During Sunday night’s live episode, millions of votes from viewers at home will help determine the season’s top five.

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

The end of each round of balloting will be signaled by smoke emanating from a stovepipe chimney atop the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke -- fumata nera in Italian -- indicates an inconclusive vote, while ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, gave his first ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is broken, UM law professor Leah Litman argues in her forthcoming book, “Lawless: How the Supreme ...

I do not blindly vote Republican. I vote to advance conservative policy that President Donald Trump and the GOP have abandoned.

President Donald Trump and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry have discussed the possibility that Julia Letlow, a congresswoman ...

Robert Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger ...

HBO's 'Real Time' host Bill Maher interviewed DNC vice chair David Hogg about his ambitious agenda to reform the Democratic ...

Albania's parliamentary elections draw international attention as former Trump campaign advisors support opposition leader Berisha against incumbent PM Rama amid corruption allegations.