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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Izhevsk electric and mechanical plant in Izhevsk, about 1,000 kilometers (625 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 27, 2017. The plant is a part of Almaz Antei, a leading Russian arms maker. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool Photo via AP)
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In this Tuesday, June 27, 2017 frame from video, flames and smoke rise from a fire near Mayer, Ariz. The Arizona fire forced the evacuation of Mayer along with several other mountain communities in the area. (Jennifer Johnson via AP)
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke took a close look at Bears Ears National Monument in May and recommended last month that President Trump reduce the size of the designation. Such a move is hardly unprecedented. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - This Dec. 28, 2016, file photo shows the two buttes that make up the namesake for Utah's Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. Native American tribes and environmental groups preparing a legal battle to stop President Donald Trump from dismantling Utah's new national monument will face a tougher challenge than anticipated. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
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FILE - In this May 6, 2017 file photo, hundreds of people gather during the Monumental Rally for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Monuments at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Native American tribes and environmental groups preparing a legal battle to stop President Donald Trump from dismantling Utah's new national monument will face a tougher challenge than anticipated. (Chris Detrick/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
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FILE - In this May 9, 2017, file photo, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke rides a horse in the new Bears Ears National Monument near Blanding, Utah. Native American tribes and environmental groups preparing a legal battle to stop President Donald Trump from dismantling Utah's new national monument will face a tougher challenge than anticipated. Zinke has recommended Trump shrink Bears Ears, something past presidents have done 18 times to other monuments. (Scott G Winterton/The Deseret News via AP, File)
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FILE - This May 8, 2017, file photo shows an aerial view of Arch Canyon within Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. Native American tribes and environmental groups preparing a legal battle to stop President Donald Trump from dismantling Utah's new national monument will face a tougher challenge than anticipated. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
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In this photo taken June 23, 2017, a car is nearly covered by water as the Chippewa River floods Island Park in Mount Pleasant, Mich. (Lisa Yanick Litwiller/The Morning Sun via AP)
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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, fireworks explore next to China's new domestically-built 10,000-ton Type 055 destroyer during a launching ceremony at Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, China, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. China's increasingly powerful navy launched its most advanced domestically produced destroyer on Wednesday, at a time of rising competition with other naval powers such as the United States, Japan and India. (Wang Donghai/Xinhua via AP)
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In this March 23, 2016, file photo, a worker checks the radiation level on barrels in a storage of nuclear waste taken from the 4th unit destroyed by the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Chernobyl, Ukraine. A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software — apparently sown in Ukraine — caused disruption across the world Tuesday, June 27, 2017. The virus hit the radiation-monitoring at Ukraine's shuttered Chernobyl power plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident, forcing it into manual operation. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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This photo taken June 13, 2017, shows a chile field in northern Mexico being irrigated. Mexican Mennonite farmer Pedro Suderman has increased his red and green chile production as U.S. demand has grown and New Mexico's harvest has decreased. (Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
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In this June 7, 2017 photo, vehicles drive through Hopkinsville, Ky. This town is considered the epicenter of the first total solar eclipse to sweep across the United States in 99 years on Aug. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)
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This June 7, 2017 photo shows part of Hopkinsville, Ky. This town is considered the epicenter of the first total solar eclipse to sweep across the United States in 99 years on Aug. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates, right top, delivers opening remarks as he is flanked by Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori, left top, during the IOC Coordination Commission opening plenary for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Tokyo Wednesday, June 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates, right top, delivers opening remarks during the IOC Coordination Commission opening plenary for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Tokyo Wednesday, June 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President John Coates, right, and Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori, center, shake hands prior to the IOC Coordination Commission opening plenary for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in Tokyo Wednesday, June 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Illustration on the coming need to move to the cities in order to prosper by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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In some spots near the U.S.-Mexico border there are enough natural barriers that there's no need to build a wall, said Customs and Border Protection's acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello. (Associated Press)
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Clouds hover over the Lake Champlain waterfront in Burlington, Vt., on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Gov. Peter Shumlin on Tuesday signed into law the Vermont Clean Water Act, designed to clean up the lake by reducing pollutants that run into it. Shumlin said the law is an effort to correct a problem that has been centuries in the making. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)
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A broken wind turbine in Nextera Energy's Tuscola Bay Wind Farm sits idle in a farm field near the intersection of North Gera and Hack Roads in Blumfield Township in the northeast corner of Saginaw County on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. According to Nextera, the turbine broke Monday, June 26 and they are going to repair the damage. (Jeff Schrier/The Saginaw News via AP)
