Floodwaters that overtook dams and forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people in Central Michigan now threaten a Dow Superfund site and downstream communities (May 21).
For Yazidi women like Laila Taloo, the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate meant death to their men, rape and slavery for them. IS no longer holds any territory in Iraq and Syria, but many Yazidis are still missing (May 21).
Utah Highway Patrol troopers helped a moose family out of danger. Troopers in Summit County used their patrol vehicle to urge a mamma moose and her two calves to move off the roadway to safety (May 19).
The City of New Orleans is building a $30 million park to be built on land donated to the city by the nuns of the Congregation of St. Joseph to help remedy chronic flooding challenges (May 21).
President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen was released from federal prison Thursday to serve the remainder of his sentence at home (May 21).
Penguins at the Oregon Zoo kept busy on a hike through the woods while the facility is closed to the public amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A 2-month-old male Amur leopard cub is entertaining himself in front of a camera inside his enclosure at the Brookfield Zoo. The zoo is closed to visitors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two lion cubs were born at the Denver Zoo on April 23. Video shows the mother, a 4-year-old lioness named Kamara, nursing and grooming the two cubs.
Highlights of this day in history for May 6: The hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg explodes and crashes; Psychologist Sigmund Freud and actor-director Orson Welles born; Roger Bannister is the first athlete to run a mile in fewer than four minutes.
Highlights of this day in history for April 27: President and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant born; Explorer Ferdinand Magellan killed; U.S. Marines attack North Africa during the First Barbary War; Ailing baseball star Babe Ruth honored.
