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| Katie Couric: When the pope goes to prison Posted: 27 Sep 2015 05:22 AM PDT  For inmates inside Philadelphia's largest super-max prison, Commissioner Lou Giorla concedes, "Life is not easy."
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| France carries out airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State Posted: 27 Sep 2015 10:40 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Six French jet fighters targeted and destroyed an Islamic State training camp in eastern Syria in a five-hour operation on Sunday, President Francois Hollande announced, making good on a promise to go after the group that he has said is planning attacks against several countries, including France.
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| Pope meets victims of clergy sex abuse, says 'God weeps' for them Posted: 27 Sep 2015 08:23 AM PDT  By Scott Malone and Philip Pullella PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Pope Francis met on Sunday with five adults who were abused by Catholic clergy when they were children and vowed to hold responsible all involved in the crime or cover-ups. While the pope has met with victims of sexual abuse in Rome, this was his first meeting with them on a foreign tour. Of the cities visited by Francis, who ends his six-day U.S. tour later in the day, Philadelphia has been the most publicly scarred in the U.S. clergy abuse scandal.
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| House will pass funding bill, avoid government shutdown: Boehner Posted: 27 Sep 2015 09:17 AM PDT  By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker John Boehner vowed on Sunday that Congress will avoid a government shutdown this week and he would push through as much unfinished legislation as possible before leaving at the end of October. Speaking on CBS' Face the Nation two days after his surprise resignation, he said the House this week would pass a government funding bill now moving through the Senate, which does not meet conservatives' demands to cut off money for Planned Parenthood. Asked if passage would require Democratic votes, he responded: "I'm sure it will, but I suspect my Democratic colleagues want to keep the government open as much as I do." Boehner resigned amid deep divisions among House Republicans over a range of issues including the handling of a Sept. 30 deadline to approve new funding for federal agencies and programs from education to national parks.
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| Clinton on email controversy: a 'drip, drip, drip' of revelations Posted: 27 Sep 2015 08:38 AM PDT  By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Sunday the politically damaging "drip, drip, drip" of revelations about her use of a private email server is out of her control and she is unsure when the controversy might end. Clinton, who has seen her lead shrivel in the race for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, said she has tried to be as open as possible and take responsibility for the email flap. "It is like a drip, drip, drip.
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| Pope Francis praises women’s ‘immense contribution’ to church during Philadelphia visit Posted: |
| Mexicans march on anniversary of 43 students' disappearance Posted: 26 Sep 2015 06:50 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of people marked the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students by marching down Mexico City's premier avenue in an atmosphere of defiant hope Saturday.
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| Boehner's departure raises question: Can House GOP be led? Posted: 26 Sep 2015 12:49 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The gulf between tea party conservatives and establishment Republicans has grown so wide that it just swallowed up the speaker of the House and may threaten the entire Republican Party and Congress itself.
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| Mexico marks one year since 43 students vanished Posted: 26 Sep 2015 04:08 PM PDT  Thousands marched in Mexico City Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students in a murky case involving corrupt police that has haunted President Enrique Pena Nieto. Behind the 43 are thousands of disappeared," Sofia Rojas, a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told AFP. Signs that read "Crime of the State" and "Get Out Pena" peppered the crowd as they streamed down the Paseo de la Reforma, the grand boulevard that runs through the center of the Mexican capital.
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