The founders were especially concerned that the federal government would be used by special interests to pledge our country to war. They knew that war posed the greatest risk to our well being, both economically and spiritually

Parishioners of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Modesto have been told they should consider going to confession if they voted for Barack Obama, because of the president-elect's position condoning abortion.

Only a handful of whales have survived a mass stranding on Tasmania's west coast. Between 80 and 100 long-finned pilot whales were discovered strewn across rocks at a remote inlet at Sandy Cape yesterday, just a week after 65 whales of the same species

SUMAS, Wash. -- Years of collecting dead carcasses and examining lead-poisoned livers have convinced Mike Smith of this: to save Pacific Coast trumpeter swans, he has to haze them. As the sun set behind Judson Lake _ the likely source of the lead poiso

SON TAY, Vietnam -- A rare East Asian turtle, one of just four believed left in the world, was swept away by a flood, taken hostage by an enterprising fisherman and nearly ended up in a soup pot. Instead, the 150-pound animal returned to its lake Wedne

Pet is believed to have followed scent of bait to neighbor's porch One minute a family dog named Grizzly was playing in front of the house, the next he was shrieking and thrashing wildly, a trap locked in a death grip around his head, his face distor

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) _ New Zealand will not be able to quickly rescue anyone who gets lost or hurt if clashes erupt between animal rights activists and Japanese whalers off the north Antarctic coast, the foreign minister said Saturday. The whal

Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched a new global anti-whaling campaign which seeks to ban all whaling. "What makes it even worse is the brutality (of whale hunting)," said Tutu, a Nobel peace laureate, at the launch. The International Fund for An

Anti-whaling groups have reacted cautiously to a report that the New Zealand Government is backing down on the need to use the Air Force to monitor the Japanese whaling fleet. Greenpeace, which is not sending a fleet to confront the Japanese this seaso

Only days before the cinematic release of a documentary about Luna - the killer whale that captivated the public before its death in Nootka Sound in 2006 - biologists are coming to terms with the loss of seven whales from the salmon-dependent southern res