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NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter, long criticized as a hotbed for online harassment, is expanding ways to curb the amount of abuse users see and making it easier to report such conduct....
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) -- The polls have just closed. In a room decorated with posters and leftist slogans, Nabila Mounib is surrounded by activists who take selfies with her and wish her luck....
OREM, Utah (AP) -- Five students were stabbed inside the boys' locker room of their Utah high school Tuesday and a 16-year-old student was taken into custody after school workers risked their lives to box him into a corner, police said....
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- At least one person was shot near a parking garage at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport on Tuesday, prompting city officials to close the airport and order people inside a sprawling terminal to seek shelter....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Never mind closing Guantanamo. It might be getting bigger....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hidden from the public in his Manhattan high-rise, Donald Trump huddled Tuesday with Vice President-elect Mike Pence as he tried to fill out key posts in his Cabinet. But the transition team appeared to be straining under the enormous challenge of setting up an administration....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Paul Ryan unanimously won his GOP colleagues' votes on Tuesday for another term at the helm of the House. He told fellow Republicans he had President-elect Donald Trump's support, and heralded "the dawn of a new, unified Republican government."...
(Vatican Radio) US Bishops are asking for “concrete actions” by the new Trump administration on the plight of migrants to the US who are seeking a better life.Addressing the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ General Assembly, outgoing president Archbishop Joseph Kurtz named migration as one of their top issues of dialogue with president-elect Donald Trump and with the new membership of both houses of congress.Archbishop Kurtz said: “Whether it is protecting the child in the womb and her mother or a family seeking a better life as they migrate from another country, it is our task to think not of our own interests but of the common good. We embrace that task with enthusiasm and enter respectful dialogue with President Donald Trump and with both houses of Congress.“There's been unprecedented lack of civility and even rancor in the national elections just completed. Now we are required to move forward with a respect for those in public office a...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Tuesday urged the international community to act without delay in combating climate change.In a message to participants of the COP22 Climate Change meeting taking place in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, the Pope pointed out that all parties and stakeholders have a “serious ethical and moral responsibility to take action and implement last year’s Paris climate-change agreement.Listen to the report by Linda Bordoni: “The current situation of environmental degradation – Pope Francis said – which is strongly connected to the human, ethical and social degradation that we unfortunately experience daily, challenges us all, each of us with our own roles and competencies, and brings us together here with a renewed sense of awareness and responsibility”. Participants at the so-called COP22 Conference are being called to take the next step in the implementation of the Paris Agreement which saw world leaders pledge to m...
(Vatican Radio) The Prefect of the Secretariat for Communications unveiled on Tuesday details of the multimedia coverage for the Consistory and the closing ceremony for the Jubilee Year of Mercy taking place on November 19th and 20th. At a presentation in the Vatican the Secretariat’s Prefect, Monsignor Dario Vigano, said, in an historic first, the two papal events over the weekend will be filmed live in Ultra HD with a High Dynamic Range thanks to a joint production by the Vatican Television Centre and Vatican Radio in collaboration with Eutelsat, Globecast and Sony. Monsignor Vigano said the multimedia coverage of these two events marked the creation of a New Audiovisual Production Centre created by the merger of the Vatican Television Centre and Vatican Radio as part of the ongoing reform and merger of the Vatican’s various media outlets.
