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The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

The Supreme Court seems likely to shut down a lawsuit by Falun Gong over Cisco’s aid to China

The Supreme Court seems likely to grant tech giant Cisco’s bid to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.

People look at paintings by Palestinian artists during an exhibition in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Young Palestinian artists in Gaza exhibit their impressions of war as a fragile ceasefire holds

Children's drawings are taped up in Beth Israel Congregation on Sunday, April 26, 2026, in Jackson, Miss. (Molly Minta/Mississippi Today via AP)

Mississippi’s largest synagogue finds triumph in rebuilding after arson

The Agudas Achim Synagogue is pictured in Brno, Czech Republic, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (Vaclav Salek/CTK via AP)

Czech court hands 7-year prison term to man over attempted synagogue arson attack

Police respond to a fatal shooting in a parking lot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (Rio Giancarlo/The Deseret News via AP,File)

Utah charges man with murder in January shooting outside church in Salt Lake City

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Pope Leo XIV leaves after presiding over Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican during which he made ten new priests, Sunday, April 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope prays with Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally in historic encounter, vows dialogue

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Fadi Al Zein, left, who lost both his homes in Israeli strikes in his village of Khiam and in Dahiyeh, searches through the rubble of his heavily damaged home as a child stands nearby, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz if US lifts its blockade and the war ends, officials say

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In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, shakes hands with Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq during their meeting, in Muscat, Oman, Sunday, April 26, 2026. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Iran’s top diplomat briefly returns to Pakistan but Trump says the sides can talk by phone

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A woman walks past an anti-U.S. graffiti painted on the wall of the Tehran University on Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) street in downtown Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Talks stumble as Iran’s top diplomat leaves Pakistan and Trump says he told envoys not to go

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The Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon Monsignor Paolo Borgia, center, poses with residents next to a crucifix sent by Italy to replace one that was defaced last week by an Israeli soldier in the Christian village of Debel, south Lebanon, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (Houssam Naddaf via AP)

Lebanon resident recognizes family crucifix smashed by Israeli soldier in viral image

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon, Thursday, April 16, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Trump dispatches Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for new talks with Iran’s foreign minister

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Municipal workers catch a janitor fish during a campaign to remove the invasive species from the city's rivers, canals and water reservoirs, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, April 24, 2026.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Explosion of invasive ‘janitor fish’ sparks mass removal operation in Indonesia’s capital

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Pope wraps up an Africa visit for the history books with a Mass in Equatorial Guinea

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A man listens during a Yom HaShoah ceremony for Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 24, 2022, at Congregation Beth Israel in Houston. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

2 young people arrested in alleged plot to attack Houston synagogue

A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo)

Trump orders US military to ‘shoot and kill’ Iranian small boats choking Strait of Hormuz

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New fresh grass is grown for a world-class cricket pitch at the Pomona Fairplex on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, seen during the groundbreaking of the new Knight Riders Cricket Field, which will serve as the Los Angeles Knight Riders' official home field for 2026 and later host cricket at the LA 2028 Olympics. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

New cricket stadium in Southern California heralds the sport’s Olympic return after 128 years

Pope Leo XIV arrives to celebrate the Holy mass at the Malabo stadium, in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Thursday, April 23, 2026, on the last day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Pope urges US and Iran to return to peace talks and condemns capital punishment

From left, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Lebanese Ambassador to the U.S. Nada Hamadeh Moawad, listen to President Donald Trump speak in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump says Lebanon and Israel agree to extend Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire by 3 weeks

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A woman prepares to deliver hundreds of Ten Commandments posters to local public schools in New Braunfels, Texas, on Nov. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

What to know about the Ten Commandments going up in public school classrooms

Pope Leo XIV shakes hands with Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo as he meets with the authorities, civil society and the diplomatic corps in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, on the ninth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Some who fled abuses in Equatorial Guinea fear pope’s visit might legitimize longtime ruler

People wait in queue before reaching to the front to pray at the main hall at Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 15, 2024, as the country marks the 79th anniversary of its defeat in the World War II. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Japanese police arrest a South Korean for allegedly obstructing Yasukuni Shrine festival

Algerian-French novelist Kamel Daoud holds his book Houris after being awarded with the Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)

French-Algerian author Kamel Daoud says Algeria sentenced him to 3 years for award-winning novel

Muxe artist Xaneri Merino gives a backstrap loom workshop for LGBTQ+ people in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Once punished for weaving, this Mexican artisan uses her loom for LGBTQ+ resistance

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Inmates of the Bata Prison meet with Pope Leo XIV during his visit to Equatorial Guinea, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope tells inmates ‘you are not alone’ during Equatorial Guinea prison visit at end of Africa tour

The Jordan flagged cargo ship "Baghdad" sails in Persian Gulf towards Strait of Hormuz in United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo)

US military says it seizes another oil tanker associated with Iran

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Students work under Ten Commandments and Bill of Rights posters on display in a classroom at Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay,File)

Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments in classrooms, court rules

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Beth Moore is photographed in the Living Proof Ministries library on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in Houston. (Annie Mulligan/RNS via AP)

Beth Moore on life after the SBC — and why she never could quit Jesus

Mourners carry the coffins of Hezbollah fighters killed before the ceasefire in the war between Hezbollah and Israel during a mass funeral procession in the southern village of Kfar Sir, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Photos show funerals in Lebanon for Hezbollah fighters, civilians killed before ceasefire

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Police officers patrol at a cordon near Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow, a suburb of London, Sunday, April 19, 2026. (Jamie Lashmar/PA via AP)

Teenager pleads guilty to arson that caused smoke damage at London synagogue

The front cover of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump's "God Bless the USA" Bible in Washington, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

‘If my people': Here’s why the Bible passage Trump read aloud is so potent and polarizing

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to members of the media during a press briefing at the Pentagon, Thursday, April 16, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Flu vaccine no longer mandated for US troops, Hegseth says

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Mourners gather around the bodies of Aws al-Na'san and Jihad Abu Naim, residents of the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir, at the hospital's morgue in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli army reservist kills 2 Palestinians, including a 14-year-old, in the occupied West Bank

Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose 23-year-old son, Hersh, was kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas cross border attack on Israel and killed in Gaza nearly a year later, poses for a photo with her new book "When We See You Again," in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Her kidnapped son was killed in a Gaza tunnel. A new memoir gives a searing account of her grief

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People stand still to observe two minutes of silence as air raid sirens sound, marking Israel's annual Memorial Day for the soldiers who died in the nation's conflicts and victims of nationalistic attacks, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud illean)

Israel’s Memorial Day: Remembrance and grief, in photos

President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible, Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump and other top Republicans read passages in a marathon Bible event

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