(RNS) — On Ash Wednesday this year, about a dozen people attended a noon service at Boston’s Old North Church, founded in 1723. Two days later, a handful of worshippers took part in a Shabbat service ...

Good morning, and welcome to what’s expected to be another opinion day at the Supreme Court. We will be live blogging ...

There's an effort on Capitol Hill to increase funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which awards funding to ...

The Horn Shelter Man ranks as one of the oldest identifiable inhabitants in the lands that became America. He lived near a river now called Brazos and a place now called Waco more than 10,000 years ...

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence, old questions have returned about who belongs and whose religious practices are truly protected in the country. The tension ...

In fact, three out of the five highest-ranked bars come from the Big Apple. Following behind Sip & Guzzle (which moved up from No. 5 on last year’s list) come Bar Snack at No. 3, as the East Village ...

Research into human genomic diversity has a number of applications in biomedicine, evolution, and history. However, many populations have historically been underrepresented on the human genomic map.

Just over a month has passed since the first missiles of Operation Epic Fury killed, on the very first day, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, 150 schoolgirls and school staff, and most of Iran’s military ...

Most schoolchildren in America still stand, place their hands over their hearts and pledge allegiance to “one nation under God.” Yet too many of them graduate without ever learning what God meant to ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Doral, Fla. [Photo: Air Force Staff Sgt. Madelyn Keech] US War Secretary Pete ...

FOR THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE THE DOCUMENTS PUBLIC. TONIGHT, WE ARE FOLLOWING UP ON A NEW FEDERAL LAWSUIT FILED OVER NORTH CAROLINA'S NEW DISTRICT MAP. THE FILING ONCE AGAIN PUTS THE MAP UNDER ...

Years before America declared its independence, European immigrants arrived in search of new lives and brought their faiths with them. Settling on a swath of land that eventually became known as New ...