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NEW YORK (AP) -- Actor John Heard, whose many roles included the father in the "Home Alone" series and a corrupt detective in "The Sopranos," has died. He was 71....
People who have worked closely with the man tapped to lead Minneapolis' embattled police department say he has qualities that would suit him well in the role: He's friendly, seems forthright, has deep roots in the city and is African-American, which could help improve the sour relationship between the police force and the city's sizeable black community....
BERLIN (AP) -- A German girl who ran away from home after converting to Islam has been found as Iraqi forces liberated the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State extremists, German and Iraqi officials said Saturday. She is reported to be in good health and will be interrogated next week by Iraqi officials....
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- The Latest on President Donald Trump's visit to Virginia to commission an aircraft carrier (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Democrats announced Saturday that a bipartisan group of House and Senate negotiators have reached an agreement on a sweeping Russia sanctions package to punish Moscow for meddling in the presidential election and its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria....
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- With praise and a blessing for the military, President Donald Trump helped hand over the USS Gerald R. Ford to the Navy on Saturday and said the state-of-the-art aircraft carrier will send a "100,000-ton message to the world" about America's military might when it is ultimately deployed....
(Vatican Radio) American Bishops have urged Senate members to oppose any effort to repeal Obama’s Affordable Care Act without a concurrent replacement plan that protects poor and vulnerable people, including immigrants, safeguards the unborn, and supports conscience rights.In a letter addressed to the Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops reiterates its belief that health care should be truly universal and genuinely affordable.The letter, signed by Bishop Frank Dewane, Chairman of Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, follows a statement by President Donald Trump this week who tweeted that the new Republican healthcare policy should be to allow the current law to collapse.Support for the Republican Senate bill fell apart on Monday when two more senators said they could not back it.Bishop Dewane strongly affirms “that a repeal of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act ought not be undertaken without the concurrent passage ...
(Vatican Radio) People in Timor-Leste or East Timor, Asia's most Cathollic nation, cast their vote on Saturday to elect a government that can alleviate poverty, healthcare and education issues that have stalled the tiny nation's progress. Ahead of the elections, the country’s prominent Catholic Church leader urged his countrymen to choose those who will deliver on the basic needs of the people. "Choose whom you think can side with the people, who can improve health, sanitation, education, agriculture, as well as provide clean water," Bishop Basilio do Nascimiento of Baucau, chairman of the Timor-Leste Bishops Conference, said in Dili. "Don't choose whom you believe only give empty promises during campaigns. Vote for the ones who have honest views about society," he said.Asia's most Catholic nationMore than 700,000 East Timorese were registered to vote in the impoverished country 1.2 million population that is over 95...
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) -- The Latest from the British Open (all times local):...
