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Secretary of State Marco Rubio pulls out of a high-level meeting on Ukraine Secretary of State Marco Rubio pulls out of a high-level meeting on Ukraine Audio will be available later today. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Fiona Hill, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center on the United States and Europe, about the Trump...

Whale swims off sandbank after big German rescue effort on Baltic coastPaul KirbyEurope digital editorEPAThe whale was first spotted stranded on a sandbank on Monday and rescuers now hope it will swim into open seaA humpback whale has freed itself from a sandbank near the German coastal city of Lübeck, after a series of rescue attempts.Rescue teams now hope the whale will swim out of the...

Air Canada pilots Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther died in LaGuardia plane crashPilots killed in LaGuardia plane crash namedFacebookAntoine Forest, 30, was identified as one of the pilots killed in the incidentThe two Air Canada pilots killed when a plane crashed into a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport have been identified as Antoine Forest and Mackenzie Gunther.Local media reported Forest...

Hantavirus may have spread between passengers on cruise ship, WHO saysWatch: What is hantavirus? Cruise ship outbreak explainedThe World Health Organization says it believes there may have been human-to-human transmission of hantavirus on the Dutch cruise ship where three passengers have died.The virus is usually spread from rodents, but the WHO said in this instance it could have been spread...