Obama bans swimming with dolphins in Hawaii

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The Obama administration doesn’t want tourists swimming with dolphins in the president’s home state of Hawaii, despite the marine mammal not being threatened or endangered.

The Commerce Department’s marine fisheries agency on Tuesday proposed a ban on swimming with the Aloha State’s indigenous spinner dolphins.

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