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This image provided by the Department of Health and Humans Services shows the Open Payments page of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. From research grants to travel junkets, drug and medical device companies paid doctors and leading hospitals billions of dollars last year, the government disclosed Tuesday in a new effort to spotlight potential ethical conflicts in medicine. Industry spent nearly $3.5 billion on such payments in the five-month period from August through December of 2013, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which released data on 4.4 million payments. (AP Photo/HHS)

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Officer Jason Barriteau has been placed on leave after a local news team revealed he's the man behind an offensive public Facebook page.

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In this April 2, 2014 file photo, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gestures during the keynote address of the Build Conference in San Francisco. Microsoft plans to offer a glimpse of its vision for Windows on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, as Nadella seeks to redefine the company and recover from missteps with its flagship operating system. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)FILE -

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David Brat's upset win in a GOP primary earlier this year over former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor with a much smaller budget may have caused a "minirevolution" in political spending, encouraging others to look into more grass-roots advertising on the Internet. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Bill Maher. (YouTube/RealTime)

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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2010 file photo, a student uses an Apple MacBook laptop in his class in Palo Alto, Calif. New warnings are emerging of a security flaw known as the "Bash" bug, which cyber experts say may pose a serious threat to computers and other devices using Unix-based operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

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Julie O'Dell and Ben Walsh both of Washington, D.C. share beers together at Bluejacket Brewery before a Nationals game, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 24, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Julie O'Dell and Ben Walsh both of Washington, D.C. share beers together at Bluejacket Brewery before a Nationals game, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 24, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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In this Feb. 22, 2010, file photo, shoppers walk through the aisles at the Home Depot store in Williston, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

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In 2014, State Farm dropped Rob Schneider from its insurance ads over the actor's controversial views against vaccinations. (YouTube) ** FILE **

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Two Argentinean artists have styled Barbie and Ken dolls as religious figures for an exhibition in Buenos Aires. (Pool Paolini/Facebook)

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Two Argentinean artists have styled Barbie and Ken dolls as religious figures for an exhibition in Buenos Aires. (Pool Paolini/Facebook)

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Two bartenders in Washington, D.C., have teamed up to create the prototype for a product meant to combat date rape called the "DrinkLock." (Facebook/DrinkLock)

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Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. (Wikipedia)

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Driver Joey Logano sits in his car before qualifying at NASCAR Sprint Cup auto race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, in Loudon, N.H., Friday, Sept. 19, 2014 (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

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People wait to buy the new Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices, outside an Apple store in Hong Kong Friday morning, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) ** FILE **

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Scientists, historians, philosophers and theologians meet for a discussion entitled "Preparing for Discovery: A Rational Approach to the Impact of Finding Microbial, Complex or Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" held at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Thursday, September 18, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Scientists, historians, philosophers and theologians meet for a discussion entitled "Preparing for Discovery: A Rational Approach to the Impact of Finding Microbial, Complex or Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" held at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Thursday, September 18, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)