APP USERS: Click here to get this new quiz! How well do you know birds of prey and box-office blockbusters? The American Culture Quiz from Fox News Digital tests your command each week of our national heritage, history, pop-culture and top personalities. This week’s quick tackles everything from “Star Wars” to sourdough essentials to the April assassination of Abraham Lincoln. …
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead 56 years ago today in Memphis, Tennessee. His assassin “hoped to kill MLK’s great and widespread dream of unity,” Alveda King, the civil rights leader’s niece, shared with Fox News Digital in a message to be posted on Thursday morning, April 4, on social media. The killer failed in his mission, King wrote …
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Thai wildlife officials laid out a plan on Wednesday to bring peace to a central Thai city after at least a decade of human-monkey conflict. The macaques that roam Lopburi are a symbol of local culture, and a major tourist draw. But after years of dangerous encounters with residents and visitors and several failed attempts to bring peace with population …
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Strong winds in southern Poland on Monday toppled trees that killed three adults and two children, emergency responders said. A spokesperson for the region’s firefighters, Hubert Cieply, said two women and a 6-year-old were crushed to death in the town of Rabka-Zdrój. Separately, a woman died when a tree fell on her car in the town of Zakopane at the …
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A nonprofit organization said Thursday that it sued the U.S. National Park Service over a plan to remove Puerto Rico’s famous stray cats from a historic district in the U.S. territory. The lawsuit filed by Maryland-based Alley Cat Allies comes four months after the federal agency announced it would contract an animal welfare organization to remove an estimated 200 cats …
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Four California parks have been dubbed the most polluted parks in the nation in a new environmental study. A report from the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) found that Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks ranked as the most polluted parks based on unhealthy levels of haze pollution along with the frequent threats of droughts and wildfires. “With stunning mountains, …
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Washington, D.C., is set to lose over 100 of its iconic cherry trees next year, including one lovingly referred to as “Stumpy.” The trees will be removed as part of a multiyear restoration of the Tidal Basin, one that has been “long overdue,” the Associated Press noted. In the summer of 2024, work will begin to replace the Tidal Basin’s …
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California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood National and State Parks visited by 1 million people a year. The Yurok will be the first Native people to manage tribal land with …
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