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, ...

Forensic geologist, Scott Wolter, has put forward a radical new theory concerning a set of three inscribed stones found near Spirit Pond in Phippsburg more than ...

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 ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) - US wholesale prices rose 0.6%

in March, biggest gain in 5 months, led higher by gas costs.

Paraplegic climber Enock Glidden, with help from friends in the rock climbing community, achieves his dream of summiting a big wall in Yosemite.

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C
(AP) - The South Carolina General Assembly honors University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides (Pas-TEE-Dees) who is retiring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The International Baccalaureate, an alternative to the Advanced Placement program, is offered in 700 schools.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The president isn't waiting
As Washington counts down the final hours until publication of the redacted special counsel report - now ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

SANTA FE, N.M
(AP) - The Latest on the federal trial of a New Mexico priest charged with sex abuse in New Mexico (all times local):

Special counsel Robert Mueller's sentencing memorandum for former President Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was submitted Friday and ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Marijuana is legal for adults over the age of 21 in 11 states; medical marijuana is legal in 33.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Rival political factions took to the streets across Venezuela on Saturday in a mounting struggle for control of the crisis-wracked ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Army coach Jeff Monken hopped on top of a wall and pumped his fist toward stoked cadets set to belt out the alma mater
Monken brought ...

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 ...

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

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

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

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the arrest of his fiercest critic in Congress after revoking the senator's amnesty for ...

OAKLAND, Calif
(AP) - Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs still had plenty of firepower on offense even without star running back Kareem Hunt.

By Nicholas Birns, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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In 2010 I published a ...

Emiliano Carchia: Demetrius Jackson likely to join Chinese team Beijing Ducks after being waived by the Philadelphia 76ers, a source told Sportando.

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 Evan Fagan, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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On June 9, the House of ...

Electoral results provide an important, albeit imperfect snapshot of the mood in society at any given time
Although they cannot reflect the full complexity of the ...

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) threw down the gauntlet to the rest of the their political rivals on Saturday at its mass rally to launch their manifesto for the ...

Although it had been widely predicted, the landslide victory of Bernie sanders in the New Hampshire primary produced shock waves
After narrowly losing in ...