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Endangered beached whale dies in New York City

An endangered whale that beached in New York City died on Thursday despite a day-long effort to keep the emaciated 18-meter (60-foot) finback alive by spraying it with water. “We are on the scene and the whale has passed,” Robert DiGiovanni, director of the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and…