WATERSHED PROTECTION GOAL OF USDA, COCA-COLA PACT
By TAMMY WEBBER FILE – In this March 5, 2013 file photo, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Vilsack is scheduled to be at at the…
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CLINTON ENDORSES OBAMA EFFORT TO PUNISH SYRIA
By KEN THOMAS Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks about Syria, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House Complex in Washington, during…
WANTED MICH. MAN, 3 KIDS FOUND SAFE AT LAKESHORE
By JOHN FLESHER Searchers gather outside a ranger station at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan, where a search was underway for a man and his three children…
POACHERS KILL RHINO IN NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK
By JASON STRAZIUSO EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC IMAGE – In this photo of Sunday Aug. 10, 2013 provided by Kenya Wildlife Services a dead rhino killed by poaches in Nairobi National…
2 SUMATRAN TIGER CUBS BORN AT NATIONAL ZOO
This black-and-white handout photo provided by the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken Aug. 7, 2013, shows a pair of Sumatran tiger cubs born Aug. 5, with their 4-year-old mother Damai, at…
CHINA WHO CHIEF: BEIJING H7N9 CASE NOT SURPRISING
A nurse stays with a patient at a specialized fever clinic inside the Ditan Hospital, where a Chinese girl warded for the H7N9 strain of bird flu, in Beijing Saturday,…
CHINA REPORTS NEW BIRD FLU DEATH, 2 NEW INFECTIONS
Chickens are hung in line at a slaughterhouse, approved by the municipal government to process poultry, after live poultry trading was banned following the H7N9 bird flu outbreak, in Pudong,…