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• Meet the pope's secretary, "Gorgeous Georg"
• 5-organ transplant patient gives birth
• Baptism by fire: Vatican interns get view of history
• New pope known as a humble man
• Popes throughout history
• New pope's choice of name will carry his first message
• Cardinals choose a new pope
• Inquiry blames Egypt police for deaths during uprising
• Officials: Dead pigs in river not affecting Shanghai's water
• Officials: Dead pigs in river not affecting Shanghai's water
• Sen. McConnell’s wife addresses alleged ethnic attacks
• South Carolina becomes ground zero for immigration reform ad wars
• Suspect sought after four shot, killed in New York
• New York shooting suspect sought after four people killed
• Seized pot-growing lamps put to use—on soccer field
• House Democrats to target Ryan's budget in 2014 campaigns
• Florida lieutenant governor resigns in gambling probe
• Nissan recalls five models on air bag concerns
• Bartender behind Romney’s “47 percent” comment talks
• Little League raffles off AR-15 rifle to raise money
• How Reddit's Ask Me Anything became mainstream media
• Ryan budget would add jobs, analysis shows
• Fire burns after tug, barge hit Louisiana gas pipeline
• Black smoke signals inconclusive papal vote
• Wednesday in politics: Obama meets with House Republicans

Meet the pope's secretary, "Gorgeous Georg" Posted: 13 Mar 2013 02:55 PM PDT The Pope's personal secretary Georg Ganswein smiles as he arrives in Saint Peter's Square for the weekly general audience at Saint Peter's Square, May 17, 2006 in Vatican City, Italy. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

5-organ transplant patient gives birth Posted: 13 Mar 2013 02:24 PM PDT Fatema Al Ansari is a mother after a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine.

Baptism by fire: Vatican interns get view of history Posted: 13 Mar 2013 01:22 PM PDT On the first day of Lauren Colegrove's journalism internship in Rome, the pope announced his resignation.

New pope known as a humble man Posted: 13 Mar 2013 01:06 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is the first ever from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernized Argentina's conservative Catholic church.

Popes throughout history Posted: 13 Mar 2013 12:32 PM PDT April 1976: Pope Paul VI, Giovanni Battista Montini, at his Easter Address on the balcony of St Peter's Basilica. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

New pope's choice of name will carry his first message Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:42 AM PDT By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Even before he utters his first words in public, the new pope who emerges from the conclave this week will send Roman Catholics around the world a message encoded in the name he chooses. It may not be one they immediately understand. Picking an unlikely one from the distant papal past - for example, Hilarus or Zephyrinus - would send Catholics scurrying to their history books to see what it could mean. But one harking back to modern popes - Benedict or John Paul or John - would signal right away the new leader of 1. ...

Cardinals choose a new pope Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:25 AM PDT White smoke appeared above the Sistine Chapel, and the bells of St. Peter's have pealed.

Inquiry blames Egypt police for deaths during uprising Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:09 AM PDT CAIRO (AP) — The highest-level inquiry to date into the deaths of nearly 900 protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising has concluded police were behind nearly all the killings and used snipers on rooftops overlooking Cairo's central Tahrir Square to shoot into the huge crowds.

Officials: Dead pigs in river not affecting Shanghai's water Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:38 AM PDT Thousands of Pig Carcasses Found in River That Provides Shanghai's Water

Officials: Dead pigs in river not affecting Shanghai's water Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:20 AM PDT Thousands of Pig Carcasses Found in River That Provides Shanghai's Water

Sen. McConnell’s wife addresses alleged ethnic attacks Posted: 13 Mar 2013 10:04 AM PDT In an ad, ex-Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao challenges attacks on her ethnicity.

South Carolina becomes ground zero for immigration reform ad wars Posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:46 AM PDT One of the most active states in the ad wars over immigration reform is far from the border—and doesn't even have a large population of foreign workers. South Carolina, however, is home to two key figures in the push to legalize the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants and reform the immigration system: Republican Sen. Lindsey [...]

Suspect sought after four shot, killed in New York Posted: 13 Mar 2013 09:28 AM PDT "Everybody's on lockdown, all the schools, the college, the village."

New York shooting suspect sought after four people killed Posted: 13 Mar 2013 08:55 AM PDT HERKIMER, N.Y. (AP) — Police in upstate New York are searching for a suspect after shootings at a car wash and a barbershop a mile away left four people dead and at least two wounded.

Seized pot-growing lamps put to use—on soccer field Posted: 13 Mar 2013 08:40 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Heat lamps seized by police in raids on local cannabis farms will be put to good use by third tier English soccer club Notts County to help their own - legal - grass grow at the Meadow Lane stadium. A spokesman for County, founded in 1862 and the oldest professional football club in the world, said police had donated the confiscated equipment that would previously have been crushed. Students from Nottingham University were helping to design and build wheeled rigs to house the lamps that should be ready for the rigors of next winter. ...

House Democrats to target Ryan's budget in 2014 campaigns Posted: 13 Mar 2013 08:22 AM PDT The issue proved successful for the party in the 2012 presidential race.

Florida lieutenant governor resigns in gambling probe Posted: 13 Mar 2013 08:05 AM PDT Jennifer Carroll previously worked for an Internet cafe company.

Nissan recalls five models on air bag concerns Posted: 13 Mar 2013 07:47 AM PDT Altima, Sentra, Pathfinder and Leaf, as well as Infiniti JX35, are affected.

Bartender behind Romney’s “47 percent” comment talks Posted: 13 Mar 2013 07:30 AM PDT A lingering mystery from the 2012 presidential campaign is about to be solved.

Little League raffles off AR-15 rifle to raise money Posted: 13 Mar 2013 07:14 AM PDT Sales of the tickets have been "going gangbusters," an organizer says.

How Reddit's Ask Me Anything became mainstream media Posted: 13 Mar 2013 06:40 AM PDT Rachel Maddow's debatable performance in a recent Ask Me Anything turn on Reddit—many users thought she evaded the harder topics—raises an interesting question: Given the AMA is now such an established form, how could someone so media-savvy leave herself open to that particular critique?

Ryan budget would add jobs, analysis shows Posted: 13 Mar 2013 05:34 AM PDT Democrats dismiss the plan that calls for changes in Medicare and spending cuts.

Fire burns after tug, barge hit Louisiana gas pipeline Posted: 13 Mar 2013 04:44 AM PDT Heavy smoke billows from the scene as authorities wait for the 19-mile line burns out.

Black smoke signals inconclusive papal vote Posted: 13 Mar 2013 03:57 AM PDT The cardinals continue the conclave at the Sistine Chapel.

Wednesday in politics: Obama meets with House Republicans Posted: 13 Mar 2013 03:41 AM PDT President Barack Obama heads back to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, this time to meet with House Republicans. On Tuesday, Obama met with Senate Democrats. He will be back on the Hill on Thursday for separate meetings with Senate Republicans and House Democrats. [Obama meets with not-quite-united Senate Democrats] Obama also will speak at the Organizing [...]

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