Today in History for Nov. 18: In 1095, Pope Urban II called 600 men to the Council of Clermont, where he asked Europe to recapture the Holy Land from the Turks. A vast crusading army was deployed. In ...

You get used to it.” That was Pope Leo XIV ‘s matter-of-fact response when King Charles III asked about the swarms of ...

He’s the left-leaning Muslim mayor of the country’s biggest city, and U.S. President Donald Trump is one of his biggest ...

A judge has heard testimony about overflowing toilets, crowded cells, no beds and water that “tasted like sewer” at a Chicago-area immigration building. The building serves as a key detention ...

In the back, Janne Short helps Kairo Welcome zip up his new jacket as Roger Clawson helps Ilias Carter into his new coat ...

Pope Leo XIV has bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, declaring him a doctor of the ...

An appeals court has ruled in favor of the Trump administration and stopped a judge from trying to get daily updates from a ...

A recently completed, multimillion-dollar effort to install new weather stations in central and western North Dakota should ...

Hurricane Melissa is twisting across Cuba, its eye passing over the long, thin island’s eastern shores. Cubans are huddled in ...

Daniel Jackson, a 20-year-old Australian, is the self-declared “president” of the “Free Republic of Verdis,” located on a patch of land in the Danube River between Croatia and Serbia.

Small, but mighty, these countries are some of the smallest in the world and yet they bring in a surprising number of ...

A top American cardinal celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Saturday in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit permission ...