HATTERAS, N.C. — North Carolina is proposing tolls for all ferry routes. According to a budget from the North Carolina Senate, the state's board of transportation could establish tolls for all ...

The best time to visit the Outer Banks is between March and May or September and November, when lodging rates drop and crowds dissipate. Most mainland North Carolina residents and out-of-towners ...

He went on: “Now, would electing a ‘Pope Pizzadance’ instantly repair the reputation of the Catholic Church? Obviously the answer is we won’t know until we try. So J.D. Vance, you stay the ...

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people throughout the Americas. Some found Francis to be a reconciling figure ...

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While any baptized Roman Catholic male is eligible, only cardinals have been selected as pope since 1378. The winner must receive at least two-thirds of the votes from those cardinals who are under ...

Catholic cardinals agreed on Monday to begin a conclave on May 7 to elect a new pope, and highlighted clerical sexual abuse as one of the key challenges facing Pope Francis's successor.