new hampshire

Kasich scores in NH as Trump, Sanders cruise to wins

Kasich scores in NH as Trump, Sanders cruise to wins

NBP Staff

MANCHESTER, N.H. — While the Republican and Democratic winners of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary came as no surprise on Tuesday, voters for GOP contenders vaulted Ohio Gov. John Kasich out of relative obscurity into second place while deflating the momentum of both Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz coming out of last week's Iowa caucuses.

New York billionaire Donald Trump was declared the winner of the Republican voting within a minute of polls closing in New Hampshire, while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders swept to victory on the Democratic side, adding credibility to the campaigns of both. Opinion polls heading into election day projected strong wins for both. Exit surveys of voters showed deep dissatisfaction with the federal government and politics as usual among supporters of both upstart candidates.

Young, white Americans are addicted to this (and what Catholics should do about it)
Rhode Island

Young, white Americans are addicted to this (and what Catholics should do about it)

Catholic News Agency

Providence, R.I. (National Catholic Register) — When recent headlines marked a spike in drug overdoses for white, middle-class Americans, the news saddened but did not surprise Deacon Timothy Flanigan, an HIV specialist at Brown University medical school in Providence, R.I.

Beyond the classroom, Flanigan has directed the HIV care program at the Rhode Island state prison for two decades. He knows better than most Americans that no group is immune from the ravages of drug addiction and that controversial medical protocols for treating pain have brought this scourge to bedrock communities as well as inner-city neighborhoods.

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