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Major broadcasters say ads for vaping will no longer be accepted on their airwaves. Meanwhile, in Washington, there's growing consternation and calls for action over youth vaping.

Sarah Thomas of Colorado plunged into the record books with her 54-hour feat. She finished Tuesday and said she was stung on the face by a jellyfish during the 130-mile swim.

Picket lines began forming outside GM plants after the United Auto Workers voted Sunday to begin a strike at midnight. Nearly 50,000 workers are affected by the work stoppage.

The widow of civil rights icon the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy is credited with writing the business plan for the 1955 boycott in Montgomery, Ala. She died Thursday in Atlanta.

The U.S. Marshals Service says Blane Barksdale, 56, and wife Susan, 59, "overpowered and kidnapped" three people, including two security guards, on Aug. 26 during extradition from New York to Arizona.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued the last crew member trapped aboard the overturned car carrier Golden Ray, which became disabled in Georgia's St. Simons Sound early Sunday.

The Coast Guard says 20 of the 24 people aboard the Golden Ray have been accounted for. Officials say a rescue mission will resume once the vessel is stable.

The secretary of state was on the Sunday news talk shows a day after Trump tweeted that a secret meeting to be held at Camp David between leaders of Afghanistan at the Taliban was canceled.

The Trump administration says only the federal government can set tailpipe emissions standards. It's the latest move in a months long standoff over efforts to weaken a key Obama-era climate rule.

The House of Lords gave final approval to a bill blocking Britain from leaving the European Union without first securing an exit agreement.

Some areas of the Bahamas are still only reachable by helicopter or small watercraft, like jet skis. The official death toll is 30, but it's expected to rise as search efforts continue.

The prime minister failed to garner the two-thirds of members necessary for an election he wanted to hold on Oct. 15.

The Bahamas health minister announced the higher death toll late Wednesday, as Dorian continued shadowing the U.S. East Coast.

Dorian is roughly 105 miles off the shore of Fort Pierce, Fla. It has maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour. Officials in the Bahamas say there are at least seven storm-related deaths.

The prime minister said five people were killed on Abaco Island. The Category 3 storm sustains 125 mph winds with "life-threatening" storm surge levels expected on Florida's east coast by late Monday.

Harney County Sheriff's Office confirmed Jessi Combs was trying to break her record of 398 mph when she died. Her North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger crashed in Oregon's Alvord Desert.

In a statement, the senator said his Parkinson's disease was progressing. "I will not be able to do the job over the long term in the manner the citizens of Georgia deserve," Isakson said.

Former staffers face multiple counts of aggravated manslaughter. Some face charges of tampering. State officials ruled deaths of 12 patients at a nursing home after a 2017 hurricane were homicides.

A dozen patients' deaths were ruled homicides. They died after Irma knocked out power to the air conditioning system at the South Florida center in 2017.

Lawyers for Ethan Kollie asked the court to consider "less restrictive" options than jail. Law enforcement officials say he purchased body armor and an ammunition drum used in the Aug. 4 shooting.