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Greenpeace activists 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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Greenpeace activists stage a demonstration against the climate change 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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This image made from part of a U.N. internal investigation document dated Nov. 19, 2007 shows a hole in a perimeter wall of the U.N. base in Jacmel, Haiti. The report describes a statement by a teenage girl who said she and others crawled through this opening to enter the base where they were sexually abused by peacekeeper soldiers. (AP Photo)

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2016 file photo, a visitor uses binoculars to see the North Korean territory from the unification observatory in Paju, South Korea. South Korea approved Friday, May 26, 2017, a civic group to contact North Korea over aid programs, the first such approval since North Korea's nuclear test in January 2016. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man. File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014, file photo, Yosemite National Park Rangers transfer the body of a Cal Fire pilot who was killed in an airplane crash in Yosemite National Park, Calif. An investigation into the 2014 fatal crash found that the pilot was warned to avoid a hazardous tree to the right of his flight path before a wing struck trees to the left, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released Wednesday, May 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Al Golub, File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014, file photo, Yosemite National Park Rangers transfer the body of a Cal Fire pilot who was killed in an airplane crash in Yosemite National Park, Calif. An investigation into the 2014 fatal crash found that the pilot was warned to avoid a hazardous tree to the right of his flight path before a wing struck trees to the left, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released Wednesday, May 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Al Golub, File)

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This May 25, 2017, photo shows downed trees and debris along Bellefontaine Road in New Carlisle, Ohio. Following severe overnight storms in western Ohio, suspected tornado damage was reported Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Clark, Greene and Miami counties north and east of Dayton, Ohio. (Marshall Gorby/Dayton Daily News via AP)

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Tribal leaders from the Pacific Northwest pose for a picture during a meeting of the Members of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians in Portland, Ore., Thursday, May 25, 2017. The group held a news conference during their annual convention to criticize cuts to Native American programs in President Donald Trump's proposed budget that they say will devastate tribes across the U.S. Front row, from left, are Cheryl Kennedy, vice chairwoman of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde; Carina Miller, councilwoman with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs; and Fawn Sharp, president of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians. Back row, from left, are Timothy Ballew, member of the Lummi Nation; Mel Sheldon, councilman with the Tulalip Tribes and Gary Burke, chairman of the board of trustees for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

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FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2016 file photo, firefighters just in from Pennsylvania get briefed on a wildfire as it burns off the shore of Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo. State forester Bill Crapser says most of Wyoming is predicted to have slightly below average to average large wildfires this year. Crapser says there could be a lot of wildfires started by lightning but most are not expected to grow into large fires. The predictions come from the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center in Denver. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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Seven homes are proposed for this stretch of Lake Michigan dunes, seen May 4, 2017, just north of the boat-shaped house at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River. The new homes, if approved, would be built further back from the water than the boat-shaped house - about at the line of trees on the right side of this photo. (Amy Biolchini /The Grand Rapids Press via AP)

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Municipal Operations director George Murdoch talks with a homeowner on Thursday morning, May 25, 2017, after a Newport Beach, Calif. neighborhood was flooded with as much as 2 feet of water Wednesday night when high tide washed up on property after a sea wall was partially demolished. (Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register via AP)

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A temporary sandbag wall was put in place after a Newport Beach, Calif., neighborhood flooded with as much as 2 feet of water Wednesday night, May 24, 2017, when high tide washed up on property after a sea wall was partially demolished. (Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register via AP)

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Larry Hall sweeps the alley behind his home on Thursday, May 25, 2017, after his Newport Beach, Calif., neighborhood was flooded with as much as 2 feet of water Wednesday night after a seawall was damaged by a construction crew. (Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register via AP)

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In this photo taken Friday, May 12, 2017, a USAF Reserve, WC-130J hurricane hunter aircraft is shown at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Miami, as reporters and guests take a first hand tour of the aircraft, at the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport, in Opa-locka, Fla. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a forecast, Thursday, May 25, 2017, that calls for 11 to 17 named storms, with five to nine hurricanes. Two to four hurricanes are expected to be “major” with sustained winds of at least 111 mph. The six-month Atlantic storm season officially starts June 1. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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British Prime Minister Theresa May bears much of the blame for her slipping poll numbers, pundits say. (Associated Press/File)

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A firefighter clears debris from Courtney-Huntsville Road after severe storm moved through the area on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 in Courtney, N.C. Possible tornadoes flipped mobile homes, toppled trees and damaged a gymnasium as a series of storms rumbled through North Carolina on Wednesday, officials said. (Andrew Dye/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)

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Emergency workers survey damage on Courtney-Huntsville Road after a severe storm moved through the area on Wednesday, May 24, 2017, in Courtney, N.C. Possible tornadoes flipped mobile homes, toppled trees and damaged a gymnasium as a series of storms rumbled through North Carolina on Wednesday, officials said. (Andrew Dye/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)

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FILE - This May 11, 2015, file photo, shows land reclamation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands by China in the South China Sea. China is protesting a U.S. Navy patrol that brought a guided missile destroyer near a group of manmade islands including Mischief Reef in the South China Sea that are controlled by Beijing. (Ritchie B. Tongo/Pool Photo via AP, File) **FILE**

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FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2010 file photo, two young wild horses play while grazing in Reno, Nev. Wild horse advocates say President Trump's new budget proposal would undermine protection of an icon of the American West in place for nearly a half century and could send up sending thousands of free-roaming mustangs to slaughter houses in Canada and Mexico. (Andy Barron/Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)

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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe