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FILE - A group of Bonobo stand around behind an electric fence at the Lola Ya Bonobo Sanctuary outside of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo on April 30, 2005. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)

A rare sanctuary in Congo looks after baby bonobos away from poaching threat

1:36 AM on Wednesday, May 13

A sanctuary on the outskirts of Congo's capital of Kinshasa is the world’s only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos, usually rescued from poachers

Disease outbreak cuts Wyoming, Yellowstone wolf numbers to lowest level since reintroduction era

2:32 PM on Tuesday, May 12

A disease outbreak significantly reduced wolf numbers in Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park last year

FILE - A packet of "the pill" from 1979 is on display in an exhibit at the Museum of Sex in New York, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

By changing women's lives, the pill changed the nation

1:43 PM on Tuesday, May 12

The pill helped give birth to modern America

This combination of images shows Neil deGrasse Tyson at a premiere of "Now You See Me: Now You Don't" in New York on Nov. 10, 2025, left, and cover art for his book "Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter." (AP Photo, left, and Simon & Schuster via AP)

Neil deGrasse Tyson takes on aliens and how we should greet them in 'Take Me to Your Leader'

12:59 PM on Tuesday, May 12

Neil deGrasse Tyson has turned his lifelong fascination with aliens into a new book, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.”

A Spanish passenger is sprayed with disinfectant by Spanish government officials before boarding a plane after disembarking from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at Tenerife airport in the Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo)

One evacuated passenger tests positive for hantavirus and another develops symptoms on flight home

2:08 AM on Sunday, May 10

Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands

Critically endangered mountain bongos feed in a forest enclosure at the Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy in Nanyuki, Laikipia County, Kenya, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

'Ghost of the forest' returns to Kenya as conservationists reintroduce rare antelope into the wild

9:52 AM on Saturday, May 9

The mountain bongo is being reintroduced into the wild by conservationists to increase the number of the rare antelope that are indigenous to Kenya’s forests

Spanish Civil Guard officers stand guard in the area where passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are expected to arrive at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Saturday, May 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

WHO head seeks to reassure residents of Spanish island where hantavirus-stricken ship is headed

7:03 AM on Saturday, May 9

The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife worried about the anticipated arrival there of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship

FILE - Grace Chyuwei pours water on Joe Chyuwei to help with the heat Aug. 3, 2025, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

What to know about the predictions for a potentially record-breaking El Nino

1:54 PM on Friday, May 8

Seasonal models are predicting an El Nino climate pattern that could be the strongest on record, bringing with it more extreme weather

Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship into an ambulance at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

The Latest: Stricken cruise ship heads for the Canaries as authorities rush to identify contacts

12:17 PM on Friday, May 8

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

Spiral galaxy's brilliant heart shines bright in a new picture from NASA's Webb telescope

11:16 AM on Friday, May 8

A spiral galaxy's brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA's Webb Space Telescope

Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship into an ambulance at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

What we don't know about the hantavirus outbreak as the cruise ship nears Spanish territory

10:29 AM on Friday, May 8

Countries are preparing to manage 140 people on a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

Files on UFOs, released Friday, May 8, 2026, by the Pentagon, are photographed in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Bright lights and hot orbs: UFO files shed light on sightings but leave interpretation to the public

8:28 AM on Friday, May 8

The Pentagon has begun releasing files on UFOs, tapping into public curiosity about unidentified phenomena

Passengers on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, MV Hondius, watch epidemiologists board the boat in Praia, during their voyage to Spain's port of Tenerife, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo)

Spain readies for evacuations as a hantavirus-hit cruise ship heads for the Canary Islands

3:41 AM on Friday, May 8

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive over 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

An American flag is seen as people walk among debris at Gene's Mobile Home Supply, a trailer park in Bogue Chitto, Miss., Thursday, May, 7, 2026, after a tornado cut across the state. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

A faint meow in the rubble of a Mississippi tornado leads to a stunning rescue

4:27 PM on Thursday, May 7

Storm chaser Ashton Lemley was helping search through a Mississippi trailer park destroyed by tornadoes when he heard a kitten meowing from the rubble

Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

How public health officials are tracing people who came in contact with hantavirus victims

3:58 PM on Thursday, May 7

Health officials in several countries are trying to identify and follow people who may have been exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship

Health workers in protective gear evacuate patients from the MV Hondius cruise ship into an ambulance at a port in Praia, Cape Verde, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Health officials track dozens who left hantavirus-stricken ship after first fatality

4:05 AM on Thursday, May 7

Oceanwide Expeditions has revealed that 30 passengers disembarked from its cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24

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