Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-area native and former substitute teacher at St. Rita High School, has become the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Pope Leo XIV and his family have a long history on Chicago's South Side. Long before Robert Prevost was elected by his fellow Cardinals, he was a friend to a South Side family.

President Trump is getting involved in a battle over a Long Island high school's Native American team name and mascot. Trump posted on Truth Social in part, "I agree with the people in Massapequa ...

High-profile tribal activists backed a Long Island school in its fight to keep its team name despite a state ban on Native American logos – joining a President Trump rallying cry. Frank Black ...

President Donald Trump ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to intervene in a New York legal dispute over a school using a Native American mascot. The New York Board of Regents ordered all ...

The school district has been ordered to retire its decades-old mascot under a 2023 New York State mandate banning Indigenous-themed names and logos in public schools. “I agree with the people in ...

is planning an exciting series of events in honor of the high school’s mascot change to the “Nashoba Wolves.’” The three-day Wolves of Nashoba Festival opens on Friday, May 2 at 7 p.m ...

The “Chief” name and logo are used across the district, including at Massapequa High School, though the school does not have a traditional costumed mascot, according to the school board.

She said the mascot was chosen by a group of school faculty leaders, including herself. The mascot comes as the Leon County School Board, the college's governing body, has been looking to improve ...