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Volkswagen selected Matthias Mueller, the head of its Porsche unit, as its new CEO, asking him to lead it through a global emissions cheating scandal.
President Obama reacts to the resignation of Republican House Speaker John Boehner.
Pope Francis will meet with school children Friday in East Harlem, a Latino stronghold.
Last night, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in cities all over the world to stand in solidarity around global goals to alleviate poverty, economic inequality and climate change. Even though people were in separate continents, countries and cities, from Australia to South Korea to the United States, they all gathered "Under One Sky" to come together for these common aspirations. Lorraine Barcant, a member of AFSCME Local 375, AFL-CIO Next Up and the Young Worker Advisory Council, made the following speech at the Under One Sky rally in New York City last night (after the jump).
A Madame Tusssauds publicity stunt featuring a life-size Francis wax figure in a convertible caused some confusion before the real pontiff showed up.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner, who was first elected in 1990 and became Speaker in 2011, will leave his seat at the end of October.
The fight to replace House Speaker John Boehner is the next battleground in the ideological struggle between the GOP establishment and the tea party.
Pope Francis held a Thursday evening service at St. Patrick's Cathedral. On Friday, he addressed the United Nations and visited the 9/11 memorial. He will later visit a school in East Harlem and lead a mass at Madison Square Garden.
VW rigged emission tests on about 2.8 million diesel vehicles in Germany, nearly six times as many as it has admitted to falsifying in the U.S.
He visited the 9/11 site after a speech at the U.N. General Assembly.
