The Pentagon’s recent revision to its list of Christian religions has reignited a long-standing debate about whether The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a Christian denomination

A large, burning cross has been discovered at a Chicago park

Bill Gates is set to appear before a congressional panel investigating the Jeffrey Epstein files, becoming the latest powerful figure linked to the disgraced financier to testify

Catholic bishops from across the U.S. come together Thursday to consecrate the country to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Younger students have regained academic ground lost during the pandemic, but older students' test scores remain stagnant

Paraguayan fans are eager to see their national soccer team’s long-awaited return to the World Cup in the country they now call home

Republicans in Congress are introducing impeachment resolutions against a federal judge in Atlanta

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment

A former Taliban commander has been sentenced in New York to 42 years in prison for crimes including the 2008 kidnapping of a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Consumer prices probably jumped in May for the third straight month, heightening concerns for the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve and underscoring the threat rising costs pose for the Trump administration as midterm elections near

A federal judge has ruled that the man charged in the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train cannot currently stand trial due to mental illness

Stadium workers near Los Angeles say they have reached a tentative contract deal, averting a strike ahead of the U.S. men’s soccer team’s opening World Cup match

After complaints about staffing cuts and long waits to get help at the Social Security Administration, its commissioner says things are getting a lot better

Researchers commissioned by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration to investigate alcohol-related health harms have released their findings independently

South Carolina voters are narrowing down candidates in key races for governor and U.S. Senate

A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old athlete from a rival track team has been found guilty of murder

A federal appeals court has ruled that Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas to put prisoners to death needs more study of whether it violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment

Attorneys for the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque say he is being denied basic medical care for diabetes and has lost 30 pounds since he was taken into custody two months ago by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency official is set to testify in federal court about the U.S. government’s plans for refunding billions of dollars in tariffs that the Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump imposed illegally

A Texas man is accused of using a fake boarding pass to get on a United Airlines flight and causing the plane to go back to the gate at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport

Senators are warning that a key U.S. surveillance authority could expire this week after bipartisan opposition to President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s intelligence community derailed an extension effort

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Bill Maher is set to receive the Mark Twain Award for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on June 28

A new Treasury inspector general report raises concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement's ability to safeguard taxpayer information

Lawyers for a young man who fatally stabbed a competitor at a Texas high school track meet are calling more witnesses as a trial enters a second week

Malian authorities have arrested two prominent journalists, marking the latest crackdown on freedom of expression by the country's military leadership

Pakistan's military says an army MI-17 helicopter has crashed due to a technical fault in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, killing all military personnel on board

The U.S. State Department says an American diplomat assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Yangon, the biggest city in Myanmar, has been found dead

China is hosting an international conference in Xinjiang to promote economic development efforts in the northwestern region, which once was the site of mass political detentions

Pope Leo XIV is honoring two of Barcelona’s most sacred monuments

An Indonesian military court has found four service members guilty over an acid attack on a prominent human rights activist and sentenced them with up to three years in prison

A man from Sudan has appeared in court after being charged with attempted murder in Belfast in a stabbing attack that left a man seriously injured

Hong Kong authorities have charged seven people and two companies with offenses including manslaughter and conspiracy to defraud over the city's deadliest fire in decades

A man accused by Lebanese officials of being part of an Israeli intelligence plot took refuge in the Ukrainian Embassy in Beirut over two months ago

Aftershocks are rocking the southern Philippines days after a powerful earthquake that left at least 45 people dead and 17 others missing

South African police say that multiple attackers killed 12 people and wounded at least nine in a late-night mass shooting in the city of Johannesburg

Swiss voters are taking up an unprecedented proposal to limit Switzerland’s population at 10 million in coming decades

Burial societies in Zimbabwe and other parts of Africa are turning into lifelines for daily survival

The unique grandeur of the Sagrada Familia means that even those who work and worship at Barcelona’s world famous basilica every day can still be surprised with some fresh wonder

For decades, Israel has worked to expand the Jewish presence in annexed east Jerusalem

Jordan says it shot down 5 incoming missiles launched by Iran targeting area with air base hosting US forces

Pakistan has launched airstrikes on three eastern provinces in Afghanistan

Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella is urging prosecutors to investigate possible voter coercion by rebel groups in favor of governing party candidate Iván Cepeda

A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state has killed 74 people and infected more than 7,000 others since it started in early May

The gap between Peru's presidential candidates has narrowed to less than 20,000 votes with 96% of ballots counted after Sunday's runoff

An investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations against the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has found he engaged in “serious misconduct” and a “breach of duty.”

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block will open soon

Bulgaria is to stop sending weapons to Ukraine, the Balkan country’s defense minister has announced

Christian religious leaders in the Lebanese city of Tyre have urged for swift international and local action to prevent Israeli attacks on the Christian district

A crackdown by Afghan authorities on demonstrators in western Afghanistan has left at least three people injured, eyewitnesses say