“There is need for hope and light at this time, particularly because of the darkness that sometimes surrounds us,” says Cardinal Timothy Dolan, “and the visit of Pope Francis to the United States is a carrier of this light.” After
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A suicide car bomber struck in the heart of the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Irbil, killing at least four people, according to initial reports in local Kurdish media. The blast in Irbil, capital of the
A road trip for a women’s basketball team in New York turned into a nightmare when the team bus became stranded in the snow in Western New York on Monday. Ultimately, the storm stranded the team for 26 hours. The
A cruise ship docked in San Pedro, California on Sunday after 172 of its over 4,100 passengers fell ill with the highly-contagious norovirus. The patients became ill over the course of a nearly monthlong trip which traveled from Los Angeles
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel vowed harsh retaliation Tuesday for a Palestinian attack that killed five people and left blood-smeared prayer books and shawls on the floor of a synagogue in Jerusalem — an assault that sharply escalated already-high tensions after
CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — Mass murderer Charles Manson has gotten a license to marry a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison. The Kings County marriage license, viewed Monday by The Associated Press, was issued Nov. 7 for the 80-year-old
In a story that tries to give President Barack Obama cover for his forthcoming executive amnesty, the Associated Press refuses to acknowledge that nearly all of the country’s illegal immigrants are already essentially protected from being deported. The Associated Press
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A surgeon working in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown Saturday to the United States for treatment, officials from Sierra Leone and the United States said. Dr. Martin Salia was
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s president said Thursday she is lifting a state of emergency imposed to control an Ebola outbreak that has ravaged the country, as Mali reported a fourth person now believed to have died of Ebola in
ISTANBUL (AP) — Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together against their opponents, a high-level
On Friday, Vice President Joe Biden formally announced a new asylum program that will allow juveniles in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to apply for refugee status from their home countries. And even some who do not meet the requirements
Oscar Taveras, the rookie outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals killed in a car crash in his native Dominican Republic on October 26, was drunk at the time of the crash, according to the Dominican Republic’s attorney general’s office. Tessie
The Associated Press has declared Republican Dan Sullivan the winner of the Alaska Senate race, though Democratic Sen. Mark Begich has yet to concede. Begich is waiting for thousands of ballots that have yet to be counted a week after
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The captain of a ferry that sank earlier this year, leaving more than 300 people — mostly schoolchildren — dead and shocking South Korea, was given a 36-year prison sentence Tuesday for negligence and abandoning
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in southern Pakistan killed 58 people on Tuesday, police said. The collision ignited a fuel fire, and a rescuer later described how he
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Enraged parents wept and screamed as a judge sentenced a South Korean ferry captain to 36 years in prison Tuesday for negligence and abandoning passengers when his ship sank earlier this year, killing more than
JENE-WONDE, Liberia (AP) — A schoolteacher brought his sick daughter from Liberia’s capital to this small town of 300 people. Soon he was dead along with his entire family, and they are now buried in the forest nearby along with
BEIRUT (AP) — At least four nuclear scientists and electric engineers were killed near Damascus after gunmen opened fire on their bus, a pro-government Syrian newspaper and activists said on Monday. There was no fighting around where the men were
The Muslim Brotherhood’s leading global voice, Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi, called on MuslimsThursday to fight “the greatest battle of liberation” against Israel and the Jews. In an Arabic message posted on his website and translated by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, Qaradawi called on Muslims
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. conducted a series of airstrikes targeting Islamic State leaders near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, U.S. military officials said Saturday. The airstrikes on Friday night destroyed a convoy of 10 armed trucks believed to
The Associated Press has projected Peters the winner over DeMaio after new results were released Friday evening in California’s highly competitive, highly targeted 52nd Congressional race. It’s been a razor thin margin between DeMaio and Peters up until Friday’s results.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister blamed “militant Islamic incitement” for growing tensions in Jerusalem, especially at a contested holy site that was ringed Friday by hundreds of Israeli riot police as about 15,000 Muslims performed weekly prayers there. The
The big story Tuesday night was the midterm shellacking Democrats took. Less amplified was the rejection of a law to provide drivers licenses to illegal immigrants in the blue state of Oregon. Measure 88 put the state’s law to grant
An indigenous woman of Paraguay was reportedly set on fire and shot with several arrows as a means of punishment after locals determined that she was likely a witch, according to a local prosecutor speaking to the Associated Press. The
In the aftermath of last night’s election, Republicans marveled at Governor John Kasich’s 30 point victory in Ohio, already sparking buzz for 2016. With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Kasich earned 63.8 percent of the votes against his Democratic
