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DARAYA, Syria (AP) -- Escorted by armed troops, dozens of insurgents and their families left this war-wrecked suburb of the Syrian capital on Friday as part of a forced evacuation deal struck with the government to end a four-year siege and aerial campaign that has left the area in ruins....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As he powered through his rivals in the Republican primary, Donald Trump sold himself as the "tell-it-like-it-is" candidate, a brash truth-teller whose policy pronouncements wouldn't be swayed by the polls....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, the government told The Associated Press it won't finish the job before Election Day....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hillary Clinton vigorously defended her family's foundation against Donald Trump's criticism on Friday and declared she's confident there will be no major further accusations involving the foundation, her emails or anything else that could undermine her chances of defeating him in November....
(Vatican Radio) Bolivia's Deputy Minister of the Interior, Rodolfo Illanes, has been abducted and beaten to death by striking miners as he attempted to negotiate with them.Listen to James Blears' report: Bolivia's President Evo Morales is deeply shaken with the news of Rodolfo Illanes' murder. Mr. Illanes, who had been appointed Deputy Interior Minister in March, had gone to the town of Panduro 130 km to the south of the capital La Paz to try and establish dialogue with striking miners, who have blocaded the main highway. The situation had deteriorated after two miners were shot dead on Tuesday. Riot police who tried to clear the road were driven back.A bodyguard, who was abducted with Mr. Illanes was stripped of his gun and beaten, but managed to escape. He's being treated in a hospital in La Paz. Mr Illanes' body has yet to be recovered. More than 100 miners have now been arrested and five state prosecutors have been sent to town.&n...
Washington D.C., Aug 26, 2016 / 10:55 am (CNA).- A leaked grant report from the Open Societies Foundation seems to show Planned Parenthood and its allies in a panicked effort to raise millions of dollars to counter a series of investigative videos alleging the abortion provider broke the law.For undercover journalist David Daleiden, it’s a sign of hope.“It shows that the issue of selling baby body parts for profit is an issue that could shut Planned Parenthood down. And that is why they are taking it so seriously,” Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, told CNA Aug. 24In an undercover project released last year, Daleiden and a colleague had posed as prospective buyers of fetal tissue. They recorded conversations with multiple Planned Parenthood officials around the country, and recorded several grisly sessions of aborted babies’ bodies being disassembled for possible tissue harvesting and sale.Daleiden said a document attributed to billionaire...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Robert DuncanBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- Blessed Teresa of Kolkata was a woman whotruly felt wed to Jesus, and the freedom she experienced in loving him led herto radical poverty, a courageous outreach and an immense love for the poor,said the superior general of the order Mother Teresa founded."She was very happy to be a woman and to be a mother toso many souls," Missionaries of Charity Sister Mary Prema Pierick told Catholic News Service."Her freedom of loving opened the doors of hearts andavenues of service, which maybe were not so common, especially in sharing theradical poverty of the poor," said the blue-eyed, German-born sister, whowas elected superior general in 2009.Mother Teresa, who will be canonized Sept. 4, began herorder in the 1940s, walking into the slums of Kolkata, "having no conventwalls to protect her," Sister Prema said. "But it was love for Jesusand love and compassion for the suffering of the poor that brought her to dowhat she did."At the m...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says that President Barack Obama will expand a national monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating the world's largest marine protected area....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hillary Clinton vigorously defended her family's foundation against Donald Trump's sniping on Friday and declared she's confident there will be no new blockbuster accusations on the foundation, her emails or anything else that could undermine her chances of defeating him in November....
