Health / Disease

Vatican says U.S. nuns must promote church teachings

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican insisted after a high level meeting Tuesday that American nuns must faithfully promote age-old church teachings, after the women were accused by Rome of flouting core doctrine and taking an overly liberal "feminist" bent.

Sister Pat Farrell and Sister Janet Mock, respectively president and ...

Doctors: Face-chewing victim 'awake and alert'

MIAMI — A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack along a busy Miami street is now 'awake and alert," according to doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center.

A photograph shown to reporters Tuesday portrayed Ronald Poppo walking down a hospital hallway, ...

Killings by police in L.A. County jump sharply

TruthNews.US - News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:25
LA Times | "With 612 people killed in the county last year, nearly 1 in every 10 such deaths occurred at the hands of law enforcement officers."

Fighting Sioux nickname clash heads to N.D. voters

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Voters are casting ballots Tuesday to resolve a bitter dispute over whether the University of North Dakota should save or scrap its Fighting Sioux nickname, even as supporters of the moniker promised to resume the battle this fall regardless of the outcome.

The issue has been simmering ...

Anti-Putin Protest Held in Moscow After Police Raid Homes of Kremlin Critics

TruthNews.US - News - Tue, 2024-11-26 18:25
ABC News | Yesterday Putin raided homes of prominent protest leaders in effort to curb violence against riot police, but were raids actually to deter protests?

Police leave home after search for Auburn suspect

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — After firing tear gas and searching with thermal imaging and tactical teams, authorities in Montgomery appeared to have left a home early Tuesday where they believed the man charged with fatally shooting three people near Auburn University might have been hiding.

Law enforcement swarmed the scene ...

Fractured gangs blamed for Chicago homicide surge

CHICAGO — There are many theories about what has caused a recent spike in Chicago's homicide rate, including a splintering of established drug gangs, the warm winter and high unemployment in some neighborhoods that seem a world away from the city's beaches, lush parks and skyscrapers.

The numbers clearly show ...

Ex-Penn State assistant coach McQueary testifies in Sandusky case

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary told jurors in Jerry Sandusky's sex-abuse trial Tuesday that he saw his ex-colleague with a prepubescent boy in an on-campus shower and that  he heard a "skin-on-skin smacking sound."

His account of the night differed little from his appearance ...

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