WASHINGTON – Religious parents in one of the nation’s most liberal counties are clashing with public school officials over whether elementary students should be allowed to opt out of reading books with LGBTQ+ characters, the latest culture war battle being waged inside the classroom. Three sets of parents and an advocacy group representing other families…
Ft. Pierce, Florida CNN — A Mar-a-Lago property manager and former President Donald Trump’s personal aide are set to be arraigned Thursday morning in Fort Pierce, Florida, on new charges brought by the special counsel in the case regarding the mishandling of classified documents. Carlos De Oliveira, the Florida property manager, and Trump’s body-man Walt…
It took just two words for Judy Kinser to describe how the rare wildfires engulfed her beloved historic church on the island of Maui which just celebrated its 200th anniversary three months ago. “Destroyed. Devastating,” Kinser, the treasurer and office administrator at the Waiola Church in Lahaina, Hawaii, said Wednesday. “Not sure if the church…
The Department of Justice is shelling out more than $6 billion to private companies to manage its asset forfeiture investigations, raising alarm from one nonprofit law firm that accuses police of “treating ordinary Americans like ATMs” and seizing their cash. “You’ve probably heard the adage, ‘you’ve gotta spend money to make money.’ Here, it’s ‘you’ve…
CNN — President Joe Biden is turning to a reliably Republican state – and its GOP governor – to highlight one of his key bipartisan accomplishments he’s trying to sell to voters heading into 2024. The visit to Utah, where he arrived Wednesday, caps a four-day sales pitch through the West as he seeks to…
Threats to local authorities so serious they are under criminal investigation. A lawman’s vow to take the first-ever mug shot of a former U.S. president. A region known for its violent extremist groups and a state’s lax gun control laws. These are some of the reasons the security scenarios for Donald Trump’s fourth criminal case,…
NEW YORK – While the head of the Ohio Catholic Conference acknowledges the tall task ahead of defeating a pro-abortion amendment to the state’s constitution this fall, he doesn’t agree that the recent rejection of a measure that would’ve helped defeat the amendment means the battle is already lost. “We certainly did not see it…
MUMBAI – A papal delegate to the Syro-Malabar Church has made clear that his role is not to mediate a liturgical dispute that has left the church’s largest archdiocese effectively paralyzed for months, but rather to implement the controversial changes in the celebration of the Mass which have been approved both by the church’s bishops…
For an entire generation of young people – some of them misfits and some cool kids, some convinced Catholics but also plenty of folks on the fence and free-spirited seekers – Pope Francis at the recent World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, had a clear answer: “Yes, there is room for all of you in…
Answering frantic calls of suicide, car accidents or a child choking are daily realities for 911 operators, who often never get closure on the tragedies they experience on the other end of a phone line. With the help of artificial intelligence, operators’ mental health could be bolstered at a time when the majority of call…