Pope Francis has called for a ceasefire on all war fronts in his Sunday prayer ahead of Christmas celebrations, condemning ...

Biden signs funding bill leaving a ‘big mess’ for Trump - Preparations to close government agencies called off as president ...

Biden could use his authority to grant commutations to convert existing federal death sentences into life in prison. That ...

President Biden kept mum on the negotiations centered around the government shutdown bill and instead focused his attention ...

Burch’s nomination was announced Dec. 20, just the second time since 2000 that an incoming or reelected president made the ...

President Biden is reportedly considering commuting the sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 men on the federal ...

Anti-death penalty advocates hope President Biden will grant clemency to 40 people on federal death row. He has already commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others.

Just four states were responsible for three-quarters of the executions that took place in the U.S. in 2024, according to a ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated Brian Burch, a right-wing Catholic who has often criticized Pope Francis, as ...

Such a move would frustrate President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to resume the rapid pace of executions that marked his ...

Brian Burch is a co-founder of Catholic Vote, a lay advocacy group that supported Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday said he’s nominating the president of the advocacy group CatholicVote to be the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Brian ...