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According to Catholic Church policy, those considered to be "sinners" should be treated with dignity and should not be denied Communion in a public setting. Barbara Johnson was at her mother's funeral when a priest refused her that sacrament.

It was more than 30 years before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak lost his grip on power. It took less than a week for an "ultra-conservative Islamist member" of the post-Mubarak parliament to be forced to resign for lying about his surgery.

In sub-Saharan Africa, where agricultural productivity is lowest and food shortages are most common, "huge volumes of rainwater are lost or never used," says Alain Vidal, director of the Challenge Program on Water and Food, which commissioned the studies.

A Justice probe would be in addition to another investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Meanwhile, CEO Jamie Dimon survived a challenge at the company's annual meeting.

Vietnam has sent what analysts believe could be the remains of a member of the American military who died in the country during the Vietnam War. After a repatriation ceremony at the airport in Da Nang Sunday, the remains were sent to Hawaii for examination and possible identification.

Alfonso Portillo was taken from a hospital bed in Guatemala City and flown to New York to face charges of laundering $70 million through U.S. banks.

An appeals court overruled decisions that the U.S. government had to provide broad access to its evidence against Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, in order to satisfy the requirements of an extradition hearing.

"This is pretty straight forward," Obama said Monday. "If in fact IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported .... and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous and there's no place for it."

Jackson pleaded guilty to using more than $750,000 from his campaign fund for personal purchases, including a Rolex watch, furniture and fur capes and parkas.

Forecasters expect some rain, but high winds are making fighting the fire difficult. The fires have already charred thousands of acres and threaten thousands of homes.