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Scientists found that warmer conditions sped up the sharks' growing process, and that meant they hatched from eggs earlier and were born exhausted

A Russian immigrant who once staged a monthlong hunger strike at an Arizona detention center and was shot several months later during a struggle with a federal agent near the Mexican border has pleaded guilty to illegally reentering the United States afte...

Tennessee House lawmakers on Monday passed a bill that would put public schools and districts at risk of civil lawsuits if they let transgender students or employees use multiperson bathrooms or locker rooms that don't reflect their gender at birth.

The effect George Floyd's drug use had on his health and his death remained a key thread as attorneys delivered closing arguments Monday in the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin.

Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled Monday found.

An attorney for Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson on Monday accused the 22 women who have filed lawsuits alleging they were sexually assaulted or harassed by the NFL player during massages of lying, claiming their assertions are based on an avalan...

Employees of the two main U.S. immigration enforcement agencies were directed Monday to stop referring to migrants as aliens, a dated term that many people consider offensive.

Until there's an election, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters can keep control of a local affiliate whose leader was removed because of complaints of mismanagement from the Disney performers who play such characters as Mickey Mouse and Goofy, a fe...

Illegal trade of endangered animals is something that continues unabated in spite of many awareness campaigns and government clampdowns.

Following are details of the funeral this Saturday of Britain's Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth's husband, who died on April 9 aged 99.

Experts advising Canada's most populous province of Ontario said on Friday new COVID19 cases could more than double to 10,000 a day in June, and potentially overwhelm hospitals, even if a stay at home order is extended.

Transmission rates of SARS-CoV-2 are much higher indoors than outdoors, and transmission is greatly reduced by indoor ventilation.

China's GDP jumped a record 18.3 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier, official data showed on Friday.

The Louisville police officer who fired at Breonna Taylor after being shot during the deadly raid on Taylor's apartment is writing a book.

Fiction authors Steven Dunn and Tope Falarin and dramatists Jordan E. Cooper and Sylvia Khoury are among this year's winners of the Whiting Awards, honors with a cash prize of $50,000 that are presented to each of 10 emerging writers.

Officials are warning people to stay out of the water after sharks were seen eating the carcass of a whale that has washed ashore on an Oahu beach.