The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was released after spending several hours in custody following his arrest at a new federal ...

Growing up in Atlanta in the 1940s and 1950s, Susan Levine’s visits to New York City relatives included being the star of an ...

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Celebrating Pope Leo XIV and his new spot in the Vatican Church, members of Saint Andrew Catholic Church off 37th Avenue ...

Supporters of a measure to create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery in Maryland rallied by the governor ...

The partial remains of an 89 year-old Florida man were found in one of the bears Florida Fish and Wildlife officials captured ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs was not treated differently because of his race by prosecutors who brought racketeering and sex ...

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

Information on Coastal Carolina University’s website that South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace said “promoted cross-dressing” was ...

A federal judge in Vermont on Friday released a Turkish Tufts University student detained in a Louisiana immigration center ...