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Pope Francis’ spontaneity makes security a challenge

Written by Rosie Scammell ROME (RNS) — Pope Francis likes to get close to Catholics, whether showing up unannounced at Mass or stepping out of his popemobile to greet pilgrims. But security agencies know they can't "put him in a bubble" to keep him safe when he

Massachusetts

Boston launches neighborhood walks against violence

Written by Colin A. Young As a summer that included spates of violence in the city's neighborhoods winds to a close, Boston city and police officials plan to join community members for a series of walks this week through some of the neighborhoods marred by violence.

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Boston Marathon juror addresses death penalty issue

BOSTON (AP) — A juror in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev says he probably would not have voted for the death penalty had he known that the families of some victims preferred a life sentence. Kevin Fagan spoke to WBUR-FM on Monday, the same day a federal judge

terrorism

ISIS vision echoes Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’

A 32-page ISIS document calling for open warfare against non-Muslims has been uncovered in Pakistan and authenticated by retired U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency director Gen. Michael Flynn and other intelligence officials. The document has been compared to Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," the political manifesto in

hillary clinton

Caroline Kennedy, ambassador to Japan, also used private email

Written by Matthew Pennington WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior staff at the U.S. Embassy to Japan, including Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, have used personal email accounts for official business, an internal watchdog said in a report Tuesday. Some emails contained sensitive information.

Russia

A look at politically tainted trials in Russia

Written by Nataliya Vasilyeva MOSCOW (AP) — The guilty verdict Tuesday for Crimean filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in a Russian maximum-security prison for an alleged terror conspiracy, follows a plethora of recent Russian trials that are widely seen as warnings to society not to

Donald Trump

Bush, at Mexican border, denounces Trump’s immigration plan

Written by Sergio Bustos McALLEN, Texas (AP) — On his own visit to the Mexican border Monday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush denounced Donald Trump's immigration plan as unrealistic and expensive. And he did it mostly in Spanish.

Democrats

Family Feud? Obama caught between Biden, Clinton

Written by Julie Pace WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is the man in the middle, caught between the White House aspirations of two of his closest advisers: Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.