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The theme of Francis' homily has been represented during his papacy and especially during his trip to the U.S.
A Texas capital murder trial is set to proceed Monday — but the defendant has already experienced a very small taste of how an electric chair might feel.
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It was the first of two addresses Obama is making at the United Nations. His second on Monday morning, to the annual U.N. General Assembly of world leaders, will be a broader examination of world issues, especially the ever-more complicated conflict in Syria.
President Barack Obama will hold a formal meeting Tuesday with Cuban President Raul Castro
After visiting Washington and New York City, Pope Francis concludes his U.S. tour with events in and around Philadelphia on Sunday.
"Is a child anywhere on earth safer now that a pope, for maybe the seventh or eighth time or ninth time, has briefly chatted with abuse victims? No," said SNAP Director David Clohessy, in a statement.
On Tuesday night, I left the AFL-CIO offices in downtown Washington, D.C., hopped a bus to Columbia Heights and planned to transfer to another bus and make my way home. The wait was 15 minutes, though, and I knew that to take the Metro at Columbia Heights station one stop to the Georgia Avenue-Petworth station, the one closest to my house, and the walk afterward would take a little less time. So I jumped on the train, which was waiting for me in the station, and got ready for a train ride that normally takes less than five minutes. Two hours later, when I walked out of the Georgia Avenue station, amid the emergency vehicles, most I've ever seen in my life, needless to say, I wasn't having the best night of my life.
Crowds have thronged Francis at every stop of his six-day tour, with the pope charming audiences in Washington, New York and now Philadelphia.
David Marchese, 32, of Islip, was charged with unlawful surveillance, said Suffolk County police.
