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• Mideast trip next step in Obama's Muslim outreach (AP)
• Ala.'s Ten Commandments judge running for governor (AP)
• Sotomayor would be 6th Catholic on Supreme Court (AP)
• Obama's Vatican Pick: Boosting Hispanic Catholics, Disarming Catholic Critics (Time.com)
• Suspect remains jailed in slaying of abortion doctor (AFP)
• Suspect captured in killing of Kansas abortion doctor (Reuters)

Mideast trip next step in Obama's Muslim outreach (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 05:07 PM PDT AP - Barack Obama began on Day One of his presidency to "reboot" America's damaged relationship with the world's 1.5 billion Muslims. With this week's Mideast trip and long-promised speech in Cairo, he takes a perilous leap into the effort.

Ala.'s Ten Commandments judge running for governor (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 01:13 PM PDT AP - An Alabama judge known for refusing to move a granite monument of the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the state's judicial building is again running for governor, with his message Monday going beyond his longstanding call for the government to acknowledge God.

Sotomayor would be 6th Catholic on Supreme Court (AP) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:55 AM PDT AP - If Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, she will be the sixth Roman Catholic of the nine justices.

Obama's Vatican Pick: Boosting Hispanic Catholics, Disarming Catholic Critics (Time.com) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:50 AM PDT Time.com - In selecting Catholic scholar Miguel Diaz to be the new Vatican ambassador, Obama has neutralized a potential controversy and highlighted a potential weakness of the U.S. Catholic Church these days

Suspect remains jailed in slaying of abortion doctor (AFP) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 12:52 PM PDT AFP - The man suspected of gunning down one of the few doctors to provide late-term abortions in the United States remained jailed Monday as the investigation continued, officials said.

Suspect captured in killing of Kansas abortion doctor (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 05:37 AM PDT Reuters - A Kansas doctor reviled by anti-abortion groups for his work providing "late-term" abortions was shot and killed in his Wichita, Kansas church on Sunday, and police said they captured the man responsible.

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