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FILE - This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. The Supreme Court will decide whether the 2020 census can include a question about citizenship that could affect the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and the distribution of billions of dollars in federal money.(AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith, File)
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Potential privacy lapse found in Americans' 2010 census data
FILE - This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. The Supreme Court will decide whether the 2020 census can include a question about citizenship that could affect the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and the distribution of billions of dollars in federal money.(AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith, File)
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  • FILE - This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. The Supreme Court will decide whether the 2020 census can include a question about citizenship that could affect the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and the distribution of billions of dollars in federal money.(AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith, File)
  • Austin Black works to repair a home damaged by flooding from Hurricane Florence near the Crabtree Swamp Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, in Conway, S.C. The structure is scheduled to be raised in the coming days and according to the homeowner, the other residences in the immediate neighborhood have been purchased by F.E.M.A. and are scheduled for demolition. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
  • This Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, still image taken from video courtesy of KSBW station shows the damaged Lone Cypress tree in Pebble Beach on the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey County, Calif. Gusty winds during a recent storm broke a branch of the famous cypress tree believed to be more than 250 years old on California's northern coast. The Pebble Beach Company said Friday that despite the damage, an arborist has recently examined the Lone Cypress and confirmed it's "healthy and remains secure on its rocky perch." (KSBW via AP)
  • FILE - In this March 26, 2015 file photo, U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly, right, crew member of the mission to the International Space Station, stands behind glass in a quarantine room, behind his brother, Mark Kelly, also an astronaut, after a news conference in the Russian-leased Baikonur, Kazakhstan cosmodrome. Nearly a year in space put Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, according to a report released on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
  • This 1993 booking photograph released Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, by the Norwalk, Conn., Police Department shows Landberto Quintero, whose remains were found April 18, 1996 on Shea Island in Long Island Sound off the Connecticut coast. The police said Quintero was identified through a new search of an updated law enforcement fingerprint database. (Norwalk Police Department via AP)
  • A fallen tree that was knocked down by recent severe weather lies in the Horseshoe Bay parking lot in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in Sausalito, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. Waves of heavy rain pounded California on Thursday, filling normally dry creeks and rivers with muddy torrents, flooding roadways and forcing residents to flee their homes in communities scorched by wildfires. (AP Photo/Michael Short)
  • Southern Marin Fire Department members search a crushed house in the aftermath of a mudslide that destroyed three homes on a hillside in Sausalito, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. Waves of heavy rain pounded California on Thursday, filling normally dry creeks and rivers with muddy torrents, flooding roadways and forcing residents to flee their homes in communities scorched by wildfires. (AP Photo/Michael Short)
  • Travis Kauffman heads into a news conference Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Fort Collins, Colo., about his encounter with a mountain lion while running a trail just west of Fort Collins last week. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2016 file photo mud flow skirts a house protected with sandbags in Monrovia, Calif. Federal forecasters say an El Nino, which alters weather worldwide, has formed but is so weak and late that it shouldn’t be a big deal. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 that El Nino formed in the central Pacific, but forecasters don’t expect it to last more than three or four months. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)
  • FILE - In this May 19, 2015 file photo, a nuclear medicine technologist makes a PET scan of a patient at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. Depression has long been linked to certain cognitive problems, and now researchers at Yale University are using PET scans to study key brain connections and try to find out why. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
  • United States' Mikaela Shiffrin, center, shows her gold medal of the women's super-G, flanked by silver medallist Italy's Sofia Goggia, left, and bronze medal's Switzerland's Corinne Suter, at the alpine ski World Championships in Are, Sweden, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
  • Students pose with a banner during a climate change protest in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. Thousands of teenagers in Belgium have skipped school for the sith week in a row in an attempt to push authorities into providing better protection for the world's climate. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
  • This photo made available by NASA on Aug. 6, 2004, shows sand dunes less than 1 meter (3.3 feet) high in the "Endurance Crater" on the planet Mars, seen by the Opportunity rover. (NASA/JPL/Cornell via AP)
  • A woman carries an umbrella as she crosses the street in San Francisco, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. Rain, snow and wind swept into California on Wednesday, flooding roadways, toppling trees and disrupting travel while bringing renewed threats of mud and debris flows from the state's huge wildfire burn scars. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
  • In this Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 photo, with snow-capped Haleakala serving as a backdrop, Paia Maui's Scott Picton, left, plays a guitar and Saskatchewan's Shannon and Dan Runcie walk on Sugar Beach in South Maui, Hawaii. The summit area of Haleakala National Park is closed because of "extreme winter conditions." Park officials said Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, that snow, ice, fallen trees and rocks are making the area dangerous. (Matthew Thayer/The News via AP)
  • FILE - This file photo from June of 1971 shows a general view of the facility and cement pad at ground zero where a 1 megaton nuclear blast was detonated about 4,000 feet underground in 1969 on Amchitka Island, Alaska. The U.S. government conducted three underground nuclear tests on the island, located in Alaska's Aluetian chain, in the 1960s and 1970s, and the Energy department is responsible for long-term stewardship and monitoring of the sites. (AP Photo, file)
  • In this image taken from video, a mother polar polar bear and two cubs walk across the courtyard of a residential block, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in Belushya Guba, Novaya Zemlya, Russia. Russian wildlife specialists are heading to the Arctic archipelago to try to resolve why the polar bears have moved into the area. More than 50 bears have been spotted in the archipelago’s main town of Belushya Guba. (@muah_irinaelis via AP)
  • This March 31, 2016 photo made available by NASA shows a dust devil in a valley on Mars, seen by the Opportunity rover perched on a ridge. The view looks back at the rover's tracks leading up the north-facing slope of "Knudsen Ridge," which forms part of the southern edge of "Marathon Valley." (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
  • In this 2018 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is Wisdom, the world's oldest known breeding bird with a chick sits in a nest at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial. Federal wildlife officials say the world's oldest known wild bird has become a mother again at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports the Laysan albatross named Wisdom hatched a chick earlier this month at the remote atoll northwest of Hawaii. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials say Wisdom is at least 68 years old and has raised at least 31 chicks. (Bob Peyton/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)
  • FI LE - In this June 17, 2018, file photo, man fishes from the Battery City Park esplanade as temperature edge near 90 degrees in New York. The weather in New York City in a few decades will feel like how Arkansas is now. Chicago will seem like Kansas City and San Francisco will get a Southern California climate if global warming pollution continues at the current pace, a new study finds. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
  • Participants of the demonstration titled 'Academic Workers' Forum Life Chain for Science' gather in front of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) headquarters to protest against the planned reorganisation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)
  • FILE - In this Sunday, June 21, 2015 file photo, the sun rises as thousands of revellers gather at the ancient stone circle Stonehenge to celebrate the Summer Solstice, near Salisbury, England. A new study suggests the practice of building huge stone monuments was spread throughout ancient Europe from northwestern France. In an email Tuesday, Feb. 12 2019 Bettina Schulz Paulsson of the University of Gothenburg said the findings challenge previous theories that claimed megaliths originated in the Middle East or independently in different parts of Europe.(AP Photo/Tim Ireland, file)
  • American actor Harrison Ford speaks about ocean conservation at the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. Ford offered an emphatic plea for protecting the world's oceans while calling out U.S. President Donald Trump and others who "deny or denigrate science." (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
  • FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2017, file photo, seized pangolin scales are shown by a Malaysian Customs officials after a press conference at Customs office in Sepang, Malaysia. Malaysian authorities have seized a record 30 tons of pangolin and pangolin products in eastern Sabah state on Borneo, the biggest such bust in the country, a wildlife monitoring group said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)
  • Pedestrians walk near Pike Place Market as snow falls Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in downtown Seattle. Schools were closed across Washington state as winter snowstorms continued pummeling the Northwest. Seattle's metro area has already been hit by three snowstorms in February, making it the snowiest month in Seattle in more than 30 years. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
  • Jeff Chen, left, affixes a "Defend the Sacred" logo to Su Chon's jacket ahead of a Bureau of Land Management hearing Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska. The two Anchorage residents planned to oppose drilling as the federal agency accepted public comments on a draft environmental review on drilling within the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
  • Bill Colson, right, Children's Home Society executive director, speaks to the media Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, at the Rapid City, S.D., Public Safety Building about the efforts so far in the search for Serenity Dennard a 9-year-old girl who ran away from a residential youth home in western South Dakota last weekend. Colson was joined at the media conference by, from left, Pennington County Search and Rescue team leader Tammy Stadel, Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom, and, not pictured, Rapid City Police Chief Karl Jageris. (Ryan Hermens/Rapid City Journal via AP)
  • FILE- In this Nov. 26, 2018, file photo President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. According to a study in Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, leaders are speaking far more simply and with more confidence than they did four score and seven years ago. Donald Trump's speech has accelerated that trend. The new study says Trump talks less analytically, and more confidently, than all past U.S. presidents. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
  • FILE- This Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, file image made available by NASA shows the Kuiper belt object Ultima Thule, about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto, encountered by the New Horizons spacecraft. New photos from the New Horizons spacecraft offer a new perspective on the small cosmic body 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away. Scientists say the object is actually flatter on the backside than originally thought. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP, File)
  • Bosnian truck driver checks tyres on the truck during a snow storm on a road near Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Heavy snow has descended on the Balkan countries of eastern Europe, causing havoc throughout the region. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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