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Nearly 40 years ago, a respected doctor wrote a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine with some very good news: Out of nearly 40,000 patients given powerful pain drugs in a Boston hospital, only four addictions were documented....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House intelligence committee said Wednesday it is issuing subpoenas for former national security adviser Michael Flynn and President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as well as their businesses, as part of its investigation into Russian activities during last year's election....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If President Donald Trump pulls the United States out of the international agreement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, what could that mean for the rapidly heating Earth?...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. allies around the world sounded alarms Wednesday as President Donald Trump seemed close to pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate accord. Trump himself kept everyone in suspense on the question of staying or leaving, saying he was still listening to "a lot of people both ways" but promising a decision "very soon."...
Rome, Italy, May 31, 2017 / 11:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- An international congress in Rome this autumn will bring together experts to focus on the problem of online sexual abuse of minors and how to better safeguard children on the internet.The Oct. 3-6 meeting is hosted by the Pontifical Gregorian University’s Center for Child Protection and will conclude in an audience with Pope Francis during which he will be presented a “Declaration on Child Dignity in the Digital World.”According to a May 31 statement, there are 3.2 billion internet users worldwide, children making up over one quarter of these – about 800 million users. These children and adolescents “are vulnerable to entirely new forms of harm and abuse such as trolling, cyberbullying, sextortion, and grooming for sexual exploitation.”The international congress “will focus on the latest scientific research and technical understanding in this field, bringing together global experts and d...
By Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will not visit SouthSudan in October with Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury as he hadhoped, the Vatican spokesman said.Greg Burke, the spokesman, told reporters May 30 the trip"was not for this year." With the civil war worsening and famine spreading, PopeFrancis already in March had expressed doubts about the possibility of makingthe trip. In an interview published March 8 with Germany's Die Zeit newspaper,he said visiting South Sudan would be "important," but he added,"I don't believe that it is possible."Still, a small team from the Vatican visited Juba in May tostudy the situation and see if it might be possible even to do something only fora few hours at the Juba airport."Vatican security already did their inspection,"Archbishop PaulinoLukudu Loro of Juba told the Italian station Radio InBlu. "I'm sorry thepope cannot come. The country certainly will be disappointed by thisnews."In October, the Catholic archbishop,...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Is it time to get cars out of the Crossroads of the World?...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and urging them to call him directly, an unusual invitation that breaks diplomatic protocol and is raising concerns about the security and secrecy of the U.S. commander in chief's communications....
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- As a thyroid cancer survivor battling nerve damage and other complications, Lisa Dammert was in such dire financial straits in 2014 that she and her husband did the unthinkable: They let their health insurance lapse for a while....
A massive suicide truck bombing rocked a highly secured diplomatic area of Kabul on Wednesday morning, killing 90 people and wounding as many as 400. The attack left a scene of mayhem and destruction in the Afghan capital....
