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WASHINGTON (AP) -- As a senator, Jeff Sessions became Congress' leading advocate not only for a cracking down on illegal immigration, but also for slowing all immigration, increasing mass deportations and scrutinizing more strictly those entering the U.S. As attorney general, he'd be well positioned to turn those ideas into reality....
NEW YORK (AP) -- British and German TV productions each won three International Emmys Monday night, including acting honors for Dustin Hoffman and Christiane Paul....
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Japan's prime minister said Monday the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal would be "meaningless" without U.S. participation, as Donald Trump announced he planned to quit the pact....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Hundreds of capitalistic markets, each with thousands or even tens of thousands of stalls, form the glue that holds North Korea's socialist planned economy together, say defectors who sold medicinal herbs, skinny jeans, TV sets, foreign drama CDs and other goods there to make a living....
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is urging governors and school leaders in states that allow student paddling to end a practice he said would be considered "criminal assault or battery" against an adult....
TOKYO (AP) -- Coastal residents fled to higher ground as a powerful earthquake sent a series of moderate tsunamis toward Japan's northeastern shore Tuesday and fueled concerns about the Fukushima nuclear power plant destroyed by a much larger tsunami five year ago....
A manhunt for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a veteran Texas police detective ended Monday with an arrest in the killing that was one of several weekend attacks against law enforcement in multiple states, authorities said....
Lima, Peru, Nov 21, 2016 / 03:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- When a deadly fire broke out at a mall in Lima, Peru last week, fire fighters responded to put out the flames and rescue those trapped inside the building.With them was Fr. Christopher Dunn Mahardy, the 62-year-old American Franciscan priest who serves as chaplain of the Volunteer Firemen's Company in the San Juan de Miraflores district in Lima.“I was praying the Rosary for the victims and for the firemen as they were working,” Fr. Christopher told CNA. “I also assisted the relatives of the people who died so they could regain their composure. When they pulled out one of the bodies I offered the final prayers.”On Nov. 16, a fire was reported in the movie theater at the Larcomar mall, located in the Miraflores district of Lima. At least four people were killed. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.The Expreso Peruvian daily reported that the fire occurred in the morning hours in Auditorium...
Kigali, Rwanda, Nov 21, 2016 / 03:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic bishops of Rwanda have apologized for Christians' role in the deadly 1994 genocide.“We apologize for all the wrongs the Church committed. We apologize on behalf of all Christians for all forms of wrongs we committed. We regret that church members violated (their) oath of allegiance to God’s commandments,” said Rwanda's Conference of Catholic BishopsThe statement, read at parishes across Rwanda, said that some Catholics planned, assisted, and executed the genocide. Hutu extremists killed over 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.Clergy members were included in the ranks of both perpetrators and victims. In some cases, Hutu priests, bishops and religious helped to hide and protect Tutsis. In other cases, they took up arms against them. They ushered victims into church buildings with false promises of security and then trapped and betrayed them, facilitating their massacre.“Forgiv...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairmanof the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities has called for increasedefforts and "renewed vigor" to stop legalized physician-assisted suicide afterthe practice was approved by voters in Colorado and the District of ColumbiaCity Council.Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of NewYork urged Catholics to join medical professionals, disability rights groupsand others "in fighting for the authentic care" of people facing terminalillness in a statement released Nov. 21."The act of prescribing a fatal,poisonous dose, moreover, undermines the very heart of medicine," CardinalDolan said. "Doctors vow to do no harm, and yet assisted suicide is theultimate abandonment of their patients."His concern comes after votersin Colorado passed a physician-assisted suicide measure that was on the ballotNov. 8. The law also allows insurance companies to refuse treatment of patientsthey consider terminal.Colorado became the sixth statein the nati...