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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas election officials have acknowledged that hundreds of people were allowed to bypass the state's toughest-in-the-nation voter ID law and improperly cast ballots in the November presidential election by signing a sworn statement instead of showing a photo ID....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Satsuki Ina was born behind barbed wire in a prison camp during World War II, the daughter of U.S. citizens forced from their home without due process and locked up for years following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor....
Omar Abdel-Rahman, the so-called Blind Sheik convicted of plotting terror attacks in the United States in the 1990s, died Saturday in a federal prison where he was serving a life sentence. He was 78....
MUNICH (AP) -- President Donald Trump is working on a "streamlined" version of his executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations to iron out the difficulties that landed his first order in the courts, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Saturday....
MUNICH (AP) -- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday conveyed a message to jittery partners that the Trump administration will "hold Russia accountable" and maintain steadfast support for NATO, a military alliance the American commander in chief once dismissed as "obsolete."...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- As he seeks to get his struggling administration back on track, President Donald Trump is interviewing potential candidates this weekend to serve as his new national security adviser....
DALLAS (AP) -- Norma McCorvey, whose legal challenge under the pseudonym "Jane Roe" led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision that legalized abortion but who later became an outspoken opponent of the procedure, died Saturday. She was 69....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A huge Pacific storm that parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least two people, eased off Saturday but it was only a temporary reprieve as new storms took aim farther north....
(Vatican Radio) The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, has confirmed that Pope Francis will be visiting All Saints’ Anglican Church in Rome on February 26.The Pope’s visit will be part of an Ecumenical Service celebrating the 200th anniversary of the first Church of England worship service in Rome, which took place on October 27th 1816.The Holy Father will be the first reigning Pope to visit an Anglican Church in the Diocese of Rome. The ecumenical event will consist of a short Choral Evensong service which includes the blessing of a specially commissioned icon and the twinning of All Saints with the Catholic parish of Ognissanti, a Rome church with strong ecumenical ties. Pope Francis is expected to deliver a homily during the event, and afterwards to take questions from members of the parish community.
The worldwide leader of the Society of Jesus is in India, the first country he chose to visit after being elected the 31st Superior General of the Jesuits in October. Arriving at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on February 18 on an 11-day visit, Venezuelan Father Arturo Marcelino Sosa Abascal was received by a team of Jesuits from the Delhi province. India is part of the Jesuit’s South Asia Assistancy that accounts for 4,000 members of the 16,000 Jesuits worldwide, the largest religious congregation for men in the Catholic church. The 68-year old Venezuelan is the first Jesuit chief from Latin America, the same region of Pope Francis.Fr Sosa who will be in India until February 28, is being accompanied by three Rome-based assistants who look after the society’s ministries in South Asia. Fr Sosa will stay in Delhi for two days and then head to the Jesuit province of Madhya Pradesh ...
