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The Latest: Mourning and tributes for Pope Francis shared around the world
Grief and tributes for Pope Francis were shared around the world Tuesday, a day after the popular pontiff died at age 88.
Cardinals meet Tuesday at Vatican to choose date for Pope Francis’ funeral
Cardinals will meet Tuesday at the Vatican to begin scheduling Pope Francis’ funeral and burial, planning the conclave to ...
Kings blow a 4-goal lead before Danault scores the last-minute winner in 6-5 opening win over Oilers
Phillip Danault scored his second goal with 42 seconds to play, and the Los Angeles Kings blew a four-goal lead before rallying for a 6-5 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in the ...
70% of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be gone in the next 10 years, a report shows
Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive but 70% of them will be gone within the ...
What do ‘expert level’ talks signal for the progress of the Iran-US nuclear negotiations?
Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program will move Wednesday to what’s ...
Kawhi Leonard’s 39 ponits leads Clippers to a 105-102 win over Nuggets to even series 1-1
Kawhi Leonard scored 39 points on 15-of-19 shooting and the Los Angeles Clippers evened their first-round playoff series against the Nuggets with a 105-102 win in Denver on Monday ...
Lindor slams Phillies again and buries memory of slow start in 2024
Francisco Lindor is off to a smashing start, for a change. And on Monday night, he picked up right where he left off against ...
An Irish-born American cardinal is entrusted as the ‘camerlengo,’ running the Holy See between popes
Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ...
From ‘conclave’ to ‘white smoke,’ a glossary of terms used in a papal transition
A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the spiritual head of the global Catholic ...
Pope Francis’ conservative critics had a unique way to oppose him: a retired pontiff
As Amazonian bishops gathered at the Vatican on Oct. 21, 2019, a man entered a nearby church after dawn and stole three ...
A sequoia forest in Detroit? Plantings to improve air quality and mark Earth Day
Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit’s eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples ...
Some GOP states are targeting driver’s licenses issued to immigrants illegally in the US
As drivers on U.S. highways cross from one state to another, they often are greeted by a large “Welcome to ….” sign. But not all drivers are welcome in every state. In Florida, motorists ...