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A woman and her child hold their umbrellas tight against powerful gusts of wind as typhoon Usagi approaches in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Hugh Jackson, playing the father of a missing girl, has to be restrained by police in "Prisoners." Jake Gyllenhaal (third from left) is the police detective trying to solve the case. (WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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The Chicago Fire Department hoses down the scene where a number of people, including a 3-year-old child, were shot in a city park on the south side of Chicago, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Authorities said no one has been taken into custody in connection with the shooting. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

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** FILE ** Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay talks to reporters as he leaves a lunch meeting on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, in Washington. A Texas appeals court tossed the criminal conviction of DeLay on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, saying there was insufficient evidence for a jury in 2010 to have found him guilty of illegally funneling money to Republican candidates. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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EPA administrator Gina McCarthy testifies before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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8 — Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby walks through Dallas City Jail on Nov. 24, 1963, to be arraigned on murder charges. He was accused of firing a fatal bullet into the abdomen of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man charged with assassinating President Kennedy. (Associated Press)

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3 — Accused "subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz, who shot four young black men whom he believed were intent on robbing him on the subway, is surrounded by newsmen in New York in 1987. (Associated Press)

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2 — In the "Death Wish" franchise, Charles Bronson portrays Paul Kersey, a vigilante who can't seem to quit his one-man crusade against street criminals. (Associated Press)

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5 — U.S. citizen Jonathan Keith Idema, 48, sits at a court in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 15, 2004. Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty Wednesday by a three-judge panel after a trial denounced by the defense as failing to meet basic international standards of fairness. Two of the men - accused ringleader Idema and his righthand man, Brent Bennett - were sentenced to 10 years in jail. The third, New York journalist Edward Caraballo, got an eight-year-term. (Associated Press)