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Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday made his first major appointment of a woman to the Holy See hierarchy, promoting Italian Sister Alessandra Smerilli to head the Vatican office responsible for migrants, the environment and development.

A longtime aide to Bill Clinton walked back a prior claim that the former U.S. president visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island, according to GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, who questioned him, and two sources familiar with closed-door testimony on Capitol Hill.

A polarizing Harvard astronomer known for splashy theories about alien visits has been tapped by the White House to lead a team of outside scientists to study the national security risks posed by UFOs.

NDP Leader Avi Lewis says Heritage Minister Marc Miller was wrong to call on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg to change the wording in an exhibit about displaced Palestinians.

A man who stayed at a downtown Denver hotel last summer says he woke up to bats flying around his room -- and that one of them bit him. He has now filed a lawsuit against the hotel.

The body of a baby was found inside a portable toilet at a music festival in rural Michigan over the weekend, prompting police to ask the public for help.

A U.S. Supreme Court that has expanded gun rights will consider whether bans on semi-automatic rifles, often called assault weapons, violate the Second Amendment.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he doesn’t expect any resolution Wednesday to the ongoing talks about whether to renew or review the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.

Germany faces mounting threats from hostile foreign powers, particularly Russia, and polarized domestic politics on both the far right and left, security officials asserted on Tuesday.

The parents of a 7-year-old boy who died in Michigan last year are facing murder and child abuse charges, court documents say.

Police in Monaco and France were searching for a suspected bomber on Tuesday after three people were wounded by an explosion in the wealthy principality which two sources said was an attack on a Ukrainian-born oligarch.

Two major Mexican seizures of cocaine this month, including a rare bust in a state neighbouring Mexico City, suggest the cartels are moving greater quantities of the drug into the capital to meet a demand spike linked to the World Cup, according to analysts.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

A search is underway for a suspect who fled on foot after an explosive device placed in an apartment building entrance in Monaco injured three people including a reported Ukrainian tycoon, the exclusive principality’s chief prosecutor said Tuesday.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in parts of South Africa to rally against illegal immigration on Tuesday in the biggest migration-related protests since anti-migrant violence broke out in the country in 2008.