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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In late November, a member of Donald Trump's transition team approached national security officials in the Obama White House with a curious request: Could the incoming team get a copy of the classified CIA profile on Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States?...
PARIS (AP) -- France's election campaign watchdog is investigating a hacking attack and document leak targeting presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron that his political movement calls a last-ditch bid to disrupt Sunday's tense runoff vote....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's choice for Army secretary withdrew his nomination on Friday in the face of growing criticism over his remarks about Muslims, and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans....
PARIS (AP) -- Many feared this was coming....
Once I tried to squeeze a jogging run in between thunderstorms..
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, May 5, 2017 / 09:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Following the Cuban bishops' ad limina meeting with Pope Francis on Thursday, one of the nation's bishops commented that the island is eagerly awaiting change.“Cuba is waiting for change. Some changes happen faster than others, but we Cubans, whatever our personal ideas may be, realize that the people can live in better spiritual and material conditions, and that things must change,” Archbishop Dionisio García Ibáñez of Santiago de Cuba told Vatican Radio May 4.“They are economic and social changes, which necessarily go together … There are cultural changes which are rather rapid, especially among the youth who have familiarity with digital means of communication and have another mode of thinking. This makes the world come to Cuba and come to know better its reality. Political change is also to be expected: it is the structures, and above all the legal one, which ha...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory A. ShemitzBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- At a White House Rose Garden ceremonyMay 4, President Donald Trump told a group of religious leaders: "It waslooking like you'd never get here, but you got here, folks," referring to theirpresence at the signing of the executive order on religious liberty.Andmaybe some in the group wondered where "here" was since they hadn't evenseen the two-page executive order they were gathered to congratulate and only knewthe general idea of it from a White House memo issued the previous night withjust three bullet points.The orderdidn't seem to part any seas to make an immediate path to religious freedom,especially since it places decisions for how this will play out in the hands offederal agencies and the attorney general.Catholicleaders in general seemed to view it with cautious optimism, praising the orderas a first step but not the final word.CardinalDaniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Confe...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Having former first lady Michelle Obama tweet your telephone number is one way to get a lot of attention....
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Plant scientist Douglas Shaw spent his career toiling in the fields in California to grow the perfect strawberry, one that was plump and bright red yet remained sweet even after the long trip to grocery stores across the country....
BOSTON (AP) -- Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez was a member of the Bloods street gang and was disciplined for having gang paraphernalia, according to newly released documents related to the investigation into his prison suicide....
