South Africa reels over Trump's offer of refugee status to white Afrikaners
President Trump's controversial executive order offering refugee status to the White Afrikaner minority in South Africa has enflamed tensions in the country and emboldened some who want to secede.
Shutdown Takes A Toll On GOP In Virginia Governor's Race
Republican Ken Cuccinelli had been trailing Democrat Terry McAuliffe by a few points in the polls before the partial government shutdown. But since then, McAuliffe's lead has clearly widened in a state that's home to many federal employees.
Heaven Is Waiting; Hell Is A Different Question, Nun Says
The Catholic Church has long held that saints are in communion with God after death, says Mary Catherine Hilkert, a Catholic theologian and Dominican Sister of Peace. But, she says, "never has there been a statement about anyone definitively being in hell."
Scott Carpenter, Second US Astronaut To Orbit Earth, Dies
Astronaut Scott Carpenter, one of NASA's original seven astronauts, has died at the age of 88. Carpenter was the second American to orbit the Earth.