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In a July 18, 2012 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) and the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) are underway during a 2012 exercise. The guided-missile destroyer USS Chung Hoon made the passage from the South China Sea north through the 100-mile strait and into the East China Sea, said Navy Lt. Kristina Wiedemann, spokeswoman for the Seventh Fleet. (FILE, AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC3 Ryan Mayes)

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California Assemblyman Mike Gatto introduced a bill in the state Legislature Tuesday that would ban people from using extreme affluence, or "affluenza," as a defense in criminal court. (California State Assembly Democratic Caucus)

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British Prime Minister David Cameron welcomes President Barack Obama to the G-8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Monday, June 17, 2013. Leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria, and free-trade issues. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, right, and his wife Ashley walk through the Booksellers Area as they arrive for the State Dinner in honor of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, Monday, May 7, 2007, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., left, and Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. return to their offices on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, during a short recess as the Senate worked to get final congressional approval for an immense $1.1 trillion spending package, a bipartisan compromise that all but banishes the likelihood of an election-year government shutdown, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The legislation is a follow-up to the budget compromise the two parties pushed through Congress in December that set overall spending limits for the next two years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, an influential Sephardic leader, during a Sukkot holiday gathering at the Nachalat Yitzhak synagogue in Jerusalem Tuesday Oct. 21, 1997. U.S. peace envoy Dennis Ross is in the region holding talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in an effort to push peace negotiations forward. (AP Photo/Zoom 77)

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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates signs copies of his new book: "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War," during a book signing at the Pentagon, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)