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This year, Harvest Crusade takes shape as a cinematic event

LOS ANGELES (RNS) - Every year in August, tens of thousands of people fill the seats of Angel Stadium in Anaheim, not for baseball, but for the weekend-long Harvest Crusade. A tradition for more than ...

Aug 03, 2020

US Treasury projects record Q3 borrowing of $947 billion

WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department is projecting government borrowing of $947 billion in the current July-September period, which would be a record for the quarter but down from the all-time high of...

Aug 03, 2020

Navy investigates video of dogs attacking Kaepernick fill-in

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The U.S. Navy is investigating an incident in which dogs attacked a "Colin Kaepernick stand-in" during a K-9 demonstration during a 2019 fundraiser at the Navy SEAL Museum in F...

Aug 03, 2020

Spain's former king leaving country amid financial scandal

MADRID - Spain's former monarch, Juan Carlos I, says he is leaving Spain to live in another, unspecified, country amid a financial scandal, according to a letter published on the royal family's websit...

Aug 03, 2020

Steve McQueen sets 3 premieres at New York Film Festival

Three original films by Oscar-winner Steve McQueen will debut at the New York Film Festival this year, organizers said Monday. The "12 Years a Slave" director will get the opening night slot for the 1...

Aug 03, 2020

Tamar Braxton pays tribute to boyfriend for 'saving my life'

LOS ANGELES - Tamar Braxton is thanking her boyfriend for "saving my life" after her hospitalization last month. Braxton posted a lengthy message on social media late Saturday that paid tribute to Dav...

Aug 03, 2020

Pandemic parody of `Goodnight Moon' to be released in fall

NEW YORK - A popular online spoof of the children's favourite "Goodnight Moon," reworked for the coronavirus, will be published by Penguin Random House this fall. The Penguin imprint Philomel Books an...

Aug 03, 2020

Orphaned toddler grows up in shadow of massacre, coronavirus

An infant boy who survived a shooting last year that left his parents and 21 others dead now likes to thumb through picture books and dance to a Batman jingle with his grandmother, according to an unc...

Aug 02, 2020

Isaias nears virus-hit Florida after lashing the Bahamas

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Early bands of heavy rain from Isaias lashed Florida's east coast before dawn Sunday as authorities warily eyed the approaching storm, which threatened to snarl efforts to quell...

Aug 02, 2020

Zimbabwean author freed after night in jail for protest

HARARE, Zimbabwe - An internationally known Zimbabwean author and several other people have been released on bail on Saturday, after spending a night in police cells for protesting against the governm...

Aug 01, 2020