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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The Brazilians closed out the Rio Games in style Sunday. So did the U.S. men's basketball team....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- The latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama returned from vacation Sunday, ready for a busy fall season and more battles with Congress over Zika funding, the federal budget and $400 million the administration paid Iran this year for the never-completed sale of military equipment....
BEIJING (AP) -- For the Olympics, it's so-long Rio, hello Asia....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Shaking to samba and sharing reflections in uniquely Brazilian ways, Olympians and fans said goodbye to the Rio Games with one last big bash that was both revelatory and a sigh of relief....
Have you ever made a promise you knew you were not going to keep...
Jefferson City, Mo., Aug 21, 2016 / 04:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Missouri legislature should let stand the governor’s veto of a bill that would allow concealed carry of firearms without a permit, the state’s Catholic bishops have said.“Catholic Church teaching recognizes the right to self-defense as a way of preserving one’s life and in defense of others in the face of an imminent threat,” the Missouri Catholic Conference said. “We encourage Missouri citizens of good will, however, not to fall prey to the notion that we are somehow safer as individuals and as a society if everyone is always and everywhere armed.”The conference statement was signed by all the state’s bishops.The bishops said the current concealed carry permit process is “reasonable and prudent,” noting such steps as a background check and eight hours of formal training for permit applicants. The training includes instruction in loading, cleaning, storing, ...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Left out of federal labor law written decades ago, nannies, housekeepers and private caregivers are gaining legal protections in a growing number of states, with Illinois becoming the latest to establish a domestic workers' "bill of rights."...
WALKER, La. (AP) -- Outside the small town of Walker, Louisiana, a rural Baptist church has become an oasis for flood victims....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazil and the world bid farewell Sunday to the first Olympic Games in South America, a 16-day spectacle that combined numerous highlight reel moments with ugly and even bizarre episodes that sometimes overshadowed the competitions....
