ASHLAND, Ky. — Pounding away on a prison typewriter, Chad Scott seemed worlds apart from President Donald Trump. But when the disgraced narcotics agent wrote the White House seeking clemency for his corruption conviction, Scott sought to draw Trump's attention to what they have in ...

ROME — Pope Leo XIV doubled down on Friday on his appeal for unity in the polarized Catholic Church, urging priests to act in communion with their superiors and be models of reconciliation in a world driven by conflicts and divisions. Leo appealed for unity in a triptych of messages to ...

NABATIEH, Lebanon — Israel's air force carried out intense airstrikes on mountains overlooking a southern Lebanon city Friday in an attack that the Israeli military said targeted underground assets of militant Hezbollah group. Shortly afterward, another strike hit an apartment building in ...

OSLO, Norway — Oslo police on Friday announced charges against Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Norway's crown princess, on multiple counts including rape, sexual assault and bodily harm after a months-long investigation of a case that involved a "double-digit" number of alleged ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday his country had delivered a "slap to America's face" with its strike on an American base in Qatar, and warned against any further U.S. attacks in his first public comments since a ceasefire was ...

LONDON — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying the organization has "ignored the science" and "lost the public trust." A video of Kennedy's speech was shown to participants at a Gavi meeting in Brussels on ...