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FRANCE – Cardinal Philippe Barbarin offered his resignation Thursday to Pope Francis after a French court convicted him of failing to report a pedophile priest. Barbarin is the first cardinal to face trial on charges of…

NEW YORK – Disney CEO Bob Iger said Thursday the company dealt “privately” with scandals involving two ABC hosts who wore blackface. Iger was asked at a shareholders’ meeting in St. Louis about revelations that Jimmy Kimmel…

NEW YORK - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved esketamine nasal spray Tuesday to treat people with depression who have not found relief with traditional antidepressants. “There has been a long-standing need for…

WASHINGTON - More than 300 health care experts wrote to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday to urge the agency to re-evaluate its guidelines on opioid use for chronic pain. “Patients with chronic pain, who are…

WASHINGTON - Chinese hackers have been targeting U.S. universities to steal research about military equipment, security experts said. Most of the universities were studying undersea technologies, the Wall Street Journal …

VENEZUELA - Venezuela’s embattled socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro and his subordinates blamed the country’s widespread power outages on sabotage, cyberattacks and even Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Maduro’s rival Juan…

WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior (DOI) is expected to propose rolling back federal protections on gray wolf populations in the contiguous United States in the coming days, The Associated Press reports. Acting Interior…

WASHINGTON - A rhetorical brawl over climate change broke out on the Senate floor as Democrats chided Republicans for criticizing the Green New Deal without proposing an alternative plan. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and…

WASHINGTON - Retired coal miners from three states traveled to Washington, D.C., to lobby lawmakers and put in place a federal safety net in case the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) pension fund fails. Coal industry veterans…

OREGON – A substitute teacher is no longer allowed to teach in an Oregon school district after reportedly telling a student to “go back to Mexico.” Swegle Elementary School fifth grade student Steven Zendejas allegedly…