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At the start of the 1980s there were over a million elephants, during that decade 600,000 were destroyed for ivory products. Today perhaps no more than 400,000 remain across Africa, according to Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington, who is widely recognized as an authority on the subject. It is a tragedy beyond reckoning and humanity needs to pay attention to the plight of the elephants before it is too late.

Leza Dabit spent more than $2,000 recently to attend a friend's wedding in Jamaica with her boyfriend. The weekend before, she was in Columbus, Georgia, celebrating nuptials, and the weekend after was spent feting another couple's marriage on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

President Obama's reception in honor of Gay Pride Month brings him full circle with a community whose support helped launch him into the Oval Office.

Fifty years ago, a Frenchman and a German -- seared by the devastation of World War II -- forged an enterprise with the less than exciting name of the European Coal and Steel Community.

Officials in Michigan and Canada announced Friday that they have agreed to build a new bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.

Paramedics were called to Lindsay Lohan's Los Angeles hotel room when she did not wake up from a nap Friday morning, but the actress "is fine," her publicist said.

Reports of amputations and smashed fingers have prompted federal officials to recall a popular stroller sold in the United States.

It started as a fun writing project -- 9-year-old Martha Payne decided to blog each day about lunch at her school in Scotland, rating and photographing each meal.

The use of hydraulic fracturing to open underground natural gas formations has a low risk of triggering earthquakes, federal experts reported Friday, but some scientists say the debate is far from over.

Five years ago, music consumers had to choose between buying a CD or downloading the album. Today, the choice is whether to download music or just stream it for free.

A federal jury has rejected a lawsuit by actor Stephen Baldwin and a New Orleans businessman that claimed actor Kevin Costner and others tricked them out of millions of dollars in a dispute stemming from the 2010 Gulf oil spill, an attorney for Baldwin said Friday.

For the Dodgers, a year makes all the difference.

Republicans said the decision to stop deporting young illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria amounts to amnesty and usurps congressional authority.

A group of angry moms turned on each other in a fight over cap and gowns for their children.

Graphic photos of a woman forced to have an abortion triggered an outcry in China.

An Oregon man is in critical condition after contracting the plague from an infected animal.

Jose Luis Zelaya shed tears of joy Friday morning.

They are always the last to understand.

Wayne Brady mocks game show anger, Jimmy Fallon ridicules Piers Morgan and Ice-T says he is funny - until he shoots you.