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BIRSTALL, England (AP) -- British police on Saturday charged a reclusive gardener with murder and other offenses in the slaying of a popular Labour Party lawmaker, Jo Cox, as evidence emerged the 52-year-old had decades-old ties to a neo-Nazi movement and an interest in anarchist weapons literature....
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Within six days of announcing a crackdown on Islamist militants, Bangladesh had filled its jailhouses with 11,600 new detainees in what seemed like an astonishing display of law enforcement might. The problem is, less than 2 percent of those picked up are suspected radicals, and not one is considered to be a high-level operative....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The likely Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton race won't be a contest over who can win the most votes nationwide. U.S. presidential contests are essentially simultaneous, winner-take-all state elections to choose electors. Whoever wins a majority of electoral votes - that's 270 votes - wins the presidency....
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Oakland lost its third police chief in nine days Friday as it struggles with allegations that a number of officers had sex with a teenage prostitute and exchanged racist text messages....
Washington D.C., Jun 17, 2016 / 03:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A virtual brouhaha erupted Thursday after Pope Francis said in unscripted remarks that “the great majority” of marriages today are null, due to a “provisional” culture in which people do not understand permanent commitment.Although his comment was later revised to say that “a portion” of marriages are null, the question remains: What exactly makes a marriage invalid?“It’s certainly in my experience that the kind of provisional culture, the conditional and temporary way in which we view real permanent institutions, has an impact on marriage, on the way that we live our marriages, on the way that we relate to our spouses, and those kinds of things,” J.D. Flynn, a canon lawyer in Nebraska, told CNA.Pope Francis, during a Thursday question-and-answer session at the Diocese of Rome’s pastoral congress, decried today’s “culture of the provisional” where ...
By Carol GlatzVATICANCITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church has launched a new kind of "specialforces" in the fight against child abuse.Nineteenmen and women from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas became the firstgraduates awarded special certification in the safeguarding of minors -- aninitiative begun in Rome in 2016 to help dioceses, bishops' conferences,religious orders and other church bodies excel in child protection.Thegraduates -- who are psychiatrists, theologians, canon lawyers, educators andchild protection officers -- were honored June 14 during a graduation ceremonyat Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University.PopeFrancis sent a personal letter for the occasion, praising the new graduates andtelling them, "I wish you courage and patience; be brave andcommitted." Thefive-month, intensive program is run by the Center for Child Protection at theuniversity's Institute of Psychology and grew out of an e-learning program, butoffers more active discussion and group work with onsit...
With a labor dispute simmering at home, the U.S. women's national soccer team travels to Rio de Janeiro as the favorite to win its fourth straight Olympic gold medal....
MEDFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Hundreds of friends and fans stood in line and thousands more were expected Friday at a memorial service for "The Voice" singer Christina Grimmie....
ST. JAMES, N.Y. (AP) -- Thousands of firefighters in their dress blues stood at attention and saluted Friday as a flag-draped casket passed carrying two tiny vials of blood, the only known remains of a comrade who died in the Sept. 11 attacks....
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- After two days of meetings with top European officials and international executives, Russian President Vladimir Putin sounded reconciliatory in a round-table with international media Friday, saying Russia is ready to work with whoever is elected the new U.S. president and offering only a mild condemnation of the IAAF's decision to ban Russian track and field athletes from competing in the upcoming Olympics....
