Chief Justice John Roberts may cast the deciding vote in a Supreme Court case over Oklahoma's proposed religious charter ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a blockbuster dispute over the nation’s first religious charter school, a ...

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Traditionally, the pope's internment, which takes place between four and six days following his death, occurs after a traditional Roman Catholic funeral ... the ballots to alter the color of ...

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