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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A woman who was once a black civil rights leader in Washington state, then lost her job after her parents exposed her as white struggles to make a living these days....
CAIRO (AP) -- Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was freed from custody Friday morning after six years of legal proceedings and wrangling that frustrated activists who had hoped he would face justice for the deaths of hundreds defying his rule....
LONDON (AP) -- British police are combing through "massive amounts of computer data," have searched more than 20 sites and have contacted thousands of witnesses in a vast operation to trace how a British man became radicalized and launched a deadly attack on Parliament, a senior official said Friday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump declared it a "great day for American jobs" on Friday as he formally green-lighted the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project to finally be completed....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, a key figure in investigations into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, has volunteered to be questioned by lawmakers as part of a House probe of the Kremlin's alleged meddling in the 2016 election....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on an effort in Congress to pass a health care bill (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans muscled their capstone health care overhaul past an initial barrier and toward a climactic roll call Friday, plunging ahead despite uncertainty over whether they had the votes to prevail in what loomed as a monumental gamble for President Donald Trump and his GOP allies in Congress....
Pranksters on social media are encouraging folks to ask Siri to dial 108 on their iPhones. The problem is that 108 is India's 911 equivalent and iPhones automatically direct those calls to local emergency services. According to WGNTV, police departments....
(Vatican Radio) March 24th marks the feast day of the former Archbishop of San Salvador, Blessed Oscar Romero and the 37th anniversary of his assassination by hired gunmen at the height of El Salvador’s civil war.2017 also marks the centenary of Romero’s birth, an event which is being marked in his native country by a special anniversary year. Throughout Latin America and in countries around the world, his life and legacy is also being celebrated through liturgies, pilgrimages, study days and commemorative lectures.Among those organizing activities for this feast day in the UK is Julian Filochowski, head of the London-based Romero Trust. He told Philippa Hitchen why he expects this year’s events to have a particular significanceListen: Julian Filochowski explaind that the Blessed Oscar Romero was born on the feast of the assumption on the 15th of August in 1917, so this year, 2017 we celebrate the centenary of his birth which falls two years after his...
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal William Henry Keeler, who helped ease tensions between Catholics and Jews and headed the oldest Catholic diocese in the U.S. for 18 years, died on Thursday. He was 86 years old.Archbishop William Lori announced in a statement that Keeler died at St. Martin's Home for the Aged in Catonsville. Cardinal Keeler retired in 2007 as the head of the archdiocese of Baltimore.He devoted much of his clerical life to improving ties with other denominations. From 1992 to 1995, he was president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. He also served as moderator for Catholic/Jewish Relations and was a member of the Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs.The President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston released a statement remembering Cardinal Keeler as someone who "was greatly known for his work as a faith leader in ecumenism and interreligious affairs". Cardinal Di...
