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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named one of Israel's most polarizing politicians as defense minister on Wednesday, solidifying his parliamentary majority at the risk of antagonizing the international community and his own military - and clouding already slim hopes for a resumption of peace efforts....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A day after a riot erupted outside a Donald Trump rally, Albuquerque officials concluded that the mayhem had less to do with political protest than with an unruly group determined to use the event to sow disorder....
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- A day after violent protesters outside a Donald Trump rally threw burning items at police and toppled barricades, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee railed against "Crooked Hillary" Clinton and leaders in his own party who haven't yet endorsed him in a boisterous but less heated rally Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton and her team ignored clear guidance from the State Department that her email setup broke federal standards and could leave sensitive material vulnerable to hackers, a department audit has found. Her aides twice brushed aside concerns, in one case telling technical staff "the matter was not to be discussed further."...
Vatican City, May 25, 2016 / 12:11 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- “The Gospel of family, joy for the world.” This is the theme for the 2018 World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland, and it is meant to emphasize the family's role as a stabilizing force in society, said the local archbishop.“The family is not just the object of the attention of the Church,” Archbishop Diarmuid Martin told journalists at a Vatican press briefing Tuesday.Rather, he said, families have a “vital role” as “real protagonists of renewal and of the transmission of the faith to the coming generations.”This was stressed at the recent Synods of Bishops on the Family, the archbishop said. Families are “active participants in the ministry of the Church,” through “the authenticity of their daily life in the family and in the home.”He continued: “The World Meeting of Families must be an occasion to encourage and sustain families in this task...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore RomanoBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pray for victims of recentterrorist attacks in Syria and pray that those who sow death and destructionwill change their ways, Pope Francis said in an appeal.At the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter'sSquare May 25, the pope mentioned a string of attacks to hit "belovedSyria" May 23, causing the death of "defenseless civilians."At least 150 people were killed in separate, but nearlysimultaneous explosions in the cities of Jableh and Tartus. Militants of theIslamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks on the civiliantargets, which included a hospital.Before leading the "Hail Mary," the pope askedthat everyone pray for the "eternal repose of the victims, solace for therelatives" and that God would "convert the hearts of those who sowdeath and destruction."Also at the audience, the pope marked InternationalMissing Children's Day with an appeal to civil and religious leaders to raisepeopl...
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) -- The 284 kids competing in this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee got their first opportunity to approach the microphone on Wednesday - and to hear the dreaded bell that signals an incorrect spelling. At the end of Wednesday's onstage rounds, the field will be cut to no more than 50 spellers for Thursday's finals....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is squandering its technology budget maintaining museum-ready computer systems in critical areas from nuclear weapons to Social Security. They're still using floppy disks at the Pentagon....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fliers should brace for long waits at airport security over the holiday weekend. In recent weeks, some major airports saw wait times exceeding 90 minutes at peak hours, and passengers missed flights waiting to get through security....
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- During the nearly two years that she was imprisoned in Russia, Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko became a national hero in absentia, lauded for her flinty defiance. On Wednesday she made a celebrated return to the country still embroiled in a fight against Moscow-backed separatists....
