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CANNES, France (AP) -- Steven Spielberg has premiered his Roald Dahl adaptation "The BFG" at the Cannes Film Festival, where he said the film is "the closest I've ever come to a love story."...
SOMERS, Conn. (AP) -- Just before his 100th birthday, ice cream magnate S. Prestley Blake gave himself a $7.7 million gift - a house built to replicate Monticello, the famed Virginia home of Thomas Jefferson....
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Vermont is poised to become the first state requiring drug companies to explain their price increases, and Bob and Deborah Messing think that's a good idea....
NEW YORK (AP) -- For days, the charred school bus sat in front of a Jewish girls' school in Brooklyn, its ruined hulk posing a troubling question: Has the quarter-century of peace between blacks and Jews in Crown Heights begun to fray?...
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said Saturday that the explosion in Damascus that killed its top militant commander was caused by insurgent shelling and vowed to continue fighting alongside the Syrian government until the rebels are defeated....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- From locker rooms and sex education classes to dress codes and overnight field trips, many U.S. public schools already are balancing the civil rights of transgender students with any concerns that classmates, parents and community members might have....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Rock concert rallies versus intimate town halls. Adoring groupies versus dutiful voters. Sweeping promises versus targeted proposals....
Self-expression is hardly a part of life for cadets at the United States Military Academy....
(Vatican Radio) A new British parliamentary report says that more than 1,000 people fleeing war and poverty are known to have died crossing from Libya to Italy this year alone, despite European Union measures aimed at stemming the flow of refugees. The announcement comes while medics rush to carry out an emergency vaccination program.Listen to Stefan Bos' report:
(Vatican Radio) For his monthly ‘Mercy Friday’ in the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis visited on Friday the Community of ‘Chicco’ in Ciampino, on the outskirts of Rome.L’Arche (The Ark) was founded by Jean Vanier in 1964 and is now present in over 30 countries on 5 continents. The organization provides loving homes for vulnerable people who live together in a supportive community.The Chicco community was founded in 1981 and houses 18 people with intellectual challenges. The L’Arche philosophy is "the praise of imperfection," that is, to thrive amidst disabilities that the world doesn’t value. The residents of L’Arche are free to make their own way in life, to give and receive deep affection and to form lasting friendships. Pope Francis visited L’Arche as a move to emphasize the value of such principles over an ephemeral, disposable culture.At Chicco Pope Francis sat with residents and shared a snack with them and ...
