President Trump has eliminated funding for programs aimed at ending the growing HIV epidemic among minority communities, ...

The first American pope has a family history with deep ties to New Orleans. Robert Prevost, who has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV, was elected as the next pontiff on Thursday following a two-day ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...

President Trump, in his first term, promised to end America's HIV epidemic — and ... account for why low-income Black people in the Deep South die sooner, on average, than those who are white.

The Catholic Church has a new supreme pontiff—and he’s from the South Side of Chicago. These are words that no reporter alive ...

Leaders called the decision from the conclave “a powerful moment for the Catholic Church — and for American Catholics.” ...

James,” by Percival Everett won the fiction prize, and Jason Roberts received the biography prize for “Every Living Thing.” ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV marked a watershed moment in the long history of the Catholic Church. Born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955, Leo XIV became the first American to ascend to the ...

Massachusetts and Boston Catholics are joining the faithful around the world in celebrating the election of the first American-born pope."Everyone was, you know, prognosticating. But we got a surprise ...

Larry Haywood, known to locals as the "Flag Man," has died ... Miguel Legoas is a Deep South Connect Team Reporter for Gannett/USA Today. Find him on X and Instagram @miguelegoas and email ...

While the contributions of US Marine Corps Sgt. Alfredo “Freddy” González may have been removed from some digital realms, ...

Once a successful businessman, Gary Swift, 39, was left bankrupt after a failed hotel project in Chester, but turned to drug ...