In 1954, the USPS was looking for innovative ways to process the 54 billion items mailed. National Geographic traveled to ...

I am standing on its muddy shores, watching, with some apprehension, a 6-and-a-half-foot alligator. Its pewter eyes blend in ...

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Costa Rica’s Ostional arribada brings thousands of olive ridley turtles ashore. Learn the best months to visit, how the moon affects nesting, and the rules travelers need to know.

Camp Fireside accuses the town of illegally installing a gravel launch on a sliver of lake that’s been in dispute since the ...

With as decorated a program as Maryland men’s lacrosse, it was a matter of time before its former player received their ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City’s SEA LIFE Aquarium at Crown Center recently featured its animal residents as World Cup match predictors, with sea turtle Gertrude ultimately selecting the United States ...

As the U.S. prepares for its semiquincentennial, political divisions are testing what is traditionally a unifying summer ...

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Children’s book experts Lucy Mann and Bee Quammie are tapped into what tweens and teens are reading this summer.  On The Next ...