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As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

Some 20 cases remain to be decided — about a third of the total argued cases — many of them the most important of the term. But the shadow docket, with its own list of cases, looms over the other opinions.

Global instability has rejuvenated both classified and unclassified demand for table top war games. The people who play them take the games very seriously.

Spies imitating art: Years after Judi Dench played James Bond's boss, Britain's MI6 spy agency is getting its first female chief.

San Jose passed a controversial policy last week, allowing the city to fine unhoused individuals who refuse shelter offers. Three refusals in 18 months could result in an arrest. The updated policy takes effect July 1. Sweeps are expected to run through October.

The man accused of killing and wounding state lawmakers in Minnesota and their spouses faces federal and state murder charges. Authorities say it was a carefully planned political assassination.

Colorado Springs is home to a congregation of another kind – one that uses psychedelics. Curiosity about psychedelics may get people in the door but community is what keeps them coming back.

Missile strikes between Iran and Israel continued over the weekend and we look at a number of places hit in and around the Israeli city of Tel Aviv

A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's order to close America's 99 Job Corps centers, which provide residential training programs for 25,000 disadvantaged youth annually.

The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District is gearing up for fire season by putting its seasonal firefighting helicopter, Copter 1, back into action.

The last place Brad Larsen saw his mom before she died was at a diner in New York. A few years later, he went back. The bartender asked if he remembered their table, and invited him to sit there.

President Trump loves to boast about his deal-making prowress. But so far in this term, he doesn't have much to show for it.