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Biden’s Visit to the VaticanThe party of JFK now loves to talk politics with the pope.In the days of John F. Kennedy, the Democrats emphasized their political distance from the pope. Kennedy promised Americans that he would never let the pope influence him on “matters of public policy.” How times have changed. Today’s Democrats boast of their political alliance with Pope Francis. They openly confer with him on matters of public policy, as evident in Joe Biden’s latest visit to the Vatican. After he met with the pope last Friday, Biden praised him for “fighting the climate crisis, as well...

Buffalo -- An anti-abortion extremist defending himself in a federal trial sat on the witness stand Monday to explain why he killed a doctor. "I don't like killing. I don't like the thought of it," James Kopp said as he asked and answered a series of questions from his seat next to the judge. "The plan was to keep everyone alive at the end of the day." Kopp, charged with violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act by killing Dr. Barnett Slepian in 1998, is serving a 25-year-to-life for a state conviction on second-degree murder in the...