Pope Francis has revised the funeral rites that will be used when he dies, simplifying the rituals to emphasize his role as a ...

Israel’s defense minister says his country insists on the right to act militarily against Hezbollah in any agreement to end the fighting in Lebanon. Lebanon’s government is likely to view any such ...

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa is hosting an open house Wednesday night for its new Youth Mentoring Center. Bridget ...

With time running down, negotiators at the United Nations annual climate talks on Wednesday returned to the puzzle of finding ...

Human-caused climate change made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 miles per hour (29 kilometers per hour) stronger in the last ...

Pope Francis said he will canonize Carlo Acutis next April, setting the eagerly awaited date for the late teenager to become ...

Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother convicted of killing her two sons by rolling her car into a lake in 1994 with the boys strapped in their seats inside, will ask a ...

Russia’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday endorsed a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries ...

A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a security post in northwestern Pakistan, killing 12 members of the security forces and wounding several others, ...

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv said it has received warning of a potentially significant Russian air attack on Wednesday and would ...

A major storm swept across the northwest U.S. Tuesday evening, battering the region with strong winds and rain and causing widespread power outages and downed trees that killed at ...

Maxim Timchenko, CEO of DTEK, the largest private energy company in Ukraine, pulls out a piece of paper with bar charts ...