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On April 29, 2026, the humpback whale recovered from a shallow bay off Wismar was being transported towards the North Sea in a flooded cargo ship just before the Danish border in Fehmarn, Germany.

Philip Dulian

Timmy the humpback whale found dead off Danish coast

The Associated Press

A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly becoming stranded off Germany's Baltic Sea coast, Danish authorities said Saturday.

Sen. Bill Cassidy poses for a portrait after a campaign event in Baton Rouge, La. on May 4, 2026.

Annie Flanagan for NPR

Policy and Politics

This Republican voted to convict Trump. Now he's up for reelection. Can he survive?

Sam Gringlas

A bull male elephant is seen meticulously dismantling an electric fence inside Yala National Park in Sri Lanka. Elephants are often herded into parks to keep them from eating the crops of farmers, but the pachyderms have figured out how to manipulate the wooden fence poles to lay the wires flat and then step over them.

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Elephants eat their crops. Farmers strike back. It's a war that's only getting worse

Diaa Hadid, Susitha Fernando

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Mayor Thorsten Grädler of Vilseck, Germany, discovered that his town could be the target of President Trump's U.S. troop cuts on his first day in office, when a journalist told him during a press conference. Grädler says the impact on his town would be "dramatic."

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President Trump's troop withdrawal threat rattles residents of a small Bavarian town reliant on U.S. military personnel and their families for both income and friendships built over decades.