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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub early Sunday, killing at least 50 people before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. It was the worst mass shooting in American history....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has decried the pursuit for perfect bodies, saying it leads to society hiding away the disabled to avoid offending the sensibilities of what he described as ``the privileged few.''Celebrating Holy Mass on Sunday in St. Peter's Square for the Jubilee of the Sick and Disabled, the Pope called for solidarity and mutual acceptance in a world in which a perfect appearance has become an obsession as wells as “big business”.Please find below the full text of Pope Francis’ Homily: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me” (Gal 2:19). In these words, the Apostle Paul powerfully expresses the mystery of the Christian life, which can be summed up in the paschal dynamic of death and resurrection received at baptism. Indeed, through immersion in water, each of us, as it were, dies and is buried with Christ (cf. Rom 6:3-4), and remerging, shows ...
MARSEILLE, France (AP) -- At least 44 people have been wounded in clashes that erupted between soccer fans in the southern French cities of Marseille and Nice, officials said Sunday....
VIENNA (AP) -- The world was a more peaceful place when a newly sworn-in President Barack Obama pledged to "aggressively pursue" a global ban on nuclear arms tests. But as his term winds down, a working test-ban treaty remains a dream and some of the loudest voices out of Washington are hostile....
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Militants from the Islamic State group have barricaded themselves in the center of their stronghold in Libya's coastal city of Sirte, hoping to draw militias fighting to dislodge them into a protracted street battle, a spokesman for the fighters loyal to the U.N.-backed government said on Sunday....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting at an Orlando nightclub (all times local):...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun took hostages and opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub, killing approximately 20 people dead and wounding 42 others before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said Sunday....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Protecting a lead after Clint Dempsey's first-half goal, the United States' Copa America planning was suddenly upended....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The year 2015 began with a musical opening downtown that seemed an unlikely subject for a hit show - a hip-hop biography of a Founding Father. On Sunday, this show about American history is expected to make its own history - again....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Christina Grimmie was a vivacious, outgoing singer whose career was born on social media and propelled toward the big time by television. She didn't consider herself a famous person, not like the judges on "The Voice," where she competed, but she had a following that was as enthusiastic about her music as she was....
