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In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016 photo, sap runs out of a frankincense tree near Mader Moge, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. The last wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as prices rise with the global appetite for essential oils. Overharvesting has trees dying off faster than they can replenish, putting the ancient resin trade at risk. (AP Photo/Jason Patinkin)
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Television crews stand outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, where actress Carrie Fisher has reportedly been transported after suffering a severe medical emergency on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Her brother, Todd Fisher, told The Associated Press that she was "out of emergency" and stabilized Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/Rick Taber)
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Television crews stand under the rain outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, where actress Carrie Fisher has reportedly been transported after suffering a severe medical emergency on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Her brother, Todd Fisher, told The Associated Press that she was "out of emergency" and stabilized Friday afternoon. (AP Photo Rick Taber)
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Minnesota Wild goaltender Darcy Kuemper makes a save during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the New York Rangers on Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
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FILE- In this Oct. 20, 2016, file, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, Leonardo Dicaprio, second from left, Piers Sellers and Fisher Stevens, from left, attend the premiere of National Geographic Channel's "Before The Flood," at the United Nations headquarters. Sellers, a climate scientist and former astronaut died Friday, Dec. 23. He was 61. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - In this July 17, 2006 photo, British born U.S. Astronaut Piers Sellers talks with reporters following the safe return the space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Sellers, a climate scientist and former astronaut died Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. He was 61. (AP Photo/Pete Cosgrove, File)
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Jaden Smith After Earth, The Karate Kid, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Pursuit of Happiness (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2015, file photo, clamps hold probes in the tailpipes of a 2010 Volkswagen Jetta TDI on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. A federal judge says Volkswagen has reached a deal to compensate owners and leaseholders of the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles caught up in the company's emissions cheating scandal. But U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer didn't say Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, how much the owners and leaseholders would receive on top of a buyback or repairs of their cars. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, a Volkswagen Touareg diesel is tested in the Environmental Protection Agency's cold temperature test facility in Ann Arbor, Mich. A federal judge says Volkswagen has reached a deal to compensate owners and leaseholders of the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles caught up in the company's emissions cheating scandal. But U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer didn't say Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, how much the owners and leaseholders would receive on top of a buyback or repairs of their cars. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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Illustration on U.S./Taiwan relations by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Kellyanne Conway
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FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2016, file photo, provided by the New Mexico Environment Department, a team of state regulators tour the federal government's only underground nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad, N.M., as part of an inspection necessary before the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant can resume operations. State regulators have approved restarting normal operations at the nuclear waste repository, according to two letters obtained Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/New Mexico Environment Department, File)
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In this Dec. 13, 2016 photo, a variety of Christmas poinsettias grow in a climate controlled greenhouse at the Forest Lake Greenhouses in Effingham, S.C. (Joshua Lloyd/The Morning News via AP)
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In this Dec. 13, 2016 photo, Tim King, an owner of Forest Lake Greenhouses, shows off some of their Christmas poinsettias in a climate controlled greenhouse in Effingham, S.C. (Joshua Lloyd/The Morning News via AP)
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George Washington (White House image)
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This Dec. 20, 2016 photo shows safety barriers called "bumping posts" at the end of the tracks at the Atlantic City, N.J., NJ Transit train station. The bumping posts at NJ Transit's Hoboken Terminal, site of a fatal crash in September, haven't been replaced in more than 100 years. NJ Transit tells The Associated Press it is in the process of hiring a consultant to help determine whether the barriers need to be replaced. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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This Dec. 20, 2016 photo shows safety barriers called "bumping posts" at the end of the tracks at the Atlantic City, N.J., NJ Transit train station. The bumping posts at NJ Transit's Hoboken Terminal, site of a fatal crash in September, haven't been replaced in more than 100 years. NJ Transit tells The Associated Press it is in the process of hiring a consultant to help determine whether the barriers need to be replaced. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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FILE - This Aug. 27, 2015, file photo shows a solar power array that is part of sustainability improvements at the Lamar Buffalo Ranch in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Renewable energy developers say they're hopeful about the future despite President-elect Donald Trump's promise to bring coal mining jobs back. In recent years, huge solar and wind farms have sprouted up on public desert land in the Western United States buoyed by generous federal tax credits. (Ryan Jones /Jackson Hole News & Guide via AP, File)
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FILE - In this May 6, 2013, file photo, a wind turbine farm stands near Glenrock, Wyo. Renewable energy developers say they are hopeful about the future despite President-elect Donald Trump's promise to bring coal mining jobs back. In recent years, huge solar and wind farms have sprouted up on public desert land in the Western United States buoyed by generous federal tax credits. (AP Photo/Matt Young, File)
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FILE--In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a dragline excavator moves rocks above a coal seam at the Spring Creek Mine in Decker, Mont. Renewable energy developers say they're hopeful about the future despite President-elect Donald Trump's promise to bring coal mining jobs back. In recent years, huge solar and wind farms have sprouted up on public desert land in the Western United States buoyed by generous federal tax credits. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
