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A Nepalese army soldier clears rubble from a damaged house at Lele in Lalitpur, Nepal, Thursday, May 14, 2015. On April 25, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake killed thousands of people, injured tens of thousands more and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Then, just as the country was beginning to rebuild, a magnitude-7.3 earthquake battered it again. (AP Photo/Bikram Rai)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a town hall meeting, Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Sparta, N.J. Christie has been holding frequent town halls in the early-voting state of New Hampshire as he prepares for an expected presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Nepalese army men search for the missing U.S. Marine helicopter in the earthquake affected Dolakha District, Nepal, Thursday, May 14, 2015. The helicopter carrying six Marines and two Nepalese soldiers disappeared Tuesday while delivering aid in the country's northeast, U.S. officials said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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In this photo provided on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, debris from a shipwreck lays on the Indian Ocean floor, nearly 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) below the surface, off the west coast of Australia. (Fugro/The Australian Transport Safety Bureau via AP)
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A Nepalese woman carrying belongings walks past a damaged house in Chautara, Nepal, Wednesday, May 13, 2015. The condition of many of the buildings damaged in the April 25 earthquake, got worse after the magnitude-7.3 quake Tuesday. (AP Photo/Bernat Amangue)
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Oil can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as a large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in this April 2010 file photo. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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Illustrtation on the need for a U.S.response to China's world strategy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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The annual Competitive Enterprise Institute's "The Ten Thousand Commandments" reveals the toll of federal regulations. (CEI)
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Nepalese people gather in a temporary shelter after another earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. A major earthquake has hit Nepal near the Chinese border between the capital of Kathmandu and Mount Everest less than three weeks after the country was devastated by a quake. (AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa)
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An Alaska state-funded project is putting free pregnancy tests in bar bathrooms in an effort to prevent fetal alcohol syndrome. (Newsy)
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FILE - 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. Royal Dutch Shell hopes to use the rig for exploratory drilling during the summer open-water season in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast, if it can get the permits. Royal Dutch Shell cleared a major hurdle Monday, May 11, 2015, when The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved Shell's exploration plan. However, this isn't the final step that Shell needs for Arctic drilling. (Daniella Beccaria/seattlepi.com via AP, File) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; SEATTLE TIMES OUT; TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
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A row of Google self-driving Lexus cars at a Google event outside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, May 13, 2014 file photo shows. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) ** FILE **
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In this Saturday, May 9, 2015 photo provided by Brian Khoury, a tornado touches down in Cisco, Texas. One person was killed Saturday night and another left in critical condition after the tornado hit Cisco, a rural farming and ranch area about 100 miles west of Fort Worth. (Brian Khoury via AP)
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Illustration on oil's practical superiority to so-called green energy sources by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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National Edition News cover for May 9, 2015 - Congress keeps funding overbudget plutonium site : Construction crews are seen as they work on early stages of a new mixed oxide fuel, or MOX fabrication facility at the Savannah River nuclear complex near Aiken, S.C., Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007. The plant will convert weapons plutonium to commercial reactor fuel and eventually employee hundreds of workers. (AP photo/Grace Beahm) **NO SALES, MAGS OUT** Published Caption 8/2/07:
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Mars Inc. , the candy giant that makes M&Ms, Snickers and Twix, said Friday that it supports government recommendations to limit sugar intake and hopes to further address the "health and nutritional challenges facing our society." (Wikimedia Commons)
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Transfer pipes carry liquified natural gas to and from a holding tank, seen in background, at Dominion Energy's Cove Point LNG Terminal in Lusby, Md., Thursday, June 12, 2014. Federal regulators concluded that Dominion Energy's proposal to export liquefied natural gas from its Cove Point terminal on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland would pose "no significant impact" on the environment. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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A station manager at the Duke Catawba Nuclear Power Station stands near a turbine at the nuclear plant near York, South Carolina. In 2004, construction for the site was estimated to cost $1.6 billion and was expected to be completed by 2007. However, more than $4 billion has been spent on construction, which is only 67 percent complete. Meanwhile, the site lost its contract with its only real customer, Duke Energy, in 2008 and hasn't found a replacement buyer for the fuel product. (Associated Press)
