7+ hour, 6+ min ago   (452+ words) Giotto’s frescoes depicting the life of St. Francis of Assisi at the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. The celebrated fresco cycle was recently restored after four years of work. (Sailko/Wikimedia Commons) The newly vibrant “Stories of St. Francis…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (692+ words) Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., 72, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. after receiving a three-drug lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He had been sentenced to die for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery, whose mutilated body was found…...

4+ day, 3+ min ago   (207+ words) The central bank for the 21 EU member countries that use the euro currency raised its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to 2.50% at a meeting held in Berlin, away from the bank’s Frankfurt headquarters. The bank said in an…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (553+ words) The installation — specially created for an exhibition of the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who died Aug. 14 at age 97 — is titled “Infinity Mirrored Room — The Hope Of The Polka Dots Buried In Infinity Will Eternally Cover The Universe.” The…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (285+ words) Leo unveiled the portrait before celebrating Mass with his fellow Augustinian brothers at the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel in the medieval village of Genazzano south of Rome. He joins a handful of past popes whose visits to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (329+ words) The appeal comes after Missouri’s highest court blocked the new map and ordered a statewide vote in November on whether to keep or reject it. It’s part of a national redistricting battle that Trump launched last year. Missouri’s new congressional…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (645+ words) A federal indictment accuses Christian Castro of falsely telling investigators that he was attacked with a broom and shovel before he opened fire, injuring Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in January. Castro was shackled at his wrists, waist and feet during a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (550+ words) The National Herald This Week in History: September 5th to 11th On this day in 1993, ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ actress Nia Vardalos married ‘Felicity’ actor Ian Gomez. Gomez converted to Greek Orthodoxy before marrying Vardalos, an experience later reflected in her…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (438+ words) This image made from video provided by WABC shows NYPD officers on the scene after a woman brandishing two large knives was shot by officers in Times Square in New York, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (WABC via AP) The woman who died,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (364+ words) A 17-year-old North Carolina girl who recorded a livestream of a shooting that killed three people at a San Diego mosque and disseminated the attackers’ white-supremacist writings has been charged with murder by aiding and abetting, a district attorney said…...