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ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- In another nod to primary rival Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton is proposing to increase federal money for community health centers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Islamic State group's Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years, the Obama administration says, as the U.S. and its allies have countered messages of jihadi glorification with a flood of online images and statements about suffering and enslavement at the hands of the extremist organization....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- When police officers fatally shot Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, a powerful tool conveyed the brutal reality of their deaths to millions of people and helped fuel public outrage: cellphone video captured at the scene....
DALLAS (AP) -- The black Army veteran who killed five Dallas police officers donned a protective vest and used a military-style semi-automatic rifle in the sniper slayings, officials said, an attack that layered new anxiety onto a nation already divided about guns and how police treat African-Americans....
(Vatican Radio) Leaders of the NATO military alliance have agreed to deploy thousands of multinational forces in the Baltic states and Poland to deter what they view as potential Russian aggression amid the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War.Listen to Stefan Bos' report The official approval came during a two-day summit in Warsaw, Poland, despite opposition from Moscow, which has threatenedto respond with its own troop movements towards borders with NATO countries.NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union,multinational troops will continuously rotate through four countries in Eastern Europe.He announced that as many as 4,000 troops in four battalions will be in place starting next year inPoland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia."We have decided to enhance our military presence in theEastern part of the alliance," he said. "And I am pleased to announce that C...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a letter to the President of the Argentinian Episcopal Conference on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the country's independence. In the letter he invites people in his homeland to "dare to dream".Listen to Lydia O’Kane's report On the 9th of July 1816 Argentina declared independence from its then ruler Spain. To mark this major event in the country’s history Pope Francis has sent a letter to the President of the Argentinian Episcopal Conference, José María Arancedo, in which he addresses those in authority and the Argentinian people on the occasion of his homeland’s bicentennial celebrations.In the letter the Pope says he desires “that this celebration will make us stronger in the path taken by our ancestors two hundred years ago,” and invites the people of the country “not to sell the Motherland” and to resist “all forms of colonisation”.I...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has approved a new ‘Motu Proprio’ which defines the relationship between the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See and the Secretariat for the Economy.The ‘Motu Proprio’ that regards competencies in economic and financial matters spells out the clear and unequivocal distinction between control and vigilance, on the one hand, and administration of goods, on the other. Please find below the official translation of the press release regarding the ‘Motu Proprio’:On 4 July 2016, the Holy Father approved a motu proprio that implements reform of the organisms engaged in control and vigilance as well as the administration of Holy See goods. The new legislative document is intended to continue on the path begun with the Motu Proprio “Fidelis dispensator et prudens” dated 24 February 2014, by which Pope Francis created three new organisms: the Council for the Economy, the Secretariat for ...
DALLAS (AP) -- U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson withdrew from the Rio Games on Friday because of concerns over the Zika virus, costing golf three of the world's top four players for its return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence....
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Soldiers have brought scores of bodies to a hospital in South Sudan's capital after gunfire erupted throughout Juba on Friday evening, a doctor at the hospital said Saturday, as panicked residents worried of a return to civil war....
