VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, like in Gaza, those who are ...

Saudi Arabia on Thursday formally called on Emirati-backed separatists in Yemen to withdraw from two governorates their forces now control in the country, a move that threatens sparking a ...

A bomb exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday night, killing five people in what police described as a likely suicide attack.

LONDON (AP) — King Charles III led his family to church on foot Thursday, hours before his annual Christmas Day speech to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth was expected to focus on the theme of ...

Don McAnally is a resident of Jackson and wrote this poem on Christmas in 2006.

The Justice Department said Wednesday that it may need a “few more weeks" to release all of its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after suddenly discovering more than a million ...

United Masonic lodges and local partners in Sikeston built 35 beds for children in need and launched a new Sleep in Heavenly Peace chapter to serve families across southeast Missouri.

From Bethlehem to Beijing, explore AP’s stunning photo gallery capturing Christmas celebrations, rituals and lights across the globe.

Track Santa's journey in real time with NORAD's Santa Tracker, a 70-year tradition using radar and satellites to follow his Christmas Eve gift-giving flight.

How a revived Poplar Bluff building, a stack of pancakes and Santa photos are keeping Northside Community Center’s doors open and neighbors fed.

At 80, “Miss Mary” White-Ross is retiring from a Sikeston law office—again—after decades of public service, community leadership and restless dedication to staying involved.

Just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus, and those that make it to full term “are essentially unheard of – far, far less than 1 in a million,” said Dr. John Ozimek, ...