U.S. Covid-19 cases increased by about 65,000 Friday, in a week in which new infections declined by 12%. Many states are pressing ahead with reopening — and Senate passage of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill sets the stage for added...

The youngest students and those with special needs will be allowed to return to the classroom first, officials said.

Pope Francis, on his historic Iraq tour, visits on Sunday Christian communities that endured the brutality of the Islamic State group until the jihadists' "caliphate" was defeated three years ago. Pope Francis' trip to Iraq as a "pilgrim of peace" aims...

His bill passed the Senate -- but not the way the president might have wished.

MINNEAPOLIS — Bill Carlyon moved to the metropolitan area in 1980 to work as an electrical engineer after a brief stint in the Army. Back then, he says, Minneapolis was more inclusive than just about anywhere else in the country he ever visited.

Goldman Sachs could gain $200 million from the February wintry blast that socked the southern U.S.