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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, NOV. 5, 2016 AND THEREAFTER - In this Oct. 10, 2016 photo, Rachel Crowther models a Civil War period dress replica, while showing a Civil War period cape replica that she also sewed. Crowther has developed the skills to make historically accurate vintage clothing. (Jim Bowling/Herald & Review via AP)

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, left, Gen. Joseph Dunfore Jr., chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, second right, Gen. John Hyten, incoming commander of the United States Strategic Command, center, and outgoing commander of Strategic Command, Admiral Cecil Haney, right, prepare to take a photo in front of a B-2 stealth bomber before a change of command ceremony at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Neb., Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) ** FILE **

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Activists place false limbs outside the Russian Embassy in London where two campaign groups, The Syria Campaign and Syria Solidarity UK, have scattered over 800 limbs around the gates of the building in a protest at the bombing of civilians in east Aleppo, Syria, Thursday Nov. 3, 2016. Syrian rebels launched a fresh wave of attacks on Aleppo Thursday as the contested city prepared for an anticipated assault by government and allied Russian forces to seize its eastern, rebel-held districts. (Dominic Lipinski /PA via AP)

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This frame grab from video provided by this militant video by Fatah al-Sham Front that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows flames and smoke rise from a suicide bomb attacked Syrian government forces positions, in western Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict through local contacts, reported that rebels attacked government positions with two explosives-laden vehicles. Syrian rebels launched a fresh wave of attacks on western districts of Aleppo Thursday as airstrikes on a rebel-held village south of the contested city killed civilians, activists said. (militant video by Fatah al-Sham Front, via AP)

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This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq during his first public appearance. Al-Baghdadi released a new message late on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, encouraging his followers to keep up the fight for the city of Mosul, which they are defending against Iraqi government forces, the SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. organization that monitors militant activity online said Thursday. (Militant video via AP, File)

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FILE - In this June 5, 2002 file photo, waves crash on the shores of Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The Battle of Midway was a major turning point in World War II's Pacific theater. But the remote atoll where thousands died is now a delicate sanctuary for millions of seabirds, and a new battle is pitting preservation of its vaunted military history against the protection of its wildlife. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman, File)

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Iraqi special operations troops searched a compound in Gogjali, an eastern district of Mosul, to clear out any remaining Islamic State militants on Wednesday. They killed at least eight. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this April 16, 2014 file photo, Jerry DeLemus, of Rochester, N.H., sits with a group of self-described militia members camping on rancher Cliven Bundy's ranch near Bunkerville, Nev. The attorney for New Hampshire defendant DeLemus says he's seeking to withdraw from a case so his client can ask a judge to let him undo his guilty plea on federal charges stemming from an armed confrontation with U.S. land management agents near Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's ranch in 2014. (AP Photo/Ken Ritter, File)

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FILE — In this file photo taken on Saturday, May 9, 2015, Iskander missile launchers are driven during the Victory Parade marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, in Red Square in Moscow. The Russian military said Thursday Oct. 20, 2016 it conducted drills involving Iskander missiles near the nation's western border, amid tensions in relations with the West. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file) (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this April 22, 2016, file photo, new UNLV men's basketball coach Marvin Menzies poses before the media and invited guests sporting a new hat and ball in Las Vegas, after the UNLV board of regents approved his contract. Menzies had to scramble to fill his roster after behind hired at UNLV and injuries have hit the Runnin' Rebels hard in the preseason. Needless to say, it could take a little while for the Rebels to gel. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Sun via AP, File)

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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2012 file photo, the Statue of Liberty stands beyond parts of a brick walkway damaged in Superstorm Sandy on Liberty Island in New York. The Associated Press asked 21 risk experts to analyze the presidential campaign and to list what they consider the five biggest threats to the world. Climate change topped the list with 17 mentions, often as the top threat. It was followed by use of nuclear weapons, pandemics, cyberattacks and problems with high technology. Neither Trump’s signature issues of immigration and terrorism nor Clinton’s major concerns, financial insecurity and gun violence, made the list. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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FILE -In this Saturday, July 9, 2016 file photo, A protester yells at police in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters after police arrived in riot gear to clear protesters from the street in Baton Rouge, La. After a turbulent summer marred by bloodshed, racial tensions and catastrophic flooding, Louisiana's capital will elect a new mayor to lead a city emerging from some of its darkest days. (AP Photo/Max Becherer, File)

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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT -- The bodies of two Islamic State militants lay on a street in Gogjali, an eastern district of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. Iraqi special forces paused their advance in the eastern district of Mosul on Wednesday to clear a neighborhood of any remaining Islamic State militants, killing at least eight while carrying out house-to-house searches. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

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This undated photo provided by the Des Moines Police Department shows Scott Michael Greene, of Urbandale, Iowa. Des Moines and Urbandale Police said in a statement Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, that they have identified Greene as a suspect in the killings early Wednesday morning of two Des Moines area police officers. The two officers were shot to death in separate ambush-style attacks while they were sitting in their patrol cars. (Des Moines Police Department via AP)

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Law enforcement officials investigate at the scene of a shooting, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, in Urbandale, Iowa. Two Des Moines area police officers were shot to death early Wednesday in ambush-style attacks while they were sitting in their patrol cars, and police are searching for suspects, authorities said. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Tires burn as armed soldiers and law enforcement officers stand in formation to force Dakota Access pipeline protesters off private land in Morton County, N.D., on Oct. 27. (The Bismarck Tribune via Associated Press)

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The U.N. human rights office is lauding efforts by the U.S.-led coalition in the battle against the Islamic State in Mosul, saying coalition flights have largely succeeded in preventing Islamic State from bringing in 25,000 more civilians as human shields. (Associated Press)

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DISPLACED: Refugees from the Islamic State campaign to establish a caliphate in Iraq and Syria are leaving the area as the Iraqi army continues its offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, back from the terror army. A U.S. commander said the campaign for the city will be an "engineering war." (Associated Press Photographs)

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Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon. (Keith Valcourt)

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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 file photo, a United Nations armored vehicle passes displaced people walking towards the U.N. camp in Malakal, South Sudan. An independent investigation released Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, of attacks in July on a U.N. compound in South Sudan housing 27,000 displaced people, and a private compound not far away housing U.N. staff and aid workers, is sharply critical of the U.N. peacekeeping mission's leadership and the response by troops from China, Ethiopia, Nepal and India. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)