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Snoopy has been handed the pink slip....
PIKETON, Ohio (AP) -- Six months after someone shot eight members of an extended family to death in their homes, surviving relatives are still waiting - for an explanation, for an arrest, for a hint of closure....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency had sufficient authority and information to issue an emergency order to protect residents of Flint, Michigan, from lead-contaminated water as early as June 2015 - seven months before it declared an emergency, the EPA's inspector general said Thursday....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Turkey escalated its offensive Thursday against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, pounding them with airstrikes and artillery, and complicating the battle against the Islamic State group by Ankara and Washington, both NATO allies....
BARTELLA, Iraq (AP) -- The Latest on the campaign to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local):...
BARTELLA, Iraq (AP) -- In a significant intensification of the battle for Mosul, elite Iraqi special forces joined the fight Thursday, unleashing a pre-dawn assault on an Islamic State-held town east of the besieged city. The U.S. military announced the first American death since the operation began....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump, who's railed for months about a "rigged" political system, used the final presidential debate to defiantly say he won't decide until the election ends whether he will accept its results....
DELAWARE, Ohio (AP) -- Donald Trump kept floating the possibility Thursday that he'll challenge the results of the presidential election if there's a "questionable result," while teasingly promising to embrace the outcome "if I win."...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the participants in the 55th General Chapter of the Order of Augustinian Recollects on Thursday in the Vatican.The Augustinian Recollects trace their origins to a 1588 reform of the Augustinian Friars in Spain, and became an autonomous congregation in 1621. It was only in the early 20th century, however, that they received full recognition as a Mendicant Order under the Rule of St. Augustine – and they have the distinction of being the last Order to receive such recognition from the Holy See.In Spanish-language remarks prepared for the occasion and delivered on Thursday morning in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis encouraged the Recollects to continue in their ongoing work of renewing the vision of St. Augustine, “[T]o live as brothers ‘with one heart and one soul (Rule 1, 2),’ reflecting the ideal of the first Christians and being a living spirit of prophecy and communion in this world of ours, ...
The Society of Jesus, founded in 1540 by Spaniard St. Ignatius of Loyola and his companions, is the largest men’s religious congregation in the Catholic Church, with almost 17.000 Jesuit priests and brothers working in some 112 nations across the globe. Jesuits have been engaged in ministries as diverse as spiritual direction, education, the care of refugees, outreach to the homeless, theological, philosophical and academic enquiry. With its worldwide headquarters here in Rome, Jesuit communities and apostolic works are organized into 'provinces' which belong to one of ten 'assistancies' around the world. One such province, the Near East Province, based in Beirut, Lebanon, comprises the Jesuit missions in the eastern and southern rim of the Mediterranean Sea, involving 106 Jesuits from 15 different nations. One among them is Indian Jesuit, Fr. Bimal Kerketta of Ranchi Province who has been working in Egypt since 2002. ...
