U.S. & World

A change in popes is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the spiritual head of the global Catholic Church and the Vatican’s head of state.

Dr. Noor Abdalla said she welcomed the couple’s son on Monday without his father, despite a request for ICE to allow him to attend the birth.

Modi’s office said the two leaders “welcomed the significant progress in the negotiations for a mutually beneficial India-U.S. Bilateral Trade Agreement.”

Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

A woman who says she was raped and threatened by retired NFL player Shannon Sharpe during a “rocky consensual relationship” has filed a civil lawsuit against him seeking $50 million in damages.

LGBTQ Catholics and theologians said the late pontiff’s legacy teaches that change can happen when leaders are willing to listen.

Prosecutors said that Vallow Daybell and her brother, Alex Cox, planned to kill her estranged husband so she could collect money from his life insurance policy and marry her then-boyfriend, Chad Daybell, an Idaho author who wrote several religious novels about prophecies and the end of the world.

Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, may not have survived its recent trip past the sun and is fading fast.

Alan Garber, president of Harvard University, announced a lawsuit against the federal government after President Donald Trump’s administration froze billions of dollars in funding

The U.S. Department of Education on Monday said it’s restarting “involuntary” repayment of federal student loans that are in default.

Two Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill to provide funding for school districts to explore implementing cellphone restrictions in classrooms.

From the beginning, Pope Francis set a tone of openness and care, shifting the Church from strict doctrinal enforcement to a more merciful stance.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to the Department of Health and Human Services in just a few months at the helm.