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In letter to bishops, pontiff says internal bickering must end Scandal has severely damaged credibility of American church Pope Francis has criticised US bishops for failing to show unity in the face of a sexual abuse cr...

Soulef A, married to Peter Cherif, accused of criminal association with terrorists and financing a terrorist enterprise The wife of one of France's most notorious jihadists, Peter Cherif, has been charged and provisional...

Brian Whitehurst said he wanted to talk to Trump about "his $6.3 trillion"

The suit said authorities didn't properly investigate abuse allegations

It could also reduce food-related greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he would demand the release of Paul N. Whelan, the Marine Corps veteran detained in Moscow, if the detention was "not appropriate."

Incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi left the door open on impeachment and indictment of President Donald Trump.

British foreign secretary says Russian support for Syrian regime means change unlikely The British foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has admitted for the first time that Russian support for the Syrian regime means Bashar a...

The state-run Saudi Press Agency said the suspects in the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have attended their first court hearing.        

An Ohio doctor was fired for writing anti-Semitic tweets. Dozens of tweets from 2011 to 2013 recently emerged from Lara Kollab, a former supervised first-year resident at the Cleveland Clinic. In one tweet, she suggested...

The United States issued a pre-emptive warning to Iran on Thursday against pursuing three planned space rocket launches that it said would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution because they use ballistic missile tec...

Three nations -- the United States, the former Soviet Union, and more recently China -- have sent spacecraft to the near side of the moon, which faces Earth, but this landing is the first-ever on the far side.

Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar — one of two Muslim women recently elected to the House of Representatives — will become the first to wear the hijab in Congress when the new session begins on Thursday. Democrats are ex...

It's time for Jim Comey to be quiet. That's been the case for a long time now -- and yet there the former FBI director was on Wednesday, weighing in on the debate over Mitt Romney's op-ed criticizing President Trump. Loo...

With her announcement of an "exploratory committee" this week, Elizabeth Warren is almost certainly going to run for president. And when she does, she is almost certainly going to occupy the same left flank of the 2020 D...

Drink-driving main cause of accidents as 4,000 injured between the 'seven dangerous days', December 27 and January 2.

The partial government shutdown stretched into its 12th day of its shutdown on Wednesday, with President Trump saying it could last much longer if Democrats refuse to fund a wall along the southern border. Washington Pos...

The first primaries of the 2020 presidential election are more than a year away, but some Democratic hopefuls are already reaching out to black voters. Rashad Robinson, the president of Color of Change, a progressive adv...

A cross-party group of British lawmakers and lawyers is seeking access to detained female activists whom Human Rights Watch says may have been tortured and sexually harassed while in prison in Saudi Arabia.

New Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued an executive order on Wednesday making the Agriculture Ministry responsible for deciding on lands claimed by indigenous peoples, in a victory for agribusiness that will likel...

U.S. stock futures fell on Thursday after a rare revenue warning from Apple Inc added to worries about slowing global growth, but a move by China's central bank to help struggling smaller firms lifted shares there, cushi...

China is poised to make history Thursday by becoming the first country to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon, a feat that has never been done before.