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• McCarthy announces candidacy for House speaker
• Trump promises to simplify and streamline U.S. tax code
• Trump unveils tax plan that would lower taxes for millions
• Obama: US willing to work with Russia, Iran on Syria crisis
• Pope: Bishops who covered up for abuse guilty of wrongdoing
• New York woman who helped inmates escape to be sentenced
• Govt. workers have right to refuse gay marriage licenses: pope
• Pope used popularity to chart new direction for church and U.S.
• Carly Fiorina defends Bush-era torture and spying, calls for more transparency
• Rare supermoon eclipse seen around the world
• Fifth college student dies after Seattle bus crash
• Pope Francis visits prison: 'All of us need to be cleansed'

McCarthy announces candidacy for House speaker Posted: 28 Sep 2015 01:30 PM PDT The House Majority Leader officially declares his candidacy for House speaker to replace John Boehner.

Trump promises to simplify and streamline U.S. tax code Posted: 28 Sep 2015 09:49 AM PDT Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday promised to simplify the U.S. tax code and eliminate deductions and loopholes for special interest groups if he becomes president at the November, 2016 election. Real estate mogul Trump said he would end deferred taxes on corporate income earned abroad, and eliminate the so-called death tax and marriage tax penalty. In a news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan, he vowed to reduce the number of tax brackets for individuals to four from seven.

Trump unveils tax plan that would lower taxes for millions Posted: 28 Sep 2015 08:55 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is calling for an overhaul of the tax code that would eliminate income taxes for millions of Americans, while lowering them for the highest-income earners and business.

Obama: US willing to work with Russia, Iran on Syria crisis Posted: 28 Sep 2015 08:20 AM PDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Straining for a solution to Syria's civil war, President Barack Obama on Monday said the United States is willing to work with Russia, as well as Iran to achieve a "managed transition" to remove Syrian leader Bashar Assad from power.

Pope: Bishops who covered up for abuse guilty of wrongdoing Posted: 28 Sep 2015 07:47 AM PDT ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis has defended his words of consolation to U.S. bishops over the priest sex abuse scandal but says — for the first time — that those who covered up for abusers are guilty of wrongdoing.

New York woman who helped inmates escape to be sentenced Posted: 28 Sep 2015 04:38 AM PDT A prison employee who helped two convicted murderers escape from a maximum security prison in upstate New York in June will hear her sentence on Monday after pleading guilty to providing the inmates with tools and facilitating their daring break-out. Joyce Mitchell, who worked as a supervisor at the tailor shop of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, faces up to seven years in prison after accepting a deal with prosecutors in which she admitted smuggling hacksaw blades and a screwdriver bit to help Richard Matt and David Sweat escape on June 6. Mitchell, 51, has said she agreed to drive a getaway car for Matt and Sweat but at the last minute she had second thoughts about meeting the escapees as they emerged from a manhole outside the prison walls in the early morning hours.

Govt. workers have right to refuse gay marriage licenses: pope Posted: 28 Sep 2015 03:30 AM PDT By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Monday government officials have a "human right" to refuse to discharge a duty, such as issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals, if they feel it violates their conscience. Speaking to reporters as he returned home from a 10-day trip to the United States and Cuba, Francis also repeated his condemnation of priests who had sexually abused children, saying the victims had been "crushed by evil". Although the Argentine-born pontiff delved into some of the United States' thorniest political debates during his visit, he never specifically referred to a controversy over same-sex marriages, which the Church firmly opposes.

Pope used popularity to chart new direction for church and U.S. Posted: 28 Sep 2015 02:23 AM PDT In Congress and at a parish school, at the United Nations and a city jail, Pope Francis spent a whirlwind U.S. visit bridging the realms of the disadvantaged and elite, trying to turn the attention of the mightiest nation on earth away from ideological battles and toward a world he said desperately needs help.

Carly Fiorina defends Bush-era torture and spying, calls for more transparency Posted: 27 Sep 2015 11:03 PM PDT

Rare supermoon eclipse seen around the world Posted: 27 Sep 2015 09:56 PM PDT The so-called supermoon is seen during a lunar eclipse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 27, 2015. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Fifth college student dies after Seattle bus crash Posted: 27 Sep 2015 07:05 PM PDT (Reuters) - The death toll in the recent collision of an amphibious tour vehicle and a bus in Seattle has risen to five from four, a hospital official said on Sunday.

Pope Francis visits prison: 'All of us need to be cleansed' Posted: 27 Sep 2015 05:23 PM PDT

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