C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s ...

He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West. Donald ...

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next ...

Indeed, in theory, Meloni has much to benefit by being in Trump's good books. NATO member Italy has a big trade surplus with ...

ROME — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed ...

The U.S. Air Force has removed training courses for service members that included historical videos of its storied Black ...

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni has emerged as the US president’s favourite EU interlocutor, with hopes growing she could talk him out ...

Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent ...

But with Trump preparing to rip up federal regulation and rethink the parameters of government action, the EU’s moves look altogether more tentative. “The engagement is not to deregulate, but to ...

Rooted in history that stretches back to Ancient Greece, Rome, and the English monarchy, the presidential pardon was ...

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An appeals court in Rome is expected to decide shortly on a request by Italy's government to suspend a 1 billion euro ($1 ...