Pope Francis died Monday, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change. Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they're counted, and then burning them to produce either the white or black smoke to signal if there's a new...

LYON, France (AP) — Tributes to Pope Francis instantly poured in from around the world from presidents to people of all walks of like on Monday after the Vatican announced the pontiff's death at age 88. President Emmanuel Macron of France, a country that is largely Roman Catholic, focused on the...

HONG KONG (AP) — China will sanction United States officials, lawmakers and leaders of non-governmental organizations who it says have "performed poorly” on Hong Kong issues, the foreign ministry announced. The U. S. in March sanctioned six Chinese and Hong Kong officials who it alleged were a...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. He was 88. Bells tolled in church towers across Rome after the...