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NEW YORK (AP) -- While Americans have doubts about how much they should trust the "news media" in general, a poll by the Media Insight Project released Wednesday suggests they have a higher opinion of the sources they personally rely upon to follow the world....
President Donald Trump's budget proposal to provide federal tax money for private-school scholarships is getting pushback from an unconventional source: groups known for promoting school-choice initiatives....
BAB AL-HAWA, Turkey-Syria Border (AP) -- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has set foot in the no-man's-land between Syria and Turkey....
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Amy Pittman learned on her first day in jail to bottle up her grief....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Keeping former President Barack Obama's health care law is "completely unacceptable and totally unsustainable," the Senate's top Republican said Wednesday as the two parties braced for a Congressional Budget Office report on a House-passed bill overhauling that statute....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ariana Grande suspended her Dangerous Woman world tour and canceled several European shows Wednesday due to the deadly bombing at her concert in Manchester, England....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Playboy centerfold was ordered to clean up graffiti Wednesday for secretly snapping a photo of a naked 71-year-old woman in a locker room and posting it online with a mocking comment....
Adding an unusual flavor to his pastoral ministry, a Catholic archbishop in the Philippines went undercover to personally find out how parishes under his jurisdiction deal with the poor. Weeks before assuming his post as the new head of Lipa, Archbishop Gilbert Garcera disguised himself as a farmer and visited parish offices. The archbishop went to great lengths to make sure he wasn't recognized, even wearing dirty and ragged clothes. "I wanted to know how [parish] secretaries are dealing with the poor," said the prelate. "I went into their offices and I know what is happening there," he said. The 58-year old archbishop said he was satisfied by what he saw, but added that some offices continue to face challenges in serving people. To address issues in his archdiocese, Archbishop Garcera is conducting a survey "to better understand and meet the spiritual needs" of people, especially the youth. He said the study wi...
As Nepal painfully plods its way to becoming a prosperous secular democracy, the tiny Catholic Church in the impoverished Himalayan state pledges its contribution to social services and education in order to build peace, stability, freedom and human rights. Fr. G. William Robins, a Japanese-Canadian Jesuit who has spent about 45 years in south Asia, made the remark to the Vatican’s Fides news agency after the largely Hindu nation voted on 14 May for representatives in municipal and village councils. This first local election in two decades is a key step to building democracy ten years after the end of the civil war and two years after the approval of the Constitution in 2015. The local vote was divided into two phases due to disorders in the southern plains bordering India, where the major ethnic minority group (which accounts for more than half of the 28.6 million inhabitants) refuses to participate in the elections until an amendment to the constitution is appro...
