The U.S. has joined the global bidding on Syrian refugees. At first it said it would take 10,000 Syrians. Now it says it will increase the annual U.S. overall refugee in...
President Barack Obama reportedly is considering accepting Vladimir Putin’s proposal for U.S.-Russian discussions on Syria.
The dialogue would begin with talks between ...
Any pope who travels from Havana to the United States on a mission to persuade Congress to uplift the poor and address global warming has to be pretty audacious. So on h...
The state of Pennsylvania has an official motto, and it’s a fine one: “Virtue, Liberty, and Independence.” Alas, the state Legislature still lacks one.
Fortunately, ther...
Carly Fiorina’s strong performance in the first Republican debate’s “under-card” launched her into the main event. And the sharp way she confronted front-runner Donald T...
According to the Census Bureau’s new annual poverty report, 46.7 million Americans lived in poverty in 2014.
This finding is surprising since government spent more than...
On Sept. 27, Pope Francis will visit the Philadelphia jail where I serve as one of the Catholic chaplains. What an unbelievable, once-in-a-lifetime event. It brings to m...
CNN gathered together all of the Republican presidential candidates at the Reagan Library for a highly touted debate and could hardly think to ask them about anything ex...
WASHINGTON — Forget that obnoxious real estate mogul from New York City who disparages women who annoy him and is a xenophobe and a know-nothing when it comes to foreign...
Using power granted in 2009 when Democrats controlled Congress, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced it was banning the sale of four brands of ciga...
