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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several Republican senators are questioning the timing of President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey. But even as the issue emerges as a potential distraction from the GOP's legislative agenda, most are dismissing Democratic calls for a special counsel, and their hand-wringing looks unlikely to lead to any concrete action....
(Vatican Radio) Mexico's homicide rate, exceeds many nations at war. A report just out show the drug cartels are killing at significantly increased rates in murderous power struggles. Listen to James Blears report: Mexico suffered the second highest number of murders of any country globally last year. It's almost 23,000 homicides, puts it in second place behind Syria, but ahead of Iraq and Afghanistan. The report entitled: "Armed Conflict Survey," is by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A power vacuum in the Sinaloa drug cartel, following the arrest and extradition to the United States of its leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has triggered a deadly supremacy struggle within its higher echelons. While there's been a surge in the ultra violent Jalisco New Generation cartel. This is coupled to the all too common impunity factor, meaning that most crimes go unpunished. And this y...
South Bend, Ind., May 11, 2017 / 12:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Among the newly announced federal judges selected by President Donald Trump is a Catholic law professor who once co-wrote a law review article on Catholic judges sitting over death penalty cases.“Catholic judges must answer some complex moral and legal questions in deciding whether to sit in death penalty cases,” Professor Amy Coney Barrett of Notre Dame Law School wrote in an article published in the Marquette Law Review in 1998.Barrett was nominated on Monday by President Trump to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, one of nine nominations to federal courts made by the president. Other picks included Justice David Stras of the Minnesota Supreme Court and Justice Joan Larsen of Michigan’s Supreme Court.Barrett clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia and teaches law at the University of Notre Dame. She has twice been honored as “Distinguished Professor of the Year.”In 2015, ahead of the O...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook has been bent on copying Snapchat ever since the social media giant tried unsuccessfully in 2013 to buy what was then an ephemeral photo-messaging app....
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Pyongyang will seek the extradition of anyone involved in what it says was a CIA-backed plot to kill leader Kim Jung Un last month with a biochemical poison, a top North Korean foreign ministry official said Thursday....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Lengthy historic investigations. Decrees of "heroic virtues." Miraculous cures....
QARAQOSH, Iraq (AP) -- The young Iraqi woman remembers the night she lost her leg....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Republicans and Democrats have reached agreement on a bill to make it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire its employees, part of an accountability effort touted by President Donald Trump....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The new Veterans Affairs chief shares the goal set by former President Barack Obama's administration of ending homelessness among veterans, but says it'll take longer than his predecessor predicted....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- After Congress passed a new law allowing Sept. 11 victims' families to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts, opponents mounted an expensive political campaign, including paying American military veterans to visit Capitol Hill and warn lawmakers about what they said could be unintended consequences....
