Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Archbishop Bernard Hebda said he was surprised by the choice of an American-born pope to lead the worldwide church.

Wisconsin prosecutors on Thursday charged the father of a teenage girl who killed a teacher and fellow student in a school ...

Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, ...

There’s relevance in the fact that the newly named Pope Leo XIV stepped out onto the balcony above St. Peter’s Square on ...

The idea was that concentrating affordable housing in the Phillips neighborhood would improve health and education and reduce ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will no longer track the cost of climate change-fueled weather disasters, ...

Residents of the Broadmoor Valley mobile home park voiced fear, frustration, and pleas for help at a city-convened public ...

Mother’s Day calls for some new creative approaches. Sick of spending the morning at a noisy brunch restaurant where it’s so ...

Former President Joe Biden says he's responsible for Donald Trump's victory last fall, but he attributes Kamala Harris' loss, ...

Democratic voters on Thursday asked the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the battleground state's ...

Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature voted Thursday to kill most of the top spending priorities of Democratic ...