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In this photo taken March 28, 2017, Bill Fairgrieve, a fisheries research biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, holds a sablefish at a research facility in Manchester, Wash. Scientists are studying sablefish genetics and investigating ways to make it easier and more efficient to commercially grow and farm the fish as part of a larger effort by NOAA to support marine aquaculture as a possible solution to feed a growing demand worldwide for seafood. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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FILE - This July 16, 2004, file photo, shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. Gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan could find themselves in the cross-hairs of hunters once again. A ruling is expected soon from the same federal appeals court that stripped the wolf of its protection in Wyoming in March 2017. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
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PSG's Marco Verratti, left, PSG's Edinson Cavani PSG's PSG's Lucas, center, and PSG's Maxwell celebrate after scoring against Bastia during the French League One soccer match between PSG and Bastia at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Saturday, May 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
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PSG's Edinson Cavani reacts after missing a chance on goal during the French League One soccer match between PSG and Bastia at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Saturday, May 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)
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FILE - In this Monday, May 1, 2017 file photo, Kevin Pritchard speaks during an NBA basketball news conference in Indianapolis, after Larry Bird resigned from his position as Indiana Pacers team president of basketball operations. Pritchard is assuming Bird's position. Pritchard will improve his new team the only way he knows how, and maybe with more resources than Bird had during his two tenures running the team. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File-
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FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2016 file photo, Alex Bligen clears away debris from Hurricane Matthew that washed over the only road into Edisto Island, S.C. Republican-led South Carolina, which has long resisted tax increases, is among those seriously considering a gas tax hike in 2017 to pay for transportation improvements. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2017 file photo, officials look over the scene at Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass, Calif., where part of the freeway collapsed due to heavy rain. A state $5 billion annual plan raises fuel taxes and vehicle fees to pay for repairs to state and local roads, while also providing money for public transit and biking and walking trails. (David Pardo/The Daily Press via AP, file)
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In this Aug. 9, 2013 photo provided by the Nevada Department of Wildlife, Carl Lackey, a long-time Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist, and a dog named ''Rooster'' chase after a California black bear after it was captured and re-released to the wild in the Carson Range southwest of Carson City, Nevada. Lackey has filed a defamation suit against bear protection advocates at Lake Tahoe he accuses of harassing and threatening him through a ''vicious and calculated'' social media campaign. (John Axtell/Nevada Department of Wildlife via AP)
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The moon rises by the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F09) that lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, Friday, May 5, 2017. India successfully launched the GSAT-9 satellite, the South Asia Communication Satellite, to provide communications services to its neighboring countries. Initially known as the SAARC satellite, it is now called the South Asia Satellite after Pakistan pulled out of the project. Seven of the eight South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries, namely India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives, are part of the project. (AP Photo)
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Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates, left, casts his ballot for his re-election during the AOC's annual general meeting in Sydney, Saturday, May 6, 2017. Coates will serve another four-year term as president of the Australian Olympic Committee after beating former field hockey gold medalist Danni Roche by a landslide in an election. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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Australian Olympic Committee President John Coates comments on his re-election during the AOC's annual general meeting in Sydney, Saturday, May 6, 2017. Coates will serve another four-year term as president of the Australian Olympic Committee after beating former field hockey gold medalist Danni Roche by a landslide in an election. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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This photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team, shows a San Mateo Mexican wolf litter, including two pups cross-fostered from the Illinois Brookfield Zoo, in their wild den in New Mexico on May 3, 2017. Federal wildlife officials say they have successfully placed two captive-born Mexican gray wolf pups into the wild den with a foster family, clearing the way for a cross-fostering project aimed at boosting genetic diversity among wolves in the wild in New Mexico and Arizona. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team via AP)
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Workmen tend to an area in the Oculus structure at the World Trade Center Transportation Hub where water spilled from the ceiling during heavy rain on Friday, May 5, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
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Emergency crews work on removing a big rig truck stuck in a sinkhole in San Francisco, Friday, May 5, 2017. A truck driver escaped unharmed early Friday after a massive sinkhole started swallowing his big rig on a San Francisco street. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Emergency crew workers remove debris from a sinkhole in San Francisco, Friday, May 5, 2017. A truck driver escaped unharmed early Friday after a massive sinkhole started swallowing his big rig on a San Francisco street. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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FILE- In this May 2, 2016 file photo, Richard Sawyer, Jr., fishes on Long Island Sound off Groton, Conn. Sawyer said he says he now catches less in a week than he used to catch in half of a day. Scientists say populations of lobsters off of Connecticut, Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts have declined as waters have warmed. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, shows a section of the Dakota Access pipeline under construction near St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. North Dakota regulators are investigating whether the developer of the pipeline removed too many trees while laying pipe in the state. A report from a third-party inspector identified more than 80 sites where trees might have been improperly cleared. Energy Transfer Partners denies violating terms of its permit. And its plan for replacing trees calls for crews to plant more than two trees for every one that was removed. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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Two Alton Public Works Department employees, right, talk while monitoring the Mississippi River flood levels on the other side of a flood wall on West Broadway in Alton, Ill., Thursday, May 4, 2017. Two days of rain have pushed off a crest in Alton until Saturday. West Broadway is part of the Great River Road which is closed at Alton and flooded in three places in Grafton, Illinois, 15 miles west of Alton. (John Badman/The Telegraph via AP)
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Tammy Neeley and her husband Jonathan moved all of their belongings from their garage into their home and stayed through the flood in downtown Pacific on Thursday, May 4, 2017. The Neeley's lifted their home 9 feet with the help of a grant in 2008 after a previous flood. Pacific officials estimate 170 homes and businesses were flooded. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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A riding lawnmower rests on its end in a field in downtown Pacific, Mo., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. Pacific officials estimate 170 homes and businesses flooded. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
