In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV's election as the first American pontiff, the memes, doctored images and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago's pizza and more loaded ...

Pope Leo XIV, now the successor of St. Peter, leads the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church in a sacred role that few others will ever hold.

A dispute between family members at a funeral in Connecticut spiraled into a melee in which one man was stabbed and a woman grazed by gunfire, police said.

The U.S. is on track to run out of money to pay its bills as early as August without congressional action, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Friday.

The NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee, in an effort to enhance the flow of games, has recommended that video reviews of out-of-bounds calls can only be initiated by a coach's challenge.

During the rest of the interview, Prevost and I spoke about the new pope and the brothers' family. We talked about their childhood in Chicago and the pope's favorite food, which i ...

The northeast Minnesota congressman is attempting to gut critical Boundary Waters copper mining protections, writes columnist ...

In a world so connected, it shouldn’t be difficult to keep shelves stocked with one of the few foods my son eats. Trump might ...

The Roman Catholic cardinals used their ecclesiastical ballots to elect an American to be the new pope (“A first: Pope from U ...

Protests in Gambia over the sale of a former dictator's assets led to the arrests of at least 27 demonstrators and two journalists, who were later released, police said Monday.

Ahmed Hassanein remembers the days of learning how to play football in his half-brother's small kitchen in California.

Protesters gathered Friday in the Slovak capital to demonstrate against populist Prime Minister Robert Fico's latest trip to Russia.