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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- The man who once helped pitch Dos Equis beer as the "most interesting man in the world" is turning his attention from his favorite beer to his favorite beard by judging a Saturday competition called Vermont Beardies....
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Feeding peanut butter kibbles to millions of prairie dogs - by flinging the treats from four-wheelers and dropping them from drones - could be the next big thing to help a spunky little weasel that almost went extinct....
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Stealing a $230 pair of eyeglasses would land you a misdemeanor conviction in most states. Shoplifting the same item in Virginia could make you a felon for life....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's poker night in a row house on Cranham Street, Oxford, England, and Neil Gorsuch, studying for yet another degree, is feeling down. His housemates decide that what Gorsuch needs is a girlfriend....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration wants to build a 30-foot-high border wall that looks good from the north side and is difficult to climb or cut through, according to a pair of contract notices posted to a government website further detailing President Donald Trump's promise to build a "big, beautiful wall" at the Mexican border....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The young hacker was told in no uncertain terms: You are safe with me....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jermaine Anderson keeps going back to the same memory of Donald Trump, then a candidate for president of the United States, referring to some Mexican immigrants as rapists and murderers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House GOP health care bill has competition from other Republicans, a group of governors who've made their own proposal about how to overhaul Medicaid for low-income people. They're hoping GOP senators will find their ideas more persuasive....
ORLY, France (AP) -- French soldiers shot and killed a man who wrestled a colleague to the ground Saturday and tried to steal her rifle at Paris' Orly Airport. The melee forced the airport's busy terminals to close and evacuate and trapped hundreds of passengers aboard flights that had just landed....
(Vatican Radio) Aid agencies are stepping up their efforts to help 16 million people facing starvation across East Africa. The dire situation in the affected countries of South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia has been caused by conflict and drought.The UN is warning that the world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of the Second World War.CAFOD the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has joined up with the Disasters Emergency Committee DEC which brings 13 leading UK aid charities together in times of crisis.Matthew Carter is CAFOD’S Director of Humanitarian and Emergencies. He spoke to Lydia O’Kane about the scale of the crisis.Listen: “This is huge, the level, I mean of the emergency across the whole region from Ethiopia, Northern Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan; 16 million people in desperate need of food aid and of those 800,000 children,” he said. Mr Carter added, that “we need to res...
