Obama admonishes Florida pastor to call off plans to burn Quran, calling it dangerous ’stunt’

US President Barack Obama welcomes Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

Democrats catch break with Blagojevich trial’s early end, no big-name witnesses

B-17 drops flowers over Statue of Liberty in tribute to CIA employees killed in Afghanistan

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Woman in 911 call says fatal Ohio Easter fight started when she tried to prove point with gun

911 call: Gun in Easter fight was ‘to prove point’

Police: Ohio woman killed cousin in argument over inappropriate Easter dinner attire

Police: Ohio woman killed over Easter attire spat

Deputies kill San Diego County man suspected of shooting 2 neighbors on Easter

Deputies shoot suspect in California killing of 2

Vatican’s Easter Mass infused with defense of pope; sex abuse criticism cast as ‘petty gossip’

Vatican’s Easter Mass infused with defense of pope

Easter Mass a bit of papal pep rally; Benedict ignores calls he take scandal responsibility

Easter Mass becomes papal pep rally in Rome

Pope, silent on scandal, hailed as ‘unfailing’ leader at Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square

Pope hailed as ‘unfailing’ leader at Easter Mass

Pope, praised at Mass, makes no mention of abuse scandal in Easter message to world

Pope equates Easter with pardon

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has said Easter brings a message of pardon, goodness and truth to a suffering world but he has made no mention of the clergy abuse cover-up scandals that are buffeting him and his church.

Pope, hit by scandal, called ‘unfailing’ leader of church at Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square

Pope hailed as ‘unfailing’ leader

VATICAN CITY — Buffeted by sex abuse scandals, the Vatican kept up its stiff defense of Pope Benedict XVI Sunday, hailing him at the start of Easter Mass as an unfailing and courageous leader of a flock that takes no heed of “petty gossip.”

Archbishop of Canterbury says Irish church has lost ‘all credibility’ over sex abuse scandal

Anglican leader: Irish church lost all credibility

Texas man convicted of killing 3 gets execution reprieve, asks for DNA to be tested

Execution halted for Texas man claiming innocence

Texas man convicted of killing 3 seeks reprieve from pending execution for DNA to be tested

Condemned Texas man seeks reprieve for DNA testing

NY Gov. Paterson won’t drop campaign despite domestic-violence scandal involving top aide

NY Gov. Paterson won’t drop bid despite scandal

Pressure mounts for NY. Gov. Paterson to end campaign; Cabinet member resigns amid turmoil

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AP Exclusive: A look inside the interrogation of the Christmas Day airline bombing suspect

AP Exclusive: Feds detail Christmas Day attack

Suspects in Coptic Christmas Eve slayings in Egypt surrender after police chase

Suspects in Egypt’s Christmas slayings surrender

Egyptian police arrest 3 suspects in Christmas Eve shooting

Egypt police arrest Christmas murder suspects

Egyptian police surround farms where suspects in Christmas shooting believed hiding

Egypt police close in on Christmas murder suspects

Drive-by shooting at church kills at least 6 people leaving Coptic Christmas midnight Mass

Gunmen kill 6 at Egypt church after Christmas Mass

Egyptian security officials: Drive-by shooting at church kills 2 after Coptic Christmas Mass

Gunmen kill 2 at Egypt church after Christmas Mass

SC charities get forged checks; Salvation Army may have to cut back after cashing $25,000 fake

Salvation Army left short of cash by fake SC check

RI prosecutor accused of driving drunk loses license for 7 months; case spared internal probe

RI prosecutor loses driver’s license for 7 months

Hundreds of thousands expected in Tampa for Gasparilla, the city’s annual pirate fest

Aaaar! Pirates invade Tampa in massive street fest

Obama ends Hawaiian holiday, returns to a Washington that never left him alone on vacation

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Television show helped in arrest of suspect accused in 4 Fla. Thanksgiving Day killings

TV show led to arrest in 4 Thanksgiving killings

Fla. motel owners talk about Thanksgiving Day killings suspect who stayed there

Fla. motel owners talk about suspect in 4 killings

After monthlong manhunt, Fla. man held without bond in killings of 4 relatives on Thanksgiving

Fla. suspect being held without bond in 4 killings

After weekslong manhunt, police arrest man suspected of killing 4 relatives on Thanksgiving

Fla. police nab man in Thanksgiving killings of 4

Let the fireworks begin! New Year’s revelers ready for better times in 2010

Goodbye 2009! World ready for a more hopeful 2010

Finnish New Year rocked by shooting rampage that leaves 6 dead, including shooter

Gunman kills 5, then self, in Finland

ESPOO, Finland — A lone gunman dressed in black killed five people, including four in a crowded shopping mall, before returning home and taking his own life on Thursday. It was the third such massacre in Finland in about two years, and once again raised questions about gun control in a Nordic country where hunting is popular.