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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now that SeaWorld has made the stunning announcement that it’s moving away from housing killer whales in the future, the question some animal rights activists and parents are asking is, what’s next?

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 ...

SACRAMENTO — Circuses in California would no longer be allowed to include wild animals under a bill state legislators sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday. Should Newsom sign Senate Bill 313, ...