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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, ...

With the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands just around the corner, it's time to brush up on this year's field for the first jewel of the Triple Crown at ...

While the field for the 2018 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve is shaping up to be one of the deepest in recent memory, the Longines Kentucky ...

Majestic bloodlines are a vital facet of horse racing and can be found in many of the sport's great champions as well as the places where they were born
Arthur ...

The Longines Kentucky Oaks will be the marquee race on Friday, May 5, at Churchill Downs
The 1 1/8-mile race has emerged as arguably the most important ...

For the most part, the great American-based fillies and mares of the last few decades were stars who beat the boys in Triple Crown races or major Grade 1 ...

The 20th edition of the Grade 2, $250000 Lexus Raven Run Stakes at Keeneland enticed 16 owners and trainers to enter one of the last graded stakes this year ...

The $6 million Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Classic, set for Saturday, Nov
3, at approximately 5:44 p.m
ET, caps off two days of elite competition at the 2018 World ...

It's hard to believe that the end of summer is already upon us, but Labor Day marked the closing days of the summer meets at Del Mar and Saratoga, so in the ...

The Grade 1, $500000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes presented by Lane's End is a race at Keeneland open to 3-year-old fillies by invitation only.

The Queen's Plate is Canadian racing's equivalent to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve as the first jewel in our northern neighbor's Triple ...

Saturday's $750000 Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes at Belmont Park is one of the most prestigious races in the sport, held for the 100th time this year, and it's a ...

The 22nd running of the Grade 1, $800000 Ricoh Woodbine Mile at Woodbine is a "Win & You're In" race for the Breeders' Cup Mile on Nov
3, so the spotlight is ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Kyle Guy had every reason to look toward next season the moment last season ended, a stunning and humiliating loss to UMBC in the ...

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 ...

When Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert ships a horse to Belmont Park, you can bet he means business.

The path to the 2018 Breeders' Cup World Championships at Churchill Downs on Nov
2-3 is a road with plenty of ups and downs as talented racehorses vie for ...

The 67th running of the Grade 1, $300000 United Nations Stakes brings together a field of nine at Monmouth Park, with four of them trained by Chad Brown.

Horse racing is a world of its own, and every racing fan has a few questions when they first dive into the sport (and sometimes after they've been in it for a while!).

The 2018 midterms have come and gone and there were no major surprises
Both Democrats and Republicans worked to mobilize millions and opened their ...

Anyone who doubts Frank Stronach's ability to think big needs only to gaze at the 473-ton steel and bronze statue of Pegasus, the winged stallion of Greek ...

The 2018 Breeders' Cup World Championships marks the 35th year the best Thoroughbreds in North America meet up to compete in races that usually ...

The $6 million Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Classic, set for Saturday, Nov
4, at approximately 8:35 p.m
ET, caps off two days of elite competition at the 2017 World ...

One of the great obstacles John Velazquez faced presented itself long before his first mount
His mother, Margarita, viewed her son as a potential attorney or ...

The University of Louisville men's basketball team has been stripped of its 2013 national title over a sex scandal that included using strippers and prostitutes to ...

What defines a champion? Is it talent; the raw ability that gives an athlete the ability to excel in their sport? Is it accomplishments; the record of achievements that ...

Another Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands is in the history books, and now, the focus of the horse racing world shifts to the May 20 Preakness Stakes, ...

Teachers are on the move around the United States
By shutting down schools in every county in the state of West Virginia?even defying anti-strike laws that ...

Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper credited with 309 kills?and an advocate for women's rights
On a U.S
tour in 1942, she found a friend in the first lady.

A Triple Crown won't be on the line this year, but the June 10 Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets still promises to be one of the year's highlight events, ...

It's interesting living in Mexico
They still make Coca-Cola with cane sugar, not the corn syrup they now use in the U.S., so Cokes here taste the way they did ...

By Taylor Lewis and Kate Ter?n, Research Associates at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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STAYING: Trevor Booker, Trey Burke, Alec Burks, Jack Cooley, Bryce Cotton, Dante Exum, Derrick Favors, Rudy Gobert, Gordon Hayward, Rodney Hood, Joe ...

On 10 September 2014, the United States of America informed the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) about an ...

Former player and current ESPN analyst Jalen Rose was one of many NBA personalities in Madrid during the World Cup
HoopsHype caught up with him at the ...

COHA has been concerned since late last year over the growing indications that Secretary General Luis Leonardo Almagro Lemes would seek to invoke the ...

To commemorate July 4, 1776, here are 1776 songs about America, with a Spotify playlist for you to stream them all.

By W
Alejandro Sanchez, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Crossover analyses between fictive works such as zombie films and ...

This month marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
This book revolutionised thinking about the living world ...

Al margen un sello con el Escudo Nacional, que dice: Estados Unidos Mexicanos.- Secretar?a de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales
RAFAEL PACCHIANO ...