Leaving cloven hoofprints from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, more than 3,500 muskoxen live in Alaska. All of those shaggy, curly-horned beasts came from one group of muskoxen that survived a most remarkable journey in the 1930s. In 1900, no muskoxen existed in Alaska. Though the stocky, weatherproof creatures have survived […]
Tuesday delivered a string of high-profile victories for Democrats in gubernatorial races. Democrat Ralph Northam decisively won the Virginia governor’s race in what had become a nail-biter of a contest, defeating Republican Ed Gillespie in the election to replace outgoing Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe. Northam, currently Virginia’s lieutenant governor, held a comfortable lead in many […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says it has called off the search for three U.S. Marines who are missing after their tilt-rotor aircraft crashed into the sea Saturday off Australia’s east coast. Twenty-three other people aboard the MV-22 Osprey have been rescued. A Marine Corps statement says they have begun a recovery effort in coordination with […]
WASHINGTON — The sister of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law is in China courting wealthy people to invest $500,000 in luxury apartment towers outside New York City as part of a program that would grant them permanent U.S. residency. Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of the president’s top White House […]