Henry Louis Gates Jr., who hosts 'Finding Your Roots' on PBS, confirmed Pope Leo XIV is related to Madonna, Angelina Jolie, ...

The first American canonized by the Roman Catholic Church — just like the first American chosen as pope — once walked among the people of Chicago. The youngest of 13 children of Italian farmers, she ...

Today in History for July 20: In 1576, English explorer Martin Frobisher discovered the bay off Baffin Island that now bears his name. He thought it was a passage dividing America from Asia.

Russia’s escalation of drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian cities led to a three-year high in the number of civilians killed or wounded in June, the United Nations said. The UN verified at least ...

Tensions between Hungary and Ukraine continue. The Ukrainian ambassador has been summoned to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry in connection with the murder in Transcarpathia of a Hungarian man forcibly ...

Global Citizen is focusing on cities to combat extreme poverty amid global political gridlock. The international advocacy ...

MOUNT VERNON, Va. — On the Fourth of July, beneath a sun that seemed to soften just in time for the ceremony, one hundred immigrants reminded the crowd ...