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A member of an Aztec dance group holds incense during a commemoration of Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) at El Colegio High School in Minneapolis on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

Joyful Day of the Dead commemorations rally US Latino communities despite immigration raid fears

4:53 PM on Saturday, November 1

Day of the Dead commemorations in early November are a crucial religious, family and community celebration for most Mexicans and many other Latin Americans

People with skull make up march during the Paseo de las Animas parade as part of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Merida, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Zetina)

From Mexico to Germany, photos capture the Day of the Dead celebrations

4:49 PM on Saturday, November 1

FILE - Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu attends an ECOWAS meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, Sunday, June 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga, File)

Nigeria pushes back after Trump claims country's Christians face 'existential threat'

1:08 PM on Saturday, November 1

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is pushing back against Donald Trump's designation of Nigeria as a "country of particular concern" for alleged persecution of Christians

People dressed in scary costumes take part in a Halloween celebration that gives sweets to children in Paracuellos del Jarama, Spain, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Halloween and a declining Christian tradition coexist on All Saints' Day in Spain

9:57 AM on Saturday, November 1

The sobriety of the Catholic tradition, by which on All Saints' Day graves are cleaned and flowers are brought to cemeteries to spend time with deceased loved ones, has given way in recent years to sweets, fake blood, and spider webs from one of the most iconic holidays in the United States

Pope Leo XIV presides over Mass with participants in the Jubilee of the Educational World on the Solemnity of All Saints, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, during which he will proclaim St. John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope declares Cardinal Newman a church doctor and signals Catholic education is a priority

5:45 AM on Saturday, November 1

Pope Leo XIV has bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, declaring him a doctor of the church

9 dead, dozens injured in crowd surge at Hindu temple in southern India

4:26 AM on Saturday, November 1

A crowd surge at a Hindu temple in southern India has left at least nine people dead and dozens injured

At least 7 dead and dozens injured in a crowd surge at a Hindu temple in southern India

4:25 AM on Saturday, November 1

At least 7 dead and dozens injured in a crowd surge at a Hindu temple in southern India

Sugar skulls known as “calaveritas” or little skulls, traditionally added to Day of the Dead altars honoring deceased loved ones, are displayed for sale at the Dulces de Ampudia market in Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)

How Mexico’s Day of the Dead turns skulls into joyful sugar treats

1:07 AM on Saturday, November 1

As Mexican families prepare for Day of the Dead celebrations, altars are set up to welcome back loved ones under the belief that they return home for one night each Nov. 2

Red Cross says it transferred unidentified remains of three people to Israel that a military source says came from Hamas

5:29 PM on Friday, October 31

Red Cross says it transferred unidentified remains of three people to Israel that a military source says came from Hamas

FILE - Little remained of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel the day after a former Marine opened fire and set the building ablaze in Grand Blanc Township, Mich., Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave, File)

FBI says shooter in deadly Michigan church attack was motivated by hatred toward the Mormon faith

4:42 PM on Friday, October 31

The FBI has confirmed that the man who opened fire in a Michigan church and set it ablaze was motivated by “anti-religious beliefs” against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

FBI says Michigan shooter who killed 4 had 'anti-religious' motive toward the Mormon church

4:34 PM on Friday, October 31

FBI says Michigan shooter who killed 4 had 'anti-religious' motive toward the Mormon church

Quakers attend a Sunday worship in the historic West Room of the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia on Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

Young adults turn to Quakers' silent worship to offset — and cope with — a noisy world

8:37 AM on Friday, October 31

There’s been an unprecedented surge in the numbers of attendees at Sunday worship at the Quaker Arch Street Meeting House in Old City Philadelphia

Palestinians wait to get donated sugar and rice at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Unidentified remains of 3 people transferred to Israel, Red Cross says

6:00 AM on Friday, October 31

The Red Cross says it has transferred the unidentified remains of three people to Israel but an Israeli military official says they were still being examined and may not be those of missing hostages

Hospital officials in Gaza say that Israel has handed over the bodies of 30 Palestinians

5:14 AM on Friday, October 31

Hospital officials in Gaza say that Israel has handed over the bodies of 30 Palestinians

FILE - The Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington on March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP lawmakers urge Trump administration to back Falun Gong lawsuit against Cisco

11:59 AM on Thursday, October 30

Two prominent Republicans are urging the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit against Cisco

Red Cross vehicles carrying the bodies of two people believed to be deceased hostages handed over by Hamas make their way toward the Kissufim border crossing with Israel, to be transferred to Israeli authorities, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Palestinian militants hand over remains of two more hostages to Red Cross in Gaza

11:06 AM on Thursday, October 30

Hospital officials in Gaza say that Israel has handed over the bodies of 30 Palestinians

FILE - Independent centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron stands at the "Mur des Justes" at the Shoah Museum, a wall on which 2,693 names of people who protected or saved Jews during World War II are engraved in Paris, April 30, 2017. (Philippe Wojazer/Pool Photo via AP, File)

A French trial examines Holocaust Memorial graffiti believed linked to Russia

2:02 AM on Thursday, October 30

Three Bulgarian men are on trial in Paris accused of involvement in spray-painting red hands around the Paris Holocaust memorial

Flor Jimenez waters her crop of cempasuchil flowers in preparation for Day of the Dead celebrations in Xochimilco where marigolds are grown on the outskirts of Mexico City, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Claudia Rosel)

This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead. Climate change is putting it at risk

1:05 AM on Thursday, October 30

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico

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