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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Loretta Lynch steadfastly defended her decision to close the Hillary Clinton email investigation without criminal charges, insisting Tuesday that she simply accepted the unanimous recommendation of career FBI investigators and attorneys....
Within moments of Theresa May's confirmation as the next prime minister of Britain, London tabloids and wags were comparing her to Britain's "iron lady" of the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher. But those taking a closer look see more in common with Europe's most powerful woman today: Germany's "iron chancellor," Angela Merkel....
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- With hugs and handshakes, Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Tuesday and emphatically told his supporters their "political revolution" must now turn to electing his Democratic former rival....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kaylin Luces found herself in a difficult position last week: In one moment, she was texting her sister, a police officer, telling her, "Be careful out there. Cops are getting shot." In another, she sent a text to her two young nephews to be mindful of how they act when in the presence of police....
DALLAS (AP) -- At a memorial for slain police officers, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that a week of deeply troubling violence has appeared to expose "the deepest fault lines of our democracy." But he insisted the nation is not as divided as it seems and called on Americans to search for common ground in support of racial equity and justice....
(Vatican Radio) A cessation of hostilities appears to be holding in South Sudan following President Salva Kiir’s appeal after a resurgence of violence in the country’s capital of Juba.Forces loyal to president Kiir and vice president Riek Machar resumed fighting last Friday on the eve of the country’s fifth year of independence.Since the outbreak of violence more than 300 people, including UN peacekeepers, have been killed and thousands have been displaced within the capital, raising concerns that violence will spread throughout South Sudan.Many fear that the country is on the brink of falling back into a civil war.Georgia Gogarty spoke to Angela Wells, the communications officer for Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Eastern Africa, who described the current circumstances in Juba and the terrible situations the South Sudanese people are finding themselves in.Listen: Angela Wells has described the situation as “dire” with many fearing that the country...
There was no letup in flood misery in Madhya Pradesh and Assam with most parts of Central and Eastern states of India facing unprecedented very heavy rainfall.Incessant rains in the past five days have killed at least 22 people in India's Madhya Pradesh state, displacing hundreds of others and submerging homes, schools, hospitals and mission stations."Hundreds of houses, churches, schools are flooded displacing people. Mission stations are flooded in many parts of the state," said Father Maria Stephen, public relations officer of Bhopal Archdiocese based in the state capital with the same name. The rains, reportedly the heaviest in 43 years, have flooded the entire city, he said.Father Stephen said the natural calamity "is a painful situation" for the church in the state but "we cannot do much for affected people" owing to negligible numbers and limited financial sources. Nearly 70,000 people are left homeless as water rose to dangerous levels alo...
(Vatican Radio) At least 20 people were killed and scores more were injured on Tuesday when two commuter trains collided head-on in the southern Italian region of Puglia.At least two passengers were pulled alive from the crumpled wreckage thanks to ongoing rescue operations. Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: Local authorities in the Andria province where the crash took place are appealing for blood as hospitals are struggling to respond to the needs of dozens of injured people.A field hospital was set up in the nearby fields for emergency assistance as rescuers continue to extract people from the metal of the crumpled cars.A giant crane arrived on the scene to remove mangled debris and an official has said the final death toll will not be known until the train cars had been pulled apart.The two trains, each with four cars, travelling on a single track, collided at about 11.30 in the morning. Their passengers were mostly commuters and university students.Italy&rsquo...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Colleen DulleWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Recent comments by a high-ranking Vatican official havesparked questions about the direction priests should face while celebratingMass, but the Vatican spokesman said Pope Francis has made it clear no changesare foreseen.Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for DivineWorship and the Sacraments, urged priests and bishops at the Sacra Liturgiaconference in London July 5 to start celebrating Masses "adorientem," or facing away from the congregation, beginning the firstSunday of Advent this year.However, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, issued astatement July 11 indicating the Pope Francis met with Cardinal Sarah July 9 toindicate no liturgical directives will begin in Advent."Cardinal Sarah is always rightly concerned with the dignity of thecelebration of Mass, that it might adequately express an attachment of respectand adoration for the eucharistic mystery," Father Lombardi's statemen...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul JeffreyBy Tom TracyWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) -- Low-costvideo messaging carried across increasingly video-friendly social mediaplatforms will define this year's World Youth Day experience, said severalorganizational leaders finalizing their media strategies. Due to the prevalence ofsmartphones and tablets, and their improved video-capture andmobile-application media-sharing capabilities, World Youth Day is likely to bedocumented in a way that no other such event has been to date, said Pallottine FatherFrank Donio, director of Catholic Apostolate Center in Washington.He said that in the 2013 WorldYouth Day in Rio de Janeiro, "the digital pieces were there, and we sawthe strength of the opportunities for people who couldn't be there to followalong and share in the experience." "Now that same technologyhas grown even more, and many more people now have a mobile device to follow along,"he told Catholic News Service.World Youth Day will take placein and around Kra...
