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By PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press Mystic Aquarium says that a second of the five beluga whales it imported in May from a marine park in Canada is in…

By COLLEEN LONG and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the January insurrection at the U.S.…

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A proposed class-action lawsuit claims that Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ decision to end…

By TOM MURPHY AP Health Writer Pfizer is seeking U.S. approval of a booster dose of its two-shot COVID-19 vaccine. The drugmaker announced Wednesday…

By ROBERT BURNS, ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken says as many as 1,500…

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Death Valley National Park rangers are reminding visitors to limit stressful activities during summer…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has welcomed a group of 124 Afghan media workers and their families who fled their country after the Taliban takeover.…

By TERRY SPENCER and DAVID FISCHER MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A gunman walked into a Miami Beach restaurant and fatally shot a tourist who was…

By DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — A former mayor of a central Afghanistan city is in Germany after having fled her…

By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two conservative hoaxers face a record $5.1 million fine for allegedly making illegal…

By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press A federal report finds that in the run up to the 2020 presidential election U.S. states and territories had spent…

MARGATE, N.J. (AP) — The boardwalk fixture, Lucy the Elephant, is having all of its metal skin replaced because more than 50% of the exterior has…

By MARINA VILLENEUVE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s new governor is acknowledging that the state has had nearly 12,000 more…

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities are expanding a ban on harmful fertilizers around a saltwater lagoon on the country’s Mediterranean coast,…

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Only 11% of the tens of billions of dollars in federal rent assistance meant to help tenants around…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Delta Air Lines won’t force employees to get vaccinated, but it’s going to make unvaccinated workers…

By TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer OnlyFans says it has suspended a plan to ban sexually explicit content following an outcry from its creators and…

By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Just over half of Florida’s 2.8 million public school students now face mandates to…

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — A new show examining how some of the Nazis’ favorite visual artists were able to…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal ocean regulators are considering new rules to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear. The…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it plans to build an undersea tunnel…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Military service members must immediately begin to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Defense…

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — U.S. Forest Service officials have extended the closure of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness after Minnesota’s…

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Serena and Venus Williams have added themselves to the list of big-name withdrawals from the U.S. Open. This will…

DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s president says five people are dead, including three police officers, after a gun battle with an armed man…

By MIKE FULLER Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Members of the Rolling Stones have shared tributes to their unshakeable drummer Charlie Watts, who…