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Yosemite adding 400 acres of wetlands, meadow to park

Visitors to Yosemite National Park in California have more room to roam after official on Wednesday announced a 400-acre expansion of the park — its largest in nearly 70 years.

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3 killed when 2 planes collide in midair at Georgia airport

Three people died Wednesday after two small airplanes collided in midair at a rural airport in western Georgia, where one witness told authorities the pilots may have been trying to land at the same time.

 
Train derails in Egypt and kills 5 people

A train went off the tracks south of Egypt’s capital, Cairo, on Wednesday, killing five people, according to the Health Ministry.

Green Party presidential candidate Stein faces charges in pipeline protest

Authorities say they will charge Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein who is accused of spray-painting construction equipment during a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.

US officials: Most humpback whales no longer endangered

Federal authorities took most humpback whales off the endangered species list Tuesday, saying their numbers have recovered through international efforts to protect the giant mammals.

 
Britain is building 13-foot-high wall to stop migrants

Britain hopes a 13-foot-high concrete wall will succeed where security guards and barbed wire have failed and stop migrants reaching the United Kingdom from the northern French port of Calais.

International Space Station crew back on solid ground

After watching more than 2,750 sunrises from above the Earth, three crew members of the International Space Station returned to the planet for a sparkling sunrise back on Earth Wednesday.

French woman who received first face transplant dies

Isabelle Dinoire, a Frenchwoman who received the world’s first partial face transplant, has died more than a decade after a complex and daring operation that set the stage for dozens of similar transplants worldwide. She was 49.

Medical scandal results in Nobel Prize judges being fired

Two high profile members of the Nobel Assembly were asked to resign as part of the fallout from the scientific scandal centered on Dr. Paolo Macchiarini — a scandal that left two dead and tarnished the reputation of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine.