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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Computer hackers swiped personal information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts in what is believed to be the biggest digital break-in at an email provider....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The United States and Russia ended any pretenses Thursday of their cease-fire for Syria remaining in force after days of increased violence and the Syrian military's announcement of a new offensive in Aleppo....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's advisers are urging him to keep his cool during next week's presidential debate and resist attempts by Hillary Clinton to provoke him with questions about his business record, wealth or controversial comments about minorities....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was supposed to be her "47 percent" moment....
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Prosecutors charged a white Oklahoma police officer with first-degree manslaughter Thursday, less than a week after she fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street and just days after police released graphic videos, saying in court documents that the officer "reacted unreasonably."...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The Latest on protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the fatal police shooting of a black man. (all times local):...
Zimbabwe's 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe should step aside without delay and allow new leadership of a country whose political and economic implosion since 2000 is dragging down the whole of southern Africa, Botswana President Ian Khama said.Asked by Reuters if Mugabe, who came to power after independence from Britain in 1980, should accept the reality of his advancing years and retire, 63-year-old Khama responded: "Without doubt. He should have done it years ago.""They have got plenty of people there who have got good leadership qualities who could take over," said Khama. He continued, "It is obvious that at his age and the state Zimbabwe is in, he's not really able to provide the leadership that could get it out of its predicament," Khama said.Botswana, the world's largest producer of diamonds, shares 800 km (500 miles) of border with Zimbabwe and has felt the full effects of its neighbour's economic collapse under the wei...
Rome, Italy, Sep 22, 2016 / 12:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has announced in their 2016 report that developing countries are beginning to feel the impact the global economic slowdown resulting from the financial crisis of 2007-08.In response, a close collaborator of one of Pope Francis’ senior Vatican officials has sent a reminder that as the global community looks for solutions, the Christian perspective is to ensure these answers don’t forget the impact on the poor.“We absolutely need to learn to hear the voices of those who are not at the table. The voices of those who often carry a disproportionate burden from the decisions that are made, but who say, 'look, this is what this decision is actually costing us',” Fr. Michael Czerny, a spokesman of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, told CNA Sept. 22.The exclusion of those who bear the burden of decisions made from the discussion is somethin...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jason Miczek, ReutersBy Patricia L. GuilfoyleCHARLOTTE, N.C. (CNS) -- Aftertwo nights of violence in Charlotte, Bishop Peter J. Jugis calledon men, women and children in the Diocese of Charlotte to join him in prayersfor "peace and justice" for all victims of violence and for law enforcementpersonnel who have been victims of "unjust violence.""Let us pray for all men andwomen of good will to be instruments of harmony and the always-shining light ofChrist in our neighborhoods, workplaces, schools and public places," the bishopsaid in a statement Sept. 22.The protests late Sept. 20 andSept. 21, with the crowds swelling at one point to 1,000 people, followed thefatal police shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, an African-American,outside an apartment complex the afternoon of Sept. 20.Charlotte-Mecklenburg policesaid while they were trying to serve a warrant on another person in the area,Scott approached them from his parked car carrying a handgun and ignoring th...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A public forum on his push to change school funding. Opening a cancer institute. Dedicating a new high school. And, so no one could say he's not still having fun, Gov. Chris Christie also spent four hours hosting a sports talk radio show....
