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What is the traditional Sunday blessing that popes deliver in St. Peter’s Square?
For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it’s the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope ...
A split jury and a lie sent him to prison. Now he’s working to change Louisiana’s law
As 18-year-old Bobby Gumpright rode his bike home from his bartending job in New Orleans in 1999, he began to concoct a story ...
An Alaska Mother’s Day tradition: Mingling with ice age survivors on a farm
It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice ...
Economic jitters and soaring gold prices create a frenzy for US jewelry merchants
At the biggest jewelry center in the United States, Alberto Hernandez fired up his machine on a recent day and waited until ...
Turkish Tufts University student back in Boston after release from Louisiana detention center
A Tufts University student from Turkey returned to Boston on Saturday, one day after being released from a Louisiana ...
US-China tariff talks to continue Sunday, an official tells AP, as Trump touts ‘great progress made’
President Donald Trump said “great progress” was being made in ongoing U.S.-China talks over tariffs menacing the global ...
Demolition looms for two vacant buildings near Downtown St. Louis
Two vacant buildings just north of Downtown St. Louis appear to be on track for demolition after city officials say a fire ...
Quadruple cancer survivor killed after bullets fly through her home
The small community of Berthoud is mourning the loss of a well-known woman who was shot and killed in a random act of ...
Pallante, Nootbaar lead Cardinals to 7th straight win, 4-2 over Nationals
Andre Pallante took a shutout into the eighth inning in the second-longest outing of his career, and the St. Louis Cardinals ...
Afternoon house fire damages home in South Roxana
SOUTH ROXANA, Ill. – Crews battled a major house fire Saturday afternoon in South Roxana, Illinois. No injuries have been ...
Passenger bus skids off a cliff in Sri Lanka, killing 8 people and injuring more than 30 others
A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing eight people and injuring more than 30 others. The accident occurred in the ...
Albanian election sees old rivals, new parties and an ambitious promise of European Union membership
Prime Minister Edi Rama is seeking a fourth term as Albania’s prime minister in a general election on Sunday, after taking on his political nemesis in a boisterous campaign ...