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In a joint announcement by Xi Jinping and Barack Obama in Washington DC, China and U.S. promised to take further joint action in a “common vision” aimed at delivering a meaningful climate deal in Paris at the end of this year.

And the Giants may have saved their season in the process.

WASHINGTON – Pope Francis told Congress on Thursday the USA should reject a “mind-set of hostility” to immigrants, directly addressing a subject that is dividing the country and stirring debate in the 2016 presidential campaign. The pope told the American church...

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Monday that he will run for speaker, vowing that if elected to the chamber’s top post he would “change the culture” of Washington and strive for the “most conservative solution” he can get.

In the final leg of his journey, Pope Francis travelled to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families. The Philadelphia native has overseen the planning and execution of scores of events since then, though none as important politically or on as grand a scale as the Francis...

The pope visited Philadelphia as part of the World Meeting of Families.

Pope Francis celebrated a giant outdoor mass in Philadelphia on Sunday, bringing to a close an electrifying U.S. tour with an appeal for unity and family love, having met victims of church sex abuse, AFP reports.

William Brangham begins our coverage.

WASHINGTON (AP) – For Philadelphia Phillies rookie right-hander Aaron Nola, there were a couple of reasons why his outing against the Washington Nationals might stick in his mind for years to come.

You remember: The Flea Kicker, the Stanford Band, the Kick Six and (just last week) the Tip Six.

Throughout his tour, the pope has taken on some of the biggest global risks, highlighting his views on how to save the world from its gravest threats and its own worst impulses.

Francis was also scheduled to visit a prison and celebrate a final Mass on U.S. soil on Philadelphia’s grandest boulevard, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, Boehner was asked by host John Dickerson whether some in his party were “unrealistic about what can be done in government”.

Francis, who has emphasized humility and service over pomp and circumstance since being elected pope two years ago, also visited the Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility.

While English is not his most comfortable language, Francis’s comments to that flock needed little interpretation. But there is something else that draws the least religious generation in American history to the Catholic leader of the world.