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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly leaked emails show consternation among those closest to Hillary Clinton about how Bill Clinton's business dealings might damage his reputation and potentially affect her presidential hopes....
Let insiders easily cash in stock options, as Enron did, and you risk seeing executives abandon a failing company. Encourage contractors to sacrifice quality to cut costs and you might cause problems like those that led the U.S. Justice Department to phase out privately run prisons....
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens has capitalized on the connections he made as the founder of a charity for military veterans to help finance his Republican campaign, but denies he used a charity donor list for political purposes in potential violation of federal laws....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Whoever wins the White House, he or she will inherit the war in Syria, one of the most complex and brutal crises in the world. But neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump has articulated a comprehensive or realistic proposal to deal with it....
MARFRANC, Haiti (AP) -- At a cramped police station serving as a makeshift clinic, Darline Derosier fastened IV drips to jail cell bars, wiped the brows of cholera patients and tended to the wounds of those injured when Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti's southwestern peninsula....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's most powerful Republican told his party Monday he's now focusing on making sure Hillary Clinton doesn't get a blank check as president with a Democratic Congress, suggesting he doesn't believe Donald Trump can win the election....
Portland, Ore., Oct 10, 2016 / 06:23 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A Christian couple has closed their Oregon bakery, which faced heavy fines after they declined to make a cake for a same-sex “wedding” ceremony.“We have closed Sweet Cakes,” the bakery said on its Facebook page Sept. 29. “We appreciate everyone’s continued prayer and support!”The announcement did not give further explanation for the closure. Its storefront in Gresham, Oregon was closed in 2013 but the owners, married couple Aaron and Melissa Klein, had continued to operate at home, Portland’s Q13 Fox News reports.Hiram Sasser, deputy chief counsel for the First Liberty Institute, the legal group representing the couple, said they closed the bakery “months ago” but they still received inquiries about possible orders.“Aaron and Melissa simply wanted to update their Facebook page to eliminate any confusion,” Sasser said. “We believe in tolerance and re...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Nichols, Catholic MomentBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Choosing new members of the College ofCardinals, Pope Francis once again looked to countries and particularly todioceses that were not and never had been represented in the body that advisesthe pope and bears responsibility for electing his successor.Announcing the names of 17 cardinals he will create Nov. 19,Pope Francis chose men from 14 nations, which will bring the total number ofcountries represented in the College of Cardinals to 79. When he announced thenames Oct. 9, the college had members from 72 countries.The cardinal electors -- the prelates under the age of 80and therefore eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope -- currentlyrepresent 57 nations; after the consistory to create new cardinals, the group will bring together men from 60 countries.The 115 cardinal electors who entered the conclave in 2013 thatelected Pope Francis had come from 48 countries. Eight years earlier, the gr...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Carlos Garcia Rawlins, ReutersBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Emergency aid slowly began to reach someof the thousands of Haitians displaced by Hurricane Matthew in the country'spicturesque southwest as reports of casualties slowly trickled in fromcommunities cut off by the storm.The number of deaths reached 1,000 on Oct. 9, five daysafter the storm's 145-mile-an-hour winds and torrential rains slammed into thecountry, according to a tally by Reuters based on conversations with localofficials.However, Haiti's Civil Protection Agency reported that 336people had died. The agency's accounting of casualties is lower because of apolicy that requires emergency workers visit each village to confirm the numberof casualties.Health care workers were becoming increasingly concernedOct. 9 that cholera would explode throughout the worst hit areas of Grand'Anseand South departments because of a lack of water and sanitation. Thewater-borne disease was introduced into Haiti ...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Doctors Without Borders pleaded on Monday for access to treat the wounded in the rebel-held part of Syria's Aleppo as government forces pressed on with an offensive to retake the eastern part of the embattled city....
