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Trump Seeks to Strip Away Legal Tool Key to Civil Rights Enforcement

President Trump has ordered federal agencies to abandon the use of a longstanding legal tool used to root out discrimination

A 5-year-old bear that was a member of a well-known and beloved grizzly family in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park

In 2018, an anonymous tip led the authorities in California to Eric Uller, who for decades had volunteered at an

The last several months for American Catholics have been a story about the ascent of the Catholic right. In January,

The Trump administration fired the librarian of Congress, Carla D. Hayden, on Thursday, drawing swift outcry from Democrats. Dr. Hayden

At Catholic elementary schools in Chicago on Thursday afternoon, the intercoms crackled with a surprise announcement — “Habemus papam!” —

Months before Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American pope, a social media account under his name expressed criticism

Most U.S. Catholics say they rely on the pope and the Church’s teachings for difficult moral questions, this is particularly

Nearly 60 felony cases will be dropped in a small Alabama town because they were compromised by what a grand

For the first time in history, an American was chosen to lead the Catholic Church, as cardinals on Thursday selected Pope