Pope Leo XIV is planning to visit Lebanon this year on his first foreign visit, the country’s Catholic cardinal said, a trip that would give history’s first American pope a chance to speak in broad ...

California lawmakers passed a legislative package Thursday advancing a partisan redistricting plan aimed at winning Democrats five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 elections. Lawmakers voted mostly ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will give final approval for the takeover of Gaza City while also restarting negotiations with Hamas aimed at returning all the remaining hostages and ...

President Donald Trump is declaring victory after an appeals court threw out the massive civil fraud penalty against him. But the court has upheld other punishments, such as banning Trump and his two ...

Federal authorities have set up checkpoints around the nation’s capital, asking people for their immigration status and detaining them. President Donald Trump claims a crime crisis requires this ...

Just three weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke to reporters after the central bank had kept its key interest rate unchanged for a fifth straight meeting and said the job market was ...

In 2008, Madeline “Kara” Neumann, age 11, died of diabetic ketoacidosis in Wisconsin. Her parents treated her symptoms with prayer instead of medical care. The day before she died, Kara could no ...

Being diagnosed with cancer was the start of a journey that Alyson Bossuyt and Addison Jensen said they never expected to ...

As I slowly cruised the lakeshore, a tradition I do before heading to my favorite fishing spot on the lake, this past week, I was startled to see the lone hardwood tree, already dappled in orange and ...

Wall Street fell to a fifth straight loss on Thursday, hurt by a drop for Walmart and dampened hopes for coming cuts to interest rates. The S&P 500 slipped 0.4%. All its losses have been relatively ...

The pampered turtles were born in a series of hatches this year to Mommy and Abrazzo, a couple that is estimated to both be ...

A train derails and spills at least 1,000 gallons of hazardous materials in the U.S. about once every two months. Nearly half of those derailments resulted in evacuations; more than a quarter resulted ...