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Washington D.C., Aug 24, 2016 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Obama administration guidance that would require schools to comply with transgender bathroom policies or lose federal funding.“Schools have a duty to protect the privacy, safety, and dignity of all students, and this order certainly helps them in fulfilling that duty,” said Matt Sharp, legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom.“The Obama administration cannot unilaterally disregard and redefine federal law to accomplish its political agenda of forcing girls to share locker rooms and showers with boys.”The religious freedom legal group Alliance Defending Freedom is litigating several cases involving the federal order in Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio.Judge Reed O'Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Aug. 21 issued a preliminary injunction on the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX, a fed...
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) -- When Asha Jones and other Grand Canyon interns arrived for their summer at the national park, they were struck by its sheer immensity, beauty and world-class hiking trails. Soon, they noticed something else....
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Tigers use a grunt-like snort called chuffing as a greeting, short roars for intimidation and long roars to find mates....
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 shook central Myanmar on Wednesday, knocking glasses off tables and sending people running out of buildings in the country's largest city....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The North Carolina Highway Patrol is urging people not to jump to conclusions as state agents investigate how a deaf driver with a history of minor offenses ended up dead after leading a trooper on a 10-mile chase....
AMATRICE, Italy (AP) -- A devastating earthquake rocked central Italy early Wednesday, collapsing homes on top of residents as they slept. At least 38 people were killed in hard-hit towns where rescue crews raced to dig survivors out of the rubble, but the toll was likely to rise as crews reached homes in more remote hamlets....
(Vatican Radio) An earthquake struck central Italy near the town of Perugia early Wednesday morning, killing at least 6 people with others trapped under rubble.The 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit at 3:35 am, 76 km southeast of Perugia in the small town of Accumoli at a depth of 10 km, and was followed by 3 more aftershocks.Fire Department spokesman, Luca Cari, told Reuters news service the worst hit towns are likely to be Accumoli, Amatrice, Posta, and Arquata del Tronto.The mayor of the nearby town of Amatrice, Sergio Pirozzi, told Radio RAI 1 the town had sustained heavy damages."The roads in and out of town are cut off. Half the town is gone. There are people under the rubble... There's been a landslide and a bridge might collapse."Buildings shook over much of the Italian penisula from Rimini to Naples.
(Vatican Radio) Residents in central Italy awoke this Wednesday morning to the tremors of a magnitude 6.1 earthquake which struck just after 3.30 am local time.Listen to Lydia O'Kane's report As daylight dawned, the damage that had be wrought by the quake in parts of the regions of Lazio and Umbria was clearly visible. Television images showed collapsed buildings and sizable debris littering the streets.The worst hit towns were Amatrice, and Accumoli, with the epicenter in Norcia. Shocks were also felt 170 kilometers away in Rome.A number of people are known to have died in the quake and there are residents reportedly trapped under rubble.An emotional Mayor of Accumoli, Stefano Petrucci told Italy’s RAI Television that he knew of one family that was trapped. “There is at least one victim", he said, "and a family of four – two children and their parents – are trapped under the rubble and are not showing signs of life.”The mayor o...
(Vatican Radio) Greece's government has called on East European countries to ease their restrictions on Middle Eastern migrants, saying it cannot keep operating its holding camps indefinitely.Listen to John Carr's report: The Greek minister for migrant issues, Yannis Mouzalas, aimed the call at the Visegrad group, consisting of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, all of which have virtually closed their borders. The group influences other countries bordering Greece, such as Macedonia and Bulgaria, whose borders remain sealed.Mouzalas denied claims by the Visegrad group that about 700 migrants manage to sneak into Macedonian and Bulgarian territory each day. That figure, he said, was highly exaggerated. More than 58,000 migrants are penned up in Greek holding camps. About half of them are eligible to pass on to other countries, but, of course, are unable to do so.Mouzalas also said that if had not been for the present EU-Turkey agr...
London, England, Aug 24, 2016 / 12:39 am (CNA/EWTN News).- British inspectors have barred some abortions at Marie Stopes International due to concerns about safety and informed consent for abortion.Clara Watson, a spokeswoman for the Life charity that helps women in crisis pregnancies, said the move calls into question about the safety of the abortion providers’ clinics around the world.“It is absolutely scandalous that Marie Stopes International, which likes to talk about women dying from unsafe abortions, is itself being rapped for exposing patients to potential harm,” Watson said, according to the Catholic Herald. “This is not the first time that Marie Stopes clinics have been in the news.”In 2015, a doctor and two nurses were charged with manslaughter when a 32-year-old woman from Dublin died hours after undergoing an abortion at a west London Marie Stopes clinic in January 2012.The England Care Quality Commission (CQC) said that its routine inspect...
