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Vatican City, Nov 7, 2016 / 04:00 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican announced Monday that recently nominated Cardinal-elect Archbishop Joseph William Tobin of Indianapolis will soon be taking over as the new head of the Newark, N.J. Archdiocese.Born in Detroit May 3, 1952, Tobin has since 2012 served as the 6th Archbishop of Indianapolis. He was ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1978 and served as the order’s superior general from 1997 to 2009.On Oct. 9 Pope Francis named him as one of three Americans on his list of 17 new cardinal-elects, who will be elevated during a special Nov. 19 consistory set to coincide with the end of the Jubilee of Mercy.Other Americans getting the red hat are Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago and Bishop Kevin Farrell, former head of the Dallas diocese but who recently moved to Rome to carry out his new role as prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Laity, Family and Life.As head of the Newark Archdiocese, Tobin will be taking over for Archbishop Jo...
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian police have made an unusual find while searching the bag of a woman who was being arrested: a baby koala....
MIAMI (AP) -- Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, including the seizure of Elian Gonzalez, died early Monday. She was 78....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Backed by U.S. airstrikes, Kurdish-led Syrian fighters clashed on Monday with Islamic State militants north of the city of Raqqa in Syria as they pushed ahead in their offensive aiming to liberate the city that has been the de facto capital of the extremist group since 2014....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- Zahida Fathi sat on a military-issued cot, rocking back and forth and repeating the names of the dead - her husband and six of her children, killed when a car bomb exploded near their home as they were trying to flee clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State fighters in the city of Mosul....
BASHIQA, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy fire with militants early on Monday as they advanced from two directions into a town held by the Islamic State group east of the city of Mosul....
(Vatican Radio) The chief prosecutor of Montenegro says "nationalists from Russia" were behind an attempt to assassinate the pro-Western prime minister and carry out a coup amid growing political tensions over the future direction of the former Yugoslav republic.Listen to Stefan Bos' report Milivoje Katnic told reporters that investigators uncovered a plot to kill Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic because of his plans to have the Balkan nationjoin the NATO military alliance. "The plan was to stop Montenegro on its Euro-Atlantic path, especially to prevent is from entering NATO and that wasthe initial idea of those organizers," he told reporters."We will continue to cooperate with Russia because, at this phase of the process, we gathered evidence that indicate that organizers of this criminal group are nationalists from Russia, Russian citizens," Katnic added. The prosecutor said the Russian nationalists planned to break into parliament and kill ...
Big plays and game-changing developments have been divided sporadically throughout most of this NFL season....
NEW YORK (AP) -- TVs are so last century. News outlets are using Facebook Live, Snapchat, YouTube and other tools to offer live coverage of Election Day in ways not possible four years ago....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Did Donald Trump succeed in at last winning over college-educated whites uneasy with the billionaire reality TV star? Did he drive a wave of working-class white voters? Did Hillary Clinton rebuild Barack Obama's winning coalition - young voters, urban liberals and minorities - while picking off moderate Republicans?...
