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Pope Francis, 85, acknowledged he can no longer travel like he used to because of his strained knee ligaments, saying his weeklong Canadian pilgrimage was "a bit of a test."

"The discovery signals a potentially habitable environment in the ocean of Europa," according to the Webb Space Telescope's website.

Impacts from climate change, overfishing and poor water quality continue to destroy Florida's coral reefs. The conservation nonprofit OceanX has...

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Linda speaks with Wouter van Hoven, the chair of the Kissama Foundation, and a professor at the University of Pretoria, about the elephants who will be transferred from South Africa to Angola. He has been examining two elephant families in the crowded Madikwe National Park in South Africa. Tomorrow, they will be captured, then flown to their new home in Angola's Quicama National Park. South Africa has too many elephants in its park, and Angola doesn't have enough. The elephants in Angola were killed during 25 years of civil war by soldiers for sport, and by poachers. (4:30) More information on the Internet at http://www.kissama.org.

While the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid casts Black actors in a preexisting white narrative, Nanny illustrates that Black people have their own folklore; Black mermaids already exist.

Riverside Avondale Preservation’s second annual Music Tour features the author of a new history of the legendary Jax Beach nightclub Einstein A Go-Go.

Jakobshavn, the river of ice in Greenland that produced the infamous berg, has become the fastest-moving major glacier in the world, surging toward the sea at the rate of 150 feet per day. That means its impact on sea level is growing.

What makes a good World Cup anthem? Since the early '90s, FIFA officials have commissioned an official song for each World Cup. Some have been duds, while others turned into global hits.

Colorado's retailers may be allowed to sell marijuana but under federal law, the state's banks cannot knowingly do business with them. This has forced marijuana merchants in the state to operate almost solely in cash.