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Offering a dose of healing, curious beluga whales frolic in a warming Hudson Bay 10/01/2024 11:17pm • ON HUDSON BAY (AP) ��� Playful large white beluga whales bring joy and healing to Hudson Bay. Their happy chirps leap out in an environment and economy threatened by the warming water melting sea ice, starving polar bears and changing the entire food chain. Loud and curious belugas swarm boats here Max Kranick hasn't pitched in the majors since 2022. Now he's with the Mets in the playoffs 10/01/2024 10:43pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Max Kranick didn���t pitch an inning for the New York Mets in the regular season and hasn���t appeared in a major league game since May 2022. That didn���t stop the Mets from including the 27-year-old right-hander on their roster for their NL Wild Card Series with the Milwaukee Br Search crews with cadaver dogs wade through muck of communities ���wiped off the map��� by Helene 10/01/2024 09:56pm • SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) ��� Cadaver dogs and search crews trudged through knee-deep muck and debris in the mountains of western North Carolina on Tuesday looking for more victims of Hurricane Helene days after the storm carved a deadly and destructive path through the Southeast. Meanwhile, across the b 9 Ways Retirement Has Changed 10/01/2024 08:00pm • Retirement isn't what it was in your grandparents' or even your parents' generations. Longer life spans, the decline of traditional pensions, and the rise of 401(k)s and gig work are among the factors affecting retirement. "As exciting as the advances in health care and the prospect of living longer Former Dutch Bros CEO and family donate $3 million to Oregon State basketball 10/01/2024 07:44pm • CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) ��� Former Dutch Bros CEO Joth Ricci and his family have donated $3 million to the men's and women's basketball teams at Oregon State. The donation establishes endowments managed by the OSU Foundation that will provide annual revenue to both teams, the university announced Tues Speaker Johnson lays out agenda for Republicans as they fight to hold House majority 10/01/2024 07:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Speaker Mike Johnson laid out on Tuesday a policy agenda should Republicans take the majority next year that extends the tax cuts approved when Donald Trump was president, reduces the size of the federal workforce and gives parents more choice on where they can send their childre John Amos, patriarch on 'Good Times' and an Emmy nominee for the blockbuster 'Roots,' dies at 84 10/01/2024 06:57pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� John Amos, who starred as the family patriarch on the hit 1970s sitcom ���Good Times" and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 miniseries ���Roots,��� has died. He was 84. He died Aug. 21 of natural causes in Los Angeles. Amos��� publicist, Belinda Foster, Catholic hospital in California illegally denied emergency abortion, state attorney general says 10/01/2024 06:51pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� California's attorney general is suing a Catholic hospital, saying that Providence St. Joseph Hospital illegally denied emergency abortion care to a woman whose pregnancy was no longer viable after her water broke 15 weeks into carrying twins. Attorney General Rob Bonta annou Woman associated with MS-13 is sentenced to 50 years in prison 10/01/2024 06:37pm • CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) ��� A woman associated with MS-13 was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years in federal prison for her role in luring four young men to be killed by more than a dozen members of the violent transnational gang in the New York City suburbs. Leniz Escobar was a ���critical player��� at Details from New Mexico's lawsuit against Snap show site failed to act on reports of sextortion 10/01/2024 05:49pm • Snapchat failed to act on ���rampant��� reports of child grooming, sextortion and other dangers to minors on its platform, according to a newly unredacted complaint against the company filed by New Mexico's attorney general. Attorney General Ra��l Torrez filed the original complaint on Sept. 4, but 13-year-old Michigan girl charged with murder in stabbing death of younger sister 10/01/2024 04:07pm • TAYLOR, Mich. (AP) ��� A 13-year-old girl has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder in the stabbing death of her 7-year-old sister she was babysitting in their Detroit-area home. The 13-year-old's name was not released. She is being charged as a juvenile, the Wayne County prosecutor's o Larry Laughlin, longtime AP bureau chief for northern New England, dies at 75 10/01/2024 01:18pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Lawrence ���Larry��� Laughlin, a calm, kind and quick-witted journalist whose 38-year career included two decades as the northern New England bureau chief for The Associated Press, has died. He was 75. Laughlin, who lived in Concord, New Hampshire, died Monday of Parkinson���s After playing Weird Barbie, Kate McKinnon's new children's book also celebrates being uniquely you 10/01/2024 01:03pm • If you find it odd that Kate McKinnon chose her first book to be for middle-grade kids, the former ���Saturday Night Live��� star says, think again. ���I find sketch comedy and middle school to be very similar,��� she said recently over Zoom. ���There can be an unabashed silliness in middle grade th This year's MacArthur 'genius' fellows include more writers, artists and storytellers 10/01/2024 12:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The 2024 class of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellows includes more writers, artists and storytellers than in years past, though the so-called ���genius grants��� list also includes multiple scientists. The interdisciplinary awards announced Tuesday come with Warren Buffett buys rest of Berkshire Hathaway's utilities, but investors must guess at the price 10/01/2024 12:25pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is buying the rest of its utility unit from the estate of a longtime board member who died three years ago, but it's not clear exactly how much it will pay for that 8% stake in the massive utility business. Berkshire Hathaway Energy said in a