WATCH: An oceanfront home in Buxton, North Carolina, collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean during rough surf Tuesday night. The house was the 20th oceanfront property in Buxton to be lost to coastal erosion and storm conditions over the past year.
An Asian elephant calf named Sam Houston recently took his first swim at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Video released by the zoo shows the calf splashing through the water alongside his mother.
Yesterday I convened an Emergency Committee on the #Ebola outbreak in the #DRC and #Uganda. The Committee agreed that the situation is a public health emergency of international concern.
@WHO assesses the risk of the epidemic as high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level.
Eve the bear arrived at our Black Beauty Ranch sanctuary as an extremely shy cub weighing only 30 lbs. She was almost completely hairless with one of the worst cases of mange experts had ever seen.
Today, she’s thriving. 🩵
Why is it called ‘pickleball’?
In 1965, Joel Pritchard of Washington State was bored on vacation.
So, he and his friends made up a game using a badminton court, table tennis paddles, and a perforated plastic ball.
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The early trajectory of the Ebola outbreak in DRC is alarming. Spread of the disease likely went undetected for months. Fast detection and response are crucial to stop outbreaks.
You previously told me that anyone who assaulted a police officer on January 6th should go to prison. So why not rule out giving them taxpayer funded money?
Vance: "Well, Kaitlan, what I said is we're going to look at everything case by case..."
Why not rule it out?
Vance: "Because, Kaitlan, there are people who I don't know their individual circumstances and I don't rule things out categorically when I know nothing about a person's individual circumstances..."
Q: The president's financial disclosures show a lot of stock trades in companies he has promoted, sometimes even putting the stock ticker symbol in his posts and encouraging people to buy their stock--
JD VANCE: This is a hell of a question
Q: How can you argue you are cleaning up corruption when the president is doing this?
VANCE: C'mon man. Have a little bit of objectivity in how you ask these questions
This Mother’s Day, we’re celebrating Chrissy, a 14 yr old giraffe, who gave birth yesterday to a healthy female calf after a quick 27-minute active labor.
The drop is natural & helps sever the umbilical cord & stimulate the calf's first breath.
More: https://t.co/v2Zh461YpR
FOX NEWS' JOHN ROBERTS: When I talked to the president this morning, he kinda surprised me because he said, 'John, I just want to tell you. I'm very serious about this. I'm serious about beginning a process to make Venezuela the 51st state.'
WHITE HOUSE SPOKESPERSON ANNA KELLY: This is a president who is famous for never accepting the status quo
Remember when they said Trump would get us into a full-blown war with Iran?
Times like these should make us all realize how lucky we were to have Trump, his strength and his resolve.
Patel has given out bottles of his personalized whiskey to FBI staff as well as civilians he encounters in his duties, according to 8 people, including current and former FBI and Department of Justice employees and others who are familiar with Patel’s distribution of the bottles.
The U.S. Postal Service is considering allowing people to ship handguns through the mail for the first time in nearly 100 years https://t.co/Eo1xblbPM4
Great job alert! The @GuardianUS is hiring a White House enterprise reporter to help us break agenda-setting news and work with our stellar and growing enterprise team led by @gzornick https://t.co/7jgwV7Vzp7