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Only eccentric, Gaia-worshipping treehuggers would be absurd enough to grant rights to freshwater mussels, right? Not quite.

In all, 69 lobbyists — nearly 10% of the 701 registered with the ethics commission — reported earnings of at least $250,000.

DEAR READERS: I have long advised cat owners not to give tuna fish to their cats because the mercury could poison them and cause brain damage. Levels of me...

Rep. David Trone, the Democratic frontrunner in the race for Maryland's open Senate seat, is throwing his weight behind a bill that could earn him millions of dollars by crushing mom-and-pop liquor stores across the state.

Mr. Wise contended -- in courts, articles, and books -- that chimpanzees, elephants, whales, and other highly intelligent creatures have a fundamental right to liberty, no less than the humans who often confined or killed them.

A groundbreaking lawyer, Wise waged court battles seeking recognition of the rights of animals.

Steven Wise, a Coral Springs lawyer who achieved worldwide fame for his work to free animals from laboratories and zoos, has died of cancer. He was 73.

The sum due - €100 - is mainly symbolic but has been welcomed by animal-rights defenders

The program that questions everything...except your intelligence.

I have never in my 62 years been able to get anything over on my mother. She has known every evil thought, harsh word, unkind action, shameful sin, little white