F.B.I. agents and local investigators fanned out on Wednesday through the foothills near Nancy Guthrie’s home north of Tucson, Ariz., scouring the landscape for evidence related to her disappearance.

The pews of the Church of the Annunziata in Mercogliano, a town just outside of Naples, were filled with guests wearing ...

Among the consequences of the rise and fall of empires in the last couple of centuries has been the formation, in the territories they formerly governed, of the political entities we call nations; ...