Peruvians are elated after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country was elected pope and hoped he will visit them soon in his new role. Pope Leo XIV, …
Denmark summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country for an explanation following a Wall Street Journal report about the United States stepping up its intelligence gathering on Greenland, a …
Robert Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. On Thursday, …
By Sentinel Staff Eighty-four Mt. Edgecumbe High School seniors walked across the stage this morning to receive their diplomas in a graduation ceremony held at the school field house. The class of 2025 chose Michael Mahoney as its...
At a brief meeting of the Sitka School board Wednesday evening, kept short by the near universal wish of board members and attendees to be at the middle and high school pops concert, Superintendent Deidre Jenson said the district is “not out of...
As part of the nationwide axing of the National Endowment for the Arts, Sitka Fine Arts Camp lost a grant intended to be used to pay staff this summer, and although the organization will be able to avoid immediate cuts by drawing into its fiscal...
The Jewish owner of a jewelry store in Tunisia was hospitalized Thursday after an axe attack on the island where Africa’s oldest synagogue is located. The attack comes one week before Jewish …
Panama President José Raúl Mulino says he will not renegotiate an agreement with the United States to give U.S. troops access to Panamanian facilities, despite protests charging that he compromised …
A federal judge has awarded a total of more than $680,000 to 17 families who say they were sickened by 2021 jet fuel leak into a Navy drinking water system in Hawaii. The bellwether cases set the …
Almost five dozen criminal cases will no longer be prosecuted because they were tainted by rampant corruption in a northern Alabama police department. The Cullman County district attorney says that …
The United States and Britain are expected to announce a trade deal Thursday that will lower the burden of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and deliver a political victory for U.K. Prime …
Forest and fire officials in Washington state and Oregon say Trump administration funding cuts and a loss of federal workers who help support wildland firefighting continues to make planning for the …
A former model has testified that Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old, calling it the most “horrifying thing I ever experienced” to that point. Kaja Sokola told …
Two advocacy groups for migrants have filed a federal lawsuit asking the courts to halt new Trump Administration vetting procedures for reuniting children who crossed into the U.S. without their …
The Trump administration has proposed a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the U.S. air traffic control system in the wake of recent deadly plane crashes and technical failures that have put a spotlight …
The Trump administration has announced an ambitious three-year plan to replace the nation’s aging air traffic control system. It was developed after the deadly midair collision over Washington, …
Smokey Robinson’s lawyer says allegations of rape and sexual assault against him in a lawsuit from four former housekeepers are “vile” and “false.” Attorney Christopher Frost said in a …
The nation’s infant mortality rate is falling. Some experts think one reason may be a vaccination campaign against RSV. The provisional infant mortality national rate dropped to about 5.5 infant …
Americans in St. Peter’s Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was elected pope and had taken the name Leo XIV. An American priest in the …
Experts, human rights workers and lawyers criticized reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya. Migrants in Libya are routinely arbitrarily detained and placed in squalid detention …