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EDITOR'S NOTE: On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial meltdown that instilled fear in hundreds of thousands of nearby residents and changed the way Americans viewed the technology. With the announcement Tuesday that Exelon Corp. plans to close the plant unless the state gives it some financial help, The Associated Press is republishing an April 8, 1979, story examining the day of the accident and the seven days...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Cheap natural gas could do what the worst commercial nuclear power accident in U.S. history could not: put Three Mile Island out of business....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Amazon, the internet goliath that revolutionized the way much of the world buys books, toilet paper and TVs, hit a new milestone Tuesday. Its stock surpassed the $1,000 mark for the first time....
BEIRUT (AP) -- As the U.S.-led coalition ratchets up operations in Syria, there are concerns that it will result in a rerun of what happened in Iraq, where $1 billion in weapons supplied to local fighters are unaccounted for....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Justin Bieber, Coldplay and Katy Perry will join Ariana Grande at a charity concert in Manchester, England, on Sunday....
Police found Tiger Woods asleep at the wheel on the side of a six-lane Florida road in the dark of morning, the engine running and his right blinker flashing. His speech was slow and slurred, though there was no alcohol in his system and he didn't know how far away he was from home....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fired Tuesday for inaccuracies on his job application, while the officer who drove the patrol car the day of the shooting was suspended for violating a tactical rule....
Archbishop Thumma Bala of Hyderabad diocese has called on the clergy, religious and the faithful to participate in the spiritual activities to make reparation for the desecration of the Church committed last week in Telangana state. Our Lady of Fatima Church in Keesara, Medchal district of Telangana State, was inaugurated on May 13, on the hundredth anniversary of the Apparition of our Lady at Fatima to three shepherd children. On May 21, about 100 people instigated by some religious fundamentalists and anti-social elements vandalized the newly built Church. In his appeal, Bishop Thumma Bala has urged the local Catholics to respond with prayers to the damage done. In response to this appeal a Eucharistic worship will be held in St. Mary’s High School secunderabad on May 30, followed by Mass which will be presided over by the archbishop, following Friday Eucharistic adoration of two hours in all the parishes of the diocese and the recitation...
(Vatican Radio) The United Nations has named a three-member team headed by an Indian woman lawyer to probe alleged atrocities by Myanmar’s security forces against Rohingya Muslims, a move that has been long opposed by the government. The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli of El Salvador, on Tuesday appointed India’s Supreme Court lawyer, Indira Jaising to head the team that includes Sri Lankan lawyer Radhika Coomaraswamy and Australian rights consultant Christopher Dominic Sidoti.The Council decided on 24 March to urgently dispatch an independent international fact-finding mission to “establish facts and circumstances of the alleged recent human rights violations by military and security forces, and abuses, in Myanmar, in particular in Rakhine State”. Crimes against humanitySome 75,000 Rohingya fled northwestern Rakhine state to Bangladesh after the Myanmar army carried out a security ope...
Secretary General of the Catholic Diocese of Yei in South Sudan has urged politicians in that country to seek to become holy politicians. Fr Emmanuel Lodongo Sebit told parishioners of Christ the King Cathedral in Yei that, “It is not a sin to be a politician, but acts that do not help build the nation are the things that God dislikes,” South Sudan’s Radio Easter reported.Fr Lodongo Sebit said a Christian vision of politics should not be limited to acquiring and struggling for power. He urged politicians to emulate former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere whom the Church declared Servant of God in 2005. This was the first step indicating the start of the process that could lead to Nyerere’s possible beatification and eventual canonisation as a saint. In 2011, Pope Benedict XVI on an Apostolic Visit to Benin said Africa needs holy politicians. Pope Benedict said Africa also needs good governance which comes about as result of respect for Cons...
