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BOSTON (AP) -- Boston Red Sox President Sam Kennedy is apologizing for fans at Fenway Park taunting Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones with racial slurs....
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Over the past seven years, austerity has left visible scars in Greece's capital....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Anzor was lying on a dirty floor as a man in army boots jumped on his back. His agony worsened when his captors started torturing him with electric shocks....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Innkeepers, restaurateurs and landscapers around the U.S. say they are struggling to find seasonal help and turning down business in some cases because the government tightened up on visas for temporary foreign workers....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The pool party was in full swing when a lone man reclining in a lounge chair with a blank expression pulled a gun from his waistband and began shooting....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on a House hearing on customer service at U.S. airlines (all times local):...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A white former South Carolina police officer planned to plead guilty Tuesday to violating the civil rights of an unarmed black motorist he shot and killed as the man ran from a 2015 traffic stop, according to a copy of the plea agreement obtained by The Associated Press....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that the nation "needs a good 'shutdown' in September" to fix a "mess" in the Senate, issuing contradictory messages ahead of key votes on a spending plan to keep the federal government running....
(Vatican Radio) The chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel is due to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Russia for the first time since 2015. Tuesday's gathering comes at a time of troubled bilateral relations over the war in Syria and Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: The leaders meet at Putin's summer residence in Sochi to see if they can overcome the biggest tensions between them since the end of the Cold War.However that is difficult as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Putin remain divided over Russia's annexation of Crimea in Ukraine in 2014. Germany was a driving force behind the European Unionsanctions imposed in response.Merkel wants Russia to seek an end to the conflict in Ukraine by using its influence on pro-Russian separatists. The West has accused Russia of supporting the rebels with weapons and troops in the fighting that killed some 10,000 people, charges Russi...
Brussels, Belgium, May 2, 2017 / 02:59 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Following a decision by the board of several Belgian Catholic psychiatric hospitals to start performing euthanasia, the religious brothers who operate the hospitals said the policy change is unacceptable and cannot be implemented.“We deplore this new vision,” said Brother René Stockman, the superior general of the Brothers of Charity. Brother Stockman is himself a Belgian and a leading opponent of euthanasia.The Brothers of Charity in Belgium run 15 psychiatric hospitals with 5,000 patients. The board controlling their institutions has said it will now allow euthanasia in these hospitals.Brother Stockman said he has informed the Belgian congregation that “as general superior we cannot accept this decision, because it is going totally against our charism of the charity.”He said the decision can “not at all” be justified in a Christian framework. “It is a real tragedy,” h...
