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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy revved up this spring after a weak start to the year, fueled by a surge in consumer spending. But the growth spurt still fell short of the optimistic goals President Donald Trump hopes to achieve through tax cuts and regulatory relief....
BOSTON (AP) -- A notorious figure in Boston's Roman Catholic priest sex abuse scandal was quietly released from prison Friday morning after completing a 12-year sentence for the rape of a boy in the 1980s....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque ended peacefully on Friday amid two weeks of unrest over security at a major holy site in Jerusalem, Israeli police said, but violence flared in the West Bank, where a Palestinian was killed after he attacked soldiers and another died in clashes along Gaza's border with Israel....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's Foreign Ministry ordered a reduction in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russia on Friday and said it was closing down a U.S. recreation retreat in response to fresh sanctions against Russia....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's prime minister stepped down on Friday, hours after the country's Supreme Court disqualified him from office in dramatic developments that have plunged the nuclear-armed nation into another major crisis....
TOKYO (AP) -- North Korea fired a ballistic missile Friday night which landed in the ocean off Japan, Japanese officials said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is sending a package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia to President Donald Trump to sign after the bill received overwhelming support in Congress. Moscow has already responded, ordering a reduction in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russia and closing the U.S. embassy's recreation retreat....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican finger-pointing commenced Friday after the Senate's dark-of-night defeat of the GOP's effort to repeal much of the Obama health care law, a startling vote that dealt a blow to President Donald Trump....
Vatican Weekend for July 30th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus our resident Vatican watcher Joan Lewis reviews the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for July 29th, 2017 features a look at how the Church is reaching out to victims of the USA’s worst-ever drug addiction crisis, the final part of a series on Rome’s three-tiered Basilica of San Clemente and we find out more about the enduring appeal of Ignatian spirituality as the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
