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Recent sightings of fish, ducks and herons in a stretch of the infamously polluted Pinheiros river in São Paulo have raised hopes that wildlife in the city's main waterway may finally be returning.

The numbers used for deciding how many congressional seats each state gets cant be released until next Monday at the earliest, according to an agreement that settles litigation between the U.S. Census Bureau and a coalition of local governments and civil...

A federal judge has given the Fish and Wildlife Service just 30 more days to make an overdue decision on whether to formally propose endangered species protection for a rare desert wildflower at the center of a fight over a proposed lithium mine in Nevada...

It may be hard to believe that there are still many firsts left to check off after 93 years of the Academy Awards, and yet this year there were a handful for Asian actors and filmmakers.

In 93 years of existence, the Oscars have been postponed by shootings the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the attempted killing of Ronald Reagan and by a flood, when 1938 rainstorms overwhelmed the Los Angeles River. Sundays ceremony will be...

A federal judge overseeing a sweeping lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles on Tuesday ordered the city and county to find shelter for all unhoused residents of Skid Row within 180 days and audit any spending related to the outofcontrol crisis of peop...

The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) and Venezuelan officials said on Monday they had reached a deal to supply food to school children in the South American country suffering a humanitarian crisis spurred by an economic collapse.

The State Department on Monday urged Americans reconsider any international travel they may have planned and said it would issue specific warnings not to visit roughly 80% of the world's countries due to risks from the coronavirus pandemic.

One of the biggest casino projects ever on the Las Vegas Strip has set a date to open, after more than seven years of planning and building.

Bitcoin was last trading down 10% at $53,991 as of 1320 GMT, a whopping $12,000 below record highs set on Wednesday. Smaller rival Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum blockchain network, dropped 10% to $2,101.

The city reported 30 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, 29 of which were imported, marking the highest daily toll since March 15.

Hundreds of passengers thronged Australian airports on Monday as an open border system began with New Zealand, a pandemic milestone that allows Australian residents to fly there for the first time in over a year without having to quarantine for two weeks.

The death toll rose to 16,243 with 149 more fatalities. As the new cases shot up, the government announced that it will start vaccinating people in the 50-59 age group from April 21.

A Las Cruces high school returned to remote learning on Friday as the school district in New Mexico's second most populous city investigates a recent offcampus secret prom" that officials said violated state mandates intended to curb the spread of the cor...

Worried family members were waiting Friday to hear the fate of 11 workers still missing after a lift boat capsized earlier this week off Louisiana while the Coast Guard confirmed it pulled a second body from the Gulf of Mexico's waters.

The image that many Americans have of 13yearold Adam Toledo is frozen in time: He is standing in an alley with his hands up as the gunshot that killed him is heard.