
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra mocked President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall on Tuesday as the president visited the prototypes near the U.S.-Mexico border. “Some people think that medieval walls might keep us safe in this country,” Becerra said, according
by Joel B. Pollak15 Mar 2018, 6:32 AM PDT0

Horse racing in Britain needs to become more “diverse” the sport was told at an industry awards night at which 90 per cent of nominees were white. Speaking at the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards in London on Monday,
by Virginia Hale22 Feb 2018, 2:03 AM PDT0

California Governor Jerry Brown blamed climate change for the California fires that have devastated the state this fall during a visit to assess the damage in Ventura County on Saturday.
by Joel B. Pollak9 Dec 2017, 10:02 PM PDT0

Los Angeles Police Department officers, Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters, and local volunteers have been working feverishly to save animals at risk from ongoing fires in the region.
by Joel B. Pollak7 Dec 2017, 12:07 PM PDT0

Los Angeles firefighters are racing against predicted high winds Wednesday night and Thursday morning as several fires burn throughout the area — with very little containment, and more extremely dry and windy weather predicted.
by Joel B. Pollak6 Dec 2017, 11:11 PM PDT0

A leading British horse rider has recounted how she, her horse, and her family were ambushed and attacked by migrants while returning home from the world championships via Calais.
by Donna Rachel Edmunds2 Sep 2016, 9:19 AM PDT0

The government of Turkmenistan has recently issued the latest in a series of bizarre decrees from Central Asia, strictly regulating the naming of horses and criminalizing a failure to issue a horse a proper burial upon its death.
by Frances Martel21 Dec 2015, 4:34 PM PDT0

Nigeria’s military has imposed a ban on riding horseback in northeast Borno state in an attempt to make members of the ISIS-affiliated terror group Boko Haram more conspicuous and, thus, easier to arrest or kill.
by Frances Martel9 Sep 2015, 9:33 AM PDT0

A city ordinance banning the use of horses to pull the traditional carriages around Rome went into effect Thursday, in response to a wave of 100+ degree weather that is said to threaten the horses’s lives.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.17 Jul 2015, 10:04 PM PDT0