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ATLANTA (AP) -- The images offer a sharp contrast: In some places, police in SWAT gear wield batons or carry long guns as they patrol streets teeming with protesters. Elsewhere, officers are seen riding bicycles, mingling with demonstrators and even posing for selfies....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Two San Diego police officers were shot - one fatally - after a late-night stop turned into a gunfight, triggering a massive manhunt that led to the capture of one wounded suspect in a ravine and an hours-long SWAT standoff Friday that ended with officers finding no one inside the home they had surrounded....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Friday blocked a North Carolina law that required voters to produce photo identification and follow other rules disproportionately affecting minorities, finding that the law was intended to make it harder for blacks to vote in the presidential battleground state....
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's president slammed the United States on Friday, claiming it was not standing firmly against a failed military coup and accused it of harboring the plot's alleged mastermind, as a government crackdown in the coup's aftermath strained Turkey's ties with key allies....
MIAMI (AP) -- Mosquitoes have apparently begun spreading the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland for the first time, health officials said Friday, a long-feared turn in the epidemic that is sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump pulled off the upset - at least in television popularity....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fresh off a spirited convention, Hillary Clinton told prospective voters Friday they face a "stark choice" in November and pressed ahead with the scalding rhetoric against her Republican rival that marked many of the speeches in Philadelphia. Another distraction arose, however, as her aides acknowledged that a hacking attack that exposed Democratic Party emails also reached into a computer system used by her own campaign....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A computer service used by the campaign of Hillary Clinton was hacked as part of a broader breach of the Democratic National Committee, an intrusion for which the Russian government is the leading suspect, the campaign said Friday....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis told young people that the world needs those who do not live to live their lives “halfway” and who like Christ are ready to spend their lives serving the poorest and most vulnerable. He said the Way of the Cross is Jesus’ style and is a way that fears no lack of success, ostracism or solitude. The Pope was speaking at the conclusion of a Way of the Cross event attended by young people taking part in the World Youth Day gathering in the Polish city of Krakow. During his address to the young people, the Pope had affectionate words of greeting for “our brothers and sisters from Syria who have fled from the war.” The Syrian refugees were among a group of about 20 young people helping to carry the Cross during the first station. The others included a Polish couple who until recently lived on the streets and young people from Italy, Argentina, Ukraine and Pakistan. Please find below a translation into English of the Po...
(Vatican Radio) The new incoming just inaugurated President of Peru must make some practical political concessions, if he`s to boost the economy and get things done. Freedom of action might well follow another form of freedom as James Blears reports.Listen: At seventy seven ex Wall Street afficinado Pedro Pablo Kuczynski who`s no spring chicken, insists he`s still got it up top. But to stay on top, he`s going to need a little help for more than just his friends. His Center-right Peruvians for Change Party holds just 18 seats in Congress. He only defeated Keiko Fujimori, the Candidate of the Popular Force Party, by a quarter of a percentage point. But more to the point, her Party holds 73 seats. The price will almost inevitably involve 78 year old former President Alberto Fujimori being released from prison, where he`s serving a 25 year term for human rights abuses. Outgoing President Ollanta Humala ...
