The Washington State legislature has effectively banned circuses, with animals, from performing statewide under Senate Bill 5065. It’s long overdue, especially since some circuses have already stopped ...

France has announced that it will "gradually" ban wild animals in traveling circuses. The country's ecological transition minister Barbara Pompili made the announcement Tuesday as part of an array of ...

Last night the Senate passed its version of the highway bill, voting to refill the federal Highway Trust Fund’s tank just enough to let it coast to the other side of the November midterm elections.

To keep power, Roman leaders used free “bread” (the public dole) and free “circuses” (public entertainments) to distract the populace from rioting when they had real things to riot about. But once the ...

A circus parade, complete with elephants and camels, draws a crowd in Montpelier during the 1890s. To add exoticism to its marketing, one circus announced that its show would feature a “curious ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Mexico City became the latest place in Mexico to ban the use of animals in circuses Monday as the city council voted overwhelmingly for the prohibition, with fines of $45,000 to ...

Lions, tigers, elephants and dancing bears don’t have to give up their jobs just yet. The City Council passed a bill Wednesday that banning wild animals from public performances, but delayed ...

It would be immoral and economically disastrous for Congress not to extend the $600 per week payments to the unemployed under the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program (FPUC). Millions of ...

This week’s blog post is by The Paternity Test co-host Matt Boresi, who lives in the Edgewater Glen neighborhood of Chicago with his wife (“Professor Foster”) and their 5-year-old daughter, Viva, the ...

It is not unusual to hear America’s talking heads—those oracles of the 24-hour news cycle and syndicated radio chatter—invoke ...

SACRAMENTO — Circuses in California would no longer be allowed to include wild animals under a bill state legislators sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday. Should Newsom sign Senate Bill 313, ...