Minister Pablo Groux is slamming Sean Penn's proposal to a U.S. congressional subcommittee Monday that Bolivia be cut out of the Dakar motor sport rally unless it frees a U.S. citizen under house arrest.

Pope Francis' obsession with the devil has taken on remarkable new twists, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man from four different demons, despite the Vatican's denials that a papal exorcism took place.

A German company has the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce sold on the idea of a $400 million chemical plant, but a local environmental watchdog group still has some serious questions. Video