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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A man who says former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused him as a boy in 1976 testified in court documents unsealed Tuesday that head coach Joe Paterno was told about it the very next day and responded callously....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Pokemon Go craze has sent legions of players hiking around cities and battling with "pocket monsters" on their smartphones. It marks a turning point for augmented reality, or technology that superimposes a digital facade on the real world....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The stories have been circulating in Israel for decades: Newborn babies and young children of Jewish immigrants from Arab countries mysteriously disappeared shortly after arriving in the country, purportedly snatched away and given to childless couples of European backgrounds....
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- An international tribunal rejected China's extensive claims in the South China Sea in a landmark ruling Tuesday that also found the country had aggravated the seething regional dispute and violated the Philippines' maritime rights by building up artificial islands that destroyed coral reefs and by disrupting fishing and oil exploration....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on Attorney General Loretta Lynch's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee (all times local):...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A search warrant for surveillance video from the store where a black Louisiana man was killed by white police officers a week ago says that officers saw "the butt of a gun" in Alton Sterling's pocket during the arrest and that he tried "to reach for the gun from his pocket."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will be in a different city but still in an all-too-familiar place when he leads the nation in honoring more lives cut short by gun violence, this time five white police officers slain by a black man who said he wanted revenge for the killings of blacks by police....
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- Bernie Sanders, whose calls for a "political revolution" energized millions of voters across the nation, offered a long-awaited endorsement of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton Tuesday, calling for unity just two weeks shy of the Democratic National Convention....
(Vatican Radio) Tens of thousands of people have marked the 21st anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since the Holocaust and attended the funeral of 127 newly-found victims. They gathered on the outskirts of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in an area where thousands of Muslim men and boys were killed by Serb forces.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: In sweltering heat, family members hugged coffins for the last time before their loved ones were laid to rest at the memorial-cemetery complex in Srebrenica. The remains were burried next to 6,337 other victims found previously in mass graves. The youngest victim burried this year was 14, the oldest 77. Some 8,000 men and boys were killed in this region by nationalist Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic. They executed them after overrunning Srebrenica pn July 11, 1995, near the end of Bosnia’s war and dumped their bodies in pits.UN HELPLESSOutnumbered and outgunned Du...
(Vatican Radio) The head of the Holy See press office, Fr Federico Lombardi, has issued a clarification regarding comments by the head of the Vatican’s liturgical office, Cardinal Robert Sarah. The papal spokesman says the comments, made during a conference in London last week, were “wrongly interpreted” and do not represent new guidelines for priests about which way to face during the celebration of Mass.In a statement issued on Monday evening, Fr Lombardi said that Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has always been “rightly concerned about the dignity of the celebration of the Mass” so that it adequately expresses “an attitude of respect and adoration of the Eucharistic mystery”.However he noted that the cardinal’s words were misinterpreted by some parts of the media to suggest that new liturgical directives would be introduced next Advent regarding the question of w...
