A detainee who filed a lawsuit against the Florida Everglades immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz has requested dismissal of the case agreeing to be removed from the United States ...

There’s a high chance that you’ve paddled alongside alligators if you’ve been in the waters of the southeastern part of the U.S.—it doesn’t matter whether you saw them or didn’t. These reptiles have ...

A young visitor to the California Academy of Sciences signs the memorial photo for Claude the Alligator, who died at age 30 in December after residing at the museum since 2008. Photo by Joe Eskenazi ...

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Native American tribes are formally opposing an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. Tribal nations say the center is on sacred land used for hunting, gathering, and ceremonies.

At 3 p.m. on a Tuesday in July, a man from Georgia contacted the Collier County Sheriff’s Office to report a woman with purple hair sitting in a car on the south side of Route 41, across from the ...

When Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,” the much more widely used name for the South Florida Detention Facility, went into use in July to detain immigrants swept up in Donald Trump’s ambitiously cruel ...

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The California Academy of Sciences has released the cause of death for Claude, the beloved albino alligator at the San Francisco museum. The museum said Claude had been showing signs of illness for ...

Clarence James’ “Cruelty is The Point” debuted this week at SCOPE Art Show as part of an Amnesty International exhibit protesting the Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center in the Florida ...

The first thing you notice at the beautiful and beguiling Scope Art Show on Miami Beach is the light. It’s not just the natural sunlight pouring in through windows so picturesque they could be ...

SHE WON’T LAST LONG. WELL, THE BAY AREA IS SAYING GOODBYE TO ONE OF THEIR MOST FAMOUS AND CHERISHED RESIDENTS, THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SAYS THEIR ICONIC ALBINO ALLIGATOR, CLAUDE, HAS DIED.