Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Southwest Airlines announced Tuesday it will only allow dogs and cats on flights as emotional support animals and they must be accompanied by a doctor's note.

Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Denver fire officials believe natural gas is to blame for an explosion at a residential building that left nine people injured, one critically, Tuesday.

Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania covered up the sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by hundreds of clergymen over the past seven decades.

Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort declined to testify as the defense in his bank fraud trial rested their case Tuesday.

Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A resident in the Australian capital captured video of a mob of kangaroos stampeding through the city streets in an apparent search for food.

Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A Japanese artist who created a 20-foot statue of a child wearing a protective suit has apologized after residents of Fukushima said it made the city look bad.

Aug. 14 (UPI) -- New York University has suspended a literature professor, and noted feminist, for sending harassing sexual text messages to former graduate student.

Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The Nebraska Department of Corrections executed convicted murderer Carey Dean Moore on Tuesday morning.

Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Florida political candidate Melissa Howard has apologized for lying about having received a college degree -- but said she won't drop out of the race.

Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Police are investigating a viral video showing a man hopping a Los Angeles Zoo barricade to slap a hippopotamus on the rear.