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NEW YORK – A Massachusetts Catholic couple has sued the state, alleging that they were blocked from adopting children through the state’s foster care program because of their religious beliefs about marriage, sexuality and gender. Mike and Kitty Burke sued the state of Massachusetts Aug. 8, after what they say was an extensive application process…

Hong Kong CNN  —  The Chinese economy has slipped into deflation, with consumer prices falling for the first time in more than two years in another sign of weakening demand. The consumer price index (CPI) fell by 0.3% in July from a year ago, according to China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday. That’s the…

The 90,000 lay members and roughly 2,000 priests of Opus Dei, a worldwide Catholic organization which is currently the church’s lone personal prelature, learned Tuesday that Pope Francis has changed canon law in a way that may somehow affect them, though it is unclear exactly how the changes to canons 295 and 296 of the Church’s…

CNN  —  A brush fire burning in an Austin, Texas, suburb has destroyed one apartment building, damaged others and prompted evacuation orders Tuesday, officials said. The blaze had charred about 50 acres in Cedar Park, a city of about 77,000 people roughly 20 miles north of Austin, as of early Wednesday, the Texas A&M Forest…

SÃO PAULO – A group of Black Brazilians who attended the Aug. 1-6 World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, in order to hand in a letter to the pope about racism in Brazil and in the Church, now say they suffered racist attacks on more than one occasion during the event itself last week. One…

CNN  —  Police say additional charges are likely as they investigate a large, chaotic caught-on-video brawl at a riverfront dock in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday that has so far resulted in arrest warrants for three men. The incident began as a dispute over a dockside parking spot at Riverfront Park that led to the co-captain…

CNN  —  Abortion rights advocates on Tuesday won a critical victory in Ohio, beating back a measure that would have made their push to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution more difficult. CNN projected that voters in the state rejected a proposal known as Issue 1. Placed on the ballot during what’s ordinarily a…

Career prosecutor Wendy Patrick discusses an Oakland activist sounding the alarm about the city’s drug and homeless crisis on ‘Fox News @ Night.’ #Narcotic #tourism #cash #business #Wendy #Patrick

CNN  —  One of Ukraine’s greatest tragedies as it pursues a critical offensive that has, so far, failed to meet its own and Western expectations is that it cannot, by itself, decide its destiny. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government is dependent on a massive pipeline of US and western armaments. And Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose…