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NEW YORK (AP) -- Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, a former Jesuit school valedictorian who conjured a tale of demonic possession and gave millions the fright of their lives with the best-selling novel and Oscar-winning movie "The Exorcist," has died. He was 89....
PANAMA CITY (AP) -- It took three months for Gabriel Marin and his wife, Yansiel, to make it from their home in eastern Cuba to this migrant shelter in Panama's capital. The goal was the United States and now the door that spurred their odyssey has slammed shut....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration's eight years of unsuccessful Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy will come to a crashing end this weekend, with chances for a Mideast peace deal at perhaps their lowest ebb in a generation. A Paris peace conference attended by Secretary of State John Kerry isn't expected to produce any tangible progress....
DETROIT (AP) -- Takata Corp. has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal charge and will pay $1 billion in fines and restitution for a years-long scheme to conceal a deadly defect in its automotive air bag inflators....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago police have violated the constitutional rights of residents for years, permitting racial bias against blacks, using excessive force and shooting people who did not pose immediate threats, the Justice Department announced Friday after a yearlong investigation....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- You can't really call them "yes men." Maybe we're meeting Donald Trump's "yes, but" men....
LONDON (AP) -- Christopher Steele, the one-time British spy who has compiled an explosive dossier on President-elect Donald Trump, is a well-regarded operative who wouldn't make up stories to satisfy his clients, according to diplomatic and intelligence experts who know him....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ascendant Republicans drove a budget through Congress on Friday that gives them an early but critical victory in their crusade to scrap President Barack Obama's health care overhaul....
Vatican Weekend for January 14th, 2017 features a report on the Pope’s General Audience on January 11th, a review of the Pope’s address to the Diplomatic Corps with two ambassadors sharing their impressions of his speech plus a look at how the centenary of the birth of Blessed Archbishop Oscar Romero is being marked in 2017.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for January 15th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s More in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus our resident Vatican watcher Joan Lewis reviews the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
