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Report: Kennedy barred from communion by bishop

FILE - Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. speaks during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Sept. 22, 2009 file photo. Kennedy says Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has barred him from receiving communion because of his support of abortion rights. The Providence Journal reported on its Web site Sunday Nov. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.

  • Vice President Joe Biden speaks to fellow Democrats at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner, Saturday Nov. 21, 2009 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)
    Biden says Senate handed Obama a big victory AP - Sat Nov 21, 11:17 PM ET

    DES MOINES, Iowa - Vice President Joe Biden told Iowa Democrats on Saturday that the Senate handed the president a big victory with its decision to move forward with debate on sweeping legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system.

  • 5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping AP - Sun Nov 22, 1:17 AM ET

    LONG BEACH, Calif. - Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.

  • FILE -This undated file photo released by Julien's Auctions shows Michael Jackson's glove from his 1983 performance of Billie Jean at the Motown 25 television special where he performed the Moonwalk for the first time. The glove and othe Jackson items will be auctioned on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City's Times Square. (AP Photo/Julien's Auctions, File)
    Jackson moonwalk glove sells for $350K in NYC AP - Sun Nov 22, 1:54 AM ET

    NEW YORK - The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 was auctioned off for $350,000 — plus tax — on Saturday.

  • 3-alarm Atlantic City boardwalk fire under control AP - Sat Nov 21, 11:48 PM ET

    ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Officials say a three-alarm fire on the boardwalk in Atlantic City has been declared under control.

  • This Nov. 17, 2009 photo shows Betsy Charlesworth holding her son, Marty, as son, Myles, right, takes a turn at Monopoly in their kitchen in Jericho, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
    A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US AP - Sat Nov 21, 2:03 PM ET

    Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.

  • Police: Man fatally stabbed over NYC subway seat AP - Sat Nov 21, 11:17 PM ET

    NEW YORK - A subway passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dispute with another man over a seat in the car early Saturday morning in midtown Manhattan, police said.

  • 2 dead after shooting at Oregon intersection AP - Sun Nov 22, 1:16 AM ET

    HILLSBORO, Ore. - A gunman fatally wounded a passenger in another vehicle at an Oregon intersection Saturday, setting off a police chase that ended when the suspect crashed and was killed by officers, authorities said.

  • University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) student Kendall Brown and other UCLA students and supporters protest as the UC Board of Regents votes to approve a 32 percent tuition hike next year on November 19 in Los Angeles, California.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)
    UC Santa Cruz protesters still occupy building AP - Sat Nov 21, 11:36 PM ET

    SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - Dozens of protesters are occupying the main administrative building at University of California, Santa Cruz in the third straight day of protest over fee hikes and cuts to campus services.

  • FILE - This Bexar County Sheriff's Office 2007 booking file photo shows Capt. Michael Fontana after he was arrested for racing on a highway in San Antonio. Fontana, 35, an Air Force nurse, goes on trial Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 accused of killing three terminally ill patients at last summer in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Bexar County Sheriff's Office, File)
    Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients AP - Sun Nov 22, 2:40 AM ET

    SAN ANTONIO - A court-martial acquitted a former military nurse of murder Saturday after he was accused of giving lethal doses of painkillers to hasten the deaths of three terminally ill patients at the Air Force's largest hospital.

  • In this video frame grab taken from NASA television, space shuttle Atlantis Mission Specialist Mike Foreman works during the the second spacewalk of the STS-129 mission at the International Space Staion, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/NASA)
    Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk AP - 2 hours, 26 minutes ago

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.

  • Hawaii anxiously watching year-end tuna supply AP - Sat Nov 21, 12:00 PM ET

    HONOLULU - On New Year's Eve each year, thousands line up at fish counters across Hawaii to buy blocks of raw tuna, hoping that eating it will bring good luck and prosperity in the new year. This year, the long tradition may get a little more difficult to observe.

  • EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells AP - Sat Nov 21, 6:31 PM ET

    YERINGTON, Nev. - Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.

  • NC man gets life in prison for woman's fatal scare AP - Sat Nov 21, 12:38 PM ET

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death.

  • This Nov. 13, 2009 photo shows Iowa State University senior Scott Moseley, of Bettendorf, Iowa, left, talking with ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society president Anastasia Bodnar, right, while stopping at the Ask an Atheist booth at a campus community center, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
    Atheist student groups flower on college campuses AP - Sun Nov 22, 1:12 AM ET

    AMES, Iowa - The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist."

  • Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers AP - Sat Nov 21, 1:30 PM ET

    BURLINGTON, Vt. - Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown.

Crimes and Trials News

  • FILE - This 2000 file picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when was a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be confined until his military trial, initially staying in a hospital where he is recovering from gunshot wounds, his attorney said Saturday Nov. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, file)
    Fort Hood suspect ordered held until court-martial AP - 2 hours, 28 minutes ago

    FORT WORTH, Texas - The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be confined until his military trial, initially staying in a hospital where he is recovering from gunshot wounds, his attorney said Saturday.

  • FILE - This Bexar County Sheriff's Office 2007 booking file photo shows Capt. Michael Fontana after he was arrested for racing on a highway in San Antonio. Fontana, 35, an Air Force nurse, goes on trial Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 accused of killing three terminally ill patients at last summer in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Bexar County Sheriff's Office, File)
    Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients AP - Sat Nov 21, 5:10 PM ET

    SAN ANTONIO - A military judge in Texas has found a former Air Force nurse accused of killing three terminally ill patients not guilty of murder.

  • Assistant US Attorney Gordon Michael Harvey (centre) argues against the release ofWalter Kendall Myers, 72, and his wife Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71 at a detention hearing. An elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years has pleaded guilty in the conspiracy, with the husband agreeing to serve a life sentence(AFP/HO/File/Art Lien)
    Elderly US couple pleads guilty in Cuba spy case AFP - Sat Nov 21, 9:45 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - An elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years has pleaded guilty in the conspiracy, with the husband agreeing to serve a life sentence, the US Justice Department said.