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NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists proposed a long-term project Thursday that involves creating DNA blueprints for making human beings, a prospect some observers find troubling....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal regulators proposed a significant clampdown on payday lenders and other high interest loans on Thursday, the first nationwide attempt to address an industry widely thought of as taking advantage of the poor and desperate....
CINCINNATI (AP) -- The Cincinnati Zoo said Thursday it will re-open its gorilla exhibit next week with a higher, reinforced barrier after a 3-year-old boy got into the enclosure, leading to the fatal shooting of a male gorilla....
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Friends of a 19-year-old Indianapolis man say they don't believe he fatally shot three people over four nights in attacks authorities say were inspired by the horror movie "The Purge."...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The investigation into a murder-suicide on the UCLA campus took a more sinister turn Thursday when police announced they suspected the shooter earlier killed a woman in Minnesota then drove to Los Angeles to confront a professor he believed had stolen his work....
Prince's death from an overdose of the powerful opioid fentanyl is another example of the national opioid epidemic driven by prescription painkillers....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller that is up to 50 times more potent than heroin, autopsy results released Thursday show....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump on Thursday, ending an extraordinary public split between the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee and the nation's highest-ranking Republican office holder....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Latest on Hillary Clinton's speech on national security (all times local):...
Maher is the name of a project that Indian Sister Lucy Kurien of the Order of the Sisters of the Cross of Chavanod (SCC) began in 1997 to shelter exploited and destitute women and children, in Pune, in western India’s Maharashtra state. In the local Marathi language ‘maher’ means ‘mother’s home’ – a name that Sr. Lucy chose for her centre as a haven of hope, belonging and understanding. Sr. Lucy has received several honours and recognition for her works or mercy. Recently, on the occasion of this year’s International Women's Day, March 8, she was conferred the Nari Shakti Award for 2015 by Indian president Pranab Mukherjee, for her outstanding contribution to women’s empowerment.Last week, in the first part of a telephone interview with her, Sr. Lucy briefly spoke about the Nari Shakti Award, and went on to explain her work and how it began over 19 years ago. It so happened that a battered woman...
