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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Las Vegas police officer used a stun gun seven times and a mixed martial arts chokehold to subdue an unarmed man who died after a foot chase through a casino over the weekend, authorities said Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Robert Mueller took office as FBI director in 2001 expecting to dig into drug cases, white-collar misdeeds and violent crime. A week later was Sept. 11....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is facing a crisis he can't manage with a tweet or a taunt....
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- The Latest on the manslaughter trial of a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man. (all times local):...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department abruptly appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller Wednesday night as a special counsel to lead a federal investigation into allegations that Donald Trump's campaign collaborated with Russia to sway the 2016 election that put him in the White House. Mueller will have sweeping powers and the authority to prosecute any crimes he uncovers....
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Front Royal, Va., May 17, 2017 / 03:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With God’s grace, you can accomplish great things, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller challenged young Catholics at Christendom College last weekend at their 2017 commencement ceremony.“The summary of all natural and Christian anthropology is to say, ‘Dare to be great in the grace of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen’,” Cardinal Mueller, prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, told undergraduate students of Christendom College in Front Royal, Va. on May 13, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima.Cardinal Mueller, the college’s 2017 commencement speaker, was the celebrant and homilist at the baccalaureate Mass on May 12 and received an honorary doctorate from the college before his commencement address. He is also the president of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei,” appointed to that post and as prefect of the CDF by Pope Benedict XVI.“Gerhard Cardin...
Mexico City, Mexico, May 17, 2017 / 04:12 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Mexico archdiocese's newspaper Desde la Fe wrote an editorial decrying the “disastrous situation in Mexico” as the country ranks number two in a report on the world's most violent nations.In its recent analysis, the International Institute for Strategic Studies ranked Mexico second on a list of the incidence of violent homicides.The institute said that in 2016 Mexico was one place above Iraq and one place below Syria, with 26,000 deaths linked to cases of violence.The Catholic weekly warned that “the collateral consequences” of the violence the country is going through “can already be seen in the victims of crimes, who have suffered serious violations of their human rights or injuries to their physical integrity and heritage.”“Mexico began to create lost generations, the result of an undeclared war; with thousands as victims, whose situation in the justice system is f...
Baltimore, Md., May 17, 2017 / 04:32 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- No one knows who killed Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik.A young nun who was on a year’s leave of absence, Sister Cathy, as friends called her, was murdered sometime while running an errand on the evening of November 7, 1969. She was 26 years-old. Her body was found in a dump two months later, though authorities have never been able to identify her killer.This summer, a Netflix documentary series called “The Keepers” is reopening the case, talking to witnesses and examining the evidence before the case goes cold forever.The circumstances surrounding the death of Sr. Cathy are precarious.A member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame since the age of 18, Sr. Cathy and her friend Sister Helen Russell Phillips both took a leave of absence in 1969 and moved out of the convent into an apartment together.A thoughtful and well-liked teacher, Sr. Cathy had taught English at Archbishop Seton Keough Catholic High Schoo...
