On Oct. 24, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a 6-3 vote cleared the way for the pregnant 17-year-old to obtain an abortion.

“The world, the church, are in need of courageous young people, who are not cowed in the face of difficulties," the pope said.

Sixty-six percent of Americans want Trump and Congress to work on legislation to bolster the health insurance marketplaces.

The student charged in his death now awaits trial, but police are not calling the attack a hate crime.

Chief justice: the ruling "confuses maintenance of a highway median and monument in a state park with excessive religious entanglement.”

Rarely does the death of a private citizen elicit a formal letter of condolence from the Pope.