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KHAZER, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi forces explored a network of tunnels and uncovered a bomb-making facility on Thursday in a village near Mosul that was recently retaken from the Islamic State group, offering a glimpse of the challenge they will face as they move closer to the city....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- Armed soldiers and law enforcement officers dressed in riot gear and driving trucks, military Humvees and buses moved in Thursday to force Dakota Access pipeline protesters off private land where they had camped to block construction....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump says he hand-picked only the best to teach success at Trump University. But dozens of those hired by the company had checkered pasts - including serious financial problems and even convictions for cocaine trafficking or child molestation, an Associated Press investigation has found....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Donald Trump's dubious claims the presidential election is "rigged" have taken root among most of his supporters, who say they will have serious doubts about the legitimacy of the election's outcome if Hillary Clinton wins, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis met in the Vatican on Thursday with participants at an international conference on combatting human trafficking. The Santa Marta Group, which organised the two day conference, was established in 2014 to pledge closer cooperation on anti-trafficking initiatives between the Catholic Church and law enforcement agencies worldwide.At a concluding press conference Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, one of the founding members of the group, and two survivors of human trafficking spoke of the progress that has been made over the past couple of years.Listen to Philippa Hitchen's report: In his words to the group of bishops and religious, police and security officials, Pope Francis described trafficking as "one of the major challenges of our time" and he praised participants for the important contribution they’re making to end this scourge of modern slavery. The number of victims, he noted, keeps growing year by year and it&r...
In a fresh move to end the three-month long violence that has claimed more than 90 lives in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, a team from New Delhi has begun talks with separatist Muslims leaders.The five-member team, led by Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former federal minister Yashwant Sinha, began meeting stakeholders including separatist leaders on Tuesday. However, Sinha said that they were not an official delegation but had come together in their "individual capacities."Church officials joined political, religious and social organizations in welcoming the effort to bring peace to the region that has witnessed prolonged curfews, civil unrest and military action."We want the present cycle of violence to end. Dialogue and reconciliation is the only way forward," said Father Prem Tigga of Jammu-Srinagar Diocese that covers all of Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state."The church hopes such initiatives will continu...
Washington D.C., Oct 27, 2016 / 06:18 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Both major presidential candidates say that the future of the Supreme Court depends on this election – but how important is the Court to Catholics, and will the next president really shape it?“It is certainly one of the most important things that a president does,” said Professor Michael McConnell, a law professor at Stanford University and director of the school’s Constitutional Law Center. “And because the Supreme Court has been so closely divided with so many 5-4 decisions, even one justice can make a very big difference.”After the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in February, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, to take his place. However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to confirm the nominee, saying the Senate would wait until next year to consider confirming nominees.Thus, the Supreme Court &n...
By Junno Arocho EstevesROME (CNS) --U.S. Archbishop Alexander K. Sample was preparing to celebrate Mass Oct. 26with Benedictine monks in Norcia when the first of two powerful earthquakesstruck."I hadno sooner finished (the vesting) prayer to be protected from the assaults ofSatan when bang: It just hit and it hit with a vengeance. It didn't last verylong, but it really shook the building we were in," Archbishop Sample ofPortland, Oregon, told Catholic News Service in Rome the next morning.No casualties were reportedfrom the quakes. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, an earthquakemeasuring 5.5 struck shortly after 7 p.m. local time and a 6.1 magnitude quakefollowed two hours later. Both were centered in Italy's Marche region, not farfrom Norcia.ArchbishopSample and other Portland pilgrims were visiting Norcia, the birthplace of St.Benedict, during a trip to Italy for the fifth annual Populus SummorumPontificum pilgrimage, an international gathering for Catholics devoted to the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The vast majority of U.S. students still lack a solid grasp of science despite some modest gains by fourth and eighth graders, especially girls and minorities....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter, seemingly unable to find a buyer and losing money, is cutting about 9 percent of its employees worldwide....
