Former longtime South Carolina congressman John Spratt dies at 82

NEW YORK (AP) — The December holidaysare supposed to be a time of joyful celebration, but the season

For two decades, Congress has failed to pass standalone climate change legislation. That left the

President Joe Biden said on Friday that he will take executive action on climate change as talks amo

If Hyperion is considered the world's tallest living tree but no one is allowed to see it, is it sti

President Trump issued an executive order late on Monday night to ban transgender troops from servin

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Under a 1971 Congressional Act, the Bureau of Land Management has the right to round up wild horses

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A small, twin-engine aircraft with only the pilot inside crashed near a busy highway in Texas on Wed

MADRID — Spain's second heat wave in less than a month and the year's first for neighboring Portugal

When a wildfire forced Philip Connors to evacuate in a hurry a few weeks ago, he wasn't just any fir

HARARE, Zimbabwe — A helicopter herds thousands of impalas into an enclosure. A crane hoists sedated

NEW YORK — Holiday sights and sounds fill Manhattan this time of year, from ice skating at Rockefell

When the big flood comes, it will threaten millions of people, the world's fifth-largest economy and

Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches

Zombie ice will raise sea levels more than twice as much as previously forecast