A 45-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder in the stabbings of two Jewish men in London.

Taylor Frankie Paul, a reality TV star from “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” and the father of her 2-year-old son were ordered Thursday to stay 100 feet (30 meters) away from each other for the next three years as a Utah court commissioner continues to assess custody plans for the child.

New Zealand's Court of Appeal has rejected an attempt by Brenton Tarrant to withdraw his guilty pleas for the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks.

A group of Australian women and children who left a Syrian camp for people with alleged ties to Islamic State group militants are stuck in Syria.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced nearly six hours of questioning Wednesday from House lawmakers for the first time since President Donald Trump’s administration launched the war against Iran.

The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC and the OPEC+ group, effective May 1.

Iran has offered to end its control over the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade and ends the war.

Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz without addressing its nuclear program.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he told his top envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran.

Pakistan’s leaders are seeking to revive peace talks between the United States and Iran after President Donald Trump canceled plans for his top envoys to travel to Islamabad this weekend for negotiations.

Iran's foreign minister has briefly visited Islamabad again as Pakistan's leaders work to restart ceasefire talks between Tehran and Washington.

The latest attempt at ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran appears to have failed.

President Donald Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to meet with Iran’s foreign minister as officials in the South Asian nation push to revive ceasefire talks.

Authorities have arrested two young people in an alleged plot to attack a Texas synagogue.

U.S. President Donald Trump is sending envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan on Saturday to continue talks with Iran.

The U.S. military has seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines to choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

Pope Leo XIV is urging the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war.

Court rulings are bolstering mandates to display the Ten Commandments in public schools in the U.S. as supporters push to expand the role of religion in classrooms.

President Donald Trump says Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group by three weeks after talks at the White House.

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” Iranian small boats choking the Strait of Hormuz.

French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud says he has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria for his book “Houris.”.

Pope Leo XIV is urging Equatorial Guineans to work for freedom, justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged.”.

U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States was indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran as a new round of peace talks was on hold.

President Donald Trump has read a notable Bible passage in a livestreamed marathon.

Authorities say an Israeli army reservist has shot and killed two Palestinians near a school in a village east of Ramallah.

President Donald Trump and many of his conservative Christian supporters are participating in a marathon Bible reading event.

Pope Leo XIV has paid tribute to Pope Francis on Tuesday on the first anniversary of his death.

President Donald Trump says the United States is indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request as he waits for a unified proposal from the Islamic Republic.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the “colonization” of minerals and the “lust for power” in Equatorial Guinea at the end of his four-nation African trip.

President Donald Trump says he is extending the ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request while awaiting a “unified proposal” from Tehran, even as the U.S. military maintains its blockade of Iranian ports.

There is a case to be made that Pope Leo XIV found his voice on his epic and ongoing trip through Africa.

Europe is focusing on the Palestinians after Hungary's election defeat of Israel ally Viktor Orbán.

British police have arrested two teenagers in connection with a weekend arson attack on a synagogue in northwest London as Jewish leaders express concern about a wave of recent incidents targeting their community.

President Donald Trump is defending his Iran war strategy, attacking critics and skeptics on Monday as “TRAITORS, ALL” after a second round of talks with Iran were thrown into doubt by the U.S. Navy’s seizure of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz.

British police say they are investigating whether a series of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are the work of Iranian proxies.

Pope Leo XIV has traveled to pray at a popular Catholic shrine in Angola that was an epicenter of the African slave trade.

The U.S. says it has attacked and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz that tried to get around its blockade of Iranian ports.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around its naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz.

Pope Leo XIV says it is “not in my interest at all” to debate U.S. President Donald Trump about the war in Iran but that he will continue preaching the Gospel message of peace.

Pope Leo XIV has challenged Angola's leaders to “break the cycles of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries.

Iran has reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and fired on a tanker attempting to pass the waterway.

Pope Leo XIV is encouraging young people in Cameroon to resist the temptation to migrate and to stay at home and fight corruption.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister say the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open to commercial vessels.

Iran says it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels.

Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “handful of tyrants” exploiting Earth through war and greed.

Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa has been marked by an unusual dynamic with U.S. President Donald Trump.

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started.

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started.

Human Rights Watch, in a detailed new report, says Chinese authorities are increasing pressure on underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church while tightening surveillance and travel restrictions on all of China’s estimated 12 million Catholics.

Pope Leo XIV is again emphasizing the need for peace and dialogue despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the central African nation of Cameroon on the second leg of his Africa tour.

The leader of Iran’s joint military command has threatened to halt trade in the Gulf region if the U.S. does not lift its blockade of Iranian ports, while U.S. Central Command says no vessels have made it past U.S. naval forces during the first 48 hours of the blockade.

Pakistan’s army chief is meeting with Iranian officials for talks in Tehran in the latest diplomatic move to ease tensions in the region and arrange a second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran.

Vice President JD Vance used a Turning Point USA event to defend President Donald Trump’s aggression in Iran and play down the resulting tensions between Washington and the Vatican.

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Utah reality star Taylor Frankie Paul will not be charged in recent fights with her former partner, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office said.

Lebanon and Israel have held direct diplomatic talks for the first time in decades.

The U.S. military claims it has successfully begun enforcing a blockade of Iranian ports, escalating tensions with Iran.

Pope Leo XIV has walked in the footsteps of his spiritual father St. Augustine.

A majority of U.S. Catholic voters supported Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential victory.

A senior Hezbollah official says the Lebanese militant group will not abide by any agreements made in upcoming direct talks between Israel and Lebanon in the United States.

A new study says that 2025 saw the highest number of deaths from antisemitic attacks in over 30 years around the world.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. military has begun a blockade of Iranian ports and coastal areas, and Iran responded with threats on ports in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Algeria for a first-ever papal visit, calling for peace amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of violating a Kremlin-declared Easter ceasefire as Orthodox Christians gathered to celebrate the holiday.

U_S_ Central Command says it will begin a blockade of all Iranian ports at 10 a_m_ EDT Monday, or 5:30 p_m_ in Iran, to be “enforced impartially against vessels of all nations."

President Donald Trump said the U.S. Navy will swiftly begin a blockade of ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz after U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace.

A Syrian man has buried his wife and four of his five children after Israeli strikes hit Beirut earlier this week.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says negotiations between the United States and Iran ended without a peace deal after the Iranians refused to accept American terms to not develop a nuclear weapon.

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The faith-based AI market is expanding, with tools for various religions.

Friday marks six months since the ceasefire in Gaza took effect, but progress remains limited.

With the ceasefire in Iran still shaky, U.S. and Iranian negotiators are heading to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials.

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the early globe-trotting odysseys of St. John Paul II.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is heading to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials, as Israel and Hezbollah traded fire and Tehran maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz.

Donald Trump is accustomed to criticism from coast to coast — Democrats, disaffected Republicans, late-night comedians, protesters.

Army ROTC cadets who subdued the gunman attacking their classroom at Virginia's Old Dominion University last month are recounting dramatic details publicly for the first time.

Nigeria's officials say that an army general and several soldiers have been killed during an attempt to raid a military base in the northeast.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors.

Iran, the United States and Israel have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, an 11th-hour deal that headed off U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization.

A ceasefire deal to pause the war in Iran appears to be hanging by a thread after the Islamic Republic closed the Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon.

Urban minister Jimmy Dorrell bade farewell Sunday to his outdoor Waco congregation after baptizing a dozen people in the chilly waters of the Middle Bosque River.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war.

U.S. President Donald Trump pulls back on his threats to launch devastating strikes on Iran, swerving to deescalate the war less than two hours before the deadline he set for Tehran to capitulate.

A Utah court commissioner says Taylor Frankie Paul, star of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” can't have unsupervised time with her 2-year-old son.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s “not at all” concerned about committing possible war crimes as he the destruction of Iran’s bridges and power plants if they don’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

President Donald Trump has expanded his threat against Iran to include all power plants and bridges as his Tuesday ultimatum approaches.

Pressure is mounting for the American rapper Ye to be pulled from his headline role at a London music festival this summer.

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff, urging peace through dialogue and calling for an end to conflicts worldwide.

A campaign is underway to protect England's choral music tradition, which has thrived for nearly 500 years.

U_S_ President Donald Trump has again warned Tehran over his Monday deadline to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz and allow ship traffic to flow again, and Iran has responded by threatening to open “the gates of hell.”.

Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross for all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff.

Russian strikes on Ukraine have killed at least eight people across the country.

Two U.S. military planes were shot down in separate incidents on Friday, escalating tensions in the ongoing conflict.

The president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque was detained by federal immigration agents, drawing accusations from local officials and religious leaders that the arrest was motivated by his statements against Israel.

There has been little sign Friday of the war in the Mideast winding down as Israel says it faced incoming fire from Iran, and Kuwait and Bahrain also reported being under attack.

President Donald Trump says U_S_ forces will “finish the job” in Iran soon as “core strategic objectives are nearing completion.”.