One of the hyenas found in a consignment at Harare airport in Zimbabwe. Photograph: The Guardian The legal live trade in wild animals The capture of the baby elephants is just one of a number of operations that have taken …
Washington (CNN)Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday bashed his successor’s decision to rescind an immigration order shielding some children of undocumented immigrants from deportation, calling the move “cruel” and “self-defeating.” “To target these young people is wrong — because they …
Tomio Okamura’s background is about as multicultural as you can get. The son of a Czech mother and a Japanese-Korean father, he suffered racist bullying in Japan and the Czech Republic that was so severe he developed a stutter and wet his …
Naturalist says experience making second series of BBC show revealed devastating threat posed to oceans by plastic Sir David Attenborough has called for the world to cut back on its use of plastic in order to protect oceans. His new …
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump launched an attack on San Juan Mayor Carmen Yuln Cruz on Saturday for criticizing the White House’s hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico, accusing her of “poor leadership” and suggesting that the island’s residents are not …
Las Vegas (AP) — The rapid-fire popping sounded like firecrackers at first, and many in the crowd of 22,000 country music fans didn’t understand what was happening when the band stopped playing and singer Jason Aldean hustled off stage. “That’s …
Hurricane Irma appears to bringing out the best in some volunteers in southern Georgia. As many evacuees left Florida to escape the storm’s damage, locals in Valdosta, Ga., were trying to make the whole experience more comfortable. “We are having …
Official says some language in the book makes people uncomfortable although copies will remain in school libraries To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lees classic novel about racism and the American south, has been removed from a junior-high reading list in …
Vice President Mike Pence walked out on his home-state Indianapolis Colts Sunday when members of the opposing team kneeled for the national anthem, but a report that Colin Kaepernick, the player who started it all, will stand if given another …
Washington (CNN)Tom Price, the embattled health and human services secretary, resigned Friday in the midst of a scandal over his use of private planes, a storm that enraged President Donald Trump and undercut his promise to bring accountability to Washington. …
