The conclave to select a new pope will be sharply different from the body that chose Francis in 2013. Experts say that could make it harder to predict what the conclave will do.

The report, in its 26th edition, uses data collected by air quality monitors run by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The health secretary announced a push to eliminate petroleum-based colorants from the food supply. But he'll need to get food companies on board.

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Facebook's parent company hundreds of millions of euros as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc's digital competition rules.

The Illinois Democrat has announced he will retire at the end of his term next year after nearly three decades in the Senate. His departure creates a key opening in Democratic leadership.

The Townsend Prize selection process involved 50 nominated books from authors in Georgia. Millner's winning novel, One Blood, traces four generations of Black mothers and their trials and secrets.

Dioceses across Georgia are remembering Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88.

A year after its proposal, a California-based plastic-waste solution company still is pushing to build what it calls the Thomaston Circularity Center.

At the center of the case is the school system in Montgomery County, Md., the most religiously diverse county in the U.S., with 160,000 students of almost all faiths.

The U.S. is showing signs that it is increasingly willing to withdraw from a peace process that has grown more complex in recent months.

Mourners around the world and here in Georgia are paying their respects for Pope Francis; The air we breathe every day is overall getting worse, says the American Lung Association in its 2025 State of the Air report; Many of Georgia's favorite fruits and vegetables are looking good this year, thanks to favorable weather conditions during the growing season.

Frustrated with their party's response to President Trump, a wave of young Democrats are challenging incumbents in safe blue districts, hoping to mirror Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upset win in 2018.

Weinstein is facing sex crimes charges after his 2020 New York conviction was overturned last year. The #MeToo movement was catalyzed in part by the many women who came forward to accuse the disgraced producer of misconduct.

Elon Musk says he'll cut back his work with the federal government to one to two days per week. He said demand for Teslas is still strong, despite protests and plunging sales.

A lawsuit alleges the Trump administration violated the free-speech rights of nonprofits and municipalities that have had federal funding for climate and environmental projects frozen or cancelled.