BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) – Did you know that The Bronx Zoo offers a unique opportunity to meet wild animals up close? Their Wild Encounters programs allow New Yorkers and tourists to personally meet ...

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We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough" (‎Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New Yorker ...

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Hold on to your hats! Temperatures are less brutal, but the wind will be strong. We're tracking the worst of it and a few snowflakes to close off January.

Jeff Bergen/Getty A mom says she refused to take her 5-year-old daughter to a surprise birthday party — and it has to do with the color pink. In a post on Reddit’s “Am I the A-----?” ...

While they may be water-wading murder machines, they also look absolutely adorable chomping a watermelon in half, and for a while no hippo really captured the imagination and heart of the world like ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

The COP is the supreme decision-making body of the Convention. All States that are Parties to the Convention are represented at the COP, at which they review the implementation of the Convention and ...

Cincinnati Zoo's portly princess Fiona is celebrating her 8th birthday.On this special day, the city's famed hippo is celebrating another major milestone, social celebrity status.Fiona reached 5 ...