ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida wildlife officials are encouraged by the results of a recent survey that counted 6,620 manatees in the state.
It is the third straight year that the count showed more than 6,000...
JOHANNESBURG — The South Sudanese government and humanitarian agencies on Monday declared a famine in parts of the country, which has been devastated by three years of war.
The announcement comes as...
Industrial pollution has reached even the most remote corners of Earth: the deepest part of the sea.
Scientists have discovered “extraordinary levels” of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs,...
LOS ANGELES — When Bill Clinton was president, the operator of Los Angeles International Airport began buying up and razing Manchester Square, a cozy 1950s housing tract located under the flight...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has long cast a skeptical eye on the official unemployment rate — and this week, Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin and White House press secretary Sean Spicer have...
LOD, Israel — Tamer Nafar fell in love with hip-hop growing up amid the faded public housing blocks and garbage-strewn public parks of Ramat Eshkol, a hardscrabble interethnic neighborhood in the central...
JUAREZ, Mexico — The addicts pull up just after nightfall near a sedan parked along a busy street in this border city best known for murder.
One by one, they fork over fistfuls of cash to Sonia Garcia,...
MIAMI — More than 80 false killer whales have been found dead after stranding themselves along the remote coast of Southwest Florida in Everglades National Park, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
WASHINGTON — Rep. William Lacy Clay said that taking down the Capitol high school art competition painting of police-community relations in Ferguson, Mo., is unconstitutional.
After a week of hanging...
At least nine people were injured Monday when a man drove into a crowd of students at Ohio State University and then emerged from his vehicle to attack bystanders with a butcher knife, officials said.
The...
ANO, Nigeria — In a mechanic’s yard in northern Nigeria, a skinny boy named Amir Yusuf flits about like a nervous bird. As four guys work on the front wheel of a black Mercedes, he’s in the thick...
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island, generating a tsunami, forcing evacuations from many low-lying areas on the eastern shore.
Early reports said two people were killed.
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