Jasper

At first glance, Jasper, a hairless and eyeless cat, looks like a creature from a Halloween movie, but the feline’s fans on Instagram know he’s actually quite cute. Jasper has more than 77,000 followers on Instagram, where his owner, Kelli, shares photos and stories from Jasper’s fabulous life at home in Maine. “I got him 11 years ago this December,”...

Chelsea Clinton is now a mother of three! The daughter of former President Bill Clinton announced on Twitter Monday morning that she and husband Marc Mezvinsky welcomed their third child, a boy named Jasper. “This morning we welcomed our son, Jasper Clinton Mezvinsky,” she wrote. “We are overflowing with love and gratitude and can’t wait to introduce him to his...

A northwest Indiana dairy farm has fired four employees seen in an undercover video released by an animal welfare organization showing animals being abused.

Jewel-Osco and at least two other retailers are removing all Fairlife products from its shelves after an undercover video was made public this week showing “the inhumane treatment of animals” at Indiana’s Fair Oaks Farms.

An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was executed Wednesday in Texas for the dragging death of a black man. John William King, who was white, received lethal injection for the slaying nearly 21 years ago of James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a truck and dragged for...

A technology company was almost ready to bring up to 300 new jobs to Jasper, Texas, but in the final stages of recent negotiations, a potential deal-breaker emerged: the community’s history as the place where three white men dragged a black man behind a pickup, killing him.

When two men with a self-described militia arrived in Columbus, New Mexico, offering help protecting the border from a migrant caravan traveling through Mexico toward the United States, Mayor Esequiel Salas said told them he sees no reason to be fearful. “I told them, ‘We have a good relationship with Mexico, with our little sister village Palomas,” said Salas, referring...

On any given day in downtown Jasper, Indiana, you may see Cassidy Gordon walking her pet fox, Levi, on a leash. But what is it like to own a pet fox? It’s like having a bit of a dog and a cat in one, according to Gordon.

The term “hate crime” was not widely heard before Byrd’s murder. His suffering, and name, inspired the Texas James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act and the federal Hate Crimes Prevention act of 2009, which is also named for Matthew Shepard, a college student murdered for being gay.

The term “hate crime” was not widely heard before Byrd’s murder. His suffering, and name, inspired the Texas James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act and the federal Hate Crimes Prevention act of 2009, which is also named for Matthew Shepard, a college student murdered for being gay.

The man who was convicted of killing his adoptive mother in 2011 in South Florida spoke out to NBC 6.