Throughout my youth, CBS’ annual airing of the 1939 musical, “The Wizard of Oz,” was essential viewing. The straightforward ...

Fredbird, the longtime, energetic and beloved mascot of the St. Louis Cardinals, is now officially a Hall of Famer.

Scores of masked white nationalists descended on Kansas City ... “We respect First Amendment protections for peaceful assembly and free speech, and want to be unequivocally clear that the ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday ... pope for the Catholic Church. American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter ...

The most important chimney-viewing event in the world is over. On Thursday, 133 cardinals at the Vatican sent up the white smoke after a conclave, signaling that they’d chosen a new pope ...

When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, it took about an hour after the white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel to reveal that the Argentinian cardinal had been elected. The announcement of ...

Watch Live Ida Domingo,Katie Bourque Cardinal Robert Prevost was selected ... Just after noon on Thursday, the Vatican released white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that a ...

Whether it is black — meaning the majority has not been reached — or white — meaning the new ... from burning the ballots on which the cardinal electors cast their votes, together with ...

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini The name will be announced later, when a top cardinal utters the ... emitted signals the result: black smoke means no decision; white smoke, that a new pope has been ...

Habemus papam! We have a pope. At 7.14 p.m. Rome time, an hour after white smoke had issued forth, the cardinal proto-deacon, Dominique Mamberti, 73, came to the central balcony of St. Peter’s ...