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

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There's a new member of the Pittsburgh Zoo family – an adorable baby pygmy hippopotamus named Hadari

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday invalidated a congressional map drawn by state lawmakers

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Jan Egeland speaks in a calm manner than befits his four decades of humanitarian work, but he become

An appeals court in Louisiana has ruled that Nasdaq can’t require diversity on the boards of compani

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new regulation on Tuesday to restrict the

Over the past six weeks, hundreds of out-of-control wildfires have spread across Canada, causing mas

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Senators Draft Scaled-Back Climate Bill (Reuters) Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Joseph Lieberman have cra

In the high-stakes race against sea level rise, understanding what’s causing the Greenland Ice Sheet