Citizen activists could find it harder to get initiatives on next year's ballot in some states. Lawmakers in about a dozen ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are beginning centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis. They ...

President Donald Trump plans to announce next week that the U.S. will refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the ...

A senior cardinal has urged the cardinals voting in a conclave to elect a pope who prizes unity in diversity, and puts ...

Cardinals have attended a final Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica before the conclave to elect the next pope. The Mass on ...

Alec Burleson hit a two-run double, Matthew Liberatore struck out eight in a season-high seven innings and the St. Louis ...

Top U.S. officials are set to meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Switzerland. The administration on ...

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St. Louis has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that inmates at a former medium-security ...

Jury selection in the sex trafficking trial of hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is expected to wrap up on Wednesday. Lawyers ...

Federal officials have filed charges against five people in connection to a boat that capsized a day earlier off San Diego’s ...

North Mahaska competed with 10 other schools over the 18-hole, par-72 course at Oskaloosa Golf Monday in the South Iowa Cedar ...