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(Vatican Radio) A general strike called by the opposition coalition in Venezuela, has only been partially successful.Listen to James Blears’ report: The opposition demanded for a nationwide strike, but many of the poorer districts of Caracas, and fanning out nationwide, could not afford the luxury of withdrawing their labor for a full day. President Nicolas Maduro has urged many shops, schools banks and the petroleum industry, to simply ignored the strike. He is threatening to seize striking businesses and jail yet more political opponents. He is also warning that if they demand a supposed political trail, which is not part of the Constitution, the State Prosecutor must apply legislation and jail anyone who violates the Constitution.Officials have promised to increase the minimum wage by 40 percent, trying to hold back the disintegrating economic sluice gates, and with it a deluge. But in reality it`s a saturated milksop, as...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Rich Buhrke has been chasing down baseballs outside Wrigley Field since 1959. He used to tell the rest of us ballhawks when we left for jobs far from Chicago that one day we'd find our way back to the corner of Waveland and Kenmore....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Pilots were forced to abort a takeoff and evacuate passengers from a burning American Airlines flight on a runway at Chicago O'Hare International Airport after the airliner experienced what a federal official said was a rare and serious type of engine failure....
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- It started with a photograph of a smirking, young man wearing a heavy-metal band T-shirt and selling tea on the streets of Kathmandu. It has become a wildly popular blog chronicling street life in the Himalayan nation of Nepal....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school....
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- State-sanctioned Shiite militias launched an assault on the Islamic State group west of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Saturday but reiterated that they would not enter the Sunni majority city....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- A tense protest over the Dakota Access pipeline subsided at least temporarily after some protest leaders urged activists to leave a barricade near a state highway bridge....
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The stunning acquittal of seven people who occupied a federal wildlife sanctuary in Oregon during an armed standoff raised fears Friday that the verdict could embolden other militant groups in a long-running dispute over government-owned Western lands....
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) -- Donald Trump's rhetoric on immigration is testing a long-term trend among Hispanics: Members of a family that has been in the country for multiple generations and uses primarily English are more likely to vote Republican than those who more recently arrived in the United States....
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has been a reluctant participant in the email controversy that has dogged her campaign, responding defensively to inquiries - and often only when there's a political imperative to do so....
