A longtime Trump critic, Pritzker is the first governor to take direct, effective action against Trump’s sweeping list of ...

Trump dissolved the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in an executive order reversing Joe Biden’s own ...

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Sunday, Feb. 2, is the feast of the Presentation of the Lord. Mass readings: Malachi 3:1-4; Psalm 24:7, 8, 9, 10; Hebrews 2:14-18; Luke 2:22-40 or 2:22-32.

A North Carolina security firm is hiring nearly 100 U.S. special forces veterans to help run a checkpoint in Gaza during the ...

Police boats have returned to the Potomac River as part of the recovery and investigation after the United States’ deadliest ...

Support has surged for the U.S. nonprofit that raises money for UNRWA, the U.N. agency that serves Palestinian refugees, ...

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for an "Iron Dome for America", borrowing the name of Israel's vaunted missile defence system. "We need to immediately begin the ...

In a related executive order signed this week, Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to increase capacity ...

Lives lived: Marianne Faithfull, who took a long and perilous journey to critical acclaim as a singer, ultimately releasing ...

Trump administration changes have upended the U.S. agency charged with providing humanitarian aid overseas, with senior officials put on leave, contractors laid off and a sweeping freeze imposed on fo ...