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Kennedy says RI bishop banned him from Communion

AP - 1 hour, 49 minutes ago

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.

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  1. FILE - Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin, is shown in his office in Providence, R.I, in this Aug. 21, 2008 file photo. Rep. Patrick 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. Under church rules, Tobin can prevent Kennedy from receiving communion within his diocese, which covers Rhode Island. It's unclear whether bishops outside Rhode Island will take the same path. (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)
    Kennedy says RI bishop banned him from Communion AP - 1 hour, 49 minutes agoSent 447 times

    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.

  2. The logo of social networking website 'Facebook' is displayed on a computer screen in London inr 2007. Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)
    Smiling on Facebook costs Canadian her insurance AFP - Sat Nov 21, 2:08 PM ETSent 155 times

    MONTREAL (AFP) - Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.

  3. FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2009 file photo, singer Justin Bieber appears on the NBC 'Today' television program in New York. New York police shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber after thousands of young girls showed up and got a little too wild. Nassau County police say girls and adults in the crowd of nearly 3,000 started pushing and shoving as they waited for the 15-year-old sensation to arrive Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, N.Y. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
    Tween Justin Bieber fans lose control at LI mall AP - Sat Nov 21, 1:49 PM ETSent 135 times

    GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Police on Long Island had to shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber after thousands of young girls showed up, and got a little too wild.

  4. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev., speaks after the U.S. Senate voted to begin debate on legislation for a broad healthcare overhaul at Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, as Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., right, and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa looks on. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
    Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle AP - 1 hour, 50 minutes agoSent 108 times

    WASHINGTON - A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

  5. Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers AP - Sat Nov 21, 1:30 PM ETSent 87 times

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

  6. FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2002 file photo, then-Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is embraced by her uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., at a campaign rally at Bowie State University in Bowie, Md. The late Sen. Edward Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. Kennedy's brain-cancer death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted plenty of speculation that the family's long-running political dynasty is over. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea, File)
    Sizing up the Kennedy dynasty's next generation AP - 24 minutes agoSent 36 times

    WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.

  7. FILE - In this May 27, 2005 file photo, a Singaporean Navy vessel patrols the crowded straits between Singapore, background, and Indonesia off the coast of Batam, Indonesia. On Sunday morning, Nov. 22, 2009, an Indonesian inter-island passenger ferry sank in rough waters 90 minutes into the trip from Batam to Dumai in Riau, Sumatra, with almost 250 people onboard, police said. (AP Photo/Ed Wray, File)
    Indonesian ferry sinks; 25 dead, some 240 rescued AP - 59 minutes agoSent 35 times

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 25 people have died, officials said. Search operations were called off after nightfall for the unknown number of passengers still missing.

  8. EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells AP - Sat Nov 21, 6:31 PM ETSent 28 times

    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.

  9. This Oct. 24, 2009 photo shows journalist George Krimsky interviewed by The Associated Press at his home in Washington, Conn. Krimsky, newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment as a correspondent for The Associated Press, sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounced. The story was the possible defection to the United States of the grandson of Josef Stalin, the notorious Communist dictator and World War II hero of the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
    AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony AP - Sun Nov 22, 1:14 AM ETSent 26 times

    WASHINGTON, Conn. - Newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment, Associated Press correspondent George Krimsky sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounced.

  10. In this photo released by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, scientists react in the CERN Control Center after successfully restarting the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. (AP Photo/Keystone, Brice, CERN)
    Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang AP - Sat Nov 21, 2:06 PM ETSent 23 times

    GENEVA - Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.

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  1. Kennedy says RI bishop banned him from Communion AP - 1 hour, 49 minutes ago

    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.

  2. US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada speaks to senators who will appear on the Sunday morning talk shows in his Senate office in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama's planned overhaul of the US health care system is heading for another major political battle after it cleared a key Senate hurdle that allows for debate on the proposal.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)
    Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle AP - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

  3. Tween Justin Bieber fans lose control at LI mall AP - Sat Nov 21, 1:49 PM ET

    GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Police on Long Island had to shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber after thousands of young girls showed up, and got a little too wild.

  4. Sizing up the Kennedy dynasty's next generation AP - 24 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.

  5. Smiling on Facebook costs Canadian her insurance AFP - Sat Nov 21, 2:08 PM ET

    MONTREAL (AFP) - Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.

  6. Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf AP - 1 hour, 44 minutes ago

    LONDON - An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.

  7. 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.

  8. Actress Eva Mendes arrives at the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year ceremony Saturday night Nov. 21, 2009 in Hollywood, Calif. The CNN Hero of the Year was introduced by Mendes, among the many stars who took the stage to introduce the 10 honorees. (AP Photo/Greg DeGuire - PictureGroup)
    Stars come out for CNN Heroes ceremony AP - 21 minutes ago

    LOS ANGELES - Kate Hudson, Pierce Brosnan, Neil Patrick Harris and other stars who are used to getting applause were giving it gladly at a ceremony honoring people who make a difference in the lives of others.

  9. Palestinians check the damage on a smuggling tunnel following an Israeli airstrike on the border between Egypt and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. The Israeli military said its aircraft have attacked two weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in retaliation for rocket fired into southern Israel from Gaza a day earlier. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
    Israeli aircraft strike Gaza targets AP - 1 hour, 58 minutes ago

    JERUSALEM - Israeli aircraft attacked two suspected weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in what the military said was retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel.

  10. This image provided by NASA shows Astronaut Randolph Bresnik is pictured near a beverage container floating freely on the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Atlantis Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009. Bresnik announced early Sunday Nov. 22, 2009 his wife Rebecca gave birth to their second child at 11:04 .p.m. CST Saturday a daughter named Abigail in Houston while he was aboard the International Space Station. Bresnik says both mama and baby are doing very well. (AP Photo/NASA)
    Astronaut's wait over as daughter born back home AP - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronaut Randolph Bresnik is a new dad again, after launching into space and taking a spacewalk, all for the first time.

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  1. A forensic scientist displays human bones found in the jungle of Huanuco in this undated picture provided by the police. Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang suspected of killing dozens of people and selling their fat to buyers to be used for making cosmetics. Four Peruvians were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, murder and trafficking in human fat. REUTERS/Handout
    Gang accused of killing to sell human fat Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 11:03 AM ET

    LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.

  2. Demonstrators protest against the health care reform bill outside Capitol Hill. President Barack Obama's planned overhaul of the US health care system is heading for another major political battle after it cleared a key Senate hurdle that allows for debate on the proposal.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Brendan Hoffman)
    Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle AP - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

  3. Smoke billows from factories in Moscow. Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.(AFP/File/Denis Sinyakov)
    Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate AP - Sat Nov 21, 2:34 PM ET

    LONDON - Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.

  4. Members of the Ku Klux Klan protest on the steps of Fulton Chapel at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Ryan Moore)
    12 Klansmen rally briefly before LSU-Ole Miss game AP - Sat Nov 21, 2:39 PM ET

    OXFORD, Miss. - About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU.

  5. U.S. troops attend a ceremony in Kabul November 21, 2009. The U.S. training mission for the Afghan army and police was merged with the new NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) under a single NATO command. The new training mission will be headed by Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell and will aim to consolidate efforts on building an effective security force, a vital precondition for the withdrawal of foreign troops. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
    NATO takes command of Afghan army, police training Reuters - Sat Nov 21, 9:54 AM ET

    KABUL (Reuters) - NATO took command of the training of the Afghan army and police on Saturday to consolidate efforts on building an effective security force, a vital precondition for the withdrawal of foreign troops.

  6. Travelers line up at Delta counter at Reagan National Airport on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, in Washington. The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year than in 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
    More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving AP - 1 hour, 46 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.

  7. Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan The Nation - Sat Nov 21, 9:34 AM ET

    The Nation -- Bill Moyers, who was at the side of President Lyndon Johnson at the time when disastrous decisions were being made to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that was Vietnam, used his experience to speak Friday night to President Barack Obama about what could be an equally disastrous decision to escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that is Afghanistan.

  8. 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.

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    GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Police on Long Island had to shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber after thousands of young girls showed up, and got a little too wild.

  10. U.S. President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Chinese Ambassador to the United States Zhou Wenzhong during a tour of the Great Wall of China in Badaling November 18, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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    What we learned from the American President's journey through the Middle Kingdom

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