Human Interest

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President Obama once again cast higher education as key to economic growth during a speech in Warren, Michigan, on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Ted Cruz Associated Press photo

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Peter Hannaford Photo courtesy Peter Hannaford.net

A laptop screen displays the new Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy contest during a product launch Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in San Francisco. Yahoo designed the experience for the mobile fantasy player and offers Daily Fantasy, Full Season Fantasy, and real-time sports news and scores as an all-in-one experience. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Casinos along the Las Vegas Strip can be seen behind a plane that caught fire at McCarren International Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, in Las Vegas. An engine on the British Airways plane caught fire before takeoff. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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This photo made available on Tuesday Sept. 8, 2015, shows Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in a photo taken July 2015 and released by Buckingham Palace to mark the Queen becoming the longest-reigning British monarch. (Mary McCartney/Queen Elizabeth II via AP)

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, practices her dance moves with DJ Stephen "tWitch" Boss during a break in the taping of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, at Rockefeller Center in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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In this June 12, 2014, file photo, Jon Bon Jovi attends the Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

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Illustration on the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender to China by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Firefighters stand by a plane that caught fire at McCarran International Airport on Tuesday in Las Vegas. An engine on the British Airways plane caught fire before takeoff, forcing passengers to escape on emergency slides. (Associated Press)

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The Inquisitor causes trouble for the Ghost gang in Star Wars Rebels: Complete Season One now available on Blu-ray.

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Actors Judy Carne and Alan Sues, left, of "Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In" are shown during a "Laugh-In" reunion party, in Los Angeles in this Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1983, file photo. Carne has died in a British hospital. She was 76. She was famous for popularizing the “Sock it to Me” phrase on the hit TV show that started in the late 1960s. (AP Photo/Doug Pizac, file)

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(Dan Henry /Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)

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Concerned Veterans for America wants presidential candidates to hold town-hall meetings to address issues like the one Sen. Ted Cruz attended last week (Associated Press)

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014 photo, a Merriam-Webster dictionary sits atop their citation files for the 2014 word of the year, "culture," at the dictionary publisher's offices in Springfield, Mass. Citation files are notations of a word used in context over time. Merriam-Webster based its pick and nine runners-up on significant increases in lookups this year over last at its homepage, Merriam-Webster.com. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)