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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military parade for Donald Trump has come early. Two months before Inauguration Day festivities, an extraordinary number of recently retired generals, including some who clashed with President Barack Obama's administration, are marching to the president-elect's doorstep for job interviews....
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- His Cabinet beginning to take shape, President-elect Donald Trump is offering a Thanksgiving prayer for unity after "a long and bruising" campaign season....
Ralph Branca's career was defined by that one high-and-inside fastball....
STUART, Fla. (AP) -- The Florida college student accused of randomly killing a couple and chewing on the dead man's face had no detectable hallucinogenic drugs in his system, according an FBI toxicology report released Wednesday....
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The scale of India's cash economy can be seen in the Azadpur Mandi wholesale fruit and vegetable market. Trucks bring load after load of fresh produce to its grimy lanes every day. Then a complex web of wholesale merchants, smaller traders and retailers delivers the produce to most of north India....
So much of our consumer-driven culture has transformed Thanksgiving into...
Paris, France, Nov 23, 2016 / 02:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A French court has drawn international backlash for ruling that a popular video showing happy children with Down syndrome was “inappropriate” for French television.“It’s so absurd. I have never heard of a ruling so egregious,” said Michelle Sie Whitten, president and CEO of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation.She called the decision “shocking” and “offensive,” adding that it “flies in the face of freedom of speech.”The video in question, entitled “Dear Future Mom,” was released in 2014 for World Down Syndrome Day and has received more than 7 million viewers online alone. It shows children with Down syndrome from around the world reassuring a mother whose child has received a diagnosis. The children tell her that her child “can be happy – just like I am” and reinforce what they are able to do and accomplish. On Nov. 10, the Fre...
Albuquerque, N.M., Nov 23, 2016 / 03:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A fire – allegedly set by arsonists – has closed a pro-life pregnancy center and chapel in New Mexico, shutting down its operations for the foreseeable future.The Albuquerque Fire Department received a call at 12:32 AM on the morning of November 23, alerting them to smoke coming out of Project Defending Life, a pro-life pregnancy center in the city. When the firefighters arrived, they extinguished a fire in the chapel as well as others in rooms with pro-life information. No one was injured in the blaze. Holy Innocents Chapel, located within the Project Defending Life center, is a Catholic chapel that was open for prayer and benediction. The Eucharist was reserved in the tabernacle at the time of the fire, but was safely removed, undamaged.In an update to their website, Project Defending Life stated that they “will be closed for an indefinite period of time for repairs.” Albuquerque authori...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jim Lo Scalzo, EPABy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- The LittleSisters of the Poor and other religious employers that challenged thecontraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act have been cautiously breathinga sigh of relief since the presidential election."Everyone is stillprotected by the Supreme Court's order," but they know with a newadministration it could change in minutes," said Mark Rienzi, leadattorney for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represented theLittle Sisters of the Poor in the case before the court earlier this year.And even though nothing has beenannounced yet, Rienzi seems confident Donald Trump's campaign promises torepeal some or all of the Affordable Care Act would very likely put thecontraceptive issue off the table."We feel optimistic,"he told Catholic News Service Nov. 22, stressing that a major part of Trump'svictory stemmed from religious voters convinced he would best represent themwith pro-life policies and Supreme ...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- A Dallas woman accused of killing a Wichita mother and taking her baby was in the country illegally when she was released from a Kansas jail this summer before immigration officials had a chance to request she be held, law enforcement authorities said Wednesday....
