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WASHINGTON (AP) -- It wasn't just talk....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two nephews of Venezuela's first lady who were charged with conspiring to send drugs to the United States were convicted on Friday by a jury that found evidence of the crime even though the government's star witness came across to at least one juror as "slime."...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Hardly anyone in North Carolina is willing to guess when their excruciatingly close governor's race will be resolved. A Friday deadline came and went with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper's unofficial advantage growing to about 6,600 votes over Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, from nearly 4.7 million cast....
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) -- The first U.N. climate conference after the landmark Paris Agreement closed Friday with delegates appealing to Donald Trump to join the battle against global warming and inviting him to see its impacts in Pacific islands....
Years ago, a young man interned for me on the Saturday morning show, Kid's Kingdom. I'll not forget when he introduced himself and as we chatted, and he casually mentioned that he was the seventh of seven brothers.
Rome, Italy, Nov 18, 2016 / 03:26 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a simple rite this Saturday, 17 prelates will receive a red biretta from Pope Francis and thus join the College of Cardinals. Dressed in their red robes, the cardinals-to-be will gather in St. Peter Basilica, profess the Creed, and then approach Pope Francis one by one. The Pope will give each of them the red biretta, and their cardinal’s ringThe Pope will place the red hat on each cardinal’s head and say:“To the glory of almighty God and the honor of the Apostolic See, receive the scarlet biretta as a sign of the dignity of the cardinalate, signifying your readiness to act with courage, even to the shedding of your blood, for the increase of the Christian faith, for the peace and tranquility of the people of God and for the freedom and growth of the Holy Roman Church.”As he places the ring on a new cardinal’s finger, the Pope will say: “Receive this ring from the hand of Peter and kno...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sean Gallagher, The CriterionBy John ShaughnessyINDIANAPOLIS(CNS) -- As Cardinal-designate Joseph W. Tobin headed to Rome for his Nov. 19 installationinto the College of Cardinals by Pope Francis, he naturally thought again ofall the ways his life has changed in the past six weeks.He alsothought of how those life-changing moments have been shaped by the relationshiphe has formed during the past 11 years with the pope.After all,it was Pope Francis who announced Oct. 9 that Archbishop Tobin would be oneof the church's 17 new cardinals. And 13 days later, Cardinal-designate Tobinlearned that Pope Francis was reassigning him from the Archdiocese ofIndianapolis to lead the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey -- a move thatbecame official on Nov. 7.Returning toItaly for his elevation as a cardinal in St. Peter's Basilica at theVatican, Cardinal-designate Tobin is also returning to the place he first metPope Francis.The year was2005, and the two men were participants in a me...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Police assisted by the FBI pressed an urgent appeal for public help Friday in finding a Kansas newborn a day after her mother was shot to death in her home, insisting the week-old girl was imperiled during a disappearance the police chief considered vexing....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two nephews of Venezuela's first lady who were charged with conspiring to send drugs to the United States were convicted on Friday by a jury that found evidence of the crime even though the government's star witness came across to at least one juror as "slime."...
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump agreed Friday to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for real estate investors, averting a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that he had vowed during the campaign to keep fighting....
