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TABERNACLE, N.J. (AP) — Firefighting crews have managed to contain 90% of a forest fire that burned 6.7 square miles in the New Jersey Pinelands. The New Jersey Forest Fire Service on Monday night said that the blaze in Wharton State Forest was not threatening any structures, and no one had been injured by it.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Elephants have trampled a Spanish tourist to death at a wildlife reserve in South Africa after he got out of his vehicle and approached a herd to take photographs. Local authorities say the 43-year-old man was killed on Sunday at Pilanesberg National Park in the North West province. The

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese navy report says lack of instructions to the crew and their failure to keep a lookout and communicate led two Japanese navy helicopters to collide during nighttime training in April, killing all eight people on board.  The two SH-60K reconnaissance helicopters from the Maritime Self-Defense Force crashed during

Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The overall health of the Chesapeake Bay has received its highest grade since 2002 in an annual report released by scientists: a C-plus. The health of the nation’s largest estuary is a reflection of what’s happening across its six-state watershed, which includes Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and

Associated Press A great-grandmother from Pennsylvania who recently completed radiation treatments for breast cancer won $5 million on a scratch-off state lottery ticket that she only bought because a scheduled family trip didn’t go as planned. Donna Osborne, 75, scored the big prize last month when she bought a $50 “Monopoly Own It All” ticket

AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve faces a cooling job market as well as persistently high prices, Chair Jerome Powell said in testimony to Congress, a shift in emphasis away from the Fed’s single-minded fight against inflation that suggests it’s moving closer to cutting interest rates. The Fed has made “considerable progress”

AP Sports Writers LONDON (AP) — Novak Djokovic is just one example of a superstar athlete who manages to find motivation wherever possible. Serena Williams, Michael Jordan and Tom Brady are others who come to mind. With Djokovic, it often derives from — or at least his perception that there are — crowds who are

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek officials say a French crew member on a boat participating in yacht race on the Aegean Sea has died after falling overboard in strong winds. A coast guard statement says the accident occurred late Monday off the eastern island of Kassos. It says the crew member was a 40-year-old woman.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish officials say a life raft carrying migrants has crashed into rocks off Turkey’s Aegean coastal town of Cesme, killing seven people on board. Nineteen people were rescued and one person is reported missing. The coast guard says the survivors told them they were put in a life raft and left

HAYWARD, Wisc. (AP) — A fraught and violent history for centuries disrupted Indigenous people’s lives in the Upper Midwest, barring them from traditional food gathering practices like spearfishing, hunting and harvesting wild rice. Maintaining their treaty rights to hunt and fish on ancestral lands, and teaching Ojibwe language and activities like spearfishing to the younger

Associated Press HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — Members of the Ojibwe and other tribes in the northern Great Lakes region have spearfished walleye for centuries, where the practice is a right enshrined in 19th century treaties, a historic part of their culture and an important part of food sovereignty. But historically the government and local opposition

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Rent inflation remains a pressure point for small businesses. The Bank of America Institute found that average monthly rent payment growth for the bank’s small business clients rose 12% year-over-year in May. The rent payments per client closely track the nonresidential real estate rents component of the Producer

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have evacuated a children’s hospital and a retirement home on the outskirts of the southern city of Patras after a summer wildfire flared in the area amid hot, windy weather. A fire service spokesman says the evacuations were carried out as a precaution and a large firefighting effort was

Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in southern Gaza killed at least 25 Palestinians on Tuesday, as heavy bombardment in the north forced the closure of medical facilities in Gaza City and sent thousands fleeing in search of increasingly elusive refuge. Israel’s new ground assault in Gaza’s