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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah's governor announced Thursday that he will sign legislation giving the predominantly Mormon state the strictest DUI threshold in the country, a change that restaurant groups and representatives of the ski and snowboard industry say will hurt tourism....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli police on Thursday arrested a 19-year-old hacker who they said was the main suspect in a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers in the United States, appearing to crack a case that has sent a chill through the American Jewish community....
LONDON (AP) -- Authorities on Thursday identified a 52-year-old Briton as the man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman to death outside Parliament, saying he had a long criminal record and once was investigated for extremism - but was not currently on a terrorism watch list....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration will approve the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, senior U.S. officials said, after the State Department delivers a positive recommendation to start construction on a long-delayed project that has served as a flashpoint in the debate about climate change....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House intelligence committee chairman privately apologized to his Democratic colleagues on Thursday, yet publicly defended his decision to openly discuss and brief President Donald Trump on typically secret intercepts that he says swept up communications of the president's transition team in the final days of the Obama administration....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- GOP House leaders delayed their planned vote Thursday on a long-promised bill to repeal and replace "Obamacare," in a stinging setback for House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Donald Trump in their first major legislative test....
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Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster has expressed his shock following the terror attack which took place near the British House of Parliament on Wednesday leaving four people dead and dozens injured.Speaking to BBC Radio Essex the Cardinal offered his prayers for those who died and those who grieving.See below the full transcript provided by the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales."Like everybody I was very shocked as the news started to come through this afternoon and now, as we just look back, I think first of the families of the people who have lost their lives. I pray for the dead and I pray for those who will mourn their loss very deeply."It'll be especially tragic for the families of the young French visitors who, I understand, have been seriously injured."Clearly my first thoughts are for the victims and for those who will mourn and be in considerable shock."And then, of course, it's important as a society that we hol...
(Vatican Radio) The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols has condemned Wednesday’s terror attack which took place in his Archdiocese and has offered prayers for the victims.The Archbishop speaking to Vatican Radio’s Lydia O’Kane described the shock that was being felt in London, but he also said that “typically here life gets on in a normal way; people are coming to work, parliament will be open this afternoon and there’s a determined calmness…”Listen: Four people are known to have died when a man mowed down pedestrians near the British House of Parliament. They included a police officer and a mother of two.Prayers for the victimsPaying tribute to the woman he said her children went to “one of our schools and the two children and her husband will be devastated today and we pray very deeply for them and the others who were killed”.Faith in GodCardinal Nichols underlined that it was very important that peopl...
(Vatican Radio) A campaign to immortalise Scotland’s only post-Reformation Catholic martyr is growing, more than forty years after he was canonised by Pope Paul VI.Saint John Ogilvie was born in 1579 to a family of Scottish nobility. He was raised a Calvinist, but converted to Catholicism at Louvain in 1596. After receiving an education at several Catholic institutions, he joined the Society of Jesus. He was ordained in 1610 in Paris and requested that he be sent back to Scotland, by this time marked by a hostility to the Catholic Faith. He was betrayed by someone posing as a Catholic and was imprisoned for treason.The Jesuit priest was tortured by his captors in an attempt to find out the names of other Catholics in the area. They deprived him of sleep and pushed needles under his fingernails. When he refused to betray his people, he was sentenced to death. He was hanged at Glasgow Cross on 10th March 1615. The date is remembered every year as the saint’s feast day.He...
