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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- When a measure to impeach Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was introduced to Congress late last year, the possibility that she would actually be removed from office seemed remote....
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- White House dreams fading, Bernie Sanders added another state to his tally against Hillary Clinton with a win in West Virginia on Tuesday - a victory that will do little to slow the former secretary of state's steady march toward the Democratic presidential nomination....
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- As House Speaker Paul Ryan walks a fine line on Donald Trump - withholding his support, at least for now - some voters back home in his congressional district applaud his effort for the greater good of the GOP....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shifting swiftly to the general election, Donald Trump says he's narrowed his list of potential running mates to "five or six" people and is leaning against accepting public money to finance a fall campaign against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton....
Irapuato, Mexico, May 10, 2016 / 06:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Mexican bishop is seeking answers after recent attacks on Catholic churches and priests, and years of high murder rates.“The solution lies in changing people’s hearts, and in making peace to really be peace with God and with your brothers and sisters, otherwise we shouldn’t expect a good future,” Bishop José de Jesús Martínez Zepeda of Irapuato said in a recent interview with the Mexican weekly Desde la Fe.According to Mexico’s National Institute for Statistics and Geography, between 2007 and 2014 there were 164,345 reported homicides in the country. The period includes some of the bloodiest years of fighting between the drug cartels and the Mexican government, following the beginning of a “war on drugs” begun in 2006.Such violence came home to Irapuato last month. On April 26, four armed men assaulted Fr. Efren Silva while he was in the sacristy of Lord of Me...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Russell Westbrook had 35 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder rallied in the fourth quarter to beat the San Antonio Spurs 95-91 on Tuesday night and take a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference semifinals....
CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) -- A Minnesota doctor saw Prince twice in the month before his death - including the day before he died - and prescribed him medication, according to contents of a search warrant that were revealed Tuesday as authorities returned to the musician's suburban Minneapolis estate as part of their investigation into what killed him....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Key Senate Republicans voiced optimism Tuesday about Donald Trump's presidential prospects in November, the clearest signal yet to the GOP rank and file to unite behind him and turn their energy against Democrat Hillary Clinton. But it was uncertain whether the doubters could be quieted....
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- Two people were killed and four others wounded in stabbing attacks at a home and a shopping mall in Massachusetts before an off-duty law enforcement officer shot and killed the suspect, authorities said....
New York City, N.Y., May 10, 2016 / 04:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The American Civil Liberties Union's claims that Catholic hospitals are denying emergency care to pregnant women in the U.S. is not about healthcare – it's about forcing religious groups to perform abortions, critics say.A recent ACLU report finds that one out of every six beds in the country's acute care hospitals is in a hospital with Catholic affiliations and that Catholic hospitals make up 15 percent, or 548, of the country's hospitals. The report claims that because these hospitals follow Church teaching in regards to reproductive care, they put women at risk.All Catholic hospitals operate under the U.S. Bishops' Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, which ban abortion, sterilization, and emergency contraception or tubal ligations.Marie Hilliard, the director of public policy for the National Catholic Bioethics Center, told the Guardian that if the directives a...
