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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are some cars that are designed to get you from one place to another, and then there are cars that make you want to take the long way home. The 2026 Mazda MX-5 Miata RF Club definitely belongs in the second category. We recently spent a week with the MX-5 Miata RF Club, finished in a ...

There are cities you visit. And there are cities that completely change your understanding of what a city can be. Venice is one of them. Technically, it's in Italy. Spiritually, it feels like its own country. Built on more than 100 small, stilt-standing islands connected by over 400 bridges, ...