France has announced that it will "gradually" ban wild animals in traveling circuses. The country's ecological transition minister Barbara Pompili made the announcement Tuesday as part of an array of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clowns in American circuses were once considered a form of adult entertainment. ArtMarie/E+ via Getty Images The scary clown has ...

The Washington State legislature has effectively banned circuses, with animals, from performing statewide under Senate Bill 5065. It’s long overdue, especially since some circuses have already stopped ...

To keep power, Roman leaders used free “bread” (the public dole) and free “circuses” (public entertainments) to distract the populace from rioting when they had real things to riot about. But once the ...