Ahead of the conclave to elect a new pope, a chimney has been installed atop the Sistine Chapel to signal when a new pontiff has been selected. NBC News' Anne Thompson describes how it works.

Vatican firefighters fitted the Sistine Chapel chimney in place ahead of the election of Pope Francis’ successor. White smoke ...

And after a dominant regular season, the Thunder cruised to a 4-0 series sweep, capped by their 117-115 win on Saturday in Memphis. The Grizzlies were without star Ja Morant, who suffered a hip ...

Welcome back to your daily election wrap. Brett Worthington will catch you up on news from the campaign trail. For a secular society, where the separation of church and state is lauded, there's ...

Francisco Lindor had three hits, including a leadoff homer, and the Mets completed a four-game sweep of St. Louis at home for the first time in franchise history. The club’s previous three four ...

DONGGUAN, China, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The Shanxi Brave Dragons completed a 3-0 sweep by beating the Guangdong Southern Tigers 124-106 in the quarterfinals of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA ...

Strus’s Cavs are about to remind us what a focused Cleveland team can do. Namely, I’m calling for a dominant sweep of the Miami Heat that renews this fanbase’s dream of hanging a banner.

Mountain Brook’s Caleb Barnett and Hunter Davis hammered 2-run homers in consecutive innings and Bryant Diddell issued nine strikeouts as the second-ranked Spartans posted a doubleheader sweep ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Four people have been arrested after local, state, and federal agents conducted a sex offenders sweep, Thursday, April 17. 19-year-old charged in Kansas City Tesla facility ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas completed a doubleheader sweep of K-State at Hoglund Ballpark on Saturday, winning the first game 6-3 before a 6-5 victory in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown finale. KU (31-10, ...

BATON ROUGE — With another sweep on the table, LSU baseball forgot its utensils. The Tigers’ bats went cold and for the first time in the series Alabama pieced together some lengthy innings ...