Authorities in Nigeria say At least 13 people, including four children, were killed in two separate stampedes in the country, as large crowds gathered to collect food and clothing items distributed at annual Christmas events

Hanukkah, Judaism’s eight-day Festival of Lights, begins this year on Christmas Day

Biden signs bill averting a government shutdown after Trump's intervention had imperiled congressional passage

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.”

Pope Francis is suffering from a cold and will deliver his Sunday blessing from indoors

The Pakistani Taliban says it carried out a deadly attack on a military checkpoint in the country's northwest

The Washington Commanders' path to returning to nation's capital is clear after an on-again, off-again saga in Congress ended with a late reprieve

The Senate has rushed through final passage of a bipartisan plan to fund federal operations and prevent a government shutdown

California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the U.S. That raises new questions about the outbreak of the virus, also known as Type A H5N1