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Marines with Battery N, 5th Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, fire an M777 A2 howitzer during a series of integrated firing exercises at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Centter Twentynine Palms' Quakenbush Training Area April 26, 2013. (credit: U.S. Marine Corps)

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** FILE ** Marines with 3rd Marine Regiment form up in front of the pedestal to honor fallen heroes on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, June 06, 2013. (credit: U.S. Marine Corps)

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Lance Cpl. Joseph Nunez from Burbank, Calif., interacts with Viky, a U.S. Marine Corps improvised explosive device detection dog, after searching a compound while conducting counter-insurgency operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 17, 2013. (credit U.S. Marine Corps)

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** FILE ** "Every public official has to use her best judgment in ensuring appropriate use of personal emails," says Environmental Protection Agency ex-chief Lisa P. Jackson. (Associated Press)

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"A blind spot [on public health] anywhere in the world is a risk to us," says Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin introduces the new Russian Ice Hockey Olympic team uniform at "Sokolniki" Ice Palace in Moscow, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Thomas Bach, vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), attends a report session during the 125th IOC session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

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**FILE** Japanese Coast Guard members sail alongside activists' fishing boat on Aug. 18, 2013, warning the activists away from a group of disputed islands called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku by Japan. Nearly two dozen Japanese nationalist activists and fishermen have sailed to a small group of islands at the center of a territorial dispute with China. They were closely monitored by Japan’s Coast Guard, but there were no Chinese patrols in the area and no incidents were reported. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, photo, the skeletons of trees burned in the Yellowstone fires of 1988 tower above their offspring seeded by the very flames that destroyed their elders, in a forested area between Norris and Canyon junctions in Yellowstone National Park. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News&Guide, Bradly J. Boner)

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FEMA Administrator W. Craig Fugate told the Arizona governor his agency had provided a Fire Management Assistance Grant in June, but that he had to reject a request for aid under a program for individuals and households.

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Quarterback Robert Griffin III will wear a brace on his reconstructed knee Monday night as the Washington Redskins open their season against the Philadelphia Eagles. (Associated Press)