Robert Kirsch, an assistant professor at Arizona State University and the co-author of Be Prepared: Doomsday Prepping in the ...

After more than a century of steady, upward climb, US life expectancy hit 78.9 years in 2015. Since then, it’s been mostly ...

Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Robert Prevost, is the first American pontiff. He was elected on Thursday, less than three ...

While there is no serious argument that Trump’s birthright citizenship order is legal, there are very serious arguments on ...

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She focuses on housing, schools, homelessness, child care, and abortion rights, and has been reporting on these issues for ...

The Catholic Church has a new pope, and for the first time, he is an American.

Her detention “chills the speech of the millions and millions of people who are not citizens,” a federal judge said.

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Robert Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — is not your typical boomer Chicago Catholic. The first American pope — Chicago-born ...