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#14: INDIANA. Strong concealed carry state with a lot to like: Reasonable fees, minimal training and few restrictions. The Hoosier State also recognizes a permit issued in any other state.
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#33: COLORADO. Rocky Mountain State residents can obtain permits from the local sheriff, but they can't carry inside schools or public buildings.
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#34: LOUISIANA. High marks for strong stand-your-ground statutes, but fees are considerably higher than average. Also, no guns around alcohol or parades.
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#45: MASSACHUSETTS: The Bay State has a may-issue system run by municipal police departments, though individual towns regulate where a firearm is allowed.
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Hoverbike advocates are touting it as a cheaper and safer alternative to regular helicopters and drones, which are more costly to run and are built without human protection rotors.
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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe released a report last year that showed the state's high dependence on the public sector. (Associated Press)
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The first experimental use of hydraulic fracturing was in 1947, and more than 1 million U.S. oil wells have been fracked since, according to the American Petroleum Institute. The National Petroleum Council estimates that up to 80 percent of natural oil wells drilled in the next decade will require hydraulic fracturing. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on the pope's advocacy for belief in man-made global warming by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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South China Sea Flyover Video
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2010 file photo, steaks and other beef products are displayed for sale at a grocery store in McLean, Va. Congressional Republicans are pushing back on proposed dietary guidelines that urge Americans to consider the environment when deciding what foods to eat. House and Senate spending bills approved by subcommittees in each chamber says the guidelines must focus only on nutrition and diet _ a clear effort to thwart a recommendation by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee that eating a diet higher in vegetables and other plant-based foods is better for the environment than eating a diet based on foods from animals. That advice has raised the ire of the meat industry. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)
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Bo Duke (John Schneider), Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach), and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat) pose for a promotion image for "The Dukes of Hazzard" in 1979. (Image: Warner Bros.) ** FILE **
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In this May 21, 2015, file photo, workers prepare an oil containment boom at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif. The shutdown of a pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast forced Exxon Mobil Corp. to halt operations at three offshore platforms because it couldn't deliver oil to refineries, the company said Tuesday, June 23, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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In this June 25, 2012, file photo, a crew works on a gas drilling rig at a well site for shale based natural gas in Zelienople, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)
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Pilot Andre Borschberg is seated in the cockpit of Solar Impulse 2 at Nagoya Airport in Toyoyama, near Nagoya, central Japan, Wednesday, June 24, 2015. A solar-powered plane carrying no fuel has postponed its departure from central Japan for Hawaii due to worse than expected weather conditions. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda) ** FILE **
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People work together to remove huge fallen trees in Portland, Mich., after severe storms Monday, June 22, 2015. The National Weather Service confirmed late on Monday that Portland had been hit with a tornado rated EF1 with winds of around 100 mph. The storm was part of a string of bad weather that hurtled into Michigan's Lower Peninsula after rushing across the country's Midwest. (Rod Sanford/Lansing State Journal via AP)
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President Obama faces opposition on free trade authority by untrusting Republicans and by Democrats who want to give him power to cap greenhouse gas emissions. (Associated Press)
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Unbroken: Cpl. Marcus Chischilly lost his leg due to an IED in Afghanistan. He hopes to coach others in wheelchair basketball. (U.S. Marine Corps)
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A member of the Marines team participates in the Paralympic-style cycling event at the 2015 DOD Warrior Games at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia, Sunday. The Games offer eight adaptive sports. (U.S. Marine Corps)
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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo, a plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. A global health commission organized by the prestigious British medical journal Lancet recommended in a report published Monday, June 22, 2015, substituting cleaner energy worldwide for coal will reduce air pollution and give Earth a better chance at avoiding dangerous climate change. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
