Signs Of the Times

Fremont, Neb., is among the the municipalities that have voted to curtail the rights of undocumented immigrants.

Pope Benedict XVI and his key advisers are facing a long, hot summer of problem-solving and strategizing.

Juan Francisco Rodríguez Ríos and his wife María Elvira Hernández Galeana were killed on June 28.

The coast of Louisiana is off limits to its own residents, and their livelihoods and quality of life are suffering.

An independent research group said the leading industrial nations complied with a little more than half of the promises made in 2009.

Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida vetoed a proposed Florida bill, but similar legislation is having more success in other states.

Women refugees are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses in cases where they have been forced to leave their homes.

The investigators are looking at contracts Cardinal Sepe made with government officials while he was head of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

A $7.3 billion pledge is not enough to stop millions of needless deaths and not enough for the G-8 leaders to say they’ve lived up to their responsibilities.