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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- Trailing with time running out, Donald Trump denounced both Hillary and Bill Clinton Thursday as creatures of a corrupt political system who would use another pass at the Oval Office to enrich themselves at the expense of American families. Clinton turned to popular first lady Michelle Obama to rally voters in North Carolina, a state that could deliver a knockout blow to Trump....
NEW YORK (AP) -- An airplane carrying Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence has slid off the runway while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- Law enforcement officers in riot gear and firing bean bags and pepper spray evicted protesters Thursday from private land in the path of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, dramatically escalating a dispute over Native American rights and the project's environmental impact that has simmered for months....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- The Latest on the Dakota Access oil pipeline protest (all times local):...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Cubs slugger Kyle Schwarber was followed by fans with cameras and cellphones. A couple of pitchers from the Cleveland Indians played hacky sack in the outfield....
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- As first ladies they could hardly have been more different. But as Democrats looking to fire up female voters, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton were firmly bonded on Thursday....
(Vatican Radio) The Catholic Archbishop of Juba said on Thursday that Pope Francis told him that he would like to visit South Sudan, a nation wracked by a bitter civil war. Archbishop Paolino Lukudu Loro said the dire situation in his homeland was described to the Pope during an earlier audience between the Holy Father and a delegation of Christian religious leaders from South Sudan. In addition to Archbishop Loro, the delegation included the Archbishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, the Rev. Daniel Deng Bul, and the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Sudan, the Rev. Peter Gai Lual Marrow. South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, has seen in recent months the resurgence of a brutal civil war between government troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and opposition forces following former deputy Reik Machar.Archbishop Lukudu Loro said all the religious leaders spoke during the papal audience about South Sudan’s war, the killings, the refugees an...
(Vatican Radio) Two Yazidi women who escaped sexual enslavement by the the so-called Islamic State group in Iraq have won Europe's top human rights award, the Sakharov prize for their advocacy work.Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Basharwere among thousands of Yazidi girls and women abducted by IS militants and forced into sexual slavery in two years ago.Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Its a long way from the luxurious surroundings in Brussels to receive the Sakharov award to where their ordeal began. They were abducted along with other Yazidi women in August 2014 when their home village of Kocho in northern Iraq was attacked by Islamic State militants as part of a wider campaign. Murad was captured alongside her sisters and lost six brothers and her mother, as the militants killed the village’s men and any women considered too old to be sexually exploited.Aji Bashar, whose brother and father were killed by Islamic State fighters, was also used as a sex slave by...
(Vatican Radio) In Haiti, over 2.1 million people were affected by Hurricane Matthew at the end of last month when torrential downpours and strong winds felled trees, swept away people and animals, and destroyed up to 90 percent of homes in some areas of the southwestern peninsula.Caritas Internationalis, the Catholic Church’s humanitarian agency is on the ground focusing on ensuring Haitians have food, clean water and hygiene items and shelter. It has launched an international appeal for 250,000 euros in the attempt to provide assistance to the most vulnerable and isolated who have been affected by the disaster. Clean water is in short supply and poor sanitation threatens to trigger another outbreak of cholera, a disease that has killed some 10,000 since the 2010 earthquake.Caritas Internationalis Secretary General, Michel Roy, has just returned from the stricken nation and spoke to Vatican Radio’s Marie Duhamel about the situation:Listen: Michel Roy describ...
Princeton, N.J., Oct 27, 2016 / 11:21 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As the contentious 2016 campaign season draws to a close, hundreds of university students are coming together to focus on strong marriages and sexual integrity as the bedrock of a health society.In the coming days, nearly 300 college-age students and alumni from 54 universities around the country will gather on the Princeton University campus for a conference that hopes to “re-energize a grassroots movement to change campus culture.”The goal of the gathering is to equip attendees with the knowledge and resources they need to effectively witness to an authentic understanding of love in their college communities, explained Caitlin La Ruffa, executive director of the Love and Fidelity Network, which is hosting the conference.“It’s not news to say that our culture has lost sight of the true meaning and purpose of sexuality and marriage,” La Ruffa said, “but the upcoming presidential election p...
