America’s economy is the envy of the world. Yet Trump believes it’s the victim of other nations’ unfair trade practices. Tariffs are his catch-all theory of how to level the playing field and revive ...

The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

Alexei Navalny is dead. And yet he lives. He lives to trouble Vladimir Putin, the authoritarian strongman of Russia who may ...

In addition to various roles in Centre County’s business and tourism industries, Mong also played Santa Claus for decades.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he started it more than 25 hours earlier: by ...

Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island called Bougainville. Its people are devoutly Catholic — with a twist. Many revere the Virgin Mary almost as much as her son, Jesus. Women are ...

The Russian Orthodox Church has a long history of close links to the Kremlin. It also has a key role in justifying the ...

María Carmen Rendiles is set to become Venezuela’s first female saint. Pope Francis paved the way after authorizing a decree regarding a miracle attributed to Rendiles, founder of the Congregation of ...