WASHINGTON — Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook: The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years, it is shuttering the popular reference manual. The announcement posted to the ...

An Ohio fish named Benny the Bass predicts the arrival of spring days before the famous groundhogs. Benny makes his prediction at the Buckeye Lake Winterfest, held on the last Saturday of January. If ...

Aaron Opsteen's ultralight ice rod bent double as a solid fish walloped his spoon. "Opie" reeled with keen anticipation. Was it a walleye? A jumbo perch? Seconds later he got his answer as a chunky ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a ...

When Ted Judah goes scuba diving off the coast in Monterey Bay, he normally swims at the surface to the area above the dive site and then descends. But on the morning of Dec. 30, the water was ...

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, others the opposite. By Raymond Zhong Scientists have never loved the scary ...

Dive into the eerie world of the "Doomsday Fish"! 🐟 Uncover the spine-chilling biology and behavior that earned this fish its ominous nickname. From its mysterious origins and extreme survival ...

Neil Sims has a vision. He imagines thousands of red drum fish swimming in the open Gulf, the Florida sun glinting off coppery scales. These red drum are farmed, not wild. They circle inside a ...

Nov. 25 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1783, more than 6,000 British troops evacuated New York City after signing the peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War. In 1947, film industry executives ...

Mourners walk on the ‘Votif’ Bridge, a 407m temporary floating bridge connecting the city to the cemetery on the island of San Michele, to pay respects to their dead on All Soul’s Day, in Venice, ...

New Yorkers on Monday morning said goodbye to a floating jail that lived off the coast of the South Bronx, marking the end of a facility that for many reformers symbolized problems with the city's ...