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The 74-foot Norway spruce was driven from Massachusetts to Manhattan's Center Plaza to be hoisted in place by a crane.

Meanwhile, strikes continued in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon, killing dozens.

The animals have not been used as test subjects since 2015, when the NIH retired chimpanzees from invasive research.