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Is Catholicism about faith and compassion, or rigid doctrine and exclusion? According to a group of conservative Catholics who just accused Pope Francis of spreading heresy, it’s the latter. Sixty-two (somewhat marginal) Catholic scholars and clergy have signed a letter that disputes Francis’ signaling of his willingness to allow divorced and remarried people to receive […]

The US military is planning to deploy the USNS Comfort hospital ship to assist with FEMA’s response efforts in Puerto Rico a week after Hurricane Maria smashed the island as a Category 4 storm, several defense officials told CNN. The Comfort is a seagoing medical treatment facility “capable of providing resuscitation and stabilization care; initial […]

President Donald Trump will continue his outreach across the aisle Wednesday when he flies to Indiana with Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly aboard Air Force One. It’s the second time this month that the President will travel with a Democrat up for re-election in a state that voted heavily for Trump. On September 6, Sen. Heidi […]

The FBI has arrested 10 people, including college basketball coaches and high-level apparel company employees, in connection with an alleged widespread college basketball scheme. The United States Attorney’s Office in New York filed three complaints that allege fraud and corruption in the “dark underbelly of college basketball,” acting US Attorney Joon H. Kim said Tuesday […]

Reactions to NFL players taking a knee in football games since Sunday have been blowing up the Internet. If Monday was filled with images of players and vets taking the knee, Tuesday brought numerous examples of the backlash to what has gone from an expression of protest to a divisive issue. Fans burned jerseys; clubs […]

The U.S. Commerce Department backed Boeing in its challenge to Bombardier, recommending an enormous tariff on sales of Bombardier’s C Series jetliner, a major blow to the Canadian plane maker. The initial ruling by the International Trade Commission, an arm of the Commerce Department, recommends a 219.63% tariff on the delivery of each airliner, according […]

The lives of 12 hospitalized children in San Juan, Puerto Rico, are in danger due to a diesel shortage after extensive damage to the US island territory’s fuel supply infrastructure, a hospital administrator said. The children depend on ventilators to survive, according to Domingo Cruz Vivaldi, executive director of the San Jorge Children’s Hospital. But […]

Nearly one in every six cases of HIV in Europe is diagnosed in people over the age of 50, a new study has found. Between 2004 and 2015, the number of new HIV diagnoses increased by 2.1% each year among this age group, with people over 50 accounting for 17.3% of new HIV cases diagnosed […]

Apple, Alphabet and Samsung’s future forays into medical software could get speedier FDA approval thanks to a new program announced Tuesday. The FDA is launching a pilot program that will give vetted tech companies pre-approval to work on medical software. The government agency oversees drug and medical device approval, in addition to food and health […]

A cancer cluster is suspected at a Cincinnati police headquarters building, according to the Police Department’s union president. Sergeant Dan Hils, who spoke on the steps of the headquarters Tuesday morning, called on the city’s mayor and council members to relocate police officers working at the District 5 headquarters building before Christmas with a deadline […]

New descriptions of the infamous Russian-bought politically themed ads on Facebook shared with CNN suggest at least some of the ads were working at cross purposes on a range of issues. Sources with knowledge of the ads tell CNN that they ranged from posts promoting gun rights and the Second Amendment to posts warning about […]

Aerosmith will be missing a thing or two on its Aero-Vederci tour. The rock band announced on Tuesday it would cancel the remaining four dates of its South American leg due to frontman Steven Tyler’s “unexpected medical issues.” “Steven is expected to make a full recovery,” the band said in a statement released on Tyler’s […]

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is known for mandating note-free meetings, he’s the only administrator to have requested his 24/7 own security detail and now he’s about to have his own sound-proof booth. The EPA is spending close to $25,000 to construct a secure space for Pruitt within the agency, according to government contracting […]

The headlines about football players and chronic traumatic encephalopathy – commonly known as CTE – seem endless. The most recent diagnosis of the neurodegenerative brain disease’s – was given to former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez. But one of the biggest obstacles in understanding CTE has been the inability to diagnose it in the living. […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening is expected to raise about $5 million at a high-dollar fundraiser here with some of his wealthiest supporters. A week ago, the Republican National Committee revealed it is paying in part for the President’s personal legal bills stemming from the federal investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential role in […]

New descriptions of the infamous Russian-bought politically themed ads on Facebook shared with CNN suggest at least some of the ads were working at cross purposes on a range of issues. Sources with knowledge of the ads tell CNN that they ranged from posts promoting gun rights and the Second Amendment to posts warning about […]

It’s not repeal and replace, it’s rewind. No matter what the outcome of Republican efforts to trash Obamacare, every day of the 2018 midterm election is looking eerily for them like 2010 did for Democrats. Even now, I still have traumatic flashbacks to that electoral tsunami. At about this point in the 2010 midterm election […]

Puerto Rico is battling a massive economic and humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Power is still out across most of the island, and it could be months before it comes back online. Flights that can deliver supplies to victims are limited. And while it’s not clear yet how much it will cost […]

In 2016, Americans were infected with more than 2 million new cases of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia, the highest number of these sexually transmitted diseases ever reported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. “Clearly we need to reverse this disturbing trend,” said Dr. Gail Bolan, director of CDC’s Division of STD Prevention. […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday intensified his personal involvement in the growing crisis in Puerto Rico amid criticism that his response to the devastation there was lackluster. There was an increased sense of urgency at the White House in confronting the situation, including Trump’s announcement — a surprise to some aides — that he would […]

The IRS is now sharing information with special counsel Robert Mueller about key Trump campaign officials, after the two entities clashed this summer over both the scope of the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election and a raid on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s home, people briefed on the matter tell CNN. […]

When Hurricane Maria barreled across Puerto Rico, devastating buildings with wind and flooding and wiping out the power infrastructure, the safety and livelihood of more than 3.4 million Americans hung in the balance. But has Puerto Rico’s lack of statehood caused the federal government and broader American public to overlook its fellow citizens? President Donald […]

If brevity is the soul of wit, Twitter is about to get a lot less clever. For the first time in history, Twitter is changing its character limit. The service announced on Tuesday it is doubling its character count for tweets — from 140 characters to 280 characters — for some of its users. The […]

America’s top military officer, Gen. Joseph Dunford, told Congress Tuesday that China will pose the “greatest threat” of any foe to the US by 2025. “I think China probably poses the greatest threat to our nation by about 2025,” Dunford told the Senate Armed Services Committee during a hearing on his re-appointment as Chairman of […]

The Washington Post is marking a milestone in its transition from being a local print newspaper to a national news website. “Earlier this year, we crossed the 1 million mark for paid digital-only subscribers,” the Post’s publisher Fred Ryan revealed in an internal memo on Tuesday. The news stood out to staffers because the Post […]