Across the country, parties are consolidating political power in states and squeezing out the moderate middle. In Montana, that squeeze is changing political representation and whose voice counts.
New York is struggling to accommodate the new arrivals of migrants in the city. Reverend Juan Carlos Ruiz is among those trying to provide help in the midst of uncertainty.
The leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics has steered his church leftward after more than two decades of conservative leadership. Opposition within the Vatican is fierce.
What began as anger at the hijab law grew into a bigger movement as Iranians said they were fed up with the regime's corruption, economic mismanagement and oppression of its citizens.
Settlement talks began a year ago in the 9/11 terrorism case. But little progress has been made, dragging out the future of the problem-plagued U.S. military court and prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
A Saudi man held at Guantánamo for more than two decades without being put on trial has been released by the U.S., making him the fourth inmate transferred out of Guantánamo in about the past month.
Nominated in the documentary short film category and now streaming on Netflix, the film depicts the loving relationship of a tribe in India and the pachyderms who share the forest with them.
The Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee ousted the churches for having female pastors. What's behind the decision is unclear, but the move has been criticized inside and outside the SBC.
James Jones is a Black member of the Church of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon Church, who is using his church's theology to teach anti-racist principles to fellow members.
The city of Antakya, known in antiquity as Antioch, was at the crossroads of civilizations for centuries. After the Feb. 6 earthquake, many of its centuries-old monuments and sites lie in ruins.
Calls to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a division of people based on birth or descent, have grown louder among South Asian diaspora communities in the United States.
Los Angeles Archdiocese Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell was found dead with a gunshot wound at his home. Authorities have arrested the husband of his housekeeper in his killing.
Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell was born in Ireland and served as a priest and a bishop for more than four decades. The 69-year-old was remembered as a "peacemaker."
