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Turkish soldiers secure the area as supporters of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan protest in Istanbul's Taksim square, early Saturday, July 16, 2016. Turkey's prime minister says a group within Turkey's military has engaged in what appeared to be an attempted coup. Binali Yildirim told NTV television: "it is correct that there was an attempt." (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
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Turkish soldiers are seen on the Asian side of Istanbul in this Friday, July 15, 2016, file photo. A group within Turkey's military has engaged in what appeared to be an attempted coup, the prime minister said, with military jets flying over the capital and reports of vehicles blocking two major bridges in Istanbul. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told NTV television: "it is correct that there was an attempt," when asked if there was a coup. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) ** FILE **
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Gen. David Petraeus. ** File (Associated Press)
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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is requesting that smartphone users refrain from "catching" Pokemon when they are inside the museum. (Associated Press/File)
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Kerry Kennedy
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A suicide bomber struck a parking lot near the Prophet's Mosque in Medina in one of three terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia on July 4. The blast set several cars on fire, killed four security officers and injured five others. (Associated Press)
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Two comedians, Alice Wetterlund and Nato Green, perform in a NARAL skit about driving to various clinics to get an abortion. (YouTube: NARAL Pro-Choice America, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDouGWrIY78)
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A minority element of the Republican Party has vowed to fight Donald Trump's nomination at the convention. (Associated Press)
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The U.S. Army has awarded Kraig Biocraft $100,000 to test "shoot packs" of genetically engineered spider silk. The project is part of a broader effort to create new body armor for soldiers. (National Park Service)
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A groups of young girls donated $10,000 Monday to the Dallas Police Department after they raised the money in just two days selling lemonade in the wake of last week's deadly attack on police. (NBC DFW)
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Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (Associated Press/File) ** FILE **
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Governments anxiously await a tribunal's ruling on China's territorial claims in the South China Sea, a hotly contested area that may serve as a beachhead against Chinese expansion in the region. (Associated Press)
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Even as protesters continue to march in Dallas, Black Lives Matter leaders have denounced the bloodshed there Thursday. They said in a post after the massacre of five police officers and the woundings of others that "[b]lack activists have raised the call for an end to violence, not an escalation of it." (Associated Press)
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S.D. Bob "Snake" Plissken is the protagonist of the films Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.. He is portrayed by Kurt Russell, and created by director John Carpenter and screenwriter Nick Castle. An anti-hero, he is a former Special Forces operator/war hero in World War III turned criminal. The movies follow his apprehension by the United States Police Force and subsequent conscription to extract top-secret material from New York City and Los Angeles — which have, in this dystopian setting, been converted entirely into maximum-security prisons.
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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. (U.S. Army via AP File)
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A group of armed civilians stood outside two Texas police departments Saturday morning in an effort to show their support for law enforcement following the fatal shootings of five officers in Dallas. (cityofsplendora.org)
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In this image taken from a July 10, 2016, video footage released by China's CCTV via AP Video, Chinese UN peacekeepers tend to a wounded colleague after an attack on an armored personal carrier used by the Chinese peacekeepers in Jebel in South Sudan. Heavy explosions are shaking South Sudan's capital Juba Monday, July 11, 2016, as clashes between government and opposition forces entered their fifth day, witnesses say, pushing the country back toward civil war. (CCTV via AP Video)
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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter listens to a reporter's question as he speaks during a media availability at the Pentagon in Washington, June 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) ** FILE **
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Islamic State attacks on Istanbul Ataturk Airport and other targets around the world are part of a plan of expansion and not desperate responses to losses of land as Secretary of State John F. Kerry has asserted, according to terrorism analysts. (Associated Press)
