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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Stephen Curry scored 15 straight points in less than 2 minutes during one dazzling third-quarter stretch, and the Golden State Warriors beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 118-91 on Wednesday night to even the Western Conference final at one game apiece....
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- California decided Wednesday to allow hundreds of local water districts to set their own conservation goals after a wet winter eased the five-year drought in some parts of the state....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Earth's heat is stuck on high....
TORONTO (AP) -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized "unreservedly" for making physical contact with a female opposition member of Parliament who said Trudeau elbowed her in the chest as he waded through a group of opposition lawmakers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican-led House voted convincingly Wednesday to approve a $602 billion defense policy bill after rejecting attempts by Democrats to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to repeal the war powers President Barack Obama relies on to fight the Islamic State....
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump used the word "rape" on Wednesday when discussing past allegations of sexual misconduct involving former President Bill Clinton, further escalating his rhetoric on the subject....
CAIRO (AP) -- An EgyptAir plane from Paris to Cairo carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew disappeared from radar early Thursday morning, the airline said....
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Chicago, Ill., May 18, 2016 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- With the conviction that pro-family policies are critical for a healthy Church, the Archdiocese of Chicago will soon start offering its employees 12 weeks of paid parental leave.The policy, which will go into effect June 1, was announced in the archdiocesan newspaper, the Catholic New World.It will cover both mothers and fathers working at least 26 hours per week who have just had a child or adopted a child.Previously, women at the archdiocese were able to pay for maternity leave through sick time and vacation days. Employees were allow to accrue sick time, and after about three years generally had enough time accumulated for six weeks of leave.Even this policy was more generous than that offered by many companies which have a use-it-or-lose-it approach to sick leave and do not allow it to build up year after year.But the new policy far surpasses the previous one and brings the archdiocese to the forefront of family-friendly p...
Washington D.C., May 18, 2016 / 05:11 pm (CNA).- While both sides say they are happy with the Supreme Court decision on the Little Sisters’ case, the long-term outcome remains to be seen, legal experts said.Dr. Marc DeGirolami of St. John’s University School of Law said that “there will very likely be another round of litigation” in Zubik v. Burwell, “unless the parties can come to an agreement.”And an agreement might not happen, Dr. Helen Alvare of George Mason University Law School said, because the government’s lawyers “were not at all cooperative” when asked to propose such a solution.On Monday, the Supreme Court sent the current HHS mandate cases of religious non-profits – bundled under the title Zubik v. Burwell – back to the lower courts where they had originated and vacated the previous circuit court rulings in those cases. The Supreme Court emphasized in its decision that it was not issuing a ruling on the me...
