After visiting Italy for the first time with her father in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the United States, remembers thinking, “I’ll live here one day.” Almost three decades later she was doing ...

Warrants were issued against a total of 183 people, 36 of whom were already in custody, for crimes including attempted murder, extortion and drug trafficking, police said.

“People ask me sometimes, ‘Why did you pick Serrastretta to start the synagogue in Calabria,” she says, noting that there were many places in the Italian region where she could “initiate a ...

The Sicilian Mafia, the inspiration for the "Godfather" movies, is no longer the force it once was, subject to years of ...

Simon has become the second dog mayor of New York City. He was sworn in outside City Hall in downtown Manhattan.

Italian police arrest 150 in major Sicilian Mafia crackdown, revealing ongoing grip on Palermo despite decline in power.