A Wednesday lunch could bring weeks of interbranch tensions to a head.

A group of Buddhist monks from the Huong Dao Temple in Fort Worth, Texas, traveled through Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday.

At night, the bay changes from blue and gray to black marked by occasional red lights on buoys that mark the path across the water.

Church leaders started the boycott for Lent — but now, they say, there’s no end in sight.

The 2000 presidential election cemented the color-coded nature of political parties. Prior to that race, the colors were often reversed on electoral maps