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GREENBELT, Md. (AP) -- The Latest on federal court challenges to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban (all times local except where noted):...
Abuja, Nigeria, Mar 16, 2017 / 12:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- At a recent meeting, the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria gave a bleak summary of the state of their country, lamenting humanitarian crises including violence at the hands of Boko Haram and other extremist groups, poverty, government corruption, and a lack of respect for human rights or dignity.“Since the end of Nigeria’s tragic civil war, at no other time in the history of our dear country has the issue of our common citizenship been subjected to more strain,” the bishops said in a statement at the conclusion of their plenary assembly, held in Abuja March 4-10.“We have found the outright disdain for the sanctity of human life totally at variance with both our cultural traditional norms and our religious sensibilities. Life has never looked so cheap,” they said.While Nigeria’s civil war ended in 1970, the country has recently undergone a period of extreme violence and instability, with the rise...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- They are supposed to be the best of the best. In many instances, they have looked more like the ugliest of the ugly....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- On a cold winter morning in the Iranian capital recently, a homeless dog lay basking in the sun's rays for warmth. Suddenly, the canine moaned - it had been shot with an anesthetic dart from a blowpipe. It ran several steps, then fell immobilized....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. authorities may now be in a better position to figure out if Russian hackers and Russian spies swayed last year's presidential elections....
HONOLULU (AP) -- The U.S. Army soldiers finished wading across a stream in a rainforest in Hawaii, and they were soaked. Their boots and socks were water-logged and their clothes, hair and ears were caked with mud....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is unveiling a $1.15 trillion budget, a far-reaching overhaul of federal government spending that slashes a dozen departments to finance a significant increase in the military and make a down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Just a week ago, Nadia Hanan Madalo and her family had received news that refugees like them have been waiting to hear: They had seats on a flight bound for the U.S. from Iraq, with an arrival just before the latest Trump administration travel ban was to take effect....
HONOLULU (AP) -- A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's revised travel ban hours before it was to take effect, marking the second time courts have thwarted Trump's efforts to freeze immigration by refugees and citizens of some predominantly Muslim nations....
This year's NCAA Tournament has a chance to be just as good as 2016, when Kris Jenkins capped March Madness the most dramatic way possible with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to win Villanova a title....
