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PARIS (AP) -- The Seine River peaked early Saturday around Paris, hitting its highest level in nearly 35 years - almost 4.5 meters (15 feet) above average - then began a slow descent. That drew a collective sigh of relief but authorities cautioned it could take up to 10 days for the river to return to normal....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- With the primary season near its end, a defiant Bernie Sanders declared Saturday that the Democratic presidential process should not be decided by party leaders and elected officials, predicting a contested summer convention against rival Hillary Clinton....
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- In a funeral he planned years ago, Muhammad Ali will be coming home as a "citizen of the world" when he is buried Friday in Louisville....
NEW YORK (AP) -- During the Beatles' first visit to the United States in 1964, clever publicity agents arranged a meeting with Cassius Clay, then training for the bout that would make him heavyweight champion. The result was a memorable photo of a whooping Clay, who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali, standing astride four "knockout victims."...
Vatican City, Jun 4, 2016 / 11:43 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has approved the institution of a new Vatican department dedicated to the family, the laity, and life.According to a set of statutes released Saturday, the new department will promote “the pastoral care of the family, maintain the dignity and basic good of the Sacrament of marriage, favor the rights and responsibilities of the Church in civil society.”This will be so “that the family institution may always fulfill its proper functions both within the Church and society.”The Vatican department – which is also known as a dicastry – will also will pay “special attention to the particular mission of the lay faithful to permeate and perfect the order of temporal reality,” the statute continues.The new dicastry on the family, laity, and life will take effect Sept. 1, 2016, at which point both the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and the Pontifical Council for the Family wil...
PARIS (AP) -- The day before the French Open final, Serena Williams' coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, was discussing whether his player would need to lift her level to beat Garbine Muguruza and collect a record-equaling 22nd Grand Slam title....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When an active shooter alert spread across the UCLA campus Wednesday, some students found themselves in a frightening predicament: They were told to go into lockdown but couldn't lock their classroom doors....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Six months before he entered the presidential race, Donald Trump announced a new real estate project in Baku, Azerbaijan. His partner was the son of a government minister suspected by U.S. diplomats of laundering money for Iran's military and described as "notoriously corrupt."...
Muhammad Ali beat the invincible Sonny Liston, fought a string of thrilling fights with Joe Frazier and stopped George Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire....
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- Muhammad Ali rumbled in the African jungle, put on a thriller in Manila, charmed them in London and taunted them in Tokyo....
