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Several state capitols evacuated after bomb threats

The development comes just days before the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

U.S. Fertility Rates Fall To All-Time Low

The rate at which American women are having babies fell again in 2011, continuing a decline that's been under way for years. Births to teenagers hit another low, while births to older women rose slightly.

Drummer Adam Kessler Finds Community In Jazz

The Phil Sparks/Adam Kessler band has been playing live jazz at the Barca Lounge on Capitol Hill for more than 10 years now, and just released "Live at…

In 2015, China's GDP grew at its slowest rate in a quarter of a century, feeding expectations that new stimulus policies will be enacted. On Tuesday, containers were transported at a port in eastern China's Jiangsu province.

China Reports Slowest Economic Growth In 25 Years

Not since the fallout from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre has China's economy grown at such a slow pace: at just below 7 percent last year.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the state of emergency will last until May 6, adding that the goal is for residents to limit contact with others by up to 80%.

Japan Declares Nationwide State Of Emergency As Coronavirus Spreads

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the declaration will last until May 6 and that the goal is for residents to limit contact with others by up to 80%. Every citizen will get stimulus funds of about $930.

Cecil the lion, photographed in 2013, was killed by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe in 2015. Two years later, his son Xanda came to the same end nearby.

Xanda, Son Of Cecil The Lion, Also Killed

A trophy hunter shot and killed the 6-year-old lion near Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, near where his father was killed two years ago.

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