Connie Francis, the honey-voiced singer and actor from New Jersey who rose to global pop stardom in the ’50s and ’60s, has ...

Before her death at 87, Connie Francis watched her 1962 song “Pretty Little Baby” become a viral TikTok and Instagram sound, ...

Connie Francis, the pop vocalist behind 1950s and '60s hits "Stupid Cupid," "Who's Sorry Now" and "Pretty Little Baby," has ...

From 1958 to 1964, she was the most popular female singer in the United States, selling 40 million records with tunes like ...

With some other artists, like Connie Francis, it’s less clear: Ask an average fan of ’50s and ’60s pop to name her three ...

Pope Francis was viewed as relatively progressive. His successor, the first American pope, is now in a unique position to ...

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Argentine street artist Martín Ron completed a 164-foot mural of Pope Francis in La Plata, marking the final piece in his ...

Pope Francis’ cardinals had a minority voice among U.S. bishops, and in the final years of his papacy, powerful conservative lay Catholics once again made ending abortion their dominant priority.

Pope Francis, 266th occupant of the throne of St. Peter, has died Pope Francis, orginally of Argentina, succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, the first pope to retire in six centuries.

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. The pope's last public appearance was on Easter Sunday at St. Peter's Square. Vice President JD Vance had just met with the pope on Sunday.

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths, has died at 88, the Vatican has ...