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LONDON (AP) -- The race to become Britain's next prime minister took a dramatic last-minute turn with former London Mayor Boris Johnson - considered a front-runner - ruling himself out of the race after the defection of a key ally on Thursday....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The three suicide bombers who attacked Istanbul airport were a Russian, an Uzbek and a Kyrgyz, a senior Turkish official said Thursday, hours after police carried out sweeping raids across the city looking for Islamic State suspects. Tuesday's gunfire and suicide bombing attack at Ataturk Airport killed 43 people and wounded more than 230 others....
(Vatican Radio) In this week's edition of There's More in the Sunday Gospel Than Meets the Eye, Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Listen: GOSPEL Lk 10: 1 - 9At that time the Lord appointed seventy-two otherswhom he sent ahead of him in pairsto every town and place he intended to visit.He said to them,"The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;so ask the master of the harvestto send out laborers for his harvest.Go on your way;behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves.Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals;and greet no one along the way.Into whatever house you enter, first say,'Peace to this household.'If a peaceful person lives there,your peace will rest on him;but if not, it will return to you.Stay in the same house and eat and drink what is offered to you,for the laborer deserves his payment.Do not move abou...
(Vatican Radio) A Federal Judge in Mexico has temporarily halted the extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the jailed drug lord who has already escaped custody twice and who had been cleared for extradition to the United States. Listen to James Blears' report from Mexico: Two Federal Judges and Mexico`s Foreign Ministry have already approved the extradition to the United States of thrice jailed and twice escaped Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who`s back under lock and key in Mexico. He`s been transferred to a maximum security penitentiary in the Border City of Juarez, right by El Paso Texas. But his highly paid and experienced lawyers who are well versed in the cumbersome Mexican legal system which is still mired under mountains of paperwork and written submissions, have fulfilled a promise to work up a veritable snowstorm of injunctions. They`re cogently arguing that there`s no direct evidence against the world`s most powerful alleged...
San Francisco, Calif., Jun 30, 2016 / 12:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholics and other groups that receive grants to care for immigrants are in the sights of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services.The legal group’s recent lawsuit says that social agencies that get federal money to care for refugees and undocumented migrants from Central America should be required to offer contraception and abortion, even if they have religious objections.Among the lawsuit’s claims: the federal government’s accommodation of religious beliefs violates the First Amendment’s prohibition on establishment of religion. It also claims a 1997 court settlement and later federal regulations oblige agencies with federal contracts to provide the coverage.Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor, told the New York Times that he thought the ACLU’s claim is weak due to precedents of federal agencies...
TOKYO (AP) -- The film world of Asia, known for producing Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Brillante Mendoza and other greats, is too busy making movies of its own to fret much about the debate slamming Hollywood - the casting of white people in roles written for Asians....
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A grizzly bear attacked and killed a 38-year-old mountain biker as he was riding along a trail just outside Glacier National Park, Montana authorities said....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Hispanics shot with stun guns by police in Connecticut in 2015 were more likely to be fired upon multiple times than other racial groups, according to an analysis released Thursday of the first statewide data of police stun gun use in the United States....
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in Thursday as president of the Philippines, with many hoping his maverick style will energize the country but others fearing he could undercut one of Asia's liveliest democracies amid his threats to kill criminals en masse....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A single elevator could have accommodated the donors who recently gathered with Hillary Clinton at home of the Pritzker family in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. Small in number, the group was big in largesse, contributing at least $1 million to help elect her and other Democrats this fall....
