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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top House Republicans unveiled a rough sketch of a massive health care overhaul to rank-and-file lawmakers Thursday, but a lack of detail, cost estimates and GOP unity left unresolved the problem that's plagued them for years: What's the party's plan and can Congress pass it?...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mark Zuckerberg's long-term vision for Facebook, laid out in a sweeping manifesto , sometimes sounds more like a utopian social guide than a business plan. Are we, he asks, "building the world we all want?"...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Trump administration said in court documents on Thursday it wants a pause in the legal fight over its ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, so it can issue a replacement ban as it strives to protect the nation from terrorism....
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Critics of President Donald Trump saw in his Thursday news conference a combative, thin-skinned chief executive who continues to blame the media for the controversies roiling his administration....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leaks are real. But the news about them is fake. The White House is a fine-tuned machine. Russia is a ruse....
Washington D.C., Feb 16, 2017 / 10:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- One member of Congress is hoping for a “serious policy review” by the Trump administration of the United States' relationship with Ethiopia, citing human rights abuses by the government there.“To truly stop violence abroad, Ethiopia must stop violence at home,” Rep. Chris Smith, chair of the House subcommittee on Africa and global human rights, stated at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday.“Since 2005, untold thousands of students have been jailed, have been shot during demonstrations or have simply disappeared in the last 11 years,” Smith stated Feb. 15. “Ethiopia’s next generation is being taught that the rights that democracy normally bestows on a country’s citizens don’t apply in their country.”Smith and Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) introduced a House resolution (H. Res. 128) Wednesday “highlighting the crisis in Ethi...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Larry W. Smith, EPABy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a joint statement, Catholic bishops whose dioceses are along theU.S.-Mexico border spoke of the "pain, the fear, and the anguish" they're seeing in immigrants and vowed to follow the example of the pope in building"bridges, rather than the walls of exclusion and exploitation."The Feb. 14 statement was read at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle in Texas after a visit by the bishops to an immigration detentioncenter as well as to a humanitarian respite center at Sacred Heart Parish inMcAllen, Texas, in the Brownsville Diocese. The statement came after two days of a gathering of bishopswhose dioceses are along the U.S.-Mexico border. The apostolic nuncio to theUnited States, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, also attended. The meeting of about20 bishops included Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville and Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio.The biannual meetings began in...
By Maureen SmithJACKSON,Miss. (CNS) -- A bill that would keep agencies, cities and college campuses inMississippi from offering sanctuary to unauthorized immigrants would not keepcommunities safe and goes against the Christian tenet of caring for those inneed, said Bishop Joseph R. Kopacz of Jackson.Heissued a statement Feb. 15 opposing S.B. 2710, also known as the "sanctuarycities" bill, which passed the state Senate in a 32-16 vote Feb. 9. The billgoes to the state House for consideration.Themeasure would prohibit cities and institutions of higher learning from declaringthemselves sanctuary cities. There are currently no sanctuary cities in thestate, although the city of Jackson proposed such a declaration last year."As Christians we are called to welcome the stranger andcare for those in need. As citizens, we are called to keep ourcommunities strong and safe. We feel that the so-called 'sanctuary cities' billbeing debated right now in the Mississippi Legislature damages both of t...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Boeing workers' overwhelming anti-union vote at the aviation giant's 787 Dreamliner plant in South Carolina is a big victory for Southern politicians and business leaders who have lured manufacturing jobs to the region on the promise of keeping unions out....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The heart of Philadelphia's Italian Market was uncommonly quiet. Fine restaurants in New York, San Francisco and the nation's capital closed for the day. Grocery stores, food trucks, coffee shops and taco joints in places like Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston shut down....
