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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House shed new light Monday on the legal foundations for President Barack Obama's expansive use of U.S. military power to target extremists overseas, in a report that also offered the first confirmation that the U.S. now deems the al-Shabab group in Somalia to be inherently linked to al-Qaida....
ALEPPO, Syria (AP) -- Rebel shelling killed two Russian nurses and eight civilians Monday in Aleppo, and a Russian fighter jet crashed as it was returning to an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean after a sortie over Syria, but the pilot ejected safely, Moscow officials said....
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Another crisis looms in an already shook-up European Union. Italian voters rocked Europe's boat more this weekend than Austrian voters were able to steady it. With its shaky banks and massive economy, Italy is now in the throes of energized populists who are no friends of EU leaders in Brussels....
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- A judge on Monday sentenced a Georgia man to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury found that he intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to die....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Teenagers, the son of a sheriff's deputy and young artists who loved music were among the dozens of people killed when a fire tore through a converted Oakland warehouse during a dance party....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The death toll in the Oakland warehouse fire climbed to 36 Monday with more bodies still feared buried in the blackened ruins, and families anxiously awaited word of their missing loved ones....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The Latest on a deadly fire in an Oakland warehouse (all times local):...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina judge has declared a mistrial after a jury deadlocked in the murder trial of a white police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist....
The Bishop Emeritus of Torit in South Sudan says South Sudanese need to learn 20 words and eight phrases if lasting peace is to be restored in the country. “The words are: Love, joy, peace, patience, compassion, sympathy, kindness, truthfulness, gentleness, self-control, humility, poverty, forgiveness, mercy, friendship, trust, unity, purity, faith and hope. These are 20, and the eight phrases are: I love you, I miss you, I thank you, I forgive, we forget, together, I am wrong, I am sorry, ” Bishop Taban said. Only by internalising these words can permanent peace return to South Sudan, the Bishop insists. He observed that all things of the world like emperors would pass away, but love would remain forever.Bishop Taban was speaking to Jieng Council of Elders in Juba recently. He told senior citizens to remind the younger generation how they once lived in peace and harmony regardless of tribe.“South Sudanese were never so much tribalistic during my youth...
Vatican City, Dec 5, 2016 / 07:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Upon accepting the resignation of Bishop Denis Madden, Pope Francis has appointed two priests to be the next auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Vatican announced Monday.“With gratitude to our Holy Father, Pope Francis, I warmly welcome the appointment of Monsignors Mark Brennan and Adam Parker as auxiliary bishops for the Archdiocese of Baltimore,” Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore expressed in a statement published Dec. 5.“This is a joyous and blessed day for our Archdiocese.”In addition to the position of auxiliary bishop, Msgr. Adam J. Parker will also be given the titular see of Tasaccora, and Msgr. Mark E. Brennan the titular see of Rusubisir, the Dec. 5 communique said.Msgr. Parker, a priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, currently serves as Vicar general and Moderator of the Curia for the archdiocese and Msgr. Brennan is a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington (DC).In a s...
