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A speedy porker named Albert Einswine escaped a New Jersey farm on Tuesday and led police on a hog-wild chase.

Anchorage police say they helped a “portly” friend escape inclement weather on Monday.

Researchers at China’s Nankai University claimed this week that they successfully cloned pigs through an entirely automated process for the first time in March, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.

A 57-year-old Maryland man has received a new heart from a genetically modified pig, possibly ushering in a new era of organ transplants.

A pig farm in northern Germany began culling all of its 4,000 animals Wednesday after a case of African swine fever was confirmed there.

A new strain of African swine fever recently identified on Chinese pig farms was likely caused by “illicit vaccines,” industry experts said this week.

A 17-year-old Five Guys employee in New Jersey was fired from his job Friday evening after he called three police officers who entered the eatery “piggies.”

The brains of hundreds of pigs reportedly survived for up to 36 hours after they were decapitated in an experiment that lays the foundation for the preservation of human minds beyond their physical limitations.

A group of firefighters in England who rescued a litter of piglets a few months ago ate sausages made out of the animals they saved.

A New Jersey restaurant employee has been fired after writing a message on a receipt, insulting a police officer, according to the restaurant’s owner.

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is using his newest tour to blast President Donald Trump, with slogans like “F*ck Trump” and images of a naked Trump wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood appearing behind the bassist on stage.

Colin Kaepernick upset many NFL fans after he refused to stand for the national anthem at a preseason football game, declaring he was doing so to stand up for black victims of police shootings.

German police said on Saturday they found a pig’s head bearing an “insulting inscription” outside Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office. A police patrol discovered the animal’s head outside the office in the Baltic sea town of Stralsund in the early hours

While pig breeders in many European countries are suffering from a crippling Russian embargo, their counterparts in Spain, Europe’s second-biggest pork producer, have stayed afloat thanks to a system that sees a large majority work for a company — and

On August 17, a tractor-trailer hauling pigs overturned on Route 30 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, killing several pigs. Now animal rights group PETA is demanding that state officials erect a grave marker to memorialize the lives of the pigs at the site of the crash.

The RSPCA has once again been accused of cruelty after it seized and killed a beloved pet pig, thought to be the oldest of his breed in the world. The animal charity, which markets itself as caring and kind, has