Katie Zavadski

Members of the Arctic Sunrise crew, known internationally as the "Arctic 30," were freed on Wednesday by Russia's government. Charges against them were dropped as part of the amnesty reform passed by parliament, which many speculate is an attempt to…

A Utah couple is suing their county — confusingly, also called Utah — because the county is refusing to provide marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Shelly Eyre said that the Utah County's refusal to provide a license to her and her partner,…

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is certainly not having a very merry Christmas: the country's interim government declared the group a terrorist organization today, dealing the final blow to the organization's short-lived foray into the democratic…

In his first Christmas address, Pope Francis called on Atheists to join believers in the question for "a homemade peace." The pope's first "Urbi et Orbi" — to the city and world — address focused on peace around the world, particularly in the…

Pope Francis got a great present just in time for his first Christmas at the Vatican. A CNN/ORC International poll that found his approval rating is a super-high 88 percent among American Catholics. Now, an 88 might just be a below-average grade at…

Queen Elizabeth II pardoned British mathematician Alan Turing for his 1952 conviction for homosexuality Thursday, in a rare gesture. Turing is widely considered a father of computer science for his development of the Turing test, a way of evaluating…

Did your mother abstain from the gooey goodness of peanut butter while pregnant with you? If you're now allergic, a new study suggests that might be part of the reason why. According to the study, published in the JAMA Pediatrics journal, the more…

Bad news out of Iowa State: Dong-Pyou Han, who served as an assistant professor at the university, apparently faked the results of an HIV vaccine trial by spiking rabbit blood with human antibodies. His results got millions more in research dollars…

In case you missed it, here are some of the week's top stories in religion: Pope Francis got some big news this week when he was named Time magazine's person of the year. In Oklahoma, a blurring of the lines between church and state led satanists…