Whale researchers in New England believe they’ve found a new way to measure the amount of stress felt by whales when they experience traumas such as entanglements in fishing gear, and they say the technique could help protect the massive sea creatures from extinction. The scientists, with the New England Aquarium in Boston, said the […]
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A company has cut ties with a California minor league baseball team that played a Memorial Day video that included an image of Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with those of Kim Jong Un and Fidel Castro. The Fresno Bee reports the raisin company Sun-Maid terminated its sponsorship of the Fresno Grizzlies on Wednesday. The company
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday he knew nothing about White House efforts to hide a Navy destroyer named in part after the late Senator John McCain during Mr. Trump’s state visit to Japan earlier this week. But, he said, whoever made the request was “well meaning” because the person or people knew Mr.
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Pressure from the trade dispute between the U.S. and China is weighing on the retail sector, with shares of many in the industry falling in premarket trading on Thursday. Interested in China? Add China as an interest to stay up to date on the latest China news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Retailers have
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSaybie at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns A baby born weighing just 245g (8.6oz), believed to be the tiniest on record to survive premature birth, has been discharged from hospital in the US. Baby Saybie weighed the same as a large apple when she
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionViewers noticed the journalist’s hand shaking during this report The BBC’s technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has revealed he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. TV viewers noticed his hand shaking during a report on 5G technology on BBC Breakfast on Thursday morning. Symptoms of Parkinson’s – a
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Image copyright Getty Images Brazil’s economy shrank in the first three months of the year for the first time since 2016, when the country was in recession. It contracted by 0.2% compared with the last three months of 2018. Compared with a year ago, it grew by 0.5%. The fall comes at time when Brazil’s
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At 8.6 ounces or 245 grams, Saybie weighed little more than an apple at birth and is believed to be the world’s smallest baby to survive according to the Tiniest Babies Registry. Her birth was so premature, doctors considered her a “micro preemie” – a baby born before 28 weeks’ gestation. Saybie was monitored at
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Rescue workers scoured the Danube River in downtown Budapest Thursday for 21 people missing after a sightseeing boat carrying South Korean tourists sank in a matter of seconds after colliding with a larger cruise ship during an evening downpour. Seven people are confirmed dead and seven were rescued, all of them South Koreans, Hungarian officials
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Serena Williams and Roger Federer would love to win the French Open again, of course. They’d also be thrilled to win Roland Garros. And they might not know it, but they are doing their best to triumph at what used to officially be the Championnats Internationaux de France, too. What’s in a name? Things get
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