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Many of the pumpkins that are the cornerstones of festivals and events financed by tax dollars were grown with the assistance of pricey farm subsidies. (Associated Press)
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Nichols Bleckley and Colleen Condon, both center, want a federal court in South Carolina to issue a preliminary injunction preventing the state from enforcing its gay marriage ban. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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FILE - In this July 4, 2014 file photo, a man crosses a flooded Highway 64 as wind pushes water over the road as Hurricane Arthur passes through Nags Head, N.C. This year's Atlantic hurricane season has so far had the fewest number of storms since 1983, with only five named storms forming so far in the region: Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly and Edouard. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) **FILE**
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This June 30, 2011, file photo shows beach-goers walking on the sand near the San Onofre nuclear power plant in San Clemente, Calif. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
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refugees: Nearly 1,600 migrants fleeing lands controlled by the Islamic State have died in transit to Europe in the past three months alone. (associated press)
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An unidentified woman warms up before the start of the annual Dead Man's Run, a 5k run through the cemetery and surrounding area, on Saturday, October 4, 2014.
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Illustration on U.S. Government's failure to effectively deal with Ebola spreading to America by William Brown/Tribune Content Agency
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Floodwaters cut a residential neighborhood in two last year in Lyons, Colorado. Thousands of people living along Front Range were forced to evacuate. The freak storm, however, was not a result of man-made climate change, a scientific study shows. (Associated Press)
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Tracy Arm, a fiord in southeast Alaska, was described by John Muir as being perhaps even more beautiful than his beloved Yosemite Valley. Photo by Curtis Ellis
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Tracy Arm, a fiord in southeast Alaska, was described by John Muir as being perhaps even more beautiful than his beloved Yosemite Valley. Photo by Curtis Ellis
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Tracy Arm, a fiord in southeast Alaska, was described by John Muir as being perhaps even more beautiful than his beloved Yosemite Valley. Photo by Curtis Ellis
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The Meade glacier fills a valley outside Skagway Alaska. At its lower elevations, it looks like a broad freeway, or river of ice. Photo by Curtis Ellis
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Petersburg Alaska thrives thanks to abundant fishing grounds and a healthy commercial fishing industry. Photo by Curtis Ellis
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Dallas Emergency Management specialist Greg Guthrie works with others branches of government offices in the Office of Emergency Management, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in Dallas. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has activated a city emergency management center after a patient was confirmed with the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Transit police in Maryland say they stopped the 29-year-old Michael Phelps at the Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore around 1:40 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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Illustration on Netanyahu's comment that ISIS and Hamas "are branches on the same poisonous tree" by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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The burning of a farm in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864, detail from a contemporary field sketch by Alfred Waud
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Traces of a historic and cultural heritage in the 1,310-square-mile Northern Cyprus go back 10,000 years. The first signs of human occupation on the island date from 8,000 B.C.
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An ambitious pipeline project linking reservoirs in Turkey to the parched, isolated Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is on track to bring much needed drinking water to the island by year's end.
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Firefighters and members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces descend Mount Ontake after they called off a search operation due to noxious fume in central Japan, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2014. Mount Ontake erupted shortly before noon Saturday, spewing large white plumes of gas and ash high into the sky and blanketing the surrounding area in ash. Rescue workers have found 30 or more people unconscious and believed to be dead near the peak of an erupting volcano in central Japan, local government and police said. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT
