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NEW YORK (AP) -- Huston Street believes in some of baseball's oldest, tried-and-true traditions, and the reliever knows team building can be a real benefit, so he considers the elimination of rookie dress up in the new labor deal the loss of "a healthy ritual."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Aleppo's fall to Syrian government forces is shaping up as the first major test of President-elect Donald Trump's desire to cooperate with Russia, whose military support has proven pivotal in Syria's civil war. The death and destruction in the city is only renewing Democratic and Republican concern with Trump's possible new path....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump has offered Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke the job of interior secretary, though it's unclear whether the congressman has accepted, two people with knowledge of the offer said Tuesday....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian rebels reached a cease-fire deal to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in an effective surrender on Tuesday, as Russia declared all military action had stopped and the Syrian government had assumed control of the former rebel enclave....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In selecting Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state, President-elect Donald Trump is making the same bet he asked voters to make on him: that a track record of business accomplishment will translate into success in government....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Larry W. Smith, EPABy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- While today's family farmers worldwide are tested as never before, thechurch believes they can contribute to a more just ordering of life, said a newdocument issued Dec. 7."Thecircumstances facing the family in farming are especially distressing. In many respects, we have sought an abundant harvest in exchange fora more diminished culture of life," said the document, "The Vocation of theAgricultural Leader," released by the International Catholic Rural Association.Agriculturalleaders can be found at any link in the chain from seed to table, the documentsaid, adding, "The agricultural leader is responsible for contributing to a visionof the food system in which the various participants are treated with dignityand justice.""Today,the world produces more food than ever before, as incredible advances inagricultural technology and models of heightened efficiency have combined tocreate bountiful yields and a surplus o...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Warming at the top of the world has gone into overdrive, happening twice as fast as the rest of the globe, and extending unnatural heating into fall and winter, according to a new federal report....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is hydraulic fracturing - better known as fracking - safe, as the oil and gas industry claims? Or does the controversial drilling technique that has spurred a domestic energy boom contaminate drinking water, as environmental groups and other critics charge?...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a law requiring abortion clinics to have doctors with admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, saying efforts to portray the measure as protecting women's health are a "guise."...
BEIRUT (AP) -- First came the distress calls from doctors in underground shelters and morgues. Then, residents under relentless bombardment in the few remaining blocks under rebel control in Aleppo began posting emotional goodbyes on social media and in widely circulated messages....
