The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Tuesday signaled support for the religious rights of parents in Maryland who want to remove their children from elementary school classes using storybooks ...

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Pope Francis’ funeral will be a more modest event, after the pontiff broke with longstanding Vatican tradition to simplify ...