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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pope Francis urged hundreds of thousands of the faithful gathered Sunday for the biggest event of his U.S. visit to be open to “miracles of love,” closing out his joyful six-day trip with a message of hope for families, consolation for victims of child sexual abuse and a warning to America’s bishops. […]
Kanya Sesser, of Los Angeles, is breaking through the boundaries of the modelling industry by posing in bras and underwear in revealing photos that display…
NEW YORK (AP) — As world leaders descend on the United Nations this weekend, former President Bill Clinton will be taking them to East Africa through virtual reality. Viewers with special goggles will be able to follow Clinton’s travels in eight minutes. Footage was captured last spring with 360-degree cameras. What you see through the […]
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit dog owner has been sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty in the brutal mauling of a man who was attacked while feeding a pack of pit bulls. Sixty-two-year-old Derick Felton pleaded guilty earlier this month to harboring dangerous animals that caused injuries. He was sentenced Friday as […]
We have a happy update in the story of Sanise Diamonique Hall, the 14-year-old from Suffolk, Virginia who was reported missing in August. The teen, believed to have possibly been lured by an Internet predator has been found alive in Wisconsin, Virginia’s 13newsnow.com reports. Though her parents monitored her social media usage, Hall may have run […]
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — This time last year, Dr. Rick Sacra was given a second chance at life. On Sept. 25, 2014, the 52-year-old Massachusetts physician had just been discharged from an Omaha, Nebraska, hospital after being treated and cured of Ebola. Sacra had contracted the deadly virus while delivering babies in a Christian mission […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a man in a wheelchair by Wilmington police is being investigated by a new unit within the Delaware attorney general’s office that was established to help instill public trust in government, but the state NAACP is calling for an independent investigation by a special prosecutor. Authorities say […]
SEATTLE (AP) — A “duck boat” tour vehicle and a charter bus carrying foreign students to a college orientation event collided on a busy Seattle bridge Thursday, killing four people and sending dozens to hospitals. The crash happened on the Aurora Bridge, which carries one of the city’s main north-south highways over a lake. At […]
Pope Francis tackled issues of racial and social injustice, and abolishment of the death penalty, among other things.
About a third of the seats were unfilled in a convention center ballroom where Donald Trump spoke in South Carolina on Wednesday.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — At Wesleyan University, known for its liberal culture, a campaign to shut down the campus newspaper is coming from an unlikely source: its students. The student government for the liberal arts school is weighing a petition to strip The Wesleyan Argus of funding after some students objected to an opinion piece […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The police shooting of a man in a wheelchair was “an execution,” a relative said Thursday, but authorities described a different scenario, saying the man had a handgun when officers shot him to death. The shooting happened in Wilmington on Wednesday around 3 p.m. Police said in a brief statement that […]
