Flags are flying at half-staff in many parts of the nation on Saturday following orders from federal and state leadership.

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

The top Democrat in Florida’s Senate is leaving his party, declaring that “the Democratic Party in Florida is dead.” Minority ...

The man who would become Pope Francis always bought his shoes in the same place. And now the remarkably ordinary footwear has brought pride to his old Buenos Aires neighborhood ...

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them ...