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Whales are stranded on Ocean Beach at Macquarie Harbour on the west coast of Tasmania of Australia, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Two more whales died Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Australia after a handful that had been refloated a day earlier stranded themselves again. About 200 pilot whales have now died from a group of about 230 that stranded themselves this week on the wild and remote west coast of Tasmania. (Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania via AP)

2 more whales die in Australia as stranding deaths reach 200

Two more whales have died in Australia after a handful that had been refloated a day earlier stranded themselves again
FILE - Hiring sign is displayed at a restaurant in Highland Park, Ill., Thursday, July 14, 2022. Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to shine despite weakening elements of the U.S. economy. Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Aug. 27, fell by 5,000 to 232,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday, Sept. 1. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

More Americans apply for jobless aid last week

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose slightly last week despite the Federal Reserve's year-long battle against inflation that's intended to cool the economy and the tight labor market
FILE - French far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, right, and deputy Adrien Quatennens, listen to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressing the French National Assembly, Wednesday, March 23, 2022 in Paris. Prominent French legislator Adrien Quatennens, of the far-left France Unbowed party, recently acknowledged slapping his wife, and influential three-time presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon initially defended him. Quatennens stepped down from his role as party coordinator, and Melenchon came under criticism within their leftist camp. It is the latest of several cases involving French political figures accused of harming or harassing women that have prompted calls for change. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

French parliament takes on sexual misconduct, amid scandals

France's parliament speaker on Thursday released the first public accounting of complaints to a special unit aimed at fighting sexual harassment and other misconduct
FILE - A Chinese national flag flies at Tiananmen Square in Beijing Thursday, June 14, 2018. A court in northern China sentenced one man to 24 years in jail Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, for his role in a vicious attack on four women, as well as other crimes including robbery and opening an illegal gambling ring. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Chinese man gets 24 years for brutal group attack on women

A court in northern China has sentenced one man to 24 years in jail for his leading role in a group beating of four women
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly hold a sidebar meeting during the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (David Dee Delgado/Pool Photo via AP)
Antony Blinken's father, former diplomat and banker, dies
Secretary of State Antony Blinken's father, Donald Blinken, a former U.S. diplomat, investment banker and modern art collector, has died
Today in History: September 23, Nixon's "Checkers" speech
Today in History Today is Friday, Sept. 23, the 266th day of 2022. There are 99 days left in the year.
Downers Grove resident Kylie Spahn speaks to the media Saturday outside a Des Plaines hotel that hosted a training program for conservative school board candidates. She and other protesters are concerned about conservative candidates running for elected office.
Critics protest conservative political training session in Des Plaines
About 25 people gathered near a Des Plaines hotel Saturday morning to protest a training session for politically conservative school board candidates being held inside.
Simon Stiell sits for an interview to discuss his new role as the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, at U.N. headquarters. Stiell was the environment and climate resilience minister on the small island nation of Grenada until a few weeks ago. It's now his job to make sure the world cuts about half emissions of heat-trapping gases - which are helping trigger unprecedented frequent weather disasters - in just eight years, or, as he puts it, two World Cups or two Olympics away. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Interview: New UN climate chief takes the fight personally
The United Nations official now in charge of the fight to curb climate change has a personal stake in the battle to reduce emissions
Russian policemen detain a demonstrator protesting against mobilization in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo)
Russian police block mobilization protests, arrest hundreds
Russian police have moved quickly to disperse peaceful protests against President Vladimir Putin's military mobilization order
Georgina Scott surveys the damage on her street in Halifax as post tropical storm Fiona continues to batter the area on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. Strong rains and winds lashed the Atlantic Canada region as Fiona closed in early Saturday as a big, powerful post-tropical cyclone, and Canadian forecasters warned it could be one of the most severe storms in the country's history. (Darren Calabrese /The Canadian Press via AP)
Fiona washes houses away, knocks out power in Canada
Strong rain and winds are lashing the Atlantic Canada region as Fiona hits as a powerful post-tropical cyclone
FILE - Louise Fletcher holds the Academy Award she won for her leading role in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" in Los Angeles, March 30, 1976. Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, died Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, at age 88. (AP Photo/File)
Oscar-winning 'Cuckoo's Nest' actor Louise Fletcher dies
Oscar winner Louise Fletcher has died at age 88
FILE - Jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Friday, May 2, 2014. The influential tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world for the spirituality of his work, has died, his record label announced on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. He was 81. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
Pharoah Sanders, influential jazz saxophonist, dies at 81
Pharoah Sanders, a tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world and known for the spirituality of his work, has died, his record label announced
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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