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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Around the time Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya met with President Donald Trump's oldest son last year, she was drawing attention from U.S. government officials for her work with an investment firm attempting to weaken U.S. sanctions on Russia. Officials tried to seize the attorney's emails and at times denied her entry into the U.S., according to government and legal documents....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The implosion of the Senate Republican health care bill leaves a divided GOP with its flagship legislative priority in tatters and confronts a wounded President Donald Trump and congressional leaders with dicey decisions about addressing their perhaps unattainable seven-year-old promise of repealing President Barack Obama's law....
Kirk Cousins will be the first quarterback in NFL history to play consecutive seasons on the franchise tag....
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST, Ariz. (AP) -- The flash flood that killed nine people in an Arizona river canyon began its deadly descent as an impressive but avoidable surge of churning water, black with cinders from a recent wildfire and choked with tumbling tree trunks and limbs....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration told Congress for a second time Monday that Iran is complying with the nuclear deal and can keep enjoying sanctions relief, even as it insisted Tehran would face consequences for breaching "the spirit" of the deal....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The latest GOP effort to repeal and replace "Obamacare" was fatally wounded in the Senate Monday night when two more Republican senators announced their opposition to the legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump....
Manila, Philippines, Jul 17, 2017 / 04:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Philippines is one of the most populous Catholic countries in the world. About 80 percent of the country's 100 million people belong to the faith.Now, the country's Catholic bishops' conference has elected a new president: Archbishop Romulo Valles.Since 2012 Archbishop Valles, 66, has headed the Archdiocese of Davao, on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao. Davao is the largest city in the region.Over 60 percent of Mindanao’s total population is Catholic, while Muslims make up 20 percent. In the past the island has suffered a communist insurgency and an armed Moro separatist movement, Vatican Radio reports. The region is currently suffering an insurgency of Islamic insurgents who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and have captured Marawi City, burning the Catholic cathedral and taking hostage a Catholic priest and several church workers.Archbishop Valles served as the most re...
Washington D.C., Jul 17, 2017 / 04:44 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An analysis piece in La Civilta Cattolica alleging an “ecumenism of hate” between Catholics and Evangelical Fundamentalists is seriously flawed in its presentation of religion in public life, experts said.Speaking about the article, which claims religious and political elements of society should not be “confused,” Elizabeth Bruenig, a writer on Christianity and politics, said: “this is a departure from most of the historical writings the Church has produced on how Catholics should think about politics and religion.”On Thursday, the journal La Civilta Cattolica published an analysis piece co-authored by its editor, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, S.J., and Marcelo Figueroa, a Presbyterian pastor who is editor-in-chief of the Argentine edition of L’Osservatore Romano.The piece made a number of claims, alleging that many conservative Christians have united on political issues like immigration and ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Susanna Bates, EPABy Mark PattisonWASHINGTON(CNS) -- In comments delivered July 17 to the Federal CommunicationsCommission, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the FCC to use"the strongest legal authority available" to "retain openinternet regulations."Thecurrent regulations, adopted in 2015 by a Democratic-majority FCC, treat the internet as a utility. A prior FCC effort to regulate the internet as acommunication service did not stand up to judicial scrutiny. The regulations arenow under review by a Republican-led FCC. The concept of an open internet haslong been called "net neutrality," in which internet serviceproviders neither favor nor discriminate against internet users or websites.TheUSCCB is "concerned that the FCC is contemplating eliminating currentregulations limiting the manner by which the companies controlling theinfrastructure connect people to the internet," said USCCB assistant generalcounsel Katherine Grincewich."Withoutthe current stron...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Netflix is pulling in new viewers and award nominations in droves, but the online video service still faces a long-term problem: Its acclaimed programming line-up is costing far more money than what subscribers pay for it....
