The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending its elephant acts a year and a half early, and will retire all of its touring elephants in May. The move comes amid increasing scrutiny of ...

This is the circus in 2023, and while giant unicycles and human cannonballs remind you of the circus you saw as a kid, there’s something, or some things, missing: trumpeting elephants and hoop-jumping ...

Six-year-old Derek Cruse, right, of Hampton, gestures to the elephants marching down River Drive towards the i wireless Center Tuesday afteroon as his younger brother, Braden, watches the procession.