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Palestinians looks at a destroyed car following an Israeli strike in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israel says it has killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza

11:35 AM on Saturday, December 13

Israel says it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza after an explosive device detonated and wounded two soldiers in the territory’s south

Joel Bowman, left, takes the stand before Shelby County Judge James Jones III on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Man who opened fire outside his former Jewish school in Memphis avoids prison with guilty plea

2:30 PM on Friday, December 12

A Tennessee man who fired a gun at a contractor outside his former Jewish school in Memphis in 2023 has pleaded guilty

Tennessee man who opened fire outside his former Jewish school avoids prison by pleading guilty to assault

2:25 PM on Friday, December 12

Tennessee man who opened fire outside his former Jewish school avoids prison by pleading guilty to assault

FILE - Bishop Steve Wood of St. Andrew's Church thanks health care workers at East Cooper Medical Center, where he was a patient fighting COVID-19 easier in the year, during an evening event to honor health care workers at East Cooper Medical Center Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP, File)

Anglican archbishop accused of sexual misconduct faces a church trial

12:16 PM on Friday, December 12

The top leader of the Anglican Church in North America faces a church trial over alleged abuse of power and sexual immorality

Pope Leo XIV leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in the St. Peter¥s Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope meets with Italian secret agents and urges them to be ethical

10:01 AM on Friday, December 12

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of Italy’s intelligence services and warned them not to use confidential information for blackmailing or other nefarious purposes

Archaeologists clean and restore frescoes inside a 3rd-century tomb where a rare early Christian depiction of Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" was discovered, in Iznik, Turkey, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Rare fresco of Jesus as the 'Good Shepherd' uncovered in Turkish town visited by the pope

9:37 AM on Friday, December 12

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a significant fresco of Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" from Anatolia's early Christian era

A woman cries as she looks up at the Virgin of Guadalupe image handing on the wall at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, on her feast day, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)

Thousands of devotees flood Mexico City for Virgin of Guadalupe pilgrimage

9:05 AM on Friday, December 12

Devotees of Mexico's patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe, have flooded the streets of the capital

This combination of six undated photos shows hostages, from top left, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi, from bottom left, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Carmel Gat, who were held hostage by Hamas militants in Gaza. On Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, the Hostages Families Forum announced their deaths while in Hamas captivity. (The Hostages Families Forum via AP)

New footage shows six Israeli hostages celebrating Jewish holiday, months before they were killed

8:34 AM on Friday, December 12

New footage shows six Israeli hostages celebrating Hanukkah while held captive in Gaza months before they were killed

FILE - An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stands in front of a menorah on the third eve of Hanukkah, at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's old city, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated

7:08 AM on Friday, December 12

Hanukkah is Judaism’s “festival of lights.”

Henry Hamra, a Syrian-American Jew who is one of the founders of a new Jewish heritage initiative, reads the Torah, the Jewish holy book, at al-Firenj Synagogue in the old city of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Syrian-American Jews register first Jewish NGO in Syria to restore heritage

7:07 AM on Friday, December 12

A group of Syrian-American Jews has registered a nongovernmental organization in Syria to restore Jewish heritage

A pilgrim carries an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe past the Popocatepetl in Paso de Cortes on his way to Mexico City, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)

Mexican devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe blends into national identity

1:05 AM on Friday, December 12

Mexicans' devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe — an apparition of the Virgin Mary — extends beyond religion

A doll representing the baby Jesus is zip-tied in the Nativity scene outside of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in Evanston, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

Church Nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids

12:21 AM on Friday, December 12

Nativity scenes at some churches are sparking fierce debates

FILE - Students in graduation garb walk by a pro-Palestinian tent encampment on the steps of Sproul Hall at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on May 2, 2024. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

California colleges settle antisemitism complaints with Jewish groups and individuals

2:10 PM on Thursday, December 11

Two California colleges have settled complaints alleging antisemitism arising from pro-Palestinian campus protests

Onyeka Chieme, a student of St. Mary's Catholic School, abducted by gunmen and later released, poses for a photograph at his house in Papiri, Nigeria, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Afolabi Sotunde)

'They said they'd shoot us': Nigerian child recalls how he was taken in mass school abduction

9:45 AM on Thursday, December 11

When gunmen stormed St. Mary Catholic School in Nigeria's Papiri community, the children tried to escape but were told they would be shot if they ran away

Palestinians cross a flooded street following heavy rain in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A winter storm chills Gaza and floods tent camps, exposing aid failures

7:42 AM on Thursday, December 11

Storm Byron has hit Gaza and worsened the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory

Rian Johnson, left, and Daniel Craig pose for a portrait in New York on on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

The greatest mystery of Rian Johnson's 'Knives Out' movies? Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc

1:55 PM on Monday, November 24

The greatest mystery in Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” movies might be Benoit Blanc

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