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FBI: Flight attendant broke wine bottle over man's head
SEATTLE (AP) -- A flight attendant broke a wine bottle over the head of a man who lunged for an exit door and fought with other passengers during a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Beijing, but it didn't faze him, an FBI agent wrote in charging papers filed Friday....
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Dainelys Soto, Genesis Contreras, and Daniel Soto, who arrived from Venezuela after crossing the U.S. border from Mexico, wait for dinner at a hotel provided by the Annunciation House on Sept. 22, 2022, in El Paso, Texas. / Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesCNA Staff, May 9, 2024 / 10:44 am (CNA).Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday filed an injunction against a Catholic nonprofit group in the state, accusing it of "systemic criminal conduct" for allegedly facilitating illegal border crossings from Mexico. Paxton announced the filing in a press release on his website, accusing Annunciation House in El Paso of facilitating "illegal border crossings" and of concealing "illegally present aliens from law enforcement."Located just a few thousand feet from the U.S.-Mexico border, Annunciation House says on its website that it serves "migrant, refugee, and economically vulnerable peoples of the border region," primarily through "several houses of hospitality...
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks about Florida's new six-week abortion ban during an event at the Prime Osborn Convention Center on May 1, 2024, in Jacksonville, Florida. / Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 9, 2024 / 11:17 am (CNA).Just six months from Election Day, the Biden-Harris administration is ramping up its campaign rhetoric and going all in on abortion.Here's what is going on with abortion throughout the country. Vice President Harris calls pro-life laws 'immoral' Over the last several weeks Vice President Kamala Harris has been touting the Biden administration's support for unrestricted abortion on her "Reproductive Freedoms Tour." At a stop in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Harris slammed states such as Texas whose pro-life laws do not allow exceptions for abortion in cases of rape and incest. "The idea that these so-called leaders would say even no exception for rape or incest, to say to a survivor of ...
St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów is depicted as the patron saint of Poland in a miniature painted by Stanislaw Samostrzelnik of Mogila. / Credit: Polona Digital Library|Wikimedia|PD-ArtWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 8, 2024 / 16:53 pm (CNA).Pope Francis during his Wednesday general audience invoked the intercession of St. Stanislaus, patron saint of Poland, for peace in Ukraine and Israel.Addressing Polish pilgrims in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, the pope said: "Today you celebrate the solemnity of St. Stanislaus, bishop and martyr, patron of your homeland.""St. John Paul II wrote of him," Francis went on, "that from high in heaven, he shared in the sufferings and hopes of your nation, sustaining its survival, especially during the Second World War."Francis prayed that the intercession of St. Stanislaus "obtain, even today, the gift of peace in Europe and throughout the world, especially in Ukraine and the Middle East."What does Poland have to do with these wars? This co...
