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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Inspectors discovered that a California building in a rundown neighborhood lacked fire extinguishers, smoke detectors in every apartment and a working sprinkler system just three days before a blaze erupted and killed four low-income residents....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is proposing immediate budget cuts of $18 billion from programs like medical research, infrastructure and community grants so U.S. taxpayers, not Mexico, can cover the down payment on the border wall....
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- President Donald Trump's move to roll back Obama-era regulations aimed at curbing climate change comes as the coal industry is reeling from job losses, bankruptcies, pollution restrictions and growing competition from natural gas, wind and solar....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Declaring "the start of a new era" in energy production, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that he said would revive the coal industry and create jobs....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Russian billionaire close to President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he is willing to take part in U.S. congressional hearings to discuss his past business relationship with President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A lawyer for former deputy Attorney General Sally Yates wrote in letters last week that the Trump administration was trying to limit her testimony at congressional hearings focused on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The hearing was later canceled by the House intelligence committee chairman....
Little kids have such amazing imaginations! They can turn the most boring piece of discarded junk into something awesome. Grownups may see an old water heater but she sees a robot worthy of "wuv".
About 25 thousand people took part in the annual Lenten Walking Pigrimage in the western Indian city of Mumbai in which Catholics, members of other Christian Churches and other religions also participated. A large number of priests, religious, Catholic lay people and members of other confessions and religions participated in the overnight march led by the Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Bombay. The pilgrimage that started at night on March 25 from Cross Maidan, wound its way to the Basilica of Mount Mary some 20 km away the following morning, Sunday, where it concluded with Holy Mass.Card. Gracias, who is president of India’s Latin-rite bishops, began the pilgrimage with his blessings and reciting prayers to the Virgin, interceding for the city of Mumbai and the whole of India. He prayed in particular for harmony and peaceful coexistence among the different components of Indian society, asking that "Christians in India may live their faith in pe...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, has sent a letter in the name of Pope Francis to the Tenth Forum for the Future of Agriculture taking place in Brussels.In the letter addressed to Janez Potocnik, president of the Forum, Cardinal Parolin called on participants to put the human person at the heart of agriculture, “whether he or she be an agricultural worker, an economic agent or a consumer”.“Such an approach,” he writes, “if viewed as a shared goal and not simply a technical question, will allow greater consideration to be given to the close relationship between agriculture, the care and protection of creation, economic growth, levels of development, and the present and future needs of the world population.”Cardinal Parolin called for “greater commitment to supporting agricultural activity” through better production and commerce systems, as well as by “emphasizing the right of every human...
Vatican City, Mar 28, 2017 / 08:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Tuesday, Pope Francis acknowledged the difficulty of totally eliminating nuclear weapons, but said the challenge is still a necessary undertaking, especially given what’s at stake.“The ultimate goal of the total elimination of nuclear weapons becomes both a challenge and a moral and humanitarian imperative,” he said in a message to United Nations members March 28.The message was read before the “United Nations conference aimed at negotiating a legally binding instrument on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, leading to their total elimination,” held in New York March 27-31.Presented by Msgr. Antoine Camilleri, Secretary for Relations with States and head of the Holy See’s delegation at the meetings, the Pope’s message acknowledged that the goal is a “demanding” and “forward-looking” one.And this is true especially given the present international climate, which...
