An endangered Asian elephant calf was born last week at the Houston Zoo. The Texas zoo said 34-year-old Asian elephant Shanti ...

Russia has stepped up its threats to the West in response. On Tuesday, the 1,000th day of his invasion of Ukraine, Putin ...

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Hopes of a trillion-dollar climate finance fund appear to be slipping out of reach after a draft text at the Cop29 climate ...

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Tens of thousands of passengers will wake up on Saturday where they did not intend to be after a security scare forced the ...

Brittany Lovely’s classmates have organized a petition after she was allegedly told by administration: ‘Motherhood is not for the faint of heart’ ...

The “flawed” legislation was written in the runup to the last election and would have excluded tens of thousands of flat ...

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The prime minister is ramping up his efforts to rebuild ties with Brussels, recruiting a second permanent secretary in the ...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has announced that the state's reliance on hotels and motels to shelter homeless people will ...