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A visit with endangered silverback mountain gorillas at Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Photo by Adrienne Jordan

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A visit with endangered silverback mountain gorillas at Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Photo by Adrienne Jordan

President Obama appears in deep thought as he and senior adviser David Axelrod listen during a climate change meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. A moment later, he was "laughing at a humorous exchange.” (Official White House photo by Pete Souza) **FILE**

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In a surprise move, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has endorsed the state's "unity" ticket rather than Republican Gov. Sean Parnell. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) — FILE

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George Washington's apple brandy goes up for sale - made from the historic apple varieties he once favored. (Mount Vernon)

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Waste watcher: "The only way to stop wasteful Washington spending is by shining a light on it whenever and wherever it occurs, even if it is in your own state," says Sen. Tom Coburn, who is releasing his last Wastebook before retiring. (Andrew Harik/The Washington Times)

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Researchers at the University of Virginia and other labs say important discoveries that have been made against the deadly Ebola virus could and should be part of the fight against an outbreak in the U.S., but they have to compete for sources of funding. (CDC via Associated Press)

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In this photo taken Oct. 11, 2014, an abandoned home in Kenton, Ohio. Long seen as having devastated Sun Belt cities, the subprime mortgage crisis unleashed turmoil on Ohio and other rural areas. Now federal officials are pledging regulatory attention and financial help. Subprime loans were distributed in the rural U.S. at even higher rates on average than in metropolitan counties. Much of it was concentrated in Appalachia and other areas stretching from Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky to Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and the Great Plains, according to government data provided to The Associated Press by researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Middlebury College. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

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Ebola has killed more than 2,000 people in Liberia, one of the hardest-hit nations in the ongoing world health crisis. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are the only remaining African countries still fighting the disease after the WHO declared Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation, free of the virus. Spain and the U.S. are the only other two world nations dealing with cases. (associated press)

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Thousands of people have signed an online petition asking Toys 'R' Us to stop selling a "Breaking Bad" action figure that comes with fake meth. (Toys 'R' Us)

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the original Centers for Disease Control and Prevention instructions for dealing with the virus were taken from the World Health Organization's protocol for Africa, where conditions are much different from those in U.S. hospitals. (Associated Press)

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Experts watch their screens at the control center of the European Space Agency, ESA, in Darmstadt, Germany during a mission to land the first space probe on a comet. (AP Photo/dpa, Boris Roessler)

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Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, left, reacts as a technician works to resolve a computer problem during her speech at a conference on economic opportunity at the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., speaks alongside Rob Astorino, New York republican gubernatorial candidate, during a news conference to discuss New York Gov. Andrew Coumo's response to questions about the states preparations against the Ebola virus at Grand Central Station, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)