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FILE - This Feb. 5, 2016, file photo, shows the Flint River in Flint, Mich. Michigan environmental officials announced Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, that Flint's water system no longer has levels of lead exceeding the federal limit. The finding by the Department of Environmental Quality is good news for a city whose 100,000 residents have grappled with the man-made water crisis since 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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FILE - In this March 21, 2016 file photo, the Flint Water Plant water tower is seen in Flint, Mich. Michigan environmental officials announced Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, that Flint's water system no longer has levels of lead exceeding the federal limit. The finding by the Department of Environmental Quality is good news for a city whose 100,000 residents have grappled with the man-made water crisis since 2014. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, California Gov. Jerry Brown discusses his 2017-2018 state budget plan he released at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Brown is coming off a blockbuster year of liberal wins on climate change, minimum wage, gun control and two of his pet projects, sentencing reform and high-speed rail. But he delivers his State of the State address Tuesday, Jan. 24 in a time of uncertainty for California and to a Legislature that's in a defensive posture after the election of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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George Orwell's "1984" landed on Amazon's bestseller list shortly after President Donald Trump was sworn into office. (Cover, "1984," Signet Classics)
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In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, Michigan tourist Michelle Brinker reads a park sign, including warnings in the case of finding spent ordnance, near Ferro Port lighthouse at Verdiales Key point on the south coast of Vieques island, Puerto Rico. The Naval Training Range shut down in 2001 and since then the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated much of it as a Superfund site believed to contain contaminants including mercury, lead and napalm. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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This Jan. 13, 2017 photo, shows the ocean view from the Ferro Port lighthouse, at Verdiales Key point on the south coast of Vieques island, Puerto Rico. Vieques, off the east coast of Puerto Rico, boasts gorgeous beaches, turquoise waters and a stunning bioluminescent bay. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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This Jan. 13, 2017 photo a no access warning sign stands at Verdiales Key point on the south coast of Vieques island, Puerto Rico. Tons of unexploded bombs, rockets and other munitions still lie scattered across the eastern half of the island and the surrounding seabed. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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Opponents of a natural gas pipeline proposed to run through the federally protected New Jersey Pinelands region hold signs against it during a public hearing on the proposal in Pemberton N.J. on Tuesday Jan. 24, 2017. Environmentalists fear the pipeline could harm the fragile forest region, but business groups say it would increase energy reliability. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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Dan Bailiff, a member of the New Jersey Sierra Club, holds a sign indicating his opposition to a natural gas pipeline proposed to run through the federally protected Pinelands preserve in New Jersey during a public hearing on the proposal in Pemberton, N.J. on Tuesday Jan. 24, 2017. Environmentalists fear the pipeline will damage the fragile forest, but business and labor groups say it will create jobs and increase energy reliability. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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Opponents of a natural gas pipeline proposed to run through the federally protected Pinelands preserve in New jersey unfurl a banner against it during a public hearing on the proposal in Pemberton, N.J. on Tuesday Jan. 24, 2017. Environmentalists fear the pipeline will damage the fragile forest, but business and labor groups say it will create jobs and increase energy reliability. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2013, file photo, the sun shines through snow-covered pine trees in the New Jersey Pinelands in Manchester, N.J. A hotly contested plan to run a natural gas pipeline through New Jersey’s federally protected Pinelands preserve is getting a do-over. A public hearing on the proposal by South Jersey Gas to build the pipeline will be held Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Pemberton. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)
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Winnipeg Jets' Nikolaj Ehlers (27) fires a shot on net as Anaheim Ducks' Kevin Bieksa (2) hits Jets' Andrew Copp (9) into the net behind Ducks goaltender Jonathan Bernier (1) during second period NHL hockey action in Winnipeg, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. (Trevor Hagan/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Winnipeg Jets' Joel Armia (40) is hit to the ice by Anaheim Ducks' Korbinian Holzer (5) during second period NHL hockey action in Winnipeg, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. (Trevor Hagan/The Canadian Press via AP)
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People run agains wind and rain to enter Caesars Boardwalk entrance in Atlantic City, N.J., Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. A nor'easter hit the coast bringing strong winds and rain for Monday. (Ben Fogletto/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
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A man walks into a home with roof damages caused by severe weather in the early morning hours, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Miami Springs, Fla. The fatal storm system that caused destruction across the Southeast also downed trees and power lines around Florida. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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A woman walks through her backyard covered by debris caused by severe weather, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Miami Springs, Fla. The fatal storm system that caused destruction across the Southeast also downed trees and power lines around Florida. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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A house with roof, window and interior damage caused by severe weather in the early morning hours is viewed Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Miami Springs, Fla. The fatal storm system that caused destruction across the Southeast also downed trees and power lines around Florida. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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Residents wait to be relocated after their building was declared unsafe after a tornado destroyed the roof of the building Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in Hialeah, Fla. The storm system that caused destruction across the Southeast also downed trees and power lines around Florida. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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The family of Marine 1st Lt. Travis L. Manion drops roses into his gravesite during the reinternment ceremony for Manion, of Doylestown, Penn., at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va. on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. From center are Manion's father retired Marine Col. Thomas Manion, mother Janet Manion, sister Ryan Manion with her daughter Maggie Manion-Borek, 4, and brother-in-law David Borek. Manion was buried in Pennsylvania after being killed in Iraq in 2007, he is being reinterned at Arlington so that he can be buried next to his best friend, Marine Lt. Brendan Looney, who was killed in Afghanistan and will be buried on Monday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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The Hattiesburg Fire Station places the U.S. flag half-staff after Saturday's tornado in Hattiesburg, Miss., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. The enormous system put millions of people in the South on edge during a weekend of violent weather that left crumpled trailer homes, downed trees and other damage in the hardest-hit communities from Mississippi to Georgia. (Susan Broadbridge/Hattiesburg American via AP)
