WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden on Saturday honored Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the highest civilian award given by the president, saying the pontiff was "a light of faith, hope, and love that shines brightly across the world."

A monkey in a pink tutu that slipped out of a Missouri home was captured just before a winter storm slammed the state.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Marin Plank truly had no interest in birds when she gave her husband a camera-equipped bird feeder for his birthday. But by Christmas, she had become so obsessed with birds that most of the gifts she received this year - books, stickers, notecards - were related.

MEXICO CITY (AP) - As a teenage punk 35 years ago, José Luis Escobar Hoyos wanted to teach his mother that his lifestyle wasn't just about dressing in chains and spikes and listening to loud, accelerated music.

MIAMI (AP) - A soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed to have become the world’s oldest living person at nearly 117 following the recent death of a woman from Japan. Sister Inah Canabarro was so skinny growing up that many didn’t think she would survive childhood, said LongeviQuest, an organization that tracks supercentenarians around the globe.

LONDON (AP) - A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a "dinosaur highway" and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Less than 1% of Catholic nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. Seyram Adzokpa and Zoey Stapleton are two of the young women who have made the rare decision to join a religious community and begin the long process to become nuns.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - After a nearly weeklong search, Athena found her way home to her Florida family in time for Christmas Eve and even rang the doorbell.