Yesterday, as I was leaving for work, I noted a nip of fall in the air. Of course, during the next few hours, it quickly became summer again, but I felt whisperings of it this morning as well. It is for this reason that I can reasonably surmise that the colors of fall will soon be putting on ...

ROME (AP) — Victor L. Simpson, the longtime Rome bureau chief for The Associated Press whose four decades as a foreign correspondent spanned five popes, wars and violence that touched him personally, has died. He was 84. Simpson died of cancer Sunday at his home in Rome, his children said ...

Warning, this column discusses mental health issues and suicide. September has always been my mother’s birthday, the return to a school-year routine and the solemn reminder of 9/11. But for the past 12 years, it has also carried another meaning: It is the month I think about my uncle Matt ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his 71st birthday on Monday but it was Vatican employees who got the gift. The Vatican published a papal decree repealing 2021 salary cuts that Pope Francis had imposed on many Vatican employees as part of the Holy See’s COVID-19 cost-saving ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Sixty-three years ago, dynamite planted by Ku Klux Klan members exploded through the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls as they prepared for Sunday services. Hundreds of people filled the church on Tuesday on the 63rd anniversary of ...

As cooler weather arrives and baking season begins, many home bakers are taking a different approach in the kitchen. Instead of filling the counter with oversized cakes, dozens of cookies or large pans of brownies, they're choosing recipes that make just enough to enjoy without days of ...