Tim Scott: Lafayette Square should not have been cleared for Trump

Sen. Tim Scott said Tuesday that protesters in Lafayette Square should not have been cleared with…

Rod Rosenstein to kick off Senate’s Russia redux hearings

In another time, it would have been the biggest story of the week: a former top…

Remembering Cheetahs photography competition – the winners

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Locked down afloat: why dozens of cruise ships ended up stranded in Manila Bay

From the balcony of her cabin, Sofia Ivanov* welcomes the light rain that cools the scorching…

‘The water will come back’: why Kenya’s struggle against flooding is far from over

Using a short piece of nylon line with a hook at one end and a long…

Why can’t we leave them alone? The troubling truth about selfies with sloths

Nobody seems to know quite how the sloth became the rock star of the animal kingdom.…

Football pitch-sized area of tropical rainforest lost every six seconds

The amount of pristine tropical rainforest lost across the globe increased last year, as the equivalent…

Berta Caceres was exceptional. Her murder was all too commonplace | Nina Lakhani

Fifty-one months ago today Berta Caceres was gunned down by hired assassins at her home in…

As Trump rages, Republicans plead for calm

President Donald Trump spent Monday further fanning the flames of confrontation between protesters and police. And…

Black lawmakers look to ‘forcefully respond’ to police brutality crisis

Rep. Karen Bass. | Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP Photo Black leaders in Congress…