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President Barack Obama waves he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, en route to travel to Fresno, Calif., to discuss the ongoing drought. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Richard Linklater gestures to the audience after it was announced that he had won the Silver Bear for Best Director for the movie Boyhood during the award ceremony at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)
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Actress Haru Kuroki receives the Silver Bear as Best Actress for the movie The Little House during the award ceremony at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)
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Richard Linklater receives the Silver Bear for Best Director for the movie Boyhood during the award ceremony at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)
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Richard Linklater receives the Silver Bear for Best Director for the movie Boyhood during the award ceremony at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)
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New Mexico Public Safety Secretary Gorden Eden, center, speak to reporters Friday Feb. 14, 2014, after being introduced as Albuquerque's new police chief. Eden takes over a police force facing a U.S. Justice Department investigation looking into allegations of excessive force. Also shown are: Mary Eden, right, Dept. of Public safety, Rob Perry, left, and Richard Berry, Mayor of albuquerque. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Actress Haru Kuroki receives the Silver Bear as Best Actress for the movie The Little House during the award ceremony at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)
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This Feb. 12 photo shows President Obama signing an executive order to raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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FILE - In this June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Compared with their more moderate Republican or Democratic peers, tea party supporters and liberals are significantly more likely to oppose the collection of millions of ordinary citizens’ telephone and Internet data, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows. By a 2-to-1 margin, both tea party supporters and liberals say the government should put protecting citizens’ rights and freedoms ahead of protecting them from terrorists. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)
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FILE - This June 6, 2013 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. Compared with their more moderate Republican or Democratic peers, tea party supporters and liberals are significantly more likely to oppose the collection of millions of ordinary citizens’ telephone and Internet data, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows. By a 2-to-1 margin, both tea party supporters and liberals say the government should put protecting citizens’ rights and freedoms ahead of protecting them from terrorists. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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FILE -In this Oct. 1, 2011 photo, a young hunter praises Gunner the dog after working an area for pheasant during the youth opener in Beulah, N.D. The federal government is setting aside $35 million over three years to help landowners conserve wetlands and grasslands in the five-state Prairie Pothole Region. The money is part of an incentive program built into the farm bill that President Obama signed into law. Wildlife officials say the region of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Montana provides important breeding and nesting habitat for more than 60 percent of the nation's migratory waterfowl. (AP Photo/The Bismarck Tribune, Brian Gehring, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2012 file photo, hunters from Arkansas take a break while hunting for pheasant in Miner County outside of Carthage, S.D. The federal government is setting aside $35 million over three years to help landowners conserve wetlands and grasslands in the five-state Prairie Pothole Region. The money is part of an incentive program built into the farm bill that President Obama signed into law. Wildlife officials say the region of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Montana provides important breeding and nesting habitat for more than 60 percent of the nation's migratory waterfowl. (AP Photo/Argus Leader, Jay Pickthorn, File) O SALES
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FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2012 file photo, 14-year-old Collin Cleveland, of Montrose, S.D., takes aim at a pheasant during the state's annual youth hunt on land near Tyndall, S.D. The federal government is setting aside $35 million over three years to help landowners conserve wetlands and grasslands in the five-state Prairie Pothole Region. The money is part of an incentive program built into the farm bill that President Obama signed into law. Wildlife officials say the region of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Montana provides important breeding and nesting habitat for more than 60 percent of the nation's migratory waterfowl. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers, File)
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FILE - This 2005 photo provided by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department shows waterfowl swimming on wetland in McHenry County, N D. The federal government is setting aside $35 million over three years to help landowners conserve wetlands and grasslands in the five-state Prairie Pothole Region. The money is part of an incentive program built into the farm bill that President Obama signed into law. Wildlife officials say the region of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Montana provides important breeding and nesting habitat for more than 60 percent of the nation's migratory waterfowl. (AP Photo/North Dakota Game and Fish Department, File)
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In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, top center, waves to the crowd prior to his speech, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. Iran's top leader backs the continuation of nuclear negotiations with the West but says he doubts they will succeed. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
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In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. Iran's top leader backs the continuation of nuclear negotiations with the West but says he doubts they will succeed. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
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In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech under a picture of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. Iran's top leader backs the continuation of nuclear negotiations with the West but says he doubts they will succeed. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
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In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. Iran's top leader backs the continuation of nuclear negotiations with the West but says he doubts they will succeed. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
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** FILE ** Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a speech on climate change on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, in Jakarta. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, Pool)
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Secretary of State John Kerry gestures during a speech on climate change on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014, in Jakarta. Climate change may be the world's "most fearsome" weapon of mass destruction and urgent global action is needed to combat it, Kerry said on Sunday, comparing those who deny its existence or question its causes to people who insist the Earth is flat. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, Pool)
