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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A group representing Catholic hospitals Saturday rallied behind President Barack Obama's health care bill ahead of a House vote in which anti-abortion lawmakers could play a decisive role.... more >>

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.... more >>

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time.... more >>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous.... more >>

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church confidentiality doesn't prevent bishops from reporting abuse to police.... more >>

POWAY, Calif. (AP) -- Thousands of teachers, classmates and neighbors filled a high school football stadium Saturday to honor a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave, allegedly killed by a registered sex offender.... more >>

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Strong winds and heavy rain pounded parts of the Northeast on Saturday, leaving more than 100,000 without power in New Jersey, where a boom crane at an Atlantic City casino construction site tipped over, scattering debris over a six-block area and injuring a police officer. Father north, international flights bound for New York were diverted to Boston due to the high winds, causing numerous delays.... more >>

Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base.... more >>

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after acknowledging he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about a nude hot-tubbing incident that took place a quarter century ago when she was a teenager.... more >>

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Evan Turner rescued No. 6 Ohio State for the second straight day in the Big Ten tournament.... more >>

DeMarcus Cousins had 19 points and 15 rebounds, and Kentucky beat Tennessee (No. 13 ESPN/USA Today, No. 15 AP) 74-45 Saturday and advanced to the SEC tournament championship game. more >>

In the same week it traded for Seneca Wallace, Cleveland Browns reached agreement on an two-year deal with quarterback Jake Delhomme. more >>

Kyle Singler scored 27 points to help fourth-ranked Duke push ahead in the second half to beat Miami 77-74 in Saturday's Atlantic Coast Conference tournament semifinals. more >>

Dice-K stops his Saturday bullpen session due to a stiff neck. more >>

Having lost out on former Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson on Friday, the Seahawks reached agreement with former Patriots tight end Chris Baker on Saturday, a league source said. more >>

The Cincinnati Bengals reached a one-year agreement to re-sign safety Roy Williams Saturday, according to his agent, Jordan Woy. more >>

Kelvin Lewis scored 28 points and Houston surged past No. 25 UTEP down the stretch to claim its first NCAA tournament berth in 18 years with an 81-73 victory in the Conference USA tournament title game that snapped the Miners' 16-game winning streak. more >>

Johnny Damon had a home run and two RBIs, and Ryan Raburn went 4 for 4 with two doubles in leading the Detroit Tigers to a 6-2 victory over the New York Yankees in a matchup of split squads Saturday. more >>

Danielle Adams had 22 points while No. 11 Texas A&M forced Kelsey Griffin to the bench with early foul trouble and spoiled No. 3 Nebraska's unbeaten season with an 80-70 victory Saturday in the semifinals of the Big 12 tournament. more >>

Center fielder Denard Span and the Minnesota Twins have agreed to a $16.5 million, five-year contract, a deal that includes a $9 million team option for 2015. more >>

Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler has a high right ankle sprain and will be sidelined for at least a week. more >>

Quinnipiac's Greg Holt ended the longest hockey game in NCAA history with a goal in the fifth overtime on Friday. more >>

Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli has pleaded guilty to a second-degree burglary charge stemming from the theft of two laptops and a guitar from a campus fraternity house in late January. more >>

Festive Cowboys Stadium weighs in Manny Pacquiao, Joshua Clottey. more >>

An attorney for Ben Roethlisberger has hired a private investigator to look into a sexual assault allegation made by a 20-year-old Georgia college student. more >>

Over the last 20 years, support for legal abortion has continued to drop among young adults, a new Gallup poll shows. more >>

Twenty-three Coptic Christians were injured by Muslim extremists Friday after an attack on a church community center, said an Egyptian Bishop. more >>

A Christian legal group filed an appeal this week to fight a ban against a church meeting in homes. The Gilbert, Ariz., church was ordered to stop all activities, including Bible studies, leadership meetings and fellowship. more >>

The Lutheran World Federation added more than 1.5 million new members to its member churches last year, according to the latest report. more >>

The head of the largest ecumenical body in the world sent condolences this week after receiving news that Egypt’s top Sunni Islam cleric had died after suffering a heart attack. more >>

Moroccan authorities deported more than 40 foreign Christian aid workers this week in an ongoing, nationwide crackdown. more >>

The U.S. Department of State said Friday that is “increasingly concerned” about the ongoing persecution of religious minority communities in Iran. more >>

The Texas State Board of Education voted on Friday to approve new standards for social studies classes. The 11-4 vote was a preliminary approval more >>

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. congregations said they feel at least a little competition from nearby churches, a new survey shows. more >>

The board of the international body that manages Web addresses will not decide until June whether or not to approve the latest proposal for a “.xxx” top-level domain. more >>

The United States accused China of various human rights abuses in its new State Department report, including the disappearance of several Christian leaders. more >>

A friend emailed a copy of a January 17, 2010 article in The Sun News, a paper out of Myrtle Beach, SC, that trumpeted a Barna survey allegedly showing that ”born again” Christians suffer the highest rates of divorce and atheists/agnostics the lowest. more >>

“Okay, I’m done talking about evangelism. Now we are going to do it.” more >>

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