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LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) -- She is haunted daily by the image of the decapitated head of her 9-year-old son. Police asked Edna Cedrick to identify it after the boy, who had albinism, was snatched from her arms in a violent struggle....
KORIYAMA, Japan (AP) -- She's 21, has thyroid cancer, and wants people in her prefecture in northeastern Japan to get screened for it. That statement might not seem provocative, but her prefecture is Fukushima, and of the 173 young people with confirmed or suspected cases since the 2011 nuclear meltdowns there, she is the first to speak out....
SICULIANA, Italy (AP) -- The metal fishing boat was packed full with more than 700 migrants on their way from Libya to Italy. Samia Leila sat one side, sandwiched between mostly young men. Rashid Jaqali, his wife and his daughter squeezed into the bow, and his two sons were split up on either flank, just visible over hundreds of heads....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- History already in hand, Hillary Clinton will celebrate becoming the first woman to lead a major American political party Tuesday following votes in California, New Jersey and four other states - contests Clinton hopes send her into the general election in strong standing....
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Bounce-back performances from two key players moved the Pittsburgh Penguins to the brink of winning the Stanley Cup....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Striding into history, Hillary Clinton will become the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major U.S. political party, capturing commitments Monday from the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination....
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Hagatna, Guam, Jun 6, 2016 / 04:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After sex abuse and other allegations were leveled against Guam's archbishop, Pope Francis on Monday appointed a Vatican official to be the local Church's apostolic administrator while an investigation is carried out.On June 6, Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was appointed apostolic administrator “sede plena” of the Archdiocese of Agaña, which serves Catholics in Guam, a U.S. island territory in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.The appointment was made shortly after Archbishop Anthony Apuron of Agaña was accused of sexual abuse dating from the 1970s, and of failing to implement strong policies on the handling of clerical sex abuse.As apostolic administrator “sede plena,” Archbishop Hon will govern the archdiocese because its ordinary is incapable of doing so. Though Archbishop Apuron remains archbishop, he will not exercis...
Denver, Colo., Jun 6, 2016 / 05:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On January 19, 1981, in Los Angeles, Muhammad Ali talked a man down from jumping off a ninth-floor fire escape, an event that made national news.“Former heavyweight champions slip out of the news as easily as ex-presidents, but Muhammad Ali was never your garden-variety champion of all the world,” Walter Cronkite said on the Jan. 20, 1981, edition of the CBS Evening News. “Yesterday in Los Angeles, he responded like a superhero when a distraught man threatened suicide.”Ali told the distraught man that he was his brother, that he loved him and wanted to take him home to meet his friends. After half an hour, Ali had his arm around the man’s shoulder and led him to safety.While boxing legend Muhammad Ali will go down in history as “The Greatest” fighter, some of his greatest fights – for hope, courage, and human dignity – took place outside the ring.In 1984, at the age of 42 an...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Action Images, MSI via ReutersBy Nancy WiechecPHOENIX(CNS) -- Muhammad Ali leaves an indelible mark on the world not only as afighter and athlete but as a man of faith, courage and generosity.Thethree-time heavyweight champion and self-titled "The Greatest" boxerof all time died at a Scottsdale hospital June 3. He was 74.InPhoenix, where Ali lived his last years, people recalled his kindness andbravery in his struggle with Parkinson's disease."I'vewatched him face the disease with grace and humor, and he has inspiredcountless patients to do the same," said Dr. Holly Shill in a statement fromthe Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow Neurological Institute. "Wehave lost a great warrior in the battle of Parkinson's, but hope continues."Foundedin 1997 by Ali and his wife, Lonnie (Yolanda), along with philanthropist JimmyWalker and Dr. Abraham Lieberman, the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center offersadvanced treatments for Parkinson's and other movement disorders as well ast...
