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Indian Prime Minister India Narendra Modi said India, whose participation was considered critical to a successful climate accord, would ratify the Paris climate agreement this year, helping to push the pact over the threshold for implementation. (Associated Press)
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Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in Ridgecrest, Calif. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Tensions in the South China Sea are rising, pitting China against smaller and weaker neighbors that all lay claim to a string of isles, coral reefs and lagoons, rich in fish and potential gas and oil reserves. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Illustration for China's influence in U.S. movie productions by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Hank Green. (Audrey Valcourt)
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Congressional Republicans say IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who was brought in by President Obama to clean up the agency after the targeting scandal, has failed — and even misled Congress during the investigation. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, speaks during a news conference in Doral, Fla., on June 3, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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A cyclist photographs the flooding Seine river in front of the Musee d' Orsay in Paris, France Friday June 3, 2016. Both the Louvre and Orsay museums were closed as the Seine, which officials said was at its highest level in nearly 35 years, was expected to peak sometime later Friday. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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"The plan will affect every single commuter. Even repairs outside of the District will affect us," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday at a press event at the Eastern Market Metro station, which will be affected by the second phase of the transit agency's "SafeTrack" plan. "We believe Washington, D.C., will be affected by all 15 surges." (Associated Press)
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As the battle being climate change activists and deniers continues, with neither side giving ground, Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker issues subpoenas to ExxonMobil of its communications with universities, scientists and think tanks. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2016 file photo, the Space Needle is seen in view of still standing but now defunct stacks at the Nucor Steel plant in Seattle. The state is releasing its second take of a proposed rule to require the state's largest polluters to reduce their carbon pollution in an effort to tackle climate change. The Department of Ecology withdrew a rule in February to make substantive changes. The measure released Wednesday, June 1 is a key piece in Gov. Jay Inslee's efforts to tackle climate change and reflects other efforts in California and the Northeast. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)
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A Scottish teenager was recently able to hack into North Korea's version of Facebook using the password "Password," and the breach caused the newly launched website to be taken offline. (StarCon via News Corp Australia)
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Targeted: An Iraqi soldier remains standing despite a bullet strike to his vehicle during the push toward Fallujah.
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Industrial hemp activists make their case at an "all hemp" luncheon staged in an elegant townhouse called Elizabeth's on L, just north of the White House.
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In this Monday May 30, 2016, photo, a sedated tiger lies in a cage at the "Tiger Temple" in Saiyok district in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, Thailand. Wildlife officials in Thailand on Monday began removing some of the 137 tigers held at a Buddhist temple following accusations that the monks were involved in illegal breeding and trafficking of the animals. (AP Photo)
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People walk and play on a beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 12, 2008. People have become increasingly reluctant to travel to an island where the Zika virus has caused one death, infected more than 1,100 people and is linked to the first microcephaly case acquired on U.S. soil. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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This February 2016 photo released on Monday, May 30, 2016, by ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies shows mature stag-horn coral bleached at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of northern Australia. The reef studies center released the results of its survey of the 2,300-kilometer (1,430-mile) reef off Australia's east coast on Monday. The scientists found that about 35 percent of the coral in the northern and central sections of the reef are dead or dying. (David Bellwood/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies via AP)
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Two people pilot a boat through the flooded Brazos River on Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Rosenberg, Texas. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP) ** FILE **
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In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 photo, health workers get ready to spray insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus, under the bleachers of the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, which will be used for the Archery competition in the 2016 summer games. More than 145 public health experts signed an open letter to the World Health Organization on Friday, May 27, 2016 asking the U.N. health agency to consider whether the Rio de Janeiro Olympics should be postponed or moved because of the ongoing Zika outbreak. The letter calls for the games to be delayed or relocated "in the name of public health." (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
