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Jason Falconer, who operates a firearms training facility and works part-time with the Avon Police Department. (Avon Police Department/St Cloud Times via AP)

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Minnesota Lt. Gov. Tina Smith, from left, Gov. Mark Dayton, St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson, and St. Cloud Mayor David Kleis hold a press conference after meeting at St. Cloud City Hall Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. Authorities are treating Saturday’s stabbings at Crossroads Mall, as a possible act of terrorism, in part because an Islamic State-run news agency claimed that the attacker was a “soldier of the Islamic State” who had heeded the group’s calls for attacks in countries that are part of a U.S.-led anti-IS coalition. (Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP)

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Demonstrator Aramis Malachi-Ture Sundiata, center, speaks during a rally for Tyre King on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, outside City Hall in Columbus, Ohio. Police said King was fatally shot Wednesday by Columbus police after he ran from an officer investigating a reported armed robbery and pulled out a BB gun that looked like a real firearm. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in Linden, N.J. Rahami was wanted for questioning in the bombings that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of New York and the New Jersey shore town of Seaside Park. (Nicolaus Czarnecki/Boston Herald via AP) /The Boston Herald via AP)

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Judge Eileen Paley listens to Marcus Ross, attorney for Demetrius Braxton, as he appears on his client's behalf at Franklin County Municipal Court, Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. Columbus police arrested Braxton on a robbery charge Saturday afternoon. Braxton is linked to the 13-year-old Tyre King who was shot fatally by Columbus police after an alleged robbery. Braxton had told The Columbus Dispatch that he was with King on Sept. 14 and that King had a BB gun that looked like a real firearm and wanted to rob someone for money. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Fifteen years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks 2,976 American flags were displayed in memory of each person who died. Families of the victims say they have waited long enough and want legislation granting them the right to sue Saudi officials who they say are culprits. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 file photo, smoke rises over Saif Al Dawla district, in Aleppo, Syria. Residents in the rebel-held districts of Aleppo have a reprieve from the incessant bombings by Syrian government warplanes and the promise of an end to the crippling siege that has left produce stalls bare. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo, File)

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Three months into the implementation of a peace accord with Bogata, rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have surrendered what critics say is a token number of weapons while the production of coca has skyrocketed. (Associated Press/File)

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Donald Trump advocates "extreme vetting" of immigrants from predominantly Muslim nations to weed out potential terrorists, coupled with aggressive coalition military operations in the Middle East. (Associated Press)

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Defining: Despite Democratic Hillary Clinton claiming that what precisely the Islamic State and other terror forces are called doesn't matter, voters disagree. She wishes to continue President Obama's anti-terror policies, while Republican nominee Donald Trump favors "extreme vetting" of Muslim immigrants. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2016 file photo, Japan's new Defense Minister Tomomi Inada inspects a honor guard on her first day at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. Inada, who holds her first meeting with U.S. counterpart Ash Carter on Thursday, Sept. 15, in Washington, D.C., leapfrogged over more senior lawmakers to the defense post in a Cabinet reshuffle on Aug. 3. The 57-year-old lawyer has attracted attention for questioning mainstream accounts of Japanese atrocities during World War II and the fairness of the postwar Tokyo war crimes trials. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File) **FILE**

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As president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai destroyed a corruption investigation into a man believed to have smuggled out of the country as much as $2.78 billion for Afghan officials, drug traffickers and insurgents. (Associated Press)

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Gunmen targeted European tourists last year at Tunisia's historic Bardo National Museum in Tunis. An official said Islamic extremists are homing in on the country because they don't want to see a pro-Western democracy succeed in the Arab world.

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Tunisians carried their national flag to protest terrorism last year as the Mediterranean seaside resort of Sousse was reeling from an attack that blighted another day of play at the postcard destination for tourists. (Associated Press photographs)

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Tunisian police are on constant alert for terrorism because of the number of young people who are lured in by the Islamic State and return to carry out jihad. Analysts say part of the problem is the economy, combined with a religious vacuum and sense of despair. (Associated Press)

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In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)

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Spider-Man (Tom Holland) stops by to help Iron Man in "Captain America: Civil War," available on Blu-ray from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

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The battle for the northern Syrian town of Manbij last month illustrated what U.S. air power can and cannot do. Arab forces captured the town with the help of constant U.S. precision strikes on Islamic State targets in and around the city. But the strict rules of engagement allowed scores of fighters and vehicles to escape because they took innocents along with them. (Associated Press)

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Iraqi soldiers help families displaced during fighting between Iraqi security forces and the Islamic State group during an operation to regain control of Fallujah, the country's second-largest city, controlled by the terror army. (Associated Press)

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An Iraqi security forces forensic team works at the site of a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi civilians, security forces and members of their families, including women and children, killed by Islamic State group militants in Ramadi, Iraq. (Associated Press)