Sergey Karyakin, a chess grandmaster born in Crimea — the Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 — has been ...

It is not just that he broke barriers as the first pontiff from Latin America. Nor even that he preached tolerance — although ...

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Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

Maria Ressa, the journalist who earned the Nobel Peace Prize for her attempts to save freedom of expression in the ...

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Long Island Catholics remember Pope Francis for his inclusivity and compassion, celebrating his impact on the church and ...

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If you create an authoritarian state in the home that raises people to expect and empathize with violence, then what you ...

Photographer Rob Ball turns his lens on Benidorm, a skyscraper-packed tourist metropolis dubbed the “New York of the ...

On April 21, 1967, Greece woke up to a military junta taking over power. The colonels at the head of this brutal regime ended up putting the country in shackles for seven years.

Donald Trump — who has incited violence against his perceived enemies time and again. Neither [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck ...