Ancient carving stolen decades ago in Mexico found in France
A nearly 3,000-year-old carving stolen more than four decades ago from a remote area of southern Mexico has been recovered in France. The Olmec carving dating to around 900 B.C.…
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Study: Bones in South African cave reveal new human relative
By LYNSEY CHUTEL and MALCOLM RITTER Scientists say they’ve discovered a new member of the human family tree, revealed by a huge trove of bones in a barely accessible, pitch-dark…
Fired regulator: Brown pushed to waive oil safeguards.
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER California’s top oil and gas regulators repeatedly warned Gov. Jerry Brown’s senior aides in 2011 that the governor’s orders to override key safeguards in granting oil industry…
Far below South Dakota, a cave holds pure, promising water
By KEVIN BURBACH Hundreds of feet beneath the Black Hills, a team of scientists and researchers snake through dark, narrow and silent corridors of ancient rock to reach their goal:…
IS beheads leading Syrian antiquities scholar in Palmyra
By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE Islamic State militants beheaded a leading Syrian antiquities scholar who spent most of his life looking after the ancient ruins of Palmyra, then hung…
Argentine mayor: Pope Francis is game-changer for climate
The latest developments at the Vatican’s meeting of mayors on fighting climate change and human trafficking. All times local. ___ 4:25 p.m. Monica Fein came all the way from Pope…
Pope challenges world to clean up its filth
NICOLE WINFIELD, RACHEL ZOLL ,SETH BORENSTEIN With a poet’s lyricism, a former chemist’s precision and a pontiff’s moral thunder, Pope Francis recast humanity’s relationship with nature in stark ethical terms,…
APNewsBreak: US to pay millions for Agent Orange claims
By HOPE YEN Ending years of wait, the government agreed Thursday to provide disability benefits to as many as 2,100 Air Force reservists and active-duty forces exposed to Agent Orange…