California is confronting a rare kind of security anxiety after a federal warning suggested Iran might consider using drones against targets on the West Coast. The alert, shared with law enforcement before open conflict between the United States and Tehran, has rippled from police briefings to city halls and living rooms across the state. Officials…

Cats are often described as low maintenance, yet detailed guidance on Cat Care Essentials shows that How to Keep Your Feline Friend Happy and Healthy Caring for a cat involves much more than topping up food and scooping a litter box. Many of the habits that truly light up a cat’s day are small, specific behaviors…

A French officer has been killed and six of his comrades wounded in a drone strike on a military base in northern Iraq, a loss that President Emmanuel Macron has condemned as a grave breach of the rules protecting foreign forces. The attack, which hit a site used for counterterrorism training, has sharpened debate over…

Forecasters are warning that a powerful late-season winter storm could drop close to five feet of snow on parts of the Pacific Northwest and the northern tier of states, creating blizzard conditions and shutting down travel across wide areas. The system is already triggering winter storm and blizzard alerts, with meteorologists urging residents to prepare…

Federal land managers are moving ahead with a plan to capture and remove hundreds of wild burros from the Lake Pleasant area in central Arizona, reshaping a landscape where the animals have become a familiar sight for boaters and hikers. The decision follows years of debate over how many burros the desert can support, how…

Donald Trump’s decision to highlight an old photograph of himself in a military school uniform has set off a new wave of criticism, with detractors accusing him of romanticizing service he never actually performed. The image, taken during his time at the New York Military Academy, has collided with renewed scrutiny of his Vietnam era draft…

A tense emergency meeting at Silsbee City Hall has turned a local animal control scandal into a full-blown crisis of confidence in city leadership. Residents packed the room to demand answers about how euthanized dogs were handled, why one animal’s body ended up in a creek, and whether officials moved fast enough once the allegations surfaced. The…

Across the United States, animals that had vanished from local memory are beginning to slip back into view. From predators padding across city fringes to fish nosing into rivers that ran dry of them for generations, these quiet returns are reshaping both ecosystems and the way communities think about wildness close to home. These comebacks…