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A wildfire burning in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is believed to be the work of an arsonist, according to the National Park Service.

When researchers started trapping and putting radio trackers on female turkeys in the thick woods of southeast Oklahoma, they hoped to learn how hens were successfully raising their young. However, none of those 60 or so turkeys are known to have hatched offspring that lived more than a few weeks.

There was just one dog left behind, and his name was Elvis. The other 61 dogs and cats at the Chicago shelter event were adopted on the same day, leaving Elvis, a white and gray pup, the only pet sent back to the shelter where he'd lived for about four months.

Israeli attacks inside Gaza continued unabated Thursday as an agreement between Israel and Hamas to pause hostilities was finally agreed on after a 24-hour delay while negotiators raced to resolve final details.

Police investigators in Niagara Falls, New York, on Thursday were untangling the mystery behind why a car crashed and burned at a bridge at the U.S.-Canada border, killing a local couple and causing panic on both sides on one of the year's busiest travel days.

The Amazon - the lush, tropical basin that holds the world's biggest river, rainforest and a fifth of its fresh water - is running dry.

Mayor Eric Adams is being accused of sexual assault and battery in legal papers filed late Wednesday under New York State’s Adult Survivors Act.  

The Netherlands, long regarded as one of Europe's most socially liberal countries, woke up to a drastically changed political landscape Thursday after a far-right party swept national elections in a result that has reverberated throughout Europe.

In 2016, California Democratic state Assembly member Sharon Quirk-Silva sat with then-California Gov. Jerry Brown at an event where he signed baseball-type cards featuring the image of his dog, Colusa. But many of the recipients of the cards couldn’t read his cursive signature, Quirk-Silva recalled, much to the Democratic governor’s dismay. “The governor asked me what I did” before becoming a legislator, she remembered. “I said I was a teacher, and he said, ‘You have to bring back cursive writing.’”

Shortly after New Year’s Day in 2019, China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the far side of the moon, where no mission had gone before. U.S. intelligence officials say they did so quietly, taking their time to verify the rover had landed in one piece and protecting themselves from embarrassment. Hours passed before Beijing announced its historic achievement to the world. The landing was a wake-up call in Washington. China’s space program was advancing with unexpected speed.

 Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose was accused of brutally raping a Penthouse model and dragging her on the floor “like a caveman” in a New York City hotel room more than 30 years ago in a lawsuit brought Wednesday on the eve of the Adult Survivors Act expiring.  

The FBI and Canadian authorities are investigating a vehicle explosion at the Rainbow Bridge, which connects the U.S. to Canada at Niagara Falls, New York.

Israel approved a deal with Hamas early Wednesday to temporarily pause fighting in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of at least 50 of the 240 Israeli hostages held inside the enclave, the Israeli government said in a statement announcing the deal.