Viking launched its new Mississippi cruise operation, its first in the United States, on Saturday, September 3, after seven years of planning. The new river cruise ship Viking Mississippi embarked its first passengers at Lambert’s Landing in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota for an 8-day cruise south on the Mississippi to St. Louis, Missouri.

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Faced with the prospect of a week-long heat wave bringing record-setting temperatures and straining the state’s power grid, California’s governor on Friday issued an executive order that among other steps suspends California’s requirement that ocean-going vessels use shore power in port. It was the first time in 2022 that the state took the action to reverse its increasingly tight emissions controls on vessels.

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The United Kingdom and the world paused on Thursday afternoon to pay tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth II on news of her passing at age 96. Newscasters on the BBC were emotional reading the news and citizens began to gather to mark the passing for many of them of the only head of state they have ever known.

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