With just a few days left in the regular season, the AL West might make a particularly mediocre kind of history.

The Oxford English Dictionary has officially added over a dozen Caribbean words."

In a blockbuster movie world, John Wilson is carving out an idiosyncratic niche of his own.

After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.

A Mississippi wildlife rescue gives abandoned and injured baby raccoons their best chance of survival through a program they call “raccoon boot camp.”.

A truck driver who spent two decades building a massive scale model of his native New York City was delighted when it went viral on TikTok.

Police investigating a money laundering case in Norway have recovered thousands of U.S. silver coins.

A small English village has voted to leave the U.K. in a symbolic independence referendum.

Dolly Parton’s megawatt smile and big wavy locks are gracing cornfields across the U.S. and in Canada this fall.

A Paris court has awarded Kim Kardashian 1 euro in compensation for an armed robbery she experienced in 2016.

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye.

A grave-digging contest in a Hungarian cemetery showcases the skills of the trade and aims to shake off death-related taboos.

The Metropolitan Opera in New York requires auditions for everyone on stage.

Yordan Alvarez is the frontrunner for AL MVP and a potential Triple Crown winner.

British police are working to recover 70,000 pints of stolen Guinness.

Young people across Latin America are gathering on beaches, parks and other public spaces to take part in "aura battles," a trend that has moved from the internet to the real world.

A 91-year-old man who goes by the nickname Grey Beard has reclaimed his record as the oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail.

Hundreds of people showed up near New York City's Washington Square Park to judge a Mayor Zohran Mamdani look-alike contest.

With screams and giggles, Minnesota fairgoers are taking delight in the magic of the Tilt-A-Whirl ride as it turns 100 years old.

Harvard University Medical School has agreed to pay $53 million to settle a class action lawsuit over its former morgue manager’s illegal sale of human remains.

A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat.

Archaeologists in Peru have unveiled skeletal remains near Huaca Pucllana, an ancient pyramid in Lima.

Kimie Smothermon runs the Guinea Pig Sanctuary in Salisbury, Massachusetts, caring for nearly 400 guinea pigs.

It’s not all about short-legged speed when 150 corgis gather for an international race celebrating the little dogs.

Rome’s ancient Nero’s Bridge has reemerged from the Tiber River as exceptionally low water levels expose parts of the historic structure near St. Peter’s Basilica.

More than 200 gold statuettes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have disappeared from Salzburg, officials said Wednesday.

The only person to break the sound barrier in a car has earned another world record, this time in a show of force for hydrogen power.

The first and only person to break the sound barrier in a car has his eye on another speed record.

Zendaya, Kylie Jenner and Demi Moore have all walked the red carpet in Fecal Matter.

A deluge of 90,000 rubber ducks poured out of a truck and into the Chicago River.

A wildfire that swept across mountains and coastal areas west of Athens has left hundreds of animals displaced.

A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world’s slowest concert.

Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, aligning with its national language.

Dogs are catching waves at the World Dog Surfing Championships in Northern California.

Law enforcement officials say a set of stolen Civil War-era cannonballs was discovered in a passenger’s suitcase during a routine security screening at an Alabama airport.

A book on Greek antiquities has been returned to an Australian public library about 150 years late, with water damage from years bricked into a fireplace.

A school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom.

Police say two men climbed over the glass wall of Seattle’s iconic Space Needle on Friday, flipped over the edge and parachuted down from the 605-foot structure.

Punch, the orphaned monkey at a Japanese zoo that stole many people’s hearts by clinging to an orangutan plushie, is marking his first birthday Sunday.

Luverne, Minnesota, now boasts the world's tallest nutcracker, Verne the Patriot, standing at over 65 feet.

Three new women's world records have been set at the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, Wisconsin.

For more than two centuries, a fallen Revolutionary War soldier was unknown and unnoticed.

Erling Haaland has become a social media sensation during the World Cup.

A goat named Goldie has been accompanying crews fighting a small wildfire in Colorado.

Santas, Mrs. Clauses, and elves from around the world have gathered in Aalborg, Denmark, for the annual World Santa Claus Congress.

More than 800 pounds of peanut butter have been spread across a museum floor in the Netherlands.

The Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest is marking the United States’ 250th birthday with chomp and circumstance.

A dog walker in Buenos Aires has turned a pack of 13 pups into local celebrities by dressing them in Argentina jerseys.

Neil, a 2,200-pound elephant seal, has returned to his birthplace on the Australian coast, causing quite a stir.

Michael Scurr, a volunteer at Britain’s National Archives, has discovered a rare early copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Humpback whales are increasingly spotted off Rio de Janeiro as their population recovers from past commercial whaling.

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer.

Yodelers at a festival in Basel, Switzerland, turned city fountains into rehearsal spaces during Europe’s June heat wave.

Gracie the Giraffe has finally been found in Texas.

A viral sensation from this World Cup, Merlín the duck was at Mexico City's stadium before the national team's match against the Czech Republic.

An escaped giraffe has managed to stay a few steps ahead of a private ranch owner and local officials in Texas Hill Country for nearly two weeks.

Merlín the duck, Mexico’s unofficial World Cup mascot, stole the spotlight at President Claudia Sheinbaum’s news briefing.

World Cup tickets, flights and hotel rooms are expensive.

As World Cup fever grips Mexico City, an unlikely star has emerged.

Brazilian fans visiting Philadelphia for the World Cup are avoiding dressing the Rocky statue in their team colors.

Julián Quiñones and Raúl Jiménez may have scored for Mexico, but Merlin the duck stole the show.

New UFO files have been released by the Trump administration that include several vivid descriptions of mysterious sightings in the sky.

A New York man has gone viral for a prediction he made in his high school yearbook six years ago that the New York Knicks would win an NBA title in 2026.

A certain dam-building rodent is taking center stage in a World Cup-themed contest in Toronto.

Australian officials say they confiscated more than 100,000 illegal live cockroaches from a breeder in May in the country's largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates.

A former urban explorer says the most unpleasant part of exploring New York City’s sewer system was the cockroaches, not the rats, smells or ever-present dangers.

The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear.

A rare albino buffalo named after U.S. President Donald Trump for his distinctive blond tuft is drawing crowds at a Bangladesh zoo.

A series of bizarre sightings of people popping in and out of New York’s vast, subterranean sewer system in recent days has the whole city wondering what exactly is going on.

Thousands of people in New Zealand have attended one of the world’s best-known steampunk festivals.

American midfielder Brenden Aaronson had a good excuse to miss the U.S. World Cup team’s training session Friday.

New York City residents and visitors are treated to a phenomenon twice a year known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

Bryce Harper's unique toothbrushing technique has sparked a viral sensation.

A study details a surprising new way into how pigeons find their way home.

Yuri the dog from the Chilean movie “La Perra” has won the coveted Palm Dog award in Cannes.

Dozens of soon-to-be graduates of a Michigan high school eschewed their cars and trucks and arrived in tractors, ATVs, golf carts and more.

A calendar featuring close-ups of young, handsome priests has been a popular Rome souvenir for two decades.

An Australian farmer has found a live frog in a bag of lettuce.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol believes in the “no shirt, no problem,” mantra.

Someone paid more than $9 million to have lunch with basketball player Stephen Curry and Warren Buffett, and the legendary investor also promised to match the winning bid so both their favorite charities will benefit.

A museum in Illinois is wondering how it got a speeding ticket for its replica of the car in the TV show “Knight Rider” that hasn't moved from its display in years.

Two South Florida police officers claim Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s recent action thriller “The Rip” used too many real-life details in its fictionalized narrative, causing harm to the officers’ personal and professional reputations.

Miners in Myanmar have discovered a massive ruby, considered to be the second-largest by weight ever found in the country.

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

People in Colorado and Wyoming are getting out their snow shovels as a late-spring storm could bring Denver’s biggest snowfall of the season.

The radio station WKRP isn't dead, it's now live on air in Cincinnati.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will soon light the sky with debris from Halley’s comet.

Evidently, the alarm system at Orlando’s Kia Center did not want to hear any talk about the Magic potentially going to a Game 7 against the Detroit Pistons.

New Zealanders are working to bring the kiwi back to the hills around Wellington.

A massive sea lion nicknamed Chonkers is charming tourists and locals at San Francisco's Pier 39.

Albany residents love Nipper, a giant dog statue perched atop a warehouse for nearly seven decades.

A French teen faces charges in Singapore after posting a video of himself licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and putting it back.

If you can't visit the original Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, you might find a dead ringer nearby.

A Mexican man in the United States has pleaded guilty to impersonating a Border Patrol agent and following federal immigration officers to divert them while they were out on immigration enforcement missions in Southern California.

Two paramedics helped deliver a baby girl on a Delta flight as it landed in Portland, Oregon.

A Cape Cod seafood company has donated a rare two-colored lobster to a science center, sparing the critter from the kettle because of its remarkable coloration.

A sheep at Clover & Bee Farm in Underhill, Vermont, gave birth to a rare batch of six lambs earlier this month.

The Palm Beach Zoo in Florida has two reasons to celebrate.

Seattle Mariners starter Logan Gilbert can thank his jersey for stopping at least one earned run Wednesday.

Soccer fans in Argentina's capital city Buenos Aires can no longer throw confetti from the stands.