WASHINGTON (AP) – Asked about Donald Trump’s views on immigration, Pope Francis says anyone who wants to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border isn’t Christian. Trump has promised to build a wall along the Mexican border from Texas to California and expel 11 million people who are in the country illegally if elected president.…
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – South Dakota’s governor could make the state the first in the U.S. to approve a law that would require transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their sex at birth. The state Senate approved the bill Tuesday. It now goes to Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who has…
Investigators also found significant amounts of human feces and spoiled food
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republicans are uniting behind Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in insisting that President Barack Obama’s successor fill the Supreme Court vacancy after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Democrats looking to reclaim the Senate majority immediately accused them of putting politics ahead of their constitutional responsibility. Vulnerable GOP incumbents in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,…
CHICAGO (AP) – More grandparents are taking on the role of parents for their grandkids, as social service agencies try to place foster children in so-called kinship families. Experts say the trend is likely to continue as the nation responds to the opiate epidemic. Military deployment and a growth in the number of incarcerated women…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A Nevada rancher is returning to court to seek his release from jail in Oregon, where he went to support the armed occupation of a national wildlife preserve. Cliven Bundy has a detention hearing set for Tuesday, when a federal judge will decide whether to allow him to go home as…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A mysterious brain disorder can be confused with early Alzheimer’s disease. It isn’t robbing patients of their memories, but rather their ability to talk about them. It’s called primary progressive aphasia, and researchers said Sunday they’re finding better ways to diagnose the rare syndrome so that people whose thoughts are lucid but…
