Article Archive
Please click below to view any of the articles in our archive.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign. (all times EDT):...
Less than 24 hours after the close of the Rio Olympics, Ryan Lochte took a major financial hit Monday for a drunken incident he initially tried to pass off as an armed robbery....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Storm victims spill out of the waiting rooms, some clutching water-stained documents, others with the long stare of those stricken by disaster, each with a story of personal tragedy about the Louisiana flood's devastation to their homes and their lives....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The disclosure that some pills found at Prince's Paisley Park home and studio were counterfeit and contained the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl strongly suggests the pills came to the superstar musician illegally....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With suspicions on both sides mounting, the United States is struggling to preserve its wobbly partnership with Turkey as it entertains a closer relationship with Russia and fumes over a U.S.-based cleric it blames for orchestrating last month's failed coup attempt....
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) -- It was a very busy, very lucrative weekend for Hillary Clinton in the summer playground of the East Coast's moneyed elite....
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- Republican Donald Trump promised Monday to be "fair, but firm" toward the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally, a shift in tone that raised questions on whether he's backtracking from previous pledges to push for mass deportations....
(Vatican Radio) The youngest son of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been released safe and well after being abducted by rival gunmen.Listen to James Blears's report: Alfredo Guzman was abducted with five other men by seven gunmen from the Jalisco new generation drug cartel in a restaurant at the international vacation resort of Puerto Vallarta, in the early hours of the morning, exactly a week ago. An unnamed relative of his confirms they were all release, after intense negotiations leading to major concessions, which haven't been specified.Meanwhile, Mexican government officials say they are investigating if municipal police in Puerto Vallarta were involved in this kidnapping. Alfredo's imprisoned father, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, led the Sinaloa drug cartel until his re-capture in January. He's fighting extradition to the United States. Both father and son are wanted there on an array of drug ...
(Vatican Radio) Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed condolences to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan after Saturday's attack on a Kurdish wedding party killed at least 54 people, many of them children, while injuring some 70 others.Putin's message came amid attempts by Moscow to improve ties with Ankara as Turkey is seen as both a strategic nation for Russia and the NATO-military alliance. Yet, it has done little to ease remaining tensions over the conflict in Ukraine.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: In a telegram Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday's attack in Turkey's southeastern city of Gaziantep was in his words shocking in its "cruelty and cynicism". It was reportedly carried out by a suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14. Putin said the attack once again showed that "terrorism doesn't recognize not only the laws of civilized society but also the very basic norms of human morality."The Kremlin sa...
Vatican City, Aug 22, 2016 / 11:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Benedict XVI's new memoir, a lengthy interview with German journalist Peter Seewald, is being translated into English and will be released this November.Letzte Gespräche is being translated as Last Testament by Jacob Phillips, a lecturer in theology at St. Mary's University, Twickenham. It will be published by Bloomsbury.The work is the fruit of several interviews conducted by Seewald a few months after Benedict resigned from the papacy.It touches on recent events such as the reform of the Roman Curia, his abdication, and Pope Francis, as well as serving as an overview of his life, from his childhood to his time as Bishop of Rome.It includes Benedict’s childhood under the Nazi regime, the hardships of the war and the discovery of his vocation to the priesthood, his appointment as Archbishop of Munich, and his time in the Vatican prior to his election to the papacy. It also covers his first few days as success...
