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Tigers, jaguars, bison among 135 exotic and endangered animals found in raid on fuel smugglers near U.S. border

Mexican authorities said Thursday that they had rescued Bengal tigers, mandrills, hyenas and even a camel during raids on a fuel smuggling ring in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, on the U.S. border. The 135 animals found at a ranch also included lions, buffalo, sulcata tortoises, spider monkeys, jaguars, an American bison and a green…

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Missing Missouri deputy attorney general found alive 6 days after vanishing in Wyoming wilderness

Missouri’s deputy attorney general was found alive in the remote Wyoming wilderness this week, six days after he vanished during a backcountry hike, authorities said. Shaun Mackelprang, 55, went missing Aug. 20 in western Wyoming’s isolated Wind River mountain range, where he had set out to summit Gannett Peak, which is the state’s highest point, according…

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Grammys 2019: Honoring Dolly Parton as MusiCares Person of the Year, the poor girl from the Great Smoky Mountains has always known what really matters

We’ve all been singing along with Dolly Parton for decades. But if you want to know the truth about her, know this: She works way more than just 9 to 5. Even with a half-century of music behind her, the glitzy, big-haired queen of country glamour is still at it 24/7, still writing her a…

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Men from Cuba and other countries describe being deported by the U.S. to a dangerous African nation: “We cannot leave”

Last year, Cuban immigrant Yasmany Moreno de Armas was working and living in Florida. He’s now in the Central African Republic, after the Trump administration sent him and dozens of deportees to the deeply impoverished and conflict-ridden nation. The 31-year-old said he only learned the U.S. government was deporting him to Africa after he arrived…

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