After three weeks of jury selection, opening statements are set to begin on Tuesday in Karen Read’s second murder trial.

Tuesday will not be quite as warm as yesterday, but still nice and mild in the 60s to 70s. A few passing clouds will lead to ...

Harvard University is defying the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus and suing to halt a federal ...

Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world when he announced his resignation in 2013, the first in 600 years. That led some to ...

Israeli police on Tuesday were scouring the waters off the country’s Mediterranean coast for a swimmer who they fear may have ...

Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and ...

The infighting and backstabbing that plagued President Donald Trump’s first term have returned as a threat to his second, ...

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of news in the coming days.

The Italian national Olympic committee has asked for sports events to be suspended on Saturday, the day of Pope Francis’ funeral. After the government declared five days of national ...

Greece’s prime minister on Tuesday announced 1 billion euros ($1.15 billion) in financial benefits for lower-income households and the public investment program, after the ...

Another dead whale has washed up at a San Francisco Bay beach, The Marine Mammal Center confirmed Monday. It is the fifth ...

Members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina are awaiting the release of a Department of the Interior report that, as soon as this week, could light a path for federal recognition as a tribal ...