Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, former adviser to Pope Francis, has been sentenced by a Vatican court to five and a half years in jail for financial crimes, making him the most senior Vatican official ever to face such charges.
An amended lawsuit claims that higher-ups overseeing the Conservative Political Action Conference knew about previous claims of sexual misconduct by Chairman Matt Schlapp but failed to act.
Gov. Josh Green (D-HI) has threatened to use the "hammer" of emergency orders to convert 3,000 temporary vacation rentals into longer-term housing for survivors displaced by the wildfire that swept across the island of Maui in August.
A male staffer for Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) was released from his post on Saturday after he was named and accused of filming himself engaging in explicit sexual activity in a congressional hearing room.
Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu shared a photo on social media of the controversial "electeds of color" holiday party for government officials of ethnic minority backgrounds.
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) was joined by an emotional guest during his signing of a major probation reform bill on Friday, which includes a reduction in the kinds of parole violations that could send a convict back to prison.
The United States Army will open its own investigation into the mass shooter who killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, in October, the undersecretary of the Army announced on Friday.
