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Jim Inhofe plans to announce soon that he will retire from Congress before his six-year term is up, triggering a special election this year in Oklahoma to pick his replacement, according to a person with direct knowledge of the senator's plans.... The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details. The timing of the announcement is related to an quirk in Oklahoma law that requires the governor to call a special election if a lawmaker announces th

They have surprised the users of public toilets by their sudden appearances and stopped a children’s soccer match by ambling onto the field.... But over hundreds of years, human hunting diminished their numbers and drove them to subantarctic islands hundreds of miles south.... In recent decades the animals — which are one of the world’s rarest sea lion species — began, slowly and unexpectedly, to return to New Zealand’s mainland.It is a conservation story of hope and possibility....

Thankfully, the civil rights movement and women’s right movement knocked down some — though certainly not all — of those obstacles.... This progress toward justice and equality was aided by many people, but two of the most important were courageous lawyers who became Supreme Court justices: Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice on our nation’s highest court, died in 1993 at age 84.... And on Friday we lost Ruth Bader Ginsburg at age 87. PELOSI AC