Following the resignation of Nigeria’s finance minister, Wale Edun, in April 2026, a video shared widely on social media ...

On a spring weekend in Boise, Idaho, more than 100 people gathered at Ember Maucere’s home for a three-day party filled with live music, dancing, food and art. They weren’t there for a wedding or ...

For years, former funeral home owner Carie Hallford and her ex-husband Jon Hallford scammed grieving families by giving them fake ashes. Now, Carie, 49, has been sentenced to 216 months in federal ...

The guy standing next to me sighs and starts to cry. He apologizes. I whisper, “I’d be worried if you weren’t crying.” I’m a California-licensed funeral director. I’ve shed a few tears of my own on ...

This article is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. When you’re raised in a town where grown-ups wear costumes and toss beads from ...

Tackling deprivation among older people in England is crucial to curbing an "unsustainable" increase in taxpayer-funded funerals, according to new research. The study, by the ESRC Centre for ...

It was a funeral two years in the making. The deceased had laid in a morgue in Greater Accra, Ghana, biding his time in icy torpor as plans were made for his final journey. There was financing to be ...

(CNN) — Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full of pomp and pageantry, as the world’s Catholics bid him farewell ...

WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions that readers may find distressing. When Ani Valatava last saw her sister Kinisimere, her body was lying on a trolley at the back of a funeral home in ...