Travis Morisse/The Hutchinson News via AP)

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Wildfires continue to burn north of Hutchinson, Kan., Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Crews grappling with vexing wildfires that have charred hundreds of square miles of land in four states and killed multiple people soon may get a bit of a break: Winds are forecast to ease from the gusts that whipped the flames. (Travis Morisse/The Hutchinson News via AP)

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Wildfires continue to burn north of Hutchinson, Kan., Tuesday, March 7, 2017. The view looks southwest along K61 showing smoke billowing from a burning fire. Crews grappling with vexing wildfires that have charred hundreds of square miles of land in four states and killed multiple people soon may get a bit of a break: Winds are forecast to ease from the gusts that whipped the flames. (Travis Morisse/The Hutchinson News via AP)

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Cattle graze with a background of smoke from wildfires near Hutchinson, Kan., Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Fires raged in parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado, and warnings that conditions were ripe were issued for Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. The fire warning came after powerful thunderstorms moved through the middle of the country overnight, spawning dozens of suspected tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service.(AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

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Actress Evanna Lynch, poses for the media at the gates to the new attraction called 'Forbidden Forest'at at Warner Bros. studio tour 'The Making of Harry Potter' in Watford, England, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. The forbidden forest opens to the public on March 31. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

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Crews work at the scene of a train derailment Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in Providence, R.I., where a tank car carrying several thousand gallons of ethanol left the tracks and ended up on an adjacent roadway. (AP Photo/Matt O'Brien)

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Photographers take pictures outside North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. North Korea closed its borders Tuesday to Malaysians who want to leave the country, spurring Malaysia to issue a retaliatory order and drawing hundreds of ordinary people into an increasingly bitter diplomatic battle over the killing of an exiled member of North Korea's ruling family. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan)

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Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak poses for a group photo at the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. The bitter diplomatic dispute between North Korea and Malaysia over the poisoning death of leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother escalated dramatically Tuesday, with Pyongyang saying it had banned Malaysians from leaving North Korea. Najib in a statement said North Korea is "effectively holding our citizens hostage" by barring them from leaving. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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As envisioned by President Trump, some 32 miles of new wall will be built in the Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley sector at a price of $784 million, or $24.5 million per mile. (Associated Press/File)

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Paris Climate Treaty Pressure Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, a map of earthquake faults in part of Southern California is seen as a sample of an earthquake early warning system in the state that is under development, is displayed on a television monitor in the background, during a news conference in Rancho Cordova, Calif. A new study says an earthquake fault running from San Diego to Los Angeles is capable of producing a magnitude-7.4 temblor that could affect some of the most densely populated areas in California. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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FILE - In this March 17, 2014, file photo, Egill Hauksson a Caltech Seismologist talks about an early morning earthquake during a news conference at Caltech in Pasadena, Calif. A new study says an earthquake fault running from San Diego to Los Angeles is capable of producing a magnitude-7.4 temblor that could affect some of the most densely populated areas in California. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File )

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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 1994, file photo, the covered body of Los Angeles Police Officer Clarence Wayne Dean, 46, lies near his motorcycle which plunged off the State Highway 14 overpass that collapsed onto Interstate 5, after a magnitude-6.7 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles. A new study says an earthquake fault running from San Diego to Los Angeles is capable of producing a magnitude-7.4 temblor that could affect some of the most densely populated areas in California. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, File)

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FILE - This March 13, 2014 file photo provided by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a female wolf from the Minam pack outside La Grande, Ore., after it was fitted with a tracking collar. Wolves continue to recover in Eastern Oregon after the state documented a third year of seven or more breeding pairs in the region east of U.S. Highways 97, 20, and 395. (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File)

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A travel ban everyone can agree on ... (Illustration by Walt Handelsman of The New Orleans Advocate)

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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson speaks during a news conference on Monday, March 6, 2017, in Little Rock, Ark. Hutchinson said Monday that he wants to add a work requirement to Arkansas' hybrid Medicaid expansion and to lower its eligibility cap, which would add new restrictions to the program even as the future of the federal health overhaul remains unclear. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

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Wake Forest guard Bryant Crawford makes a basket during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Boston College in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in New York. Wake Forest won 92-78.(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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Wake Forest forward John Collins (20) goes to the basket against Boston College forward Mo Jeffers (15) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in New York. Wake Forest won 92-78. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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In this Feb. 1, 2017, file photo, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez talks about the economic impact of a contract to install solar panels to power Facebook's new data center, at a news conference in Albuquerque. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)