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Scientists standing by to rescue rare manatee sighted in cold New England waters

August 12, 2025

A manatee was recently spotted off the coast of Massachusetts for the first time in almost a decade. Scientists told The Associated Press Friday that officials are standing by to intervene if needed. The manatee was first seen July 26 off the southwestern coast of Cape Cod in the area of Nantucket Sound. Bystanders found it beached a few days later on the tidal flats in Mattapoisett and pushed the manatee back into the water. The animals usually find habitat in warmer southern waters. Experts say the animals could become sick, starve or die in the colder New England water.

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Massachusetts Health Connector Executive Director Audrey Morse Gasteier poses for a portrait in the state health insurance marketplace's office Tuesday, July 2, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo /Leah Willingham)

Fears in Massachusetts that Trump’s bill could unravel health safety net

July 3, 2025

In the state that served as the model for Obamacare, advocates and health care workers fear the Trump administration is dismantling the program piece-by-piece. The massive tax and spending cuts bill that got final approval in the House Thursday will strip health insurance from up to a quarter of the roughly 400,000 people enrolled in Massachusetts Health Connector, according to state estimates. The changes will create anew the coverage gaps state officials were working to close when Massachusetts in 2006 became the first U.S. state to require that nearly all residents have health insurance.

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FILE - Tamara Lanier attends a news conference near the Harvard Club, on March 20, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a long legal battle

May 28, 2025

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people. A lawyer says the images will be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history with a woman who says she is one of the subjects’ descendants. The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to the International African American Museum in South Carolina. The settlement marks the end of a 15-year battle between Lanier and the Ivy League school to release the 19th-century “daguerreotypes,” a precursor to modern-day photographs.

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