The leader of an unusual protest against Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. was sentenced to three months in federal prison Tuesday following his conviction for a campaign finance offense. Gabriel ...

Red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo, violet… chartreuse? With Pride month comes many celebrations and marches in support of the LGBTQ Community and the many symbols and flags that ...

The rainbow flag is a symbol for the LGBTQ+ community, but each identity has its own. These are the genderqueer, gender-fluid ...

AP style will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic and cultural senses. This decision follows our move last month to capitalize Black in such uses. We consulted with a wide group of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other players permanently banned by the sport would have their statuses restored at death. The ...

Three years later, the plan has reportedly reached the Trump White House, which threw global shipping into ... and the Marshall Islands. These so-called flag-of-convenience states have been criticized ...

The results were announced with white smoke in St. Peter’s Square Thursday evening ... traced Prevost’s ancestry to the Black community of New Orleans. His maternal ancestors lived in the Crescent ...

The man qualified for the race but he vanished after receiving a black flag for driving too slow ... James Arthur Lee or Robert White. He even, at times, used the name of his brother who died ...

Tradition holds that black smoke indicates the cardinals have not yet agreed on a new leader, while white smoke signals that a new Pope has been elected. But what kind of smoke is it exactly?

The crowd in St. Peter’s Square erupted in cheers Thursday when white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel shortly after 6 p.m. on the second day of the conclave, the most geographically ...