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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Hurricane Matthew's slog toward the East Coast has government officials worried about complacency, especially in South Florida, which hasn't seen a major hurricane in 11 years....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- An attorney representing two Sacramento, California, police officers said Tuesday that they faced a "terrifying situation" with a mentally disturbed man on drugs and acted reasonably when they made a split-second decision to shoot the knife-wielding man in July....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Keith Lamont Scott was a different person after suffering a traumatic brain injury in a motorcycle accident last year. Friends say his medications made him zone out, slurring his words and forgetting what he was saying in the middle of a conversation....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of incoming emails at the behest of U.S. intelligence or law enforcement, according to a report published Tuesday....
DENVER (AP) -- It wasn't the headliners, but some political groupies took time Tuesday to gather and watch the vice presidential candidates debate....
FARMVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine repeatedly challenged Mike Pence during Tuesday's vice presidential debate, attempting to tie the Indiana governor to some of Donald Trump's most controversial statements about women, immigrants and foreign policy. Trump's running mate maintained a folksy, soft-spoken demeanor, even as he mounted an uneven defense of the New York billionaire....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Not all the claims in the vice presidential debate stand up to scrutiny. A look at some of them and how they compare with the facts:...
FARMVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Democrat Tim Kaine aggressively challenged Republican Mike Pence over a long list of Donald Trump's controversial positions and statements Tuesday night, drawing a vigorous defense of Trump's tax history. But Pence sidestepped criticism of Trump's demeaning comments about women, his public doubting of Barack Obama's citizenship and broader questions about his temperament....
Bogotá, Colombia, Oct 4, 2016 / 03:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- After Colombian voters narrowly rejected a peace deal with the FARC rebels on Sunday, the Archbishop of Tunja encouraged the nation's faithful to “continue to pray and work” for peace, since “before all else, it is a gift, a grace of God.”A peace agreement was signed Sept. 26 to end the 52-year conflict between the Colombian government and the Marxist rebel group, but was submitted to a referendum Oct. 2 to be ratified. In that plebiscite, 50.2 percent of voters rejected the peace deal.Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, who is president of the Colombian bishop' conference, told CNA that “as the Church, it is our part to continue to invite all Colombians to pray for peace, because peace before all else is a gift, a grace of God and also our task. So we must continue praying and working.”He added that the Church in Colombia invited “all Colombians to vote, and to vot...
Dublin, Ireland, Oct 4, 2016 / 05:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- For Ireland’s leading archbishop, Pope Francis’ call for a “revolution of tenderness” is a challenge to defend all life, including the unborn children protected by the Republic of Ireland’s eighth constitutional amendment.“This amendment is precious and wonderful – it places as the very foundations and substructure of our laws a clear conviction that all human life is worth cherishing,” Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh said Oct. 1.“It is therefore fundamentally a declaration of tenderness and love for the equal right to life of both a mother and her unborn child. It is an undertaking to respect, defend and vindicate that right here in Ireland,” he continued.The Eighth Amendment to the Republic of Ireland’s constitution, approved in a national referendum in 1983, acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and the equal right to life of the mother. It guarante...
