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Bishop Richard Moth speaks during a press conference announcing him as the new Archbishop of Westminster, replacing Cardinal Vincent Nichols as the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, in the Throne Room of Archbishop's House, Westminster, London, Friday Dec. 19, 2025. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

Pope names new archbishop of Westminster as part of generational shift in English-speaking hierarchy

4:58 AM on Friday, December 19

Pope Leo XIV has made another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy

FILE - Surfers and swimmers head out to the ocean as a tribute following Sunday's shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Markham,File)

A sunrise crowd gathers at Bondi Beach in solace and defiance after a massacre

1:08 AM on Friday, December 19

Thousands of people have returned to Australia's Bondi Beach in the first full day of opening since a mass shooting killed 15 people

This photo provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shows a large rock bearing petroglyphs created by the ancestors of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, Dec 8, 2025, in Tremonton, Utah. (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints via AP)

Church repatriates sacred rock covered with petroglyphs after 14-year effort

8:49 PM on Thursday, December 18

A rock covered with petroglyphs created centuries ago by the ancestors of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation is back home in the mountains of Utah

FILE - New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Mamdani appointee resigns after her decade-old antisemitic social media posts resurface

3:48 PM on Thursday, December 18

One of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s appointees has resigned over social media posts she made more than a decade ago that featured antisemitic tropes

How kosher is beer? As with other products, it's increasingly complicated.

12:27 PM on Thursday, December 18

In November, three of America’s largest kosher certifying organizations came together to release new guidance regarding the status of beer, which has long been considered kosher by default

Director Rob Reiner promotes his latest film "The Story of Us," a romantic comedy about marriage on the rocks in San Francisco, Oct. 1, 1999, in San Francisco. (Fred Larson/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

In recorded message, Rob Reiner urged resiliency for Holocaust survivors at Hanukkah event

12:11 PM on Thursday, December 18

Hollywood icon Rob Reiner urged Holocaust survivors to show resilience in a video message recorded weeks before he was killed

Pope Leo XIV waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Dec.17, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope blasts 'irrationality' of military deterrence in first annual peace message

9:39 AM on Thursday, December 18

Pope Leo XIV says peace is not only possible but necessary

Israeli police officers scuffle with young Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters during a violent disturbance in Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

A parking ticket in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem sets off clashes with police

8:09 AM on Thursday, December 18

Israeli religious protesters have turned on municipal officers who attempted to write a parking ticket in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood, attacking and injuring 13 police officers

Josh Pyles, who is part of a cooperative program that helps local farmers stay on the farm and, in turn, strengthen rural communities, opens a gate to check on a herd of cattle in Henry County, Ky., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Swensen)

PHOTO ESSAY: Grassroots groups tackle social isolation

4:11 AM on Thursday, December 18

Family, friends, and supporters gather for the Beef Bash 2025 tasting event at the Berry Center, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, in New Castle, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Efforts to reconnect Americans face challenges in a lonely time

4:06 AM on Thursday, December 18

It’s been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation

Visitors learn about fall crops like lettuce and kale while on a walking tour of Collins Avenue during the Baltimore Gift Economy's third annual "Finding Home" gathering, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Bit by bit, small US groups chip away at historic levels of social isolation

4:02 AM on Thursday, December 18

Americans are disconnected from each other at historic levels, buffeted by what a former surgeon general calls an “epidemic of loneliness.”

Bishop Ronald Hicks speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Dec.18, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Pope names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as new archbishop of New York

3:08 AM on Thursday, December 18

Pope Leo XIV has made a significant U.S. appointment by naming Bishop Ronald Hicks as the next archbishop of New York

Pope names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as archbishop of New York in most important US appointment to date

3:05 AM on Thursday, December 18

Pope names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as archbishop of New York in most important US appointment to date

A convoy of Lebanese army vehicles drives near the border with Israel in the village of Alma al-Shaab during a Lebanese army media tour in south Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israel launches intense airstrikes in Lebanon as deadline looms to disarm Hezbollah

2:29 AM on Thursday, December 18

Israel has carried out airstrikes on southern and northeastern Lebanon

Family carry the coffin following a service for Bondi Beach mass shooting victim 10-year-old Matilda, whose last name is being withheld at the request of her family, in Sydney, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Steve Markham)

Mourners grieve 10-year-old killed in Bondi mass shooting as Australian leader pledges new hate laws

7:55 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Hundreds of mourners have gathered in Sydney for the funeral of a 10-year-old girl killed in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration

Whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order perform during a Sheb-i Arus ceremony at Kasimpasa Mevlevihane in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, to commemorate the death of 13th century Islamic scholar, poet and Sufi mystic Jalaladdin Rumi. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Photos show performances by Turkey's whirling dervishes

6:20 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Palestinian women struggle to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel fires mortar into Gaza residential area, wounding at least 10

10:18 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Israel’s military says troops fired a mortar shell into a Palestinian residential area in the Gaza Strip, in the latest incident to rock the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas

FILE - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, June 12, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

New York is set to legalize medically assisted suicide with 'guardrails,' governor says

7:44 AM on Wednesday, December 17

New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill

Family react at the coffin of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a victim in the Bondi Beach mass shooting, during his funeral at a synagogue in Bondi on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, Pool)

Accused gunman in Bondi Beach shooting charged with 15 counts of murder

6:41 PM on Tuesday, December 16

An accused gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre has been charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims

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