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A combine harvests wheat near a wind turbine close to Lincoln, Kan., in this 2008 file photo. Two religious communities were pleased that two Midwest utilities recently agreed to publish climate risk assessment reports in alignment with the Paris climate accord. (CNS photo/Larry W. Smith, EPA) See SHAREHOLDERS-CLIMATE March 2, 2018.
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Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
"It's up to shareholders to put before corporations how important it is to work on less emissions."
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The last government shutdown -- well, threatened shutdown, anyway -- seems so long ago. The nine-hour "funding lapse" of Feb. 9, like the three-day shutdown that began Jan. 20, hinged on how Congress was going to address the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that President Donald Trump said he would end March 5. He also called on Congress to pass a measure to save the program, created in 2012 by President Barack Obama via executive order. In the January shutdown, Democrati
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Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service
In the January shutdown, Democratic lawmakers backed down on their threat to keep the government closed until a DACA deal was reached. ment funded through March 23 was overshadowed by the $1 trillion spending package of which it was a part.
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Rod McGuirk - Associated Press
Pell's lawyers told the court that the cardinal plans to formally plead not guilty.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Paul Stinson
The divergence in Texas might be viewed as a microcosm of the national debate over what it means to be pro-life.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott
The film "The Florida Project" depicts a new reality: families who live week to week in motels, unable to afford permanent housing.
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J.D. Long García
V Encuentro: How to reach fallen-away Latino Catholics