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WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers cut back sharply on hiring in March, yet Friday's jobs report still had much to be encouraged about, including a drop in the unemployment rate to 4.5 percent, the lowest in a decade....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch to become the newest associate justice on the Supreme Court Friday, elevating Donald Trump's nominee following a corrosive partisan confrontation that could have lasting impacts for the Senate and the court....
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A hijacked beer truck plowed into pedestrians at a central Stockholm department store Friday, killing four people, injuring 15 and sending screaming shoppers scattering in panic in what Sweden's prime minister called a terrorist attack....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia said Friday it was cutting a hotline intended to prevent midair incidents over Syria in response to the U.S. missile attack on a Syrian base. The response that demonstrates Moscow's readiness to defy Washington and could even put the two nuclear superpowers on a course toward military confrontation....
BEIRUT (AP) -- President Donald Trump's 59-missile message to Syria - the use of chemical weapons will not be tolerated - may well resonate with Bashar Assad....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on events in Syria (all times local):...
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The United States is looking into whether Russia participated in the Syrian chemical weapons attack that provoked President Donald Trump's airstrikes against the Assad government, a revelation that could have dramatic implications for relations between Washington and Moscow....
Vatican Weekend for April 8th, 2017 features a report on the Pope’s general audience, a look ahead to the upcoming papal visit to Egypt, a Lenten reflection on the fickleness of Jesus’ followers, a look at where we can see artwork depicting Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane and a reflection on the difficulties of being a Good Samaritan.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for April 9th, 2017 features our weekly reflection on the Sunday Gospel reading, “There’s more in the Sunday Gospel than Meets the Eye,” plus our resident Vatican watcher Joan Lewis reviews the past week’s events in the Vatican.Listen to this program produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Church leaders in the Philippines welcomed the signing of an agreement between the government and communist rebels to bring a temporary stop to armed clashes.The Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform (PEPP) said the outcome of the ongoing talks "shows that the concerns of the people are central to resolve the decades-old armed conflict in our land." The PEPP is an alliance of Catholic and Protestant church leaders who have been pressing for a negotiated end to the almost five-decade communist insurgency.The fourth round of formal talks between the government and the communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines ended on April 6 in the Netherlands. Both sides firmed up an agreement on free land distribution "as a basic principle of genuine agrarian reform.""This is the main message of the meeting ... and an achievement of the fourth round of talks," read a statement signed by both sides at the end of the talks. They earlier agreed to an int...
