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PETA is joining the New Year’s Resolution movement on the first day of 2020 by seeking pledges to be vegan for the month of January.

A Colombian cat is being hailed a hero after it saved a toddler from tumbling down a flight of stairs on October 31.

A trained falcon defecated near Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday during a meeting in Saudi Arabia with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

Officials in Nevada are working to keep wild animals with the highly contagious chronic wasting disease (CWD) out of their state. 

A rescue dog that spent nearly three years at an animal shelter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been adopted by a new family.

A vegan activist who “rescued” 16 rabbits has been accused of causing the deaths of almost 100 other bunnies in the process. 

Harvard Law School recently launched a new clinic in which students will be able to defend the rights of animals.

A Florida woman who pulled an alligator out of her pants during a traffic stop in May has been sentenced, reports said.

Swiss scientists have developed a vaccine for cats that could protect animal lovers allergic to them. 

Farm factories in China are breeding lions and tigers en masse and then harvesting their organs to meet the growing demand for traditional Chinese “medicine,” the NGO World Animal Protection revealed in a report on Tuesday.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has denounced fishing as a cruel sport, insisting that fish feel pain and urging all anglers to become vegans.

Animal rights group PETA is urging Hollywood toboycott In-N-Out burger after the Oscars because the fast food joints sell meat.

(AP) — An environmental group has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve federal protections for gray wolves.

PARIS (AP) – They were messengers, spies and sentinels. They led cavalry charges, carried supplies to the front, and died by the millions during World War I.

An unusual spring snowfall blanketed the Klein Karoo region of South Africa, bringing unusual scenes of elephants and giraffes on game farms trudging through a blanket of white powder.

Democrats’ defense of the violent El Salvadorian MS-13 gang — where many of the group’s members are illegal aliens — is “unbelievable,” says White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley.

The White House offered evidence of transnational gang MS-13 brutality in a Monday morning “What You Need To Know About The Violent Animals Of MS-13” release.

Maggie Haberman of the far-left New York Times is publicly blaming President Trump that the media deliberately took his “animal” comments about MS-13 gang members out of context.

“Fake News Media had me calling Immigrants, or Illegal Immigrants, ‘Animals,’” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Wrong! They were begrudgingly forced to withdraw their stories.”

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump described the brutal Mexican gang MS-13 as “animals,” and our esteemed establishment media immediately shifted into sputtering outrage mode. But when CNN’s Ana Navarro publicly described Trump as an “animal,” she faced no professional consequences whatsoever. Quite the opposite, in fact.

The president noted on Thursday that he frequently refers to gang members as “animals” and will continue doing so. 

“If the media and liberals want to defend MS-13, they’re more than welcome to,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters during Thursday’s briefing after media attempts to frame President Trump’s comments from the previous day as insulting to “some immigrants.”

“I refer to them as animals and guess what, I always will,” Trump said when reporters asked about his comments on Thursday afternoon at the White House.

LONDON (AP) — London Zoo officials say a fire Saturday morning left one aardvark dead and four meerkats missing.

Los Angeles Police Department officers, Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters, and local volunteers have been working feverishly to save animals at risk from ongoing fires in the region.

Hundreds of monkeys took to the streets of a Thai city when fireworks caused them to flee from the temple where they live.

Instagram will now alert users who post selfies with exotic animals, informing them about animal abuse “that makes some seemingly innocent wildlife photos possible.”

A deer, which was apparently seeking refuge from California’s scorching summer heat, plunged into the pool at King Middle School in Berkeley as dozens of students were participating in swimming lessons.

A California comedian who cavorts on social media under the name “Obvious Plant” left a series of fake “Animal Facts” placards around the Los Angeles Zoo this weekend, delighting some and confusing others with the offbeat claims about the creatures around them.

A woman who was cycling in Australia reported to authorities she was attacked by a kangaroo with a jump-kick that hit her so hard it burst her breast implants.

In his jubilee audience over the weekend, Pope Francis said that Christians should be careful not to confuse feeling sorry for animals with love for one’s neighbor.

The state of Massachusetts wants to turn a lake island into a breeding colony for swimming rattlesnakes.

Over 600 dogs, cats, horses, and pigs were rescued from a filthy and disease-ridden no-kill shelter in what is being reported as one of the largest animal rescues in U.S. history.

A Wisconsin farm worker admitted to police that he had sexual relations with a donkey at the barn where he worked. But the man had an excuse. His “privates were out of control,” he insisted.

At least one Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) recruiter has taken to publishing photos of his cat with explosives to attract young people to the cause of jihad.

The New York Post reports: Israel’s first canine is in the dog house after biting two guests at the Prime Minister’s Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony. Benjamin Netanyahu posted a family portrait — including his wife, two sons and dog Kaiya —on