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UK will roll out chemical castration for sex offenders

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is to rollout the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package of measures to reduce the risk of reoffending and alleviate the pressures on the prison system, which is running out of ...

Pope Leo XIV makes first U.S. bishop appointment, fills San Diego vacancy

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history's first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California. Pham, 58, is currently an auxiliary bishop in the diocese. He fills the vacancy created when Pope ...

Personal secretary and adviser to Mexico City’s mayor killed in attack

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The personal secretary and an adviser to Mexico City's mayor were killed by gunmen on a motorcycle in a central neighborhood of the capital Tuesday, authorities said. Mayor Clara Brugada holds the second most powerful political post in the country to President Claudia ...

JD Vance gives Pope Leo XIV a Trump invitation to visit the US

By NICOLE WINFIELD and JACQUELYN MARTIN Associated Press ROME (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of the U.S.-led push for ceasefire negotiations in Russia's war in ...