Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, whose eight-day mission turned into nine months on the International Space Station, are finally heading back to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

Pope Francis said that his illness had also helped make some things clearer to him, including the "absurdity of war." ...

Pope Francis said in a letter published Tuesday that his lengthy illness has helped make “more lucid” to him the absurdity of war, as his top deputy shot ...