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Geese swim through floodwater from the Meramec River on Electra Drive in Arnold, Mo., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. The floodwater has slowly started to recede. Heavy rain last weekend created a flooding mess in Missouri, Arkansas and neighboring states, and several inches of mid-week rain have helped keep the water high. (David Carson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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FILE - In this Sunday, April 30, 2017 file photo, Ahn Cheol-soo, center, presidential candidate of South Korea's People's Party, is greeted by his supporters during a presidential election campaign in Goyang, South Korea. For South Koreans living next door to a hostile, nuclear-armed state that regularly threatens their annihilation, their vote in Tuesday’s presidential election likely will be based in part on each candidate’s plan for how to handle North Korea. The North Korea conundrum is a perpetual foreign policy headache for South Korea’s leaders and one that is impacting the presidential race in several ways. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
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FILE- In this Oct. 27, 2016 file photo, Mike Huffman, left, logging superintendent, and Howard "Butch" Wright, vice president of operations, at Huffman-Wright Timber and Construction Operations, stand on the edge of a recent clear-cut by the company in the Elliot State Forest near Coos Bay, Ore. The three officials responsible for Oregon's oldest state forest staked out positions on Thursday, May 4, 2017, on its future, with two advocating continued public ownership and the third supporting public ownership of its old-growth areas. (Amanda Loman/The World via AP, File)
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Eddie Cotton and the Mississippi Cotton Club perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Eddie Cotton and the Mississippi Cotton Club perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Eddie Cotton and the Mississippi Cotton Club perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2015, file photo, volunteers learn to deploy fire shelters with practice equipment after a call out by fire officials seeking to supplement their usual resources in Omak, Wash. Wildland firefighters will have to wait at least an extra year before getting better fire shelters than the ones that failed to save the Arizona 19 firefighters. The U.S. Forest Service's expedited attempt following those deaths to have an upgraded shelter later this year is being pushed back a year after nearly 100 prototypes couldn't outperform the current shelter developed in 2002. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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In this April 20, 2017, photo provided by the Arizona Game and Fish Department shows a rescued otter at the Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The otter was described as dehydrated, hungry and infested with fleas when rescued, but Arizona Game and Fish wildlife staff cared for the otter and fed it a trout mash mixed with kitten's milk to provide appropriate nutrients. Once the otter's condition improved, it was handed off April 26 to Out of Africa Wildlife Park in Camp Verde. (George Andrejko/Arizona Game and Fish Department via AP)
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In this April 20, 2017, photo provided by the Arizona Game and Fish Department shows a rescued otter at the Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The otter was described as dehydrated, hungry and infested with fleas when rescued, but Arizona Game and Fish wildlife staff cared for the otter and fed it a trout mash mixed with kitten's milk to provide appropriate nutrients. Once the otter's condition improved, it was handed off April 26 to Out of Africa Wildlife Park in Camp Verde. (George Andrejko/Arizona Game and Fish Department via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo, pedestrians walk along the town's business district in Estill, S.C. The town’s population, now 2,000, dwindled by nearly 16 percent between 2000 and 2010. Industry, once reliant on cotton, rice and indigo, long ago died. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a bicyclist passes a mural along the town's business district in Estill, S.C. Estill lies in the heart of South Carolina's Low Country. Industry, once reliant on cotton, rice and indigo, long ago died. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo, a customer walks into a shop along the town's business district in Estill, S.C. The town’s population, now 2,000, dwindled by nearly 16 percent between 2000 and 2010. Industry, once reliant on cotton, rice and indigo, long ago died. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo, a public clock stands the town's business district in Estill, S.C. Its population, now 2,000, dwindled by nearly 16 percent between 2000 and 2010. Trailers stand empty, weather-worn homes are crumbling and storefronts on the town's main drag are boarded up. Industry, once reliant on cotton, rice and indigo, long ago died. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, left, stands with Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael Busch, right, in front of an electric car by the Maryland State House on Thursday, May 4, 2017 in Annapolis, Md., before riding in the car to a waterside bill signing ceremony on environmental legislation approved this year. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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Parisians attended a concert Thursday featuring various artists opposing Marine Le Pen, who faces off in the French presidential runoff Sunday against Emmanuel Macron. (Associated Press)
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President Trump and congressional Republicans are on a "rescue mission" to save the country from the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which is quickly losing insurers. (Associated Press/File)
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In this photo provided by the National Park Service, a National Park Service staffer sets up an acoustic recording station in the temperate old-growth Hoh rainforest of Olympic National Park, Wash. The call of the wild is getting harder to hear. Peaceful natural sounds, bird songs, rushing rivers and rustling grass, are being drowned out by human-made noise in nearly two-thirds of America’s protected parks, forests and wilderness areas, a new study finds. (National Park Service via AP)
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In this photo provided by the National Park Service a National Park Service staffer sets up an acoustic recording station on Going-to-the-Sun Road to capture the impact of traffic on acoustic conditions in Glacier National Park, Mont. The call of the wild is getting harder to hear. Peaceful natural sounds, bird songs, rushing rivers and rustling grass, are being drowned out by human-made noise in nearly two-thirds of America’s protected parks, forests and wilderness areas, a new study finds. (National Park Service via AP)
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FILE - In this July 9, 2014, file photo, a sign informs visitors of prohibited items on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. A new report says Congress should consider authorizing the Department of Energy to use grout to stabilize some of Hanford's radioactive waste, rather than a more expensive plan to turn it into glass. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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In this April 18, 1970 photo provided by Green Up Vermont, a motorist passes bags of trash gathered from along the roadway during the first Vermont Green Up Day. This year's statewide Green Up Day will be Saturday, May 6, 2017, when tens of thousands of volunteers will spread out across the state to again pick up trash. (Green Up Vermont via AP)
