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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Texas executed on Tuesday a man convicted of the 1987 killings of a father and his infant son and who three years later at his capital murder trial grabbed a loaded gun from a drawer in the courtroom and tried to attack the judge....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- More than 250 skulls have been found over the last several months in what appears to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz, prosecutors said Tuesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Organization of American States wants regional governments to suspend Venezuela from the Washington-based group unless general elections are held soon to break a political impasse that he said Tuesday is destroying the country's democracy....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Undaunted by fellow Republicans' defiance, GOP leaders and the White House redoubled their efforts Tuesday to muscle legislation overhauling America's health care system through Congress following a sobering report about millions being shoved off insurance coverage....
(Vatican Radio) The prime minister of the Netherlands has condemned comments by Turkey's president holding Dutch U.N. peacekeepers responsible for the massacre by Serb forces of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. Relations between Turkey and the Netherlands have rapidly deteriorated in recent days after the Dutch government blocked two Turkish ministers from campaigning in a referendum.The diplomatic standoff comes hours before polls open in Dutch elections that could see an anti-Islam party win most seats in Parliament. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has now accused the Netherlands of the worst massacre since World War Two after the mayor of Rotterdam said police had permission to shoot at guards of the Turkish family minister who was blocked in the port city of Rotterdam on Saturday. "We know the Netherlands and the Dutch from the Srebrenica massacre. We know how rotten their character is from their massac...
(Vatican Radio) Anglicans and Catholics must not simply recall the legacy of great saints from the past, but must pass on to others “what we have received ourselves in the hope of a reunited Christendom.”That was the message from English Archbishop Arthur Roche, Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, to a historic celebration of Anglican Choral Evensong in St Peter’s Basilica.Archbishop David Moxon, director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, presided at the March 13th liturgy. The choir of Merton College, Oxford, sang motets by the English Renaissance composer William Byrd, as well as more contemporary works and some well-loved Anglican hymns.The celebration took place the day after the Church traditionally marked the feast of St Gregory the Great, who has become an unofficial patron of relations between the Anglican and Catholic Churches. St Gregory was the pope who sent Augustine, the prior of a Benedictine monaster...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Katie BreidenbachBy Katie BreidenbachMEDINA,Ohio (CNS) -- Dozens of little wax flowers lay on the table in front of her.With a gentle grip, Judy Hamrick picks up each one and covers the back in glue."It'svery peaceful work," Hamrick said. "I've worked here 24 years and every paschalseason I've been out here and we enjoy it out here."Nearbyare countless other wax decorations in the shape of lambs, crosses, numbers andGreek letters. Tubs of wax, rulers, brushes and boxes of pins lay strewn onHamrick's desk and the desks of her co-workers."It'sexciting when you put it all together," added another decorator, Rose MarieDixon.Eachelement is carefully measured and attached, by hand, to a long wax pillar. Afterabout 45 minutes, the women finish decorating one paschal candle. Their factory,the A.I. Root Co. in Medina, will create over 1,500 of these liturgical worksof art and ship them to churches across the country."Weprobably make about 25 to 30 a day," said Brad Root, pre...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Saturday Night Live" gets the summer off, but "Weekend Update" will keep the political satire coming in prime time....
DALLAS (AP) -- American Airlines said Tuesday that it plans to offer free meals to everyone in economy on certain cross-country flights starting May 1....
By the time a lawsuit over pollution from a nuclear weapons plant had reached Judge Neil Gorsuch, it had crawled through the courts for more than two decades, outliving some of the landowners who said the contamination destroyed their property values....
