This video shows two African wild dog parents returning to a den full of hungry pups.
Ecotourism operator Working with Wildlife shot the rare footage on its private game reserve in the South African portion of the Kalahari Desert.
African wild dogs are one of the world’s most endangered animals. For at least the last 30 years, human encroachment has taken a serious toll on the animal’s numbers.
African wild dogs hunt a variety of medium-sized prey and are often blamed by farmers for killing livestock, leading the farmers to poison and shoot the animals.
Estimates place the wild dog population at approx 6,600 animals, the majority of which reside in southern Africa and the southern part of East Africa.
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Oceanographers found the real-life SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star hanging out together on a rock at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration camera was filming the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the New England coast when a yellow sponge appeared aside a pink starfish.
Scientist Christopher Mah was quick to point out jokingly that the creatures mirrored the cartoon icons.
In a memorandum released on Friday, a Department of Justice official said that the Treasury Department 'must comply' with a House committee’s request for the release of former Pres. Donald Trump’s tax returns.
The request, sent to the Treasury Department by Ways & Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-MA), for Trump’s taxes between the years 2015 and 2020 was sent in June 2021.
Previous attempts to force Trump to release tax returns—by committee request and by subpoena—have been ignored or litigated by the former president. In its Friday memo, the DOJ said the Treasury Department is obliged to turn over the requested tax documents.
John Lewis was ‘the best example of humanity we have been graced with in so many years,’ Stacey Abrams said of her friend and mentor John Lewis at a celebration of the life and legacy of the late congressman.
It has been just over a year since Lewis died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Lewis, known as the ‘conscience of the Congress’ on Capitol Hill, was a noted civil rights activist, having organized with Martin Luther King Jr.
He was beat by Alabama police after walking over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 during a voting rights march and demonstration.
Speaker Pelosi enrolled H.R. 3237, the Emergency Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, on Friday, a legislative procedural move that marks an agreement between the two chambers.
The bill, which allocates $1.9 billion in emergency supplemental funding for the Congressional bodies and law enforcement agencies, like the Capitol Police and the Architect of the Capitol, to respond to the deadly January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The bill, which includes funding for security upgrades and repairs to the facility, among other measures, passed the House in May, though no Republican representative voted for it.
Simone Biles has spoken out after facing criticism for her decision to pull out of the individual all-around competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
'For anyone saying I quit. I didn't quit [—] my mind & body are simply not in sync,' wrote Biles in an Instagram story.
Biles said she has been suffering from the 'twisties,' which is a disorientation experienced by gymnasts that she described by saying she 'literally can not tell up from down.' Feeling it would be unsafe for her to compete, she said she had no choice but to withdraw.
President Joe Biden is prepared to accept an award on behalf of his late son, Beau, from Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, according to The Hill.
The award, the Presidential Medal on the Rule of Law, recognizes Beau’s efforts to improve Kosovo’s justice system while he served in the U.S. National Guard in 2001.
While the country recovered from war, Beau Biden worked with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to train local judges and prosecutors.