Chilling new video captures the moment dozens of panicked patrons run for their lives as deadly gunfire breaks out at a packed Brooklyn hookah lounge early Sunday.

Pope Leo XIV is spending the last Sunday of his summer vacation with several dozen homeless and poor people and the church volunteers who help them.

Multiple beaches across Massachusetts are closed Saturday, Aug. 16, mostly due to excess bacteria, according to the Department of Public Health (DPH). In total, 58 beaches are closed to the public, most of them due to high levels of bacteria in the water.

A priest held a Catholic Mass outside the Everglades detention center, Alligator Alcatraz, on Saturday morning. Here is the recap of the event.

The state’s beach water quality dashboard showed that 68 beaches were closed due to high bacteria levels Sunday.

Several Catholic priests discuss how their parishioners are responding to ramped up immigration enforcement efforts across the nation.

A divided federal appeals court on Friday cleared U.S. President Donald Trump to resume mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ruling that a lower court had lacked jurisdiction in temporarily blocking this.

MassReconnect, which launched in 2022, offers free community college to state residents over age 25 who don’t have a bachelor’s degree.

Iraqi officials say they will build a database and start collecting DNA samples from families of suspected victims of the Islamic State extremist group.