Americans disagree about all kinds of ideas and public policies, but almost everyone seems to agree on the value of personal ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release because they are not human, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The court said the decision "does not ...

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo shows elephants Kimba, front, and Lucky, back, at the Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo via AP, File) ...

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The phrase “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” originates from the United States Declaration of Independence, asserting unalienable rights granted by the Creator which governments are meant ...

As social life rebounds uneasily from pandemic-era shocks, Gen Z is still feeling lonely. A new survey from the Pew Research Center of 6,204 American adults, conducted from September 3 through 15 ...

FIRST ON FOX: The conservative House Freedom Caucus has released a proposal for Republicans' planned conservative policy overhaul that would raise the debt limit by two years or roughly $4 trillion.

Unlimited freedom is impossible for humans. We’re inevitably in bondage to something. Yet some sorts of bondage are liberating, while others are dehumanizing. Our present culture seeks ever ...

Each year, self-help books fly off the shelves as Americans clamor to crack the code on happiness once and for all. But new research suggests that we might be going about this whole “pursuit of ...

An attempted traffic stop led to a pursuit that ended with a crash Wednesday. A Lawton Police Officer attempted to stop a silver Dodge Charger for an improper turn at Northwest 23rd Street and Cache ...