A litmus test is an idiom for a challenge. But why? In a 2024 New York Times piece exploring the controversy over married couples in Japan using separate surnames, the Times headline read: "A Litmus ...

ROME – As the world’s most exclusive club prepares to elect the new pope, they face an immediate test of just how seriously they will take the issue of clerical sexual abuse in the case of a Peruvian ...

Heavily-favored Litmus Test and jockey Juan Hernandez win the Grade II $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity Saturday, December 13, 2025 at Los Alamitos Race Course, Cypress, CA, giving trainer Bob Baffert ...

A Beverly Hills screening venue has apologized and reversed course after canceling a scheduled performance by Israeli ...

The road that leads to Kentucky Derby 152 is full of twists and turns. The ability to navigate the highway that ends at the starting gates on the first Saturday in May is a multi-part test. These ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors at the Vatican June 5, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – Pope Leo XIV Thursday met with members of ...

The Mets are now in the midst of consecutive weekends in which they will play the Cubs, Yankees and Dodgers. And if this is a nine-game litmus test against fellow major-market powers that will take ...

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (AP) — Heavily-favored Litmus Test won the $200,500 Los Alamitos Futurity by 1 1/4 lengths Saturday, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert his ninth win in the race for ...