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By Carol GlatzCAIRO (CNS) -- Placing flowers,lighting a candle and praying at the site where dozens of Coptic OrthodoxChristians were killed by an Islamic State militant last year, Pope Francis andCoptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II paid homage to those who were killed for theirfaith.Pope Francis and Pope Tawadroswalked in a short procession to the Church of St. Peter, where 29 people diedand 31 were wounded Dec. 11. The faithful chanted a song of martyrs, and someclashed cymbals under the darkened evening sky.Inside the small church, theleaders of several other Christian communities in Egypt as well as EcumenicalPatriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople sat before the congregation, whichincluded family members of the victims.A portion of one wall of thecomplex was splattered with blood, and pictures of those killed -- many withbright smiles to the camera -- were hung above. Some of the church's stonecolumns were pock-marked from the debris or shrapnel sent flying from theexplosion. Eac...
PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- A self-described psychic who scammed more than $1 million in cash and valuables from a dozen people she promised to protect from "dark forces" has been sentenced to eight years in prison....
MIAMI (AP) -- A Florida sheriff's deputy was sleeping Thursday afternoon when his 11-year-old daughter called and asked him to pick her up at her school bus stop. Seconds later, she started screaming into the phone, "Dad, help me, help me!"...
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) -- Macedonia's night of violence that saw protesters storm parliament and attack lawmakers elicited diametrically opposed reactions from world powers Friday, with Russia blaming the West for meddling in the Balkan nation's internal affairs and the European Union and United States saying the events were inconsistent with democracy....
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former President George H.W. Bush was released Friday from a Houston hospital where he received treatment for a mild case of pneumonia and chronic bronchitis during a two-week stay....
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) -- Late at night, when helicopters thrum overhead and spotlights beam down onto lawns, many people here know exactly what's going on....
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United States and China offered starkly different strategies Friday for addressing North Korea's escalating nuclear threat as President Donald Trump's top diplomat demanded full enforcement of economic sanctions on Pyongyang and urged new penalties. Stepping back from suggestions of U.S. military action, he even offered aid to North Korea if it ends its nuclear weapons program....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Working to dismantle his predecessor's environmental legacy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at expanding oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans....
NEW YORK (AP) -- They are the 140-character bursts that helped define the first 100 days of the Trump presidency....
ATLANTA (AP) -- President Donald Trump reaffirmed his support for gun rights Friday, telling attendees of a National Rifle Association convention that "the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end."...
