My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, ...

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

A country led by an authoritarian leader who thumbs his nose at the rule of law is not the America I know. And it certainly ...

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

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I share an ancestral connection with Pope Leo XIV. What does that story say about race, religion, and ancestry in America?

As the nation honors the men and women who died while in service defending the United States this Memorial Day, The Daily Item is highlighting the six Valley veterans who received the Medal of Honor.

SOUTHERN MAINE BERWICK 11 a.m. Monday. Parade begins at Berwick Town Hall/Sullivan Square and proceeds up Sullivan Street and onto Wilson Street to the Berwick Veteran's Memorial Park. After a brief ...

Colombian-born entrepreneur Wilmar Delgado is moving forward with plans for his Viva project, which would have 100 housing ...

The newly elected pontiff is not known to have publicly commented on his Creole ancestry, which includes people of mixed Spanish ... free people of color prior to the Civil War.