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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Intelligence officials believe North Korea will have a reliable, intercontinental missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon as early as next year, according to a report published Tuesday amid a warning from a top Republican lawmaker who says he has grown increasingly alarmed about Pyongyang's weapons program....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department escalated its promised crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities Tuesday, saying it will no longer award coveted grant money to cities unless they give federal immigration authorities access to jails and provide advance notice when someone in the country illegally is about to be released....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The maverick stood with his party on Tuesday, casting a crucial vote in the Republican drive to repeal "Obamacare." But then, like an angry prophet, Sen. John McCain condemned the tribal politics besetting the nation....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Prodded by President Donald Trump, a bitterly divided Senate voted at last Tuesday to move forward with the Republicans' long-promised legislation to repeal and replace "Obamacare." There was high drama as Sen. John McCain returned to the Capitol for the first time after being diagnosed with brain cancer to cast a decisive "yes" vote....
Jerusalem, Jul 25, 2017 / 11:35 am (CNA/EWTN News).- As conflict has erupted once again between Israelis and Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the Latin Patriarchal Vicar said that the Catholic Church has a unique role to play in bringing about justice and peace.“When two religious communities lay claim to the same area, we have a recipe for disaster, particular when members of the two communities are also involved in a political, territorial and historical conflict,” Fr. David M. Neuhaus told CNA July 24.“The Church has a very special vocation in Israel/Palestine. Without power of any kind, the Church is free from playing political games and can be a voice that speaks out for truth, justice and peace.”The Church has important assets “to contribute to building a reality of justice and peace instead of the war and violence that dominate,” he said.The site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, where the al-Aqsa Mosque is...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sashenka Gutierrez, EPABy David AgrenMEXICO CITY (CNS) -- Anexplosive device was detonated outside the offices of the Mexican bishops'conference, directly across the street from the country's most visitedreligious site, the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.A statement provided to CatholicNews Service by Armando Cavazos, bishops' conference media director, saidan explosion occurred July 25 at around 1:50 a.m. outside the main entrance to its offices in northern Mexico City. The type of device used remainedunknown, and detectives were investigating the explosion, the statement said.Motives for the detonation were unclear."It appears this is not thefirst case that has occurred in this area of CDMX," the statement said,using Mexico City's abbreviation.The bishops' offices occupy abusy strip across the street from the sanctuary of the Basilica of Our Lady ofGuadalupe. The area is swarmed by pilgrims and tourists during the daytime andis transited by commuters in rush ho...
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thousands of Palestinian Muslims prayed in the streets near Jerusalem's most contested holy site Tuesday, heeding a call by clergy to not enter the shrine despite Israel's seeming capitulation when it removed metal detectors it installed there a week earlier....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A U.S. Navy patrol boat fired warning shots Tuesday near an Iranian vessel that American sailors said came dangerously close to them during a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf, the first such incident to happen under President Donald Trump. Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guard later blamed the American ship for provoking the situation....
