Author: Amy B Wang

It was one of those gag cards you can buy in a drugstore. “Merry Catsmess!” read the caption. And in a personal touch, as if for emphasis, Robby Strong had enclosed a box of horse manure. “To Stevie,” he wrote on the envelope, meaning Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, for whose doorstep the manure was bound.…

While fighting back tears, young Keaton Jones couldn’t stop asking one question: Why? “Just out of curiosity, why do they bully? What’s the point of it?” he asks his mother while in the passenger seat of a parked car. “Why do you find joy in taking innocent people and finding a way to be mean to…

Nyan htoo’s life had already been saved once. A monastery in Burma had rescued the Asiatic black bear, along with his brother, when they were both cubs set to be sold illegally in China. But a curious phenomenon began happening to Nyan htoo, the monks noticed: The bear’s tongue would swell to grotesquely large proportions. Despite an…

The American alligator has long been known as a fierce apex predator, easily capable of taking down its typical freshwater prey — fish, crustaceans, wading birds — and very occasionally going after humans. But its diet may extend further than previously thought. When given the chance, these gators will travel into saltwater environments and feed on…

Tina Frost has spent more than two weeks fighting for her life. The 27-year-old Maryland native had been one of the thousands attending the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 when a gunman suddenly opened fire on the country music fans from the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay Resort…