Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world when he announced his resignation in 2013, the first in 600 years. That led some to ...

Tuesday will not be quite as warm as yesterday, but still nice and mild in the 60s to 70s. A few passing clouds will lead to ...

Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and ...

Harvard University is defying the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus and suing to halt a federal ...

Fears of a “generosity crisis” have dogged nonprofit fundraisers for much of this century as they experienced precipitous ...

Israeli police on Tuesday were scouring the waters off the country’s Mediterranean coast for a swimmer who they fear may have ...

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Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser tried to keep the focus on a groundbreaking ceremony for a new mixed-used development. But she couldn’t help fielding a string of questions ...

A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices started proceedings on Tuesday morning to determine whether federal officers, retired military officers and an aide of former President ...

The San Francisco Unified School District on Tuesday could make a decision on laying off staff. The district is facing a multimillion-dollar budget deficit and cuts ...

The Italian National Olympic Committee has asked for sports events to be suspended on Saturday, the day of Pope Francis’ funeral.

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of news in the coming days.