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Photos of young tortoises bred to return to the home of their ancestors on the Galapagos

FLOREANA ISLAND, Galapagos (AP) — Juvenile tortoises with Floreana ancestry were brought to their native island from the Galápagos National Park’s breeding center on Santa Cruz Island, as part of...

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Officer found not guilty in shooting death of unarmed South Carolina man after high speed chase

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A jury found a former small town South Carolina police officer not guilty of voluntary manslaughter Friday in the shooting death of an unarmed man after a five-minute high speed...

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Judge denies Tennessee QB Joey Aguilar's injunction bid to remain eligible

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee quarterback Joey Aguilar’s bid for an injunction that would have enabled him to continue playing for the Volunteers this fall was denied on Friday by a Knox County...

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Galápagos park releases 158 juvenile hybrid tortoises on Floreana to restore the ecosystem

FLOREANA ISLAND, Ecuador (AP) — Nearly 150 years after the last giant tortoises were removed from Floreana Island in Ecuador’s Galápagos archipelago, the species made a comeback Friday, when dozens...

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Federal judge in Michigan charged with drunken driving after car strikes signs

PETOSKEY, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge in Michigan suspected of drunken driving uttered a vulgarity at a state trooper and couldn't explain damage to his car or why his airbags had deployed, according...

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Las Vegas police investigate possible terrorism event after vehicle rammed into power substation

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police say they're investigating a car that rammed into a power substation as a possible “terrorism-related event.” There's no ongoing threat to the public,...

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Member of Zizians group linked to deaths in several states bailed out in Maryland

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) — A member of a group known to outsiders as Zizians that is linked to six deaths was bailed out of jail in Maryland on Friday. Police in Maryland connected Jack “Ziz”...

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Judge weighs Washington Post's demand for government to return devices seized from reporter's home

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The federal government is asking a court to “run roughshod” over the First Amendment after seizing electronic devices from a Washington Post reporter's Virginia home last month,...

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US makes plans to reopen embassy in Syria after 14 years

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has informed Congress that it intends to proceed with planning for a potential re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria, which was shuttered in 2012...

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Scientists change how El Nino is labeled to keep up with spike in temperature

WASHINGTON (AP) — The natural El Nino cycle, which warps weather worldwide, is both adding to and shaped by a warming world, meteorologists said. A new study calculated that an unusual...

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