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KIGALI, Rwanda — Displaying both pride and pain, Rwandans on Monday marked the 20th anniversary of a devastating 100-day genocide that saw packed churches set …

The following news items were compiled from Associated Press reports. House approves individual religious exemption to health care law WASHINGTON — Individuals who practice faith …

NEW YORK — As workers cleared some of the last of the rubble Sunday from the site of a massive explosion last week in New …

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of murder for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, said in an interview …

TALLAHASSEE — Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton and  his National Action Network joined hundreds in a march to the state Capitol Monday to …

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A troubled Haitian orphanage run by a small and apparently well-funded U.S. church has made cosmetic changes in the two months since an …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – When Samira Mbotizafy Frasch arrived in Tallahassee four years ago from France, she told her new friends about a glamorous past …

WASHINGTON — In one of the most significant steps of its kind taken by any Administration, President Barack Obama has unveiled a plan which he …

JACKSON, Mississippi — Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, a human rights activist and nationally prominent attorney who was elected mayor of Mississippi’s capital last year, died …

JACKSONVILLE — Jurors in the trial of a white man charged with first- degree murder for shooting a 17-year-old black male in a dispute over …