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Bestselling spiritual author Marianne Williamson presses on with against-the-odds presidential run

Marianne Williamson has kept barnstorming for months across America — to audiences large and small, from churches and colleges to spiritual centers and soup kitchens — in a demanding schedule of appearances in her second tenacious, against-the-odds run for the presidency.
The bestselling spiritual author and one-time ... (full story)
Their families wiped out, grieving Palestinians in Gaza ask why

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The night a blast struck his family's home in the Gaza Strip, Ahmed al-Naouq was more than 2,000 miles away but he still jolted awake, consumed with inexplicable panic.
He reached for his cellphone to find that a friend had written — and then deleted — a message. Al-Naouq called h ... (full story)
A key US spy tool will lapse at year's end unless Congress and the White House can cut a deal

WASHINGTON (AP) — With less than two months until the end of the year, the Biden administration is running out of time to win the reauthorization of a spy program it says is vital to preventing terrorism, catching spies and disrupting cyberattacks.
The tool, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, will ex ... (full story)
Nicaragua's exiled clergy and faithful in Miami keep up struggle for human rights at Mass

MIAMI (AP) — When the Rev. Silvio Báez finished his homily on a recent Sunday, applause broke out among the hundreds of faithful in St. Agatha Catholic Church, on the outskirts of Miami, that has become the spiritual home of the growing Nicaraguan diaspora.
For the auxiliary bishop of Managua, his fellow priests and ... (full story)
Ohio commission approves fracking in state parks and wildlife areas despite fraud investigation

COLUMBUS (AP) — Some state parks can be fracked in Ohio, a decision made by a government commission recently despite an ongoing investigation into oil and gas companies claiming possible fraudulent support.
During a raucous meeting attended by many fracking opponents, the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission OK'd se ... (full story)