BOSTON – Studying the links between religious and political affiliations can occasionally help pollsters understand voter decisions.
A Pew Research Center study released Monday shows that only a third of Massachusetts residents say they are "highly religious," ranking the state the least devout in the country, tied with New Hampshire at and close to Vermont and Maine, which both ranked at 34 percent.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his handwritten will, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claimed he had about $29 million in personal wealth — the bulk of which he wanted to be used "on jihad, for the sake of Allah."
The will was released Tuesday in a batch of more than 100 documents seized in a May 2011 raid that killed bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The al-Qaeda leader planned to divide his fortune among his relatives, but wanted most of it spent to conduct the work of the Islamic extremist terror network behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
