The president said all he wants for Christmas is hugs from his daughters, but Sasha and Malia have other plans. During a Q&A with kids at the Children's National Medical Center on Tuesday, the girls revealed they're getting their father "sports stuff." Th

The San Diego Zoo's resident giant panda cub, Yun Zi, is becoming more self-assured as he grows -- enough so, in fact, that he ventured out of his indoor enclosure Monday to frolic with his mother, Bai Yun, in the great outdoors.

Outgoing Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine got a surprise on his radio show Tuesday -- a phone call from President Barack Obama. Kaine was taking calls during his final appearance on his "Ask the Governor

The President looks back to the bipartisan Patient's Bill of Rights, a bill that was defeated in Congress at the hands of special interests and their supporters, and notes that health insurance reform covers the same ground and much more in terms of givin

Pushing on in years, the 35-year-old bird lives in Florida, with Cherie Wachter, at the Humane Society of Broward County. "She has become part of the family and is very particular about who she becomes friends with," said Ms Wachter.

Last month on the Daily Show, Jane Goodall talked about how she had been criticized for having a non-vegan cake with a wax candle on it for her 75th birthday (see video below). This is a woman who has devoted her life to saving animals, who is probably

Compared with the rest of the crowd, he looks a little underdressed. The lone adult King Penguin - the one in black and white was spotted wandering into the middle of a gathering of fluffy chicks fattening up on the shoreline.

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Ravens have feelings, too, at least judging from an eerie scene Tuesday morning on Minnie Street in east Fairbanks. After two ravens roosting on top of a power transformer were electrocuted, hundreds of ravens showed up within a minute or two and star