The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends
Our vision is a world where the diversity of life thrives, ...

CAIRO (AP) - Sudanese defense minister, in uniform, announces on state TV that the military has arrested President Omar al-Bashir.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla
(AP) - Florida school board rejects motion to fire superintendent in charge of district where shooting massacre happened.

ATLANTA (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason formed a new supergroup earlier this year called Saucerful of Secrets
Rounded out by former Pink Floyd bassist Guy Pratt, The ...

COLUMBIA, S.C
(AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the South Carolina Lottery's "Palmetto Cash 5" game were:

MILAN (AP) - The German humanitarian aid group, Sea-Eye, says a pregnant woman has been evacuated from a migrant rescue ship on the eighth day at sea.

Jet Airways private airline services were suspended on Wednesday 17 April
The private airline was owned and run by Naresh Goyal from 1993, serving ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Who will be inside the suit remains unknown but "The Batman" has a release date.

BANGKOK (AP) - The presence of large numbers of Chinese vessels near islands and islets occupied by the Philippines is "a concern," a senior U.S
defense ...

UNION, S.C
(AP) - Authorities say a 13-year-old South Carolina boy is facing charges after allegedly getting drunk at his middle school and giving whiskey to ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) - A white supremacist suspected in shootings at two mosques that killed 49 people during midday Friday prayers posted ...

MONCKS CORNER, S.C
(AP) - Nearly four years ago, Heather McDowell couldn't walk in Cypress Gardens.

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A road rage incident in New Mexico left one man's finger partially bitten off and three people facing legal charges, police said.

Family and friends of a man killed by a train near Station Square in Pittsburgh this week are remembering his final act of selflessness.

United Nations, Apr 18 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations General Assembly summons next April 24 a high level event to commemorate the International ...

United Nations, Mar 8 (Prensa Latina) Everybody pays the price when it is time for inequality and oppression against women, warned UN Secretary General ...

LAKE TILLERY, N.C
(AP) - Authorities say a 66-year-old North Carolina woman was attacked and killed by two pit bulls while she was taking a walk.

Harry Styles has announced the openers for his new series of tour dates
Supporting him at these shows will be Warpaint, Kacey Musgraves, and Leon Bridges.

Santa Anita Race Track suffered its 23rd horse fatality since Dec
26, when an animal fell on the dirt crossover part of the turf course Sunday and had to be ...

ARCHDALE, N.C
(AP) - When actor Luke Perry died earlier this week, most of the world lost a popular actor and former teenage heartthrob, but Jerome Davis ...

After standing 0-5 this season in games decided by two points or fewer, the Tigers finally broke through Wednesday night, holding on for a 64-62 victory over ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission captured a diamondback rattlesnake in Jacksonville Beach Monday morning from a homeless man was ...

Do you ever want to just jump into the fray and search for Easter eggs?

MADISON, Wis
(AP) - A Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday reinstated laws Republicans passed during a lame-duck session to weaken the Democratic ...

(Rockum)- Multi-platinum, award-winning artists BLINK-182 and Lil Wayne will hit the road together for the first time on a co-headlining tour across North ...

Harper made four straight free throws over the final 31 seconds and two late 3-pointers to help Auburn clinch an 84-80 victory over No
5 Tennessee on Saturday ...

COLUMBIA, S.C
(AP) - Tacko Fall really hopes the UCF-Duke NCAA Tournament game is not all about the Knights' 7-foot-6 center and the Blue Devils' ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The city of Los Angeles is no stranger to epic street gatherings for everything from sports victory parades to televised car chases.

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) - Actor Patrick Dempsey is offering to have dinner with five, randomly selected individuals who raise money for families affected by ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Lakers wanted to move the ball on offense and contain Charlotte Hornets guard Kemba Walker on defense.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush won his defamation case on Thursday against a Sydney newspaper publisher and journalist ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala
(AP) - When it was over, Wofford coach Mike Young took a brief moment to enjoy the view.

Santiago de Chile, Apr 12 (Prensa Latina) Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has welcomed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to La Moneda Palace on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - It wasn't exactly a mic-drop moment
But when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi abruptly ended a conversation as a freshman lawmaker no ...

BERLIN (AP) - Germany's justice minister is criticizing plans for Facebook to combine its instant-messaging services after a meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ...

RALEIGH, N.C
(AP) - Garrison Mathews had a career-high 44 points as Lipscomb narrowly defeated North Carolina State 94-93 in the quarterfinals of the NIT ...

BOSTON (AP) - A wide-ranging college admissions cheating scheme allowed wealthy parents not only to get their kids into sought-after schools but to write off ...

2:50 p.m.
Boston Marathon organizers and city officials have held a moment of silence in tribute to those who were killed or wounded in the 2013 finish line ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va
(AP) - Thousands of fans turned out Saturday to celebrate Virginia's first national championship in basketball.

CHARLOTTE, N.C
(AP) - Boston's Jayson Tatum got his gamewinner from midcourt
Oklahoma City's Hamidou Diallo went over Shaquille O'Neal to help win his ...

MIAMI (AP) - Dwyane Wade's final home game was memorable for countless reasons.

CHICAGO (AP) - Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot easily won the Chicago mayor's race Tuesday, earning support from every part of the city to defeat a ...

NEW YORK (AP) - David Brion Davis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who documented the centrality of slavery in Western culture through a landmark trilogy ...

DURHAM, N.C
(AP) - Freshman sensation Zion Williamson was knocked out of the North Carolina-Duke rivalry game by a knee injury after his Nike shoe blew ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Thousands are queuing at Copenhagen Zoo to see two giant black-and-white bears on loan from China under Beijing's ...

FERGUSON, Mo
(AP) - Michael Brown's mother was defeated Tuesday in her bid for a seat on the City Council in Ferguson, Missouri, where her son died in a ...

LONDON (AP) - Paul Pogba's calm nerves and David De Gea's quick reflexes kept Manchester United in the hunt for a top-four finish in the Premier League on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump took a victory lap after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his Russia investigation
It may have been ...

MODESTO, Calif
(AP) - A man suspected of being in the country illegally has pleaded not guilty to killing a Northern California police officer during a traffic stop ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - David Malpass, the Treasury official nominated by President Donald Trump to head the 189-nation World Bank, was elected to the job on ...

8:35 p.m.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says in an emergency call with Cabinet members and White House aides that the administration will ...

BOSTON (AP) - A former women's soccer coach at Yale University pleaded guilty Thursday to taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for ...

NEW YORK (AP) - In a story March 7 about Facebook fighting vaccine information on its platform, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Facebook ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Lyft's shares soared as the company went public Friday, giving investors their first chance to bet on the future of the ride-hailing ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a March 26 story about former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos's appearance before Congress, The Associated Press ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn
(AP) - Vanderbilt used a 12-day break for final exams to figure out how to play without freshman Darius Garland.

GENEVA (AP) - The inventor of the World Wide Web knows his revolutionary innovation is coming of age, and doesn't always like what he sees: state-sponsored ...

NEW YORK (AP) - An advocacy group is warning of increased Islamophobia after a New York man was charged with threatening the life of a Muslim ...

STRASBOURG, France (AP) - Monuments are the emotional backbone of France
That accounts for the despair over a blaze that killed no one, yet seared the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a story March 4 about President Donald Trump's proposed executive order to protect free speech on college campuses, The Associated ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S
manufacturers grew at a faster pace in March, as the pace of employment jumped and new orders and production improved.

ESPOO, Finland (AP) - The International Ice Hockey Federation offered an explanation Monday for the decision to waive off what would have been the gold ...

PARIS (AP) - French opposition lawmakers from the right and left are combining efforts to try to block President Emmanuel Macron's plan to privatize Paris ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif
(AP) - A federal judge on Friday halted sales of high-capacity ammunition magazines in California, giving state officials a chance to ...

CHICAGO (AP) - "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges accusing him of lying to the police about being the victim of a racist and ...

The most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform? ? Alexis de Tocqueville
On Sunday 21 April and in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Proposals by a U.S
judge to prevent Pacific Gas & Electric Co
equipment from causing more wildfires would endanger lives, could cost ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Tony Bennett had few words to say, but many more to sing.

Amazon's breakup with New York was still *fresh* when other cities started sending their own valentines to the online giant
Officials in Newark, New Jersey, one ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis has issued sweeping new sex abuse legislation for the Vatican City State and Vatican diplomats that requires the immediate ...

Captivated by a handful of liberal superstars, they are venturing where the party has long feared to tread: Steep taxes on the rich
Abolishing an immigration ...

On 17 April 2019, Taiwanese working people received a memo, signed by folklore sea goddess Mazu herself, that Foxconn's CEO Terry Guo Tai-ming (???) ...

TAOS, N.M
(AP) - The Latest on 11 children found living in a filthy, makeshift compound in New Mexico (all times local):

HELSINKI (AP) - Finland's outgoing prime minister, who abruptly tendered the resignation of his center-right government just weeks before the general election, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar released 12 years of tax returns Monday, saying "transparency and accountability are ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to ...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif
(AP) - As terrified people scrambled out of broken windows, screaming and bleeding and fleeing a mass shooting inside a California ...

Celebrities, models and fashion industry peers who had gathered at Chanel's catwalk show Tuesday held a minute's silence to bid adieu to the iconic couturier, ...

On what should have been a peaceful and calm Easter Sunday, Sri Lanka was hit by a horrific terrorist attack
On Sunday, churches and hotels across the island ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Special counsel Robert Mueller is still seeking to keep secret details about his investigation into former Trump campaign chairman Paul ...

BEIJING (AP) - Most global stock markets rose Thursday as U.S
and Chinese officials entered two days of negotiations aimed at ending a bruising tariff battle.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A grand Washington ritual became a potential casualty of the partial government shutdown Wednesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ...

"When China wakes up, she will shake the world." This famous prediction of Napoleon has been confirmed by history
Particularly in the last 20 years, China has ...

7 p.m.
The Rams held a one-hour, 33-minute practice at the Falcons' facility in Flowery Branch
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"It was great," Rams coach Sean ...

ROME (AP) - France's ambassador returned to Italy on Friday, professing confidence that the two neighbors could deal with disagreements and work through ...

BEIRUT (AP) - The use of armed drones in the Middle East, driven largely by sales from China, has grown significantly in the past few years with an increasing ...

VIENNA (AP) - Iran is continuing to comply with the landmark 2015 deal with major powers aimed at preventing Tehran from building atomic weapons in ...

BEIJING (AP) - U.S
and other countries have not presented any conclusive evidence that Chinese telecoms gear maker Huawei Technologies threatens their ...

QUINCY, Mass
(AP) - At a sea turtle hospital housed at an old New England shipyard, a biologist leans over a table and uses a needle to draw blood from a sick ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia is building up its land forces and weapons along the border, Ukraine's president said Saturday as German Chancellor Angela ...

TOKYO (AP) - The IOC has set up an advisory committee on human rights chaired by Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the former U.N
high commissioner for human ...

YORK, S.C
(AP) - A South Carolina woman who prosecutors say used drugs during her pregnancy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after her baby died ...

BERLIN (AP) - The European Union's migration commissioner is calling on member countries that have turned against a U.N.-backed migration pact to ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Time magazine on Tuesday recognized journalists, including the slain Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, as its 2018 Person of the Year in ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The tiny, energy-rich Arab nation of Qatar announced Monday it will withdraw from OPEC in January, a rebuke of the ...

In recent months, a protracted struggle has been underway in China, with workers and students standing in solidarity against the pro-capitalist regime
This is ...

Are fish from the Pacific Ocean and Japanese coastal and inland waters safe to eat 16 months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster?

The development of the International Left Opposition is proceeding amidst sharp crises that cast the fainthearted and the short-sighted into pessimism
In reality ...