Catholic News 2

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Families bring flowers. Relatives seek out graves of departed soldiers. Tombs across the Philippines get cleaned up. And prayers - prayers with candles, silent prayers, group prayers, prayers for loved ones now gone - echo across the land....

HAVANA (AP) -- For a while Saul Berenthal and Horace Clemmons were the seventy-something poster boys of U.S.-Cuba detente....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Transit workers in Philadelphia are hitting the picket lines Tuesday and commuters are scrambling to make alternate plans after the city's main transit agency and a union representing about 4,700 workers failed to reach a contract agreement....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world quietly have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border in the last year, according to arrest data from the Homeland Security Department....

CHUNKY, Miss. (AP) -- A vehicle struck a flat-bed trailer carrying adults and children who were dressed up for Halloween, killing three people and injuring several others in a small Mississippi town, authorities said....

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- In a divorce court where a man's testimony is worth twice a woman's, victory for lawyer Reema Shamasneh is rare and often bittersweet....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean police detained a man who rammed a large excavator into a gate Tuesday near the office where prosecutors questioned a woman at the center of a scandal that threatens the country's president. The woman had earlier said she "deserves death" and the detained man said he "came here to help her die."...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The discovery of another cache of emails potentially important to the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's email practices raises an immediate question: How could close Clinton adviser Huma Abedin have been unaware of their existence?...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The latest clamor over Hillary Clinton's emails has put Barack Obama in a spot where no president wants to be: caught between his attorney general, his FBI director and his preferred White House successor....

BAZWAYA, Iraq (AP) -- Fighting raged as Iraq's special forces began their assault on Mosul's eastern outskirts on Tuesday, part of operations to drive the Islamic State group from the country's second largest city....