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RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who frequently criticizes U.S. foreign policy under President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has praised former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ruthlessness....
LONDON (AP) -- The official inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq War is releasing its findings Wednesday, more than seven years after hearings began and 13 years on from the 2003 U.S.-led invasion....
BEIRUT (AP) -- As Muslims around the world celebrate the end of Ramadan, many are struggling to comprehend a wave of attacks that killed 350 people across several continents during the holy month and made urgent the question of what drives the militants to ever more spectacular violence against civilians....
GAZIANTEP, Turkey (AP) -- Along the border near the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, a wall of giant concrete blocks is going up as Turkey tries to seal off a region that for years was a jihadi highway through which thousands of extremist fighters flowed to join the Islamic State group in neighboring Syria....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The FBI may have spared Hillary Clinton the worst in wrapping up its investigation into her use of email as secretary of state. But the way in which Director James Comey did so makes it unlikely criticism of her judgment and character will fade before Election Day....
NEW YORK (AP) -- After topping the major leagues during the first half of the season as they seek their first title in more than a century, the Chicago Cubs dominated the rosters for next week's All-Star game....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- President Barack Obama vigorously vouched for Hillary Clinton's trustworthiness and dedication Tuesday, making his first outing on the campaign stump for his former secretary of state just hours after his FBI director blasted her handling of classified material....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI lifted a major legal threat to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign Tuesday, recommending no criminal charges for her handling of highly classified material in a private email account. But Director James Comey's scathing criticism of her "extremely careless" behavior revitalized Republican attacks and guaranteed the issue will continue to dog her....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Grzegorz Momot, EPABy Jonathan LuxmooreWARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- Young people attending World Youth Day 2016 in Krakow, Poland, may have to walk up to nine miles to and from one of its key sites, event organizers said."They'll have to be ready for a long foot journey of several hours, but this has always been a feature of World Youth Days," said Anna Chmura, WYD's communications coordinator."There'll be several designated routes, mostly from Krakow, and they'll all be used heavily. But we're confident the logistics and security have now been carefully worked out," she told Catholic News Service.The event, which runs July 26-31, is expected to bring 2 million people from 187 countries to the southern Polish city. They will be accompanied by 47 cardinals, 800 bishops and 20,000 priests.The July 30-31 vigil and Mass, on the fourth and fifth days of Pope Francis' visit, will require nearly all of the participants to make the nine-mile journey to Campus Misericordiae, nea...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Gary Cameron, ReutersBy NEW YORK (CNS) -- Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, NobelPeace Prize recipient and prolific author who died July 2 at age 87 in his NewYork home, has been remembered in tributes from around the world for standingup for human dignity and for being a witness to the world of the atrocities ofthe Holocaust.When Pope Francis received the Charlemagne Prize May 6 forpromoting European unity, he quoted Wiesel urging Europeans to undergo a"memory transfusion," to remember their fractured past whenconfronting issues that threaten again to divide it.In its July 4 edition, L'Osservatore Romano, the Vaticannewspaper, said Wiesel's legacy was his "appeal for collectiveresponsibility in the face of horror and his call to unite the abilities ofeach person in pursuit of what is good."That sentiment has been echoed by many.President Barack Obama described Wiesel as "one of thegreat moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of theworld."And Vi...
