This is a monumental victory for fiscal sanity and moral clarity, freeing American taxpayers from bankrolling a propaganda ...

A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...

This is possibly the only kind of cancellation I can get behind! Early this morning, the Senate voted 51–48 to remove $9 billion allocated for foreign aid and public broadcasting at the behest of the ...

There might be no political position for which there can be so little reasonable disagreement than that federal funding for PBS/NPR should end; perhaps that it should never have happened in the first ...

The suit may be the first time the Supreme Court’s ruling is tested. For now, Big Bird’s bosses remain in place—though if Congressional Republicans have their way, they won’t have much to oversee once ...

Males slightly outweighed females, but both sexes stood nearly 10 feet tall, Handley says. Big Bird’s rival for bulk is the extinct elephant bird, long billed as the largest fowl on the planet.

Caroll Spinney, the actor who played Big Bird and Oscar on "Sesame Street," died on Dec. 8 at the age of 85. His cultural impact was enormous, but one phone call he made behind the scenes ...

Big Bird looks at him — he was known for his swoopy nose — and says, [Big Bird voice] “Boy, I thought I had a funny-looking beak.” Here he is, one of the greatest comedians in the world ...

Big Bird reads to Connor Scott and Tiffany Jiao during a taping of Sesame Street in New York, April 10, 2008. Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who has played Big Bird on "Sesame Street" is retiring ...

Big Bird reaped a major publicity blitz following the presidential debate on Oct. 3, but a new portrait of the “Sesame Street” icon, concocted solely out of breakfast cereals, definitely marks ...