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US hits Chinese officials with visa bans over Tibet access

The Trump administration fired a new shot in its diplomatic war with China on Tuesday by imposing travel bans on Chinese ...

Virus loans helped entities tied to Trump evangelical allies

Churches connected to President Donald Trump and other organizations linked to current or former Trump evangelical advisers ...

Russian court fines coronavirus-denying rebel monk

A Russian court on Tuesday fined a coronavirus-denying monk who has challenged Kremlin lockdown orders for spreading false ...

GOP worries Trump's divisive June imperils Senate control

President Donald Trump's June began with his Bible-clutching photo op outside a church after authorities used chemicals and ...

New this week: 'Stateless,' 'Palm Springs,' The Dalai Lama

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services ...

Trump's leadership is tested in time of fear, pandemic

Not long after noon on Feb. 6, President Donald Trump strode into the elegant East Room of the White House. The night before, ...

Kansas newspaper's post equates mask mandate with Holocaust

A weekly Kansas newspaper whose publisher is a county Republican Party chairman posted a cartoon on its Facebook page ...

Russian Orthodox Church defrocks coronavirus-denying monk

The Russian Orthodox Church on Friday defrocked a coronavirus-denying monk who has defied Kremlin lockdown orders and taken ...

Vatican watchdog sees record cooperation levels despite raid

The Vatican’s financial watchdog agency has reported record levels of internal cooperation despite being thrown into turmoil ...

Priest sues to stop federal execution over coronavirus risk

A Zen Buddhist priest, who is a spiritual adviser to one of three federal death row inmates scheduled to be executed this ...

Urban-rural divide on display in Oklahoma's primary election

Mauree Turner is a living example of the growing diversity of big cities. The 27-year-old gay, Black, Muslim woman knocked ...

Catholic priest suspended for comparing BLM to 'maggots'

A bishop suspended a suburban Indianapolis Catholic priest from public ministry on Wednesday for comparing the Black Lives ...

Museum or mosque? Turkey debates iconic Hagia Sofia's status

In its more than 1,400-year existence, the majestic domed structure of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul has served as the Byzantine ...

Zoom got big fast. Then videobombers made it rework security

Back in March as the coronavirus pandemic gathered steam in the U.S., a largely unheralded video-conferencing service ...

High court sparks new battle over church-state separation

The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for ...

Asia Today: Thailand lets in some foreigners, opens schools

Thailand has begun a fifth phase of relaxations of COVID-19 restrictions, allowing the reopening of schools and high-risk ...

Women taken from African mothers by Belgium now want redress

Monique Bitu Bingi was only 4 years old when she was taken from her family in Belgian Congo and locked up in a religious ...

Interfaith group: No Buddhist or Hindu statues in nightclubs

America’s nightclubs are largely closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, but that isn’t stopping an interfaith coalition ...

With a pen stroke, Mississippi drops Confederate-themed flag

With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle ...

Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling

States can't cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education, a divided Supreme Court ruled ...