The story of a suburban kid from North Texas who made it big, told from the perspective of people who watched his rise.

Why did a small North Texas town become a haven for Brazilians in the United States? The answer has a lot to do with how ...

In 1999, the state Legislature enacted the Indian Education for All (IEFA) Act to implement that constitutional mandate, requiring public schools to teach Native American history and culture.

Pope Francis, a native ... American pope: WATCH: Video shows Robert Prevost introduced as Pope Leo XIV at Vatican balcony Francis eschewed a lot of the pomp and pretense of the papacy, living in a ...

A US federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring land to Rio Tinto and BHP for a copper mine opposed by Native Americans, citing the Supreme Court’s ...

As the image of the new pope, Chicago native Cardinal Robert Prevost ... who died last month. The first American elected pontiff, Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago before undertaking ...

Never in the history of the Roman Catholic Church has there been an American pope, until now. Cardinal Robert Prevost is originally from Chicago, and served as the head of the church's Dicastery ...

Older Americans are generally more confident that Social Security will be available to them than younger adults are, according to the poll. About half of U.S. adults under age 30 are “not very ...

The transatlantic slave trade has long been associated with the mass kidnapping of Africans to the Americas, but an often-overlooked chapter in this history is the enslavement and forced exile of ...