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IMAGE: CNS photo/Carlos Barria, ReutersBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Now that lawmakers have withdrawn theAmerican Health Care Act, Congress must "seize this moment to create a newspirit of bipartisanship" and make "necessary reforms" inexisting health care law to address access, affordability, life and conscience,said three U.S. bishops' committee chairmen.The GOPbill was removed from consideration by the House at the eleventh hour March 24because its passage looked unlikely, as a number of lawmakers disagreed withseveral of its provisions as well as the process that led to the drafting ofthe bill.Themeasure "contained serious deficiencies, particularly in its changes toMedicaid, that would have impacted the poor and others most in need inunacceptable ways," the bishops said in a joint letter to Congress datedMarch 30 and released March 31 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.But thecommittee chairmen also said that withdrawal of the bill "must not end ournation's efforts to improve...
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A Pittsburgh coffee shop is brewing up backlash over a loyalty punch card featuring pictures of President Donald Trump and other conservatives....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- One minute, veteran stuntman Steve de Castro was playing dead during filming of the television series "Shooter" at a remote location north of Los Angeles. The next minute, de Castro was run over and dragged by a sport utility vehicle driven by actor Tom Sizemore....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. health officials have begun enrolling volunteers for critical next-stage testing of an experimental vaccine to protect against Zika, the mosquito-borne virus that can cause devastating birth defects in pregnant women....
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) -- Authorities in two Texas counties said they received phone calls about a pickup driving erratically shortly before a head-on collision between a truck and church bus in southwest Texas that killed 13 people returning from a retreat....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Atlanta's dreadful rush-hour traffic could be extra nasty for months to come after a raging fire underneath Interstate 85 collapsed an elevated portion of the highway and shut down the heavily traveled route through the heart of the city....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel will limit new settlement construction in the West Bank "when possible" to within areas already developed or at least to contiguous areas, President Benjamin Netanyahu's government announced as a gesture to President Donald Trump as it approved the first new settlement in the territory in two decades....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Tense negotiations over a deal to undo North Carolina's "bathroom bill" gave way Friday to uncertainty....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee swelled Friday as Democrats neared the numbers needed for a filibuster, setting up a showdown with Republicans who have the votes to confirm Neil Gorsuch....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional investigators on Friday rebuffed former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's offer of cooperation in exchange for immunity from prosecution, saying it's too early in their probe of Russia connections to discuss a deal....
