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Most of the American passengers aboard the MV Hondius are now at the Davis Global Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus, which holds the National Quarantine Unit.
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Former FBI Director and best-selling author James Comey
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Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review - Episode 267
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Deanna Nara, campaign manager with Center for Science in the Public Interest, holds up donut holes and a frozen coffee to highlight high sugar content in foods from restaurants during a May 6, 2026 rally at the State Capitol in Albany.
Samuel King
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New York Public News Network
Push to expand New York's food regulations ramps up in Albany
Samuel King
Advocates are seeking passage of bills requiring disclosures about sodium and sugar content in restaurant offerings and targeting food dyes and aggressive marketing to children and teens.
Four years after a tragic, racially motivated mass shooting, the victims of May 14, 2022 were remembered in a ceremony outside the Jefferson Avenue supermarket where it happened.
Mike Groll
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Office of Governor Kathy Hochul
Remembering the victims of Buffalo's May 14 tragedy, four years later
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Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie talks to reporters at the State Capitol on May 14, 2026.
Samuel King
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New York Public News Network
State lawmakers pass a 12th budget extender
Samuel King
Gov. Kathy Hochul delivers remarks at the New York State Affordable Housing Conference on May 14, 2026, in New York City.
Susan Watts
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Lawmakers plan tax on NYC cash home sales, as Hochul details pied-à-terre plan
Jon Campbell
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On April 29, 2026, the humpback whale recovered from a shallow bay off Wismar was being transported towards the North Sea in a flooded cargo ship just before the Danish border in Fehmarn, Germany.
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Timmy the humpback whale found dead off Danish coast
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A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly becoming stranded off Germany's Baltic Sea coast, Danish authorities said Saturday.
A bull male elephant is seen meticulously dismantling an electric fence inside Yala National Park in Sri Lanka. Elephants are often herded into parks to keep them from eating the crops of farmers, but the pachyderms have figured out how to manipulate the wooden fence poles to lay the wires flat and then step over them.
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Elephants eat their crops. Farmers strike back. It's a war that's only getting worse
Diaa Hadid, Susitha Fernando
Mayor Thorsten Grädler of Vilseck, Germany, discovered that his town could be the target of President Trump's U.S. troop cuts on his first day in office, when a journalist told him during a press conference. Grädler says the impact on his town would be "dramatic."
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Reuters
The townspeople of Vilseck, Germany, worry that Trump may pull out 5,000 U.S. troops
Rob Schmitz
Admitted students and their families, including some from rural areas, take a tour of the Amherst College campus as they decide whether or not to enroll.
Lucy Lu
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The Hechinger Report
Colleges got more rural students to apply. The challenge is getting them to attend
Jon Marcus