Cardinals are meeting at the Vatican to make the first decisions about running the Catholic Church following the death of ...

Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive, but according to a study 70% of them ...

The former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime chief of staff are facing a federal criminal trial this week.

The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city, who’s under indictment on federal bribery and conspiracy charges, is fighting to ...

DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — The second murder trial of Karen Read, whose case has sparked a national debate on police accountability ...

Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program will move Wednesday to what’s ...

Arborists are hoping to transform vacant land on Detroit’s eastside by planting giant sequoias, the world’s largest trees.

Police say a speeding truck carrying laborers, women, and children fell into a ravine in southern Pakistan, killing at least ...

A change in popes is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the ...

An Irish-born American cardinal was entrusted by Pope Francis to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ...

Francis was more tolerant with another critic, the retired archbishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen. He excoriated the ...

Asian shares are trading mixed amid global skepticism about U.S. investments and President Donald Trump’s trade war.