AUGUST 26, 2018
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick speaks during a memorial service in South Bend, Ind. at Seton Hall University in 2015. A former Vatican ambassador said Pope Francis and Pope Benedict were aware of Cardinal McCarrick’s alleged sexual misconduct for years before his behavior exploded into view this summer. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP, Pool, File)
DUBLIN —...
AUGUST 26, 2018
George W. Bush honors McCain as a 'man of deep conviction and a patriot of the highest order'
John McCain requested that former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush deliver eulogies at his funeral, CBS News has confirmed. McCain, who had been suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer, died Saturday at the age of 81...
AUGUST 26, 2018
Park Geun-hye arriving in court a year ago. An appeals court added a year to the ousted South Korean president’s prison term on Friday. - (Credit - Pool photo by Kim Hong-Ji)
SEOUL, South Korea — Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s impeached and ousted president, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison, as an appeals court convicted her...
AUGUST 25, 2018
Sen/. John McCain in 2017.- AP
Sen. McCain, 81, died Aug. 25 at his ranch near Sedona, Ariz., his office announced in a statement. The senator was diagnosed last July with a brain tumor, and his family announced this week that he was discontinuing medical treatment.
During three decades of representing Arizona in the Senate, he ran twice...
AUGUST 25, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Long before the convictions last week of two former members of President Trump’s inner circle, the political left’s expectations for the Russia investigation were at a fever pitch.
Democrats predicted that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, would break with a half-century of policy and prosecute a sitting president. One MSNBC panel considered how...
AUGUST 25, 2018
Congress president Rahul Gandhi at an interactive session at the London School of Economics on August 24, 2018. | Photo Credit: PTI
Whether Rafale or Mallya and Nirav or employment scene, Congress president brings up the Prime Minister’s name
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being “unpatriotic” for misusing public anger over...
AUGUST 25, 2018
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan delivers his address in Islamabad, Pakistan. File | Photo Credit: AP
The Prime Minister also decided to stop using special plane for foreign visits or domestic travelling and use business class.
Pakistan’s new government has banned the discretionary use of state funds and first-class air travel by officials and leaders, including the President...
AUGUST 25, 2018
NASA obviously has a huge interest in mankind exploring space, so it would make sense that the administration’s newly-appointed chief shares the same interests. In a recent interview with Space.com, NASA’s newly-appointed boss Jim Bridenstine makes a couple of interesting declarations, but starts by assuring everyone that he wants to get as many humans as possible off...
AUGUST 25, 2018
Former CIA Director John Brennan issued one of his most stern rebukes yet of President Trump on Friday night, arguing that the political climate in the country is likely to get worse under his tenure.
"Fundamentally, though, what he's doing to this country, he's dividing us...He's dividing Americans," Brennan said of the president during an appearance on HBO's...
AUGUST 25, 2018
Prosecutors are edging closer and closer to President Trump's business empire, a fact underlined by the news Friday of an immunity deal reportedly given to the Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer.
While it is unclear that CFO Allen Weisselberg's reported deal - first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Friday - puts Trump in any specific...
