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DETROIT (AP) — A U.S. investigation into Teslas operating on partially automated driving systems that have crashed into parked emergency vehicles has moved a step closer to a recall.

LONDON (AP) — An expert group drafted by the World Health Organization to help investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic says further research is needed to determine how COVID-19 first began, including a more detailed analysis of the possibility it was a laboratory accident.

STILLWATER, Okla. – While rain is a good thing for most landscapes, it also often invites unwanted guests around the home in the form of pesky, blood-sucking mosquitoes.

What large green caterpillar with a bent short yellow tail sticking up from one end was chomping away on the pink evening primroses? A hornworm. Growing in a clay pot nestled within a pot sanctuary, the plants were obviously spotted by a hawkmoth. Not the five-spotted hawkmoth. Its gigantic larva, the tomato hornworm, has diagonal white stripes along its big green body. This enormous caterpillar had eye spots along its back. Who are you? Other than being partially denuded, the evening primrose seemed fine.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has long defended its World War II-era pope, Pius XII, against criticism that he remained silent as the Holocaust unfolded, insisting that he worked quietly behind the scenes to save lives. A new book, citing recently opened Vatican archives, suggests the lives the Vatican worked hardest to save were Jews who had converted to Catholicism or were children of Catholic-Jewish “mixed marriages.”