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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump turned to Congress on Sunday for help finding evidence to support his unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama had Trump's telephones tapped during the election. Obama's intelligence chief said no such action was ever carried out, and a U.S. official said the FBI has asked the Justice Department to dispute the allegation....
(Vatican Radio) French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon has urged supporters not to "give up the fight" for his presidency despite corruption allegations against him, but apologized for asking his wife to work for him. Fillon spoke to a crowd of thousands in Paris ahead of a widely anticipated television appearance later Sunday. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: The crowd chanting "Fillon, President!" gathered across from the famed Eiffel Tower in a show of defiance against those who want Francois Fillon to give up his candidacy for France's top job.Fillon's wife Penelope arrived with her husband at the rally after keeping a low profile since financial investigators began examining allegations that she and two of their children had taxpayer-funded jobs they never performed. She was paid around 850,000 euros of public money for work she allegedly never did.Fillon had been a front-runner for France's two-round April-May pres...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The R-rated "X-Men" spinoff "Logan" slashed into the weekend box office, opening with a massive $85.3 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday, while best-picture winner "Moonlight" got a significant, if far from superhero-sized, Oscar bump....
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian lawmaker has proposed an unorthodox solution to the country's problems with soccer hooliganism ahead of next year's World Cup - legalize it and make it a spectator sport....
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump turned to Congress on Sunday for help finding evidence to support his unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama had Trump's telephones tapped during the election. Obama's intelligence chief said no such action was ever carried out....
(Vatican Radio) Turkish leaders have condemned Germany for cancelling political rallies of Turkish residents due to be addressed by Ankara's ministers and said Berlin gave "shelter" to people committing crimes against Turkey. The German government has denied it was involved in cancelling the rallies, while Germany's president has urged municipalities not to cancel other political rallies. While they are still allies in the NATO military alliance, Turkey and Germany are now facing their worst tensions in years. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag, who had been scheduled to address a meeting in the southwestern town of Gaggenau until it was called off on Thursday, is among ministers condemning Berlin after several political rallies were cancelled in German municipalities. "The right of expression and meeting is guaranteed in all democracies by government bodies," he said. "Here [in Germany] th...
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam in Ireland has spoken of his shock to learn of the extent of the numbers of children buried in the graveyard at the former Catholic orphanage "Mother and Baby Home" in Tuam.Archbishop Neary chose to speak of his horror at the recent findings of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation that was established following allegations about the deaths of 800 babies in Tuam and the manner in which they were buried during his homily for the First Sunday of Lent.Please find below the full text of Archbishop Neary's homily: Each year, on the First Sunday of Lent, the Church puts before us, in the Gospel passages She has chosen for us, the accounts of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. We are invited to enter into these scriptural texts and to acknowledge how they mirror what is going on in our own lives, and to avail of the opportunity to be changed for the better and transformed by them durin...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Visitors arriving at the Philadelphia Flower Show this year will feel as if they're stepping into the endless flower fields of Holland....
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Faced with the threat that Asian carp could enter the Great Lakes, Michigan is turning to the public for new ideas and plans to offer a prize to whoever comes up with a way to stop the voracious fish....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Deadly encounters between police officers and motorists have lawmakers across the country thinking driver's education should require students to be taught what to do in a traffic stop....
