A 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank

“Very demure, very mindful” has become the latest vocabulary defining the internet’s summer

A Rembrandt discovered in a Maine attic has sold for $1.4 million

An ultra swimmer's attempt to cross Lake Michigan is over after 40 hours

Newly listed for sale in Southern California’s notoriously pricey realty market: half a house for half a million dollars

The world’s attention on Venezuela has focused lately on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the persecution of critics and the arrest warrant issued this week against the former opposition presidential candidate

An extreme swimmer is back in Lake Michigan trying to cross one of the Great Lakes from Michigan to Wisconsin

A white beluga whale named “Hvaldimir” that was first spotted in Norway not far from Russian waters with a harness that ignited rumors he may be a Moscow spy has been found dead

With politics set aside, well-wishers have gathered to wish Taipei zoo’s oldest giant panda a happy 20th birthday