Associated Press Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Pakistan – Hundreds of thousands of mourners thronged the mausoleum of Pakistan’s most famous political dynasty on Friday in an outpouring of emotion for Benazir Bhutto. The government said al-Qaida and the Taliban were responsible for her death, claiming it intercepted an al-Qaida leader’s message of congratulation for the assassination.…

Associated Press New York – Long after most of its customers left the neighborhood to pursue the American Dream, the last matzo factory on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is moving out, saying goodbye to a part of town that was once the center of immigrant Jewish life in the U.S. Streit’s, a family-owned matzo-making giant…

Associated Press From Moscow to Washington to New Delhi and points in between, dismay and condemnation poured forth Thursday over the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, along with concern for the stability of the volatile region. World leaders lauded her bravery and commitment to democratic reform. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to…

Associated Press The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor’s living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches. And so the 53-year-old accountant from the Tampa, Fla., area pledged $500 a year to Joyce Meyer, the evangelist whose frank…

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