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Olympiakos' Manuel Da Costa, left, runs to stop AEK Athens' Rafik Djebbour as he controls the ball during the Greek Final Cup at the Olympic Stadium of Athens, on Tuesday, May 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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An examination dish containing dead mosquitoes sits under a microscope on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, in Brownsville, Texas. The exhibit was part of a display of tools public health offficials use to capture and combat mosquitos. A panel of local experts and officials discussed the threat Zika brings and ways to minimize its spread in the Rio Grande Valley, a major thoroughfare of international trade and travel. (Jason Hoekema/The Brownsville Herald via AP)
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An RQ-21A Blackjack small tactical unmanned aircraft system flies over a field near Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., June 12, 2013. (U.S. Navy)
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A hike through forests to a scenic spot overlooking the Danube River comes with a legend of good fortune for all who go there.
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People light candles during a ceremony to mark the first month of the earthquake that hit the area of Manabi and Esmeraldas, in Quito, Ecuador, Monday, May 16, 2016. A month after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake many Ecuadorians are still struggling. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Kayakers listen to a talk on eelgrass and the care that should be taken in not disturbing it near Seafarer's Memorial Park in Anacortes, Wash., Friday, May 13, 2016. Hundreds of people in kayaks and on foot gathered at the site of two oil refineries in Washington state to call for action on climate change and a fair transition away from fossil fuels. (Scott Terrell/Skagit Valley Herald via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Craighead Beringia South biologist Bryan Bedrosian releases one of several eagles he's equipped with tracking devices back into the wild on Dec. 1, 2009 on the National Elk Refuge near Jackson, Wyo. (Bradley J. Boner/Jackson Hole News & Guide via AP) **FILE**
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will use pods like the one seen here to launch unmanned aerial vehicles from anywhere in the ocean. (DARPA)
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says its "Upward Falling Payload" is ready for Phase 3 testing in the deep sea. (DARPA)
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GLOCK21
Remarkable for its accuracy and light recoil, the GLOCK 21 delivers the legendary stopping power of the .45 AUTO round with a 10/13 round magazine capacity. Countless law enforcement units swear by the G21 pistol, and that's why this powerful, lightweight, all climate workhorse is standard issue from the North to South Poles
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The Obama-era environmental rule is designed to prevent venting and flaring from oil and gas wells on public lands. (Associated Press/File)
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Illustration on the media's protection on Obama by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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In this photo taken March 12, 2015, passengers wait on the platform before boarding a train at the U Street Metro Station in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **
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GMO Label Nightmare Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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A microbiologist extracts Listeria bacteria for genome sequencing in a foodborne disease outbreak lab at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. (Associated Press)
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In this April 17, 2015, file photo, with the Olympic Mountains in the background, a small boat crosses in front of an oil drilling rig as it arrives in Port Angeles, Wash., aboard a transport ship after traveling across the Pacific. (Daniella Beccaria/seattlepi.com via AP, File)
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Anheuser-Busch, Inc. will change the labels on its Budweiser bottles and cans to "America" until after the 2016 U.S. presidential election (Busweiser)
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Marijuana plants are seen in Chicago where officers say they discovered two football fields worth of pot plants growing on the city's South Side. (Associated Press) ** FILE **