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NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A woman's claim that Bill Cosby drugged and sexually abused her at a Los Angeles hotel two decades ago was bolstered by her mother and a workers' compensation lawyer Tuesday on Day 2 of the comedian's trial....
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- Prosecutors say a Massachusetts woman charged with manslaughter for allegedly sending her boyfriend text messages encouraging him to kill himself wanted the sympathy and attention that came with being the "grieving girlfriend."...
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- Struggling to expand its ranks, the Army will triple the amount of bonuses it's paying this year to more than $380 million, including new incentives to woo reluctant soldiers to re-enlist, officials told The Associated Press....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Repairing the nation's crumbling roads and bridges was supposed to be an area ripe for bipartisan compromise between congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump. Instead, Democrats are panning Trump's proposed $1 trillion overhaul and even Republicans are balking at some aspects of the emerging plan....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump sided with Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries Tuesday in a deepening diplomatic crisis with Qatar, appearing to endorse the accusation that the oil-rich Persian Gulf nation is funding terrorist groups....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal contractor has been arrested following the leak of a classified intelligence report that suggests Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days before last year's presidential election....
PARIS (AP) -- A police officer shot and wounded a man who attacked officers with a hammer near Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday, Paris police and a police union official said....
Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9; II Cor 13:11-13; Jn 3:16-18Anecdote: Simplified explanations by Ss. Patrick, Cyril, John Maria Vianney and St. Spyridon: The shamrock, a kind of clover, is a leguminous herb that grows in marshy places. St. Patrick, the missionary patron saint of Ireland, used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity. The story goes that one day his friends asked Patrick to explain the Mystery of the Trinity. He looked at the ground and saw shamrocks growing amid the grass at his feet. He picked one up one of its trifoliate leaves and asked if it were one leaf or three. Patrick's friends couldn't answer – the shamrock leaf looked like one but it clearly had three parts. Patrick explained to them: "The mystery of the Holy Trinity – one God in Three Persons: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit - is like this, but more complex and unintelligible.” St. Cyril, the tea...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will receive the Presidential Council of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela in a private audience on Thursday.The meeting was announced on Tuesday in a statement by the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke.The statement reads, “The encounter was requested by the Episcopal Conference itself, which desires to speak to the Pope about the situation in Venezuela.”
Bishop Hinder calls for prayer and silent help for Christians and Muslims suffering in Yemen and says that the situation there is disastrous. As reported by AsiaNews Bishop Paul Hinder, apostolic vicar of southern Arabia (UAE, Oman and Yemen) notes that it is not possible at present to draw a full picture of the situation because it is difficult to go there and have credible information. None of the parties involved in the war can be said to be “innocent”, noted Mgr Hinder. “Violations” are perpetrated on both sides. In the end, it is the civilian population that pays the price, often forgotten and abandoned to itself, forced to face a “cholera emergency” as well.According to WHO he said, almost 74,000 cases of cholera have been reported with more than 600 dead (40 per cent children). Up to 300,000 people are at risk. Every ten minutes a child under five dies. Health facilities are on the verge of collapse he observed.UN humanitarian ...
