In her exhibit Behind the Veil, Tavares uses wood portraiture to celebrate Black women’s beauty in all forms and in all ...

The spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula), an invasive species indigenous to parts of China and Vietnam, has spread to ...

The first American pope's grandparents identified as Black, records show. Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans ...

Black smoke emerging from the chimney means the world's 1.4 billion Catholics don't yet have a new pope. White smoke means the cardinals have chosen a new leader of the church.

The 2025 Conclave begins today to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Here’s what time to watch for black or white smoke, how the process works, and where to stream it live.

The leaves from both the upper and the lower faces were scanned with a white stock card in the background on a flatbed scanner, resulting in 300 dpi images saved in TIFF format. A total of 80 samples ...

And once the election process for a new pope begins, gatherers will turn upward each day, waiting for black or white smoke to fill the sky. Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21.

Perhaps the oldest of all White House trees, it had far exceeded the usual 80- to 120-year lifespan of its species and had been propped up by cables and heavily cut back.

The tree was significantly pruned in 2017, during Trump's first term. It was also damaged in 1994 when a small Cessna plane crashed into the South Lawn and skidded into the White House.

President Donald Trump says that a magnolia tree planted near the White House by former President Andrew Jackson will have to come down due to it being a safety hazard. "One of the interesting ...