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Protesters demonstrate against the new Bears Ear National Monument in Montecello, Utah, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016. President Barack Obama expanded his environmental legacy in the final days of his presidency with national monument designations on lands in Utah and Nevada that have become flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West. The Bears Ears National Monument in Utah will cover over 1 million acres in the Four Corners region, the White House announced Wednesday. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP) **FILE**
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In this Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016 photo, bricks are falling off the exterior wall of a house sitting over a sinkhole, in Fraser, Mich. The major sinkhole disrupted the holiday season in Fraser, a Detroit suburb of roughly 14,500 people about 15 miles north of downtown and five miles west of the Great Lakes waterway of Lake St. Clair. Roads have been closed and about two dozen homes evacuated after the underground sewer collapse on Christmas Eve. Nobody has been injured but inconveniences are many as crews begin a months-long process of assessing the damage, making repairs and determining the cause. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, photo Susan Frank pets one of her mulefoot pigs at Dogpatch Farm in Washington, Maine. The American mulefoot hog was once the rarest of all U.S. livestock breeds, and they’re still listed as critically rare by the Livestock Conservancy. There are fewer than 500 registered, purebred, breeding mulefoots. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, three-day-old mulefoot piglets nuzzle their mother at Dogpatch Farm in Washington, Maine. The American mulefoot hog was once the rarest of all U.S. livestock breeds, and they’re still listed as critically rare by the Livestock Conservancy. There are fewer than 500 registered, purebred, breeding mulefoots. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, photo Susan Frank prepares to feed her mulefoot pigs at Dogpatch Farm in Washington, Maine. The rare breed enjoys open pasture and woodland at the small farm in rural Maine. Frank says it may sound counterintuitive, but the way to save declining breeds of livestock is to get people to eat them, thereby increasing demand for them. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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Wake Forest's John Collins has his shot blocked by Jarquez Smith with some help from Jonathan Isaac, right, in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
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FILE - This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows Lockhart Basin, south of the Colorado River, within the boundary of the Bears Ears region in southeastern Utah. President Barack Obama designated two national monuments Wednesday, Dec. 28, at sites in Utah and Nevada that have become key flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
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FILE - This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows the northernmost boundary of the proposed Bears Ears region, along the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah. President Barack Obama designated two national monuments Wednesday, Dec. 28, at sites in Utah and Nevada that have become key flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
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Former U.S. Army Ranger Fernando Duarte, 33, was killed outside Miami's Miccosukee Resort and Casino on Dec. 25, 2016. (NBC-6 Miami screenshot)
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In this Dec. 25, 2016 photo, a woman defecates along the shoreline in Cite Soleil slum, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In a country where flush toilets are used by less than 10 percent of the population, millions of poor Haitians still openly defecate in fields and gullies, dispose of their waste in plastic bags they throw into vacant lots, or use pit latrines that get emptied by "bayakou", or human waster cleaners. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 25, 2016 photo, "bayakou", or human waste cleaner, Auguste Augustin, left, visits with a friend in Port-au-Prince's La Saline slum, Haiti. Augustin has no shame talking about his labor. He's been doing it for decades and says he's proud his hard work feeds his family. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Dieusel Gerlin, a bayakou", or human waste cleaner, pours water into a jug he will use to bathe himself after a night of removing human waste from a pit latrine, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The country still relies mostly on crude methods of waste disposal that have crippled its ability to combat cholera, the water-borne illness that can cause diarrhea so severe that victims can die of dehydration in hours if they don't get treatment. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, the shadows of bayakou", or human waste cleaners, are cast on a wall next to sacks filled with human waste, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Haitian waste cleaners take to the streets at night doing a miserable, indispensable job that creates such social scorn that few admit they do it at all. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 21, 2016 photo, "bayakou", or human waste cleaner Dieusel Gerlin, removes human waste from a pit latrine in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Latrine cleaners form the lowest ranks of a primitive sanitation system that partly explain the fierce persistence of cholera in Haiti since it was introduced to the country's largest river in October 2010 by sewage from a base of U.N. peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Auguste Augustin, a "bayakou", or human waste cleaner, and his crew, haul away sacks of human waste, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Some of the bayakou, who are nocturnal workers, are hired by sanitation companies. But most are independent operators who empty into drainage canals in violation of the law, creating ideal conditions for the spread of cholera and other diseases. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Auguste Augustin, a "bayakou", or human waste cleaner, balances himself at the top of a pit latrine ready to receive human waste from a coworker, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti still relies mostly on crude methods of waste disposal that have crippled its ability to combat cholera, a water-borne illness that can cause diarrhea so severe that victims can die of dehydration in hours if they don't get treatment. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, a "bayakou", or human waste cleaner, carries a sack filled with human waste to be hauled away and dumped before sunrise, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitian waste cleaners take to the streets at night doing a miserable, indispensable job that creates such social scorn that few admit they do it at all. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, Dieusel Gerlin, a"bayakou", or waste cleaner, uses candles for illumination before descending into the pit of an outhouse, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Bayakou strip off their clothes, wrap themselves in rags and plug their nostrils with tobacco to hide the stench, before they squeeze themselves into the latrine pit to scoop buckets of human excrement with their bare hands. The Bayakou form the lowest ranks of a primitive sanitation system largely responsible for the fierce persistence of cholera in this country since it was introduced to the country’s largest river in October 2010 by sewage from a base of United Nations peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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Wake Forest offensive lineman Justin Herron lifts running back Matt Colburn after Wake Forest defeated Temple 34-26 in the Military Bowl NCAA college football game, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016 in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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FILE - In this September 2013 aerial file photo provided by the Massachusetts Deptartment of Conservation and Recreation, a dirt and stone road leads to Mount Zion Island, at rear, at the Quabbin Reservoir in Petersham, Mass. A plan by the state to start a colony of venomous timber rattlesnakes on the off-limits island in the state's largest drinking water supply came under fire, and became one of New England's odd stories in 2016. (Clif Read, The Mass. Dept. of Conservation and Recreation via AP, File)
