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FREDERICTON — Melissa Hawkes began to feel unwell during a visit to a friend's house in March 2021. All that she remembers before blacking out is that she went to the bathroom.

NAIVASHA, Kenya (AP) — For someone who fishes for a living, nothing says a bad day like spending over 18 hours on a lake and taking home nothing.

BUCKHOLTS, Texas (AP) — On rural Texas farmland, beneath hundreds of rows of solar panels, a troop of stocky sheep rummage through pasture, casually bumping into one another as they remain committed to a single task: chewing grass.

NAIVASHA, Kenya (AP) — For someone who fishes for a living, nothing says a bad day like spending over 18 hours on a lake and taking home nothing.

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — In flooded agricultural fields near the Tennessee River, tens of thousands of sandhill cranes stand tall among broken corn stalks and shallow water searching for corn, berries, seeds and insects.

RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — Base rates for North Carolina homeowners' insurance premiums will increase on average by about 15% by mid-2026 as part of a settlement reached by the state Insurance Department and the industry.

As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for the second time in seven years, researcher Barbara J. King says there's no mistaking the nature of the phenomenon.

RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) — Base rates for North Carolina homeowners' insurance premiums will increase on average by about 15% by mid-2026 as part of a settlement reached by the state Insurance Department and the industry.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Sal Almanza has worked 24-hour shifts in grueling terrain, cutting fire lines and hauling away brush trying to keep ahead of fires that have devastated several Los Angeles neighborhoods.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Sal Almanza has worked 24-hour shifts in grueling terrain, cutting fire lines and hauling away brush trying to keep ahead of fires that have devastated several Los Angeles neighborhoods.