Democrats spent much of the 2020 presidential primary debating the best way to expand public health insurance. 

Pope Francis held a historic meeting on Saturday morning with Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. The meeting was rare, given that the ayatollah rarely meets with world leaders. Details for the meeting were negotiated between al-Sistani's...

The meeting was months in the making, with every detail painstakingly discussed and negotiated between the ayatollah’s office and the Vatican.

Senate Democrats' push to quickly pass President Joe Biden's Covid-19 relief package has met a time-consuming and stamina-challenging speed bump known as a "vote-a-rama."

After the meeting, Francis travelled to the desert plain of Ur in southern Iraq, revered as the birthplace of Abraham.

The Senate worked through the night and past sunrise Saturday on Democrats’ showpiece $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill after a deal between leaders and moderate Sen. Joe Manchin on emergency jobless benefits broke a logjam that had stalled the package....