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Washington D.C., Apr 28, 2017 / 03:23 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Friday, President Donald Trump announced his intention to appoint prominent pro-life legislative activist Charmaine Yoest as the new assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services.Yoest served for years as president and CEO of Americans United for Life, a pro-life law organization that works to coordinate and support the advance of pro-life legislation, particularly at the state level. She is currently a senior fellow at American Values in Washington, D.C.With a Ph.D. in American Government from the University of Virginia, Yoest also served as project director of a national study on paid parental leave in academia. She worked in the White House under Ronald Reagan in the Office of Presidential Personnel.In taking the position at Health and Human Service, Yoest will replace Kevin Griffis, who was recently named the new vice president of communications for Planned Parenthood.During his...
By Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- After Arkansas executed its fourthdeath-row inmate in eight days April 27, Sister Helen Prejean, a longtime opponentof capital punishment, said "future generations will look back upon theevents unfolding in Arkansas tonight with horror. The barbarity is overwhelming."SisterPrejean, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille, tweeted that message 30minutes after Kenneth Williams was pronounced dead.Hislawyers unsuccessfully petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay, saying theinmate should not be executed because three health care professionals haddetermined he was "intellectually disabled." Relatives of a mankilled by Williams in a crash during his 1999 escape from prison also pleaded withthe governor to call off his execution."Thereis nothing pro-life about the state-sanctioned killing of an intellectuallydisabled man," was just one of the many messages Sister Prejean tweeted duringWilliams' final hours. Catholic Mobilizing Network in Washington, ...
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The sedative midazolam is supposed to prevent condemned prisoners from suffering while they die, but opponents say several problematic executions involving the drug are evidence that it does not work consistently. They raised new concerns after an execution Thursday in Arkansas left the prisoner convulsing and pressing against his restraints....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress took the easy way out to keep the government open on the eve of Donald Trump's 100th day in office, passing a weeklong stop-gap spending bill Friday that amounted to more of a defeat for the president than a victory....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A prominent Florida eye doctor accused of political corruption was convicted of Medicare fraud Friday, increasing the odds that federal prosecutors could pressure him to testify against New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Washington lobbying firm that worked under the direction of Paul Manafort's firm registered Friday with the Justice Department as a foreign agent - the same day a spokesman for Manafort backed off his previous statement that Manafort had decided to register....
President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to find new ocean expanses in the Atlantic and the Arctic for offshore drilling is unlikely to reach its goals anytime soon, but instead will kick off a yearslong review and a legal battle....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas' governor said Friday that he sees no reason for anything beyond a routine review of the state's execution procedures after a condemned inmate lurched and convulsed 20 times during a lethal injection that involved a controversial sedative....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The Latest on North Korea test-firing a missile Saturday (all times local):...