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FILE - Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., speaks to media after a Senate Democratic policy luncheon, Oct. 17, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A federal grand jury has indicted a Las Vegas man arrested last month on suspicion of making antisemitic threats against Rosen and her family, along with the family of another U.S. senator, according to court records. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Las Vegas man accused of threats against Jewish US senator and her family is indicted

A federal grand jury has indicted a Las Vegas man on charges of making antisemitic threats against U.S.

Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is pictured in his office on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in New York. U.S. authorities said an Indian government official directed a plot to assassinate Pannun in New York City after he advocated for a sovereign state for Sikhs. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

US prosecutors say plots to assassinate Sikh leaders were part of a campaign of planned killings

Rev. Charles G. Adams gives the sermon at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit on July 2, 2017. Rev. Adams has died following an illness. He was 86. Adams died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023 following a bout with pneumonia, his sister, Edith Clifton, told The Detroit News for a story Thursday. (Daniel Mears/Detroit News via AP)

Influential Detroit pastor the Rev. Charles Gilchrist Adams dies at age 86

FILE - Sikh protesters demonstrate outside of the Indian High Commission in London on March 22, 2023. India has been asking countries like Canada, Australia and the U.K. to take legal action against Sikh activists, and Modi has personally raised the issue with the nations' prime ministers. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

What to know about the Sikh independence movement following US accusation that activist was targeted

FILE - An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stands in front of a menorah on the third eve of Hanukkah, at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's old city, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009. On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah candelabra. They do so to commemorate the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 2nd century BC, after a small group of Jewish fighters liberated it from occupying foreign forces. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

What to know about Hanukkah and how it鈥檚 celebrated around the world

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during a meeting with the members of the 2023 World Youth Day organizing committee, in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope says he has acute bronchitis, doctors recommended against travel to avoid change in temperature

Pope Francis says he is suffering from acute and infectious bronchitis. He told an audience on Thursday that doctors recommended he cancel his planned visit to Dubai this weekend to avoid the quick changes in temperature that would be involved.

Maranatha Baptist Church, where the funeral service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter will be held, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, in Plains, Ga. The former first lady died on Nov. 19. She was 96. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Church that hosted Rosalynn Carter funeral played key role in her and her husband鈥檚 lives

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) 鈥� The church where those closest to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter bid farewell to the former first lady Wednesday played a central role in the lives of the famous couple from tiny Plains, Georgia.

Charles Richardson, of Baltimore, wipes his eye while discussing his alleged abuse decades ago by a Catholic priest, in Baltimore on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Black victims have largely been invisible in the Catholic sexual abuse crisis. Richardson recently came forward after the state of Maryland removed the civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

In the US, Black survivors are nearly invisible in the Catholic clergy sexual abuse crisis

Black survivors have been nearly invisible in the Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis 鈥� even in Baltimore, home to a historic Black Catholic community.

An Indian official plotted to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York, US prosecutors say

American authorities say an Indian government official directed a plot to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader in New York City after he advocated for a sovereign state for Sikhs.

Pope Francis attends the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis is still having trouble breathing due to lung inflammation, Vatican says

The Vatican says Pope Francis is stable but is still having trouble breathing as a result of a lung inflammation that forced him to cancel a weekend trip to Dubai.

FILE - Sabrina Carpenter arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards, Sept. 12, 2023, in Newark, N.J. Carpenter's use of a Roman Catholic church in Brooklyn as a backdrop for parts of a music video led to a pastor being stripped of his administrative duties after its release and officials holding a Mass to restore the church's 鈥渟anctity.鈥� Carpenter released the video for 鈥淔eather鈥� on Oct. 31. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Pop singer Sabrina Carpenter鈥檚 music video spurs outrage for using NY Catholic church as a setting

A pop singer鈥檚 use of a Roman Catholic church in Brooklyn for parts of a music video has led to its pastor being penalized.

FILE - Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. Pope Francis cancelled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors鈥� orders. The announcement marked the second time the pope鈥檚 frail health had forced the cancellation of a foreign trip: He had to postpone a planned trip to Congo and South Sudan in 2022 because of knee inflammation, though he was able to make the trip earlier this year. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope cancels trip to Dubai for UN climate conference on doctors鈥� orders while recovering from flu

Pope Francis has canceled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors鈥� orders. The announcement marked the second time the pope鈥檚 frail health had forced the cancellation of a foreign trip: He had to postpone a planned trip to Congo and South Sudan in 2022 because of knee inflammati

FILE - Cardinal Raymond Burke applauds during a news conference at the Italian Senate, in Rome, on Sept. 6, 2018. Pope Francis has taken measures to punish one of his highest-ranking critics, Cardinal Raymond Burke, by yanking his right to a Vatican apartment and salary in the second such radical action against a conservative American prelate this month, according to two people briefed on the measures. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope punishes leading critic Cardinal Burke in second action against conservative American prelates

Pope Francis has decided to take measures to punish Cardinal Raymond Burke, who is one of his highest-ranking critics.

This still image provided by Terrace Films, shows Saleha Jabeen at an Army Reserve Base, in September 2017, in Fort Sheridan, Ill. Jabeen is featured in "Three Chaplains," a documentary that offers a peek into the worlds of Muslim military chaplains. (Courtesy David Washburn/Terrace Films via AP)

New documentary offers a peek into the triumphs and struggles of Muslim chaplains in US military

The small group of Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military tends to the souls and spirits of troops of all faiths and no faith.

German rock musician Gil Ofarim stands in the courtroom of the district court in Leipzig, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. A German-Israeli singer who claimed he had been turned away from a hotel in the eastern German city of Leipzig because he was wearing a Star of David pendant, admitted during a defamation trial against him over the incident on Tuesday that he had made up the story. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)

German-Israeli singer admits he lied when accusing hotel of antisemitism in a video that went viral

A German-Israeli singer who claimed he had been turned away from a hotel in the eastern German city of Leipzig because he was wearing a Star of David pendant has admitted during a defamation trial against him that he made up the story.

FILE -A German police officer stands guard in front of the synagogue in Frankfurt, Germany, early Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. A group tracking antisemitism in Germany said Tuesday that it documented a drastic increase of antisemitic incidents in the country in the month after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. The RIAS group said, it recorded 994 incidents, which is an average of 29 incidents per day and an increase of 320% compared to the same time period in 2022. The group looked at the time period from Oct. 7 to Nov. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Antisemitic incidents in Germany rose by 320% after Hamas attacked Israel, a monitoring group says

A group tracking antisemitism in Germany says that it has documented a drastic increase of antisemitic incidents in the country in the month after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

This cover image released by Algonquin Books shows "We Must Not Think of Ourselves" by Lauren Grodstein. (Algonquin via AP)

Book Review: Lauren Grodstein鈥檚 masterpiece of historical fiction set in Warsaw Ghetto during WWII

The Oneg Shabbat archive was a secret project of Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto to record their histories as they awaited deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II.

A giant screen broadcasts Pope Francis coughing during the Angelus noon prayer, from the chapel of the hotel at the Vatican grounds where he lives, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. Pope Francis says he has a lung inflammation but will go later this week to Dubai for the climate change conference. Francis skipped his weekly Sunday appearance at a window overlooking St. Peter's Square, a day after the Vatican said he was suffering from a mild flu. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis getting antibiotics intravenously for lung problem, limiting appointments, Vatican says

The Vatican says Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation but that he doesn鈥檛 have pneumonia.

A policewoman stand guard on a bridge as an anti-Semitism demonstration with protesters holding placards flags and banners, including the flag of Israel, takes place in London, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Tens of thousands march against antisemitism in London including UK ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Tens of thousands of people including former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson have gathered in London for a march against antisemitism.

Pope Francis appears on a giant monitor set up in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, as he blesses the faithful gathered in the square for the traditional Angelus noon prayer. On Saturday, the Vatican said the pope, whose 87th birthday is next month, was taken to a Rome hospital to have a CT scan to rule out pulmonary complications following a light flu, and that the exam was negative. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis says he has a lung inflammation but will go to Dubai this week for a climate conference

Pope Francis says he has a lung inflammation but will go later this week to Dubai for a climate change conference.

FILE - Thousands gather for a march against antisemitism in Paris, France, on Nov. 12, 2023. Antisemitism is spiking across Europe after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre and Israel's bombardment of Gaza, worrying Jews from London to Geneva and Berlin. (AP Photo/Sylvie Corbet, File)

With antisemitism rising as the Israel-Hamas war rages, Europe鈥檚 Jews worry

Antisemitism is spiking across Europe after Hamas鈥� Oct. 7 massacre and Israel鈥檚 bombardment of Gaza, worrying Jews from London to Geneva and Berlin.

Nhia Neng Vang conducts a soul-calling ritual at his home in St. Paul, Minn. on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. In traditional Hmong spirituality, humans are composed of multiple souls, which may become separated over time. The soul-calling ritual returns them for the new year. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

In the US, Hmong 鈥榥ew year鈥� recalls ancestral spirits while teaching traditions to new generations

Late fall is the most spiritual time of the year in traditional Hmong culture. There are centuries-old celebrations for the post-harvest 鈥渘ew year,鈥� brought from Southeast Asia which the Hmong had to flee after helping the United States in the Vietnam War.

FILE - Pope Francis smiles as he waves faithful at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. Pope Francis cancelled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors鈥� orders. The announcement marked the second time the pope鈥檚 frail health had forced the cancellation of a foreign trip: He had to postpone a planned trip to Congo and South Sudan in 2022 because of knee inflammation, though he was able to make the trip earlier this year. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope Francis has a hospital checkup after coming down with the flu

The Vatican says Pope Francis went to the hospital for tests after he came down with the flu. The results ruled out any respiratory problems.

Christian school that objected to transgender athlete sues Vermont after it鈥檚 banned from competing

A Vermont religious school that withdrew its girls basketball team from a playoff game because a transgender student was playing on the opposing team is suing Vermont.

Suspended Alabama priest married the 18-year-old he fled to Italy with, records show

Records show that a suspended Alabama priest recently married the teenager he fled to Italy with this summer.

FILE - Cardinal Angelo Becciu attends the consistory inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on Aug. 27, 2022. Lawyers for a once-powerful cardinal accused Vatican prosecutors of being 鈥減risoners to their completely shattered theory鈥� on Wednesday Nov. 22, 2023 in the latest round of closing arguments of a big trial that have raised fundamental questions about the prosecutors鈥� case and the rule of law in the city state. Despite attempts to demonize Becciu, the two-year trial hasn鈥檛 proved any of the prosecutors' allegations of embezzlement, abuse of office or witness tampering against him, said attorneys Maria Concetta Marzo e Fabio Viglione. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Closing arguments in Vatican trial seek to expose problems in the city state鈥檚 legal system

Lawyers for a once-powerful cardinal have accused Vatican prosecutors of being 鈥減risoners to their completely shattered theory鈥� in closing arguments of a trial that has raised fundamental questions about the rule of law in the city state.

FILE - Zainab Chaudry joins other demonstrators outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. The Maryland Attorney General this week, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023, suspended Chaudry, a member of the state鈥檚 new commission aimed at addressing hate crimes, after she posted on social media criticizing the recent actions of Israel in Gaza. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Maryland hate crime commission member suspended for anti-Israel social media posts

The Maryland Attorney General has suspended a member of the state鈥檚 new commission aimed at addressing hate crimes after she posted on social media criticizing the recent actions of Israel in Gaza.

A woman shares Jehovah's Witnesses' literature with a passerby in downtown Pittsburgh on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Jehovah's Witnesses regularly distribute literature in public places and do door-to-door evangelism, but for the first time in more than a century, their congregations will not be regularly tracking their hours in ministry. (AP Photo/Peter Smith)

Timekeepers no more, rank-and-file Jehovah鈥檚 Witnesses say goodbye to tracking proselytizing hours

Jehovah鈥檚 Witnesses are well-known for proselytizing door-to-door and handing out their literature. Since 1920, their adherents have been required to report to their congregation鈥檚 leaders how many hours they put into such ministry.

Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope meets relatives of Israeli hostages and Palestinians in Gaza and sets off firestorm over words

Pope Francis has met separately with relatives of Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinians living through the war and set off a firestorm by using words that Vatican diplomats usually avoid: 鈥淭errorism鈥� and according to the Palestinians 鈥済enocide.鈥�

FILE - A Chinese Hui Muslim looks at a scale model of Mecca set up at a mosque in the town of Yichuan during Ramadan in Ningxia province, China, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2006. The Chinese government has expanded its campaign of shuttering mosques to provinces other than Xinjiang, where Beijing has for years been blamed of persecuting Muslim minorities, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)

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