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NEW ORLEANS (AP) 鈥� The Archdiocese of New Orleans agreed to pay nearly $180 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement announced Wednesday, the latest in a string of settlements by the Catholic Church .

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) 鈥� The U.N. said Wednesday it was trying to get the desperately needed aid that has entered Gaza this week into the hands of Palestinians amid delays because of fears of looting and Israeli military restrictions.

VATICAN CITY (AP) 鈥� Pope Leo XIV called Wednesday for humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip and for an end to the 鈥渉eartbreaking鈥� toll on its people, as he presided over his first general audience in St. Peter鈥檚 Square.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) 鈥� A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers鈥� strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr .

SAYYIDA ZEINAB, Syria (AP) 鈥� At the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, rituals of faith unfold: worshippers kneel in prayer, visitors raise their palms skyward or fervently murmur invocations as they press their faces against an ornate structure enclosing where

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� The head of Columbia University gave a commencement speech Wednesday acknowledging the absence of student activist Mahmoud Khalil , who was due to receive his diploma this week but is instead in a Louisiana jail facing deportation for

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) 鈥� A man who admitted in federal court to setting the fire that destroyed an eastern Missouri church has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison and ordered to pay the church nearly $7 million.

BEIRUT (AP) 鈥� The Lebanese and Palestinian presidents agreed Wednesday that Palestinian factions won't use Lebanon as a launchpad for any attacks against Israel, and to remove weapons that aren't under the authority of the Lebanese state.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A lot of American adults 鈥� about 3 in 10 鈥� make use of astrology, tarot cards or fortunetellers at least once a year. But only a small fraction of them rely on what they learn from these practices to make major decisions.

A Quebec law firm has announced a $15-million settlement over historic sexual abuse involving two Montreal-area dioceses.