You may think you've heard the story of Joseph Smith and his martyrdom, but you've never heard it like this.

Scholars of Mormon history and studies—both LDS scholars and those outside the Church—have come together to argue that Mormon history can shed some light on current politics.

It's rare when a politician can mix humor with tears and genuine love while talking about the deadliest shooting in American history. What a great message for all of us to hear and to help us remember to always reach out with love and "appeal to the better angels of our nature."

“There are some things the Book of Mormon is not,” President Nelson told the new mission presidents and their wives gathered for the 2016 Seminar for New Mission Presidents.

In the hopes of building bipartisanship and communication, Mitt Romney and Joe Biden are coming together at this year's Romney Summit. "We are honored once again to gather leaders of business and industry, innovators from across the globe, and political representatives from both sides of the aisle to discuss the future of American leadership," conference executive director Matt Waldrip said.

When Niankoro Yeah Samake lands in Mali on Friday, following a successful California fundraising campaign, to register as a candidate in the country’s upcoming presidential elections, he will be carrying a lot of baggage. There will be the requisite suitcase stuffed with gifts from the U.S. for his family back home. He will have a sizable check from an American hair-products magnate to help fund his campaign. And he will have his well-thumbed copy of the Book of Mormon, scripture that has been a constant source of strength since he converted more than a decade ago. He is likely to need it. Aside from his wife and children, Samake is Mali’s only Mormon. He’s not even sure which will be more difficult: running as a Mormon in a country that is 95% Muslim, or being President of a nation so weakened by corruption that the past 14 months have seen the government felled by a coup and two-thirds of its territory overrun by Islamist militants. “I am not running for President because of my faith, but my faith will help me be President,” he says, via Skype on a layover in Paris.

At the American Music Awards, Imagine Dragons took home the Favorite Pop/Rock Group award on November 19.

Mormon Island, an abandoned Gold Rush-era village in Folsom, California, is visible for the first time since 2015.

Among the knickknacks on the shelves of Pamay Bassey's home office in Chicago is small black urn with a gold motif standing next to a Bible written in Ibibio, a Nigerian language.

Former BYU football and NFL player Jamal Willis was recently called to serve in the presidency of the Genesis Group, an LDS auxiliary organization for African-Americans and their families.