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Charles Rice of Medford is selling off his 260,000-item record collection which includes thousands of brightly-colored albums he passionately collected over many decades. (Denise Baratta /The Medford Mail Tribune via AP)

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Sacajawea Principal Gordon Grissom and eighth-grader Claire Vlases, 14, worked together to raise over $115,000 so that solar panels can be installed on the roof of Sacajawea Middle School in Bozeman, Mont. The panels will go on top of the new electives wing being added to the school. (Rachel Leathe/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)

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Sacajawea Principal Gordon Grissom and eighth-grader Claire Vlases, 14, worked together to raise over $115,000 so that solar panels can be installed on the roof of Sacajawea Middle School in Bozeman, Mont. The panels will go on top of the new electives wing being added to the school. (Rachel Leathe/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)

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Milwaukee Brewers' Junior Guerra pitches to a Arizona Diamondbacks batter during the first inning of a baseball game Friday, May 26, 2017, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

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Arizona Diamondbacks' Zack Godley pitches to a Milwaukee Brewers batter during the first inning of a baseball game Friday, May 26, 2017, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

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Gov. Bill Walker speaks at the Alaska Native Heritage Center, where Army honorary discharge papers were awarded to relatives of members of the Alaska Territorial Guard, a largely Native citizen militia that served to protect the U.S. territory from the threat of Japanese invasion during World War II, in in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday, May 26, 2017. Relatives of 16 deceased members of the unit attended the ceremony at the Heritage Center to receive the posthumous honor. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)

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Ben Mallott holds his late grandfather Jay Mallott's honorary discharge papers for his service in the Alaska Territorial Guard, a largely Native citizen militia that served to protect the U.S. territory from the threat of Japanese invasion during World War II, outside the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday, May 26, 2017. Ben Mallott, the son of Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, was among relatives of 16 deceased members of the unit who attended a ceremony at the Heritage Center to receive the documents. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)

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Rebecca Czyz holds a photo of her late aunt, Laura Beltz Wright, who served in the Alaska Territorial Guard, a largely Native citizen militia who served to protect the U.S. territory from the threat of Japanese invasion during World War II outside of the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday, May 26, 2017. Czyz was among relatives of 16 deceased members of the unit who attended a ceremony at the Heritage Center as Army discharge papers meant as a posthumous honor were awarded to family members. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)

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Cultural dancers perform at the Alaska Native Heritage Center, where Army honorary discharge papers were awarded to relatives of members of the Alaska Territorial Guard, a largely Native citizen militia that served to protect the U.S. territory from the threat of Japanese invasion during World War II, in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday, May 26, 2017. Relatives of 16 deceased members of the unit attended the ceremony at the Heritage Center to receive the posthumous honor. (AP Photo/Rachel D'Oro)

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FILE - This May 22, 2017 aerial file photo provided by John Madonna shows a massive landslide along California's coastal Highway 1 that has buried the road under a 40-foot layer of rock and dirt near Big Sur, Calif. Officials say a massive landslide in Big Sur could keep a portion of California's iconic coastal highway closed for a year and cost millions of dollars to fix. (John Madonna via AP, File)

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FILE - In this July 2012 file photo, people hike the North Crater Flow Trail at Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho. Federal officials have released a cattle grazing plan for central Idaho's Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve that immediately came under fire from an environmental group. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Final Environmental Impact Statement released Friday, May 26, 2017, allows cattle grazing on nearly all of the roughly 275,000 acres it administers in the monument. (Tetona Dunlap/The Times-News via AP, File)

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FILE - In this May 8, 2017, file photo, shows an aerial view of Arch Canyon within Bears Ears National Monument revealing the vast landscape of the 1.35 million acres in southeastern Utah protected by President Barack Obama on Dec. 28, 2016. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will have tens of thousands of comments to potentially look over as he prepares a recommendation next month for President Donald Trump about whether the new Bears Ears National Monument should be preserved, downsized or rescinded. (Francisco Kjolseth /The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

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FILE - This Jan. 28, 2013 file photo, seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones, describes how an early warning system would provide advance warning of an earthquake, at a news conference at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. President Donald Trump's budget proposal would cut federal funding for an earthquake early warning system for California, Oregon and Washington state, a development that seismology experts and some local leaders say would be the end of the project. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

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A drilling crew drills one hundred down taking soil samples on the southern end of the Mud Creek slide as it covers Highway One in southern Monterey County on the coast in Big Sur, Calif., Thursday, May 25, 2017. One of the wettest winters in decades in California has triggered slides and road closures along the central coast's Big Sur, forcing some resorts to close and others to use helicopters to carry in guests and supplies. (Vern Fisher /The Monterey County Herald via AP)

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Arleen Guzzie works the road block at Ragged Point on Highway One stopping traffic from traveling towards the Mud Creek slide in southern Monterey County on the coast in Big Sur, Calif., Thursday, May 25, 2017. One of the wettest winters in decades in California has triggered slides and road closures along the central coast's Big Sur, forcing some resorts to close and others to use helicopters to carry in guests and supplies. (Vern Fisher /The Monterey County Herald via AP)

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Venezuela's Sergio Cordova, right, scores a goal against Mexico during their Group B soccer match in the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea 2017 at Suwon World Cup Stadium in Suwon, South Korea, Friday, May 26, 2017. (Kim In-chul/Yonhap via AP)

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Venezuela's Sergio Cordova celebrates after scoring a goal against Mexico during their Group B soccer match in the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea 2017 at Suwon World Cup Stadium in Suwon, South Korea, Friday, May 26, 2017. (Kim In-chul/Yonhap via AP)

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England's Kieran Dowell, left, fights for the ball against South Korea's HA Seung-un during the Group A match in the FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea 2017 at Suwon World Cup Stadium in Suwon, South Korea, Friday, May 26, 2017. (Kim In-chul/Yonhap via AP)

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Oxfam activists wearing masks of the leaders of the G7 summit; from left, Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni, US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, French President Emmanuel Macron, stage a demonstration in Giardini Naxos, near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina, southern Italy, Friday, May 26, 2017. Climate change promises to be the most problematic issue for this summit after Trump's decision to review U.S. policies related to the Paris Agreement on fighting global warming. (Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP)

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Oxfam activists wearing masks of the leaders of the G7 summit; from left, Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni, US President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and British Prime Minister Theresa May stage a demonstration in Giardini Naxos, near the venue of the G7 summit in the Sicilian town of Taormina, southern Italy, Friday, May 26, 2017. Climate change promises to be the most problematic issue for this summit after Trump's decision to review U.S. policies related to the Paris Agreement on fighting global warming. (Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP)