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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- Three days after Election Day, President Barack Obama used his last Veterans Day speech to urge Americans to learn from the example of veterans as a divided nation seeks to "forge unity" after the bitter 2016 campaign....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Being a midtown Manhattan neighbor of Donald Trump now that he's president-elect has come to this: navigating swarms of police officers, barricades, checkpoints and street closings that have turned Trump Tower - a tourist attraction normally open to the public - into a fortress....
For many girls and young women across America and beyond, there was a hope this week that they would see history made with the first woman elected president of the United States. Now, for some, there are tears and disappointment - but a desire, too, to reach out....
MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry didn't comment on President-elect Donald Trump's election victory on Friday while visiting Antarctica, but did say that citizens who care about limiting emissions might have to march in the streets to push for more aggressive action....
BASHIQA, Iraq (AP) -- New reports emerged Friday of public killings and other atrocities committed against Mosul residents by Islamic State militants, including dozens of civilians whose bullet-riddled bodies were hung from telephone polls after they were accused of using cellphones to leak information to Iraqi security forces....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The election is over, so what about all those frayed relationships among loved ones?...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is shaking up his transition team as he plunges into the work of setting up his administration, elevating Vice President-elect Mike Pence to head the operations. It amounts to a demotion for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who had been running Trump's transition planning for months....
Vatican Weekend for November 13, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading in Jill Bevilacqua's series, "There's More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye," and our resident Vatican watcher, Joan Lewis looks back at the past week's events in the Vatican.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Tracey McClure:
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Friday welcomed to Rome more than 6000 people, men and women from various European nations, who have lived, or are even now, living on the street.The Jubilee for Socially Excluded Persons embraced not only the homeless, but also disadvantaged persons and people living in poverty.The event was made possible with the help of “Fratello”, an association which organizes and hosts events with and for people in situations of exclusion, in partnership with associations assisting such people.Following testimonies from two of the participants, Pope Francis addressed the crowd, thanking them for coming to Rome to meet with him and to pray for him. The Holy Father reflected on some of the ideas brought up by the two men who spoke before him.The first was that human beings do not differ from the “great people” of the world. All men and women, the great and the small, have their own passions and dreams. “Don’t stop dreaming!&rd...
Indonesia’s Catholic bishops ended their 11-day annual meeting on Thursday with a pastoral call urging Catholics to unite to fight deep-rooted corruption that has infiltrated all levels of society, including the Church. "Corruption can be found everywhere. It can be found in the business world as well as in state institutions. It even can be found in religious institutions including the church," the bishops said in a letter after their Oct. 31-Nov. 10 meeting in Jakarta. They noted that “the pattern of corruption within the Church is usually similar to that found in other institutions.” “Expenditure on unclear budgets, marking-up budgets needed for various projects, and the use of fictitious receipts," the bishops added. Corruption has destroyed human dignity and been difficult to fight because it takes place on a large scale, they said. "Fighting corruption must be done through a joint movement and carried out in...
