Unusual weather patterns and climate change have been driving stark changes in the northwestern state. Now, new satellite ...

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A spectrum of practices can be interpreted as sanctuary policies, but most jurisdictions with the label generally do not allow local jails to hold immigrants accused of committing crimes beyond ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for their ...

Alaska's political leaders are cheering an executive order that aims to boost oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in the state. But environmental groups say Trump's policies are worrisome.

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Gavin Newsom Wednesday for mismanaging California before the destructive Los Angeles wildfires and defending sanctuary cities, arguing that the Democratic governor looks like “an idiot.” “ ...

Though it doesn’t mention such jurisdictions by name, the document is the latest statement by the Trump administration to suggest it will seek to force “sanctuary cities” that limit ...

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest, but it's shrinking. Around 17% of the Amazon has been destroyed, due in large part to deforestation, per Time Magazine. If this rate of deforestation ...

Leaders in one Southern California city fed up with the state's immigration policies have voted to become a "non-sanctuary" city and ignore the state's sanctuary laws. The resolution was approved ...

More than a dozen migrants took sanctuary inside Philadelphia churches during President Donald Trump’s first administration, the most of any city in the country, blocking their deportations by putting ...

Huntington Beach is continuing its rebellious streak against the state’s sanctuary immigration law, which limits local resources from assisting federal immigration enforcement officials ...