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Why Does It Seem Like Jellyfish Are All Over the East Coast?

“I don’t think it’s time to push the panic button yet,” an expert said, after rising reports of swarms and stings for beachgoers in parts of the Eastern Seaboard.

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A moon jellyfish on the sand at Savannah Beach in Lewes, Del.
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Mike Castle, Bipartisan Delaware Congressman, Dies at 86

A fiscal conservative who supported gun control and other liberal causes, he was the last Republican elected to serve his state as governor and to represent it in the House.

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Mike Castle in 2010, the year he was defeated by a Tea Party candidate in his primary campaign for the United States Senate.
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