The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo XIV.

A new book describes a series of conversations between the mother of an American hostage who was brutally murdered by Islamic State militants in Syria and one of the men who contributed to his death.

A man who lived in Orlando prior to taking a job in Central America is back in the United States after federal officials negotiated a deal for the release of 10 Americans being held in Venezuela.