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Pope says he’ll slow down or retire: ‘You can change a pope’

Pope Francis, 85, acknowledged he can no longer travel like he used to because of his strained knee ligaments, saying his weeklong Canadian pilgrimage was “a bit of a test.” (Image credit: Guglielmo Mangiapane/AP)

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Jan. 6 hearings chip away at Trump’s hold on GOP, as 2024 hopefuls circle – NPR

Jan. 6 hearings chip away at Trump’s hold on GOP, as 2024 hopefuls circle  NPR

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U.S. envoy says Russia intends to dissolve Ukraine from the world map

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, ambassador to the U.N, told the Security Council that the U.S. is seeing signs Russia is laying the groundwork to attempt to annex regions in eastern and southern Ukrainian. (Image credit: Eduardo Munoz/AP)

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Pope Says Schools for Indigenous Children in Canada Practiced Genocide

While Pope Francis had apologized for Catholics’ role in a historical system of residential schools that sought to assimilate the children to white culture, he had not publicly used the term “genocide” during his visit to Canada.

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Russia and Ukraine trade blame for a deadly attack on a POW prison

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of shelling a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine, an attack that reportedly killed dozens of Ukrainian POWs captured after the fall of Mariupol. (Image credit: AP)

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Despite union, Zionist Spirit leaders still split over cooperation with Netanyahu

Hendel says former PM needs to be ‘pensioned off, sitting in Hawaii drinking a shake,’ while Shaked says there is no unity government without Likud under Netanyahu

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Alex Jones’ media company files for bankruptcy during defamation damages trial

Free Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy amid the trial underway seeking to force Jones to pay $150 million or more to the family of one of the children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook attack. (Image credit: Briana Sanchez/Austin American-Statesman

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US warns Russia intends to ‘dissolve’ Ukraine from world map

US ambassador to UN says clear signs Russia planning to annex eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk and the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions

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The pope visited Nunavut for the final apology of his Canadian tour

Pope Francis traveled to the edge of the Arctic to deliver an apology to the Inuit people for the “evil” of Canada’s residential schools, wrapping up his week-long “penitential pilgrimage” to Canada. (Image credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP)

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If these walls could speak: Hebrew pioneer Ben-Yehuda’s legacy lives on in Jerusalem

The capital is rich with historical sites marking the life and work of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his family, who toiled to give the nascent Jewish state a language of its own

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