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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Video released Tuesday shows a black man killed by Los Angeles police was armed just before he was shot dead but the footage failed to capture him when officers say he twice turned toward them holding the loaded semi-automatic handgun....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Forces backing Syrian President Bashar Assad pressed their offensive Tuesday on Aleppo's rebel-held zone from the south, after capturing areas on other fronts in recent days. As reinforcements arrived, including Shiite fighters from Iraq, the strategy appeared to be to retake rebel-held areas bit by bit, backed by massive Russian airpower, rather than risk a potentially costly all-out ground battle....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to create a new agency to better investigate police shootings and misconduct allegations is moving toward approval, even as critics say it's not strong enough to keep a close eye on a police force plagued by a reputation for brutality and experts say it doesn't match efforts of other cities facing similar challenges....
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Arizona (AP) -- Hillary Clinton appealed to voting mothers Tuesday outlining ways she hopes to curb gun violence as president and provide paid family leave and sick days for struggling working moms. Donald Trump tried to blame his opponent about revelations that his massive financial losses could have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for years....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The landmark Paris climate change pact is poised to enter into force around the world after European Union lawmakers endorsed the agreement....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the presidential race between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton (all times EDT):...
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Bill Clinton tried to avoid muddling his message again as he campaigned for his wife in battleground Ohio a day after he described President Barack Obama's health care law and the resulting insurance markets as "the craziest thing in the world."...
A Colombian Government Commission on Tuesday is meeting is with the NO Vote Camp, which refused the Peace Referendum. Listen to the report by James Blears: The Commission leadership includes Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin and Defence Minister Luis Carlos Villegas. It`s third senior member is Humberto De La Calle...the Government`s Chief Peace Negotiator. He`s offered to resign, following the NO vote by the majority of the Colombian people. Instead he`s been sent back to Cuba, to talk with the negotiators of the FARC....the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.Back home... The Commission are faced by the team of former President Alvaro Uribe, who`s demanding real jail time for those convicted of war crimes, in real prisons, rather than community service centers. It won`t be easy to convince the FARC to step up and swallow down this bitter pill. Convincing their rank and file to disarm, given the prevailing circumstances will also be ...
Washington D.C., Oct 4, 2016 / 01:16 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- St. Francis of Assisi is widely known for his life of poverty and love of creation. But there’s a lesser-known side to the friar as well – a side that showed a deep reverence for the Eucharist and attentive care to the sacred vessels at Mass. Francis’ love of creation really points to “the Christo-centrism of his spirituality,” said Brother William Short, a professor of spirituality at the Franciscan School of Theology in California.“We can trivialize it and make Francis kind of a tree-hugger,” he told CNA, but “his Canticle of the creatures is a really profound way of understanding not just the presence of God, but the presence of Christ within all of creation.”On Oct. 4, the Church celebrates the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, a deacon from Assisi, Italy who renounced his wealth to follow Christ and founded the Order of Friars Minor, later called...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Amid the devastation wrought by an earthquake incentral Italy, Pope Francis quietly prayed and offered words of consolation tosurvivors and those assisting in relief efforts. Later, when crowds pressed around him, the pope used a megaphone to tell thepeople of Amatrice that he had wanted to visit sooner, but felt showing upimmediately after the Aug. 24 quake would have complicated relief efforts and"would have been more of a hindrance than a help.""From the first moment, I felt that I needed to come to you! Simply toexpress my closeness to you, nothing more. And I pray; I pray for you!"the pope said Oct. 4.The epicenter of the earthquake was close to Norcia, the birthplace of St.Benedict, and had a magnitude of 6.2, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Amatrice was the hardest-hit town, accounting for 234 of the estimated 290deaths, according to the Italian Civil Protection office. Shortly after news of...
