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Animals impacted by deadly Texas floods get private flight to safety to find new homes - ...

The Trump administration is suing the state of California to block animal welfare laws that it says unconstitutionally helped ...

Nevada SPCA staff worked quickly to provide water and cooling to the distressed animal before Animal Protection Services arrived to rescue the dog and launch an investigation ...

The eastern box turtle represents holding on and surviving, sticking its neck out, which led to its status as a state symbol ...

Jailed reality TV star Joe Exotic is once again asking President Trump for a pardon. Netflix’s “Tiger King” star, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado, called on Trump “to ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met his Japanese and Philippine counterparts in a meeting Thursday on the sidelines of ...

Advocacy groups filed the lawsuit accusing the administration of systematically targeting brown-skinned people in the ongoing ...

President Donald Trump is visiting Texas on Friday to assess catastrophic flooding that has killed at least 120 people.

The Trump administration had hoped that that statement would be the final word on the saga, with Trump chiding a reporter who ...

Tribal college leaders say the proposed funding cuts would violate the U.S. government's treaty responsibilities to Native ...

Lahaina Street runs through the heart of Makaha, a neighborhood in a west Oahu community that's a lot like the Lahaina on ...