Pope Leo champions free press, dodges White Sox miracle question

President Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner on Thursday, as the world's two most powerful countries extend a tariff truce and grapple with a rivalry on advanced AI.

Dr. Idris Evans, a physician and medical director from UPMC Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, was stabbed to death in his bed early Thursday.

The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration a green light to use a federal citizenship database to verify voters ahead of the midterm elections. In a 6-3 opinion, the Supreme Court, for now, lifted a lower court order that blocked the Department of Homeland Security from expanding a 40-year-old immigration database -- known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system -- to help states screen voter records for noncitizens. The immediate impact of the ruling is unclear, since states are prohibited by law from purging their voter rolls within 90 days of Election Day.

Two leaders of an underground University of Wisconsin-Madison fraternity were arrested and charged with hazing after dozens of pledges were found injured, shirtless and covered in condiments in a dingy basement. The Madison Police Department said Thursday it received an anonymous tip about an event in the basement of an off-campus chapter house after police received an anonymous tip. Alpha Epsilon Pi was kicked off campus as a recognized chapter in 2015, but the organization maintained a presence at the Madison home.