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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton stands on the cusp of having enough delegates to claim the Democratic presidential nomination, having overwhelmed Bernie Sanders in a pair of weekend elections in the Caribbean....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The newly crowned Miss USA is a 26-year-old Army officer from the District of Columbia who gave perhaps the strongest answer of the night when asked about women in combat....
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- A former World Bank economist was edging out the daughter of imprisoned ex-President Alberto Fujimori in Peru's presidential election Sunday, according to early results from a vote widely seen as a referendum on the disgraced strongman's legacy....
BEIJING (AP) -- As China's Cultural Revolution descended into mob violence, teenage Red Guards dragged Mao Yushi and his father, two proud and bookish engineers, out of their home to sweep a boulevard as a crowd watched and jeered. The pair were then lashed with a copper-flecked whip until their backs were flayed. When Mao later stumbled into work, he didn't know blood was still seeping through his shirt until colleagues pointed it out....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and an Afghan translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed while on assignment in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, a network spokeswoman said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the presidential campaign, with Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders holding events Sunday in California and Democrats in Puerto Rico voting in the party's primary (all times Eastern Daylight Time):...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Hillary Clinton overwhelmed Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico's Democratic presidential primary on Sunday, putting her within striking distance of capturing her party's nomination....
I remember growing up and thinking about mercy often. Mostly because I was always in trouble and wanted my parents to show me some...
Washington D.C., Jun 5, 2016 / 04:44 pm (CNA).- As the federal government considers regulating the infamous “payday loan” industry, Catholics are already acting to help borrowers saddled with loan debt.“I think that, from a social justice standpoint, we have the ability to speak for an entire group of people who are being marginalized and taken advantage of,” Stacy Ehrlich, executive director of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for the Diocesan Council of Austin, told CNA in an interview about the society’s predatory loan conversion program.The program allows people burdened with one or several onerous short-term loans to pay them off with a low-interest loan from a local credit union. The program exists “to offer some sort of resolution” for borrowers who are “being preyed upon,” Ehrlich explained.Payday loans and similar types of loans have been criticized as capitalizing on people in desperate situations by charging exorbita...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The Latest on Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers (all times local):...
