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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Wednesday passed a bill to keep the government running through Dec. 9 and provide $1.1 billion in long-delayed funding to battle the Zika virus....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's ambiguous answer to a debate question on nuclear restraint raised doubts about his understanding of the issue. On the other hand, his words - by design or coincidence - mirror the nub of a policy argument the administration is wrestling with in the final months of Barack Obama's presidency....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged backing of the attackers, handing Barack Obama the first veto override of his presidency....
TOWNVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- A teenager opened fire at a South Carolina elementary school Wednesday, wounding two students and a teacher before the suspect was taken into custody, a law enforcement officer said....
TOWNVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting at an elementary school in South Carolina that left two students and a teacher wounded (all times local):...
BOSTON (AP) -- A 22-year-old man rescued from a life raft after a fishing trip that left his mother missing and presumed dead had been a suspect in the 2013 slaying of his rich grandfather, according to court documents that add to the multitude of questions swirling around him and what happened at sea....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis lit a symbolic torch at his Wednesday General Audience for the 'Week of the Family‘ event to be held by the Diocese of Rome on 2-8 October.The Holy Father said the flame was a ‘symbol of the love of Roman families and those of the whole world’.The ‘Week of the Family’ seeks to highlight the centrality of the family in Rome and to rediscover its beauty.
(Vatican Radio) During his weekly general audience of October 28th 2016 Pope Francis welcomed the faithful from 'Pieve di Soligno' who'd come to Rome to mark the anniversary of the death of their beloved fellow countryman, the late Pope John Paul I. Veronica Scarisbrick places this pontificate into context and brings you echoes of that era.Listen to echoes of the pontificate of Pope John Paul I, Albino Luciani, who died on the 28th of October 1978: Scarisbrick's guest speakers in this programme include the late Cardinal John Patrick Foley, the late Ursuline Sister Kathleen England, the late Cardinal William Wakefield Baum and Augustinian Father Prosper Grech, now Cardinal, who personally knew Albino Luciani in the years when he was still Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. Also to be listened to in this programme are sound clips of John Paul I speaking in English during one of a handful of audiences. Audiences during which his vocation to a pastoral and catec...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a telegram expressing his “heartfelt condolences” to the people of Israel upon learning of the death of their former President, Shimon Peres. He died on Wednesday at the age of 93.“I fondly recall my time with Mr Peres at the Vatican and renew my great appreciation for the late President's tireless efforts in favour of peace,” Pope Francis said.On June 8, 2014, Pope Francis hosted the historic prayer meeting in the Vatican Gardens with then-President Peres and the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting came just weeks after Peres welcomed him to Israel during the Holy Father’s May 2014 trip to the Holy Land. The two men had previously met on April 30, 2013, at the Vatican.Pope Francis met with Peres again at the Vatican in September of 2014, two months after he left office. The two men met for the last time on June 20, this year. “As the State of Israel mourns Mr Peres, I...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis once again expressed his concern for those without work on Wednesday during his weekly General Audience.The Archbishop of Potenza had come to the audience with a group of laid-off workers from Italy’s southern region of Basilicata.“I hope that the grave economic situation affecting employment can find a positive solution through an incisive commitment by everyone to open paths of hope,” Pope Francis told them.“We cannot let the unemployment rate grow higher,” he said.
