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DETROIT (AP) -- Two luxury electric vehicles - the Tesla Model S and the BMW i3 - fell short of getting the highest safety ratings in new crash tests by the insurance industry....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- At some point in the coming months, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to resume raising interest rates. Just not quite yet....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- By visiting Japan and South Korea on his first official overseas trip, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is seeking to reinforce key alliances after President Donald Trump's campaign-trail complaints that defense treaties disadvantaged the United States....
AMONA, West Bank (AP) -- Israeli forces are making their way up a hilltop to a West Bank settlement outpost to evict residents....
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- When retired Maj. Gen. Mohammed Otoom was summoned to Jordan's domestic intelligence service over a critical web comment, he wasn't too rattled. After all, he was a 30-year veteran of the agency that sought to question him....
President Donald Trump's executive order banning refugees from certain countries has brought stress, desperation, worry and confusion to a number of families in the United States and abroad....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If confirmed by the Senate to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch would fill the seat of the man he seeks to emulate as a judge....
Manila, Philippines, Jan 31, 2017 / 07:37 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic bishops of the Philippines voiced strong objections to proposals intended to reinstate the death penalty in the country.“The Gospel of the Lord Jesus is the Gospel of Life. It is this Gospel we must preach. It is this Gospel that we must uphold,” Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, said Jan. 30.“We therefore unequivocally oppose proposals and moves to return the death penalty into the Philippine legal system,” he added. “We urge the government to champion life for all!”Speaking on behalf of the national bishops’ conference, Archbishop Villegas pointed to the 2006 repeal of legislation that imposed the death penalty for heinous crimes, calling this repeal “a considerable stride in the defense of life.” He said there is an “unmistakable” global trend against...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Andrew Kelly, ReutersBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairmenof three U.S. bishops' committees Jan. 31 expressed solidarity with the Muslimcommunity and expressed deep concern over religious freedom issues they said PresidentDonald Trump's refugee ban raises.Trump's executive memorandum ofJan. 27 "has generated fear and untold anxiety among refugees, immigrants andothers throughout the faith community in the United States," said the committeechairmen in a joint statement. "In response ' we join with other faith leadersto stand in solidarity again with those affected by this order, especially ourMuslim sisters and brothers.""We also express our firmresolution that the order's stated preference for 'religious minorities' shouldbe applied to protect not only Christians where they are a minority, but allreligious minorities who suffer persecution, which includes Yezidis, ShiaMuslims in majority Sunni areas, and vice versa," said the statement from byBishop Mitchell T. Rozans...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler OrsburnBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court that has been empty since the death of Justice Antonin Scalialast February.Gorsuch is a man the countryneeds, Trump said in announcing his nominee the evening of Jan. 31. He added that his pick for the high court already has had bipartisan support. When Trump announced his choice at the White House, in the audience was Maureen McCarthy Scalia, the widow of the late justice. One of thecouple's children also was present: Father Paul Scalia, a priest of the Dioceseof Arlington, Virginia.In his remarks, Gorsuch said he was thankful forfriends, family and faith giving him balance. He also said he was honored andhumbled to be chosen as a nominee to the nation's highest court. He described Scalia as"lion of the law" and said he misses him. Gorsuch,judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, is 49, making him the youngestSupreme Cou...
