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Leading the way: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, attended a meeting with environmental officials and activists at his residence in Tehran on Sunday. Iran's supreme leader holds a deep mistrust of America. (Associated Press)
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This undated picture shows a laboratory at the U.S. biotech company Avigen, where new treatment options based on gene transfer like drugs for hemophilia B are developed. (Associated Press/Bayer AG) **FILE**
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"I think Republicans have a great opportunity here in the agricultural heartland of the Midwest," Iowa Gov. Terry E. Branstad said in a Jan. 13, 2015 state of the state speech to lawmakers. He warned that anyone opposed to ethanol targets won't win the White House. (Associated Press/Charlie Neibergall/File)
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The most egregious examples of government waste, fraud or abuse from TWT staff. (Golden Hammer cropped logo)
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A man on a donkey cart traverses a rain-flooded street in the central Gaza Strip on Feb. 22, 2015. Palestinian media and officials falsely accused Israel of flooding the area by opening non-existent "dams." (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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This Feb. 19, 2015, file image provided by NASA shows the dwarf planet Ceres, taken by the space agency's Dawn spacecraft from a distance of nearly 29,000 miles (46,000 kilometers). On Friday, March 6, 2015, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrives at the mysterious dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter after a nearly eight-year journey. (AP Photo/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA, File)
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In this Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, photo, immigrants who arrived on a cargo ship from Turkey queue for meals in a basketball arena where they have been given temporary shelter in the town of Ierapetra, on the southern Greek island of Crete. European Union countries are immersed in a full-fledged migration crisis. With the EU lacking funds and resources, some officials are even floating the idea of a multinational border guard to deal with arrivals of hundreds of thousands from war-torn countries like Syria, poor African nations and non EU neighbors like Kosovo. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
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Mark Lippert, U.S. ambassador to South Korea, (right) is greeted by South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. (Associated Press)
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The "Risen Balloon" bears a smiling portrait of Jesus Christ, and will take an inaugural flight at Easter time. (Image courtesy of Sky Sail Balloons and The Joyful Noiseletter)
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Entrepreneur Bruce Rastetter, host of the first-ever Iowa Agriculture Summit, rejects notions he is a kingmaker.
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Actress Angelica Bridges (Anaheim Ducks' Sheldon Souray) attends the Galpin Auto Sports (GAS) Grand Opening Extravaganza Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Shea Walsh)
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In this Feb. 27, 2015, file photo, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sturgeon Bay breaks ice in the shipping channel on the Hudson River in Catskill, N.Y. With the prolonged cold winter weather, the Coast Guard has been busy clearing shipping lanes. For many cities in the Northeast, it was the coldest February on record, and some places recorded the most days of zero or below temperatures. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Miami Gardens Police Chief Stephen Johnson was fired after being arrested Friday for soliciting a prostitute, officials said. (NBC 6 South Florida)
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 26, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe reportedly tossed a snowball Thursday on the Senate floor while arguing against "the hysteria on global warming." (C-SPAN2 via National Journal)
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Karen Dike, center, a nurse from Longmont, Colo., talks to anti-fracking activists outside the Colorado Convention Center as the Oil and Gas Task Force meets inside to put the final touches on recommendations for Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to consider in the settlement of disputes over oil and gas drilling Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, in Denver. The meeting comes as some activists have renewed a campaign to banning the use of hydraulic fracturing in the state. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Dead fish and trash float in the polluted Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Rio de Janeiro’s state environmental agency is trying to determine why thousands of dead fish have been found floating where next year’s Olympic sailing events are to be held. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
