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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal judge who's hearing a Trump University lawsuit is "a hater of Donald Trump" and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that have legal experts worrying about his commitment to an independent judiciary and his views on presidential powers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. hiring slowed to a near-standstill in May, sowing doubts about the economy's health and complicating the Federal Reserve's efforts to raise interest rates....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Three Minnesota men accused of plotting to go to Syria to join the Islamic State group were convicted Friday of conspiracy to commit murder overseas....
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- More than 110 bodies were found along a Libyan beach after a smuggling boat of mostly African migrants sank, while a separate search-and-rescue operation across the Mediterranean saved 340 people Friday and recovered nine bodies....
PARIS (AP) -- The swollen Seine River kept rising Friday, spilling into Paris streets and forcing one landmark after another to shut down as it surged to its highest levels in nearly 35 years. Across the city, museums, parks and cemeteries were being closed as the city braced for possible evacuations....
CAMP TARIQ, Iraq (AP) -- The battle for Fallujah is shaping up to be unlike any of the other assaults in the Iraqi military's town-by-town war with the Islamic State group....
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- He's finally got Paul Ryan's endorsement, but many officials in Donald Trump's new wave of supporters remain reluctant backers at best. Leaders who have pledged their backing still aren't wholly satisfied with his temperament, policies or readiness for the White House....
(Vatican Radio) Vatican Weekend for June 4, 2016 features our weekly report on the general audience of Pope Francis with pilgrims from across the world and a musical meditation which focuses on the Sacred Heart. This is followed by a programme to mark the anniversary of the death of Saint John XXIII and a conversation with our popular 'Latin Lover' in which we learn whether the ancient Romans were gossip mongers.Listen to a programme presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick:
(Vatican Radio) Vatican Weekend for June 5, 2016 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday gospel presented this week by Ryan Black of the Pontifical Scots College here in Rome and an interview with the Vicar General of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception Fr. Joseph Roesch who tells us about the founder of his order Polish born Stanislas Papczynski due to be canonised by Pope Francis this Sunday.The programme ends with 'Joan knows...', a bird's eye view of the past week in the Vatican with Joan Lewis, EWTN bureau chief here in Rome.Listen to a programme presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick:
(Vatican Radio) Dazed migrants and refugees gradually returned to their holding camp on the island of Samos on Friday after a night of mayhem in which migrant youths battled one another with knives and set fire to compound buildings. At least two dozen were reported injured and hospitalized.Listen to John Carr's report: The riot occurred 24 hours after a night of similar unrest in a camp on the island of Lesbos, which also suffered serious damage from fire. Greek officials blame mainly Pakistani, Afghan and Moroccan men whose asylum applications have been denied and feel they’re in a no-hope dead end.There were fears here in Athens on Friday that the violence could spread to other holding camps around Greece, where 54,000 migrants are being kept, with little prospect of ever going anywhere, as Greece’s northern borders remain closed to them.Meanwhile, Greek boats and helicopters have been searching the sea area south of Crete for several hundred migrants miss...
