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A Halloween-themed group of Blu-ray treats include, Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete First Season," "American Horror Story: Hotel," "The Walking Dead: The Complete Sixth Season," "iZombie: The Complete First Season," "Preacher: Season One" and "American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson."
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FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2014, file photo, a fisherman stands in his boat looking across the Snake River near Homedale, Idaho. Federal officials say changes in how dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers are operated are needed to improve migratory conditions for protected runs of Snake River chinook salmon and steelhead. (Roger Phillips /Idaho Statesman via AP, File)
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Republican vice presidential candidate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence greets supporters during a campaign rally, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 photo, wild turkeys walk through the Davis Cemetery in Davis, Calif. The Davis City Council voted this week to approve a wild turkey management plan that includes trapping and relocating many of the birds and possibly killing some of the more aggressive ones. They also called for an ordinance prohibiting people from feeding the turkeys. (Randy Pench/Sacramento Bee via AP)
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Firefighters work to put out a blaze at an apartment building on the Upper East Side in New York on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. The flames quickly spread throughout the building and were shooting out the roof at one point, sending burning embers onto nearby buildings. (Matt Bonaccorso via AP)
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A firefighter looks at a damaged house in the small town of Visso in central Italy, Thursday, Oct 27, 2016, after a 5.9 earthquake destroyed part of the town. A pair of strong aftershocks shook central Italy late Wednesday, crumbling churches and buildings, knocking out power and sending panicked residents into the rain-drenched streets just two months after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 300 people. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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California's Failing Highway 99 Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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The western North Carolina mountains are seen from a lookout on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, North Carolina, on Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. Areas of the western Carolinas are in severe to extreme drought, with officials worried about wildfires and wilting crops. The South Carolina Drought Response Committee is meeting Wednesday, Oct. 26. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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FILE - In this June 27, 2012, file photo, a Chinook salmon, second from the bottom, swims in the Columbia River with sockeye salmon at the Bonneville Dam fish-counting window near North Bonneville, Wash. Federal authorities want to add more hatchery-raised fish to the 28 Pacific Coast salmon and steelhead stocks listed under the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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Detroit Red Wings center Frans Nielsen (51) advances the puck as Carolina Hurricanes left wing Viktor Stalberg (25) defends in the second period of an NHL hockey game in Detroit, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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People unload food and water boated in from the "Mission of Hope" charity after Hurricane Matthew swept through Jeremie, Haiti, on Oct. 8. (Associated Press)
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Trees in the Sequoia National Forest in California were charred along the path of a 29,000-acre blaze caused by an illegal immigrant with a long criminal record. (Associated Press)
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Trees in the Sequoia National Forest in California were charred along the path of a 29,000-acre blaze caused by an illegal immigrant with a long criminal record. (Associated Press)
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's boast that the election is hers to lose could damage her own prospects as well as those of other Democrats. (Associated Press)
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The Wanaque River flows under The Crescent Bridge and Interstate 287 in Wanaque, N.J, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. New Jersey State police say John Spincken, 37, from Pequannock, N.J., was killed Monday night, Oct. 24, when he jumped off the highway bridge with his two young sons, seriously injuring the children. (Myles Ma/NJ Advance Media via AP)
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Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez, left, and Argentina's President Mauricio Macri, embrace after a joint press conference at the presidential residence in Olivos, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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This Sept. 19, 2008, photo provided by the USGS Alaska Science Center, shows Biologist John Terenzi measuring a black-capped chickadee with a normal beak in Anchorage, Alaska. Researchers are hoping they've found what's causing beaks of some bird species to grow twice as fast as normal. The disease is called avian keratin disorder. Affected birds grow beaks that are freakishly long and that sometimes curve up or down. (Handel Colleen/USGS Alaska Science Center via AP)
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Election Season Dirty Tricks Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Chart to accompany Rahn article of Oct. 25, 2016
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An Aug. 27, 2009 photo provided by Leigh Stearns shows University of Maine professor Gordon Hamilton, in Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier, East Greenland. Hamilton was killed Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, when he tumbled 100 feet to his death while conducting research in Antarctica. (Leigh Stearns via AP)
