"This was a heinous act. A heinous, cowardly act."

The United States saw an increase of about 18% in homelessness this year, a new record high, according to a federal report.

Former President Jimmy Carter died Dec. 29 at his home in Plains, Georgia, his presidential library announced. At 100, Carter, who had been in hospice care since February 2023, was the longest-living U.S. president.

Kneeling before a glass-clad box holding what many believe to be the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas, Michele Hafenmair touched her rosary and other sacramentals to the relic of the 13th-century Italian philosopher and theologian.

While the Supreme Court has delayed consideration on a pair of cases that may allow sidewalk protesters at abortion clinics to get as close as 8 feet away from women entering them, another legal skirmish about sidewalk access has...