It pays sometimes to be a big dog, like when a blizzard hits and you need to burn off energy. The President's Portuguese Water Dog got to enjoy the snowstorm that hit Washington, D.C. over the weekend. Long legs pay off.

A little girl holds the muzzle of her dog in her hands near an enclosure made for the pet in a partially built building in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was given Mashenka, an Ussuri tiger, on his 56th birthday last year.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Siberian tigress Mashenka will be given a ten-kilogram meat cake for New Year at her home in the Black Sea resort city of Gelendzhik.

California has been up to their elbows in Chihuahuas! All over California, Chihuahuas have been abandoned at shelters at an alarming rate. In the last 12 months, animal shelters in the city of Los Angeles have taken in 4,700 Chihuahuas, 1,000

The paranormal pops up everywhere these days. In the last week, two different people have warned me against Ouija boards. In a video posted on YouTube, Richard Heene--who pretended a few weeks ago that his son was trapped in a runaway weather balloon--pond

Genome mapping showing that pandas may prefer a bamboo-based diet because they can't taste meat could unlock secrets to ensuring the survival of the endangered species

In the early 70s, English professors at the University of Michigan wanted it to allow "black English" as an acceptable form of academic communication. Invited to help develop the proposal, I deplored the idea. I said that blacks allowed to use "black ...

Tribal thinking and tribal identity factor heavily in Richard Montoya's new play "Palestine, New Mexico," running through Jan. 24 at the Mark Taper Forum. There's the close-knit tribe otherwise known as the U.S. military. An American Indian tribe that...

Classic rock legends Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles are planning a summer tour that would bring the two 1970's rock legends together to play a series of concerts in football and baseball stadiums. It is not clear whether the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac would...