Thousands of Christian pilgrims descended on the little town of Bethlehem on Thursday to celebrate in Jesus's traditional birthplace what locals said was a Christmas of mixed blessings.

Bored with scaring elderly misers, the Ghost of Christmas Future is spending the holiday season taunting modern children with visions of Christmas 2016's hottest toy: the Sony PlayStation 5, a 2,048-bit console featuring a 45-Ghz trinary processor, CineRe

Interview: Richard Benjamin on being the lone black guy at a white separatist retreat, and other adventures in America's whitest places.

Many Jews consider Christmas Day an opportunity to serve their community while Christian neighbors celebrate their holiday. This year, what's also known as Mitzvah Day in southeast Michigan is getting an added boost from Muslims.

Across the nation, the deepening financial crisis is forcing dramatic changes in the hard-line, punishment-based philosophy that has dominated the USA's criminal justice system for nearly two decades.

Police said a 1-year-old boy's throat was slashed in the Strawberry Mansion section of Philadelphia.

A Woodbury, Minn., teenager who underwent a heart transplant around five years ago, has been accused of hatching a plot to murder a stranger at random.

The women in Darfuri refugee camps regularly fall prey to a targeted campaign of rape encouraged by the Sudanese government.Peacekeepers have tried to protect women, but they have failed because they are short of resources and stretched too thin

The project would recognize such people as Crispus Attucks, the first patriot killed in the Boston Massacre, and James Lafayette, a Virginia slave who risked his life to spy on the British and was granted freedom in return

Red Skelton's "Pledge of Allegiance" was first introduced on the Red Skelton Show on January 14, 1969. It has since been twice read into the congressional record of The United States and has received numerous awards.