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CLEVELAND (AP) -- In a rambling video, Steve Stephens said, "I snapped, I just snapped." But as the manhunt dragged on Monday for the man accused of posting Facebook footage of himself killing a retiree, police were unable to explain what set him off....
PANMUNJOM, South Korea (AP) -- The White House displayed a tough and unyielding approach to North Korea and its nuclear ambitions Monday, with President Donald Trump warning that Kim Jong Un has "gotta behave" and Vice President Mike Pence sternly advising Kim not to test America's resolve and military power....
By Julie AsherWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Agrass-roots effort calling on Catholic churches around the world to celebrate aspecial Mass on the May 8 birthday of the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen couldsee its goal of 1,000 Masses soon reached.As of April 13, close to900 churches had pledged to celebrate a Mass in memory of the prelate, who wasan Emmy-winning televangelist and who spread the Gospel message far and wide ashead of the Propagation of the Faith from 1950 to 1966.Lo Anne Mayer, a NewJersey Catholic, is one of those who launched the Mass effort in January. Shealso knew and greatly admired Archbishop Sheen, who is a candidate forsainthood.Mayer told Catholic NewsService the idea for the Masses is to not only celebrate the archbishop'slife, ministry and legacy but also to "storm heaven" with prayers forhis canonization.She felt he was a saintthe first time she met him. When he spent time with her and her husband andtheir six children, she observed his gentle manner with the childre...
BOSTON (AP) -- The Kenyans are back in Boston after a relative lull that saw them shut out in the world's most prestigious marathon twice in the past three years....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have witnessed the first modern case of what they call "river piracy" and they blame global warming. Most of the water gushing from a large glacier in northwest Canada last year suddenly switched from one river to another....
PARIS (AP) -- The impossible is now possible, French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said in celebration the morning after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency. But the Trump effect may not bring Le Pen the boost she had once expected....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Neil Gorsuch dived into the public side of his new job Monday, piping up early and often as he took his seat on the Supreme Court bench for the first time to hear arguments....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A doctor who saw Prince in the days before he died had prescribed the opioid painkiller oxycodone under the name of Prince's friend to protect the musician's privacy, according to court documents unsealed Monday that revealed nothing about how the pop superstar got the fentanyl that actually killed him....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas moved forward with its attempt to begin a series of double executions Monday night despite rulings in state and federal courts that the inmates were entitled to additional appeals....
