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CHICAGO (AP) -- When Mary Mitchell gathers with family for Thanksgiving, she plans to enjoy cooking with her sister, a satisfying meal and maybe a game of charades afterward. One thing that's not on the list: politics....
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A crash that killed five children in Tennessee is reviving discussion over whether school buses - considered among the safest vehicles on the road because of their height and bulk - should also be equipped with seat belts....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The revelation that President-elect Donald Trump does not intend to seek a new investigation into Hillary Clinton was startling not only because it seemed to reverse a campaign pledge....
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump's promise to deport millions of immigrants in the country illegally and his selection of tough-on-crime Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general could mean big money for the private prison industry....
NEW YORK (AP) -- It's been a hectic year for Kanye West. There was a new album that had a tortured, months-long release. Two fashion shows that were plagued by last-minute changes and long delays. There also was the reopening of a bitter feud with Taylor Swift, an ambitious U.S. concert tour, a newborn son, and a harrowing robbery of his wife....
NEW YORK (AP) -- CNN and host Jake Tapper have apologized for an on-screen banner Tapper says "horrified" him when it appeared during his show....
DETROIT (AP) -- A Wayne State University police officer who was shot in the head Tuesday evening while on patrol near campus has been released from surgery, and authorities said they are interrogating a man about the attack....
Washington D.C., Nov 22, 2016 / 03:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Specific pro-life policies are missing from President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda for his first 100 days in office, yet pro-life groups are nevertheless hopeful about the future of his administration.Despite the omission, Trump did include “two major pro-life issues,” said Tom McClusky, vice president of Government Affairs of March for Life Action: “nominating a Supreme Court Justice and repealing Obamacare.”“It is troubling that other pro-life policies are absent from the Trump administration's current list of priorities in the first 100 days; however, personnel is policy,” McClusky told CNA Nov. 22.In his view, Trump's appointments to his transition team and staff are helping create “one of the most pro-life administrations since President Reagan.”For instance, Trump has named Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be his attorney general and Reince Priebus to be his Wh...
Seattle, Wash., Nov 22, 2016 / 04:50 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The stories of poor people – and the need for Christians to help them – are the focus of the Washington state bishops’ newest pastoral letter. “When we stop and look into the face of poverty, we recognize that ‘the poor’ are not strangers. They are our sisters and brothers, members of our human family,” the state’s bishops said in their Nov. 17 pastoral letter.“Hunger, homelessness, illness and broken dreams shatter the bonds of community that hold us together, bonds that contribute to civic peace and stability,” the bishops added. “As people of faith, our relationship with God brings us into relationship with every other person, and the needs of others call us to share the gift of love we have received from our loving and merciful Father.”The pastoral letter “Who is My Neighbor? The Face of Poverty in Washington State” reviews the storie...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Carlo Allegri, ReutersBy Rhina GuidosBALTIMORE (CNS) -- Like many others, the U.S. Catholic bishops are trying tofigure out how to deal with a president-elect who's different from anyone they'vedealt with in the past and one involved in one of the most rancorous elections inmodern times. As a candidate, Republican Donald Trump, said some things that provedhurtful and worrisome to groups of Latino and black Catholics, but also gavehope to Catholics concerned about religious freedom and abortion.At the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of CatholicBishops in Baltimore in mid-November, church leaders tried to urge calm,caution and promote unity following an election season fueled by vitriol, name-callingand fear."The dust hasn't settled on the election yet," said BishopChristopher J. Coyne of Burlington, Vermont, during a Nov. 14 news conference,adding that as a group of bishops, "we've just begun a conversation about howwe're going to move forward."This ele...
