Virginia’s 8th U.S. Congressional District rep Donald S. Beyer Jr., in an exclusive interview with the News-Press last week, touched on two potentially epochally transformative developments that could ...

From a portable throne carried on the shoulders of attendants to state-of-the-art electric cars, the pope’s means of ...

The dangers of screen time for children and adolescents are becoming widely recognized and an increasing number of EU countries are imposing smartphone bans in schools. But are we doing enough in ...

Two-time Olympic medalist and former Ohio State Buckeyes wrestler Kyle Snyder was arrested by police during a prostitution ...

In his first official remarks as pope, Leo XIV delivered a powerful message to the College of Cardinals on Saturday, warning that artificial intelligence (AI) presents serious new risks to human ...

While President Trump welcomed the U.S.-born cardinal as the new pope, top Trump allies criticized Leo XIV for his similarities to Pope Francis. By Tim Balk When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ...

One cardinal who cast his ballot said the pope’s choice of the papal name Leo might signal a particular interest in workers’ rights. By Elizabeth Dias Elizabeth Dias, who covers religion ...

Advocates for the LGBTQ+ community praised Pope Francis for his outreach and credited him with moving the Catholic Church away from condemnation and towards tolerance and embrace. Now, the outlook ...

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual identity has put them at ease. By Patricia Mazzei Reporting from Rome ...

The pope grew up in a Catholic enclave on Chicago’s South Side. That community is gone now. The pope grew up in a Catholic enclave on Chicago’s South Side. That community is gone now.

Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents were black or mixed and of Creole descent, moving from New Orleans to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, reports said Friday. “The family were free ...

Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy Thursday, reportedly voted in U.S. elections and primaries in the past—including the 2024 general elections—a finding which appears to shed some ...