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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is planning to meet with his incoming national security adviser in the aftermath of a rattling day of violence around the world....
BERLIN (AP) -- German investigators were searching Wednesday for the killer or killers in Monday's attack on a crowded Berlin Christmas market after a man arrested soon after the rampage was released for lack of evidence and the Islamic State group claimed responsibility....
TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) -- The San Pablito fireworks market was especially well stocked for the holidays and bustling with hundreds of shoppers when a powerful chain-reaction explosion ripped through its stalls, killing at least 29 people and leaving dozens more badly burned....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Richard Marx says he wasn't a hero for apparently intervening after an unruly passenger disrupted a Korean Air flight and had to be restrained....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Volkswagen reached a deal that will give at least some owners of the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles caught in the company's emissions cheating scandal the option of a buyback and provide compensation to all of them on top of any repurchase or repairs, U.S. regulators and a federal judge said Tuesday....
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- After ceding to the competition in China earlier this year, ride-hailing company Uber is shifting focus to Brazil, Latin America's most populous nation....
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A tiny young woman crouches just outside the airport, crying softly into her thin shawl. It's cold out, but her sleeping toddler is heavy and warm in her arms....
BERLIN (AP) -- The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for a truck attack on a crowded Berlin Christmas market that German authorities said came right out of the extremist group's playbook, inflicting mass casualties on a soft target fraught with symbolic meaning....
TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) -- A powerful chain-reaction explosion ripped through Mexico's best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital Tuesday, killing at least 29 people, injuring scores more and sending a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the sky....
IMAGE: CNS photo/iconographer Vivian Imbruglia, courtesy Archdiocese of Denver By DENVER (CNS) -- DenverArchbishop Samuel J. Aquila Dec. 18 formally opened the sainthood cause ofJulia Greeley, a former slave who spent her days caring for the poor, during aMass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Denver.Born into slavery in Missouri inthe 1840s, Julia Greeley gained her freedom after the Civil War and worked as ananny. She moved to Denver, where she was employed to care for the children ofWilliam Gilpin, the first territorial governor of Colorado.Known for her love of childrenand the poor, Greeley also was a known for her piety, often passing out prayercard devotions to the Sacred Heart. She was a convert to Catholicism.Despite working long hourstaking care of children, cooking and cleaning, she would often be seen walkingat night through the streets of Denver pulling a small wagon of food andsupplies, which she would deliver to poor families. She was k...
