Spain begins Holy Week with processions, palm branches and familiar faces
MALAGA, Spain (AP) — Actor Antonio Banderas joined the crowds in dozens of Palm Sunday processions, marking the official start of Holy Week in...
Israeli police prevent Catholic leaders from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at Jerusalem church
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli police prevented Catholic leaders from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Mass on the...
Swift and widespread, efforts to rebrand César Chavez Day are fueled by emotion and...
From California to Minnesota, elected leaders and civil rights groups are scrambling to distance themselves from César Chavez’s name in the wake of allegations...
Some familiar names to the Supreme Court in a death row case over racial...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Certain names will be familiar to the Supreme Court in the latest case involving a Black death row inmate from Mississippi,...
California leads push to add key vitamin to corn tortillas, aimed at reducing Latino...
Fifteen years after she lost her first baby to a rare and devastating birth defect, Andrea Lopez takes comfort in knowing that other Latina...
In wrangling dark matter, some scientists find inspiration in the Torah, Krishna and Christ
When an invisible entity making up 85% of the universe's mass stumps the greatest scientific minds of our time, awe is an understandable response.Physicists...
Extreme weather in Afghanistan leaves 17 people dead, authorities say
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Severe flooding, a landslide and thunderstorms in parts of Afghanistan left 17 people dead and 26 injured over the last...
Pope Leo XIV opens Holy Week with Palm Sunday that recalls final days of...
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated Palm Sunday before tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, as he opened his first...
Jerusalem heads into a subdued Passover and Easter under the shadow of the Iran...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Jerusalem’s major holy sites are shuttered and families are dejected and exhausted ahead of Passover and Easter as the Iran war...
Disney opens World of Frozen at renamed Paris park in 2 billion euro expansion
CHESSY, France (AP) — The kingdom of Arendelle in Disney’s “Frozen” now has a permanent address just east of Paris, complete with a lagoon,...
