Texas City police have surrounded a home on 27th Avenue North after a suspect allegedly shot a woman and opened fire on responding officers on Monday.

Even though cardinals don't campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next pope.

For six days in September, 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the country's ...

The town of Hopkinton, located about 26.2 miles west of Boston, is the gathering place for a field of about 30,000 runners of the Boston Marathon 2025.

The judge overseeing the University of Idaho murders case has made several key rulings on what can be admitted at suspect ...

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart in 2019 is expected to accept a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his successor begins. They involve the certification of death and public ...

VATICAN CITY -- Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: ...

Tributes to Pope Francis poured in on Monday, as presidents, prime ministers and other world leaders reacted to the news of his death.

Classes are set to resume on Monday at Florida State University following an on-campus mass shooting last week, but students ...

Pope Francis called for "a church for the poor," a church that would reach out to what he called the "peripheries." He called ...

Pope Francis' death sets into motion a series of formalized rites and observances that occur during what is called the interregnum, which begins upon the pontiff's passing and ends with the election ...