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Churches wrestle with musical worship choices
On a recent Wednesday evening, the band began to play. Dean Brusnighan sat at a table in the back of the room at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in West Lafayette. At times he clapped. During other moments, he mouthed the lyrics intently. His eyes closed tightly as he sung ...
Hobby Lobby tests birth-control coverage mandate
In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. The Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain argued ...
Text of President Obama speech on terrorism
Text of President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ___ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Here, at Fort McNair, Americans have served in uniform since 1791— standing guard in the early days ...
Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears
Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime — shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took ...
Biden: Jewish leaders drove gay marriage changes
Vice President Joe Biden is praising Jewish leaders for helping change American attitudes about gay marriage and other issues. Biden says culture and arts change people's attitudes. He cites social media and the old NBC TV series "Will and Grace" as examples of what helped changed attitudes on gay marriage. ...
The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist?
Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican's insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old husband and father who traveled to ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Grappling with loss and uncertain future, Okla. residents return to area devastated by tornado MOORE, Okla. (AP) — With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin walked up her driveway to what was left of her house for 40 years. It was the 83-year-old grandmother's first time back at her ...
Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed at least 20 people nationwide in a week of the most sustained sectarian violence in the country since U.S. troops withdrew more than a ...
Obama vows US support as Myanmar leader visits
President Barack Obama on Monday told Myanmar's president during a long-awaited White House meeting that he appreciates the Asian leader's efforts to lead the country on its sometimes difficult path to democracy and assured him of U.S. support. Obama spoke as he sat in the Oval Office with former general ...
State Dept: Reports of anti-Semitism increase
The State Department appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism Monday as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Ira Forman, former CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Council, was named special envoy as the State Department released its annual report ...
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