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Police stand in formation as a curfew approaches in Baltimore, a day after unrest that occurred following Freddie Gray's funeral, April 28, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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This undated photo provided by William Quinlan shows his grandfather and World War I veteran Pvt. Daniel Quinlan. One of the first Purple Heart medals ever awarded to American military personnel is being returned to a relative of Daniel Quinlan's, who received it for wounds suffered during World War I. Purple Hearts Reunited said Quinlan’s medal was sent to the Vermont-based group recently with a note saying it was found in the mid-1990s in the attic of a Hudson Valley home near where Quinlan lived before he died in a 1938 car crash. (Courtesy of William Quinlan via AP)
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Displaced Iraqis from Ramadi cross the Bzebiz bridge fleeing fighting in Ramadi, 65 km west of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Thousands of displaced people fleeing violence in nearby Anbar province poured into Baghdad province on Wednesday after central government granted them conditional entry, said a provincial official. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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In this Feb. 16, 2015 photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon during a ceremony for new Israeli Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem. Netanyahu on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, called off a proposed plan to segregate Palestinians from Israelis on West Bank buses, overruling his defense minister amid a flurry of criticism in an attempt to avert the first crisis of his new government. Thousands of Palestinians enter Israel for work each day from the West Bank and often return home in buses alongside Jewish settlers. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
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chaos: Displaced Iraqis continue to flee Ramadi after Islamic State militants seized the city and raised their black flag over the government compound, a major upset of U.S. hopes for the country. (Associated Press)
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Afghan security forces inspect the site after a suicide car bombing attack in Kabul on Tuesday. The stepped-up tempo of terrorist strikes in the heart of Afghanistan's capital raises fresh questions about whether U.S. efforts to stand up and train Afghanistan's armed forces will ever pay off militarily. (Associated Press)
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Arriving from Baghdad, federal police forces create a barricade to protect the Habaniyah military base near Ramadi, Iraq. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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D.C. police Chief Cathy L. Lanier. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Bradley Cooper stars as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, in "American Sniper," now on Blu-ray. (Courtesy Warner Home VIdeo)
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A firearm and 154 pounds of heroin worth at least $50 million are displayed at a Drug Enforcement Administration news conference, Tuesday, May 19, 2015 in New York. The DEA called the heroin seizure its largest ever in New York state. Officials said on Tuesday that most of the drugs were found in an SUV in the Bronx following a wiretap investigation. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Reporters Without Borders Secretary General Christophe Deloire, right, and Deborah Tice, mother of Austin Tice who is missing in Syria, hold a joint press conference, at the Press Club, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Journalist Austin Tice, of Houston, Texas, disappeared in August 2012 while covering Syria's civil war. It's not clear what entity is holding him, but it is not believed to be the Islamic State group or the Syrian government, his family has said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) ** FILE **
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Civilians flee their hometown of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad, Monday, May 18, 2015. Islamic State militants searched door-to-door for policemen and pro-government fighters and threw bodies in the Euphrates River in a bloody purge Monday after capturing the strategic city of Ramadi, their biggest victory since overrunning much of northern and western Iraq last year. (AP Photo)
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Signs direct people to the office of the Firearms Registration Unit at the District's Metropolitan Police Department headquarters. (The Washington Times)
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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said candidates should answer the question about whether, knowing what they know now, they would support the invasion of Iraq, which led to more than 4,000 American troops killed and ongoing turmoil in the region. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said candidates should answer the question about whether, knowing what they know now, they would support the invasion of Iraq, which led to more than 4,000 American troops killed and ongoing turmoil in the region. (Associated Press)
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More than 140,000 Iraqi civilians have fled Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, located 70 miles west of Baghdad as Islamic State militants searched door to door for policemen and pro-government fighters and then threw their bodies in the Euphrates River in a bloody purge Monday. (Associated Press)
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refugees: More than 140,000 Iraqi civilians have fled Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, located 70 miles west of Baghdad as Islamic State militants searched door to door for policemen and pro-government fighters and then threw their bodies in the Euphrates River in a bloody purge Monday. (Associated Press)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks in Portsmouth, N.H. across the river from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Monday, May 18, 2015, about his foreign policy plans. Christie made the case Monday for a more active U.S. presence overseas, including a larger military and defended the government's intelligence-collection efforts in a speech laying out his foreign policy platform. The likely 2016 Republican presidential contender used the New Hampshire appearance to criticize the president's approach to the Islamic State militants and the emerging nuclear deal with Iran, as well Russia's backing of separatists in Ukraine and China's encroachment in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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Al Qaeda fighters wave flags as they patrol the streets in a commandeered Iraqi military vehicle in Fallujah, Iraq, March 20, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Under Armour has apologized and halted the production of a basketball shirt that parodied the iconic 1945 photograph of Marines lifting an American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. (Under Armour via WJZ)
