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Anti-Defamation League says anger at Israel is now the driving force behind antisemitism in the US
The Anti-Defamation League says the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high last year and ...
Pope Francis saw environmental and climate issues as moral concerns
Few moments in Pope Francis’ papacy better exemplify his understanding of climate change and the need to address it than the ...
From ‘conclave’ to ‘white smoke,’ a glossary of terms used in a papal transition
A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the ...
70% of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be gone in the next 10 years, a report shows
Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive but 70% of them will be gone within the ...
Your clothes are shedding bits of plastic. Here’s what people are doing about it this Earth Day
Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear. A typical closet is ...
Sharks drew crowds who chased and fed them off Israel’s coast — until one man disappeared
Israeli police on Tuesday were scouring the waters off the country’s Mediterranean coast for a swimmer who they fear may have been attacked by a shark, in an area that ...
Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza and destroy heavy equipment needed to clear rubble
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been ...
Irish-born American cardinal entrusted as the ‘camerlengo,’ running the Holy See between popes
Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope and before the election of another.
Planned water outage and boil water advisory issued in Callaway
The City of Callaway has scheduled a water outage to begin at 10 p.m. on Monday to an estimated 8 a.m. on Tuesday. The areas ...
For Iraqi Christians, Pope Francis’ visit was a rare moment of hope
The death of Pope Francis has sent shockwaves through Iraq’s Christian community, where his presence once brought hope after one of the darkest chapters in the country’s recent ...
Lynn Haven officials approve Marina Island overlay district for potential mixed-use development
A Lynn Haven development eight years in the making saw some progress Monday. In 2017, Lynn Haven city officials sold the old ...
As controversies pile up, Trump allies increasingly turn on one another
The infighting and backstabbing that plagued President Donald Trump’s first term have returned as a threat to his second, with deepening fissures over trade, national security ...