TRIANGLE, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama and the first family are hiking at Prince William Forest Park in Virginia. Their visit Sunday comes as the National Park Service’s celebrates its centennial. The president has marked the week by creating a national monument in Maine and expanding a monument off Hawaii. Admission to national parks … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the face of mounting threats from North Korea, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged closer security ties among its chief allies in Asia and increased cooperation with strategic rival China to discourage Pyongyang from further advances in nuclear weapons. As world leaders gathered for a nuclear security summit, Obama first met … Continue reading
GARDINER, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park started shipping many of its famous wild bison to slaughter Wednesday to drive down the size of the park’s herds and respond to concerns by the livestock industry over a disease carried by the animals. Thirty animals have been shipped to slaughterhouses, and officials plan to send an … Continue reading
KOLKATA, India (AP) — A wild elephant rampaged through an east Indian town on Wednesday, smashing cars and homes and sending panicked people running before the animal was tranquilized to be returned to the forest. As the frightened elephant ran amok, trampling parked cars and motorbikes, crowds of people gathered to watch from balconies and … Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — SeaWorld announced Thursday, October 15, 2015 that it will challenge a state ruling that banned the company from breeding captive killer whales at its San Diego park. The announcement comes a week after the California Coastal Commission endorsed a $100 million expansion of the tanks SeaWorld uses to hold orcas in San … Continue reading
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — When the city started a youth baseball program geared toward predominantly black communities a decade ago, some children would show up wearing jeans and without baseball gloves. So the city would come up with the money to pay for a glove here or a baseball uniform there. The baseball program, … Continue reading
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s top environmental official said Tuesday he hopes to restart a stalled project to clean the trash- and raw sewage-filled lagoon system that hugs the site of the city’s future Olympic Park. The contractor chosen to dredge the Jacarepagua lagoon has been unable to start work on … Continue reading
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