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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama likes to say that historians, not he, will evaluate his legacy with the perspective only hindsight can provide. Yet as he campaigns across the country for Hillary Clinton, Obama is offering his own first draft of the way he hopes his eight years in office will be remembered....
Washington D.C., Nov 4, 2016 / 12:33 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Serious problems loom for the future of health care in the U.S. – and Catholics must help resolve them, experts say.“We believe that the Catholic Church has the opportunity to provide the guidance necessary to enact meaningful health care policies that could uphold the sanctity of life from conception until natural death, as well as the common good, and to do it in financially-sustainable fashion,” Dr. Lester Ruppersberger, president of the Catholic Medical Association, said at a press conference on health care Wednesday in Washington, D.C.“Caring individuals are called to reflect upon the opportunity and the responsibility that we have to bring the message of healing and mercy given to us by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to the public square and to build a culture of life in health care,” he added.The panel event, “The Changing Face of Health Care and the 2016 Election,” was held ...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's 100-trillion-dollar bill, a relic of economic ruin, has been an international joke and an online collector's item for years. But this banknote (14 zeros, if anyone is counting) is getting a warmer embrace from Zimbabweans than a new local currency the government is introducing this month....
KULGAM, India (AP) -- Deep within a vast orchard, dozens of young Kashmiris laze in the shade of apple trees. Surrounded by boxes of fruit, they chat and crack jokes. Some play video games on their phones. For now, they're at ease, the hilly grove providing a perfect hideaway from Indian police and paramilitary soldiers deployed to hunt them down....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump has shown more than 586 hours of television ads in the general election, and until now something has been missing: his voice....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa man charged in the killings of two police officers was facing intense money problems, had been found by a judge to hit and financially exploit his mother and was ordered to move out of her basement hours before the shootings....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- A large explosion, believed to be caused by a car bomb, hit the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast region on Friday. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said both police and civilians were killed but did not say how many....
PARIS (AP) -- Police and city officials are clearing out hundreds of migrants camped out on sidewalks in northern Paris in a camp that recently grew into a new challenge for the French government....
SAADA, Yemen (AP) -- All along the main street, buildings are crumpled beyond recognition, roofs punched in and pancaked. Historic mud-brick houses in its walled old city are pounded to dust. Saada, the birthplace of Yemen's Shiite rebels, has been one of the most densely bombed cities in Yemen during the past 19 months of airstrikes by Saudi Arabia and its allies....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Heavy fighting erupted in the eastern neighborhoods of Mosul on Friday as Iraqi special forces launched an assault deeper into the urban areas of the city and Islamic State militants fired back, striking and disabling an Abrams tank with a rocket....
