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Firefighter Taylor Triolo of the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control surveys the damage after a fire burned west of Longmont, Colo., Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. About 300 homes were evacuated because of two fires being pushed by gusty winds in Boulder County. One burned in a relatively flat, open area near some farms and clusters of homes west of Longmont on Friday. The other was burning in the foothills west of Boulder. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Firefighters mop up after a fire west of Longmont, Colo., Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. About 300 homes were evacuated because of two fires being pushed by gusty winds in Boulder County. One burned in a relatively flat, open area near some farms and clusters of homes west of Longmont on Friday. The other was burning in the foothills west of Boulder. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 photo, a tractor sits idle at a 15-acre lot of public gardens in Phoenix. The sprawling urban garden on a vacant lot where Phoenix residents have grown everything from melons to okra closed Friday, Feb. 10 after the gardeners were mysteriously ordered out as a federal agency reassumes ownership of the land, stupefying and angering gardeners who called their eviction a classic case of government dysfunction. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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This Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 photo shows some of the dozens of individual gardens at a 15-acre public gardens, in Phoenix. The sprawling urban garden on a vacant lot where central Phoenix residents have grown everything from melons to okra for years has been closed as the federal government takes over the land. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Protesters physically blocked newly confirmed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos from entering a Washington, D.C., public school Friday morning. (WJLA)
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FILE - In this March 11, 2016, file photo, Wildlife biologists Rob Kaler of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Sarah Schoen of the U.S. Geological Survey examine body parts of a common murre during a necropsy in Anchorage, Alaska. Kaler and Schoen are among scientists attempting to find out the reason for a massive common murre die-off in the North Pacific that began one year ago. A year after tens of thousands of common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, starved and washed ashore on beaches from California to Alaska, researchers have pinned the cause to unusually warm ocean temperatures that affected the tiny fish they eat. (AP Photo/Dan Joling, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2016, file photo, shows dead common murres on a rocky beach in Whittier, Alaska. A year after tens of thousands of common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, starved and washed ashore on beaches from California to Alaska, researchers have pinned the cause to unusually warm ocean temperatures that affected the tiny fish they eat. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2016, photo, dead common murres lie on a rocky beach in Whittier, Alaska. A year after tens of thousands of common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, starved and washed ashore on beaches from California to Alaska, researchers have pinned the cause to unusually warm ocean temperatures that affected the tiny fish they eat. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2016 file photo, dead common murres lie washed up on a rocky beach in Whittier, Alaska. A year after tens of thousands of common murres, an abundant North Pacific seabird, starved and washed ashore on beaches from California to Alaska, researchers have pinned the cause to unusually warm ocean temperatures that affected the tiny fish they eat.(AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
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In this Feb. 2, 2017 photo, photos of Olympic volunteers hang at Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rio de Janeiro pulled off last year's Olympics, keeping crime at bay and fending off dire forecasts linked to corruption, environmental degradation and budget cuts as Brazil plunged into its deepest recession in memory. Six months after South America's first games, the flood gates have burst open. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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This Feb. 2, 2017 shows the dry soccer field inside Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The stadium was renovated for the 2014 World Cup at a cost of about $500 million, and largely abandoned after the Olympics and Paralympics, then hit by vandals who ripped out thousands of seats and stole televisions. (AP Photo/Mario Lobao)
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This Feb. 2, 2017 shows Maracana stadium with a dry field in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Stadium operators, the Rio state government, and Olympic organizers have fought over $1 million in unpaid electricity bills and management of the venue. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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This Feb. 2, 2017 photo shows seats jumbled in a pile inside Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The historic stadium, site of the opening and closing ceremony, has been vandalized as stadium operators, the Rio state government, and Olympic organizers, have fought over $1 million in unpaid electricity bills and management of the venue. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
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Environmentalists say the Trump administration represents a threat to their efforts, such as replacing fossil fuels and with more renewable energy. Scary messages about the president are helping them raise money. (Associated Press)
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The Washington Nationals need a full season from pitcher Stephen Strasburg, who started last season 13-0 before getting shut down with an elbow injury. (Associated Press)
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Water flows through break in the wall of the Oroville Dam spillway, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. The torrent chewed up trees and soil alongside the concrete spillway before rejoining the main channel below. Engineers don't know what caused what state Department of Water Resources spokesman Eric See called a "massive" cave-in that is expected to keep growing until it reaches bedrock. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Water flows through break in the wall of the Oroville Dam spillway, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. The torrent chewed up trees and soil alongside the concrete spillway before rejoining the main channel below. Engineers don't know what caused what state Department of Water Resources spokesman Eric See called a "massive" cave-in that is expected to keep growing until it reaches bedrock. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Illustration on Trump's tweeting by William Brown/Tribune Content Agency
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Florida State center Kai James, center, fires up her team before an NCAA college basketball game against Wake Forest in Tallahassee, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Phil Sears)
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Citizens ask questions and see displays, including a pipe, during a TransCanada open house to explain a proposed gas pipeline beneath the Potomac River, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. A Potomac River protection group organized a demonstration against plans for a pipeline beneath the river that would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania to West Virginia. (Kevin G. Gilbert/The Herald-Mail via AP)
