Month: December 2019

Landyn Wadsworth has earned her spot on Santa’s nice list. The 8-year-old’s Christmas wish was to help the dogs and cats at the Tri-Cities Animal Shelter in Pasco, Washington, so she asked for money to buy pet food for Christmas instead of toys. She got quite a haul. The shelter posted a picture on Christmas

Little is known about Paleozoic creatures’ parental prowess. But a newly uncovered 300-million-year-old fossil might be the earliest evidence of a parent, well, acting like a parent. Researchers from Carleton University in Ontario, Canada, discovered the partial skeleton of a lizard-like creature that had wrapped its tail around the skeleton of a smaller creature of

Pope Francis has urged the Catholic faithful to embrace the “light of Christ” to help end conflict and injustice around the world, during his Christmas Day address. Speaking from the Vatican balcony under a clear blue sky on Wednesday, the Holy Father prayed for people struck by war, political instability, natural disasters and disease among

Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted Tuesday of his country’s “unique” advances in hypersonic weaponry, saying other countries were “trying to catch up with us.” Putin made the remarks at a Russian Defense Ministry board meeting, adding that “not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons,” according to a transcript released by

We know you want 2019 canceled, reported and blocked. You think it was awful, depressing and went on far too long. But — and hear us out here — it wasn’t ALL that bad. To end things on a great note, here’s a list of some of the good things that happened this year. The

Russia’s top diplomat has said the timing of his recent White House meeting with President Donald Trump was a “coincidence.” Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, spoke about the meeting in an interview on state media, saying it was organized a month before his trip to Washington. Trump and Lavrov met on the same day Democrats

A 9-year-old pit bull mix got the gift of his lifetime this holiday season. After more than five years living at a shelter in the care of the Fresno Bully Rescue, Seamus was adopted by his new family on December 21 — just in time for Christmas. “He landed literally the perfect fit. It took

Russia’s capital has seen record high temperatures in December with snow not predicted until the end of the month. Moscow hit 6.2 degrees Celsius (43.2 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, the warmest recorded temperature for that date. The city is often blanketed with snow in December, but unseasonably warm temperatures have cast a gloomy pall over