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HOUSTON (AP) -- Three soldiers were killed and six were missing after a military truck was swept away in a rain-swollen creek on Thursday at Fort Hood, the Army said....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Previewing a rancorous fall campaign, Hillary Clinton assailed Donald Trump on Thursday as a potential president who would lead America toward war and economic crisis. She portrayed her own foreign policy as optimistic, inclusive and diplomatic, born from long experience in public life....
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump's bid for president on Thursday, bringing an end to the extraordinary public split between the GOP's presumptive White House nominee and the nation's top Republican in office....
(Vatican Radio) French President Francois Hollande has declared a state of emergency in areas worst affected by deadly flooding that also impacted other areas in Europe killing at least 10 people, most of them in Germany.Holland announced the emergency Thursday as torrential rains across France forced thousands of people from their homes. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Stranded motorists were rescued by soldiers as flood waters rose, while in the capital Paris a metro line was shut and staff at the famed Louvre museum were told the venue was likely to close.Amid the misery an 86-year old woman was found dead in her flooded house in a small town southwest of Paris late Wednesday, apparently the first casualty from the heavy rains that caused several rivers to burst their banks. Many others died across Europe especially in Germany. In the town of Triftern in Germany's flood-stricken Bavaria region houses have been partly submerged. Flooding blocked roads a...
(Vatican Radio) Pushing its agenda to step into situations where conflict threatens to break out and prevent disasters before they happen, a small NGO was present at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul last week telling world leaders to focus more on prevention.The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, established in 2008 to promote acceptance and effective operational implementation of the norm of the "Responsibility to Protect" populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, was represented by its Executive Director, Dr Simon Adams, who also met with the Vatican Delegation present at the Summit.He spoke to Linda Bordoni about the contribution the Global Centre has to make in preventing humanitarian disasters as well as about his meeting with Cardinal Pietro Parolin and the rest of the Vatican Delegation at the Istanbul Summit:Listen: Pointing out that he had many values and ideals in common with the Holy See d...
Paris, France, Jun 2, 2016 / 12:43 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In recent weeks, Catholics in France and Belgium – countries still recovering from brutal ISIS attacks – have been hit with numerous acts of violence and aggression, including fires set in churches, an assault on a priest, the desecration of a tabernacle and the hacking of more than 100 Catholic websites.In the French periodical La Provence, local priest Father Benoît Delabre reported that two weeks ago, the altar at the Church of St. Madeleine-de-l'Île was set fire in Martigues, about 800 kilometers south of Paris.“The altar…is marble, which prevented the fire from spreading. I can't imagine what would have happened with a wooden altar. The consequences for our church would have been tragic.”He also said that on May 15, another unknown person desecrated the tabernacle which contained the consecrated hosts in the church at Jonquières in the same region. Additionally, Fat...
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."...
