March 17, 2017 Feds, bishop announce reform plan to address child sex abuse A Roman Catholic diocese accused of a decadeslong cover-up of child sex abuse by clergy has reached an agreement with federal prosecutors on reforms to prevent future abuse and to provide better help for victims, including new reporting requirements and the creation of an independent oversight board.
March 17, 2017 Ex-sect members tell AP: Prosecutors obstructed abuse cases At least a half-dozen times over two decades, authorities investigated reports that members of a secretive evangelical church were being beaten.
March 17, 2017 The Latest: Feds, bishop have abuse plan in troubled diocese The Latest on reforms aimed at curbing child-sex abuse at a western Pennsylvania Catholic diocese (all times local): 1:45 p.m.
March 17, 2017 Top Israeli rabbi tells PM to act against US anti-Semitism An Israeli chief rabbi is imploring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak up about a recent wave of anti-Semitism and Jewish cemetery vandalism in the United States.
March 17, 2017 Egypt's Mukhabarat hires Washington lobbyists to boost image Egyptian intelligence has hired two U.S. public relations firms in Washington to lobby on the country's behalf and boost its image, the first such engagements by the country's powerful security apparatus to be made public.
March 17, 2017 AP-NORC Poll: Political divide over American identity Add one more to the list of things dividing left and right in this country: We can't even agree what it means to be an American.
March 17, 2017 Trump expected to sign new travel ban order President Donald Trump is preparing to sign a revised executive order temporarily barring the entry of people from certain Muslim-majority countries and halting the nation's refugee program.
March 17, 2017 Shock and grief after mother, 4 children die in house fire Residents of a small Massachusetts town are grieving the deaths of a woman and her four children who perished in a house fire that reduced their home to rubble.
March 17, 2017 Victims, Roman Catholic Church spar over NY sex abuse bill Victims of child sex abuse in New York say the political power of the Roman Catholic Church and other institutions is preventing lawmakers from passing a law that would relax one of the nation's tightest statutes of limitations on filing criminal charges and lawsuits.
March 17, 2017 Film spotlights human trafficking as Trump promises action A new documentary is spotlighting human trafficking across the globe, with a focus on the grassroots activists trying to end the scourge.
