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Associated Press Atlanta – Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue stepped up to a podium outside the state Capitol on Tuesday and led a solemn crowd of several hundred people in a prayer for rain on his drought-stricken state. “We’ve come together here simply for one reason and one reason only: To very reverently and respectfully pray…

Associated Press Baltimore – Chicago Cardinal Francis George, a defender of Catholic orthodoxy with extensive experience in Rome, was elected Tuesday as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. George won overwhelmingly in a vote at the fall meeting of the nation’s bishops. He had served the last three years as the conference vice…

Associated Press – November 12, 2007 HERZLIYA, Israel – Google is not the address for stopping online hate, the Israel director of the engine whose brand name is so well known that it means searching the Internet, told a conference on Monday. Organizers of the conference from the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that counters…

Associated Press – November 12, 2007 CONCORD, N.H. – Republican Mitt Romney said Monday he’s the decider, yet the presidential candidate has put aside his desire to deliver a speech about his Mormon faith on the advice of political staff – a move that speaks volumes about his campaign. The former Massachusetts governor provides the…

Associated Press – November 12, 2007 BALTIMORE – Pope Benedict XVI will make his first visit to the United States as pontiff next year, and plans to visit the White House, ground zero and speak at the United Nations, Archbishop Pietro Sambi told the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Monday. Benedict will travel to…

Associated Press – November 9, 2007 TRENTON, N.J. – Lawmakers in New Jersey, which hasn’t executed anyone in 44 years, will decide within two months whether to wipe the death penalty off the books, legislative leaders said Friday. If approved by the Legislature and Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a death penalty opponent, the move would…

United Press International – November 9, 2007 BERLIN, Nov 9, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) — The fall of the Berlin Wall 18 years ago Friday is not the only event in the history of Germany that occurred on the 9th day of November. At least four other significant events took place on that date, Deutsche…

United Press International LOS ANGELES, Nov 9, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) — The Los Angeles Police Department announced a mapping program used by its anti-terrorism bureau to identity likely terrorist breeding grounds in Muslim areas. Michael P. Downing, a deputy Los Angeles police chief, detailed a joint program with the University of Southern California to…

Associated Press New York – A priest has been arrested on charges of stalking late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien by writing him threatening notes on parish letterhead, contacting his parents and showing up at his studio, prosecutors said Wednesday. The Rev. David Ajemian, a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston, was arrested last week…

United Press International WASHINGTON – A majority of Americans asked said they support allowing civil unions for same-sex couples, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll indicated. A record 55 percent of people in the United States polled said they support such unions to give same-sex couples the same inheritance, pension and health insurance rights as…
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