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IMAGE: CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, ReutersBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- President-elect Donald Trump's commitments to nominate pro-lifejustices to the U.S. Supreme Court and support legislative efforts to limitabortion are invigorating abortion foes.Leadersin organizations such as U.S. bishops' Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities; NationalRight to Life, Americans United for Life and Susan B. Anthony List toldCatholic News Service that they are hopeful that Congress and eventually the SupremeCourt, with pro-life justices in place, will take steps to achieve thelong-standing goal of ending abortion altogether."Weare very excited about the new Trump administration because he took such astrong stand during the campaign," said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life."I think it's going to be a great few years."Suchenthusiasm stems not just from Trump's unexpected election, but also becauseRepublicans maintained control of both the House of Representatives (241-194) andthe ...
Mighty sequoias fell in sports in 2016, transformational figures who reshaped the games and the culture - from Muhammad Ali to Gordie Howe, from Arnold Palmer to Pat Summitt....
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- President Barack Obama's administration is expected to push through long-delayed safety measures for the nation's sprawling network of oil pipelines in its final days, despite resistance from industry and concern that incoming president Donald Trump may scuttle them....
TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) -- Relatives of workers at a fireworks market flattened by a deadly chain-reaction explosion searched hospitals for loved ones Wednesday as attention focused on apparent lax security that allowed vendors to display their dangerous wares in the passageways between stalls....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- He was a first-term senator-turned-president, a former law professor with little experience in economics or management. When he entered the White House he had one essential task: piece together the shards of a shattered U.S. economy....
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina Republicans grappled internally Wednesday with whether to repeal a 9-month-old law dictating which bathroom transgender people must use that damaged the state's economy and national reputation....
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump declared Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Germany was "an attack on humanity and it's got to be stopped."...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's president on Wednesday implicated a U.S.-based Muslim cleric in the killing of Russia's envoy to Turkey, saying the policeman who carried out the attack was a member of his "terror organization."...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Hundreds of rebel fighters and civilians, including small children swaddled in thick blankets, were bused out of war-ravaged Aleppo in heavy snow on Wednesday as the evacuation of former rebel strongholds entered its final phase....
PARIS (AP) -- The Tunisian now wanted throughout Europe has six aliases, three nationalities - and links to the same brand of Islamic extremism that has drawn at least 6,000 of his countrymen to jihadi networks....
