A hiker’s death on the Blue Ridge Parkway is renewing concerns about trail safety and staffing as visitation climbs and the ...

The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, a cardinal from the United States has become acting head of the Vatican until a new pontiff is elected.

Nadine Menendez, the wife of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, was convicted Monday of teaming up with her husband to accept ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next pope. These candidates, known as “papabile,” have what are regarded to be the ...

Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles allege major home insurance companies have colluded to limit coverage in California ...

The faithful in Pope Francis’ hometown lit candles in the church where he found God as a teenager, packed the cathedral where ...

A UNC student is charged with eight counts of felony secret peeping. Arrest records and search warrants say 19-year-old Marshall Ragsdale used a camera pen to record others in the bathroom, including ...

Global financial markets have been turned upside down this year by President Donald Trump's burgeoning trade war. Markets are ...

Pope Francis bestows the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing from the central lodge of St. Peter's ...

Francis made his final public appearance on Easter Sunday. He appeared very frail and had delegated the celebration of the ...

The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a key preventive-care provision of the Affordable Care Act in a case heard Monday.