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 ...

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 ...

Two very different circuses by Jewish directors are coming to town, with acts that range from modern acrobatics to trained ...

To celebrate the first ever Vermont Circus Festival, Nov. 2-9 in Brattleboro, local ‘Circus Man’ Kevin O’Keefe makes the case ...

LIMA, Peru-- Thirty-three lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Colombia are heading back to their homeland to live out the rest of their lives in a private sanctuary in South Africa. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...